Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1878 — How It Got There. [ARTICLE]

How It Got There.

A cable dispatch recently sent from Hartford, Ct., to Australia, consisted of thirty-three words, and cost $64.98. The course of the message was as follows: From Hartford to New York; to Heart’s Content, N. F.; to Valencia; to London ; through Germany, Russia, Siberia, to Vladiwoodstock, a point on the coast of Mantchooria; thence through the Japan sea to Nagaski, on one of the Japan islands; through the Yellow sea to Shanghai, China; thence down the coast to China, through the China sea t* Saigon, Siam; to Singapore, Malay; thence to Batavia, on the coast of Java; thence to St. Darwin, on the northern coast of Australia, and to Sydney.