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Clutha Leader, Volume III, Issue 115, 22 September 1876, Page 6

A remarkable take of salmon has occurred at Hornhead, Avhei'e 322 were captured in one bag-net. Victoria Docks, London, is being greatly enlarged, the area being increased from 90 to 200 acres.

It has been resolved to construct a target on Avhich to test the peneti*ative power of the 81 -ton* gun, at a cost of £5000.

Wolverhampton has now before it a project for certain street impro-vn-ments involving a first outlay of over £200,000;

The heat is beginning to tell upon the returns of the Registrar-General, and is giving us something to fear in the way of sunstroke.

The Berlin Post Office is laying down their first set of pipes for underground pneumatic despatch. Over 1000 yards are laid, beginning from the Genthinerstrasse.

The committee of the Prague Exhibition of Newspapers and Autographs has received in answer to its appeal over 4000 newspapers from all parts of the world and 600 autographs:

Mr Plimsoll is to be presented with a silver cup by some workmen of Sheffield. It weighs 136 ounces, is mounted on black marble, and is ivorth £180, which has been subscribed by one firm.

A Hull policeman has been twice shot at by a supposed burglar, but fortunately escaped unhurt; The man was pursued, but could not be arrested, and no clue has been obtained as to his whereabouts.

The first locomotive and passenger train run on the Pennsylvania Railroad is exhibited at the Centennial. ]t is still able to do duty, and made the run from Altoona, \vhere it has lain for many years, to Philadelphia.

A bazaar was held in the Industrial School, Alyth, for the purpose of raising funds to complete a large bowling

and croquet green to the west of Market Place, which will cost fully £200. The necessary sum was almost obtained. The death is announced at New York of Mr Marshal Lefferts, the well-known telegraph engineer and electrician. He had been suffering from heart disease, and died suddenly in a railway train while proceeding to Philadelphia. There is now placed in the rooms of the Carlton Club a striking marble bust of Mr Disraeli, which is declared by the Premier and all his friends who have seen it to he the most faithful presentment of the right hon. gentleman which ha& yet been seen. The total cost of in-maintenance and out-door relief of paupers in England and Wales in the parochial year 1875 was £7,488,595. The cost .'of inmaintenance amounted to £1,577,596 ; out-relief cost £2,958,6?0, and the maintenance of lunatics in asylums £859,073. , „ Colonel (or more properly Mr) Baker's term of imprisonment expires on August 6. The 'ex-hussar Will at once proceed to join the Turkish army*,, and will undertake the organisation of the Ottoman cavalry in the field. The Strasburg Gazette states that the request of the Prince Napoleon td he allowed to enter the Swiss army has been refused by the Swiss Government, and that the Russian Government has also refused him permission to serve in the Russian army. The letter of the Duke of Conhaught proposing to his Hanoverian cousin was, it is said, accompanied by one from the Queen, in which Her Majesty said that should the marriage be accepted, Avould give her great pleasure-, and that in the event of its takingplace she hoped that King George and his family would live in England. The following must be takeii For what it is worth. It is stated that Her Imperial and Royal Highness the Duchess of Edinburgh has written a strong and very urgent letter to the Queen, complaining of the attitude of j England towards Russia, and begging Her Majesty to request Mr Disraeli and the Earl Derby to be less bitter in their references to her father's empire. It is said that there is a veiy warlike feeling in Russian society. The Russians ate naturally furious at having been checkmated in the EasterA Question, and Openly accuse us of having been in some Avay connected with the so-called suicide of the late Sultan. These sentiments having been expressed to an English officer who Avas staying in one of the Palaces at St. Petersburg*, the next morning, to the great indignation of the whole pariy, he appeared with a small pair of scissors worn like a decoration. Great sensation has been created at the Giant's Causeway and the districtaround by the discovery Of what is supposed to be the remains of the giant, who Avas engaged in the formation of that wonderful curiosity. The figure discovered measures thirteen feet iri length and six feet round the Avaist. There are six toes on the right fpdi;-, which is much larger than the left. The other parts of the remains resemble d fully formed human skeleton. So great has been the throng df sightseers that admission is charged to the public. A notable death (says a Londoii correspondent) has just occurred, and which is well worth chroniciling. There expired at West Mall, Clifton, a short; time ago, Eliza Zanthe, the wife of E. T. Esdaile, of Cothelstone, Taunton; aged 63 years. Mrs Esdaile was nd Other than the daughter of Percy B. Shelley, the distinguished poet, by his first wife Harriet Westbrook. Th'd 1 story of this unhappy union is a matter 1 of history, hut there are many unexplained matters in connection with it-,. Avhich in consequence of the death of " Mrs Esdaile, will, I believe, noAV see the light. The present baronet-, Sip Percy Shelley, is the son of the cele- , brated Mary Woollstoncroffc Godwin-* the daughter of William, Godwin; author of " Political Justice;"