Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1890-10-11 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

BRIEF BITS.  A boy, nine years old, was slabbed while tending sheep at Newbridge, Monmouthshire, by a man unknown, and he is in a precarious state.  A law ha l just been promulgated in Norway to the effect that no girl *hall be eligible for the marriage atate until she is prolioient in spinning, knitting, and baking. The atrikes of blast furnacemen in Scotland, lightermen in Hull, and carters at Liverpool still continue. The Glasgow pig iron market Iva. again a little agitated on Wednesday.  ! A young man and a young woman of Periguneux, in France, have committed suicide. They were lovers, and chose this way of attaining a union , which they despaired of effecting in life. Al Stratford Essex Sessions, of Tuesday, two constables of the Metropolitan Police, named Reeve and Meiners, were committed for trial on a charge of stealing two fowls from a wilow's cottage at North Woolwich, on Thursday night.  Mont Blanc has just been successfully climbed by C boy aged 11 years, named Chalet, who accompanied his father and a guide to the summit. Thin is the youngest climber who has yet atmomplished the feat.  From a report on uninhabited properly to Birken• head, prepared by order of the Chief Constable, it appears that the total of such premises on the 30th ult. waa 1,071, a deoreaee of 302 compared with bet year,  Owing to apprehensions of a conspiracy at Constantinople, the local poetmaster ha e received inetromione to reface letter, the result being that all epistolary communications have to be sent by messenger.  The cremation of the body of the unfortunate man ' who committed suicide in St. Paul's Cathedral makes the 140th instance In which the Crematorium at Working hae been utilised since its opening 13 years ago.  A gentleman from Liverpool arrived at Mankato, Minnesota, in search of Richard Caton, a married , man, who, he says, left England with a young woman. Osten, learning this, left the town hurriedly with Mrs. Caton No. 2.  Two serious railway oollieione are reported from Italy. In the Bret, whieh happened near Novara, one pereon was killed and eight injured, and in the seoond, near Bt. Bever°, 17 were injured.  A peddler named Thomas Hall was remanded by the Warrington magistrate., on Wednesday, on • charge of attempting to murder a woman named Mary Lyons by throwing her into the Mersey. It has been reported to the Liyerpdol Watch Committee that there in a large inflat of bad characters in the streets off Islington, and that robberies in the streets and houses are largely  A Berlin telegram reports a sanguinary conflict between some soldiers of the Spandau garrison and a number of civilian., resulting in the death of a soldier and the eerie. Injury of many of the ' " "  r The fifteenth annual dairy show, tinder the auspices of the British Dairy Farmers' Association, was opened at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, on Wednesday, when the entrim for all classes snowed a marked increase over those of previous years.  The Lea lownere Convention of Sligo have adopted a reeolution approving of Colonel Lowry'. candidature for the representation of the University of Dublin. Sir td eby Crof too, Colonel Cooper, and Mr. Owen Phipps were chosen delegatee to the Dublin Convention.  A Ere occurred at the lace factory of the executors of the late Mr. Joseph Fletcher, Long Eaton, near Nottingham, on Tuesday night, and burnt until the early boars of Wednesday morning. The place was nearly gutted, the damage being estimated at £BO,