ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 583, 20 June 1873, Page 3

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

—c An advertisement issued by the London Post Office, for eleven counterwomen, attracted no less than 1,500 applicants, th e traffic in Cannon Row was stopped by the crowd. The Welsh coal strike is ended. Dr. Moffatt, the African Missionary, has been presented with the sum of 5,2501., as a testimonial for his services in the cause of civilisation and religion. Bendigo, the once celebrated prizefighter has turned preacher. Some time since li e preached to more than 2,000 persons at the People’s Mission Hal], Whitechapel. To make the Vienna Exhibition remunerative it is reckoned that 10,000,000 visitors paying one shilling each will be required. An adventurous American aeronaut Professor Donaldson, intends shortly to cross the Atlantic to Ireland in a ballom . he calculates to accomplish his trip in about two days. Bogging in New York appears to be a lucrative profession. The New York Herald estimates the street beggars of that city to be worth an average of 1,000 dollars each, Boston is being slowly rebuilt, and profiting by the lesson taught her by recent fires, substitutes brick for granite. A dowry of 8,000/., good expectations, and a ‘ very old and sick father,’ are among the recommendations of “a young lady of good family ” advertising for a husband in a Continental city. A curious “ Parisian industry ” is the collection of old linseed plasters from thi hospitals. The “ Meal ”is put under a powerful press, by which au exceedingly useful oil is extracted ; while the linen is bleached and sold at a good price for the manufacture of the finest paper, and particularly -for that used for making ciga. rettes. A young man was recently found on one of the abutments of Waterloo Bridge with one leg and one arm broken, and otherwise badly injured. He was perfectly sensible, and said that he had jumped off the bridge “in a freak.” Within a few hours the body of another man was taken out of the water close to the spot. Ho is supposed to have jumped off the Embankment. The Marchioness of W aterford, who was married to the Marquis of Waterford in the spring of last year, has died in childbed Her ladyship, Florence, was daughter of the late Major Rowley, Bombay Cavalry, and married, first, the Hon. John C. W Vivian, M.P., from whom she was di’. vorccd in 1869. Mr. Weightmon, a barrister has been convicted of stealing a book from the Inner Temple Library. He made an eloquent appeal to the judge, not in mitigation, but in aggravation of punishment, saying that a 3 he would of course be disbarred, and cut off from all social intercourse he could but hope to die before his sentence was completed. He was, however, only sent to prison for six months. The following curious charge of forgery was heard lately. The prisoner, Stephen Holman, had a deposit account at a Branch Post Office, but had only paid in one shilling. By some mistake the book of another Stephen Holman, who had 90/. standing to his credit, came into his hands, and he had drawn the whole amount. It was pointed out that although the prisoner signed his own name he was guilty of forgery if ho knew he had no right to the money, and intended to defraud. He was convicted and sentenced to two years • hard labor.’