The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1853-04-14

4 French Items Extra.
The Paris correspondent of the Washington
Republic, i prolific in rich items We ex-
tract the follswing from one of Kis latest let
tiers:
. The police of Paris are generally . match
for private citizens, bot they sometimes find
more than an equal IN certain gentlemen
who, living on the highway and appropriate
ing other peoples goods, may be said to have
a public character. One of these gentry
was the other day discovered in tho act Of
riding bureau in a room in the upper story
of house. He fed to the roof but could
get no further. Raj ling and broken hotties
imPeded his onward progress. The occu-
pants Of the house guarded the windows and
the stairways; q c-owd of lockers. on in the
street watched his movements on the roof,
while squad of fremen, with hooks and lad
ders advanced on a run from the nearest post.
The poor fellow was in his stocking feet and
was minus hat. As the fremen reached
the roof he disappeared, no one could tell how
or where. The search was continued for .
half al hour. but was utterly fruitless. A
porter handed note to the commissary head
ding the battue. 1t was from the escaped
theft and was thus couched: 80. - g...'-l
EXCELLENT SERGEANT: "Do not fatigue
your men in pursuing me; when this reaches
you, ! shall be long way of. ...s.
"Look at the. house nextto the one where
was surprised, and You will see how escaped.
found window that opened like snuff
box. which let me into q chamber, most i'd
miraby kept. found a trunk with new
Clothes, anda pair Of vanished boots in it.
rugged myself f.om top to toe, walked down
stairs and out of the door. Do you remen,-
Der that man elegantly dressed, stopped
you and told you that you wouldn't catch the
theft! 1t was 1! II say theft mean it,
for having found in the trunk 200 francs in
gold, ! could not resist the temptation, and I
put 1t in my pocket. . Ny respects to your
wife. Adieu!" Is'..e..'.
The rascars assertions were discovered to
be correct, and the commissary and the fire.
men retired rather crestfallen.
A sort of small magistrate in the neighbor-
hood of Smyrna has got into q bad sorape, all
on account of locusts. This insect had been
OF SO much annoyance last August, ewing to
the eggs that it laid upon the grape-vines,
that this magistrate took it upon himself to
offer reward of twenty-five cents q pound
Tor all the eggs that the peasants might col
lect and bring to him., He had two or three
dollars in his treasury, and he thought if. a
dozen pounds or so Of eggs were removed
from the vines of his commune, he should do
agriculture service, and meet fattering no
tice from his superiors. The peasant sailed |
forth in immense numbers, and in three days
laid at their magistrates feet II 500 pounds of
locusts' eggs! The poor man was in for
about 81 900, while something like three dol.
lars and sixpence was all he had in his excheq-
uer. He repuditaed at once, and said be should |
write Smyrna for further instructions. What
the Smyrnese authorities will think proper
to do under the circumstances is yet nm
known. Tho magistrate may be eqgs-iled. |
A gentleman went in cab the other day
to the Bots de Rculogne, paid his fare. told
The driver to wait half an hour, and il he did
not return, to deliver three letters, which he
would find on the seat of the cab, 10 their sd-
dress. He then disappeared. The cab dri-
yer was frightened, and rushed into the wood
after him. He found him hanging by his
neck to tree. lie Cut him down, and ran
off to Madrid for glass of brandy. When
he got back the young man had vanished.
He afterwards found him setting at little
green table, drinking a sherry-cobbler. He
gave him back the three letters, and received
en francs in exchange. He swors never TO
disclose the secret, and went strightway to
he commissary of police and told him all
hat had happened. ,.. i.s'' F
The medical man Of Turin have lately been
occupied with a pleasant case. The question
vas why Antonio Sismondi could not be
iung. The executioner had tried to choke
lin, but was obliged to give up in despair.
The criminal refused to be choked They
ave at last declared that the shortness and
thickness Of the prisoners neck added to the
xc.ssive strength of the muscles in the vici-
'ity prevented the luxation Of the yertebre
nd rendered impossible the proper compress
ion on the spinal marrow necessary to pro- r.
uce death; but that, if the executioner had q
erssted, instead Of giving way to fright,
would have ensued sooner or la S
er. The criminal, it seems, was cut down,
nd died some hours afterward from apoplexy. :
Induced by protracted state of difficult and /
imperfect respiration The case was so hor-
bile thst it was brought Immediately under
he notice of the Piedmontese Parliament,
Tho ordered the medical inquest. j
HIGH PRICE OF Wool IN EURorE.-Wool :
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