The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-08 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Prof. Max Muller has a third volume of his "Chips
from a German Workshop "it, the press

lineal% is engaging inglieh workmen to a very great
extset.

The anniversary ef the Queen of Prnwia's birthday
we celebrated with great it-Mango In Berlin on the 30th
Septeint•cr.
We learn from the North China Iltrald that one of
the victims of the 7 inottin ma/macre was young Irlah lady,
a Mills Alice Sullivan.

It ia fully anticipatel ttat at lead £3,000 will toe
handed over to the Birmingham General Horpital, es the
profit of the late festiv.l.

A eerimning tchool in Frankfotbon•tht-Maine an-
notioud in English :—"Sa tmmti g Instru:tions given by a
teacher of both SE VP."

In taking the census in Ohio a family hss teen found
where the nest son is named Imprimis, the second Finis, and
the three others Appenelx, Addendum, and Erratum !

It appears that there are at this moment two spots
on the sue, which can be eaally men through a piece of smoked
glass.

A queer" temperance pledge " jiM b,en circulating
In Russia. It bound the signers to abstain from brandy till
brandy should be butter and tolerably cheep.

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A enrintut Ll.a has seized a youne lady—namely. to
lecture all over England on the at. of making cheese as pren-
Stud at Cheddar.

The French Aciclemy have voted an addrenq of
thanksto I. Julves Fevre. M. lane Is • member of the
Academy.
A enbacription organbed by the Daily News for the
distressed peasantry of north-o'l4Am FrauCs, has produced
upwards of ZI,COO.

It is stated that the Hon. Revery Johnson, late
Amerie .n thirster at the Court of St. James's,ts suffering
from a di.ease of the eyes, which it ls hared will end In
total blhaluess.

In Nantucket there need to he a mihtary company
called tho Nantucket Guards, the first article in the constitu-
tion of which was. "to case of war this company th 11 Im-
mediately disband."
Among 4 the French refugees in Belg;um th‘re are
said to tee 3.1,00 Parisians in Brunel.. Count de Palikao
has taken up his residence in Spa 31. Devienne, President
of the Cone de Caseation, in Brussels. Qaeen Isabella is sup-
posed to have found an wylum there els,

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It is dated tbat Lady Ilabert of Lea is so seriondy
M that her condition causes groat anxlety, and that It
has been thought neceenry to keep from her the news of
the foundering of the Captain, with het second son on
board.

Two well-known actresses on the French board%
Mabbin and angina have enllrte4 ia the National
Guards as mail, Wes. Several f the male actors have al-
ready enlisted either in the National Guards or Mobiles.
General Troche la bald to be descended from Racine.

Lord Alfred Paget ham, it is maid, been pent by her
Majesty the Queen on a visit of aympathy to the Empreu
Euenie, at Chiselhurat She expressed her gratitude for the
god feeling exhibited towards her by the public since bet
arrival in thle country.

At the end of the late session an act was paesed to
enable the owner. of :ettled estates In England and Ireland
to charge the estate lih the expense of building mansions
as residences for themselves. Such expense is not to exceed
two years' rental.
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It is not legal to use for the purpose of prepayment
of postage any embossed or Impressed stamp cut out or other-
wise separated from any cover, paper, or coal, on which It
wan emanate,. Any 81101 stamp on a letter, newspaper, pub.
licatlon, packet, or card will be disregarded.

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A welhknown south Staffordshire firm has just
patented an Invention for rolling heavy armour plates, ate
reduction of £6 per ton on the present cost, and the Govern•
meat has approved of the new process, roller particulan
are, frcm prudential motives, at present reserved, but they
will be elaborately explained in the course of a few weeks.

A ',hod Parham. ntery ptper, ordered on the motion
of Mr. Locke Kng, hat just been issued, showing side by
side, in parellel columns, the existing Table of Lemons and
the revised Table. It will be found very convenient by those
who %fah to examine In detail tho changes proposed. It Is
numbertd 449 in the label the House of Commons' Parlia-
mentary papers, and is published by Mr. Hansard

An application was forwarded on Tuesday to the
Home Secretary by the solicitor to Margaret Waters, who
stands for execution en Tuesday next, expressiog his con-
viction that she had no intention to murder any of the
children committed to her care. He adds that before the
trial the woman Etta admitted to him Out she, and not her
alder Waters, administered laudanum to the children to keep
them quiet.

Several convictions of persons for non-compliance
with the Vaccination Act took place before the police
maglairate at Hammen=lth, on S ttutday. In most of the
cases the objectlon of the parents to g-t their children
ve.cinated seemed to rest on a ividespewl ides amongst the
poorer classes that vaccination is tie ewe, rather than the
preventive of disease. The does billeted were of a small
amount.
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A letter f.con Ciney. in Belgium, etates that during
list week a troop of 11 wild boors sought refuge In tho park
surrounding the chdiesu of Bonin. one of these animals was
killed in a dahlia bed. It is scaled that the wild animals
alarmed by the continual disturlyince caused by the recent
battles, have 11. d from Alsace and Lorraine to more peaceful
hoards in neutral Belgium.
A St. PeterPburg journal Pays that Marshal Bazoine
is only a Frenchman hy naturalization. Some French engi-
neer officers were authorisid by Napoleon I. to enter the
Russian service, and unions them was M. Basins. This
gentleman was married, but had no child, and in ISII he
adopt. dan infant which was abandoned at his doer. The
foitedling Is the present gallant defender of Metz
At eight o'clock on Tu.-a-fay morning George Chal-
mers was exe:uted ci hi, the walls ef the Perth comity pri-
son for the murder rif Miller, a tollkeeper at iffackldll, in
December last. Since Ids conviction the condemned prisoner
has behaved with the greatest coolness, and has repeatedly
denied his guilt. Ox ascending to the scaffold he was not in
the least affected, and just before the bolt felt he exclaimed,
" Good-by to you all for evermore. Thank God lem Into.
cent."

The National Dog Show will be held at Birmingham
on seth November and three following day, ; the entries clOee
lit November.

Another novel by Garibaldi is annonnoct It in
being leaned as a feted:ohm In the Em d' Italia, • newspaper
" representing the Italian press in New York."

"Wanted, a General !" This might well fill the
advertising columns of every newspaper left In Fran.w.
The general In question Is needed outside the walls of Paris.
An accident occurred on 'rueeday night to a train
conveying soldiers. near eritot, on the Amiens and it.,uen
Railway Pilt I.ri persons were killed, 15 mortally injured,
awl 100 others Injured more or leis seriously.
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The manifesto of the Emperor Napoleon will appear
thortly A contemporary says it recommends peace, and
stigmatic. the members ttf the Provichmal 6.ermatut ad
guilty ,f high treason against the nation and throne.

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A econ d botch of the Imperial private correspond-
mice bar l..en ',rioted. ilon Item ts rnoeipi of 10,000 fr on
acc,nut of 3o,oorfr. allowed by the Emperor for furniture
for M. Baron Jerome David.

Toe last deapatAi sent from the Tuileries on the 4th
September bears the signature of the Prince ...tutor, and con-
stitutes it pun. It la as follows :—'• Paris, 2 50. Defame to
Maubeuge. Filon, cur llelgi sue.'

Twoolay the Archbishop of Canterbury presided
over an Influential meeting held at Canterbury to consider
the beet minus of extending elementary education In con-
nection with the 11:0Ct.1,11 h.s.dutions recommend-
ing the immediate application on the part of the BAN for
building grants, and other odowures, were adopted.
"A man who is owing no a little bill wild he wouhl
call last we k and pay no if he was alive. Ile still appeara ei
the Street, but, as he did nut call, It to naturally Blippo6.lllo
is deAl, and le walking about to save funeral expellees.--
.4 merit. n paper._
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One of the New York ahothly aristocrats, a ineneLer
of a fashionable chural there, ele3rlllal a mud,eller some
time since by imptaing for .S.llonsou's Song," saying hit
Minister had epuliell of it as a production of great genius
OJAI beauty, and that be wanted his daughter to clog it
An lintilishmln, Mr. Fervneon, at Amiss, in the
Dutch West Indies, has receives! the prier of 100 friedriohs
d'or for writing t`se best essay on the theme proposed by the
Prussian Societe for the tending of the wounded, concerning
the best way of succouring the sufferers during a naval en •
gagement.
It is said that agents ars looking out all over the
Country for a suitable permanent residence for the ex-Im-
perial lousily, and that a mansion at Rcehampton, near
Barnes, may yet be selected. Bruited Park. near Tunbridge,
whkh was at first thought of, has too many attractions for
Ito present proprietor to allow oh his parting with It.
Within the last few days the plain and simple in-
smell m on the tombstone over Charles Dickens'a crave In
Westminster Abbey has been t sposod to view. Dia tomb-
stone now beam the follow tog simple inscription :—"Coarles
Dickens, born 7th Fabruary, 1512, died 011 Jane, 1570." foe
'Atter' are to brass, sunk M., the atone.

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The personalty of the late Mks Atherton has been
sworn under £400,000111 the slancheater Probate Court She
has 101 l .£2OO,OJJ to charitable legacies. Toe valuable library
which she posvemed as the lest representative of the Byrom
LfitiliY,ltas been bequeathed to thr Governors of the Cheatham
Library, the first free library in the kingdom.

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Tongariro, the only active volcano in the Austra-
lasian group. which Is Annetta is the province of Auckland,
New Zealand, has recently shoffll unusual signs of perturba-
tion. At times immense volumes of dense black smoke were
emitted from tile crater, and loud reports, whleh were at
times likened to the noise caused by the falling of an
immense body of matter, were heard on the plates at short
intervals.

The tecond batch of the private papers of the Im-
perial family, published in Paris, contains a despatch from
the Ernpresa to Ito Emperor, which shows that the latter In-
tended to return to Pane aftsr his two first defeats. Revela-
tions are also made reLtive to a recent journey of M.
Rouher to the Imperial Peed.Querterr.

Al. Felix ryat, in his organ, Le Corneal, urges war to the
death, and proposes that the Parisians should at once have
Spartan banquets, at which rich and poor should fare alike.
—A proposal has also heen made to start a natl.- nal slO4.
cription for a musket a honour, to be given to the men who
shoots the King of Prussia. There are already 2,000 sub-
scribers of one sou each to the testimonial.

A juirney from Lrindon to Brighton on a tricycle of
a novel c•nitnictiou was perforun a last week by Mr. Jack-
son, of Paris, the well-known manufacturer of bicycles.
Accompanied by his son and a gentleman named flower,
the former riding on the ordinary bicycle and the lattitr on
the velocipede of the phantom pattern, he started from the
Weqhninater-bridge-road, in Loudon, and arrived at "Albion
Hotel," Brighton, In n hoara
The French Poet-office authoritita have announced
that they will despatch balloons with private correspon-
dence as regularly as the weather will permit. The corre•
spondence must be written on very thin paper, and each
letter must be open and not weigh more thin three grammes.
It may he four centimetres long by seven centimetres broad, •
ma-t ba addressed outside By balloon,' and mutt be pre,
paid at the ordinary rains. •

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Zymotic diseasea caused 3444; death i in Loud m 14,t
week, including 13 from small pox, 14 from measles, 171 from ,
scarlet fever, 10 from diphtheria, 15 from croup, 13 from
whooping-cough, 14 from typhus, 22 frcm roterC or
typhoid fever, 10 from simple contioued fever, 8 from ensl•
Pelee, and 47 from diarrl Let. hom "simple cho:era" one
death we. regiitered.
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On Saturdayaftercoon (Oct. 1) plaraaanta were exhi
blood for sale in the London somitenue shops, and belrg tic
first day of the season the pheasants were eagerly bought up,
and well grown youngl,lrsis sold at 12s. Cl. to les. per brace,
and choice cock pheasants reedit, realised a per trace, but
is a few da)s they will be °beeper. Partridges were very
plentrul, sod were disposed of at as low as Is. 61. per brace.
Harts sold at It N. to Se. esea.
Amy stetious affair is reported Isom Leiceater. On
gaturnay nigi.t a Belgian marble merchant was travailing use.
the Midland 11 silway, and when near the 31, Item Mowbray
Strtlon was struck on the head with a stick by a fellow pas-
simper seated opposite him A severe struggle took pitta's
between them, until this assailant cried for mercy and was
released. Or the train approaching itroakeby he succeeded
is escaping from the carriage, but left a carpet hag and
parcel behind him, which will probably lead to his identity.
It was profanely and disloyally said about the
statute of Queen Anne in St. Paul's-churchyard, that she had
her back to the church and her face to the tavern a
scandalous allusion to a sconiallous Mel A South Lonetes
nut t (sneer e.ssumes a much more impartial attitude: to a're•
cent advertisement he atillinit.ces -an eligible plot of land,
equally suited for a church or a tavern." This beats the
peanut woman who burnt one candle to the Virgin and ano-
ther to his Satanic Majesty.
The severe fever epidemic which has for some time
prevailei in Liverpool still continues to spread, and Is a
canto of much anxiety to various authorities ii. the town.
A conference has bee., held batsmen the Worthosee Com-
mittee and their silstrict medical officers as to the (scat
means of checking the disease. Among the csules assigned
for the epidemic, overcrowding, the Pithy habits of the
people, and atmospheric influences combined therewith.
I we: e prominent, and, with a view to remedyhig the evil, .
house-to-house visitation, the temporary closing and distil-
-1 Section of houses in whicO fever has sr:cured, and other
I measures were recommended.

'rue captain of the 4/exandria, a vowel which ar-
rived In si;go on Sunday, hag neen charg^d before the magi 1-
trAes at that port with discharging a loade 1 revolver at the
crew, and wounding two of them, while on the voyage teem
Callao to Cork. The evidence was to the effect that he gave
them a quantity of hircutt which they complained woe
entlident, and that they demanded more. Ue ordered them
to their work, and on their hesitating to obey fired at them,
even after they were shout to reiume. lie dticharged Ii
idiots. his detcnee wsstliat the crew were minim., sod he
was justillet in what he did. The Inqatry wits adjourued.