The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-11-05 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The national schoolmasters in Ireland are about to
agitate for increased remuneration.

A thousand acres of good land have juat been re-
claimed tram the sea at Boston, Lincolnshire.

Among the subecribers to the new French loan are
homes in Berlin and Frankfort.
On the walls of the Turneries, in all directions, is
written :—" 10 let, became of folly "
At present the number of French prisoners is four
marshals, 140 generals, 10,000 oflicors, and 323,000 rank and
file

The Official Oacetie of Italy haa intimated to all
Garibaldlau volunteers that they will lose their right of
citizenship in Italy by taking military service abroad.
Martin Harris, one of tn.s men who now the angel
id.. Joe Smith the Rook of Mormon, now resides at Kirk-
land, and le In hie 88th year. He still holds to the faith.
The body of a lady, supposed to be one of the pas.
stingers of the Cambria, has been washed ashore on Ratplin
Island, on the north coast of Ireland.

The Germane have gent Dr. Holder, of Carlon:the,
to see If he can recover any fragments of the great Strasburg
Library that they have burnt. A. might be anticipated, the
work of destruction had been effectually performed.
Vice-Admiral Thomas Fraser, one of the few re-
maining naval officer. present at the bombardment of
Algiers, died at Portobello, near Edinburgh, on Friday in
it week.
The Czar of Russia has sanctioned the new regula-
latlons for accelerating the mobilization of hi. army. They
provide for the calling In of 427,297 men. 170,000 of whom
come from Poland and the provinces of mixed nationality
belonging to ancient Poland.

Brigandage hi not yet been exterminated in Italy.
By telegram from Florence it is to-day stated that eleven
pennon belonging to idsrsico Nuevo, in the Basilicata, have
been surprised and killed by the brigands.
The trees in the garden and groan& of the Chateau
de la Muette, at Passy, once forming the avenues ot the
ill-
feted Queen Marie Antoinette, have been cut down by order
of the War idielater of Paris, to the sad grief of the present
owner.

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lier Royal Highness Princess Louise has met with a
slight ambient, haring sprained her knee. As perfect rest
I. required for her royal highness at present, her Majesty's
return to the south may be delayed for a few days longer
than was anticipated.

The Hindoo Patriot statee that the disaffection in
Allabeled was canted by the potting in force of Act It•of
loaf), in the case of some women in the keeping of men of
the 4th Native Infantry, and living with them in the posi•
UOLI Of wives

A meeting of the creditors of the Duke of Newcaatle
was held in London last meek, at which. cash composition
of 4s. in the pound wan offered. The accounta, however,
seemed to point to • dividend of le 64. or 2s. only, and
ultimately the Duke's offer was rtjected by • large majority.
At Lahinch, county Clare, on Saturday, a man
Illoed Terence O'Coghlen shot a lad named Thomas Mulliivy
with a double-barrelled gun, killing him on the spot. The
fourths- was committed In • main street of the village.
Multilvy was one of a number of lads who have been in the
habit of teasing ii Cosi:den. The latter was at once arrested.

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The total amount received by the Society for the
Relief of the Sick and Wounded in War Is £262,900, while
3,231 boxes and hales of storm have been forwarded to the
seat of war. After meeting the outstanding demand, and
liabilities the estimated available balance is .f. 26.000.
"Poor Mr. Vernon Rigby cannot get his name spelt
correctly by the foreign Journalists. The other day it was
'Vernon Ithibub ;' now they have got to *palling it Itighby !
Why must the Frenchman ' spike the English' In this Mel.
ner ?"—Musical Standard.
Hie Royal Highness Prince Christian of Schleiwig-
Holstein wtll be formally sworn in as Chief Steward of the
borough of New Windsor. on Monday. the 7th Inst. In the
evening the Mayor and Town Council will entertain his
Royal Highness at • grand banquet.
We (Times) have authority to give the most formal
denial to the telegram from Versaillem. dated October 26,
stating that the Comte de Paris and the Comte de Chambord
have had an interview abroad tits Royal Ilighnea• the
Comte de Paris has not left hie residence at Twickenham for
more than • month.

He said one day, not long before his death, that he
had a thousand tenants who paid leu than flee pounds eaoh,
many under a pound. • But do they pat?. • Not always,
they pay when they can : when they sell the pig."— •• Sir
Henry Bulwer's Life of Lord Palmerston,' in the Quarterly
Review.

On Saturday, a lad named John Aston living at
Small Heath, • suburb of Birmingham, was out With another
boy shooting birds. The um went off accidentally, and
wounded Ashton in the leg. Both bones were fractured,
and when the lad we. taken to the hospital amputation was
considered necessary.

The Ostiee Zeitling states that the Jews of Russian
Poland are openly manifesting an almost stronger sympathy
for France than the Polish population themselves. In •
great many towns of Poland and Lithuania religious ser-
vices have been held in order to implore the blessing of
Heaven upon the French arms. These service. have been
forbidden by the authorities.

"We learn with great pleasure that a lady has left
Mrs. Gladstone £l,OOO for her Orphanage at Woodford. The
genuine chanty of the l'remier's wife is beyond all wale..
We heard the otherday that she took home to Carltofrhoeuse-
terrace, not long ago, two Orphans, till there was room In
the Orphanage; and on the terrants objecting to their being
In the kitchen she took them up to the dining room"—
Court Journal.

In July, Augnet, and September, 1870, there arrived
at Castle Garden, New York, upward. of 800 immigrants
who came toj ohs the Mormons. Ten were Bavarians, 187
Swedes, 3 Saxons, 5 native, of the United States, 50 Webb,
273 English, 41 Scotch, 243 Dena, 26 Norwegians, and 8
lrfsh.

A shocking accident hal occurred at Birmingham.
Two schoolboys ran into the workshop of • cut-nail manu-
facturer to see the process; they were ordered away, and in
mistake went into another room where machinery was also
at work They got entangled, were drawn round the shaft,
and so dreadfully injured that death speedily resulted.
" Ephemeral literature now and then challenges
a note of admiration. A basser was lately held In Cork for
the benedt of the sink and wounded French soldiers. •
long historian, in the Cork Examantr, says that " the tables
literally groaned under the burden of the choicest meats and
viands that the ileum could produce for the refreshment
of the visitors ,"—Arhenertim ,

A reapectaSie farmer, named Fox, was fired at on
Sunday morning on his way to mass at Lahinch, by two men.
Ile was wounded in the shoulder, but not dangerously.
There were fifteen men digging out potatoes near the place,
to whom he called for assistance, but they paid no attention,
and let the mamba paean. tr them. A neighbour passing
by brought him to Lahiuch in his car. He held land
formerly occupied by others, and had received threatening
notices.

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A drunken Iriehmsn named Riley, who wag creating
a disturbance on Saturday night at a public-house at Brad-
ford, had to be forcibly removed into the street. An
assistant waiter named Leach was assisting in the operation,
when Riley'. brother came and stabbed him to the heart.
The poor fellow, who died in a few eeconda, leaves • widow
and five children. Riley was arrested next morning with a
clasp knife in his possession still stained with the blood of
his victim.

On Thursday in last week the Empress Eug flie
visited the Duchese de Mouchy, in Halt Moon-street, Lon-
don. M. Ronher and M. de Eersigny were present at the
Interview, at which the Empress reiterated in the most pad-
tire terms her resolution not to consent to the propositions
communicated to her through General Boyer. M de Per-
signy, It is said, protested very strongly against this resolu-
tion, but without effect.

Tiesth has laid its hand heavily upon the Liberal
majority in the House of Commons during the present yeer
Mr. C Wykeham Martin, whose decease was announced on
Tuesday, was the ninth Liberal who has died this year, the
olden haring been Mr. Briscoe, 78, and the youngest, lir I:.
Denison, 30. Since the beginning of 1870 no Conservative
member of the House of Commons has been removed by
death. . .

t Le a common miatake to write or print the name
of Goethe In lull, and notwithstanding to put two dots over
the "o.' These dots, In German, do not murk a dliereds,
but the elision of a letter, or, In fact, a diphthong . the "e "
diphthong; Mut " Gotha * would signify that the "o is
followed by an " e," both letters to be pronounced as one.
if " Goethebe spelt In full, the dote are superfluous, and only
tend to c onion.

The ConBtiPitionne2 Days :—" It appears that the
celebrated Pythoness of Tours, who Lives in the gnarlier of
the Rue du Petit Capldore, he. Interpreted the wonderful
appearance of Aurora Borealis of the 24th inst., In accord-
ance with the position of the planets and constellations, the
manner extraordinarily favourable to France."

From April 1 to October 29 the total receipt/ into the
Exchequer were £35,182,623, and this ia about four million.
abort of the revenue in the corresponding period of last
year. The expenditure has amounted to £40,508,327, of
which more than £18,000,000 has gone towards the interest of
the National Debt. Seven months of the financial year have
now Maimed. The budget estimate of revenue for the
twelve months is £87,034,000, and of expenditure £60,480,000.
The closing ceremony of the Workmen's International
Exhibition took place on Tuesday afternoon at the Agricul-
tural Hall, London, Mr. Gladstone, who presided, regarded
the exhibition u • step In the accomplishment of a great
work, and expressed • hope that the peaceful rivalry mud-
tested by many of the nations would extend throughout
Europe when the conflict of war ahould have ceased Much
progress has been made in English industries, and he was
glad to think that the union of capital and labour would be
promoted by such exhibition.. The right hon. gentleman
suggested that the deficit of £ll,OOO might well be made up
by the City Guild., which were poreased of vast wealth, for
which some persons thought they had not suffloleM oppor-
tunities of employment.

Lord Egmont has announced his intention to give
t 20,000 to the Matt Chtuch
In Texas a husband offers 1,200 dollars reward, and
no questions asked, II the man who took away his wile will
return her.

A young school teacher at Canton, Alseaschuaretts,
named Bantow, has been stoned to death by fora of her
pupils, boys. The young murderer. were taken into
enstody.

It is proposed that a monument eboubl be erected to
the memory of Ceptain Coles ad Burgot ne, by the officers
of their rank in the set rice, and that one guinea should be
the limit of the subscription.

.
The " Diary of a Besieged Resident," which readers
of the Dm!!! Nem, must have perseed with .Uotl pleasure,
Ii Said to be from the pun of Mr. Lsbottehere, formerly
member for Middlesex

"A captain of one of our crack regiments Wil9 on
Sunday week received Into holy orders •B II priest of the
Roman Catholic Church. The chinas In the service was
naturally n3t gaz.etted."—Court Jouri.al
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On the 151 or 16th of December, after paying the
accustomed annual visit to the tomb of the late Prince Con-
sort at Frogmore, her Majesty will leave Windsor f
Osborne, where the Queen will mend Christina&
The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges the
receipt of the first halves of notes for £3O from " X "on
account of Income-tax: awl the receipt of £133 101, con-
science money, from "A. C."

The emigration from Liverpool during the past
month ha been very brisk. Fifty Teasel@ have sidled with
13.695 emtgrants on board, an Increase on the mme month of
last year of over 800.

A gentleman writes to The Times to solicit charitable
assistance on behalf of • poor Yrench woman. who arrived In
England a short time ago, with two children, and who haa
been confined with twins.

On Monday the list of caseein the Divorce Court for
the ensuing Term was published. There are 131 causee for
heating and if standing over by consent. 01 the 131 ready
for trial 14 are to be heard before speciallaries, 19 by common
lades and OS without Judea.

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The resolutions pawed at the late meeting of the
London Democratic Association have been conveyed to the
Providonal Government of France by Mr. J. J. Merriman,
who has issued a report describing the incident, of his visit
to Tours.

A young lady, aged about 26 years, in Broad&lbin,
Fulton county, New York, has been confined to her bed for
ten or twelve years with some sort of reptile in her stomach,
which hes slowly Inlarked, end now causes her much suf-
fering

The Michigan papers contain a touching story of a
little gfrl who has been wandering for days and days from
house to house through that State, ant Inquiring In search
of bar grandmother, who several month, ago mysteriously
dbahtmeretL

Th. a...aL..--
On the Staghera ?strand, about four miles from Atdara,
county Donegal. At the inquest the jury were of opinion
that they belonged to the crew of the ship Sydney, which
was wrecked off the north-west coast of Danegal some time
WO.

The Marquis of Ay'wintry has given directions to
Mr. Bolam, his steward, to erect a number of Improved
cottsgee for the labourers engaged on hie Lordship's estates
at Savernake, and, when flashed, to pall down the old and
dilapidated dwelling, hitherto in use His Lordship. few
days ago entertained to dinner upwards of 200 of these
labourers at Savernake House.

"A young lady gave a small party recently, and,
being in want of a gentleman to complete • set of the
lancers, went into the hall, and seeing a nice-looking young
men there, insisted on his joining In the dance, though he
remonstrated very strongly against it. What was her sur-
prise and dismay to end, at the conclusion of the dance, that
she had been dancing with one of the welters r—Court
Journal.

A motion expressive of sympathy with France has
been introduced into the Hungarian Diet, but the House
refused by • large majority to discuss It. Count Andrasay,
the President, said that the Government had observed
strict neutrality between the belligerent., but that they
would no longer dose were they to adopt this motion. The
policy of neutrality had saved the country from the horrors
of war, and there was no need to depart from that policy.
Advices from Japan, rid San Francisco, state that
the Franco-German war has Induced the Japanese Govern-
ment to issue a neutrality proclamation. At the same time
the Government appointed a party of officer., one a Prince
of the Imperial bouts, to visit the seat of war in Farope,
and report the result of ohtervations. These delegates had
already arrived at Ban Francisco, and would proceed over.
land to New York, and then to France or Germany.

La Scene Marie de la Croix, whose interviews at the
Spring of La Sellette with the Virgin Mary made such a
noise in the Catholic world, haa pronounced agahrt a
Bonapartist restoration. She says she always loathed the
man of Haeamber,whose tilstorysank deepinto her soul,': and .
she prays Heaven not to ,lilt his crimes on France, which
unhappily also merita chastisement lee years of scepticism.
The Sister's political confession of faith is extensively pub-
lished by her ecclesiastical superiors who yupport the pre-
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tenalons ef the Count de Chambord.

The Contagious Dimmed; Act were set in operation
at Winchester on the 6th of January lest. During the first
quarter the number found diseased among those subjected
to these Acts we. nearly 40 per cent ; but their eeclialon hes
eliminated the sources of contagion so rapidly that by the
middle of [newt mouth (October) no dl.o.sed venom; were
found at the parialical examination, and not. single case of
the &maim agsimit which these Acta are directed was under
treatment In the Military Hospital at Winchester.

It may be worth while recalling Sir Walter Scott's
deliberate opinion on the Praitotireur question. ideutioning
the curious fact that the Archduke Charlie, in 1809, called
out every peasant to arms, while later the Austrians were
threatening with military execution every peasant who
'''bgeedinsapssimilar
.rtial hisrrilt.sant'm'Ll proclfrom
aim, in Zitaboenesa"
case as
In the other, that the duty of resistance in the defence of
our native country does not depend on the character of a
man's weapons or the colour of his coat t and that the armor
citizen is entitled, equally with the regular soldier, to tht
benefit of the laws of war"
The Italian laws with regard to the Press have been
Introduced at Rome with important modifications. in the
first place, attacks and insult; directed agstnat the Pope and
the Envoys of foreign Powers to the Holy See are assimilated
to those wand the King and Envoys accredited by him.
In the second place, the provisions of the penal laws against
the Press are inapplicable to printed documents emanating
from the Pope or from the Ecclesiastical offices established
for the exercise of tho spiritual power. A preening decree
asalmilatee the person of the Pope to that of the King, as
regards the mime of high treason.

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So many victories, so many honour' ! Von Moltke
WU seventy years old last Friday; so King WIIII.m made
hint a Count. Perhaps not many people In England were
redly aware that he was not a Count before—that he wail
only a Baron; and yet the news of his promotion will tell
with but small effect on the millions to whom his name haa
grown familiar. Baron, or Count—Von Unlike hu made hie
mark ma the popular mind In our century: and by the
vocables of his own name he will be remembered and
honoured when the particulars of Ms title have aunt once
more into oblivion.

Last week the aggregate mortality in London and
nineteen other large towns of the United Kingdom was In
the ratio of 22 deaths annually to every 1,000 of the present
estimated Population. The rate varied from 14 in Wolver-
hampton to 36 In Leicester. In the metropolis 2,229 births
and 1,286 deaths were registered, the former having been IS,
and the latter 160 below the average. Zymotic diseases
caused 343 deaths, including 21 from small-pos. 13 from
measles. 167 from scarlet fever, 9 from diphtheria 7 from
croup, 17 from whooping-cough, 6 from typhus, 24 from en-
teric or typhoid) fever, 1 from relapsing fever, 6 from
simple continued fever, 10 from erysipelas, and 29 from
diarrhoea. One death was registered from choleric diar-
rhoes. The mean temperature daring the week was 48-2 or
0 6 above the reading of the corresponding week in arty
years.