The Potteries Examiner : — 1873-03-22 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

LYNCH LAW IN KANSAS—A New York paper sops: 'A letter from Osawatomie to the W.:steep Spirit &s-cribes the life, sufferings, and death of George Ellis. horse-thief. John Healey, of Paola, had a three-yearold mare stolen, and it was an aggravation of the loss that John was a member of the Anti-Horse Thief As.elation. Ellis could not have stolen a steed fmin a worse man, for the whole company started in pursuit of him, like so many bloodhounds. They tracked him from settlement to settlement. Now the scent was cold, and then it was hot. It might have been lost for good and all if Ellis, horse-thief as he was, had, not sent a valentine to is girl in Independence. For that s Ide' meat the ptck started in full cry. There they dis. eovered the mare, and there they found the robber. The animal wa: to lie sold at auction that day, and the thief tea. on hand to see after his stock. He was seized, ironed, put upon the train, brought back to the farm fr,an which he stole the animal, exsonined by a comud:tee of the citizens, and the next night men in loge force came and took him away. When next ,een he was • hanging to a tree with a blanket thrown over his head, and with irons on his hands :ind lint.' nos, who found him in this situation du not s,em to have been in the least astonidied. They cut him down, however. and very considerately ,mat for the coroner, who in turn sent word that he would come' but who, some. Low, forgot to come at all. So they buried the dead thief, enAhhat is probably the Let of the smatter."  ou  A woman named Mary Ravbottoin the charge of having murder.sl her 1,:o Rowlmttom. at C'uarlesnorth, near t;10.,, tt loss that ikceaseu had been aline for tollle All,l tlett at a Lite hour at night his wife went home lie woo. for honor, and threw him ilownstaii,, from t'ae a effects which he bas since died. WaO'D HAVE THOVEHT ITi —The following plain. tire rebuke to her Gracious Majesty the Queen hes been administered by that tine old Tory paper, the JALoll it Loyelista as we are, and fully beEeving ant to her Majesty herself no greater penance ciuld be deo wised, we are old-fashioned enough to regret a levee on a Wednesday and a drawing room on Fri.:ay, is Lent. The example is far from salutary to those .n a loser class of society." An adventurous American aeronaut, Professor Ihno al.lsmi, intends this summer t 5 cross the Atlantic to Ireland in a large balloon. The machine MII weigh about 2.0001b5., will contain about 268.000 feet of gat. with two small reservoirs to provide against leakage, and an electrical arrangement for light. The pude*, catenlates to accomulisli his trip in from 17 hours to two days and a half, and intends, if the extoriment proves successful. to establish a lrilloou mail and pa, senger line round the world.—Grapltic. AN IMPORTANT BEQUEST, accompanied his onnono stipulation, has been made to the Bodleian Lbrary the late Sir Frederick Madden. In his will that gentle. msu directed that all his private journals front the year 1819 to the year 1872, both inclusive, a volume of letters relating to the catalogue of the Holkhani maga scripts, and several books bound in parchment arid roan, and also some bundles of papers on various jects, should be sent to the library mentioned, fastened up in a box, within a week after his death, caked to the condition that the box be not opened until the lit day of January, 1920. The bequest has been aecepted. A