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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2113, 6 October 1885, Page 2

OonstanceKent, lyhose trial for Roat} murder soirie 20 years ago caused no libtlo sensation, lias just been liberated (says' a London contemporary) on an a ticket of leave, " Good conduct" in prison is the only reason given for this extraordinary step, which is calculated to inajrire all murderers who have escaped the gallowa with hopes of liberty. It is rather more than 25 years ago since the whole country was startled by the peculiar atrocity of the Road murder. On the night of June 29, 18b0, Francis Kent, a child four years old, was taken his bed, savagely killed, and the boijy thrust into a closet, The sister', Con'atanoe, and the nurse, Elizabeth Gough, were first suspected; but for want of evidence they were soon discharged, Then the tradegy ' remained hidden in mystery for five long years, when it was suddenly brought into notice again'by Constance Kent's confession jn a ]ipn]e at Brighton, This fas on April 25, 1865, and % prisoners took place at Salisbury on July 21 following, Having pleaded " Guilty, " she was condemned to death by Mr Justice Willis but a week later the sentence was commuted to penal servitude for live. Now, after a typae qf twenty yeartj, Constates Kent becomes a free woman at the age qf forty-one. To tlje aboyo may be addetj /' that the unfortunate woman is the daugh- 1 ter of a natural son of the Duko of Kent, father of the Queen. AYermpii^])iiflbaiiiigqt lyiifcj «f tho proposed elopement of his wife, and frustrated it by keeping guard over her silk.dress, She wouldn't run away in a calico gown, and he knew It. "What can you say of the second law of thought ?" Student; "It cannot both bo and not be. Pot' example, the qyqr there must' either be" shut' or open. It cannot be both shut and open." Tutor: "Give anqther illustration," Student-:' " Well, take case o,f the other.door, Jim Johnson and Tom Richer, of Union .Point, wont fishin? a few c(ays ago, but in a short time theip bait gaye and they had caught no'fish.' 'They scuffled around and found a large'black ' bug and hitched him to the gable end of their hook. Then they Bat down, both holding to the pole, and patiently Wflitfifl to catch a wliak, but got no bjte. Finally they concluded to examine their-baiji. Tq their astonishment the bug was much larger than when they put him on. the hook, so they cut him open, and found that ho liad been Ming himself, and had caught and swallowed half a, domL minnows. The young men looked apfißk other in silent disgust, • It ISA TRITE AND MOBTY PROVERB, but.a sound ono, that "good wine needs.no bush, so "excellence is its own reward.". Tlie immense sales that have been made, and, the enormous quantities that have ■ been : used, prove that Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps needßno laudatory tributes. Iu all eases of kidney affections, ; inflammation of the bladder, dyspepsia, indigestion, heart-bi|rn,_ flatulejioy, gravel, and gout, .it is simply a'miraculous eyre,' " 1 Good Wobds—ityoM Good Aothoehy * * * We confess that we are perfectly amazed at the run of your American Hop Bitters. We never had anything like jt, and never heard of the like. The writer (Benton) has been selling . drugs here nearly thirty years, and lias seen the rise of Hochstetter's "Vinegar and all 0%? bitters and patent medicines, but never did any of them, in their best dayi, begin tohavothe run that American Bitten have. * * We can't get enough of < thorn, We are out.of them half the time, * > Extract from letter t;o Hop Bitters -Co,, U.S.A., August 22,' '7B, from Benton, Myers & ■ C 0.,. ~^diMe3draggiib(: Cleveland, 0, Be'Bnre and seii'" ,v