Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1877-01-13 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

MADMAN'S LEAP FROM A TRAM—John Hogan, a young man about 22 years old, was found lying on the railway near Milford, a village about four milts from Stafford, on Friday evening. It appears that he was going from Holyhead to London by the train which starts from Holyhead at three o'clock. His strange conduct between Holyhead and Crewe caused his fellow travellers to change their compartment, and he travelled alone as far as Stafford. Nothing more was heard of him till he was found by two men on the line, and removed to the Stafford Infirmary. He has sustained a compound fracture of the thigh, a broken arm, severe scalp wound, and several other injuries. Ile gave several names, and also said that he had been robbed of his watch and chain, diamond ring, and a quantity of money, and then thrown out of the carriage by the men who had robbed him. He has, however, been examined, and found to be insane.  THE POPE AND TRH EMPIIEBB EUGENr& letter from Rome in the Monde—the reputed organ of the Papal Nuncio—represents the reception of the Empress Eugenie and her son at the Vatican as anything but cordial. The Pope declined her request to attend at his Maas and receive the wafer from his own hand, pleading age and weakness, to avoid discourtesy. Even if he should give way on thin taint to her continued entreaties French Catholics will know that in this inatthce he leant tmwards justice, and only yielded to mercy on being premed. Although the Pope did not eay to the Empress, 'See to what extremities your husband has reduced me, and reflect that if you contributed to it you are excommunicate," any other words must have appeared to her an unhoped-for good fortune, almost an absolution and pardon. The Empress, indeed, after a few days, recollected having to study the Catholic party in France, and abstained from further rites on the plea of Slums ; but the Prince went to the scion of the usurper at the Quirinal, trampling under foot the Pope's rights with a levity which even his father never allowed himself.  THE TRAGEDY IN PARl9.—Billoir, the man charged with the murder of the woman whose body, cut in several pieces, was found in the Seine some time ago, has at last confessed his guilt. He states that his mistress having returned home drunk, a dispute arose, in the course of which she inadvertently or wilfully broke a glass which be highly valued. While she was stooping to pick up the fragments he gave her a kick in the chest, and she fell down lifeless. He named the night and part of the next day by the corpse, without knowing how to die pose of it, but at last cut off the limbs, broke the sp:ne with a chisel and hammer, and placed the viscera in the water-closet, where they were reconNy discovered, and, wrapping up portions of the body, went , out at night from his rooms near Montmartre, through St. Ouen's-gate, and threw them into the Seine. The next night he got rid of the remaining portions in the same way. The tragedy for weeks escaped all clue. Billoir was simply arrested because his mistress had disappeared, and the first search of hlo lodgings gave no result. The details given by himseif are not, of course, to be implicitly accepted.