The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-07-18 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Tice-Chancellor Bacon has sanctioned a resolution
passed in favour of the reduction of the capital of the
London Financial Association.

The daughter of a farmer named Robartes of Halkin,
Flintshire, has been accidentally shot dead by the ex-
plosion of a gun which had been left loaded on the
table. _ _

Ibis reported from New York on good authority,
that there have only been two cases of yellow fever at
New Orleans lately. The president of the Board of
Health denies that there is at present any case of this
kind whatever in the city. _ _ _

A-man named Bobbin, a secondhand clothes dealer,
of Oakley-street, Lam'.-eth, was fined £7 and costs at
the District Police-e.:art, for letting as a residence
underground rooms, the depth of which did not reach
seven feet from the floor to the ceiling.
M. Chifflet, the Vice-President of the French Alpine
Club, has been found dead with his two guides at the
foot of the Glacier Du Col d'Argentiore, Mont Blanc,
cox hours' distance from Chamounix. The guides were
one of the most experienced men in Chamounix and
his s 3n.

Replying to a resolution of confidence from the
Ipswich Conservative Club, Lord Salisbury expresses
the trust that the efforts of the Conservative Govern-
ment to secure the peace and happiness of this country
will not prove unsuccessful.
Mr. W. Burdett-Coutts, in reply to a communication
from the Bethnal-green Board of Guardians, as to the
Baroness Burdett-Coutts accepting some of the boys
from their schools for service on board the fishing
smacks at Great Yarmouth, says that the 'saroness has
in contemplation the establishment of a Boys' Home
at Yarmouth for apprentices, and that the Board
be informed when the project has assumed a definite
shape.
The Duke of Cambridge, after making an inspection
at Hounslow, visited the Military School of Music at
Kneller Hall, Twickenham, accompanied by Colonel
Hale, A.D.C., General Sir A. Alison, Adjutant-General;
General Sir Arthur Herbert, Quartermaster-General;
Major-General Gibbs commanding Home District;
Colonel Hall, A.A.G.; and Captain Stracey, Scots
Guards.

The premises of Messrs. Taylor and Co., the supply
stores, Albion-street, Leeds, have been damaged by fire
to the amount of letween £6OOO and £7OOO. Two
boys who were in bed at the time were with difficulty
rescued. _ _

Mr. Justice Pearson has refused an application made
on behalf of four shareholders in the Transvaal Gold
Exploration and Land Company (Limited) for leave to
use the name of the company in prosecuting a claim
against two gentlemen, who were promoters and
directors, and who were alleged to have received a
large amount of money and shares from the vendor to
the company.
At the Lambeth Police-court, a cabdriver, named
Harding, was charged with having stolen a watch and
chain worth £4O from a person named Alfred Blythe.
The prosecutor alleged that the theft was committed
while he was drunk in the defendant's cab. It turned
out, however, that the watch Lad been removed by a
friend for safety, owing to Blythe's condition. The
magistrate discharged Harding, and advised him, if he
was not fully compensated, to bring an action for
false imprisonment.
It is stated in a Berlin telegram that General Korna-
i roff recently informed his Goverument that the Afghans
were advancing their outposts, and asked for instruc-
tions. He was ordered to avoid any step likely to
cause a collision and to act strictly on the defensive.
A. smart earthquake shock was felt at Calcutta on
Tuesday morning.
On Tuesday the French Natienal Fête was celebrated
in Paris with the usual public entertainments. The
chief event was the unveiling of Voltaire's statue on
the Quai l',lalaquais. This work was paid for by public
subscription in 1876, but M. de Broglie quashed the
vote of the Municipal Council, accepting it as a gift,
and granting a site for its erection. The statue has
ever since been lying by. At the ceremony on Tuesday
the Academy and other literary bodies were represented,
and a large tompany was prEsent.
There was a Handel Commemoration in Westminster
Abbey on Tuesday evening. The details were worked
out by the Royal Society of Musicians, and Dr. Stainer,
of St. Paul's, presided at the organ.
A deputation waited upon the Home Secretary on
Tuesday, and urged upon him the desirability of the
Government obtaining from Parliament a vote of money
for the purpose of emigrating children from Industrial
Schools. Sir Richard Cross, in reply, stated that he had
already, before hearing of the deputation, been in com-
munication with the Colonial Secretary upon the sub-
ject, which he assured those present was one which the
Government would not lose sight of.
All ships of the Particular Service Squadron arrived
at Belfast Lough on Tuesday evening. The division
under Sir Geoffrey Hornby's personal command had
endeavoured to get into Greenock Harbour unobserved,
but all its strataeems were defeated by the vigilance
of Admiral Whyte's torpedo boats and swift corvettes,
which signalled every movement of the hostile fleet, and
completely frustrated all its designs.
Great excitement was caused on Tuesday evening in
financial circles in Dublin by a notice from the direc-
tors of the Munster Bank announcing the suspension of
payment owing to a large and continued withdrawal of
deposits since the recent litigation commenced in the
cause of Jackson v. the Munster Bank, and that the
realisation expected from securities will amply suffice
to discharge their obligations.
A fine show of flowers, fruit, and vegetables, brought
together by the Royal Horticultural Society, was
held on Tuesday in the Conservatory at South Ken.
sington.
Tee appeal made on behalf of the widows and orphans
of the men killed in the explosion at Clifton Hall Pit,
near Manchester, has met with such a generous and
prompt response that at a meeting of the Manchester
and Salford Relief Committee recently it was resolved
at once to close the fund. The amount already sab-
scribed is £21,327, and the proceeds of a number of
collections had yet to come. It was originally
estimated that £15,000 would be required from the
public. _

- John Derbyshire was charged at Salford on Tustsday
with embezzlement. His employer, Mr. Frederick
Ford Smith, sent the prisoner to the Isle of Man for
his health. Whilst he was away it was discovered
that for four years he had been drawing two or three
pounds more than he paid the men in wages, thus
robbing his master of more than £650. The prisoner
pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to six months im-
prisonment.
A bazaar was opened at Claremont on Tuesday by
permission of the Duchess of Albany, in aid of the
enlargement and improvement of the organ in the
parish church of Esher. The bazaar attracted a dis-
guished and fashionable company, many availing them-
selves of this opportunity of obtaining a sight of the
beautiful grounds of Claremont, and of a mansion which
is associated with numerous interesting events con-
nected with the Royal family. The house was thrown
open to the public.
In giving notice at the annual audit to the tenants
on the Lancashire estate of the Marquis of Salisbury,
Ur. 0. Spencerly, of Liverpool, writes that Lord Salis-
bury, being desirous of conveying his practical sym-
pathy with his tenants in the present depression of
a.gricultural affairs, has given directions for a rebate of
15 per cent. in the rents for three years, beginning
with the half-year due in February last. The
announcement has given great satisfaction to the
farmers.
Intelligence has reached the Chief Constable oi
Cheshire that an undoubted outbreak of pleuro-
pneumonia has occurred at Cheadle, Hulme. Three
cows on a dairy farm were found to be suffering from
the disease. They were immediately slaughtered and
buried in quicklime. The county had been free from
this deadly disease for ten months.
The laying of a new telegraph cable between
Aberdeen and the Shetland Islands has been completed
by the cable-ship Monarch. The cable will be of great
value in the development of tho herring-fishing in-
dustries, in which fast steamers are now employed.
Mr. William Pettigrew, of the firm of Shearer and
Pettigrew, ironfounders, Wishaw, Scotland, has been
crushed to death in his own works by a new steam
crane giving way.
In London last week 2420 births and 1412 deaths
were registered. Allowing for increase of population,
the births were 194, and the deaths 114, 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 so low as .63 and
17 5 in the two preceding weeks, further rose to 18.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the man read-
ing of the barometer last week was 29 93 in. The mean
temperature was 65 deg, and 2-8 deg. at eve the
average. The mean was below the average on Wednes-
day and Thursday, but showed an excess on each of
the other days of the week. The general direction
of the wind was S.W. The duration of registered
°right ennshine was 605 hours, against 59-6 hours at
Glynde Place, Lewes.
At the Bow-street Police-court on Tuesday, Ernest
O'Sullivan, an attendant in the manuscript depattment
of the British Museum, was brought up aid remanded
on a charge of stealing £67, the property of tut anis.
tent at the same institution.

From Aril Ist to the 11th inst.. the Exchequer re-
ceipts amounted to £22,938,160, as compared witli
£22,751,610 in the corresponding period of last ytar.!
The expenditure has been £28,959,954. On Saturday
last the balance in the Bank of England was £1 456,344,
and in the Bank of Ireland £838,78p.
A. fatal termination to a singular accident occurred
at Birmingham on Tuesday afternoon. Beatrice Birch,
aged five years, is in the Queen's Hosraal from the
effects of a fractured skull. While at school a roller
blind fell, and the spike entered her head.
A meeting of the governors of the Hastings and St.
Leonards and East Sussex Iftfirmary, at which were
present an influential representation of the gentry of
the town and district, has been held for the purpose ofl
considering the question of rescin(ling the resolution;
which they had passed two years ago accepting certain,
premises at St. Michaels as a home for convalescent
patients in connection with the new hospital. Eventu-'
ally, by a unanimous vote, it was decided that the
governors were not in a position to maintain the home,
and that consequently the munificent gift should be;
returned with thanks to the Misses Brisco, the generous
donors.

At the annual meeting of the Diocesan Girlei
Friendly Society, held on Tuesday, the Hon. Mrs.)
Maclagan, wife of the bishop, referred to the Criminall
Law Amendment Bill. She said that in 1884 39
petitions, with 500 signatures, were sent up by the
society in its favour, and this spring 34 petitions, with
W7B signatures, had been forwarded.
At the Margate Town Council meeting on Tuesday,
the Mayor made the gratifying announcement that the
death-rate was now lower than had been the case for.
many years in July. The weather is very fine, all the
places of amusement are open, and the town is fillinr
well.

Temperature fanged m. Moiday from 67 in London
to 54 at Sumburgh Head and Aberdeen. The maximum
reading in the metropolis was 70 degrees. Between
eight and nine o'clock in the evening a severe thunder-
storm passed over London, accompanied by very heavy
rain.

On Monday Henry Alt, a German journeyman baker,
was hanged within the walls of Newgate for the murder
of a man named Charles Howard, whom in a fit of
jealousy he had stabbed to death in a public-house in..
Whitechapel.
On Monday at the Llarylebone Police-court the Royal.,
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals insti-
tuted a prosecution for the offence of biting off the
tails of dogs. The defendants were the manager and:
the potman of a public-huuse in Woodstock-street, Ox-
ford-street, and in the result the potman was convicted -
and fined 20a, with 235. costs.
Thomas Allen, described as of clerical appearance,
and with no occupation has been convicted at the,
Westminster Police-court of importuning and assault-
ing women in the streets, and sentenced to two months'
imprisonment with hard labour.
At the West Ham Police-court on Monday Michael
O'Donell, a labourer, was charged on remand with the
wilful murder of his wife. A coroner's jury had
returned a verdict of manslaughter, but the magistrate,
on a full consideration of the evidence, felt bound
to commit the prisoner for trial on the capital charge.
Owing to the Orange anniversary, July 12, falling on
Sunday this year, the celebration of the Battle of the
Boyne took place on Monday, on the whole peaceably,
although at night several constables were injured during
a conflict with the mob at Belfast. An extraordinary
fight between Orange and Roman Catholic excur-
sionists also took place on Monday at Rye House,
Herefordshire, several persons being hurt in the melee.
The Metropolitan Fire Brigade were engaged on
Monday in suppressing an extensive fire which broke
out shortly before eleven o'clock in the forenoon, at
No. 15 Arch, Horsley-place, Belvedere-road, Lambeth,
the premises of Messrs. Smith and Co., timber mer-
chants. The fire extended to the premises of several
other persons, including some in the Waterloo-road,
and a great amount-of damage resulted.
_ _ _

On lifonday Lord Carnarvon replying to an address
from Dublin Uuiversity, said there was no body of per-
sons from whom welcome was more grateful than that
University, with whose pursuits he sympathised, and
whose roll of distinguished names he recalled. Some
were united to him by ties of personal friendship and
public life like the laic Lord Cairns, cut off too soon for
frieads. his country, and his profession..
Madame Sarah Bernhardt's reappearance at the
Gaiety Theatre, London, on Saturday evening, in fulfil-
ment of a brief engagemant was welcomed by one of
the most crowded and biilliant audiences which have
been brought together during the present theatrical
season. The Prince and Princess of Wales were
present.
On Saturday the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland was
presented with an address by a deputation from the
Corporation of Belfast, expressing loyalty and devo-
tion to the Throne, and congratulating him on his
appointment as Viceroy. Lord Clarnarvon, in reply.
spoke highly of the public spirit of the Corporation of
Belfast, and added that shpuld he ever visit that town,
he was sure he would receive a welcome as the repre-
sentative of the Queen.
A gathering, which numbered several thousands or
persons, assembled -(in Sunday afternoon in the grand
transept of the Alexandra Palace, and was addressed
by Lord Thu-low on the Sunday opening of museums.
The Rev. J. 0. Shuttle worth presided.
At the Merthyr Tydvil Police-court on Saturday,
before Mr. Eishop, Emma James, of Dowlais, charged
with selling beer at a private residence, was ordered to
pay £lO and costs. The case was proved by a police-
man, who v:sited the house in plain clothes. Defend,
ant was said to have been deserted by her husband
and she took in lodgers. Superintendent Thomas pro-
, aecuted.

At the Taunton County Police-court, on Saturday,
James Simond, a young man employed as a pig-dealer
for his father at West Buckland, was fined .£4 108. for
neglecting to give notice that six pigs in his 13ossession
were affected with swine fever. It was stated that the
amount given by the county as compensation for
slaughtered animals reached £lOOO last quarter alone.
The Bishop of Manchester preached at Bath on Sun-
day in aid of the National Society for Promoting the
Education of the Poor in the principles of the Esta-
blished Church. He said voluntary schools could not
be said to be maintaining their ground, and the recent
resolution of the London School Board showed which .
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The new porch and belfry at Penmaenmawr Church,
on the North Wales coast, the latter containing a fine
new bell tuned to key E, and weighing 21cwt., the gift
of Mr. Gladstone, was dedicated on Sunday. The Rev.
.T. A. Stowell, vicar of Penmaenmawr, received a com-
munication from Mr. Gladstone expressing regret that
he could not be present at the dedication.
Great consternation was caused in Stoke Newington
on Saturday morning by the report that the Northum-
berland House Private Asylum in the Green Lanes was
on fire. At 3.50 o'clock a call was. given to the Stoke
Newington Brigade, and on the arrival of the engines
It was found that the 10-roomed house, numbered 344,
Northumberland House Private Asylum, was ablaze.
The firemen got first a hydrant, then three stand pipes,
and afterwards a steamer into operation, but the flames
spread to a similarly-sized house—No. 346—and eventu-
ally burnt both the houses completely out, and de-
stroyed the roofs. The second floor of the house, No.
348, next caught, but here the firemen were able to ,
check the spread of the flames. Very fortunately there
were no patients on the premises at the time of the
outbreak.

The Bishop of Lichfield visited 'Wolverhampton on
Sunday. In the morning he occupied the pulpit at the
collegiate church, and advocated the claimsof the Blue-
coat School, one of the oldest charitable institutions in
the borough. In the afternoon his lordship held a con-
firmation service in the ancient parish church at Tetten-
hall, and in the evening instituted the Rev. J. W.
Fletcher, late of Stoke-on-Trent, as vicar of St.
Andrew's, in succession to the Rev. E. M. Burney, who
has just left England for twelve mouth' mission in
South Africa.