The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-12-31 00:00:00

PRINCE BISMARCK'S MEMOIRS.

The Berlin correspondent of the Franc states that
Prince Bi.tnarck is writing his memoirs, being assisted
in his work by his sons the Counts Herbert and Wil-
helm. The Chancellor will only, so far as mere pen-
manship is concerned, contribute a portion of the book
touching more especially on the period of conflict be-
tween the Government and the Prussian Diet, on the
wars of 1866 and 1870, and on his stay at St. Peters-
burg and at Paris. Count Herbert will treat of the
Prince's childhood and youth, while his younger
brother will take down his father's impressions and
reminiscences of the Prussian, German, and foreign
Ministers with whom he has come into contact during
his long career.

Proof of stoicism under unusually trying circum-
stances was given at Besancon on Saturday by Captain
Naudin, of the 69th Foot (says the Paris correspondent of the
Daily Telegraph). As this gallant officer was practising in
the riding school his leg was broken by a neighbour's horse,
which kicked out suddenly, and he was hurled from hia„saddle
with violence to the ground. So severe was the fracture that
the bones protruded e (en through the boot; but Captain
Naudln never uttered a groan, though suffering the most
horrible agony. He merely asked a friend to roll him a
cigarette, and quietly smoked it while the wound was being
examined. It is satisfactory to learn that the surgeons do
not consider amputation necessary.

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

A eorrespondent writing from Epping says that
young gooseberries were gathered in a garden in that neigh-
bourhood on the 21st inst.

Last year 26,588 inquests were held at an expense
of £86,842 13s. 5d., being an average of RS 55. 3d. each.
A train from Paris to Soissons was last week lit
up by electric light, the first experiment of the kind in
France.

Mr. O'Donovan, the renowned Dail?' New corres-
pondent at Merv, intends to lecture in London on his re-
turn.

A Berlin telegram says that a Rusilian colonel has
bought sixty ttately horses in Hanover, which arc to be con-
veytd to M,‘se.,w to be used in the processions attending the
coronation of th, CzAr in that city in the spring.

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The event of the Wetterhorn was made last week
by an Englishman and two guides. They passed the night
In the Doesen hut.

Up to Tuesday evening the Lord Mayor of London
had received close upon £9,000 at the Mansion•house in aid
of the fund now being raised there for the Defence of
Property iu Ireland.
The Ez te a e r City of Sydoey, which arriveci at Sin
Francisco ou nesday, brought Iron' Australht bullion to the
value of 415,010 dots. for tlee United States.

The oldest brewery in the world is said to be that
at "Miran," near Pilsen, in Austria. It was tstaldished
in the year 1378, when a sort of grant was given to the
founders, a presoriptive right to brew "old" and "white'
beers.

The latest news from Oelbeim, the capital of the
German petroleum district, is very unfavourable. A few
months ago the daily produce was about six hundred barrels.
The present yield, according to the official data, is scarcely
twenty-seven b =els a day.

Last year the feeg in the Divorce Court were £5,198.
Since 1958, when the court was formed, more than 9,500
petitions have been filed. _

The New England residents in Brooklyn, New
York, and Philadelphia have been celebrating the anniversary
of the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers at Plymouth Rock with
dinners in each city.

The Rev. C. H. Spurgeon arrived in London on
the 23rd inst from Mentone, where he had been sojourn-
ing for the benefit of his health for the past seven or eight
weeli s.

An important patent has been taken out by a
Russian of the name of Dittmar for solidifying petroleum
into a substance like wax. It is contended that the dangers
and difficulties of the transport of petroleum will thus be
overcome.

The Russian papers announce that the Committee
appointed to receive subscriptions for the monument to be
raised at Moscow to the memory of the late Caw Alexander
11. as now received 600,000 roubles. This sum is contri-
buted exclusively by the people of the loyal city and province
of Moscow.

On Monday morning the body of an old lady named
Pack, who, it is reported, was of comfortable means, was
found by a farmer at Pitt, a few miles from Hastings. The
deceased, who was 87 years of age, had wandered away from
her home on Friday in last week.

A Times' telegram from Philadelphia, dated Dec.
26, says that three Atlantic steamers are so long overdue
that they are given up for lost. They are the City of London,
from Louden, on Nov. 18 ; the Lord Byron, from Hamburg,
on November 28, both for New York; and the Henry Edye,
from Antwerp for Boston, on November 21.

A lifeboat, marked "Saxon Monarch, London," has
bees picked up on the west coast of France near Queberon,
and in the same vicinity a cabin door having on it a copper
plate marked "bath room."
The weekly returns of metropolitan pauperism show
that there were in the metropolis in the third week of De-
cember 95,204 paupers, of whom 62,722 were indoor and
42,482 outdoor. This shows an increase of 2,932, as compared
with the corresponding period'in 1880; a decrease of 608, as
compared with 1879, and an increase of 11,662 as compared
with 1878. On the last day of the third week of December
932 vagrants were relieved in the metropolis, of whom 733
were men, 171 women, and 28 children under sixteen.

During the past year 90 vessels have been built upon
the Wear, of 164,932 gross tons, registered, as against 76
yebsels built in 1:o, representing 114,83'2 gross tons, showing
an increase of 14 vessels and 40,100 tons.

Knocked down by the shafts of a cart, a poor
labourer, 87 years of age, unluckily got his face badly torn
and his jaw broken, and was carried off to the Radcliffe
Hospital, Oxford. Whilst he was inhaling ether, prepara-
tory to undsrgo an operation to have the fractured ends of
his jawbone united by silver wire, it unfortunately happened
that the blood passing into his windpipe caused his
immediate death before the operation had been com-
menced.

The number of failures in England and Wales
gazetted during the week ending Saturday, Dec. 24, was
2150. The number in the corresponding week of last year
was 269, showing a decrease of 19, being a total decrease, in
1881, to date, of 961.
A religious census has been taken in Bradford, from
which it appears that there are in the borough 106 places of
worship providing 79,482 sittings. The population is 194,167,
of whom last Sunday 37,222 attended service in the morning,
and 33,306 in the evening.
Last week's arrivals of live stook and fresh meat at
Liverpool show a slight increase in live cattle and fresh
meat, but, with regard to sheep there were no arrivals, a
circumstance which has not occurred for some months
past. The totals were 56 cattle, 3,785 quarters of beef, 803
carcases of mutton, and 73 hogs.

The Presbyterian Church at StalybridF,,e has been
sold by public auction, there not being a sufficient number
of Presb}terians in the town to form a congregation.
The area of the Canadian Dominion, according to
a re.turn recently issued by the Department of the Interior,
is 3,40(;,542. square miles.
There are already two thousand eight hundred Bills
before the 'United States Congress; six hundred were in-
troduced on Dec. 18.
During the second quarter of the present year ending
the 10th ut June there were 100 persons killed and 183 in-
. . . .

jured from causes connected with the working of trains on
the Indian railways, as compared to 80 killed and 164 injured
in the ow responding quarter of 1860.
At the Grecian Theatre, London, on Tuesday night,
in a crowded house, a groundless alarm of fire was raised,
and there was the inevitable "ugly rush "for the doors.
Fortunately, however, the manager and others on the stage
preserved their presence of mind, explained to the audience
that the alarm was groundless, and, even if it had not been,
the means of egress from the theatre were ample. For a
time there was serious danger, but gradually the fears of
the audience were allayed, and the performance went on to
the close. No one appears to have been hurt in the slightest
degree.
The General Secretary of the National Skating
Association has received a communication from Lieut.
Gesieral Sir Dighton Probyn Informing him of the pleasure
of the Prince of Wales to become the patron of the Associa-
tion, and enclosing a donation to the funds.
It has been resolved at a meeting of the Coventry
city council, alter some discussion, to appoint a deputation
of six members, the town clerk, and the surveyor, to attend
the International Electric Exhibition at the Crystal Palace,
and report thereon as to the applicability of electric lighting
to Coventry. The council was unanimously of opinion that
as soon as that system was ascertained to be advantageous
the corporation should proceed to obtain Parliamentary
powers for the lighting of the streets and for the supply of
electric light to the public for domestic and trade put,
poses.

Under the auspices of the British and Foreign As-
sociation to Educate and Employ the Blind, a new monthly
embossed magazine has appeared regularly since last April.
It is printed and embossed with the Bratllie type, which is
composed chiefly of raised points, and is reported to be very
popular among the blind The magazine is embossed on
both sides from stereotype plates, prepared and arranged
by the blind themselves.
The coasting steamer West Point, with a cargo of
kerosene, exploded on Tuesday while in dock at York River,
Virginia. Twenty labourers were killed and four badly
injured.
A party of nine- convicts were being conveyed on
Tuesday under a police escort from Dublin to Cork. Soon
after the train left Mallow, one of the prisoners managed by
means of a wire to disengage his handcuff. He then suddenly
sprang through the window, and must have fallen on his
head. The train was proceeding at a rate of about 20 miles
an hour, and the man sustained injuries that resulted in his
death.
A shocking accident occurred on Friday in last week
at Keymer Junction Station, on the London and Brighton
Railway, to Mr. T. H. T. Davey, who was formerly in busi-
ness as a merchant in South Africa, but who, last spring,
came to England. Since then he has resided at Bolney
Grange, about four miles from Keymer Junction. On Friday
morning he drove to that station with a groom, intending to
proceed to London by the train leaving at twenty-five
minutes to eight. When he arrived at the station the train
was already drawn up at the platform. Not observing the
approach of the feat newspaper down train, he tried to cross
the mills. Before he could clear the down rails, however,
the engine knocked him down. One of his legs was coin-
pletely cut off, and his skull was terribly fractured. Ile
died two hours afterwards at the "Junction... Hotel. He
was but twenty-nine years of age, and leaves a wife and
young children.
It is said that the Suez Canal is to be lighted by
electricity. It would save a deal of time, now wasted by
ships lying at anchor in the night, if it could be, and,
awarding to the Bombay Gauge, there is a good probability
that the scheme will be carr out.
A New York telegram says that the visible supply
of wheat on Dec. 28 was 18,200,000 bushels, as against
18 500,000 last week. Visible supply of corn, 17,700,000
bushels, as against 18,400,000 last week. Export clearances
of wheat for Europe during the past week, 630,000 bushels;
export clearancee of corn for Europe during the past week,
560,000 bushels.

A fatal accident occurred at St. David Station on
the Great Wtstern Railway, near Exeter, on Friday in last
week, to a foreman shunter named Charles Greenley.. The
deceased and tal assistant named Ford were directing shunt-
ing operations, and Greenley was standing between converg-
ing hues mar the point of a junction. One line was occupied
by a set of trucks and, unnoticed by Greenley, another set
approached on the other line, and he was caught between
the two before he could make any effort to escape. The
poor num's body was dreadfully crushed, but he lived for
some hours after the accident. A verdict of "Accidental
death" was returned, the jury finding' that nb one was to
blame.
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The Chairman of the Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi
Railway, in presiding at the half-yearly meeting of the
company, pointed out that the wheat trade in India was
a musing great importance in consequence of the failure of
corn and other cereals in America, and he believed there
W4s a great future for the exportation of Indian wheat.
The PorTurb alone was capable of supplying 600,000 to
750,000 tuna of wheat annually without interfering with the
supply for the inhabitants of that province.
Add:esbing his constituents at Duff town the other
day, Mr. Dair, M.P., for Banffshire, said the time had come
when a radical reform in the conduct of the business of the
Rouse or votutrions was necessary, for without such reform
they could pass' so Land Bill nor any other important
measure. Be was iu favour of a reform of the land laws, of
a wider distribution of land atnoug the people of this country
by means of the sleight clsuses, if that were possible, of full
payment to tenants for all improvements made by them, and
of power to tenants to assign lease.
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The nuinblr of persons comtnittea last year was
166,2G3 I`,Y these 55,798 could ueither read nor write.

Boxing Day in L.tn-lon was remarkable for it
quieteeis and good order which generally characterised its
observance. The day, 60 far as the metropolis was concerned,
was without rain, it may be noted that while not more
than half the average number of visitors on Boxing Day went
to the Brittsh Museum, snore than 15,000 went to the South
Kensington Museum and the Smoke Abatement Exhibition
was one of the attraction' of the day. There were more than
6 000 visitors to the Tower of London: but those admitted to
Windsor Castle were not 1,200 in number; and in many other
cases the attendance fell short of the usual Boxing Day
average.
At a conference of the members of the balloon
Society (M. do Fonvielle. President of the Academie d'
A erostation Moteorologique of Paris, being present) a resolu-
tion was passed to the effect that "the balloonists of England,
America, and the Continent generally should unite in taking
steps for erecting (if agreeable to the friends ef Mr. Powell)
a national memorial commemorative of the impetus given by
that gentleman to the silence of ballooning and his unselfish
devotion to its improvement and pursuits. There was a
general feeling expressed that on all occasions where it was
anticipated that a balloon would ascend to a height exceed-
ing 10.000 ft., the ascent ought to be made (if in England)
from some place in the Midland Counties, and if on the
Continent at. some s.lpudobttehineprstlohip:
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The Fraser farm, at Kildonan, near Winnipeg,
bought a short time ago for 19,000 dols., was sold again
within a week at an advance of 13,000 dols.
The Queen has sent a donation of ,50 guineas to-
wards the fund which is being raised in Paris for the sufferers
by the late fire at Vienna. Lord Lyons has also contributed
500 francs to the same object.
A past generation stage celebrity died last week at
Berlin,' in the person of the wife of the great ballet master,
Taglioni, herself once a famous opera dancer.
The number of passengers booked from the London
stations of the South-Eastern Railway on the three
Christmas holidays, Dec. 24 to 26, was :—To Grernwich,
2,599; to Gravesend, 1,448; to the seaside, 1,994 ; to other
stations, 52,556—t0ta1, 58,597, being 24,129 on Saturday,
13,402 on Sunday, and 24,066 on Monday.
A panic, fortunately unattended with any disastrous
results, occurred at the Nimes Theatre last Saturday. Some
gas that was escaping suddenly ignited, but it was promptly
cut off, the house being at the same time plunged in dark-
The audience, seriotply alarmed, hurried away, but
order was soon restored on an explanation being given of the
true character of the accident.
A Vienna telegram says that the rich Greek banker,
Syngros, has contributed another 100,000 f, for the foundation
of a National Archreological Museum at Olympia, where the
relics of antiquity recently discovered, are to be exhibited.
"Snap-finger to Finger-snap.—My old signals
before Little Dorrit, etc. Can we not write or arrange to
I meet. Wi ite to old address or thus in Saturday's Times.
Love unzhanged."--Advertisement in fhe Times.
Post-offiae Savings Banks' which have proved such
a meets, in England, are to be started throughout Franee
with the New Year, accounts being limited to a maximum of
, e.SO, and interest being allowed at the rate of 3 per cent.
On Monday postal telegraphic communication with
the Scilly Islands was restored after nearly six months'
interruption.
Dr. Carver and Mr. Gordon shot off another mate
for £2OO at Hendon on the 22nd, the conditions again being
that. the former wig to stand at 34 yards' rise, and Mr.
Gordon, restricted to the use of one hand, 10 yards nearer
the traps. The latter woe by one bird, his score b leg 68
out of 100.
During the ten months ending 31st October
5.404,200 yards of woollen goods were imported into Canada
from Great Britain, as against 3,862,400 in 1880. Cotton
goods also show a large increase during the same period, the
number of yards imported being 45,064,000 in 1881, as against
35,912,700 in 1880.
In February next a sportsman's exhibition will be
held in the Agricultural-hall, London, comprising every
requisite in connection with coaching anl driving, hunting
and riding, shooting, racing coursing, yachting and
aquatics, fishing, fencing, cricket, athletics, lawn-tennis,
bicycling, tricycling, archery, and billiards.
In Santander, Columbia, in the northern porti.n
of South America, for the collection of cinchona barks
containing quinine to about 2 per cent., some 1,700 men are
being employed, who are reported to be gathering some
400,0001 b. of dry bark a month, chiefly for consignments to
be shipped direct to the port of London.
In April next there will be held at Budapest
(Hungary), under the auspices of the Roy al Hungarian Board
of Agriculture, a show and market of cattle and sheep; when
premiums will be awarded for the best specimens.
Lord Bolton, who is a large tithe owner in North
Hants, has just returned 10 per cent. to the tithe payers on
his estates. He has also remitted 10 per cent, to his tenants
on the past half year's rentals.
It is calculated that there are at present in the
magazines of Odessa a million and a half quarters of grain
of all kinds ready for exportation, and another million and
a half at the other ports of the Black Sea and those of the
Sea of Azoff, the whole valued at not less than 30,000,000
roubles, yet business is not so brisk as it should be, in con-
sequence of the low prices offered in England and France.
The Budget of the Metropolitan Board of Works
shows that the estimated total expenditure for next year is
one million three hundred and eleven thousand pounds To
meet this charge a rate of 6e24d. in the pound will be re-
quired, this being an increase on the rate of last year, which
was 5139 d.
From Vienna it is announced that the Emperor has
resolved on perpetuating his sympathy with the sad fate of
those burned in the Ring Theatre by the erection of a
memorial chapel at the scene of the catastrophe, in which a
requiem mass will be celebrated every year.
There were 64 British and foreign actual wrecks, of
which 36 were British (four being British steamers and two
foreign steamers), reported daring the past week, making a
total of 1,979 for the present year, or an increase of 332 as
compared with the corresponding period of last year. The
increase on the week iias 24. The approximate value of
property lost was £8,000,000, including British £5,000,000.
A strange case of disputed inheritance is being tried
at Marseilles. A husband and wife out boating were
drowned, and as the heirs of both sides of the family claim
the property, it is necessary to decide which of the two
died first, seeing that they both fell into the water simul-
taneously. The wife sank immediately, and the husband
struggled, but one doctor maintains that the lady lived the
longer, as she must necessarily have remained some time
under water in a state of syncope before life became ex-
tinct.

A fire broke out early on Sunday morning in a grain
warehouse belonging to the Loudon and North-Western
Railway Company at Rochdale. The damage is estimated at
from a hundred to a hundred and fifty thousand pounds.
It is stated by the Paris Sicle that the King and
Queen of Holland will next month spend a week in Paris,
and will then visit London, in order to be present at the
marriage of Prince Leopold with the Princess Helen of
Waldeck, who is a sister of the Queen.
The latest fashionable gatherings in New York are
called " Horse hops." Some leading society lady engages
the ring and horses for the evening, and then invites twenty-
five or fifty of her friends to be present. Two or three hours
are spent in cantering, galloping, and dancing quadrilles on
horseback, and then the guests adjourn to the house of their
hostess for an elegant supper.
On Tuesday it was reported that all the bodies,
except one, of the men who lost their lives its the Abram
Colliery last week had been recovered. One more death
occurred on Sunday evening, which brings up the total loss
of life to forty-eight.
The Rev. Leonard Bacon, an eminent Congrega-
tionalist clergyman, died at Newhaven, Connecticut, on
Saturday, aged eighty.
A conspiracy has been discovered at the Portsea
Convict Prison. Four or five convicts had provided them-
selves with clamps and other implements with the view; )
escape, and one or them had nianufectured a coat arid cap for
the purpose of disguise. One of the convicts, however, gave
Information to the authorities, aud a search was made in the
mattresses of the suspected men, where the tools and other
articles were found.
A committee has been formed in Itine,hruck, in the
Ty re), for collecting contributions to erect a monumerst on
the led l Mountain in remembrance of the glorious haqles
fought there in 1809 by the Terole se here, Andreas Tidier.
The Austreelluegar iall C usul•Gener 1, li, Q .eeri Victoria.
street, London, desires to bring this ei the attention of the
British public, believing that there an, in this c 'entry many
generous men, who feel warm sympathy for the Tyrolese
patriots in their struggles and sacrifices for the sake of
freedom and independence.
The British barque Earl Dalhowi,, chartered by
Mr. A. Hot! stung, m
ung, of London, the Comissiouer of Emigra-
tion or the Hawaiian Kingdom, sailed on the 3rd inst. from
St. Michael's, Azores, with 322 emigrants for Honolulu. This
is the fifth vessel despatched by the above-palmed gentleman
for the same destination, the others being the Ravens,:rai.g,
with 419 persons, the Hightlyer, with 328, the Suffolk, with
469, the Highjl per (second voyage), with 339, making in all
1,877 who have been forwarded to the Hawaiian Kingdom.
Captain Douglas Galton met with an unfortunate
accident on Friday evening in last week at the Victoria
Station of the London, Chatham. and Dover Railway He
was about to start for the south of France, and was walking
down the Continental platform, parallel to which runs it
siding. There WAS not sufficient light to enable Min to a, t..
the edg3 of the platform, and he fell on to the rails of the
siding, breaking his leg and bruising his back.
Speaking at Bristol Lord Carlingford reit., Led that
he could not imagine why it should be taken r, r granted
that every farmer or every ferni.-eb ori should iv cu,,siderrd
Tory. It was an anachronism t. ,ay that the fanners e
necessarily the enemies of the Liberal tar y r tint the
, farmers should suppose that reform nreaLt revolution) or ine
provement destruction.
A new solar electric lamp has been adepted upon
the Northern Railway in France. It is placed in front of
the engine in lieu of the ordinary oil-lamp. The current is
produced by a machine workel by the engine itself. The
light is said to be very successful, arid by its aid trains may
be seen approaching at a much greater distance than was
previously the case.
The Bishop of Manchester has forwarded £2O "as a
donation to the relief fund on behalf of the poor people who
have suffered by the terrible catastrophe of last week in one
of the pits of the Abram Coal Company at Wigan." Bo far
as it has been at present ascertained, the 48 deaths which
have occurred in connection with the disaster have placed
25 widows and 78 children upon the funds of the society.
Intelligence was received in York on Monday
morning of the death, at Madeira, of Viscount Helmsley,
M.P., the eldest son of the Earl of Feversham, of Duncombe
Park, Yorkshire. Bit Lordship and his brother, the Hon.
James H. Duncombe, hail stopped there on their way to
South Africa, on the ground of the illness of both of them.
A vacancy is thus caused in the Parliamentary represents-
tion of the North Riding.
On Tuesday the Mayor of Cork, accompanied by a
large number of citizens, met Captain Brown and the officers
and crew of the Cork steamer &Pupa, who on the 20th
October last saved several lives from the wreck of the Clan
Macduff, in the Irish Channel. The Mayor presented the
Captain with an artistically illuminated address, a medal
from the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, and a
purse of sovereigns, and the officers and crew with substan-
tial sums of money, in recognition of their gallant services.
At Cardiff, on Sunday, Mrs. Mitchell, a widow, of
independent means, was filling a benzoline lamp with oil,
when she incautiously lighted a inciter match to ascertain
whether the lamp was full. The gas from the 'di caught
fire, and in her efforts to extinguish the flames, she upset a
bottle containing more oil, portions of which covered her
dress, which almost instantaneously became a mass of
flames. She was alone, and it was therefore some few
minutes before her screams brought assistance. She was
frightfully burnt about the head and body, and died soon
after being admitted into the infirmary.
Franz Schaffner, aged twenty-one years, an elec-
trician in the service of Mr. Edison, died at No. 320, East
Fifth-street. New York, on the 11th inst., from haart
disease. His brother, his only relative in America, wished
to have the body cremated, and sent the undertaker es the
office otthe Board of Health for instructions. He was referred
for information as to the only crematory at Washington, Pa,
to the agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad. After an inter-
view with the railroad agent the brother gave up the idea of
cremation. Franz Schaffner was a favourite EM' I and his
brother wished to have the body cremated to send the ashes
to his parents.
In London, on Tuesday night, an alarm of fire was
raised outside the Elephaut and Castle Theatre, New Kent'
road, and in a short space of time several engines wea r. on
the spot. It was found that the heat of the gas in the stir
light at the entrance to the theatre had ignited some wood
work behind, but the promptitude with which the alarm
was given prevented the outbreak from proving serious.
The audience had not the slightest intimation of their
danger until it was over.
Although a steady increase of wool imports is
observable from the Australasian Colonies, the profits
therefrom are decreasing. In the eleven months ending
Nov. 30, 1881, the imports amounted to 324,760,729 cwt, as
compared with 291,909,454 cwt. in the corresponding eleven
months in 1880.
The village of Twyford, about six miles from
Reading, has been thrown into a state of great excitement
and consternation by an accident, terminating in one case
fatally, to two men in the employ of Mr. Hollis, of Borough
Marsh Farm. They were named Dixon and Smith, and the
latter expected his daughter home by the 3.59 train to
spend the Christmas holidays, Dixon and Smith accordingly
started off in a horse and cart to meet her, but before they
got far from home they lost the road in consequence of the
great floods and found themselves in the stream of the
Weldon. Dixon was drowned, but Smith was rescued some
time after in a most exhausted contlition. The horse was
also drowned, and the cart WAS swept away. An active
search was instituted for Dixon's body, hut on account of
the flooded condition of the land it was not found.
In London on Friday in last week at the Islington
Coroner's Court, Dr. Dandford Thomas held an inquest on
the body of Henry Perry, 19 years of age. The deceased,
who suffered from au ulceration under the bed of the
toenail, went to the Great Northern Hospital with a view to
being cured. As it was necessary to remove the nail—a
most painful operation—an ounce of chloroform and ether
oombuied was administered to him prior to the operation. Ho
was under the influence of the aniesthetic about ten minutes,
during which time the nail was removed. After the opera-
tion he died. Dr. A. W. Wherry stated that only two
patients in the hospital in the course of 25 years had died
under the influence of anaesthetics ; and the coroner re-
marked that generally only one in every 6,000 thus treated
died.
The, jury returned a verdict of "Death from mis-
adventure.


I vicVm f yert'hful hrprn.,
REMEDYFREEI
• dence caw-slug Premature Decay
Nervous Debility. Lost Manhood, etc , having tried in
vain every kilown remedy h3A discovere3 a simple self
enrs, which he st'Al nd Fftk.F. to his fellow-artferers
Addie;ii J. FT. ItKEVES, ESQ , 43 Chatham St., New
York City, U.S. A.

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b,ught, oh., aud czehanzed. likewile, property of
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