GENERAL NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3347, 13 September 1879, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS.

| The centra! shaft of the crane to lift the three-ton granite blocks for the Eddystone Lighthouse has been placed in the socket prepared for it in the rock. It was 28 feet long, and 16 inches in diameter! and weighs three tons. At Manchester an inquest was held on the body of a female named Annie Spencer, and evidence was given showing that death was in a great measure due to her having used a hair-dye, for the purpose of turning her black hair into a golden hue. A novelty in racing is -announced to come off shortly at Newport, Rhode Island. Two divers will walk a certain distance under water,-towing their own boats, which will, contain only one man each, whose duty it will be to supply air to those below. A submarine race, one would hare supposed, would be lacking in interest to any but a submarine audience. The work of pacifying Russia goec bravely on. A batch of some 600 convicts has just sailed from Odessa for Saeghalien, the new penal settlement, in Japanese waters. These,,. however, were not all political offenders. One gentleman in th© company had accomplished no fewer than 49 murders. A regiment of Chtcagoan Volunteers, rejoicing in the name of the Bohemian Sharpshooters, having quarrelled with the populace, charged them with fixed bayonets, killing one man and wounding many. The whole of the Volunteers are in custody on a charge of murder. The piercing of the St. Gothard tunnel will probably be completed about the end of November. On the Ariolo side the workmen have reached a point 1281 metres from the centre of the mountain, while the works on the Gpschenen side are only 649 metres from the centre. The junction of the two galleries will, therefore, probably be made some 300 metres from the centre on the, sou them side. Sir Patrick Colquhoun, an English Queen's counsel, baa delivered a lecture before the Royal Society of Literature, to prove that William Shakespeare did not write the plays which bear his name, bat that he was an imposter who cozzened men more gifted than he, as Greene and Peale, out of their plays pocketed , the proceeds, and retired to live on the gains^ leaving the playrights whom he robbed to live in penury. . . A youth in this town was sent home by his mother with a basket of clean clothes., that she had washed for a customer. The boy met a dog that didn't appear to have anything to do, so he set down -his Joa d—andjirj t h_a_a trio jr -ti«d_it-t^-4ho-dog's tail, then started him with a pin.' The boy was half an hour gathering up the soiled.things, but his mother wasn't any time at all getting him over her knee and starling a pair of blisters.