The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-04-05 00:00:00

URDAY, APRIL 5, 1884

r ive hanarts, who committed murders at Tothbstone,
Arizona, were hanged together on Friday in last week.
Large crowds attended. A gallery was built overlook-
ing the gaol-yard to which an admission fee was charged.
The crowd resented this and destroyed the gallery.
Seven persons were injured in the melee.
The arrivals of live stock and fresh meat at Liverpool
during the last week from American and Canadian
ports continued on a large scale, and the imports of
live stock and fresh meat at Liverpool during the last
week in March from those countries amounted to 949
cattle, 317 sheep, 10,819 quarters of beef, and 1,186 car-
cases of mutton. The conveying steamers were seven
in number.

It is calculated by some American writers that the
gross receipts so far during Mr. Irving's five months
tour in the United States and Canada have been over
£BO,OOO. The outlay has, however, been immense, and
the current expenses very heavy. The largest sums
have been taken so far in Boston and Chicago in spite
of the extreme severity of the winter, and the smallest
in Cincinnati and Baltimore.
Thirty-two British and foreign actual shipwrecks
were reported during last week, against 41 for the
corresponding week of last year, the total for
,the
present year being 510, against 645 for 1883. Twenty-
nine lives were lost, against 88 last year. Five
steamers (four British and one French) sank. Two
vessels were abandoned on fire; and those lost with all
hands comprised only two small British coasters.
The Canadian Government has decided to make a free
grant of 7,000,000 acres of land to the proposed Winni-
peg and Hudson Bay Railway.
It is stated that a petition will shortly be presented
to President Arthur, asking him to interfere to obtain
a commutation of the sentence passed upon Dr. Thomas
Gallagher for his concern in the dynamite plot in Eng-
land. The contention of the petitioners will be, it is
said, that an alibi can be proved in the convict's favour.
Mr. Gladstone having been asked to include in the•
Service Clause of the Franchise Bill men serving in
different establishments, such as drapers, grocers, &c.,
has replied "that he cannot undertake to apply the
provision of the Service Clause to individual cases.
The application can only be determined by the par-
ticular circumstances of each."

A return has been published by the High Sheriff of
Norfolk, stating that the expenses of Mr. Clare Sewell
Read, M.P., at the late unopposed election for West
Norfolk amounted to £489 is. 10d.
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A destructive fire occurred at a farm at Farthingtoe,
Dover, on Saturday. Four horses were burnt to death,.
and one man, supposed to be a labourer, burnt beyond
recognition. _

Tfie first part of the Castellani sale at Rome, devoted
entirely to medals and painted vases, did not draw
together the number of amateurs that was anticipated.
The medals brought 22,560 francs, and the vases
72,006 francs, one of these being knocked down at•
25,000 francs.

the New South Wales Government have instituted a
system of technical education on an enlarged scale. In
1883 the amount expended in the colony for this pur-
pose was £lO,OOO. This year it will be increased to
£25,000.
The latest return of the number of volumes in the
British Museum is just over 1,300,000. There are 160
miles of shelves, and about twenty more miles to be
filled. It is calculated that about one ton of literature
a day is Fent into that institution.

Anovel phrase of the co-operative movement is under
trial at Wellingborough, Northampton, where 200
working men have banded themselves together and
rented a farm of 180 acres, which they will cultivate
themselves.

A curious fete is to be held at Pompeii at the begin-
ning of May. The first day it is supposed there is a
visit from the Emperor of Rome to Pompeii; there will
be circus games, chariot races, procession, and a number
of shops will be decked out as they would have appeared
1800 years ago. On the second day will be a marriage
and a funeral with their respective rites. The third
day are promised gladiatorial games and a gladiator
fête.

A new warm mineral spring has been found at Carls-
bad at a depth of nine metres. It contains iron and
salts, and is not disagreeable to taste. A considerable
quantity of gas issued on sink.ng the shaft.
The Right Rev. Dr. Hills has resigned the Bishopric
of British Columbia. Dr. Hills was formerly vicar of
Great Yarmouth, and in early life worked under Dr.
Hook at Leeds.

The majority of the committee of the United States
Senate upon the Woman Suffrage Bill have reported
in favour of it.

The noard of Trade has given notice that the Sea
Fisheries Act, passed last year, is to come into force on
the 15th of May next.
Last week's receipts of cotton at all United States
ports were 53,000 bales; since let September, 4,515,000
bales. Week's exports to Great Britain, 46,000 bales;
to the Continent, 26,000 bales. Total since let Sep-
tember, 3,252,000 bales; stock at all ports, 745,000
bales.