The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-11-25 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

RUITISH AND FOREIGN.

By the substitution of coal for coke on the South-
Western Railway a saving oi not less than £30,000 wr
annum has been elketed.

Cumming di said to be engaged in all elaborate
attempt V. show that the end of the world will evrtalnly
come in 1575.

A magnificent statue a,f the Virgin, in massive silver,
valued at au,uud., has just been sent to the Pope by the
Spanish Catholics.

Sir JOSIIIIR Wahl.ley, who formerly reprelente.
Bolton aml Leiter ill the Liberal interest, has just died at
Torquay, at the age of 77.

"The I:mirror's household at Chirdehurst are eon-
viseed that their days id exile are at an end, and that the
Emperor himself shares the belief."—Court Journal.

The Jobto 801 l hears on good authority that an ad-
iliti,m is expected to the family of Argyll, and that her
Majesty will probably be 'domed with another grandchild.

One workshop in the Royal Laboratory at Woolwich
Arsenal is IIOW devoted almost exclusively to the manufac-
tory of marine torpedoes.

Orange County papers have reporters whose bushings
is at stated intervals to find 'dote of silver coin and other
met attic treasures in that county. One of them has just
turned up a mass of nickel weighing thirty pounds.
The agitation for a reauetion in the hours of labour
appears to bermaking progress in Liverpool, where conies-
stunts in this direction have been mane to the goods traffic
servants of the various railo ay and cattail vamp:ides.

A large nmeting of the supporters of the Permissive
Mil was held on Saturday osmotic at Plymouth, in support of
the candidature of Mr. Rooker. 3lr. Dates, the Conservative
candidate, Is opposed to the measure.
On Saturday Admiral Erskine. M.P. for Stirling-
shire, addressed his constituents at Denny. Ile objected to
the Permissive DM because it would be one law for the rich
and another for the poor

The Director of the London and Brighton Railway
Compahy, have of their own free will and motion, granted
the nine hours' movement to the nwn in their employ, to
commence on the lot of January next.
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Of the fair sex, says the New York anthority on
fashion, tortoiseshell jewrilery is very fashionable, and
ladies now wear pads in their boolikins in order to give their
Wahl) the proper aristocratic curve.

A cariensly iudoiel letter WaS received at the
Chelmsford Postodliee the other day. It is addressed .• To
the handsomest Imm:llried blotele lady, not over tuenty.-Ilve
years of a:, in (11.•11..5f0r.1. Post-master to in unijite..
bears th. Boston

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Light of the Comniunist prisoners sew-Nell of the
murder of Generals (Unica- I lionias and Lecointe have been
sentenced to death by the Versailles court-fuartial. Others
received various sentences, ant seine have been acquitted.

A Leavenworth paper, in urging enlistnients in a
Kansas regiment about to he raised to light the Indians. says
The servico will last for three or four months only, and
will he a source of health, pleasure, and prollt to all who en-
list." .

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A Parliamentary return, just lamed, statea that the
number of I:ritish seamen empl led in British shills registered
in the United Kingdom was in is 177,9al ; VIE number of
foreign seamen so employed was la 011 ; and the number
of apprentices 4,241.

The Gauh,is aware of the national ignorance of geo-
graphy, alluding to the catastrophe in America, informs the
rathians that the artificial pieces of water in the Bois de
Boulogne can only give them a faint Idea of the lakes Huron
and superior!

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A merchant at Frankton], who owed property n
Chi,ago, has received a characteristic telegram from hi.
American agent there. It is couched in the following laconic
(ring All your houses are burned to the grunt. Reply
by telegram if 1 um to commence rebuilding at once. '

The retirement f the Speaker of the Ifouse of
emuluons is fully expected, though he will meet the House
at the opening of the sowsion, ana will signify his desire of
vacating his office just before the Easter vacation, whleh
will be very early next year.

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At the annual meeting of the Labour Representa-
tion League, lichl in London on Saturday evening, it was
announced that a Winter series of public meetings, for the
discussion of iniportant social and political lineations, would
shortly be commenced.

lie; Majesty and the Prince of Wales will be arm ingst
the exhibitors at the Smithfield Club Cattle Show, London,
which opens early hi December. Special care will be taken in
the examination 14 all stock, and, in accordance with the direc-
tions of the Privy Connell, a stall of veterinary surgeons will
Is, in attendance.

Two Bonapartist papers, the A rot ir Likra? and the
Pay,,, have been sespended by M. Titters for publishing false
Recounts of disturbances between several French soldiers
and some of the inhabitants of Ajaccio, in Corsica. In these
accounts it was stated that the soldiers were the aggressors,
and that the Government had purposely prepared a snare for
the people. The decree of suspension declares that such
insults attack the hoimur of the Govemment as well as that
of the army, and can no longer be permitted.
A gentleman who witnessed the horrors of the con,
flagration at Chicago during the whole night I d the oth tilt
barely escaping with his life, and revisited the city eight
days afterwards, writes that the "limestone of which the
houses were built literally burned away, "cdeining and
blowiest away entirely iuto air, without leaving a trace
behind." This would have been impossible with brick or
freestone. .

A sipplar objection to Work, on the part of a
casual pauper, was made on Nlonday, at the Greenwich
Police-court. A man who had been admitted into the
Lew isham Workhouse TI SANTA:Ty night, and was provided
with supper, hed, and hreakfitat, refused to asst N cleaning
the ward on the following 111,11iTly, on the ground tied It
was illegal to esact work from him on Sunday. The magi,
trate sent him to prison for 21 days, with hard labour.
The Rev. T. \V. Perry km pointe,l out a strange
mistake in the title-page of the new Prayer-books and
Church Services printed at London, Oxford, and Cambridge.
They all retain the words "according to the nse of the.
United Church of England and Ireland," whereas no such'
Church now minds. The same error occurs in the heading of

the preface to the Ordination Services.
The court-martial on the officers of If. M. ship
Megfrra has terminated hi a complete esonorAtion or
ten Thrupp and his officers and crew, who were acquitted
lif all blame for beaching the ship, the court holding that,
after the di,covery of the nature if the leak, they wool
not have been juatified In attempting to pursue the comae
to Australia.

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At the Uxbridge petty 'minions, a boy named
Edwards, aged 13. Wail charged with altering signals on the
(treat Western Railway line. He had changed the Mgnal at
the Uxbridge Station from "Ail right" to "Danger." The
clerk to the magistrates told thew they had no power to
adjudicate on so serious a charge, and the prisoner was re
manded for a week.
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Fox-hunting wag never on much in vogue within
these islands as It now is. there are 13.3 packs of English
fox-hounds, and a pack which bunts four days • work Can-
not be kept for less th. £3,000 a year. It is also computed
that an average of 80 horsemen follow each park upon every
day when it takes the field. By far the lamest portion of
these horsemen hunt at a cost of 1:5 per day if they haVe but
one horse.

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The pmprictore of The Times contemplate rebuilding
their establishment in Frintim,•-house-square. For ninny
years the whole of the square, except one public-house, has
been in their possession. The owner of this house refused
to sell it until recently. But it has now pass,l into the
hands of Mr. Walter and his eolleagnes, and they talk of
erecting a building worthy of their position.

Mr. John rlibborn, manager of a branch of the
Royal Bank, Dublin, committed suicide on Monday lamming,
by blowing out his brains with a pistol, while standing he
tween the graves fft his mother and daughter, in Mount
Jerome Cemetery. The unfortunate man left a written state-
ment to the effect that the deed was the result of heavy
• losses through speculation in mining shares. Hie accounts
with the bank were con cot.

Pr femor Duncan delivered the first of n series of
lectures on the " Elements of Physical Science," at the
South Kensington Museum, London, on Saturday afternoon.
The audience consisted mainly of ladies, for whom these
addresses are especially intes.dcd. Lectures by Professor
Guthrie and Professor Huxley are included in the curse of
Instruction, and will be continued until the middle of May
next.

Notes for RUMS a/4 low as five francs, '3 francs, two
francs, and one franc have now been issued by the C.rrnlr-
toir and the Socifto Gfnarale in Paris. At first
they were purchased at a premium, but generally they find
no favour. Small tradesmen object to them. Mid tile unii-
arms word " assignat " in in many months. The votes are
really as rood as those of the Bank of France, but it will
be long before they are considered so by little shopkeepers
and country people.
The rates of mortality laat week in the Conniving
places per 1,000 of the population were :—Leieester and ?lull,
22 ; Portsmouth, 23 ; Leeds, Birmingham, Salford, and YAM-
burgh, 25 London, Bristol, Nottingham, and Bradford,
Dublin and Liverpool, SS Sheffield, Zi Glasgow, 30 : Man-
chester, 31; Newcastieupon-Tyne, 32; Norwich, ; Son-
&Amid, 42 ; sod Wolverhampton, 43. Deaths from small-
pox have again increased, 70 being the number, against 21 in
the week previously. The greatest advance in mortality has
been merle by bronchitis, the deaths from which were 2,7,
and only 100 in the last return.
A oumber of gentlemen interested in the. licensing
question met together in London, MI Tuesday, Sir It Ans.
truthtr, M.P., in the chair. Allow scheme for the regulation
if publie-houses wan discussed, the main point of which is,
t.n.r the joule and regulation of licenses shall be vested in
the ratepayers of each locality, this control to be exertiiied
try means r.f " licensing 1101. rd, to 1,2 elected by the rate-
payers. They also adopt Mr. Erucea proposal that irrsh
'licensee are to be tendered for by public competition, trot
leave elisting hlterelds untouched. The hours of Opening
are proposed to he from 7 avu. to 11 p.m. ill London, and
from: am. to 10 p.m. in the country; and on Sundays to be
closed altogether, except for two hours in the middle of the
day and two bars in toe evening for sale only, lirp.r not to
bit drank on the premises, The conference was adjourned.

It is stated that L-2,000 haa been collected in Dublin
for the defence of Kelly.

Typhus fever among cattle continues in the North
of ',ranee. The loss is estimated at sit million francs, of
which the (kiwi:num:lst pays three-fourths.

Anti-tobaconista will be pleased to learn that the
municipal authorities of Chicago have prohibited smoking in
the streets !

A eat and dog show is to be held in Path next week.
A rat-pit is to be erected, and the capabilitiesot the dogs will
be put to the test therein.

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Dr. Shortt, the Superintendent of Vaccination in
Madras, has trained a number of women as vasetuators to
attend on native ladies.

Tuesday night's L.netoo Gevrat, contains the otlicial
notification of the fact that liaronetcles have been conferred
upon Mr. Thomas Graham Briggs, of Barbadoes, and fir.
lobert (trials., of Edinburgh.
It is stated that in the list f toasts which were
arranged to lie proposed at the Nationalist hvinonet to Mr.
Butt, in limerick, that of the Qaceu was omitted. When
Mr. Butt discovered that omission, he at once declined to
attend : and the banquet has, it is understood been post.

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The Athentrum save that the memoirs of Talleyrami
are at lait to be give,,. to the world. They were long with-
held, from fear lest the revelations they contain, 4smaging
to the First Empire, might lead to their seizure by th*
Second.

The Brom' A rrow says :—Orders have been given by
the aurveyordieneral of the Ordnance for the Controllers at
Woolwich and Aldershot to provide in their estimates for
the COUling year for a ,rios d urine of 35,000 men, to take
part in the 1113.11tellVeet of next autumn.

A good instance of sharp practice is that of a matt
ins hi,,, who was acquitted of murder on • plea of inimnity.
lie had secured his I.a..-3,,a by giving them a mortgage on his
farm, hut now repudiates the mortgage on the ground that
he was iIISMIC when be made it, according to the showing of
these same lawyers.
Mr. Ruskin has proposed to give to the l'olvetaity
of Oxford the sum of x 5.000 sterling for the endowment of gi
Master of Drawing, who shall teach In a place assigned hint
in the University galleries, not it will be proprosed to Coq.
vocation, that the munificent offer be accepted subject
certain conditions already approved by Mr. Ruskin.
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A football mutat between the representatives of
England and Scotland took place at Kennington Oval,
London, on saturday, and resulted in favour ot the English
team by tam goals to one.

An irb,h Home Rule Asgoriation•haa been formed in
London. Its members will endeavour to obtain for Ireland
a Parliament for the management of her internal affairs, and
the control over her oivii resources and revenues. The power
of dealing with all questiomi affecting the government of the
empire is to be left to the Imperial Parliament.

The ancient city of York in to have the proud dis-
tinction of possessing the hugest railway station hi England.
It is to be built by the North-Eastern IMilw ny company. at
an estimated cost of 5.200,000. It is sail that twice three
years have been spent in perfecting the plans, which have
now been sanctioned by the directors.
A committee has been fie-meal in Paris for providing
succour for the families of the IS,OOO communist prisoners
on board the hulks, who. uow that the winter is approaching
and the absence of the male members of the fussily seems
likely to loot indefinite dui ation, have before thorns periosa
of great suffering and privation.

The Liverpool School Board has lidded, by a con-
siderable majority. to continue for one year the grants of
ls per head per week, originally made by the corporation
to various industrial schools in the borough, on the cot-
ditto that the managers of such schools should enter into
an agreement to be proposed by the Board in reference to
inspection. -

The papers are requested to state that, owing chiefly
to the active patronage id Miss Matins, • Freneh lady re-
siding in Cape Tt.WII, and that of Mr. RAW lie, a member of
the Illebrcw congregation, a new subscription, amounting to
, has been placed at the disposal of the Orphan
and Widow French nelief Fund Committee, in addition to
similar subscriptions previously collected.
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At Rochester, a man sutierinn from paralysis, has
heen charged with personating a voter at the late municipal
devil.. Defendant, who was unable to read, was reouested
to take the voting paper to the poll by another person, and •
he slid so without, as lie sail, knowing he was doing wrong.
On being asked hit name by the returning officer be at mum
gave it, Wet the paper was impoundml. The magistrates
stmtensed

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On Sunday morning, alma five o'clock, a sail case
of suicide occurred In nt. Afire square, Manchester, at the
establishment of Mr. Familia, Jeweller and toy maker, who
Is one of the city magistrates. A young lady, a neice of Mr.
Furnisen, threw herself from an upper window upon the
Hags below, opposite St. Ann's Church, and was killed. Iler
body was removed to the lutlrmary. she had hem, hi a .le-
sponding way for some time, and had been an inmate of a
lunatic asylum.

In the Foreat of Dean, three montlaii ago, a collier,
niaacit Maddoeks. fell lown a di.used pit and was The
other evening, .lohn Tinker, of Tainton, a navvy, returning
from his work in the eomtruction of the Severn an 1 Wye Hall-
way, to hls homiest M 4 pseley-green, went 1911 t, to seek for wood to
replenish his fire,and did not return and then II ootmarks won"
traced telling almost ton certainty that he had fallen through
the mouth of an old pit belonging to the Monmouthshire

'hulking Company.
" We are glad to be able to announce the approach
log return of Mr. Childers to England, after an absence of
several months spent on the Continent his timely release
from the duties of °thee and the complete mental repose
enjoined upon him have produeed th - best results, alit have
fulfilled the pnrmosis .niginally given In the Lancet by Mr.
hobert Ellis, and subsequently confirmed in our own columns
by Dr. Gull and other physicians. His health has now been
completely re-established, and all the statements which
have been cirenlated front time to time as to the hopeless
elt.neter of his illness and the irrecoverable damage done
by toVer-allNicty and ..ver-work have thus happily n.ceivedi
tht ir final coutratti,tion." • The Ti:nec

S,ann ,of the is men laer.dres.,ern in Nottinginun
have struck for MI hiltatire in their vs ages di I.!f. per cent., Iltni
It lessening of the hoursof labour to M per si eek. The master
dressers, at a meeting on Friday night, agreed to otter their
workpeople an advance of abut 12! per cent, on their wages,
and make the working Mous 5-1 per week. mu Monday
morning the hands of MOM 44 the firms accepted the otter.
In two large concerns, however, the women refuseg to re-
ignic work unless their own terms were agreed to, /Ind
during the day proceeded to sonic of the other houses in the
trade, in order too attempt to induce the hands to leave
work. In two large silk and cotton doubling mills in the
town the hands have struck for the nine burs' system.

(in Tnemlay, the :Hat anniversary of the birth of her
imperial Highness Princess Frederic Wilhelm of ProsaUs
,Princess Royal of Great Britain and Ireland) was celebrated
with the customary rejoicings at Windsor. In the morning
and at intervals during the day the bells of the Chapel
Royal of st. George and Of. John's parish church, New Wind-
sor, pealed merrily, while at one o clock Royal salutes were
fired from the corporation artillery. and the Royal Adelaide
frigate and Fort Belvedere at Virginia Water. Princess
Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa was born on the 21st
November, 1840, and .Married on the 251 h of January 185/4, Inn
Ftmlerie Wiihninn, imperial Prince of Prussia, by whom she
has several children.
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Laet week the aggregate mortality in London and
19 other large totem of the United K ingdom was at the rate
of 27 deaths aslllssally to every 1,000 persons estimated to be
lii the metropolis. 2,076 births and 1,020; deaths were
registered, the former having been 176, awl the latter 1,9,
below the average in the corresponding week in the past ten
years. Seventy-sin pemons died from small-pos, 49 from
measles, 40 from scarlet fever, 6 from diplithera, 36 from
hooping-cough, 39 from different forms of fever, 81111 17
testis, diarrhea. The increase of the deaths registered In
London was most conepienons in the fatal cases of bron-
chitis, the natural result of the unseasonably odd neither
which has recently prevailed : the deaths referred to this
disease. which Is the Mee previous weeks had been 179,
190. am! 180, rose last week to 207, exceeding by SI the cor-
rected average weekly number. At the Royal Observatory,
Ureenwieh, the mean temperature during the seven days
was 35.3, or 7.0 below the average.