CLIPPINGS FROM HOME PAPERS.

Evening Star, Issue 3414, 30 January 1874, Page 3

CLIPPINGS FROM HOME PAPERS.

James Grundy, the celebrated Notts cricketer, who visited Australia with Stephenson s eleven, died Suddenly at Nottingham in the early part of November/ At one time he was perhaps the, beat exponent of “ all round ” cricket in England. •' ' ur \ n ß Bazaine trial the evidence showed very clearly that while the French army was frightfully-taismatnaged in almost every department, the men and regimental «&cers fought as bravely as ever, add' that the losses suffered by the Germans in the battles which preceded the fall of Mhtz tore far heavier than was g’ven out. A somewhat unpleasant feeling his arisen between-Rnssia ' and England, owing to the act Khan of Khiva has acknow ledged the Emperor as his suzerain, ha, ceded<to bim:all the right-bank of the Auioor, and has given exclusive trading privileges to the subj-ota of Russia, steps which, in atoit . : way, make Khiva a portion of the empire. As Count Sbhouv'aloff distinctly informed [the British amb-wsador at St. Petersburg that the troops would leave the country after having chastised the Khan for his acts of I brigandage, the new order of things is regarded as.mvolving something like a breach or. faith.

; The Italian Parliament has been opened by an address from the throne, in the course of j I- 0 , , Victor Emmanuel spoke in very ;decidpd terms of the future relations between the.Government of Rome and the Pope. No interference in the spiritual relations between jnis Ho tness, and the Catholic world would be attempted, but, on the other hand, the civil power would not be hindered from dealingwith church property as was thought best iior the .interests of the entire people, ■ The liberals are delighted with the speech, the clericals draw moving pictures: of the condi tion of the religious old and infirm, who have to wander through the streets of the eternal city, homeless, and exposed to the insults of tne populace.

gun fatality has occurred at' fii ston. A well-to-do iron-worker, named' .William Aston, had been out shooting small ’.r? 8 - Asa last charge he put peas for shot into Jus gun,-and left it-cippe I and loaded to-red against some furniture in his kitchen. |Mrs Aston was dressing-her infant, aged thirteen months, when Joseph Martin, aged between twelve and thirteen, the son of a neighbor, came in, and, taking up the sun. pointed it at the naked babe, saying, “ I’li shoot you, Steve,” and drew the trigger. I he charge to k away part of the child’s face and head, and otherwise mutilated him. 1 he mother escaped, for the charge, after it had maimed the child, passed through the sleeve of her dress,,but she is suffering from a severe ahock to the system. The child died, twelve hours afterwards. • Yoxke, who is a candidate in Cambridgeshire for the vacancy caused by the succession of his brother, Lord Kbystbn, to the peerage as t'arl of ' Hardwicke, has been making a speech, to his future constituents, in which he frankly confessed that he was profoundly ignorant of politics. He* said that he bad been “ three times round the world; four times to Australia, and three times to Nqw Zealand,” with the Duke of word and honor” that he would get up politic ! subjects. Mr.liTorke recently mar--ned a daughter of Baron Rothschild, and this matfer of,objection; to bis candidature, the hon. gentleman asserted that he had a, .eight to marry Mfhom he loved, said that though a Jewess,, hia wite,was charitable and religious.. . 1 ", . The yellow fever has been raging in Memphis, and the mortality,has been dreadful. Out of a population of 40,000, in the first four-weeks tho deaths caused by it were 700, and since then the deaths from the fever had sometimes been as many as forty and forty-five a day. The whole number of deaths has been romething over 1,000. Large numbers of the people fled from the. city, home of the Protestant clergymen of the place.were among the fugitives, although others of them remained.' There were five Roman Catholic priests at- Memphis when the p ague broke but; they all remained faithful in their duty to the sick atid dyim*. and they a}l fell,victims to the disease. Their plaws were, filled as fast as they died by Catholic p-iests.from other cities,,. There was a lat-ge number of sisters of charity who i Q their labors for the sick and dying home of these sisters have also It* P 'The fever was brought t6 Jte city by a sailor who lauded from a disease attacked by the A good many horrible stories have their ongm itr America ; auda very bad one in deed, which has the disadvantage of being perfectly authentic, reaches us from Williamsport, Pennsylvania, via the ‘.New York rimes.’ On the 6th of November at 140 p.m., an attempt was made to hang a murderer named .Wade. But the rope was to« long ; Wade fell on his feet, the rope came off his neck, and the operation had to he repeated. He was turned off again, and - this time the rope was too short. After a few minutes’ suspension, however, he expired • a£d the remarkableihipg; about ,the execution is not the way in which it fwas per.

formed, but the manner in which the- criminal behaved himself until the last moment.' He told the gaoler to “ hurry up, as he had an appointment to dine with the devil at 2 o clock.” Then it seems to have occurred to him that the company he would meet would,, perhaps, not welcome him ; for he remarked that the “ only thing that troubled him was whether the people he murdered were in heaven or in hell.” !

The other day, Owen M'Fadden, of Erraroey, county Donegal, was married in the Roman Catholic chapel, Gortahork, to a young woman named Hannah M‘(Jee. M'Faddeu’s former wife was brutally murdered at Erraroev iu the mouth of August, 1871, and since that date he has frequently appeared in the law courts in the capacity of a witness, either in support of his claim for compensation under the provisions of the Peace Preservation Acp, or iu support of the charge of murder, which was afterwards prosecuted by the Crown. The claim for compensation succeeded, LSOO having been awarded for the loss of his wife and the maiming and wounding of his two daughters and himself. L2OO of this sum were levied off the townlands of Krraroeybeg and Fanmore. Before assenting to the marriage his present wife insisted that M'Fadden should refund this amount to the poor people from whom it was collected. In order to avoid giving offence to his future partner, he “ drew” the above mentioned sum out of the bank, and distributed it as suggested by Mrs M‘Fadden. Jhe inhabitants of Krraroeybeg and Fanmore wish Mrs M‘Fadden long life and happiness.