The Warwickshire Herald. — 1885-06-27 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

NEWS IN A NUT-SHELL.  A charter of incorporation ha been granted to Lowestoft.  For overloading the vessel Vale of Arran, the Newport (Mon.) magistrates have tined the captain £lO.  The Bishop of Lincoln has re.op net] the ancient parish church at Somerby, near Bngg, after restoration.  Mr. Henry Kapp, an Amercan, has committed suicide after having ruined him•elf at thu gaming tables at Monaco. Earl Spencer has released on licence a man who was sentenced 20 years ago to penal servitude for life for the murder of a solicitor.  At Dungannon James Donaghy ha. been sentenced to 10 months'imprisonment for dangerously woujiding a gunner of the Royal Artillery. The Royal Mail steamer Guarliana. from Rio Janeiro to New York, has been lost at Abrthos. The crew, passengers, and mails were s,i‘. d.  _ The larger half of the Galician town of Dabrova has just been totally destroyed by hrf., and hundreds of familiaa are ent'vly without eheli,r. The Russians at Chula& are vexatiously hindering the Persians from obtaining water for purposes of irrigation. The latter complain bitterly. The new municipal flag has be-n hoisted from the City Hall, Dublin. It is a bright green, displaying in white the Irish harp and three castles.  The immediate lo.s to the Indian revenue which is believed that the new opium convent Mn with Chini will entail is three-quarters of a million sterling.  Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, M, P., repeats his denial of the assertion the.t he intended in his speech on the Budget to suggest an Increase of the duty on tot.  Mr. Henry Bennett, of Liverpool, tra ling os thr London and Westminster Supply, has fail, d, the liabilities being set down at £14,000 and the assets ab 17,000.  A gentleman, who requests his name to be kept see! et, has offered to give £lO,OOO to the 13ristol Bishopric Endowed Fund provided £20,000 is raised within two years. A large spinning mill at Fitenworth, near 13o11on, uelonging to Messrs. Whittam and Sons lhas been Nirnptetely destryed by fire. The damage is estimated at 123:i,000. The man Grigolaitis, who recently twice thraw stones at the windows of the German Ern: eror's Palace, linter den Linden, has been henteneed to 18 inonths' imprisonment.  A melancholy incident has occurred at Alassowah. Lieutenant Richi, of the Fourth Bersaglieri, an excellent officer, shot himself in a fit of nostalgia, has ing been refused leave of absence.  Sir James Campbell, " gavoller " of the It.)3Pid Forest of Dean, has been orde red t., asc rain the cook )f " restoring" the Backstone. and replaciug it on the platform on which it stood. The Dutch Minister of Justice has instructed the Crown prosecutors to address themselves to him whenever they require the extraditi n of Dutch subjects from the English authorities. The ordinary English procedure renders extradition almost  Tenders for Treasury Bills to the amount of £1,195,000 will be received at the Bank of Engl Ind on the let proximo at one o'clock. The bills will be dated the 7th July next, and will be payable at three or six months after date, at the option of the persons tendering,  A man named Charles Naylor whilst, in the hot room of a Turkish bath at Sheflield,was notieed to be breathing heavily. Although he was removed into another apartment of a lower temperature immediately, and restoratives applied, Lo soon afterwards expired of heart disease.  For stealing a quantity of clothing and t. in money, from a house at Knockholt, whilst the whole of the occupant,—fathi r, mother, And four children —were in the sinall.pox hospitai suffering from the disease, Anne Davis has been sentenced at Bromley to • month's hard labour.  It is estimated that ',he strikes of 1882 cost this working men of the Stal.es not le .ts than £1,200,000. The telegraph strike of ISB3 lasted just a intalth, and only 8,000 of the 12,000 members of the or .snisation which ordered the strike left their places, 'but their loss of wages was estimated at £lOO,