The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-09-12 00:00:00

THE STOURBRIDGE OBSERVER.

'pointed 'appals and coat-collar behind. The whole
in brown silk. The sleeves just reach over the elbow,
where they are completed by a pointed cuff fixed with
one button.

Two strikes affecting several thousands of worlcere
occurred in the jute mills of Messrs. Cox Bros. and
Messrs. Grimmond, Dundee. The workers have struck
against a 5 per cent. reduction in their wages, the third
reduction made during the present year. Messrs.
Laing and Sons Lave informed the workers in one of
their mills that, owing to the unprofitable state of the
trade, the mill will be closed forthwith. This will
affect 400 hands. The jute trade has never been so
=remunerative as at present.
The price of bread in most of the towns and villages
in Kent at the present time is 21d. per 21b. loaf, or
10d. per "gallon," as it is commonly termed in that
county. In some places, however, the price is still kept
up to 11d., and a good deal of dissatisfaction prevails
where this is the case. The labouring classes in
agricultural districts are making a stir in consequence
of having to pay Id. per gallon more, for both bread
and flour, than is charged in Canterbury and other
towns. It is stated that the wholesale dealers are
suer:dying flour to the retailers at 6.1 d. per gallon.
Captain John Fellowes, C. 8., now flag-captain to
Vice-Admiral Fellowes, C. 8., commanding the Channel
Squadron will, it is reported, be flag-captain to Vice-
Admiral the Duke of Edinburgh on his assuming the
command of the Channel Squadron.
The Master of the Butchers' Company, Mr. E. Hart,
on Monday morning formally opened the new livery
hall which has been erected in Bartholomew-close,
London, for the accommodation of the members of the
guild, to replace the building in Eastcheap, recently
acquired by the District Railway Company for the City
Lines Extension.
The Cork Corporation, at their meeting on Monday,
had under consideration nine applications for coMpen-
sation by citizens whose windows were smashed during
the riots which prevailed in connection with the recent
visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales. One hun-
dred and fifty pounds was the total sum claimed, of
which £62 were passed. The same body unanimously
rejected the application of the Inspector General of
Constabulary for £397 for the maintenance of extra.
police in the city during the half-year, on the ground
that they were only required for Imperial purposes,
and not for the ordinary protection of citizens'
property.
A telegram from Skibbereen states that the run upon
the Bank of Ireland and the Provincial Bank—par-
ticularly the former—was on Monday very severe,
excited crowds, as on Saturday, besieging the branch
offices, and running off with their money in aprons and
handkerchiefs. A house in which there was supposed
to be money taken out of the bank was entered on
Sunday night by a party of "Moonlighters," but no
money was found by them.. . _ _ .

Pop'ular feeling ai Berlin is that of perfect composure
and quiet confidence that the German Government
will know how to obtain complete satistaction at
Madrid. The statements of the Paris papers to the
contrary are„,says a correspondent, false, particularly
the assertion that cries of "Down with Spain !" have
been uttered at Berlin. In official circles the convic-
tion that the excitement in Madrid is almost wholly
created by the anti-Monarchical party is held more
firmly than ever.
It is stated that rumours are again current at
Souakim of Osman Digna's • death. It is now reported
that it occurred at an interview between himself and
seven sheikhs whom he was endeavouring to persuade
to act against the British. A dispute arose, in the
course of which it is said that Osman Digna was shot
in the back._ _ _ . _

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Mr. E. Clarke, M.P., speaking at a meeting of
Manchester Conservatives on Monday, observed that,
instead of "Peace. Retrenchment, and Reform," the
Liberals would have to inscribe on their electoral
banner during the coming contest" Ransom and Resti-
tution," a policy which he described as being a com-
pound of brigandage and pillage.
The Khedive has, in recognition of their services with
the Egyptian Army, been pleased to confer the Third
Class of the Order of the Osmanieh on Colonel H.
Hallam Parr and Surgeon-General J. Rogers, and the
Third Class of the Medjidieh upon Colonels Holled
Smith, P. D. Trotter, J. 0. Quirk, and H. M. Rundle.
The Queen has been pleased, on the recommendation
of Lord Iddesleigh, to grant a Civil List pension of
£lOO a year to Mrs. Rosins Eastwick, widow of Mr. E.
B. Eastwick, C. 8., F.R.S., M.P., in respect of his dis-
tinguished connection with Oriental languages and
literature. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Major Montagu Bowles, who gained the edal and
Khedive's star for his services in the Egyptian War of
1882, has been selected for the Adjutancy of the 2nd
Volunteer Battalion of the North Staffordshire Regi-
ment, with head-quarters at Burton-on-Trent.
The Russian traveller, M. Przevalski, telegraphs from
Osh that his expedition has not been able to enter
Thibet over the Keri Mountains, because the pathway
was impassable for horses' and, moreover, was barn.
caded with stones by the Chinese by order of the an.
thorities. M. Przevalski states that nevertheless there
is great sympathy with the Russians among "to
population.

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Several cases under the Criminal Law Amendment
Act were tried at the Surrey Sessions on Tuesday, aid
sentences ranging from six mouths to two years were
passed.
The Paris correspondent of the "Daily News"
says details have been received there of the attack on
the citadel of Hue, which the French occupy. It
appears that it was entirely unexpected, and a force
estimated at 15,000 Annamites were repelled by 1000
French in the citadel and 200 at the Legation, being
finally driven off after terrible slaughter.
Mr. Chamberlain spoke on Tuesday night at a great
Liberal meeting held in the Public Hall, Warrington.
Referring to the Marquis of Hartington, the right hon.
gentleman said the net of Tory Democracy had been set
for the noble lord, but he was much too wary to allow
himself to be caught in it. With respect to Mr. Parnell,
it was extremely unlikely that the demand he had
recently put forward would be entertained by either
party in this country, as they were incompatible with
the integrity of the United Kingdom.
A conference of Liberal associations representing
South-West Lancashire and Cheshire has been held
at Warrington. There was a large attendance of dele-
gates. Mr. Broadbent, of Warrington, presided, and
congratulated the party on the fact that they were
united in their determination to secure a thorough
reform of the land laws and of local government. As
to the former, between the lines laid down by Lord
Hartington and Mr. Chamberlain he believed the
Liberal party might march steadily to victory. After
considerable discussion resolutions were adopted call-
ing for a drastic reform of the land laws and local
government, and the abolition of Parliamentary oaths.
The Viceroy of Ireland and the Countess of Car-
narvon paid a visit on Tuesday to Belfast. Speaking
at a luncheon given by the Mayor, his Excellency
referred to the general condition of Ireland, and ex-
pressed a hope that the ordinary law would be found
sufficient, and that coercion would not be required
again.
The twenty-second annual British Pharmaceutical
Conference was opened on Tuesday in Aberdeen, when
an address was given by the President, Mr. W. B.
Stephenson, of Edinburgh.—The annual meeting of the
Sanitary Association of Scotland was also held in
Aberdeen, when an address was delivered by Dr. Simp-
son, the president.
In London last week 2538 births and 1238 deaths
were registered. Allowing for increase of population,
the births were 101, and the deaths 252 below,
the average numbers in the corresponding weeks of
the last ten years. The annual death-rate per 1000
from all causes, which had been 18-8 and 17.5 in the two
preceding weeks, further declined to 1513 last week, a
sower rate than in any week since September, 1881.
The deaths included 3 from small-pox, 46 from measles,
14 from scatlet fever, 16 from diptheria, 30 from
whooping-cough, 8 from enteric fever, 83 from diar-
rhcea and dysentery, and 3 from choleraic diarrhcea.
Different forms of violence caused 38 deaths; 32 were
the result of negligence or 'accident, among which were
15 from fractious and contusions, 3 from burns and
scalds, 4 from drowning, and 8 of infants under one
year of age from suffocation. 'Six cases of suicide were
registered.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
reading of the barometer last week was 29-66 in.; the
highest reading was 29-95 in. at mid-day on Tuesday,
and the lowest 29-38 in. on Friday afternecn. The
mean temperature of the air was 57-2 deg., and 2-7 deg.
below the average in the corresponding week of the 20
years ending 1868. Rain fell on five days of the week,
to the aggregate amount of 0.40 of an inch. The dura-
tion of registered bright sunshine in the week was 26-9
hours, against 24-9 hours at Glynde-place, Lewes.
At the Marylebone Police-court two cabdrivers named
Edward Swire and Thomas Parslow were committed
for trial on a charge of having stolen a necklace, worth
£250, the property of Miss Addington, Kent-terrace,
Regent's-park. The necklace was found by Parslow in
his cab.

The Exchequer receipts from April 1 to September 5
amounted to £32,574,002, against £32,882,708 in the
corresponding period of last year. The expenditure
was £38,914,799 against £33,713,241. The balance in
the Bank of England last Saturday was £999,002, and
in the Bank of Ireland £1,181,159.
A handsome monument, erected by several friends of
the late Lord F. Cavendish, has been unveiled at Cart-
me' 7 iory Church, situated within a couple of miles of
noiker Hall, the Duke of Devonshire'•ifavourite Lan-
cashire seat. Lord and Lady Edward Cavendish, Lady
Louisa Egerton, and others inspected the monument,
of which they expressed approbation. The venerable
duke was visibly affected. The monument is in the
Elizabethan Style, corresponding with the simple figure
which surmounts it. On the top is the recumbent
figure of the late Lord Frederick, executed by life.
Woolner, 11. A. The bust is a striking likeness of the
late Ptat, sman.

The Edinburgh Town Council have agreed to grant
the West Meadows, a popular recreation ground in a
ceatral position of the city, as a site for the Inter-
nationPl Industrial Exhibition. The site will be re-
quired from February till October next year, and the
exhibition will be opened on the Ist of May, in all pro-
bability, by a member of the Royal Family. The
guarantee fund, to which a large number of the Muni-
cipal Corporations of Scotland have contributed, is
almost completely subscribed. Influential patronage
has also been obtained.

An extraordinary drowning case has just been in-
vestigated by a coroner's jury at Whalley, in Lanca-
shire. In consequence of there being a scarcity of
water in the neighbourhood, a labourer named David
Knowles went to a waterbutt in a field to drink. Whilst
drinking he overbalanced himself and fell head-
foremost into the water and was drowned. He was
lifted out soon after the occurrence, but life was
extinct. He was 69 years of age and a bachelor. The
jury returned a verdict that he was "Accidently
drowned."

A fire broke out on a goods train from Liverpool
vhen passing Prescot, on the North-Western line, on
Tuesday forenoon. Word was sent to stop the train at
St. Helen's. The efforts made to subdue the flames
met with little success. The train from Liverpool to
the North was blocked for some time, it being con-
sidered dangerous to pass the burninF mass. Several
waggons containing cotton were ultimately detached,
and allowed to burn themselves out. The damage to
, the railway plant and cotton is about £lOOO.
The skeleton of a full-grown human being has been
f found buried under and partly in a wall at the rear of
the General Post Office in Dublin. The place where it
was discovered has recently been !taken by the Post
Office authorities to extend their premises. Men were
excavating the earth for the foundation when the
remains were found. The skeleton was in an almost
perfect condition. It was not more than 18 inches
under ground,


A widow, about 75 ea-s of see, named Margaret Con-
nolly, was passing near a field in which a bull was
grazing at Errislanan, a village on the Connemara
coast, when the animal rushed after her, and, as she was
too old and feeble to reach a place of safety,
she was knocked down by the savage beast and gored
and trampled to death, her body being dreadfully
mangled.
A meeting of ladies and gentlemen has been I eld in
the Mayor's-room. Leeds, to hear and discuss sugges-
tions from Mr. W. A. Coote, of the London National
Vigilance Association, Lr the carrying out of t'-o
Criminal Law Amendment Act. The meeting passed a
resolution rejoicing in the passing of the Act, pointing
out the necessity of forming ‘igilance associations and
resolving that such an association be formed in Leeds.
The police at Hackney have received information
that George Naylor, a ed 44. of 16, Loddiges-road, South
Hackney, was missing. He left his home on Tuesday
morning for the purpose of proceeding to his business,
and has not been heard of since. He is described by
his distressed wife as sft. 41n. in height, of gentlemanly
appearance, with florid complexion, and hair turning
grey. He was last seen at Bishopsgate wearing a black
suit of clothes, with sidespring boots, and a valuable
watch and chain.
Miss Mary Anderson having given the whole of the
receipts at her recent performances at Stratford-on-
Avon to the Shakespeare Memorial Association, she
has become,qualified for, and has been formally ad-
mitted, as rlife governor of the association, the mini-
mum donation for qualification for which is £lOO.
Among those who have qualified at various times are
Messrs. Henry Irving, Barry Sullivan, Wm. Creswick,
and Henry Booth. Thu late Mr. Sothern was also a life
governor.

- An inquest was held at Shillington, near Luton, on
Friday night, on the body of a mau who was found on
the highway with his throat cat, and a razor lying at
his side. He has been identified as Edward Benjamin
Marshall, 33 years of age, in the employ of a firm of
solicitors in Bedford-row, London. When found he
was bleeding from a woutd in the throat, another on
the wrist, and a third on the leg, but died after
struggling violently while being conveyed to the in-
firmary.
On Saturday at the Liverpool Police-court Adolphe
M. Otto was charged with stealing L 1000, the money of
his employers, Heilbut, Symcnds, and Co., merchants.
The prisoner was arrested on Friday h. the paddock at
Derby races, and nearly £3OO was found upon him.
He said he had lost some of the money, and that a
fellow-clerk, also in custody on suspicion, had had none
of it. The prisoner was remanded.
One of the largest consignments of gold ever made to
an Irish bank was sent to Dublin by a North Wall
steamer, from the Bank of England for the Bank of
Ireland. It consisted of 500,000 sovereigns, represent-
ing a dead weight of five toes. On being landed the
small boxes containing the gold were placed on five
floats, which, guarded by detectives in plain clothes,
proceeded through the streets of the city to the Bank
in College-green. The consignment was made to meet
any requirements that might arise from the run on the
Tipperary and other branches of the Bank, although
the demand has already ceased.
Messrs. Bagnall, ironmasters, 'Wednesbury, received
information on Saturday that a clerk in their employ,
named William Roder, had committed suici3e. A
portion of the deceased's duties was to pay the iron-
workers their wages, and lately he had enforced a re-
duction of wages, and appropriated the surplus moneys
to his own use. Upon ascertaising that a warrant had
been issued for his arrest he absconded, and for two
days his whereabouts were unknown. He was at length
found lying on a canal towing path, convulsed from the
effects of poison, and died before medical aid could be
obtained.

Deputy Surgeon General Edmund Greswold
M‘Dowell, who was created a Companion of the Bath
for his services as Principal Medical Officer in the
Soudan Campaign of 1884, has been appointed in a
sirrilar capacity on the staff at Woolwich.
An album, value about £2OO, has been subscribed for
by the Conservative Associations of Lancashire, and,
accompanied by an illuminated address, is to be pre..
sented on an early occasion at Liverpool to Lord
Randolph Churchill.
Lord Penrhyn, who hail already given the site for a
new church at Capel Corig, a village nestling at the
foot of Snowdon, has now intimated that he will also
contribute eleven hundred pounds towards the cost of
its erection.

Vice-Admiral Vesey Hamilton, C. 8., late Senior
Naval Officer on the coast of Ireland, will leave Eng-
land by the P. and 0. steamer on the 23rd inst. for
Hong-Kong to tithe over the important command of the
China Squadron.
Mr. Stephen Seward Pearce, an ex-Sheriff of
Southampton, was charged at the Fareham County
Bench on Saturday with embezzling various sums of
money, the property of his employers, a firm of coal
merchants at Portsmouth, and with having forged
two bills of exchange. The prisoner's solicitor applied
for a remand, having had no opportunity of preparing
the defence. The magistrates consented, and allowed
bail.

Henry Livingstone, the manager of Messrs. Lenton's
oilcake mills, Northampton, has committed suicide. He
had been unwell for some time past, and his work, it is
supposed, had of late pressed heavily upon him. On
Saturday morning he proceeded to an upper room of
his house and there blew out his brains with a revolver.
The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide whilst in an
unsound state of mind."

Information was received in Leicester on Saturday
by those who had interested themselves in the matter,
that the Home Secretary had issued instructions for
the release of Alfred Reeves, a co-operative store-
keeper, who was convicted of arson at Loughborough,
and sentenced to penal servitude.
Admiral Sir Leopold MTlintock on Saturday laid
the memorial stone of the ball and building in connec-
tion with tho Portsmouth Protestant Institute, which
is being erected in a prominent part of the town. A
luncheon followed the ceremony.

The miners in the Forest of Dean have decided to join
the general agitation for an immediate advance of 15
per cent. on their wages.
A burglar was discovered on the roof of the house,
27, Northbrooke-road, Dublin, on Saturday morning,
and, declining to surrender, the owner, Mr. David Ross,
fired a revolver at him, wounding him in one of his
shoulders. The burglar managed to get as far as an I
adjoining field, when he was captured by a policeman,
who took him to a hospital. The bullet has not yet
been extracted. The man, whose name in John Murray,
was wearing clothes that had been stolen from the
same house in August last.
The French Government have suppressed the
"Bosphore Egyptien," which appeared for the last
time on Saturday night. It appears that the French
diplomatic agent had represented that the language of
the paper was prejudicial to French interests.
On Saturday, while some £4OOO was being conveyed
under escort from the railway station at Assiout to
the town, a party of brigands attacked the escort
wounding several of them, and succeeding in carrying
off the treasure.

Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice, late Under Secretary for
Foreign Affairs, who was candidate for the Hutchins.
town division of Glasgow, has issued an address resign-
ing his candidature, his medical adviser having inslsted
on his not entering Parliament until his health has been
restored.

The official executive of the Welsh Baptist Union,
in their annual report to the body, which represents
about 10,000 members and adherents, appeal with con-
fidence for support to the Liberal cause during the
coming election. No Baptist can, it is emphatically
asserted, be a Conservative and also be faithful to the
essential priaciples of Nonconformity.
Mr. Samuel Plimsoll adlressed a mass meeting in
Sheffield on Saturday evening, when he was unani-
mously ad9pted as Liberal candidate for the central
division of the borough. Ho advocated a reform of the
House of Lords, and spoke at some length on the
laws regulating shipping, saying he was ready to go
hand in hand with Mr. Chamberlain to remedy existing
evils.

On Saturday a deputation attended at the Home
Office and presented a memorial on the subject of the
pollution of the River Lea. In the afternoon a pro..
cessional demonstration was made in Hackney, and a
public meeting with reference to the subject was held
on Hackney Downs, at which Mr. T. S. Stephenson pre-
sided, and resolutions affirming the necessity of imme-
diate action were adopted.
On Saturday Mr. Justice A. L. Smith granted an in-
junction prohibiting Mr. Crewe from selling or dealing
with watches bearing the name of Frodsham, which are
not of the manufacture of that house.
Israel Needle, a tailor, was brought up on a warrant
and remanded at the Thames Police-court on Saturday
on the charge of stealing £56 Bs. from a young Pole
named Abraham Abigail out of 900 roubles, Russian
money, which the last named had given him to have
changed.
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At-the Thames Police-court on Saturday a woman
applied for an ardor VI provont her huabaud fa vua
molesting her. He had deserted her 15 years since,
and nine years afterwards she, not being able to hear
any tidings of him, had married another man. Her
first husband now wanted her to go and live with him.
Mr. Saunders told her she was the wife of her first
husband and ought to live with him, and she left the
co'art.

The out-offices and stables attached to Killaahee
House, the residence of Major Moor, near Naas, were
set fire to and partially destroyed on Sunday morning.
Two gentlemen engaged in playing cricket at Cork
on Saturday ran to catch a ball, and came into violent
collision, one having a leg fractured, and the other
being seriously injured. The stumps were at once
dt awn.

A National League demonstration was held on Satur-
day near Cork for the purpose of denouncing land-
grabbing, a case of which, it was alleged, had occurred
in the neighbourhood. The offender was exhibited and
burnt in effigy.
As a young man named Peggs, living in Lion-walk,
Colchester, was driving a brougham and a pair of
horses on Sunday through the town the pole of the car-
riage snapped, and the horses taking fright started off
at a furious pace along the street. Young Mr. Peggs
was thrown off, and the wheels of the carriage passing
over his head inflicted such injuries that he now lies in
a critical condition.

Mary Bennett, a domestic servant, of Cheadle,
Hulme, afraid of being late home, ran to a train which
was leaving Edgeley Station, Stockport, on Friday
night, and tried to enter it. She grasped the doet
handle, but was turned round several times, and fell
under the guard's van, which, together with two trucks,
passed over her legs, nearly severing them. They were
amputated, but death ensued.
The police of Scarborough have arrested William
Harland, a shepherd, of Sawdon, near Scarborough, on
the charge of killing Frederick R. Craven, plasteter,
Scarborough. Whilst in drink it is alleged that Craven,
without provocation, struck a youth in Hartland's com-
pany. Prisoner, in retaliation, struck Craven a blow,
which proved filial. An inquest was opened on Satur•
day and adjourned.
On Saturday night the premises of Walter Semple,
working jeweller, of St. Enoch's-lane, Argyle-street,
Glasgow, wore forcibly entered by thieves, and the
contents of two large safes taken away. The safes
were rifled by means of a formidable composite iron
instrument known among thieves as the "alderman."
This was found lying by the side of the safes. Mr.
Semple valued the property stolen at upwards of
£5OOO. It consisted of watches, gold ornaments, and
diamonds. It is conjectured the thieves left by the
Late train for Londm, but the police have no trace of
their whereabouts,

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A movement has just been started amongst railway
servants, who are voters in many of the new metro-
politan constituencies, and which it is contemplated
to extend to those principal towcs in which there
are large bodies of railway men, having for its object
the attainment of pledges from parliamentary candi-
dates that they will support measures of vital interest
to the railway service, calculated to improve the
conditions under which the men work, and to ensure
to the latter and to the public greater safety as
regards the working and the travelling on the rail-
way systems of the country.
Speaking at Festiniog, Mr. Morgan Lloyd, M.P., Alia
the new Parliament must early take in hand the ques-
tion of the disestablishment and disendowment of the
Church of Wales, for which, he asserted, the Princi-
pality was fully ripe. In the way of reform the game
laws mast be considerably modified, if not abolished,
and an easier and cheaper system for the purchase and
transfer of land must be devised. He looked forward
with confidence to the general election, feeling assured
that it would result in the return of the Liberals to
power with a large majority.
Mr. Ashmead-Bartlett, M.P., addressed the members
of the Hull Constitutional Club on Saturday evening,
and spoke at some length on the work done by the
present Government and the serious errors of the late
Cabinet.

An inquest has been held at the Queen's Hotel
Ethyl, on the body of Annie Frances Cooke, 25 years of
age who was in partnership with her sisters as milliners
and dressmakers, in High-street, Rhyl. On Friday
evening Miss Ellen Cooke, sister of the deceased, ob-
serving her sister's restless manner, went to the family
medical man for advice. On returning she found that her
sister had gone out, and information was given to the
police. Miss Cooke was seen on Rhyl pier the SiLIIII3
night, and as she was not observed to return, the sup-
position is that she jumped into the sea, as her body
was washed up by the tide close to the pier. Dr.
Carstairs had attended Mss Cooke, and treated her for
religious melancholia. She refused to take food, and
told the doctor it was wicked to support life. Sub.
sequently he saw her sitting on her bed with her hair
down, wringing her hands in great mental agony, arid
exclaiming, " You cannot do me any good—leave me
alone." Deceased was constantly exclaiming, "
lost, I'm lost ! " The jury returned a verdict that
"Miss Cooke drowned herself whilst labouring under
temporary insanity."
The First Commissioners of Works has entrusted to
Mr. Hamo Thomycroft, A.R.A., the execution of the
statue of the late General Gordon which has been voted
by Parliament.
A gentleman, whose name is unknown, jumped out
of the Scotch down express three miles from Kendal,
about half-past four on Monday morning. He was con.
veyed to the Kendal Memorial Hospital, and is re-
ported not to be dangerously injured.
At a public ball at Montceau-les-Mines on Monday
night, an affray occurred which necessitated the inter-
vention of the gendarniery. Several shots were fired at
tile gendarmes, but no one was hurt. Some arrests
were made.

Private information from the Caucasus states that
important military movements have taken place there
during the last few weeks, particularly in the way of
concentrations near Stavropol and Akhalkale.
An examination for cadetships at the Royal Military
College, Sandhurst, will take place at the University of
London, on December 1 and following days.
The Lords of the Admiralty, with the exception of
Lord Geo. Hamilton, First Lord, and Mr. Ashmead-
Bartlett, M.P., have returned with the heads of the
several departments from their official tour of inspee.
tion.
Mrs. Fred. Bingley, wife of Mr. Bingley, the junior
partner in the firm 4 Bingley, Sons, Follett and Co.
Grosvenor-road, Thameb Bank, who was terribly burned
by the injudicious casting away of a wax-taper by a,
gentleman after lighting his cigar, at the Inventions
Exhibition, has, notwithstanding the utmost attention,
died from the effects of her terrible injuries and shock
to the system. She Laves a large family, and was
only 34 years of age. No blame whatever can attach
to the Inventions authorities.

Intelligence from St. Louis of a recent date states
that, in the presence of several reporters and warders,
Maxwell confessed that he had caused the death of
Preller by accidentally administering to him an over-
dose of chloroform. He admitted his name was
Brooks, and desired that his father might be informed
he was not guilty. He said Preller suffered from heart
disease.

A novel feat in the way of surgery has been accom-
plished. A cow on the Westow Grange Farm, near
York, broke its leg, and there being no chance of re
-
clueing the fracture, Mr. Suarry, veterinary surge,on,
tried the experiment of affixing a wooden leg. This has
been found to answer admirably, and the cow may be
seen grazing with a calf by its side.'
At the London Guildhall Police-court on Monday,
Thomas George Lee Barnes, a solicitor' clerk, pleaded
guilty to charges of embezzlement, and it was stated
that the amenet of money the prisoner had received on
behalf of his employers and had not accounted for was
between 4.700 and £BOO. He was sentenced to six
months' imp isoliment, with hard labour.
A clerk, earned Frederick Phillips, 21 years of age,
has been Ow ged at the Marlborough-street Police..
court, Lon,l.e. with having embezzled 250 belonging
to the Deto,i M4.nufacturing Company, his employers.
It was statcd that the prisoner had given way to bet.
ting. The prosecutors did not wish to press the charge,
and the pesoner Wag sentenced to two months' im-
prisonment with hard labour.
Application has been made at the Manchester Police.
court for a warrant against an Italian for stealing over
£lOO belonging to a compatriot named Merlini. The
latter states that during the summer he had made
£127 by going about town with a piano organ, and that
he kept the money in a box at his lodgings. Another
Italian, who lived in the same house, found out where
he kept the money, and on Saturday broke open the
box took its contents, and absconded.
At Manchester a verdict of wilful murder has been
returned at an inquest held on the body of an infant
which was thrown into the river by its mother. The
child, which was illegitimate, was the source of
frequent quarrels between the prisoner and her hus-
band, and last Friday, after one of these quarrels, the
prisoner left the house with the baby, and threw it
Into the river.
Shortly after six o'clock on Monday morning the
Great Western newspaper train, from Slough to
Windsor, ran into a goods train on the viaduct neat
the s'ation. Several trucks were damaged, and part of-
the parapet was knocked away by the collison. The
engine-driver of the paper train and the guard of the
goods train have suffered slightly from the chock. The
line was speedily cleared.
Mr. Semple, who was robbed of £5OOO worth of
jewellery at Glasgow, has offered a reward of £lOO for
information as to the perpetrators of the robbery. The
stolen property consists of 74 gold watches, 133 silver
watches, 708 gold rings set with diamonds, rubies, ot
emeralds, 100 gold lockets, 200 gold brooches, 200
scarf pins, 100 gold studs, 50 gold coins, and 100 uncut
diamonds.
At a meeting of cable chain makers, at Cradley
Heath, on Monday, it was annoucced that the strike,
which had lasted fourteen weeks, for an advance in
wages, bad terminated in favour of the workmen. The
large employers have consented to concede an advanoe
of 2d. per cwt.
The Mullin avat evictions are at an end,the cases having
been amicably settled between the landlord and tenants.
It was during the attempt to carry out these evictions
a fortnight ago that serious rioting with the constabulary
took place.

er Willenhall on Monday a man named Evans was
crossing the road just as a steam tramcar was ap-
proaching. He was caught by the engine, knocked
down and run over, his body being almost rut in two.
Mr. Gladstone, accompanied by his wife mad
daughters, travelled from Fasque House on Monday to
Hawarden. At various places the right hon. gentle.
man was enthusiastically greeted. He is represented
as being in sound health, and it is expected that in a
few weeks his voice will be completely restored.
The induction of Archbishop Walsh took place on
Monday at the Roman Catholic Cathedral, Marl.
borough-street, Dublin. Subsequently an address of
the clergy and cititens of Dublin was presented to the
Archbishop at Holy Cross College.