The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-12-11 00:00:00

Tbe Teninsular and Oriental Company's ottic re
and men have determined that a memorial shall be erected
to the memory of those who perished in the Carnattc.
A lady ran on the rails near the Twickenham station
on Monday ill pursuit of a little dog, and was knocked down
by a train and killed Immediately.
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Mr. Thomas Cook, of " tourist " celebrity, is turn-
ing to good account the Vatican council, which comes just
in his dull and idle season, by Issuing tickets which will
allow of a clear stay of forty days in Rome, or in any other
part of Italy.
A case of torpedoes, while bring hoisted at a factory
In New Orleans, recently, fell and exploded. killing two
employOs and doing considerable damage to the building and
content..
Some Jesuit priests having settled at Glasgow' a
meeting of the Free Presbytery has been held, "to adopt
some measures that may be deemed suitable, by the blessing
of God, to warn and enlighten the people" against the
" dangerous and injurious principles of Popery." In the
course of the discussion it was suggested that it might he
well to await the result of tie tk,minenical council, and the
subject was delayed fur a month with this view.
: Fortydline Roman Catholicclergymen of the Queen's
County have held a meeting at Mary borough to adopt Mr.
Rdmnrd Deese as their candidate for that county, on the
principles of " Fixity of tenure and fair reuta ; vote by
, denominational education, and amnesty to the
prisoners."
Two assurance companies which had been amalga-
mated with the Albert—vs , the Metropolitan Counties and
the Western—have been ordered by Vice Chancellor Janes
to be wound up.
M. Arles Dufour writes to the French papers that
the protectionist agit Won is causing serious uneasiness in
the south. P.e coin that the city of Lyons, which exports
manufactured Rom!, to the amount of £12,00J 1551 sterlinc,
without ever having asked for protection, is now forming
committees for the organibatleu of a mounter meeting in
favour of free trade.
"Volcano.—l shall be in the village on the 14th. Can
you possibly meet me. The 18th would be about the best
time for trying to carry out our plan. Remember !shall
be pushed for time. Write to club.—Toll OTXR."—Adver-
tisemeut in The Time,
The l'aris R,fortne is informed, it says, that Signor
Aiszcini has lit London during the lest few day., and that
he is now travelling in Germany. " Indefatigable in his
work," it adds, " he seeks to realise his great idea of the
fusion of the Latin races (Italy, France, and Iberia) under
the Republican banner."
Medical literature contributes a new term to the
"Siang Dictionary." That peculiar swelling of the knee,
which used to be called the " housemaid's knee" in now
known among surgeons as the "ritualistic knee "
A noted ruffian named Sam Murdock was lynched
recently in Fremont County, lowa, for the murder of Henry
Johnson. Since the lynching Johnson has reappeared in
perfect health, and the authorities are looking for the
lynchers.
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In the Small Dehta Court at Edinburgh, a person
was sued for £lO, half a year's rent. When the case was
called, a lad tendered a medical certificate, certifying on
'soul and conscience" that the defendant was Coiltilled to
bed, and unable to come to court. This was literally true,
but a few questions elicited the fact that thd defender was
not ill, but ° juit tots." a comphint ti at could not with pro-
priety have been stated upon the certificate. The pursuer
got decree in absence.
"Ireland is said to be calmer, and we are glad to
believe it. The magistrates of Limerick and of Cork have
issued proclamations, and the turbulent waves are at ence
, appeased. . . . . We must go on as we have begun,
' neither abating the scope and thoroughness of our meroures
of reform nor receding in any degree from our resolutton
to maintain the peace umilininished."—The Times, Monday
Dec. 6
The other evening a small party of police on night
patrol came up with a body of men, numbering about 200, who
were marching in procession and ring shots, at Anyalla,
near Cremarten, County Monaghan. On seeing the constables,
who courageously accosted them, the brave fellows took to
flight, leaving behind them two drums and two muskets,
which the police brought in as trophies to their station.
"If Mary Jane, wife of the Rev.—Clarke, is living,
and will prove to our satisfaction that she is the God-
daughter of Walter Butterfield, late of :•;tanhope-terrace,
ilydepark, deceased, she will hear of something to her ad-
vantage—tucker, New, arid Langdale, 4. King-street, Cheap-
side, London."—Advertisement in The Times.
A party of men in masks went to the house of
William Jones, a planter, near Tiptonville, Tennessee, to
disarm the negroes working for him, when three of the
maskers were shut. Mr. Jones and six of the negroes, who
resisted the marauders, were arrested. The sheriff, who bud
charge of the negroes, was met by a pose, who took the
negroes into the woods and shot five down at once.

Least Friday night Mr. Marsh of Luton, on return-
ing to his residence from the town, accidentally fell into the
river Lea, and it appears from marks on the wall supporting
the bank anti the broken ice that he attempted to save his
life, but without success, as he was found on Saturday morn-
ing in a sitting posture quite dead. It is supposed the se-
verity of the night paralysed his efforts Ile was well known
in commercial circles for many years, holding a very respon-
sible poet in the futon Bank, from which he retired a few
years since.
As some interest attaches to the number of the crea-
tions by successive Prime Ministers, it may be stated that
Earl Grey made 34 additions to the peerage Lord Mel-
bourne, 39 ; Sir Robert Peel 11 ; Eon Russell, 24; Viscount
Palmerston, 23 ; the Earl of Derby, 25; 3lr. Disraeli, 4; and
Mr. Gladstone, 12.
The report which has appeared in some of the
journals that M Gain it has several times lately been in con-
sultation with the Emperor Napoleoe is untrue. B. Guizot
has not left his country residence at Val-Richer.
The Prince of Wales, OR Tuesday, commenced his
second visit to Yorkshire this season. Leaving London by
the Great Northern express at noon, his Royal Highness
arrived at Holbeck at squatter-past five. There his carriage
was attached to the North Eastern train to Ripon. His
Royal Highness, on arriving in that clty, was heartily
cheered by the persons assembled on the platform, and was
received and escorted to Studley Royal by the Earl de Grey
and Ripon.
The Gazzetla ict says that the King of Italy had
a crtiference on Saturday with the Duchess of Genoa, as to
the acceptance of the Spanish crown by the young Duke.
According to the Florenee journal, the Duchess asked for
time to consider, but left tne Keig to uneerstand that she
would not to the end oppose the choice of the Spanish
nation.
It appears that the cause of Count Bismarck's sud-
den jourtney to Boon, which was is ported by telegram the
other day, is a severe wound received in a duel by his son
Herbert, who is a student at the Bonn University. The
wound is a deep sabre cut in the head, and it Is feared he is
in great danger. The news was first communicated by the
direntor of the university to Herr von Tittle, Under-Secretary
oil State at the Berlin Foreign Office, who informed the King,
and his Majesty at once telegraphed to Count Bismarck at
Varzlii, no ging him to proceed to Bonn without delay. The
Countess has accompanied him on the j-,urney.
Mr. Reichenheins, banker at Berlin, has offered to
the Jewish commnnity of that city the BUM 0( 250 000 thalers
for the erection of an orphanage.
M. Rochefores maiden speech in the French Cham-
ber appears to have been very well received, and to have ex-
cited some surprhe by the moderation of its tone. Several
of the Paris papers speak of it favourably. le the opinion of
the "Matte, M. Rochefort p swages the true Parliamentary
manner. The Siecle says he expressed himself in very fitting
terms, and with as much clearness as simplicity. The
Journal de Piano remarks that he referred to the coup
d'Oat in quite a Parliamentary style, and was attentively
listened to by the whole House.
An announcement that Dr. Cumming will preach
two sermons in his church in Crown-court on the day the
ROM= Council began its sittings (Wednesday) concludes
thus All are requested to join in special prayer for the
enlightenment and conversion of the victims of deadly
error."
The death is announced of Mr. James Haviland,
one of the oldest members of the Royal College of Surgeons,
at the age of eighty-one years. Mr. Haviland was admitted
a member of the College ef Surgeons in 1808, accepted
service under the East India Company as surgeon of the ship
Ste William Pultcney when he was highly complimented for
saving the crew from scurvy by keeping up a constant supply
of mustard and cress grown in tubs, vats, and moist flannel. in
conjunction with his cousin, Dr. Haviland, he founded the
Bridgwater Infirmary.
A circular has been issued by the direction of the
Duke of Cambridge relative to the custom of tradesmen,
especially tailors, giving credit for goods supplied, and even
lending money to the cadets at Woolwich and Sandhurst.
The order points out the evil consequences of these practices,
and requests the parents and guardians of cadets not to pay
any debt contracted by a cadet without their sanction, or
any running account beyond a stated limit of amount fixed
by them.
At Naples, the citizens are divided in the admiration
between the little Prince with the Princess Marguerite has
presented to them and his nurse. The latter Is a young
women of extraordinary beauty, and dresses like the Grand
Duchess of Gerolstein. The infant Prince in his cradlo
appears to put Solomon arrayed in all his glory, into the
shade.
A New York paper states that on the 9th October,
as a number of miners were taking their dinners in the
mines of Jesus Maria, near Guanaganat, Mexico, when an
immense rock fell and buried over 100 miners, with their
wives, sisters, and children.
As M. Bariton, professor of music, was a few days
back giving a lesson In the establishment of the Brothers of
Christian Doctrine, at Paris, he was suddenly struck with
apoplexy, and died instantaneously.
Miss Burdett Coutta has given a site, worth about
£7OO, for new schools at Highgate-new-town.
Mee-t-s. Harper and Brothers, the American pub-
lishers, have, at their own expense, engaged Hiram Powers,
the sculptor, to erect a suitable tombstone over the grave of
the historian Hildreth, late American elfin' at Trieste, who
is buried in the Protestant cemetery at Florence.
A church for the Evangelical congregation at Jeru-
salem is to he erected till the ground formerly bet 'tieing to '
the Order of the Knights of St. John, which was presented ,
to the King of Prussia duritig the late visit ef the Crown 1
Prince Lt Constantinople.
Mr. Gladstone has been meniorial,z.d to appoint a I
Welshman next as the Welsh bishop. Reply leg through his
secretary, the Prime Minister assures the memorialists that.
should a vacancy unhappily occur, the subject shall have his
careful consideration.
The body of Grace Blight King, a married woman,
living at M erasion, was, on Saturday morning, found floating
in the sea, between St. Michael's !Mount and the mainland. ,
With ins woman was the body of a female child, to which it
is evident that she had given birth immediately before her
death, and that she had received none of the necessary at-
tention. The husband of the woman has been in America
for some time, the deceased remaining in England with her .
two children. llow she got into the sea is a mystery.
The Smithfield Club Cattle Show opened on Monday
morning. It is an unusual feature of the Metropolitau
Cattle Show that a Royal visit should take place on the open-
ing day, but in order to enable the Prince of Wales to meet
other engagemen,s it was arranged that his Royal Highness
should visa the show on Monday morning.
A visitation of an exceptional character has been
raging in the arondinement ot Sabina-Charente leffirieure,
France. A small brook, the Parpaillot, traversing several
communes of the canton of liemozlc, has been dry for some
time. The muddy bottom was doubtless of a peaty nature,
as it lately ignited spontaneously aid spread to the estates
on the hank, destroying everything in its passage. The ad-
jacent villages had to be evacuated and great censternation
was caused in the whole neighbourhood.
The habeas corpus, as we should sa3; in England, has
been re-established in Spain. •
We (Army and Nary Gazette) are glad to hear from
good authority that, although it has not yet been definitely
decided in what manner the necessary reductions in she ,
army will be carried out, the rumours which announced the
approaching disbandment of seven second battalions are
devold of foundation. It has long been well known that
there will be great reduction in the colonial corps, but no
battalion available for general service will be strung out of
the estimates.
Prince Galitzin, known in RllB9/9 as a clever
amateur musician, came lately to Keslow (near the Black
Seal, to superintend the sale of the corn arising from his
last harvest. Having transacted the business, he returned
to the hotel with a large sum of money. In the evening
three priests, with long grey beard., were seen to enter his
apartment. About an hour after one of the servants going
into the Prince's room found him lying on the flmir assassi-
nated. Oa the fl or lay the robes and beards, which had
been thrown aside by the murderen to enable them to
escape,
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Big front the second storey windows. Several lives were lost.
Two bodies have been recovered from the TULDS burned beyond
recognition. One of the bodies was identified by a memo-
raminm book as a printer boy, Willie Brewer. Fifteen or
twenty persons were badly bunted.