The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1877-03-09 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

STRANGE LOSS OF A CHILD.  A woman named Fitzgibbon, living in Ileathpool .Street, Paddington, applied to Mr. Mansfield, at the Marylebone Police Court, London, on Saturday. Ai stated that as her husband was out of work she had decided to take a wet nurse's place. She went to the hospital last Wednesday week, end as she was leaving she was seemed by a ladytike person, who said that she required a wet farce, and that, from tits applicant's appearance, she would probably suit. They went by train to the Glouce6ter road Stant.. Whilst waiting at the station the child of the applicant oons menced to cry, on which she was asked to frO to publiehouse to have something to drink, they went, and, as the child continued to cry, the applicant was asked by the woman to let her mind it, and the tioim plainant then gave it to her. She (applicant) felt very miserable, and commenced to cry. Whilst she had her handkerchief to her eyes the woman decamped, taking with her the child, and nothing could be seen of it, although inquiries were made of persons who were outside the publiehouse.— Mr. Mansfield said is I was a strange affair, but he could not assist her.  The Clyde shipwrights are about to agitate feral, in crease of wages.  - A large " basin" of steam coal has been found undo, the Gloucestershire coalfields.  The grand jury of the King's county have awarded to idea Margaret Feehan, widow of the victim of an agrarian murder, a sum of s(l() as compensation , under the Peace Preservation Act. h is stated that the recall of the Mediterranean , squadron to Malta Is only preparatory to a reduction ,of ita strength. Two or three of the ironolads win I be withdrawn.  A Jersey Jury have acquitted Henry Letuasson, • French farm labourer, who war charged with the warder of hie wife, five out of the 24 lurymen having found him not guilty. It is telegraphed that the Czar has issued a ukase renewing an old decree forbidding landowner. to receive in their house as gueets more than live person/ It a time.  Mr. Thome. Starkle Shuttleworth, Clerk to the Crown for the county of Lancaster, died on Saturday at Preston. Lie had just completed hie 77th year, and had held the office mentioned nearly fifty years.  A coroner's jury st Leeds, on Monday, returned! verdict of wilful murder in the recent case of chi poisonmg. In the cue of the mother, who committ suicide after murdering the infant, the jury found • verdict of temporary insanity.  In consequence of the murder of the Dutch vice. consul and other inhabitants, and the disturbed state of affairs at Cartagena, it iv announced that one of bet Majesty's ships of the West India squadron has beer sent to that piece for the protection of British Interests should occasion arise.  The Portsmouth Times chronicles the fact that on the return of the Serapis to that port after her last cruise, her engines and boilers were in stick a very creditable condition that there were not any defects to be made good, notwithstanding the mud had run over 12,000 miles. A telegram has been received in Paris announcing that the Marquis de Compiegne, the African explorer, who recently wrote a book on the interior of Africa, ban been killed in a duel at Cairo. No information has come to hand concerning the causes which led la the duel. The Marquis was only thirty years of age. The death is announced at Al ihorough of Mr. James Murray Dale, a son of the late Dean of Rochester. Mr. Dale wae a great authority on ecclesiastical law, and was at one time solicitor to the Church Annotation, but when he considered the law had been asters Wined he declined any further connection with that ' body. fie was a brother of Mr. Pelham Dale, of St. Tedast's.