... News has r-ached Paris of the death of Admiral Courbet, the Commander of the French feet on the China coast. On Monday a farmer namel William Chester, of Hardington Mandeville, near Yeovll, was seen hanging out of his window with his throat cut, Prince Frederick Charles, the father of the Duchess of Connaught, expired on Tuesday morning at his castle near Potedam, from the apoplectic fib with ...

... ! ,P.ECIAL MEETING OF THE TOWN COUNCIL. c on Monday afternoan a special meeting of the ~i ?? was held to consider a proposition, w o.1f ?? Atkinson had given notice, against a the est-iblishment of the proposed race meeting near tc IHedon. The gallery reserved for the public was t ?? crowded. ?? A quorum of the Council having assembled, the ex. Mayor (,Atlderman King) was unanimously voted to ...

... The particulars of many curious marriages are not revealed to the public; but during the last century less reticence was observed in the matter; the ages of the respective parties wefe frequently put -down without reserve, and the fortunes of the ladies were mentioned with much unction and gusto. Among these announce- ments a few of- the more remarkable are worth select- ing. Here is. one from ...

... ff. t lb Pull Vachtt FRIDAYS AUGUST 7, 1885. I MR CHAMVEBERLAIN'S COMMUNISTIC GOSPEL. The Right Hon. JosEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P. amid all his vagaries and wild revolutionary schemes, may lay claim at least to consistency in one respect, and that is the equal patronage he so amiably bestows upon his friends. Only th6 other day he forwarded a cheque for twenty guineas to his friend Mr Bradlaugh,to ...

... SPRINGG-BANK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH i ?? ANNIVERSARY. SERMONS AND LECTURE. BY PRINCIPAL {CAIRNS. The anniversary sermons in connection with Spring- I bank Presbyterian Church were preached on Sunday by i Principal Cairns, D.D., LL.D., of Edinburgh. The I weather was not very favourable, but, notwithstanding, e good congregatioins assembled both in the morning and t th6;.* evening. In the inorning ...

... TIE SOUDAN WAR: NARRATIVE BY A BARTON MAN. The following further extract from a letter received from a Barton man, who has been in service during the campaigns in Egypt and the Soudan, will be interesting to many of our readers'- Masaowah, April fth. We have left Sunkim and I think the war is over on this aide of the Soudan. You wanted me to write an account of the war; I will tell you a ...

... I Goole Mirket Hal Company have paid a dividend at %he rate of S per cent. on the paid up capital. The vicar of Scalby near Scarborougt, has been pre. aented with a silver tea service on the occasion of his mazriage. There was a tea for all the parishioners even the poorest, and bride cake formed a leading feature of the repast. EAHRL BraDs.-On Monday a robin's nest withsfour ?? in it was ...

... COLONEL SMITH, M.P., AND THE REPRE- SENTATION OF THE EAST RIDING. A meeting of the Liberals of the Southern Division of the East Riding was held at Beverley on Monday, .e Colonel Hodgson (the president of the Liberal Associa. s tion) in the ?? the Chairman had opened the proceedings, Mr T. W. Palmer moved, and Alderman e Crosakill seconded, a resolution, to the effect That it 1 was desirable ...

... ?? OF MOOR FARM. n ?? v 1WillT'R. lPR. By HENIUY.FthITH.IT 4irof -A 1?ace for Life,' 'Througli Moodf Tkreug1 I'r, On the Wings ~of the Winsd,','&o, ?? CHAFTER X~XIX. A NEW DERAIBTURM::'' 'Love rules the Camp, the Court, the Groive.`, - i Skelt on' fear of being detai'ned and discovered bythe' ti miillers, hasjtenied on board a, vessel bound for Bn by There were few passen I ers, and ...

... MURDEROUS ASSAULT BY POACHERS I NEARf HULL. ARREST OF TWO MIEN. On Thursday morning, about two o'clock, a serious attack was made upon a gamekeeper named Harker on Mr Broadley's estate, Elloughton Dale, near Hull. Harker and another gamekeeper named Lang- rick were on duty in the neighbourhood in ques- by tion, and had just separated, when the former came R across about ten or a dozen men who ...

... I Lt&T BIGH'rS 3mzRVnp.l 1 INTERESTING RECORDS OF I LINCOLNSHIRE. ANDEBBY. Au old writer states that the church here was rebuilt in 1726 by ' brief,' meaning by sabscription, and that 'the arch opening into the chancel, which was of the ovea form, was built on 50 large a, scale that it gave way soon after it was erected.' The cracks in it were said not to have increased in 1778, and It was ...

... HULL TOW COUCIL. I 1. . . I c The members of the Council were yesterday I 6put into the County Cour.t: and whether it was tbe uncomfortable nature of their quar- tea, or the fact that itie aggehdai paper wad a comparatively light one, they soon reeled off the business which 'came before them. The I . exed questign of the pumping station, which a1 promises to become a sore point with many c ...