Nantwich, Sandbach & Crewe Star — 1891-10-30 ()

GLEANINGS.  Paris is to have the express letter delivery, and I new system of money orders. Two children have been drowned in a swollen itream near Northampton.  The Archbishop of York has become a patron of bp Church of England Young Men's Society. The report that Mr. George Bond, M.P. for East Dorset, is seriously ill is entirely unfounded.  The death is announced of Sir Jacob H. Preston Bart., at Beeston Hall, Norfolk, in his eightieth rear.  There has been a tremendous eaten of herrings n St. Ives Bay; over 150 tone were landed one lay.  Ten negroes, who were sentenced to death at Laurens, South Carolina, have been reprieved, ?ending an appeal. The Lord Chancellor will be a guest of the 3pectaele-inalcers' Company at *great banquet to De held on 12th NoVember.  Miss Clara Morris, ,the actress, has offered to give a benefit in aid of the Maybrick fund now Deing raised by the New York World.  What is known as the Lancashire convent will "ase is again to occupy the attentiou of the Probate Division, but under anew phase. For several days past Lady Quain has been serfugly ill. Her ladyship is reported. to be extremely prostrate, but free from suffering. The Barnsley Town Council passed a resolution generspy approving of the proposed Bradford and South Yorkshire Railway scheme. Telegrams received in Paris report a resumption of work in the various districts affected by theglassworkers strike.  Prince Wathama, brother of the King ot Siam, has been appointed Siamese Minister at Paris. He is expected to arrive in Paris soon. Several Paris newspapers state that Mdlle. Louise Michel has returned to Paris, and is about to resume her lectures on Socialist questions. The £lOO given to the poor of Paris by a banker turns out to have been all his profit on the Russian loan—if tone adds to it the £25,000 he keeps in his own hands  Pleuro-pneumonia is reported to have 'broken out in the South of London, and it is feared that no fewer than fifty cows in one dairy will have to be slaughtered. Seven contributions of £l,OOO each have been promised towards 'the fund for the endowment of the bishopric to be formed by the partition of the diocese of &David's.  The death is announced of M. Grandguillot, who, in the days of the Empire, was, the editor of the two principal semi-official journals in Paris, the Constitutionnel and the Pays. The Admiralty have decided to repair her Majesty's ship Sultan, which isank in the Comino Channel some three years ago. An item of the cost will appear 4next year's Navy Estimates. The Recorder of Sheffield has passed sentence of twelve months' hard labour on a ruffian named Mason, who had corrected his little daughter with the buckle-end of a strap, inflictibg terrible injury upon her.  What's in a name? Captain Bazaine, who is attached to the staff•of the Eleventh French Army Corps, with headquarters at Nantes, has applied for permission to substitute„for his patronymic thab Of " Beauclair. "  The Khan) of Khiva is expecten I n fads in the middle of January. Aephandiar-Dshan-Tioura, who is in his twenty-second year, speaks French ' thoroughly, and has already senAsome presents to President Carnob.  Whilst hunting the Cottesmore hounds, near Woodwell Head, the horse of linntsman Gileson fell ab some timber and rolled on him, breaking his right arm. The accident will incapacitate him from the saddle for weeks. A movement is about to be started atGreenwich to establish at the Royal Naval College a National Naval Museum. It has been received with much favour by naval officers. The cost will, itis asserted, be comparatively trifling. A London coroner's jury found that Henrietta Godbold, aged twenty-four, had committed suicide while temporarily insane. The girl found she had married a man who had a wife living, and took carbolic acid.  The French Minister of Public Works summoned the traffic managers of the various Railway Companies to confer with him in regard to the unpunctuality of trains, to which recent accidents have been attributed.  A serious dispute has arisen in the engineering trade on the Tyne and the Wear on the question of overtime, the masters having threatened to discharge 25 per cent. of the men belonging to the society.  It is semi-officially announced, says a Paris telegram, that the Egyptain Government has decided to suspend, so far as French subjects are concerned, the applications of the regulations for police inspection of chemists' shops and stores. With a view to preventing the accumulation of grain for speculative purposes during the present scarcity, the Russian Government has decided to prohibit the sale of large quantities of cereals at one time to any single Russian purchaser.  The last census returns in Canada were a failure. Victoria, British Columbia, had a fresh census taken by the muncipal authorities, showing that the population was 23,000 instead of 17,000. Toronto and other cities are followinv this example.  The master shipbuilders of the Tyne,Wear, and Tees, after conference with the men's representatives at Sunderlnnd, adhered to thcir resolution to reduce wages 5 per cent. on piecework, but agteed to withdraw it in regard to time work.