Denbighshire Free Press

EPHOME OF NEWS. Tnn report ..f the Director of the United Statca 1\J ¡lot I\t¡, that this couutryiiistUlthnlitrgest pt"roithe precious met«.is- 't'U)-: Kev. Dt. Cunninpham Crie:w.). on Satur- day,'tmt.t)tedAapmn;tpa! of :t. Mary's College, St. Andrews. t,, ;iticii ife w<t.s recently appointed, ill I¡'c I'OUIII (,f th:: late Prim:ip,d Tu!l?c. MY ;t tviii,;Ii occurred in a barn l"ngin to ] r. t'.t.rnhil). zietr Colue, on Sunday, tt" xtxable ndtku. cows and a horse were sutfl). Ca f'(1. being :tpprebended at Chicago, O't account of th'; .atrikt- which broke out at the packing houses and stod,.yrd3 I" Saturday week, the Govcroor hus on!' two regiments of iufantry for :n;ttve service. A TI: ILA-I from Ottawa states that Stalei A))mf-)< ppcr, a Russian, has been arrested at Port Moody on a charge ot 'n ).king sketcfies of the har- bour.. ketchea ad<'r<i!ed to the Russmn Govern- ment are believed to have been found in his po8es(,ion. PPLICATIOX for a general reduction of rent httve bMn made by the tenantry on Lord Hoth- Setd's Westi)ioreiiind estate, but his lotdship declined to .hake a general reduction, while promising to consider individual ca.3es. Some eubatMtr'! abatements were made privately. LADY R.íDOI.f>H CMrh<-if[LL has dectined to accept the address which t.!t Hackney Conservative Asaoctatton contem pht,e,l giving her on the occasion of her singing at a Hackney concert on the 20th Met. Her Ladyship wishes to avoid anything relating to politics. ;ts the concert is for a public charity. THE double funeral of the Rev. Robert Lawrence, of Albany, N.Y., who died on the 20th ult., and hia wife, who died three du.ys later, was held the other day at the Union Church, Boston. Both were born in 1810. They were playmates in child- hood, were married in 1833, and lived together for 63 ye&rs. A COMPLICATION hts arisen between the masters and workmen of the Murton and South Coal CompMy, county Durham, owing to the dismissal of two workmen for an &Ueged fault in their work. A mMS meeting has been held, and a decision arrived at that unless the men are reinstated the whole of the miners will strike. About 1,500 men and lads are employed by the company. AT Manchester Thomas Mellor, furnn.ceman, hM been remanded on a singular charge. There was a bonfire at Patricroft. The prisoner borrowed a pistol charged with powder, and in a. lark" discharged it &t the clothes of a female onlooker. Her clothes "Cl..40_1..1_ '1 'I ??t? oc« vu me, tttiu me woman was so Dauiy oumea that ahe will not be able to leave home for several days. RtFLYlfG to the letter of a Warwick gentleman Who had suggested the presentation to him of a a<ttionaJ testimonial in recognition of his long public services, Mr. Gladstone writes I do not desire, and I the presentation to of <my national testunonin], even if it sprang from a teeling widely spread, which I do not think Mi.t8." AN old German Jew, named Levi Isaacs, a pedlar of sponges, jeweUery. and Turkey rhubarb, ttM been burnt at his house in Bo'ton, and died the following day from hia injuries. He lived alone in the house for many years, and the police, tuspecting that valuables would be found, have Marched his noose, and discovered concealed in various nooka and crannies upwards of f600. A WYLL-K-,iowi Dorset farmer, named Faccy, tnet his death under very distressing circumstances. He had driven into Dorchester on business, and on his way home it is supposed his horse jibbed. Mr. Fancy had a struggle with the animal, which eitimately bolted an't broke the "onveyance, but the excitement, acting on a weak constitution, killed the farmer, and his body was actually found standing upright and leaning against the vehicle. TRK Bishop of Manchester, in consecrating a burial-ground at Prestwich, Manchester, said that the question of crematio!), which was agitating the minds of acme persons in the present day, had iMthing to do with Christian principles. The question whether we burned or buried the bodies of the dead should be determined entirely by feelings of natural piety. If burying were shown to be injurious he would say abandon it. AT Rathfritand Thomas 0 Hugan, aged 18, was charged, under the Criminal Law Amendment Act, with having eloped with Kate M'Cormack, aged 141. A priest attended the court and informed the magistrate thttt the delinquents had been duly married, and that their parents were reconciled and did not wish to press the case. The police officer in charge said he had instructions to press it, but the magistrate 'lo'nissed the charge. A DRKADFGL ACCIDENT has occurred to a woman Mmed Mary dark, 3.5 ye.u-s of age, at Salford. She was employed as a card rnom drawer. She WM stooping to pick up something from the noor, when her hair was caught in the machinery and before the machine could be stopped, her head and part of her body was drawn in, which was shock- ingly mutilated. Death was, of course, instan- tMeous. A LowESTOFT coRRF.s; ODDEST states that a young nmn employed as a labourer at Oulton Broad in- vested his savings in purchasing tickets in connec- tion with the Hamburg Government Lotteries, and en Sunday morning received a letter of an oiHeial char.seter from the agent of whom he purchased his tickets, stating that his was the number drawn, to which was attached a prize of 50,000 marks, or <2,500, and he was requested to state how he Wished it forwarded. AN extTMrdina.ry charge has been preferred at Belfast against three buys, all about 13 years a age, of torgery and obtaining money under false pretence The evidence showed that the prisoners Bad carried on a. system of writing letters in the Mmes of well known merchants in Belfast, request- in certain sums of money on toan, the signatures being so cleverly counterfeited that the money was thus advanced, among others who were duped being Lord Arthur HiU. M P. THE Duke of Richmond and Gordon met with an accident while "ut deer stalking in the Enzie Woods the other day. A roe had doubled in its track, and some of the sportsmen who were in Stdvance of the others, discharged their pieces inotutidnsly in the effort to secure the game. The Mm was btd, his grace being grazed on the knee by & shot. A beater named Shand was also wounded in the calf of the leg, the bullet being extracted by the house doctor. THE China mail just received brings details of the steamship Celebs in the recent typhoon between Hong Kong and Saigon. Professor Anderson, who was on board, states that the 600 passengers were battened down for 20 hours. The vessel lurched Mghtfully, seas rose mountains high, the cabins MM MtlooM were nooded, and for six hours all on btMrd felt intense fear and mortal agony. The tary of the storm was unprecedented, and the ship *MM twice completely under water. A CAM ofsmcide occurred at Chatham Station on «Mtd*y morning. A sergeant of the Royal 31milwa, wtose name is believed to be Parrot, was eb«rved attmding on the edge of the platform, «td on the approach of the Dover express the tMn deliberately threw himscif in front of the engine. The occurrence produced a horrifying tnSet on the spectators The body of the unfor- tMMtte man was cjt to pieces. A party of Marines hem the barracks removed the remains. A fTBAJtGt: but truf incident in connection with <tbeGenevieve Ward wim: of the Maternity Hospital Melbourne, haa come to light in that city. Designs <KM called for the new building, and a premium of ?00 onered for the best design. The judges «<ecte<! the design which was presented under the tMXt d< plume of "lactation. sent in by a Mr. SaeII. ItwM Mcertained that the unfortunate man had eetmnitted suicide at Heidelberg two days before ebe uHne wtn awarded—the c&use beioe desperate tMtntion. ,&Dvaltq,u,4c his congregation on Sunday evening, tht VicM <.f Stratford on Avon said in his ofinitjQ Ow #putical parson was undermining the strength <t<<te Church's position, an<! 8;, i I he would sooner ? t reentry clergyman following the hounda ?ntt d<.y< a week than connecting himself with ?e tt! nation of n Primrose Habitatior. or haran- ?tbMr h?hourers from Liberal waggona. A clergy' XnmtMKi no right to use the pf?ition which his ssMfed otnce gave )"m to propagate his political Vims a"II hi< pf<q'ie. A R(1''rA a<ru)Ht.ut, named Sachs, ha,s been ettewced in the Hu.!tic. H'- "cuded from Helsing- tMt, and his bat)"on defended so rapidly that no .P eeuld retch him in HUM. MR. JoHN BRIGHT, M.P., has arrived at Lism- iudno for his autumn holidays, and will remain tome time. THE Eclipse, of Belfast, bound to Bangor (Down) h-om Maryport, founderd of Dond.gha.dee, with a,li hands, on Saturday .'n;.rm:)g. DuRixu the progress of iootbaH match at WaJaaII on Saturday, a p!<ty''r named Simmonde had his leg broken in a scrimmage. A SHOCK of earthquake of a more or leas severe nature, has been felt "t Washingto", Richmond, Charleaton, and other piact: in North and South Carolina. A NEW JERSEY FARMh).. who died a few tvpeks ago, leaves the I)utk of i.is property, valued at $10,000, to Henry Ccorsre, to be used in spreading George's peculiar doct.rjne.9. A FATAL FIRE occurred at Pimlico, London, the other night in a private house. The material damage caused was not great, but Dennis Driscolt, &ged 84, was burnt to death. Ax inmate of the Kent County Lunatic Asylum at Chatham, in a sudden access of frenzy, jumped down the well into the eng'ne-room. His lifeleaa body was not recovered for many hours afterwards. IT has been arranged to launch the new Admiralty ship the Renown next April. She will be the largest ship h; the Navy, carrying four guns, each of 105 tons strength, besides a number of smaller guns. A NUMBER of men were engaged in making excavations for a new sewer near the Midland Railway station at Hereford, when a quantity of earth fell on a young m&n named Thomas Johnsou, crushing him to death. IT is stated that no fewer thai: 1,017 truck loads of beer were dispatched by ruil from Buiton-on- Treut on one d&y last week by one company's route. The October brewings icay in some measure account for this remarka.hic output. THE Board of Trade Returns for October show that the imports for the month amounted to ;E29,054,399, a decrease of 1622,928 compared with the corresponding month of 18S5. The exports for October amounted to ;CIS;224,823, a decrease of ;C449,675. AT the Norwich Diocesan Conference a reso- lution was passed declaring that the Conference would thanktuily hail any pf'.spcct of the reunion of the Church with Nonconformist bodies on a principle not contravening the faith, order, and discipline of the Church. I THE Lord Provost's committee of the Edinburgh Town Council have declined to accept the Exhibi- tion buildings, with jL5,000 for their repair and JE5.000 for their maintenance. It is h-jld that the meadows on which the Exl.ibition buildings stand must be cleared as a puhtiu p.n-k. Ix the week ending November 6th there were 247 bills of sale in Engtand and Wales registered 247 bills of sale in Engtand and Wales registered at tife Queen's Bench, a. decrease of 5 over those of the corresponding pe: io t last year and the failures gazetted numbered 100. showing an increase of IJ. -Ext)-act fro-in SluM h'reate. THE Honourable Kv.lyn 'A:,)dcy, the present owner of Fahnerston e.-t..).Lt-.s, in county S!igo, has, given the following rf'uetions to his tenants on on the rents which have been judicially fixed, and 6s. in the pound to a)! others. Ax inquest has bt c held at Brighton on the body of iliiun Slighter, who wa.s ill the service of a baker. The man was found by his master in the coal ceDar with his head almost severed from his body, and a large carving knife lying on his aide. A DJSTl\(.rf.s!r).;D rcptpscntative of the Spanish Government is at present "n a visit to England with a view to eontrac<i''g fo: the construction "f i vessels for the Spanish LN,,vy. In the case of one well-known firm his overtures have been rejected owing to a pressure of home work. THE murdo' r nf Herr Jacob Schlosaberg at Vienna has been arrested, and has made a full confession. He is a afreet beggar, about 24 years of age, who gives the name of Grcitter. He states that dtlossberg refused t't ,;i \'(J him & few kteutxers, ..t)d therefore he stabt.e't him. A PAIML'L ;ATION has been caused at Bishop's Stortford, by the sudden dent): of the Rev. B. Hodgkins, Baptist minister. The deceased only six weeks ago celebrated the jubijee of his pastorate, and was presented at a town's meeting with a purse of jL2.')0. He was .so years of age. Ix connection with the change in Cuinness'9 Brewery at Dublin, Sir Edward Guinness intends to present each member of the commercial staff with three months' salary, whilst to those engaged in manual labour he will give one month's salary each. This will involve an outlay of over jE50,000. NOTICES have been served to the miners at several of the Northumberland collieries, that the amounts allowed weekly in lieu of rent to those occupying houses not owned by the colliery pro- prietors will be discontinued. Intimation has been given to the miners residing in colliery houses that they will be called upon to pay rent. A SEKiou.s accident has occurred on the lower portion of the North Shields Pier, whereby a locomotive and three trucks were precipitated into the sea. It appears that the trucks were attached to the locomotive for the conveyance of blocks of concrete to the works at the end of the pier, and when so engaged the engine suddenly ran off the rails and dashed over the pier into the sea. AT Stockingford, Warwickshire, some boys, after having a ttonnre, were p!aying, when one of the lads named Parker produced a. revolver, and discharged it. The weapon was found to be loaded with ball cartridge, and the bullet pene- trated the forehead of a lad named Cox, son of a brick manufacture), very severely injuring him. Parker states he was not aware the revolver was loaded. A REVISED memorandum, showing the advan- tages of the Army and the conditions on which young men are invited to join her Majesty's forces, nas just been issued from the War Omee for general information. Commanding officers are ordered to give it the willest possible circulation, t??n ? ?? ?'? soldiers proceeding on S nome? ? ? ? ?? ? ?? RECRUTITING has been Usually good recently, ?1? ? T 'T? h?ing Joined the Army ? ?oJ?- ? ?? ? <?bute? Islands, 65.186 'ScoSand .3 9? Ireland ?? Egypt, 18,-296; Colonies; 24.107 ?'?? The remainder are made up of drafts on passage and from foreign stations. There were wan?g to complete the establishment only 3,265 men. THE death has occurred, at Westgate on ;Sea of Lady Wilson, widow of the late Sir Erasmus She /was bequeathed the whole of her distinguished husband's fortune, with the Royal College of Surgeons as the residuary legatees. It is stated that the whole amount the CoUege will have received, under Sir Erasmus ilson's will and now by the death of Lady Wilton, will amount to between E200,000 and a quarter of a million aterling. Miss ALICE LowE, a Blackpool lady, but a. B&tiveofRivington, near BoJton, has bequeathed JE4,500 to BoHon Inurmary. f 1,000 to found an infirmary for Btackpool, jE500 to the Royal Albert Aaylum, Lancaster, JE100 each to branches of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution at Blackpool, Lytham, and St. Annes-on the-Sea. She also bequeaths legacies to Unitarian chapels at Riving- ton and Blackpool, and also for the good of the former place. Ox Saturday ne&rly 20,000 nail-makera of the East Worcestershire and Staffordshire districts received an advance of 10 per cent. It has, how- ever, been decided by the Nail-makers' Association that all the operatives who have received the htoreMe shall go out on strike until the Cradley Heath and Rowley Old Mill makers, who have been on strike for 13 weeks, have received an advance. The Staffordshire rivet-makers have Xtruck for an advance also. A LABOURING man named John Godwin, aged 71, has met with his death in a very singular fanner at Bromsgrove. He went out in the mom. htg to go to his work at hedge cutting, and as he did not return in the evening hia wife went in March of him. She found him lying dead near a gate in a field not far from his house. His left wmst was severely cut, and there was a pool o! Mood by his side. It is supposed that when ha wae in the act of opening the gate, his hook tMpped and cut his wrist, and he died from loaa of blood. The blade of the hook had bloodstains apon it. A CONTRACT to take the Star Theatre, New York, has bjen signed on behalf of Mr. Irving, who will t produce Faut th..re from November 7 to December ?0 next year. ?hMtophelet wtll tftMVM?MMi ?CWtMt, P?ti.d?, ?d "? Thc .F.:con(J/l/1,[ makes a ca\culatir-n which, if correct, shows tInt the itdditions made between 1S75 and 1885 to investments of cap'tiil ajncunt to no less than f935,0'JO.(.'00. Of this gigantic sum Dearly one-half is re)'rcF.ented bv house property. Colonel Loms have taken jiJGO.OOO.OOO, Jomt- Stock Companies .S2CU,UUO.OOO. Notwithstandmg dulltrado, thenationat even by leaps and bounds. Serious charges are made against the -ai.,xn agement of the United Kingdom Alliance. It ts atHrmed that a very large proportion of the funds go t" tht: ma.intenh.nne of the Alliance JVf?M. It is only :air to defer comment on the subject until the other side has been heard, but we are afraid there is a growing impression that the Aitiance, white par- ticularly successful in obtaining promises irptn poiitieians, is particularly unsuccessful in obtaining performances. The "bosh butter" question is now exc'ting much attention in America. In Nc\" Hampshire a Dill has been introduced imposing a nne of $500 not only on any shopkeeper who seUt oleomargarine as butter, but on any hotel or refreshment-house keeper who shall place the stu!f on the tables or use it in cooking unless he sticks up in a coMpicuoua place a placard bearing bearing the wordt "Oleo margarine sold here." The liability of hotel- keepers is rtainly a legislative noveltiy. The Home Secretary haa declined to interfere in the case of the Rev. Mr. Maekie, the Presbyterian minister at Manchester, who was sentenced to three months' hard labour for assaulting the treasurer of the church with a butcher's steel. Mr. Matthews is right. A minister who empties his church of its congregation yet clings to it like a limpet is not deserving of much sympathy and, if he takes such a weapon as a butcher's steel to church with him, he must expect to be credited with a deliberate intention to use it should a quarrel arise. Another violent outrage and robbery on a French railway, the victim this time being an American, will tend to make foreigners as well as Frenchmen very nervous when travelling alone. It will take a good many similar crimes, however, to induce Europeans to tolerate the American system of open cars. A loud outcry was raised for its introduc- tion in England after the murder of Mr. Briggs on the North London line, but it .soon subsided, and even the death of Mr. Gould a fe.v years ago in the Balcombe Tunnel hardly revived it. Witt. the American system such outrages will be impossible. It is satisfactory to know with certainty that aerious crime i.s on the decrease. We can always gauge with mOl", th<.a approximate accuracy the amount of crime p:'c'. :t throughout the country from one period to .nn'thcr by the annual Prisons' Re port,audthis,mtho present iasl&nce, ghows a decided improvement over the Report ?f the pre- vious year. Th¡ uu:nbcr of sentences to pen)') aer- vitude inn'cted hy the Courts in EJ!b;.d :md Wales during the p:l'it twelvemonth is stut.ud t& b. twenty- three per ccut. lower than in any previous year on record. Some curious statistics are annexed to the Report, apparently with a view to point out at what ages criminal propensities become usually first de- veloped; We learn from these that by far the greater proportion of male crinnnata are found of ages varying between twenty-five and thirty-four, white the malefactors of the other sex graduate in crime for the most part between the ages of thirty- five and forty-four. The older a vicious woman gets, it would seem the worse she becomes. Is this difference of ages in the case of well brought up women and men, owing to the home influences of childhood—necessarily more pronounced in the case of women ? Mr. Henry George is, it seems, to be run for the Presidency of the United States in 1888. The effect of this candidature, if it is persisted in, will probably be the union of Republicans and Demo- crats to prevent the Commonwealth becoming the laughing-stock of the world. As the President is virtually elected by manhood sunrage, notwith- standing the constitutional expedient which is sup- posed to provide for choice by a select body, it would hardly be wise, after the recent experience at New York, to treat the matter simply with con- tempt. Sheffield is the most famous manufactory of steel in the world yet the garrison of the town has just been supplied with sword-blades from Solingen, in Germany. Neither the steel-makers of Shemeld nor the aword-cutlers of Birmingham are over- burdened with orders just now nor are we aware that their hands complain of over-pressure. Why, then, out of eight reliable firms of sword-cutlers in Birmingham alone, is one only engaged in supply- ing the new blades? Why have Germans got the work which might have kept the operatives of the other seven busy through the hard winter months ? And why are the Sheffield foundries, equipped with the newest and best apparatus for steel-casting, to stand idle while foreigners make the blades that Englishmen use and Englishmen pay for ? The Classes v. Masses agitation has broken out in a new quarter, in the Church and St.tge Guild to wit. The theatrical part of the guild is composed of dancers as well as actors, and the actors, or at least one of them, has rebelled. He iooks upon the dancers as the masses, and, as a member of the classes, he refuses to mix with them. He considers it worse than asking an author to associate with the compositors who set up his work." Hut, just as there arc compositors who are better and much more agreeable men than many authors, there are dancers who think a good deal more of themselves than of certain actors, and with reason. The Church and Stage Guild has been unable to draw the line where a dancer ceaed to equal the lowest class of actors and so the complainant has shaken the dust of the guild from his feet. The Cornish milter Potgmx, who found a tramp asleep in his hayrick,.uidktilcd him, has t'can eentenced to death. The crime was a.bsotutety devoid of excuse, other than the all-su indent one of a wild terror amounting to temporary insanity on the part of the wretched m<in. Polgraz was in no danger from the tramp, but when the latter failed to answer his challenge, by reason of his being at the time in a drunken snore, the farmer Btole quietly back to his house for a peat hook, and then and there dealt the slumberer a blow with it that ensured his never waking again. He then gave himself up to the police. The defence was the only possible one-that the prisoner was not of average intelligence, and that he acted as he did through fear. The jury were compelled to Snd him guilty of wilful murder, but they very properly recommended him to mercy, and Baron Huddleston, in sentencing him to death, said he would take clre to forward their recommendation to the proper quarter. To make Polgraz mount the gallows for this crime would only be to imitate his own unreasoning cruelty. He must be too in- omrably stupid to be responsible for his act. Ruaaia marches on apace in Bulgaria. One remarkable thing about this Russian invasion is its brutal bluntneet. Russia hitherto in her diplomatic action has been credited with patience, oubtlety, and perseverance. But now her right hand appears to have lost her cunning. She began like a thief in the night, and kidnapped a Prince who loved his adopted country more than he did. Russia, and then she openly demanded th&t the kid- nappers should be liberated. Subsequently Russian agents directly stir the embers of insurrection to justify a Russian occupation of Bulgaria. And now, forsooth, the organs ot the Russian Government in 8t. Petersburg opeuly say that Bulgaria is a partand parcel of the Russian Empire, and that Europe haa no right to interfere in Russian aftairs. These organs openly say to Europe, Hands off," and the members of the Regency are called "rebela mem and traitors to the Russian Government." This, at all events, is a policy of frankness and in opposi- tion to the historical method hitherto followed in St. Petersburg. The other Courts and Cabinets of Europe may now see plainly enough the game RuMia. is playing, and should the game be sue- ceMfnl, they will ?t be able to ?y they ?? ??Meuw?