TRIAL FOR PATRICIDF.
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Charles Ball was lately tried at Middle
bury, Vt. for the murder of his father. A
deal of evidence was adduced to prove the
insanity of the murderer, at the time the
horrid deed was perpetrated. The trial
lasted two davs. and the jury after being
absent about three hours, returned with 4;
verdict of manslaughter, and the prisoner
was sentenced to the state prison during
life. The trial occupies nine columns of the
Middlebury paper, and after reading the
whole of the evidence as reported, we are
surprised to learn that the jury did not find
the prisoner guilty Of murder. When asked
by one of the witnesses if he did not regret
the act he had committed, he answered,
''no, he would not give shilling, or turn
over a straw, to have it otherwise He
said, "as for going to the state prison he
did not care, but as TO being hung up for
a spectacle for the people to look at, he
would make his bed in hell first; he would
put knife in his heart" The deceased
was an officer of the revolution, and at
the time of his death received pension
from the United States.-.fib. .4rgus.


Statistics of Triaidad.-NNe have been IA
vored by a Senator of the United States,
with the following authentic statement OF





of the Island of Trinidad, in the West In
dies. Pohuiation- Whites 3,34o; Color
ed persons, 1892; Indians, 900; Chinese,
20; slaves, 25,227. .4perage Croh-Su-
gar, $4,000 hhds. rum, 1000 puncheons (;
molass es, 5000 pnncheons cocoa, 1900,
900 lbs; coffee, 100000 lbs. CONSUMPTION
of -four, per annum, $4,000 barrels--e-
quail to 46 barrels per day.


Edin. PhHoS. Journal


At Marlborough street, Police office, Lon
don,a poor old woman was charged with be-
ing dissatisfied and refractory at the work.
house. She fell OH her knees, on being pla-
ced at the bar, and said, "she had been de-
prived of snuff at the work house, or she
would have behaved WELL" Mr. Dyer then
said, s'he would take care that snuff should
be provided for her." The poor old wo-
man said, "God bless yonr worship; I can
put up with shortness of victuals, but to
be kept without pipch of snuff is unbeara-
ble,"