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Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 11, 19 January 1870, Page 3

The telegraph cable between Caithness and Orkney was successfully laid in the Pentland Firth on Sept. 13. In a graveyard at Shrewsbury, New Jersey, is a row of ten graves of a family of brothers and sisters, all of whom died at the age of ten days. The sewing machine has not only produced a revolution in the method of working with needle and thread, but it has also created a special class of nervous diseases among the workers. The "jarring" causes in the young and weakly extreme nervous irritation and depression, headache, and restlessness. In factories, the labour of turning the machine—labour which, when badly constructed machines have to bo used, is considerable, and with all machines very irksome—should not be thrown on the workers, many of whom are mere children, since a very small amount of steam-power would turn a large number of the machines. We doubt in noli if needlewomen are, as a class, much better off than when their suffering.'? were so tenderly told by Mood.