The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1876-10-20 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

CNATTOCROSFUL CANDIDATIIII.II I Tildesley, J. C. (Liberal) ... ...... Griffiths, R. (Liberal) Holt, George (Independent) 215 Parkes, R. (working man) 211 Birch, E. (Independent) 106 Mabyn. J. (Independent) Jones, John (Independent) The number of voters on the list was :3,740, and the member of voters polled was 2.317. There were 53 votes rejected as being burl from rations causes. ' It 1.41 be seen from the foregoing list that the Church party have secured the return of five members, and that, the Roman CatlrAicii have secured a seat. The defeat of the Liberal party is due partly to their having put forward too many candidates, and partly to an unusual number of independent candidates coming forward. Whilst one of the latteg obtained a large number of votes, others figured very low on the poll. The first meetimr of the newly-elected Board will he held on November 2nd, to appoint a chairman.  A memorial was recently addressed to her Malesty's Government by the Anglo-Jewish Association, expressing is hope that in any negotiations which may take place on behalf of the populations in the Turkish provinces the interests of the Jews may be considered, with the view of securing equal rights for all subjects, without distinction of creed. A favourable reply has been roceived from the E..rl of Derby in reI fonswe to this app,isation.  The damage to the screw propeller of the Alerandre is to be remedied by the damaged portion being cut off instead of an attempt being made to straightest theft.. A Longford telegram states that futon/gaup just been received of a woman named Davies having been burnt to death, and her body subsequently devoured by swine.  At Hanley, on Saturday night, a collier nary,: Blunt shot his mite with a pletol. Tile woman was deprived of her eight, and was otherwise so injured that she Is in da,ger. Blunt has not yet been arrested. On Saturday morning Mr. C. Railing, postal telegraph clerk, Colchester, committed suicide at the North Railway Station. The deceased had been attacked by a religious mania, and expressed him fear that be was eternally bat.  - There bet just died at Bath, at the age of 84, William Holier&ld, whose life had been eventful. lie was present at Waterloo, and marched to the gates of Paris. He wee present at the coronation of Willista the Fourth and George the Fourth,  A labourer named Burdon, when moving the thatch from a barn at Nurstead, found 13 old guineas, three half-guineas, and two crown pieces, which bad evidently been stowed away for many }ears. They have been given up to the lord of the manor. David Williams and Denis George, joiners, were on Monday charged on remand, at Westminster Police Court, with assaulting a builder's foremen by throwing blot down a deep hole. They were committed for trial, ball being eel used for Williams. A little boy named Broad Smith, five year, of age, living with his parents at Crookham Common, near Newbury, has wet with his death through eating a number of red berries of the deadly nightshade, which he gathered from a hedge on the common. On Sunday morning a man was burned to death in a house in Leith, which had taken fire. The body was not recovered till after the conflagration was wholly extinguished, and it was then frightfully charred. The man was a joiner, middle aged, and lived alone. One of her Majesty's ships on the Australian station has been ordered to St. Bartholomew's, New Hebrides, to inquire into the reported murder by natives of the master of a vessel flying British colours. It Is believed that the vessel was employed in the" labour traffic." Two men charged at Worship street Police Court with using ntitnidatini language tosards two workmen in cont., don with a 'trite, were on Monday committed for tr.f.l. Each gave ball in £2O, their euretlei being men prominent in the last 'picketing" cam before that court.. Robert Dodds, ex Chief Constable of Durham, hem been remanded on • cheep of committing perjury In evidence given before the sitting magistrates at burham lest week in the charge of perjury which he preferred against Mary Jane Wright, who previously lied prosecuted Dodd. for an assault. Sir David Wedderburn, ex-M.P. for South Ayrshire, opeaking at Gloucester on Tuesday, said, as rs militia officer he should be ready, if England went to war, to take his share of lighting ; bit) he hoped it would be on the right side, and that was not the side of the Turks. Speaking at an agricultural dinner otter Gloucester, on Tuesday, Mr. Price, the Liberal member for Tank...bury, urged the farmers to do all they eould to !strengthen the hands of G.merntnent in any efforts to reduce the rates. Hitherto the agricultural bitterest, had been thankful for very email merciesAt Manchester, on Monday, two MIMI who were dis' covered taking part in e prize fight on Sunday afternoon were bound over to keep the peace for Pit months. The Manchester police stopped the fight, which was commenced in • field at Claytotigin the presence of about 300 persons. At the Marlborough street Police Court, London, on Monday, Mr. Will D. Prose, • gentlemart giving his address as Hatchetfe Hotel, was fined .£lO for knocking down and kicking a constable who was celled to remove him from the Criterion, near the Haymarket. The police-sergeant said he never sayra more violent man In his life. On Sunday morning Mary Ann Pavel, aged dti years, residing with her mother at Lanisey, Leighton Eurrard, was burnt to death in her mother's house. There Is nothing to show how she taught fire, end though seven persons were in the homes at. the truce, none of them heard the slightest noise, thought neighbour stated that she heard • scream. Snocetco Dente.—Wm. Wetmore, an innkeeper, of Kidderminster, met with a .hocking death oli • day night. While driving homewards from e e port he was thrown out of his trap and, it Is must have been struggling with life home wife, shaft pierced his aide. The wheels pawed 101. body, and some men who hastened op foiled hife &nu_ Mr. J. K. Severn., Conservative ent.tl;thee h,r S Shropehire, issued his whines 011 ify strenuously support Lord Derby a poi tea favour of further dinditiabing OW betel. upon the rates, and is in favotir 1,5 manaesukeet of the county prisole. Mr. 0 I. Foster, Apley Park, is spoken of as a ltitel I.Y. candidate. . . _  A publioan named Cooper has been lined 2os. we* emu% at the Liverpoel borough milieaeourt, for supplying drink to a youth under sixteen years of age. The boy steted that the defendaut rive him "five glass. of whiskey hot." and he added that when the police took up the cue he had been Inducted by • man named Coyne to go to Rochdale in order to he out of the way. The utagietratee considered the ease a bed one, and regretted that they could not imp. erheavier permit T. Cell.)