... THE WILTSMIRE MURDER, TSS PRISONER. COMSMTTED FOR TRIAL. John Curd, alias Hamilton, was brought up at Mlellishnam Police Court yesterday, charged with the wilful murderof Henry Richards,at Melkshasn, on1 9th inst., and of Police Sergeant Monlden near Warminstor on 12th inst. Great interest was taken in the case, the court being crowded during the hearing. Mr A. G. Smith, solicitor, appeared on ...

... 'NEW YORK PRICES-TUBSDAY. .. - I . - . - .. . I I. .1 . I * Money easy. Stocks opened steady, but became very dull, and remained so throughout, the mnarket at the close being generally weak. Cotton-Spot dull at 1-6 reduction; futures declined oNving to increased receipts, and closed weak; Petroleum steady, but not much doing, Lard firmer owing to batter Chicago advices. Wheat-Futures have ...

... At a meetin; on Monday eveningthe Chief Magistrate presiding-i t was agreed to clear off two of tlhe £20 bonds recently taken up- by the cort- tiilesion. It was intimated that the sum of £14 lOs 8d had been received as the burgh's share of the ainount for salaries of medical officer and sanitary iesp~eetor. MuDiCAL OFICIC R'S REroit. The report of the nmedical officer (Dr Mac. caughton) for ...

... 81PNATI)NA [, POISONING CASF IN HUNGABY. The ti2alof thethreeworen, Pivniceli, Kuijakol', and Xearae7., who are charged with having poisohCri at least ten peasants w ith arteniO, ha:S begun ait Nesrats.Ujvidek. The following are the eirccrrr. stances which led to the ariest of the aeccepd at. Szcnt-Tainas last. aurimri . Infor'mativn was ic 'aO with the Go mnmissary of Polioe of the town by a; ...

... e Somn people tell us that everyone who commits a mur- der is more or less insane. It may be quite true, in so far as the animal has for the time got the upper t hand of the rational; but if that be madness, the a liitiS of human responsibility must be very narrow, c and very easily narrowed still further. ! h The case of Miss Edmonds, the Brighton poisoner, is i e one of these strange cases ...

... I ?LO o ISQF~ of PoieTt-n-onday-tso, ,Lord, 'r P~ s nthe- chair.. Pre~eot--Te DanofGuild ; Messrs. MVllardy, Susith, Chalee,, he arClder, Eddie, -Ness, B~isset, Rose, aed ofhws lemetntore t saroanr rasedto te~il'aituts and 4thel~public9 at the out- ~tkrt o 9e ttv~i~r esecalyabout Albyn Place, Union a Plae, tidSkee Sree, b cludsof.~ dust.- blowiug int6 theiirN tsi'u'hoe rm the TurnikeRad. The ...

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... -T . ST. IERGUS -.CA&E- To !the EDITORnO l BSBlWEENITqA: SI,,-'W ill'you ha've~tble'gddnesst6' ingert'A e folod*in remarkrs in our paper this week; iafivindicatibniof tle 'fae.ifs that formed the Medical eviderce';iathbe trihlif'D.Dr1Smitl, 'indi wh~icht wo.re the shbject of al . article'iil ' t1j' Zgia Af'tfjist~ Tt ...

... S.OJZSJJ6JS'E USL £JZLL UU~lW* sal 1, A meeting of Aberdeen University Court was held in ln I foi P theMarischialCollegeonWedlnesday. There'yvere rsentsr g -Principal Campbell, Rev. Dr Pine, Rev. Dr, C tie, C MrLslie of Watii n*M eser of Edgehill. ecei 5B APPODITME1IT ON EXAMINERS, e -The Court elected Robert A. Neil, A.M., Fellow lal Pembioks College, Cambridge, examiner in classics for o r ...

... : -:t::THIE COURTCOIROULAIh. : .:~-.: 0i ok.. * .-,, T ..-, , 1.,i, .. :'§ s. ' 0 :'' YR} 5il i ;: ''.. i 1 ' . : . . ; Tj . i 11 AL jALtOntR AS iTLE, Tesdaq. t ..The1Qt ee; wr acoo~r sayniferngo ,f~,,z.tixscGlsas Batrfhie1' '~d , 'c 'Atten~e&.by the DOwnger,. ~rh~pp. Mly. J~tth D'espatdes were received jeatiAay af thi Colohial .p ,Offiee \ from fthe. Go~vprnr orGenaeral ot . tjinda, and ...

... BILL CHADIBER.-TiuRsDA)Y, SaPr. 21sr. !IAPPEAL-TEE HIGHLAND RAILWAY CPSIPANY V. DODS. An appeal was recently lodged in the Bill Chamber a of the Court of Session on behalf of the Highland Rail- s wayCompany against the valuation of George Dods, a assessor for railways and canals, for the year ending I Whitsunday, 1877, of the appellants undertakings, on the ground that it was in excess of the ...

... I LI:. COLLILESTO?, 1.~ 1,~i . . tlitt t xif S,-ttio onl Satur- . : itrcd tIde l'ar-ito ot evidencie in - :.i-:~-t for -icil ce hv And-ytv t-ol1ll I.-midt h, LUtic Collieoton, ';at ut ''.it. Ie the~s i-t A!lel. I%|I iLr l~tltil'oiiOao, i :l. .s itti, So'-Lt. 1'.vilette in tie actiont is tee~ itt thle no ltsa led oil Foid ty. V: l'oItcli iU 1.. dttlt-4tit -'erOaott, ine rep'y to Atr : i Id ...