The Northern News. — 1898-12-17 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

OOO.  At Marylebone a gentlemTn was charged with being drunk in Cavendish-square. His wife said he was not drunk, but had " a dynamite temper." Other witnesses agreed that he was sober, but police evidence was to a contrary effect. The magistrate thought the police had made a mistake, and discharged defendant without the least slur on his character. A notorious member of a certain provincial Board of Guardians has been the means of drawing an opinion from headquarters. The L.G.B. inspector, who was sent down, has advised that the chairman has a right to pall any persons offending to order, and if he declines to obey the members of the Board have a right to eject that person, using no more force than necessary. A remarkable banquet took place at Yarmouth, presided over by the Mayor. The only article on on the menu was sprats, served in various styles. The feast was intended to inaugurate the annual Yarmouth 'peat banquet, which it is hoped may attain to the fame and poularity of the Colchester oyster feast, and at the same time symbolise the industry on which the town depends. In 1770 a statue of William Pitt was erected in New York, but during the Revolution the head was knocked off, and the statue removed. It is now proposed to re-erect the figure with a new head OD it, as a mark of respect for Great Britain. A young head on old shoulders is very American. And it will be so convenient. If America is angry with us later, she can knock the head off again. The stoker Lynch, who was granted the Albert medal for conspicuous bravery on board H.M. torpedo boat destroyer Thrasher, on the occasion of the bursting of a steampire, when he was terribly injured in rescuing a comrade, was removed from Plymouth Naval Hospital on Saturday, and placed on a Cork steamer for conveyance to his home at Monetra, near Waterford. Lynch was in charge of two nurses, and his condition is still considered hopeless. The national bazaar, held at St. Martin's Town Hall, London, under the anspices of the Women's Total Abstinence Union, was opened on Wednesday by the Countess of Portsmouth, to whom a vote of thanks was proposed by the Lady Elizabeth Biddulph (ex-president), seconded by Mr. Edward Wood, J.P. and supported by Canon Wilberforce. On Thursday, the bazaar was re-opened by Lady Battersea, and on Friday by Miss M. E. D/ocwra (president). The total amount realized was about £9OO.  Canon Mac Coll tells an amusing story in a letter to the "Times." "A friend of mine" (says the Canon) "once shared the box-seat with the driver of a stage-coach in Yorkshire, and, being a. lover of horses, he talked with the coachman about his team, admiring one horse in particular. • Ah,' said the coachman, ' but that 'oss ain't as good as he looks; he's a scientific 'oss."A scientific horse!' exclaimed my friend. 'What on earth do you mean by that?' • I means, replied Jehu, • a 'oss as thinks he knows a deal more nor he does.'" One of America's millionaires, Mr. John Wanemaker, claims to have made his fortune through judicious advertising. Thirty-six years ago he was a salesman in a ready-made clothing house; to day he controls an immense business in New York, where he sells almost everything, and owns a large proportion of the shops in the main street of Philadelphia. His sons and dauters are married into "the most exclusive society' in America, and he himself hasbeen Postmaster-General of the United S ate.. A clothing contract for troops at the time of the Civil War was his first real success. The Board of Trade report on the railway accident which occurred on October 28th at Lunan Bay, on the North British Railway is published. The accident, which took place at night, was caused by a light engine running into a goods train. The driver and fireman of the light engine were killed, and the blame of the collision is unfortunately known to rest with them, as they ran through. Lunen Bay sta.:ion, passing the down starting signal at danger, entered on a wrong section of the. line, and the driver omitted to give up his tablet for the section over which they had travelled. The holy of a w•man named Alice May, wife of George May, watchman, of Fleetwood, was foundt aaphyxisted in mud in Fleet wood Hai !slur. On Sunday May MA taking her husbatel's supper le a steamer on the gridiron when it is thought she 1411 off the • pier and was drowned. Mr. M seeing that his wife had not arrived at the usual time, went in search of her, and it is a remarkable fact that *nines time afterwards he remembered hearing a splash its the water a few hours previously. This led to search, and the body was observed almost hidden in the mud, below. A little boy has had a startling experience in• Hyde Park. As he was walking along, he saw a gentleman take a revolver from his I °clue, put the muzzle to his right temple, and shoot himself in the head. The boy raised an alarm, and a constable coming on the scene found the suicide in the throes of death. He was conveyed to St. George's Hospital, but on arrival there life was extinct. Deceased was about forty-five years of age, of fair complexion, with a light broen moustache. Between 200 and 300 letters were imam, in his pockets, addressed in the name of Dixon to. various hotels. The Princess of Wales poorg....es a famous pirrot called "Ducky." It was bought by Pitt in 173y3, and presented by that statesman to George 111. in 1800. The bird is known to be nearly two hundred years old, but it nevertheless retains all its feeiilti,e. France can also claim to have had a noted parve which, according to the " F.% kiement," sat for maily years on its perch at the War Office, and KIM the coming vid going of eight Governments. It brought from Guadeloupe by the captain of a frigate,. and given to Marshal Moult, who metalled " Jacquot at the Ministry of War in 1830, and taught.. him to say. " Vive le Rot."  ARCHDEACON DIGGLE oN