The Potteries Examiner : — 1879-08-02 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

ARCTIC! EXPLORATION.  The Arctic expedition which has been equipped by Mr. James Gorton Bennett, of the New York Herald, set sail from San Francisco on July 0 in the yacht .leannette, late Pandora. The expedition is under the command of Lieutennzat Do Long, United States Navy, an old Arctic explorer, and all the officers of the ship have been sialected because of experience dready gained in the Polar regions. The whole force consists of thirty-two men, including an as. tronomer, a naturalist, and Is meteorologist, the latter being Mr. Collins, who had been engaged on the meteorological staff of the Ifern/d. The Jeannette, which will be accompanied to Behring's Sea by a schooner acting as coal and provision tender, has been web equipped for the perilous voyage. In the outfit are included eight Arctic tents, each Oft, by eft., a suit of spare sails and a number of ice saws with which ice from ten to twelve, feet in thickness can be cut; a deck-house roofed over and fastened together by mortices and screw-bolts is provided, which can be taken down and put up at will; the cabin and forecastle are padded inside with several thicknesses of felt, and the poop deck is covered with three thicknesses of stout canvass/ punned over. She ship will be heated by stoves burning soft coal. Every man on board has a good hair riTattrass, pillow, and pair of heavy blue blankets, and warm clothing. There is 0 beautifully-appointed surgery. Every square inch of cargo room is taken up with provisions. With the exception of Hour, all the stores are in the concentrated or condensed form—meats, vegetables, and fruits. The Jeannette is ' provisioned for three years • about 20 tons of provisions and 70 tons of coal will be left at St. Michael's in reserve and for use on the return voyage, or in case the Jeannette should be lost or abandoned. Pemican and bread will be the principal artioles in the daily menu, and instead of spirits ample rations of beer, tea, and coffee will be served. The whole cost of the expedition is defrayed by Mr. Bennett, and will be about 300,000 dole. In selecting the crew, choice was made from 1,300 applicants, no men being accepted under 25 or over 35' and care being taken that all were of average height, size, and weight, sound in all respects, and without consumptive tendency, of good character, and accustomed to the sea. The seamen receive 25 dolls. amonth ; the others ere paid in proportion. Four Esquimaux will also be shipped in Alaska. Most of the officers and men have had some Aictic experience.  At Wigan, on Friday, Ann Canons was charge° With attempting to commit suicide by jumping into the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. tier husband stood by, and made no attempt to save her. For this he was severely censured by the magistrates, and the woman was discharged. A prize-fight for .£5O. was brought off in the marshes opposite Erith, on the Thames, on Friday. The combatants were trained at London and Gravesend respectively. The Londoners came down by an car Strain to Ureenhithe, while the Gravesend division had a boat up from Oreenbithe. Caroline Dalby, whose husband is a printer at Liverpool, was charged at Leeds, on Friday, with causing the death of her infant child. The case was remanded until Monday. At the inquest on the body of the child, the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against the woman.  A party of excursionists from Chatham met with a serious mishap on Saturday. They were in a four-horse coach, which became unmanageable on going down a steep hill at Brompton, in consequence of the pole of the coach suddenly snapping. A large number of the excursionists were thrown out and seriously hurt. According to several American papers a striking cure has been effected by Dr. W. B. Neftel, of New York: the patient being a lady, aged sixtythree, who had beeome blind in consequence of cataract. In regard to the modus oprrandi, we are only tell that electricity was repeatedly applied in the vicinity of the affected organ.—Eteetrician. A blacksmith, named Michael Walsh, residing near Foynes, county Limerick, has killed a young woman named Nora Fitzgerald, by striking her on the head with an iron bar. It has since transpired that Walsh is insane. He attacked several other persons 1w aides the deceased, and had a desperate struggle with the police who took him into custody.  The trustees of Manchester New College, London, which, though undenominational, is the institution at width most students for the Unitarian ministry are educated, have before them a scheme for removing the college to Oxford, as well as another for reorganising in the Metropolis. The alternative schemes will be discussed at a meeting of the trustees at Manchester in the autumn.  An enquiry has been held at Bromley, Kent, into the death of a Young man named Thompson, and his sweetheart, a Miss Parkinson, whose bodies had been fonnd floating in a pond. From a letter left by the former and the evidence adduced, it appeared that the girl's father objected to their marriage, and the couple ,ionunitted suicide together. A verdict of temporary insanity was recorded.