MAIL ITEMS.

Evening Star, Issue 4114, 4 May 1876, Page 4

MAIL ITEMS.

SHOCKING MURDER IN GLASGOW. A man named Barr murdered his mo the in-law, Mrs Sloan, aud attempted to kill his wife in Glasgow, on the Ist March. The accused, an engineer, married Mias Sloan about twelve months' ago, but the marriage proved a very unhappy one pu account of his jealous character. Yesterday afternoon mother and daughter were sitting alone in the house of the prisoner, at 608, Gallowgate, when there was a sharp knock at the door, and Mrs Sloan answered it. On her opening it Barr presented himself, and immediately stabbed her in the breast, and then successively in several other parts of the body. Mrs Barr rushed to heir mother’s aid, and a severe struggle

seems to have ensued ; but he at length overcame his wife, and inflicted eight wounds on her head, neck, and breast. It is said that all this happened in net more than three minutes. When the neighbors entered the place, Mrs Sloan was qu.te dead, aud her daughter apparently so; but subsequently it was found that life was not quite extinct, though she lies in a very precarious position. Immediately after the commission of the crime, the murderer repaired to some shops in the neighborhood, purchased some new clothes, and, thus disguised, be had up to last night eluded the police. It appears that lately he had been compelled by ill health to earn a livelihood by book-canvas-slng. He is deacribsd as a quiet but irritable man, aud it is believed there was no ground whatever for his jealousy in regard to his wife.—‘Daily Telegraph.’ SERIOUS REVOLUTION IN MEXICO. Galveston, March 21.—A Brownsville special to the ‘Hews’ contains the following:—“A despatch from the Rio Grande states that news has been received there of a battle at Resaca, in which the Government troops were defeated with a loss of 1,500 men and their artillery and Avaggons. Ho further particulars at hand,” A telegram dated April 1, special to the ‘Post’ from Washington, says the Secretary of State is advised that the rebellion in Mexico is of a

very serious character, and has assumed such proportions that it is believed it will result in the overthrow of the present Government. The city of Matamoras is surrounded by in aurgents, and according to present information it will be attacked to-day or to-morrow. The outbreak is not confined to one .'State, but extends to nearly all the States, THE HEW MuRMON EXODUS. It is rumored that tlrigham Young, finding himself sore pressed by Gentile immigration, and daily more and mme hampe. Ed by Federal Legislation and Federal Com ts, has been casting about for a new > auaan- a land of better promise-to which he and the persecuted Saints can emigrate, where the wicked shall cease from troubling, and tin. weary po ygain sts of Great 6alt Lake ma} find rest for their souls. ccordmg to re jport, New Mexico has been fixed upo . as the place of refuge from Gentile persecution. Immense Spanish grants, covering a great portion of tne territory, are to b> purchase • and to be immediately occupied by a great emigration from Utah, snfficieu in. numerical force to vote New Mexico ihto the Union as a sovereign :-t to, cl which Brigham will be virtually the absolute ruler under the prevailing doctrines and theories in regard to State rights. VV hcther is a?riy Solid foundation for the rumor dr riot, the alleged project is a bold and comprehensive one. if the Mormons can

carry out the project of getting possession of the chief part of the territory by purchasing panish grants, they will be able to keep out the Gentiles by refusing to sell them lands, and by otherwise exercising their power as owners of the soil. How they are to get into the Union without adopting such a Constitution as will materially interfere with the realisation of the ambitious aims attributed to them, has not yet been very clearly explained.

THE BANK OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK FORCED TO SUSPEND.

The Bank of the State of Hew York closed its doors about noon on March 15. When the fact was announced on the streets it created a good deal of surprise and excitement among bankers, brokers, and business men generally. It was an event wholly unexpected, except by the officials of the Clearing House, and the feelings of the people consequent upon its announcement manifested themselves in the nervous movements of the crowd in Wall and Broad streets, and in the vicinity of the bank at the corner of William street and Exchange

Place. When the news first circulated tne suspension was attributed to injudicious loans by the bank, and to the fact that, by bad management, overdrafts and advances on partially worthless securities amounting to about 1,000, OUOdoi. had been permitted. The losa thus sustained, it was said, had so impaired its capital, tnat it was ruled out at about 11 o’clock by the Clearing House, and was at once icrced to suspend. A hasty inspection of the statements then obtainable by fragments here and there led to tne belief tnat the depositors alter a time would oe paid in full, and that the stockholders would eceive possibly 70 per cent, of their investments. The deposits on hand at the time of suspension, reaching about 2,000,000d01,. are to remain tied up until the receiver to be appointed by the Comptroller of the Currency, shall have adjusted the bank’s affairs. The capital, which was all paid up, amounted to 2,000,000d01. ATROCIOUS DEEDS IN TENNESSEE.

Memphis, April I.—At Somerville (Tenn.) on Thursday last, a crowd of masked meu raided two Poles named Hirsch, merchants of the town. The gang, fifteen in number, forced themselves into the store before daylight, fell upon aud beat the storekeepers, took nearly 2,000d01. cash, led the merchants forth with ropes about their necks to the fair grounds, and were about to hang them, but by begging and promising to leave the place the masked rascals let their victims off with their lives. The outrage created much excitement in the vicinity, and a public ; meeting was held and a committee appointed to ferret out the perpetrators. A number of prominent attorneys volunteered to prosecute the villians without fee if they weie caught. Ho cause is assigned for the violence, except tnat the merchants have been accused of we ghing cotton lalsely for some of their customers.

AN ENGLISH SCANDAL. There seems every prospect that the Prince of Wales wid in a few weeks be once more in the midst of his remarkably happy domestic circle. It would be well if as much could be said for all who accompa ied him. One of them is, on the contrary, destined to find that his wife has taken advantage of his absence to forget her marriage vows, and to assist in creating the greatest scandal of its kind which has occurred in English society since the revelations as to Lady Mordaunt. Five years ago there were celebrated in Westminster Abbey, at the

same time, the marriages of two beautiful sisters, the youngest daughters of the Duke of Abercorn. Lady Alberta Hamilton, the Prince Consort's god - daughter, became the wife of the Marquis of Blandford, and Lady Maude, Marchioness of LamUdowne. .Nothing was wanting to give €clal to these nuptials, which had a strong aroma of hi. toric interest about them. The brides were of a princely house, renowned in cottish story, and the ancestors of the bridegrooms had played no inconsiderable part in the page of English history. Tne heir to the throne aud his beautiful wife were among the crowd of notables present at the ceremony in the Abbey, and when the bridal party adjourned from that venerable fane it was to a least in a stately and noble mansion full of associations Chesterfield House. Ho marriage could have commenced, apparently, under brighter auspices ; hut unfortunately, so far as one of them was concerned, the happiness was of very short duration. The misconduct of Lord Blandford toward his wife has for a long time been a matter of club and drawing-room gossip. Of late they have been living apart, though without any formal separation; and those acquainted with his character will feel small surprise at the announcement of his elopement with the wife of another man. JNor will there be any excess of sympathy for that other man, inasmuch as he is the Earl of Aylesford. A weaker, more inferior specimen of his own or any other class could scarcely bn found. When a little over age, he married a giddy, extravagant girl, one of

a family which has had a most pernicious iufiuence on fashionable society, and soon after succeeded to his father’s title and estates. It was then found that he had been for years borrowing on post-obits to such au extent that had his liabilities to the Jews been paid in full, he would have scarcely had an income to support himself. So he sought the aid of c hancery, aud the Loid Chancellor quashed the exhorbitant rates charged, but, at the same time, made reflections of the most cutting severity on Lord Aylesford. Lord Selborne’s comments, however, served neither to make Lord Aylesford prudent, nor to cool the friendliness of the Prince of Wales toward him. In 1872 the papers announced that the Prince, accompanied by Colonel Williams, Lady Aylesford’s brother-in-law, had gone down to Packington Hall, Lord Ajleaford’s seat, where a very “fast” company, a battue, and a great ball awaited him. It was from Packington that the Prince and Princess last year proceeded to pay a state visit to Birmingham. Were further proof wanting of the Prince's regard for Lord Aylesford, it may be found in the choice of him as one of his companions in India. It is the most unfortunate feature of the Prince of Wales’ life that he makes such a very bad choice of friends. A rascally card-.-harper like Major Harbord, and a foolish spendtlirift like L >rd Ayleslord. are admirably calculated to bring anyone intimate with them into disrepute ; and these are only two out of many, little superior to them, with whom the Frame has been wont familiarly to associate. This last scandal can hardly fail to result in a double divorce, and it is to be hoped may have the effect of awakening the Prince of Wales to a sense of the necessity of breaking finally iway from that disreputable circle which brought so much discredit on him as “the dailboroiigh House sot.” ‘Hew York Timei.’