The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-04-08

me In TO 4 chamber, most admirably kept. found
q trunk With new clothes, and pair OF varntshsd
down stairs and out of the door, Do you remem-
Der that man, elegantly dressed, stopped you
and told you that you wouldn't catch the thief!
II was II If say thief, mean il; for having found
the temptation, and put them in my pocket. My
respects to your vile. Adieoo'
The rascars assertions we're discovered to be
correct, and the commissary and the hremen re-
tired rather crestfallen.
A sort of small magistrate in the neighborhood
Of Smyrna has got into bad scrape, all on ac-
count of locusts. This insect had been of 20 much
annoyance last August, owing to the egg that it
laid upon the grape-vines, that this magistrate
took it upon himself to offer a reward of twenty
five cents pound for all the eggs that the peas
ants might collect and bring to him. He had two
or three dollars in his treasury, and he thought II
dozen pounds or 20 Of eggs were removed from
the vines OF his commune, he should do agrcul-
ture service, and merit hattering notice from his
superiors. The peasants sailed forth in immense
numbers, and in three days laid at their magis-
trate's feet II 500 pounds Of locusts' eggs! The
poor man was ia for about $4,000, while some
thing like three dollars and sixpence was all he
bad in his exchesuer He repudiated at once, and
said be should write to Smyrna for further in
structions. What the Smyrnese authorities will
think proper to do under the circumstances il yet
unknown. The magistrate may be eggs-iled.
A gentleman went in a cab the other day to the
Bots de Boulogne, paid his fare, told the driver to
wait half an hour, and ii he did not return to de-
liver three letters, which he would find the seat
of the cab to their address. He then disappeared.
The cab driver was frightened, and rushed into
the wood after him. He found him hanging by
his neck to a tree. He cut him down, and ran of
to Madrid for glass of brandy. When he got
back the young man had vanished. He after
wards found him sitting at little green table,
drinking sherry cobbler He gave him back the
three letters and received ten francs in exchange
He swore never to disclose the secret, and went
strightway to the commissary of police and told
him all that had happened.
The medical men Of Turin have lately been &C.
cupied with pleasant case. The question was
why Antonio Sismondi could not be hung The
executoner had tried to choke him, but was obi 2 ed
TO give up in despair. The criminal refused to be
choked They have at last declared that the short
ness and thickness of the prisoners neck added
20 the excessive strength of the muscles in the
and rendered impossible the proper compression
on the spinal marrow necessary to produce death;
bat that, if the executioner had persisted, insea
Of giving way to fright, stranguIation would have
ensued sooner or later. The criminal, it seems,
was cut down, and died some hours afterward
from apoplexy, induced by protracted state of
difficult and imperfect respiration. The case was
90 horrible that it was brought Immediately under
the notice of the Piedmontese Parliament who
ordered the medical inquest FRANCO,