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Grey River Argus, Volume XI, Issue 999, 9 October 1871, Page 3

HOME AND FOREIGN NOTES.

'■; Alexander Lovet, a French Canadian, residing with his family on Navy Island, and Edward Bogardus, of Chippewa, in attempting to cross to Navy Island, were carried over Niagara Falls. On Friday their boat was found below the Falls ; their bodies were not yetr found. Lovet leaves a wife and three children..

; There has been very warm weather in San Joaquin County. Atone village the mercury stood, one day, at 190 degrees in the sun. It was attempted to ascertain li6w higb. it would be in the shade, but .every man who stood up to make a shade was sun-strnck, and the observations had to be abandoned. One citizen was in possession of an old stable-door that cast a fine shadow, but he refused to loan it, because he was using it to keep his whiskey from boiling. • A gentleman who was calmly spreading his youngest child on a piece of bread, remarked that he had a tub which would do to turn over the thermometer, if anybody would lend him something to pour his wife into. The Son Joaquin Valley has the finest climate in the world.

The following bit of fashionable scandal is related by the London correspondent of the Duvriee Advertiser:—" A curious story is in circulation with regard to the relations of the Marquis of Lome and the Princess Louise with the other members of the Royal Family. I believe that at the Duke of Sutherland's banquet to the Russian Grand Duke now in this country, the Marquis and Princess were treated as members of the Royal Family. The Prince of Wales, however, will not accept this view of the position, and at the State Ball the other night, gave notice that the J^arquia should not be admitted at the Royal entrance.- He was accordingly refused admittance, and the Princess declined to enter except with her husband, saying that her place was where he was. rhe.Marquis would not take the Princess in by the general public entrance, and the result was that they did not attend the ball. The circumstance has. caused a good deal of talk in the upper circles." The sensational case, the death of Mr and Mrs Feast, or Preston, of Hford, has ended in an open verdict. This man, a cashier on the Great Eastern Railway, recently received a legacy, and being a hard drinker, went in for a debauch. His wife was a hard drinker too, and after the house had been closed for a week it was entered, and the man found dead with his head smashed in,, and the wife dying and drunk. Two little children, one a girl of ten, called in the neighborhood worn her intelligence " the little housekeeper, 1 ' either could not, or would not givs any information, and it is supposed, on a very incoherent statement by the woman, that Feast smashed his head against the fender or a knob in the bed. His money was gone, however, and there is still a mystery about the case, though seems clear that the wife, who was bedridden, could not have killed the husbatid, and that the children did not. The wife just before dying volunteered the statement that they ofteu spent thirty shillings a day in drink, say at least five bottles of brandy, a statement which will be credited only by physicians who, have come across true dipsomania. $he .s<&£. cs,- we imagine, cdu'H quote cases much qdpre a^toyndip^ than thaj , "