The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-05-06 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,
BRITISH AND FOREION,

The Elinburgh house painters are agitating for an
increase of a halfpenny per hots in the rate of wages
The English Churchman declares authoralively that
the Imperial faintly have no Intention of leaving thlainhurat.
A church in Pare ha i a red idaeard stuck on it 117.4
Sunday, with the sorda, "A shop to let."
The New style of Atne.ican shoes in vogue, in
imitation of alligator leather, livery p vular in New
It luta been resolved to invite the British Association
to Glasgow In 1874

The- Albany Ex pred3 has the following advertiso•
mentr—nWauted au able-bodlel Irhhoutu to hold WY wire's
tongue—she and I both being unable to keep It quite."
A Californian paiar, in de:trilling a raw RIXIOIIO
the C'zlnamcn, tajs that they we Iron bare and tar w.d&
lives freely."

The Earl of Shaftesbury has place lin the hauds of
the nation, through the Recoid idilso the whole of his
Collections of family and historical papers.
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"On Wednesday evening a Mulatto woniaa, named
Madame Angelo, terminated the feat of walking 1,00 miles
in 1,000 home, on the boa ling-green connectd with the
Saracen's Dead lon, Tything "—Worcearr Journal
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The Horse Guards have called for a return from eTery
regiment shewlog the number of days' Wave err; •er In
the servlce receive I—includdig communalog officers' leave—
during the peel year.

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A cable telegram announces the death of Mr. Mason,
who was aceredit-d to Great Britain by the Cantaterscy at
the time of the civil war.

At Vienna, on Friday, John Zohner was sentenced
to tweury years' imprlaanmeut, to heavy trout, for the
murder of the commercial student BreaMa.
At • visitation at Dover, the Ilisboo of Dover, in
the course of his charge, said he regarded Otealism ou it.
own chewing, a deliberate attempt to undo the great work
done in the Church 31,0 years ago.

Three 'nen were drinking in a hineseiburgh public.
holm, and consumed 17 glades of whisky, two bottles aid
two half-pints of ale, and two glasses of cordial. One of II
men become Insensible and died shortly alter.
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"tiintrer !" shonteel one boy to. another In Man-
chester, ind on the second boy asking an explanation of the
Lame, he was atabbed in the arm with • penknife. Toe
youthfill wielder of the knife has been good 40e. and costs.
In the first four weeks of the financial year the Trea-
sury receipt* amounted to Crave:AVM, and the expenditure to
£7,425 250 The balance in the flank of England an nattier
day laat was £3,888.150

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Mr. Goachen states, in answer to an inquiry, that
tinder the 1,,cal Taxation 1011 the home-ter .11110 paid L.,
the parochial baard, In ad two to, and not In tubetitutlon
of, the pre,ent contributions from the Government.

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A Paris j nrial, wLich stated that a prisoner undsr
senteuce of death had attempted suicide, first by poison and
then by knife, added," Medical asslstaticebelng promptly ad-
ministered, be Is now out of danger, and will to morrow
undergo the sentence of the law.'

Charged at Hyde with an erarion of the pedlars'
act, a newsvendor escaped by a plea that as he vs as regularly
employed in delivering copies of a newspaper, accounting to
the proprietors for the receipts, and receiving a commission
thereon, the case did not come under the act.

There were two or three (lava of extraordinary heat
in the United states at Dialer. The newspapers state that
the thermometer marked S 4 deg. at Washington, St; at lislti-
more, and 80 at Springfield and at New York. The brief
"heated term" was broken up by a storm, and there Wu a
brilliant aurora borealis.

The John Bolt is enabled to state on the highest
authority that the Judicial Committee were unanimous in
their decision on the gurchas case on Wednesday, though
some members wcre anxious to have granted • rehearing if
they could have found any precedent and had not foreeeeu
the most Inconvenient consequences in other cases.
Sir William Jenner was examined before the Vac.
emotion Committee on gnesday. No evil effects from vac.
ciliation had ever, he said, come under his notice, and, as
the father of six children, he should consider himself want-
! iglu his duty had he neglected to have them vaccinated.

In one census schedule in the county of Caithness,
father, son, and servant were returned whole united ages
amounted to 2-id years The father Is IA), the son 55, stint
the servant SO She can boast of having served In the family
for half a century, and deserves something for that.
The Qaeen has been pleased to accept from Mrs.
Cow par Coles a model of a turret, with two 300-pounder guns,
fitted as an Inkstand, which her lamented husband bad In
preparation before he was lost in the Captain.
A London correspondent says—" Good Wrrds for
May will contain a touching little poem on the death of
child, horn the pen of the flight Hon. W. l. Gladstone.
Toe poem, I believe, was written In ISO, and the domestic
Incident which It commemorates occurred In the Premier's
own family."

After the 30th of June next, the permission which
has been hitherto granted to officers of the Post Office to? tr.
CIIMC pretage stamps from the public will be withdrawn,
and such purchases thenceforward forbidden.—lip command
of the Postmaster General.

The Cilac understands that it is the intention of the
Secretary of Sate for War. as conveyed In his auswert.
Eastvrick, to allow a lump sum 01 103 to each voluntee at-
tending the force to be crdlected In Hampshire.
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A profeamonal beggar lad in Glaegow, aged ten or
eleveu years, exhibited himself several days In succemou
with a b ,urd before him Imploring alms ou the ground of hie
having been "left with a family !" l'uable to read, he had
bought a wroug ticket.

fitz-Ruh Ludlow, in hie narrative of travel in
The Heart of the Con,inenf, tolls of an eccentric genius who
Improved on the old yarn to the effect that " the weather
would have been colder If the thermometer had been
longer," by saying he had been where "It WBA so CJid that
the thermometer got down oft. :e
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Mr. C. H. Spurgeon, of the Metropolitan Tabernacle,
writes :—" Our friend, Mr. J Gosling, of (Mansfield, has pre-
sented 00 with £6OO kr the Collins and Orphanage, for
winch we feel deeply grateful Our esteemed friend is thus
acting as his owu executor, and glorifying hod by not gray-
ing his substance even to the host hour, but consecrating It
to the itsdeemer's cause.

Only one receipt is now given for Income-tax and
ABM vd-tirta. It cause, a gyal deal of Ire mvenience when
tenant pays his rent, se he can give no &mimosa for the
Ibcomertax he has paid, and which the landlord is bound to
discharge. I: is also inconvenient when ace mat, by trustees
and • there are pasted. As a new Act it about to be passed
an therst/on could be at once male in the receipts,
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A Ponsylvanian widower with four children marriml
S widow with nine, and is now seeking far a divorce. The
remu given is that at morning prayer he pray.' devoutly
for the welfare of his own children, but could not lind hi his
heart to put up a petition for the others, whereupon his wife
be,t him filth the tongs until he implored of the Almighty to
haye mercy on his darim,3l.

It is stated that the new census shiws a total populis-
t!, ri 66 605 In the Mormon territ ry of tt,h, and many
persons will be surprised to learn that the males are 1 277
more In number than the female.. It must be remembered,
however, that lu newly.settled terr:torle. (ho males, In
ordinary cases, mush more largely outnumber tho females,'

Ou Tuesday the triennial conference of the Libera-
tion s wiety was held et the Cannon-street Hotel. The ap-
proaching debate on Mr. Miall's motion for disestablishing
the Church of Ergland Invested the proceedings with pecu•
liar Interest. The hon. member spoke hopefully of his pro-
Spects of support.

OJe of the mast striking social remits of the late
Frat.c).German war, and the present civil disturbances
around Parts, is the dep,witlon of that once gay capital from
It. proud place as leader of fashion Even Americans—of
whom it was maid that all good ones went there when they
died—have r6nou..ced their allegiance to Parls, and taken
themselves to Louden.

A certain newly-appointed lighthonse-keeper was
told the other day by the coaa-quard officer that complaints
were made what I.lm. "For what I" was the impary.
Why," replied the officer, they say that your light, do
not born alter twelve o'clock at night." Will," was the
reply, I know they don't, for I put 'em out myeelf then
tor I thought all the vesseli had got In by that time, and I
wanted to save the lie"

The law e nuts of the United States are true to the
traditions of that mighty land. Tney have a lawsuit In
progress there which for bigness whips all the lawsuits In
creation. it Is about some land in Sen grand. am! the
Unite i States Junst tells us that " over one thousand de-
fendants and two hundred and seventy lawyers," appear In
It! lbat's something like a Californian gold mine—fur the
lawyer,!

It will sound strange to many, that the young Queen
of Spain should so far interest herself in the carve of her gm
as to take great pains in starting a new periodical, specially
addressed to women, and designed to draw away their atten-
tion from political matters. It Is, however, asserted Her
Mst ,sty Is busying herself with such a protect. flood
periodical literature has long been almost unknown In Spain ;
such an effort as this is, therefore, worthy of every praise.

The publication of General Cadorna's report to the
Italian Minister of War, giving a full description of the
movements of the Italia. troops In their expedition to Rome,
merits the perued of military men. There is no doubt that
the startling event. of the Franco-Prusslan war very much
diverted the attention of professional sohliers from what was
going on In the Gallen Peninsula. The Italian expedition,
however, wean° mere military promenade, but a delicate and
even dangerous enterprise, which in the event was crowned
with complete success. The courage and discipline which
the Papal Legion subsequently displayed during the Prussian
war prove that General Usdorna had no contemptible foe
opposed to him.

John B. Gough tells the following story, though the
joke be at his own expense. i ince while on a lecturing
tour through England, be was introduced to a small village
audience In these terms :—" Lailes and gentlemen, I 'are
the 'onoar to introdtve to you the distinguished lecturer, Mr.
JJ'ln B. Clough, who will haddress us on the subj :ct of
temperance You know that temperance Is thought to be •
very dry subject; but to-night as we lutes to our friend, the
horator from the hocesat, we 'ope to 'aye the miracle al
Sum:son repeated.. and to he refreshed with water from the
jawbone eta ham':

The Bratil and lam. Platt Mad says that at
Florae ad (Peru) there happened an extraordinary occurrence
in the form of a meteor, which suddenly fell from the sky
It wee balloon-shaped, of a red colour, with the pointed end
towards the earth, which as soon as It touched an explosion
took place, leaving a dense cloud, injuring roofs of mend
huts. and knocking down a fence for WO yards belonging to
the farm of SI oroco-hrque. Among the stones heaped around
by this aerolite were found recently dead tPles of different
species, which are supposed to have been lifted out of the
river. Similar events have happene i near iiuseoehulio and,
Atucachl, causing great fright to the people.

The grand Frry at the Surrey See,ione handed the
foth,wing proantmeut to the chairman on Wedneadsy InOn •
leg .—" the grand jury in making their pre.entnieut to the
court, would beat ...cord their opinion of the utter uselwanets
of rand juries as at present carried oui, and tea strongly that
alter care. have been Invertigated by maglarates who have
had all the witnever oa oath before them, It wLuld be better
that they should at once be sent straight to the aesslons with-
out being broug:.t before a grand jury." The chairman said
that the presentment would be forwarded to the proper
quarter.
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Lest week the aggregate mortality in L0n43,41 and
19 other large towns of the United Kingdom WSA °A the rate
of 25 dee' hs moistly to every 1 000 of the esti.mated pope-
latioa In the me,ropolis 2 250 61,ths and 1.409 denten were
registered, the former having been 00, and the latter 13,
below the average. Z, motto diseases Cansed 415 deaths, in-
cluding 201 from email-pox, 15 from measles, 80 from scarlet
fever, 7 from diphtheria, 45 from whooping cough, 37 from
different forms of fever (of which 10 were certified as typhus,
13 HA enteric or typhoid, and 14 as simple conthmod fever),
and 14 from &ant,: L
A deputation of ladies from London, Liverpord,
Manchester, Leeds, and other towns, attehde.l the Koine of
Commons on Tuesday, with a petition in favour of the
Women's Disabilities Bill. The Prime Minister having
declared, is referecce to Lhe match girl's demonstration, that
It was illegal to approach the Donee of Commons with a
petit', In bodies of • larger number than ten persons, the
ladies on this occasion were determined to keep within the
letter of the law as to numbers. Their appeatence in the
lobby of the House created a little sensation, and they
rematued a considerable period In zonvenation with mimic
members.

"After too long a delay the Government hag re-
solved to attack Ribandism in Its chief stronghold. The bill
for this purpose was read a second time in the House
of Lords on Tuesday, after a debate in which the chief
criticism of the Opposilon was directed against the limited
scope of the measure. The Government has, Indeed, made
out sti.oh a case for exceptional leglalatl.n that the natural
question Is why it goes no further. Ike report of the evidence
taken before the Select Committee reveals a sunhat cmditton
whioh to Eoglishmen Is almost Incredible, and expiates the
feeling which Influenced the Government Is proposing that
the evidence should Ye given in secret. The proposal kfak
Imprtheeet, and had to be abandoned ; but we perceivity
the Government thought the truth WY too bad to be .•
—Leader in Its Times.

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