The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1890-09-27 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

GENERAL NEWS.  Altogether 1,826,617 persons have visited the burgh Exhibition. Mr. E. P. Marum, M.P. for North Kilkenny, di ed,r, Sunday at Listowel. The death is announced of Sir Archibald D 044 Stewart, Bart., of Murtly Castle. Four shops were destroyed, early on Monday ia tog, by a fire which broke out at Rushden, Norihar;. tonshire.  Mr. Paul Belcher, a well-known medical practitios of Burton-on-Trent, has committed suicide by r:, prussic acid. Three soldiers of the Ist Battalion King's gm, Rifles have been arrested at Aldershot on a char '4 highway robbery. A millwright named Sewell, while painting at the of a mill at Long Sutton on Friday, fell 80 feet ah was killed. Mrs. C. P. Scott was on Monday elected by the Msh chester School Board a member of that body, ja room of the late Miss Lydia Becker. It is announced that the Cape of Good Hope Bank, which, at the end of last year held deposits to th. amount of two and a half millions, has suspended ps,.. ment. Upwards of 100 houses have been destroyed by in the town of Jablunka, Moravia. It is estimated th, more than 1,000 persons are without shelter or rasa, of subsistence. A merchant of St. Heliers, named Lebas, Was Saturday sentenced by the Royal Court at Jersey to ta years' imprisonment for forgery. The amount he tamed by this means was stated to be £l,lOO. At Southampton, on Saturday, Alderman Coles, as. Mayor, was summoned by the Rev. W. Perrin, of St. Luke's, for being drunk on the occasion ef dockers' meeting last week, which he attended. Th, crowd called out that he was drunk. A large number of the members of the Iron and Steel Institute, including Sir James 'Kitson, Bart., the pres, dent, left the Mersey on Saturday in the Cunard servui for New York, where the annual meeting of cas Institute will be held on October 3. Two persons boating off Llandudno on Saturdu drifted seaward owing to the breaking of an oar, and were obliged to hoist a signal of distress. The pier. master sent out a boat to their rescue, and they wert brought ashore amid some excitement. A new use is reported to have been discovered fot English hops, namely, for the curing of bacon. It 1, found that a sprinkling of hops in the brine when bacon and hams are put in pickle adds greatly to the flavour of both and enables them to be kept an indefinite period. - -  While people complain that taxes are exhorbitant Italy, it is deplorable to find that the voluntary in paid by the poorer classes in the form of lottery is constar.tly on the increase. During the last year the money paid for lottery to the State amounted to over three millions sterling. The rumour that the supposed assassin of Couneil'ot Rossi, in the recent disturbances at Ticino, has arrived in the metropolis has caused considerable excitement it the Swiss colony in London. A question will probably be raised concerning his extradition, as the crime was of a political nature. Utah is looking up, whatever may be said of Mot. monism. Thirty years ago the population, according to the census returns, numbered rather more than 40,000. The census Just taken gives a return of 206,398 souls, and it shows an increase of 43 per cent. during the last ten years. Baron de Hirsch's fortune, it is said, amounts to some 300,000,000 francs. His wife, the daughter of tip banker, M. Bischoffsheim, brought him herself a dowry of some twenty millions of francs. The bulk of Baron de Hirsch's money was, however, made by lucky speculating in Ottoman railways.