The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-03-14 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

at is stated that the Queen nas invested about a mil-
lion sterling in ground.rents in the City of London.
A free library, the cost of which, including the
erection and land, is upwards of £tooo, has just been
opened at Gateshead.
An infernal machine was seized at Cork on Saturday,
in a chimney at some unoccupied premises at Cross's
Glen near the Protestant Cathedral.
An : individual, named Janssens, was recently sen-
tenced by the Supreme Court of Leipzig to eight years'
imprisonment for having divulged German military
secrets to the French Ministry of War.
The Lord Mayor of Dublin, on his return from
London after his apology for his language regarding the
Prince of Wales's intended visit, received several
threatening letters.
Early on Saturday morning a serious accident
occurred at the Stolbrook Colliery, near Killamarsh.
Eight men were being let down the pit shaft, when the
rope broke, and all the men were more or less severely
injured.
One result of the bungling at the attempted execu-
tion of the convict Lee, at Exeter, has been shown in
Birmingham by the receipt of numerous offers to hang
Kimberley, sentenced to death at the Birmingham
Assizes. One letter was received before the man was
sentenced at all.
The dead body of an elderly man, whose linen was
marked "A.C.M`C." and wearing a signet ring, has been
discovered in the Thames at Barnes, and has been iden ti-
Bed as that of Mr. Allan Cameron M‘Calman, who lad
been missing since the 11th of February, and for whom
a reward of £5O was offered.
Mr. William Whitfield, a gentleman, who resided at
21, Langham-place, Portland-place, was taking his
r real horse exercise in the outer circle of Regent's-
ark, when he was thrown with considerable force into
Ihe roadway. When medical assistance arrived death
I iad taken place.
The Dover Town Council has authorised the removal
of a considerable number of ancient musical instruments
from the local museum to the International Exhibition
at South Kensington.
Nearly a thousand bags of mails were received on
Friday at Dover from London and despatched by
special steamer for the Continent. Between two and
three hundred bags contained Indian mails, which is a
very large consignment.
According to the "Temps," all the Governments
have accepted the French proposal to form a Committee
to draw up provisional regulations for the freedom of
navigation in the Suez Canal.
Prince Milan, in celebration of the anniversary of
the independence of Servia proclaimed an amnesty to
some 700 prisoners imprisoned for rebellion 15 months
ago.
The Princess of Wales has visited Drury-lane Theatre
a second time the performance of " Whittington and
His Cat," accompanied by her three daughters, the
Princess Louise, Victoria, and Maud, Prince Valdamir,
Lord Alfred Paget, and suite.
A fire occurred in Glasgow Cathedral on Sunday
morning through the ignition of the heating appa-
ratus. A portion of the woodwork near the roof was
burned, but little damage was done. The cathedral,
which was built 700 years ago, is the finest ecclesiastical
building in Scotland.
On Sunday evening the remains of the late Rev. Dr.
Cahill, the famous Irish orator, arrived in Dublin from
America, via Queenstown, and were received by deputa-
tions from va ious bodies. The remains were placed in
St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church, whence the funeral
took place. The Lord Mayor attended in state, and was
hissed and groaned at by the mob, which numbered
about 7000. So threatening did the attitude of the
people become that his lordship was compelled to leave
the procession and beat a speedy retreat.
Lord Ripon, replying to an address from the Indian
community presented at Willis's Rooms, touched on
some of the problems of the future in India, and in-
stanced the recent offers of troops by the Nizam of
Hyderabad and the Begum of Bhopal as proofs of the
admirable spirit of the people of India at the present
time.
A fire broke out in the Scarborough Parish Church
during the early morning service on Sunday. The
rafters in the roof near the stove-pipe had caught fire,
but the latter was extinguished before much damage
was done. _ _ _

At the Bridgwater County-court offices on Saturday
the public examination took place before the District
Official Receiver of Mr. Albert Tilley, farmer, of
Middlezey, a bankrupt, and his statement tended to
show how farmers are soon ruined by misfortune. Mr.
Tilley attributed his losses leading to bankruptcy to
cattle disease, including cothe in sheep, by which he
sustained a loss of £550; damage caused to his farm by
floods, estimated at moo, and successive failures of
crops. He also lost in four or five years as many as
fire cart colts, and his total estimated losses from these
sources amounted to £ll6O, besides which he had
several bad debts, which he enumerated.
The Barrow shipbuilding trade have received orders
for two large steamers of about 6000 tons each, and the
trade is likely to be better in Barrow than it has ever
been before. The steamers are for the Pacific Company,
and will find occupation for a large number of hands
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A Berlin correspondent says the impression prevails
that the next direct consequence of Count Herbert
Bismarck's mission will be the resignation of the Ger-
man Ambassador there.

Tuesday's " Gazette " contained various despatches
received at the War Office respecting Sir Charles Wil-
son's expedition to Khartoum and the fall of that place
on the 26th January.
Lord Ripon presided on Tuesday evening at a meet-
ing held at Huddersfield in celebration of the comple-
tion of the technical school attached to the local
college. His lordship said the teaching of science in
connection with manufactures and agriculture must in
these days be a matter of primary importance to
national prosperity. It seemed to him, however, after a
long absence from this country, that great progress had
been made in the technical education of the people.
That progress was not confined to Europe, for the
subject was also occupying a great deal of attention
amongst the intelligent natives of India.
Mr. Goschen was azuest of the Eighty Club on Tues-
day evening, Mr. Alb4ert Grey, M.P., in the chair. The
right hon. gentleman delivered an address on the pro-
gress of opinion and legislation on social subjects
since 1880.

The vivisection controversy came before the Convo-
cation of Oxford University again on Tuesday on the
proposal to grant an annual sum for the new Physiolo-
gical Department. The grant was opposed by Canon
Liddon, Professor Freeman, and the Bishop of Oxford;
and supported by the Dean of Christchurch, Dr.
Acland, Profess,or Dicey, and the Warden of All Souls.
In the result there voted for the grant 412, against
it 244.

On Tuesday the second anniversary of the Christian
Policemen's Association was celebrated by an immense
gathering of its supporters in Exeter Hall, Mr. Arthur
Pease, M.P., in the chair.
Charles Adams, who is alleged to have shot Inspector
Simmons at Rainham on the 20th January, and for
whose apprehension a reward of £250 has been offered,
was on Tuesday arrested whilst attempting to pledge a
six-chambered revolver at a pawnbroker's shop in
Seymour-street, Euston-square.
At the Middlesex Sessions on Tuesday, Alfred Ginn,
a marine store dealer, pleaded guilty to several indict-
ments charging him with stealing a large quantity of
stolen property, and was sentenced to be kept in penal
servitude for five years.
According to the report of 'Dr. Frankland for
February, the Thames waters, delivered by the five
companies drawing their supply from that source,
showed slightly increased proportions of organic im-
purity. The Grand Junction and Southwark samples
contained the largest, and the Lambeth and Chelsea
samples the smallest amounts of organic matter. The
Lea water supplied by the New River and East London
Companies contained less organic matter than the pre-
vious month's samples. The New River supply was far
superior to any of the Thames waters.
There were 2623 births and 1495 deaths registered in
London last week, the former having been 222 and the
latter 300 below the average numbers in the correspond-
ing weeks of the past ten years. The annual rate of
mortality per thousand from all causes was 19.1. The
deaths included;l6 from small-pox, 52 from measles, 15
from scarlet fever, 15 from diphtheria, and 37
from whooping cough.

'from .April Ist to the 7th inst. the Exchequer re-
ceipts amounted to £80,684,568, as compared with
£81,936,199 in the corresponding period of the previous
year. The expenditure has been £77,988,534. On
Saturday last the balance in the Bank of England was
£5,418,318, and in the Bank of Ireland £1,158,772.
The annual meeting of the North Wales branch of
the British Medical Association was held on Tuesday
under the presidency of Dr. R. A. Prichard (Conway).
A private meeting of the leading citizens belonging
to both political parties has been held to promote a
testimonial to Mr. Anderson, M.P., on his retiring from
the representation of the city to fill the office of the
Master of the Mint, Melbourne. Although the pro-
ceedings were only preliminary £4OO was subscribed.
It is expected that a handsome sum will be realised.
There was an exceptionally large gathering on Tues-
day night of the members of the Mauchester Liberal
Association, on the occasion of the twelfth annual
meeting of that body, held under the presidency of Mr.
C. E. Schwann. At a meeting of the council Mr.
Thomas Ashton was elected president for the ensuing
year.
At Newbury on Tuesday night a crowded meeting
was held in the Town Hall in support of the movement
for closing public-houses on Sundays. The opposing
element was very strong, and the proceedings were of
the most uproarious character.
A remarkable case of confession of guilt came before
the Salisbury magistrates on Tuesday. A member of
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the Salisbury Theological College was n the habit of
visiting a family named Nicholas, and seeing that the
man was in distress he induced him to confide in him,
and the man confessed to having stolen money at a
village named Downton during a fire. The student
wrote to the man robbed asking for forgiveness for the
culprit, and promising to pay the cash by instalments.
The letter was promptly handed to the police and the
culprit was arrested. He was considerably surprised,
more especially at the unexpected result of the
student's t interference. He was sentenced to three
months' imprisonment. The student had been officiat-
ing at IBA Church services.

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—t a ' /Edina Referue officals in Loiidozi
on Saturday, Sir H. Maxwell, M.P., presiding, resolu-
tions were passed demanding inquiry into the• griev-
ances of the officers in question, who asked to be placed
on an equality with the officials of other and similar
departments of the Civil Service.
The Right Hon. G. J. Cosehen, ALP., in presiding at
the annual meeting of the London Society for the Ex-
tension of University Teaching, held at Toynbee Hall,
Whitechapel, pointed out the many ways in which
the teaching was being extended. The view which had
characterised the efforts of the society was'that first-class
modes of education were applicable to all classes of the
community. He impressed upon his hearers that
almost every subject could be made interesting if one
went below the surface.

With a view to preventing the deposit of any explo-
sive substance in St. Paul's Cathedral, no bags or
parcels will, for the future, be allowed to be taken in.
The body of a man named Smith, who worked a boat
on the Grand Junction Canal, has been found dead iii
the centre of Blisworth Canal Tunnel, between Stoke
Bruerr e and Blisworth.

At a meeting of over 300 representative delegates
held at Grewe, it was decided that Mr. G. W. Latham
of Bradwall Hall, near Sandbach, should be the Liberal
candidate for the Crewe division. Mr. J. Tomkinson,
whose name has been freely mentioned for the candida-
ture, has accepted a pressing invitation to contest the
Wirral division of the county in the Liberal interest.
At a recent meeting held by Mr. Ackers, the Conser-
vative candidate for West Gloucester, a voter present
contradicted a statement made by Mr. Ackers that the
Engl sh Government were resonsible for Gordon's
death, and was told to write to Mr. Gladstone' which he
did. He has received an answer from the Premier's
secretary stating that General Gordon went out by the
invitation of the English Government, but that he had
his commission from the Egyptian Government.
Mr. Thomas Bennett, a farmer of Cannock, had just
finished singing a song at a Blue Ribbon Army meeting
at Walsall when he was suddenly taken ill, and on
being removed inta an ante-room he expired imme-
diately.
Lord Rosebery unveiled on Saturday in the Poets'
Corner, Westminster Abbey, a monumental bust of the
Scottish national poet, Robert Burns. The cost of the
bust has been defrayed by a subscription, which was
limited to one shilling, by the countrymen and admirers
' of the poet throughout the United Kingdom.
The London Princess's Theatre hydrant was sum-
moned on active service on Saturday morning. A fire
broke out next door to the theatre, but the firemen of
the theatre soon extinguished it. Captain Shaw
promptly wrote a letter of thanks to Mr. Wilson
Barrett, and commented on the great efficiency of the
men and appliances.
An inquiry has been held at the Royal Free Hospital,
London, in respect to the death of a Miss Annie Jones,
otherwise Mabel McKenzie, an actress, who was burned
to death, in consequence of her dress, which was dis-
tended by a large dress improver, accidentally coming
in contact with a coal fire. A verdict of "Accidental
death" was recorded.

At the Kilkenny Assizes Matthew Murphy was tried
for wife murder. On the 24th of June he went to her
father's house, where his wife was staying with her six
children, and in the presence of her sister he almost cut
her head off with a clasp knife while she lay in bed.
He was arrested at the bedside. He was convicted,
and was sentenced to be hanged on the 6th of April..
A case of brutal ill-treatment of a little girl named
Dodd by her sister has been investigated at Dorrington
(Shrewsbury) petty sessions. On one occasion she
stripped her and scourged her with a holly bush, after-
wards rubbing salt into the wounds. The body was
described as being a mass of bruises and contusions.
The woman was sentenced to three months' imprison-
ment, and her husband was fined £3.

The tenants of Lord Monteagle have refused to pay
any rent unless an abatement is made upon a scale
which his lordship declines to concede.
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A young man named Murphy, who was wounded by
a shot accidentally discharged from the rifle of a police-
man near Castleisland last week has died.
The Government building at St. Louis, Senegal, con-
taining suppl'es of flour and other provisions, has been
burned down.

The expenditure in the Soudan campaign up to the
present time, it is said, will be nearly covered by the
provision already made by Parliament. The Govern-
ment cannot at present state what the expenditure in
the coming financial year will be.
During the two months ending February 28 there
left the United Kingdom for places out of Europe
17,230 persons of British origin, 2733 foreigners, and
494 whose nationality was not distinguished, the total
number thus being 20,457. As compared with the two
corresponding months of 1884 this shows a decrease of
2026.

--it-is stated that an important commission, presided
over by the Duke of Edinburgh, is about to sit at the
Admiralty to inquire into the pensions or gratuities te-
widows and orphans of seamen and marines.
The farmers of the county Limerick, obeying the
advice of the National League agitators, manifest deter-
mined hostility to the hunt. There was a meet on
Saturday at Fedamore, but 200 men and boys assembled
with dogs around the covert and gave so muoh annoy-
an6e that all attempts at sport had to be abandoned.
At a meeting of the Glasgow Conservatives it was
resolved that in view of the near approach of the
general election it was not advisable to contest the city
at present in the Conservative interest. Mr. Thomas
Russell, the Liberal candidate, is therefore returned
unopposed.
Mr. M. E. Hadfield, the eminent architect, has died
at his residence at Sheffield, aged 72 years. Mr. Had-
field, who was employed by the present Duke of Nor-
folk and his immediate predecessors, designed St.
Mary's Church, Sheffield ;the Roman Catholic Cathedral
at Salford; Glossop Hall, Derbyshire: the Great
Northern Hotel, Leeds; the Duke of Norfolk's resi-
dence at Sheffield, and many important works in Man-
chester, Liverpool, and other towns.
A very unusual incident, says a correspondent,
occurred in the House of Commons on Monday even-
ing, when Lord E. Fitzmaurice, the Under Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, was good natured enough to
pndertake to read to the Chamber a rather long letter
addressed to him by Earl Granville explanatory of the
misunderstanding between that nobleman and Prince
Bismarck. The proceeding was almost equivalent to
permitting a member of the House of Lards to make a.
speech in the House of Commons.
On Monday morning the extensive farmsteading of
Campsie, seven miles from Perth, owned and tenanted
by Baroness Willoughby D'Eresby, was almost totally
consumed by fire. Four horses were burnt to death,
but the remainder of the live stock was saved.
A destructive fire occurred on Monday at Mount
Pleasant Mill, Burnley, belonging to Mr. Dilworth
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A murder, believed to be agrarian, was committed on
Sunday night a short distance from Camlough, near
Newry. A man named John Purley was returning
from Silver Bridge with his wife, when they were
attacked by several men. The man was knocked down,
and his wife, in order to save her husband, threw- her-
self on his prostrate body. The assailants continued
their attack, and the woman was killed.
At Wallasey Sessions,Birkenhead, on Monday, James
Murphy, a Unionist ship caulker, was charged with
assaulting Hugh Coleridge, a non-Unionist. The pri-
soner was one of a body of men who struck work at
Messrs. Jack's Shipbuilding Works at Seacombe and
the prosecutor and other men were brought from 'Glas-
gow to fill their places. The prisoner waylaid Cole-
ridge and brutally assaulted him. The prisoner was
teneed to imprisonment with hard labour for 14
days.
Early on Monday morning Waresley House, Hartle-
bury, near Kidderminster, the residence of the Rev. B.
Gibbon-0v as broken into, and cash and notes to the
amount of £9O, and other property, were stolen. An
encounter afterwards took place between a constable
and three men who are supposed to have been con-
cerned in the burglary; but, after a severe struggle, all
three men got away.
A serious tram-car accident occurred at Manchester
on Monday. In one of the principal streets of the
city a horse in a lorry took fright, and nit away. It
dashed into a tram-car, broke all the windows, and
carried away the hind part of the car. The conductor
and passengers ran to the end of the vehicle, and.
escaped with a severe shaking. The car was ruined, and
the horse died immediately afterwards.
The London and North-Western Railway Company
have opened a double-line branch railway, about eight
miles in length, extending from Plattbridge, Wigan, to
Pennington, near Kenyon Junction. The line passes
through a large coal-mining district, and will be used.
for all mineral traffic for Manchester and the South,
thus relieving the Wigan depot, through which it for-
merly passed..
A conference of miners' delegates, representing
35,000 men, has been held at Rotherham, to consider
the proposal of the colliery owners to reduce wages 10
per cent. A resolution was unanimously passed to
resist the reduction.
It having been intimated to Princess Beatrice that a
committee of the leading tradesmen of Liverpool, with
the Mayor as their chairman, are desirous to offer a.
wedding cake for her acceptance on her approaching
marriage, Colonel Ponsonby has repl;ed that her Royal
Highness will have much pleasure in accepting the
present.
The Stipendiary at Sheffield has just fined a man
named Whelar only 50s. for a terrible assault upon
another man named Wilson. The latter was knocked
down by the prisoner, and whilst he was on the ground
the latter kicked him in the face, fracturing one of his
jaws and knocking out seven teeth; another man was
sentenced to three months for attempted pocket
picking.
On Monday night a carriage accident occurred on the
Thames Embankment, unhappily attended with loss of
life. A gentleman named Hilton, residing at Denmark-
hill, his wife, and two daughters, were returning to
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and killed on the spot, and the occupants of the car-
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the best translation into Greek verse, is awarded to J.
R. Orford, of King's College. The Yorke Prize, given
annually to a graduate for the best essay on "The Laws
of Real Property," is awarded to T. E. Scrutton, LL.B.,
Trinity College. The essay by H. M. Finch-Mallin,
Trinity College, in the opinion of the examiners, de-
serves considerable praise.
Lord Vernon has arranged for a course of papers by-
practical men to be read before the pupils of the Dairy-
School, which was instituted by him last Autumn on.
his estate at Sudbury, near Derby. "The Feeding of s.
Dairy Clow " is to form the subject of the first paper,
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