The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-06-14 00:00:00

EPITOME OV NrWS.

BRITISH AND tOREIGN.

Some time ago the Arehbidiolitie of doili/ was
Offered to Dr. Hieronymos Myrtatitheus, tilt Greek
Atellimandrite in London, but he declined the prefer-
mern. The Arehimandrite of Odesai has now been

electei to the vacant see.
It is Announcer/ in the American papers that
Langtry has invested 100,000 dole. in "City Feat
Estates,r end meale to open a theatre &New York
next year.
Small-poxchas alarmingly increased in London. Al
the meeting of the IfetrJapolitan Asylums linatd on
Saturday it wee-reportatil that there were one •iiiidred•
and ninety-eight More padents in the hospitals than at
the previous fortnightly meeting. The fever a-thins,'
on the other hand',-show a icreese.
The Internatioiltd; Twenty Rifle Match betWekM"
Volunteers of England, Scotland, and Ireland trook'
place on Saturday? near Glasgow, and resulted in the
victory of the English team.
A Swiss doctor, who-had lost everything at Moni-.-50'
and had vainly applied for tfin means of returning;
home, has committed enitide. Thia is said to be the--
thirty-second case of thelizid thfirseason.
It is stated that the Ritumaniati harvest has been
totally destroyed by drought: In several districts thu
-wheat has bten ploughed rp and repikeed by maize.
IL duel has been fought' on, the- l'elgian frontier
between M. Emmanuel Aline; the Opportrmist Deputy
for Coreica, and M. Judet, eAittit of'the 'France." M.
Arene received a swotd wounan'tbe handi, which put
invent( to the combat
A petition has been sent to the Postmaster-General
frail-utile. Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce-urging the
Government to grant facilities fur.the deve3opment of
the telephone sy, tem.

In the COlinj of the dredging eVratiorts carried on
by Commander M‘Donald, of the cruNer,Vigirant, now
employed:in, protecting the fisheriec- on't he west coast
of Scotliin&,. some important discoveries ha,...e been
made, rod specimens have been founcltvllieh will greatly
enrich the collection at Edinburgh. lets been found,
for instance,-that the sea bottom on theWest•coast pro-
duces-sponge and torah
A Malay Fkince,accompanied by two membergsof his
suite, visited,the House of Commons on Nese*: The
party, were:received by Mr. J. K. Cre3s. TinderLSecre-
tary of, State Dar India. They occupied sefits- in the
special gallery..
From theist, oil April to the ';th inst. the`limmiry
receipts amounted, to £15,003,862, as comprred ‘tith
£16,412,801 in, the corresponding period of last year.
The expenditure litto been £12,168,590. On SAtinh:ay
list the. balancer in the Bank of Engla,tzl
£6,254,192; and in, tile Bank of Ireland £1,247,0174.4-
MK Forster, speaking before the Col,.,nial Instiftta'an
Thesday- night; affirmed the deep necessity of England
keeping herself, thoroughly united with her doyen-
dencies;asby doing:so, she would not only benefit, th,4
colonies; herself;. and the world, but render the "left-
ciples-of civilisation-and peace more secure.
In London, on Thesday, Mr. Puleston, M.P., presitia
at a meeting held in the library of the Welsh Seciet•A_
Chancery-lane, at which, it was decided that a conva
mittee should be appointed to consider the best fent,
which a substantial tributeto the memory of the late'
Dean of Bangor,could -assume.
The trial Of th&sirs-persona indicted for the burning;
of the Stadt Theatre in 'Vienna will begin on the 16rh
inistant before' the District Court. The prisoners are •
Bukovics, the lessee;: Mitzam, the watchman; Gartner, .
the doorkeeper; Baeher;, the fireman; and the two
sweepers, Eidonora balker and Anna Schiller.
The June returns-of, the 'United States Department
of Agriculture relative to the eotton planting show (in
apparent increase of area of about 4 per cent. in com-
parison with the area-of:the previous crop.
The Crown Prince of:AUstriais writing an account of
his first Eastern, journey, .to Egypt, Palestine, and
Syria. The book-will be 'illustrated by 122 drawings
made by Herr Pausingeri of:Salrburg, who accompanied
his Imperial Highness:.
It is stated that the translation of the Queen's new
book into Gaelic has been intrueted by her Majesty to
Mrs. Mary Mackellar, the Gaelic. poetess.
A Madrid telegram ,says -that one of the tunnels in
course of construction on. the-new Austrian line has
fallen in, killing 12"-workmem.
In the cricket match , between the Australians and
Yorkshire, at Bradford; on, Tuesday, the Colonial
eleven won by three-wickets..
In London last week2o9B births and 1458 deaths were
registered. Allowing for increase of population, the
births were 500, and the deaths-14 below, the average
numbers in the corresponding weeks of the last ten
years. The annual death-rate from all causes, which
had been 18.5 and 19t per 1000,in the two preceding
weeks declined again,to 18.9;
On 'Tuesday, the ShoemakereGuild of Berlin cele-
brated the 600th anniversary of: their incorporation in
1284 by a great procession; numbering more than 4000
persons, which passed before the Royal Palace, where
the Emperor and the Crown .11rince stood on the bal-
cony to see it.
A telegram from Massowalit states that Mr. Mar-
copoli, a merchant, has just arrived from Kassala.
having bribed the Hadendowa chiefs to pass the invest
ing lines. He thinks -the- town, can hold out until
relieved by Abyssinia.
Mr. Dillwyn (Swansea) has ffirther postponed for
four weeks his motion for the disestablishment of the
Church of England and Wales:

An alarming fire, which threatened the destruction
of an entire street, broke out on, Tuesday morning upon
the business premiges adjoining, noted and ancient
hostelry at Scole' Norfolk, This building was, however,
saved by the stretwous exertions of the villagers, the
damage being limited to the desuction of a shop and
two dwelling-houses and some injury to the roof of ad-
ioining houses. The total damage-is estimated at about
£l2OO. _ _

The agricultural returns for the year 1883 show,
among other encouraging changes .that the number of
horned cattle is greater by 155,04 than it was in 1882.
'Sheep and lambs had also increased to the extent of
748,000, and 107,355 swine have to be added to the stock
of the orevious year-

The promoters of the Cyclists' Camp recently
formed at the Alexandra Palace offered five guineas for
an essay upon "Cycling as a health restorer, and in
relation to business." The prize has been awarded to
Mr. J. B. Marsh.

The Ameer of Afghanistan has. ordered She Cahill
arms manufactory to supply 300 beeech-loading rifles
and 100 field guns.
The stonemasons of Bradford have struck work for an
advance of id. per hour in their wages. The building
trade in that town has for some years been very de-
pressed, and wages have fallen. Some of the employers
have at present large contracts in hand, and have
offered to concede an advance of idL per hour, but the
offer has been refused.

On Monday a memorial, .signed by 70 members of
Parliament, was forwarded to Mr. Gladstone, in favour
of the question of women suffrage,- being left an open
subject by the Government.
Recent thunderstorms have been attended in Glou-
cestershire with serious consequences. At Hartpury a
farmer lost a mare and foal valued at £BO through
lightning, the electric current killing them instan-
taneously. Mr. Thorniloe, of -Longhope, not far from
Hartpury, lost a whole flock -of sheep, to the number of
18, from the same cause.
A great demonstration of• miners was held at
Hucknall Torkard, near Nottingham, on Saturday,
which was addressed by Mt. Burt,.M.P. He urged that
the extension of the franchise had ceased to be a con-
troversial question. The Liberals were anxious for the
re-distribution of seats as, the, Conservatives, and
minority representation was-a debatable question not
yet ripe for Parliamentary action,.
The Birmingham Trades Couneit on Saturday even-
ing passed resolutions declaring that the constant in-
crease in the Civil List in the shape of salaries and pen-
sions required the earnest consideration of the people
and members of Parliament; and on behalf of the work-
Ing classes of the town expressing abhorrence of the
recent dynamite outrages, believing it the duty of all
the to aid the authorities-in the prevention and
detection of such crimes.
A letter was washed ashore- ort Saturday near the
Admiralty pier, Dover, enclose,din a bladder. It bore no
trace of the sender, WI was addressed to the Norwegian
consul at Bordeaux, to whom it was forwarded by
Lloyd's agent.
A Convention for the establishment of a new system
of telegraphic postal orders,has,been agreed to between
the French Government and that of the Grand Duchy
of Luxembourg. The payee receives at his house an
advice by telegraph, to the effect that the money due
to him will be paid on, appncation to the postal
authorities.

A melancholy occurrence took place on Saturday
night at Vichy during: the• performance at the Casino
Theatre of " Bebe," known.in England as "Betsy." A
clever and much-esteemed aetor, iII. Didier, was sud-
denly, towards the endiof the first act, taken ill. He
was at first supposed to .be inn fainting fit, hut it turned
out to be a fit of apoplexy,.firom which he shortly after-
wards expired.
On Monday the tenants. o the Savernake estate of
the Marquis of Ailesbury presented Viscount Savernake
with a magnificent punch-bowl and an illuminated
address on the occasion of his coming of age.
_ . _

The total number of beasts entered for-consumption
at the Metropolitan Cattle Market for the week ending
Saturday last wa5,2990 head; the corresponding period
of 1883, 2470 ; 1882, 3670; 1881, 4830; 1880, 3890;
1879, 4410; 1878). 4570;; /877, 2740; 1876, 4430: and
1875, 4910.
Divine service-was.condneted at Balmoral Castle on
Sunday morning; by the Rev. A. Campbell, of Crathie,
in the presence- of the Queen, Princess Beatrice, Prin-
cess Leiningen,.Princesses Marie and Victoria Melita of
Edinburgh, and the Royal household.
Harvest prospects in Lower Bengal have much im-
proved of late; there has been a fairly plentiful rain-
fall in most parts of the province, especially in the
northern and, eastern districts, and any scarcity that
may follow the failure of last winter's crops is. now
likely to be confined to portions of the districts of
Monghyr, Bogra, M.7.dah, and Mozufferpore.
A handsome monument was, at Odessa on Saturday,
his natal anniversary, unveiled in honour of the Russian
national poet, Puschkin, at Kischineff, amid enthu-
siastic popular acclamation and laudatory addresses
delivered. Whilst resident in the Bessarabian capital,
Puschkin attached himself to a band of gipsies, and for
a whole season led the same vagabond Ma . as his com-
panions..
According to the Board of Trade returns for May
the value of the imports amounted to £33,201,114, a
decrease of 23,056,329 compared with those of the cor-
responding month of last year. The total value of the
exports id estimated at £19,857,338, an increase of
£357,773. upon the month, compared: with 1883.
From Kischeneff thirty-two arrests of Nihilists are
reported, and at Kieff a hundred. persons have been
arrested, including forty officers. At Charcow there
have been two hundred arrests, and & secret printing
office was seized.
M. Tricoupis, the Greek Premier, has received a sum
of one million drachmas from a Greek firm in London, to
be employed for the public benefit, M, Tricoupis pro.
poses to devote the amount to the erection of a peni-
tentiary, there being %apt° the present no such institu-
tion in Greece.
On Monday Arehhishopl3enson confirmed 257 young
persons in Cantubvi Qatir
wrai, the ceremony OCCUIDps
mg two hours.,


gi is reported that thd Earl of Sefton has purchase
11,060 acres of land, chitty moorland, part of the celet
brated Viriteside moors tit North Lancashire. The moorf
land is one of , the best ettrese ranges and wild fow
resorts in Enteland.
At the last Meeting ot flie Institute of Civil Engl.-
Deers for the pliestnt session it was stated that the'
list of members, friSbeiates, sd tudents now numbers'
4612, as compared -With' 4400 fast' sear, and 2468 tee

years ago.
Mr—Tattersall offereiifor kale et' Saturday the Mar,
den Deer Park yearlingx• The total emount brought a
sum of 4595 guineas—au Mirage of 2tB guineas.
In the French Senate 011' Saturday. tSe bill re-estab-
lishing divorce in France ma' read a ' tlist time by 156
tio 115 votes. _ _ _

On ffertarday the annual cttañ. rate of the Royal
Thsrnes Yacht Club took place pñtheNore to Dover.
There wele nine entries. The fnit 'piize of £lOO was
won by the Genesta; the second (£65) bythe Lorna;
arxl the third! (f. 40 by the Marjorie:-
Dlr. Registrar Brougham had 13'efore' hirn, in the
Court of Banitruptcy,on Saturday, npetition presented
by a eredithr of Mr. Alderman Hadlewho'Warion the
rota felt-election last year aa Lord Mayor Of London.
A receiVing ore was made, and a flea nieeting ap-
pointed.
Mr. lrerle; the lead of the champagne Eiji-S.(lf 'Vence
Cliquot at Rheims-,•died on Saturday. Iletvia" born at
liretzlar, near TrevesOn 1801, was deputy fch.' 'Rheims
liom 1862 te'll37o, an was for some time rzayest of that
thwn, to whishthe rendixed great services.
On Saturday, morning a keeper employeilY =Lord
h-lyive at Ratcliffe-on-Sear, hearing the report'of a gun,
got a shepherd's-assistanee and followed threepaehers.
The menfied Osrig therailway, keeping their pursuers
at a distance by threatirto. shoot them. The cx-
tendsd Over 12 rtilkorrind when at close quarter 3 the
keepeva seversly wounded by a blow from & gun.
One oflh6 poachers-swam WCZOSS the canal, and &nether
also escaped. The-third was, however, captured.
Whißytliesteamerliabsburrg was being launched on
Lake Ceti-stance the wooden erection on which- the
party at'zending -the mrumony were standing giive way',
and 40 l&dibs includingthe Princess of Turn and Taxis,'
who chris*red- the vessel; were precipitated- into the '
water. NO`one, hewer ev wars seriously injured.
The Am.:.,..rihan tacrosseteren, now on a visit to this -
coun ay, meta team of the Synth of England at Hurling- -
ham on SaturdAy afterneenpand defeated them by six.'
goals tonone. -
A telegram'itom St: Xelinrs, Newfoundland, states, -
that a fishing: schooner. has been wrecked in Trinity'
Bay. Fourteen-of those on heard were drowned.
Intelligence kism St. Petersturg states that twelve
artillery officers were arrested', at Odessa towards the
end of last week' on -the charge of being Nihilists.
Documents of a,compromising character were found
upon them, audit is- expected' that the discovery of
the papers will lead': to • further arrests among the
artillery.
A Parliamentary-return -just' il?evied shows that the
number of all deaths inthe metropolitan district during
1883, upon which a 'coroner's-jury have returned a ver-
dict of "death from starvation,'! 'or" death accelerated
by privation," was 44-., •
A disease has brokennut amongst the trout in one of
the Water Companies'-' dams at Sheffield. The fish,
some of which are of 'large size, are- affected by a fun-
goid growth similar to that whichhas prevailed amongst
the Severn salmon anel-the grayling of the Wye.
A New York telegranrsays -that-the visible supply of
wheat on June 6 was -16,800,000-bushels, as against
18,000,000 bushels the previous -vveek. Visible supply
of Indian corn, 7,900,000' bushels; as against 8,500,000
bushels the previous week:, The expert clearances of
wheat for Europe during last' week amounted to
950,000 bushels; the export 'clearances of Indian corn
for Europe during the week amounted 'to 960,000 bushels.
In consequence of the great depreciation in prices of
cereals, and the payment of taxes inkind, a deficit of
about a million and a half•sterling-issanticipated in this
year's Egyptian' revenue.
A letter has been received Item EP Wedsch, on the
Red Sea, announcing the safe-arriVal. on the coast of
Piofess r Guting, the archeologist;-who has been em-
ployed fot- some months copying Atarrtaie and Nabatel---an
inscriptions in the desert-
A beautiful new east- window' has- been placed in
Chester Cathedral, the gift of•DeanHowson's sons and
daughters. The subject represented is-Our Lord in the
Teinple.
The International Geological OCargress, held for the
firist-time in Paris, 1878,-then BblOgna, in 1881, will
take, place this year at Berlin, towerdathe end of Sep-
tember. An exhibition of the-most-remarkable speci-
mens, -borrowed from the, museums and' private collec-
tions -throughout Germanyi. he. held on the
occasion.

On the 10th July, the three hundredth anniversary
of themurder of William theBilent 'will be celebrated
at Delft. The church which contains-the tomb of the
Dutch 'hero will be magnificently decorated, and an
exhibition will be formed 'of all the available relics of
the statesman.

In Kent there is an unusually large proportion of
sway-backed lambs among the flocks: It is thought
that the cold north and north-easterly winds which pre-
vailed so long this spring have something to do
with causing the malady: Out. of st, fleck of 300, one
farmer has lost as many as seventy from this cause. It*
occurs more among the marsh sheepthaw among those
on upland farms.
'A woman named Cummins, aged about 55, has been
removed from a house in ‘Curzon-street, Birmingham,
to the borough lunatic asylum, -as -she was evidently of
unsound mind and apparently destitute. After her
removal the officer and a police-constable searched the
house, and in a tin box-,coneealed. in the cellar dis-
covered £2202 all in gold.
Last week's receipts of ;cotton at -alb United States
ports were 13,000 bales ; since lst September, 4,761,000
bales. Week's exports to Great Britain, 14,000 bales;
ditto to Continent, nil. Total since list September,
3,558,000 bales; stock at • all ports,-. 462,000 bales;
ditto interior porta,-47,000"ba1ea.-
Bicycling is advancing with immense' strides in the
States, and the League of American Wheelman bids
fair to rival in numbers -and importance its prototype,
the National Cyclists' Union. The Lik.W. at present
numbers over 4000 members,-and is abbutt to publish its
own League organ newspaper.
A handsome granite monument in the form of a St.
Andrew's Cross, 15ft. inheight, has been erected in the
Duthie Park. at Aberdeen, to commemorate the gallant
conduct of the Gordon Highlanders in, the Egyptian
Campaign. The monument bears the following in-
scription " Erected by-the-Officers,- Non-commissioned Officers, and Men of .the-lst Batttlion cordon High-
landers, to the Memory of -their Comrades who were
Killed in Action or Died -of Wounds-or Disease con-
tracted during the Egyptian Campaign, 1882." On
the back of the cross arethe names of tile- officers and
men.
Paris advices state that the intelligence-received with
respect to the French'gro*ing crops -continues favour-
able. The supplies of wheat brought forward upon the
French markets have been. comparatively small during
the week; quotations have not materially waived, but
the tendency of affairs-has-been generally extremely
quiet. At Marseilles rather larger transactions, have,
however, been effected lit-wheat:
An interesting discovery of Roman,rentains has been
made at Lincoln.. Some workmen,- engaged in excava-
tions in the bail within the boundaries of the old
Roman city, came across a crematory furnace and a
sarcophagus. In the latter were tete cinerary urns,
containing dust and calcined bOn.es.- The urns were of
different sizes and shapes, and ?were • all provided with
saucer-shaped covers, only one of whiolt, however, was
got out perfect. The- interior of- the - sarcophagus was
lined with long thin-bricks, which perished on being ex-
posed to the air..
The Empress Charlotte, widow- of the hapless Max-
milian, who for a brief period 'wore the Imperial purple
in Mexico, was born on June- 7;„1840; and accordingly
completed her 44th year on Saturday'. The Empress
Charlotte is the sister of Leopold IV' King of the Bel-
gians, and cousin of Queen Victoria. She resides at the
Palace of Laeken, us Belgium ~and has been nearly 17
years a widow.
Corporal McDougall, of the R,oyal Horse Guards, acci-
dentally fell from the balcony of, the cavalry barracks
at Spital, near Windsor. The unfortunate soldier, who
weighs about 14 -stone, on being attended by Dr. Law-
rence, was found to have sustained' concussion of the
brain, and the fractures-of leg and an arm. The balcony
is some 27 feet from the ground:
During a disturbance between-the military and civi-
lians at Youghal at a late hour on Saturday night, a
corporal named Perth, of-the33ndt(Minke of Cornwall's)
Light Infantry, was so. seriously stabbed that his de-
positions -were taken on- Sunday.. Six men were ar-
rested, but were not' identified, by the injured man.
Two of the-men were remandedin, custody.
The Nerthumberlandl Committee charged with the
carrying out of the Contagious- Diseases (Animals) Act
lave reported that the county itenow entirely free from
foot-and-mouth disease.
A Leckerbie correspondent-states that the extensive
estates-of .Tinwalti. and Torthorwald, Dumfries, belong-
ing to- the Marquis of Queenaberry, and comprising
7,000 'acres, with a. rental of £BOOO have been sold to-
lir. James - Jardine,. of Dryfolholm, Dumfriesshire, for-
n2o,ooo.
The number of-personswholeft the United Kingdom
for places out of-Europe during the five months, ending
May 31, were: 107-,228. of British origin; 28,946
foreigners, and 1110 whose- nationality was not distin-
guished; the total thus-being 137,284. Compared with
the corresponding five months of the previous year, this
shows a decrease of 40,717-.
The steamers arriving at Liverpool last week with
live stock and fresh meet on board from the United
States and Canada brought 2285 cattle and 5299
quarters of, beef which, when compared with the pre-
vious week's-imports, skew an increase ias cattle, but a
decrease in-fresh meat. There were no arrivals a sheep
or mutton by any, a the steamers.
At Florence, on, Saturday
evening, two non-commis-
sioned officers. of the Italian army were, engaged in &
discussion on military matters, when one,of them drew
a revolver and fired at the other, killing him on the
spot.
The additions to the Zoological Society's Gardens,
Regent's Park, London, last week included a Himalayan
bear from North India, presented by-Lieutenant E. A.
P. Hobday ; three black-eared ma:mosets from South-:,
east Brazil; presented by Mr. H. F.Z.S. ; a
ap ; a
u. monkey
ymforn heron e mCe3:l34 British presented
presented b y
bl Mr,
Mr. T. E. Gunn; a Leach's la.aghing kingfisher from
Queensland, presented by Dr. OviLumbolte; a laughing`
lrpirl.ep-facrinegd .
kingfisher from Australia, presented by Mr. E. R. Oliver
a great grey shrike, British, presented by Mr. Ja Pratt,
a spotted bower birdlrom Australia presented
by Lieut. Colonel W. Hill 'Tames •' four river frog' from
Germany, presented by Mr, G. A. Boalenger,
green turtle from the Waist Indies presented 1.,v
J. Wyan Thomas; a tarantula spider fromoßr
seuted by Mr. C. A. Orasen, °Jaz-S. ; a enzee, 800.
from South America, deposited ;, a chimPlro_eok from
man's potto from West Africa,
oite dgu tb America,
South Africa, a ring-tailed coati Am. snow bunting,
two blood-stained *aches from
311turexle from West Africa,
North Euroix an, an An „,,
gola —ijeetral 'America, four
a Guatemalan amazon I "3
rieeni South Australia, two
elegant grass- parrakeets
two eonamen wigeon two
wild ducks, two can decks,
Aixion teal, two Muscovy ducks,
dar
common piatails, ---
iu ducks from China,
put-
European; wombat frOril Tfitillifilliej received itb-
chased ; a eonunw" -
axolaeegt