The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1871-02-04 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.  Parliament will re-open on Thum(lay the 9th of February.  The vacant canonry in Worcester Cathedral will be conferred on Dr. Stiller, vicar of Greenwich.  His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, lieutenant of the rifle brigade, has resumed his military duties. The Duke of Marlborough lies dangerously iU at Blenheim Palace. His grace is suffering from . _  'Aellradford a child named Jowett was killed on Wednesday, by the explosion of a boiler in his father's house.  The Crown Prince of Prussia assumes the style and tiVe of Imperial Highness and Crown Prince of G•rmany. A Banffshire paper records the death of John Mihie, known over the greater part of Scotland as "the Poet of Glenlivet." He was born in 1792. The Nottingham Journal contradicts the rumour that the Bight Hon. J. E. Denison, M.P., intends to resign the Speakenthip of the douse of Commons.  The dead body of a male child was found in the river Lamont, on the 27th nit, br Mr. Henry Mitchell, of Bleach Green, Eamont Bridge, Westmorland.  Miss Helen Kirk, wile was immensely popular in almost everT town in Scotland by her admirable rendering of Scottish songs and ballads, died in Glasgow on Monday. A verdict of wilful murder was on Wednesday returned against Mr. Joshua Armitage, an insane gentleman who murdered his keeper, on Tuesday, at Ecelesfield, near Bradford. . . _ _  At the Central Criminal Court, on Tuesday, tames Loveday pleaded guilty to embezzling £l6OO or £l7OO, the property of his employer, Mr. J. Candlish, M.P., to whom the prisoner was London agent, and he was sentenced to live years' penal servitude.  On Sunday the Rev. T. Binney, the distinguished congregationalist, preached his last sermon as the Minister of the Weigh Rouse Chapel. Mr. Binney is over seventy years of age, but looks healthy and well.  A great deal of interest is taken in the dinner which will shortly be given to Professor Jowett. As Dean Stanley is to preside, and Bishop Temple to make a speech, the dinner will be a great demonstration of the Broad Church party. Robert Alcock, who was 73 years of age, committed suicide on the 27th ult. at Castlesowerby, by rutting his throat. No motive is assigned for the decd. On the police searching the pockets of his trowsers the sum of £3B 4s. 5d was found.  A Hindoo Fraternal Association, the principles and accidents of which very closely resemble those of Freemasonry, was started three years ago in Madras. The object of the institution is "to create a brotherly feeling between its members, to promote the interest of one another to the best of one's ability and circumstances, to afford relief to the distressed among them, to provide for the maintenance of widows and orphans of deceased members, and lastly, to promote the ends of charity and true religion.- There is no president, as "it shall be generally believed by the fraternity that the president's chair is occupied by the Almighty, who is omnipresent, and all ceremonies of the association are conducted in His presence." The a.sociation have also their "jewels of office," "vestments," and "secrets."