A DRY SHAVE AND THE RESULT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1443, 30 July 1883, Page 2

A DRY SHAVE AND THE RESULT.

The suit of Gox against Eayser, brought against the Superintendant of the House of Correction for cutting off the plaintiff's whiskers, the plaintiff having been a prisoner, was ordered for a re-trial at* Kutland recently. This case is achieving notoriety, having been already tried by two juries, who returned heavy verdicts for the plaintiff. Cox was fined for selling liquor, and was committed till the fine should be paid. By law he had twenty-four hours to pay the fine; if not paid then imprisonment followed. Cox declared he would not pay, and agreed to waive his privilege of waiting twenty-fourhours before his imprisonment should begin, The first ceremony with a committed prisoner is tonsorial. Cox had a heavy red beard of some dozen years' growth, and when he saw the barber's chair he changed his mind, and waited till next day to raise the money and pay up. f Thfl sub-keeper, in whose hands he i was, told him it was too late, hitu into a chair, and had him'shave3\ dry without first cutting the beard with' shears. Next day Cox took cold, and came rather near dying. The doctors swore it was caused by the shaving. The Judges held that the officers had no right to shave him till the twentyfour hours were up, and both juries gave him rousing big verdicts; but each time ] there was some informality in the trial, and now the poor fellow has got to go it all over again.-'Springfield Republican. 1

Writing of Mr Henry Eussell, the well, known composer, and singer of ; hia own songs thirty years ago, a London journal saysA ghust of the past, Henry Bussell, still walks London. How many people who heard him upwards of a quarter of a century ago singing, 1 A Life on the Ocean Wave,' and others of his own ditties r/ould suppose he is yet alive? But he ia, and very much so, beine one of heartiest and jollicat companions anywhere to be met with. What his age is no one is bold enough to guess, But as he sits at the piano and trolls forth some of his old songs or as he walks the streetß with upright figure and sprightly step, no one would take him i fo? more than sixty at the most; i He retiridj from his profession at a moderately early age, having made a_ substantial fortune,which he invested with more success tliau professional people usually do.' 'Since then he has lived a happy and contented life, residing for a considerable portion of the year at Boulogne, and sometimes at Rams gate. He is ttoW contant/to'liWihithe growing fame of his son, Clark Eusßell, who has lived part of 1 a life on the ocean wave' to some purpoßo."

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