The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-10-02 00:00:00

THE PEABODY STATUE.

EPITOME OF NEWS,

RRITISII AND FOREIGN.

On Sunday there wan an immense demonstration in
Cork to demand the release of the Fenian prisoners. Thir-
teen brigades, headed each by a band and banners, marched
in military array to the City Park, each man wearing a green
sash or rwette. The speeches were of the usual character.

Dean Shame, parish priest of Tralee, has expressed,
Ins local papvr, Ills arm determination to attend no Fenian
amnesty meeting, but if a meeting is held awl a memorial
framed, expressing abhorrence of the acts of the Fenian
prisoners, 'as he believes the Fenian conspiracy to be
uttorly ruinous to the peace and prosperity of the country,"
he will sign it.
A Cincinnati jury sat upon the body of a man who
had been beaten to death by a dozen ruffians, and returned
a verdict of "Death by compression of the brain from ex-
citement brought on by altercation,' ‘te.
The Emperor Napoleon—whose existence in the ex.
cttement of the Pantin tragedy haa been well-nigh forgot-
ten—is reported as perfectly able to take long walks and to
transact business.
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An inquest has been held upon the body of a cab
proprietor, who was bitten five weeks ago by a dog, and who
was unenvieds seized with hyerophobia, of which he did.
The coroner made a somewhat alarming statement at the in-
quiry. He said that this was the third inquest he had held
on persons who bad died after having been bitten by the
lame dog. Nine persons had been bitten by it in Its rabid
state, and an he believed there was no remedy for the disease,
he despaired of the eases of the other muff erers.
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Mr. George Peabody is constructing a tomb for him-
self in liarmony-grove Cemetery, Salem, Maesaehnsetts. Ile
Is building a huge sarcophagus of Quincy granite, and
proposes to be buried there with his brothers and stater.
Sir George Bowyer reiterates his previous etatement
that the Bishop of Exeter foretold the destruction of the
Irish Establishment many years before the event happened.
Sir George thought the prediction all the more remarkable
because be knew how much the bishop deprecated the event
which yet he eaw was inevitable.
The late Mrs. Burton, of Roundhay, who was a
wealthy member of the Wesleyan body, has left the large sum
of .:32,000, tree of legacy duty, in aid of the several religious
and benevolent institutions. Of this sum £15,000 is to he
expended on the erection of chapels and schools for Wesleyan
Methodist. in Cumberland and Scotland.
A meeting of the Sheffield policyholders in the
European Life Office was held on Tuesday. The local
manager stated that he knew the office to he solvent up till
Wednesday last and was cure the state of its affairs was not
so serious or ao ditcoursgtng as the public believed.
The Journal des Postes states that a committee
nominated by the administration of the arench Post-office
has examinee some new models of velocipedes for the use
of rural postmen, and that it has adopted one with three
wheel, very ingeniously constructed. A mechanism worked
by the hands enables this vehicle to ascend the steepest
Incline. There is also a place behind for carrying a box or ,
portmanteau of moderate size. The inventor is an engineer
of Periguciu.
Mr. Gladstone has been staying with his brother,
Sir Thomas Gladstone. at Fuqua since he left Balmoral.
The Dundee A dvert/xer states that the right hon. gentleman
walked from BanChory by the road across the Cairn o' Mount
to Kteque, a distance of seventeen miles. on Monday
evening Mr. Gladstone arrived in Dundee, and immediately
drove out to Camperdown to join his family.
The number of wrecks reported during the peat
week is 45, making for the present year 1,856.
It hum been officially announced that the Prince of
Wales will visit Scarborough on the let of November, anti
will be the guest of Lord Londesborough.
The President of the Haytian Republic, Salnave,
has been shot in an attack on Aux Cayes. and his wounds
are believed to be mortal. The contest in the Wand still
rages with unabated fury.

Mr. Thomas Bailey, Ml'., has accepted the baro-
netcy offered to him a few days ago. The hon. gentleman
has represented Manchester since 1858.
The journeymen compositors at llavre have presented
to the three principal newspapers of the town a declara-
tion to the effect that, from the ird of Wtober next, they
will not work on the seventh day of the week. It is not from
religious scruples that they take this determination, but be-
cause 'the work of the seventh day is and con-
trary to the constant aspirations of man towards liberty,'
and because "nian has the need and the right to rest from
his toil one day in seven:'
Mr. Osborne Morgan, M.P., addressing his con-
stituents on Monday at ithoollanerchrugog, referred to the
Dish land question. In his opinion the law required to be
altered in the direction of fixity of tenure, and so as to se-
cure compensation for uneshausted improvements In
favour of greater flxiev of tenure, the hon. member observed
slat hares were refused in order to give the landlord.
treater 1,..1.• s-sl power. In this county Mr. Morgan
thought subdivision of property was wanted.
His Grace the Duke of Norfolk has followed up '
his donations of £l,OOO to the Infirmary, by giving the sum
of £lOO towards the fund for the enlargement of the Sheffield
Public Hospital and Dispensary.
On Sunday morning the barque E mpress, of Prince
Edward's Island, bound thellce from Liverpool, with a
general cargo, went ashore on Taylor's Bank in Lis erpool Bay.
The New Brighton tubular lifeboat, the Willie am! Arthur,
bettphitf to the Isf-atioinal tiefebi,oAt Institution.
Islvas
forte-
measia 000nssaivstVigt of eighteen
mteieselte're,re'rensiel'of°lwour7,e(enln
men, two passengers, and a "stowaway." The barque has
since become a total wreck. The two lifeboats at blew
Brighton, and the one at Llolibead, were the
.gift of ,Mr.
Leather, of Liverpool,