... FATAL QUARREL BETWEEN BOYS. A fatal quarrel is reported from East York- thire. Two lads, named Wells and Storey, rnployed in harvest work by Mr Sellers of ^lixton, quarrelled yesterday in the field. Storey, in a passion, struck his companion on the bead with a heavy gathering rake. One of the take teeth entered his head, and he died. Storey %ras remanded at the police-court. ...

... Disasters at Sea. The steamers Erasmus Wilson and Lord Alfred Paget collided off Lowestoft Ness yester- day. The former was seriously damaged in the bow, and had to be beached. The crew and passengers, numbering 26 in all, were taken off by the Samuel Plimsoll lifeboat. A Lloyd's telegram from Shanghai says:—A report received here states that a vessel, name unknown, is totally wrecked at ...

... TWO MEN DROWNED. I A cobble containing four men went out from Seaham Harbour this morning for some pre- liminary practice, prior to the regatta fixed for this afternoon, when a gust of wind caught the boat. She went over on her side, and at once filled and sank. Assistance was rendered by several pilot boats, which immediately rowed to the scene of the accident, but two of the men were drowned ...

... The' body of Matthews, the watchman, was found among the ruins of Lagan Bridge, at Belfast, this morning. Search for the other victims continues. The structure is a complete wreck, and the bed oi the river is blocked with dóbti ...

... (BY OVlt NEWMARKET CORRESPONDENT.) NEWMARKET, Thursday.—On the Racecourse side Hopper's Forestay led Augbrim a good gallop of one mile and a quarter Sandpiper, How's That, Lord Charle-, Lockstitch, Fast and Loose, Fulmen, and Knight of Burghley going seven furlongs. Waugh's Eurasian, Hedge Priest, and St Gatien were sent one mile and a half. Bloss's Sir Kenneth galloped one mile and three ...

... Bigamy by a Master Mariner. A NEW SPECIFIC FOR THE HORRORS. At. Newport. borough police-court, to-day, Thomas Alfred Slade, master mariner, of Apple- dore, Devon, was charged on remand with feloniously intermarrying with Elizabeth Phillips, at Newport, on the 13th of August, his wife being then alive.-Phillip Hutchings, master mariner, of Appledore, proved the marriage of the prisoner tj his ...

... TO-DAY'S POLICE. I CARDIFF. I STEALING PATENT FUEL. At the Cardiff Police Court, to-day—before Mr Valpy-Blanche Brown (14) was charged with stealing a quantity of patent fuel from a boat in the Glamorganshire Canal, at the East Wharf, value 4d, the property of the Patent Fuel Company, on the 8th inst.— P.C. Warrsn said that on Wednesday morning he was on duty ou the East Wharf, when he saw the ...

... Lord Rosebery having agreed to accept the freedom of the Royal Burghs of Linlithgow, the Town Council resolved to-day to fix Friday, the 24-th inst, as the most suitable date for the ceremony. ...

... HEAVY FAILURE IN AMERICA, LUBUTER'-S TFLEGRAIII. I NEW YORK, Tuesday.—It is aimoudced that Messrs Cloutman and Bingham, shoe dealers, of Boston, have made an assignment for the benefit of their creditors. Their liabilities are estimated at 500,000 dols. ...

... Movement in Pembrokeshire. I The anti-tithe movement is being taken up by some of the farmers in Pembrokeshire, and in support of it a public meeting is to be held at Solva this (Tuesday) evening, to be followed by an open air meeting at St. Da vid's on Wednes- day. The meetings will be addressed by the Rev. Nigel McNeill, of London, who contested Bute- shire in the Liberal interest at the ...

... FATAL JUMP FROM A PENARTH I TRAIN. On Monday, Mr E. B. Reece, coroner, held an inquest at Cardiff Infirmary, touching the death of John Howe, mason, late of 12, Kolls-street, Canton, who met his death by leaving a train which was in motion, on Saturday night, on tin Penarth section of the Taff Vale Railway.—John Richards, waggon inspector, in the employ of the railway company, stated that on ...

... If you have one friend, think youraelf happy, To be ever active in laudable pursuits is the distinguishing characteristic of a man of merit. The latest gospel in this world is, Know thy work and do it. Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules. A writer in the Bee Journal says that bees have a strong antipathy to dark-coloured objects. A brood of chickens ran about his ...