The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-05-17 00:00:00

-EPITOME OF .STEIV;

13RITI8H AND FOREIGN.

A I,ublic dinner was given at the Singapore Club to
Ali Frederick Weld, the Governor of the Straits Settle-
moil* previous to his departure home on leave. Over
a hir.x.,4red person' -Vete present, Lady Weld decorated
two Sikh policeme:V at Singapore with medals for good
service, A..-ed others pere rewarded with service and
good-congtct badges.
The Indiaqs in Alaska are'sitid to have used, in mak-
ing salmon Aets the bui:l,4 Of 900 utiles of telegraph
wire, which raid by the (:)ierlaini Telegraph Com-
pany many years- ago, at a cost 00,000900 dols.
A communicagon has bee* received at Newcastle
from the Home-ogee stating thglheir Majesty had been
pleased to direct that the sentence of death passed at
the recent assizes ort Sarah Jaie' Holmes for child
murder at North Shiei34 should be eom)Uitited to penal
servitude for life.
' The revised version of the Old TeStarnentovhich is
g printed at the Oxf`crd and Caftbriclge Presses,
: will, it is expected, be publdied in the autumn..
The Queen, accompanied' by Princess Beatrice, left
Windsor Castle on Saturday:Aorning, and drovelhrough
the. Slopes via Old Windsor, c.nd Staines all Chertsey,
to Ether, for the purpose cf paying a visit to the
Duthess of Albany. The Qucen stayed to lunCheon
with, 'he duchess, and then returned to Windsor
Castle:.
The Lords of the Committee of ttotincil on Education
have r :ceived a communication fro tti the United States
Minister anueuneing Internatiotal'EleetricarExhi-
bition, vc:liieh is to be °pealed at Philierlislphia fram'gefitr.:-
2.-to Oct. 11, 1(514.
Oi the- apigikration of Bishop HOrdeii, a grant has
been madety the Religious Tract Society in aid,Of the.
transiatiort of the " Peep of Day " inte.the.Ojibbeway
language, entt of- the" Pilgrim's Progress,"- Cree, for
the-use of ,the Indians in this remote reg. This will•
make. the seventy - seventh language into which
Bnityan's work hits- been translated.
Intelligence received from St. Petersbur-if states 'that
Herr•Brensedt,..a., Damish correspondent, after having
been. kept in • elbse imprisonment for se-.-eral weeks
withonv trial; .was-on the 7th inst. conveyed across the
Russian frontier by gendarmes. The caus-_., tif these
severe measures is, not explained. Herr PrenStedt's
family remain ,St.. Petersburg without means.' -
According to a.Paris journal, an amusing detisSioii. "
lately.tcok"place et the Academy of Science 3 Ori the
questioh of 'human longevity, which a member declared
had been-greatly curtailed since the Revolution. In
support of this proposition he defied any memberto ' •
mention a eingle centenarian who had been born since

_
It ,s Stated that the Russian War DepartmentAhas-
suecessfully completed an experiment with telephones -
at the Sweaborg Forts, and proposes the adoption of
this means of communication in fortresses generally.
A terrible thunderstorm has caused serious mischief
to'the eethedral at Seville and its famous campanile; -
known as" the.Gitalda." Great injury hes been done
to the picture; of considerable artistic value, over the-
southern entrance of, the cathedral, representing St --
Sebastian before the Emperor Diocletian.
Lord Carringtan .has made a permanent reduction
of -fifteen per cent: in the rents of his Lincolnshire
tepantry.
Tlit French fishingschoeuer Paquebot was run down
on the morning of the 28th-of April, forty miles south-
east of St. Pierre, by the-Norwegian barque Venus, from
Liverpool 'for Quebec: Twelve men were killed or
drowned; the captain •and!six of the crew were saved
and landed by the Venus at St.-Pierre.
A conference of peers and members of Parliament of
both parties, and of representatives from the Marriage
Law Reform •Association, was held in a committee
room of the louse-of Lords, when it was unanimously
decided that a bill for legalising marriage with a de-
ceased wife's sister should be introduced to the Lords
this session. The Masquis of Waterford will probably
take charge of the -measure: •
The traffic receipts of the • sin great French railways
from the 15th 'to, the 21st ult. show an increase of
585,361 francs, as vompared with the corresponding
period of last year.
The strike in the •Manchester, Halifax, Warrington
and district-wire trade,-which hale lasted ten weeks, has
been settled, the men having-agreed to return to work
at the reduced rate.
A ilemorial of the ill-fated -Paris Tuileries is to be
erectee: in the gardens of the old Palace. Two arcades
which foimed part of the Pavilion' de l'Horloge, and
were designed by Philibert Delorme and Jean Bulland,
will be reconstructed close to the Oraagery.
The Engineering Department of. the Yorkshire Col-
lege at Leeds is about to be considerably enlarged, to
admit of more students at the classea7 and towards this
object Sir Andrew Fairbairn, M.P. and Sir Jqhn Hawk-
shaw have each contributed £lOOO.
The United States House of Representatives has
appropriated 1000,000 dollars - to, the New Orleans
Cotton Exposition.
A Parliamentary paper relating to Military Savings
Banks was issued on Saturday. The number of accents
open to March 31, 1883, was •14,7.52; and the total
amount of the fund- for Military Savings Banks
£289,030-.
The French Anti-Tobacco Society offers for competi-
tion this year a series of premiums varying from 100 fr.
to 300fre for the best essays on papers in an anti-
tobacco sense. There are further prizes in the shape of
medals and diplomas. The essays, which are to be sent
in to the President, may be written in English, French,
or German.,
At the annual meeting of the Religious Tract Society,
it was stated that the issues of works from the depot
for the year had been 76.721,360, including thirty
millions of tracts; 707 new works had been among the
publications.- The year's trade receipts were £189,631,
an increase over 1882 of £9971.
An official telegram received. in. Madrid from the
Captain-General of Cuba states-that General Aguero's
second in command, a man named Barona, with four
others of his-followers, has been captured. One of the
filibustering. party was killed and another wounded.
General Aguero himself still manages to evade his pur-
suers, who, however, are close upon-his heels.
The committee of the Marine Biological Association
of the United Kingdom has decided, that a capital sum
of £lO,OOO is desirable for building., and equipping the
laboratory, and an income of £1.050a year for keeping
it at work.
The alarming consumption of .alcohel in Switzerland
has induced the Government to propose fresh legislation
on the subject. A prohibitive tax will probably be put
on distillation. Special sittings-have been held to deal
with the matter.
A despatch from Laredo, Texasestates that a number
of Mexican Federal partisans had. assembled before a
private bank in New Laredo, anddenaanded payment of
a sum of 4000 dols., which they claimed as due to the
Government. On being met with a refusal from the
officials, the Mexicans entered, the bank and seized a
BUM of 10,000 dols. Great excitement prevailed.
A girl nine years of age, ths• daughter of a peasant,
has been found mnrdered under circumstances of great
atrocity in the village-of Gfoehl., in Lower Austria.
The crime has caused great excitement in the district.
A bronze statue of Chief Justice John Marshall was
uncovered in the Capitol grounds at Washington on
Saturday by Chief Justice Waite, a large number of
persons attending the-ceremony..
During a game at baseball, ia Chillicothe Ohio, in
Friday in last week, a grand stand fell, on which were
300 persons, of whom .50 were wounded, 10 of them
seriously.
The number of visitors -to, the International Health
Exhibition for Thursdaea Friday, and Saturday last, was
29,0.32.
1 American telegrams -state-that another heavy freshet
ie going ,down the Lower Mississippi, coming mainly
from the Red River. A. despatch from Shreveport,
Louisiana, alleges that; the overflow is general.
The Secretary for, War has asked the House for an.
additional um of- 100,000, dela for the relief of suf-
ferers by the flood.
A. fire, resulting ,in the complete destruction of a ,
large, block of warehouses, stored with grain, cotton,
arid produce, broke out late en Saturdaynight at Kirk- _
dale, Liverppol. The loss-will be little less than £40,000.
A., collision„attended with loss of life, occurred off
the.Tuscar on Saturday, between the steamer Cormorant,
from Cork to Liverpool:with cattle and a general cargo,
and the barque George Bewley, of Liverpool, bountlfor
Chester with coals. The barque sank in a few minutes.
The mete- and, two , others of, the erew were drowned,
while Captain Hammond wan seriously injured, The
Cormorant-was-greatly injured, and had a large h* lii
the pert bow.
A, telegram from. grabra states that the brigand
-cc 9140. =44.1.
intended for the troops in the Mongol country.
The Sub-Dean of the Chapels Royal, the Rev,Francis
Garden, M.A.,,.died, an :Sunday at his resider ein Vic-
toria-street,. London. The rev, gentleman, who had.
held the Court appoint -ment since 1859, hed• been in
declining health.for s one months. He W.`.',o educated
at Trinity. Collegeeeas abridge, where he took the Hal-
scan prize-in 18324,ew d his degree of M.A. in 1836. He "
was author Of, alb Ga line of logic, a dictionary of English
philosophical: te1:431, , and contributed, besides, various
articles- to thiemair
,azines.
The additions to the Zoological Society's Gardens,
Regentes Pack, ,ondon during last week included a
Rhesus-monkey/ .rom India, presented by Miss Hubbard;
Pig-tailed ON Alkey, from Java, presented by Miss
Ethel: Feu:mink ' • a Macaque monkey, from India, pin-
muted bs- Wr. F. Harrison; a Garnett's galago, from
Eastern Ai rica, presented by Lieutenant James.
Knowles, .N. •, a Dow's tapir, from Venezuela, pre- _
seated 7 Ir. Reginald Pringle; a spotted ichneumon,
frOltetto, Nesfi fprarnesceonlitneg fromd byMw.r.
eJstohjun
risca,Valkperersented; two,
3.1.11107 H. Wade Dalton ; two Chukar partridges,
ftrons orth-West India presented by Lieu.-Colonel
Sw") nhoe ; a herring 'gull,
European, presented by.
Di,tea Laura
itDu.nonhagureh two barn oswnakls,esß,rfirtoimsh,Bopurteh-
ses :
Afurif ;a, presented by Ur. E. Watson; two wattled
es, from .
erur geese, four
ou
harlequin quails, from
W est Africa, deposited; a grey-checked mangabey;
a.csturStoleuthdo Afveris, ca
threei tw o s pur-winged
rrom West Africa, two white cranes, from Inclie, a,
Cabot's horned tragopan, from China, a banded.
gymnogene, from Africa, two Yucatan blue jays froM
Yucatan, two axolotis, from Mexico, purchased; 4.
moustache monkey, from West Africa, received in
exchange; a Maholi galago, seven coypus, learn in the.
gardens.
On Saturday night as the mail train, was. proceeding,
from Bochnia to Slotwina, on the Cracow-Lemberg.
Railway, the mull van caught fire through the expßis!cf,
of a package The van was detached, arid tM.
extinguishedehut none of the contents werecsev uu
The French Academy of moral, and po
has eleeted Mr. Fawcett a correspo
ever n
politipal economy section. attempted in
ectienat sciences,
first exhibition of picture
n the Corn Exchange,
Scotland on a Sunday was"ad° e, The collection,
Galashiels, last Sunday al._
exhibition was open it was
During the four hears the3ooo persons. The opening of
aft:r7and is worth Z 22,000.
belongs to a London artle
visited by upwards of
al the previous
-
day. the local newspaper e pre
letter published
attendance excited much surprise.
day. The large.atte arrived at
Lo of B ttenberg
the exhibition bad been announced and advocated m• a
Prince and Princess Louis a
a visit to tbe gupfl
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