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Evening Star, Issue 3442, 4 March 1874, Page 3

A darkey arrested with chickens in his sock, declared, “ De man that put ’em dar was no frep or mjne. At Durham Assizes, . C. Dawson was sentenced to death for the murder of a woman with whom he lived, by. knocking her down with a champagne bottle, danging ©n her, and striking her -tyith a large dish. Telegrams from the Gilbert Bivcr telegraph station report that the, station is beleaguered by blacks in great numbers, and that it is bar. ncaded against an assault. The station, which is bunt of sawn timber, shingles, is garrisoned by the telegraph-master, his wife, and one assistant. Ong. musket is the only firearm they possess, and it was impossible to held out long, iwo volunteers, in charge of Sergeant Griffin, were just leaving for the scene of action, and the police were begging everywhere for the loan of fire-arms without obtaining any of the right sort Large crowds of blacks are reported ™tlnn ten miles ef Georgetown. Ihe hearing of the application for probate of the will of the late Patrick Coady Buckley was resumed on the 10th inst., at the Equity Gourt, before his Honor Mr Justice Moleaworth. Several witnesses were examined as to the genuineness of Buckley’s signature to the will. Ihere was one very important piece of evidence elicited from Mr Joseph Day, who stated that about three weeks before Buckley’s death he .had a conversation with him respecting his will. Buckley, in the first instance, treated the subject jocularly, but afterwards informed him that he had made a will in favor of Maher „nd his wife, and that he did not mean to repudiate it. At this stage : of the proceedings the case was adjourned, the Crown being anxious to bring forward a witness to prove the unreliability of evidence, Mr William de Tracy Tracy, in giving his evidence as to the signature to the will, considered, that, though it had all the characteristics of < Buckley’s handwriting, he would not positively awearto it,