Widnes Examiner. — 1883-08-04 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

MISCELLANEOUS. i Michael Devitt will be presented with the freedom of M. eeee-e--------- --- ------e-----------------. I Limerick on his return from Kilkee. ee• Waddington had an audience of the Queen on ton- Mr. James Crossley, F.S.A., the distinguished president day, at Osborne, and presented his credentials as French of the Chetham Society, ditd on Wednesday, at the age of Ambassador. 83. A canal boatman named Barrow is in custaety at Cherley Sir Edward Henry Scott, Bart., died on Wednesday, at I oanatcrvhainrggetoofdProuwshninhgerh. is wife into the canal at Whittle, Hamlet Lodge, West Cowes, which residence he was occuPYnd . big for the yachting season. a..l:he. mortality in 28 of the principal English towns A telegram from Canterbury says that Mr. William :Tag last week ranged from 10 6 per 1,000 per annum in Severn Smith, clerk of the peace and coroner for Hytlae, enekenhead to 25-5 in Manchester, the rate for Liverpool has mysteriously disappeared, nothing having been seen of velag 25. him for six weeks. The Town Council have declared the , It is announced that the sea portion of the Irish mail con- coronership vacant. !zed has been given to the City of Dublin Steam Packet At Bradford, on Wednesday, a butcher and sausage"PanY, who are to receive £84,000 per year for the maker named Naylor was sent to prison for three months service. for having in his possession a quantity of putrid meat which Damage to the extent of £5,000 was caused on Monday he had intended, as the prosecution suggested, to dispose 1111°.raIng by a tire which occurred it a mill at Sowarhy of in the form of sausages. ridge, occupied by Messrs. Fielding, Ball and Co. The At the Old Bailey, on Wednesday, a young upholsterer Pre,mises were insured. named James Kelly was sentenced to death for murdering Thomas Spick, 'mister, who attempted to murder his his wife at St. Lake's, London, a fortnight after the wee:etre and her mother at Ripley some weeks ago by shooting ding day. gine prisoner's plea was that he was mad at the hem with a revolver, was on Monday sentenced, at Derby time he committed the crime. 381740, to 20 years' penal servitude. Peterborough Cathedral, like Canterbury Cathedral, has , Mr. Gladstone, understanding that the testimonial to the had a narrow escape from destruction through the carelesstuike of Buccieuch is not of a political ceartzter, con- ness of workmen. On Saturday morning the scaffolding jthotes 10 guineas, and says no one joins with greater which has been erected under the central tower was felled P easnre in the movement than he does. to be in fames. The discovery was made in time to prevent grouse prospects in the counties of Forfar, Perth, and any serious mischief to the building. ietgell are good. The sport in Invernesshire it expecaed to The trustees of the late Mr. E. R Harris, a leen portion tee the best experienced for six years. The reports from of whose fortune is being devoted to the erectiore of a meg'atherlandshire, Aberdeenshire, and Caithness-shire are nificent new free library and museum at Preston (the corrate • eer discouraging. In Dumfriesshire birds are few. poration of the borough finding the site), resolved on ThursTh• ' . e will ofthe late Mr. Thomas Agnew, of the firm day morning that the work of erection should be proceeded et!. Thomas Agnew and Sons, Manchester, 'London, and with at an early date. Tenders will he at once advertised , ,alVerpoet -,, has been proved. The gross personal estate foe. leeset down at £530,256, and the net personal estate at