The Cardigan Observer and General Advertiser for the Counties of Cardigan Carmarthen and Pembroke

STORY OF THE SKA. A THRER DAYS' MYSrfcBV. A my«tery of the sea, which baffled the coast authorities at Yarmouth for three day", was satis- factorily cleared up on Monday. On Friday night toe H<iisborough lightship signalled for a lifeboat. Two boats were launched—one from Winterton and another from Palling—and after an exciting five hourb trip the latter arrived at Haisbotough sands to find a vessel fast breaking up, and her cargo all adrift. There were no signs uf a boat, or any of the crew, nor could anything be made out as to the vessel's identity. On Saturday the Trinity steamer Warden went out from Yarmouth in search, and secured one side of the vessel which was towed to Yarmouth and beached, and the vessel was ascertained to be the Veendam, but there were no tidings of the crew. Ltter in the day the body of a seaman was washed up, but there was no clue in the form t»f clothing as to whether he belonged to the ship or not. Sunday passed without any solution of the mystery. On Monday morning, however, a tele- gram was received from Hull stating that the crew of the Veendam had been landed there by the Torquay steamer Torbryon, bound to Goole from London. It has since been learned that the Veen- dam was a three-masted schooner, belonging to Groningen, in Holland, bound from Westerwik, in Norway, to Chatham with a wood cargo. She ex- perienced heavy weather in the North Sea, causing her to become waterlogged, and the crew aban- doned her off Haisborough, being picked up by the Torbryon. An inquest has been held on the body washed up at Hemsby, but a post-mortem showed that it must have been in the sea for a long time, and it will be buried without identification. The coroner's jury returned an open verdict.

Mr. Herbert Gladstone, M.P., has intimated to the committee of the Cambridge and County Li bet al Club his readiness t) be president for the ensuirg year. ,j' '0'"

DEATH OF Tflg MARQUESS OF NORTHAMPTON. The Marques* of 'Northampton died unexpeetodly on Satofday afternoon at about half-past 1. He left his Northampton retidenoe, Castle Aahby, for his Scotch seat, about a fortnight ago, accompanied by his medical adviser, as ne was suffering at the time from heart complications. He seemed to have benefited by the change to the North, though he was suffering from dropsy and a weak heart. He underwent an operation, and seemed going oh favourably until Thursday, when his illneaetook an unfavourable turn. Alarming symptoms aupef. vened, and the members of his family were summoned, those present at tais death including Lord Alwyne Compton, M.P., his third son, and one of hie married daughters, Lady Margaret 1 Graham. William DouglaS-Maclean-Comptoo, K.G., fourth Marquess of Northampton, Rul Compton, of Comp- too Wynvates, Warwickshire, and Baron Wilming- ton, of Wilmington, coantySuaaex, was the Becond son of Spencer, second Marquess of Northampton, by his marriage with Margaret, eldest daughter of the late General Douglas Maclean Clephane, of Torloisk, Tobermony, and was born on Augost 20th, 1818, educated at the Royal Naval College, entered the Royal Navy in June, 1831, passed his examination in 1837. and was promoted to the rank of lieuteoant 16th December, 1839. A few days afterwards be joined the Melville, a 72-gunner, flagship of the Hon. George Elliot, at the Cape of Good Hope, and subsequently in the East Indies. In February, 1841, he was appointed to the Wellesley, another 72-gunner, and while serving on board that vessel his great exertions, jointly with those of Acting-Lieutenants George Campbell Fowler and John Astle, in command of a barge and two outters, had the happy effect on the evening of May 24th, 1841, of preserving the ship, then in the Boca Tigris, from a most formid- able and well-planned attempt made on the part of the Chinese to deatroy her by rtieaas of a'flotilla of nearly 20 fire vessels, the whole of which, although in many instal ces chained if couples, and some even three together, were towed clear with- out doing the slightest injufy. These services were favourably reported in the Gazetta. In October, 1841, he further commanded the WellesieyVheets at the reduction of Chinghae, and in August, 1842, was g^iKetted* commander, "subeequcftHy to which -he waa not rsot&ety. employed. He AtWned the rank of captain in October, -t853.; was placed on the retired list in March, 1864; advanoed to the rank of rear. admiral in July, 1869; to that of vice-admiral in March, 1876 and to that of admiral in January, 1880. In 1877 he succeeded to the marqaisate upon the death of his brother Charles, the third marquess, who died without issue, and in 1881 was Speoial Envoy Extraordinary to invest Alphonso, the late. King of Spain, with the Order of the Garter, and received from his Majesty the Grand Cross of Charles III. He was himself created a Knight of the Garter in 1885. He married, in 1844, Eliza, daughter of the late Hon. Sir George Elliot, K.C.B., D.L., who died in 1877, and by her he had four eons and five daughters. Of these one IIOn-tbe eldest—and two daughters are dead. The death of his eldest son, Earl Compton, in 1887 passed the succession to the marquisate to his second son, the present Earl Compton, who was formerly better known as Lord William Compton. The new peer, who was born in 1851, was for some years ia the diplomatic service. In June, 1880, he was appointed private secretary to Earl Cowper, then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. This appoint- ment Lord William Compton held till 1882, though he waa in 1881 attached to his fathers' speoial mis- sion to Spain. He was one of the Progressive mem- bers of the London County Counoil for Finsbury from 1889 to 1892, and an alderman from 1892 to 1895. The new peer unsuccessfully contested South Warwickshire in November, 1884, at a bye-election against Mr. Sampson Lloyd, but represented the Stratford-on-Avon division of Warwickshire in 1835-6, wa4 defeated for that oonstituenov in July, 1886, and for the Holborir division in November, 1888, but was elected for the Barnsley division of Yorkshire at a bye-election in March, 1889 which constituency he has since represented in the ad- vanced Liberal intereat. He ia an ardent philan- thropist, holds advanced views in municipal politics, and is president of the Ragged School Union. He has two sons, the elder of whom, who now becomes Earl Compton, wta born in 1885.

KILLED BY A PLAYFUL DOG. 1 Mrs. Gregory, aged 67 years, living at Ditch- worth, near Hatfield,.has met with, her death in extraordinary mronmstanoes. Her collie dojg, in an excess ri pSfastjiap? jampsd npat her violently, and knocked.her down, causing injuries to which she succuuibed. At the inquest on Saturday medical evidence showed that death was directly due to the deceased lady having been knocked down by the dog. A verdict of accidental death was returned.

SAU DROWNING FATALITY. i.ADY'S DMTH BBnm. 11- HUSBAND'S EYES. A shocking boating accident is reported from the west coast of Ireland, Mra. Loxton Hunter, the wife of a London journalist, being drowned before her husband's eyes. Mr. and Mrs. Loxton Hunter, accompanied by Colonel Hamilton, with a crew of four hands, left Dooras Bay, on the North-West Donegal coast, in the yawl Mayflower, for a sail to the cliffs and caves of Torinore. 'The sea was calm, save for the Atlantic swell. All went well until the yawl entered a narrow channel between the cliffs and outlying rocks, when a huge swell suddenly burst over the vessel, dashing Mrs. Hunter, who was probably killed instantly, against the rocks. Colonel Hamilton, who acted as pilot, and the crew succeeded in clinging to the rocks, while Mrs. Hunter was jammed between them and the overturned Mayflower. The lady instantly dis- appeared, and her husband, rolling into the boat, which righted itself though full of water, divested himself of his coat and vest and threw himself into the surf, and gained a small rook ■ whioh offered comparative safety. Soon, however, the sea burst over this refuge, and, stripping, he swam to the cliff, where he remained tor six hours until assistance came. The rescue party, in saving the others, nearly came to grief twice. Ultimately a cabin was reached,- where the utmost kindness was shown, and where food and warm clothing were provided. Here the party had to remain until two o'clock on the following morning, when cars were obtained which took them twenty miles over the mountains to the nearest village. Here medical aid was obtained. Colonel Hamilton is now lying at Ardara, and Mr. Hunter at Glenties. Both are suffering from shock, bruises, and wounds. The sad event has cast quite a gloom over the district. Mrs. Hunter's body has uot yet been recovered.

DKATH FRO51 INHALING TOBACCO SMOKE. At the Coroner's Court, Limbeth, Mr. Walter Schr&ler, deputy coroner, held an inquiry into the death of Charles Edward Satchell, aged eight years and nine months, lately residing at Auckland-street, South London. A brother of the deceased filled a wine bottle with tobacco smoke. The deceased uncorking it, inhaled the smoke. He was soon alter seized with violent ptins, and died in great agony. Dr. Thomas James Kane, of 20. Harley- ford road, said he was called to the deceased and found him suffering from acute exhaustion, follow- ing oil sickness and diarrhcei, no doobt caused by inhaling tobacco smoke. He had sinoe made an tUtopsy, and found death was due to syncooe, brought on by inhaling tobacco smoke from the neck of a wine bottle. In answer to the corouer, Dr. Kme said that their firut smoke" was highly dangerous to children. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence.

J'ESPBRATK KNCOUNTKR WITH SMUGGLKRS. Fur some time past the Customs officials on the frontier between Belgium and France have been adopting special precautions, as it is known a great deal of smuggling is being carried on by armed bands, who on several occasions have offered desperate resistance. • Ou Monday another of the#e murderous affrays took place near the village of Wattrelos. A gang were getting some dutiable goods across the frontier when a Customs officer named Emigard appeared on the scene. He was set upon by the gang, knocked down, and stabbed in the face whilst on the ground. He managed to draw his revolver and fired upon hi. aasaitantl, one of whom was wouNded, but his comrades carried him across the frontier and escaped. The Customs officer's condition is serious.

Mr. Philip Burtt has been appointed superinten- dent of the line, North-Western Railway, in suc- cession to the»late Mr. J. Welburn. Plymouth Borougn Council on Monday decided to institute halfpenny fares on the Corporation trams. Penny fares are to continue to be paid for long rides.

NTLTAWMTLES OF THE DAY. The Hon., Sir t.-wi* William Cave, who di6d recently, was born 04t July 3. 1832, at Desborough, in Northamptonohire, where his father had a small estate. From Rugby, where he was a pupil during Dr. Tait's headmaitership, he passed to Lincoln College, Oxford, graduating in 1855. He was admitted as a otudent at the Inner Ttltnple in 1356, and three years laler wu called <« the Bar. In 1856. he joia«d the-Midland circuit, and subse- quently left it to j 'in the new North- Eastern cir- cuit. Mr. Ctve »a« appointed a revising barrister iu 1885, and held that office until he obtained silk in 1875. He was appointed Recorder of Lincoln in 1873, and was elected a Bencher of his Inn in 1877. The same year he was made a Commis- MH. JUSTICE CAVK. sioner of Assize for the autuinu circuit. In 1880 Mr. Cave became a Comm;s<iut.er to inquire into the Parliamentary elections at Oxford; and in March, 1881, he wa* appointed one of the Justices of the High Cucrt, reviving the honour of knight- hood, together with Mr. Justice Mathew, the fol. lowing month. Mr. Justine Cave was appointed Judge ja Bankruptcy in. December, 1883, and its this-position he had-to admmi«tier the new Bank- ruptcy Act which come into operation on January 1, 1884. On legal subjects his lordship was a prolific writer. Ia 1856 he married Jalia, daugh- ter of the ltte Rev. C. F. Walking, vicar of Brix- worth. Miss Mary Anderson, who, it has been announced, may possibly appear on the concert platform in London during the coming autumn, is married to Mr. A. F. Navarro, who is a lawyer by profession and alliesto his other claims to notice that he is a Catholic as well as an accomplished and a thorough musician. Mary Anderson's favourite relaxation I Miss. MAST ANDERSON'. I when travelling is obessr, and care is always taken that a chess outfit is provided on the train by which she travels. Mary was born in 1859 at Sacramento, Colorado, and has had a highly suc- cessful career, her parts including several of Shakespeare's beat ch tfacters. General Sir William Lockhart, K.C.B., who has been appointed to the command of the Army m the Punjab, ia on bit way to India to take the 4weebma -ojf the Afridi Expedition and of the 40,000 ttimopt. pow assembled OtL,, the north-west f rptvtiet,is entirely an Indian officer, haying, joined, the Bengal Native Infantry in 1858, when 17 years of age. He received his first staff appointment in 1869, when he became Deputy-Aisistant Quarter- master-General in Bengal, afterwurda serving on the 8taff in the Afghan Campaign, and with the Chitral mission of t8i5. an Brigadier-General in the Burmese expaditton anl in Bengal, aa Assistant Sis WILLIAM LOCKHART.. I Military Secretary for Indian London, Brigadier-General of th« P.mjtb Frontier Force, Major-General in Bengal, and finally as Military Chief in the Punjab for the iitit two years. In campaigning Sir William served in the Bhootan Expedition from t864 to 1866, was a Staff officer in Abyssinia and in the Haztra Kxpedition of 1168, took part in the Dutch war in Acheen from 1875 to 1877, in the Afghan war was at Karez-i-Nur and Takht-i-^hah, and in the operations about Cabul | obtained the K.C.B. for hit services in Burma; and commandett the two Miranzai Expeditions of 1891, the Asazai Expedition of 1892, and the field foice in the Waz rstan Expedition of 1894. Prince Christian, who is to represent her Majesty at the festivities in celebration of the accession of Kini; Os.'ar, Aota horn on January 22, 1831, and on July 5, I860, married H.R.H. PsiXCB CHK,STIA><" II Princesi Helena Auifu-tta Victoria His Royal Highness will be accompanied hv Colonel the Hon. Sir Henry Bÿog:" Equeiy to the Queen,

WEST AFRICAN MASSACHE. The steamer Stamb.ni I, which arrived at Marseilles on Monday with the mail from the Congo, reports that a convoy of trading canoes, belonging to the Upper Ogoue Company, was attacked on the night, of July 20, at a point above Njole, by the Pahouin tribe. Two white officials commanded the canoes, which were manned by natives belonging to the Adoumas and Okandais tribes. When the attack was m*d« the Adoumas, who were at the paddles, Aed. The Okandais, who were armed with rifles, offered some resist. anee, but were compelled to yield to superior numbers. The Pahouins pillaged and then sank the canoes. The two whites escaped by the merest chanee. About 40 were killed on both sides. In Dahomey all was reported quiet when the Stamboul left. In the British possessions on the Ivory Coait bilious fever accompanied by hematuria was making great ravages.

ATTRMPTBD SUJCIDB AT BRIGHTON. The Brighton magistrates on Monday had before them an auctioneer and insurance agent, named Frederick dark, of Stoke Newington, on a charge of attempting to commit suicide by shooting him- self in the Steyne Garden on July 28. Whilst sittiug in the garden, the aooused was seen to draw a revolver and point it at his breast, and, before anyone-could interfere he had pulled the trigger. The bullet passed clean through hie body. He was taken to the county hospital, where he had sinoe remained. A card found in his pocket bore the request that the news should be broken gently to his wife, who, it appeared, had but reeeatly been confined. It was now stated that toe accused had suffered for years from insomnia, and had come to Brighton on May 1 in the hope of regaining his health. After being engaged in business all day, he had been in the habit of attending religious meetings every night, with the result that he had quite broken down. He had offered to enter a sanatorium, and, in ex. pressing hie regret at what had happened, said that he had lately slept four nights without having recourse to drugs, and he was anxious to regaiu his health. The magistrates were informed that the accused, though not fully recovered, was out of danger. They allowed him to be the released, on hia brother promising to take charge of him, and to find a suitable institution in which he oould pass his ooavaleaecce.

FATAL MAMPSTKAD FIGHT. A coroner's jury having inquired at Hampstead into the death of James Woolidge, found a verdict of manslaughter "under great provocation against Edward Hiscocks, a dairyman. The men quarrelled in the Railway Hotel, and were turned out, and Hiscocks knocked Woolidge down. One witness said that before Hiscocks left the deceased he shook hands with and kissed him, saying "I ahaU come round and see how you are to-morrow.— Joseph John Atkinaonattid he saw Woolidge strike the first blow.—Hiscecks stated that Woolidge began the quarrel, and challenged him to tight him for 61., and then for nothing. Witness struck him in self-defence.—The coroner remarked that in passing sentenoe the judge would doubtless take into account all the extenuating circumstances.

THE NILE EXPEDITION. QONBOAT9 IN PURSUIT OF OBRVtSHNa. It is reported from Merawi that the Birdar has left for the front. The following ia the present position of affairs :—Along the river garrisons are established at Djngola, Debbeh, Korti, Merawi, Abu Hamed, and Berber. Above Abu Hamed there are five gunboats. A series of screen posts, held by friend lies, has been established, extending right across the Bayuia Desert and completely covering the river' The Jakdul wells are held by the Jaalin tribesmen who esoaped from the fight at Metammeb. The Dervishes are in strong force at Metammeh. They are busy at the present moment in making defences at Shabluca, and also hold a post in the Gabra Desert. General Hunter dispatched two gunboats to pursue the Dervishes who were retreating from Berber. They over- took the emeny at Ed Damer, south of the Atbara River. Some shots were fired, and the Dervishes fled into the deseet, abandoning 14 boats laden with stores, which have been brought to Berber. Oaman Digna is reported to be on the banks of the Atbara River.

INDIAN MINE DISASTER. 44 COOLIES KILLBO. It ia reported from Madras, that an accident oausing the ,10811 of over 40 lives has occurred at the Champion Reef Gold Mine. On inquiry at the London offices of the Cham- pion Reef Gold Mine it was stated by the secretary of the company that the accident referred to took place in a shaft known as the Footway shaft, and that the killed, who number 44, are all coolies. No casualties to Europeans are reported. The secretary adds that no damage has been done to the mine, and the working will proceed as usual.

ALLEGED PAUPER INCENDIARY. At Brierley Hill, Staffordshire, on Monday, a young inmate of the Stourbridge Workhouse named Priscilla Bache was sent for trial on a charge of attempting to set fire to the Workhouae. It is alleged she placed shovels of lighted coals and a quantity Of lamp oil on the bed. The officials arrived just in time to throw the bedding through the window into the yard, and pour water oh the burning floor. She next, it is said, tried to set the staircase on fire, and threw her own clothing on the fire, declaring she would burn the workhouse down and aU who were in it.

LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT A curious point as to ownership came before the justices sitting at the Teddington Polioe-court on Monday. Miss Langa, of Montpellier, St. Wini. fred's-road, Teddington, was summoned at the instance of the Middlesex County Council for allowing a dog to wander abroad without a muzzle. A policeman said he found the dog, and while he was taking it to the police-station Miss Langa stopped him and said that if the owner could not be found for the animal she would be able to find a good home for it. An address was found on a collar worn by the dog, but the person living there denied that he was the owner of it. Subsequently Miss Langa sent a servant and paid a fee for its detention. Thereupon the County Council officials believed her to be the owner, and issued the aum. mons. The-policeman said that Miss Langa fell in love with the dog as he took it down the street; he did not think it belonged to her.—Mr. Harris, J.P. It seems to me she put her head in the noose without knowing what ahe was doing.—The summons was dismissed.

A TRAMP WITH A KNIFE. EXPERIENCES OF A LADY CYCLIST. Considerable excitement has been caused in Brackley, Northamptonshire, by the arrest of a tramp named Martin Gatlaher, who was remanded at the Towcester Polioe-court on Monday on a remarkable charge of assaulting a lady bicyclist named Esther Gray, a teacher in Whittlebury Schools. Miss Gray says that she left Towcester about 6 on Saturday evening on her bicycle to return to her home at Whittlebury, a distance of five or six miles. When just out of Towcester she suddenly became aware of a strongly-built man apparently making for her. He seemed strange in demeanour, and had an open knife in his hand. Before he could reach her Miss Gray jumped off her machine-the road was not wide enough for her to turn—and ran streaming back towards the town. A few yards away, a niau named John Faulkner came up from a side lane, and, seeing the lady fleeing and the man, said to be Gallacher, fol. lowing her, he pluckily closed with the man, aad both rolled over to the ground. Iu the struggle Faulkner was stabbed in the left wrist and arm with the knife, which Gallacher retained in his right hand. Faulkner's wound was so severe that he had to relinquish the struggle. Gallacher at once jumped up and hurried away, only to be promptly stopped by a police-inspector. He was conveyed to the police-station, where he said he had come from Ireland to obtain employment as a farm labourer. He went to Towoester Work. house for the night, but. when he found how many atones he would have to break he decided to go on further, The master gave him a piece of bread. He was cutting this with his knife when the lady took fright and bolted. Faulkner's wound is described by the doctor as rather serious.

GROCER'S GHASTLY HUMOUR. The Islington coroner held an inquest on a I grocer named Watson, of Gcorge's-road, Holloway, who committed suicide by drinking a tumbler of earbolic acid. It appeared that his business had for some time not been as satisfactory as he antici. pated, and he was in very low spirits. His sister-in-law testified that on entering the shop she saw Watson sitting behind the counter with a glass before him. Thinking it contained beer, she asked what he was going to do with it. He replied that he intended to drink it. She then said she wished to have half his luck, and he re- torted that all ahe should have was the smell. On ooming closer she saw it was carbolic acid, and tried to get it from him, but failed. She at once ran for her husband, but, on their return they found Watson had drank the poison. A verdict of "Suicide while of unsound mind was returned.

The Middlesex Hospital have received a further 1um of £2,000. being part of a one-sixth share of she residuary estate of the late Mr. David Brandon.

EPITOME OF NEWS. The captured Bechuana chief Galishwe has been sent for trial at Kimberley. It is officially announced that the Cur and Czarina will arrive at Darmstadt on the 1st prox. Part of the workshop in Paris of Messr*. Hachette, the well-known publishers, has been denlroyed by fire. A vessel has arrived at PortTowwsend from Fort St. Michael in Ataska, bringing gold to the value of SOO.OOOdoh. The Porte declares the statement that Murad Bey had disappeared from Constantinople is absolutely unfounded. A Belgian has been arrested at Barcelona on sus- picion of being an anarchist implicated in m plot against several political personages. A telegram received in Berlin from Guatemala states that a siege has been declared in that Republic. A revolution has broken oat against the President in the west. The reforms to be introduced in the Philippine Islands include a modification of the penal code in regard to offences against property and public order. Other reforms are of a purely administrative character. While a cricket match was in progress on the ?round of the East Molesey C.C., near the Hurst ark racecourse, a oovey of young partridges flew on to the ground and alighted among the players. Several of the birds were captured. A typhoon was experienced at Yokohama on September 9. The German cruiser Irene etranded in the harbour, and the Norwegian barque Alette became a total wreck; 10 of her crew were drowned. A fin, broke out at President Faure's villa, at Havre, the other night. The firemen on duty ex- tinguished the flames, which were confined to one of the bedrooms, occupied by Mdlle. Faure, before muoh damage was done. Messrs. Adolf Zoerg and Co. have received a telegram from Johannesburg stating that eight persona were killed by the explosion in the Gooh Mine and 12 natives wounded. Another private I telegram states that no whites were killed. At a Parliamentary election, held at Brussels on Sunday to fill the vacanoy oaused by the death of M. Cartyvels, Roman Catholic, the Socialist vote was quadrupled, and there will have to be a. second ballot between the Socialists and Roman Catholic candidates. J Mr. Leonard Courtney, M.P., who has just returned to Germany to submit his eyesight to the examination of Professor Pagenstecker, according to the arrangement he made with that eminent oculist a year ago, has been assured by him that the affeotion of the eyes from which Mr. Courtney has been suffering will not become worse, but there is unfortuately little or no prospect of any improve- ment taking place. An American expert declares that he knows of at least 600 counterfeits of the Old Masters which are now hanging in private galleries in the United States, and all of whioh were originally purchased in Europe at very high prices. Aluminium neckties are on sale in London. They are fastened to the oollar-button by a band round the neck, and are particularly recommended for summer wear, since they can be easily oleaned when soiled, while they are not perceptibly heavier than cotton, cambrio, or silk. Balloon racing is the latest form of petty gamb- ling in Paris. A number of toy balloons are set off at the same time, each bearing a post-card having on it a request to the finder to note the time and place of the balloon's arrival. The bal- looon that travels farthest in the shortest time gets the prize. Rabbit-skins are now made to look like seal- skins. \JThe process of preparation is the follow- ing Tne rabbits are caught alive, their fur shaved evenly all over, and the animals set free again. This operation is repeated at intervals for a con- siderable time. Then the rabbit is killed, and its skin dried and treated exactly as sealskin. The reeult is the shining fur. The report of the Astronomer Royal, whioh has been issued as a Parliamentary Paper, states that an observing floor and gallery have quite recently been fitted up id the dome at Greenwich. The construction of the proposed balcony to give an all round view of the sky from the building in which the 28-inch telescope iamounted at Greenwich Observatory has now been sanctioned. A fireman on board the pleasure ateamer Pty. mouth Belle was drowned through falling over. board just after the steamer left Eastbourne on its return to Brighton from Dieppe. For over an hour a fruitless searoh was made for the body. Through a mistake in connection with the signals a passenger train ran into a goods train crossing ovef to the down line justoutMide Frome Station. One of the trucks was knocked, over, and .two others were damaged. No one was ,hurt., .v ■■■■ The Lord Mayor of Manchester has received from Sir Matthew White Ridley, the Secretary of State for die Home Department, a letter enolasing a gold medal in commemoration of the sixtieth year of Her Majesty's reign. Advices from Malaga show that scarlet fever has broken out on board the battleship Prince George, Theveseel has been ordered to part company with the ChttQRel Squadron and proceed to Gibraltar I Lo land ho8piUl patients and get a clean bHl Qf health. | A Paris journal says the relations of die Dak: ) and Duchess of Aosta have now become so strained j that at the end of her recent visit to Paris the duchess emphatically refuaed to return with her husband to Italy. The latter is now in Belgium, while his wife is in England. A rich Alsatian of Niederbronn, named Ziegel. meyer, who during his lifetime spent a large sum of money annually in keeping up the graves of the French soldiers who fell during the Franco-German war, has just died. In accordance with his last request he was clothed in a French uniform upon his death, and buried with the tricolour flag wrapped round him..aa,awinding,aheet. "Hamlet" was produced at the Lyceum, Lon- don, on Saturday night, with Mr. Forbes Robert- son as the Prinoe of Denmark, and Mrll. Patrick Campbell as Ophelia. Mr. Gilbert, a local sporting gentlemen, went out from Sutton Bridge tn a punt to shoot wild fowl on the Wash. He did not return, and alarm was felt for his safety, but after two days' absence he has been landed from a smack. His boat had been carried out to sea, and after a trying experi- ence he was rescued by the smack. A telegram from Moscow states that a passenger train from Jaroalaw entered the railway station oh Saturday at suoh hifch speed that it crashed into the wall at the end of the platform. Two luggage vdto were smashed and a passenger carriage was partially destroyed. Ten parsons were injured, two of them seriously. The remains of Judge David Lewis arrived from Llandrindod Wells by the midday train at Swansea on Saturday, and were conveyed to Danygraig Cemetery for interment in the family vault. The mayor, the stipendiary magistrate, and a number of prominent people of Swansea attended the funeral. The bicycle marriage has evidently had its day, and the very latest thing is for the party to go to the church by electric cab. Several of tho new fangled machines were to be seen at a wedding at a London church on Saturday. The'usual street crowd found a treat in the novelty, and there was an air of triumph about the motor jehus. A demonstration was held under the ausptoes of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants in Hyde Park, London, on Sunday. Speaking took place from tour platforms, and at each a resolution was adopted calling upon the several railway com- panies to grant better wages and conditions of service to their employ^ and declaring the present to be an opportune time to demand such concessions. An intimation has been received by Edinburgh Town Council from the Office of Works, that from April I next the fee now charged for admission to the historioil apartment* of Holy rood Palace will be abolished. At a meeting of the Cranbrook (Kent) Rural District Council it was reported thai, a serious out- break of diphtherl" had uocurred at. Dr. Barnaido'n Babies' Castle at Hawkhurst. Eight of the 111- mates are affected. The malady is supposed to have been brought into the home by children ad- mitted from London. Up to the present no fatal cades have occurred. Lord Rosebery took an act ve part in the 600th anniversary of the battle of Stirling Bridge, where the Scottish patriot Wallace defeated King Edward of England in 1297, which was oelebrated at Stir- ling on Monday. The town was decorated aad illuminated, the Wallace monument was wreathed with laurel leaves, and the day was observed in the district as a public holiday. At a banquet in the evening Lord Rosebery, in proposing the im- mortal memory of Wallace, said Wallace had made Scotland great, and if Scotland had not i been great the British Empire would not stand now where it did. Earnest Palmer, 16, of Plymouth, was charged before the Plympton magistrates on Saturday with manslaughter in connection with the death of a lad named Bunker outside Plymouth racecourse.— William Rickard deposed to seing prisoner strike deceased three successive blows on the head, after which another blow felled him to the ground, and ( he failed to rise.—Dr. Henry Herbert Tidawell stated that death was caused either by a blow or trip which resulted in dislocation of the spine.— Prisoner was remanded on bail. There are S,000,000 leifioti trees in Italy. The oldest university is that of Paris, wfciell dateabackovet 1,100 years. The first regular standing army was established in Egypt about 3,800 years ago. The Australian Federation Convention has re- jected a proviso favouring fema'e «ufffiige. A French mission has arrived at Fu-chau to re* organise thearacnal there. Beverallarge ships will be built. Two pqraon# were killed on Monday at 8aa- Georgio in Spain by a collision between a train and a tnaok loaded With ballast. Traffic on the Southern Railway line in Spain is interrupted by floods at two points-, and the train* have to stop at Baracaldo. • General Woodford, the United States Minister to Spain, on Monday presented his credentials to the Queen Regent. A groap of bankers have agreed to make the Uruguayan Government a loan of half a million piastres in order to defray the expenses of the war. By a dynamite explosion in a tunnel in prooM* of construction on the Puntevedra-C-trrie Railway, in Spain, two men were killed and five seriously wounded. It ia reported at Tangier that the Riff piratee have captured another vessel. The name of the ship is unknown, but she is believed to be of Spanish nationality. The Echo de Paris learns that the Court of Accusation has decided that there is no oaee against the deputies aooused by Arton of COID- plicity in the Panama frauds. The dead body of a Mussulman fisherman, pierced by three bullets, was found on the sea- shore near Canea on Monday. It is supposed that the man was murdered by the insurgents. Six antique mahogary Chippendale chairs, with carved backs, cabriole legs, and claw feet, were sold by. auction at Lynn on Monday fot £ 14 de. each. each. A fire broke out on Sunday at the kennels of Mr. Dennis at Portslade, near Brighton, and seven valuable greyhounds Were burned to death. The ortginof the outbreak is unknown. The average weight of the English brain i. .9'50z., of the Esquimau, 43 9; but as compared with relative weightn of body, the difference is small. I. The wages of seamen in sailing vessels are about this same all over the world, averaging 60s. » month, with food seamen employed on ateamorar receiving about 10 per cent. more. A certain scientist has found that taking four heads of hair of equal weight the number of hairs according to colour was as follows Red, 90,000; black, 103,000; brown, 109,000; fair, 140,000. At Chatham on Saturday a pair of horsaa attached to a brewer's van took fright at two road locomotives. The van was partially smashed, and the driver, named Carr, was run over wad killed. Two barbers, named Thomas Hall and Frederick Richardson, aud Ellen Diggle, beer-seller, were each fined £5 aud costs at Bury (Lancashire) on Monday lor using their premises for betting pur- poses. A boy named William Henry Weston was soar- ing birds on a farm near Leicester on Saturday when the contents of an old pistol he was using lodged in his body. He died in Leicester Infirmary on Monday. On Suuday night William Henry Cross, a young labourer, was found in a field at Chittlehampton, North Dovon, with the top of his head blown off, and a gun he waa taking to his master was lying beside him. The dead body of a man was found on Hayes Common, Kent, on Monday. Suffocation is said to be the cause of death, but as the circumstances surrounding the affair appear ra^piciout a poet- nionem ex amination was ordered to be held. A labourer named John Wellington, in the em. ploy uf the Great Western Railway Company, when engaged in blasting operations at Penpond's Viaduot, Camborne, West Cornwall, on Monday, was instantly killed by a rock falling on him. Mr. John Bailey, a well-known Derby magis- trate, died at Derby on Monday, in his 90th year. The deceased gentleman. In conjunction with Mr. M. T. RUII, founded the Railway Servants' Or- phanage, of which he was the chairmah of com- mittee up to the time of his death. Thomas Greenwell Stnurthwate, aged 35, an ex- sergeant in the Durham County Constabulary, wae tound dead outside his father's shop at Durham. A bottle containing carbolic acid was found by his side. Deceased had been discharged from the force. He leaves a widow and five ohildren. Several of the crew of the Newcastle steamer Bretwilda arrived at Shields Oft Monday, and re- ported the wreck of their vessel near Cape St. Vincent. The Bretwalda was coal laden from Btyth for Alexandria, and went ashore in a fog. The crew, numbering 27, took totheboata, and pulled three hours in a rough sea before reaching land, afterwards travelling-to Lisbon. The hottest inhabited place on the face of the earth is said to be the deaertnear Massowah (133 degrees in the shade), the coldest is in the North- West Territory of Canada, near Klondyke ('71t degreea below zero). The Tower of Babel, at Babylon, was oompoaed of eight square towers, one upon the other, the pile being 660 feet high. Babylon was a square, 15 tnilt-S on each aide, the walls 87 feet thick and 370 feet high. I Xbc Dute'i tre th? ]?-ge$t In 1uLw id.iaiiriiptioii In Holland aud BelgftiiB was 84 ounces to each inhabitant. Next comes Switzerland with 82. Brazil and Turkey follow with 70 ounces each per Brasilan and per Turk. Walter Harry Tallis, 21, manager of the Crown and Raven Hotel Company, Limited, Bridgnorth, was sentented on Monday to six months' imprison- mentwithbard labour for embexzling the sum of £4[ 5s. Id., belonging to the company. Prisoner had been manager of t'.e hutel for 18 months, hav- ing come from the Grand Hotel, Birmingham, with excellent credentials. The body of Mr. Nugent Laurence, aged 25, of ISroadstairH, who went for a trip to Deal and the Gull Lightship with a boatman named Jim Grooms, neither being agiin heard of, was found in PeKweU Bay on Sunday morning, the boatr mans body having been recovered on the previous day. Thomas Woodier, ofCuveatry, was 76 years of age, and he lell iu love with a woman who was lfr years his junior. The marriage was fixed for laefc Saturday, but Woodier was badly off, and failed to raise enough money for the expenses of the wed- ding day. Thia appears to have so preyed oft bi8 mind that he drowned himself, and a verdict of temporary insanity was returned at the inquest on Monday. The Laccashire County Cricket Committee has resolved to present a testimonial to Mr. A. N. Hornby in recognition of his valuable services to 10 Lancashire County Cricket. A provisional com- mittee has been appointed to carry out the details of the scheme. Part of the testimonial will take the (shape of a portrait of Mr. Hornby, which will be hang in the pavilion at Old Trafford, Manchester. The Isle of Man Steam Packet Company's new paddle steamer Empress Queen on Monday accom- plished a record so far as the passage between Liverpool and Douglas is concerned. Her time from Rook Light to Douglas was two hours 5$ minutes, which beats the previous best on record made by the same company's steamer, Prince of Wales, in 1888, by about three minutes. Th9 distance is 78 miles. A glove fight for tbe middle-weight obampion- ship of England and £350, in which the principal* were W. Shingleton, of Dudley, and Arthur Akers, of Leicester, was decided at the Olympic Club, Birmingham, on Monday. Immediately they stood up, Altera set about his man, and before two minutes had expired Shingleton was knocked out. Mrs. Marshall, an American lady, while en. deavouriug to seat herself < n the topot an omnibus in I'arid on Monday, wan thrown off. She was taken in", dying wtafce to the H^opital Stint Louis. The accident waR caused Isv (h* xhock pruduced by the wheel beiug caught in the rail of the tram- way. A race for £.;0 a side was rowed over the oham- pionship c'lti'HM 'in t,ht1 Thames on Monday between T. Suluvan, .tile of Australia, and S. Emmett, of Wandsworth, the conditions bein^ that Sullivan should row in a gig which he had used for two year*, and Eoimeii, iu a beat boat. Sullivan went away from the start, and won easily by 10 lengths. Sir Robert GitFen will be succeeded as Secretary for the Commercial Labour and Statistical Branch of the Board of Trade by his first assistant, Mr. A* E. Biteman. Mr. Bateman is a barrister. He entered the Boud of Trade in 1865, and has served under Sir H. Reader Lick and Sir Robert Giffen. He was attached to Sir Louis Mallet'? mission to I'arn iu 1877, and h16" been employed in several commercial and statistical conferences since that date. He was made a C.M.G. in 1892, and was promoted to be Deputy Controller at the Board of Trade in 1894. It was announced st the Admiralty that Fleet- Surgeon Richard S. P. Griffiths had heen promoted, to be Deputy-Inspector-General of Hospitals. At Gateshead 345 pitmen employed at Washing ton Colliery were summoned for leaving their employment without proper notice, and were each ordered to pay 35s. damages claimed by tho owners. Printed and Published by the Jons CoirwT*'»* iiOBKXTS, at his General Prh»r.i'iif t>rfSSo. 1, 8' fl. 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