NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Evening Star, Issue 3648, 31 October 1874, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

A DARING ACT AT NIAGARA, la the neighborhood of the falls at Niagara a scene of great excitement occurred on the morning of June 1, owing to a painter who was empfoyed in painting the brdge leading from Goat Island to the Three Sisters having fallen into the rapids below. Ha drifted with the current to a point within 40ft of • the falls, where he found anchorage by coming in contact with a rock, to which • he clung. In the meantime news of the accident had spread through the village, and . an immense crowd of spectators, attracted probably by the prospect of seeing a man carried over the Fall<», assembled to gaze at him. It seemed quite im-.ossihle to ref-cue the unhappy painter.from his perilous position ; his arms and body were fast becoming bennmbel, and losing their hold .on the slippery rock, when a vast shout arose from the spectators, telling him help Mas nigh, as a guide named Tom Conroy jumped into the Bapids from the Cave of Winds, and, holding a rope in his Mt hand, swam with the current until he reached the exhausted painter, when he tied the rope round him. and the two men were dragged ashore amid the frantic applause of all present, REVOLTING MURDERS AT YORK.

A man has just been bung at York for a murder committed under the most revolting ■circumstances. His name was Jackson, the son of a laborer near Bipon. and for several years he was absent from home, having enlisted and being sent on foreign service. When be left a sister bad just b en born, and onbi* return home a few months ago, be found this same sister grown to woman’s estate. Her a<;e was sixteen, bat she was more like a woman of twenty, and in appearance she is described as having bien exceedingly handsome. Indeid she was celebrated as the rustic be’le of that part of the country. Jackson and she were, as yon may suppose, almost like strangers, and in an evil hour they conceived "an incestous passion for one another. Jackson was a man of very violent temper, and it seems that he soon squabbled with his father and mother, who, however, had no idea of the existence of improper relations between the brother and sister. Eventually the son was ordered by his father to leave h°me and packing up his swag he set off. The sister, however, fallowed him, and the murderer’s own confession tells the rest. After walking sme distance on the road, the girl in great distress, he urged her strongly to return hom *. This she refused to do, and Jackson, partly annoyed by the spectacle of the dreadful ruin he bad created, for the girl was enciente, and partly driven to distraction from fear of exposure, drew outaraz ir and cat his sister’s throat in a most horrible manner. This was ■ done in the dusk, and no one saw the deed, but Nemesis could not ail to overtake such a man, and at a village where he arrived a few days afterwards be let fall certain ex - picssions which betrayed him. No effort was made for a remove, for it was felt that his fate was well deserved. ' THE FORESTERS’ DAY AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE. August 18 was another of the great Foresters’ days at the Crystal Palace, feydenhatn. If the average appetite of the ’ members of the Ancient Order of Foresters has not fallen off considerably since last year, it must be a peculiarly gratifying subject for contemplation for those who are pecuniarily interested in the health and longevity of the members of this great benefit society. The ; - preparatioiis for their reception last ytar ■ were on a scale such as even the Crystal • ui rejdiffik about or twi<& in

the course of the season. To meet the demands of this omnivorous host some forty cooks were employed for several days before the gathering. They were required to bring their skill to bear upon sixteen tons of meat and two tons of ham, to hake upwards of 4,Odd loaves, 23.UU0 robs, 31,000 plain buns, 10 o*jo Bath buns. 34 ouo twopenny squares of c ke. nearly 8,000 shilling pork pies, and 10 OUO penny bi.-cuits. to say nothing of sandwiches, ch-. cse, pickles, and numerous other edibles, odds and ends/ It could not, of course, bo expected that all this would he disposed of without considerable hydraulic power, and the liquor laid in store in the vaults and cellars at the southern end of the Palaco would have distressed the heart of any thorough-going, teetdtaler. JNot to mention liquor on draught, there were some 60,000 bottles of beer provided. Teetotal drinks, however, made even a greater show, so far as bottles went. Of lemonade, gingerbeer, and other such beverages, there were about 120,000 in the ceilads, and all this was supplemented by o decoction produced by some 9001b. of tea, three tons or sugar, and 30J gallons of milk. In spite of the immense number of people jjjfcsent, the day passed off a success. a bishop's opinions. The Bishop of Manchester, in the course of a recei.t address at Gorton, said he did not know how many men there were in that assembly who did not believe in heaven and hell, for be was told that infidelity was making great inroads among the working classes, wtb whom the ideas of heaven and hell w ere coming to be regarded as vain fables. Well, he admitted that there had been a great > eal said about heaven and hell which no rational man could by any possibility believe. But he wuitld ask them whether there was not within everyone of thorn a still small voice which told them there was a life b -youd this, where they would have to give an account of what they had done in this life ? tie coul 1 not tell them much about heaven ; he did not believe it would be a place where we should be eternally singing hymns (which wis some people’s conception of it), but he could imagine it to be a" place where our capacity for enjoying all that was good and pure would be enlarged. Such descriptions of heaven as they met with in some hymns and children’s hooka were fit only for chiloieu, and not lor grown-up men.