The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-01-18 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

In the year ended the 31et of December last the
value a eggs imprrted was £1,E37.vb6, showing a con-
sidered° inormise on the preceding year, when the amount
was 41,265,484.

The subject for the Burney Prin at Cambridge for
the present year is '• Christen Prayer, considered in relation
to the belief that the almighty goveraa the world by general
I WI."

The eolliere in the Darlington cliattict have within
the last week contributed upwards of £.500 towards the sup.
port ~f their brethren on strike in South Wales, bein.; the
produce of a levy of 2s. per head, and intended to cover too
weeks.

From April lot to the 11th inst., the Exchequer
receipts amounted to 1:53,169,694, as compared with
£50,663 OSO he the correeponning period ,f Isar year. The
expen,tlture has been £57,562,684. On Saturday last the bal-
ance In the Bank of England was £1,362.261.

It is stated that there is great di,tress in Paris, and
that two-thirds of the rents due this month will not be paid.
There are many houses without a single tenant. not many
which have r. mined vacant since September. 1.+70. the
litinewr ci ap atments vivant are countless, and than which
rent, d for Mfr. before the war cannot Low be rade I for
4 Ofr.

"Not guilty" was the verdict pronounced by the
jury Is the MO Court of Justiciary at lgnioburgh, In the
case of the two men, Alexander Currie, the atation-inastrr,
wed Rohert Ramsay, the poiutsman, who Ir.d bees charged
with culpable hondolde In causing the terrible rally col-
lision at Kirtlebrulge Junction. The result was recAved
with loud applause in the court.

The number of lives lost by the week of the
Ge noun iallow ascertain-3 to have been 26 three corpses,
atm r lit, y et persona belonging to the illfated cruel, have
been wa•h, cl nab-re In the Isle or 0 iron. Mr. Hughes, who
was oat board, was swept away by a wave, bat borne back
ag.in with both hp brace!). He was taken up on the
Ern.medara and carried to Lisbon.
The anzafa Calabrese reports that a gentleman in
the brirpuld line and a rtval in ferocity to the celebrated
Oitetiationei Noise been attacked by serious threes, width
ihcaust hutted him fur further work, ret,red to spend the re
inamder of Ids days in peaee at Catanzaro, his winter
quarters The Italian government, however, meanly took
advantage of his tubdortoue, arrested him, and sent him to
prison The admirer, of Jack Sheppard will be glad to
earn that be ken since succeeded in escaping.

There la a report that it is aossible the Prince of
Wales may visit India at no very distant, dote

It is stinonneral that the sutacri ',Mons to tha \I anion
thrum Fowl f.,r the lehef of the sufferers by the Datum in-
undations amonst to nearly £6,Q00.

At the High Court of .Tustietary, Edinburgh, a
man residing at Dundee was sent to orison for six
for having falsely registered all illegitimate children as
legitimate.
Wednesday, the 21rd of April, has been definitely
fixed for the commencement of the Tichborne Claimant,
trial, and the proceedings will continue daily without Inter.
misedon.

Mr. Bonar, the English Minister at Berne, nearly
lost his life on Sunday in a gallant attempt to sage a lady
who had fallen Into the ice The toe giving way Mr. Boner
and several other persons were immersed, but fortunately all
were extricated.

The Japaneiie Government has jut made an !add.
Idenlll grant of 2,000 COO doh, in aid of the schools of the
empire. A geographical and historicist manual in Japanese
and English is also about to be introduced.
Mr. Birley, M.P., was one of the 'meekers at the
meeting of the Manchester Working Men's Conservative As-
sociation, at the Belle Yee Gardena, on Saturday evening,
and atated that the Col 'Mal question would be a feature in
the next Conservative programme.

It has now transpired that during the Viceroy's
mcent snit to Bombay, Nees Mahomed Khan, who is said to
have been one of the most prominent combats:4s against
the lirbish Government during the mutiny of 1857, was
captured am..ng the followers of one of the if attywar chiefs
The lock-out of Warwickshire miners has termi-
nated—the proprietas of the other coliierls agreeing to
adopt a similar course ro that pursued by Mr. %%Mem, of
the Wsken Colliery. whereby the mem will he in the pit
nine liners, instead of ten and a-half, and work eight home
inateaci of nine.
Her Nlaj-aly'e Cummiasioners for the London Inter-
national &chi, Won of 1873 have decided to offer to Art
Societies which have no hoed places for the display of their
works, space, where the productions of each society may be
shown together.

A "Lombard" telegram from Paris says :—ln con.
sequence of the publiention in the Evenernent of ay 'wilting
obituary of the late Emperor Napoieon 111., M. de Ville-
mesaant denounced in the Figaru the conduct of the chief
editor of the Be•nement, M. Maenier ; the latter has chal-
lenged if. de Villemeseant to fight a duel.
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Early on Saturday morning, two holism in St. David's
Exeter, fell. the walla had been undermined by the recent
rams. As the froLt wall of nun ‘4 the houses fell [lest, the
Inmates were able to make a hurried escape, and 1 nme.
distele afterwards the e hole building came down. No one
Westport. Toe buildings are supposed to be 150 years .1,1.
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The truateen of the Batts' 1; -Museutn and the Lords
of the Treasury have a^cepted the offer of the proprleton of
the Daily 7elograph to eend out to Assyria, et an expense
of 1,000 guineas. for six months, Mr. George Smith the de-
cipherer of the taidets which have lately caused so much In-
terest In the antiquarian not literary worldp.
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On Saturday an auplic,ttion by Mr. Hawlrina, Q 0.,
was made In the Com t of Queen'. Saadi for a rub. ..fling
upon Moors. Whalley and 0111110 w to answer for their 'speeches
to D.ceinher last, at St James's Hall, In respect to the case
of " the Claimant," which Mr. Hawkln. contended were a
contempt of Court. The rule was granted ; and the Court
directed Maus. Whalley and Ouslow to attend on Monday
the 20th.

There are, at the present moment, twenty-three
Roglishapeaking sculptors resident in Rome, slxtwen of
chum are Americans Amongst the latter are live ladles—
Limes Roomer, Lewis, Foley, and Freeman, and Mrs. Free-
man. l'he painters of our race studying In the Eternal City
are nearly two score, but here the hritish element prepon-
derates over the American.

The foxhound.. can be heard in full cry in the neigh-
bourhood of the Seven-hilled City vile wagon as MIL
Prince Humbert is. regular attendant' at the meets. At the
last run we have an aicount of (which to,ll plate over the
tufted hillocks of the Campaana) Bartlett, the huntsman, and
a couple of Italian dukes canto to gr ef—" patronised the
.an fall," aa a waggish English h•Tikenusti remarked.
Fancy hunting the fox within view of the dome of St. Peter's
Arrangements are being made for opening a gaßtro.
nominal exhlbltmli at Prague. A committee of Bohemian
noblemen and gentlemen hag been oi nr,il for this purpose,
under the presideu y I Prince lingo Taxi.. The exhibition
will consist of a number of cold dishes, prepared by
the-
mba cooks and prizes will Se given for the most suocessfal
of these preparal inns the days tixed for the exhibition are
the 7th and Bth of February.
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A most extraordinary crime has just been corm
mitted at Auderlecht in 13...igtura. A wrrkman. named
Dubois, ou leaning that his sou. aged eleven had not been
to work u the previous day in a factory where he 1, appren-
ticed, fret hanged the boy, and then committed suivide in
the same manner. The man, to get his wife out of the 'FRI,
had lent her on an errand; when she returned she found
them both dead.

In the Ati,t.rian capital, if von want to give a little
girl a hand•ome present, it in chic to huy • dog exact,y the
some sire as the child, and dress It from heal to foot in the
most splendid material., rings, ear-rinle, and generally a
watch and chain If you 'dab to do the thino partt ularly
well, • tre,usseau accempania. the priming. [And we may sup-
pose If you wish to do it particularly particularly well, a
dower tnust alto accompany the doll

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The estimat,d weal! h of the moat eminent writers
of France, all .1 whom startni in life without anything to as
follows :—Viotor Hugo 1t0,00)1 ; George Eland, manly twice
as ranch ; Emile de dirardin 8 500,000 f. • Adolphe niers,
1,000 0(0'. ; Alexandra Damas,,fils, 400 0001 ; Edmond Ah.nt,
250,0001 ; Alphonse Karr, 100,, 001 ; Jules Jtwin, 670 00,1. ;
Eloocri Lanonlaya, 10000'. ; Victorian Sardou, 100,0001 ;
Throphlle Gautier died a mllionalre, and the widows Of
icribe and Ponsard lie. in affluence.

A correspondent saye that the fleet ton of dynamite
made in this country was manufactured at the Arden Works
in Scotland last week, where the manufacturers will be able,
when the men are properly instructed, to make ten tone a
day, the dynamite works are very extensive, situated
amongst a heap of sand hills near the sea about a mile from
Stevension. There are more than a dozen of these factories
in existence in different parts Of the world, but this one is by
far the largest of nay of them. U. Nobel, the inventor of
dynamite, to at the manufactory hr North Britain.
Canon Forde, Roman Catholic Archtescon of Dub'
tie, died on Mondsy night is Dublin. Ile was one of the wit-
nerses forth. defence in the action of the Rev. Mr. O'Keefe,
of Callan, against Cardinal Callen ; and it was on account of
his serious Meese that the trial was postponed. His malady
was the same as that which carried off th• Emperor Nave
leon, and, like him Canon Ferde recently underwent an
operation. Ile was fifty-two years of age.

Some experiments were made at the limestme quar-
ries in Werth fitaltv.ishlre on Sstorday, with a new blasting
p wdxr, called • A.st Me a RNA,. t• pewont wore
divideti iii OiUIOU Mt., it. merit.. Wring the experiments
one tremendous "shot" sae fired for the purpose of com•
parisop. This consisted of 4,7001 b of ordinary gunpowder
di-posited in a chamber excavated In the rock more than 3( ft
from the face. Int explosion brought down about 10,000
tons of limestone, and Icft beetles boveral enormous manse
apparently tottering and ready to fall.

The Old Testament Company of Reviaere resumed
their labours on Tuesday, beginning willa Deuteronomy area,
I. The chair FM L. 1.11 by the Rev. Dr Kay. The other
members in attendance were Archdeacon Harrison, Canons
Selwyn and Perown, Drs. Gotch, D Mee, and Ginsburg.
Professore Plumptre, lioneley, Chenery, and Loathes, and
Mr W. A. Wright. Communication. were received from the
Itiahope of Llandeff and Si. David's, Professor. Alexander,
Weir, and Geden, and the Rev. W. Field, who were unable
to attend.

The inning/um Port tells Us that "a pictorial ex-
planationaof a rather novel character, on a matter of con-
siderable interest just now to Birmingham hou.eholders and
property owners, took place at the meeting .4 the watch
committee, on Tuesday. It con- toted of a repert from the
chief nf police, illuitrated by the photographic portraits of
no less than 622 profesaional gentlemen who have done Bir-
mingham the honour tu a-lout it aa their place of residence."
It seems that 105 are earnimi their livelihood under police
supervision; the remaining 717 are simply known as returned
conyicts._

The Barrow Iron and Steel Company hare just
secured • thousand acres of the estate of Mr. Edmunds, of
Worsborough hall, near Barnsley, and in all probability will
take a much larger area, for the purpose of working • rich
seam of Silkstone coal, which is known to exist below the
Earnsley or "top hard. '' seams, at an average depth of gig
yards. The flebi about to be opened out must contain many
millions of tons of coal and toe coal is said to he one of the
font In the kingdom either for gas or household purposes.
The Borrow Company, however, will make the greater por-
tion of the coal thus raised into coke, In order to supply
thelr numerous fur:moms.

Acc..rrling to • Paris paper, the fret operation per.
formed for Ni. extraction of atone, or calculus, from the
bladder took place on the 14tk of January, 1474, in the
cemetery of Saint Severio, the patient being an archer from
&tendon, °midtown d to he hanged. It appears that the
diorite wan somewhat rite amongst the up nee el ot•ses of
Paridmvnstooracy at the tirur, and the King Louis Xi., was
persuaded by the doctors to allow the operation bemg made
on the condemned convict in the Interest of tiled cal sdence.
The opriation was made by Or. Germain Collet, and was
attend. d with MCCOY, and the man received a full pardon
from the King

A meeting waa held In Birminghem on Seturdwy
../.0134 to Mr.)ss s)mpathy with the las rimmed London
gas stoker. slue to pretest against what is considered an out.
rage upon trades' unionists. There was a large attendanco,
C,lldist tug chiefly of wc eking men. Rea anti.. were passed
sir ugly condemning the sentence parsed by Hr. Jostle.
Brett and in favour of a memorise: being pr sent•-d to the
Home Secretary that the term of Impriswitnent might he
shortened as much as possible A motion was also paired
pledging the ineetieg to the support of the wives and fami-
lies of the Impilsoned men.

The chip La4e St. Clare, Captain Lemont, from
Liverpool, with salt, for Now Orleans, put into Cork Har-
bour on annday, and reported having been In collision with
the Anna Lawn, from Dello, with won for New York. The
latter sar.k in about half an hour after the cornet., carrying
with her throe of the crew. The remainder of the crew, in-
cluding the tiiptein of the Anna Lassen. (mowed by juniping
on board the ther tease/ and were landed at Queenstown.
The inJurios sustained by the Lake St Clare are trifling, but
It is reported she was oblige° to bear up for Queenstown
through the crew refusing duty.
The death of the Duke de Medina Cull, which has
taken place at the Orsini Hotel, Paris, leaves a gap in the
golden nook of the Spardah nobility. The deceased was •
descendant in direct line from the first King. of Spain, was
fourteen times a grandee and chevalier of orders innumer-
able. He was a faithful adherent of the en Queen Isabella,
who has paid • visit of condolence to his daughter, who is
an inmate of the convent of Danis Anglaises at Neuilly.
The Cortes having imposed heavy taxes on titles, the de-
ceased, it is maid, had conceived the idea of evading the toll
by putting on his card "ex-Duke de Medina Cceli."

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The Duke of St. Albans preaided on Saturday night
at the annual dinner in connection with the Nutingliam
Chamber of Agriculture, and, in proporing the prlnelpal
toasts, adverted to van i no important quest' ,na affecting the
stricultural interest. Lid expresso I satisfaction that the
heir to the Throne was following In the footsteps of his
illustrious father in Lie attention to farming. Sandringham
was noted for the excellent cattle which it prodaced, and It
was as good an exampm of hew an estate shoulit be managed
as any in the kingdom. His Ito, al Highness had subctituted
good ttages for the hovels is which the labourers nirmerly
lived, while the tenant-farmers had been provided with
most comfortable homesteads The noble Luke then re-
ferred to local taactiin, tenant-right, the game laws, and
the law of entail Ile wee against over-preservation of
game, and, as regards Elie law of entail, he remark:et that
it could he justified on two grounds only—namely, preserv-
ing a man from himself and • son from his father's (oily.
Descriptions of the total destruction by fire of the
Fifth Avenue Theatre, one of the finest in New York, and ad-
joining the hotel in which the dreadful lire occurred • month
ag are now to hand. The tire originated by sparks from •
defective fine twenty minutes afer an audience had been
dismissed. Sa quickly did the flames spread that gentlemen
who ran cut of the theatre to give alarm found on returning
the entire stage a stall of flames. Within half an hour the
rear wall cracked arid fell ineards, and presently another
wall fell, burying the kitchen of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, In
Which building, throng!itecolketions of the previous irag-ily,
the wildest alarm prevailed. Ihe stage meltel awoy ike
wax; galleries in accession dropped from their places into
the seething mass Of flames below, and within one hour the
place where just previously thotuand, bad been witneteing
comedy was • crumbling ruin.
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People who rejo'ce over mild winters elioidd not for-
yet that they fall with terrible severity on certain classes.
Warm weather in winter sends a general shiver through the
h uaehold of many • tradesman. A correspondent of the
Mancheaer Quart Van pnints out that the extraordinary
mil toes, of the pr.-sent season is beginning to tell blurt
otisly upon the immediate prospects of the home trade
section of the market Drapers who have NH in their
ustrd stocks of winter goods find them scarcely wanted at
all. The class of armies thus for the moment rendered
useless are of couri, mainly woollens. But their stagnation
has a damaging influence upon the demand fnr cotton t dcrics
also Drapers, like i,thee dlsirihutorE, ebpand tor their pro-
fits ripen the rapid transference of thew goods into the
handsel their customers; and accumulation of stocks, there-
fore; trr thsni means Auintehed prosperity. Bet this is not
all. Toe capit d ii.v.sted in winter goods cannot, unl-sr
they are sold in due time, be made available for re-Invest-
ment in purchases for the spring treat+. This is indeed • re-
su't which to a greater or less extent most be felt in every
part of the country, unless a change in the present unseason-
able weather should speedily take place.

Dud year the valve of beer and al. exported w6e
f2,(114 553, and in tho previous your £1,853,773 Inas and
Australia ltero the best customers.

American tiavellers have, it is said, in the last tw
years pliechwd over 1,000 •`quilla with which Lainhrtlne
wrote ' Jocelyn

Mr. W. J. Horn, an eminent Stieffirla merelnnt
Plat deoeated, hat bequeathed £17,500 to charitable tuatttu-
time In Sheffield and Loudon.

The Bristol Times prates that Mies Ellicott is so far
recoverel from her reeent accident in the hunting-field u to
be able to rejoin her family circle.

The Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce on Thursday
resolved, by 47 to 20, to petition Mr. Gladstone for the
total abolition of the income-tax.

Mr. Justice Byles has retired from the Court of
Common Plena, and ST George Goldman, Q.O , will be hie
successor.

"It is repnrted from Kermanshah that about the
middle of September au earthquake occurred. and ',Too
People perishvd at soongur, a short utatance off.—Boutbay
Gazette, Dee. 23.

A leitcr from Arizona announces that a circus com-
pany known as the Lee Family, who were traveding from
the United States to Mexico, were attacked by the Apache
Indians Some time ago, and eight of them massacred.
"A ri spectable young man (aged 29), well con.
nected, wishes to correspond with a estholic young lady
(with means), amiable and prepo.sesamg, with a view to
matrimony.—Advertisement in Manchester Examiner.

Mr. rtl'Donald, President of the Ain:ler& Ass.siation,
has been presenter with s purse containing nearly £1.60e, In
lecognitton of the services which he has rendered to the
miners of the Visited Kingdom.

" Albert ',hurl." the very curioua work of fiction
attributed to Lord Brougham, but which was only Mven to
the lieit alter his death, to beiog pulgished as a jet.: ietort
lit the .fiepubliytte Fraw:tziee. The compliment is question-
able.

-The death la announced of Baron BlizenTineelre, at
Baden Baden, where he had been laid up with illness for fire
years. In 1854 he married the Princess Augusta of Hesse,
sister of the actual QueBn of Del, mark, and in 186) Billed
the post of Dsnish Foreign Minister.

A- society haa been formed at Berlin, under the presi-
,lency of the crown Prise, to aid deserving workmen to
visit the forthcoming exhibition at Vienna. The Rector of
the University is at the head of the movement, and subscrip-
tions for the purpose are coming in /I berally.

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The Emperor of Germany lately granted an audience
to Jenny 1111 h sod Anna Seliepeler, two ladies interestest in
the Ensahopatton of Women. and is reported to have been
favourable tn their wish.. Female., it is understood, will
hotly he eligible to act as clerks in the post and telegraph
emcee of the empire.

Australian preserved meat has been introduced ex-
perimentally an an article of diet in be Italian navy. The
result, ci far, is satisfactory, the iie w rLti,n. cook well and eat
well. It will be a satisfaction, in case of another Ltssa, that
the meat will be preserved if the ships are not.
"It's aye raining in Greenock" has become a pro-
verbial earn. Durinz last year In that pluvial town rain
fell on no fewer than 252 days cut of the 368—the total depth
being 86 15 indite, the largest rainfall on record even In that
rainy district.

liochefort's political opinions have been greatly
tneoiflet during his Imprlsom. nt. Ile complain. now of
haring been the dupe of adventurers, who plawd him in the
front rank, and who, when the hour of danger arrived, took
to their heels..

Coal in the county of Kinross ban become so scarce
that work in the mills and factortes has ceased, and hun-
dreds of hands are thrown out of employment So little
coal is left at the easw•mks In the town of Klemm that it Is
expected to he Boon In darkness All the steam power In the
cout ty is stopped. Carts were sent empty from the coal-
Mlle. The colliers are hearly starving.

A Philadelphia uorrespoml. nt writes :—"The great
storm of last week and its terrib e results continue to be the
uppermost theme The railwa3s have got into regular opera-
tion aisle, a thaw, with warmer weather, assisting them,
and in tile cities locomotion is once more posslb'e. There is,
however, arriving a long list of reports of wrecks, and along
the entire Arinntic e-ast there is evidence of the severity of
the Christmas storm."

So tie curious statistics respectinz the importation
of ',astute sre Oven Au an official ocuinerS just iszu,d Jo
the month of December, 1870, ihe value of inch Imfe.rtation
w. only £446; in the gime mint!, of the euccee ling year
the smut was £33770; aati in the menthol December taut
It reached £113,8.17 In he year ended the 314 of December
last the amount was £1,864,240, against £225,732 It. the pre-
ceding year. . .

Thebiggest—and, ticrhape, the dulleet—book which
has ever been "constructed "is Just now In proce-s of mind-
ing. It is the boos which shall rental:l the names of those
inhabitants of Alsace and Lorraine who have now formally
proclaimed their wish to remain French subjects. The book
will possess a certain historical, or at least genealogical
interest. The list is said to comprise 330.000 names. The
Patris states that 125 compositors have been employ. d on
the work during the teat three mouths, that it is being
on seven presses and that it will form a volume of
13,103 mow
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A hige meeting has been hell in Dumiee for the
mu.ofie of promotiug the extenelou of the suffrage to women,
Sir itobt. Anatruther, Bart , M. I'., presided, and in a long
speech contended that in the interests of the nation, apart
altogether from the right of citizenship which ',omen pos-
aesaed, the franchise ought to he conceded to them Pro-
feintor Siltation, of Edinburgh, the Rev. Mr. Knight, the Rev,
Geo. Gdlillan, Miss Beddy, Miss Wil,ham, and Mlas Burton
also spoke.

On Friday afternoon a reanectably•dremed
about 23 years to* age, was found by • station constable In •
dying state at the Chester Radtvay 6tation. Lie was removed
to the second class refreshine t-room, and • medical man
sent for, but as no doctor had arrived at 631 he was Clll-
- to the infirmar), wi ere he died during the ni,iht.
While in the refreshment room endeavour, were made to
restore consciousness by the me of stimulants, bot without
success. A receipt for an advertisement in the Liar ryoal
Daily Poet, mulls. 91.10 money, were found on the deceased.
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During the week ending Saturday last. 5,900 birth.
and 3 270 deaths were registered in London and twt uty other
large cities and towns of the United mgdorr. The mortality
from all canses in theee towns was at the rate of 23 deaths
annually to every 1,000 penona estimated to be Hying. In
the metropolis 2,667 birth. and 1,202 deaths were registered
the former having been 9, a above, and the latter 899 below
the average. Five persons died from emalbpor, 12 from
measles, 12 from scarlet laver, 4 from diphtheria, 34 from
whooping-cough, 22, from different forms of fever, and 13
from diarrhea. The mean temperature during the week was
47 degree., or 12 above the 5v rage for the correspondiog
week io 50 yeses.

Ctoir has Mid a destriv tive avalanche. A telegram
from Salt Lake City amour ees that on Deceno,cr 26 a terrible
snow-slide occurred at Mile Odtoriwood, Utah. A allow-
ptorm had been raging for two dabs, and we... still going on.
From six to eight feet of snow had fallen, and in the midst
of the storm, without any warning being given of it. ap-
proach a mass of snow 600 ft. wide and 12 ft. deep came
sliding down the mountain-side. It fell acres. the road, and
car ied down with it a number of teams and tourist-re into
the valley of Cottonwood Creek, a distance of 1,600 ft. below
the road. A 'Witte force at once set to work shovelling out
the man of snow, and three men were brought out alive,
but badly hurt, while one dead body was recovered. Twelve,
it is said, are still missing.
At Leeds., 011 Monday, the fifth annual Congress of
Trade. Unions began' and was to continue throughout the
week. It Is expected to produce more than usually impor-
tant results. One hundred and thirty delegates were present
from all parts of England and from Scotland, and after the
formal preliminary business, the revrt of the Parliamentary
Committee was read by Mr. Howell, who dwelt on the
peculiar significance both of the labour movement and of the
labour legislation of the year. A long paper, prepared by
Mr. Crompton, enforcing the present grievanceis of the
trades unions, and indicating the method of their remedy,
Was also read,
At the annual meeting of the South Dm ham Associa-
tion, held at Darlington, Mr. Pease, NI P ,reviewed the policy
of the Government, of which he approved, and remarked
that the nation might look forwent to the extension of house-
hold suffrage to counties and to the disestabliahment of the
Churches of England and Stebtland. The latter question,
however, meet he approached carefully, and they must riot
expect a speedy realisation of their wishes. Be opposed the
Permissive Bill, but was in favour of giving the ratepayers
control over the licensing.—Major Beaumont, NIP , who
followed, said we must have an efficient military force, and
he characterised the existing Army organisation scheme as
little better than a them—lie supported Mr. klialra
dines-
tablishment motion, and would separate religious and secular
instruction boathook