... SHOCKING SUICIDE OF A YOUNG LADY. On Tuesday a shocking discovery was made at a house in Aleadow street, AIoss Side, Manchester, where two young ladies of the name of Bates resided. The Aliases Bates, who were sisters, carried on busi- ness together as tob icconists in Aloss-lane West. Ou Alonday the eiuer one, Aliss Florence, went to Llandudno, leaving her sister iu chargs of tha shop. On ...

... ) FACTS AND FANCIES. I Salt Lake C.ty has a mule tbt can count. No one ever heard of a muie multiplying, how- ever. Double-kneed stockings are made for children, and where there are twms there is no double need of them. There is talk of a railroad bridge across Behring strait, and engineers are reading every thing Bahrillg oil tile subj-ct. PISCATORIAL ITEM.—Stranger: Why do you fish in tiiis ...

... ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN THE LOCK-UP. LOCK-UP. Determined to Hang Herself. At Derby, tg-day, was sent to the assizes for attempt- ing to commit suicide whilst a prisoner in the lock-up. She twice tried to hang himself, nearly succeeding the second time. She had served long terms cf imprisonment oa three occasions for similar off nces, there being a long list ot previous convictions. She left the ...

... Patton, the winner of the Marden Hunter s Flat Race at Diin^ all Pa k to-dav. was purchased prior to the race by Mr C H Joliitie, whose colours tie carried* ...

... A Vienna correspondent writes --gotne few days ago a peasant at Oros,,z- V olya, in Hungary, bad a terrible encounter with a famiched wolf. He was driving pigs, with his daughter, to the neighbouring market, when suddenly a wolf jumped out of the roadside thicket and at- tacked one of the swine. The girl, taking it for a dog, began beating it with a stick. The in- furiated animal turned round ...

... HARD CASE OF A BUTE-STREET BOARDING-HOUSE KEEPER. A Married Woman's Separate Property. At the Cardiff county court to-day, before Judge Owen, Isabella Alice Brown, 204, Bute- road, widow, summoned Junia Robertson, North Shields, and William Bradley, auctioneer, Nortb-road, Cardiff, for L20 damages for trespass, the defendants having distrained and sold up her goods. Robertson was acting under ...

... Cardiff people discovered to their annoy- ance and dismay this morning that another dispute has arisen between the Tramway Company and their servants, partly on account of the dismissal of a stableman who is a member of the Union, but more par- ticularly because of the proposal to introduce the bell-punch as a better means of check- ing the amount of fares. At a meeting held yesterday it was ...

... The Press Association learns that Lord George Hamilton will address a meeting of North Wales Unionists at Rhyl on the 12th December. A series of meetings have been arranged for, one of which will be held at Hawarden. Mr Raikes will also speak, ...

... THE CITY OF NEW YORK. The Inman Liner City of New York has been carefully overlooked, and is found to have sustained no injury. ...

... Newmarket Training Notes. ') UK .N i-W M AKIi KT CORK KsPOKDEMT.) IS r.w.MAKKKT, ednesday.—On the Racecourse side, Hayhoe'd Cotillon and Theodore, with Rogers s Wishing Gate and Arnull's Mont d'Oi, galloped a mile and a quarter. Waugh's Laureate and Crimea weut the same uismnce. Sherwood's Royal .Star and Philomel were sent a little over a mile; L'Abbesse de Jouarre can. I terea six furlongs ...

... The Hours and Wages Question. A well attended meeting of sign tlmeu from Newport and district was held at the Co-operative Rooms, Newport, on Sunday afternoon, to con- sider clauses in the Birmingham manifesto, when the following resolutions were adoped That six days constitute a week's work over- time to be paid time and quarter, and Sunday duty time and half; and that no man be called out to ...

... THE RAILWAY SIGNALMEN'S AGI RATION. I Meeting Yesterday. The corre.p,)ii,letice I)ai been so exten- sively published in the Echo has fully informed our readers of the grievances under which the signalmen labour, A meeting was held on Sun. day, in Cardiff, attended by a number of the men and after discussion of the circumstances under which they labour, a resolution was passed approving of tbe- ...