Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1866-12-01 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MODEL VILL4GE AND MILL.—Dr. APCosh, in his Belfast lecture on America, described a visit which he has recently paid to the Pacific Mills, Lawrence, Massachusetts :—There are four thou. sand workpeople, and it is a beautiful sight to see them so net tly dressed as they go into and issue from the mills. The females in one department receive a dollar and fifteen cents a day, and in another a dollar and forty-five cents. The unmarried girls live in boarding houses, which I visited. They have a com• coon sitting-room, comfortably furnished ; they have a separate dining-hall, where I saw them seated at as comfortable a meal as the middle classes have if. this country; while every two persons have a neatly. furnished bedroom. The skilled workmen get towards 1,000 dollarn a-year, and the foremen (section men) towards 1,500 dollars. These foremen have houses provided for them—houses for which they pay 175 dollars a-year, and these hon-es are each three storeys high, with a front door and eleven apartments. Connected with the mills are a reaoing.room and a large library. Hain FOR CHlGNONS.—Marseilles is the centre of the commerce in this commodity which is exported ready worked up to Spain and Algeria, and imported unworked from Italy. In 1865 the importation was 17,628 kilos, and in the first nine months if the present year 11,367. An erudite gentleman states that the Guild of Perruquiers at Marseilles dates from 1696, and that for a long time the number was limited. In 1760 the fraternity commenced proceedings against a certain number of hair dressers who had established themselves in the town, but their claims were rejected, and the business from that time remained free. In 1789 these hairdressers had multiplied considerably, for the coiffure of the period was most oomph. cated, and Marseilles was considered one of the first cities in France for elegance. Since then they have continually multiplied, until at present there are 397 in the town. As to the home commerce in hair, it is in the hands of four houses only, and has quintupled within the last thirty years. These firms receive al. together about 6.000 kilos annually from Brittany, Auvergne, and Italy. After being worked up, 3,000 are sent into the interior of France, and 3,000 consumed in Marseilles. Of the latter, 2,500 are used for women's false hair, and kilograinbie being sufficent for ten headdresses, which makes an annual sale of 25,000. These plaits, chignons, Pm, last on an average three years each, which gives a number of 75,000 of the fair sex who wear false hair at Marseilles; that is to say, nearly the whole adult female population of the place. THE LAST SPECIMEN OF CUTENESS !—Two cu./ft/Ml.lg "rases/snee Isere do• eloped ar new epeCU• lation. The Gwernment recently contracted for the exhumation and re-interment of the bodies of Federal soldiers who fell before Petersburgh and Richmond. By the terms of the agreement, the contractors furnish coffins, and receive eight dollars for each body re-interred. It has been discovered that them enterprising "loyalists" have been engaged in separating each body exhumed into four sections, and burying them, thus receiving four times tile proper payment.  •• SUICIDE TIEHWUGH DISAPPOINTED Love. Mary Lowe, a servant at the residence of Mr. Miller, Rochdale, became acquainted some time ago with a young man living in that town, and ultimately they became levers. A short time ago, the deceased's sister got to know that Lowe's lover was a married man, and she informed her sister of the fact, but she seemed reluctant to give him sp. The married sister last week threatened to acq oaint her father with the affair, and /poke to her if the impropriety of keeping company with a married man. On Friday night the deceased had an interview with her lover, and when they were parting Ansi, eared to be in great distress. She was not seen afier moil her body was found on Sunday morning in the canal at .ffrour Bridge.