The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-03-08 00:00:00

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purity of her character, a bird belated in its journey to the
sunny South flew down from a tree and perched open the
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sweetness resident
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coffin just as it was being lowered into the grave.
The Duchess of Montrose has forwarded to the Lord
Provost of Glasgow £lOO towards the relief—thronghthe
Ladies' Clothing Committee- of the distress in Glasgow. In
doing so she expressed a hope that prosperity may soon re-
tarn to Glasgow.

On the suggestion of the Bishop of Salford a corn-
mit'ee has t een formed in Manchester for establishing a
society ot commercial geography.

Tenders for colours for the French army have been
called for-159 flags and 119 standards for the active army
and 145 flags for the regiments of the territorial army.
Since the Franco-German War the French army has only had
temporary colours, made of bunting, but now the regiments
are to have silk, the colours will naturally be red, white,
and blue; but the staff, instead of an eagle, will have for
" apex " a Republican emblem and the letters
standing for Republique Francaise.
The Glasgow Tramway Company, who recently
commenced running tramway cars on Sundays, have resolved
to withdraw them in consequence of the representations

made to there.
Last Saturday the society and non-society engineers
who are on strike in London were paid the weekly amounts
regulated, for the former, by the district lodges of the
Amalgamated Society of Engineers, and for the latter by the
Central Strike Committee. The expenditure incurred on
Saturday in strike pay amounted to over £BOO, the sums paid
to the non-society engineers ranging from 10k to 15s. each,
with the is. extra for each child. On neither side does

there ii;;Peji:ai-P.i;sen-t any sign of giving in.
A. telegram from Geneva says that a recent earth-
slip at Geroglingen, on the Lake of Biennet has caused a
considerable destruction of property, several houses in some
cultivated land having disappeared beneath the waters of
the lake.

The business quarters of the town of Reno, be
Nevada, was destroyed by fire on Sunday. Five persons
perished, and the loss of property caused by the con-
flagration is estimated at 1,000,000 dollars.
Christmas cards produced a revenue to the Post Office
this year of £20,000, against an extra expenditure of £lOO.

The Duc Pozzo di Botgo is dead, aged eighty.seven.
He was the owner of the Chateau of Montretout, near Saint
Cloud, which was totally destroyed during the German war.
He since rebuilt it, and leaves a fortune estimated at £20,000
a year. He was a cousin of Louis Blanc. The heir to his
estate is connected by marriage with the Duchess of Magenta.
—Court Journal.

At a meeting of the Birmingham Trades Council it
has been resolved to establish a federation of trades unions,
for the purpose of counteracting the National Federation of
Employers. It was stated that several trades councils in
the Nlidiands, representing ninety trades and about 15,000
workmen, were willing to join in forming the proposed
federation. _

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A meeting of goods guards in the employ of the
Great Western Railway Company has been held in London,
to protest against the proposed extension of their hours of
labour, and consequent reduction of wages. It was gene-
rally agreed that they were not at ptement in a condition to
strike, and a resolution was ultimately passed expressing
the dissatisfaction of the meeting with the reduction of the
earnings of the goods guards enforced by the directors, and
the determination of the men to co-operate with other dis-
tricts in regaining the lost conditions of the service.
The anniversary of Leo XIIL's Coronation was
commemorated on Monday by a grand Pontifical high mass
in the Sistine Chapel.

One of the objects of the deputation from Victoria
at present in England is said to be to induce the Prince of
Wales to visit !de'bourne during the holding of the Inter-
national Exhibition.

All the firms connected with the iron and machine
trades in the Bradford district have given to their various
workpeople a week's notice of their resolution to increase
the hours of working ki all their establishments from 54 to
54 hours per week. This alteration in the hours of working
will probably affect 3,000 people in Bradford alone, and some
thousands, in addition, in the immediate district.

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A. patent has been taken out for the extraction
of mucus or mucilage from sea-weed and other marine
plants.
Five thousand weavers of Ashton-under-Lyne, who
for a fortnight have been resisting a reduction of five per
cent. in their wages, resumed work on Monday morning on
the masters' terms. All the mills which were closed are now
in full work.

The united ages of the last six persons who died
In the Uxbridge workhouse amounted to 493 years, an
average of 82 years and two months each. The eldest was
90 and the youngest 77.
A meeting of the master brielrmakers of the London
suburban district was held at the Cannon-street Hotel, on
Monday, for the purpcse of discussing the wages question in
their trade and to decide on the reduction to be made in
wages during the ensuing season. A motion that the reduc-
tion should be Gd. per 1,000 for moulding was unanimously
agreed to.
The Roumanian medal for military valour has been
conferred upon Colonel Wellesley, who was Military Attach'
at the Russian head-quarters during the late war.
In Warrington and Southport the Relief Committees
have wound up their affairs, the distress having so far abated
that further assistance is considered unnecessary. At South-
port it has been resolved to establish a provident society, the
objects of which shall be to help the deserving poor, to
educate them in sanitary matters, and to inculcate habits of
thrif I.

Lord Elcho, in addressing the London Scottish
Volunteers at their prize distribution in Westminster Hall,
on Saturday night, in referring to the recommendations con-
tained in the report of the War Office Committee, deprecated
the placing of any limit to the force. In his opinion, the
greater the number of men who passed through the training
of volunteers the better would it be for the country. He did

not think there should be any increase in the Compulsory
drills, and he objected strongly to the abolition of the grey
uniform, which afforded leas of a mark to an enemy than the
scarlet uniform.

A locomotive, perhaps the largest ever made, is
now en route for work on the long, heavy grade on the
Rocky 111outu sins of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Ire
Railroad. It has ten wheels of paper, with steel tires, and
the firebox was ten feet long. When in working order it
weighs 118,000Ibs. Its weight Is so great that the Western
roads won't let it go over bridges, and it will have, there-
fore, to be dismantled. It ran, however, over-all the bridges
of the Penns lvania read.
The gloomiest accounts reach Lahore (according to a
Times telegram) of the famine at Cashmere. A large stock
I of grain is about to be imported there, but it is inadequate
to the wants of the starving people. On Saturday night there
was a very slight rainfall at Lahore, quite insufficient to
diminish the grave risks of impending scarcity.
Mr. Sullivan's Bill providing for the early closing
of Irish publichouses on Saturdays has been printed. It
proposes to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors after
six o'clock on Saturday afternoons in Dublin, Cork, Limerick,
and Waterford, and after eight o'clock in all other cities,
towns, or places in Ireland.
Lord Winterton died at his seat, Shillinglee-park,
Sussex, on Saturday. The fourth Earl of Winterton, Vis-
count Tumour, and Baron Winterton of Gort, Galway, in
the Peerage of Ireland, he was born in 1810, and succeeded
to the title in 1633. A little more than a fortnight ago he
saw his son, the Hon. Keith Tumour, an officer in the 60th
Rifles, embark for the Cape, and returned home with a
violent cold, which terminated fatally in cerebral meningitis.
Lord Winterton was fond of country life and pursuits and
took no active part in public life. He leaves a large family,
and is succeeded in the title and estates by Edward Viscount
Tumour.

A special telegram from Berlin to the Pall Mall
Gazette says :—" There is said to be a prospect of a com-
promise between the Prussian Court and the Duke of
Cumberland. Negotiations are reported to be on foot. The
statements of Ministers in the debate upon the Brunswick
Regency Bill, are held to signify that there is reason for
hoping that matters may be so erranged as to induce the
Duke to accept accomplished facts. In Brunswick the Duke
is believed to be personally not averse to coming to an
understanding with Prussia, but t, be deterred and
prevented from doing so by the agitations of the Guelph
party and the remonstrances of their leaders. Should an
amicable arrangement prove practicable, the belief in
Brunswick appears to be that the Duke will take up Ida
residence in that duchy."
The Palace of Tervueren, near Brussels, has been
completely destroyed by fire. No lives were lost, and the
Empress Charlotte (widow of the Emperor Maximilian of
Mexico), who resided there, was safely conducted to the
Palace at Laeken. The Palace Tervueren was built
in 1815, after the plans of the architect Van der Straeten.
On the union of Belgium and Holland it was presented to
the Prince of Orange, but in 1830, pursuant to treaty, fell
into the possession of the Belgian Crown, and in 1852 was
selected as the summer residence of the Duke and Duchess
of Brabant. The Empress Charlotte has resided in it since
1867. Elie fire broke out at five o'clock in the morning in
the physician's apartments, and it is attributed to &defect
in the chimney. Only a few articles of furniture have been
saved. The losses are estimated at £40,000 sterling. The
King and Queen are reported to have been much affected by
the disaster.