The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-16 00:00:00

SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 188 g:

The Rev. Dr. O'Dwyer, Roman Catholic Bishop of
Limerick, addressing the clergy of his diocese on
Monday, reminded them of the importance of yielding
to and upholding the authority of the Pope, especially
in regard to the recent Rescript, by which he declared
boycotting and the Plan of Campaign had been con-
demned.
The Grand Committee on Trade, Shipping, and
Manufactures met on Monday for the first *ime this
session, and took into consideration the Railway and
Canal Traffic Bill. Four of the 50 clauses were agreed
to at this sitting.
The thirty-first anniversary festival in aid of the
Warehousemen, Clerks' and Drapers' Schools was held
on Monday night in London, Alderman G. Faudel
Phillips in the chair. Subscriptions and donations
were announced amounting to £3886.
A Queen's Bench Divisional Court has declined to
set aside the recent decision of the rate piyers of
Clerkenwell in favour of a free library.
At Lambeth, William Alfred Pierpoint has been
esmmitted for trial, charged with the murder of his
child by dashing it to the ground.
The Crofter Commission issued the remainder of
their decisions on the estate of Sir Kenneth Mackenzie,
of Gairloch, on Monday. Over the whole estate they
have granted reductions of 171 per cent., the rental
being reduced from £1441 to £llB4. There were
£2832 of arrears, of which £1959, or 69 per cent., has
been cancelled. Decisions were also issued in 91 cases
on the estate of Letterawe, showing a reduction of 33
per cent, on the rental, and 73 per cent, on arrears. •
On Monday evening Mr. William Carter, coroner for
East Surrey, held an inquiry at the Duke of Cambridge,
Thorn-road, South Lambeth-road, into the circum-
stances attending the death of William Dorritt, aged
71 years, a solicitor's clerk, lately residing in Wands-
worth-road, who died on Thursday of last week
through injuries received by being knocked down by a
bicycle. Edward Banks stated that he was *standin,
outside the Canton public-house, South Lambeth-road,
when he saw the deceased, who was crossing the road,
knocked down by a bicycle. The rider of the machine
fell, owing to the concussion. While witness wag
picking the deceased up the bicyclist made good hit)
escape. The jury returned a verdict of "Manslaughter
against some person unknown."
Monday at the Bath and West of England Show at
Newport was in curious contrast to the miserable
weather of Saturday. The bright sunshine of Sunday
effectually dried up the fearful mud which proved so
disastrous to Saturday's attendance, and the weather
on Monday proved ideal in character. The visitors
were all people of the better class, and were attired in
light summer suits, which gave the yard a pretty
appearance. At two o'clock 16,696 persons had passed
the turnstiles—fully 1000 more than all day on Satur-
day. The principal feature of attraction was the draw-
ing for the Art Union prizes and the butter-making
competition for the champion prize. The gold medal
went to Miss Hassell, Englesbatch, and the silver
medal to Miss Keel, Stanton Drew, near Bristol, and
the certificate of merit to Miss Davey, Bridgewater.
At the close of the day 22,840 persons had passed the
turnstiles, compared with 5031 last year. The result
of the meeting will be a substantial balance.
General Viscount Wolseley presided on Monday
evening at a lecture on the use and abuse of field
artillery, delivered at Aldershot by Colonel Bracken-
bury. The lecture was followed by an interesting
discussion, in which Sir Drury Lowe, General
Goodenough, and other distinguished officers took part.
Lord Wolseley, in reviewing the lecture and discus-
sion, said much depended upon esprit de corps, and
he preferred efficiency to burnishing. He was con-
fident that ere long the British army would have a
machine gun which would be capable of pumping lead
into an enemy at a distance of from three to four thou-
sand varda-
Thls year's Horse Show at the Agricultural Hall
had been more successful than any of its predecessors.
Snowdrifts are said to have been 10ft. deep in
certain portions of Sullivan County, New York, ten
days ago.
The unusual circumstance of a man sentenced to
death being acquitted on a second trial has just occur-
red at Linz.

The State collected about 300,000 dols. last year in
Philadelphia from licenses, on the basis of 50 dols. for
the lowest grade.
A proposal has been made to establish a Zoological
Garden in Bombay, in connection with the local
Natural History Society.
The General Post Office East—that is to say, the old
building where all the letters are sorted, is to be lighted
by electricity.
Letters from children, who write solely from the
novelty of the thing, form no small part of the Presi-
dent and Mrs. Cleveland's mail.

Sir Francis Doyle—best remembered as Professor of
Poetry at Oxford from 1867 to 1877—is dead. The
baronet was in his 78th year.
Stephen Von Segel, the Austrian millionaire, who
died at Vienna a couple of weeks ago, was looked upon
as the handsomest man in the Empire.
Birmingham Gladstonians have not succeeded in get-
ting a visit from Mr. Gladstone. However, Sir G eorge
Trevelvan will be among them towards the end of the
month.

The little Dysons—a girl and a boy—were seen play-
ing on the banks of the Wensum, at Heigham, near
Norwich. Presently their dead bodies were recovered
from the stream. _ _ .

The terrible outbreak of cholera in the Singapore
Gaol is attributed to fish supplied to the prisoners.
Some of the victims succumbed within fifty minutes
after the attack.

Lanarkshire possesses some sacrilegious thieves. They
have just broken into the Free Church, Ladybank, and
carried off all the money—principally coppers—they
coilci lav hands on.
The Nawab Bahadur of Moorshedabad lost the medal
and the sanad of his much-prized Order of Knight of
the Indian Empire, along with other valuables, during
the recent conflagration in that city.
Munckacy's great painting, "Christ on Calvary," is
reported to have been sold to Mr. John Wanama'cer, of
Philadelphia, the owner of the same artist's "Christ
before Pilate," for the sum of 125,000,000 cfols.
Mrs. E. Davis, of Salt Lake City, Ut b, lea -fled a
day or two ago that her husband, to whom he h.d been
married twenty years, had married a second wile. The
shock unbalanced her mind, and she cut her throat
with a razor.
The great Yellow River contains, singularly enough,
only two kinds of fish of any size, namely, the Li-yul.
The latter tastes much like eel, which it also resembles
in shape. while the former has hardly any taste at all.
How they promote temperance in Philadelphia: For
selling Egli:r to minors and without a license, Francis
McFarren, against whom there were 11 indictments,
was sentenced to pay a fine of 500 dols., and undergo
three months' imprisonment.
Miss May Sharpless, vo !-as just reached her 9th
year, is said to be worth more than any other child in
America—S2,ooo,ooo in her own right. Her father
was a member of a celebrated dry-goods house, and
died at Paris, leaving his wealth in trust for his
daughter.