The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-01 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEW

BRITISH AND FORBIGa.

The wife of • labouring man out of work, residing
is Lmidon, presented her husband, already the father of
three, with three additional pledges on Wednesday last.
In the commune of Rassauta, Algeria, 24 natives
have died from eat, g the flesh of a cow which was supposed
to have been atfe,ted with some pestilential malady.
It has been stated that one of the Marine Insurance
compantee lost 30.0,.01. in a few hum as the direct coulee-
nuance of the well-remembered Calcutta cyclone.
Moo Armstrong, well known as a lady-preacher. has
In the prese a work, entitled A Pled Jr Modern Prophe-
irate*.
Two priests in Venetia are about to come forward as
candidwee for the Italian Parliament
Itlassachwetts has elected two "negroes," that is,
fair non, with a drop of dark Dlood in them, to the State
Leg islature.
One hundred pounds reward is offered for the re.
cover, of an original drawing by Gustave Dore, which was
hit in a London cab the other tiny.
When the King of Italy arrived in Florence after
the Venetian fetei he was met by Baron iiicasoll, who
offered blot his band. No," said Victor Emmanuel,
let us embrace each other !" anti he sullied the action to
the word
Prince Peter Buonaparate has entered the Italian
service with the rank of General.
The celebrated French physician, Dr. Troeseau, is
dead.
In Boston and New York it yea proposed to ring
the fire-hells on the night of tl e 13th ins-ant, when the
meteoric shower commenced, to wake up the inhapitanta of
those two cities to bee the the lif Men.

The Aforaing Herald einnouneen, with withority,
that the claen• of the United States govererne,t utno, this
country, arising out of the dationa of the Alabama
and other mean Is, have recenti% bean brought anal, under
the notice if the Foreign Office, and that they are now
under consideration by the cabinet of Lord Derby.
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Ht., Von Dreyse, the inventor of the needlwgun,
has been rerroieed ly the Kin, of Prussia, to whom be pre-
sented the pattern of a new weapon much more sour-
Lionel Holilsworth, a Liverpool commission agent,
all lobs d lo matters conn.cted with the scu• Wog
of the sinp .s.',erro, has, it it stabnl, been arrested I. Fr.sna•
10.4 was offered for hie aporso nada.
A letter from Rome declares that one of the prin.
Myatt in tn., muo.er I Pre hoent lA, bad Just :wen dis-
cos?. ted in the rooks of the Youtilic+l Z sin-n. Having been
arrested on the demand of the United States Minister, the
man was lodged In the prison of Amami, whence, however.
be 111/I.othiAti In t ff•ctlng his escape.
An American letter says the character of Senator
Wilson, the Maisachusetta senator who I. always calling
n,on the Almighty to Judge that he is right, and always
alluding in Ina speeches to 'Abe Rook if Ages," may be
lna .o.d when it Is learned that he has published a solemn
letter announcing his conversion."
In noon. parts of Cornwall oysters bred on one side
of • river are so coppery that they are poisonous, while three
bred en the other elite of tile name river are wholesome and
of delicious It senor. The oysters lire-1 on the coppery beds
are transferred to the south of England oyster parks, where
they are kept and fattened, sad after • while tic coppery
inpreguations and these oy stern are soug:.t alter by
epicures.
The hog cholera is very prevalent in the vi,inity of
Richmond, Kentucky. One tnan, who had I ga. bet 16
within three days. snd other Owners have also suffered
severely. At histaCcounts the disease was on the increase.
A first dividend of right shilling. in the pint ml will
protstely in era.c declared on the estate of the late Bir-
mingham Ranking Cnomany.
M. Katilla, banker, at Stnttgard, has gained the
lot of 30.1.000 fl •rin• at the last lottery in Austria. being
another exemplificathln of the proverb "Lean VA tOUIJUIA
la elitism."
The Falls of Niagara, on the American side, have
recwied tau font, in consequence of the fall of Immense
masses of rock.

Somebody haa maid, It appeare, that Conalliemarck
le. diferace and had resigned, hut the erintotticial North
German Gazettr of Monday contradlas the report, which it
&elates to be totally devoid of foundation.

The Prince of iValee, who was expected to leave
}Waal. lu thee to keep the Princesa's birthday on the Iss of
December at SaWlringhatu, will not reach England before the
middle of next wink. The only feativltita at Sandringham,
therefore, on Saturday will he en entert.inment to the chil-
dren of the various .hoole on the estate, mud a bonfire on
Ilalaclava-hill at night

Mr. KynuereleY, the etipendiary magistrate of Bir-
mingham, his given judgment on the question which was
raised before him, Whether an blegitimate child is liable for
the support or his mother? Mr Kynerr•ley said that as
there is nothing in the statute t, attach a Ilahillly to the
mother. so a fortiori there is nothing to render an illegiti-
mate child liable, and he was satiated that he had no
authority in grant the application ',MO had been male.

On Friday night the schooner Lod g of the Lake,
belnalux to Ahem..., laden With Ihno, .truck upon the
beat Rock Eat of nolo Wand Castle, and before auditance
Could be got to the crew the ship went down, and all ham!.
were lost. lii. supposed there were five personl on hoard.
The s'ioute of the men were heart at !lois !Bitted, lint there
was not time to reach them before the Olin imok. The lime
coming in contact with the water burst the attlp almost im-
mediately. A do; Was fount dead fl 'sting on the water.

A story is told of an officer who managed to remain
at the depot of his regiment during the whole of the
Crimean War. After peace flu proclaimed he obtained nix
montha' leave of abeence to go and vistt the graves if hie
brother °dicers who had died during the war.

A French pa ' alluding to the dead silence
which reigned at a rye iborn bly, used this pretty simile,
derived from though nickpocliet—" One could have
heard the extraction o ket-handkerehief from the coat
of any one of the aud
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An extensive order has been received in Newton,
Shropshire, from the Queen, for a number of red flannel
cloaks and a quantity of Welch flannel, of ordinary staple
manufacture, for charitable dlstrinution by her timPuty.
Similar orders have been received from the ladies of several
noblemen, the object hilng to encourage the Welslillannel
manufacture of Newton, which hu recently been much de-
pressed. 4''' • ( q • ,• . • '. . 1... ...
A f, w days since a large bottle-nose whale was shot
In Lochfyne bp • &fr. al 'Farlane, who, on obperving the
monster disponi, g is the loch opposite Inverary. went oat
In a boat, and put • rifle ball fairly through its shoulder.
After some floundering the whale sank out of sight. A few
days afterwards the carcase was cut ashore nine miles
down the loch it measured 30 feet lu length, and will yield
about 3a.

A new magnet of considerable power has been intro-
duced by M. Orissa consisting of a long eplral Iron or steel
Min, such as Is obtslntd from Iron-turning. Acoordlng to
M. 1.10.10 i, the south polo of such a n,agnet I. always at that
end of toe epiral which the Instrument has first touched.
Ile also states tl•at. the Inagoeti.ro of these spirals 'sof a very
puren.nent nature.

It ie announced that important triala of peat fnel for
t ovine, have been 'wedeln Canada Perhaps it m..y be worth
stating that peat has long been used as fuel for engines on tie
Bavarian litoa of railway Although it I. condeosed before-
head, the results do not seem a. advantageous as those at.,
tabled by coal, however well peat may answer In a country
where little coal Is produced.
A few dap; ago two Austrian pedlars perceived a
dashing olicer, brilliant with stare, who evidently did not
di, It hrlcindlist of Limeelf, but who walked along the stewed
as if the whole city of Vienna belonged to him. Tney offeref.
him their wares, but he gave then, a disdati fal glanc,, and
proceeded on Ate way. .9.1 e is a Mobility fellow," said one
of the men, "and seems as pi owl as it he took the whole
credit of the defeat of Konlgaratz to himself."

The third and last statute fair was held at Mahon
on Saurley, and was attended he great numbers of both ms le
Ile. to Inge .ervants for hire. Farmers complain that wage,
are running Up every year, and a considerable advance
been mete this. The tH ohs to provide shelter and food for
the girle leave worked very satisfactorily, sewerly any havlsg
"stood the market" with the boy. and melt aa in former
years. The men, tote, have shown a marked improvement,
for, although they were all in possession of tneir wagm,
there has been •,ry little drunkenness and riot this year
The Emit Teignmouth ritual ease has passed through
one at us stages. the churc,watden, it may be remem-
ber d, proceeor d agaiust the inouniant•t tor aelmilating the
servi, e of tin church to the eereniontee of the Church of
Rome The iseurnoeni's enulasi to. t a preliminary ohjec-
lion to the form of the clinic,,, and after two days. mgt.
ment. Jo lament Was reserved. On Mn ily Or. Lushington
gave his Washout aealllet the lifiuhiioeflt, who thereopt_
gave totter it appeal to the Jailed Committee. When Me
10101 ot the yueetion Will be decided upon nobody known.

Tne London End North-Weetern Railway Company
Intend building a magnifioent hotel in Lune-direct, Liver-
pool, al a cost of 100,0Jol.
Since the process of photographing upon and
linen nml been perfected In France, many persons bile* their
traits upon their linen Instead of their names ps
,y are,. not Mitred by washing.
In the Banda booty cane, which occupied the Court
of Admiralty twenty seven days with the Judgment, and in
which tbLetysisevn counsel appeared, the law onets, as
allowed, were 68,0001. The fuw. Is expected shortly to be
dirt led. It was taken nearly ten year. ago.
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rhri.yrats,

Snow has fallen rather heavy in the mountains of
Dataphiny and in the range of the Jura. Sharp frost has
been felt at Lyons, 11/tint-Etienne, and itouen. St. Peters
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burgh letters mention that mamas of lea are floating down
the Neva, so as to suspend all navigation.
Thp republicans of the Sixth Ward in Boston have
&oven lir. Charles L Mitchell, a negro, to represent them in
the Sle,te 4,0011'411re of Massachusetts.
A plainapoken Western preacher fieliverea the fol-
lowing from his desk —"I: would announce to the emigre.
gation that, probably by mistake, there wan left at this
meeting-house, this morning, a small cotton umbrella, netch
damaged by time and wear, and exceedingly pale In colour
In place whereof was taken a very large silk umbrella, and
of reat beauty. Blender, of this sort, brethren and sisters,
are getting a little too common."
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Carlotte Patti mks 1201. to sing at a concert ; yet,
notwithstanding, this somewhat high tariff is in great de-
mand The Patti family are a dynuty of artiste.: it is said
that there Is a yodnger sister who hici• fair to outshine Ade-
lina, and a brother who Is. magnificent tenor.
It is said that the life of a Saxon lady—the wife of
a barritei—being insured for a very large sum, she lately
committed suicide, in order that her husband should get the
insurance money, and tree himself from his debt In nrst
cases in Paris it is the reverie—the husband commits
suicide to free himself from Ms wiles debts. The heroism
of the Getman cue is curious.
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The Dry Dock Railroad Company of New York,
wishing to run • curve of their road through a certain street
of that city which would inconveniently block up the
pavement, did their work on Sunday in order to avoid an
Injunction on their proceeding, as no civil process could be
issued on that day.
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The wife of a man named Sharpe recently gave
birth to three children at Toynton, St. Peter's, Lincoln-
shire, and her medical attendant applied on her behalf for
the donation usually given by the Qlll.Oll, hot was informed
In reply that the woman was not eligible for the gdedlill
boubty, as all three children did not survive.
At Lille, recently, the body of a woman was found
In the collar of an unfinished house, and was deutified by
a M Rousseau as that of his wife Preparations were mace
for the I unseal, hut the day before that fined for burial the
reel Mrs Rousseau re-appeared. She had simply left her
husband after n slight quarrel, and gone to her friends at a
short distance.

A duel between Count Glam•Grallas and Marshal
Beeedek is considered pn.laele, as the former has published
pamphlet on the recent war in which he stigmatises the
Mawsbal as "• liar."

A project fit maid to he under consideration for calling
out twenty regiments of English Militia, and quartering them
in Ireland, thus effecting the two-fold olject of releasing
eome 14,000 or 15,000 troops of the line, now available for
reliefs on foreign stations, and quenching among the loyal
portion of the community the growing sense of olatrillit that
I. rntertained of the tidelity of the men in certain corps.
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740/. a foot in not a In:d price for land, yet that is
about the sum paid for a small portion recently in Mel-
bourne. For 27 feet trontase no less a sum than 20,0001. was
paid The land is about 200 feet deep, and in 1039 was pur-
chased from the government at the original land sale In
Sydney for about 101.
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A hare was shot on the estate of Largo this week
with • small meta plate attached to one of Its legs by mean.
of • copper chats. The plate had the following engraved on
It ,—"S.Y.W.G Iv 4"

The Prussian Government in going to put an end to
.11 trimming on the part of officers who held commiasions
In the late Hanoverian army. Before the Ist cd January they
are to apply to the en-King to be releued from their oath
of allegiance, and make application either for pensions or
places in the Prussian army. It they fall to do this than
heir pay will be cat Mt.
Mr. J. M. Grant, the hon. secretary to the Quebec
Fire Relief Fund, has received through Messrs. Coutte and
, the munificent sum of 1,0001 from Anonymous," in
alt of the sufferers by thia terriole calamity.
The A renir National uublishes the following tele.
graphic despatch front Borne—The Pope has invited the
Eitiprew of the French and the Prince Imperial to go and
pa's the Chrlarnas holiday. lick° Eternal City."
The Louisiana State Peallitiary at Bvton Rouge
I. undergoing repairs It la prmosed to teach the criminals
the shoe trade Says the Advocate The labour of 100
convtlts, steadily apmied, will result in the manufacture of
48,005' pair, of shoes per annum This slone will keep within
the State a very large sum that Is now paid direct to Maass-
Chusetts "
At East Witton, near Middleham, Yorkshire. on
Friday Mgt, • fatal accident betel • jockey. A race was being
run for. gold cup by three horses, and in the second heat a
home named Carnirette, ri.iden by a youT.g man named
Chislolme, 'swerved at a *olden torn in the course, and at •
tree which wee lying • little way off. Chisho'me was thrown
nff, and. pitching his head against the tree, he was killed on
the spot.
The remarkable article on the Indian mutiny, in the
last number of the EdinPaavh heroic, is nerd to be by the
Duke of Argyd.
" Among the new inventions is a button which
Is faateued to cloth without thread. It U said to minas&
solely of a button with wire to be inserted Into the Cloth
like a corkscrew, and then pressed down fiat, toe, to form
• ring to hold the button Pi its place. As this Invention
will enable every man to keep the button on the shirt him-
self. it is calculated to co aaay with wives altogether"—
Co,rrt Journal.
What appears to be the tomb.statue of Henry. eldest
.013 if lienry the Stc.md of England, and brother to Beard
the Mint, has heen °lacerated during tile recent excavations
in Rouen Cathedral.
The Fenian revival has already produced a bad effect
on Mutineer; In Dublin, and the suopkoepeirs anticipate adult
wi wee

Wz,clc continues to wash ashore near Bade, Corns
welt. On grids, a whale boat, 30 feet long and 10 feet wide,
WAS seemed. There woe no due as to its ownership.
A joint commission is about to be appointed by the
Bvittin and French Governnonts for the purpose of Invest'-
nett/ g and improving the Hillery laws of the two countries.
Among the imperial contributions to the Untvereal
gehibitiou is to i.e a needle cannon of limper, Napoleon
111 Inv, ntion, made of steel. This new cannon bears the
winie anitilly to an ordinary cannon as does the needle gun
to the old musket.
A disnatch from Washington informs the pubic
that nl,el vernment has received intormatton of an in teuded
speedy invadon Cans,., nut that the authorities are W-
eaned to doubt the correctness of the statement.
A letter from Compiegne states that the active if.
led by the Emperor, his application to business, and the
excursion. which he makes prove to every one that Lill
IlAjesty ci j,,ya excellent health.
A portion of the roof a new retort•house now in
forocese of construction at the Salford Corporation On
W.n.ae fell on Satoroay forenoon, killing one of tin work.
man employed in raising an iron beam. His leteklyme was
hrolaen, and indeed the bony was nearly cut in two The
deceased MU twenty six years of age, and leaves a widow
and two children.

The Bishop of 11fontanhan ban issued pastoral
letter Fpeetine of the evil. which threaten the Cnurch. and
ordaining trulltuni, or thrt e day.' prater, f‘tr the Sovereign
Foutlff and the Church, on the 7th, nth, nod sth Ntmiter.

" For reaeone which need not be eopecially men.
none.", it hae been found bucessary to discharge ab the
female Jerks employed In the Intetior Dspartmtnt, and
many of those employed in the Treason Departmeut."—New
Yak correspondeut of London Standard.

Lieutenant Brand, P., who, an judge of the court-
martial in Jamaica outing the riAsi there last )tar, con-
demned nearly 200 perm,n, to desth, is twenty-eight years of
age. He entered the naval service In lob?, and was made a
lieutenant in 1659. At the time he was J udge he was twenty-
seven Yearn of age. and was lieutenant of H. If S. Aboukir.
on the Jamaica stash., and we, employed in the commend
of a tenoer to the A Doiddr, which ran between Herald Bay
and Kingston He in now a lieutenant commanding her
Id ijesty's gunboat Delight.

It is announced that the joddes have resolved to
recommend that Lancashire ahould he made a circuit; that
assizes should be held three times every year at Manchester
and Liverpool that the Northern Circuit should he com-
posed of Yorkshire, Durban), Northumberland Westmore-
land, and Comherland and that assizes should be hebi at
Birmingham for the Midland Circuit, to whicli Northampton
and Leicester should again be added.
A very close race has taken place between the
clipper ship Ootar Poeho, built in Aberdeen, and the True
Briton, built on the Theme., from Melnoorne to LOn,il.l).
th vesaelii left Sandridge pier, on the same day—the True
Briton having about 200 immense= on board—and arrived
at L. nOon, after a race of 15.u00 milea within an hour of
each other, the Omar Podia being the winner. The passage
was accomplished in lb days.

On Friday the strike in the iron trade at Middles.
her ugh, which has now astendvd over eighteen works,
terminated by the men agreeing to return to work at the
red nett in proposed by the masters at the commencement of
the struggle.

When— the lavt French aoltlier haft left Civita
Vs chi, what witl happen t The Saturday Re view thus
an•isers the queetsue The lope wid he left alone with his
.1 fects, and so far as they are concerned, he may stay with
them very comfortably They will not hurt him, some
persons make sure that he will go away rather than taro
them. Accotding as fancy dictates, they sugg.st that he
will hurry off at mom to Malta, to the Ilelearic Isles, to
Jerusalem, to Comity Cork. No one knows, probably not
he himself, whether he will go or stay.

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Mr. Basin illuminates the bottom of the sea by
means of electric light, for the purpose of discovering the
position of sunken vessels, ,to. Ills photographic studio
consists of a iroog sheet-iron box, braced trausverasly, slid
admittii g the light through lenshaped wstextight window.;
and he can remain in it without Inconvenience for about ten
minutes. lie has, it is said, produced sharp anal well-defined
photographs, suited to remitter easily the recovery of .lij. cis
gunk to considerable depths, and has already worked at
depths approaching to 300 h-nt.

A Major William Al'Lean advertises for sale in
Virginia tne Bonne In which General Lou at Appomattox
Courahoure surrendered to General Grant the Confederate
army of Northern Yuviola, on Aprn nth, 18456. It le a
strange coinckence that thie same gentleman should
be the owner of the land at Manassas, oh whic`i the battle
of Bull Ran, the flint contest of the war, was Vueht, and he
sells hte property at Appomattox Court-houee in oroer to
return to Manassas, from which place he was driven by the

A shocking accident bee haPpened near Ashby-de-
la.Zouch. A timekeeper mused Fairbrothr, r, employed on
the estate of Lacy E .Ith Hastings, got upon the railway with
the intention of walking to his home, which was altuaLed at
about • mile's distance, a Custom which it appears he regu-
larly followed, It wen then about eight o'clock and • clear
moonlight night, but by some mischance he was knocked
down and run over by a goods train The driver of a psi.
sender train which (dime,' raw something on the line, from
which on his approadbing Its th g leant d out. A search was
thin mode, and latrbrother was found with hi, head
literally cut in two, mot one of the pieces lying about ten
yards off. Ills dog still remained keeping g u ard over the
ma, gled body of his unfortunate MOIL!,
The Rev. J. L. Lyne, whose engagement at St.
Bartholomew's Church, Cripplegate, has already been mo-
tioned, preached there on Sunday evening to • large congre- !
gallon. Be does not appear in monkish habit, but in the
surplice. differing from °canary clergymen only in the extra
lemdh of the cassock. The tomnre on the hewn in concealed.
Ile has not yet received • license from the Bishop of London. I
nor is it known whether his lordship will consent to admit
him into the -rder of the priesthood.
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In the mute of the IC.iitlingham murder, the police,
during the we. k, have been making the most minute search
of the premises of Watson, as also the heighbouring
grounds. A pool In Me corner of a field adjoining
the rai way, where the gap we. discovered, and where
It it ruPoo.ed Rayner'. body WY carried through, has
been carefully examined, the water h4viug been pumped oh&
and the mud strictly war cbed. It was prevfauely supposed
that Raynor', watch would be found in this pond, Ws the
effort, of the police were vain During the Mihail of the
inqumt (whico has loon injoutinto, there WM, • good ce.a
of est:Dement ; and the metheal evidence emit 10 show that
strangulation wee the cause of altath.

A—tire lately broke out on tbe preruioes of Mrs. imi
learns harmer, at Hall. Stra. hteitlearn etcaped, hut her two
itauglittra Ant it twelve alit sixteen, perished Ii the
One rep.! t States that the pollen Olt out. refuted to allow
the height-Kw, ato attempt to Mean thtse poor children, and
actually ar e.ted a Mall who attempted to f,,rce his way ho-
st.... The Is, her of these chiloreo, who wit, a policeman,
lost hia life while iti tie executioo ot his duly at • [lre which
occurred l,i 111111 shout totr years coo A suescriptlon for
iii. Onutahilva faintly w. reined, nod the widow iris owl up
itt buoinolo In Wu proinisos Inal oonaukod.