The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-03-04 00:00:00

EPITOMtI .OF NEWS.

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On Sunday evening at about a quarter past eight
o'clock, the screw steamer Helinger of and from London for
Rouen, with a general cargo, struck on the masts of the
Strathclyde, and sank in 15 fathoms, after steaming one mile
towards Dover. The crew were saved in the shlp's boats and
landed at Dover.

General Pel, commander of the Dutch forces in
Acheen, has died of cholera.
Her Majesty the Queen will, according to present
V arrangements, leave Englan or the Continent on the 25th
of next month. The Quee will proceed direct to Baden-
Baden, and after her tie to Germany will return to
Windsor to meet the Prince of Wales. -
The death . is announced from Ainsterdara of Dr.- -,
Iteye, the most popular poet of Holland.
Sad accounts continue to arrive of the devastation
caused by the inundations in Hungary. It is stated that in
New Pesth no fewer than a hundred manufactories and
fifty other buildings are in ruins, and numbers of other
buildings are expected to fall when the waters have sub-
sided.

In the case of " Keet v. Smith and others," Dr.
Stephens, Q.O , Applied for a faculty authorising the use of
the word " Reverend " on the tombstone which Mr. Keet
wishes to put up in Owston Ferry churchyard. Lord
IPenzance at once acceded to the application. •
! A Salt Lake Mormon has proposed to the committee
of the:Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition to show his nine
WivET;'! to illustrate one of the social phases of American
414fe.'. He adds that the women are anxious to go.
; •en-nous lawsuit.has been going on at Albany for
,feur years. It is between parties residing at Canajoharle, ,
'and thepoint at issue is the olvnrapp of a,s'eastkin, said.
to be worth' fifty cents. ,
A Dutch diplomatist asked jocularly by Prince is-,
mare fr Why Hollasid hbowed Used so- strongly anti-Gerniin
when it was, after all, but a corner of Germany, is said to
have reminded him in reply that "Holland had a literature
before Germany had a grammar."
In consequence of several deaths from hydrophobia
having recently occurred In Leeds, the Mayor has issued an
order that alludags found straying, and whose owners are not
known, are to be taken possession of by the police, and to be
detained in a abed which has been erected near the Fire
Brigade Station, Town Hall, until claimed. It not claimed
within a reasonable time the dogs will be destroyed.
The New York Times states that the ecclesiastical
apioperty in the -United States, valued at 83,000,000 dols. n
1850, was estimated as double that awount inlB6o.
On Monday seven quarrymen were buried under a
mass of rock weighipg several tous,which,. fell at the Fes-
tudog slate quarries; near Bangor. .. f,n
One of the strangest institutions in London is the
, ,"Anglo-Isra-31 Association." Its object is stated to be "tq
itiote fully deVelop and disseminate the truth of the proposi-
tion that the Anglo-Saxon race is descended from the lost
tribes of Israel, and to promote research into the general
history of Israel and Judah "—Court Journal.
The Emperor and Empress of Germany gave an
:audience on Tuesday to the Rev. James Davis, secretary of
the Evangelical Alliance. Their Majesties
,expressed to him
the great interest-they felt .f: that society. •
A telegram published •by The Times reports that a
tornado raged at St -Charles, Missouri, on Sunday night, and
destroyed the principal buildings, killing three persons and
injuring 20. Another tornado at Princeton, Indiana,
demolished 50 houses, injured: 40 hiore, and wounded eight
persons, of whom four are expected to die. Oue woman was
deprived of sight, and a child was carried 500 iards through
the air. A house was turned upside down, but the occupants
:escaped unhurt.
The Registrar-General reports that the mortality last
liveok was at.the rate of 27 per thousand annually, In Lou.
Where the numbers of both births and deaths were
below the average, the deaths referred to the seven principal
diseases of the eyinotic class were fewer than in any week
during the last nine months.

The examination o( the pupils attending the Hurl.
ford cookery school—the fir,t established in Ayrshire—has,
.(says the Glasgow Mail), just been made, with the most
gratifying iuuications ot the success of the venture. The
institution is ettablished on a thoroughly practical and
common sense basis. The charge to the girls is id. per
lesson, and their instruction embraces purchasing provisions,
cookery. and setting table, with the inculcation of neatness
in person and celerity in serving.

Lord Derby is clover at entting down. During his
father's lifetime he acted as woodman at Knowsley at his
own special request. This was not generally kuown, and
none lAt few favoured friends were permitted to see his
'collection of axes, upon which he plumed himself. Ha also
earnedlot 'himself a good reputation as one of the most ex-
pert jumpers who ever tried to leap over a pole, some of his
feats, when he used to frequent a well-known gymnasium in
.the Haymarket, being almost unprecedented. Indeed, our
leading statesmen could challenge the statesmen of any other
country to contest in games of skill and manly sports with
the certainty of success—court Journal.

A prize of £2O has been offered by the committee of
the Cobden Club, for the acceptance of Cambridge University
to be awarded from year to year, for an essay on some sub-
ject connected with political economy. The club propose
that the examiners shall be the professor of political economy,
one person to be appointed annually by the Vice• Chancellor,
and one by the donors, who reserve the right to determine
tttep,td prize pit givintone yeao notice to theiV,lee•Chan-
comm... i 4g 'll
On Monday evenink, the Duke of Abercern dis-
tributed the prizes to the successful students in the Royal
•Dublin Society School of Art. His grace, in the course of an
address, congratulated the society on the great progress it
•had made in all the branches of art, and also upon the fact
of such a number of international prizes being carried off,
and believed that great advantages would be derived from
the proposed amalgamation of the science and art institu- .
Lions of Dublin.

In London last week 2,445 births and 1,691 deaths
were registered. The births were 57, and the deaths 18 below
the average numbers, while the latter were 314 ices than those
returned in the previous week. The annual death-rate from
all causes declined to 251 per 1,000, ----- -
The second annual meeting of the Religious Educa-
tion Society, for giving religious education to the children
attending Board schools, was held on Tuesday night at Bir-
mingham. The report stated that the present number of
teachers was 104 female and 50 male. The average attend-
ance of scholars for religious teaching at the six schools for
the past year had been 1,119 boys, 1,116 girls, and 1,017
Infants; total, 3,252. Four schools and part of a fifth were
prosecuting
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eat( are
nuag about
department,
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without religious teaching. The report was adopted.
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question
namot f
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public
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bGel
faocnvpeerdronsame
buth.Wyiwith
fh°artt the same time leaving it optional to private indi-
viduals to prosecute personally if they please. Once, how-
ever, individuals have committed themselves to a prose-
cution, they will require, under the Government scheme, to
show rood reason for withdrawing, or render themselves
liable to be proceeded against for felony.

The Frankfurter Zeitunq stated recently that there
were 2,000 Frenchmen in employment at Berlin, but it is
asserted by the Berlin correspondent of the Journal des
Debate that there are only 212, of whom 70 are cooks, 30
stews utters and masons, 16 hatters, 15 teachers of French,
15 gliders and painters, 12 whitesmiths and working jewel-
lers, 12 hairdressers, 10 plumassiers, 10 dealers in articles de
Paris, 8 sculptors and decorators, 6 dyers and cleaners,
5 architects, and S correspondents of French newspapers.

The investigation into the cause of the explosion at
the Jabin pit, near Lewis, in France, seems to show that the
workmen were not tdlelame for any imprudence in the use
of their lamps, but theiffthe catastrophe was probably pro-
duced by the inflammable air escaping from the coal beds by
a great diminution of barometric pressure, which reached
ten millimetres In a few hours. This connection of explosions
in mines with a diminution of barometric pressure has been
frequently referred to recently in connection with explosions
in England. The question has been asked whether it was
not desirable to extend the system of storm warnings to coal-
miehig districts ,• if the miners could only be indeced to
attend to them there seems no doubt that a great saving of
ifs would be thus effected.—Naturc.
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With a view to increase the supply of orterk from
the fisheries, which have of hate years been
greatly, injured,
a bill now before Parliament proposes to make the months
of May, June, July, and August a close time for the sale of "
oysters, attaching a penalty of £lO for each offence of selling
or exposing for sale during the close period_ justices of the 4
Peace in England and Wales, and sheriffs in Scotland are
to be empowered to try offences against this Act, which, if it
becomes law, is to date from the let of August net.
The great brewers of America are going to turn the
Centenehal to account for the honour and glory of the trade.
They hare agreed to erect buildings to show the rite and
In one section will be
the brewery
progress of the business in Amerneleus.
beer-meking was dune
by hand. AneoftilhierYtyeecartesinagwoi vllehow the improved brewery
e
iaccessoelesfof the business will
, growing o
of the present day. All the
hop-vines,
be represented, from barley n the sheaf,
on builder, to beer in
harvest-maker, and wagg
the keg.
There will also be statistics of the number of persons em-
ployed by the trade, the capital Invested, and other interest-
, ,
tug particulars.
At a meeting of the Portsmouth Town council,
held
on Monday lifterllooll, a resolution was passed to the effect
that the Council, desiring to 'offer to the 'Prince of Wales a
respectful and cordial greeting On his landing at Portsmouth,
end so to commemorate his arrival at the first twee in the
veiled Kingdom after his incdessful.tour through India,
present a loyal address to the Prince on. behalf of the inhabi-
tants, and to take such further steps to welcome hießoyal
'mimeos as may be deemed desirable. In moving a resolu-
tion Mr. Alderman Emanuel stated that the Prince was ex-
pected to reach England on the 11th of ApriL Mr. Alder-
man Davies hoped the address would only be presented
should a euiteb:e opportunity offer, as the Council were.
always sensitive on the point of intruding themselves upon
e
distinguished persons. •
In London, lait Saturday, . Mr. Bedford held an
tegneet at the Board room, York-street. Westminster, on the
body of Mr. 'William" Hudson, 42,"0f Wilton-terraCe, Keesing.
ten, a ,on of the htte Mr. George Hudson. of railway celebrity.
The evidence of several witnesses showed that the deceased
had latterly been studying and -reading mute than usual,
whlth inducefll a constant sleeplessness and nervous
"(With the view of procuring more rest he took a -
large quantity of chloraL The next morning he was found
apparently dying, but, thanks to the immediate attendance
of doctor's, his life was saved. The overdose of the narcotic
brought about a state of mental depression, and while in this
state, on Tuesday in lest week, the deceased sprang from the
plit".form of the Victoria Station on the District Railway in
front of an advancing train, and placing his neck upon the
outer rail was decapitated. Dr. Bond proved that an over-
dose of chloral had frequently made persons insane. The
jury returned a verdict of " Suicide while of unsound mind."

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Uichigan University has 117 female students.
whom 4 have'chosen law, 47 medicine, and be literature and
science.

A levee was held at St. James's Palace on Tuesday
by his Royal Highness the Duke of Illinburgb, on behalf of
her Majesty. The presentations, which were held as equiva-
lent to presentations to the Queen, were numerous.
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An Imperial decree has been issued prohibiting the
Importation into Germany of horned cattle from Holland:-
Belgium, and Luxemburg, on account of the prevalence of
pleuro-pneumonka.in these countries

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The value a. jute manufactures of all kinds ex-
ported last month amounted to only 4.97.566. In the same
month oi 1875 it was £126,761, and in the like period of 1874,
£145,27e. •

•
A Hong Kong telegram reports that the Japanese
mtssiou to Corea has been successtul, the Ling of that
country having acceded to the demenids of the .4panese
Government for the better protection of its subjects.

The following vessels which carried emigrants for
the Government of New Zealand have arrived in that colony :
—The Hudson, Otaki, Corona, itangitiki, Qsho
HUrtaltd."

The success of roller-skating in Paris bids fair to
equal that obtained in England. The Skating Rink in the
Ohamps-Elyiess is daily crowded, and as a commercial speen-
Wien has already prove:el highly xemeffietagife.
• The cremationists of Germany have resolved to hold
annual meeting, in the month of April, at Gotha, where
a Government has officially sanctioned their mode of de-
,g of the dead and permttpliWpnblic use.-- -
The Liverpool D 1414 PoW4Atit Asjated that 2,5,000
s been offere owarde.the erection of a'inew.lntirmary at
lion by a lemma .whose name 11-kepteitheret. The
ily stipulated -condition is that provision shalltionade for
lk
se accomniedation of children. a7,›
It is represented that a strong feeling exietiellt the
present time among the principal inhabitants of the Aus-
tralian pxqvinces that it would, be highly advantagedua to
them ant'to England if an act of federation could bepassed
forthwith, and'the whole 'of the colonies consolidated joke
an Australian dominien,..Ausiter.ttle control of a G&Vernor-
General. --................- .._.-------
Clenrmans and Son. at Paipton, contains oste lat describ
• The cat Alogie, or it Yeette!f* atiatioily Messrs.
as IF! artraonail relics donneeted With the ' &le
Joanna fleatilootte. coffiprising a patahwork coverlet ed
and marked by her, together with pieoes of lathy-linen made
and presented to her for the expected Shiloh, in 1814.."
City Press. . 'I J.* -
As an illustration of how biisy every one is now in
Washington the following is -told :—" A lady recentlytwent 7.,-
into one of ant.' largest dry goods emporiums and asked for,:
gloVes." ',I want,' she said, 'a pair of white kids and a pair
of black. kids. and I want them quick. I am going to Et
wedding at,twelve, a funeral at three, and a reception to- :
night' ,
Some worlembla engaged in digging a gravel pit at
IGnaFra,nwceh,odhaisc
dovbereeedn'tihnetebrrurjdalthPeißrece.foFielenoefelLTeardaneelg
ancient nia
to-
gether with his war chariot. The chief part of the car anti
the wheels had resisted the inroads of time. Several
eartheru vases, with various arms and ornaments, which .
had doubtless belonged to the warrior, were also found,
together with a sword and the iron head of a spear. •• . . . .
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The Jersey, States have passed a Bill for withdraw-.
ing the present copper coinage of thirteen pence to the :
shilling, and making a fresh 1116118 based on the English
system. It is intended to retain the existing style of coin,
bearing the Jersey arms on one side, and the image of her
Majesty on the other.
About a day's journeisiTiom Madras, in the neigh-
bourhood of Mysore, a gold field extending over between..--
twenty and thirty square miles has been discovered. .Itig
reported to be very rich in gold, and active preparations for
working it are iwprogresa. .:.
Majolica ware is increasing in popularity; and there
is scarcely a week that some novelty is not introduced made
in this ware. The vases that are made this season are more
graceful than ever and mere varied in shape. For table use
they are very varied. There is literally no end of dishes in
this ware, such as dessert sets, fruit dishes, and jugs of all
the variety does not lessen but rather grows with
suoceeding season.— Court Journal.

...

A deputation, numbering between Baty. and seventy
iblemen- and gentlemen, waited upon Mr. Disraeli' 13.
londay for the purpose of requesting the Government t 3 -
)pose the resolution upon the Burials Question, to bs
.noved in the House of Commons by Mr. Osborne Morgan.
Mr. Disraeli replied that it is the intention of her Majesty's
Go vernmenS So give a gadded' opposition to the resoimion
question. •jig. 1. MI
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, The Correspondent of the Daily lidegraph, writing
from Cairo, says :—" Talking of sport, three linglisb.men
made a rather good bag the other day near Gsg,azig-139
head of wild duck and over 100 snipe. Quail are just coming
ia • a fortnight henee they will be a drug In the market.
ellipe may be shot any afternoon within half-an hour's dis- '
nee of Cairo Itself. This is, as a matter of fact, one of the Illi
est enjoyable places in the world at this time of year.
a -- us
hive no words to describe the exquisite beauty and trestuness de
of the nights, when the huge city is hushed, and the only -7-
Ound that from time to time breaks the dead, cool silence
the long challenge-cry of the Arab watchmen." II • 4itie
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