Irvine Express. — 1884-04-25 (Irvine, Strathclyde, Scotland)

CHILD MCRDER NEAR MANCHESTER. At the Maneheater Cauuty Police Court on Tuesday, a married woman named Emily Clegg, 32 years of age, and residing at Cumberland Street, Harpurhey, was charged with the wilful murder of her female child, Frances Clegg, four months old, on the 21st inst. The evidence given was to the effect that the prisoner, whilst intoxicated, threw the child on the fire. The child was dreadfully burned, and was taken to the Manchester Infirmary, VI here it died on Tuesday morning. The prisoner was remanded. THE introduction of orchestral music into the service of the Church of England, whether it be a popular movement or nit, may at any rate be looked upon as a progressive one. For a long time the &awn Catholics were the only body 'of Christians who used instruments other than the organ or the harmonium at their festivals. Some few years since "Father Jgnatius " tried the experiment of bands of music in his devotional programme. The innovation quickly took with the public, who willingly paid their shillings and halfcrowns to hear a good selo on the cornet or violin. The element in the Salvation Army that chiefly attracts is undoubtedly the musical one, and were their instruments only a little more harmonious their congress halls would probably be filled with more appropriate audiences than is usually the case. On Easter Sunday the band of the 4th Dragoon Guards took a prominent part in the ordinary evening service at St. Martin's Church, Brighton. The regiment-is quartered at the barracks on the Lewes road, and the vicar of St. Martin's acts as their chaplain. The attraction of a military baud and the rendering of the Hallelujah Chorus with an orchestral accompaniment are somewhat unusual features in the Church of England service, and the novelty was fully taken advantage of by the inhabitants of Brighton. THE last American mail brings the news of one of the most successful journalistic hoaxes on record. A fortnight ago the r hicago Tribune printed as a "special cable" despatch from London what purported to he the first of a series of impresrions of America contributed by Mr Matthew Arnold to the Pall Mall Journal (sic). This particular article dealt with Chicago, and, as it ascribed to the inhabitants "a certain assumption of culture very superficially varnished over a very solid basis of Philistinism," it was certainly calculated (as the Tribune remarked) to provide the city with 'much food for reflection." Mr Arnold was represented as having based his estimate on the fact that he "asked a large number of appareetly cultivated people whether they had read '• Obermano," and to all but one the name was wholly familiar, and this one understood me as referring to a gentleman of that name who is the proprietor of a. chemist's shop in Chicago." This reference to 'Ohermann was a terrible bone of contention. Net only did it form the text of diatribes innumerable on Mr Arnold's "disgusting egotism" and "impertinent presumption," but the literary world of Chicago was divided into schools as to the proper interpretation of the peapage, "some holding that ' Obermann ' was himself a writer, others that Mr Arnold's own poem was meant." Interviewers were sent right and left to learn how Mr Arnold's criticisms were received by his late bosh! at Chicago, and the Tribune lashed itself into a perfect frenzy of patriotism. At last the secret came out, and the Chicago Dai'y New, having watched its rival's discomfiture, quietly announced that, having determined to expose the journalistic methods of the Tribune, it had caused the article in question to be prepared, and had secured its ioaertiou. "If the meteorologist in the Tribune building will look at his thermometer," added the Daily News, "he will find it is a cold day."  A "