MISCELLANEOUS

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 18, 9 January 1863, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS

Homum/e Murder near Cirencester. — A. barbarous murder was committed at the pleasant village of Rendcombe, about four mites from Cirencesf.er, on the Cheltenham road, the victim being a young woman, named Sarah Moss, and the murderer a man named Wm. Mealing, who was engaged to be married to her. The murderer is about 26 or 27 years of age, and is an agricultural laborer. On Saturday week the parties quarrelled, and Mealing returned to his father's house, where he stayed until Thursday, the night of the murder. On Thursday evening he went back to Moss' 6, where he lived, and his mother and other persons present. A reconciliation apparently took place, andlMealing and his victim went to bed, her child sleeping in the same room. About three o'clock on Friday morning, however, Mealing went to the house of Timothy Tarrart, the village blacksmith, who is also the parish constable, and, having aroused him, informed him him he has killed a woman. Tarrant at first was incredulous, but at length he went to Moss's cottage, and there he found it was _ too true, the poor woman being quite dead, with her throat cut and her child crying as if it could realise the dreadful facts of the case. The body of the ill-fated woman was lying on the left side, with t,he arms crossed, and the throat literally cut from ear to ear. The bed was saturated with ! her blood, which was running through the floor into the room below. From the calm and tranquil appearance of the body, ard the absence of blood on her hands, it would seem that the murder was suddenly committed' while she was asleep. The prisoner, after murdering the poor woman, robbed her of her purse and money. This money consisting of six sovereigns, one half sovereign, a threepenny piece, and three pennyworth of coppers, he gave to his mother. Zarah Moss, the unfortunate victim of this dreadful crirae, was about 32 years of age. The murderer, is a tall, thin young man, with a stupid expression oficounte'nancc and ungainly appearance, and

with the stooping gait peculiar to men' of his class. His father and mother are laborers in the same parish, and bear a respectable character. — T&ngU-sh ymper. Currant Jelly. — A correspondent sends tho "Family Herald tho following easy and expeditious receipt for making current jolly: — One pound of white sugar to one pint of juice. Boil the juice by itself for five minutes ; meantime heat the sugar hot in tho oven ; theft add tlie sugar to the juice, and let them boil together one minute, and tho process is accomplished. When Admiral Cockburn, who accompanied the array, and attended General Ross, was in the wood when the latter fell, ho observed an American rifleman taking aim at him from behind a tree. .Instead of turning aside, or discharging a pistol lit. the fellow, as any other man would have done, the brave old admiral, doubling his fist, shook it at his enemy, and cried aloud — " Oh, you Yankee, I'll give it you ! " upon which tho man dropped his musket in the greatest alarm, and took to his heels Yorkshire all Over. — A lad from Yorkshire entered a public-house where a gentleman was making a breakfast of eggs. After eyeing the gentleman a few moments, he asked, ' Please, zur, would you please to gi' me a pinch of salt?' ' Certainly, my lad,' he answered ; ' bufc what can you wish for a pinch of salt ? ' ' Woy, zur,' said the lad, • I thought you mayhap might ask me to havo an egg.' Struck with the boy's ingenious mode of supplying himself, the gentleman handed him an egg, askiner, ' Where do you come from, my lad? ' ' Era. Yorkshire, zur.'