The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-06-13 00:00:00

BARBAROUS WIFE MURDER.

On the morning of Wednesday a farmer named Ilobt.
Smith murdered his wife. A.t five o'clocli.: she left her
brother-in-law's for the purpcise Of " churning "
and nothing was heard in the neighbourhood until six
o'clock, when Smith, not half clothed, walked into his
brother's and told him he had murdered his wife. No one
saw the deed committed, but the unfortunate man fully
confessed the crime, and explained how he effected the
murder. It appears from his own statement that he met his
wife as she was entering the house, on which a scuffle
took place—the husband tearing off, his wis'e's cap.
She escaped and ran down the'hy-path leading to her
brother-in-law's, but he pUrsued her and overtook her
about half-way. Having no weapon, he struck her to
the earth with a stone, and then placed her with her
Reck over a sharp stone, and with another with a
sharp edge, weighing about albs., he chopped .the
head from the 'body, placing the trunk —in one
place and the head in another. At an inquest
which was held on the body, before D. Kelly,
Esq., Surgeon Little, of Castledawson, who made a post
mortem examinatian of the body, gave it as his opinion
that a largo fraoturo of the skull was produood by tho
first blow, and that a stone produced, which was covered
with blood, was the implemement the murderer used to
sever the head from the body of his unfortunate wife.
There were no marks of violence on the trunk ; and the
jury, on Smith's 'admission, found 'him guilty of murder,
and committed him for trial at the next Derry assizes.
It is said that the murdered woman was a native of
Eallycastle.—Ookraine Chronicle.

A pamphlet is coming out at Paris, entitled the
Irish Question."

WHITE-BAIT IN GREENWICH.—I will add, as the
result of my own long experience in such matters, that
if the far brighter half of the human race were but aware
of the full power of the white-bait dinneras a matrimonial
weapon, they would never, even in. thought, malign this
most valuable institution. A ball_-Toom is the very worst
arena for action in such matters ; the breakfast-table in
a country house, when the fair combatants step down
from their robing-rooms fairer and fresher than Venus
from the sea-foam, amongst the best. A Roman pic-nic,
with a ride home by moonlight with a too-fascinating
being by your side, is also a ten ible trial to the manly
heart; but then Rome is a good way off, and not every
English mother can give her daughter the advantage of
such a canter over au onipiro Oust, and the heart of a
eidest sbn. l'or practicitl purposes try a
greenwich dinner.—Once a Week.

THE ODD FELLOWS AND THE STRIKES.—The feeling
of the numerous and influential body of Odd Fellows
was unmistakably displayed at the annual meeting of
the Manchester Unity held at Shrewsbury lately,
An amendment in their established rules was proposed,
by which it was decided that no member should be
alloyed a travelling card (being a pa§sparr far him to
claim assistance ia any district), if ha Was oat of
employment through a strike. ft was further agreed
that the Manchester Unity should remain strictly neutral
in any dispute between masters and workmen, and the
233rd general law, as amended, now reads as follows

"That no member shall be allowed a card who has lost
his employment through engaging in a strike or turnout
for wages,"

Suoivs ANT Mort.l47.—A Tankee showman Writes
a letter, maintaining that was fiiiires"ar'e
eating than the drama. gear him I'm travelin
with a tent which is better nor hirin halls. My show
consists of a serious of wax works, a panetamy called a
Grand Movin Diarca of the War in the Crymear, comic
songs and the Cangaroojwhich last little cuss continues
to conduct himself in the most outrageous style. I
started out with the idea of making my show a great
Moral Entertanement, but compelled to aware so
much at that air infernal Cangaroo that I'm fraid this
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desitie 'will be tiustnited to some extent. 4nd while
speaking of morality, remines me 'O4 54131 rullo tu'rn
up their noses at shows like mine, sayiu they is low and
not fit to be patronized by people of high degree.
Sure I maintain that this is infernal nonsense. I main-
tain that wax figures is more elevatin than all the plays
ever wroten. Take Shakespeer for instance. People think
116'A grate things, but I contend he's quite the reverse to
the contrary. What sort Qf scHe is there to King Leer
who goes round cussing his Aarters, chawia hay and
throwing straws at folk, and larfin like a silly old koot,
and makin a ass of himself ginerally ? There's Mrs.
Macbeth, she is a nice kind of woman to have, aint she ?
a puttin old Mac, her husband, up to slayin Dunkun
with a cheek 2 knife, while he is payin a friendly visit to
their house. Q its high morality i spoze, when she lrtelsrfs
wildly and sez, gin me the daggers—i'le let big boy
out,' or words to that effeck—i say this is all strickly
proper, I spoze ? That Jack Fawlstaff is likewise a
immoral old cuss take him how you may; and Hamlit
is as crazy as a loon. Thare's Richard Thurd—
people think he is grate things, but I look upon him
in the lite of a monster. He kills everybody he
takes a noshun to, in cold blood, and then goes to sleep
in his tent. Binieby he wakes qp. and yells ftly a hciss,)
so he kan go orf and kill sum more people. If lie is
not a fit specimen for the galleries, then i should ike to
know whar yu find urn. Thare's lergo who is more
ornery nor pizen. See how shameful he treated that
highly respecterble injun gentlemun Mister Otheller,
makin him for to beleave his wife was to thick with
Casheo. Obsarve how lergo got Casheo drunk as a
blind owl on Eorn Whiskhy, in order to parry oqt hia
sneakin desines. See hoiF
wqrks Mister Otheller's
feelings up so that he goze and makes poor Desdemony
wailer a piller, which causes her death. But i must
stop. At sum future time I shall continue my remarks
on the drarnmer, in which i will show the vast superiority
of wax figgers, snaix and other fixins, in a interlectooal
pint of view."

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