The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-06-03 00:00:00

EPITOME OF N.IN
BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

A bicycle, driven by a small steam engine
latest novelty.

In the past four months the value of indigo
was £1,429,573 ; in 1875 £1,267,771.
A Reuter's telegram from Lisbon states that
Campanha, who accompanied the First Napoleon in 14
Biala campaign, died there on Tuesday.
The Public Works Committee of the Dudley Town
Council are engaged in negotiations with the object of sub•
stituting petroleum for gas in lighting the public lamps of
the borough.
The miners employed by Earl Fitz william at his
Soath Yorkshire collieries went to work on Mouilay at a
reduction of 10 per cent, mutually agreed upon without a
strike.
A monument to Bartolomeo Christofalia, the in-
ventor of the piano, has been placed in the church at Santa
Croce at Florence.
Fever has broken out on board the training eh:
Vincent, in Portimouth Harbour, and two deaths
occurred. The vessel accommodates between 60 at
boys, 800 of whom were removed on Friday night to t'
Hannibal, now in harbour.
A rumour that several missionaries ha
assassinated in China has been mentioned by
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papers.
Mr. Jefferson Davis, who left New Orleans on the
20th inst. in the steamer Menivhis. is expected to arrive in
Liverpool on the 6th or 7th of -June, on a visit to the Cheva-
lier de Stoess, of Liverpool, and other friends in this country.
He purposes to stay in England about six months.
Nearly 21,000 has been received at Bristol this week
in admission fees to view the ship Caswell. The money will
be applied to a fund for the benefit of the widov-
orphans of the murdered men.
"Still in our ashes- live their wonted fires." Not
that Mr. Disraeli is reduced to a cinerary condition in his
material capacity ; but this is apropos to the fact that we
are to have another novel We are informed he is writing
one in continuation of that
.famous story "Lothair."— Court
Journal.
The Pope appears to be ,disturbed by the Mehom-
medan " revival." It is stated that his Holiness, replying to
a body of pilgrims who recently waited Upon him, said : ".I
pray that God may guide us-to the means of destroying Islam-
ism, which is now no longer confined to the banks of the
Bosphorus, but is extending to so many other countries."
"Yes," said a distinguished French politician, "I
visit M. Thiers occasionally now, for he is troubled with
bronchitis, and between two fits of coughing one can some-
times get in a word."
The returns of emigration for the past month show
that 7,053 persons left Liverpool, as compared with 4,315 in
March last. Of 6,039 emigrants to the United States, 8,176
were English, 768 Irish, 26 Scotch, and 1,785 foreigners, the
nationality of the others being unknown. -
A Sacramento lady, who sports an artificial tooth,
left it of the table ot the restaurant where she had taken
breakfast the other morning, and on returning for it about
an hour afterwards, found it attached as a charm to the bob-
chain of the waiter.
The statue erected in memory of Schiller by public
subscription, was lately inaugurated at Marbach, the place of
his birth. The family of the distinguished poet was repre-
sented by his grandson and grand-daughter.

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The Woman's Pavilion at Philidelphia presents an
interesting and unique display of work done by female hands
—painting, sculpture, weaving, hosiery, wood carviug, and
like forms of light hand work. Among the articles thus tar
opened one most often inquired for is a piece of the Queen's
handiwork.
A public meeting, convened to promote the volun-
tary closime of shops on Sundays, has been held in London,
the Earl of Shaftesbury in the chair. Upon the motion of
Lord Ebury, a resolution was carried descrinieg Sunday
trading as unnecessary and detrimental to the moral, social,
and physical welt-being of those who are engaged in it.
According to advicea from Quebec, a fire broke out
early on Tuesday atternoen in the St. Louis quarter of the
city, and ha:fled furiously throughout the whole suburb
until ten o'clock in the evening. About a thousand houses
are stated to have been destroyed, rendering thousands of
families houseless. The loss is roughly estimated at is million
of dollars.
Mr. Lindsay Wood, in presiding at the annual con-
ference of mining engineers, edit that the production of coal
alone had increased from 61f millions of tons in 1855 to 126 i
millions of tons In 1875. 'file total number of deaths in
mines is "still upwards of 1,000 per annum ;" but Mr. Wood
pointed out that 42 per cent. of the deaths arose from causes
greatly under the control of the miners,
The annual conference of the Miners' National
Union was opened in Manchester on Tuesday. About 60
delegates, representing, it was stated, 140,000 men, were
present. Reports were read with respect to the state of the
relations between the miners and their employers in the
districts represented.
At a meeting of the National Agricultural Labourers'
Union at Oxford, a discussion has taken place on what should
constitute a fair day's labour, and the council resolved that,
while they could not draw a distinct line in regard to hours
of labour, they should urge the members of the union to
obtain payment for overtime in money and not in kind.
In the process of demolition of a portion of the
Chateau at Dieppe. a number of human bones were found,
supposed to have been laid in the burial-ground which sur-
rounded elre• ancient church of St. Remy. There were also
discovered 17 coins, chiefly in silver, mostly of the reigns of
Henri 111., -Henri IV., Lotus XIII., and Louis Xi V , and
with the impressions well Preserved- a Chinese coin in gold,
a Roman one in silver, the base of a lamp in earthenware,
and some iron and stone cannon-balls. ' •
The markets are now well supplielwith the delicate
little Carrots grown in the Paris gerdens : in fact, Covent
Garden in the monde g reminds us in places of the neighbour-
hood of the Males in Paris, where the streets are half covered
with these Carrots in the early mornings. It is much to be
desired that the tame or a similar system of culture would be
adopted near other large cities, as it need hardly be said the
conditions of success are no:, con Sued to one place. —Gordon.
• La London last week 2,264 births and 1,446 deaths
were registered, the former havieg been 21 and the latter 65
above the average numbers. The deaths included three from
small-pox, 40 frone measles, 33 from scarlet fever, 10 from
dielitheria, C 9 from whooping-cough, 25 from different forms
of fever, and 14 from (Barret:ea ; thus t‘e the seven principal
diseases (.1 the zymotic class 187 deaths were referred,
against lb and 185 in the two preceding weeks.
Thomas Barr was executed on Wednesday mos fling
in Glasgow South Prison for the murder of his wife end her
mco her on the Ist of March Li the Galiowget i of that city. Be-
fore going upon the scett tld Barr asked for a glass of water,
and said lie had 1 ft a written statement. It says that he did
not intend murder when he entered the house. Death was
annost inAa.utaneous after the crop felL A large crowd
assembled outside the prisnn.
The Pniladeiphia Public Leiger says :—When the
English statue of "Stonewall "Jackson which is new set up
in itichmend was completed, a balance remains I in the
treasurer's hands. This balance. am murieg to 1,314 dots,
his just been sent to Governor Kemper, of Vireinia, and it
ev,ll be invested end the income usea in purcheeieg a medal
to be awarded annually to the most distinguished graduate
a the Virginia Military Institute of which Jackson was for
rouse time a professor. It is to be called the "Jackson-Rope
Medal," in honour of Mr. A. J. B. Beresford-Hope,
who was chiefly instrumental in advancing the project in
gland.