The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-04-13 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The East Anglian Daily Times, in describing the
effects of the recent gale upon the Lowestoft fishing boats,
says that upwards of 200 lost every net they had on board,
and out of 500 boats only 100 are now fit for sea.

Died, on the sth inst., at her residence, Chelten-
ham, Mrs. Mary Burrows 'widow of Henry Burrows, Esq.,
Registrar of the High Court of Chancery, aged 100 years and
six months. Friends are requested to accept this intimation.
—Obituary of The Times, Monday, April 6.

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The petition of the women of Birmingham to the
House of Commons to use efforts to avert war has been
signed by 10,176 persons in six days.
The late Mr. A. T. Stewart, the New York dry.
goods merchant, founded an hotel for women who support
themselves by daily labour, which was opened on April
2nd. There are 500 sleepiug•rooms, eight reception-rooms,
and a library of 2,500 volumes. Ilas London no A. T.
Stewart among her wealthy dry•goods men

A Parliamentary return just issued shows that the
total amount due by the National Debt Commissioners to
the trustees of Savings Banks was, on the 25th March last,
£44,618,155, showing a net deficiency beyond the market
value of securities in their hands of £3,120,219.
The committee of the Edinburgh Conservative
Working Men's Association have invited Sir Robert Peel to
attend a meeting for the purpose of receiving an address
during the Easte.r recess, or at such other times he might
find convenient. Sir Robert has accepted the invitation and
states that be meets to be able to be in Edinburgh either
late in the autumn or some trme before the opening of the
next Session of Parliament.

Although the Russian troops have not actually
occupied Constantinople, it appears that the town is full of
Russian officers and soldiers. A correspondent of the
Cologne Gazette, writing from Pera on the 27th of March,
says that nu ~bers of Russians are to be seen in the principal
streets and shops, and that it is now very difficult to obtain
furnished lodgings, as most of them have been let to Russian
officers. The prices of provisions, too, are rising, owing to
the great demand for them in the Russian camps outside the
city.
The Timea thinks, in a leader on Tuesday, that the
result of the debates on Monday night in the two Houses of
Parliament will be on the whole reassuring to the country
and to Europe. It is apparent that the measure which the
Ministry have adopted will receive on the whole the support
of Parliament; and the position of the Government in the
face of Europe and in view of the negotiations still in
progress will be thus strengthened.

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The Spanish Government has ordered 40 Krupp
guns, and has directed all the available guns it at present
possesses to be sent to the seaports.
A panic prevails in Russian commercial circles on
account of the prospect of a war with England. It is not
forgotten that the trade of Russia was almost rtiined by the
war of 1854 to 1856, while that of Great Britain was hardly
affected.— Iranit Fair.
.The largest chestnut tree, probably, in the State of
New Jersey was felled recently in Camden. On account of
Its giant size it was left standing when the land on which it
grew was cleared by John Sickler in 1774. For many years
this monarch of the ancient forests has been a landmark in
Camden county. Under its shade Indian children have
doubtless sported, probably in the time of Columbus. It
was twenty-one feet nine inches round the butt.
There were 2 613 births and 1,877 deaths registered
In London last week. Allowing for increase of population,
the births exceededeby 81, and the deaths by 201, the average
numbers in the corresponding week of the last ten years.
The annual death rate from all causes, which in the three
preceding Weeks had been equal to 22.3, 24.5, and 25.8 per
1,000, further rose last week to 27.4. The deaths included
55 from small-pox, 30 from measleq, 42 from scarlet fever. 8
from diphtheria, 146 from whooping-cough, 29 from dif-
ferent forms of fever, and 9 from diarrhcoa.
The Lord Mayor of London has received a final re-
mittance of £2OO from the Mayor .of Sydney towards the
Indian Famine Fund, making £17,740 in all from that source.
" I Froke in my last of the death of Rossini's
widow; let me now mention to you an odd circumstance.
The great maestro (like many other Italians) was very super-
stitious, and held especially in abhorrence and terror the
number 13 and Friday. Strange to say, the author of the
" Baxbiere "died on a thirteenth and on a Friday ! Iris widow
entertained the same prejudice, but I am unable to find any
extraordinary justification for it, unless it be that she was
buried on the 26th—a day which unites two thirteens in
one."—Paris Correspondent of Whitehall Review.

"A. ludicrous incident occurred at Naples the other
day. As the French mail steamer, the Yangtse, with the
Japanese Envoy to France on board, and flying his flag,
entered the bay, tieneral Grant was embarking on board an
American man-of-war, and being saluted by the fort. The
Jap imagined that the tiring was in his honour, and, to the
great amusement of his fellow-passengers, kept repeatedly
irl. the direction. Of the smoke. ..tievertheless,‘ the
French cemmander was too polite to undeceive the illus-
trious stranger, who was much struok by European polite-
neas."—Whifehall Review.

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In America when a lady gives herself airs it is called
"putting on too many frills."—The World.
In view of the formidable opposition on the part of
the factory operatives it is said that the masters ct North
and North-East Lancashire intend to lock-up their mill&
within a fortnight.
A scheme has been promulgated for the reconstitu-
tion of the detective department of the London police force,
the whole of which will in future form one body, under the
Director of Criminal Investigations.

On account of the prevalence of spotted typhus and
cattle plague in Servia the Austrian Government has pro-
hibited the import of all Servian products.

In 1871 the German Socialists numbered 120,000,
and had but two seats in Parliament. In 1874 they had in-
creased to 340,000. They are now 560,000, or one-tenth of
the electors. The enrolled members of the league are
100,000, and they subscribed £16,000 for agitation. They
have 50 papers.
Special prayer meetings have been arranged during
the present week at the Derby churches and chapels, to
supplicate Divine protection from the horrors of war, and for
the preservation to England of the blessings of peace.
Advertisements frequently appear in the French
journals from persons desirous to adopt children. The
want has been met by the opening of an office where babies
to be disposed of can be registered and photographed, and
applicants' wishes thus met —Court Journal.

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The indignation of the Russian wealthier classes
against England is, it is said; to take the form of a national
subscription by the nobility of 100,000,000 roubles for the
support of the Government.
Lord Lyons was all along opposed to the Berlin
Congress, and his strong opposition in a great measure
influenced the English Cabinet in the action they have taken
with regard to it.— Whitehall Review.
Sunday was the 25th birthday of his Royal Highness
Prince Leopold.
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The occurrence of the tercentenary of the birth of
Harvey, the discoverer oi the circulation of the blood; has
been thought to be a suitable occasion for erecting a statue
to his memory at Folkestone, where he was born. Towards
this object a sum of about £l,lOO has been obtained, but a
further sum of £5OO to £6OO is still required, towards the
raising of which subscriptions are invited by the heads of
the medical profession.
The storm of last week was very disastrous to the
Kinsale fishing fleet. About 130 boats lost all their nets
and the total loss is estimated at from £20,000 to £30,000.
Count Schouvaloff was asked two days ago what he
thought of Lord Salisbury's despatch. "It is," said he, "an
eloquent mausoleum of the Conference."—Vanity Fair.

There has been only middling fishing in the Tweed
during the past week and no improvement is noticeable
The prices of salmon there were Is. 7d. and of trout is. Ed.
per lb. Last year, in the corresponding week, the prices
were—salmon 25. and trout is. 10d. per lb.
Floods are causing great destruction in Ceylon.
The natives say "the sky is moth-eaten, and benefit he con-
stant leakage."
During the past month seven sheep suffering from
foot and mouth disease, and 100 from sheep scab, were
landed in the port of London from Antwerp, Bremen, and
Hamburg, and were all slaughtered on landing, under the
Instructions of the Privy Council, as were also 9,537 sheep,
healthy animals, brought over in the same vessels.

The export of gold from New Zealand in 1877 is
stated at 869,0120 z., of the value of 1,1,484,574. This
quantity is more by 46,9960 z. than the export in the preced-
ing year.
The salmon appears to have been successfully ac-
climatized in Tasmania. A fish, alleged to be a salmon,
weighing 6 lb, was lately caught in Sandy Bay, in that
colony, and its head was submitted to Irofessor McCoy, of
the Melbourne University, Victoria, for examination, who
pronounced it to be that of "a well-marked true salmon
(Wino salar):"
A New York japer calculates that the amount of
money spent in newspaper advertisements in the United
States exceeds £60,000,000 annually.

After his interview with the Sultan the Grand Duke
Nicholas gave £1,600 to the International Relief Fund at
Constantinople.
According to a Vienna telegram England has in-
formed Russia of her intention, in case the San Stefano
Treaty is not referred as a whole to a Congress, or another
reasonable proposition made, to occupy as a guarantee that
portion of the present Turkish territory necessary for the
safety of her interests in the East.
The following were the quantities of the principal
dutiable articles withdrawn from the London bonded ware-
houses for home consumption during the week ending
Saturday last, when compared with the quantity in the
previous week :—Coffee, 1,260,0651 b., against 608,3261 b. ;
cocoa, 691,9071 b.; against 115,9761 b. ; tobacco, 1,051,5781 b.,
against 325,9341 b. ; cigars, 57,2951 b., against 13,6951 b. ; tea,
13,439,5771 h., against 5,212,5021 b..; wine, 148,129 gallons,
against 147,641 gallons; brandy, 67,115 gallons, against
60,132 gallons ; and rum, 76,714 gallons, against 47,830
gallons.
The Revisers of the Authorized Version of the New
Testament met on Tuesday at the Jerusalem Chamber for
their 79th session, and sat for seven hours. There were pre-
sent the Bishop of Glocester, who presided, the Deans of
Rochester, Lincoln, and Lichfield, Archdeacons Lee and
Palmer, Principal Newth, Professors Lightfoot, Milligan,
Moulton, and Westcott, Drs. Angus, Hurt, and Vance, Pre-
bendaries Humphry, Scrivener. and Smith, with Mr. Trout-
beck, the Secretary. The company carried on their revision
to the close of the 4th chapter of the Ist Epistle to the
Corinthians.

A serious riot oceurred on Monday morning, in
Duke-street Reformatory, Glasgow, when the acting govecner
was severely assaulted and wounded. Many windows were
broken and much furniture smashed. Having armed them-
selves with broken pieces of furniture, the rioters kept pos-
session of the building until the police arrived, when 27 of
the boys were taken into custody. The cause of the out-
break is supposed to have been the punishment of one of the
boys.
"I hear that the widow of poor Captain Hare first
heard of her sad loss when making the railway journey from
the North to Portsmouth, whither she was hastening to meet
her husband. Some people in the same carriage were express-
ing their regret at the loss of the Eurydice, of which they had
just read papers, and thus the tidings other terrible bereave-
ment reached the ears of Mrs. Hare. She had every hope
that her husband was saved, as the accident happened so near
land, and Captain Hare was an excellent swimmer. Un-
happily, however, that hope proved vain, and it is clear that
only men of exceptional constitutions could have stood the
fearful effects of immersion for an hour or more in such bit-
ter weather as set in with that terrible squalL —Whitehall
Review.

The New York Tribune says that rents of residences
in the best portions of that City have fallen off thirty-three
and a third per cent., and in sonic cases from forty to fifty
per cent.

The death is announced of Samuel Wood, a retired
tliquor merchant, of _New York, who leaves a fortune of be-
tween one and two millions of dollars. Most of this will
probably go to the lawyers, as alarge portion of the property
has been bequeathed for the endowment of a College of
Music, and the relations of Mr. Wood resist the will.
A Dutch correspondent says that the preparations
for the Dutch Arctic expedition will soon be completed. On
the 6th of April the Willem Barendsz, so called in honour
of the first Dutchman who undertook a similar expedition
at the close of the sixteenth century, will be launched, and
in the beginning of May she will saiL A Russian merchant,
Siberiakoff by name, offered the sum still required to meet
the expenses of this enterprise, but the committee have
refused his generous proposal, in the hope of finding suffi-
cient support among their own countrymen.
Owing to the unsettled relations between Britain
and Russia the herring fishing on the east coast of Scotland
is likely to prove a total failure. On previous seasons
several thousand persons were engaged, while this year there
is not a single engagement, and the results among the fishing
populations of Wick and other towns are already deplorable.
The stipendiary for South Staffordshire has ruled
that a workman who had received a fortnight's notice was
entitled to full work during that time or to full wages, not-
withstanding that previously he had been working only
three days per week under notice to that effect.
The Russian Gazette of St. Petersburg has received
a Government warning for publishing an article urging the
country to war
The French Society for the Saving of Life at Sea
intends to supplement its ordinary operations—the main-
tenance of boats and their crews, and the relief of the
families of its own employes—by the succouring as far as
possible of the distressed relatives of sailors lost in ship-
wrecks.
It is pointed out by the Registrar-General that dur-
ing the first thirteen weeks of this year, 1,870 cases of small-
pox were admitted to the Metropolitan Asylum Hospitals,
against 792 and 784 in the last two quarters of 1877; and,
1,497 completed cases were recorded, among which the mor-
tality was equal to 22.4 per cent. The proportional mor-
tality among the 7,242 completed cases recorded in these
hospitals during 1877 was 17.2 per cent.
Professor Dana, the eminent American geologist, is
quoted as saying of the first chapter of Genesis—"ExmAe-
ing it as a geologist, I find it to be in perfect accord With
known science; therefore, as a Christian, I assert that the
Bible narrative must be inspired."

A little story illustrative of the working of universal
suffrage is related by the Figaro. A farmer in the depart-
ment of the Aisne, who had formerly been mayor of his
parish, was dismissed by the Republicans in 1870. At the
last municipal elections his shepherd was raised to the post
which his employer had formerly occupied, while one of his
carters was nominated to a seat in the council. It happened
the other day that the ex-mayor was obliged to drive his own
team, and that his wife was obliged to attend his fleck, be-
cause the shepherd and the carter were engaged on their
municipal duties and discussing the amount of taxation
which should be paid by their master. It appears that the
ex-mayor is rated at £l2 a year, and the shepherd and
carter at 4s. each.—Pall Mall Gautte.

The Berlin Post states that Professor Karl Wiener,
who recently returned to Europe after a prolonged journey
of exploration in South America successffflly performed the
first ascent ever made of the illfinani. It was the south-
eastern summit of the mountain, lying 6,131 metres above
the level of the sea, which he reached, and be has named ft
the "Paris Peak," with the consent of the Bolivian Govern-
ment. The ascent was made from Cstana. Of seven native
servants who accompanied the expedition, only three held
out to the end. Ms other four, at the height of 6,000
metres, were quite unfit to go further.
Monday's Magnet says the effect of the present
weather upon vegetation will speedily be decided. The
general appearance of the crops is encouraging. The young
wheat plant mostly presents a healthy and vigorous appear-
ance, suggessiva of sufficient strength to cope successfully
with any drawbacks which may subsequently have to be
encountered. The spring crops were sown tinder eminently
favourable auspices, and equally beneficial results are looked
for.
The daughter of Klopstock, the author of the
"Messiah," has just died at Metz. She was born at Ham-
burg in 1792, •married a French functionary, and was in
receipt of a French pension.
At the fifth annual meeting of the London Congre-
gational Union held on Tuesday in the Memorial-hall,
Farringdon-street, London, the following motion was carried
by a large majority :—" That this meeting, having duly con-
sidered the statements made by Iler Majesty's Ministers in
Parliament ef the reasons for calling out the Reserve
Forces, and having further considered Lord Derby's state-
ment that projects of still graver import, at present undis-
closed, were among the reasons for his resigning office,
hereby declares its conviction that no cause has been shown
'for which England would be justified in going to war, and
that it is the duty of her Majesty's Government to seek for
An honouaable and satisfactory settlement of the affairs of
South-Eastern Europe in a Congress of the Powers."
At present France possesses 114 armed vessels, of
which 10 are armour-plated of the first class and two of the
second ; she has 19 cruisers, 25 despatch boats, 13 gunboats,
2 sloops, 10 schooners, 16 transports, 5 pontoon ships, 5
coasters, 5 corvettes, and 2 coastguard vessels. In a few
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Mr. Barron, the bank cashier, who preferred to
die rather than reveal to three robbers the secret of the
combination lock, was as conscientious as he was heroic.
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making good the deficiency. He was unwilling to have his
Memory tarnished by any accusation, however trivial or ill-
founded, after he had closed the account current of his
dealings on earth.—Court Journal.
A memorial to Parliament, signed by upwards of a
thousand members of the University and inhabitants of the
town of Cambridge, was forwarded on Tuesday to Sir Wilfrid
Lawson for presentation to Parliament, urging Parliament
not to express approval of the calling out of the Reserves,
and stating that, in the opinion of the memorialists, there
- nothing .ja the San Stefano Treaty), q Ij t.bn. conduct of
nisia respect luethee proposed COngreat, tht,Ustiflo- this
country in assuming warlike tendencies such as have thiren
Lord Carnarvon and the Earl of Derby out of the Cabinet.

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