The Sun.
London, England, 1869-09-28 00:00:00

THE SOUTH LONDON ROMANCE.

London has its tragedy as well as Paris ; and though the
English murder can bear no comparisdn in point of atrocity
with the massacre at Pantin, it is not without a dramatic
character of its own. It appears that the young woman,
Sarah Johnson. who was Murdered by the Spanish ohne;
maker, Martini, on Sunday morning, in the Borough, l'a"
for some time led an abandoned life. She is the daughter
of a respectable family, living at Battersea, and She
and three of her sisters are entitled to a large sum ci,
money, stated to amount to several thousand poun",
under the will of her grandmother. She an
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her sisters lived happily with her family until tbcif
mother died, about three years ago. Some time after that
her father married again, and she became cry unc°nir;
fortable at home, and left it. When she did so she ha
very little money, and she was not entitled to gain
possession of her property until she came of age. She
was then 19. After she left her father's house
she took lodgings in the Borough, and lived tiler°
very quietly for a short time until she became se''
quainted with a young man named Riggall. On the 14 :1
March, 1868, the young woman gave birth to a bog, a°
Riggall stated that he was the father of it. Six month
after the birth of her child she made the acquaintance ()
a Spaniard, named Carlos Martini, who was 50 Yore °f
age. His wife had died, leaving him with five childr_iic°'
He induced the young woman to consent to leave
and live with him. Shortly afterwards he discovered that
she was in the habit of meeting the young man Riggs,:
the father of her child. Martini then became very icaltl
and often reproached her with her treatment of him, ":t
she used to make no reply to his charges again
her. Last Friday night she again met Riggall' L 4
on Saturday Martini discovered the fact. At niev,o
o'clock on Saturday night Martini went into a 1,111"'n-;
house, and after he had been thinking there for ab°--e.
twenty minutes, he left and went over to see the Yce_,7
woman, and nothing more was heard of them until ha"-
past three o'clock on Sunday morning. At that time
of
young woman lodging in an upper room heard cries ho
" Murder, murder !" and then loud screams. She becal%
alarmed, and called out to the-landlord. At this women
Martini walked downstairs and left the house. The 10&
lord, with others, then entered the room, and found the
unfortunate young woman lying with her throat cut.

WORKMEN'S TRAINS.—A petition to the 110110
of Commons is in course of signature by the Nverl'inl
classes in the metropolis and its suburbs, praying for .'l-,,e
alteration in the system which now regulates the ruoll'il1);
of workmen's trains. They pray that these trains rag,
run between the hours of five and eight in the roornioa;
that the tickets may be issued daily, and be available f°..
return at any time of the same day, and that 010°1'
should not exceed a penny each way. tag
HORRIBLE FANATICISM IN RUSSIA.—
efforts of the Russian Government have proved tin°s4
ing to put a stop to the extravagances of the $41'11.-e;
On the 13th instant, a party of 400 of these fen3tu-,
left the town of Balatschow and proceeded to a net
bouring wood to pray. The scene witnessed on teo4
return was horrible. A madman, named Wasiloff, &claw°
that he was the Son of God, and, after choosing tliFive
apostles from the party, called for a human sacrifice.,
victims were at once selected, placed on a number of 11
tit
gons which had been piled up for the purpose, and burthe
alive. A woman who had distinguished herself
by tvo
violence of her religious paroxysms seized the shaft °` Dor
cart and beat two young girls to death ; while antro
female was first trodden under foot and then literally' -er,
to pieces by the fanatical crowd. The proceedings iv

stopped by the arrest of the whole party.
COMMITTAL OF Two CONSTABLES roll to,
SPIRACY.—At the Canterbury Police-court on Monday' 0 e
constables of the local police, named Banks and e4v-nirifi
were 'committed to take their trial at the eznring
assizes for the county of Kent, on a charge of °01151,4009'
together to incite another man to commit a tho
The evidence implicating the accused was for
effect that Bennett went to an oast (a place 110%01
drying hops), and endeavoured toinduce a man anti of
there to let him have some hops. The collarlfc:004
Banks in the transaction was alleged through his mioo,
engaged the services of a carrier to remove the th°
cautioning him to be careful how ho did it,
or to
matter would be found out. He also rePres,en'ectisllf,
the! carrier that with care the affair could
OPe ar
worked,. and arranged to watch their superior °1,410000
the beat prior to the hops being removed. The F
were admitted to bail. 010/'
A SELF-DENYING MLNISTER.— The blin:11 060°1
Mail publishes an address from the clergy of the 10700
Meath to the late venerable rector of Castlepollard,tiolio
brings under public notice an act of self-denial redeviiiiicO
441 f
to the credit of the Irish Church. The Rev. cf.
Eames, who voluntarily resigned his parish
of the passing of the Church Act, in order "on -
te Prof /o
for a longer continuance among his friendov°,
means of grace," has been sixty-five years e on l'lol‘
in the diocese of Meath, during forty of these Yee tiop ,
income of loss than £lOO per annum. His resigeesecte
icl
the valuable living of Castlepollard, or Rathgrt'ff'a Aer.
to the Church the advantages in commutation,
wise belonging to the incumbency of a youthfulp°oo
Tho entire clergy of the diocese, including the corn,
Archdeacon, placed their signatures freely and bus foit
upon the address to Mr. Eames, in recognition of j
e
ful labours,. and their generous completion. s* _itcll
Or
A GOLD ,BATTLE IN NEW YOBS:. ord fio
battle between the "bulls" and the .bearoooortitir
Several days last week in New York. Tho jeout flea ergs
paper currency in dm, United States brings 111) colatUlr
tions in the price of ti:te precious metals. '-'l!oociti
when money is wanted, may create an artificial:ooi tre;
buying up the metal right and left, not for. lit price 0,0
purposes, but for the resale at the hr;niay dint
which their forestalling of thEi. articleor
it. Only one drawback exists to tteal °e4ifc;
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success of this little game. Gold, till— obte"1:00
is not limited in quantity. It °tcleVi..t/3t
in AL:er!ca itself to almost any extent, if the Do, lid,
be ample; while Europe can send a suPPIY the 1'4.4..04
literally boundless, is at all events too large I.:I:wk. 1)11,
pulation of a clique of gamblers in Ncvl it'befol
week a strong combination of outragcouslY reucel: ill A 00
sent up the premium on gold about 30 Per
ataitiedfool
clays; and, could the price have been I°l,o tiO
urgent needs of trade would have enabled: oat
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to pocket au enormous profit on
things were overlooked. The United States TOOOlO p ,„4
a large amount of gold, and can always aPare .4001
the market ; and telegraphic communicationco;teractrot
places its gold within easy reach. Both ~.„,01 0144
were promptly brought into use. 13°n :"in tvio volo
the saler'citorlh_o7,l,
nearly a million of his superfluous gold, Oat' iod. 00
first announcement of these measures in 1441 010 i, ~/4
bn tr-
more half a million sterling was at sea from Plg,v .5j0r1(.001,
sufficient : the speculation burst liko a soar °l.._
the gamblers retired in sulks to chew th0e1.10...
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