SAD DEATH OF A CLERGYMAN
... The Rev. Walter Trevelan Bullock, a retired clergyman and J.P., of Witham, Essex, on Mon- day took a quantity of poisonous lotion in mistake for medicine, and died before medical aid arrived. ...
... The Rev. Walter Trevelan Bullock, a retired clergyman and J.P., of Witham, Essex, on Mon- day took a quantity of poisonous lotion in mistake for medicine, and died before medical aid arrived. ...
... On Tuesday, a concert was given by 1000 children t the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. The spacious plat form thus crowded partly gave way, and about 800 them came down. some of them a couple of feet, other, more. The children, panic stricken, shrieked, and scene of intense excitement ensued. Fortunately, tin drop was not sufficient to cause fatal injuries, the worst cases being attended to at ...
... LATE GENERAL NEWS The Queen aud Princess Beatrice, attended by their suite, will, it is understood, according to the latest arrangements, leave Balmoral on Friday afternoon and arrive at Windsor early on Saturday morning. A marriage is stated to have been arranged between the Prince Imperial of France and the Princess Thyra of Denmark. Tae contemplated alliance is believed to have been ...
... An English Calvinistic Mothodist Chapel (capable of holding from 400 to 500 people), built at a cost of about XFOOI), has been opened. The Rev. Aaron Davies, of Pontlottyn, is the architect, and the builders Messrs. Morgan and Evans, of Pont- newynydd. The Revs. Professor Howells, president of Trevecca College; Thomas Evans, Merthyr; Aaron Davis, Pontlottyn and John Jones (Ap Idrisyn), Brecon, ...
... A OUTLOOK. The continued and increasing depression in trade everywhere prevailing, has induced the Manchester Chamber of Commerce to ask the directors to hold an exhaustive inquiry as to its cause. It was stated that during the last five weeks there have been 102 English and 72 Scotch bankruptcies, 29 winding up mtices,and 1,215 liquidations. It is believed that (10 per cent, of the cotton ...
... The Central News correspondent, writing from Beyrout, says:—Commander Cameron is still en- gaged organising his expedition for exploring the Tigris Valley to ascertain its fitness for the pro- posed Indo-Mediterranean Railway. He holds this route preferable to the Euphrates Valley route, being better for trade, and more thickly populated. The expedition will be absent until the end of April at ...
... IX-tails of the great storm in America have been received at Queeustown. In Philadelphia over 40 churches aud hundreds of duelling houses were un- roofed or otherwise seriously damaged. The railroads there suffered a great deal, one was demolished, and several were damaged considerably. The loss of property along the rivers was large. In Chester 70 buildings were unroofed, and 11 manufactories ...
... TWO MEN DROWNED. Two men, named Smith and Steward, drowned on Sunday afternoon, at Lowestoft, by the upefctting of a small boat in which they we e sailing down the Waveney. Another man who was with them managed to swim ashore. Thev had recently returned from the mackerel fishery off Penzance, but were not experienced sailors, and their boat was carelessly rigged. One of the bodies has been ...
... THE-iLANCASHIRE RIOTS. At the county police-court Blackburn, on Wednes. day, the magistrates sat upwards of seven hours hearing charges against a number of persons who had taken an active part in the destruction of Colonel Jackson s house at Clayton Grange. A statement was given in evidence which had been made by two of the female prisoners (Burns and Caffrey) to the police describing the ...
... ADJUTANT'S DRIL.L.-On Saturday afternoon, our Volunteers mustered on the parade ground for Adjutant's drill. The Adjutant was on the ground with Captain W. H. Powell, Lieutenants Skinner (brothers), Ivatts, and other officers of the corps. The muster was a strong one, and the men were put through a variety of evolutions, which they appeared to execute with promptitude and precision. The band, ...
... At the Gloucester police-court, en Monday, Charlbs Reed, alias the- Hon. R. Westerna, was again brought up. He was first chaarged with obtaining by false pretences clothes valued at X12 2!J¡ 6d, from Messrs* Wareing and Co., tailors, Westgate-street. When he ordered the elothes during the recent assize he said his name was the Hon. Richardt Westerna, that- he was a sub-inspector of factories ...
... BIGAMY AT PONTYPOOL. Henry Rowlands, 38, railway porter, on bail, pleaded Siilty to an indictment charging him with marrying argaret Bell, on the 6th day of September, 1877, his former wife being then alive. Mr. Lawrence appeared for the prisoner, and called the Under Sheriff (Mr. Edwards) and CoL Byrde, both of whom gave him a good eharacter. In consideration of this the learned Judge ...