The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-06-03 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FCIARia,

Thieves in Athrnsta. Ga., steal the street lamp&
The Devil is dead. It was a Californian newspaper.
The Crown Princess of Prussia will publish, In July,
I voliune on remsle Laboar."

The Hanley magistrates have fined a man for setting
a dog to worry a oaL

It is smarted thst a party of ten nndertakers went to
the Derby upon a [mane drawn by four black hones.
Another skeleton has been found In the ruins of
Pompeii, making al: In all that have been dlenovered.
The number of French residents at Brussels re-
gistered by the police now amount* to 8.3,000.

According to the last °emus, the population of
London was 8 f 8,460. being an Increase in see years of
dit.3Bo.

An American contemporary says of a 'seri pro-
minent mUltla general that "his sword was never drawn but
onoe—and then In • raffle.'
John Bull le pleased to hear that all danger as to the
Atbanaelan (*tad being tampered with effectually in the
Prayer Book (table of Lessons) 8111 Is at an and,

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Amonat the " drunk and incapable& " brought before
Ike Leeds magtstratee the other day wee • boy of twelve years
of age.

According to official reports, about 16,000 French
prisoners have died In captivity, either of their wounds or of
diseases, and have been burled in German soli.

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By command of the Queen the Prince of Walee will
hold a levee at St. James's Palace, on behalf of her Majesty,
on Wednesday, June 14,111.0 o'clock.

The principals of a recent Tenneeeee wedding were
aged eetenty-two and eighty-one. The bride had been
married twice. before, and the groom four tlmee.
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Princess Christian, who was for some time confined
to Frogmore Home by congestion of the lunge, is now con-
valescent.

Mies Gunther, recently married to Mr. Gray, of
New Yurk, received, among her wedding preeenta, a cheque
for twenty thousand dollars. A eensible prahent, truly ]

An American paper pnbliahea the following adver-
tisement :—" Wanted, by • boy, • altuatton In an sating
hone°. Ile I. weed to the business."

In a Paris church the rebels dressed as a vivandiere
marble etatue of the \ Irvin Mary, and made • hole in the
mouth to hued a smoklng pipe.

The cricket match Laneaehire v. Derby, at Man.
chafer, terminated on Saturday in favour of Derbyshire In
0111 innings.

Lady Charles Fitzroy, aunt of the present Duke of
Devonshire, died at Hampton, on Saturday, to her eighty-
fourth year.

The 32nd annual meeting of the Shipwrecked
Mariner's Aid Society eras held at the Mansion-house on
Friday. The income forth. year la £22.000.

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The "women of Ireland" are subscribing a fund for
the Pope : £2 OGO hoe already been collected In small coutrilm:
ion.. Au addreu to accompany the gift la being largely
signed.

The estimate for Greenwich Hospital and School for
the year 187t-72 him been printed. The total corn required Le
£140867. The last vote for the financial year 1871871 was
i. 133

A new morning paper Is shortly to be started in
London. The promoters of the new journal are sold to have
capital amounting to £lOO,OOO with which to make their
venture.

The lateet style at a dinner party In America ls to
have a fan placed M each luly'• plate, on which I. printed the
bill of fare, Lod on the side of which Is a mall looking-
glass, so that she!. able to Burvey heraelf and keep cool.
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At Newcastle•on-Tyne, a drover has been fined 10e.
and costs for cutting • pig's tail off. lie said he did it to
prevent the pig having • me. Lie frequently had to bleed
them.
The American National Temperance Advocate says
that there are 30 newspapers and periodicals In the States
devoted to the canoe of temperance, not one of which is a
source of profit to Its publishers.

Happy Bridegroom: "More money, madam! more
money! Bare you forgotten that 'my money has bought
everything you possess—the very draft you stand In?" gab.
Bride: .No, sir Nor have I forgotten that your money has
bought what stands In it."

A statement of the colonred population returned at
the Census Office, Including an estimate for lour counties yet
incomplete, makes the aggregate number In all the States
and terrltorle• about 4 357,000, being a gain of 936 per cent.
over 1800.

Jtioitated at the unofficial portion of the "Key to
the International Exhibition," an eight-page publication,
printed In the bottling, that the visitors who now seek
ad missiou to the building are no far In excess of the eetimated
number that it way I, conaldered neeemisi7 to check
crowding by an increased charge for admission.

A rumour in current in London of a project which,
If srrted Into effect, will enable tourist. of limited means to
pay a visit to America thie season. It Is said that the
G-reat Eastern steamship will be fitted up to take
two thousand persons on a pleasure trip to the United
States, and that the fare over will be only five pounds or.ly.

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The funeral of the Rev. 1)r. Sprstt took place on
Tnesday In Dublin, and was attended by Immense crowds,
both of the trading clams and the gentry of the town and
country. Dr. Spratt Ivag a prominent man In Dublin, having
barn for more than a quarter of • centnry a most earnest and
succenful advocate of the cause of temperamoa. He we
universally popular and highly esteemed ,

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Pook, who is charged with the murder near Eltham'
was brought up on Tuesday before the Greenwich magistrate.
Miss Covell, who was In Thomas'. shop when a hammer was
sold to a young man, we. for the first time confronted with
the prisoner, and failed to identify him. The prisoner, who
raid he wee not guilty, was committed for trial.

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The number of emlgrante erho left the ports of Ire-
land in the first four months of the present year was above
9 per cent. lees than In the corresponding period of hut
year. The numbers are 15,500 males and 9,781 females,
making a total £5,281, being 1,982 males and 02 female.
fewer than in the first four months of 1870.

it was stated at the last meeting of the Executive of
the French Peasant Farmer,' Seed Vaud that 29,339 quarters
of seed corn, poLatoea, So , had been distributed, and that
about 80,000 families had been relieved. There is a balance
offend. in hand amounting to £6,000, and it is proposed to
.end that sum to France tor distribution to autumn.

The Lords of the Admiralty have ordered the sale of
another batch of her Majesty's ships by public auction. The
vessels to be disposed of are the eteaniship Orlando, 3,470
toes; the screw-steamshlp Queen, 3,249 toes; the screw-
steamship Shannon, 2 687 tons; the steamship Bero, 3.148
toes; the gunboat Chnker, 236 toes; the gunboat Dottrel,
270 tone; and the coastguard hulk No. 31, 360 tone.

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On Saturday was Issued the new Act to effect a
settlement ot the affairs of the Albert Life Assurance and
other companies by arbitration. There are thirty sections.
and • Ind of twenty dlltereot companies with which the
Albert was connected. Lord Cairns, as arbitrator, is to
receive not leas than £2,000 as remuneration.

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Stumbling near her fireplace, at Athlone, a woman,
76 years of age, caught the handle of • pot of boiling water,
when It overturned into the fire, emitting large quantities of
Steam and red ashes, by which alto was so dreadfully
scalded that she lingered In Intense agony but for • few
hours.

A People's Garden, near Willesden Junction, was
opened on Saturday. the idea Ilea been promoted by
limited liability company, with the object of securing recre-
ation grounds affording to the shareholders "healthy and
rational amusement of an elevating character."

The Metropolitan Horse Show was opened on Satur•
day, at the Agricul'ural Had. There were 408 entries, the
Prince of Wales being amongst the exhibitors. Lord
C.Aentry, Colonel Kingscote, , and Mr. G. Lane Fox,
master of the Pytchley Hound., were the Judges tor hunter.
and thoroughbreds.
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The South London Press states that Mr. Spurgeon
continues very lii, quite unable to proceed on the Journey
he cmiteinplated, and It is bared that it will be morn, Uwe
before he Is able to resume his ordinary duties, a. change
and rwt are needed for his recovery. Mr. Spurgeon has
been suffeting'lrom an attack of god, Intensified by extreme
depression.

The Maidstone Journal says the hop bine does not
present a very prombing appeman. at present. The weak
blue le blinded with flea. and the strong bine with fly, which
lion the Increase. The late severe storms have done • little
good, it only In the way of destroying the haunts. The bine
I. Mant the.. p&rts of the way op the poles, and in one or two
place. has quite reached the top.

During the first eight weeks of the financial year
the Treasury receipt. were £U12312. an Increase of
£441,88i upon the returns In the corregrpondfng period of
Let year. The expenditure had amounted to C. 11,336,349.
The balance in the Bank of •len.land on Saturday last wag
£1.813 690, and in that of Ireland £1,045,615.

A paper was picked up on the Bth instant. on the
southeast coast of New Brimswick, which purport. to con-
tain a communication from one of the pamengen by the
City of Boston, in the following terms : • March 21, 1870.
—City of Balton. 811lp tinting ; over half frill now. Good-
bye %IL Look after my boy. Be gone ill two hoar..—
.11101(110N. •
There is a rumour going about to the effect that
there in a difference of opinion between lord Granville and
Mr. Gladstone on the subject of the Army Bill—the former
being of opinion that it would be Indicions to postpone at
least the abolition of purcluse mini next yew. and the latter
of course holding by the bill in It. integrity.
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A Fenian funeral procession took place on Sunday
In Dublin, on occasion of the funeral of Terence Ilene, a
young men who woe eentenced to penal servitude in 1886, but
wes released eons with the other prieonent. In the Lutenist
since his relesse he has served In the Franco.lriah legion
which took part in the late war. A crowd, ertimated at
about 4,000, followed him remains to Glasnevln Cemetery.
A Parliamentary return just issued rAatee that the
total number of summery convictions under the game laws
in England and Wales during the year 1870 was 10,600, the
greatcr number of which, 0,089, were for treepaceing in the
daytime in pursuit of game. For night-poaching and des-
troying game the convictions were 620 The total number
of accused person dlacharged Waß 2,103. Fifty-nine persons
proceeded twenat by Indictment for being out armed, taking
gaina, assadUng game keepers were convicted and 66 ac-
quitted.
The man who surrendered himself at Birmingham
last week, on hi, own emanation of being the third man
implicated in the murder of the Late Mr. Samuel Galloway in
Febroary last, wan taken before the maglistrates at Word
on Saturday. It was pro•ed that he had nothing to do with
the matter, and wee sot Me the man wanted. It appeared
that at the time he gave himself up he wee lubricated, gad
without money. It la suppowed that he adopted this charge
for the purpose of getting back to London cheap. The chair-
man censured hire for the trouble he had glean the pollee,
and his heartless conduct In thus reviving the painful Dlr.
cumstances in the minds of the relatives of the deceesed,
Sad with thin censure he wee dlsehugad. The L 260 reward
offered for the murderer's apprehension wee paid Into the
suaser7 a few days Nino*, and la now ready to to divided
among all the vitamin.

Leet week the totel number of Ault.= admitted to-
wel Internatlonil Exhibition tre5.48,041.

'The wile of a labourer at Glaegow has given UM to
three childreo—iwo bon and a girl.

A bill giving married women their separate earnings
hal been peeped by the Pebnaylesnla Leelane..
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All the leaclin-g American railways are now laying
down steel rails.

A portion of the town of Bradford, in Canada ,
boon burned down.

Black caterpillars are worse In Arkanias than was
OVIIII known Were. They are str%vtne the IMITIM in the
tweet,

The John Bull heave that in ell prohnbility the Ge•
veranient will refer the limning question to • royal roar
Weston.

It is said that Baron Rothschild has Riven the Nam of
1,000 to French, the Jockey who rode Fovonlon. awl that he
has also bestowed upon him an annuity of £2ko for life.
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One of the wealthiest bankers of. Chicago is charged
with stealing the gas belonging to another rnsn. by tapping
him pipe on the wrong side of the meter.

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In a cigar shop in Parliament-street, London, the
following notice la posted—' Credit Is given to gentlemen,
but cash Is eipected from members of Parliament
The deputstion from the young men of Great
Britain to his Holiness the Pope will leave England, headed
by the lion. E Noel, on the elth of June.

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At Williamsburg, New York, a yonng married
woman and her aged mother diecorered four barglara to their
room a few nights ego, and were ao proetrated by fright that
they both died next morning.
Chang, the paralysed Siamese twin, has PO far re
encored, It it, sal& a.ski be able to get .bat on a crutch ; and
It IN fair to enppose that Kng though he haa been enVylng
good health all the while, feria much better.

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The Qneen has passed three orders In Council direct-
ing the Judgment In the Porches case to he carried out. The
Church Association, It la said, will prowscute any clergymen
Who Infringe the law thus lald down.

It is stated that Ilooton-hall, rear Chester, the late
residence ol Mr. R C. Naylor, • Cheehlre magistrate, has been
pnrchared by the ex. Emperor Napoleon. In hla younger days,
Louis Napoleon we. a guest at 1100 ton-hall.
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The Versailles papers declare that the Vendome
Column has beau bought by Prussia. In the Libert", pub-
Ilahed at St. Germain, it Is stated that not only is that the
case, but that the column Is to beset up again In Berne.

The faahionable world of New York are now entry
over monograms. It has them engraved on tutir-pla, tooth-
combs, hone-ahoes, butter-tuba, umbrella, eats, rooster%
eow-eatch me, and alma; everything dee that la in nae among
the Mot too!

A governess in a gentleman's family in Cheshre,
haring been discharged from her situation through mis-
conduct, afterwards resorted to • Ills of dtmtpation, and
died In hillibank prison the other day from dueasea of taw
Inn"

It Is generally believed (say' the German Correspon-
dent, that the sti ike. among the German Workmen are 'up-
ported by the fund, of Itoglieh trade, union. The D-otrclio
Reichs Corre.pondens Mates that official tilve•tigationa prove
this to be a feet.

The managers of Weet Laurel Hill Cemetery,
Philadelphia, have Atused to be constructed a mevesnle
chapel, to protect those attending funerals from inclement
weather during the aervkee at the grave. It covers an area
sufficient to allow standing room for seventy-dve persona,
who can thus stand under shelter, and on dry ground—mg
Rock.

A monntsin of aalt, of • parity which im said to be
unequalled by any other natural source of supply, has beeu
discovered In the bland of dun Domingo. The salt is dated
to contain N per cent of pure saline matter, and fool reveal
Mesmer&

Sir Wilfrid Lawson hat given notice that at an early
day hewn! move that an humble addrees be presented to her
Majesty, praying her to Lake the needful steps for withdraw-
ing from all trestles binding this country to Intervene by
force of arms In the affairs of other nations.

The Boston Transcript : "Beaton girls, as • rule,
arm the most Intellectual, New York girls the most etylish,
Brooklyn girls the most • flirtatious,' Philadelphia girls the
moat la4Uke, Baltimore girls the prettiest, and Chicago girls
the most extravagant."

On Saturday the annual meeting of the Royal
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to anima* was held In
London, Lord flarrowby in the chair. The report, which wee
of an intereetlea character, stated that 1,417 pereons were
last year suoceesfully prosecuted In itegland and Walea. An
auxiliary Ladles Committee has been formed for the promo.
lion of humane education.

"I am sitting on the style, Mary," as the husband
said when he sat on his wife's new bonnet. Hoe thirty yeast,
this appeared regularly among the Wit end Humour" of
the weekly press, and it would have appeared for thirty yesua
more if tr. milliners hadn't got to making the wife's bonnet
too small for the husband to sit on.

Messrs, Clews & Co., In their monthly circular, give
for the purpom of illustrating what has been achieved in
America in the reduction of the debt since the close of the
war, • comparison chewing the condition of the national
indebtedness on the Ist of July, 1885, to the lit of May,
1871, Mewing that within less than six years the United
Statue have reduced the debt 505,000,000 dollars, and the
animal interest charge 38,00b,C00.
" The Premier was at the Derby, and was recog-
nized by a very sharp period who mays the ' governor' tool,
the lollowing question aa a personal remark :—' Don't you
think, dr, that the favourite mast have tremendously dia.
appointed all his beckon?' The sharp person adds that
seeing the effect he ordered the beautiful ode, Still 1 stin
not happy,' to be played at once by • band of black brothers."
—Court Journal.

A funny incident occurred M a New York wedding
the other day. A pet sky terrier, belonging to the bride,
slipped, unobserved, Into the church after the party. Ile re-
mained very quiet till the end of the service, but on the
post-ceremonial tiss being administered, it entered him dog-
gish brain that his mistress was suffering an injury, so he
attacked the unfortunate groom. Barka, yelp., soreasak
expletives. Tableau !

On Friday, at midnight, the dwelling of a gentleman
farmer In Rudy, county Tipperary, named Quinn.% waa
attacked by six men. lie threatened to shoot, when a volley
was fired by the ruffians through his door and window. A
bullet grazed his head, but fortanately no injury mu done.
Mr. Quinane ran out of the home and fired, wbein they de-
camped. No srresta have been made. Mr. Quillene formerly
purchased some land in the district, which lathe only reason
he can s.utgn for the outrage.
There le likely to be an exciting legal fight over the
will of the late Harlinla of Hertford. Thhi nobleman left the
Hertford estate. in Ireland, worth about £70,000 a year, to
Mr. Richard Wallace, a gentleman who has won golden
opinions from all people for his noble acts of charity to the
suffer:lig Parisians. It la stated that the fugue& waa made
In, codicil, the estates having been, In the first instance,
bequeathed to Sir Hamilton Seymour. It is the validity ot
this codicil which le queettoued, and It le slated that the
trial will "come on" at the next Down maize..

It appears that during Thalberg's visit to America
he was much arm* by the resources offered by the banjo.
and took lessons most ugh:lnoue!, of James Buckley, the
great negro professor of that somewhat monotonous Instru-
ment. lhalberg's whim was developed to such ertent that
he was wont to Improvise most elaborately upon the banjo.
and has left several symphonies of his own oompoeltlon,
destined to bring out, what he was pleased to denominate,
"Its pleasant harmony."

The Liverpool police and some others connected
with the late deans are making • apeolal enumeration in
that town of the children between three and thirteen subject
to compulsory school attendance. The return, are complete
for four of the wards, In which it appear. that the children
number 02)5: there la school accommodation for 16,000,
and an attendance of 14,129 Estimating the proportion of
children at onwsizth of the whole population, the children
of a school age In Liverpool would number 80,000, for which
the accommodation has been over-smelt:naiad.

The telegraphic type-printing instrument In about to
be brought into extended me. This instrument &divan off
its work printed in Roman characters, at the most distant
station, in a tit state to be sent out to the public without
transcription. The Inventor Is Professor Hughes, a tune. of
the United states, who has generally resided In Pula, and
devoted himself there to its Improvement—lt being target,
In use on the Continent. Having been driven from Prance
by the war, he has taken up his residence ht London, and
voluntarily gives instructions daily to • certain number or
postal telegraph employes, and candidates for aclmaeton to
the service, in the workings of his instruments, an well au
their construction and general principles.

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"Politically, also, M. Hugo may fairly claim '6O be
'the brother of fib men.' lie lithe veriest of coenp.,pousaa.
lie was once • Bonapartist, and, during the It.,,aasraajaa,
sang the praises of the Great Emperor most nr,aaaapy. la
the earlier days of Louis-Philippe, hla altrezting oof
'Laisses-mol pieurer cette eau mono' e_iapia,adhim an
weeping over dethroned, Bourbons; bet his grief did not
hinder him from accepting the croes of 'she Legion of Honour
from the Citizen King, or from becoralng the Vloomte Vining
Hugo, Peer of France. Subeequantry be bas,a,a,a a gad Ka.
publican and Socialist, more fraternal and ocemopolisan than
ever. A politician with such a brilliant record for coo.
'latency mut be listened So with peculiar attention when he
asserts—as he doe. In bla letter to the /*dependance-4U'
'Savage acts, being unconsdoun, are not criminal let.''
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that 'dementia Is • disease, and not • crime and that,
cense quentty, the Communists who burnt the Tuileries and
the Hotel de Vile, being only • little crack-brained, should
be absolved from puniahment A similar argument was ,11
we remember aright, advanced in extenuatien of the emu-
Weide* of IL Troppmean."—Leader Is Daiis/ Tolapriak