The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-08-06 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

RRITISH AND FOREIGN

Mr. Justice Lush haa given his name as member
of the Vetted Kingdom Temperance Alliance and a tub-
scriber to Mt futile.

It is annonueed in the Official Jortrnal of Vienna
that In conoequence of the adoption of the dogma of Infalli-
bility the Concordat with Rome will be abrogated.
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A Paris bootmaker has set up a sigmboard today in
the Rue St. Dents, ailver ising that he sells " Patriotic
shoes," i• Chattaxures patrintivica "
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The freedom of the City of London, in a gold casket
of elaborate and beautiful design, has been presented t IL
de Lesseps. at Guildhall.

The Oda Fellows' annual fete Came off on Monday,
at the Costal Palace, but its suc,ess was considerably mar-
esl by the violent st,rm which net in at one o'clock and
toted for a considerable time.

IL is stated that Mr. Hartigan, an atetionesr of
Limerick, has had £5OO worth of hay consumed by fire on
his preinisig, in constquence of it having neen supposed that
he had undertaken to provide horses for the Prussian army.

Two noble members t,f the French Jockey Club hoe
maeo a wacer on the Itntneo-Prumtau aar. The bet to
20,000 franca to 1,000 franca that the French ara the vtet, .ra

Subscriptions are b-ing coll,utrd for the purpose of
purchasing Sir Isaac Newton's Observatory and presenting
it to the nation.

Under the head " War in Europe." a parliamenthry
pap r providing for a vo:e of credit for 42 000,010 vras issued
on Toes lay. Tots is to InOu Is the cost of a further num-
ber of land forces of £20,000 men.

Sir F. Lycet, hae,ffered to the Wesleyan Methodist
Conference to give ,ElO,OOO for chapel purpcf es in London, on
condition that an equal sum shall be contributed in the
province..
The Irish Land Bill, which ha a been before Parlia-
ment during toe pact 24 week., received the Royal A ant on
Monday. it was introduced by Mr. Gladstone on Feornary
15th.

At the Cork ASiZ,S, on Sat urday, Mary Green
mother of the child whose b ,dy 11,4311,114 ill a parcel to the
alleged father at Cheltenham, was tried for concealment of
birth, and acquitted.

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The Church Times states that the offertories for the
half year at St 31ry Magdalene, Paddington, amount to
£5,205 Of this £1,700 waa given by one lady towards tho
building of an adottional aisle, which is now heiz g erected.

Count de M—, who recently died at Anjou, has
left an odd item in his will—namely, a sum of money suffi-
cient to produce every five years 10 000 francs—and this is
to he given as a prize to he politician who can show that
during thirty years he has not nee changed hin omnion.

The city of New York has just recovered from the
effects of what is known there as a "heated term." On
M onday, the 19th ulr., which is reported as the hottest day
of a hot period, the average temperature was variously r.-
turned In different parts of the city tram 90 degrees to 99
degrees. Upwards of sixty cases of sunstroke occurred.

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A labourer named James Wltityre, who came out
of gaol on Monday morning, at Cambridge, was seen at night
crawling on the railway near Chesterton junction tie placed
his head on the rails, and a passing train severed It from his
body. No reason can be assigned for the act

Earl Delavrarr has given notice of an amendment to
the Army Enlistinent Bill to the that any soldier en-
listed errs engiged star the passing of the Act shall, if his
term of service expire whilst a state of war exists between her
Majesty and any foreign Power, prolong his service for two
years during the continuance of any such war.

Father Hyacinthe has writt.n a letter, dated July
30, to the Frouch papers, in which he protests, as a Chris-
tian at fi &Catholic, against the "pretended dogma" of the
Infallibility of the Pope, .d denies that the C9uncii,
which professes to have imposed it, was to any cerise

The borrowings of the ereat Powera are beginning
with wonderful rapidity. France hal opened a credit
for £22,000 000, Germany for £20000000; and the cffect of
this must be to raise the value of money throughout the
world.

Reim-eking fever, which in said to be highly ono.
taci,m, 14 increaehig so rnpldly in Liverpool that the health
committee have resolved to use a large quantity of carbolic
acid In the streets as a disinfectant. The medics! Aker
stated to the c,.mmittee that during the week he had been
obliged to order the diming of two schools held In cellars in
the I,wer istricts, bee .use they were so overcrowded u to
be dangerous to heahh.

A murder has been committed in County Down' the
victim being John Gialla,her, bailiff on Colonel Fe bO5. Sloe-
lonic estate. GAlloglier was last seen on Friday evening
going into a plantation. His body WAS found next morning
with a wound on the head. It is believed he WAS murdered
for the purpose of robbery, a now of 4:16 having been taken
from ha person. No ar.mta have as ytt been made.

Two actions for damages for injuries sustained by
accidents on the Lancashire and Yorkshire 'savoy have been
tried at Manchester. A Baptist minitter named Parry, who
is also a woollen manta acturer at Stoithwaite, rec scrod
£450 for injuries Bottolifed in a collision at Lostock Junction,
near Bolton. A working jeweller front Bury Otained £5O
for injuries sustained near Wakefield in September last.

On Monday the affairs of the Albert Life Assurance
Company came before Lord Justice James, on a petition
presented by a joint committ,e of some of the an algonated
companies, praying for a reconstruction of ihe concern under
a new management, ills lordship said that, unless the share-
holders generally gave in their adhesion to the proposed
arrangement, he did not see how he could compel them to
do so. Ile suggented that meetings of the shareholders of
the four principal companies Interested should he held, and
their assent asked to the reconstruction. This was agreed to.
The number of postage-stamps sold by the Post-
office during the year ended 31st December, 1869 (as given in
a return Just issued', was 721,211,180 (of various prices),
valued at £3,49 ,608. 8,267,280 envelopes, of the value of
£37,461, were sold during the year. In the year 1859 the
ramps sold were 336,662,000, value £1,584 745 ; envelopes,
8,730,960, value £39,567.. The stamps slid by the inland
revenue in 1869 arnounte I to £708,490 ISs. 9d., as compared
with £595,186 17s. sd. in 1859.

A British Columbia paper gives an account of a
modern 11,11111. n Crusoe. A sailor named Joseph Spruce
had both himself a sloop out of yellow cypress, near Nort
siumson. Alone in the solitude of the north-west coast, re-
mote from the sound of a civilised voice, Spence worked
seven months, and when he had launched his little barque
successfully he rigged her out with his own hands, and with
an Indian as his only " crew " he set sail for Victoria, ac-
complishing the distance of nearly 800 miles in 14 ruling
days, which would be reckoned good time for a well-ap-
pointed vessel
A shocking gun accident has occurred at Langford,
near Eider, on Sun air afternoon. A young man named
Cann went into the house of a person named hustle, took up
• gun, believing Is not to be loaded, and pointed it at the
family, wi he kitchen. The gun exploded, and an
Infant in Mrs, lap was killed on the spot ; the mother
was Injured, and her life is in danger; the father was all.
wounded. Another young rum was shot in the head, and
his eye destroyed. The surviving sufferers were taken to the
Exeter Hospital

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Emma Harben, a married woman, bars been arrested
at Jersey on • charge of c Amassing the death of a child
named Alice Mary Paint, aged twelve years, by gross ill-
treatment, and neglecting to give her sufficient food. The
prisoner had the care of the child, who she said was an
orphan. The child used to call her "allot;" but there is
reason to believe the prisoner was her mother before her
marriage. She made the child do all the household work,
taxing her oeyond her strength, and continually beat her for
the veriest tr fies. In addition to this the poor child was
half starved, and ate ravenously any food the neighbours
gave her. Two days before her death, though she was then
and had been for some time in a dying state, she was seat
I into the street on an errand at eleven o'clock at night.

The Belfast Corporation have unanimously resolved{
to ask the Britleh Association for the Advancement of &teneo
to hold their Congress for 1572 in that city,

On Sund.y. a man named t;reorgei'pham, of SMth-
molton, Devon, died from the effects of a sunstroke which
he receive I on the previous day while in charge of his
master's horse.

It ia the prerogative of the Sovereign, with the aid
and °ulna of her advisers, to declare war and conclude
peace, but the House of Commons holds the mine-strings,
and suppllee or witholds, at the bidding of the people, the
material wherewith to make war or maintain peace.

The return of the emigration officers for the month
of July shows a great falling off in the number of persons
leash g the Mersey This arises from the entire cessation of
Gerimn emigration since the outbreak of hostilities between
France and Prussia.
A large humber of emigrant?, consisting at &burn
350 to 403 persons, left the London Docks on Thursday in
last week, en rolee for Canada. The greater portion of the
number consisted of weathers belonging to the Working
E olgration Association, which Is,, already sent on
several large parties this season.

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Luring the period between the beginning ot dune
and the end of October, 18h9, 92 989 pers.dis are behoved n,
have de I of wavt and its attendant ills id the °wades
6tihte During Ito ..me period nearly 400,090 animals
perished.

A crab ham been caught in Yokohama Bay whicti
weighed but 4010 , had lees over five feet in length, and its
mouth contained two large teeth. When In the water it.
strength was such that it coull have quite overpowered .
matt.

The Guardian publiihre a little medical fact which
at this season of the year is as well to know—that • wosg
said; is readily cured b) rubbing it with a rhea of raw oat n.,
and th.t stings in the throat may be cured by chewing alai
swallowing the same savoury thug.

The South London Prcas mentions a most revolting
illustration of what may result from gross ignorance A
woman brought to a surgery the other day a child in a bearly
dying state, and the doctor elici:ed from her that the had
been adminiaterirg spidara to it as a cure for whooping.
cough. _ _

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A umespondent of the Chester Chronicle says it it
most prohAble that before long factories lor the manufacture
of cheese will be erected on different parts of the Marquis of
Westminster's estate. ',formation Is being obtained from
various sources relative to the successful working of them in
other places, suit no doubt a meeting of the tenantry will be
shortly convened.

A man named Peter Wright has died at Kidderminu.
ter, from a ye, y simple cause. Afloat a torthnot ago he ac-
cidentally ran a thorn into his band. lie was a man of full
habit, and the t evictors became much leliamed, and his hand
and arm began to be affected. Serious consequences a ere
Lot at first anticipated, but after a few days, mortification
let in, and the man died. Deceased was a dyer, employed at
one of the carpet firma in the town.

There was a (leadenly better feeling in the cotton
market at Liverpool on Monday-, the sales amounting to
12,000 bales, at an Increase of It, per pound in American,
with less disposition to force aces The same letting pre.
vat;ed on CAI Stock Excirmge, nod it is now loop-it that per-
haps the most disaatious panic ever known in Liverpool tone
at lost run its courie.

A Yeovil correepondent states that the Continental
war has had the effect ,of causing a revival of the glove trade
to that town and district, the supply of German gloves,
which have been (blamable at umeh less than those et
English make, has now fallen far below the demand, conse-
quently orders are pouring in from all direction., and the
manufacturers at Yeovil and the neighbourhood have already
received orders that w ill keep their ertiploys in full work for
several months to come, and will put an end to all further
projects of emigration.

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A telegram from Cork states that on Monday
in ruing seven muskets, eleven bayonets, an I a 411511 Ity of
ammunition were found coucealeo In a disused Turkish bath
on the grounds of Mr. Maguire, M.P., Ardruanagh Passage.
The bath Is some di.tance horn the dwelling-hous3, close to
the road, and the approaches at one side are not visible (101 l
the house. It was known to have been disused for a con-
siderable time, and this probably led to its being selected ar
• place of concealment for the arm,

In the United Stiles Court at Windsor, Vermont,
on Satin-any, sentence was pronounced upon the Fenian
lusaders of Canada. General O'Neil was sentenced to two
years' imprisonment and to pay a fine of ten dollars; Colonel
John T. Brown, to nine months' imprisonment and a fine of
five donors ; Captain J. J. Monahan, to six months' im-
prisonment and a line of one dollar. All had pleaded
"Guilty."
Owing to the disturbed state of the Continent, it has
been decided to postpone the proposed exhibition of the
works of Hans Holbeiu the younger, at lirrsdin, till next
year. The Q.meu had promised to contribute a number of
original paintings and drawings, and other posseasors of
genuine works of Holbein in England had also signaled their
willingness to lend them.
A elmmunication from Marseilles states that the
Correctional Tribunal there has sent need the Peep le to the
following tines :—hi. Naceuet, the editor, for offence againq
the Empress, 50ar., and the gerant and printer Mfr. each.
The first if the two last-mentioned has also been condemned
to 2,0001 r and a fortnight's imprisonment for a pi otest teal.
big to excite rebellion in the army, and the printer to
500 tr.

A fatal accident occurred a few days hack on the
Lake of Geneva from the bursting of the boiler of a steam
yacht belonging to Prince Brancovano, which was on it. way
from Evian to Montrens. The engineer, by whose negligence
in not keeping th, cistern properly supplied with water the
accident had occurred, was kt led on the spot, mid one of tha
crew was Injured. The owLer and his slater, Mama. de klen,
tesquien, were both resided.

The following singular advertisements appeared in
The Times the other day—" T. to T. A. Mad. ref uhes to
take food till hhe ares you. Write at once, kindly, sod if
possible fis rendezvous."—" To J. S. Either, father, father,
If this 0110.1 meet your eye, we hear you inquired at the
yeAry-hall, Camberwell, for us about June 23rd. We would
sive worlds to are y,u, our father, whom we thought dud,
q dire at 80 aud 82, Waterloo-bridge-road."

"We understand that the English Government
assert that they have lu Great Britain an efficient force of
hO,OOO mem We believe that, including the paper strength
of the army and militia reserves, the various miscellaneous
cmps—such as hospital and army corps, the depots of Indian
regiments and the Royal Eogineers—and assumlog that
every regiment in up to its fall strength, this aversion hi
literally not far from the fact—on paper. A paper artily is,
however, of very little use, and the real ionktoo Is, what
force could we at, say, a fortnight's notice, land at, Antwerp.'
'r he Food Journal offers a svord or two on the
dangers of ginger beer drinking. Even were It honestly
made, our ginger beer is not a wholesome thing. What man
who ha ever felt the pangs of dyspepsia could wish a fellow
creature a worse fate than to be condemned to the consump-
tion of a few bottles of one of the specimens we have analysed
and which contain :-1. Enough scelic acid to make a table,
spoonful of common vinegar. 2. Four grains of cream of
tartar. 3 A trace of copper; and the whole imprisoned in
a bottle smelling of paraffin.

At the Cambridgeshire Assizes, an action has been
tried for breach of promise of marriage, bronght b. Ellen Bu!l.
the daughter of a former at Ely, against the Rcv. iloer Robin-
s tu, of Sc. John's College, Cambrioge, who has been engaged
in tuition at Manchester since 1661. The engagement com-
menced in 1164, and the letters were of the most ardeli
character cpU 1667, when they suddenly clanged on the
part of the defendant, who subsequently offered the plaintiff
£250 to release him. After the cane had laated all day the
jury considered for shout a quarter of au hour, and retuned
a verdict—datuages for plaintiff, £450.