The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-09-02 00:00:00

EPE.OME OF NEWS,

OILITISH AND FOREIGN.

On the elication of the em e'er, the Home Sem-e-
-t:my lies 111,• • :I the reward for the discovery of the Eide-
ford noodt ClOO.

The says the Emperor Napoleon goes to Tor-
tinny, and the Empress to Spain.

- cii•, :,.• of provincial papers is a feature of
•;1 eabk I,t of the Auglo-Caaailian
'. • , : 110 1.1 - , 1.1 11.11 o ow!, .C 460.

has it that the Prince

i,,vm 111 T 0,1441.

11..111, 1 C i 11,111

woman nanic,i l'or,tvr, twenty
•7 1,4,11i11,'• at NI e-sre. Prockter:, Ii asks
• I,lunit...oly-1,11 into a sat t tailts
t . :aid is tipleelit in the Nel,astle ith nary
in a rely it aunts COIIIIIOOII.

The " Al.yssinian stretch" hns superscatsl the
Grecian laqul aml the kangaroo droop among the hellos of
fashion. It is supposed that this will have a khort nia, as
the •' Nladagrscar Hater" aad ti,, le,jecan azrawl " are
waiting to he adopted.
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It is sahl that the Princess Louise was so pleased
with the situatitm of lb ,seneatib where sine has reel Idly I leen
staying, tint the Duke of Argyll has abandoned his Mention
to lisp., of that nutnite, and that gestate:all Castle is likely
to become the Scotch residence of her Royal Highness and
the Marquis of Lorne.

The importance of registering telegranm by the
rout-wile, Lis 170017 publicly mentioned. In a late trial not
elils' a claim fir .lacm me eon of money Ind the plaintiff's
character 111,1,1001.1 n proof of deliveu of a telegram, which
the rost-ollice weromnable ti give.

On Saturday mornin, some hoyo, near Sheffield,
gathered and me a quantity 1.1 rola:nu:us fungi. They were
taken very ill shortly afterwards, and, although medical
asisistaneu was rer.lert,l, one •1 th,lll is IlOt eNIPOCti•ti ti
IVVoVer.

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It appears that though the Prince.; lof Wales will
it return from Germany behTe the end of next month, tire
Prince may be expected to arrive in howien alertly, Ma it bas
been derided that he is to command a brigade of cruelly
doting the :adman inaincneres.

A New Jersey editor has announced the death Allis
male ia An,,tr.ilia. leaving bini agt,t inine null 400,0,0 enIX.
Ills village c,11:1.-toporary profer3es bk rej2,11,1 the miller as a
plan to obtain credit f.-c a box of pap,
collars awl a siraw bat.

Terra del Fuego Las been traversed by Lieutenant
Masters, li. N., who 11104 Iliseevvre,l that the natives believe
ht deeth, and that they are the departed spirits Dietitian
if the nar:ical profession. Thu nista object of their reit-
:in/us eurenniny is to keep these devils at a distance front
them.

ft was certainly meat provoking, that last of the
types. A elengyinan was travelling for his health on the
Continent, and instead of being it. illicit by his trip, he
lg,ike drat:: at Baden- kanten. A religions journal triad to
state the belt, but only site:ended in informing. its readers
that the t'Rev. Dr. broke the hank at Itatten-lia.len."
The King of the Belgians arrived in London on
Monday af Manton]. liii Majesty, whoin travelling incognito,
and is saint to have come to Lawton solely inns the purpn,so .nt
vis'.l in, the totem:Annuli Eshibition. is anc.nnunanient by
Jules Dovanix and Count tdCuttrennout.

At the va,noeneenicat of tIlr1•
eatai-marnai at Vura:illen the prekla o •
ca,4l Courbat th:A. 112 111,1 receivvol ((lllsc,lSrUCtilM FL Sitalle II l'eace- which liall het. lleS,ilef
frnai the 'rnilerici. Ile 1101 [hal the St:ltUe ill
questbui wasilOW ill tile Louvre.

It is said, "on authority" that the Queen's health
eentioues to improve. The improvemeht is slow and
hut it is continuous, and Irllreill.ll,illllll Of a relaiso
no loiezer exist. It is understg.od thst the queen 1.11,y no
means &finitely abandoned the intention 14 paying a visit
to Inverary this atltllluuli, but the date of the event, shoal
the volt the place, depends solely on the state of her Ma-
jest y'a health.

A barrister objects to the witholrawal of the half-
crcwn Intel circulation on the ground of inconvenience to
the clerks unless more sixpences are issne.l. An odd ohbre.
tnoi Surely it Idaho possible to raise half-a-crown in Into
fortune other.

A number of female:s emuloyell at Messrs. Wilkin-
son's worsted mills, Leeds, struck work om rues:by without
giving any reason or inakivg any demand. On the previous
day the firm reduced the week's labour by lone hour, and
made other concessions, whets appeared to give general
satisfaction.

"An important Russian peromage " is repotted to
have stated to a French diplomatist that the defcat of
France had placed Russia with regard to Prnada in the
same position as that in which France found herself after
the tattle id Sadowa.

According to an article in one of the magazines,
General Moltke conducted his late campahm sitting on the
battle field, with his map before him and his telegraph
operator at his site, keeping him acquainted with the move-
ments in all parts ,d the field.
Intelligence of two serious accidents readies in., from
the United States. A railway collision has taken place near
Boston, in which twenty persons haw been killed and thirty
wounded ; and at New York there has been another boiler
explosion 011 board a steamer, by whith seventy persons have
been killed and wounded.

On Tuesday the en-Emperor Napoleon, accompanied
hy the Empress and the Prince Imperial, visited Rochester,
and spent an hour and a half in inspecting the Great Eastern
is lying off Sheerness.

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Two mephave been apprehended at Newhaven on a
charge of being implicated in the murder of James Green-
head, of Croydon, who in November, luno, was found dead in
a ditch near the Cuckfield burial ground. The prisoners
Blare been examined before the magistrates and remanded
for a week.

A French engineer, AI. E. Legont, has written a
letter te the Sii,,te in which he says that as the problem of
cutting through high inountainshas now heen solved hy the sue-
cessful coinpletion of the Mont l'enis tunnel, there is nothing
to prevent a railway being marle from Paris to Pekin. He
estimates that the cost of the great tunnels would be only
220 millions of francs.

A new game, called the " dot " game, luta her% in-
troduced, and is said to afford considerable amusement.
F.,ult player Med be provided with pencil and paper. bet
ma of the party read aload—distinetly mad not very fast—
and as he or she reads let the rest each make a d,,t for every
Weed read. Whey the page is read, montane words, Bed let
each player count his dots and see who has been accurately
"up to time."

Some excitement has been caused in India by the
return if a baptized Parsee to the faith of his fathers. The
pervert aflllOllllCeS the fact hi the Guzerati papers in thcse
tenns :—" the undersigntBl, give notice that I, with cere-
monies. re-embraced the Zoroastrian religion on the 10th of
July, 1871, and relinquished Christianity by my own free will
and faith.—DAPAIMAI RUSVOIJEE, 3111 C-4.011111

The Treasury returns just issued shiiw that the re-
ceipts of the Exchequer from the lot April to Saturday last
amounted to t;24,9:0,001, or :timid half a million loose than
last year, and were strived from the following Sources:—
Customs, £7,5:".2,(00 ; Excise, £3,123,000 stamps, £.3,+376,000 :
taxes, 064,000 incomertax, £1.200000 ; Post-oilier,
0,270,000 ; Telegraph service, 070,000 Crown lands,
£113,000; miscellaneous, £2,223,804. In the same period the
expenditure was 629,410,619. The balance in the itank of
England on Saturday last was £812,505 ; and in that of
Ireland, £1.260,133.

Advices received by the Def.ats from Strasburg
state that no fewer than 23,000 persons have left that city to
settle in France, Switzerland, and America. The DfFbniv
points suit that if this emigration continues at the same rate,
the time is nod far distant when there will no longer he any
Alsaeians in Alsace. This result would be very flattering to
French patriotism, and it would show that France still has
irresistible attractions, notwithstanding her reverses. Never-
theless, the IVbatx thinks that the Alsacians would show
snore political sagacity were they to stay at home.

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An opulent American is said to have just made M.
Thicrs an Mier to relatilil the Tuileries at his own cost.
The only conditions Int forth in return for his royal gene-
rosity a, e these : Ist. One of the wings of the monument to
be earned after him. thul. Apartments looking over the
gardeas to be reserved to hill] for lifetime, and also a stand-
ing invitation to all the ceremonies antifries that are given
by any governments that may hold the place ill succession.
lie is waiting for a favonrable reply. Ms architect has also
exhibit.' plans ant estimates, amounting to about 141.000.

Rome, it is katui in a letter to the bats, continues
to remain in a very ne!dected condition. The streets are in
Ilepl•rrable state, the pavement is veil, faulty, and the light-
ing is extremely defective. It is but seldom that the streets
are watered, and the sewers have not been flushed since the
immolation last December. Notwithstanding that the Nilotic
health is threatened by this neglect, the municipal authori-
ties allow things to take their course.

Some of the horses which belongesi to the Emperor
Napoleon 111. were sold in Paris last Satunlay, in the es-
Imperial stables. under the Louvre picture galleries. The nick
of the Emperor's stud were taken at Sedan, and are amended
their toaster into captivity; on the conclusion of peace they
were s,ott., from Willteltultolte to the I 11.1leati of A renctiberg,
in Switzerland. Although the lun.ses sold on Saturday were
therefore only a draft, they appear to have fetched gal
prices. Burnt:in, a handsome bey home, fetched £100:
langremeez, aged, went for £159 Errs reached 1:1:h1 ; Ito owes
awl Mezidon went for A:200 apiece ; awl a pair of carriage
horses, both aged, were pushed Up to C2OO, much over their
apparent value Several of the animals, notably the harness
horses, were bought for M. micro's use. The Imperial car-
riages, which as well as the horses have been in constant
use by the successive Governments since the fall of the
Empire (even Dombrowski drove about in a demi-State
brougham with Imperial arms on the panels), will be sold
on the anniversary of Sedan.
Cholera still continues its ravages at Konigsberg, 329
persons having died front the 10th to the 25th inst. The
report winch reached Italy that the disease had broken out
at Antwerp is emphatically contradicted by the Pro,orAel,
of that city. it Kays that there has net been a single ease
there, and that the Italian Minister must have obtained his
Information from a very untrustworthy authority. In the
Communal Council of Antwerp, on Saturday mat, one of the
members also contradicted the nport. Ile said that at the
commencement of August there had been two cases of
cholerine, or European cholera ; but since then there had
been none. Every precaution had, however, been taken
should the disease make its appearanee. The sanitary con-
dition of Antwerp, it was stated by another member, had
never been better than at present. The Spanish Government
has ordered that vessels from London are to be placed in
quarantine, and those from Ireland awl Scotland are to be
subjected 0 A quaraufihe of three days, on account of
I cholera.

Louis Blanc is writing a history of the siege if l'aris.
The potato disease has appeared in the ne4:l,lK,ttr-
hood of Whittlesey in rather a virulent form.

The Nawab Nazim of Bengal, it is Bali, has 42
chadron, and 19 of those arc unmarried daughters

It j rumoured that the " Inspector of rarrier
Fig.-ons" is about to be decorated with the 1.e...i.01 ol
111)11 Or.
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A second gift of one thousand pounds from an anony-
mous dor., has been foewarded to the Council ut the Loyal
Dramatic College. _ . .

A five-year-01.1 eitv boy toll Ma mother how to make
hntter Yu to'', along stick with a cross at the end
of It ; Men you get a big tub ; and then you borrow a cow."

On Friday. at Ilrounton, near Scarborough, the
wife of Mr. I: inert Myers, lilaclismith, gave birth to three
children—two sons nod a daughter—all of whom are doing
A Liverpool Liberal paper rays, "How could
, 1-cr, In. e.t vilinti in each 4,ther's society, even for 1141 E
• • : ! ~: :t as that which is How closed ?"
• i . ties Commir.vionerA have nre,ented
•• • • ,tet e that the communications they
• Wwide spread ;A the interest in tile
• . .
. For the preSillt their erfleillitilintS
. t: . t lo• t oat arc of forty-three Wifilralbn iS given.

I, 3 prize essay of E-1,000 yet to be awaratsl by
the ley of Sciences to the ,liseoverer of an efficient
reine!) ler dieters. More than I:0 papers have been ,tait in
on the subject daring the last fortnight.
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There is now living in 'AfoulMain, near 7tloneynnire,
Derry, Rosa Hughes, aged years. Recently she walked a
distance et eight miles.. .

'lwo youn-g children were playing in a ph,Ntyv, at
Shrortone, the other other day, when one ignited the straw
with A match, ant his brother was burnt to ileat h.
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An Indiana paper remarks of the toilettes displapst
at a recent assenibtaue there that they gave evidence of a dry
aces Ii and a Scarcity et water.
An net has just been ballast to enable industrial anal
provident somtieg to build, self mid mortglwe property.
sevurities giver, before the act urn to be val.

The hus,rest rope in the worbl has just been com-
pleted in binnineisini. it is shout six mike lung, dxc and a
quarter inches In circumference, and weighs over 0.1 tone.

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At Harn.gate, on Satinlay, a magnificent set of
baths, erected at a cost of rAta)t), was opened with appro-
priate ceremony.
Croquet slippers are now sold. They are ornamented
with golden halls and mallets embroidered on the front, aunt
the most expensive have coral, ivory, or gold inlaid on thew
ornaments. _

At Orleans sonic Cermans took the dinner of Om
aged Bishop away just Its it was behm taken up to hini when
he was ill. As The Times says, they have the merit of know-
ing what they want. . _

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The retwitle received mention the,
death of Wojt.n—tho preceptor .44 the Emperor—the Me-
braced o,ti-0.,L.10r oho so lately espre:Bed his wish to
"eatourht• slcop on ottr 6kius."
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A spb4;•, alttliority 4047,,1ti with confidence, but,
au data, that slut one-third of the
; 1.1 itain huseeptil,le to spirit influence;
• Alillions of the inhabitants of Great
I • . I I more or less power.-

S• u, Yankee hao invented a proems by
, 1,111 be made tart of common ~,en (Weans
lii, I it hy ,t,.“111i:)g maple 0,4 The next
to ft am that laud ‘,f prolitle than
is a rt. s s ;I,t y win make lit,ney front cod liver oil,
navelll I p
A full length portrait of Sir g'itus Salt, subscribed
for by 2,lnii of the inhabitants of Ktitaire, and 11151 811dre. ex-
preming the feelings entertained t..ovards him by the larl4e
'mutter of persons employed by him, were presented to the
I..thatet on Saturday, in the Lecture llall of the Mechanics'
Institute. _ . .

A young Lily at an evening party found it hard to
use the expression "Jordan is a hanl road to travel," but,
thinking that too vulgar, substituted the following
Poninlinlating propes,ion in pedestrian excursion along
the far-famed Viol oughfare if fortune cast up hy the hanks"(
the sparkling river if Palestine is indeed attended with •
heterogeneous conglomeration of unforeseen difficulties."

A Scotch preacher was one sultry day much annoyed
by those who dropped in after the service had ounnienced,
invariably closing the door after them Ile bore the vexa-
tion with Job-like patience, but ultimately, being fairly
exhausted front heat, he vociferated tom, offender,
do, for goodnuss' sake, let that do, he open. I believe it I
were preaching in a bottle you would put the cork in."

An annual atvount presented tlll Parliament show,:
that in the financial year 1870.71 sums amounting to 1:20,481
were distributed among officers 31114 12.1111,3 14 het. Majesty's
Alps for slave anal tonnage bonntles 011 capture., of slavers,
also £1.144 front pirate bounty fiends accrued front openttions
of her Majesty's ships in 18654.9, and .1:3,004 for salvage HIS r.
vices 14:1141.111-11 It, Varillll3
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About midnight tin Sunday an attempt was made to
Mon en the obelisk erected at Kingst. own to commemorate
It, Vi,it f CeorAe IV. to Ireland in 1,21. A heavy ehargo
of powder was inserted between the hase of the Ml...tines
and its ped,tal ; but thongh the explosion 6hook tire our
'sniffling buildings, tile 111011IIIIIVIIt I.:mains unmoved and
uninjured.

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A.. oil pamphlet, called the ThioeVol Jbqerrrrf, luni
been printml by Nlitchell mid Co., the military publisher,
The author impresses on us the fart thatais every effort if
li,leaCO has been brantglit to bear upon the inanufactore of
breech-loaders, and other weapons, our soldiers, rank and
sl Id be inade equally polished i.t.t excellent. The
men, like their bayonets, should be put through the crucible,
and inade as intellectual handlers of the weapon as URI
wramm itself is forensait in point of art.
it i ama red from that the unn-adrs' strike
three has terminated. °nil. to resolutions adopted by the
men at a ineetina• held on timulay. A thalami paper Mates
that at the commencement of the strike 6,000 nialarall left
rrk. Witt that about 2,000 of them, mostly unmarried,
• ,• Arrording to the game paper the strike has
• - tar men about 2.50,002 tlratrrsini ivaar,. and the uirnnirey
••• lx•cuiVed in support of their movement liars trot
:.• • •1 i•! a sj.,lfr Of that MOIL

'm of the If, ard FAlneat:on goii.,4 Lis round:: The
an amateur pot the following question to a winolar in a
country selmol " how.!,, you parse • Mary milks the cow • "
The last ~-,,rd was disposed as follows : " o.w is a 11011.11, femi-
nine gender, singidur number, third person, and stands for
Mary." •• Stands for Mary !'' exclaimed one of the board
•• how do Non make that cut?" "Because," added the In-
telligent pupil, "Utile cow didn't stand for Mary, how could
Mary milk her?"

The foot and month disease among cattle in North-
an,ptonshire has considerably increased 4lnring the past few
weel:s. A retail) just issued by the county authoritiesshown
that there were 79 cases reported by the inspectors during
the first week, and :31 and In CaSeB respectively during the
two wyleks immediately preceding. Tit:, disease has assumed
its worbt form in the northern dirision of thee ty, adjoin-
ing Leicestershire, and in the Northampton district.

An artide ints appeare.l in the Sfrosf.ory Gazeffe,
the muan of the German Government, threatening reprisals
against the Al.olans who have elected to remain French sub-
jects should Germans continue to he persecuted in France.
The Gazette points .lit that every Alsacian who has decided
upon remaining a Frenchman is now a foreigner in Alsace,
and cannot Ire allowed to do :mything to endanger the safety
of the sqate. _ .

Act:o din., to the Mbate a number of companieg—
liehtlan, and French—arc anxious to establish
tramwari iii Paris. The Prefect of the Seine has acconlingly
requested the Minister of Public Works to examine a scheme
lov wloich the whole of the coalmines at 0 distance of
eight miles round the capital would he placed in communi-
cation. These lines would together be more than a hun-
dred awl eighty miles Ut length.

According 'to the weekly return of the Registrar
-
General, published on Tuesday, the death-rate in London
and nineteen other large cities and towns in the United K ing-
dom was 31 per thousand. Asiatic cholera has made further
progress westward, and hasreached Elhurg met Itantrie. hit
London last week the deaths front cholera (English) and
choleraic diarrhea hwt declined front 40 lo 2,, and in these
the sufferers wore all childrenonost of them, indeed, infanta
The deaths from dlarrlara were 407 in numher ; hut of these
4:0 occurred in the cane of children under two years of age
and 21in that of persons over 6it iota,. of the cholera cab,
Mice linen severe, but not one has exhibited the Asiatic
type.