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3 BRITISH NEWS. By a fire at Kilrusli at midni ht on Satur- day a young servant girl name Scaulan, in the employ of Mrs. Moody, was burned to death. Nine of the girls poisoned at a village tea near Northampton still lie in a prostrate con- dition. No clue has been obtained to the mystery. _ Samuel Harrison, :1. Jewish slipper mak- er, of Leeds, who was sentenced to death at Leeds Ass'rses for the murder of his wife, has been reprieved on the ground of insan- ity. The death is announced at Strood, near Rochester, of “'illiam Thomas \l'alter, aged pulled out i hit a hook that was lowered by the people above. An exciting scene was witnessed on Mon- day evening at a mcnagerie on Ashtonuindeb Lyne fair ground. A lionotamer’nained Lor- enzo was going through a performance with a pack of six wolves, wh n one of them sprang upon him and proceeded to worry him. The attendants outside the cage beat back the other five, and Lorenzo had a des rate battle with his foe. Although badly itten on the hands, he succeeded-in heating it off, and finished the performance. A: Matlock, on Tuesday, Samuel Black- ham was sent to jail for three months for creating an unseemly disturbance at a funer- al. Prisoner’s wife's mother was being in- terred at Matlock, Bath, when he attacked; A desperate encounter is reported from Beehpark, near Ennis. The police went to I THE DEVIL'S am. a house to arrest a man named Nelson, and All AW“! Experience Ill “16 “lids “('01. found the whole family armed to resist them. The police were'obliged to retire ,and bring reinforcements. Further violent ' resistance was then offered, Nelson's sister using a pitchfork till she was disarmed and then seizian a hatchet. After a long strug- , gle the podice succeeded in getting Nelson out of the house, but he still struggled vio- lently. Eventually they got him on a car, where they tied him down with ropes, and thus brought him to the police barracks in Ennis. It is believed that he is insane. l He has refused to eat any food. l The Gordon Highlanders, during their visit to Holywool for ball practice,__h_ave 66, one of the few survivors of the Sir John and fought with the widower and several of made themselves very Popular “"11 the 1‘" Franklin Relief Expedition. The deceased was carpenter on the steam yacht Fox. The gardener, steward, and coachman of| Mr. Twiss, of Bondhill, were fishing on' Saturday night in the Shannon, near Kil- laloe, when the boat upset, and Gleason and Shanahar, stcv'ard and gardener, were drc wncd. An old house at Ballymore, Ireland, being under repair, the skeleton of a human being was found under a bed-room floor, with a shilling, a clay pipe, and a quantity of rags. It is supposed to be the body of a man who disappeared thirty years ago. On Tuesday the signalling station erected by Lloyd‘s Shipping Agency on Tory Island was formally opened in presence of a dis- tinguished company. Tory is about seven miles off the mainland of. the Bloody Fore- land on the north~west coast of Ireland. On Fridayeveniug at IIowt-h, near Dublin, Mr. R. Yates, aDublin artist, whilst sketch- ing on the sands, was overtaken by the tide and drowned. He was observed struggling I in the waves, and two gentlemen succeeded , in getting to him, but on landing he was found to be dead. The whole of the inhabitants of the, Village of Bridesbridgc, ncur Castlelyons,l have been evicted. The evictions were car- ried out by sheriff-officers and bailiffs from ' - Cork, protected by the police. The iiiliabit- I ants were afterwards readmitted to their homes as caretakers. Charles Pratt, who was discharged forl making love to his employ! r’s daughter, Miss Hattie Town, wentto their home and shot' the father dead. He also shot at the young g ludy, whom he fatally wounded. Pratt was ’ captured and taken to jail with difficulty); as an angry crowd attempted to lynch him. At the Polio - Court, Dublin, on \Vcdncs- day, Ellen Farrell, aged 37, was committed for trial for killing her illegitimate child, aged ten months. The accused, it is alleged, beat the infant, and then taking it by the l legs, swung it around, striking its head i against the ground, inflicting injuries from s which it died. Mr. Somervillc of Duubeacon has brought; into Schull Harbour an immense haul of 11,000 mackerel, which were caught on , Thursday in Dunmusns Buy. The fish are ' very small, as the autumn mackerel fishing does not commence for another week, 'ilic mackerel have been bought by a Boston man, i and will be taken to America. The steamer 'l'routbeck, which left Blvth ,: for (librultu ' a few days ago, put into l’ly- i mouth on Monday, and reported the loss a under mysterious circumstances of Mr. fes- bctt Cox, the engineer. Mr. C'n: had been . engaged in conversation with the mate off, the Start, and shortly after he had disap-e pcurcd. l A touching scene was witnessed at Quccns- l town on Tuesday, when an old man, 90 years of age, landed from the Cunard steum- I cr Catalonia, from llostou. The old man at I once attracted a large crowd by dancing an ; Irish jig, the air of which he guin wliistlcd. ' He then explained that he did so throughf delight at reaching his native land uguiii,l having left it when 15 years old. At Tralcc, on Monday, after a private iii- quii'y, lasting over several weeks, Bartholo- mew Sullivan and Patrick Huckctt were committed for trial at tin-assich oiia charge of having murdered Patrick li‘lahivcut lIcir- hill, ucur Bullyhciguc, in August, 1856. Fluhivc was returning from cutting corn on alucvictcd farm when he was \vuylaid and s iot. the mourners. He afterwards assaulted the police, and a disgraceful scene ocuired be- fore he could be conveyed to risou. In Court the prosecutor offered the each £50 to send the accused to prison for '20 years. On Sunday evening a man named Hopkins was arrested police on a charge of causing death of his wife by strangulation. So far as could be ascertained, it appears that Hopkins, who is about 36, lived with his wife in Milton Street, Roath. They had been drinking, and in the couise of an alter- cation the woman, it is stated, threwapoker or some other missile at her husband, where- upon the latter seized lier by the throat and strangled hcr. “‘e shall soon have another sensational case, says the London correspondent of the .Yezcvyastl'c) Journal, which will probably quite throw the Duulo affair into the shade. The suit is down for hearing in the Irish Court-s for the coming term, and' is brought; by a foreign nobleman whose wife highly connected with several Dublin families, and possessing great accomplishments and at- tractions, was, it is said, maliciously abduct- ed some little time back, and despite all her husband’s efforts, still remains undiscover- Oil. All hope is 110" almost given up concerni- mg the safety of the fine Liverpool ship Huwardcu Castle, which, it is feared, has been lost with all on board. Castle, an iron ship of 113?. tons register, lcft Newcastle, N. S. \\'., on March 26, for Valparaiso with a cariro of coal, and since that time nothing has been heard of her. The last- risks taken by the underwriters on the vessel were at 9-5 guiucus, but that; is some little time since. and now no insurance can be effected at any terms, showing that she is considered to have gone down. . Commander Joseph Irwin, R.N., who had good claims to the title of “Father of the British Navy,” (lied at his residence at \‘v'ethcral Plains, near Curlislc, on Saturday morning. He \ 'us 96 year-s of age, and received his commission as u inidshipman in 1806. 7 At the siege of 'l‘urragonu in 1813 l c scrvedin ILMI‘. Thetis. Subsequently he served for nearly forty years as Inspectiu I? b lOfiiccr of Coastguard in Ireland, retiring from the service Ill 1860. During the last tliirtyycurs of his life he enjoyed well-- deserved retirement in his native. county. Referring to the reported finding of the leaf 0sz pecker-book on the North Lanca- shirc coast, indicating that a boating party from London had been lost, a Dublin cor- respondent tclcgruphs :â€"-Thc parties men- tioned are well-known Dublin young men, and one of them,» a young doctor, on being questioned about the message from the 5011, admitted that four weeks ago fora joke he putif; into a whisky bottle and threw it. into the seat when they were boating in Dublin llay. Some of them were in peril at the time. The Kitchen and Refreshment Rooms Committee of the House of Commons have. presented the following report 2â€"“ During the present- session up to the week ending August 9, 8401 luiichcons and 12.323 diu- ncrs have been served in the Mcinbcrs’ Dining Room: 1142 luiiclieons and 11:25 dinners in the Strungcrs’ Dining loom; aiid3‘251uiichcons and llil-l dinners in the Terrace Dining loom.” The lust-named apartment, it may be added, was opened at the commencement- of the session to increase I the accommodation for ii‘icuibcrs and their friends. An agricultural labourer’s wifc, named Wing, and fau‘iilv,at Stanton St. John, by the Cardiff the} The Hawarden l habitauts, who have just; entertained them to a farewell tea, and, in return, the milit- ary invited them to an excellent concert, ‘ which passed off in the schoolhouse without a lziicu Mr. James Munce, C. E , speak- ing on the occasion, paid a high tribute to. the personal charmter of the soldiers. He said their reverence as worshippers in their church, and their conduct throughout has been most exemplary, and reflected the high- est credit on the regiment to which they be- longed, and he was quite sure the audience would agree with him when he expressed the regret they felt at parting with such fine fellows. An inquest was held at- Buxton on Tues- day on Mary J anc Coatcs, wife of the man- ager of the Manchester and County Bank, Buxton. Mr. Coates said after breakfast on Monday morning he left his wife alone at nine o’clock, the servant being away. When , he returned to diuiicr he found dcseziscd hanging from the bedpost quite dead. She had suffered imicli from depression of spirits, g and on one occasion wandered aimlessly all day on Fuirfield Common. He found the following letter on the dressing table :â€"“My | Darlingâ€"It. is no fault of yours, but be- . cause 1 cannot live like this. (iod bless you, and help you out of your difficulties. You have been one of the best of husbands, and true to all the work you have taken in hand, i my darling.” A verdict. was returned of ‘ suicide through temporary insanity. A fatal boat accident occurred at three o’clock on Monday afternoon off Deal. A , party of visitors had been for a sail t0\ ‘urds i the Goodwins in the four-0aer service gal- l Icy Seaman’s Glory, and when within a i mile of shore a sudden gust of wind caught 1 the sail, and boat capsized and sank. There l were seven persons in the boat, comprising the boatmcn, named Mark Nash and John Nott, Mr. and Mrs. Arney, their daughter, ,and Mr. and Mrs. Palmer, visitors staying u at Deal, and as the boat sank all were left i in the watch. Mr. Arncy and his daughter, 3 Mr. Palmer, and John Trott were picked up , by a passing steamer, but Mr. I’almcr (lied , soon after being landed. The rest; were ' drowned. Tho Scunuiu’s Glory was the i the best; service gr. ley on Deal Beach. Miss iArncy, who was apparently buoyed up by l I ,licr clothes, struck out bravely, and was ipickcd up some distance from the others, through she was also becoming exhausted when rescued. "â€"0â€"..â€" TAXBS IN LONDON. ‘A Proximal to Raise Them from Entirely . New Sun recs. If new taxesâ€"muorth, say, a quarter of a million a yourâ€"awe to be obtained for Lon- ;don, the Spa/curler observe-:3 that they must 5va sought from many cmnpurativcly small isourccs. Of these there are several which are worth considering. 1f the County Council were allowed to impose a tax of a. penny in the shilling on every scat let in Iany London theatre, music hall, circus 0r ; other place of amusement, they would reap ' a. golden harvest. \Vc presume that not fewer than 25,000 men and women uttcnd places of amusement in London every even- ing, and that the price of the seats or the . ent 'uuce money averages ls. If that is so, I then a yearly revenue of £30,000 might be ,obmincd with very littte expense. Next, an impost on placard zulvcrtiscmcnts might , easily be made lucrative. The owners of ' hourdiugs and all other spaces, either in railway stations or in public exhibitions, or in omnibuscs and tramwuys on which ad ver- mcnts are displayed, might be required to A man named Duly is in cus.odyat \Vutcr- about. fouz'inilcs {rim Oxford, have becu'aflix a special adhesive stamp, value one ford, Ireland, for this alleged murder of his. motlicr-iii-law. uumcd Margaret Loucrgun. From the cvidcncc given at the inquest it appeared that the accused suddenly uttuck- ‘ ed the deceased in her own cabin, kicking her to death in the most brutal manner. The ' skull was shockingly smuscd in, death result- ing from severe injury to the brain. During a thuiidcrs‘torm on Sunday, a lad - named George Walton, aged seven years, I son of u farmer fiviug in llrccnsidc Ixtnc, was killed by lightning. The boy had been sent on an errand, and was returning \vlieni the electric current struck the brass buttons on his jacket, burning his lcft side fcai'fully. His body was found soon afterwards by some boys, who took it to a farm close by. The British Ilourd of Trade report issued on Monday shows that last year lUTGpcrsous _ wcrc killcd and 4336 injured on railways in i the L'nitcd Kingdom. Of these, 153 killed, and lS'lllinjui-cr \vci‘c pussciigcrs, and the' remainder servants of the railway ccmpunicsI “ “"055 1““ he llcw‘l’L'l m 1’“ ' and She‘ ., l or of contractors. Dirk Sh puSScngcrs were i killed and lUlli injure: in consequence of accidents to or collisions between trains. | On Monduh'a frightful fuuilityccccurrcd at the South Shield 2 Theatre Royal. It up- pcurs that Mr. Newman, lieu-I carpenter, was busily employed arranging sccucry at the to ) of the building when he suddenly llllSSEl his footing. and fell to the stage be low, a distance of 40 feet. When picked up he was found to be in a seriously mang- lcd combtiou and life extinct. The deceas- ed was 36 years of age, and leaves a widow - and family. ; On Saturday, Messrs. Harland f: \Vollf,Y I‘vclfist, launched the steamer licorgiuu. for Fred Leyland & Co., Liverpool. The new" steamer, which is intended for the Lcyluud- Line bctwccn Liverpool and Boston, is cluiui- l ed by her builders to be the largest cargo‘ vcssel afloat, having a carrying capacity for 7000 tons dcud weight. Her dimensions are: ' ~â€"l.cngth, “if: ; breadth, 45ft ; and depth, 341R. - ' l An old man named Yokes, aged SI years. z a native of Milton, near Sittiuglmunic. coni- rnitlcd suicide on Monday in a sensational manner. While out walking he entered a. cottage garden, opened the lid of the well, ‘ and jumped down into the water. Hi5 crics 1 brought assistance. and after some difficulty ' he was brought u «had. The inn who. went down after It nu aliiwst had one eye suffering from tlic. cfiects if eating fungi I) mistake for mushrooms, and in the case of one child, aged two years and a half, fatal results have ensued. The mother gathered the supposed mushrooms herself, and fried them with bacon for tea. She and llil‘ six children pa "took of them. On Sunday morning the woman was prematurely con- fined. and is not expected to recover. It is believed the other 'hildrcn will recover. Mr. Wynne li. Baxter held an inquiry at the l’oplur Town Hall concerning the death of u two-ycur-old (laughter of a cannon. Elizabeth Nichols, the mother, deposed that on Tuesday last week the deceased went out toplaywitliau elder sister. Short- ly afterwards she came home and said tliit the deceased was not well. She afterwards told witness that the deceased had been struck on the temple with a cricket ball by uboy who was playing cricket in the play- ground of the llyron Street lloarvl School. died on the following Thursday. The jury returned r. verdict of accidental death. Thc funeral of the late Sergeant Brown, one of tlic Balaclava heroes, who died in \\'i:hiugtun Workhousc, to ik place at Philips l’ark Cunetcry on Saturday, and notwithstanding all the efforts which have been made, to insure its being attended with military honours was of an cutircly private nature. \Vlicu llrowii was admitted to the workhuusc. a few days bcfmc his death, he was in u must piciublc condition, and it . “as at once seen that his «luvs tvt-rc number- pcuny, to every placard on their walls. Horrible Scenes in Morocco. Terrible doings have been recently occur iug in Morocco. Some twclvc tribes formed and alliiuce against the Sultan, and in a conflict with an Imperial army defeated it _ an captured the fortified position of Ait l IllSO. The victors then commenced to butcher I indiscriminately the inmates of the place. , The Governor's son, who had been wounded i in the fight, was put to death with fiendish . cruelty. Pieces of his flesh were cut off and roasted, he being then forced by his brutisli ; tormentors to eat these glius’ly morsels. Not until the poor wretch was nearly dead did they terminate his horrible sufferings by l decapitating him. The rebels afterwards suc- f ccssfully attacked another fortification, and ltlic last intelligence is to the effect that they are besiegiug Scfro. The Sultan of Morocco has gone out to intercept their progress, and give them battle. l ' An Engine-Driver's Heroism. Through the gallantry of an engine-driver numcd Sndru an ucv'idcut on the State {railway between llordcaux and Paris has been deprived of disastrous consequences to ‘liuuian life. At five o'clock in the inor g the express train ran off the line at Clavuud, while travelling at the rate 0H?- niilcs an :1iour. h‘udra not only applied the comin- uous brake, but, at the risk of beng scaldcd [in death by steam. opened certain valves ml. though it is stntcl tlm't linsl the poor _ which lllilllu the brake work with grcattr fcllow [men provided with some temporary 'l‘4‘l’ltlli.“ u“ “"13 ‘ll‘c‘l‘lmllfi' 1m” 31le assistant-e before arriving at that condition the hands and Iiik'l', but saved .tlic live if of his life might have been prolongcd some' 107 ppssvllgvrs. “110 m" 1110 “Sb 01' bring veins. burch over the stcc embankment. dowu ' Au impact: “‘1: mm at a \‘illagp nmp.\:‘liicli theeugiuc am tender actually fell. Market Hurborouch on the bodv of William In addition to .Sudm, the stckcr and four Johnson, a gamclfcspcr, who died after a'pzlssvugcm were injured. but not fatally. tight with a young fnrmcr named Crisp, who i A rclicf train was sent from I’ons to carry is in warmly (m a charge of wilful murder, l the wounded and the passengers to Salutes, Johnson played a practical joke on Crisp by 1 where the forum" were cared for, and the setting down a stuffed rabbit-skin for him bull-‘1”. entered othercnrriwcs mid Procee‘lc'd to shoot. Words ensued, and the prisoner ' 10 llwil‘ d03fiEMl0n-‘- some 01‘ the OOKChCS suites that the deceased struck him first. lit! the “'rchml train were belt-imped, and He returned the blow, and the keeper fell. ‘ the line was so much damaged that a day or Crisp left him. not thinking he was hurt, but he was ulh‘FWul'dS found dead. After hearing the inc-.lical evidence, the jury found that dtath resulted from natural causes“. excitement acting on the deceased‘a heart as an insult of the quarrel. l two must elapse before it is put into proper working order, the traffic being curried on in the meantime byabranch. One of the rails is supposed to have become loosened from the sleepers, and to have thus occasion- ' ed the mishap. l tral America with Tarantula. Ihave just retumed from an expedition into the interior of Yucatan and (hmpeche, during which I met with an adventure so awful and unusual that I think my friends in San Francisco will be much interested in an account of it. In the latter part of May last- I came to Central America from San Iii-ancisco at the request of the Munich Society for Prehistoric Research, of which I am a member, to investi- gate the ancient ruins which cover this coun- try, with u. view of obtaining, if possible, some clue to the period to which they be- long. I got the clue I sought for from some hieroglyphics amougthe Conquestudor ruins, which, according to my theory, are about 8,000 years old, but, of course, absolute proof is not available. I had as a guide a most intelligent half breed, Manuel Bcscro, and he informed me that, according to the tradi- tions of his Indian progenitors, there were seine ruins of still greater antiquity some 110 miles to the northward, near the Rio Seca. Indeed, he said tlia this dry basin was once the bed of a river that had been turned from its course by the inhabitants of these same ruins. Thinking that I might possibly find some corroboration for my theory among these earlier relics of the. lost race, I started to fiudtliem.accompanied by my faithful guide. It was ver Y hard travel- ling through the jungles, and we madcliurd- ly fifteen miles a day. The difficulties were multiplied by the cuoriiious number of snakes and poisonous insects that infest this section. \Ve lost one of our pack mules tlll‘Ollf’ll u. bile or a sting of some sort on the third day. On the afternoon of the fourth day we camped in a little opening, clear except for glass. This we soon burned off. \Ye had just finished supper, and I was sit- ting at the base of a tree smoking my pipe, when an enormous tarantula came out of the grass, into the cleared circle. He was positively the largest specimen I had e\ or seen, and as the slanting rays of the sun caught him I noticed a curious dull, iii- dcfiiiife, reddish line down his back. I regretted that I had not the means to preserve it, but Manuel settled my regrets by crushing it; with a billet of wood. It had hardly ceased moving when another and equally large one appeared at the end of the burned patch. 1 did not fear them much as I wore heavy leather leggings reaching to my hips. “\Vc have made a bad camp, Manuel.” I said : “there seem to be many tarantulas.” “One place is about as bad as another,” he auswrccd in Spanish ; they uéuially go by twos.” He appeared more troubled, liowcvcr, than his careless answer scenicd to indicate, and while I killed the second unwelcome visitor he began to poke around in the grass with along branch. lfc uncovered more of the great spiders and killed them: when he turned around there were fully half a dozen of them in clear space. They fastened on to the dead ones and seemed to suck their blood. “We must get out of this,” screamed the Indian. At this moment our remaining mule began to struggle and kick. He soon broke his picket l'OpC’fllld disappeared. Then I be- camc aware of a steady rustling in the grass. Mme tarantulus came out. “I have heard of it from the Indians,” cricd my guide. “1t is o. devil’s army. They say that the people who lived in tlic dead cities were killed by them, and that no one can live there now. They come by thousands, like red ants, and leave nothing alive where they pass. I thought it wasa squsz story. “'0 must fight them with fire. He seized a flaming brand from the camp fire and yelled to me to do likewise. He tried to fire the grass on all sides of us, but where the trees grow it was too ‘ank and wet, and the fires we started would not go. Meanwhile the spiteful spiders became more and more numerous. I crush- ed one at least of them every step I took. Many of them bit at my leggings, and hung thereby their fangs. \Ve turned our fire- brands to crushing the to 'antulus, but they seemed to come thicker than we could drive them off. . “I am bitten,” I heard the Indian scream. I passed him my flask. I could do nothing more for him, and dropping my stick I started to run. Every step in the grass seemed to bring inc into Worse quarters. I tried every direction, but they seemed everywhere. I noticed that- they were in the bushes and on thcgrass, so hiin tliutiiiy leggings would not protect. me, and prcscnt~ ly I found myself buck utthc camp. There at least they could not reach inc without climbing up. The ground was perfectly black with them. Poor Manuel was down on his knees and the gre at insects were all over him. He seemed crazy, and I have no doubt his mind was nearly gone with terror and the pain of the bites. I could barely keep the taraiitulas from getting above my leggings. Suddenly it occurred to me that I might find safety iir one of the trees. I knew thutI would soon be exhausted if I remained amongtlic black beasts, and that. would end it. In amo. mcnt I had my arms about a small (rec: I crushed the insects that chin" to my legs against the bark asl dragch and scramb- led up. A dozen feet from the ground there was a branch from which we had hung some small game I had shot. I pulled myself up on to this branch. and got the first iiiouiuut’s rest I had haul since the lul‘.-llll‘l ls first appeared. 1 had hadnotiinc to think before this, but now I bc'Iuii to realize what budliuppcncd. It FCClllm more like 9. nightmare than anything real. I looked down and almost fell off my brunch at the horrid sight below me. My Indian was now fairly on tho giuund. I could not scc him for (in; poisonous thin 57 that covcr~ (d him, but thcii‘rcgultir bluc ' mass \vrig g‘u'cl and s ;i:i:iucd like a wounded riial-zc, aiidl knew ll(' was not yet out of his agony. On every rule were more tarantulzc; hungri- l_v searching for more victims. 'l'htir crushed fellows “1:11: uleiiost torn to pieces, so fierce were they in their hunger. They were all cnnnnius; some of them were as big as turtles, and when the sun struck them I Could sec the red line that distin- guished them from the irr-ngi'cnarious f -c- ics that are familiar in other p act-s. Tlfcy crawled ova-:- onc another in their desire to find something intowldchto sink their fangs l’oor Manuel's writhing lu'ly was the ob- jectivcpoiut of most of them. ‘ fiercely for a spot of flesh where they would strike, and every movement oi the still liv- ing man seemed to make them yet more fierce. It did not take me as long to notice all They fought this as it does to dcseribe it, and soon saw that I was not yet safe from the horrible fate that had overtaken my guide. The insects began to crawl up the tree, thoughnot in any considerable numbers at first. I brushed them down with a small branch, and those that were hurt at all were immediately set upon by their fellows. My recital of these thin\ ‘ may seem lame, but I have no pen to descri the awfull lior~ ror of it all. There were about tno hours of duyli 'ht left me. I knew this. and I woudcrei what] could do in the dark. Then I remembered reading that snakes or centiâ€" pcdcs would not cross a hair rope, and I thought that perhaps the same rule might up ily to tamntulus. ‘he game was swinging from the branch by a horsehair rinta, and it took me u very few minutes to cut the rabbits loose and wind the rope about the trunk just below me. Pretty soon more Of the. big Spiders came up. Muuucl was quiet now at last and they wanted another victim. My hair rope did some good. They could not swarm over it in such numbcis that I could not sweep them back with my branch. How long I stayed there fighting the inka back I do not know. lhit the light was fading when I noticed a commotion among the tm-uutulus. At the same time I observed a number of blue-black wasps darting about. I recognized them us belonging to the Hymcnoptcru family and realized that they were the tarantula hawks of which I had read. In ten minutes the four or live ‘wasps had become hundreds, and five miuutcs later there. was not a in untula to be seen, except the numerous dead ones at the foot of the free. Manuel’s body, swollen and discolored by the venom of the spiders, stared up at me. I waitcd an hour and then came down. It took me eight days to reach Nevada, and 'on the \ 'uy I did not see a single tarantula. STRANGE STORY OF A CRIME. “'us The Wrong: .‘I an [lunged ‘P On Tuesday week Mr. Cliurton, County Coroner, Chester, received a. letter from a correspondent at New Orleans, stating that; a muiihad confessed to the rcctorof St Paul's there that lioiiuirdcrcd John llcbbington, gamckccpcr to Mr. dein Corbett, of Til- stouc Lodge, Turporley, for which John Blagg was cxccutcd at Chester in 1857. Mr. Cliurtou remembered the trial and the execu- tion of Blagg. The evidence was purely circumstantial, the chief point being foot- priut corresponding to l’llagg’s boots. The man who has made it confession states that be borrowed lilagg’s boots on the night of the murder. A press representative on Saturday visited Alpruham, the locality in which the iiiysi‘criousmurder of the game- kccpcr Bcbbiiigtou took place thirty-three yours ago. Mrs. lllugg, the widow of John Illugg, the mun who was executed, still lives in the village, in u. cottugculmost with- ing stone‘s throw of the scene ofthc trugcdy. She is advanced in years, and is in poor circumstances, but is able to earn a few shillings as a teacher or curcfukcr of her ucighbors’ little children. In reply to quer- tion slic said:â€"â€"“On the night bcforc the murder there came r. rap at our door when John and I were together. 1 opened flicdoor, and there was John Jones. I never did like that man. I uskcd what he wanted, and he called my husband outside. 1 wondcrcd what- mm on, and when John .‘umc in again Iuskcd him, and he said ‘()h, nothiiig.’ You be got his boots from where they were usually kept, and gave them to Jones. Jones ‘uinc inside, and took ofl'liis clogs, and left thcm in our house. He vcry scldoin \vorc clogs, but he had clogs on wlicn lic came. to our house that night. I can't say whether it was a plot between them, and I did not suspect at the time that anything wrong would be done.” The reporter sugâ€" gcstcd that the real point in the case \'us as to whether her husband was at home throughout that night. Mrs. lllugg rcplicd that-Inc was, but in answer toanothcrqucstiou said he got up, she thought, about four o'clock in the morning. She supposed he went out, but when she got up, bctwccu six an scvcn o’clock, in: was sitting in the kitchen, having lighted a fire and prepared breakfast. Thcrc was nothing unusual in his manner or appearance. Thcboots haul then been returned. She could not suyhow or when he had received them back. She heard of the murder a couple of hours uftcr- wurds.- Before the police came for her bus- bund she saw them pass with Jones. who looked pale and agitated. But they did not kccpliiui, she added. They only wanted her husband, as they “had it in” for him. Asked why licr but-band was at all suspect.- cd, the old lady said that 'ui'ious stories were going about the village, one of which was that her husband had been heard to swcurhc would shoot the keeper. It was not. true, she was perfectly sure. lie was suchuu inoffensive man that he would not do an injury to unyonc. Mrs. lliugg was able to tell from inciimi'y all the details of the arrest of ll(‘l' husband, who offered no resistance, and simply said he was innocent, though his own boom and gun wurc used. It seemed to pain the old lady to recall the farewell scene on the day before tlu: c-xccu- tion, when 5110, with their little daughter, sincedcad, lizulu last interview with flue condemned man at Chester (.‘uutlc. lilo words to her art parting were, “I am an in- nocent as that child. l have not had justice. They lmvcgoncagainst me just as they likml and tlu-y might as well have lmngcd inc (m the nearest oak. lint never mind. I in- tend to go TU Tlll: W‘Al'l‘flld), for I shall never tell." Shir uakctl him i there was anything Hill: might do for him and he rcplicd, “No, you have a bit of "Whey. It. will be of no use to inc now. it will be of usc to you. Don't part with it for my sake." “Hr ncvcr raid how it was lunc," rcmuilzml Mrs. l’»!ii;:g,"‘but at one inch view he did say in llll','.lllll if he Ilischm. ed all that lit: knew he would be transported for life. and hr.- would prefer instant death.’ The old lady pathetically concluded-«“Alid now, after 33 long years. when it was let alone as a thing it, be forgotten and buried in time, it. has risen up again in this new form. Iuouhl rather it Wcrc let alone." Mrs. llagg turned away in tears. The landlord of a village inn informed the some v reporter that up to two yr-ar ago Jones, who was a wheclwriglit, was cmployul in the l’ottcrics, nil on one occasion biimc he had visited Alprulimu, and called at that homo; for some refreshment. Then.- is certainly a difference of opinion in the locality win-n.- the tragedy took place, and where lilft' ics were so well known, as to thc alfcgcd innocence of lilo 'g. Old inhabitants agree that he was a notorious pout-her, and in dis- position was very Hillel) and reserved. v WW- .