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Lyttelton Times, Volume LVII, Issue 6505, 2 January 1882, Page 6

A German mouse-catcher, who has made Greenwood Cemetery hie hunting ground, ha* trapped and killed within the last fire years not less than 25,000 ohipmonks, moles and other animals in that city of the dead. J. A. Foorman, of Pawpaw, Tan Buren County, U.S., and bis two children, ate pan* cakes, on Nor. 8, which had been mixed with arsenic, which bad been mistaken for baking powder. Foorman has since died, and it is said that the children cannot rsoover. A recent visitor to Longfellow says that the poet is not so white from ago as his portraits represent him. His hair and beard have dark lines, and his moustache has a tawny amber shade of the varnished chestnut of youth. His blue eyes are bright and his cheeks ruddy. At Hoosio Falls, N.T., on Oot. 19, the head of an unknown man was found at the end of the railway bridge. (There was blood on the line. A search was made and the body was found in the river with one hand and one leg missing. It is believed that the man was murdered and placed upon the track. The village of She-toasha, near Woozung (China), was swept away by a recent typhoon. Of three hundred families, about one half saved themselves by taking to hastily constructed rafts, which ultimately reached the district of Sbeunsha, where the men landed and proceeded to plunder and rob in the most systematic manner.