The Staffordshire and Potteries Examiner. — 1880-11-13 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

LOVAT V.—.3.1r. Fisher, barrister, voids RD application for anew trial in tills case. whion WI a tried originally in July last, on the grounds that the defendant never contracted the debt nor was served wills a summons—The Judge granted the application. 13601.61( V. Hicrron.-101n this ease the plaintiff, who is a provision dealer at Barsieni, claimed from the de1...1-ac ac who is a farmer at Sproston, Cheshire, a 35., as damages for a breach of contract.—His Honout gave damages to the extent of 245. '"  WRICA v. Lomm.—ln this action Janes iloor, watchmaker, of Haulm, sought to mower from the defendant, William Lovett, a batty collier, living in Bucknalbroad, Hanley, the sum of £8 Gs. 6d., the rake If a watch. It appeared from plaintiffs case that defendant, through his wife, had obtained a watch which she took to her husband fee his approval, and brought XI towards the price of the watch which was afterwards worn and pledged by the defendant. For dm defence it wan urged that the husband was entirely iguwaat of the transaction until he received au order fro to-1 County , Coart.—The Judge said that es the watch was pledged arid the pledgu was still kept alive something ought to be done to enable the plaintiff' to get thg watch redeemed—Judgment for the defendact accordingly.  ' :inight, aged thirteen, an adopted child, is in cubbviy at Brighton, charged with stealing a large quantity of property of a varied character, ranging from a fur cloak, silk handkerchiefs, shawls, linen, waterproof articles, and boots, down to a large doll.  The London Gazette announces that Virgile Na; Member of Council of the Government of Mauritius, has been appointed ordinary member of second class of Knight Commanders of St. Michael and St. George for services in connection with Mauritius.  At Leeds Assizes, Alice Maud Mary Pickering. aged 19, a domestic servant at Scarborough, with found guilty of the murder of her child, and sentenced to Math. The child was four years old, and prisoner drowned it in a stream running throigh a Wood into the ma.  A medical board of inquiry is of opinion that the athlete Navarre did not over-estimate his strength and nerve when he confidently undertook to hold, on to the trapeze of the Montgolfier balloon, no molter at what height, and tharlus death was caused by an escape of gas suffocating him.  The head teacher of Eceleshill Board School, near Bradford, has been fined 208. and costs for striking a girl, nine years of age, several blows on the side of the head with his fist, the result being that the child was confined to the house for several days suffering from a slight concussion of the brain.  During the last few week scarlet fever has prevailed in a number of widery-separated dwellings in Dundee, proving fatal to members of families in good circumstances, and with what seem to be favourable hygienic surroundings. The sanitary authorities ot the town have at length traced it to the milk supply.  An inquest has been hold at Sparton, on the body of an infant, the illegitimate child of a young woman named Rhoda Day. The remains were found in the garden of Day's father, where she admitted haring buried it. The result of a post otottent examination showed that death had been caused by strangulation.  In a letter to the Secretary of the United Kingdom Alliance, dated September 10, Sir William Fox, formerly Prime Minister of New Zealand, writes Our colony (New Zealand) is at present in an unprecedented state of depression--even proportionately worse than any part of the old world bas sulle.redfrom."  At the Bristol Assizes, Mr. Justice Denman passed sentence upon Thomas Ames, a bargeman on the Kennet and Avon Canal, who was on Tuesday found guilty of the mandaughter of a boy named Miles, by shutting the lock gates and letting in the water, at a lock near Bath. The judge senteLeed the prisoner to seven years' penal servitude In severing his long connection with the itrt Jou nad, Mr. S. C. Ball has issued a few "words of farewell." He says: "I do not think the history of literature supplies a parallel case—that of an editor commencing a publication, continuing to edit it during forty-two years, and retiring from it when it head Attained vigorous age, its value augmented, . I and not deteriorated by time."