The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-23 00:00:00

EPITOIVM OF NEWS;

A telegram from Constantinople announces the death
from typhoid fever of Lord Robert Grosvenor.
Mr. Davitt, speaking on Sunday at Timolin, County
Kildare, at a meeting called to protest against the
forthcoming eviction of Mr. Daniel Kavanagh, a tenant
of BIT. Deane Drake, of New Ross, who holds 63 acres
at a rent of £1.72, said Mr. Kavanagh's eviction was
nothing less than legal ruffianism, and it was being
carried out because he had been the friend and adviser of
the people of the district. He quoted from letters
written by Bishop M•Ginn, of Derry, in 1847, and con-
trasted them with Bishop O'Dwyer's recent utterances.
It was, he said, all very well to say that Rome had
spoken' and that the case was closed. Rome spoke
against the Parnell tribute, and Ireland sternly rebuked
the unwise and uncalled for decision. For Nationalist
Ireland to take shelter behind the Pope in this con-
troversy would be a cowardly act. It was simply
dragging him in the mire of political strife. The first
duty which would devolve upon the first Home Rule
Parliament ought to be, and would be if he could
manage it, the reinstatement of every family that had
been evicted since this land agitation began 10 years
ago.
In the Court of Session, Edinburgh, on Saturday,
Lord Kinnear closed the record in the action brought
by Mr. Wm. O'Brien, M.P., against the proprietors of
the Glasgow Herald, in which £5OOO damages are
claimed. The pursuer says that the defenders pub-
lished statements in a leading article implying that he
was in sympathy with the assassination of Lord F.
Cavendish. The defenders express regret, and say the
words do not bear the interpretation put on them. It
is likely that a settlement will be arrived at.
A brass band, followed by a large crowd, turned out
at Limerick on Saturday night to celebrate the Glad-
stonian victory for the Ayr Burghs. At the Crescent
some soldiers of the Derbyshire Regiment were met,
and at once assaulted and pelted with stones. One
soldier lost his Glengarry cap in a scuffle and another
was knocked down and kicked. The police came up
and restored quiet, but were unable to make any
arrests.

While a police patrol was making an arrest at Kilrusb
on Saturday night, a crowd attempted to rescue the pri•
soner and struck the police, stones being also thrown.
Pour constables drew their revolvers and faced the
crowd, whilst others charged with their batons. Soot
afterwards a reinforcement of policemen arrived on the
scene with their rifles, and order was quickly restored.
In the scrimmage a policeman was knocked down and
a civilian received baton wounds. _ _ _

A suspended priest, known as Father Patrick
O'Brien, belonging to Aughnacloy, county Tyrone, was
arrested at Newry on Saturday evening, charged with
having set fire, in May last, to the house of a farmer in
Aughnacloy.
Many of the delegates who have taken part in the
International Missionary Conference attended a garden
party at the Earl of Aberdeen's residence, Dollis-hill,
on Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone were
among those present.

The Bishop of London consecrated on Saturday the
church of St. Alban the Martyr, Acton Green of which
the Rev. George Henley Manbey, of Iceble College, Ox-
ford, who has been in charge of the mission district for
the last five years, has been appointed vicar.
William Hughes, aged 40 years, a clerk, residing at
East-court, Gillingham, Kent, was admitted to the
Albert Ward of St. Thomas's Hospital on Saturday.
Mr. Hughes, while in the act of stepping from the pave-
ment, was knocked down by a cab, and sustained con-
cussion of the brain.

Mr. A. Braxton Hicks was informed on Saturday of
the death of Agatha Bennett, aged five years, daughter
of a hairdresser, living at 7, Brougham-street, Batter-
sea, who died in the infirmary from the effects of in-
juries received through falling from a hurdle in Batter-
sea-park.
James Brearley was remanded at Bolton on Saturday,
charged under the Debtors' Act with obtaining £2OO by
false pretences from a tradesman. He was a rate col-
lector, and deposited deeds for property in which he
bad no interest as security. He afterwards went into
bankruptcy, and the prosecution was ordered by the
Treaoury.
An interesting discovery of old coins was on Satur-
day reported from Crayford. Some workmen were
engaged in laying down water-pipes and when near
the Swan Inn they came upon a number of silver and
bronze coins of dates varying from 1525 to 1592, some
of which were in good condition.
Dr. Thomas, coroner, received information of the
death of a woman at present unknown, who expired in
the Eagle tavern, Camden Town on Saturday, after
partaking of some stimulants. The deceased, who was
about 40 years of age, had the letters, "C. G." marked
on her underclothing. The body lies at the St. Pancras
mortuary.
At a coroner's inquiry at St. George's Hospital, on
Saturday, upon the list of jurymen summoned to attend
being read, there were several absentees, one of the
parties called upon by the officer was represented as
enjoying 'himself on the Rhine, hence his non-atten-
dance. In two other cases the coroner imposed penal-
ties of £2.

Mr. William Carter, coroner for East Surrey, upon
alighting from a tramcar at Westminster-bridge, was
in the act of entering an omnibus when he saw another
tramcar approaching. In endeavouring to save himself
from being run over he clutched hold of the back of the
omnibus and was thrown into the road, but escaped with
a severe shaking.

A temperance fete and garden party, in aid of the
Temperance Orphanage, Sudbury-on-Thames, was held
in the grounds of Carroun House, South Lambeth-road
on Saturday. A procession of Sons of the Phcenix
and other temperance orders marched to the grounds,
and open-air concerts followed. A number of attrac-
tions were provided, and in the evening there was a
temperance meeting on the lawn.
During a heavy thunderstorm which prevailed for
several hours at Hawick, on Saturday, an extra-
ordinary fatality occurred. Whilst a ploughman at
Bewlie Mains Farm was ploughing with two horses he
and his team were struck by lightning. The plough-
man himself and both animals were killed instan-
taneously. The man was 29 years of age, and
married.

In giving decrees at Mitchelstown against a number
of persons who had refused to pay the Leahy Compen.
sation Tax, Mr. Eaton, Resident Magistrate, said they
had in the Mitchelstown district a revival of the Plan
of Campaign, which had been denounced as immoral
by the highest authority in Christendom. If the
civil taxes could not be collected, then there was an end
to civil government in Ireland.
The stone quarries of Messrs. T. Beswick and Sons,
Buxton, were the scene of an unusually large blasting
operation the other day. The charge consisted of one
ton of powder, which acted most satisfactorily and
effectively, it being estimated that not less than 30,000
tons of stone were quarried. The blasting was wit-
nessed by many scientific and practical persons, who
pronounced the new departure in quarrying to be a
great success.
In Lapland there has just been felled a pine tree,
which is described as one of the largest ever grown in
Sweden. It was 120 feet high, and at two feet from
the ground had a diameter of 12i feet. These are large
dimensions for a Scotch fir. And yet there are pines
beside which it would be but a dwarf. There are
specimens of the giant pine or sugar pine of California,
for example, that rise to the height of 200 feet. The
spar of the Douglas pine at Kew •is 159 feet; there are
mast spars of the Cowdi pine 200 feet long; while a
specimen of the Wellingtonia giyantea has been de-
scribed 450 feet high and 116 feet in circumference.
A writer in the Deccan Times describes a barbarous
ceremony at Secunderabad, which was witnessed by a
couple of gentlemen. The ceremony was in honour of
the goOdess that presides over small-pox. The derails
are revolting enough. Buffaloes were hacked into
pieces, which strewed the road. There were some who
danced and gesticulated in front of the temple of the
goddess, whirling round their heads the bleeding limbs
of the animals. There were others who were worse
employed. There was a goat on the ground before
them, not quite dead. From its body they wildly tore
flesh with their teeth, and threw it among the crowd
around them. This was a ghastly way of propitiating
the terrible goddess.
The law is so kind as to make minute regulations on
the subject of the sailor's grog. Every, ship must carry
a sufficient quantity of lime or lemon-juice as an anti-
scorbutic, containing 15 per cent, of proper or palatable
proof spirits. Proper and palatable spirits are defined
by statute to be sound rum of a specific gravity from
'074 to '920, or sound brandy of a specific gravity not
less than .920. It is amusing, however, to observe that
the Board of Trade actually takes the trouble of mixing
the grog for the seamen. They recommend that one
ounce of the lime-juice should be mixed with one ounce
of sugar and at least half a pint of water, and should be
served out in time for dinner.—The Hospital.
Prof. Liitken, Director of the Zoological Museum of
Copenhagen, has addressed a strong appeal to country
people in Denmark to protect the sand grouse. He
points out that the only countries in which the birds
nested in 1863 were Denmark and Holland, but owieg to
people gathering and eating the eggs no birds were
hatched. He trusts that this wanton conduct may not
now be repeated. The professor feels sure that the
birds can be acclimatised in Denmark, as the sandy
cliffs and shores of that country are particularly suited
to its breeding. The Zoological Gardens in Copen-
hagen have obtained a live specimen of the bird, caught
in the Island of Fiinen. Flocks upwards of 100 in
number have of late been seen in many parts of Dea-
mark.