TRAGEDY NEAR SYDNEY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 9534, 29 October 1892, Page 2

TRAGEDY NEAR SYDNEY.

SUICIDE AND ATTEMPTED

MURDER. A siiockinq tragedy was perpetrated on Wednesday (October 19), at Rosedale, when a young man named Henry Dixon shot a younsr lady named Catherine Marcontelli. It appears that Dixon had been courting the young lady, and that her parents lad forbidden her to have anything (o say to him. About 10 o'clock on Wednesday night ho travelled in tho same train us the young lady, and after leaving the terminus, approached her, and asked her whether she woul 1 not speak to him. Sho replied that her parents would not allow her to. Dixon then drew a revolver and fired twice at her, one shot taking effect, the ball entering her back between tho shoulder-blades and coining out at the side. He ran along Cook's River, and tho cries of the wounded girl brought assistance. The police were soon on the ecene, and a doctor was cent for. Within a fow minutes of the alte npted uiurdc.i a shot was heard in the direction o£ Cook's River, and on the police making a search the body o£ Dixon was found with the brains blown out and a revolver still grasped by the dead hand. The body was sent to the South Sydney Morgue. The injured girl was placed undor tho care of Dr. TiailJ, of Burwood, and at 3 o'clock Thursday morning was not expected to rocover. Dixon was a blaekstnitn, and was 25 years old, but the girl is only 18. Tho tragedy cau ed a great Bensation in the vicinity.

Mr T. L. Mills, a well-known membor of the printing craft in Wellington, says the Wellington Post, who is tho •'special" for several American journals of the trade, one of which, tho Inland Printer, of Chicago, stands tdiead of nil others, has been requested by the editor of the Eight Hours Herald, of Chicago, to write a series of articles on the Eight Hours Movement in the Colonies and the festival in Wellington, will inaugurate a series of articles wh eh must provo of interest to our American cousins." We hopu Mr Mills will make it perfectly clear thai, it was oily in Wellington the holiday was observed. In a'l other parts of the colony no interest was taken in tho matter.

"If you wish for a quiet life, never marry a dyspeptic man of genius,' 1 was the advice given by Mrs Carlylo to I hac keray's daughters. Mrs Ritchie's further reminiscences in the September number of MacmilUm tells us that this ill matched lady was never \vea r y of discoursing of " Carlylo,'' of his genius, of his dyspepsia, and o£ quoting hia sayings. She used to toll her young visitor*, when ho first giew a board, how all the time ho had saved by ceasing to shave he spent wandering about the house, and bemoaning that which was auiisu in the universe. The Thackeray children did not have much of Carlyle'a company ; if he came in and sat down in the orm-chair, which was his on the opposite bide to the sofa, " thoy immediato'y went away." Mrs Carlylo used to tell them of her oirly life, of her lo\ofor study. Once looking expressively nt tho \vritei of these roininisconc.s, she be^an to speak of self control. " We have all, ' she said, "a gicat deal more power over our minds than it is nt all the fashion to allow, and an iulinity of resour^o anil ability to use it. There was a time in my own life, ' she said, -'when I felt that unless I strove against the ieuling with all my stiongth and night I should ba crazed outright. I passed through that time safely ; I was abloto light it out and not to let myself go. People can help themselves, that I am convinced of, and that fact is not enough dwelt upon."

A butcher at the South Melbourne police court was lined for exposing for sale meat unfit for h union food. Tlio carcase of a bul.ook had been btiiaod in his shop, described by the local inspector as '• black flabby, ami dump, and bo o . acialud that it nribtl.avo been hurriedly killo i to prevent its dying of inanition. This testimony w.is not controverted, but the knight of the cleaver ailirmcd that moat of that dosrnution made ths best German sausages. As Sam Wisller once lunnrked, '• Tlie seasoning does it." Tlio incidenl, s.ivs •' Atticus," in tlio \'elbournc Leader, recalls to mind a ttory which the late Judge Gopo was wont to toll with considerable gusto. Ho had won the heart of a jonrrioyinan butcher L>y some kindness, in return fnr which the man vol nteerol to give him a piece of advice which might be of uso to him. It took this form — ' Never you eat Bussagoß iv summer.' Henceforth, I purpose avoiding them all the year round,"