The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-07-09 00:00:00

Great

The annual production of gold in California hen, in
eight lean, fallen from £6,400,000 to £4,600,000
The grand ceremony of bleeeing the ma was per-
formed at Ostend, on Sunday last, by the clergy of Belglem.
On Saturday a violent storm burst over the canton
of Appenaell, in Seinerland, and after it there was a heavy
fall of tnow.
It is reported in military circles that Sir Fenwick
Williams of Kan is to be the next Gavernor of Gibraltar, in
place of Sir Richard Airey.

The inquest on the four men suffocated in a gas tube
at Talke, in North Staffordshire, was held on Saturday, and
a verdict. of Accidental Death returned.

The Birkenhead and Hoylake Railway has been
seized by the sheriff's officers acting under the Instruction.
of Mr. Vyner, the owner of the land traversed by the rail-
road.

The Devon and Dorset Artillery volunteers, to the
number of 800, are out for • week's encampment at Wood-
bury, about eight miles from Exeter. The Uovernment has
provided 200 tante free of cult,
The Ron. Mien Car agrn, daughter of the Lich Lord
Chancellor, wet married on Saturday in the Roman Catholic
Church, Raheney, to Colonel ltD4unell, of Glenarm,
Antrim.

Two elegant ladiew were put out of the theatre re-
cently at Florence. They were not content with endeavouring
to compel the King, who was in the next box, to talk to them ;
but upon his declining, they opened the door of his box and
walked in. Liberty, Sisterhood, and Equality !
According to a Florence paper, the Greek Ministers
are quarrelling among thennelves as to the inquiry which is
to be net on foot into the Marathon maasacre M. Zailds
and come of hie colleague. are anxious, it is said, to inter.
pole obstacles bathe way of • complete investigation.
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A curious atmospheric effect, of the nature of a
mirage, was lately observed at Ostend. Above the masts of
each vessel visible from the pier was seen another, inverted,
with the tops of Its masts resting, as it were, on those Of
the real ship.
On Monday morning Mr. Thomas Johnson, a draper
of Warwick, was found in a dying state in hi, bed-room.
Deceased, who was in good circumstances, had cut his throat
with a carving-knife. lie died shortly after &Avon; been dis-
covered.

A duel with swords has just taken place at Bordeaux
between hi Lavertujon, editor of the Gironde, and M.
Gregorl, filling a similar capacity on the Province. Both
gemlemen were slightly wounded in the thigh, and the en-
counter was then brought so. close.
It is anticipated that the emigration returns of the
Irish Registrar-General, to be shortly published, will show
that notwithstanding the improved circumstances and hopes
of the peasantry, the emigration from Ireland will be found
to have increased rather than diminished.
A sad accident occurred at l'eshawur on the Queen's
birthday. Captain Anderson, of the sth Bengal Native
Cavalry, while engage., playing the game nettled hockey, fell
from his horse and dislocated his neck, from the effects of
which he expired on the following day. Reins only on leave
from Nowshera

The London Missionary Society are sending out
sixteen missionaries to reinforce the existing mission of
twelve agents In the island of Madagascar. Eight young men
have already sailed, and the remainder will be sent out at the
earliest possible period.

The hot weather hag disturbed some of the Parisians
sipper stories. One of them went the other day to Marsha
Valliant, mid insisted upon interviewing him with a pro-
posal to use an invention which he had perfected for watering
the whole of France at any given moment or hour of the day
A collision occurred on 'Tuesday morning on the
Great Western Railway. A fast goods train from Manchester
ran into another goods train that was being shunted, smash-
ing seven waggons. The guard of the goods train was
slightly injured. The line was blocked up for several hours.
A table has been published showing the gold vial in
Nova Scotia from the first working of thc mines in 1850 until
the close of 1869. The total number of mines is hi: mills,
55; tons of quartz raised, 4,086,680; ounces of gold, 176,959;
value, £717,800 sterling.
The Dissenters of Liverpool appear tr, have talc. n
exception to the views enunciated by /labor Chunder hen, ,
in his public addresses on the conversion of India. On Sun-
day the subject was referred to from several pulpits, one
Presbyterian minister goli:g so far as to any that aishomet ,
was more of *Christian than Sen.

The whole of the Black Country, nays the Birming•
ham Gazette, is rejoicing in the excellent feeling that pre-
vails throughout its great staple trade, and in the prospect
of a revival which many thought had vanished for evermore
Slowly many of the towns and villages are recovering from
the long period of depression.
At the Pt echiere Theatre of Genoa Norma waq being
played the other evening, and in the last act the dress of
Madame 11111, who tilled the part of the Druidical priestess,
caught fire, and for • monient she was in danger of under-
going her sentence in reality, but several of the actors rushed
forward and extinguished the flames.

It is stated that the diamond fields on the banks of
the Vas,, in South Africa, are turnive out an entire success.
A Koranna bas found a diamond worth £1,500, which he dis-
posed of for a waggon worth £l2O. Other diamonds worth
£OOO to £3OO have been picked up, ant many from £5O to
AGO. A few beautiful rubies and one turyu..ise have been
unearthed.

"One evening last week Mr. Ditraeli wrnte a nt•te
and banded it over the table to Mr. Gladstone. The Prem,er
read it, seemed undecided for • few moments what to do
with it—whether to tear it or pocket it—and at last, with a
nod to the writer, put the note In his packet. A quarter of
an hour later the two right hon gentlemen rose together,
met at the Speaker's chair, and left the House in company.
There is evidently something in the wind, and opinion runs
alter many scents."—Court Journal.

The dignity of the congregation of a London church
was recently somewhat disturbed after the announcement from
the pulpit of the handsome receipt from the effect of a charity
sermon on the prior Sunday. Some one, whose mind was
struck by the magnitude of the sum, thereupon gave vent
in the gallery to that long and low whistle, which usually
expresses, in polite society, "You don't mean to say so?'
The son and daughters of the late Mr. William
P.wart, bt.P. have given to each of the forty tree libraries in
the United Kingdom a large and valuable portrait of their
fiber, bearing the following inscription :—" William %wart,
a member of the Howe of Commons for thirty eight years,
between 159.8 autllB6B. Ile was one ef the foremost Pro-
moters of the great political and social reforms of his time,
nil I among other important measures he originated and
carried the act which gave free libraries to the people of
. .
Ireland."

Brtttn

The personality of the late 1M anvils of Cholmoncltly
bee been sworn antler LSO 000 The personally of the late
Sir Wdilarn Williams, of Tregullow, Cornwall, bulletin sworn
Under Slit 0,000 The will of the Rev. Henry John Sparing, M.A.,
Canon of Ely, )1818,) Rector of 1 everingtou, (1827 ) Rector of
Gunthorpe, (1831,) has been proved under £140,000. The will
of Mr. David Davis, Kensington gardens, has been provel
under t 50,000.
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" A vusigedive fact hay been communicated to us by
a brewer in the couuto, uho was anxious to ascertain tne
canto of the constantly Increasing value of malt sweepings,
which were said to be largely us,d for feeding pigs. After
experimenting upon his own, which daily became poorer
under the trial, more minute Inquiry was made, and then
was discovered the real u,e of the sweepings, namely, to niix
with chicory ; which again in its tarn would be sol I ax m flee.
Can adulteration be carried to • lower depth ?"—Food Jour-
.

The trubject of Mr. Jowett'a sermon at St. Boto
Bishopsgate, London, on Sunday morning, was the Holy Com-
munion 'the rev. professor dwelt upon the mischief which had
been wrought in the Church by controversies on this subject,
arising in great degree from mere verbal distinctions, and
urged that more attention stn.uld be given to He moral
aspect, so that, in place of being as it has been • means of
separating Christians, it may be • bond to draw them
together.

A State trial began on Monday at Vienna. Finer.
teen workmen are charged with high treason The Public
Prosecutor, in his opening address, explained that the pri-
soners belonged to a committee which was engaged in
spreading a socialist-Democratic agitation in Austria; that
they were in communication with trade urions in foreign
countries, and, in conjunction with the latter, aimed at the
overthrow of all Cocoa and State institutions. During the
trial a large number of working men gathered in front of the
Court-house, but there was no disturbance of order.

A letter from Darmstadt in the Co!rvne Cautte says
that our Princess Alice has become cry popular there, owing
to her energetic opposition to the Ultramontane tendencies
of the Item. Court. She has frequent interviews with Herr
stratum, the celebrated author of the Lie of Jtall/1." He
has Just dedicated to her his last work on Voltaire, which, he
says, was written at her wish. He had read it to her chapter
by chapter, and she had listened with (dirndl approval. A num-
ber of charitable establishments, from which all clerical In- •
fluence is carefully excluded, owe their existence to the
Princess. Among them fax society for training sick.nursts.
Great excitement was created in Halifax on Satur-
day evening by the report that an accident had occurred to '
an excursion train which left that town for Lincoln at noon.
The rumour wee founded upon a telegram whhh had been
received in the town from Lincoln, asking for a doctor, wine,
and bandages to be sent immediately. This had evidently
been sent for a hoax, asi the trip, by which about 100 persons
had left Halifax, returned home all safe a few minutes after
the appointed hour. The railway authorities are trying to
discover the author of this cruel hoax, wLo so richly deserves
punishment.
'rite Marquis of Lothian died on Monday at Clap.
: ham, after a short illnesa The late marquis was the eldest
of the four surviving cone of John William Robert, seventh
marquis, by Lady Cacti Chetwynd Talbot, daughter of Charles
second Earl Talbot. lie was born August 12, 1832, and
married August 2,1857, Lady Constance Harriet Mahonees
Ta'bot, eldest surviving daughter of the late Earl of Shrews-
bury 811(1 'FIONA. The late marquia, who succeeded to the
marquisette on the death of Ids father, in NON e oboe, 1841,
does not leave any issue. The f am' is honours and estates In
Scotland and Norfolk are inherited by his brother, Lord
Schoniberg Kerr.

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A Board of Trade inqniry into the eircumetanoes
attending the loss of the ship Star of the fleet ins concluded
at Greenwich on Saturday. The vessel was bound from Port
Elisabeth, Algoa sy, to London, and on the 9h Of June, In
a fog, struck on a rock off l'shant and WWI wrecked the
court found that Mr. Ellery, the captain, shaped too fine •
course with the very light and leant north wind to weather
Uahant, and thereby came within the influence of • strong
flood tide, which, together with a thick fog °Mewing the
land, was the proximate cause of the stranding of the
vessel, but they were not disposed to treat the case as one
of positive neglect, and therefore returned Mr. Ellery his
Certificate.
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The Rectory of Necton, near Thetford, has become
vacant under melancholy circumstances. Three or four
weeks niece the Key. William Henry Walker wan married and
proceeded with hls bride on • wedding tour. At Interlacken
he was reit.' with brain fever, and died, lie was the second
son of the late hr. Matthew Clement Walker, of the Hon.
Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms to William IV. and Victoria
Ile was • Cambridge man (St. John's), sod took his B. A. de-
gree in 1054, when he was second junior optima in the
mathematical tripos. Prior to his pretentation to the family
hying of Norton, in 1061, he was curate of St. Paul's church,
Haim-Mil, Camberwell.
An irtineet has been held at the convict prieon,
Portland, on the body of William Pherson Thormwon, aged
30, a Fenian convict under sentence of penal sell/Pude tor
life for being implicated In the murder of Serge .nt Brett, at
Manchester, two or three years ago. He had died of con-
sumption. Wm. Emmett, ex- tt.P for Lambeth, one of the
hospital warders who attended the deceased, gave evidence
to the effect that Thompson had expressed himself satisfied
with the treatment he had received lo the prison. The
death of Thompson, has furnished a theme of indignant re-
poach against Entlemi to the " Natimal " journals. The
Iridtrnan and Flag cf Ireland are in mourning, and have
bitter articles on the event.
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The return of Dr. Turner, the Roman Catholic
Bishop of Salford, from Rome was celebrated at St 3,
Cathedral there on Sunday, at two services. A defence of
the Pope and the Ciuncil, and notability of the attitude of the
letter to relation to the proposed dogma of infallibility, was
undertaken by Canon Benoit. The rev. gentleinan spoke with
some bitternets of the "mallow" which Protestant journals
have displayed In describing the proceedings of the Council,
lie ascribed to them the " diabolical purpose" of throwing
ditcreilit upon the Pope The main onject now before the
Council, according to Canon Benoit, was not orginally
brought before it by the Pope, but by members of the Council
theniselvm. Infallibility means that the Church will tpeak
" with the infallible voice of God, whenever she speaks in an
infallible manner."
The Bishop of lklancheater preaching at St. Mark's
March, Wortley, on Sunday morning mid his opinion wee
that the greatest peril of England at toe present moment was
in the reluation of family bonds between man and wife,
, between father and children, and between muter and servant.
A heathen poet, describing the course of degeneration and
corruption which marked the age In which he lived, said the
firet step was breaking up and corrupting the sanctity of the
nuptial bond, and from that came the whole tide of evil which
made east succeeding generation more corrupt than that
which went before. Ile did not think that the relation be-
tween parent and child and child and parent was now what
it was when he was a boy, or was what it ought to be under
the influences of Christian training with care and watchful-
ness There was not that reverence that there ought to be
on the part of the et ild. Leis, it seemed to him, now than
ever could we afford to dispense with what wee called "the
religious element' in education.

Bronze mired with phosphors. is said to be the gun
metal of the future, sod to hare stood Some extraordinary
testa.

The Journal Officiel announces that on account of the
death of IL Jerome tionsparte Paterson, recently deceased in
America, the llmperor would go Into mourning for • reek.
An earthquake has devastated the island of Saotorui
The town 1,. mass of ruins, and several small lsleta have
been submerged. _

About fir.; hundred turnpike gates and bare were
abolished on Friday (the Id of July) in England, under the
provisions of the act of last year. On the Ist November next
nearly three hundred more will be removed.

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The Chancellor of the Exchequer bee acknowledged
the receipt of • £lOO note from "r. G. S ," on account of in-
elme-tax. The Board of Inland Revenue has also acknow
ledged the receipt from R. A." of a Bank of England note
for £2O, on account of income-tax.

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The United Stat. Senate haa agreed to Mr Sumner'
amendment striking mit the word " white" from the pending
Naturalisation Bill. Several senators strongly objected to
tl,e amendment, on the ground that it would admit the
Chinese to eitizenehip.
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" Business, to be suemseful, must be followed up.
Acting upon this rule, a floating liquor saloon ban worked tie
way up the river from Pittsburgh, re., to White Oak Station.
The statement that there is a coincidence In its movetnel in
with those of the Circuit Court of that district, is probahly
• scandal upon the bar."—N en, York Tribune.

A paper is published in the Cherokee nation, one
page of which h printed in what is supposed to be the Indian
tongue. One of its exchange. says :'it', the wont case of
pickled tongue we have come in c nitact with The page
looks as it there had been • nitro-glycerine expioalou in •
type foundry,'

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A shocking twvident occurred on Saturday at Liver-
pool, at Fawcett's ironfoundry in that town. A massive
place of machinery, weighing about eight tons, was being
lifted, when the woodwork of the crane gave way, and falling
on the workmen, killed two, and seriously Injured seven
others.

It is said that the contrabandists in Spain tranatheir
doge to attack the gees Warm°, by dressing up as gems
d'armes themselves, tymg-up the dogs, and giving them •
thorough good thrashing daily for three successive weeks
After that time the dogs are quite reedy to fly at the real
article when he presents himself and the contrabandist my.
At him dog ."
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The Paris Figaro is to be prosecuted for an article in
the nuni of July 1, alleged to contain at. attack upon the
person of the Emperor. The libel in question consists in an
assertion that the Emperor, having borrowed money of I,rd
Clarendon, gave him the commercial treaty with England
by way of setron.
The Rock says an architect hal issued a pamphlet, in
which be states his desire to build an immense nationd
mausoleum. The building is to contain space for the inter-
ment of 2,000,000 bodies the style is to be Gothic, and for
elm and magnificence St. PAW'S and St. Peter's at Rome will
be to this new building as dwarfs are to a giant.
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In the Brighton ritualiern cause Lord Cairns an.
nounced on Monday that the Judicial Committee would
make known their deciaion In a few dam The point raised
was whether Mr. Henry Bibb.% of Brighton, could he
allowed to take the place of the original promoter of the
suit, Colonel Elphinstone, who has died since the proceedings
began. . .

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Frienda of the F.3IAMB who are held to answer for
violation of the neutrality laws have been to Washington
endeavouring to get the President to release them. Senator
Fenton, of New York, is interesting himself in their favour.
The President indicated his willingness to deal leniently
with them, but la inclined to permit the laws to take their
course.

The Handel's Bunk at Vienna luta been defrauded
of 149,000 fbrina, having bought from an unknown person a
ticket of the Brunswick Lottery Loan, which had won 80,000
tinders, but proved to be forged. kloney.changers in Eng-
land are urged to be especially cautious just now, as forgela
are very active, various forgeries of small amounts of paper
currency and dividend coupons having been recently de-
tected.

A telegram from Salt Lake reports that on the 15th
of Jane, as a train on the Pacific Railway approached the
Platte river, the engine-driver discovered a band of LOO
Indians crossing the line. As the train neared them lire,
began to )el, and, supposing they were about to attack the
train, full steam was put on, driving it through the baud at
high speed, and killing 13 Indium.

The Finfencur states that oat of the 370 iniesenzers
in the train which met with the terrible accident at Newaik,
eighty.seven had railway pasmgers' usurer.ca tickete, for
which the total amount paid was less than a sovereign. CPI
these eighty seven persona live were killed on the spot and
thirty-live Injured. All the injured are entitled to 111A11.
term. during Illness either by a sum down or by weekly
pa) meets, according to the scale at which they insured The
five pelple killed bad each twopenny tickets, which entitle
their child:en or relatives to the sum of .ClOO.

The American papers announce the death of Wil-
liam Gilmore Simms. Mr Simms was born in Charleston in
1806, cet Scotch-inch parentage. Ile began life •• • barrister,
but became the edttor of. daily paper In Charleston, and in
1825 made hie first appearance as an author, with • "Monody
on General Charles CAworth Pinckney." Ile published five
volumes of pm ms enhiequently, and in 183:1 • novel, en-
titled "Martin Faber, the Story of • Criminal" From this
period Mr. Simms devoted himself chiefly to fiction.

An English traveller, having passed two days at an
hotel in a French country town, called for hbi bill, whits
amounted to 110 franca lie was astonished at the amount
and indignantly remarked—" one hundred and ten francs for
two or three wretched repute, and for two nights spent in a
bed tilled with fleas I' "Fleas 'exclaimed the hotel keep,
"how could I have forgotten them? Hand me the bill."
The traveller returned the bill, and the hotel-keeper added
to the total—' Fleas—Five francs r.

A new kind of clock has been patented. The peen-
nitrify of it is that instead of having the usual clock face, it
shows the hour and minutes on • surface of about three
inches, In the same manner as they are represented in the
ordinary time-tables in use. Twenty minutes past twelve
would be represented in figure., thus-12 20, no that the pre-
cise time is she wn at a glance, without any addition or sub-
traction for the figures shown by the '' long hand" in the
ordinary clock.

I'articulars were recently taal,liehed of a remarkable
confession of • murder supposed to have been committed
many years ago at Dilh um, • village near Cheadle, Stafford-
shire. From Information which the police have obtained
there is no doubt that an old knife grinder was suddenly
missed from the village. Several persons to the village have
given circunidautia information, placing beyond doubt U.
font that a murder has Inc nc,mruilted but IN the supposed
murderers and the principal witnesses are dead, the police
are unable to bring the matter b,fore a public tribunal.

Oa Sumlay, at Colchester, while two boys were
birds,uesting in the eastern suburbs of the town, they cmi
upon a parcel lying in a ditch communicating with the river
near. On opening it they found the dead body of an int int.
The lads at once communicated with the police, who rem veil
the body to the ntation-house, where an examination was
made, and it was discovered that the body, believed to be that
of a full-grown male infant, and wrapped in an old apron and
other clothes, was beyond identification, rata having eaten
the dealt off its arms and legs and partly off the chest and
head. A medical gentleman who was called in, gave it a 3
his opinion that the body had been in the water for a for:-
night