Glasgow Courier. — 1863-07-30 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

SHOCKING TRAGEDY. We read in the Levant Herald of July 15 :—" A 'Y occurred at Ortakeui on Friday afternoon last, worth reporting, tor the double reason of showwhat at least temporary impunity human life be sacrificed in open day in the immediate of the capital, and of exposing a piece of priestly indecency that loudly calls f)r public reprobation. On the afternoon in question an old Jew miser, resident in the village, who, after unsuccessfully haggling with • oosternionger for some cucumbers, for winch the latter. asked 10 paras each, had gone to the market place and bought a supply at five paras, was returning honie with his bargain, when he met in the open stieet a couple of Croats. One of them knocked him down with a blow of a stick across the forehead. and then quietly ' walked off with the cucumbers, leaving his companion to complete what followed, whieh the ruffian did with a leisurely sang froici of a butcher slaughtering a sheep. With his knee on the old man's breast, he drew his kerns, and, holding back the head, whittled away till the neck was nearly severed. He next quietly rifled his victim of everything worth taking from the body, and then, turning towards the windows of some of the neighbouring houses, whose inmates had been witnesses of the whole, and who with true native cowardice had contented themselves with bawling for the police, he shook his dagger defiantly at the poltroons, wiped it on the dead nian's gown, and walked slowly off after his companion. The murderer gone, the neighbourhood took courage and removed the body to its late home; and now happened the priestly share in the outrage. On application being made to the Rabbi to bury the murdered man he refused unless paid 50,000 p., the deceased having, he said, neglected the duties of • charity' and been otherwise a great ' law'-breaker while alive. This refusal was persisted in throughout Saturday and until Sunday forenoon, when, decomposition having set in, the whole street was being affected by the smell. A deputation of the inhabitants again waited on the Rabbi, but in vain: he would not abate a piastre of his demand. A crowd of hamals then gathered round his door and threatened that if he did not proceed with the burial within a couple of hours they would throw the body into the Bosphorus. This brought the ieverend Shylock to his senses, and the interment soon after took place, amid the hooting of a numerous mob, which more than once showed a disposition to lay sough hands on the Rabbi. The murderer, we are earl to learn, was discovered by the police, and arrested on Monday."  I tragedy , which is 1 Mg with I may still suburbs'  The decrease last week in the number of operatives receiving relief in the twenty•seven unions of Lancashire and Cheshire was 3237, making a total decrease since December of 127,347. The Dowager Lady Foley died at six &clock on Monday morning, at her residence in Great Stanhope Street, London. Her Ladyship had been in a weak state of health for some time past. Notwithstanding some complaints received from a few agricultural districts, particularly in the south of France, the general appearance of the wheat crop, as far as it can yet be judged, is satisfactory. At the Lincoln assizes on Saturday, a man named John Hill, who had been previously convicted of a similar offence, was sentenced to three years penal servitude for cutting the manes and tails of horses. from Bordeaux of the 22(1 instant state - to the report of the best judges who - examined the vineyards in that , vintage will not be superior to feu%