The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-10-27 00:00:00

LORD COLERIDGE'S VISIT TO
WASHINGTON.

The Washington Correspondent of the Daily News
writes :—Lord Coleridge's visit here has been most
enjoyable to him, The Bar Association, the Supremo
Court, the Judges, the president, and the Cabinet
have been unremitting in their attentions. His inter•
course with the President has been especially cordial.
On Saturday be paid a visit on a Government steamer
to Mount Vernon as the guest of the Bar Association.
Lotd Coleridge examined with great interest Get eral
Washineton's house and grave, i.ayil,t4 the trip to
Mount Vernon alone was worth a j.urney to America.
In the evening he dined with ore of the Supreme
Court Judges, the Pres:dent awl G. Lena Sherman
being among the gueets.l

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The number of visitors at the Fisheries Exhibition
last Saturday waq 56,422, making a total for last week
of 1g6,162 ; the total number from the opening of the
Exhibition has been 2368,143.

An unprecedented number of Americans have visited
Berlin this summer, Four thousand have returned
home by the Bremen route, and over two thousand by
the Hamburg line of steamers.
On Sunday morning a fire broke out on Mr. R.
Pudney's farm, at Wraysbury, near Staines. About
eight ricks of wheat, barley, cl •yer, and hay, a
granary, and other buildings were thstroyed, entailing
a loss of between two and three thousand pounds.

The consumption of oysters in New York is esti-
mated to cost 5,000,000 dollars annually. At Boston
the annual expenditure under this item is set down
at 1,700,000 dollars; and at Philadelphia at 1,500,000
dollars.

Shocks of earthquake were felt in the South of
Spain early on Saturday morning. No damage was
done, but the people in the country districts were
greatly alarmed. Shocks have also been felt at
Gibraltar, Lisbon, and Tangiers.

The total number of men of the British Army in
India who had, up to latest accounts, extended their
army service with the bounty wis :—Cavalry, 272;
Artillery, 648; Royal Engineers, 10; Infantry, 3,189;
grand total, 4,119.
On Tuesday the Lord Provost of Glasgow presented
a timepiece to each of the 28 members of the Ambu-
lance Corps who assisted in removing the bodies of
those drowned when the Daphne capsized on the ways
as she was being launched.
The rate of emigration to the United States from
Ireland and Germany is declining, the number of
arrivals from the latter country having fallen 20 per
cent., as compared with the figures for 1882—mainly
through the repressive measures adopted by the
German Government.

A Parliamentary return just issued shows that the
amount of house duty levied in England and Wales
last year was £1,814,875, of which £432,528 was from
shops at 61. in the pound. In Scotland the amount
was f 118,665, of which £12,613 was from shops at 6d.
in the pound. There were 4,059,262 dwelling-houses,
rummages, and tenements not assessed to house duty
in England and Wales, and in Scotland 719,254,

A Constantinople telegram says that three persons
were recently captured by brigands near Zipka, in the
Egridereh Mountains' and a ransom of £5OO was de-
manded from each of them. The military Commander
of the district, however, having heard of the captors,
succeeded in effecting their release without the pay.
ment of any ransom.
The steamer Heimdcl, from Christiansund, when
200 miles from Sandyhook, on Sunday last, took fire
in the hold. Every precaution was taken, the steam
being turned into the hold, and the fire thus kept
under. The steamer entered the harbour on Monday,
carrying fire signals. She was run aground near
Bedloe's Island and the hold flooded. All on board,
including 306 persons, passengers and crew, were
safely landed.
Last Saturday was the anniversary of the Battle of
Navarino, which was fought on Oct. 20, 1827, when
the combined fleets of England, Frarce, and Russia,
under the command of Admiral Codrington, nearly
destroyed the Turkish and Egyptian iteets. More
than thirty ships. many of them four.neckers, were
blown up or burnt, chiefly by the Turks themselves.
The destruction of the Turkish naval power was
characterised by the late Duke of Wellington as an
"untoward event."

Advices just received from Dunedin, New Zealand,
state that a movement is on foot for the establish-
ment of several frozen meat factories in various parts
of the country. The number of carcases of sheep
available for export are estimated at from 300,00 to
1,000,000 per annum.

"It was nearly fatal, my dear," said Mrs. Rams-
botham. "The poor man swallowed poison by mis-
take, but fortunately the doctor came in time, gave
him a powerful anecdote, and he got all right again."
Punch.

A tidal wave eight feet in height is reported from
Geraldton, Western Australia. Persons walking
along the beach state that they heard loud rumbling
sounds, which caused alarm. Suddenly the sea
receded about 110 yards, and then a high wave re-
turned with great force and with a rushing noise.
A statue to the memory of the poet Robert Tanna-
hilt was unveiled on Saturday in Abbey Church-y ard
Paisley. The funds for the statue were obtained
From open-air concerts given on Gleniffer Braes fur
several summers past. The songs of Tannahill were
exclusively sung at these concerts.
The Duke of Norfolk has presented to Weston
Museum, at Sheffield, an ancient iron spur, richly
engraved and inlaid with braes, found amongst the
ruins at Sheffield Manor, in which Mary Queen of
Scots passed a portion of her captivity, in the custody
of the Earl of Shrewsbury.

It is announced that Princess Victoria, second
daughter of the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of
Germany, and grand-daughter of Queen Victoria and
the German Emperor, is engaged to the Hereditary
Duke of Anhalt.

The number of actual British shipwrecks reported
last week was 12, and of foreign 21. The total for the
year to date is 1,513. Six British steamers, laden,
with maize, rice, deals, &c., went own, t he aggregate
tonnage having been 5,050.
A serious outbreak of typhoid fever has occurred in
Dundee, and on Monday the sheriff, acting on the
advice of the medical officer of health. iomed an order
prohibiting the sale of milk for- eex en we, lrs from a
dairy c'ose to the town, as thrce Lf the da 'loran's
family are lying ill of fever.
An approximate return of this year's French wh, at
ci op, based upon the reports sent in by the Prefect.,
has been officially published. The yield is estimated
at 100,646,216 hectolitres, the sea town being
6,718,729 hectares. The yield per hectare is 14 98
hectolitre, and the average weight per hectolitre is
76 32 kilograms.
A serious fight has occurred between two bands of
gipsies in the Hungarian comitat of Weissenburg.
The men were mounted and armed with hatchets, and
the women and children joined in the fray. Four of
the combatants were killed and two severely wounded,
while many received less serious injuries.
In London, on Saturday, an inquest was held on
the body of Charles Marshall, 64 years of age, late of
48, Brad•street, Waterloo•road. While drunk in bed
on the previous Thursday the deceased attempted to
eat a piece of steak, a portion of which stuck fast in
his throat.—The jury returned a verdict of "Death
from suffocation."

There were 2,370 births and 1,408 deaths registered
in London last week. Allowing for increase of popu-
lation, the births were 354, and the deaths 139, below
the average numbers in the corresponding week of the
last ten years. The annual rate of mortality from all
causes, which had been 165 and 190 in the two pre-
ceding weeks, declined to 18'6.

The other night a telegraph messenger at the
Accrington station, named John Phillips, aged 15, was
passir g the line with a message, when the Manchester
express train overtook him, knocked him down, and he
was picked up dead.
On Monday a railway train in northern New York
fell through a bridge over the Champlain Canal, three
persons being killed and 22 wounded, sever.' fatally.
Every person in the train, in fact, except a newsboy,
was injured, and every coach wrecked, though the
locomotive safely passed over the bridge.
An explosion has occurred at a squib factory at
Kingston, Pennsylvania, whereby of nine girls work•
ing there at the time, five were burned to cinders, and
the remaining four were so severely injured that they
are not expected to recover.
The High Commissioner for Canada has received the
following cablegram from the Minister of Agriculture
of Canada :—" Female domestics are wanted in all
parts of the Dominion ; the demand remains unsatie•
tied. Any number of good servants can secure itnme•
diate employment. We cannot get enough navvies for
railway works. Mr. Donaldsn, the agent of the Go-
vernment at Toronto, will find no difficulty in placing
all good men."

The nnmber of last week's arrivals of fat cattle
entered for consumption at the Metropolitan Cattle
Market was 2,740; in the corresponding week of 1882,
3,790; 1881, 4.750; 1880, 4 600 ; 1879, 4 970 ; 1878,
4,930; 1877, 3,380; 1876, 7,490; 1875, 7,070; and 1874,
7,780 head.

On Monday night, at Birmingham, Mr. John Henry
Chamberlain, a relative of the President of the Board
of Trade, died audienly. He had been lecturing at the
Midland Institute on "Exotic Art" to a large audi-
ence, and left apparently in good health to go to
supper. On proceeding upstairs he fell down dead.
The returns issued on Wednesday show that on the
last day of the seccnd week of October 52,041. indoor
and 34,188 outdoor paupers were relieved in the metro.
politan district, makiug a total of 86,229 se com•
pared with 88,618 on the corresponding date of last
year, 87,263 in 1881, and 81,491 in 1880. The num-
ber of vaerants relieved on the same date was 598.

While three Spitalfields men, named Thomas
Montgomery, John Mscciermott, and John Sheehan,
were boating on the River Lea on Sunday evening,
they began to "lark," the consequence being the
capsizing of the boat, whereby all the three were
thrown into the water. A desperate struggle for life
resulted in Montgomery and Macdermott managing
to gain the sho:e, but Sheehan became exhausted
by the effort, sank, and was drowned. An alarm
was given, but quite an U.ur elapsed before the body
was found.

The revenue received from the let of April last to
the 20th islet. amount,' to £51,131,840, or £1,780,044
more than the £49,351,796 received in the correspond•
ing period ending the 21st of October, 1882. The ex•
penditure up to the 20th inst. was £47,708,781, being
£2,497,572 less than the expenditure for the similar
period of 1882. The balances on the 20th inst.
amounted to £2.563,178, and on the 21st of October,
1882, to £1,610,910.

A shocking accident happened on the Great Northern
Railway near Omagh on Saturday evening. A woman
attempted to cross the line at a level crossing a mile
from Omagh, and the gatekeeper, named Morrison,
seeing the down mail train approaching, ran and caught
her, to bring her off the rails' but before hd could do
so the train came on and killed them both. The
woman was decapitated and horribly mutilated, while
the gatekeeper was cut in two from the shoulders
downwards.

An inquest was held at Blackburn on Tuesday on
the body of George Bell. On Monday night a destruc•
tive fire occurred at the shuttle works in the district in
which Messrs. Greenwood's corn mill, at which the
deceased was employed, is situated. Bell was at the
Theatre Royal, and heard the report that the mill was
in flames. Running thither, he told a labourer that
his heart was in his mouth at the news. He pro-
ceeded to the top storey, and there fell dead. A
verdict of "Death!from natural causes " was returned

A court martial composed of three English and four
Egyptian officers, held at Cairo, has sentenced a slave
dealer to three years' hard labour. A Soudan woman,
the principal witness, deposed to being offered for sale
in Cairo.

The National Museum at Washington has applied
for a duplicate set of the articles shown by the Fishery
Board of Scotland in the London Fisheries Exhibition.
The articles show how the barrels ought to be made as
well as how they are branded by the officers, and in-
clude a set of branding irons, &c.
A Vienna telegram states that a fire which has just
occurred at the chateau of the Princess Czartoryski, in
Sienaws, destroyed the greater part of the pictures,
the collections of antiquities, and the library.

The Home Secretary has informed the Meteor°logi•
cal Society that Her Majesty has been graciously
pleased to grant it permission to adopt the prefix
'Royal." The society accordingly becomes the "Royal
Meteorological Society."

Daring the year 1882-83 450 lives were saved by
means of the rocket apparatus, being 190 more than
the number saved by the same means during the pre-
vious year. The number of life-saving apparatus
stations was increased during the year from 293 to 298,
six new stations having been established and one pre-
viously existing abolished.

The Springfield Republican says that during a
thunderstorm in Amherst, Mass., U.S., recently
several violent flashes of lightning were seen, and im-
mediately afterwards water stopped running at several
service pipes, and a few minutes later water poured
from a shattered water main. Investigation showed
that lightning had struck the pipe where the roots of
a large tree passed near it,
The Italian Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce
reports that the results of the vintage taken altogether
are this year above the average. In Upper Italy
they have fallen below it, but from the Marches south-
wards they have been in excess, and in Sicily and
Sardinia the harvest has been beyond measure abundant
and of good quality.

The ship Selkirkshire, of 1,192 'tons, Captain J.
Reid, chartered by Sir Saul Samuel, K.C. M.G., Agent.
General for New South Wales, sailed from Plymouth
for Sydney on Saturday with 398 emigrants.
According to returns just published, the receipts of
the Russian Empire from January 1 to July 1 it:
amounted to 286,741,511 roubles, against 296,105,129
during the same period of last year. The expendi-
ture was 314,801,348 roubles, against 303,721,657 in
1882,

The obituary of the Standard on the 19th inst. con-
tained the names of four nonogenarians and nine
octogenarians—the average age for these thirteen
people being no less than 84 years, or, excluding the
five lowest ages, there is the astonishing average of 90
years for the remaining eight persons.
A fatal avalanche has occurred in Sicily. Six rail-
way employes working on the line at Assano were
btu ied beneath the mass of rock and earth. • One was
rescued alive, but much injured. The remaining five
men perished.
The documents connected with the United States
Geological survey show that the coal production of the
country for 1882 was 87,083,134 tons of 2,2401 b.,
exclusive of the local and colliery consumption, which
is estimated at 6 per cent. more.
Mr. Lee, M.P., distributed the prizes at the School
of Art, Southampton, on Tuesday night, and speak.
lug, as a Manchester merchant, of the importance of
greater attention being given to technical education,
he mentioned that our best designs for calico print.
ing came from France, which ought not to be the
case.

Owing to the extraordinary increase of traffic on the
Italian railways the number of goods cars and wag-
got s had become so far insufficient that pending the
immediate construction of new ones, 500 waggons and
cars have been borrowed from the German railways
and 300 from the French.

On Saturday morning Thomas Fleming, second
steward of the Guion steamer Alaska, was admitted
to the Northern Hospital, Liverpool, with his throat
cut. It seemed that he had inflicted the wound him.
self that morning. He died shortly after admission to
the hospital. In his pocket was found a paper, on
which was written—" God bless wife and children.
God bless all friends. Drink did poor Tom Fleming."

On Lake Ladoga and in the Gulf of Finland there
has been a violent storm, accompanied by grbat loss of
life and shipping. Upwards of sixty vessels have been
stranded on the coast of Finland., as well as in the
Lake. Sixteen bodies have been recovered, but the
number of lives lost is far:greater.

Last week's receipts of cotton at all United States
ports were 255,000 bales ; since Ist September,
966,000 bales. Week's exports to Great Britain,
42,000 bales; to the Continent, 59,000 bales. Total
since Ist September, 357,000 bales; stock at all ports,
636,000 bales.
Sixty•three inmates of the Peterborough Union have
voted against fish dinners and three for them. The
guardians tried the experiment of fish once a week for
a few weeks, and then took a poll with the above
result.
Sir Theodore Martin's "Life of the Prince Consort
has been translated into Bengali by a native gentle
man named Gopaul Chunder Mookerjee, who has
added to the volume, which has just been published
in Calcutta under the title of "Raj Jibani," a number
of translated extracts from the Queen's published
journals.

A New York telegram says that the visible supply
of wheat on Oct. 19 was 29,900,000 bushels, as against
28,500,000 bushels the previous week. Visible supply
of Indian corn 12,400,000 bushels, as against 18,400,000
bushels the previous week. The export clearances of
wheat for Europe during last week amounte-?
750,000 bushes. The t ~ort clearances of Indiau
corn for Europe during last week amounted to 960,000
bushels.

A Parliamentary return issued on Wednesday gives
the names of the physicians and surgeons who in each
year since 1850 have received the honours of baronet.
cies and knighthood. The number of baronetcies
thus conferred is 16, and of knighthoods 34, including
four gentlemen knighted by the Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland.

On Sunday evening three young men, named Wil-
liam Reid, Alexander Murdoch, and William Mur-
doch, left Greenock. in a small sailing boat for a
pleasure trip across the Firth of Clyde. Not having
since been heard of search was made for them on
Monday, and the dead body of Reid was found along-
side the capsized boat on the shore at Cardross. It is
believed that all three men are drowned.

On Tuesday as two trains were running out of Wal.
sail Station on parallel lines, the one for Wolver•
hampton and the other for Birmingham, the steam
from the furnace concealed the latter from the view of
several platelayers on that line, two of whom were run
down. One ot the two was killed on the spot, and the
other died soon afterwarde at the Cottage Hospital.
Their companions escaped. The deceased were both
both over 50 years of age and married, and one of them
leaves a family.

The weekly arrivals at Liverpool cf live stock and
dead meat from Canada and the United States still
continue on a large scale, and those of last week show
a further increase in the import of both live stock and
fresh meat, there being six ateamers with live stock
on board and the same number with fresh meat. The
total supply was 1,858 cattle, 3,189 sheep, 6,235
quarters of beef, and 580 carcases of mutton,
The anniversary of the revoking of the Edict of
Nantes, which took place in 1685, fell on Monday.
The edict or decree by which Henry IV. of France
granted toleration to his Protestant subjects was con-
firmed by Louis III!. in 1610 and also by Louis
XIV. in 1652, but it was revoked by the latter on
Oct. 22, 16,5. This act cost France 50,000 Protestant
families, and gave to England and Germ,ny thousands
of industrious artisans.

The additions to the Zoological Society's Gardens,
Regent's Park, London, last week included a Rut).
pelt's parrot from East Africa, presented by Dr.
George L. Gal pin ; a Malabar parrakeet from Southern
Ind.a, presented by Mr. F. W. Bourdillon ; two
Pileated jays from La Plata, presented by Mrs. J.
W, Hammond; two buzzards, a hobby, European,
presented by Captain H. Linklater ; a tiger bittern
from South America, presented by Mr. Joseph H.
Cheetham, F.Z.S. ; a turtle dove, captured at sea,
presented by Mr. W. M. Brown; five long•nosed
vipers, a viperine snake, European, presented by
Lord Lilford, F.Z S. ; a Macaque monkey from
India, a white-fronteircapuchin from South America,
two Michie tufted deer, an Elliot's pheasant from
China, deposited ; two eyras, a red•vented parrot
from South America, a white•fronted amazon from
Cuba, two royal pythons from West Africa, pur-
chased ; a coloured fruit bat, born in the Gardens.