Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1880-11-06 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

GENERAL NEWS. 1 The 81U011668 Burdett-Coutts was on Monday presented with the freedom of the Loudon Hebei-slashers' Company. Mr Parnell was on Monday presented with the freedom of Waterford Town Council by 18 votes to 17. The Archbishop of York has been ordered to leave England for the winter. He will go to Biarritz ilk a few days. The Birmingham Daily Globe, a Conservative evening newspaper, announced on Sat. iirday that its issue on that day was its " last issue for some time to come." Mr Wm. Archer Redmond, M.P. for 'Wexford borough, and who has sat for that c stituency since 1872, died suddenly on Tuesday morning of heart disease at Cork. At the Centred Chamber of Agriculture on Tuesday a resolution was passed declaring the Highways Act, 1878, most. u satisfactory, and required change and large amendmerts. The Attorney-Gs neral has appointed Mr F. B. Firth, M.P., to be junior counsel for Post Office prosecutions on the NorthEastern Circuit in place of Mr Greeuhow, lately appointed a County Court Judge. Sir Philip Cupliffe Owen, director of the South Kensington Museum, has obtained permission from the Emperor of Russia to copy in electro-type about 250 objects in gold and silver smiths' work from the Imperial collections. Of these reproductions provincial museums may obtain fac-situiles by purchase or loan. The proclamation of the President of the Fnitsd States, appointing a Thanksgiving Day, says the country never had such abundant reasons for thanksgiving, inasmuch as health, prosperity, and peace exists everywhere, and the great body of the people firmly adhere to the principle a of liberty and  justice. At Manchester Assizes on Tnesday morning Samuel Holdham was charged with attempting to murder his son at Roo* dale. Prisoner made preparation to account for the boy's disappearance, and then threw him into the canal, but the lad got out on the other side. The prisoner was sentenced to twentyfive years' penal servitude. One of the men sentenced on Monday at the Manchester A,sizes for burglary at Stretford committed suicide on Tuesday in one of the cells of the prison by hanging himself with a bed sheet. His name was Thomas I Damiel. Ho was sentenced to seven y'ears' 1 penal servitude and seven years' police supervision. He had already served seven' years penal servitude for a previous offence. FATAL ELECTION RIOT IN ANER/Ck.—At a Republican meeting at St. Louis on Batorday a brick was thrown at a body of negroes, who_attacked their assailants. The police interfered, shots were Bred, and one negro was killed- and one policeman wounded. Great political excitement prevailed at Denver City, Colorado. A mob attacked the Chinese quarter, destroyed several houses, and killed two Chinamen. IE4 CLAnieNT.—The claimant has written to Mr Onsicw asking him to write to all tie committees thanking them for past assistance, and begging them to aid Mr I.imber in certain proceedings which the Claimant has authorised him to take for conspiracy against him. He has written to the Home Secretary requiring him to see that there is no foul play, and exhorts his sup porters to unity of motion.