The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-11-10 00:00:00

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HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL,.

GENEROUS.—Mr. Solomon.—How much for a feed
o' hay? Oetler.— A shilling. Mr. Solomon.—How
much for a bucket of water? Ostler —A ha'penny.
Mr. Selomon.—Only a ha'pei ny ? Then for once he
shall have a good dinner. Give him four bucket,' 'o
Water I—lunny Folks.
AN UNWELCOME WORD.—The Globe says :—A
respondent writes to complain that "impecuniosity
is not to be found in any standard English dictionary,
and wants to know if any learned lexicographer can
solve this singular omission. "Impecuniosity," we
take it, as a painful fact, is of very old standing
indeed, but as a word it is comparatively new, and
supplied a want long felt; but if any learned
lexicographer could take it out of our streets and shut
it up in our dictionaries he would confer a public
service.

THE WEATHER AND THE OROPS.—In its review of
the British corn trade for the past week, the Magnet
of Monday says :—Favourable weather for agri.
cultural work has been enjoyed during the past week.
The temperature has been unseasonably mild, but
with an absence of rain ploughing and sowing have
been fairly proceeded with. So far satisfactory pro.
grew; bas been made, but a few frosts would no doubt
be beneficial in checking too premature development.
For fruit trees to be in blossom at this time of the
year, as is reported from some districts, is certainly
not a healthy sign.
"ALL His EYE."—Fobbinson : "Excuse me, sir,
isn't that my nrab—these are the only two left, and
thiq is certainly not--" (A. shabby black gingham
—Jownes : "Eh ? I—Well, I declare—so I have—
thousand pardons—my unfortunate colour- blindness—
colour-blind, sir 1" (Restores neat green silk !)
Punch.

AMERICAN STATE DEBTS.—From a statement just
publi&hed, it appears that the total debt of the
Southern States is 125,728,155 dole., against a debt in
New England of 49,950,926 dole,, of the Middle
Stves 44,C04,511 dole., and of the Western States
89 710,453 dole. The debt of Southern cities is
76,696,032 dole., against a total of 146.304,707 dole, in
the New England cities, 407.844,7F6 dole, in those of
the Middle states, and 135,501,702 dole, in those of
the Western States,

DEATH OF A MISER.—An eccentric old woman
named Mary Woodoridge has just died at Shirley,
near Birmingham. The deceased, who was 83 years ot
age, had occupied the same miserable tenement for
over twenty years, and from her appearance and
penurious mode of life was generally believed to he in
extreme poverty. On Monday in last week some of
her neighbours, thinking that she was ill, entered her
house, and found her lying in an unconcious state upon
the floor of a room, which was in a very filthy state.
In a dirty bodice belonging to her was found a bank
book, showing deposits to the amount of about £1,100;
and also a savings-bank book, showing a balance of
about £lOO. The deceased visited West Bromwich
every Monday to collect rents for several houses which
she owned, and banked all the money with the excep-
tion of a few shillings which she reserved to purchase
the bare necesuaries of life.
FATAL CRANE ACCIDENT IN LONDON.—A dreadful
accident happened in London on Friday afternoon in
last week, which resulted fatally in the case of one
man. The scene of the accident was a recently
cleared plot of land in Bunhill-row, where a new
building is being erected. A long jib crane has been
raised on a platform about 70 feet high, supported by
three strongly•built uprights. While an iron mortar-
mill-pan was being hoisted up over the hoarding, the
engine, boiler, and crane fell over the side of the plat•
form on to the ground below. The engine-man, who fell
over with it, was killed on the spot, while his assistant,
who was on the other side, escaped by getting down a
ladder. Fortunately no men were working under the
platform at the moment it fell, or the result would
have still been more serious.

MR. BURT, M.P., IN AMERICA.. -Mr. Thomas
Burt, AL P., who is at present in America, has met
with a very cordial reception at numerous places. At
Pittsburg City he was entertained at a banquet in
Seventh Avenue Hotel, and was presented with a
congratulatory address by the various trade organiza-
tions in Western Pennsylvania and the United States.
The address set forth that Mr. Burt's name had
become a household word in America owing to his
advocacy of the rights of the industrial classes. Mr.
Burt, in reply, stated that as he had entered a coal pit
at ten years of age and had wrought there for eighteen
years, it was impossible for him to abate his interest
in the cause of labour. He subsequently addressed a
great gathering of working men. The hon. gentle-
man gave it as his opinion that co-operation would
be the ultimate solution of the labour question in all
countries.

THE EXPLOSIONS ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAY.
—The &helical Press and Circular says that Sir
William Harcourt has paid a visit to toe victims of
the outrage on the 'Underground Railway, at St.
Mary's Hospital, in company with Mr. Norton,
surgeon cf the hospital, who has the cases under his
care. Two of the patients have parts of the face
covered with small specks, like what is termed the
peppering from the explosion of gunpowder; but the
specks are rad, and not black like those of gunpowder.
These specks are too small and regular to have been
produced );y sand scattered from the explosion, but
have rather the appearance of being the result of some
material entering into the composition of the explo•
sive. It is the goad intention of the Home Secretary
not to allow the families of these poor people to suffer
during the time that they are prevented from working.

MIIRDER TRIALs IN MASSACHUSETTS.—Bet ween
the years IE4O and 1881, inclusive, the number of
trials for murder in the State of Massachusetts was
212, of whom only 15 were executed, one prisoner
committed suicide the night before execution, and
one is still waiting, during the arguing of certain tech-
nical objections. Fifty-three received life sentences,
and 11 others had death sentences commuted to im-
prisonment for life. Forty-nine were found guilty of
manslaughter, on their own pleas or by juries. Four-
teen proved to be insane, and in two cases the juries
could not agree. Thirteen were acquitted, one com-
mitted suicide before trial, 49 were discharged on
their own recognizances, one escaped from prison and
eight were awaiting trial. It is somewhat remarkable
that out of 200 or more cases, there should be only
2R convictions of murder in the first degree, which
alone carries the punishment of death. No accusation
ever appears to have been made against the State
that the criminals were shielded by political or other
corrupt influence (as certainly appears to be the case
in some of the States), for it is universally allowed
that in Massachusetts the prosecutions have been
most ably conducted and every effort made to secure
a righteous conviction. The reason seems to be
rather that jurymen are strongly impressed with the
danger that the innocent may be executed instead of
the guilty, and that they will always stretch a point
to return a verdict of murder in the second degree
when there is the slightest ground for it, and often
when there is not, since such a verdict does not in-
volve the life of the prisoner.

HONESTY 'THE BEST POLlCY.—Modest Youth, "May
I have the pleasure of dancinz with you, Miss Light-
foot V'—Miss Lightfoot (to her Mother's horror).
"Thanks—no ! My waistband is so tight I can't
move and so are my shoes ! "—Modest Youth, who
Is, let' us say, an Earl of Richard the First's creation,
eix foot eight in his pumps, with eight hundred
thousand a year, and in every respect the ideal of a
young girl's dream—is so touched that he proposes on
the spot !}—Punch.
THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY.—The estate
belonging to tnis company is so vast that its value
cannot be accurately computed. A carefully pre-
pared statement just issued, however, shows that the
company has of land unsold about 40,000,000 acres.
Of this there are good agricultural lands east of
Bismarck to the extent of 4,000,000 acres ; between
the Little Missouri and Bismarck 4,500,000 acres ; and
in Oregon, 7,500,000 acres, or a total of first class
agricultural lands of 16,000,000 acres. Estimating
this land at 3 dole. per acre, although the average
price paid has been 4 dole, 50c. per acre, the result is
48,000,000 dole. The company has a'so 10,000,000
acres of grazing land, worth at the email price of
1 dol. 50c. per acre, 15,000,000 dole. The mountain
lands are abont 14,000,000 acres in extent, which,
at 33 1-3 c, per acre, yields upwards of 4,000,000 dole.,
or a total for the entire land grant of over 67,000,000
dole.

PANIO IN A SCHOOLROOM.-At Waterbury, Clonneo•
tiout, recently, an altircn of fire occurred at the Elm.
street School during the session. iix hundred children
rushed headlong down the stairs in a panic. Many
wore knocked down and trampled upon. One girl had
her collarbone broken, another an eye badly cut, a
third was insensible, and had severe internal injuries.
Many others were bruised. The fire caught in a
waste-paper room near the furnace. It was easily
subdued.
THE FOREIGN CORN TRADE. - The Mark Lane
Express says :—ln the United States values for wheat
have slightly improved. At New York on Saturday
quotations were as follows :—Spring wheat, 335. 61d. ;
red winter on spot 375. ; November, 36g. 4d ; Decem-
ber, 36e. 110. ; January, 375. Bd. ; extra S'ate flour,
15e. 70. to 168. 4,1, ; maize, 19s. Bd. per 4801 b. f.o.b.
As compared win the rates current on the corre-
sponding day of the previous week, these quotations
show an advance of 21. on spot winter, and
November; and a decline of id. on December; sd.
decline on flour; and is. advance on maize.

GOING IN A LISTER. —Rus in Urbe ; "I say,
Muster Pleesman, wheer be the Bank of England ?"
—Xtl.l : " Why, that's miles away from here ; this
is tne Marble rch."—Rus in Urbe 'Wang it ! I
seed ' Bank ' writ on you 'has as merge as lode when
I got in at Ohe*peide."—X A. 1 : " Dessay ! He was
jest cocain' away from it."—Fuii.

NEW SHADE.—" Say you, have you got any buff
trimming to go with this stud ? " asked a flashily
dressed woman of a storekeeper.—" I think so miss,"
answered the urbane salesman taking down a piece
of goods and spreading it on the counter.—" Buff do
you call tnat buff ?" exclaimed the wcooan, " guess 3 on
don't know your business, young man, That's too
dark for a buff, "—" But miss that is—"—" It's too
dark; I can't see it, stupid."—" Why of course it's
dark, my dear young lady," persisted tne man. "It's
blind man's buff the new shade, you see. "—He Bold
the goods.—kinerican Paper.

CINOHONA IN BENGAL -It appears that the result
of the Government planting operations during 1882.83
was a total of 53,C00 less trees than in the previous
year, owing to the uprooting of a great number of
hybrid varieties and some 160,000 red-bark trees. The
total number of trees of a'd aorta at the end of last year
was 4,711,168, while the crop was the largest ever
gathered, being 396,9801 h. of dry bark. All this was
sent to the factory, except 41,8001 b, which was for-
warded to London at the request of the Secretary of
State, to be made up in different forms of febrifuge
and to be afterwards returned for experimental pur.
poses to India.
THE SLAVE TRADE IN TANGIEB.—A telegram
dated Gibraltar, Saturday, says :—During the last
fortnight six slaves have been publicly sold at Rabat,
for the sums respectively of 23, 38, 45, 37, 29, and 33
dollars. At Tangier, since the return of the British
Envoy, Sir John say, four slaves have been sold
publicly, producing respectively the sums of 37, 86,
18, and 10 dollars. Eighty•nine slaves have been sold
publicly in Tangier from April last to the present
time.

DEATH OF A SWISS CENTENARIAN.—A Correspon-
dent of The Times writes :—" Madame Vacheron•
Chossat, the oldest inhabitant of Geneva, died on
November 2, in the 102nd year of her age, having been
born on August 27, 1782. She retained her faculties
almost unimpaired to the last, and survived all her
children. Madame Vacheron (Chossat was her
maiden name) belonged to one of the most respectable
families of the canton: her father was Mayor of
Carouge at the beginning of the first French Empire.
She was married in 1810, and her son, M. Cesar
Vacberon, was the founder of the first factory in
Switzerland for making watches by machinery.
Madame Vacheron's grandchildren are past middle
age, her great grandchildren are men and women, and
there is the most ample evidence that she had reached
the age assigned to her."
MILDNESS OF THE SEASON.—" A Lover of Wild
Flowers" writes to the Morning Post :—" Although
the swallows have left our country, some of the
summer wild flowers still linger in our ludgerows. I
think the following list, picked in a country lane in
SomersetAhire on November 1, may interest some of
your readers; at any rate, it will prove the mildness
of the season :—Honeysuckle, meadow sweet, great
bindweed, bush vetch, perfoliate yellowort, common
blue milkwort, field scabious, black shnapweed,
common nipplewort, common ragwort, sow•thiAle,
hawkweed picris, white ox-eye daisy, feverfew,
stinking chamomile, hedge bed-straw, per-
forated Si. John's wort, field speedwell, musk-mallow,
creeping potentilla, wood strawberry, wild wh:te rose,
blackberry blossom, ivy-leaved toadfiax, herb Robert,
small • flowered crane's • bill, purple clover, black
medick, wild basil, self-heal, betony, purple dead
nettle, red hemp nettle, buttercup, and common
daisy, besides many umbelliferous flowers."
MR. GLADSTONE AND THE ULSTER LIBERALS.—A
letter was received at Belfast by Dr. Wylie, sec:etary
of the Ulster Liberal Society, from Mr. Gladstone. It
was as follows :—" 10, Downiog•street, Whitehall,
Nov. 3, 1883.—Sir,—I acknowledge the receipt of the
resolutions enclosed in your letter of the Ist inst.
Upon grounds much higher than the support of any
Ministry or pat y, I hail the expression of views which
cimbine attachment to the empire with the principle
of equal rights for the three kingdoms and 13y51ty to
the throne with a stout obedience to law and order on
the part of those who proclaim it as their watchword.
—I have the honour to be, air, your faithful servant,
W. E. GLADSTONE."

CRIMINAL OFFENCES IN IRELAND.—The Registrar.
Generai's return of criminal and judicial statistics
show that there has been an increa-e in the number of
criminal offences in Ireland in 1882 as compared with
1881 ; but the increase, 10,049, is among the less
serious offences. There is a decrease in offences against
property with violence, malicious offences against pro.
petty, forgery, and offences against currency but
offences against the person show an increase. There
were forty murders committed in Ireland !rot year, as
cumparecl with the same number in 1881, 22 in 1880,
23 in 1879, and 23 in 1878. Of the murders perpe.
trated last year, eight were in Leinster, fifteen in
Munster, none in Ulster; and seventeen in Connaught.
rhere were 35 attempts to murder in 1882, as corn-
pared with 19 in 1881; and 232 cases of shooting and
wounding and stabbing, &c., as compared with 246 in
1881. There was an increase of 10,00 J in convictions
for drunkenness.

AMERICAN CITIES AND HOMES.—A table has been
issued showing the proportion of homes to population
in the chief cities of the United States, Philadelphia
stands at the head of the list with 146,412 dwell-
ings, and 579 peraous to a dwelling. New Orleans has
36,347 dwelling% with 595 persona to a dwelling;
Baltimore, 50,833, with 6 54 ; San Francisco, 34,110,
with 6 86; St. Louis, 43,026, with 815 ; Chicago,
61,069. with 824 ; Boston, 43,944, with 8 26; Bro ik-
lyn, 62,233, with 911; Cincitnati, 28,017, with 9 11;
and New York, 73,684, with 16 37. As a city of
homes Philadelphia takes the lead. With a popula-
tion of 847,170 at the census of 1880, it had doubled
the number of homes which were found in New York,
though the latter city had a ponulation of 1,206,299.
Apartments are the rule in New York.

HIGH•PIIICED SHEEP IN AUSTRALIA,—In "Our Agri-
cultural Reports," the Morning Post says :—The
following note, sent us by a correspondent on high-
priced abeep at the Antipodts, will be read with
interest At the annual sale of stud sheep at
Melbourne on the sth of September last, the sensa-
tional event was the sale of the first ram of the
draught from the stud of Mr. John Cumming, of
Terranalum. He was started at 200 guineys, and the
bids rose rapidly to I,oio guineas. Here there was a
mcmentary pause and the contest narrowed between
two competitors until, amid much excitement and
cheering, he WAS finally knocked down to the Hon.
Thomas F. Cumming at 3,150 guineas, more than
double the price ever paid before for any ram in
Australia.

ACORNS.—The rough autumnal blast is strewing the
fields with an unusually plentiful crop of acorns (says
the Medical Times). Sr thickly studded ;s earth's
grassy lap with this astringent harvest, that one is
tempted to inquire what purpose (besides the reproduc-
tion of the quercine genus) the acorn may serve in the
economy of nature—to what use, medicinal or dietetic,
it may he applied by man or beast. In many parts of
the country, in nearly all rural districts, in fact, in
which we have made inquiry on the subject, acorns
are in common use by the rustic population as a med•
eine in diarrheas from whatever cause. A store of dried
acorns forms part of many a country housewife's domestic
pharniacoveia, and the grated powder is administered
with good effect in many cases of intestinal flux.
Probably, since the acorn contains so vary large a pro-
portion of tannic and gallic acids, its operation in such
cases is at least as beneficial as that of any tinctures of
kino, catechu, rhatany, or other officinal astringent,
administered by proper authority. Vast quantities of
acorns, as we all know, are also greedily eaten by pigs,
deer, and possibly other animals, who become fat and
well-conditioned on this fare. It would be interesting
if we could learn from some of our veterinary friends,
how it is that these creatures can live and thrive upon
a diet which, though it may contain some nutritive
material, contains also so overwhelming a share of
tannic and gallic acids that even the porcine digestive
apparatus ought theoretically to be brought to a dead-
lock by its use.
AN AWAKENING INFLIJENCE.—[A. church at Brixton
thek
s been
indlpii—ghtaerdsohnwel
by electricity—the
iciftayr—mtehr, d
e don't fir
younst think
eokf
h
the electric light's a great improvement? Farmer.—
No, I don't. It's a•doing of you harm, parson, and
'll empty the church. I like to shut my eyes, and
think over what you'r a-saying ; and now with them
incondecent lamps a-blazing down, its unpossible—the
sermon don't refresh 'un a bit/—Funny Folks.

STRIKES IN ITALY.—A telegram from Rome on Mon-
day says that the engineers, stokers, and seamen
In the employ of the General Italian Company
at Genoa have struck. Similar news comes from
Naples, where the engineers of the Florio-Rubattino
Company have left their work. Their places have,
however, been supplied by engineers from the Italian
navy, the Government having lent the services of the
latter in order that the packets may continue running.
THE MONTHLY NURSE. (A. FACT.)—Brown (to
Dem Nurse) : " How is Mrs. B. going on?"—Deaf
Nurse: "Not lust now, thank you. I'll have a drop
presently."—B. : "Is baby all right? "—D. N.: "
rather have it in a cup of tea, please ! "—Moonshine.
THE CROWN AS A LANDLORD.—The total amount
paid into the Exchequer on account of rent and royal.
ties and other ravenues of the Crown Lands fur the
year er ding March 31 last was £3Bo,ooo—a less sum
by £30,000 than in the year 1877,8 9, down to which
time the amount had for some years steadily increased.
In 18.3 it was only 2252,000. These sums are esti-
mated after deducting all expenses of management,
except the salaries and expenses of the official establish-
ment, which are paid out of moneys voted by Parlia-
!tient. Allowances were made to tenants di-ring the
year amounting to £19,519, or nearly 21i per cent, on
the rentals, principally in consideration of the los,es
sustained from a succession of adverse seasons during
the past seven years, It appears that the arrears of
rents and royalties nevertheless amount to the large
sum of £36,751. In several instances it is stated that
it has been deemed advisable in the present depression
to assist agricultural tenants by allowing the rent to
remain unpaid for various periods. For the same
purpose of assisting the tenants, and in order to enable
them to cultivate their farms to the beat advantage to
themselves, nearly £146,000 have been expended by
the Crown in the past seven years in under-drainage,
and in the construction and enlargement of farmhouses
and farm buildings and cottages, and in 'other works
of permanent improvement of the land. •

SUPPOSED OUTRAGE.--Early on Tuesday morning
an expksion took place at a toll-bons'., occupied by
an old man named Thomas Littlewood, who lives at
Heeley, near Sheffield. At daylight it was seen that
the hut was completely wrecked, the stone roof being
blown off, the walls being demolished, and the door
and window thrown into the road. Eight yards of
fuse and a tin can supposed to have contained gun-
powder, were found. It is thought that the gunpowder
canister was put into a hole in the roof, the fuse having
been carried to a•haystack and there ignited. No
motive is known for the outrage.
DEATH FROM STARVATION.—In London, on Mon-
day, Mr. Car ter held an inquiry in the Board-room at
Lambeth Infirmary on the body of Selina String-
fellow' aged 17, of no home.—Edmund Samuel Bruton
said that he wai the caretaker of the unoccupied portion
of the Surrey Lodge-buildings, Kennington-road, which
are let out in flats. On the previous Tuesday even-
ing the witness was passing through one of the
corridors of the building, when he had ecoasion to
enter a private apartment of one of the unocetwied
tenements. In the apartment he found a finnale
in a very exhausted condition. The witnees asked
her what she was doing there. She repli• ti, " Let
me he ; give me some water."—PolLe•censtahls
Ware deposed that he was called in to take charge of
the deceased. She said she had not been long in the
apartment where she was found, and that she had
gone there for a rest. She was in a very filthy state
and appeared very weak. The witness conveyed her
on an ambulance to the infirmary, where she died.
The deceased also said that she was starving, and had
had nothing to eat or drink since the previons Tours-
day.—Mr. Roberts, the assistant medical ouperiaten-
dent at the infirmary, having given evidence to the
effect that death was due to congestion of the lungs
and starvation, a verdict in accordance with his testi-
mony wigs returned.

RATING OE THE Banc or ENGLAND.—The Bank of
Es,giand contributes a considerable sum to the poor
and other rates of the City. The Bank stands upon
nearly three acres of ground, and is in three parishes.
I he present asAessment is as follow. :—St. Bartholo.
mew-bv•the-Ex change, gross value, £14,301 ; rateable,
£11,918. St. Cnri.topherle-Stocks, gross, £23,142 ;
rateable, £19,285. St. M Lrgaret, Lothbury. vr.ss,
£18,918; rateable, £15,765. Gross total, £56,361;
rateable, £46,968 —City Press.
A COSMOPOLITAN CITY.—It appears from recent
statistics that little more than 50 per cent. of the popu•
lation of Chicago was born in the United States. No
less than 94,000 of the present inhabitanti of that
city have poured in from the various States of the
German Empire. The Bohemians number 12,000;
the Canadians, 15.000, Danes, 3,100; French, nearly
2,000; Irish, nearly 50,000; Hollanders, nearly 3,300;
Italians, 1,400; Norwegians, 5,700; Swedes, 16,000 ;
Poles, 5700; and Swiss, 2,900, with a sprinkling of
Russians, Hungarians, Spaniards, Portuguese, and
men of almost every other trace and nationality under
the sun,

RELICS OF A GREAT SlEGE.—Notwithstanding that
thirty years have passed since the Crimean campaign,
bombs and ammunition are still being found in great
number at Sebastopol and the surroundings, which are
supposed to have been used by the Anglo• French army
at the bombardment of the town. A great quantity
have been collected and are bought by the Govern.
ment. The money paid for them will be devoted for
the erection of a monument to the marines killed at
the defence of Sebastopol.

AN ANcApre IN TEXAS.—The Fort Worth Gazette
says that Kimble County contains a modern Arcadia.
Twenty-six families live in a delightful valley, the
fertile and kind soil of which furnishes a great abund-
ance of luxuriance. Toe fruits of the earth, milk and
honey and eNerything else that is good abound. Like
the ancient prototype, it is the land of peace, simple
pleasures and untroubled quiet. A civil magistrate
lives in its midst, and fourteen long years be has
borne the honours of his office. In all this time not
one single suit, civil or criminal, has been brought to
his notice. All is peace, contentment, and happiness.
THE AILMENTS OF FOWLS.—Fanny Field, in the Ohio
Farmer, rays that many of the mysterious ailments
that afflict young chicks, are caused by lack of consti-
tutional vigour on the part of the pareht fowls. If
you breed from fowls that have been over-stimulated
by egg-food, or from those that have been in-brui too
long, or frnm those whose constitutions have been
weakened by disease, the chicks will be a sickly lot
just as surely as two and two make four.

FAIR PLAY.—" Sir, you prelicted a frost for the
night of the 21st of September," said an old farmer, as
be entered the Signal ,ffire at Cleveland two or three
days later."—" Yes, sir."—" And it didn't come."—
"No, sir."—" Well, that prediction caught me with
800 bushels of apples on the trees, and I sold the lot
for half price."—"Soiry, sir, but the bureau is some
times mistaken."—"Well, I want you to help me out
of it. The chap who got my apples has forty acres of
titers. If you will only predict a regular freeze-up
for to•morrosv night I kin get them taters for ten
cßnts a bushel and come out all solid."—Wall Street
News.

THE ENEMIES Or THE COTTON PLANT.—Experi•
ments have been made in Georgia to save otton from
the ravages of the worms which have heretofore done
so much damage damage to the plant. London purple
was the poison used to kill the worms. This was die.
solved in water, half a pound to 50 gallons, and was
sprinkled over the cotton by means of a pump. The
first application succeeded in driving away the worms.
A stronger solution was then throwo upon the plant,
and this caused the death of the eating worms.
Where a solution of one pound in 60 gallons of water
was used it was found that where it collected in drops
it injured the leaves. The proper strength is in a
solution of one pound of the poison in from 80 to 90
gallons of water. Commissioner Henderson, who has
made the experiments, is thoroughly convinced of the
infallibility of the poison, and he considers that there
is now no reason why the cotton growers of Georgia
should be troubled by the caterpillar. Used in the
proper proportion the poison does no harm to the
cotton plant, does no injury to the man who puts it
on, and effectually kills the worme. The coat of
applying the poison is ver,y alight.
BONES AT RETAIL AND AT WHOLESALE.—It hap-
pened in Illinois. A burying-ground had been sold by
the town, and time given for the removal of all the
coffins. The purchaser finally took possession, and
one day, while engaged in ploughing, he suddenly ap-
peared before the village shoemaker and said
"Henry, I've just ploughed up the bones of your
father, up there."—".Ell I Is that so?"—" And what
shall be done with 'em ?"—" Well, I dunno."—"l'll
tell you what I'll do, Henry. I'll box up the bones
and bring 'em down here for a dollar, or I'll plough
'em under as a fertilizer and allow you fifty cents on
what you owe me."—"Well," replied the shoemaker,
after taking time to think it over, "I guess you may
credit me with fifty cents, but if you find the bones of
the old woman, too, I shan't take less than seventy-
five cents cash for the heap.'—American Paper.
SHOCKING SIIICIDE.—In London, on Tuesday even-
ing, a determined suicide was witnessed by a number
of persons from Waterloo-bridge. At that time a
well dressed young woman got on to the stone step,
and, before any person could prevent her, leaped ioto
the Thames. A police galley was lying on the Surrey
side of the river, and the officer in charge rowed
towards the spot. He succeeded in catching hold of
the drowning woman, but she was in a semi-conscious
state. The officer at once pulled to the Police Floating
Station, where she was placed in a warm bath, and
was subsequently attended by the divisional surgeon.
Unfortunately she expired from shook to the system,
consequent upon immersion.

HE DIDN'T KNOW TOO MUCH.—A tall man, im-
preAsively polite in his manne-, accosted a well known
citizen on a Troy street. "My friend," said the tall
man, "I am a furrier from Worcester, Mass. I have
walked all the way to this city. I am familiar with
the French, Latin and Greek languages, and can
speak several East Indian tongues. But lam really
in need of something to eat. Can you help me by
giving me a little money ? " "Do you speak Hebrew ? "
said the citizen. " I most confess lam unacquainted
with Hebrew." "Well, here's ten cents for not speak-
ing Hebrew," said the citizen. "Be gob," was the
reply, "it pays sometimes not to know too much,
don't it? "—Troy Times.
A VERT OLD BRIDLE. —The remains of one of the
oldest bridges in the world have been met with by
engineers at Mayence—no other than the bridge
erected by Charlemagne over the Rhine near the close
of the Bth century. It rested on 28 buttresses, and
was eventually struck by lightning and burnt down to
the level of the water. The engineers have been busy
taking away its remains and have already removed
over'. 0 piles of five to six yards in length. The timber
is well preserved, though nearly 1,100 years old ; BO
well, indeed, that it is still fit for building purposes,
while the iron, which was riveted to the posts is also
capable of being used, being covered by only a thin
layer of rust.
LOST PROPERTY IN PUBLIC VEHICLES.—In the
metropolis last year in no fewer than 18 659 cases pro-
perty left in cabs or omnibuses were taken to Scotland.
yard by drivers or conductors. Umbrellas, coats, and
bags were, of course, the most prominent articles, but
with these were objects of greater value. In three
cases the lost valuables were bonds to the amount of
£l,OOO. In another case the article found was a plate
of silver weighing 1,031 oz., in another a diamond
valued at £5OO, with bank notes to the amount of
£B3O. Three fifty pound notes and other valuable
deposits found remained unclaimed, and, according to
the rule, were accordingly handed over to the finders,

THE INTERNATIONAL CHALLENGE TROPHY.—Last
Saturday afternoon the ceremony of presenting the
International Challenge Trophy to the Corporation of
Eiinburgh, who are to be its custodians for the year,
took place in the Museum of Science and Art, Edin-
burgh, in presence of a large assemblage. Lord
Provost Hatrison presided. As the Scottish Twenty
who won the trophy marched into the hall they were
loudly cheered. The Lord Provost, in accepting the
custody of the trophy, said that of the 16 contests,
excluding the laot one, the Scotch had won eight, with
an aggregate of 19,736 point, as against 19,735 points
made by the English. Cheers were given for Colonel
Wilson, Captain of the Scottish Twenty, the Lord
Provost, and the English Twenty, and the proceedings
terminated.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE THAMES.—In London, on
Monday morning, a fatal accident occurred near the
Temple Pier. A youth, aged fifteen, the son of
Captain Oliver Coleman, the master of a sailing barge,
the Ellen, of Rochester, anchored on the Surrey shore,
overbalanced himself from a dingy attached tc the
barge, which he was mopping out, and fell into the
river. Two piermen at the Temple Pier noticed the
accident and launched their boat. They rowed to the
spot, and as they reached the Surrey shore they saw
the deceased raise up his arms and sink. Information
was given to the Thames Police-station, Waterloo.
bridge, but, notwithstanding that they were engaged
in dragging up till a late hour, they failed to recover
the body.

GYMNASIUMS FOR CRIPPLIS.—MiIan and Turin are
dietiognished by their excellent schools, with gymna-
siums attached, for deformed children. The exercises
require careful adjustment to differemt cases; but the
system is found very successful. In one school, out of
2 patients received during the year, 44 were eotirely
cured, 15 left partially cured, and most of the remainder
were reported as being in a fair way to be cured. The
director of the French Assistance Publique is now
visiting Milan and Turin in order to study this 'gym-
naatio cure with a view to its adoption in two schools
for cripples which the municipal council has deter-
mined to start in Paris.

THE LAST OF THE BUENOS AYRES PAPER DOLLAR.
—"To-morrow, the let of October," /says the Buenos
Ayres Standard of September 30, "one of the greatest
of all changes takes place in this country; we bid
farewell to the paper dollar of Buenos Ayres. All the
banks, all the public departments, all the markets,
houses, &a., have been preparing for this change.
National money, gold dollars and cents, are hence-
forward the currency of the country, and although for
the moment he changing of accounts from paper
money or patacons into National dollars may be
attended with some inconvenience, the change will in
the end prove beneficial to the market and the country.
There WM a time, and not very long ago, when it
would have been deemed the rankest heresy to
imagine Bnenos Ayres without the paper dollar. It
was the accepted theory of thousands who now sleep
for ever in their narrow cells in the Recoleta and the
British Cemetery, that the papar dollar had built up
the city of Buenos Ayres, jtst as if the city would not
have teen built up as large as it is to•day bed the
depreciated paper dollar never existed. It will take
some time to accustom us to the silver and copper
change that must now come in vogue. To meet the
great difficulty arising from this small coin circulation,
Congrets, no later than yesterday, passed the Baltore
project. This law. will meet one difficulty by sup-
plying us with small paper change in cents instead of
cop,•er coins. The issue will be tor six millions of
National dollars, guaranteed by the National Govern-
ment and emitted by the National Bank. It secures
for the shareholders of that bank an annual gain of
about 180,000 patacons, besides affording Government
and bank over one million sterling fresh capital to
work on,

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EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

On Tuesday a large drapery establishment belor g-
ing to Mr. John Th waites, Battley Carr, Dewsbury,
wag destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at
£4,000.
Altogether forty persons have, it is said, died of
trichioosis lb the province of Saxony, and nearly 300
till remain seriously ill.
A political riot has occurred at Danville, Virginia,
in wnich five negroes were killed and many, it is
believed, wounded. Two white men were injured,
one of them fatally.

In London last week, at a sale of flowering orchids,
an odontoglossum Pescttorei Veitchi was sold for £7O.

It is estimated that the probable yield of the gold
mines in Russia during the coming year will amount
to the value of 30,000,000 roubles.
Why are the shadows which are cast before coming
events like the team of the Brighton coach ?—Why,
beciuse they are four-runners (fore-runners.)—Fun.
The cattle plague shows no abatement in the district
of Odessa. Within seventeen days 1,800 head of
cattle have perished. According to the latest reports
the small owners and peasants are the chief sufferers.
Dr. Dollinger, Bishop of the Old Catholic Church
in Germany, has written a letter recommending bib
followers to participate in the impending Luther com-
memoration. in consideration of the Reformer's great
services to German language and literature.
At the Leipsic University the first prize in natural
history has been awarded to a Japanese student for a
zoological treatise.
The London Hospital has received a donation of
£9,000 from the executor of a gentleman lately de-
ceased.
In connection with the movement in Scotland for
preserving the old colours of Scottish regiments in St.
Giles's Cathedral, Edinburgh, it has now been
arranged that the Duke of Cambridge will hand over
the colours to the authorities of the cathedral on Wed-
nesday, the 14th inst.

_
The number of houses built in London and the
suburbs last year was, according to the report of the
Metropolitan Commission,r of Police, 23,301, form.
lug 508 new streets, and one new square, and covering
a distance of about 75i miles. These figures are
slightly less than those ot the two previous years.

On Monday night at Accrington Edmund Lord,
aged 19, a glazier, fired a six•chamber revolver in the
air, and thinking he had fired all the charges, he
turned the pistol to a group of boys and pulled the
trigger, when a youth, named Joseph Whittaker, son
of a weaver, fell shot in the chest. He was removed
home in a precarious state. Lord was taken into cus-
tody.
There were 2,623 births and 1,440 deaths registered
In London last week. Allowing for increase of popu-
lation, the births were 229 and the deaths 204, below
the average numbers in the corresponding week of the
last ten year. The annual rate of mortality from all
causes, which bad been 18 6 and 191 in the two pre•
ceeding weeks, was last week 19'0,
The Arctic explorer Payer has received the gold
medal of ths Munich Academy for his new painting
representing the end of the Franklin expedition.

The total number of beasts entered at the Metro-
politan Cattle Market for consumption for the week
ending tiaturday last was 2,590 head; in the corre-
sponding week of 1882, 3,620; 881, 4,480 ; 1880, 4,900;
1879, 4,t90; 1878, 5,260; 1877, 2,960; 1876, 8,170; 1875,
7,770; and 1874, 6,630.

The Council of the Worcestershire Chamber of
Agriculture held a meeting on Saturday at Worcester,
and a resolution was moved by Mr. Mince, and
seconded by Mr. Woodward, "That, looking to the
continued and entire depression in agriculture in the
United Kingdom, urgent necessity exists for the
adoption of measures to secure to that industry imme-
diate substantial relief."

From April lat to the 3rd inatant the Exchequer
receipts amounted to £47,157,079, as compared with
£46,416,739 in the corresponding perind of last year.
The expenditure has been £49,920,766 On Satur-
day last the balance in the Bank of England was
£2,406,511.

At the Manchester assizes on Tuesday, Lamb and
Garside, telegraph clerks, and Henry Hulme, corn.
positor, were sentenced, Lamb and Halm to twelve
months' imprisonment, and Garside to six months' im-
prisonment, for tampering with telegrams.

On Tuesday, a girl aged seventeen, was brought up
at the Greenwich police-court on the charge of break-
ing and entering a shop at Sydenham, and stealing
property therefrom. She confessed that she had got
into the house through the kitchen window. She was
sentenced to six weeks' hard labour, previously to
being sent to a reformatory.

On Sunday night a fire broke out at Blantyre
Collieries, where six years ago a disastrous explosion
occurred, and before it was subdued the engine-house
was destroyed and the winding engines were seriously
damaged. The fire occurred through an accident.

An address, illuminated on vellum, and decorated
with CAnadian IPaves and flowers suitable to the time
of sear, WAS prerented to the Right Hon. the Earl
of Carnarvon, during his recent visit to Canada, by
the members of the "Cirnarvon" Chapter of Royal
Arch Masons.

The Building an .Engineering Times states :—The
number of failures among builders and dealers in
building materials in England and Wales last week was
17, as against 30 in the corresponding week of last year,
and 22 during a similar period in 1881.

Last week's receipts of cotton at all United States
ports were 239,000 bales ; since Ist September,
1,458,000 bales. Week's exports to Great Britain,
71,000 bales; to the Continent, 82,000 bales. Total
since Ist September, 632,000 bales; stock at all ports,
769,000 bales.
Lord Chief Justice Coleridge arrived at Liverpool
on Monday aftertoon in the steamship Brittanic,
from America. His lordship was accommodated with
a special carriage in the train leaving Lime-street
Station at 4.5, and reached Huston Station at 8.45
in the evening. He was welcomed at the station by
a large number of gentlemen belonging to the legal
professir,,,
At Topsham on Monday night a party of " guys "
was engaged in celebrating the Fifth of November. A
youth named Harris, who wore a sword, was accosted
offensively by a fisherman named Wannell, and at
once drew the sword, and stabbed Wanneli in the groins
inflicting a deep wound. Medical aid was of no avail;
he bled to death in twelity minutem

For the first quarter of the current fiscal year a
decline of 19,467,891 dols. is reported in the revenue,
and a deciine ot 10,701,258 dols, in the expenditure of
the United Sb.tes as compared with the return for the
same period of last year.
Accordinz to recently published statistics, there are
at present 1,971,365 beehives in France, from which
this autumn 19,897, :84lb. of honey and 5,691,5981 b. of
wax have been taken, the value of which amounts to
about £938,050.
A telegram from Buenos Ayres states that the
Glenrosa, British barque, Williams master, from
Cardiff to Buenos Ayres, encountered a violent storm
at sea, was disabled, and became quite unmanageable,
and had to be abandoned in lat. 31 S., beg. 46 W.
All on board were saved, being taken off by an Italian
barque, and landed at Buenos Ayres. The Glenrosa,
a barque of 476 tons, was owned by a firm at North
Shields,

Speaking of the present position of the Church of
England in his opening charge to the Diocesan Con-
ference, the Bishop of Liverpool said it appeared to
him extremely critical, and unless there was some
providential interposition the Church must go to
pieces and perish, as there was no likelihood of the
different schools within her giving way or tolerating
each other.

At Leeds on Tuesday two youths, named Patrick
Allen and Peter Grogan, were charged with being con-
cerned in the murder of Jonas Bottomley, confectioner,
of Keighley, who was found dead on the towing-path
of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal last month. Allen
confessed that he and his companion stole the mur-
dered man's watch, but said they did riot otherwise in-
terfere. The prisoners were remanded. There are
now six men in custody for the murder.
The City of Toronto is just preparing to celebrate
its semi-centennial in March next. The Marquis of
Lansdowne will be invited to make his first visit to
the city during the week of celebration. As showing
the progress of the city since incorporation it is pointed
out that last year the value of new buildings erected
during the year was as much as £281,348.
During the performance of Ord:all Had. at the
Prince of Wales's Theatre, Manchester, on Tuesday
night, Mr. Chaslee Hermann, the manager, in enact-
ing the part of the hero, had a long fight with the
villain of the piece, and, the swords missing in one of
the passes, Mr. Hermann received the point of the
weapon in the cheek, just escaping the right eye. The
gash is an inck in length,
The Board of Trade have awarded a binocular glass
to Captain Angelo Guecco, of the barque Luigi P., of
Genoa, in recognition of his kindness and humanity of
the shipwrecked crew of the barque Serena, to
Swansea, ten in all, whom he picked up in their boats
at sea on the 3rd August last, and landed at Valpa-
raiso on the 25th August,

On Monday Mrs. Murdock, the wife of a seedsman
residing in the Stakes road, Hounslow, came by her
death under peculiar circumstances. During the
absence from home of her husband she accepted an in.
vitation to dine with a neighbour named Bradley at
one o'clock. Mrs. Bradley, on going into her back
garden to see if Mrs. Murdock was coming across the
field which separates the two houses, discovered her
friend in the water•butt. She was at one !extricated,
but life had been extinct for some time.

Last week's arrivals at Liverpool of live stock and
fresh meat from the United States and Canada
amounted to 1,515 cattle, 6,078 quarters of beef, and
465 carcises of mutton, against the total arrivals of
the preceding week, which were 2,621 cattle, 2,508
sheep, 8,259 quarters of beef, and 1,150 carcass of
mutton, showing a decrease in the im ?I'd of both live
stock and fresh meat during the last week. From the
above figures it will be seen that no sheep were
landed at Liverpool during last week, a circumstance
which has not occurred for some months past.
The additions to the Zoolokical Society's Gardens,
Regent's Park, London, last week incloded is sttiped
hlsena from Morocco, presented 137 Mr. Ernest H.
Marquis; a common squirrel. British, presented by
Mrs. M. J. Mitchison ; a black rat, British, presented
by Mr. Camp; a laughing kingfisher from Australia,
presentel by Mr, S. J. W. Colman ; a kestrel,
Briti4), presented by Mr. T. E. Gunn; two pintails,
two widgeons,, European, presented by Mr. 0, E.
Boulthee ; a margined tortoise from the lonian Isles,
presented by Miss Mansell ; a purple faced monkey
from Ceylon, a pinche monkey from Brazil, two
common marmosets from Bout h.East Brazil. dep ;
a chimpanzee from West Africa, a chipping squirrel
from North America, two bramblings, European,
purchased; two Simon's dwarf jerboas from Arabia
received in exchange; six long•nosed vipers born in
the gardens.

A statue of Alexandra Dumas, the work of Gustave
Do 6, which has been erected by public subscription,
has been unveiled in Paris.

Suitable prize for the next Fisheries Exhibition."Crabhe's Tale.'—Judy.

A New York telegram says that John Feeny, the
man who some time ago tired several aimless shots
from a revolver in the British Consulate, has been sent
to a lunatic asylum.
Lloyd's agent at Mazatlan, writing under date of
Oct 13. states that fever has carried off 1,500 persons
in the State of Sinaloa, and that the epidemic has
spread throußh the more northerly province of Sonora
as far as the fiontier of Arizona.

At Preston, on Monday morning, a girl named Jane
Gilgrass, aged five, was going to ectlool, when she was
knocked down by a cart, the htavy vehicle passing
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over her head and killing her instantly.

The Admiralty have issued an order reducing the
star dard height for recruits fur the corps of Royal
Marines, far youths under 20 years of age from sft. 6in.

to sft. siin. a-d for men -above that age from
sft. 6i;n. to eft. 6in.
During the past summer, fires in the forests of the
American Northwest have destroyed timber to the
value of about 500,000 dole. For the whole of the
United States the annual loss from this cause amounts
to millions of dollars.

The traffic receipts of the railways in the United
Kingdom for the week ending Nov. 2, upon a mileage
of 16,627 i, amount to £1,300 843, being equal to 278 50.
per mile. For the corresp9nding week ef last year the
i
receipts were £1,276 012, the number of miles open ,
16,422 i, or £77 is, per mile. A zomparison of the
two weeks shows an increase in the total receipts of ,
£24,831, and an increase in the number of miles open
of 204 i,

A unique municipal anniversary will be celebrated
in the coning year by the city of Winchester the
occasion being the 700th anniversary of the election of
a mayor under the charter of Henry IL, who gave the
city the privilege of a mayor at its head before it was
enjoyed by the city of London, its then rival in
metropolitical dignity.
The anniversary of the discovery of the Gunpowder
Plot was celebrated in the metropolis on Monday quite
as tamely as it has been for many years past. In the gi
evening, in spite of heavy rain the usual bonfires and ‘P
firework celebrations were held at Hampstead and
other open spaces around London.
New York farmers are suffering considerable losses.
from the rotting of their potatoes. The disease
caused by a microscopic fungus which infests
leaves and stems, and is washed down by the rains
th, ir spores reach the tuber, which they cause tO
decay quite rapidly. The disease is contagious.
The men Ploir meki, who was arrested at Mrsoban
on his own confession of an intention to assassinate
Prince Bismark, turns out to be neither a Nihilist nor
a Russian ex-officer. It is reported that he is merelF
a destitute wanderer anxious to obtain free quarters
as a quasi-political prisoner during the approaching
winter.

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Saturday being the birthday of the Emperor of
Japan, a banquet was given in the evening at the
Japanese Legation is London in the course of which
the healths of the Emperor and her Majesty were
successfully drunk amid great enthusiasm.
The attempts which for several years have been
made to destroy the phylloxera in the South Russian
vineyards are still energetically and successfully car.
lied on. The war against the destructive insect has
been very expensive to the Russian Government,
£30,000 having already been spent, and large sums
still being assigned for the same purpose.
According to a return just issued by the directors
of convict prisons for the year 1882-3, the number of
sentences of penal servitude passed in England and
Wales in 1882—namely, I,364—was lower than in an?
year on record, being 161 less than in the prelims
year.

In London, on Saturday, the Princess Christian
opened a Working Girls' Club in Greek-street, Soho.
The institution was founded some years ago by Mies
Stanley, and had so grown that special premises became
necessary for its accommodation. The Princess ex.
prei sad tier interest in the Club, and her best wishes
for its prosperity.
The polling for the election of Lord Rector of Edin-
burgh University, in the room of Lord Rosebery, took
place on Saturday. The Liberal candidate was Mr.
Trevelyar, while the Conservatives adopted Sic
Stafford Northcote, and the Indepenient Association
Professor Blackie. The polling commenced at half'
past nine and ended at eleven, with the following
result :—SIr Stafford Northoote, 1,035; Mr. Trevelyan.
983; Professor Blackie, 236.

On Tuesday Catherine Flannagan and Margaret
Higgins, sisters, were charged, on remand, at tbe
Liverpool police-court with poisoning the husband of
the latter. An order for the exhumation of the bodY
of Margaret Jennings, who lodged with Flannagan.
and who died under suspicious circumstances, had been
received from the Home Office during the day, Ur.
Marks, the prosecuting solicitor, asked for a remand/
saying it was probable that he ehould have to ask for
the exhumation of other bodies.—The remand wag
granted.
Only 20 actual shipwrecks, 10 being British, were
reported last week; while for the corresponding week
last year th 3 nnTriber was very large, viz. 134; and
four vessels went down off the 'United 'Kingdom.
against 41 in the same week in 1882. The lives loot
during the week were 40.

A serious fire has occurred In Savannah, beginning
in a large cotton storehouse, containing 3,C00 bales, all
of which were consumed. The conflagration spread
over a space of half a square mile. destroying SOO
houses, chiefly small wooden dwellings of nepoes.
Fifteen hundred of the inhabitants are consequently
homeless. Three persons lost their lives, and seven
others were missing. The damage occasioned amounts
to over 1,000,000 dole.
On Monday the anniversary of the battle of nicer
-
man, which was fought on Nov. 5, 1854, was observed
In the customary manner, the colours of the various
regiments of the British Army which took part in the
engagement being decorated with laurel.

The number and tonnage of British vessels respect-
ing whose loss reports were received at the Board of
Trade during the month of October, 1883, and the
number of lives _lost are as follows :—Number of
sailing vessels lost 81, tonnage 18,021. tons, Alves lost
108; number of steam vessels lost 14, tonnage 11,656
tons, lives lost 57 ;—total 95 vessels, or an aggregate
tonnage of 29,677 tons, and 165 lives lost.

During last year no fewer than 3,581 persone were
arrested within the metropolitan district for assaultes
more or lees serious, upon the police. This was an Iry
crease of only ten on the previous year, but ell
three occasions firearms were used, and in two other
instances loaded revolvers were found in the possession
of the assailants.

.A. New York telegram rays that the visible suppli
of wheat on Nov. 2 was 30,600,000 bushels, as agairlA
30,30'),C00 bushels the previous week. Visible supO_LiF
of Indian corn 10,500,000 bushels, as against 11,300,00
bushels the previous week. The export clearances of
wheat for Europe during last week amounted W
900,000 bushels. The export clearances of Indiarf
corn for Europe during last week amounted to 930,000
bushels.

Mr. Black, a farmer, of Liberton, near Edinburghe
was run over the other day by a traction engine anal
killed. Mr. Black was a warm supporter of Mr. Glad'
stone in Mid•Lothian, and put into practical opera'
tion the public suggestion of the Premier for the Oa
tension of strawberry culture.

The Illustrirte Zeitung reports that German era'
grants return weekly in great numbers from An
rica, One hundred agricultural labourers seturnel
recently from Chicago to their old homes in Est
Prussia. They explained their ill success by the mac"
quicker, but less thorough, work of the Americana
with whom they had to compete. They had with
difficulty earned their passage money.
A railway guard named Jolly, who has been visa
years in the employ of the Great Western Railwai
Company, died suddenly in his van on Monday whil!
in charge of a train running from Evesham to Stratford
and Leamington. He was fell dead upon the trs'l,ll
arriving at Honey bourne Sr' 3'.n. Heart disease
supposed to be the cause. D ,;eased leaves a Wile alla
eleven children.

During October the exportation of pig icon frorn
the Tees amounted to 98,500 tons, of which 54,762
were shipped to foreign countries, and 431738 BenS
coastwise. This is exceedingly favourable, consider'
'Mg the bad weather experienced during the early Pot
of the month.

The result of the work of the Tuke Emigration
Committee during this year is now made known. I;
aprears that 1,800 Irish people from the counties 0`
Mayo and Galway were assisted to Canada, and all nj
these have, with but one or two exceptions, foun
employment, the men receiving from 1 dol 75c.
to 2 dole (Bs,) per day as lanourers, and the gir''
15 dole. (C 3 per month and board as domestic Or'
vants.

The sale of the effects of Marwood (the latc, hang'
man) concluded at Horncastle on Tuesday. In the
presence of a large number of people. Amongst Pl°
lots were two old saucers commonly used by 1311131
which fetched 10s. 6i.; a pocket-knife, ss. ; Purge'
295.; his whip usually taken with him on joetrueft
and two sticks, 153. ; a pair of spectacles, 15s. ; e93‘
bossing stamp, 125.; Gladstone bag, £3. Rope actual'',
used in his trade fetched 90e. ; an old carpet bag, 21-11.,„_'
pair of old stockings, ss. ; old necirge and cuffs, 1-i":„
A sword presented to Marwood Ie a mark of estet:
by a gentleman at Brighton fetched £2 ss. Rio 0"
Nero was, however, only run up to 30e.