The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-04-01 00:00:00

A woman named Elizabeth Hawthorn was found
frozen to death on the moors near Bacup on Saturday lad.
The Morning Post says that the Queen has pre-
sen'ed Mr. Disraeli with her portrait paintni in oil by a
rtaan artist.

There was a wonclerful ghit of game from Norway in
London last week. Ptarmigan, or whit. gr. use, have b.cn
sold at Is. 3d. to is. 93. a brace, and vitae hares at Is. 3d.
and is. 6d. each.

Among the rumours of the day in connection with
the Heir Apparent's visit to %die, is one to the effect that a
peerage will be conferred upon Sir Bartle From

The American Senate has passed a Bill to reduce
the President's salary to 25,090 dollars Many more men, it
Is expected, will run for the dignity now that it w1:1 be a
cheap affair, within the scope of ordinary mortality's aims.

Lenten costumes for ladies is the latest novelty.
They are made of a black stuff, very cheap, and very becom-
ing, and girls look quite pious considered that way. —Court
Jo urnal.

Shortly before four o'clock on Monday afternoon
her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, left Windsor
for Portsmouth, en route for Germany. The Queen will re-
main on the Continent until the end ot April, and then re-
turn to Windsor Castle
The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges in
Tuesday's Times (as "Conscience Money ") the receipt of the
second half of shank-note for £5OO, from "S. L. F.," for
Income Tax.

A New American Church, St Paul's within the
Walls, was consecrated in Rome en Saturday by the Bishop of
Long Island, who came to Europe expressly to perform the
ceremony. The edifice has accommodation for about 700 per-
sons, was designed by Mr. Street, and has been erected at a
cost of 700,000 francs (S 28,000
Some time since the Liverpool Presbytery deter.
mined, by a system of house to house visitation, to ascertain
the number of lapsed Presbyterians in Liverpool. The result
of their inquiries, so fez incomplete, was submitted to the
Presbytery on Monday, showing that in Liverpool there were
nearly 3,000 families who can only be termed casual church-
goers.
A telegram from Washington says that the American
Iron and Steel Association has sent a memorial to the Ways
anZ Means Committee protesting against a reduction of the
duties on iron and steel. The memorial says that one half
of the furnaces and rolling mills of the country are idle, and
the prices of iron lower than before the war.
There is in Paris an exhibition of industrious fleas.
A few days ago the performance was just over and the
minute actors and actresses had returned, to their green-
room—a sheet of paper placed over a basin of warm water—
when sudden death overtook them in consequence of the
water having been unduly heated. Three of the best
artistes in the company perished on this unfortunate occa-
sion.

The lock-out of operative painters at Huddersfield
has terminated, the men having agreed to accept the masters'
offer of 80. per hour as the ordinary rate of wages, superior
and inferior workmen to be paid as may be agreed upon be-
tween master and man.

The history of the discovery of the Apollinaris water '
is curious. A certain vineyard owner near the Rhine found
that his vines died in a most unazcountable manner. 1
Examining the soil, he discovered that it was full of carbonic '
acid, and, tracing this to its source, he came at last to a
spring full of water highly impregnated with this gas. That
spring made his fortune, and thus wine was turned into
water with highly satisfactory results.

Austria and the Austrians are avowedly poor, and
the commercial crisis of 1873 did much to make them poorer.
Still, while they are talking of going round with the hat to
the other Powers for the expenses they have been put to in
sustaining the HerzegovLoian refugees, their nobles contrive
to keep up a Royal State if we are to judge from a tradesman's
announcement that he has just executed an order for two
footmen's hats at £3O apiece, and two mounted canes at £l5O
the pair.—Court, Journal.
At a court of inquiry held at Whydah on the 23rd
of last month, it was reselved that the King of Dahomey
should be heavily fined for the outrages lately committed by
his subjects against Englishmen, three months being ivan
him in which to pay the fine imposed, a blockade being
threatened in the event of non-payment at the proper time.
This course of action, which has been taken by Commodore
Sir William Hewett, has been greatly applauded by the
European community at Whydah.
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The Agricultural Society of France has Just closed
its annual conference at Paris. This association, which was
founded on the basis of similar bodies in Ragland in 186
now counts over 3,000 members, and has its ramifications all
through France. The session of 1876, which was presided
over by M. DrJnyn de Lhuys, has been a useful one, although
it has presented no feature of unusual interest.
The sbip Northern Monarch, 1,200 tons, Captain _
Garden, chartered by Messrs. J. Patton, Jan., and Co., to the /
Agent-General for South Australia, sailed from Plymouth
on Saturday for Port Adelaide, vdth 404 emigrants, com-
prising married and single agricultural and other labourers,
mechanics of various trades, and single female domestie
servants, the latter uider the special charge of the matron,
Mrs. Rogers. Dr. William Body Is surgeon-superintendent.
Some idea of the recent tornado that passed over
France may be gathered from the fact that no fewer than
30,000 trees were blown down in the Forest of CompMgne, a
part of which belongs to the Duc d'Aninale. Gaps WO yards
wide and 1,000 yards long have been made In the old forest.
The damage is estimated at over a million francs.
In many part of Normandy a third of the apple trees
have been destroyed, and the damage will take years to
repair.
At the Colonial Office, last Friday afternoon, Lord
Carnarvon received the Rev. H. Pahtahquahong Chase,
Hereditary Chief of the Ojebwaya and President of the Grand
Indian Council of the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Mr.
Chase, who was accompanied by Mr. S. Gamey, President of
the Aborigines' Protection Society, Mr. Chesson, and Mr.
Froome Talfourd, formerly Superintendent of the Indian
tribes in the Western district of Ontario, briefly addressed
his Lordship on the condition and prospects of his people.
Lord Carnarvon, in reply, expressed in emphatic terms the
interest which the Imperial Government felt in the welfare
of the Indian subjects of the Queen in British North
America.