The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1879-07-08 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

OLD BAR. ROW. ..7 The evidence in this case was of a very conflicting character, and the magistrates thought the justice of the case would be met by the parties being bound over in the usual way to keep the peace for six months.—Margaret Hawkins summoned Fanny Fury for assaulting her, and in this ease also both parties were bound over to keep the peace.  The Itondon Hospital Sunday fund now amounts to over £24,000.  The All-Ireland Challenge Shield has been won by the Dnhlin Shootint, Club.  , -Mr. Gladstone delivered a lecture on " Homer," on Saturday, to the students of Eton College. The Earl of Beaconsfield has consented to distribute the prizes at the Westminster Industrial Exhibition on Saturday.  A fire occurred on Saturday, rd the chemical w,rts of Mr. J. C. Major. 'Wolverhampton, doing damage t the extent of neatly £3,000. William Foster, secretary a the Croft Bank Spi•oama Company, Oldham, NViS on Saturd,iy committed for trial charged with embezzling over £3.0 iO.  An old woman named Lahy, living alone in a hovel at bkenhanagh, county Galway, has been found dead, with her throat cut. he had just sold a pig. The trial of Catherine Webster f Irthe Richmond murder was resumed on Saturday, when the policeofficers who arrested the prisoner, in Ireland, and othfr witnesses were examined.  The grand jury of the county of Meath haa awarded £2OO compensation, under the Peace Preservation Act, to the widow and daughters of Christopher Nugent, who was assassinated in that county last August. The Paris Official Journal of Friday published the text of a declaration agreed to by the British and French Governments for the settlement of salvage questions in the case of vessels wrecked on the coasts of France or England. • At Wolverhampton, James Owen and Alfred Rogers, aged twelve years, sons of colliers, whilst playing with a gun belonging to Owen's father, put a cap on the nipple, belie in the weapon to be unloaded. An explosion took place, the charge entering Rogers' head and killing him. The Queen on Saturday paid her promised visit to the Royal Agricultural Show at Kilburn, where she met with a most hearty reception. On the same day the Prince of Wales received. at Marlborough House a large number of Irish faimers who have come over to see the show. •  pr,in he Ir. lid  re. no iti. see de.  in it a Led Fag. ce for ind tnd  bn do. on  BARROW TOWN COUNOI!,.  The monthly meeting of the B-rrow Town ,docil was held yesterday afternoon, the Mayor •qr. Alderman Wadham) in the chair. There .re also present Alderman Smith, Alderman ;Idweil, Alderman Townson, Alderman Bak, ,;aerman Fell, and Councillors Theism, Hunter, oatly. lialder, Thompson, Warc.brough, Slade, %tieihwaite, Whittam, Waiting, Fish, Copeland, 61`ortson, Loxham, Bell, Comber, Brownrigg, terson, and Hartley. r° FINANCE AND ESTATI4 COMAtirrr.L. ,coulltS amounting to £16,102 7s. 10d., as detailed ,he inonthly statement, were passed and ordered 0' 3vment. The following are summaries of such lt,,Lita:—Finance, £3,851 ss. 3d. • health, £1,657 s')a.. highways and lighting, £1;213 3s. 4&; gas lto'ter, £8,654 4s Id.; cemetery, £925 128. 9d. ; 06,102 7s, 10d.; the receipts during the same been £11,537 15s. 7d.—llesolved, to accept P:ender of Mr. W. Ramsay for painting and paperwhitewashing and colouring the interior of six 's,,in Stafford-street, and six houses in Lincoln:t; the amount for Stafford-street houses being ' pa., and for the other houses £9 15s. &l.—Reto allow time for payment of street expenses wormers of property mentioned in the proceedof the committee.—R.solved, that from tins date lc hawking licenses be issued under section 108 of , Lojil, Act of 1875, such licenses to continue for one Oar month from the elite of issue, and the price 1 023. 6d. each. ! Alderman Park moyed, and Mr. Ormandy I flied, the report of this Committee, which