... THE BARNES MYSTERY7 ARREST AND CONFESSION BY THE FEMALE PRISONER. The woman Catherine Webster, known also as Webb, Gibbs, Gibson, and Lawless, was arrested in Ireland, on Friday, and has been before the Richmond bench of magistrates, upon the charge of having murdered Mrs. Thomas; and Henry Cliu ch, the landlord of the Rising Sun beerhouse, Han.m^ramith, was also charged with being concerned ...

... The eighty-seventh half-yearly general meeting of It his Company took place at the Royal Hotel, College Green, Bristol, on Tuesday afternoon. Mr Henry Britton, chairman of the board of directors, presided over a large attendance of the proprietors. The Secretary (Mr George Robertson) read the notice convening the meeting, and the seal of the Company having been attached to the register of the ...

... FATAL POACHING AFFRAY. A man named Peter Hills, who was under game* keeper in the service of Colonel Gascoigne, Parling- ton Park, near Leeds, has died at the Leeds Infir- mary, from injuries received at the hands of poachers, on the estate on the 29th ult. Hill's dispositions were taken soon after his admission to the hospital after the-affray, as it was then thought his injuries would ...

... ROSBACH WATER.-Best Table Water known. I prefer it to the other Mineral Waters before the public. (Professor ] Wanklyn's Report.) Sold everywhere. Retail 6s. per dozen Pints 8s. per dozen Quarts. Original packages, containing 50 i Quart Glass Bottles, 29s.. or 100 Pint ditto, 4Hs—The Rosbach Company, limited, 35, Finsbury-circus, London, E.C. The medical profession order Cadbury's Cocoa ...

... EXTRAORDINARY CONSIGNMENT OF A BABY. At the Shrewsbury County Police Office, a widow named Elizabeth Howlett, alias Hague, who has for t-ome time been assisting in carrying on a business un«:er the title of the Shropshire Dairy Company at Shrewsbury, has been charged with abandoning her infant male child, whereby its life was endangered. The defendant arrived at Wellington with a hamper and a ...

... I THE PLOTS AGAINST THE CZAR. A communication from St. Petersburg says:- With regard to the reports published in some foreign newspapers of renewed attempts at assassination having been made or being in contemplation, an authoritative statement is issued to the effect that the accounts published are partly gross exaggerations and partly absolute inventions. It is admitted, however, that in the ...

... MYSTERIOUS DEATH AT BALHAM. On Friday morning, between twelve and one, a man was found strangled in the Thurleigh Road, at the back of Nightingale Lane, Balham. The body was found by a stable boy, belonging to Mr. New- marsh's farm, in that road, hanging by a small piece of cord to some palings, with his feet touching the ground. On the arrival of the police the body waa cut down and conveyed ...

... ANOTHER DOUBLE SUICIDE. Another double suicide has been committed in the Breda quarter of Paris. Mdlle. Marguerite D-, not having been seen by her neighbours for two days, her room was broken open. J'he young woman w s found dead on her bed. By her side lay the body ot her lover, a young man named Paul the son of a provincial notary. They had poisoned themselves. It appears that the young man ...

... ALLEGED KIDNAPPING OF COOLIES BY THE DUTCH. The Shanghai Sin Pao publishes a letter from a correspondent giving an account of the kidnapping of coolies for the Dutch possessions in the Straits and the cruel treatment they suffer. The editor says that he ?.t first disbelieved the charges, but having made enquiries which convinced him of their truth, he de- termined to print the letter. The ...

... A monument to John Knox is to be erected in •! '^contemplation, by the Board of Admir- altv, to allow Royal Navy lieutenants full pay during their probation at the Royal ^aval College, at [ kr2bout°ten thousand persons attended a demonstra- I tion held at Milltown, Roscommon, in favour of a reduction of rents. Imitation pike heads and b&n. ners, were carried in prooeesion. HAPPY DAYS! There is ...

... AMERICAN CIVILISATION. Bishop Gilbert Haven, who has just returned from a pastoral visit to Texas, bears testimony to the law- lessness prevailing in that State. The Bishop writes: —A husband, sitting at his fire in the evening says Wife, reckon I'll go to prayer meeting. Bring me my revolver.' Dr. Haven thus sums up the trage- dies which came under his notice in a brief visit. An old man and ...

... An accident has occurred to the Loanhead and Edinburgh coach, by which two passengers named Smith and Louie, the one belonging to Loanhead and the other residing at Abbeyhill, Edinburgh, lost their lives,and.averal others wereseverely injured. On the road near Liberton the coach was being driven close to the side of the roadway to allow another carriage to pass. The wheels ran against a large ...