MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Inangahua Times, Volume III, Issue 100, 9 April 1877, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

A WVsleyan minister lias been committed for trial at Hereford, for peijury in a County Court action in which he *vas defendant. The steamer Gnrsiona left Iflba for Leg horn on 25th December with a larg number ot convicts on board, and has n > been beared of since. The Montegama, steamer, seized by Cuban refugees on the high seas, his been abandoned bj them and burnt. There have been more outrages by brigihds mi Sicily. The diligency between Palermo aDd Sciacca was seized by them on the 3rd ihst., and the escort shot. A bank at Somerset, Ohio, nas been entered by four armed men marked, and over lO.OOQdbI. carried away. The inmates were gagged and bound. The United States correspondent of the Australasian writes :— We > hare jq«t been treated to an interesting illustration of the folly and stupidy of a certain section of New York "society," M,r J'tnei Gordon Bennet is a young man of 35 or less, who a few years since fell heir, to the New York Herald, a newspaper of doubtless morals, but undoahted, profit ableness, yielding its proprietor an income of some quarter of a million a year. This handsome sum Mr Bennett is believed to squander, in large part, oa horses, wine, and women, with a great deal of bad, luck and bad judgment regarding all of them. He has, however, an iron frame, and* as won some notoriety as an amateur athlete, and especially as a walker and a dashing rider in the game' o£ " polo." He has been credited lately with having induced a very lovely young girl, by the name of Miss Edith May, to pledge herself to him in marriage, and the ceremony was to have taken place on the day after Christmas. Previous to that date, how* ever, for some months, Mr Bennett's eccentricities in respect of his two least pardonable lines of excess had been marked and scandalous, and on the wed* ding morning it is reported that, he left his affianced to wear her robes in mortification and dismay, while he was enjoying society of a wholly different kind. The next Say. Miss May's brother conceived the curious illusion that it would be a delicate evidence of fraternal respect to cowhide the faithless swain. Accordingly he awaited Bennett at the door of his cfub, and. when he came out cut him sharply across the face with a ridingwhip of cowhide, knocked him down twice, and finished his performance by pitching the unfortunate fellow into a bank of wet snow and sitting down upon him. From this position Bennett was rescued by a couple of Club companions and carried into the house. That evening he called a council of war from" among hu friends, and it was decided that nothing but a "hostile meet* ing " would, remove ijie stain from so much of his honor as h'g debauchery and generally brutal and worthless life had left him. The result, was a ehaienge, which May accepted, on the delightfully inconsistent theory of " the code " that a man' who has insulted, your family, and whom you have publicly horsewhipped, is entitled! to a chance to kill you. The young men got away very quietly, patting the reporters on a false scent, and met in Maryland, 1 The particulars of the duet

are not known, but the most authentic reports are to the effect that it was Mood* less, and that Bennett wit "lati^Bed" with his own aad hit oppnne,ntVfa*lure to hit eaih ©the* $» of trying The affair, which from firet to last, wag so notorious that the authoritiw felt objigeif to ttfce some steps towards punishing the offenders, and Bennett's surgeon, oft' his fftara to the city, was t»ken before the ®t*ts Jory. and on refusing to testify wti idmaiitted t*> goal for " contempt,*' this itaje. Bennett obligingly slipped off to Europe, catching tlie Cnnard steamer with the news yacht of the Herald. May 'remains in Maryland. The surgeon has been released, and the episode, which for tti« time, being quite dwarfed the Presidential dispute, has " blown over." * Mr Barry Sullivan is seriously ill, eon« sequent upon the injury to his eyes when placing Richard the Third, some weeks back. ' "* Miss Alice May, described as the Australian prima donna, has been well received at the Opera Comique in the Grand Duchess. She is now playiug at the Park Theatre. In these days of long walks, it is not uninteresting to look up back records and see if our forefathers 'of a hundred years ago were equal to the feats of stamina now exhibited. The Sporting Magazine for the year 1765 tells us that in 1737 Mr, Poster Powell walked from Canterbury (not New Zealand) to London and back, a distance of 112 mi'es, in 34 hours. In 1788 the same gentleman walked from Hyde- park corner to the 50th milestone oh the Bath -road and bic.k to' fty do-park in under 22 hours, and in the year 1700, he walked I'rom London to York aad back, 394 miles, in five days 15 hours, to 1765 Kobert Batley, when an old man often walked to London from Norwich, a, distance of 81 miles, in one day and returned back the nest. In the year. 1790 Savager, a labourer in Herefordshire, walked 404 miles in six days over very rough ground, and in 1781 a gentleman aged 77 walked from London to Liverpool, 206 miles, in four days'. When we remember that all these feats w»re performed out of doors on the turnpike roads, up hill and down dale, and with the roads themselves in some parts in a very rough state, we can bat* admit that they compare favourably with anything done lately under cover and on a level and beautifully- prepared track. A morning promenade costume, made by Worth, was as follows :— The material was granite cloth; a prune ground, studded a.l over with dot* of yellow and red silk - y the skirt is opened in front over, a breadth of grey velvet, anil at the sides trimmed wtth fringe ; the squire pockets which were velvet, were covered with % myriad of small grey peaii buttons ; the bodice opened over a «£^ftt watstcait; the bodice and basquet^er* likewise ornamented with buttons "and piped with velvet, Artificial flowers are used to profusion on ball dresses this season. Tabbers are] made o> flowers, an( * have long drooping fringed edsjes. Silver and gold fleers, autumn leaves, m\ high -colored exotic, foliege ornament bill dre«es; velvet leaves mixed wirli chenille also are papular. The newest r^ses are larg?, sofVtnd, cru«!ied-4oo\ih.jr,*with aiina«t transp'trent" petals. Lare necklaces nre moeh worn with; brocaded and velvet dresses ; duohes*e nhd round point, lice, are u«el for thu purpose, ami the necklet consists of a ci*» rular band, more than an inch wide of the, he >, finished at e«ch edge like an insertion, and pa«s-d round the throat. In front there are sometimes three and sometimes five medallion shape I pendants of lace. A serion* occurrence took place at a wake in Debtfprd reeentlv. A woman died at the Greenwich Union, and the body was taken to the house of her, daughters, one of whom tiered th%t it was not that of her mother, the other, persisting that it was. A. friend of the, family coinciding with the former, intimation was sent to the workhouse, whereupon another, body was sent, which all three sated was not that of the mother. Further inquiry at oie Union, resulted itt the diseoverv that, a mutake had >e«>n nvtde, the mother of the 'girls not baying, died at all. & Both in Kngltii'l and. France great injury was done tosh poing by tiiegales ' in January last. On the s*h the Hamburg. American steamer Saxoota weiit ashore at Heligoland, but' the crew, mails, and, specie were landed in safety. On, the 7th the French Trans- Atlantic. Company's steamer Amerique was wrecked off! Long Island. New Yort; three of the crew were lost. ' The City of Berlin, of the. Inmaa Line, had a frightful voyage across the, Atlantic. It blew a burieane for five days; fifteen, o f the crew were disabled. A hurricane did considerable injury to sbipnin* at Gibraltar. On tie 9*b three, of the crew of a Whitby lifeboat were, drowned by the easiaing of their vessel. Mnch excitement has been occasioned at Home on account of the Ritualistic practices of the Rev. Mr Tooth, Vicar of Hatcham. near Debtford. Lord Penzaoce inhibited him, but he paid no attention, and services very much rweiabling those in a Roman Catholic chareh rere performed on two successive Sundays with closed doors, A riot nearly occurred on Sunday, the 7th January, and on the 13th Lord Penaanee adjudged him ift eoatempt and directed a warlant, to be issued for his arrest. Several Ithousand roughs assembled in front of the, church the follow. ing day, but the doors were closed, and 400 police were in attendance. On the 16th, the English Church Union passed resolutions in favor of supporting Mr Tooth, whose father and brother are, ik is stated, well-known squatters, ten in, Queensland and New South W.atea. An American writer, who signs the non de plume of "Gar," says some hard things of the ladiei of San Francisa©. Heasserta that they meet at «hal •»'. called ° long loaches," and for five long hours— from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.—" gprge themselves at " stand np feast, whwh ii " accompanied with an immense flow of champagne, and with a sufficiency of eotK dials such as Chartreuse and Mara" schino," until fhe fair creatures become intoxicated. This, "Gar" affirms, is a " feature" of San Francisco society, ft relic of past barbarism which " receives the sanction " of the Udies of the higheat rank in tneeUy. * ■ *J

The Ariefckadert no doubt would be gl«& to hxta more .frequent usits from «Mps of war. Th« Star say I, that no ]m than twelve thousand pound* it tYwe w>u »pent in Auckland % tlw crew ami officer-* of the German »hJp Hertba, during their recent *tij. ' 4, *»noMou9 >neid»nt npcnrreci at a wnVft »t Liverp' n short ti^i* 1 ••ince. Tli<* ec.fi Twa* on a ta le, and Hrn gU''*<« wrr*' flanc nff and drinking around if, w'tebthe §oft H"V<' way. and all were tre ■•»♦« • »M jjnto a cllar un«lerneath. None of th? f»r? severely hnr*, but thp coffin was ished, and the corpse rolled mt. pPhe danger arising from colored lollies 'Iwflf fee^n bfottsfht under the notice of tbe Melbourne Central Board of Health so forcibly, that it has issued a circular .drawing public attention to the matter, and c?auf inning tbe public opainst the use of eorrf'aettonarv which is colored yellow, orange, or green, thpse rotors in many esses bping produced ,by means of ohro,nja»«» of lend, arsenite of copper, or, Other highly poisonous materials. The Auckland Herald states that the death of James Merry. Esq., M.P-» who .for neajlv half a century was a supporter ,of,the English turf, has-been telegraphed ,to .Melbourne. He won tbe Derby with Thormqphy and Doncaster. thfl latter horse having been aftprwn»ds sold for the j .enormou* sum of £14000. Amongst other we II known hordes he owned Hobble Noble, for whom he gave £7000 when a two.yearold, and who started first farorite for the Derby won by Daniel O'Rork". He also ownrd Chanticleer Sunbeam (winner of the Bt Leger). M«rie Stuart, -King of the JToost. BcoVh\ Chi<*f, Lioness .{winner of tbe Caiarewiteb), Siddinsfton, -JZambesi, &c. He w«s an entirely selfmade man, and has left an enormous fortune behind him. ft is sjafed that he never lost on the year's racing. An English magazine »<tf s :— Scattered rk^nt thp eirth there are supposed ,to be 10 000,000 or 11 000000 of Jews alive. Thouiands of these persons are rich, some of thpm own cofossa! for'unes. »it?Michild could buy up the fee simple of Palesfine. OolcJsnjid might rebuild the temple of Herod, Montefior has money enough to east a golden statue of King Soloipdii. Brie of these wealthy Hebrews not one iff willing to go back. Among the more important scientific .apparatus devised during last year, there iai been fsays the London Times) Dr SlemenV bathometer for measuring the depths of , the pea with a sounding line ; the telephone (in its present form), by .which the voice with its modulation and, distinct articulation is conveyed along an telegraph, tbe inventor of which is s Scotchman, though a naturalised American ; Crooke's new radiometers, in .which most remarkable exhaustion of air has been attained ; as well as several new ,forms of electrometers and galvanometers .of great delicacy. Some new auriferous ground has been opened u^ at West lamar, Tasmania, and 'there hq««heen n rush to secure it. The Cornwall ChroniVJe states that it ' lies .about three-quarters of a mile CSWof the Braml.7 Creek Reef Shaft Claim*, for a space of about two miles along the new Jine of ree/, by private property. 'Reef gold bag been found in considerable quantity, and our reporter washed out, a few dMies of washdirt whicli produced from 50 to 100 specks of gold to the dish. A splendid instance of the good results t pf discipline opeurred a few months a^o at ißlinnpanolis, In Minnesota. Happening as it did nn the very diy of the terrible Brooklyn fire, tbe moral is nil the more pointed. On Tuesday, December 6 while ihe rehonh were in session, a fire started in the Jefferson school building, a three-*' Or^y brick, a»in* within an hour, nothing whs left bnt tbe hare walls. The fire was first discovered in tbe primary department, on the first floor, near the jflues, whieli extended from basement to roof through the centre of the building. In ten minutes the flames, running up .along the side flues, bad burst out in every room. Offing to the unexampled promptness of the teachers, combined with admirable discipline and presence of niin<l, children were marshalled down the winding iifafrway in perfect, order, ?nd not one wat iftjureii. The teacbera were all women, and they receive the praises of the whole community. Three minutes .sftei" tlie principal left the hall, she being Ihe last to Ipare, the whole building was wrapped in fhmes. Considering that there were nearly one thousand children in the balding, the people are filled with .thankfulness that tbey have escaped a repetition of the Brooklyn calamity. " Sleep, gentle Pleep, Nature's Soft Nurse" is the grand natural recuperant of exhausted energy, the providential agent which reimburses the body during the hours of repose for its expenditures of vital force during the hours of wakefu'ness. The continued loss of it causes asphyxia and brain fever. It is always obtainable by taking before going to bed a wine glass or two of that brain snofh''n,<? and nerve strengthening elixir, Udoipho Wolfe's Schiedam Abomatic Schnapps.