The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-15 00:00:00

SATURDAY, NOV. 15, 1879,

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Sunday (9thji, being the 3ith birthday of the Pea,
the anniversary, the Royal salute and the other dean, of
tion being
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Lion of Mayor onneeMnonodfalytatlhyaits hseienridosluatlelarnydyuji:lawa:£lll::ll4oo::anagyvbsa..:E• .
instead of £3OO, as hitherto.
several days from an attack of fever laud h..
..ar:
learnsgMbsuaer:reTßudnehyzer suffering
ntdbhfigaaveassiff hstoopeo vrritrdnehsi ogbeevryastebh returningeaye season
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d. October,
better thea-t
are to the effect that the snore catch. although
that of last year, has not yielded a good average. The-a„ati
brador catch, however, bee proved very large, aud will 1,9.
up for the deficiency. make '
A rumour has been circulated in St. petareb
that England had expressed. a desire to the Partettrg
establish a naval station on the Mack lasse Comnaenti t'
this rumour, the Gobs says that the eneey ot tha bhy ou
Fleet into the Euxine would be regarged by rths,;`,'Ptlsla .
castes belli. -... as %
call
An hotel that makes up 3,000 beds is said to h 5,,,,
been built at San Francisco I There are arcades lined „,4,-" , chops on the ground Boor, two or three testa t;""
theater, and various other places of amusement .witeee , 4
outer walls. . -ea ite •
Bear stalking is just now producing good sport
neighbourhood of Valence (Dasme). Three of those aut
have been killed at Itarneyer, one weighing eerahs. ialeat,
No fewer than twenty banisters were called h. '
Monday in Dublin, the largest nuraber at one
years, although the amount of business at the Irlah e -4--.
been said to be declining. ear has
e water, ancl
Lord Ernest Hamilton, youngest 8011,of. the Duke c
Da nodr cal 11
elteor, v: :..--
Abercoro, has had a narrow escape from drowning, -plea?.
quite hat ore.
Austrian entAble
nw chipph oe nn
wast h e
rescued. lake
ha li at
anß ah roounr s clonu r t t
how:
Various literary men and leading citizens of viab '
are making preparations for a festival in comnieniorath;;l3,, ' - '
•
forWtheel;e::nrrie4
the liberation of Vienna from the Turks.. It is propose-a ....Z '
pa umb
monumentlirs
sh.a Alfredh historical onr is copamlo
epwork
eh
xl oi.anmptlE:ayee
oeorci
encsatashi
of
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eaPitealil'lt' '
presented on Monday with a silver cradle, in eeramen,' - ee'
Von of the birth of a daughter during her husband's -°171"
office. . • Year or
during
th
the past
week,
m British
ahi
making
gntdh
e total foreign
1,354, or an increase of 54, as compared with the oorretsasav
big period of last year. The approximate value oe ereeetvde,
lost was £520,000, including British £315,000. siz 'Deny
were lost off the British coasts. 1111,44
Colonel Walker, M.P., speaking on Monday
dependence among the pew, el
at a meeting of Foresters in Salford, said that it shotildiliebt
membered by those who had legislation to promote,
..,be re..
raDees t) "U..
encouraging friendly societies they were cuoo.tlra t ln,
rteeeneaullttly.:bee4
"latch the
ha economy,thrift,
tattihoenshaader time
unnaenthh
times
es
el's% - g
past.tb e extravagance
It is stated that a Russian naval officer has ire, •
rived at Constantinople to purchase four Tnrkeeb ire" °'' fir
fluted,:
The Nawab Abdul Ghani of Dacca and
Absanulla of Dacca have each forwarded 1,000 ru -"lab
the Maharajah of Hutwa has forwarded 500
secretary of the Princess Alice (Darmstad() Memorial !e)e :-..
strikingly demonstrated in New York, where a yntin_ , A
How fashion repeats
notified
hthashis
has
been married in her grandmother's wedding dressisani
seventy years ago, and, though it was left unaltered, h'asaa e
knew that the dress was not made in the latest style. " alle
M.P.,
will deduct 20 per :cent, from the Isle or!. d2O per cent, Meie
rents for tee past half-year, all t. at the e d
Wight that
the next halfsyear. n of
The 'Rev. James Tripp, rector of ct
.....Peffoith,
shire died last Saturday morning, in his nietety.rea,a
i-4 °rice
The ' living was worth £1,670' a year, though now o,oYear.
per annum will be added to that of Wetherby. It le• 4140
gift of Lord Leconfield. 111 the
The whaling schooner Petrel, of l'ejewb.m.,„
Massachusetts, sailed on the 25th of October so.; ,Port,
Some time after her departure she encountered a t_alal..
gale, wrecking her in mid ocean. Fourteen penal,. ifeavy
ing the captain and the entire crew, were drow3eriliel.
' Portuguese passengers, the. sole survivors, picked ir,::%,_Blz
the wreck in a starving condition by the AuStriaTi re
Reubus, arrived at New York on Saturday. ark
. d i
Speaking at Hereford on Tam; ay nt
' hi • Col
Arbuthnot, M.P., said the next question of t a a-,onel
be the consolidation of the Empire. They had iniatad
colonial possessions, and in a few years their trade ma.ansts
1 equal that of any other country. If the Government:tit
wise they would take steps without 'delay to brine rite
lan alliance with the colon's .. te induce them to induem tn *-11'Obt
land trade advantages they would no , t - giVe Zb
nations. They might get the necessaries of r ito in
" ta tets thaoreil
r l they now had them, and they would obtalu by 'nubi ie
alliance the advantage of their manufactures be ali.
ported to those shores on the best terms. aes ex.
The bazaar opened at Brighton by the Duke
Duchess of Connaught in aid of the Royal gchoo, and
Daughters of Officers in the Army realised £1,700. ' toe
It is stated fwm St. Petersburg that the Gerrn.,.
Emperor has assured the Czar that neither he nor bis--as
would ever make war upon Russia, and that
show how favourable they both are to the whole 'Cultic,
nation. Ilsatatt
In the list of Mayors for the ensuing Imo
lished on Tuesday morning, there were 100 Lt ,rairc.ptib..
09 Conservatives. • erta
The next edition of Kelly's Post Office
Directory will include a Cyprus-street. 'wn cleft
Mr. W. E. Baxter, speaking at Bernie, said whett the Liberals return to power the people would expect
th
the Turkish Government should be told that the convett„ at
by which we bound ourselves to defend that on ,"oe
Russia is at an end; and as for Cyprus, it would bee -"'"Liell, t
fat thing to hand it over to Greece in part re l'aQ6'
for having deserted the cause of that kingdom at the Be °ll'
Congress. rlin
The German Emperor has graciously contrite._
the sum of 10,000 marks (about £5OO sterling) in aia e'teced
sufferers by the Marcia inundations. a or Au
The Earl of Darby has sent a donation of £5O sa
the National Memorial to Sir Rowland Hill. All the aaa'uy
then in the Commercial Travellers' Schools and the orDZ""
Working Schools have subscribed a penny each to eee .0.31
object. •"" lake • -
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A Renter's telegram from Madrid says that a wate
spout, proceeding from the sea, has caused serious dee._ I.
near the village of Rociana, in the province 02 11,-ag4
Several houses were unroofed and some trees uprooterve,
the village of Bedmar, province of Jaen, twenty-t 0 bo 14
have been destroyed by the floods, but no loss of hitteett
reported. , , -4 Is
,
Some one has got into the library of the
Museum with a measuring tape. Tne result bt aor,4:?:811
incredible. We are told that in forming the library fbuetrt
are three
th miles of bookshelves, and as these boo kshelv a
i es ite
partitioned off in tires from top to bottom, t Is n0,,,,_ 5
that tnere are twenty-five miles of books.-Court .1-(ZY:417.4
Mr. Mark Firth, of Sheffield, in addition
~..a fug to the town a college and contributing 45.0eZe- -,
.0 , Lig
endowment fund, has expressed a wish to found a 0,„*.5,1_ ta
Chemistry in connection with it, and has named
Carnelley, of Owens College, for the first appointment. LI.
An eight or nine year old black.and-white
recently been exhibited at the Oldenburg Cattle Sae;
ttraae
two calves at foot, which has shown most remarkable plewit..h
of fecundity. Within four years this creature has .4
,41.0 6...
nine fully-developed calves, including one bull claa,p peg
A • the •
record of which is given by the Hano.rert'an -.1/lacutfur
Journal :-Two calves in Jane, 1876; three calve, on al
which survived) in June, 1877; two in April, 1878 ; :)
',,,t
In June, 1879. I and t;
e h
he twins of 1878, which were also on ah '
at t exhibition, were put to the bull last May, anil or
are now in calf. boll,e
We understand (says the Daily News) that the bp
tary authorities have sent out instructions to Bk. fi_aul.
Wolseley to make every. effort to recover Prince Lhila"Tiet
po e 1 on's watch, which is believed to be somewhere in Ziel*.
land. te•
Amongst the numerous varieties of birds whim,
dignified with the title of game in America, an ci are
CE!re
sidered, therefore, worthy objects of pursuit by the aranitTl"
are the small reed or rice birds, and these frequent .
ha shores in great numbers. To show to wt an extent t the
are pursued it may be stated that no less than 60 nee Y
them have been exported from the town of Salen,l`7of
Jersey, alone up to the beginning of last month. ---. ,iees
The monthly returns of the Treasury of the
minion of Canada for October have been published.
show that the revenue during that month amounaeFily
2,035,680 dole, and the expenditure to 2,247,611 dole, lir
total receipts since the beginning of the fiscal year arnometsa
to 7,070,767 dots, and the total expenditure during
period to 6,249,228 dole. ‘4at
The Empress of Austria's favourite comb..
--. Beat Godollo, in Hungary, is fitted up in accordance with , .
mistress's well-known tastes for riding and hunting': its
large circular riding-school is attached to the Castle, a
edi4
it is the Empress's greatest pleasure to watch the trainra
of various horses, under the management of an exni
-erno
of a Vienna circus- The riding-school is fitted uo „,,„_er
grand stand for spectators, and even a Piano an'aZt
times in the evening serves as a meeting-place for ivatat
tile
Empress's guests
from the neighbourhood.
One of the patriarchs of the English Church
cure I to
whom Cardinal Manning was formerly -e• died in e,
inst. The Rev, ninety-third year on the Bth • • James aeeue
was of an old lauded family in Somersetshfre, sesaeee:"DlS
their name from Howard in the time of Henry er. filagerl
born on his mother's property in Sussex in i7e. aht w_as
educated at Midhurst School with the late Lord Lecennitas
with whom he had a lifelong intimacy. He took his de "cl.
at Cambridge in 1809, and was ordained by Bishop Browses
North in 1810 in a private chapel in Cheyne-walk, Chelsea"'
The public may be interested in knowing•that
Prince of Wales has just erected in the Church of at. m
the
Magdalen, Sandringham, a beautiful tablet to the nieniarY
of his lamented sister Princess Alice (Grand DucheatY
Hesse). The work, which had been executed by mr, Jss . of
33 oehm, A.R.A, consists of a medallion portrait ii
n ii„X,•
of the Grand Duchess, with the following inscriptto„
o-r
neath :-" To the beloved memory of Alice Maud M...!'
Grand Duchess of Hesse, Princess of Great Blitain and i-4,
land, this monument is erected by her devoted and sorrow.
log brother, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales " The
Lecture' design is by Mr. Arthur Blomileld, yeat. Arbee,
and below the tablet are carved these texts, "Blessed ae:
the dead which die in the Lord ;" "Thy will be donee. ilea
Royal Highness has at the same time presented to the cini;'•
a fine organ. ell
A serious mishap occurred in Plymouth Scrlnd
, _.. ......
Tuesday. A party of seamen belonging to the gunnery o
Cambridge were out in a yawl practising with the re sciter:
apparatus, when a rocket, in leaving the tube, by some u .
explained means prematurely exploded. Ten
tit the 0
pants of the yawl received slight cuts from the spunters,
three others were severely cut and burned about the ehn-;
r-
and had to be removed to the Royal Naval Hospital. ace,
A letter having been addressed to Mr. Gladstone Ira,
Mr. J. G. MacCarthy, M.P., on the subject of the reelarneti fa
of waste lauds, the right hon. gentleman has replied, statinge- that it has not been in his power for many years to giee „cu
attention to the subject as would warrant him in venturin:
on any positive judgment. He would lee much predispetee
however, in fa•vour of any measure having reiatio_
to i
a
'
o
which had received the sanction of the late eta epee. t
Peel. "'Peen
The electric light is steadily growing in tavern. for
lighthouse purposes. Our Trinity Board ha lobg
recognised its great advantages, and the south Ausieaii=
have recently determined to use it at Cape Northuniberlend and are prepared to expend £20,000 for the purpose. .
The patron saint of the chase in France, St. Pt 1-
-aaert,
Is yearly honoured on Nov. 3rd by the benediction Of the
hounds of each • district. At Chantilly, in particular, the
ceremony is specially picturesque, the Mass of St. Hebert is
celebrated in the chapel before the Due d'Aumale and e,_
visitors, while huntsmen, beaters, piqueurs, and groeins:g
gala costume, take the pack to the entrance of the choir to be blessed. The service over, the oldest dog in the pack is
decorated with the Duke's colour, and the hunt starts
straight oft from the chapel to the cover side amidst the
triumphant strains of those famous cors.cle•chasse on which
Frenchmen delight to discourse excruciating music.
7,,,...
year, however, the ceremony was deferred for threealaya.'"'"
Sir Edward Watkins, M.P., speaking at Folkestona
on Monday night, described the past Parliamentary sestio-h-
-as being fruitless and objectionable. He was afraid the;
had been unprofitable servants. With regard to fore
Iga
policy, his views were in entire aoe , rd with those oftha
Marquis of Harlington, who had MO d' , )i ved the re.
sources of England were so great, her i e. e,.. i 'er eo great
that-her alliance would altveya he courteei in EerePe ;teed he
believed that that alliance ought be given, and ought to be
used for the purpose of terming and joining in a combins. tion of the Sates of Europe framed for the purpose of pre-
serving the peace and the independence of Europe, for the
purpose of repressing the aggressive ambition of any Power.
-for the purpose of protecting the weak against the stroo2:
tor the ptitinie of protecting the free against thd'oppregsol7