CLIPPINGS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), 7 January 1881, Page 4

CLIPPINGS.

Sforvray's carrying trade between Amei'ica i-.ml Biu-ope is increasing tremendously. Th.3 consumption of spirits in Great jLvriiniri continues to decline. , The income tax valuation in Great Britain is vow £134,000,000 higher than in 1869. Melbourne Cup day brought an increase to th a returns of tho railways of £1800 more than Lis* year. An old carpet formerly in the Sacramento ?.;;>•<:-. WW bought at a sale and burnt. It y: .■!. v.'l ••'SOO from gold dust. Ne.v-papers are printed in ten different foi")i«fi languages, including the Chinese, in R:-n .bS-awisco. The improroment of trade between Great hvitvvcon -Britain and America is increasing T;v~nth by month. - Mva Gould, cashier of the defunct Women's Bank, or Ladies' Deposit of Boston, has been bailed in 10,000dols. Military honors were paid at his obsequies to .Jacques Offenbach as a Knight of the Jjegion of Honour. Kccently .John Longhm'st, a Battersea deliberately kicked his wife to Catholic lottery in Indianopolis, other prizes, " 600 masses for and the dead." X/Oltiv3 woman died the other day at who was tho mother of 21 Coll, who.steered the ship Shannon battle with the American off Boston Harbor in 1813, is

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 ear next the locomotive on an Indiana railroad, opened the tank and drank all the water, and so compelled the stopping of the train. A-Cambridge, graduate of Jesus College got ono month's imprisonment for "assaulting the landlord of tho Blue Boar Inn, Cambridge. In the good old times a guinea or a cudgel would have settled the matter. Ten years 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 per cent. The increase is especially remarkable in the case of women.

It is said that cities could, foir the most part, refund their debts at lower rates, and that Chicago contemplates doing so, exchanging a- 7 per cent, bond for a 4 per cent., to run twenty years, interest payrsble semi-annually. A carpenter named Hammond was mending a target at tho 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 boai'ds, which would point to the loss of some large timber-laden ship. Some of the deals 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 their bones.

Several ominous articles on "Deserted Farms" have lately appeared in the >>aily News. 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 deeendants 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 Sir Thomas Clarges, 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, Sherrads, Welwyn, Herts, in his seventy-first year. Mr Wills was closely associated with the 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 W ills retired, and was made a justice of the peace for Hertfordshire. Harrison Bradley, 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. Thelin was a Switzer, born in the Vaud, 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 Louis Napoleon. He followed the latter to Strasburg, 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 Bhendy Bazzar, One or two of them had been preaching in the vernacular, and a great crowd of Mussulmans had gathered to hear them. This provoked some of the Mahomedan 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 tho 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 the Hounslow Miser, 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 tbe Royal Hospital, Gray's Inn Road. The sale of the effects in the residence of the deceased realised £5 175, and the sum of £100 h.ds been received by each of the next-of-kin from tbe 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 Ashford. Early in the month of November, the wife of a laboxirer, 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. Tbe compartment in which the gold was fouud was capable of holding about 100 coins, and the chest of drawers ia believed to have been repaired several times" A Swiss postillion, named Meyer, was overtaken by a snowstorm last winter. He and his vehicle were hurled over a precipice j the horse was killed, the carriage smashed. The man escaped with some contusions, yet in this piteous plight he contrived to scramble to Neiifchatel 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 goda. Others have a single stone or a raised word of affection. The emblem of fidelity, two bands 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, the inscription, " Mine own dear love this heart is thine."