The Warwickshire Herald. — 1888-01-05 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

EVERYTHING.  Tan Druids' annual dinner at Oxford was bold on Monday night. Tun number of applications for patents during the past year amounted to 18,028, being an increase on the previous year. iT is announced that 12 724 miles of new American railways were laid in 1887, making the total extent of American railways 180,710 miles. Mg !stela deputation to Ireland is to represent ...he Eastbourne Liberals. Colonel Brown, the lAberdl candidate, pays expenses. Dia Duke of St. Albans has returned to his Lincolnshire tenantry twenty per mint of their Michaelmas rents. _ _ _  Tax Marquis of Salisbury has vent to the Lord Mayer of London a cheque for £lOO in aid of the Unemployed Relitf Fund. Two oases of smallpox are now engagigg the attention of the Nottingham authorities. Neither of the patients had been protected by vaccination. A SOY nettled Hollis was going on to a reservoir at Little Halton on Saturday to tell his brother to oome off the be, when he fell in and was drowned before assistance could be procured. Tau Roumanian Pailiament was dissolved on Saturday. The title elections will take place on Feb. 4, and the Chamber will be summoned to meet the 19th of &bras' y. A FRENCH protectorate has been proclaimed over the Wallis Islands in the South Pacifi.r, and M. Chauvot, the French Resident, has been appointed Minister to the Native Queen. Time Dublin murderer, John Farrell, whe shot his brother-in-law last Tuesday in • house in Dublin, and afterwards attempted to commit suicide, has died from the tirade if his wound.  DWILING one of the intervals between the services at St. Margaret's Church, Au&ld, Liverpool, on Sunday, a nre broke out in the vestry, and was not got under until it had destroyed all the cassocks iod surplices. LORD Lgvirsos, son of EtriGranville, accidentally swallowed a half-crown while doing 110010 amateur conjuring at Widmer, 00 Boxing Do. It is stated that up to the present be has suffered no inconvenienoe, but that he feels the coin inside. Tun Rev. William Rudd, aged 83 years, superinnuated Primitive Methodist minister of Diu, -lied suddenly in the pulpit of the Methodist chapel at New Buckingham on Sunday night. A WAN named William James Berridge, aged 58, was fixing up • sign-board at the Central Meat Market, West Smithfield, when he overbalanced and fell from the ladder upou which he was standing, sustaining such injuties as resulted in death at the hospital. • Tzuraduis from San Francisco, rays the harqud Carleton has arrived there with eight survivers of the barque Johanna' bound from Shields for Iquique, which was burned at sea. Bight others of those on board the Johanna were lost. Lams is cheap in the Isle of Sheppey. Bight hundred acres of arable land, which is well known for its productive character, has just been rented at le. 21 per acre. The tithe on the land amounts to 1241. an acre. _ _  Tan sedate cit'sens of Chester, Pa., object to the company of inebriates, so they have suggested to the local railway company that they "run a valid box-ear with all the conveniences sod accommodation& tot intoxicated individuals who want to be wavered to their homes." Lames-of rank *outline to enter the world cd commerce. Lady Augustus Loftus, wide another lady, is, says a London oorrespoadent, now masateetering scents from old-fashioned reosipes preserved in tbe family archives. Soma samples of thew perfumes having lately met with high favour at sales, it is probable that they will soon compete in the perfumery minket. At. the West Riding Sessions at Leeds this week a grant of £2OO was made out of the Polies Superannuation Fund to the widow of the late Superintendent Bitlthip, who was shot dead at Odey while attempting to apprehend a man. Regret was expressed that the Court had not the power. to make a larger grant. A OHILIOns