The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-10-08 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Mr. Muir, of Dumbarton, has decided to build a
9).ton yacht to compete for the America Cup next year.
As the sew yacht will probably be in the second class,
the Volunteer will not be competent to enter against
it, and another boat must be built for the purpose.
A Madrid correspondent telegraphs that a belief
prevails in well-informed circles that the Sultan
of Morocco is dead, and that the Moorish Government
ate concealing the fact from fear of disturbances
arising among the Arab tribes.
Pheasant shooting began on Saturday, and the ac.
counts from various districts show that birds are plen.
tiful and in good condition, but that in many places
sport will not be general until the trees become more
bare.

A Paris correspondent telegraphs that the visit of
Signor Crispi to Prince Bismarck is regarded as an
event of considerable importance. It is thought that
it may result in an understanding tetween Germany
and Italy to support Bulgaria against Russia and
France. A desire to keep Greece in a secondary posi.
tion is said to be the principal motive for Italy
wishing to strengthen Bulgaria.
A Vienna correspondent telegraphs that the Hygienic
Congress has been concluded there when it was rlecided
to hold the next gathering in London in 1891. Sir
Spencer Wells on Saturday performed an operation in
the Vienna General Hospital before a large assemblage
of students.

President and Mrs. Cleveland, a New York corre-
spondent telegraphs, are everywhere received in their
tour through the western cities of the United States
with enthusiastic popular receptions.
A meeting to further the movement for securing
Raleigh House and grounds as an open space for
Brixton was held in the grounds of that house on
Saturday, under the presidency of Lord Carmarthen,
M.P. Resolutions regretting the recent decision of the
Lambeth Vestry in the matter, and in favour of raising
funds by subscription, were adopted.
The International Shorthand Congress was concluded
on Saturday. The subject of police reporting was
again referred to. A nexus committee was appointed,
and it was decided that the next Congress should be
held at Munich.

The Duke of Cambridge was on Saturday presented
with an address by the Manchester Town Council. He
subsequently visited the Jubilee Exhibition at Old
Trafford, and in the evening left for London.
A fire broke out in Stafford early on Saturday
morning, and resulted in the destruction of a very
extensive range of buildings at the corner of the market
square. The outbreak occurred in a three story half-
timbered Elizabethan house occupied by Mr Connd,
draper The fire rapidly spread to the adjoining
premises of Mr. Mummery, jeweller; Mr. Sproston,
fancy warehouse; and Mr. Dawson, hairdresser, all of
which were totally destroyed, other buildings also
suffering greatly. The total damage is estimated at
£15,000, part of which is not covered by insurance.
Great difficulty was experienced in getting water. A
few months ago the Corporation refused, on economical
grounds, to purchase a steam fire engine.
The low prices at which Kentish boards of guardians
are now accepting tenders for the supply of provisions
for the next half-year are more remarkable even than
those recently reported from Yorkshire. The following
is a sample of the contracts sealed during the past
week: Best beef, without bone, 7s. 9d. per score;
saddles of mutton, Bs. per score; suet, 4s. per score;
meat for medical orders, 6& per lb.; fresh butter,
is. 3d. per lb. ; good third Cork butter, £6 is 4d. per
owt ; raw sugar. lid. per lb.; loaf sugar, 2d. • best
seconds flour, £1 is. 9d. per sack; Gouda cheese,
£2 11s. 4d. per cwt.; new milk, 3d. per quart.
The premises of Mr. James Crichton, 84, Argyle.
street, Glasgow, were forcibly entered on Sunday. and
a number ( f watches, bracelets, and other articles of
jewellery, valued altogether at nearly £7OOO, were
stolen. Access was obtained by false keys to an
adjoining tailoe's shop, and an entrance was forced into
Mr. Crichton's shop. The watchman went off duty in
the morning, and discovered the robbery on his retnrn
on Sunday night. The Sunday watch has recently
been given up, and it is thus assumed that the thieves
live in the locality.
Roman remains, said to be in a perfect form, have
been discovered on Tockington Court Farm. near
Bristol. Excavations have revealed the foundations
of n Roman villa, consisting of five rooms and a portico,
with tesselated pavements, the largest piece of the
latter being 50ft. by 10ft, without a break, and all in
a remarkably fine state of preservation. The design
is choice and the colours beautiful. The farm is rich
in Roman remains, many relics having been discovered
there.
At the Thurles Potty Sessions, on Saturday, a young
man named Richard Buckly was committed for trial,
charged with the abduction of a girl named Power,
between 15 and 16. She is the daughter of a farmer,
and will be entitled to a considerable sum of money
when of age. The prisoner, who is about 22, belongs
to the labouring class. After his arrest he wrote to the
girl's parents offering to marry her, but the offer was
refused.

Fearing a repetition of the disturbances by the
unemployed which took plqce last winter, the Ohlef
Constable at Norwich made an application on Saturday
to the local bench of magistrates for the appointment
of 180 to 200 special constables. He stated that bills
of an inflammatory cbara^ter had been distributed
about the city by those who were not working men.
The Bench authorised the step suggested by the Chief
Constable.

In response to ft resolution passed by the Don-
caster Town Council about a week ago, a letter was
received on qaturday from Mr. W. E Shirley, Town
Clerk. contlining his resignation. Mr. Shirley adds
that he has held the position of Town Clerk for 25
years.
The Inland Revenue Offices at Cardiff were totally
destroyed by fire on Saturday morning.
The workmen at Portsmouth Dockyard had their last
Admiralty holiday on Saturday. As these holidays
cost the country £2500 each, they are to be discon-
tinned.
The Home Secretary has advised her Majesty to
release James Smalley and Robert Watson, now
undergoing 15 years' penal servitude for participating
In the celebrated cotton riots at Blackburn in 1878.
Lady Brassey is understood to be engaged on a new
book of t•avel.
In the South and West Yorkshire, North Derbyshire,
Lincolnshire, and Notts coal-fields, on Saturday, the
prices of house fuel were advanced 10d. to is. per ton.
In some instances quotations were raised Is. 8d per
ton, but the average advance was about is. Erpine-
coal is unchanged. Several leading bousepits have been
working five and six days per weak for some time. This
Is the first winter advance.
0 tying to the result of the elections the New Zea-
land Ministry has resigned.
A strong undulating shock of earthquake lasting
eight seconds, has been felt at Smyrna.
The Spanish expeditionary force engaged against the
rebels of the Sooloo Islands have taken by assault and
burned the rebels' fortified village in the island of
Pate.
_ _

la believed that the release of the four Englishmen
held winners by the brigands at Srnyrna will shortly
be effected. The district is carefully watched by police
patrols in order to prevent secret communication with
the brigands.

The President of the United States and Mrs. Cleve-
land have started on a three weeks' tour among the
Western and Southern cities of the United States.
A naval b ard has reported to the Secretary of the
American navy on the plan for an armoured battleship
designed by the Barrow Shipbuilding Company, gUit'
gesting that the ship should be built at the NOrfolk
Navy Yard at a cost of 2,376,000 dole.
Addressing a meeting in St. George's Hall, Brad.
ford, on Tuesday evening, Viscount tiranbrook said
there was an extraordinary lull ia the agitation for the
disestablishment of the Church. The causes were
obvious, and showed how suddenly a great question
might come to the front and then disappear. But
they should be on their guard. Mr. Gladstone was
credited with a desire to disestablish the Church in
Wales, and if Churchmen agreed with the right bon
gentleman they might as well surrender at once all
they had fought for.

Promenaders on Ryde Pier have just witnessed a
sensational iboident. A man, who had been playing in
a baud now in the Isle of Wight, came down to the piet
in company with a 3 oung woman, about 18 years oi
age, with the obieet of catching the boat to Ports-
mouth. The couple seemed much concerned when they
found than the boat had left. Soon afterwards a
stalwart, elderly man appeared on the scene, caught
hold of the man and thrashed him with a walking stick,
and then drove the young woman home. It transpired
that the couple intended to elope, but their plans were
frustrated by the girl's father.
A Marlborough correspondent writes: A severe
encounter took place on Marlborough.common on
Sunday night. A gamekeeper, named Cox, employed
at the Manton training stables fell in, it is alleged,
with three touts who attacked him, and when the
injured man was discovered shortly afterwards he was
in a precarious state.

A -beautifully sculptured alabaster font, in memory of
the late ()anon ADAOD, has been placed in St. George's
Chapel, Windsor Castle. It stands at the west end of
the south aisle near the Beaufort Chapel, and a dedi-
catory inscription is inlaid upon its black marble steps.
Te old terra-cotta font has been buried in the chapel.
With reference to the report of an arrangement
between England and France respecting the Sues
Canal, Maktitar Pasha, in a long correspondence with
the Porte, states that the intelligence has been received
in Egypt with much dissatisfaction among all classes,
and he concludes by saying that unless the agreement
is made with the sanction and participation of the Porte
it will not be admitted, and will remain a dead letter
so far as concerns Egypt.
The Admiralty are said to have behaved fairly to the
men of the Duke of Wellington in regard to the flight
of a writer named Mattis serving on board. He had
been in the habit of drawing the pay of the men who
did not come to the pay-table, and by this means 1.,
said to Lave put £2OO or .£3OO into his pocket. The
eeficiency has been made up to most of the defrauded
men, but two or three of them have lost all that was
dishonestly drawn in their behalf.

•
The execution took place at Neutitsthein, in Moravia,
on Saturday of a noted brigand named Anton Schimak,
who for years past has kept the districts he haunted in
a constant state of terror,, and has daring that time
committed it•numerable murders and robberies.
Schimak was quite another Rinaldini, and eluded with
the utmost skill the vigilance of the pollee who were
for years ou his track. During his imprisonment he
refused tbe ministrations of a priest, and walked quite
calmly—almost apathetically—to the scaffold.
The Executive of the Irish National League of
Great Britain have fixed Saturday, the 29th that., as
the date of the National Convention, which will this
year be held in Cardiff. Mr. T. P. O'Connor, ALP.,
will preside.
Jefferson Davis is reported as a worker for Local
Option.
Paris is having cock-fights "for the benefit of the
poor."_

Sir Salar Jung and suite loft London on Monday
morning for Paris on his return for India.
An attempt has been made upon thelife of Feridown
Bev, the Turkish Minister in Athens.

Fires have destroyed property in the United States
at the rate of 10,000,000 dols..a month this year.
California still leads all the United States in her
yield of gold, being credited last year with 14,725,C00
dols.

About a thousand dervishes are now assembled at
Sarras, including women and children. Their inten-
tions are unknown.

Two construction trains came into collision on the
Iron Mountain, Tennessee. Three men were killed and
seu.raliniu ed.

The Seprember return of the Cleveland fronmastere
At.sociation shows the followilig as the mouth's make
of pig iron, namely. 109,000 tons of Cleveland iron, and
101,000 tons of other kinds, a total of 210,000 tons.
There are 97 furnaces blowing, 52 of which are making
Cleveland pig iron. Stock inmeased 2000 tons in Sep-
tember. _ _

The Earl of Coventry, Master of the Hounds,
opened the forest hunting with the Royal Staghounds
on Tuesday. The meet was at Ascot Heath, where a
large field assembled. The deer was uncarted at
Gravel-hill, and gave a capital run in Windsor Forest
district, by Bracknell, East Hampstead, and back to
Swiuley Paddock, where it was taken after a good day's
sport. _ _ _

At Bradford on Tuesday an elderly man, named
George Itepworth, who had been apprehended on a
charge of shopbteaking, committed suicide in a police
cell at the Town Hall. He fastened his braces to a
bar a few feet from the floor, and having tied the other
ends round his neck, knelt on the ground and de-
liberately strangled himself. When found he was in
that position dead.
The Bishop of Ripon, in distributing the prizes at the
Yorkshire College, Leeds, on Tuesday afternoon, said
it was death to the individual, to the community, and
to commerce, when they were not determined to make
progress. The educational question touched the very
heart of the commercial life and the industrial
prosperity of Eughud. He did not mean that they
should sot before themselves the mere financial results
o labour as an end of labour; but, whatever they diO.,
they should do with all their might.
The Stratford-on-Avon Town Council on Tuesday
adopted, with two dissentients. estimates showing a
reduction in the stipend paid to the vicar of from
1 260 per annum to £311), the reduction to take effect
keine dia. ely . Vigorous protests were made by the two
dissentients against this course, on the ground that the
terms on which tbe vicar accepted the living were being
interfered with. King Edward the Sixth's charter,
under which the payment is rand°, stipulates that the
council shall pay the vicar 120; but owing to increased
rentals the Corporation have from time to time
increased the amount. The rents, however, having
lately fallen, the Oorporation contend that they are at
liberty to reduce the amount, and have done so. Some
members are of opinion that they are only legally
bound to pay.the £0 mentioned in the charter.

Robert Orford Jones, aged fifteen, son of a doctor
re i siding n Brixton•road, London, was charged at the
Liverpool Police•court, on Tuesday, with having
travelled from London to Liverpool without a railway
ticket. When asked for his ticket he said he had lost
it. On his bag being searched at Lime-street Station,
there were discovered a formidable looking dagger, a
bowie knife, a revolver, and several cartridges. He
then confessed that having been to Buffalo Bill's Show,
he had become so impressed by the daring exploits of
the troupe that he had determined to go to the Far
West and do likewise. He had travelled to Liverpool
with the intention of shipping himself to America by
some means. The boy was remanded until his parents
; could be communicated with.

The Duke of Carobridge paid his annual visit to
Colchester on Tuesday to review the troops stationed
in the town. He was met at the station by Sir Evelyn
Wood, cJmmandiog the Eastern District, and con-
ducted to Middlewick, where the Durham Light
Infantry, Somerset Light Infantry, Northumberland
Fu4liers, 21st Hussars, a troop of the 19th Hussars,
and a portion of the Royal Artillery were drawn up for
inspection. There was afterwards a sham fight, in
which the Southern Force, consisting of the mounted
and unmounted cavalry and artillery, was defeated.
It has been decided to suspend appointments to the
Army Pay Department pending the re-organis Aion of
that branch of the army.
Efficient volunteers proceeding on field service with
the various departments, or on any public duty with
an army in the field, will henceforth be entitled to
meals. This decision will apply to the late Burmese
W.r.

Deuterant Colonel Henry Patten Law, Royal Scots
Fn..;leers. (lied suddenly on Monday nignt at Danntsey,
Wilts. He WILA on a visit to his brother, the Rev. A.
Law. and had shot a rabbit, when he complained of
giddiness, and immediately became ineensible. De-
spite every medical care he never recovered conscious-
ness, and died within three hours. The deceased who
was born in 1842 and entered the army in 1868, served
with distinction in Burmah, for which service he was
promoted.
The decision of the Indian Government in the case
of a Calcutta Volunteer officer that for the purpose of
the income tax he was." not an officer of her Majesty's
Forces or of her Majesty's Indian Forces," has been
reversed on appeal. The result of the appeal hae
given much satisfaction to Volunteer officers in India.
Orders have been given at the War Office that no
person in receipt of a pension from naval funds is in
future to be employed under the War Department
until special authority has been obtained.
Oommis‘ioner Railton, of the "Salvation Army,"
writes: Please allow us to correct the erroneous report
that our Commivsioner Tucker had found a cheaue for
411,000 a, siting him in Bombay. The amount was
£lll,O, and as buildings have to be provided in various
localities and all the other expenses of the expedition
met, we do not wish him to suffer from the supposi-
tion that his wants have been provided for.
President Cleveland, speaking at the Merchants'
Exchange at St. Louis on Tuesday, said that he knew
the value to any community of industrious, frugal, and
thrifty foreigners who came to invest themselves with
the right of American citizenship and were satisfied
with the freedom afforded by the 'United States
Government, its laws and institutions The line was
easily drawn between such persons and non-assimilating
emigrants who sought the shores of America solely for
the purpose of involving the Ametican body politic in
disturbance and disadvantage.
The "Scottish Leader " publishes a letter from Ur.
Gladstone on the subject of payment of members, in
which be says: "Though I do not at present see any
way to an arrangement, I cannot feel well satisfied
with a state of things in which gentlemen of high birth
or station receive pensions (a certain number) for public
service, on the ground of insufficient means, and mem-
tiers of raliarnent elected by labouring men have to be
returned or supported by contributions out of their
daily wa.zes."

The Ron. Matthew Davies, member for St. Kilda,
has been elected Speaker of the Legislative Assembly
of Victoria. in the place of the Hon. Peter Lalor, who
has resigned on account of ill-health.
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F•iLard Frarcis White. The Soudan—Commissioners
Sir V. 11 B Kennett Barrington and Sir Allen Younz ;
Surgeons Charles Newby, J. Edward Squire, F. 0. H.
Piggott, and Richard Lake, and Professor Alexander
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Severe earthquake shocks occurred on Tuesday in
Greece, more especially about the Gulf of Corinth.
St. Luke's Vestry, London, had under consideration
on Tuesday a proposal to rescind a resolution recently
adopted by them for imposing a poll-tax of a shilling
a week on tbecostermongers of Whitecross-street. A.
deputation of costermongers and traders attended and
stated their views in opposition to the tax. The
gallery was crowded with interested spectators, and the
proceedings were rather lively. After an animated
discussion the resolution was rescinded by 13 votes to
14, amid loud cheers from the gallery.
Sidney H. Jones, recently employed as a butcher's
aFsistant at Bayswater, was committed for trial by the
magistrate at Marylebono on Tuesday for stealing a
sovereign from one servant-girl, and assaulting her'
knd also for inciting another to rob her mistress in
order that he might participate in the proceeds of ths
theft,

SATURDAY, OCT. 8, 1887.

The Lord MaN or of London has consented to receive
the Deb° Ohs lenge Shield, won by the English Eight
at Wimbledon this year.

The Spanish Admiralty have decided that the new
fleet, for which nine millions sterling has been voted,
shall now con, ist of only 30 torpedo vessels, but a
larger number of fast cruisers.
In the relations between Greece and Turkey a
marked improvement has taken place, especially since
the settlement of the Cretan question through the
good offices of the Hellenic Government.
The young Earl of Arundel has been dangerously ill
at Buxton, where he is staying pith the Duke of
Norfolk.
The Marquis of Bath. at the unanimous request of
the local Unionist and Conservative Committees, has
consented to pre.ide at the demonstration to be held
in Bith on the 4th November, on the occasion of Mr.
Goschen's visit.

An explosion occurred a few days ago in a grocery
store at New Orleans The flames out off the escape
of the family from the upper stcreys. The proprietor,
by name Messina, his wife, and four children, were
burnt to death.
An announcement has been made in New York that
three British yachts are to be built to contest for the
Cop next year, one on the Clyde and two in England,
and that the builder of the proposed Scotch boat is now
in New York. _ _

Sir Lepel Griffin left London on Saturday by the P.
and 0. steamer Victoria. en route for India to resume
charge of the agency in Central India. He has decided
to retire from the Indian Service next April, and to
enter political life.
The British Consul at Mazatlan, who recent'y arrived
in San Francisco, states that the much•talked about
colony of Americans at Topolonampo ha. all gone to
pieces, and that the 30 still remaining are in the most
deplorable circumftances.

Mr. Edison is engaged in perfecting a new invention,
which, if it proves practicable, will produce lights for a
whole house by means of the waste heat from an
ordinary furnace. Experiments are now daily being
made, and said to be quite successful.
_ _

Captain Duncan Brooks Gordon Grant, R.N., uncle
of the Admiral Superintendent of Devorport Dock-
yard, died at Plymouth on Saturday, at the age of
86. Ho was a veteran who had taken part in most
of the great naval operations since the siege of St.
Sebastian.

A treat was given at Mr. Toiler's, Aston Flank, near
Hawsrdeo, on Saturday, to the juvenile members of
the Missinnary Guild. Mrs. Gladstone, Mri. Drew,
and Miss Gladstone assisted in waiting upon
the onngsters at tea, and in the evening helped to
am e them.

A g ng of night watchmen, paid by private persons
to protect property in Plainfield, New Jersey, have
been trying to burn up the town for two years past,
simply to emphasise the necessity for their existence.
Seven have ueen arrested, and others are implicated,
and will be arrested later.

The memorial of St. Paul, which some Americans
propose to set up in his native city of Tarsus, will take
the practical shape of a training school for orphans, of
whom there are a great many in °ionic About
2500 dols, a year has been pledged, a sum sufficient to
support 50 children.
Robert Drakely, a member of a wealthy Baltimore
family, married an adventuress much older than he,
who favoured him for his money. After six weeks of
domestic disagreement, he shot her on account of her
attentions to a former lover. A few days ago he was
sentenced to be hanged at Waterburg.
On the occasion of the feast of Courban Bair= his
Imperial Majesty the Sultan conferred on Prince
Hassan of Egvpt the rEatinction of Honorary Aide•de•
Camp to his Majesty, and was farther pleased to confer
on hint the medals in silver and in gold of the Order of
Imtiez.

Viscount Cranbrook, in opening a new Board School
at Bradford on Monday night, said that in respect to
the whole country there was more school accommoda-
tion than was required, but it was not always in the
right place. Re hoped the remit of the Royal
Commission would be to bring into harmony all lute-
rested in education. Elementary education must
remain elementary, and there must be a clear dis-
tinction between elementary and secondary education.
It did not follow that elementary Echools were to
entirely abstain from technical instruction and, above
all things high religious moral teaching should be the
end of all training.
_ _

The Bishop of liipon has just re-opened the Church
of St. Mary at Ivgleton, which has been practically
rebuilt at a cost of 1:3200, towards which the late Mrs.
Ripley, of Lancaster, bequeathed the sum of £l5OO.
The parish church at Dewsbury, which has been
extended eastward at a cost of £14,000, has also been
reopened. This ancient Gothic church is said to stand
on the spot where Paulinus, the first Archbishop of
York, first preached the Gospel to the heathen, and
many of whom he afterwards baptised in the river
which runs close by. The original church is supposed
to date from the ninth century.
The meetings of the Baptist Union in Sheffield
corn nenced on Monday evening. Rather over 900
ministers and delegates have been in attendance. A
devotional meeting took place in Glossop-road Baptist
Church, the Rev. Dr. Clifford presiding, and the Revs. -
John Aldis and Dr. Trestrail delivering addresses.
Deputations with fraternal addresses were introduced
from the Yorkshire quarterly meeting of the Society of
Friends, the Nonconformist Churches of Sheffield, and
temperance organisations of the town. A meeting of
of the Baptist Total Abstineece Association was also
beid on Monday evening, Mr. H. J. Wilson, M.P., pre-
siding.
Thomas Flaming, architect and surveyor, of Streat-
ham, bed formerly of Southsea, where he owned a
large amount of house property, was charged at the
Portsmouth Police-court on Monday with forging and
serving a writ purporting to have been issued from the
High Court of Justice. The ficttious writ, which was
on an official form, was served upon Mrs. Clarke, 'of
Southsea, and claimed damages from her on the ground
of slander and for harbourieg Mrs. Fleming, his wife,
during the last two sears, thereby ruining him. The
prisoner, who, when arrested, said he merely intended
the document to be shown to Mrs. Clarke, WAS
remanded.

At a meeting of the Exeter Theatre Fire Relief Com-
mittee, teld on Monday evening, it was reported that
the number of orphans to be provided for was 84. There
were 15 widows in addition, and a large number of
incidental claims, some of which had been settled by
lump payments. The greater number of the orphans
were girls, and it was estimated that at leas . 41;000
would be required to provide for the orphans, to say
nothing of the provision needed for the widows. •
The bronze figure of the Queen, by Mr. Gilbert,
A.R A., erecte4 as a Jubilee memorial, on Castle.
hill, Winchester, was on Sunday night despoiled of
the figure of Victory, which surmounts the globe in
her Majesty 's hand. This was wrenched off and carried
away.
Church burglaties have been frequent of late in the
Rochester district, and the author of at least Otte of
them was captured early on Monday morning. Con.
stable Overy, of the Rochester police, came upon him
when sorting his plunder at the rear of a stable, the
articles in his possession having ' been stolen from
the parish church of St. Margaret. These included
the altar vessels and cloth, together with priests'
vestmeuts, and other property. He gave the name of
Henry Davis, of London. He obtained an entrance
to the church by cutting some glass out of a window,
after havivg tried in vain to force a door. Property,
evidently stolen from some other place than St.
Margaret's, was Ltund in his possession.
The body of a lady, named Lilly, aged 23, has been
recovered at the foot of a precipitous cliff at Barmouth,
North Wales. Miss Lilly lived with her mother, a
widow lady, in a house at the top of a cliff, and it is
coujew ured that, in a somnambulistic state, she walked
out of the house, and, reaching the cliff, stepped
over, anci falling a great height met with instantaneous
death. The young lady had, it is stated, at pre.
sinus times walked in her sleep. In this instance
she had been missing some hours in the early morning
hefcee her body was recovered, ard it was then evident
that she had been c'ead some little time, She had sus.
tamed terrible injuries.