The Warwickshire Herald. — 1892-09-29 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

PRIESTS AND MARRIAGE.  If report be true, several priests belonging to the diocese of Paris have lately entered into the married state, and it is hinted that ere long their example will te3 followed by more of their clerical colleagues. The case is related of an ecclesiastic, working in a populous parish, who, a few weeks ago, was united in the bonds of wedlock to a young lady of very attractive appearance, while about the same time a ricaire labouring in another part oi the city fell a victim to the charms of a fascinating widow, well endowed with this world's goods, aed is now spending the honeymoon at her villa in the country. It is added that another priest attached to one of the principal parishes in Paris recently wrote to the Archbishop informing him of his determination to retire into private life, and that although he received a kind 101..1 from the Cardinal inviting hint to call and talk the matter over, lie declined to discuss the ques• tien, intimating in a second epistle that his mind was fully made up. By way of explanao on of tl.e novel departure which various ecclesiastics have taken, or are on the point of taking, it is affirmed that, considerable discontent prevails among many members of the l'ari• sian clergy owing to the fact that the claims of hard-working priests are too often passed over, promotion being given to second-rate men. What truth there may be in this assertion has yet to tie demonstrated; but at any rate the cases mentioned are attracting attention, the more so as something of the same hind has already occurred in some ol the rural clistrictq.  The "pirate" bus' nuisance was again before Mr. Vaughan at Bow•street, on Saturday, when the learned magistrate fined the defendant in the case 205., with the alternative of II (lays in gaol. In this case it was stated that a gentleman and li family were cajoled into the 'hug outside the chi' bition, at Earl's-court, on the representation that it was going to Gray's-inn-road, and that, after Having been charged the excessive fare of sd. each, be was finally deposited at Charing-cross, and roundly abused for venturing to expostulate. Mr. Vaughan expressed his determination of protecting the public against these annoyances.  A case of murder and suicide is reported from Heiden, in the Canton of Appenzell, Switzerland. As a joiner named Wirth was about to be arrested for creating a disturbance in a public-house, he fired with fatal effect at the policeman who was going to take him in charge and then blew out his own brains.  Early on Monday morning a coal train from London broke down a quarter of a mile from Ilerkhampstead, owing to the axle of a truck near the middle of the train becoming fractured. Some 20 trucks were thrown off the line, which was torn up for 500 yards. A breakdown gang of SO men was got to work as vedily as possible, and a couph• of engines with cranes lifted the trucks. Two lines of rails were blocked for several hours. No person was Inbred by the accident.  .ug In perzormance ot "lulanthe" at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, on Friday, an exeit• inc incident occurred. In the last act, during. the Westminster scene,while Mr. Thorne, as Lord Chancellor,was singing, one of the fancy lanterns at the bark of the stage took fire, and the ignited material fell on the stage. A number of the audience cried out that the stage was in danger, and when Mr. Thorne realised what had happened he at once stamped out the flames. The lanterns were then extinguished, and Mr. Thorne continued his song amid applause. The incident caused considerable excitement, and a panic Wwly averted. •