The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-05-20 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWR,

BRITISH AND FOR.

The carpenters in Londonderry are out on strike for
an advance of wegas
The Court of Exchequer has decided that drafts on
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"I have sometimes wondered which o all the dif. deposit accounts In a braiding society must be stamped, or
ferent profeesions into which the business of life of this the society tillable to a penalty.
country divides itself might be ranked as the severest It is announced that an Influential committee has
toll. The artiet, it is true, has much to undergo ;he been formed in Loudon "to watch current tensile, and to or-
bas much labour, much disappointment, and much rii::::e, kere:ivezrer:lsenieth..e.m.efaas,;rt ggstii g, their voice heard
anxiety ; while, on the other hand, the privnt „.. ."„ _ Y
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of success are great, The soldier and the eaildr, resiaiiii.z..e.T.kuutii.v.Ltear,.on.e of the Delhi royal family
Glint, nenarea, has been c invicted of
too, have their great triumphs, although they buylnggalays' girls and senntenrad to four yearn' simple lea.
may have to wait for a lung time for . the prlsonment and sAine of 005 rupees.
rewards of these triumphs to crown their lives. A Loudon young lady said a pretty good thing the
Yet each has the disposition of hits tulle to a other evening. She has many admirers among the limbs of
great extent. The scientific Man undoubtedly In pure the 15,.. nod on befog asked how she escaped heart.whole,
suing science has more than any of his contemporary supposed It was owing to the fact that "In a multitude of
workers, I should say, the opportunities of laying out nucleators there is safety."
his own time, in accordance with hie wishes, and yet The li afthman, the organ of the Wesleyan Meth°.
subordinate to his pursuits. The lawyer, I admit, is dist., has Information that the halos K eshud Chunder hen
greatly tied. But I have come to this question within has been baptised Spa Methodist mthaionary, and has become
myself, whether the man of medicine or the man of the • local preacher In connection with that community,
press is the harder worked. The man of medicine, who Letters received by the last Brazil mail give a her.
devotee his whole life to the charitable objects of his Able account of the ravages of the yellow fever In Kilehoe
profeeeion, and who cannot call the night bin own, or Ayree. There were no
died
than ...00 burials 1i...kge1.102i
the man of the press, whose work is no hard and eo on.
Ceasing, and upon whose accuracy, both of word and of more.odm 4ObO •74,000 an
to3ll,o7o:oopeho:ple:rieerad :InneVn rhlircityA and at these
ill with the fever. '
fact, the greatest issues depend; and, moreover, who,
as in the old Egyptian fable, turns his night into day, A Parliamentary 'Return just leaned...eta, tee that.
but not, as in the fable, for laic own gratification. co inurgine rfltahned it'd Tadteede Lustre vialcchge al Teact‘ iii3rafhe'!3.l9v6 rune l' a -
doubt the sum of all human comfort ts produced
by a great many causes, and flows in from a great ihrorsdiv'ltdt 472,881 cases,
divided.
Ttoh.3{7olxporonrulaz. union. into
successful
which 'tide country
many sources; but when I look to that which con- 80,012 being those of persona more than one year old.
etitutes the independence and the comfort of civilised Last week the aggregate mortality in London and
life in England in the nineteenth century, I cannot to other large towns of the rotted Kingdom was at the rate
fail to recognise how larg,ely the press contributes to of 74 deaths annually to every 1,000 of the estimated ponnia-
it. —(Cheers.) We owe a debt of gratitude to it in far Lion. In the metropolla 20,71 births, and I,il.hdeltlt3s were
more ways than one. We owe the debt obviously in reer trgl•nthe;.ofoormerz ytto ,g,te:Lelja sod a death.,a 175
what I may call an intellectual sense. There is not a eluding -232 Iron, small.pos. 10 from measles, 35 from scarlet
book written, not a drama enacted, not a picture fever, 2 from diptherha. 25 troll] whooping-e*ugh, ettrom
painted, not a etstue carved, not a great public build- different forms of fever of which 11 were certified as typhus,
ing set up, that the press does not bring home to each Pan enteric or typhoid, and 4as simple continued levere
and all of us. For the few individuela who enjoy the A few days ago Lord Granville spoke of the mass of
fortune to gee and admire any of these originals, there correspondence with refer,,n,t, to the negotiations at
are thotuninde upon thousands who eee and read of Wearangton which had paned through the Atlantic cable.
them only through the columns of the press.—(Loud ~Somve.a.,Loeir.hre,:f.iti.U4' 7:. tif'rol.,EcTl:lP:ent that 4e'e.tflry,,,lbee.
cheers.) If we owe it our gratitude, we owe it on this graphic Charges' are said to amount to the sum of i,,S.Cky).
score, more emphatically do we owe it on what I von. This. of cosine, Includes all messages, whether to or from
tura to call moral and social grounds. There was a Washington.

There are annuany shipped from Baltimore 40,000,000
caps ot order.. . . .. .. .

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The Lord Chief Justice of England holds that a
horse race Is not a game of chance.

A lady advertiees herself In a London paper ag
tneher for " persons of oewl7-1,021nd werdttt and deticleat
ednoatioa.

says that M. Emile Oliver, of whom
nothtng has been heard for 11310 time peat, Is now residing
et twin. _ _

A protected prize-fight between 7Slace and Coburn
hoe been creronted ty the Canadian authorities, and le in-
definitely postigfaeo. . . „

One of the banners carried by the 'Frisco Germane
In New York to celebrattha the tall of Parts was Inscribed
Frogs smothered in sauerkraut"
The classes of manufactures for the International
Exhibition ntxt year will be cotton, jewellery, musical in-
struments, paper, ItaiioUery, and printing.
A man committed suicide by banging in St. LOUIS
ths other day, having arranged the noose no that It would do
its work while he was under the Influence of chloroform.
The High, Low, and Broad Church parties of Eng-
land are designated as " Attltuditutriam, " Platitudlnew
clans. " and Latitudinarians."

four native policemen have been found guilty of
torture to extract a conteenion, and murder, to the Central
fro Ince' of India, and two of them hare been sentenced to
death.
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The medicla men charged with examining the
Frenchman who exploded some bombs at Baron Rothschild's
bank at Frankfort have declared him to be of sound mind.
lie will therefore be put on his trial.
The negroes of Guinea have sent a petition to the
King of lloiland against their ;ruder to the Govemmeot of
Great Britain, and c ffer to pay the same sum to remain under
llntch rule.
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A marble-cntter recently received from a German an
order for a tombstone with the following epitaph My rile
Susan is dead ; it she'd had life till neat krtday she'd been
died abut two weeks."
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A whole caste—the nagur Bunia caste--baee had to
do penance tor dining with a man who had dtnek2 with s
Man who had gone to England." Their moustaches were
shaved off, and those who had no moustaches had their holds
sbavod—i'o. oi lia. .

From April 14 to the 13th Inst. thc Exchequer re-
eelpts amounted to 1.6.9315,070, and the expenditure to
£53966,500. The balance to the Batik of England on Satur-
day last was C 3,923,669.
Mits. Mx! AritOr could not think why Serjeant
Baliantlne. hi the 3.cs6orne Cue, was so eamest In praying
for Tales" There to more romance In the Interesting story
Itself, she says, than in hall the rubblgy frictions of the
circular libery.—Punch.
The scientific A wrican says It is now Impossible to
construct a burglar-rroof safe, for the thief with his cylinder
of compressed hydrogen and oxygen, can In a few seconds
burn holes et any size in the hardsst metal—his fire drill
enabling him In • taw minutes to work his way Into the
strongest site that wasever constructed.

A young man employed an valet by Mr. Walker,
barrister, who occupies chambers in the Albany, London,
was burned to death in his bedroom early on nunday morn-
ing. A gentleman gang to bed saw smoke issuing from some
cracks in the young man's door, and.. soon as it wan forced
the room was found to be In flames, and the occupant dead in
the midst-of them. _

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The Mt/bourne Age says that Lorando Jones, ie.
canny convicted at Paramatta, Nets South Wales, of blas-
phemy, and sentenced to two tears' imprisonment tor some
coarse and Insulting remarks concerning the authenticity or
the old Testament, has received a free pardon, and • bill
has been introduced Int, the Sydney Legislature repealing
the law under which Mr. Jones was convicted.
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A young man named Henry Murphy was shot dead
on the night et the 10th instant in the county Monaghan-
ills body wail found in the road near the bowie of a man
named Bryan Murphy, who with his two sous has been
arrested It is ml that Bryan 31urph7 had been heard to
use threats regarding deceased, and a gun which 11511 been
recently discharged was fouud in his bolted
In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Monday, the
triad of Lannon, Pwk, Hurt, and Fisk waa brought to a close.
The day was occupied by the reply of the Attorneptleneral
upon the whole case and the summlng.up of the Lord Chief
.1 ustice The Jury, after nearly an hour's deliberation,
acquitted the defendants on all the counts of the indictment.
'The mystery If Edwin I )rood" is destined to re-
main a mystery, for the master hand that wrote the com-
mencement of the story lies still in death. But It would
seem that there are not wanting those wko will 1111 up the
gap and finish the mystery in their own way. Frank Leone'.
I li.trated Journal in Nee York is giving what purports to
be the conclusion of the tale. _ _

Sir Hope Grant' report on the Eaeter Monday
review has been issued from the War-oll,e. The general
praises the men for their general appearance, but considers
these large reviews are detrimental to the force from the
want of time ant opportunity for carrying out useful move-
ments, and adds that, had it been actual warfare, whole
brigades would have been utterly annihilated In • few
minutes.

To the delights of street Mee is added a new charm
In the shape of a " devil's fiddle." A " devil's fiddle' I.
easily and cheaply made. It consists of a tin box the sire
generally used being that eta common mustard box), through
the bottom of which a string Is drawn and fastened Inside
with a knot. The string Is then well rosined, and by drawing
the hand over it, sounds are produced which are well cal-
culated to make a nervous person feel decidedly uncomforte
able!

The Archbishop of York presided, on Monday, over
a meeting ef the Central Association for Stopping the Salta
Intoxicating uors on Sunday. The Bishop of Gloucester,
Archbishop Manning, and Lord Claude Hamilton,
were amongst the speakers, and a resolution was carried,
declaring that nothing short of the entire prohibition of the
sale of such liquors on Sunday, except to lodgers and tra-
vellers, would satisfy the last demands of the people.
A young woman named Thompeon was charged at
the Lambeth pollee.court on Saturday with stealing floweni
from the Nunbead Cemetery. She Was seen coming away
from the grouud, and was stopped and asked if she had got
any towers. She positively denied having any, but in an
umbrella she carried a quantity of pink and white May was
found. She then admitted plucking It, expressed her regret.
and offered to pay the damage. The Magistrate tined her in.,
but as she had no money to pay the tine, he gave her MUM
to pay it.

The Melbourne Argos says that some little exdtement
has been caused in the colony by the receipt of a despatch
from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, stating the
existence of a rumour—which was disbelieved—to the effect
that a filibustering expedition was to start from the United
States of America, with the view of making a raid upon
Melbourne, Sydney, sad Dunedin. "Au we had previously
been doing our best to pie. the harbour in a state of defence
is aosu.teen was no um...By for taking any further steps.
and any suck expedition arriving here woo.voneihe
Itself in an unpleaaant position."
A grand State Consort waft given on Monday night
at Buckingham Palace. the Prince of Wale. and several
War regal personages were present. Besides the it 'yid
party there were, as It appears from the C, lir( Circular,
about 630 hivitati me, including 15 dukes and their
duchesses, 13 marquise' and 12 ruarchlOnsesee, 63 earls, 60
collet...so, 11, vlcouuto, Is viscountesses, nine archbishops
and bishops, 35 lords, 125 ladles, 33 tight honourable., six
houourables, 44 hon. mesdames and misses, 14 baronet.,
eight cleats, canons, and reverends, two doctors, 32
monsieur., 93 mesdames, Ti misses, 21 admirals and cap-
tains, II 2., 95 field marshals, generals, and other officers of
the army.
An action for slander was tried in London, before
Mr. Baron Martin on Saturday, in which the plaintiff, •
bottle merchant, accused the defendant, who had
dealt with aim for some years, with publicly calling
him a "great scoundrel," and saying that he never got his
money by honesty in his business, end that his bottled, were
very bad. The defendant denied having ever made any im-
putation On the plaintiff's honesty in trade, but he admitted
he had called him a scoundrel The learned judge told the
jury that unless they believed the defendant had imputed
dishonesty to the plaintiff in M. business there wen no cause
of action. Mere abusive language was not actionable unless
damage fl seed from it. If it were to be made so, he feared
the labour. of Jurymen would be very much InCreasod. The
jury found a verdict for the defendant.