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Dunstan Times, Issue 574, 18 April 1873, Page 2

There are sic arly four Roman Catholics in Dublin to one Protestant. A Loudon linn has made an offer to con* vey mails via San Francisco, to Sydney, on consideration of o subsidy of 52,0UUl a year. On account o f the scarcity of labor, and the high wages demanded in England, it is probable that the Chinese will be attracted thither. A grandmother, in a transport of joy assured her grand children, she had provided for their future, and presented each of them with the tide deed to a free grave in p irpetiuty in the local cemetery. As an instance of the extreme severity of the weather in England, during the early part of February, it is mentioned that two sailois stalled fnm Southampton one night in the beginning of the month, for the purpose of get ing on board one of tbo mail ships, but on tho following morning the boat ami men were driven on shore, the two men frozen to death. A marriage scarcely less interesting thau;that of Pere Hyaelnthe has lately taken place in Ohio in tho United States. Tho Springfield Advertiser reports the marring l - of Colonel Joseph Leffellto Miss Eveline Beasley. The Colonel is forty-five inches high, weighs lift}-five pounds, and is thitty-eight years old. Miss Beasley, now Mrs. Leffell, is five or

six inches taller than her husband, weighs about seventy-four pounds, and is twenty-three years of age. Colonel Left'ell, though diminutive in stature, is remarkably active and vikihint in business, so much so that by earnest attention he has amassed a considerable foa tune. He is one of the “ bee kings •” of the country, and his success in the management of there, industrious insects has rendered him the object of envy to all bee fantiere. His face is described as manly, and his features strong. The marriage service was most impressively performed by the minister of the Eng hit Lutheran Church, and the happy pair departed for a tour through Kentucky bearing with them the best wishes of friends and relatives. It is rumoured that mi than - return home from the houey-monn they, will take up . their residence in a large and beautifully fu inn hut let hive.— Fall Mail GaucWx-