The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-07-05 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN,

A LONGIIEADED LAWYER.—A celebrated lawyer was
having his head measured at a fashionable hat store
the other day. The man remarked: "Why, how
long your head is, sir !" "Yes," said the lawyer, "we
lawyers must have long heads." The man went on
with his measuring, and rewarked next, And it is as
thick as it is long, sir.'

Precautions are being taken throughout Canada
against arrivals from France, in consequence of the
outbreak of cholera in that country.
At an adjourned inquest held on Saturday, on the
body of Thomas Gallemore, waggoner, Brewood, the
jury found that death was caused by a blow on the
head inflicted by Charles Clarkson, of Wolverhampton,
but that the blow was given in self-defence, and their
verdict was" Justifiable homicide."
Three spurious £5O Bank of England notes have been
received by a New York Bank from out-town branch.
An individual has been arrested at Milwaukie while
attempting to 11,,,gotiate similar notes'
The number of bills of sale published in England and
Wales for the week ending June 28 was 210.
The number in the corresponding week of last
year was 244, showing a decrease of four, being a net
decrease in 1844, to date, of 426. The number pub-
lished in Ireland for the same week was 19. The
number in the corresponding week of last year was 33,
showing a decrease of 14, being a net decrease, in 1884,
to date, of 482.
Thomas Kennedy, one of the prisoners charged with
the murder of a bailiff at Ballyforan, near Ballinasloe,
and who last week turned approver, committed suicide
in his cell on Tuesday morning by hanging himself to a
hook from which his hammock was swung. -
In the University cricket match at Lord's, which was
concluded on Tuesday, Oxford won by seven wickets.
At Cheltenham the Philadelphians beat the Gentlemen
of Gloucestershire by 168 runs.
A death from a singular cause occurred at Raystone
on Monday morning. A boy, aged four years, who was
left in bed on Sunday morning after his parents had
gone downstairs, took from a box in the room a bottle
containing brandy, of which, it is supposed, he drank
about half a gill. He was afterwards found in bed with
the cork of the bottle in his hand, and Bleeping ;,o
heavily, that he could not be roused. Medical assistance
was,called in, but he died next morning.
Crop reports from the Canadian North-wast continue
to be very gratifying. The weather has been propitious,
with ample rainfall, and, should present expectations
be fulfilled, the crop will be a very large one. The area
under cultivation is, moreover, largely in excess of last
year. The land returns of the Canadian Pacific Rail-
way alone show that, to the end of April in this year,
the sales to settlers reached the figure of no less than
53,375 acres, as against only 8000 in the same period of
ast year.

A Parliamentary Paper issued on Tuesday shows
that the number of human corpses found in the
Regent's Canal within the metropolitan district during
the years 1882 and 1883 was in the former year forty-
four, and in the latter forty-three. The coroners'
juries returned verdicts of accidental death in twenty-
one cases, of wilful murder in two cases, of suicide in
eighteen cases, accl forty-six open verdicts.
The Princess Louise, who was accompanied by the
Marquis of Lorne, presided on Tuesday at the formal
opening of the old cemetery of St. George's, Blooms-
bury, London and which, by the effortS of the Kyrie
society, has been laid out and preserved as a public
garden.
According to a Dundee paper, on the cccasion of a
recent Sunday School trip, a minister committed the
amazing indiscretion of marrying three couples in fun,
and some of them are now dreadfully afraid that by the
law of Scotland they are wedded in earnest.
On Monday afternoon, while Allan Mackenzie, a
gardener, was standing on a low seat arranging some
flowers in a garden at Hawick, he lost his balance and
fell to the ground. In falling, one of his eyes came in
contact with a slight iron rod, which supported a grow-
ing plant. The rod pierced the eye and entered the
forehead of Mackenzie to a depth of six inches. He
died in a few minutes.

A telegram' dated Victoria, Vancouver's Island, July
1, states that an explosion occurred on Monday in the
Wellington Colliery at Nanaimo. Twenty-four persons
Were killed and many injured.
In London last week 2691 births and 1471 deaths were
registered. Allowing for increase of population, the
births were 99, and the deaths 1 above, the average
numbers in the corresponding weeks of the last ten
years. The annual death-rate from all causes, which
had steadily declined in the four previous weeks from
19.2 17.8 per 1000, rose again by 19.1. The deaths in-
cluded 29 from small-pox.
Lord Kinnaird has intimated his intention of re-
ducing the rents on his Rossie estates 15 per cent. in
consideration of the depressed state of agricultural
affairs.

Fourteen British ona-foreign actual shipwrecks were
reported last week, of which nine were British owned,
making the total for the present year 794, against 992
for the corresponding period of last year. Only one
vessel (British) was reported lost with all hands. Three
(Spanish, American, and British owned) were destroyed
by fire, one being struck by lightning.
The number of live stock and the quantity of fresh
meat landed at Liverpool during last week from the
United States and Canada amounted to 1262 cattle,
6200 quarters of beef, and 791 carcases of mutton,
showing, when compared with the arrivals of the pre-
ceding week, a decrease in the imports of live stock, but
an increase in that of fresh meat.

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A Vienna telegram states that on Saturday a fearful
thunderstorm broke suddenly over some workmen em-
ployed on the Lemberg-Ozernowitz Railway. Three of
them were killed, one was wounded, and five were inias-
ing. A train conveying surgeons and medicines was
sent to their assistance.
flying the Imperial standard, and accompanied
sailed past Cron
other Imperial yachts from Peterhof,
of the
On Saturday the Russian Emperor's yachtOzarbyevntwaj
stadt out to sea. The Imperial party, composed
Emperor and Empress and the Duchess of Edinburgh,
intend visiting the islands on the coast of Finland.
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A steam boiler in use at a village near Dayton,
Ohio in a flour mill exploded on Friday night in last
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working there, 27 were buried in the ruins, seven being
killed and others injured—three of them fatally.
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of five Orangemen during the riots at Harbour Grace on
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