The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1879-10-04 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

GREAT FIRE IN AMERICA.  175 BUILDINGS DESTROYED.  An extensive conflagration has occurred at Deadwood, by which 175 buildings were destroyed. Two thousand persons are said to have been rendered homeless.  In the revision on Friday of the Parliamentary register of Westminster the claims of a number of ladies appeared on the list, and were struck off by the barrister, who censured the overseer for allowing these names to appear. Edward Gaunt and Hannah Topham were charged before the Derby magistrates, on Monday, with having violently assaulted a girl eight years of age, daughter of the female prisoner. The prisoners have been cohabiting, and it was shown that the woman, who appears to be of a violent temper, has systematically illtreated the child, striking her with a poker or any weapon that came to hand. The girl had a cut on her wrist, where her mother had cat her with a knife, and her body was shockingly bruised. The man was discharged, and the woman was sentenced to throe months' imprisonment, A suicidal mania seems to have been prevalent in Saxony during last year. The official statistics show 1,126 cases, of which 215 were those of women. The ages of those who committed self murder range from fourteen to ninety. Commenting on these facts, the British Medical Journal states that the number of suicides in London d ring the last few weeks has also been three times  s great as it was last year at the same time. It is supposed that the bad weather, the lack of sunshine, frequent rain, the recent storms and inundations have had a bad influence upon the minds of the inhabitants. e Rev. W. Jones Thomas writes from Llan Thomas, Hay, Breconshire, September 24 :—"There was buried on Thursday, the 18th inst., in Talgarth Churchyard, in this county, a man named William Beevan, at the very advanced age of 105. This case of longevity is well authenticated. I enclose the certificate of baptism from the vicar of Glasbnry, Radnorshire. He was never known to have received n3edical aid, and when, some years since, after he had reached the patriarchal age of 100, his friends thought it right to summon a medical man for some trifling ailment, Beevan, becoming aware of this, concealed himself in a closet until the surgeon had left." Two labourers, James Maggs and Olive Shepherd have died from the effects of inhaling the fames of dynamite in one of the shafts of the Severn Tunnel on the Monmouthshire side of the Bristol Channel. The men went in to work at two o'clock on Tuesday, and after being underground about four hours felt themselves suffocating. They made for the mouth of the shaft. On reaching the surface, where a store of medicine is kept in readiness for any such emergency, a dose was given to each of them; and as they felt extremely ill, Maggs was taken to his lodging, and Shepherd was taken to a house near at hand. Both men died on Wednesday morning. Maggs leaves a widow and six children, the poor woman having been confined only a fortnight ago. Shepherd lingered till a quarter past eleN en. He also leaves a widow.  Grenoble has just been the scene of terrible events. Surgeon-Major Servent, of the 52nd Regiment, was occupied in his drawing room on Saturday, when a ring of the bell was heard. Opening the door himself, a corporal named BossuRavix presented himself and asked for a consultation. M. Servent replied that he was unable to attend to him, as he (the corporal) had left the army, and recommended him to a doctor living below. Hereupon Bossu-Ravix drew out a revolver and fired twice at M. Servent, who, nevertheless, succeeded in grappling his aggressor by the waist, end both fell to the ground struggling. Once more did the fierce corporal let fly his revolver, and the bullet, which entered the surgeon's thigh and, extraordinary to relate, made its exit at his breast, does not seem to have done him any permanent injury. The cry he raised brought Madame Servant, who joined him in vigorously calling for help. The murderer, seized with fright, then left his victim, rushed into the kitchen, and, firing a couple of shots down his throat, expired. In the meantime, a doctor from below extracted the three bullets from his colleague, and when later in the day two generals with their staffs called to make inquiry of the injured surgeon-major, they were told that lie was getting on most satisfactorily. As to BossuRavix, not much is known of him. Be owed, it appears, M. &vent a grudge, and had mutilated his OM hand in order Lot to serve in the array.