GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VI, Issue 307, 7 March 1879, Page 16

GENERAL NEWS.

The heliograph was used for the first time in war by the British w^°Pf^-Brf»-t«hoAMlH.«i the PeThawur front,, im?ver J SS^ °Tt tS ° f a circular mirror " movin S U P°» » tS 2 h supported ?n? n a tripod. Wishing to send messages, eaten tbe tull glare of the sun, is able to throw flashes a distance of thTdi'Slf ii ce V bC l T l tl t ot the flashes coxTesrondsVih tnat of zateci. ±Ms method of field telegraphy does away entirely witb tin. dangers of wire tapping and cutting^by the enemy an^ after a thorough test, has just been adopted by the SpanisSitTry'autW of T,^?^ OO \ m ? s-s -< Be ' a Z lV ' VecorAin Z the death b y y ell «w fever f A i J ',Bl, Bl Mouton, at Yassoo City, on the 22nd Oct., says •— detStfS woK^fw 1 !^ at th + ll PP ° St ° f « vt *> another splrit'hStbo many SL n ' }ICIl Cl dd ° n^' th ,°" s ° od and faithM servant,' while oftZrV/Lr of kind friend, and an energetic priest w^s lovwl iif K C i' Wf-1W f- 1 kUOWn thi>ou Sbout East Mississippi, he id a wo ld of w l n( % him 5 P ?° l>lC ° f eVery reli S ious Persuasion StT P aiS - e for tbe mau who kuew so w e« how to please all w f mm l )romi ? in g. principle. But while we pay to him the last tribute of our admiration and love we must remember that our loss is his eternal gam. Father Mouton was born in France, but came to this country as a missionary priest in the year 1855. He had to eS counter hardships of every description, dangers by 'field and flood in Ins travels from one Catholic settlement to another. uSdismSed by the obstacles surrounding him, he persevered in his labor, S what success the Catholic churches of Corinth, Columbus Macon Louibville, and many other places attest." 11. I. p ' ' n l,,H^«^ alf '! ligbtS i ouinal declaims against the custom of giving a bnlo away at ji marriage ceremony, declaring that it is a relic of the old opinion that daughters were slaves of a father, and could be fno"!.! nS° d i tO a " y S ! litOT Avll ° l )leascd llim - w <^en did not acquire wl i,T r 1 Cb r° oSlllg hllhbands for themselves until the tenth century, and in oilier liuropcau countries much later. "No woman " says the jonnial „, qucbUon, "of proper self-respect, will submTto be given hn nTi 0 h0 ™ C -°! Jobn G ' r>ri en, two miles from Dublin, Ont., was binned on Christmas day. Mrs. O-Biien and her son and daughter the" 'milv 1 ! 'l limK v Ml " °' Bricn and SCVCTaI other members of furieS L V)' alk °T ~'\ niile (0 tllc rarest house through a fuiioiih storm. All wcie badly frozen. Mr. Q-Brien will probably