The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-07-25 00:00:00

CHILDREN'S PERILOUS ADVENTURE;

Two men have just performed a daring deed on a
highly dangerous position of the North Wales coast,
near Tremadoc. Cries of distress were heard by some
passers-by,-proceeding from the direction of a pre-
cipitous rock above Slidart Farm. Peering over the
rock, two children could just be seen, in the gathering
gloom, on the rocks beneath, surrounded by the rising
tide. Ropes were collected at cottages and tied to-
gether, and then two brave fellows volunteered to go
to the rescue. Quickly and steadily they werelowered
over the side, resting on jutting crags wherever
possible, and at length reached the rock on which the
children stood, and eventually rescued them. They
were the daughter of Mr. Hussey, and the son of Mr.
Angers, of Tanyrallt. The brave rescuers wereloudly
cheered. The children were completely exhausted
with crying and some hours of exposure.

An elderly lady from• the country, after toiling up
two flights of stairs to the railway platform, seated
herself, thoroughly exhausted, in a comfortable arm-
chair. She was profoundly indignant when a few
moments. later a most offensive boy demanded a
penny, and presented her with a ticket announcing
her weight at eighteen stone sem.

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EPITOME OF -N EAVS.

BRIT/3H AND k OREM.

The annual °Hospital Saturday "colketion wa.l made
en Saturday iri the streets of the metropolia and
suburbs, and achieved a very satisfactory iegult. The
cabdrivers enlisted thileselves- in:. the, cause, and the
trade and friendly s:icitties in the East-end joined iii a
procession, which &tatted from Victoria-park and
paraded the principal thoroughfares in the evenitag.
In the Handel Orchextra of the Crystal Palase on
Saturday Princess Prederiets-of Hanover distributed the
annum, prizes and diplomas-gained by the pupils of thir
Royal Normal College and A3caderay of Music for OW
Blind,Upper Norwood.
An accident happened ia the Yba'cldlesdown Rifle
Range, midway between South, Oroyd et: and Caterham
Valley, on Saturday. James Carswell, a young private
in the Ist Battalion Scots Gaerds, an-di a native of
Shrewstrary, was one of a squad' who left Caterham
Barracks at five o'clock in the morning foz- the purpose
of going through a recruit's eJures-of musketry at the
range. They were ordered to " &utile at the charge,"
and were about to drop, when the man- on the left of
Carswell stumbled, with his rifle hutt on the ground
and bayonet upwards, and the decene:,,d'falling on the
tap of him, the bayonet entered the- left side of his
mouth and passed up into his brain: The deceased
withdrew the weapon and expired witain z'querter of
an hour.

At Forfar, en Saturday, John Farclnharson was
charged with having had in his possessicn, on the 11th
of. July, 93 grouse, for which he waellable to a
peisalty of £5 for each bird, or £465 in all. It was
alleged that on the day named the accused forwar..7.ed
the birds to a London firm, requesting that the acknow-
ledgment chould be sent to Mr. J. F. Gray, care d
John Farquharson, Dolda Glenisla, Forfarshite.
the reply the clerk omitted to add on the address' the
words, "care of John Farquharson," and alb' letter
fell into the hands o a gentleman named Gray, -who
communicated with the police. Sheriff Rbbertson
ordeied Farquharson to pay ss. for each bird-23'5r,
in all—or in default three months' imprisonment:-
The Chester magistrates at Wallasey, on Sat:irk:lny,.
had before them a fashionably-dressed lady, named'
Maud McLaren, who gave an address at Edirialegh,
charged with stealing a bunch of roses from the.
nursery gard( ne of Mr. William Wade. The prose-
cutor said that he caught the prisoner picking rozesi.
and, as he had previously cautioned her, he was com-
pelled to make the charge. Inspector Walker said the-
prisoner had been staying at New Brighton for two or-
three weeks. She had prwued her gold watch nr.,34
chain, and had lost her satchel containing the ticket, as
well as a quantity of jewellery. The magistrates fined-
her 10s. and costs:

Afire, attended with fata? consequences, occurred ow,
Saturday night on the premises of Messrs. Widdowson,.
umbrella furniture-manufacturers, Sheffield. The pre-
mises,- situate in Bright-street, are of considerable.-
dimensions. At a late hour flames were seen issuing:.
from the warehonscron the second floor. A ladder was -
reared against the building to enable the police to play
upon the fire, and a. man named Catherall, who had
ascended it for the purpose of breaking r window, fell,
fractured his skull, and died immediately afterwards.
Superintendent Pound and Fireman Ramsden were
also injured during the fire.
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Some experinieUts. took plate at Woolwich Arsenal
on Saturday with a-view of testing the practicability
of photographing the interior of guns by means of the
electric light, so as to detect flaws during their manu-
facture or cracks after firing. Two 8-inch muzzle load-
ing guns -formed the- subject of the test. The light
was introduced a short distance within the muzzle, and
reflected down the bore by means of a mirror. the photo-
graph being taken fromthe breech end. The light pro-
duced by dynamo was-not quite so steady as that from
a.p.rimary battery of cells-,but both gave results.
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Au inci-uest wai held at •Bowness on Saturday, on the
body-of a-young gentleman, named George Smith, son
of Mr. Walter Smith, formerly Mayor of Southport.
The deceased hired te skiff on Friday forenoon and
rowed up Lake Windermere, in the direction of
Ambleside. The water waa considerably disturbed by
rt.-south-west' wind, and when between the islands
Henholme and.Roughohne the craft was upset, and the
deceased, screaming piteously, sank before an angling
party, who were near,, could offer him any assistance.
The body was not recovered, till late in the evening.
At Aldershot on Saturelay night, two gunners of F
Battery 3rd Brigade Royal Artillery, named Harding
and Coghlan, after passing the evening together at the
canteen, returned to their room, but about a quarter of
an hour afterwards both of them fell over the verandah,
a distance of 25ft., into the yard below. The sentry at
the stables- found them- grasping each other by the
shoulder. Goghlan was killed on the spot, and Heading
expired about midnighat the Cambridge Hospital.
Catherine Delaney, aged 44, was convicted at the
Olonmel Assizes-on gaturday of the wilful murder of
her husband; Michael Delany, on the 14th April, 1884.
The deceased was a farmer and road contractor, and
died from the effects of arsenic, administered by the
prisoner, Mr. Justice- Johnston sentenced her to be
executed in Clonmel gaol, on the 19th of August. Tho
convict fainted on being removed from the dock. She •
had already been tied for the murder at the March:,
Assizes, when the jury disagreed.
Lecturing on the political crisis at Blackburn on Sun-
day, Mr. Bradlaugh, M.P., referred to the statements
he rcado at Northampton, that Sir H. Ponsonby, the
Queen's secretary, had visited Mr. Gladstone, when ie..'
office, to try and extort his resignation. Since then.
Mr. Gladstone had written that there was no foundze
tion, whatever foe that, and it was therefore his dety.
absolutely and unreservedly to withdraw it, and tee
express his regret for having used the words.
It is hoped that the effigy and cenotaph, by Idle
Boehm, RA., and Mr. J. 0. Scott, to be erected in. the-
Canterbury Cathedral as a memorial of the late Arch-
bishop Tait, will be unveiled by Archbishop Beasen.,at
his visitation in the autumn.
The foundation-stone of a club-house in courre of
erection for the artistic fraternity who make the
Conway Valley their sketching ground was Idel on
Saturday by Alderman Samuelson, of Liverpool. There,
was a large gathering of artists, chiefly from Manehester
and Liverpool.
An inquiry was held at Whitkirk, near Leeds, on
Saturday, on the body of James Nettleship, labourer,
employed by Mrs. Meynell Ingram, at Teme-Newsam.
Deceased was d:iving a steam cultivator when, on
taking too shert a turn at the headland, the machine
turned over upon him, and he was dragged, tender it 10
yards. He died almost immediately.
A daring robbery has been committed at Emsworth
parish church. The depredator opened all the alms-
boxes, unlocked the safe, and removed, several vest-
ments; the wine was also got at, and drunk. Fortu-
nately there was no plate or other valnables.left in the
sacred edifice. It is supposed by many. that the thief
entered the window beneath the gallery, whilst others
lean to the supposition that he must have entered the
church during the evening choir practice, and then
secreted himself.

All the European Powers have assented to the
immediate issue of the Egyptian loan of nine millions
sterling as agreed upon in tha Egyptian Financial Con-
vention.

Captain Chermside has telegraphed to Cairo that an
attack of the rebels upon Kassala was repulsed on the
15th and 16th ult., by the garrison, who killed 3000
Mandists and captured 1400 oxen' 1000 sheep, and 700
rifles. It is understood at Cairo that an arrangement
will be made with the King of Abyssinia for the relief
of RasQala by the Abyssinian General Rasaloula.
A soldier in the Madras Native Infantry at Bangalore
has murdered several native officers.

A letter has been received at Bombay from Hr.
Dalgleish confirming the report that he had been ex-
pelled from Ya:kand.
On the commencement of the Wesleyan Conference
at Newcastle, the Rev. Richard Roberts was elected
president by &large majority.
Mr. Robert Whitaker, of Royton, a cotton manu-
facturer and magistratE of Lancashire, has committed
suicide, his mind having, it is supposed, become affected
by some litigation in which he was engaged.
Intelligence from Lagos of May 15, published by a
Parisienjournal, reports that the King of Dahomey's
troops attacked some villages near Porto Novo,
under French protection, on 'Jay 10, massacred many
of the inhabitants, and carried off 1000 'prisoners for
human sacrifices.

Sir Charles Dilke, in a speech at A Liberal meeting at
Chiswick, accused the Conservatives of having entered
into an alliance with the Irish party in order to
obtain votes at the cost of unsettling the administra-
tion of justice.
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On Tuesday the foundation stone of the new Guild-
hall School of Music to be erected on the Victoria
Embankment, was laid by Mr. Pearse Morrison, chair.
man of the Music Committee of the Corporation.
A London financial firm has, it is stated, agreed to
advance a loan of half a million sterling to the Munster
Bank on securities offered a few weeks ago to the Bank
0" Ireland.

Although Mr. Abbot's motion at the Metropolitan
Railway Company's meeting in favour of a joint purse
arrangement with the District Railway, was rejecteat
Sir E. Watkin, the chairman, announced that if the
latter company, appointed a committee of shareholders
the Metropolitan would nominate a corresponding
number to meet them. _ _

The Aborigines Protection Society has passed a rm.
lution in favour cf converting Bechuanaland into a
Crown Colony, and establishing a protectorate over
Zululand. - •

William Newmaa, a costermonger, was sentenced at
Bow-street Police-court, London, on Tuesday, to four
months' imprisonment for striking his infant son a
terrible blow with his clenched fist. On being taken
into custody, he said as the child was his own "ha
could do what he liked with it."
In connection with the evacuation of the Soudan
all the troops, steamers, boats, and stores have reached
Abri. General Brackenbury has transferred the com-
mand of the rear guard of the Dongola garrison to
Colonel Grenfell._

The Egyptian Government is securing offices for the
payment of the indemnity awards, which is expected to
be made next month.

The " Bosphore Egyptien " has published a letter
from an engineer named Berti, who has escaped from
Berber. The writer declares that Olivier Pain is living,
and at Berber.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean read-
ing of the barometer last week was 2989 in. The mean
temperature was 61.2 deg., and 2.2 deg. below the
average. The mean showed a slight excess on Wednes-
day, but was below the average on each of the other
days of the week. The duration of registered bright
sunshine in the week was 32.8 hours, against 331
hours at Glynde Place, Lewes.
In London last week 2411 births and 1616 deaths
were registered, the annual average death-rate per
1000 of the population being 20•6, a higher rate than
has prevailed in any week since April last. Eleven
persons died from small•pox, 82 from measles, 13 from
scarlet fever, 16 from diphtheria, 77 from whooping
cough, and 216 from dysentery.
Twelve shocks of earthquake, one of which was very
severe, were felt in Cashmere on the 16th inst.
Early on Tuesday morning damage to the extent
£lOOO was done to the St. Andrew's New Roman
Catholic Church, Dublin by the falling of several
hundred square feet of the handsome ceiling.
When the parish priest entered tho Church about seven
o'clock he found the central portion in front of the
High Altar completely wrecked, the seats broken into
fragments, and the large metallic candlesticks smashed
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At the Dartford Petty Sessions, on Saturday,
William Samuel Keefe was se,ytenced to six months'
imprisonment with -hard labour, on three separate
cbarges of embezzling the moneys of his late employer,
Mr. Thomas Wiseman, butcher, of
,B'wanseombe:- A
short time ago prisoner was seht to prison for deserting
his wife mid family, and it wa.sejk.lawl.that-heehad
'heed lirtiteMtrfltallrderialigin tile prose=tor. by -col-
lecting accounts from customers and not paPfig in the
money. He Was accordingly arrested on three charges
on his liberati= at Maidatme Gacl.on Saturday warn-
ing.

On Monday the meeting of the Monetary Conference
of the five Powers-=-France, Italy, Greece, Switzeritaid,
and Belgium—tool' place at the Foreign Office In
Pyxis.

Aimla telegram rays that a d'espalch has been re-
ceive from the Secretary of State giving his assent to
the Bengal Tenancy BM. "
Lord Varnarvon on ISThuday recel7ed a deputation of
shareholiers in the Munster Bank, who asked for a
COvernment guarantee to the extent Pr half a million.
Ifiti-Excel!e,ncy expressed If s fear that such a guarantee
1V213-catsidr the province a!' the Government; and ha
di&not see 'why, after the favourable statement that
hacneen submitted, and the weli-knyrt ability and
energy-of the-management, they should not be-able to
resuscinate the- bank without fie'sfiggested
Mr. Mtmdella, in opening nen'Sdhool Board offices
at W&Vethampton on Monday, mid foni ofibial docu-
ments Arrnished to him he fourarl 'that the number of
children, on the sebool registers cf Great Britain last
month was •5;290;900, which was one-sixth of the popu-
lation. During the past five years there had been an
increase of '600,000 on the registers, and 730,0G0 in
average atttindance, while the chihlren* in the higher
standards jest doubled. Concurrently there had been
a great deer!,,ase- in crime, especiaLly -in respect of
younger criminals. The number of youths in prison
under 16 years of 'age:l...ad decreased from 429. in 1880 to
268 in 1883. rrEe decrease in criminals under 30 gene
of age formed 52 per eent, of the whcle. Mr. llfus.
della afterwards took peat in the openinof ft school vf
art.

Princess Fredbriba'cf Hremover on Monday afternbor.-
opened as a publie recreation ground a piece of land,
covering an area of tvco roods, adjoininT•-t3t. Pb.ul'es
Chapel, Globe-strcet, Rotlerhithe. The enclosure has'
kreen acquired for ittnew parpose through the-exertions -
of Lord Brabazon tzti- the ex.ecutive of the nittropolitan
Public Gardens Association.

The Paris Chamber of Deputies has voted the 'credit
of 50,000 francs to clef:4 the expenses of the reception-
of the Moorish Embeny.
A letter from the D•ze de Br%lie has been publighed,
in which he endeavcr.rg to show that the entiro.teepon-
sibility for recent evezts in Tonquin rests virth -the
' Ministers who followed the•Oabinet formed by hi-on
' May 16, 1877.
The First Chamber of tht-States General has adopted
; the Convention recently concluded with the Zealand
Company for the establisaltent of a daily steamer £e r-
vice between Flushing azd-Queenborough.
The King and Queen of the Flellenes accompanied'
by their suites, visited the Italian ironclads anchored.
•in Phalerum Bay. Their Lajesties subsequently dizzed
on board the flagship.
An official contradiction is triven to the intelligence
zecently published by some-London morning papers -
attributing speeches to the fitheikb-ul-Islam and the -
Grand Vizir at the ceremony of the Veneration of the
Prophet's Mantle. It is 4.3eiwed that the Imaun or,
the Mosque of Saint Sophia merely offered up the short
customary prayer, and that neither the Sheikh-u.l'ilam nor the Grand Vizir spells one word on the acca-
eion.

The vo/unteers returning to Toronto from the scene
of the recent rebellion in the North-West hare met
with an enthusiastic reception; thousands of persons
:pouring into the city to welcome the troops home.
The Dominion Parliament was prorogued on Mon-
day by the Marquis of Lansdowne. In his speech on
the occasion, his Excellency congratulated the members
on the suppression of the recent rebellion in the North-
West, and praised the bravery and good conduct of the
Oa-nadian troops. He also referred to the good feeling
displayed by the United States Government in watching
the frontier during the rising. The Governor-General
estimated the total expenditure for the year for all de-
partments at 37,000,000 dole. Before rising the House
:weed 95 bills, including the Franchise Bill and a bill
;or the relief of the Canadian Popifia. Railway from the-
otatutory mortgage of 30,C00,000 dole.
Owing to Mr. Roach's failure, which was announced
on Saturday morning, the Morgan Ironworks in New-
-York have been closed.

The number of immigrants wh landed in the United
aates during the last fiscal year was 387,821 being
122,018 less than in the preceding.year,
A debate took place in the Frenoh C7hamber on Mon-
day upon the question of the admission temporarily
into France of English cotton threads duty free..
Several speakers insisted that tho-Lyons silk industry
:Is- being destroyed owing to the free importation of
zotton thread now so largely employed in the manu-
facture of silk-stuffs being prohibited.
A meeting was held at the :Mansion House on Mon-
day at which the two committees hitherto subsisting-
for a national memorial to Geixral Gordon were amal-
gamated, and the funds subscribadwere united for the-
promotion of the Gordon Boys! Home. The joint
funds =Guilt tol enty-one thousand pounds.
As a man :Jam, d Frederick Smith and a woman
named Lousisa Durham, bcith employed at the
Criterion, Leicester, as cook and housemaid respec-
tively, were leaning on a balcony at the top of the
house the balustrade gave way and they were precipi-
tated into the street, a distanco- of 80 feet. The man
was killed on the spot, and the woman died within a
few minutes of the accident.

On Monday morning afire Irak& out in the volunteer
camp of the Ist Dumbartonshire Regiment, stationed:
at Lusa, Loch Lomond. The officers' messroom, a very
handsome building, was completely destroyed. The
fire was caused by some man sleeping in the room
without authority, and they are supposed to have been
smoking.
At the Manchester Assizes, John Taylor, who was.
found guilty on Saturday of shooting at William
Whittaker at Oldham with. intent to murder, was-
brought up for sentence. Mr. Justice Lopes said thero
was no doubt the prisoner intended to kill Whittaker,
who had not given him the slightest provocation, and
having regard to the terrible nature of the crime the
Court could pass no °the:. sentence than one of ten
years' penal servitude.
William Holland, factory operative, was indicted at
the Manchester Assizes for robbery with violence. A
man named James Bibto, 84 years of age, and aninmate
of the Oldham Workhouse, was sway at Royton on
leave. Some friends gave him a few shillings, and in
the evening he went into a publichouse and Rain for
some drink for himself and a friend. On leavu?gthis
piano he was assaulted and robbed by the prisoner,
who took from him 4s. ed. and a cotton bag. Mr.
Justice Lopes said he had not for a long time heard of
a more brutal assault, and he sentenced the prisoner to
six months' imprisonment, and ordered him to have
twenty-five strokes with the cat.
At about noon on Monday an explosion manned at
one of the powder mills of Messrs. Curtis and Harvey,
at Tunbridge. A man named Humphrey, who was near
at the time, Nue blown across the river. The premises
were very much damaged by the explosion.
William John loose, 28, rural postman between Lost-
withiel and Luxulyan' was sentenced to seven years.
penal servitude, at the Cornwall Assizes, on Monday, on
three counts of stealing packets containing jewellery
and other valuables, in transit through the post. The
thefts extended over a period of six months, and at the
prisonor's residence was found a large number of valu-
able articles, many of which have sines been claimed by
persons whose letteLs and packets had not been de-
livered. Mr. Collins, Q. 0., stated that a postal order
had been forged by loose, and he was suspected of
baying carried on systematic robberies for nearly three
years. The prisoner, who is the son of a respectaNe
farmer, pleaded guilty.
About 25,000 cotton operatives at Oldham went tint
on strike on Monday against the proposed reduction of
10 per cent. in their wages. The masters opened their
mills to give the workpeople an opportunity of return.
ing to work at the reduced wages, but in no case was
the offer accepted. Ths strike is expected to last some
time, as the operatives will receive support froneoutside
towns, each spinner receiving 12s. per week, and an ad.
ditional Is. per week for each child.