The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-05-20 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.I

BRITISH, AND FOREIGN,

&teen thousand guns were lieened in Szotlaad
rear.
I hear, on the best authority, that the Prince of
C 3 has kept well within the sum veted by NParbament for
indian trip."—The World.
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty
coo-pipes of those who diffuse it : it proves nothing but
bad tastes of the sinoker:*—Geoige Eliot's "Daniel
soda."
It. A. Proctor, the astronomer, has returned to
,and after a tour in the United State; during which he
delivered 142 lectures.
The street cars in Constantinople are never over-
weed. As soon as they set toe heavy the fellows who
iw them atop, sit down, cross their legs, and take a smoke.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges in
he Times (as "Conscience Money') receipt of a 5.',000 note
implete, from "L ," and of the two halves of a £2O note '
auouymous), both for Income-tax.
Steps are being taken to erect a memorial to the
latia Lord Lyttelton at Worcester, to take the form of .an
edn.)ational or charitable endowment.
• Father Hyacinthe and Madame Loyson arrived in
Lou ion on Monday. .` They are staying with the Right Lion. ,
Wil lam F. (Jraper-Temple, ILP , and Mrs. Cowper-femple.
—Fitfl Nall Gazette.
At in open-air meeting held on Plnmstead-common
on atnrday afternoon, in auppwt of the Permissive Bill, a
vot of thanks was accorded the Right Ron. W. E. Gladstone
for upportiug the Irish Closing Bin. .
i
On Tuesday morning, several Indian rajahs left
Pad itg ton by Great Western train, and on their arrival at
Wit Bur at ten minutes past nine, drove' in the Queen's
car ages to the Castle,- where they had an .audience with
i
Ork advices report that conflicts between
her
ewaje
York
whites and blacks have taken &toe in Louisiana, in which
seventeen of the latter have been killed. The whites are
stated to be arming, and the Sheriff haa demanded military
assistance.
While cleaning out the large porpoise tank in the
'hton Aquarium the other day, the tank superintendent
i upon several specimens of oyster spat of last season.
spat were of the usenet size, and shout the size of a siz-
e. This is the first time that oysters have been known
reed in an aquarium, and the spat to affix arid mature.
n official statement comes from Salonica to the
I that thirty-six men, more or less iruplteated in the
it disturbances there, have been quietly arrested, and
perfect tranquillity prevails.
.q- Majesty, acting on the advice of the Prime
ter, has been graciously pleased to grant a pension of
per annum from the Civil List to the widow of the late ,
ey Brooks, the novelist, for some time editor of Punch, ~
eitideration of the literary services of her deceased'
'1
e are able to announce that the accounts of thea
uses connected with the Prince of Wales's visit to India
'that the sum of £60,000 voted liar not been exceeded.
11, therefore, not be necessary to ask for any further vote
Duey.— Vanity Fair.
be Pope completed his 84th year on Saturday
) having been born at Sinigaella on the 13th of May,
: Ile was elected to the e'Spacy just thirty years ago,
On the Ist JUDO, 1816. On Saturday he received many
' atutatory deputations, and his health is said to be
roue
ince William Auersperg, a young man only
itytwo years of age, and sole heir of the elder branch of
t.eersperg family, has jest been killed at Prague in a
, with Count Kelowrar, a volunteer in a regiment of
eocins in which the Prince was an officer. By this event
president of the Austrian Cabinet-becomes heir pre-
ytive to the family honcurs.—Pall Mall Gazette.
tie sheep farmers in Sussex, Surrey, anti Kent, who
risibly 'commence sheep shearing the first week in May,
'unanimously agreed to defer the process for a fortnight
imsequence of the cold weather, and the local wool
lets are postponed for a month.
.x. Sidebottom, M.P., speaking at a dinner given
rGlossop volunteers on Saturday, remarked that the
teer movement in this country had not been without
ifluence on foreign Powers, hut had on many occasions
'll weight to our counsels and force to our diplomacy.
0 proved that only an insignificant number or people
tiled the doctrines of the peace-at-any-price party.
is attempt was made at Sheffield on Monday, but
Out success, to settle the Colliery dispute in South York-
1. The masters originally insisted upon a reduction of
fr cent. The men offered to accept a redaction of 10
' offer was refused, and the masters proposed that the
ire should be elide i by the men accepting lei per cent.
CaOrl. The men declined this proposal, so that the Ws-
remained unsettled.
t a fancy fair held in the Palais Bourbon a few days
whereat Madame Macelahon kept a stall, one of the
:valuable contributions, in point of market price, was
eseutation copy, with the autograph of the Royal
iorers of Leaves from Our Journal in the Highlands.
As given by the Queen to a Belgian Baroness, at whose
Sit was sold by weight with msny other books to a
Ir on the QUM. Voltaire. A Countess well known in
lan society saw it on his stall, and purchased it In order
A neer it to her own. It was slid for a large sum at the
gr.
eutenant-Colonel Peter Thomson, Mayor of Liver.
died on Satu,day morning at his residence, Lenfield
, West usebigh, near L,verpoOl. The cause of death
ronchitis. He was about sixty-three years of Age, and
ve of Aberdeenshire. The fires of George ihombon and
with which he.was cannected up to a few years a2O,
largely engaged as railway ctontractors, and executed
d works, not only in England, but also abroad, particu-
, kain and Russia.' ' .

,Wa
hts

Mr.

Brfg
cam
The
pem
b

effcc
recel
that

Blinisi

£too
Shirl
ill C
husl

baud.

expe
sholi
It w:

TI
invai
have
in cl
mars

to tb
volui
its it
adde
It all
aces]

•A!beggar recently applied for alms at the door of a
Alter vdaisiumlyisdseeatabilyintgheh
partikan of the Anti-Mendlcity Society in Edinburgh.
sm a li
inexorableii°l4 gentleman.sor ows ,h he aGs
op ea rwe
away,"
said he, "go; we canna gie ye naething." "You might, at
least'," returned the mendicant, with an air f o great dignity
and archness, " have refused me grammatically."
The Chester Courant says there has been a general
stagnation in the Cueshire silt Vacie during the poet month,
and the falling Of in the exports of one of the principal
traders has been 30,G0 tone, or nearly 30 per cent. upon the
average of the last seven years. Prices have been further
reduced.
The Liverpool Post says that Mr. McArdle, of that
town, a mtruver of the Town Council, has within a fortnieht
lost his wife and sit children from diphtheria—a disease (the
local paptr says) which has become almost epidemic in Liver-
pool,
The death took place at Bristol on Monday of
Alderman Procter, who recently presented the city with a
splendid Mansion 'House, worth, with the furnishing, £15,000
or £16,C00. He had made other gifts to the city, lie was
the hea,d•of the manure firm of D. and S. Proctor, and his
personalty is expected to reach half a million sterling.
or )-
"More matches
f Wor- Does D. stand
T'
for B-h? Shure this tail of ]ow-wow is composed of three
joints which belong to my cow .• I Can this he icy Tiny? Is
tie that fierce cow? Yet avowed himself. frightened, no fellow
knows how."—Advertisement in The Timed of Wednesday.
Commenting on the Board of Trade Returns for the
last quarter, The Times says they fail to show that return of
commercial life which as been so long awaited. In nearly
all directions the paralysis of business which set in as early
as 1872 is still apparent
It is curious to observe the neck and neck race
betwixt Postal Cards and Postal Wrappers. The Cards
reached last year a sale of eighty-two millions, while the
Wrappers shot ahead only to about eighty-eight millions!
These numbers are certainly enormous in themselves, but
the use of these postal instruments is only limited as yet.
The Cards last year stepped out at one stride, nearly three
millions, bat the Wrappers beat them by increasing nix mil-
lions in the same time.
An inquest has been held in London, at St. George's
Hospital, respecting the death of Fanny Greatorez, aged 40,
a laundress, of 12, Union-street, Chelsea. The evidence
showed that on the 12th hist, a fire broke out in the laundry
of the house of the deceased, some .clothes which had been
placed in the room to dry having accidentally caught fire.
The deceased, in endeavouring to put out the flames, was
severely burnt about the face and hands. She was removed
to the hospital, and died soon alter. The jury returned a
verdict of "Accidental Death."

Mr. Wright made an ascent in his new balloon
" Excelsior " from the Crystal Palace on Saturday last, ac-
companied by Messra. G. Wilton and II Eversrd. the
balloon took a south-west direction, and at 6.11 got into a
very cold atmospurre, and at the height of 4,60 feet entered
svclOnd. and was enveloped la snow for ten minutes. The
sun dinfirj; the ascent and previously to the baLloon's enter-
lug the cloud was shining brightly. The passengers desceu.
tied in the park at Mickleham ilea, near Leatherhead, and
curiously enough a small paper balloon which was thrown out
on leaving the Crystal Palace and lost sight of WAS seen
caught hi a tree close to where they themselves fell.

,