LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1459, 18 January 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A punedin telegram', published m another column! 'announces toat information has "been received from Calcutta of a rise lathe prio^ of cornßacks how afloat, "equal to 93 per aoz/ ■• , The Tftrp-pahl Herald thinks that Mr tticharcjaon, th,a for fublio Works, i'a the Jonah m tb.e present an^ that he will have to go overboard^ " fpr the department under bis management is a thorough failure."

Our own correspondent writes : —An impudent burglary was perpetrated on Sunday evening m the house of Mr H. English, teaoher, Pendarves. He bad gone to tea with a neighbor early m the afternoon, and tin his return he found that the house had been well rifled m his absence. Several pounds m oash and some valuable artioles of wearing attire had been swept away, •videotly by swaggers well aooustomed to the business. Information has been given to the police, and it is expeoted that the scoundrels will soon be m the olutob.es of the law.

A true test for eggs is to drop m water ; if the large end comes up they are fresh.

A graveyard m County Cork has tha following notioe over the entrance gate:— "Only the dead who live m the parish will be buried here."

The largest barrel ohurn in^tho colony has just been made m New Plymouth. It will hold 400 gallons of milk and turn out 850 lbi of butter, being worked by steam.

Nineteen persons have as yet been brought within the provisions of the Frat Offenders' Probation Aot, and m all oases good reports of their oonduot have been received.

A man named John Howard was hanged to a trestle of a railroad bridge at Texarkawa, Texas, by a masked mob, on December 15, for oruelty to his young wife. He amused himself by branding her naked body with the letter " H," using the same iron as he did to mark his cattle.

" Lease by Life " is a curious custom m Ireland. The tenant takes a lease, not for his own lifetime, but for the lifetime of somebody else— perhaps a neighbor's son, the Prinoe of Wales, the Pope, and so on. The Prince o £ Wales is the favorite. On the death of the disinterested third person the lease expires.

Prussian smugglers wrapped £300 worth Of lace round a Btrong ten-months' heifer, and tied a false skin over the whole so successfully as to defy detection They passed the heifer very easily at the oustoms office, the oxoiße commissioners admiring her size and beauty, and some of them offering her food.

A Honolulu paper reports that the Hawaiian Carriage Manufactory has sold to His Majesty the King of that group of islands a handsome COOdols. carriage, to be sent to Samoa. The carriage, an elaborate piece of workmanship, is a credit to the factory. It is artistically painted, comfortably cushioned, splendidly designed, and ornamental m the extreme. A bogus Patti agent made his way before the arrival of the prima donna to the city of Mexico, and managed to rake m 30,000d015. m subscriptions before discovery. He got off with the money. He assumed the name of Marcus Mayer, Patti's legitimate agent. He was afterwards captured by Mexican deteotives, and proved to be one Charles Bourton. The fate of crowned heads has been minutely studied by a Frenoh statistician who gives a list of the unfortunate rulers of the world. He reckons that up to the present time 2540 Emperors and Kings have governed 64 nations. Of these Sovereigns 300 have been driven from their thrones, 61 abdicated, 24 committed 6uicide, 12 beoame insane, 100 tell m battle, 123 were made prisoners, 25 died martyrß, 151 were assassinated, and 103 legally oondomned and exeouted. The best medioine known is Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Extract. Test its eminent powerful effects m coughs, colds, influenza, eto. — the relief is instantaneous. Thousands

give the most gratifying testimony. His Majesty the King of Italy and modical syndicates all over the globe are its patrons. Bead the official reports that accompany each bottle. We have no ocoasion to offer rewards m proof of the genuineness of our references. The offioial reports of medical clinics and universities, the official communication of the Consul-Gensral for Italy at Melbourne ; the diploma awarded International Exhibition, Amsterdam— all these are authentic doouments, and, as such, not open to doubt. We add here epitome of one of the various oases treated at the clinio of Sohultz, M.D-, Professor, eto:— "O.B., 24 years old; oongeßtional abscess on the tbigh. Incisions made m two plaoea. Although Lister's dressing was applied, the seoretion became two days later, very copious, and had adopted a foetid, decomposed character. Tho temperature rose enormously. In consequence the dressing waß removed, and on its place were made during the daytime repeated irrigations with Eucalypi Extract. The offensive footer disappeared very soon, the fever abated within a few days, and the patient reoovered after the lapse of several weeks. In this instance we must not lose sight of the fact that the latter treatment saved the patient's life— [Advt.]