The Potteries Examiner : — 1872-09-21 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

THI PUBLIC-HOUSE QUESTION IN LIVZIL5001..-A. eanvass of working men has been made in Liverpool to ascertain what proportion are in favour of opening publiohousee at six or seven a.m., and closing atten or eleven p.m. on week days, and mine on Sundays. Returns were rent to 67 firms' employing 9,151 men, of whom 8,096 expressed their views. In favour of opening at six o'clock on week days there were 1,586, against 6,505 for levee o'clock; and the number who approved of the eleven o'clock closing was only 1,724, against 6,372 who desired ten o'olook. The number who voted fer closing on nine o'clock on Sunday, was 6,164, or about four-fifths of the whole.  A DomDirrre TRAGEDv.—On Saturday a private investigation was held at Limerick into the case of Christopher King, charged with the wilful murder of his father, John King. rie faeis appeez to point to the oecurrenee of a great domestic tragedy. Mr. John King had been for many years a well-known and highly respected wine-merchant in the city of Dublin. Having realised a fortune, he purchased a property at Rathkeede, in the county of Limeriok, where he resided with his second eon, Christopher. On the 281,1. Amust King and his son, Christopher, eat down to breakfaM, when the father became very ill, and died that eight. The funeral took place in due course, but POOlO days afterwards suspicion was aroused, and Christopher King arrested. The pollee state they can prove that the prisoner bought strychnine some time before the I father's death, and that a dog which drank POMO ! tea deceased had at breakfast the day of his demise j died in a few minutes. It is also rnnionred that the I prisoner has confessed his guilt. He will be brought I before the magistrates when the chemistrn have sow! pleted the analysis of deceased's etornach. A" WILD CunaTE."—Tlio clergyman of a country pariah, as we learn from the Clheffichl Independent, being away from home for the benefit of his health, left his citrate to officiate in his absenee. The locum tem. first quarrelled with the choir, informed them that their services were not required, and locked up their surplices. The churchwarden. I and others were amazed at these proceedings, and sent for a neighbouring rector, but he could do I nothing, and the curate went through the services himself with so much expedition that, beginning at 11 am., he finished at 11.45. In the evening he commenced the services at 6.30, and got through them in twenty minutes. The tonal weekly offerings were not made. That afternoon a funeral was delayed two hours before the corpse could be interred, and next morning the curate refaced to 11 marry a couple, and another clergyman had to be I called in. The vicar 11)18 been sent for, and wffl probably put a stop to the eccentricities of this I curious living specimen of Sydney Smith's "wild curates."  A BONNET Or BgEs.—Tho Echo says is frightful to reflect on the magnitude of the scrape into which an inoffensive individual can get in a very few minutes, if he meddles vith bees The IrEdependance de Est relates tlie, at a village near Florenville (Luxembourg), a gentleman wa,king along the side of a wood saw ensue bees swarming on a straggling branch of an oak tree. He went to fetch a hive, and returned with a woodcutter named Quiet, who climbed the tree, and, sitting astride of the branch, cut off the extremity sf it, upon which the swarm hung. An unexpected result followed; instead of falling to the grnnnd, the swarm dispersed, and, rising like a whirlwind, settled on the head of the unlucky (Inlet. who was still sitting on the branch forty-ton feet from the ground. The bystanders shuddered. Surely, they thought, he will be seized with giddilvos and tortured 1 by a thousand milers, he most fall to the ground! But latdot called up alibis strength of mind, and remained perfectly still till the swarm had formed two long wreaths hanging from his temples, and waving ! as he moved; then, half-blinded by the insects,which also covered his face and body, he contrived to deeoend from his elevated position, taking the greatest care not to irritate this living mantle. Wiser ; he arrived on terra firma a hive VVIVi placed on hiP i shoulder, but three hours elapsed before the bees would take posseseion of their new home. When this happy change was effected the a '-Sr woodcutter's wild delight testified to the intensity of the anxiety I and discomfort he had endured. - .