Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1919 — Prophecies Came True. [ARTICLE]

Prophecies Came True.

One hundred and four years ago, at this season, the War of 1812 was practically over. Peace was signed, at Ghent, On the evening of December 24. 1814; and then things moved fast, according to existing standards. December. 26. bne of the American secretaries left Ghent for London, and January 2, 1815, he left England for New York, where he arrived some time in February, and his news was immediately delivered to the citizens by printed handbills. Other cities, however, iftid to remain in ignorance during the time it would take a fast rider to urge his galloping horse over the roads between them and New York. The telegraph was not yet invented, says the Christian Science Monitor, although Joseph Glanvil, a seventeenth century preacher with an interest in the possibilities of invention, had told the Royal society that “to confer at the distance of the Indies, by sympathetic conveyances, may be as usual to future times as to us in literary correspondence.” ,