The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-05-08 00:00:00

WESTEhN RAILWAY.

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

A Philadelphia paper states that Mrs. Dr. Mary
Walker, after several applications for office, has received an
answer from President Grant that she might have an inter-
view when dressed as becomes her sex.
It is generally believed that the Government will
not proceed with their savings-lank plan of increasing the
allowed amount of deposit to s;300, the proposal having met
with great opposition from both sides of the House.
The North German Correspondent says that the Bill
for the Introduction of Telegraphic Stamps is considered a
good practical measure, and there la no doubt that it will
pass. It will enable the public to deliver their dispatches
without delay, and thus greatly facilitate the use of the tele-
graph. Besides this, much time and labour will be saved at
the great stations ; thus it is hoped that the profits will
increase.

" Mr. Sumner had the questionable honour of con-
tributing more than any other man to the war which broke
up the Union, and to the differences which keep the breach
still open. His mode of handling political questions always
was to put them in the form which least admitted of a
common understanding and a possible reconcillation."—The
Tames.
A gentleman, in London, had occasion to advertise
for a cook, and among other applications was one from a
young lady of the profession, inclosing her carte.de-visite
The anniversary of the deliverance of Orleans from
the English yoke by Jeanne d'Arc is to be celebrated with
great elciat on the oth of May. The Empress has promised to
assist at thefite. It is even said that this oclasion will be
seized to push forward Joan's claim for beatification.
The French Mint is at present occupied striking
medals in commemoration of the centenary of Napoleon the
First, and those in bronge will be sold to the public on the
15th of August next. PFliofs of the medal have been sub-
mitted to the Emperor. Every blood relative of the
Napoleon family will be presented with this medal in gold,
silver ones being reserved for courtiers and distinguished
strangers.
The correspondent of the Daily NCIII at New York,
writing on the 20th ult., is of opinion that Mr. Sumner's
speech has been very well received, and says it is treated b
the press as a very good statement of the American case. But
there is a good deal of disappointment felt at Mr. Sumner's
not saying anything as to the precise form of the remedy to
be resorted to, or of the satisfaction to be demanded.
It is rather &rouging to observe the entente cordiale
which seems how to subsist between Lord Westbury and the
prelates. He may now be seen occasionally sitting on the
front row of the Episcopal Bench between two of the pre-
lates, and evidently a much.favoured guest —Record.
The wife of a workman of Ternitz, near Wilhelms-
°nigh, Austria, was last week safely delivered of four chil-
dren, two boys and two girls, all of whom with the mother
are doing well. The husband having sent a request by tele-
gram to the Emperor to serve as sponsor, his Majesty acceded,
directed Count de Bellegarde, one of aides-de-camp, to repre-
sent him at the ceremony, and sent 420 to the mother.
France, though we buy her literature to the amount
of more than £60,000 a year, only sent us £395 for the few
English works she required; while Turkey paid us £3,103,
and Chili 1,594 for English publications. Germany also
despises English printed matter; she pays us not £lOO a year
for all she imports.
Alderman Thomas Lyons has received a letter
through the post, informing him that his opposition to the
m 53 or of Cork hail brought upon him a decree that he should
be shot in the public streets before the 15th of this month.
lie is warned in it of the fate of Bradshaw, who disregarded
the notice sent him.
One day last week, while a young lady was admiring
her collars as they lay bleaching on a little green in front of
one of the cottages in Bath-street, Nairn, a blackbird made a
sudden descent on the green, and darted oft with a collar of
the latest pattern. Filled with astonishment, the gentle be-
was soon roused to defend her handiwork from
further molestation by the re-appearance of Blacky, who,
from a tree-twig, looked as if fixing on the next he would
take, and utterly regardless of a determined "hush ! hush !"
and clap-trap," down he darted and away he flew, leaving
the lady bereaved of collar No. 2.

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"We cannot refrain from specially noticing an inter-
esting and humorous object, exhibited by a young lady, in a
neat glass case, and entitled 'Specimen, exhibited by a Girl
of the Period.' The specimen ' was the foot of a stocking,
most beautifully darned, at the Hampstead Literary Society."
Court Journal.
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The foundation stone of new offices for the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Jermyn-street,
St. James's, London, was laid on Tuesday afternoon, by bliss
Burdett Coutts. One of the patrons of the society, has
given £5,000 for the purchase 01 the site, and the cost of
the building will be about 1:2,900. The Earl of Har-
rowby, in a short address pointing oat the bendits which nail
accrued from the exertions of the society since its establish-
mesh in 1024, etated that they had obtained no less than
le,ooo convictions against persons proved to have been guilty
of cruel treatment to animals.
The London National Sunday League commenced
their series of monthly excursions for this year last Sunday
by a trip to Box-hill, in Surrey. About 1,500 persons availed
themselves of this opportunity to visit the country. The
next excursion is advertised for Eastbourne and Beaclay Read
on the first Sunday in June.
In the Court of Queen's Bench, a rule has been
granted in the case of " Saurin v. Star and Kennedy," to
show cause why the verdict should not be set aside or to re-
duce the damages.
The Covington (Indiana) Free Press tells of a man at
that place, who is a candidate for postmaster, going in to the
churchyard to copy names from the tombstones to go on his
petition.
The Secretary of the United States Navy recently
issued orders directing that s rriployJs in the navy yards who
worked only eight hours a day should receive only eight
hours' pay therefor. In genie yards the men immediately
resumed the ten-hour system, but in the Charlestown-yard
the men continue to work eight hours, and rely upon Con-
grew which made that a day's work, to make up to them the
sum withheld under the existing order.
The other day, the Archdeacon of Chester, in his
visitation charge, aahl religious equality was a dogma which
meant othing else than the equality of truth and falsehood,
of light and darkness, of Christ and Belial.
A correspondent of the Irishman writes from Wes-
tern Australia that one of the Fenian prisoners, John B.
O'Reilly, convicted by court martial, had effected his escape
from the colony The writer trusts that O'Reilly's arrival
in America will shortly be heard of.
A Feejee Islani correspondent of the Honolulu
Gazette says there are at Libruka, on the Island of Ovalan,
about thirty foreigners, all sailors, most of whom have run
away from ships and tinned Feejeeans. The principal man
among them, end the one who has sliest influence with the
chiefs—aml, in fact, is a very respectable and steady man—is
Devil Whiffey, who, thirty years ago, left a Nantucket
almler, and, snaking friends with the chiefs of Libruka,
settled there. He has a number of wives and a large family.
A large meeting in opposition to the Irish Church
Disestablishment bill was held in St. James's Hall on Mon-
day. The Earl of Harrowby presided, and amongst the
other speakers were the Duke of Marlborough, Lord Fitz-
waiter, the Bishop of Derry, Sir Joseph Napier, and Mr. J.
C. Colquhoun. Res:Anti°ns were passed protesting against
the measure' introticced by Mr. Gladstoue, as being sub-
versive of rights, mid destructive of interests secured by
fundamental laws; and calling upon tire House of Lords,
"In the exercise of their undoubted constitutional privileges
to refuse their assent to a measure so prejudicial to tire
Protestant religion, and so perilous to the peace and in-
tegrity of the empire."
In the case of Madame Rachel, the Court of Queen's
Bench has decided that the Central Criminal Court had power
to divide itself and sit in separate courts, and that Mr. Kerr,
as judge of the Sheriffs' Court, had not been superseded,
and was legally entitled to act as a commissioner. On these
points, therefore, judgment was entered for the Crown. On
the other question, whether a prisoner could be tried before
one judge only, with a lay commissioner, changed ba the
course of the trial, or whether there must be two judges; or,
at all events, one judge and a commissioner, the latter, like
the former, being one and the same commissioner throughout
the trial, the court reserved judgment.
The higher ranges of fells and mountains around the
lake district of Westmoreland were covered with snow on
Monday morning, to the depth of three or four inches. The
cold was remarkable.
"Mr. Jefferson Davis, in a private letter, says that
his health is excellent, and that he intends to return to this
country this spring. He adds—it has been my purpose to
return this spring to what was my home, and if permitted
to do so, without injury or embarrassment to my friends,
to engage in sonic business which may yield a support.' "
New York M.S.
A man was scalded to death a few days back in a
manufactory of perfumery at 51outreuil, near Paris. The
deceased was standing on a plank across a vat of boiling lees
for the purpose of taking out a portion of the liquid with a
large iron ladle; some of the soapy composition had, how-
ever, been spilt under his feet, and caused him to slip and
fall in. Although he was taken out immediately he was al.
ready dead, and frightfully disfigured.
A new journal called the Rappel was published
in Paris on Monday. It is conducted by the two sons of
Victor Hugo and his son-in-law, and Victor lingo himself is
a contributor to the first number. M. Henri Rochefort,
who has gained so much notoriety by his Lanterne, is also
connected with the paper. As the Rawl promised from
the first to he strongly in opposition to the Government, its
sale in the streets was prohibited by the authorities even be-
fore it appeared. M. Victor liugo's new novel, L'Amerne
qui rit, is given in the feuilleton of the new journal.
A lady who was on a tour of the English lakes had
an melte ard accident last week. Mounted upon a pony she
set out from Keswick to make the ascent of Skiddaw accom-
panied by the guide Graves. During the ascent she lost her
shawl; the pude returned to look for it, and during his
abaence the pony took fright and ran away. The lady wau
thrown oil, and her foot having caught in the stirrup she was
dragged a considerable distance, until fortunately the stirrup
leather broke, and the lady was saved from further perii.
She was removed to Keswick, where her injuries, including a
fracture of the Jaw booe, were attendee to, and she was able
to resume her journey in the course of a day or two.
The friends of a widow lady, 36, amiable, accom-
plished, and well connected, but with two children and no
fortune, are wishful to introduce her toss elderly gentleman,
in comfortable circumstances, to whom she would make an
excellent wile; only bona fide answers will be considered,
and treated with all honour.—Advertisement in Manchester
Examiner.
The judges in the Court of Common Pleas have had
before them an application in the case of "Sager v. the Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire Railway Company." The plaintiff in
this case, on the Ist of August, 1565, sustained an injury to
the back of the head, but he soon got very much the better
of this hurt. Some four months after the accident he got a
good deal worse; he entirely lost the use of both his arms,
and there was a great diminution of power in the lower ex-
tremities. The question In the came was whether these dis-
tressing symptoms arose from the railway accident or were
caused by rheumatism. At the trial at Manchester before
Mr. Justice Lush the jury found for the plaintiff, damages
£4,000. The court granted a rule nisi for a new trial upon
the ground thdt the damages were excessive.
Professor Goldwin Smith, has presented to Camel
University, U S., his private historical library, which num-
bers 3,000 volumes.
A bill is pending in Chancery to make t,he directors
of overend, Gurney, and co. personally responsible to the
shareholders for the losses sustained by the company.
At the Bristol County Court, the other day, an old
man of seventy-three was sued for the cost of maintenance
ot his wife, a young woman. Three weeks after the marriage
his bride deserted him, and the first intimation he received
as to her whereabouts was in the shape of a valentine,
posted at Bristol, containing the rhyme—
With thee to dwell-
0, what a sell
After hearing the evidence, the judge decided in the old
man's favour.
In Liverpool, on Saturday night, a working man,
quarrelled with his daughter, and, after striking her furiously
over the head and face with a poker, threw her from the
window of an upper room in which they lodged into the
street below. The poor chi was so much isijured that she
has since been in an unconscious state, and her recovery is
doubtful. The man was taken before the magistrates, and
remanded.
The Times of Indite says that the formidable tank of
making up the Abyssinian accounts in India has been nearly
completed, and thinks that it will be seen that "far too
much flits and loose talk has been indulged in at home con-
cerning these estimates and accounts." It gives the total
sum paid, "east ef Suez," at £6,025,000, and says it exceeds
the estimate made last November by about one million, in-
stead of two, as stated in the English papers,
A story is going the round of the India and China
papers that the young Emperor of Chinn, being curious to
judge for himself of the effect of opium, tried a pipe, and of
course suffered severely. The Queen Mother made inquiries,
and having found out that one of the chief mulche had sup-
plied His Majesty with the opium, had him beheaded as an
example to the rest of the household, and afresh proclama-
tion against the use of the drug was sent through the empire.
In replying to a question from Count de Segur, 3f.
de Lavalette stated, in the French Senate on Friday, that
the French Government had come to no determination res-
pecting the evacuation of Rome, and would only consider
the question when the security of the rope was assured.

London last week received a, good supply ti IOW
potatoes front Scilly and West Cornwall. at Is. URI is. 2d.

per pound.
The Ilombay papers state that her Maj. sty's sit:a
Spiteful is reported to have left Trincomalee, on the isthi
Mardi, with orders to take possession, in the name of lb s
Queen, of the Nicobar Islands, situated between the Audi.
mans and Sumatra, and inhabited by a half-savage rani.
The Bouthay Gazette says it seems to be expected that C.)
• Islands will come under the government of India.
The death is announced of Mr. Toulmin Staab, well
known as a writer upon parochial administration and Other
subjects. Mr. Smith was is his fifty-third year.
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Mr. Collins, the Conservative member for Boston,
has given notice of his intention to move, on going lot, um,-
mittee on the Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister Bid,
" That it be an instruction to the committee that they have
power to make provision for a woman to marry her deceased
husband's brother"

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The annual prize meetinu of the National Ritla
Association will commence at Wimbledon on the Mb J

The review to to take p'ace on the 17th of the same month.
—The Artillery competition at Shoeburyness will been on
the led August, the Queen's prize is to be shot for on the 5t
and the Countess Granville will distribute the prizes on tits

7th.
At Airdrie, a man named Campbell brew ldmaele
from a railway bridge just before a train as it was passiint
beneath He fell between the rails, and the train passed
over him. Singularly enough all the injuries he sustainel
were a broken leg and a few bruises.
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It is becoming the fashion in New York to bona
wedding Invitations with " No presents " en them
If any of the admirers of the President of the
Board of Trade are di:Nitrous of presenting that gen,lennits
with a testimonial an excellent opportunity now present
Itself. According to an advertisement In a contemporary she
following specimen from natural history is for disposal
bottle-nosed whale, measuring tot feet, for sale or hire.
Address," Jct. What could he more appropriate than tha
gift to the Right Bon, gentleman of the above as a memento
of the first official act the country troubled him to perform—.
namely, to decide on the destiny of the bottle-nosed ours?
According to a report in the New York papers,
President Grant has requested Mr. Motley, the newly-as.
pointed United States Minister to this country, to enter upon
his duties in London by the commencement of June.
It is stated that on the Ist of June the Agantia
Telegraph Company will reduce their tariff front £3 75. i.
for ten words, and Gs. hl. for each additional word, to £3
for ten words charging for address and signature', and 45.
for each additional word. At the sante time an impoit,mt
reduction will be made for newspaper press messages, awl
all political and general news will be conveyed from either
side of the Atlantic at half rates. This will practicilly re-
duce press messages from Gs. to 25. per word.
At a recent review at Lticknow, before Lord Napier,
an artillery horse fell when proceeding at a rapid pate, artt
the gun passed over the animal, overthrew the other hone.,
and made great havoc. Three horses were so much hurt
that they had to be killed, and several men were Injured.
A further call of .1:10 per share has been made for
the 7th inst. upon the shareholders of the Leeds Banking
Company, which stopped payment In September, 1665, awl
which is in the course of being wound up under what is
known as the Companies' Act, 1562.

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It is stated on very good authority that the bulk of
the expenses of the Marriage Reform Association" an)
borne by a wealthy London merchant, who has marred his
deceased wife's sister, and is anxious to legitimise his chtl.

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Some weeks ago a jeweller at Bangor, named
Aronson, sent a package of £6OO north of jewellery to be for-
warded by the London anti North Western Railway Company.
It was stolen. A number of the articles, the results of the
robbery and of two others, have been found under tl:o
hearthstone of Mr. Hughes, a respectable citizen of Bzor.
Wilson, a Scotchman, the parcels porter, is said to be las
accomplice. Both have been before the magistrates, and
remanded.
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One of the coolest cases of suicide on record lately
occurred in Cincinnati The gentleman who contemplatel
the act, fearing the newspapers might make some errors hi
their notices, sent in advance to each of the prominent ones
a sketch of his life and death.
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On Monday the proprietor of the Angel Hotel,
Wetherby, and a few friends, went into the Low tugs to try
three ponies over hurdles for about one mile, when Mr.
Hann., late of North Heighten, unfortunately came by his
death. It seems that he had offered his services as judge,
and had been requested to take his stand by a p at that had
been erected to serve as winning post, when he took the
opposite side of the course, and the three ponies, coining in
abreast, he was knocked down by one of them and killed
instantly.
The Wesleyan Missionary Society held its annual
meeting at Exeter Hall on Monday, under the presidency 01
Mr. M'Arthur, M.l'. The report of the committee, Melt
was adopted, stated that the receipts for 1808 had Muir vol
on those of the previous year, and that the progress of the
mission work abroad and at home had been equally satisfac-
tory. The chairman delivered a long address; and he woe
followed by the Rev. S. Romilly Hall ;presideut of the
Coeferencel, the Rev. H. Raleigh, Sir F. Lyeett, M.P., J.
Miles, 31. P., the Rev. J. Smith, and other gentlemen.
At the next meeting of the Birmingham board of
guardians an application will be received from the Roman
Catholic minister for penuission for nuns to visit the work
house to instruct the Roman Catholic children and readt •
the Roman Catholic patients. There are about 600 Rana
Catholics in the workhouse. The general purposes commit teo
have resolved, by a majority of 13 to 3, to recommend the
board to grant the application.
An important step, bearing upon the wages qiirstit tit
in the cotton trades, has been taken in the name of the East
Lancashire Weavers' Association and the Blackburn power-
loom weaver. A circular has been issued on behalf of thew
bodies to a number of the breech aseociatione, recommending
the acceptance of the proposed reduction of 5 percent. from
the Blackburn standard list, on the ground that the present
condition of the cotton trade prevents the possibility of a
successful resistance of the proposed reduction.
The conditional order calling upon Mr. Barry, the
solicitor at Youghal, to show cause why he should not be sus-
pended for contempt of court, for a certain election speech,
was on Saturday discharged by the unanimoua decision of
the Court of Common Pleas at Dublin. The Court held that
Mr. Barry should not have been required to criminate himself
by stating what portions of his speech as reported he ad-
mitted to be correct.
An e xhibition has been opened in Rome of the presents
made*, the Pope on the fiftieth anniversary of his e-,tiwars
Into the priesthood. There are 116 objects in all, and it is
pointed out that the only gift from a crowned head if is sent
by a non-Catholic sovereign—the King of Prussia. It Ls a
porcelain vase from the royal manufactory in Berlin.
At the Liverpool County Court, on Tuesday, a com-
mercial traveller, named Bevan, brought an action against
the proprietor of the George Hotel for £3 105. 6d., the value
of a great-coat and felt hat which plaintiff Alleged he had
left in defendant's commercial-room, nirtlsshichwerelrninitli&
when he came to look for them again. His Honour gave an
order for the full amount with costa.
The Stockbridge Indians, in Wisconsin, are rapidly
disappearit.g. The tribe once numbered 10,000 warriors.
They immigrated from Massachussets to this state in 1709,
to Ohio in 1809, and to Wisconsin in 1821. Tiley are now
materna; from want of food, mid numberbut 300 men, women,
ant children.
It was resolved at a late temperance meeting in
Wisconsin, that aloolute t, mperatice is indispensable to
raise men to the level of other animals!
"The Marquis of Bute, in token of gratitude for hii
conversion, and as a thankolf snag, is about founding and
endowing a magnificent hospital for lepers in Jeruiralem."—
Westenneter Ga.7ette.
During the "scene" in the Cork Town Council oa
Friday, Mr. NYCarthy exclaimed, amid great laughter, "31t',
Mayor, I would not blame you for anything you say at
night." Whereupon the flattered O'Sullivan responded. " I
wish all the Catholics were as honest as you, Sandy."
A photograph of the first coloured voter in Minne-
sota has been taken, framed, and presented to the State
Historical Society.
"We have a white man as minister to England, a
red man as commissioner of Indian affairs, and a black mau
as minister to Hayti. Now let the yellow man, John Chiba-
man, be provided for, and the four principal races of the
earth--the Caucasian, the native American, the African, and
the Mongolian—will be represented for the government oil
the broad platform of 'equal rights.'"—Ne to York Herald.
The final report of the Clerkenwell Explosion Relief
Fund, which was presented to a meeting of the general com-
mittee on Friday, states that the contributions to the funds
amounted to £10,073 14s. 2d. Of this sum £9,040 he. was ex-
pended in relief of the sufferers by the explosion, and
£832 105. 4d. in advertising, printing, and other expenses,
leaving a balance in hand of £2OO 175. 10d. for further
relief that may be required by some of the sufferers. The
disposal of this sum has been left in the hands of a special
committee.
It is stated that as Prince Charles of Roumania has
not been successful in his matrimonial advances to Princess
Thyra, sister of the Prfncess of Wales, he has resolved to
marry" a young and beautiful Roumanian."
The Fenian Amnesty Committee in Dublin an-
nounce that they have sent £5lO to Australia, to give £l5
each to the thirty-four political prisoners released there.
A Berlin correspondent says that the publication of
the fourth volume of the History of the Campaign of 1866 by
the Austrian staff has produced a rather bitter feeling in
Prussia. The chief offence Is the insertion of a despatch
from Count Bismarck to Count Gott., sent on the 20115 July,
1866. As the despatch was in cypher there has been a-breach
of official confidence somewhere, but it is not yet known who
Is the offender. The tendency of the volume, it is con-
sidered, is to produce ill feeling towards Prussia among the
Southern States, and its publication is regarded as a very on.
friendly act on the part of Count Beust.
The velocipedomania is still spreading. Last winter
an ice velocipede, running on steel slides and propelled by
means of a wheel furnished with sharp points, was brought
out at Stuttgart but it was much objected to by skaters sir
account of its spoiling the ice. We now hear that a party of
Prince Napoleon's aides-de-camp have made a trip from Nice
to Villafranca on water velocipedes. These machines con-
sist of two miniature parallel canoes, which support a sort
of chair the paddle-wheel, placed between the canoes, is
propelled by the feet only, and is covered like the paddle-
wheel of a steamer to protect the driver from the water it
throws up. Their speed is said to be very great. It now
only remains for the Aeronautical Society to adapt the
velocipede to travelling through the air.