The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-02-12 00:00:00

A Renter's telegram from Bombay states that small-
pox Is seriously on the increase there.
A violin by Stradivariw, year 1702. with two bows
mounted in silver, has just been sold at the 116 tel Drouot,
Paris, for 6,000 fr.
The Duchess of Edinburgh and her suite went on
Tuesday night to the Prince of Wales's Theatre.
The horse meat establishments in Paris delivered'
for consumption during the past year 6,565 horses, asses, or
mules.
Prince Christian and the Marquis of Exeter dinea
with the Earl of Shrewsbury and the Gentlemen. of the .1
Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms at their mesrin St. •
James's Palace on Tucsday night.

It is definitely announced that his Royal Highnesi,,tA
the Duke of Edinburgh will shortly assume the command of -
the,Sultan, one of the Channel fleet. The Sultan is now
Dernport, and will receive a refit at Portsmouth. vise
A. New York genius recently carried the follies of a
masked ball to a laborious and painful degree of comicality.
He personated a donkey attached to a small go-cart, in which' , •
the driver was seated in the guise of a farmer. The donkey
moved on "all fours," and brayed at intervals.
The income of the Royal Agricultural Benevolent
Institution (for the relief of decayed farmers, their widows,
and orphans) has been increased during the year 1875 by the I
sum of Ll,BOO in new donations and subscriptions. Sixty
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new pensioners will be elected in June. 4.411 k
A return relating to drunkenness in Scotland, ob- • .-.."
tained on the motion of Dr. Cameron, 31. P., shows that the
total number of persons arrested in Scotland for drunken-
ness during the year ended June 30, 1875, was 61,173, of
whom 38.213 were arrested as "drunk and incapable," and
22,960 as "drunk and disorderly."
Two colliers have lost their lives on the Manchester
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway under singular cir-
cumstances. On their way to their work at the Kiveton
Park Colliery they were walking along the up line feeling -
themselves to be safe. Unfortunately there had been a
breakdown on the down line, and the up line was being
worked for traffic in both directions, and the two men were
run down by an express train and killed on the spot.
A telegram to the Standard says that there was a
large fire at New York on Taesday night, which destroyed
bait a block of houses bounded by Broadway, Howard,
Crosby, and Grand-streets, including two hotels and extensive
clothing &warehouses. Three firemen were killed and five
injured. The loss of property is estimated to amount to
3,000,000 dollars.
The death is announced of Dr. Richard King, the
Polar traveller. Dr. King was known as the companion of
Admiral Sir George Back in his journey to the North Pole,
in 1833-4-5, wrote several books, some of them on medical
subjects, and was a copionelcontributor to the Medical Times,
and the Anthropological Review.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer will move in Com-
mittee of Supply on Monday, "That a sum of four million
and eighty thousand pounds be granted to her Majesty to
enable her to pay the purchase money of certain sharesin
the Suez Canal Company, and the expenses attendant
thereon."
Mr. J. J. Allen, founder of the National Early
Closing League, addressed the delegates assembled at t‘
Bristol Guildhall on Monday on the opening of the fifth
annual convention. Ile dwelt on the present position of /
the movement, and remarked that they were directly in the -
interests of upwards of a million of people, and they would •
continue to agitate until every shop assistant in England
was emancipated from the oppression of late hours.
The London papers of Monday announced the
death of Mr. H. T. Harrison, who for more than twenty-six
years had filled the position of Secretary to the Privy Parse
at Buckingham Palace. The ability with which he dig.
charged his important duties, his high character, and nnre.
mitting attention to business, rendered him one of the most
valued of the Queen's servants, and her Majesty has reason
deeply to regret his loss.
Little Bob begged hard the other day, when tome
friends were dining with us, to be allowed to come in and alt
at the table during desstrt, which I told him he might do,
provided he neither talked nor annoyed people by asking for
fruit. He very readily assented to this condition, which be
honestly fulfilled to the letter. At last I heard the poor
little fellow crying and sobbing most pitifully. "What is the
matter, Bob?" I said; "what are you crying about ?" "Why,
he replied, "here I am, asking for nothing and getting
it."—Pictori4l World.
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The ship Arundel Castle, 1,024 tons, chartered by.
Mr. Dutton, Agent-General for South Australia, sailed last
Friday (4th) afternoon from Plymouth with a full comple-
ment of emigrants, numbering 360 souls, who are under the "10
charge of Dr. Singleton, surgeon superintendent, the single mg
young women being under the care of Miss Wall, an expert-
enced matron. The emigrants consist of carefully-selected tit -
agricultural and other labourers, and mechanics of various lit
trades, married and single, to all of whom free ,passages are
given. A
terrible accident is reported from America. At •Ja,r
Cincinnati, on Saturday afternoon, at the opera house, "an
allegory of the Great Republic" was being performed for the it
benefit of the Poor Relief Fund. Several hundred public
schoGl children took part in the performance on the stage, ,gr
while the house was closely packed with a large audience,
mainly consisting of women and children. Scarcely had the
performance begun when a cry of " fire"was raised without -
any reason, causing a panic and a stampede for the doors.
For several minutes horrible scenes occurred in the entries
and on the stairways, people being crushed to death, trampled
upon, thrown down the stairs, many jumping from the
and upper stories upon the crowds below. Eleven ;
were killed and about thirty injured.

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