The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-07-11 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREION.

There will be published immediately a translation of
Dr. Hertel's; work on over-pressure in Danish high
schools with an introduction by Dr. Crichton Browne.
At Oxford Percy Bailey, alias Arnold and Phillips, a
commission agent, has been sentenced to three months'
hard labour for obtaining subscriptions under false
pretences.
Colonel Rich, one of the inspectors of the Board of
Trade, having made an inspection of the new Rugby
railway station and deviation line, a portion of the line
was opened on Saturday.
The Queen has conferred the honour of the Grand
Cross of the Order of the Bath upon Major-General Sir
Peter Lurnsden, K.C.8., C.S.I.
The intention of the late Government to appoint a
Royal Commission to inquire into the education of the
blind is about to be carried out,
Judge Lambert Tree, of Illinois, has been appointed
American Minister to Belgium.
The Comtesse de Chambord has founded a girls'
school and training college for governesses at Frohs-
dorf.
Oko Jumbo, the King of Bonny, left Euston Station
on Friday afternoon for home.
Princess Beatrice has been presented at Buckingham
Palace with a grand piano, a wedding gift from ladies
residing in Kensington.
Lord Salisbury has replied to a correspondent, stating
that he did not call Russia a bankrupt and swindler,
and that he did not apologise for doing so.
The Newfoundland authorities have imposed retalia-
tory duties against Canada, from the Ist. as an offset
to the Canadian duties on the import of esh.
A verdict of accidental death was returned at an in-
quest on a woman named Harriet Bruise, who when
leaving the Metropolitan Music Hall, fell down a flight
of steps, receiviag injuries from which she succumbed
on the Ist inst.
Mr. Chaplin, M.P., in a letter to a correspondent,
denies that he has ever advocated a five shilling duty
on corn, stating that "his advocacy of prohibition has
been strictly limited to the importation of cattle from
foreign countries infected with disease."
A labourer named Kinsella, while engaged with a
number of others on a new sea wall at Bray, near
Dublin, was killed by the fall of a box containing two
tons of sand, which was suspended by a chain.
A. maiden Borough Quarter Sessions was held at
Maidstone the other day, when the Recorder, in
acknowledging the receipt of a pair of white gloves, ex-
pressed the hope of an alteration in the law which
necessitated the attendance of grand and common
juries and the officials of the court when there was
really no business to be performed.
The number of female clerks at the Post-office is
being considerably increased, in view of the greater
additional amount of labour which is expected to result
from the introduction of the system of sixpenny tele-
grams. For every single appointment there are about
a score of applicants. There have been recently 145
vacancies in the Post-office, and for these 2500 young
women applied.
Duke Alexander of Wurtemberg, General of Cavalry
"ar the Austrian Army has died at the baths of Tueffer.
Considerable excitement was caused in Cambridge on
Saturday morning consequent on a report which rapidly
spread that Mr. Joseph Wright, late Inspector of
Weights and Measures, had committed suicide. On
inquiry the report was found to be correct, the deceased
having cut his throat between eight and nine o'clock.
He was an old servant of the Corporation, having had
charge of the Weights and Measures department over
14 years. He was only released from his duties a few
months, since.

General de Conrcy has telegraphed from Hue that
things have been quieted in Annam, and that he has
quartered the 3rd Zouaves in the citadel. Thueng, the
Regent, is in the hands of the French, and has signed
a manifesto declaxing the Annamite Minister, Thuyet,
guilty of an act of odious aggression.
The revenue received from April 1 to the 30th ult.
amounts to £20,134,726, or £192,323 mote than the
£19,942,403 received in the corresponding period ending
June 30, 1884. The expenditure up to the 30th ult.
was £21,556,530, being £3,160,774 more than the ex-
penditure for the similar period of 1884-5. The balances
on the 30th ult, amounted to £3,679,482, and on June 30,
1884, were £7.147,938.
A correspondent in Vienna says that the impression
created there by Lord Salisbury's speech may be con-
sidered rather favourable. A correspondent in Berlin
telegraphs that though the Premier's declarations can-
not be said to meet with general approval, yet owing
to their unexpected moderation they have not on the
whole made an unfavourable impression. "In fact,"
the correspondent adds, "the agreement of the Tory
programme with the policy followed by the late Cabinet
in most foreign questions is recognised as the main
feature of the Ministerial statement."

As the result of a meeting of British subjects in
Alexandria on Saturday, a telegram was dispatched to
Lord Salisbury urgently soliciting the payment of the
Alexandria indemnities.
It is announced from Simla that the extraordinary
expenditure caused by recent military preparations in
India will exceed 400 lakhs of rupees.
Violent hailstorms, causing damage to the value of
several millions of francs, have occurred in the Swiss
canton of Lucerne. _ - - - -

General de Courcy has telegraphed to the French
Government that shortly after his arrival at Hue he
had been attacked by the Annamite garrison of the
citadel. He succeeded, however, in repulsing his
assailants.
According to a Reuter despatch from Dongola, that
place is now completely evacuated by the British
Expeditionary Force, the reargnard of which, under
General Brackenbury',.: command, is on its way to Lower
Egypt. Nearly 13,000 refugees have left Dongola.
The remaies of another tourist, killed by a fall in the
mountains, have just been found in the Styrian Alps.
The body was in an advanced state of decomposition,
and, judged by its appearance, the fatal fall must have
taken place a week or two ago. The corpse is still un-
identified. Since the present tourist season began
there have been several persons missing, amongst
whom is an Austin Friar._ - -

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Some workmen engaged in cleaning out a canal in
Birmingham discovered in the mud three or four bags
containing counterfeit sovereigns. The coins, which
number about 300, appear to have been in the water for
some time. It is supposed that they belonged to two
raen who were convicted a short time ago for making
dies.

With reference to a published statement that Mr.
Gladstone had informed the Queen during the recent
crisis that nothing would induce him to resume office
again, the right honourable gentleman characterises it
as unfounded and audacious.
Mr. Harrington, M.P., having offended a section of
the Nationalists of Kerry, met with a very hostile re-
ception at a meeting near Tralee on Saturday.
Cricket was again played on Leicester Abbey
meadows on Sunday morning, but the game had ulti-
mately to be abandoned in consequence of the growing
hostility of a section of the crowd.
On Saturday the Canadian Rifle team for Wimbledon
arrived at Liverpool.
Four Civil List pensions of £5O each have been
granted to the sisters of the late Mr. Frank Power, who
was killed with Colonel Stewart on the Nile.

While a young man was batting on the Waddon
Cricket Ground, Croydon, on Saturday, he was struck
by a ball behind the ear, and died from the injury.
An unusual termination to a criminal prosecution has
occurred at Stratford Petty Sessions, a young woman,
who admitted that she had been guilty of theft, being
discharged on the grouud that her sweetheart, who was
in court, expresped his willingness to marry her imme-
diately if she were not sent to prison.
About half an hour after work had been commenced
at a woollen mill at Milnsbridge, near Huddersfield, on
Saturday morning, a fire broke out and spread with
great rapidity, and some of the workpeople had great
difficulty in getting out. Two boys escaped by means
of a hoist chain and a man and woman had to come
through the burning material, but fortunately were not
much the worse for their exposure to the fire. The
upper storeys were totally destroyed. The damage is
estimated at about £4OOO.

At an inquest held at Darlaston, on Monday after-
noon, it was shown that a girl named Caroline Retchell,
had met with a shocking death when endeavouring to
amuse some companions. While walking across a dis-
used coal field, the deceased got into the interior of a
gin dium, which is used for winding coal. When the
drum was revolving the deceased suddenly put her head
through an aperture, and coming in contact with
a cross beam her head was nearly severed from her
body.
A man giving his name and address as William
Foster, of Edinburgh, has been committed for three
months' labour fer picking a woman's pocket in the
Ship Hotel, Margate, on Saturday night.
At the Rye Borough Petty Sessions on Monday, a
dexterous s*indler, named Robert Goode, respectably
attired, was charged with stealing four sovereigns, and
also obtaining food, money, and lodgings by false pre,.
tences. The prisoner represented that he had been a
gardener for five years in the employ of the Duke of
Beaufort, who gave him an excellent character. He
alleged that he had secured local employment, and
made the acquaintance of a musician named Hall, who
allowed him to sleep at his house. On Thursday he
said his employer, Mr. Liddell, had arranged to give a
servan4's ball, and had sent him to engage Hall and
others. He again slept at Hall's house, but during
the night he opened his cash-box and decamped with
£4. The prisoner, who had previously borrowed
various sums of money in the town, was committed
for trial.

Mr. William H. Shawcross, shipowner, and Mr.
Francis Forrest, were charged at the Scarborough
Police-court, on Monday, with carrying to sea in the
steamboat Constance a greater number of passengera
than allowed by the certificate of the Board of Trade.
It seems that the first-named defendant is the owner,
and ForrestUted as captain of the Constance. On the
27th June last two policemen counted the number of
passengers arriving from the Constance, when she re-
turned from a trip to sea, and found there were 265.
The boat was only licensed to carry 105, so that she
had 160 in excess of her proper number. The maximum
penalty for the offence was £2O, and an additional 58.
penalty for every passenger carried above the licensed
number. The Bench fined the defendant Shawcross £4
and is. per head for the extra number taken on board,
being £l2 in all. The case against Forrest was dis-
missed. _ _
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A boating accident occurred at hfaghery, on Lough
Neagh, about six miles from Dungannon, on Sunday
evening. The day is annually kept as a holiday, and
large numbers drive to the Lough for boating to Coney
Island. While a boat containing six men was leaving
for their homes, it capsized, and all the occupants were
thrown into the water. They got on to the keel, but
the boat turned over again, and John Quin, aged 22, a
fisherman, was drowned. Boats put off from the
shore and succeeded in rescuing the other five.
Two thousand five hundred persons in the erpploy of
Qilroy, Sons, and Co., jute spinners, Dundee, came out
on strike on Monday against a reduction of five per
cent, on their wages. When work was started only a
few of the three thousand persons employed entered.
the mills. At ten these were requested to leave, fin
intimation being given that the doors would lief be
again opened until Friday. Short time is beinglin in
many of the mills, the depression in II kl txge
being very severe. I.