The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-21 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The ChanceUo of the Exfthequer acknowledges in
The Times (as "Cansclende Mono} ") rec4pt of the second
halt of a A2O note for Income-tax from "L."
The championship of the Seine has been won from
the le loshman Geeing, who has held it for many. years, by
a Franco. Russian named L sing.
The monument erected to Schiller at Vienna will be
1111,4thie on the 10th of next month, the 117th anniversary of
the poet's birth.
The Caaibridge Free 'Library now possesses 21,053
volumes The present number of borrowers of boyks is
1,474. Dariog the past year thejssue of books was nearly
filly thousand.
Intelligence received from Havre states that the
steamer Sylvia, from Philadelphia. is supposed to be lost.
From Lloyd's list it appears the vessel sailed from Philadel-
phia for Havre with a cargo of grain on the Btla Saptember,
and was due about the 23rd 4st her 'destination. Sae has,
however, not yct been seen or heard of since the left that
port. It is feared that she was caught in tni hurriaano of
the 13th September in the Atlantic, and has foundered with all
on board. She was a flue Iron steamer of 1,(.`90 end had
a crev, of about 35 mer, all V.:4d,

The value of railway carriages for passengers ex-
ported this sear was £134,803, and last year £111,069.
The quantity of coal, &e., exported in the last ni:'e
months was 12,203,848 tons, an the value £3,817,879, sea it
t
10,770,779 tons In the same period of to preoeding year
the value was £7,829,071.
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The foundation-3tone the new free library Ili;
Derby, towards which Mr. Bass. M.Pi . has subscribed the
munificent sum of £B,OOO is to be formally laid by that gentle-
man in a etior time.

The Paris papers announce the appearance in that
city this week of a child of nine years of age, named Dengre-
wont, a native of the B rarll4: hut of French parentage, who
is about to take the musical world by storm with his piging
on the violin.—Court Journal.

The Morning Post hears that Mr. Val Prinsep is
commissioned to proceed to India to psiut a great historical
picture of the proclamation of the empire at Dulhi It is
said the artist la to receive £5 000 foritis work and £l,OOO tar
expenses.

A little boy, five years of age, living with his
parents near Newbury, has met with Ms death through eat-
ing a number ot red berries ot the war:4y b!ghtishitde, which
he gathereditrotn a hecige on the c,qintiOEl.
There is a hermit at Greenwood Lake, New York,
whollves in a Imt that is hardly lirge enough to allow a man
to lie,at full length or stand erect. !His. only artic;e ot fur-
Mtare ls a powder-keg.
Mr. Waddington, the French Minister for Public
Instruetion, speaking at Toulouse, said it would take three
years to establish compulsory education In France; but he
promised to accomplish the task in that time.

The Chinese ot S%n Francisco are having their
honsas huspected and famtrated by the Board d Health of
that city, the prevalence of pox rendering that precau-
tion necetaar3r. ,

The concluding day's running in the bicycle match
between M. Thulllet, of Paris. and Y. White, of Wolver-
hampton took place on Saturday at Walsall, and resulted in
a victory for the Englishman.

• A probably unprecedented fast hag knit occurred in
the 15th Foot. Colonel Henry Grierson has retired on half-
pay after a service of forty-three years in the corps, six of
which were passed In it in company with his father, the late
Lieutenant-General W. Grierson, who joined the regiment as a
captain in August, 1801 The tether and son rerved in the
regiment upwards of seventy two years. —Court Journal.

Dr. Janssen is devising an automatic photographic
revolver, which will take a photograph every hour from sun-
rise to sunset all the year round. Only those taken when toe
sky Is free fam clouds will bd useful for recording sun-spots,
but the rest will be used for meteorological purposes.—
Nature
At Shelf, near Halifax, on gaturday afternoon, a
large pan of tar which a man named it,lynolds had placed on
the fire in his house boiled over, and the blazlng liquid over-
spread the 11)or of the room. Reynolds and his grand'
deughter, a child three years old, were rendered belph:ss by
the fumes. and were found ling on the floor dreadfully
burned. Both died In a few h)urs.

General Teiernayelle organ, the Ruski Mir, of St.
Petersburg, declares that any attempt on the past of Eng.
land to close the Bosphorus would brirg on war between
England and Bass!a. What Raata requires is uot, it ea 2..,
the twesession of Constantinople, but the free and uncon-
trolled navigation of the Bosphorus.
Oa Saturday afternoon the Rugby Club werg playing
an opening match in football from sides chosen &swags'
their own memb,.rs. Mr. J. Gilbert in endeavouring to stop
an opponent who was running with the ball, was knocked
down and had his collar-bone broken. The game was IMMe.
diately discontinued.
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There has just died at Bath, at the age of 84,
linberfield, whose tile hut been mutts]. He was
present at Waterloo, and marched to Ine gates of Paris. Re
was present at the curonation of the two Sovereigns who
preceded Victoria,
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- Adi plqrnatic offieial wilo has latelyreturned to China,
according t ) the I ring and Natty Gazette, writes ba a private
letter Ihe limes are becuming mire unfriendly every
day, and it is t vldent that they are only awaiting their time
—preparing themselves for the blow which they are sate to
striae sooner or later, and which will fall heavily when it
comes."

Tne Ceonstadt lfessenger states that the trial trip of
the ironclad Peter the Great has been most satisfactory. A.
speed of 121 knots was attained, but it is said that the con-
struction os the screw is such that- the-apeett-can readily be
tocrea2ed to 13 knots. Dating the trip five shots wee firei
from each of the four great guns Each shot requires 11301 b.
of powder.

Stanton, the bicyclist,' on Sahtrderi completed the
task be had set himself of running 100 miles upon his
machine in 61 hours Ile travelled nearly a quarter of a
mile beyond toe allotted dist/wee In the time. Ville bridge
grounds were the scene of this exploit
shocle.ng accident occurred at a new caal pit near
Leigh on Monday night. Water was bang drawn up.tho
shaft in a "hoppet,' which held about 303 gallons, and when
this vessel was near the surface It was by some means over-
turned. A solffold 60 yards below ground was broken by the
fall of the water, and two men who were at work thereon fell
int) a pool nine feet deep and were drowned.
It was announced at the meeting of the Norwich
town comma that the Pance of Wales bad signified his
intention of visitirg Norwich on the 23th of November next,
when he will install Lord Suffield as Provincial Grand
Master of the Freemasons of Norfolk, and be present at a
megting on behalf of the Norfolk audNartvich Hospital.
Mr. W. B. Dennißon, M. P.,,presiding on Saturday
Nat the quarterly meeting of the otts Chamber of Agricul-
ture, referred to the EasternAnestion, expressing an opinion
that England wou'd not be implicated in any war, and that
the, good tense of the Powers would cause the proposals of
Turkey to be accepted in some form or pther. Be expressed
hisklisapproval of the Itussisn policy in the matter.

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The Crab and Lobster Fisheries Comn3iEsioners have
fast sat at Inverness. One of tile witnesses said that though
the supply all along the outer Hebrides was inexhaustible,
tbcre rrere no proper facilities for conveying the fish to mar-
krt, and suggested that Government should subsidise a
steamer to run from the Western Isles to S zome Ferry,
the western Terminus of the Dingwall and Skye Railway.
The master cotton-spinners of Blackburn have
assumed a determined attitude against any advance of wages,
while other branches of the factory workers look on the cries
with feelings of great concern, and have urred the operative
cotton-spinners to seek an interview with the masters, in
order amicably to settle thd dispute.

Not for many years has so wet and unsettled a har-
vest season been experienced in Sxilland as that of the pre-
sent year. Over erensive d.stricts, especially in the
northern connties, a considerable proport'on of the grain
crops is still in the field, and it is feared that the damage
caused by the long continuance of rainy and stormy weather
Is in many cases irretrievable.
Some ShEfeeld gentlemen having written to Mr.
Gladstone oa the subject of the removal of the Sheffield steel
business to America, the right hon, gentleman replied that
the removal, however much to be regretted, Is not one with
vhich he hail any title to interfere. Retaliatory duties, such
as they suggest, are plausible in appearance, but are con-
demned by the greatest authorities both present and past.

In Lordon, on Sunday afterr oon, a number of boys
were on the Whitehall Stair?, near Westmkster Bridge,
when one of them felLinto the water. A.sgeatlemati named
Williamson leaped into the, Thames and
,swam towards the
drowning boy. Be insinti;ged.to bold Mtn up for about three
minutes, but as there were no boats at hand Mr. Williamson
Ix came exhausted, rano eava himself hewn obliged to let
the poor LA go, and beat once Bank. Mr. Williamson suc-
ceeded In reaching the shore.

The total immigration into the United States during
the year ending Jane 30 last. was 169,986, compared with
227,493 the previous year. Of the total, England sent 24373,
Ireland 19 575, Scotland 4 582, Wale; 324, Germany 31,937,
and Canada and the other Britlsh Nosth American PfOI'ILC6I
22,471. The total imuitgratioa tor the fiscal year 1875-6 is
barely one-third that of 1872-3; but the decrease Is to some
extent compensated for by the better clan of people who are
*ow. coming.
William Lawry, footman to Vice-Admiral Henry
hads. Commander-in• Chief at Sheerness, went on Saturday
tth the under-1)14161,4er azow.ln..ll.lB...admiralairdingy, but

tad not proc—e-ederi hr wh.tt one of the oars was l: and
Lawry Jumped overboard 0 recover it. He was unable to
*,sch it, and suddenly dirappeared. The boats belonging to
tor asty's ships Wildfire and Duncan were in immediate
diendacce, but the bAly was lott. I), ceased had only been
n'Admiral Chads' employ about fourteen days.

The Eirlot Sefton preftidei at a meeting at Liver.
pool on Monday of the local committee appointed to make
arrangements for the show of the Itsyst A grisissturai society
next yeas It was state 1 that ihsre was every prorpect of the
Show being a vsry successful one. The Mayor stated that he
"would give a silver cup of the value of ffry guineas for com-
petition.
We understand (says the Sussex Daily News) that
the building of the " City of Health," on the Courtlands
E date, about a mile and a half west of Worthing, will be
commenced in the spring of next year. In the "City of
Health" en attempt will be made to carry out the idea of
D'. Itictardaon, as expounded in his description of "
or. the model City of Health, at the Social Sciences Congers
at Brighton last year.
During last week 5,675 births and 2,915 deaths were
registered in London and 22 other large towns of the United
Ki„gdom. The natural increase of popslation was 2,730.
The mortality from all causes war at the average rate of 19
deaths annually in evsly 1,010 persons living. The annual
death-rate was 18 iscr 1.0'..0 in Edinburgh, 18 in Glasgow, and
19 in Dublin. In L nidon 2,353 births and 1.217 deaths were
registered ; the former having been 20 above, and the latter
163 Uelow the average numlosrs. Tau aspsual death-rate from
all causes was 18 per thou.sand.
The Pope received 6,200 Spanish pilgrims at Rome
on Monday, and in replying to an address or the Archbiesop
of Grenada, he-referred to the revolutionary Afloat which
have been made in Spain and elsewhere, saying "these
Is
betag
grlinages prove, however, that th 3 revolution will not destroyingelm-
sutpjfelictetha OnTlynetenp,eirtsoec,utrtieonn3sthtoenwhTrc.hn the
Ceehecinrcihn
conclusion ha Holmes' congratulated the S' a lilt n people
upon having decided to maintain the religious Unity. •
An inquest has been held t
athe Spa road Swim.
mug Baths, Bermondsey, on the body of Mr. Louth, aged
63 the.
, superintendent of the baths. l'he evidence given
showed that the deceased was LI rho habit of going the
round of the.premises after business hours for the purpose of
putting . on. the light; and seeing that the place was safe.
Whlltt 'doing soon '
Friday night he accidental)? slipped 11,0
Use waiter and was drowned, being found dead ehirtiy after-
wards by his wife. A. verdict of "Accidental death" was
recorded by the jam
A. three-ttorey brick building in Springfield, Massa-
chusetts, occupied by Walker and Co , pork packers, and en
the upper !bore by S. Palmer, flour dealer, and the Back
Cigar Compauy for storage purposes, fell, on the afternoon
el the 20 Sh utt burY.ing.several men 112 the rubes, only three
of whom escaped alive. The abrit at once took fire, which
rendered any stfort.to 'relieve four of the buried men impos-
sible for an hour., . was about 22,00 doilsrs.
sThe accident is supgge4to have been caused by the over-
loscUng of the bull - There were 40 tons of tob icy) on
the upper floor. and II tolls of 11 rev had Just 13,;en stored on
the second floor.
A singular fatality has just occurred at Frazeley,
near Tamworth. A brewer'; c Arternnaomned Soe I:Ye
.17 ernot on
a 3 )n.'neY V"a
a load
of
ale.
";" some gom the
. tree by the roadside snapped In oso .
ground as he WA passing and fell upon the
horse. 11 broke
loaded. the driver wh-fts and upset the ale barrels with which the dray
was
both • d no was riding on the shalt, was
struck on the head by one of the b meta, which knee sed him
into a ditch and rolled upon him, causing ',lades which
proved fatal.
A fifty miles' walking match for prizes presented by
Lorl derssy and othsr gentlemen came of on 31.mday at
Lillie Bridge. Oct of thirty men whose names were entered
on the programme twenty-live came to the po. b. The meet-
ing is reported as one of the most successful in the annals of
pedestrianism, both es regards the numbs r of visitors and the
speed of the competitors. The 50 miles were accomplished b
G I.le, of Woolwich, in Bh. 19 min. llssec being 23nain. 33 sec.
hetser than any time previously rec vied

A telegraphic despatch has been received at the
Indian Bureau, Washington, stating that the E. v. R. A B.
Ffennell was shot dead—it Is supposed by an Indian—within
a mile of the Cheyenne itivcr Agency, on the 27th September.
The deceased gentleman had greatly endearea btu self to the
doweatlcated Indians le, his unvarying kinentss, considera-
tion, and sympathy, and it is therefore believed that he was
killed In mistake for some other person. He had been per-
forming the work of a Protestant Episcopallan missionary at
the settlement for some years previously, and waspieversally
popular with all classes At the time when the despatch left
no ,elite had been discovered either as to the cause of tee
crime or to the identity of the murderer.
An inquiry has been held at St. Bartholomew's Hoe
pital as to the del.th of William Phillp Farthing, aged ten,
who died from the bite of a dog. From the evidence it
appeared that some weeks ago the boy, with other childten,
was wheeling a harrow when a little dog loskknging to a
person living close by flaw at the children, and bit the de-
ceased through the forefinger The boy ran home, and his
father had the wound cauterfe3d, and repeatedly dre,roo.f.d
until it seemed to get quite welt Aeont a week sin.
ever, the child got .worze, and was taken:surto tihtewsshosstp
owin
where he tiled of hydrophobia two days Is .
tthirvastrtaiheocthhietrdreehnli
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It ie In contemplation to erect at Stirling a statue of
King R3bert the Brume.

According to the Iguatrirte Zeitung, a Zurich printer
has started A priuting-oitice in which the cimpotitors are
worr,en

I The Balgutian fold" is one of the fashionable
styles in ladfes' dresses at the present time. Probably the
" atrocity hat' will be thi ntxt novelty.—Courf Journal.
Accardinl to statistics, 126,822 school teachers in the
I United States are at the present time enjoying theireatniner
I vacation.

There was a decrease in the quantity of wheat
imported in the last nine months The value th's year was
Z 18.133,667, an int_ year £l9 297,148.

A considerable inerease this- year has occnrra in the
importstin of p.trolenm. In the nine months of 1875 atte
,111,10 Nits £433,431, aud iu the last Lie mouths £793,216.

At the &moor Eiestions at LAw*s it WEIR reported
thit the manufactory account at Lewes prison showea a net.
p -oflt of over a thoteand pound. for twelve aiouth‘ to June,
and that the total crp,nse of the g el t. the c. wety this
last year w, s only £1,350, Including the large sum of 1.1103 for
gratuities cto.
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The following are the average prices of British corn
as received from the ingpeotors and officers of Ex3ise in the
week ending 03tober It :.L-Wheat-, 4,14 2d ; barley, 89; bd. ;
oats, 25; W.l.—imperial inemure, Corresponding week last
year :—Wheat, ; barley, 335. 10d.; oats, 245.
There has long been a talk about setting up in the '
streets of Paris gittentity of ClocklL or rather dials, marking
the time with 04-absolute and unerring uniformity ensured,
by electricity. According to a generally welt informed
French paper, the plan is now ni2e for execution, and will be
shortly carried out.
• According to the emigration returns it appears that
during the past month the total number of persons who lei t
Liverpool for various places, principally the United States,
was 6,844, being a decreasie of 1,126 upon the preceding month
Her blajesty the Queen, accompanied by their Royal
Highnesees Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice, attended
by the laales and gentlemen of the mite, will, it is under-
stood, leave Balmoral for the month about the 20th
November, and return to Windsor Castle.

The Frankfort Gaactle announces that a general con-
gress of Gierman women, which Ii to last some days, has
recently been opened in that town. There are not less thtm
eight reports to be di, mused ; the principal subjects being—
prejadicer, reform in the education of women, the literature
of youth, women in the family, the obstacles which present
themselves to the extension of the sphere of employment for
females, their influence in soelal life,

The Miners' National Union, of which Mr. Mac-
donald, M.P., is presiOent. bare issued a statement of the
operations of the Union, from whiel it appears that thirty-
four mining districts are 11D 4' connected with the Union,
representing In all upwards of 9.000 members. Nearly
£1,5C0 was expanded during the last financial year in support
of various districts, anl there is 'now a balance in hand of
upwards of £1,600.

A general meeting of tho cotton spinners and mann-
fao.turera of North end North-East Lancashire was held on .
Tuesday, at which a resolution was passed, rebuking to
accede to the conditions proposed by the men, and binding
the masters to close their mills at the end of a month's
notice, on the 23rd of November mixt, The lock•tui; will
affect 80,000 operatives.
'The weekly return of metropolitan pauperism shows
that the total number of paupers last week (the second week
In October) was 77,745, of wtan U 883 were in workhouses
and 41,882 received ottedoor relief. Compared with the T
corresponding weeks of 187 a, 1874, and MB, these figures
show a decree of 2,570, a 231., and 19,694 respectively. The
number of vagrants relievEd onliplast day of the week was at thit
730, of whom 168 were men,lhlS winner, ,and 70 childreik a
••, La it)
under sixteen.
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On Tuesiay the old uo'ours of the first ROyal SCota -t ••r; f
were convoTed under escort of-Colour:SW-ant Mackin, of • -1:4
the 79. h litghlanders from Baflater to Balmoral. Her
,a
Majesty received the calotrrs from the Belem% all sum-
moned various membeas of the Roy al /amity to be present.
Ber 31sjesty entered into conversation with the strjeant, .1;1
and on learning that he had been present when new colours a
were presented by her to the 79:11 in the Isle of Wight, gave
instructions that he shtiuld be shown the old colours of his • :t69‘
regiment now at Balmoral. ;•94,

Mr. Hermon, M. P., speaking at an entertainment
g'ven by the Mayor et Preston to the memhers of the Corpo-
ration, alluded to the resent outbreak in the East, and•ex-
pressed his belief that, whatever might be said upon the
point at issue, it WAS in good hands at present to bring about
a satisfactory and honourable settlement of the question.
lie further stated that he had confidence in the administra-
tion, and in Lord Derby as Foreign Secretary. Europe was
in such a critical donaition that it required .the serious
thought of cli earnest men.

In- the list of our imports from British India tea is
distinguished by the large increase shown in the returns for
last year. The quantity rose from less tirm 18 million pounds
In 1674 to upwards of 25 millions in 1675, and the value ad-
vanced to 'nearly A 2,200,000, giving tea a place among the
articles for which we pay India more than two millions ster-
ling in the Tear. The Indian Governmosit report on the
financial year 1874-75 states that the cultivation of tea is
rapicl!y spreading in Bengal, and that the amount of•the out.
turn is now amply remunerative the prices obtained in the
market are such as show that the average quality is good,
and, Indeed, the indna`ry is in an infinitely better and safer
position than it was ten years ago. The tea plant was intro-
duced, on the NeUgherry hills about 40 years ago, and now
covers nearly 2 000 acres.
, The Dnehess of Edinburgh, accompanied by the
Duke, landed at Pintos Pier, Malta, on Monday afternoon.
The telegram says that "their Imperial and Royal High-
nesses" were received by the governor, the naval, military,
and civil authorities, and a guard of honour, and proceeded,
followed by thirty-five carriages, through the Right Marina
Gate, where the garrison saluted them, and through the
Parts Reale, where a second salute was fired, to the Valetta
lalace, where another guard of honour was stationed. They
lunched with the Governor and Lady Straubenz se, covers
being laid for fifty, and afterwards proceeded to the San
Antualo Psisce, their future residence.

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