The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1876-04-22 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

PAYERHANGINOI—The Cheapest Rouse in Town— Wansbrough-90, Duke-street. Show-Room—First floor. Satin papers, ls. Gold papers, Is. 6d.— Aorr.  —I res. olution has been passed at the Co-operatits Congress at Glasgow in favour of adopting special measures for pushing co-operation among -tirade unionists.  Damage to the amount of about £BOO haveilbeen occasioned by a fire on the premises of Messrs. Dunlop and til`Naughton, tailors, Jamaica-street, Glasgow. If you would be well with a great mind, leave him with a favourable impresaion of you; if with a little mind, leave him with a favourable opinion of himself.  An inquest has been held in Bristol upon the body of Mrs. Griths, widow of an army sufgeon. She was found hanging from the bedstead. Verdict, "Temporary insanity." An indiscreet man Is more hurtful than an illnatured one; for, as the latter will only attack his enemies and those he wishes ill to, the other injures indifferently both friends and foes. On Monday, at Bury, William Tasker, aged 21, a warehouseman out of employ, from Belfast, was committed for trial charged with an indecent assault upon Alice Duckworth, seven years of age. On Wednesday a demonstration of Liberals took place in Warrington. In the evening, a lifesize portrait of its president (Mr. John Gordon LP.) was presented to the Liberal Club.  There are hopes the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred for words, they should only be known through the sympathy of hearts. limes of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest one is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt from the darkest storm. Messrs. Moody and Sankey concluded their New York revival meetings on Wednesday night. The collections for the debts incurred and fez carrying on the movement have yielded a net sum of 126,000 dollars.  At a meeting of temperance delegates in London on Wednesday evening, it was resolved to hold a grand metropolitan demonstration in Hyde Park on Whit Monday, in support of Sir W. Lawson's Permissive Bill.  The Bristol magistrates, on Wednesday, fined Mr. Gullick, proprietor of a brewery, £lOO, for having removed 10 bushels of malt fiefere it had been guaged, and intimated that they should net recommend any remission. At Wednesday's ;meeting of the Water Committee of Liverpool, it was agreed that a visit ' should he paid to Windermere previous to the ! day fixed for the next discussion of the subject in the Town Council. The balloon race in London, on Monday, terminated in Captain Youens taking the first prize of £506 ; Messrs. Capell, as second, take the sum of £.,:03; while the third prize of £lOO was awarded to Madame Virginia. Intelligence was received at Middlesbrough on Wednesday, that the officer sent in pursuit of Close, the defaulting borough accountant, had succeeded in arresting him in Australia. His defalcations are said to be above £2,000.  Dr. S. S. Wesley, the celebrated composer, and organist of Gloucester Cathedral, died at his residence, Palace-yard, Gloucester, on Wednesday morning, lie was a grandson of Charles Wesley, brother to the founder of Methodism... At Dumfries, Bidley Elliott, from Newcastle-oiTyne, pleaded guilty to three charges of obtaining cows from farmers in Carlaverock, where he had been temporarily engaged picking hay. He was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment.  All the members of the newly-elected Beard of Guardians at Keighley, with the exception of two, are anti-vaccinators, and they have resolved at their meeting to instruct the vaccination offi, er to suspend all prosecutions for the present. A marble polisher, named John M'Cartney, was murderously assaulted by a woman named Mary Ann Stirling, at Dundee, on Saturday. It is alleged that the woman, with a hatchet, struck him on the forehead, inflicting a dangerous wound. Stirling has not yet been apprehended. At a meeting of the council of the Goole Chamber of Agriculture on Wednesday afternoon, it was stated that all the landlords of th 4 district had exempted their estates from the operation of the Agricultural Holdings Act, and that the act was, so tar as their district was concerned, a wise recommendation disregarded.  At Greenock, Captain Menzies, of the barque Chevalier, was fined £4O and costs for having gone to sea with his vessel in October last in defiance of a Board of Trade telegram, ordering that the vessel should be detained. Two Customs officers had been put on board the ship to detain her, but they were carr:ed off on a voyage to Pensacola.