MISCELLANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 684, 28 May 1875, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS.

o Tho whole production of gold throughout the world during 1873 is estimated to have been worth nearly £44,000,000. The wife of a rev gentleman in Bombay is said to have lately given birth to five children two of whom died, while tho other three are doing well. Among the population of London, which amounts to about 4,000,000 at present there are more Jews than in Palestine, more Scotchmen, than at Edinburgh more Irish than at Dublin, and more Catholics than at Rome.

“Who was the meekest man ?” asked a Sunday school teacher. “ Moses.” “ Very well ; who was the meekest woman ‘ Never was any.” A veritable reign ot terror prevails in that nest of cowardly ruffianism, County Tipperary. At the Assizes held there on tho 10th inst., LSOO was awarded as damages to a farmer whoso wife was shot in her bed last July, and whose murderers were never discovered. Baron Dowse the Judge in confirming the award, drew a fearful picture of the state of the county. Ho said that tho spot where the dastardly murder in question was committed was the most luxuriant in the whole of Ireland, so that it had been called “ the Golden Vale yet, owing to the lawless state of the people there tho C’ops were left to rot in the ground, as tha owners of them were afraid to gather them in. The learned Judge’s statements are amply borne out by the recent experiences of Mr Archibald Forbes, the well-known special correspondent of the Daily News. Mr Forbes was despatched the other day to report upon the condition of affairs in that county, and the dreadful truths he found himself compelled to relate soon got him into trouble. Ho received threatening letters from anonymous villains who vowed they would smash his skull. His footsteps were dogged by hang-dog ruffians of tha true Tipperary type, seeking occasion for a quarrel. Gentlemen called upon him and besought him to leave the country before any evil befel him. His landlord mado him quit his lodgings, through terror of tho mob, who had threatened to’wreck the premises if he did not do so. The very telegraph clerk who “ wired” his letters to London, was told he would be murdered if he continued to transmit them. All this did not ruffle Mr Forbes’s temper, nor daunt) the cool Aberdonian courage of the exdragoon. To friendly cautions and hostile threats alike ho calmly replied that he was able to take care of himself and intended to do so. His resolution cowed the Tipperary cowards, and he remained unmolested, though violently abused (behind his back, of course), until his mission being filled, ha t )ok his departure. Another of those disgraceful rows at funerals, for which Ireland is notorious took place near Newry last week. A widow was being conveyed to her last earthly resting place, when the “ mourners” began to quarrel as to who should possess the cows and pigs she had left behind her. Words not sufficing the coffin was set down, and a regular fight, in which several persons were seriously injured, took place. Tha procession then resumed its way, but warfare broke out afresh, and a second scrimmage came off, while the coffin was eventually bundled into the grave without any religious ceremony or indeed any ceremony at all.