The North Cumberland Reformer. — 1895-07-20 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

RAINS AND LOSSES. I Conservative. I Liberal; I Man'ter (SW) I Perth Salfoid (N) Huddersfield Derby (2) Plymouth Stockport Ipswich Boston Bolton I Reading Grimsby I Bradford (W) Stockton I Bradford (E) Scarborough 1 Rochdale NottinghamW Kennington Falmouth and Halifax Fenryn Oldham (2) West Ham (N) West Ham (S) I Sunderland I Whitehaven I Bedford 1 Yarmouth Coventry Bethnal Green (NE) Finsbury (Cen) 1 Finsbury (E) Northampton Haggerston Hackney (5) Norwich .. Southampton Glasgow(Clge) I - Bow & Bromley Berdmonsey Swansea Limebouse Hull (E) Camberwell(N) Walsall St. George's Kensington (N) Lance Radcliffe cam-Farnw'th I(Jamb., Wisbech S.-east Suffolk Newcastle Wilts, Cricklade Lancs., Ince Pembroke Dist. Derbyshire S'th L'pool, Exch'ge Lancs., Eccles „ Middleton Cardiff District  WY T atal...] 4  _ T0ta1...51  1.. T0ta1...10  An effort is now being made to reinstate the famous church bells of Ashbourne to their former high condition. It was with respect to Ashbourne Church that Tom Moore's well-known poem, "Those Evening Bells," was written. A sum of about £4OO will be required. At Wirksworth, on Monday, Benjamin Greatorea, a well-known tradesman, suffering from trade depression, attacked his son with a large knife, inflicting an injury on his throat, which is not dangerous. Afterwards he cut his own throat, and severed the windpipe, his condition being regarded as critical. The death is announced of Mr. William Hodge, who for eleven years had held the appointment oi organist and choirmaster at St. Marylehone Church. Up to the time of his death he was assistant organist at St. Paul's Cathedral, and organist to the Royal Choral Society. He was formerly Precentor of St. Anne's, Soho.  George Dewey, a Camberwell (London) sanitary inspector, who was on Saturday committed for trial for assault, committed suicide on Monday evening by throwing himself in front of a train at Denmark Hill Station. He jumped on to the line just as a fast train was passing the station. The deceased was out on bail on his own recognisance in £5O. In consequence of the publicity given to the intentions of the Chipstead Valley Railway Company, and in view of the strong local objections to the scheme, the promoters have notified the Surrey County Council that they have abandoned their intention of crossing the Brighton and Dorking roads in the parish of Bandstead on the level. According to a writer in the " Figaro," M. Faure, President of the French Republic, is a heavy smoker. He consumes large quantities of cigars. He prefers the pipe, but that is forbidden in the Palais de l'Elysee. It is said that often in the quiet of the evening he steals away to a sequestered corner of the garden where be can enjoy his pipe in peace. Lieutenant A. Hamilton Thacker, of the Royal Naval Reserve, was on Monday presented by the Mayor of Ryde with the Royal Humane Society's urEificato on vellum for jumping cvarboard from the steam yacht Norse King, on which he was second officer, and saving the life of a seaman named Mason, at Stavanger, Norway, on Whit Monday. At a meeting of the Manchester School Board, on Monday, Canon Dunn objected to the system of prize-giving in connection with the evening schools. Prizes took the form of a deposit of ss. in the savings bank. He urged the Board to be more economical. An amendment to this effect, moved by Canon Nunn, was defeated by a large majority.