The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-11-22 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Mr. Flinders Petri 3, the Egyptian explorer, has again
left England to resume his work in Lower Egypt.
The polling in connection with the election of a Lord
Rector for Aberdeen University took place on Satur-
day, the candidates being Lord Randolph Churchill and
Dr. Alexander Bain. The result was the return of Dr.
Bain by a majority of three nations.
A German named Wehrle was charged at the Lam-
beth Police-court on Saturday with stealing a number
of watches and clocks entrusted to him to repair. A
crowd of some 200 people had collected in and outside
his shop, demanding the articles they had confided to
him, but he said he had not got them, and that as he
was in difficulties he had disposed of them to a friend.
The prisoner repeated this excuse and was remanded.
Mr. Bright attained his seventy-third birthday on
Sunday, having been born on Nov. 16, 1811.
The celebrated zoologist, Dr. Brehm, well known as
the companion of the Austrian Crown Prince in his
travels has died at the age of 55, at his villa, near Gera,
after a long illness.
Lord Egerton of Tatton intends to fill the large
window of the south transept of Chester Cathedral
with stained glass in memory of his father.
Forty-five actual shipwrecks were reported during
the past week, being a slight increase against the
previous week, and also against the corresponding week
ot last year. The week was remarkable for collisions
and loss of life. Thr, former amounted to ten, and the
latter to neazly 100 Twenty-six persons were lost
through collisiowie of vessels, three of which were
British vessels, off the British Isles, and three British
in other seas. Three (British, German, and Norwegian)
were burnt at sea, the lives lost by this cause being
live. The lives lost by collision off the British Isles
were nine, and the total vessels seven. Sailing vessel*
were again in the majority, only four steamers being ref
ported, three of these beinz British. sunk by Collision.

The funeral of Mr. James Parry, one of Chestertl
"characters," took place on Monday. Statements are
afloat that deceasef, whose parsimony in life was very
great, died worth over a million of money. Next to the
Duke of Westminster he was the largest property owner
in Chester. Many anecdotes characteristic of Mr.
Parry are told. On one occasion he is said to have
insttucted a tenant, in paying over £2, to bring the
rent in two instalments, in order to avoid a stamped
receipt.
A serious subsidence of land is reported in the
Rhondda Valley, and accounts show that the walls of a
chapel and some cottages have cracked. Very exten-
sive excavations have taken place in the mines of this
celebrated coal district, and even:local mountains have
been affected.

A man named Alfred Hallett, 24, belonging to Alder
St. Mary, Devonshire, who had been to the Severn
Tunnel Works in search of employment, was walking
upon the New Passage Railway, Bristol, on Sunday
evening, when he was knocked down by a train and
killed, the body being shockingly mutilated.
On Monday morning a ferry-boat which crosses the
harbour at Canon's-marsh, Bristol, was run into and
sunk by a steamer, and its three occupants had narrow
escapes—one of them, an elderly gentleman named
Lawrence, being rescued in a very exhausted condition.
Bishopsbourne Church, near Canterbury, was on
Monday afternoon attended by a numerous and influen-
tial congregation, on the oceation of the unveiling of a
very beautiful stained-glass memorial window, the cost
of which has now almost been raised by public sub-
scriptions. The window is intended as a memorial of
that eminent divine known as the" Judicious" Hooker.
At the time of his decease, in 1600, he was rector of
Bishopsbourne. The Bishop of Colchester preached the
sermon.

At the Police-court at Bangor on Monday a well-
dressed man, giving the name of George F. Smith, was
remanded on a charge of fraudulently obtaining two
valuable paintings from Mr. Shrubs°le, a local artist.
He called at the prosecutor's studio, and selected the
pictures, promising to forward a cheque on his return
home, if his wife approved of them. Hearing nothing
further of the individual, and his references proving
false, the matter was put into the hands of the police,
Mr. Shrubsole supplying them with a pen-and-ink
sketch of his features, made, of course, from memory,
the man being a perfect stranger to him. This was
lithographed and circulated, and led to the prisoner's
apprehension at Crewe Railway Station, en route for
London.

At the Bedford Borough Sessions on Monday morn-
ing, Lucy Anna Webber, a lady of indepenuent means,
who formerly resided at Bedford, lout now at 46, Bram-
field-street, Brockley,'Kent, appeared to answer a sum-
mons why she should not be committed to prison in
default of the sum of LIO 55., being the amount of a
loan granted to her by the Town and County Loan
Society. The hearing of the case occupied a long time,
but an order was made for the committal of the defend-
ant for one month in default of payment.
Late on Saturday evening a dangerous lunatic made
his escape from the Roman Catholic Asylum at Moston.
His name is Christian; he is the son of a Bedfordshire
farmer, and stands over 6ft. in height. The escape was
effected by the breaking of a window, and the runaway
then made his way unperceived to the Newton-heath
Railway Station, a distance of half a mile, and walked
about the platform for some minutes. The maniac was
shoeless, and his demeanour caused great consternation.
After a little time he left the station and proceeded
into the country in the direction of Harpurhey, near
Manchester. In the meantime his escape was dis-
covered, and a number of the monks, in their clerical
robes, went in pursuit. They were unable to effect a
capture, but Christian was ultimately caught by a
couple of policemen some two miles from the scene of
the escape. His feet were cut and bleeding, and the
clothes he wore drenched with water, he having walked
through a deep pool. He was detained in the custody
of the police anti taken back to the asylum.
Proposals are being brought forward for the estab-
ment of several new steamship lines, largely subven-
tioned, to trade between German ports, the East Indies,
and Australia. The routes comprise a line to Hong-
Kong, touching at Rotterdam or Antwerp, Lisbon,
Sun, Colombo, and Singapore, with connecting lines
from Trieste to Btindisi and Alexandria; and also
between Hong - Kong and Yokohama, calling at
Shanghai, Nagasaki, and one of the Corean ports; and
a third between Aden and Bombay. The Australian
route will be from Hamburg or some other German
port to Sydney, by Suez, Adelaide, and Melbourne,
with a branch to Auckland and the Wnith Sea islands.
Communication will also be started between Germany
and Delagoa Bay, calling at Havre or Cherbourg,
Angra Pequena, Cape Town, Natal, Mozambique, and
Zanzibar.

At Sheffield on Monday, Mr. D. T. Ingram, printer,
and Thomas Henry Bishop, printer's manager, were
summoned for printing and publishing a placard, having
reference to a municipal election, which failed to bear
the name and address of the printer and publisher.
The proceedings were issued under section 14 of the
Municipal Elections Act, 1884. It was shown that the
defendants had printed a placard issued in the interests
of the temperance party of Sheffield and contained re-
flections upon the licensed victuallers as a body, and
that it was posted extensively in Brightside Ward in
favour of the candidature of Messrs. Osborn and Firth.
It bore no imprint. The defendants pleaded guilty,
and explained that when they discovered the omission
they had slips printed and posted over the first bills.
They were each fined 20s. and eosts. The section im-
poses a penalty not exceeding £lOO for posting a bill ,
having reference to a municipal election without the
names of printer and publisher.
On the ninth anniversary of the consecration of St.
Paul's' Clerkenwell, London (6417 inhabitants), it was
stated that, in addition to 1440 Sunday and week
services, with 225 Holy Communions and 400 members
on the rolls, there had been 250 open-air preachings and
50) marriages. The somewhat unusual number of 3110
churchings, and the still larger number of 4236 holy
baptisms (7346 combined), besides other church work,
had taken place in connection with this church, erected
out of a small portion of the proceeds of the unused
City Church of St. Mildred, Poultry.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the
Earl of Durham as Lord-Lieutenant of the county of
Durham in succession to the late Marquis of Len-
donderry. Her Majesty has also been pleased to confer
the dignity of the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
upon the Right. Hon. Sir John Macdonald, K.C.8.,
Prime Minister of the Dominion of Canada.
The French Chambers had on Monday before them
the report of the Tonquin Committee in favour of send-
ing out reinforcements, and stating that 40,000,000
francs would be required.
The trial of seven anarchists concluded on Monday
In Cracow. They were charged with throwing a bomb
against the window of the police office. Three were
acquitted, and the remaining four sentenced to terms of
imprisonment.
At the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, on
Monday, before Lord Young, George Cassie, Charles
Middleton, Alexander Currie, Hugh Munroe, and James
Mitchell, all young men, were charged with murdering,
or alternatively with seriously assaulting a farm servant
named John Stewart, on a road in the parish of New-
hills, Aberdeenshire, on the night of Saturday, Aug. 23.
They pleaded not guilty. From the evidence it appeared
that Stewart, who was tipsy, had been followed by some
of the prisoners, with whom he quarrelled, and he was
afterwards found insensible with a penknife sticking in
his skull, and he died two days later, The defence was
that deceased fell upon his own penknife. The jury ,
found Cassie and Mitchell not guilty, and the charge ,
against the other three not proven, and the prisoners
were then discharged.
At a meeting held at Wilton on Monday night to
protest against the enffanchisement of the town pro-
perty to the leaseholders it was stated that property
was let for £3B which was estimated on the rate-book
at £235, one property being let at 105. which was esti-
mated at £lB. At 20 years' rent the purchase money
would be £760, while on the estimated rental it would
be £4700. It was asserted that if the borough had been
reformed in 1835 it would now be rateless, and there
would be a free education for every child. Resolutions
were adopted against the course proposed by the present
corporation.
The Bishop of Dover on Monday consecrated the
additions which have recently been made to the perish
church of Wilmington, near Dartford, Kent, in the
presence of a numerous body of clergy. The entire
scheme—which comprised the building of a south aisle,
a new chancel, vestries, organ chamber, side chapel for
children, as well as the restoration of a fragment of the
original Anglo-Saxon church at the west-end—heans. cost
be
about £3400, nearly the whole of which has pre-
viously raised.
An outrage of an extraordinary character was com-
mitted early on Monday at the house of Henry Caine,
, the deputy steward at Birley Collieries, near Sheffield.
The window of the room in which he and his wife and
three children were sleeping was smashed, followed by a
loud report and a breaking out of flames. He suc-
ceeded in extinguishing them, but not before a portion
of the window frame a dressing-table, and other things
had been damaged. 'He believes that what was thrown
was a "bobbin "of powder with fuse attached, but for
what reason he cannot understand.
At aeleowns meeting held on Monday at Hull, for the
purpose. of relieving the distress in the town, about
£lB,OOO was subscribed. Lieut.-Colonel Smith, M.P.,
shairman of the Hull and Barnsley Railway Company,
announced that it was likely that the works in con-
nection with the dock and railway would be resumed ,
in eight or ten days.

A meeting of the Sunderland Local Board was held
on Saturday morning, to inquire into charges of mia-
conduct and drunkenness against George Arkle the
late captain of the steamship Harbinger, of Sunderland,
while on a voyage between New Orleans and Bilbao.
The evidence adduced showed that the captain tad been
frequently drunk at Bordeaux and at Bilbao, and in
consequence was susperseded by another captain at the,
latter port. The court suspended his certificate for 12

months.
On Saturday night an accident occurred on the
North-Eastern Railway at Marton Junction to a pas-
senger train from Newcastle and Sunderland to Hartle-
pool. The train was standing at the junction, and was
run into by a light locomotive engine which came up from
behind. Several passengers are reported to have been
severely shaken, but all proceeded to their homes. The
guard, William Bell, of Sunderland, received injuries to
one of his arms, and returned to Sunderland. The train
shortly afterwards proceeded to Hartlepool.
Lord Lytton is said to have just completed a new
metrical romance, which is likely to be published
shortly.
The suspension of Messrs. Spartali and Co., of 25,
Old Broad-street, is announced. The liabilities are
between £500,000 and £EOO,OOO, a great part of which,
however, it is expected will not be claimed upon the
estate. _ _

There has just died at Leighton Buzzard, on the 61st
anniversary of his birthday, a member of a remarkable
family named John Tearie, formerly of the Royal
Marines. The deceased was the son of an old soldier
who had ten sons and one daughter. Of these ten sons
deceased and five brothers joined the Navy, and the six
between them saw no less than 101 years of service and
gained 11 medals, four of them, including the de-
ceased, who joined in 1842 and served 19 years, attain-
ing the rank of sergeant.
A severe shock of earthquake has been felt at
Olitheroe. Furniture was shaken, and the people -
rushed out of their houses in fright. One woman
fainted, and a waggoner who was travelling on a road
states that his two horses were nearly thrown to the
ground. The earthquake also caused considerable
excitement in the neighbourhood.
Professor Lushington, ex-professor of Greek in
University and brother-in-law to Lord Tennyson has
been elected, without opposition, Lord Rector of
Glasgow University.
At Edinburgh, on Saturday, William Miller, mason,
was charged under distressing circumstances with shoot-
ing his wife. The previous night the prisoner was
handling a revolver, and not believing it to be charged
he indiscreetly puked the trizger, when the weapon
went off and the bullet entered his wife's breast.

A remarkable scene was witnessed in the Glossop-
road Baptist Chapel, Sheffield on Sunday. A member
of the congregation named Kent, who did not believe in
the immortality of the soul, after the singing of the
hymn, "Around the throne of God thousands of chil-
dren stand," exclaimed, "This is a hateful lie; there are
not thousands of children in Heaven singing Glory,
glory, glory.' " The preacher hurriedly left the pulpit,
and seizing Kent by the shoulder forced him into a seat.
A deacon afterwards expelled him from the building.

As the steamer Gardenia, of and for North Shields,
was proceeding past Queenstown on Saturday night
she fouled her Majesty's ship Revenge, the guardship
in Queenstown Harbour, carrying away about eight feet
of the latter's lower boom. The shock on board the
Revenge was severe, and the officers are of opinion that
the Gardenia must have suffered also, although she
proceeded direct to sea. It was quite dark at the time.
An eight days' mission in some 150 parishes in the
eastern division of the diocese of London was inaugu-
rated on Saturday afternoon.
The West African Conference met at Berlin or, Satur-
day in the hall in the residence of Prince Bismarck, in
which the Berlin Congress met in 1878. Prince Bis-
marck was elected president.
On Saturday afternoon, while a number of students
of St. Thomas's Hospital were playing football in the
Archbishop's grounds at Lambeth one of the players
was seen to stagger and fall down dead. Dr. Sutton,
the assistant-surgeon, was on the spot, and.ordered the
body to be conveyed to the hospital mortuary, where he
was identified as Mr. Rowe, aged 23 years, one of the
senior students.

After having been without a crew for several months
since their dismissal for an infringement of the regula-
tions of the Royal Lifeboat Institution, a new crew of
twenty-four men has been appointed for the Eastbourne
Lifeboat.
At an inquest held on Saturday night a verdict of
"Suicide while in an unsound state of mind" was re-
turned in the case of W. Moseley, resident medical
officer of the branch dispensary of the Cheltenham
General Hospital, who took a dose of prussic acid while
labouring under mental depression. His predecessor in
the same institution died two years ago under similar
circumstances.

On Saturday, at the Liverpool Police-court, Hans
Frederick Heinrichsen, a Dane, was charged with
stealing watches and a chain, and a diamond locket
and bracelet, value £lOO, the property of Mr. Jacob, a
jeweller. The prisoner pledged the watches in Hull,
but on going to pledge the bracelet was arrested. When
taken into custody he said he had stolen valuable
jewellery from a private house in Bedford-sqt are,
London, and had pledged them in Liverpool for £5O.
Prisoner was remanded.
On Saturday, for the second time during the Warwick
assizes, the Lord Chief Justice commented upon dis-
proportionate sentences. It transpired that a prisoner
named Christopher Owen, charged with stealing two
fowls, had already undergone eighteen months' impri-
sonment for a similar offence, whereupon his lordship
said: "I cannot impose such a sentence as that. What
should I do if a prisoner came before me for com-
mitting some outrageous crime if eighteen months is
not thought too much for stealing two fowls ?" His
lordship then proceeded to pass a sentence of six weeks'
imprisonment with hard labour.
The number of deaths from cholera in Paris from the
7th to the 13th inst. was 385. On Saturday seventy-two
deaths were reported.
The official counting of the votes given for the Presi-
dential Election shows that Governor Cleveland has a
plurality of 1078 in the State of New York, and has
therefore virtually been elected President of the United
States.
Lord George Hamilton, M.P., addressed a crowded
meeting of his constituents at Hamilton Hall, Queens-
town, Willesden, on Saturday evening, and moved a
resolution that the Government by their mismanagement
at home and abroad had forfeited the support of the
country. The resolution further supported the House
of Lords in their endeavour to secure for the people a
good measure of reform. He said that the Government
had during their tenure of office increased taxation by
£32,000,000. As to franchise and redistribution, he
said the Conservatives were not going to enteniato the
question with a rope round their necks and Mr.
Chamberlain at the other end. The resolution was

adopted.
The Crown authorities appealed from a decision of
the Queen's Bench Division, which had decided, by a
majority of the judges, that the Surveyor of Taxes was
not entitled to assess for the purposes of income tax
the sums returned by the London Assurance Corpora-
tion to participating policyholders. The Surveyor of
Taxes had asse.ssed the three branches—marine, fire,
and life—separately, so that the losses of the one should
not be set against the profits of the other; but the
judges of the Queen's Bench were unanimous against
this contention. On the remaining point, the Master
of the Rolls and Lord Justice Cotton (Lord Justice
Lindley dissenting) on Saturday decided that the money
paid to policyholders was not liable to be assessed to the
income tax.
In replying to some of the thousand addresses which
he has received from all parts, the Marquis of Ripon has
I expressed the belief-that India was never more loyal than
at the present time.
A serious accident happened on Saturday evening to
two boys aged respectively 13 and 15 years, sons of Mr.
G. A. Bickerton, auctioneer and surveyor, of 3, Guild-
ford-street, London. The two lads were pounding a
quantity of chlorate of potash and sulphur (percussion
powders in a mortar, when the compound suddenly ex-
ploded, shattering the mortar, driving the pestle into
the ceiling, and seriously injuring the two boys. lu. the
absence of the parents, Mr. Emsley, agent to Mr. '
Bickerton, had the boys at once conveyed to the Royal
Free Hospital in Gray's-inn-road. One has suffered in-
juries to a thumb and a thigh, and it is believed that the
sight of both boys is permanently.destro)e,d.
On Sunday afternoon Mr. Justin M'Carthy, M.P., and
Mr. J. H. M`Carthy, MT., spoke at the National Irish
Club, Birmingham. The latter delivered his inaugural
address as president of the institution. He said the
party to which he belonged was not exactly conspicuous
by its silence, and kept Parliament pretty well occupied,
and would continue t) do so until they had a Parlia-
ment on College-green, which he prophesied would not
be longer than five years frcm the present time. His
feeling of nationality had always been the strongest
feelings of his nature. Tne first time he ever volun-
tarily assumed mourning was at the time of the murder
of the "Manchester Martyrs," Allen, Larkin, and
O'Brien. During the past four years there had been a
remarkable succession of Irish Secretaries; and Mr.
Forster, the greatest enemy that Ireland ever had,
would never again eme go from that obscurity of the
, back benches to which, thanks to the efforts of the
Irish party, he had been relegated. Mr. Justice
M'Carthy, in his address, said three of the most in-
fluential members of the Cabinet had already declared
i themselves in favour of the principle of Home Rule,
and he believed that in five years the question would be
r affirmed by an English Parliament.
The additions to the Zoological Society's Gardens
during the past week included a Barbary ape from
North Africa, an Anuhus baboon from West Africa, a
Siamese blue pie from Siam, presented by Mr. R. B.
Colom ; a ring-tailed coati from South America, pre-
sented by Mr. a M. Courz,ga : six Alexandrine parra-
keets a blossom-headed parrakeet, and a banded parra..
keet;from British Burnish, presented by Mr. Eugene
W. Oaths, F.Z.S.; two ring-necked parrakeets from
India,presented respectively by Mr. W. G. Burrows and
Miss Perry; a weka rail (white var.) from New Zea-
land, presented America,
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effected in the position of the professional classes by
operations of life assurance, and in the condition of tlfe
working classes by the existence of mutual benefit
societies. In olden days professional men could 'ndt
marry until they had earned sufficient to provide againgt;
the uncertainty of life ; but now, by life assuranct,
provision could easily be made for those dependent
upon them. The existence of the ,unthrifty as v!ell= 0
the thrifty made the Socialists idea, of equality iropol-
Bible ; bUt these societies placed those dependent
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se of drying it. The
where he lodged for the purpose g a
result was an explosion, which wrecked the place and
pound of gunpowder in the kitchen oven. of a house
the furniture and nausea severe injury to a little girl:
,Dr. Garnett .-tat -Strpeettitairdent of the Nng
BoozO. of the Bri.tqli al,.ertn. has given up his position,
having accepted ii, post nf Assistant Jeeper. Mr.
Fortescee, who i, w, 11 kn.wil to the habitues of
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