The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-02-20 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS

Jearge Saunders, fisherman, was hanged at Tp,wich
on Tuesday morning for the murder of his wife at
Lowestoft on Christimas•eve•

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The "City Press" states that the Corporation of
London is about to make arrangements for a public
reception of the notabilities who will visit London in
connection with the forthcoming Indian and Colonial
Exhibition.
In the Italian Chamber on Saturday Signor Orsini
asked the opinion of the Government as to the possi.
bility of holding an International Exhibition at Home.
Signor Grimaldi, Minister of Agriculture, in reply,
stated that he thought a suitable opportunity would
be afforded on the occasion of the inauguration of the
monument to King Victor Emanuel, but the Govern-
ment could make no definite announcement on the
subject at present.
The first census of carrier pigeons in Paris has been
taken. The average number in each arrondisement in
the course of the year 1885 ranged from 300 to 400. A
great number that were let out a considerable distance
from Paris settled in the provinces. Most of those
liberated in the eastern departments were never heard
of after, and are supposed to have been killed.
In the Lower House of the Prussian Diet, on
Saturday, Herr Von Koeller was elected First Presi-
dent by 314 votes against 2, 27 of the voting papers
being blank; Dr. Vol Heereman.Zuydwyk, First Vice.
President, by 218 against 4 split votes, there being also
118 blanks; and Harr Von Benda, Second Vice..
President, with 276 votes, the urn containing besides
three split votes and 32 blanks. The persons elected
notified the acceptance of their respective posts,
after thanking the members for the honour conferred
upon them.
The result of the polling at Newcastle was—Mr.
John Morley (L), 11,110; Mr. 0. F. Hammond (0),
8449.

On Tuesday a prize fight lasting forty minutes took
place in the Forest of St. Germain between two Eng-
lish pugilists. A Paris correspondent believes that the
Press will call upon the Minister of the Interior to
prevent this kind of sport from being acclimatised in
France.
It is now stated that the projected Universal Exhi.
bition in Paris in 1889 will be abandoned or postponed
in consequence of the opposition of foreign manu-
facturers.
Forty miles of extension of the Manitoba and South-
Western Colonisation Railway from Carman to Holland
were opened for traffic on Tuesday.
Intelligence from the island of Bonaventure, on the
coast of Lower Canada, states that 200 French Cana-
dians have made a raid upon the shops at Paspebiac,
seizing flour and other articles. It is added that
further disturbances are probable.
The salmon net fishings on the Tweed were opened on
Monday morning, much to the satisfaction of some 350
men, who will be employed till September. The river
was swollen, but consolation for this was afferded by
the fact that no fish were landed in a diseased con-
dition.
A French provincial journalist named Laplante has
just been condemned to seven years' imprisonment by
the Rouen Assize Court for the murder of a woman of
loose character. The defence had seemed to prove that
death was due to cerebral congestion, and the verdict
nod sentence was received with hisses.
Mr. Gladstone has written to Lord Brabazon sym-
pathising with the object of the National Association
for Promoting State-directed Colonisation, but states
that he cannot receive a deputation from the Associa-
tion.
A boy named William Dyer, while walking in a wood

Mr. Cyril Flower, a junior Lord of the Treasury, has
been re-elected unopposed for the Luton Division of
Bedfordshire.

at iligligate on Monday m"Orning, discovered the body
of a woman lying in a hazel bush. The lad at once
gave information to the police, who conveyed the body

The result of the polling at Grimsby, caused by the
acceptance of office by Mr. Heneage, was—Mr.
Heneage (L), 3390; Colonel Campbell Walker (0),
2330. _ _

to the Hornsey mortuary to await identification and an
inquest. A white handled table knife was lying close
to deceased, and her throat was cut in two places.
Rome was on Monday struggling with difficulties
_ .

-Sir; Michael Hicks-Beach has withdrawn the pro-
cedure resolutions of which he gave notice from the
order-book of the House of Commons.
Admiral Sir William Hewett has been appointed to
the command of the Channel Fleet.
The barque Kral Jemika has been totally wrecked
off the coast of New Jersey. Eleven men were drowned,
including three of the lifeboat crew, who were going to
the assistance of the vessel. The master and five of the
vessel's crew were saved.
The Consistory, which was to have been held next
March at Rome, has been postponed until June. The
majority of the Pope's advisers cqnsider the conces-
sions made by Prince Bismarck in the Ecclesiastical
scheme which he has submitted to his Holiness to be
insufficient. _ .

arging from a strike of the -cidmren. Certain new
regulations were to come into force on that day, and
the men replied by staying at home, one and all.
An important case under the Lotteries Act was
flecided at Leeds Police-court on Monday Elias
Sutcliffe, local manager for Messrs. Lewis, the Man-
chester firm of universal providers, being fined 50s. or a
month's imprisonment, for selling half-pound packets
of tea some of which contained tickets of the value of
a shilling. The notice announcing this was headed
"500 shillings given away," and set forth that a prize
of a shilling was contained in every three packets. The
Stipendiary said the law gave him no discretion but to
deal with the defendant as a rogue and a vagabond.
Mr. Charles Hammersley has again invited the
Oxford crew to be his guests at Abney House, Bourne
. .

Mrs. Walsh, of Ballykett, near Billrush, has reported
to the police the discovery of some explosive packages
near her house. The lady holds a farm from which a
man and his niece were evicted by her over twelve
months ago, and notice wa afterwards posted boy-
cotting Mrs. Walsh, who refuses to restore the evicted
parties
At il,he little Russian port of Taganrog recently
some thousand fishermen, with their horses and carts,
were carried out to sea on the ice, which suddenly
became detached from the shore. Some were saved

End, during their week's training in Spade Oak Reach,
previously to visiting Putney. The crew are expected
to arrive on the 15th of March.
Parisians awoke on Monday morning (a correspondent
writes) to find that the statue of Alexander Dumas the
elde r,which adorn s the Place Malesherbes, had,during the
night, been painted thickly over with a black substance.
Fortunately, this work of art is of bronze, and it is
hoped that a thorough cleansinc may remove the mis-
chief. A similar piece of vandalism was practised on
one of the groups which ornament the fascade of the

next day, but numbers perished.
The court-martial at Portsmouth has adjudged
Viscount Dursley to lose one year's seniority and to be
severely reprimanded, and Rogers Morris to be dis--
missed from the service, for their disorderly conduct
as sub-lieutenants.
At Doon, near Draporstown' during some wedding
festivities, pistols were being fired in honour of the
marriage, when one of the weapons exploded and shot
off a gentleman's thumb. A young lady had a narrow
escape from being killed, and the alarm caused several
other ladies to swoon.

Opera some 17 years ago, and the material, which was
of marble, was badly injured by the corrosive liquid
employed.
The " Main " publishes a statement, evidently from
an official source, denying the report that Fran e is
intriguing at Cario to defeat the mission of Sir Henry
Wolff.
The death is announced of Lieutenant-General Von
Colomb, a German officer, who did distinguished service
in the chief battles of 1866 and 1870. In 1876 he
published his reminiscences of the French war in the
shape of leaves from his diary, while at the same time
. . .

A coal dealer named Day, resident in Leek, has just
received information from the Court of Chancery that
his claim to the sum of £46,000 is fully admitted. The
money originally belonged to an uncle, who was an
officer in the East India Company's service, and has
more than doubled itself during the long time it has
laid in Court. The brother, who is a country post-
master, and the sister, a poor widow, share the wind-
fall.

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he put forth an edition of the letters written between
1813 and 1815 by Blucher, whose nephew he was.
The Queen, accompanied by Prince and Princess
Henry of Battenberg, and attended by the members of
the Court, arrived at Windsor about two o'clock on
Tuesday afternoon from Osborne, having, on landing at
Gosport, travelled by special train over the South.
Western and Great Western Railways. The Royal
party, whose arrival was witnessed. by a number of

The Rey. George Lamb, who two years ago was the
president of the Primitive Methodist Conference, died
on Saturday at his residence in Hull somewhat
suddenly. The deceased, a native of Hull, was 77 years
of age. He had been in the Primitive Methodist
Ministry for a period of 55 years.
The Fairfield Shipbuilding Company, Govan, have
secured the contract to build for the Orient Company
a large ocean liner, 6000 tone, with triple expansion
engines, 8000 horse-power. Fifteen hundred men will
receivsi work at the new vessel.
A bomber of Austrian and German financiers
recently arrived in Brussels to consult on the subect
of the intended issue, in various countries, of a loan of
100,000,000 fr., for the use of the Congo State, in bonds
bearing no interest, but giving the chance of large
premiums at periodicsl drawings, which scheme simply
means a lottery.
At a meeting of the Hertfordshire Chamber of Agri-
culture at Hertford on Saturday, a special committee,
composed of both landlords and tenants, was appointed
to investigate the cause and extent of the present agri-
cultural depression in Hertfordshire, and report
thereon, with recommendations as to a practical and
prompt remedy. Among the remedies suggested were
a substantial reduction of rent and a thorough revision
of local burdens, but the suggestion which met with
most favour was a return to protection, which, several
speakers asserted, was the only remedy that could ease
the British farmer.
Dr. Payne of Clifden, co. Galway, died suddenly at
Clifden Castle, the seat of Mr. Eyre, on Saturday after-
noon. The deceased, who was 75 years of age, was
leaving the residence at the time of the sad occurrence,
which is supposed to have been caused by heart
disease. Dr. Payne was medical officer of the Clifden
Union, and was greatly respected by all classes of the
community.
News from Monte Carlo announces the suicide there
of a merchant and his wife, owing to their losses at the
gambling-table. The lady drowned herself, and the
husband on learning the news of his wife's death blew
out his brains.
At Posen the responsible editor of the " Kuryer
Poznanski" was sentenced to six months' imprisonment
for having libelled Prince Bismarck and the Prussian
Ministry in an article on the expulsion of the Poles.
The Chancellor's chief measures for Germanising Prus-
sian Poland are now before the Diet; but he has always
declared that repression must go handsin-hand with
reform, and this sentence (the Berlin correspondent of
the " Times" remarks) is a practical illustration of his
theory.
The "United service Gazette" says "The supply
to the British army is in some measure responsible for
the causes of depression in trade and agriculture. For
instance, instead of English acts being given to cavalry
horses, desiccated food, composed chiefly of foreign
grain, Egyptian lentils, peas, and locust beans is sup-
plied. In lieu of English straw, German moss-litter is
provided. British bayonets are made of German steel;
some are found quite unserviceable and defective, while
others double up when the authorised test is applied.
Again, the purchase of Hungarian horses as remounts
deteriorates the breed of the English half-bred. Here
we have the last straw that breaks the British farmer's
back."
Mr. Patrick Egan has contributed to the funds of the
Irish National League the sum of 3000 dollars, voted
him by the League as a year's compensation.
At the Central Criminal Court on Saturday, two
gentlemen tendered themselves as sureties of £l5O
each for the appearance of Sidney Herbert Cronmire,
otherwise Herbert Harrison next sessions, in whose
case a point of law has been reserved. On cross-
examination, however, both admitted that the friends
of the prisoner had promised to indemnify t'aem in case
the prisoner did not appear, and the Common Sergeant
declined to accept them.
The Manor Farm at Ilkeston comprising about 200
acres of arable and pasture land, and the property of
the Duke of Rutland, is being divided into small
allotments to suit the requirements of labourers and
others.
A banquet was given at the Mansion House by the
Lord Mayor on Saturday to the Duke of Edinburgh,
Master, and the Elder Brethren of the Trinity House,
and a distinguished company who had also been
invited. Among the speakers were the Lord Mayor'
the Duke of Cambridge, the Duke of Edinburgh, Earl
Granville, and the Marquis of Salisbury.
In the Queen's Bench Division on Saturday the
hearing of the action brought by Mr. Fairbank, a rails
way contractor, to recover £18,400 from five directors
of the Charnwood Forest Railway, Leicestershire, was
completed. Certificates of debenture stock to the
nominal value of the claim had been issued to the
plaintiff in part payment of moneys due to him under
his contract with the company to make the line, and
had been declared invalid by reason of the company
having exceeded their borrowing powers. Judgment
was Oven for the plaintiff for the amount in dispute,
without interest.

spectators, drove at once to the Castle.
The judges in the St. Andrews elz.ction petition gave
their decision in Edinburgh, on Tuesday, to the effect
that by a majority of two votes Sir Robert Anstrutlaer
has been elected member c f Parliament for St. Andrews
Burghs.
At Winchester Assizes, on Tuesday, Vivian Arthur
Webber, an artist, described as a gentleinae, who
pleaded guilty before Mr. Justice Stephen to
the charge of uttering a false and malicious libel on
some ladies named Easty, at Ryde, was called up for
sentence. His lordship said he had read the entire
history of the case, which dated back to August, 18 '4,
in which month gross imputations were made en the
lady and her daughter. The prisoner was allowed on
that occasion to escape from punishment by a most
abject apology; but afterwards the prisoner renewed
the libels in a grosser form in a local newspaper. The
prisoner was a wilful and malicious liar, and, regretting
that he could not inflict hard labour, Mr. Justice
Stephen sentenced him to four months' imprisonment
with every form of indignity such as thieves and rogues
suffered, to pay a fine of £l5O, and to give sureties for
£3OO to keep the peace for five years.
A novel phase of agricultural depression is the
migration of a number of Cumberland farmers to
Warwickshire, where good land can be rented for £1
per acre. Many of the farmers have taken witk, them
their stock, servants, and implements, the charge of
the railway company per family being about £3O. A.
long special train of farmers and their families left
Penrith for the midlands a day or two ago.
According to a return issued on Tuesday rnea Ling,
the Irish Land Commission had received up to th 31st
of August last 122,784 applications to have fair rents
fixed in court, and these rents were fixed in 85,129
cares. Twenty-three thousand eight hundred and
thirty-two applications were dismissed or struck out,
and 10,471 applications were withdrawn. In addition
to the foregoing cases, all of which were disposed of in
court, 84,355 agreements fixing fair rents were made
out of court. During the same period there were
20,149 appeals lodged against the fair rent fixed by the
court, of which 11,075 have been disposed of.
Prince Krapotkine, the Nihilist, who was lately
liberated from prison, is about to leave Paris to settle
in England.
Further moonlight raiding is reported from Odorney,
county Kerry. The houses of three farmers named
Woods, Watson and Costello were entered by a party
numbering about twenty, armed and dieguised. The
object of the raiding was to obtain arms. No vi .1 epee
was resorted to, and no allusion was made by any of
the men to the payment of rent. From Woods a re-
volver was taken, and a gun from each of the others.
At Costello's house two shots were fired into the
kitchen, and at Wood's one shot was discharged. A.
similar attack was made on Costello's house last Sep-
tember, and his daughter was then subjected to violence
and her hair cut off.
The Belgian army numbers now, when mobilised,
100,000 men. For many years past, however, the
necessity of an army reserve of 30,090 men has been
recognised. The late Ministry had intended to compose
this reserve of the young men liberated from military
service either by chance or by the purchase of substi-
tutes. The present Ministry has proposed to form this
reserve from the old soldiers who are no longer obliged
to serve in the active army of 100,000 men, and this
proposal the Chamber has adopted by 70 against 52
voices. The Opposition combated the proposal ener-
getically as throwing the burden of the military defence
of the country altogether on the poorer classes.
On Monday afternoon an important meeting of the
executive of the Yorkshire Miners' Association was
held at Barnsley. Mr. Cowes, presided, and Mr. Pickard,
M.P., and other officials attended. It was reported that
the 10 months' strike at Foystone Colliery, near
Pontefract, had been arranged, and a portion of the
men had resumed work that morning. The Labour
Bureau motion was discussed, when it was resolved—
" That each branch in such division use its influence to
get the member for each division to be in his place in
the House of Commons when the Labour Bureau motion
be brought before the House on Match 2 by Ur.
Bradlaugha'
An inquest was held at Ely on Monday evening on
the body of Edward Gray Jarvis, aged 15 years, a pupil
of the Cathedral Grammar School. The deceased was
in the school hospital, suffering from ulcerated throat.
He was attended by Annie Ewins, a trained nurse, who
had used carbolic acid as a disinfectant, and put some
into an empty medicine bottle. She gave the deceased
a dose by mistake. Death resulted in about two hours,
notwithstanding that medical aid was at once rendered.
The jury returned a verdict of "Death by misadven-
ture."
An order has been issued which points ont to
presidents of court-martial that in eases where soldiers
have claimed to be tiied, instead of submitting to the
awards of their commanding officers, the claim of the
soldier is not, except under very special circumstances,
a reason for awarding a severer punishment than the
commanding officer could have awarded; also that the

Forty British and foreign shipwrecks were reported , cases mist be rare in which it is proper to award a more
during the past week, eight being steamers, making the severe punishment.
total for the present year 210. Fourteen were lost off The Home Office authorities have declined to sanction
the British coasts. Four abandoned at see,, seven sunk ' the bye law placing the control of all except military
by collision, two missing, two foundered, and two , processions in the hands of the Police Committee,
foreign vessels were burnt. The number of British- which has been submitted by the Tunbridge Wells
,
owned vessels was fifteen, and about fifty lives were Local Board. The new by elaw, it may be stated, was ap-
lost.
4; plied for in order to prevent a repetition of the disorderly
11r. Nash, who was for many years the station super-
proceedings arising out of the rival processions of the
intendent at Redifill Junction (South-Eastern Railway), Salvation and Skeleton Armies, which took place a week
was on Saturday presented with a testimonial con- or two ago.
sisting of a gold watch and chain, an illuminated album , The death is announced from Cork of Mr. Theobald
containing an address and list of subscribers, and a Butler, of Ballyline House, county Clare, who,
cheque of £550, as a mark of the estimation in which succeeding to an estate worth £lOOO a year on the
be was held by the passengers and local residents. The death of his father, Lieutenant-Colonel Butler, D. 1.,
presentation was made quite privately, by Lord caused a flutter in Clare society by marrying the
Monson in the presence of Mr. W. B. Waterlow, Mr. daughter of his herdsman a few years since, changing
Myles Fenton (general manager), and Mr. John Shaw his faith from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism at
(secretary to the South-Eastern Railway Company), the same time. Mr. Butler, who was in his 30th year,
members of the committee. died intestate, leaving two daughters.
There was a large and representative audience on Athanaae Fouche, Due d'Otrante the third son of
Atli/day night at the opening of the theatre which has the too famous Minister of Police under Napoleon and
just been erected in Oxford. The building seats about Louis XVIII., has died at St. Germain. He held a post
one thousand. The inaugural performance was given in the Swedish Court, and his son, who succeeds to the
by the University Amateur Dramatic Society, who dukedom, is chief equerry to King Oscar.
played "Twelfth Night " with great success. Further news from Zululand, though conflicting,
At the meeting of the Royal Botanic Society on serves to show that Umnyamana and the Zulu leaders
Saturday some samples of paper made from the fibre of object to ratify the treaty and recognise the Boer
the plaintain and banana by Mr. F. S. Reisenberger's boundary lines. Some traders have been expelled by
process were on the table. Professor Bentley made a the Boers, who will probably allege political inter-
few remarks upon the capabilities of the fibre for ference re Justification.
paper making, if net for textile purposes. The fibre A fortnight ago a man vas charged at one of the
had been brought forward some 25 years ago, but, metropolitan police-courts with being in possession of
owing to difficulties of collection and transport, nothing forged Bank of England notes. The case was brought
came of it. He was glad to see it come to the front as a test case by the police to see if such possession was
again at the present time. punishable by law. The man was remanded for the
A boy 10 years of age, brought up at the Marylebone expected interference of the Bank authorities, and he
Police-court on Saturday on a charge of begging, was allowed to go out on bail, for which purpose he had
stated that he rarely teok less than four shillings in a deposited the sum'of £25 at the clerk's office. On his
day, and sometimes obtained 10 shillings on a Sunday, reappearance, the Bank deciding to take no action, the
and that his Parents thrashed him if he did not take police were prepared to withdraw the charge, and the
home three or four shillings each day. man was discharged without further evidence. The
An American newspaper has been making inquiries, £25 cannot, it seems, under the circumstances, be
and has published statements to the effect that drilling returned to him, as the police know of no provision in
and the use of arms are constantly being practised law by which a surety taken in cash can be redeemed
secretly, by large numbers of men, in New York ; also on a discharge. The effect is, practically, that the
that the Revolutionary Party recently suceibeded in unfortunate owner of some toy "bank notes" has paid
stealiag and secretiog sl ton of dynamite, I g 25 for his ituonsiderate assumption of paper wealtjh