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Southland Times, Issue 867, 18 December 1867, Page 3

The repair of the 1866 Atlantic Cable has been effected at a distance of eighty-eight miles off Heart's Content, in spite of tiie severe gales, which have considerably, delayed the operations of the staff under Sir Samuel Canning. The dam of the U.S. West Hartford reservoir, which suppUes that city with water, was washed .away early on Friday morning, Sept. 6th. The damage to private properly will be large, the city of Hartford sustaining a loss of about 100,000 dols. The number of spindles now employed in the cotton manufacture, in Great Britain exceeds 36,000,000. Their produce of yarn, when in regular work, is 64,000,000 mUes in a day of ten hours, wliich gives enough to wind four times round the globe every minute. An old soldier of the First Empire named Darroy, has just died at the Invahdes, aged ninety. He served in Egypt under Kleber, and was present as sentinel during the execution of . Solimon, the murderer of that general, at Cairo, :in 1900. Solimon first had his right hand consumed on a slow fire, and was then placed on an iron hurdle, with embers under it, where he remained Uving for four hours. Being tortured with thirst, he asked to drink, but this was refused him, as it might have shortened his sufferings. Darroy, who was then a volunteer in the Egyptian service, was, however, touched with compassion and gave the dying man a glass of water. Solimon drank it off at one draught, and then fsU back and expired.

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