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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 151, 27 June 1874, Page 2

The Wyandotte (Michigan) Courier says: — A young lady of Trenton Village, of considerable physical strength, is the heroine of a wrestling match which look place a few days ago. While purchasing some goods of a dashing young clerk she made some remark that implied doubts of his muscular ability, and was promptly challenged to a trial of strength. The 'young lady accepted the banter and stepped out into the street, and was followod by the clerk, who did not believe that the challenged party was in earoeßt. The moment the young man cleared the sidewalk he was grasped by the lady, and a vigorous tussle followed. In defence the clerk exerted all his strength,

but was thrown to the ground, where, with his head in chancery, he got his face nicely washed with saow. The affair attracted a crowd of uenrly 100 persons. This statement is accurately true, but by request the nam9S ore withheld.

A man nam.d Hawthorne died suddenly at ISeechwortb, Victoria, u few days Bince. According to the landlady of (he hotel where he wng s'aying, "deceased had called at (he house on his way to England ten weeks and ihree days previously, having received some money to take him there, and £4,000 left him at Home." It was arranged that he should remain in the houfle, paying £l a week for his bonrd, the account to be settled when he left. the score for drinks to be paid "as he went along." The landlord a surcd (he jury that he refused the man liquor '• scores of times," but from the account rendered by Mrs Bently, it appears that exactly 200 drinks a week were paid for, which establishes wilhin a fraction his average of 30 a day for- lho whole time he was drinking himself to death. Miss Elizabeth Stewart Phelps, authoress of ' Gates Ajar,' wrote in the New York Independent: — '« For myself I confess f hat I never feel thoroughly ashamed of being a woman, except in gluncing over a large promiscuous assembly, and contrasting the simplicity, solidity, elegance, and good sense of a man's apparel, with the affectation, the flimsiness, the tawdriness. the ugliness, and the imbecility of a woman's. For her mental and moral deficiencies my heaU is filled with a great compassion aud prompt excuse. Over her physical inferiority I mourn, not as one without hope. When I consider the pass to which she has brought the one Bole science of which she is supposed to be yet mistress, my heart misgives me down to (he roots of every hope I cherish for her."