New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-06-07

Il Foreign Items.
IS An English newspa per tells the following ex
a traordinary story which, if it is true, proves that
l. dog may, by culture bScome in certain respects
it as unreasonfng and absurd as some men, who
il oowardly throw away their lives to get rid Of
st some petty and transient annoyance
Il fine dog belonging to Mr. George Hone, Of
i, tflndsbury near Rochester, has committed de.
: iI0erate act of suicide by drowning in the Medway
y at Upnor, Chatham. The dog had been suspected
't Of approaching hydrophobia and was accordingly
v summed 9nd kept as much us possible from HE
. house. This treatment appeared to cause him
= much annoyance, and for some days he was OBJ
q served to be moody and morose but still without
e any appearance of becoming rabid. On Thurs
ii DAY morning he was seen to leave the house and
:, proceed to an intimate acquaintance Of his
1 master at Upnor, on reaching the residence of
u #hom ne set up plteous cry on finding he could
e not obtain admttance. After waiting at the house
, some little time he was seen to go to the river
Fclose by, and then deliberately walked down the
oank, and after turning round and giving kind
d o. farewell h0Wl he walked into the stream
Hhere ne kept his head under water until he rolled
! over dead This extraordinary act of suicide was
witnessed by several persons. The manner of the
death proved pretty clearly that the animal was
7 not suffering from hydrophobia.
, The anniversary Of the principal Protestant re.
igous societies in ireland are held in the CITY Of
Dublin in the month of April. Ten societies re-
port an aggregate of receipts amounting to nearly
s60o,OOO, (4ll3,538.) The two largest are the
Church Education Society, E45, ,l55 and the Irish
Ohureh Mission, &26,O74 The archbishop OF Dub.
lin presided at two or three of the meetings, the
venerable earl of Roden at the rest Mr.. Auchor.
son, at the Irish Society, said There are 163 275
persons IN Ireland who could be approached
through this society only-namely, those speaking
10 Iris III
times as many who spoke English and Irish, and
who might be called biltnguals. The speaking of
two languages was an unfortunate thing in anv
country, but more especially in Ireland, where
there is so impossible barrier between the two
races kept alive by the separation of two Ian.
guages"
Chinaman recently sent to the hulks at Tom
Ion, France, for murder committed in the French
possessions in Cochn-C China, appeared not to have
mad the slightest idea Of the gravity of his posi-
ton having looked upon his condemnation and /
transportation to Europe as a means of proving
his deYotedness to the religion of Confucius: but
ne was painfully surprised on his arrival to learn
that his magnificent tail of hair was to be cut off
10 lose this appendage is considered in China TO
be totally dishonored, and he was of COURSE. most
anxious to preserve it. However, he was com
PEELED to submit, but the shock was too severe
for him, as the moment the scissors cut through
the tuft Of hair he tainted and was Obliged to he
conveyed to the hospital.
woman, about thirty-fve years of AGE. was
found dead in back yard near the city road in
London, on the 8th inst. having straneIed herself
IN most extraordinary manner. police officer
who gave evidence at the inquest, said she had
fastened piece of spring-a penny ball of thick
twine-round her neck. She had evidently held
with her left hand the end of the twne against the
left side of her neck, while with her right hand
she had wound the twine eighteen times around
her neck. Every time that she twisted the string
round her throat she had pulled it tight When
she was found dead the remains of the ball of
twine we're in her right hand.
Steam omnibuses are to be established in Paris.
Inc company propose to run from the Champs de
Mars to the Bastile, making six halts The first
ls 10 pe at the champs Eysees, the second at the
Madeleine, the third at the new opera on the Bon.
leVard des CapQeines, the fourth near the theater
OF the Gymnase, the fifth at the Porte St. Martin.
ana the sixth at the Chateau d'Eau. The omni-
buses drawn by horses take an hour and twenty
minutes to perform the distance; the steam com x
pany undertake to accomplish it in forty.fve
minutes, including stoppages
The population of London has been estimated
by the registrar general at $40 on the 8tb Of
april 1867, five years from the date of the last
census OF this population 1929 ,339 are within
the metropolitan parliamentary boroughs, repre-
sented by eighteen members in the House of Com
mons; the remaining 425,60I persons are not
within the limits of any of the boroughs. The
metropolis " of the registrar general extends
rom Fulham to Plumbstead and from Hampstead II
10 Streatham.
"A lew days ago, says an English paper, soon
tfter the sexton Of the parish of Altriston finished
Aggng grave, robin took great fancy to this
lew domlcll, and soon built nest in it. She must
ave worked hard to complete her design in so
mort space, for when the sexton went on the
oowlng day to see that all things were as he left
nem the night before, he saw the robin pop out
rom her hiding place, and, 10 his great astonish-
1ent, found her nest
Mr. J, D. Mason, of Tenby, England writes to
he Gentlemans Magazine, identifying Hovle,s
ave, near that town, with the Cave of Belarius.
lentioned by Shakespeare in ''CymbeIine.p He n
ays the description of these two caves agree in
lree points, namely in the distance from Milford
aVen situation with regard to the sea, and cana.
iltty of harboring outlaws. tn
A singular discovery has been made at Rve
ngand. While workmen were exeayatine for q
rain they came upon what has proved to be the
eek Of vessel made Of English oak, and of larger
than are built at that port in the
resent day This appears to confirm the tradition sta
at the town was at one period nearly surrounded n.
? the sea. AZ
AZ recent sale of antiquities at Chester, An
lglaad, one of the lets was well-attested relic Clio
Miles Coyerdale, the translator of the first =
lglish bible consisting of silver.mounted box, o,
ntaining metacarpal bone of the right hand Of
reformer taken out of his grave in Cripple
te Church,
Trinity College, Cambridge, England, has fallen CL
II 70 the large sum of from 100000 to $4,000,
der the will of the late master. 1t is to make
oyiaion for the establishment of q professorsbfp
studentship of international law in tile Uniyer.
:.
Ir Moses Iontefore has returned from England Has
m bis mission of charity to the Jews at Jeru.