The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-07-02 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,
BRITISH AND FbREIGN.

It Ic said the cash to the credit of Lothair by three
!a £9.000.

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philosopher of Paris reckons that the effect of want
of rata en his fellow.eitizerui is to induce them to commit
acts of crime and ferocity.
; Dr. Vaughan, Master of the Temple, preached
before the Queen last Sunday, In the private chapel at
Wiradser.
, "A lady of title, the widow of an Irish peer, was
among the recipients of cot-door relief at Lambeth Work-
house Shot dur'ng the past week."—Coo, Journal.
; A complete statemcot of the losses sustained by the
eyi'histdheelirevlealtiekiirlaeid4l mond etehveeCnateneandirountrgendt,ietrhrher
them mortally.
The Thor:keepers of Nagpore have displayed their
hostility to the income-tax by closing their shape for two
days, and by eetr/ing petitions daily to the Fluancial Corn
111138101 R r rgainst the tax.
D. o.;tavius Winslow, who has been known as a
p-pular N onconformist preacher for more than a quarter of
&century at Leamington, bath, and more recently at Brighton,
has been ordained a deacon by the Bishop of Chichester.
The poetage of ell papers coming from and through
Gomany will he increased in price from the Ist of July, and
not decreased as the public expect, the weightbeing for news-
papers about 14 on. for 9.loths of a penny.
The cattle disease havir g broken out at Wieselburg,
In Hungary, the authorities, in order to prevent itsepreading
in Lower Auetria. have takeo precautionary measures in con-
formity with the law of 29th June, 1868.
In the alleerae divieion on the Irish Land Bill which
to dr place in the Home of Lords on Monday night, the
Bishops of Carlisle, Chester, Chichester, Down, Exeter, and
Manchester voted site the Government. No prelate went
into the tabby with the Opposition.
, The Corniah potato crop is turning out remarkably
well tiihi year, arid the end of Jose has been reached with-
out any eymatoms of disease. A larger quantity of early
peat:As has been forwarded to London than for many years
past.
A telegram from 8.-miff-my states that intelligence has
been received there that 181,000 dollars in specie have been
recovered from the wreck of the I!csmillo Mitchell, which
was wrecked last year on the 'lemma rock, off Shanghai
Judicial separations of man and wife are increasing
rapidly in France. In 2 653 eUtell out of 3.000 it was the
wife who asked for the generation, while the husband opposed
the demand ; In Igoe remaining cases, when the husband was
the complainant, the wife offered no opposition.
The theatre of Briton, in Austria, has just been de-
stroyed fey lire. The library and the wardrobe alone were
saved. The flames broke out half an hour before the time
for opening the doors. The storehouse of Zarznela Theatre,
at Madrid, has just been destroyed by fire with a lose of
80,000 k.
"Legal practice pave when one reaches 'the tipper
story." David Dudley Field received 310,000 dole. fee irom
tbe Erie Railroad. Jeremiah S. Black got 135,000 dolt from
the New Almaden Mitre case. Williant M. Everts has a pro-
feestenal income of 105,000 dela, and recently charged 5,00
dole. for one speech, which occupied eighty minutes.
Trials for the Fenian attack on Canada have com-
menced. Three raiders, Starr, Thompson, and Mamie, were
yesterday arraigned for violating the Neutrality Law, In the
United States Court at Canandaigua, New Yotk. The pri-
soners pleaded ''Not guilty " in each case, and caurnel asked
the postponement of the trial to give time to prepare the
defence.
An accident of a melancholy nature befel a young
man named Lewis on Saturday morning, at the Itilynniey
Works, Rbyinney. Deceased was employed at an marline,
nod while oiling the machinery, icy some means his acket
caught In some portion of it, and he was dragged into the
Wheels and torn to pieces before the engine could be
stopped.
Some excitement haa been caused at Washington
by the disclosures of a Congressional Investigating Com-
mittee with reference to the attempts of the Cuban Junta to
procure the recognition of Cuban independence. It is
alleged that attempts have been made to bribe members of
Congress and newspaper correspondents, the former to vote
and the latter to write in favour of the project.
During the time of a great religious excitement, an
honest Dutch farmer on the Mohawk was asked his opinion
as to wirch denomination a Christians wee on the right way
to heaven. 'Veil d'-n," said he, " ven we ride our wheat to
Albany, some say dish road Is the hes% and 5e.1113 say dat ;
tut it lout make uttett difference which road we lake, fir
when we get deer, cloy never ask us vich vay we come—and
its none of their pizziness-1/ our wheat is good."
A curious case has been heard at the Liverpool
County Court. A servant, who had gone on a month's trial,
objected to the presence of two dogs in the kitchen. Her
mistress declined to assign the animals any other local habi-
tation, and the maid left, and sued for two months' wages.
The Judge gave her verdict in full, as beheld that the kitchen
was not the proper place for dogs, and a servant had a per-
fect right to require all unclean animals to be removed.
Mr. James Stewart, an agent for the North British
Railway Company, at Bridge of Allan, was found de ,e 1 on
Saturday night In Dunblane tunnel, frightedly mangled
The deceived hat been atteridleg a fete at Dunblane, and
walked homewards through the tunnel latest night. A pas-
senger train caught him, cut off both his legs and right arm,
and nearly severed the body below the breast.
It in Baid that the Earl of Erne has written to the
secretaries of the rapresentative body 01 the Irish Church
deprecar tog an interference with the Liturgy, and intimating
-his intention to hand over to them on the let of January
next £5,000 for the Suslentatten Fund, and to pay hito their
hands annually two per cent, upon the income which he de-
rives from the several parishes in which his properties are
situated.
A hundrel casks of butter lately arrived in England,
from Canterbury, New Zealand, were lande i in good con-
dition, and have been freely purchased by the trade at about
101 a pound. Tnis is the first occasion on which such a
shipment has been suecessfully made from one of the Austra-
lian °aides, alla is ~possibly the forerumier if a trade
which 1119,y he of inn:en-Lance to the population of the
mother country Red of these territories.
The Sultan is stated to have ordered the Grand
Vizier to appoint a c emmissiou of three Iriernhers to visit
France and Ei gland, to strety the system of the construction
of the houses to Paris and Loral en, in order to adopt for the
Turkish c apial a mode of building which will sword for the
future any recurrence if a conftagratian such as that which
has jest devastated Peru.

A son of the Earl of Macclesfield, a youth about
eighteen, who has pot returned Om Oxford, while ridlngon
Monday morning with Ms sitter in Birdcege-walk, London,
was thrown from his horse and picked up insensible. lie was
taken to Westminster limpital, and fortunately was found to
be slot seriously here rmly stunned. After remaining there
two hours ho was so far recovered as to walk to the carriage
which convey ed him home.
The dispute between the ma--ter j iiners and their
men in Glasgow. with regard to working nine hours a day
has not heen settled The masters have not at present a
pressure of coutracte ; and several of these who were corn-
pellrd to adopt the nine hours' system are now eischargin
as many men al they can possibly spare.
At jersey, on Thunaday in last week, the Rev
Edward Beale, miiiister of All Saints' Church. Jersey, was
drowned whilst Bithing on St. Auehes Sands. The deceased
had heels but a few it-dilutes in the water when be was seen to
disappear, and on aseistance tieing rendered and his body
reervered he will felled to be quite dead lie was subject to
fits, and it is presumed that he was seized with one whilst in
the water.
This anecilete is new, and very much to the point as
a quotation for the lovers of business habits. Wellington
wanted to select a scientific man, aud asked the opinion of a
clever physician r , to the abilities of the person he had In
view. The physici :n cleared his throat add began a carefully
prepared speech nub, "Ni man more so, your grace, I can
" "That is quite sufficient, doctor," said the duke,
taking np his hat • I know hew valuable your time is ; mine
nut now is equally no. Good morning."
A reporter attachsd to the New York Herald inter.
viewed the Indian chiefs the other day in Veashiegton.
his gentleman thus addressed Spetted Tail : I came from •
the great lather, who prints a big newspaper over the street,
mei tells the people when the tom rises every morning what
pod they have done, what bid they have done, anti what
they should do for each other before the son goes down. I
came to see pits for him that he ran tell the whites the
wrongs yeti have suffered and how you feel:
The theme of general talk in Liverpool on Saturday
was the refusal of the Bishop of Chester to consecrate the
new church of St. John the Baptist .chits has been erected
it a large cost by Mrs. Reade, of West Derby) on account of
the decorations of the altar, which his lordehiu deemed "out
of place." The step taken icy the Bishop is viewed as a
strong practical protest against Ritualistic ornmnentation
and ceremonies, ant is regarded with great satisfaction by
the Low Church party. Ills understood that the decorations
will he modeled.
The great rose show of the seathn took place last
Saturday at the Crystal Palace, some 15,000 visitors being
present. The ehow was in every respects splendid one, and
several hundreds of varieties of roses were shown varying in
tint front pink to scarlet, and front while to almost black.
A large Cumber of prizes were given, and some specially for
table decorations for diner is to Russe, of which there were
some excellent examples that attracted great attention from
the ladies.
A fresh dithoyery of diamonds has just taken place in
Australia, at Kidd's Gully, Dayleitiord. Several have been
taken to Melbourne for examination, and one of them is de-
ecribed by Mr. Brun., a jeweller, as of the Priest water and
close upon a carat in weight. The tinder, ono of a party of
miners, states that many Moue, of a similar character have
passed through his bands and been thrown away as worthless
amid "the tailings "of the gold washiugs. Mr. Brunke says
that he has within the past five or eix months purchased
about twenty diamonds from miners who have found them tu
the neighbourhood of Talbot.
The Russians take extraordinary steps to instil a
lave for the Cons' In the hearts of their Polish subjects. At
all the theatres in Poland, on the termination .if the ordin-
ary performances, tee police close the do 3re and permit an
one to leave. The curtain arisen, and a large portrait of the
Ruperor Alexander is discovered. The actors dressed in
black .d the actressos clothed in white make a becoming
obeisance to the effigy of his Mejesty. The orchestra plays
the Ruasian national hymn, and the entire audience takes up
the chorus. The police keep their eyes and ears open to elle-
cover thoee persons who abstain from singing. At the ter-
mination cf the chant the doors are opened, and the i
audience Is permitted to depart.
Her Majesty the Queen has communicated to the
directors of the Workmen's International Exhibition, through
Ike Prime Mibleter, that she will ',mime the patroness of I
the and that ehouid her health permit, she will
at some period visit it. The directors are in hopes that her
Majesty herself will open the exhibition, or should she be
miable to gratify her subjects in this particular, that she will
direct some member of the Royal Family to perform the
ceremony on her behalf.
In Prussia, as in England, the extreme Liberal party •
is now agitating for secular educetion Tito president of
the "Free-School Society" of Berlin has hint published a
report on 35 prize essays on the question, "in teacuing of reli-
gion in natemal schools essential to education 1' Two of the
essays have been pronounced deserving of the prize, .d both
are in favour of the exclusion of religions tenting from the
schools. Another report has been published by a deputy o
the Prussian Parliament, Dr. Paur, on the petitions pre-
sented last session in regard to the educational queetton.
There were 2,750 of these petitions, proceeding partly from
teachers, partly from other persons of all claims of society.
Particulars..are given in the New York papers de-
livered on Tuesday, of • terrible tornado which passed Over
a loge portion of Arkansas and Mu sessippi. commencieg
near Council Bend, passing down to Peters' Lending, cross.
Ira the river, then extendirg to Beliear y, leaving rule
and eeeehatien In Its track it was accompanied by rata neil
hail, the latter being unusually severe, destroying the corn
and eetton cr p i its its track, fuel stripping the forests. Its t
width was two miles. The crops worn unusually premising, '
but all is lost. On the following day the torn.° was re-
peated, traversing the same course.
A propos of the small•pox and the French habit of
kiasing, which is so agreeable under certain circumstance., a
learned doctor writes to the papers to prove that this habit
has its dangers as well as Its pleasures, tie says that the
contact Of lips is sufficient to communicate almost any
malady, and highly extols the more sanitary expression of
feeling practised In England, known as une grade.°
polgree de main." Be winds up by warning his readers
that" &Weems), end often In death ! "
The Meniteur and Opinion Nationale refer to the
publication by a London paper ef a pretended analysis of the
octe &accusation in the trials for oonspiracy to commence at
Blois on the 18th of July, and complain that foreign
journals should be allowed to publish such documents while
they are jealously withheld from the French Press, which is
moreover prohibited by law from printing them until they
have been publicly read in court. La Pattie says that it
would share the susceptibilities of its contemporaries if it
bad net ascertained from inquiries and a careful eXeMille-
tinn of the document recently published in the Pall Mall
(duo, tie that it is a mere ?eerie:de, n etel that the pretended
ocR d'accusatiou ma curteinly ;mem)

The carpet weavers of teeth have staked tor an ad-
vance of 25 per cent on their we,.
It in said that Mr. Tennyson contemplaf ef a tour
along the Rhine, the poet having a new poem in view.
The Philadelphia Ledger says that during the last
year the States' expenditure for artificial limbo for wounded
soldiers amounted to 41.6,(00 dole.
'The aristocratic pigeon-shooting fraternity blush
to find their deeds fame, it would seem, so they have, wane
Of them, adopted a nom de guns.”—Courf Journal.
Two Boeton papers are swaying each other of steal.
lag parts of one .onother's obituaries of Charles Diekena, is
appears that they both copied from the some hoot
Now that the ladies are having everything their
own way, it Is sold that printed &claret' ms, with blank
forms are to be used by young ladles who have lovers too
modest to propose. The flutes themselves ell out the blanks,
and, of course, no reu.ible man can refuse signing them.
• The Anti-Vaccination League held their first meet
tag on Tuesday, in Manchester Profeaor FW. Newman
presided, and representatives from several large teens were
present. A petition to Parliament was ad, ,p praying for
the immediate repeal of the Vaccination Acts.

A Melbourne comepondent, writing on the 23rd
April, says that extraordinary accoun'.a have hem n received
of the success of many of the colonists who have gone over
to the Islands. Sea Island cotton is now produced there
hi considerable quantities, and the cultivation is rapidly
extending.

A Naples journal publishes some information re-
specting Garibaldi from a went visitor to Caprera The
general was suffering from pains in his loins, and for some
days had been Snob's to str from his couch. Ills rim,
planted with his one hand, had yielded him an excellent
harvest, and his land under cultivation bad I c.,une fertile
enough to maintain absut 300 head if cattle and sheep.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has addressed a letter
to the Bishop of Ohio, with reference t. the forthcoming
Christian Conference in Ne• York. His Grace expresses the
deep interest which he feels in the proc.dings, and
earnestly trusts that the Divine blessing may guide all who
take part in the discussions.

The Prince of Wales's Ball, which was to have taken
place on Monday night, was postponed In consequence of the
death of the Earl of Clarendon —The Queen's State Concert
at Buckingham Palace, announced for Wednesday, the 29th
instant, woo also postponed until Wednesday, the 6th July.
When Isabella H. and Don. Francis d' Assise se-
parated, it was arranged tint the ex-kimr should receive a
pension of 150,00 francs. The periodical payments have
not, however, been made, and as Don Pathan is being pressed
by his creditors, bets about to commence an action for the
recovery of the pension.
The Cirilian says l—"Mr, Dart, and his chief,
having disposed of the clerks in the Admiralty, have now
turned their attention to the clerics, many of whom are, ills
stated, to be forthwith disest,tblisMd The first to undergo
this pleasant ordeal will be the chaplains of the divisional
ships la the Coastguard and Steam Reserve."

A recent report of the Il.niterl Statea Department of
Agriculture states that remrns from 417 counties of that
country show that 99 399 shtep were killed by dogs In the
course of last year It is estimated that full returns would
prove that the number, In tact, reached half a minion, and
the money loss two millions of dollars.

Alarm WWI created at Gibraltar by an intercepted
letter, from which it wee gathered filet e attempt woe about to
be 1311013 to Mow up the powder trmortries. Tie recent
brigendage hai made the inlia..itauta nervetei, but there
amens to be no doubt that tale threat of vengeance was a
mere bruttem

Eariy on Tuesulay morning, a polim man fempl the
door of a gentleman's house at Surbiton open, and blood on
the step On rousing the servs..t, it was discovered that the
master, named Helmer, was missing. lie was subsequently
found deal In the Thames, with his throst cut. Deceased
was Insane.

A notice to quit has been given in these singular
terms: i will not have any religion in my house which
weighs down the flooring." The occupant is a se,t.rian
preacher of sonic designation or other, who began small, and
by his eloquence has endangered the safety of the build-
ing throu4h the of adherents who have since
filched to him. Tha was almost Spurgton's cam at one
time.

We (Curt Journal) have sin ken of a distinguished
baron who says treuendons thines in the way of compliments.
Ills last tfbrt to d. nab the British lady by his compliments
is ;he following to a very pretty married lady You spikes
of your [children ; is Is possible that you have rchildren ?"
'Ye!, I have two." "You, za yang" with a shrug of his
shauldera which pots the head, "u.s yong and zo stumble
they is surely of your ego."

The Paris Gaulois, which possesses a special function
for discovering things with reference to Euland which do
n.it exist, states that a new sec, has been founded in Eng-
land, the members of which call themselves Millennarians.
Their motto is —" Brethren. ye must die !" They have
started a paper called the MN gniton, the editor of which
is on terms of peculiar intimacy with the other world.
On Saturday morning lest it was I.i...covered that the
Church of S James, Ilawhain, had been entered by some
persons to whom the arrangements of the church were evi-
dently known. They managed to get on without detection
with all the silk vestments of the clergy, many of which are
said to be very costly, and beautifully ornamented with
needlework. Singular to state, the plate, some of which west
found ',log abut was left.

A p-uhecription was lately opened to purcbaee a
croon f tt. the King of Italy, who, it appears, has no such
article in the royal wardrobe. The list was soon full, when
the king sent for the chief movers in the matter, and thank-
it g them In right kingly fashion, begged them to employ the
money to found an asylum for the blind in Florence, which
will be done. It might be called, if they have not a better
name, "The King's Crown," as • souvenir of the act.
A scientific writer (a Frenchman, of course) has de-
scribed toll .rshal Lebteuf the exact course tote followed In
order to bring down rain from the obstinate clouds with big
guns—salvoes should be fired about sumet. Another gentle-
man recommends the employment of a 1,111,en carrying aloft
a heavy charge of plcrate, with a fuse tinted to explode it at a
sate distance from the earth ; while a third savant says that
In the days of Louis Philippe the effect of artillery was tried
to stop rain !

hi. Prevost Paradol ought to he a happy man just
now, for he bar, it arpears, been" the most feted roan" in
Paris since be was appointed to represent France at
Washington. Without .y r gard for the terrors of dys-
pepsiA, Americans with plenty of money, and a happy
faeuPy for spending it, are vieing with each other in the
hospitalities offered to the new plenhm, and if the Emperor
has any concern for his new minister's lealth he will send
him away as early as possible.

Mr. Inman, of the Liverpoo!, New York, and
Philadelphia steamship Company, has lormel y intimated
that he has abair limed all hope of the info y f the missing
steamer Ciiy of Casten, which he believes to have fallen in
with the floating Ice, and to have foundered with all hands,
although the vessel herself was in every respect well-found
and seaworthy. With a liberality char.iekristic of the
management of the celebrated Inman Hoe of Atlantic packets,.
a very handsome Lou, (4300) has been net aside hir dietzsbn,
tion amongst the more necessitous relatives of the antp.
wrecked crew. •

The disaffettion and dis2;ult among Ittrigham
Young's wives have come to be 'expressed in tones too tom!
not to be heard and in ways too plain to be misunderstood,
and it will be no easy matter to suppress the rebellious
spirit. They are tired of excuses for his preeent conduct,
and have no faith in the fulfilment of his promises of future
reward for their further submission here. They begin to
understand that their oegree of glory in the great kingdom
of Mormonism wil depend not upon their trials and tuff erings
but upon the will and favouritism of their betrayer. They
all seem to think they are experiencing the sad but logical
result of a polygamic life, and that the author of their sorrows
Is entitled only to curses.
A monument was inaugurated on Friday the 24th
MI the field of Sall Martino to the soldiers who fe'l there on
June 24, 18 Prince Humbert, Prince di Carignano, the
Italian Ministers and deputations from the Italian Parlia-
ment, together with representetiva of Austria and France,
were present at the ceremony. At this conclusion of the pro.
ceedings the party proceeded to the field of Solferino, where
a similar ceremony took piece. It is estimated that about
40,000 persons were present. At a banquet which followed
In the evening, the toast of '' The three armies which
valiantly fought on the plains of &Merino and San Martino 's
was proposed by Prince Humbert.
There to an old saying that "a cat may look al a
king" It may be that this profound remark does not apply
to she Czar and the Imperial c its at St. Petersburg. Sc far
as the biped subjects of his M.jsiity are concerned, however,
there is to be a restriction in the me oh the pen on so lingual
a subject. 'foe Meeeeto Gazette publishes the substance of
an imperial decree, which ordains that henceforward all
artirles, origin,' or translated, referring to the acts oti
sayings of the reigning family, or coutainin any recital or,oh.
tier/S(101A concerning them, shall only be printed by per.
mission of the Minister of the court. Any infringement of
these regulations will be followed by penalties prescribed by
the Russian penal code.