The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-05-29 00:00:00

A YOUNG HERO.

A child fell into the Weaver, near Northwich town
bridge, on Saturday evening. The inhabitants of the
neighbourhood rushed to the bank in hundreds, and
made a great noise, but no one amongst them was
courageous enough to plunge in after the cnild ; and
it would inevitably have been driovned had not a
butcher's apprentice, name.d George Arnold, airived
on the scene before the child finally sank, rushed off
for a life buoy, and then rescued it. The gallant
action of the boy, who is only 14 years old, has been
reported to the Royal Humane Society.

It is stated that at the meeting of the Cabinet
Council, on Tuesday, the Government decided to make
such modifications in the Home Rule Bill as will have
the effect of retaining the Irish representation at
Westminster.

The " Libert6 " stated on Tuesday evening that the
French Cabinet had decided, by six votes to five, in
favour of the principle of expulsion with regard to the
Orleans Princes. ,
Presiding at the spring general meeting of the Na-
tional Rifle Association on Tuesday, the Duke of Cam-
bridge explained the various changes which are
proposed with respect to the forthcoming meeting, and
congratulated the members on the increased amonnt of
the prize-money.
Passing through the town of Kenmare on their way
to Glengariffe on Tuesday, the Lord-Lieutenant and
the Countess of Aberdeen received an enthusiastic
welcome. The band played "God Save the Queen,'
and addresses were read by the Roman Catholic arch-
deacon and the Protestant reotor. His Excellency, in
his reply, said he hoped a new era was opening for the
people of Ireland.
Sir John Lubbock occupied the chair at the first
annual banquet of the Shop Hours League and Traders'
Parliamentary Association on Tuesday night. Several
members of Parliament were present, and Mr. Broad-
hurst expressed his belief that the bill on the subject of
shop hours would pass the House of Commons.
Sir James Paget, acting on behalf of Lady Wilson,
unveiled a statue of the late Sir Erasmus Wilson in
front of the Royal Sea-bathing Infirmary at Margate.
Sir Erasmus was a munificent benefaotor to the institu-
tion.

SUICIDE OF A YOUNG WOMAN:
A. COURAGEOUS CONSTABLE.

On Saturday Mr. William Carter held an inquest
at Rotherhithe on the body of Emma Bailey, aged 2(3
years, a single woman, whose body was found in the
river Thames. Joseph Church, a lighterrnan, proved
finding the hDdy off Mills Stairs, Bermondsey. John
Bailey, a police-constable, identified the deceased as
his sister, who had been engaged in the kitchen as
servant in many noblemen's families. Of late she had
given way to habits of intemperance, and the family
had tried to refotm her, but without avail. Witness
last saw her alive six weeks ago, when she came on
a visit to him and his wife. Police-constable Furby
Wilson, 182 L, deposed that about a quarter-past
four o'clock on the morning of the 11th inst. he was
on duty on the Surrey side of Westminster-bridge,
when be noticed a woman, whom he now identified as
the deceased, walk down the steps leading to the
water. As she did not return he went down the
steps and found her standing in the water, which was
up to her armpits. He shouted to her, but she threw
herself backwards and was carried away by the tido.
He jumped after her, and was being also carried
away, when, in consequence of not being able to
swim, and having his great coat on, he clung to an
anchored boat some distance away from the bridge,
and so saved himself. The deceased sank, and was
not seen again. The Coroner, addressing the witness,
said that he had acted in a very praiseworthy manner,
and he kthe Coroner) trusted that his gallant conduct
would be brought before the Royal Humane Society.
The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide while in a
state of unsound mind through drink,' and added a
rider embodying the comments of the magistrate on
the conduct of the constable.