The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-09-02 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

A wedding in a balloon, with a bridal trip among
the clouds, was one of the attractions at Indianapolis on the
4th of July.
Silk cultivation by ladies has lately been suggested
as a lucrative employment. _

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"The individual who writes to know if soldiers
sleep on their nap-sacks, Is informed that the matter Is quite
beyond our camplehension.°—/run.
Most of the North Wales colliers who struck in con-
sequence of a 10 per cent. reduction have resnmed work at
the reduced rate. A general resumption of work is anti.
cipated.
It ie estimated that upwards of 25,000 persons
visited Wrexham during the Eisteddfod week. The surplus
of receipts over expenditure of the national gathering Ls to
be devoted to the University College of Wales.
The New York correspondent of The Times says that
200 stoomumens have sailed from that city for isnow on
board the steamer State of Ponosyloinio,, to work for a
Scotch builder. This movement in the labour market attracts
much notice in New York.

The steamer C. F. Punch, Captain Knudsen, of the
Whits Cross Line, bound from New York for Antwerp, Sock
fire on l'hursday night In last week lu the waters of Iltishing.
The passengers and crew were saved, but the greater part of
the vessel and nearly the whole of the cargo, consisting of
tckbacoo, bacon, &c, was destroyed. The loss is ests.tod at
8,000,060f.' which is covered by insuranoes at Paris, New
York, Loudon and Antwerp. The steamer was built in 1871
in Eopiand, aud was ol 170 horse power and 1,000 tons
burden.

A settlement has been effected in the dispute between
the operative builders' labourers at Bristol and the Federated
Association of the E.nployers of Labour. Twelve huLdred men
struck work on the 7th inst. for an advance of three farthings
an hour, making the minimum wages bid. per hour. On Satur-
day an understanding was come to for the acceptance of a
halfpenny advance, and thus the strike terminates.

Gairriani states that the committee appointed to
decide on the question of the Tuileries has come to a
definitive resolution. The calcined remains of the Palace
will be removed, but all that can be Lived of the central
pavilion will be preserved. Galleries will be built to counirt
the three pavilions with each other; they are to have a single
story, wialkh will be us,d as a museum, ad are to be carried
over arcades, which will serve as a Imbue promenade in bad
weather.

An alarming accident °ceased at the Stanley incline
on the North Eattern itailway, at Comet', on Tuenday. Two
sets of waggons were about to pats each other' and one ran
Into a number of cattle which had strayed on to the railway.
some of tho wa.44gona were thrown on the rails and, the wild
rope having been brok mg en by the jerk, the others ran down
the incline and dashed into another lot. An old woman who
had been riding on the buffer of ens of the sets was found
cut to pieces. Three of toe cattle were killed.
In London last week 2,616 births and 1,370 deaths
were registered, the former having been 8.39 air,ve, and the
letter 148 below the average numbers. The death. Included
10 from aniall.pox, 10 from measles, 57 from scarlet fever, 8
from diptheria, 21 from whooping-cough, 16 from different
forms of fever, and 198 from di:rases ; thus to the seven
principal diseases of the symotic class 1119 deaths were re-
ferred, against numbers declining from 669 to sn in the
four preceding weeks. These 8,9 deaths were 116
below the corrected average number from the same diseases
In the corresponding week of the last ten jean, and were
equal to an annual rate of Al per 1,000. The deaths re-
ferred to small-pox, measles, whooping-cough, and fever
were coasts:loran), !r)low,ftesyips.o tyros
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A sum of £222,661 04. 9il was produced in the hist
finandal year by commission on money orders.
The Christian Globe is authorised to deny emphatically
the widespread rum mu that there has been a financial quarrel
between Messrs. Moody and Sankey.
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&sten—No positive Information, but fear it is
correct. Can I meet you, en route, anywhere 7—Advertise-
ment in The Time:

The ret income from stamps on probates and
L ninistradcns in th 6 year ended the 31st of March was
A 2cl.

Mr. SALrfreon writes to a gentleman in Glasgow
Dv in the eleven days be 'per t In Scotland, " seekin; rest,"
he was asked to preached Jun b 0 times.
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Fcur gentlemen from Halifga and St. John, in a
month's fishing on a Casapedia River near the Bay of
Chalenr, caught, with hook and line, no lees than two tons of
salmon.— Quebec Chronicle.

Mr. Kinnear Clarke, in his paper on "Railways,"
says thst he average speed .4 express trains, including stop-
pages, is from thirty-six to forty-two miles an hour.

The 11.0gistrar-General, in his quarterly return just
issued et,stes that during the past quarter in Cornwall there
were 472 rub.rriages, 2,668 births, and 1,933 deAhs.
The American ship Garnet, of Boston, from New.
castle, witu coals for San Francisco, has been boat oit Cape
Horn. The crew were saved.
Two sergeants in the Spanish army have been found
guilty of nwh treason in connection with the conspiracy in
Navarre, and have been shot.
In the last seven months the value of herringe ex
ported was £12.6,84-2. agaiost i 109,750 last year. To Ger-
many this year, 9,254;4 last year, £63,781.
The 18th annual report of the Lunacy Commissioners
tor Scotland has been tamed; and it shows that the total
number of lunatics in Scotland, of whom the Commissioners
had °Meal cognisance, on January let, 1575, was 11,225, of
whom 8,850 were males and 4,876 females.
We understand that the offer of a hnndred guineas
made by &lady through the School Board of London for a
manual on cookery is now null and void; no work having
been forthcoming fulfilling the conditions which were atlpti-
listed at the time the gilt was cftered —Globe.

The Earl of Mar, a passenger ateather plying on the
Firth of Forth, took tire in Lbith harbour on Monday evening
and was burned to the at q's ee. The shipping in the
harbour was placed in co,,,,,,,ratthi danger, but none of the
vessels caught tire.

At the Leeds Brewsta• Sevions the chief constable
rep nted a decrease of 16 per cbut. In arrests for drunkenness
as compared with the previous year. This he attributed to
declining trade, the wage-eirning classes'havhag less money
to spend.

A man daabing into a railroad telegraph station the
other day exclaimed, " the express train's gone off the big
bridge I" " 16aq killed ? " screamed the bystanders "Not
one, replied the other. It went on at one end aad went off
at the other—just as usual."

Marshal MacMahon has lost his favourite charger,
which mailed him at Reichshofen and Sedan, and which he
has ridden at most of the reviews held at Longchamps since
the war.

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Oa Saturday evening a gentlemanly-lookiug man,
who was one of the passengers on board the Mersey ferry
streamer fircp, jumped overboard and was drownetl. lie
never rose to the surface, and it Ls anpnoted that he must
have been struck by one of the paddles of the steamer.

From telegram; which have been received in Sunder-
land, it is confirmed that the steamer Tunatall, which traded
between Sunderland and the German ports with coals,
foundered shortly after leaving the Elbe. She is supposed
to have struck upon a sunken wreck. The crew took co the
boats, and reached Heligoland in safety. The Tundall
belonged to the Ityhope Coal Company. She was quite a new
vessel and was worth £IS,OOO.

"S. T.—Many thanks for your kind letter of the I
26th. Shall be most happy to see you at any time. You •
have always been very good and kind to me, and my promise
to you shall sever be broken, and every wish of yours
strictly attended to.—Ever yours faithfully." —Advertisement
In The Tinges

Mr. Joseph Arch, the president of the National
Agricultural Labourers' Union, was in a collision on Monday.
The train by which he was travelling from the North to
Leamington came into collision with another passenger train,
and Mr. Arch sustained a severe blow in the head and neck,
through the end of the carriage being forced in.
The number of paupers receiving relief from the
rates in England and Wales at Midsummer, 1278. was
657.815, which is 42,487, or 61 per cent, less than at Lady.
day in the same year. It is 39,227, or 2 6 per cent. less than
at Midsummer., 1275, and as much as 77,977, or 105 per cent.,
less than at Midsummer, 1874.

Mr. Russell Gurney, M.P., speaking at a Sunday
school conference at Southampton, said that as the fate of
the nation twenty year' hence would materially depend upon
the training now given to children in schools, we should
strengthen every influence for good, for it that was not done
no one could tell what would be the result di the straggle
that must come between good and bad.

The Standard says :—" According to calculations
made by the President of the Working Men's Assembly, in
the State of New York, there are in the city of New York
about 101,400 working men. Be fore the panic there were in
constant employment about 86.900, leaving about 15,460 out
of work. At present, however, the number in employment is
only about 64,100, and, consequently, there are 37,350 out of
woi k There are, therefore, 22,850 men out of work more
than before the pant. That is to say, there are now, as
nearly as possible, fife men idle for two before the panic.

On TueEday, at the Liverpool annual Licensing
Session while MI. Henn Bremner, solicitor, was advocating
on beh If of an applicant, he suddenly fell forward uncon-
scious He was removed to a room adjoining the Court, and
upon the arrival of a doctor in a few minutes lite WU found
'to be extinct, the cause of death haying been, sp.parently,
disease o the heart; The deceased, who was 61 years of age,
occupied a prominent position in his profession at Ltver.pool.

The Committee appointed to take steps for abolish-
ing the annual fairs at Wimborne (in passing through one
of which a lady was thrown out of her carriage and killed)
have succeeded in their efforts. The county magistrates of
the Wimborne Petty Sessional Division represented to the
Home Secretary that it wpuld be for the convenience and
advantage el the public that the fairs should be abolished.
The owner d 2 the fair consented to the proposal, and accord-
ingly the Home Secretary has issued an order abolishing the
fairs. This has given great satisfaction to the towaspeople.
Le Sport states that a French thoroughbred mare,
called Milne, by Womereley and alma, travelled he the
course of four days last week, in the south of France, 125
mile* by rail, sixty five miles by road, and won fire races.
Upon the 13th lust she won a SA race at insurance ; upon
the 15th Lust. she was at Targon, where she won a fitt race
and a hurdle-race ; and upon the following day the put man
appearance at 311ramont, where she won a flat race and a
steeplechase.

"The Veiled Beauty" lathe title given to a lady,
who has agreed to be weighed in public on September 4 I
The managers of the affair promise twenty thousand dollarsl
to the lucky party who shall in advance guess the nearest tol
the lady's correct weight. To assist any one in this endeavour
he can purchase a photograph and a statement of particulars
fur one dollar at the °dice, 3)9, Washington-street.—
Ameriean paragraph.
M. Perazzi, a deputy of the Italian Parliament, has
met with a serious accident in making the ascent of Monte
B.osa, accompanied by one guide. They had accomplishedi
ene-thlrd of their journey, when they were surprised by an
avalanche, which swept them for a diatance of 800 yards !
Some other tourists heard their cries and came to the!:
assistruic. They were both severely hurt about the head,
but axe expected to recover.
The death is announced of the Rev, H. Howarth
rector of iit. George's, Hanover-square. The deceased clergy
man was ordained in 1825, and was appointed to the rectory
of St. George's, by the Bishop of London, in 1845. He was
appointed Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen in 1855, and
was formerly Hulsean Lecturer to the University Cam-
briige. The living is in the gift of the Bishop of London,
and the gross income is £l,OOO and a bowie.
From a parliamentary return just issued it appears
that in the middle of the year 1851 the male population of
England aged eighteen and wader twenty•six years of age was
1,829,419, that of Scotland 212,55 J, and that of Ireland,
607,442. In the year ibn the nninber of males between the
same ages had riven in England and Wales to 1,616,226 ; in
Scotland to 2!7,000; but that in Ireland it had cecreased to
858,2E11. These numbers include the army, navy, aud mer-
chant seamen at home and abroad.

Two deaths from hydrophobia were reported in
Scotland daring last week (says the Briti‘h Msdisal
Journal). The first was a young man in the prime of his
life, who succumbed to the disease in the Aberdeen Royal
Infirmary on the 18111, having been bitten by a dog in a rail-
way carriage on the 4th of the present month. The other,
a boy 14 years of age, residing near Bathgate, was bitten by
a dog about two reenths ago, and began, en the 18th ult., to
suffer from nervousness and difficulty of 'wallowing. The
disease rapidly ram its coarse, and he died on the evening of
the leth, after severe suffering.
On Tuesday night, near Holy Town, on the Cale-
donian Railway, the axle of a waggon forming part of a
goods train broke. A portion of the goods train was thrown
across the otter line, and, unfortunately, the mail from Car.
lisle came up immediately afterwards and ran into the
waggons. The engine,and tender of the mall train were
thrown across both lines. blocking Ahem, and thowh the
driver and fireman jumped off they were both injured.
Several ladies and two boys who were riding in a composite
carriage next to the tender were raore or less severely hurt.
Regarding the state of the Sultan's health, the
Vienna Politisehe Correspondent of Saturday reports that the
chances of its restoration diminish daily, and that his Mini-
sters are seriously considering the question of the accession
to the throne of Abdul flamid, who has already placed him-
self in direct communioation with the powers, and notably
with Austria, in order to prepare the way for a general under.
'tending on the pending questions. This step, adds the
Vienna journal, has been favourably received by all the
Powers.

A most useful application of the electric light has
been made on the French Transatlantic Company's steamer
Amerique A lamp fixed about thirty feet above the water
gives a light extending to ten miles, which is much more
than sufflolent be guard against collision or other mishap The
light is useful, too, in steering in and out of port, and during
loading operations carried en at night The neceuary
apparatus is said to be non-expensive, easily managed, not
liable to get out of order, and to occupy little room.
The Peruvian Government (the Philadelphia Public
Ledger says), Judas her guano supplies were threatening to
, tun out at no great distance of time in the future, announces
'dbooverfes of new supplies, for which a reward was some
time ago offered. The newly found deposits are on the coast,
In the province of Tarspaca, and about thirteen miles south
of the roadstead of Ponta Grande. They are contained in a
number of ravines, terminating in a valley, and are thought
to aggregate at least three millions of tons.
Doubts having arisen as to whether a soldier in uni-
form is required to remove his cap in a police court or other
civil tribunal, attention has been drawn to an order issued
from the Horse Guards in Mien, wherein the Duke of Cam-
bridge Intimates that "In the regulations of the service a
soldier is required to wear his cap at oourtreartial, but as
the contrary usage prevails in civil life the Field Marshal
Commanding in Chief directs that In appearing before a
magistrate a soldier not under arms shall remove his cap.':
The Prince of Wales has manifested his approbation
of the admirable arrangements made for his journey from
r of the London,
India by presenting Mr. Knight, the manege .t
Portsmouth to London on the ocsion of his return from
Brighton, and South Coast Railway,
ot himself and Princess of Wales.
with a felLsized portrait
"The number of distinguished persons killed by the
is. continue, t will be impos-
alarming, and should the mae
pmoretietd diteadlitihPa
French papers and then brought to life again Is becoming
impos-
sible soon to bellevine inAn2a:
polyte de Tooqueville, the h brother of the eelebrated antlior
of "Democracy ria:yoanwnuounroee
other night, turns out to be recovering from his illness."—
Paris Correspondent of the stm/Piant
American Journalists are more noted for energy
than delicacy, and their Won display of zeal savours some-
what ot bad taste. Commodore Vanderbilt, the well-known
stesmboat owner, was supposed to be in a dying condition at
New Turk, and at two ~m. one moaning, thirty-five re-
porters we'ted outside for the news o, hit decease, anxious
to carry the first intelligence to their reepeetive journals.
They had rsrenged with a st.rvant to display nom the window
^. red skirt if the sick men was dying, and a white skirt if he
dle.l . The o.,mmodore, however, rallied, and the thirty-five
reporters had to return without witnessing the expected

-In Lordoo, on Saturday last Dr. Diplock opened au
inquiry at 4, rowis square, Kensington, into the circum-
aldetill attending the death of Soainas Harks, aged 17,
a student at he college of Mr. Wren, of Pow's-square
William Hart, footman, in the employ of Mr. Wren. said the
deceased had bea studying for the Indian Civil Service. On
Thursday morning he was in No. 9 room, at the top of the
house, and deceasod was amusing himself by stepping out of
the window on to the ledge outside, which wu only a foot in
breadth. While there he thrJw his slipper at witness, who
threw it back and then quitted the room. He had hardly
got doirustairs when he heard that the deceased had fallen
Into the garden--a distant). of &Oft —and was dead. The
decesuied had been In the habit of going from one room $0
another by means of the ledge, although witness had r&
peatedly warned him of the risk he an. The Jury return."
it verdict of "Accidental Death."

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Mr. Moody's sermons have lately been translated
Into Malaguis.

Saturday (261 h was the anniversary of the birth of
the late Prince Consort, when Prince Leopold met a nume-
rous assemblage at the Obelisk, near Bahuoral, and all drank
to the memory of the decescel

The medical examiner of a prominent life insurance
company says he has to turn away thr-e-f,urtlis of his appli-
csnts who excel in ashletic exercisoa, because they have
dangerously strained the organs of the heart.
The Excise duty on tobacco licenses in the year
ending the 31st of March, according to a Parliamentary
document Jost published, realizEd £86,413 4s. 7}d.
From an official document it appears that in the
late Stadion, 81 public, 234 local, and 2 private Acts were
vaned. In the Session of 1875 the numbers were respectively
96, 215, and 7.
The ditty on carriages in the year ending the 31st of
March amounted to £551,139 ; it Is abolished on horses.
On Monday, in Duke street, Edinburgh, there was
a serious exploit on of beunline on tLe premises of a glove
and feather cleaner. Two women as,idtants were severely
burt, and the premises were considerably damaged.
The importation of clocks increased in number for
the diet seven months of last year from 295.508 to 360,171
this year. The declared value in 1875 was £212,918, aLd this "
year £214,631.
There has tbis year been a-decresee in the weight
and value of literature exported The weight was 43 116 cwt.
against 41,518, and the value £464,421 age' nst £180,678.
Captain Boyton has met with an accident on a
tourney he has been making, in his life-saving dress, down
tne Danube frcm "Genoa to Ped.h. Jo the neighboarhool of
presburg he came in contact with a mill in the stream, and
wee wounded in the heats, and had to give up the journey.
A defendant, who was not familiar with the multi.
tude of words which the law employs to make a very trifling
Charge, after vainly listening awhile to the reading of the
Indictment, lumped up and said, "Them 'ere allegations is
false, and that 'ere allegator knows it."

An inquest has been held in London, at St. Thomas's
Hospital, on the body of Mies Emma Franks, of 81, Bruns-
wick-street, Blacgfriars. The deceased, when reaching an
article from the mantelshelf, set her muslin dress on fire, and
was so severely burnt that he died in great agony at the
hospital the same evening. Verdict, "Accidental Death."
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The "flying machine," invented by Mr. Stott, of
Dover. Is nearly completed, and an ascent will be made the
first week in October. The machine weighs 2)011). and is
designed to &any two man. Mr. Stott's programme is to
start from the sea front, fly direct to Cedais, pass round the
14h:house, and be back inDoVer in forty minutes.
Eighteen of the men injured by the explosion on-
board the Thunderer—Engineer Week, who evinced such
great courage, being amongst the number—snd nearly four
hundred persons either working on board the Thundere, or
their relatives, held a thanksgiving tea meeting and service
at Portamonth last Saturday.
Under the auspisee of the Liverpool Working Men's
Reform Astoclation a largely attended meeting was held in
that town on Saturday evening to express indignation at the
Bulgarian massacres. Resolutions were pa,sed declaring
that no satisfactory solution of the Eastern Question would
be arrived at unless self-government were secured to the
Christian provinces, and calling for prompt action on the
part of the British Cabinet.

A monument by Weekes has been erected to the
east of the presbytery in W,nitiester Cathedral to the
memory of Bishop Sumner. It is a full length, recumbent
effigy of the bishop, chiselled in wh!7.3 Carrara marble, the
bishc p being presented as pressing ass open Bible to his breast
and clothed in Episcopal robs., with the mantle of the
Garter. The likeness is a very good one.
Daring the stay of the Emperor of Brazil at Copen-
hagen he made some excursions on the top of an omnibus—
a very seesible ways° see a town thoroughly; and as a proof
that he is a sharp observer it may be mentioned that he at
once asked the reason of the total disappearance of all dogs
in the streets, these poor animals having now been kept in
seclusion several months by an order of the police authorities.
A lad named Card, aged nine years, son of the
South-Eastern Railway station-master at Betchworth, near
Reigate, Surrey, died on Sunday of hydrophobia, after
several days of intense suffering, the malady having shown
itself on the previous Tuesday. The deseased was bitten on
the band, about six weeks since, b a stray dog, which he
found lying at his father's door.
On Friday in last week the Duchess ef Marlborough,
In accordance with her Grace's annual custom, entertain ed all
Blenheim Palace about 1,200 school children of the town of
Woodstock and of the various rural parishes within the
borough, as well as the children from the Union Workhouse.
There were present the clergymen of the several parishes, the
schools teachers, and a number of neighbouring ladies and
gentlemen. After a lengthened repeat the children were
amused with games, swings, poles, races, &c, and toys and
confectionery were soattered by fair hands as prizes for the
more active.

A few nights ago Professor Bell was in communica-
tion with a telegraph operator in New. York, and commenced
experimenting with one of his inventions pertaining to the
transmission of strusical sounds. He made use of his phonetic
organ, and played the tune of "America," and asked the
operator what he heard, "I heard the tune of 'America,"
replied New York; "give us another." Professor Bell then
played " Auld Lang Syne." "What do you hear now r "I
hear the tune of ' Auld Lang Syne,' with the full chords, dis-
tinctly," replied New York. Thus the astonding discovery
has been made that a man can play upon musical instru-
ments In New York, New Orleans, or London, or Paris, and be
heard distinctly in Boston.