MISCELLANEOUS.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 636, 15 February 1870, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

A resolution has been passed for the voluntary winding up of the.New Zealand Flax Company. # i Joseph. Dalton Hooker, Esq., M.D., r Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, has been nominated a Companion of the Bath. ' ' " - • Mr Ormsby, sub-sheriff, has received a letter threatening him with the fate of others if he does not reinstate a tenant whom he had. been obliged* to put out of a ; holding in Sligo.— Dublin Express. The latest development of ritualism, is reported from Stroud, where it is said that "the most; popular preacher in. the borongh," on a recent Sunday, ascended the pulpit " with a crown on. his headand a palm in his hand." It is stated that the legacy duty which Government will have to receive from the estates of the Marquis of Westminster, the Earl of Derby, and Mr Peabody, will together amount to upwards of a million sterling. The Minister of Fiuance in France has recommended that a gold coin of the" value of twenty-five francs, corresponding with our English sovereign, should be issued by. the French Mint, and the Emperor Napoleon has 'approved of the proposal. . c - - • The Marquis, of Queensberry,.was seen superintending the arrangements for the 'Dumfriesshire Hunt Ball j attired in a groom's dress, with slippers over his boots, on his knees in the ball-room, assisting one. of. .the. female upholsterers to rub and polish the floor with French chalk. It is stated that "the PostmasterGeneral has given his assent to the proposed halfpenny.postage ? on two conditions —first) -that the halfpenny, stamp shall be available for only one day ; and, second, that the publishers of the newspapers using the stamp shall- themselves impress' the dateupon.it;". '<>. . ... . „ The election of head master of Rugby school,, in^ the. room of Dr; Temple', took place oh. Saturday, Nov. 20i The candidates were numerous, but the choice ofthe! trustees fell upon the Rev : -Henry Haynian, T3.D. of Sfc! John's College, .Oxford,- head master of St. Andrew's College, Bradfield, Berkshire, Jefferson Davis, on his way home from England to Mississippi, pasted through New Orleans. Many visited him, while one admirer carried his idolatry for the leader of ;the "lost ;cause!' • so ■': far . as to. stoop and kiss the .-name of the ex-Presi-dent on the -register of arrivals, at the Si Charles Hotel. >;. A-Pari& journal^ just to give, a slight idea of the state of ' Bociety in Ireland pro- . duced by promisedireform and probability of Ulster tenant-right, says^ that nu merous; landlprdsrfrom that country have . atrived. at Woolwich, to study : the various systems of planting^ so . as to be able -to cuirass their doqrs and wiMPvvs ! On November 23, a procession of about four' thousand Fenians passed' through the cityxtf C3rk',- : lieaded-by-a-band playing :the ".Dead: MJarchvin-Saul:''- ;This^demonstratiori^was *jii- lionbr ■ of-the-memo--lies ofrthethyee.men w.hp killed Sergeant 'Brett! at Mattclieffter^Mi^September 1867. : Since ; Mr /Peabwdy!s i death: cro.wdft ; of people. : congregates at his .statue . near . the. Royal Exchanged -pjiNoyember 13..C|aptain Forbes,;. standing, opposite' to 'the statue in one : of these cro.wdsV, suddenly fell to the i ground, and, '.on being removed to ihe shop 'of a chemist, he was found to be dead.' • ' ■■': :■'■' ■ ■•■ ■ • ■'■■' AveLwipede race from Paris to .Rouen took place on November 12. The -winner was T an Englishman,. Mr Jaaies' Moore, who accomplished the distance,, seventy?eiglvt iniies, ija t<jn..and:a!half hours. The other veiocipedists.were seven Frenchmen and one Englishman; : - : /. A "Girl Pf the Period" novelty;;which is to be hoped:w,ill: not become popular,--is a. collar of, the.; shape; usually wprn, bysailors, ta their shirts. They are made of a c mrse rough-looking stone-colored linen, bordered with- blue, and : a - simulated handkerchief of the same material; tied in a sailor's knot, is attached to the front. At'the meeting'of the Zoological Society; on November ll^'a "letter was read- frora^ Mr Morton Allport, containing an account; of the successful introduction of the salmon, trout (salmo tnitta) into Tasmania. , The . Secretary also made some remarks on an •Owen's Apteryx presented by.ttib AccU?' matisation Society of Otago, : ; . ■ It ..is ;statedv:that the lat^iMamuis of. We^tmmstOT has- left the es^atei-oTFont-. hill.. ito. Sir iMiSiael Shaw/ijStemrt;:: of; Greenpck j . whbse* wife, Lady/ Oictoia/j -is: : one of; the daughters of the late! -Miir^|uis.:: What with the popular growth;pf GVeendpifc; -^-'in.itaelf . a- little Westminste!r^and,..tne:! Grosvenor . alliance, Sir Michael is .likely to become, if he is not already, the richest baronet, in Scotland. A case 'of bigamy was ' heard before; the London magistrates recently, . re narkablo for a most impudent and ii.iquitpus.defence. ■ The prisoner, who was •a .widoweij,. cboliV admitted a third nvvrriage, but said that as his second wife was his niece the" lriam^e was unlawful.; it !>vas wicked to JfVewfth"her;aud:;he thet-err foTja ; j[eft her and'tn^rried^a r third wife. ; He ! wjis-poxiimittecVJor trial. ' .! :,i : -/i^eiDatteddpnot appear to have much |}-ejip!e^ r f6^ the bones of their ancestors. |3^,a|pesimjtha;t many shiploads of themiare ;B^^^i|i^itifih ports to be ground: up . !|y;|D\{jnti|i«i^ in !^a car^go which recently^ iftrriiied^atvAtierHeen a quantity of human skulls were cast up among the horse and otheji boneßjwThe shipment of these remains are sometimes W large, for they , r acCKoiulftte .on the- shelves jxjr. such an; extent, .that they have, to be disposed of' by re^burial in the sea^bents.- : lit the jDiyorce Court, the case of Cranwell v, CranweU was heard, The woman

stated that her husband cruelly ill-used her, and that on one occasion he brought home a! large stick, which he called the '' doctor," and commended it to her attention. Once he broke several of her ribs, and. finally he threatened her with the "doctor," when she left him. She admitted that she once . caqght her husband by the beard, but declared that she could not (scratch, though quite capable of striking. The husband denied the charges made against him ; but Lord Peiizance believed the wife's story, and granted a decree of judicial separation. j At the Bolton Police Court, on . Satur- ! day, Jane Judge and Susannah Rigby, and Robert Allen, a member of the Sal— ford police force, was charged with steal-; ing a silver Geneva watch and; chain, 7s 6d, two snuffboxes, and other articles, from Thomas Sefton, waste dealer, whilst he was asleep in the Joiner's Arms vaults, Deansgate. It was proved that the women were in the vault innediately^ before the prosecutor were discovered in the possession of Allen, who said he had received them from Judge. Nothing was found uppn Rigby, andshewasdischarged. The other prisoners were committed for trial. — Mancliester Guardian — Nov. 13. We hear from Burdwan that the fever which has depopulated whole villages in that vicinity is still very prevalent and fatal. A. chief cause suggested is that,, less-rain than usual having fallen there, the impurities collected in the tanks have have not been subjected' to. L tiie usual amount; of dilution. rAnoth^rreause of !the mortality may notiuncHarUaibly be found in. .the (native) .method of medical treatment.. The patient, we are gr-avely told, is undressed and . oiled, and then placed before the fire, on which is a vessel; filled with river sand. When the sand is intensely hot it is ladled into bags, which are at once, applied to the head and person of the victim. The treatment is pcr r sisted in until the patient recovers or dies! Pioneer, Octl 18.The new illustrated paper which is shortly to appear will , prove a, formidable rival to the* lllusti-ated,Loiidp i )i.News. A large amount of capital will be invested in it, and Mr Sutherland Edwards j who was formerly on the staff of the News, will be the editor. The News, it must be' said, has ; prpyoked. competition. Some time ago It bought up tl\elliiisti'aiedTim4s, which at the time of its- transfer had a circulation of over 40,000 a week. Theobject of the purchase was to prevent the. Times from, becoming a rival to the News. The proprietor^ of the- Nevos^ : then proceeded systematically to starve the. Times. They cared npijnng at all: about it, and seemed to have thought that every sub- * scriber to it .was oae taken : away from the more expensive, paper. The ..consequence is chat; the Times has sunk to 10,000 a yieeki-^Londqn Letter. . ; At Chipping Norton, Charles Pendleton, alais Caxfus propriettor of the Oxfordshire Weekly News, was charged with keeping open a- lotttery called -."The Great Oxon Spec," and having received a certain sum of money .for- tickets-in the lottery! There were' six informations laid agjiinst the defendant. The " Great : Oxon! Spec" .has been.; carried on in reference to all the chief races, and a large number ofrtickets'sqld to. persons at a distance, but it was alleged that no draw had ey^c. taken, place, Evidence haying, been giveiiof; defendant's cbnnection with the lottery,-, witnesses ; depondfid, that they had piirchqied i, tickets,; apd one, who drew ; Pero Gomez, the winning horse^ said the defendant had refused to pay s hini. : , The. magistrates- fined defendant LSO and aU : expenses, or in default three .months' imprisonment.- ■ . ..Not 'many, months. ago, 100 or more ; Irishmen met ai a- public house at Street Gate, near Marly hill, and held; a secret" mee.t.in|g. J> rhe object of the meeting did 'not . trauspu'e, ifc is stated to have been connected ! with tlie Fenian conspiracy. Shortly after the men had mety they were joined by O'tKer men v who had come from -Newcastle and ' Gatesliead. The . mission of l.tHeae. menhaving beeh fulfilled^-rsaid ; tp hate. 'been' -the- collecting of- m.oney.,for ; the Fenian conspiracy, , and inspiring • the Irishm en with hopen— they departed, exhorting the ; members..iof. the,; Brotherhood to keep sober arid "go home quietly. : After the' leaders had left, some of the men got .drunk: and on being turned out of the publicpboHse, commenced tj ifight j andibchaved'in a riotous manner. Three of the men were brought before the magistrates at Gatesliead, and ordered to pay a fine of 5s and costs.~ tkiiidirland Timesi~ ; A Scotch girl, named Emily Jane Kane, a native of arrived at New York on the 12th August, eltrowtef Or Salt Lake City, having been converted tb::the.::Mor:-! r -. mon faith by one of the missionary saintsv In company with a number of other 'emfc : grants she reached Salt Lake feity on the ; 21sf of August, and was soon horrified by finding that ; all ; 'tlie saints- -had several wivjes, 1 and thatrshe was expected-to maikethe tenth in the family of a patriarch who already had nine. Emily., had. .been ignorant of this feature of her new religion ;■ she speedily lost her>faith"; "&n6Lshe made her escape- to. the camp of the United States troops; near the city. The kind-hearted solcfterV made 1 up a purse for her to go' tb Omaha; there she disposed of. nearly all her clothiiig, aM tliuis"bb-" tamed money enough to pay her fare to "New York. Arriving there, she. was penniless- ; but she had the good luck to fall into the hands of Mr James Thompson-' the:harbf)r- master, to whom she told = her stqry^ " He- raised money for her td ; pay ileri passage back to- Glasgow, and she sailfed on Oct; 27.' . : -:. ;; .; Since the splendid and memorable, ceie:mbnial of Saturday week {thjj opening; of . Blacl^friars bridge) when the Qiieenf and. her people /met- with: even moye. tlian the warmth of affection of the happy days of her youths thei'e- has- been, cuirdnt everyn where a perpetual chatter, conveyingfrom n\outh to mouth; the astounding fact; .that behind her carriage, instead of a second footman, in the accustomed livery, there sat her Highland attendant, John Brown. To any one unversed in the tattle of a palace it : wbultt have';seemed impossible • that such airemark ..have reached, a , step t eyorid 'the " prtoincfe of the' Royal ' servants' hall, or that any rational being "would trouble himself or herself to quesr . tipn whether. the, .Qu.een chose, like a Geiv man noble, to have a jager on her f* dickey;'': (oi agrooiiiof the chambers, or the numblest of -- <{ -buttoaa/ ? much more than! theyl Should' ;trouble iisiwiti)) their remajrks; ;■: -^ Biit-servile venvy, tat Bii)wn'S promotion, and v perhaps somewhat of .the' too (Bojfionjon- English ; prejudice, against; Bo!crtfthmen who have made their way .in: our (iountry, .has.cprn.binedi to, rend^y hip small share ofßoyalfayor.a point fpr.tiie stupidest.ancl ; ..njpßf exaggwa^d hotice.— Echo. " '