Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1883-01-20 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

SALE.—The stringent provisions of the Bills of Sale Act of last year are producing their natural result. In the week ending January 6th re were only 234 bills of sale registered in England and Wales, as against 1115 registered in the correaponding week of last yam—Nair ifor's Journa/. A PETITION has been sent to the Home Secretary praying for the release of Mrs. Murray, a lady recently sentenced to four months' imprisonment at Bournemouth. It sets forth that her husband had insured the furniture of the house in his own name, and that she thought it was all his, anti not his mother's, when site was forced to sell it after her husband had left her. It also points out that she was not prosecuted until divorce proceedings against her husband bad been talked about, and that her husland offered to forgive her if she would live with him again. A MOVEMENT is on foot amongst co-operative societies to raise a memoir to Mr. Thomas Hughes, Q.C., for his valued services to the co-operative cause. Since his appointment to. a county-court judgeship he has resigned his position on the Central Board of Co-operatives, and the present was cort-idered a fitting opportunity for presenting him with a testimonial. As Mr, Hughes has, however, declined to receive any individual benefit from the fund, it is proposed that the memorial shall constitute a co-oierative scholarship at Oxford, and the Central B card has sulseribed f:100 towards the object. THE Local Board of Church, near Accrington, having requested several alterations in the plans of the proposed plateway through thedistriet,have received a letter from the solicitor to the company, stating that the bill will not be proceeded wills in the coming atatioa. Tim wit!, hcncosr, be renewed next November, and the local authorities will be interviewed in the meantime. RECENT PARIS ADVICES state that the French markets have been fairly supplied during the week, and that the demand on the part of the milling trade has been languid. The business passing under these cir. comet... has fern very restricted, and wheat quotations have scarcely varied. At Marseilles the wheat trade has remained extremely quiet. A Quenrunr,v coma of the governors of the Seamen's Hospital has been held at 39, Fenchchurch. street, London. It was announced that the Right Hon. 0.3. Goschen, M.P., had consented to preside at the annual court, which would take place in the month of February. During the year 18n2 the average number of beds constant'y occupied in this hospital has been 190, as compared with 109, the average of the preceding eight years; and this large increase in the number of inpatients, owing to the recent vast expansion of our mercantile marine, has caused an excess of expenditure above the income for the past yearn! over £5OO. AT Wolverhampton, Edward Craddock, 22, , pawnbroker's assistant, has committed suicide by hanging himself at his lodgings. No reason can be assigned \ for the act. A SINGFLAR ACCIDENT has happened to a Mali named Jeremiah Upton, a shingler at the Bed Iron Works, Wolverhampton. He was returning from work, and whilst crossing a turnover bridge on the canal he met a boat-horse passing over at the same time. The rope by which the horse woo drawing the boat below caught the man by the waist and pulled him over the bridge, a distance of thirty-five feet, into the canal. Some men who were on the towing-path got a boat-hook and, after dragging a considerable distance, reamed the man from the water, but it is feared he will not recover from the of. feces of the immersion. Ar a large vestry meeting in the Town Hall, Herkhametm I, the rector in the chair, three representative governors of King Edward VI. School were re-clectad for a seeond term of five years -viz., Megan. J. E. Lane, Henry Nash, and W. H. Hobson; Mr. Lane by 75 votes, Mr. Na,h 66, Mr. Hobson 55, Captain Hamilton received 14 votes, and Mr. T. Read, who was also propom I, declined to stand. The voting in 1878 was—Nash, 112, Hobson, 109, Lane, 81. Mr. Such, in a lengthy criticism of school affairs, strongly condemned the increased expenditure which bad thwarted the institutionof a girls' echool which had been proposed, the unlimited power of the head master, and the ma ference given to boarders over the day boys, who were local. On behalf of Captain Hamilton, who was ill and unable to attend, and who had made charges against the head master, and also the governors, a poll was demanded. THE traffic receipts of railways in the tiiiited Kingdom for the week ending Jan. 6 (the lateat published) amounted on 17,092} miles to £1,128,724, and for the corresponding week in 1882 on 16,789* miles to £1,123,232, showing an increase of 3021 miles and of £5492. The receipts for the week (ending Jan. 6) average £66 Os. 9d. per mile, against £66 i.e. Old. in the corresponding weeklast year.—lferapath's Railway Journal. A. clout of somnambulism, which has been at, tended with sad consequenem, has occurred at Sherborne, Dorset. A homekeeper named Moore mm found outside the house of a Mr. Hunter, where she lived, insensible and bleeding from a wound on the head. She was removed to the hospital, and it was there found that in addition to the wound on the head her jaw was broken and her top teeth knocked out. When a policeman went to Mr. Hunter he was quite ignorant of what had ocCurred, and the house was still locked up. The window of the garret in which the unfortunate woman slept was, however, open, and it wits concluded that it was a case of somnambulism, as she had been known to walk in her sleep previously. Little hope is entertained of her recovery. THE Plymouth Mercantile Association have considered two bills before Parliament for the construction of an independent narrow guage railway to Plymouth. They decided almo,t unanimously in favour Of the Plymouth, Devonport, and South-Western Junction Railway. AT a special meeting of the Bridgwater Corporation, the tender of Mr. Moss for the construction of anew wrought-iron bridge across the river at a cost of £3200, was slightly amended, and finally approved of. A letter was read from the Lords of the Treasury, &motioning the sale of £l7OO worth of stock belonging to the Corporation to be applied in aid of the cost of building the new bridge. The Town Clerk laid before the Council a print of the prnposoi bill for making a railway between Bridgwater and Whatchet, and it was resolved to refer it to the Port and Navigation and Highways Committee..  AT the County Police - court, Sunderland, Thomas Richardson, butcher, was fined 20s. and costs for removing two beasts from Newcastle to Silksworth, in ,c.ontravention of an order made in council.