The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-05-24 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The recent Siz Days' Go-as-you-please Competition
at Madison-square-gardens New York, produced about
£3700 gate money. Of this no less than £3600 went
in expenses. Fitzgerald, the winner, received about
£lB5O, including his share of the stakes, Rowel 3about
730, and the others smaller sums.
A Rangoon correspondent thus describes the ecndi-
tion of the country: "Ruin stalks abroad; robberies
are committed with impunity, even in Mandalay. Food
is scarce, and is sold at famine rates; and an epidemic
is wasting the vital emergies of the people."
A boy named Charles Clark; aged three years, resid-
ing at 3, Collinge's-cottages, Teddington, died in great
agony on Sunday from the effects of drinking a
quantity of carbolic acid.
A fire occurred on Monday morning on the premises
of Mr. Myers, life-buoy manufacturer, Bath-street,
Liverpool, and when the brigade had succeeded in ex-
tinguishing the flames they found the body of George
Myers, brother of the proprietor, in one of the rooms,
death having evidently been caused by suffocation. The
deceased, who resided on the premises,was deaf, dumb,
and blind.

Advices have been received from Hankow stating,
with respect to the new tea season, that the arrivals so
far have been 531,000 half chests, against 440,000 last
year; the settlement being 330,000 half chests, against
284,890. The exports to date are reported to have
amounted to 3,800,0001 b.
In Loi.don on Monday, at the Mansion-house Police
court, Jacob Bockelmann was charged before the Lord
Mayor with smuggling. The prisoner was the chief
steward on board the steamer Fyenoord, which arrived
on Sunday from Rotterdam. On his stores being
examined 21b. of tobacco and 31b. of cigars were found.
The Lord Mayor, observing that smuggling was very
much on the increase, fined the prisoner £4 35., being
treble the value and duty, with the alternative of
fourteen days' imprisonment.
Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to confer
the Bishopric of Ripon upon Canon Boyd Carpenter,
vicar of Christ Church, Lancaster-gate; and the Canonry
at Windsor, which will be vacated by Canon Carpenter,
, upon the. Rev. E Capel Cure, rector of St. George's,
Hanover-square.
The number of beast arrivals at the Metropolitan
Cattle Market last week entered for consumption was
2830 head; the corresponding Week of 1883, 2420; 1882,
3280; 1881, 2910; 1880, 3400; 1879, 3640, 1878, 3510;
1877, 1770; 1876, 4080; and 1875, 4220.
Mr. Thomas J. Carwardine, one of the most successful
breeders of Hereford cattle, and who has of late secured
enormous prices for some of his stock from her Majesty
and American purchasers, died at his residence, Stock-
ton-Bury, near Leominster, on Monday. Mr. Cawar-
dine had announced the sale of all his pedigree stock
for next autumn.
A parliamentary return issued oil Monday shows that
the loss of seamen's lives in British ships was 1804 in
1883, 1258 in 1882,2023 in 1851, 1414 in 1880, 090 in
1879, 796 in 1878, 964 in 1877, and 1221 in 1876. It
also shows the number of ships afloat in 1883 to have
been 24,345; the registered tonnage, 7,208,306; the
number of men employed 200,727, and the number
of vessels lost 315.

At the Liverpool Assizes on Monday a carter and
pork butcher, named Gibson, sued the London and
North-Western Railway Company for damages for in-
juries sustained by a sack falling upon him as it was
being lowered. The plaintiff had to be carried into
court on a bed, and evidence was given that he was
helplessly paralysed. The jury awarded him £650.
It is reported that the Admiralty have invited tenders
for engines to be used in thirty small boats, specjally,
constructed for the nav4eitioil of the Nile;