Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1891-09-12 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

HORRIBLE DISCOVERY.  According to the Madras Weekly ..116.7, a startling discovery has been made at the Hourali Goods Sheds. A wine case, marked P.S.A.Co., Limited, containing two dozen pints, and consigned to a Mohammedan in Calcutta from Patna, was found to emit a bad smell. It was opened, and a human foot was discovered. The case was conveyed to the Howrah Hospital, and opened in the presence of the police and the civil surgeon. It disclosed the body of a young Mohammedan female in an advanced stage of decomposition. The limb was pressed close to the body, which, save for a piece of coarse gunny, was entirely nude, and jammed into the box with considerable force. No ornaments and no marks of violence were discovered. The post mortem disclosed that the brain was congested, and that death was due to arsenical poisoning, accelerated by suffocation. The police are inquiring into the matter, which has caused some sensation in Howralt. Some sensation has been caused by a report that the alleged murderer had been arrested at Patna. He is the servantof a well-known merchant of that city. As all the woman's jewellery had disappeared the motive for the crime is supposed to have been robbery.  MR.LOWELLS IND LFFERENCE TO MONEY A writer in the New York Critic, in discussing some sides of the late Mr. Russell Lowell's character, says: There was never a less mercenary author than Mr. Lowell. We doubt that he wrote a line, in the whole course of his life, merely for the sake of the money it would bring him in. One may say that his circumstances placed him above the nonessity of "writing for money," and so, perhaps, in his later years, they did; but it is equally true that the offers he received were such that he must have been either very rich (which he was not), or very indifferent to money, to decline them. I understand that Harper's offered him £l,OOO for six articles—none of which were ever written; and that the Ceaturg offered him £2OO for each of as many essays as he would write; and he wrote but one. To go from great sums to small, when the Critic offered him £2O for the S. of a part of his hastily prepared opening address at one of the Author's Readings in this city, every word of which might have been taken down by a reporter and printed without impropriety the next morning, he merely said, firmly, but with a polite smile, "I cannot bring myself to part with it." He probably knew that, if ririnted, it would be permanently preserved, and did not care to have it go down to posteriti- with his more considered work.  The tiry village of Lamphey, in Wales, possesses a unique railw..y station. Less than half-a-dozn trains stop titre during the day. There being Insufficient work to occupy the time of the stationster an I hls assistant, a novel arrangement has :ii inadc. Adjoining the stati -n-house is an 4flice where printing is carried on by the assistant, under the able superintendence of the station-msster. llcre one sees the monthly time-tables being set up and printed by the young man who three or four times a day exercises also the function of porter. The work turned out from the little office embraces all the necessary printing for the line of rail on which Lamphey is situated. Flerr Emil Treitel, who lost several million mlrks by speculation two years ago, has committed suicide in Berlin, as he was not able to find the 70,00.0 marks he had agreed to pay his creditors.  What promises to be a sensational case has begun at Calcutta. On the application of counsel for the Nizam of Hyderabad, a warrant was issued for the trrest of Mr. Jacob, a dealer in precious stones, the :harps being criminal breach of trust and criminal ;nisappropriation in respect of moneys entrusted to him for the purchase of the diamond known as the 'lmperial," and valued at 46 lakhs of rupees. A warrant was also issued to search the house and >face of the accused at Simla for the stone.