Fri Ta August 5, 1873. FLOWER SHOW AT GACLDRY. -On Saturday last the Gaullry Horticultural Society hell their annual show in the Schoolroom and a large tent The show was the best in point of quality and quanadjoining. tity which the society has ever had. The articles were generally shown in fine condition, and some of them were very superior as specimens of cultivation.
The exhibitors, however, might greatly improve the appearance of their flowers by a little more care in their mounting, and the arrangement of the tables might feature be better. The bouquets are always a good at this show. and this year there is a marked improvement in their build and arrangement. There WAS a large competition in this class, and the hand bouquet which took first prize was very neat, chaste in colour, and well balanced in arrangement. A large number of bouquets of wild flowers were put in very for than competition, and deserved to be better staged they were.
We never see any competition in wild flowers equal to that at Gauldry, and the display had was very attractive and much admired. The judges considerable difficulty in awarding the prizes for this class, so good was the collection. We hope the managers will next year give the wild flowers double the space and a position of honour. Phloxes and penstemons were good, and for the season pansies were very creditable. This sweet flower deserves to be better put on the stands than they are by some of the competitors.
Pot plants were a very good show for amateurs, whose means of growing are not very extensive. There were three floral devices shown this and the first prize deservedly to remark- year, was given a ably well-proportioned spire over an open alcove and the second prize was given to neat crown, brilliant in colour. Fruit was an excellent display, particularly strawberries, and red, white, and black currants. Vegetables were well grown, and of good quality. The competition here was very keen.
In addition to the flowers for competition, there was a large and beautiful display of greenhouse plants from the gardens of Birkhill and Mountquhannie. The show during the day was largely visited by those in the neighbourhood and many parties from a distance, attracted by the growing fame of the Gauldry show. The judges were Messrs Miln, Linlathen, Scott, Kemback, and Rintoul, Bowerswell, Perth, whose careful awards gave the utmost satisfaction. SCENES IN A SPANISH MADHOUSE. A account of correspondent of the Daily Telegraph gives an what he saw in the Casa de Locos, a Spanish madhouse, founded by Isabella in which are between 200 and 300 patients.
He states that the patients are divided into three classes, the first paying 2s 6d per day, the second 1s 3.1, while the is composed of paupers. Entering, he says, the a short flight of steps leading us to the ante-chamber, we arrive presently at a door which is opened by a keeper, and enter the common sittingroom of the first class, in which there are fifty patients, some sitting at tables despondently, others glaring fiercely at the intruders, others lying coiled up in the corners motionless. One of the insane steps forward, and addresses me with volubility. He was a Captain of Artillery before he became a tenant of the Casa de Locos. This has been a bad day with him.
He is talkative and commanding, while some of his comrades regard him approvingly. We next visited the separate bedrooms for violent patients. They are about four yards square. In the doors are holes, through which the inmates can be observed. The furniture of these sad places consists of a table, a chair, and other necessaries; in the middle of the room is a massive wooden bedstead, fixed firmly to the floor.
The bedding is clean, and equal in quality to that in other parts of the building. There is nothing about the place to terrify the most timid when he enters but on the other side of the bedstead, and fixed to it in readiness for immediate use, are cords and straps to bind the refractory maniac. Some of these rooms or cells for the most violent have an opening opposite the doorway, protected by iron bars, and the patient is thus constantly exposed to view. Now one of them was occupied; the patient, tightly bound down, writhed and roared with frightful force. He had done so incessantly during two days, and his shouts could be heard long after we had left that portion of the building.
We were now joined by the Director, Seffot Manuel Redrigues Villargotitia, a small, kindlyhearted, intelligent man. with a pleasant, twinkling eye. We entered the third class, and it was at once evident that he was a favourite. The inmates of the third class ward were engaged like those we had already visited -in doing nothing. How terrible does this monomanical idleness appear--this waiting, without object in life, for death to release them from mental suffering We pass on to the padded room it is small, and arranged like those we have already visited for violent patients.
It is occupied by a respectable, well-mannered, good-looking man and a keeper. The patient was sitting quietly at the table reading. He rose when we entered, bowed politely, and welcomed the Director. Poor fellow, he has been many years in the Casa de Locos, He is a professor of Oriental languages, of which he speaks four perfectly. Repassing through the third -class ward, we were ad dressed by a Spaniard who speaks French perfectly.
He spoke rapidly of his former employers, Rothschild and Pereire and there was nothing in his manner to make a stranger believe him to be mad. Two of the patients have been inmates of the house for more than twenty years, and during that period no one has ever been cured. We are now passing a small garden, separated by high iron rails from the first- class exercise ground, to which our attention was attracted by the loud shouts of the Artillery officer commanding imaginary bombardiers to fire on us. To command heavy guns to open fire incessantly during seventeen long years is hard and dreary work, but the ex-captain is well and hearty. Indeed the place is healthy, the deaths do not exceed six per cent.
per annum. The asylum is visited by the Medical Commission at least once a month, and by the Commission of Administration once a year. In the experience, however, of the Director, no patient has ever been released, although in the opinion of the authorities good food is the base of moral regeneration. No kind of ill-treatment is permitted -kindness having been found to be much more conducive to good discipline--and so far as I could form an opinion, I believe that the humane Director carries out his principle to the utmost. We also visited the large kitchen garden, cultivated by several madmen, who appeared proud of their occupation, and manifested great friendship for the Director.
The kitchen garden is separated from the exercise-ground of the third class by a wall, in the lower part of which are nine openings, protected by iron gratings, and peopled with mad heads gazing et us and chattering like monkeys. I was informed that the chief causes of Spanish madness are love and politics, those affected by the former being chiefly women. We proceeded to the female department. accompanied by the Matron-a Sister of Charity of the Order of St Vincent de Paul. There are 81 female lunatics, including patients who have been here sixteen or twenty years.
In the workroom were several women doing needlework, superintended by a Sister of Charity. One of them, a pretty, simple-looking young woman of twentyone years of age, has been here only a few months, and is apparently constantly dreaming. Her madness is attribnted to novel reading she is romantically insane. There are many women sitting on benches, most of them gazing vacantly, sleeping, or otherwise motionless. Pensive madness is here predominant.
These maniac statues, with heads bound in handkerchiefs, are fearful objects. One of the women attracted my attention especially. In her hands was a piece of white tape, with which she pretended to knit with extraordinary rapidity. From morn till night she sits without raising her head, always as if knitting, and with her right ear packed up in a piece of white paper. DUNDEE POLICE COURT.
-Before Bailie ROBERTSON THEFT OF A WATCH FROM A FORFARIAN. -Richard Gee, fishcadger, St Margaret's Close, was charged with stealing a silver lever watch, from the pocket or person of Thomas Forbes, dresser. Watt Street, Forfar, in Dudhope Crescent, in Dundee, on Saturday last, the 26th July. He pled guilty, and was sentenced to twenty days' imprisonment. ALLEGED ASSAULT WITH A BOOT AND A Clark, millworker, Blackness Road, was charged with assaulting Jane Lee or Carlow, by striking ber on the face with a boot to the effusion of blood, at the door of her own house in Blackness Road, on Wednesday 30th July, and further, at the same place on Thursday, 31st, she did attack and assault Catherine Reilly or Cassell, and struck her one or more blows on the head and face with an iron key, to the effusion of blood and injury of her person.
She pled not guilty. After the examination of the first witness, the case was remitted to the Procurator-Fiscal. A PLOUGHMAN RELIEVED HIS WATCH BY A FEMALE TINKER. -Hugh 'Laren, tinsmith, and Margaret Townsley or M'Laren, husband and wife, were charged with stealing a silver watch, from the pocket or person of John Ford, farm servant, parish of Mains and Strathmartine, while in Provosts' Road, Dur dee, on Tuesday, 15th July last. Hugh pled not guilty, and his wife pled guilty.
The diet was deserted against Hugh, and the female prisoner was sentenced to twenty days' impr sonment. A TINKERS' FIGHT IN LOCHEE. -Robert M'Kenzie, 'Kenzie, and John White, tinsmiths, South Road, Lochee, were charged with disorderly conduct and quarrelling ani fighting with each other in South Road on Thursday. Robert only ppeared, the two others forfeiting their bail bonds. Robert pleaded not guilty, but the charge against him was found proven, and he was fined 7s 6d or three days' imprisonment.
AN OUTRAGEOUS FEMALE. -Helen Anderson or Webster, Whitehall Close, was found guilty of disorderly conduct in Fish Street on Thurslay forenoon, and was fined 20s or fifteen days' imprisonment. SATURDAY -Before Bailie ROBERTSON. THEFT ON WEARING APPAREL. Margaret Conolly, millworker, Murraygate, was charged with the crime of theft, on some day during the three weeks previous to the 31st July, from the hou-e in Guthrie's Close, Overgate, possessed by Sarah Lennan or Dall.
She stole a petticoat, a pair of leather boots, a shawi, and a dress, the property of Sarah Lennan or Dall. She pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to twenty days' imprisonment. CHARGE OF HOUSEBREAKING William Salmond, carter, Fish Street, was remitted to the Procurator-Fiscal, charged with breaking into a house in Whitehall Close on Friday, 1st August, and stealing a dress, a bed cover, and a cotton sheet. DRUNK AND INCAPABLE. William Taylor, gardener, and Christina Ferguson or 'Donald, Were charged with being drunk and incapable -the woman in Bell Street, and the man in Overgate on Friday night.
Both pled guilty. It being the first conviction against Christina, she was fined 5s or eight hours' imprisonment. Taylor, who had been thirty times before the Court fur the same offence, was fined 13s or seven days in prison. IF THERE ARE ANY LADIES who have not yet used the GLENFIELD STARCH, they are respectfully solicited to give it a trial and carefully follow out the directions printed on every package, and if this is done, they will say, like the Queen's Laundress, it is the finest Starch they ever used. When you ask for GLENFIELD STARCH, see that you get it, as inferior kinds are often substituted for the sake of extra profits.
Beware, therefore, of spurious imitations. THROAT AFFECTIONS AND HOARSENESS. -All suffering from irritation of the throat and hoarseness will be agreeably surprised at the almost immediate relief afforded by the use of Brown's Bronchial Troches." These famous 66 lozenges" are now sold by most respectable chemists in this country, at 1s 13d per box. People troubled with a hacking cough, a slight cold, or bronchial affections, cannot try them too soon, as similar troubles, if allowed to progress, result in serious Pulmonary and Asthmatic affections. See that the words "Brown's Bronchial Troches" are on the Government Stamp around each box.
sadlled with an inefficient representative, who has taken no position in the House, and has been characterised in our local press as a dumb member, while Mr Barclay, whom we refused, has achieved for himself an excellent position in St Stephen's, having frequently spoken in it, and that too with good effect, and I have interest reason which to know that nothing could exceed the he takes in his duty to his Forfarshire constituents, besides being as good as second member to Aberdeen. We also find that Mr Farley Leith has been unable on several occasions to attend to the interests of his constituents, preferring to attend to his own professional duties. This is our experience, and it may safely be predicted that, if the electors of Dundee choose either of the two London lawyers now soliciting their votes, the interests of the town will ba made secondary to professional engagements. I have been told by an M.P. that he has no superfluous time apart from the efficient discharge of his Parliamentary duties, and the larger the practice of any barrister the less time he must have to devote to the interests of his constituents.
It can therefore be easily understood that your own local candidate, who knows all your wants and has identified himself with all the improvements effected in Dundee during the last fourteen years, and who would have his whole time devoted to Parliamentary duties, is the most likely one to render you the greatest amount of good service, and prove himself to be the fittest representative of his fellow-townsmen. There are too many members of the legal profession in the House of Commons already. What is wanted is a larger number of really good business men, and by electing vour local candidate you will send an able coadjutor to your worthy county member. -Yours, LIBERAL. MR JENKINS AND PROVOST YEAMAN.
SIn, -Permit me to ask the electors of Dundee a very simple question. Are you to hand over the representation of the town to a young man with a carpet bag containing Ginx's Baby 39 and nothing else but loquacity to recommend him? Surely not. will you not rather give the honour to a townsman who has taken so much interest in the welfare of the burgh, and devoted so much time to its government and improvement I have no doubt which you will do. and confer honour on yourselves well as on ProYeaman by voting for him on Tuesday. 1st August, 1873.
AN ELECTOR. OUR LITTLE LOCAL FANATICISMS. SIR. -Mr D. Maxwell says, in a letter to your contemporary, that the joy he expressed at Mr Stephen's me.
ting on prospect of Mr Jenkins being 2 the scuteman who would represent their "little local fanaticisms must be understood as having been ironical. It is too late in the day for Mr D. Maxwell to try like Artemus 6 Ward 6 to persuade us he was only perpetrating a little The electors have to thank David for the most epigrammatic and terse expression the election has produced-" OUR to LITTLE FASATICISMS." It is the Jenkins' case in a nutshell. While this election is remembered, Jukins will remain on record as the candidate who atted in to certain little local fanaticisms it is a pinase likely to be memorable in Dundee, and will do much to prevent the successful candidature hereafter party zealots or class candidates. GRATITUDE.
THE ELECTION OF AN M.P. SIr, -I am aware that private and party feelings ale apt to be roused on occasions like the present Parliamentary contest, but let us by all means act as true Liberals, one to another, seeing what we want is the best man to represent us, the Dundee electors, in Parliament. Regarding Mr Jenkins, his specches seem to me to contain far too much bunkum ever to make him suitable representative for any Scotch constituency, and as to his inconsistency, I won't now speak at all. Suttice it to say that all the principal Scotch and English papers write of his candidature as something to laugh at. All who have studied his speaking and acting since he came amongst us even, must see that he is not to be depended on as an honest and true Liberal; and of course the electors will do now what has been done to him by others before, reject him.
This is the true award for men like him. Mr Stephen is a superior man, and it would be an honour to be represented by such but in the meantime, looking from all standpoints, I think that P'rovost Yeaman is peculiarly fitted to represent Dundee in Parliament, and I have no doubt Tuesday will see him at the head of the poll, as the working men cannot forget who has been to them a true and tried friend, and this will conquer all the false and misleading statements which have been made regarding him both in public and private. The mass of the electors know well his worth, and Parliaments, men of good common sense future like the ex- Provost will be found occupying the place of mere towery speakers. -Yours, AN ELECTOR. THE GOOD TEMPLARS AND MR JENKINS.
SIR, -In reply to the letter of D. M'Kenzie, Secrefury, District Lodge, in a recent number of the Adhave to say that the silly so called, in the letter which appeared in your paper, ate sigh-tantially correct, and it is not in the power of one to prove they are not so. one of the Executive of the District Lodge, pernit me to state that I did not form one of the deputation appointed to wait upon the candidates, and am not sponsible for the circular issued, or its publicaton, either one way or another. There wore only two of the three candidates waited 0101: br the deputation, whereas the circular as published to world is rather misleading in this respect. Hence my desire to have my name disassociated from it, especially as from a Good Templar standpoint I fail to discover any material difference between any of the three candidates.
-I am, yours faithfully, R. T. M. ALLAN. Broughty Ferry, 21 August, 1873.
GOOD TEMPLAR INTIMIDATION. SIR, A Mr W. Galloway has, rushed into print in letter to the Adrerliser, a very unbrotherly way has laboured hard to put Brother George Hood, of the Tay Lodge of Good Templars, in a false positon. For instance, Brother Galloway says "I do not believe that any brother, high or low in the Order, either in or out of a lodge, made the assertion that Provost Yeaman sold intoxicating liquors." Sir, if need be, I will give the name of the office-bearer who told the Tay Lodge on Monday night last that Provost Yeaman got from £500 to £800 per annum from the sale of intoxicating liquor alone. But permit me to ask worthy Brother Galloway who told him what was said or done in the Tay Lodge on Monday evening, seeing he is not a member of the Lodge? I still adhere to the statement made by me in my letter of Thursday last as regards the other officebearer who said in open lodge that he would cause any brother who either used means to get a vote for Provost Yeaman or voted for him to be re-obligated or expelled the Order.
The reason I sent that to the press was that in your contemporary of Wednesday I saw that the Olive Leaf Lodge of Good Templars had sent a report of what they had done in their Lodge on Tuesday night, viz. Mr Jenkins was to get the support of their Lodge members. Also a history of the District Lodge, and what power it has over the subordinate lodges, while they are acting a very brotherly part towards Brother George Hood for doing what he had a precedent for doing. Sir, I also appended a note to the foot of my letter which I sent to your contemporary on Friday night in answer to the note appended to my letter which appeared in their columns on Thursday, stating that the ofticebearer who said in the Tay Lodge on Monday evening that he would expel any brother from the Order who would vote for Provost Yeaman, only said it as a private individual. Sir, I am convinced that that officebearer would not have made such a statement if he had not thought he had power to do so.
He is too honest a member for any mean act, but he on that occasion allowed his feelings to get the better of his judgment. Seeing that your contemporary has not thought proper to give the electors in Dundee that information, would you oblige me by giving the enclosed a corner in your columns on Monday first, as the Tay Lodge meets on Monday evening, and oblige. -Yours truly. GEORGE HOOD. MR JENKINS IN FAVOUR OF ADDITIONAL TAXATION.
AN ELECTOR. MR STEPHEN AND THE LAND LAWS. SIR, -As yet Mr Edward Jenkins in his candidature has never replied to my challenge about his resolution to support additional taxation on the industrial classes--in the shape of paying for more ministers and Roman Catholic priests for all the prisons in Scotland. It is now also known from his own acknowledgment in Lamb's Hotel that he will vote for the payment by compulsion of not only ministers and Roman Catholic priests, but also of Hindoo Brahmins and their idols if needed. This is indeed Liberalism with a vengeance.
Let some one put this question to him publicly, for it has never yet been done publicly and let Mr Jenkins' opinion on this important point be clearly known by those who are going to vote for him on Tuesday first. They will vote for a man who asked What is truth but who would endow idolatry or error or truth alike. appears to me very strange how it has entered into the heads of some people that no one can grapple with an imperial question except a few glibtongued, buttery-mouthed co*ckney lawyers. Even that miracle of law, the doughty Stephen, who has made India a Paradise, and is destined to redeem our fallen world by his mighty intellect and wonderful of our law, namely, that Parliament is omnipotent. power in law, appears not to know the first principles Hs states, in short, that we can as well enter into any man's house and see how it is kept, what liquors he uses, and whether he smokes a pipe, as interfere with our large landholders, in converting good arable land into deer forests and hunting parks.
Now, I would beg respectfully to inform Mr Stephen that although three-fourths of Scotland nominally are said to belong to some ten individuals, that there is not a single of acre, them. properly In speaking, absolutely belonging to any whatever way they have obtained their lands, simple whether custodiers by descent or by purchase, they are all and if they do not cultivate for the public good or life-renters what is committed to them to the highest extent, it should be taken from them and given to some one of them ever brought an would, one who for not is acre into this world, and it certain they cannot carry any out. J. H. August 2, 1873.
A NEW BRANCH IN THE HIGH SCHOOL. SIR, -I am sure the people of Dundee will be to learn that it is under contemplation toadd glad branch of School. education to those already another High I refer to the appointment of taught a at Teacher the of English Pronunciation; and that there may be no difficulty in the way, it is stated that a little well known, not only for his modest unobtrusiveness and his humility in acting as Jeames to Mr ciation Jenkins, but for his correct and musical of his mother is to pronuninvaluable services. If tongue, the offer willing is give his doubtless it will be, accepted, as parents will rejoice, as their children will then have the inestimable pivilege of being taught to pronounce every word of their own language correctly, and so to speak it as not in any way to offend ears polite. The letter will also be restored to its proper position, and have that justice done to it to which its many admirers consider it is well entitled.
I am, HADMIRER. REASONS WHY WORKING MEN SHOULD SUPPORT EX-PROVOST YEAMAN IN PREFERENC: TO MR JENKINS OR MR STEPHEN. BY ONE OF THEMSELVES. 1. Yeaman is a townsman, and well known to all, while Mr Jenkins and Mr Stephen are almost entire strangers.
2. Mr Yeaman has a thorough knowledge of local affairs, and has taken an active interest in the improvement and welfare of the town for many years past, whilst Mr Jenkins and Mr Stephen know absolutely nothing about us, and, until a vacancy occurred in our representation, cared as little. 3. Mr Yeaman is a Scotchinan, and is well acquainted with Scotch affairs, and will be invaluable in the House of Commons in looking after Scotch interests, while Messrs Jenkins and Stephen glishmen, and have no knowledge of Scotch politics, and, therefore, should not be trusted with our Scotch interests. 4.
Mr Yeaman is a thoroughly practical politician, while Mr Jenkins is a mere political and social theorist, whose views are altogether impractical and worthless and Mr Stephen, although an able lawyer, is far too Conservative for the practical working men of Dundee. 5. Mr Yeaman will make an able representative in room of Mr Armitstead. He is an effective speaker, but will never talk measures out of the House of Commons, as it is to be feared Messrs Jenkins and Stephen would do if they had the chance. 6.
Mr Yeaman will hold himself responsible to the constituency, and will yearly give an account of his stewardship, while we cannot trust that Dr Jenkins or Mr Stephen will do so. 7. Mr Yeaman resides and has his business amongst us, and will be in constant communication with the town, whilst Mr Jenkins has no residence anywhere, and would be a mere bird of passage, while Mr Stephen would be constantly resident in London. BIRTHS. HAIG.
-At Duniface, Fife, on the 30th ult. the wife H. of a daughter. WINCHESTER. -At Taylor's Institution, Crieff, on the 30th Mrs Winchester, of a son GAIRDNER.
-At Ardrossan, on the 31st the wife of Professor Gairdner, M.D., Glasgow, of a son. BEVERIDGE-At Teresa Cottage, Pocklington, on the 31st the wife of Erskine Beveridge, Dunfermline, of a son. MARRIAGES. -At 62 Ann Street, Maxwell town, Dundee, on the 1st by the Rev. R.
Laurie, William Anderson, mechanic, to Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Mr George Hood, mechanic. -At 23 Comely Bank, Edinburgh, on the 31st by the Rev. Edward A. Thomson, Free St Stephen's, Cecil Francis Gwyer, elder Baillid, Inverness-shire, Mary Stewart, daughter of the late Alexander Mitchell, C.E., Perth, and granddaughter of the late Patrick Small, Esq. of Dirnanean, Perthshire.
ADAMSON Lochgelly, on the 31st: by the Rev. P. Macainsh, Adamson, clerk, Lochgelly Iron and Coal to Agnes (rawford, second daughter of Thomas Dick, Esq, merchant, Lochgelly. PATERSON-STEPHEN. -At Commieston, Montrose, on the 31st by the Rev.
Thomas Mackintosh, St Cyrus, assisted by the Rev. Dr M'Kerrow, of Manchester, Henry Paterson, merchant, Aberdeen, to Jessie Forbes, eldest daughter of the late Mr John Stephen, farmer, Commieston and Upper Warburton. DEATHS. HENRY. -At East Mill, Cortachy, on the 26th George Henry, third son of Mr Chas.
Henry, late farmer of Craigies-deeply regretted. ALLAN. -At Osborne House, Gipsey Hill, London, on the 22d after a short illness, Thomas Allan! C.E., in his 62d year. Nether Street, Pathhead, Kirkcaldy, on the 28th Agnes Brown, relict of the late Andrew Carmichael, joiner, aged 77 years. EDWARD.
-At Cherryfield, Dundee, on the 2d of typhus fever, George Edward, mechanic, Polepark Works, in his 62d Me year-deeply regretted. Friends at a distance please accept of this intimation. (American and Indian papers please copy.) RITCHIE. -At Manchester, on the 30th Cristopher Currie Ritchie, M.D., aged 30 years, eldest son of William Ritchie, sheep and cattle salesman, Edinburgh. JOHNSTONE.
-At 9 Ardbeg, Road, Rothesay, on the 30th Rachel Johnstone, aged 73 years. LOCAL NEWS. The duch*ess of Inverness died on Friday at Kensington Palace in her 85th year. DUNDEE ROYAL INFIRMARY. -The Treasurers have received £3 from as a donation towards the funds of the institution.
EYE INSTITUTION. -Patients admitted in July, 23 patients dismissed in July, 21; patients remaining under treatenent, 66. Total since commencement, 11,896. ARRIVALS FROM morn ing the City of Richmond arrived Calcutta, and the Canute and South Carolina arrived with the evening tide with jute. The Medical Superintendent of the Dundee Royal Infirmary begs to acknowledge, with thanks, the following donations from Farquharson, 110 Nethergate journals from a Friend.
SUDDEN DEATH. -About one o'clock on Friday morning a man, sixty-five years of age, residing with Robert Findlay, Cowper's Land, Milne's East Wynd, died suddenly. Deceased had been ill for some time. FREE LIBRARY MUSEUM. -It will be observed that the Free Library Museum is, on and after Tuesday first, to be closed, in order that its contents may be cleaned and arranged, previous to removal to new buildings.
FUNERAL OF A MARS' BoY. -One of the Mars' boys was on Saturday buried in Forgan Churchyard. The funeral procession, which included about 70 Mars' boys, left Woodhaven Pier at half-past 10 a.m. The body was carried on a gun carriage with one horse, and the Mars' Band accompanied them, playing the Dead March in ASSAULT ON A WIFE. -On -before Sheriff Johnston- William D'Nab, Barrack Street, was charged with having, on 29th July, assaulted his wife, Elizabeth Flynn or M'Nab, within the house in Barrack Street occupied by him.
He pleaded guilty, and Mr Dickie, who appeared for him, urged the infliction of a fine. The Sheriff sentenced M'Nab to. pay a fine of 20s, or suffer fourteen days' imprisonment. MAINS--MODERATION OF CALL. -The Presbytery of Dundee met on Friday in the Parish Church of Mains and Strathmartine, for the purpose of moderating in a call to the Rev.
Alexander Stewart, presentee to the parish. The Rev. Mr Wilson of Liff preached, and after the service the call was signed by those present and left in the Session-Clerk's hands for additional signatures. The Presbytery are to meet again on Friday the 8th i inst. to sustain the call.
FIRE. -On Saturday fire broke out at the spinning mill in North Tay Street belonging to Messrs Shaw, Baxter, Moon. The flames originated in the waste store behind the works, and spread with alarming rapidity. A number of the men at the works turned out, and with the aid of the hose kept at the works and that obtained at the Messrs Nicoll's works, they were enabled speedily to extinguish the fire. The Fire Brigade turned out, but their services were not required.
The damage is not very material. THE BAXTER CONVALESCENT HOUSE. -We understand that the Trustees have now accepted the contracts for the buildings, which are to be proceeded with immediately. The following are the contractors -for the mason work, Messrs A. J.
Black, Carnoustie; carpenter and joiner, Mr David Bremner, Dundee; slater, Mr William Robertson, Carnoustie plumber, Mr David Brown; and plasterer, Mr Jas. Johnston. The cost of the works now contracted for will be £6150, being considerably within the estimate on which the plans were prepared by Mr Maclaren, the architect. FOURTEEN DAYS FOR WIFE On Saturday, at the Sheriff Court-Sheriff-Substitute Small on the bench -George Brown, labourer or lapper, Dundee, was charged with having about the 14th July deserted his wife and three children, the oldest being four and a half years of age and the youngest nine months, whereby they became chargeable to the parish of Dundee. Mr Johnstone prosecuted.
Brown pleaded not guilty, but was convicted on evidence, and the Sheriff sentenced him to fourteen days' imprisonment with hard labour. APPLICATION FOR CESSIO. -William Kerr, leather merchant, Willison Street, Dundee, appeared on Friday before -Substitute Johnston, for examination in his application for cessio. Mr Risk, acting on behalf of Mr Reid, appeared for the petitioner, and Mr Haggart for Messrs J. H.
Ward manufacturers, Leicester, the incarcerating creditors. The state of affairs showed the assets to be £59 6s 3d, deduct to meet preferable claims, £15 10s; leaving to meet ordinary claims, £43 16s 3d. The ordinary claims amount to £111 4s 10d, so that there is a deficiency of £67 8s 7d, which will yield an apparent dividend of about 7s 104d per £1. The petitioner attributed his insolvency to loss sustained through a fire having broken out in his premises in January last. They were consequently closed for some considerable time, and the creditors, having done diligence against him, arrested the salvage from the fire, and disposed of it at great disadvantage.
The action of his creditors injured bis credit, and not only was he thrown off work for some time, but the money belonging to him in the bank having been arrested, he was unable to carry out the contracts he had on hand. THE PRECAUTIONS AGAINST CHOLERA. -Copies of an order in Council, supplemented with orders and instructions by the Commissioners of Customs, have been received at the various Scotch ports, giving directions and authority to the Customs officials and local authorities for dealing with any cases of cholera which may be brought from the Baltic or other ports in inward bound shipping. In all cases the customs boarding parties are to be held responsible for immediately ascertaining whether there is any epidemic disease on board vessels on their arrival. If should prove to be the case, all communication is to be strictly prohibited till the medical officer appointed by the local authority has made an inspection, and adopted such measures as the case may require for bility preventing the preventing spread spread of disease; cholera, should it of the the responsiunhappily of a the footing on our shores, will devolve gain on the members of the local authorities; but whether vessels are liable to quarantine or not will, in the first place, rest with the Customs.
3 TERRIBLE ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER TAY. YACHT BLOWN TO PIECES AND TWO LIVES LOST. On Saturday forenoon a most deplorable accident occurred on River Tay, a little below Broughty Ferry, by which two lives were lost and two men were seriously injured. The accident was caused by the explosion of the boiler in a small steam yacht, and happened while a party of gentlemen were on board for the purpose of enjoying a pleasure sail and having a day's fishing at the mouth of the river. In the morning a party of four- -Robert Low, engineer and plumber, George Murdoch, mechanic, Balmuir Bleachfield; James Scott, labourer, Princes Street and Edward Smith, Balfour Street--left the Dundee Harbour on board the steam yacht Warrior (about five or six tons burden), and proceeded to Broughty Ferry pier, where an old fisherman named Thomas Lorimer, who brought lines and bait, was taken on board.
The yacht then left the pier and steamed down the river. When some distance beyond the Castle, and about a quarter of a mile from the shore, something went wrong with the engine, and while Murdoch was examining it the boiler suddenly exploded, and the whole party were blown into the air. Murdoch and Scott were never seen after, and it is supposed they had been instaneously killed by the explosion, and then sunk below the water. Low, Smith, and Lorimer rose to the surface, but Smith would have sunk had not Low, who is a good swimmer, caught hold of him and bravely kept him afloat. Lorimer also got a spar pushed to him by Low, upon which he kept himself afloat.
The explosion was seen from the North British goods steamer, and Captain Falconer at once steered to the place with the intention of picking up any one he might see. He saw Low and Smith together, and threw a rope with a buoy to them, but when Low tried to stretch out his arm to grasp it he found it useless, it being either dislocated or broken, and his other being supporting Smith, who was helpless, he called to the people on Board to lower a boat and save them. Captain Falconer at once lowered a boat, and took the two drowning men on board, and conveyed them to Tayport. Meanwhile, the explosion having also been heard on board the barque Hastings, which was lying in the river, a boat from that vessel was likewise lowered, and the crew picked up Lorimer just as he was sinking, and took him to the shore, where his injuries were attended to. Low and Smith, on their arrival at Tayport, were attended by Dr Laing, who found that Mr Low had got his arm dislocated in two places, but strangely Smith had received no serious injuries whatever.
A cab was then procured, in which Mr Low was conveyed from Tayport to East Newport, where he presently resides, and where he was attended by Dr Crockatt from Dundee. One of his arms is dislocated, his legs and face are severely scalded, but his injuries are not considered dangerous. Lorimer, the fisherman, is also severely scalded, but not dangerously. When the terrible result of the accident became known in the Ferry, a large number of boats rowed to the scene to search for the bodies of the men who were missing, but beyond a few spars floating about none of the wreck, nor any appearance of the bodies, could be seen, and up to the present time neither have been discovered. George Murdoch and James Scott, the two men killed, were aged nineteen and twenty-six respectively.
The Warrior was a pretty old boat, and before being converted into a steam yacht was a sailing boat. The engine and boiler were recently repaired, and no reason whatever can be given for the explosion. The steam guage at the time the boiler burst showed a pressure of between 50 and 60 while on the Saturday previous no danger was experienced though the guage showed a pressure of 80 lbs. The yacht belonged to Mr Barney, coppersmith, Dundee, and the party merely had it out for the day. The accident happened about eleven o'clock, as Mr Low's watch had stopped at five minutes past that hour.
Smith's coat and watch were also blown away, but a coat, supposed to be Smith's, was picked up on shore. The report of the explosion, as heard in the Ferry, appeared to be like a quarry shot. BROUGHTY FERRY AND MONIFIETH ROWING CLUB ANNUAL REGATTA. The annual regatta of the above club was held at Broughty Ferry on Saturday afternoon. The course was from the Fairweather, moored a little to the east of Broughty Castle, round buoys placed nearly opposite Abertay House, and back to the Commodore's barge; but the juvenile races and one or two others started from the east end of the course, and terminated I at the The weather on the whole was rather stormy, a stiff breeze blowing from the westward and causing a rather heavy swell.
Throughout the afternoon a large number of spectators thronged the links and the battery Broughty Castle, whence a splendid view was obtained, while a large number of pleasure boats were kept moving about the water in all directions, sometimes to the inconvenience of the competing crews, indeed one or two of the best races were spoiled by pleasure boats crossing the course. Captains Robertson and Traill acted respectively as starter and umpire, while Joseph Grimond, the Commodore of the club, was also on board the steamer. The races generally were well contested. The following were the results of the races 1. Pair Sculls -Heavy Weight.
-For pair scull boats as described in rule XII. (3), entered and manned by members of the Club. Prizes-1st boat, the Ledbetter challenge cup 2d boat, the Harecraig challenge medal. This race was won by the Watersprite (Norrie), the Ocean Queen (Harrower) being very close behind. 2.
Four -This race did not take place, as only two boats were entered and one of them did not come forward in time. 3. Pair Sculls- -Light Weight. -For pair scull boats, Club dimensions. Three boats entered for this race, which lay between the Gazelle (Stewart) and the Watersprite (Bishop), but a pleasure boat crossing in their way a foul took place, and it was agreed to row the course over again shortly, in order to decide the race.
4. Four Oars -All Comers. The Perseverance, Rocket, and Fleur de Lis were entered for this race, which was won by the Rocket, manned by the Tay Bridge crew, by about seven boats' lengths. The Perseverance came in second. 5.
Pair Sculls--Juveniles. -This race was won by the Watersprite (Harrower), the second boat being the Louise of Lorne (Livie). Four boats were entered. 6. Four Oars -Light Weights.
-For this race six boats were entered, and some difficulty was experienced in getting them into line. The Gertrude came in first, closely followed by the Rocket No. 2, the Fleur-de-Lis making a good third. 7. Fishing Yawls' Race.
-This race was to have been pulled by Broughty Ferry fisherwomen, but no entries were made. 8. Four Oars-Champion Flag and -Three entries were made for this race-the Rocket, the Fleur-de-Lis, and the Viking, the latter, however, being only entered to complete the number required to enable the race to go on. The Rocket (Tay Bridge crew) again came in first quite easily. 9.
Mars Boys' Race. -This was one of the best and most exciting races, the first cutter being scarcely a boat's length ahead of the second crew. 10. Two Oars -Light -Five boats were entered fer this race, but they did not all come forward. The Commodore came in first, closely followed by the Gertrude.
11. Two -Heavy Weights. this race three boats were entered -the Fleur-de-Lis (Norrie, stroke), Rocket No 1 (Lind, stroke), and Rocket No. 2 (Jobson, stroke), but the former boat did not come forward, and the race was won by the Rocket No. 2.
Dr Langford of Birmingham will contest Shaftesbury as the representative of the National Education League. The return to Mr Plimsoll's order shows that during the years 1871 and 1872, 1638 sailors have been committed for refusing to proceed to sea. Miss Helen Taylor contradicts the statement that extracts from Mr Mill's autobiography will be published before the entire work. A STRANGE DREAM REALISE -On Tuesday a boy named James Martin, 13 years of age, employed as a putter at Woodfield Colliery, near Crook, met with a shocking death while following his employment. A horse, yoked to some tubs, had run away, and the tubs running at a fast rate crushed the boy against the wall.
The deceased's neck was broken, and his head smashed all to pieces. Strange to say, the little fellow did not wish to go to work that day, on account of his mother having had a dream to the effect that her son had met with some -Newcastle Chronicle. CONDITION OF PERSIAN CHRISTIANS. -The condition of the Christian population of Persia seems to be improving. They number 50,000, of whom onehalf are Armenians and the other half Nestorians.
The 6000 Armenians who reside in towns are found chiefly in Tabreez and Julfa, near Ispahan. The rest are cultivators in the Province of Ispahan, hak, and Azerbijan, who are exposed to the same illegal exactions as their Mahomedan fellow-subjects, but to no more. The Nestorians are not so well treated, being immediately exposed to the oppression of the Afshar chiefs, in the plain of Ooroomiah and the neighbourhood, but even in their case acts of violence and injustice are not so frequent as they used to be, such as the seizure of girls, and their forcible conversion to Islam. The American missionaries, who are doing so good a work in that district, have often remonstrated against the oppression. In Persia the Mahomedan who becomes a Christian, or the apostate to Islam, who afterwards renounces it, is liable to death.
The Sudr Azem is a liberal man, but neither he nor the Shah could introduce religious liberty into Persia in the face of the priesthood. Only a reorganisation of the administration will stop fiscal extortion. -Times. ADVICE TO MOTHERS WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP FOR CHILDREN always be used when children are cutting teeth; it relieves the little sufferer at once, it produces natural quiet sleep by relieving, the child from pain, and the little cherub awakes "as bright as 3 button." It is perfectly harmless, and very pleasant to taste. It soothes the child, it softens the gums, allays all pain, relieves wind, regulates the bowels, and is the best known remedy for dysentery and whether arising from teething or ether causes.
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup is sold by thousands of Medicine Dealers in all parts of the world at 1s 14d per bottle, and Millions of Mothers can testify to its virtue. -Manufactory, 493 Oxford Street, London, CRICKET. EDINBURGH ANGUS v. A match between these well ARBROATH UNITED. at the West Common clubs came off known here on Friday.
The went first to the bat, and retired with Angus a score of 74. Of this total, not less than 36 was contributed by Dr F. F. Macdonald, formerly of the United, though now residing in Edinburgh. Dr J.
Cathro, also an old United, was run out with a score of 20. We club are truly Angus men. The United next went in mention en passant 3 that several other members of the may and ran up a score of 98. Mr Gleig made 25, single, Messrs Chase, Masterton, and Huffin (profeschietly sent sional) the made ball 11 each. Mr Chase made a six, having out of the ground altogether.
Mr Huffin made a four. After luncheon, the went for a second innings, when they made Angus 40. Time being Arbroath up, the match victors was decided by the first innings, being by 24 runs. ANGUS. A.
G. Petrie, Huffin, F. F. Macdonald, not out, 36 D. Rennie.
Corsar, Gleig, J. P. Clark, Huffin, A. Speed, Huttin, J. Webster, Huttin, D.
Peters, Huffin, Masterton. A. D. Rennie, Chase, Cathro, run out, J. Simpson, Chase, W.
F. Hill, Huttin, Leg byes, wides, 1, Total, UNITED. R. Gleig, Speed, Huffin, and Petrie, J. Gordon, Petrie, M.
Chase, Webster, J. Corsar, Webster. J. Scott, Petrie, J. Findlay, Petrie, Peters, A.
Watt, Petrie, D. S. Masterton, lbw, Webster, J. Smith, Petrie, A Lyell, not out, Extras, 9S The weather being fine, there was a large number of spectators. STRATHMORE (FORFAR), v.
THISTLE (STONEHAVES). -A match between the above clubs was the Market Muir, Forfar, on Friday. Play played on commenced about half-past eleven o'clock. The Strathmore went first to the bat, against the bowling of Messre Wood and Brown, and ran up the score of 61, 16 of which were got by Dr D. M' Nicoll, and 13 by Mr J.
Ramsay. 'The Strathmore ran up a score of 66 in the second innings, 14 of which were again got by Mr D. M'Nicoll, and 13 by Mr W. Lowson. The Thistle scored 53 in the first innings and 28 in the second.
The total scores were Strathmore 127 and Thistle 81-Strathmore gaining by 46. ANGUS AND MEARNS RIFLE. ASSOCIATION. The fourteenth annual meeting of the Angus and Mearns Association commenced at Montrose on Friday, and! finished on Saturday. The weather in the fore part of the day was line.
but in the afternoon there were frequent gusty showers and squalls. The artillery competition, which is the event of the first day, was keenly contested, and a good deal of interest was displayed on the event. 'The companies that 4th competed were -1st Kincardineshire (Stonehaven), (Bervie), the City of Edinburg 1, A and 3d Forfarshire (Broughty Ferry), 3d Kincardineshire, 1st Forfar (Arbroath), 1st and 2d detachments, 3d Aberdeen, 4th detachment, 2d Kincardine (Johnshaven), 7th Aberdeen battery, 7th A detachment D. It will be seen from the result of the competition that the Broughty Ferry company came grandly to the front, distancing their opponents so completely that they were literally nowhere. The result was as follows: -1st prize, 3d F.A.V.
(Broughty Ferry), 45 points, £12; 2d prize, 3d Aberdeen, 27 points, £9 3d, City of Edinburgh, 24 points 4th, 1st K.A.V. (Stonehaven), 24 points; 5th, 2d K.A.V. (Johnshaven). The two leading shots of the day were respectively done by Sergeant Blake, of the City of Edinburgh, and J. M' Lauchlin, Broughty Ferry.
ABERDEEN FINE ART EXHIBITION. 'The opening ceremony in connection with the exhibition in the Municipal Buildings was held on Fri day afternoon. A large and influential company met to celebrate the occasion, composed chiefly of the guarantors of the fund of £2500, which it was resolved to raise previous to the formation of the exhibition, and also of those who had sent in contributions of pictures and other articles. The ceremony took place in the large hall of the building, by Col. Innes, Convener of the General Arrangements Committee, presenting the Lord Provost, as Chief Magis trate, and the Earl of Kintore, as Lord-Lieutenant of the county, an address, in which he formally handed over the exhibition in the name of the Committee, and, by the permission of the guarantors and exhibitors, thanking their Lordships for the kindness of the county and municipal authorities for their handsome suite of rooms which had been given over to the purposes of the exhibition.
Although not the first, the present was undoubtedly the best collection of fine arts which Aberdeen ever had. After the address, a catalogue of the works was given to the Provost, who made a suitable reply, expressing the obligations all were under to the Committee for the admirable way the arrangements had been carried out by them, and the amount of labour they had had before matters were se well arranged. The Earl of Kintore then made a few remarks in a similar strain, after which he declared the exhibition to be now open. At this point of the proceedings, the Choral Union, who had kindly granted their services for the occasion, and who were located in the gallery of the Hall, sung the National Anthem. Several other pieces were performed during che afternoon, and added greatly to the enjoyment of the proceedings.
CAPPING THE GRADUATES IN EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY. The ceremony of capping the graduates in medicine of the Edinburgh University took place on Friday in the Assembly Hall--the Chancellor of the University presiding. After the various degrees had been conferred, the Ettles prize was awarded to John Wilson Alston and gold medals were presented to Alexander Bennett, John Bishop, William Mache Campbell, and David Page, as prizes for the best dissertations. The closing address was delivered by Professor Turner. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF A HUSBAND AND WIFE WHEN ON THEIR HONEYMOON.
Mr and Mrs Charles Hall, who attempted to destroy themselves at Ilfracombe on Tuesday by taking laudanum, have fully recovered, and Charles Hall is in custody charged with attempting suicide and the murder of his wife. The investigation shows their residence was in Bath, they had been recently married, and were spending their honeymoon, but that the husband had lost his situation in the London Bank, and so they resolved upon suicide. When found they were nearly dead, and their determination was extraordinary. Their boxes were carefully packed, and addressed to Mr Hall's father-in-law, Bath. One letter found was from Mrs Hall to her brother, stating that her death was with her own free consent and wish, and bequeathing to him her clothes and jewellery.
Another was to the landlady, bequeathing her three pounds compensation for the trouble their deaths would cause her. A third document, written in German, Greek, and English, was to the Coroner and Jury." It contained the following diary of the proceedings of the pair on Monday and Tuesday Took laudanum at 11 p.m. 2 a.m. -No sleep yet. Heavy head, mouth parched and burning.
Bury us under the same The infatuated couple are between twenty and thirty years of age. FRIGHTFUL RAILWAY COLLISION AT SOUTH SHIELDS. A collision took place on Friday on the NorthEastern Railway, between the High Shields and the Tyne Docks Stations. A passenger train from Shields for Sunderland was leaving the single line for the double line when another passenger train from Newcastle for Shields ran into it with a tremendous crash. Four carriages were upset and smashed, and both engines were destroyed.
No serious personal injury was sustained, although several passengers have been more or less hurt. The line was blocked up for a considerable time, but it is now clear. DUNDEE TRADE REPORT. FRIDAY. The tone of the market remains unchanged, some departments being quiet and others active, and the general trade continues healthy, which the reduction in the Bank rate will tend to perpetuate.
FLAX, TOW, AND CODILLA. -Most of the leading consumers having recently got good direct supplies, now operate cautiously, and there is little selling ex warehouse. Holders are willing sellers, and would probably give way a little in prices to close a transaction, but they are not pressing their stock on the market. Within the last few days there has been several transactions entered into in Archangel goods at steady rates, but there is no disposition shown to purchase any other description, and quotations for such are now rather lower. JUTE.
-Calcutta telegrams of 30th July quote £15 10s c. and f. to London for WG in double triangle, and report freights unchanged. The improved demand in London is kept up, and a large business, amounting to about 350,000 bales, has again been done during the week at an advance upon last week's prices. There is not the same excitement here that has been experienced recently in London, but there is now an improved demand, and considerable quantities have changed hands within the last few days, at an advance of from 10s to 20s a ton upon the rates which could have been got last week.
-Flax and Tow continue quiet, and although quotations are nominally unchanged, to sell a small abatement must be made. Jute sorts continue wanted, and bring good prices. LINENS. -Orders about equal to the production still come forward, but there is no life in the trade. Sailcloth is also quieter, and prices are barely maintained.
JUTE FABRICS. -Large orders for Sackings, Baggings, have been placed recently, a and rather higher rates are now demanded. Hessians continue in good request, and prices rule steady. The importation to 31st July for this year and the two previous years is 1873. 1872.
1871. Tons. Tons. Tons Flax, 19,749 13,082 18,741 Tow and Codilla, 2839 3079 5478 Jute, 97,931 92,953 73,398 TREASURE TROVE. -A young farmer named Osborn, residing at Cold Ashton, near Bath, haa just made a curious and valuable discovery.
Whilst examining a portion of an old wall built without mortar on his father's farm, his attention was attracted by catching sight of an ancient pitcher, which on examination proved to contain several hundred old guinea pieces. FRIG MIFUL ACCIDENT TO THE TOUKI-TS' SCOTCH EXPRESS. TWELVE PERSONS KILLED: A THIRTY INJURED. terrible accident morning to the express known occurred early on Saturday as the tourists' travelling between London and Scotland. train which was more The train, ordinarily heavy, and consisted of twenty five carriages, left London a little before midnight, and about half-past one o'clock was passing through Wigan Station, on the London and North.
Western Railway, when the accident occurred. The train was travelling at the rate, some say of 35 miles an hour, and others of 40 or 50 miles an hour, when seven carriages at the end of the train were wrenched from the other portion of the express at a pair of facing points. The seven carriages rushed up 3 siding, overset a signal-box, and ran with fearful force against a wall. Four carriages were completely destroyed; one bounded on to the platform and turned bottom uppermost, two others followed and heeled over, and went crashing into each other telescope fashion, and a portion of one was thrown over a high wall into a foundry yard, female a passenger dropping with it. Ten persons were killed and thirty injured, some of whom are not expected to recover.
LIST OF THE DEAD. Sir John Anson. Miss Martha Arnott, waiting Anson's mail to Sir John daughter, accompanying her father, who escaped uninjured. Two children, Old the son and daughter of Andrew Wark, Hall, Highgate, London. Minnette, nurse to the above.
James fa*gg, man-servant of Sir John Anson. A man on whom was found an envelope addressed Mr Waddle, 3 Wellington Square, Ayr, John Phillips, Lord Murray's chamberlain, Aberdour, Scotland. Fife. Mr Roberts, Shawhill, Arman, Scotland. An aged lady named Mrs Roberts, whose son, the master of the Carlisle Industrial School, is also killed.
The daughter of Sir Joseph Anson is only shaken. The son and daughter of the S. W. Palmer had an hairbreadth escape. LIST OF THE INJURED.
Among the worst injured are Robert Goodman, commercial traveller for the firm of Messrs Walter Macfarlane Glasgow; IC. Vassilopulo, commercial agent and shipper, South Parade, Manchester F. A. Fraser, artist, 10 Roscobell Place, Alpha Road, London Mr John Foster, merchant, High Street, Oxford Mrs Foster, wife of the above Mr and Mrs Henry Shindler, Palgrave House, Lee, Kent; Drs Ward, Christ Church Street, Ringwood; Mrs Phillips, wife of John Phillips, of Aberdare Ernest M. Gawclerk, Buxton Road, London John Mackie, Kirkeudbright, chief engineman of the Royal Navy Mrs Mackie Mrs Still, wife of Mr J.
S. Still, county magistrate, Musbry, near Exminster. NARROW ESCAPE OF THE duch*eSS OF SUTHERLAND. Her Grace of Sutherland is said to have had it narrow escape. She was travelling in a saloon carriage immediately in front of those which sustained the greatest injury.
This carriage rubbed along the than wall, but not so closely as to suffer other damage a few scratches on the panels. That immediately following had its entire side torn away by the violence of its contact. ANOTHER NARROW ESCAPE. It is very singular that the passengers who had been in such peril at Wigan were on their way north, after passing Abington and before reaching Leamington, in serious danger 2 second time. Their train came to a sudden and inexplicable stand still, and it was found that the connecting rod attached to the driving wheel had got The broken piece attached to the piston fortunately took an upward direction, and stripped the wheel of its covering.
Had it gone downwards it would have thrown the engine off the rails, and led to another and probably equally serious accident to that which occurred so shortly before. Sir John W. Anson and his family had been staying at Kingeetsorp Hall, Northampton, since Wednesday on a visit 1-, his sister, Mrs Thornton, and they left on Friday night to catch the Scotch express at Rugby. The lamentable accident has thrown a gloom over the residents of the Hall. The deceased baronet (Sir John William Hamilton Anson) of Bird Hall, Lancashire, was born in the year 1815.
He was educated at Eton and Trinity Colleges, Cambridge, held a commission in the Royal Horse Guards (Blue) from 1836 to 1842, and succeeded his father, General Sir William Anson, G.C.B., and first baronet, in 1847. The late baronet was deputy-lieutenant of Lancashire, and was also a magistrate for that county and for Sussex. He married a daughter of Major-General Sir Denis Palk, K.C.B., and leaves ten children. The eldest of these, William Reynall, who succeeds to the baronetcy, was born 1843, educated at Eton and at Oxford, is a fellow of All Souls', and was called to the bar 1869. ACCOUNT BY A GLASGOW JIAN.
Mr Thomson, watchmaker and jeweller, 3 New City Road, Glasgow, who was in the train at the time the accident occurred, says left Liverpool at a quarter-past eleven o'clock on Friday night, and the train in which I travelled joined the unfortunate express at Warrington, about an hour afterwards. I was not long in the express train before it began to go at a tremendous speed, which did not seem to me to be in the least checked previous to the accident taking place. There were other seven passengers in the same compartment with me, most of them travelling to Scotland, and we had not the slightest apprehension of anything taking place, although the train seemed to me to be going much more rapidly than what I have been accustomed to in railway travelling. When we came to Wigan Station, we were still running at a great rate, and it appeared to me that the part of the train in which I was seated suddenly lurched to one side, and instead of taking the direct line of rails, ran round on a circular lye of metals leading to another part of the station. The carriages in front of the one in which I was were for the most part first-class, and when the shock occurred they were thrown back upon ours, and some of them smashed to pieces, and the broken parts thrown on the platform.
Our carriage was suddenly thrown on one side, but the majority of the occupants were not seriously hurt. One of the company, however, a gentleman, had one of his arms broken right across, and was suffering extreme pain; supporting the broken limb with his other hand, I heard him call out, "Give me a napkin to bind up my arm." We were all in a state of confusion, and it was so dark that for some time it was impossible to make out the real nature of what had occurred. At length one of my fellowpassengers, who was dressed in a naval uniform, managed to creep out through the window of the carriage that was uppermost, and pulled a lady who was along with him, and was apparently his wife, out also. Another man then got out in the same way and saws and hammers were procured to make a larger opening, SO that the man with the broken arm and the rest of us might be released. In this way we all soon got out, and the scenes that I saw then were of a very heartrending description.
The first one I saw was an old gentle.nen, grey haired, and perhaps between 50 and 60 years of age, lying quite dead on the platform, with his head frightfully bruised and bleeding. I then went into a waiting room, and saw another old gentleman about sixty in the agonies of death, and his injuries had apparently been very severe. Next a policeman called me into another room, where there was a little girl, about 9 years, lying dead. The father of this girl immediately came to the door, bringing a boy in his arms, who wasalso dead the poor man, who was suffering great anguish of mind, said, there's another -that's two of them goue Another girl, I should say, 16 years old, and to all appearance a member of the sane family, was carried away on a stretcher, in a dying state, to the hospital, whereupon the father was again heard calling out, in a half frantic manner That's three of them gone." Just at that time a lady of middle age, evidently his wife, was also carried away swooning, and great fears were expressed as to her condition. Then, on looking around me on the platform, I saw from ten to twelve passengers moving about with their heads wrapped up in bandages, and I was told that many more had been injured.
A number of medical men were present, and did all they could to alleviate the sufferings of the injured. My own wounds were not severe, being confined to a cut on one of my hands, which I got by the broken glass of the carriage window, and a bruise on my right leg just above the ankle. I came on by the mail train, which is due at Glasgow at seven o'clock, but it was detained so long that it was some time after nine before we arrived. Some of the injured who caine on with the same train left us at Carlisle, but those more seriously hurt remained at Wigan. WIGAN, Sunday Night.
Another victim of the railway accident, the son of Mr Ward, died this evening. Mr Goodman of Glasgow is in a hopeless condition. THE INQUEST. The inquest on the bodies of the persons killed by the accident was opened at Wigan on Saturday night, and adjourned till Thursday. The Board of Trade will send down an inspector to inquire into the causes of the accident.
INSUFFICIENT FOOD FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. The Lyons Medical of the 16th of March last contains an article from the pen of M. Diday, on a subject of great importance in all countries. The author, well known as an eminent syphilographer, soars, in this article, above his speciality and proves himself an able and eloquent medical philanthropist. His aim is to show that, in schools and workshops, the system of half-feeding youths and young girls who are rapidly developing, and who, above all things, require wholesome and sufficient food, occasional rest, and pure air, lies at the root of numerous ailments, the cause of which is simply insufficiency, and often bad quality, of food.
M. Diday enters into a series of interesting details as regards schools, and shows that, at Lyons at least, there are public schools where boys are actually starved, the effect on their frames being most disastrous. He relates the case of a boy who had obtained flattering distinctions and prizes, whose parents asked him how they could reward him. His answer was, 66 Buy me a cloak, and give me plenty to eat." Matters are as bad in factories and workshops, where nigg*rdliness keeps rations so low that, especially with girls, the most lamentable state of health is the consequence. The author attributes much of the inefficiency of many French youths to this cause, and eloquently calls the attention of parents and the authorities to the shocking famishing system prevailing at Lyons.
The hint should be taken in this country, and medical men will do well to inquire into the matter when investigating the cases of young patients who present symptoms the diagnosis of which offers some difficulty. M. Diday deserves considerable credit for his courage, as he is writing in a comparatively small locality, where the ire of the accused parties may easily reach Lancet. A.
