Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1880-09-18 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

ATTEMPT TO WRECK AN EXPRESS TRAIN WITH DYNAMITE.  Tuesday night's Globe says :—A dastardly attempt to wreck the London and North-Western down express, leaving Euston Station at 5.15 a in., was made on Monday morning near Bushey Station. As the platelayers were going their usual rounds of inspee. con about seven o'clock, theAliscovered, about two hundred yards from the station, a brown paper parcel containing about 411 p of dynamite. The fishplates by which two rails were joined had been removed, and the parcel was placed underneath the rail. Connected with it was an indiarubber tube containing gunpowder and some percussion caps. It had been cut to half by the Wheels of the train, but fortunately the place at which it bad been severed contained no percussion caps, otherwise the gunpowder would have ignited and the train have been completely wrecked. The London and North-Western Company's detectives have been sent to Bushey Station to investigate the matter.  THE AMERICAN ARCTIC  EXPEDITION  A dispatch from Victoria has been publi,hed in the New York Herald to the effect that the barque /delay has arrived there from Ounalaska, and reported that the Jeannette, Arctic exploring vessel, has been given up for lost at Ounalaski, on account of the severity of last winter. This belief is, however, ridiculed at the Navy Department, Washington. The Secretary of the Navy says that in his opinion there never has been a vessel in the Polar regions which was so finely adapted and admirably provided for the service she is engaged in as the Jeannette, and no vessel ever went toward the North Pole as strongly equipped as she. Her bow is a solid block of timber, 12 feet long, and every part of the vessel was strengthened accordingly. Officers, says the Herald, who have had experience of the Arctic seas, say they know of no reason why Lieutenant de Long should not be as successful as Nonlenskjold was in his northern voyage.  A political prisoner at fit. Petersburg has committed suicide in prison, having first disclosed the names of the leaders of the Nihilist organisation, and also that of the author of the plot to blow up the Winter Palaoe.  William Stephens, an Irish labourer at Sheffeld, was shot on Monday night, and is now at the Infirmary in a dying state. About ten o'clock a young man called him out of his house, and in two minutes after he was shot in the mouth. Three men were seen running away. He appears to linow who the men are, and the motive for the crime, but at present xefuses to give any information.  Drava room Cnor.art.t.—A WO of death from 1 Engbah cholera occurred at Lincoln on Saturday, the unfortunate victim being a man named John tireen. wood, a workman engaged at the Stamp End Works. Deceased was at his work up to Thurtday night, but on Friday morning felt unwell, and the attack rapidly developed into one of English cholera. Medical assistance was called in, but nothing could be done to arrest the progress of the disease, and death ensued at seven o'clock on •Saturdv morning, only a little over 24 hours later the comuleecement of the illness.  NARHOW ESCAPE MOM SITTPOCATION i