The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-05-24 00:00:00

URDAY, MAY 24, 1884;

A Berlin telegram states that a sachtier's assiSical
was arrested on Motaday at Rossbach, in Saxony, wh.
confesstd to having been concerned in the attempt
blow up the Niederwald Moninnent. He confirms aX
the statements in reference to the subject made by Hew
Eugen Richter before the Committee on the Rill for Oat
Prolongation of the Anti-Socialist Law.
On Monday morning a house situate in gob-lane,
Bedworth, was wicked by an explosion of benzoline.
A man named Richardson went into his cellar, anA
placed a lighted lamknear a bottle of benzoline, whic46
exploded, carrying away the kitchen roof and flooring,
and smashing all the windows. Richardson was fright-
fully injured, ad a boy in bed uustairs was blown up to
the ceiling.

A telegram, dated Caieo, May FT, says : Captain.
Humphreys, who, on the morning of the 6th inst.' as w'
thrown from his horse and fatally injured, died last
night. Owing to the nature cf the injuries he sustained,.
it was found impossible to remove the unfortunate
officer from the spot where he-fell, and he has lainthere'
ever since the accident.
The reduction of the Austrianermy of occupation in
Bosnia by five thousand men is going on steadily, and
the corps will shortly be reduced to thirty thousand
men,.the maximnm number to be retained in future.
ilt s-reported that M. Pasteur, the well-known French,
savant, who has lately been making experiments on a,
number of dogs, has discovered a remedy for hydro.
phobia..
The volunteers of the Metropolis celebrated the
twenty-fifth anniversary of the establishment of' the
force on Saturday by holding four brigade drills, in
which fifteen regiments took part.
The additions to the Zoological Society's Gardens,.
Regent's Park, London, during last week included a
Barbary ape from North Africa, presented by the-
Countess Craven; a mouffion, from Sardinia, presented
by Colonel Knox and the officers of the Ist Battalion
Scots Guards; a common raccoon (white variety) from
North America, presented by Mr. F. J. Thompson; a
ground, honabill from West Africa, presented by Cap.
tainallApert La T. Lonsdale • a gold pheasant from
China, presented by Mr. Frank Reed; two peregrine
falcons (European), presented by Lieutenant Colonel
Drummond Moray; two alligators from the Mississippi,
pressittted by Mrs. Andrade; a green tree frog (Euro-
pean), presented by Mr. G. W. Obicini, F.Z.S. ; twenty-
one river lampreys from British riven, presented by
Mr. T. E. Gunn; two Japanese greenfinches from Japan,
two common crowned pigeons from New Guinea, pur.
chased; a Canadian porcupine, five long-fronted ger.
bills- and two variegated sheldra.kes. bred in the garden*
At a meeting of the Longfellow Memorial Committee,
held last week, it was resolved to present a copy of the
bust in Westminster Abbey to Harvard University, and
another to Bowdoin College, in Maine, with which the
poet was long connected as student and professor.
Last week's receipts of cotton at all United States
ports were 9,000 bales; since let September, 4,731,000
bales. Week's exports to Great Britain, 6,000 bales;
to the Continent, 6,000 bales. Total since Ist Sep-
tember, 3,500,000 bales; stock at all ports, 526,000
bales. Stock at interior ports, 68,000 bales.
It is stated that the Royal Artillery still continues
over 1000 gunners short of its establishment.

The Grand Duke Paul of Russia, attended by Colonel
kltepanoff, arrived at astwell Park on Saturday on a
visit to the Duchess of Edinburgh.
The "London Gazette" of the 16th inst., contains a
list of 600 addresses and resolutions of condolence on
the occasion of the death of the Duke of Albany which
have been transmitted to the Home Secretary for pre-
sentation to the Queen, and have accordingly been pre-
sented by him to her Majesty.

Mr. Philip Callan, M.P. for Louth, has written to a
friend in Paris announcing the success of his visit to
the Argentine Republic for the purpose of founding an
Irish colony, and stating that he intends to return there
next month.

According to intelligence received at Berlin from St.
Petersburg, several Turcoman deputations from the
vicinity of Herat arrived at Askabad during Easter
week (0.5.) and tendered their submission to the
Russian authorities. With them came also a deputa-
tion of Saryk Turcomans from Kalatan, on the Afghan
frontier, the members of which represented 10,000 tents
in that district.

A Tonquinese standard taken from the Black Flags
has been sent home to France. It is made of very thin
blue silk in the shape of a triangle, the edges being cut
in vandykes. An inscription in tiny Chinese characters
runs across the upper edge of the flag, and the centre is
sown with huge letters worked in white silk.
Dr. Price, the Welsh Druid, who has served a writ
upon Judge Gwilym Williams, claiming 5000 damages
for wrongful committal, has struck out a medal in
honour of his victory over the police authorities. The
medal is egg shape, bearing impress of the Welsh goat
and an inscription in Welsh, Dr. Price claiming that
cremation is superior to burial, and through the Llan-
trissant case cremation has been proved not to be un-
lawful in England.
The Papachoag yarn mill, at Worcester, Massa-
chusetts, has been burnt down, the loss amounted to
150,000 dols. It was running at the time when the fire
broke out, and many of the operatives jumped from the
upper windows. Twenty of them, chiefly girls—were
badly injured, and several, it is feared, will die.

Paris advices state that the upward movement
recently noticed in wheat upon the French markets was
maintained during last week. At a number of points
wheat has been firm, at an advance of from 2d. to sd.
per quintal. At Paris quotations have advanced to
this extent, and there has also been a slight improve.
ment in the French ports.
The most recent statistics show that the newspapers
and periodicals of all kinds now issued in the United
States and Canada reach a total of 13,402. This is a
nett increase of 1200 during the year 1883. In that
year the daily journals advanced from 1138 to 1254, the
weeklies from 9062 to 10,028, and the monthlies from
1091 to 1499.
On Saturday Mr. Justice Pearson, upon the applica•
tion of the United Telephone Company, committed Mr.
Hebdon, an electrician, to Holloway Prison, for a breach
of an injunction forbidding him from infringing Bell's
Receiver. Mr. Hebdon has been previously committed
to prison for the same offence, and the Judge said that
he should now stay there long enough to learn the first
elements of honesty.
The managers of the Metropolitan Asylums districts
have obtained the approval of the Local Government
Board to the purchase of the river steamer Albert
Victor at a cost of £3OOO. The steamer is to be used
as an auxiliary to the hospital ships now stationed in
the Lower Thames, and its purchase has become neces. •pa
sary in consequence of the increase of smallpox in the
metropolis.
The notorious Black Hole of Calcutta, lately ex-
cavated at Fort William, has been filled in and paved
over with thick stone slabs, and a tablet will be let into
the wall close by, with the following inscription: "The
stone pavement near this mark ti the position and size
of the prison cell in Old Fort William, known to history
as the Black Hole of Calcutta."
The prospects of the fruit crop in Kent are con-
sidered, on the whole, to be more promising of an abun•
dant harvest than has been known for many years.
There will be a fair crop of pears, and plums, which
last year turned out so badly, promise an abundant
yield. Strawberries are flowering well. Wall fruit,
generally, promises to yield uncommonly well.
Private letters just received from well-informed
European residents at Antananarivo state that the
Malagasy Government are willing to pay the French a
far larger pecuniary indemnity than the latter has
asked, if they will only forego their territorial claims in
the island.
A New York telegram says that the visible supply of
wheat on May 16 was 20,300,000 bushels, as against
21,200,000 bushels the previous week. Visible supply
of Indian corn, 10,500,000 bushels, as against 12,100,000
bushels the previous week. The export clearances of
wheat for Europe during last week amounted to
930,000 bushels; the export clearances of Indian corn
for Eurene during the week amounted to 820,000 bushels.
The young Nizam of Hyderabad was recently at-
tended by Dr. Beaumont, who watched his Highness
through a serious attack of cholera. On his recovery
the Nizam caused the sum of 31,000 rupees and jewellery
of the value of 10,000 rupees to be sent to Dr. Beau-
mont for his fourteen days' professional attendance.
In cutting a trench in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris,
near the Château de Madrid, for the laying of a tele-
phonic wire, the workmen have just found a whole
series of coins struck under Valois, from 1337 to 1342.
Nearly all are in a good state of preservation.
It is proposed to convoke an International Congress
at Brussels to deliberate on the question of the esta-
blishment of an International Railway Union similar -
to the International Postal Union.

Foreign tourists in Switzerland yearly yield a revenue
of £2,115,000 to the hotel-keepers alone, apart from the
money which is spent in the country in other ways.
The Swiss hotel-industry now represents a capital of
over 121 millions sterling.
Denis Deasy, a convict, who was sentenced at the
Liverpool Assizes to 15 years' penal servitude for his
connection with the dynamite conspirators, he having
been found conveying dynamite between Cork and
Liverpool, has just died in Chatham prison.
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The dyers of Bradford struck Work on Saturday
morning for an advance of 10 per cent. in their wages,
which the masters have declined to accede to. The
strike affects 3000 to 4000 persons, and if prolonged will
cause serious inconvenience in the stuff trade.

The "Morning Post "states that -a—no-tic;-"Of a some-
what peculiar character has been given by Lord Rose--
bery. The noble lord proposes on the 20th of next
month to move for the appointment of a Select Cora-
mittee to consider the best means of promoting the-
efficiency of the House of Lords.
A New York telegram Says the value of the exports.
of domestic brea.dstuffs last month was 12,257,000 dols.,
which was slightly less than in April, 1883. The week's
imports amounted to 8,168,000 dols., of which 1,377,1)00
dols., were dry goods..
The publid exhibition of pictures, which was opened
at Galashiels on Sunday week last, was thrown open
again last Sunday, notwithstanding a protest from the
directors of the Corn Exchange. It was visited by
from 800 to 1000 persons, and the utmost order pre.
vailed inside the building. In a number of pulpits in,
the town reference was made bo the new departure in
Sunday observance as a dangerous and much to be-
dreaded invasion.

Professor Huxley has Indertaken to be the firSt
president of the 11Iarine Biological Association. It i 5.
probable that the first marine laboratory and experi-
mental station of the association will be established att
Plymouth.
The imports of live stock and fresh meat to Liver-
pool from American and Canadian ports landed during
the past week show, when compared with the arrivals of
the preceding week, a falling eft in live stock but an.
increase in fresh meat. The total imports amounted
to 188 cattle, 8646 quarters of beef, and 1725 carcases
of mutton.
The Company of Bowyers have again granted
twenty-five guineas for prizes to encourage good shoot-
ing in the arn\y, which will be distributed by the War
Department, with other funds, at Aldershot and the
Curragh. The prizes will not be competed for at fixed '
objects and known distances, but at moving objects
and unknown distances, so as to approximate more
nearly to the practice in actual warfare.
A Society of Dyers and Colourists has been formed
In connection with the Bradford Technical College to
promote the long-neglected art of dyeing in England.
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