The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-06-18 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The Dike of Devonshire has given a reduction of
ten per cent. to the tenants on his Irish estates off their half.
year's rent payable this month.

On Monday a great strike of labourers employed in
unloading vessels at the Limerick Docks took place, for an
increase of wages, the men stating they are badly paid.

A despatch from Havana estimates the Cuban sugar
crop for the present year at 464,000 tons, showing a decrease
of 65,509 tons as compared with last year.

On Tuesday a large water tank upon the top of a
tower at Chelmsford suddenly burst. The tank, which is
constructed of cast-iron plates to hold 40,000 gallons, was
being pumped full of water after having been caullwd.
When almost full it burst with a loud report, throe aides of
It falling to the ground. 'there were two lads in the tower
at the time, but neither of them was hurt,

The Marquis of Lorne has subscribed 500 dole., and
the Legislative Assembly has voted 10,000 dols, to the fund
for the relief of the relatives of the persons who lost their
lives by the sinking of the steamboat Victoria.

All the coal now being placed on board the new
turret ship Inflexible at Portsmouth is subjected to careful
examination, so as to avoid the remotest possibility of any
explosive substance being surreptitiously introduced into
her bunkers.

Accounts from many quarters in the north of
Scotland report that the intense frost of Friday in last week
has done extensive damage to the potato and turnip crops.
Scarcely a plant has escaped, and hundreds of acres will have
to be replanted. Strawberries have suffered severely in
Aberdeenshire. Yegetation has not sustained such a check
for many years.

The Royal Society is contemplating organising a
series of deep sea soundings to be taken this summer on the
north coast of Scotland.

The crops in the greater part of the Russian
Governments are in a very satisfactory condition, and even
in less favoured provinces the prospects are good.
A Cabinet Council was held at two o'clock on
Monday afternoon at the Premier's official residence,
Downing-street. Mr. Forster and Lord Granville called on
Mr. Gladstone at one o'clock, and remained in consultation
with him until the hour when the Cabinet formally met.

'The United Presbyterian Presbytery of Dundee
have unanimously passed a resolution expressing their in-
debtedness to the eminent scholars who have produced the
Revised Version of the New Testament, and commending
the book to the careful study of the people. Some of the
speakers stated that they were making a partial use of the
revised version in the public services at their church.

In Monday's sitting of the French Chamber the
supplementary grant of 14,000,000 francs for the Tunis expe-
dition was unanimously voted. General Farre, the Minister
of War, stated that the sole object of the expedition was
to secure the influence of France and the safety of Algeria,
and that this objett had been gained with the least expendi-
ture and the fewest sacrifices as possible.

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On Tuesday forenoon was soletnnised, at St. Mar-
garet's, Westminster, the marriage of the Rev. John Stafford
Northcote, Rector of Upton Fyne, third son of the Right
Hon. Sir Stafford Northcote, Bart, ALE, with Miss Hilda
Farm, second daughter of the Rev. Fredk. W. Farrar,
Canon of Westminster, and Chaplain in Ordinary to the
Queen. The Dean of Westminster, the Bishop of Durham,
Professor Plumptre, and a distinguished company, including
Lord and Lady Lytton, Mr. and sirs. Gladstone, the Baroness
Burdett-Coutts, and Sir Stafford and Lady Northoote, were
present at the ceremony.
" An accident occurred on the Lancashire and York-
shire Railway, near Accrington, late,on Saturday night. As
a luggage train was proceeding from Accrington to Burnley,
the axle of a heavy laden truck broke, and the latter fell
upon the lines; the succeeding trucks were thrown off the
metals, and the line was blocked for several hours. The
truffle had to be worked on the Harwood loop-litte. The
guard of the train was rather seriously Inat, aud the damage
was very considerable,

The progresa naibde in Committee on the Land Bill
on Tuesday was greater than at the whole of the 'previous
sittings devoted to thq Bill. Thirty-four lines of the Bill
were passed, and about fifty Amendments were disposed of
in one way or other.

On Tuesday the Government ezpedition to establish
a meteorological station at Lady Franklyn Bay sailed from
Baltimore for at. John's, where a steamier will take the
party to their destination. On their arrival there the com-
mander is instructed to make sledge journeys to Cape
Joseph Henry in search of the Jeanrwtte. The station is
one of a number to be established in high northern latitudes,
and the co-operation of England, Danmark, Holland, Cier-
many, and Austria is assured in the work.
The Berlin Correspondent of the Dai4 News says "A. St. Petersburg comapondent writes to me, in a letter
dated June 8, that a curions incident was to take place in the
palace of glitschina on the 10th instant. On that day iu 178,4
the Emperor Paul had his polittcal testament deposited
under the altar of the imperial Chapel at Gatzchina with
dh'ections that it should be openal after the lapse of one
hundred years. This ceremony was to take place before the
Emperor and all his
,ministers.. The_ unknown testament..
referred to in the will of the late Alexander 11., will no
longer be a mystery..

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Notwithstanding the greater abundance of grass in
Scotland store cattle are not much higher in price, though a
readier sale than they were during April and May.
Dr. Schliemann has lately returned to Athens from
a tour of exploration in the Troad, and has since started
for Berlin. Among other discoveries, he believes that he
has ascertained the site of the altar of the Twelve Gods.

In a pastoral letter devoted to the subject of
spiritual destitution in his diocese, the Bishop of Liverpool
says that district after district could easily be named in
which ten, twelve, fifteen, and even twenty thousand souls
are nominally under the care of one solitary inctunbent.

The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Daily News
says that the harvest prospects in Russia generally have
been promising, but that the continuous wet weather in the
south is reported to be having an unfavourable effect on the
winter wheat.

A Constantinople telegram says that during the stay
of the Czar's new yacht, the Livadia, at Buyukdere, extra-
ordinary precautions were taken to prevent her being ap-
proached. Electric lights were kept burning all night, and
the boats of a Russian war ship warned off all craft in the
neighbourhood.

The French revenue returns for the month of May
show a surplus over the estimates of 13,168,000 fr. This
brings up the surplus since the beginning of the year to
86,127,0001 r.

General Farre has made another small, but interest-
ing, reform in the French army. Hitherto all officers have
been compelled to wear white gloves, whether on or off
duty. Now gloves are dear, and the vast majority of French
officers are by no means rich; so the War Minister has
authorized them them to wear dark chamois coloured gloves
when not on service.

A further notice has been issued from the office of
the Agent-General for Victoria, stating that in consequence
of the prevalence of foot-and-mouth disease in England the
introduction of stock from this country into Victoria re-
mains strictly prohibited in the terms of Section V. of the
Order in Council, July 7, 1879.

According to a New Orleans telegram the visible
supply of wheat on June 10 was 16,200,000 bushels; Ditto
Indian corn, 10,500,600 bushels. Export clearances of wheat
for Europe during die past week, 2,480,000 bushels; export
clearances of Indian corn for Europe during the past week,
1,470,000 bushels.

The steamer Mary Hough, engaged in the Liverpool
and Landon trade, which was sunk at the mouth of the
Mersey on the 28th ult., after collision with two other
steamers, has been raised by the Liverpool Salvage Associa-
tion. She was taken into the river on Saturday, and beached
near Egremont.

About four o'clock on Saturday morning a fishing
boat returning to Whitchills Harbour, near Banff, suddenly
upset, and the crew of four men were drowned. All leave
widows, and two of them large families.

The Liverpool Journal of Commerce says that "at
the Liverpool Corn Exchange a siunpre of wheat transmitted
by the Hudson's Bay Company to Mr Drake, Canadian
Government agent in Liverpool, was carefully examined by
several of the leading importers and millers present. These
gentlemen pronounced it to be the finest sample of wheat in
the market, and as a consequence offers of 3d per bushel
were made more than for the finest samples of Californian."

The arrivals of live stock and fresh meat from the
United States and Canada, landed at Liverpool last week,
show a marked decrease, there being only half the number
of steamers arrived which convey live stock and fresh
meat. The totals were 1,693 cattle, 1,673 sheep, 5,818
quarters of beef, 531 carcases of mutton, and 99 dead hogs.
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In London, on Saturday evening, nearly 6,000 of
the metropolitan Volunteers paraded for the annual Govern-
ment inspection and brigade drills, and, the weather being
fine, the musters in the case of each regiment were good,
and the attendance of spectators to witness the movements
large. In Hyde Park there were two inspections and a
brigade drill.

Upwards of 51,000 volunteers from England and
Wales will be present at the review by the Queen in Windsor
Park on the 9th of next month, England being represented
by twenty-eight counties, and Wales by two—Glamorgan and
Pembroke.

A parliamentary paper issued on Tuesday contains
a list of all persons detained in prison under the Coercion
Act up to the 9th inst. There are altogether 110 prisoners,
who are distributed as follows ;—ln Kilmainham, 49; Galway,
27; Limerick, 15; Naas, 16; and Dundalk, 3.

Prince Albert Victor and Prince George of Wales
arrived at Adelaide on Monday on board the Peninsular
and Oriental Dompany's Steamship Cathay. and met with
an enthusiastic reception from the people of Adelaide.
Their Royal Highnesses were the guests of Major-General
SU W.F. .Tervois, the Governor of South Australia.

There were 31 British and foreign wrecks, of which
17 were British, eight being steamers, reported during the past
week, making a total of 859 for the present year, or an in-
crease of 218 as compared with the corresponding period of
last year. The approximate value of property lost was
£6,700,000, including British £5,500,009.

A New York correspondent states that the number
of Americans visiting Europe this year is likely to be greater
than at any time since the Paris Exhibition.
On Monday afternoon the inaugural ceremony in
connection with the monument in memory of those who
perished in the Grosser ICtulttrst, took place at Folkstvne, in
presence of about 150 officers and men of the German man-of-
war Niobe,

In the 'United States the demand for the revised
New Testament is continuous, although decreasing. One
publisher says he could have sold half a million. It is con-
jectured that New York houses have orders now for four or
live hundred thousand.

Lord Derby and the Countess of Derby attended a,
reeepti,n at the Liverpool Reform Club last Saturday after-
noon. his lordship has been nominated a member of the
club, and will be balloted for in due course.

Captain Crombie, of the Aberdeen Artillery
Volunteers, has received from Balmoral Castle a large silver
punch.bowl, a gift from the Queen, to be cor2peted for at
the approaching wapinschaw. The bowl weighs about 30oz.

The excavations at Epidaurus have led to the laying
open of the great theatre of Polyelitus. Fifty-five tows of
marble seats have been laid bare.

Killing black beetles is the orthodox Ascension
Day custom with Rouzzin children. On the eve they go out
gathering beetles, and next day make miniature bonfires,
and either cremate the insects in a mass, or set fire to their
taha and make them run up a long plank, the lads and lasses
meanwhile dancing round and singing. This practice is very
ancient, and has survived all efforts to put it down.
An extensive landslip has taken place, and is still
continuing. in a thickippopulated portion of the city of
Bath. The hill-side on which the slip has and is taking
Otte?, was crowded with houses, but portions are now
nothing more than a complete ruin. The slip is moving
towards the valley at the rate of one inch per day, and by
*disturbing foundations is wrecking all buildings on the
affected arena.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh,
Admiral Superintendent of Reserves, hoisted his flag on
board her Majesty's ship Hercules, in the Downs, on Mon-
day. The ships comprising the squadron are the Defence,
-Hector, Lord Warden, Penelope, Repulse, Valiant, and
Warrior.

The New York Correspondent of the Standard
writes that the plumbers in Brooklyn are much excited by
the operation of a new Act of the New York Legislature,
which, on sanitary grounds, requires an official inspection of
all new plumbing work, that the materials shall be of a good
quality and free from defects, and that no plumbing shall be
covered until it has been approved.

The fiscal year of the United States ends on June 30,
and it is estimated that there will be a surplus of one
hundred millions of dollars (E 20,000,000 In 1879 the sur-
plus was only twelve millions. After the resumption of
specie payments, in 1880, the surplus rose to sixty-five
millions.

In London, on Tuesday, the Right Rev. Dr. Denali,
Roman Catgolic Bishop of Southwark, who had been ailing
for a considerable time, died suddenly at the Presbytery
attached to St. George's Cathedral.

The tobacco crop, having been favoured with an
excellent planting season this year, has matured in good
time, and has now been completed in Virginia. But less
tobacco has been shipped from the State to England during
the past year than in any previous year since the war, be-
cause the British market was found to be overstocked.
New York was visited on Tuesday 'morning by a
thunderstorm, which occasioned a serious loss of life and
much damage to property both on sea and land.

The summoning officers of the Birmingham police
force have been allowed the use of tricycles for the purpose
of expediting their work.

Twelve hundred telegraph clerks in the service of the
Government met in London on Saturday, and resolved to
strike if a certain course of action were decided upon. A
national conference of telegraph clerks is to be held at
Liverpool, when a final decision will be arrived at.

An official inspection of the St. Gothard Railway
has just been completed. According to the report of the
the Federal Inspector, the lines of access will be ready for
traffic some time in the autumn, and the mails may regu-
larly traverse the great tunnel before the beginning of the
winter.

The United States had not a single steamer engaged
in the grain carrying trade from .New Ycrk last year. In all
113,343,000 bushels of grain were exported from New York in
180, and of that totol 63,377,000 bushels were carried in
British ships, 40 million buldiels being carried by British
stearneas. There were only twenty-nine sailing vessels under
the American flag engaged in the trade, and but thirteen of
these were ships.
The New York Coaching Club lately held their
meeting in Fifth Avenue and fifteen coaches assembled—
enough to show that what' used to be regarded as an essen-
tially English ainuzenient is bec9ming popular in the States.
A movement has commenced in Leicester with the
p osed
subject to raise
e u r
object of inviting the British AFsoeiatiou in August next to
hold its meeting
herelllB,lS3t.o bring the proposed
the
cii,‘,l7siiidte'gruaatiroanntoefetfluileitdo,wn council at its next meeting, with
the object of sending the invitation in due form.
According to a return just issued, the total number
of men examined for school certificates in the Army at home
of the first, second, and third classes, was 11.044, of whom
7,356 passed successftilly ; 7.827 rnen were examined for
fourth clasi certificates, and 6,062 were Successful; making
the total for the four classes 18,671, of which number 14,1di
passed successfully.

On Sunday afternoon several boys were bathing in
the old River Lea, bear Temple Mills, when one of their
number, George Brown, aged 14, residing at Mill-row,
Kingßland, was seized with cramp and sank. His companions
saw his danger, and made strenuous efforts to save him, but
failed. They then ran off for assistance, but by the time
Police-constable 62 N and another man arrived the lad had
disappeared. The drags were obtained, and some little time
afterwards the body was recovered. -

Mr. Edison will send nearly 100 exhibits to the Paris
Electrical Convention, covering all his inventions as well as
many new ones never before shown. Among the latter will
be an enormous dynamic machine for the generation of elec-
tricity, some idea of the size of which may be obtained when
it is stated that the " armature " alone will weigh four tons..
At a meeting of delegates from various parts of the
United Kingdom,, held on Monday afternoon at the offices of
the Licensed Victuallers' Protection Society, London, a re-
solution was carried protesting again t the principle of local
option being incorporated into any bill having for its object
any alteration or amendment of the existing licensing
system.

The additions to the Zoological Society's Gardens,
Regent's-park, London, la.st week, include a macaque
monkey, from India, presented by Mr. W. Nugent: a vulpine
phalanger, from Australia, presented by Master H. Berridge;
ten green lizards, European, prelented by Mr. U. N. Moseley,
F. Z S. ; two ostriches, from Africa; two white-backed piping
crows, a laughing kingfisher, from South Australia, de-
posited; a Prince Albert's ourrassow, from Columbia, two
golden agoutis, from Guiana, two common boas, from South
America, on approval; a Japanese deer, a Cuudng's octodon,
born in the Gardens: five impeyan pheasants, four peacock
pheasants, a ruddy sheldrake, bred in the Gardens.

General Sir Duncan Macgregor, K. 0.8., died on
Wednesday in last week at Vanbrugh Park, Blackheath, in
his ninety-filth year, after a few days' illness, lie entered
the army when thirteen years old and was a captain at
eighteen. He was one of the very few survivors of the
Walcheren expedition. After commanding the 93rd Mph-
lenders for many years, he became Inspector-General of
the Irish constabulary—a post which he retained for twenty
years. General Macgregor was the author of a popular
account of the loss of the Kent East Indiaman, which was
burned in the Bay of Biscay on the Ist of March. 1825.
General, than Major Macgregor was on board the ill-fated
vessel with his wife and infant son. All three were happily
saved; indeed, the first person rescued from the cutter of
the Kent by a passing brig was Major Macgregor's child,
who has since become well known to his countrymen as the
voyager of the "Rob Roy" canoe,
At Gloucester, on Saturday, a meeting was held for
the purpose of forming a branch of the Farmers' Alliance.
Mr. James Howard, M.P., gave an account of the origin of
the movement, and said he believed that some prominent
men who had at first abstained from supporting it now
grated the course they had taken. He enti7elrdicziaimed
all political bias.- Ile-believed there never wa: a time when
:a better feeling existed in the great manufacturing centre*:
towards the agricultural interest. The proposal to establish
a branch of the ailhoce was adopted,

The American contributions to the Land League
Fund last week are 1,330 dollars, making the total to date
114,518 dollars.

The strike of brewers in New York is likely to
be defeated. The masters are obtaining men from the
West, and have also telegraphed to Germany for assist-
ance.

Eailway excursionists and others are cautioned
against the dangerous practice of throwing empty bottles
out of the railway carriages. No doubt it is often done
thoughtlessly, and with no intention of causing injury; but
there is great danger of the missiles striking passing trains
or men employed on the railway.

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The census returns show the population of Tasmania
to be 116,000.

Mining is said to be prosperous in New South
Wales

Another shock of earthquake occurred at Chios on
June 10th causing the fall of a Turkish minaret and of
several ruined houses in the town. Two men were slightly
injured.

It has been announced that the Queen has consented
to become patroness of the Polled Cattle Society.
A. deputation from King John of Abyssinia has
arrived at Cairo, in order to ohtain from the Coptic
Patriarch the appointment of a Patriarch for Abyssinia.
The Mission are the bearers of letters and presents from the
King to the Khedive.

For the fir,4 five months of the present year the
Italian revenue returns show an increase of 2.8,c00,000 lire as
compared chit tl:e same period of 1880.

The following gracious Message from her Majesty
has been received by the Earl of Northbrook, First Lord of
the Admiralty :--" The Queen wishes the expression of her
sympathy to be conveyed to the relatives of those who
perished in her Majesty's ship Dotard."

By the exercise of a little ingenuity the names of
the placed Derby horses were conveyed across the Atlantic
in the form of a single word—or rather imitation of a word—
of nine letters only. It was -arranged that the first three
letters of the successful horses' names sh.uld be cabled, and
the message therefore ran " Iropertow." This was readily
translated into Iroquois, 1; Peregrine, 2; Town Moor, 3.
Mr. P. Lorillard had a special meassage in this style for-
warded to him from the Grand Stand.

The Dover and Deal Railway, which has been con-
structed jointly by the South Eastern and London, Chatham,
and Dover Railway Companies, was opened for traffic on
Tuesday.

The entrance money at the Old English Fair last
week amounted to £4,300 in four days' or more than £l,OOO
per day on the average. The stalls realised £3,240, making
a total of £7,640.

A return published by the Swiss authorities shows
that the Swiss lines of railway enjoy great immunity from
accidents, as in the course of last year 301 y forty persons
were killed, and all of them met their death through their
own imprudence. No one was killed by causes beyond their
own control, and only seventeen were injured. This is ex-
clusive of the sixty-nine persons killed and the 225 injured
on the works of the St. Gothard Railway.
At Council Bluffs, lowa, a singular and fatal dis-
ease has been raging for several days among the cattle. It
Is contagious, and is pronounced anthrax, or blood-poison-
ing, the animals succumbing to it in live or six hours after
being attacked. It is possibly due to local causes, having
their origin in the recent overflow.

Madame Sarah Bernhardt's latest toilette is a dress
dotted with white and black dots, with a silk scarf tied
below the waist in the Turkish fashion; a coat-bodice in
black velvet, with splendid white lace, and a bolero hat
veiled in black and white blonde. Her figure looked slender
and charming, like a sword in a beaded silk sheath. This style
of corselet is much in favour at present. It extends about
half way down the body.—Court Journal.
Yachting in France has increased wonderfully in
favour of late years. Formerly few Frenchmen cared about
either rowing or sailing as a recreation, but now boating or
yachting clubs are established in forty-two of the eighty-six
Departments of France, and the pleasure fleet of the country
numbers some 9,383 vessels, worth altogether £550,000.
A Vienna telegram says that terrible hailstorms
have destroyed the entire harvest in the district of Nakosch
Puszta, trear Temesvar. A whole herd of cattle, it is feared,
has been blown into the river.

On Saturday, Dr. Danford Thomas concluded an
adjourned inquest on the body of a man unknown, who was
found dead in a first-class carriage of the up Scotch express
train on the London and North-Western Railway on Satur-
day morning, the 4th inst. Inspector Coucher said the body
had been photographed, and every inquiry had been made,
but without avail. The Coroner remarked that the man
had evidently killed himself. He had not been robbed of
his watch, and money was found in his pockets. The jury
returned a verdict of "Suicide while in a state of unsound
mind."

Intelligence from Valparaiso to the 16th of May
reports that the negroes from the neighbourhood of Canete
Peru massacred a thousand Chinese near Santa Rosa. The
Chinese made a brave defence, but were quickly over-
powered, owing to their provisions and ammunition failing.

Last week's receipts of cotton at all United States
ports have been 29,u00 bales, and since Ist September
5,557,000 bales. Shipments to Great Britain, 33,000 bales;
and to the Continent and Channel, 17,000 bales; total since
Ist September, 4,176,600 bales. Stock at all ports, 481,000
bales.

Another new application of electricity as a motor
has been experimented in during the last few days in Paris.
M. G. Trouve, a well-known electrician, has devised a method
of applying the electrical current to the propulsion of a boat,
and, so far, the results have been eminently satisfactory.
The experiments have been made on the Seine, on several
occasions, with a small boat containing from two to six per-
sons. M. Trouve's apparatus may be adapted to any boat,
and there seems no reason whatever why it might not be so
modified as to be applicable to vessels of much larger dimen-
sions than filet experimented on.

The death is reported of the Tyrolese painter, George
Mader, at the age of fifty-five. Be began comparatively
late his artistic studies, having been brought up as a miller,
but Ids progress and success were very great. Ms chief
works were the frescoes in the Brunneker parish church, in
which lie displayed considerable originality, and showed a
great mastery of the technicalities of his art. lie was one
of the founders of the great establishment for glass-painting
at Innsbruck.

The experiment of lighting the House of Commons
by electrizaty was made during the sitting of Friday night in
last week. The system employed was that of " the Brush,
and in the interval between the morning and evening sittings
the opportunity was afforded, by the alternate lighting of the
Chamber by the two agencies of electricity and gas, of com-
paring their relative effects. Various opinions were, of
course, entertained with regard to the results ; but there
was a general concurrence of opinion that the experiment
was sufficiently promising to justify its repetition.

In London on Monday a final meeting of the Man-
sion !louse Committee for the relief of the sufferers by the
earthquakes at Chio was bald at the Mansion Rouse, the
Lora Mayor, M.P., presiding. The fund was reported to
amount, in all, to £.23,600, of which .ti. 21,070 had already
been remitted to the Constantinople Committee for distribu-
tion in aid of the distressed people. A telegram was read
from that Committee thanking llnglish subscribers for their
munificent aid, and stating that there existed no present
need for further subscriptions. The Committee thereupon
determined to close the fund, and to remit the balance,
£945 to the Constantinople Committee, with such out-
standing sums as might be hereafter collected from the
various banks.
This year twenty-one scholarships are to be awarded
by the London School Board—nine to boys and twelve to
girls. They vary in annual value from .C 26 to £35, and
fifteen of them are tenable for four years and the remainder
for three years. Candidates must be under thirteen years of
age on the last Aay of May this year, and must have attended
a public elementary school or schools in the metropolis not
less than 250 times, or, in case of half-timers, 160 times in
each of the three years immediately precedinßthis date.
Very disastrous storms and floods have visited the
American continent, and have done extensive damage.
Railroad tracks have been torn up, the crops injured, timber
rafts on the rivers broken to pieces, and Pittsburg has been
flooded by the Alleghany River. Two railway men were.
drowned. On the Baltimore Railway traffic has been sus-
pended. Some fatal disasters have occurred upon the coast,
which is strewn with wreckage. Near Baltimore the light-
ning struck a barn where some strawberry pickers had taken
refuge, and killed four persons. Kansas lies been visited by
a cyclone, which totally destroyed a number of houses, and
five lives were lost.

The flood of immigration to New York increasto.
Since June the Ist 20,546 immigrants have landed. Cst
these over 8,000 are German, 3,300 Irish, 1,800 English, 1,800
Austrians, nearly 1,700 Swedes over 800 Norwegians, 400
Swiss, and the rest.from Italy, Denmark and other countries.
Preaching at the St. Mary's Church, Beswick, on
Sunday evening, the Bishop of Sianchester alluded to the
Liberationist movement, and expressed a hope that Church-
men, and even non-Churchmen who still appreciate the
value of an Established Church, would pause before they
entertained the plausible theory of disestabltshment and
disendowment, and that they would not listen too readily
and too credulously to those who went about persuading
them that there was a glorious millennium of religious
equality and spiritual development at hand so soon as the
National Church were swept once and for ever away.
It was not to be expected that everybody who paid
his live shillings to get into the Albert nail last week
should know the stallkeepers or their assistants by sight,
and small blame if an occasional contretemps occurred. One
very thirsty visitor, going up to the refreshment stall, de-
scried a gentleman in attendance who had doffed his coat,
and called out to him coaxingly, "Bring me a cup of tea ;
there's a good fellow." The cup was promptly brought, and
the charge of half-a-crown cheerfully paid, with a " shilling
for yourself, for being so quick over it." The visitor had
drunk his tea before he heard that tho active waiter was a
general officer.—Giobe.