The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1883-04-28 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

DEATH.OF A BISHOP.—The Right Rev. Dr. touch, ever so little, upon the painful past?" Mackarness, Bishop of Argyll and the Isles, died Alice shook her head; her sips grew white as on Friday at Brighton after a long illness. she compressed them sternly, then with a little On Tuesday a quantity of explosive was found gasp she muttered, "Robert, you will not be so under a hedge in Swansea, and the public anlalyst, cruel as to revive the past? Do you not know that who has examined the material, pronounces it to be I have sworn never to indulge in any thought of dynamite. the unhappy affection which was instrumental— A letter intimating that a design was on foot to unwittingly of course," she added as Robert would blow up the General Post Office in Dublin has have interrupted her "in the fatal occurrence of been received by the authorities, and the document that terrible night." has been handed over to the police. " How was it instrumental to that unhappy • At a grand festival of English Freemasons, held event ? " asked Robert, on Wednesday et the Freemason's Hall, London, Alice gave hint a pained, reproachful look. "Can the Prince of Wales was installed grand master you ask me?" she said, with a sob of indignation, for the ninth year. " Did not I culpably—oh, how culpably,—yield to According to a despatch received in New York the wishes of those dreadful men and fasten up from Hayti, martial law has been proclaimed the faithful watch-dog, who would have protected throughout the Republic. All the insurgents his master? Did I not—how could I, how could captured were executed. I—did I not also leave the hall door open ?" Her Sentence of death was passed on Tuesday at bowed head sank upon her hands ds she murmured Leeds upon George Cooper, aged 29, found guilty —'• The recollection is never absent from me, and of the wilful murder of his child, aged three years, it is cruel of you to call it up again so painfully. at Thormaby, near Stockton. "My darling love," cried the distracted The cyclone which passed over Mississippi and Robert, kneeling by her side and attempting to the neighbouring countries was more serions and take her in his arms, "bear up for a moment, my widespread than was at first supposed. Twenty-five own Alice, while I epeak but one word to you. persons are reported to have been kill. d. Listen to me, my darling. You are under a mis- The Two Thousand Guineas Stakes were won take. Listen to me, Alice, I implore you, for both on Wednesday by Lord Falmouth's Gailiard ; 2, our sakes." Lord Cadoeran's Goldfield; 3, Mr. C. Blanton's The voice was so earnest and so imperative that Prince. Won by a head, a neck only separated Alice, bewildered and constrained to listen, raised second and third. Time, Imin. 50 2-ssec. her head and looked inquiringly into the speaker's A match for the championship of Australia and face. • £lOOO, distance 31 miles, between Michael Rush "It is true," he said, "that the dog was enticed and Elias Laycock, was rowed at Graf tom N.S.W., in-doors under a mistake, but of what consequence early in March, and was won with ease by Le:oo°k. was that? rty his own sagacity and determination A scandalous act has been perpetrated at the the brave animal made his way out al, as you Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. Three of the know, was the means of bringing the miscreant to pictures have been wilfully slashed with a knife or justice." some other sharp instrument, and considerable if "Oh Robert," cried Alice turning away from not irreparable injury done to them. him, "I cannot listen to special pleading like this." A report of an incendiary explosion reaches us "Nay, hear me out," persisted Robert, detain- from Enfield, where the Government Small Arms ing her as she would nave risen; "what will you Factory is situated. Two men were seen to run say if I assure you that that open door was away from the spot just before the explosion. nothing but a blind? The wretched poacher who Just before the numbers were hoisted for the waebent upon wrecking a deadly vengeance upon Two Thousand Guineas race, on Wednesday, at the magistrate who had been so persistently deter- Newmarket, Prince Batthyamy, the owner of the mined to punish him and his, had laid his plans Fulmen, a hitherto prominent favourite for the very deeply. That afternoon, while the household Derby, fell down in a fit, and sliartly after wards was variously engaged, he had managed, with the expired. assistance ot a boy who knew every winding of the