The Warwickshire Herald. — 1887-10-27 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

BRUNNER, M.P.. has forwarded a cheque for £5O to the Countess of Aberdeen to be placed at the disposal of the committee for promoting the use of improved patterns by laceworkers in Ireland.  IN the week ending Oct. 22nd there were 253 bills of sale registered in England and Wales, an increase of 42 over those of the corresponding period last year; the failures gazetted number 79, showing a decrease of 24.—Compiled from Stubbs' Weekly Gazette. A TELEGRAM from New York states that President Cleveland has returned to Washington. During his three weeks' tour he travelled 4,500 miles, and was seen by between four and five millions of people. His re-election is conside.ed certain.  AT the adjourned inquest into the circumstances attending the death of a child found in a bubh in Battersea-park, London, the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against the mother, Kate Collyer, being of opinion that the child had died from exposure to cold. _  AN employe of the Great Eastern Railway COlll- named Charles Legg, of Hertford, met with a terribly sad end at Roydon. He was unloading a truck, when he jumped or fell out as the truck was in motion, and losing his footing rolled into the four-foot, the wheels cutting off a portion of his head, and scattering the poor fellow's brains in all direoLions, death being iustanteous.  AT the last meeting LTE the Newcastle-on-Tyne Guardians, it was reported that the sum of £4OO in bank notes had been discovered sewn up in the clothes of a pauper lunatic, aim had been removed from the workhouse to the asylum. The money was lodged in the bank in the name of the Guardians.  THE other evening a rough-looking man coolly walked into a shop in Cheapside, Lonthm, and, taking up a rather expensive cluck, walked out. He was caught by one of the shopmen. He made no attempt to escape, and stated that his object was merely to be taken to prison. JOSEPH MORLEY, the young blacksmith, was charged at the Stratford Petty Session on Saturday with the wilful murder of Martha Bodger, aged 24, a married woman, at Chigwell-row on the 11th inst. :the prisoner, who reserved his defence, was committed for trial.  Jr is stated ins Moscow telegram that the Czar has given an order to the Director of the Diplomatic Chancellery in his private Cabinet that an immediate solution of the Bulgarian crisis should be found. THE annual national exhibition and market of the brewers, malsters, distillers, mineral-water manufacturers, sine and spirit merchants, licensed victual!ers, and allied trades was opened at the Agricultural Hall, Londoq, on Monday, and has continued throughout the week.  AT Glasgow on Saturday two well-dressed betting men were charged with engaging in a fight in the street. The magistrate, who said he regarded the prisoners' conduct as disgraceful, sent them both to prison for 30 days without the option of a fine.  MACMAHON, the Belfast boatman who started from Bangor County Down, on the 6th inst to row round Bangor, in a small beat, has arrived safely at his journey's end. On lauding, he was enthusiastically cheered by several hundred people, who assembled to congratulate him on the successful accomplishment of his feat._ . _ _