The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-16 00:00:00

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.

On-Saturday, a youth named Levi Cohen, of the Jewish
persuasion, was bronzht before S. Holaw, Esq., at the
Police Court, by detective offiwrs Scaife and Thompson,
charged wilt stealing sixteen gold and silver watches,
seventeen gold gnarl chains, three gold rings, a pistol,
and a variety of other articles of jewellery, the property
of Kr. Cohen, of No 71, Greet Howard street. Deter-.
tive officer Scaife steed, from information he had re-
ceived on the previous night, he apprehended the prisoner
at the Lime street Railway Station, with all the property
(about £lOO worth) in his possession, He had just
taken his seat in a second class carriage, and was pro-
ceeding to Birmingham. Mr. Cohen sated that
the prisoner, who had represented- himself as a
member of his family, from Poland, had been
in his employ about five weeks. On the previous evening
he left his shop, with the boy in charge, about eight
o'clock, and returned soon after nine, when he found that
he had decamped, an I Liken a large quantiiy of proper y
with him. He inmedi ttely went and gave information
to the police, and slon aft,q• the two detectives apprehended
the prisoner as above stated. The property was produced
and identified by Mr. Cohen, -and the prisoner was cOm-
milted to take his trial.

ANOTIIER STABBING CASE' ON BOARD AN
.AMERICAN VESSEL.

Yesterday one of the crew belonging to the American
ship John J. Boyd, now lying in the river, and about to
sail for New York, was apprehended by detective officer
Sc ‘tt, and placed in the Birkenhead bridewell, on a
charge of having stabbed the 'mate of the'above vessel on
the precedjng night. ProM inquiries, we understand that
the prisoner had been repeatedly into the cabin with the
passengers, and bad stolen several articles Complaints
were made to the captain, but notwithstanding his having
received atrial., orders not to Molest the passengers
or interfere with their property, he again. late on Satur-
day night, paid ano•her vi4t to the cibin for the purpose
of plundering the property. Information was immediately
given to the master of the vessel, who despatched the
first mate to eject the thief from the cabin. An alterca-
tion took place, and then a scuffle, in the course of which
the mate received a severe stab. The prisoner was then
secured, and was given over to the authorities. It is
expected the case will be heard before the m gisrates at
.Birkenhead this day.

THE REGULATION MOUSTACHE.—A garrison order has
been promulgated at Woolwich, commanding the officers
and men indiscriminately to permit the growth of the
moustache on the upper lip, extending within two inches
of the whisker on either side of the face, and n 1 portion of
the beard to be retained either on or under the chin.
Ridiculous !

CAUTION TO RAILWAY SERVANTS.—MichaeI Brien has
been convicted at the Kilkenny assizes of c tusing the death
of five persons, by neglecting his defy of attending to the
points at the Thinkit siding of the Waterford and Kilkenny
railway, by leaving them Open when they should have
been closed, whereby the mail train rau into the siding and
came into collision with a ballast train then being in the
siding, whereby five labourers, working on the waggons of
the ballast train, were killed, fie was sentenced to 9
calendar months' imprisonment. with hard labour.
MINING SPECULATIONS IN IRELAND —" RIGGING, THE
M.ARKET."—For so ne weeks past articles have appeared in
the Mining Joutinal —apparently communicated from this
side of the channel—descatiting, in glowing terms, on the
increasing prosperity of mining enterprise in this part of the
ITAited Kingdom, especially as regards the Mining Com-
pany of Ireland. We deem it' our duty to notice this
subject, because erroneous statements have been put forward,
calculated to mislead the public ; and we think it the more
necessary to raise a warning voice, as the articles referred to
have been copied by some of our cotemporaries in this city.
—Evening Pest.
A SNAKE STORY.—A LIVE SNAKE IN A LIVE MAN.—A
gentleman. whose name we did not learn, arrived in this
city from Bird's Hill, on Monday last, for the purpose of
procuring surgical advice in relation to the possibility of
removing from the stomach a large snake, which has inha
bited that locality for the past fifteen years. Exactly at
what time the reptile was taken into the stemanh, the
sufferer is not aware. Ho first felt its presence in the
vicinity of his kidneys 'many years ago ; but the pains
experienced, although somewhat acute and troublesome,
occasioned no alarm until about_two years since, when one
day feeling quite unwell, he placed his hands upon his
bowels, and distinctly felt the snake crawling within him.
Since then it has grown enormously, and has attained A
length of at least fifteen inches, and a size round the
middle of five or six inches. its proportions can be pretty
accurately ascertained as its entire shape is fearfully
obvious to the touch. It is vial active, and possesses an
insatiable appetite, judging from the amount of food and
water consumed by the sufferer, who is continually parched
with thirst,' and not unfrequently requires from three to
four gallons of fluid daily. Phrough the recommen Cation
of an• Indian,•he has lately found considerable relief from
his incessant thirst by drinking water liberally diffused
with vinegar. •He has made several ineffectual attempts
to dislodge " the varmint " by, starvation and the free use
of stimulants. On one occasion he abstained from both
food and water for three days, in the hope of bringing
the occupant to some sort of terms. The first day the
-snake became uneasy, •the second, boisterous, and the
third, furious, but the man still held out. At the end of
`the third day, however, his snakeship corn nenced an
.attack upon the walls of his prison, with what appeared
`to be a tolerably full set of teeth, end.the reselt was an im-
medi ate supply of food to both parties. As may be sueposed,
the man is reduced to a perfect skele, on, under the extreme
terture of mind and body preying upon him eig'it and day,
but he does not despair of finding a surgeon In the city
sufficiently skilful to make an incision into the abdomen
and remove the reptile. We have read of similar cases,
but this is the first that ever came under our observation.
and we hope it may be the last, for we have felt " all
overkill," ever;since.—Canadian Paper.