South Wales Echo

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TO ADVERTISERS.. The South Wales Echo is GUARANTEED to have a Larger Circulation than that of ALL the other Evening Papers of South Wales and Monmouthshire added together. As regards Cardiff alone, it'is almost un- necessary for us to add that the circulation of the South Walts Echo is IMMENSELY GREATER than that of any other Evening Paper. ROGERS' AK ALES & PORTERS IN GALLON CASKS and UPWARD,. PALE AND MILD ALES.from lOd per Gallon. PORTER AND STOUT. from Is per Gallon, BREWERY, BRISTOL. To be obtained of the following Agents in Cardiff, who SELL NO OTHER BEERS IN CASKS ABRAHAM, L., 123, Clifton-street, Roath. OSULICH, S., Ale and Porter Stores, 114, Miskin-street CROUCH, J. F., Ale and Porter Stores, 34, Eldon-street. DAVIES, T., Grocer, Cyfartlifa-street FRANCIS, S., Grocer, 1, Donald-street MORRIS, B., Grocer, Bridge-street. PARSONS, U. C Commission Agent, 20, Habershon-st PARSONS, T., (Jj-oeer, 205, Severn-road. RICHARDS, WM., Grocer, 6, Thomas-street THOMAS, WINDSOR M., Grocer, Woodville-road. THORNE, G. F., Grocer, Clifton street. WALTERS and DAWKINS, Grocers, Cowbvidge-road. JAMES, W. A., Grocer, 37, James.street. AND AT THE 33e CARDIFF STORES, 9. WORKING-STREET.

The Man About Town. A change sweeps over the members of the Cardiff Town Council when the Marquis of Bute occupies the chair. Yesterday I scarcely recognised them. The genial smile of the Deputy Mayor invites jocularity all the schoolboy pranks and merry gibes of the Councillors ripen under it and come to a mellow and fruitful fullness. But the austere dignity of Lord Bute withers them up. It tolerates the decorous smile, but defies hilarious mirth. The Marquis's title oppresses the air. Every Councillor sits uneasily under it. It bestrides his speech until it becomes heavy it bridles his tongue and awes his choice repartee and refined allusion into silence. They Sit still with aweful eye, As if they surely knew theirSov'ran Lord was by! It is a little worse for the Alderman, I think, because he feels he ought to set an example. The Councillor is a young and skittish being, whose pretty ways may be tolerated but in the Alderman we look for ripened wisdom and urbane speech. It is, perhaps, discreet that he should solve the difficulty by looking grave. I never saw such ponderous thought as is now to be observed in the faces. of the Aldermanic Bench ] Most-marked of • all is the change-in the method of discussion. As a rule there are a hundred little tributaries of conversation which dash turbulently along their rocky beds till they fall into the great stream of debate. There is a great clashing of waters and a mighty turbulence upon the surface as they meet together in a whirling roar. Alas they are all dammed at their sources -The river of Debate now flows smoothly and silently with a great sweep of waters to its mouth. It is better for the argument, doubtless, which now is in less dan- ger of falling into some whirlpool or of dashing against the rocks of invective. But it is a great effort of self-restraint How many cutting retorts come into the world still-born How many personat jes bloom in the mind alone and never get a glimpse of the wide world for which they were intended It is beautiful, it is touching, but it is unreal. If the Marquis were to preside at every meeting, there would be a grand climax, a sudden bursting through the channels of restraint, and the whole Chamber would be wrecked and shattered in the tempest! Observe the nice distinctions in the law :— A Cardiff cigar merchant presents a loaded revolver to the face of another, threatens to shoot him in three minutes, and forces him to jump out of the window, so injuring himself that he cannot do any work for some time. Sentence Discharged, on binding himself over to keep the peace. Mr J. H. Wilson uses certain alleged language which the Recorder admits was never intended, no ill result accruing, and no damage done.. Sentence Six weeks' imprisonment. There really seems to be less punishment the more you do. It varies in inverse ratio; to the magnitude of the offence. Thus, if a man threatens and does nothing, he is put in gaol; if he produces a revolver and causes his friend to injure himself, he is only bound over. Does it follow that if a man goes to the^length of shooting his enemy, he will not only get off, but have a public testi- monial and a banquet ? It is sad to think that after all this vehement outcry against Trades Unionism, the Shipowners—yes, actually the Federa- tion Ticket men !—are contemplating a Union of their own Of course, I do not allege for a moment that it is the same thing. When working-men unite," it is a wretched Union, disreputable in appearance, and sadly wanting rubbing up when shipowners com- bine" it is an Association, a perfectly respectable thing wearing the latest fashions and conspicuous for irreproachable attire. The one is the gentleman, the other the beggar. I fear, however, that if it were not for the dress they would be amazingly alike. And as for their objects, I have spent whole hours in endeavouring to prove to myself that they are essentially different; but for the life of me I cannot do it. The Association and the Union really are Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one it The object of the Association is higher prices for freights, and it is suggested that the poor coalowner be forced to pay them by means of a stri—no, I mean by with- drawing some of the ships from use. The owners of these will get strike pay—bah of course, I mean will be "compensated" (that's the word !) by the payment of Id per ton gross, so that they will be even better off with vessels idle than if they were in use. The effect of this will be that prices will rise, and the coalowner and agents will be compelled by force—that is, will have to follow the rising market; these trades' union phrases cling to one so, and one really forgets that one is dealing with a Respectable Association and not a Trades' Union There will, of course, be a pay- ment of so much per ton to the Executive—I mean the Committee—and it is believed that there will be a victory for the men—the shipowners, that is—in a very short space of time. Really, this is most interesting. But what of the tirades against trade combinations ? Give the owners a bagpipes' player and a yard or two of bunting, and where is the difference between them antT- Mr J. H. Wilson's men ? There is a good deal of inspiration in a Dredger. Some of the most affecting odes my friend the Poet has written have been inspired by the noble yet silent work of these examples of uncomplaining toil. But what emotion cannot be raised by the sight of the poor Scottish Dredger, exalted by the hope that she might rule the mighty Usk, and then left heart-broken and desolate by cruel men who toyed with her—used her as a plaything to amuse a passing hour, then flung her away like a rose which they had smelt and wanted no more ? v I care not to cirag before the rude gaze of men the tender off-shoots of a warm heart and a sympathetic pen. Here, nevertheless, is the latest poem on the rejected Dredger, in which the unfortunate and abandoned creaturc sings her own unutterable woes :— When lovely Dredger stoops to folly, And learns too late that men betray, What art can charm her melancholy, Or ease her of her load of clay ? 0, come to me, each infant bucket, Ye orphan children round me cling, Fold up each little head, and tuck it Beneath your mother's sheltering wing. Ah never let the name, so dear Once to our hearts, be whispered now. Ah never let us shed a tear O'er faith betrayed or shattered vow! But in the slowly gathering dusk ponder o'er the broken pledge; With aching hearts think of the Usk, And of the mud we shall not dredge. Content I was, till their false smiles Deceived me, and the cruel art Which too, too easily beguiles A simple woman's trusting heart. And now, alas what wonder if More weary is my round of day, My joints a little bit more stiff, The ceaseless mud more hard to raise ? This little spray of heart-foam is dedicated, with defiance, to the unprincipled and ruth- less deceivers of the Newport Harbour Com- mission Aunt Jack is a somewhat disappointing farce. It contains much of what is funny, some slight particles of wit, a little humour, and a great deal of extravagance. Its fault lies in the inability of the author to see where comedy should end and burlesque commence. There is a legitimate place for each. We go for one to the Haymarket and for the other to the Gaiety. But it is a distinct blot upon A unt Jak that a not unreal, though naturally exaggerated, plot is marred by an ending which would not be out of place in a pantomime, but is a painful travesty of the rules of dramatic writing as well as a discord grating across the ear. There should be possibility in every act and word in pure comedy. You may doubt whether it has or ever will actually take place but you should never be compelled to admit that it never cmdd take place. The third act is merely a burlesque on a Court of Law. It is mere exiravagance, a wild and boyish freak of topsy-turveydom. It does not please us we see its frantic impossibility, and knowing that we have come to see a farce, and not Aladdin or Sinbad the Sailor, we feel affronted by the author. It would be well if there were in England a dramatic school in which the unities would be studied, and the limits of compositiombe clearly defined. In Aunt Jack a funny.farce and screaming burlesque are "both spoiled.

OUTRAGE BY INDIANS. I Two Emigrants Murdered. I [REUTBR'S TELKGRA.M.] I NEW YORK, Tuesday. DESPATCH from Blackfoot, Idabo, states that eitement has been caused by the discovery Tndians have murdered two emigrants ,ear that place. The Indians were EMICH-J/ j, the hills. Mr Fisher, the Indian WA- ilegraphed for and arrived by special V I. i, vas immediately suspended, and A < [ irmed and mounted have gone to ,t!liJ. ".urrender of the murderers. She H l refuse to give them up there is cer -,ble. Later I v. » from Blackfoot states it has now been i, r3, T'r t the murders were the work of a single >ho is supposed to have been drunk. AftL 'lug the two emigrants he returned to hi" 1tion and there committed II suicide.

ACCIDF TO A LAD AT I ARDIFF. I Shortly befc. ven o'clock this morning William Johnsf -d of 14, living at 35, Glyn- street, Canton, rushed between a barge and the canal wall I" ^EN "•AET, sustaining severe injury to his ri Gregory conveyed himtothelnfi VL c. h" was treated by Dr Flen-iing. J

EXTRAORDL YNOA ANTWERP.— Major C. Hue; rOm 69, Rue St. Vin- J cent, Antwer'. i only received one of Harness' E; .jpt \íc .elts the a.y before yes- terday at 9 • V. STRING crippled wIth lumbago in &nttrmeh&L. R.-V • iimmediately. An hour an armcbmi, -"M immediately. our afterwards -to get up and sit down without t, (sf the armchair. Yester- day I walk to-day I am completely recovered. a marvellous result." Sufferers fre I :«Y VJA UINATIC, nervous, or organic disorder, bt,r mate, should call, if pos- sible, and PER > pect the original of the above, and the othar equally convincing to Von a, at ^tropathic and Zander Institute, 52, 0: -eet, London, W. (a.t tho corner of Rathbonf. <- Pamphlets and can. sultations InItoY be WITHOUT charge, either personally or by lett« ■, "t,. f.

Terrible Railway Col- lision. A WRECKED TRAIN CATCHES FIRE. Two Men Killed Outright. OTHERS BURNED TO DEATH. [REUTER'S TELEGRAM. ] NEW YORK, Tuesday. A fast freight train on the Delaware and Hudson Railroad came into collision yesterday with a gravel train near Cables- hill, New York State. A number of cars were wrecked. One of these, which was attached to the gravel train, and which con- tained five Italian workmen, was thrown into the centre of the wreck, and the whole mass caught fire. Two of the men were killed outright, and the remaining three were injured and pinioned in the wreckage. As the flames reached them their cries and groans were heartrending, but owing to the position of the car and the intense heat the rescuers were unable to reach thttm, and were compelled to watch them slowly burn to death. All the victims leave families.

The Duke of Richmond and Gordon. Much interest attaches to the final struggle entered upon in earnest this week, in one of the committee rooms of the House of Commons be- tween the railway com- panies and the traders of the country on the vexed subject of rates and charges. The Duke of Richmond and Gordon, who is the chairman of the committee, is the eldest son of the sixth Duke of Richmond, and was born at Richmond House, Whitehall, in 1818. Entering the army as captain, he was aide-de- camp to the Duke of Wellington from 1842 till 1852, and to Viscount Hardinge from 1852 till 1854. In 1860 he succeeded his father as Duke of Richmond, to which dukedom was added, in 1876, that of Gordon. He had previously, for 19 years, represented West Sussex in the Conservative interest in the House of Commons, during which time he was, for a few months, President of the Poor Law Board. In the House of Lords he was the leader of the Conservative party from 1870 till Mr Disraeli's elevation to the peerage, and was Lord President for the Council from 1874 to 1880, and President of the Board of Trade in Lord Salisbury's first ministry in 1885. He was after. wards appointed to the new post of Secretary for Scotland, but in the present ministry he holds no office.

"Tape Clubs. When Mr McMabon first invented the wonder- ful little electrical instrument known as the tape," it was hardly foreseen that an impetus. would be given to speculation such has had never been known in the history of the world. As re- gards racing results McMabon's instrument leaped into favour at a bound. Backers who could not attend meetings were no longer to be kept in the dark. Not only were the runners "wired"»( up before the event to be decided, but the jockeys also. It may be stated that there is much of a much- ness about the majority of "tape" clubs. The establishments at the West End of London where betting takes place on the tape may be divided into two classes, but even then the line of de- marcation is very slight. The better-class makes a subscription a sine qud non-the inferior exacts no fee, or returns it. At the former there is generally a billiard table and other accessories usually appertaining to social resorts; at the latter everything gives way to the tape." Refreshments before Business. At either class members generally begin to drop in about half-an-hour before racing, and those of a convivial turn usually start with liquid refresh- ments, wines, spirits, and beer being sold at all these clubs; but printed placards generally announce the fact that none but members will be allowed to pay for drinks. If the club boasts a billiard table a game will probably be started to while away the time till the first race, and when at length the hour has arrived for business to commence, and the "clerk of the tape" has taken up his position, there will be, if the club be prosperous, a muster of probably forty, fifty, or more members. As a rule there is one principal bookmaker, who takes tip his position by the tape in such a manner that no unauthorised person shall be able to approach near or interfere near the instrument: a table, and in some instances a brass railing, or both, separating the" penciller" from the mem- bers. In the larger clubs, besides the principal bookmaker, there are sometimes two or three others, so that punters may have a choice as fancy may dictate to them. No Ready-money Betting. Placed upon tables in arious parts of the room are little square pieces of paper marked off to win: 1, 2; and 1, 2, and 3; upon which is a printed request asking Mr So-and-So to invest for you a certain sum of money to be filled up upon a certain race. These tickets are handed in to the bookmaker, and, according to the rules of the club, settlement takes place after the results of betting have been made known. If the business were really carried out in this fashion there would be no contravention of the law. It is to be feared, how- ever, that sometimes the penciller," imbued, perhaps, with but slender faith in the financial position of his client, or doubting the existence of any burning desire on his part to settle if the result should be of adverse character, takes the precaution of having the money planked down be- forehand. It is here that the trouble begins. the law holds that so long as no money is staked a bet is not illelal but directly one or other of the parties to the bet stake the money beforehand, hey presto! the transaction becomes one in which the police can haul up the offenders before a magistrate. All of those who have experience of gambling know full well the boot should be on the other leg. Many a man who has been broken up into little pieces through betting on the nod would now he pros- perous if he had been compelled to stake hit. money before the bet was made. to stake hi& The Frequenters of such Clubs. As a matter of course, various classes of people frequent the "tape" clubs, from the officer and gentleman, barrister, prosperous tradesman, un- prosperous ditto, lawyers, journalists, travellers, to that miscellaneous order of punters whose means of livelihood must ever remain a mystery save to the initiated. It is amazing to find them coming up "living" race after race, and possessing the wherewithal for drinks aad luncheons. Up to Tuesday last the tape operators had complained bitterly, and there ig scarcely one in all Lcndon but who has lost heavily on the year. It must not be forgotten that in all these clubs there is 1. 2, and 1, 2, 3 betting, which is very difficult to get on a race* course, and many a punter in London gets homg over "places," whereas perhaps he would have been broken had he been at the post. How frequently do we hear a man saying, "I've no# backed a winner to-day, but every second." Well, at the clubs such a one would perhaps have had a balance on the day.-Licensed VictualkraGazcUe.

LORD JAMES DOUGLAS AND THE CENSUS. An Explanation. Lord James Douglas writes -May I raqaMt that you will kindly insert this letter as a flat denial as to what took place in the West London police-court ot April 10th ? According to the irs- ports published in your paper, as well as others. I am MFJDE to appear AS the returner of the cenaus paper in which I describe my wife as a cross sweep" and a "lunatic," and my son as a shoe- black." Now, sir, when the census paper came I was ill in bed, suffering from rheumatic gout, and the paper was not filled up by me. My two stepsons—boys of 14 or 15 years of age—got hold of the paper and filled it up as described, with no knowledge of mine. The first I knew of it was the report in the Evening Standard. FOR their ridiculous and childish folly both boys de* serve a good flogging. ] hope you will kindly Sve this publication, as by the newspaper r? ret,3 I am placed in a very ridiculous position.

JUVENILE DELINQUENTS. At Cardiff police-court to-day-before Dr Paine and Alderman Jones-two lads of 17, named Tom Addicott and James Kemble, were remanded on a charge of breaking and entering a stable loft at the back of 140, Newport-road, and stealing there- from three gas brackets and a crumb cloth value ;ell los, the property of Mr Thomas Atkinson. Prisoners had confessed to Detective Scott that they had stolen the missing articles and sold them to a rag and bone merchant at Richards-tarraca FOR 5d. .——

Miss DAra ANNUAL BALL will be held on Fri. day, the 17th inst, at the Town-hall, Cardiff.-<40, Tht Parade. 415

ADVENTURES OF EBENEZER LOBB. How I Was Intimidated. My eyes have been opened. The knowledge of law which I have gathered from the recent Sessions has thrown a lurid light upon my past career. I find I have been being intimidated all my life, without knowing it. Tho first case was when I was comparatively young. I had committed some breach of etiquette -I think by oversetting my bread and milk—- and the prisoner, I mean the female who acted as nurse, held up her fist in a threatening manner, and said,— You naughty boy If you do that again, I'll give it you I" Observe SHE did not say what she would give me. But I hold that she meant thereby that she would give me a whopping, or, in the technical language of the law, would beat, wound and grievously ill-treat me, against the peace of our Lady the Queen, her crown and dignity. Even now I can recollect the cold shiver which congealed my blood, as she uttered the conxse and brutal threat. Even now I feeIn. faint tingling in my ears as I recall the sight of that upraised hand. I am prepared to go into the witness-box to-morrow and swear that I was intimidated. Full gladly would I seek a just, though tardy, vengeance. But unluckily I have lost the address of the criminal. Her Christian name is Martha, but there my information stSps. Whether she ever had a surname, and, if so, what it was, or whether she has since changed it, I cannot say. I have. therefore resolved to show a Christian spirt, and forgive her. 1 [N.B.—I have a theory that domestic servants have no surnames. I may be mistaken in this, but I certainly never heard any one claim to possess a surname. The question is one of interest, and I invite correspondence on it.—E. L. I But I must leave off here, to announce my CHANGE OF ADDRESS. Little did the reader guess, as he read my beautiful and instructive article last Tuesday, that the guide, philosopher, and friend who had penned it was even then writhing beneath the iron heel of the Serpent-Calumny Yet so it was. My readers may remember that there was a Census the previous Sunday. Well, a form was left at my house, No. 333, Newport-road, late on Saturday night. I at once proposed to fill it up, but my landlady chose to assert some ab- surd claim to be head of the household, and on that ground to fill it up herself. Her real object, I have no doubt, was to conceal her age from my prying eyes. Well, we had words about it, words which at times nearly amounted to intimidation on her part. But unfortunately she had got the docu- ment in her clutch and as she was a powerful woman, and the chivalry of my nature made me recoil from a physical encounter with a female, I gracefully gave way. Of course I had to furnish her with the infor- mation as to myself—information which I deem it right to withhold from the prurient curiosity of the readers of this paper. I made her enter the various details in my presence, and she treacherously did so. Then I dismissed her, little recking of the diabolical plot which was even then brewing in her breast. But for an accident I might have never heard more. But it so happened that I met the enumera- tor in the street on Tuesday morning, after he had the paper back. When he saw me coming I thought I noticed him start and look round as if for some refuge. I bore down upon him, however, and said in deter- mined tones,- Good morning." Good morning, Mit LOBB," he replied, and nodded his head as if he would pass on. Have you had our census paper?" I pursued. Yes, to be sure. It's all right." He spoke cheerfully, but I detected an uneasy feeling lurk- ing beneath his apparent ease, and I suspected something wrong. "Is it filled in all right 1" I went on. "Has my landlady given her age correctly 2" "I don't know, I'm sure." What has she put down ?" That's confidential," and he winked. Tell me her real age, and I'll see if it's the same." "I don't know it. But I sse that there is some mystery. I demand to see that census paper. He turned pale, and muttered to himself, Is it so, indeed?" Then aloud, "I am forbidden to show it." What ? Mayn't I have an opportunity of correcting the entries about myself ?" Oh, certainly-if they're wrong." What dark meaning lay under that strange emphasis ? I resolved to sift this thing to the bottom. They are jTwrong," I 0 retorted, ° "the Rentry about my profession or occupation is wrong. I forgot to put down that I was a journalist. It is my proud prerogative to be a member of that Fourth Estate which, in the words of Burke, has held a mirror up to nature and I have never written one line which, dying, I need not wish to blot. I have uttered nothing base, I have eschewed the evil and chosen the good, and kept myself unspotted from the world I ceased, and, to my surprise, a look of profound sorrow, of pity rather than admiration, stole across the face of that enumerator. He heaved a sigh, and murmured beneath his moustache, "Too true, too true." Come," I said sternly, "let me see my census paper. Slowly and reluctantly he drew it from his pocket. Then he artfully folded it, so that I could only read the part relating to myself. Then lie held it out at arm's length with one hand, while he raised a loaded stick in the other. The precaution was not uncalled for. He might well dread the outburst of my righteous wrath. That landwoman—I cannot call her a landlady —had been guilty of the most wicked piece of effrontery which low cunning could devise or hellish spite could execute. She must have gone straight from the scene of our trifling difference, and perpetrated her crime. Well might I refuse to believe my eyes, as I read, in bold, distinct handwriting, opposite my name-the name of LOBB-in the last column but one of that census-paper, the hideous word— Imbecile Not though a thousand ages should roll o'er my devoted head would they wipe out the remem- brance of that fatal shock. I gnashed my teeth, and for a moment the wretched enumerator looked as if he meditated flight. "It is false!" I shouted, so loud that some of the people living in the houses opposite came to their windows. "False as Sheol! That woman has committed wilful and corrupt perjury. She has been guilty of vitiating the entire return. The Census for 1891 will be statistically worthless." "Calm yourself, pray, MR LOBB," began the man. Keep cool. Sir, I am cool," I replied, clenching my fi "I am hke a cucumber. But what would have me do ? That column is wholly erroneou I am not an imbecile at all." Oh There was hesitation in his tones. I saw it. and went on. "On my word of honour as a gentleman, assure you that I am in full possession of my senses," I said. "I am compos mentis. Ask anyone. Ask the editor of the Echo. Oh, it is a burning shame that my character should be unscrupulously assailed. He who steals my purse steals cash which enriches him, but pro- crastination is the thief of time Well, MR LOBB, if you are really serious, and assure me you are not an imbecile, I will strike out the word." I was never more serious in my life," 1 responded. "This is no lavishing matter. If they hurl such accusations as me, who else will be safe? What of Solomon? What of Stead? What of the Newport Harbour Commissioners t' My earnestness impressed him. Havo you a pencil ?" ho asked. With a glad cry I drew out an indelible ink pencil (manufactured at Nuremburg, Bavaria), and scored a deep line across the hateful word, blotting it out for ever. The Census was saved. It WAS not for MY own sake that I was glad. But I could not bear to think of the poor Registrar-General AND his thousands of clerks toiling day and night for the next six months, and all for nothing I hastened off to my lodgings, and summoned my traitorous foe before me. This day week, ma'am, I leave your house for ever." Such were my words. An explanation followed. My landlady sought to glaze over her wickedness by pretending that it was all a. joke. She said that she had never really thought that I was an imbecile. But I did not believe her. I was adamant, ..and by THE time these words meet the reader's eye, I shall have gone to fresh woods and pastures :new. I am going to Rumney. I have long felt irresistibly attracted to that. peaceful spot. I "shall take a-cottage of my own on the hill, and 1 shall offer myself for election as people's warden.

He Wanted to go Back to Lizzie. A WIFE'S COMPLAINT j Francis John Tyars, Tisbury-road, West Brighton, and Miiddox-street, Regent-street, was summoned for assaulting his wife, Matilda, on the 23rd of March.— Mr Wedder- burn prosecuted, and Mr B. Abrahams defended.—Mrs Tyars deposed that previous to January last she came up to London from Brigh- ton with her husband and her brother, Mr Kemp where her husband left them, and did not return to Brighton. A few days later, owing to what she had heard, she came to London again, and found her husband in the Alhambra Theatre with a strange woman. That evening they dined together. Some days later she found him again, at a house in Maddox-street, with the same woman. That evening she and her husband and her brother dined together at a hotel, the defendant repeatedly saying that he wanted to go back to his Lizzie. Suddenly he got up, and said he was going to leave them for a moment, and on her trying to stop him from going out he struck her twice, and knocked her head against a chair. He then gave up his intention of leaving them and stayed. He afterwards struck her in the bedroom, and rendered her insensible. He also threatened her with a knife and a stick. She had no bruises as the result of the assaults, but she suffered from internal injuries.—Cross-examined by Mr Abrahams: Is not the real cause of the ill-feeling the fact that he came into a legacy a short time ago, and kept it all ?-Complainant No.—But did not his sister-in-law leave him a comfortable annuity, and did not the quarrels commence from that time ?—No, they did not. I b o fought his battles for 15 years, and he has spent his money improperly. — In further cross-examination complainant said she saw her husband at the Alhambra Theatre with a woman. Complainant and defendant went out. They had some brandy and water, and he signed a certain document. They returned to the Alhambra, and spent the evening there. She found her husband was living with Lizzie," and she went to- thair apartments, as she had a right to go where he went.—Mr Abrahams: Not after the Jackson case. (Laughter. )—Complainant went on to say that she found them at the apart- ments, and she boxed the woman's ears. An overcoat, 18 years old, was torn in the scrim- mage. She got him sftvay to their hotel, where she ordered dinner, and they had champagne. She never mixed wines. (Laughter.) Defendant had made a will in favour of his Elizabeth." He wanted to leave the hotel and go to her, and com- plainant wished to save him from the sharks surrounding him.—Mr Abrahams: You had your own way, of course ?—Complainant: What about your own wife, Mr Abrahams ?—Mr Abrahams Oh, never mind my wife; she is all right. (Laughter.) You have instructed your solicitor to take proceedings in another court ?—Yes, to get me a separation.—Mr Kemp, the brother of tha complainant, corroborated, and said he and his sister pulled the defendant back when lie wanted to leave the hotel. -,Nfr Hannay said that as proceedings had been instituted in another court, he would adjourn the summons sine die.

TRACKING MURDERERS WITH I BLOODHOUNDS. Mr Percy Lindley, who is breeding lome mag- nificent bloodhounds at his residence on the borders of Epping Forest, near Loughton Railway Station, has been interviewed by the Pall Mall Gazette, from whose report we make the following extract: "In your opinion, would it be practicable, as has been suggested in connection with the recent Whitechapel murders, to train bloodhounds for tracking criminals ?"—" At the time when the idea was first started Sir Charles Warren wrote to me asking my advice. But I strongly dissuaded him from the experiment. In the country, where there is not much traffic, it is easy enough for a hound to follow a scent; and not long ago two well-authenticated cases have been brought to my knowledge of criminals being tracked by hound?. One was in this country. A man was found murdered in a field, and there was not the slightest clue as to who was the murderer. The who was called to the scene brought the bloodhound and set him to find the track. The hound began his task at once, went across some fields, and to a country house where an old lady lived with her son. At the door of the house the animal came to the end of the scent; but the doctor, thinking the hound had got on a wrong scent, and he would only make himself ridiculous in saying anything about the matter, kept silent. Shortly after it came out that the son of the old lady was the murderer. The other case happened at Dieppe. A boy had disappeared and the rumour was that a murder had been committed. But there was no clue till a bloodhound found the scent, and discovered the dead body in a dust- bin. But in a large town like London it would be a very different matter, indeed. If, as in the case of the last Whitechapel murder, the crime was immediately discovered, there might be some hope of the hound finding the scent. But think of the enormous traffic of London, of the thousands of other scents that would cross and recross, and thus disperse the onv which the hound is set to follow. It would be utterly impossible, at least with the present training of bloodhounds, to arrive at any satisfactory and reliable results by setting them to track a scent in London, and it might lead to very serious mistakes. At the same time, I do not say that with proper training in town they might not, in future, be employed even "in this difficult task. I have always intended training a young hound in town, but so far I have never found the time to do it. As military scouts and messengers, how- ever, they are of the greatest service, and in the French, German, and Russian armies dogs are quite an institution. Had Sir Charles Warren remained in England, the bloodhound might probably by this time have been introduced in the army, for Sir Charles was to have one of my young hounds down at Dover to make experi- ments, but when he went abroad the matter was dropped."

ATTACKED BY BANDITS. I A Waggon Driver and Clerk I Shot Dead. A terrible encounter with a band of Mexican bandits took place, says a telegram from Eagle Pass, Texas, two nights ago near Lerdo, on the Mexican Central Railway, near the Mexican border. Three men with a quantity of goods for the railway started from the interior in an express waggon for the railway company's office at Lerdo, and were a mile from the town when they were fired upon by a body of men concealed in the bushes at the roadside. Simultaneously three mounted men rode up beside the wagon and opened fire. The driver fell dead at the first volley, and the two clerks were both wounded. One of these was strong enough to walk, and he managed to reach the gates of the Municipal Customs House, when he fell dead. The bandits carried off the wagon, but only obtained 200 dols. A party has gone in pursuit.