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Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2190, 22 July 1886, Page 3

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Vhi.ncu TuiAii vok Muunuu. — A trial of a nun for muideiing a traveller in a railway *iain li.is just Won concluded at the Seine et Marne As-i/es at Molun. A coachman named Mennier loft Paris for Tioye.s in October by the last night train, and was noun after seen alhe. His body was found seven weeks after wauls in a pit n«it far fioin the railway, with a handkerchief tied tightly round the neck and the pockets rifled. Lt has now been pio\ed on the, tii.il that a man named HMiodoie Andre nmrdeied the deceased, threw him out of the carriage, jumped out after him, and wheeled his body in a bauow to the spot where it was found. One curious point about the ciinie was the way in which it was dis(«o\eied. Andte was in piison for sonuMithei ci nne, and was under suspicion of being a lailway thiet, when two gentlemen whn had been lobbed identi'ied him a* the robber. This caused him to be sniveled of tht> minder, and his mi-tress on being que-tioned identiiied the handketehief that w.is tied lound the tnuidoiod man's neck a.s Andie's. Andie's nnstiess and Ins sister were chained with being accessoi'cs with participat on in othei thefts. The man was found f;u"ty, with extenuating cncuinstances ; .1*1(1 sentence d to penal servitude for life, the nn-tiess was sentenced to three ye^is' imprisonment, the third prisoner was acquittal. A>. AmhucvX SiX'l'.— Fioni New York is announced the death of Air John Humphrey Noye-, foundei i»f the Oneida Free Love community, in Madison county, New York. He had led a chequered career. Horn at Battleborough, Vermont, in 1811, ho graduated at 1) irtmouth College, and began the study of law. A gieat leligious revival winch broke out in Vermont, however, drew him within its influence, and, abandoning all other prospect-, ho entered Yale College to study theology. Jn 1833 he became a Congregational preacher, but soon afterwards imbibed the ideas of the Peifectionists. He advocated a return to community of goods, together with peculiar views on the marriage question. His license to preach being withdi awn, he proceeded to establish a sect ot his own and to found a, colony at Putney, Vermont. He •nanied a strong sympathiser with his \iews, Harriet Holton ; but the citizens of Putney forcibly broke up the infant settlement. Noyes and his followers then retired to a secluded spot in Madison county, establishing themselves there in the year 1847. The company cairicd out tlvar religious and social \ iews, and acquired in course of time 600 acres, of land. They also amassed a valuable property, estimated at •5500,000. The Fiee Love ideas became obnoxious, however, to the rest of the community, and, to avoid the legal suppression of his sect, Noyes advised the organisation to give up complex marriages, which was done. But Noyes adhered to his dochines in theory to the last, though ho confessed the woild was not upe for them. Discovkky of Old Coins.— A discovery of great antiquarian intuest was made in Aberdeen bv a number of labourers excavating in Ross's-court, one of the oldest parts ot the city. Three feet under the surface the labourers came upon a large bion/c urn failed to the biim with silver money. The number of coins was about l."), 000, and they aio m excellent preservation. They are all English money of tha ieigns of Edwaid I, and Edward LL, and .no supposed by antiquaiies to have been p.ut ot the booty seemed during one of the raids* into England dm mg the 13theentniv. L(Uio Woi.sklicy a.M) niicßr. \ck Waich. —A public meeting, pi esided over by Sir Donald dime, M.P., was recently held in Aboifek'y to pr nnote the election of a memoiial to the Black Watch upon the spot m that neiahbomhood wheie the regiment was fir-t embodied. Su I>. Cuuie having called the attention of Loid WoKeley to this movement, h.is leceived fioin him the fiillowing letter: — "Dear Sir Donald Cuirie,--T am veiy glad to learn from your letter that a memoual in honour of the Black Watch is to be elected m your n<;ighbonihood. Scotland, and indeed the Empire generally, could not do too much for a corps that has dore so much to build up and pre-eive the unity of the greit Enipne mled over by our (\hieen. When in action with the Royal Highlanders one need take no tumble about the part of the held where they am engaged, for I have always then realised that what men could do they would accomplish. Officer-, .uid men woik together with an entire and mutual confidence in one another that insures success. Whenever T go on active sei vice I always try to have this splendid regiment with me, because I cm rely upon it?\t all times and under all ciicnmst.ince^. Whuevei T ee the led hackle of the Black Watch. I feel 1 have theie not only good fiieiul-, but also staunch comrades who will standby me to the- last. Perthslme has go-id reason to be pumd of its regiment, for it is without any doubt one of the finest that has evei worn the Royal unif.nin. Veiv tmly vow*, WorsEM-A'. Sir Donald Carrie, K.C.M.U., M.IV Forkk.v f'n kh rs pox n r\ rs tv Evc;i.\\i>. —A coiiespondent teletuaphs fiom Vienna, May 2l> . — "The London correspondent of the Ne ;e Freie Piesst? calls attention today in waim terms) to the exclusion of foreign newspaper coi respondents from the House of Commons, in pursuance ot the rule" made in the time of the dynamite outrages. As there is much soreiu-ss on this subject amontr Continental jouiualists, it becomes almost the duty of those who have, experiences of the unvai \, ing courtesy with which newspaper con espondentsaie treated in this countiy to express a hope that some reciprocity will be extended to our colleagues of the foreign Press in Londen. It must be said, too, that such a mark of fairness and good will is particularly due to the gentleman who with so much ability represents in London the leading journal of Austria." Devizes Castle. — Devizes Castle, which will shortly be sold by Messrs Debenham, Tevvson, Farmer, and Bridge, water, is a place of no slight historical interest. The original structure (of which there are very considerable parts remainin?) was built by Roger, Bishop of Salisbury, iti the leign of Henry 1., and was reputed the most formidable fortress in England. The castle was for some time occupied by the Empress Matilda, and in 1149 passed into the hands uf the Crown, and was given as dower to the wives of kings. In the reign of Henry 11. , the castle and lordship of Devizes foimed one of the most important grants in the monarch's bestowal, and enjoyed all the immunities of x Royal property. Leland, speaking of the castle, which he visited in the tune of Henry VIII., say*:— "Theie is a castle on the south-west side of the town, stately advanced upon high ground, defended partly by natuie and paitly with the dyke", whereof we cast up a slope, and that of a great height, to the defence of the wall. This castle was made in Hemy I.'s reign by one Rogeis, Bishop of X ilisbury, Councillor and Treasurer of the King; such a piece of castle \vork_ was neveVbefoic nor since set up by any Bishop of England. The keep, or donjon of it, set upon a hill cast up by hand, is a piece of work of incredible cost. There appear in the gate of it six oi seven places for portcullises, and much goodly building was in it. It is now a ruin, and paitof the front of the toweis of the gate of the keep, and of the chapel of it, were earned full unprofitably to the building of Mastei Bayntun's house, at Bioinham, scant thiee miles off," the remains of the ancient castle have been carefully pieser ved and lostored wheie practicable, and the piesent residence it a good modem example of an ancient feudal castle. A Son ok N\rou:o:, I. -Aecoidmg to the San Fi.mcisco Woild a son of Napoleon I. has just been buiied in the Lone Mountain Cemetery of that city. The World says that his mother was an English housekeeper sent to the pii-oii at St. Helena, wheie the Empeior had a son b> her after the Enipeioi's death. She leturned to London, where she mairicd a watchmaker nanied (ioidon, who adopted the child, and brought him up to the watchmaking trade. When he leached the age of 2~j, GordonBonaparte, as he called himself, enngiated to the United States and settled at New London (Connecticut), wheie he did veiy well, and gradually acquhed a certain amount of political influence. He also became connected with the Pres-, and wiote several articles for the, Norwich Bulletin and the New London Star. Of late yeais he liad lived in letiremeut at San Francisco, and it was theie that he died last month. (Jordon-Bonapaite boie a striking resemblance to his putative fathei, and he was tJmi very intelligent in business iu.itte'is He was veiy lesuived and taciturn, lively -peaking of his illusions origin except when under the, influence of drink, but when in that sUte he would not allow anyone to que-4m<i his claim to be the son of the gieatCorsican.

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