NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2572, 5 April 1877, Page 2

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

(compiled from. Ho^.jrjpr^jLKi). AMBBICAN PAPBBS.y

Queen Victoria has.' conferred' the Order of the Garter oh her -eldest grandson, Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, who on Jan. 27 attained his majority'by completing his eighteenth year. Lord Odo Bussell, -accompanied by the military attach'iS, General Walker, and 'by the : First Secretary, Mr Dering, proceeded to the Crown Prince's palace, and was there received in state by the officials of the court. By Her Majesty's special command Lord Odo liussell presented the insignia of the Garter to the Crown Prince, who was entrusted Vitti thelduty of the investiture, whioh took jpUcvjf . the state saloon in-.the..presence of thY royal family and household. Great gratification^ felt in Berlin both by th^ royal family and the public at this unexpected mark of the Queen of England's regard. - The Crown Prince remarked during the ceremony that this was the first occasion on : whi^h three members of one family ,had possessed .the .Garter, at one and the same time. „ r '\ '• V".' ■/-.'} , „ A case of unusual .interest iSi^accprding the San Francisco NewsLetter, about to come.before the law court* of ,'tb.atKcity. An action.for damages has.' heeii brought against the, proprietor of tfce^lforamam Baths under .very distressing circum*. stances. The plaintiff, who was an officer, had the misfortune at the battle of Gettysburg to receive a sabre-cut across the face, which deprived, him of a considerable portion o£ lv's I nose. . The loss at first appeared to be irreparable > but the ; woundeji hejro -was taken in hand by an eminent and skilful Parisian artist,,,who so successfully restored the nose to lifelike proportions that little or no trace could bo discovered by a casual observer of the glorious scar. In the .composition, of. the artificial organ rubber and gum were used,'and the;n6se- - maker either forgot or, did, nqt think it necessary "to warn the ribse^rayer against a temperature of _ISS deg. Fahrenhit. The plaintiff, therefore, without giving the matter a thought, took a,Xurkish bath in San Francisqo * and pri-lppkingihjawar-ror, after a long bake in the'hottest room, was horrified to.find that his npse.w%s .so blistered, bulged, puckered, anushapeless as to be worse than no nose at all. It was impossible to detach' -the .artificial section,,and the plaintiff ; will becompelled to go to Paris to have the nose' repaired. But «U this .will oosfe money, whicKhecan ill afford, and he accordingly sues the proprietor of the bath- /ojr. the : oompentation to which, rightly or wronglyi'. he conceives himself entittedn;^ fJ: ., , .<; At the Swaffham Quarter Sessions a few days ago James" Stagg, fifty-three, sfconcdresser, was charged with obtaining ; £s'from Sophia Bead, a labourer's Mfc, by false pretences, at Watton.■'. The prosecutrix's daughter being very ill, the prisoner undertook to cure her by means of a charm. On his first visit he put a peculiar looking leaf on,her hand and repeated somestrange^ordi/; The girl had saved £5 out of Jherjrages, and the mother, at her request, gave, the money to Stagg, with a number^ or eathenware "chimney ornaments,"'which he asked for. He returned a few days afterwards, but, as her daughter, was very weak, Mrs Bead refused to allow him to see her. Three weeks afterwards—on Aug. 12— the young wpman dj*d<: The prisoner, in defence, said "he" had *be&n sent to the house by a man in the neighbourhood, and that he had^jon several, occasions cured persons who had been given up bj doctors. He was sentenced to two years'. „ imprisonment. • •'."' r \;-,: } . :- 4 tr* \

HARD DRINKING^tf. ENGLAND. A singular instance of the power of absorbing liquor was lately brought to light at a London Police Court. Three Britons and a son of France drank at a single sitting two champagne-cups, nine bottles of champagne, thirty Jargfe Juid-thirty-flfven small classes of brandy, twenty-one bottles of sodaf&tia'a~ single: bditlelof very old brandy, and they smoked twenty-fire choice cigars. On the day following the same jovial party again assembled and drank Nineteen large and jtlnrty-two small glasses of brandy, one bottle of old brandy, one bottle of. Ohablis, sixbottlM ; of. champagne, and as many champagne-cups. Numerous cigars weresiaoked oa this occasion but no inventry was taken thereof. The object of this joyous sacrifice to Bacchus, twice repeated, was asserted to hare been a conspiracy on the part jq£ithree of the , revellers to obtain tie signature of the fourth to a bill of-exchange for £5000. The bill appears to have been signed and put into circulation, and hence the proceedings before- the LoadoaJ?pJice^Qpurt. The signer of the .bill, a certain £c Hunt Doyle/is:tHepoßaeßj«ro£;£3ooo per annum, and it came-out in evidence that on^^^ of the coospira(brs;had declared-hiscinten?"^ tion of sackiDff^ifc «il ottt «f/tb» harddrinking Doylevi servant -of.; Poyle stated,that his .master was'mewr tober, andjjliat'ai soda as! he had ilepfe off the effects' of a drinking bout he Would o«U for a " split "—that is, sodil-w>t«r2*»d brandy —and cojnmenced his bityojous practices. Thejcircumstanceiglwor&;r]pnjr»rjttoe as testifying to the fact that 46^ Itce of hard drinkers in Grsat'Brr^i^^aOT .yet extinct. • \y s :..- vri^HMjiuJi ' . .