The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-05-30 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Professpr vambery rays the Prince of Wales has
promised to visit the Pesth Exhibition.
The Austrian Government is preparing a bill giving
legal status to the members of the Anglican Church in
Austria.
A conference of local authorities at Aberdeen has
res,dved to make the town a port for the importation
of foreign cattle.
Mr. E. N. F. Feawick, of the North-Eastern Circuit,
has been appointed to the newly-created stipendiary
magistrateship at Bradford.
The guarantee fund of the proposed Navigation,
Travelling, and Commercial Exhibition to be held at
Liverpoel next year, amounts to L25,00d.
The motion recently made at the Reform Club for
the aboliticn of the Political Committee has been re-
jected by a majority of two to one.
The Britis.h and Foreign Unitarian Association has
petitioned the House of Commons for the withdrawal
from the Church Service of the Athanasian Creed.
No increase has been made in the number of Re-
vising Barristers, but it is not expected that this will
lead to any delay in the preparations for a general
election.
The Department of State have issued a Circular
giving instructions to the representatives of the United
States abroad as to the rights and duties of American
citizens in foreign countries.
A coroner's jury has found that the sudden death of
Evelyn Douglas Jerrold, grandson of the famous
author and wit, „was due to natural causes, deceased
having been in extremely delicate health for the last
fifteen years.
The death is announced of Mr. Peter William
Barlow, F.R.S., who designed and con-
structed the two latest road crossings of the river
Thames in the metropolis—namely, the Lambeth-bridge
and the Tower Subway.
Dr. Collingridge, the Medical Officer of Health for
the Port of London has issued a series of regulations
for the removal to hospital of wrsons brought within
the port by any ship or boat having a dangerous in-
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It is announced from Panama that during the late
rebel attack upon Cartagena the Colombian insurgents
lost 260 killed and wounded, and the Government troops
nine killed and fourteen wounded.
Mr. John Mitchell, who for the last 70 years has sung
at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, has been pre-
sented by the lay clerks of the Chapel Royal with an
illuminatcd address, upon the anniversary of his joining
the choir, which he entered when about 0 years old.
It is authoritatively announced that the Bishop of
Salisbury will resign that position during the ensuing
summer. Dr. fyleberly, who is in his eighty-second
year, has been in a feeble condition of health for some
time.
The members of the Royal Commissien on the
Hous'ng of the P or sat for the first time in Ireland at
the City Hall, Dublin, on Saturday, under the prek.
dency of Sir Charles Dißre,
Mr. James Deykin, an alderman, of Birmingham,
was accidentally drowned in Aston Reservoir on
Monday.
Jchn Daly, a youth, who stabbed a young woman in
Torrington-square, London, on Saturday, was charged
at Bow-street Police-court, on Monday, and com-
mitted fo, trial. He pleaded that he was
intoxicated at the time, and a surgeon, who
examined him after his arrival at the prison, has certi-
fied that he was suffering from the effects of drink. The
injured girl was able to give evidence.
Senteuse of three months' imprisonment with hard
labour was passed by the Marylebone magistrate on
Martin I,Valsh, a labourer, for assaulting a policeman.
A young man named McFayden, who, by way of a
joke, burnt a gentlemaa's ear with a long clay pipe, was
on Monday sent by the Wandsworth magistrate to
prison for two months, with hard labour.
The annual Whitsuntide meetings of Oddfellows,
Shepherds, and other benefit societies were opened on
Monday at Aberystwith, Aylesbury, Bristol, Birkenhead,
Reading, and other towns.
Her Majesty's ship Sultan left Spithead on Monday
for Portland to join the large fleet assembling there for
a cruise under the command of Admiral Sir G. Hornby.
The fleet will be exercised in torpedo warfare, ramming,
and steam tactics.
Two transports, the Richmond Hill and Kimberley
have sailed from Portsmouth for the Cape with mili-
tary stores. They also convoy the gunboats Tickler,
Griper, and Gadfly.
The official return just made to the Northern Iron
Trade Arbitration Board shows a further decline of is.
per ton in rails, plates, bars, and angles in two months,
the net average price per ton being ss. 4d. below the
depression of six years. The total output for the two
months show a decline of nearly one-halt 'as compared
with a sear and a-half since.
The Spanish Government have prohibited the con-
tinuance by Dr. Ferran, in the province of Valencia, of
his inoculation experiments with a view to reduce the
virulence cf the existing epidemic of cholera. The
Government have received information that several
persons thus inoculated have been attacked with
cholera.
The Sanitary Congress in Rome began the discussion
of the subject of maritime quarantine. England
strongly opposes a proposal by France that such
quarantine should commence at the Red Sea end of
the Suez Canal.
A hundred years ago a Frenchman named Blanchard
and an American-born Englishman named Jefferies
started from Dover in a balloon, and descended at
Guines, near Calais. The centenary was celebrated on
Monday at Guines, and was attended by two grand-
sons of Dr. Jefferies. The chief incident was a balloon
' ascent; but within a quarter of an hour the balloon
was hidden by clouds. It was then proceeding in a
north-northeasterly direction. It descended during
the evening at a seaside village near Gravelines.
A sham fight took place on Monday in the neigh-
bourhood of Weymouth. The operators were impeded
by a dense mist, which concealed from the defending
force the movements of the invaders. The latter got
round the defenders and seized their battery, where-
upon the victory was adjudged to the invaders.
The volunteers in camp in the neighbourhood of
Lond‘m went through a number of drills on Monday,
and seine gun ractice, notwithstanding the very un-
favourable weather.
At noon on Monday a shocking building accident
occurred at the Rose Mill, in course of erection at
Holinvsoocl, near Oldham. A dozen men were fixing an
iron shoulder for an iron beam, when it gave way.
Several men fell five storeys. Martin Grady, labourer,
was killed, another had both legs broken, and two others
sustained fractures of the skull.
On Monday a shocking accident happened at Wood-
end Colliery, Leigh. As three men were descending
the pit the cage caught against an obstruction, which
threw them off their feet. The signal was given to
ascend, and on reaching the surface it was found that
one of them had fallen out of the cage. The dead body
was afterwards found at the bottom of the shaft shock-
' irgly mutilated.
A sad tragedy is reported from Scotland. A com-
mercial traveller named David Doig, from Glasgow, and
a young woman engaged a room at Miller's Temperance
I Hotel, Ayr. On Friday, on the room being entered,
the latter was found dead, and the former lying beside
her wounded and insensible, both having apparently
been shet. The young woman, it seems, is a Miss Dick,
whose father would not allow her to receive Doig's

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An expedition, under the direction of Captain R. T.
Stevens, of Lloyd's, has left Liverpool for Grand Canary
to try and recover for the underwriters, by diving
operations, the sum of £lOO,OOO sunk in the steamer
Alphonso XII. while on a voyage to Cuba in February
last. The vessel struck on a shoal near the island of
Las Palmas, and in a few minutes afterwards fell over
into deep water, and went down bodily.
A sad occurrence took place at Lofthouse, near
Wake4ell, on Sunday night. A party of seven work-
ing men proceeded to a barn on a farm in the neigh-
bourhood, and shortly after they had entered the build-
ing fialnes were observed issuing therefrom. An alarm
was inimediately raised, and on the fire being subdued
the reAaains of one of the men were found in a terribly.
charral condition. The deceased,who has been identif ed
as Arthur Wright, aged 34 years, leaves a widow and
two children_ His six companions were arrested.
Shortly before eleven o'clock on Monday morning
great consternation prevailed in Tachbrook-street,
Pimlico, by a repoit beirg spread that a mad dog was
at larg,e there. It was then found that a young black
retrieder dog, surrounded by a numerous crowd at the -
cornei.of.Warwiclo-street, was struggling and foaming
in a fit; and suffering from rabies, and snapping at • all,
,who came in its way. Fortunately no person was
seriously bitten, and eventually the animal, after a deal
of difficulty, was secured and despatched by a veterinary
surgeon in Wilton-road, opposite Victoria Station,
' whither it was pnrsued by a large number of parsons,
many of whom had narrow manes.

The rupture of the commercial negotiations between
England and Spain is severely criticised by the Spanish
press.

Sentence of five yearn' penal servitude was passed on
Tuesday at the Middlesex Sessions on each of three
prisoners convicted of theft.
Mr. Swainson' who was so severely injured by the
explosion at the Admiralty is now, convalescent.
At Liverpool a man named Cunningham has stabbed
his wife and her mother, inflicting serious injuries.
The great mining strike in South Yorkshire, which
for seven weeks has paralysed trade and created much
suffering, has practically collapsed.
Sir W. A. Cr. Young, governor of the Gold Coast, has
died at Accra from fever.

With a few exceptions, the London police-court
charge-sheets on Tuesday contained a longer list of
Whit-Monday offences than usual, but none of them
were of a very serious character.
A despatch from Tangiers states that M. Feraud, the
new French Minister in Morocco, has had a very satis-
factory interview with the Sultan, who showed every
disposition to come toau arrangement with Prance
all pending questions.
At a quarter before two o'clock on Tuesday morning
the General Assembly of the Established Church of
Scotland gave its decNon in the Kilmaurs case. By f2B
to 79 it was resolved that the appeal be dismissed and
the judgment of the Synod confirmed. Mr. Inglis was,
therefore acquitted.
Tuesday was the 18th anniversary of the birth of
Princess Victoria Mary Augusta Lr,uise Olga Pauline
Claudine Agnes, only daughter of the Duke and
Duchess of Teck (nee Princess Mary of Cambridge),
the youthful princess having been born at Kensington
Palace on May 26, 1867.

It is stated that, failing to get a private tenant, Lord
Castletown has offered his beautiful mansion, Grants
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town Manor, in the Queen's with fine garden and
16 acres of d CO.,
demesne land attached, at a merely nominal
rent to keep the roof on it, for the purpost:s of an hos-
pital or convalescent home.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert Victor left
Sandringham on Monday and proceeded to Cambridge,
for the..purpose of resuming residence at Trinity
College. His Royal Highness Prince George also left
Sandringham and proceeded to Portsmouth, via London,
to resume his duties on board her Majesty's ship
Excellent.

Fifty-seven delegates of the Paris Trades Unions and
Workmen's Corporations started for the Antwerp Ex-
hibition on Saturday evening' the Municipal Council
having supplied 30,0001. to defray the cost of the
delegation. Close upon 200 trade societies formed a
committee for a selection of the delegates. The election
was perfectly free.
The annual meeting of the Yorkshire Association of
Baptist Churches was opened at Flebden Bridge under
saddening circumstances. The president-elect was
Alderman William Watson, of Bradford, a well-known
member of the denomination. On Monday evening
Mr. Watson had attended a committee meeting. and,
on leaving the room, fell down and expired. He was in
his seventieth year.
After hearing further evidence in the case in which
an elderly lady named G;bbons alleged that she had
been assaulted by Miss Jennings, an artist's model, the
Marlborough-street police magistrate on Tuesday dis-
missed the summons, remarking that the complainant
had no right to go into the defendant's house.
An inquest was held at Sheffield, on Tuesday, on the
body of a farm labourer, named Martin, whose death
occurred under remarkable circumstances. He was in
charge of an agricultural roller, weighing about a ton,
and was taking it from Sheffield to his master's farm.
On the way he slipped from his seat, and fell in front
of the roller. The latter did not pass over him, but
pushed him till the horses were stopped, a distance of
20 yards. He died shortly afterwards.

At a meeting of PresGyterians on Tue-sday nighti n
Dublin, resolutions we^e adopted in favour of the use
of instrumental music in public worship, and declaring
that any attempt to exercise discipline-against those
churches that might adept it would be fraught with
disaster to the Church. Some of the speakers spoke
strongly on the subject, and one of them said that if
the assembly attempted to exercise discipline in this
matter they would dance on the assembly.
sad accident happened on Tuesday morning to
-ten at a timber yard in Manchester. The men
winding up a block of timber by a crane when one
tem, named James Hughes, let go his hold of the
which struck him violently and knocked him
to ground. Death was instantaneous. His corn-
ton was also knocked off the beam on which he was
tding, and sustained very severe injuries.
itus Hipkiss, ironworker, lately of Manchester, has
sentenced to six months' imprisonment for com-
ting a murderens outrage on a girl named Harriet
an. On Monday evening the prosecutrix was sent
m errand, and when walking through a field the
Dner overtook her, stabbed her, causing her to he
y wounded, and afterwards attempted to strangle
The girl was found bleeding with a portion of her
les destroyed. The prisoner denied all knowledge
te outrage.
Woodeial Colliery, Leigh, as three men were
iding tie pit, the cage caught against an obstruc-
which threw them off their feet. The signal was
I to ascend, and on reaching the' surface it was
ta that one of them had fallen out of the cage. The
body was afterwards found at the bottom of the
shockingly mutilated.
Chilham, a child named Harlow, scarcely 18
old, took some lucifer matches from a chair and
with them. The mother, who is deaf, was
in work downstairs, and when she went to look
te child, about an hour after it bad been put to bed,
horrified to find the little one had been burned
ath in its bassinette.
incipal Douglas, of Glasgow (one of the Company
wisers), has been presented to the Free Church
37 sitting in Edinburgh a copy of the Revised
Bi, . He said the revisers had had tempting offers
to Al the copyright, but they preferred to give that
right to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
trusting that the Bible would be issued as cheaply as
possible.
The stage which left Madera, California, last week
for Yosemite Valley with tourists, was attacked and
robbed by highwaymen, who took all the travellers'
money, jewellery, and valuables, and also the express
treasure box. Much excitement was caused through-
out that region, and four sheriffs, with posses, pursued
the obbers.
M Leicester, on Tuesday, Mary Dale was charged
witl; abetting her husband, John Dale, late proprietor
of the Harlborough Hotel, Melton, in not disclosing the
whole of the estate in bankruptcy. Dale is under re-
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judge to give it up. She was remanded.
lambing season in Yorkshire is now over, and
farmers report that the results are very satisfactory.
The ewes were in capital condition all the winter,
having kept strong and healthy, and the lambs, not-
withstanding the long spell of cold and cheerless
weatber,have thriven well. Comparatively few deaths
wer& caused by exposure or disease. The demand for
lambs for the butcher has been very great, and whilst
mutton has fallen in value greatly below the prices
current for several years, lambs have been exceptionally
high,
At an early hour on Monday morning a goods train
was proceeding along the Midland Railway, between
Birmingham and Worcester, when one of the trucks
went off the metals in consequence of the breakage
of a drawbar, pulling several other waggons after it,
and temporarily blocking both the up and down lines.
A breakdown gang was despatched from Birmingham
without delay, but several hours elapsed before the
obstruction was cleared, and the heavily-laden excur-
sion for Bournemouth, which left Birmingham at a
quarter after midnight, was detained for nearly four
hours.

Mail advices received from Panama, dated the 17th
inst., state that the Colombian rebels who attacked
Cartagena on the 7th inst., but were repulsed, lost 260
killed and wounded, and 257 prisoners, including 73
officers and leaders. The loss of the Government
troops was nine killed and 14 wounded. Mr. Stokes,
the English Consul at Panama, is making searching in-
vestigations regarding the fatal riot among the
Jamaicans at Culebra on the 3rd inst. The despatch
adds that over thirty of the rioters were killed, and
that some of the wounded were not expected to recover.
At Romsey, a labouring man named William Anette,
was charged with killing George Lomax. On Thursday
a number of men, over whom deceased was foreman,
were at work in a coppice, barking. A thirty-six
gallon cask-of beer was brought, and some quarrelling
ensued, some of the party, the deceased included, being
the worse for drink. Anette struck Lomax with his
fist behind the ear, and the latter fell and died in-
stantly, the cause of death being the rupture of a blood
vessel on the brain. The prisoner was committed for
trial.
A great gathering of Sunday-school scholars took
place on Tuesday at Halifax, in the Market Hall, being
the first commemoration of the Halifax Sunday School
Centenary which was held in 1880. The great quad-
rangle of the Market Hall was occupied by 29,000
teachers and scholars. An orchestra of 600 instru-
mentalists had been erected on the east side, whilst
nearly 40,000 spectators were accommodated in the gal-
leries and on temporary platforms. Each of the 96
Sunday schools present had a beautiful banner, and
some of these were rich and costly. The programme
of music included six hymn tunes and three choruses,
which the children have been practising for some
moaths. The choruses were Beethoven's" Hallelujah,"
Haydn's "The Heavens are Telling," and Handel's . z
"Hallelujah," which were fairly well sung. Thousands
of people crowded the streets to watch the processions
of children to and from the hall, and the arrangements
for the commemoration were carried out ,aith complete
success, the proceedings being favoured with fine
weather. The musical conductor was Mr. Abel Dean,
who has officiated at'these festivals since 1852.
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exhibitions there were 400 exhibitUrs, the second_
exhibits comprise carvings, models, turned articles,
paintings in oil and water-colour, paintings on china
and terracotta, embroidery work, and baking and
Special
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of the society are in all ranks of life, but the
articles exhibited are amateur work, and all have been
executed since the society's exhibition of last. year.
The specimens of both embroidery and plain work west • :4, .
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Sir Charles Strickland, who recently reducea, the.' ,fp
rents of his aaricaltura tenants by -
15 per cent. has.
written a letter to thorn in which he states that he
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wouly.l have, reduced them more, laut he is quite sure
that.rekri abcl fng ,
vedinia stock pays as well as, or better,
than it has ever done. -The tenant farmers' frienCrsmin'
Pirliainentrhat gliyg, Passed an Act, one chief
object of which is to prevent landlOrds fiaim helping
their tenants, by draining, or making '
similar improve-
ments, but as he considers the Act at least as hurtful to
tenants as it is to landlords, he intends to frame an
agreement which shall be as fair as he can make it to
both, without reference to the Act.

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