Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1883-12-01 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

PEIYSICAL EDUCATION OF GIRLS.  An open practise in Swedish physical exerciees was recently given at the Assembly Rooms, Stoke Newington London, by the pupils of Miss James, of Tottenham Mrs Fenwick Miller, M.L.5.8., occupied the chair, and the room WU crowded by an interested audience. After the children of the Kindergarten class had gone through several action songs and games, the young ladies performed a number of graceful movements designed to put in action the various muscles of the body. The pupils were dressed in short skirts of blue serge, draped with a crimqon s-arf, and blue jerseys, and wore else sloor t trousers and long stockings. At the conclusion ol the practice Mrs. Fenwick Miller observed that Vat most pressing educational need of the time was hetet schools for the middle classes. If these were not pro. sided, children of middle-class parents of the present day would be distanced in the march of life by those of the working classes, who had the benefits of State education. Phyeical training was no less necessary than mental, and especially so in the case of middle-class girls, the circumstances of whom lives were such that their physical development would rarely be good unless systematic training, with that object, were given is their schools. There was a great deal of hardship in the lives of women which girls should hare strength developed to encounter. The visible results of deficiency of exercise were to be seen in the frequency of liver complaint, and that condition of general ill-health in which so many women lived. With regard to the dress; Mrs. Miller said that a great part ot the enormous infantile mortality of this country would doubtless be prevented if such a costume as that worn by the clue were generally adopted by parents for their children.  Mn. NISFIETT, the treasurer of the SouthEasters Railway works at Ashford, has committed suicide. As the Brussels express train was nearing Ash.; ford Station, the unfortunate man deliberately threw himself before the train. His head first struck the engine, and was shattered past all recognition, while both legs were severed from the body. A SUOCKING cnnix has been committed at Poor Dwellings, Litt,e Bromwich. Frederick Semen, an agricultural labourer, has been living on unhappy terms with his wife for some time past. They separated, the wife going to live at Birmingham with her friends, but eubse meetly the wife went to her husband's house. situated in a lonely spot, and after entering the house was not again seen alive. A brother of the murderer. living at the house, went home to tea, and finding the door fastened, broke it open, when he discovered the MI,. dered woman in the bedroom, blood flowing from a wound over the right temple; and the husband was found in bed undressed, and quite dead, having poisoned himself. The poor woman's bead appeared to have been battered in with some blunt instrument. A letter left by the mar. derer points to jealousy as the cause of the crime. . . „.  ATrit mond meetlng of the Shropshire Chamber of Agriculture, held at Shrewsbury, a long discussion took place on the existing regulations under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1875, with regard to the importation of foreign cattle. Mr. T. Poole presided. Mr. J. Bowen Jonm moved: "That this Chamber regrets that effect has not yet been given to the resolution passed by the House of Commons on July 10 last with reference to the importation of foot-and-mouth disease, and calls upon her Majesty'. Government forthwith to prohibit the landing of animals in this country from countries affected with foot-and-mouth disease. This Chamber also considers that greater uniformity on the pastel the local authorities would rapidly arrest the spread of the infection, and they wish to press the Government to take the necessary steps to effect this object." Mr. T. Mansell seconded the resolution. Amongst subeepent speakers were Mr. R. J. More, Mr. Stanley Leighton, M.P., and Mr. J. E. Severne, M.P. The resolution was unanimously carried. A SERIOUS ACCIDENT has occurred to the Irish express, which recently left Neyland at 2.45 in the morning for London. When passing near Kidwilly, where a goods train was being shunted, the express dashed into some trucks which were not quite clear of the line. The express was severely damaged, and the line blocked, an that the down mail was delay( d for some hours. A later telegram states that the express eon. slated of an engine, tender, three coaches, a guard's van, and four horse-boxes, and it was running at a high rate of sped. After the collision the engine ran for 150 yards and then turned over. The roof of the first passenger carriage was smashed by the wheels of one of the trucks, and one of the pas,ngers had his collar-bone dislocated, this being the only one injured out of fifty. Three out of nine horses were hurt.  AT a recent meeting of the Council of the Sanit try Institute of firma Britain, Dr. Carpenter in the Chair, the (ohms tog gentenfen were elected : As fellow, Dr. Edmonston Charles. as members, Jabez Spence Balfour, M.P., Dr. J. T. llinton, E. Long, Jacob floury Masters, C. NV. Bbilpots, M.D., and T. Lee Rymer ; and two atsociates were also elected.  A MUNICIPAL bye-election took place recently at Peterborough, being fought oat on political principles, and resulting in the return of two Liberals to the Town Council, the numbers being East Ward, Pearson (L), w,3 ; Percival (C.), 1411. North Ward, Cliffs (L), 645; Browd (C.), 4W.  AT the Police-court, South Shields, John Robson, °unman, has been remanded on a charge of committing extensive burglaries. Inspector Patterson depo-ed that he conveyed two cabloads and one cartload of articles from the prisoner's house. Prisoner on being charged by the officer, mid, "Yes, behold the goods. Thpv we lying before you. It is no me denying it; I took them."