Year: 1862

richly engraved with rose shamrock, and thistle
with monogram, aad bearing a suitable inscrip-
ton ihe stone Is a remarkable sDecimen. and


IS found OF great beauty and size on the Mar
estate. Inc whole Of the above presents Wer0


made by hessrs. London & Ryder. Of II New
Bond street"


] The sale Of the household goods and gods Of


the late Count Pembroke was to take place
/ few weeks ago, at bis former splendid residence
| in Place Yendome, Paris. Among the articles


to be sold were seven thousand bottles Of wine
/ twenty thousand Havana cigars, and nearly o
/ thousand pounds Of sil7erwaTe.


The London Star gives the following instance
Of heroism:


"Cn Friday evening poor man named Ap-
pletO1, better known as Jim, the sweep, sig
nslized himself by an act Of heIOism that can
scarcely be surpassed. In one Of the low quar-
lers Of Merthyr Tydvil, called Riverside, a
small house, inhabited By a miner was discoV-
cred to be on Ere that evening, and very sOou
crowd assembled, with the object Of endeayor-
ing to pu. it out. They soon found that no Oua
was in the house. and . neighbor Immediately
this discovery was made suddenly Tecolected .
fact that had slipped his memory, aud with ter
rife cry shouted out, There's half hundred
cask Of powder in the pantry q" A scene fol-
lowed Of the most startling character. The
house was situated in the middle Of a densely-
inhabited locality and thus in moment those
who could be aroused were seen flying from the
spot-sOme nesting their children in their
arms. others bearing away some priced
household god. As for the crowd around
the burning house, they scattered in every diTec-
ton, all but one man and helm, the sweep
with the cOOlness of a hero, forced his way
into the house, and in a moment saw the peIll-
Gus nature Of things Two beds were on the
b edstead burning tercely, and the flames had
actually caught the pantry door. jim had to
shut the front door in order 70 open the pantry
TINS he did, and right before him was the
dreaded cask, and around if a thin fork Of hame-
He tried to raise the cask, but it was burning
hot, and instead Of a top it had Al iron bake
stare With blow be struck this of, and
though the cask burnt bis hand severely, he held
en- with the teHacity OF q Brit0u, and bore the
powder safely to the air, where 1t was soon pUt
out Of danger. A few minutes more and the
pOwder-foTty-nine pounds in slI-wOuld have
scattered death and destruction On every side


Murders and suicides Of an extraordinary
character seem to be the oTder Of the day in
Lcndon- a correspondent Of the Phiadelphia
Inquirer writes under date Of june "a:


"A lady, the wife Of a respectable business
man in the city, q short time ago, poisoned her
OWr children, and then cut her own thrOat. The
poison she selected was some patent vsrmiu
destroyer Only few days later, a man in
good business poisoned his two SONS, and then
destroyed himself with a carving knife. They
were found desd together two days Glterwsr1.


O1e day last week merchant in the city,
in the crowded thoroughfare, az the corner Of
Fenchurch street and Mark lane, walking
with the crowd, suddenly left the pavement and
knelt down with his face to the ground, Just be-
fore the wheel of heavy coal wagon, which
passed over IL, crushing it completely fat It
was the day of the Derby races, and it is sup
posed that ne had lost heavily. His corpse was
suffered to remain on the spot for more than half
an hour, because the only sexton who could at
once be found refused to receive it into the
dead houses attached 20 his church. on the
ground thst the tragedy did not occur in his
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