The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-02 00:00:00

SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1888.

A gigantic ancient well has been found in the middle
of the Place of St. Mark, Venice. It was evidently
sunk in the fifteenth century.
Bishop Ryle's advice to women is this: " Don't trouble
about politics. Stick to your proper work—you have
plenty of troubles of your own—and men will stick to
theirs."
Knapdale, Upper Tooting, is a large and commodious
house. Mr. A. Macmillan has just offered it to the
Bishop of Rochester—who has accepted it—as a resi-
dence for the Suffragan Bishop of Southwark.
Mr. Parnell has a very fine collection of books on
engineering in his library, and, when he is at Avondale,
the Irish leader spends the greater part of his time it
the study of these works, of which he is passionately
fond.

Walter Swainson, landlord of the Lemon Tree
public-house, Bedfordbury, was charged at the Bow
-
street Police-court on Monday with permitting betting
on his premises; and seven men were charged with
being therein for the same illegal purpose. Detective-
Inspector Conquest proceeded to the house on Satur-
day, and during a raid found a large number of papers
on which were written the names of horses and
persons, apparently representing 300 betting trans-
actions. Owing to pressure of business the case could
not be completed, and the prisoners were remanded.
General R. Strachey was on Monday re-elected Presi-
dent of the Royal Geographical Society. In reviewing
the geographical events of the year, he said that so far
Mr. Stanley's expedition for the relief of Emin Pasha
had been attended with success.
The colossal bronze statue of William Wallace, which
is to be unveiled by the Marquis of Lorne at Aberdeen
on the 21st of June, arrived there safely on Monday
from London. The statue stands 17ft. high and weighs
about four and a half tons.

The Welsh tenants of Lord Dudley are going to pre-
sent his lordship with an address and photographic
view, and also with a Welsh Bible, which will also be
commemorative of the tercentenary of the translation
of the Bible into Welsh. _ _

The Lord Chancellor (Lord Ashbourne) and Lord
Justice Fitzgibbon were sworn in on Monday at a meet-
ing of the Privy Council as Lords Justices for the govern-
ment of Ireland, during the temporary absence of the
Lord Lieutenant.

The Countess Compton at Northampton Corn EV
change on Monday presented the medallion and certifi-
cates to the successful students of the St. John Ambit.
lance Association. Earl Compton President of the
Northampton Centre, who occupied the chair, expressed
his high approval of the ambulance work as taught by
the association. There was extraordinary ignorance in
respect to simple remedies in cases of accident or
sudden illness; and in country districts it was very
necessary there should be that knowledge imparted
which the association sought to convey.
. .

Thirty policemen, with bailiffs anil other officials,
proceeded on Monday to the townland of Drumnisear.
non, about four miles from Maghera, for the purpose
of evicting Patrick Hagan, a tenant on the Drapers'
Company's estate. On reaching Hagan's house the
party found it filled with earth and large stones.
Colonel Conyngham, the agent of the Drapers' Com-
pany, seeing that it was useless to attempt to carry out
the eviction with the assistance he had with him,
granted the tenant terms, and the eviction was aban-
doned.

Kate O'Brien, a young woman, was shot dead on
Monday night at Treorky fair, near Cardiff. She had
charge of a temporary erection, from which dangled
coloured balls and other objects, to be shot at by vi si-
tors to the fair. Amongst the amateur marksmen was
Thomas Thomas, who took aim at a bottle, but just at
the moment when he fired O'Brien passed in front of
him to attend to another customer and received the
charge in her forehead, dying almost instantly.
Thomas was arrested and taken to the police-station.
Three lads, each about 14 years of age, were drowned
in Belfast Lough on Sunday afternoon. They left
Belfast with two others, and rowed some distance down
the lough, whon owing to some mismanagement, the
boat capsized, and all five were precipitated into deep
water. One of them clung to a buoy, another was
rescued by some lads who were bathing, but the other
three were drowned. The bodies of William Savage
and John Maglore have been found. The name of the
third is not known.

Before the Borough Justices at Windsor, on Mon-
day, William Wiemar, a waiter, was charged with
stealing a silver watch and trinkets from the White
Hart Hotel. He was discovered in the room of the
manageress, and, on being questioned, said he had
made a mistake. The prisoner, who Superintendent
Hayes stated had been identified as having committed
a robbery at the Buckingham Palace Hotel, was sen-
tenced to four months' imprisonment.
Bridget Henshaw was committed for trial at North-
ampton' on Monday, charged with attempting to
murder her husband, a foreman brickmaker. On Whit
Sunday the man came home late to dinner, and this so
. enraged the woman that she, as is alleged, reached
down a gun, and as he came to the door discharged
the two barrels at him, the contents lodging in the door
posts. The prisoner said the barrels were discharged
accidentally.
Speaking at Dartmouth on Monday night, Sir
Edward Clarke, the Solicitor-General, denied that any-
thing like an interest, such as Mr. Gladstone meant in
his speech at Hawarden on Saturday, was intended to
be created by the Local Government Bill. He con-
tended that the national defences had been much neg-
lected by the predecessors of the Government, and
said they were now being dealt with vigorously and
effectively.
The Spalding Board of Guardians on Monday de-
:lined, by the casting vote of the Chairman, to
memorialise the Government against the clause in the
Local Government Bill which provides for a grant to
guardians of 4d. per day for indoor paupers. It was
proposed that the allowance should be divided between
the indoor and outdoor paupers.
The residence of Mr. C. Rayner, Moor-crescent,
Hunslet, near Leeds, was broken into early on Sunday
morning, and several articles were stolen. The thieves
left behind the following letter: "You are very hard
to wake in this house. Good-bye. We will give it all
back when we are caught. Three churns of Jackson
from Manchester."

About eleven o'clock on Sunday night a party of
seven men, armed and disguised, attacked the house of
a farmer named Patrick McCarthy, situated near
Killarney, and after asking him why he had paid his
rent, fired three shots, which took effect in his legs.
The Moonlighters then decamped, and no arrests have
been made. _ _ _

The Archbishop of Canterbury arrived in his cathe-
dral city on Monday, and commenced a series of con-
firmations, which will enable his grace to pay visits to
several of the towns and villages in the south-eastern
part of his diocese. The service on Monday was held
in the Cathedral, and was very largely attended.
The Secretary of State has ordered that the owners
of Festini-ig Quarry, in whose subterranean workings
five men lost their lives a few weeks ago by the break-
ing of a b-idge, shall be prosecuted. It is alleged that
the bridge was not kept in proper repair.