MISCELLANEOUS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 93, 20 November 1869, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS.

tVb have "heard of men killing themselves'ftfc'loye/ We have liear'd of anen exterminating themselves for fihame of being husbands of eloped wives. But it has remained for a Hungarian to add to the literature of suicide the MexamplecT statistic of a man who MUed himself, not because his wife was false ? not because she was cold, not because she would not give him any children, or because she gave v him too many,- but because she was too stout. A shopkeeper at Pesth, Avith a troublesome name having shaved and dressed himself one morning, blew out his brains. Hardly was he a corpse, when in rushed a friend bearing a missive from him, just received, and ran thus :— " My dear friend, — I have de.cided to kill myself to-morrow. I^ife is unsupportable. I adore my wife, but she nas grown so stout — she that •was of so ravishing a figure when - 1 married her. Adieu, my friend; tell my wife that I prefer to die, rather than be unfaithful to her, or to separate myself from her by means of the ■law. Farewell, and pity me." A FESfifS" Dispute. — An amusing Fenian suit is now going on in If ew J York ' In the heyday of the brother- j hood in 1865^ a deposit of 20,000 dols. \ in gold was, made with August Belmont' and Co., Hew York bankers, " in j trust for the Fenian Brotherhood." j Now Sundry Fenians want to get possession of it ; but the bankers refuse to give it up, and the ease has got into the Courts. The famous " Head.-Cen- j -tre John O'Mahony," after many months passed in obscurity, has emerged to the surface, and appeal's as a claimant, representing himself as his own .counsel. He had a receiver, named Barr, appointed by the Superior Court, gave the nscessary sureties, and .demanded the funds of Belmont and .Co., but th,ey did not interpret "in trust for the Fenian Brotherhood" to mean paying over to the deposed " Head Centre," and came into* Court acknowledging possession of the funds, but refusing to deliver them. Thus t\e matter stands now. A Lady CowHiDisra a Bakman — The " New York Herald " reports :— I' At a late hour last evening, Pennsylvania Avenue was the scene of a cowhiding affair, which has been the talk pf the town to-day. It appears that a married man, who is a bar-tender in .one of the restaurants, has been paying attention to a young lady of unknown to her parents. "When the another of the young woman became aware of the intimacy between them, and learned that the man was married, she endeavoured to dissuade her daughter from keeping company ,wi,th him. This seemed to have no .effect upon the daughter, and, finally, at eleven o'clock yesterday she fled from home. The mother, suspecting that her daughter had been enticed away by the gay Lothario, after waiting in vain for their return, proceeded late last night to the man's place of fljj-usiness. She was armed with a new "powhide, and accompanied by her sister. Finding her victim in front of the restaurant, she enquired about her daughter's whereabouts. The man denied all knowledge of her, and coolly laughed at the old lady. Thereupon, producing the cowhide, she struck him a vigorous blow across the face, and followed it up with numerous repetitions well directed. In the meantime her sister attacked him from the rear, pounding him on the back and head with her fists in a style that would have been creditable to a veteran of the prize-ring. After the first two or three cuts the gay deceiver set up a howl which soon attracted a crowd. "When the cause pf the attack was aspertained, the sympathies of the bystanders were all with the women, and thejjr seemed to enjoy the fun. The yietim finally got away, and ran as if for his life, the . two women pursuing him in his retreat. He brought up at rear entrance to the restaurant at which' he is employed, but, unfortunately for him, found the door locked. The women were upon Mm again in an instant, and the irate mother applied £he cowhide with renewed • vigour. After receiving a thorough castigation he, succeeded in -beating a retreat,' though he did not retire in good order, and left his hat upon the field. A policeman arrived' at this juncture and arrested the women, who were fined two dollars by a magistrate, after which they took their departure amid the plaudits, of the Crowd." A sebiqus charge is impending over a Sheffield sausage-maker, named Hiller. Inspector Wood, on Saturday, found onjihis premises, ' apparently about to be converted into sausages, a quantity of horse flesh, thoroughly unfit for human food. ■ It had been purchased from John Young, of Pond Street, who, in fact, gave the police their information. The- magistrates ordered the meat 'to, be destroyed, but as Hnler. was not present, he has had no opportunity of giving his version of the case. The charge against him was accordingly adjourned. HpllowayX;, Pilkf— Magte^y ' over. Disease.:— . There is a constant tendency in. the human body to pass from strength to weakness unless ?ome means be adopted to"c6unterac,t the "wear and tear," and other deteriorating influences. Hqlloways. Pills reSect^ this ' admirably : ,they accompluh all th'e'inost'eatacting invalid can require;;; ;As alteratives ihey jegS^te the stqmach and rous^ the liver ; as purifiers %iay improve ! the bloodls quality ; as aperients they'pwanote perißJaltid action, and as tonics they invigerafev the : 'nervoW system. — They have" blessed with health thousands previously blasted by' disease. 11l alliCasea the . indigestion, palpateiion, pers- . piraiaon, headaches, heartburn and functional ©bstructiony sufferers have Holloway's Pills as a resource to^fall back upon, which will never disappoint thrir most'Hinguine hopes.