The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-09-26 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Intelligence has reached Cairo that Orman Digma
was killed after the Kassala garrison, with the aid of
friendly tribes, had inflicted a crushing defeat on his
force of 3000 Hadendowas, immediately after which
supplies and cattle were sent into Kassala.
Mr. Stanhope, M.P., President of the Board of Trade,
speaking at Ipswich, characterised Mr. Gladstone's
address as a "flabby, pretentious, and misleading
manifesto," and said that the Radicals were unfolding
before the poor the banner of public plunder by offering
allotments of land to the agricultural labourers. They
knew that such a promise could only be performed by
plunder, and the labourers knew it too, and would not
be caught in this way.
At the Registration-court at Windsor on Saturday
the claims to vote made by the Naval and Military
Knights of Windsor were disallowed by the Revising
Barrister, who consented to grant a case.
The Ealing Conservative Club held its annual " fete"
at the Albert Palace on Saturday, and several Conser-
vative clubs of neighbouring districts joined in the
festival. Colo-.el Pendergast 'Walsh presided, and the
meeting was addressed in support of the present
Government by the Lord Mayor Mr. Ashmead-
Bartlett, Mr. T. Dixonsilartland, and others.
Mr. Chamberlain, M.P., was pre.qsnted on Saturday
with the freedom of the Burgh of Inverness, and in
returning thanks for the honour done him, said he
believed that our local soversment ministered more
directly and in a greater degree to the happiness and I
comfort of the people than even our Administration
and Imperial Government.
On Saturday the Lord Mayor of London formally
opened the Queen's-park and West London Fine Art
and Industrial Exhibition at Queen's-park Hall,
Harrow-road.
A visit, under the auspices of the Society for the
Study and Cure of Inebriety, was made by a number of
ladies and gentlemen to the Dalrymple Home for
Inebriates near Rickmansworth, which was fully
inspected in the company of Dr. Joseph Parrish,
now in England on a tour of inspection of such in-
stitutions.
A gathering of people, estimated from EODO to 10,000
in number, took place in Limehouse on Sunday after-
noon, with the avowed object of asserting the right of
free speech, in consequence of speaking in the streets
having recently been prevented by the police on the
ground of causing obstruction to the traffic. The police
interfered, and a serious disturbance occurred. Eight
persons were arrested.
The following are the provisions of the secret Treaty
between France and Burmah : France is granted the
exclusive concession for the construction of railways
in Upper Burmah. The Burmese Government gua-
rantees 7i per cent. on the outlay for the construction
of the line between Mandalay and Tsraghoo. The
French Government to control tle customs receipts on
the Irrawaddy route as security for the interest, any
surplus to be paid to Burn ala. The treaty also em-
powers the French Government to establish a bank at
Mandalay, with a capital of two hundred and fifty
laks of rupees, half the shares to be taken by Frances
and half by Burrrah. The French Government to have
control of the Customs revenue from the tea trade and
the working of the ruby mines as security for the
bank capital alvsnced. The treaty includes a demand
of the King of B%rtnah upon the Bombay and Btumah
Trading Company for a sum of twenty-three lakhs,
and provides that in ewe of non-compliance their
forests will be confiscated.
The coronation of the new King of Annam took
pla e on Saturday morning with great ceremony, the
day being observed as a general holiday. A despatch i
from General de Courcy, after formally anncuncing the
coronation,:proceeds : "All the members of the Govern-
ment have entered upon their duties. I trust that the
general pacification of the country is now near at
band. The King has assumed the name of Douck
Hanh, signifying in the Annamite language the union
of two nations."
The huts occupied by the inhabitants of Arenas del
Rey, in Spain, since the destruction of that town by
earthquakes last December were burnt down on Satur-
day. The people are, therefore' again homeless.
The rumour that the British Government had made
representations to Spain regarding the question of the
limits of British and Spanish jurisdiction in Gibraltar
waters is denied in official circles at Madrid.
A riot occurred on Saturday at Lugo, in Galicia,
against the new Excise Law. The people attacked the
Excise collectors' huts, and in the affray that ensued
several shots were fired and several persons wounded.
The attitude of the rioters necessitated the interven-
tion of the Civil Guard, who, with the assistance of the
Excise officers, ultimately dispersed the crowd.
before Judge 'Johnson for a 'writ of laabeas corpus in tlie
case of the Queen versus John Hanley, to bring the
prisoner for trial before the magistrates at Roscommon,
to answer a charge of murder. The prisoner, who was
the president of the local branch of the National ,
League, and who occupied a farm at Clonsalla, near
Strokestown, is at present under arrest charged with
having on April 30 shot at and wounded his brother,
Francis Hanley. Since the prisoner's committal for
trial the unfortunate man has died, hence the present
motion, which was granted.
New drainage works at Portsmouth, designed by Sir
Frederick Bramwell, C.E., and estimated to cost
£115,000 in construction, were formally commenced on
Tuesday in the presence of the corporation and prin-
cipal naval and military officers of the district.
Responding to a toast at the luncheon which followed
the proceedings, General Sir G. Willis, commanding
the Southern District, said the Government had now
recognised the truth of the contention that the presence
of long service men favourably levened the ranks of
young soldiers, and men would now be allowed to
serve 12 or 21 years if they wished to do so.
James Alfred GroundEell was charged at the Ports-
mouth Police-court on Tuesday afternoon with
threatening to murder the Recorder of Portsmouth,
Mr. George Deeds Warry, of the Western Circuit. At
the last quarter sessions the prisoner was acquitted by
the Recorder for maliciously damaging his employer's
property, but was cautioned as to his future conduct.
Groundsell then sought out Mr. Warry's London
address, and sent him a threatening letter of such a
character that the solicitor to the Treasury ordered his
prosecution. The prisoner's conduct was most eccentric
and violent in the dock, four constables being required
to hold him down. He was remanded.
Much satisfaction has been occasioned in Wolver-
hampton, at the announcement that the Great Western
Railway Company had sent down orders to their
locomotive engine works in the town, to commence the
building of a dozen new powerful locomotives for
general traffic service. For some time past the
Wolverhampton works have been employed only upon
repairs, the new additions to the company's engine
stock having been constructed at the Great Swindon
works. The order is regarded as an Indication of
revived trade, and the increased employment which it
rrill afford, added to the restart of a large ironworks at
Wolverhampton, which is being rapidly got ready, will
be heartily welcomed.
An eccentric old bachelor named Kentish, aged 80
years, who had lived at Croydon half that time, has
been found dead in his bed. He was formerly a cashier
at a bank, where he accumulated a great deal of money
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this order to be forwarded to defendant. The judge
remarked that if he disobeyed it he should know how
to deal with him. It was alleged that three disrerent
attempts had been made to serve the writ on Captain
Fawcett at Brighton Barracks. Once the clerk found
him in bed, but he refused to take the summons, and
on another day he succeeded in getting the captain's
servant to take the writ to him while he was at mess
with the other officers. The servant, however, was
Mrs. Ohafterton, a Cheshire lady, has given WOO to received at the mess with a roar of laughter, and he
various funds connected with the Primitive Methodist, quickly returned to the clerk with the writ, informing
Society, including £2OO to the African Missionary, him that he should lose his situation for taking it to
Society. - his master, and if the clerk did not go away with it he
The, Revising Barrister for Dublin has placed a would kick him out of the barracks. The judge said
number of students on the-list of voters for the --hestd rot understand why a gentleman in defendant'
Stephen's-green Division of the city, position should set the law at defiance.

Mucn chenille fringe is used, and a handsome
brown plush mantle was remarkable for the addition
of small real fir cones to the tips of the chenille
fringe, dyed to match. This was made as a large
cape mantelette, with long ends in front coming from
beneath the plush, and composed of striped silk and
plush. It had a waistcoat, and handsome passe-
menterie outlined the seams at the back. Gold cord,
and threads of gold wherever they can be added
without being too assertive and prononce, appear in
many of the best models. Another brown plush
which had gold cord trimming, was of the same cape.
like form, but had sling sleeves reaching to the edge
of tho front, and two wide box-plaits at the waist,
bordered throughout with wide skunk. Another
round mantelette of cashmerienne and striped velvet
had a rich combination of feather trimming. There
was a band of metallic green cocks' plumes all round,
with shaded brown ostrich forming a fringe. It was
lined with shot silk. The rosary or cocra beads, viz.,
carved wooden beads, are much used, intermixed with
the fringe and galons.
MANY quite short rnantelettes are likely to be
worn, one of these, made in rich brocade, had ends in
front, with a small muff in each, one for each hand,
and a jelly-bag hood at the back. Astrakan border-
ings and wool fringes figure largely in the new
mantles. One of the more costly, made in the
Litana, was caught up at the back. and sides with
handsome passementerie drops, showing a plush
undermantle. Another class forms a complete
costume in itself. These are made chiefly of rich
plush or frig velvet, having panels of distinct
material, deeided sleeves, and large gimp epaulettes
placed on the top of the shoulders, handsome passe-
menterie coming far down the back. Many of them
open at the side. Some of the mantelette order are
made of plush and watered silk stripes, bordered with
deep fox fur these have lone ends in front, and
pockets at the sides. A handsome one of this make
in velvet was ; almost covered with a galon of the
rosary beads, and a fringe of pendeloques of the same
wood bordered it.
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TIM old visite shape would 'seem to be asserting
itself once again, with plenty of gold and silk gimp
on the front and sides. This shape finds special
favour for opera mantles, made in satin, trimmed
with broad gold galon carried down the back seams;
white and gold, blue and gold, Chinese red and gold,
are the favourite tones, the lining being quilted. The
travelling cloaks are still full and long, with hanging
sleeves; some have capes. The fluted back is the
newest, and the sleeves are lined with silk of a bright
colour.

Tan great fault of recent mantles has been their
weight; now there is a choice, and the short man-
telettes, with long ends, are just as warm as the long
all-round cloaks, and half their weight. The short
jackets of the season are trim and smart. Some of
them have vests of watered silk edged with fringe,
and fastened at the side, the basque, short at the
back, forming plaits. They are cut to show the
figure to perfection; but curiously, the front of the
bodice is cut often on the cross with no darts. They
are bordered with gold cord some of them; and the
cloth itself slightly speckled with gold; revers of
brown velvet, a velvet collar and pockets, add to their
appearance. Some again have very high dart seams.
Dainty bows of ribbon are introduced in front in lieu
of a coloured handkerchief, and a bunch of bows
appears at the side.
The new ribbons are legion; they all, however,
show one new feature—viz., the pucot or purl edge
which obtained 20 years at least ago. Newer, but
hardly as yet introduced, is a narrow double fringed
edge; as, for example, a string-coloured ribbon with
fringed edges of two shades of darker brown. Some
of our best milliners are using a special make of
corded ribbon with a '-bread edge fringed—expensive
but excellent. The wool ribbons show satin and
plush stripes in mixed colourings, a beige ground for
example, with red and green stripes in satin and
plush. Wool scarves, of the same nature, as a trim-
ming for hats, replace the canvas ones worn in the
summer, and are specially applied to the stockingette
bats. Most of them have a silk edge with spots
thrown upon them, broche, or ringed, or curled as it
is called. Some of the scarves have broad watered ask
well as plush stripes in checks and plaids, red, green,
and gold combined. Wool and plush ribbons in self
colours ,we Lshionable. Lyons velvet ribbons have
silk backs and purl edges as also the fine faille plush
ribbon; some have straight edges, and so have a
large choice of baby ribbons of the narrow
width. But composite ribbons are specially the
fashion—faille satin and plush striped in such colour-
ings as mustard, scarlet, and cardinal, grass-green,
drab, and blue. Double-faced ribbons have moire
stripes, and tinsel finds its way into many ribbons;
some display large spots of plush, brown, or green on
red. Soft silks in di-lonia' colourings are worn for
hats and sashes, brown, red, blue, and gold blended.
A wool ribbon with plush and satin stripes, and tinsel
running through, has gold picots. Corded ribbons
have shaded stripes, and watered ribbon frig) stripes
like Baden towelling. Some have tinsel ground and
a check in plush, and many of the glace ribbons are
shot, so are the plush ones. Some of the shaded
ribbons have distinct motifs in gold printing scattered
over them, but generally only on one half of the
ribbon, three inches being the usual width for bonnet
strings and bows.

FEATHERS have come out in new guise. The ribbo?p,
of ostrich plumes, the wings and heads, &c., of others,
are coated with a mixture that looks like sandpaper,
and nearly all are outlined or embellished in sorul
way with gold tinsel. Velvet feathers are a novelty;
stamped to look like wings or single feathers outlined
every curve in gold. A metallic appearance has been
imparted to ostrich feathers, as though they had
been dyed with lustra colouring. Little birds—
alas! for the naturalist—have been prepared by
thousands. White birds are largely used; indeed,
any kind of bird, large or small.
IN millinery there are many novelties in Paris, early
in the season though it be. The newest bonnets are
of the Charlotte Corday shape, entirely in broderie
Anglaise or Madeira work OTC/ velvet of some rich
shade, stockingette bonnets, cloth or bure bonnets;
with a tuft of feathers to match, others in plain
velvet of rich shades, with velvet strings having the
new picot edge. The new hats are very high, and arq
made in bouclé plush and trimmed with fancy birds
and feathers. Other hats are in silk (like men's hats),:
with pointed crowns and turned up brims, and ornon
mented with a high buckle of either silver or dart
mother of pearl. For trimming both bonnets and
hats a quantity of carved wooden beads of all shapes,
sizes, and colours called Chapelsts de Lourdes are
used because the beads resemble the rosaries obtained
there. For carriage bonnets, cloth embroidered with
appliques of plush, with gold and steel intermixed, is
used, and trimmed with galons of bouclé plush and
ebin6 feathers, both great novelties. -

The German Government, it is said, will not be too
exacting from Spain in its demands for reparation for
the outrage on the Legation; but will be less yielding
on the question of the Spanish sovereignty in the
Caroline Islands.
The receipts on account of Revenue from the Ist of
April, 1885, when there was a balance of £4,903,207, to
September 19, 1885, were £35,337,723, against
£35,914,809 in the corresponding period of the pre-
ceding financial year, which began with a balance of
£5,632,569. The net expenditure was £41,292,513,
against £36,914,196 to the same date in the previous
year. The Treasury balances on Sept. 19 amounted
to £2,623,728, and at the same date in 1884 to
£4,671,039.
The cholera continues to abate in Spain.
Information is said to have reached the Spanish
Government that Spanish exiles in France and Portugal
intended to stir up a movement on the frontiers.
The Right Hon. E. Stanhope, M.P., spoke at a Con-
servative meeting held on Tuesday night in Gateshead.
In the course of his speech he said the Conservatives
wcre not afraid of a comparison with Mr. Chamberlain
h*Daself with regard to shipping legislation, and added
that, notwithstanding session after session had passed
by, nothing had been done to check what he called the
appalling loss of life. As to the Conservative pro-
gramme, the time had not come to formulate one; and
as to Ireland, the present Government would not
countenance any scheme of separation.
A cat show has been opened at the Albert Palace,
Battersea•park. A large number of prizes were awarded,
comprising nine silver medals. The number of entries
was 250, divided into 43 classes. _

Mrs. Weldon, who was released from Holloway Gaol
on Monday evening, after undergoing six months'
imprisonment for libel, was met at the prison by a
number of her friends on Tuesday and escorted in
procession to Hyde-park, where resolutions were passed
urging upon the Government the necessity of establish-
ing a Court of Criminal Appeal. In the evening a
meting was held at the Foresters' Hall, Clerkenwell.
At the Middlesex Sessions on Tuesday, Frederick
Wilson, an engineer, pleaded guilty to wounding James
Duck, by stabbing him in the back The Assistant.
Judge sentenced the prisoner to 12 months' hard
labour.

_
An inquest was held at Croydon on Tuesday on the
body of a child which was found on a doorstep wrapped
in paper. The medical evidence showed that death had
been caused by strangulation, and a verdict of "Wilful
murder" against some person or persons tinknown was
returned.

The Marden Deer.park stud has been disposed of,
the 71 lots realising 18,505 guineas.
The captain of the steamer Norham Castle, which
arrived at Plymouth on Tuesday from the Cape,
reported that a seaman named John Smith fell from
the foreyard to the deck while engaged in furling sail,
and completely smashed his skull, his brains protruding.
He was picked up dead, and buried at sea.
Two tenant farmers named Russell and Walsh,
residing at Golden, near Tipperary, were arres'el on
Monday evening on the charge of having attacked and
injured the house of a reighbour named Birmingham.
They were taken before Mr. Aleldon, the resident
magistrate, and remanded for a week. _ _

On Tuesday afternoon the monkey-house and aviary
at Aston Lower Grounds, near Birmingham, caught
fire, and before the flames could be extinguished a
number of valuable birds were burned to death. The
monkeys had a narrow escape, many being stupifled by
smoke. Several lions have lately been added to the
collection, but the local fire brigade prevented the
spread of the fire to their cages.
At the Manchester adjourned Brewster Sessions, the
magistrates refused to reconsider the cases of four
victuallers and 10 beerhouse keepers whose licenses
they had withheld because of betting connections or
police complaints. The Mayor reported that there was
s reduction of S 3 licenses as compared with the pre-
vious year. The number of persons apprehended for
drunkenness was reduced by 895.

Captain Batcher, of the German brig Maria, which
arrived in the Tay on Tuesday, reports that on their
passage from the Gulf of Bothnia' a boy, while furling
the maintop gallant sail, fell overboard. The mate, a
powerful fellow of 2?, without taking off his heavy
boots and oilskins, immediately sprang overboard and
swam to the lad, but before the brig could be put about
and a boat lowered, both the mate and the boy had
sunk.

A shocking accident occurred on the Cambrian Rail-
way on Tuesday afternoon at Point Medway. between
Welshpool and Montgomery. The driver of the t! amn
leaving Welshpool at 3.45 for the Welsh coast, and
made up of London, Liverpool, and Manchester car-
riages, saw two women walking along the lino, which
is single. The driver sounded his whistle, but they
seemed incapable of making an attempt to step off the
line, and the engine dashed into them. and both were
killed on the six 16

A grana banquet was given at Angers on unday, at
which M. Allain-Targe, Minister of the Interior, was
present. In the course of his speech the Minister,
referring to the complaints of the Opposition with
regard to the action of the Government in undertaking
distant expeditions, said, "We wish to close the book
of Colonial policy, and not to make a system of having
recourse to proceedings rendered necessary by the
events in Tonquin."
Charlotte Cason, aged 14, of Rounton-road, Bow,
whose disappearance from home has been the subject
of applications to Mr. Lushiegton, at the Thames
Police-court, was charged at Brentford on Saturday
with wandering at Hounslow at half-past 12 in the
morning of the 11th inst., without having Buy visible
means of subsistence. The police said that the girl had
been sleeping about Hounslow-heath for a period of
five weeks. She bad run away from home on previous
occasions, and had been found at Croydon, Caterham,
and Gravesend, and it was evident she was thoroughly
depraved. Her mother said she had no fault to find
with her, and wished to take her home again, but the
magistrates further remanded her for a week with a
view to having her placed under proper control.
A more hopeful feeling now prevails in the Spanish
capital, based upon reports to the effect that the
Spat.ish Minister in Berlin has held out the prospect of
Germany accepting the offer of a naval and coaling
station, with liberty for trade and navigation in the
Caroline Islands, as a basis for the settlement of the
dispute, without having recourse to arbitration.
A serious riot took place on Sunday in Paris. An
electoral meeting of the working men had been called
in the interior of the Bourse, and several revolutionary
factions struggled for supremacy in the appointment
of a chairman. One having been chosen, there was a
desperate rush on to the platform and an endeavour to
break it up. In the midst of the riot a revolver was
fired, and a man was hit, but only in the hand, but
there were several further shots, and a dozen people
were nare or less seriously injured.
The Kin.: o I aly has exp-ested his intention of pro-
ceeding to Sicily unless there should be an abatement
of the cholera in that district. The Sicilians living in
Rome lave o,ganitel a permanent Relief Committee,
and ten thcusand francs have been sent as a first instal-
ment.

A revolution broke out in Guatcmala. Several
military officers were arrested and two Minidters
babished.

The I E. mut steamer Republic and the Cunard steamer
Aurania were in collision in New York harbour on
Saturday. The latter proceeded on her voyage, but
the Republic sustaioel damage to her stein that will
detain her for a fortnight.
The Mansion House Committee have sent a further
sum of £7O) to the committee at Madrid for the relief
of the sufferers from cholera, and £l.OO to the Governor
of Gibraltar. - -

In the revision of the voters' lists for the county of
Middle ex, the Liberals objected to all the proprietors
of the Stock Ezchange, some 900 in number, chiefly on
:be ground that, as faggot votes were abolished by the
new Reform Act, they were no longer entitled to votes.
The point wag argued on Saturday before Mr. J.
Bfacdonnal, Revising Barrister, who reserved his
deci4on.
The formal election of the Rev. Canon Wordsworth
as Bishop of Salisbury took place in the Chapter House
of that city on Saturday.
Mr. Henry A. Jones will sail for America at the end
of this week to superintend the rehearsals of his suc-
cessful play, "Saints and Sinners," at the Maddison-
square Theatre, New York. Mr. Jones's stay in
America will not be a lengthy one, as he hopes to be
back in time to produce the new three-act farce, which
he has written for Mr. Thomas Thorne, and which will
be the coming attraction at the London Vaudeville.
A man attempted to pledge a ring at Leek on Satnr.
day, which was recognised as part of a jewellery robbery
in Dublin, and on a constable named Bryan attempting
to take him into custody, he drew a revolver, shot the
'officer in the knee, and decamped.
An agitation is being carried on by several of the
residents of Chislehurst for the purpose of obtaining
the consent of the Land Commissioners to a scheme
whereby the common lands at OhiElehurst, St. Paul's
Cray, and Scadbury shall be more effectively preserved
from disfigurement and encroachments. Earl Sydney,
lord of the manors of Chislehurst, Scadbury, and St.
Paul's Cray, has given his or nsent to the scheme so far
as it affects Chislehurst Common, but, in his capacity
of lord and freehold tenant of the three manors, has
laid a letter before the Land Commissioners, in which
he objects to St. Paul's Cray Common baing included
in the scheme.

A rough-looking man named John Kennedy was
charged at Liverpool on Saturday with ill-treating his
son, a child of six. He took the boy up to a bedroom,
after beating him downstairs, and, having fastened him
to a bedpost with a handkerchief, thrashed him with a
short-handled whip having a long and heavy thong.
The little fellow was heard crying piteously, and the
police were sent for. A surgeon deposed that the body
and legs of the child were covered with lacerations and
bruises, and there was a lump on the right jaw,
probably caused by a blow from a fist. The prisoner,
who said he was only " checking " his son, was sent to
prison, with hard labour, for a month.

" HOodman Blind," the new Princess's success, by
Messrs. Henry A. Jones and Wilson Barrett, started on
tour at the Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, on Monday.
An excellent company selected from the late "Silver
King," "Lights o London," and " Olaudian "
cumpanies, has been engaged for the production, and
the scenery has been specially painted by Mr. Barrett's
artists. Among the towns to be visited this season are
Gla gow, Liverpool, Birmingham, and Brighton.
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At an inquest held in York on Saturday two women
claimed the body of a man as that of their husband.
The deceased was named John Fields, a draper, of Mid-
dlesbrough, Sunderland, and York. One of the women
said that she was married to him at Aranmore, in Ire.
land, in 1868, and lived with him at Middlesbrough,
where he deserted her. Sarah Ann Fields said she was
married to deceased in York last April. Both women
produced evidence of marriage.
Whilst three men were charging a blast furnace at
Messrs. Bolekow. Vaughan, and Co.'s Works, Middles-
brough, on Saturday, an explosion of gas occurred, and
some of the plates at the top of the furnace being forced
off the flames burst through, and the men who were on
th,t " bell" or lid were severely burned. James Hanlon,
the charger, died a few hours afterwards.
A master shoemaker named James Oarline, late
secretary to the Hearts of Oak Lodge of Oddfellows,
surrendered at the Chester Police-court on Saturday,
and was charged with embezzling members' contribu-
tions. lie pleaded guilty, and said the irregularities
arose through the members paying their contributions
outside the ledge. The defendant was ordered to pay
a penalty of £lO and costs, and refund at 58. a
week.

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"General" Booth was summoned on Monday at
Colchester for non-payment of rates for a rink used
for Salvation Army services. It was contended that
the building ought not to be rated, as other places of
worship were not. It was asserted, however, that ti
charge was trade for admission, but this statement was
contradicted. The magistrates made an order for pay-
ment.

Three bodies, supposed to be those of pergolas
drowned in the recent collision in the Channel, have
been washed ashore at Greenhithe.
In recognitiou of his distinguished serves in the
Souakim campaigu the Khedive has conferred the
Fourth Class of the Imperial Order of the Osmanieh
upon the Rev. Father Brindle, Roman Catholic Chap-
lain to the Forces.

The Shildon police took to Auckland Workhouse on
Monday night a man, named Wm. Brown, who had
been found at the bottom of a dirused pit shaft 90 feet:
deep, on Brusseltown Folly. The man states that he,
fell into the shaft whilst in a sleepy state on Friday,
afternoon. Moanings were heard proceeding from the
shaft. A Shildon sinker, named Jackson, went downl
with a rope and found Brown, who does not seem to be
much the worse for the fall.
At a meeting of the Rye Sub-Committee, under the
Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, it was reportedi
that pleuro-pneumonia had broken out amongst some
heifers on Willow Farm, Iden. The veterinary surgeon'
was at once commun'cated with, and, on visiting thii
farm, ho found two animals seriously affected and
another evincing symptoms of the disease. It was
accordingly determined to slaughter the 13 animals con-
fined in the field.
Mr. Alfred Nixon, Captain of the Crystal Palace
Tricycle Club, had to abandon his attempt to ride
from Land's End to John o' Groats on a tricycle in a:
week in consequence of his machine breaking down at
Worcester, two hundred and fifty-six miles from the
start.
Repeated ahocks ot earthquake have occurred in
Benevento. The inhabitants are terror-struck, and are
encamped in the open country. Several persons have
fled from the province. 1
James White was charged, on remand, at the Sunder-
land Police-court, on Monday, with having embezzled
£4O, the money of the United Boiler and Iron Ship-
builders' Society. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and
was committed to gaol for four months with hard
labour.

Mr. Gladstone's voice is much stronger slnce his
return to Hawarden. The affection of the throat has
been gradually thrown off, and the right hnn. gentle,/
man hopes to be able to take an active part in the
coming political campaign.
Another explosion occurred on Monday at the Dart-
ford Gunpowder Works. Fortunately all the workmen
were away at dinner. There was, therefore, no loss of
life; and the damage was confined to the building in
which the explosion took place.
Two lads under 10 years of age were ordered to be
flogged by the Barnsley magistrates on Monday for
stealing a horse worth £4O. They rode to Doncaster
on the St. Leger-day, and tried to sell the animal
for 10s.
William Richardson, alias Professor Hansden, has
bena remanded at Birmingham on a charge of fraud in
obtaining Ll 18s. from a Birmingham hotel proprietor
for advertisements in the "Illustrated London News."
It was stated that the prisoner was "wanted "at Liver-
pool, Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds, Bradford, London,
and at many other places. He represented himself, it
is alleged, to be an advertising agent for the "Illus-
trated London News," "Graphic," and "Dramatics
News," and from papers found in his pocket it appeared
that he had obtained about £lOO by these misrepresen-
tations. He had also described himself as an agent for
the Illustrated Leaflet Advertising Company, Fleet.
street. London, but no such company exits.

The death at sea, while on a voyage to Canada, is an-
nounced of Captain William Henry Russell Skey, who,
for the last 11 years, has held the office of COMMOII
Crier and Serjeant-at-Arms to the Corporation of
London, and Mace Bearer to the Lord Mayor, a position
which be vacated, through ill health, a few weeks ago.
Captain Skey, whe was the second son of the late Mr.
F. C. Skey, C. 8., the eminent surgeon, was formerly in
the 37th Foot, in which he served in the Indian Mutiny;
he was only fifty years of age. The vacant office is in
the gift of the Corporation.
A farmer named Morgan O'Brien has been arrested
for murder at Nenagh, under the following cirvam-
stances. The accused was walking home on Sunday
night when he was accosted by two farmers, James
Ryan and Patrick Lynch. The former called O'Brien
a Government man and other offensive epithets, where-
upon O'Brien ran into his house, seized a rifle, and shot
one of them dead.

Nine labouring men appeared before the Uxbridge
magistrates on Monday, charged with having committed
a trespass on Manor Farm, Ruislip, the parish in which
they live, and damaged growing grass to the extent of
a shilling. The evidence showed that they had gathered
mushrooms in a field. The majority of the defendants
urged that they were out of work and desired to do
something for a living. The spokesman of the party
said they cquld not obtain work from farmers of the
district, and there was only the workhouse before them.
They were fined 7.. each, Mr. Deane (the chairman)
telling them that the full penalty was £5, or two
months' imprisonment. _ _

An application was made at Derby, on Monday, on
behalf of Robert Hicks, a Salvation Army storekeeper,
for the payment of £6 12s. damages, arising out of the
smashing of his windows at a recent riot. The Town
Clerk opposed the application on the ground of a
decision by Mr. Justice Lindlev, arising out of an
election riot in 1881 at Great tlarlow. The Bench,
holding that the Salvation Army were responsible for
the disturbance by their conduct and placards, decided
that the borough was not liable for damages, and that
there was no riot in the legal sense of the term.
The details of a shocking case of vitriol throwing was
gone into before the Chester magistrates on Monday.
Charles Davies, plumber, got very drunk and delirious
with passion against his wife. He seized a bottle of
corrosive fluid and flung it at her. The stuff missed
the mother and fell over the head and face of his
daughter Sarah, aged 11. The poor child ran screaming
in agony from the house, and was carried to the infir-
mary, where it was found that she had sustained
dreadful injuries. She was unable to attend, and the
prisoner was again remanded.
The Chester city coroner held an inquest on Monday
upon the body of John Robey, a journeyman butcher,
who was found dead in bed on Sunday morning. The
deceased a week ago received over 1-60 as his portion
of some money left by a relative. He refused to allow
his brother to bank the money, and in four days he
had spent £4O in drink. After receiving the money he
never was sober, and the jury found a verdict, in
accordance with the evidence, that the deceased died
from excessive drinking.
At a meeting to celebrate the Seventeenth Anniversary
of the establishment of the order of Good Ternplars in
England, held at Sunderland on Monday evening,
presided over by the Mayor, and addressed by Mr.'
Joseph Malins, t resolution was adopted expressing
great regret that Mr. Gladstone's manifesto gave so
assurance of the great drink question being dealt with
on the lines indicated by previous promises of the
Gladstone Government.
Two Greek ladies, one of thorn the niece of the
Archbishop of Verria, have been captured near that
town by brigands, who demand a ransom of £.3000.'
Hassan Pacha has gone to the spot in order to try kk
rescue the ladies.
The new Governor of Salonica has arrived at hisi
residence, and has issued a circular to the foreign
Consuls in which he expresses his desire to maintajn.
friendly relations with them. This act has produced a
good impression. The late Vali was not popular. t
The Sheriffs have appointed Monday, the sth of
October, for the execution of Henry Norman, for the
murder of his wife by stabbing her with a dagger at
Fulham. The prisoner heard the announcement with
calmness, and appears perfeetly resigned.
A General Order has been issued by the Field-.
llarshal Commander-in-Chief, stating that it has been:
decided that the services of men now in India who were
retained with the colours under a General Order of
March 28 are no longer required. These men will,
accordingly, be sent home, for the puxpose of being
transferred to the Reserve in the ordinary course
during the current trooping season. In like manner
men serving in India whose first period of engagement
has expired, but who have been detained in the Seri
vice, will be sent home for the purpose of being dig..
charged.