English News.

Clutha Leader, Volume V, Issue 226, 8 November 1878, Page 3

English News.

The Bookseller contains a list of some fifty works on Cyprus, commencing" with the Classics down to the present time. The new Bishop's throne just erected in Salisbury Cathedral has cost L 560, I a portion of which remains unsubscribed. The structure is of oak, in the early English style. Two lawyers while bathing at Santa Cruz the other day were chased out of the water by a shark. This is the most flagrant case of want of professional courtesy on record. — San Francisco Post. Sir Wilfrid Lawson, addressing a meeting at Perth, said the licensing system was rotten and past redemption, and he was going to abolish it. Resolutions in favour of'the Permissive Pill were carried. Mr and Miss Benetfc brought with then six servants and four companions, an expensive dog, and 123 pieces, or three truckloads, of baggage. The rest of Europe will probably come in the next steamer. — Buffallo Express. The Rev. Morris Hughes, rector of Pentraeth, Anglesea, the oldest beneficed clergyman in Wales, and possibly in the United Kingdom, died aged 96. He was ordained in 1811, and continued in the discharge of his dutie? until a very short time before his death. Young America has always been noted for its inquiring mind. One ot the many thousand budding Presidents now resident in Chicago was told the other day by his " school mann" the story of Willian Tell's famous shooting feat. The only comment the boy made npon the story of the patriotic parent was,." Who eat the apple afterwards ?" An extraordinary case of suicide occurred at Coventry. While a waggon heavily laden with manure was passing the Woman Catholic Church a man, about fifty years of age, named William Clay, a resident of the town, was seen to throw away his hat and walkingstick and deliberately place his head beneath one of the waggon wheels, No one had time to stop the horse before the waggon passed over him. Death was instantaneous. A church in Wisconsin finding its finances in that deplorable condition bordering on insolvency, and seeing* the vanity of such earthly expectations as are built on the delusive hope, realising from collections, decided to adopt the " hoss race," not exactly as a means of grace, but as the most feasible plan for the gathering lucre wherewith to pay debts and defray incidental expenses. A dozen nags were entered, the people turned out. en masse, and the g*ate-money was enough to make, a noble contribution to the treasury of the Lord. In short, the scheme was a pronounced success financially, but it disrupted the church. Dea Hines got angry because his horse was beaten by Dea Hall's mare. The pastor, who acted as ona oi the judges, took sides with Dea Hall and the mare; the quarrel spread, until ihe parson wandered forth seeking a new vineyard, and the voice of prayer- and praise was hushed in the sanctuary. A novel application was made at the Chester Police Court last week by the Chief Constable ot the. borough, Mr G. L. Fen wick. It appears that a short time ago, the wife of a man living in Spiral Walk, Broughton, Chester, and the mother of six children, eloped to America with a young man not twenty years of age, taking with her a large part of her 'husband's savings. For a long time the deserted husband was, disconsolate at the loss of his partner. At length, hearing tbat she had been left by her young man in America after he had spent all her money, the husband offered to take, her back again, and for that, purpose sent her sufficient money to pay her passage back. She returned home at the beginning of. this week, but instead of being met by her sorrowing husband, she was received en masse .hy Spital Walk, Boughton, with. crocks,; rattles, and drums.*-; Riots, and tumults. have .taken, place, in front of the husband's dwelling nightly .eve* since. Mr Fen wick hbw suggested that the landlord of a neighbouring beerhouse ' wasv .not altogether a dis? interested ; jn. these uproarious gatherings,- and, lie- applied under a clause of the Licensing Act to have the publicHouse closed from six tilleleven o'clock, and; jthe, magistrate .at . once - granted ;the;ordei>>, ; ;- ...',..•?.<•'-.-,-'. y-'AJyy'y^'y -. .-"--.-

The remains of the Rev, George Gilil'an were interred on Saturday f the r. iineral being* a pinlic one, nnd atended hv nearly 1100 mourners, of whom 150 were Indies. In consequence ot rhe great heat in Scinrie just now it has been decided to run trains in tbe night time instead of in the diiy. Eighteen persons died of sunstroke or heat apoplexy in one week. The vi<it of the Shah of Persia to Vienna has, amono' other thing*, resulted in the engagement of v body of Austrian officers to go to Teheran, for 'he purpose of reorganising- tbe Persian army. An Illinois man, with a foresight worthy of a better cause, popped the question on a railroad train, sind now tbe maiden is at a hiss to decide as to which county she had better commence proceedings in for a breach of promise. Owing to the number of Russian soldiers disabled during* the laic war and now cast, upon tbeir country for support,, a Commission has bpen appointed sit St Petersburg., to consider the best meais of relieving tbem. The funds at the disposal of tbe Invalids Russe produces an annual income of about LIOO,OOO ; but tbis is inadpquute, and it is expected tbat a special supplementary grant for an indpfinite number of years will have to be made out of the national revenue. In a but in tbe Catskill mountains lives Tobias Van Steenberg, known as " Boots," from the quantity of leather he wears, who lost bis heart to Jenny Lind, 28 years ago, and his reason soon after. At that time he was a young man of 23, just come to New York and fascinated with city life. Hearing* Jenny Lind sing one night he became her infatuated adorer, and attended all the 150 concerts she gave under Barnum's management, exppnding nearly lOOOdols. in choice bouquets for these occasions. Beecher, the most written up, writen down, and written at man in the universe, may expect a lively time of it in tbis town of modest and diffident newspaper men. When Theodore Tilton was here, he got up one night at the Palase in trepidation and violently rang for tbe waiter. The servant found the long-haired lecturer standing outside of the door in his night-gown, " I want assistance immediately. There is a man under my bed !" *"' Oh ! that's all right," replied the man, cheerfully, " it's only the Chronicle reporter." And so it proved. — San Francisco Newsletter. On Tuesday morning an exciting scene took place in Birkenhead. A woman was seen going through the • streets covered with flour and treacle. Tt seems she had been too intimate with her sister's husband, and a letter from her addressed to him making an appointment fell into the wife's hands. Instead of the husband meeting the : sister-in-law, the wife made arrangements with about forty or fifty of lipV friends, and money was freely spent in flour and treacle, which, having been " thrown upon the sister, rendpred hpr a pitiful object as she made ber way to the Woodside Ferry, followed by a number of women jeering her as she went along. . .. A writer in Truth says : — I believe there will very soon be quite a change in the shape of dresses. I see a great inclination to quit the close-fitting fourreaux costumes, and quite expect this autum to see either crinoline again in full glory, or some pew substitute, as I am convinced a complete revolution in costume is coming. Fashion often jumps from one extreme to tbe other. It is certainly almost an impossibility •to go much farther in tbe present style of tight-fitting costumes ; then again the short round skirts are most tin.becoming if made close-fitting, so I am decidedly of the opinion tbat dresses will be made very full-skirted, and puffed out, Empire style. Ladies that are, as we' say, Men faites, will be grieved and dismayed at my prediction, but, as compensation, thin or rather " slender " ladies will be delighted at the idea of tbe artificial appendage, et cetera, which the next fashion will bring in. Some particulars are written by Berlin correspondents of the demeanour of Hoedel just before his execution for -?: his attempt on the life of the Fmperor ' "'-"■'' of" Germany. It appears that the •criminal preserved up to tbe last '> moment his characteristic insolence. '^ When the priest was introduced to say:;.;-^ prayers with bim he said, " There js no. 7:^ use, for it you want to convert me you 1 '"y will require years." He asked for ->*«vy4 bottle of wine or beer for suppe-Cancl " t '4 for cigars, and drank the health of the f ;1 Commune and of the leader -of the 7, ,4 Social Democracy. When, before being -4 led to the scaffold, the sentence of death "| was rt-ad to him, he spat out disdainfully, and said, Bravo!" However, -4 on. being officially informed that he? : ?| would be executed, he turned pale for a _4M moment, and wished to plead for the ?l Emperor's pardon; but he recovered ?§ immediately when told this/ wou)d : be ?"| useless. While on the scaffold his face | was; deadly pale and. haogard,, and ?| strangely contrasted i jComst^t;^l forced smile. H e "- hastily jirepareclv^for7:'g|| ? the block, and 'withr;pneistroke7of^||e;^j executioner's axe his hehd^ftsr^ver^H^-^ i* _•_- i_* -t- J"-' •'-''-.lit- -'vO.'i 2Jn<_'t--.;fe...v.,isrjf-*§;SJS .rom his bod^. 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