... I ?? . . - During the hearing of a case in the Sheriffs' Court on Tuesday, some interesting information was given about the profits of showmen. The plaintiff, whose claim in respect of premises required for the extension of the MetroDolitan Railway was disputed, was a Swiss. He said that three years ago, a little before Boxing Day, he bought a talking machine from the Stereoscopic Company for ...

... HOW TO TREAT FOOT.AND-MOUTH I- DISEASE.I This important question is most ably treated by Mr Henry FReece, M.R C.S., in a recent letter to the Times, which we give ia its entirety as calculated to promote the important object of repressing the foot-and-mouth disease. The views which we have expressed on the subject in the leading columns of our present issue, are not only confirmed by Mr Reece, ...

... rALL RIGHTS RESERVED.] [TlHE LOCK-KEEPER'S SECRE.T. I BY of tHENRY FRITH. Author of the Mystery of the Moor Par2n, Dr Gusenstci's GhoWt Story, Tic., &c. CHAPTER XIL AT THE COTTAGE-THE STORM BRE&HS-KIT'S TERROR -APPEARANCE OF THE DARK PEHANTOM-DEATH OF DAVIS. Mrs Norman lost no time in accompanying Christopher Davis to the cottage where his father lay a-dying. Few words passed between the ...

... ALLEGED- EXTRAORDINARY ASSAULT IN A. ~ - - -1 HULL PUBLIC HOUSE. I Yesterday, at the Hull County Court, Morris Roplick, residing in Qaeen-street, sued a man named Harry Pier- son, brioklayer, for £50, for injuries received in conse- quence of a violent and unprovoked assault committed upon him on the 12th April ?? Summers appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr Laverack for the ?? Summers stated ...

... - rALL RIGHTS RESERVED.] I ITHE LOCK-KEEP.E-R'S SECRETG.I BY HENRY FRITH. Author of the Mstery of the Moor Farm, Dr Grusenste4N'3 Ghost Story, &c., &c. CHAPTER IX. STILL IV THE MILL.-AN ADVENTtRE.-A DARK DEED. There is no such thing as 'chance', as we all know. We may fancy that circumstances arise 'by the merest accident,' and force us to do certain things, no matter what. Coincidences ...

... ' I CONSERVATIVE DEMONSTRATION AT I ~~~GRIMSBY. A great and important gathering of the Conserva. t ives of Grimsby took place in the Town Hall on Thurs. b day week. The principal object was to introduce to f the constituency Mr Robert Yarburgb, of the Inner % Temple, London, who is the accepted Conservative g candidate at the next election. The chair was occupied I by Colonel Hutton, and there ...

... Ivatto-gualt valiticalt -3.0 6acral. I MWile on our way In friendly chat We talk of this and then of that. New brooms sweep clean. The venerable adage has applicability to the Town Council, which, with the new blood circulating in its veins, yesterday effected a clean discharge of a rather dropsical agenda paper. Let us hope that this new blood will not supply an equal incentive to the ...

... MOtTiCt XCbJ5. I I The Bishop of Ripon has appointed Dr Tristram, Q.C., V'hancellor of the Diocese, in the place of the late Dr Swabey. A petition was filed in the Scarborough Countytbourt on Tuesday on behalf of Hugh Gordon Henry, of Picker- ing, farmer, the liabilities being 2600. Lady Fitzgerald, wife of Lord Otho Fitzgerald, and formerly Lady Londesborough, died in Paris suddenly on ...

... H I ELECTION OF MAYOR & SHERIFF. The annual meeting of the Hull Town Council was held on Friday for the purpose of electing Mayor and Sheriff, and transacting other business. The retiring Mayor, Alderman Leak, occupied the chair, and there was a fall attendance of councilors. There were also present as spectators, Mr Robert Jameson, J.P., Mr M. Samzuelson, Mr Tate (ex-councillor), Mr J. ...

... TOWN AND VILLAGE SKETCHES IN I LINCOLNSHIRE. No. 13.-HIBALDSTOW AND REDBOURNE. Hibaldstow, most probably in ancient days, a Saxon settlement, is situated about half-way on the Old Roman Road 'twixt Lincoln and the Hurnber, and is supposed to have been the Roman station In Medium. Being an important post on the Ermine Street, it would, In far remote times, be the scene of 8tirrine episodes. ...

... I GENERA ITEMS. L- The Secretary of the London and San F ° has absconded, his defamcation5 alou~ting to _50 __00 it Mr T. C. Cobbold, the Conservative meg t e£5 o , wieb, died at that place on Wednesday nightcb or Es- A steamer has been destroyed by fire on the ?? River with 3,564 bales of cotton on board. ?? g ?? anaccident in which a train left the line on the at I. M artin's Railway, New ...

... A JU NIOR FISHING SOCIETY FOR I HULL. I e The influences of the fishermen's strike have evoked a - determining energy in a special direction, which all pre. d vieus efforts, whether more or less, have failed in. This i. is in the formation of a Hull Junior Fishing Society, 'e affiliated to the Hull Trawl Fishermen's Protective If Society. A few days ago about forty of the n lads-as they ...