The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-10-07 00:00:00

• i h.q. I I intends to
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11,• vt• 11.1 ts Ia utkan of Dublin have struck
for lai,,hyr wa,es.

Mei+gr‘i. easgs 11, Petter, and Idalpin announce a new
senal .... , entitled, " The World 14 Wit and
Ilimmur," to he issued in Aspenny monthly parts.
There have during the huit week been Is.l eases if
14.1-and mouth disvase ITS Northamptonshire, against SO iu
the iirevions We,

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A rent visitor to t'arlyle's study says that an
eartlaiu.oloo might turu It upside &woo, lout coula not add to
Ito disarraugclutont.

lAbwor. Arajuar, a,tl-onomer in 711.1titl, lA reported
to have djanwered a new planet, II ridi lie has designated
cone,iktion.-

The cattle plague itt sai,l to 1, :Treading more and
more in the north and east of 'lnn,. Ii has now invaded
the Rh me department, and the Ministry of Commerce hi
LAW,: ete.l.9 to attctt its progress.

A general conferenee of N ineonfortniNts is to be ben
at Manchester in the tnihlle of Iteventher, to mnsider the
educational i•on..y f t!“.sr out. alai the general
tal,tions ci u joeto th Liiovral Fu-t).

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The sentence of death passed by the t 'mat martial
Versailles on Cast•n, tWznieus. Peh•sier, It ue, and Rout
has been commuted to imprisonment for twenty years in a
fortified plaee.

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The oilonds if the A-arimig regiments garrison.' in
Paris have ',Mori:lea the officers serving wafer them that
miy ot them mu Ii are SCell walkitig in the streets with women
of had character u It he put under arrest.

The Bishop of latent has just publishell a pastoral
letter against the International. lie describes the object of
that association 0 the abolition of religion, property, here-
ditary rights, family, and country.

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(lust:lye Tounety, known in the south of Frame an
l'A r II Ndbrea, (the Swallower 44 Sabres), died the
other day in the hospital at Toulon 44 thliroo” l,ueuo. It
MIS his usual custom, to put a blade of good steel three eet
In leneth down his throat and draw it forth again, saying,
" Void le sabre !''

In the midst of a heavy gale last Saturday the
Italian bandit Three Si,fees ran ashore at IX a Nook. MI
the coast of Lincolnshire. The captain, the mate, and four
of the crew w ere rescued by the lifeboat but the pilot and
eight of the crow were drowned.

_
The King of Spain lia.4 had an enthusiastic greeting
at all the htations along the SA.ragosea line id railway. On
arriving at Calahorra lie Met Walt a splendid reeeption from
Marshal kispartvro, who in wain terms declared his hips!
Ldilt iiol/ to the new dynasty.

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Many Amcrican sny,i the Yonker of the
United States, have taken to wearing costly lace cravats,
which looks very effeminate and ill had taste They also
propose wearing small feathers or wings iu the side of the
low felt hat. What next?
To Mage from the following ailvertisement from tha
Mort, or IL doornal Of the Household, the
little " must jio.t now lie In a very happy state of
mind : liirch hod : Will :my iinc Inform tne where I eau
pmehase, or hose to make, a birch rod P.

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Loot Kin 11 K!rley, in presidibg m TneAday at the
o,ing o,l,lllolliai 14 the Noraieh holuhtrial Eshihition,
teak occasion to sty a few m or& in defence of such tlisplays
in the tare,.! an oft-expressed desire to depreciate their

Tne Middlesex Revi,ing Barrheer had before him
Tnes.hly, the seet a v.der, who, having lithly disposed
his freehold property, had been oldeeted to. It ternea
oid that the Mail had palled with it since the :flat July, awl
the vote wits therefore held to be good.

Tile Dew n't•IICII tits, came into toraetical 0; erat:on
•ii the it instant. Alining the additional imposts there is to
cit co frau, h,,i,,t ye:o3 lutah hiflii,,l tables, and Id
cont. on ail railivays, ha ikiiiry irriagiis, and boat fares
oil and after the Ictht inst.

Attention is drawn by tin. • Committee of the Ealiot
• the Import:into of supmirling. by
. Ow House of Commons, the thiveriluient measure
: vtite by ballot in municipal as well as

ALer.l.c..n 5111.1.11, a tile
• • material f.'ll comment. The
• :I5 tl.at •• Irt•berl hs It to have
I! • t • . ',err cAti help it," bet it iy aaeurial
' ; • will hot In turn,' 1.1111 the
' t %..ly of thvir eiebal right, by the
. • Ow threats lerrllLa at thew by Mr.

u livid at Liverpo,.l bmehing the
iam .it, ilitilate tho Dutton Wolk-
I .‘,ll w.,5 41,g:we,1 along vitt' the go•ernor
• ,In ill 4i,tulhlit (Ile 111111 11,40
I. : I • %, II Oils lifting up the lid.
1-• 11":nt"fieh!literaleor;Illy tt:e"rt
• . • .101 U.IS I

•• • : • :• / r. Jolln Mitchel says
IttltCll the
: .. • !:hhstale pri-
organisation
• • ' • 'lll7, a consitirrabio
• I I • • it rigilt to say
anion."

• : • , , , Ve811.•
I, .111ole, arltus a cur-
; • I , . , is a nine object,
.11 o I,y lo o he. eis oo .11.11 Ica to go up It in
the scenes .4 stilt tire. The illusion
.Icstroi ea • and alter sci oral hours toil, all I.lle Sin's aro
tenor three 'looks emitting sinote in a heap of dialers—
a .I,llt about as interesting as the chimney of a inanuiac-
.

Several it the Paris journals state that i'undjeeli,
eldt st son ~f the Maharajah of Lahore, has just died .4
longer in a I...hring.-lionse if the nue de Vangilard.
Pi ince left hie native e try :thout Pity years ag.. in COM..
ilmlice of it 8,00.1,11.0111: agailiSt Ills father, Inn: of whose
i% es he had sedueed, and since that time he had led a
ill l'xistence in Paris. lie spike rarely, and had only
111101itl•11 EIII.OPSIIIICOStIIIIIC dtll.lllg this last few years.

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melancholy act. ident occurred at Jarrow, near
South shields, on Saturday eVellill4. Oil the steamer
Mourn I, Iron Newcastle for Shields, arriving at Jarrow
Sta;nw, a man went oil tward, but finding at the last moment
that the steamer was for Shields, and not for Newcastle,
where he wished to co, its rushed ott the ship, and, eomah,,g
against the mate of the steamer, both fell overboard, and,
notwithstanding the edorts made tnt save them, both men
were drowned.
The purellin,e BriAliato Yksting ,1 :10 artAsen
for lds wives leads the _Ye lr York Pox' to thus no naila upon
poly..mmy Think of an ordinary business man Ikaying
silk dresses, cashmere shawls, pont lace, and jewellery to
match for say half a it atm wives, to say nothing of a score
Cr two of daughters. The very thought of the thing a
enow.h to scam until° polygamy out of a crary111:111.11 brains.
t the faShiollS ion., work their way into Utah, and dry
-,to bills will do for Ito peculiar institution what Congres.
:• nal bills have thus far tailed to aetonnplish."
I' to informatioi tlo intere,ted in corn rents

Mr. Molitagiiii Marriott, of i, iatit la liar wilt:ire, iiiforitm
•ai !Id tlrit Cie r.t.. of l,itjol corn for the
. .

, • :,•pteniber-:toN are—Al heat, 558. 1 ii; barley,
:A per imperial nuoiter. As frictions of a
• ,I inch:led in tint Board t.l Trade returns the
• , are each about a half-penny higher than the
. .

v to u hat !night have been eripeeted, the
1,••• rails 1111Jatie aSyllllllB just 'Staled Merle a
the 11110,1111 i if IsinullisS, and suicides have,
if Paris, heroine unusually rare,
II? the suppi in that piolitival excitement
• neolou lean i coiling over their personal
:• •11. s her hand silt it idiot le stun, pre‘ailis
lii. (up?, ssjlcclohlyiltllilllg a nnien, inning, It
mieeessive shucks given during anti utter
co• 11l !lOUS system.

'• • \ Weary 'Wayfarer " writes in The Tinte.l respect-
• pr, Fiench passport system, ahich, be says, is
purposes hientineation. Ile suggests that wo
1.1 have rceipr.mity in this matter, and tax every French-
to,, at Conics t.• Ile adds We submitted to
tne grievous passpoit annoyance so long as France was
eilli..ted with foreign and civil war. Even in war time the
pas.port lias long been acknowledged a nuisance to honest
flnd 110 hindrance whatever to eviloloers. lint now
that perfect erder Is restow ii why should Franey go heel tm
an, ,Xlnjoategl yattill of which even the most beau and States
Lave liven long heartily ashamed Is it not full time tliat
some fri, mlly diplomatic muralist ranee should be attempted
On the subject t '