The Telegram. — 1901-05-28 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

OOO.  TilP Southend Town Council have decided to run the cars on Sundays and into Leigh without consulting the District Council of the latter place, who are strongly opposed to Sunday traffic.  Ireland has the lowest marriage rate in Europe. Hungary heads the list with 91 marriages per 1,000, Germany 53, England 52, Austria 51, Italy 50, France 49, Sweden 37, and Ireland 23. It is probably true that no class of property in the metropolis has so high a market value as public-house property. A few years ago one London public-house was sold for half a million of money—the value, of course, of the licence. There is some concern in America that Germany . .  ;;;11.41Y exporting potatoes into the Stator., and fanners are being encouraged to inquire into this new enterprise. - - •• ••  At an execution in Vienna the other day the executioner's two assistants hung on to the culprit's legs to hasten death. The executioner wore a top hat, frock coat, black gloves, and ballroom shoes. Mr. Isadore Isaacs, solicitor to the Durham Miners' Association, has died at Sunderland. At the lev6e held by the Duke of Cornwall, at Brisbane, six hundred people passed before bis Royal Highness. A new watering-place is about to be brought into existence near Sunderland. The new town is to be called Seaburn. The transport Matileinore arrived at Southampton on Friday morning, with eleven officers and three hundred and thirty-four men from South Africa, including some colonials. Piletzky, the Pole who originated the plan to blow up the imperial train at Borki in 1888, an outrage which was carried out with such terrible results,has escaped from the St. Nicholas Asylum. According to a St. Petersburg correspondent, a young Polish doctor, who lately joined the staff at the asylum, is suspected of having assisted in the escape. An Austrian named Adolph Vasil, who was committed for trial at Bournemouth recently on a charge of stealing Bank of England notes from a visitor stating at the Royal Hotel, Bournemouth, where he had also been staying as a visitor, has escaped from Winchester (tool. Lord Glenesk has sent £lO5 towards the National Memorial to Queen Victoria. During the year 1900 the South Easton and Chatham Railway Company carried 696,256 Continental passengers, as compared with 136,052 in 1850.  - -According to a circular published by the West India Committee the view taken by the Press on the Continent that the imposition of sugar duties by the Imperial Government would be an obstacle to the reassembling of the Brussels conference, seems undergoing considerable modification. A firs occurred at Cooper's-cottages, High-road. Willesden, on Saturday, 'vaulting in the death of a blind boy. The Rev. W. Carlile, hon. chief secretary of the Church Army, is arranging to conduct, free of expense, in London and in large provincial ! towns.a number of "Missionary Sundays " to try to secure likely men as candidates for holy orders. Emily Barrett was committed for trial on Saturday at Stratford Police-court on a charge of murdering her husband by hitting him on the head with a chopper in Burgess-road. East Ham. Through an accident to the boiler tubes on board the Spanish torpedo vessel 47 five men were injured, two being terribly burnt. Lord Portinau has been confined to his bed for several weeks with serious illness, but is reported to be progressing favourably.