News by the San Francisco Mail.

Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 66, 14 October 1875, Page 6

News by the San Francisco Mail.

.- — ; —*i^ —". v 1 " ■- v ' Imerioan-.' ' '! A revolution is imminent in Urugay. Heavy .storms have prevailed in .•Illinois.* \v > -';\ 7 "'^' ; ' v.V."-- \' , 1 "Judge Woodruff, bf the United Circuit Court, is dead. A child at /Fairhaven has been mangled by dogs. \ The steamer Equinox has been wrecked, with a loss of 22 lives. A nugget 'of! gold! 4ias J beeri fouiid at Pernambuco, in Guino, weighing 16£lbs. During a gale in the Archipelago, off Chile, seve'n"~lighters were lost and three persons drowned. A terrific storm broke over Chicago on , the [10th ''causing irnniense destruction: ,- r 7 l/5 < A train was thrown into the Mississippi River by the rails spreading, aid resulted in 15 persons being seriously ."7 '"7 / 7/"- x r 7 Tlie Anglo-American' Telegraph ] Company have reduced the tariff of i American and European telegrams to 25icentsj j . per wordr ? -j-"?^. a-'a'A:-.a ■-:r- ' , The insurgents -Aim* Cuba are very active* burning plantations and making themselv r es\ a general' nuisari l c& Two. prisoners. ml lifypnda, iconvi cted. |of indecent were ;taken 'out of -gaol arid hung in front of the church. ! ia The .B'aiik of had not > resufried' on the- I-Eftir* 'September,--but m&s exected to do sq- a tj. a n early.date. j It, \a, reported that, "General. Butler is retained as courisel for Tiltdn in thesecond suit against "Beeche"r." The City ;Guay.afc[hii r was "'thrown into excitement' by,the, ajssassina'tiph of Garcia Mene, President of Equador/iA his palace, by Captain.' RayO" arid two ' yourigi men.' Rayo was killed' by the guards, but the q thers escaped. ,There are strong reasons fpr,, anticipating the massacre of foreign, residents; - • I •, !At Oil City, the lighthiri'g'struck a large' crude iron tank at tlie.. Imperial Refinery. . Five .tanks, filled .with oil and benzine Were' destroyed, Al-j ■ together about 50,000 barrels' Were, coin spmed, by fire. , Loss, 200,000 dolldrsi :No ihsu.rarice. Two hundred men !werd thrown out of employment.. .;»'.. 7 At Montreal, on the'2nd ( September,' a, great disturbance ! occurred., at the" funeral of Mr . Guifford.'• •; The mob storied the hearse, arid Would'not allow it to enter the cerrietery. Figriting ,took place, and the hearse Was : obliged to retreat. The body was- afterwards deposited in the' Protestant Cemetery Vault, and guarded by 18 armed under the command of a sergeant of police. ... The firm of Schucartal and. Sons has stopped payment. It is one ofthe'oldest and most respectable fi;rms, in New York. Jefferson Davies declines; to accept the gift, of a homestead in Texas. ! Jeff, has issued invitations to address several agricultural societies. Black Nut, under sentence of death in Panama, has committed seventeen assassinations,! several rapes, robberies, and other crihies. He is 88 years old. The new railway between. New York and Philadelphia will open on'the first March.' It is calculated there will. ( be! 5000 arrivals daily from New York ; during the Ceritenniel; | George Bittenbandedi aged 20, was shot arid killed onthe sp6t by Edward . Bittenbanden, his brotner, pnly! Ji'9, in i San Francisco. The murderer was ar> ;rested arid lodged in prison.. !. ~. ■. An explosion occurred at Newark, New! Jersey, at Calluboid Factory, The ;building was destroyed.- Two persons! 1 are known to be : killed. Several others missing are supposed to be .buried in/the! ruins. '■"']''.'■"-'• •■'■•,..:" . There' is another revolution in San Dotoirigo. ..^x : President Ball is claimed President by the insurgents, A Spanish .steamer has been despatched; to protect Spanish residents on-, the Island. : , ... . i ■■•■: The New York Evening Post'says; that after 15th!. September the' rates of, charges on cable rriessages from New York' and east, of New York to Britain arifl;France, will be reduced to one shilling per word. ; .An Organisatiori has been started to; pursue those engaged in the massacre of; General Miguel. A number of the i bandits have been captured and the | leaders shot., Thirty-five rebels were ! executed in one day..:.',. Rumours atßrooklyri are current that District Attorney Brittori is negotiating to enter a nolle prosequi in. the case of Beecher v. Moulton for slander. It is stated that an indictment, has been procured against' Moulton, who refuses to i settle the case. It is not known when ] the trial will come on., Beecher's counsel does not want to' proceed, pnd says better let the, scandal rest.

Horrible cruelties are reported in Illinois State Ex-convict Johet makes a statement, that three, instances come under his notice, while in prison, of cases where prisoners were tortured to death. Two were dosed to death in ice water. One was on the head by a warder> because he was too sickto walk fast. JLripther was strung up for 1 six! hours by his hands to a ring! bolC The ■_■ last. mentioned recovered! after being given over.

.Ll'xj:.'jjiti AiBSStESBBIAi ■• },> j Colonel Duncanreports. that jthe. King of Burraah revived' him courteously., <"' 15>000 animals are aflfecfcd-with tne foot -and mouth 1 disease in 'Dorsetshire.

,;, The hop crop m 'England promises a good yield.,.,, , :( . ~ ..;.. . v , ; , , i Prince Bismarck's ( betrothed to Count '"' Eiriperor ■"'William is to visit Italy in October. ; '" J; ■.--■ —

Therehas been an abundant harvest in Denmark and-Sweden, p •:,•■. Intense heat has Keen experienced in Finland. The grass is scorched, and forests are burning. The, Barman. River is, overflowing its banks and causing immense damage.' The cholera'in Syria is abating. 0 ' The foot and mouth disease is spread-! ing in Cumberland and "Aberdeenshire. Cohen arid of Old Change, have failed j liabilities. L120£00, r , 2 .: „ ]iP:j ; - . ; - T i The Working Men's Peace Association unanimpusly, protested against the armament of Europe as an intolerable burden. The Admiral of the French- American. Squadron has been, superseded on account of hiß'prohouriced Buonapartist tendencies. ■-' ! - The Chinese Customs, authorities aririouncesthat two Ambassadors have been appointed'to proceed-to England* 1 Spain is sending more troops to Cuba.' Carlist,cause,. is weakening, ; and the troops'becoming demoralised. ' \ <: The Emperor, of Austrialeft by will L1,206/o'oo to the' Pope 1 . The amount has been paid. ... The Prussian Service Concentration of two German armies ordered .tor ticipate in the Grand Autnmn Mariosuvers has been' effected^". :; '' ; -The pilgrimage pfoGerman Catholics set out for France. r .The Pope sent his I blessing. . ■, '. [—-Secretary Hooper, of the Telegraphic Workßj r h'as Torged' arid' negotiated a bill for 135,000-dollars. ' -The'ScPtch 'express 7 strain "collided ! with an excursion train •'; from More--cambe to Dradrod, near Kildwick. Five* .persons.were killed,*and.forty .injuried; rseveral-prpbablyfatally... ; . ;T ~ 7 , blacks'invaded. the Egyptian coast, near &Dyssiniari border. Xhe /Khedive' Has despatched three War! vessels' ami 4000 infantry/ to punish; them. ; 74 7 a 7-. '; . The Journal de Paris publishes a ! note repudiating the pamphlet in which the Count ChamboxedMs. advised to resign his pretentions the throne of •France. ' "-■ '- - " '"' •' "- ■' r p _ The has instructed : the, Catholic clergy of Bosnia and Herzegovina' to use their influence in calriiiug the people, in order to facilitate the pacification oi the Provinces.

The first series. of . Conferences to promote the principles of the Working 1 Men's. Peace Association of_ .GreatBritain among.the Working classes of France was held in Paris. .There, were delegates present from all partsl of England. " Mr 1 Joseph Arch was olie of the speakers. The Queen witnessed. the ; running down of the yacht Mistletoej from the deck of the' Alberta, and Was deeply agitated, wringing her - hands, and evidently-inastate.of dreadful suspense Jbeing theunibYfunate sufferers.

The editor 'arid proprietor of the Frankfort Lecture,- and a- member of the German i Parliament, have been arrested, for refusing to testify to the authorship certain articles. Five other editors of that, paper.are already imprisoned for r the satae reason: '■■ i- ' (

Telgrams to the' 12th by* the 1 ' Herald cable, from Cetigiie,-M(iritene]grb/ gays all the,' county between Servia ;arid M!onteriegro. is ; in full rlvojtf TPiilly ten! Tphpu'sahd '' haye/7 iakeri ! the.,fieidj,towns. have' : been- sackeol,.all all.;,the Turkish, villages,;have.s..beenr j burned, men, have beenmassacredj and jth'o. Christian inhabitants have taken ; refuge in the mountains. The 'Turkish .troOps are demoralised and the insur'rec- : ijtion is spreading on ail sides." : Moniteriegrois prepared' foV Wfir; ! ';a7nd ; th'e. jjwildest erithtisiasrii^e 1 veiled; 1 A general jwar, is np^'regarded inevitable,' , f j .At a&eetjrig' of .the!! ipf New Zealand held !pri. .August ; |the ; Chairman, in7mpying ; the, .adoption, j|o£,,the T«pprt, % said Mr, jßridges7 (had j worked advantageously for,the ; Bank. jsMt Burnes* resignation was.accepted;' The election of -a < general; manager •is now under consideration. Last year it was., reported , that:, the bank vyould lose LI6 000 through! a bad !.debt at Nelson. r The ataountywas- greatly."ex-, | aggerated at the!timd.\. .He.had'tbrPught; they might lose £2000, but the loss' had actually only:been. LBOO. They! had, other . losses iii the year, but had more care been exercised ■ these bad debts would not have ;bee'n' so large, and the Directors had expressed a very strong opinion in this respect to those,of the Coloriy^. They wished' to do. a safe, steady businessi They had, Written off and paid;.£4646' pre-7 liminary .expenses, and. would.carry, forward LSBSQ after the payment of a dividend.

Another revolution-■ in Sonoro is reported. General ;serria, comiriariding the: revolutionists, was! at; liuscari on the Bth September. > He has issued a pronraciMaento fight ; the present Gbvermueifr to. the bitter end.< Forty have sighed 4 a iresh election and another Governor.

* Th©<volcano" Mburio-loa ' r ib I ve% active. ; , vrJ '.-.- V U/.'-I MIJ-fl \A$ are 7 doing .great v < mischief to the growingwops. ~ ' Japan has arranged M'lSb^ r wtfSlSaO'' Greece remains neutral in the Turkish disturbance. , , ,t"^) . It is proposed! tbjpresentaiesfimonial of £20,000 to Wo%iiQs:p¥w*!3fc.i -. Spanish Minister lipholds universal suffrage. /.,,,..., ,^t Preparations are proceeding foi the Prince of Wales' visit to 7,. * Three ,towns in Russia are entirely destroyed, by. fire and floods. t i L , ■*.£ surveying .party-of- a-projeoted line of railway in Japan was<latrasked in a 1 brutal mariner by tKp A disease has appeared in tfil pbtaof Ireland;*-' Great suffering is expected 'from, this cause, Heavy rains in the 3arpda district, India, necessitate replanting of a large part oi the cotton crop.•>• '--?- tuunr.i.i'S The strike at Oldham, iri n Eri&lfriid, has ended. The; terms .of .<jhe n operatives have been accepted. Wori A «has commenced..,. ... ~ ..'....' 7,-!" The anniversary..of {he Sedan was observed throughout rCfermany as a holiday. General rejoicing officially; ' ' ! . <' v ;; It has been suggested that 70.000 Icelanders] now in' a starvirig condraon owing to the eruption,'shouldbe'shipped to (New Zealand. ! '■■■■■• ■'■ <\ , t:" fT.-. f» ' An- exciting bicycle race of fifty miles for the championship r hetween lishmaniand a. Frenchman, was! won by the Englishman by one yarpV ',' n '. !. , The Hon., Wiljiam JTc* ; ha|T delivered several speeches 7on teetOTjalism; He sjpea'ks 'enthusiastically 'of :! Zealand, and says he is ' determined to deposit his bones. there. J7: It is; announced*' that the Carlist General, Rorrepongj-whilst endeavoring tp'force a passage; 'lMb' 'Arra£pii E ,' r |?as ,twice defeated*, with a,loss of ifoiir,. hun.dred men..-' .-'•!- ".;•.. , .. , . ,-.7; ... ..',•. ■' .^ It, is reported that an, English steamer succeeded in landing ;l .'rfco, iri,Sp!airi,.!|a largp ( ,;cairig;p", of', : war material for. the!Ca'rlists,'!ipcluding four pieces.of rifles/ and 100 cases of cartridges; «'••"'' ( y - The, statement of the r Du!chy of Sax Cbburg, by! the.J)u|e, ipf Edinburgh is denied; as a wilful invention, for /which the T German 1 papers are responsible, i; -'- ---.... .A difiiculty in„China.lias^been-brew-ing some time,'owing. to the encroaoh.me,nts by the Chinese on the.term*, pf the existing trade treaty. *' ' ' l ' *.: • .Quarantine laws against the foot and mouth so severe ,that.importers threateh'to'stop meat' supplies - altogether unless relaxed. * It' is customary to sacrifice a, whole cargo fpr a single case on board. : Aspecial in the 'Morning Standard* states that the British Consul has-ar-rived at Mostar,' Turkey. 5 He witnessed horrible cruelties perpetrated by the insurgents, who roasted-children alive. 7 Qladstonp^cpndemns,Cardinal- Man ning for advocating the setting upi!6f the tfeiriporal -power of ? the' Pope if by bloodahed.,,, Cardinal is. believed to have strong probabilities in ,fayor of his claim to the next ! Papal chair. A writer in Blackwood shows conclusively.7: France '•ftpV b«. inafar worae state of defence _than ..before the German war., He f condemns ,the French army as ! althoiigh' ; dbstihfr twenty millions : ra*yearc : . , : a ■■■ iri-.-r.l' The action of the officers of the Royal Yacht ; Alberta iriVte'amirig intp f a ,crowded bay is ; strongly condemned. The Mistletoe, the yacht run dowrij Was a;small ! schooner. The breeze was light, and she could not get away. 1 question; tJireatens to agitate the Church of Scotland. At a meet*in r £9f : Presbytery at Brechin. Mr Cameron gave' 1 notice of his intention to . That on , all future occa,sipns pfihe, introduction jof ministers/ brethren appear in their ;jofficial robes^^by- wtoch 'U'<miht jgowns and bands.-

! v/DKe^i^ev^l^lr rt^i? ank< J Prinvjcipal of Nelson College, New Zealand, {has written to the* <: ©a^dee' : a .** $?l?^2? a J^ n 4 very couhur \de rose. -lie says Hokitika carpenters' ;are ? onstrike.;because%?theirv wages are* reduced from 16s to day,, and that Dunedin that. _ . " '■'

Germatayrhas begun r a new' persecution of the Danes in- Sehleswig. Both 'the Danish-Clubs in. Eransbrucliihaye heen closed by the Police, The leali-' ihg : *'membefs were'; summoned* and* cross-questioned, and; finally the: editors of the two .Danish organs in-Schleswifr were sent to prison for six months, on account of artioies in their papers claiming the execution of paragraph 5 in the treaty of. Prague.

A St. Petersburg telegram has been, received from General Kauffman, commanding;the Russian expedition agaifist" the Bokhara rebels, announcing thata ! battle Was fought on thY sth inst: the Russians completely defeated'a force > of rebels, numbering.3o,ooo, who pc- . cupied a fortified '*position, which' General Geolevatichbfft stormed, The enemy was pursued 15 versts, and maniy Of them... -drowned-in the Amundana river:- • 'Several' guns aazfra . quantity material were Ihe losses of the; Russians)were incon-1 siderables f .--, General ;:Kauffman will continue to advance) a^airistK,the : rebels ' when his means of transportation arrivefram Xodostent.

-who *is one of the | Parisian 1 leaders of fashion, is reported to be- exerting her influence to lessen f ( the extravagance that is rampant in . taris societ}\ A lane lord has been shot in Galwayy tmt not killed. - .The cat has been administered at Newgate on two highway robbers. England and France exchanged territory on the West Coast of Africa. England gave Gambia for Dabon, Great Bassam, Assinee, &c. j A merchant and shipowner named Loughliri Freeman, has been sentenced at the Waterford Assizes to pay a fine J of L3OO, and to go to gaol for two months besides, for sending an unseawoTthy vessel to sea. A wholesale reduction of salaries has been commenced in Turkey. With a self-denial rare in that land of corruption, the Grand Vizier has commenced his retrenchment by cutting down his own salary to less than a fourth of its former amount, and has followed this up by reducing the salaries of his colleagues to 50 per cent. The King of Greece had a narrow escape from a. dangerous railway collision recently, in consequence of the en-gine-driver of his train getting drunk, requiring to be removed from his post by main force. Two trains going in opposite directions on the same line were happily stopped just in time to prevent a collision. A very singular accident, attended with fatal results, has occurred at the Pyrotechnic School at Toulon. A naval lieutenant was filling bottles with a chemical compound, explosive only when,brought into contact with water, when a drop of prespiration from his forehead fell into one of them, causing an explosion by which three persons were killed on the spot. Fuller enquiries have had the happy result of showing that the injury done to life and property by the disastrous floods in the south of Franca Was very much exaggerated during the first days of panic. It is now believed that the number of lives lost will not exceed 600, instead of'2ooo originally reported, and that L 15,000,000 of estimated damage to property will be reduced by two-thirds of that amount. A curious dinner took place at Aivdrie lately, all the invited guests being octogenarians. Several of the ancients invited did not put in an appearance, but there were, nevertheless, seven of them present, whose combined ages reached the total of 581, or an average bf 83 years each. It would be interesting to know of what sort of fare they partook. Mr Singer, the well-known inventor of the sewing machine which bears his name, died at his residence at Paignton, - South Devon, on July 23rd, aged 64. On the same day died Sir Charles Locock, Bart,, M.D., who attended the Queen at the birth of all her children. He graduated at Edinburgh, and commenced the practice of his profession in London in 1840. In 185? he retired from practice and was made a baronet. He was a Magistrate and DeputyLieutenant for Kent. Sir Charles Locock' was 76 years of age when he died. July 17th was " Fair Saturday " in Glasgow,, and it was computed that 180,000 pleasure-seekers left tlio city on that.and the preceeding day. On the Saturday 400 drunkards were fined at the, Police Courts, and scenes of noisy revelry were carried on in the streets at night until the public houses were closed. Some of the places to which the excursionists proceeded were crowded to exces?, and sleeping accommodation could not be had for love or money. At Inverary, for instance, even after the churcheshadbeen utilised as dormitories, numbers were obliged to sleep out of doors under boats and trees. The Bey. W. H* M. IT. Aitkeri has resigned the incumbency of Christ Church, Evertori, his intention (the * Liverpool Courier' believes) being to devote "himself'entirelyto evangelistic :: (m connection: with Mr Moody) he has lately been taking a prominent.part in various towns of the country. - *

Miss Livingstone, the eldest daughter of the "African explorer, was . iharried' bri.ifuly 27th," at" Hamilton, to Mr. Alexander ]L. Bruce, a member of the well-known Edinb/ttrgh brewing •firm of Younger and Co. The 7 ceremony took'7'pTace'' in" : the' Auchirigraniont Established Chu'r'cHj'and was conducted by .the. Venerable, .Dr 'fttpfjat, grandfather, pj the. /bride,, assisted by two other Mr Tho/mas , .Steele Lrvmgetbne, brother of the-bride, gave herJway,'and her'bridesmaids nv.mbered sister^ .Mary The Carriage service :is described as having b^ff/icdnducted' to ,me7^adjVan^e ! d!. ritual of. the Qburch of ; Scotland,[. : the' guests x assembled-at .breatcfHs-t-at. dLirmwood, the residence of Dr Loudoun, -a£'' old, and. Valued friend of the great traveller;'-" Tfie f * bride received a large numbflr ri came„'.-firojov.., iul,,,paiite,f;pj[;rtMl^jo,be l . The town of Hamilton with' kept / ; Ip was ,iri'/l^e : the { Abt faidiM&iownlMusm^ -New-¥pTk-BiaTes Miat A tari- . .'ousj /rparjt?' crops damaged by ,A I

L -*- 1 1 ■ ■ ' AA.I — "-*rTr,i I Potato .disease;-! hM(-r;;-appeare3~"aF . it crop will prove a completejfailurev y \ The * death is -announced- of; the youngest son of Queen rPomare,; of Tahiti, Societyilslanda, aged 2& 7: 7 7 The i John Bull' says that an anonymous donor ~has-promised to give a hall.ancl library to seple College. The trustees oi Williarii College, Massachusetts, have conferred the honorary decree of L.L.D.' upon the Right Hon. John Bright, M.P. . The Rev. J. W. Williams, a Methodist New connexion minister at Tunstall, has been expelled by the Conference for misconduct. The pricipai! charge against him was for promising marriage to four young ladies. "An employer of labor" writes to the papers to say that whereas he can get any number of clerks for fifteen shillings a week, he, cannot get a man, to carry a sack for' thirty shillings ! Why doesn't he give his clerks: the sack I —' Punch.'

The lawsuit regarding the line of inarches between the estates of Birkhall and Abergeldie (the Highland residence of the Prince of Wales) has been decided by Lord Young in. favor of the Prince.

Two children, aged respectively five and three years, were suffocated by a fire which broke out in the top floor of a house in York Road, Westminster. They were left locked in a room with a fire burning, and are supposed to have set fire to the premises. At the Armagh Assizes, Judge Lawson sentenced a man named Francis Cannavan to seven years' penal servitude for having committed perjury at a magisterial investigation into party disturbances- in Lurgan on the 15th August last. . A most deliberate attempt to wreck a railway train was made at Woodhouse Junction, near Sheffield. It was discovered just in time to prevent a disaster, that two loose rails and some fish plates had been placed upon the metals 5 and on a police-officer going to investigate the matter, he found concealed in a hollow tree near the spot a man, who confessed than he had placed the obstruction' on the rails, and was waiting to see the result. The "'Japan Gazette', says that a curious anatomical discovery-,is said to have been made by Dr ffilgendorf, of the German. Society at.Yeddo for the Study of the Natural History and Ethnology of Eastern Asia. He says that the cheek-bone of the Japanese is double in many eases, instead of being a single structure. The additional bone is linked to the other by a .suture, and is believed to be pefculiar to the Japanese race. Whatever the relatives of Lord Byron may think of the proposal to erect a statue to the poet in London, they are disposed to resent as an unwarranted interference the proposal to place a slab on his grave on Hucknall Torkard Church. Lady Ann Blunt, granddaughter of Byron, has written a letter to Mr Disraeli, who is chairman of the committee, on behalf of herself and of her brother "(Lord Wentworth), and Miss Leigh, a niece of the poet, pointing out the seeming, impropriety into which the committee nave beenunintentionally ted. Her remarks are strong but dignified :—' We have not forgotten tliat when Lord Byron's remains were refused, a resting-place in Westminster /■'Hjey; that it was left to his sisterV Mrs Leigh, and his friend Mr Hobhouse, perhaps the two who loved 1 him' best, to bury him, and that together they placed a tablet to his memory. What their affection then deemed suitrj able we still, hold to be enough, nor can we think that the 4 addition'of'a : slab placed by subscription in Hucknall Church would add anything to the. dignity of the poet's tomb. • At least it is not for the public,, which denied/a! worthier grave, to take' now, after;so. years unasking,. from ibis,, family, the; guardianship of the dead." After this rebuke, the' : committee- ' L will probably' devote the -whole, subscription to jther outlay on the statue/ -• -- .

An evil future "is impartially pre 1 paring; for both pbhe of Fermissive Bill and/the" 'great public- 3 house interest: : • i Science 5 hasy ; withi its wonted abserice^of s prejudice, just struck each side of the question a knock-down blow. A Frankf6rtj'jb^urrial Iy that a cheparetvo^ v that.fCity. ; has lately given a public exhibition oihis ability to make delicious 'boerV&fi a moment's notice-; out, of. .nothing but a quantity ""of Brownish powder ana a 'pmiLof Watarv. T It is said that certain experts sojne of them brewers': themselves, cpuh| not" distinguish fifion the and .that drawp./rom mc prthcjdb'x 11 .cask/// 'fft& l f,n^w''h'k^f i W sold;at. sd l( an ounQe y and; prje77ppncejis ; sufficient to ! produce *a-.<gallon.-; 'oil bee&c 'AVer the process is so Simple spritei the powder" 3fetßstyßtfr pedbi&cr.eady. f declares Jthat "by "'a" slight' Pharffc'e W h$ Jf ingredientßT he can alterthTrquafity of the Deer, and ptfodu<s .any kindrtfrat maybe /ShdMy7x.lflierefo3e: jf sm\* tion may be expected- With a few grains Wmfs Tih iJ 6r two of Tnd and the js&s? t 3['^ t i3 o t^S e 3 ona fi de traveller [ of calmly make for the SumpV and there contendadly alike to Sir Wi fjred Lfwf to the licensed victualh r'j — f*ffi!l Mall Gazette.' » *

7 KA^^el^^S^^^^^n\^^^fWm^ \V^l£%£Bs lK 'J^^® as 3jf ! a ° Poller ex{ffQsirar™A"^ I live-stock: way buried m&e debris Qui man is seriously injured. ; Aril Italian.' $}abr the ;ex-Grand ? Duke of has di- ! rected.the sale of all hisj private estates in his old doiriinions'j.the value of which is estimated, at 7,000,000f.'

The ten miles race between David Stanton, bicycle rider;/and a pjny, was won pony Lady Flora, who! did the ten miles r in!,&o minutes, peat!ing Stanton by half a,mile.

From an official document just printed it appears that last; year as many" as 821 orders were registered.by country courts .to protect the'property of ".deserted wives."

Mrs Qgilvic, a member of the Society of Friends, who has established a home at Ipswich, is about-to place.£3o,ooo in the hands of the society for benevolent purposes. A new lodge of Freemasons,. was consecrated .at-,the Alexandra. Palace under, the. warrant of the Grand Lodge ,pf England, j A, letter from the Grand Lodge of Rome was read giving iraterriai greetings to the yoiingest members of the English craft.

An ornamental marble fountain, with, figures of Shakespeare, Milton, and; Chaucer, erected at a cost of .£5000,; has-been opened in Park Lane, London. 1 Two garotters were, flogged ih. New-j gate. Both howled with.great vehemence when, the. lash was applied to their persons. A handsomely bound copy of the report of tlie. Committee on Intemperance Tor the Convocation of the Province of York was presented' to the Queen. In her'reply, Her Majesty expressed] an earnest wish that., the. efforts which "are being,made to check intemperance may be crowned with success. This, is the second occasion within a few, weeks on which Victoria has expressed her cordial sympathy with the cause of temperance. The : Scotch- Fishery- Board's; returns, just issued, show that the herring fishery of Scotland during 1874 w,as successful beyond precdent, the number of barrels just .turning a million. . This is 61,0.00' barrels in excess of 1873, the next highest year.- The : cod. and 1 ; ling fisheries,.however, declined a little. On the 3lst December tlie* total number of fishing boats in Scotland was 14,84?, manned by 45,226.men and boys ; while the estimated .value of the boats, nets, and lines employed was L 1,072,777. ;

I Clarence House.,, the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh's town residence,! has been undergoing an entire renovation to suit it to the taste of the Duchess, who is as fond of spending money as her husband is of keeping it. The-de-scription of her boudoir and antechamber reads like a passage from ' Lothair.' The walls are hung in olive-green silk, and the other decorations are 6F yarious tints of the same color. " Lights 'and shades," we are told, " commingle .softly, and perfect harmony of-tone is preserved throughout." The apartments have "an imposing air of loftiness and grandeur," and the appointments-" a peculiar aspect of elegance and splendour." The very fenders are'of marble T " elaborately . sculptured," and _" all 'minor accessories' are in accord with the luxurious beauty of the main des'fgn," Wall lights in-" mat gold " arid richly: gilt furniture combining• with < other' kinds mrornamentation to evince the. Russian lady's riatiori-alki've-'for " barbaric pearl arid gold."-