The Potteries Examiner : — 1880-01-24 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

IMMO. factored tobacco with intent to defraud her Mapety's revtnue. The magistrates ordered Jones to pay 12 to. and Brown £2O, or be. imprisoned one month each.  The movable fire station placed by the I.fetropolitan Bmird of Works for the use of a certain number of members of the fire brigades some time since at Ludgate Circus has 114411 found to answer the purport so well that the Board are about to increase the number of these stations, and place them in various parts of the metropolis, selecting those points which are not close to any of the regular fire brigade stations.  ta onlcially announced that, as a part 01 the ar• .angements mole tsr the redaction in the number of irtual entries of rival cadets. it has been decided :lot in future a candidate is to br taloned only one niamination. It jeetion or non-erpearimre will finally exeltule him from it eaditship.  • Mr. G. Wharton Simpson. M.A.. }'.S.A., the editor and proprietor of the PhOographic Seers and the Pkorographie Year Book, and perhaps the greatest authority in Europe on all matters -connected with photography, died the other day at 'his reeddenee e Catford Bridge, after a fit of apoplexy.  • - • The barque Seaman, of Itostock, with a rargo of salt from Gloucester to Antwerp, went into Cardiff Dock on Saturday for repaim She reports that whib• lying at anchor in Pcnarth RoadS She was cut down by the French Brig Amiable Celeste She is seriously damaged, and must discharge her cargo.  A railway accident, involving considerable damage to rolling stock, has occurred at K nutton, on the North Staffordshire Railway. A goods train was bring shunted, when it was run into by a mineral Duni which had to piss over the line. 'riot van was broen to pieces, and several of the trucks were wrecked. As Italian paper mentions that Senior Antonio Ferrucci has started for Brazil to survey and construct a railway, of one metre gauge and sixty miles Icing, from Paranagua to Curitiba, in Brazil, and that Signori Davide Bocci, and Luigi lmiggi see alma to start for Cyprus to report on the reclamation of the Famagosta marshes.  ..... The wife of a man named Broadhurst, at Whitwick, Leicestershire, whilst taking tea with her :hildren, jumped up luau the table, and snatching up a bread-knife plunged it into her throat, the blade penetrating nevoid inches. The pour woman died in a few minutes. No reason is assigned for the rash act  The Army and Navy Gaitlie announces that the long-expected warrant for the reorganisation of the Commiseariat and Transport Depoiniont, though signed by her Majesty, has at the lust moment Is,co Alelced, Colonel Stanley having telegraphed instructiono to the Surveyor-fienend of °nit:Lance to stop its issue. The final rounds in the series of experiments ordered in consequence of the explosion on board the Thunderer has been fired at Woolwich. The sanction of the Sceretary of State to the crucial trial of a double charge is now awaited, and in almut a fortnight the work of the committee which has been conducting these tests will probably be completed. An exciting scene took place at a tire in Liverpool, on Saturday, in a model lodging-house. Upwards of one hundred men were asleep when the alarm was given. The lire was in the lower part of the premises, and the men scrambled tlinnigh the indowe in the greatest alone. They were housed in the police station till the her was sulalued. rflic kitchen of the building was burnt out and the dormitory iniured remains fished a slum out of the Seine, and moon afterward found him hanging to a tree, lie let Inin hang, Lula to an officer Who asked him why he didn't interfere to prevent the suicide, he said : Ilevause I had just fished him out of the water, and supposed he had hung himself up to dry."  WHEN a woman gets a red spot on the cad of her nose, the world charitably remarks that her blood is out of order; but just let that red spot appear on a 11110.13.8 nose. and every one will declare that they can smell whisLy soon as they get within twenty feet of him. Strange, yet generally true in both awes.  Mr. thou ge —0 'ous.  a p Gen " Jo OIL MOL of a bead  woli+ Hem 'Tie+ Her.  mid 1:10U11 alltt  visit in n We doti ague  beet Irak labs( imp P•r! effe  091 she ?OD lea Cr' out