The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1869-07-03 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

GENERAL NEWS.  _Eight hundred men have " eluded the authorities," and sailed from New York for Cuba on Saturday night. An accountant and insurance agent, named Wm. Smith, resid:ng at Hamilton, Scotland, has been apprehended on a charge of forgery to the extent of .Cl2O. At a secret Consistory held at Rome on Friday, the Pope took the opportunity of denouncing the new Italian law, whereby clerical students are subject to the conscription, as an infringement of the rights and immunities of the church. Mr. Heron, the town clerk of Manchester, is about to receive the honour of knighthood. The distinction is to be conferred "in honour of Mr. Heron's high character and position, and long service to the community with which he is immediately connected." A shock of earthquake was felt at Bologna on Saturday. It was sufficiently severe to stop the clocks and ring the bells of the city. A negro who had feloniously assaulted and murdered a young lady in Rockbridge county, Virginia, was taken from the county gaol and lynched by four men. A builder named Barnes having been brought before one of the London magistrates on a charge of assault, was ordered to find two sureties for his good behaviour. The bail not being produced he was placed in a cell, and in the afternoon the cell was visited for the purpose of sending him to Horsemonger-lane Gaol, when he was found with a razor in his right hand cutting at his throat. He inflicted injuries from which he died. The Western lands, it is stated, are rapidly becoming exhausted from the production of one class of crops and from the neglect to apply proper manures. rho journals of that region assert that the grain-growng districts of Illonois, Lows, Missouri, and Minnesota are yielding smaller crops to the acre every year, and the Maine fact has been observed in the wheat districts. The remains of a man named Terrill, described by the New York papers as an officer in the Fenian organisation, were refused the burial rites of the Roman Catholics at Louisville, Kentucky. on the 11th instant, because the brotherhood appeared in church in regalia. The body was taken from the church and followed to the cemetery by a large concourse of Fenians. The Builder states that a three-story house. 19 feet by 40 feet, and in the construction of which 42,356 bricks were used, was built in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, last month, in 191 hours, and persons were luring in it within three. tinyo from the time it was commenced. •  A number of pleasure-seekers were on Saturday disembarking from a steam-boat at the Batterseapark Pier, when a young man, nephew of a hotel keeper in the neighbourhood, attempted to jump ashore, lie touched the pier with his foot, but fell hack into the water and was drowned. A London brickmaker, who had been out of employment for some time, a day or two since was seen to walk up on to the embankment of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway at Beckenham. and lie down upon the line just in front of an approaching passenger train. The iron guard of the engine caught his body and threw him along some feet. The wheels of the engine afterwards passed over him and killed him.