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No. 4420. SEPTEMBER 10, 1877,] ·

List of Articles presented or lent to the City Hall Museum and Library, from Aug. Blat to 7th Sept., 1877-Parrot, by Ed. Stainfield, Esq.; Crab, from Japan, by W. H. Brereton, Esq.; Brake, by Lieut. W. Moyers, 28th Regt; 2 Vola. "Narrative

The defendants were all Identified as having been in gaol before. The 1st and 2nd defendants were sent to one month's hard. labour; the Brd 4th and 6th 14 days hard labour; and 5th defendant 7 days hard labour

A WOULD RE-AUICÍDE.

STEALING FLOWERS.

THE GELINA MAIL.

SAFETY VALVES.

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of the Edystone Lighthouse," and "Public-Kwan Atin, a coolie, wan charged with Works of Great Britain," presented by W. attempting to kill himself by taking oplum. He was found sitting down under the Wilson, Esq.; An Old Peking Plate, en Bridge at Wong-nei-choong. The defen- amelled, on stand, Kang Ming Drum, dent was dent to 4 days' hard labour. ancient bronze, more than 1,000 years old, ̧ Rhinocoros' Horn, carved, on stand, and 2 Shells of Mother-of-Pearl, engraved, on atand, Jent, by Messrs Sun Shing & Co.; An Old Stone Screen with 8 Gonil, on stand, 3 Red Lacquered, carved boxes, with covers, 2, Peking Plates, enamelled. Fanger. Fined $10, or one month's hard first mastered the details of its construction, much affected this morning on opening impulue into friction-but fails in the same

Wooden Lion, and 2 Earthen-ware Baskets, lent by Messrs You Sing & Co.; 2 Storks In brones, about 8 feet bigh, from Japan, Japanese Barthen-ware Snakegourd, and 1 Wooden Japanese House, lent by Mess Look Hing & Co.; an old fashioned Clock (lately the property of Pun Tiu Kwa) with silver mounting, and Pair of Peking Ware Vases on stand, lent by Messrs Achee & Co.

Lee Aping, a gardener, was charged with having in his possession some flowers stolen from the Public Gardens. He was employ ed an one of the gardeners and was caught by Wilson, a West Indian employed in the Surveyor General's Department as a forest

labour.

A passing allusion to Mr. Edison's tele- phone, recently invented also in the United not yet beon practically exhibited, nor, States, is all that is necessary, as it has in fact, completed in its details. It is founded upon a novel and ingenious princi- ple-that of the conversion of the electrio respect as its predecessors: it does not pro duce sounds which will be audible at a Re-distance.

an the plaintiff was concerned, a diferent distance. As a transmitting me (Mitchell's Maritime Register.) spect. The facts showed that the condust Gray employs an induction coil and The Official Inquiry into the cause of the of the defendant was very heartless, and ing spring-for each note. The our explosion on board the Sidonian (6) has there were incidents in the case which led sent by the vibrating contact spring throug disclosed the fact that the safety valve had her to trust him down to the very last. He the primary coil induce currents of high been tampered with, in order to prevent had a number of letters which were written potential in the secondary coil, which are the steam from blowing off at the pressure a long time ago, and which showed that the conveyed by the telegraph wire to the re- indicated in the Board of Trade certificate, parties commenced, at least with honour- coiving apparatus, and there converted into and to force the ship through the water at a able intentions. They were remarkable sounds corresponding to the number of greater spoed. Under Section 801 of the spistles, and showed how religion and love vibrations. An electro-magnet with a Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, every steam-fell in together, and gave a tone to the mind sounding-board superposed upon the cores ship of which a survey is required to be of the writer. The defendant began in the is the receiving instrument, and such a made must be provided with a safety valve tone, he was going to say, of the Prayer magnet and resonator are required for upon sách boller, so constructed as to be Book-"Dearly Beloved. He (Mr Sey- every received tono. out of the control of the Engineer when mour) was not surprised the letter began the steain is up. The key of the look is thus, for it was written on a Sunday oven supposed to be in the keeping of the Caping. The letter, which was dated April 3, talu; but the Surveyors are to see that the 1847, went on as follows:-

1 hope you have arrived safe and well, valves are fitted in an efficient manner. In no case is a Surveyor to give a declara and that you are in good health and spirits, tion for a spring-loaded valve unless he has as it leaves me at present. My dear, I was and tried Ita operation under full steam that which you gave mas on Sunday night and full firing, for at least twenty minutes, last. My heart was almost melted within with feeds and stop-valves shut off. Theme, when lot to my surprise.

I shall ever remember you, spring and valve must also be so cased that member me. it connot be tampered with. If the Board my love, and I hope we shall meet again of Trade Surveyors carry out their lustruc. as fresh as the lily of the valley and the tions, and Masters of ships do their duty rose in May doth appear.""

Whloh was the rose and which the llly, in seeing that everything is correct, and

If he the Engineers lift the valves occasionally he (Mr Seymour) did not know. when the steam is up, and attend to them were the rose, it left a sharp thorn behind, when in port, no such accident as that and gave her a very severe sting. Letter which happened to the boiler of H.M.S. continuing said :--- Thunderer could take place, nor should we have had to record the lamentable disaster on board the Sidonian. It would appear, however, that in the latter case the Master either directed the weighting of the valve, or authorised the Engineer to increase the pressure. The Sidonian left New York for Bristol on the 20th of April, and on the morn Li Chun Sau, servant, was sharged by Ing of the 29th the engines auddenly stopped. bla master, Choi Hoi Heong, an expectant The Second Engineer was then lu charge of officer of the Chinese Government, with the machinery department, and the Master stealing several plates of clothing from him, and Chief Engineer were immediately sent The defendant admitted the theft and pro- for, and quickly attended. The steam was duced several pawn-tickets for the articles.observed to blow off for about ten minutes, Four months hard labour.

AN INSANE MAN,

Wong Ayow, a boatman, had his case again brought up to-day. He was charged with being inenne, and was sent to the When the case was Chinose Hospital. called on to-day, a report was sent in by the manager of the Hospital stating that a relative of the defendant had faimed and taken him away to his home. The Magis trate cautioned the manager that in fature when any inan was placed in the Hospital by the Magistrate, he must be produced again at the Court for disposal manager said the man was sent away with the knowledge of the Acting Registrar General

LARGENY.

The

"Oh, only be faithful, upright, true, and chaste, and render unto me and I will render unte you, saith the Lord. Write me, love, and let the pea have its free course, as paper is very trifling. Your dear affectionate lover,

WK. BREARLEY." In the next letter he sang in a higher strain. He sighed

He

**Oh, that I had wings like a dore,

I would fly to the sims of my love, To take a kiss no aweetly." then wrote:

An Inquest was held this afternoon at the Government Civil Hospital by Mr Russell, Coroner, with Messrs J. P. Da Costa, G, 0. F. Bodatz and Wai Akwong as Jury, on the body of a male child named Luf Yung Kan, aged 7 months, who died of suffocation from swallowing a Lung-ngan, the stone of which stuck in ita gullet. It appears that the child was la charge of an Amah who took it over to a stall, opposite the house, kept by an old man of 82 years. The old man had a great fancy for the child and in response to its clamouring gave it

Lung-ngan fruit, the stone of which he with being drunk in the streak, but as he and one and a half for the third, Ne steam you alone."

▲ DESERTER.

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John Johnson, seaman belonging to the British abip James Shepherd, was again He was originally charged brought up

was apparently suffering from D. T., he was romanded till this day; meantime it was discovered that he had deserted from his ship.

Bis case was consequently sent down to the Harbour Master for disposal.

A LÁNY SEEVANT.

"I hope you are still content and in good spirits, for I am in excellent health and courage, and spirits as high as the heavens, for wonders never cease, and sorrow still decreaseth for prosperity amileth, and 1 hope you will give me an answer, for I shall meet Mary on Sunday night if it is left to

To England, and to a distinguished Eng. lish electrician and telegraphist, is due the credit of producinga tolophone which not on ly conveys sounds from a distance, but which can pick up a low and feable note at one and of a long wire and deliver it at the other and precisely the same in musical pitch, but ten or twenty times louder if necessary; 20 loud that it can be heard from all parts of one of the largest theatres in London with- out difficulty. In fact the English Tele- phone produces what the inventor not inaptly calls "musical thunder."

The German and Transatlantic tole. phonists have aimed only at reproducing at a distance the original sounds imparted to the transmitting portion of the instrument; but Mr. Cromwell Fleetwood Varley has not been satisfied with that result. Ha intensifies and magnifies the transmitted sounds at the received end miles away & hundredfold if required.

Although the telephonic apparatus now being nightly exhibited at the Queen's Theatre is in a somewhat infantile condi- tion and of crude manufacture, and in spite of some of the notes produced being occa- sionally rather rough, there can be no doubt that Mr. Varley's system is the most re markable scientific effort yet made in this direction.

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Hongkong Bank, 44 a 45% prom. Union Ins, Society of Canton, $800

hina Traders' Ins. Co., $2,000 Chinese Insurancs Co., 1263 Yangtare Ins. Association, Tis, 776 North China Ins. Co., TL, 860 H.K. Fire Ins. Co., $650 China Fire Ins. Co., $167 H.K. & W. Dock Co., 18 die. OI.K. O. & M. 8.-boat Co., 18 diu. Shanghai Steam Navigation, Tla. 80 Hongkong Gas Co., 876 Hongkong Hotel Co., $80 Chinese Imperial Loan, £108

Temperature. (Tukes, at Meurs Faisoner & Co.'s Premises,

Queen's Boad,) HONGKONG, September 10, 1877. BAROMETER 9 AM.....

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Shipping Intelligence.

The following is corrected from the latest London and Colonial Papers ;—

VESSELS TO ARRIVE. AT HONGKONG.

When left. Name.

5, Carrizal,

From. Kemarks.

Cardiff (Brent Feb.23 Sunderland v. 8'pere

New York

Cardiff for Canten Cardiff

forty miantes after which the explosion occurred. The Carpenter, in his evidence, stated that he saw the Chief Engineer and the Manter trying to start the engines, but that they only made two and a quatter turns for the first time, one and a half for the second,

The letter says that prosperity smiled on escaped subsequently to these trials. The

The Transmitter of Mr Varley's telephone did not extract. This caused the death of

bollers were made of three-quarter inch him. He (Mr Seymour) hoped that it did plates, and the maximum working pressure so still, and that he might be able to pay is composed of a series of tuning-forks, the child from suffocation. The Jury re

allowed by the Surveyor's certificate was 53 the damagen which might be found against each acting as the "make-and-break" of a lbs. The witnesses said that previous to him. (Laughter.) From this time down largo Rhunkorff coil. A powerful “ quanti turned a verdict of death from accident,

the mishap, the pressure was from 62 lbs. to to May last defendant frequently alluded ty" battery consisting of large carbon cells, but reprimanded both the Arab and the

67 lba, bat, in the opinion of the Engineers to his position with regard to the plaintiff with a special solution of bichromate of who examined the boiler on the arrival of in the presence of the members of her potash, combined with crystals of peroxyde old man, who, the Coroner remarked, had

Young Awai, obair-coolie to Major Thos probably seen three or four generations St. Clair, was charged by his master with the vessel at Bz tol, the pressure oxerted family, and had made her repeated promises of manganese, passes through the primary and ought to have had more common sense neglect of duty. The complainant went when the engines were not in motion must of marriage. Trusting in him she gave way helix, inducing a current in the secondary helix of very high potential, which is sent in the chair to the Evening Service yes have exceeded 100 lbs. To provide against to his entreaties, and in the year 1853 80 than to give an infant a fruit without ex-terday afternoon at the Cathedral, and the screw-valve breaking or getting out of far forgot herself as to become the mother along the connecting wire to the receiver. when he arrived there, he told the order, a spindle had been fixed on it, and of a childa daughter which was still A key-board, like that of a primitive piano, tracting ita stone.

chair-coolies to return home, as he intended weights equal to 54 lba, were chained near at alive, and which had been affiliated on the acts as the means by which the battery Ar the inquest held this afternoon, the to walk back. It was his usual rule to hand ready for use. The Court same to the defendant. Two or three years afterwards current is sent from each key to its corres Coroner took the occasion of a Chiness Juror have the chair at the foot of Morrison Hill conclusion that the explosion was due to these she gave birth to another daughter, whichponding tuning-fork and induction coil.

When the battery, cironit is thus closed to take him up to his residence on his dead-weights having been lowered on the was still living bat very delivate, and which being empanelled to ask whether he was not walking home, but yesterday he missed the levers, thus increasing the pressure from was also affiliated upon defendant. After by the pressure of a key, the tuning fork is of vibrations its size allows. Each of these one of the only two Chinese who were on the chair at the foot of the Bill. When he 53 lbs. to 107 lbe. The statement made to the birth of the children he continued to caused to vibrate according to the number got home he learnt that the defendant had the Court would seem to bear out this be extremely kind to the mother, and aa Jury List. Being replied to in the affirmarofused to walt, so he gave him into custody decision, for the boiler was not weak, and the children grew up he frequently asked vibrations is transformed into an electrical Feb. tive the Coroner observed that it did not It appeared from other evidence that the experts declared that nearly double the them to call him "father." He made them impulse sent from the coil-into the wire and

although the defendant was told by the Board of Trade presance must have been many presente, more or less liberal, and so to the receiver; thus, the fork pertaining Mar. speak well for the English speaking Chinese mistress to go to wait at the foot of the reached before the plate burst. The safety acted towards them in every way becoming to the lower o, which vibrates 250 times 17, D. McB, Park, in the Colony. We may, however, state Hill, he refused to do so, saying that valve on the superheater was likewise a man who intended to be joined in wed per second, yields the same number of Astrea,

Defendant ex- electrio pulsations at the receiving end. 19, Oygnus, that there are at present several English he bat waited too long already.The rigidly fixed by a bracket and screw placed look with their mother. speaking Chinese, besides those engaged in defendant stated that he did not refuse to there for the purpose. No one could be cused himself from not carrying out his The upper o would similarly givo 778 pul- 22, Birling, go, but he did not go because he had to produced who saw the weights placed upon repeated promises by saying that his fathersations electrically in the same time when 27, Fortuna,

the lever of the safety-valve, but the Court was living and wanted him to stay at home. pat into vibration by its key. professional pursuits and in the Govora-carry water. Fined $2.

said that, if the Master did not do it him. Some time in 1872 or 1878 he gave the enitable resonant receiving apparatus it will 3, Rota, ment service, who are well-qualified to sit

zeen that the induction currente 13, Vega, self, he was cognisant of its being done, or plaintiff a present of 60%, for her daughter, thus on the Jury both as regards their know-

sanctioned the sot. The penalty for placing The evening prior to his marriage with the can be converted into sounds, according to May any weight on the valves beyond the limits butcher's widow, he called upon plaintiff, the number per second separately delivered ledge of the English language and their

allowed, is any sum not exceeding 100%, made her a present of 501., and asked therein. The mode of reception employed position in life. We cau mention several

in addition to any other liabilities the whether his wishes with regard to the other by Mr. Varley is the most marvellous part offender may incur (Seo. 302) The Master, 50%. had been carried out. He never told of the invention. names which occur to us at the present

HONGKONO, Sept. 10, 1877.

therefore, who sets the law at defiance may her anything about his intended marriage, moment, and the only wonder is that they

SIR, Anodyne's letters, which have re-

be aned for damages to the ship or boller, and but led plaintiff to believe that he was have not been included in the Jury Lista contly appeared in your columns, are most the consequences of the violation of the making all this prevision with the view of The Master of making her his wife. On one occasion before. Mr Chun Kwan Yee is a large extraordinary productions. To many pen Statute may not end there.

ple they are quite unintelligible, and 1 holder of landed property here and be tremble to think of the shook to his mental the Sidonian, however, lost his life through when a remark was made about plaintiff's or vibration. A condenser of novel con- 26, Martha Jackson, reads and writes English-as well as some constitution, which must have boon the the injuries received by the steam that daughters, to the effect that they were struction, measuring 16in. by 20in, attached 26, Alexandra, of those who now sit on the Jure. result of the successive "clumsy obstetric escaped, and, whether he was innocent or sensitive about their position, the defendant to the parchment of a large shallow drum, 27, Kate Carnie,

operations," necessary to separate them guilty of endeavouring to get up a high replied, "What should they be ashamed brings this fundamental principle into 50, C. R. Bishop,

pressure merely to start the engines, or of? I mean to make them all right. As practical action. The electrical wave or 30, Cilarnum, There is again Mr Ho Amel, the from his perturbed intellect." In perusing other precautions were neglected, cannot soon as the old gaffer has gone we'll all live impulse forced into the condenser charges June

now be known. There were seven persons honourably and happy together." However, it, and causes the plate rapidly to distend 2, Marco Polo, ager of the On Tal Chiueso Insurance them, one is irresistibly reminded of offics; Mr Cheong Look-ii, the acting agent/Macaulay's famous criticism on Mr Robert in the engine-room when the rant in the he married the widow of a butcher on May and contract according to the polarity

4, Melbrak, Montgomery's poems. There are words

boller took place, and they were the Master, last.

of the charge. When this distension and 4, Faugh-a-Ballaugh, London contraction takes place, a zzouum is created 4, Rhuddlan Castle, Cuxhaven at each impulse which the air immediately 7, F'dinand Brumm, Portsmouth

9, Elmstone, rushes to fill, and in doing so produces the necessary atmospheric vibration, and causes | 11, Candidate, an approximate sound on the drum. With 13, Dartmouth, such a large vibrating surface, a consider. 14, Denbighshire, able volume of sound is propagated, and 14, Helicon, the power can be increased almost ad 17, Oneida,

Cardiff infinitum by an increase in the surface of 18, Henry Lippett, New York the condenser, and in the tension of the 19, City of Halifax, Cardiff

19, Lord of the Iales, London- This startling "miniature thunder" oan 21, Clara,

Penarth

man-

aro suffiolent to shew that English-speaking Chinese are not wanting in this Colony,

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1876. | 1877.

1877. 1876. | 1877.

CORRESPONDENCE.

WANTED-A KEY.

To the Editor of the "CHINA MẠn'

waters nader the earth.

Yes, thou art dear unto my heart, More dear than words can tell; And if a fault be cherished there,

'Tis loving thes too well

of the C. M. S. N. Company; Mr Leu Tak them which, when disposed in certain or the First, Second, and Third Engineers, Lydia Dixon, the platatfff, gave corrobor- Yii, the manager of the Yuen Fat Hong; ders and combinations, have made, and will two Firemen, and a Coal Trimmer. They ative evidence. She added that she receiv.

again make, very good letters." But, as Mr Chow Ping, the assistant manger of they now stand, they seem to be put to were all so badly scalded or internally ed a letter from the defendant to the

injured by the steam, that they succumbed following effect :-- the same firm; Mesars Woo Lin Tak and gether, on principle, in such a manner, as within a few hours after being brought on Remember, love, the night you left the Tang Shan Yes, members of the Yee Tak to give no image of anything in the heavene deck. Had any of the seven survived, they Adgill Grove for you only are the joy of Remember, love, the Hong. There are others, but perhaps than above, or in the earth beneath, or in the could have described what was actually my heart.

done during the Afty minutes that elapsed, hours wo have passed together. Excuse It is fair to presume however that, au from the time the engines ceased to work, my bad writing. Let neither falsehood nor you have published them, you have some till the lamentable casualty that caused the deceit abide in either. idea of their import, and it would be very death of all who were below. There is an gratifying to a conalderable number of your Interval not accounted for, and although readers if you would give a short summary the Court censured the conduct of those of the propositions the author wishes to

who acted imprudently and illegally, a state and defond

Verily, His Excellency and the Jesuita little more light thrown on the affair would-From's hazel grove I hate picked this

have been desirable. The practice of work flower." are most unfortunate in their champion, ing boilers beyond the authorised pressure Mr Seymour (tó plaintiff): What was They may well oxolaim, "Save us from is not general; but occasionally the valve is the flower enclosed 1

loaded by an extra weight when driving Plaintiff: Lad's love. (Laughter.) I am, &c.

with head to wind and a heavy sen on, or Other witnesses having been examined, in emergencies when it is deemed advisable Mr Waddy addressed the jury, who We have inserted "Anodyne's " letters and considered safe to exceed the crtificat altimately gave a verdict for the plaintiff not because we were impressed with thaired pressure per square inch. A ably, her damages,. 2001.

Crew, and cargo may, in given eventualities, argumentative valus-although perhaps be saved by risking an increase of pressure. they are not without their value as re- A Master would not sacrifice his ship in a markable arrangements of extraordinary gale of wind, and when in a dangerous position, from the fear of bursting the words and sentences-but because we are boilers. The urgency should be very of an instrument for the transmission of always willing to give a fair hearing all extreme, however, when the risk is in round. Having expressed opposite views surred. The Mdonian calamity should serve as a caution with respect to safety-valves, to those apparently held by "Anodyne," and Masters ought to reflect on the position we were under a double obligation to give in which they are placed, and their re-

sponsibilities to their employers and publicity to his letters.-ED. O M.]

othere concerned,

COMPARATIVE STATISTICS OF BENGAL OPIUM FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST.

MONTH OF AVAUST -

Taken by local consumers, ........................ 1250 Stock brought forward,............................... Imported,

Exported.

Stock on the Inst day of month...... 800

Range of Pric0, **2+-------+-

our friends."

Japan. (Gazette)

SIGMA,

With a Apr.

3, Staghound, 10, David, 11, Naworth, 12, Chandos, Sound of any kind is produced by agita. 13, Alatra, tion of this, atmosphere, the pitch or tone 16, Sophis, of the sound being determined by the 16, Meteor, amount or rats par second of this agitation 19, Melusion,

currents.

Antwerp

Cardiff

Hamburg

Liverpool

Antwerp

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Cardiff Melbourne Liverpool

Hamburg Penarth. Penarth Liverpool London Falmouth Penarth

Hamburg London

London

Cardiff

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for Amoy

be produced by an alteration in the transmit- 26, R. C. Rickners, London v. Newport ter, as well by a singer's voice as by the 28, Cuba,

Penarth performance of vibrating forks.

July

At present the notes are only produced 7, City of Limerick (8.), London at the distance of a few miles from the 10, Agamemnon (s.), Liverpool sending apparatus; but there seems no 10, Niagara, reason why the telegraph wire should not 11, Horsa, be extended from London to Liverpool, or 13, Jessie Jamieson, even Glasgow.

14, Abernytu, It is proper to mention that Mr. Varley's 18, Carl Ritter, telephone was patented on April 8th, 1870, 25, Globe, and is therefore prior to all other telephonic 80, Ferdinand, inventions except that of Reuss,

4, Berman, 9, Birchvalo, B, Naveatak Wear in the man yelling at "" asked a 14, Adolph, Dorsetshire farmer of his boy, "Why" 80, Hopewell, chuckled the urchin, he's-te's yelling at July

at the top of his voice ("

Cuxhaven Liverpool Cardiff Liverpool Cardiff Deal Cardle

New York London

AT BHANGKAL.

London

Deat London New York Ouxhaven

Glasgow

London

New York

New York

AT AMOR.

SWANIEL Cardif Swanses

THE ENGLISH TELEPHONE.

The completion and perfection of this May Since the invention, some fifteen years electric marrel will be anxiously looked 2, Goodall, age, by Professor Rouss, of Friedrichsdorff, forward to by all telegraphists-whore, B, Abbey Cowper,

meanwhile, we advise to take an early op 12, Edward Barrow, Antwerp musical tones and melodies by telegraph, portunity of listening to the "Tunes by 19, Norman Court, Gravesend the attention of the scientifle world has Telegraph," nightly to be heard at the 30, Wylo, been at various times estnestly directed to Queen's Theatre Long Acre.-The Tels June this absorbing branch of electrical science, graphist

Renes's telephone consisted of a kind of allepoaking tube with a membrang attached, which, when acted upon by vibrations of adland, made and broke electrical contact si ésch vibration. The currents were transi BREACH OF PROMÈSE CASE.

mitted along a wire to the distant end, where

9, Leander, A TATING Situation. When, a man la 11, Goldon State, At tbs Leads Summer Assizes, on July they entered the receiver-a stretched iron The German brig Carl Ludwig, from 28, before Mr Justice Lush, an action was bar passing through a metal spiral fixed on treating s dashing widow to ice cream, and 17, Belle Morse, Foocho to Australia, having sustained brought by Lydia Dizon against William a sounding-board-and caused synchronous sees his wife coming into the restaurant, damage to her rudder and other injuries, Brearley to recover damages for a breach of vibrations on the bar, this producing sounds about all he can do is to button his goat, Mar.

similar to those imparted to the sending and trust to Providense. put into Yokohama yesterday afternoon promise of marriage, (Aug. 26th) for repairs On Saturday In opening the case, Mr Seymour said membrane, On short strouits this telephone A KENTUCKY lady asked for á divorce on 23, C. F., afternoon the German brig Oceants, which the defendant denied the promise of mar was partially successful; but it suffered the ground that her huebsad is not a had left on the previous day for Hakodate, riage, and said that sufficient time had not from a drawback which has weighed upon Christian: If the poor man can't become a put back to replace har foretopmail yard alapsed. All he (Mr Seymour) could say nearly all subsequent selephonic Inventions Christian except by a separation from his whinh had carried away. The voyage will was, that if thirty years courtship was not the tones at the received and were exceed wits, let her have a divorce, by all means. b resumed when the damage is made long enough, he was much mistaken. The ingly uncertain and fusble,

Another telephons, avowedly founded good.

Case was, in some respects, a remarkable After two days of greater heat than had one. The plaintiff was the daughter of upon that of Reuss, has been recently before been experienced this summer, a parents in humble clestinstance, and brought forward in America by Professor George Thomas, à seaman unemployed, storm of wind and rain set in last evening during many years of her life was in various Graham Bell, and applied to speaking par. was charged with stalling a canras bag con (Aug. 26th) at about half-past six o'clock, situations at Southowram, Halifax. The poses with fair results, but here again the Professor Elisha Gray, of Chicago, invents taining sail maker's implements. The de and raged with considerable violence till defendant was now a surrier in Southowram, received sounds are faint. fondant said the property was his En-morning, the gale blowing from the Bouth- and on May 8 last he married the widow of quiries were made, resulting in the story West. Ato alcok it had reached its greatest a substantial butcher in that neighboured, about 1878, his Electris Harmonium, of the defendant being denied. Seven says violence-a foros of by the Beaufort sale hood. He formed an acquaintance with, and it has beer publicly exhibited quite hard labour,

At 8:47 am, when the wind was still high, an and proposed marriage to, the plaintif lately in New York, where musical sounds Barthquake shock of strong vibrations, and when she was only seventeen years of age. are stated to have been transmitted from OLD-03) ENDEEK.

-lasting in all about one minute, was felt. She was now forty-ains. And humorous a considerable distance. The foxes, how Fong Ashat and & others were brought By dawn the storm had abated, and the as it was in one sense, he thought when the syer, in this case, as in the previous tale. | Jury heard the case it would mitume, as for phones, cannot be distinctly beard at my up for gambling with diso at Butter's fans. | day has been very dna but het,

Police Intelligence.

(Both Magidrates Sitting.)

September 10, 1877.

PETTY THEFT.

A DESIRABLE WOMAN.Mies Sophie Barney took & premium at a Montgomery (Alabama) fair as the young woman who SAID a gentleman to his mistress, "You would make the best wife for a poor man are very handsome," "Pooh " said the so you would may if you did not lady, think so.". "And so you would think,"

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