The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-01 00:00:00

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Upwards of 2000 of the clergy of the Insh ChtirCh have elected to swept • Commutation of their incomes.
They have at Wells, Minnesota, a cheese factory
which is claimed to be the largest In the United State( and
aof three thousand corr.power.
If oudin, the celebrated conjuror, died on Wednesday
In tan week, at Biel., ht. native LI. ye. when' h. Mired se 1g55. He woe born tls the fith December, 1005.
St. Louis (America) has rscently open. d a boulevard,
flight Mika long and 100 lett wide, which la bow the faehlom able drive
Three express traine now daily ran to and fro between Paris scot Venoille.. P. ople were getting ten tired of being an hour Sod. au otter going from nation to station.
It to stated thet on the otmadon of the visit of the
rvisice uf Wales to Dsmito In annum, there will be a nylon Of all the troops In garrhonln lii,Phomix-part.
The report that has been going the rounds nf thi
gift of Boron itscbiti of £l.O nod on annuity of if mo •
year to the I ntsy who won the booby tor him le sant to be
unfounded.
At an inquest on the body of a renly-born add,
which orn found InaMe the gate of • lady'. reddens. le
London, Dr. lAnteoter (the eoroner) geld that over
children were found In the streets of London every year.
Some of the strawberries of Celia-wails are said to be
of such Hu that one of them will afford subsistence to a
',hilly for • week The western e Mal who vouches for the
statement, considerately acts "ledger, however, tint thro•
are to he nand a few smaller minim.
From April let to June 24th she total receipte into
the Exchequer amounted to £llOlll t 42 au Mersin of
£224,000 upon the ratans of the correoponding period of WE
year. The expenditure hal been £15.629,454 The balance
to the Bank of E inland on Saturday last RAI £5 2J0.620, and
In that of Ireland £1,192 904.
According to the Temps the Empress Enednie, on
the occasion of the Papal Jubilee, sect a letter of congratu-
lation to the Pope. through Corinna' Lucien Bonaparte, toge-
ther with an diaries of 100,900 francs in the same of the
imperial family.

Sheriff Bell-, of Glesgow, ha. confirmed the declaim]
of SherUf D.ckson that a natural 'lowness or Ineptitude to
learn a trade, unaccompanied by wilful carrieunea or neg.
leek doe. not justify the dlamlual of an articled apprentice
The lietroit papers have discovered a new method of
driving away the organ-grinder.. livery day or two they
It tve a small paragraph Ike this Organ-grinder. i Mom.
phla make about tea dollars a day."
Mr. George Moore, who hal just returned how
Parts, In a letter to the Record, says that he has had a bon
Interview wan Marshal Macllshou, and the marshal '
eery c .nna,ut all dtaturbanm Is at an mad, at least for a
time."

Garibaldi has refused to stand as & candidate for the
deptirrinent of the Stentime Alps in hts letter to Ins
President of the ittpublicen Union of Nice, announcing
this determination, he merely says, "Thank.. I cannot
accept."

The members of the principil religious denominations
ID the world are eatheated as follows :--Cirera Church,
C 0 en 700; the sir other oriental churchea. 6 buo,ooo ; amnia
Cathoilci, 199000,000; Prountants, 96 139,000 ; ithonunedenn,
160,000,000; Buddhlste. 340,000,0.0; other Asiatic religion',
260,000,0 ,0 ; Pagans, 200,000,000; Jew', 6,00,000.
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Dr. Dollinger says in a letter to the juridical faculty
of Marburg: We Germans cannot mid will not renounce
the Lope that religious union may be added to the happily
acquired political one, and that the separattou, which Ma
unavoidable SOO years ago, may lead ton irgher, purer union,
be It even in a still Matsui future."

A correspondent at Chiswick writes that on Sunday
morning the tnamomater registered only 36 thp., or 6 dep.
stem fretting point. 8, cold Is it for the strawberry pickers,
who do their work at three o'clock to the morning, that
gin is served out to keep Metz lingers trom getileg
numbed.

The Silk Supply Associatiou have paseed a resolu,.
than recommendwg that the trade should colluder the pr.
Orhay of esta,llaillog an E-gheh cocoon market, aed alto
of carrying out the reeling 01.11 k I.Y.ngland direct from the
COeuolm.

The Daily Newt is informed by one of its corre•
spondents t Merlin that there Is not the .lightest probability
that General von Moltke will be present at our proposed
autumn review. There never was, the correspondent state.
any foundation for the report.

The Part enir of Callao lays that a woman had
been burnt in the public squat, of a town in the province of
onion, 34 leagues from lou q to, for befog • witch. Dile
Punlament was ordered by tho ilAteuent-governor and the
judge of the province.

l'rince li.rre Bonaparte, says the Paris Journe,
Paris, and has been met by several persons walking
rather ibtlrmly In the Blade hiulos•ne, leanitg on the arm
of a man-servant. In spwiarance he has grown tell years
older, and his thick imperial has become inle white
A letter from Tangiers sayn :—Tte locust confine
their ravages In the empire of Morocco. The vivifies
around this town are completely devastated, and not • barer
or plant remains, and persons who Indulge to the peaceful
pleasure of horticulture are In • state of consternation

The mortal remaina of George Grote, the historian
of Greece, were, on Saturday (the 24th, °mistimed to their
last reAting place in Westminster Abbey. Many dub-
finished writers, orator., and public men gathered around
his oped grave, and the obligates were performed with
grand solcmnity b.nsting the august memories of that
venerable edifice.

It is statel that the Royal Commission on cal ap.
pointed a few years ago lay Sir George Grey, will report that,
assuming a certain annual Ingram° lath, rate of consump-
tion, sufficient economically gettable anal exids In Greet
Britain and Ireland to last from 800 to 1.000 pears.
The l'iyaro says that a member et the Committee of
alaace want to lk Mu to ark tor the redaction of the garrison
of `Leesburg, recelvati only !or &nava, from the C langeller
of the Empire Toone devils of soldiers You see when
thew once get Into galleon there is no way to make themget
Out.

When the great banker Glyn was raised to the peer
age a few years ago, under the title of Baron Wolverton, he
gave £lO to every clerk In his bank Glyn, Mills, Carrie, and
Co). The British Officer understands from a correspondent
that, not to be outdone In such liberal conduct Lady Burdett
Conti* is about to give £75 to each of the clerks to Conttea
baak on her having become a baroness.

A London correspondent writes: --" A gentleman
who knows Fells Pyat well, having born a press colleague of
his, ounces me that within a week of the defeat of the Corn.
muniata he saw Py at in the British MUMPULII, and has MO
him twice since in the streets of London."

It is said that the Associated German It dimly,
have resolved t present to Pcince Mammas, as a token of
gratitude, a private railway carriage for hIB special use,
luxuriously lilted with all comforts. The carriage Is adapted
for use oust! German railway lines.

During the late war a wine•grower of Senile had three
mks of wile which he was particularly adalutus to safe from
falling Into the hands of the Prussians. Ile buried them,
and on the spot raised a large black wooden cross, on which
was petaled In white letters the Inscription, "flees Ile three
comrades," in the German Ism gouge. file ruse sooceeded
admirab/y. The cask. were piously saluted.

During the year ending the 31. t of March last 83,048
gun licenses were issued to }lnland, 7 615 in Scotland. and
3 018 in Ireland. These produce a reveuue of £40K15 104.
Th., use of a gun without • license was repatod in 985 GOON
and there were 710 prosecationo. The act only name into
operation on the 10:b of August last.

The Fenian exiles Luby and Burke received an Ora.
Lion at San Francisco on the Mn 131 June. Toey nor. escorted
to their hotel hy an immense evlc and rollthary torchlight
processictu, and addreued from 1.5,‘ 0) to 20,000 people.

A Parliamentary return shelve that there are In
Eotrand sod Wee. 2 028 officer. bolting commissions to the
militia, of whore 496 have, served in the regular army ; in
Scotland 292, of whom 78 have served ; to Ireland 069, of
whom 196 bore served. Tote gives • total of 3,109 militia
officers, of whom 770 were once In the army.
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The Doily Express comments ungraciously on the
current rumours as to Prices Arthur and he eetablishment
of a lt,yal residence In Ireland, and says that " tide thin
people will be les, likely to appreciate the act as one which
culls for grateful remembrance tha.n to think that they
hove been made the instruments in effecting a handsome
settlement for one of the younger members of the Royal
faintly.

A sad accident occurred on the Harrow cricket-
ground on Saturday. by which a boy in the Sixth Form lost
his life. The eldest con of Mr. Cottrell an old llardoriek
was playing lu a game, and was for the time " etanding
umpire." Suddenly • ball wa, hit hard to "square-leg " and
struck him on the ride .4 the head below the ear. Death
followed almost immediately Ile had bees fire years in the
school, and was within a few weeks of the close of his last
school term.

The Princess Ihyal of Prussia is said to be engaged
on • work entitled ',crank Labour tn Germany, the urj rct
of which lithe enlightenment of he British public with regent
to the resources of female wcrkers in her adopted costar'',
and the suggestion of the same domeattc activity amohitsl
the women and girls of the working classes in England lier
Royal Ilighneu has made herself highly popular in lierllt by
Iter attcution to the education of the poor.

Bush fires were prevalent in May in the forest region
of the Upper Ottawa, and much rlannage was done. I,gisis.
tire interference is asked to restrain settlers from setting
lire to the woods, even for clearing the land, in very dry
season., and without taking proper precautions to prevent
the games spreading Old farmers lumen that fellows cm
be burnt, with proper care, without endangering the neigh
bouring woods There hove also Urer great fires in the
mountain forma lo tho vicinity of the iladaoa river, and na,b
lose of property
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1 he Paris Mint, during its occupation by the Corn'
mune, and when dtrecad by Citizen Camednat, bronze niter,
mar...tinctured geld arid silver coin to the amount of
1,600,0001. Of that mum 75,00 f. only was laved by the ('et'
tallies troops on their entry The d!dereat articles of gold
and sliver found at the establishment represent° I s total
weight of 1,18010., consisting of object. stolen fr., the
churches religious bounce, ',venomous ofilcee, and Tuuerieu
Among the molt curious IVY the beautiful surbait 1,1 s
dining-sable, preeontad by the City of Paris on the Prince UP
penaPe birth-day.
A parliamentary return, just Issued. states that the
balance due to depositors in the Post Office 4.viuge bats
on lb.- 31n1 of December, 1870, was including intend)
£10,C99,101 Os ad The amount In the hands of floe Corn'
nib.siontrs for the ft...dtiution of the National Debt Wig
£l5 304 039 les, Id. the total amount received from tire
P 1 .1411 Including interest, up to the Slat of Ihmember, 170,
w.e A: 9 571 263 10s. lid, and the total amount repaid
£94 012 17.9 li. 34. The total cog of the bank, from their
elta9tlstlineo,t was £464,252 151. 9.1., and the total number of
transactions, 17,154 771.
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The bronze statue of Frofewsor Samuel F. It. Merle.
the tatner of telegraphy In tbe United States, was unvelled
On the afternoon of June 10, In the presence of • vast
• semblage, at Central Perk, :Sex York. Governor Hoff-
mann, of New York, presided, and a large tumor of re-
preeentativea from telegraphic organizations in all parts of
the country were present. The statue was unveiled by
11,,vernor Challis, of flassacknietts, amid music and Cheer.,
mai the Inauguration milieu was pronounced by 1111105
Cullen Bryant. . . _

A riot occurred on Monday at Waterford between
the i”'lce and the 'Tipperary Antillery Militia, who had ar-
rived from Tipperary en routs for Danciumon Fort, for an
nnal practice. While remaining in Wanerford for the ordi-
nary steamer some of the militiamen got drunk, and a du•
turbance on the quay took place Toe pollee Interfered, and
arrested some ‘,l them, when, cry was raised to rescue the
t,risonera, and serious rioting ensued, in the course ef which
the tn.l,ce were severely hnndled. I hey were eventually rO.
infused, atcl succeeded to Wag several of the rioters into
custody.
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Viceeehancellor Wickens haat given judgment on an I
application of a thareholder to the L n th. and
Bnk, Med!fermata
which went Into liquidation In N ..vember, le& AP-
yllcant wished his name tit be remired IT to the list of cot.
trlintt:ries to the company, and re/dourly to the winding-
Op tromedlups he bad obtained a discharge of his liability I
Iron the 41recters t it the grviend that he had been In itt,ed
by misreprettntati. o b:come a shareholder. the question
WWI whether the d rrec.ors bad power to cancel a duly
regietered allotment of shizes. The Vlce.Chsacellor was of
optulon that they bed not, and ril•missed the 111111111101111.
An Admiralty despatch gives an account of a
massacre at Port Gallant, on the Patagonian coast. On the
40 of March last the captain of a British vessel landed there
with three of bls crew to cut wood. The dead body of the
captain, in a mutilated state, was afterwards toned In the
bush, but nothing could IT. seen of the OM. Pop) the •
Statement if an !adieu afterwards centered, It iiPPear. that,
: I • : •ity err- ..tre :Jeri by the I odiaus, Inm
tent sport :JAI .4 attu 4011) of thee' pain was eaten, at.d the
MAtes if it, others throne late the sea.
Mt P.A. Law Board return for April chows that at ,
the beginning of that mouth the number of person. Is
receipt of relief trout the rates to England and Wale...
47 per cat, lest than at the corresponding period of
but at the end of the month the decrease In comparison wall
1870 was only 2 nee cent. The decrease at this lest date
was 9 2 per cent tn the north-wc stern distsion, 21 per emit.
c 4
In Yortani.-e, 1 tor cent. In the northern division, 14 VT
cent in M iv,at d. and as lunch ea 7
per oent.
tO
she meted' ow With the tsception of London, the south
midland aut southtm divisions Meow a email increase of
pauperism.