The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-10-02 00:00:00

A white bear in the Zoolorical Garden of Florence
which had for long time pest been ettilm lug from the It,
hes been destroyed by a dose of forty grallimell of sulphava
of stallolulins.
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Th-e wife of a Lonbon policemen has given birth to
three children. Steps aro Lit g taken with a view of obtain-
fig the donation of three pounds from the Privy purse,
usually granted by Loyal favour hi such cases.
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Among the peamengere who left Southampton for the
United States, on Saturday. in the steamer Alitim.,re, 1, as
Mr Jefferson Davis, the tate I reaalent 4.t the Souttura

The Prince of Wales has intimated hie intention of
diseontietting to keep the aplendlii pack of Royal harriers
which have for years afforded so much sport to the residents
and agriculturists in the Windsor districts, as well es the
illustrioua rhators who have from time to time been the
guests of her Majesty at Windsor Castle. The unexpected
and most unwelcome announcement has caused touch dis-
appointment to lovers of the chase, and is calculated to have
an injurious effect upon the neighbourhood.
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An old man named Rothschild has recently died in
the Jews' Hospital at Vienna, aged 94. It was most probably
an assumed name, as he fancied that he was the head of tie
fatally. I:Coated:tilde do not as a rule die paupers.

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Blondin has commenced a series -of afternoon per-
formance. at the Cr3stal tattoo. Ile carries a man over the
rope while tiring a needle-gun, and goes though all his most
marvellous feats.

The Archbishop of York has taken the first formal
step in the Chancery Court of Yoi k sgalust the Rev. Charles
Volley for heresy contained in his published sermon.
Mr. Barber, who for fourteen years had served as
military surgeon In India and the Matiritill3, beim; lately pot
on half-pay, became low-spirited. A tow days ago ho
poisoned hiiuself with chloroform and laudanum at Lira.
combs.

Mr. Udale Thompson, an elderly gentleman, visiting
at Clifthu, at eleven o'clock on Wedkies,lay morning blew lots
brains out in the lobby of the National Provincial Bank,
Bristol. Ile was well off, and 110 cause is known for the act.
Nineteen trisoners escaped last week from Nicosia,
In Sicily. The sentinel, perceiving the evasion, fired, killing
one, and wounding a second in the arm. The troops, having
been set on the track of the fugitives, seized on five, and two
days after four came and surrendered. Two keepers of the
prison have been arrested under suspicion of eicutlicity.
The directors of the Lancashire and Yorkshire
Railway Company bare deemed it expedient to address a
temperance circular to the "stationmasters, inspectors,
guards, porters, polutsmen, dm." employed on their line.
Some of the station-mastars and inspectors, It is stated,
" are Mt unfrequently to be seen on duty the worse for
liquor."
Mr. Councillor Willcock, of Wolverhatnpion, in his
capacity as guardian of the poor, has just done a useful
service to the union boys, by obtaining the consent of the
board to the establishment of a brass band in the UniOn
schools. On the authority of Mr. Tufnell, an eilicient school
inspector, 111, said that the establishment of such bands in
union acboola has been very fruitful of good results.
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On Monday, the chargedsheets at the Liverpool
Police Court had upon them the names of no fewer than 240
persons who had been booked for being drunk and disorderly
—the largest number aver known at the court.
Captain Lambert, who is to appear to give evidence
against his assailant, Itarrett, at the Special Commisaion
Galway was escorted into that town from the tram by a
guard of constabulary. Policemen are placed as sentineh
day and night on the house In which he is stopping. When
he walked through the town he was accompanied by
three policemen, one in front of him and two behind.
"The Americans take in good part their defeat in
the great boat race. There la a keen disappointment, of
Bauttree ; but the idea is that it will be tried over again
ome day with better luck. The fair play shown to the
flarvards, and the hearty recognition by the Eiglien Frets
of their pluck and performance, have helped to soothe the
disappohatinent."—Correspondent of Daily Tekgraph.
The dispute as to the ownership of St. Andrew's
Church at Ramsbottom, has reached • crisis. Mr. Grant,
who claims the church as his own private property, has about
eighty men in possession. On Tuesday a formal demand for
admission was made on behalf of the representatives of the
congregation, and, the demand beiiig fruitless, a committee
was appointed to decide upon the course to lie pursued to
regain possession of the church. A great crowd had assem-
bled, but there was no disturbance.
On Tuesday two statues were unveiled in the large
hall of St. George's Ilan, Liverpool, by the mayor. One was
a statue of the Earl of Derby, executed by Mr. Theed, at a
coat of £l,OOO. for the corporation, and the other a statue of
Jueeph Mayer, of Liverpool, executed ni Carrara marble
by Fontana, and placed in the hall by the corporation in com-
memoration of the presentation by Mr. Mayer to the town of
his valuable museum of historical art.
A franchise question of some interest was decided on
today in the Liverpool Revision Court. A claimant to a
vote was objected to on the ground thiit he hail received
money from the overseers for stone breaking The revising
barrister, however, decided that, inasmuch as the money was
p ii,l for work dune, the claimant bad not been in receipt of
sueti pariah relief as would disqualify him from exercising
the franchise. Ills claim was therefore allowed.
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The Irinh Total Abstinence Society having f..rwarded
a memorial to the premier, praying tor the release of the
Fenian prisoners, the right hon. gentleman's private secretary
writes to Buy that, although Mr. Gladstone can in no way
pledge the Government to any particular course, he feels
bound in pudica to reader his testimony to the loyal and he-
corning manner in which the memorialists approach the
ihroue."
Intelligence received at New York nit Havana an-
nounces that several severe shocks of earthquake occurred
at St. Thomas on the 17th inst. No lives were lost, and there
was no serious damage done.
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The John Bull states that the Bishop of Edinburgh
(Dr. Terrott has resigned tie see. The election of his sue-
cessor must take place within five weeks.
Mr. Osborne Morgan, M.P., addressing his consti.
tueuts on Monday, said that in his opinion the law regarding
the tenure of land in Ireland required to be altered in the
direction of fixity of tenure, and no as to secure compensa-
tion for uneshansted improvements.
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Mr. Jacob Bright, in opening a bazaar in aid of
a Methodist Free Church fund, on Tuesday, paid a tribute
to the ifforte which Mesentery had made to furtherine poli-
tical progrese. In all the great political changes ienk,l
formed the landmarks in the history of the past half-cen-
tury, Dissenter, had, he said, Invariably made their intlac one
felt on the right ride. They had watched that no act of
lament should be passed that was not In accordance with
the principles of Christianity. For this they had contended
In the prief, and for this, he believed, they were prepared to
contend in the future.
A militia staff sergeant, named Ellis, committed
collie at Newark, on Monday, by blowing out his brains.
To accomplish this he had tied a piece of tape to the trigger
of his rifle, and then, placleg the muzzle of the weapen
agaleat his left temple, shattered his skull to pieces. 44
late he bad given way to excessive drinking, lie went to
Doncaster races, got drunk there, and found his way to
London, from there to Dover, and from Dover to Calais. He
had no object In this extraordinary trip, and did not n-
cover his SUMS until attacked with sea-sickness. Ellis wee
a married man, with four children.
Dr. Lankester held three inquests in London, on
Monday, on the bodies of infants who hat been found tied up
in bundles, and thrown away in the streets. In one C.ian the
mother, who is a domestic servant, has been discovered, and
is in custody, and the jury found a verdict of "Death from
concealment and want of Willed attendance at birth and by
iniaadveutt.re." In the other eases the verdict was " Whin!
murder against some person or persone unknown."
"The great bulk of the people in Barbi, and indeed
throughout France, have, during the past week, paid very
little heed to coup Wants, canard., or other political sensa-
tional news. The great question has been, and coutumes to
be, the massacre at halal. Even that tragedy has, indi-
rectly, had a comic element in it. The Leceil has hinted, not
Indeed that the Governinent had caused the curler to be
committed, hi order to turn the people's minds from politics,
but that the Empire was responsible for the state of public
morals under which such crimes were possible."—Corrsspond..
eel of London Standard.
A murderous poaching affray is reported from Bide-
ford, North Devon. Early on cuuday morning a gang of four
men armed with guns were seen near the dwellii.g-hoime of
Mr. Turner, of Barton, near Bideford. The gamekeeper, who
was with others watching at the time, chased the men, one
of whom turned round and fired at him. A terrible scuffle
followed, the gamekeeper using his itfe-preserver. Ills an-
tagmthit was eventually captured, and proved to be Monne'
Sparks, a navvy, and a stranger to the neighbourhood ; his
comrades escaped Sparks is In custody on the charge of
poaching and attempting to murder the gamekeeper.
A farmer named Elwiss, living near Doncaster, bass
been committed for trial iy the magistratea of that town for
shooting Henry Hall, a tailor. Hall and another man were
gathering muehroome on Elwiss's farm, and he requested
them to go away. They refused, and Elwin went into the
house, brought out a double-barrelled gun, and said that the
first who touched another mushroom should have the con-
tents of the weapon. Hall gloved down, apparently to
take another mushroom, upon which Elwin fired and saint-
what injured Hall.