The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-06-28 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The official declaration of the result of th polling in
Mid-Surrey was made on Saturday. For Sir John
Whittaker Ellis, the-Conservative candidate, 7645 votes
were recorded; and for Mr. Sydney Stern, Liberal, "
4949, thus showing a Conservative majority of 2696.
There is some reason to believe that if the Load Line
Committee recently appointed by the Board of Trade
reports in time, its recommendations will be embodied
in a short bill to be introduced into Parliament in
August.

Pearl fishing on the Tay upper reaches is now being
prosecuted by several parties. At Caputh one day last
week seven pearls were got during half an hcur's fish-
ing. Six of the pearls are valued at £3 each.
At the fortnightly meeting of the Metropolitan
Asylums Board on Saturday, the comparative returns
of the numbcrs of small-pox patients in London showed
an increase of 230.
. James 'Walters, a sailor, aged 24, was drowned at
Honiton on Saturday morning while bathing. He sank'
almost immediately he entered the water. It is.
supposed that he was attacked with cramp. The body
was found shortly afterwards. •
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The annual meeting of the South Wales and Mon-
mouthshire Miners' Provident Society was held at.
Cardiff on Monday. The report showed that the num-
ber of members had increased from 14,303 in 1882 to
22,541 in 1883. The available balance at the close of
the year was £12,558 as against £6,956 in 1882.
On Monday Thomas Crampton, 57, blacksmith, of 8,
Livingstone-street, Roundhay road, had his left arm
amputated at the Leeds Infirmary. Crampton was
riding a tricycle along 31eanwood-road, when one of
the wheels got locked in the tram lines, and before he
could release it he was thrown and run over by a cart.
His left arm was severely fractured, and there was also
a fracture of the thigh.
The elections in Hungary have resulted in the re-
turn of 235 Liberals against 174 Government candi-
dates.

The Cunard steamship Pavonia was entering the
Langton Dock at Liverpool on Tuesday afternoon when
the cylinder casing of the engine burst. The chief
engineer, who was standing close by, was severely
scalded by the escaping steam, but no further damage
was done.

Tuesday night's .4 London Gazette "contains a notice
that the Prince of Wales will, by command of the
Queen, Mid leeve,s at St. James's Palace, on behalf of
her Majesty, on Monday, the 7th, and on Monday, the
14th of July next, at two o'clock.

On Tuesday morning a destructive fire occurred at
the Britannia Cotton Mill, Heywood, belonging to
Cobden, Rill, and Co., doing damage to the extent of
.£lO,OOO, and destroying 13,000 spindles. A man named
Townley, who had got on to a low ledge to witness the
fire was killed by the fall of a coping stone from the
burning building.
On Tuesday Mr. Alderman Whitehead and Mr. G.
Faudel Phillips (youngest son of Alderman Sir Benjamin
Phillips) were elected as the new sheriffs of London
and Middlesex.

At Newry on Tuesday Thomas Mulholland, a
Nationalist, was committed for trial at Downpatrick
Assizes, but admitted to bail, charged with having fired
a loaded revolver with intent to kill on the occasion of
the recent rioting at Newry.
The Queen, who takes a great interest in the Royal
Tapestry Works at Windsor has just purchased three
panels, the work of the English apprentices, represent-
ing Osborne, Windsor, and Buckingham Palace. These
designs are treated with foliage, and are intended to
illustrate the seasons. Balmoral, which represents
winter, is already in the possession of her Majesty.
Windsor, Buckingham Palace, and Osborne will repre-
sent spring, summer, and autumn respectively.
The body of the Prince of Orange has been embalmed,
dressed in uniform, and placed on a bed of State.
Mr. F. W. Hetherington, who introduced cricket
into Holland three seasons ago, has arranged another
series of matches to take place in Holland and Belgium
shortly.
On Tuesday the portrait of the late Mr. Samuel
Bowly, presented to him as a national testimonial by
the Temperance League, of which he was president,
was handed over to the Corporation of Gloucester for
the citizens.

A few days ago, writes a Naples correspondent, at a
town called Sansevero, the syndic gave orders that all
dogs found in the streets unmuzzled should be killed on
the spot. The police made a raid on the poor animals,
either poisoning or shooting all they found. Continuing
the chase until evening, they had made an end of 102
dogs._

In London last week 2615 births and 1371 deaths were
registered, the former having been 22, and the latter
80, below the average numbers in the corresponding
weeks of the last ten years. The deaths included 41
from small-pox, 81 finm measles, 24 from scarlet fever,
11 from diphtheria, 68 from whooping-cough, 21 from
dysentery, and 1 from simple cholera.
From April 1 to the 21st inst. the Exchequer receipts
amounted to C 18,312,610, as compared with £19,224,582
in the corresptfuling period of last year. The expendi-
ture has bcen £14,374,767. On Saturday last the balance
in the Bank of England was £7,325,190, and in the Bank
of Ireland £1,278,174.
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On Tuesday evening a passenger train from Consett
to Darlington, on arriving at Crook, ran past the points
and came into collision with some waggons standing on
the line. All the passengers were considerably shaken,
but were able to proceed on their journey.
An Odessa telegram states that Captain Gidshen, ad-
jutant of Gendarmerie, has been found dead at his resi-
dence with one temple shot through and a dagger wound
in the breast. The deceased officer is supposed to have
committed suicide.

The Albert M., schooner, of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia,
was passed derelict on June 10, in lat. 41 N., long. 64
'W., by the steamer Greece, of New York. The vessel
was lying right in the tack of steamers going both
ways. Both her masts were gone, only about ten feet
of her mainmast standing, and the decks were awash
with the water.

A Berlin correspondent announces the death at
Dresden of Professor Dr. Ludwig Richter, the celebrated
painter, in his 82nd year. He enjoyed an annual pen-
sion of 3000 marks from the Emperor, and a statue is
to be erected to him at Loschwitz, near Dresden, in
Septeml
At the Central Criminal Court on Tuesday, James
Frederick Manning, 22, pleaded guilty to a charge of
bigamy. The prisoner married first his wife in 1880,
when he was only 18 years old. He deserted her after
living with her about six months, and this year he
married another young girl, to whom it was stated he
behaved very unkindly. He was sentenced to 18 mouths'
imprisonment with hard labour.
In reference to the recent experiments in thought-
reading in the House of Commons, Mr. Gladstone writes
to Mr. Cumberland that "being ignorant of scientific
subjects he feels a difficulty in appearing to pronounce
any jadgment on what was certainly a very interestinz
and perfectly genuine exhibition."

A Evssian Ukase calls out 224,000 men, as the usual
contingent of army conscripts for 1884.
A Chinese line of telegraph has been constructed,
and is now working between Canton and Lungchou
(ninety miles south of Nanning), on the Tonquinese
frontier.

The Irish Sunday Closins Bill is regarded as lost for
this session; and the existing Act will be renewed in
the Expiring Laws Continuance Bill.
From a Return which has been laid before Parlia-
ment it appears that the Commission of National
Education in Ireland consists of ten Roman Catholics,
five members of the late Established Church, three
Presbyterians, and one Unitarian.
A fire broke out on Sunday morning at Mr. Watson's
flour mills at Stockton-on-Tees, the wheat-cleaning
department and warehouses being entirely gutted, while
the building over the engine-room was also damaged.
Owing to the iron doors the flames were prevented from
spreading to the mining department. The loss is great,
as besides the machinery, about 1500 sacks of wheat
were destroyed.
A severe frost prevailed in the Cleveland district
last Saturday morning, and crops of potatoes near
Goathland and Fylingdale were quite blackened by its
intensity.
The Dundee whaler Chieftain arrived in the Tay on
Monday from the Greenland whale fishery. She had
only one boat's crew on board, so that the other two
boats and their crews of fifteen men, who lost sight of
the vessel while out after whales, had been given up as
lost. Those in charge of the Chieftain state that
nothing was seen of the boats after the fog set in, and
that after a long-and fruitless search they bore up for
home.

The Roman Catholic chapel attached to The Hall,
Wellingore, Lincolnshire, the seat of Mr. Ralph C.
Neville, was on Sunday afternoon discovered to be on
fire, and by six p.m. it was entirely destroyed, the
damage being estimated at £lO,OOO.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was seated
in the Peers' Gallery in the House of Commons ou
Monday during Mr. Gladstone's statement in reference
to the Anglo-French agreement. M. Waddington and
several members of the Corps Diploroatique were seated
in the tribune reserved for distinguished strangers.
The joiners at Bradford struck work on Monday
morning. The men seek to fix the rate of wages paid to
men of average skill at 70. per hour. Several hundred
men are cut,

A..panic occurred on Sunday night dutin.-' a revival
service at a llleth,'clist Calvanistic Chapel at Bryn-
siency, Anglesey. The building was crowded, and sud-
denly the galleries began to creak, causing great alarm.
Scores of people leaped from the windows to the ground,
others rushing to the doors, where many were knocked
down and trampled on. Severe injuries were sustained
by many, but no deaths are reported.
A female lunatic named Clearly died in a train on
Monday on the South-Eastern Railway, whilst being
conveyed from Sydenham to Barming Heath Asylum.
At Wisbeach on Monday, whilst Mr. William Griggs,
pyrotechnic artist, was mixing chemicals used in the
manufacture of fireworks, an explosion took place which
set fire to and destroyed the laboratory in which the
work was going on. Mr. Griggs, who was working
alone, whilst endeavouring to subdue the flames, virt.
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At the Central Criminal Court on Monday, William
Mugford, who had pleaded guilty at the last assizes of
embezzling various sums of money, the property of the
Fine Arts Society, was sentenced to five years' penal
servitude. He had been two years in the service of the
society, and had embezzled, it was stated, £2500.
On Monday the master plumbers of New York, as a
result of a dispute, locked out 1200 journeymen, thus
enforcing idleness in all the large plumbers' shops. This
course has been taken in order to force the plumbers'
trade union to recognise the right of the employers to
control the Journeymen.
On Monday afternoon the new gun-vessel Mariner was
launched at Devonport dockyard in the presence of
about_Booo spectators. The Mariner is a sister ship to
the Acorn and Relrided, diffeiing only frcim them in
that she carries eight instead of only six 5-inch breec' -
loading guns on Vavasseur mountings.