GENERAL NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 150, 24 September 1872, Page 7

GENERAL NEWS.

Pffelve persons were stabbed during an oia " pl easure excursion." J. ree thimble-riggers at San Paulo, Brazil, been crucified for cheating the mhabi-

American auctioneers take people to their a gratis by rail or road, and find a free Luet and music into the bargain. Some miners in California said to be worku under the guidance of the spirits" got ! 000 dols. worth of gold recently. feneral Tom Thumb, having amassed a £ un e, which may be computed by thouds of dollars, intends finally to retire from J man at Fort M'Pherson, Kansas, while ,tin» his teeth with a straw lately, peneWhis tongue with the sharp edge of the L and bled to death. ifte Lonisville Ledger tells about a dog a m iles from Paducah, which was brought , a way from all his kindred, and having , ver heard a bark, took to crowing, the lof the chanticleer being familiar to his

In Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, not long ago, man pulled a pretty girl towards him and ssedher, and just at that moment a beam H from the floor above to the spot where , e was standing before. That kiss saved ,e girl's life. A C. Bates, an alderman of Janesville, fig, has invented a plan for aiding the temirance cause. It is to require that every an who wants to drink alcohol liquors shall Mure a license for drinking. He must have indsmen, and these must be liable for any imace done by him while in a state of injxbtion. Yon Noort, a beautiful young lady, [* j,rs of age, of Paterson, New Jersey, ied\;cently, her death having been the relit of excessive indulgence in "jumpingthe tipping) rope." With her companions she is trying to see how many times she could imp without stopping for breath. She suo;eded in jumping 400 times ; but it brought b internal pains, which resulted in her death i stated.

A touching incident is reported from Chatttooga. An utter stranger called upon a ispectable farmer last week, and asked him Ms house had not been robbed during the ar, The farmer replied that it had. " I," lid the stranger, "was one of the marauding irty that did it. I took a little silver icket." —"That locket," said the farmer, ursting into tears, "had been worn by my ear, dead child."—Here it is," replied the ranger, visibly affected ; " I am rich—let ie make restitution ; here are 20 dols. for our little son." He gave the farmer a 50 01.-bill, and received 30 dols. in change. He lien wrung the farmer's hand warmly, and sft. The farmer has since dried his tears, ud loaded his shot-gun. The fifty-dollar lill was a bad one.—American paper. A decided case of somnambulism occurred n the house of Mr Clarke, saddler, Casheltreet, early on Saturday morning last. Mr llarke employs a servant girl, fifteen years of jp, who sleeps in a room overlooking the lack yard, the wi idow being about eighteen eet from the ground. It is generally his astom to rouse the girl between seven and iglit o'clock in the morning, but receiving no esponse to his summons on Saturday, he asended to her room, and was astonished to ind it untenanted, with the window open. Ie searched the house, but could find no jes of his servant, and on going to the !%doors found them all locked as they had eeffjiH the previous evening. Returning oUe bedroom, he could discover no disarangement of clothing or anything else, and ooking out of the window could see nothing y which the eighteen feet could have been bcended. He then proceeded to the yard, nd there found the girl seated upon a heap if firewood, with nothing on her but her light-dress. Inquiries elicited the fact that he must have got up in her sleep some little ime previous to the hour at which she was ailed, and, opening the window, had jumped nto the yard. By great good fortune, the esceat was unattended with serious results, or no injuries we:"e sustained, except a little kin grazed off the left arm.— Lyttelton Times. Gentlemen who are addicted to beating heir wives ought to consider themselves much ndebted to Mr David ClitTe, of Huddersfield, fho has shown them—to his own advantage, 00-some of the higher developments of fhich the art is capable. It is true that the •rdinary methods hi which it is practised are strem?ly popular among the majority of 'roficients; and it will be long indeed before hey care for anything more than jumping on heir wives' stomachs, throwing them out of he window, beating out their brains with the >°ker, and so forth. But there are higher Wires, which will not be satisfied without "ogress in this as in all other departments * art, and to them Mr Olitfe's refinements Wl be peculiarly acceptable. Mr Cliffe, who US also a taste for music, at once gratified it jj» pursued his favourite amusement by %mgover his wife the " Dead March" in Sanl" at the time of her confinement, r accordance with his first principles, le naturally refused to lend her any assis*i>ce. He varied these performances by wowing cans of cold water over her, and by *nodically starving her. ' To " keep his ai >a ffi in the intervals, he experimented * MS children, one of whom he injured by Wowing it over a wall, while another he «wced on his firsts, and then dashed to the ?cund For these several efforts of genius, i ,° be ™prisoned for eighteen months, JJJaU lovers of the art must regret that he uibeprevented for so long a period from can T"ig on his studies,— Sportsman.

A' Lucky Copper Mirier. Amongst those who have done a good thing in the way of copper discoveries, says a New South Wale 3 journal, is a Mr Pengally, who some years ago was employed in Brisbane as a stone-worker, one of his jobs being in laying the foundation of the Town Ball. He afterwards went to Toowoomba, and did well until the dull times, after which he joined the rush to Gynipie. He was successful for a short time ; but a run of fortune set against him, and he lost all that he had made. He was at Brisbane last week, forihe purpose of securing a valuable copper selection in the Mt. Perry d istrict. The Toowoomba Chronicle wtuo lcicia bu uie nuw uiony miner : —""uur readers—at least those in the vicinity of Toowoomba—might possibly remember a Mr Pengally, formerly a resident of this town. Some four or five years ago he went to Gympie, and did well for a time, but was afterwards unsuccessful and gradually lost what he had made. When hard up he fell in with Mr- Barnes, the well-known driver in the service of Cobb and Co., mail contractors, and asked the loan of a pound, with which request Barnes complied. Pengally afterwards went to Mount Perry Copper Mines, and did well. The other day Barnes met him in Brisbane, and reminded him of the loan, to which Pengally replied, " Yes, I remember that loan well—that £1 stood me in good stead—here is £lO in return for it." Pengally then offered Barnes a half share in a copper mine in which he'was interested. Barnes remarked, " You don't mean it, do you?" to which Pengallay replied, "I do." -Barnes has since resigned his position as driver for Cobb and Co., for the purpose of looking after his newly-acquired interest in the copper regions. Pengally, we are informed, is now worth £IO,OOO in cash.