The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1875-06-19 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

THE EXAMINER.  SAIIIRDAY, RINE 19, 1r77,  The miners employed by Crawshay and Sons. in the Forest of Dean. have agreed t“ accept any reduction of wages winch would enable masters to reduce the prier of coal. Mr. J. I). Blacker. accountant-general to the Bank of Ireland. Was on Tuesday. re. manded on a charge of embezzling bowls, value £^2,100. It in stated that no defalcation% affecting the Bank have been discovered. • - At York, on Wednesday, a vordict—oTwilful murder was returned against Joseph Howard for poisoning his daughter with prussic avid. He afterwards committed suicide, and th found in his ease a verdict of fe/o,k ss.  The Grand Jury at the Commission Court, Dublin. have ignored the bill against the L rd Mayor and the town councillors of Dublin for allowiug a nuisance to exist by accumulation of mud ut the streets.  The bargemen engaged on the Glamorgan. shire Canal have struck, in consequence of their having to open the lock-gates themselves. This work having hitherto been done by by persons employed for the purpose. The revenue returns from April Ist to June 12th, 1875, are as follow :—Reecipts, £15,234,139; expenditure, £15,347.743; balances, . £5,517,648. In the corresponding period of last year they were :—Fteceipts. £144534.574 , expenditure, £14,911,091; balances. £6,483,464.  Two miners. named kneaddy and Bayliff, whilst descending a new shaft at Denney's wines, Barrow, in a bucket, instead 1 by the ladder as prescribail, were precipitated to the bottom by the snapping of the rope. The bodies were dreadfully mangled.  At the official declaration of the result of the West Suffolk election on Wednesday the number voting for Colonel Wilson, the Con. servative candidate, was stated to have been 2,780 ; and for Mr. Easton. Liberal, 1,061, thus giving the former a majority of 1,710. The excessive damages. £3.275. awarded in the first instance against the proprietors of the Athemeam in an action for an alleged libel, contained in an ordinary 1k review, brought by Messrs. Johnston, of Edinburgh. publishers, have been redumd to V,lOO.  The reports of the arbitrators in the Denaly Main Colliery have been presented, and are in the main favourable to the masters. Theuteu have raised some objection, and declare that they will not t,,0 on to work till it is satis. factorily settled. The manager states that he will open the pit next week, and all who choose can have work. On Wednesday the last party of Mormons that will leave Liverpool this year sailed for New York in the Gluon Mail steamer. Wisconsin. This detachment, nuntherim; o'er 100, is in charge of Mr. Young, and a v..terau elder named Smith. Fifty persons of this de. taehment consisted of Germans, and the rest were English, Scotch, and Welsh. The Registrar-General's retinal for the week ending Saturday last shows the number of deaths per 1,000 to have been in Edinburgh, 20 ; Glasgow, 28; Dublin, 20; Leicester. 11; Portsmouth, 15; Nottingham. 16 Bradford, 19; Bristol, 20; London, 20; Sheffield, 20; Leeds. 21; Oldham, 21; Wolverhampton. 22; Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 22; Norwieh, 22: Birmingham. 21.; Sunderland, 24: Liverpool. 25; Hull, 25 ; Salford. 25; and Manchester, 29. Average rate was 22.