The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-11-06 00:00:00

A new daneing•place, with garden. has been opened
at Paris, bearing the amusing name of "
Among the manufactories of chloroform in Great
Britain e'en.. one of these, located iu Edinburgh, makes an
many its s.wi doses a day, or betweeu 2,000,000 and
3,000,000 of doges every year.
A well-known artist offers, in an American paper's
advertleiug e,olumna, his gratuitous services as a pianist,
violinist, and guitarist, and • Finger. Ills object is a few
months' " recreatiou."—[l.le Must hold peculiar notions of
recreation.]
At a ball in Cincinnati. given by the Italians in that:
city, in commemoration of the discovery et America by
Columbus, Mis. Angeline Masts, 101 years old, led off iv,
the festivities, and danced In ten sets.
By a communication dated Constantinople the 22nd
ult., ye have been informed that Hobart Pasha had been
presented by the Emperor of the French with the decora-
tion of a Commander of the Legion of Honour in reccgnitlon
of the services to the cause of European peace rendered by
him oil Syra.
The Dublin Daily Express states that some Irish-
members mean next session to bring under consideration the
suubject of a Royal residence in Ireland, and have pledged
themselves to support a measure to carry out the objects
The copyright of a novel by Pradher. entitled
nollton de Rose (a story devoured with avidity a generation
back, and which made the fortune of its author , waa sold
last week for thirty eo.
Any person wishing to be is count may, acoordin,.:
to an advertisement, obtain that Ailetinetian by applying to
certain gentlemen at Frankfort who have such an article at
their disposal. The candidate must, bow ever, consent to
become the adopted son of the present holder of the title.
"We have great pleasure in recu-ding is raw.
instance of affectionate tribute mentioned to us by a I orehen
correspondent. Previous to the nuarrisge of eldlle. Artot.
the amialule bride presented to her peramts and an unmarried
sister, no less a sum than 100,1.1e01. (13,ete.."—Colot
Journal.
It is proposed to establish bowling•greena for the.
working classes in Glaseow.
Sim, chief of the Washnes, has died intestate, wrvl
wives are quarrelling over his estate, a pair of old boots
On Monday evening, about six o'clock, a man win,
was walking over snuthwark-bridge, London, towards C3nrun
street, with a elass medicine bottle in his hand aeked a
woman who was tolling chestnuts which was his right eay
to St. Paul's chnrchyard. She turned round to direct him.
bust before she had tin. to say a word he jumped up on the
stone parapet of the bridge, crieo out with a loud voice.
" This is the way," and then leaped into the Thames. This
is stated to be the third suicide from Southwark bridge
within the past month.
In March, 1868, William Deering, a boy of sixteen,
in the employ of Mr. Cartwright. lawadatimier, Brownlow-
street, London, was sent out with a cheque for £lO to get.
cashed at a bank in Southampton-street. Ile got the own
and absconded. Since then he has wandered all over
England and Wales in search of employment without enecees.
On Fralay evoling he gave himself ep to the Liverpool police.
and stated what he lad done. Ile was brought up on Salm,
day at the Liverpool police-court and remanded.
Monogram veils are the latest wrinkle among the
New York fashionable young ladies. Thoos of fawn colour
and grey are the most in vogue—the nioilogram being em-
broidered In colours in the centre.
The master bakers of Melbourne bave acceded to
the demand made by the journeymen for the reduction of the
period of labour to ten hours per day. It is also agreed that
the men shall not be required to work on sundays, and that
Instead of having to live on the premises and board as
domestic servants, they shall lie paid wholly in money.
Mr. Wilson. formerly an eminent ship-owner and
local politician at Liverpoel, died on Monday.
Trouble seems likely to arise between the Uniterl
States revenue otliters aml the Mormons, owing to the]inany
efforts alibi- latter to evade paying taxes. A majority of the
houses at Salt Lake have been consecrated for "religious pur-
poses," and the theatre, though it haa long been in use. has
been purposely left " millnisheil." It seems that Brigham
Young is becoming sarcastic. He proposes to limit himself
to one woman if every member of Congress will do the same.
" Lord Derby was the most brilliant and witty of
debaters, but on no solid question did Lord Derby ever make,
for himself the reputation of a really profound knewledge,
and en political economy he was simply ignorant, lie was,
however, a great and stately nobleman, whose social omen-
ties and rack and courage made up for many deficiencies in
Statesmanship. Aml as the cement of the Tory party,
will be greatly missed."—,Speefator.
The Rev. Henry White, the chaplain of the Chapel
Royal, Savoy, stated in his sermon last Sunday morning Oar.
a celebrated German theologian hail reckoned up a thonaem)
volumes which had been published during the present
century in olio-ninon to the doctrine of the immortality of
the soul, and 10,000 contahriug vague speculations on the
suoject.
A sad case of poisoning has occurred at Leeds. A
young man named James Chadwick, an apprentice to Mess,.
Reinhardt and Sons, chemists and druggists. Erigeate, havieg
been suffering for two or three days from tie doloreux, be,.
a large dose of " Rattle's solution of opium" to allay tle,
pain. The result was that he fell into a deep sleep, which
terminated in his death.
The Iladdtrsti,l,l Examiner says that a young maw
was engaged to be niarned on Thursday in last week, and on
the previous night at ten p.m., took an affectimiate farewell of
the young lady, but returned at midnight to say that he had
reconsidered the matter, and thought they would not be a
gmel match; they would not lie married ; but he would
always think of her .• in a friendly kind of way !" Lea.'
proceeiliegs are to be taken.
Monseigneur Carrel, who was mainly instrumental in
the conversion of the Marquis of Bute to Roman Catholicism_
is again in Oxford, and intends deliveriug a vouree of on,
troversial sermons there during the remainder of the prowl.

term.
"If you could understand how much I wish to know.
whether you have recently sent me three messages, which I
have not replied to, being doubtful it they are from you oe
not. The safest and most certain way to communicate witls
me always is by letter, signed only with your first Initial.
and sent through the post to the Net address I wrote from
That way will never fail. If the meiaages do come from you
all your wishes shall be liter/ oOsVOt jet the
On Tuesday, in the Court of Queen's Bench, coon' il
on behalf of William Smith, who was convicted of the 111311
slanghter of hie wife at Hounslow last week, ?timed ler
criminal Information against the publisher of The I'sate,
account of an article which appeared in that journal shortly
after the fatal occurrence. The court refused the motto".
on the ground of want of personal malice on the part of the
writer of the article in, question
The hearing of the charge of heresy against the
Rev. Charles VOITAI, vicar of Ilealaugh, will be commenced
on the first of December next, at beak Minster. before the
Worshipful G. 11. Vernon, the judge of the Consibtory C(The.
of the diocese.
The Berlin general agent of the Albert Life Insur-
ance Company, who was nrrested about six weeks ago, has
Id:onset at liuerty en furnishing bail to the amount of Kew
tinders.
The Figaro says that Latin will be the language
ehial will he used in the ,Ecumenical Council, and that thc
congregation of the Index has been commissioned to Ix 3.
uniform pronunciation, in order that in the diversity of
accents the assembly may not degenerate into another Tower
of Babel.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales left town
on Monday, on a visit to Lord Londeaborough, and a week's
shootieg on the Yorkshire Moors. The lo al Euglishmen
and women of Scarborough, at which town the Prince arrived
at seven o'clock in the evening, es rotrte, appear to have
made the most of the event. The Royal visitor was received
at the station by the mayor and corporation in robes of state,
and the members tor the borough, and an address presented.
The streets through which his Royal I lishriess passed on his
way to Londesborough Lodge were illuminated and deep-
rated with flags and evergreens.
On the 7th of last month an enthusiastic meeting was
held In the New Mormon Tabernacle at Salt lake City. It
Is eald that over twelve thousand of the saints were present,
and that every portion of the territory was fully represented
at it. '1 he object for which they met was to adopt a memorial
to be presented to Congress at the opening of the next sessicol
In December, praying for the admission of the Mormon
settlement as, State in the Enion.
An English missionary has been murdered near
Tientsin. The Rev. .1. Williamson, Into of the Missionary
Society, In company with Mr. Hodge, were in a boat, an-
chored in the Grand Canal, and during the night of the 25th
August the boat was attacked by armed robbers, and Mr.
Williamson was killed, whether from personal violence or
from falling Into the water in the triol,re is not known. The
rubbers injured no one else seriously. The body was re-
covered from the canal some days afterwards.
In Limerick the Fenian Amnesty party prevented
the tenant-right meeting being held on Monday evening, anol
tore down the platform erected for the speakers. Mr.
Sylian and a number of priests, members of the Tenant'
Right league, attended with the liigh Sheriff, the 'flu of
Smith O'Brien, who waste preside. seeing the lurions ex-
citement of the populace, they abandoned the meeting, and
retired to the club-rooms to prevent a disturbance. Some
violect scenes occurred, and a policeman 1.31.6 illjared, hut
there was no serious breach of the peace. The police
patrolled the streets, and order was restored.