The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-04-23 00:00:00

SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1887.

The death is 'announced of Admiral Hugh Dunlop,
C 1.8., which event took place at his London residence
in the sixty-ninth year of his age. The deceased
officer, who was the son of General James Dunlop, for
some time M P. for Kirkcudbright. entered the Royal
Navy in April, 1823, served in South America, the
Mediterranean, on the coast of Africa, and in the
Baltic during the Crimean War, and was Commodore -
of the Jamaica station from 1859 to 1863. He became
captain in August, 1850, rear-admiral in April, 1866;
vice-admiral in April, 1873, and admiral in Marck
1878, in which year he retired from the service.
The Court of Middlesex Sessions sat on Saturday at
Westminster, for the purpose of hearing appeals, of
which there were seventeen in the list, the gleater por-
tion being against the convictions of metropolitan
police magistrates. The three first on the list were
appeals spinet the removal for paupers. Singularly
enough in one of the cases in which the parishes had
thought it necessary to appeal to the law, the hapless
pauper had personally solved the matter of settlement
in any parish by departing this life.
Early on Saturday morning a man named Clark went
to a house in Henshaw-street, Rodney-road, Walworth,
and knocked at the door. On amen opening it Clark
at once attacked him with a knife, and stabbed him in
the neck. He then ran away. The police removed the
injured man to Guy's Hospital.
A fire broke out on the premises of the Windsor
Steam Laundry Company early the other morning.
Seseral brigades were soon on the spot, but the flames
were not got under until the laundry had been com-
pletely gutted. The damage, which is stated to be con-
siderable, is covered by insurance.
Mrs. Middleton, wife of the Rector of Binton, near
Stratford-on-Avon, died on Saturday under distressing
circumstances. Tke deceased was driving out, when
the pony took fright. She jumped out, falling on tier
head, and was conveyed home in an unconscious
state and she continued in that condition until her
death.
The Guion Line steamer Nevada left Liverpool on
Saturday for New York, having on board about 300
Mormons, who are on their way to Salt Lake City,
Utah. This is the first party that has gone this year
prom Liverpool, but several other parties will leave
later on. The company on Saturday included persons
from various parts of England, and many Scandi-
navians. Several Elders are returning to Utah in the
Nevada, having been conducting missions both in this
country and on the continent.
Mrs. Hughes, wife of the Mayor of Oxford, has re.
ported that the sum collected in that city for the
Women's Jubilee Offering amounts to £275 6s. 41d.,
which has been contributed by 7270 persons.
A contest took place at the Bow-street Police-court
on Saturday between Mrs. Brake and a lady, whose
name did not transpire, as to the religion in which the
child of the former should be brought up. Mrs. Brake
said her husband some time before his death allowed
the child to go to a Protestant place of worship. The
lady produced a register showing that the child was
baptised in the Roman Catholic Charon. The magis-
trate decided that he must be guided by the mother'a
wish, and he ordered that the child should be sent to
King Edward's Industrial School, Mile-end.
A bird dealer in Lambeth-walk, named Bain, was
charged at the local Police-court on Saturday with
having 76 linnets and chaffinches in his possession
within the close time prescribed by Act of Parliament.
They had been sent to him by train from Dover. The
prosecution was instituted by the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The defendant was
reprimanded, and ordered to pay the costs.
The grouse-shooting mountain called Shantavenery,
about four miles from Ballygawley, Tyrone, the pre,
perty of the representatives of the late Sir William
Vorner, was set on fire the other night, and ail the
game destroyed. It was the largest grouse mountain
in the district. The flames from the burning under.
wood were seen 20 miles away. The agent of the pro-
perty had been serving process on one of the tenants
for three years' rent at Clogher.
The body of the late Colonel Roden, commanding
officer of the South Wales Borderers Volunteer Botta.
lion, who was murdered at the lead mines at Calvi, in
Corsica, on March 15, was taken to Ty Brith, Usk, the
Welsh residence of the deceased. The remains were
interred at Usk on Saturday morning. The funeral
was a military one.
At a meeting of the Chichester Habitation of the
Primrose League at Ilfracombe, held on Saturday, the
following resolution was passed and forwarded to
Lord Salisbury: "This meeting views with indignation
the systematic obstruction which the Government is
receiving in its endeavour to carry on the fundamental
duty of securing lives liberty, and prosperity of the
Queen's subjects, and begs to assure Lord Salisbury
of its unabated confidence in his policy and its entire
approval of the proposals to amend criminal law by
which alone the system of intimidation and illegal
conspiracy now ramp Ant in Ireland can be crushed."
A specially summoned meeting of the Colonial Lim,
fereoce met at the Colonial Office on Saturday morn-
ing, Sir Henry Holland presiding. The conference has
under discussion the enforcement of Colonial judgment,
and other matters in connection with that subject.
Mr. W. A. Bathe Hamilton, secretary, was in attend-
ance.

At the last meeting of the Deptford Conservative
Club, the following resolution was passed: "This
meeting begs to express its entire approval of the
Criminal Law Amendments (Ireland) Bill, and trusts
the Government wiil stand firmly by it. Heed not the
falae cry of coercion, and thereby give honest Irishmen
their freedom and liberty, and murderers, Moonlighters,
intimidators, and sedition-mongers their just rewards."
Information reached Canterbury on Saturday of a
determined set of self-destruction at the village of
Shepherds Well. It seems that Mr. Henry Winch, a
retired brewer, has for some time past been suffering
from a mental infirmity, and has consequently been
provided with an attendant. Early on Saturday morn-
ing, however, he eluded the vigilance of his keeper and
jumped down a well 350 feet in depth.
Two men, named Patrick Michael and Peter Flynn,
were charged before the Cheshire magistrates, at
Birkenhead, on Saturday, with badger baiting,
Inspector Nicholls of the Royal Society for the Preven-
tion of Cruelty to Animals give instructions to Charles
Vale, clerk in the office of the local branch of the
Society, to go to a house in Egerton-street. Here Vales
saw the defendants, who offered to show him a game
dog. Alter the animal had killed two rats in a pit he
called a terrier named " Captain" and turned it into a
bex containing a badger. There was a stiff struggle,
and in about two minutes the terrier dragged the
badger out by the head. The dog was bleeding at the
mouth. Flynn offered to sell the terrier for £2 10s.
and the badger for £2. He requested witness to say
nothing of the occurrence as he had been previously
convicted. The Bench said they believed the -badger
was kept for baiting purposes, but as it was not a
serious case they would each be fined only £1 and
costs.

Nathaniel Whitehead and Arabella Presnail, the
former being younger than the woman, were charged at
the Sevenoaks Police-court on Saturday with stealing
a quantity of bedding and other articles, the property
of Jabez Presnail, on the 13th inst. Prosecutor stated
that he was a baker at Shoreham, that the female
ptisoner was his wife, and the male prisoner had been
lodging with them for eight or nine months. Du:ing
his absence from borne both prisoners left Shoreham
together, and he subsequently traced them to Chatham.
He then saw his wife, and asked her to return to him,
but she declined to do so. 11e then gave both into
eustoAy, •_tis krt found they had some of his property.
The male prisoner said Mrs. Presnail packed the things
in her box, and he did not know they were not her
property. The female prisoner said she took the
articles thinking they would be useful. She considered
they belonged to her quite as much as to the prosecutor.
The prosecutor (to the male prisoner) : Your life sh.ll
be a terror to you. The case was then remanded.
The Mayoress of Lancaster (Mrs. Storey) held" at her
residenne, on Saturday, a meeting of the -ladies
associated in collecting for the Women's Jubilee Offer-
ing in the Lancaster Parliamentary Division: The
Hon. Ellinoi Wilson-Patten (President of the Ladies'
Association), the Hon. Elizabeth Wilson-Patten, and
many other ladies were present. Letters were read
from Lady Stanley of Preston (President of the North
Lancashire Diviinon), Miss Emily Faithfull, and others,
who much regretted being unable to attend. The
Ala-or (Alderman Storey) reported that in the 63 dis.
tacts of the division containing a population of 54,000,
the total sum of £4ll 143.10 - had been collected from
10,459 contributors. In the borough of Lancaster
there had been 100 collectors. Among the contributors
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ne res. a nof d agthe'e oon tehoeri
"102 pence."