Widnes Examiner. — 1884-03-22 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

WHAT WR PAY FOR EDUCATION.—FrOfn the annna return of the Education Depart.nent it appears that tbe expenditure for 1883 was £2846027 5s 21, an increase £44,022 43 10.1 over 1832. rho amount nod to Church Of England schools was £1,311,000 16s 51„e decrease of £5,894 14s lid; to Board schools £858,019 lie, an increase , of £44,611 lie; to Roman Catholic schools £131,891 1832 d, a decrease of £2,352 93 8 ; to undenomits iti net schools £223,231, an increase of £1,297; and to Wesleyan schoole £ll4 671, an increase of £2 714. The Sootsinan understands that Mr. David Hunter Blair, , proprietor of the estate of Dunskey, in Wigtownsh ire, and of the Browhill, in Ayrshire, is about to join the Benedictine commueity at St. Benedict's Abbey, Fort Augustus. IS accordance with the vow of poverty he has conveyed bill whole estates to that community. The refuel of the estate° Is upwards of £6,000 a year. Mr. Mair is the eldest of Sir Edward Hunter Blair, of Blaiiqu ban, in Ayrshire, end became a Homan Catholic shortly after attaining hie majority. He is, of course, heir to the b aronetcv. The inhabitants of Ambleside do not, it would appear, entertain any of the " sentimental " objections to railroads which have recently been urged in behalf of line-tbreatened "spots of beauty." On Wednesday the princioel residents in that favoured town held a meeting and decided without disoordant voice to interview the directors of the Nonar Western and Furness Railways, with the intention of preening an immediate extension of one of those Imes to Amble* , side, either from Windermere or Newby Bridge. it°lll,, other than sentimental may be presumed to weigh heaViir with the people of Ambleside. The estimates for the revenue departments for the cocaine, year have now been issued, and Shove ni trio a rgregate little variation from the figures of the year now closing. The charges on account of the Customs' end Inland Reventle • Departments show a decrease of £40,000, end the NISI Office and Telegraph Departments an increase of nearlf £42,000, so that the decrease in one case about balances Oe Increase in the other. The additional expenditure on ee' count of the Post Office and Telegraph Departments doubt, be found to be owing to the parcels poet and the kr' , rangement in connection with sixpenny teleeraMs. At the Bolton County Court, on Wednesday. the We.e.,. derers Football Club was summon( d by a Deane ferule' named Heaton for damage done to his crops and lend ef spectators at a football match promoted by tha defendants; A very large number of persons witnessed the m etch, an', it was alleged that they trespassed on Mr. Heaton's land am' broke down fences. Heaton, however, was shown to have : admitted crowds of spectators upon his own land, whene* they could overlook the game, for a lower payment than WO charged by the club. A verdict for the defendants WI given, the Judge expressing his inability to sympathise Wit ; Heaton. tb MURDER OF A MOTHER AT BR m lETON.—At the Laes(London) Police Court, on Wednesday, Seymour Boyer Belton, aged 26 years, was charged with wilfully murderieg Mary Relton, his mother, at Spencer.roac, Brixion, by' eeet; ting her throat with a racer. Harriet Retfin, servant of teu: deceased, said that on Tuesday, sooa after three o'clock, SD° heard some one fall in the deceased's bedroom and went She saw the prisoner standing over the dece ised. His le • hand was smeared with blood. He said she had cut liScri throat. The police gave evidence that Dr. Barraclougb the deceased could not have dine it herself. The prisoner clothes were blood-stained. He was remanded till TuesdaY next.  ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A COASTGITAItDBmAN.—NeSr Clifed, on the Connemara coast, a vessel, a total wreck, Nil° on Tuesday night drifted ashore. Barrels of rum, paraffin' and many other things being thrown up on the sand, ale people of the district have laid bands on as much as the! could carry off, and the coastguardsmen have tied a diffiesi` time of it. One of them is now in the hospital stiffed° from severe stab wounds inflicted by a man who made $ ferocious attack on him with a knife. Although the coastguardsman carried a loaded revolver, he refrained lvsfa using it and defended himself with his sword Case. He IS in a critical state. The prisoner who was arrested Was (14-t turbed while pilfering some of the cargo, and made a sls6 'desperate resistance. SETTING A WOMAN ON FIRE: COMMITTAL FOR MORDSO' —An inquest was held before the Liverpool coroner, 00 Thursday, on the body of Mary Jine rmara, a young worn in, who died in the Sou Vern Hospital from the effenl of burning. The evidence showed that the deceased live, with a man named Black in a small house ie Mann-strn. Black is a "loafer" of violent character known by the name of "The Major." On the night of the 25th nit. tr two were drinking in the house of a neighbour, old on their returning to their own house shortly after midnight Black quarrelled with the deceased because the glebe of the Para': fin lamp was broken. He took the lamp and threw it her. It &Tuck her on the head, and the oil p,ured over lies head and body all aflame. The woman fell down in WI • and became insensible. She was aroused by toe neighbost pouring water over her, and was removed in a terrible ets'e to the hospital. Here she improved for sem, time, but relapse taking place she died —A ee,diet if wilful rearde' was returned against Black, who is in custody. MURDER AND SUICIDE AT BANcinte —Juhn Price, a faesserr living on Lord Penrhyn's estate at Ygoutiornewyddr Bangor, on Wednesd ky afternoon murdered Catherine his stepmother, and then committed suicide. Price, •Wm.: was a year older than his stepmother, enjoyed under father's will a joint interest ia the farm. As he bad pressed an intention of marrying, there were contiess quarrels between the two. About three o'clock on Wedriere day afternoon he retureed borne after taking some cattle hlv the mountain. A servant girl, hearing quarrelling is tele, back kitchen, went there, and found Mrs. Price dead, _ her throat cut, and her stepson bolding the body. The ran out and summoned one of the eervaatinen, who, ,$.; reaching the back kitchen, found that John Price had IS out his throat. Medical assistance was sent fr, and Presi. Grey, Edwards, and Langford Jones, of Bangor, were preesit in leas than thirty minutes, but Price died before tbin.: arrival. A hheel-stained razor was picked op on the kitche; floor. Tile murderer, who had if late bt an drinkitse:i heavily, wasa widower with one child. The affair has cree great excitement in the district, and there were on wedner day night immense crowds about the farm prectiols. CURIOUS CLAUSE Ile AN Li:DENTURE OF AppRENTI,Cri