Widnes Examiner. — 1882-03-11 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

ISCELLANEOUS.  Mr. Edwin Jones, forngerly a famous advocate at the English bar, died on Saturdly. A building manufactory, and machinery exhibition is to be held in the Bingley Hall, Birmingham, in April and May. Arrangements have been made for the establishment at Milford, near Stafford, of a convalescent hospital, as a memorial of the late Sister Dora. The cost is estimated at £2,000, and towards this Miss Lonsdale gave M,2000, being the net proceeds of the sale of her " Memoir of Sister Dora."  _ Afire broke out on board the steamship Missouri, of the Warren Line on Monday afternoon soon after she had been berthed in the Alexandra Dock, Liverpool, on her arrival from Boston. It was extinguished with some difficulty, and the damage to the cargo, which was considerable, was chiefly caused by the water poured into the hold in process of subduing the fire. A painful case was witnessed on Monday in the streets of Lower Gornal, near Sedgley. A boy named Hobson, in suddenly running across a street, was knocked down by a cart, and the wheels, passing over his head, killed him instantaneously. The mother witnessed the sad occurrence and fainted. In falling she dropped a child out of her arms, which is said to be badly injured. The members of the Chester Farmers' Club passed a resolution on Saturday, urging that a bill should be introduced into Parliament to relieve landlords from restrictions as to the sale and improvement of land, and to ensure to tenants compensation for improvements and full security of tenure. It was decided to forward the resolution to the Premier and to the members for Cheshire and Flintshire. On Saturday, as the ferry steamer was approaching the Woodside stage, Liverpool, a man jumped overboard. One of the crew jumped in after him, after which a beat was lowered, and both men picked up. The would-be suicide, who appeared to be a man in good position, was insensible when taken to the Woodside Stage, and was immediately taken to the receiving house, where he was promptly attended to, and efforts made to restore animation. In the Queen's Bench Division, on Saturday, Mr. Justice Grove had before him a case in which the North London Tramcar Company was sued for compensation for injuries to a little girl two and a half years old, who has been knocked down and run over by a car in Gossvell-street. One foot was cut off by the wheels, and the'other foot and leg were so crushed that amputation was necessary. The jury, in giving £4OO damages, conveyed a suegestion that the money should be invested for the benefit of the child.  At Grafton' on Saturday night, a quarrel took place between two labouring men—Elijah Smith and Samuel Brooks —and they went into the road to "fight it out." After fighting several minutes Brooks was knocked down and was carried into an adjacent public-house, in an insensible condition. He was afterwards removed to the infirmary at the Alcester Workhouse, where he died shortly afterwards. Smith ran away, but being captured, was lodged in the lockup at Stratford-on-Avon.  A disgraceful scene took place at the •.-neeting of the Salvation Army at Oldham on Sunday night. Stones were thrown on the top of the skating rink, where the army hold their gatherings; and a crowd, numbering about 1,000 persons, attempted to break in the doors. The entrances were barricaded, and it was with the greatest difficulty that the roughs were prevented from committing violence. The army have made nearly two hundred converts in their first week's visit to the town. Over 7,000 persons attended the services on Sunday. Publicans ought to be well aware that the mere exhibition of a card in a billiard-room bearing the words, '• Betting strictly prohibited," will not free them from responsibility for alloWin, betting to go on unchecked in presence of themselves or their servants. In a Lonnon Po-eice Court, a publican who had charged an admission fee to witness a billiard match, and had exhibited the no-betting card in his room, was fined 10 a day and costs for failing to personally or by deputy follow up that warning when wagers were made in presence of himself or his servants. In view of the impending legislation in regard to the liquor traffic, the Irish Temperance League is holding meetings in different centres in Ulster, at which resolutions are adopted urging the Government to introduce a measure giving practical effect to the local option resolution which the House of Commons has twice passed, and calling for a renewal of the Sunday Closing (Ireland) Act, which expires next October, and the extension of that measure td the five cities and towns now exempted. Meetings had already been held in 13 towns in Ulster,and they will be continued during the next few weeks.