The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-09-08
--LATEST LONDON GOSSIP.
Tho Trades Union Oonference-Charges
Against Lady Somerset.

oHAhst Lazy somerset.
LONDON, Sept. THE defeat of the
Healyise candidate st the parliamentary
election in the south division of Kerry
yesterday has embittered the strife in
side the Irish home rule party. Had
the Healyites been victorious in this
contest 1t is stated that Mr. Justin Nc
Oarthy would have resigned the Leaders
ship OF the party. Now, however, both
sides are in temper to fight to the
death.
The jubilation Of the McCarthyites
over their victory ia tempered by the
evident apsthy of the Irish people, as
shown by the smallness of the poll in
Kerry. The government are highly
pleased to observe the weakening of the
party, which has so greatly obstructed
Liquidation by internal dissensions.
The liberals themselves admit that The
| new parliament has opened most
auepiciously for the conservatives.
Bernard Shaw. the well-known So
cialist and novelist, who has been re-
porting the Cardiff Trades Union con-
terence for the Star, writes of the
msnner in which the American dele
gates we're ignored blythe leaders of the
congress, upon whose invitation the
Americana had come. Their reception,
MIR. Shaw says, compares very unfavor-
ably with the reception given Holmes
and Burns in America
I'm fact" says Mr.. Shaw, Two do not
do these things we'll. And even when
Thursdays formal reception came the
congress eat up solemnly with the air of
being In church, while the guests car.
ried OF the occasion much better than
the hosts The visitors must be con
summate actors, for / do not believe
that the human breast can be 80 deeply
moved by any moral event as they were
by the medals and demonstration"
While Lady Somerset has been en-
gagged in looking after habitual
drunkard, named Jane Cakebread, who
has been arrested for drunkenness more
than three hundred times, and whose
last sentence was remitted in view Of
Lady Somerses's promise to provide for
her, the ST. Pancras vestry has been
discussing Lady Henry Somerset's
property, The health committee had
recon mended the Immediate closing of
several OF her houses in Charlton street,
Somerstown, which were alleged to be
unit for human habitstion.
One membe of the board assorted
that Lady Henry was content to do
nothing for the betterment of the prop
erty as long as she received rent, but
that now she was willing to co operate
with the vessry because the expense
would devoIve upon the vestry. Another
member asserted that Lady Henry
Somerset WAS sincerely anxious to i'm
prove the condition OF the poor. After
considerable discussion the health COM
mittee recommendation was unani-
mously adopted.
a spirited correspondence has ap-
peared In the Times during the week on
the subject OF the alleged disastrous
effects of gambling in wheat and agricul.
ture Several letters charge that dealers
make fictitious contracts in LIVERPOOL
and telegraph them back after the
Liverpool market has closed, and then
these fictitious prices appear in the
newspapers OF the next morning and fix
the price which farmers are to derive
for their grain.
Richard Croker and family, of New
York. returned TO London from loves
toft last evening. Mr. Croker found
waiting him here o great pile of tele-
grams asking him for "tips" on the st.
Leger. Mr.. Croker says that he has
never had any idea of changing the
date of his sailing for America, as
stated. He and his family sail by the
steamship Columbia on Friday next.
He engaged passage ON board this boat
for this trip In June last. as was cabled
to The Associated Press at that time.
MIR. Croker has the captains room on
the voyage
While at Lowestoft this week, Mr..
Croker was visited by David Mcclure
and Congressman George Il. Mcclellan.
The latter. who sails for home to-day,
Is supposed to carry messages from Mr..
Croker to the Tsmmany chiefs. Mr.
Croker still refuses to discuss political
subjects, but there can be little doubt
that upon his arrival in New York hs
will come out openly for VIM, g. Whits
ney for the Democratic nomination for