Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1877 — MR. PICKERERING’S GREAT INVENTION. [ARTICLE]

MR. PICKERERING’S GREAT INVENTION.

How an Entire Newspaper Page MayRe Sent Across tiie Continent in a lew Minutes (From the New York Tribune.) Loring Bickering, one of the editors and proprietors of the evening Bulletin alid Hie morning Call of San Francisco, who has just received a patent for an arrangement by which in a few iniimf.es an entire newspaper page may bo telegraphed, was in the city a few days ago, and gave a Tribune reporter some additional facts in regard to iiis invention and the purpose for which it is designed. Mr. Pickering is about GO years of ago, and iiis invention is the result of several years of carft&st study. His attention was directed to the subject of telegraphy from liis experience of the great cost of telegraphic dispatches ior his papers. “Papers must have news,” said Mr. Pickering, “and we found that, it cost a good deal to get it, so that I was led to devise, if possible, some cheaper method.” And ho believes that lie has at last succeeded. “By this method he continued, “a page of the New York Tribune can be transmitted to Chicago in twenty or thirty minutes.” And what about the cost of sending so much matter?” “Scarcely anything at all,” replied Mr. Pickering—“only the use of the wire for a few minutes.” The inventor then explaine that tho western papers would no w be able to !. make arrangements with the publishers of eastern journals to have all the ! news sent them cheaply by the new process of transmission. The dii'fer- ! cnee in time would enable this to be I done the more readily. It would be possible, too, for the New York journals, if they so desired, to get out editions in the western cities by having printers there, since the copy is delivered directly from the instrument in such form that it can be handed to them. In course of time, Mr. Picker lig thought, it would be possible to have a fac-siinile of the London Times sent over, but at present the current on tho Atlantic cable was too feeble to transmit a message by means of his process. It will prove of yaluo, in certain contingencies, to the Associated Press also. An agent of tho Associated Press said yesterday that it was often desirable to delay sending a message until all tile facts in a ease could be ascertained. and then to send it at once. This he thought the new process would j enable one to do, and thus avoid | sending statements that are contra- ! dieted in later reports. It will be serviceable too, in telegraphing presidents’ messages, as they could bo sent, entire, and not in small sections as hitherto received. When questioned as to the value of his process in the transmission of private messages, Hr. Pickering ex- ! plained that probably it could not be used to advantage for this purpose. It was designed exclusively for the benefit of newspapers which receive long messages at once. He said, however, that as no telegraph operators are required at either end of the line by his method of transmission, and the message is delivered printed, there might be an advantage in useing it for private messages. From the description, as given recently, the machine is easily understood. It transmits, however, from a level; and not simply from a cylindrical plate, as that description seems to imply. The stereotype plate, of which it is desired to send a sac simile, is placed upon a cylinder capable of rapid revolution. By a very simple process, the depressions between the letters are filled with a non-conduct-ing material, and the cylinder and plate are then charged with electricity. Mr. William Shore, of Madison county, was fatally poisoned by eatiug wild greens. A Jeffersonville man tied his wife to a cherry tree and kept her there for six hours. He did it “to take the conceit outen her.” The magnificent new altar, bought in Paris at a cost of $7,000, for Notre Dame, in South Bend,.last year, arrived at its destination on Saturday noon, June 23, and was placed in position on Monday following. That Maryland trsunp who stalked into a lonely looking farm house and demanded dinner and a suit of clothes, lidn’t see the dog. The dog saw him, however. The doctor reported twenty different bites and considerable ! denudation of epidemics.

Baltimore has an interesting citizen in tiit> person of Joseph Glynn, who was tried recently for poisoning a neighbor’s hogs. He is over eighty years old, .md for more than sixty years he has been engaged in killing the cattle and destroying the property of any person against whom lie may have a grudge. It. is said that he has cost the State more than any other man in the county, and holds the championship in regard to the number of times he has been before the courts.

Rea l advertisement of Drs. M. & H. B random. J. M. "Huffy, P. M. at Pilot Grove, stepped in and subscribed for the Sentinel on the 4th. Jasper County Board of Agriculture meets on Saturday, July 7, 1677, to transact important business. IRA W. lEOMAN, Sec’y. A. Seward, of Pilot Grove, for many years the boss Harness maker of Jasper county, was in towu on the 4th, participating in and enjoying the fes- ! tivities of the occasion. Johnnie Wybert climbed the greased pole yesterday and received 25 cents therefor. Hotel keepers who understand their business have in their reading rooms, for the information and gratification of their patrons, the leading dailies, papers of adjoining com,ties, and last but not least, their own home journals. Messrs. Hopkins and Moore, of Rensselaer, and Hart, of Remington, understand this, They patronize the Sentinel and Union. Mrs. Keziah Freeman, one o? the old settlers of Rensselaer, died at her ■ residence this morning at quarter past six o’clock aged about 75 years. Mrs. Freeman resided in this place about 25 years, and leaves many friends to mourn their loss. Her remains will bo interred in Weston Cemetery to-morrow at 2 o’clock p. m. Great men went in on tlioir oratorical muscles on the 4th. Jim Blaine, ! the great sun-struck, and D. H. Cham- : berlain, the Harnptonized Governor ! of S. C., at Woodstock, Conn., went forHuyes’southern policy in the rough while Jno.W.Forney, at Philadelphia, and Horace E. James ,at Rensselaer, spoke words of consolation and endorsement of the President.