The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-08-07 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The journey from London to Edinburgh. a distance
of nearly 400 mUes, has been recently accomplished on a
bicycle by a Mr. Kiararoth in six days.
An American paper mays, that a church car is to be
used on the Pacific railway, a chaplain engaged, and a Sunday
school organised.
Austria possesses 670 convents with a population of
7,140 monks and t,914 nuns. In Hungary there are 295, in-
habited by 2,630 of the former and 770 of the latter.
"MM. Oliver has been released from the sentence
of death lately pasted upon her. The Government does not
donht her sanity, but it does doubt whether she actually
committed the murder for which she was tried. Therefore
Mr. Bruce has determine I that she shall suffer penal servi-
tude for life for that offence."—Pall Mail Gazette.
The latest telegram published regarding the frightful
colliery accident near Dresden states that 321 men are shut
up in the pit, and that there Is no hope of rescuing any of
them.
The Marquises of Lansdovnie and Blandford are en-
gaged to be married to daughters of the Duke of Abercorn.
The Prince of Wales has presented to the Exeter
Museum • mummy and coffin discovered during the progress
of some excavations recently made in Egypt, by command of
his Royal Highness, with the sanction of the Viceroy of
Egypt. Mr. S. Birch, of the British Museum, pronounces
the mummy to be the body of Amenhetpal, a man, prepared
by the wax process. The coffin is covered with hiero-
glyphical inscriptions, an explanation of which has been
supplied by Mr. Birch.
Two railway accidents—one of them of a fatal cha-
racter—were reported on Tuesday. lhe first occurred near
E linhurgh on Saturday night, when the exprees train from
Carlisle ran into a goods train. Twelve of the passengers
were more or less injured—a Manchester merchant named
Evans having his nose broken. The accident which ter-
minated fatally took place on Monday night on the high
level bruise at Newcastle. A carriage belonging to a train
from Sunderland ran off the line and upset, and in attempt-
ing to escape by the window Mr. Robert Heats, commercial
traveller, was crushed to death beneath the falling mass.
None of the other passengers were seriously injured.
A vast lyrical theatre is to be constructed on one of
the finest boulevards of Paris; and, in order to make it a
ucceas, the price of admisaiou will be for certain parts of the
how,* only one franc. The inauguration will take place on
January let, 1070. It is said that this new popular house
will contain 4,000 spectators.
Mr. Christopher Sykes, M.P., for the East Riding,
has received from the Prince of Wales an autograph letter,
thanking him cordially for the hospitality shown to the
Prince and Princess at Brantunghamthorpe. At the same
time his Royal Highness has sent a splendid torquonie ring,
set with diamonds, which he asks the hon. gentleman t
accept as a slight remembrance of their very pleasant visit. 0
Through the agency of the Ewa London Family
Emigration Fund. of which the Countess de Grey ia pee .st
the moat active supporters, another party of 100 emrgrants
from the East of London will be sent off to Canada this week.
The Univeroity of Edinburgh has conferred the
honorary degree of Doctor of Laws upon Sir Roderick
Murchison.
The most delicate and fragile glass wares are being
brought from Venice packed in seaweed from the lagoons—
the only effectual packing material for so delicate a purpose.
The East India Loan Bill which has just been
Printed, empowers the India Council to raise in the United
Kingdom any sum not exceeding £8,000,000 sterling, and
stipulates that £4,000,000 of the amount "shall be applied
for the purpose of the construction of railways in India, and
for no other purpose whatever." The loan may be In the
form of stock, bonds, debentures, or termivable annuities.
The Carliat party has sustained a loos in the unex-
pected death, at Paris, of the Comte de Fuentes, one of the
moss devoted adherents of Don Carlo&
An organisation for the encouragement and protec-
tion of authors has been formed in this city. It aims to
secure a healing end tit recompense for deserving writers
who have not yet achieved popularity and the admiring re-
gard of publishers. We commend it to public consideration.
—Nets York Tribune.
An inquest has been held at Scarborough respecting
the death of Miss Elizabeth Ashmore, of Holt, near 'Worces-
ter. Deceased was re,urnlng with her brother and sister
from an excurakm to Meekness in a carriage, when the horse
took fright and bolted. Mr. Ashmore jumped out, and was
mach hurt, and the carriage was immediately afterwards up-
set, Miss Ashmore's injuries being so severe as to cause her
death within an hour after the accident A verdict of "
Ac-
cidental death " was returned.
It is stated in the New York Times, of the 20th ult.,
that a movement is on foot in Kentucky, to raises fund for
the purchase of a house for Mr. Jefferson Davia—Kentucky
being his native State One gentleman has offered, should
60,000 dollars be collected, to give a site for the house, and
ten acres of land attached, within four miles of Louisville.
On Sunday, Joseph Byram, eighty-six years of age,
cut his throat at Iludderatield. It appeared that the de-
ceased resided alone, and, in addftion to receiving parochial
relief, wan roasted by the neightwurs. On Sunday morning
his breakfast was supplied to him, and shortly afterwards he
was discovered Ins room upstairs with his throat cut and a
razor lying by his side_ Ile hai stood before the mirror
while he Inflicted the fatal wound, and made several unin-
telligible utterances upon the arrival of the pollee officer, but
expired soon afterwards.
On Tuesday an inquest was held at Liverpool on the
body of David Spry. It appeared that the deceased was em-
ployed on Ward a steamer. Recently he was brought home
ill from his employruent. The medical man ordered him to
be wrapped in flannel cloth soaked in spirits. One night
whilst he was executing the doctor's orders vvith a light the
clothes took fire, and he was so severely burnt thst he died
of his injuries teat Sunday night. The Jury returned a
vstdiot of Aoeldimlal Death.

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