The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-11-27 00:00:00

SATURDAY, NOV. 27, 1886

ONE THOUSAND POUNDS STOLEN B/ -- ----- - - -- ,
The death has -occurred, at the 'age of seventy-nine,
BURGLARS. of Mr. Charles Francis Adams,whose father and grand
-
A burglary has been committed at Middleton Hall, .father were Presidents of the United States and who
Brentwood, the residence of the Countess Tasker. isimself held the post of Ambassador to the Court of
St. James from 1861 to 1868, the trying years of the
Jewellery, bank-notes, and gold to the value of a Secession War. That was his chief public service; but
thousand pounds were stolen. The burglars, who got he was also one of the arbitrators on the famous
clear away, secured the door with wedges while they Alabama Commission.
ransacked the room. - Princess Christian opened the new buildings of the
Young Women's Chrietian Association, in Regent
-
EPITOME OF NEWS• street,
UnanimousLcndo
n , o n Monday.
condemnation of the proposal to
BRITISH AND FOREIGN. authorise subordinate teachers to inflict corporal
punishment on children in London Board Schools wee
expressed at a public meeting in Finsbury on Monday
Mr. Stevens has safely arrived at Shanghai on his night.
bicycle tour round the world. A shocking calamity }Lim occcurred at a colliery near
A Requiem Mass was celebrated in the Cathedral at Rotherham. The manager had invited a large party
Philippopolis in memory of those who fell in the ranks to inspect the mine, and they all descended in safety.
of the Bulgarian Army at the battle of Slivnitza. Later, however, another visitor arrived, and as he and a
A Greenock steamer is to proceed to the Grand banksman were being conveyed down the shaft they
Canaries to recover the balance of the treasure which were thrown out of the cage, and fell to the bottom of
Was lost by the wreck of the Alphonso XII. There is the pit. They were both killed.
I still about £20,090 to recover. U . Justice Cave, in the Bankruptcy Court, on Mons
1 The Rev. S. E. Gladstone, Rector of Hawarden, has day, made an order f r the committal of Captain
issued circulars to all the farmers in the Parish, stating Arnait, a debtor, for contempt of court in not complying s
that it is his Intention to remit 10 per cent. of the tithes with a previous order to set aside a portion of his salary
for the half year. for the benefit of creditors.
At the opening of the new premises of the Leith For a brutal assault on his son, a boy of seven, ..
Liberal Club, whish was inauguraed three weeks ago Robert Smith, labourer, of Hackney, London, was en .
by the Earl of Aberdeen, it was intimated that Mr. Monday sentenced to a month's imprisonment. ,
Gladstone had made a presentation of 15 volumes to , M. Trystram has been elected Deputy for Lille. .
the library. The Rev. George Edward Deacon, M.A ~ of Corpn.
At the concluding reeetieg of the Leeds Musical Christi College, Oxford, and Vicar of Leek, Stafford. ,
Festival Committee, it was reported that the total shire, ded early on Monday morning, aged 76.
receipts amounted to £10,500, and the expenditure to Ms. Julian Salmons, who was recently nominated .
about £BOOO. Chief Justice of New South Wales, in succession to *.
William Colsey, 22, a weaver, died on Sunday at the late Sir James Martin, has resigned the ap-
Oldbury from the effects of injuries sustained by him pointment. ,
on Saturday, whilst playing at a football match there A child, aged one year and nine months, living
between the Langley -green Victoria and the Kidder- at Poplar, was playing with some matches, when its ,
minster Harriers' Clubs. He belonged to the latter clothes became ignited, and it was burned so severely ,
team. that di ath ensued soon afterwards.
A large landowner in East Sussex has received An inquest was held at Burslem, Staffordshire, on ' ,
notices from no fewer than 28 of his tenants of their Monday, on the body of Thomas Turner. He was
intention to quit their holdings, as they find it impossible standing in his night-dress near the fire, when his
to go on any longer with the present prices of corn and ehirt caught fire, and he received fatal injuries.
, tte depressed state of agriculture generally. On Monday morning, a fire, caused by the upsetting
A new telegraph cable between England and Ireland of a paraffin lamp, broke out on the premises of 254,
is to be laid, tho shore end joining this country at Wilmotsstreet, Bethnalsgreen-road. Henry Sarfas
Nevin. The Monarch has buoyed the old Irish cable, (aged 50), Emily Blake (aged 37), and Jane Sarfas
which has been greatly damaged by the storm, and will (aged 35), were severely burneil on the hands, face,
be thoroughly overhauled before being relaid. and neck.
Elizabeth i )gden, the wife of an inland revenue officer se engineer, and Nies,
at Derby, but who had for some years past been sepa- su Monday foreno,
rated from her husband, and had been living with an which terminate
aunt at Potterhanworth, a village near Lincoln, acci-
dentally walked into the Bradford and was drowned. si of Lord
Sir James Kitson, at Leeds, has described Lord "-.died
Randolph Churchill's Coal Dues speech as truly Liberal, 'Ay
wise, and deserving Liberal support.
In recognition of the brave conduct displayed by
Police-constable J. Todd, 199 M, at a fatal fire which
happen d in Darwen-street, Old Kent-road, some time
ago, the Royal Society for the Protection of Life from
Fire have just awarded him its certificate and a gift of
money.
At the annual meeting of the Scottish Typographical
Society, it was stated that the membership now num-
bered 1088, that the work of the Society was progress-
ing, on the whole, satisfactorily, and that the year
closed with a favourable balance of nearly £lOOO in the
treasurer's hands.

Two men, named lackan. an engineer, and Nicoll, a
carter, quarrelled, in Greenock, on Monday forenoon,
when the former received injuries which terminated
fatally.
The Hon. Henry Hastings, youngest son of Lord
Donington, and brother of the Duchess of Norfolk, died
somewhat suddenly, at Arundel Castle, on Monday
morning. Deceased, who was shipwrecked off Mada-
gascar about a year since, caught a fever, from which
he had never thorougly recovered.
At Lambeth Police-court, on Monday, George Odell,
42, Redland-street, Lambeth, railway porter' in the
service of the London and South-Western Railway
Company, was found guilty of breaking open some fish
boxes in transit and stealing the contents. He had
been eight years in the service, and the magistrate said
as he would lose his situation and character, which •
wculd ben severe punishment, he would only be sent to
,trif4on for 14 days.
At Commons in the Middle Temple Sir Thomas
Chambers announced that the Prince of Wales had sio.
cepted the post of Treasurer of the Inns during the -
Jubilee year. The health of the Prince—who is rr
Bencher of the Middle Temple—was drunk by the
assembled banisters and students.
A youth named Noah Brookes, of Prince's. end,
Coseley, met with a shocking accident on Saturday,
whilst using a horse pistol when out sparrow shooting.
The pistol exploded, and blew out the floor of -
Brookes's mouth. He was found with his tongue pro-
truding through his neck.
Another crime of the familiar type has just been per-
petrated at Paris, a woman having been found dead
from strangulation in the Rue de la Cerisai, in one of -
those furnished hotels of doubtful character with which
Par is abounds.

There are no less than 39 mornir g papers in Paris,
besides a dozen or so of afternoon and evening sheets.
The mounted band of the Royal Artillery has been
br -)ken up its last public appearance being at the Lord
Mayor's Show. Twentyeeight of its members have
been formed into a new band for the Royal Artillery al
Aldershot, the rest of the band remaining at Woolwich
to form a second band.
nat. J ono rarry, a prominent termer or me Anti-
Tithe agitation, declared at Chester that it was absolute
war to the knife with the clergy. Tne Welsh farmers
now would never retreat.
The Stratford-on-Avon magistrates on Monday in-
flicted a fine of £4 odd on a farmer named Coggins, of
Combroke, who was charged with removing 20 pigs
suffering from swine fever. He sent the pigs to Strat-
ford stock sale; but their condition was so bad that
before they got there their tails had dropped off, and
they were covered with spots.
The Political Council of the John Bright Club,
Paddington-green, London, in placing on record its
sympathy with the Crofters of the Highlands, has by
resolution called upon the Government to remove" the
instrument of tyranny, Mr. Sheriff Ivory," from his post.
The Croydon Town Council has decided to promote
a bill in Parliament for the acquisition of the gas
supply, the project now only requiring the approval of
the burgesses. The undertaking is to be paid for by a
series of annuities, making a total charge of a little
more than £20,000 a year. The total price to be paid is
£500,000.
Some merchants who recently arrived at Lahore re-
ported that the Ghilzais have beaten the troops of the
Ameer of Afghanistan, and that the rising is rapidly
spreading. It is attributed to popular dislike to the
Ameer's relations with the British, the friendly recep-
tion of the Boundary Commission having excited
suspicions that an occupation of the country by the
British is impending.
At the Miners' Conference, on Tuesday, Mr. Bert,
M.P., who presided, referred, among other subjects, to
the London coal dues, highly praising Lord Randolph
Churchill's speech on the subject, and declaring that
the tax was monstrous, and utterly inconsistent in a
free trade country.
The receipts on account of revenue from April 1,
1886, when there was a balance of £5,625,944, to
Nov. 20, 1886, were 50,127,619, against £49,623,146
in the corresponding period of the preceding financial
year, which began with a balance of £4,993,207. The
net expenditure was £54,933,863, against £56,930,376
to the same dace in the previous year.. The Treasury
balances on Nov. 20, 1886, amounted to £1,663,191, and
at the same date in 1885 to t- 2,205,099.
The Beaumont Trustees have resolved that they will
not apply for a license for the sale of liquors but that
they will open some parts of the People's Palace for
East London during certain hours on Sundays.
During some repairs to the roof of the 6hire Hall,
Hertford, on Tuesday, the clock fell, and a man re-
ceived such injuries that he died a few minutes after.
wards.
In the Queen's Bench Division an order was recently
obtained by a judgment creditor, named Lucas, to at-
tach the pensions of two retired officers of the Indian
army to satisfy a debt of two thousand pounds. That
judgment was on Tuesday reversed by the Master of
the Rolls and Lords Justices Lindley and Lopes, who
held that under the Army Act of 1881 such pensions
were made non-assignable, and therefore could not be
sequestered or taken in execution.
At the election of a Scottish representative to the
General Medical Council, Dr. Bruce, Dingwall, re.
ceived 661 votes; Dr. Morton, Glasgow, 610; and Dr.
Sinclair, Dundee, 444.
At Listowel, a man named Murphy was sentenced to
one month's imprisonment, with hard labour, for
, throwing stones when the crowd attempted to rescue
the cattle seized by the police and bailiffs.
While the West Norfolk Hounds were pursuing a fox
they' crossed the railway track near Durham, and
were run into by a passenger train. Three of the
hounds wore killed.
It is stated that the Queen's Proctor will intervene
in the Sebright case, on the ground that important and
material facts have been withheld from the jury.
A despatch has been received from Lima stating
that a Ministerial crisis has occurred there, owing to
the resignation of Senor Arambar, the Peruvian
Premier.
On Tuesday afternoon the sudden death occurred of
Alderman William Keay, of Stoke-on-Trent, registrar
of the county court, at the residence of his doctor. He
was a well.-known solicitor in North Staffordshire, and
'vas the first Mayor of Stoke upon the incorporation of
the borough.
On Tuesday, at one of the largest polls ever held in
the north ward of Oxford, Mr. J. Howard Deazeley,
M.A., of Merton College, and secretary of the Gordon
Habitation of the Primrose. League in that city, was
elected to the Town Council by 1065 votes, against
936 votes recorded for his Radical opponeat,
.Mr.
Higgins.
At a special meeting of the Richmond Vestry held on
Tuesday night, the chairman (Major Bull) moved a
resolution in favour of applying for a charter of in-
corporation for the town but subsequently withdrew
it in favour of a proposition by Mr. Trevor te appoint
a committee to consider and report as to the advantages
or otherwise of incorporation, or as an alternative, ot a
division of the parish into wards under the Public
Health Act. This was carried nem. con.

The bogus clubs of Cardiff appear to be as numerous
and as inextinguishable as the stars_ The managers of
five more of them have just been ordered to pay fines
varying from i!5O to £25; but the police are said to be
getting tired of the prosecutions, as but little good
results from them. The managers when fined go to
prison, the clubs are closed for a few days, and then
opened again by another manager.
A blasting accident, resulting in the death of one
man and severe injury to others, occurred at a quarry
near St. Blazey, Cornwall, on Saturday. Seven men
engaged in the quarry had taken shelter in their cuso
tomary hiding-place whilst a charge of gunpowder
under a huge piece of grani e was fired. The force of
the explosion was however, greater than was expected.
It blew a block of granite weighing scwt. a distance of
400 ft. in a horizontal direction, inflicting such injuries
on William Varcee that he died an hour afterwardth
and severely bruising and lacerating several of the
others

A fight for £lOO, in which Johnnie Robinson, the
champion of the North, was to have been one of the
principals, was arranged for seven o'clock on Friday
morning at a secluded spot at Trundlemere, near
West Auckland. A ring was formed and the men
were stripping when it was discovered that tbe
police were in hiding close by. A stampede was the
immediate result. _ _

Mr. W. H. Long, M.P., the Parliamentary Secretary
to the Local Government Board, has informed a deputa-
tion that he could hold out to them no hopes that his
Board would alter their decision not to sanction the
purchase of the St. Anne's School at Streatham, princi-
pally on sanitary grounds, and because it was desirable
to go further into the country where the land would be
cheaper and there would be space available for exten-
sion of accommodation when necessary.
A memorial, signed by about 70 Manchester firms,
has been forwarded to the Chamber of Commerce of
Calcutta, Bombay, Madras and Kurrachee, stating
that the recent discussions respecting the marking of
goods for India in a way that is calculated to deceive
buyers as to the true lengths of pieces has convinced
them that no .satisfactory and permanent remedy can
be devised to suppress this evil other than the enact-
ment in India of a statute making the offence penal
A large piece of lighted paper was discovered in
flames under one of the wooden seats at the Law Courts
on Saturday afternoon. The attendants were speedilY
summoned, and the fire, which threatened the wood-
work was extinguished.
Judge O'Hagan confirmed the judicial rents in nearly
all the appeals in Armagh.
Mr. Campbell Bannerman, M.P.' has allowed a reduc-
tion of 20 per cent, off their rents to all his Kentish
agricultural tenants.
The 14th Hussars, who have been in India for ten
years, with the exception of an interval in which they
took part in the Transvaal War, are under orders to
return. to England, and will be relieved by the 7th
Hugsars now at Colchester.
The ind Dorset Regiment, which is now at Aden,
and has been abroad 15 years, is ordered home.
The Boiton Corporation intend asking Parliament
for increased water, gas, tramways, and borrowing
powers,
The weavers employed at Clitheroe by Messre.
Southworth have turned out against a reduction of
wages.
The body of a newly-born infant was found in
second-class carriage at the Victoria Station of the
Brighton and South Coast line.
A workman named Powney fell into a boiling vat at
Walcot Brewery, Bath, and was so severely scalded
that he died in the hospital during the night.
The requisition of the Berkshire farmers for an abate-
ment of the tithe for the current year of 25 per cent.
was signed at Reading Corn Market on Saturday bY
about 70 of the leading agriculturists in that district,
who occupy nearly 24,0 W acres, and also by seven
owners of 0500 acres. The requisition, which was
signed by nearly the same number of agriculturists at
Newbury Market, has been forwarded to the Bishop of
Oxford.

On Tuesday morning the Poor Law Guardians at
Northampton, in consequence of the distl•ess in the
town decided to start a labour test for the unem-
ployed. Applicants will be paid according to the
necessities of their families, and not according to the
work done. As soon as this decision of the board was
made known, the SoCialists and the unemployed held a
meeting in the Market-square, and the general opinion
was that the men should accept the offer of the
guardians.
The inquest concerning the deaths of the persons
killed by the explosion on board the Cartage Nova. on
the 4th inst., concluded at Hull on Tuesday. The jury
stated that they were unanimously of opinion that the
explosion was due to the safety valve being out of
order, and that the engineer, in not renewing it, was
guilty of gross negligenee. They returned a verdict of
manslaughter against him, and he was subsequently
committed for trial at the assizes, bail being allowed,
himself in £3OO, and two sureties of £5O each.
An alarming occurrence took place at Manchester on
Tuesday afternoon. Whiketthe Mayor, Mr. Alderman
Curtis, was taking part in the ceremonials connected
with a chrysanthemum ,show at the Town Hall, he
suddenly sank to the flocr unconscious. He was carried
to his private apartments in the hall, and medical
assistance was summoned, and after remaining for two
hours Mr. Curtis so far recovered as to be removed to
his house. Alderman Curtis is 80 years old, and has
just been elected for the third time. He is also one of
the oldest members of the City Council.
A young man, named James Cotter, from Inchigeela,
near Macroom,''was shot dead on Monday night whilst
poaching with two other men at Coora, a mountainous
district which forms the boundary between the coun-
ties of Cork and Kerry. It appears the poachers, three
in number, were engaged hunting over the mountain
with dogs and firearms,when they were accosted by one
of the gamekeepers, named Gilbert, who called on the
poachers to desist. The poachers thereupon fired on
Gilbert, who returned the fire, the result being the
death or Cotter. The mountain on which the affair
occurred is the property of Mr. John Wyse, Low Spring
House, Tipperary.
Mr. Ashmead-Bartlett, speaking at a dinner at Bit.
mingham on Tuesday night to Mr. R. C. James, the
defeated candidate for one of the municipal wards,
congratulated the Conservatives generally on the return
of Unionist candidates. It would be impossible for a
great and free country to hand over the sister country
to a band of unworthy men, to anarchial opposition,
and lawless conspiracy, which must have obtained cornrn
pieta domination if the cause of the Union had not
triumphed. There had been a satisfactory diminution
of outrages in Ireland, while the relations between the
landowner and tenant had greatly improved, and were
likely still further to improve. If at the end of five
Nears L3rd Salisbury's Government appealed to the
coustry they would be able to look back upon a period
of areater nrosterity and tranquility in Ireland.