NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 154, 20 August 1881, Page 3

NEWS IN BRIEF.

An enterprising pastiyeook, of London, w ho horvtd :\ l'tt'c en Ice for the P>:ir{lewOuutts wedding-breakfas', has turned his luck to good account. lie now smlvc 1.---tises the bite of past-'y as the '" Ashnicad " tartlets. ■ The Courts of II uog.My have decided that the priests of (lie "Roman Catholic have the v\<zlit to bapnse ;>1! cbild n-n without distinction. The Piuttstanis u'ter aloud protest against such sn invas on of their rights. There is nti'l running frovn the Piazz-i di Vt"!izia to the entrance of the Vatican, m Rome, a line of oinm'busses which j have been running; for fifty yeas; they are rickety and dingy, aud are drav.n by shabby horses. The city has only two street tramway-. The fine reside ace of ibo JDell family is hi Nashville, Term. The senior Dell is a !.igb!y ic-pei'ted Methodist aud advocate of total abstinence He was disturbed a Aay evenings ago by unvsijal noisis m the freemen!, avl going io investigate, he found that his son b;>d opened a ba y -room, with all the mual furni are and btock in.xide, and a h'y; BJ<»n---boa-d onts'de. The yonng man's busii?es'S was crushed. vS. fet orders have htvn given by the Russian Minister of Fimnce p;oh;hifing the enlry into the empire of nitroglycerine which is ckda; ed a Government moucr poly. After tbli ty y«-i'-s' absence, Robert Thorn, of Haverh'll. Mass.. came home recent!)', and his fast business \v?s to kick over a tombstone that h;'d been erected to his memory m?ny ye?vs before. Judge Walkc*, of )'!lncis, was recently robbed of ;000 by two mm who politely assisted him into a railway carriage, lie did not discover bis lon xill a few houis afterwards. At a recent evening party m Londou the guest were astoui^brtijaud thelady of t l 'c house dumbfovnded to hear the boj' m buttons, after annoi"ioio? the names of several, guests, roar out " The m;>a with the oj'sters !" Many men were recently arre3t2d ie the State powder factory outstde St. Petesburg for having .''evolutional/ publications m. their possession. One hundred and fifty students m K,w Yoik are studying the Irish lrvgiia^c, and meet twice a week ta .listen to sou^s and addresses m Irish. The C l ongTcga!ioml Church, Petersh.i.m, Kew South Wales, was recently broken into by thieves. Forlrmately the^ Couimunion plate was not m its usua chest. A coal shaft at Carhondale, Kan., recently caught fire from a furnace, and ou* of 20 miners at work, 14 were rescued, three were brought up dead^and three missing. A small party of negroes recently rose m insurrection at Guantanmo, Cuba, killing the sergeautand one private. The party was afterwards beaten and the leaders killed. Unsuccessful attempts were made to introduce trout into Otago from. Tasmania pria to 186-8, but m that year the first successful ova from Tasmania were hatched out m Dnnedin. The increasing poverty of the Mohammedan population m Jerusalem is very remarkable, even persons belonging to old and influential families being m some instances reduced to a atate of actual privation. Frank Walworth, who murdered his father at the Sturvant house, m New York City, some few years ago, and was discharged from prison on the plea of illhealth and threatened idiocy,, wasrecently ad mitted to the bar of Supreme Court at Ithaca., The death rate of Chicago, is reported to be greater now than for many years past. The mortality among children is frightful. The filth of tbe city and the bad drinking water are the causes. The corn fields along the Missouri Valley are alive with flocks of geese, brant, and ducks. They are seen by railroad travellers to rise m flocks of thousands when disturbed by the noise of the trains. Very little progress has been mads with the De Lesseps (.'anal. Six stations have been established on the proposed lin< across the Isthmus, but no houses have been built, and the men are lhing ir> ten ta. Wong Tze Fung, an elderly Chinaman m San Francisco, recently saw a Jive turtle, lying on its back m front of a restaurant, and having purchased it for £3, had i.t conveyed to a wharf mnd thrown into the sea. The American revenue steamer Corwin has been sent out f'otn New York to the Arctic Ocean m search of the Jeannet'.el In spite of a'fl sail! »(.-a ; n>.f \he niucc haused ooal fire it is far Ie to i,c -'i-a b.ufc suue of tb,Q modeless. substr

Some barrels of an explosive fluid m cellar, m St. Joseph, Mo., recently b[ew up. In a saloon overhead was a large crowd of negroes, wl»o were install .Iy enveloped 'n the fbmes. Three negroes were killed. Five others were found brUy irrj'ircd. !)u A! v 5, at Poughkcepsec, N.Y., ;i person n ued John Va-sar prcscutcd to tlie- town i new bui'ding to be called Va-<s,ir li;>:iie. an;! to be used for keening ol ! im-n. He ji'-o prc-fn'cil oMier pr.i.>f;y !■> aeinslitntiu!! wtr.tb tIO.OOJ. and £3000 as an endo.vmi/it fund. rh.- Iv.il of Abo.'Veu v. ; ,I! he "m Queen's High Cumrj'iKsioner U> tbe next (General A^seniiilv of (ho K^ti!) isbfl Church of Sou l;= id. 'The appu'ir.ineu; gives satisfaction.