The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-07-24 00:00:00

The Church &ciao states that the proposal to pro-
secute the Rev. Mr. Lowder has fallen to the ground.
The latest novelty at the hippodrome in Paris, are
the dexterous evolutions of eldlle. Betsey on the velocipede
and bicycle!
The other day the hat.k et lT.imhourg lost 700,0001 r.
Of thie sum el ustapha Paella won et. 0,0 mfr. ',I:12,000e
At the klarylebone Police-court, in London, last
week, the magistrate decided that what are called betting
clubs come within the proviaions of the act for the suppres-
Mon of gaming homes, and in the cases ia question he in-
flicted penalties of £5O.
It is stated that His Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales has consented to unveil the statue of Mr. George
Peabody. on the site near the Royal Ethbange, London,
duriug the present mouth. The statue, which is in bronze.
tithe work of Mr. Story, the American sculptor.
The Paris women are at last about to adopt economy
In dress ; and the proof is, that journals of fashion announce
that a elms le Callen crape dress, costing only £4O, can now
be worn for morning visits !
A man, now temporarily in Nova Scotia, does not
know to what country he belongs. Ills tether waa Irish, and
his mother German. He was born in Canada, was nateralised
in the United States, became a Confederate by rebellion, Anti
is by residence and attachment a Mexican.
The Queen has intimated, through Lord Spencer,
that next year she will pay a visit of some duration to Ire
land. This announcenmut, which appears to be made on
sufficient authority, will gratify all classes of the British
people.
The proceedings at Wimbledon were brought to a
ronclusien on Saturday by the presentation of prizes by
Princess Christian, and a subsequent review, winch was at-
tended by the Prince of Wales, edam!, Arthur, the Duke of
Cambridge, Prince Christian, and the l'rluce of Teak. About
9,000 volunteer. and 4,000 regulars were Olt the ground-
A convalescent home, at Cookridge, near Leeds,
which has been erected by Mr. J. M. Smith, in memory of
his father, at a cost, including the laud, of £lO,OOO, has been
formally opened for the reception of patients, though with-
out any ceremony. There are 100 beds. aud twebtymine
patients have been admitted.
From a parliamentary return just issued, it appears
that the expenses incurred In connection with the Royal
naval review at Spithead, is hcnour of the Suitita is July,
leo7, as nearly as can be determined, were e. is,S62 145.611.
The casual and ordinary repairs of the buildings,
furniture, and fittings of the knish Embassy house at Paris
in the year 1e67-8, cost £3,504.
Lord Taunton, the Henry Labouchere of days gone
by—whose sudileu death has taken place—did what few men
have done. He laid back £lOO,OlOO compensation money
which the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company had paid Ids
father for cutting through his lands. Lord "thunton had the
honesty to see that his estates were enhanced in value by far
more than the ordinary price of the land taken from luau
Court Journal.
Two more bodies were found the other day in the
Oaks Colliery, where they hail lain since the eatmtroplie,
two years slid a half ago. They were identified by their
boots and clogs.
The United States Government has agreed to allow
the French Atlantic Cable to be landed upon American terri-
tory, subject uutil Congress meeta to conditions which the
agent of the company has undertaken to observe.
The Prince and Princess of Wales have been re-
ceived with much enthusiasm In Lancashire. On Tuesday
their Royal Highnesses visited the exhibition of the Royal
Agricultural Society at Old Trafford, and were gratified at
the hearty welcome which was accorded by an immense
crowd. The Prince afterwards dined with the council of the
society.
Official returns show that during the year 1.865 the
number of soldiers marked with the letter " D." was 1,562,
and 74 were marked with " 8.0 " In 1006 the numbers were
1,461 with " I)." and 120 with " 8.C.," while in 1667 the num-
ber had risen to 1,615, and me. The numbers of men flogged
during the same three years were 601,510, and 159.
A man named John Smith was committed for trial
on a charge of manslaughter at Nottiugham, on SatuiMey.
While employed in a field on Thursday, lie threw a hay fork
at William Wingfield, one of the haymakers, one of the
prongs of which entered the mass's heart, causing instant
death.
The following details are given respecting the pro-
jected voyage of the Empress Eugenie. Her eleyeety is to
arrive at Constantinople the 30th September, and prepara-
tions for her reception have been already commenced. The
Sultan has giveu an other to a well known Parisian tailor to
supply a number of the Imperial servants with Eurepeau
liveries, and it is understood that every luxury that a French
Imperial personage is accustomed to will be provided in the
beautiful palace of Beyhrbey, situated on the Asiatic shore of
the Bosphorus. About the 10th of October the Empress will
visit Smyrna and environs, which will take about teu days.
In laying the foundation of the New Albert Hall of
Arts and Sciences at Kensington, no less than two thousand
tons of concrete have been used ; and it is calculated that
the building, when complete, will have absorbed six milliens
of bricks. 'the organ will be the largest in the world ;
test
huge as the hall appears, its dimensions are only just a fourth
of those of the Coliseum at Rome.
The annual exhibition of the Royal Agricultural
Society was opened at Manchester on Monday. The show
was honoured by a visit from the Prince and Princess of
Wales, who are the guests of the Earl and Countess of Elles-
mere.
A communication from Rome states that the Pope
continues to enjoy good health, but that he was much
affected by the news of his brother's death, who has just ex-
pired at Sitilgaglia in consequence of a fall. Ile was styled
Count Gabriel Masts' Ferretti, was 90 years of age, and the
head of the Pope's family.
An indefatigable velocipediat has arrived at Kiew, its
Russia, from Paris. His route was by way of Victims. Cracow,
Lemberg, mid Gnome.. The superstitious iiiiithitante of
some of the Russian villages he passed through were
astonished at his method of locomotion, and mistook him for
a sorcerer or a devil incarnate !
Sir Walter SOott was in one of Ids walks leaning on
the arm ef his faithful attendant, Tom Purdie. Tom said,
"Them are tine novels of youre, Sir Walter; they are Just
invaluable to me." "1 am glad to hear it, Tom." "Yes,
sir; for when I have been out all day hard at work, and
come home very tired, and take up one of your novels, I'm
asleep directly."
A special train was on Saturday run by the North-
Western Railway Company from Llandulas to Manchester,
with SOO passengers who had received free tickets from the
company for having rendered timely aid by carrying water
to extinguish the flames, and by affording what relief was in
their power to the uetortunate sufferers by the accident at
Accede last August. lon company offered to defray any
losses to employers or nonunion for loss of time or other-
wise ; but, as this was in every ease declined, the company
adopted this mode of showing their gratitude.
A married couple named Henry, and residing Itt
Peery Arileche!, have just celebrated the 69th annivemary of
their wedding-day. The husband, a carpenter by trade, is
now 91 years of age, abel the wife two years younger. Alter
a mass at the village church a dinner of a hundred covers
was given under the shade of a row of elms, and followed
by a dance opened by the venerable couple. The entire
family was present, and was alone sufficient to form a
respectable party, the name being borne in the male line
shine by seven sons, 52 grandsons, and 61 cousins of dif-
ferent degrees.
A New Hampshire editor, who has been keeping a
record of big beets, announces at last that "the beet that
beat the other beet is now beaten by a ect that beats all the
beets, whether the original beet, the beet that beat the beet,
or the beet that beat the beet this beat the other beet."
The Viceroy of Egypt has presented Mrs. Dyne, the
wife of the station-master at Dover, with a valuable bracelet
composed of chased gold, having a splendid carbuncle in the
centre, encircled with a large cluster of diamonds in the form
of a star, as a token of the estimation in which he held Mr.
Dyne's arrangements at the station on the day of Ws Ilieh-
nesa'a arrival.
An Australian paper says that great dissatis-
faction has been evoked in the Auatralian colonies at the
British Parliament being raked to reimburse the Duke of
Edinburgh for presents given by him in the colony.
A German astronomer has written a pamphlet to
prove that we are soon to have a second moon, and that it
will be nearer the earth than our present Luna.
The origin of the new French saying, "Avoir son
jeune honium," arose from the following circumstance i—One
evening a talented artiste of the old Vaudeville presented
himself at the theatre considerably "under the influence."
When asked what was the matter, he stated that he had
been taking a young man from the country to see the sighta
of Paris, and that they had drunk pomade too freely. The
next evening Ise was again inebriated; and whenever he was
in a similar state the articstes observed, "He'd had his young
man." By the constant repetition of the so) lag it became
general.
The Bombau Goutte asserts that Shere Al's pro-
posals to the Khyber chiefs have been unfavourably received,
and that the Khyber Pass hastiness closed. Advice's irons Abp.
slide state that Colonel Kirkham, a British officer, had joined
Prince Kassa, who had placed stereo of 2,000 iutantry and
100 artillery, under his command.
A prisoner having been convicted of murder in one
of the Criminal Courts of New South Wale's, ha corneal
obtained from the colonial judges an order for a new trial,
on the ground that newspapers were in the room occupied by
the Jury when they agreed upon their verdict. From this
order an appeal was made to the Judicial Committee of the
Privy Council, which has decided that a new trial cannot be
greeted. At the same time the prisoner's case is recom-
mended to the favourable consideration of the colonial