The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-11-21 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

At London Bow-street Police-court efins of £5 was
imposed on Walter Stone, a bootmaker, who was
charged with betting in the streets.
At a meeting of the Municipal council of Paris, it
has been resolved to petition in favour of an amnesty
for Political offenders.
The Academy of Inscriptions at Paris divided the
Numismatic prize between Mr. Percy Gardner, for his
treatise on Greek coins, and M. Six for his work on

Cypriote coins.
To the list of political celebrities on view at Madame
Tilssaud'e Exhibition, which includes Mr. Gladstone,
Lord Randolph Churchill, &c., is now added a portrait
model of Mr. Chamberlain,
At a meeting of the Cork Corporation, a resolution
was unanimously passed calling upon the landlord*
throughout the country to reduce their rents to a
figure commensurate with the present reduced price of
agricultural produce.
Orders have been given that the ships of. the Channel
Squadron are to assemble at Portland about the sth of
next month, and they will leave shortly afterwards for
Lisbon, which will be their headquarters for some little
time. _ _ _

At an interview which took place in Paris between.
M. Brisson, the President of the French Chamber of
Deputies, and representatives of all groups of the Left,
the Premier pronounced enwhatically against an
evacuation of Tonquin or Madagascar.
Mr. Jnatice Day has granted leave to the Lambeth
Waterworks_ Company to appeal from the judgment

awarding a doctor '..,560 damages fur in:uries sustained
in falling over a fire-plug, the compati3 wishing to test
their liability in the case of pavereett wearing away
round their fire-pluga.
A knife manufacturer named Edward Barnes was
found hanging from a beam in his own warehouse, at
Colmbiau Works, West-street, Sheffield. His father,
with whom he was in partnership, attril utes the suicide
to the prolonged depression in trade having affected
his son's mind.
The Markets Committee of the London Corporation
have, the " Citizen " states, unanimously determined
to recommend the ccnversion of the Central Fish

Biltrket into a fruit market, abolishipg the old fruit
market in Farringdon-street, and to erect a new fish
market on some vacant land at the weetern end of

King-street, Smithfield.
The Duke of Westminster regrets that the Metro-
politan Board of Works have not taken steps to acquire
the property near Hampstead-heath belonging to Sir
Maryon Wilson and the Earl of' Mansfield. lie has
Lord Mansfield's authority to state that although will-
ing to entertain any proposal for sale,. no price had been
named for his property.
Thomas Brettwas at Buntingiora committed for trial
for setting fire to a straw stack, the property of Mr. M.
Barron,'of the Swan public-house. He had been de-
sirous of courting the maid-servant at Mr. Barron's, but
warned off by the mistress and refused the house, when
he threatmed that he would set fire to the premises in

revenge.
The order for confining the men of the. Rbyal Rifle
Brigade to barracks at Limerick has been revoked, the
soldiers being allowed out in small parties of twos and
threes. A party of Rifles were attacked by &mob and
pelted with bricks and stones: The soldiers made good
their escape, and a strong force of police arrived and
immediately restored order. •
M. Premsel, the banker, who attempted a week or
two since to commit suicide by throwing himself in the
Seine at Pecq, has died at his home in the Rue Auber,
Paris. .

The South Staffordshire ironmasters have s&eeired
intimation of another reduction
_as. to the carriage of

coke into this district from North Staffordshire o-f
9d.

per ton, to take effect from the 16th inst.
The "chef de cuisine " of Count Potocky, Zabor
(Gsllicia), died recently at the age of 110. He enjoyed
good health up to the time of his death. and left
behind him
_a_ progeny of 55 grar,dchildren and 83

great-grandchildren.
During the last month no fewer than GO bodies were
taken to the Morgue in Berlin, most of them being
those of self-murderers, and this figure does not include
those cases of fashionable" felode so" where public
exposure or recognition was not necessary.
Prince Roland Bonaparte, who is-now discharging his
month's service as sub-lieutenant of the 6th Line,
acted the other day in command of the troops guarding
the Palais Bourbon. The Prime was surrounded by
numerous Bonapartist. Deputies, who addressed-him as
Monsigneur."
A fashionably-dressed man was taken into custody at
Oxford, on Saterday,rcharged with stealing a watch
from an undergraduate's room at Magdalen College.
On coming out of the College, Wray, the under porter,
asked him his business, and not getting a satiLtactory
reply, he was given in charge. On being searched at
the station the watch, which was identified by an under.
graduate as his property, was found upon, him. The
prisoner gave a false name.
Intensely cold weather prevails over the- north of
Scotland. During Saturday a violent storm of wind'
raged in Sutherlandshire, and in the eveningsnow began
to fall, and continued during the night.
A young woman named Shilliuglaw, waa sentenced
at the Liverpool woman,
on Friday to six mouths' im-
prisonment for concealing the birth of her illegitimate
child. It could not be discovered whether the child
was born alive or not, as the prisoner boiled the body,
dismembered it, and then forced the remains down a soil
PiPe-
The Alexander (Nicol (schooner), of Aberdeen, came
into collision with the Gorton Lightship, near Great
Yarmouth, late on Saturday night, doing serious
damage. The latter was to be towed into Great Yar-
mouth Harbour on Sunday afternoon, for repairs. The
schooner proceeded southward.
Grove Terryie,Veinelt,l aebrrooivte/1 Lerttnil gebteea
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mained mained in the same district, was shot the other evening,
and is in Canterbury Museum. The bird is of the
species golden eagle k" Aquila ChrysaZtos "), and mea-
sures eight feet from tip to tip of the fourth pinion.
Its condition is very good, showing that it has fared

It is announced frcin Ruknabad that Sir J. Ridge-.
way and the Russian Commissioners for regulating the
Russo-Afgban frontier, having arrived at Zulfikar,
held a conference there on the 11th inst., and erected
the first boundary beacon on the following day.
The Commissioners on leaving Zulfikar will proceed to
Kushk. _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Consequent on Mr. Gladstone's recent speech, dele-
gates of the Scottish Liberal associations met again in
Edinburgh on Tuesday, and, while declaring their Teti).
lution to support candidates pledged to disestablish-
ment, agreed loyally to accept the right hon. gentle-
man's appeal for unity in the party.
Mr. Parnell has decided to contest the Exchange
Division of Liverpool, where there is a large Irish
population.
David Mitchell, a butler, has baen remanded by the
Westminster polite magistrate, charged with an exten-
siTe theft of silver plate from his master. Complaint
was made of the facility which pawnbrokers offered for
the disposal of such articles.
At Charlestown, on Tuesday, six men, members of
the National League, and occupying respectable posi-
tious, were charged at a Special Sessions with having
used seditious language at an indignation meeting
recently held in the neighbourhood. Great excitement
prevailed in the town, where four bands were present,
and into which seventy police officers were drafted. The
accused refused to provide security to be of good
behaviour, and were sent to gaol for terms varying Lem
a fortnight to three months.
The "farmers' revolt" against the low prices for
live stock in the markets continues to spread in East
Kent and the Weald. In the Ashford district alone
there are as many as 50 farmers who now kill sheep
and pigs and retail the joints to the public. The results
have proved to be so satisfactory that the farmers are
gradually extending the business of butchers, and many
of them are about to kill their bullocks as well as their
sheep and pigs.
At Dungarvan on Tuesday a large number of cattle
seized for arrears of rent from a tenant 3n the Duke of
Devonshire's property were offered for sale. A large
concourse of people attended, and a disturbance took
place, the police present being quite inadequate to
preserve order. Some Property Defence men were
roughly handled, and owing to the threatening attitude
of the people the sale had to be postponed.
As a memorial to the late Sir Titus Salt, and in re-
cognition of his benefactions to Saltaire, the Governors
of the Salt Schools hate decided to build a new Science
and Art School, costing about £6OOO. The building
will be completely finished by May 15, on which day
will be opened an exhibition on the lines of the late
International Inventions Exhibition. For this purpose
the present buildings and a field of six acres will be
utilised. _

Lord Rosebery has, through his agent, made an offer I
to each of the cottagers on his estate at Hogston,
Buckinghamsnire, of a piece of land not less than half
an acre ~)r more than three acres, at 31s. per acre. His
lordship has also again returned 15 per cent. to the
tenantry on his Mentmore estate.
It was reported to the London City Commission of
Sewers by tile Streets Committee, that the commission
had no power to construct the proposed subway at the
Mansion House. A report from the engineer on the
subject is to be printed and considered, before the com-
mission will promote a bill to amend the Sewers Act
with a view to secure the power in question. Notice of
a bill will not therefore be given this year.
According to the Registrar-General's report, 2534
births and 1531 deaths were registered in London
last week. Allowing for increase of population, the
births were 269 and the deaths 170 below the average
numbers the corresponding weeks of the last ten
years. The annual death-rate per 1000 from all
causes, which had been 17-5 and 18.9 in the two pre-
ceding weeks further rose last week to 196. The 1331
deaths included 1 from small-pox, 51 from measles, 19
from scarlet fever, 26 from diphtheria, 39 from whoop-
ing-cough, 12 from enteric fever, and 10 from diarrhcea
and dysentery. Thus, 158 deaths were referred to
these diseases, being 79 below the corrected average
weekly number.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
reading of the barometer last week was 29-97 in. • the
highest reading was 30.17 in. at the beginning Of the
week, and the lowest 29-49 in. on Saturday afternoon.
The mean temperature of air was 43-3, and 0.3 above
the average in the corresponding week of the 20 years
ending 1868. The mean was below the average on
Sunday, Wednesday, and Thursday, but showed an
excess on each of the other days of the week. Rain
fell on four days of the week, to the aggregate amount
of 0.29 of an inch. No bright sunshine was registered
during the week either at Greenwich or at Glynde
Place, Lewes.
At the Central Criminal Court sentence of death
was passed upon David Minahan, who had been found
guilty of the murder of his wife at Bow.
LBetween the Ist April and the 14th inst. the Revenue
receipts amounted to £47,956,146, as against
£48,569,588 in the corresponding months of last year.
During the same period the expenditure amounted to
£56,288,376, as compared with £51,270,919. On the 14th
Inst. there was a balance in the Bank of England of
£884,533, and in the Bank of Ireland of 21,099,066.
It has been notified from the War Office that thi
permission to reckon men as " efficients " who had not
completed their class -firing on account of the want of
range accommodation has been modified to the extent
that the necessary number of rounds must be fired,
before the en i of Deoembor,

The death el a gentleman named De Conrey
Harrison, of Fortville, near Charleville, has been
reported. He was examining an old pistol, when it
exploded and billed him instantly.
At Comber a lad named M'Donnell, when following
a young man who was carrying a double-barrelled gun
thrtugh a hedge, has been shot dead by the accidental
discharge of the weapon. The bullet entered his
heart.
The Tichborne Claimant has been summoned before
the Comity Bench at Southampton, by the South
Stoneham Guardians, for the maintenance of his wife
and three children. The Claimaiit had been served
with the summons in 'Scotland, and did not appear;
but his s plicitor applied for, and obtained, an adjourn-
ment for a month.
D. D. Roberts, who has been charged with the wilful
murder of Davka Thomas, at Cowbridger on the 30th
ult., confessed to-the police that be had committed the
crime, and stated, that be murdered Thomas with a
On Sunday night a gamekeeper named Nelson, in the
employ of Mr. M. 'Pratt, at Oabra, near Newry, was
fired at and severely wounded while attempting to
arrest poachers.
At Dunmore, county Galway, on Sunday, a herd,
named M‘Loughlin, placed a loaded gun in his house,
and went out for a few minutes. Whilst he was absent
his son, a boy of 11 years of age, took up the wearn,
and pointing it at his father as M‘Loughlin was entering
the house' accidentally pulled the trigger, and the man
was killed on the spot.
At Worthing a ticket-of-leave man, named George
Swift, has been committed for trial on a charge of
sacrilege. The evidence revealed a great amount of
daring on the part of the prisoner, who, it was
established by the evidence, had feloniously entered
two churches in the heart of the town between the
hours-of six and eight in the evening.
In the Leeds School Board election there were 21
candidates for the 15 seats—viz., eight Liberals, seven
Churchmenrfour Independents, and two Roman Catho-
lics. Eight Liberals and seven Churchmen were
returned: The old Board consisted of eight Liberals,
five Churchmen, and two Roman Catholics.
At the High Court of Justice, Edinburgh, on Monday,
three men, named Patrick Slaven, John 'Williams, and
Matthew who had been arrested in connoctisin
with whatis known as the Queen's-park tragedy, were
found guilty of assaulting with intent and with the
culpable homicide of Margaret Lindsay, a young woman.
The prisoners were sentenced to seven years' penal
servitude.

At the Folkestone Police•court on Monday a man
named Armett was charged with stealing a pony and
trap which he had hired at Folkestone and drivren to
Canterbury, where he offered them for sale. An ostler
who held the pony while the prisoner was trying to
make the bargain with another person recognised the
trap, and sent a telegram to the owner, the result being
that the prisoner was arrested before he had completed
the sale. He was committed for trial.

The Dublin Court of Appeal has delivered judgment
on a case stated by the revising barrister for Dublin as
to the validity or Conservative objections to 500
Nationalist votes in St. Stephen's-green, Dublin. The
objecticn papers having been headed Donnybrook
Division, and there being no such division, the court
held that the objections were invalid, and directed that
the 500 votes should be allowed. It is believed that
this will decide the result of the contest in the St.
Stephen's-green Division.
The hunting season in the North Midlands has been
already marked by a lamentable fatality. Mr. William
Grundy, of Mapperly, Nottingham, attended the meet
of the South Notts Hounds, on Monday, and during
the afternoon the pack in fall cry passed near Cock-
flitt-hill, where Mr. Grundy's horse bolted, and, striking
against a gatepost, threw its rider upon the gate.
Death appears to have been instantaneous, and it is
believed that the unfortunate gentleman's neck was
broken in the fall. He was removed at once to a
neighbouring farmhouse, where the services of three
doctors were unavailingly rendered.
Mr. De Courcy Peele Clerk of the Peace for the
county of Salop, committed suicide on Monday by blow-
ing Gut his brains.
Sentence of death was passed on Monday at the
Liverpool Assizes upon a r egth named George Thomas
for the murder of a woman named Askon with whom
he cohabited.

The largest show of poultry, pigeons, and rabbits
ever held at the Crystal Palace was opened on Monday.
There were 6515 entries for prizes valued at nearly
22000.

A document has been signed at the Foreign Office,
embodying the arrangement come to by the Anglo-
French Commission of January, 1884, on the subject of
French•fishing off Newfoundland.
The Queen's Benoh Division on Saturday upheld a
decision of the Justices of Huddersfiold, who refused to
convict a man for selling milk not of the quality repre-
sented, on the ground that the man informed the
inspector at the time of sale that the milk was old
milk.

A statue of the Queen, which has just been placed in
a niche reserved for it on the west front of Lichfield
Cathedra), and which is described as an excellent like-
ness of her Majesty, was executed at the request of the
Dean of Lichfield, and with the Queen's gracious per-
mission, by her Royal Highness the Princess Louise.
Her Majesty the German Empress has given a dona-
tion of 300 marks towards the enlargement of the pre-
mises of the Association of German Governesses,l6,
Wyndham-place, Bryanston-square, W. His Royal
Highness the Grand Duke of Hesse has also given 300
marks. The Town Council of Dresden have voted for
the same object 500 marks; Leipzig, 500 marks;
Dusseldorf, 300 marks; and Carlsruhe, 600 marks.
A discharged convict named Brown complained to
Mr. Barstow at the Clerkenwell Police-court on Satur-
day of the difficulty he found in obtaining work, and
stated that he had been driven insane in oonvict prisons
by bad treatment and -worry. Mr. Wheatley, of the St.
Giles's Mission to Discharged Prisoners, declined to
take up the case as Brown had no ticket of leave. The
magistrate could suggest no remedy.
A case in which Mr. Bishop, shipbuilder, Isle of
Wight, sued Captain Harvey, a yacht owner, for £344
for work, and Captain Harvey sued on a counter claim
for negligence, was commenced on Saturday, in the
Queen's Bench Division, and terminated on Monday
in a verdict for the plaintiff's claim and for the
defendant's counter claim for £lO4 in excess of the
claim. Mr. Justice Grove then gave judgment for £lO4
and costs for defendant.

At the London Central Criminal Court, on lionday,
E. 0. Morris, who had been 17 years in the employ of
the Past Ottiee, pleaded guilty of stealing post office
orders, and was sentenced to five years' penal servitude.
The inhabitants of Srinagar Cashmere, have again
been thrown into a state of alarm and consternation
by the recurrence of earthquake shocks there. The first
shock, a severe one, was felt on Sunday night, and this
was followed by a constant series of slighter ones.
The following steamers arrived at Liverpool during
last week with live stock and fresh meat on board from
American and Canadian poits : Baltimore, 303 cattle;
Lake Champlain, 46 cattle, 600 sheep, and 99 carcases
of mutton; St. Ronans, 270 cattle; Montreal, 203
cattle and 214 sheep; Lord Clive, 1026 quarters of
beef; Virginian, 199 cattle, 1240 quarters of beef, and
124 carcases of mutton; Catalonia, 1644 quarters of
beef; City of Chester, 980 quarters of beef and 50
carcases of mutton; Arizona, 1640 quarters of beef
and 75 carcases of mutton; and Germanic, 780
quarters of beef and 50 carcases of mutton; making
the total imports 1021 cattle, 214 sheep, 7910 quarters
of beef, and 398 carcases of mutton, which figures, in
comparison with those of the previous week, show a
decrease in the imports of both live stock and fresh
meat.

There were 22 shipwrecks reported during the past
week, of which 12 were British owned, making a total
of 1089 for the present year, against 1380 for corre•
sponding period of last year, when the number for the
week was 45. Five vessels were lost by collision, two
burnt, three foundered at sea, and about 55 lives were
lost.