The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-02-06 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS:

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.
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Germany has officially recognised the existing Ara-
vian Government. _

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At the Leeds Assizes, Mary Dean, aged 39, described
as a dressmaker, was charged with housebreaking at
Huddersfield, and stealing property valued at £l5O from
the residence of Mr. Seth Dalton. The prisoner, who
was apprehended at Liverpool, was sentenced to five
years' penal servitude.
The capital sentence in the case- of Mary Hannah
Leech, in Gloucester prison, who was condemned to
death for the murder of her child, has been respited
upon the recommendation of the jury and of the learned
judge before whom the prisoner was tried.
A remarkable demonstraflon took place at Drangan,
near Cashel, on Saturday night. The decision of the
magistrates not to grant licenses to certain publicans—
a decision endorsed by the Court of Queen's Bench—
having been reversed, the licenses were granted, and
what is regarded as a triumph over the police and
magistrates was celebrated with rejoicings. Bonfires
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were lighted on all the hills.
On Saturday an extraordinary demonstration took
place at Mitchelstown, the occasion being the sale by
the sheriff of 12 head of cattle seized for rent due to
the landlord, Captain Beamish. Upwards of 3000
persons with bands assembled in the town during the
sale, and continuous demonstrations of hostility to the
proceedings were kept up. The cattle were eventually
bought in for a sum less than the debt on the part of
the tenant, and the animals were afterwards decked
with green and driven through the town by the crowd.
In Saturday's sitting of the Italian Chamber, Count
di ltobilan, Minister of Foreign Affairs, replying to an
interpellation of Signor Maurigi on the present situa•
lion of Italy in Massowah, stated that he regarded
Massowah as an Italian province in the interior of
Africa. The mission of General Pozzolini to Abyssinia
had another object besides that of strengthening the
friendship between Italy and that country. Tee
Minister hoped that it would shortly be possible to
reduce the expenses of the Italian occupation, but de-
clared that he could give no explanation in regard to
what might happen in the future.
The Cunard steamer Cephalonia (Captain Walker)
reached Queenstown on Saturday in two of three
tugs. She left L:verpool on the 20th inst., and on the
22nd, when 600 miles west of the Fastnet, she lest her
propeller. She was afterwards fallen in with by the
steamer Viola, from Balti nore, bound to Dublin, and
taken in tow until they reached the Old Head of Kin-
sale, where Queenstown tugs took charge of her. The
saloon and intermediate passengers aboard were trans-
ferred to the same company's steamer Aurania, which
sailed on Monday for New York.
An important appeal, the first in East Yorkshire
under the Agricultural Holdings Act, came before
Judge Bedwell, at the Driffield County Court on
Saturday. The appellant, Mr. Jatson, a tenant farmer,
wishes to set aside the decision of an umpire who had
awarded £9O to the Rev. T. Ackland, the respondent,
for alleged waste by the tenant taking two white crops
in succession off the land, contrary to agreement.
Twenty witnesses, practical farmers, upheld the prac-
tice of taking two successive white crops, and after
hearing arguments his Honour reserved judgment.
In consequence of boycotting practised towards the
family of the late Mr. Curtin, of Castle Farm, and the
scene at the parish church at Fines on Sunday, the
24th inst., Divine Service has been suspended at the
church for six weeks. One hundred armed police were
sent on duty there last Sunday, but the chapel was
locked, and there was no disturbance. The hostile
feeling of the friends of the Moonlighters continues.
The Irish Defence Union, of 22, Charing-cross, has
contributed £5O to the Misses Curtin Testimonial
Fund, which is being raised by the Countess of
Kenmare.
The Accountants' certificate of the returns to the
Board of Arbitration for the Manufactured Iron Trade
of the North of England was issued on Saturday: For
the two months ending the 31st of December, there
was a marked decrease in the production of rails,
plates, bars, and angles, as compared with the previous
two months, the total being 43,028 tons as against
61,020 tons. The average net selling price per ton
was £4 155., or 2s. less than for the previous two
months.

A Renter despatch from Rangoon states that he
suburbs of Mandalay are now quieter.
The "New York Freeman "of Saturday last published
a report to the effect that the President of Hayti had
been murdered.
On Saturday the Lower House of the Russian Diet
adopted Dr. Achenbach's motion for colonising the
Prussian Polish provinces with German farmers.
The Spanish Consul at Oran has informed his
Government of the presence of Carlists agents at that
place.

The following extract from a private letter written
by the late Bishop of Manchester on Oct. 14, eight
days before his death, has been forwarded for
publication "It is impossible to say what result thee
incoherent cries which are rending the air, and about
which it is difficult to discern from which side they
come—for it's all a Babel—will ultimstely tend. At
present my head is hardly strong enoug.h to distinguish
the wheat from the chaff. All I seem to see is that our
leaders on both sides seem to cease to lead, and content
themselves with saying to the people, 'You .how us
the way you wish us to go, and we will take it.' What
would Plato have said of the chances of such a
Republic ?' "
The total contributions in America to the Parnell
Fund now amount to 48,000 dollars.
The Queen has been pleased to grant her patronage
to the People's Palace for East London, and will
contribute £2OO to the fund for completing the scheme.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. the mean
reading of the barometer last week was 2945 in.; the
highest reading 2975 in. on Thursday at noon, and
the lowest 29.12 in. on Monday evening. The
mean temperature of the air was 36.6, and 3.4 below the
average in the corresponding weeks of the 20 years ending
1868. Rain fell on five days of the week, to the aggre-
gate amount of 0.42 of an inch. The duration of
registered bright sunshine in the week was 139 hours,
against 12.9 hours at Glynde Place, Lewes.
Mr. Commissionbr Kerr, in dealing with a case in the
City of London Court, in which a firm of law stationers
sought to recover vioney from a solicitor for settling
certain bills of costs, said that it was not creditable to
the legal profession to have such persons as taxing.
masters. The raison d'kre of the system was that
members of the profession bad so conducted themselves
that taxing masters had become a necessity of the
times.

Between the Ist April, 1885, and the 30th January,
1886, the revenue receipts amounted to £67,662,520, as
compared with £68,492,050 in the corresponding period
of the last financial year, and the expenditure to
£75,903,64Q, as against £/,669,861. On Saturday last
there was a balance in the Bank of England of
£960,415, and in the Bank of Ireland of ,C 730,889.
Thirty-five metres of the permanent way on the
Lyons-Geneva Railway have been carried away in
Switzerland by floods caused by torrential rains and the
melting of the snow in certain places.
The Australasian Federal Council have adopted a
resolution recommending united action by the Imperial
Government and the Colonial Government for th..)
fortification of King George's Sound and Torres Strait.

A fire broke out -on Tuesday morning in one of the
bed-rooms, over the reception room, at Duffryn Hall,
the Welsh seat of Lord Aberdare. The fire was caused
through a piece of coal falling from
.the grate on the
room floor. The room was soon enveloped in flames,
and most of tae furniture was destroyed or seriously
damaged by the fire. A hole was burnt in the ceiling
of the reception-room. The household was speedily
aroused, and fortunately a good supply of water was
soon at band. The fire, after some exertion, was extin-
guished before it made its way to the adjoining rooms.
Lady Aberdare was at home and assisted to extinguish
the fire.
b'ix members of the Skeleton Army and others were
chargea at Tunbridge Wells Police-court on Tuesday
with taking part in riotous proceedings on Sunday in
connection with the Salvation Army procession. The
police, with the view of putting down these disturbers,
asked that they might be committed for trial. There
had been a general disturbance, resulting in the Sal-
vationists' drum being captured and smashed. The
police, after desperate struggles, made several arrests,
but were obliged to release their prisoners. The
accused were committed for trial.

A Castleisland telegram states that an extensive
moonlight raid was made on Monday night, 13 houses
at Nohaville, near Castleisland, in the direction of
Tralee, being visited by an armed and disguised band,
who made the occupants swear that they would not pay
their landlord more than the valuation. In one house
shots were fired, and the face of a man named Leni-
ham, who had been made to promise on his knees, was
grazed by the bullet.
The affairs of Mrs. Swanborongh, of the Strand
Theatre, London, and her sons Edward and Arthur
came before the Bankruptcy Court on Monday. Their
joint liabilities exceeded £16,000, and there were no
assets. The official receiver reported that the lady
had carried on business since 1882, knowing herself to
be insolvent. The Registrar accordingly suspended
her discharge for two years, and suspended the dis-
charge of each of the sons for one year.
Six men and three females, including Cornelius and
John Casey, father and brother of Thade Casey, now
undergoing penal servitude for the attack on Mr.
Curtin's bsouse, were on Tuesday, at the Killarney Petty
Sessions, bound over in their own recognisances, vary*
ing from £lOO to £lO, to keep the peace, the charge
against them being of obstructing the police who were
employed in protecting the Curtin family. About 40
persons who took part is the opposition to a sheriff's
sale in the same locality were bound over in their own
recognisances. Mary Brosnan was fined £5 for shout-
ing at the Curtin family in church.
The dispute between the London Chatham, and
Dover Railway Company and the Smith-Eastern Rail-
way Company, with regard to the pooling of their Con-
tinental traffic, was decided on Tuesday by Mr. Justice)
Chitty, so far as a point of law was concerned, involv-
ing tlie validity of an agreement. The parties entered
into an agreement in 1863, which was subsequently in-
corporated in an Act of Parliament, and was acted
upon for eighteen years, when the South-Eastern Com-
pany raised doubts as to its validity. The Judge
decided that the agreement was valid, and therefore
his judgment was in favour of the London, Chatham,
and Dover Railway.
The polling for Mid‘Armagh resulted in the return
of Sir J. P. Corry, Conservative, by a majority of nearly
a thousand over Mr. T. A. Dickson, the Liberal and
Parnellite candidate.

A man, who states that he is a nephew of Baron
Haussmann, on Tuesday made a desperate attempt to
murder a gentleman in the Hotel du Louvre, in Paris.
The would-be assassin is believed to be insane.
Murderous outrages have been committed at Lyons.
A man named Guignais fired at a young woman. Two
firemen tried to seize him' but he shot one in the thigh
and the other in the breast. A crowd pursuing him, he
shot a man in the leg and wounded two soldiers. He
then rushed into a house and fired on the crowd, but
did not wound anyone. -
An inquest was held at Londonderry, on Saturday;
on the body of Catherine M'Callion, aged 14 years,
residing in William-street, who was burned by the
bursting of a paraffin lamp. The oil saturated her
clothing and ignited, and when her father rushed to her
assistance she was in flames. A verdict of" Accidental
death" was returned.

At Denton, North Staffordshire, an inquest has been
held on the body of a woman named Elizabeth Ast-
bury. The deceased was a guest at a wedding party on
Saturday, when her foot caught in the carpet, and she
fell over the stairs, fracturing her skull. She died the
tame day. The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental
death."

A serious mutiny, resulting in injuries both to officers
and bop, brol e out .on Monday morning on board the
reformatory ship Clarence in the Mersey. Some 18 of
the ringleaders were taken to prison in Liverpool, and
cue of tl e officers was seriously injured.
At the Surrey Sessions on Monday Charles Sizmur
pleaded guilty to breaking open a safe and st( aling
£9l 15s. 2d., the moneys of the London and South-
Westei n Railway Company, his employers. He said
ho had been led away by betting. He was sentenced
to 13 months' hard labour.

Emma Morris was charged at the Westminster
Police court on Monday with stealing boots and other
articles. In reply to the charge, she declined to say
a-,y thing. but declared that she had murdered the child
of her cousin at Tuttenham, and thrown the body into
the canal. She averred that she was entitled to
i 15,000, which the Court of Chancery would not give
her because tbo register of the birth or the death of
somebody was missing. She was committed for trial.
The trial for treason of the Danish ex-Captain
Saramin and the journalist Roettger commenced at
Leipsic, on Monday, before the Imperial Tribunal. The
court decided that the proceedings should be held with
closed doors.

A cross levee at Robert's Island, California, has burst,
causing the inundation of 35,000 acres of land. The
damage is estimated at 600,000 dols.
Sergeant John Penn, late of the King's Own Dragoons
and the 17th Lancers, one of the heroes of the Six
Hundred, has died at Dunbar. He frequently attended
the Ealaklava banquet in Loudon. He wore many
decorations. He was through the Afghanistan
campaign under General Pollock, and the Sutlej
campaign under Lord Gough. He was wounded in the
action of Moodkee, and was engaged in numerous
actions in India prior to 1853, and subsequently in the
Crimea. Penn was highly respected in East Lothian,
and in his sphere was distinguished for public spirit.
The technical school which was recently erected at
Sheffield was formally opened on Monday by Sir
Frederick Bramwell. The Archbishop of York, Sir
H. E. Roscoe, M.P., and several of the members for the
borough of Sheffield took part in the preceedineß. The
school will be devoted to instruction in metallurgy
and engineering, the metallurgical department being
the most complete institution of tho kind in the pro-
vinces.

. A general meeting of the shareholders cf the Man-
chester Ship Canal Company was held on Monday in
Manchester. The chairman (Mr. Adamson) explamed
that when they had cbtained powers to pay interest
during construction, the house of Rothschild would
take immediate steps to raise the unsubscribed
capital.
A Paris correspondent reports: A Parliamentary
Committee met on Monday afternoon, under the presi-
dency of M. Schoelcher, to examine several petitions
for the abolition of the gambling tables at Monaco.
M. de Freycinet informed the committee that he was
negotiating privately with the Prince of Monaco to
that end. The committee resolved that the negotia-
tions should be continued.. _

At the request of the Minister of War, M. Pasteur
has consented to treat gratuitously any soldiers who
may be bitten by mad dogs, or presumed to be so. In
consequence the Minister has ordered a suite of rooms
in the Val de GrAce Military Hospital to be specially
fitted up for the anti-rabid treatment. As decided at
present the inoculation is to be purely optional.
Speaking at the annual meeting of the Manchester
Chamber of Commerce on Monday, Mr. Hutton, M.P.,
alluded to the depression in trade, the increase in pan-
perism, and foreign competition. In view of the marked
decline in the imports and exports last year, it was
necessary, he thought, that new markets should be
found for English goods.
A Yellow Book has been issued in Paris, giving the
text of the treaty between France and Madagascar.
A Paris correspondent points out that the Queen of
Madagascar makes an important concession in under-
taking that in all her foreign relations she shall be
represented by the French Government trid placed
under its protection.
John Horton, S. a quarryman, was executed on Mon-
day morning at Devizes for the murder of his father
and a woman named Catherine Lindsay, with whom he
had lived, at Bradford-on-Avon last November, the
crime being prompted by jealousy. The culprit pro-
ceeded to the scaffold without assistance, and death
appeared to be instantaneous.
A compositor, named David Luya appeared to a
summons at the London liansion House on Monday
charging him with aseaulteng a compositor in the
employ of Messrs. Waterlow Brothers, the well-known
printers. The defendant was recently summoned for
assaulting several of the apprentices of Meters.
Waterlow, and since the men had turned cut he had
been acting as "picket." The Lord Mayor, after hear-
ing the evidence, came to the cenclusioa that the
assault was clearly proved, and fined the defendant
twenty shillings and costs.
Mr. Alexander Henderson, the manager of the
Avenue Theatre, London, died on Monday morning at
Caen, in Normandy. He was for many years lessee of
the Comedy Theatre, and, in conjunction with Mr.
Francis Fairlie, at one time managed the Globe Theatre.
The Texas State Treasury has temporarily suspended
payment.
Before Mr. Baron Pollock, at Chester Assizes, on
Saturday, an action was brought by Mr. Twiss Malpas,
Cheshire, against the Lancashire and Yorkshire Accis
dent Insurance Company, to recover £5OO on a policy
of insurance taken out by Mr. Baskerville, Stretton,
Cheshire, for whose family Mr. Twiss is executor. In
May last Mr. Baskerville attended a cattle sale at the
Carden Hotel, Cheshire. At the back of the hotel a
young woman was engaged washing, and, in fun, Mr.
Baskerville threatened to kiss her. She put up her
hands, and Mr. Baskerville, stepping back, fell over a
tub on to a pan, which he smashed, cutting his hand
badly. Inflammation set in, and he died. The company
now denied the claim on several grounds, one of which
was that a condition endorsed on the back of the policy
was that notice of accident must be given within seven
days. This had not been done. The judge ordered a
nonsnit, with costs.
A special meeting of delegates from branches of the
Amalgamated Society of Operative Cotton Spinners of
Lancashire, Cheshire, and Derbyshire, was held in
Manchester on Saturday, to consider the threatened
great strike in the Oldham cotton trade against the
reduction of five per cent, in wages. The meeting was
largely attended. It was resolved that the decision
whether a strike should take place or not should be
left entirely with the operatives at Oldham, but if they
decided to strike every member of the Amalgamated
Societies should contribute three shillings weekly to the
strike funds. _ - -

An inquest was held at Hitchin on Satutday evening;
on the body of a man fourd dead from a revolver
wound in a carriage on the Great Northern Railway, at
a late hour on the previous night. Letters in his
pockets enabled the police to trace his friends, and it
was found that his name was Watson, and that he had
been employed in the Ordnance Survey at March, Cam-
bridgeshire. Ile joined an express train at Peter.
borough, and so frightened to other passengers in the
compartment by firing two shots from his revolver
through the window, and saying he would shoot them,
that they pulled the communication cord and stopped
the train. Watson was then locked fn by himself, and
at Ilitehin, the next stopping station, it was found
that he was dead. There was nothing to show posi-
tively whether he had committed suicide or acci..
dentally shot himself, and the jury took the latter
view. It was stated that he had suffered lately from
overpressure of work.
The Westminster Aquarium, London, now numbers
among its multifarious attractions a white gorilla, which
is said to be of South African origin. It boasts that
"hairy nothing "of which a certain poet wrote, having
none of that hirsute clothing which the monkey tribe
as a rule is able to boast. Its covering instead, when
not being exhibited, is a big blanket. This is not part
of the animal, but was bought at so much per yard.
The hands and arms of the gorilla bear a remarkable
resemblance to those of human beings, and if s proprietor
cherishes the idea that he has got hold of the veritable
"missing link." Its companion is a large black female
monkey, which is described as a most ferocious and
intractable beast.

An ingenious American has printed privately a
pamphlet in which he claims to have solved the
difficulties attending international copyright. He
proposes that every copy of a copyright book offered
for sa:e should have a stamp attached to it. and that
any publisher wishing to issue a book should buy
of the author as many of these stamps as he intends to
print copies, being allowed to return unused stamps,
and receive back what he has paid for them. This idea,
• though specious at first sight, is, of course (says the
" Athenteurn "), simply the royalty system, which has,
on good and sufficient grounds, been condemned by the
Royal Commission.
At Westminster Police-court on Saturday, Gorge
Whinter, twenty-nine, and Robert Ernest Whinter,
• twenty-seven, brothers, the latter exhibiting a severe
cut down the right side of his face, were charged with
being drunk and disorderly in Horseferry-road, West-
minster, at one o'clock that morning. Tae younger
prisoner was further charged with attemp`ing to rescue
his brother from custody. The prisoners created a
great disturbance, and George, who was very violent,
struck a constable with his open hand. He was taken
into custody, and Robert seize I the constable by the
collar to f.,et him away. A sister of the defendants, a
young woman who had previously made an application,
complaiaing that the family had been turned out cf a
coffee-shop on the decease of their mother, en'ered the
witness box to give evidence, but was isa such a state of
intoxication that she could scarcely stand. She said that
the mother was only buried on Friday, and the elder
brother seized everything. She was not, however,
allowed to continue her story, Mr. Partridge ordering
that she should be removed. She fell down in court,
and vas carried out by the officers. John Frederick
Whinter, coffee-house keeper in Horseferry-road, said
there was a little unpleasantness after the mother's
funeral. He was willing to bail his- younger brother
Robert. Mr. Partridge directed that each of the defend-
ants should find sureties to be of good behaviour.
The tub-sheriff, Mr. Fredk. Hobson, attended at the
County Court-house, Limerick, on Saturday, for the
purpose of selling the interests of two farms on the
property of Mr. Robert S. Palmer at Oola. The tenant,
acting on the advice of the Oola Branch of the League,
had refused to pay the rents of both his holdings unless
a large abatement was granted. This the landlord
through his agent, Captain Oolomb, declined to give,
with the result of legal proceedings which led up to
the sale of Saturday. The sale eventuated in the farms
being bought in for the tenant, the landlord's repre-
sentative attending and bidding for the holdings until
the amount of rent due was reached.
A new company, with a capital of £500,0")0, has been
formed in Winnipeg to work the extensive coalfield
which has been discovered near Calgary, Alberta. The
coal is believed to be of excellent quality.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railway Company have
advanced their emigrant rates from Baltimore to
Chicago to 5 dols:
The Mexican Government has announced its inten-
titan to establish an agency in London to register and
liquidate bonds. With this view General, Mena,
Mexican Minister in Berlin, has been appointed agent,
and the Mexican Consul in Liverpool as his wore-
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On an application on behalf of the liquidators of the
Munster Bank, the Irish Master of the Rolls in Dublin,
on Monday, extended the time until th 3 Ist March for
the receipt of creditors' claims, it appearing that claims
amounting to £136,000 are still outstanding, and that
that sum was chiefly due to small creditors, who
probably had not seen the advertisement. He approved
of the agreement for the sale of 33 br nches of the
Munster rank to the Monster and Leineter Bank for
£5O 000, of which £25,000 is to be paid within a
fortnight and the residue in six months, the Munster
and Leinster Bank to collect the debts due to the
Munster Bank, arncunting to £484,000, at the branches,
but not those duo at the head offices in Dublin and
Cork.

After many long delays, occasioned by difficulty in
obtaining the necessary funds, the Dean and Chapter
of Canterbury are now in a position to give the order
for the building of the new organ for the cathedraL
The whole of the money required has not been
subscribed by a considerable sum; but Mr. Willis, the
builder whose contract has been accepted, has informed
the Chapter that a portion of the work might be de-
fp-red, and upon this they have decided to give the
order.

The Duke of Buckingham, through his solicitor, ap-
pealed at the Brill Petty Sessions on Monday against an
increase made in the assessment of Wotton House and
Lake. They were originally assessed at £155 55., an
amount which was raised to £2OO. After hearing the
evidence of several estate agents as to the value of the
property, the Justice expressed an opinion that the
rates of the house and Lake should not have been raised,
and decided that the property should be restored to its
original assessment.
An official decree has been published announcing the
appointment of a permanent commission charged to
examine all questions connected with the monetary
standard in France and foreign States.
On Monday morning a German, apparently about 35
years of age, shot himself with a revolver in the bed-
room of a private hotel at 3:53, Strand, London. • It
appeared .he fired two shots, one of which passed
through his left side, and the second struck just above
his left eye. One of the servants who went to call him
at one o'clock heard a strange noise in the room and'
summoned the manager, who found the man in the
condition described. He died shortly after three
o'clock

On Sunday the body of a man named William
Saunders, rag and bone merchant,of Luton, was found
in the Hitchin-road. Saunders, who buried his wife
ten weeks ago, was to have been married on Monday
morning; the fly had been ordered, and all arrange.
meuts had been made.

Much sensation was caused in Skibbereen, county
Cork, on Saturday night by the gas suddenly going out.
The alarm was intensified by the twofold rumour of an
explosion and a fire in the gas-house. Crowds rushed
excitedly to the place to find that the largo gasholder
had given way. Candies and lamps had to be used until
the defect was remedied.

In Dublin, on Monday, a Queen's Bench jury awarded
£lOOO damages against Lieutenant Lyle, a young offieer
in the Royal Artillery, who had eloped with the wife of
Mr. Charles Augustus Townley, an accountant in the
National Bank at Kilkenny.
Mr. Isaac Wyatt, a " checker "at the Army and Navy
Stores, on Monday brought an action in the Quf-on's
Bench avision against the Roshervilie Gardens Com-
pany. In September last the plaintiff visited the
gardens, and fed a bear, which bit him in the arm,
cuisine' turn revere injury and permanently disabling
him. 'The jury gave him £5OO damages.
The Irish members have secured the first place for
Irish bills on no less than fifteen Wednesdays. Scotch
members, on the other hand, have only secured two
places. Only three Wednesdays have been secuied by
English members.
A party of Moonlighters on Saturday night entered
the house of a process-server named Giles Rae, who
lives near the village of Castle Gregory, Tralee, and cut
off his ear and part of his cheek. Rae is seventy
years of age, and has but one arm.
Mrs. Bayard, wife of the United States Secretary of
State, diel at Washington on Sunday.
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A telegram from the Viceroy of India has beep re.
ceived announcing the death, from wounds received in
action, of Lieutennt Armstrong, 2nd Battalioti
shire Regiment.
It is announced from Athens that M. Gennaditts has
been appointed Greek Minister in London.
Henry Shorrock, clerk, employed by Mr. C. Oosteker,
solicitor and town clerk of Darwen, absconded on
Monday morning, and his employer found that he
had embezzled £6CO belonging to the Dar wen Corpora-
tion.
Several burglars, having broken into a house at
Croissy, a suburb of Paris, were there regularly be-
sieged by the gendarmerie and the rural police. A.
fight took place, in which pistol shots were exchanged,.
One of the burglars was mortally wounded, and a
policeman got a bullet in the back. Several of the bur-
glare escaped, but aree were arrested.
A reni-ikable discovery has just been made by an
emplo3 IA a grorery establishment in Ashford in Kent.
The man was dividing an Atnelican cheese, when he
found e-nbedded in its centre a miniature glass bottle,
contain;, g the following me,sage: "Ashford, New
York, A,tep.t. 15, 1885. Whoever receives this letter
will ple, he kind enough to send the names of sdme
respE--ciab!e young ladies to correspond with some young
gentlemen of this place —Yours, Eugene Hughey, Ash-
ford Cbtt. Co., N. York."
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Mi.. Justice' Denman, without a jury, tried in the
Queen's Bench, on Saturday, the action of Dart and
another, butchers, at Richmond, against the Star and
Garter Hotel Company for £456 for meat delivered.
The defendants paid the money into court, less 5 pet
cent., which they claimed to have a right to deduct as
per agreement, and Mr. Justice Denman, being satisfied
that they had the right, gave judgment for the defend-
ants, with costs.

Mr. Michael Davitt, as the result of his visit last
week to Achill and other islands off the coast of Mayo;
where the distress is worse now than in 1879-80,
suggests the Luildings of piers and harbours at certain
points indicated by the fishermen, who, uith proper
boats and tackle and harbour refuge, say they would
be provided against all fufure potato crop failures, and
under no necessity of migrating every summer to Eng-
land and Scotland.

A fatal accident took place in a football match at
Keighley on Saturday. A young ma a named Benjamin
Walker, in the course of play, picked up the ball from
a scrimmage, and attempted to get away with it. He
was, however, tackled and fell, the opposing players in
the rush falling upon him. Walker's head was doubled
under his breast and it was evident that he was seriously
injured. He was taken to the Keighley Cottage
Hospital, wher, he was attended by Dr. Chaffers, who-.
found riyit the spinal cord was ruptured. The unfor-
tunate man lingered thromh growing pal-alykis until
Sunday evening, when he died.