The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-09-18 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Additional evidence having been given on Saturday
against the five men charged with a murderous assault
upon Mr. Tabak and theft of diamonds, his property,
the prisoners were again remanded.
In the race for the four miles running championship,
decided at 1-'7eston on Saturday, Cummings beat George
easily
Mr. Newman Hall writes to the " Times: " "It may
interest some of your readers to know that the north-
east angle of the rck, as seen from the roof of Dr.
Schliernann's house—i.e., on the spectator's left of the
Parthenon, presents a capital profile likeness of Mr.
Gladstone, which may be obliterated by the casting of
rubbish over the walls, as justly complained of. The
resemblance was at once recognised by all our party;
and there are few who will not consider that such a
portraiture, in such a spot, of such a friend of Greece
is worth preserving."
On Tuesday morning the miners in the Whitehaven
Colliery came out on strike, and at ten o'clock a mass
meeting of the men was held to consider what action
they should take. Upwards of 500 men are affecte 1.
The grievance, it appears, is the stopping of tubs by the
colliery proprietors on account of small coal being sent
up from the ph.
At Glasgow, on Tuesday, Archibald Robertson, aged
28 years, was sentenced to 60 days' imprisonment for
having maliciously rung a fire alarm bell. The fire
brigade within a short period had been needlessly sum-
moned 14 times at all hours of the night. Detectives
were set to watct for the alarm, and Robertson, who
was suspected, was caught last Saturday. He had pre-
viously been convicted of a aimikr offence

A labourer, in his 92nd year, living at Long Sutton,
Lincolnshire, named John Walker, has just broken his
thigh for the sixth time. The man has experienced a
remarkable record of accidents to his limbs, as fol.
lows: Broken one thigh five times, other thigh once;
dislocated elbow twice, ana dislocated collar-bone
once. The Guardians have this time granted him the
assistance of a nurse.

At Oldham Police-Court, Kate Wilson, a disrepntable
character, has been charged with being drunk and
breaking the police cell window. When the Bench
committed her to prison for a month in each case, she
flung a piece of thick plate-glass, part of a broken
window, at the police•constable. It struck the wall
near one of the magistrates, rebounded, and, hitting
Mr. Halkyard, relieving officer, on the forehead, cut
his eyebrow open. For this she was committed for
another month._

The supply of fresh water to the railway piers and
station at Berntisland came to a sudden and singular
termination last week. On investigation a big eel, 31;-
feet long and 6 inches in girth, was fcund completeli
choking the pipe where the branch connects with the
main east of the station. So firmly had the eel
wriggled into its position that the pipe had to be cut in
three places before the obstruction could be cleared.
It had come from Kinghorn Loch, whence the railway
water supply is derived, and where large eels abound.
A Cherbourg paper announces the arrest of several
German spies disguised as priests.
During target practice at Genoa on Monday one of
the guns exploded, killing a corporal and wounding
eleven privates The injuries sustained by one of the
latter were very serious.
The Canadian Government has received no official
informatirn as regards the seizure of the four Canadian
fishing vessels off the Alaska coast, and has, therefore,
taken no action in the matter.
Two Manx steam smacks, the Nellie and the Thomas
Brown, beloeging to Port St. Mary's, went ashore on
Monday night on the Carr Rocks, near Fifeness, and
have beccme total wrecks. The crew saved themselves
in their own boats.
The Vatican received on Monday a communication
from the French Government stating that it was pre-
pared to recall M. Conetane from Pekin, in order to
facilitate negotiations and to pave the way for the
nomination of both French and Papal Envoys to
China.
About noon on Tuesday the Thames police recovered
the body of a lad named Thomas Effern, aged 12,
which was floating in the Thames off Paul's Pier.
Deceased had been bathing in the river earlier in the
day, when he was seized with cramp, and sank before
assistance could be procured. The body was conveyed
to the City Mortuary, Golden-lane. The same day
the Thames police discovered the body of a female
child floating in the river near Blackfriars Bridge.
There were indications ehat death was due to drown-
ing and the corpse was conveyed to the mortuary.
On Monday evening a balloou, containing two
Frenchmen, was picked up near Cross Sand by the tug
Gleaner. It appeared that the owner of the balloon,
M. Harve, and an assistant, left Boulogne on Sunday
night, intending to reach Norway; but a portion of
the machinery became disconnected, and the balloon
made a rapid descent into the sea. The rescued men
could not speak a word of English.
The lower quarters of the town of liasehan, Hun.
gary, and several villages in the neighbourhood were
completed inundated on Sunday, in consequence of a
rainspout suddenly bursting over the district. So
violent was the rush of water that numerous 'Fuses
were swept bodily away.
The Paris Municipal Council have decided to open an
Hygienic Museum in the disestablished Church of Saint
Julien le Pauvre, in which the microscopic effects of
allowing water to stagnate, the skin to remain dirty,
and bad air on the blood, will be shown, as well as other
causes of disease. The artificer in waxwork will be
called in to make anatomical demonstrations which in
a glance can be understood. In connection with this
museum lectures will be delivered by scientists on the
laws of health.
An amusing case name before the Bootle magistrates
the other day, when a young man named David Hall
was charged with stealing a number of articles, in-
cluding an orguinette, the property of his father. The
prisoner eloped with his father's housekeeper, a woman
of 57, and was traced to Preston and Carlisle. In the
latter place he was making a comfortable living by
playing an orguinette in the street. He had written an
amusing letter to his father, saying that the house-
keeper had made him love her as he had never loved
woman before Prisoner was remanded.
The French Minister of War has ordered inquiries
to be made into the arrest of three Italian officers who,
without being authorised, followed the manmuvres of
the 14h Army Corps into the Alps. Another inquiry
will be held upon the severe illness, with every
symptoms of poisoning, which has affected a whole
company of soldiers by eating tinned meat.
The New York Anarchists at a meeting held by them
decided that the local political parties were composed
of scamps, and that Mr. Henry George was no better.
A M. Maison, the owner of some considerable house)
propel ty in Paris, committed suicide on Monday morn-
ing by means of a pan of lighted charcoal in a room
fast closed against the air The motive is unknown.
One often hears of French women, but hardly ever of
French men, giving themselves their quietus in this
way.
Lord Annesley has issued over 100 ejectments for
non-payment of rent on his County Down estate for
the ensuing Quarter Sessions. In consequence of the
lateness of the harvest, numbers of evictions are ex-
pected to follow before the crops can be turned into
money to pay the ejectments.
The British members of the Afghan Boundary Corn.
mission left Boeaga on Wednesday, on their return to
India by way of Cabul.
The State elections in Maine have resulted in the
success of the Republican party, though with a reduced
majority upon previous years. The active part which
Mr. Blaine has taken in the campaign has strengthened
the belief that he desires to be the candidate of his
party in the re3et Presidential election.
Some members of the Irish party held a secret meet-
ing at New York, at which unusual precautions were
taken to prevent the proceedings becoming known.
There is reason to believe the subject discussed was
the disappearance of the funds contributed to the
League for the purchase of dynamite. The complaint
is that of eighty-nine thousand dollars so contributed,
only four thousand are left, and that the only practical
issue had been the explosions at the Tower of London
and Westminster. The meeting was adjourned.
The receipts on account of revenue from the Ist of
April, 1886, when there was a balance of £5,625,944, to
Sept. 11, 1886, were £34,285,329, against £33,953,519
in the corresponding period of the preceding financial
year, which began with a balance of £4,993,207. The
net expenditure was £38,138,482, against £40,301,083
to the same date in the previous year. The Treasury
balances on Sept. 11, 1886, amounted to £1,585,622,
and at the same date in 1885 to £2,230,154.
George Harris having persuaded a railway ticket col-
lector to buy a worthless brass ring for 55., by pretend-
ing that it was made of gold, was sentenced to 21 days'
hard labour at the London Mansion House on Tuesday.
The defendant was described by the police as a " seller
of dummy jewellery to simpletons."
Mr. G. P. Mills, of Liverpool (who holds the bicycle
record from John o' Groats to Land's End), in com-
pany with Mr. A. J. Wilson, of London, started on
Tuesday on a tandem tricycle from Biggleswade with
the intention of, if possible, breaking the record for
100 miles. Riding in splendid form they accomplished
this by covering the distance near Holbeach in 6h
47min, or 52inin faster than the previous best. The
pair then made their way to Boston, and on their re-
turn will endeavour to lower the 24 hours' record.
The Emperor William received a deputation on
Tuesday from the local autherities of Strasburg, whom
he thanked for the welcome he had received, and pro-
mised to lighten as much as possible the financial
burden imposed upon the city by the enlargement of
Strasburg.

A telegram from Bayonne says a serious disturbance
took place on Monday night in the circus there. A bull
fight by electric light was announced, and a crowded
audience assembled. The light failed, and the people,
becoming exasperated, tore up the seats and smashed
the furniture and fittings. Troops were called out to
restore order, and several arrests were made._

The Committee of the Common Council of Phila-
delphia appointed to investigate the charges of corrup-
tion against Mr. Smith, the Mayor, has reported in
favour of impeachment.
Instructions have been received at Sheerness direct-
ing H.M.S. Swallow to be commissioned on October 7th
for foreign service.
A fire was discovered on Saturday evening upon th 4
premises of Mr. Patman, builder, Enfield. Informa-
tion was forwarded to tne police-station, and several
engines arrived. After several hours' hard work, the
brigades engaged had the satisfaction of obtaining
mastery over the flames, but not until some stacks of
timber had been pulled down by a special staff of men.
Tt'e loss will be very serious, and includes damage to
the Baptist Chapel, the Stratford Brewery stores, and
the premises of Mr. Fairhead.
Messrs. Gibney and Brown, divers, of Liverpool, on
Saturday afternoon recovered the bodies of Mr. J. F
Spencer Bell, of Fawe Park, Keswick, and Mr. Edward
Rathbone, younger son of Mr. W. Rathbone, M.P., who
were drowned in Derwentwater two days earlier through
the capsizing of Mr. Bell's yacht in a squall. The
bodies were about 10 yards apart, and within one hun-
dred of the western shore, about half a mile away from
Fawe Park; and it is evident that the gentlemen my=
some distance after being thrown into the water.
At a meeting of the Cattistock Hunt, on Saturday,
Mr. R. P. Fetherstonhaugh, jun., was appointed master
in succession to the late Earl of Guilford.

The Central News has ascertained that since the
solicitors and agents of Mr. Christopher Sykes and
Mr. A. 111‘Arthur, M.P , have been engaged with the
Clerk of the Crown, at the House of Lords, in inspect-
ing, under a judge's order the ballot papers of the
election for the Buchrose Division of Yorkshire, only
one vote of a doubtful character, given for Mr. Christ°.
pher Sykes, was discovered—a vote indicated by a sign
resembling a triangle rather than a cross. On Mr.
DPArthur's votes being examined, it was found that 11
which had been recorded in his favour had really been
given to both candidates. It is probable that these
votes will be rendered void, and in that case Mr.
Sykes, who was only in a minority of one, will take the
seat
The vacancy in the Chancellorship of the Diocese of
Durham, vacant by the death of Mr. Hugh Cowie, has
been filled by the appointment of Mr. F. H. Jenne, bar-
rister of the Inner Temple. Mr. Jenne was a member
of the late Royal Commission on Church Patronage
and on the Ecclesiastical Courts, and has been engtiged
as counsel in many ecclesiastical causes of importance
in recent years
At Saiford, Ellen Galloway, a young woman of re-
spectable appearance, has been charged with bigamy.
She was married to John Galloway in Salford iu 1878,
and in 1885 she went through the form of marriage
with a man named Hartley Emmett. The prisoner
said her husband treated her very cruelly. He
thrashed her at times until she was "black awl blue
from head to feot," and 12 months after marriage he
broke up their home, selling everything, and leaving
nothing for either her or the baby. She then went to
live with some relatives at Burnley, where she mar-
red Emmett. She was committed for trial, but ad-
mitted to bail.
A sudden order received at Chatham Dockyard by
telegram from the Admiralty directs that every effort is
to be made to expedite the completion of the vessels at
this port which are now being brought forward for
being commissioned. The order directs that should it
be necessary the workmen are to be employed, in
relays, day and night, in order that the ships required
to be completed may be ready to be commissioned.
At Wolverhampton, on Saturday, a young man, who
gave the name of Thomas Evans, and was stated to be
a theatrical scene painter, was committed for trial for
stealing a quantity of valuable dresses and stage cos-
tumes, the property of Miss Violet Melrore, concert-
hall artiste. Prisoner pleaded hard with the magis-
trates to deal with him summarily, but they refused his
request, as he had been several times previously con-
victed. _

As Private Patrick Flannagan, of B Company of the
Cheshire Regiment, stationed at Chester 014tle, was
on Saturday engaged in cleaning a loaded rifle, his right
hand accidentally caulat the trigger, and, the charge
exploding, the bullet passed through his left hand and
lodged in the wa3 behind. He was at once conveyed
to the military hospital, where the wound received
medical attention. _

On Saturday tit the Croydon Police-court, a hawker,
named William Jepp, was charged on remand with
feloniously cutting and wounding a cabman, named
James Bateman, anring an altercation which arose at
Brick-bridge, Croydon. It was stated that the prisoner
produced a pair of scissors, alleging that he had killed
men and women by wholesale in America. He then
stabbed Bateman in the eye. The wounded man fell
into the arms of a friend, and was at once conveyed to
the hospital. Medical evidence was given that the
prosecutor was not out of danger. The prisoner denied
having stabbed Bateman, alleging that what had hap-
pened was entirely the fault of the latter. He was
again remanded for a week.
Two men, named 'lstrmaduke Slack and Thomas
Shepherd, who sometime before had left public-house
at closing time, were standing together in Poplar-square,
Nottingham, early on Sunday morning, drinking some
liquor which one of them had brought out with him,
when they got to high words about sharing the liquor.
The result was that shepherd drew a formidable clasp
knife and stabbed Slack with it in the neck. The
injured man was taken to the police-station and thence
to the hospital, where it was found that the artery was
severed, but that the wound would probably not be
fatal. Shepherd is in custody.
At the Manche s-er and Liverpool Agricultural Show
at Cheste-, Lord E;erton's prize of .k 25 for a cow giving
not leas than 18 quarts of milk per day, containing not
less than 11 per cent, of solids, including butter, was
won by Messrs. Birch, of Sefton, Liverpool, whose cow
yielded 4411 b. of milk on the show ground the previous
day. A secoud cow, the property of the same exhibitor,
gave 479 b. The decision was, however, not entirely
based on the quantity of milk given, or the award
might have fallen to Mr. Charles Sherwin, of Ashley-
hall, Altrincham, whose cow gave 4711 b., or to Mr.
Francis Lloyd, of Wrexham, the owner of a cow diving
the extraordinary quantity of 571-Ib. of milk in the
day.
On Saturday a man named William Day and his wife
Sarah, both about 60 years of age, were charged at
Luton with bigamy. They were married in 184 S, but
some years afterwards the woman went off with a man
in their employ, and has since been married to him
Day is also said to have married another woman; but
the most curious thing is that the original husband and
wife have since gone back to live together. They were
remanded.
Shortly after three o'clock on Saturday morning the
Orange Tree public-house, near Dartford, was bur-
glariously broken into and the contents of the till,
which amounted to a large sum of money, were stolen.
The burglars, with the aid of some instrument, were
enabled to remove the shutters, and thus to obtain an
entrance to the bar through the window. A quantity
of drink was also drawn from the engine in the bar.
Mr. T. Lewis, M.P., addressing a meeting of farmers
at Anglesey on Saturday night, urged that the payment
of tithes should be made compulsory by the land-
owners and not by the tenants, the bulk of whom in
Wales being Nonconformists, strongly objected to pay
directly towards the stipend of a clerzyman whose
services they never attended. The tithe war in Wales
would tend to intensify the differences already existing
between the Church and Dissentients in the Princi-
pality, and it would hasten disestablishment and dis-
endownaent.
A large number of sheep are pastured on the open
Commons of the East Fells in Cumberland, and at a
periodical counting on Saturday it was found that
several hundreds of them were missing. Information
was given to the police, who discovered that a few days
ago 56 sheep were sold at Hexham auction mart, about
20 miles distant, which have been identified as some of
the missing property. The man who, it is alleged,
entered the sheep for the sale, gave a name and address
which excited no suspicion. He was paid the amount
realised directly the sheep were sold. There is no
trace as yet of the other missing sheep.
In the case of "Saunders v. the Mayor, &c., of
Windsor," the plaintiff, a dairy farmer, sought from
Justice Stirling, on Saturday, an injunction retrain.
ing the defendants from injuring him in his business
by the use of a hospital camp for smallpox patients at
the Ham, Old Windsor. The plaintiff swore to having
lost custom by the smallpox camp in question. Justice
Stirling refused the application. No case of infection
had been proved to have arisen from the camp. Only
seven patients had been sent there, and the defendants
said that they would send no more there, as the
Ham was not a suitable place at so late a season of the
year.
An extraordinary proposition has been before the
Benfieldside School Board. Owing to the Consett
magistrates refusing to enforce the provisions of the
Education Act, in not convicting parents for the irre-
gular attendance of their children, the members pro-
posed that three months' notice should be given to
the telfchera of all schools under the Board's control,
preparatory to closing the schools. The further con-
sideration of the subject was postponed until the next
meeting.
A deputation of Ulster Conservative members re-
cently waited on the Chief Secretary for Ireland to
opnose the appointment of a second Catholic upon the
Belfast Riot, Commission. Apparently they were not
successful, for it is confidently stated that the Govern-
meet have invited Mr. Alfred Young, of Birmingham,
a Catholic barrister, well known on the Oxford Circuit,
to join the Commission.
A duel took place the other afternoon at Le Vesinet
between M. Alexandre Hepp and M. Tisserand, both
of whom are prominent writers on the "Voltaire,"
in
consequence of a dispute about an article written by
the latter. A novel feature in the conditions was a
clause absolutely disallowing the use of the left hand
to parry. At the third pass M. Tieserand made a
sudden lunge, and thrust his sword through the apia of
M. Alexandre Hepp. The latter scratched his ad.
versary's arm with the point of his sword. A duel was
fought at Magdeburg on Thursday by a. captain and
lieutenant of two different infantry regiments lying
there in garrison. The wespons were pistols, and the
captain was shot dead on the spot.
The inquest on the bodies of
.Thomas Rees, captain,
James Croll, engineer, and William Taylor, fireman,
who were killed recently by the explosion of a boiler
on board the steam tug Seagull. at Birkenhead, has
been concluded. The evidence was to the effect that
the boiler had been frequently • patched, and was in a
very bad condition. The jury found " That the deceased
lost their lives by the explosion of a boiler, that the
owner, Mr. Fenby, was open to grave censure for not
having the boiler inspected by a pract;cal man, and that
the attention of the Bo rd of Trade should be called to
the desirability of all steam tugs being inspected by
their officers."
An inquest has been held at Bampton, Devon, OD the
body of Wm. Alfred Sanglier, of King's-road, Chelsea.
The deceased, who was the guest of a local farmer
named Slocombe, went out shooting with his host. In
getting over a hedge he placed his gun on the top of it,
and afterwards drew the weapon towards him. The
trigger caught in a bramble, and was discharged, and
the deceased, who had the muzzle towards him, re-
ceived the charge in his thigh. He died a few hours
afterwards. A verdict of "Accidental death" was
eturned

S ATUR DAY, SEPT. IS, 1886.

In furftherance of the anti-tithe movement in North
Wales the first meeting of the newly-formed league
was held on Monday night, when a resolution wee
passed declaring that tithe ought to be devoted, as far
as possible, to public purposes within the parishes in
which it was collected.
G. W. Lee, of New Jersey, and Neil Matterson, of
New South Wales, rowed from Putney to Mortlake on
Monday for £lOO a-side, the former winning with com-
parative ease.
Several fires broke out in the metropolis on Monday,
and in one instance, in tho Shoreditch district, there
was considerable destruction of property.
Major Charles Whittingham Douglas, of the Gordon
Highlanders, has been selected for the adjutancy of the
London Scottish Rifles.

The Barnsley magistrates have investigated a case of
horse stealing committed by Frank Marsh, aged 10
years, at Penistone, near which town his parents
reside. The prisoner gained admittance tc the stable
at the Wentworth Arms, Penistone, and having saddled
a bay mare worth £3O he rode her to Huddersfield.
He engaged a stable at the Victoria Hotel, washed the
legs of the mare, and rode her out of the town, having
previously stated that he wanted 30 guineas for the
animal. Suspicion being aroused, the landlord caused
the mare to be detained. The prisoner, on account of
his youth, was summarily dealt with. He was ordered
to be well birched.

A farmer minied Thomas Greene was fired at on
Saturday evening about half-past six, while returning
home from Ennis' at a distance of about five miles
from the town. He received a full charge of shot ill
the back, shoulder, and right arm. Greene lately took
a grazing farm, from which a family named Hynes had
been recently evicted, and which is now in the posseB.
sion of the-Bank of Ireland. The Hynes family re-
ceived ample compensation, but the farm is still boy.
cotted, and the man who takes it will do so at the risk
of his life. In Greene's case fatal consequences are
not expected.
At Barrow-in-Furness, where the shipping industry
—especially foreign-going steamers—has been in
very stagnant condition for many months, there are
gratifying signs that a revival is taking place.
A quaint domestic railway runs through a small farm-
ing tract in Central Illinois, U.S.A. Owned and
managed by the farmers themselves, the line is worked
by the young people of the families, and carries alike
passengers, mails, and the provisions for its owners.
The rails are laid on ties placed on the flat prairie, and
sometimes the tall grass stops 'he wheels, or the rails
suddenly spring abroad and tumole the cars along the
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prairie. Then- the train officials and the passengers
jump off, repair the road, and lift the cars back on the
line. A train starts every moraing after breakfast,
picks up the farmers along the road for their daily
work, and brings them back to tea. The line is a pay.
leg concern, besides being a great convenience.

We have to announce the death of Sir John Kelk,
Dart., which occurred at Tedworth on Sunday, after
an illness of some weeks, and from which he had been
in a hopeless state for several days past. He was in
his 71st year. He had been a contractor of public
works on a large scale in London, and had reahsed a
handsome fortune.

Mr. W. H. Roberts, solicitor, of Coleman-street,
London, while bathing at Sea-view, Hyde, on Saturday
evening, was seized with a fit, and although ,zvery
assistance was given by a medical man all efforts to
restore animation failed. Mr. Roberts was a regular
visitor at Sea-view, and his wife and family were stay-
ing there at the time.
Twelve men employed at the Newstead
between Nottingham and Mansfield, had a narroo
escape on Monday. Whilst being lowered down the
shaft, and within some distance from the bottom, the
rope became dstached from the drum, and the cage
struck the bottom with great violence. Most of tau
occupants were shaken and injured.
A dynamite cartridge was recently exploded at mid.
night under the principal gateway of the docks at
Blareeilles' and caused some considerable damage. The
outraze is believed to be due to private malevolence.
Two manufacturing jewellers, named Joseph Spencer
and Charles James Cramp, trading as Cramp and Co.,
Vyse. street, Birmingham, were charged at the Bir-
mingham Police - court on Monday with stealing
diamonds worth £4OOO, the property of Maurice Gratz,
diamond merchant. Since July last Mr. Gratz has been
in the habit of selling diamonds to the accused, sub-
mitting to them parcels to select from. Since dealing
with them he has missed a considerable number of
diamonds from his parcels, and suspecting the accused
no got a detective to accompany him on the occasion
of his visits last Friday and Saturday. On the second
day the detective, believing that he had observed
Spencer, while examining the diamonds, slip some into
the breast pocket of his coat, seized him, and found
diamonds worth £169 in the pocket. The accused were
remanded for a week, to enable the police to investis
gate the matter.
Mr. Rylands, proprietor of the Hope Glass Works,
near Barnsley, one of the largest employers of labour
in the country, has requested that his bottle hands
shall work three shifts instead of two daily at his cow
tinucus furnaces. The men declare that this will
reduce wages by abolishing overtime, and, acting on
the authority of their trade association, replied on
Saturday that they would not do so. Mr. Rylands, who
has issued further notices to the workmen, threatens to
close his works.

The Princess of Wales with her daughters left
Copenhagen on Monday on board the Osborne for
EnglaLd.

A singular fatality occurred on Monday morning at
the steel works of Sir W. G. Armstrong, Mitchell, and
Co., Elswick, Newcastle. Two men named Geerge
Atkinson and James M'Keown, bricklayers, had on
Saturday lett their tools in a gas flue. On entering the
flue yesterday morning to get the tools they were over-
come by the gas. A fellow-workman named Millard
rescued M'Keown, but was unable to return to the
rescue of Atkinson owing to the gas affectiaz
Another workman, however, after first putting a rope
round his waist, entered the flue and brought out
Atkinson, though not until it was too late, for he died
about ten minutes after being brought into the open
air. M'Keown is in a dangerous condition, and
the two rescuers were also considerably overcome by the
gas.
The Cheshire Hounds met at Riciley Toll Bar for cub
hunting on Monday, and had a remarkable run of 55
miles after a smart young fox. It was noted as a
singular occurrence that during the whole of this long
course the huntsmen never came across a cornfield.

The various barristers appointed to revise the lists
of those persons entitled to elect members to serve in
Parliament will hold their respective courts during the
present and next month, the hearing of borough claims
commencing Sept. 15, and terminating 'on October
31, while county claims will be hemd between the 20th
instant and October 31.
The art of making tapestry having declined in Eng.'
land, the Prince of Wales interested him,elf in the
progress of the Royal Tapestry Works at Windsor, and
at the instance of his Royal Highness the Library
Committee of the Corporation of the City of London
have ordered three pieces of tapestry, at a cost of
£lOOO, to be hung in the Egyptian Hall at the
Mansion House. The subjects represented will be
commemorative of some prominent events in civic
history.
The explanation published in France of the arrest of
English fishing vessels at Havre agrees with the state-
ment made in Parliament on Monday night, that it
was owing to an infraction of the fishery laws and not
by way of reprisals for the treatment of French boats
in English waters.
Mr. Gladstone's health, according to accounts red
ceived at Hawarden, continues emcellent, and it is not
yet certain when he will be back in England. On his
return it is proposed to confer on him the freedom of
the City of Cork, and an address will be presented to
him from a large number of Trish ladies.