The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-03-01 00:00:00

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Prompt measures have been taken to prevent the,
spread of cattle disease in Maine. The authorities
think there is no reason to fear that it will extend.
Mr. Irving is having an extraordinary success in
Canada. He has visited the Falls of Niagara during
last week. His health has been excellent, with the
exception of a cold, caught while out sleighing. Mr.
Irving and the Lyceum company are due in
Washington on Monday, March 3.

Two colliers on strike some time since, who went
with others, through the streets of Burslem asking.
for contributions, and had been convicted under the
Vagrancy Act of George IV. for begging, appealed.
from the conviction. On Saturday Mr. Justice Cave
and Mr. Justice A. L. Smith held that under the cir-
cumstances the conviction was wrong, and quashed.
it.

Advices state that wheat experienced little change
upen the French departmental markets during last
week. At Paris transactions were proceeded upon a
restricted scale. At Marseilles business showed
scarcely any activity, but previous prices were main-
tained.

The Secretary of State for War has approved of
four field days being held by the volunteers on Easter
Monday--a large one at Portsmouth, and three
smaller ones to be held at Dover, Aldershot, and
Chatham. The local military authorities have been
directed to call for returns of the volunteer corps
wishing to take part. _ _

A large consignment of United States Cattle and
sheep, on arrival in the Mersey on board the steamer
Ontario, were found affected with foot-and-mouth
disease, which is stated to have manifested itself
during the voyage. Strict precautions have been
taken to guard against the spread of the malady.

According to intelligence from St. Petersburg, the
Grand Duke Constantine recently received an anony-
mous threatening letter sent with the object of extort-
ing money. The secret police have arrested the
author of the letter. whn ;CI riastoant rtancloa orinoff.
Sir Abraham Woodiwiss died at Menton() on Sun-
day morning, where he had only arrived on the pre-
vious night. He began life as a working mason, and
amassed a large fortune by railway and other contracts.
He was Mayor of Derby in 1881 and 1882. His
great munificence and public spirit induced her
Majesty to confer the honour of knighthood upon him
last year.
Among the shipwrecks reported last week with "all
hands" was a small vessel of 130 tons which had been
built in the year 1765, being therefore 119 years old.
The number of wrecks for the week was 31, making a
total of 371 for the year, and comparing with 436 for
corresponding period of last year; 18 were British.
owned, including three steamers of 1044 tons; lives
lost numbered 60.
A shocking tragedy occurred on Sunday morning
in the Mill-road Hospital, Liverpool, where sick
paupers belonging to the West Derby Union are
accommodated. It appears that Thomas Rutherford,
about 40 years of age, and formerly an inmate of the
workhouse, by some means obtained access to the
establishment between two and three o'clock in the
morning, found his way to the room in which Anna
Graves, a nurse, slept, and with a razor cut her
throat. She died soon afterwards. He then
attempted to destroy himself by cutting his own
throat.

In the Carnavelet Museum, Paris, may now be seen
a statuette which formerly belonged to the Chapter
of Metz, and which represents Charlemagne. Accord-
ing to qualified judgment, the figure was made during
the lifetime of this monarch, or immediately after his
death. Until the year 1682, special personages only
had their figures cast in bronze, and the statuette in
question was shown on the 28th 3anua/7, the anni-
versary of Charlemagne, every year, in the Cathedral
of Metz, for 36 hours, surrounded by lighted tapers.
The German Government possesses several duplicates
of this statue, the original typo now belonging to
Paris.

The Publisher's Weekly for January 26 gives the
statistics of Amf.Nrican publishing for the past year.
The tatal number of books (including new editions)
was 3481, which compares with 6145 in England. In
America fiction comes first with 670, as compared
with 578 in England; then law with 397 as compared
with 223; theology 375, as compared with 912;
juveniles 331, as compared with 939; medicine 211,
as compared with 253; poetry 184, as compared with
159.

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