The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-04-03 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS:

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.
The Duke of Connaught has been appointed a Major-
General on the Indian staff, to command a division of
the Bengal army.
Several followers of her Majesty's buckhounds met
on Saturday at Tattersall's, Albert-gate, Knightsbridge,
for the purpose of presenting to the Earl of Cork two
pieces of silver plate, in recognition of his lordship's
popularity. Lord Charles Beresford made the prese--
tation.
The French Government has decided to confer upon
M. Pasteur a high rank of the Legion of Honour.
A butcher named John Letherland, 20 years of age,
has met with a singular death at Bulwell, a suburb of
Nottingham. He was in the act of slaughtering a
sheep, and when about to plunge the knife into the
animal's throat he slipped and fell, and the knife
pierced his own side, inflicting a wound from which he
died.
The death is announced of the Marchioness of
Camden, who, after a long and painful illness, passed
away quietly on Saturday morning at Villa Clementine,
Cannes. Lord and Lady Wimborne were with the
marchioness.
The Liverpool "Journal of Commerce" says some of
the underwriters have made a haul on the arrival of the
Caroline at Chittagong. She is an iron vessel of 989
tons' owned by Mr. Charles F. Ellis, of London, and
left Table Bay on Dec. 24. Re-insurances have been
effected at 59 and 60 guineas per cent.
A bag of money, containing about £lOO, has been
stolen from the guard's van of a down train to Site
tingbourne.
The directors of the North London and North-Eastern
Railway Companies, following the example of other com-
panies, have called meetings of the proprietors to con-
sider" the startling provisions contained in the Railway
and Canal Traffic Bill."
Nancy Wainwright, of Malone, the old nurse to
Charlotte Bronte and her sisters, has died in the Brad-
ford Workhouse, at the age of 83. She had been
offered a home elsewhere, but preferred the Union,
where she was allowed many comforts.
The Dean of Worcester, who presided at the annual
meeting of the Leeds Church Extension Society, advo-
cated the extension of the number of mission chapels,
as more suitable to a certain portion of the working
classes.
The Lord Lieutenant and the Countess of Aberdeen
visited the Training College of the Church of Ireland,
in Kildare-place, Dublin, and formally opened the new
hall, erected, at a cost of £2OOO, in order to afford
additional accommodation to a largely increased number
of students.
The Corporation of Fordwick, in Kent, formerly a
limb of the Cinque Ports, became defunct on Saturday.
It is stated that the valuable plate belonging to the
Corpsration will go to the British Museum.
The Nellie, of Elsinore, from Bordeaux to Cardiff, was
wrecked off Scilly on Saturday morning. The captain
and two seamen are missing, and the chief mate was
drowned. The second mate, with four seamen, were
saved.
The Czar has conferred the Order of St. Anne of the
First Class, set in diamonds, upon Astan Akul Beg, the
Special Envoy from the Ameer of Bokhara, and has
also decorated the other members of the mission.
The Earl of Pembroke, who owns a large estate in
the neighbourhood of Salisbury, has entered into an
arrangement with one of the tenants by which twenty
acres have been given up for allotments. About four-
fifths of the lots have been taken already. The rent is
at the rate of 4.1e1. per perch. The earl will pay all
rates, taxes, and tithes.
A fall of earth occurred at Oldham on Tuesday after-
noon, through which one man was killed and many
injured. A gang of men were excavating in Bower.
lane, Hollinwood, near Oldham, when Oft. of side earth
fell without warning, burying a man named John
Whittaker and partly burying others. The other men
at once set to work and dug him out, but he was dead
when recovered. Among the injured a man named
Kemp was crushed dangerously.
Mr. Durling, of Twickenham, a well-known follower
of the Queen's bounds for over 40 years, was killed on
Tuesday. Whilst hunting his horse fell in taking
a fence near Chesham, causing the rider to break his
meek.
The arguments upon the Hanoverian cases arising out
of the Stepney election concluded on Tuesday, and the
Lord Chief Justice announced that judgment would be
given on a future day.
In tle Dublin Divorce Coutt, on Tuesday, Mrs.
Harriet Clifford sued for a divorce, on the grounds of
cruelty and adultery by her husband. Counsel stated
that petitioner, formerly a Miss Edwardes, was the
daughter of a distinguished Welsh engineer. The
parties met at Kilbeggan, the respondent being a bank
clerk, and they were mar: ied in 1885. The respondent
was addicted to drink, and when petitioner was suffer-
ing from illness be treated her so violently as to cause
her to faint. He flung boots and candlesticks at her,
and drank the brandy the doctor prescribed for her.
The petitioner got money for him from herefriends,
but had to refuse to do so any more, wile's he ordered
her out of the house. A decree of divorce svas granted.
Arrangements are in progress for the withdrawal of
the Indian troops at Souakira and in the Eastern
Soudan in the course of May, by which time it is ex-
pected that the Egyptian army will be able to take over
the posts at present held. There are now only three
Indian regiments in Eastern Africa, the 15th and 17th
Bengal Native Infantry and the 28th Bombay, with a
company of Madras Sappers and !liners.
"Alice," Mr. Barnum's latest acquisition for his
American show, was moved on Tuesday afternoon from
her house in the Zoological Gardens to a car which
had been prepared for I,er transport to America.
Barnum has given £2OO for the animal, which was
shipped on Wednesday at Millwall Docks on board'
the Egyptian Monarch for conveyance to the States.
A good deal of difficulty was experienced in inducing
"Alice " to enter her temporary house.
A fire broke out early on Tuesday morning at the
extensive saw mills and timber yards of Messrs. English
and Co., shipping merchants, at Peterborough. The
premises 'revered an area of some acres, and the ine
flammable stock burned fiercely for a long time. The
damage is estimated at £lOO,OOO.
Mrs. Mary Abbott, widow of a clergyman, died at
Southsea on Tuesday morning, aged 101 years.
In the Chancery Division on Tuesday, Mr. Waters' as
trustee for his sister's marriage settlement, sued Sir
John Hart opp to recover £7OOO paid to the Messrs.
Parker as his sol'citor as a loan to him to be completed
as a mortgage. Sir John admitted having signed the
receipt for the money, but had no recollection of having
had it from Messrs. Parker, who had absconded.
Mr. Jusnce North gave judgment for the amount, with
costs.
At tho Westminster Police-court on Tuesday, a man
dressed as a navvy asked Mr. D'Eyncourt if he and
others would be permitted to march through the streets
as a demonstration of the unemployed. Mr. D'Eyncourt
said such processions could not be allowed. It they
could get no relief they had a right to go to the work-
house, where they must be supported.
Mr. Chamberlain gave his first vote on Monday night
against the Government in the discussion on Mr.
Ll`Lareree amendment to the Crofters Bill, "That it be
an instruction to the committee that they have poWer
to extend the provisions of the bill to other parts of
Scotland." Mr. Trevelyan, on the other hand, voted
with his former colleagues against the proposal.
The annual meeting of the West Riding Miners'
Permanent Relief Fund was held on Tuesday at
Barnsley, when Earl Fitz william was elected p-esident,
and Earl Wharncliffe, Lord Houghtoo, Lord Halifax,
and other distinguishod persons, v'ce-presidents. The
report and balance-shoot, which were adopted, showed
a membership of 15,374. There was a decrease in
revenue of £1750 during the year, owing to the strike
and the general stoppage of collieries for two months
The total balance reached £23,900.
The Midland Railway Company are about to erect
large waggon works near the top of Pepper-lane,
Hunslet, Leeds. The contracts are already let, and
the erection of the buildings will be commenced forth-
with. The company will also make extensive sidines
in the neighbourhood, and steel works are about to be
built by a firm in the same locality.
The death-rate of London showed a considerable de-
cline last week. Though the mortality from diseases of
the respiratory organs was not so great as in
previous weeks, it was still largely in excess of the
average.
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Tuesday, of Wales and her daughters visited
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After luncheon a
the Cathedral and attended the afternoon service, sub-
eequently returning to Torquay. The people in the
streets heartily cheered the Royal party.
An insurrection has broken out in Senegal, and the
local troops have suffered a reverse.
A fearful gale visited many portions of the kingdom
o Tuesday. At Liverpool the building of the "Ship,
perias " Exhibition was much damaged, and one of the
workmen was killed. A market hall in course of cons
struction at Llandudno was partially blown down.
Near the Lizard a French brigantine was capsized. Her
crew were rescued and taken into Sailmouth.
The " El Liberal" of Madrid on Tuesday stated that
the Government had received a telegram from Bilbao
reporting two cases of cholera in the mining district.
A largely-attended meeting was held in the Egyptian
Hall of the Mansion House on Tuesday, to consider Sir
John Lubbock's bill for limiting the hours of shop
assistants under 18 years of age. After an animated
debate, a resolution was passed accepting the bill as an
instalment, and urging Parliament to make the doing
of shops compulsory at 10 on Saturday night and eight
on other week nights.
Early on Tuesday morning the four-masted ship
Loch Broom, which proves to be the vessel recently in
collision with the Dutch war steamer Java, passed up
the Thames. She had on bowed the four missing men
of the Java' 'who at the moment of the collision
clambered up her sides.
An interesting ceremony took place on Tuesday at
Goldsmith's Hall, City, when a gold casket, containing
the freedom of the Goldsmith's Company, was pre-
sented to Prince Albert Victor. Among those present
were the Duke of Cambridge, the Earl of Iddesleigh,
Mr. Justice Bowen, Mr. Stephen Smith (the Prime
Warden, and several members of Parliament.
Last week at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the
mean reading of the barometer was 2981 in. the
highest being 29.07 in. on Tuesday, and the in.,
2964 in. on Saturday. The mean temperature of the
air, which exceeded the average on each day of the
week, was 50-9 deg. Rain fell on five days of the week,
to the aggregate amount of 0-31 of an inch. During
the week, 7.6 hours of bright sunshine were registered,
against 9.7 hours at Glynde-place,Lewes.
John Seymour Fowler, sol:citor, and William Henry
Edwards, manager of the Legal and General Mercan-
tile Creditors' Protection Association, were again
brought up at Southwark Police-court, on Tuesday, to
answer charges of fraud and conspiracy. Witnesses
were called as to the general conduct of business in the
office of the association, and the defendants were com-
mitted for trial, bail being allowed.
Mr. J. Howard, brother-in-law of Messrs. John and
William Redmond, was drowned some days ago while
yachting off Villafranca.
A deputation representing the Dublin publicans, has
had an interview with Mr. Parnell, and urged him to
oppose the Sunday Closing Bill for Ireland, should it
be introduced, on the ground that as Home Rule is to
be granted immediately, the alien Parlisment should
not further meddle in the matter. Ur. Parnell pros
raised to lay the views of the deputation before his
zolleagues.