The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-12 00:00:00

THE SERVO-BULGARIAN WAR.

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Monday's news was as follows: Negotiations be-
tween Servia and Bulgaria for the conclusion, of a
regular armistice still continue, the Servian -Caionel 1
Milanovitch having taken to the Bulgarian head- I
quarters the same proposals as were previously
made by Servia. From Belgrade it is announced
that the hone of peace being maintained is fading,
and it is understood that in the event of Servia being
overtaken by fresh disaster Austria and Russia would
come to an agreement to avoid a conflict between the
two Empires. From Vienna, however, itwts reported
that the general belief is that a resumption of hos-
tilities is impossible. The two Ottoman delegates,
Lehib and Gadban Effendis have felt, or are about to
leave, Phillippopolis, the former having been recalled
to Constantinople, and the latter being dispatched to
&At, A Constantinople correspondent telegraphs
that the Conference is not expected to meet again.
Djevdet Pasha's departure for Philippopolis has beer
postponed.
It was telegraphed from Belgrade on Monday that
the eus?ension of hostilities between Selma and Bal- political excitement IS
garia would last at least until Wednesday, Mr. W, Green, a justice of i
peace for Accrington,
allhough the last Servian proposal was to con- having died after recording his vote n the Olitheroe
Untie the armistice for a month, both sides
Division of Lancashire.ve
to nzintain the pos The Democrats have nominated Mr. Carlisle as
itions they at present The
of the House of Representatives. The north..occupy. It was, however, reported that the tion is equivalent to election.
Bulgarians had attacked General Leshjanin's The steamship Canada, which sailed on Wednesday
troops at Kujashevatz. The Servian Government took four poor children from Newark, new Jersey, who
is said to have been informed by the Turkish have been bitten by a mad dog, for treatment by M.
Minister at Belgrade that no arrangement Pasteur. The expenses of the journey had been
between the belligerents for the re-establishment of defrayed by public subscription.
peace outside the intervention of the Subline Porte At the Dartford Petty Sessions on Saturday Mr.
can have force or value. The Servian Premier draws Pink, jam !actor, was charged under the Ballot Act

The production of " Hoodman Blind" at Wallack's
Theatre, New York, is stated to have bem very
successful. Mr. Kyrie Bellew plays the part created
by Mr. Barrett.
An inquest was held at the London Hospital on
Saturday on the body of a girl named Williams, who
was shot by her brother, James Williams, at St.
George's-in-ihe-East last week. A verdict of "Wilful
murder" was returned, and Williams was committed
for trial.

the attention of the Porte in tones of complaint to
the fact that there are Bourneliot troops in the Bul-
garian ranks. A Berlin correspondeut wrote that
negotiations are actively going on between the
Powers on the Eastern Question, the general cpinioli
irclining towards a compromise acknowledeinz the
union.

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, The special correspondent at Sofia telegraphed on
Tuesday that Prince Alexander has given Servia 24
hours to reply to his last proposals, failing which he
will make an appeal to Europe. Absolute secrecy is
exercised at Pirot with reference to the military ques-
tions, the censorship having refused to forward a tele-
gram dealing with this subject handed in by the
correspondent on Sunday last. It is announced from
Constantinople that Madjid Pasha has been appointed
to assist Prince Alexander in concluding peace with
Servia. The Government party of Servia publishes
in the official organ of the kingdom a long statement
on th 3 situation,. protesting against the Bulgarian
demands, and denying that Servia is vanquished. It
exacts, as the terms of an armistice, mutual evacua-
tion, or the retention by both sides of their present
positions. Meantime war preparations in Servia con •
tinue, five battalions of fresh troops having left Bel-
grade for Nisch.

A man named Hownston, described as a publican
out of business, was at the Southwark Police-court,
London, on Saturday, sentenced to fourteen days' hard
labour for flourishing a loaded revolver in Jamaica,-
road, Bermondsey, when drunk.
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After a long discussion at their fortnightly meeting
on Saturday, the managers of the Metropolitan As% lums
District decided to reinstate Dr. Collie in the office of
medical superintendent of the Eastern Hospitals, sub-
ject to the approval of the Local Government Board.
Dr. Collie is to be severely censure., and warned that
any deteliction of duty in the future will lead to his
immediate eismicsal.

with' refusing to' show the Official mark on the ballot
paper or to return it to the Presiding Officer at Ash
polling station. The first count was dismissed in
accordance with one of the subsections of Section 23 of
the Ballot Act. Mr. Hockey, Q.C., one of the Justices,
was of opinion that the case could only be treated as a
misdemeanour at common law, and the charge was
accordingly dismissed.
Belgium has accepted the recent prorosals of the
French Government relative to the Monetary Couvens
tion, and to which Italy had previously notified her
adhesion.
A fire broke out at the German Theatre, Moscow, a
short time before it was opened for the performance.
The whole body of the theatre was destroyed, but part
of the building was saved, though damaged by fire and
water.
Telegrams from Panama report a serious hurricane
off the coast at Aspinwall. Several vessels have been
wrecked, and the railroad damaged. Many lives have
been lost at Colon. Fourteen sailing vessels stranded
at Aspinwall during the hurricane, and the wharves
were much damaged. All the steamers put to sea when
the storm was seen approaching.
Mr. Manning, Secretary of the American Treasury,
has issued his report for the year. It states that the
net revenue for the fiscal year amounted to 323,000,000
dols., being 24,000,000 dols. less than in the preceding
year. The expenditure was 260,000,000 dols., or
16,000,000 dole. in excess of last year's. The surplus
available for the re luction of the Public Debt at the
end of the year is 40,000,000 dols. less than in 1884.
Major-General Gipps, of the Home district, inspected
We Ist Battalion Grenadier Guards, commanded by
Colonel Hon. W. S. D. Home, at the Victoria Barracks,
Windsor, on Saturday, and presented the Souakim
medals gained by about 180 of the non-commissioned
officers and men during the campaign under General
Sir Gerald Graham. General Gipps highly praised
the troops for their excellent conduct at Dublin and
Windsor.
At a meeting of the men employed at the Oldbury
Railway Carriage Works, who were on strike aesinst a
reduction in wages, held on Saturday night, it was de-
cided to resume work on Monday morning, and appoint
a deputation to lay the grievances before the managing
director, he having refused to consider their complaint
whilst they were on strike.
A fire occurred on Sunday morning on the premises
of Mrs. Hopkinson, draper, Westgate Wakefield. It
was • 'discovered shortly after- one o'clock in the shop,
which was stocked with Christmas goods, and before
the brigade could extinguish it the stock and fixtures
were almost destroyed, and the plate-glass windows
smashed. The loss ls covered by inaurrancm. -
A fatal affray took place in Plymouth Workhouse on
Saturday. Two lunatics got into an altercation in the
absence of the warders. A struggle ensued, and one of
them, Blake, flang the other, named Foot, to the
ground. He then knelt on his chest, and befoie assist-
-11.13Ce arrived the latter had died.
Jelin Thurston, charged with the murder of Henry
Springall, near Hingham, Norfolk, has been committed
for trial for murder by the coroner, Mr. VT. M. Barton.
The chief evidence against Thurston is the fact of
blood being found on his boots, leggings, and coat. The
theory of the prosecution is that he murdered Springall
for the purpose of robbing him of a sovereign which he
knew he had about him. Springall was murdered by
having his head beaten in with a large stone with a
jagged edge.
At Jersey on Tuesday evening a large and enthusiastic
meeting was held by the league formed to secure the
abolition of compulsory services in the militia. The
existing irregularities in the law and the hardships
endured by werking men were loudly condemned, and
a resolution was unanimously agreed to, to petition the
English Government to interfere and abolish compul-
sion, as the Jersey States refused to listen to the de-
mands of the people.
In the Appeal Court on Tuesday, the Lords Justices
decided that the lauded property in which the trustees
of the late Sir Henry Meux, a lunatic, had during his
lifetime invested the accumulations of his personal
estate, was real property and not liable to probate
duty.
In the Queen's Bench division on Tuesday Mrs.
Holland, widow of a greengrocer' of Shadwell, obtained
a verdict for Eiro against Mr. Southern, a coal men.
chant, whose van had thrown down her husband, causing
his death.
At the London Mansion House on Tuesday Frederick
George, a fish dealer at Aberdeen, appeared to answer
a summons charging him with sending 36 unclean
salmon to London. He pleaded guilty, arid de-
clared that he would never be again guilty of such
an act. He was fined £5 and is. for each fish, with
£2 2s. costs.
The revenue received from April 1 to the sth inst.
amounts to 52,274,039, or £739,017 less than the
£53,013,056 received in the corresponding period
ending Dec. 6, 1884. The expenditure up to the sth
inst. was £59,092,017, being £5,311,546 more than the
expenditure for the similar period in 1884-5. Tile
balances on the sth inst. o.mounted to £2,364,221, and
on Dec. 6, 1884, to £3.885,105,.
Mr. Rogers, Local Government Board inspeear,
visited Kildssart on Tuesday, for the purpose of Ines!. ti.
gating a charge of boycotting brought against the
Kildysart Board of Guardians. The charge arose out
of a resolution adopted at a recant meeting uf the
Guardians, that any pe.rson who was not a National
Leaguer should not be selected for any articles re-
quired by the Guardians. A. milk contractor, wiles°
tender was rejected by the Board, laid a complaint, sad
the inquiry was accordingly instituted. Mr. Maarice
T. Walsh, the chairman of the Board, was examined,
and claimed that the Guardians, in psssing the rs-solu.' '
Lion referred to, acted within their right. • The inquiry •
was adjourned.
Judge O'Brien, in opening Munster Assizes on Tues.
day, ccmplained that serious crimes had increased from
430 to 480 as compared with the corresponding period
of last year. Only in about 50 cases had persons been
made amenable, and in the two most important cases
the offenders were secured by the victims themselves.
The state of the province was a cause for widespread
alarm and uneasiness,' and it behoved the Executive
Government to consider well the providing of a speedy
remedy.
At the fourth ennual show of the St. Bernard's Olub,•
opened on Tuesday at Albert-gate, London, there are
303 entries, about GO more than those of last year.
For assaulting a young lady in a carriage on the
Great Eastern Railway, Albert Stephens was sen-
tenced, at the Middlesex Sessions on Tuesday, to six
months' hard labour.
During the investigation at the Southwark Police.
court on Tuesday of a charge of assault against a
constable, two sergeants were questioned as to the
recent dismissal of a number of men from the force,
but they said they could not tell the reason. The men
had been asked, but not forced, to join the Police.
Constable's Christian Association.
At the Southwark Police-court, on Tuesday, George
Sherry a grocer, charged with causing the death of
a woman named Muggeridge by stabbing her, was ac-
quitted, it having been proved that the occurrence was
accidental.
Ernest Payne, a barman, has been committed for trial
on a charge of attempting to murder a young woman in
Canning Town, and also to commit suicide. The pro-'
secutrix was cross-examined with the object of showing
that she was jealous of the accused and had herself
committed the crime.
At an adjourned meeting of the Convocation of the
University of London, a vote of Condolence to the
widow and family of the late Dr. Carpenter was passed.
The report of the special committee recommending a
scheme for a teaching university was referred to a special
committee of 35 members.
A party of Moonlighters early on Monday morning
entered the house of a farmer named Sullivan, of
Dooneen' Kerry, dragged him from his bed, forced him
upon his knees, and made him swear that he would leave
the farm immediately. They afterwards demandei
money, which was given them, and they then left.
Two of the party, named Coakley and Leary, having
been apprehended, were on Tuesday committed for trial
at the Cork Assizes. Another party attacked at about
the same time the house of a farmer, also named
; Sullivan, at Ballinamane. A vigorous resistance was
i here offeted, and shots were exchanged, but no one
appears to have been wounded. One of the party
named O'Brien, who was identified, has been committed
for trial- A farmer named O'Brien, of tilling, has been -
attache and robbed of £9.

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At the Thames Police-court two privates of the Cold.
stream Guards were charged with assaulting the police,
but, after a fu,l investigation the magistrate said he
could not rely on the evidence of the constables, and
the soldiers, who had been severely injured, were dis-
charged.

it /8 stated that the Russian Government has assigned
the sum of 255,500 roubles to be expended during the
year 1886 in new geodetical survey s in Ferghana, the
territories bordering on China, the Usuri district, the
Transcaspian province, and Finland.
A report is being circulated in some Australian
dioceses that it has been intended to prohibit clergy-
men ordained in the colonies from officiating in the
Province of Canterbury, and this has been commented
upon in one of the Australian synods. It is arnounced
that there has never been the slightest foundation for
the statement.

The Admiritlty have sent a circular to the superin-
tendents of the various dockyards stating that, attention
having been called to the usefulness of having com-
missioned ships, when completely fitted out, photo•
graphed, they suggest that a general broadside view, a
view from forward, and a view from aft of each ship
should be taken before any vessel leaves a Government
port.

- At the quarterly meeting of the Council of the City
and Guilds of London Institute, held recently, the
Earl of Selborne made an appeal to the City and
Livery Companies of London to subscribe the neces-
sary funds to complete the work of organising a
national system of technical education, on the success
of which, he said, the commercial prosperity of the
county so greatly depended.
At Marlboreugh-street Police-court on Friday,
Oswald Blair was bound over to keep the peace and
ordercd to pay £5 ss. costs, for an assault on Alfred
Stevens, known as "Vance." the comic vocalist.
The Newbury magistrates sat for several hours on
Monday, and took evidence from a number of persons,
mostly members of the Liberal party, whose windows
were smashed by the mobs who paraded the streets
during the election proceedings for the Newbury
Division. The damage done at the residence of the
agent for the defeated Liberal candidate amounted to
£3O. The magistrates appointed a special session for
the purpose of dealing with the claims.
The fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the first
railway in Germany, from Nurnberg to Fuerth, was
celebrated on Monday at the former place. Stephenson
was originally commissioned with the construction, but,
his estimates being considered too high, the line was
made by a Munich engineer.
Mr. bee, Q. 0., proposes during the ensuing session
to introduce a bill with the object of simplifying tire
tenure and facilitating the transfer of land in England.
The bill will abolish entails, and will amend the Settled
Land Acts. The bill is about to be drafted by Mr:
Ince and Mr. Theodore Dodd.

No fewer than 25 members of the Council of the
People's League for the Abolition of the House of
Lords have been elected to the new Parliament.
A-curious circumstance has come to Eght in connec-
tion with the recent contest in North Aberdeen. Both M.
W. A. Hunter, the successful Liberal candidate, and Mr.
MaeGeah, the defeated Conservative candidate, are
members of the National L:beral Club. Mr. MacGeah
has now requested his nominator to withdraw his name
from that institution.
The members of the Institution of Civil Engineers,
which numbered exactly 1000 on the 30th of Nov., 1862, -
reached a total of 3977 at the same date this year. The
class of students attached to the institution,which class
was created in 1867, had 804 members on the 30th of
November last.
A trial involving metters of great importance as .
regards the treatment of the native race in New Zealand
will shortly take place in one of the superior courts in
London. An action for libel has been brought by Mr.
Bryce, late native Minister at Wellington, against Mr.
G. W. Ruscien, author of the" History of New Zea-
land," for certain statements in that work. Mr. Bryce
is now in this country, and it is expected that the trial
will be fixed for an early day.
Speaking at the Birmingham Town-hall on Monday
night, Mr. J. Bright, M.P., said there were two cksses
of persons who were interested in Indian questions. .
There were those who argued that India had been won
by the sword, and by the sword only could it be
kept. He reminded those that the sword might be
broken, and India, after all, might be permitted to
escape from the power of England. The other class,
with whom he sympathised, would give India whatever.
freedom was possible, and whatsoes er good our civilisa-
tion could bestow upon her.
Speaking at a crowded meeting held at Lowestoft on
Monday night, in support of Sir Savile Crossley, the
Liberal candidate for the Northern Division of Suffolk,
Sir William V. Harcourt maintained that the result of
the recent elections entirely disposed of the idea of
there being any Conservative reaction in the country.
The Tories in office would be compelled to rely upon
their-alliance with the Parnellite party, but he doubted
very much whether the country would long tolerate
such a flagrant act of political immorality.
' A Cookery and Food Exhibition was opened on
Monday at the Royal Aquarium, Westminster, and
will last until the 19th inst. In connection with a
competition in artistic cookery, among a number of
leading hotels, restaurants, and clubs, 35 gold, silver,
and bronze undals, will be awarded, in addition b
money prizes.
One of the largest robberies ever committed in
Vienna has just taken place in a jeweller's shop here,
in one of the busiest thoroughfares. The thieves, who
left behind them an entire collection of housebreakers'
' instruments of foreign make, must have entered .the
shop from the door in the passage of the hote.e. They
forced open the safe containing most valuable jewels
, and the keys of another safe, which they also emptied,
I leaving only the his
loss at a quarter ng several • .
valuable pearl necklaces among the objects stolen,
which exceeded 100 in number.
An extraordinary case was investigated on Monday
by the Bradford magistrates. A mason, named•
Elsworth, was charged with not contributing to the
maintenance of his wife under a magisterial order made
three years ago. Susan Elsworth claimed the prisoner
as her husband. She had not seen him from the time
she had him sent to prison until last Christmas, when
he came to her house' saying," I am your husband."
It is said her husband had lost a tooth, and had a scar
on the foiehead, and so had the prisoner. The prisoner.
came again to her house on Saturday, and stayed four
hours. He repeated that he was her husband. She
then gave him into custody. Lucy Jordon, wife of the
prisoner, said his name was Thomas Edward Jordon. •
He was not a mason, as stated by the complainant, but .
a weaver, and she produced her marriage certificate.
The prisoner had never been absent except when he
went to Scarborough. The mother of the prisoner and
one or two other witnesses stated that the prisoner was
not the man, and on being pressed the prosecutrix said
she was now not quite sure the prisoner was her hus-
band, adding, however, "I want to know why he came
and claimed me." The Bench said there was too
much doubt to convict, and the prisoner was dis-
charged.
A railway accident occurred on the North-Eastern
Railway, near Hull, on Monday morning, which delayed
all passenger and goods traffic between the Efornsea
and Hull branch for about seven hours. A goods train,
it appears, waist crossing a swing bridge over the River •
Hull at Sculcoates, left the metals and, although the
trucks were not overturned, they became so jammed as
to cause an effectual obstruction. The engine was
much damaged and rendered temporarily useless, whilst
the men in charge were a good deal shaken. The train
narrowly escaped being thrown into the river.
I An inquest was held at Rhyl on the body of Miss
Allen, of Birmingham, whose body was found in the
sea on Sunday. Miss Allen, who had come to Rhyl for
the benefit of her health, left her apartments on Satur-
day, and was afterwards seen on the pier. Subse-
quently her satchel and umbrella were found near one .
of the seats. A search was instituted, and next morn-
ing her body was washed up by the tide. She must
have leaped clean over the pier into the sea, falling a •
great distance. The jury returned a verdict that she
committed suicide while labouring under temporary
insanity.

cases behind. The jev;eller values
of a million florins, there *.