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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue I, 14 November 1862, Page 4

A New Gazza Laoßa— The celebrated magpie of palaisedu, whose thieving propenii ies gave rise to the well-known drama of the " M^id and the Magpie," has just been eclipsed in the annals of crime by a bird of the same species at Breviandes, near Troyes (A'ibej. Two days since smoke was seen to issue from a hay-loft belonging to a farmer named Damoisseau, but, as plenty of help was at hand, the flames were promptly extinguished. How the fire could ltave originated was a mystery, as no oneliad been near the place. A close examination, however, showed that the incendiary vyas a tame magpie,, which had stolen a. box of lucifers from the kitchen/and had gone to amuse itself with them in the' 16ft. I The culprit was immediately condemned to •#?» t lJ-Jfet -^55---indignant farmer and 'executed. — Tithes Chicory Growing In Victoria.— The Mount Alexander Mail litis the following :

— "Not long since Mr. Bjidden, Ihe coffeeroaster, of Hargrave-street, purchased a quantity of chicory grovm at Muckleford. The root has proved of Excellent quality, and we shall doubtless soon be independent of foreign countries for a supply of the article. Notwithstanding the prejudice that exists against the admixture of chicory with the roasted bean, it is found that persons unaccustomed to the use of I pure coffee find it unpalatable. The English coffee-drinker can no more recognise his favorite beverage deprived of the body and colour which'chicory imparts to it, than he would the vintages of Xercs unfortified with the usual allowance of aqua vita?." i Enthusiasm for *"]xhb War. — The Portland (Maine) Advertiser complains of fifty men having " staijnped " for Canada in one night, to avoid the possibility of " being detailed or detached for the service of the Union." The' New York Fire Brigade are exempt frotfo military service, and it is stated that' applications for admission have become very numerous ; so also are the applications for employment in the fisheries. A Jfy>w York paper estimates thai there are( 50,000 deserters ifrom the Fet?->'ffi?-^rmy scattered in the towns and' vilages of the Western and Northern ExT3fiCopDmAßr^ T^cwEn^^i|^^YoitJ , ' St. Lawrence.— lt will be ren\*£gtf>ered that some fiye or six years since, xaOlMft. remains, confuting chiefly of coins, were discovered at tl(us village liy some workmen engaged in staking a wood near the churchyard ; and during the past week another and sliltmore important discovery lias been made by labourers employed in digging foundations near the Sunday School, in the shape of what appeared at first sight to be huge flat stone, but Which, upon closer inspection, turned out to be an ancient l-^oman coffin or sarcophagus, with a lid firiply secured. Force, hojwever, being applied*, the lid was raised, and found to cover a perfect male skeleton splendidly adorned in all ihe accoutrements of a Roman general of \ those times, haying about his head a eoror a of bronze very beautifully worked, urkV'his feet sandals of iron, bnt very muCfrTcoTroded, aid by his sida—mirabile diclu—fa, wifi for su*h indeed at first sight it cert^in^yjappea*ed, and such it was suppoteif tptbe, until shown to a gentleman of this heighbotrhood, well known as a collector of annuities, by whom it w*& pronounced ■ to be an ancient Roman^wine^strainer, such, as was commonly /usedv by the Romans in Britain, and mt/^ufactured of a finei kind of horse-nair.;' ;%is^ has; since beet seen by several studel^ of|ar^hßeo- ' l°sjt an d proves, indeed, a \aost val^bje • discovery, it being the most jerfect speci-- ; men of its kind kriowh, ; tba*^'tb|t]fe » ir - '' ■ tight closing 'of the -cbflShi-i- i£ormng Star, ii