The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-08-20 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISA AND FOREIGN.

In nntstquwnce of the price of copper advancirg on
account of the war, the population of ludia will htwe to pay
more tJr their idols.

A destructive lire devastated the town of Thirnstarde
Slobriay. The borough is der cr,bed as tiavis.g been desti-
tute alike of a fire brigade and water.
In the London ckrn.market, on Monday, the lamed
supply vf oats on recori was brought to uunket—uver 204,000
qrs.

A certain miraionary report etates "that there are
only no misinn arks to twenty thousand cannibals" and
cabs tor a larger supply ! Toe Datives will clearly be starved !
M. StrilUSN the comp,rer, who wog Po brutally
a by some half intoxicated Russian officers a short
time since, has died from the injuries he received.

At the last French census the number of males be-
tween 20 and 30 years of age was 8,760,000, and the number
of males between 30 and 40 years was 3,523,000. Here, then,
are plenty of candidates for •• glory."

The North German Gazette- of M. May. in a leading
article sa, • :—" To-day is Napoleon's tote, and as France no
loner celebt ate. It, let us add one more to our calendar, and
celebrate ties, the last of Napoleon's I casts."
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It wss annonneed on Sturdy by the judge at the
Leeds Assiz a that sentence on Mr. Leng, convicted on a
criminal information of a Ithel on Lord and Lady S4ton,
will 1w pronounced next term in the CJurt of Queen's 13.-Lcii.
Among the passengers by the Cunard etearner Cuta
front New York, whien arrived at Liverpool on Saturday,
were General Burnside ard lit wife.

Sir . Samuel Baker's expedition lias been beard of.
Ace,. lug to a telegram from Cairo, Sr Samuel was at
Tewakl ea, In the Muth degroo of north latitude on the 13th
of June. _

Aimost the members of the Government have left
i/uuton, but I: is stated that for the present all whose de-
partments are likely to he affect° I in soy way by the course
of events on the Continent will remain within a ehort,
die-
tance of London.

The Rcv. MOTVBII Rice Morgan, vicar of Llaneamlet,
and inconvient of St. John's-Jux a, Swansea, was fined £5,
and Dsviii Rees, his sexton, 10, on Stiorday last, by the
saansea bench, for having on the 14th of June last assisted
the burial of a body In a ground which had been closed by
an Order in Conned.

A debtor wag exatuinFd in London, on Monday,
before Mr. Ju,tice Widow' Smith, at Chambers, undor he
new Act, and It eppearing toot be had a salary of £4OO a
)ear, his Lordship made an order of Ca a month to pay •
butcher's bill of £4O, subject to an application to the Court
on a deed.

The Calcutta correpondent of The Times writes
that last year Great Britain took Mb million pounds of ladles
fey, against seven one third millions in the previous year.
This year's increase promises to be proportion .11y greeter.
But the basis of all prosperity are the food grains, and in
every part of India exception—a angular tact—they
proniiie well.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury has formally accepted
the resignation cf the Itlght Rev. Dr. 1. N. St %ley as Bishop
of Honolulu. It to doubtfol whether another bishop will be
appointed, although the King et Hawaii expresses a sincere
desire for the nomination of another bishop, to whom hesays
he will render every possaile assistance.

At Musedlee, two men, one Ambroiw, employed as
wafter on board a eteamer, the other, Perot, a pork butcher,
were quarrelling in consequence of an imult by the latter to
the w ire of the former, when Anibroise threatened the ether
wiih a revolver. The tradesnam fete ed a long knife from
his shop and stabbed hit advrtsary in the abdomen, killlog
him on the spot earot was aft,rwards arrested.

A wipe] of 125 tons, belonging to a port in South
Wales, has Just loft Greenock, alter di.ehvging a cargo of
sugar. She has, notwithstanding her small tonnage, no less
than 22 owners, ',winding two met-loam a widow,, a ship-
builder, a "gentleman' ten farmers, a banker, an Iron-
monger, a merchant, a watchmaker, a bo.,kmaket (sporting?),
a butcher, and last, but not least, a "minister of the Gospel.
A clergyman, pointing to the fact that the Table of
Lesson, bill has only been prevented from be,onurg the law
of the lend by Mr. Bruce's single veto, thinks the eler,y will
be justified in taking the metier into their own bands, and
usltg the new Lessons. Ile adds that he leas adopted the
proposal Table of Lessons for some months, to the entire
eatisfactlon and immense relief of the whole cotgregation,

A man was brought before the French police a few
days ,Ince, under the charge of attempting to pick a Ira-
vel:er's pocket at one of the Paris rail wey stations, where,
the public should be warned, they usually carry on their
trade. The man'. arimmed Octet ce was, that he believed
the gentleman Mie a Prtwian who was carrying away French
money!

The Scotsman saTe that reports from every district
of Scotland give good accaunts of the sport on the moors.
t.re more iletAitnl thnn they have b-en tine° 1.06,
%Lea the fatal grouse cheese almost decimated the uorthern
moors, and they are said to be healthy .d strong. They are
umversally reported wi:cl, however, nod the beet efforts of
sportr-men are required to make good bags.

The Jomrnal den D,lats of Monday notes with
pies-lire the unanimity with which the E. gilds journals
reprrt the Minim-oil shown to French pHs ners by their
German cantors. To reassure the families of the prizollets
Olt this sut.j:ct tho Debate srilds several extracts from lettere
which have appeared in The Times.
On Saturday a man named George Mitchell took a
ticOet by a Great Northern train from King's Cross to the
Seven Sinter's.rosd, aiol proceeding by a irate which ran
through the elation, attempted to alight, nod fell with great
violence on the platform. He was removed to the Royal
Free Hospital with shocking isjories to his scilp and body,
one arm being tone out of the socket. His injuries are ex-
pected to terminals fatally._

The Royal Agvieulter,l Shaw at Mont 11901 not
proved to he lucrative. Toe total Lumber of admissiohs was
86 £67, and the turn taken at the gtt es £5,38S 13,, to which
Mote be added the isle • f sensou tickets. The tool of ad-
messions at lianclieeter was 194 733; the receifea from pay-
teent at the Rates, £15,659. At Leicester the numser was
96744; the receluts, £6,668. At Bury fit. Edmunds the
numtar of admissions wee 61,5.37.

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Mr. G•idfrey Knight, brewer, of Scarborough, who
was out shooting arouse on Mil ry, on Lockton Low Moor,
near Pick-ring, when taking atm was seen to fall suddenly
s groom ran to his arsistance, and picked the unfortunate
gentleman up, and be was found to he quite dead. The
event csAt a gloom over the neigh.rourhocel, and nearly the
whole of the large party that had met fir the opening of the
shooting season returned home by the first train.
Toe Sussex Advertiser relates that at a private
Mayer parry the other oay, given by so eminent member of
the medical profession, the conversation turned upon the
Prrj,t de Trade. It was Cr cided to put the mutter to the
teat by erch of the guesti declaring by vote whether, if he
had the choice, he would prefer to bc the Prussian or the
Frcnch Minister. All the votes were taken hut one, and on
being pet rod tor a reply, th • speaker remarke I, " I should
prefer to be Bismarck in this world and Benedetti its the
nest..

Several fatal accidents from liuhtniog have occurred
recently in France. At G:rancoart ,Voeges) a woman named
Gabriel was killed while wheeling a barrow along the high
road. At La floussiiire, in the same department, two others
were struck while reaping in a told ; one was taken up dead,
end the other remained tosenibile for some time, but Ulti-
mately recovered At ',resides Nord) a party of mowers were
walking together, carryirg their scythes over their shoulders,
when the electric fluid descended on them and killed three of
them on the spyt.
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11, Daily Tdcgraph observes that there can be no
doubt th.it the E,nperor Napoicen has already suffered the
11511,1 pen ilty of the initifecessf ul. What we are Ut w witness-
ing in the inevitable Nemesis of personal government. It
at least open ti doubt whether in the causes that led to the
war, not less than in the suirsequeut calamities, the Emperor
was net from beginning to end the deceived rather than the
deceiver—the dope of misleading appearances, the victim of
misplaced ermine .cr. Ilia agents, despising the wise warn-
ing of Tallnyrand, were mischievotply over.sealons in
evarthing.
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A mob of Irishmen numhering about six hundred,
headed by a band playing French airs, attacked a Prussian
vessel lying at Ringssroi, on Friday evening They cried
"Dawn with the Prussians," and "Success to France," and
threw stones on to the deck. The captain ordered his men
below, and would not permit them to fire. Owing to the
height of the side of the vessel the mob could not heed her,
and left, threatening to return on ttte following night to cut
the thro ds of the - Prussians.

Oit Friday afternoon a private of the sth Northamp-
tonshire Volunteers as hurled with mil.tary honoured
Northampton Prior to the corlige starting from the On-
ce/milts residence, the Ulna, on being removed out of a
window of the third storey of the house, slipped and
descended into the street ; the lid fli:w open, and the corpus
fell out of the ccilin, and was, of course, estrised to the view
of a aunt erotic crowd, amidst the cli, hi 01 the woumn and
children. The corpse and the eolith wire at once taken into
the honer, and the coffin being repaired, the funeral took
place.
The death of Mrs. Fargohareon. of Invercaulil,
which has been already announced, Is atit 'tinted to the fright
caused by a severe ti understorm. Mrs. Farquharson had
been confined only a fortnight meviously, and although no
great fears were enterta ned until a few hours before her
death, the shock caused ly the storm had been too great,
and she finally ruck from weakneis. Mrs. Farquharson was
the eldest daughter of the late Mr. Oswald, of Auebeecenier,.
and 1.1,y Louisa °Arabi, tinter of the Earl of Craven, and
half-slitor of Sir Frederick Johnstone, tel Wasterhall.

A correspondent who writes on the subject of the
New Forest, says that bet aro the Crown can claim one inch
of the soil as its own, the claims if the c .mmoners (whose
nrimber is legion) must, as long as law exists In Foreland, he
redeemed. These commoners hold 670)0 acres of freehold
land in and around the forest, to which are attached r ghts
of common, rkc , over the 63,000 acres of Crown lands.
Their claims are the very reverse of encroachments; their
origin is distinctly known, and prayed to have existed be-
fore Wililarn Rufus made a forest. To redeem these com-
moners rights would absorb more than half the acreage of
the Now F ,test.
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tobfinet Sunday
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The Right Hon. Sir John Hatchal has died made I
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deceasedny.
health, left his redgence on Saturday evening, in company
wilh one of his daughters. Mrs Perrin, and some of h.r
u' lic
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children, to drive with the Right lion . Sir Mertere Brady, at
Trimleston, heir Booterstown. After spending the evening
there he Warned knee, and retired to his apartment
immetliately nferwaod,. the Sdnday morning, as already I
51: ted, the rgl.t ton. gAstlnnsan was found dead on his
bad when hls set vets t went to attend him at the muss] hour I
A circuity has been sent to her 'Majesty's diplomatic
representatives in Germany denying that th., British G.drern-
mu, has si.viated front its attitude of neutrality by giving
technics to /ranee for obtaining various articles awful her
war nurpases. The circular states that the steps taken by
I the G 'remnant have beast strictly in accordance with pre-
-1 cethot end with the principles by which neutral nations have
, been guidad in recent ware.
The Mayor of Ripon bag arranged with the Cathe-
dral dioitati.s, the clergy of the city, and the ministers of
all denomination., to have collections at their several places
of worship on Sunday next, in aid of the fund for the relief
of the sick and wounded in the war now raging on the conti-
nent of Europe; also that suhscription lists will be placed at
the hanks in the city to receive donations from parties unable '
to attend the services.
" It is curious to obierve the force of habit as cll..
played during the last three weeks A month ago we should
have tcu on shocked had Inc heard of ten people raving I .st
tin ir live§ in France by a railway accident; now we are be,
cn.m,rti to eccu,omed to intelligence of at deot deaths that
tin, slaughter of ten th.-nsand sodoiers seems to u. a nine
il-aide. As for the wounded who the for hours writhing in
tin ir agony on tie heve 11,1 d, we at-smels give than a
~glis tV se, 0. tine r,ess and tin- tenets cetteir
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According to a wrap of South American news, whic
comes by way of Lisbon, the capital of Entre Rio. had been
ravaged by General Loper Jordan. No date Is given.
Between one and two o'clock on Saturday upwards
of eighty Prussian sailors left Newcastle Quay, in the Clue
Choir steamer, for Rotterdam.
Recruiting sergeants are scouring the counties of
Surrey, Kent, and su,sei, for young men for enlistment into
the militia and the regular army. The local markets and
rural villages try regularly vat ed in search of recruit,.
The Queen &articled ,:irine rervice at Osborne on
Surrlay morning The german Prothero officiated.
lieutenant-General Viir,u,t Terni,deton and Admiral 81.1
James !lope dined with the Queen on iaturday.
" Mr. William Chatterton, (Merton, who is in the
86th year of his age, might be seen a few days ago mowing
and taking up his own barley. Ile has a wife living about
the lanie age as himself "—Nottingham Jovrital.
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The Society of the International Exhibition of Lyons
has placed at the disposal of the military authorities the
buildings of the Exhihition, as thee now stand, to be e.da
verted into an hospital In which 1,2)0 beds may be otitants,tl
In the second edition of the MOMing Poe the Paris
c ,rrespondentof thatjournal writes heard this (Sunday)
eveniog, from an authority, th.it it is calculated there are
1300,100 Prussians now in France."
A telegram received through Mr. Riuter's office
siya:—Eye-vritnettes of the bottle of Weissenboing state that
I Pois,dan Ifsutry meekposticulanty to pick off theensmy's
illic-re I t• whom four prhctised marksmen to the right of
each rtutilian platoon are specially instructed to reserve their
tire.
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Self-rlevotioit rrceiyed rimukable exemplification
eurlng Ve Aniericad war, in the case of a patriotic cltizen,
Who declored that. rath.7 than the war should Isoguleh for
slut of recruits, he %mild freely 'send up" every ohe of
his alfe's able-bodied relations. _ .

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A ',turn pnblished in the Londorl Gazdtc ghows that
the total runsher of auimxls brought sea to ports in
Great Brit4in, which, on inspection on landi.Af in the mouth
of July, 1.30 were found to be intectel with Contagious
disease srmi 75, all of which were slaughtered by order of
the Customs. These con.isted of 12 cattle it sheep, wad 52
swine.
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NVe (Daily litters) understand that a pamphlet from
the pen of an eminent writer, and expressing more than Ida
individual opinions, will presently be published in England,
in which, in the event of the final victory of tne G,rmans,
the cession of Alsace by France to Prussia will be advocated
as the basis of a Treaty of reace.
An action has been tried at Guildford Assizes, to rec
cover£27s,alleeo tobethe balance of bases incurred in vartouf
licts upon race-borms. The plaintiff alleged that he had
been sncployecl by the defendant to lay certain wagers on
the re•iilt of the Derby, but the defendant repudiated them,
and ultimately the jury found in hit favour.
The Q.iern has ordained that Georgina Harriet
Charlotte Windsor-Clive, Henrietta Lucy Windom-Give, and
Mary Agnes Windsur.C.lve, the Meters ef Robert George,
Low Baron Windsor, shall enj,iy the Came title, place, pre.
eminence, acid precut-flee as if their late fit,her had survived
MS mother, la. riet, Barooeia Wind', and hal thereby suc-
ceeded to the title and dignity of Baron Windsor.
The Timm is requested to state that the medical
men who pr0p,...) to devote their skill to the relief of the
sick and wounded in Germany should apply to the North
German Embassy for direc,ions as to the points to which
they should proceed in order to fulfil their charitable mis-
Mon. T, e c•ind Mon which requires that the 00116.1 t of the
Government should be obtained applies, of cures, to those
medical men who are in the military or naval service of the
State.
Baron Beaulieu, the Belgian Minister in London,
has sent a note to Earl Granville, in which he thanks his
lord-hip on the part of Baron d'An6:han, the Foreign Minister
at Brussels, for a copy of the new treaty guaranteeing Bel-
gian neutrality. Mete directel to ay that Baron d'Ane' hen
has it c,ived the documeat "with special interest," and to
express "the profound gratitude with which the Government
of the King is p.m Crated for this new and striking evidence
of the lovely solicitude of her Britannic alajeety's Govern-
ment towards Belgium."
Sir Denis Le Merchant, Clerk of the House of
I Commons, will retire b.,fore next Session. The patronage
! bet ngs to the Crown. Toe salary is £2.000 a year. lt Is be-
lieved that Sir Dskine May Will certainly emceed Sir Denis,
and that Mr. Palcraverfill succeed Sir Erskine as First Clerk
Assistant, with a salary of £1,750. Mr. Paetlethwaite,
Principal Clerk of the Journal Office, with a salary of £1,009,
also retires. It is presumed Mr. Bull will succeed him.
In all the Roman Catholic Churches of Linden on
Sunday lost, the clergy called attention to the recent pro-
cee tinge of the (Ecumenical Council, said added, that they
were requested by authority to make known to their con-
gregitions that the definitions of the Council required no
other publication than the solemn act by which the 11017
bather had already publbthed them to the universal church.
The mortslity returns of England for 1863 record
the death of itS men and 385 women registered as 95 years
...11 and upwards when they died. Elevec of these men had
reached 100 or upwards, and one at Cheltenham was 111 ; 52
of the women had also completed a centOry of life, or chore;
atituttidtedidnhethge,.etstarale.toofflNll4oynemaroth and South WMea had
The Alen cl eater, Sheffield, and LincnlnsO.'re
stean.er GrimAy arrived at that port from 11mw
~...e
on Cuesday afternoon She reportathat torpedoes have
laid down in the Elbe right and lett, and that the Germs,'
have a nuniber of vermis in readiness, laden with stones and
sand. for the purpose of bl: eking the Channel. Off liellgo•
land, on Monday, the Griewby saw the French fleet at
anchor.

A will-dressei man, between fifty EMI sixty years of
age, took a ticket on Tue.disy mornlyg for Lea Bridge at the
Pork station of the Great Rader a Railway, and ace fast goods
Croix from the .N,xiti of England approached the stall ,n he
mew-it to cross the line. Go was told to remain where he
was, bat ha stepped quietly down the steps from the platform
and walked on to the line. A port. r followed and took hold
of his coat to stop him, but by a rapid movement the gentle-
man extricated himself, and was standing in the middle of
the up line when the gooee train reached the spot The en.,
gine—travelling about forty miles an hour—struck him with
tremendous force, end killed him on the spot.

'Upwards of 53 000 persons attended the Foreders'
se tba er}stal Pah, I'r,,dccy oir th.-ir atimsement
three balloons were sent up, wad a telegram was received at
the Palace last night stating that one of the baboons had
fallen into the sea near Brighton. Mr APen and Mr. Maris,
the two persons in it, are safe, as they deceoded at liansread,
in Surrey. Afterwards a sudden gust of wind caused the
balloon to escape from them, and it subsequently nude its
way to the sea
The Board of Trade have awarded a telescope to
Captain E. Chantard, of the French ship Formes( of Nantes,
In acknowle.:gment of his humane cervices so lour Britian
Indian seamen, whom he picked up at sea. it appears that
these four seamen, who came from the co ist of Arleen, had
been overt dun by darkness, and criven out to sea by a heavy
norso-east gale, and wh, a discovered by Captain Uhantard,
on the 6:11 of January last, were suffering gresily from ex-
posure and hunger. After being on board .he Foemose till
the 7th ef February they were landed at Reunion.
It would appear from an article written by M.
ax7ro du Camp in the ftc rue des Deux Month, that the
bluid Mggars of Paris are a j dly set of fe3oss Is is con-
sidered am cat deArable match for a young sernplress to
marry a vcrer.ble beggar who has plenty of money aod no
eyes. Oct the Pont des Arts M. du camp once heard the fol-
lowing dialogge between a blind beggar and a woman who
had brought him his dinner. Smelling the dish, thorium cried,
"What is this 1 "Stewed mir,tor, wick green, peas.'" Dena
take your mutton ; pots know I like bee/ f' Some of these
blind men pass the summer lb Paris, and spend the winter at
bone lathe country.