General News.

Bush Advocate, Issue 352, 12 August 1890, Page 3

General News.

ritixci. GKoV-aa akd 'j:he salvation '._""_'_. .ARMY. , „-. ,! '.>..' A correspondent writes :—" With reference tp Prince Gooi-ge of Wale. decision to "do his own ,chalpaincy oii the Thrush, itonay' be interesting tp note thac during his last' nigKt— a Sunday, by the way^-iri'Londbh^ he was a- devout- listener •to a cb-i- ; ' tingent , oi. the. salvation Army 1 : '■ _it : Islington,.. G;i , ,eeu.^.iHe ,M "bOught „ia "War .Cfc-y,, aud s contributed' liberally' tp the culleoti'oni:.' /While* the Weet-" ifrg \y as. iu^ progress rd, rude. followBitting', ori, ; the, , adj acent.• fountain ' ajaiuseOimself by .spitting, on ■ -the > Ivies' dresses. ,The" Prince .went: up'tb;j_im^ took himlirmly by; the? arm, an(l : pulled,|ijm fro.ul.hi9 perch. l_ie fellow-' sliink , ,. shamaf.aeedly away, and , , |he ha jleliy ah „ lass,ea .: smiled' sweetly up.on;_the]i-, ,iP3'.al;deliverer.' ' .-. ( „.,,., ■-, v.-,-V.i ;'-IN ; SUIUXC , I': j Ol.:,aiUW-/JU_N: .-*.' .; ' VA.'Bijll.iwhich, has, just ,bocn, in-:. troduced in tho liouse of Lords by tho'ißishbp of Peterborough contains some startling 'proposals. It is called "An Act to Amend, the Law l.elnting to Insurance on tho Lives of "Children," and provides that whenever a working-man is entitled tda sum of £8 from his club or society upon the death of a boy under 'fourteen or a girl under sixte-m, tliis money „hnll not be paid to him, but to some undertaker who by tho J_> i l i is bound to spend tho whole sum upon tho funeral., aijd wiil be guilty of a criminal off once if he hands over any balance .thq.t ; ; may remain to the father. What • can this blundering bishop !be thinking of- to make it criminal in pay a doctor or a nurse out" of the in&urance money ? . ■ A XOTOJIIOUS scouxmu.L. ■ : ■'*

.Stepan Tsehurkin, the robber chief, who recently escaped' from Siberia for tho third time, has boon re-captured under peculiar circum.stances. The police had received information that Stepan had resumed to his homo in tho JSogorosk district, where ha ; fouud. shcitor with his relatives, and where his father before him had held p>vay as a sort of a robber-king. A few days ago a detective observed Stepan emerging from the forest near the village Kostino. Ho wftfl he-vyily armed, and the detective awaited a more favourable opportunity to apprehend him. A few <i«'iys after J^tepan paid a visit to tho "Tsc_XorT.fts_ow baths, left his arms -.with iin attendant, disrobed, and .outea".ek,^ho.. water. .When iv this .helpless sonditibn the deerecthv* •and bath attendants overpowered and handcuffed him and carried

-hiiu-le-a -waggon,- in winch he was covered with a blanket and oscorted : in triumph' to prison. ' / '■ R ' A. MAN KILLED 11Y BEES. The Taunton coroner a few days j ago investigated a remarkable case, ! a laboui** .*tia_.e# i J_iil_y being* killed by boes at Hatch, Beauchamp. '■ It appears he was handling his ; b^oes*, ijiso.facojjqcijig; qqvorpd i muslin, wiien one of tho bees Sjgfethjrl > on the cloth. Endeavouring to knock it away ,he /dislodged the • wrapper, whereupon!' three bees , entered his mouth, stinging him iv the throat. Ho exclaimed to a compaion, " Jim, X think I'm going ' to dio," nnd expired almo3t im- ; mediately from suffocation. Afterwards th^q'beoft jyei'o ,t-jtjcen from: his mouth, which was much swollen, j Ono of the bees was still alive. A ; verdict, of ■',' Accident*] v deftth" : was : returned. '