The Warwickshire Herald. — 1886-07-01 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

SPECIAL NOTICE TO OUR READERS.  THE Protestant Bishop of Ardag,h addressed the annual meeting of the Orpheus Society at Longford on Saturday, when he said they would never give up and ever contend for the honoured word of "Protestant." They were loyal to the backbone ; they loved their Queen, and gloried in the succes• sion which placed her on the throne. The Rev. Arthur Moore, of Belfast, said they did not intend to go in for anything themselves in the North if Home Rule were adopted, but if need be they would come down and help their brethren in the South.  DR. NORMAN NERII, in a letter addressed to railway men, is loud in the praises of cocoa, milk, and tea, as preferable to alcoholic drinks for enabling people to endure the cold. COLLECTING celebrities' boot-heels is the latest craze in Berlin. A German has gathered together 1,000 heels from boots and shoes wr,sr. ctzelit nersonves, and declares that the character and disposition can be traced by the way in which the wearer treads down the heels. Os Saturday, the annual meeting of the supporters and friends of the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, was held at their house in Jermyn-street, St James's. Lord Wolseley presided, and spoke in favour of muzzling dogs with a view of preventing another outbreak of hydrophobia. In the afternoon a great meeting of young persons who had contributed essays on the subject of preventing cruelty to animals was held in St. James's Hall, when Princess Beatrice presented the prizes gained by the successful students.  - THOUGH the writs were issued on Saturday, and the Volunteer Regulations forbid the muster of corps in any electoral district between the issue of the writ and the completion of the election, it was decided not to interfere with the official inspections and other parades ordered for last Saturday; but it is expected that those inspections arranged for next Saturday will have to be postponed, and in most cases drill of all kinds will be suspended until after the General Election.  Arrangements have been completed with the whole of the railway companies of the Kingdom whereby parties of twenty-five and upwards can, from August 9 next, obtain at greatly reduced prices through tickets, with admission to the Colonial and Indian Exhibition.  The Colonial Volunteer team for the Wimbledon Rifle Meeting arrived at Plymouth on Saturday night, on board the Orient Line steamship Chin. borax& The team numbers fifteen men. Yseult Pitney, who shot O'Donovan Rossa, is about to be released from the insane asylum, in which she has been kept by order of Court, and sent to England. It is hinted that a former admirer has been befriending her. In consequence of the increasing illness and mortality among the British troops in Egypt, it was on Saturday deckled at the War Office to further reduce the forcelhere. The Ist Battalion Dorset. shire Regiment is ordered home. THE _Morning Poet is "authorised to confirm the report that her Majesty the Queen has addressed a gracious letter to the Comte de Paris on his arrival in England from Eu."  Mi. cutter yacht Galatea sailed from Southamp. ton on Monday for the United States, to fulfil her challenge against the holder of the American cup. Lieutenant Henn, R.N., her owner, and his wife, go out in the Galatea.  FOUR special trains arrived at Chester from Holyhead on Sunday, bringing 2,u 00 Irish harvest. men. A great number of the men will remain in Cheshire, while others will go south in search of work.  AN imposing ceremony was performed in the Chapel Royal at Madrid on Sunday morning on the occasion of the churching of Queen Christina. She knelt at the door of the chapel holding a lighted taper and with the little king in her arms, to receive the benediction in the ordinary manner on such occasions.. At the short mass the Archbishop of Toledo officlated. The Ministers of the Crown, the members of the Royal Family, and the leading officials were present.  A TELEGRAM from Calais states that a man named Bijou, who used to perform as a man monkey, has been devoured by a lion in a menagerie.  THE Staines police are investigating a very remarkable case. On Whitsun Monday Annie Ifale, aged 20, whose parents live at Western-road, Kew-bridge, left her home to spend the day with the man to whom she was about to be married—Robert Henry Chinn, a blacksmith, residing at Willow-walk, Chertsey. She did not return to her home, and her mother wrote to Superintendent Bungard, of the Surrey constabulary, stationed at Chertsey. The letter was received on the night of Thursday week, and half-an-hour afterwards Chinn entered the Chertsey police-station in a wet and exhausted condition, and stated that the girl had committed suicide by throwing herself into the Thames at Shepperton, and that he had attempted to rescue her, but had failed. The police at once went to the spot indicated, and found the umbrella, hat, and gloves of the deceased on the bank between Shepperton and Littleton, and commenced dragging for the body; but up to the present time it has not been recovered. At a Ertl., distance from the bank there were evidences of a struggle, and the river at this point is very shallow. Chinn has been detained, and will be charged on Monday on suspicion of having caused the death of the girL The police find that Chinn and the young woman had been staying for three nights at an inn at Virginia Water, and were seen together at Hampton races, and also that the prisoner pawned the deceased's gold watch in Staines.