The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1883-06-02 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

GENERAL NEWS.  The Parnell testimonial fund, now amounts to £11.331.  Mr. Sexton has resizned his position as senior secretary to the Irish Parliamentary Party. Near Dunbar on Monday, four fishermen, all named, were drowned by the upsetting of a yawl. Daring the last voyage of the Otago, from Liver. pool and Glasgow, to Queensland, 25 deathe occurred on hosrd.  Stephen Phillips, late manager of Retford Cooperative Society, was on Monday sentenced to six months' imprisonment for embezzling 868, the funds of the Society. Late on Friday night, the office of the Kerry Sentinel, at Tralee, was again visited by the police, and the plant and pap,us were seized and carried to the police barrack. On Saturday, in th 9 Carlisle market, the price of fresh butter fell as low as Od., and in some instances Bd. per pound. This is about half the usual price of that useful, commodity. On Wednesday a workman employed on the new Tay Bridge fell into the river. A crane-man, named Elliott triad to rescue the man, who, however, dragged him dcwn and both , were drowned. . .  Another dreadful murder is reported from France. At Sanitonge, a woman named Pineau killed a man servant by cutting his throat and afterveards hacked the body in pieces, burnt the flesh, and threw the bones in a stream.  Early on t unday morning the dead body of an elderly woman, named Catherine Gregory, was found lying on the floor of a house inhabited by Thomas Armstrong, at Leeds. Death had apparently resulted from violence. At Pembroke, on Saturday, a party of men were amusing- themselves near the Huntsman's Leap, when one of their number, named John Brace, fell over the precipice, a depth of nearly two hundred feet, and was immediately killed.  A: young lady named Henderson, one of a party of excursionists to Ronsay, Orkney Isles, on Saturday, whilst searching for eggs among the cliffs, was suddenly missed. It is supposed she slipped sad fell over the cliffs.  The training ship Mars, stationed at Dundee, was destroyed on Saturday by a fire which broke out in the captain's cabin. There was no loss of life, but one of the boys, in the panic, jumped overboard, and narrowly escaped being drowned. A company of men, all of whom are six feet or over in height, have founded a town in Montana, which they have named Giantville. Lots in this town will be sold only to men of six feet or more in height, who have wives five feet and eight inches at least in stature.  At Leicester, on Tuesday, Thomas Carver was charged with unlawfully wounding his wife. They lived apart, and prisoner, finding her in a public. house knocked her down and worried her, biting her nose off. The nasal organ was produced in a bottle. Prisoner was committed for trial. At the annual conference of the North Wales Quarrymen's Union, on Saturday, it was reported that many quarries remained closed in consequence of bad trade. 'A ith a view of assisting the men to emigrate, a sum of £2OOO was voted out of the union funds, to buy land for establishing a colony in Manitoba, or elsewhere in the States. "Stand not upon the order of your going, but go at once" and buy one of Butler's beautiful suits, all sizes, all prices. Ready made or to measure. 133, Daltou.road, next door to the Glavew liat Mart, (7045