The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-04-07 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

The Queen has been pleased to bestow the honour of
knighthood upon the Judge Advocate General, the
Right Hon. W. T. Marriott. Mr. William Thackeray
Marriott is the third son of the late Mr. Christopher
Marriott, of Crumpsal, near Manchester, and was born
in 1834. He was educated at St. John's College,
Cambridge, and graduated in 1858. Being called to
the Bar at Lincoln's-inn in 1864, he joined the South-
Eastern Circuit. Mr. Marriott married in 1872 the
eldest daughter of Captain Tennant, of Needwood,
Staffordshire. He entered the House of Commons as
a Liberal member for Brighton; but in consequence of
the dissatisfaction of his Liberal supporters he accepted
the Chiltern Hundreds in February, 1884, and was re-
elected mainly by the Conservatives. He was re-
elected as a Conservative in 1885, and in that year and
again since August, 1886, he has filled the office of
Judge Advocate General.
Colonel A. H. Utterson has been selected for the
command of the 17th Regimental District.
One of the largest millinery ornament manufacturers
in Paris informs us (Warehousemen and Drapers' Trade
Journal) that 75 per cent, of his hands are just now
solely occupied in making rosebuds and lilies to supply
the demand of our London wholesale houses.

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Sir Henry Drummond Woolf, the new British
Envoy to Persia, has left Tiflis for Teheran, by way of
Baku.

The Dowager Lady Wake, widow of the late Sir
Charles Wake, Bart., died on Saturday at her resi-
dence, Pitsford, Northamptonshire, in the 88th year of
her age. The deceased lady was sister to Dr. Tait, the
late Archbishop of Canterbury.
Dated Cassel, April 2, a Reuter's telegram says
"The condition of the Hereditary Prince of Waldeck-
Pyrmont, who is suffering from an attack of scarlatina,
is fairly satisfactory. Dr. Mannel, the physician in at-
tendance, believes that the disease will run its normal
course. In spite of a high state of fever the patient is
quite conscious."
In spite of the unsettled weather many thousands of
Easter Monday excursionists availed themselves of the
facilities afforded by the railway companies to visit the
country and seaside resorts within practicable distance
of London. The crowds at the Crystal Palace and the
National Gallery were exceptionally large.
In connection with the nineteenth annual session of
the Good Templars, which is this year being held in
Sunderland, the Grand Lodge was opened on Easter
Monday, and was attended by representatives from
every county in England. The political report discussed
the Local Government Bill, denounced the licensing
proposals of that measure, and demanded local option
pure ankl simple.
Lora Charles Beresford, addressing a meeting of the
Primrose League, which was held on Monday in the
grounds at Wilton, the residence of the Earl of Pem-
broke, declared he should give a thick and thin support
to the present Government, although he considered the
present system of naval and military administration so
extremely defective that not only the immense commerce
but even the food supply of this country were most in-
adequately protected.
Mr. W. O'Brien, M.P., addressed several thousands
of his constituents at Mitchelstown on Easter Monday.
With the exception of a Government note-taker and •
a district inspector, none of the constabulary were
present. The proceeding passed off quietly.
The police in Kent are making a raid on the beggars
who have for the last few months infested nearly every
part of that county. During the last two or three
days the county constables In plain clothes have been
scouring the various divisions in East Kent and the
Weald, and have brought in batches of four and six
mendicants, whom they have caught in the act. On
Saturday there were over a score of beggars lodged in
St. Augustine's Prison, at Canterbury, and there is
also a large number in Maidstone Gaol. The majority
of the prisoners are professional beggars.
A fire broke out on Sunday morning in some ware-
houses at Dartford Creek, resulting in a great con-
flagration. The warehouses were stored with straw,
esparto grass, and acid, the property of the South
Darenth Paper Mills' owned by Messrs. Spalding and
Hodge. Some stacks of straw belonging to the Paper
Fibre Company were also consumed, the total destruc-
tion of straw and grass being about 500 tons. Four
fire brigades were in attendance, and directed their
efforts to protecting the surrounding property. Several
barges lying in the creek narrowly escaped destruction,
being unable to move in consequence of the tide being
low. The total damage is estimated at £5OOO.
Three men, named Peter Carroll, Thomas Sweeney,
and William Cudmore, were, at the Sheffield Town Hall
on Easter Monday, committed for trial on a charge of
breaking into a warehouse and stealing a quantity of
tinned provisions. Some bricks were removed from the
wall of the warehouse, and an entrance was thus effected.
Sweeney and Cudmore were seen in the neighbourhood
late on the night of the robbery by a police-constable.
They told him they had been at a wake, and according
to Carroll the wake was attended by about 25 persons,
and was kept up nearly all night in a small kitchen.
About two o'clock in the morning he said Cudmore called
him outside, and asked him to let the tinned meat be
taken into his house, which he did.
By special permission of the Lords of the Admiralty
and Sir William G. Armstrong, Mitchell and Co., her
Majesty's ship Victoria, built at the Elswick yard, was
on Easter Monday on view to the public. The greatest
interest was displayed in the magnificent workmanship
and the interior fittings. The proceeds of the charges
made for admission are to be devoted to the Newcastle
, Infirmary.
The Rev. John Lloyd Jones, M.A., committed suicide
at Aberdayron on Saturday. Having purchased half
an ounce of strychnine from a chemist for the purpose,
as he said, of killing magpies, he went into the Victoria
Hotel, called for a glass of beer, put in the poison, and
drank it. He died in 20 minutes. He was 54 years of
age, and for the last seven months had been stationed
at Thorpe Hamlet, near Norwich.
At Maryport, on Sunday evening, aelerk named John
Hastings was standing on the stones which lead from
the promenade to the sea, when he slipped and fell into
the water. Two working men' John Davidson and
Robert Reay, immediately dashed into the surf, fully
dressed, and with great difficulty reached Hastings•
All were for some time in peril ; but ropes were thrown
to them from the sea wall, and they were drawn
ashore, much exhausted.
At Coventry, on Easter Monday, F. W. Allard met
W. M. Woodside the American, in a ten miles bicycle
race for £25 a-side. This was .Allard's second appear-
ance on the path as a professional. In the midst of a
heavy storm of hail and rain Woodside dashed off with
the lead. Before three miles were finished the positions
were reversed. Torrents of rain rendered the track
sticky, and the pace was at no time great. Entering
the lasl- lap Woodside led by two yards, and although
stiugglieg gallantly Allard lost ground, and was
defeateil by six yards. Time, 35min. 28sec.
The Osvi•estry Musical Festival, established in con-
nection with the Osvvestry School of Music, founded by
Mr. Henry Leslie' was held on Easter Monday in Powis
Hall, Oswestry. Lord' Harlech presided. There were
several musical competitions, followed by the adjudica-
tion of prizes. The adjudicators were Mr. Timothy and
Mr. Mills. At night Mr. Henry Leslie conducted the
performance of "The Alessiah. ' , The soloists were
Miss Annie Roberts, Miss Squires, Mr. Maldwyn
Humphreys, arid Mr. T. Bott
Mr. T. W. Russell, M.P., speaking at a Unionist
meeting at Kernble, North-west Wilts, on Tuesday
night, said that he did• not approve of all that the
Government had done with regard to Ireland. He was
against Colonel King-Harman's appointment. He
regretted their action on the arrears question, and the
Land Commission Bill would have to be modified
before it could be accepted by the representatives of
the Irish people. • But he did not believe it to be
his duty to obstruct a Government who he thought
intended to do what. was right by Ireland, and only
found difficulty in reconciling the conflicting elements
existing there. As to the land question, little re-
mained to be done pending the purchase scheme
which the Government contemplated.
Sir G. Baden Powell, M.P., speaking at Liverpool on
Tuesday night, said the Government had completely
quashed obstruction. Amongst his personal friends
were many Gladstonians, and he could see a great
change coming over their opinions, for they believed
the present administration to be a just one. Alluding
to the Local Government Bill, he said that one of its
effects would be that Parliament would be more free to
deal with Imperial matters, for it would take away a,
great deal of parish duty, besides drawing closer to
them their colonial Empire. He advised temperance
people, to reconsider their arguments in regard to the
Local Government Bill, for these arguments told
rather against local option than in its favour.
The death is announced at The Rowans, Ilfracombe,
in her 100th year, of Mrs. Jane Hinde, widow of the
Rev. John Hinde, formerly vicar of Ludford, and lec-
turer of Ludlow, Salop, whom she survived for half a
century.
An Imperial rescript was issued in Berlin on 'Tues-
day announcing certain impending changes in the drill
regulations of the German infantry.
A new Romnanian Cabinet has been formed with M.
Rosetti as Premier and Minister of the Interior.
At a meeting on Tuesday of the Society for the
Study of Inebriety at the rooms of the Medical Society
of London, two papers were read dealing with the
medical jurisprudence of inebriety. It was pointed out
that in civil relations intoxication invalided contracts,
but was regarded as no excuse for crime.
The boys at Christ's Hospital paid their customary
Easter visit to the London Mansion House on Tues-
day, and received the usual gifts in money, and were also
provided with refreshments. Subsequently the Lord
Mayor attended in state at Christ Church, Newgate- -
street, and the Spital Sermon was preached by the
Bishop of Southwell. The Blue-coat boys were
present, a portion of them forming the choir.
It was reported on Tuesday that no less that five
persons were drowned in the river Lea near Hackney
Wick on Monday through two of their number
endeavouring to pass from one boat to another. Two
soldiers have been drowned in Lough Bee, near
Athlone, by the upsetting of a boat, • ' •
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6ATUI'DAY, APRIL 7, 1888.

Three men, named William West, John Cronin, and
Thomas Cronin, were found guilty at the Middlesex
Sessions, on Tuesday, of breaking into a shop ill
Drury-lane, and as previous convictions were proved
against the two first-mentioned prisoners they were
each sentenced to five years' penal servitude, whilst
Thomas Cronin was sent to hard labour for one year
and four months.
The charges at the metropolitan police-courts arising
out of Bank Holiday were, as a rule, fewer than is
usually the case at such a time. At some courts the
number of persons in custody was below the average on
Mondays.
At a fire which took place in a barn and granary- at
Long Marston, near York, on Tuesday, a man, un-
known, was burnt to death. Three cows and a calf
were also destroyed by the flames. The fire is supposed
to have been accidentally caused by the man who lost
his life.
The Duke of Cambridge officially inspected the troops
at Shornclifle on Tuesday morning. The duke,
accompanied by his staff, arrived from Dover at 11
o'clock. The troops were drawn up in line of quarter
columns, and after the customary salute, his Royal
Highness inspected all ranks. The troops afterwards
marched past in column and in line, and were suhsu-
quently put through a series of manoeuvres.
A coroner's jury at Barnsley on Tuesday returned a
verdict of "Wilful Murder" against James William
Richardson, a workman employed at Messrs. Chamber-
lain's Brick Works, who shot and killed William
Berridge, his foreman, on the 21st March. The
evidence showed that Richardson, believing that
Berridge was trying to ruin him, deliberately resolved
upon the murder.
The body of a man, named Pritchard,was found dead
early on Tuesday morning in a yard of Nantyglo Brick
Works. The deceased, who was about 50 years of age,
was last seen alive on Saturday night, and the appear-
ance of the body leads to the belief that he met his
death by foul play. A post-mortem examination on
the body is ordered.
The body of Henry Taylor, aged 56, of Sheffield, who
until recently was architect to Messrs. Thomas Firth
and Sons (Limited), by which firm he had been em-
ployed 30 years, was on Tuesday found dreadfully
mutilated on the railway at Chapeltown near Sheffield.
It is not known whether death was the result of all
accident.

A youth named Ladley was, at the Manchester
Police-court on Tuesday, sentenced to two months'
imprisonment with hard labour for assaulting a man
named Percival. The prosecutor was attacked by a
gang of roughs in the streets, and so badly beaten with
belts that his life was for some time despaired of.
An extraordinary scene was witnessed at a 'Vestry
meeting for the parish of St. Andrew, Northampton,
on Tuesday morning. The meeting was held in the
nave of the church. The vicar, the Rev. George IVhite-
head, objected to a gentleman nominated for the office
of parish warden, and would not put his name to the
meeting. Insinuations of dishonesty and bad conduct
were made on both sides. After a noisy altercation
the doors opened, and a wedding party entered the
church, arrangements having been made for the mar-
riage at that hour. The vicar left the chair, and
putting on his robes, proceeded to the altar to unite
the bride and bridegroom. The Vestry meanwhile
elected a new chairman, and passed a resolution cen-
suring the vicar. The two ceremonies were continued
in the church simultaneously.
The Convention of representatives of the Royal
Burghs of Scotland, at its annual gathering in Edin-
burgh on Tuesday, adopted, by 43 votes to 20, a resolu-
tion declaring that Home Rule should be granted to
Scotland, whereby the people should have the sole con-
trol of their own national affairs. The amendment, which
was lost, was in favour of a large measure of self-govern-
ment being given to Scotland, without interfering with
the supremacy of Parliament. The Convention ale)
resolved that the Secretary for Scotland should always
have a seat in the Cabinet, and that measures not passed
in one session of Parliament should be taken up the next
•at the point where they had been dropped.
At Aberayron, on Tuesday, an inquest was held by
the county coroner on the body of the Rev. John Lloyd
Jones. Evidence was given that he had been living
with a cousin at Wern, near Newquay, after filling the
' curacy of Thorphamlet, Norwich. On Good Friday
he went to Aberayron and slept at the Victoria Inn.
On Saturday the rev, gentleman bought half an ounce
of strychnine at the shop of Mr. Lewis, chemist, saying
he wanted it to destroy magpies. He subsequently
mixed the poison with some beer and drank it, death
resulting almost immediately. A verdict of "Death
from poisoning by strychnine during temporary
insanity" was returned.
At the Staffordshire Quarter Sessions on Tuesday
Lord Wrottesley, late Lord-Lieutenant of the County,
was presented with a handsome service of plate by the
magistrates of the county, in recognition of his services
as Lord-Lieutenant from 1871 to 1887. Accompanying
the plate was a richly-bound album containing the sig-
natures of the subscribers, and an address signed by the
present Lord-Lieutenant, the Earl of Dartmouth, and
Mr. T. F. Twenlow, Chairman of Quarter Sessions.
Lord Dartmouth also presented on his own behalf to
Lord Wrottesley a • pair of pedestals for the tankards
which formed part of the service of plate.
The colours of the 2nd Battalion Devonshire Regi-
ment were on Tuesday placed in Exeter Cathedral,
and now hang over the monument erected to
the memory of the officers and men who fell
in the last Afghan campaign. The Colours were
presented to " the battalion in 1859, and have since
accompanied the regiment in China, the Cape, Afghan-
istan, and India, but have at last become so tattered
that they hardly hold together. The Dean received
the Colours from Colonel Fremantle, the Officer Com-
manding the District, and after they had been fixed in
their place in the presence of a very large congrega-
tion, the Bishop delivered an address.
The Bishop of Winchester on Tuesday opened a
new building, which has been purchased for £15,000,
for the Bournemouth Young Women's Christian
Association. The building was named the Digby Insti-
tute, after the foundress and president of the associa-
tion, Miss Wingfield Digby. Among those present at
the opening ceremony were Lady Wimborne, Dowager
Countess Cairns, Viscountess Lilford, Bishop Parry,
Sir William and Lady Marriott, and Mdlle. D'Eketra
and Count Kronstadt, representing the Queen of
Sweden and Norway. The accommodation provided
at the new Institute includes about 100 bedrooms.
Hugh and Jane Jones, of Clynnog, North Wales, on
Tuesday celebrated their diamond wedding. Mrs.
Jones completes her hundredth year on St. Thomas's
Day, while her husband is ninety-seven years of age.
•The couple, who were heartily congratulated on the
event, are in excellent health, and have had twelve
children. They live with their son, Mr. Richard Jones,
who is seventy-two years of age.
Walter Walker and John Smith were brought before .
the Justice of the Peace Court at Greenock on Tuesday,
charged with being concerned in the smuggling of
11001 b. of foreign tobacco. Mr. Beverley, on behalf of
the Commissioners of Customs, withdrew the case
before the Court; but the two men were re-appre-
hended directly afterwards on a warrant from the
Court of Exchequer, and conveyed to Edinburgh
Prison.
A new pier, 600 feet long, constructed at a cost of
£lO,OOO, was opened on Tuesday at Lee-on-the-Solent,
by Lady Robinson, wife of Sir Charles Robinson, the
founder of the village, which forms a new watering
place on the Hampshire coast. At present not more
than a hundred houses have been built, and the pier is
designed with the idea of bringing the place into
greater prominence.
A large golden eagle has made its appearance in the
neighbourhood of Minster during the last few days. It
is a curious coincidence that the spot where the strange
visitor has been seen is the exact locality where the tine
golden eagle, which is now preserved in the Canterbury
Museum, was shot about two years ago.
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A water-main burst in ',Vine-stet, Swansea, on
Tuesday afternoon, and so great was the force of
water, which continued to flow for upwards of three
hours, that the cellars were deluged. An enormous
quantity of water was wasted.
The revenue returns published on Monday showed
that the Exchequer receipts for the year ended on
March 31 were less by £970,504 than in the previous
year. The weekly statement in the London Gazette
now shows that the expenditure for the year ended on
Saturday last was less by £2,573,107 than in the pre- 3
ceding year. On Saturday the Treasury balances
amounted to £7,647,072, and on the same date in 1887 -
to £5 t',56,107. •

A Six Hourts' HURRICANE.—The Florence, from
Mauritius and Madagascar, brings some further news of
the furious hurricane which raged at Tamatave about
Feb. 22. Twelve wrecks occurred on the Tamatave
beach, one being that of a French man-of-war. Nearly
all the houses in the place were blown down, and the
residence of the English Consul was unroofed. The
hurricane lasted six hours.
HE WAS AN Inismies.:—An inquest has been held at
Cheltenham on the body of Joseph M'Enleer, a groom,
who was found by his wife hanging from a beam in the
back kitchen of their house. • TAEI deceased, who had
been in ill-health, was strange in his manner, and hika
the impression that people were set to' watch him
because he was an Irishman. The following letter was
found after his 'death: "My dear Wife,—l wish iou a
long good night.- We may meet in Heaven. MT heart
is broken; it is all through your son. Good-bye all.
—Josmi. Can you forgive me? God have Mercy
on my soul !" The evidence did not bear out the
statement respecting the son. A verdict of "Tem-
porary insanity" was returned.
PRINCE BISMARCK.—In the Crown-Council that was
held at Charlottenburg Palace the other day, under the
presidency of the Kaiser, Prince von Bismarck is re-
ported to have laid before his Majesty a programme of
his foreign policy, of which the Kaiser thoroughly
approved. After the Council his Majesty is said to
have privately signified to the Chancellor his acknow-
ledgment of the latter's devotion and skill. The Crown
Prince William honoured the Chancellor by his
presence at dessert •after dinner, and in the course of
the day all the Princes of the Blood called to offer their
congratulations. The Prince has received an auto-
graph letter from the Kaiser congratulating him
warmly on the 50th anniversary of his entry into the
army. The letter was brought to him by one of his
Majesty's Aides-de-Camps.
ATTACKING CHINA BY RAILWAY. General Sir
Andrew Clarke, speaking at Singapore, at a public
banquet, declared that his mission to Siam for the
purpose of obtaining a concession for a railway from
Bangkok to Zimme had been completely successful.
The line would offer the shortest route to the great
southern provinces of China, the towns in which were
inhabited by industrious people, and it could, he
stated, be easily and cheaply constructed, and worked
at at trifling cost. The railway would, moreover, pass
through fertile and populous districts in Siam.
Cultlol7S SUCCESSION CASE.—An application wai
made to Judge Warren, in the Irish Probate and Matri-
monial Court, Dublin. the other day, to revoke letters
of administration, granted to Mr. Henry Carr, of Mary-
borougli, who sought, as next-of-kin, to obtain a small
property which belonged to Mrs. Henrietta Cox, de-
ceased. The application was made by Mr. William
Hovenden, a tailor, residing at 24, Polo-street, Batter-
sea, London, the plaintiff in the suit. It was grounded
on the allegation that the marriage of Henrietta Carr,
deceased, with Richard Carr, her husband, was within
the prohibited degrees of consanguinity, and that there-
fore the children of the marriage were illegitimate. It
appeared from the evidence that Richard Carr was
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son of Henrietta 's Carr's first husband's sister ;
Judge Warren held that the cause came withiy
prohibited degrees, and granted the application a(

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