The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1884-07-05 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

EPITOME OF NEWS.  BRITISH AND FOREIGN,  A LONGIIEADED LAWYER.—A celebrated lawyer was having his head measured at a fashionable hat store the other day. The man remarked: "Why, how long your head is, sir !" "Yes," said the lawyer, "we lawyers must have long heads." The man went on with his measuring, and rewarked next, And it is as thick as it is long, sir.'  Precautions are being taken throughout Canada against arrivals from France, in consequence of the outbreak of cholera in that country. At an adjourned inquest held on Saturday, on the body of Thomas Gallemore, waggoner, Brewood, the jury found that death was caused by a blow on the head inflicted by Charles Clarkson, of Wolverhampton, but that the blow was given in self-defence, and their verdict was" Justifiable homicide." Three spurious £5O Bank of England notes have been received by a New York Bank from out-town branch. An individual has been arrested at Milwaukie while attempting to 11,,,gotiate similar notes' The number of bills of sale published in England and Wales for the week ending June 28 was 210. The number in the corresponding week of last year was 244, showing a decrease of four, being a net decrease in 1844, to date, of 426. The number published in Ireland for the same week was 19. The number in the corresponding week of last year was 33, showing a decrease of 14, being a net decrease, in 1884, to date, of 482. Thomas Kennedy, one of the prisoners charged with the murder of a bailiff at Ballyforan, near Ballinasloe, and who last week turned approver, committed suicide in his cell on Tuesday morning by hanging himself to a hook from which his hammock was swung. In the University cricket match at Lord's, which was concluded on Tuesday, Oxford won by seven wickets. At Cheltenham the Philadelphians beat the Gentlemen of Gloucestershire by 168 runs. A death from a singular cause occurred at Raystone on Monday morning. A boy, aged four years, who was left in bed on Sunday morning after his parents had gone downstairs, took from a box in the room a bottle containing brandy, of which, it is supposed, he drank about half a gill. He was afterwards found in bed with the cork of the bottle in his hand, and Bleeping ;,o heavily, that he could not be roused. Medical assistance was,called in, but he died next morning. Crop reports from the Canadian North-wast continue to be very gratifying. The weather has been propitious, with ample rainfall, and, should present expectations be fulfilled, the crop will be a very large one. The area under cultivation is, moreover, largely in excess of last year. The land returns of the Canadian Pacific Railway alone show that, to the end of April in this year, the sales to settlers reached the figure of no less than 53,375 acres, as against only 8000 in the same period of ast year.  A Parliamentary Paper issued on Tuesday shows that the number of human corpses found in the Regent's Canal within the metropolitan district during the years 1882 and 1883 was in the former year fortyfour, and in the latter forty-three. The coroners' juries returned verdicts of accidental death in twentyone cases, of wilful murder in two cases, of suicide in eighteen cases, accl forty-six open verdicts. The Princess Louise, who was accompanied by the Marquis of Lorne, presided on Tuesday at the formal opening of the old cemetery of St. George's, Bloomsbury, London and which, by the effortS of the Kyrie society, has been laid out and preserved as a public garden. According to a Dundee paper, on the cccasion of a recent Sunday School trip, a minister committed the amazing indiscretion of marrying three couples in fun, and some of them are now dreadfully afraid that by the law of Scotland they are wedded in earnest. On Monday afternoon, while Allan Mackenzie, a gardener, was standing on a low seat arranging some flowers in a garden at Hawick, he lost his balance and fell to the ground. In falling, one of his eyes came in contact with a slight iron rod, which supported a growing plant. The rod pierced the eye and entered the forehead of Mackenzie to a depth of six inches. He died in a few minutes.  A telegram' dated Victoria, Vancouver's Island, July 1, states that an explosion occurred on Monday in the Wellington Colliery at Nanaimo. Twenty-four persons Were killed and many injured. In London last week 2691 births and 1471 deaths were registered. Allowing for increase of population, the births were 99, and the deaths 1 above, the average numbers in the corresponding weeks of the last ten years. The annual death-rate from all causes, which had steadily declined in the four previous weeks from 19.2 17.8 per 1000, rose again by 19.1. The deaths included 29 from small-pox. Lord Kinnaird has intimated his intention of reducing the rents on his Rossie estates 15 per cent. in consideration of the depressed state of agricultural affairs.  Fourteen British ona-foreign actual shipwrecks were reported last week, of which nine were British owned, making the total for the present year 794, against 992 for the corresponding period of last year. Only one vessel (British) was reported lost with all hands. Three (Spanish, American, and British owned) were destroyed by fire, one being struck by lightning. The number of live stock and the quantity of fresh meat landed at Liverpool during last week from the United States and Canada amounted to 1262 cattle, 6200 quarters of beef, and 791 carcases of mutton, showing, when compared with the arrivals of the preceding week, a decrease in the imports of live stock, but an increase in that of fresh meat.  waisntue a least kdt,,a. A Vienna telegram states that on Saturday a fearful thunderstorm broke suddenly over some workmen employed on the Lemberg-Ozernowitz Railway. Three of them were killed, one was wounded, and five were iniasing. A train conveying surgeons and medicines was sent to their assistance. flying the Imperial standard, and accompanied sailed past Cron other Imperial yachts from Peterhof, of the On Saturday the Russian Emperor's yachtOzarbyevntwaj stadt out to sea. The Imperial party, composed Emperor and Empress and the Duchess of Edinburgh, intend visiting the islands on the coast of Finland. Of 40 persons who wore The steamer Wieland, which arrived at Plymouth on y43%oomNN.,elwonYa.o4rk7.,srselpvor.,tsshtheasit gohnttehde an iceberg lJaocheno'ns;sNaturewfdoauyn, a:dna:oB733lo ;Ito! A steam boiler in use at a village near Dayton, Ohio in a flour mill exploded on Friday night in last 2rai6mallaofsrfte, the persons ckarged with the murder working there, 27 were buried in the ruins, seven being killed and others injured—three of them fatally. Intooltp wlrsOeckfti.nhgigthh.e mill. of five Orangemen during the riots at Harbour Grace on December t  .1 ).1.,_. , il ' f .41 ' . i . . , _ ..... ~ , - --