The Pontypridd Chronicle and Workman's News

THE perils of the deep are emphasised in a peculiarly painful manner by the information which cornea to hand this week. Four steamers apparently well equipped and most skilfully captained, have been lost at sea, and in one instance the captain and five of the crew have likewise perished. The most singular case, however, is that of the foundering of the Oregon, a Cunard Line passenger steamer, en- gaged in a weekly express service between liverpool and New York. In the early hours of Sunday, when the sea was calm and the sky clear, this powerful steamer with a living freight of 850 men, women, and children, was trun into, and sank off Fire Island, within fifteen aniles of shore. At such a time, and in such circumstances—a hole being made in the side of the vessel large enough to admit a team of horses -8 panic of the most serious nature would have occasioned little wonder but we learn that the discipline was admirable, and panic was prevented. A worse fate befell the vessel which ran into her. She sank, and all on hoard are believed to have perished. From different points of the compast comes the news of other wrecks. One steamer was run down by a man-of-war, another struck a rock, and a third, driven from her course by stress of weather, struck a reef and broke in two, the captain and five of the crew being engulphed in the raging main. A fall of snow is sufficient to set the inhabitants of large towns grum- bling all the day long, but what are our mis- fortunes and perils compared with those whose life is on the ocean wave.

THEY have their little society" scandals in Am«r>ca, it seems, as in every other civilised coawjtry. Whlat would life be worth to one half the people who enjoy it if they were not fur- Bisbed occasionally with some tit-bit to discuss selection from the sins of the other half ? Wash- ington tea is just now usually served up with the story of Professor H.'s wife's shawl. It was a valuable article of camels' hair, and Pi-ofesso* H. gave 600 dols. for it in Yurrup." silich a lovely garment was, of course, the flight of its fortunate possessor, and the wonder, not to say the envy, of her friends. Kecwwtly Mrs. H. went to a reception at a fashionable house, aod, at the end of the fes- tivities made for her shawl. It was gone. Immediately afterwards, however, Mrs. H. saw a dame of high degree in Washington sailing gramlly past in a shawl of wonderful likeness to tier own, .anI.! boldly accosted her. Excuse ine, m&dun, but I think you are wearing my *haw5.w An indignant denial was the response bat Mrs. ^i-otcssor H.j -who is a strong-minded woman *ur>dy,^persisted, and demanded that -thfr 'shawl Hh<mld be searched for the initials R. J. H. marked on. tape, and stitched in the «>n tre. Here was a fine dramatic situation, the denouement of which was that the initials were found and the representative of one of the Wuttsjt blooded faipilias in New England stood a co uy it ted thief There is, after all, a lot of human nature in man," and its peculiar development in women is an overweeuing pre- ^iie«t«m for her neighbours' finery. ¡

ME. RICHARD BKLT has net been so success. ful in iindicating his character for honesty as he was some tune ago in vindicating his capa- bilities as an artist. After a searching enquiry, »xteiidmg over three days, he has been found guilty of iraud aud lienteoced to 12 months' imprisonment Aa to the justice of the sen- tence, there is no ground for complaint. Apart powtion of the accused, and the jM> i,ety. o which his previous litigation him, there in little in tbe circumstances •f the case to take it out 0f th9 category of tommon-jJawj fraud Sir William Abody appears to have l^eo a guileless, unsuspicious gentleman, wita plenty of money and a pen- ^anif>n<i3. Mr. Belt under- t°ok to st^ply h'm.and obtained sums auiouot- Is ^fehases. It really was the <^d question of over-stepping the bounds honest trading, if Mr Belt had sold the diamonds at a fair price, and without any mis- representations as to their nature he might not have made much profit on them but he would not have incurred a sentence cf 12 months' im- pnsomnent B4t he preferred tori>k the results obtain bigl)rojjtaQU tjie transactions tola the un^nspticung purcjja3er fabricated aci.-o«ais about tbe diamonds to an extent •arhieh«iearly-carried him out of the legitimate wownce^ tbe middleman of buying in the cfceftMrtami selling i„ the dearest ma6rket. It clrarir shown that the diamonds were not iotsJ"^ but had been prdcured from j^w-noroKers and silversmiths at a much lower pr.ee Uwu* Air. Beit obtained for them—the total prous on the transactions being upwards -)tL It is impossible to conceive a •tore &r< ,r«od on the one hand or greater SoiUv twi tu<i irtaer. It furnishes another proof the amotsut of sagacity which oftCD =*—1 „

NEWS IN BRIEF. Cork *>»'> Jary voted £ 1,000 toward* iM'l wtriiil School of Fishery at ft* giving practical education in ailing w»a liberated from Leices- «..r seven dnys' imprisonment r Jus child vaccinated. He was 8y»»lM»tlii8ers, who passed a,*??**•»*le*"5" ll,« Acts. 1 Eliza Greaves, aged 75, *ur5,* t0 Rt I-eicester. Slio i,&r ,lre\8 ^d at the fire. She to death. W*MO.B! T-F«>R iWw»rds of forty years water- lZ ^rUtrr' haS C01Unlilted suiclda ?ever:i' provincial jtapers t*' »'" mr ^>e 1S shunned or avoii'etf at ai^Vmarked maimer is absolutely uu- f f t ■«!?* f,sdU!1,etl towards him ia rather wue of strict in'ntomjjy '!•<> oi ^ja3 j Qf Yelverloft, l»«ve bowt fou,|d iu the canal, locked in ««M.h o!lier*» a*.■. TJiejr j)a(1 been t() |iberale a *1K* by the canal, when, as they »kiiu £ aloug, ice broke, anil they were Smuggled diamonds to the value of 2,000 dols., were seized in Chicago recently. Lord Randolph Churchill's son is much better, and going on in all respects favourably. Major Clayton, the chief constable of Carnarvon* shire, has died after a brief illness. Comic opjra performances are to bo given at I Norwich, N. V., for the benefit of a local cemetery fund. A case of cholera has been reported among the French crews engaged in the Shannon mackerel lisliing. A bushel of corn is bought by the distillers for thirty cents., somebody figures out, and sold for about 40 dols. 50 cents to the drinkers. A plucky tifteen-year-old girl grasped the bridle of a runaway horse in Sacramento the other day, and quickly brought the animal to a standstill. The Earl of lddesleigh has consented to preside at the ninety-seventh anniversary of the lioyal Literary Fund, to be held at Willis's ltooms, on "Wednesday, May 5. A Berlin correspondent telegraphs that Dr. Leo- pold Zung, the first of German scholars of Ancient Jewish literature, has died at the age of ninety-two. Missouri is btginning to claim a greater pre- valence of temperance titan in Maine or Iowa, and that education and suasion beat prohibition in accomplishing the result. The light between Bridgeport and Norwalk for county buildings still wages actively, and the former city has now voted to appropriate any sum necessary to get them. A Berlin correspondent says that the celebrated poet, Victor iSchetlel, aged sixty, is lying danger- ouslv iil with dropsy, and that his recovery is regarded as scarcely possible. The Emperor of Germany has given his consent to the proposal to ere -t a monument to the cele- brated poet Lessing in t.u Thiergarten, at Berlin, not far from ti e Goetiu: Monument The Dutch Ministry has undertaken to introduce into the Chamber a measure for preventing the adulteration of food, and especially the sale of artifi- cial bulter, theso-catied "margarine." A plan is utt foot for opening, under the auspices of a united society of Italian winegrowers, establish- ments tor the wholesale and retail sale of wines in London, New York, and Buenos Ayres. The Agricultural Departments of the Privy Coun- cil ofticially notified that the exportation of sheep and swine from Hamburg has been prohibited owing to the existence of foot-and-mouth disease. A bill exempting from taxation church property, private schools, and charitable institutions, of a value of five thousand dollars or less, has been passed by the Legislature of Washington Territory. Atheists, who have no standing in court in Con- necticut, are to be allowed hereafter, should a bill reported by the Judiciary Committee be passed, to make affirmation instead of taking the usual oath. At the half-yearly meeting of the North British Railway Company the Chairman said the large de- crease in the receipts showed the great extent of the de pressio n of trade. He stated that the Tay Bridge would be completed early next year. It is stated that the works in connection with the Elham Valley Railway, between Canterbury and Shorncl iffe, are to be pushed forward, in order that it may be opened during the season of the Folkestone Art Treasures Exhibition. At the age of ninety-five years, and in destitu- tion, there died at Hed Bank, N.J., a few days ago a woman who was very wealthy before the war, and is said to have been a central figure in Washington society during President Buchanan's administra- tion. An attempt to counteract a failing of street-clean- ing contractors is being made in Brooklyn, where an order has been issued commanding" that all dirt must be removed on the day upon which it M scrapped to gether, and not left to be blown away by the wind." It is stated that the Maryport and Carlisle Rail- way Company and the Cleator Moor and the Work- ington Junction Railway Company have signed an agree inent, which terminates a dispute which has exist ed between them for some time, by a compro- misc. A memorial portrait of the late Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, by Mr. Herkomer, lias been pre- sented by Lady Williams Wynn to the Ruabon Working Men's Association and Literary Institute, of which the late baronet was president for tvreiuy- one years. William Ludwig has made his dehnt in the American Opera Company at New York, in the Flying Dutchman." fie met with a cordial and flattering reception, and is warmly praised by critics for his artistic singing and accurate conception of the character. Statements from Portsmouth show the speed at which our dockyards work. The Trafalgar, double- turrent ship, is to be "completed" in is!)o--tilat is she will probably he ready at that time to receive her guns, and m ay be kept waiting for another year or two. The Caiiiperdowu is to b" "completed" ill I8ss. A discussion going on in Boston as to who is the oldest living member of the Masonic fraternity in New England has b rought forth the names of several who have belonged to the order for more than half a century, among them David McDauiels, of Morris- town, Vt., who joined in 1«12, when hew as twenty- one years old. town, Vt., who joined in 1«12, when he was twenty- one years old. Japanese labour is supp lanting Chinese in parts of Honolulu, where the other week a single steamer lauded D.!S ".Japs," who are to take the of all ecpial number of Chinamen, according to a treaty of immigation ratified in advance by the Japanese Foreign .Minister, under special instructions from the Emperor. The body of a farmer named Humphreys Lewis, aged seventy-one, has been discovered in a snow. drift on the Beddycoed-wr Mountain, Merioneth- shire. It appears the aged gentleman was crossing the sheep walk to Brynygarth when he fell into a snowdrift and perished. He appears to have struggle d greatly to free himself. An aged resident of New Milford, Conn., broke the tendon of his leg the other day, making the thirteenth time he has suffered bodily injury, to wif, thigh broken twice, collar-bone broken once, ribs broken twice, right hand broken once, ankle broken once, hip put out of joint, boues fractured twice, and both shoulders put out. At the Guildhall Police Court, F. K. Gregson, formerly assistant ma ltag-or of tire London branch «of the Commercial Balik of Scotland, now described as a cabdriver, has been committed for trial on charges of embezzlement and of having falsified the books of the bank by omitting material particulars. Speaking at a Church defence meeting at Tiver. too, the Bishop of Exeter expressed his belief that, glorious as had been the past of the Church of England, her future would be ntightior and more glorious still. He deprecated Disestablishment as being calculated to cripple her energies, and likened the position of those who persistently assaulted her to that of Paul before 1118 conversion. At Dewsbury, Mr. John Tennant, an auctioneer and large property ow ner, has been fined £:W, with the option of three months' imprisonment, for letting some of his house property for immoral pur- poses. It was shown that the houses were of the worst possible character, and Tennant's knowledge of the use to which they were put was proved to the magistrates' satisfaction. The l.un.ton School Board has had presented to them a report as to the cost of the ship Shafies- bury and the Brentwood Industrial School, and has adopted a reconin eada tion to the effect that it would not be advisable to discontinue either of these establishments. The consideration of a report of a establishments. The consideration of a report of a special committee as to the cost of the legal work of the Board was postponed. At an early liour the other morning a large por- tion of the wall of theXorth\Vharf,the principal load- ing quay in tlieSouthampton Docks,fell in with a loud crasii, but as the dock staff had not commenced work no olle was injured. The disaster, which will take many thousands of pounds to repair, will cause considerable illCOII venicllce to the Dock Company. It is believed by some that the wall fell owing to over-dredging. An ins lance of heroism of the noblest character has just happened at Barbidge, near Nantwicli, Clu ster. A young woman's dress caught fire, and she rushed into the road enveloped in flames. Her cries atlracted the attention of a man who lives III a neighbouring cottage. Seeing the terrible danger of the girl he seized her in his arms, carried her some distance to th0 Shropshire Union Canal, and although he could not swim leaped into the water with her. Both the man and the girl sank, but happily some olher men ran to the banks, and when they rose to the surface dragged them out. The poor girl lies in a critical and terrible-injured and unconscious condition. The nuiu himself is badly burnt about the face and arms, aud is receiving, medical attention. ) The Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, who has baen ill a long time, died on Monday, at Norfolk House, St. James's Square, London. Lord Frederick Hamilton, M.P., is at present confined to his bed with bronchitis, and is to3 unwell to attend to any matters of business. The deaths are announced of Mdlle. Henriette Dor, the celebrated Parisian opera dancer; and of the sterling French comedian, M. Parrot. Lady Milton, relict of the late Viscount Milton, the heir to the Fitzwilliani estates, has died at Torquay, inflammation of the lungs being the cause of death. Among the passengers on board the Cunard LinE steamer Aurania, which has arrived at Queenstowii from New York, was Mr. Thomas Sutherland, M.P. Lord Carrington, Governor of New South Wales, has appointed Lieutenant E. W. Wallington, 3rd Battalion Oxford Light Infantry, to be his private secretary. The Duchess of Edinburgh and the Duke of Conuatight and suite witnessed the performance of "The Man with Three Wives "at the Criterion Theatre on Saturday evening. The Westborough New Connexion Chapel, Dews- bury, which was erected nine years ago at a cost of over £ 5,000 has been destroyed by fire. The build- ing was insured. It is staled 011 good authority that it is the intention of the Queen, if possible, to favour the city of Liver- pool with her presence Ït1 the month of May. The iast visit her Majesty paid to Liverpool was in l,s.l. The Bishop of London has appointed the Rev. J. F. lvitto, the rector of St. Dunstan's, Stepney, to the important and valuable living of St. Martin-in-the- Fields, in the room of the late Prebendary Hum- phrey. At Canterbury, Henry Scott, farmer, and cattle salesman, was fined £ 10 and costs for allowing fifty sheep, which were affected with contagious disease, to stray on to a field that was insufficiently fenced. Two hundred boys from Dr. Barnardo's institutions lef ton Thursday for Canada, under the personal care of Mr. A. B. Owen, of Dr. Barnardo's Distributing llome, Peterborough, Ontario, and three experi- enced assistants. The French Theatre of Tunis was opened in pre- sence of all the French civil and military authorities. This playhouse, which is intended to be an instru- ment for propagating the French language, is heavily subventioned. It was reported to the Pontefract magistrates that a mad dog had been destroyed. The magistrates instructed the police to make further enquiries, and report next week. In a letter addressed to the Roman Catholic Bishop of Nottingham, Mr. Edwin tie Lisle, a member of that church residing within his lordship's diocese, states his intention to found a Primrose League Habitation, notwithstanding the episcopal prohibition recently published. The King of the Belgians has consented to receive a deputation, composed of the Mayor of Folkestone (Mr. J. Banks), Mr. Somers Vine and other gentle- men, to arrange for an exhibit of objects of art from Belgium at the National Art Treasures Exhibition at Folkestone. A correspondent writes The Girton girls have proved faithless of Mr." Browning. They have for- mally dissolved their Browning Society, and not only voted that the balance of funds in hand should be spent in chocolates, but have actually bought the chocolates and eaten them." The Captains' Good-service Pension, worth £ 150 a year, void by the promotion of Captain George Lydiard Sulivan to the rank of Rear-Admiral, has been awarded to Captain Nathaniel Bowden-Smith. in command of her Majesty's ship Britannia, training ship for naval cadets at Dartmouth. By the mail from Jamaica, we learn that the Duke of Sutherland's yacht Sans Peur.with his grace and pilrty on board, has been placed in quarantine at Port lioyal, yellow fever having been contracted 011 board at Colon. There were four cases, one 01 of them a bad one. Saturday evening was the anniversary of the pro- ductionof "The Magistrate at the Court Theatre, Loudon. In the history of the theatre no piece has ever before run here for a clear twelve month. The Magistrate" is about to be withdrawn to make way for a nuW facicul comedy by Mr. Pinero. Screwing-up," as practised at the universities is not, as is generally imagined, a process involving a screwdriver and a number of screws. Large «im lets are used by a number of willing handstand then the tops are knocked off. This playful amuse- ment is costly, as a door once screwed up is not easily unscrewed again. The three-act whimsicality Kenilworth" reached its 100th representation at the Avenue Theatre 011 Saturday night, the event being signalised by some changes in the comic action calculated to make the piece still more laughable, and by the assignment to Mr. Arthur Roberts of another new song paro- dying a familiar sentimental ditty. At Parkgate, an inquest has been held on the body of Ada Hamilton, aged twelve years, who has been missing from her home since January m last, and which was found in the canal near Roundwood Colliery Wharf. A verdict of "Committed suicide whilst in a state of temporary insanity "was re- turned. Mr. J. B. Johnstone, the oldest actor on the London stage, and the author of about 200 dramas, has just completed his eigttty-third year, having been born on March 10, 1803. It may be remem- bered that on the eightieth anniversary of his birth he was presented with a congratulatory address and a purse of sovereigns at the Princess's Theatre. Robert Yates, the driver of the Hyndlands train, which was in collision with the Balloch train on the Clyde Underground Railway, has been brought be- fore Sheriff Balfour, at Glasgow, and examined privately. It is stated that the driver on emerging from the tunnet eouid not see before him, owing to smoke and steam. Hence the collision. The Council of the Royal Society for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to Animals have passed a resolution tendering most cordial thanks to Lieutenant- Colonel Sir E. Y. W. Henderson for "his invariably court- eous and greatly valued support of the objects and operations of this society since his appointment, sixteen years ago, as Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police." At Bow Street Police Court, London, John Broome, of Tufnell Park Road, Upper Holloway Road. has been committed for trial on a charge of obtaining from the Guardians of the Poor of the parish of Islington an order for the payment of JEo5 by inserting false entries relating the births in his capacity as registrar of births, deaths, and marriages for the Eastern District, Upper Holloway. Princess Christain bas, presided at a dinner given at the Windsor Guildhall, to upwards of a hundred men out of work, the Mayor, clergy, and ladies' Committee assisting in.serving the quests. Since the inauguration by her Royal Highness of the series of free dinners, about 3,00) children and un- employed men have been provided with substantial meals during the recent severe weather. A Boulogne correspondent writes :-At the Pas- de-Cnlais Assizes a young mall named Benjamin Louis llcnin has been sentenced to four years' ini- prisonnient for forging orders on the Exchequer. He was employed fnTthe'liegist-ar's office at the Bou- logne Law Courts, and his system was to draw up orders for the pitymentof the expenses of imaginary witnesses, and to pocket the suuis payable under those orders. An extraordinary robbery is reported fro III Mal- pas, Glamorganshire. It appears that ILIl engineer named Turner, of that town, paid a visit to the old Brecon Bank at Cardiff for the purpose of cashing cheques to the value of CL13. On returning from the bank he called at the Cambrian Hotel, where he remained some time with a friend, and was there robbed of all he possessed. A man named William Sheppard has been arrested and remanded before the magistrates. III an action brought against Mr. Lewis Simmons to recover the value of goods improperly seized at Shepherd's Bush under a bill of sale, Mr. Ilarou liuddlestoii strongly denounced the steps taken by the defendant to enforce his rights, his agent liav- ing obtained entrance upon the premises by break- ing a pane of glass ami opening the window, a course which a landlord, with far greater power, was not entitle,1 to pursue. The jury found a verdict against the defendant for £ :)0. The two gold medals founded by the late Sir Gil- bert Blane, to be conferred on tw ) medical offic ers of the Royal Navy who shall have delivered into otiice journals evincing the most distinguished proofs of skiil, diligence, humanity, and learning in the exercise of their professional dlllie.s while in medical charge of ships, have b.-en awarded, by the Director- General of thu Medical Department of the Navy, jointly with the presidents of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, to Fleet Surgeon Heury S-oit Lander and Surgeuu Miles O'CunneU M'Swin, THE TRAGEDY IN VICTORIA. The Pall Mall Gazette says:—Ten days ago it waa stated, on tlio authority of the South Australian Register and the Melbourne Argus, that the Tragedy at Coburg, in Victoria, in which a mother and her daughters attempted to commit suicide, was due to their perusal of the 6. Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon." The statement was to the effect that "further information gleaned from the confession of the girl, and from statements made by the brother I elicited the fact that since reading the statements I in the Pall Mall Gazette about the seduction of I young girls three of the Misses Hampton had been labouring under the hallucination that some people were endeavouring to drug and ruin them." We remarked at the time that, if true, this was but one I of the unavoidable consequences of sounding any alarm, social, religious, or moral. It seems, how- ever, that it is not true. This morning we received the following telegram from the Daily Telegraph of Mclbourne:-Tlae medical attendant of the Hamp- tons has published a letter, in which he stated that the actors in the Coburg tragedy had never seeu the Full Mall Ga zette exposures. |

M. PASTEUR'S RUSSIAN PATIENTS. M. PASTEUR'S RUSSIAN PATIENTS. I The Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph writes: I have been with M. Pasteur at the Hotel I Dieu to see the Russian patients. The woman who I had given cause for uneasiness was going 011 well. She is the sweetest tempered being imaginable, and because of her charmingly expressive face and very fair skin has a kind of beauty which triumphs over prominent cheek bones, and the disfigurement of the upper lip, in which there is a triangular chasm so wide at the base as to render it impossible for it to be sewn up. One of the four men, Peter Ivano £ f, was a cause of uneasiness. He seems threatened with erysipelas. This man is the only one of the Russians at the Hotel Dieu whose face is not dreadfully multilated, but his hand was gnawed. It and his arm form a continuous sore. The other three -were asleep when we entered the ward, on being awakened sat up with alacrity, and apologised for having been dozing. Une of themes without a nose or eye- brows. Another has lost a whole upper lip. He is a priest, and is unable to eat. The third has lost half of his upper and under lip, and the fourth the upper part of his left cheek. They are all injured in the hands, arms, and body. M. Pasteur, when I was repeating to him the symptoms which the Irish- man Garvey described to me, and which he said he began to feel after he had been three weeks bitten, but which he did not feel to-day, said they were the creations of a nervous state of mind. Garvey' he looked upon as safe, whether inoculated or not, because he was bitten through thick trousers and a thick stocking. Terror of rabies often broke down the nervous system,and induced symptoms mistaken sometimes for rabies. During incubation there were never bad symptoms until tile-disease burst out like a tempest.

IN AN ATLANTIC CYCLONE. A passenger by the Celtic, dating from Nan- tucket Island, 1st March, says « We started from Queenstown with a head wind, which in ten hours increased to a full gale, and has varied from a gale to a hurricane till this moment; and a few nights ago we were struck by a cyclone, which lasted 100 seconds, which, apart from the danger, was the most awfully grand sight I ever saw. The howliug of an ordinary gn}e in the rigging, and the roaring of the sea at its worst, was a whisper to the turmoil. No tongue could describe its magnificence. When it struck us (at night, yp.111.), I rushed out of the smoke-room, without any object except to get free. Two more followed but we had to hold ourselves down, or we should have been lifted off our feet and blown away. One officer was lifted off the bridge and entangled in the rigging—saving his life. The sight was one to strike terror iuto anyone. I was dazed and amazed, and could not think. Bereft of every sense but that of grasp with the fingers, what occurred I could not tell; but in a minute all was quiet and calm, and the sea as calm as glass, and not a sound to be heard except the dying roar of the cyclone as it disappeared. The silence was as deadening as the 'roar, and I staggered into the smoke-room, and I never saw so many white faces. The different aspects of fear and paralysis werd in some cases ridiculous. How wo escaped utter smash it is impossible to say. Suffice that we came out of it all well. The discipline on board these ships is like iron. Only one man lost his head, and blew the whistle; but not a man stirred from his post. It was only to wait and watch. Skill could effect nothing. There is no doubt that for lot) seconds -50 human lives and £ 500.000 wore hanging ill the balance. Soon aft -r we steamed out of the cyclone's track, and entered the same gale as before; and up till now, without a cessation, it has Idown and stormed. I believe the Celtic would sail with her feet in the air. and make a go >d time. The pilot bailie Oil board all hour ago, and it was beautiful to see the frail cockle-shell leave the pilot boat and come to the ship. It disappeared from sight for seconds, and 250 people said, Uh oh oh and then the little thii.g would be heaved high up on a wave, and dash down into a valley enough to make you dizzy to look at. We got him aboard at last all right, and a big cheer went up. He then wrung lIle frozen water out of his hair, and went below. The ship looked lovely—ice from keel to truck. She looks in the sunlight like a fairy ship. I fear we are going to have another bad night; but thank goodness it is the last, and it will be all over by a &ow, to-morrow.

A MYSTERIOUS CASE. At the "Wandsworth Police Court, Alice Amelia Tharby, a servant, surrendered to her bail to answer the charge of attempting to poison Mrs. Rose Hannah Darling, a widow, by placing some tincture of opium and chloroform in her tea and milk.—Mrs. Darling had been staying with her daughter, the wife of Dr. Horace Bayfield, who re- sided at Somers Villas, Lavender Hill, Battersea, during her illness, and attending to her household duties. On the 20th ult. the prisoner, who was on# | of the servants, served up some tea in the dining- room. Mrs. Darling drank some, but immediately put down the cup in consequence of the disagreeable taste of the tea. Dr. Bayfield subsequently ex- amined the tea, and came to the conclusion that it contained tincture of opium. He also examined the milk in the jug and fouttd that it contained chloro- form. Information was given to the police leading to the apprehension of the prisoner. Mr. Batchelor, who prosecuted for the Treasury, said from the en- 'I quiries that had been made there did not appear to he any motive for the act. There was one impor- tant point in the case. Theteahadbeenanalysed by Dr. Dupre, who stated that there was not lau- danum in it. There was morphia, andhetraceda minute quantity of maconic acid. In addition, there was some alcohol. The preparation was not of the kind which Dr. Bayfield had in his surgery. Dr. Dupre also examined the milk and found chloroform in it. On the tth iust., a bottle containing a small portion of tincture of laudanum was found in the surgery. As it was previously searched the bottle must have been put there by some one after the pri- soner was in custody. Enquiries had been made about the characters of the servants. It was found that the prisoner had borne an unimpeachable char- acter. The enquiries about the other were not so satisfactory.-—Dr. Bayfield said 011 one occasion lie saw the other servant Emily Vass at the surgery door, but she ran away when she saw him. On the fith just., he was removing some dirty bottles, and found one which contained laudanum. He pickeil up the bott!e, as it was one which he did not use. He did not use the bottle for laudanum. After the prisoner was locked up he and Ur. Jones examined the surgery, hut the bottle was not there.—Cross- examined: The prisoner always bore a good chamc- ter. He considered that it would be his absolute duty to reinstate lier; but he discltargedEinity YIlSS, He did not order the prisoner into custody on the contrary,his opinion was ill the opposite direc- tion.—Mr. Paget again remanded the prisoner, and enlarged the bail, for Mr. Brown to cross-examine Mrs. Darling and some of the other witnesses.

A revolver in a glass case, surrounded by pictures of beasts and surmounted by the motto "Fay or pray," aids a Nebraska photographer 111 conduct- ing his busiu.'ss on the cash plan. A remarkable case of longevity is reported from the Caucasus —that of a shepherd who has just died at the great age of 121, an l was in full possession of his faculties to the last. While shunting at Staines Junction one of the [ railway employes, named White, was accidentally killed, several trucks passing over and shockingly mutilating him. i Benjamin Evans, the Cardiff labourer irl-ig le charged with having caused the death of his child by neglecting to provide her witli sufficient food, has beeu committed to the next assizes. j -I \<

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