The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-10 00:00:00

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Mr. Prescott llewett states, in correction of a re-
port contained in a medi,el contemporary, that he has not
visited professionally the Emperor Is apoleon.

A system of warming railway carriages by means of
hot air has been recently tried to Bavaria. The heated air
Is conveyed m gutta percha tubing, and the plan stem*
likely to turn out well
On the 31st Aug., drowned in the river, at Glen.
gar if, Irelund, while bathing, Ernest Leopold Berns) s, of
New Ce/le4e, Oxford, eldest and beloved mu of the it.,. L.
J. liernsys, of Great Stannoere, aged 22."—Tinta obituary
Sept. b.

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;the find time for many years (writes a corm.
spondent) Ireland is without an agitation. But this state of
things will not long continue, as preparations are bah g
made for a winter of brisk agitation ou the subject of edu-
cation and potatoes.
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A young woman was recently seen sitting beneath
the shade of a large maple tree ou Broad-street, Philadelphia,
soliciting alms, with the following l+eArd fastened around
her neck Mind for tiny years, aud the father of eight
small etildren."

For two months past rumour has asserted that Mr.
Smith, the Emperor's confidential Englfsh scent, has been
arraniug the purchase of an estate near Sevenosks, and
Drastol-- where as Prince Louis Napoleon Ito owe resided
—is mentioned as fir, possible home of Ms ex-Majesty, tf be
Should ever leave Wilhelmshiihe.

A Paris corre.poutlent telegraphs that the IZ,no 1 /ix
Nceruhre his been rechrietehed. It is how cello:1 the Rue
Quatre Septombre. Ihe Avenge to rEmpereur Is henceforth
In be known as the Rue Victor Noir.

It is paid that' our Government is preparel to join
with Frimee, as soon as a stable Government is formed
there, In sending an expedition out to China, demanding re-
dress for the late massacres.

Baron toil Diergardt, of Bonn, who recently pre.
*anted £.10,000 to the Gorman Hospital in Loudon, has Just
rondo an equally munificent contribution to the Herman
Hospital lo Now York.

The Mimes Young. (Brigham's claughtere) number
about twenty•four. ey are &scribed by one who law
them at the Salt Lake Mrs:re the other Light as all stout
and tinelooking.

The China papers contain ample evidence of the
uneair feeling chi:!, prevails among the foreign resident*
at the various ports In consequence of the apprehension that
the late massacre at Tien-lain may be followed by similar
outrage, in oth:r places. Volunteer corps for local defence
have beets formed at shanghai and Chefoo.
. _ _ . _

The National Society for the aid of the sick and
wounded In war despatched on Saturday tour surgeons and
shout two tons of stores, medicines, and Instruments to
Luxumbourg and Arlon. Their departure was attended by
a pleasing incident, each of the surgeons luidnii handed to
him when on the point of starting a pocket note of instru-
ments, the gift of the Princess Louise.

The officers of Inland revenue have notified that
occupiers of land using a gnu for scaring birds cif c,nro, .tc
or for killing vermin on the laud, are exempted from the
parment for a gnu lie-ice. The penalty tor using a gun
lthout a licence If not exempt, ii £lO. Licences can he
oidained at Posi,dlice money-order orders, and
Leland Reveuue-onico.

Mr. Monte, one of the Members for Birmingham, re-
ferring to the atatement of Count Pailkan in the Come
Legialatif, that 4,000 rides had been sent from this country,
and that others were being contracted for, says that he has
made inquiries. and cannot hear that any rifles have been
exported to France; certainty there have been none sent
from Birmingham.

The II ishman (writing, of mune, before the receipt
of the He of the Emperor's Capitulation), ..al ter a careful
consideration of the campaign," Is •• forced deliberately to
declare thie strategy of Marshal Mac-Mahon at once most
brilliant, most prudent, and most masterly. If it doe. not
ultimately succeed, it will be for want of men to carry a
good beginning to a triumphal ending."

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It is reperted that the Melbourne Conference held
in June, representing most of the Australian colonies, had
ben attended with useful results. The subjects of agree-
ment were telegraphic and postal charges; ocean, postal,
and passenger service; withdrawal of troops arrest of the
absconding debtors; disposal of worn and deftest Coinage;
adoption of the central system of weights; and the calling of
the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamers at a South
Australian port.

At the Liverpool special sessions, Antonio B. Agacio,
son of a Liverpool merchant, was charged with the robbery
of e 2,300 faun his father. Ile pleaded guilty, as did also his
whe, with whom he absconded to the Continent at the time
of the occurrence. A brother of Iles. Agacio, mud her
mother both accused of complicity in the transaction, were
discharged, evidence not being forthcoming. Sentence upon
Antonio Aged° was deferred till next melon.
A curious accident happened to a soldier belonging
to the regiment of Coldslream Guards, stationed at
Windsor, toe other day. While in a state of stml-intoxlca-
tion he walked out of ea opts window on to the leads, and
fell into the garden, a distance of twenty feet. lie was
admitted on Saturdsy to St. Mary's Hospital, whrre it was
found t list he had sustained severe internal injuries, besides
being fearfully bruised about the head and body.

The Birmingham Musical Festival which-was brought
to a close on Fildsy night, was one of the most succesful ever
held. From a statement of the financial results, laid before
S meeting of the general a mirittee on Saturday, it appears
that th, toial receipts were £14.130 pie. 3d., a sum greater by
£l3O than that drawn on any previous occasion. The total
number of persona who attended the festival was 14,570.

TM* following advertieement, extracted from an
American payer, snows that the enterprising Yankees still
keep pace with the times A liapfism Prim—Louis
Napoleon telegraphed a day or two ago to Eugenie: ' The
Prince imperial has rectived hLs baptism of Are, and stood it
nobly. Prussis has licked us, and we are corning home.
Lay in a good supply of nrst-class groceries and provisions
at r'eakios d: Co's store, on Warburton avenue bridge,
Yonkers.'

The Liverpool Workhouse Committee have do,cideil
to erect an additional shed for the accommodation of fever
patients. W. step being rendered necessary by the rapid in-
crease of fever. The number then iu tho hospital was 731.
The following statistics show the increase of the disease
More the 3rd July :—First week, 172 ; second, 192: third, 235 :
fourth, 272; fifth, 325; sixth, 491 ; seventh, 451; eighth, 662;
aud for the week ending on the 28th of August, 077.
12v directiou of Ctriiinal Callen "A aolemn 'Nitta=
in cr.:0,1..13°n of the definition of the Infallibility of the Pope,
as declared by the Vatican Council," will take place in the
Roman Catholic Cathedral, Marlborough-street, Dublin,
commencing hest Sunday, and lasting three day. Our cor-
respondent mentions that port of the arrangement Is that on
each day a separate bishop will deliver. discourse on the
nature of the Dogma, and its binding oallitation on all
Catholics.

It is Mid that the Princese Mathilde has been
arrested at Users while trying to effect her escape with sixty-
two trunks supposed to contain some national property.
The house of M. Drouyn de Lhuys has received a domiciliary
visit in consequence of it becoming known that Memr.
Droops de Lhios, who is a Prussian, had some Prussian
servants. The ex• Foreign Minister and his wife were away
from Paris when the visit was am le ; after a long hunt MA
after threatening to shoot the wife of the concierge, the
terrifkil woman revealed where her husband was concealed,
and he was captured. It is said that arms and compromising
papers have been found in his room.

- Some idea of the vastness of the railway transport of
soldiers and military stores or the French hires during the
war may be gathered from the retann of last week. The re-
ceipts of the Lyons-liediterranerin alone were £01,304 over
those of the corresponding week last year, and the total in-
crease for isil the railways in France during the period since
the Isl of January, 1870, as compared with the same period in
MO, reached the,entirmous sum of £1,497,921 We presume
it tat all been paid. 01 course some of the lines which tn.
verse tire sent of war are buttering; for instance the Eaitern
lost £39,510 last Week.

A corromornient of the Athentrum, writing from
Leipsic, says:—" To give your readers an idea of tue high
mental calibre of some of our officers, I will mention, as one
Instance out of many similar ones, that General von Hart-
mann, whose proclamation to the inhabitants of Mince ap-
peared in The Times of last Friday, has a ton who served as
a lieutenant lathe war of lend, and who, being disabled for
further service by a wound then received, devoted himself to
the cultivation of philosophy, and has since published,
besides several smaller, more or lees gduable treatises, a
work—' rhe Philosophy of the Unconicions,—which displays
as much erudition as originality, and places him In the first
rank as a writer and thinker."