The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-08-05 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The war on the Continent entaileo a loss on the
South-Eastern Railway Coniimay estimated at 1:18,659.

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A blind ox out in Minnesota found his way home
twenty miles.

How to Lire on a Sixpence a Day in the title of a six-
penny pamphlet, written by T. L. Nichols, 31. A.
Nearly 4,000 female criminals are at large with
tickets-of-leave in this country. The majesity live in London.
The American "Shakers" are organising "mission
to the heathen," and have began by sending an "elder" to
London.

The hellman of Bolton lately amuse.l the inhabi-
tants of that town by crying, Wanted a wet nurse—apply
to me r

Lord Romilly has sanctioned the settlement ,4 Mr
Padwiek's claim of 00,000 against the estate of the late Mar-
quis of 'frostings for the sum of £4,000.

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The people of Moffat fre "ridiculously healthy."
This is the description, be it I amem4, of a doctor. They do
die sometimes, generally of old age.
The inhabitanta of a quarter in Antwerp have been
celebrating the jubilee of Marie Van Aersen, who attained
her hundredth year on the lot of August.
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Sotne trouble has occurred in an Illinois town by the
discovery that a judge has tor several months past been
swearing witnesses on a dictionary.

A San Francisco mineralogist is said to have dis-
covered a method by which a substance harder than steel
can be made by amalgamating iron and copper.

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A remarkable number of suicibal attempts has been
committed in Madrid by young girls throwing themselves
down from the balconies or windows.

The weekly mortality in Pane has decreased from
859 to 778, according to the returns for the week cutting the
29th of July. No case of cholera is reported.
From £l,OOO to £3,000 has, it is m d id, been realise
in a few weeks by the sale of each of the following brocht,
Baltic of Dorking, Dame Europa, and flow to Make Fowls
Pay.

Three hundred miners at Walesa-real Colliery, near
Rotherham, have struck work because the masters claim
the right I inspecting the curves before being scut out of the
pit.
Almost the only living relative f the great Dr.
Jetiner who bears his name is an aged nom oow living,di 105.
a week in a poor cottage at Ileathlield, in the parish of
Berkeley.
The one remarkable prodigy on the piano, Master
Arthur Napless, is now grown to inanio 4 married, and is
settled in Rio Janiero as a partner in an opulent musical
firm, . .

The Sultan has sent Ali Piza Pasha, Governor.
General 14 Grouse.% now on short leave at Constantinople,
a splendid jewelled snuff-box 14 the estimated value of £2,500
as a mark .d his Majesty's favour.

One hiunired tion-sand dollars is the prize stkih
awaits the ingenious individual who devises some plan for
the substitution .4 steam, calorie, or sonic such motor for
animal power on the New York canals. A State rommis,ion
is now In session at Albany to examine inventions for this
purpose.
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From returns which have been lately presented to
Parliament, It appears that there was a very considerable
increase in the numbers who last year attended the schools,
museums, and other institutions In connection with the
Department of Science and Art.
"The Rev. Father, Lavelle objects to Royal visitors,
Ile Aavises his countrymen not to Indulge in any extrava-
gant exhibition of servile enthusiasm during the royal visit.
Nonsence, Pat, your finest quality is your courtesy. It lathe
birtlnight if every Irish gelation:in, and makes gentlemen of
many who have no other birthright from their native
Court Joanna.

During a thunderstorm which passed over ?Man.
cheater Ins Saturday afternom, a tall cl 7 on a house in
Victoria-street was struck by the electric fluid, and a portion
•if it was thrown down. The premises of a photographer
St Ire considerably damaged by bOIIIC of the bricks and stones
Winn; through the root.

Three English tourists, Mr. awl Miss Walker, and
Mr. Gardiner. smteeeded in making the ascent of the Matter-
horn on the 22nd inst. Miss Walker is the first tPf her nee
who hen had the eaurage to gmpple with the great dint.
unities esperieneed In mat:Mug the minis& of this mountain,
which is 13,050 feet high.

Ile mysterious horse maholy in America, which ro•
cently abated somewhat, has now broken out in a inneh
more malignant degree. New eases are reported from
several of the railroad companies' stables.

At St. Chmil a French humorist 'IAA been at work.
A neat thing was pencilled on tine pedestal of a mutilated
statue of Mercury—" The Prussians respect nothing—not
even the god of thieves."
Londoners are promised a new seaside place—healthy
pretty, and easily accessthle. It is on the Essex coast, and
called Clacton-on.the-Sea. Houses are being built, and excur-
sion boats nue rmnnniTng at small fares in order to give Lon-
doners an opportunity of visiting the place.
The other evening, a gentleman in Elgin, who is a
capital veloeipedist, ran a once with his bicycle against A
horse at full trot, yoked inn a machine. The stake was xle a
side, and the distance two miles along the Lhanthryile read.
The horse came inn first by three-quarters eta minute, the
time uncoupled by the winner being seven minutes and a
quarter.
The New Testament Company conelmletl its twelfth
session on Friday, having been engaged during the fourthly's,
from Tuesday inclusive, with the scvelltll, elgintin, nninntln, and
tenth chapters of St. Mark. The first revision of these chap-
ters was eotnpleted, and the next meeting of the COMpully is
fixed for the 17th of OetOber.

A separation of the Siamese twins, it is said, now
appears imminent. One is mitt to be at the point of death,
at their Imme in North Carolina. The other is in good
health. In anticipation of death, arrangements have been
made for the immediate separation of the living from the
dead brother.

A soda lake has been discovered near Rawlings, on
the Union Pacific Railroad, several utiles in circumference,
and capable of supplying n 5,000 toms of soda a year. This
body of w ater is fed from countless springs bubbling from a
specha of granite rocks which includes in Its composition a
soda feldspar. It is proposed to erect a distillery at the
spot, so that a drink, soda and brandy, may Inc had at once
On the 21st of July a melancholy accident occum4
at the waterfall of Schaffhausen, on the Rhine. A Russian
lady, who was most pr,rhably a practised and skilful swimmer,
undertook the foolhardy feat of swimming above the fall
beyond tine reach of the safe bathing houses. She was
dragged Into the current and disappeared in the roaring
torrent of the waterfall. There was no isaisibility of saving
her. The body was recovered further down the river.

The bill to consolidate and amend the laws relating
to public health and local government In Englund and Wales,
except the metropolis, has been printed. It bears the names
of Sir Charles Adderley, Mr. Russell Gurney, Mr. Stephen
Cave. Mr. Whitbread, Lord Robert Montagu, Mr. Richards,
and Mr. M'Cleam, and contains .52 clauses. A bill has also
liven printed which proposes to make provision respecting
deductions froni wages in the hosiery manufacture.

A letter from Rome, in the Aeloir Nat bwnl, Kays :
The King is shooting blackeock hi the valley of the Aosta,
dressed in a linen jacket, wearing nailed boots, and canying
a game bag round his neck, like a thorough country Nimrod.
Although become stout, alobv,iar lord., he is paasionately
(''info! (bat sport. treat difficulty in experienced in finding
him when his signature is required. We shall probably not
use him again before the autumn."

There are two strong reas,ms why a tourist should
this autumn explore England. First, he will enrich Eng.
land. Next, be will learn England. Every sovereign a man
spends in this eountry aids its general prosperity. Ile will
also escape the infection to he got in railway carriages where
the dead and wounded have been packed ; and he will escape
the military braggadocio tone of Germany and the unsettled
feverish element of France.

Venaorel, the ('i,mm,init leader, died a good
Christian. Ilefore receiving absolution from a Jesuit Father,
Who attended him in his last moments, he desired to make a
public ret metal ion in the presence id the gendamies and of the
sisters of Charity. The following are the words -" I repu-
diate the detestable errors contained in my works and in the
newspapers which I edited, and I ask of God, who sees my
repentance, to forgive me having committed these errors.'

From April 14 to .July 29th the total receipts into
the Exchequer were L2l,D3,,trt. nii inerea. e of VA 1,01 I npon
the return: in the eorre.noinlinz torrio,l ot la year. The
evenditmeb, amomite.l ,Dl 4. The Italato e
the Bank of England On ....at.t.trtlay la t wee .03b.tittl. atot in
that of Ireland, k91tt,359.

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At the Blanchester A-soizee, Frances Fo,;-ers, the
woman implicated in the baby-farming transactions in
Manchester, was tried on the charge of doing grievous bodily
harm with latent to kill, and sentenced to twenty years'
penal servitude. The case gone into was that of .s.,;nns
Murray Chorley, who had civen up her child to the prisoner
en payment of Ls. There were also the Cases of Elaine
Bennett, &MCA Gallagher, and a child named Robinson.
In all these cases laudanum had been administered systema-
tically to allay hunger. The body of a dead child was also
found in the house, the stomach of which contained traces of
laudanum. -
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With respect to the cholera it is stated in the weekly
health return from Berlin that the reperta as to the progress
of the I lisenac are incomplete, but that it le certainly entering
Eiga on the Baltic. at the mouth iif the Erma. In Tambew,
out of 30.000 inhabitants, tie dicsl from cholera in the week
ending lath July ; this tr in Central RUfi where the ianitary
conditions are unfavourable. The begistrarajeneral points
out how important it Li at the present time that the greadett
energy should be tined in securing prompt .rnd efficient treat-
ment in the earliest ata. of diarrheaa, for it cannot be too
generally known that all Cases of cholera ennui:tema with
diarrlitea.
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Last week the a ._,...regatc mortality in London and
10 other largo tr.Vll:4 th. 1. nil,l linigelem was at tho
annual rate of at deaths in visas. 1.00.1 persomi beim; In
the metrolblis 2.137 births and 1,429 deaths were rogistered,
the former haring been ;,3 and the latter 339 below the
average. Zymotie diseases eaus.M 40,4 deaths. including 122
fawn small p IS from measles, 10 Ls at ~wria fever, b treat
diphtheria. 22 treat whocping -cough, 2.3. hem different forms
at freer of which 9 were certified as typhus, 9 an eatert,
or typhoid. and Tan simple continued fever and ;o1 (rota
eliarrhees. To eh Acre and choleraic diarrhcea 17 deaths
relemel. The deaths from small-pee chewed a Flight
ilicrtabe in the east and south of London, while they had
declined in each of the other districts

Edinburgh *to have a cot show ist September 01
October. _
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Why is innocence like sn umbrella? Bessuse when
we have once lost it, we may LOOT hope to see
.it took.
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The Empreee Eug4nie hrui been compelled to koep her
room from 111-health, but her state causes en anxiety.

The great tunnel under Mont Ceuis is etpectud to be
opened on the Zah of Septewber.
The foot and mouth disease has broken out in the
upper part of Managhan with considerable virulence.

A corrmpondent mentions a case beyond the ordintary
oculist. It is that id a young lady who, instead of a Pupil.
has a college student in her eye.

A rank loevail ut Athens on account of an antici-
psts4 brigand invasion. An expedition is organising on
Turkish ttrritory, and military preparations have liven made
to oppose it.. _

The Sunderland magistrates have resolved to revive
the "old institution" id the stocks as a punishment tor
dril”kenness.
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A. Chili leered Church has been established in Hackney
under the of a number of gentlemen. The service
lasts about brim% and are specially adapted for children
and very young ?Oxon..
The boiler of the gtnten Island ferryboat Ins*ld
exploded last Sunday whits she was at the New York dock
crowded with passengers. One hundred and fifty persons
are sald to have been killed.
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"A pauper from the cradle to the grace." Thia
sentence sum,. up the long career ot Mary Ann Maine, who
has just died in muiderland workhouse. at the advanced ago
She was born a pauper in the workhouse, and remained
all her life • pauper.
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A houe.eh,iJr in a tillage between Stainb,nl and
Upplugham, in full.; np his counts schedule under the head •
lug Where born," destlihed one of his children as born in
the parlour," and the other upstairs'
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A or,ere thunderstorm broke over Birmingham on
saturday night, accompanied by a heavy fall of rain aunt
hail. At Siii:slllnuttli, 20 boys took refuge In a water.doset of
a school. The plate was struck by tie electric fluid. One
boy was killed, and bine others injured.
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Mr. Richard Diekewn, .4 the firm of Dithesort and
Wood, wholesale grocers. of Dover, who in H&j sospended
shortly after the death of him wilier and wade a composition
of 13s. 4.1. in the pound, paid last week the remaining Os.
makina 20s. in the pound, to all his creditors. The latter are
taking WV to testify their sense of his upright conduct.
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The total number of paupers loot week mass 1.19,5rd1,
of whom 37.359 were in workhouses and e 7,500 received
outdoor relief. Compared with the years 1870. Ma, and
1868. this was a decrease of 7,195, 4.555, and 0,297 respec-
tively. The total number of vagrants relieved was 1,020, of
whim, 647 were men, 300 w onsets, and 82 children under It.
On the 20th of July there expiretl at Solent-lodge,
Cowes, Isle id Wight. the lion. John Slidell, of Loulaisus.
The deceased gentleman. whose age wan seventy-eight, was
the survivor if the two southern Commisaioners who acquired
European celebrity during the late American Civil War, while
the circumstances attending their arrival in thin country
created U 11101.131 excitement here.

At the Manchester Assizes, on Saturday, Mr. Ilrit-
tain, traveller, Stockton-upon-Tees, bromslit an action against
the North-Eastern Railway Company for compensation tar
personal titlark% sustained in a collision which occurred at
krockley \Thins, in December last. The company admitted
liability, and the jury assessed the damages at £l,lOO.
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The number of Irish dogs on which the 2s. tax waS
paid in Ireland in 1870 was :78,422. a dog to every 20 persons.
The tax produced x:27,042 PIA after deducting 1:7,095 for
expenses In the ad ration of this Art of Parlh mt
there remained £19,947, which wag paid over to the local
authorities in reduction of local taxation.
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On Tuesday night a fatal Isaer explosion occurred
at the Tyne Dock, nose South Shields. A steam crane was
engaged in discharging carp) front a vessel, when the boiler
suddenly burst, killing a matt named John thihl, a seaman
on board the vessel Ella Beatrice. of Hartlepool, and
seriously injuring two other men and a boy. Several vessels
in the neighbourhood of the spot where the accident oothrred
were damaged. The cause of the explosion was said to be
want of water in the toiler

At the Biahnin Assizes, (race Libby, a young.
manied wenian, whose husband, a Miller, has been iu
AI'MICR three years, hut wile bAS regularly sent her money,
wan Indicted for wilful murder of a newly-horn illegitimate
child. The prisoner cut otf its head, arms, and legs, which
she burnt, soul buried the remainder ,d the sly in a dung
pit. The jury returned a vet-lit-t. if •• Manslaughter,- and
she was sentenced to tell years penal servitude.

The S Kiss Titus states that a band id forgers
of bank notes has been discovered at Zurich. The Russian
Government, on becoming aware if the fact that forged
Russian notes were in circulation, commisssioned one of the
councillors of the Empire. SI Kandensky, to try to discover
where they were The I tovernments of Frame
and Austria also engaged actively in the same pursuit. It
was found that Zurich ma as the real centre of operations.
A 1111111 well advanced in years st as the leading spirit ill the
enterprise. The Federal oilmen are now preparing the ease
for trial.

The report of the inspector 'aprminted to visititte
certified Reformatory and Industrial Schools in Great InDain
states that on the 31st of December, 1675, there were In (treat
Britain 64 reformatories England. 3:1 Protestant and 4
Roman Catholic for boys. and 12 Protestant and :1
Catholic f..r girls ; in scotland, 7 Protestant and 1 Itornan
Cathae for boys, and 4 Protestant and 1 Roman Catholir for
girls. The total lumber of young offenders in these schools
an, boys and 1,201 girls—total, i 1,562. There were Si
Industrial schools certified on the 31st of December, 1570,
containing 6,260 inmates.
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The la-te War cost the Prussian army 1,34 it offieen.,,
of u horn 1,210 fell in battle or died of wounds, and 14 One-
CUMhed to disoase. The infantry lost 1,149, the cavalry
93, the artiliety is:l, the engineers 17, and the train 19. The
loss at Wei...MI:F. Woerth, and fripichemn was 192 officers :
at the fatties near Mete 4M the 14th 4,1 August, 05 mn the
ligh, 209; °lathe lbth, 120 and at lieaumont and Sedan, 79.
The has of officers during the remaining six months of the
campaign amounted hi 451
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Tie-death is announced of Edith May, the daughter
of the port ~aithey. awl wife 14 the Rev. .lohn Wood Winter.
It. D.. of Chriet Church, oNford, vicar of West Tarring? near
Worthing, who edited Sunthey's •• Doctor," and gave to 1f..,
public his' Common-place Book rand '' Letters.- Mrs. W art,
was the danghter of Southey's lirst wife, and was horn In
Mrs. Southey died in 1537, and in 1839 &MUM,' wan
married to Catherine Bowles, the poetess.

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The prinopta recommendations of the Select Com•
mitt.. en the Protection of Infant lAN are that the registra-
tion of all births and deaths should be made compulsory
that there should be a permissive registration of houses in
which children are put out to nurse for hire ; that a licence
for such places should be required, the houses to be open at
all reasonable lows to police inspefiion : and that there
should be a compulsory registration, together with a lieenee,
for establishments.
At the Cardiff Assizex, a verdict of C 3,500 li.as been
given against the Taff Vale Railway Compai ly in a suit brought
by the Rhymney Railway Company for damages sustained in
rellishill between a passenger train belonging to Mit
plaintiffs and a mineral train belonging to the defendants,
awl to cover law costs which had in,en incurred by Ito
plaintiffs in compensating pas,ngers who had been Wilted
ID their train.
Canon Pm•e, •.f llshlin, having cent to f lialchurat
a hook recently published by him in reference to the Vatican
Council, has received the following autograph reply
chislehurst, July V.—l have received. M. TAW, the lea&
poi hare forward., to me I have read it with interest, and
you are, indeed, quite correct in saying that the regenera-
n of France can he effected by no other MMUS than a
regime based on religlon, conscienoe, and morality—Accept,
dc, NAPOLEON."

Lord Lyons has sent a despatch to the Foreigm.office
In which he announces that many British workmen have re-
cently gone over to Paris In the expectation if finding em-
ployment in the works which are going OH for the repair
the districts that suffered dining the secinid siege bird
Lyons states that there is no special demand fir foreign
labour is Paris at the present moment ; and he p • to out
that those who leave their homes ill Beaman of speculative,
employment abroad have no claim on her Majesty's Govern-
ment torn free return passage.

lie Emperor Napoleon is fast recovering, not only
his physicalhealth. fiatPlBo from the nervous shock hilisystelll
hail undergone. On the occasion of his visit to Holly Dalgo
his spirits were at the highest. The boys of ifirohnontlely
College having attended to cheer him in his departure in
the pouring rain, he tamed round laughingly as he wrapptal
himself in his forrel great coat, aml said, How can you
Englishmen grumble at this climate anti call it rariabfr
Why, it 11116 done nothing !nit nrin all the summer !" A loud
guffaw arid another hearty dirty greeted His Majesty as the
carriage drove off.