Widnes Examiner. — 1882-04-29 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

ISCELLANEOUS.  The Duke of Teck on Saturday opened the public baths at Richmond.  The Congrezational Union Jubilee Fund has now reached the sum of £125,000. _ _  Two sons of Sir Salar Jung are about to come to England to complete their education. _ _  - Nothing is known by the Glasgow police of a reported threat to blow up the municipal buildings. All the bodies have now been recovered from the Tudhoe Colliery, the last two having been brought to bank on Saturday. Mr. George Grant Francis, F.S.A., the savant and antiquary, died suddenly on Saturday, at Swansea, from paralysis, at the age of 68. The O'Donoghue, M.P. has passed his public examination in binkruptcy. The debts secured and unsecured amounted to £7,000, and the assets were nil.' The convictions for Sunday drunkenness in England and Wales from September, 1879, to September, 1851, numbered 26,523. Liverpool figures in the list for 2,915. At Belgrave, near Leicester, on Saturday evening, a man named Arthur Smith and his son, Herbert, a youth, quarrelled over a game of draughts, and the lad stabbed his father twice with a knife. A deputation from the Wiltshire Society 6f London waited on the Duke of Albany at Windsor Castle on Saturday and presented him with a piece of plate and an address 'congratulating him on his approaching marriage. The gift was suitably acknowledged. An application was made on Saturday, in the Queen's Bench Division, to have a day fixed for the hearing of the case Gurney v. Bradlaugh, which raises the question whether Mr. Bradlaugh properly took the oath when he administered it to himself at the table. Lord Coleridge said at present a day could not be fixed. The Board of customs have issued an order that tobacco will no longer be allcwed to be remeved from bonded warehouses in London when shipped on board any vessel leavirg the port after she has departed from her place of lading. The permission formerly given has been much abased. A reward of £l6O has been offered and a free pardon to any accomplice for information which shall lead to the conviction of the murderer of Icy Sands, whose body was found concealed under a stone heap at Workington, on the Ist of March last, and who was missing since December. An " infant " of the name of Robertson was sued in the Queen's Bench division for a sum of over £6OO for goods supplied within a period of 18 about months. Among the articles sold were 15 head-stalls,l7 whips,and nine walkingsticks. Acting on the advice of the judge an arrangement was come to. A sculling match for £lOO, over the Thames championship course, was decided on Monday afternoon, the competitors being Charles Brightwtll, of Putney, and George Perkins, of Rotherhithe. Perkins led until just belew Barnes' Bridge, when Brightwell went to the front, and won a splendidly contested race by three lengths. A heartless case of desertion by a father came before Mr. Raffles, stipendiary magistrate of Liverpool, on Saturday, when a man named John Murphy was proved to have endeavoured to get rid of his infant child by representing to the parish authorities that a strange woman had left it with him, and who afterwards deserted it in St. Nicholas's Roman Catholic Church. He was sent to jail for six weeks.  At Birmingham, on Monday, George Frederick Horsefall, aged 23, clerk, was sent for six months' imprisonment for stealing £lOO, belonging to Hyman Hyman, jeweller, Birmingham. Last Wednesday, the prisoner was sent to cash a £lOO note, but, instead of returning, absconded. He was arrested in London when about to leave for Sydney, having paid £42 for a second-class passage and bought a good outfit. At the Chester Assizes, on Tuesday, a man named Thomblin, of Manchester, was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude for having, along with another man now undergoing penal servitude, committed a burglary in November, 1880, on the premises of Mr. Mitchell, pawnproker, Macclesfield ; and John Hill, who at that time kept a public-house at Macclesfield, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for being accessory after the fact. The Heme Secretary on Monday informed a deputation which waited on hitn in reference to the licensing laws that he had become an abstainer on the ground of health. The right hon. gentleman was asked to support Mr. Lewis Fry's bill, which proposes to give to licensing authorities the same discretionary power with regard to grocers and other " off " licenses as they now possess in regard to publicans The Home Secretary promised to give a favourable consideration to the measure. A