General Summary.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2952, 1 August 1878, Page 2

General Summary.

Hydrophobia has broken out amongst the Devon and Somerset staghounds, and seven couple have fallen victims to ijt. Just before the close of the hunting season two of the hounds were missing, and it seems they' were shut up with some dogs, and got fighting. Afterwards they were liberated, and it is supposed the dogs they fought with were in a rabid state.

The other night a burglary was committed at Miss K. A. Lavrton's, jeweller, Hanway street, Oxford street, and jewellery of the value of about £350 was was stolen. . Tho .1 hieves must have been upon the premises for at least two hours, as they selected from the sto.sk evei-y . " /

article of real value, iucluding gold bracelets, chains, diamond rings, &c, and threw aside all the plated and common goods. An accident which has been attended with fatal results happened to Mr Lewis, cashier of the Okehampton branch cf the .National Provincial Bank last week. Mr Lewis was returning to Okehampton from North Tawton, and when about half a mile from the town the horse shied, and he was thrown out. He had suffered a fracture of the skull, and remained unconscious until he died.

At the Mansion House Mr James Pryor, the manager of the Lombard Bank, was recently brought up on a charge of falsifying the books and ac counts of the bank, and of appropriating sums amounting in all to £932. The Lord Mayor committed the prisoner for trial, and refused to admit him to bail.

At the Central Criminal Court a true bill has been relumed against Major Fetherston-Dilke for a libel upon bis sister-in-law. A rule has already been obtained to remove the indictment against tbe defendant into the Court of Queen's Bench.—A traveller and clerk named Maddle was found guilty of embezzlement and forgery. He travelled for Messrs Mathieson and Co., winemerchants, and forged the firm's signature to cheques which he received on their behalf to the amount of £800, and appropriated the money to his own use. He was sentenced to five years' penal servitude.—Two boys named Hun* tor and, Mitchell, aged respectivelyjixteen and fourteen, who were convicted last session of forging a cheque for £L^Og., were brought up for sentence. Mitchell was sentenced to a nominal punishment, and judgment in Hunter's case was further respited. Mr Commissioner Xerr said the carelessness of the clerk who cashed the cheque was disgraceful. Another literary American of some eminence, in the person of Mr MacGahau a correspondent of the Daily News,"not less distinguished and meritorious than Mr Forbes, has died during tbe week. Mr vaciiahan displayed, both in his inquiries into the Bulgarian atrocities and when under fire, inexhaustible energy and courage. He also showed an aptitude for military matters, very rare in a civilian. He died of typhus, which waS| beyond a doubt, the results of the hardships to which he exposed himself in the course of his duties as a correspondent. The strike of the cotton operatives in Lancashire is at an end, the employed having come to the employers' terms. The ten per cent, reduction has been accepted, and most of the mills are again at work. Such effects as the strike has had are beneficial to the manufacturers; for the stoppage of production will have sensibly- increased prices. But Vro fortunes of Lancashire depend not or. 7 on the English demand for Lancashire rpoia. The Indian and Chinese famines, aad the development of factory industry in Bombay, have been prejudicial to the Lancashire goods market in the East. So long as "devil's dust" and other forms of adulteration are employed by Lancashire manufacturers, so long will Bombay piece goods be preferred to English in India, and American'" manufacturers supplant English competitors.

The Prince of Wales has performed a graceful act in accepting the post of President of the Colonial Institute, from which the Duke of Manchester has retired. The institute itself has supplied a very real want in London, its fortunes are improving day by day, and that improrement will be materially assisted by the official connection with it of the Heir Apparent, who has made the round of'our Colonial possessions and dependencies.

Obituary fob the Month —Earl Russell, the Duchess of Argylle, Admiral Broadhead, Countess of Newburgh, Baroness Gray, Countess of Buckinghamshire, the Hon. Caroline Mary Rice, Sir J. W. Awdry, Sir F. L. Arthur, Bart., Mr Russell Gurney, M.P., Mr WykehamMartin, M.P., Dowager Lady Abinger, the Bishop'of Cork, Coi. the JbLight Hon. W. F. Tighe, the Hon. Emily Drummond, Wm. Cuilen Bryant (of New York), the King cf Hanover, Sir Thomas Hardy, Sir Wm. Miles, the Hon. Mra W. Herbert, Alderman Ward, Mayor of Nottingham, Mr Bolckow, M.P. for Middlesborough, Mr Eyton, M.P.