The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-05-09 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

On Saturday at the Liverpool Assizes, Henry James
Jackson, solicitor, Dukinfield, pleaded guilty to mis-
appropriating £950, trust money, and was sentenced to
five years' penal servitude. _ _ _

'Die officer commanding the volunteers of the Dover
district has received private instructions from the
authorities that in the event of war the volunteers will
be permitted to be embodied or to go on active service.
Messrs. Cassell and Co. are preparing for issue a
series of popular standard works which they will ptib-
lish in monthly volumes under the title of
" Cassell's Red Library." The same firm will open
their annual exhibition of original drawings in black
*aid white at Belle Sauvage-yard early in June.
The forthcoming dinner of the Newspaper Press Fund
on Saturday, the 16th inst., at Willis's Rooms, promises
to be of more than ordinary interest. Dr. William
Howard Russell will preside, and will be most in-
fluentially supported. A loving cup used on this occa-
sion, lent by Sir Sheraton Baker, will be that presented
to John Wilkes in 1772 by the Corporation of the City
of London.

The Royalty Theatre has just passed into the hands
of Mr. Andrew Levey, the well known musical director
oi the Lyceum Theatre. The new vcanagement will be
inaugurated by the production of a new and original
English comic opera, entitled "The Doctor," composed
by Cotsford Dick and written by Mr. Colnegli.
The dead body of a man named Peter Robinson was
found lying on Sunday on a grave in Kirkdale Ceme-
tery, Liverpool, in which his daughter lies buried, and
a bottle containing laudanum and carbolic acid was
lying by his side. In his pocket was found a letter
stating he had walked all the way from Perth to die on
the grave of his daughter, who also committed suicide
a few months shortly after his wife died, and his mind
became unhinged.
The body of Dr. Phelps, of Exeter, was found on
Saturday wedged between two rocks at Ness, Teign-
mouth. Re had been at a picnic with his wife and
family, and left them to walk home. It is supposed
he was suddenly seized with heart disease.
The Guiou steamer Abyssinia, which was partially
disabled whilst going from Liverpool to New York,
arrived off the Mersey at four o'clock on Saturday
morning in tow. She had on board about 700 pas-
sengers.

On Saturday at the Liverpool Assizes, before Mr.
Justice Smith, Daniel Murray O'Hara, an assistant
doctor, pleaded guilty to sending menacing letters to
Jane Amelia Griffiths, demanding money, and was sen-
tenced to ten years' penal servitude.
The Antwerp Exhibition was opened on Saturday by
the King of the Belgians, who expressed his gratifica-
tion at the realisation of a great work in the success of
which he and his brother took a profound interest.
The Hungarian Exhibition at Pesth was opened on
Saturday by the Emperor, who remarked that so im-
portant a festival furnished a proof of national ad-
vancement. - _ _

Vesuvius is in a state of active eruption. On Satur-
day afternoon two new craters opened with great noise
about a third of a mile above the station of the little
railway. The streams of lava which issued therefrom
flowed towards Pompeii.
A fire occurred in New York on Saturday night, which
resulted in the death of nine persons and injuries to a
number of others.
The Prince of Wales, who was accompanied by the
Duke of Edinburgh, on Saturday opened the new Sub-
way from the South Kensington Railway Station to the
Exhibition buildings.
Mr. Justice Manisty bad before him on Saturday an
action in which an ex-Secretary of the Bank of Eng-
land, named Gattie sued Mr. Grenfell, who was the
Governor of the Bank in 1883, for damages for slander.
Mr. Gattie had been connected with a man whose pro-
ceedings led to a criminal charge against the plaintiff,
upon which be was acquitted. Mr. Gattie, however,
lost his situation and his pension, and when a question
was put about him at a General Court, Mr. Grenfell
made a few remarks, and upon these the present action
was based. The judge held that the occasion was
privileged, and the jury returned a verdict for the de-
fAndant.

SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1885.

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The- Middlesex magistrates have unanimously gran—
a license for the sale of wine, beer, tee., at Medal
Tassaud's Exhibition, Baker-street, where tea sn
coffee are also to be obtained in a large and handsome
restaurant, in which non-alcoholic beverages are alone
supplied.
The eldest son of the Rev. J. D'Arcy Preston, reet°d!
of Freemantle, near Southampton, who has been spell
log his holidays at the Vicarage, was found dead on
Saturday, having been shot through the head with
revolver.
The prospects of the fruit crop in Kent are exceed;
ingly promising. The cherry orchards present a erets%
appearance, the trees being one mass of blossom. .1",.
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buds upon the apple trees are fast expanding into p
and crimson flowers, which, like those on the ober/
trees, look strong and healthy. It is ten years since
there was a really prolific cherry season; and an shun.
dant fruit crop would go a long way towards cora'
pensating the agriculturists for losses in other dire'
tion s.
Thomas Boulton, alias William Allport, 48, arnl
pensioner arid working jeweller, was, at West Brozewiel"
on Saturday, committed for trial on a charge of having
murdered his niece, Elizabeth Bunting, 15 year of gee
at Handsworth, near Birmingham, on the night
April 20. 20. The prisoner, who presented an unconcernecioe
appearance, reserved his defence, and applied f
copies of the depositions taken at the inquest an'
before the magistrates to assist him on his trial.
The municipality of Antwerp have formed an offim
committee charged with the duty of finding corefortabLe
lodgings for visitors to the International Exhibition mil
that city. To this end official registry offices havebes,,,,
opened, where the stranger can at once have his c11°""t
of accommodation at a fixed tariff, which includes nee
only a sleeping apartment, but breakfast, lights, an"
attendance. The rates are from 12s. for the first 00°0
down to Is. 3d. for the seventh class.
A Op-operative Conference, attended by sixty 3elfs
gates from the Midland 00-operative Societies, Was hesie
at Rugby on Saturday. A paper was read on beb
e
of Mr. Loveday, on "How Co-operators may becore
Owners of Land, and Farm it with Profit." In the
discussion which followed it was stated that ee'
operators had an accumulated capital of seven
and that the Co-operative Wholesale Society Ail,
£lOO,OOO, which they were about to invest in Cense,:
A resolution was adopted urging on the directors t.ii!
necessity of investing the surplus of Co-operetivc
Societies in land, and not in foreign bonds and 0011
It was proposed that the Wholesale Society su",--me
purchase land and resell to the societies, and Ui
way place the labourers on the soil again. Fruit ere";
log and vegetable raising were advocated as a source m
profit, in addition to ordinary farming and poultrl
raising.
The International Inventions Exhibition was °Penedo
on Monday at South Kensington by the PrinCO °`
Wales, who was accompanied by the Princess. Sit
Frederick Bramwell, as chairman of the Executive
Council, welcomed their Royal Highnesses, and Pl!'
sented an address embodying the report of that bmieer
The Prince of Wales, in reply, remarked that the seer
of the exhibition was indeed vast, and he could resell
comprehend the difficulties which must have beset th
Council and the Committee of Advice in their endea.
,
yours to secure representation for each branch a
dustry.
Princess Louise, accompanied by the Marquis oaf
Lorne, visited the East-end of London on Mondaee an
opened two public pleasure grounds, one at Carltell:
square, Mile-end Old Town, and the other at
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Bartholomew's, Cambridge-road, Bethnal-green. Jeer
Royal Highness was enthusiastically cheered in Pe,
progress through the streets, which were gaily den"
rated.
Mr. James Chaine, one of the members for the cool
Antrim, died on Monday morning at Larne, after a feee
days' illness, at the age of 44. On Monday week e_
took part in the proceedings at Laree in connectioes
with the departure of the Prince and Princess of leeb
from Ireland. On that occasion he took cold, wn`Zo
resulted in congestion of the lungs. Mr. Chaine, w'st
had represented Antrim in the Conservative iliteree„r
since 1874, was a deputy-heutenant and magistrate 1"
that county.
Lord Coleridge, Sir James Hannon' and Lord Justice°
Lindley had before them on Monday an appeal by t'v
Groire
justices of Sussex from a decision of Mr. Justice t
and Mr. Baron Huddleston making absolute a rule fit;
a certiorari to bring up an order of the magistrates °,
daring that Mr. Charles Hillman, a gentleman sir;
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seven years of age, and resident at Lewes, was a 10:-ts„
of unsound mind. The Lord Chief Justice gave Inue;
ment adversely to the appellants; but his colleagileee
held that as there was no imputation on the bone fides 0
0,
the megistrates, they had fully complied with the Pre.
iisions of the Act. The appeal was therefore allowevo
In the case of Adams v. Coleridge, it has thee
arranged that the two appeals shall be argued toge
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on the 18th inst. _
At Faringora, co. Waterford, a party of labouter!
who had been drinking together quarrelled, and two ol
them named Michael Cody and Laurence Delahnotl
fought. Cody struck his opponent a violenr blow
the chest, and Delahunty fell to the ground. On
raised he was found to be dead.
• Application was made at the Tralee Presentniegat
Sessions on Monday for £5OOO compensation for t
malicious killing of the horse Rover, sire of St. Gatieti_
which divided the Derby last year. The horse was the
property of Mr Shine. After much discussion, a Pr%
sentment for £5OO was passed.
aallwlwbaosatonciaroosnsidnagy from opeghLtoninghasq,uaOurlarnnedyc,
KsiziAerkdw,y and its occupants, two brothers, named John an
Alexander Swanson, were drowned.
Colonel Kennedy? comma.d.at _a_ the Cauadin
voyageurs, who arrived in London from .ngypt laSu
week, and have since been quartered at Wellington
Barracks, has succumbed to the attack of small-pa; ,
There are seqeral men of the detachment in the Guarde.
Hospital,Rochester-row, suffering from enteric or other.
fever.
Small-pox has broken out and appears to be spreadill
in Vauxhall. Several persons have been attacked, at
during Sunday and Monday nearly twenty cases view
removed to the Small-pox Hospital.
The Rev. 0. Bigg, D.D., of Corpus and Cht--__,.if°
Church, Oxford, has been elected Bampton LectliE
for next year.
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The Government hope to find an opportunity
introducing the Welsh Education Bill before Whitsoo'
tide. council
The Lords of the Committee sof the Privy _
on Education have issued an order for the election oi P
School Board in the municipal bord'ugh of Croydon. e.
Mr. Courtenay Boyle, who resigns the private seer ,
taryship to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, will pr_i2,
bably be appointed as assistant-secretary of the LT;
Government Board, in succession to Mr. 6end, vi"
assumes the Governorship of the Windward Islands front.
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It is stated that the Greek Government have :an -
motives of economy decided to abolish all their forew-,, 1
Embassies and Legations, except that at Constart.
nople. Greece will in future be diplomatically rePr`
sented by secretaries only.
The funeral of the Rev. Dr. Rees President of tile.
Congregational Union, took place at 'Swansea on Ttiv:
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day, and was attended by no fewer than 33,000 Persoo,ge
Every public body, religious denomination and so",„
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in the principality were represented, and 500 Congrr2.-
tional ministers from all parts of the United linigu°',
were present.
Her Majesty has directed Letters Patent to be pas 'or •
under the Great Seal, constituting the office of Goverlia4„
and Commander-in-Chief of the Windward Islit°
comprising the Islands of Grenada, St. Vincent, To
and St. Lucia, and their Dependencies, and aPPeiciti°o34 .
Walter Joseph Sendall, Esq., to be Governor and 1-i°
mander-in•Chief thereof.
The "London Gazette "states that the Quee,-„Ast •
directed letters patent to be passed under the
Seal, constituting the office of Governor and Craita '
mander-in-Chief of the Island of Barbadoes
Dependencies as a separate Government, and al)130" 0a
ing Sir William Robinson, K.0.M.G., at Pre-34
Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Winclw,he
Islands, to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief of
Island of Barbadoes and its Dependencies. t r
A strike has occurred among the quarrymen a- tell
mont, Illinois. The men assumed a threatening soot
tude, necessitating the interference of the militarP
troops ultimately fired upon the mob, killing '
persons and wounding several others. mite
The French police discovered, on Tuesday, a 01- '
factory of forged bank-notes. A large quantit/
materials for the purpose and a considerable slo
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money were found on the premises. Three °' f 0 t;
forgers were captured. It is believed that they -to
issued a large number of fifty-franc notes which
now in circulation in Paris and London. le°
A telegram from Hanoi states that the coniP,.ty
evacuation by the Chinese of the country in the vieiyir,vet,
of Langson is officially confirmed. On the Red
the retrogade movement of the Black Flags tow;
Lao Kay has been more marked for the last five clel,oJ
On Tuesday, at Worcester Assizes, a sawyer onr
John Wright, aged 52 years, was indicted for the 13:10
der of his wife at Orleton' near Leominster, on Jatill 00
27. The parties had lived apart for some time, bab,ho
the day named the deceased came home, and oup
following morning the prisoner stated that his wife, ILO .
attacked him with a knife, and that he then o°o4
throat. Wright was convicted of manslaughter/
sentenced to ten years penal servitude. a ill°.
The revenue reseived from April Ito the 21% the
amounts to £9,656,247, or £1,482,581 more thaniia
£8,173,666 received in the corresponding per toci e°oo
May 3, 1884. The expenditure up to the 20d inst;.tote
£9,664,580, being 22,032,388 more than the expeo°l the
for the similar period of 1884-5. The balances onto,
2nd inst. amounted to £5,009,103, and on May 1
were £5,740,312. esbr
At .the meeting of the Synod of the 'United Pr -
terian Church in Edinburgh on Tuesday, Dr. Stott pos.
sented a report which showed that the Sabbath sell°lo4
numbered 92,000, an increase of nearly 2000 °I
year, and Church members 179,891, an increase the
over last year. For the last three years, at least,
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Church was keeping pace with the increase of 13°I'esse
tion. The total income had been £390,106, a declftiol
of £7OOO on last year. The stipend augmentationedoca
had so suffered that it was found necessary
the minimum stipend from £2OO to £lB4. s 11r4
With the approval of General Gordon's relatiVia
influential committee has been formed for estab
a Gordon Camp at Aldershot to train destitute boy's '
the army. soy 00
A sad accident occurred in theisland ;
Monday evening. Two officers of the Ist Bat o
Royal Irish Rifles were driving in a carriage, v1"000 Of
horse, a very spirited animal, ran down a hill-
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the occupants was killed. d 19 die 030
A girl named Mary Ann Roome, ageu oni
Kilbourne? near Derby, on Monday night ir
receive.
effects of ill-treatment, alleged to have ra
whilst she was employed by a Derby tradesl b% _ ;
domestic servant. In her dying depositions
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stated that her master assaulted her with ste,7,„t be'
a china crate, and that he kicked her and aer
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without proper food.
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A Leek farmer's wife has attained notor „„gav
police-court summons in a singular manner., 41;000,
to administer a vigorous check to her danglThe locTft '
been
ing proclivities, she followed on horsebaelE
couple along the road leading to Macclesn
taking them, she laid about them a kealleell:froselitaN
The chastisement completed, the irate mot
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her horror that she had thrasned 040.'1 lice
daughter, and she is now face to face sT!.(I, -
ceedings and an action for damages
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