The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1871-01-21 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

THE EMPLOYMENT OP SHORTHAND CLERKS.--The London correspondent of the Sheffield Weekly Times make the following observation on the employment of shorthand clerks The London School Board is just now a prominent institution, as it has some offices to give away. One of them, namely, the clerkship and secretaryship, is expected to be greatly sought after. The salary is to he £BOO a year, though an effort was made to fix it at £lOOO. There are also to be three clerks of departments, namely, statistical, accounts, and rainuting and shorthand. The deparment for ininuting and shorthand ' shows that our public bodies are beginning to find silt what our railways and large legal firms long ago discovered, that shorthand, so useful in a variety of ways, may be used so as to expedite work very much. The Board of Works have just appointed a shorthand writer in their office: and though the Government Offices have not as yet followed the example, I think Mr. Lowe, the economical chancellor, might find many advantages from the employment of shorthand if he were only to give his mind to it for a few minutes. I am told the subject would not be quite a novel one to the heads of some of the departments, but of course sonic time ago vested interests stood in the way. Now that we are getting out of that fashion, perhaps even shorthand may have a chance. It is somewhat extritordinary that members of Parliament, who talk approvingly sometimes of the wonderful Men .in the gallery, do not see that the same art, if employed in writing despatches saves an endless deal of drafting, and revising, and copying; which now has to he done before a document ~,,nrs from a Government office."  The number of hone* killed daily to feed Paris is 660.  It has been determiaed to bring forward Mao Smith, aister of the dietinguiahed mathematician, Profemor H. Smith, as a candidate for the School Board about to be formed at Oxford.  A verdict of wilful murder against some person unknown was returned on Monday in the case of J. Maxwell, ex-police sergeant, killed at Sheffield.  The screw corvette D'Assas, cruising in the Archipelago of the Sonde, was keeping up an active chase of German merchantmen. Numbers of Prussians prizes were moored at Saigon, mostly large, fine vessels, richly lades, and more were arriving constantly.  At a conference on the subject of boiler explosionf which has just been held in Manchester, resolutions were passed declaring that competent periodical inspection should be enforced by law, and that the administration of the system should be entrusted to district boards, " constituted partly of gentlemen elected by the steam users themselves, and partly of ex-officio members, to be chosen on behalf of the public."  On Tuesday an alarming accident occurred to an omnibus running between Pendleton and Manchester. The vehicle was laden with thirty passengers, and as it was proceeding along Chapelstreet, near St. John's Cathedral, the fore axle broke, and it was thrown over on its side. The outside passengers were jerked out upon the road, and those inside were roughly shaken, but fortunately no one was seriously injured.  At the funeral of Lord Henry Bentinck, the fatuous foxhunter and sportsman, an incident occurred which is worthy of record. While the cortege was passing the village of Tathwell it was joined by a foxhound, which followed the body to the church, where, after waiting a brief time near the porch, it took its place by the grave of its deceased master and remained until the service was over.