The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-09-27 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BITISH AND FOREIGN.

The Dewan of Mysore has sawtioned the expenditure
of 1500 rupees for experiments in ensilage.
Throughout Manitoba and the North-West territory
the harvest is rather late, but the corps are good.
The price of the two Rubenses sold to one of the
Rothschild family from the Blenheim collection is said
to be 50,000 guineas.
Among the passengers by the City of Rome which
left Queenstowa for New York on Saturday was Madame
Christine Nilsson.
The body of Mr. W. Cowdall, solicitor, of Hinckley,
was on Saturday morning found in the canal at Nutts-
bridge, near Leicester.
On Saturday Cork Harbour and the south coast of
Ireland were visited with a dense fog. In the evening
steamboat traffic had altogether to be suspended.
Otters are on the increase in the Tweed district.
They have lately been seen in large numbers, and
several have been captured.
The trout season this year closed with the capture of
more trout than in many previous years, not only at its
terminating point, but throughout the entire period.
Colour-Sergeant Eccles, of the Duke of Cornwall's
Regiment, has committed suicide at Cork Barracks, by
hooting himself with a rifle.
Lately there was a tremendous storm at Puka,
Albania, which swept away six houses, burying the in-
mates and their cattle under the ruins.
The number of visitors to the Health Exhibition for
the week ending September '2O was 214,617; total since
the opening, 2,911,673.
Late on Sunday night a fro occurred on the premises
of Mr. George Rushly, beerhouse keeper, Pyebank,
Sheffield. A little boy, aged five, was so seriously suffo-
cated that he cannot recover.
inc Domes ot two persons were found on the railway
near Nottingham on Tuesday. One was that of a mer-
chant's bookkeeper named Oliver Wainwright, which
was lying across the metals near Lowdham with the
head severed from the body. He had been visiting a
friend at Lowdham ; but how he came to be on the
line is not known. The other body was that of a
married woman, which was discovered shockingly muti-
lated at Arnold, on the Great Northern Railway. It is
supposed that she must have wandered on to the line in
the darkness.
In London last week 2498 births and 1315 deaths were
registered. Allowing for increase of population, the
births were 126, and the deaths 101, below the average
numbers in the corresponding weeks of the last ten
years. The annual death-rate from all causes, which
in the four preceding weeks had declined from
21.2 to 17.8 per 1000 further fell last week to 17.1,
a lower rate than has been recorded in any week since
October, 1883. The 1315 deaths included 6 from small-
pox, 18 from measles, 26 from scarlet fever, 21 from
diphtheria, 22 from whooping-cough, 27 from enteric
fever, and 86 from diarrhcea and dysentery.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
reading of the barometer last week was 29.99 in. ; the
highest reading was 30.20 in. on Thursday merning, and
the lowest 29.80 in. at the end of the week. The mean
temperature of the air was 64.8 deg., and 71 deg. above
the average in the corresponding week of the 20 years
ending 1868. The mean showed an excess throughout
the week; the warmest day was Wednesday, when the
mean was 70.0 deg., and exceeded the average by 12.9
deg. Rain fell on Tuesday to the amount of 0.02 of an
inch. The duration of registered bright sunshine in the
week was 42.0 hours, against 411 hours at Glynde-
' place, Lewes.
On Tuesday morning two Hartlepool fishermen were
swept overboard and drowned through the breaking of
a rope fastening down the jibboom to the boat._
The 5.30 Great Western newspaper train frerrlgLondon
was brought to a standstill at Tivertop Tunnel on Tues-
day morning by the engine axle breaking. Fortunately
no one was injured.
News has been received in Carlisle that Mr. Henry
Macinnes, son of Mr. Macinne, of Rickerby, near that
city, has been killed by falling over a precipice in
Switzerland, where he has been staying with his
mother. The deceased, who was an undergraduate at
one cf the universities, was 21 years of age. No details
have yet been received.
From the Ist of April to the 20th inst. the Exchequer
receipts amounted to £35,914,809, as against £37,498,666
in the corresponding period of last year. The expendi-
ture was £36,914,190, against £38,380,145. The balance
at the Bank of England last Saturday amounted to
£3,345,572; in the Bank of Ireland, £1,325,467.
At the Blarylebone Police-court, Loy don, on Tuesday,
Henry Rainbow was committed for trial on a charge of
having obtained £125 from Sarah Ann Nash, a lady's
maid, by false pretences. It was stated that the
prisoner, who was a married man, but was supposed by
the prosecutrix to be single, had obtained possession
of the money under a promise of marriage, _


/At Newry on Monday a farmer named Bernard
Hughes was committed to gaol for one month for
having violently assatlted another farmer named
Daniel Hughes, with whom he had quarrelled respecting
some land.
Frederick Glen, a labourer at Darlington Steel Works,
while engaged on Monday at the top of a furnace chim-
ney, fell to the ground and was killed.
At Hanle, on Monday morning, John Crannon, a
bricklayer's labourer, was sent to gaol for six months
with hard labour for wounding his wife, Maria
Grannon, whilst in a fit of jealousy, on Saturday
night. The prisoner locked the door of his house; and
after beating his wife in a dreadful manner, dragged
her upstairs and stabbed her twice on the head with a
knife, inflicting serious wounds. She ultimately made
her escape through a window.
A woman named Hallett was at Bridport on Monday
committed for trial to the assizes on the charge of
cruelty to her son, who is over 20 years of age. It is
alleged that, having observed that, if she could do
nothing else, she would burn him, she three times
threw at him a lighted spirit lamp, causing such
injuries as to necessitate his removal to the hospital.
After the magisterial investigation the prisoner swore
in court, and stated that she had already had twelve
months in prison.
A farmer named Solly, living at Ash, near Sandwich,
committed suicide on Monday by cutting his throat.
He had been depressed for some time in consequence
of the bad state of farming.
Auchmithie Hotel, perched on a high ledge rock about
31 miles from Arbroath, was totally destroyed by fire
on Monday morning. Information of the fire was sent
to Arbroath, but before the fife brigade reached the _
village the building was almost in ruins. The hotel was
well-known to English and Scottish tourists, and was
on one occasion visited by Sir Walter Scott, who
selected Auchmithie as the scene of some of the most
stirring incidents in "The Antiquary."
Captain Jones, of the Dundee steamer Loch Garry,
which brought the survivors of the Greely expedition
from Disco to St. John's, was on Monday presented
with a valuable piece of silver plate and a purse of
sovereigns by the shareholders of the Dundee Loch Line
Steamship Company, in recognition of his services in
safely navigating the Loch Garry in the Arctic Ocean,
and being the means of bringing home Lieutenant
Greely and his party.
The dead body of Mr. Walter Farthing, of Storvey
Court, near Bridgwater, the well-known breeder of
Devon cattle, has been fouud in a pond near his resi-
dence, his coat and hat being left on the bank, and his
watch having stopped within half an hour after he had
left home.
At Whitehaven Police-court, on Monday, Thomas
Carty, a youth of 16, was committed for trial on the
charge of having caused the death of his father at Flis-
sington on September 7. The prisoner threw a stone
which struck his father in the abdomen,from the effects
of which he died on the 13th inst. _ .

On Monday afternoon an inquest was held at
Birchington-on-Sea on the body of Sarah Alexander
Pemble, 21, the daughter of a butcher' who cut her
throat between three and four o'clock that morning.
She had been suffering recently with her head, and the
night before complained that the keeping of the
accounts troubled her. She appears to have left her
bcd and gone into the shop, where she stabbed herself
in the neck, dying almost immediately.
A convict, named Noon, aged 21 years, now under-
going five years' penal servitude,u-as on Monday flogged
with the cat at Portsmouth Convict Prison. About
three weeks ago he knocked down his warder, whom he
disarmed and threatened to wound with the merd
which he wrested from the officer. For this he as
sentenced to receive three dozen lashes. He cried
piteously even before the punishment commenced, and
continued to scream so much that upon the infliction
of the 15th lash he was taken down for medical ex-
amination, after which the flogging was resumed until
two dozen lashes had been imposed when, in conse-
quence of the report of the doctor who again examined
him, he was at once removed to his cell. _ _

Satisfactory accounts both as to the quality and the
quantity are received from all the vintage districts of
France. In Burgundy 1884 will be reckoned among the
red letter years.
A prize of 20001. is ordered by the Temperance
Society of Paris for the best work on drinks, both tem-
perance and alcoholic. The subject may be treated
with regard to the action on the body of the liquors or
their composition. A wide field is thus thrown open to
competitors. •
The Emperor Francis Joseph has appointed the
Cz,arewitch lieutenant in the Uhlan regiment bearing
the name of Alexander 11., and the Grand Duke
Sergius honorary colonel of the Austrian Infantry Regi-
ment No. 101.
A correspondent of "Land and Water," writing
from Oderberg, says: " Salmon have again made their
appearance in the Oder. Fine specimens, mostly weigh-
ing considerably above 251 b. each, have been taken
lately in places where none have been caught for Many
years past."
A Parliamentary return shows that the effective
strength on January 1, 1884, of the British Army was
181,227 of all ranks, as against 193,397 on January 1,
1883, the number for the present year being the lowest
for over 20 years, the previous lowest being in 1876,
when the total was 183,949.
Owing to the heavy rains, serious floods have occurred
in the provinces of Huesca, Lerida, and all the eastern
provinces of Spain. Telegraphic and railway communi-
cation has been interrupted, and great damage has been
done to property and the crops. The loss of life, how-
ever, is inconsiderable. The province of Lerida has
suffered most from the floods.
A New York telegram states that the visible supiily of
wheat on Sept. 19 was 20,100,000 bushels, as against
18,500,000 bushels the previous week. Visible supply
of Indian corn, 5,100,000 bushels, as against 4,500,000
bushels the previous week. The export clearances of
wheat for Europe during last week amounted to
1,690,000 bushels; the export clearances of Indian corn
for Europe during the previous week amounted to 550,000
bushels.
A mannamedMead, who was convicted at the Central
Criminal Court, London, of a robbery with violence, has
been sentenced to five years' penal servitude and to re-
ceive twenty stripes from the cat-o'-nine-tails. The
grand jury had previously made a special representation
that in cases of this description the punishment of the
lash should be more frequently inflicted.
A Chinese orchestra rehearses daily in Mott-street,
New York, preliminary to giving a series of concerts in
neighbouring cities. A remarkable instrument is the
trumpet. It is of Tartar origin, and produces a noise
like a bagpipe, only much louder. The rehearsals are
described as "dismay din" by those who have heard
them.
A sad accident is reported from Derry. An old Man
named M`Gregor was walking along the railway line at
Kilrea, where there is a sharp curve. A train coming up
gave the alarm, and while Bl'Gregor was looking round
it came up, knocked him down, and cut his head off,
leaving the body by the side of the line WA the head
some distance away. •
On Saturday several sailors belonging to her Majesty's
ship Shannon, guard-ship of the Clyde, were sleepine
on board a steam launch, which was moored at the steed
of the Albert Harbour, Greenock, and as the tide re-
ceded the stern of the launch sank. The water rushed
in and speedily filled the vessel, the seamen having
barely time to spring ashore minus most of their
clothes. The launch afterwards went down. _
In Birmingham the other morning, a young German
went up to a policeman and asked the way to the Ger-
man Consul's office. The policeman accompanied him.
But, on the way, the man suddenly pulled out a bottle
of prussic acid, broke it with his teeth, and swallowed
the contents. He died immediately. A portion of the
bottle was found in his throat. He had received orders
to rejoin his regiment in Germany.
The Balloon Society of Great Britain, in conjunction
with L'Academie d'Aerostation of Paris, intend to hold
an Aeronautical Exhibition in London next year. The
exhibition will include apparatus for balloon photo-
graphy, the manufacture of gas for balloons, flying
machines, and propelling and steering apparatus.
A New York telegram states that at the bicycle
meeting at Springfield, Massachusetts, last week, several
of the English cyclists who are on a tour in America
came to the fore. The Ten Miles Race for profes-
sional riders was won by Howell, of Wolverhampton,
and S. Sellers, of Preston, carried off the Half and Two
Milts race. , •
An extraordinary discovery was made near Edinburgh
on Saturday. Two medical men were called in to see a
patient, when they found that he had been living for
seven years in a bed closet, holding communication.
with no one, not even his sister, who lived in the same
house. His hair was about two feet long, and he had
armed himself with an axe, with which he attacked the
doctors when they approached him. The unfortui?ate
man has been conveyed to an asylum.
An inquest was held at Liverpool on Saturday on
the body of Ann Pollard, aged 13, which had been
found ;n the canal. Medical evidence was given to the
effect that the child had been violated a short time
before death. The inquest was adjourned. A reward
of £5O has been offered for evidence as to the murder,-• -
awl of £5 for the recovery of the girl's clothes. -
On Saturday a man named Williams, in the employ
of Messrs. Bemrose Brothers, Aldersgate-street, London, -
under the impression that the lift was standing at thern
top floor, stepped, as he supposed, on to it, but it had ,
been lowered to the bottom, and he fell about 601 t. He
was picked up insensible and removed to the hospital.
He is not expected to recover.
On Saturday, while a number of labourers were
demolishing some old buildings in a court in Drury-
lane, London, a quantity of debris fell upon two of
them. They were both taken to Charing-cross Hos-
pital. One of them, Patrick smith, was found to have
sustained slight injuries, but the other, named William
Terrant, of Havelock-street, Islington, had his skull
badly fractured. .•
An accident of a serious character occurred on Satur-
day afternoon at the St. Pancras Cemetery, Finchley,
to the foreman gravedigger, Abraham Wakefield, wild,
after superintending the excavation of a grave, by some •
unaccountable means stumbled at the brink and
pitched head foremost down, a distance of ten or f
twelve feet. Assistance was speedily at hand, and
after considerable trouble (Wakefield being a 16,7
heavy man) he was hauled to the surface in an. in- '
sensible condition. Dr. Drew, of Finchley, was .sent
for, and promptly attended, but seeing Wakefield's in-
juries were of a serious character, at once ordered his --
removal to the hospital.
The additions to the Zoological Society's Gardens,
Regent's-park, London, during last week included-3_
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A. Fraser; a tuberculated iguana from Brazil, pre-
sented by Mr. J. H. Leech; a brown capuchin, a weeper
capuchin from Brazil, a Malbrouck monkey from West
Africa, two victoria crowned pigeons from the Island
of Jobie deposited; three ruddy flamingoes from North
America, purchased; two ring-tailed 1 emurs, a great
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