The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-04-19 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The East Sussex News statcs that Lord Sheffield, a
large Sussex landowner, has allowed his tenants 25 per cent.
reduction on their rents for the past half-yeat.
The Prince cf Wales has made known to Lieu.
Colonel Lord Ralph Kerr, 10th Hussars, his grief at hearing
of the unfortunate disaster reported from AL4hanistan, by
which several men of the regiment lost their lives.

"A late spring is always to be reckoned an advan-
tage, and ills especially so in respect of the fruit crop. The
long winter punished the fruit trees in many place!, hut
generally speaking the trees luok well and promise fairly,
and there is as good a prospect of a full bushel as we have
had for many a year."—" Farm and Garden," in Pictorial
World

A nautical adventurer of Bordeaux is about to try
to eclipse all the feats hitherto accomplished at rea, lie has
built a whaleboat, appropriately chribtened l'Eprauve, which
is six yards long and two yards wide, and has one sail, and
In which he proposes to cross from Aroachon to Dover alone.
—Paris Correspondent of the Stand%rd.
Cheese Auction Sales are now becombag common in
Scotland, prices ranging from 41d. to 60. per lb.

The New World is busy studying its antiquities,
and American archaeologists have established a special organ
to report on their labours, the American Antiquarian.

A Himalayan Club has been formed in India,
whose members intend to make the anent of the highest
peaks of the chain, and notably cd the Great Dwalagiri,
which has an altitude of over 28,000 feet.

The Berkshire breed of pigs that has become a great
favourite in America, notably in Illinois, has attained the
honour of a volume, handsomely illustrated and printed,
giving the pedigree of over five thousand animals, and an
Index of their owners. Our Berkshire colonists have thriven
and waxed very fat on American soil. As to fashion in pigs
the American Record says,—

One breed may ruse, another fall
The Berkshire hog survives them all

A committee of Irish noblemen and gentlemen has
been formed in London for the purpose of celebrating the
100th anniversary of the birth of the poet Moore, May 28, in
a befitting manner, in the metropolis.

The New York authorities, after a vigorous effort,
have stamped out the pluro-pneumonia at Blissville, or Long
Island. Since the 21st of February there have been 879 head
of cattle slaughtered at Blissville, and the Brookyln Board
of Health announce that the disease is eradicated. We hear
nothing of it now in any other part of the country.
The Sheffield Town Council have resolved, by seven-
teen to twenty-six, to extinguish the licences of six public-
houses. These licences had been acquired in the purchase
of property for street improvements. They were valued at
from £3,000 to £B,OOO.

The following is a census of metropolitan paupers
(exclusive of lunatics in asylums and vagrants) taken on the
last thy of the following weeks (enumerated inhabitants
in 1871, 3,254,000):—Lait week of March, 1879, 86034; las,
week of March, 1878, 81,160; last week of March, 1877,
85,732' last week of March, 1876, 85,969 The number of
vagrants relieved in the metropolis on the last day of the
last week of March, 1679, was 679.

A dense crowd of persons visited Westminster
Abbey on Easter Monday and Tuesday, when every part of
it was thrown open to the public. The behaviour of the
people was in every respect most excellent, no single case
of damage to the monuments or insobriety in those who
visited the Abbey having occurred. The greatest interest
was taken in seeing the Abbey itself and its memorials of
the departed "great ones" of our country. On Easter
Monday no fewer than 12,000 persons passed through the
church, and at the afternoon service at three o'clock a vast and
most orderly congregation remained, who listened with
utmost attention when the Dean preached a sermon of
about ten minutes' duration on some practical thoughts of
Easter.

A monument in memory of the Russo Turkish war
is to be erected by the Russian Government. It will consist
of a pyramid, surmounted by the Russian eagle, holding
beneath its claws the Turkish crescent and flags, while the
chief events of the campaign will be represented in relid on
the four sides.

A Reuter's telegram states that the steamer Tagus
has brought news from Brazil that the hull of alarge iron
ship has been washed ashore , between Pernambuco and
Maceio The vessel had been on lire and everything burned
In her except a large number of railw y rails. The hull was
sold by auction by the Brazilian authorities and towed into
Pernaa.buco. Nothing was found to afford information as
to her name.

The Marquis of Ripon presided on Tuesday night
at the annual soiree and concert of the Ripon Mechanics'
Institute, and spoke of the good results likely to follow the
establishment of discussion classes in the institution, the
importance of encouraging thrifty habits by savings banks,
and described generally the limits within which Government
assistance and control in the case of such institutions should
be confined.

Forecasts are now being jnade daily by the Meteo-
rological Board, and are published in The '1 imes. The re-
sumption of this undertaking is owing to the satisfactory
proportion of success in recent attempts privately recorded
in the office, and which is eufficient to warrant publicity
Admiral Fitzroy was only " before his time," throuzh want
of adt guide means, his system being practicable.—Graphic.
A terrible railway accident occurred on Wednesday
night in last week, to the Moscow-Brest mail train, 156
verts from Moscow. Owing to the subsidence of the perma-
ment way the train left the rails. All the carriages were
smashed, except the luggage van. Nine persons were killed
and twenty-five more or less severely injured.

In London, on Tuesday morning, a signalman on
duty at the Londou•bridge Station was in the act of lowering
his signals for an approaching train, when he was observed
to fall backwards, and before medical assistance could be
obtained was dead.

The Gazette des Femmes gives a list of French women
who have obtained the academic degrees. There are five
doctors of medicine, three licentiates of science, two
bachelors of science and letters, six bachelors of science, and
twenty bachelors of letters. These degrees have all been
conferred since 1866.

American women are to be admitted as students at
Harvard University. They will in the main enjoy equal
advantages with the male students, having the same option
and range of study, the same professors, and the same
privileges of library. laboratory, ctc., but instead of entering
the regular classes they will be treated as private pupils of
individual professors, and on completing their courses they
will receive merely certificates instead of the regular
diplomas.
A bicycle tour through Western England is pro
jaded by a party of twenty Americans this autumn.
Leaving Boston in July, they will start per bicycle from
Liverpool, and ride at the rate of about thirty miles daily,
first to London, thence to Pottsmouth and Southampton,
back to London, next to Bath, Gloucester, and Shrewsbury,
and once more to London, going home at the beginning of
September. The bicyclists reckon that their tour will cover
about 683 miles.

The Kent magistrates, in general sessions at Maid-
stone, on Tu,sday, granted five guineas to each of the
eightcen jurymen who sat on the coroner's inquiry into the
loss of the Princess Alice off Woolwich, the inquest having
necessitated their attendance for more than thirty days.

There is talk of holding a baby show, the first in
Paris Galignani believes, at the Palace of Industry, in July.
The competitors are to be divided in three groups—infants
of one, two, and three 3 ears, and will be presented by their
mothers or nurses.

The "Amnesty Figure" has been introduced into a
cotillon at a Parisian ball recently given by an American lady,
and is, states the Paris Figaro, a charming pas de wean-
stance, apropos of the recent debate on the Communist
amnesty. The gentleman holds a small indiarubber ball
behind the head of his partner, and from this bursts out a tiny
Bengal light. When the fl ime goes out he kneels at the lady's
feet and kisses her hand as a sign of reconciliation.

Inspector James Bellamy, for the last thirty years
In the employ of the London and North-Western Railway
Compuy, was accidentally killed en Tuesday at New-3treet
Station, Birmingham. He was crossi, g the line between
some carriages in process of shunting, when he slipped, was
caught between the buffers, and seriously crushed. Assist-
ance was immediately at hana, but the poor fellow died
while he was being conveyed to an adjoining room.

Two large bombs are reported to have been thrown
into the Church of San Antonio, at Seville, with the object,
ills supposed, of creating a panic, during which the perpe•
trators might he able to steal some of the valuable sacra-
mental plate bejongiug to the church. Several persons were
hurt by the explosion of the bombs.
The Paris Correspondent of the Daily News tele-
graphs that France and England have agreed to prolong for
Mx months the Commercial Treaty which expires on Decem-
ber 31 next, in order to give time for the discussion of the
general tariff in the Chambers and negotiations for a new
treaty.
The everlasting question of a canal across the
Isthmus of Panama is to be discussed at a special Congress
of the French Geographical Society, which will be opened in
Paris on May 15, under the Presidency of M. de Lesseps.
The Recorder of Liverpool, in his charge to the
grand jury on Tuesday, commented upon the proposed pro-
vision an the amended criminal code for placing prisoners on
oath and subjecting them to cross-examination in open
court. Such a system, he thought, would be advantageous
to the guilty and disadvantegeous to the innocent, as the
former would probably be ready with some ingenious story,
while the latter would be naturally nervous and anxious,
anti would be likely to make mistakes and get confused.

he historic Victory hag,- according to the Ports-
mouth Times, been dismantled, and is now in the dockyard
hands, although still lying at her moorings in the etream.
tier rusts, spars, rigging, and bowsprit have been found to
be in kn unsound state, and consequently they are to be re-
placed by others.

Her Majesty and Princess Beatrice, attended by,
the suite, are expected to return to Windsor, upon the ter-
roinst,oh of their visit to Italy, iu the course of next week—
probably about the 25th inst.

The King of Burmah is reported by the Standard's
special ourrespondent to be massing troops, and the general
opinion is said to be that he is bent on war. Three steamers
are in readiness to convey English troops beyond the
frontier should the King suddenly carry out his supposed
intention.

On Monday afternoon, a young man was engaged
with his hrother, in turning a sipping rope amongst the
holiday-makers on Ilatapstead-heath, when he fell down
apparently in a fit, Irmo which he did not recover. Ihe
occurref ce produced a paislul sensation amongst the holiday-
makers who witnessed it.

The death is announcei, at Row, Dumbartonshire,
of the mother of the late Aev. Norman Macleod, at the
venerable age of 91. Mrs ,Meeleod. was the widow of the
late Dr. Norman Macleod, S Columbia Gaelic Church,
Glasgow, and mother also of the late Dr. Donald Macleod,
of Park Church, and Professor G. ff. B. 3lacleod, of Glasgow
ITniversity.
New York has got up a neve Temperance Society.
it is not teetotal, nor does it bind its votaries not to drink
too much themselves. It simply
binds them not to give
other people toe much to drink. It is
called the Anti. l'reat
Society. The Treat is described as a rlic of rough colonial
days, when any man wild` entered ae
bar treated all the
strangers.
"Essex Farmer," writing to the Stemdard, suggests
that twenty or thirty farmers should club tegether to open a
shop in the nearest large town for the sali of meat, milk,
butter, hay, straw, and some other kinds o farm produce.
The experiment is worth tiling, though it would probably
be found that such a co-operative society wont(' require to
purchase goods sometimes in order to obtain a regular
supply all the year round.—Mark Lane Express. \
The opening of sPha Convalescent Home\ by the
Prince and Princess of Watts at Hunstanton, on lionday,
was celebrated by the inhabitants of the district as well as
by those brought by special trains from far inland districts.
Their Royal Htghnesses arrived by road from Sandrh,ghatu
shortly after four, accompanied by the Princess Freaerica
of Hat,over. The principal streets were gay with flags, sus.
penaed from windows and across the streets, and throughout
the route triumphal arches were erected. At the entroce
to the building their Royal Highnesses were presented with
an address, which was responded to, and the florae was de-
clared open.

Since 1871 there have been erected in Cardiff 3,625
houses, fourteen places of worship, fifteen schools, and 919
other large buildings, and eighty•two new streets have been
formed, the whole work involving an outlay of £1,390,812.
Easter Tuesday in London (says the Echo) was re-
markable for the entire absence of holiday uppearances
Contrary to the cui,tom of former years, men who have work
adroit that these are "bad times," and that they have to
make tie most of their time. Consequently in all large
establishments the men have appeared at the usual hour to
make a full day's work. Even in firms where t e presence of
the vvorknian is optional on that day they assembled almost
to a man.
The Town Council of Leamington has decided to
petition for tbe enfranchisement of their district, coin-
prising 5,000 householeier., 26,000 residents, an as•essruent
of £200,000, with an estimated income of one million. It
was stated that 26 cities or boroughs, with pepulatioss
under 10,0(.'0, return one member: 23 oalers, with poi:ads-
tious above 10 003 and under 20,000, also send one represet•
tative; n late 26 of such boroughs return two members.

By a einular ciricid€nc, the attempted aassinn.r
don of the Emperor of Rtusia took place on the 14th anni-
versary of the successful assassination of Abraham Lincoln,
Presi.leut of the United States of America, who was shot by
Bo ,th, in the theatre at Washington, on April 14, 1865.
It is reported that the first silver dollar coined in the
Unit:d StAtes has been found. It Is held by twenty-eight
different American cltizens.

On Monday the twenty-second anniversary, of the
birth of Princess H.atrice was celebrated at Windsor with
the customary honours At Baveno e'even large bouquets
were presented to her Royal Highness by the residents.

In Consequence of the prevalence of lung and mouth
disease in the Grand Duchy of Baden and Alsace and of
rinderpest in various parts of the Austrian Empire, the
S,iss Government have prohibitcd the importation of
c tttle, hides, rod forage from those countries into Switzer-
land.
It is proposed to install at the Vatican a printing
press intended to point a polyglot journal to be published
under the direction of Leo XIII. A brother of the Pope is
to edit it.
Money orders payable in Iceland may qow be
obtained at any money-order office in the United Kingdom.
The rates cf commission will be the same as those charged
for money orders payable in Denmark and Norway.
A sham fight was held on Monday afternoon on
Dover Heights, the attacking force, under Colonel Mac-
kenz e, R.A., consisting of Cinque Ports Artillery, Kent
Militia Artillery, the 49th and 84th Regiments. The defend-
ing party, under Colonel Hutton, was composed of the 30th
Regina:lnt, East Kent Rifles, and London Rifle Brigade.
The ship Nineveh, 1,174 tons, Captain Ross, char-
tered by the Agent-General for New South Wales sailed
from Plymouth for Sydney on Thursday, in last week, with
405 emigrants, under the sup rvlsion of Mr. R. Dawes as
surgeon-superintendent, with Miss Matley in charge of the
single women.
An old woman in Dervaig, Mull, having lost the
key of her house, endeavoured to enter by lifting the thatch
off the roof, and going through she stuck between the rafters,
and was not noticed till quite aead. .

The Austrian residents in Paris are preparing to
celebrate the silver wedding of their Emperor. Among the
offerings they intend to mate to his Majesty is a silver group
representing "Love and friendship."
The Mikado of Japan has read his Ministers a
lecture on their extravagance and luxury, after entertaining
them at a banquet. The Prime Minister has accordingly,
says a telegram from Yokohama, issued an order for the
cessation of all superfluous expenditure in the development
of commerce, and stopped the expenditure for public works.

According to the Precurseur, Prince Bismarck per-
sists In his resolve to establish Bur-taxes upon colonial pro-
duce coming from European bonded warehouses, with a
view to getting rid of the compe`ition carried on by foreign
ports against the ports of Germany.

M. Villemessant, proprietor of the Paris Figaro
died on Friday night In last week at his villa at Monte Carlo,
where he had been spending the past few months.

The return of wintry weather last week interfered
seriously with agricultural work, but upon the whole opera-
time are well advanced. March was extremely favourable,
and farmers made the most of it; and although snow in the
middle of April is certainly not conducive to spring growth,
neither is it to be regretted that what at this season is not
forward. Altogether the prospects of the grain crops are
good, but grass is very backwaid.—" Trade and Finance n
Pall Mall Gazette.

The death is announced at Waring, near Vienna, of
the Poet Karl Reck. fie was born in 1817 at Baja, in Him-
gary, and was of Jewish origin. His poems are said to be
full of the strange passion characteristic of the Hungarian
race.

The Cologne Gazctte reports, under date the 9th
inst., a slight thock of earthquake at Buir and Elsdorf. The
shock is said to have been noticed at five minutes past mid-
night. It had a rolling noise and took an east south-easterly
direction.

A memorandum in Friday night's Lond,on Gazette
states that the Queen has been pleased to approve of the
17th (Duke of Cambridge's 0 car) Lancers bearing on their
regimental appointments the words "Central India," in
recognit'on of the services rendered by that regiment during
the Indian Mutiny in 1858 and 1859. while In pursuit of the
rebel forces under Tantia Topee and Ras Sahib.

An Australian paper says :—"Professor Cavell, on
Saturday, February 2, swam hi the Yarra a distance of
nearly 18 miles in two minutes under six hours. The finish
was witnessed by betweEn 4000 and 5,000 persons. Cavell
was slightly exhausted and was twice supplied with refresh-
ments on the journey."

On Tuesday Her Majesty's Highland tenantry were
entertained, by Her Majesty's command, in honour of the
marriage of the Duke of Connaught.
The Paris Correspondent of The Times says:—
" Nearly 12,000 of the lottery prizes are still unclaimed, a
few of them being grand prizes. Whether the tickets have
been lost or whether the holders are in such distant or in-
accessible spots as not to have heard of their success can
only be conjectured. Supposing them to be eventually
claimed, the surplus is 1,800,000 francs lees the expen'es of
the exhibition of prizes. Seven million francs was devoted
to the purchase of prizes, 740,000 francs of this sum being
expenaed in the foreign sections, 2,000,000 francs went to
defray the expenses of urtisan vosit'ars to the Exhibition, and
1,200,000 francs was allotted to discount and expenses."
A Rangoon telegram in the Daily News says that
the Burmese Government wishes for peace. It declines to
settle the "shoe question." Affairs on the frontier (the
telegram adds) are gloomy. The cultivators are leaving, and
no preparations are made for sowing the crops. The results
will probably be calamitous. Immediate action is required.
Large masses of Burmese soldiery are moving towards
Tounghoo. The frontier garrison there has not been rein-
forced.

The Emperor William has had some more shot ex-
tracted from his bead, the relics of Nobillog's attempt.
Only a small portion of shot, says the Berlin Borsen Courier,
could at first be taken from the wounds, and one grain in
particular had penetrated so deep that the doctors were
afraid to attempt to get it out. However, little by little the
grain worked out Putt' It was possible to raise the skin and
extract the shot, which had completely flattened itself against
the Emperor's skull.
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In America, as in all parts of Europe, sympathy
has been awakened by the recent distressing inundations in
Hungary; and on Sunday evening March SO, a concert was
given at the Academy of Music, in New York, for the benefit
of the sufferers in tie terrible inundations. It was pecu-
liarly fitting that Madame Gerster, being herself a Hun-
garian, should have been chief in suggesting the propriety
of such a movement for the purpose of affording the re-
quired assistance The appeal met a hearty popular re-
sponse, more than 2,000 persons being unable to obtain
admission, and the receipts fell but little short of £l,OOO
sterling.
1 Under somewhat unfavourable circumstances as to
weather the " Tichborne " demonstration was held on Mon-
' day afternoon in Hyde Park, the procession starting from
the residence of Dr. Kenealy, M. P., in Tavistock-square.
After the death of Admiral Sir H. Yelverton his
numerous iriends were ataious to associate his name with
some work in which the) knew he was keenly interested. They
selected the orphan daughters of officers of ward-room rank
and upwards in the jtoyal. Navy and Marines, who between
the ages of 17 and 21 were prosecuting their studies to fit
them for the duties of governesses and teachers in high
schools The interest of the amount collected will be divided
'among three successful candidates every year, and the re-
cipients will be called the " Yelverton Nominees" for the
year. At present £9OO has been collected; but it is hoped
£,2,010 will be raised.—The Times.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Eiinburgh went
to Lmidon on Tuesday morning to attend the thanksgiving
service at the Russian Chapel, Welbeek-street, for the pre-
servation of the life of the Emperor of Russia, and returned
to Eastviell in the afternoon

A. Bill presented by Lord Houghton, intituled "An
Act to render lawful Marriage with a Deceaßed Wife's
Sister," has been printed.

Bicycling for ladies is a fashlonable sport in Detroit,
A., Progress tells us, the fas Lien having been set by one
of the wealthy bells of the city. The lady bicyclist and a
number of companions, clad in semi-masculine garb, ride
vigorously about the country roads outside the town, in no
way deterred from their amuzement by the fact that before
she was an accompli•hed mistress of her bicycle the principal
rider fell off one day and broke her nose.

At Liverpool, Mr. Torr, M.P., referring to the com-
mercial depression, said be remembered four panics, differ-
ing somewhat from etch other, but there had never been one
so lengthened or so widespread as that they were now passing
through. The extraordinary commercial inflation and cir-
culation of money from 1872 to 1875 and the susequent stag-
nation illustrated the principle of action and reaction in
commerce. As they had got to the lower range, so, cer-
tainly, as far as his experience went, they would see a
revival of trade.

At the Petty Sessions at Brill, Bucks, Mrs. Anne
Perkins and Mrs. Sarah Osborne have been appointed over-
seers of the poor for the parish of Chilton.
The Winterthur Land bote describes an extraordinary
fever epidemic of the typhoid form which is just now pre-
vailing at Cater, in Lucerne (says the Geneva Correspondent
of The Times). A short time ago two brothers there who deal
in foreign birds received a consignment of birds from Ham-
burg, whither they bad come by ship from some tropical
country the name of which is not stated. Hardly bad they
arrived when both brothers were taken seriously ill, anti the
doctor who was called, suspecting from the inquires be had
made that the birds were the cause of the trouhle, had most
of them killed, the house disinfected and closed, and the
patients removed to another dwelling. Meanwhile, a Ulmer,
who had repaired one of the cages, also fell ill, and after a
few days died. Some of the birds which were not supposed
to be tainted with the infection had been sent to a neigh-
bouring inn, and, as a consequence, the proprietor was
almost immediately added to the sick list. Everybody, in
fact, who handled any of the birds or came near their cages
appears to have taken the fever, and the total number of
patients ameunts now to some eight or nine The affair
excites great interest among the medical men of Zurich, and
professors and doctors make daily viaits to titer to watch
the course of this mysterious epidemic.

From the Ist to the 12th instant the Exchequer
receipts amounted to £3,655,399; more than a million below
those from the Ist to the 13th April last year. The expen-
diture hat, thus far, exceeded six millions and a half
sterling.

The Rev. Dr. Harper, Principal of the Theological
Hall of the United Presbyterian Church, has died at Leith at
the age of eighty-four. He was the oldest clergyman of the
Church to which he belonged, having been ordained in 1819.
He took much interest in the antislavery and anti-corn law
agitations and other pubic matters. The rev, gentleman was
appointed moderator of the United Presbyterian Synod in
1860, and on the occasitn of his jubilee in 1869 he was pre-
sented by his friends with a silver salver and a sum of
£1,200.
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'The New York Herald, jußtly proud of the enterprise
which has placed it at the head of the rews-gatherers of the
world, gives in a recent number some remarkable facts.
Speaking of one of its wonderful Sunday quintuple editions,
the Herald says Apart from the great amount of extra
labour required to set the immense quantity of type re-
quired by this incrr ass of size, the single item of stereotyp-
ing reaches extraordinary dimensions. As fourteen plates
are made of each ptge of the Herald, our issue of to-day
calls for two hundred and eighty plates; each of these
weighs fifty pounds, so the full set requires about fourteen
thousand pounds, or seven tons of metal from which to print
this single edition. In round numbers about three millions
of pit ces of t) pe have been picked up, one at a time, by
compositors to prepare the pages for the stereotypers, and
more than a hundred and fifty men were required to set the
type, make the plates, and print the paper.
An exhibition in illustration of electric lighting is
about to be held at the Albert Hail. The exhibition will
consist of the apparatus employed in t,he different systems of
lighting, and the various lights themselves will be exhibite_d-
pAvneboepoetn,
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Mr. W. H. Preece, electrician to the Post Office.
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Whitehall Review.
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The annual Congress of Co-operative Societies in
the United Kingdom was opened at Gloucester, on Monday,
when Professor Stuart delivered his inaugural address, in
tbe course of which he statect that if co-operators meant to
carry out their views properly they must expend more
than 21 per cent. of their net profits on educational work.—
On Inesday the Central Board submitted the annual report,
which showed that, notwithstaw.ing the general depression
of trade, cooperative societies had made steady progress.
Resolutions were patted in favour of appointing an
organizing accountant, anti of consideration being directed
bsta
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