The Warwickshire Herald. — 1887-10-13 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

EXTRAORDINARY SCENE IN A CHURCH.  An extraordinary scene occurred in All Saints' Church, Woodford Wells, Essex, on Sunday morning. It was the occasion of the usual harvest festival, and the building we crowded. As soon as the service commenced an elderly man, of gentlemanly appearance, jumped up from his seat excitedly, and pointing to a lady, who was entering, exclaimed, "Oh, what a bonnet." He continued muttering to himself, and occasionally starting to his feet during the prayers, as well as beating time with his hands to the music. The churchwardens and others endeavoured to pacify him; but when they approached I he placed himself in a threatening attitude, the consequence being that no one was ab!e to lay hold of the disturber and eject him. Meanwhile many of the worshippers left the church in a state of alarm. When the first hymn was given out by the vicar, the man jumped up suddenly, left !ds pew and advanced towards the view, everyone expecting something serious to happen. The man, however, went up to a lady, put his arms round her and embraced her, to her great consternation. He then turned and walked out of the church, and no one followed him. He is a stranger to the locality, and the supposition is that he is :in escaped lunatic.  A certain Loudon Radical Club and Institute has passed a resolution which "emphatically [a otests against the sentences passed on the Chicago Anarchists." But why should Englishmen "emphatically protest" against the verdiet of a Jury and the sentence of a Judge is America any more than a similar number of the citizens of America should protest against the verdict of a Jury and the declaim of a Judge in a BritLiit Law Court? Besides, what good can such protests effect? May not Americans, wbo are quite as capable of taking care of themselves as Englishmen, 2ay "Mind your own business, and we will mind ours. When you understand our laws and duties better than we do, we may libteu to what you have got to say ?” The condemned anarchists in America were tried for murder and condemned accordingly. They deliberately killed by bombshells several people and wounded forty or fifty others; and the protest of this body will be as unavailing as if some club in Chicago had emphatically protested against the sentence passed on Lipski. It is a pity that clubs, of si hatever shade of polities, cannot find more useful work to do than to poke their noses into other people's business and particularly that of the judicial proceedings of a great and free foreign couuti y. AT the Poor Law Guardians' of Lancashire and Cheshire thirteenth annual conferen.a: at Manchester, the Mayor of Manchester, referring to a letter which he hail recently received on the subject of distress through lack of employment, said that front irquiries he had made he believed there was now no exceptional distress in that district, and he did not believe it was the duty of Corporations to interfere in the woik of Poor Law Guardians. Mr. Hihbert, the chairman, spoke of the decrease in the rinouut of pauperism shown by the statistics :ant papers which were read. _ .  a football match was in progress on Saturday at Maidenhead, a back player named Hedger, cattle into collision with one of his opponents, and sustained a broken collar-bone.