The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-07-03 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

the net earnings of the Philadelphia and Erie Rail.
way showed an Increase during May of 35,692 dols. as
compared with the same month of 1885.
A verdict of "Temporary insanity" was returned by
a coroner's jury, at Truro. at the inquest on the body of
William Rooks, innkeeper, who shot himself in the
lodge-room of the Phcenix Lodge of Freemasons, of
which he was Tyler.
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Her Majesty the Queen addressed a gracious letter
to the Comte de Paris on his arrival in England from
Eu.

Having ratified the Anglo-German Literary Conven-
tion and rejected the Brandy Tax Bill, the German
Parliament was prorogued on Saturday.
Two pe-sons died or. Saturday of sporadic cholera at
Trieste.
An exciting sceAe was witnessed at a fire in Man.
cheater early on Saturday morning. At three o'clock
an ironmonger's shop,in the occupation of Mr. Manley,
was discovered to be on fire. The flames spread so
rapidly that the staircase was impassable and Mr.
Manley, his wife, and family were driveu back. They
ran to the bedroom window, and two corporation
officials in charge of a cart drove on to the pavement,
and with great difficulty rescued them in their night-
dresses.

The death has occurred of Mr. David Davis, who was
formerly President of the New York Senate.

A provisional commercial treaty has been concluded
between France and Roumania.
A hrakesman named William Salter was run over at
Wolverton on Saturday night by the train of which he
was in charge. He was shockingly injured, and died
shortly after being received in Northampton Infirmary.
The British steamer Silverdale has been totally
wrecked at Point Engano. The Stlvet dale was an iron
screw steamer of 2249 gross tons, built at Sunderland
in 1881, and owned by Messrs. Milburn Bros., of
Newcastle, and was bound from Antwerp for Colon.
The inhabitants of Hackney, Clapton, and the dis-
trict in the neighbourhood of the River Lea, on Satur-
day afternoon presented an illuminated address to Sir
Charles Russell, in recognition of his energetic action
with regard to the passing of the Lea River Purification
Bill.

The Frenc% Government introduced into the
Chamber on Saturday a bill inflicting severe punish-
ment for the posting of "seditious placards." The
manifesto of the Comte de Paris had been placarded
at Marseilles a few hours before, and torn down by the
police. The Government demanded urgency for their
measure, which led to a bitter speech from M. Paul de
Cassagnac, in which he said the exile of the Princes
had given them their freedom of action, and that
meant the Crown. M. Clemenceau dared the Bcna,-
partist oratm to attempt to bring about the revolution
he threatened. Eventually urgency was voted for the
bill.

On Saturday the Lake Shore strikers at Chicazo
came into collision with the local police. Several per-
sons were wounded on both sides, and some 30 arrests
were made.

Lord Dufferin has sanctioned the transfer of the
Punjaub frontier force from the jurisdiction of the
Lieutenant•Govetnor of the Punjaub to tha o tha
Commari ler-in-Chief in India
The Rev. Dr. Licidon has returned to London from
Constantinople.
A man named Thomas Wade, who attended a meet-
ing held in support of Mr. Causton, the Lib2ral candi-
date for Colchester, fell down dead immediately he got
home:

The eightieth anniversary festival dinner in aid of
the funds of the Licensed Victuallers' Schools took

place

... on Tuesday at the Crystal Palace, under the
presidency of Mr. E. M. Ind, of the firm of Ind. Coope,
and Co. Subscriptions and donations to the amount
of £5BOO were announced.

The Princess Mary of Cambridge, who was accom-
panied by the Duke of Teck and the Princess Victoria
of Teck, distributed the prizes at Cheltenham CollEge
on Tuesday. The Royal party returned to London in
the evening.
The Lord Mayor of London on Tuesday night gave a
banquet at the Mansion House to representatives of
the Colonies and India to meet the Prince of Wales,
the Executive President of the Royal Commission of
the Colonial and Indian Exhibition. Prince Albert
Victor was also present.
On Tuesday morning a smacksman named James
Ellis, one of the crew of the Teazer, of Yarmouth, was
brought before the Yarmouth justices, charged with
causing the death of John Lawson, a shipmate. The
evidence showed that the crew had obtained seven
bottles of liquor from one of the coopers on the fishing
grounds, and that the master and crew were all drunk.
The prisoner and the deceased quarrelled, and both fell
overboard, Lawson being dead when got out of the
water. After some formal evidence, the prisoner, who
stated that he had no recollection of what happened,
was remanded.

Two young eaglets have been captured from a nest
by a young cr,gsman at Ness Si etland Rocks, which
are nearly 500 feet high. The young man was let over
the precipice with a rope 115 feet long, but it was
found too short. He divested himself of the rope, and,
after clambering over some dangerous rocks, he came
to the nest, containing two birds which were about a
month old. When he attempted to take them the
largest one fixed its talons in his arm' tearing the flesh.
They were put in his jersey; and, taking the burden in
his teeth, he secured the rope round him once more,
and arrived safely at the top, after an arduous climb of
fully an hour and a half.
An extraordinary riot took place in the Bull Circus
at Nimes on Monday. A grand performance by the
electric light was announced, and 30,000 persons paid
for admission. During the evening the light repeatedly
failed, and the audience becoming exasperated tore up
the benches and furniture, and made a bonfire of them
in the arena. Troops were sent for, and after some
trouble cleared the building. Several persons were
wounded and many were arrested.
On Tuesday afternoon an inquest was held at the
Portsea Convict Prison, touching the death of Henry
Smith, alias Henry Frost, aged 47, a convict undergoing
a term of penal servitude at that establishment. De-
ceased was convicted at the Kingston•on-Hull Quarter
Sessions, on Jan. 8, 1885, for larceny from a quay, and
was sentenced to five years' penal servitude to be
followed by two years' police supervision. He was
received from Wormwood Scrubs at Portsea in October
of the same year. Dr. Power had made a post-mortem
examination and found a large cavity in the left lung,
which was the immediate cause of death. The jury
returned a vezdict in accordance with the medical
testimony.
The Bishop of Lichfield paid a visit to Wolver-
hampton on Tuesday, and formally opened some new
vestries that have been recently erected for the use of
the clergy and choir of St. Peter's Collegiate Church,
at a total cost of £l2OO.

At a meeting of the Town Council of Leicester on
Tuesday, it was announced that George Sedgwick, re-
presentative artisan, secretary of the National Union
of Shoe Finishers, Alderman George Stevenson, and J.
M. Hodges had been added to the Commission of the
Peace. The Council expressed general satisfaction,
and recommended Daniel Merrick, another artisan and
ex-councillor, for the same honour.
The mean reading of the barometer at Greenwich
last week was 29.79 in. The mean temperature of the
air, 59.0, was 2.3 below the average. Rain fell on Tues-
day to the amount of 0.04 of an inch. The duration of
registered bright sunshine in the week was 45.9 hours.
against 50.2 hours at Glynde-place, Lewes.
Sir James Parker Deane, QC., the Vicar-Genera!,
attended onTuesday at the board room of Queen Anne's
Bounty Office, Westminster, and under a commission
from the Archbishop of Canterbury (issued in
pursuance of the Queen's Writ) dissolved the Convo-
cation of the Province of Canterbury. Mr. Hassard,
the Archbishop's principal registrar, was present.
By the death of the Rev. John Hugh Evans, better
known in Welsh circles as " Cynfaen," the Principality
has lost one of hor most distinguished writers, and
Welsh Wesleyan Methodism one of its foremost
preachers; The deceased was born at Ysceifiog, near
Holywell, in the year 1833. He had but recently
accepted an invitation to become the pastor for the
second 'time of the London V elsh circuit in August
next.

Afire, caused by lightning, broke out on Monday at
i
the Koenig cotton mills. The damage s estimated at
400,000 roubles.
The first through train on the Canadian Pacific? Rail-
way left Montreal on Monday evening for Vancouver.
The Duke ot Cambridge, accompanied by Viscount
Wolseiey and a number of other officers, visited the
Royal gunpowder and gun-cotton factories at Waltham
Abbey on Tuesday afternoon. They were shown over
the various departments by Colonel Arbuthnot, the
superintendent, and Colonel Noble explained the pro's
cess of manufacture.

It is reported that Herr Singer, a Social Democrat,
and member of the German Reichstag, has been ex-
pelled from Berlin.
The Right Rev. Dr. Edward T. O'Dwyer was con-
secrated Roman Catholic Bishop of Limerick on Tues-
day by Dr. Croke, Archbishop of Cashel. Replying to
the address from the clergy, Bishop O'Dwyer spoke at
some length, and strongly advised the priests to take
their places as the leaders of the people. The motto
of the clergy and people of Ireland should be in the
future, no matter what the outcome of the present
political movement might be, as in the past, " Quis
genarabit."

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SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1886.

The Prince and Princess of Wal<ls and their family,
accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of Connaught,
drove to the Cryetal Palace on Saturday evening and
attended a concert in the Handel Orchestra.

Tze Lower House of the Bavarian Diet unanimously
approved the continuance of Prince Luitpold'a
Regency.
The Germanic, of the White Star Line, arrived at
Queenstown on Saturday having on board two fisher-
men of the schooner Lilian Baxter, of Gloucester,
Mass., who were picked up in a dory on the 20th inst.,
three days after the Germanic had left New York The
men state that they were fishing off the banks ot New-
fonndland, and were a mile distant from their vessel,
when a fog set in and prevented them finding her;
That evening they were driven out to sea by a strong
wind, and drifted about for three days and nights, when
the Germanic picked them up. The men, whose names
are Brown and Olsen, suffered much from exposure awl'
hunger.

Letters from members of Colonel Lockhart's party
altogether contradict the story of his arrest. The
mission was well received by the Afghans, who proved
very friendly.
A small boat, only 191 t. in length, sailed from the
Olyde on Monday for New York. Her crew consists
of two men. The boat is provisioned for two months.
James Pirrie and William Hogarth, two boys, were
convicted before the Sheriff, at Aberdeen, on Monday,
of breaking into a public house' and stealing nine
bottles of spirits, eight ounces of tobacco, 40 cigars, arid
some personal property. They were sentenced to 12
months' imprisonment. _

On Monday morning fourteen regiments of Militia-
were summoned to the colours foc the annual month of
training, the number of officers axd men about balanc-
ing those of the fifteen corps dismissed drill on Satur-
clay. Of the fourteen corps called up seven belong to
English counties, two to Scottish, and five to Irish;
three of them are artillery, and the remainder infantry.
Altogether, there are at the present time 60 regiments
of militia under arms in Great Britain and Ireland,
representing from 45,000 to 50,000 officers and men.
Instructions have been sent by the Dominion Gowum-
ment to Sir Charles Tupper, the High Commissioner for
Oanada in London, to confer with the Australian
Agents-General concerning the establishment of cable
communication between Australia and the Canaeiart
Dominion, and to ascertain the amount of the annual
iubsidy which the colonies would guarantee.
At the Dublin Police-court on Monday Captain
Henry Harkness, J.P., of county Limerick, staying at
Morrison's Hotel, Dublin, was charged with assaulting
a constable and trying to rescue a prisoner on Satur-
clay night last in Upper Sackville- street. The con-
table was severely injured with a stick. Captain
Harkness was fined £lO, or two months' imprisonment.
The fine was paid.
The Court of Appeal an Monday affirmed a decision
of Mr. Justice North in an action of the "United
relephone Company v. Bass.ano," restraining the de-
fendant from infringing the Edison transmitter.
A young man named David Jeans was charged at
Llaadaff Police-court on Monday with the attempted.
murder of three men, whom he had shot with a re-
voker when told by one of them that there was no
path across a field which he was crossing in company
with a young woman. He was remanded.
On Saturday afternoon the new buildings of the
Swansea Working Men's Club and Institute, one of the'
most flourishing institutions of the kind in Wales,
was opened at Swansea, by Sir H. Hussey Vivian,
Bart., amidst the greatest enthusiasm. The new build-
mg is situate in Alexandra-road, nearly opposite the
new public library buildings in course f erection, and
has cost £3200.

Senor Don Jose Manuel Balmacede has been elected
President of the Republic of Chili.
The Queen has signified her pleasure that Sir John
Rose, Bart , G.C.M.G., one of the Royal Commissioners
for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, and Chairman
of the Finance Committee, shall be sworn of the Privy
Council.

A young Englishman, n3med Charles Williams, of
London, was drowned on Monday morning while bath-
ing in the Lake of Gene, a.
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on the occasion of the inspection of the 19th Middle-
sex (Bloomsbury) Rifles by Colonel Wigram in the
grounds of the Foundling Hospital on Saturday, the
cld colours of the Bloomsbury Regiment raised ha
1793, which had been left in the custody of the autho-
rities of the hospital, were presented to °eland'
Richards, the commander of the 19th Middles'ex, on
behalf of the corps. In consequence of the orders from
the War Office concerning the mustering of volunteers -
during the election, no fewer than 10 metropolitan
corps were officially inspected on Saturday.
A sad accident occurred on Saturday at South Beach,Ardrossan. A party of excursionists, con,isting of
man and a young woman and girl, all from Johnstone,
engaged a boat. After proceeding a short dieance
from the shore one of the party attempted to change
seats, when the boat capsized, and all were thrown
into the water. Before they could be rescued the girl,.
Elizabeth Cavanagh, aged eleven years, was drowned.
Mr. Thomas Blake Sparkes, aged 30,a solicitor, lately',
residing at New ton-park, Leeds, shot himself with a re-
volver when travelling by a Great Northern train from.
Doncaster on Friday evening last.
A man named Bijou, who used to perform as a man
monkey, has been devoured by a lion in a menagerie.
The hay harvest has commenced in Weqmoreland‘
and Cumberland, important grazing counties, in most
favourable weather. The cold and late spring militated
against the crops, which, however, have made a
wonderful improvement within the past three weeks.
Although the crop will not be a very heavy one, it will
be up to the average, which in the northern counties
was not at ore time expected.
A large party of colonists visited Oxford on Monday
more&g, as guests of the City, and were received at
the railway station by the Mayor and Corporation 10
their official robes. The Vice-Chancellor andProetortg
and Dean of Christchurch, also attended in their
official capacity to welcome the gueets on their arrival.
The Mayor, in an address of welcome, said they would
find that every door would be open to them. The Vice
-
Chancellor also gave the visitors a hearty welcome,
which was acknowledged by Sir George Bowen. The
colonists were then conducted in parties through the
city, meeting at St. Mary's (the Ur ivereity Church),
where an address was presented by the vicar; and also
at the Bodleian and Ccrist Churches where addresseS
were likewise presented. The party were entertainel
at luncheon in the Town Hall by the Corporation.
The official report on the cyclone which swept over
Orissa, India, last September, has cnly just been pub-
lished. It appears that the Government estate of
Birso, in the Balasore district, suffered most. The
storm wave came over the sea embankment and
saturated the land with salt water, destroyirg the
whole of the crops and a great number of cattle. The
Government granted a remission of the entire rent for
the sear, and made advances. The loss was very slight
in other parts of Balasore, and no relief was necessary. -
Three hundred persons are reported to have been killed
in the ()attack district by falling trees and houses. No
traces were I ound of the remains of houses at Hookey-
torlah, or of the treasure-chest of the port denartment.
It is supposed that the chest was stolen. Previous re- •
turns show that the sea coast of Orissa has suffered '
from the effects of a cyclone every ninth year.
The Protestant Bishop of Ardagh addressed the •
annual meeting of the Orpheus Society at Longford on
Saturday, when he said they would never give up, and
would ever contend for the honoured word of " Pro-
testant." They were loyal to the backbone, they loved
their Queen, and glorified in the succession which.
placed her on the throne. The Rev. Arthur Moore, of -
Belfast, said they did not intend to go in for anything
themselves in the north if Home Rule were adopted,-
but if need be they would come down and help their '
brethren in the south.