The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1875-12-25 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

ALLEGED DOUBLE MURDER BY A GIRL.  lea Inn Rue was on Friday charged before he Somerton magistrates with the wilful murkid of a boy, named John Henry Barnard, one year and nine months old, son of Mr. John kanard, farmer, of Huish-Episcopi, Langport, and with setting fire to a rick of barley, the propetty of Mr. B irnard. • The prisoner, acknowAged to Mrs. Barnard her guilt, and also, when edged with knowing something about the death of a little child about four years old, at Pitney, tau Langport, she confessed that she dices it into a well. To Mr. Barnard, a man named Sweet. and Acting-sergeant Strickland khe repeated this statement. After she was taken :Ito custody she withdrew the confession, and ,ts.ted that it was extracted from her by Mrs. Bkaraard by means of threats. Mrs. Barnard add she knew she was guilty; that if she did not admit it she would knock off her head, and the was outside ready to take it away. She was iirtid, :aid admitted the charge. Mrs. Barnard denied this, and said that no threat was used ; she was vary calm and self-possessed; and in this she was supported by Mr. Barnard. The prisoner asserted that Mr. Barnard's son Frederick, nine years old, set the burley on fire. The prisoner =not read, but questioned the witnesses with iensidentble tact, showing that she is possessed of unusual intelligence. She did not seem, hows,rerto feel the position in which she is placed. the was committed for trial on both charges. _  THE Pato: oF Stet,Es.—The Economist Fran- publishes some curious details respecting the terketable value of slaves. In Africa the tariff lor captive humanity is stated to be lowest of all. &adman ordinary charge for a male child is lees than £2, and for a female child twice, or three times that amount. A full grown negro is 4teo exchanged for a donkey, an old musket or even a few pounds of copper. Nevertheless, to the stringency of the modern laws 'Pant slavery, these same slaves, when brought wely to Khartoum, fetch at least £2O the pair. Cue United States, while slavery was in vogue, the eas.: was alt a,' price oogetfherdifferent.kTher, was not 1830, tle thin £l2O. very adultyismallest "children brought xith their mothers cost usually one dollar per puuud, the calculation being made on the very simple letsis of the weight avoirdupois. Before the Yea ltalo the value of these commodities had ~rnermou%ly increased that a sturdy negro in "I roudition Was not to be h.' for less than ,309. while the young children were sold at from to t2OO. awl were no longer roughly valued hy their weight in the scales, but by their bodily 4ppearsnce and strength. At that rate it is not ditEenit to forma guess at the enormity of the I?is satTessl by the Southern States by the omenof their 3,000 slaves The Russia,n,s in tiMir late expedition to Khiva, are said to have Med as many as 40,000 persons of different nationality who had been captured and retained in the khanate. They found that a Russian captire rras ',old there commonly at the rate of from tO £l2O, a Persian at 1:15 and women slaves 4! an price of a little less than £lO. On tae emancipation of slaves in the French colonies 1044, the proprietors received an indemnity 4Posed to represent three-sevenths of the total of saeh slave, and at this rite the indemnity .tat milttinted in the French colonies to the average of 21, guin  of 61 ih, hot ter.  Patent Female WOTII3II'S of a hopeless eu,e. tiiven uphy four oul ,urgeons. Cupy of the plitefill • My ,1:114:1Ltcr, Filen Mab•e.l fINT 111,1111 th, and wa, atten4led ins hipl ,11,142011, aIIV benefit Lanner's Patent Female Pill, the .ixtll box completely re,Mvot her to Im:ss :Ler furnily."—,ul,/ 10.'4  dritgzi: •,1, or ser.t  Lat. y will fr, fr.ol the  _ _rect. Liverpool, and at the Jou r,sa I jPWyleys übl Cu., Coventry, who leier atakuu bistriet.  (