The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-06-09 00:00:00

SATTITMAY, JUNE 0 ISB.

seessemsene ease
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At the present time over 1,250 miles of the C__woo
Pacific Railway are 'ready for operation. Ng
months ago only 400 miles were constructed.
small
boats ouotahalcfa-pmaet
stinfivoe
collision
nat o nScunndisawy
icek, vensciiet_gh.tetrol
result that one of three brothers who were in
the boats were drowned.
The Chinese army has been thoroughly reorres
on the German system, and it now comPrnooe
army corps, forming a total of "close upon a tult oes
and a half of men ready for immediate and act' e
nigeoa
vice."
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In Cairo on Saturday there was a grand psrad'sor
the British garrison before the Abdin Palace' int.
distribution among the men of the Egyptian sue
the Khedive. der°
The Organizing Committee of the Swiss
.I.eb tooi
Rifle Match have issued circulars inviting EneVeh hitt
American riflemen to attend the meeting, wn;c
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be held this year at Lugano from July Bto Jul ,100
The total number of besets entered for consuir_Pe'ne,
at the Metropolitan Cattle Market fot the soee''seieg
ing Saturday last was 2,500; in the corresegis,4so
week of 1882 3,50; 1881, 4,320 ; 1890,
1879, 4,410; 1878, 3.530 ' • 1877, 2,170; 1876,
1875, 4,480; and 1874, 4,910.
Which is the most appropriate day for a niarriset e
A Wedding's day.—What is the right day "
cremation? A Fry-day. —Moonshine.
The Citizen states that the Fish Supply Como:tell
of the Corporation of the City of London have uf
mined upon a Conference with the managergi,tiketro•
railways carrying food—especially fish—to the _‘4,
polls, with a view, if possible, to reduce the to'
thereon.
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Four hundred exhibitors have given notice esitioo
committee of the International Electrical Exbil'Ger
to be held in Vienna :-216 from Austria 70 froTebees
many, and 19 each from England and Italy. A
are already 36 notices from France.
Austria will take part in the four hundreee-eth
toot
bration of Luther's birth by the unveiling of °nes ill
of the Reformer at Asch, a manufacturing. t""tate
Bohemia, and one of the largest Protestant oo°3
nities in Austria.
The Silver Medal of the Cobden Club for the belrio,
essay on Political Economy, in the London Intelete
Urinal College, has been awarded to Mr. Albert iEfc'`
Illingworth.
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The traffic receipts of the railways in the floe
Kingdom for the week ending June 1, upon aln to
of 16,627 i, amounted to £1,265,358, being eteeet
£76 2s. per mile. For the correspondieg week oleteee
year the receipts were £1,338,971, the number of
open 16,422 i, or £Bl lls, per mile.
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Two exhibitions to illustrate mining are to hoe. _
this year in the United States. The first is t
San Francisco in the month of August, and 1114%0
slat of the donations to the California State D'unnid
and a large loan collection. The second will be2bef
at Denver (Colorado) from July 17th to Septe,Y."o`ol
30th, and is to take the higher character of a
mining exhibition.
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The number of entries for the Queen's Kr'
Wimbledon, as far as can be ascertained at presenthe
2,422 ; last year the entries numbered 2,272.
entries for the st. George's show also a great ießceee,
ment, last year's nr.mber being 2,055, this year's z
for
The Egyptian Minister of the Interior haive
warded a Circular letter to all the Mudirs, forbiou,,,
the use of the bastinado or the ill-treatment 10
way of the peasantry.
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Mr. Broadhuret, M.P., has secured the first p•A stee
the evening sitting on July 4 for a resolution ne°P? •
to make municipal bodies responsible for providivenr
sufficient choice of suitable dwellings for peralitb
families displaced by demolitions in connexion e,
borough improvements, and alio to give civil corPf 'O-01
tions the same power as railway companies and it'd,
boards to purchase land compulsorily for this Purr-s
In New York a Free Soil League has been fornt:ri;
The principles of the new league are that /abctoto
the sole and just source of property, and that Priv
property in land is simply a fraud.
WA°
The number of failures in England and,
gazetted during the week ending Saturday, xi% of
was 209. The number in the corresponding wet;
last year was 147, showing an increase of 62, bel. 6
net decrease in 1883, to date, of 122.
In London, on Tuesday, at Lord's
Cs'a t
the M.C.C. and Ground beat the ghae Groilebi
m quell
41 runs. At Oxford the Uni ""e
"ersity Eleven goaLd
victory over the Gentleof England by 66 rtlll%fe
ro
According to tht last annual report of Her Blaje°"10)
Inspectop of Explosives laid before Parliament We,
were tre le-rent Britain at the end of the year 1.3,1 ere.
Factories, 86 • magazines, 317; stores, 2,045; rePw"
premises, 15,669. Total, 18,117.
In execution of the dearee of Garibaldi, Wifp.
Dictator, the Italian Chamber of Deputies lisle, leo
proved a Bill providing that the sum of 800,0 w ne-
shell be annually set down in the Budget to oule.
pensate the familiea ruined by the pillage Sna old
vastation caused by the Bourbon troops he 1849
1860,
Two deaths have resulted from a boiler exiolos'eolC
the Dar sn
Dame Valley Paper Mills, Barnsley, which '--ed
place on Friday in last week. Two men, let
Norman and Portie veepe.ctively were badly scalde eel
the time, Norman succumbed to his injuries
eftor, and on Saturday morning Portia also died-
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The annual meet of tricyclists on Barnes-consnioe
—which, owing to wet weather, had been postpoino
from the previous Saturday—took place last Sstalet
under most favourable tonditions. The tee el
being beautifully fine, some 400 wheelmext ronstelrobw,
the tryeting places. Ladies on singles and soci'l
assisted in the display, which lasted quite b
an hour, and was of the most auocessful character. I
On Friday in last week Prince Swasti (brotreho,°o6
the King of Siam) had an interview with f.r`'eli
Albert Victor and Prince George at Marlboroved
House, and presented to them some specimen' io
Siamese arms sent by Prince -De Vs Wong° ie'
remembrance of their Royal Highnessea' cruise
H.M.S. Bacchante. ie
It is stated that Notown, Vermont, tree,•'-'"eee
favoured by being free from taxmollectors. NY", is
readily believe it, as no town in Great Britow
similarly blessed.—Meonshine.
Under the will of the late Dr. W. Chambers, It 01/111
of £5,000 has been bequeathed to the Watt Instil;
tion and School of Arts, Edinburgh. Tie full
of the legacy will only accrue after On expiry of corr''
life intereeto,
The Standard hears that the negotiations for a
'Treaty of Commerce with Italy have reached a °filo
factory conclusion, and that England will be PilKg"
the position of the "most favoured nation."
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At Betchaum, Quebec, fourteen men, baying '
returned from seal fishing, were dividing two kegs e
guapowder in a house. One of them was sraokine,
Suddenly the gunpowder exploded, blew the hot:Vete:
atoms, and injored every man, hurling two of them;
100 yardes. Seven were terribly burned, but P°7l)
were killed outright.
The rate of emigration from Gerroeee, has MIA°
year, eawsehdiltehiisnye42ar.riili nlaMBs,a rein -,C280 perso...l'-
emigreterl, less than durlne. "the same month of ir;
that is to say, 5,856 lees than ionnlAyp3r3Jilo9f4leamstigyreilte
r'un
The Director' cl the United States Mints el,3S°OOl
that the ternerioan mines in 1882 yielded 32,5w.,' se
dos. worth of gold and 46,800,000 dole, worth of sufn," •
These figures exhibit a decline of 2,200,000 dots ineres
yidld of gold and an increase of 3,800,000 dols. in
of silygr,
The International Exhibition of Foreign Prodnet
to be held in Boston, U.S.A.' in the coming ant°-.4
is to be opened on September 3, the 100th anniveron'A
of the signing of the definitive Treaty of Pea°
Paris.
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Holland has concluded a Treaty of Commerce,
Persia, by which she obtains the privilege of establ Oot
lag a bonded warehouse for Dutch productions and
erecting spacious warehouses at Bushire.
In Florence on Sunday Signor Rossetti, of the 11::
fernaed Italian Church, died of apoplexy whilst c?.O
ducting Divine service. His sacred hymns and )5i
other writings, religious and Bacillar, are big
esteemed throughout Italy.
A New York telegram says that the visible
of wheat on June 1 was 20,100,000 bushels, as agile
21,500,010 bushels the previous week. Visible seenPMe
of Indian corn, 13,400,000 bushels, as against 14,7t0hy-,4
bashels the previous week. The export clearsu3o' to
wheat for Europe during last week amounted
To
950,000 bushels; the export clearances of Indian cf,iee
for Enrope during last week amounted to
bushels,
Lord George Hamilton has obtained the Brat PllO.
on Tuesckey, the 12th of June, for the fol10,01;en
Motion with reference to the purchase clauses ()len"-,
Irish Land Act :—" That, in the opinion of this firtiej
an immediate revision of the purchase clause o',nee
Irish Land Act., 1881, is necessary In order to red
• effect to the intentions of Parliament costal°
therein."
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The ship disarm, of 1,211 tons, Captain et
A{ ten
M'Ritehise chartered by Sir Saul Samuel, R.O.enf ei
Agent-General for New South Wales, sailed lee
Plymouth for Sydney on the 2nd inat, with
emigrants, under the supervision of Dr. W.. ee• te '
Violette, as surgeon-superintendent, with Miss J-w-
-charge of the single women.
A. disastrous fire has recently done much daulaglot .
the business portion of Qu'Appelle, one of the 10„1.
flourishing towns in North-West Canada, The °-
chants, however, view the prospects of the place
favourably that they have unanimously decilad CO
build Immediately.
Twenty-one British and foreign actual shiPv"lig
were reported during last week, making the total
the present year 915, the iroreaee against the eareeti
yPe°susdeislignupmerbioadredef 'asigitlty.eaFr
ibveeinwge2re2ss.teatreitris j
eh
r- otor.h.:o
aggregate tonnage of 3,141 tons, three being elit
eee
owned with a tonnage of 1,976 tons. Total tenii'-d A
for the week, 10,699 tons. Number of lives lost sen
missing, 88.
wing
4 telegram from Shanghai says that the foelu°- 00
steamers have left Weosung with new season's te:dte
board :—The Glenogle, on the 22nd tileet•
8 620,0001 b. ; the Stert;no Castle, on the Yelf"„;,-ith
with 3,900,0001 b. ; the Glen coe, on the 27th ult.' "eil
3,230,0001 b. The se. Sikh left Woosung on .4•l°
29th with 2,670,0001b5; of nevi season's tea on boas'
esien°
The additions to the Zoological Society's Cols--„00
during last week included a malbrouck monkey "two
West Africa, presented by Mr, C. D. Gordon 5:„.4 •
grieons, from South America, presented Ur.
Kenyon Slaney ; two sloth beam from Indifroln
sented by Mr. F. A. Curteis s a surticuctl ore' it,
master from Pernambuco, presented by Mr'e'relcao
Barkley; a common chameleon from North
• Pal°
presented by Mr. Heniy W. Weguelin ; a ohlee,„ *
from Weat Africa, two Welsh sheep from vvireVed
Goffin'm cockatoo from Queensland, five nii",olo.
tortoises, 13 European pond tortoises, south Euvydree-
deposited ; a common seal from British Sr"
headed porphyrio, a conical worm snake 11102
puechased t a hybrid tapir, horn In the garden"

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