The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-09-09 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

France has now paid 1:52,000,000 out of die war
in•lemnity.
TI. • Are Air 'Writl announces the death of Karl
Mark. the chief of the International Society.

Chicago is going in for a twelve mile drive in its
great park, " exceeding In beauty everything of the kind on
the face if the globe."
It in said that Sir hfaehael Costa has declined the
offer to be joint conductor of the Boston musical festival
which is to number 20.000 executants.

A Paisley gentleman gets the credit for having
demanded, in a letter to the newapapers, to know why
women should not be freely allowed to become medical
men

--6neinnati, ever mindful of the needs of the per
has established at convenient distances ice-water piddle
thinking fountains, to which heated and weary wayfarers
plenteously reset, earls bringing his own whisky !

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There is a prize of £4,000 yet to be awarded by the
Academy of Sciences to the discoverer of an efficient remedy
fur cholera. More than 150 papers have already been scut in
on the subject during the last fortnight.

The committee of the Captain Relief Fund is about
Incto dissolved, arrangements having been made to close
the accounts and for the transfer of the fond to the Royal
Commissioners ,d the Patriotic Fund for distribution. The
moonlit stated to have been received up to tine present time
slightly exceeds t:56,000.

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The analysis of ltenforth's stomach has been com-
pleted. and no traces of poison have been discovered. His
heart wan found perfectly healthy; and, after a careful in-
vestigation, the doctors concerned in the post-mortem ex-
amination have come to the conclusion that Ms death
resulted from natural causes.

According to the Registrar-Generars returns pub-
lished on Tuesday, the death-rate In London and nineteen
other large titles and towns of the United Kingdom was
&Irina the week ending Saturday, Sept. 2, twenty-eight per
tl,oo.,and. 'lce cholera is 1.1/411Ig some progress in Germany,
but it has renclied neither London nor Paris. The cases re-
ported is both these cities are of the ordinary summer type.

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The death is announced of Mr. Thomas Ballantyne,
which occurred a few days ago at Ills residence in Tunnel'
Park, Holloway, London, at the age of sixty-five. Be was
originally a weaver at Paisley, where he worked as a ts,y at
the Mom, but subsequently devoted himself to writiag for
the press. Ile edited the Matelot..a on its llest appearance
some ten Sr twelve years ago, and he wax subsequently for
some years the editor and amasser of the Preas and St.
Jasoa,.4 Carom iele.

Dr. Hunter writes --" Three times bas the question
been submitted to the doctors of the law at Mecca, in
Northern India, and in Calcutta, 'ls it our duty to make
war a;ralust the Queen?" TN.-, times the T:iin er Ns,. come
in the negative. The aid given by the Eh,insh to the Sultan
Is one main cause why the doctors of (elan hesitate to regard
the English as enemies; the crushing defeat of the mutineers
in the great &Toy war of 1K57-59 is a still strungerreasoa for
acquiescing in our rule."

The Paris corresporubnt of the Daily Nees says—
Tile business of life in Paris just now seems to be court-
ship alld marriage. Smres of w eddings every day. Let us
taken single mairie—that ,4 the ninth arrondissement—the
district of the Opera. For the week ending to-day there are
forty-four marriages posted up. For the previous week there
were forty-seven. You may set down the marriages of the
whole month at 200—a goodly number for one only of the
twenty arrondissements into which Paris is divided?'

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It seems that the 4th Septemln,r, the anniversary of
tine eitablishment of the present French Republic, has passed
off throughout France without any distmliances. Paris re-
mained perfectly tranquil, and very few of the provincial
town, nrade any sign. The D.,50.1 maintains that the &ma-
nonnes, although always ready to take advant go of every
opportunity for disorder, could not seriously have thought of
celebrating an anniversary recalling the rimst prontoundeand
irreparable of the earlier disasters of France. In the opinion
of the MUM, plea and banquets on the 4th September would
have been more appropriate at Berlin and Csrlsruhe than at
Lyons og Marseilles, and would have Igeoll put down in France
by public indignation and contempt even more quickly than
by the intervention of the authorities.
A very useful invention bas been brought under the
notice of the Admiralty by Mr. Julius vandenbereb, ant
Portsmouth, who has patented a "sea mesaenget," whieh,
In the opinion of many riantimi men, might with great advan
tage lie introduced into the navy and the mercantile marine.
The " messenger " is Intended for use in the event of ship-
wreck or other catastrophe. laluable documents and infor-
mation respecting the position and other circumstances of a
ship could be deposited therein and then thrown overlsiard,
and by this means the mystery which too often enshrouds
the fate of a ship and her passengers and crew might be
solved, and the hopes or fears of friends set at rest, while
by his agency, assistance might he sent to a ship in peril:
which might otherwise lie left to her fate. It may be men-
tioned that the '•rnesseneer " Is Dow being need by several
foretm powers, and that the inventor has recently been
awarded a medal at the Marine Exhibition at Naplea

110ffireSted.

Cantle

A correspondent gathers from the papers a lint of
rer 100 deaths in ten days from bathing.
At a friendly political discussioa recently, it WaS
iggested by use of the audience that the last speaker ass
maggot, "and 11l tell you why," said " the one : "
he lives on corruption.

A New York correspondent says the ex-Emperor
Napoleon has requested his American banker to select him a
suitable residence in that country, and that an agent has
just left the United States for England with photographs of
eligible estates which may be purchased.

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After the noble game of crinitiet ha, done itn tutu,
ladies are arranging battli dare and shuttlecock contests on a
grand scale. The latter supplements the former at these
croquet meets. croquet shows the pretty ankle, bkttledore
the well-turned figure above the waist, and puts the finish to
the attempt to captivate..

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By the new -Act on the Prevent:on of Cr4ne, 31th
and 3.5 th 10.. c. 112, the children, under fourteen, of •
1111 being twice convicted of a criniu, who have no
visible means of subsistence. are to be sent to industrial
schools by the court before w Met the second wonvictiou takes
Place.

Brillat-Savarin tells a story of an old toper wh,,:e
neighbour, while he at at dinner, having called Ins attention
to a tine dish of grapes, turned awav from them with the re-
mark that "it had never beLu his habit to take his wine it,
the form of pills."
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A skit ft:- the manner of the 1300 r of Dorkio has
hit the mark. It i* called the hil We Of B. rlin. The .I.".ous-
men? shows its the captivity of the F.SllpCrur of thornutoy iii
England azni the triumph:int return of the inuillaryctrjAI
that helped to win fame awl vielory fir En,huni in (4.thmay
to nit, "The Australian Contingent." As sjeud copra it is
equal to the rest.

A Congress of the Free Catholics of Switzerland is
to he held at Soleure 0 the 13th instant. Catholics from
foteign countries %ill be admitted to the meetings as well as
the members of other religious bodies. The principal objects
of the Congress are to bring about a reform in the Catholic
Much, and to check the pretensions of the partisans of

A French gentleman learning English to some put--
I,ns, replied thus to the question—" How do you do, Mon-
sieur?" "Do vat" do you hind yourself ? " I
uever loses myself." " Dow do you feel ?" "Smooth, you
Just feel nue." •• Good morning, Monsieur " "Good. No,
it's mei: had one : its vet anti musty."
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"What is your business?" :aid the judge at the
Tombs the other hhoruitht tot A prioer. '' I'm an observe-
tionist, your honour." ,• An observationist What to that I'
One who looks around in the daytime to see what Ito can
steal at night, if it pleases your honour." It did not please
Ms honour, and so he sent the obeervationist to the peniten-
tiary for sixty days.
The Anbbbliop of Madrid has taken a strong step
on the question .4 civil marriages. Ile has issue I a circular
to his clergy enjoining them ti refuse the sacr, o.ts to all
persons win, are married by civil rites only, un.ess they
publicly manifest their repentance for not having conformed
to the orders of the Church.

Sir James Peunethorne, the well-known architect,
died at his residence, Worcesttr Park House. Wimbledon
near Lownin, on the Ist inst. The deveased knight ass lawn
at Worcester in len. lie was appohyted architect and sur-
veyor to the Board of Works and hiblic Buildings in 1.40,
awl shortly afterwards surveyor of houses in the nuke of
Woods and Forests, retiring in 1570 after thirty year: ser-
vice. sir James was knighted on his retirement.

It is announced that Mr. Cardwell has taken the
first step under the Army Regulation Act, and that the prin-
cipal provision of the measure may be expected shortly to
come into operation. Instructions have been given to the
agents to hand over the repdation prices to [vividly retired
oineers : and ne 2 large another of recipients aRI inehnied
in the first order, it is estimated that something like LAntal
still have to be disbursed.

The vitievanls established near Warrenton, Virginia,
It is reported, have commenced hearing this year, and the
crop, it is stated,. will be unusually large and promising.
The grapes ripen a month earlier than in the plantations
front which the rises wean transnlanted, anti the fruit is
reported ti be more juicy and better flavoured This experi-
ment, it is argued establishes the adaptability of the
anti climate of Virginia to the culture of the grape.
Not a few of the visitors to Paris confound the un-
finished buildings leagued by Ilaussman with the ruins
proper. Possibly it ins natural error, as the half-built build-
ings have
.11 peculiarly deserted, ruined look, in Coll9Ctillellel,
of not being surrounded by scaffolding, such haring been
used op as firewood during the that siege. Indeed, wane
country cousins express a surprise at not finding all Paris a
Pompeii—and a fatuous Ce Weed Die eau ! innocently paints
their disappointment.

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An intelligent young man in speaking of the recent
riots ill New York, ventilated himself thusly : '• I say, 1 •
can't see what objection the Irishmen could have to the
Orangemen parading. I think selling oranges is respectable
enough. tint the mange business must he good in New
York when so many men can make a living on mitt." Ile
is to be bur future Chancellor of the Exchequer if things go
on in a I-AlWe

A frightful accident occurred on the Northern of
France Railway no Monday night, at Sr din, near tide. The
express from Paris ran into an ordinary train coming from
1.414111114 1441/4411 was beinglihmited in order to allow the express
to pass. Three passomer carriages were crushed. A great
number of passengers were stalled by the steam 411111 water
from the shattered engine of the express, and ton persons
killed, :eel nanny seriously injured.

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Apropos of the crowded state of Inverary during the
present rc;oleing, a native, detailing to another the dUlliallll3
which 11211 bee made upon his accommodation, and the
despair of those who could not procure apartments, stated
that after all his bedrooms and all the sofas in his public
rooms had been taken at enormous prices, one Englishman,
rather than be left out in the cold, paid half a guinea for
the privilege of sleeping wr the too" the worthy High-
Mauler meant to say that the lodger was glad to slcep upon
the straw in the byre.

The Swiss Tnagraphic Society has just published
au interesting report upon printing statistics which shows
that, collectively, the various cantons of Switzerland count
241 printing establishments, SOS compositors, la) superin-
tendents of presses, and 39 printers. In addition, there are
276 compositors' apprentices, 33 hands variously employed our
the presses, and 6 printers. There are 229 hand presses, and
240 worked by steam. lii the Canton of Berne there are 11l
01111prsitors ; at Geneva, 90; atkausanne, 83: at Zurich, 52;
at Bale, 33, at St. Gall, 1215, besides apprentices.
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A sail ae,ident is reportel from St. Maio. A young
Emrlisliman had been visiting Chiltembriand's Tomb; which
WI am island a short distance front the shore, and is renel,d
by a narn,w C 31182 way of rock that is covered at high-water.
lie stayed on the island too long, and tool that the water
had coverod the causeway when he abbot to return. lie
attempted to wade through it, although the people on the
shore smiled out to him to wait till a bait null put off, and
he would probably have reached the mainland in softy, but
Ids hat blowing off he tried to tegain it, and lust his toting.
Two first-rate swimmers tried to save him but without sue-
CCM. When the tide had turned his lady was recovered.
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Monuments are to be erected to Count Moltke, at
Parehim, his birthplace to General Werder at Freiburg the
principal town of the ltlack Forest, saved from illVaiiioll by
his bravery : and, together with those modern heroes, to
• Herrman, the greet chieftain of 2,000 years ago, who ovcrcame
the Itemans and hoed his repntry [non the then if:Abend
enemy. The latter statue WRS begun seine thirty years a,t
by private subscription, but ill the former unsatisfactory state
of Fatherland never excited sufficient sympathy to be eon,
pleted. Now that unity is established, Parliainent has taken
the matter in heed and voted the necessmy funds. The
figure, which is to be In chased copper anti of gigantic pro •
POli iOIIS, WM be put tip in the very battle-field where Varns'o
legion were destroyed, in the midst of the Teutoburg Forest..
near Detmold.