The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-06-02 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITLSH AND FOREIGN.

The American iron trade is very depressed, and at
many furnaces the fires have been put out.

An International Dog Show has just been opened at
Berlin with more than 1,000 entries, including several
from England and two greyhounds of the Crown
Prince's own breeding.
An accident has occurred on board the steamer
Strasburg, from Bremen, at Baltimore, by the breaking
of. a shacklebolt, whereby two men were killed and
one was knocked overboard and drowned.

A Geneva telegram says that the people of Zurich
have voted the repeal of the compulsory vaccination
law, and sanctioned the reintroduction of the penalty
of death.

Most monarchs have only one nation of their own
bat the Czar Is enjoying two: Russia is one, and his
coro-nation is the other.—Fun.

The Paris Aeronautical Exhibition will be opened
at the Trocadero on June 5 and close on the 18th. The
festival will take place at Annonay on July 29, and
statues of the two brothers Montgolfier will be erected
on the public place of the city.
Last week's receipts of cotton A all United States
were 38,000 bales ; since let Sq3tember, 5,776,000
bales. Week's exports to Great Britain, 32,000 bales ;
to the Continent, 10,000 bales ; total since Ist Sep-
tember, 4,305,000 bales. Stocks at all ports, 537,000
bales.

On Monday evening as Mr. James Jackson, brick.
maker, of Thorpe, near Orby, Lincolnshire, was re-
•turning from Wainfieet, his horse ran away and
pitched him out of the cart, killing him on the spot.
The deceased leaves a widow and large family.
A lady residing in the neighbourhood of Stratford-
on-Avan has given £6,000 for the purpose of erecting
a new infirmary in the town. The donor of this large
sum has contributed £IO,OOO to charitable objects in
Stratford within the last four years.
A despatch from Belleville, Illinois, announces that
disturbances have occurred in the mines at that place,
culminating in a conflict between the miners and the
militia, which had been sent to restore order. One of
the miners was killed and several seriously injured.

A Parliamentary return of the number of agrarian
outrages in Ireland during the month of April places
the total at 73. Of these 32 were threatening letters
and 6 intimidation by other means; 14 were incendiary
fires; 3 maiming cattle; 10 injuring property; 3 firing
into dwellings; 1 "demanding arms; 1 robbery; 1
taking forcible possession; and 1 riot. Of offences
against the person there was only one, and that an
aggravated assault.

On Saturday, for the first time, the whole of the
Judges of the Supreme Court resolved to observe her
Majesty's birthday by closing their respective courts.
In past years the observance has only been partial in
the law courts, several of the judges having sat as
usual on that day. .

Williams College, in Massachusetts, which is con-
nected with the Congregationalist body, has distin-
guished itself by becoming the first American college
to subscribe for a table at Dr. Dohrn's zoological
station at Naples. Any American student is eligible
to make use of the table, subject to the condition of
delivering a course of lectures at Williams College
on his return.

Recent returns show that, while the output of pig
iron and steel in the United States last year was
greater than in 1881, the manufacture of steel rails
has slightly decreased. The returns for the present
year prove that this decrease continues on account of
the large falling•off in railroad construction.

On Sunday night in Vienna a serious affray between
civilians and soldiers occurred at a tavern in the
Waehring suburb. Many persons were wounded,
about forty receiving serious injuries.

It is proposed to hold a national exhibition in Paris
in 1885, prinoipally for the smaller industries. This
will be preparatory to the Grand International Exhibi-
tion to take place in 1889.

Mr. Chamberlain has agreed to advise the Crown to
issue a Commission to inquire into the subject of
trawling. The Commihsion will be constituted as
soon as possible, and will pursue its inquiries during
the autumn.

The Government have promised facilities for the
Poor Removal Bill, and its promoters have some hope
of passing it in its amended form in the course of the
present Session. The second reading will, however,
meet with strong opposition.

Mr. Alexander Withenalt, of Canterbury, has
offered to the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral his
collection of historical, geologi2al, scientific, and
artistic curiosities and antiquities, which ft)r the major
part are the result of sixty years' research in all parts
of the world.

The premises of Messrs. Dobbin, Ogilvie, and Co.,
general warehousemen and tobacco manufacturers
Cork, were destroyed by fire on Monday morning.
The tobacco-factory was partially saved. The loss is
estimated at more than £25,000. •

An Order in Council appeared in the London Gazette
nf 'May 25, directing that no animal shall be moved by
land or by water from any place or port in England
or Wales to any place or port in Scotland, except with
the permission of the local authority of the place of
destination to remove thereto by land, and only then
after such authority has been satisfied that the district
of departure is free from foot-and-mouth disease.

On Tuesday at the Liverpool Chamber of pommerce
a letter was read from the Postmaster• General, stating
that the question of extending underground wires,
which had already been considerably developed, had
been the subject of serious consideration ; and the De.
partment was using its beet endeavours to gradually
increase the number. At the same time underground
wires were as liable to disturbance from electrical
causes as overground wires.
A tornado which struck Clay City, Indiana, on
Monday afternoon, demolished a number of houses,
killing eleven persons and injuring twelve others. A
tornado passing over Edinburgh, Indiana, nearly at
the same time, killed one man and fatally injured
another.

Professor Ruskin lectured on Saturday afternoon,
in the University Museum, Oxford, to a large and dis-
tinguished company. He urged the necessity for pure
and simple depiction of natural things in the natural
world as stories for children, and begged the students,
whether in their pleasure gardens, in the street, in the
field, or in the playground, always to endeavour to
draw Nature in its truthful aspect. At the close of
his address he was most enthusiastically applauded.

The additions to the Zoological Society's Gardens,
Regent's Park, London, during last week included
two Green Monkeys from West Africa, presented to
Mr. Th0..3. 11. Dixon ; a Long-eared Owl, British,
presented by the Rev. H. D. Grantham; a Smooth
Snake, European, presented by Mr. NV. H. B. Pain ;
seven Black and Yellow Cyclodus, from Tasmania,
presented by Baron Ferdinand von Mueller,
; a Proteus, European, presented by Miss
Maud Howard; a Sea Crayfish, British Seas, pre-
sented by Messrs. Milestone and Staniforth ; three
Green-winged Doves, from India, a Herring Gull,
British, deposited ; a King Vulture, from Tropical
America, purchased; a Cabot's Tragopan from North-'
West China, received on approval.

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Thf2 value of the United States' exports of rnerchtl'
dur_in
..../193!.il exceeded that of the imports u/

3,830,000 dollars.
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The meetings of the Salvation Army in , $,,
Neuchiltel (Switzerland) have been prohibiteof 'l4
order of the Council of State. e of
The Salvation Army has completed the pnrchion,
the Theatre Royal, Wednesbury, for £l,OOO.
building accommodates nearly 2,000 persons.
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Mr. Gladstone has been elected an honorary me°
of the American Yeace Society.
The honour of knighthood has been conferred b!
her Majesty upon Mr. John Gillespie, of Edinburg',
secretary to the Royal Company of Archers.
The Leeds Liberal Association have decided to Pre;
sent an address to Mr. Bright at the reception
ranged to be held in his honour on the 13th June' I
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In the neighbourhood of Puerto Principe (in 0 I
a layer of atone suitable for lithographic PrPs-efil
has been discovered. It is claimed that it le e4o.
in quality to that found in Germany and Frari,,,se
which is said to be the finest in use for the Parr I
named.
A New York newspaper of Monday in last ive_e-Aig
published in extenso Mr. Spurgeon's sermon delice'
in London the previous morning. The sermon
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reported as it fell from Mr. Spurgeon's lips, and
to America the same day.
There has been during the past year a net increlol
of 13,314 members in the Wesleyan Methodist,L,
nexion. The aggregate membership is now 4010,q0
with 32,800 on trial. The increase in Yorkshire
been considerable, especially in the Halifax and 13fht
ford district. Norwich and Lynn reports a 114
decrease.
The "Pennsylvania State Senate has passed a
prohibiting any attempt to personate or represent al,
Being recognised as a Divinity in the Old or
Testament in any public performance.
A Norwegian Exhibition of Art and Industry,lere
be opened in Christiania, on the 16th June nerli,b;
his Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who ie
honorary president. An elegant edifice has been buoi
for the purpose near the University, facing the Rio
Palace, and it is expected that the Exhibition Will
on a very extensive scale.
In a cricket match on Tuesday at Lord's Ground;
London, between Middlesex and Gloucestershglll
,
which the former won by eighty.five rune, one °f
players for the home county made one hundred 'ln
twenty-six runs in the two innings • and another '-
addition to scoring sixty runs, took ten wickets.
The Daily News understands that an addresert
about to be forwarded to Queen Ranavalo-Manjekil's;
from English subjects who have visited Madegaactej
or who have resided there, and from others interee.
in the country. This address takes the form (life
richly illuminated album, illustrative of Malagael
and scenery.
The International Agricultural Exhibition conneet,ea,
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place in Hamburg at the beginning of July prornith the Horse and Cattle Show which is to. 113;„
to be a success. About £35,000 will be spent in Prl 0
k h
and for the buildings. The King of Dennear, the
announced that he will visit the Exhibition, and
Prince and Princess of Wales have been invited.
On Sunday a monument, erected to the menoorl ,
the brothers Cairoli, who in the year 1867 attemPte„f
at the head of 68 volunteers, to take possessioc:„
R ime, was unveiled at Monte Pincio. Deputatil;
representing the army and the various towns of Pm'
were present.
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In Paris, on Sunday, a demonstration took P"'•-,
Pere Lachaise in memory of the Communists sh01•mo
1871. About 1,500 persons, together with about 10'14
sightseers, assembled at the cemetery at two o'elr4To
and, headed by a red banner, proceeded to the gr,,,,$
of the victims, and placed wreaths and bouquets nr
The Consular report from the AmericanGovernralr
received in Sheffield on Monday, states that the 9'24
has been a prosperous one in the Sheffield trades, 'cig
total value of exports to the United States beioje
greater than that of any year since 1874. The
done with the United States in Begsemer rail's, 01'
and cutlery, amounted to 526,859,458 dole.
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The Canadian and Iroquois Indian Lacrosse P•11,..„0
made their first appearance in London at Hurline"•:„
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on Saturday. In spite of the downpour 01, tee
several hundred spectators assembled to wat00„,,,,
two matches between the Canadians and the Inc"--e,
the first of which was won by the Canadians bl" "”
goals to none, and the second by the Indians 11 tif°
goals to one.
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On Monday a fishing yawl was returning to DOl3 re
when it was capsized, and the four occupants we a
drowned. The accident took place about a mile 1113,
a half from Dunbar Harbour, and was caused br
sudden squall. Assistance was immediately sent lily,
but was too late. The accident happened earlY,Al
the day, when the wind was very gusty, and eel"
boats had a narrow escape. •
It is stated that an electric railway is being CO'
structed between Frankfort.on-the-Main andOffenoP"..;
a neighbouring town, distance about five kilonieti;
(about eight miles). The steam-engines and dyn91330,
are to be located at a village named Oberrod, half if
between the two towns.
The Dublin Gazette of May 25 announces that the°
Lord-Lieutenant hai awarded the sum of £3,000 to .
paid to Mr. Field under the Crime Act as cornPenl,t
tion for the injuries which he received in the atter°
upon his life in November last.
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Two fatal duels have been fought in Germany. t
one of them a law student was shot, and died alsori„
instantaneously. In the other, fought betweerl„4
captain and lieutenant from Saarlouie, the latter, la"
exchanging eleven shots, was mortally wounded.
The Common Council of New York has given Pett;
mission to the Western Union Telegraph ComParlY r
lay its wires under the streets of the city on tbe
pS
ment of one cent per lineal foot of each street oPel3e
and the giving of two wires for the city's use.
Thirty British and foreign actual shipwrecks igehr:
reported during last week, making the total for t-a.
present year 894, the increase against the correscala
ing period of last year being 224; and the increase 1,5
the week 12. British-owned vessels numbered 'I,
against nine last year. Eight were steamers
aggregate tonnage of 3,710 tons, six being 131 Se
owned with a tonnage of 2,610 tons. Total OOP%
lost for the week, 10,226 tons, Thirty lives were 1°
It is reported from the Upper Alps that there hefc
been a terrible fire at the village of Vane half 014
having been destroyed. Fifty houses have be':
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entirely burned down, and several persons perished
the flames.
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The traffic receipts of the railways in the
Kingdom for the week ending May 25, upon am
of 16,627 i, amount to £1,396,403, being equal to
the
per mile. For the corresponding week of last year.,,,n
receipts were £1,224,389, the number of miles or'
16,424, or £74 Us, per mile.
The capital of the German Empire still continnelllZ
increase rapidly. On the Ist of May the poprls',4l
passed the figure 1,200,000. As the last census It
December 1, 1880, gave the total of inhabitantsZo
1,120,000, it appears that within two years and IP
months the increase has been 80,000 persons.
In the course of certain excavations near Girvari,,, 0
Ayrshire, the workmen recently discovered five br°lo
axes, in good preservation. They are graduated gs
size, and were found with their fiat sides agar!).
each other beneath the gravel, next the surface of th
rock.
The fat etcck supply of beasts as entered for ofil;
gumption at the Metropolitan Cattle Market for
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week ending Saturday last was 2.820 'head ; care
sounding week of 1882, 3,530; 1881. 2,960 ;
3,790;1880
1879, 3,780; 1878, 3,960 ; 1877, 1,520;
4,630; 1875, 4,220; and 1874, 4,700.
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On Saturday morning, two labourers named sParo.
and Griffiths were engaged with others in the dan
l: a
tion of an old mansion at Hampton-wiok,
wall fell upon them, burying them under the
ments. They were promptly got out, but life wee
both cases extinct.
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A Philadelphia telegram says that General Croo
reported to have had a battle with the Apachierece
Guayanapo in Sierra Madras, Mexico, His
amounted to 500 men, and the Indians numbered led
It is stated that 50 of the Indians were kill
General Crook's loss is not mentioned,
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In London, on Tuesday, Sir John Lubbock; 'the
presided over the second annual meeting 0',4,-01,
London and Counties Liberal Union. Resol°""et
were passed tendering to Mr. Gladstone and the led
of her Majesty's Ministers the assurance of
confidence and hearty support, in favour of the exteo4
sion of the county franchise and the readjustinenre;
our representative system, and requesting the eox„ch,
tive committee to prepare a suitable address t rr":6
Bright on the approaching political celebration
Birmingham.