The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-02-09 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

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The Rev. 0. H. Spurgeon, after spending 110111 e eight
weeks at Mentone, has returned to London, and
Aciated in the Metropolitan Tabernacle on Sandy.
He is quite restored to health.
A New York telegram announces the death of Mr.
Wendell Phillips, the well-known orator und advocate
A the emancipation of the slaves. The cause of death
was angina pectoris.

Intelligence received from New Caledonia arnounees
that a young man, the son of the French superinten-
lent of the station at Coprah, has been carried off by
the inhabitants of the island of Aoba and eaten. The
iespatch I,3at Bruat was sent against the cannibals,
sod has returned with some of them as hostages.
Numerously-attended meetings, called for the pur-
pose of pressing upon the Government the necessity
for prohibiting the importation of live foreign cattle
from infected countries were held on Saturday at
Canterbury, Leicester, Reading, and other placed.

At St. John's, Newfoundland, Head-constable
Doyle and five other Orangemen have been committed
tor trial for murder during the late Catholic and
Orange riots at Harbour Grace.
Lloyd's agent at Manilla telegraphed on Saturday
that toe Betty Wendt, German barque, with petroleum
for Manilla, has been totally lost off Antigua. The
vessel was abandoned and the crew have ,not been
heard of.
On Saturday evening Mr. James Jones, head of the
firm of John Jt lea and Sons, St. George's Engine
Works, Liverpool, and an alderman of the borough of
Birkenhead, was knocked down and killed on the Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire Railway at Ainsdale, near
Southport.
At the Leads Assizes on Saturday Elizabeth Cane
Walker, a young lady residing at Newcastle-on-Tyne,
brought an action against Christopher Bulman, a
steamship agen and coal merchant of Cardiff and
Barcelona, for oreach of promise of marriage. After
the case had lasted some time, an arrangement was
arrived at to pay the plaintiff £5OO 4amages
Toads are imported from Australia, and are bein
sold in London for from £.3 to £4 a hundred.

The Queen of Tahiti has passed through Chicago.
Her Majesty, who travels incognita as Mrs. Salmon,
is on her way to visit England and France.
This year the call for men for the Spanish army Is
reduced to 45,000.
Mr. Henry Irving concluded an engagement in
Cincinnati on Saturday night, the week's receipts
amounting to 12,000 dole.
The dead body of a woman named Whitehead, aged
69, the wife of a farmer, has been found on the hills
about three miles from Rochdale. She had evidently
died from exposure, the hills being covered with Mow
and the night intensely cold.
The Agents of the Ta,manian Government have re-
ceived a telegram from the Board of Immigration at
Hobart notifying the arrival there on Monday of the
steamship Gulf of Carpentaria, which left Plymouth
on Dec. 12 last with 407 emigrants.

The Berlin correspondent of the Standard hea
from Darmstadt that the Queen, who is to arrive at
Baden-Baden in the second half of March, will proceed
to Darmstadt on the morning of the 15th of April to
attend the marriage of the Princess Victoria of Hesse,
returning to Baden-Baden on the same evening.
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Three boys belonging to the burnt reformatory ship
Clarence were on Saturday Bent to gaol by the Liver-
pool stipendiary magistrate for periods varying from
one to three months for absconding from the temporary
refuge at New Ferry. A number of the boys await
trial on a charge of setting fire to the ship.

James Marshall, a Bradford mason, Charged with
robbery with violence, was, at Leeds on Saturday,
sentenced to fifteen months' imprisonment, and
farther ordered to be flogged twice, each time to re-
ceive twenty•five lashes. The prisoner, before leaving
the dock, said, "Please remit the lashes, my lord."
The determination to stop hunting in Ireland by the
followers of the National League is (sale the Dublin
Correspondent of the Standard) again shown by news
from Cashel of the poisoning of the Tipperary Fox-
hounds on Saturday morning. Eleven of the hounds
were found lying dead in their kennels, and four others
were suffering from the effects of poison.

It is announced that the Limerick Army Clothing
Factory has secured large Government orders, and
that about one thousand hands will be called in this
week.

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An inouest was held on Saturday afternoon at her
Majesty's Prison, Portsmouth, upon the body of
Charles Wyatt, who bad been convicted of vagrancy
at Chiche,t cr, and on Wednesday in last week fell back
dead as he got oil the tieadmill, on which be had been
employed two and a half hours in the morning and an
hour and a half in the afternoon. Death was medically.
attributed to Eyncope, and the jury returned a verdict
aCCOrdingiy.
Through the death of M. Gaulthier de Rumily,
Masson de Morfontaine becomes the father of the
French Senate, He was born in 1796, at Bar-sur-
Aube. As a volunteer in 1815, he was wounded at
Waterloo, and for his services obtained the grade of
officer, Afterwards he was in the campaigns in the
Peninsula and Algeria, and he retired from the army
InlBso.

The Rangoon papers state that French capitalists
have offered the large sum of 300,000 rupees per annum
for permission to work the ruby mines of Burmah.
The Burmese Government, it is further stated, have de.
clined the offer, and demanded for the monopoly an
annual rent of half a million rupees.
Mr. Al lerman William Lawrenc.e intends to bring
the subi,ct of inhabited house duty before the House
of Coalman] early in the session, in furtherance of the
movement to secure its repeal.
• BRITISH WRECKS IN JAMTARY.—The number of
British vessels respecting whose ices reports were re.
ceived at the Bawd of Trade during the month of
January was 105, with a tonnage of 25,722, involving
the lose of 250 lives. Tills, however, is a record of
"reports received " in the month, and of wrecks
which occurred during the month. Many of the re.
ports received in January relate to casualties which
occurred in previous months. Casualties not resulting
in total loss of vessels and the lives lost by such
casualties are not included.
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE.—The official returns of
foot.and•mouth disease for January show that during
the month the disease diminished by about 2000. At
the end of the month there were only 472 infected
centres in the United Kingdom. Wales and Scotland
are nearly free, and there are only 41 infected places
in Ireland. In 23 infected counties there were no
fresh outbreaks during the past week, and there were
only 61 fresh outbreaks in the whole kingdom. When
the disease was at its height in September fresh out-
breaks were at the rate of 1500 new places per week.

RESCUE OF A SHIP'S CREW. —On Monday th
ateamer Saxon Breton arrived at Whitehaven with
the Ehipwrecked crew of the barque Burmab, of
Dundee. The Burmah encountered terrible gales in
the Atlantic, and for nineteen days drifted about a
wreck. Her crew were piked up with difficulty by
an Italian vase), the Reaortee, of Genoa, and were
transferred to the Saxon Breton, which was on a
voyage from Carthagena for Whitehaven. The cap.
tam n and the nine men belonging to the Burmah speak
highly and gratefully of the kindness of the Italian
crew who rescued them.

EAST AFRICAN EXPLORATION.—Mr. O'Neill, who
has arrived at Mozambique after having traversed
1400 miles of unexplored country situated between
Mozambique and Lake Nyassa, has discovered Lake
Amarambu, the existence of which was previously un-
known, and which he declares to be the true source of
the Fiends (?) River. Mr. O'Neil reports Lake Shirtva
to be smaller than has been represented. On hie return
Mr. O'Neil followed the Likelungo Valley, which he
found to be well populated.
Pouncer, ADDRESSES AT MANCHESTER —Mr. Jacob
Bright and Mr. Slagg, the members for Manchester,
addressed an enthusiaktic meeting of their constituents
OR Saturday night. Mr. Bright said the Government
were zealous in legislation, and every session of Par-
liament it endeavoured to carry those views which the
great majority of the country were desirous to see
carried out. Mr. Balfour had said that the first duty
of the Government was not to legislate but to govern.
He admitted that one very important duty of the
Government was to govern, but no English Govern-
ment could govern easily and satisfactorily if it did
not secure equality of justice to the people by wise
legislation. It was perfectly true that the land of this
country was only half cultivated, and WAS starved for
the want of capital. We needed land reform. The
reason of capital not flowing upon the land was owihß
to the difficulty in selling the land. If it should bs by
the infatua,ion of the House of Lords the County
Franchise Bill were rejected, and they had to appal
to the country, another great Liberal Government
would be sent back.

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