The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-11-03 00:00:00

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According to statistics recfntly published, no fs
then 174 million bottles of champegue were exported
ruin Rheims during the ten years from 187080.

The city of Halle, Germany. possesses one of the
most interesting eel os of Luther—a cast of his face
taken after death, in the night between the 2ath and
21st of rebroarv, 1546, when hi. corpse, whlle on the
Nat, from Ei.leb-ri to ‘A ittsAerg, lay in the city
ohurch, now St. Mary's, in Halle.
The Metropolitan Board of Works purpose to intro.
cinoe a bill in toe eosnins session to enable them to
acquire the open spaces of the metropolis.
Princess Marie, eldest daughter of the Duke of
Edinburgh and the Grand Duchene Marie of Russia,
attained her eighth birthday on Monday, having been
born cio Oct. 19, 1875.

The Berne police authorities have issued an order
for the immediate explusion of Salvationists from
that canton. In consequence of this measure Miss
Becket, and another member of the Salvation Army
who re.iried at Neuvaville, have been obliged to leave
that place.

A cyclone has passed over Lenisiania, destroying •
number of buildings in the parisbei of Catahonla and
Tenses. Three persons were killed and twenty-five
nj ured.

Another dynamite outrage has been attempted at
Montcean-les.Mines ; but as the ptlisading kent the
offender at a distance from tke mining engineer's
hour,e, he could only fling the cartridge against the
wall, the windows merely being broken.
During the last coarter sixteen new courts have been
opened by the Aroment Order of Ir,,ri-sters—eleven in
England, three hi S-iotland, and two for Wales.
On Tuesday night a fire occurred at Mr, Stephen
Pullen's farm at atrton, near Colnbrook. The local
fire brigades were promptly in attendance ; but, not-
withstanding the efforts of the firemen, several ricks
of farm produce and much valuable property were de-
stroyed.

The work under the Irish Arrears Act closed on
Wednesday. It may be anth(Titatively stated that
the total of £810,321 4s. 6d. has been paid to 1442
tenants to wipe out arrears of rent amounting
£2,000,000.

Owing to the extreme depression in the steel trade,
between 80 and 100 men were on Saturday discharged
fr)m the Eaton Steel Works of Messrs. Bolckow,
Vaughan and Co. The department directly affected
is the making of steel rails, which, it is stated, even
firms raising their own ore and coal cannot make
profitably at the current price of £4 12s. 6d. per ton.
At a meetine of the Portsmouth Town Council, Mr.
Foster, a member of the Corporation, has been pre-
i=pnted by the Mayor with the testimonial on vellum
of the Royal Humane Society, for saving two lives at
Southsea in August last.
At Frankfort on Monday night a quantity of dyne.
mite or nitro•glycerine was maliciously exploded at
the chief police offioes. No one was injured, but the
bailding was seriously damaged.
The value of exports of merchandise from the
United States during the month of September last
exceeded that of the imports by 3,000,000 dole.

On Monday night a shook of earthquake lasting Ile
second', and accompanied by subterranean rumblings.
was felt at Kamenets, the chief town of Podolsk.
Russian Poland.

A sturgeon weighing nearly 601 b. was on Saturday
captured in Portsmouth Harbour by a fisherman, who
leaped out of his punt and caught the royal fish by
the tail, in shallow water.
At Runcorn, on Saturday, a man named Ashley
quarreled with his mother, and in attempting to
strike her his hand went throush a window. He re-
ceived apparently a slight scratch, but the bleeding
was so profuse that he died in two hours.
The emigration agents for the Government of Tas-
mania have received a telegram announcing the safe
arrival at Hobart Town on the 26th inst. of the steamer
Cape Clear with 372 emigrants.
The Weardede steamer, of Sunderland, with ooal,
and the Whttwood, steamer, of Goole. have izone ashore
on Fatuvilie Bank, river Seine. The Weareiale Is
broken and lost ; her crew have gone in boats to
Berville. The Whitwood got off with the assistanee
of a tug.

A telegram to the Gaukis says that a report is cur-
rent on the West Coast of Africa that M. De Brazza
has been killed in a fight with the natives. No details,
however, are given, and no confirmation has come to
hand.

A Berlin telegram says that on Sunday the land-
lady of a public-house frequented by journeymen
bakers found a loaded bomb in the stove of a room
where 209 persons were assembled. It was by the
merest chance that a terrible catastrophe was averted.
At Vienna on Saturday, when the members of the
Academy of Sciences visited the Electrical Exhibition,
the Crown Prince, who walked round with them, said
to Sir William Thomson and others, " Now that
science in Austria has found such supporters as you
and Professor Hdlmholtz, we hays a phalanx which
will help us to combat any enemy to progress."
Intelligence received from Jamaica reports that
Port Antonio was almost entirely destroyed by lira
on the 18th inst. The loss is estimated at Over
1,000,0 ,0 dole.
The Prince of Bulgaria has dismissed from his suite
all the Russian officers hithert., attached to it, and has
recalled thirty Bulgarian officers who have boon
serving in the Russian army.

The number of live stock and the quantity of fresh
meat landed at Liverpol during lust week from the
United States and Canada amounted to 2 121 cattle,
2 506 sheep, 8 259 quaitt re if beef, and 1,150 carcases
~t mutton ; againpt a total of 1,858 cattle, 3,11,9 sheep,
628.5 quarters of beef, and 580 eareases of mutton
during the preesding week, showing a further ire cue
in the importation of both live cattle and fresh meat.
On Tuesday morning, about half-past six o'clock, an
explosion attended with fatal results oocurred at the
No, 1 pit of the Stokes Colliery, Little Lever, near
Bolton. Several men were injured, their names being
Richard listchman, Robert and Thomas Ratchman,
and James Smith. They were severely burnt, amid
Smith succumbed to his injuries in the afternoon.

The traffic receipts of the railways in the United
ihudom for the week ending Oct. 96, upon a mileage
of 16,6271, amount to £1,334,335, being equal to
£BO ss. per mile. For the corresponding week of last
year the receipts were £1,309,215, the number of wiles
°pm 16 422 i, or £79 17s, per mile. A comparison of
the two weeks shows an increase in the total receipt'
of £25.120, and an Increase in the camber of miles open
of 2AL

On Monday morning, a fatsl acoideat oocurred to
Joeeph Ashton, relief signalman, in the employ of the
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway
Company. Toe deceased, who was ofaciatiug at
Barnsley. was going along the line to his hex, when be
was knocked down and killed on the spot by a psi.
singer train going to Sheffield. The morning was
foggy.

A despatch from Smyrna reports that the wall sur-
rounding the town, the Aqueduct, and the Mosque
have been damaged by an earthquake. The minaret
and dome of a Mosque at (Japan Yourla have also
been injured. At the last named town one hundred
and sixty-nine persons have been seriously, and sixty-
one slightly hurt. Seventy-nine wounded people are
in the hosidtals.
In Ireland, on Monday, a daring robbery of military
ammunition was oommitted. Several asses of ammu-
nition, under the charge of a troop of soldiers en route
from Cali'. to Temp!more, arrived at the Limerick
Junction, and while the men were in the saloon a case
containing 500 rounds
_was stolen from the railway
wagon and a box of powder was stolen from the plat-
form. The robbery was not discovered until the
soldiers arrived at Templemore.
The additions to the Zoological Society's Gardens,
Regent's Park, London. during last week included two
bonnet monkeys, from India, presented by Mr. John
Verinder ;a Macaque monkey, from India, presented
by Mr. W. H. B. Morris; a bonnet monkey, from
India, presented by Miss Stokes; a Geoffroy's oat;
a Chilian sea eagle, from Uruguay, presented by Mr.
Charles S. Barnes; a crested porcupine, from Africa,
presented by the Earl de Grey; a purple Gallinule
(European), presented by Mr, Robert Dowling; a
golden-beaded conure, from South America, presented
by Mrs, Robins; a smooth snake (British), presented
by Mr. W. H. Pain: an 44cialapian snake (Euro-
pean); two redshauks (British); a yellow baboon; a
Gambian pouohed rat; a slaty egret., from West
Africa; a little egret (European); a very black Lemma
from Madagascar, purchased; a brown bear (North
European); a puma, from America ; a Patin monkey,
from West Afriaa ; two black-footed penguins, from
South Afrf en; a ClocVau'a skink, trona the Cape 'Verde
Islands, deposited. '