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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 162, 12 April 1872, Page 5

The Murder of Yoekey, Miller'sFlat.—We notice in a Bendigo paper that a man named Thomas Hayes was brought "before the City Police Court and charged, on his own confession, with the murder of Yorkey, at MillerV Flat-,: in this; Province, in the year 1863. The magistrate seems to-have dealt ina very off hand way with the matter, as • instead of making further enquiries, he discharged Hayes, after his explaining' that when under the influence of drink he was in the habit of making all sorts of ridiculous statements. A very different course was pursued under similar circumstances by a London magistrate, who remanded a prisoner from- time totime until the authorities in Melbourne could be communicated with, the result being that the man was convicted and 1 executed. It is, we supposed by some persons in town that theconvict Fratson is undergoing, punishment for the crime of which Hayes accused himself. Such however, is not the ease, Pratson was convicted of themurder of Mr Andrew Wilson, at the Molyneux, in July, 1862, while the murderer of i orkey has- never yet been discovered. The uafortunate Job Johnston was tried for the offence, but acquitted on the clearest possible evidence. v

Naphtha —The Philadelphia Ledger states that naphtha has recently been use I in Russia as fuel on board steamboats, and it is stated the engine worked, as well as if coal had been employed, while the amount of naphtha required was much smaller. It is asserted that twenty pounds of naphtha will produce as much heat as forty pounds of coal. Naphtha is found in large quantities in< the regions of the Caucasus, where it is sold very cheap. This class of fuel, it is reported, will be used on the railroads running through the districts bordering on the Caucasus, and on the steam* boats plying on the Volga. The coming man—Jack Frost.

An Irish schoolmaster advertises that he " will keep a Sunday-school twice a week—Tuesdays and Saturdays" A California jury, in a suicide case, lately, found the following verdict :—• "We, the jury, find that the deceased was a fool.'

An Irishman, writing from Philadelphia to a friend in the old country, concluded his lettelr thus 'lf iver it's me forchune to live till I dy—and Grod nose whether it is so or not—-I'll visit ouid Ireland afore I leave PhilWdelphy.'