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SANITARY OLOTHING. In the British Isles it is not unusual to have many .(rapid change3 of temperature or climate in the course of one day Medical men have therefore for some time past thought clothing a matter not unworthy of their serious consideration. The result of their consideration of this subject may be found epito- mised in an article published in the Lancet in July, 1868:—" We learnt from Franklin a century ago, that the solar heat is absorbed with greater or less facility according to the colour of the object "exposed to its rays. Everyone remembers how he ,-Put pieces of cloth, similar in texture and size, but different in colour, upon fresh-fallen snow in the sunlight, and how he found the snow melted under the pieces of cloth quickest when the cloth was black, less quickly under the blue, green, purple, red, yellow, in the order enumerated, and very slowly ^deed under the white. Each day's experience ahows us that we do not need to be made of snow in order to melt rapidly under a black coat in summer. What we then require for comfort 'is nearly a white material, in order that the heat rays May be reflected as much and absorbed as little as •Possible. The material should be porous—should imprison large quantities of air in its texture, and serve, therefore, as a very bad conductor of heat, while at the same time facilitating evaporation of the Moisture from the surface of the body." These qualities are possessed in the highest degree by a material manufactured by D. Nicoll and Co., of Fell-street, London, who, feeling satisfied that the Information thus imparted came with the weight of great authority, have, from the date of the above pub- lication, studied to give the best and mest agreeable effect to such important advice; and a cloth in every way answering the intended purpose is now offered for sale. It may be described as a neutral tint, sufficiently toned down in colour from white, as to give it an elegant specialty for a summer costume; and par- ticularly for the sea-side or foreign tour, and, above '411, Anglo-Indian purposes. As suggested by Frank- lin's discovery, the same material made heavier and "dark, will serve for winter use in northern climates but the material for summer and autumn use is a Natural colour-blend of wool upon which the eyes rest 'With ease and comfort, on account of the absence of all glare which a higher colour would undoubtedly produce. Under these circumstances, the manufacturers have concluded arrangements for the immediate supply to the public, through their representatives, Various garments in the new material.- Specimens of the cloth are also obtainable, on application through the nearest firm authorised to sell Messrs. D. Nicoll and Co.'s manufactures. The appearance of the new material may be easily understood by the following description :-Many Foreign Wools do not require dyeing to produce those gray and brown mixtures mentioned above as a natural colour-blend. These blendings of the above manufacture ean alone be obtained of D. Nicoll and Co., Rug Paletot Patentees, of 6, Fell-street, Wood-street, London, and, as previously mentioned, through members of the trade only, as the business of the above firm is low exclusively wholesale, but it may be well to add, that at the end of each piece of cloth the words, "Nicoll's Sanitary Clotk," are stamped, woven, or printed, so as to form a trade mark and facilitate any desire which may exist to obtain the useful manufac- ture above referred to. 41. — THE LONGFORD ELECTION has ended in the Return of Mr. Greville-Nugent by 1,218 votes against .the 918 polled by Mr. Harman. There was great excitement in Ballymahon, and one gentleman, -esoorting a supporter of Mr. Harman, was evidently assaulted. V THE DEATH OF A "WOMAN named Nancy Gibbs, tlying at Ticehurat, who was supposed to have been blurdered by a labourer named Henry Hazelgrove, has been officially inquired into. The deceased was .seen drinking at the Bridge Inn, Ticehurst-road, with some men. Hazelgrove, on being told of this, swore that he would kill her, and on leaving his work in the evening he beat and kicked the deceased so brutally as to cause her death. At the time the man was beatinsr her a man and woman passed, and they tried to induce him to leave the deceased alone, but he only abused them, and they then walked on. A verdict of Manslaughter was returned against Hazelgrove, who was committed to take his trial at the Lewis Assizes.

GENTLEMEN- WOMEN. THE THIRD EXAMINATION. This case came @n for the third time on Friday. Ernest Boulton and Frederick William Park were charged with having frequented places of public resort in female attire, with felonious intent. Henry Holland was called, and in his evidence simply related what took place on the occasions on which he drove the brougham they hired. It appears that they were in female attire; that they visited several theatres and places of amusement. They also called at numerous public-houses, and at each treated witness to liquor, and that on one occasion they went to the University Boat Race as women. At the conclusion of his evidence, Mr. Poland asked: What should you think they were ? Mr. Besley objected to this question. Mr. Straight: Opinions differ. Mr. Flowers: He might be asked if they were men. or women. Witness (examined I had no idea they were men. On the day of the boat-race Boulton was dressed in a violet-coloured dress, with white lace. There was nothing on the shoulders but a necklace. John Reeves, staff-superintendent at the Alhambra, Leicester-square, said: I know the defendants. I have known Park nearly three years, and Boulton nearly as long. I have seen them many times at the Alhambra. My attention was first called to them two years ago, when they were dressed as women. On that occasion the defendants were both there. I went to them, and told them they must leave; the public believed them to be men in women's clothes, and they must leave. Before I turned them out I saw them walking about as women. Their conduct was very suspicious,looking over their shoulders as if enticing men. When they were turned out there were three or four men with them. I remember another occasion when I had to turn them out, that was three or four months after the first occasion. They were dressed in a similar manner. I turned them out again six months after that time; they were dressed then as men. Their faces were painted up Their necks were powdered. The waistcoat was very open. They were looking about in a manner which made them look more feminine than masculine. The people around were saying that they were two women in men's clothes. I saw them again at the Alhambra the first week in March of the present year. I saw them in a private box dressed as men, and their faces painted up as before. I was in the stalls, and I saw the people in the house standing up looking at them. They were playing all sorts of frivolous games with each other-handing cigarettes to each other, and flickering them in the gas-light. They were making noises with their lips. Their hands were outside the box, and they had on pink or flesh-coloured gloves. I recognised them as the persons I had turned out before. I told them to leave at once. They said, "Let us have some soda and brandy." "I said "No; you won't have any- thing here. I have told you to keep out several times." I marched them out. I have seen the defendants about twenty times at the Alhambra, but only twice in women's clothes. I have seen them of an evening in Regent-street, dressed as men. They appeared to be painted up. George Smith, formerly beadle at the Burlington Arcade, said I know the defendants well. I have known Boulton about two years. I have seen him in the Burlington Arcade. His face was thickly painted with rouge, and everything else on. I noticed them because they always caused such commotion when they came to the arcade. People stared at them so. Boulton spoke to me en one occasion when he was leaving the arcade with a person named Cummtog. I know the man well enough. Boulton said to me, Oh, you sweet little dear." That was to me. Cumming's face was very much painted. On another evening I saw Boulton turn kto some gentlemen and smile, and wink like this. You know, only I can't do it so well as he can (laughter). He made a noise with his mouth. I said to Boulton, I have received some complaints about you-do you remember what you said to me a week or two ago ? I have seen enough of your conduct to consider you an improper person to be in the arcade. You must leave at once." Boulton said, Take no notice of that fellow," in a feminine manner. Cumming said something, but I don't know what. They tried to pass me. I took hold of Boulton and forcibly ejected him. Cumming followed us down and said something in the way of remonstrance, and I said to him, "You are as bad as the other," and I turned him out. There were several persons present at the time, some of the gentlemen are on the bench now. Some of them hissed. Martha Stacey, the landlady of 18, Wakefield- street, Regent-square, said the defendants lodged in her house on and off for some months. They usually came in men's clothes and went out in female attire. Her evidence adduced nothing fresh, but she recounted every instance on which they went out in a brougham. On the last occasion, when they were arrested, Boulton and Park, dressed as men, came in the evening; their clothes were in the parlour. That evening they dressed as women. They went out between seven and eight o'clock. A Mr. Thomas, in male attire, fetched the cab. That night I saw no more of them. The next morning I heard they were in custody. Between nine and ten the following morning the officer Chamberlaine came and took pos- session of some photographs and letters on the ground floor. I saw a tin box of jewellery in the parlour. During the day two men came to my house. They were Mr. Cumming and Mr. Gibbins. They said they wanted the prisoners' things, and they forced the parlour door. They took away Boulton's and Park's male attire and jewel box. I really don't know what they took away. The jewellery was chiefly studs, neck. laces, rings, &o. Chamberlaine took what was left. I don't know whether they were out in female attire on the day of the boat-race, for I was out nearly all that day myself. No one went out in female attire after the boat-race day. I could not say how many different ladies' dresses I have seen Boulton in; more than one. I never saw Cumming in female attire more than about three times. I understood that the defendants were amateur performers. I was told Park was artioled to a solicitor. I have not given the defendants their bill for their rents. It's only one for two nights. Thomas owes about < £ 7. I con- sidered that they were theatrical dresses that they wore. It being close upon the hour for the court to rise, Mr. Flowers asked Mr. Besley if his cross-examina- tion were likely to last long. Mr. Besley said he feared it would occupy some considerable time. Mr. Flowers suggested that the case should be then adjourned. It was subsequently arranged that the prisoners should be remanded in custody until the next day. On Saturday this case again came on, and the ex- amination of Martha Staeey was concluded. She again alluded to Cummings and Gibbings, and stated that she never heard or saw anything immoral in their behaviour or conversation. Thomas Shenston then deposed to searching the place, and finding the following articles, the value of which are annexed :-Dresses: 1 mauve satin, trimmed with black lace, .£5; 1 white corded rep silk, trimmed with blue satin and lace, pink satin t and tulle,.£6 5s.; 1 white lace, trimmed with blue satin and laoe, £ 8 8s.; 1 white Japanese silk, pink stripe, trimmed with white lace and swansdown, .£6s 6s.; 1 green cord silk, .£9 9a.; 1 violet glace silk, .trimmed with white face, .£10 10s.; 1 black satin, trimmed with mauve satin,.£6; 1 blue and white satin, piped with white satin, .£7; 1 mauve rep silk and green satin, .£8; 1 blue satin tunic (part of dress), .£5; 1 pink tarlatan, -01 5s.; 2 muslin, X3 10s.; 1 camlet costume, X2 2s.; 1 cambric morning, Xl 10s.; 1 grey moire antique, £ 10 10s. Skirts and petticoats: 1 tulle tunic, Yl 10s.; 3 tarlatan pieces, < £ 1 1 white frilled cambric petticoat, 10a, 6d.; 1 white book -+-++- muslin, 10s. 6d.; 3 white frilled petticoats, £1 10s.; 1 white check petticoat, 5s. 6d.; 1 plain white 'petticoat, 4s.; 1 coloured petticoat, 2s.; 1 crinoline, 2s. Cloaks and Jackets: 1 scarlet Cash- mere opera cloak, X5 5s.; 1 black shawl, 15s. 6d.; 1 black silk jacket, 15s. 6d.; 1 white lace shawl, £ 3 3s.; 1 ermine jacket and muff, .£5; 1 crimson velvet tunic, £ 2; 1 white llama opera cloak, trimmed with swan's down, X3 3s.; 1 velveteen jacket, -81 10s.; 1 black silk body, X2 2s. Bodices: 2 cambric, 6s.; 1 muslin, 3s. 1 white silk, trimmed with lace, £1 Is.; 3 under-bodices, Xl 1 tulle-piped blue satin, .£1 15s. Boots and Shoes 4 pairs white kid, £ 2 10s.; 4 pairs shoes, various, .£2; 3 pairs button spring sides, .£1 5s. Seven chignons, various, .£10; 2 long curls, £ 4 10 plaits, .£5; 1 greybeard, 10s. Bonnets and Hats: 5 hats, various,.£4; 4 bonnets various, X3 10s. Miscellaneous: 1 pair of curling irons, Is. 6d.; 2 sun shades, .£1 Is.; 6 pairs of stays, Xl 1 tulle stay, JH;, 1 lace crossover, £ 1 5s. 2 tulle falls, 10s. a piece of magenta cashmere, 3s. Gd.; 1 pink satin. sash, 12s.; 1 chemi- sette, Is 6d.; 2 pairs of garters, 2s.; 2 pairs of drawers, 14s.; 4 boxes of violet powder, 10s; 1 box of bloom of roses, 2s.; 4 pairs of old pink silk stockings, .£3; 1 small whisker dog kennel, 10s.; 3 albums, £ 5; 8 pairs of gloves, £ 15 1 pocket- handkerchief holder, X2 2a.1 bottle, labelled chloroform, a few artificial flowers, and some wadding, 2s. Several letters were then read. The first was dated the 8th of April, 1870 Lochash. "My darling Erne,—I was rather hurt at not receiving a letter from you before leaving Dingwall, as I know if you had posted a letter any time up to nine p.m. on Tuesday, I should have got it at Dingwall. My mother goes to Boulogne on the 22d of this month, and I must manage, if possible, to be there with her. I have told her I can go there on the 16th of May, if she can send me some money before that. Will it be too early for you ? I am not altogether sorry that you should meet her. Will you promise not to shave your moustache again from this time until we meet far any consideration whatever ? I beg you will promise this. Yours always, "LOTJIS." The following is the second letter:- Sunday, 17, 1870. CI. My dearest Erne, At last your address. Fiske writes to me that there is no such place as Shirland-road in the Directory," but perhaps the houses are new. I am rather sorry to hear of your going about in drag so much, partly, I confess, for selfish reasons. I know the moustache has no chance while this sort of thing goes on. You have now less than a month to grow it, for my mother has arranged to stay at Boulogne until the 21st, so as to meet me. So I have settled to go there on the 16th, if I can get leave; that is four weeks from to-morrow I have told my mother you are coming, but have not yet had time to receive her answer. I thought it well to tell her that you are very effeminate, but I hope that you will do your best to appear as manly as you can, at any rate in face. I therefore again beg of you to let your moustache grow at once. I have written to propose us at Bayonne from May 27th to 23rd of June. I will let you know how I think of dividing our time abroad when we meet, or before if you like. I enclose part of a letter from Do you know who intended us. I heard yesterday from Albert at Liverpool he said he would go to Edinburgh and pray for my speedy arrival. With his usual vagueness he gives no dates. I have written, asking him to join me in the north, as I don't know when I shall be in Edinburgh. I hope you aint hard up. I can't send you any money for a week or two. Next month I will send you some both for pocket and clothes; so you may order the latter at once. Of course I would pay any drag bills except the one at Edinburgh. If you havn't paid this let me know about this and other bills. I have determined to depart from Mrs. Dickinson when I go on leave. I am sure you will be glad to hear of this. I to-day got an invitation from to dine with him and to go to Grand Duchesse on the 25th. He will be cut up when he hears we are to be in Edinburgh. You were much inquired after at Thurso. The waiter there told me that the ladies in the hotel would not let you go at all if you had gone there again. I yesterday went to John O' Groat' s-house, of which possibly you have heard. Of course I miss you.—Yours ever, Louis." A third similar letter was read, beginning My dear Ernie," and ending "Your loving Louis." A fourth letter from Edinburgh, and dated the 20th of April, was from another writer, signed John," in which he said he could marry a woman with £ 30,000. The magistrate said, on the question of bail, that when the prisoners were first brought before him he thought that a very serious crime was going to be proved against them, but that had not been done in his opinion. With the exception of the letters that had been read, he did not see that there was any evidence against the prisoners as to true crime, but if Mr. Poland would say that he could make out his case, he would then remand the prisoners. Mr. Poland then showed another letter, not read, and Mr. Flowers refused bail. The prisoners, who assumed an air of indifference at the result, then left the dock.

DOUBLE MURDER IN CHELSEA. A crime, the full extent of which can scarcely be realised, was discovered to have been committed in Chelsea on Wednesday evening. It appears that a man named Miller called upon Mr. Piper, a carman, and asked him to send a van to remove some luggage from 15, Paulton-square, the residence of the Rev. Mr. Huelin. On the arrival of the van, Miller, accom- panied by Piper, went into the kitchen of the house, and was about to tie up a large deal box, when Piper interfered, and offered to cord it for him. While in the act of so doing he noticed blood on his hands, and also on the floor, and being naturally alarmed he declined to proceed further, but wisely kept his eye upon the man. A young woman of about twenty-five, who was present on the discovery of the blood, immediately disappeared. Miller went out in a great hurry, but Piper followed him into the street, and meeting a con- stable gave him in charge. He endeavoured to escape, but was recaptured and taken back to the house, where, on the arrival of a police sergeant, the box wa.s opened, and the corpse of a woman found in it, with a cord tied tightly round the neck. A medical man was called in, who pronounced the woman to have been dead at least twenty-four hours. The deceased woman, named Ann Boss, acted as Mr. Huelin's housekeeper. Miller worked as a plasterer for Mr. Huelin, a.nd the other night called on a woman who acted as charwoman when required by Mr. Huelin, and told her he was Mr. Huelin's nephew, and desired her to send her daughter to mind the house as the people were gone out of town, and he did not like the place to be left. At the inquest, which was held and adjourned, these facts were elicited, though the charwoman denied that the man who called on her and Miller are the same person, but there can be no doubt of the fact, as she identifies the man who was taken in charge as the man who called upon her, and Mrs. Miller identifies that man as her husband. It was further elicited that Miller had, on two occasions, when observing that Mr. Huelin and Mrs. Boss were possessed cf considerable ready cash, intimated his desire to settle them and get the money." Upon going into the back garden of the house in Wellington-street, it was found that a hole, which had been dug on the Monday, had been filled in. A workman then came forward and said-" On Monday Miller came to me and asked me to dig a hole and open the drain in the back yard. I was at work for two hours, and after I had dug a deep hole and broken open a drain, Miller said to me, Here I are your wages. You can gonow.' I then left, and I never filled in the .ho'e." The disappearance of Mr. Huelin, who could not be found anywhere, at once led to the belief that he too had been murdered, and the police made instant investigation. For some time nothing was discovered, but from the first the police had felt satisfied that No. 24, Wellington-square, where Miller had been working for the rev. gentleman, and where he was heard to make threats, was the place where the reverend gentleman met his death, and that the hole which they had ascertained had been dug in the garden of that house, by direction of Miller, under the pretence of examining or making a drain, was the grave in which the remains had been deposited by the murderer. The result has proved the cor- rectness of their surmise. In the morning of Friday men were set to work to dig up the soil, which had been carefully rammed down and smoothed over. At about-half-past two the object of the search was discovered. The body had evidently been thrown in head downwards and hastily covered over. There is no drain in the pit, or at least none at the level which formed the bottom of the grave. When exhumed it was observed that there were two cuts on the head -one near the front of considerable depth, ap- parently such as might have been inflicted with the sharp or hatchet-like end of a plasterer's hammer -and unquestionably sufficient to have occasioned instant insensibility if not death. But the assassin was evidently not satisfied with this, for he had in addition tied a cord round the neck, and fastened it tightly with knots on either side, in the same manner as he had done in the case of Mrs. Boss, the house- keeper, adding what would seem to be superfluous strangulation to the fracture of the skull. The murder is supposed to have been committed inside the house, and not in the garden, but although as the hat of the deceased (which was evidently on his head when the blow was struck, and is cut through) shows there must have been a copious flow of blood, all traces of the deed within doors had been carefully removed by chemical preparations. On Friday also the prisoner was taken before Mr. Selfe, at the Westminster Police-court, and the same evidence as that given at the inquest was repeated. This evidence it is scarcely worth while to repeat, as it contains only unimportant matters of detail, while the main points are embodied in the account already given. It appears that the murders seem to have been first planned on the 4th of April, when Mr. Huelin went to one of his untenanted houses, No. 24, Wellington square, which was then being newly plastered and painted for re-letting. He there un- wisely pulled out a handful of sovereigns in the presence of his workmen, Miller then uttering the threat reported. Monday morning last appears to have been the la-st morning Mr. Huelin was seen alive.. He was then noticed going down the King's road, and had as usual a favourite dog. In the course of the afternoon the dog was seen running home by itself, and at night was howling so piteously outside the door that the attention of the neighbours was attracted to it, and as no one opened the door to let it in they rang the bell, but could obtain no answer. The neighbours called attention to the strange occur- rence of both Mr. Huelin and Mrs. Boss being out, and not answering the tradesmen when they came. Information which has just come to hand would tend to show that Mr. Huelin was murdered in his house in Wellington-square about dinner time on Monday, and that Mrs. Goss was murdered on Monday night at Mr. Huelin's residence, 15, Paulton-square. It is believed that Miller dressed himself in some of Mr. Huelin's clothes, and the spectacles he I wore are also presumed to have belonged to Mr. Huelin. He is supposed to have next visited the West-end, where he met with a gaily dressed woman, I with whom, after having had an oyster supper, he drove to the house of Mrs. Myddieton, as already detailed. He is thougho to have sooa parted l company with the woman. On Tuesday morning a lady called at 15, Paulton-square to pay her rent. The new charwoman (Mrs. Myddleton) told her that Mr. Huelin and Mrs. Boss were both out, but that Mr. Huelin's nephew was there, and would be in shortly. It is said that Miller then came in dis- guised, and hearing what the lady wanted he told her he was commissioned to take the rent of any tenants who came. The lady then said she had not got it with her, but if he would call for it at her house it was in readiness, and would be paid. The lady went away, and soon afterwards he got a cab to go to her house. In his confusion he forgot the number, and could not find it, and on Wednesday night, at twenty minutes past nine, he went to Mr. Piper's to get the van, which act led to his detection, and to the dis- covery of the body of Mrs. Boss in the box which he wanted the van man to remove. There is no doubt that Miller is the murderer, since he has been wearing the dead man's clothes, and papers of considerable value have been found upon him. The ready cash he had on him when caught was enly £ 8. The whole credit of the capture is due to the greengrocer Piper, since he resolutely refused, though twice bidden to do so, to leave the murderer. The woman with him is supposed to have been only a woman he had casually met, and not in any sense an accomplice. On the Saturday Miller was again brought up at Westminster Police-court, and the examination of witnesses was continued. Joseph Coales, a police- man, deposed to arresting the prisoner at the instiga- tion of Piper, and proved finding .£7108 in gold, several other articles, and a title deed on his person. Mr. John Carter identified the deceased gentleman as well as Mrs. Boss. James Smith, a painter and glazier, gave evidence as to the threats used by the prisoner. He said that on Mr. Huelin offering him some money, he pulled out a handful of sovereigns and gave him 10s. On his departure Miller said at the door, Ain't he got a. lump of it?" Smith replied, "Yes." He said, It would not be amiss to get him up or down, and put his light out, and go to America with it." Prisoner saw his money as he gave me the gold. A day after Mrs. Boss told Smith I wanted a new brush and asked the price; I said, Is.; and she gave him Is. from a lot of sovereigns. Prisoner said, "She's got a lump of it;" and said he would like to have it. The next witness was Elizabeth Green, the young woman spoken of as the prisoner's companion. It may be here mentioned that she was arrested on Friday in Ann.street, Westminster. She presented an idiotic appearance, and is paralysed en the left side. She, however, gave her evidence very well. She said: I am married. My husband's name is Edward Green. I live at No. 27, St. Anne-street, and my husband lives there for all I know. I saw the prisoner last Wednesday night. I met him at the next street to Windmill- street, at the top of the Haymarket. I was selling fusees, and said to him, Do you want to buy a box of lights, please ? He spoke to me, and said, You had better put the lights in your pocket, and come with me." I did so. We went a little way, and he asked me to go into a public- house and have something to drink; I did so, as I was cold and wet, and had had nothing to eat. He took me into another public- house, and gave me some more to drink, and then asked me to come to his house. I said I would, and we got into a fly, and he took me to his house, and we went into a room, he called for a bottle of wine, and a woman brought it up. I did not notice the woman. He poured out a glass of wine, anrl I drank it, and a second, and drank that, and he wanted me to have more, but I would not. I said Good night," and went away. Mr. Selfe Did you not see a van or any- body at the door P Witness: No. Mr. Selfe: Were you not in the house on the landing, and prisoner followed you upstairs P Witness: No; I never saw anybody, I am sure. Superintendent Fisher It appears he took her to a good many public-houses, so that may account for her forgetfulness of what took place in the house. Mr. Selfe: I know; she was charged before me with being drunk and in- oapable the next morning, and I let her go, on the promise she would keep from drink and go to Cam- i bridgeshire, where she came from. Witness:; I will never transgress again. Mr. Seife It's a pity you came to London. Mr. Fisher: I believe he bought her some clothes. Witness Yes, he bought me this hat and dress and boots, and stays; he changed silver, and as he did so gave me the coppers. The succeeding witnesses adduced no fresh evidence of interest. They merely gave evidence as to the cause of death (already stated), the finding of the body as reported, and the age of the deceased gentleman. It appears that he was 84 years of age, and passably rich. No freehfacts have been brought to light. It is tolerably certain that he had no accomplices, though it was at first thought he was only the tool in the hands of others. On Sunday large crowds surrounded the house, and rumours of all sorts were prevalent. One was to the effect that two of his nephews were missing, and this is borne out in some measure by a statement made by a witness to the effect that there were three nephews, and one was safe." It may be mentioned that the prisoner has had his moustache dyed, his whiskers shaved off, and a part of one gummed so as to make a French "goatee." The latter has been found. The inquiry before the magistrate was adjourned for a wesk. In addition to the above facts, the Echo publishes a statement made by the next door neighbour of Mr. Huelin, one Mr. Stanesby. This gentleman's atten- tion was first attracted to the affair by the return of the dog as already noted, and noting that neither Mr. Huelin and Mrs. Boss were at home, and that it was not their custom to leave the place unattended, he went to the police station. Subsequently, he in company with two policemen, went over the house, but discovered nothing amiss except that the carpet was up in one bedroom. On Tuesday morning Miller, in his plasterer's dress, knocked at the door, but no one came, and a nurse in Mr. Stanesby's house told him no one was in. Soon after Mrs. Mydleton, the charwoman before alluded to, came and let her- self in, and Mr. Stanesby went to see Mr. Carter. He came down and questioned the charwoman, who said Mr. Edwin had told her to come, and he went away satisfied. Later in the day Miller returned dressed as Mr. Huelin, whereupon the nurse at once recognised him as the plasterer. In the evening the van came, and Mr. Stanesby and Mr. Carter then interfered and found Miller trying to get away from Piper. Such is the story told by Mr. Stanesby, and though it brings forward no new evidence is still in corroboration of what has already been related. On Monday the inquest on the body of Mr. Haelin was opened and adjourned. The inquest on the body of Mrs. Boss was continued, and the prisoner Miller found guilty of wilful murder. In neither instance was any fresh evidence brought forward, except aa far as is foreshadowed in Mr. Stainsby's report.

AMERICAN ITEMS. THE Boston Mail mentions the following remark. able instance of American delicacy:—3A. yoang lady fainted last market morning when told by one of the country chaps that he had salad for sale undressed. A NEW YORKER, asking for dry sillery in New Bedford restaurant, was told that they were out of that, but had some cold cabbage.. A BOSTON paper says :—"A widow, who has fol- lowed successively three husbands to the grave, entered a well-known jewellery establishment in this- city last Saturday, and producing the three silver plates which had once adorned the dear departed, desired the astonished proprietor to have them made over into a butter-knife A COUNTRYMAN, who had never paid more than 25c. to see an exhibition, went to a new York theatre one night to see The Forty Thieves." The ticket seller charged him 7 5c. for a ticket. Passing the pasteboard back, he quietly remarked, Keep it, mister; I dont want to see the other 39," and out he marched. A FLORIDA alligator's post-mortem revealed several buttons, marbles, and a top in his stomach, and a neighbouring family thinks it knows where its mis- sing little boy went to. THE Boston religious papers report that "kid glove and patent leather missionaries do but little real good among the poor. A YOUNG gentlemen in Iowa sent seventy-five cents to New York recently, for a method of writing without pen or ink. He received the following in- scription, in large type, on a card:—" Write with a pencil." A PENNSYLVANIA bachelor thus gets after a lovely woman :—" I impeach her in the name of the great whale of the ocean, whose bones are torn asunder to enable her to keep straight. I impeach her in the name of the peacock, whose strut, without his per- mission, she has stealthily and without honour as- sumed. I impeach her in the name of the horse, whose tail she has perverted from its use to the making of wavy tresses to decorate the back of the head and neck. I impeach her in the name of the kangaroo, whose beautiful figure she, in taking upon herself the Grecian bend, has brought into ill.favour and disrepute." TENDER PARENT.-In a public school in Albany, New York, it is customary to request from the parents of troublesome children, permission in writing to inflict corporal correction. The following reply waa sent to one such request:—" Your flogging oirklar is dully received. I hope as to my John, you will flog him just as ofin as you kin. Heas a bad boy-is John. Hitho I've been in habit of teachin him miself, it seems to me he never will larn anithing-his spellin is ottragously defishent. Wallop him well, ser, and you will receive my thanks. EDITORIAL. Mark Twain, in assuming co-edi- torial charge of the Buffalo Express, says:—" I only wish to assure parties having a friendly interest in the prosperity of the journal that I am not going to hurt the paper deliberately and intentionally at any time. I am not going to introduce any start- ling reforms, or in any way attempt to make trouble. When I cannot get out of it, I shall work diligently and honestly and faithfully at all times and upon all occasions, when privation and want shall compel me to do it; in writing I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth except when it is attended with inconvenience; I shall witheringly rebuke all forms of crime and mis- conduct, except when committed by the party inhabiting my own vest. I shall never use profanity except in discussing house-rent and taxes. Indeed, upon second thought, I will not even use it then, for it is unchristian, inelegant, and degrading-though, to speak truly, I do not see how house-rent and taxes are going to be discussed with- out it. I shall not often meddle with politics, be- cause we have a political editor who is already ex- cellent, and only needs to serve a term in the penitentiary in order to be perfect. I shall not write any poetry, unless I conceive a spite against the subscribers." ♦ CHARLES PARSONS, a crossing-sweeper, has been charged with being found on premises at Twickenham for the supposed purpose of committing a felony. A police-constable said that he found the prisoner in a summer-house on the grounds of Mr. Pennycook, adjacent to those of Mr. Bohn, where a burglary had been committed some time previously. Six previous convictions were proved against the prisoner, who was sentenced to two months' imprison- ment with hard labour. THE FOLLOWING BILL has been circulated and posted throughout Fermanagh: Rise, sons of civil and religious liberty, Orange and Green! Meet me in Enniskillen on Friday next, in Fair-green, in de- fence of the Queen and her throne, in defence of your lives and rights, in defiance of all party government, in defiance of ascendancy and police magistrates who write in the press that peaceable inhabitants are shocked to see loyal men carrying arms to defend themselves against assassination. United we stand divided we fall."