The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-07-04 00:00:00

TEPITOINTE OF NEIATS.

!IRITISH AND FOREIGM,

A league has been formed in Jersey for the purpose
of securing the abolition of compulsory militia service,
and the substitution of a voluntary force instead.
An expedition has left Berlin to make preparations
for the establishment of German stations in New
Guinea.

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By an explosion of fire-damp in a coal mine at
Dudweiler, Germany, 17 miners were killed out of the
37 who were at work in the pit at the time. The
remainder except one, were saved.
The Nihilist, Paul Lissiansky, who was sentenced to
death at Charkoff on the 22nd inst. for the murder of a
police inspector, named Fessenko, has been executed in
Charkoff gaol.
The Royal Military Tournament at the Agricultural
Hall, Islington, was brought to a close on Saturday
evening. The principal prizes were distributed by the
Duke of Teck.

Mr. James Fish, chairman of the late Marine
'National Bank, has been sentenced at New York to 10
years' imprisonment for fraud in connection with the
affairs of Messrs. Grant and Ward.
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Nearly 6000 more Irish harvestmen left Dublin in
steamers for England on Saturday night. So great an*
exodus has not been known for years. The steamers
were running all day and night.
A horrible case of cannibalism is reported from
Maghera, county Londonderry. A militiaman, named
Nelson, just home from training, went in a drunken
state to the house of a Mr. McGuiggan, whom he chal-
lenged to fight, and then attacked, proceeding to worry
him in a frightful manner. Having knocked him down,
he bit part of his nose off, and severely bit him about
the face. McGuiggan's brother, on going to his
assistance also had two of his fingers almost bitten off.
At Birkenhead Sessions, on Saturday, the Recorder
sentenced John Robertson, alias Donald Macdonald, to
penal servitude for seven years for housebreaking.
Although only forty-two years of age the prisoner had
spent about 24 years in prison.
William Stewart, captain of the steam-tug Guide, of
South Shields, succumbed on Saturday morning to the
injuries he sustained by the boiler explosion on board
the tug in Shields Harbour. This is the third death
which has resulted from that accidest.

A manifesto has been issued from the office of the
National Liberal Federation at Birmingham, in which
attention is drawn t 3 the grave position ot affairs con-
sequent upon the transfer of the executive authority
from a Liberal to a Conservative Government. _

At Eastbourno on Sunday two clerks, named Henry
Osborne and Henry Spencer, in the employ of the Mid-
land Railway Company in London, went out bathing.
Spencer got beyond his-depth near the Redoubt forts.
He called for help, and Osborne went to his assistance,
and the result was that both were drowned.
Early on Sunday morning some alarm was created in
the Farnham-road, Aldershot, by a man in the uniform
of a military patient, who had broken out of the Third
Station Hospital. It was ascertained that he was a
man of the East Surrey Regiment, who had been under-
going a sentence of two years' imprisonment at the
North Camp, and that he was a lunatic. He had
broken out of the hospital during the night.
An inquest was held at Birmingham on Saturday, on
the body of a little newsboy, named Hilly, who was
knocked down by a steam tramcar as he was crossing
the Lichfield-road, in order to sell a gentleman a paper.
A verdict of "A c,idental death" van a rcbf1....1.,1

On Friday the deaths from cholera for the whole of
Spain amounted to 551, and the cases of illness from
the same cause to 1127. During the fellowing 24 hours
the deaths rose to 605 and the cases to 1281, the highest
in both respects yet recorded. The epidemic continues
ta spread, and has extended to the provinces of Alicante
and Saragossa. It is also increasing in the provinces of
Ouenco, Toledo, and Madrid.
The Secularists of Leicester resumed cricket playing
in the Abbey Recreation Grounds on Sunday by pitch-
ing wickets in three places. There was a vast crowd
present. They only bowled for a few minutes, when
the people hustled the players, scattered the wickets,
and pitched a ball into the canal. It was recovered
amidst great excitement, and play was resumed, but
stopped owing to great and growing disorder. The pre-
sident of the Secular Society and others wete roughly
handled.

Information has reached Paris to the effect that the
reported death of M. Olivier Pain is true, M. Rochefort
pretends that M. Pain was assassinated at the instiga-
tion of an English colonel, and demands that the body
should be given up so that the cause of death may be
ascertained. The " Figaro," on the other hand, states
that M. Pain was shot by Arabs.
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A man is wanted for an offence now seldom heard of,
but which has occurred near Tenbury, in Worcester-
shire. A man and his wife were a short time ago re-
siding at the
,High Wood, and had taken charge of a
nephew, an orphan. The man took the child to Liver-
pool, where he disposed of him to a man booking by a
steamer to New York for the sum of £2O. The seller
returned to his heme,but the disappearance of the child
causing some inquiry, both he and his wife decamped,
and, it is feared, have left the country. There is some
probability of the lad being recovered.
A meeting of the Amalgamated Society of Operative
Spinners was held at Manchester on Saturday, attended
by representatives from all the cotton-spinning dis-
tricts of Lancashire. The movement for a reduction of
wages was discussed, and a resolution was passed stat-
ing that, as the present low prices for yarns are caused
by production being in excess of the demand, the meet-
ing offered to assist the employers in the spinning de-
partment by accepting a reduction of 5 per cent., as
long as short time is worked.
At Newton-le-Willows Petty Sessions on Saturday,
an important case affecting colliery managers was
heard. James Newton, manager of the Collins-green
Colliery Company, near St. Helen's, was charged with a
breach of the Mines Regulation Act, by permitting a
collier to fire his own shots in a mine where inflam-
mable gas had been found. In defence, it was stated
that the manager had been there only a few weeks, and
that the offence was committed without his knowledge.
The magistrates said they must protect the lives of
miners, especially in a district where such serious
calamities had occurred, and they fined the defendant
R 5, and costs.
On Saturday morning a fire was discovered in the
basement of a dwelling-house in Duke-street, West-
minster-bridge-road, and it was found that through the
upsetting of a paraffin lamp the room tenanted by a
woman named Annie :Bridges, aged thirty-two, had
caught fire. An alarm was soon raised, and aid being
quickly forthcoming the flames were subdued, but the
unfortunate occupant was found to have been fearfully
burned about the face, arms, and body, and her imme-
diate removal to a hospital was necessary.
A small rowing boat, containing two men, was on
Saturday morning seen to capsize in St. Aubin'e Bay,
Jersey, both occupants being thrown into the water.
No boats were in the neighbourhood, and no assistance
could be rendered. In the afternoon one of the bodies
was picked up on the beach and identified as an English
gentleman who had been staying at the Royal Yacht
Club Hotel during the last four days.

The Vicar of Earlestown, Lancashire, the Rev. T. R.
Matthews, was charged at that place on Saturday with
larceny, by causing a man to pull up and destroy vege-
tables growing on land adjoining the village school.
Complainant had had permission to use the ground
until it was required for building purposes, and had
used it for 18 years. Last April the vicar gave notice
that the ground was required, but the seeds were then
sown, and the complainant contended that the
authority to give the notice lay in other hands. He
stated that the plants were destroyed on the Ist inst.
by the vicar's orders, and he claimed that damage had
been done to the amount of 15s. The defence was that
the complainant was trespassing and that he had no
title; and the magistrates, while considering it a pain.
ful case, dismissed the summons.
At Chester County Police-court some curious revela-
tions took place on Saturday as to the way in which
thrifty servants hoard their money. Two young men
named Stretch and Durkin were remanded for stealing
£ll2 from Francis Thomas, at Crabwell Hall, near
Chester. The two prisoners occupied a room in a
cottage at Crabwell Hall, in which prosecutor also slept.
On Sunday last, at noon, Thomas drew his hoard of
£ll2 in gold from the inside of a pillow, in which he
usually kept it, and amused himself with counting it.
Stretch at the time was downstairs, but while prosecutor
was oounting hikmoney he thought he heard footsteps
Oil the stairs, and went out, but saw no one. On going
to bed at night he was surprised to discover a sovereign
on the floor, and ad looking into the pillow he found
that the whole of his money had been stolen. The
police were snrrunoned;and the bag, containing£llB 10s.
in gold, Nifirs discovered in the machine house. The
pristrirrs were charged with the thAft, and Deiin ex-
, staimcd. 4 It'cs a bad job."

The Earl of Kimberley presided on Tuesday at the
distribution of prizes at University College, and sub-
sequently addressed the students at some length, re-
ferring to the advantages of the combination of college
life and home life, which they enjoyed.
The Prince of Wales has consented to open the new
Town Hall at Gosport in about a month's time. The
town is indebted for this honour in great measure to
the influence of Sir Arthur Balliston. The land on
which the building is erected cost £2OOO, and by the
time the various offices are furnished the entire expense
will be little short of 0.5,000.
A somewhat singular charge against the Rev. Robert
Topham, vicar of Etruria, near Hanley, was investi-
gated by the Hanley Borough magistrates on Tuesday.
Some time ago the body of a still-born child was found
in a box, deposited in the long grass of the churchyard,
and at the inquest which followed it transpired that it
was placed there for burial, fees for such burial having
been previously paid. In 1865 an Order in Council was
obtained by the local authorities for the discontinuance
of burials in the churchyard, but complaints had fre-
quently been made since that time of the infringement.,
of the order. A fine of £lO was inflicted.
Mr. James Kitson, of Leeds', died on Tuesday. The
deceased, who was 78 yeas of age, was the founder of
the Monkbridge and other large ironworks. In 1860
and 1861 he was Mayor of Leeds and for many years
he was a director (of the North-Eastern Railway Com-
pany.
Mr. Yates, the Crewe district coroner, held an inquest
on Tuesday on the death of Edith Denton, aged four
years and three months. The mother went out, leaving
the deceased in bed. Near her was a box of matches,
and as soon as she was left alone the deceased struck
one. The flames ignited her nightdress, and, although
two little sisters made frantic attempts to put out the
flames, they were unable to do so, and the child was so -
terribly burnt about the body that she died a few hours
afterwards. The jury returned a verdict o; accidental
death.
Lord John Manners addressed a large meeting of
Conservatives at Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, on
Tuesday afternoon. Alluding to the change of Govern-
ment, he pointed out that the Liberal majority did not
desert the Government on any question affecting South
Africa, or Egypt, or India. It was only when the
Budget was presented that they saw fit to cease to be
the majority. The difficulties of the late Government
came upon them through their refusing to take suffi-
cient cognisance of foreign affairs, and he counselled
the country to see that no such mistake was made in
future. He believed the working classes would stand
by the Constitution.
The Hon. D. R. Plunket, First Commissioner of
Works, without opposition, has been re-elected M.P. for
Dublin University; Mr. Chaplin and Mr. Stanhope were
re-elected unopposed for Mid-Lincolnshire; end Sir R,
A. Cross, Home Secretary, was also returned unopposed
for South-West Lancashire.
At a special court of the Governors of the University
College for North Wales, held at Bangor on Tuesday,
Colonel the Hon. W. E. Sackville West presiding, her
Majesty's seal for the incorporation of the institution
was formally received. Plincipal Reichel reported
that for the fist term, which closed on Tuesday, the
attendance of students had been much larger than was
anticipated. Regret was expressed at she long delay
in the passage of the Parliamentary measure dealing
with intermediate education in Wales.
When Governor of Bombay, the late Sir J. Rivett
Carnae was presented with a valuable service of plate,
descrioed as more suitable for purposes of State than
for private use. It was bequeathed to him upon trust
to devolve with the baronetcy. The present baronet
on Tuesday applied to the Chancery Division, under the
Settled Land Act, for power to sell the plate, and Mr.
Justice Chitty sanctioned the sale.
In refusing leave to appeal in a case on Tuesday the
Lord Chief Justice asked why should every little paltry
case go to the House of Lerds, and said it was a curse
of the new system that there were appeals in almost
every case, and the Court would not encourage them.
The magistrates sitting at the Essex Quarter Sessions
have made an order, with the sanction of the Home
Office' for procuring revolvers and ball cartridges with
which to arm constables doing dut7 at night in the
more dangerous parts of the county. This order applies
more especially to that part of Essex which includes
Ongar, Dagenham, Dpeing Forest, and the borders of
London. 'The recent murder of Inspector Simmons has
influenced the magistrates in taking this step.
A destructive fire broke out about twelve o'clock on
Monday night on the Lowestof t Pier. The reading-
room, band stand, and the northern projection, 300 ft.
long, of the South Pier were totally destroyed. The
pier is the property of the Great Eastern Railway Corn.
pany, and the damage is estimated at £20,000. The
South Pier will be temporarily repaired in about a fort-
night.
Lilian Roberts, a student at Mallen College, has been
further remanded at Leeds, charged with forging a
telegram purporting to be from the chief constable of
*Leeds to the police authorities at Bozen, Austria, re-
questing them to release a photographic artist, named
Dubois, lately residing at Leeds, who had been arrested
on a charge of felony. On the receipt of the telegram
the prisoner was released, and he has not since been
heard of. _ _ _

At Birmingham, on Tuesday, two labouring men,
named Sweetman and Hughes, were committed for trial
for attempting to murder a workman named Clarke,
and also with violently attacking Police-sergeant Owen
and Police-constable Pittaway. On Monday afternoon
the three men quarrelled at the Flying Horse, Hamp-
ton-street, and afterwards went out, Sweetman carry-
ing a poker, with which he dealt Clarke several heavy
blows. Meanwhile Hughes attacked Clarke with a
pocket-knife.
About one o'clock on Tuesday morning Timothy
Hanly, a farmer, of Soloheadbeg, about a mile from
Limerick Junction, was shot dead by his second cousin
and next door neighbour, Michael Breen. Breen, who
has been arrested, admits having shot Hanly, whom he
took to be a" Moonlighter "about to attack his house.
Hanly was on his return frozp visiting a sick friend
when he met his death.
Efforts are being made in the West Riding to bring
into effect the sub-division of the diocese of Ripon, as
authorised by the recent Act of Parliament. Dr. Boyd
Carpenter presided on Tuesday afternoon at Hudders-
field over the first of a series of meetings to be held in
the diocese to raise the required amount for the endow-
ment of the new see of Wakefield; £45,000 was still
required, on the expectation that £lO,OOO will be
raised in London. The meeting was very succecsful,
many subscriptions being promised.
The Appeal Court on Tuesday decided the case of
"Perry and another v. Barnett," in which the plaintiffs
sued for the price of 100 shares in the Oriental Bank,
which defendant had ordered to be purchased for him
on the Stock Exchange and now refused to take on the
ground that the contract was void, as the number qf
the shares had not been stated in the contract accord-
ing to Leman's Act. Mr. Justice Grove had decided
that defendant had no knowledge of the rules of the
Stock• Exchange, which oblige a broker to complete
such a contract, and found for the defendant. The
Appeal Court upheld this decision and dismis3ed the
appeal.
At the Central Criminal Court on Tuesday, W.
Vale, Albert Quilter, and George Allen were convicted
of breaking into the warehouse of Mr. Pearse anl
stealir g cloth. Vale was also found guilty of robbery
on another indictment and Solomon Solomons and
Rebecca Isaacs pleaded guilty to receiving the property
knowing it to be stolen. Vale and Allen were sen-
tenced to seven years' penal servitude and the others
to terms of hard labour. W. Flaxman, convicted of
obtaining lace by false pretences, was sentenced to five
years' penal servitude.
The revenue of the United Kingdom for the year end-
ing June 30 was £88,235,523, being an increase of
£1,885,584 above the revenue of the year ending June
30, 1884. The gross increase is £3,782,000, of which
the Customs have supplied £1,229,000, stamps, t 370,000,
posts and telegraphs, £450,000, land tax, £5OOO, and the
increased property and income-tax £1,727,000. Against
these have to be set the decrease of £707,000 in the
Excise, I'sooo in house duty, and £1,118,612 miscel-
laneous, besides £65,G04 interest on advances.
A case of wine stealing from the cellar of Sir Alex-
ander Mallet, of Wilbury House, came before the Sails-
bury county magistrates on Tuesday. A woman who
had been in the employ of Sir Alexander took a bottle
of claret and port, and also a bottle of brandy, from the
cellar. The wine she drank and became intoxicated.
The woman had been employed to look after the aged
baronet, and thus obtained possession of the key, which
bad been kept in a drawer in his room. She was sen-
tenced to a month's hard labour.

The anniversary festival of the House of Mercy,
Clewer-ereen, was attended on Tuesday by a large
number of visitors, the company including the Dean of
Brechin, Archdeacon Balston,Canon Purse, Archdeacon
Blythe, the Rev. Hon. H. Bligh, Lady Tarleton, Canon
Beach, Dr. Nicholson, Canon Ainslie, the Rev. T. T.
Carter, and others. The Rev. G. S. Cuthbert officiated
at high celebration, the sermon in the afternoon being
preached by the Rev. W. H. Hutchings. Many of the
guests visited St. Andrew's Hospital, where a number
of convalescents and incurable patients are nursed by
the sisters.—At a meeting held in the evening, under the
presidenny of the Mayor, Mr. J. Oberlin Harris, at the
Guildhall, a subscription list was opened for the pur-
pose of purchasing a handsome wedding gift for pre-
sentation to Princess Beatrice upon the occasion of her
marriage with Prince Henry of Battenburg. Upwards
of 150 guineas have already been promised.
A court-martial was held on Saturday morning on
board the Revenge guardship on Mx. R. J. W. Earle,
engineer of the gunboat Orwell, stationed on the west
coast of Ireland, who was charged with drunkenness,
from the effects of which he was incapacitated for
performing his duty from May 6to June 13. Mr. Earle
pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to be dismissed his
ship, to lose five years' seniority, awl to be severely
reprirn an •"ed.
At the Great Northern Goods Station, Derby, on
Sunday, Joseph Know, employed as a porter, was
knocked down and run over by some trucks which
were being shunted. He sustained frightful injuries,
and death must have been instantaneous, his head being
almost severed from his body. A similar accident
occurred on the Midland Railway, near Burton. A man
named John Hyatt was crossing the line when he was
knocked down by a goods engine. The man sustained
a compound fracture of one of his legs and arms, and
death ensued.

The Prince of Wales has consented to act as presi-
dent of the Freebridge Lynn Association, a society for
rewarding skilled labour. His Royal Highness has in.
timated by letter to the committee that the association
will be welcome to the use of lands upon Any of the
farms in hand upon his estate, and has suggested that
the annual meeting might be called for the farm build-
ings at Sandringham, and that the trials in agricultural
work should take place upon the adjacent lands. The
committee have accordingly resolved to hold the com-
petitions at Sandringham in September.
At Liverpool Police-court, on Saturday, a young man
named John Wilson, a member of the medical profes-
sion, was charged with forging and uttering a cheque
for £2 on May 28th last. The prisoner, who said he was
a perfect stranger in Liverpool, and uttered the cheque
in the most innocent way, was committed for trial at
the assizes. Daring the hearing of the cases in the
morning, and while the prisoner was waiting to be
called, a female prisoner took a fit in the dock. Mr.
IVilson at once volunteered his services, and at his sug-
gestion the woman was sent in an ambulance to the
workhouse, she was in such a critical conditiou. Mr.
Wilson was admitted to bail in two sureties of £5O
each.

A terrific thunderstorm raged over the Frefich
capital throughout Sunday night.
A grand banquet was given in Sydney on Monday by
the Ministry of New South Wales in honour of the
officers cf the "Soudan Contingent."
Violent earthquake shocks have occurred at Srinagar,
in Cashmere.
Mr. W. H. Smith was on Monday. re-elected .n4u-
opposed for Westminster, and Mr. A. J. Balfour for
Hertford. Lord Randolph Churchill and Mr. Corrie
Grant were nominated for Wobdstock. Baron Ferdi-
rand de Rothschild has issued his address to the
electors of A 3 lesford.
Baroneteies have been offered to and accepted by Mr.
Robert Jardine, M.P. for Dumfriesshire, and Mr.
Thomas Brocklebank, of Springwood, Allerton. Mr.
Wattr, R.A., has declined the honour similarly offered
to him.

Lord Wolseley will remain at Cairo during the
summer.

On Monday night Mr. S. Morley M.P., spoke at 4
meeting in Beaumont Hall, Mile-ed,London. He corn;
plained seriously of those Liberal Members who
absented themselves from the division in which Mr.
Gladstone and his colleagues were defeated; but said
he would be no party to any vexatious opposition to thq
new Government Liberals would settle their accountit
satisfactorily at the general election, and in the mean-
time they must be watchful. Honour was due to Mr.
Gladstone for resisting Lord Salisbury's demand for
pledges.
On SUh 55y evening Lord Henry R. Phipps and Lady
Phipps we. driving in their pony carriage, near
Whitby, ano when joining the new road at Upgang,
the pony grew restless and began to plunge. Lord
Henry and Lady Phipps jumped out and his lordship
bad scarcely hold of the animal's head before the car-
riage and pony rolled over the embankment, falling
a distance of about thirty feet. The vehicle was
smashed to pieces, but the pony was only slightly in-
jured.
The police of South Stockton have investigated the -
story of the boy Robert Metcalfe, who made a charge .
at Northallerton of having been confined in a back yard
at South Stockton and cruelly ill-treated for four years.
They find the statement in nearly every particular un-,
true. The lad, who is fourteen, has been suffering
from an incurable skin disease which 'necessitated his
isolation. He has. however, been properly fed and
clothed, and has slept in a back bedroom, which was
found by the police to be in a clean and comfortable
state. No undue restrictions appear to have been
placed on the lad's liberty. The School Board and Poor- ea
law authorities have had his me before them, but could =IF
do nothing. The lad was of thievish propensities, and
this led to his running away to Northallerton. No
charge is to be made neminst William Wain, at whose
house the boy has been living.
Employers have intimated to the cable chain makers,
who are out on strike for an advance in wages,that they
are unable to concede the advance, through the North
of England manufacturers haying reduced the price ;•
and the heavy cha-ges for railway to the sea coast pro- '
hibit them from successfully competing with manufac-
turers in the North. The operatives contend that it is
impossible to get a living at the present prices, and re-
solved to continue the strike.

Harry Coates, a foreman painter, met with a teirible
and fatal accident at Darlington on Monday. He was
painting at the top of a long ladder in the machine-room
of the Stockton and Middlesbrough Waterworks, when
some person coming into the room, and not knowing of
his presence, moved the ladder, and the unfortunate
man dropped on to a large fly-wheel, He immediately
disappeared among the machinery, and was not got out
until his head was severed from his body, and his whole
body fearfully mangled. "
At Bradford, William 'Swallow Whiteheltd, deputy
manager of the gasworks there, was charged with em-
bezzling £lOO belonging to the Bradford Corporation.
The Chief Constable detailed the facts connected with
the prisoner's arrest in London when "en route" to
Spain, and the subsequent recovery of a travelling bag
containing stock, shares, scrip, and foreign coin, repre-
senting in value £6949. On 'the -application of the
Town Clerk the prisoner as remanded pending the
investigations of the gas committee.
At the Brighton Quarter Sessions on Monday William
Smitbers, late borough rate collector, pleaded guilty to
embezzling the moneys of the Corporation, his defalca-
tions amounting to several hundred pounds. The
offence was committed last year, but the prisoner.
absconded in January, and continued to keep his hiding
place unknown until Thursday last week, when he was -
apprehended in London. He was sentenced to 12
months' bard labour.

The members of the Bolton and District Master
Spinners' Association met on Monday, and after a long
discussion passed a resolution to the effect that wages
be reduced 10 per cent., providing employers represent-
ing three-fourths of the spindles in the town and dis-
trict sign an agreement to that effect. The decision
has caused much excitement, as a strike is certain to
follow, the operatives being firm in resisting the re-
duction.

A carriage accident, which unfortunately caused the
death of Mr. Andrew Perston, a gentleman residing.at
2, Ladbroke-gardens, Notting-hill, occurred early on
Monday morning in the High-road, Kensington. It
appeared that Mr. Perston was driving in his brougham,
when the horse became restive. The coachman lost all
control over the animal, and the carriage was overturned
and the driver thrown into the road. Mr. Perston waa
very much injured and in an unconscious state. Ete -
was immediately conveyed home, and medical aid was
summoned, but he died shortly afterwards. The coach-
man escaped with a few bruises. Mr. Perston was in
his 75th year. _

Mr. 0.0. Ross, M.P., on Monday laid the foundation
stone of a new harbour situate at Newlyn, Mounts
Bay, Cornwall. The harbour will be of great advan.
tage to the important fishing fleet which is engaged in
the mackerel and other fisheries.
At an inquest held at Aludge on Monday on a mars
named Levi Page, aged 59, who was found dead in bed,
it was stated that deceased's brother was found dead in
a field about three years ago, that his father some time
before was found dead in an outbuilding, and that his
father's brother was found dead in bed. Heart .
disease in each case was supposed to be the cause of
death.

A carpenter, named Robert Graham; in the employ
of Messrs. Barnsley and Sons, Birmingham, while at
work on Monday upon the new premises of Messrs.
Lewis, Corporation-street, fell through the joists to the
floor below, a distance of about 40 feet, sustaining
fracture of the skull.
On Monday, at Brighton, a lady, an animal painter,
named Mary Chantrell, widow of the late sculptor of
that name, was fined £5 and costs for cruelty to Cats,
which she had kept in a state of starvation. A. few
years ago she was twice convicted upon similar charges,
having then had 70 and 30 cats and.dogs in a starved
state.

The London and North-Western Steel Works at
Crewe were visited by a distinguished party, including
the Duke of Sutherland, the Duke of Manchester,
Admiral Madmold, Mr. H. M. Stanley, and a number bf
ladies and gentlemen. The chief engineer conducted
through the various departments of the works, the pro-
cess of rail and wheel making being shown, and the
Bessemer furnaces being seen at work.
A shocking accident occurred on Monday at Ches.
sette's Wood, Knowle, Warwickshire. Two boys, aged
12 and 8 respectively, were walking near the wood when
a gun which the elder boy-was. carrying' exploded, the
charge lodging in the younger boy's jaw, completely
shattering it. Death was instantaneous.
In opening a new grammar school at Lincoln on
Monday, the Bishop of Lincoln said he knew that at the -
present time people sometimes were afraid of education,
and shook their heads, saying, "Look at your Universi-
ties; they are all going to pieces, and you have as many
misbelievers and unbelievers there as you have true
believers, and if that is the end of your education I do
not feel much inclined to help you with it." He hoped
a little more confidence would be placed on the truth,
and that it would be believed it was only a passing
difficulty.
At Plymouth town, on Monday, a young man, named
Corin, who killed his wife in a drunken affray some
two years ago, and who since his release from prison
has been travelling with Bostock's menagerie, fell from
the shaft of one of the waggons as they were making
public procession through the street, and was imme-.
diately crushed to death.