... ALLOWING A BOY TO ASCEND A CHIMNEY, At the Birmingham Pollce Court, yesterday, before Messrs. C. Sturge and G. Goodriolr, John Styche, hblmney sweeper, Sun Street, was summoned for allowing his son. Joseph Styche, fourteen years of age, to unlawfully asecond a certain chimney for the purpose of cleaning It ; and WI Iliam Moulds, Hope Street, was summoned for that he, being the owner of the ...

... WORK A3D WAGE0EI MiEETING OF BOILER-MAKERS AND OTHEtRS- Oa Saturday night a large meeting Of platers, smitlhs, riveters, holders-up, strikers helpora, and other.workmnea connected with the Iron 'bridge, roof boller, ani girder trade in the south Staffordshire and *Iat Woreaterahtre dlstflots w held at the Limerick Ink, Great Bridge. - The Ohaiman in opeing the meedufg, sald the lately-fhrmed ...

... THE EIGH PRICE OF AIEAT. The agitation In respect of the high price of meat has extended to WillenbaU. On Thursday evening upwards of a thousand residents of this Black Country town assembled In Lower Lichfield Street, to inaugurate a movement to reduce the high price of that article of con- sumption. The meeting comprised both nmen and worunm chiefly of the operative clases. The meeting was ...

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... - , ;;Xijli, ORTICULTURL; AND POULRY bii- , ;- br's FleE annual show of. this flourishing Society was held in ,tle theiarish School, on Sat ,rday the 17,th. Notwithstanding ied 'the very backwarld p'ig' the sho* of frait, flowersb and ut vegetables. ',as.,well, ,represented, ,and 4copetitionf close; ge, A ver fine, c .llectio of . 'petu' plans from Kinnellar Lodge I his- and Tert6*i6 3House, ...

... SATURDAY, 1 SATUBD4Y, AUGUST 3, 1879- The magnitude of the new French loan has already astonished the world, but the manner in wvhich it has been received, not merely by the people of France but by the capitalists of Western Europe, has been still more extraordinary. The subscription lists were opened at the Palace of Industry in Paris on Sunday, and the doors were at once crowded by people ...

... MIISCELLANEOUS. go n h : as Poor gas- a burning shame. Divorces: the turn of the tide. The champion reaper-advertising. Doctors' motto-patients and long suffering. Qaeen Elizabeth always displayed her worst temper in her best clothes. She was dreadfully ruffled then. A young lady has brought a libel seit against her mother, as the only means to get a mother-in-law. When a man has no mind of ...

... DOGGETT'S COAT. AND BAD,(E. Most of our readen will in. all ptlability ask the question, 1 Who was Doggett It and What is his Coat and Bade P 1 and, in answer to these questions, we will give them. m few partieu1ars concerning 4he 'oliginator of the prize, and of the prize itselK f'.homas Deggst was born in Castle- street, Dulin, iome time during the latter end of thebl7theentury, and ...

... 1, ! EEWSFROM PARIS (moiz oam OwNr 0oeRonaro .1 ;PARPUS, SiiT(aDsA*XVZM. Captain Cerfbeer, sentenced to' deatf bya a Court-martial for desertion to the' eteiny, has been let off by M. Thiors with onliy diasgrime. HEU story has been already told, but it niuwt beshfortly recapitulated on this occasion., He was 'one of the Emperor's carpet officers. Possessed of large property in Lorraine, he ...

... ITH ARTILLERY EiETING AT SHOEBURYINESS, t Solt ova frtko= 6olsanoerMI)A.) SIOEBU1IYNESS, FHo.DA NIOrr. The business to-day-the last of active work -has been of peouliar interest. The great prizes had already been won, and the hundred and odd detachments had been tested by a succession of competitions, by which the relative position of each was ascertained. To-day it remained for the winning ...

... I In the House of Lords, yesterday, Lord Redes- dale, having moved an address praying her Majesty to direct an audit of the accounts between the Crown and Mr. Leonard Edmunds, the Lord t Chancellor, after describing the proceedings which Lave taken place in reference to this matter, said that the case had already been sufficiently inquired c into. The Motion was withdrawn. The Appro- i ...

... TUE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF IRE LAND. (BY TELEOGRAP.) (Pnon OUR ?? OnCORnEsONWNT.) BELFAST, WEDNESDAY EVENWNO. To-day the joint show of the Royal Agricul- tural Society of Ireland and the North-East Agricultural Association opened in Belfast, in;Ormeau-park, which wee kindly lent for the occasion by the Town Council. The park was admirably adapted for the purpose. It contains about 170 ...