The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-08-16 00:00:00

Colonel 11f0ktgornery, cOmManding the Thirteenth
keginiental District, and formerly of the Prince
Albert's (Somersetshire) Light Infantry, dropped down
'dead in a street in Tatnton on Saturday evening.
A barman named Jam-ea Alagor, of Scarborough, was
drowned on Saturday while bathing near that place. It
is supposed that he was seized.with cramp'.
The town of Jaslo, in Galielao place of sonie extent,
has been almost entirely destroyed by fire.
The "Land Agents' Record ratates that the large
'plot of land Tovered by the Millbank Penitentiary at
Westminster has been sold at £E,OOO, or abont 15s.
petrstiperfithr feet. As the adjacenl property is worth
.4:1 ICM. to £2 per foot super, the purchasers
expent to realize. a profit of at least £45,000 by their
operutieri..
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The RUSsian Ooverrmient has expeled from the
Vistula -district abo!,4- Reventy unemployed foreigners
of differant natiencittes,

Mr Hcseard Vinaent, until recently the Director of
Criminal Investigatitnis in London, is now visiting
Canada, to-itestigata fully the educational institutions
of the coratry. He will afterwards proceed on a
similar errand-to the- reited States and Australia.
The Wellitglen Statuarathich has arrived safely at
Aldershot, bus- been deposited at the military stores
close to the Stath Camp,- pending the erection of a
suitable stand or pedestal crazerhich to place it.
The new parish chutch or Glendinnes, Banff shire, was
eta Monday afteaneon struck by lightning and set on
flae. The belfry was cemplately consumed, and the
aouf was much damaged before-the flames could be ex-
tinguished. When-its fasteninga gave way the bell fell
into the edifice, smashing many aeats and some wood-
-stork in the interior.
At Oxford on Sunday, a ropeanaker named Nati
zeminitted suicide 7:7' lying on. the line at Port
rfeadow railway crosaitgaand aliming a train to pass
f.t.n. him.
The Board of Trade ha-ad awarded a binocular glass
fa Captain Mathieu Ccareavyn, the Belgian fishing
vessal, Avenir, of Antaterp, in rtiaognition of his
huraanity and kindness to-three cia the crew of the
fishiaaT smack Ben Bolt, af 'Hull, whom he picked up
near the Doggerbank, on tab -10th December last, after
they had been in an °pea • beat far twenty-six hours
withearaltood or water.
On Ifonday morning Mr. OVIY.-Peytem, teller of the
Nationxaßank at Dungarvaaawas -distovered with his
throat et and quite dead. Th,r suicide was of a very
determirted character, the dee:ay.:ad having severed his
jugular vein and windpipe. lliaa.-as 'SO years of age and
unmarried;
The lately published report a/ alie-Sepsrintendent of
the Thug as and Daeaity Departtrant of'lndia shows a
remarkableincrease in the number of *nets of violence
since 1880, especially in Rajpootanai Central India, and
Hyderabad.' The total number of cases 'reported was,
in 1880 146, in 1881 244, in 1882 815, and in 1883 363.
The number of Dacoits, or gang robbers, was estimated
last year at 13,186, and the value 'of property stolen
5,08,140 rupees.
Considerable activity is now being shown in the de-
velopment of the coal resources of the Canadian North-
West. The Galt coal mines, near Mediaine Hat, are
turning out as much as 1000 tons per week, the coal
being largely used as fuel on the Canadian' Pacific Rail-
way, the main line of which passes to thamorth of the
mines.
A terrible accident occurred to two men of the Ist
King's Own Battalion of Lancashire 'Volunteers on
Saturday morning, near Grange-on-Sands where the
Battalion has been .encamped for the past-week. Ser-
geant Jones and Private Henry Airey were firing the
morning cannon at five o'clock, when it' was blown to
pieces. Airey was killed, but Sergeant Jones escaped
without serious injury.
The Democratic barbecue at Lexington on the 29th
was attended by 10,000 persons. Eighty-five oxen,
Southdown sheep, and hogs were roasted whole in
trenches and served with waggon loads of bread, roast
fowls, vegetables, &a
At Fairview, in Erie county, Penna.' a crowd of
farmers attempted last week to lynch A. J. Nellis who
had attempted to collect a royalty on the use Of an
infringement on his patented hay fork, lie was res-
cued with a rope round his neck.
In Paris on Sunday several bales of cotton landed on
the Quai Henri Quatre took fire from the intense heat
of the sun, and the damage is reported to be £4OOO.
Four youths attempted to ascend Slieve Donard
Mountain, in Donegal, on Sunday. One of them missed
his footing, and was precipitated over the Eagle Rock,
falling a distance of 240 feet. His lifeless and shock-
ingly mutilated body was afterwards discovered.
The body of Herr Elsner, the Dublin musician who
mysteriously disappeared from a Holyhead steamer,
was washed ashore on Sunday at the Isle of Man.
Donald Irving, aged eighteen, and Neill Macullum,.
aged fifteen, both belonging to Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
were swimming in Newbiggitt Bay on Saturday after-
noon, when, as they were making for theshore, they
'became exhausted, and both were drowned:.
The revival of brigandage in the Roman province is
beginning to excite some concern in the capital.
Another daring robbery has been perpetrated. The
victim is the steward of Prince Torlonia's farm near
Ceri, the ancient Caere. He and a coachman on the
estate were carried off by three brigands, who com-
pelled the former to write a letter to his brother asking
for a ransom of £l2O, and the latter to be the bearer
of it.
At Skerries, county Dublin, a number of men were
working in a sand-pit on Saturday morning, when
some earth fell, killing one man and injuring several
others.
A band of stock thieves have been run down and
captured by regulators at Willowa Valley, Oregon.
Seventeen thieves were caught with a large number of
.orses. Two ringleaders were hanged.
In North Carolina and Tennessee the mountaineers
used to experience trouble with ivy roots in clearing
land. These roots now bring 10 do's. and 12 dols. a ton
from manufacturers, who turn them into door and
bureau knobs' and instead of being the nuisance they
were a very few years ago, now bring more than the
land would at that time.
Advices from St. Lucia state that the steamer
Bracadaile arrived there on the 3rd instant with
emigrants from Calcutta. Thirty-one cases of cholera
occurred on board during the voyage, of which twenty
ended fatally. There has been no fresh cases for 29
days.
A telegram from Lloyd's agent at Saint Nazaire,
dated August 11, states that the Red Rose, steamer, of
Cardiff, from Decido, north coast of Spain, to Cardiff,
with mineral, has been totally lost at Raz du Seine.
The crew were landed at St. Nazaire. The Red Rose
was an iron screw steamer of 1257 gross tons, owned by
Mr. P. Rowe, Cardiff, and classed 100 Al at Lloyd's.
It is stated that notwithstanding the reports pub-
lished by the Turkish newspapers that the plague had
been stamped out in the province of Bagdad, it has
again appeared with increased force at Kerbellah.
owing to the large number of pilgrims who have arrived
there.
According to intelligence received from Smyrna,
Sadyk Pacha, a former Turkish Minister of Finance,
who has been under the most strict police supervision.
has been handed over to justice, charged with illegal
Bourse speculations detrimental to the State Tre,asury.
While a gentleman named Wheeler and his daughter
were driving through Pierse-bridge, near Darlington, on
Saturday, the horse took fright and bolted. Miss
Wheeler leaped out of the trap, the wheel of which
passel over her head, injuring her so severely that she
died a few minutes afterwards.

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The number of visitors to the International Health Ex-
hibition for the week ending August 9 was 223,178. Total
since the opening 1,877,638. On Bank Holiday 71,884
persons visited the Exhibition, being 11,361 in excess of
the attendance on any previous day, _either at the
Fisheries or Health Exhibition.
Nine British and seven foreign owned .vessels were
reported as aatual wrecks during last week, the total
for the present year now being 909; against 114 for cor-
responding period of last year. Two vessels (British)
sunk by collision, causing the loss of 20 lives. A. British
sailer was wrecked with all hands, and a Mitch steamer
with three lives.
During a fight between two miners named James
Emery and William Ball, outside a public-house at
Walsall, on Saturday, tnery fell down dead from the
effects of a severe blow behind the left ear, dealt by
Ball. Ball, who quickly fled, was apprehended so in
afterwards.
The son of a Lancashire fanner, Mr. William Foster,
of Radcliff, near Manchester, has met with a shocking
death on the Welsh mountainseabout eight miles from
Wrexham. He was staying at Bulchgwyn, and on the
evening of his return home he fell down the ditiuSecle
shaft of an old lead mine, the mouth of which Was. 01
completely concealed by wild raspberry bushes. --Pe-.1
A platelayer, named William Carpenter, in that
employ of the Great Western Railway Companr, was-1
knocked down by an express train near Gresford on 1
Saturday and died dreadfully mutilated. Death wasee,
instantaneous.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has forwarded to the 1
Earl of Mount-Edgecumbe a letter, received by him from -
Sir Henry Ponsonby, intimating that her Majesty has
determined to give a donation 011200 to the Truro,
Cathedral Building Fund.
Last week's receipts of cotton at. all United States
ports were 2000 bales; since Ist September, 4,8014:0's
bales. Week's exports to Great Britain, 15,b00 bales;
ditto to Continent, 1000. Total since Ist September,
3,798,000 bales; stock at all ports, 193,000 halos;
stock at interior towns, 15,000 bales.
The "London Gazette," of Aug. 8, announces that
her Majesty has by warrant declared it to be her Royal: ,
will and pleasure "that in all times hereafter the judges %JR.
of county courts in England and Wales- shell be called,
known, and addressed by the style and title of his
g last week amounted to
Honour' prefixed to the word 'judge' before their re-
spective
week. Visible supply
A New York telegram states that the visible supply of
wheat on Aug. 8 was 15,100,000 blithe's, as against
nspexecttairfetenramkneigsh
of, Indian corn, 4,400,000 bushelseas against 4,700,000
bushels the previous week. The export clearances of
tagnbdaeshhealloln,ha.ve rank and precedence
a,170.000 bushels; the export clearances of Indian corn
for .EUTON during the week amounted to 300,000
bushels. bEusurheolpes thdeurinp
A formidable vessel was added to the Italian Navy on
Saturday. Her capacity is 1,0,000 tons; she is fitted
with ten boilers to work • eery powerful engines. Two
turrets will be Armed each with two large guns of 76 or
100 tons; and the frigate will be fitted with a ram, and
two tubes ior discharging torpedoes.
A Madrid telegram states that a destructive fire broke
wheat for
out on f3e.turday evening at La Granja, in one of the
streets near the Royal Palace. The fire was not ex- e
tinguished until six houses had been burned down.
Tho additions to the Zoological Society's Gardens,
Regent's Park, London, during last week, included a.
Rhesus monkey from India, presented by Miss Sturgef
a bonnet monkey, from India, presented lciythe b Rev.
T: Rickards; a common fox (Briti_srbo), presented
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`homas Legg; a king vulture, mSo
presented by Mr. August Strtin
z • two red-tailed buzuth America,
from Jamaica, presented b Mr. D. Morris;
martinique capturedwaterhce, e .
at sea, presented by Mr.
A (British), presented by Mrs.
A. Jones; two jackeawa
Frank; a kestrel (British, 1, presen y ted bMr G. \Vest—
ested curassow and an anaconda, from B n s
Guiana, presented .
nip ;a cr d b Mr G Hawtayne C.M.S.S.,
a grey amPhiebmna, from Portugal, presented by Mr •
WIG. Tait, C.M.Z.S.; a golden-crowned conure from
South-East Brazil, deposited: a black hornbill, from.
West Africa, purchased athree-querter bred
tamian deer. born in the garcloa

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[ALL RIGHTS lIESERVED.] goings on, eor e won't, ana that's flat, as I'll soon " Why not yourself, George ?" eecalled from Bechuanaland ne oir ie. ereulee haeinsoa,
• let him know." "Me! " - at whose inetance he was apetninted, and that the Colonel 11fcentgomery, commanding the Thirteenth .. .
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AMBITION'S LADDER. And she helped him to his cup of tea with an air " Yes. -She can't have seen anyone eise, anti ou
of wounded dignity and virtuous disapproval that would have a clear field. It would please me, ymy TIVIP'ERIAL PARLIAMENT. reaeens for and the duration of fenen•ithdineval were as BRITUH AND FOREIGN. - 4 Regimental Ns-filet, and formerly of the Prince
Albert's (Somersetsliite) Light Infantry, dropped down e
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. yet unknown to her Majesty's Cow:aliment. liiiimammmnii 'dead in a street in Tatnton on Saturday evening. A , •
Author of " Atherstone Grange," " A Life fat would have made Dr. Sampson particularly uncom- boy, because of many things, your own happiness e . -4 ' . t
a Love," d-c. _ fortable but for the conselatory fact that, owing to not the least, and--" Mr. Sartoris stopped- In the HOUSE or Lonns August 11 Lord Redesdalo Mr. Torster warned the Governmein that urrlese they A barman named Jaireee Aragon of Scarborough, was
forward u th F le • • oal 5 - • drowned on Saturday while bathing near that place. It
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the preoccupation of his mind, he was blissfully abruptly at the sight of his son's expressiveelook of asked her Majesty's Gove'rnment whelher, as they had were firm' the r.eeent Convention with Fie' Boers' would rails aclvices state that the supplies of wheat brefttlit
adinitted that :redistribution ought to accompany the be as futile as its predecessors. is supposed that he was seizedwith cramw
--e—.. unconscious of there being anything out of the dissent from the scheme. •
" You would rather please yourself than me, ment afeete hand, the amount of business passing has been as'
extension of the franchise, they were prepared to ine Mr. Ashrtead-Bartlett also made some retiarks on nee the week have been reenicted. On the otheef
The town of Jaslo, in Galiciaaa place of some extent, :
Iltieaceori‘cliturbastanteksptehnaittenthetiarlyargaeti
nfordin thefllne before the session closed how far they foreign and colonial policy of the Govere , , . ,
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CHAPTER VIII. common in. the worthy lady's demeanour.
By-and-bye, however, the storm burst on his then," he. said, a little bitterly. "You will not wahet sperhovemiseienfsorenttenaditstrsinbbuiteioetnw; has been Arnett entirely destroyed by fire. e '
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CHANGE FOR A SOVEREIGN. head. ~ think of this thing.
"In plain words, sir, no. Not that I wouldn't 'hP ee
rr t ehee neeceasnsaYry oanuldd wOh' a02).1-vitehne,rllalarg. Harn. arrrehivgertteean , Atelrihßeiglear,
(B)flr.mslr:
Ilsi,naiyitte;:iaasauhigitt.theerxt_rtoe,
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e ehvays 'haunts the guilty mind, 'role ..:1 la*. to S 2 per foot super, the purchasers -- R.
'loth fear each bush an officer. "I am going over to Chiswick again this evening, boo, e sauubtmu
mi tnt eadl
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iPeanr,l iearmwehnetn a. t the commencement of Bolton, and Mr. O'Donnell spoke on the labym traffic nessnlthe.Frenett ports. . .
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n the Pacific. The Chilies Government has derided lo engage a Westminster' has been sold at £1:.';5;000, or abont 15s. e
e g ' expect to realize' - a profit of at least £45,000 by their • ' .-
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—Shakespeare. Mrs. Waters," he said, in reply to her freezing en. do anything. to give you pleasure if it lay in, my Lord Kimberley replied thet her Majesty'SGovern- The Appropriatien, Bill was then read a thinttims, reamber el G-errozas schoolmasters to carry ctlit a com-
IT‘ilareultcnwlstidanvehingeven7.:ttil hr :scene: cp:
er parting with the doctor, did quiry as to what hour he would wish his dinner to power," the young man added. " But in the merit had already indicated in both Houses the general and the House seljouneeen at seven o'clock untie prate refontv of the., eseedh ncational system' of Chalk Ahi h
Vistula-district abotn- enventy unemploty:
e prepare or im. eo that it is very likely I matter of taking a wife, I should hold that ' a man'
b d f la• n q • s principle on which they proposed to proceed in their Thursday. - come to teermany in order to' corre-Inide the
belse.dpfi!ereocrntigonrtehorefs
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eke his way back to the old
sliall be late. Indeed, if lam not home by ten first duty is to himself, and lam quite certain that necessary contracts, n operation. e ..
in London, is now visiting e -in .-
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o clegc a_t the latest, don't wait up for me, as I shall Miss. Granton and I should never agree in. that measure for redistribution. At the time which. they
ocfridmiffinerae:n;navetsi;einagaitilt:::.
' The fireihsnrance etenpanies of Swedea.have offered
should consider fitting far the introduction of the
lounging, careless fashion as INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL a reward of 2000 crowneifor the most pie•ctieai elevice
get eir. barter's to give me a bed." relation. Indeed l'm almost ashamed to say it, but measure they would explain its provisions. That wag
ng a pleasure stroll, and Mrs Waters drew herself up with the a.ir of. a 1 don't think I've got it in me to care enough for the usual course. As already stated by Lord Granville, ENGINEERS.
the Franchise Bill would be re-introduced in the autumn The final gathering of the Institution of Mechanica-.3 to arrest sparks and' cirensers from locomotive endstentm- - -;:',42;;;;;:- 1
-et towards Charing-cross. duches.s and answered in tones of solemnity en. any woman to marry her." session, and when it was passed by Parliament ee Canada, to „nvestigatefully the educational institutions ehee
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tv.courths: Engineers took place on Saturday, when between 400' boat sreeke' stacks.. A trial of different devices• that
of the conntry. He will afterwards proceed on a -', • =';.'
t. endea to express her outraged sense of propriety. " Upon my soul, George it's my firm belief you a. nd 500 members proceeded' from Cardiff to inspect may be sent it will take place in Stockholm, during 'lle
ni. to the great illumi- "Oh ! very well, sir ! Certainly. I wouldn't care for no earthly being but yourself !" vehementl present menth.
'eigh above his head in uresume to dictate to a gentleman, and he is his own exclaimed Mr. Sartoris, exasperated beyond measure taken by the Government, whose Whole object, it the Severn tunnel works. The tunnel is the longest similar erre-bite-the- Uhited States and Australia.
had come, till the e - e in the country, and its total length will be 7664 yardn The Aultrari tra• Yellen.' Herr Von Hesse-lhAhrte, gg., en: - ,
master, oe course, and old enough—quite old enoueh at his son's coolness. 17ataesnk:t
dr=eidti.itroenEgnutt.mc,6eene fercmcai .ttiolieffieosts_kserrevrnap
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The Wellineeten Statute-which has arrived safely t -
ner at a quarter to , appeared to him, was to excite and keep alive a
ps, sir, it would be " I daresay you're right, sir, but I can't help my fee.ling of hostility in the country towards their lord- of which 5500 yards are wholly completed and 1860 Jlepublics of Central- Amerim, where he made a! a se. e
to do as he pleases. But p'ra " Aldershot, hres- een deposited at the military stores -, -.-th n - '
chimed out upon
more pleasing to all parties if you'd find fault openly, disposition," returned the younn man. " One thing ships' House. yaras about half done. The entrance to the tunnel eeireful survey eft the lake dEetricts of Chapala, Enid cl Pto the retenth Camp •oending the erection of - -:* -.'
and not go to insinuate as you ain't properly served is quite clear to me, and that Wthat Ido not care , After some conversation on the system of election of on the English side is through a cutting 1-1- mile long rissenaro.
away a voice . . Banffshire was • • •e;.,•
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in 3 our own house." for Gertrude Granton. As for wives in the abstract representative peers, their lordships rose at . • -past and 60ft. deep at the deepest end. At present four Atran instance of the entraendinary catches nett- stlble stand 'or"peelestal o2a.'Which -to place it. a I
Be started beniig obtained by the herring fishing fleets in elitei
" Why ! What ails the woman ? What d'ee —well, I may be mad enough to prove false to my five o'clock. steam navvies are at work here day and night, and
Neeth, •it may be mentitmed that a Kirkcaldy boat";
'I, not those, hte,
.2i Monday afteenoon struck, bydightning and set on ne- :.t-nneg, ,
mean ?'' stuttered the doctor, gett. d • '
ing very re m the convictions one of these days—but at present lam more than one half the material has- already been
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glancing Bilgngarth, ea • Aberdeen • on. Saturday with 137 crans cen 7t:Tvf was much deraged before-the flames coul s,
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face. quite sure I ane happier in a state of celibacy, and arrieed in
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soonldbieorars db.elon •e t • 41. . R 1I ' h 11,;f1 eon The belfry was compirtery consumed. adnee telixe_
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n. n Oh! it's quite plain enough to me, resin"' con. feeling so convince II am not such an idiot as to risk
member for the county of Waterford in the room of Mr. 60ft. deep at the tunnel mouth. Tivo-thirds of gine oe e . oya ns i eS- .
tinguished. 'When-its festeninga gave way the bell fell .eh ea-. ~ • .
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tinued Mrs. Waters. " lhout.h how it can be ex- losing my self-content by an experiment such as you have had rather a nu' row escape-at Dever. The were
bathing. from the shorejast beyond thte East Cliffye, and rveihtroktihnetendeifiincthe,risemzehing many eeats and some wood- e nt'he,- *....'
pected as meals are to be served and things cooked at propose." Blake, resigned. this eating are completed. As both these heeee -- -.
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tchuettbang3Ter lieSevienrn croached So far that they were-unable to et back to
a time when there's no telling when anybody will "As you' please," coldly replied Mr. Sartoris. Mr. Gladston ' f At Oxford on Sernle.,:y, a ropetnaker named Nati :•;..':h-i,,,e,- - :
committed suicide 7:1. lying on. the line at Port ' - „e„ - -
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be in for to partake of 'em, it's unreasonable to " Though I can hardly believe that your cynicism protection men& J g were cut off by the rising tide,. the sea having en- ._ ._ e
i. rfenderw railway crosenegeand aliening a train to pass
suppose, and—" is real, after all. However, I don't want to drive 9to the Governors of Australian colonies 9;,s intended' tipped to prevent high spring tides front entering the path they had come down: A. boat Which was 6t.-1. him• - ,
" Stuff and nonsense ! Te that all P" hurriedly you into matrimony, and perhaps with Such ideas as to be established in New Guinea, was the'advising her the tunnel. It is estimated that the whore of these passing at the time noticed' the men trying to wade The Board of Trade heane-awarded a binocular glass „, en -
interrupted the doctor. "My good soul, pray don4t yours it is for Gertrude's happiness that my wishes Majesty to establish a protectorate over so much Cif the. works will be completed within twelve months from through aid. water, and vrent to• their aesistance and to Captain Mathieu Ccerawyn, •of • the Belgian fishing '-' ----r '44 .
'e,t any consideration of that sort trouble you. When can come to nothing. She's a good girl, and coast of New Guinea as lay to the eastward of the this date. The brickwork with which the tunnel is landed them on the beach. vessel Avenir, of Antwerp, •in rticagnition of his shee .2 -
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ee occasion to find fault I'll let you know. lam worthy a better husband than you would b lik l 1,
ee v ortion claimed by the Dutch. He coeld not give a lined varies from 3ft. to 2ft. 3in. in thickness, and is From Cracow it is reported that the indictment huresnity and kindness to-three cf. the crew of the ,* , ,
so unjust as to blame you for what I myself to make her." ' definition of the line the protectorate would take, but • built of vitrified bricks set in Portland cement mor- against two 'men named Moses-and Gittel Ritter cm a fishiele smack Ben Boltnefnlfulle whom he picked up te -•.
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brought about. Don't fret over the spoiling " Which nobody- can deny," murmured George within its limits the jurisdiction of her Majesty would tar. Sir John Hawkshaw is chief engineer, and vrith near ehelhoggerbank on the nOth December last after
charge of mender, somewhat resembling the celebrated ' • ' . '
nner on two, there's a good soul ; there may be Sartoris as his father left the room. " I've got well be sufficient to afford protection. to the natives against him is associated Mr. Charles Richardson of Bristol, Tiaza-Esslar ease;.has been published, and fills sixty-one -. 3'
the had been in an open • boat for twenty-six hours •
trouble than that in store for you," he added, out of that I fancy, and shan't be badgered on the lawlessness either of British subjects or of foreigners. who may be called the originator of the tunnel, he folios. The trial is expected to . last three weeks, and withe or water.
Mr. Ashley added, in reply to Sir H. Holland, that 9-ie having first seventy•-four witnesses will be • examined; Ritter • On IT:today morning Mr. JAY..-Peytees, teller of the .
evens attempt at jocularity in his manner. such a subject in a hurry again, I daresa laid out the line and prepared the plans
Y• Government proposed to select and appcint a High aon n a ungar ~- . , is overed with his
df h • • • . LS Nti anilha kt D • -naewes -d• c
accuse o avitig-murdered a Christian girl.
for Parliament. The works are being carrieeli out
king of bringing home here a—" Good Heavens ! The bare idea is terrif ving—to oon as possi e.
Conimissioner as s lel Information froneGeneva states-that during a storm throat c-A and quite dead. Thh suicide was of a very -
under the superintendence of Mr. A. G. Luke; who, determined character, the decareed having severed his e ;
4-ers interrupted him with a horrified imagine that I should consent to tie myself for life THE EGTPTIAN QUESTION. a house in the V rd
illa -Lurin, near Brideseles-Bains was
hands uplifted, sank into the nearest to a girl just fresh from school! " resident en neer re resents Sir John Ha lisii
Sir S. Northcote, pursuant to notice, moved for as gl . , I) NT-- aw• struck by lightning and set on fire. The conflagrLion jugular .eeita and windpipe. llenease3o years of age and e
.
sheets of a nossible mistress &mein.. And finishinn his b kf t ' t ' A luncheon waa given to the members of the instit
; a . q rea as in he leisurely papers relating to the mission of Lord Northbrook, and . • 171- spread rapidly, and ninety houses were attacked by the unmarriele
manner in which he was wont to do all things— called attention to the present condition of the Egyptian non at Portskewett by Mr. T. A. Walker, the con- names. . The lately published report af the.Snewrintendent of -ea
,e
T. was sure of it !" she exclaimed nothing, he averred, being so great an enemy to question. His chief desire, he said, was to dwell on tracthr• At Marseilles, a serious conspiracy, possibly induced the Thuggee and Dacoity Department ofelnclia, shows a .h. anie4e .._
I'd never have believed it—no, comfort as hurrying—George Sartoris forthwith die. the conditions of the Anglo-French agreement, of by fear of the cholera; has been discovered at the prison remarkableincrease in the number of 'nets of violence '• - -ege -- :
' heard it from your own lips. missed the subject from his mind. which, though it was said to be in abeyance, he was on the Boulevard Chave: TWenty-five of the prieoners, in Ra• o tena • '
since 1880, especially jp o , Central India, and 1.4 -
SEVERE AND FATAL MUM Hyderabad. '• The total number of cases 'reported was, ,4 --,
eing you faithful: for so many afraid the country had not heard the last. He had provided with crowbars; filen-Sze., Obtained from with-
(To be continued.) rin 1880 146, ka 1881 244, in 1882 815, and in 1883 363. ,',
be served in such a manner, three objections to this Anglo-French agreement-- out, had formed the project of escaping last nigh,* afte n - -
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warning, too, to break it - ' -
y e betrayed by sne of The number of Deceits, or gang robbers, was estimated
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A ROYAL BIRTHDAY WITH THE Caisse was to be placed • secondly the fixing of a date
for the evacuation; 'and thi;dly, the proposed hour on Saturday afternoon, accompanied by a heavy their number, and have nil beenw• perut in irons
downpour of rain. Several houses were struck by the The revision of the Old Testament, 'which was last year at 13,186, ana the value •of -• property stolen
5,08,140 rupees. ..e, q
' warn you of a thing I . 1 '''''
-,swered the enraged CHANNEL SQUADRON. neutralisation of Egypt. Enlarging on these objec- htnin and a man was knocked finished Consideraele activity is now beine shown in the de-
lig g, dreern and rendered last month, does -not include the Apocrypha - - -.
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tions, he contended that the arrangement amounted to insensible. In the outskirts considerable damage was But it is not improbable that some members of the velopment of the coal resources of the Canadian North- 'e
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do you take it so The Channel Squadron, under the command of a Multiple Control, and could lead only to mischief ' done to buildings, and a farmhouse at Padiham was - committee will continue to meet—though not at West- West. The Galt coal mines, near Medieine Hat, are ' `---'
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the touse—a boy, Vice-Admiral the Duke of Edinburgh, left Bantry in Egypt. As to the evacuation, although he was not struck, and besides the- damage to the building, one • minster—and undertaken revision of the Apocrypha on turning opt as much as 1000 tons per week, the coal' •,,
euble ?" on Monday, and proceeded to Galway. While at in favour of an indefinite prolongation of our occupa- of the inmates, a little gni, was very badly burnt. the same rinciples
A R P ' - * . being largely used as fuel on the Canadian' Pacific Rail- a- e
Bantry the Duke gave a novel and interesting enter- tion, he believed the most certain mode of prolonging it At Hayton •a• cow grazing. in a field was killed, and e euter s telegram, dated Presburg, August 9, seys
bat Captain Hofer of the laan way, the main line of which passes to themorth of the
j
but the doctor tainment on board the Minotaur in honour of his would be to fix a date for the evacuation. On the sub- at Cheapsidetwo • houses were extensively damaged. distinguished h• 'lf • try, an officer who has millets. II 'd o two men of the Ist
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'How himself fortieth birthday. An invitation was given by ject of neutralisation he dwelt in some detail,tpointing
i- A further telegram says-that during the thunderstorm e‘iefe dead, and ainfeteserwainrrfaeveeermalmciattur
etiresiidheas• shoe-hes King,esr73 e agaittamliitenocceredant
L cashire 'Volunteers on
. signal to all the officers of the squadron, out the fundamental differences between coun ned lin
on Saturday afternoon& man and woman were killed The bill for continuing the appointment of a•Fourth Saturday morning,- near Grange-on-Sande, where the
ily. " A and as they arrived on board they were personally Belgium and Switzerland and Egypt, and aske t e
near Burnley. Commissioner of the Irish Land Court has been with- Battalion has beeneencamped for the pastweek. Ser- ' • !
e Government whether they had really thought out the
nudging received by the:Duke, who shook hands with cam r • h • A terrible thunderstonre resulting in the destrue- diawn• A successor to Viscount Monek, therefore, geant Jones and Private Henry Airey were firing the • ,
oblem of neutralisation. Before concluding e in- -
'boring The Minotaur was completely housed in with 'isted that the Government ought to give the House tion of an -enormous- amount of property, broke over will not be immediately nominated. The Savings ramming cannon ast
_flyee n'elnock, when it' 'was blown to ;
" I awnings and awning curtains, and the whole ship was some information as to their object in seuding out Rossendale Valley on Saturday afternoon. The Banks Act Amendment Bill has ale° been withdrawn..
Viegoatit seri:yawan. kill d, b t Sergeant Jones escaped .
brilliantly illuminated with the electric light. Rear. Lord Northbrook, and drew attention to the coincidence storm was one of the most violent recollected. The y,Dr. N. S. Keith stated at a recent meeting of' the New u i jury. .-.--
9 t ork Electrical Society that the number and extent 0 The Democratic barbecue at Lexington on the 29th
I' Admiral Whyte, second in command of the squadron, between the beginning and the end of the session, morning had been very finerbut about one o'clock the •1• • - e was attended by 10,000 persons. Eighty-five oxen, . -
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i and all the captains, and about two hundred other Parliamentary die_cuesion being rendered difficult in inhabitants heard distant-thunder. The storm soon aerie wires in new York has been largely overstated.- Southdown sheep, and hogs were roasted whole in
On reliable authority he found that the telephone com- 1'
officers were present, and the scene was a most bril- both cases, first by General Gordon's mission, and now concentrated itself in the valley, and extended from trenches and served with waggon loads of bread, roast
panics had about 6000 or 7000 miles the Western
tient one. The entertainment took the form of aby Lord Northbrook'amission. No doubt, he said, many the source of the• river Irwell, on the one hand, to Union about 3000, and th th ' • '
e o er • companies in pro- fowls, vegetables, Sec. .
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' smoking concert,' and was thoroughly enjoyed by people would conclude that it was-a card played for the Haslingdon and Accrington Moors on the other. At Fairview, in Erie county, Penne,. a crowd of
portion. •$- '
'. An attractive programme cf music was per- Purpose of delay, but unless Lerd
.Ndrthbrook had The storm raged with great fury over Newchurch, TWo children, a brother and sister,. named Maddoek,. farmers attempted last week to lynch A. 'J.'Nellis, who
ned, and the duke himself took a prominent part ample powers given hi.m.to act his mission would pro-
Waterfoot, and Cowpe. Much damage was done by were walking out with their nurse, and. • while crossing. had attempted to
.collect a royalty on the use of an i
l of E t
duce no effect. Justice to the peop e gyp ,on ,'
his Royal Highness playing first violin in a whese de 1 bl d't• h d It • dt '1 ll d
p ora e con i ion eweineai , ca e the hailstorm that followed thethunder at St. Nicholas Low Flat-bridge, over the canal, the little boy fell his atented ha fork. lie was res-
infringement on p . y
Y Strauss, and in a selection from " Patience." upon us to adopt a more vigorous policy,- and England Church, Newchurch. The windows facing the south are into the water. His sister • jumped in.-to rescue him:. cued with a rope round his neck. -5 • 1
. assisted as violinist by First Lieutenant would be disgraced if she refrained from using her all riddled as if with shot, and only. the stained glass The nurse raised an alarm, but before assistance arrived, P • S d 1 bal ftt n landed on
In arts on
.un ay seveea
fir es o co o
f th • t se h t .
--„ .r•
'',e Rev. C. j. Corfe, chaplain; Mr. Mullen, t- dr th • dit• f far f being mis- windows which are protected with, wire fencing remain
powers o.e ess eir con ion or e o _the lad was drowned, a.nd the girl was rescued ' by- a otrtio:l2eusauinHenn Quatre took. e rom ein en ea
, and the damage is reported to be £4OOO. .
ad Mr. Silver, naval instructor. . represented. intact. Nearly all the houses in this district had their youth named Manning in a very exhausted condition.
. Four youths attempted to ascend Slieve Donard ~
"••••••••••••• Mr. Gladstone rematked that the argument to be windows broken •, in one housethere being no fewer Archibald Mackenzie, a young man residing -in • Edin-
burgh, was dro ed while b thin ' the F -
gin . orthi hear - Mountain, in Donegal, on Sunday. One of them missed
declaced from Sir S. Northcote'i description of the than 76 panes. In addition to the destruction of win- his footing, and was precipitated over the Eagle Rock,
Leith. Two of his brother a h
s w o were • weth him tried '
'E TO GEORGE SAND. condition of the fellaheen.wits•our permanent retention dows nearly all the green and hot houses have suffered, r falling a distance of 240 feet. His lifeless and shock-
; but were unable, to res 'IC • •
cue nn, and with difficult
of power in Egypt, and complained that he had sup- and the skylights of the mills and. printworks are all t escaped themselves being carried to sea by a strong- e -
- - -Y. inglv mutilated body was afterwards discovered.
nondent of the Daily Yews writes: pressed all mention of the reforms- accohnplished b.y demolished. The gardens have been broken up and outgoing tide. The bod f • -
y was a terwards recovered with . f H El th D' br • • h
The body o err , sner, e u in musician w o
b i
- forward at the unveiling of the our agents, because they had been appointed yh s
despoiled. By far the most serious damage has been grapnels. mysteriously disappeared from a Holyhead ste:amer,
1, at La Chinn, in Berry. He political opponents. This remark provte arlaoudl pro-
sustained in the Cowpe Valley. Numerous dye works, At Lord's Cricket-ground, the other day, W. Barnes was washed ashore on Sunday at the Isle of Man. .
hbourhood. and was invited as test, and Sir S. Northcote callencitt ilt:nhaivere.helmiwacras
carpet printing works, &c., are.erected in the valley. playing for 111.0.0. v. Suffolk, hit a ball to square-leg. . Donald Irving, aged eighteen, and Neill Macullume
ee to preside at the ceremony. statement which he hacelrn reg
L d°Northbrook's mission, about The water lodges connected with these works over- with such force that it entered the open door of the aged fifteen,hot.
h beton mg to Newcastle-upon-Tyne
g nNe bgig in Bay on • Saturday ft 9 '
' by some non-academical stone thenapasseid
d t twoould be impossible for the Govern- flowed and wrought great havoc; flooding the lower tavern, traversed through two bars, and made iee,exie- Zeron,seviimenralani Ley wweregmaking for theshoreatheer-
eau ladies from its two which,the aivi
e,
further information at present. The rooms and damaging a great amount of material. At one into the St. John's-wood-road' by shattering a large 'became exhausted, and both were drowned:. y
ng to send a deputation inen: ot g
of E ypt and the failure of. the Con- of these works alone the damage is- estimated at over Plate-glass window in the front of the tavern.. The revival of brigandage in the Roman province is
'al. M. de Lesseps, n
fan rup cy The Merchant Taylors' Company have sent a second e_ • •
erenc g h 1 f f affairs in EgYPt, and two thousand pounds. A stone bridge spanning the
e changed the wo e ace o t 't ' th 'tat
oteginnine; o exci e some concern in e cam .
,eech, said that he •
it was to consider this new position of' affairs that stream has been swept away, and the main roadway donation of 100 guineas to •Prefessor Monier Williams ' Another daring robbery has been perpetrated. The
.in every country, Lord Northbrook was sent out, but itwould be gross leading to Cowpe washed up, about fifteen tons of fthfdfth 0 f d I -d* •
or cun s o e xor n ian Institute. victim is the steward of Prince Torlonia's farm near
throughout the folly for the Government to attempt now to• anticipate pavement having been carried to the bottom a. the Berlin has produced a novelty in the shape of a Lin- • h
Cen the ancient Ceere. He and a coachman on t e '
'f as they came the results of that step. After discussing in. detail Sir
road. The damage cannot be estimated, but it must putian Opera Company The artistes range fram 22 to '
37 ear of nd fro. 24. to •32 in h ' '
37 g , n hei ht
s ties, m . cesi g . estate were carried off by three brigands,- who com- .
.
itting up the S. Northcote's objections to the Anglo-French agree- . pelled the former to write a letter to his brother asking .
be many thousand pounds. The earnings of the American railways -ia 1883
again. He ment, he pointed out that it was intended to meet a /or a ransom of £l2O, and th b th b
e latter to e - e earer
A very heavy thunderstorm passed over Barnsley averaged 41 per cent. upon the whole of the invest- .
voines. M. state of things which had now passed away, and was not .. ... . _ _
'el and district on Sunday evening. The lightning was ments the earnings per mile, being, gross, 7400 dols • °I it' -
He was to be taken as a guide to the future. Finally, he sai • , At Skernes, county Dublin, a number of men were •
't against that though the difficulties of the Egyptian question exceptionally vivid. A stoker named Sam Carring- and net, 3000 dots. working in a sand-pit on Saturday morning, when ,
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her. It had been greatly increased by incessant disenssion,f he ton, age
cl, emp
dlB led at Messrs. Craik's collieries By Russian Imperial order the delivery of the works some earth fell, killing one man and injuring several
b °Yh
li ht • hil • th fireh 1 '
admitted the right of Parliament to • the fullest in or- was struck own yt e g ning.w ein e o e of 125 different authors, native and foreign, to librar'
mil others.
at La and public reading rooms is strictly prohlit d
e mation, and assured the House that the Government and seriously hurt. iie, as we A band of stock thieves have been run down and '
a tn. as of eight Russian newspapers and reviews.
never would be parties to committing the • country to A young man named William Marsden, aged 23; captured by regulators at Willowa Valley, Oregon. ...
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nd any policy without the assent and behind the back of residing in Duckworth-street, Darwen, was struck by On Saturday morning the shipbuilding yard of • ,
Seventeen thieves were caught with a large number of , .
't Parliament. lightning on Saturday afternoon whilst playing at Messrs. Roach and Chester, Pennsylvania, was de- horses. Two ringleaders were hanged. ' - ---
In the course of subsequent discussion Sir H. Wolff f • l ICU d d .
tball and instant i e ; an a oun man
00 , . 3' y g . dols,
stroyed by fire. The damageeare estimated at 500,000 In North Carolina and Tennessee the mountaineers - a:-
insisted that the Honse ought to have a declaration from -ased to experience trouble with ivy roots in clearing
named Richard Farnworth was- also seriously in- ,
.
'he Government that there should be no further vacin A divine in the United States has been figuring about lisnd. These roots now bring 10 dela. and 12 dols. a ton
tion in their policy, and that they would, with a firm jured• • their future population. He estimates that in tho from manufacturers, who turn them into door and A
al, restore order in Egypt, protect the. interests of A Bridport telegram states that a severe storm of year 2100 their population will be 400 000,000 ;in the bureau knobs and instead of being the nuisance they
ngyptian people and secure the supremacy which thunder and lightning, accompanied by heavy rains, year 2200 it will be 800,000,000 ;in the year 2300 it were a very 'few years ago, now bring more than the '
, A
untry was entitled to exercise in Egypt. visited that locality on Sunday morning, doing i will be 1,600,000,000 ; and in the year 2400 it will be land would at that time. ...
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Elliot deplored the procrastination and defer- damage to several buildings and to•the crops. Other 1 3,200,000,000. Advices from St. Lucia state that the steamer
French susceptibilities which hadthroughont injuries to property by storms are reported from I During July, 541,801 tons of coal were brought to Bracatlaile arrived there on the 3rd instant with j -
.-7- - .
-ea the policy of the Government, and various parts of the country. 4 London by rail, and 290,571 tons by sea. This- is a . emigrants from Calcutta. Thirty-one cases of cholera .
'-er rejoiced to perceive in the•decision to falling-off of
.34,706 tons as compared with July•of the • occurred on board during the voyage, of which twenty 4 .
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rd Northbrook an indication that the previous year. Sea-borne coals were 21,390 tons-in ended fatally. There has been no fresh cases for 29 , _
ere at last beginning to recognise that BREACH OF PROMISE OP MARRIAGE. excess, but coals brought by rail showed a decrease of .• nays. .
ee
-to take charge of the affairs of Egypt 56,096 tons. The return for the year so far shows - a-• A telegram from Lloyd's agent at Saint Nazaire, e. .
At the Lewes Assizes on Saturday, before Mr. falling-off of nearly 100,690 tons. dated August 11, states that the Red Rose, steamer, of -
earded the position in. which the Justice S •th
mi and a special jury, the case of Joliffe v. iff -a- ' - '
Arr eetmg of members interested in the case of the Cardiff,.from Decido, north coast of Spain, to Card , ~,,,4 e
ery was left by the Government as Gasson was heard. It was an action by Miss Alice Blaori-Chiefs was held at the House of Commons on with mineral, has been totally loat at Raz du Seine. '1
Joliffe dressmaker of the D ke-r ad Drive Bri hton
, y o , g , Monday. Among those present were the Lord Mayor, The crew were landed at St. Nazaire. The Red Rose T
ions by Sir John Lubbock, Sir .' , iron screw steamer of 1257 gross tons, owned by
Villiers Stuart, Sir R. Peel against dames Gasson, who does a large business as a Sir W. M`Arthur, Mr. G. Palmer, and Mr. A. MeArthur. was an
C d'ff d classed 100 Al at Lloyd's.
a Government as an ugly sur- carrier in the same town. For the plaintiff it was ale The number of Bills of Sale published in England Mr. P. Rowe, ar i, an
It is stated that notwithstanding the reports pub- e
tian interests, The Anglo- leged that the engagement' commenced in 1876. In and Wales for the week ending August 9 was 190.
he Turkish newspapers that the • plague had .
humiliating agreement, 1877 the defendant was introduced to the plaintiff's The number in the corresponding week of last year was lished by t .
d t • the rovince of Bagdad, it has •
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ve registered our abdica- friends, and in 1881, in the. presence of plaintiff's 214, showing a decrease of 54, being a net decrease in been stampe ou
.in .
13
d force at Kerbellah e
had given universal and mother, there was a conversation about settling in life. 1884, to date, of .545. The number published in Ire- again appeared with increase . , _
.ved 4 ,
T. ' It was further alleged that the defendant asked the land for the same week was 12. The number in the owing to the large number of pilgrims who have
4
'er admitted that the l • t'ff to become his wife, but as the time for the
pam i corresponding week of last year was 28, showing a de• there.
nupon the Govern- marriage approached, it was noticed that the defendant crease of 16, being a net decrease, in 1884, to date, of According to .
intelligence received from Smyrna, e 7\l
believed they had 679 M. • te of Finance
Sadyk Pacha, a former Turkish mis r , ? /
became unsettled. About 1882 the plaintiff had in
7gypt one of the General " Booth, of the. Salvation Army, visited , who has been under the most strict police supervision. eif .
an . .
opportunity of takina a mod, situation in London • ille ~
inquire on the - - • , Blackburn on Monday night, and after a " war march" has been handed over to justice, charged with gal
but she relinquished the offer at the wish of the de- through the streets with his followers, addressed a• Bourse speculations detrimental to the State. Tre,asury.
fendant. In the same year, however, when the de- crowded meeting in the Exchange Hall. The " General" While a gentleman named Wheeler and his daughter ' '
tatement as
respect to fendant was getting on very well in his business, a said that salvation, the remedy for all wants, woes,- and were driving through Pierse-bridge, near Darlington, on e:
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,g to the " coolness " arose between the Parties, and it was miseries of the human race, was just as good to look at Saturday, the horse took fright and bolted. Miss -.' • .
lun- stated in evidence by the plaintiff, a prepossessing in a red jersey as in a black coat ; just as good with a. Wheeler leaped out of the trap, the wheel of which
a vo
'allure young lady, that when she went to Mr. Gasson's office br.ass band as a g ,
fine or an just as good with a lively as passen over her head, injuring her so severely that sha
ncial on the subject he kicked her out of the place. For with a funeral tune. died a few minutes afterwards.
Avi lent conflagration broke out on Sunday morn- The number of visitors to the International HealthEs-
the defence it wanalleged that the plaintiff had for-
i inothe Rue de Motel de Ville, Lyons, which, hibition for the week ending August 9 was 223,178. Total
le. feited the confidence of the defendant by associating g,
rneauced three houses to ashes within a very short time. since the opening 1,877,638. On Bank Holiday 71,884
with men whom he considered undesirable acquain-
Two firemen were severely injured ; six others - have persons visited the Exhibition, being 11,381 in excess of
tances, and that she bad struck him with an received slighter injuries. The losses are estimated-at the attendance on any previous day, _either at the
umbrella, The jury found for the plaintiff—damages over a million of francs. . Fisheries or Health Exhibition.
'75. On Monday James Grant and -William Berrys.cone Nine British and seven foreign owned .vessels were
e stables in the Edinburgh City police force, were re- reported as aetual wrecks during last week, the total _
I DEATH' OF A PRISON MATRON. mitted from •the City Police-court, charged with culp- for the present year now being 909; against 114 for dor-
able homicide. It is alleged that about midnightoia the responding period of last year. Two vessels (British)
vious Friday while quelling a disturbance in the sunk by collision, causing the loss of 20 lives. A. British
nation, on Friday in last week, Mr. A. Braxton F.ire
te, the constables knocked down an old labourer sailer was wrecked with all hands, and a Mitch steamer
e deputy coroner for Westminster, opened an `-'
naemwri Michael Cairns, whose head came violently in with three lives. ..
the library of Millbank Penitentiary into contact with thelerbstone, injuring him severely. He During a fight between two miners named James
-a.nces attending the death of Agnes Jane was taken to the Royal Infirmary, but never regained Emery and William Ball, outside a public-house at
55 years, chief matron of tho prison, who consciousness, and died there at seven o'clock onalon- Walsall, on Saturday, tnery fell down dead from the
-dolls Tuesday. Colonel Garcia, deputy day morning. effects of a severe blow behind the left ear, dealt by
eel:le-jet seciion of Millbank Prison, on• Monday some boys.were . throwing stones-at fiats Ball. Ball, who quickly fled, was apprehended so in
had, been in the service thirty yeare, lying In the canal, near Burlington-street-bridge, Liver- afterwards. f a
Lancashire fanner Mr. William Foster
of - the female convicts. On the pool. They seem to have greatly vexed a young flat-
of TRialedcelifnfho, near Manchester, has' met with a shocking
had a prisoner named Elizabeth man named Miles.Vickerne a
nthenflai:rißnlary, oenf Bdueresk-
death on the Welsh mountainseabout eight miles frbra
rge. That person was now in cough.. He :went into tlhe abi a
'. A shot folged in the Wrexham. He was staying at Bulchgwyne and on the
entence of penal servitude for a fowling piece he fired twic_e. . g_ _ .
breast of a yormg man named osep
J h Rice, who. had to evening o sre u n
fhi - t r home he fell down the di:Staged
einvicted at the Middlesex
be taken to - the hospital, and•is now under treatment. shaft of an old lead mine, the mouth .of which iva.."
year, and was received at A secondperson was also hit, but not seriously hurt. A completely concealed by wild raspberry bushes. •• •he
same month. Since her policeman who heard the shots.at once boarded. the flat A platelayer, named William Carpenter, in the
- punished, nor had she and arrested Vickers. employ of the Great Western Railway. Compano, was
'lay in last week the • On Monday, at the DurhamPolice-cournfour pitmen, knocked down by an express train near Gresford on
nness for quarrelling named John Hiley,, James •Saley, Michael Fox, and Saturday and died dreadfully mutilated. Death was e ,
' witness proceeded John Knowles, were charged with attempting. to murder instantaneous. 4 i
ell. Upon arriv-. a constable named English at South Wingate on the The Archbishop of Canterbury has forwarded to the ':5l .. •
locked in her 26th ulte English interposed. between. the men, who Erl of Mount-Edgecumbe a letter, received by him from ... -
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,son stood up were quarrelling, whereupon they all turned- upon him Sir Henry Ponsonby, intimating that her Majesty has e . --- -
and wounded him so severely that his life was en- determined to give a donation 011200 to the Truro, 7 ..
latron of the .
-,ial Police, itted for trial at the Cathedral Building Fund.
dangered. Prisoners were comm La , . . -
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mt. The next Durham Assizes.. st week s receipts of cotton.at. all United State&
, e 1
I monument to the Emperor Joseph ll..was unveiled ports were 2000 bales; since Ist September, 4,801,000 , .
convict. -
in Bohemia on Sunday. The German- bales. Week's exports to Great-Britain, 15,900 bales; ._ a
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at Leitmeritz, , .
rd tl e
I speaking portion, of the population took advantage of ditto to Continent, 1000. Total since Ist September, e .he
evi-
, the occasion to organise a great demonstration, the 3,798,000 bales ; stock at all ports, 193,000 bales; ---, .. -
leu number of persons taking part in it being estimated stock atinterior towns, 15,000 hales. .
unces that •
10 at 20,000. The "-Watch am Rhein" was sung by the The " London Gazette," of Aug. 81 anno _ _ h
to be her Royale
' demonstrators, who wore black, red, and yellow favours. her Majesty has by warrant declared it
eter th hid e" '
On Monday, Alfred Edward Parkinson, an iron menu- will and pleasure " that in all times hereas_
en
b: jeangeeds i
facturer was charged at Macclesfield with attempting of county courts in England . and Wla ei
la eann title of ' hi; '
o shoot'his wife. The parties kad been married two known, and addressed by the sty e
-,3 ' before their re - • '
eras. On Sunday morning Parkinson went to his Honour ' prefixed to the word
e' ju ge _
ed -
rank and prec ence
,'s father's house and tried to get in by a bedroom spectire names, and shall hay
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we, but was knocked down by the father. He then ne,xt after knights bachelors."
states that the visible supply of t•
Inee shots from a revolver at his wife. His A New York telegr
arals 100,000 Inthels, as against ' s
' •
elaw wished to withdraw the case, but the wheat on Aug. 8 was ,
h revious week. Visible 1 ~, -
led the defendant over in £2OO and two sureties 12,800,000 bushels t eoPoo bh 1 " supp 3'
4 400 us e seas against 4,700,000
ith the alternative of six montb.s' imprison, of, Indian corne , , . _
b-ashels the previous .week. The export clearances of
wheat for Europe during last week amounted to
%ming occupied a seat in the Dis- .
170.000 bushels ; the export clearances of Indian COM
Igen' Gallery of the House of Commens. q. E during the week +sea
for ' nrePe amoun to 300.00 a
during the early part of the Debate
bushels.
A formidabloervessel was added to the Italian Navy on
'w days the passenger traffic to Scot-
has been without parallel •At Seturday._
._H capacity is 10,000 tons; she is fitted.
the. with ten boilers to work very powerful engines. Two
day four trains, instehed: of,
ast
turrets will be armed each with two large guns of 76 or
'espatched by the W est co.
S ndit 100 tons • end th f '
hclass passengers on u
f Yt tle'' • e ngate will be fitted with a ram, and,
accomraodation, no ewer wo ues nor discharging torpedoes.
, A Madrid telegram states that a destructive fire broke
e up.
ern Australia. states that out on f3aturday evening at La Granja, in one of the
ny are in a very unsatis- streets near the Royal Palace. The fire was not ex-
lity among_ the native tinguished until six houses.had been burned down.
u chiefly convicted of The additions to the Zoological Society's Gardens,
ena.also that natives Regent's Park, London, during last week, included a.
hand tn hand, as Rhesus monkey from India, presented by Miss Stukeev;
a bonnet monkey, from India, presented el-tdht Ns:
lon purchasing Ts. Rickards; a common fox (Britifsrhen prees re y
m- S uth Americae
100, the well- 'homas Legg ; a king I,_ 5
vuetturruenz • two red-tailed buz-
kdoration of presented by Mr. Aug
-ustsented by' Mr. D. Morris : a
..,'
hedral now earls, from Jamaica, Pe•
ar tured at sea, presented by Mn e ,
- Emperoe martinique waterhen, c
p (British) presented by Mrs.
A. Jones; two jackda‘c:a ' • ,
es 1 (British), presented by Mr. G. West-
'ion of Frank ;
a kedtrceurassow and an anaconda, from British
I his run;
a oresetsented by Mr. G. ci. Hawtayne, C•M•S•Sa
hP., Guiana, pr
h. b
a from Portugal presented by Mr.
a grey amp th mil
~!,
gld croivned conure from
e W.V. Tait' C*l‘l•.'". ; a -Lc' ell-
bl k hornbill. from
South-East Brazil, deposited: a ac _
West Africa, purchased ; a three-querter beeet
tamian deer. born in the garcloa
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