GENERAL NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1694, 8 January 1874, Page 2

GENERAL NEWS.

John Roessle,'' Jwhbi -J established the brewing of lager-beer, in America, and accumulated = about r,000,0D0H6l thereby, died recently in Roxburg, Massachusetts. i!t A 7 fatal result •frdm'thetbiteDfr-'a' cat) has 1 b'cctlrred' in- Liverpool, the victim 'being a little boy named Owen Oahv'the^aon of a t&'l'orV residing in Liverpbol.f'/'THe child died in a s^ate of mania. The' charitable 'dames' of dhicago have . discovered a hew way of raising monss for benevolent objects. They 'take rooms in the heart of the city, and spread a. 2s 6d 'luncheon for /business men 1 . iio!!he r tables are decorated with flpwers, and are served by pretty volunteer; young ladies. The managers induce^theif^.friends to furnish free supplies, and; the: landlord to i charge no>rent, so that a week's- operStJons usually fill, the treasury, to the desired In London. there o is a.^ociety forim:pro,ving „and eniorcing'jtne laws >for the protection of women. ' „..,..,. |lr . . ,The Jse.w, YorkTvwfis giyesan aocount of a swimming 'match inihe^Harlemßiver on September 7 ? between ten young ladies. The "prize' was" a silk dress,, valued at.jlJ'S dols., and the.. distance a iriile. Miss Goboess. proved i.'the^ winner, and Miss Coltpn was second^ the former reaching tfte' stake-boaF fn Wty^minult6s*"*' Hiss Denan led for somet ime, but resigned'her chance for the prize to aid in the rescue of a youug man whd'had accidentally fallen into the water. The spectators resolved to present Miss" Denari Mth^i gold watch as a reward for her bravery. The Hawaiian Gqasttw mikes the follow ing appeal to the inhabitants of those Islands :— Friends of Hawaiins, let there

be no vacillation on the question of allowing the distillation of rum on our shores. Look at the aborigines of Australia and Tasmania^ and ask what has destroyed them f ; Turn to New Zealand, and inquire what is the cause of the decrease of that noble race of Maoris*? and of the constant wars WUh the. whites ? In Fiji, in Samoa, and other groups, free rum is the cause of nearly all the internecine wars. It was the same here some thirty, or fo,rty years ago, when rum distillation and rum drinking were free, and the .population , decreased fifty thousand in; eighteen years? License it again, and it will diminish another fifty thousand in eighteen years. And what then? And what then ? "Mglea," in the Australasian, says : — By a late P. and O. steamer a gentleman not altogether unknWri in the colonies took his departure from Southampton. Through some curious lapse of memory he ' had forgotten his own name, and being si person of ready adaptability to cirgu instances, he took the first that came handyj and called himself Cavenagh. He wasn't at all a bashful man, and after a few days at sea he introduced himself to Sir Andrew Clarke (once our Surveyor-General), who was on his way to his Governorship of of the 'Straits Settlements. "You probably," said the pseudonymous traveller, " knew my father, Mr Cavenagh, of the Melbourne Morning Herald. ?" " Oh yes," said Sir Andrew, "I remember him very well. How ia Mrs Major ?" "Mrs Major ! I don't remember having had the pleasure of her acquaintance." "Not know her?" said Sir Andrew. *'Why, she is your own sister?" The impostor, thus accidentally detected, had ample opportunity for introspection the. rest of the voyage. No one spoke to" him. '/.-._ ' ' ' „,.-.. Profesßor|Agaßsiz defends his rejection of the Darwinian therory of evolution on : the ground that "his opponents are presenting views on scientific principles which are not even based on real observation ; that they have not shown evolution, or the power of evolution, in the present day, and hence are not entitled to assume it in the past." He further characterises the theory as a "mire of mere assertion/ : •