The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-01-03 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Miss Ormerod, the entomologist of the Royal Agricul-
tural Society, expresses approval of the wholesale de-
struction of sparrows.
A young Frenchman has informed the authorities at
Moscow that he is guilty of the murder of Sarah Becker,
the young Jewish girl. The guilt of Mironovitch and
Bezak, who have already been convicted of this crime,
is thus placed in doubt.
Ecclesiastical circles in Scotland are deeply stirred
by the fact that a Free Church minister, the Rev. Dr.
Stuart Muir, of Leith, took part in a Christmas service
In a Glasgow Episcopal church. Dr. Muir is at present
undergoing a prosecution for heresy.
Mr. William Overend, Q.C.. who was best known to
the public by his connection with the Royal Commis-
sion on train' union atrocities in Sheffield, has died at
his residence, West Rettord. Mr. Overend was for
many years chairman of the West Riding Quarter
Sessions.
A second case is reported in which a French mail
steamer has been stopped while entering the port of
Rio de Janeiro by guns fired from the fort of Santa
Cruz. Investigation resulted in the discovery that the
officer in charge had done BO for" amusement."
According to a Russian account, the disturbances in
Macedonia are attributed not to Turkish fanaticism,
but to Bulgarian agitators.
An influential meeting has been held in Paris, under
the presidency of M. Jules Simon, to organise an
ambulance service for the French capital.
By a majority of seventeen votes the Chamber of
Deputies at Athens has approved the new Greek loan.
General Booth, who was enthusiastically received by
2000 members of the Salvation Army, opened a new
hall, designated a fort, capable of holding 1500
worshippers, at Bedminster, in connection with the
Bedminster branch. The branch is three years old,
and has outposts in Somerset. It members were
described as persons who had originally been gutter
birds. The hall cost about £l7OO.
Mr. Charles Doncaster, chairman of the Sheffield
School Board, has died at Totley Grove, near Sheffield,
aged 44. Mr. Doncaster, who was a leading member of
the Society of Friends, was prominent in social and
benevolent works.
Herr Josef Zenari, manager of the Discount Bank of
Carniola, in Austria, has shot himself on the stairs in
the bask building as he was about to be arrested
because an examination into the affairs of the bank
had disclosed defalcations to the amount of some
70,000 florins.
A county convention of the National League, held at
Tullamore, King's County, passed resolutions in favour
of paying members of Parliament condemning hunting,
the grand jury system, and land and grass grabbing,
and approving of a peasant proprietary.
On the premises of Nr, Hesten, pawnbroker, Fitz-
william-street, bheffield, on Christmas night, a large
fire-proof safe of modern construction was forcibly
removed from its fastening, and the thieves succeeded
in escaping, carrying away the safe, which contained
£lOO in gold and silver, all the books of the firm, and a
life and fire policy.
Mr. George Brooke, F.L.S., of Huddersfield, has been
appointed scientific director to the Scotch Fishery
Board. He will work in conjunction with Professor
Ewart, who has been for some time past conducting
inquiries into the economy of food fishes for the
board.
Count Baldwin, of Hainault, eldest son of the Count
of Flanders, who is heir to the throne of Belgium, is
coming to England shortly to spend a year at Oxford as
an unattached student.
Mr. Schnadhorst has much improved in health, bnt
Mrs. Schnadhorst, who accompanied her husband on her
voyage, has been seriously ill. She is now, howe,-er,
pronounced out of danger.
Mr. W. S. Allan, M.P., and Mrs. Allen have sailed for
the Cape, and will most likely extend their voyage to
New Zealand.

A serious fire broke out on Wednesday morning on
the premises of a pawnbroker named Goldstone. at
Swansea. During its progress an assistant named Philip
Freeman jumped from an upper storey, a height of 40
feet, and was so seriously injured that he died almost
immediately. Mr. Goldstone and his wife and servant
were subsequently rescued by the aid of the fire-escape,
which is permanently stationed within 30 yards of the
scene of the conflagration. The premises and stock
were entirely destroyed.
Don Carlos of Spain has arrived at Bombay.
Louise Michel will lie immediately released with a
free pardon, but on condition not to live in Paris for
two 3 ears.
A lyric drama entitled " Waterloo " was brought
out on Christmas night at the Flemish Theatre in
Brussels.
The Ontario Legislature will meet for the despatch
of business on January 28 next.
The Earl of Morton died on Wednesday, at Dalma-
boy, his seat in Midlothian. The late Sholto John
Douglas, Earl of Morton, was the eldest son of the
nineteenth earl. Lord Aberdour, who succeeds to the
peerage, was born at Dalmahoy, November 5, 1844.
The contract for the cousttuction of the port of
Scheveningen, in Holland, will shortly be effered for
public competition.
M. De la Rennet, manager at the Od6on, Paris, has
died of cancer in the knee. lie was the author of many
light pieces, in collaboration with MM. Montjois and
Eiraudin, at the Varietes and Palais Royal. Appointed
manager of the Odf3on in 1856, he resigned in 1867,
but was recalled in 1889. He brought out at this
second Th6atre Francais many new pieces of young
authors.

The death has occurred at Shildon, near Darlington,
of John Glass, said to be the oldest railway servant in
England. He was engaged in the construction of the
Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1822, and con-
tinued in the service of that company for a period of
sixty-two years. He was present when the first rail
was laid in 1822 by the late Mr. Thomas Meynell, an-1
was a passenger by the first train which left Brusselton
Bankfoot for Stockton in 1825. He was also present at
the railway jubilee banquet at Darlington in 1875.
William Rauxher, second mate, and Ferdinand
Keolpin, boatswain, of the American ship T. F. Chap-
man, were remanded at Birkenhead on Saturday charged
with the wilful murder of one of the crew, a Finn,
named Johnson, on the voyage from San Francisco to
Liverpool. On the same day, at Grimsby, Alfred \V.
Cross, chief engineer of the steamship Regina, of Sun-
derland, was apprehended charged with the man-
slaughter of George Anderson in the Gulf of Mexico.
According to notice, the steel works of Messrs.
Bolckow, Vaughan, and Co., at Eston, Middlesberough,
have been closed for an indefinite period. About 800
hands will be affected by this step. It is believed
that the new Spanish Navigation Tax, raising the duty
on exported ore from 20. to 10d, per ton, has a bearing
on this movement, the firm being large importers.
, Two more suicides are reported from Austria in con-
sequence of business embarrassments, the latest
victims being Messrs. Samuel and Moritz Jollitz, who
were large barley merchants and malsters, of Limberg.
At Aberdeen on Saturday a Board of Trade inquiry
into the loss of the steamship Thames and 13 bands
during a voyage from Aberdeen to Drontheim was con-
cluded. The vessel met with bad weather in the first place
in coming round from Blyth, and one of her crew left
at Aberdeen. Subsequently five of the men left, others
in each case being engaged. The Thames proceeded on
her way, and was never heard of again. The Court
found that the loss of the ship was due to her being
unseaworthy, but did not mulct the owners in costs.
On Saturday morning the passenger train for Dublin
from Kilkenny and Cork collided with a cattle train
nsar Newbridge Junction. Several of the waggons
were smashed and the permanent way torn up, but the
passengers escaped with a few bruises and a shaking.
The train reached Dublin about an hour late. .
The third phase of the Nile campaign has, now com-
menced, over 500 men of the infantry having started
from Korti up the river. The Camel Corps are under
orders to march a 4 moment's notice.

In the Frfinch Chamber the attention of the Govern-
ment has been called to a letter written by the Vicar-
General of Rodez promising the Conservative candi-
dates at elections the surport of the clergy. The
Minister of Public Worship said he had requested the
bishop of the diocese to recall the Vicar-General
whose stipend would, moreover, not be paid. The
Government, he added,would not permit the clergy to
take part in electmal contests.
Mr. Gladstone has offered to subscribe £2O to the
Cobden Club's Special Pnblication Fund.
Mr. 7.l,oschen, M.P., has resigned his membership of
the Reform Club.
Sir Charles Mordaunt has been thrown from his horse
while hunting, near Shuckburgh, and his collar-bone was
broken.
Medical evidence, given at an inquest in Walworth
on the bodies of two children, who had died of small-
pox, showed that neither of them had beeit vaccinated,
and that there had been gross neglect. The coroner
expressed surprise that the sanitary offieert did not dis.
cover such outbreaks of disease.
Princess de Caraman-Chimay, wife of the Minister
for Foreign Affairs at Brussels, has died from a linger-
ing throat disease. She was of the ancieEt house of
Islontesquiou-Fesenzac, and married the Prime in
/857. Her death throws several noble families of
France into mourning.
The failure is announced of Messrs. Ingall, Phillips,
and Co.rwharfingersi and warehousemen, carrying on
business at Mill-wall, Bethnal-green, and 5, Jeffrey's-
square, St. Mary-axe, London. The liabilities of the
frm appear to be upwards of £200,000.

On the 24th inst. the Austrian Government under
took to recognize the colours of the African Interna-
tional Association as the flag cr./ a friendly State.
Among the several burglaries in London during
Christmas week, was one at a house occupied by Mr.
Morgan. a salesman in Henrietta street, where, how-
ever, tl•e thieves missed the most valuable contents of
the house, as prior to going away the housekeeper had
secreted a cashbox containing upwards of £lO9 in an
old faucepan, and a purse of £BO amongst the contents
of the coal-scuttle. The thieves apparently did not
eiamine these somewhat novel receptacles for treasure,
end decamped with only a very small amount of
booty.
The report of the sub-committee of representative
managers of London Board Schools on over-presure has
been printed. The committee are convinced that,
under certain conditions which they point out, some
over-strain on the part of the children does occasionally
occur. Much has been done, and more will yet be ac_
complished, by the new code to prevent over-pressure;
but the code cannot produce the results intended unless
it is administered in spirit as well as in letter, and they
do not think that this is always the case at present.
Various recommendations are made with a view to
future guidance, in order to remove any complaint of
over-pressure from either the teachers or the children,
and one of these is that all returns, accounts, correspon-
dence, &c.. falling on the former should be as far as
possible minimised.
Much excitement was caused among the passengers
of the last express from Plymouth to Waterloo, on the
London and South-Western Railway, on Monday night,
when the train was suddenly brought to a stand at the
Gillingham Station. The cause was found to be a man
who, after the train had left Templecombe, was seen on
the buffers of one of the carriages. He was given into
the custody of the railway officers at Gillingham. The
man had suffered from the cold, which had been in-
tensified by the high rate of speed at which the
train had been travelling, but he was perfectly
collected.
A very serious railway accident occurred on the
Orleans Railway on Monday night, the train which left
Angouleme at 5.45 p.m. running off the rails between
Loumazieres and Exideuil. Several passengers were
killed.
Sir Robert Morier's appointment as British Ambas-
sador to St. Petersburg has created a very unfavour-
able impression in diplomatic circles there.
A rebellion, caused by the desire of the inhabitants
to shake off the Chinese yoke, has broken out in
Knldja.
An international electrical congress will be held in
the Russian capital in the course of this year.
A tremendous explosion of gunpowder has occurred
at a gunsmith's shop at Kralup in Bohemia. The con-
cussion was so great as to destroy three houses. Three
persons were killed outright and nine others sustained
mortal injuries.
Two cheesemongers were on Tuesday summoned to
the Marylebone Police-court on the charge of selling
adulterated butter. Evidence was given that in one
case the article was adulterated with 80 per cent., and
in the other 85 per cent, of foreign fat. The defend-
ants were severally fined 50s.
On Tuesday morning, at Raglan Barracks, Devonport,
Colour Sergeant G. Voss, of the King's Royal Rifles,
shot himself dead. The report of the rifle was heard in
his office, and some privates breaking in, found that
Voss had put the muzzle of the rifle in his mouth,
pulled the trigger with his toe, and blown out his
brains. Ho had been many years in the service, and
bore a good character.
An application has been made on behalf of the Earl
of Dudley to the Sedgley magistrates to sanction the
closing of York-street, Coseley, to enable his lordship
to get coal within a few feet of the surface of the road.
A large seam of thick coal has been found in the dis-
trict, and instead of sinking shafts and putting down
expensive machinery, coal is to be raised by means of
open works. Lord Dudley has constructed two other
streets for the use of the public.
Henry Barrett, of Sheffield, put his head deliberately
on the railway line in front of a train at Tingley, near
Rotherham, and was decapitated.
An adjourned inquest was held at Tralee on Tuesday
on the body of John Rohan, a bailiff on the Denny
estate, who had died from injuries inflicted on him
while he was proceeding home from Tralee. The
medical evidence showed that death had resulted from
fracture of the skull, and the jury returned an open
verdict. Magisterial inquiry was subsequently opened,
at which a man named Moriarty was charged with
causing Rohan's death. Rohan identified him before
his death as an assailant. Moriarty was returno for
trial. • _ _

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An inmate of the Ounnin;hame Combination Work-
house at Frome died on Tuesday morning after much
suffering from severe burns. He had been warming
himself at the fire on the previous night, when his
clothes became ignited, and before the flames could be
extinguished, his body was to seriously burned that he
died in a few hours.

On Tuesday morning George Oroukall, one of the
trustees of the Superannuation and Accident Fund of
the Amalgamated Scciety of Metal Workers at Man-
chester, was sentenced by the Manchester City magis-
trates to four months' imprisonment for having em-
bezzled moneys belonging to the society. The prisoner
said he had lost the money by betting.
Admiral Sir John Hay, M.P., speaking at a Conser-
vative meeting at Glasgow, expressed approval of the
Redistribution Bill because they could not get a better,
but objected to Ireland having so many members. He
congratulated Mr. Gladstone on attaininghis 75th birth-
day, but hoped his many birthdays would find him at
Hawarden and not in the House of Commons. The
navy should be strengthened if the colonies were to be
protected and if this country were to have a sufficient
supply of food.
On Tuesday afternoon a labourer named Connolly was
charged, in the Dublin Police-court, with a daring
attempt atrobbery. A lady named Davies deposed that
she was driving home in a cab at night, when the door
was suddenly opened, and the prisoner sprang in and
made a desperate effort to snatch her bag and purse.
A violent struggle ensued, and she smashed both
windows of the cab to attract the attention of the cab-
man. The prisoner succeeded in escaping, but was
subsequently arrested. He was committed for trial.
A little boy named John Smith, aged six years, died
in Mercer's Hospital, Dublin, on Monday from the
effects of alcohoL The doctors state that the child
had been given a quantity of raw whisky, which
poisoned him, and produced a fatal result. The father
of the deceased was arrested. _ _ _ .

The Commissioners in Lunacy have issued notices
that in future they will, in all cases of violation of the
laws respecting the detention of persons supposed to
be insane, proceed by indictment against the offending
parties.
The gift of 300,000 dols. by Miss Caldwell, of Vir-
ginia, a young lady who, upon the attainment of her
majority, has just come into a large patrimony, has been
submitted to the Pope. The intention of the donor is
to secure the establishment in New York of an erele-
siastical University on a similar basis to that of the
College of the Propaganda. The Pope has made known
his intention of conferring upon Miss Caldwell a signal
mark of his appreciation of this magnificent gift.
A semi-official denial is given from St. Petersburg to
the report that Russia intended to annex Corea.
At St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, on Tuesday,
Mr. Langham held an inquest on the body of William
Sedgwick, aged five months, who died from injuries
sustained through the upsetting of a spirit lamp in a
caravan at the World's Fair, Agricultural Hall, Isling-
ton. A boy named Griffiths tried to put out the fire
thus caused, but could not do so, and finding that there
was a baby in the van, rushed in and tescued it. The
corner paid a high tribute to the courage displayed
by the lad Griffiths, and the jury returned a verdict of
"Accidental death," and added that great praise was
due to Griffiths.

For the Turin National Lottery, the first prize of
which amounts to 300,000 francs, 15,000 tickets have
been sold in London alone, while over 10,000 more have
been disposed of in the English provinces, The gross
sum of the prizes is 1,000,000 francs. The demand for
tickets from English and American agents rendered the
issue of a second series necessary.
A burglar was cleverly caught at Sheffield at an early
hour on Tuesday. By means of a ladder placed at a
back window he obtained entrance to a house occupied
by a widow named Buxton. The noise awoke Mrs.
Buxton, who threw up her window and called for assist-
ance. Two policemen quickly arrived upon the scene,
one of whom went to the back of the house and made
his way up the ladder. The burglar thereupon hit the
officer upon the head with his boots, and a severe
struggle ensued, the officer being oa. the ladder, and in
danger every moment of being thrown to the ground.
Ultimately he struck the burglar a violent blow upon
the head with his truncheon, and thus rendered him
partilley unconscious. The man has been committed
to the assizes. •

Mr. Healy, M.P., and Mr. W. H. Redmond, M.P., ad-
dl.. ssed a meeting of Irishmen in the City Hall, Glas-
gow, on Tuesday night. Mr. Healy said ironically that
his mission to Scotland was chiefly to tender his
homage to Scotland for having given birth to Mr.
Campbell.Bannerman, who was to do what his prede-
cessors had been unable in seven centuries to accom-
plish. The Irish Secretary had dPclared his intention
to rule Ireland according to Irish ideas, but the first
thing he did was to reinstate George Bolton. There was
a good Scotch prayer, "Lord, give us a good conceit of
ourselves." Mr. Campbell-Bannerman had no need of
that prayer. How would Scotchmen like it if he (Mr.
Healy) ruled Scotland? Yet he had as much knowledge
of Scotland as Mr. Campbell-Bannerman had of Ireland.
Would Scotchmen like it if he ruled Scotland by
scoundrels, robbers; and unspeakable offenders? Mr.
Campb4ill-Bannerman pursued this course towards Ire-
land. Mr, Ilealy would rather go to
,the gallows with
Joe Brady than alllk from the dock- With—Franch and
Cornwall. He condemned the policy invented by
O'Donovan Rossa as criminal and stupid, but he under-
stood it, as he had been brought up among the peoule.
and knew their wrongs,

Two smart-looLlng lads in sailor costume were seem
on Monday outside the Lambeth Police-court, and it
Was ascertained that they wanted to speak to tbe magis-
trate. They told him they were sent to a training-ship
from that Court some snenths ago, and they wished,
now they were at borne for the holidays, to thank him
for the service' he had thus rendered them. Mr. Biz.= ex-
pressed his pleasure in seeing them, gave them some
advice, and a small present
The Hon. G. D. Pennant, master of-the Grafton
hounds, was throws from his horse on Saturday and
isverely injured.
The death is announced at the age of 69 of Mr.
George Trist, head of the old-establiahed London firm
of Norton, Trist, Watney, and Co, auctioneers and
surveyors.
N. Pouyer-Quertier, on the invitation of a number of
agriculturists, has delivered a long speech at Gisors in
favour of Protection. He maintained that Free Trade
had disappointed those who had trusted in it; 're did
not believe that the promised reduction of taxation on
agriculture would ever come, and he urged that Free
Trade benefited the English only. On his proposition
a resolution in favour of import duties on wheat and
rye was unanimously adopted.
The Wy cliff quincentenary was celebrated in the City
Hall, Glasgow, on Monday night Dr. Campbell, who
presided, said that Wycliff was a Reformer before the
Reformation, and his life and latours deserved to be
held in grateful remembrance. Mr. George Anderson,
M.P., said that the semi-reformed church in England
looked with as great abhorrence on the doctrines of
John Knox as Papacy did. The English Church strove
to force their system of prelacy upon Scotland. Pre-
lacy was a name of evil omen to Scotland,lor Papacy
was behind prelacy all the time, and it was really
Papacy that Scotland was fighting against
The Bishop of Cork has appointed Canon Horace
Fleming to the Deanery of Cloyne.
Mr. G. A. Sala sailed on Saturday from Liverpool for
New York, whence he will proceed via San Francisco to
Australia. He will not return to England before the
summer of 1886.
The Paris Municipal Council has agreed to the vote of
66,000 f. for the Grand Prix de Paris.
A correspondent says that Governor Cleveland has
promised when he assumes the presidency of the United
States to make no political removals from the Civil
Service, except those who have abused their offices for
partisan purposes.
It having been determined to appoint three addi-
tional members of the High Court at Calcutta, the
Queen has been graciously pleased to approve the
appointment of Mr. William Macpherson, Bengid Civil
Service; Mr. Ernest John Trevelyan, barrister-at-law;
and Baboo Chunder Mashub Ghose, Pleader of the
High Court, Calcutta, to be puisne judges of that
court.

The death is annc.unced of the Marquis de Fortnnato,
which took place on Sunday afternoon, at his lodgings
in Pall-mall, London. The marquis was well known
and much respected in society and in the diplomatic
circle, from his long residence in London as the
ar,credited servant and friend of the ex-King and Queen
of the Two Sicilies. He had been dangerously ill for
some weeks previous to his decease.
Charles Hall, labourer, was committed for trial at
Faringdon' Berks, on Monday, charged with the wilful
murder of George Brown, a fellow workman, on Christ-
mas Day, at Ragnal Farm, Faringdon. Hall loaded a
double-barrel gun, and states that he was acting with it
when it west off, Brown receiving the full charge in his
face and expiring immediately.
The steamer Normington of London, from Savannah,
arrived at Liverpool on Monday morning, having in tow
the steamer Lord O'Neill, of Belfast, bound from Vir-
ginia (Norfolk) to Liverpool, which she fell in with on
Saturday morning west of Cape Clear. The shaft of
the Lord O'Neill broke on the 23rd inst., and for four
days she was tossed about in a helpless condition by a
heavy sea.
Thomas Edge, bolt maker, Chowbent, near Leigh,
was drowned while skating on a reservoir on Sunday.
Mr. Stuart Cumberland and Mr. Labouchere, M.P.,
intend to offer to Mr. Eglington, the spiritualist and
slate-reading medium, a challenge for 2000 that they
will produce the same effect by natural means that he
professes to produce by spiritualistic methods.
While four men were at work on Monday morning
in the Swaithe Main Colliery, near Barnsley, a large fall
of roof occurred. One of them, named Devms, was in-
stantly killed.
An inquest was held on Monday afternoon on the
body of Mr. Henry Lovibond, solicitor of Bridgwater
and District County-court Registrar, who whilst riding
a spirited horse, was thrown off, his skull being frac-
tured. Death was instantaneous. A verdict of "
dental death" was returned.
At the hiring fair at Chester, in many parishes the
renewal of the year's engagement with agricultural
labourers has been effected at reduced wages, and it is
feared that in consequence of high rents and low prices
the movement will become general throughout the
country.
Inquests have been held at Birmingham respecting
the death of George Jordan, a mechanic, Mary Ann
Davis, 49, married, and Agnes Scrivens, 20, married.
The evidence showed that death in each case resulted
from excessive drinking on Christmas Day, and the
jury returned a verdict to this effect.
Addressing the members of the Newcastle Demo-
cratic Club, Mr. Albert Grey, M.P., said that single
member districts struck a deadly blow at liberty and
freedom of choice on the part of electors. There was
no greater delusion in the whole realm of fallacy than
the supposition that equal districts with one member
each secured true representation, one injustice balanc-
ing another. Proportional representation would do
away with the temptation to jerrymander, and would
secure equality, liberty, and justice to all sections of
the people.
The Earl of Lichfield has been initiated into the
Independent Order of Rechabites at Stafford. He said
he was glad to become a member of the ancient order,
it having always been to the forefront of temperance
work. He joined it, not because it was a temperance
society only, but because it was founded upon the
principle of self-help, which secured to its membsrs the
bond of union so necessary. He ursed the Lecessity of
registration as the best means of giving publicity to its
financial position, and he was glad to find that they
%Veto setting the house in order in this respect.
An accident matted On Monday morpin6 at som.3
stone pits in the neighbourhood of Abingdon, by which
two men were killed and two others injured.
The captain and crew of the steam trawler, Glen-
eagles, which arrived in Aberdeen on Monday, and
landed a splendid catch of fish, realising nearly £lOO,
report that while trawling in Broad Bay, Stornoway;
on Friday, the vessel was attacked by 150 Highland
fishermen, who came out from Stornoway in seven
boats and scrambled on board flourishing dirks and
large sticks. This proceeding was intended to indicate
the resentment of the fishermen at the trawling opera-
tions of the steamer. The fishermen were spoken to
kindly by the captain and crew, and after a while they
went on board their boats again and pulled ashore.

A magistrate attended at one of the Limerick hos--
pitals on Monday for the purpose of taking the deposi-
tions of Joshua Moore, school teacher, from New .rallas,.
who was accidentally shot whilst shopping on Saturday
evening. Moore and his son were in a clothier's at the
time selecting wearing apparel. Both men carried
loaded revolvers in their pockets, the son being in the
employ of a land corporation company. While trying
on a coat Joshua's revolver went off, the bullet passing
through his chin-bone, mangling his mouth, and lodging
in his palate. As neither was licensed to carry arms
both were arrested.

Amongst the eases disposed of at the Westminster
Police-court, on Monday, was a charge against a City -
merchant residing in the New Kent-road of disorderly
conduct and causing an obstruction in a public
thoroughfare. According to the evidence of a police-
man the defendant and some fiends were talking out-
side a cigar shop in the Wilton-road, Pimlico, and he
requested thee to move on so that the public might
not be inconvenienced. On the defendant saying he
would take the constable's number he was arrested. •
The evidence for the defence proved that there was no
obstruction whatever, and the magistrate, in dismissing
the case, expressed his regret that the constable should
have acted so incautiously.
A long letter full of biographical and literary interest
has appeared, in which Dr. James Martineau corrects
some misapprehensions with respect to the early life of
his sister, Harriet Martineau, into which Mrs. Fenwick
Miller has fallen in her memoir of that lady.
A numerpaly-attended Conservative meeting at Il-
fracomb has passed a resolution requesting Sir Stafford
Northcote to contest the Barnstaple division of Devon-
shire at the next election.

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The Archbishop of Cashel has telegraphed to Mr. .
John O'Connor, of Cork, inquiring if he would consent..
to be put forward for the representation of Tipperary.
Mr. O'Connor has replied, intimating that he places him-
self in the hands of his Grace and Mr. Parnell. .

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With reference to Mr. H. Sidebottoria's suggestions
, for "voting by post," ilich appeared in the " Times '
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of Dec. 22, Mr. Manus G. Holyoake, writes that three
f
weeks previously he submitted a armilar proposal for -
"voting at post-offices" to Mr. Bright, who sent the
following reply: "Rochdale, Dec. 11, 1884.—Sir,—If I o
may be frank with you, I must say that your plan has -
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in it evils ten times worse than anything that exists
now. The present plan is the best possible--if the law • I
be enforced which requires a sufficient number of polling ! r.
places to be open.--I am, respectfully, Jonw Baton?.
Mr. M. Q. Holyoake." .
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On Sunday night an attempt at murder and suicide .
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was perpetrated in the open street at Bimmering, one
of the subsurbs of Vienna. A shoemaker named Mattey -
shot his mistress as she was returning home with her
sister, and then attempted to blow his own brains out. • .
The girl had left him at her mother's instigation, and, ..
on being accosted by him in the street, refused to have
anything more to do with him. He thereupon drew a
revolver and carried out his criminal purpose.
The idea of appointing the Crown Prince of Sweden. .
Viceroy of Norway has been abandoned at the pressing
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requelt of the Liberal Ministry. •
,
yd
is, it is stated,WoottoriC he
Creek, lying
that has
inghaetweenbeeßnsee
lasned 7
te,..srnBbhoouled, '
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Mr. Whitehead establish torpedo works for the Goyern.
L ik
talent in the South of England. •
The officers of the National Liberal Federation have ,
decided to accept an invitation from the Ipswich Liberal ,
Association to hold a conference in that town on Wed- .
nesday, January 14, on the occasion of a visit of the
Right Hon. J. Chamberlain, M.P., in •connection with .
the opening of the new Reform Club there. $1
The Durham Diocesan Chura Building Society's yi,T.
fund now amounts to £34,006. It isiptended to erect
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25 new churches, and cf this iiuniber fimr have already .
been built.
An official notification has been reeeived at Chatham •
from the Admiralty to the effect that at the close of the • -
present financial year the whole of the works at 'the. -
dockyard in connection with the various baildingg; 1
factories,workshops, and official residenecs Will be placed ' •
under the Board of Works, and will no longer be carried.
out by contractors as has hitherto been the case. It is
also intended to discontinue the making of the wagons,
carts, and trucks, and those vehicles will in future
.be
supplied by contract.
It was proved at a coroner's inquest on Monday that
the body of a man found last week in the Thames near ' 4
London Bridge was that Pf a traveller named Henry
Williams, and it wail ltesl'ault be,virts nvtitreli to _ v
have been in any waV,4401C141441 1441:FK5
the bridge. Inqutrins. if- DZ 'fate* no im- '1
portance is attached to the discovery of a suspieicui
parcel of chemicals there. • , .j

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