The Potteries Examiner : — 1871-07-15 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

VIOLENT STORM—ANSI:SU STRUCK B 7 LIGETNINO.—The Manchester lizotniner states that the neighbomhood of Ashten-ur.der-Lyne has been visited by a series of violent storms. On Saturday evening about forty anglers were aontending for prime at a pond, when they were ooasiderably alarmed by a seven storm, in the mons of which many of tin party received unpleasant shocks of electricity from the lightning atumated by their tackle. Soddenly, some five of the anglers-lost their rods, they knew not , how, while three others were forcibly Caroms to the ground, and one of them, a me.C. named George Hill, THE 327STERIOUS MURDER IN of Beaus, Herat, was rendered insensible, but he .ffle to Peter Connolly was again before the Birkenhead ati• himself on being well ethken by a comrade. Anodise I pendiary on Monday, charged with causing the of the sufferers, Wiiliam Marshall, a. man who death of a fellow-labourer named James Cake, bad been looking on, toes not so fortunate. He I who wee found kicked to death in Bridge. was unable to help himself, and had to be Cart street, Birkenhead, on the CUed June, 1362. vied to the rendezveth of the party, the Cottage • Two men had been tied and acquitted soon after Tavern, where every kindness was shown him, and a I the socurrethe, and a week ago Brady, a evil. doctor wan summoned to his aid. He woe Pat to I way labourer, informed upon Connolly, stating that bed, bat after about two hours he woe anfficiently he wee the defineemne, No fee., et• evidence laving well to be rent boom to Stalybridn, and it wth been procured, ththgh it with 'toted that parties in thought by the donor that he would be well again in court had some informal°. on the subject, a r.mand a day or two. One of the anglers describes the of a week was applied for and granted, tee pi:boner thene an awful. A liquid fire seemed to hover round being Allowed to stead ent an hie ose reeognienneeej the margin of the pond for an instant, and then sod- • De l LP BOYD ON THE IRIER NAriosu asira.—At doily to draw 9self into a small ethane. in thA e • public meeting at Exeter, Dean Boyd &peke very centre of the water, whith was mach disturbed. . . . • strongly on the Insh 'sot' nuts movement; It WM mon standing in the thme field was struok on the leg but a revival of the repoal movement, only now; much by the lightnieg, but, beyond his stocking being formidable than in the days of O'Coutell. The scorched, he received no injury. The effect upon ! cocoas of the Nations; party at the recent: elections those who witnethed the scrim ve.e to cause them to bad shown an advance on their aide which had able. offer thanks for their own deliverance. lately struck our statesmen climb with Sewer; they GREAT MORTALITY IN INUlA.—Lettera from found the son of a Roman Catholic nobleman of thol Bombay, just rethived, sey that the hot weather hes highest poeition actually rejected by ROllO3 CatilOik• ' been marked by great mortality amonget Europeans, in favour of a Proteatant merely bananao the latter I and sad disasters at 808. Four ships are given up, ' was a Nationalist, and seeing this, Englishmen °meld I and the native craft have suffered severely. The seat nnderatand what & determination there wee to melte I in Council, vacant by the retirement of Lord Sand,- E.ew,d a nation too, apart from Eeaeted. If the hurst's brother, has not yet been filled. It is saii Nationalists accomplished their object, all men who I the Doke wishes to appoint Mr. Shaw Stewart and had studied the thbject Janet admit beat the death- I that the Governor inclines to Mr. Chapman. knell of both countries would be strthk ; theeefore A mar( named Henry' Hogg, who has been it was their duty to prevent this if eossible, and he taken to the Wien. Workhouse en the Easier of ore. thought they amid best do so isy projogating Bering officer, hoe de oleged himself to be the murderer Protestant teaching there, for it bed been clearly of the girl Annie Houghton, who wax killed so toy. shown that countries where Protesbantism ;retailed, teriously at a farintionae near Wigan some years ago. order, civilisation, and property nes far a-head of The man hoe hem is a low state of mind for some those places In whieh Roman Catholicism was the tiran. and has thdesvoured to commit suicide. chief religion. The dean then appealed for additional