The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-11-14 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

An Admiral's good service pension is placed the
disposal of the Lords of the Admiralty by the death of
oldmiral Sir Augustus L. Kuper, G.C.B.
The " Citizen ' states that, with the assent of the
Distrie,Lßoard, the North Metropolitan Traniwr y Com-
pftny are about to run an electric car in Whitechapel.
The Toronto City Four per Cent. Loan for 1,00,000
dols. has been placed there at 97. The last loan was
placed in London in the spring of this year at 92.
Margaret Higgins,of Chorlton-on-Bledlock' sentenced
to death at Manchester Assizes for the murder of her
chili, aged fourteen months, has been respited during
her Majesty's plemure. Higgins quarrelled with her
husband about the child, ot which he was not. the
father, and she took it to the River Medici& and threw
it in, at first intending also to drown herself. After
throwing the body into the water she went home and
told her friends what she had done. The jury strongly
recommended her to mercy.
Walter Jenkins, who was found guilty of the man-
slaughter of his- employer, William Graham Smith, in
August last, was, at Swansea Assizes, sentenced by Mr.
Justice Manisty to penal servitude for 15 years.
As Mrs. Howson, wife of the Dean of Chester, was
leaving the Deanery, a perion unfortunately stepped
upon her dress, throwing Mrs. Howson down and break-
ing her leg. The accident is all the more untimely as
the 'Jean of Chester is also seriously ill.
An extensive fire, caused, it is believed, by a spark
from burning material carried in a "Guy Fawkes
demonstration," broke out on All Farm, Whiteparish,
Wiltshire, and was not got under until a great deal of
property was destroyed.
The new Gothic church of St. Mary, erected in the
suburbs of Doncaster, has been consecrated by the
Archbishop of York. Sir Edmund Beckett prepared the
plans, and gave f!200 towards the bidding fund. The
Dean of Llandaff gave £lOO, and Messrs. Beckett and
Co., bankers, MO.
The woman Loveridge, who drowned her infant at
Kingsteinton, Devon, and attempted to drown herself,
about two years ago, and who was afterwards ordered
to be confined in a lunatic asylum, has been liberated,
in compliance with a requisition from the magistrates
of the Teinbridge division.
In a statement just issued the Marriage Law Reform
Association say that close upon 700 candidates in
England, Scotland, and Wales have already given
assurances of their sympathy with the Deceased Wife's
Sister Bill. Ths number includes, with a doubtful ex-
ception, eveiy working man candidate, whether Con-.
servative or Liberal.
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A steam boiler explode I in a pork-packing house at
Evansville, Indiana, with curious results. The boiler,
broke through tht rear corner of the building, then
rose 150 ft., turned, and passed diagonally oyes the
building, falling in front of it, 2001 t. from its starting-
point. Eleven persons were injured, twe et them
fat Ally -

The steeirneis Gaff and Mountain Girl came into eel.
lision on the Ohio riser, near Lawrenceburg, Indiana;
The latter vessel was carrying the members of a travel-
ling circus, who were giving shows at the towns along
the river. While attempting to MOM the Gaff's bows
she was run into and cut through and sunk. Tile clew
of the Gaff rescued all who could be saved, but seven
Jives are reported to have been lost.
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The traffic returns of 33 of the principal lines of the
I United Kingdom for the week ending October 31 show
the total receipts as amounting to £1,264,002, being
£23,409 less than for the corresponding week last year,
whilst the mileage was £17,200, or 265 more than for the
corresponding week. The aggregate receipts for the
first 18 weeks of the current half-year amount to
£24,441,353, being £312,305 leas than for the corre-
sponding period in 1884.—" Railway Times."
At the Nottingham Assizes on Saturday, before Mr.
Justice Denman, Henry 0. Newman, 28, commission
agent, was charged with wounding his wife, with intent
to commit murder, on June 27. The medical evidence
proved that the prisoner was deranged, and that when
under a delusion he was extremely violent. He was
ordered to be detained during her Majesty's pleasure.
Archbishop Walsh, at the opening ot the Medical
Session of the Roman Catholic University in Dublin,
received an address, read by the Rev. Dr. Molloy, the
rector, stating that Roman Catholics did not desire
that the Universities for other denominations should be
deprived of their endowments, and they regarded
Trinity College with friendship, but they demanded
educational endowments for themselver on an equality
with the teaching institutions of other denominations.
Mr. Justice Stephen, during the hearing of a case
against three Irishmen charged with assault, tried at
the Cambridgeshire and Hunts Assizes, strongly re-
buked one witness who spoke in contemptuous terms
of the Irish people. His lordship said that he had
passed a great portion of his life in Ireland from
choice. He was glad to testify on any occasion to the
kind and sympathetic character of the people. It was a
great mistake on the part of many Englishmen to look
down upon Ireland.
The City Parochial Charities Commission have prac-
tically concluded their inquiries into the origin and ap-
plication of the City charities, and are about to prepare
a statement showing the results of their labours. It is
expected that the Trust that will be created to ad-
minister the funds, which the Commissioners recom-
mend should be diverted from their present applica-
tion, will be constituted by the latter half of 1886. The
amount is likely to prove less than has been antieipated,
the charities which are of an ecclesiastical T ature being
found to form a large portion of the total of the funds
which have come within the scope of the inquiries of
the Commission.

The following letter has been received by a Conser-
vative working man of Leeds: "Foreign Office, Nov. 6.
—Sir,---In answer to your letter of the 4th instant, I
am desired by Lord Salisbury to inform you that the
ballot is absolutely secret, and that if the Radicals try
to use force in the matter by threatening to eject from
farms, &:c., if the electors do not vote as they wish,
they may find themselves coming under the provisions
of the Corrupt Practices am, your obedient
servant, HENRY MANNERS."
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President Cleveland, replying to an appeal solicit!rg
his intercession on behalf of lie!, has declared that the
American Government cannot properly take any action
in the matter.

The receipts on account of the Revenue from the Ist
of April, 1885, when there was a balance of £4,902,207,
to Nov. 7,1885, were £46,150,865, against £47,046,190 in
the corresponding period of the preceding financial
year, which began with a balance of £5,632,669. The
net expenditure was £54,969,478, against 1:50,502,917
to the same date in the previous year. The Treasury
balances on Nov. 7 am6unted to £1,969,276, and at the
same date in 1884 to 2,515 375.

A decree was published in Rome on TueFcby
appointing Count Nigra, the Italian Ambassader in
London to the same post in Vienna.
The London,
Chambers met for the first time on Tues-
day. M. Blanc, the oldest member, took the chair in
the Chamber of Deputies, and delivered a patriotic
speech, which was much applauded. The Prebidebt arid
other officers were elected temporarily, the permaLent
elections only taking place after the returns of the
members had been duly examined.

The "Freeman's Journal" ',skates that the Govern-
ment have appointed Mr. Clifford Lloyd, resident magis
a -
trate, to the office of Colonial Secretary the Mauritius,
and that it is intended to confer upon him acommission
as Lieutenant Governor of the Colony.
The Rev. Edwin R. Ward, curate of West Horsley,
Surrey, has been appointed by the Lord Chancellor
Rector of St. Lawrence, Norwich. Mr. Ward has for
some time past taken an active part in the formation of
a Clergy Pensions Fund.
A Cabinet Council was held on Tuesday in Downing.
street. The Ministers present were the Marquis of
Salisbury, the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Iddesleigh,
Viscount Cranbrook, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Sir Richard A. Cross, Colonel the Hon. F. Stanley, the
Right Hon. W H. Smith, Lord Randolph Churchill,
Lord George Hamilton, Lord John Manners, the Duke
of Richmond and Gordon, and the Hon. Edward
Stanhope.
In view of the inconvenience to parties arising from
the absence of their lead,ng counsel at elections during
the ensuing three weeks, the sittings of the House of
Lords to hear appeals have been adjourned. If her
Majesty should think fit, under the Appellate
Jurisdiction Act, 1876, to authorise the Lords of Appeal
to sit for business during the dissolution, the appeals
might be heard in the month of December.
At the weekly meeting of the Canterbury Board if
Guardians on Tuesday it was reported that an old
woman named Fuller, who some time ago was
discovered to be an opium eater, had again been
supplied surreptitiously with a quantity of opium, and
had brought herself to a sad condition by her excessi,,e
indulgence in the drug. The Mas er of the Worhhouse
said he had been told that the medical officer had given
hiq sanction to the woman taking opium, but he did
not believe it. The opium was brought to the house by
the woman's daughter, and was found amongst some
sugar. The Board directed a searching investigation
to be made.
Mr. Roger Bryan, a farmer, and a leading member
of the National League, residing at Baskin, near
i
Athlone, was on Tuesday fired at and wounded n the
side by a bullet discharged from a revolver. Two men
named Slevan, who were observed lurking about the
premises, have been arrested on suspicion.
Michael Nugent, a farmer, of Walderstown, near
Athlone, was waylaid on Tuesday on his way to attend
a meeting of the Ballymahon Board of Guardians, of
which he is a member, and was severely beaten. He
was conveyed home in an unconscious state. His
assailants escaped.
The Cork Steam-packet Company's steamer Falcon
on Tuesday carried 200 cattle to Liverpool, and their
steamer Xema, for Bristol, carried 170. This is the
first large consignment since the boycotting of the
company commenced, a month since, and is the out-
come of a new scheme for frustrating the programme of'
the cattle dealers. The cattle dealers' steamer Con-
stantin carried 950 cattle, 140 sheep, and 150 swine.
Owing to the want of harbour accommodation for
vessels and fishing smacks in the districts between
Beachy Head and Bexhill, aproposal is being considered
for constructing a harbour between Eastbourne and
Pevensey Bay, with a steam tramway skirting the sea
eastward of the redoubt for about four miles. The
scheme includes a tidal harbour for vessels, an extensive
fish-curing station, and a yacht station two miles from
Eastbourne.

The Speaker took pita on Tuesday afternoon in the
proceedings in counection with the annual distribution
of prizes to pupils of the Warwick High Schools for
Girls. Speaking on the subject of the employment
of women, he enforced the:importance of physiology as
a new field for industry, observing that the many things
that were meant to develope, or rather utilise, their
capacities must be a valuable field of study in them-
selves.

The agent to Mr. T. J. Fitzgerald met the Dunsland
and Cooney tenants at Kildysart on Tuesday, and
granted a reduction in their rents of 10 per cent.,
bringing the rents 3 per cent. below Griffith's valuation.
The agent to Mr. Ryan, of London, the same day met
the Effernan and Eribul tenants. A reduction of 10 per
cent, was demanded, but refused, and the tenants left
in a body without paying.
At an inquest held on Tuesday at St. Helens, with,
regard to the death of a young married woman, named
Margaret Briody, it transpired that she purchased some
matches, dissolved the heads in water, and drank the
solution. Being a slow poison the phosphorus did not
take effect until three days afterwards; in the mean-
time, however, she suffered great agony. The jury
returned a verdict in accordance with the evidence.
At Blackburn, on Tuesday, William Lloyd was com-
mitted for trial on a charge of murdering Richard
Killett, by stabbing him in a public-house on the 21st
ultimo. Tile men had quarrelled, and the prisoner
threatened that Killett would be a dead man within
two hours.

Tbe destitution among shipbuilding workmen on the
Clyde appears to be increasing in severity. No less
than 47 stowaways were discovered in the hold of a
vessel leaving Port Glasgow for America on Tuesday.
Early on Tuesday morning the mangled remains of a
married woman. named Gunter, aged about 45, were
discovered on the South-Western line near Twickenhat.n
Junction. The head was severed from the body.
An inquest has been held at Atherstone on Charlotte
Smith and her two children, the latter of whom were
drowned by the mother, who tied them to herself and
jumped into a 3anal. The evidence showed that the
woman had been ill-treated by her husband and had
taken to drink. The verdict was that the children
were murdered by their mother, while temporarily
insane. The coroner said he regretted the law could
not touch the husband.

An outrageous assault has been committed upon
Colonel the Hon. F. C. Morgan, M.P., Conservative
candidate for Southern Monmouthshire. Preceded by
a hand and a number of torch-bearers, he was pass:ng
through the Cwmbran Ironworks, when a number of
missiles were thrown at him. A portion of a brick
struck him in the middle of his back, and a tin pot
caught him on the back of his head.
On Tuesday morning information was forwarded to
the police of the K or Bow Division of the finding of
two portions of a human body, and there is little doubt
that a murder of a shocking character has been com-
mitted. On Monday afternoon a man in one of the
by-streets in Bow found the hip and right leg of a male
child. Information was given to the police, and the
portions of the body removed to the station, where
they were examined by the divisional surgeon of police,
who gave it as his opinion that the limbs belonged to a
young male child, and that they had been severed
from the trunk in an unskilful manner. The inspector
on duty at the Bow station forwarded information of
the finding of the remains to Sir John Humphreys, the
coroner. In the meantime, the officers of the Criminal
Investigation Department, under the direction of
Inspector Wildey, are actively engaged in the case.
Dr. Franldan's report upon the quality of the water
suppliel to the metropolis by the various water com-
panies during October shows that the Thames waters
sent out by the Grand Junction and by the Lambeth
companies were of similar quality to those supplied in
tho previous month. The Lea water supplied by the
New River Company was, as regards organic matter,
second only to the best of the deep well waters. The
East London Company's water from the same source
was equal to the best of the Thames. The' deep well
waters furnished by the Kent and Colne Vallzy-Com-
panies and by the Tottenham Local Board were ot
their usual excellent quality for drinking, The 'Nine
Valley Company's water had been softtfied with lime,
and rendered suitable for all domestic purposes,

2'he 44th birthda:y of the Prince of Wales was age.- -
brated as usual in London on Monday, and at Sandring-
bam a large number of guests, among whom was the Duke
of Edinburgh, assembled to do honour to the Heir Ap-
parent: A Royal salute was fired at Windsor, and the
customary festive observances took place in the Royal
boroughs.
The inauguration of the new Lord Mayor of London
was accompanied on Monday by the usual spectacular
procession, which was somewhat less theatrical and
more national and civic in character than many of
recent years. On arriving at the Royal Courts of
Justice, 'the new Lord Mayor, with his officers and
other members of the Corporation were received by the
Lord Chief Justice Mr. Justice drove and Mr. Justice
Cave with the mud ceremony, and afterwards returned
to the Guildhall.
Lewis Lyons, whose conviction for kicking a polioe-
constable at a meeting in Dod-street, Limehouse, was
quashed on appeal, applied on Monday to Mr. Saunders,
at the Thames Police-court, for a summons for perjury
against a police-constable.
The dead body of a man named M‘Connall has been
found in an empty house at Belfast. It appears the
deceased was drunk on Saturday night, and three young
men, now in custody, carried him on a hand cart to an
unoccupied house, and left him inside. His dead body
was subsequently discovered, and the three men, on
being arrested, were charged with killing him.
General Sir Frederick Roberts, with Colonels
Chapman and Kitchener, arrived at Brindisi on
Monday morning from England, and left at five a.m. in
the Peninsular and Oriental mail steamer, the former
for India, and the latter for Zanzibar.
Pauperism is largely on the increase in Canterbury.
The number of inmates in the Union Workhouse,
according to returns made up to Saturday night, is 25
per cent. in excess of last year. The out-door relief
list is also heavy.
It is stated that Sir Joseph Ridgeway and other
members of the British Commission for the delimita-
tion of the Russo-Afghan frontier, have left their camp
in the vicinity of Herat, with a strong escort, .for
Zulficar, where they expect to meet the Russian
Commission.
An explosion of gas occurred on Sunday at Filbert-
street, Leicester, in a house occupied by a man named
White. The doors and windows were blown out, and "
the furniture took fire, but the flames were speedily
extinguished. The roof of the scullery was also blown
off, and White was very much inured.
The reported concentration of large masses of Arabs
at Abon Hamed and Khartoum is confirmed from Cairo.
No doubt is felt now that an organised advance is in.
tended under El Khair and the other prominent Sheikhs.
Four thousand Dervishes with 60,(.00 forced natives, are , -
said to be 70 miles from Akasha.

An unknown coast steamer from New York on Friday,
before daylight, ran down and sank pilot boat No. 6 off
the New Jersey coast. One man was drowned; nine
others, after five hours in boats, were rescued by another .
pilot boat. The steamer continued her course, paying
no attention to the wreck.

Dr. Danford Thomas, Coroner, has stated that the
supposed human remains found in an omnibus at Kil-
burn having been examined by Dr. Bird, divisional sur-
geon of police, they are believed by him to be a portion
of the stomach and internal organs of a graminivorous
or grass .eating animal, probably a sheep.
A donation of £l5O has been granted by the Govern-
ment from the Royal Bounty Fund to the daughter of
the late "Ab Ithei," the late widow of whom received
from the year 1873 to 1884, the year of her death, a
pension of £5O from the Civil List, in consideration of
her husband's Celtic and archxologiral researches.
According to the "Berliner Tageblatt," the Sultan
of Zanzibar signed a convention about the middle of
last month agreeing to the appointment of an inter-
national commission, to consist of an English, a German,
and a Fret :12 delegate, for the delimitation of the
German possessions and the territory of the Sultan in
Vast Africa.
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President Cleveland has issued a proclamation com-
manding all unlawful assemblages in Washington
territory gathered because of the Chinese agitation to
disperse by noon. The citizens of Los Angeles, Cali-
fornia, held a meeting on Saturday, giving the Chinese
24 hours' notice to leave. The Chinese are reported to
be willing to leave.
The Russian traveller Prejetalski has sent a letter
from the neighbourhood of Khotan to the Czarevitch. He
states that the Russians are much liked by the Kash-
garians, who ask to be commanded by them in order to
drive out the Chinese. They wish to become Russian
subjects, and are ready to revolt. They state that
they have plenty of arms concealed, but want a
Russian chief.
John (Yonnell, described as a lieutenant in the Salvn.
tion Army, has been fined El 17s. by the borough magis.
trates at Beverley under singular circumstances. The
army were holding a meeting in the market-place, near
a house in which a person was dying. The chief. con-
stable, Mr. Knight, asked the drummer to stop beat-
ing, which he did. The defendant then took up the
drumsticks and faelaboared the drum in an excited
manner. The defendant elected to go to prison.
The boycotting of a family named Griffin, who have
taken possession of a bo) cotted farm at Cappamore,
still 'continues, and forces of police have to guard the
Griffins while going to and returning from service at
the church. The Griffins are having II wretched life of
it, none of the proyle in the district holding any com-
munication with them. They have to draw their food
and other supplies from long distances as a consequence
of the boycotting to which they are subjected.
The Knights of Labour Galvt ston, Texas, have been
boycotting the Mallory Slesmsbip Company with the
Gulf of Colorado and Santa Fe Railway. The Commerce
of Galvestoe is almost totally suspended. Ships are
idle; the railways are prevented from carrying goods.
This boycotting prevents most of the Texas railways
from moving goods trains, which remain blocked at the
interior to NUS. The boycotting arose from a strike, of
white dock labourers, who have hitherto been paid 40
cents, an hour for unloading steamers, and demanded
50 cents. The company then employed negroes, who.
worked satisfactorily; but the whites, through the
Knights of Labour boycotting the railroads, compelled
idleness.

Speaking at a cottage garden show at Farnham en
Saturday, the Bishop of Winchester said it had been
stated in a neighbouring Parliamentary division, by
one of the candidates, that by the disestablisluneLt
and disendowment of the Church of England the.
farmers would be made so much richer that they wLuld
be able to pay the labourers 28. or 3s. a week more
wages. He had made a careful calculation, and he
found that if all the property of the Church were taken
away it would only produce a farthing and a half pr
week per bead of the population. He did not think_
that addition to their income would help anybody.
Nobody would be one bit better, bra rather worse, fo;'
the churches would be shut up or turned into music.
halls'
e Late on Friday night a barber named Caleb Emery
*avagely attacked and wounded with a knife Mr. James
Brown, landlord of the Bunch of Grapes Inn, Shepton
Mallett. Brown received eight serious wounds. Emery,
who is in custody, it is believed is insane, and labours
under the delusion that Brown killed Emery's Wife.
David Boardman the sextor. of Tongs Church, at
Middleton, near Boardman,
commenced his _usual
duties in the churchyard at an early hour on Sunday
morning. Shortly afterwards the people were surprised
to hear the church bell toll three times. Mrs. Boardman
went to ascertain the cause, and found her husband
hanging from the bell rope. Life was extinct.
As a result of the plan adopted by some East Rent
farmers of killing their own fat stock and retailing the'
joints to the public, several cheap butchers in the
towns and villages are now selling shoulders of mutton
at 6d. and 61d., and beef at Gd. to Bd. per lb.
In the Queen's Bench Division, on Saturday, Justices
Day and Smith were divided in opinion as to the
liability of a railway company for a portmanteau left in
charge of a platform porter, and afterwards stolen, and
an appeal was allowed. .
Two defendants, the one described as a manufacturing
herbalist and the other as a chemist, have been con.
victed at Bow.street Police•court of exposing for sale
special medicines without the Exciae label, and fines
were inflicted in each case.