MISCELLANEOUS.

Grey River Argus, Issue 80, 17 July 1866, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Advertising. — Yon see goods are like gals— they must go when they arc in f.asluon and good-looking, or else a yoke of oxen wouldn't draw them afterwards. The man that advertises most, does the most business, because he does not make one stock List a lifetime. I know a merchant in this district who has imported three different batches of goods within a year, and now he's nearly sold or t again. How does he and his partner get rid of so many goods ? They advertise I more than all the rest put together — that's I how. I will prove it, If you want to borrow money— if you want to lend money — if you want to rent a farm— if you have one to sell —advertise. ' If yohr horse," cow, pig, colt, sheep, or oxen go astray, advertise them right off, and not run a cliauee of losing them altogether, or having to pay as much as they are worth in charges for. keeping. If you are a shoemaker, tailor, blacksmith, or any kind of a mechanic, show people that you are not ashamed of being a mechanic, by advertising. If you keep an hotel, make it known. When people see a -man advertise they know he is a business man. The world is full of folks who want. Some want to sell, some want to buy, and the only way to meet these wants, and make money, is to advertise. Advertising is like money— if followed up. Merchants think nothing of paying forty dollars foi one sign, with nothing but their names on it., Well, what do you think of having eight thousand signs a week in a newspaper? In it yon show your whole establishment to the country every week. — Wilmington Chronicle. . • Theresa Yelverton lias entered on anew life, giving readings from Tennyson, Longfellow and other poets, at Hanover-square rooms, with marked success. She has wisely pitched her tent amidst the aristocracy, where curiosity is ever awake; and her audiences have been numerous, sympathetic, and indulgent* ; criticism speak in its mildest tone ; and with voice, intelligence, face, and figure all in her favor, it is suggested as her own fault if she fails in establishing another ceVjrity. i Tekrible Catastrophk. —In a blast furnace, near Wolverhampton, on Saturday, three men died horrible deaths by being burnt by molten iron. Thomas Snape, aged 19, was on duty as the "keeper" of a blast furnace at Deepfield, and John Gardner, aged 18, with Joseph Swift, 37, were his assistants. It was proper that the contents of the furnace should be ran out at half-past seven o'clock, but the. men were talking, drinking, and neglecting their duty for more, than an hour after tnis. Meantime the molten iron was rising little by little in its receptacle, and at last it reached a part of the construction wherein water was contained in a pipe. The three men just at this time rose, and began in earnest to strip that they might "tap" the furnace, as they ought to have done long before. The iron, however, destroyed the facing of the pipe anil came in contact with th&wate.'. The water was instantaneously converted to steam, and an explosion supervened, tearing down the front of the furnace. Out poured the flood of liquid iron. Gardner was covered by it, and in an instant was destroyed ; Snape was touched, and, mad with pain, he leapt into the canal, then ran to his home near, and died; SM'ift was too much injured to move, buti being borne to the hospital, 'died there. An inquest was held on the bodies, and a verdict of "accidental death " was returned. A very serious detalcation hits, recently been discovered at Melbourne on the part of Mr Sparkes, the late manager of the Melbourne offices of the Peninsular and Oriental Staam Navigation .Company. ■ As it is; Mr Sparkes's deficiency is said to amount to a,bout L12,0()0 ; • and but for the timely arrival of Captain Blaclc; the: company's representative, there appears to be every probability that the sums uimcconnted for would have gone on in an increasing ratio.. It appears that Captain Black went'"to the Company's bankers in Melbourne, where he expected to find a balance of some two thousand pounds, but where, to his .great surprise, he learned that the account was on the wrong side of the ledger, being,' in fact, over-, drawn for above the amount 'which he had expected to find to the Company's credit. This discovery, of course, led to further enquiry ; and Captain Black requested to see Mr Sparkes's books. He then learned that no proper set of books had been kept at the office.; and, not long after, he discovered .that large sums, amounting in the aggregate to twelve thousand pounds, were missing. It is said that an offer of six thousand pounds, by way of compromise, was made by some wealthy relatives of the, defaulter, but refused. Mr Sparkes has since absconded, and it is rumoured that he has succeeded in getting away from the colony. It is. said that it, was" an unfortunate propensity for gambling and mining speculations which led to his abusing his trust in so. shameful a manner. . ' Emma Loder, alias Neville, appeared in the Police Court, Sydney, on the "2oth nit., to answer an information made by William Arthur Hellyer, for haying, ou the 25th April, .unlawfully assaulted him. The complainant said that on the day named he went, at the instance of his father, to defendant's lodging, in Jamison street ; he asked.to see Mrs.Lpder, and on proceeding up-stairs, found his father with the defendant and her husband. After a few minutes, he said to his father, "You wished for this interview, did you not?" His father replied in the affirmative, and Mrs Loder said, " Wait until the servant has cleared away." They had been taking luncheon. As he sat on a chair, Mrs Loder passed him, saying as she passed, "You are a liar;" to which he (witness) responded, "You are a ." ; She then struck him on the face with a paper. Other words took place, in the course of which he repeated the epithet to Mrs Loder, and told Mr Loder that he was a "contemptible thing" to allow his (witness's) father to run after his wife's heels as he did. The defendant then struck him with her hand on his head, and witll her fist upon his face, the latter blow of such violence as to raise a lump. Mr Hellyer and Mr Loder then interfered, and the witness; said that if : she struck him again, lie would iloor the whole lot of them. She had- no conversation with defendant iintil-she called him a liar. He said he would make Sydney stink for all of them, and then Mr Loder ordered him out of the room. Mr W. Hellyer cross-examined the witness at considerable length for the defence, and for the defence gave another version of the affair. The Bench found the assault to be proved, and ordered the defendant to pay a penalty of Is., with costs, or to'beim- I prisoned tweuty-fouf hours.

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