The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1875-03-27 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

PAENENTS TAKEN. elev‘tti,,u of Archbishop M-Cleskey to the Cardinal:tr.  At the Dudley Police Court, on Tuesday morning, Edward Matthews, master baker, Netherton, was committed for trial for unlawfully receiving a quantity of stolen coal from two boys, who had taken it from the collieries of Messrs Dunn. The evidence went to prove that the boys were encouraged to take the coal bx the offer of sweets. The case excited considerable interest amongst coahnasters. ; At Salt Lake City. on the 10th instant, Brigham Young, the Apostle of Mormonism, appeared before Judge MKean to answer for neglecting to pay 3.000 dols.—the costs awarded against him in the divorce suit successfully instituted by his latest wife. Ann I Eliza Young—and. 500 dols., the alimony allowed her. He was fined 25 dole., mid sent to the Penitentiary for one day.  act wiseiy in reading, marking, learning, and warclly digestiug the iLlivice with which the dova. ment concludes, of the value of friendly relations between capital and labour, and of arbitration in promoting and preserving peace and good sill. Would that the advice given were taken by th„ masters in South Wales!  In another column we publish the award *hid Mr. Kettle has this week given in the case of* Birmingham bricklayers and their ',Munro,. case consisted of an appeal for an advance on the part of the men, which the arbitrator, after dj,. cussing very fully, cannot see his way to award, and therefore he decides against them. There is at least one point in this award which is likely. t. lead to some discussion, viz., thy. suggestion that in the summer time, when trade is busied. that the workman ye allowed to make the moat of his labour and the master of his capital. This clearly points to working over-time, and amse out y,f the claim of the men that they ought to reeeivs advance on account of irregular work in the winter time.  Richard Coates, the soldier who is lying in the county gaol at Springfield under sentence of death for the murder of Alice Boughen at Purfleet garrison, has made a full confession. He admits that the crime was a most brutal one, and at the end of his confession he adds. „ . . .  " I bad been drinking somewhat freely during the earlier part of the day I committed the murder, and was therefore excited to commit the foul deed for which I have been sentenced to death."  Frederick Hunt. 39 years of age, described as an accountant, was brought up at the Lambeth Police-court on Monday, charged with the wilful murder of his wife and daughter. with having attempted to poison two of his sons. and to commit suicide. The governess and the maid-servant deposed that early on Sunday morning Hunt entered the bedroom where they and one of his little girls were sleeping, and asked for the latter. The governess, noticing his agitated manner, refused to part with the child, and thus in all probability saved her life. The prisoner's son, a lad of 13, was also called to speilt to the administration of laudanum to his two younger brothers by the father, who ineffectually en- i deavoured to persuade him also to partake of it. Medical testimony showing the condition in which the bodies were found having been : adduced, the prisoner was remanded. It is stated by the Levant Herald" that. instead of the famine in Asia Minor having . ceased its ravages in any one district, it appears I to have gained in intensity everywhere. In the city of Angora itself, though bread is now sold at a comparatively cheap rate, many of the poor have not the means of purchasing, even at the lowest prices. They sold everything they had last year, and, being without work now, are as dependent on charity as they were in November. One of the reports read at the meeting of the Relief Committee at Constantinople on the 9th stated that in the district of Boghazlian very great suffering prevailed, and sonic deaths from starvation had occurred. In a village of 200 houses 65 persons had died of starvation in a few weeks. One of the inhabitants had taken his wife to a neighbouring village, and sold her for eight measures of wheat, but the buyer ultimately returned her. In another village, containing 80 houses, six persons bad recently died of starvation, and the greatest destitution prevailed. There, as elsewhere, no cattle or sheep remained.  MR