The Warwickshire Herald. — 1885-05-02 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

NEWS IN A NUT-tHELL. A young man has dropped down dead in the aide of the Free Chureh of Garraboe, near Stornoway. Eliza Salmond, who was sentenced to death for the murder of her child at Stoke Newington, has received a respite.  _ M. Regnier, for many years one of the most accom. plished comedians of the Thatre Francais, has just died in Paris.  --Sixty head of cattle have been attacked with footand-mouth disenee on a large farm at liellythorpe, near Dritheld, East Yorkshire.  The hills about Tambuk are believed to be rich ia gold. An Australian expert ha i gone thither to ex. pinta thom,together with General Fremantle &nista. Sarah Philadelphia, Dowager lady Worsley, haa died at Scarborough in her 83rd year. Mary, Dowager Lady Macnaghten, has also just died, at an advaned an.  The death is announced of Mr. H. Holmes, the veteran musician. Ho was born in Derbyshire in 1912, and was one of the earliest students of the Ropy Academy.  An old man named Matthews, belonging to Peven, any, has been brutally beaten and robbed by a gang of gipsies, two of whom, named Lee and Smith, are now in custody.  The death ie announced of Mr. J. VA. Samuda, J.P., the well-known ehip-buthler of Millwall, and formerly Liberal member of Parliament for the Tower Hamlets.  The British steamer Daman', the first of a new line subventioned by the Canadian Government to run fortnightly between France and Ca ,s4la, has just arrived at Havre.  Lord John Manner., in a letter t a consti. tuent btates that the Quetta railway hRe become even more indispensable to the policy of the present Government than to that of their predecessors.  Official intimation has been received from Sydney that the Gov..rnment of New South Wales will ap. prove of the colonial contingeot now in the Soudan volunteering for service "in India or elsewhere."  In the confusion caused bv a parade of Camberwell Salvationists a boy named Macateer was pushed undo a tramcar. One of his legs was nearly severed, and he was taken to the hospital in a dying condition.  _ The Eastern Telegraph Company notifies the opening of three new telegraph stations in China; one on the island of Hainan, called Kjunz-chow, m Hainan; and the others at Liein-chow end Neuchang, A serious outra-te has been committed at several offices of the Bedworth Coal and Iron Company,4ll the plate-glass windows, except two panes, having been smashed,the damage amounting to a considerable stun. At Bolton an elderly man named James Ross, of Patricroft, has been c ,nunitti d for trial for libelling Mr. A. Haley, solicitor, of that town, by circulat, ing a statement that many years ago the complainant's firm entered a fictitious item in a bill of co-ts. A commercial traveller named JiltlICIN while staying at a Dover hotel, entered the private ronin of thil landlord, Mr. Tritton, And seeing Mrs. Tritten alone, kissed her. Be-ides receiving some rough treatment at the hands of the landlord, James Is twee tined a and costs. Elizabeth Forshaw, aged 13, a liall•timer at a school near Chorley,after being struck by her master beams sh did not know her lessons, went into an adjoining field and drowned hers.lf. A coroner's jury haa returned a verdict that she committi.tl s'iic'cle from over pressure. Lord Digby was huntine with the itiacimioor Vale Hounds, at Butterwick, a well-ktiewn hiting rendezvous in Blackmoor Vale, when his horse threw him, and his lordship sustained a fracture of a rib, beside. other injuries. Lord Digby, who is nearly $O years of age, was removed to M interne. A cab proprietor,named Lawrence, has hanged him self in his stables at Hateliam after making an attempt to cut his throat. He should have Appeared that day at Greenwich police-court to answer a summons for using obscene language, and he has left unmistakable evidence that this led him to suicide. There has been a very c ,nsidwahle increase of small-pox in Manche-ter during tho past month. An emergency building, to accommodate 24 patients, hai been erected, but the epidemic is increasing so fast that the necessity of providing additional acmiumo. . .  dation in the shape of I:uts is no-w nder consideration. The Hereditary Grand Duke of Baden, grandson of the Emperor William,has become engaged to Princess Hilda of Nassau, The Prince is 27 and his betrothed  20. The political significance of this alliance will obvious, as the Princess Hilda is the daughter of that Duke of Nassau whose territory was annexed by Pi wisia in 1866.  An army reserve man, named Frederick Keenan. aged 30, lias been arrested in Dublin on the charge of rnurdering a young woman, named Fethcrstone, with whom he lived. She was found dead about midnight with marks of violence on the body. Women in Ma house state that they heard screams and saw Heenan kicking the deceased.  The body of a man of gentlemanly apf earance has been discovered in the Thames off Bermondsey. A piece of paper found in a pocket-book, and addressed to a lady residing at Barking, Essex, read as follows: " Deamit, thou art welcome to the comforts and ease compared to the thought of and agony of existence.— Signed by F. H.