Widnes Examiner. — 1882-06-24 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

THE EXAMINER, SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1882.  M ISC ELLAI-NTEOUS.  At Cardiff, on Tuesday, Jeremiah Mahony was apprehended on a charge of the manslaughter of Emma 'Magan, his paramour, whom he is alleged to have brutally illtreated, and thus caused her death. The Rev. Canon Gibson, the oldest member of the Manchester Cathedral body, died on Sunday. The deceased canon was born in 1802 at Newcastle-on-Tyne, and his connection with this city dates as far back as the year 1828. In the Probate Division, on Tuesday, on the application of Mr. Rayford, Sir James Hannen granted probate of the will of the late Mr. Walter Powell, M.P., who was last seen alive drifting to sea in the balloon Saladin, on the 1 oth of December.  Admiral Watson, superintendent of Chatham Dockyard, has received a threatening letter, warning him to prepare for death. The letter is headed with a skull and crossbones, and is supposed to emanate from Fenians. The police have the matter in hand.  Among the inquests held by the Liverpool city coroner en Tuesday was one in which it was shown that Susannah Evans, 22 years of age, a domestic servant, had poisoned herself in consequence of a quarrel with a tinsmith named Rimmer, to whom she was engaged to be married. • The Prince of Wales paid a visit to the city of London on Saturday, and performed the ceremony of unveiling the statue at the Royal Exchange to Sir Rowland Hill. In the evening His Royal Highness was present at a banquet in the Mansion House. _ _  The cutting of grass is now being proceeded with in Warwickshire and other parts of the Midland districts. The season having been favourable to the growth of grass, mowing has begun somewhat earlier than in prievous years, and the crops arc found to be unusually heavy and in good condition.  Mr. Wm. Davies, traveller for Messrs. Davies and Sandbrook, Pontypool, has baen found dead in a lonely spot on the Montnouthshire hills. From the nature of his injuries, and the fact that there was not found upon him as much money as he is supposed to have had in his possession, there is a belief that he has been murdered. _ _ __ _  Before the Hanky magistrates, on Tuesday, Earl Granrille and nine colliers employed at his lordship's colliery in the district, were summoned under the Explosives Act for keeping a quantity of gunpowder in unauthorised places at the colliery. The Town Clerk prosecuted, and withdrew the summons against the Earl, but all the other defendants were fined. _ _  The body of a man was recovered on Saturday from the Wear, near the courthouse, Durham. It was recognised as that of a person who, about noon, had made an inquiry near the spot as to whether the stream was deep enough to drown him there. A letter in his possession proved him to be William Coley, of 50, High West-street, Gateshead, and it informed his wife that he had been mad for months.  Mr. George Augustus Sala, speaking at the annual dinner of the Birmingham Press Club, on Saturday, at which he was a guest, dwelt on the subject of anonymity in journalism, which he thought might well form the topic of discussion at a congress of journalists. He thought so far as the personal interests of the journalists were concerned, the balance was in the favour of their signing their names to their articles.