SUPPLEMENT TO THE SHEFFIELD AND ROTHERHAM INDEPENDENT, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1876. 11 FTgB Abbet CnrBcn Schools, Worksop. Thursday the animal of the church schools connected 5th the Abbey Chnrcii. The gathering was as usual in Vicars field," near the church. A service was flld In the church at 1.45, which was attended by all he teachers and scholars of the day and Sunday schools, A a large number of their friends.
An address, suit-ui to the occasion, was delivered by the Rev. L. Vernon elL The children afterwards enjoyed themselves in field or feeir smnement a large number of Lotesqoe and Montgolfier balloons were despatched. tbovt 1200 children were present for tea. In the evening there was a grand display of fireworks.
St Satioce'" Horticultural Show. The Olar-fcorough, East efora West Eetford, and Ordasll flsetable, fruit, and flower show took place on Wednesday in ap111 marquee at Eetford. Notwifeh-stsndine the rain there was a fashionable assembly, from every point of view the exhibition was a auooeas, gxTRAO ED IX ART BOBBERY AT EAST EbTFORD. On Aondav la fcne Retford County Petty Sessions, before B. Huntsman, Mary Ann Greatorex, alias Cieeory, was Dron8n nP accused of stealing seven sovereigns, six half sovereigns seven shillings and six-neEce on Aug.
36th, in Moorgate, the property of John Scopglns, of ClarboroQgh. Prosecutor said he was a mauagei for Mewrs. Garrett, who kept a nursery garden In Clarborough parish. Last Saturday night, he went to he Bam Inn, Eetford, at about ten o'clock, and remained until eleven, and when he left he was perfectly sober. At that time he had 10.
7s. 6d. tied up in a canvas bag in the pocket of 'his trousers, and jd the same pocket he had some loose silver. Amongst the cold werertwo Australian sovereigns. He had received fome money that day at his stall in the market, and both gold ana silver were a little dirty, from hie handling vegetables and fruit.
He also had with him stone of bailey in a bag. When he left the Earn, he prisonei at "Foster's lane corner. She spoke to him, SDd asked him to go up the lane. He walked up the Jane with her to the oorner of Woolpack Btreet. She left him there, and he went along the Back path," leading from Spital hill to Moorgate.
When he had sot about half way down, prisoner, who had followed im, overtook him. She said, Am I to go with you nd 'he replied No." She pushed against him, and put jierband into the right-hand pocket of his trousers, ge heard the money chink in the bag, and he then geized her by the throat, and said, You have xobbed me, and if you don't deliver up toy money I'll kill you." She was then standing, jjut he threw her down holding her by the throat, and calling out for his money, but she got up cud ran away. He gave information to the police. Inspector Webster deposed to searching prisoner's father's bouse, where she lived, and finding between her feed and mattress three sovereigns (one of which was an instralian one), three half sovereigns, two shillings, sBd three sixpences. Committed for trial.
Roman Catholic Demonstration at Nottingham. On Monday a banquet was given to Cardinal Manning, 5d the Mechanics' Hall, Nottingham, in conneotion with great Koinan Catholic demonstration now being made jn that town. There was a large and influential gathering, including Cardinal Manning, the Duke of Norfolk, tie Marquis of Eipon, the Bishop of Nottingham (Dr. ISagtbawe and a large number of priests from the sur-loanding towns and districts. Cardinal Manning, who presided, gave the health of the Pope, which having keen honoured, the Cardinal gave "The Queen." The Dnke of Norfolk, who was received with loud and prolonged cheeriLg, proposed the health of Cardinal Manning.
Cardinal Manning responded. The Marquis of Ripon, who was very cordiaily reoeived, proposed the health of the Catholio bishop of this diocese. The Ibisbop of Nottingham (Dr. Baganawe) having responded, gave the Town and Trade of Nottingham," which was acknowledged by the Sheriff (Mr. Jno.
Eenals.) In the evening a crowded meeting in support of Eoman Catholic education was held in the Mechanics' Hall, Nottingham. Cardinal Manning presided. The Duke cf Norfolk moved the first resolution, as follows That Catholics cannot be conscientiously satisfied unless the teaching of the Catholic faith and morality be included in the daily education of their children, ana use never rest content with their attending schools in which they are not taught." Canon Griffin seconded the motion, and it was carried. The Marquis of Eipon moved the adoption of a resolution urging the importance of tsia'ollshing mission schools over the diocese, The Great Western Railway Company's dividend was announced on Saturday at the rate of per being at the same rate as last year. It has been decided to wind up the Goole Engineering and Shipbuilding Company, Limited.
Mr. Bennett, chairman, has been appointed liquidator. A correspondent writes that the celebrated Norwegian painter, M. Tiedemann, died suddenly on the 25th of August at Christiania. The strike of builders' labourers at Bristol, which commenced on the 7th terminated on Saturday.
An advance of d. per hour was accepted. Most of the North Wales colliers, who struck in consequence of a 10 per cent, reduction on Monday week, have resumed work at the lower rate. A general resumption of work is shortly anticipated. The National Eisteddfod at Wrexham has proved a great success; Over.
25,000 visitors attended, and a good surplus is anticipated for the funds of the University College of Wales. The result of the poll at the Donegal election was declared on Saturday. The numbers were Wilson (Liberal Conservative), 1975 Lea (Liberal), 1876 majority, 99. Stabbing by a Sister-in-law. A woman, named Eliza Ann Finns, died in the Royal Infirmary, Liverpool, on Sunday morning, from the effects of a stab inflicted upon her by her sister-in-law.
Late on Saturday, during a heavy gale, the schooner Mary Olivia sank at the mouth of the Mersey, off the the Crosby lightship. The captain's wife and three children were all drowned. The remainder of the crew were saved by the Dublin steamer and brought to Liverpool. On Sunday afternoon, on the Thames, below Woolwich, a small sailing boat containing a pleasure party, consisting of nine men, was capsized in a squall. Three the men, residents of Woolwich, were drowned.
A destructive fire occurred on Monday, In the moulding shop Messrs. Craig, engineers, Paisley. The shop, 250ft. by was destroyed, together with the plant and a casting of 90 tons, destined for Government. The damage is estimated at about 10,000.
On Monday, a boiler exploded on the premises of Thomas Donnison, seed crusher, Sculcoates, Hull, killing Thos. Rose on the spot, and wrecking the boiler house. The proprietor. hi3 three sons, and a workman were scalded from head to foot, and had to be removed to the Hull Infirmary. A Bone-Setter Charged with Manslaughter.
The Kilrush magistrates have sent for trial for manslaughter a bone-setter, who had bandaged an injured arm in so tight and clumsy a manner as to produce gangrene and death. The Leeds and Roundhay Company. At a meeting of the Leeds and Roundhay held on Wednesday, Mr. Aid. Barren, M.P., the chairman, Btated that the scheme would have to be abandoned in consequence of the indisposition of the investors to advance capital.
Shooting a Cow. At the Leeds Police Court, on Wednesday, a notorious poacher was committed to the sessions for first shooting a eow, at Osmondthorpe, and then cutting out of its rump about a cwt. of meat, which was traced to the House of a woman with whom he cohabited. A telegram has been received at Gisburn Park, York shire, announcing the death of the Right Hon. Lord Ribblesdale, at Geneva, in his 49th year.
The deceased waB a magistrate and deputy lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Death of the Rev. H. Howarth. The Rev.
Henry Howarth, B.D., rector of St. George's, Hanover square, London, died on August 25th, at Tunbridge Wells. Mr. Howarth, who was one of her Majesty's chaplains and a rural dean, had held the living of St. George's since 1845.
On the 25th of August, the Rev. John Paterson, minister of the Scotch Established Church of Torry-burn, was found dead in his own house. The servant going to his Btudy door to tell him dinner wa3 ready could get no answer. The room having been entered from the window, he was found lying on the floor with his throat cut. A razar was on the table close by.
On Saturday evening, a young man, named Jose ph Costello, a clerk In the Northern Bank, Belfast, was stepping out of the train at the Holy wood and Bangor Railway terminus, when unhappily he missed his step and fell and the train being still slightly in motion, he was crushed between the step and the platform. Death was almost instantaneous. A bov named Card, about seven years of age, son of the station-master at Betch worth, died on Monday morning from hydrophobia. He was bitten by a stray retriever six weeks ago. The wound was cauterised at once, and nothing more thought of it till a THE GOVERNMENT AND THE ATROCITIES IN BULGARIA.
To the Editob, As one who, no longer a resident, must ever take a lively interest in the credit of Sheffield, I trust yon allow me to address your readers on the subject of the atrocities committed by the Turkish allies of England in Bulgaria and the neighbouring states. During a recent visit to Sheffield I was grieved to hear that no meeting was being organised, as in other large towns, to protest against Turkish brutality, and the conduct of the Government in failing to appreciate the urgency of the crisis, and in sending the British fleet to Beaika Bay. The ease, sir, against Mr. Disraeli lies in a nutshell. That versatile statesman declared in the House of Commons that the object of despatching the fleet was to protect the Christian inhabitants of Turkey.
If that was the object in view, a more futile and stupid measure was never adopted, and as such it ought to meet with reprobation from every Christian and every free Englishman. The whole of civilised Europe saw in that act an intention to assist the overburdened and effete empire of Turkey. The Turks themselves, as well they might, took the same view, and Englishmen have had to listen to shameful thanks and praises from the Turks, for having come to their aid in the hour of need. Sir, my acquaintance with the Turkish Empire extends now over a period of several years, and I have for years been personally aware of the fact that the mass of the Muslim population are sedulously taught by their rulers at Constantinople that the Queen of Great Britain is the Sultan's vassal, and, as such, compelled at his to send at any time the fleets and armies of England to his aid. When, then, Admiral Drummond and the Duke of Edinburgh arrived in Besika Bay, the Turks saw that the English dogs," as they call us, were once more come to the rescue an impression which could only be deepened when they beheld the English Admiral, Boyal Duke, 'and captains hobnobbing and fraternising with that bankrupt renegado, Hobart Pasha, who left the Queen's service to sell his tarnished sword to the Turkish despot under whose orders the most revolting barbarities were practised on the women, children, and bed-ridden old men of Crete and who has only just been repeatedly soliciting the Porte to permit him to take command of an exclusively Mohammedan legion of sailors, in order to stamp out the so-called insurrection of the Christians in the Principalities 1 But, eir, Mr.
Disraeli informed the House that Sir II. Elliot expected a rising against the Christians at Constantinople. If that were the case, why did not Lord Derby concert with the other Great Powers the advance of a combined fleet into the Sea of Marmora, or to the Golden Horn itself Instead of that Mr. Disraeli sends tlie English fleet to Ifesika Bay. And with what result Had a rising against the Christians really taken place the regular troops of the Turkish fleet might at the demand of the ambassadors have assisted in presen'ing order, but no sooner does the English fleet appear iu Besika Bay than the Turkish fleet sails out from Constantinople, under Hobart Pasha, and after the disgusting fraternisation with British officers, already alluded to, calmly sails away to overawe Crete and Mytilene, without sparing even a single ship to protect the threatened Christians of Smyrna.
The real fact is that if the despatch of our fleet was intended to assist the Christian, that intention signally and ignominiously failed, and has tended solely to encourage their deadliest enemies. Mr. Disraeli, then, stands convicted before his country and the world of a deed for which every Englishman ought to blush with shame and indignation. One more observation only about the Philo-Turkish Jew who by some strange chance holds the proud position of Prime Minister of England. Mr.
Disraeli stated to the House of Commons and, marvellous to say. met with no instant denial or storm of ridicule, although a schoolboy might have corrected him that the Christians of Constantinople were flocking to arms in defence of the Sultan, and that enthusiastic bands of mingled Muslims and Christians were gathered under a banner bearing a Crescent and a Cross combined Where is this Christian legion It is non-existent, or exists only in the muddled brain of the doited, elderly gentleman who misrepresents English Christianity and civilisation at the Porte. Why, sir, the Christian communities of Constantinople have repudiated the fold imputation thus brought against them as a scandal and a lie, and have defied the world to point out as volunteers any other than a few score of criminals let out of gaol for the purpose No human being who knows what an Oriental Christian is, no one who ever heard of the martyrdoms of Scio or Crete, could imagine it possible that an Eastern Christian coidd be brought to fight under the Crescent, and assuredly no sincere Mahommedan could be found who would deign to do battle under the symbol of the Cross, which to him is an object of shame and abhorrence. So much, sir, for the statesmanship" and for the truthfulness of our Jew Premier, but allow me to add my own conviction that scarcely a more contemptible sight has been exhibited to the world since Nero fiddled while Home was burning" than that of the Earl of Beaconsfield fiddling with the tinsel strawberry leaves of his gimcrack coronet, and fiddling over the maundering lucubrations of Sir Henry Elliot and Mr. Guerrichino, while the villages of Bulgaria are being given to the flames, and her people iolated, tortured, massacred, burned to death.
Sir, the Official Beport of the Consul General of the United States, is now, thanks to the Daily JS'ecs, in the hands of all, and confirms to the uttermost the heart-sickening accounts given by the able and intrepid correspondent of that journal. Mr. Schuyler (who unlike our envoy, Mr. Baring, can speak Bulgarian, and was not led about by a 1 evantine Philo-Turkish father-in-law) has visited the Christian districts now devastated by the Turks, and has witnessed horrors such as perhaps the world has never seen before. Smiling villages turned into deserts, or rather into hells upon earth masses of the violated and murdered bodies of helpless women, and tortured striplings, and impaled infants a priest of God violated on the altar of his own church, and then burned to death all that was left being a few calcined bones and a little wreath placed on them, emblem meet and fit of the crown of martyrdom which shall be his hereafterthese, sir, are the scenes wLich are at this moment being perpetrated, and being done, be it remembered, in the opinion both of victims and perpetrators, with the connivance and will of Christian England Christian England indeed Why, if England were Christian? and if Englishmen were such a howl of indignation wotdd arise from the length and breadth of the land Ss would stir the sluggish blood and cold, calculating senses of the Earl of Derby, aud scare the Jew earl irom his siesta amidst the pleasant fields of Buckinghamshire to put an end to our alliance with a Government of loathsome tyrants and a nation of fiends and brutes, which is a disgrace to a free people, and to avenge the cause of outraged humanity itself.
Is it not time, then, that Sheffield should bear her part in the great cry of indignation which is beginning to swell up towards heaven from awakening England It was I blush to say it a Sheflielder who said to me but the other day that our massacred and martyred brother Christians deserved what they get" at the the hands of the Turks, because, forsooth, they began the disturbance," aud another Sbellielder assured me that such was the general opinion of the members of the Sheffield Club (whatever that may be) to which he belonged. Fine freemen fine Englishmen these, and civilised and mtefligent withal As if Christian men with the oppressions, and exactions, and persecutions, and martyrdoms of centuries to bewail and avenge are to sit quiet for ever, or till the Ethiopian changes his skin, and the Turk his lust and cruelty or until it suits the pockets of the base crew of English speculators who make a good thing out of Turkey, that they should begin to move? One thing, sir, is certain. -The Mene, Meve, Tekel, Ipharsin is written in unmistakeable characters upon the palace walls of the drivelling voluptuary who is now the Father of the Faithful' and spite of Pope, and Puritan, and Jew, the dominion of the Turks in Europe is doomed. It remains with ourselves whether we shall any longer be found as the supporters of retrogression against progress, of barbarism against civilisation, of Mohammedanism against Christianity; and whether we shall heap up for ourselves the hatred and contempt of Christian nations who, in the good time coming," shall rule in Eastern Europe. Apologising for the length of this letter, I am, sir, your obedient servant, GPtEVILLE J.
CHESTER. August 30, 1876. Intelligence has reached Plymouth from Sydney of the capture of a vessel by the savages of the Solomon Islands, who have eaten all her crew. The vessel was named the Dancing Wave. One man escaped to an adjoining island and gave information to a vessel, which went pursuit and found the Dancing Waye a perfect shambles.
MEETINGS OF LIMITED COMPANIES. Hknet Wilkinson akd Company, Limited. The fourth annual meeting of the shareholders of this company took place at the Cutlers' Hall on Wednesday. The report (and dividend of 6 per cent.) was unanimously carried. Mr.
Fredk. Ward was reelected a director, and Mr. Joshua Wortley was appointed auditor for the ensuing year. ErLANn's Electro-Plating Company. The third annual meeting of the shareholders of this company was held at the company's oflices in Eyre street on Wednesday.
The business was of a formal nature, and only few shareholders were present. A dividend of 12 per cent, for the year was deolared. The retiring director and auditor were re-elected. EOBEET COOK AND COMPANY, LrMITED. The fourth ordinary general meeting of this company was held on Wednesday, at the works at Hathersage.
Mr. William Leggoe, the chairman, said the company, was now, however, placed upon a sound basis, and hopes were entertained of a more prosperous future. The report was adopted, and Messrs. J. W.
Broom-head and W. Mickelthwate, the retiring directors, were unanimously re-elected. Messrs. Wing, Wing, and Co. were also re-elected auditors.
Sheffield Forge and Rolling Mills Company, Limited. The fourth annual general meeting of this company was held at the Victoria Station Hotel, on Monday, Mr. Frederick Ward, chairman of the board, The report und balance sheet, which have already appeared in our columns, were unanimously adopted. The retiring director, Mr. Walter S.
Davy, was re-elected, as were also the auditors, Messrs. Allott and Co. The Retfobd Waggon Company, Limited. The annual meeting of the shareholders was held on Thursday at the Albion Waggon Works, Thrumpton, Eetford. The Vice-chairman (Mr.
Warriner, of Lincoln) presided. A committee, consisting of Mr. Brad-shaw, of Eotherham Mr. John Curtis, of Retford and Mr. Charles Tylden-Wright, of Shireoaks, was appointed to consider the advisability of raising more money, or as to what other steps should be taken to place the company on a better footing.
The report showed that the loss on the working in 1875 was 1613. 5s. 3d. last year it was 3031. 19s.
lid. total loss, 5s. 2d. SAMUEL FOX AND COMPANY, LIMITED. A meeting of the shareholders of this company, carrying on business at the Stooksbridge Works, near Deepcar, was held on "Wednesday, at the Cutlers' Hall.
Mr. Samuel Fox, chairman of the oompany, presided. The report of the directors, and the balance-sheet of 30th June last, was adopted and confirmed, and a dividend of ten per cent, for the year ending 30th June, in anticipation of which an interim dividend of 4 per share was paid in March last, was carried. The re-election of Mr. S.
Fox as a director of the company was carried unanimously. Mr. Alfred Allott was re-elected auditor. Mr. J.
Halliday then explained the relations of the company to the Stocksbridge railway, and moved that the steps taken by the dirsctors with regard to the railway should be approved. Mr. S. Pakkek seconded the motion, which was carried. Mr.
IIe-nky Harrison, in moving a vote ol thanks to the chairman and directors, referred to the flourishing condition of the company, observing that whilst they had owing to them something like 23,000, they did not owe more than and had a reserve fund of over 33,000. therefore the concern must be in aa exceedingly good state and he believed it would continue to flourish so long as iheir chairman remained at its head. (Applause.) It was with the greatest pleasure that he now proposed that some acknowledgment should be made to Mr. Fox for his valuable sei vices to the company, and he moved that the shareholders should vote 350 guineas, to be applied to the purchase of a portrait of Mr. Samuel Fox, to be painted by such artist as he might select, and to be placed in the board-room moreover that an engraved copy should be sent to each of the shareholders.
(Applause.) Mr. Matthews (London) seconded the motion, remarking that the metropolitan shareholders would ba glad to hear of the proposal. The motion was carried amid applause, and in acknowledging it the Chairman said he was Yery much pleased with their sympathy and encouragement. He did not expect that their kindness would have bean shown in such a substantial and gratifying manner as in th? 6hape of a portrait. He had not the slightest idea that anything of the kind was about to be done, but he thanked them very much for their kindness now, and for the kindness they had shown him from time to time.
(Applause.) FAILURE OF THOS. AUG HAN AND 3 LIABILITIES, 1,000,000. A petition was lodged in the London Bankruptcy Court on Thursday, for the liquidation of the affairs of Messrs. Thomas Vaughan and the great ironmasters, of Middlesbrough. The liabilities are stated at 1,000,000.
The failure of Messrs. Vaughan and Co. was not altogether unexpected. It has been known for several weeks that the firm were in difficulties, and inasmuch as their concern is one of the largest in Cleveland, thebare possibility of a stoppage affected for a time the whole iron trade of the north, and even acted prejudicially upon the stock of the North-Eastern Railway. Towards the end of July meetings of their creditors were held, with the object of endeavouring to some to some arrangement by which so disastrous a result as the filing of a petition might be prevented.
In the end, a scheme was generally approved of for converting the concern into a limited company, on the bails of the creditors taking an interest in the new company proportionate, and ranking in order according to the amount of their claims. A committee was appointed to carry out this scheme and until very recently there seemed every probability that the company would be successfully floated. It appears, however, that this could not be done and hence the filing of the petition in the London Court of Bankruptcy. The property of Thomas Vaughan and Co. consists of large iron works, collieries, and ironstone mines.
The manufacture of nuts and bolts was a specialty of their business, and the firm traded as the Cleveland Nut and Bolt Company. Mr. H. W. Fletcher, accountant, Lothbury, has been appointed receiver and manager of the estate.
In reply to a question from the learned Registrar, Mr. Bower stated that it was believed theassets would realise aconsiderable surplus overthe liabilities, and that the works now being carried on were realising a large profit. The first meeting of the creditors is appointed for the 21st of Sept. FASHIONS FOR SEPTEMBER, From Le Follet.) The polonaises of the season are a very great improvement on those made when the style was introduced a few seasons ago. The flow of the drapery is much more elegant, with the back breadths either cut, with the bodice, or set to the basque a few inches below the waist, than when they were attached to a band round the waist.
These polonaises are all worn very long, nearly hiding the under -skirt in front; at the back they show-much more of the drees, many of them being left open to within a few inches of the waist expressly. One very graceful and novel design has the left half of the back cut extra long, and then plaited in box plaits, leaving a heading. This croEses over the back, and is fastened just behind the left hip, with a button on each plait. Such a polonaise as this, made of some neutral tint, would do duty with a variety of underskirts. If of white serge or cachemire, and trimmed with creme lace or black velvet, there is hardly any skirt of plain material with which it could not be worn.
The skirt of the polonaise is sometimes faced with colour in front, and turned backer rovers, fastened with buttons; this, of course, necessitates collar revers, and cuffs of the same. The Laitiere is much used for seaside costume, especially if made of serge. This tunic, as most of our readers know, consists of a straight piece, faced with colour at the lower edge, and turned up caught together at the back, leaving the extra portion to hang straight it is sometimes called the "Fish wife." The dark blue serges made this way are either turned up with red or pale blue if the latter several rows of narrow white or silver braid at the upper edge of the revers are a great improvement. The habit bodice is much worn it is a species of redingote, closely resembling a gentleman's coat, but, of course, fitting much closer to the figure. Some are make exactly like a dress coat, and worn open over a waistcoat.
When the corsage-habit is of velvet satin, over a waistcoat of damask or embroidered silk, the effect is very elegant. These are worn of different materials to the skirt and one, of richly-embroidered black sicilienne, that has ust been shown us, is intended to accompany several different toilettes. Waistbands are much employed with travelling, seaside, and country dresses they are worn over the polonaises, which are sometimes made slightly loose, and confined to the waist by the band. Some bodices are cut round waists that is, without basques on purpose for the waistbands, which, in many cases, are very elaborate, being embroidered with silver or gold, or even made of silver ornaments attached to velvet. For outdoor walking wear these would, of course, be in bad taste.
Those intended for travelling and seaside wear are of leather, with contrivances for suspending an en-tout-cas, fan, or small bag. There is reaily no limit to the variety of bonnets worn. Large brims raised at one side, worn rather on one side, and known as the Devonshire or Grains-borough hat, are very much worn. At the same time, bonnets or hats with small brims are also in vogue in fact, the principal desiderata in the or hat, whichever it may be called (for the way it is worn decides which species it iB), are, firstly, that it must be suitable in shape, colour, and material to the occasion and, secondly, it must be becoming. These conditions complied with, there seems hardly anv other rule to be observed.
Joseph Wilson, a constable of the Metropolitan Police, was charged, at Ilford, Essex, on Wednesday, with assaulting several females at East Ham, and, in eef ult of payiDg a flue of 5, he was sent to gaol for a month, Saturday was the anniversary of the birth of tho late Prince Consort, when Prince Leopold met a numerous assemblage at the Obelisk, near Balmoral and ail drank to the memory of the deceased. The Wipe Murder at Leicester. At Leicester on Wednesday, the jury returned a verdictof wilful murder against ohn Thomas Green, for the murder of wife, whom he had shot in the neck. The Eight Hon. Earl of Morley and Countess Morley were on Wednesday presented with magnificent ser ices of plate, the result of a town subscription in Plymouth, on the occasion of their marriage.
Conway, one of the oid unreformed corporations to which Sir Charles Dilke recently directed public attention, is to be placed under the operation of the Municipal Corporations Act. The governing body is to constat of four aldermen and twelve councillors. At the Berkeley Police Court, on Monday, before Mr. Herbert Jenner Fust, Emolo Guiseppe was brought up in custody, charged with being a convict escaped from the convict establishment of the Italian Government the Island of Pant elerio. Remanded.
On Wednesday afternoon, at Pontefracfc Town Hall, a gentlemanly-lojoking man, described as a stock and snarebroker, residing at Hack Fall, near Eipon, and named John William Prest, was charged with forging a bill of exchange for 340, on Jno. Andrew Phillips, a grocer, of Pontefract, and purporting to be drawn by the prisoner, and accepted by the firm of Messrs. Cross and iron and brass merchants, Leeds, He was remanded. The Charge or Conspiring to Murder Parent -The hearing of the charge preferred by Arthur m. Dickins against a young French student, Paul Sayart, that the latter offered '500 to kill Mons and Madame Bayart, at Roubaix, France, the parents of the defendant, was resumed on ThnrsrfnT, t.
Hall, Hertford, before a full bench Aft-Pi aivma. fnrVit ll 6 ot magistrates. It luo proner wa3 committed for trial, bail being accepted. Another Church Choir Duspute.a. dispute, similar In some respects to that at Hevwood haa occurred at Bury.
Mr. John Rowe, a member of the choir of Canon Hornby's church, haa given offence to his clergyman by singing in a church belonging to a Nonconformist denomination. For this offence Mr. Rowe has received notice to sever his connaction'with the choir of Canon Hornby's church. Serious Charge against the Sechetarv op a Cooperative Society.
On Monday, William Langler late secretary in the employ of the Idle Commercial Co-operative Society, was committed for trial at the assizes, at the Bradford West Riding Court, on tha charge of falsifying the books of the society, with intent to defraud, the amount of the deficiency being estimated at upwards of 3000. On Tuesday, the axle of a waggon of a goods train broke near Holytown, on the Caledonian Railway, blocking the other line. The mail train from Carlisle came up immediately afterwards and ran into the waggons. The engine and tender of the mail trnin were thrown across the lines, blocking them. The driver and fireman jumped off, but were both hurt.
Several ladies and two boys, who were in a composite carriage next to the tender, were more or less injured. A disastrous fire occurred at Chipping Norton, near Banbury, early on Tuesday by which four houses were totally destroyed and a fifth nearly A man, while trimming a benzoline lanp, accidentally ignited some of the oil which had ovarilowed. Tha house was set on fire, and the flames spread with great rapidity. The man was severely burnt, and was taken to the hospital. Some of the people were unable to sava their furniture, so rapidly did the flames spread.
Gross Cruelty in Wales. On Monday afternoon, before the Rhyl magistrates, Robert Simner, poulterer, was charged by the Inspector of the Royal Society with torturing a fowl by plucking it whilst alive. Tha officer entered defendant's back premises, and found him plucking a fowl. After looking on for five minutes the fowl began flapping its wings witness put it on the floor and it began to move about. It 3eemed in great agony.
The neck had just been slightly nicked," but not properly broken. Defendant was fined 2, including costs. A Complicated Accident. On Tuesday, a singular accident occurred at the Stanley incline, the North-I Eastern Railway. Two sets of were about to pass each other, when one of them ran into a num-j her of cattle which had strayed on to the railway.
The waggons were thrown off the rails, and tho jerk to tha i wire rope causing the rope to break the orher set ran dovm the incline and dashed into them. An oid woman, who had been riding on a buffer, -s-as found I cut to pieces amongst the debfts. Three of the cattle I were killed. On Tuesday, at the Houghton-le-Spring Polica Court, Durham, three women and three pitmen, employed at Herrington Pit, cue of Lord Durham '3 collieries, were charged with intimidating a miner, named Matthias Rigby. Owing to some dispute the complainant had with the Durham Miners' Union, the other miners refused to work with him.
The male defendants had forced him out of the cage and maltreated him; the women threw stones at him, hurting him seriously. One woman was discharged, and the other vo were fined 0, The men escaped with lighter puni3hmenfc. Approaching Marriage in Life. A marriage is on the cards which is likeiy to excite some talk. Mr.
Henry Chaplin, the member For Mid-Lincolnshire, is abcut to marry into the great Whig family of tha Sutherlands. Ha is engiged to Lady Florence Gower, the Duke of Sutherland's eldest daughter (born 1355), and will, no doubt, have a very handsome dowry with her. It is to be hoped there will no slip between the cup and the lip this time. The last time Mr. Chaplin was about to be married, the Marquis of Hastings quietly robbed him nf his lady, and married her, much to the amusement of society and the annoyance of the Lincolnshire squire.
This was some years ago, and everybody had concluded that Mr. Chaplin would die a bachelor. He has aimed high this time, and is likely to be more successful. Wild Fowl Preservation. An Act of Parliament has lately been issued for the preservation of wild fowl, reciting that the wild fowl of the ITnlted Kingdom, forming a staple article of food and enmmer, have of late years greatly decreased in number by reason of their being inconsiderately slaughtered during the time they have egga and young, and tha protecdon afforded, owing to their marketable value, by the Act 36 of the Queen is insufficient.
It is therefore enacted that wild fowl a list is given shall not be taken between the loth of February and the 10th of July, with penalties for infringing tha law. The Home Office may vary the period. One half of this penalty is to be given to the informer, and the other to the poor of the parish. Provision is made for the trial of offences committed within the Admiralty jurisdiction or on boundary waters. On Tuesday forenoon, a distressing acsident occurred off Workington harbour, resulting in the dearb.
of three men. Four young men, named Isaac Birkett, George Fennon, George Hollid'ay, and John Morley, all seafaring men, 3aw a barque standing off the port as if in need of assistance. Thinking such migUt be the case, they got a boat and made for the entrance to the harbour to go out. The sea was at the time running rather high and it was ebb tide, and no sooner had the boat left the fairway than a heavy sea caught her broadside and capsized her, leaving the four men struggling in the water. Birkett, who was one of tha crew of the Mersey, which was wrecked orf St.
David's Head a fortnight ago, swam to the shore, as also did Fennon. Birkett, seeing that two of his companions were missing, at once sprang into the sea again but his heroic efforts proved in vain. After buffeting a few minutes with the waves he himself sank. The scene of the disaster was only some thirty from the shore. Losing a Mail Cart through Drunkenness.
At the Nantwich Police Court, on Tuesday, a man named Renjamin Wynn was charged with being drunk in charge of a mail cart the previou3 day. ivlr. Wood, postmaster, appeared to prosecute. Wynn was employed to drive the mail cart carrying the bags between Crewe, Nantwich, and Whitchurch, and shortly before two am. on Monday the bags were handed to him at Crewe station by a messenger, who states that he was very tipsy." About four o'clock, Wynn reached Nantwich and knocked up the postmaster, asking whether he had received the mail yet.
When that official replied in the negative, Wynn, without stating any particulars, told him he could go to bed again, as he had lost, the ear. Intelligence shortly afterwards reached Crewe that tha cart and horse, both upset, had been found at Chesterton, in Staffordshire, the bags being thrown into tha hedge; and It transpired that the driver had seea thrown out on the road, and had found hi3 way to Nantwich quite in the opposite direction to tha one taken by his horse. Wynn was remanded. Elopement of a Young Lady with a Coachman. The inhabitants of the usually quiet seaport of Blysa have just been surprised by the intelligence thaS runaway couple had been found in the town, who had been missing from tha neighbourhood of Edinburgh for the last fortnight.
It appears that Maggie Campbell, daughter of Alexander Campbell, a young lady ot about 19 years of age, of prepossessing appearance, Qi reported to be possessed of superior accomplishments, aaa formed astrong attachment for Geo. Simpson, a ooaohaiaa injaer father's service, a man of very respectable and about 26 years of age. About days youthful pair, from some cause or other, sndden.y uu unexDectediy left the residence of Mr. Gampoeu, an Cammo, about five miles from Edinburgh ana taonga information had been given to the police, "2S2 been made for the fugitives, they 53 to Newcastle, where they consummated WfLST affection by marriage. They next Pif.S which they reacbed about a week ago, PS detective from the Scottish capital f.
Bearch of the young peoole, and the mm and the several principal lodgings hi the distric were inspected, and WM WrwlL made, their malned a mystery, and the fT eomolishing the object ot ms uus. of the pair were hWed to the local ponoe, who continued to make inquiries. Ai discovered, and on Monday night were transfened to Edinburgh as a charge of stealing wearing apparel was preferred. The young lady stated that they nad been married at Newcastle, and expressed hsr deep attachment towards has husband. A SUICIDAL COPYIST.
An inquest was held on jCuesday by Dr. Hardwicke, at Paddington, on the body of a man at present unknown, who had been found dead in a coffee-shop. Mary Ann Ash, a domestio servant at a coffee-house in Praed street, Paddington, deposed to calling the deceased on Sunday morning last. She knocked at his door, but receiving no answer, went into the room, and there found deceased lying upon his face quite dead. The proprietor of the house said he was at his street door at midnight on Saturday last when the deceased, a man of good address and superior education, came up to him and asked for a bed room, which he Said for.
Dr. Thorn stated that he found the eceased lying on his face, in a nude condition, on the bed. His hands were clenching the pillows, and his tongue was bitten through, as though he had suffered much acute pain. He was quite dead and stiff. On looking round he saw three bottles on a table, one containing camphor, a second a drachm and a half of chloroform, and a third a large quantity of cyanide of potassium in solution.
His opinion was that death was the result of a dose of the last. Francis Husted, police-sergeant, said he was called to the house in question on Sunday last. On examining the room he found that the deceased's clothes bore no marks teading to his identification. All the places where a name had been written had been out out and destroyed. On the body wa3 found 143.
4d. and the following letter, in a lady's handwriting My dear Pet, Just a line to inform you that I had only reached as far aa the baker's shop when who should I see but that old Spiers. I did not take the slightest notice of him, but he said, Good morning, May," bat I made no answer. I did not take the slightest notice of him, but be stared at me like a fool. I have no doubt, my darling, I have made you very unhappy.
I thought how it would be that his beautiful vision would drop upon us one of these days. It is just what I said. Both he and Marion haunt me. As I am not to see you again at church, perhaps you will meet me in Oxford terraoe. where I shall be walking about.
I have been longing to know what he has said to you. Now keep up your spirits. All's well that ends well." The worry will not last long. With fondest love and kisses, yours lovingly and affectionately, Mat. Dr.
Thorn here drew the attention of the Court to a peculiarity in the case. In his opinion deceased was undoubtedly a suicidal copyist. In a recent issue of the British Medical Journal the case of the hairdresser of the Waterloo road is given in full. No doubt deceased read it, and had copied all the details in the destruction of his own life. Experience and observation taught him that suicides did copy each other.
The jury returned a yerdict of suicide from poisoning but that there was no evidence to show the state of deceased's mind at the time. "THE HEN AND CHICKENS." At Marlborough street Police Court, London, Agnes Moore, 37, well-dressed, has been charged before Mr. Newton with stealing a florin. A gentleman stated that the prisoner, who was with a companion, accosted him in George street, Hanover square, about 11 o'clock at night, telling him that she resided in a handsome house to which she pointed, but had left her purse at home, and, having forgotten the latch-key, she could not let herself in without observation. She was in want of a glass of lemonade, aud if he would assist her to it she would be greatly obliged.
Her appearance and manner impressed him favourably, and he offered to pay for a bottle of lemonade. No house, however, was open, and the gentleman said he would have lent her sixpence if he had any smaller change than a florin, which he produced. She snatched the florin out of his hand, and as she refused to return it, he gave her into custody. The prisoner, who spoke with an Irish accent, said she was with a friend, a respectable lady like herself. The complainant accosted them, and being repulsed made a false charge against her.
The friend who was with her would corroborate her statement. Mrs. Vernon, of 65, Drummond street, said she was walking with her friend, the prisoner, when the gentleman who preferred the charge spoke to them, but was indignantly repulsed. Mr. Newton asked the witness, who was dressed in mourning, what she was and how she gained her living.
The witness said she was a widow living on a small independence. Vire, the deputy gaoler, asked to be allowed to make a statement. Having got into the witne38-box, he said he had known the prisoner and her witness, the widow, for about five years. They belonged to a gang of women known as the "Hen and Chickens." The "hen," an old woman, went about with the "chickens" four women of middle age and of superior dress and deportment. Their plan was to walk about the West Endprincipally in Sackville street, Charles street, and Hanover square, and to accost gentlemen as they came from their clubs at night, representing themselves as officers' widows or officers' wives, their husbands being from home.
They would take any gentleman who was weak enough to iisten to them to a fine house, which they pretended was their residence but before going in they would declare they Baw a light in one of the bedrooms and that their husbands had returned. They would then propose to adjourn to some place for a short time until they could enter the house, and thia being acceded to they would contrive to borrow a sovereign to get wine, with which they immediately decamped. The complaints by gentlemen against the "Hen and Chickens were so frequent that a man had been placed on special duty to watch their movements. The prisoner had been in custody before. Mr.
Newton told the gentleman it would only be giving him trouble to Eend the case to a jury, as no conviction was likely to follow. He would discharge the prisoner but severely cautioned both her and the widow. A CAPTAIN ACCUSED OF MURDERING THREE SAILORS. A startling series of crimes, alleged to have been committed on the high seas, have just been brought to light through charges made against the captain of an American ship by two of the crew, who sailed with him on his last voyage, and who say they were eyewitnesses of the outrages they detail. According to the account of these men William Skinner, the cook, and Harry Poent, the carpenter the ship St.
Mark, of New York, Captain J. S. Grindle commander, sailed from Liverpool for Ooquimbo, ChilL on the 1st of last March, with a cargo of coal and a crew consisting of twenty-one men, of whom eleven were green hands. When the ship was a few days out from Liverpool, it is alleged that the second and third mates and the boatswain began to maltreat the men on the most trivial pretences, beating them with ropes, sticks, belaying pins, or whatever else happened to be at hand, and the punishment was continued day and mgnt, and varied to please toe barbarous tastes of -the officers. Captain Grindle, it is said, exercised a.
general supervision overthe torture, and at times participated in it actively. One night during the sixth week out, one of the sailors, called "Long Tom," an unmarried Englishman, about 19 years of age, it is alleged, was severely beaten with a rope by Captain Grindle, and the next day he died suddenly. The information was carried to the captain while he was at dinner, and he ordered the. dead body to be thrown overboard, and the corpse of the unfortunate man, half wrapped in a piece of canvas, was tossed into the sea without ceremony. This casualty, the witnesses say, seemed to produce no effect upon the officers, for the cruelty continued, and about two weeks after a seaman known as Soldier" died, after being confined to his bunk for several days by his ill-treatment.
His body was disposed of in the same manner as that of Long Tom." During the Latter part of the voyage a third sailor, called "Larkegan," was injured by cruel treatment, and just before the St. Mark reached Ocquimbo, after a passage of about 100 days, it is alleged that he was choked to death by the boatswain, and his body was thrown into the forecastle among the men to intimidate them. The ship remained about two months at Coquimbo discharging coal, and during this time the boatswain deserted. The St. Markthen sailed for Callao, about 800 miles distant, andjon reaching this port, the witnesses say, the captain, fearing consequences to himself, brought charges of cruelty against toe second mate, and succeeded in having him sentenced to imprisonment for one year.
The remainder of the crew, including the third mate, and excepting the cook and carpenter, then deserted, and a mixed crew being shipped, the vessel sailed for the guano islands to take in a cargo of guano. Here the first mate, Chase, who is represented to have been an officer, and innocent of any of the crimes committed, left the vessel. After the St. Mark completed her loading Bhe started on the homeward voyage, and when out five or six hours, running along the coast, she drifted in on the heavy reef, and the anchor being let go too late, she swung around and struck. This was on the night of Saturday, the 8th of uly.
All hands immediately took to the boats and landed in safety. The next mornlDg the vessel parted amidships, the masts went by the board, and on Monday morning there was not a trace of her left. The crew after landing were paid off and discharged, and Captain Grindle, the cook, and the carpenter camo to this city on the Pacific mail steamer Colon, which arrived last Monday. During the greater part of the voyage of the St. Mark the captainj according to the complaint, was intoxicated, and the vessel was lost through his faulty seamanship.
On an affidavit being made to the above effect before Assistant "United States Attorney Pullman a warrant was issued by Commissioner Shields for the arreet of Grindle. On search being made he was found at the United States Hotel, by Deputy Marshals Crowley and Harris, and taken before Commissioner Shields. He was held in 10,000 dols. bail to await examination. He says that the story is a put-up job of the sailors.
New York Herald. Assault by a Policeman. Police-constable Cahiil, a member of the Barrow police force, was brought before the Barrow magistrates on Tuesday on a charge of cutting and wounding Wm. Campbell, a man with whom he was drinking whisky one morning last week. The evidence showed that the supply of whisky was short, and that when Campbell, who had paid for all that had been previously drunk, asked who would pay for a new supply a row ensued, in the course of which the constable inflicted several severe cuts and bruises on Campbell's face and head.
In palliation of the offence it was shown that some men outside the house were waiting to give the constable a hidings A fiae of 40s, and costs was imposed. An exhibition of newspapers of all times and countries is announced to open at Prague on the 28th September. The first bale of genuine Bavarian 1876 hops has arrived in England, consigned to brewers at Burton-on-Trent. On Wednesday, at the Plymouth Guildhall, the Earl of Morley presided at the inauguration of a free public library, the first opened in the district. Alexander Whitelaw, M.P., was taken seriously ill in a railway carriage on Tuesday in returning from a visit to the North.
He was removed' home to Garts-herrie House. A cargo of slates has been sent from New York to Lowestoft. They are stated to be equal in quality and much cheaper than those brought from the Welsh quarries. The Glasgow Town Oounoil have resolved to request Mr. Cross the Home Secretary, to accept the freedom of the city, for his distinguished services in the cause of social and sanitary reform.
At the recent Middlesex Sessions, John Moore, charged with attempting to steal a jewellery case worth 800, from the Great Western Station, Paddington, was sentenced td ten years' penal servitude and seven years' police supervision. Cockfightino in Cheshire. At the Eddiabury Petty Sessions, on Monday, John Dykes, Wdliam Grocott, and Henry Grocott, young men, were summoned for having, on the 24th of July, at Beeston, caused certain cocks to fight. All three defendants admitted the offence were each fined 7s. 6d.
and costs. The Small-pox Epidemic at Blackburit. The Bev. W. S.
Berry, a Roman Catholic priest of St. Al ban's, Blackburn, succumbed to small-pox on Wednesday morping. Deceased was highly esteemed for his great learning and public spirit. On Wednesday there were four fresh outbreaks of small-pox, and there have been a considerable number of deaths. At Liverpool, on Thursday, a Board of Trade inquiry was opened touching the circumstances attending the loss of the sh'p Calcutta in the Gulf oi St.
Lawrence. It appeared that of the crew of 27 hands 23 were drowned. The crew left the ship in two boats, which were both capsized in the surf a short distance from the shore. The master was not willing to abandon the ship, but was almost compelled to do so by the craw. Children Poisoned througu Eating Funqi.
A singular case of four-children being poisoned happened at Whitehaven on Wednesday, through their eating fungi, which resemble mushrooms. Soon afterwards they were seized with severe burning pains, and presented the appearances of suffering from poison. Mr. Helding, surgeon at Whitehaven Infirmary, attended the children, and at night he considered they were out of danger. The Bhidgwater Guardians and Alcoholic Drinks.
On Wednesday, the Guardians of the Bridgwater Uriion rescinded by a majority of 14, after a long discussion, a resolution adopted a month since to discontinue the use of alcoholic stimulants in the workhouse hospital. A letter was read from the Local Government Board stating that the Guardians would incur a serious responsibility should they act contrary to the opinion of their medical adviser as to the treatment of cases of sickness. The Thunderer Explosion, The Verdict. The Thunderer inquest was concluded on Wednesday night. The jury found a unanimous verdict of Accidental death by the stop valve being closed at a time when the Bafety valve was inoperative owing to the expansion of the metal." They added a rider suggesung certain future alterations and experimenta to be made in marine boilers of the Royal navy, and they added that the Thunderer's boilers were of excellent manufacture.
Intelligence reached South Shields, on Thursda', respecting the fate of the fishing boat William and Susan, belonging to Buckhaven, which left Tynemouth on the 2nd August, and had not since been heard of. Captain Beach, North Shields, of the barque Zenobia, reports having passed the William and Susan, 66 miles west of Tynemouth Ca3tie, full of water, and, apparently hanging to a rope forward, he distinguished the name and number of the boat. The crew of six men undoubtedly perished in the storm of the 3rd ult. Railway Communication Between North and South. On Tuesday the branch line between the Charing Cross and the Cannon street systems at South-wark bridge road, and the Blackfriars station of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway was completed, and by this mean3 the South Eastern Railway is placed in direct communication with the 8ix great companies which have termini in the metropolis, the Great Northern, Midland, Great Eastern London, Chatham, and Dover Metropolitan, and Metropolitan District Railways.
The Education Department and "Unnecessary Schools." From a Parliamentary paper just issued, it appears that the Committee of Council on Education i.e., the Duke of Richmond and Lord Sandon adopted, on the 7th of August, the following minute Resolved, that with a view to remove any doubt aa to the discretion which may be exercised by theEdaca-tion Department in administering the Parliamentary grant, so as to prevent the multiplication of unnecessary schools, and to secure uniformity, economy, and efficiency in the distribution of that grant, it is" expedient to provide by the new code that No annual grants shall be made for or in respect of any school to which such grants have not previously been made, if the Education Department think that the school is Throwing a Child into a Wasp's Nhst. At the Marshland (Lynn) Petty Sessions, on Tuesday, a gang of three men were charged with a cruel assault on a child named Thomas Edwin Lindsay, of Terrington St. Clement, on Sunday, August 3. On the evening ot that day the complainant (aged 13) was on his way to chapel, Terrington, when he was seized by the three defendants, who puiied off his boots, and taking the laces therefrom, tied his legs with them. His legs were further secured with a piece of tar rope, and his hands strapped together behind him.
In- this condition the defendants carried the poor boy a short distance to a wasps' best, which they had just dug up, and having thrown him into ifc, they left. The lad was fearfully stung upon his knees, thighs, neck, face, arms, and in fact almost every part of his body. His agonising cries were heard at a considerable distance, and eventually the defendants returned and liberated him. The lad, suffering the most excruciating pain, was then taken to his home, where his wounds were dressed. The magistrates characterised the assault as a most brutal one, and fined each of the defendants 1., and 12s.
6d. costs. Cruelties by Sikh Chiefs. A Calcutta paper has received a letter from the Kooloo Valley containing very unpleasant stories of the cruelties perpetrated by some of the Sikh Rajahs and Chiefs in the protected Sikh territories. The writer has been for many years in these territories, and is personally acquainted with several hundred villages on the borders of Jheend and Puttialla.
He says "The people tell me freely of their troubles, and long for the Angrez Raj to come, especially in the territory of the Rajah of This Rajah is even worse than the Rajah of Puttialla, though less of a drunkard. Torturing people is his pastime. He has a tank in his palace court-yard, and when he wants 'sport' he sends men out into the bazaar, who seize men and bring them in, tie strings to their toes, throw them into the tank, while he laughs over their drowning struggles. When they are near dead, they are taken out and restored to life by his hakims. Not many years since an aged goldsmith was captured and Drought in, and thrown into the tank.
He soon became insensible, and died a few minutes after he was dragged out. Many of the native States are the dark places of the earth, full of the habitations of cruelty." Extraordinary Proceedings by a Mayor. A correspondent writes The proposal by the Mayor of Lancaster (Alderman Preston), who is a Roman Catholic, to visit St. Peter's Church in hia official robes, and accompanied by the insignia of his office on Sunday next, when Cardinal Manning 13 announced to preach, has raised a storm of religious ill-feeling in the town, which every day increases in intensity, and which threatens on Sunday next to culminate in something more demonstrable than the gift of the cold shoulder to the procession. The announcement of the intended visit was made in the Council Chamber by the Mayor a fortnight ago, and on that occasion three members of the Corporation Aid.
T. Storey (Churchman), and Councillors Williamson (Churchman) and Jackson (Quaker) in answer to the invitation of the Mayor, announced their intention to accompany him. Since then the proposal has met with such general and strong opposition on the ground that, notwithstanding the legal right of the Mayor so to do, the carrying of the mace to St. Peter's is an insult to the Protestant feeling of the town, that Councillors Williamson and Jackson have each written to the Mayor, asking to be relieved from their promise. A meeting convened by circular, and representing Protestants of various denominations, has been held, at which it ha3 been unanimously decided to draw up a protestation against the proposed course, and present it to the Mayor.
Sad Fatal Accident in Manchester. An accident of a lamentable nature, by which one man lost his life and two others were injured one somewhat seriously occurred on Thursday morning in Manchester. It appears that about half-past seven o'clock a number of men were engaged upon some buildings in course of erection in Fennell street. Philip Conolly, aged 59, a labourer William Henry Johnstone, bricklayer and another man, named Chas. Hartshorn, also a bricklayer, were pointing an arch in the basement.
The "centres" of the arch were drawn or removed on Monday, but a tie-rod had been placed to prevent the arch from bulging. Another man, also named Conolly, had been assisting in the work; but had gone to the front of the building, when he heard the men shouting, and the noise of falling bricks and masonry. He ran to the spot, and found that the arch had fallen, and that the men were buried beneath a large mass of earth and bricks. Assistance was immediately at hand, and steps were taken to ralease the imprisoned men. Johnstone and Hartshorn were got out in about ten minutes, and were at once removed to the Infirmary but it was nearly an hour before Conolly was discovered, and when brought out from the ruins he was seen to be dead.
Hi3 body was removed to the Infirmary. Of the injured men, Johnstone was found to be the most seriously hurt, ai.d this resolution was carriec unanimously. EETFORD BOROUGH POLIGE. MiiNHAY. Before the Mayor and Mr.
John Smith. Ciu klty To a Hobsk Menry Turner, of Stockwith, was summoned for cruelly ill-treating a horse at Eetford, on the 17th of August. Ordered to pay 1, or in default, 14 days' imprisonment. Shoplifting. Mrs.
Siuao, a married woman, who aid she had seven children, was charged with stealing a pair of trousers from Messrs. Fletcher's clothing establishment, Caiolgate, Retford, on Saturday night. Two previous convictions were proved against her, and she was committed for trial. Alleged Muedkrous Outrage at Wakefield. On Tuesday, Mr.
T. Taylor opened an inquiry at Wakefield on the body of a young Irish woman, named Eose inn Sweeney, who it is alleged died last Saturday night from injuries inflicted upon her during a quarrel with i woman, named Ann Kilrayne, who is now in custody. The deceased was the daughser of a fish hawker, and had worked in market gardens and in a mill. On Saturday night, the 12th there was a drunken Irish row 1e the neighbourhood, and it was alleged that during the quarrel Mrs. Kilrayne thrunt a poker into the Young woman's right breast, which caused a large wound, and bled profusely.
Shortly before the girl cied last Saturday the accused went to see deceased, expressed her sorrow for what she had done, begged her pardon, and prayed with the girl, at her own request, and shook bands with her. The inquest was adjourned. AsoTHrK Railway Station For Belpeh. correspoiiceut writes At last, the Midland Bail way Company 1m definitely decided to build another station at Lelper, me halt-mile up the line, or in the middle oi the ton, arid the work is to be commenced in a few months. L- )per is advancing rapidly, and the town hall sua corporation, so much spoken of, may presently have The anning ton Flobal at Horticul-3TEAL Society.
The eighth annual exhibition was held on Monday, in the large room at the Sportsman's Inn, Stanningten. This is really a cottage gardeners' society, uuij lor prizes at wis exnioinon. The vqjeiaoies scown were excellent, especially the onions, celery, cabbages, and peas. Of cut flowers and fruit there was not a large show. The judges were Mr.
H. Priest and Mr. H. Eodgers. The show was visited by large numbers from the surrounding district.
A Babksjlet Prophet Trouble, At Uie County Police-court, Lancaster, on Saturday, a stal- muf vxh a wes caargea witn pegging, in plead- born in the North of England. The women of England UU.U ij uuwusauLus ii onus nine 01 tne year to partake of their hospitality." Tbe bench committed the prophet" to Lancaster Castle for seven days. I he Murder at Chapeltown in I860. On Tuesday evening, a meeting of the inhabitants of Uiapeltown determined to forward a petition to the Secretary of State, praying for the discharge of Solomon Stenton, who is at present undergoing imprisonment for the manslaughter of Eliza Stentnn bin o-ranri- Eflther, at Chapeltown, in March, 1SG5. on the cround 4 mu uui commit tne act which denrivpri Mia nW foinan oi' life, Outburst nv flic rT, Wednesday afternoon, an alarmim? renort, oSrA fenouB accioent had occurred at the New Oaks Col- ueioagmg to Messrs.
Uharles Cammell and Co. the Cyclous Works. ShpfflRlH rn aade, it was found that a rather extensive fall of roof ace wrien the afternoon shift was eoin? to work. noeratea a quantity of gas. which Wae Of r.bp mnn'o i ere ail arlniirnblfi nnriif? i It.
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1H r.i me i lorti.orl "ci. inner i erab I'rs Ti Buptrinrenaence very con- icrea uy insurance. UDes wed and best hur.f-.5na i ic r.t naa ttius to be aacrificerl. mH Ti realise what the afreet m.v ho week ago, when symptoms of hydrophobia set in, which ended fatally, after a week's suffering. A serious accident occurred between Marlborough and Swindon on Saturday night to a picnic party who were returning to Swindon.
A collision occurred with a brewery waggon, and one of the breaks was smashed to pieces. Nearly 20 persons were thrown Into the road. Two of them were picked up in a dying condition, and several others were injured. At Taunton Police-court, on Saturday, Mark Besley, aged 50, formerly landlord of the Queen's Arms in that place, was charged with having attempted to murder George Vickery, at the Alma Inn, Taunton. found Vickery sitting with his arm round Mrs.
Besley 's neck, and thereupon cut Vickery 's throat. He was remanded. Mr. Arch, president of the National Agricultural Labourers' Union, while travelling from the north to Warwick, to attend a meeting of the Executive Committee, on Tuesday, had a somewhat narrow escape. The train by which he was travelling came into collision near Stafford with another passenger train, and Mr.
Arch sustained a severe blow on the neck and head. He was able, however, to preside at the meeting at Leamington on Monday. Leonard Monk, a butler, has been committed for trial at Aylesbury on a charge of killing a hawker, named John Colyill. The deceased man, with his wife and child, walked to Hartwell, near Aylesbury, from Oxford, and being thirsty, went to a public-house, but the landlord refused to serve them. A quarrel ensued, and it was stated that Monk struck Colyill several blows, felling him to the ground, and causing concussion of the brain.
Messrs. Browne and Robinson, the extensive builders and contractors, of Worship street, London, are now engaged upon the construction of a splendid mansion In South Kensington, under the direction of Count Munster, the German Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, which Prince Bismarck, who is expected to arrive incognito in London next February, will, it is Said, occupy each year from February to June. Godfrey Wentworth Beaumont, late of the Scots Fusilier Guards, died at Hill House, Swansea, on the 23rd in his forty-first year. The deceased entered the army as second lieutenant in the 21st (Royal North British Fusiliers), by purchase, on March 17, 1854, and eerved in that regiment in the Eastern campaign of 1854, including the battles of Alma, Balaklava, and Inkermann, and siege of Sebas-topol, for which he was rewarded with the medal and four clasps and the Turkish medal.
At the London Mansion House, on Monday, William Bouverie Cleveland Willmott, alias Charles Howard, was charged with obtaining 380 by fraud. A relative of Mr. Harvey, the prosecutor, died, and left his property to his widow. Prisoner wrote to the prosecutor, stating that he knew of a later will, in which a large sum of money was left to Mr. Harvey, but that the will was in the possession of a banker, who had a lien upon It for 380.
A cheque for that aaaount was sent to the prisoner, who then decampeo. He was remanded. Railway Servants and their Employers. The Executive Council of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, representing some 20,000 railway employes, have just passed the following resolutions First "That this Council views with deep regret the recent retrograde movement by the companies, and the numerous breaches of faith with their servants, and should such action be taken in future as that lately taken by the Midland Company in dealing with their goods guards, this council will feel itself justified, after reasonable means have failed, in taking extreme measures in the interests of its constituents." Second "That with the view of giving effect to the above resolution, and for the purpose of reorganising men so as to place them in a position to resist such inroads on their rights, committees be formed in all large railway centres, such committees to be in constant communication with, and under the direction of, the general office in London." The Bravo Case. A curious point ofraw has just arisen In connection with the recent second coroner's inquest on the late Mr.
Bravo. It will be recollected that the second inquiry was ordered by the Lords Justices in the Court of Queen's Bench on the application of the Attorney-General, who, with the solicitors to the Treasury, considered the first inquest incomplete and unsatisfactory. In order to comply with the laws appertaining to the coroner's court, it was imperative that the Becond jury should see tho body, and for this purpose an exhumation was necassary. When the time came for the assembling of the jury there was no fund either for the coroner or the Treasury to pay for the exhumation, and as the Norwood Cemetery authorities would not disinter the body without the money was first paid down, Mr. Broad-bridge, the coroner's officer, advanced the expenses namely, 4.
15s. out of his own pocket. In addition to this, he advanced a considerable sum of money to pay for telegrams and other notices to witnesses. At the close of the inquiry he sent his bill in to the coroner, but the coroner, not deeming him-Belf liable, refused to pay it, and referred Mr. Broadbridge to the Treasury.
Mr. Broad-bridge then sent in an application for his expenses to the Treasury Department, and in answer, has just received a reply stating that the Lords of the Treasury cannot entertain his application. As the coroner's officer only received the usual fee of 6s. per inquest for his 28 days' constant attendance at the inquest room, and his general work in connection with the inquiry, he considered himself a serious loser. Under these circumstances, it was intimated that in all probability the matter will be placed in the hands of a solicitor to see who are the proper authorities to recoup the money.
The jurymen, too, consider they have a serious grievance. At the close of the inquiry the Coroner banded to them the usual Government allowance of 12a. to be divided among them. As there were fifteen of them this was not 10d, each. According to the latest information, there, is much iikeli hood of them getting any more..
