The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-11-27 00:00:00

EPITOME OF SEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

During the past week 02 wrecks were retorted,
making for the present year 0,331.
A num= is current in Paris to the effect that the
paperer Napoleon and the Czar will meet at Nice, some time

m December.
An English gentleman died in Paris, on Friday,
through She fault of his attendants. lie had dropsy, and '
orders were given by the doctor that he should not move
from a recumbent position; they raised him up, and he died.
The IVall-stral Journal says that Mr. Drake, who
put down the first petroleum oil well is America, and who at
one time was worth £200,000, recently died lathe poor-house
It is remarked as a singular circumstance in the
South African diamonii-digningi that all the diamonds
have been found by natives and not by Europeans. The
natives go on all fond, tic inning the surface and scraping
with their nails; while the European tries to maintain the
dignity of an erect attitude.
The Viceroy of Egypt has ordered from a leading
French mechanical company an Iron floating dock. The
dock will be of large dimensions, and will weigh 4,600 tons.
Lord Middleton has given his Yorkshire tenantry
the liberty of digging out, ferreting, and killing rabbits on
their farms during December and January, but will not
allow guns or snares lobe used.
There is a man in New Jersey who insists on
having his marriage ceremony repeated every year, going
through the whole ceremony of new dress for his wife, dinner
o his Id ends, &c.
A mounted policeman on Tuesday night discovered
a rick of hay, congsling of forty loads, in Clissold Park,
Stoke Newington, London, burning in several places, having
evidently been wilfully set on fire. It was nearly two hours
before the flames could be subdued.
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For the first time in the recollection of the oldest
,er at the Clerkenwell police-court, London, tnere was
rot ot Tuesday morning a single cue of drunkenness or
assault to be disposed of. There were hut three "night
charges," and they were cases of petty felony.
The Boston correspondent of the New York Tribune
writes, that nearly 100 pages of Mrs. Stone's volume, "A
Vinthcation of Lady Byron," are in type, but they are still
subject to the author's revision, and nothing is yet
really in the shape which it is likely to have when
published.
A Lowestoft telegram says the Tyro, fishing lugger,
Captain Smith, which arrived at that place on Tuesday
evening, reports that seven other crew of eleven hands were
washed overboard on Monday by a tremendous sea, and were
all drowned.
There has been a serious earthquake at Manilla.
The churches and public buildings were considerably shaken
and (imaged, and several building' were overthrown
entirely. The toes of life is ascertained to be about eight
persons, besides several injured. The elice.de was felt about
100 miles out at sea.
On Friday evening last, a fishing smack belonging to
l'oesmouth towed into Langston Harbour a huge whale,
which was captured by the crew when cruising about 20
miles from the French coast. The monster was ILO less than
from 70 to 75 feet in length, and is computed to be of the
weight of 100 tons. It had evidently been dead for some
days, having been speared in the side.
Three publicans at Bolton have been fined £2O a-
piece, and a fourth a'.s for allowing be Aing to he carried on
in their homes. A feature in one of the eases was that the
police constables employed to melee bets with a view to the
prosecution had to confess that, when questioned by the pub-
lican as to their occupation, they told deliberate lies in order
to induce him to make the bets. 'the magistrates strongly
condemned this mode of getting up a cue.
About noon on Tuesday, a serious explosion took
place at Manchester, in the shop of Mr. Alcock, druggist.
Two men employed in the cellar accidentally net fire to a
quantity of petroleum in an iron vessel. Both men were
burned, one very seriously, and the premises were much
damaged.
Genius of a high order is not very often precocious.
An exception must be made in favour of Bishop Phillpota,
who won a Scholarship at Corpus when a boy In a,jacket and
finis. Another exception must be made in favour of Sir
Eta in Lan Deer, who exhibited at the Royal. Academy at
thirteen years old.
The heir-presumptive to the barony of Howard de
Walden is a clergyman, and the heir-presumptive to the title
of Arundel) of Wardour is a Roman Catholic priest, and
member of the Jesuit order. The last peer who was a Roman
Catholic priest was a Lord FauConherg, about fifty years ago,
but lie, of course, could not take his seat, as Louise Catholic
Emancipation had not been carried.
A C.ark telegram states, ths,t to commemorate the
deaths of Larkin, Allen, and O'Brien, who were executed at
Manchester for the murder of constable Brett, an immense
body of Feniam passed through that coy on Tuesday night.
led by a band playing the "Dead March in Saul,' they
They
moved in military funeral step, four deep. The number was
estimated at 4,000.