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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 27, 1875
Page
7
Text urges frugal use of public funds for irrigation and notes irrigation as famine insurance in drought-prone India. It cites Lord Salisbury on railways, arguing public borrowing could have avoided deficits and urged awakening Indian national consciousness to engage with modernization and internal improvements.
The late Ashworth Briggs, prominent Daventry figure, dies from heart disease after a life of public service. Mayor, magistrate, councillor, deacon, and Sunday school superintendent, he shaped Nonconformist causes, rooted local reform, and supported wider church activity across Northamptonshire and London conferences.
The text reports on a clergyman who discharged school duties and preached, lectured on a Monday, and faced a busy public schedule before death. It highlights his support for ending sectarian university tests and his son Frank Ashworth Briggs’s Cambridge studies and London matriculation. It ends with a prayer that the son honor the father’s legacy.
The second reading ends as the Reichstag rejects clerical amendments to defer drafting details to the Länder. The bill harmonizes marriage law across the empire, ending clerical vetoes and allowing civil registrations and even religious personnel to marry, signaling a break with papal celibacy. The debate covers age limits, parental consent, and prohibition of certain marriages while clarifying state authority over dispensations. The final vote runs 207 to 72 with Centre and Polish factions opposed, varying start dates left to governments.
The article notes Frederic Harrison denying editorship rumors and mentions Rev. Holland preparing a work on Thieves and Thieving. It announces Thomas Cook and Son launching All the World Over edited by Hodder, Jones, Hume, and Spokes with legal education scholarships awarded to the two Middle Temple scholars. It adds Miss Harrison’s name linked to Turkish evangelisation and a Christian College in Aintab with a £1000 gift and a plan to raise £5000 for endowing a medical professorship.
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