The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-01 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

ERITISII AND FOREIGN.

It i aim:mord 1114 Lord Robert Montague has
become a Chnal Catholic.
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Her Majesty the Queen hopes to be in England by
the lint week to vember.

The Court Circular of WedneEday, in last week,
colanawl of the following announcement:—' Prfoce Aniwir
went out deer stalking "

No fewer then ten eves of violent account. lee 311
women were before the metropolitan police-courts on Tuer-
day.
Idr. Cardwell boa been making a perennial inapec-
tion of tho &farces of Harwich with a view to their im-
provement.
The announcement of a nes. novel.by Lord Lytton
has excited a great demand for early sheets among America:,
pnblisherL Oue Louse ia said to have offered L5OO for tnetn
In reference to the rumours which have been cur-
Teat that there is at present a rearcity of seamen for the
Royal Bane, we (PaliMolf Gazette, are enabled to state upon
authority that if necessary, there would be no dirdeulty
manning five additional Mountain!.
Admiral ronriehon, the new French Minister of
Marine, has given directions that the Imperial yachts Prince
Imperial, Prince Je•orne, Empresa Eugttid, Jerome IV non-
iron, and Queen Hortense shall henceforth be called the
Jupiter, Roche, Turritte, Dessair, and Finer.
His Highness the .N eveall Nazim of Mental arrived
at the Great Western lintel, Birmingham, on Monday,
accempanied by Prince All K udr, FrOace Soleiman Rude, and
a numerous suite.
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The Empress Eacenie and the Prince Imperial left
the Madre Hotel at Hastings, on Saturday, for Camden
Mouse, Chtslehurst. which hes I,een taken fur the temporary
occupation of her Imperial Majesty.
The Rev. C. Maurice, rector of Ramplaztt, near
Northleach, Gloucestershire, mu drowned at Lowestoll,
while bathing opposite the Well'ngton Esplanade, on Sala,
day morning.
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It is stated *hat an order haa been issucd to the r ect
that no litte-s attar...zed to •. hiaplison lii, tt ilheintshohe,"
wfil he deliver. 1. The reason for ibis intas ire je held to he
that since the Emperor's arrival there near)) 603 letters have
been sent to him, nearly all 01 which conta.ned tit ,aer &bulls
or demands tor pecunlary ataistsuce.
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Tbe either. of Indiana con now boast of being free
from pnble tht, as the Trtasnrer and his haukeM ore
ready to take op the few ismaining outstanding bonds of
the State, whether of the old debt or of the war debt of
1862-63.
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A veteran died t Sheffield last week named John
Elliott. He entered the navy at eleven year,. ol I, an fonait
all through the naval caropelgn, which terminated at Ira-
falser. with Nelson Some yearii after be entered th- array,
and served under Sir Colin Campbell. lie was eighty yiera
old, having had a pension for fortyddx years.
At a meeting of the local committee ander the
Cattle laseaaas %Animals Act, held at the county magis-
trates' aloe, Both, on Ssturda), Mr. Superintendent Morgan
reported that foot and mouth diseese existed at Fresh! orl
and Norton Bt. Philip's. Measures were directed to be
taken for preventing the spread of the disease.

A circular. bearing date the 24th Sept, bar just been
healed from the tostom.houte, Lo-don, to the several ports
of the Kingdom notifying the repeal of the last paragraph f
section 3. and the whole of section 4, of the Order in Council
In the 22nd Jane, lead, relating to the movement of
Spanish aud Portuguese cattle, dse. The free and unrestricted
transport of cattle netween England aud Ireland it now ter-
misted, even though they may have bean originally hop .rted
from Spain or Portugal
The moat noteworthy incident connected with the
proceedings of the Social Scienee Congress, at Newcastle, on
Saturday, was a letter from Earl Russell on the sul Joel of
cmtreand of war. The veteran statesman eknre.se• his non-
currenee with the doctrine laid down by President Washing.
ton. Ms opinion was that troops drilled and organized,
and shins armed and Trimmed, might not to be allowed by
neutrals to leave their shores for the prirpo.e of alibiing
either belligerent, but beyond this he would not go.
The regulations recently ironed by the War Office on
the subj.:et of enlistment in the army seem to hare thrown
an obstacle in the way of the recruiting rergeints Out of the
20 000 men authorised to he raised by Parlitment, less than
9,000 have, it is sant, been obtained. Candidates desire to
know to what branch of the service they wonl,l Ire atiLebed,
and hesitate to join ndd.r a system by which they ninY he
drafted tea regiment of which they do not approve.
Dr. Cumming is in good spirits. He triumphantly
pointy to the heartrending events that have lately occurred
as a convincing proof of his pr.:diction,. There can no
longer, he maintain., be ai;) doubt in the face of the occu-
pation of flume by the Italians as to who is the " beset ; "
and then he art, what has boedme if the "keeper of the
beast," meaning the Emperor, who, it seem., occupied this
Imperio zoological position In the isorld'a history.— Pull Mull
Gazelle. .

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The Easiern Budget statce that the first civil mar-
riage to V mons took Wsoe on the 16th inst The bridegroom
was the editor of • Viecoopopee, and both h. and the bride
declared to the magistrate that they prOlbitie.i DO tp1,111,1 creed,
anti were theiefore desirous of availing themselves tel the pri-
vilege of twis6 merited without too Intervention of a pr,est,
under the tow loot. After the ceremony, till inidegroom
thanked the magistrate in a sheet spLuen aud gave tome
0101,0 y for the pJor.hoz.
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The New York Timis pnblighes the following strange
despatch from Halifax, dated September ft:—' Captain
Raels, of the German barque /kr/noun, arrived here on Wed-
nesday in atoll toner, and reported that his vessel had suffered
so much in a g de that he had abandoned I,er, and she sank
soon afterward,: Yesterday an Amerman fishing vessel
brought the Hermann Into port with several holes bored in
her bottom. eantam litaetz went to the woods and hanged
himself on hearim the circumetance. Be also toot poison.
Toe crew of tlie ihrmann have been &nested. she had •
cargo of coal for Boston."
A Jersey c,rrespondent writes that the arrival of
French refugees In that island continues without intermll-
- Mon, the packets from St. Male and Granville bringing ov,r
large numbers, erpecially from the lattter port. Above WO
persons arrived by the last two trips of the packet from
Granville. Nearly all ~ppear to be of the well-to-do chum .
The Deipa,..it from Granvil:e on If onthy brought ewer
thirteen hones, a portion of the stud of a farce breeder at
tarn, the bones I wing tent away to prevei,i their falling ICC
the hands of the PitieSishs. Persons have b,,en in the d
securing accommodation for a I.ags Dumber of valuable
horses, saki to belong to the Government, with a view of
preserving them from the enemy.

Among the Lied items of colonial intelligence CO
statement that the people at the Gape are troubled with •
few fanatics who have introduced Ilormonism into Africa.
A Brugge's journal recommends ail Catholic. to Mau
petitions to their respictive Governments, calling on them
not to recognise what has taken place in Italy. and to issue
combined manisesto agatnst the annexation of Rome.
Sir J. Young, the Governor-Gen-al of Comado. in, it'
is said, to he created a peer, and will take the title of Baron
Liegar, of Mager and Itaillieborough, county Oman.
Her Majesty the Queen haa, it is maid, within the
last few days addrealeil e letter I. the Empres•
expressive of sympathy with her in bar mislortunes.
The Rev. Robert Moff.ltt, the veteran missionary in
South Atria, has statsd in an address at Mashes:sr, that
he enteriama no fear of the safety of lit' Livingstone. The
doctor is married to Kr. Molt att's daughter.
It is said that Mr. George 0 'ger was arrested on his
return from Paris as a rrionian spy, but that after a tomP"-
racy delay at Oissel on the Seine, he was release I not much
the Worse.

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Tne death of Mr, John Braithwaite, civil engine er,
has been announced. From the earihrt formation of rail.
ways he has been engaged In their conetraction, both in
England and on the Continent. lie was seventy three year'
of age.
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The Boston Journal of the 3rd instant says: Mum
A. P. Ladd, of Auguste,' alai e. bas been appointed by the
Governor and Council, a Justice of the Peace and Quorum.
This Is believed to be the find appointment of a lady to this
oflice In New England.
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Garibaldi is virtually a prisoner in Captors, and in
prevented from going to France. Thu • 111 confirmed by an
extract from a letter written by the general, and published
In the Diritte, in which he speaks of himself an imprisouird
by the Government of Florence.

The monthly return Of the Poor Law Boar. show.%
that at the end of July the number of persona in receipt of
relief from the mt.,. In England. and Wales, which at this
aevion of the year to little over 950,000, was not quite 1 per
cent, more than at the corresponding period of Pah.

The prosecution of Thomas and Elizabeth Saville,
two members of • sect c.dled The Peculiar People," at the
Central Criminal Court, has broken down. The medical' tee-
timony Pilling to prove that the child'. lile would have been
saved bad certain remed,es been applied, the judge ruled
that there was no case against the prisoners.
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The coroner's inquiry mto the circninistanCea tinder
which the accident occurred to the Irish Mall train on the
14th of September. by which teveral lives were lost, was
brought to a conclusion on Saturday. Too evidence was
very voluminous, and the jury had some little Mtheulty in
coming toe decision. Ultimately the• returned a verdict of
manslaughter agaluat Alfred Evans, the William.,
The Cathedral in San Salvad w• narrowly eseapel
destruction hy tire on the 24th of July. whom durier tho
ealenration of the feast oi •• smestra Sonora del Carmen "
the imare of that Saint caught nre The Seines extended to
surrounding ornaments, and it was only dne to the strenuous
exertiom alike worshippen that the building was not totally
destroyed.
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It is evident that we have a good deal to learn as to
the proper diiionial of sewage, and that much caution
must re exercised in acilng open the recommendations of
the Royal Commiulon The Lancet asserts that a very fatal
disease has shown itself among cattle deinstnred on sewage-
irrigated laud. The appearances indicate what is known
among veterinary 61.11.2.1111 as seismic apoplex)—a malady
due to as excessive supply of stimulating load.
The prevalence of disease among the cattle in some
districts of Ireland is causing considerside anxiety to the
agricultural classes and a• the Government. lit. especially
the more serious now on the scoot the great (Maher fair of
Ballinssloe, at which many thousands of all kinds of stock
are congregated.
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To moat people probably the news that Margaret
Waters, baby-former, bar been sentenced to be hanged wlll
he more or ken of a surprise. . . Era we shall be ever.
more surprored than pleased if it I. followed by the general
cultrvation of a totting that murder Is murder, whether it be
perpetrated by the mother to avoid disgrace, or by • raby-
farmer to raj, money. Meanwhile, the result of this trial
must have good results.
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Mr. Amer, of Lincoba'sdnu•gate, has just published
the Illemeutary Education Act of this year, with a popular
analysis and coptoua index by Mr. l'artmaa Preston, who,
without going tote any great detail, his here produced a
work which toss useful as It to cheap. round XI cloth, and
published at a coat of only Is. 61., this volumc of 150 pages
should he in the hands or ev,..ry clergyman and of all who
take an Interest in the question of education.

Eveute have moved rapidly at Itome. General
Cadorns has nominated e-ghteen citizens to form &Provisional
o Aernment and at the first meeting of the members on
Ssturday addressed them in these terms You are ceded
to fulfil • sublime tack The 2015 of September marks a great
epoch in your mission, and inaugurates anew era in Italian
unity, which. when finally completed, sill constitute Rome
again the capital of the kingdom. God manifestly blase.
hely." _

A shocking Accident occurred on the London and
Brighton Railway last SAturday 'corning. A soldier, nitwit
Robert &slickly, who had juit served a sentence of twr
months' hard labour for robbery, was being taken, in te
charge of a notncomruistioned Miner, to l'ortarbouth to joll.
his regiment. On the road lie got drunk and hp° M.
train wac travelling at the rate of forty miles an hour. ha
lieJlt to look out of the earrisge-wietiow, when the door Sew
open ; he fell upon the tulle, and was picked up dead.

Sir Lydston Newman having determined to give up
breeding horses, his entire stud of brood ruarca and foah,
earlings, and stallions, was brought to the hammer by
Messrs Tattersall, at East Acton Stud Farm, mm tratermtm-t
and there being no reserve except in one instance—the
stallion Sundaelab—everything was sold with the exception
of this horse and Crater, for which there was no bid. Prices
ruled very low, the fifty lett sold making ord) d,Lul guineu,
or an average of 40 guineas.
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An inque6t has; been held on the body of Mr.
Dickenson, cotton broker, of Liverpool and lltalmine. The
deceased resided at the latter place, and n Thursday to last
week woo out shooting While going round • pond in pur-
suit o! • w.ster.hen it to supposed that he wa, trading his gun,
the trigger t,f which woo caught by • twig The fowling-piece
exploded, ard the left aide of the bead and face of the unfor-
tunate man was horrihly shattered. hurg,cal aid wee pro-
cured as soon an pi:dilate, but he died the same night, leash g
a widow 5... d five cidihiren. The jary re‘unied a verdict to
accordance with the.,
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A new description of parachute shell, by means of
aniell every COlllititlat.le °Mond of country am he effectively
lighted up to enable to operatiors of troops at night
La Lac nne discernible, waa tried at Chatham the other
evening, under very satisfactory conditions. Three of the
shells were fired to a great height, from one of the seigu
gnus slanted witkin trince licury's bastion; when at ad
altitude of upwar,la of bOO fee; they exploded, and a par,
chute descended, from which war am winded a vessel con-
taining a magnesium light of great briulancy, hich Il4lited
up the whole extent of Chatham liner the noire of troops
scattered about which were plainly discerulble fr.= all beets
ei the garrisor.
Some eh' -rt time elnee Lient.nant-Col,nei Palmer,
of I'aging, uffercd her idajest3'. Secretary of State for War,
to raise a body of V:lantears to work a battery, or half a
battery of mitrailleures. This offer was respectfully declined;
but It is understood that the tight hon gentleman content-
rising following tee trample t hie Majesty the Emperor of
ltra,ia, and to came a lightly-canstructed mitraillense to he
attached to every company of infantry in her :Majoaty's ser-
vice, and one to each of the gaols throughout the country
Writs defence in the time of need.

Admiral Kelly, who died three yeazs ago, left by bin
will a large sum of money supposed to amount to upwards
of £lOO,OO, to foucel college in Devonshire for the primary
enticsiltn of naval dicers sons. The will has been toe
subject of litigation. and has been brought within the juris.
dtcuon of the Chatty Commissioners, who in turn pasted it
over to the Etetivred Schools Domudision. The relatives
threatened Chancery pr.ccedhms, but arrangements have
just beta come to by which en turtheropposltlon bin rowed,
suni it is stated to ho almost certain that the college trustees
will accept Of e offer of the Lake of Redford to give a mag-
nificent site for a college it Tavistock, sod £5 000 towards
the cost of its erection. It Is also said that the Tarlitock
Gremosar School will be merged into the new college.