Widnes Examiner. — 1880-02-07 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

ISCELLANEOUS. Sheep rot ia greatly on the Increase in Shropahirs. Iftlanisis so g,reat. in Bristol that bread riots are feared. A ling firm gang are operating on an extensive scale ire Shropslore and Herefordshire.  A hurricane hail swept over'llte Philipine Island., doing great ddindge and property. A destructive incendiary fire took place in • rick-yard at Moor-Line Farm, Richmanawortb, on Sunday. On Sunday, M. Mark Dawson, aCCOUBtaut, of Hull, coinmilted suicide, having got into financial difficulties. There has past died lu the parieh of tilerdalt. Forfarsbire, at an age verging on 100, Alexander Mdutosh, a farmer. A Cabinet Council was held on 'lumlay The !bidder. absent were the %until. a! t•illipory and ViSartlll{ nindon.  ..... . The death N annasunecd f Mr. Milllrre.Weernble, Liberal M.P. ter West Aberdeenshire, Nmoe,ece cattle breeder. . . .  On luesday morning the Empreas of Austria arrived at Dover, and after a abort w .3, left fur Holyhead on hez way Ito  ' Smith, confectioner, Moo-In, Preston, died in consequence of having, on the previous clay, swallowed a qoantity of nitric acid. At the IVest Riding petty semions, held at York, or Saturday, a former named Richard Allenby titan was tined £5 for starving poultry at his house.  The nmet says there is no truth whatever in the repoit that Lord Lytton is desirous of leaving India, and [kat there ins question of choosing his successor. A telegram front a correspondent at Lcrnata states that owing to the disgraceful arrangements for Linding. three persons were drowned on Tuesday while disembarking front steurners.  The (thinker •Creeve Goz-efte is glad to he .tble to state authoritatively that it has been decided that the whole of the yeomanry cavalry in Great Britain shall be called out this year for the full period of training. The Thunderer's id-lon gun, similar to that which burst on hoard that ship thirteen months ago, was on 'Fuesday "objected to the final tist of being fired with &double charge, and a 4 result it also burst isle fragments. Mr. Henry Irving has issued cards of invitation to 001000roar ft Mods to • supper to be given et the Lyceum Theatre lon Valentine'. Day, in commemoration of the t•hundreth representation" of the revival of '• the Meret.an of Venice." 1011 Monday afternoon, a hiundrea, named Ann Noakes, ab.. 37 years of age, living at litigate, murdered her illegi, [inlet° child, a Loy of 14 months, by nutting his throat with la carting knife. tvhe at terw aids indicted serious injaries on . herself, and lies in a precarious condition. At Tipton, on Monday, John latvis alias John Taylor (95), was Charged with passing several base coins on various siwp• keepe.. When apprehended by the pollee be had on him base *tins representing £B, in florin, shilling., and Ipeones.. Primmer w. oomutitted to the easel..  Tien Pont's kleektn.—A telegram in LW Pali Nall GH:dte s: .s:—" The state of the Pope's health is claiming anxiety to hie physiciaas. His Holiness in suffering from ihivering tits and great prostration. He nevertheless persista in pursuing his usual occupations." On Saturday the temaihr of John anima, aged peninsular veteran, were inte: red in the churchyard at by. , • port. He enlisted when a lad in the That Regiment, and, ' after being engaged in :he IV:richer. expedition, was nailer ! Ole John Mom, at Corwin I, and took put ic 0:c battles of Vittoria, Fuentes d'Ouor, and Oahu, Acciugst ON