The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-04-29 00:00:00

EPITOM.I,....OI,I_IS.EIVLe,

BRITISH AND FOREIGh.

"Knowing men" a-e usually known men—in fact,
mure 'mown than trust.d.—Punch.

A rebider,t ha one of the London districts stated, in
lb." marled mid stogie" column of his ccuus schedule,
that "he hoped to be mottled to s month."

Tae Intkpendanoe Bdge states that the French Am-
bassador in Lltdon hut letarmed St F tyre that pictures
baloutlng to the colic:do tint the Louvre have been tent to
Etaland and sold here by order of the C..uninuue.
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A Birmingham newspaper states that tbe afire., in
that town of the home duty being OVtla up to the local
auth3ntlee will he to make a CiliacllCB to the rake of nearly
4d. In the pound.

ie a strike among the by and girls employed lu
makokg esrtrieges In Woolwich arsenal. In c.msequence of
the War (Mice having reauceil the rate of pay by • ballyeuny
per 1,000

An official contraliction is given to the ststement
%het the Duke of Wslßuston hod left a casket to Pause
Arthur, cut to be opened until his Royal Highness become of
age.

A pupil in the High School at Plea&ld, Maseae.u.
setts, whe loat both of his arme by • railroad accident whoa
a very small boy, manages his bo,,k, mint hie elote, and
wrens bglby with his mouth. lie can SiAd write with his
toes.

" I've made my will to day," said a Bort of Sheridan
papa, to iii. non, "and Inn come down bawlsome. I'vo wilted
on the whole county of Koot to make a living in, with the
privilege of going eleo where if you can do better..

" lusteml of 'Ex lace lucellton,' Mr. Lowe may
adopt as a crest and mot' o commtruoreilve et 1871, a match
smokl-1.; proper and the words 'Et Lucifer, et Luctifer.' The Tones.

A Yorkshire correspondent says that a single grocer
In • town In that uutnty $ lbo tit sot b tars ot lu, {far
nasto.tes to various custcr. era on Saturday morntog In •
atorle hour.

The younz Duki de Llynes, the richest Legitimist
In Fune, wha was killed at the battle of Orlon., at the
head of his battalion, has lett no heirs. His eatate is valued
at ten miliiou franc&

In the first three weeks of the financial year the
Treasury receipt* airountel to £3 627 95i end the expend,
tore to £6,331,798 Of the latter sum more thin £S,6 00,000
IPoo for loterest oa the National Deb:. the lodes.° In the
ha-Alc of El6lan.l o.s S.dorday last was £3 272,796

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The Earl of Dunmore, wh 3, it will be remembered,
met with an ac:ldeutoteme few months back to one of It.
es while out shooting. by which he lost the sight, his
recmtly undergone an operation; and It is feared that Le
wet moat likely lose the sight of hie other eye.
Saivnce of deprivation pronounced again,t the
Rev. Charles Voysey, viesr of lieslaugh, by the Judicial
C mmittke. has to en tatted ft.. the appeal Reguitry, and
will oe forthwith exhibited on the church darns at Ilealsogh,
as wall as served personally on the defendant.
Mies Bartlett Coutts has offered to hand over
CAttinbia Market to the Corporation of L AltUni upon inch
cooditions as will realhe her Intentions In regard to the poor
people of the metropolis. Iliss Burdett Couds has expended
ab £2i0,000 on the market.

Father Irnatius (the Rev. F. Lyne) has nmie
reapearance In London on Sunday, preachtog In St George a
1101. lhare wag a large attendance, although only a few of
the att. loge were tree-53., 2r. 61, and la being charged or
the other,.

"Mr. Lowe evidently made certain of carrying his
Bud;et f,r a eglst,ttrable thut twit the wahine,' 1. the
Stamp Ofiled have been prepar Hg the stamps hr the lueifer-
match boxes of the future. They .111 near the motto—iSz
lace lure Ittaz."—Cioil Sere:ce Gazette.

A "Stationer," in a lettn to The Times, proposes
that the Post °time shou'd charge for the rtutlonery which
thry now ripply to the pubilc gratuitously In thr shape of
pore! cord+. This, as shown by the estimates, would bring
ilu £30,i.00 at once.
The saying of Pinner:l—of "Paris stewiLg in its
own sumo "—was rover mote a fact 1111.ier the rruralan
rersuit, but vcrily Ports ho cooked in Its own Fiance under
the rokirne of the Reds. It Is roils stewing Paris without
any hyperbole.

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Mr. Aurvig, of Stavenger, N>rway, who re-
csived a telescope mm to blittalt o.,vorc.m.mt Si an
sokaowlodement for his services in saving the er,er of the
elyp Canopus, of illart,epool, wrftvs to return 64, grate-
ful thud.n tor the maeran,tot Inurement sent him.

On Saturday morning a storm of iusec's fell in the
neighbourhood et the Midland Railway station at loath, and
a large lumbar remain, d on the platform and were examined
by scientific men dining the day. Tne Insezta descended In
the form eta clutehous drop, about the size of a large pet,
and many of them soon developed Into a worn.-iike chrysalis,
about an inch in length.
A Lumber of counterfeit half•soverelgus have been
presented at the Maitchett, hanks during the last ten dsys.
In c..leur they resemble the genuine coin very closely, mei it
la only by thelightness of weight that their spuriams character
can be detected. The col. bear the date of 1057.

Mr. 'Frewlyan Goodall, eon of a Royal Academician,
ban been accidentally ehot dead with • pistol by hie brother,
Mr. Howard Goodall, in the I land of Capri The deceased
was only twenty-three years of age, the surviving brother
only twenty-cue, both of them young men of great promtse.

At a masa meeting of the operative engineers of
Tyneside, held ou Haturday night, it was resolved that the
time bad arrived wheu the hours ot labour ought to be reduced
to &um per day. A reselutien in favour of the matter lieb.g
referred to arbitrtion was a'so carried, the meeting being de-
oldedly opposed to a strike.

The first case of resistance to the inspectors appointed
under the Educati in Act came before the Manchester city
magistrates on l'usaday. Air. Power, one of the inspectors,
had gone to the house of an Irishman named Walsh, nod
was making inquirirs relative to his means, children, dr: ,
Whoa the defendant exclaimed, " Oh, if it's schooling you're
after, I will give you something," and, taking or the piker,
he throatened to assault him, tut:owing the inspector through
several streets. lie was fined Si.

"It would be ro diffi,ulty for the Imperial Family
to rats, two or tbref, hundred thousend pounds on loan. One
lady Mend alone has offered £30,e00. Bat things have not
come to that pass yet. The business of rebuilding the wrecked
Imperialist craft le beteg pushed Co. and the cruise of oil
doe, not fail. The Emperor, it Is said, is full of hope; but
aupposibg exile tour thefoul result, the Emperor to said to
have saved some £25,000 a year out of the wreck.—Courf
Journal. . . _

An Exetercorreepondent writes :--While Parliament
and the country have been elle tues.ng the question whether a
man may marry to s neze teed wife's Water, a grocer living to
Devonshire hes quietly married his deceased wife's daughter.
100 site In qoestion died about twelve m nths ago, hewn at,
fug to the if. o ter the care of her dauthter by a former
ho bind. the daughter at the Vine verg ng on her fiftieth
year. The husband, oh, is hut self about. fift, Alva years of
age, [incepted the charge, and ban recta.), inatr.el his
prol _Le.
Last week the agjegats mortality in London and
nineteen other large towns of the United K mgdorn was at
the rate of 20 deities annually to every 100,101 the estimated
population. In the metropolis 2 075 births and 1 770 deaths
were registered, the former having been 2614 below, and tie
latter 30 above the average. Zymotic &leases causcd 473
neaths, including 276 from small-pox, 13 from measles 21
from scarlet fever, 4 from diphtherla, 41 from whooping.
cough, 74 from different forme of fever (of rabic 11 were
certified as typhus, IS as enteric or typhoid, and 7 a. simple
continued fever , and 15 from diwThma.

A chocking ecident occurrei at the works of the
Albion Thimine CompsLy, Birmingham, last Saturday. A
min naried Ku wn engaged in potation hatr.idas at a
grinding stone, driven, of course, by steam power. lie hid
not been long at work before the stone, witch was revdving
With great rapidity, went to pines. The ptor fetid, wet
struck on several places of the witty, bat chiefly etl the
abdomen, which was so lacerated that his bowels protruded.
Ho was coin eied to the General ticapttal, but died an hour
utter his adinbsion. _

A registration appeal, which raised rather a novel
point, was deci led on Monday lu the Court of Common Mess.
The appellant claimed a conoty vote In restoxt of certahs'
freehold homes which In ISt3 he mortgaged to a building
society for £3OO lie was to pay on account of principle and
Interest £3 2 a month for ton years, and bad now to pay for
two years more. The revislog barrister held that be was fv.t
entitled to note: but the Court bold that the ans,unt
on acc...nint of principal was not to be ndoeted from the
anima value, but only the morn paid for interest. Alter
making Cl. deduction tne claimant would have more than •
401. Interest, and therefore was entitled to vote.

A ehociing accident hes ocCurrsd to lieutenant
Re .ry flol.. f Q sonde°, Loughborough on Monday. nor the
first time dile )or he had come out for preliminary dill on
the Leicester Rvecourse eith Use Iy:feaster troop of Yeomanry
Cavalry. tits horse, shoe aulinal, bolted and endulvoured
to jump • double bum of spiked Iron rails. Lieutenant
Hole fell on his head, which was fearfully lacerated, and
Ise was at once removed, insensible, to the Infirmary, where
he now lies in an almost hopeless elate from Internal in.
j Isle. and concussion of the brain. The horse, which was
much Injured, was shot at once.

It is pointed out by the Itegietrar•General that the
fatal cases of small-pox In London, which in the three pre-
vlous weeks had been 193 214, and 265, farther rose lut
week to 276, the highest weekly number that haa occurred
during the present eptderelc. Allowing for the Interruptkm
In registration csused by Good Fridgy, ani the following
F.sster holidays, Ills evident that the deaths from mall-pox
have shown a steady Wore& eln the past month The 276
returned last week were Cot alderably more than dousde the
highest weekly number registered In L ndon diving the
several epidemics which prevailed daring the 31 years
1640 70.

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A Frenchman named Mario, residing in Jersey.
brought an action In the Royal Court of the Island, on Tue.
day, against Thomas Selater, a contester (honorary police
officer;, for Illegal arrest Defendant caned on the plaintiff
on a Sunday and demanded payment of the sum of 21 Sti.
due from him on account of dog-tar. P,alntiff refused to
pay at. that day, whereupon defendant told him he must
appear neat day at the police-court to answer the charge of
nonpay.nent. Plaintiff said he would not to no, and on his
refusal to promise attendance, the defendant arrested him
and transferred him to the custody of two under-officers, ty
whom he was taken to a pudic-house and kept for two hours,
Ile was then taken to St. Hullers p dice-station—a distance
of four miles—and locked up all night. Neal morning he
was fined by the magistrate for refusing to pay the tax.
The Itval Lout awarded Um 41(1 damages Awl opgti,

A 11.3zeion paper states that a Lindland-water val.,
clpeta. h.. 11 I, (10,0 It 14,nt_tr front Lunton to Parts
altituut stopping, le to be tte u..xt novelty.

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Tliu-e who thi Lot 1,,e tLeir inotilers-ii4•l4ws will
Tel dcs has*. that titiriLg the past liVal.r:a trieuti.acreat of
bai.hisil ...a, bite died.

A Ctlifutai.ut jutper, iu •,reihiaj a iw &along the
Cub am., nos that they ate atm bare aua ether attlaUrta
freely.'

A " fiou.vholier" urtros th. Dail!, News to a ivoo:ate
• tax on cot.. hy, he mica, •Lould 6. bo cbargad tur • t
and nothing for a cat t

Several hampers of ve-y Env all tr,gus have Iv. n
sent to the L nnlos en. kets from the 5..14 IslauAs, at‘t hoo
rovitzeo exoellent prices.
Accordiag to the Non! a serious soce-skuii.t In t
moot his boon sot on foot In (ones. Tim 1.1,1,1205 t, 020
tunea.cd it the treatiseut of N..po!enn.

A wourin in Wot -gond -Imri die 1 from dritAimi
tirrloy 41xLoL *al &Wk.' 111,41 A
writ storo.

That tiOrtort 1,111 sty wit'y 1164'8 Wall iiitatt it
proveJ tho fact Mat ono ol Vlrtu roc. on briug &Aid
to d owe In “Laticors„"rewhol t'4.st no was boitot 5'.1.2t0
line 1113 da::cors.

The Sleffidd Tel,grapl mentinre that a hnuqcwife, in
filling up hot icikattuln of the Celi.Ul tott..r. doiort,e,l holvti
NS the " hoodtot the lornly' Cliii., to respoci to he: hue-
Loud, eho tyrtte, " Ile tun.. uy vlautle."

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Tue.lry the 26th was t 1 o aunty rairy f the
birth ,f her Royal 1.1i4t0 tes P. h Arc, (Prior. ex I. 13,11
of Mood ) h was calebrat..4 at Wit.O•or with It lj of
haloais

A skate was broughtinto 4allCmoutil, tile
mosaust: g Ida fret stroll !sets., Ilk I ; %Ma a wht Ut
two Cwt. or thereby. Its ruouotszy IS Lot, r,
(goal to a halibut' ressostly brought to the um:
post.

The coining of age of be ri-vid If ighuiwe Prince
Arbor wlll. it u noderatood, b emat, by her
the Q leen and g eyot Family alth ndialiltrahle ref &MA ai
thborr.e, on the Ist of May.
Many of the Fornilmen who have been driven over
to E ,gland for Vat second tow ft. ni nlonths, declare that
thm will not return to Kali. but will a3tlo 1.. Oh rom,, r/-
•,d become natztra`lacd. Among thorn I% a very dlatlrgtalshe4
°culla, a German In, lartto. trim hid been red ling Cu I'mlt
r many yarn before the war. Ile will now pr.:mt.. In
mdeu

The Rock says that oue of the corgis of a 11,
chutch boted for its mellt Uc ooploot t ribuiltst:c
has Just .110,1 alter a tholt Mmes.. ill. tested by
many that Ids death WAY seeekratt.4 LW tauau,tion, u.
quent upou strict festive' duribg Lot to al extent tau
great for Lie pl,)zical powers.

O SAurilay the c aato trtl ut 1') U utouth j.ickl
up o bottle co .taleing a place ot paper on allied araa written :
—.•Fonadered le the 11:4:terrane.tn, the barque dine, of
Yarmouth, 7t2 of November, )00. -rue Captatu 01311403.
lire tca.nen eared; starving. and oat sighted land." Mare
La no algeature attuhed to to the paper.
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An Indian paper recently made light of the notion
reapectang the eleven loot and hon.' of the devil. and woe
j water'', rerrored lon PA liso thy by another luelso paper.
rho first jturusl thereup ii cheert ally surrendered the pot.%
orace:ully bowleg to tht superior kuowledge and stealer
Intimacy ot Meow...top ,rary.

There was a g.olden wedding in Kenttulty recently,
a: %Wei were neetent twenty gues'a w. o wl.neased tie
rag-Ease ceremony fifty seal, age. The average age of tins.)
t wanly parsons war seve4t)...iun years sic months. they In-
cluded the gentkman and lady who mted as groomsman and
bridesmal..t.

A Malton corte3pondent states that on Tuesday
afternoon dnring a smote thunderstorm on the Yorkshire
more the lightaing set fire to a thatched hut and a plenta.
Mu Cl Motneroed lima All the property was burimi ; hot
tLe shepherd who WOO iu the hut at the time of the storm
e•caped with slight Injury.
A btz mr woo opehed on Monday at Walls's Rooms,
L3SOIOII, so aid of the funds of the '•Temporery Moms I r
Lost and M.areiue i) eis," which has had I,7stamale. during
the past year. Mr. Frederick Clut,erton, the harpist, en-
livened he company by playing a grand harp fantasia, and
the "Master M'Cirath Quadrille," composed by Mr. Frederick
Chatterton espressly for the bar .or.

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Ac rreapondent of The Times Rowers the invita.ion
of the Chancellor of the Exchequer for tugge.tions as to low
and paesiele taxes by pointing out that a stamp of a half-
penny or penny on photographs would be largely productive,
and at the same time an Impost to which every contribution
would ba purely voluntary.

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It - fh.atru that duringthe Budget S,,eech the other
evening a slip of paper ass passeo along the Ministerial
bench to Mr. GlsCatena, on whl, h were written the folio. log
'wade—some people attribute thorn to the Home Secretary,
ethers to Mr. Atria..—
. Fret Luz "—alitt Deus
(Beata eat von);
Flat Tax.—nlilt Roberta;
A 'elhiunny a bor.

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The Brunels correepondent of the Standard saya
that he hat it tror.i undoubted authority that Count It a-
march, recently replylog to an Engashen a, who bed caked
him what he would do it ',sauce was not able to p,ty the
hatemnity when it became du!, said, " We shall do as the
caterpillars do on a tr.e. Even as they doctor loaf alter loot
till the trot dies, so we will eh zs province alter pante,'
until Franca ahah be no more."

Pierre Leroux (aye Gal ignani) diel on We.inesditY.
aged 73, from the eff Jet, of his lAo attack of ep,ideay. At
lint a rsintat'a camped or .1 then a evader forth- press, be
Istcsme one of the touLdere and contributors of the WO.. He
wrote oceaeluitally to the Revue des Druz Monde. previously
to 1041, when he started the Rome InVyenglartte. tlis chief
work is .4 entitled De I'll oulatinE, de son principe, et
de avenir." He was a mend., of the National assem-
bly to leii, but never distinguished himself there by Ins
et.eaki ,g.

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If the London season of 1871 does not turn out to he
a long and a merry one, it will not be for want of people to
protract and enliven its existence. Teen Is going to be
almost unprecedeutly IoU. The warlike events of the last
nice months have, perhaps, more to d with the fact than
lies on the surface. There most be a ores of families who
were last autumn denied their customary ni,gration to the
Continent, and staying at home in winter Implies the spend-
Erg of less money. The money saved can now be spent; and
the desire for change grown stronger by repression, is send-
ing scores of ye min Ira to 1.-mti,m, who, its other years, would
have Wen content with aural domesticity till the autumn."—
Ct. re Journal.

The Biehop of Manchester concluimi hie A rmon ot
the conaccratlon of. church on Tuesday, with the following
anecdote : —A few weeks ago they had to Mancheater. week
of PpECIAI eervlces, held In Mx churches In the most de ,sely
populated pacts of the city, and at these service, all seats
were flee to those who chose to occu; y them. Odo evening
a g. ntleman at one of these nieetiogs saw two working men,
mid told them to go to any pew In witch they could g.
seats. They took their places In a new, and soon all er wards
a lady CAM., aid askod teem, •' What do 3ou want there?
that's my see." One of the moss sJd to the other, Co;oe
along, ; let's be elf. I till ye this was tie seen a
place " lie (the Illehop) lel; Ms audience to draw their own
inference.

The vtimmer KCAire; was run down on Sanday night
atler having had no eventful hietcry. Sae was run Into and
narrowly eecam.d foundering • little more than • year ago:
antissquant,y she ran down at 1101,001sta). the Liverpool
steamer fridge' on and she herself ens built to replace the
,S•aguli on Use K iiterd station, that vessel having been
run de wu off the Newarp with lons of life. She left II nil en
Saturday night •Ith 1511 emigrants for America, besides ab ut
a score of cabin paatenger• and a crew of twenty hands In
a dense fog on Sunday night: when Iff the Newarp, she ass
run into by the screw collier Frankland of Newts tie. A
aceue of Indescribable confusion Is svld to have arisen ameog
the emigrants, some of whom rushed to the boats, and hut
for the firmness and presence of mind of the captain there
must have hien considerable 101 l of life. S o‘rtly afterwards
the steamer FrunAlancl rau alongside the tiestre., and all
the passengers and crew, iii, hoped, got on board. The last
seen of the tiektrei was the blowing up of hen, ra and main
hatchways, alter which she went down heauforemost.