TELEGRAMS

Temuka Leader, Issue 805, 24 December 1881, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

ENGLISH AND FOB IMG N. Lonpon, Dec. 19. A proclamation has been issued by the Irish Executive declaring the Ladies "Land L'-ague to be an ilk-gal organisation . InteHiugence is to hand from Africa th t a false prophet who had collected 2600 Negro fanatics in the Soudan, has massacred 300 Egyptian troops. Undated. Viscount Boyle, eldest son of Earl Shannon, and a L-eutenant attached to the 3rd Battalion of the Prince Consort’s Own (Rifle Brigade), now stationed in Ireland, is reported missing j from the garrison of Dublin. Great j uneasiness is felt at his inexplicable j disappearance. j New Yo];k. D-c. 20. I Intelligence has been received here i regarding the Arctic exploring vessel, j Jeannette, Nous to hand is to the | efiect that she was crushed by ice in j June Inst, and was abandoned, the j officers and crow tailing to the boats, j Uue boat load was rescued In' the i natives on the Siberian coast, and were j forward re, to Irkutsk, it! Siberia ; arm | Ihcr boat reached the mouth of the Lena, j and its crew was suff-ring fearfully ; the ' - ■ i oMkt boat, is missing, and it is feared i all who were on board have perished. j LEVANTED WITH THE CORN i DOCTOR. j “ i 'iiroani was thrown into r state of excite- { ment last Wednesday, by the spreading of the j news that a young lady —who for some time j past, has been breaking hearts and dispensing nobbier* ” oyer an hotel bar—bad levanted with the “ Great Indian Corn Doctor.” The young ladv in question came to Turmrn about j six months ago. and since then has been using ;

every effoi". and st-raining every nerve to accumulate a husband. Immediately that she

saw a man. no irrtter whether old or young.

paying her anv attention, she pounced upon him and. asked him to marry her. As cheap sale advertisements say. no reasonable offer would be refused, bur though she bad many worshippers at her shrine, she found no one readv to accept- the responsility of taking her for better or for worse. The Great Indian Corn Doctor came all the wav from New \ork City, dressed up in a most gorg-ous Indian Costun-i—an extremely unprepossessing looking insignificant individual, nearly as dark as a negro, and slightly over five feet in height. Re p voder! the streets in a carriage drawn by four horse?, surrounded himself with all possible eclat, operate?! on corn? in in his carriage in the street, and after bis day’s work was done, went in to refresh himself at the shrine where this fair Priestess of Bacchus officiated. The fair Robe is prepossessing m appearanee. and of course the doctor in that free-and-easy way so peculiar to the penpathetic species 0 f mankind, expressed his admiration for her. Undaunted by the frequency with which she had been previously refused, the young lady proposed to her new admirer in the ordinary wry. and ho not chary of responsible? accepted her offer. This occurred after ten o'clock at night, and at eleven o’clock she gave notice to her employer that she would leave bv the oudy train nest mbrning. Remonstrance p-oved useless. Next morning herself and the docto- proceeded south by enrlv train, and they have not. been beard of since.