MAIL NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 3861, 9 July 1875, Page 2

MAIL NEWS.

British law believes in “ propputy.” Many houses were rendered unio habitable by the great explosion in event’s Park, London, last year, but the Judges decided that the tenants, thou.h thus put out of doors, must pay the rent all the same.

&n undertaker’s man,, while driving back a cab Lori* a ffinbral ! ip I&ndon, WaS‘ apprcjt hendtd by the police for being druukf* his cab were found five women, also in a state of in'oxioatiou. Ibe burial they ba I been at ending was that of a pauper. Snail fines weie imposed on the party To those who plays billiards the following particulars of a match played in Ungland will be interesting ; On 23rd March last the undermentioned match was played in London by Stanley and Hichards, the player recently defeated b. i ook for the Pyramid Ohampi nship Stanley, who is yet quite • vouugster. gave his opponent 150 paints in 500. Hichams ma ie 6 and at the very first ureak Stanley got up to the top of the table, made 64 spot-strokes, apd parsed him— tauley, 169 : Richards, 156. Kiobkrdd went up to 169. and then Stanley in another break, this time of only 4?, reached 198. With a fine double in the middle pocket, Uichards played op to 18and then again tauley went ahead, this time with an allround sp’n of 71—Stanley, 269 ; Richards, 186 Once more the former got into position, ost it, recovered it, and lost it again, only to play round the table, and again got up to the top, so that in a grand bleak of 230, with 69 spot-stroked, he ran right out a winner by 314 points in the astonishing time of thirty minutes. Being requested to continue his break, he went on and made 33 other winning hazards at the corner pockets, completing a break of the large number of 330, with, in all, J. 03 spots, a pirioixninoa only second to that of the champion himseli; ■Stanley, indeed, finished the game in four breaks, not counting the usual mis-es; the 600 l< ss one only taking tbiny-five minutes. The performance was one of the mo|t astonishing of the reason.”

Journalistic statistics in the United States show that during the pas* year L 1,600 000 was lost in newspaper enterprise •> n- nt jour* nalism. the * ew tf»rk Herald ’ is stated to cost Lf-00 per d cm, or L 180,000 yearly. The daily .xoeuses of the ‘Tribune’ amount to 1300 daily, of the 'hew' York Time. ’ to 120 , and of the ‘ World ’ from Ll4O to 1-160 L terary ladies would do well to vrots the Atlantic, for fi ty-seven are now edi'mj journals in the Statts. There are many tal nted writers who anyiise and comment on theatrical and musical performances in every part of the civilised ijoie, but none of them can compete with American reporters ; we never see anything approaching to the following style of composition in Great Britain, or the Oolohies. It is the “ wind up” of an elaborate article on a musical entertainment which appears in the ‘ Burlington Hawkoye ’M in Emma Nelson sang the solo, and it seemed as xf her yoxce had never displayed to sack q

decree its wonderful purity -and sweetneso, rising ab-vethe low tutying of the accotntaent, clear and tdfr as a silver bell. ’I he changing movement of the vocal accompa niment rising hoarse as the swi f t current chafing around some j urged rock, then falling as softly and r-gu'ar as ’he monotonous break of the ripp ! e on the o bbly beach, and a rain swelling m t e r c cadences an 1 dying away as the limpid water whis ; era through bending wdlnws and close-growine ft--d-.ee, wh-. re the whi o 1 lies sleep on the r v r’s breast if hoco.neo i<>u bad snne nothing b .t this it would hj ive been worth going to hear. “The Anvil Chorus” banged"ont the concert. It was very w. 11 given, indeed, especially the passages where the divinities jangled the triangle?, and the brawny blacksmiths belted resonant tintinnabulations out of the anvils In Philadelphia, about forty or fifty of the Millerites, Second Adventists, or Ihurmanites. as they cdl themselves, from their leader, William Thurman, assembled in a house in Cadwalladcr street, above Girard, on the evening of April 19, for the purpose of p eparing for the end of the world and the r ascension to Paradise, which events they confidently predicted would t«ke place at midnight that night. Th y partook of the Lord’s Supper, prayed, sang, washed each other’s feet, and went through various acrimonies, and, final.T dressed in their whit-, ase nsion robes, monu’-ed the roof o ? the house at midnuht, in the midst < f a chilly rain. They waited for the sound of the list trump, and looked to see the Great Judge sealed on his throne in mid air. After thei foolish ardour and their light c’othmg had been considerable dampen* 1. they decr-ncieci to c -nsole themselves as best they might for the failure of another Second Adv ntiat p-o-------phecy. Their assemblage was keot eecrc from scoffing sinners, and no crowds were presort to witness the diicomtiture In the House of I.ords on -pril 26, Lord Coleridge made a long statement in contra- " die ion t« certain charges made_ against binby Dr Kenealy in connection with the Tich borne trial. As a peroration hj > said i am perfectly sware—no man knows it belt r —that so far as regards ancient descent or lofty rank I have no claim to stand among your lordships as ar English nobleman ; bu I d” claim, in point of honor and integrity, to be the perfect equal of the proudest peer in your lordships? House. My lords. I have made these few observations because 1 jt my duty, yvhen tjius attacked, to jpeet thp chafgo onpe ‘or all, and to satisfy your lordships, as I hope I have done, that., iat least on this score, your lordships have no reason to be ashamed rf the last man whom the profe aion of th« la'? baa sent, by the grace of th" Qter-n, to this great as-embly.” The Lord Chancellor then said—“ If those ehar.-es ihould he repeated they can only rec il on the hi ada of those who make them ”

The Master of the Rolls gave judgment on Mav 1 in the case of Leader v bloody inyplving the legality of the occupati n of H.M. ? s Opera House. Loudon, for religious services His Honor ruled that Lord Dudley mast keep the place as a theatre, and counsel for defendant admitting there had been a tpehnical trespass, be gave judgment for one shill p g damages and o ots, but refuse 1 ao injunction to stop the services. In the whisky war at Boston about forty prominent, firms have be- n visited and about 50 packages have been placed u dor surveillance, rep-esenfing 2 1 , 00 dollars. Messrs Bird and C ). and Weeks ai d Petit r whoso goods were tinder examination last week, have leemingly come out of the ordeal yjth flying colors MicntpT Campion apd Tflomas Jane quarrelled over 3, gsrne of cards pit a saloon pn May 16, when Campion stabbed Jane in the abdomen and killed him. Shortly afterwards the murderer was arrested, One of the most appalling traced!s ever committed in Detroit, was brought to light on A pril 29. Two negio women, a mother and daughter, the foimer wmen Elizabeth Thomas, the latter Harriet Kisht-r. wen found dead in th-. ir bods in a small house the west aide of Hastings street, the r bodhs chopped and hacked with an axe almost, beyond the semblance of human beings. Suspicion points to John Thomas, nnsbaud of the first victim, a negro barhe., sixty-two years old. He has been arrested. A Mon'an a Territory paper says “Gold from the grass roots down ” is an expre-sion not understood in the States, and yet some of the licbest placer diggi» gs worked in Montana were of this description. We have got 2 dollars 50 cents to the pan by palling up the grass root* ou Carpenter’s Bar Black foot, and washing them, and we have 1 en 5 dollars washed from a pan of grass roofs pulled up off the rim of Harris’s Hill, below Bannock. The gold was coarse, and in both cases the grass roots reached the • ed rock. Thousands of miners have w rked di.gings of the kind known as gold from the grass roots down. - Plural maniages are on the decline pi terji pry. The Vecent conviction tfhd ; ffent‘ npA of ope ycfir in th’p penitentiary for marrying a second wife while still Jiving With the first, passed on Reynolds, otie of Brigham Young’s bodyguard, ca-t quite a damper over the ardor of the Mormonites. The case was selected for the purpose of testing the constitutionality of the Act of ConJress of 1862, prohibiting polygamy. The udge, in charging the jury, said that the law was clearly constitutional, ai d an alien jury—consisting of eight Morn ons and for Gentiles —had no other alternative than to bring in a verdict of guihy. Although the Ac was passed thirteen years ago, this is the firs conviction for polygamy ever had in territory.