The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-31 00:00:00

EMERY AT THE CIVIL SINTION 00-OPKRATIVE STOZES.

George APliewell, acoiLiter-manai the Civil Service
Co-operative Storm, 710. 28, Haymarket, was charged
before Mr. Tyrwhitt with stealing some biscuits and a pot
of potted ham, the property of the Civil Service Co-opera-
tive Company.
Mr. F. Pike, the secretary of the company, said that
on Saturday afternoon, his attention being called to the
prisoner, he asked him what he had in his pockets, and
took from them some biscuits. The prisoner gave up the
rest, admitting that he had taken them. After he had
appealed for merry, and stated that the biscuits were all
be had a pot of potted ham was given up by the
prisoner. Fur the protection of the men employed
the prisoner was then given into custody.
In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt,
Mr. Pile said the prisoner bad been in the employ of
the company about nine months.
The prisoner said they bad been taking stook, and he
had been drinking freely. He put the biscuits into his
pocket, but he did not remember putting the pot of ham
in. He hoped the magistrate would not convict him of
stealing the things, as it would ruin him, but make it a
caae of unlawful possession.
Mr. Tyrwhitt asked Mr. Pike whether the prisoner
would be diandased from his situation.
Mr. Pike said he would.
Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoner.

Tus CARMEN'S STRIKE.--CTILIS DAY).—Yerter-
day morning, and this morning, the night cabs were taken
oft the ranks at 2 o'clock, and in some cases before that
bout. Some pawns about to proceed to the country by
the early trains experienced delay in consequence ; but
it was only temporary, as a short search secured a four-
wheeler. The masters and drivers have complied to a
much greater extent with that portion of the resolution
at the Agricultural Hall on Friday, which referred
the of night cabs at 2 o'clock than with the
paragraph which interdicted plying fur hire before 11
o'clock in the morning. People about to travel by rail-
way were constantly arriving at the termini in vehicles of
the non-privileged clam.
StaCIDS OB A LADY.—An inquest was head
on Friday Let at the Blackburn Tavern, Durdham-down,
oa the body of Miss Selina Ann Noetboote, aged 45.
Prom the evidence it appeared that the deceased had been
recently lodging at 3, Hedal-terrace, Redland-perk,
Bristol. She had previously been confined several times
in Dr. Rogers's lunatic asylum, having been " peculiar
in her mind." On Wednesday morning • little after 7
o'clock, she was seen by Sarah blush, a servant at No. 1,
Redland-park-villas, sitting on the sill outside to the
top-storey bedroom window at No. 3. According to the
evidence of this witness, she slipped, and did not jump
down. The deceased taxi into the garden, a depth of 40
feet, and alighted upon a deal box, fracturing her skull.
She was tattled into the house, and medical aid was at
once summoned ; but the deceased never recovered Mi.
SCiOUI2IOI2, and died in about five hours. Mr. John
Boesiter, M.H.C.S., the doctor who was called in, stated
that he had known the deceased for 18 years. She was
suffering from insanity,: and the witness stated that he
had known her to have taken off all her clothes and walk
in the street. The jury returned a verdict of " Temporary
inisnity."
SINGULAR ACCIDENT AT DAWITRIL —An accident
of a singular character, and which very nearly termi-
nated fatally, occurred at the Dawlish stat:on on Satur-
day morning. A rope connected with the working of a
water-tank close to the station became loose, and as the
down goods train passed Dawlieh at 8.15 a.m., this rope
flapped against each of the trucks. A porter named
Crossing was standing on the steps of one of the trucks,
and the end of the rope wound itself several times around
his neck. Crossing was immediately precipitated off the
steps into the air, but fortunately he alighted on the plat-
form. The weight of his body seems to have unwound
the rope as he fell, and he escaped with a foot twisted
round at right angles to its proper position, an ancle put
nut of joint, and some severe marks made by the wind-
ings of the rope. The medical attendant says that had
Croesing's feet been detained by a thread when ho was
hurled off the step, a dislocated neck and instant death
must have ensued,

DRAM FROM LOCK-JAW.—On Thursday an in-
quest was held at Wortley, near Barnsley, on the body of
John Biker, aged 14, son of Mr. Kibler, grocor, of that
village. It appeared that a few days ago he, with several
other boys, VW at Bowbrook, jumping over some stack
"broils,' when one of them ran into his thigh and eau-ed
lock-jaw, from the effects of which he dit.d. A verdict to
the effect that the deceased met his death by accident was
"stunted.

RAILWAY QUARTS AYR PASSYSntrts.—A 00e-
respondent of the TitheP signing himself "An Old Railway
Guard," gives the following seinible caution to n-
gets ngainet ill-timed generosity:—" Having had many
years' experience aa a railway guard in charge of passen-
ger trains, I beg respectfully to make a few remarks upon
the dangerous practice of passengers asking guards to
drink at the various refreshment rooms when they are in
charge of trains. It has often come under my notice that
passengers with mistaken kindness ask the guard of their
train to drink with them. The temptation sometimes
being too great, he will first have a glass with one, and
then with another, and, of course, does not continue his
journey with a clear head to act in any emergency. I
have known it in many cases to be the cause of the guard
losing his situation, and sometimes hie life. I do not
make this statement as a total abstainer, but as • tem-
perate man."
AND Till TAlLORS.—Pre-
sident Johnson received delegates from the International.'
Tallow, Union Convention en the 12th of Avast at the
"White House. About 60 delegats were present. In ad-
dressing them the President said :—" We should not be
of our profession, whether tailors, shoemakers, or
blacksmiths, or of any profession in the mechanical line.
Labour should be elevated into an aristocracy, and it all
mechanics and labourers will pursue the nght course the
time will come when we will create an aristocracy of
labour. An aristocracy of labour would
.produce merit,
morals, 'Ulna. and intelligence. That to the kind of
a ' I am to favour of. It is not the pro-
fession of the man, but his associations that degrade
him. Let us endeavour to elevate ourselves, and
we elevate our professions. It is worth that makes
the man. Let us rely upon our own worth and
merit for semen. The most pleasant hours of my life
were those I spent in my tailor's shop. lam proud of it.
I was not only • mechanic, but had the reputation of
being a good one. Ido not wish to be facetious, but as
the,* has been a good deal said about the president being
a tailor I will only go back to the Scripture, which says
Adam was a tailor, and Mae the find to take a stitch or
make a suit of clothes, and surely, if Adam was a tailor, I
do not consider myself, as President, degraded to have
been one. I have only spoken in a friendly way, and I
thank all present for the compliment you have paid me. I
have thegratification of saying that, notwithstanding my
cal
early when I, too, worked as a tailor, I have not
become giddy or proud in the position I now hold es Pre-
sident. Once more I thank you, gentleman, for the honour
of this visit."—ltrie York Times.

Fnurr Anc,ENOLAND PIAMOHLYO MATCH.—The
Scot match of this sewn came off on Friday, under the
patronage of the Bingscote Agricultural Association. The
match was held on Colonel Kingsoote's farm, at Latter-
wood, and. the day being fine, a large company assembled
to witness the proceedings, including many of the aristo-
cracy of the neighbourhood. The champion prize was
won by Years. Ransome's man Barker, with one of their
celebrated plougFa, against seven competitors; whilst
the first price in the boys class was taken by one of
Colerel Rings, ote's own servants, with one of the same