The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1887-06-25 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

ILA., has been appointed on the staff of the Director of Artillery. The Rector of Norwood Green on Saturday attended at the Hammersmith Police-court, with a detective, the latter making a statement to the magistrate. He said that on the 9th inst. the rector instructed a man to sell a cow and calf in Smithfield Market, and to return the next morning either with the money or the animals. He did not retu n, and the cow and calf were traced to a butcher at Acton. The man did not go to the market at all, but sold the animals on the road to a drover, who sold them to a butcher. The detective applied to the butcher for the animals, but no refused to give them up without payment. Application was now made to the magistrate to grant a summons against the butcher for detaining the cow and calf, which were worth £45. Mr. Paget inquired whether any steps were taken to find the servant. The detective said the police had failed to find him. They were afraid that the butcher would kill the animals. Mr. Paget afterwards granted a summons, with instructions that the butcher ebonlii be cautioned not to diepose of the animals. cc ph reference to the servant, the magistrate said he would grant a warrant for his apprehension. The Press Association is informed that the Rev. W. Cogswell, Vicar of St. Oswald's, Chester, has accepted the Bishopric of Nova Scotia, vacant by the death of Bishop Binney, and the Synod of the Diocese will ratify his appointment at their meeting early in July. General Hutchinson and Colonel Rich concluded their inspection of the Tay Bridge on Saturday afternoon on behalf of the Board of Trade. During their three days' inspection the bridge has been subjected to very severe tests, which it stood so well that the officials had no hesitation in passing it. Notices were on Saturday morning given by the °petal ives at the South Staffordshire and East Worcestershire chain factories to the emploTers inti• matiog their intention to terminate all engagements in 14 days This action has been taken in consequence of a number of the employers having forced a reduction in wages. The Board of Trade have awarded a binocular glass to Captain W. J. Thompson, of the pilot boat Mary Odell, of Savannah, United States, in acknowledgment of his humanity and kindness to the shipwrecked crew of the steamship Benhope, of Liverpool, which was abandoned at sea on April 28 last. The Isle of man steamer Ben Mychree, which had among her passengers the Hon. Speyeer Walpole, lieutenant -governor of the island, met with an accident to her machinery on Saturday, when about five miles out from Douglass on her way to Liverpool, and came to anchor. In answer to signals, the steamer Snaefell took off the Ben Mychree's passengers and conveyed them to Liverpool. A young man named Pettit, a baker, of Huntingdon. committed suicide on Saturday by jumping in front of the Leeds express from the platform of the Great Northern station at Huntingdon. His body was carried some distance, and literally cut to pieces. As a torpedo boat was leaving Chatham Dockyard for Portsmouth on Saturday. she came into collision with the Arethusa, a new ironclad cruiser now preparing for commission. The bows of the torpedo boat wiz.; coro,L:::,:asuly damaged by the oollision.