The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-11-18 00:00:00

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The nine hours system has been adopted at th
Crown Bottle Works, Leeds.
Two sons of English Lordo are a present studying
for the ministry of the Free Kirk of Scotland.
• The disarmament of the National Guard is progress.
ng very quietly in the French provinces.

M. Thiers is to be invested with the Spanish order
of the Citadel, Fleece.

There was a trades demonstration at Bolton on
Saturday, with the object of starting an agitation to repeal
the new Criminal Law Amendment Act.

A trawling .loop WWI run down in the I hannel, off
Ilynnmth, early MI Saturday morning, and two of her crew
were drowned. It in std.! OA the sloop carried no light.

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In the American papem trips are now advertised
"round the world, 20 mile., iu al days, for 1,145 dollars
In gold."

It is statea that the Queen is steaailv impnning in
hmlth, and it is hoped that Her :Majesty will be able to bear
thc tatigne f a journey south the NL after neat.

'aptain I follanil, of the Cork Steam-ship I 'iimpany'.
steam, MIIIna. dropped dead on aatimlay night immediately
after his arrit al In

Au i g titi fiiriiiture neees.sary in the chnisl in
Baltimore, when the eyiseopal e entiow is in session, are
said to lie .29,s spitt.sins.

in !natty parts of Paris small sulooripti. Ms are being
rab‘ed RuSS isnullus suit neiollaairs in order to send
bouquets to the ElllpreS., on bor./0, day.

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The operative corn millers g 4 Leeds have given
notice that unlais the nine hours system 4 accepted by the
masters, they will cease work.

Of an evening in the Strand, near the Adelphi
Theatre, London, on a large upper window, "dissolving
views" of advertisements are thrown. They attract a
crowd, welch looks upon them as next of kin to a diorama.
A Saturday half-holiday movement among farm-
servants has been inaugurated by Mr. Stephenson, of
Shrockley. near Newcastle-on-Tyne, who, unsolicited, has
granted his farm-servants a halt-holiday once a fortnight.
The following singular announcement appears in the
Prussian Social Democrat- "The shoemaker Lange and hie
wife, of Altona, have been afflicted by the birth of a modern
slave. The slave and mother are doing welt"

The hospital for Englith which Sir R. Wallace in
shout to establish In Parts Is to he called Wnli.oen lies
pitaL" It is estimated that it will cost 700,0Vidt. or eon
struetion, and 150,000 tr. for annual expenses.

The ordinary prison rules are not to be applied in
the ease ot Mr. Piindt, proprietor of the I riA •a, ala, wsi
sentenced to four mouths imprisonment, on Monday, by the
Dublin Commission Court.

Upon the application of the Solicitor. General for
Ireland, the trial .d Kelly on the charge of shooting at the
policeman Mullen with intent to murder him, has Wen post-
poned to the ne,t Commission. A request that the prisoner
might be admitted to bail was refused by the Judges.

Cholera is maid to be increasing In Constantinople,
anti is no longer confined tO the district in which it tirst
appeared. Wears prevail that daring the Ramadan it will
carry ott ninny more victims There had been 33 deaths iii
an English colony consisting of ;Os persons.

The Sacrament WWII dispensed in the parish church
of 4 'rattle on Sunday, mill her Majesty was present during a
portion of the service. Advises from Balmoral state that the
ground has been covured with snow to the depth of several
Inches, while the frost i 3 intense.

" The man who has sent two anonymous letters
about Billy, is requested to send his next communication to
the lady, who thoroughly appreciates hid gentlemanly non-
duct."—Advertisement iii Tlic Titiovs.

A distinguished chrieal gentleman has introduced
the following prayer into his revise.' Litany :—'"that it may
please Thee Go help all literary persons and volition od the
public press, that they may use all their powers in the cause
of truth and righteousness, and rise above the praise and

M Saturday morning a grinding-stone lirnke at the
grinding wheel ‘d Mr. Ruse, Sheffield. The fragments of
the stone were hurled through the windows into the street.
A passer-hy, 111.11voi Dawson, was struck by a piece 14 the
stone, and his hand was almost severed from his wrist :It
was afterwards found necessary to amputate his hand.
Several other petiple hail narrow escapes.

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The London eorresynnient nf the New York Tribune.,
writing to that paper under date of thdolier IS, says : - " No
event within nip recollection has Allred such a sympathy in
gnglarol as the Chicago fire. The news has been received hi
a way that must convince the most incredulous how close,
after all, is the tie of kindred, and w hat areal union of feel-
ing exists between the two countries.“

The following curious Marriage announcement hais
appeared ill a French paper Civil marriage on Tuesday,
November 7th, at the Mairie of the 11th Arrondissement,
Boulevard Voltaire, at a p.m. precisely, between Makin,
Maria Verdure and M. Elie Du...dray. The brethren of
the lodges • IA Prerryance ' anti • La FraterniVr olcii People.'
gee requested to consider this make as an invitation,"

The working men of Paris are packing up their
traps, and are oil in hundreds to new homes beyond the
Atlantic. Foreign agents have taken advantage if the
moral lassitude which the recent events have produced, and
are attacking the manufacturing resources. The workmen
in bronze are especially tempted, and batches of dozens at
a time are Idilding adieu to Fran e.

The Cs twit Times is informed that is me td. the most
influent:a of the Church laity In the diocese of Abenieen
have determined to provide the balance of debt owing upon
St. Mary Church in that city—about £2,00u out of 4.: Mood
expended—on condition that It becomes the Cathedral
Church of the diocese, with dean and MM., guided by
authorised statutes and regulations. The subject Is to be
brought before the synod next autumn.

On Saturday last some of the London Scotti,di were
down at their range at Wimbledon, and after they had
finished shooting they awned thenuielvisi by "putting"
a nilb, shot, when one strong ypnng fellow, while making
a violent etfort, felt something snap in his arm, which be-
came instantly quite useless. Ile won at once taken ill a cult
to a doctor, who found that the upper bone of the arm was
completely fractured, and proceeded at once to Pet tilelinus
thus curiously broken by excessive muscular effort Alone.

A terrible explosion took place between five And Rix
o'clock on Monday morning at the Corporation Gas Works.
New Wortley, near Leeds. It occurred in the proving or
refining house, and was followed by a destructive fire which
lasted two hours. The boiler and engine houses were blown
to the ground, and the dtqpriA was projected to great dis-
tances. One man was killed on the spot ; his bead being
blown off, and the brain and fragments .1 skull scattered his
all directions. Four other men were dangerously injured.
At the Versailles Court-martial on Saturday, it
mune out in evidence bey,,,,, controversy that one of tho
prisoners, accused of complicity in the murder d Generals
Lecomte and Clement Thomas, had been arrested in mistake
for his brother. 'thereupon the President, Cr,! Silbert,
issued his warrant for the arrest of the right man, and at the
genie time, addressing the reporter.' bench, said that "by
virtue it hie discretionary lower" he prohibited them from
making public the mistake which the authorities had made.
The papers g.nerally humbly bowed to this monstrons hi-
junction.
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I.itst week the a.ggregate tnortaa y in Lout kti and 19
other large towns if the United Kingdom was at the rate of
24 deaths annually to every 1,001 persons estimated to be
living. In the metnipolis 2.296 births and 1,365 deaths were
registered, the former having been ese, MO the latter 173,
below the average numbers in the co orresponding week '(the
raoit ten years. Fifty-four persons died from small-pox,
42 frion measles, 32 from searletdever. 5 from diphtheria, 42
from alumping.cough, 45 from different forms of fever :of
which t were certified as typhus, 32 as enteric or typhoid,
PIO 7 as simple continued fever , and 21 from diarrheia.
At the Royal Observatory, I reenwich, the mean temperature
during the week was 39.2, or 5.7 below the average.

A cane of courage in saving life on the part of two
clergymen—one a curate in the Established Church and ti,,
other a Roman Catholic priest—has been rewarded by
the Royal Humane Society by the presentation of Its medal
to lodh gentlemen. The facts are briefly these :—As the
Rev. Mr. Dann, curate of St. Nicholas', irk, was proceeding
front the National Schools to his lodgings on St. tleorgo's
Quay, his attention was called to a woman struggling In the
river, and excited crowds on both sides. Mr. Dann, Im-
:hut:lately divested himself of his outer clothes, and having
left them with lila watch and money in charge of some
wines on the Imo% limited into the water and swain across
to where the woman (who was afterwards identified as
Hannah Cried% an escaped lunatic) was floating. on his
near approach to her a clergyman belonging to Charlotte
Quay Catholic Chapel also plunged into the river, and by
their conjoint efforts she was taken Oh shore and placed in
safety