CLIPPINGS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), 7 January 1881, Page 3

CLIPPINGS.

.e.'or-.rey's rcrrying trade between America ; - t j'vvuivtpe i.-. inei'oasing tremendously. ' 'he e-wuaiptiou of spirits in Great :■..■: !•?.::.' U'faf.'n:iues to decline. . Te.e income tax valuation in Great Britain 1, uov.- higher than in 1860. Melbourne Cup day brought an increase to eh- rc'ir.-n.s of tho railways of £1800 more t v.:,u 'e 4 year. \n old "iirpet formerly in the Sacramento _• :;'-•'•.:..: bought at a sale and burnt. It ■;■'■ '■■'■■■ ' ■'''"•00 from gold dust. 1 ".•>'••!•:.ipevs are printed in ten different j' •". ; '.i.-i l.mgiiMges, including the Chinese, in './.'lie improvomeut of trade between Great >-il'.vcrn Britain and America is increasing * Gould, cashier of the defunct Trhink, or Ladies' Deposit of Boston, has been bailed in 10,000dols. Military honors were paid at his obsequies i<-- .Tacquo;? Ofs-'onbaeh as a Knight of the J,c..bn of Honour. Kccently dohn Longhurst, a Battersoa deliberately ticked his wife to Catholic lottery in Indianopolis, other prizes, "600 masses for Ibe dead." Louis woman ctied the other day at of ago who was the mother of 21 Coll, who steered the ship Shannon battle with the American off Eoston Harbor in 1813, is 95.

The British and Spanish Governments have agreed to establish a neutral line, with the object of preventing conflicts in the neighborhood of Gibraltar. An elephant, travelling in a oar next the locomotive on an Indiana railroad, opened the tank and drank all tho water, and so compelled the stopping of the train. A-Cambridge, graduate of Jesus College got one month's imprisonment for'assaulting the landlord of the Blue Roar Inn, Cambridge. In the good old times a guinea or a cudgel would have settled the matter. Ten year 3 ago the number of persons arrested in London for being, drunk and disorderly was 21,625, while last year it had increased to 33,892, or nearly 85 por_ cent. The increase is especially remarkable in the case of women.

It is said that cities could, for the most part, refund their debts at lower rates, and that Chicago contemplates doing so, exchanging a 7 per cent, bond for a 4 percent., to run twenty years, interest paynble semi-annually. A carpenter named Hammond was mending a target at the Artillery Volunteer Encampment near Church Stretton, Shropshire, when a 401b shell was fired and exploded, killing him instantly. A boy, who was with him, escaped without injury. A number of visitors who in September last imprudently approached the crater of Mount Vesuvius too closely were struck by a shower of fiery projectiles, and were much injured. They were carried to the hospital by the guides. A Liverpool ship which lately crossed the Atlantic sailed through ten miles of deal boards, which would point to tho loss of some large timber-laden ship, of the leals were picked up, but no mark was found on them likely to lead to their .identification.

At a distillery in Independence, Mo.. America, a large wooden still full of boiling mash burst, and three men were completely cooked by tho hot liquid. They lived a few moments in terrible agony, their eyes being put out and their flesh falling from cheir bones.

Several ominous articles on "Deserted Farms" have lately appeared in the ''aily tfews. In Truth it is stated that, the Duke of Marlborough has over 5000 acres in Oxfordshire unoccupied, and many large landlords in other countries are in a similar, or worse predicament. Mr Bradlaugh is attacking the English perpetual pension list. He finds that the dcs endants of Lord St. Vincent have within a century received £200,000, and so have those of Lord Rodney ; £800 a year is still paid to the representative of Bir Thomas C'larges, nearly £400,000 have been paid to the Dukes of Wellington, [and the Duke of Marlborough is in the receipt of the perpetual pension of £4000 a year. Mr W. H. Wills died on September 2, at his residence, bherrads, Welwyn, Herts, in his seventy-first year. Mr Wills was closely associated with tho late Mr Charles Dickens. On the starting of the Daily News Mr Wills was one of the editorial staff, and he afterwards took part in the management of Household Words and All the Year Round. On the death of Mr Dickens Mr VT iU 3 retired, and was made a justice of the peace for Hertfordshire. Harrison B} adley, a Southern negro who lost his wife through the separations of slavery came North to Yellow Springs, 0., after the war and married another woman. Mrs Bradley No. 2 recently died, and just then the first wife sold'from Bradley in 1859, happened to come to town and there was a happy re-marriage in the presence of black and white neighbours, Bradley being now an old man in easy circumstances and respected by all. A devoted old servant of the Bonapartes has just died in his Vaudois home. M. Theli'n was a Switzer, born in tho Vaiid, and first entered the service of the Napoleonides as coachman to the Empress Josephine. He was afterwards in the household of Queen Hortense, and attached himself to the fortunes of the young l.ouis Napoleon. He followed the latter to Strasbm-g, afterwards accompanied him to America, and never left his side.

The Bombay Guardian reports that stoning missionaries is becoming a pastime in that city, with which the police do not interfere. Recently an American missionary and three native teachers were stoned on returning from their mission chapel in the Bliendy Bazzav, One or two of them had been preaching in the vernacular, and a great crowd of Mussulmans had gathered to bear them. This provoked some of the Mahoniedan population, with the above result.

Napoleon B. Arthur'deserted his wife and family at Marysville, 0., 20 years ago, to elope with a neighbour's daughter. His wife remained on the farm and reared their children, while he wandered about the country. A poor, broken old tramp recently presented himself at the homestead, the wreck of the husband and father. He begged for food and lodging, expressing the utmost contrition for his bad behaviour, but the wife set the dog on him and he barely escaped with his life.

The estate of William Birks Rhodes, called tho Hounslow Misev, who died in 1878, has lately been wound up. It realised the sum of £78,000 from investments chiefly in gas shares, and was bequeathed in equal parts to the Lifeboat Institution and the Royal Hospital, Gray's Inn Road. The sale of the effects in the residence of the deceased realised £5175, and the sum of £100 has been received by each of the next-of-kin from the above-named institutions in full of all demands.

A curious story relating to the discovery of a hidden treasure is current in the village of Ash ford. Early in the month of November, the wife of a labourer, it is said, while breaking up an old chest of drawers purchased for Gs some 20 years ago, discovered a secret compartment nearly filled with gold coin of the reigns of William 111. and George 11. The compartment in which the gold was found was capable of holding about 100 coins, and the chest of drawers is believed to have been repaired several times A Swiss postillion, named Meyer, was overtaken by a snoAVstorm last winter. He and his vehicle wore hurled over a precipice ; the horse was killed, the carnage smashed. The man escaped with some contusions, yet in this piteous plight he contrived to scramble to Neufchatel with the mail bags. On his arrival it was found necessary to amputate both his legs and both his frostbitten arms. The post office requited this heroic sacrifice somewhat grudgingly, but a national subscription has just rewarded him with 200,000f. Out of a constituency of 6000 in Canterbury, England, it is believed that no fewer than 4'ioo were paid for their votes. The Irish electors proved an exception to the rule.

Some of the wedding rings found near Pompeii have upon them allegorical cameos, beautifully cut, and generally portraying the loves of the gods. Others have a single stono or a raised word of affection. The emblem of fidelity, two hands clasped, is also seen on a ring supposed to belong to the wife of some plebeian. This ring must be something like an ancient English weddingring, which shows, in Roman gold, two hands clasped over a heart, and, inside, tho inscription, "Mine own dear love this heart is thine."