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Bruce Herald, Volume III, Issue 69, 3 August 1865, Page 8

The foundation-stone of the new spire of Chichester Cathedral has been laid. The restoration of the cathedral will cost £52,000, and £46,000 has been subscribed towards it. Daniel M'Naughten, the man who murdered Mr Drummond in mistake far the late Sir Robert Peel, in 1843, died recently at the Criminal Lunatic Asylu^ a Broadmuor. *■ * The New York papers contains impor-_ ) taut advices from Mexico, dated 29th April: —Within the previous fortnight the French and Belgians bad it is said, suffered several defeats at the hands of the Liberals. The Prettiest Girl in Town. —Of all the ingenious ways of raising money for the Sanitary Commisson, that divised by the people of the town of Catawassa, Pennsylvania, is probably the oddest. Th« male citizens agreed to decide by vote who was the prettiest girl in town, and it was declared in favor of Miss Hattie S. Reifsnyder by-a majority of 280. Each vote was accompanied by the sum of twenty-five cents and the proceeds were given to the sanitary Fair.as the contribution of tha favorite beauty. A girl seventeen years of age came from Mahaska to Knoxville, lowa, a few days since, In order to procure a marriage lietiriee, and that she might take the oath with a clear conscience (?) she placed in her shoes a strip of paper on which was "■ritteu the number' eighteen, so that she could swear she was over eighteen, by which meaus she secured her licence, was forthwith joined to her lover, and returned home. One of the houses burnt down at thj fire in Stafford-street last week is memo* rable as having been th (^residence of Ford and Anderson, who figured prominently in the late trial for the murder of German ."Charley," ; . : /