The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-06-05 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

A marriage has bees arranged to take place between
the Archduke Louis. Victor of Austria and the Princess Mary,
daughter of the ex-King of Ilanover.

Brigham Young broke the first ground for the Utah
Central Railroad, below Ogden, on Monday, the 17th May
The roadie to connect Salt Lake City with the Pacific Railroad,
and It is said will probably be finished in October.

During the past week 24 wrecks have been reported,
making for the present year 1,132.

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The Nottingham Journal saya that Mr. Nichols, a
town councillor of that oorough, anti a well-known book-
maker, is a joint owner of l'retender, and a large winner by
the Derby.

In Portland, Maine, women are making clothing for
New York houses at the following rates :—Woollen sack
coats, le. Oid. such; pantaloons, co. to II.; ordinary over.
coats, Is. bd. ; and for the heaviest and best made, Is. 6.1. to
3s. Id.

There is to be another largo Tabernacle in London,
for one of Mr. Spurgeon's " young men." It to to cost
£12,000, and to hold 3,000 people.

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The Sligo ratepayers have a heavy bill to pay for the
damage inflicted by the rioters at the last borough election.
At the presentment sessions just held claims were passed
amounting to about £1,200.
A pyrotechnic establishment at Angers, belonging
to the brothers Vincent, who were themselves working at
the time, suddenly blew up, a few days ago, and overwhelaiJd
them in its ruins. An alarm being given, the neighbours ar-
rived in all haste with a company of firemen, who extin-
guished the flames, and extricated the bodies, which were
immediately conveyed to the house of their mother, where
the eider soon after expired in great agony; the younger
being still alive, but in a very alarming state.

A banquet has been given in Paris to General Dix,
the late United Statee Minister at the French Court. In
reply to the toast of his health, General Digsaid, few Intel-
ligent persons doubted that the territory of the United
States would be still further enlarged, but it would be, as In
the past, by causes beyond the influence of the country. Ile
trusted that America would continue to stand aloof from
European rivalries and conflicts, and advance on her course
In a spirit of enlightenment, of peace, and of fraternity.
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Buckingham Palace is being prepared for the Viceroy
of Egypt's accommodation.
"

'E. F. C.—Remember you have, in all your in.
creasing troubles, the earnest and faithful affection of your
own E. F. C. ; therefore, ever think and act like ' My own
brave little Birdie' till I come. Let 'Blue Envelope ' know
you have seen this.—E. F. C."—Advertisement in The Times.
The labour market of New South Wales is said to
be over-stocked. Stockmen, shepherds, fencen4, gardeners,
agricultural, dairy, and general servants, and 1160 clerks,
storekeepers, butlers, and grooms are reported in excess of
the current requirements. "Order, for mechanics of most
descriptions are promptly executed, in consequence of the
good supply." But there is a deficiency of the lemale sex.

At the famous White Pine mines, in the United
States, a man was recently hired to dig a grave for one who
had died there. When the funeral procesalon arrived at the
grave, the digger was in it, and refused to leave, declaring
that he had 'struck a fine lead," and could not think of
allowing the body to be buried in the hole."

At the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, on
Monday, an important trial Dr stealing a letter containing
Ou in notes from the mail bag on the caledonian Railway,
between Carstairs .1 unction and Edinburgh, resulted in the
conviction of the thief, a fireman in the company's employ,
and the sentence of seven years' penalservitude was imposed.
Pope Pius the Ninth, feeling profoundly the wide-
spread evils and crushing burdens imposed upon the notions
of Christendom by their gigantic armaments, intends, it is
announced, to lay before the approaching (Ecumenical
Council at Rome a proposal for the general adoption of
international arbitration in lieu of war.
The "National Dog Show" opened on Tuesday at
Islington. About 1,000 dogs were exhibited.

Disestablishment and disendowment " seem to be
catching. The Nonconformist of Wednesday, contains a letter
from Air. It. 11. Sawyer, member of the Bahamas !louse of
Assembly, announcing the separation of Church and state in
that colony. The bill had already passed the Assembly in
two successive years, but was stopped on each occasion by
the Legislative Council. This year, however, the Council has
given way, and the State Church stands abolished. The Epis-
copalian Church in the Bahamas numbered a tenth of the
population, being in a rather worse condition than the same
Church in Ireland.
Lord Carington, on Tuesday, drove the faat four.
horse coach which his Lordship and other members of the
Four-in-hand Club have placed upon the road from London
to Windsor. There was an arisiocratic list of passengers.
The coach, which was admirsidy"Torsed, started from the
White tiorse th: old .11.1,A !Ir.«I r
the Windsm c,ia lee, jinic af..er tw.lve o 'rat uurolty
of the affair .1- much ,trrest • as 1.1-TQ
opening of a no, r ol Luc oil lie .souse-
hold Brigade asseribl- l kite bast end C site Mums
to welcome Lord C.it .^..1 its pa 1,119, and stea the
coach started on the Actor, lo•er, my. tae hay atn-rt 0
sented a very gay app, rms., Is.. id sills e,yuip iges c,ustai: -
ng the £lite of the locamy.
Walt Whitman, the American pact, completed his
50th year on the last day id lila). Ile -ccuideo a thiro-elsie
clerkship In the Attorne)4.: w-rars 0n.c.., WiluesliZt-o
A journal of that city desermes Ins, as •a ra hg'..,,
feet high, costumed m was s may, with drab bat, broad
shirt roller, gray wli,tt, full ssid only. fare in, ace.,
apple, ; ,• f h.... 1110 e
of hunting and boatnig than tine o•r
desk." Mr. 51, hitmen is about to pu.eid... coo , f
his poems, addling some new outs a reigiou themes. lit
• will also publish during the @mamma I. pl-la sm. entitled
. " Demockatic Vaasa"