The Warwickshire Herald. — 1887-01-13 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

OII. The portrait. which is the most recent one prwillced, is a characteristic likeness of the great rider. Societies for the advancement of dress reform for women have been established in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland. They intend to work uuuu the same lines as the English Rational I)ressSociety, and, as far as possible, in connection with it. A distressing case of suicide is reported from Batycliffe, a village near Civerstotie. A man had been out of work since Whitsuntide, and all his efforta to obtain employment proving of no avail, lie hanged himself the other morning. He leaves a widow and seven children.  A report has been made to the Grantham magistrates of the existence of rabies at Colsterwortit Seven dogs, it was stated, had been bitten, and four of these hild died. Two men also had been bitten. An order was made directing owners to keep their dogs under proper control. At Grimsby, the other night, a fisherman named Insole shot his wife dead with a revolver. They had been separated for some time, and the deceased refused to return to live with her liiisbaia Insole afterwards attempted to stab himself. They were both under 24 years of age.' The Bishop of Bath and Wells has issued a pastoral letter in which he strongly urges the support of a league formed in the iliticeoe, in which "clergy and laity, peers and peasants, rich nien nthl poor men " of the town and toiritry may join to defend the Church. The league is neither aggressive nor political. Two labouring men, named Jackson and Brown, who were caught in the act of housebreaking at Folkestone, and who were convicted of "cracking" the residences of General Boiler,,, Baroness Ashdown, and the Rev. Claude Donkey, have been sentenced to twelve and nine months' hard labour respectively. A writer upon Southern California says frankly that it is little short of crime to induce poor men to try their fortunes in the southern part of the State. An orange grove of five acres will give a good living when It is mature, but to buy it in full bearing will cost from 5,000 to 7,54.)0 dots., without a house N other improvement The death of Mr. Stephen Tucker has taken place at his residence in the Albany, London. Mr, Tucker, who was in the fifty-second year of his age, was the youngest soil of the late Mr. Edward Tucker, of King's Nympton, Devon, and was appointed Somerset Herald in the year 1860 in succession to the late Mr. .1. R. Blanche.  Henry Hall, aged twenty-seven, a litter, has been convicted at Blackburn Quarter Sessions, of stealing a pair of bools in November, belonging to a widow named Phillips, and sentenced to seven years' penal servitude. The Recorder said the prisoner was a mail who got his living by fraud and C.'arrying on a system of crime. At the Hull Admiralty Court, an action has been heard (king v. the owner of the Swallow) in which the owner of the Yarmouth lugger Minnie Ila- ha, suol the owners of the Hull smack Swallow to recover £290 for damage done to herring nets ill the North Sea. The Court entered a verdict for the plaintiff with costs. An engine-driver nameil Middleton has been convicted at the 'Montgomeryshire Quarter Session of a brutal assault. at New too, upon a matt named Hawkins, and sent:need to nine months' hard labour. He bit the prosecutor's thumb, anil them getting bite of his ears in his mouth, took the greater portion of it completely off. The Queen, just before leaving Windsor for Obborne, sent Mrs. Hull, of 2, Dorset Road, Windsor, a beautifully-constructed Bath chair, with a gracious message, wishing Mrs. hull "A Ilappy New Year," anil hoping that she might live many years to en;oy the me of it. Mrs. Hull was for many years nurse to Her Majesty's children. liuring the last ilayor MO a largl quantity of deals has been washed up on the western shores of Guernsey, 111111 SOMO have also been picked tip by %Wog- boats at a distance from the coast. Within the past few days enormous quantities of ray have beet. caught on the fishing grounds near bark, 1111:1 brought partly to Guernsey market and partly to Jersey. An inquest has been held at the Board Room, Poland Street, London, on the body of a youth named. Grove, who hail fallen through a skylight and fractured his skull, when endeavouring to cut the electric-light wire at a house 11l Regent-street, the electric light used on wijoining premises having, It was Stated, gut out of order. The enquiry was adjourned. The Valuable art collection of the late Baron von Rothschild, of Frankfurt-on-Main; has been divide I among the various members of the Rothschild family—partly by agreement and partly by lot. This collection, which was kept at Gunthersbarg, ia said to have luueui valued at 40 million marks. It included a celebrated table service win's,: value was 700,000 gulden. Lady Margaret Ileauntoat has aildres.eil a well. merited rebuff to the promoters of it charity iluhi Which is to be held at llarnsley. The hall has hitherto been sto Itlllllith gathering of the gentry of the locality, quite irrespective of politival parties. The promote:s this year have sought to give political coloitr to the event, an I bare (anise. quently incurred the censure of the lady named.  At the ll!arintrvoli lontrter Sessions, a young men, giving the name of Ge.irge Ilarris, has been sentenced to two years imprisonment for victimising Welsh ministers. The prisoner lutiul obtained from several Osiers in ti e ol,sirio t sin.vil under the somewhat strange rec.' 1111 l endation tiiat he was the son of a gentleman of independent on ~,,11, in Alionntoutlishire, aii.l liii I squall lereil gambling. An epidemic of ineas:es has broken out at a village named Sebastopol, 1111 l toutlisiiire. There are over a hundred cases under Medical treatment, and no lower than twelve children are lying obaol, as many as three in one douse. 'l'ile authorities are taking every preesilillion t.) prevent the spread of thu d isemivo. 'Floe neighbouring medical ottiro•rs have obtained permission tot close the schools should the epidemic attack their destricts. At the IVestminster Pollee I toirt, Dr. Walter Ilenry Day, of East Dulwich, Arthur Valentine Davies. descrilied as a gentleman, of Iteresforol Loge, To so llill l'ark, and Lionel William dimes. librarian, East Dulwich, have 'wen aemeneed to a montles hard labour each for ilisgrac.iful conduct at the residence of Mr. IV. .1. Davenport, Vincent Square. Notice of appeal was givolt. aud the prisoners were released ou bail.  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