The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-06-26 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITR3II AND FOREIGN.

The Hellenic Parliament, having passed the Regency
Bill, adjourned on Saturday until October 22.
Mr. Archibald Forbes was married at Washington on
Saturday to the daughter of General Meigs.
The Duke of Cambridge on Saturday inspected the
London Rifle Brigade on the Guards ground, 110 e
Park. During the day some 13,030 volunteers were
under arms in various parts of the metropolis.
Prince Albert Victor and other members of the Royal
family were present at the Royal Military Tournament
at the Agricultural Hall on Saturday. It was esti-
mated that about 160,000 persons visited the tourna-
ment during the eight days that it remained open.
The Maharajah Scindia of Gsvalior died on Sunday.
Mr. Bridge, at the Bow-street Police-court, on Satur-
day, presented Police-constable Edwards, 132 E, with
1:6 for rescuing a woman from drowning in the Thames.
The magistrate remarked: "You ran considerable risk
of your own life in trying to save a drunken, bad
woman, but whatever she was the merit is the same.
You are a brave man.
The Ist Battalion of the Dorsetshire Regiment has
been ordered to Cy prus, owing to the sickness which pre-
veils among the men.
The Pope, when receiving, on the 16th inst., a per-
sonage possessing influence with Don Carlos, expressed
strong disapproval of any eventual attempt of the
Spanish Pretender to disturb the peace and tranquility
of Spain.
The funeral of the late King Louis took place at
Munich on Saturday afternoon. The remains were
conveyed by a long procession to St. Michael's Court
Chapel, where ths act of consecration was performed,
after which the body was placed in the ancestral vault.
The Greek Government has brought to a conclusion
the negotiations for a loan of nineteen millions of
francs, e ith which M. Tricoupis hopes to avoid the risk
ol any financial crisis.
The trial of the 11 men and women for the murder
of M. Watrin, at Decazeville, was concluded at the
Rodez Assize Court on Saturday. Seven of the pri-
soners, among whom were four women' were acquitted,
and the four others were sentenced to terms of im.-
prisonreent. Soon after the sentences were pronounced
a fire, believed to be of an incendiary character, broke
out at Decazeville, and five persons were burned to
death.

---Twenty-six of her Majesty's yearlings were disposed
of at the Hampton Court paddocks on Saturday. The
total realised was 48354 guineas, or an average of 180
pine?

SATI7III,-_.%11', JI:NE 2G, 1886:

The Archbishoif 'VOA presided on Tuesday at the
21st anniversary meeting of the supporters of the
Palestine Exploration Fund, held at the Royal Institu•
tion, Albemarle-street, London. A resolution vaiS
passed in support of the work of the fund.
Sir John Walsham, the New British Minister to
China, has arrived at Pekin.
Mr. D. D. Home, the once well-known spiritualist/
died on Monday, at Autueil, sear Paris, aged 53. Efe
will be principally remembered as the defendant in the
trial of "Lyon v. Home," in which the plaintiff sought
to recover £60,000 stock given to Home at the alleged
command of her husband's spirit between October, 1866 s
and February, 1867, Mrs. Lyon being successful in olr
taming a verdict.
The Prince of Wales visited Brighton on Mewls'',
when the Duke of Connaught was installed as Grand
Master of the Freemasons of Sussex. _

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In the Queen's Bench Division on Tuesday, the
actions for libel brought by Mr. Colledge, late British
Trading Consul at Kertch, ended in a verdict for the
plaintiff in 15 cases, with £lOO damages in each. In
the sixteenth case, that against the Central Neva,
damages to the amount of £5OO were awarded.
Between the Ist April last and the 19th inst. the
revenue receipts amounted to £18,114,843, as compared
with £18,510,396 in the corresponding period of the
last financial year, and the expenditure to £16,648,793/
as against £17,997,354. On Saturday last the Treasnr9
balances amounted to £6,005,242, as against £5,645,428
on June 20,1885
On Monday the Irish Master of the Rolls made en
order allowing the liquidators of the Munster Bank t°
pay at once in full all creditors of the Munster Bang
whose debts amount to £l5 and under.
A splendid royal sturgeon,-as long as its captor, and
weighing over 112 lb., was captured on Saturday at
salmon fishirgs near Stirling.
Over three hundred volunteer observers are now
vestigating thunderstorms in New England in ccnnec•
tion with the United States Signal Service.
The Cloncurry bounty steamer has just left Glasgeig
for various ports in Queensland with 197 single wells
114 single women, 142 married couples and children;
453 souls in all. _ _

Robina Anderson, the two months' old daughter of a
labourer living at 56, Garrick-street, Glasgow, Wee
drowned by falling out of bed into a tub.
Paris lodging keepers and house agents are meeting
with" rough weather just now. The firs in the city
at present unoccupied would accommodate 200,000
people, as nearly as can be estimated.
The mean reading of the barometer at the Royal Ob'
servatory, Greenwich, last week was 2972 in., the
variation being from 2991 in. to 29-51 in. The mese
temperature of the air, 545, was 5 0 below the average.
Rain fell on three days of the week, to the aggregate
amount of 0-16 of an inch. The duration of registered
bright sunshine in the week was 255 hours, against
30-2 hours at Glynde-place, Lewes.
A dispute came before the Judge at the Westminster
County-court, respecting the terms paid to Madame
Patti for singing at a concert. Mr. Ramsden engaged,
the lady to sing at Leeds, on hearing from the Musics'
Exchange (Limited) that her terms were £5OO net'
Subsequently he learned that she received cnly £450,
the agency retaining the other £5O as commission. birs
Ramsden sought to recover this £5O on the ground that
it had been obtained from him by misrepresentatioe.
The judge decided in favour of the defendants.
Mr. J. C. Humphreys, proprietor of Humphreys,
Hall, was summoned to the Westminster Police-court
on Tuesday, at the instance of the Westminster Die
trict Board of Works, for erecting Vene4ian masta,
with flags affixed, in front of the Japanese Village. It
was shown that to do this ho had pulled up the flag'
stones on the pavement. He was fined 20s.
M. de Lesseps has addressed a letter to the rbare'
holders of the Panama Canal Company to info:m there
that the board of directors have decided to call up the
remaining quarter, amounting to 125 francs, still par
able on the shares. This call will have to be paid bY
the 25th of September, and the money will he sufficient,.
to enable the company to ply the contractors whs.;
will be due to them. The works of the Canal villh
therefore continue to be pushed forward with energ34
A whole family at Erie, United States, was poisoned
the other day by eating freely of stewed pie-plant of
rhubarb, the effect of which was to make them speech'
less, with occasional convulsions. Attending physician;
believe that the corrosive nature of the plant, unitee
with the lead in the tin vessel in which the vegetable
was stewed, formed acetate of lead, a deadly poison.
The Chinese Government has been notified be' °
superintendent of police that secret societies are
moralising the native police force, and rendering 1"
next to impossible to obtain evidence in criminal cases'
After a funeral service at Naples in memory of the
Duke of Vasto, the drapery in the Church, San Ferdil
'
nando's, caught fire and nearly destroyed the whole ee
the interior of the building. The congregation had so
left.
Spurious Bank of England notes are reported to be 10
circulation at Stockholm, which have all the appearance
of being g nu-ne.
On Monday the Archbishop of Canterbury confirmed
eight boys and ',even girls belonging to the Margate
braneh of the Old Kent-road Deaf and Dumb Asylured
The ceremony took place in Canterbury Cathedral. e„
King Milan has granted medals to several ladies we"
tended the wounded soldiers during the late wet'
Among these there is an English lady, the wife of the
present Minister of Finance, late Servian represents'
tive in London, M. Mijatovics, who has received a geld
medal.
The death is announced at St. Petersburg of the
celebrated Russian dramatist Ostroff ski. It took place
suddenly at his estate in the Province of Kostroina'
He was 63 years of age. His many pieces cont ail
masterly sketches of character, especitely of the
uneducated Russian merchants and public fullee'
tionaries, whose peculiarities he delineated with
artistic fidelity which obtained wide recognition.
Patrick Curreen and Jai ies °leery have been cote'
mitted for trial, charged with having damaged the wage
surrounding the Roman Catholic Cathedral and the
bishop's residence at Sligo, and with having the follavr,
ing day incited a mob to attack the houses 01
Protestants, by alleging that the damage was done 1/
them.
At Belfast, on Monday, five young men were seri'
tenced to terms of imprisonment varying from four V?
six months for being members of a riotous mob tho
attacked and severely beat a number of Roman Catholic
girls employed in the Belfast Rope Works, on the
morning after the defeat cf the Home Rule Bill. Tbi
evidence showed that 25 girls were set upon by a croWe
of 400 men and boys, and were knocked down, kicked,
and stoned. In connection with the rioting, claire!
for malicious injury to house property, amounting,t
several thousand pounds, have been lodged with the
Town Council.
The pirpular novelist, Mr. Charles Gibbon, has hr
scribed his latest work, "A Princess of Jutedom,'o
Mr. Wilson Barrett, in the following terms:
Wilson Barrett I inscribe this book as a token 0
esteem and gratitude for the pleasure afforded me hi
his interpretation of" Mercutio," "Hamlet," and other
sharacters, and also in memory of a long and valued
friendship.
At a Council of Ministers held in Madrid on Sat'ir'
day, it was decided that the present useless and costli
Spanish navy, involving a maximum of annual expend!:
turn with a minimum of offensive and defensive WO,"
shall be done away with, and replaced as quicklY
possible by powerful cruisers of great speed, using WI,.
little fuel. Five thousaed tons will probably be tli!
utmost size of these vessels, and there will be
complement of torpedo boats of the first and secaw
classes.