A TRIPLE MURDER.

Auckland Star, Issue 619, 5 January 1872, Page 2

A TRIPLE MURDER.

A baebakous murder of three persons— young women, sisters —has been committed in the commune of the Lure, in the arrondissement of Porcalquicr. The murdered persons lived in a-farmhouse with their father, and the murderer* in the accomplishment of their obj<: plunder, and to secure themselves,-* content with taking the lives of i victims, cut their heads completely and placed them between their legs, ' the bodies sido by side, and covereu me whole with a sheet, The father of the unfortunate victims had his throat cut, but not fatally, by the murderers, who carried off 5000 francs. Fifteen Piedmontese labourers at work in the neighbourhooa have been arrested.

A moon-struck Yankee has expressed his over-burdened soul. The pale mellow light of the " soft silvery moon" inspired him with poetic numbers. He is a genius. Hear him: — All hail! Thou glorious moon, Bright as a new tin pan ! Thou fairest, purest, roundest source Of bread and cheese to man. Continue thou to roll and shine Like bands of waggon wheels, For dad and I are going out To try and catch some eels. The melancholy case of special judgment is sent us from Eome through the London Tablet newspaper, which duly improves the awful warning. One Morelh a builder, employed on the public works at Eome, having mounted a high scaffolding, °ot into a furious passion with his workmen because they asked for a holiday that they might celebrate the feast of tho Nativity of the Blessed Virgin. " I knovr nothing of your Madonna or your Christ either," bawled Signor Morelli, in a rage], and then his foot slipped, and down he went, and that, so far as this world i\ concerned, was an end of Signor Morelh', which proves that if a man must treat himself to a little blasphemy he had better do it on solid ground. Two ladies in New York were talking about the sparrows, and their usefulness in ridding the city of the cancer worms, which used to be such a nuisance. One said that the chirping of the sparrows early in the morning, when she wanted to sleep, was as great an evil as the worms; the other disagreed. Just then a gentleman came in : and was appealed to : "Mr A., which do you think the worst,— sparrows or worms ?" He immediately answered, "I don't know; I never had

sparrows." Mr Fulger, of Detroit, made himself two spacious wings of rattan, cork, and oil-skin, summoned his friends and the newspaper reporters, repaired to the roof of a one-storey house, and promised, just before he commenced to flap, that he would telegraph back from Grand Eapids. He flapped, but instead of being wafted upwards and cleaving the blue air, he landed on his stomach among some weeds. fie explained that somehow he had lost the centre of gravity, and the audience took that view of it.

The Food Journal gives the following description of American appetites : —" I have seen a man with six dishes beside him at breakfast, and doing ample justice to each. Only imagine what gastronomic powers must be possessed to dispose of a couple of mutton chops, a steak, eggs, fried bacoa, hot rolls, fried potatoes, oysters, toast and milk, tea, coffee, smok-ing-hot buck-wheat bread covered with treacle, or black syrup, and then to wash, it all down with a glass of new milk or ice-water, the whole within the space of twenty minutes ! A correspondent of the St. Janus Magazine, cites an instance, which occurred as late as twenty-five years ago, of a couple married with the church-key instead of a wedding-ring. There appears to be some doubt as to the validity of tnis substitute, bnt in point of symbolism, at any rate, a church-key is surely, in comparison a marriage ring, the more suitable instrument of wedlock.— Pimch.

A fruit grower in Jersey being much annoyed by depredators, obtained a human leg from a hospital, and putting it in a large steel trap in his grapery, began to make enquiries in a disturbed and melancholy manner for the owner of the limb. The neighbours flocked in to see it • report were circulated that the " horrid wretch" had filled his ground with traps, and his fruit was no more stolen.

Just as a traveller was writing his name on the register of a Chicago hotel, a bedbug sallied out and took its way across the page. The man paused and remarked: 11 I've been bled by St. Joe fleas, bitten by Kansas City spiders, and interviewed by Fort Scott gray-backs, but I'll be hanged if I was ever in a place before where the bedbugs looked over the hotel register to find out where your room was I" " I will not," said a little boy stoutly, as I passed along. The tone of his voice struck me. " What won't you do ?" I stopped and asked. " That boy wants me to make believe ' something to my mother, and I wont, "he answered in the same stout tone. Tiie little boy is on the right track. That is just one of the places to s&j" won't." I hope he will stick'to it. "My-dear boy," said a fond mother, "never defer till to-morrow what you can do to-day." Then mother, replied the urchin, '• Let's eat the plum-pudding tonight." i At the London Sheriffs Court, M. Johnstone, proprietor of the London Journal, recovered £125 damages from the proprietor of Conservative Standard, Grlossop, the latter having without authority republished a tale called "Dick Tarleton," which originally appeared in the London ■Journal.

A patent perpetual tobacco pipe, mad(j by a gentleman in Missouri, consists "^ _ making the bowl reversible, so that -r a charge of tobacco is nearly km ok ed, .\ '^ bowl may be charged again, and then v >'' ', versed, so that the fire may ignite the nqw charge. r - Mr Shrimpton, stationmaster, of 1-i----mouth, has been accidentally _s>bfc) by a tradesman of that town, named; Maynard, who^ presented a revolver at him in joke, erroneously believing it to be unloaded. Mr Shi imp ton died faext morning.