Widnes Examiner. — 1884-12-20 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

TELE AMERICAN WATERPROOF SHOW CARDS.— Acknowledged to be the best in the market: As cheap as paper, as durable as wood, safer than glass. AGENTd WANTED for this district.—Address, The WATERPROOF BROW CARD Co., 41, Kilvert's Buildings. Withy Grove, Mancheater,  - Soft was the violet's vernal hue, Fresh was the rose's morning red, • Full-robed and stately dahlia grew— x..ar.ure. , All gone! Their short-lived beauty shed; The shadows lengthening stretch at noon, The fields are stripped, the groves are dumb, The frost flowers greet the icy moon— Still blooms the bright Chrysanthemum. TM The stiffening turf is white with snow; _ Undimmed its radiant disks are seen, Where soon the hallowed morn will show The wreath and cross of Christmas green, "4- As if in Autumn's dying days It heard the heavenly song afar, And opened all its living rays, , The herald-lamp of Bethlehem's star. Orphan of Summer, kindly sent To cheer the waning year's decline, Of all that pitying heaven has lent, No fairer pledge of hope than thine; Yes! June lies hid beneath the snow, And Winter's unborn heir shall claim In every seed that sleeps below A spark that kindles into flame. Thy smile the scowling storm-cloud braves, Last of the bright-robed flowery train, Soft sighing o'er their garden graves "Farewell! farewell! we meet again;" So may life's chill November bring Hope's golden flower, the last of all Before we hear the angels sing Where blossoms never fade and fall. —Oliver Wendell Holmes.  , Tr e-v aer ,‘Tib•ist.7clesfield Town n Wedry pas Fed a The death iiineknneed4ftbe Marquis of Cholmondeley, resolution condemning the clause its the Reiratribution Bill in his 84th year. proposing to disfranchise for ever the voters scheduled for Elementary school teachers may now become Wrist-alit corrupt practices at the last general electiou. and appointed inspectors of schools. a committee to confer with towns similarly sittut'td and to Abraham Winstanley, licensee of the Railway Inn, Ince, make an urgent protest to Parliament. , . AIKOri has disappeared. He had, when last seen, a large sum of - ! money. Mr. Jacob Bright, M.P., delivered an address on Conti. nental travel before the members of the Manchester arts , Club, on Wednesday evening. Messrs John Brinsmead and Sons, through their agents at Aberdeen have supplied two pianos to her Majesty the Queen and to the Duchess of Edinburgh. Mr. P. J. Smyth, M.P., has been appointed 5,:.•."( t tiy to the Irish Loan Fund Board. There will consequ,n'Av be a vacancy is the repeesentation of Tipperary. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice and the Royal suite, left Windsor on Wednesday morning for Osborne, where Her Majesty will spend Christmas. At the Burnley police court, on Wednesday, John Berry and Henry Baxter, butchers, were each fined £lO and costs for being in possession of diseased meat intended for sale. A plan is in preparation for sending Dutch milk to London daily. Four steamers will ply between Amsterdem and Harwich. The necessary capital is estimated at 1,700,000 florins. At the Syston Park Library, Sale, on Saturday, a celebrated Mazarin Bible was put up for competition, and after some spirited bidding was knocked down to Mr. Quaritch for £3900. A fire broke out on Wednesday morning in a spinning room at. Messrs Hawkins and Sons' mill, Gordon-street, Preston, doing damage to the amount of several thousand pounds. The match between Shaw's team and Murdoch's eleven concluded on Tuesday at Adelaide. The Australian, were all out for 191, leaving the Englishmen with 63 to win, which they scored with the loss of two wickets. At Axbridge, on Wednesday, John Day, farmer, was committed for trial on a charge of having, at Lympsham, near Weston-super-Mare, murdered his wife's aunt by the administration of poison under circumstances previously recorded. A