NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Evening Star, Issue 3655, 9 November 1874, Page 2

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

An Edinburgh printer baa been brought beFoie Lord Pre-ideufc in the Court of Seasiom, ami severely reprimanded for the careieaa and impeii ct printing of the record in a case before the Court. For attempting to murder an old woman woom he suspected of h-.vi.-jg bewitched a JJ. 8 ® 1 * a f n( * hlB , W » named Levi Abbott, of Cars 'ale. has been sentenced at ee( * B Assizes to five years' penal aervi* ihe Emperor of Russia has granted to the English subject, John Paul lexander bapieha, the authority to enjoy the title of prince, which belonged to his ancestors without requiring the proofs usually called for by the law. of our theatrical stars affect to dt-e. pise press criticism. The celebrated at tor I Mr Toole, does not seem to be of this number,' At a public lu '.cheon before leaving <Glasgow £> I 0 m reference to tl o i ss, that, without using strauge language. It ;n;tor who "‘didn't cire what the paper sa must eith r .* a liar or a fool. yranny is not confined to countries such a; .übsia and ’ urkoy. Even in the metro* I" 3 of England it finds.congenial soil, i eems that she master drapers in London i e, i«r some unexplained reason, lately i sd a mandate that their assistants must I - Wear oiduet iches This invasion of the rights of the subject could not of course bo borne xn silence, so the aggrieved assistance

have resolved to strike rath r n comply with the order. SiuC the strike of maidservants i" Dundee against the wearing of caps, no more noble and patriolic movement has fallen to be. recorded. The friend* p-f liberty will hope that victory may rest w : th the intrepid vieux moustaches.

Mr Stanton, who racked hutis- "f to ride rom Bata to oudon on his bio'C ! in eight hours and a won his wager on Aue’ s' 17, acconn li bing rim XOd mile-. in minutes ut dor the time. 'The last pari or the j urney AA-aa performed under great difH cultips ; through an accident his lefc arm and sh( ulder were disabled, and for the last twenty six mi’ei he could only use his rmht hand.

In an address which he delivered somo time back at Liverpool College Lord Derby told the rindents that bert were three great maxims of study—first, that tn ntal labor never hurts anybody unless taken in great excess; second, that those who cannot spare time for physical exercise will soon have to spare it for illness; third, that morning work is generally better than night work.

A horrible death is report d from A soul; William Fawcett, aged 13, who waaemployed at the Obion Ironworks being missed from his Avork. search was made for him. The manhole lid of one of the furnaces was discovered to have fallen in, and further exam''nation revealed the fact that the body of Fawcett was lying at the bottrm of the culvert which conveys the flame a d smoke from the furnace. Me was roasted t> death. A coroner’s jury at Birmingham, after two sittings, has returned a verdict of wilful murder against the two youths named Sullivan and Kelly, who, on the 13 hj July, drowned a companion named Samuel Karp, sixteen years of age. in the canal. The evidence shoAved that the prisoners induced the deceased, who could not swim, to go into the canal to bathe with them, and that then, taking him into the deepest water, they left him, Sullivan remarking, “ He’ll bo bettor up in heaven.” Deceased sank, an-1 the prisoners refit ed to assist him, although appealed to by persons on the bank. Two brothers marry two sisters, who are cousins of the brothers. The older brother hus several childr- n by his wife, and sbe dies. He ' hen marries a younger S’ster of his first Avife and ha* several chrdren by her. He ami the wife of the brother then die. a

few years thereafter the younger brother marries fhe Avidow of the older brother and has by her two children. What is the re-J&tien-hip? We got the above from Dr EHet, of our county, who knows the parties, and will he obliged if any one will solve the comt'lex genealogy.—Montgomery, Va., * News.’

Sporting gentlemen will be glad to learn that the old I ondon ‘Bp rliug Times’ has been revived in a new form amt whh a new P'dioi. The ‘Times’ was formerly the property of the eccentric Ur Shorthorne, who was imprisoned for three months for libel on Sir Joseph Hawley. The paper has now been bought by Mr John Uorictt, of the * sportsman,’ who has determined to make it the censor of the turf, lashing ah its faults and follies in the moat forcible style One of its features is to be a series of caricature portraits of “men of the turf \ the first of these caricatures representing the great ho kmaker, Steele, who, at one time proprietor of a fish barrow, is now worth 1.100,000, made on the turf. Mr Bruntoa has given him a coat of arms —a ooifish rampant and on a bend three escallops (oysters) of the field. The caricature is excellent.

At the Bristol Assizes on f ugust 12, Mr Broad, a gentleman living at Falmouth, brought an notion against Dr Lyle, the medical superintendent of a lunatic asylum near Ex-ter, to recover damages for injuries sustained through the alleged negligence of the defendant The plain .iff went mad through being “crossed in a love affair,” and was confined in the d; fend ant’s asylum While there he jumped out of a window, the shock brought on paralysis, and he had utterly lost the use cf his lees, t 'ne singular feature of the case was; that immediately after the accident the young man recovered his reason, and had been perfectly sane from that moment. r i he medical witnesses said be would never be able to walk. Mr justice Brett held that there was no evidence of negligence for which defendant was legally resonpsible, and the plaintiff was nonsuited. IMPROVIDENCE OF WORKMEN. The extravagances of the upper strata of society ate rivalled and even exceeded by those of the laboring classes. If a nobleman gives 1-1,000 for a piece of china, or a wife of a manufacturer spends twice as much o» a garden partv, there is always this to be said for them th it they do not in committing such follies either drprive their families of necta' aries or bring ruin upon thamsolves. But with our laborers it is different. They exhibit a reckless indifference to the present and future, and a forgetfulness of the past which is tra-y lamentable. The miners are. the worst examples. -A story is told by a local :pap-r of a miner at A ttercliffe, near Sheffield, who entered a butcher’s thop and ordered a steak to be C"t from a piece that lay on the block saying, “be was not particular to an ounce'either way.” The meat was cat and one shilling and four pence ,paid for it, when the man quietly dropped it to his dog, waited till the animal had devored it, and then sauntered off. in the same place a laborer was seen to break four nev-laid eggs and give them to his dog. On the other hand, a puddhr and his wife were lately brought up at Sheffield for neglecting their children. The children were found by the relieving officers naked, lying on a heap of coal. The whole furniture of the home, a single-roomed house, was “ a bucket, fender, chair, table, And a matvrass, covered with filth, on which the whole family slept. The father was intoxicated, avid the mpther was so drunk that she could not hold the baby in her arms. The mau was in receipt of L2 loi a week. After this, who will say that high wages mean prosperity ?