The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-01-29 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH A_ND FOREIGN.

A meeting of French Anarchists was held on Sunday
to protest against the sentence of death recently
passed on the man Duval, who set fire to the house of
Madame Lemaire and assaulted a police constable mur.
derously.
Demonstrations in connection with the Social Demo-
cratic Federation, professedly in the interests of the
unemployed, were held in several districts of London
on Sunday, and the new practice of marching in pro.
cession to the parish churches and sitting through the
morning service, was carried out on a considerable
scale. In only one instance do these visits appear to
have been accompanied by acts of indecorum. When
the processionists left the churches they held open-air
meetings, at which speeches of a more or less violent
character were delivered.
In a debate on Colonial affairs in the French
Chamber, Mgr. Freppel, the Bishop of Angers, urged
that the occupation of the New Hebrides should be
made permanent, and that a Protectorate should be
proclaimed over the leeward group of the Society
Islands and over the Salmon Islands. _

Mr. Parnell has issued a communication stating that
Mr. Swift M`Neill, a Protestant Nationalist, will offer
himself as a candidate for the vacancy in South
Donegal, and that Mr. Healy will come forward for the
division of Longford lately represented by Mr. Justin
MTlarthy.
Three Socialist leaders have been condemned at
Frankfort•on-the-Mainp to six months' imprisonment,
and others to shorter terms.

The United States Senate has had under discussion
the Extradition Treaty with Great Britain, but without
result, though the Foreign Relations Gonwittee urged
its adoption strongly:
As passed by both Houses of the United States
Legislature, the Interstate Railway Bill forbids dis-
crimination in charges or preference in service, pro.
hibits " pooling," or the imposition by the companies
of higher rates for a shorter than for a longer distance.
All sergeant-majors of the Austro-Hungarian army
are in future to be armed with swords like those of
officers, and with revolvers. They will no longer carry
rifles.

Captain William M‘Mickan, of the Cunarder Umbria,
who has made 402 voyages across the Atlantic. has
been presented at New York with a purse containing
3050 dols. _ _ _ _ _

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At a meeting in Glasgow on Monday of the Scottish
Miners' Federation, it was resolved by a large majority
to advise the Scotch miners to work no more this week
unless sixpence advance be conceded. Delegates corn.
plained that thousands of men were starving, although
all were entitled to an advance of one shilling per day,
and amendments proposing a general or partial strike
were moved, but rejected on a divieion.
Richard Reynolds, who refused his address, and
George Fawcett, joiner, Fleet-street, Manchester, were
charged, on remand, at Bury, on Monday, with steal-
ing a bag and £6OO from a railway carriage at Ringley-
road Station, between Manchester and Bury, on the
16th ult. James Parry, who handed the money to the
clerk Heap, at the offices of Messrs. Knowles and Sons,
Pendlebury, and Hall, a porter at Clifton Junction,
were examined, but failed to identify the prisoners,
who were committed for trial.
Mr. Christopher Sykes, M.P., was entertained on
Monday at a banquet at Norton, to celebrate his return
for the Buckrose Division. The hon. gentleman met
with a flattering reception by a large number of hie
constituents. Amongst those present were Lord
Middleton, Sir A. K. Rollit, and Mr. St. Quintin, who
presided. Previous to the banquet there was a grand
meet of Lord Middleton's hounds in the neighbour-
hood.
A crowded meeting was held in Blackburn Town
Hall on Monday night, to welcome home the Rev. R.
P. Aslie, a returned missionary from Uganda, who
escaped soon after the murder of Bishop Hannington.
A resolution was passed to write to the Foreign Office,
urging upon the Government the duty of appointing n
Commission of Inquiry into the murder and maltreat-
ment of British subjects by native rulers in Equatorial
Africa.
lirederick Piercy, a clerk, was charged at York on
Monday with uttering, knowing it to be forged, an
endorsed deposit receipt on the York Union Bank for
£143, with intent to defraud. The prisoner was one of
three executors under his father's will. The money was
deposited jointly by himself and two brothers, and a
year ago he is alleged to have forged his brothers'
signatures and obtained the money. He was committed
for trial.
At an electoral meeting in Berlin on Saturday it was
decided to maintain the candidature of Professor
Virchow against that of Count von Moltke.
Three Socialist leaders have been condemned at
Frankfort-on-the-Main to six
_months'
.imprisonment.
and others to shorter terms.

An alarming accident occurred at Dewsnap Pit,
Dukinfield, belonging to the Dnkinfield Coal Cannel
Company, on Tuesday morning The engineman was
lowering six men on the day shift, when he allowed the
engine to overrun him, and failed to pull up in time to
prevent the ascending empty cage from being wound
over the headstocks. The descending cage fell heavily
upon catches at the shaft bottom. Three of the men
were injured, but not seriously.
The French barque Esperance, bound from Cadiz to
Belfast, with a cargo of teak, went ashore on Monday
night in Dundrum Bay, county Down, during thick
weather. The Tyrella lifeboat, the memorial, belonging
to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, was
launched through a very heavy sea, and was successful
in saving the vessel's crew, numbering 10 hands.
A Reuter's telegram from Buenos Ayres states that
the epidemic of cholera has greatly abated in virulence.
The induction of the Right Rev. Francis Alexander
Cramer Roberts, formerly Bishop of Nassau, in the
West Indies, but lately assistant to the Bishop of
Winchester, as Coadjutor Bishop of Manchester, took
place on Tuesday evening in the parish church at
Blackburn. The ceremony was performed by Dr.
Moorhonse, the Bishop of Manchester, and there was a
large attendance of clergy.
His Royal Highness the Priwe of Wales, Executive
President of the Royal Commission for the Colonial
and Indian Exhibition, has, on the recommendation of
the Finance Committee, recently instructed the secre-
tary to return to the guarantors the agreements of
guarantee, with an intimation that no call would be
required to be made upon them.
The first general meeting of the International
Statistical Institute founded in London at the Jubilee
Meeting of the Statistical Society in 1885, will be held
at Rome from the 12th to the 16th of April next.

A man named James Bradbury was at Manchester
Police-court on Tuesday charged on his own confession
with the murder of his wife. The woman died a year
ago, and at the inquest a verdict of death from natural
causes was returned. On Monday the prisoner went
Into a detective °Tee and gave himself into custody,
stating that he had killed his wife in a most horribld
manner, and had had no peace since. He was remanded
for inquiries to be made.

A large number of agricultural labourers and their
families are emigrating to Queensland from the East
Riding of Yorkshire, in which district many hundreds
of Lands are out of work. The number of young un.
married farm servants who have nothing to do at the
present time is unprecedented, but the emigration
movement is chiefly confined to married men who bate
saved a little money, and they represent the 'best class
of labourers. The farmers are looking on in dismay at
the exodus, as such men cannot readily be replaced
when the labour market improves. Wages are very
low at the present time.
At the Gloncestershire Assizes on Tuesday, Richard
Stevens, William Gunn, Frederick Nicholls, and Jacob
Shurmur, all aged about 20, soldiers stationed at Bristol,
pleaded guilty to assaulting pnma Penly, at Horfield,
on. December 30 last. The assault was of the most
brutal character, and the woman is still in a critical
condition. Prisoners were each sentenced to 15 years'
penal servitude. The judge said the case might well be
called the worst ever brought before a court. James
Hunter, an artilleryman in the same barracks as the
other four prisoners, pleaded guilty to committing per-
jury when examined before the magistrate as a witness
on behalf of his comrades. He was sentenced to 12
months' bard labour. - - -

The ceremony of opening a new wing of the Congre.
gational Institute g Nottingham, embracing a common
hall for students, and a lecture room, which has been
erected as a memorial to the late Mr. Samuel Morley,
was performed on Tuesday night.
A report has reached the "St. James's Gazette" that
Mrs. Richard Josse to whom, when she was Busily
Tennyson, Arthur Henry Hallam was engaged, and was
about to marry when he died, passed away quietly,
though somewhat suddenly, at Margate on Monday.
The memory of Arthur Henry Hallam is preserved for
all time in Tennyson's "In Memorian,." Some years
after Arthur Hallam's death Miss Tennyson married
Captain Richard Jesse, R.N.
The receipts on account of revenue from the Ist of
April, 1886, when there was a balance of £5,625,944, to
Jan. 22, 1887, were £66,738,551, against £65,053,492
In the corresponding period of the preceding financial
year, which began with a balance of £4,993.207. The
net expenditure was £72,818,048, against £74,464,481
to the same date in the previous year. The Treasury
balances on January 22, 1887 amounted to £1.792,266,
and at the same date in 1886 to £1,519,752.
The inquiry into the recent fatal gas explosion at
Cambridge Barracks, Portsmouth, has terminated in a
verdict of "Accidental death." The jury consider the
present system, as laid town by the Government Mili-
tary Authorities, for the regulation of gas very un-
satisfactory.
Sentence of death was on Tuesday passed on a man
named Bloxham for the wilful murder of his wife at
Leicester. Goaded on by jgalousy, he shot her through
the head, stabbed her through the heart, and nearly
severed her head from her body. At the Durham
Assizes a man was sentenced to death for the murder
of his son.
A traveller named Lever, living at Notting-hill, on
Tuesday brought an action against William Cross, a
detective, to recover dams for trespass in entering
his house without a warrant for the purpose of search.
lug it. Mr. Justice Grove said that while the act in
question was undoubtedly a trespass, it must be some-
thing in the nature of a wrong and wanton act to
sustain an action. The jury awarded the plaintiff .U 0
damages.
The Crown Princess :Stephanie has been suffering
from what has happily proved a very slight attack of
peritonitis, arising from a cold caught at Abaczia. No
bulletins are issued, as recovery is steady, and the
Imperial physicifins hope that the popular Crown Prin-
cess will be quite restored to health in a week or two.
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On Tuesday morning, at the invitation of the Cum-
Missioner of Works a number of gentlemen, for the
most part Members of Parliament and representatives
of the Press' inspected the new ventilating and drainage
systems at the Houses of Parliament. It is claimed
that the improvement affected during the Recess will
remove all ground of complaint for the future.