The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-08-28 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN,

The Earl Delawarr haa proceeded to Priaaia to atndy
on the spot the strategy of the campaign of 1866 ibis lord-
ship likewise vnoted the battle-fields of lurobartly after the
notch campaign of
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The accounts connected with the annual fete in be-
half Gf the Widows and Orphans' Fund of the Great Western
Railway Provident Society, held this year in Nunettam Park,
near Abingdon, have Just been mote up, and the result is
most satisfactory, the large sum of £l,lOO being placed to the
crodit f the fund as the proceeds id that popular gathering.
rise is the greatest sum yet realised for the charitable object !
by means of a /etc
One of the attractions in the London shop windows
just now is a collection of plate In Messrs. Elkington's shop,
Waterloo-place. It coitsists of a silver vase, goblet, and other
artieles, which were taken from klagilala by the army under
Sir It. Napier. They have been awarded to one of the Bom-
bay native reel:Dents.
Another attempted murder has taken place at
Aldershot Sergeant Stacey, of the second Battalion sth
Northumberland Fusiliers, fired at Corporal Cireeny of the
...me regiment, but fortunately missed him Both men were
good friends, and were perfectly Wier ; and when Stai.ey was
asked what could have possessed him to commit itch PA act,
he replied he was seized with a sudden impulse, and was
glad that the bullet had not taken effect.
It may not be out of place to remind our readrrs
that the lion Emily Eden, whose death seas recently chro-
nicled in the papers, 55 53 a sister of Eleanor Eden," Was,
l'itt's first and only love,
A Fong of thieves in M.mphis, notic:ng the extreme
care a gentleman was taking of his baggage in the cars, re-
lieved him f it, and when at a safe distance opened it,to find
only a sermon apiece.
"Cross.—Comm hark quickly. I am abroad for a
few (lays. lam miserable at the idea of the friend who is
with you. For Gal's sake don't change.—' St. A.'"—Ativer-
tisernent in The Times.
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The inhocking occurrence which was recently brought
to light in the Carmelite convent at cracow, has already been
dramatised for two of the Florence theatres.
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At a recent marriage at a Ritualistic Church at
the East-End of London, the service lasted exactly two hours!
This included a sermon and the celebration of the Holy Com-
munion.
On Tuesday morning, Squadron Quartermaster-Ser-
geant Patrick Nl' Erlee, of the sth Dragoon Guards, corn-
mitts suicide at Aldershot by shooting himself with his car-
bine. The deceased, who had served in the Crimea, and was
much respected by the officers and mei., was to have marched
with a portion of his regiment for Coventry that morning.
The sheets, blankets, towels, &c., used by Prince
Alfred during his recent visit to .New Zealand were advertised
f or sale by public soup.
The Society of California Pioneer. of San Francisco
! have purchased a cane, valued at 1,000 dolt, for presents-
lion to Wm. H. Seward or. his return from Alaska. The
head of the stick is composed .4 41 triangular pieces of gold-
bearing quarts, froni the principal mines in California, set in
gold.
A sample of very fine new hops. a specimen of
"early goldings," grown by Mr. Alfred White, of Maidstone,
was exhibited in the Leeds Corn Exchange the other day by
Mr. Joseph Tebbs, hop merchant, of Leeds.
The death of M. Salvador Patti, which took place
last Friday, is announced from Paris. M. Patti wag father of
Adelina Patti, of Madame atiakosch, and of Carlotta Patti.
A shower of frog's at Henwicly near Worcester, is

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reported in a local newspaper.
A young lady at Troy, New York, has a photo-
graphic album containing male friends, labelled "Book of
iiilllB "
George Francis Train has been siring his annexa-
tionist theories in British Columbia. This is what be calls
an " epigram "

"On, Pentane, on!
The hour has cone to take Sail Juan !
No swindling ation shall contr“ct our powers!
This boundless continent, by Jove! in ours!"
One day last week two small mushrooms were found
growing in Shaw-street, one of the busiest thoroughfares in
Liverpool.
Mr. Childers and VicvAdmtral nacres have gone on
another cruise. They arrived at Plymouth last night, and
inmediattly went on board the Agincourt, which shortly
afterwards sailed for Gibraltar, accompanied by the Minotaur,
Northumberland, Hercules, Monarch, BeLerophon, and In-
Cull stunt.
So far from the invention of the bic3 cle being a
novelty, it was known in China two centuries ago.
The sentence of death passed on William Pullin,
convicted of murder at Bristol, has been commuted to penal
servitude for life.
"The poor people in Skye have the prospect of cora-
parative comfort this year. 'the price of cattle is good, the ,
potatoes are as yet free of disease, the corn will be a heavy
crop. and it they get fish there will be no went—Job';
o'Groata Journal.
"It is not easy to estimate the demoralising effect
on the youth of Europe of the cigar, in enabling them to
pass their time happily in idleness."—The Queen of the Air.
By John Ruskin, LL.D.
The physician of the Prussian Admiralty has pro-
posed the adoption by all civilised states of a 11 ic of distress,
to he used on every occasion, both in peace and war. It Is
suggested that the 11,g should be of a dark yellow colour,
with a red cross upon It.
A telegram front New York by Atlantic Cable
announces that the Duke of E.linliurgh has been c..rdially
received at llotmlulu, ill the Sandwich Islands, By Atlantic
Cable we also tears. that the city ot Halifax, in Nova Scotia,
is preparing a brilliant reception for Prince Arthur.
The financial edi,or •if the Bennington Banner re-
ports marriages dull, wngagements depressed, courtships
good and prime, scandal sverstocked, belles plenty, beaux
scarce and of poor quality.
According to a deepaich from Suez, dated the 16th
, a splendid fa.e took Mace there on the previous day.
The Waiter% the Mediterranean sod ,d the Red Sea met in
the Bitter Lakes, and the tilling of ths lakes is usw said to be
secured.
An Indiana town boasts a thief who certainly
touclies bottom in his meannews. Ilis peculiar talent is
taking the crape from the doors of houses where a person is
lying dead.
Disquieting rumours respecting the health of the
Emperor Nflpflieoll appear to have circulated on the Paris
Bonne Ott Toes lay. but the ConMitutionnel disposed of them
In its next issue by asserting that lirs Nlajesty was quite well,
and took his usual walk. The Patrie ia like manner con-
tradicted a rumour that the Empress had returned to Paris.
Mr. George Potter read a paper at the Trades
Union Congress on Tuesday on the disorganisation of labour.
Be recommeuded the working clmses to enter upon a vigo-
rous crusade against drunkenness, and to effect an organisa-
tion of labour with democracy.
The death of Robert Campbell, the champion
scuba. of Scotland is annolinced. Deceased burst a blood
vessel. Ile was WWII at Killiarchan, in Renfrewshire, on
25111 July, 1824. lie died at Glasgow.
A Trades Union Congress opened on Monday at
Birmingham. One of the first papers read was spoil conrts
of arbitration—a subject which is expected to engage a large
proportion of the tune anti attention of the Congress. The
paper in question was read by Mr. Owen. ot the Potteries
Irade society, and was followed by a protracted and inter-
esting discussion.
Some short graves or islets have recently been ex-
plored in Sirobsay, in which were tomtit urns containing
ashes ; on some of the llfllB the finger-marks of the potter.
were distinctly visible.
The Rev. Peter Grant, a Roman Catholic priest,
committed suicide on Sunday morning at Dundee. Toe rev.
gentleman had been hisdie for four weeks, and was tm. have
been iemoved to an asylum the day he committed suicide.
Sir William Arm,trong believes that the total quail.
thy 4.f coal in Eugl nod will prove practically ineshaustiole.
The railway embankments in England should be
uti:ised as in Belgiuin, by the planting of trees—trees yield-
ing timber, if necessary—trees yielding fruit, if possible.
All recruits joining the Royal Marines are hence
forth to be taught to swim. It Is odd that the idea should
never have been entertained before !
Mr. Spurgeon recently introduced velocipedes in a
sermon, in the following manner These new inventions,
which the lads were riding down our street., would not keep
up unless they are kept going ; the moment they stopped
they fell down; anti In this they were exceedingly like the
Christian Church, which would fall unless it was kept con-
stantly moving on '
A new volume of poems by Mr. Gerald Massey
entitled "A Tale if Eternity, and other Poems," will shortly

The Commissioners of Inland Revenue have notified
their intention of enforcing the penalty against all persons
known to have killed game without a liceuse, in the forth-
coming season.
The (Jan/nig records the little bill which France will
have the pleasure of paying for the sham debt given in
honour if the Imperial visit to the camp at Chalons. The
Items are curious Gunpowder, £1,000; luucheon, £320,
retreat by torchlight, 160 guinea&
The demand for the reform of the land laws has been
made the basis of an associ ition Mr. John Stuart Mill is
the chairman, Witt the provisional committee includee several
prominent members of the Liberal party in and out of .Parlia-
nient. The primary objects of the association are to promote
the free transfer of laud, to restrict within the narrower
limits the power of tying it up, to preserve the rights of the
politic over commons, and to enable the tillers of the soil to
obtain an interest in it.
"Prince Napoleon is accused of scandalising the
good people of Havre by bathing in the costume so generally
patronleed by our /Wittsh fellow-comitryrut n when swimming
—namely, that id Adam previous to the adoption of the cele-
brated apron—Paris Correspondent.
A Mr. Warren, a retired farmer at Madron. Corn-
wall, died on Thursday, leaving alive 14 chit it., 66 cruel-
children, and 30 gre at-grandchildren. Deceased's age wee "7.
A clergyman in Tennessee was recently shot den in
his pulpit.
A tombstone in the cemetery at Dixon, Illinois, bears
the auggestive inscription, "Gone up."
A fatal termination to a quarrel between a man and
his wife occurred on Sunday night at a predic-honee in the
Obibam-road, Manchester. Aboet half-past ten a factory
operative named shandliy was visited by his wife, and after
a few words struck her a severe blow, from the effects of
which she instantly expired. The man gave himself up to
the police b-lore midnight, and charged himself with come
witting murder.
The young son of a tailor was with his brother play-
ing on Stepney-green. Ile tri...l to jarmp over an iron post,
by placing his hands en it. While leaping his hands dipped,
and he fell on the top of the post. The turned iron at the
top struck his stomach with great violence. Ile screamed
loudly, fell upon the ground, and died in two days after from
the effects of mortification of the intestines, the result of ex-
ternal violence.
An enterprising native firm in Calcutta are adver-
tising a lump that burns " without oil iir any other sub-
stance." From another advertisement in a Calcutta paper it
appears that a young man, a cultivator of indigo, is tuixious
to cultivate the acquaintance of a nice young lady, pretty,
with money, and offers her in exchange, a thereof his bunga-
low in the jungle
A little boy, aged eight years, the son of Mr. Walter.,
Peckham. went to a Sunday-school treat on Thursday last.
lle had 411. given him to spend, which he laid out in nine
halfpenny ices. Some pears were aftere ardis divided amongst
the children, of which young Walters ate. Oil Friday morn-
ing he was taken seriously 111, .d medical advice called in,
but he never rallied, arid died early on Monday morning. The
ices are rudd to have mamma rar. await
It seems to be thought in the United States that
the Fruprees Eugenie proposes to pays visit to that country.
The New York papers state that, an the event of her Miller
no. the naval authorities, on receipt of fadeless from the com-
manding officer of the America squadr. In Eerape, will
make preparations for her reception, and that the French
fleet convoy ng her Majesty across the Atlantic will probably
be escorted by the Frarilein.
The Great Northern Railway Company have agreed
to give the amount formerly paid for church rates to institu-
tions for religious instruction, and to a benevolent (per-
manent) fund which it was now proposed to raise for the
officers. The company have also determined to increase the
amount for churches, schools, and hospital. from £365 to
£6OO a year.
At an early hour last Saturday morning a widow
woman, named Hannah Tennant, was found lying dead upon
the floor of her house incline-street, Liverpool, with her throat
cut in a frightful manner. She had been drinking to excess
of Into, but it is thought that the injuries of which she died
could not have been inflicted by her own hand, as shout two
inches of her windpipe was found at sone distance from the
body. The affair is being investigated by the police.
At Brighton there has been exhibited an immense
conger eel, weighing 2311,,, anti measuring upwards of five
feet in length. It was caught with hook and line by Mr. A.
11. Walker, a brother of the celebrated cricketer of that
name. It was half an hour before Mr. Walker managed to
set the creature on board the boat from which he was fish-
ing.
"An alligator was caught in the North Branch
River, about four miles from Somerville, lost Friday. The
monster measured eight feet in length, and was a twat for-
midable and dangerous-looking beast. The excitement in the
vicinity was intense, and on the alarm being given that it had
leen seen in the river, hundreds of people assembled on the
batiks. It was taken alive, and will be preserved as a show.
The monger had escaped from a collection of thirteen
brought from the South by a speculator in that sort of petit.'
—Newark ;N.J.)Daily Advertiser.
The London correspondent of the indi,pcndance Bilge
says that more than 600 English volunteers intend to be
present at the ensuing rifle contest at liege.
" A girl in Pitsfield was struck dumb by the firing
of a cannon. A number of married men have, in coneemence,
invited the artillery companies to practise near their pre-
ises."—A me Kean Paper.
A 'cute Yankee made the Boston Jubilee a means of
alvertising. In the hands of the chorus he placed 10,000
boxes of his cough lozenges, at a coat of 3,750 dollars, and
then boldly proclaimed that to his lozenges, and to them
alone, the success was due, for which he deserved to be
patronised lay Boston in particular, and by the State in
general.
Out of evil good sometimes springs, as in the unfor-
tunate death of General Faunce. The Itomb..y army will
have reason to look epon it with far other feelings than those
of regret. The Gavtte calculates that, by his ttt ise, one
c. budi will be made a major-general, 47 'majors lieutenant
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colonels. 46 captains majors, and 45 lieutenants captains. Of
the lucky lieutenants who will thus be promoted, 14 belong
to the general list, which would appear to he more fortunate
in Bombay than it la in the Madras presidency.
Lord Broughton has left his papers to the British
Museum, with strict iejunctions that they are not to
be opened till the year 10,0, and that even then they are
not to he published except with the consent of the reign-
ing sovereign. Although the title ot Lord Broughton is
extinct, still the baronetcy of llobbouse remains the pre-
sent baronet, Sir Charles liobhouse, is a Judge at Calcutta.
The anthem at Exeter Cathedral last Sunday. when
that venerable edifice was crowded with the mune attend',
the Coneress of the British Association, was Boyee's—'• ei •
where shall wisdom be found !"
"At half-past twelve o'clock this morning Philip Gil-
martin, proprietor of the Lake View Rouse, shot and in-
stantly killed his son, Thomas Gilmartin, w tba I
was attempting to enter the lionse. The Lit',o• •.• - •
.an for a burglar. Mr. Gilmartin has been to Yed au:
held to await an investigation of the mat: / •
Tribune. August 10.
It will scarcely he credited that the first
the capital of Italy—the Pergola, at Florence—is not yet
lighted with gas; but the fact remains.
The Czar has published a ukase abolishing the here-
diary character of the Russian priesthood, which is now a
caste, comprising 700.000 families. The right to obtain ordi-
nation is IIOW extended to all, while a priest's son can hatake
liinnielf to ordinary life.
On Saturday night the body of a man, recogoiaed as
that of Mr. alasterman, of Eddlethorpe dogkennels, who hat
been lost for some days, was taken from the river Derwent,
eear the Hutton railway station, East Ridine. The coroner
Mr. Jennings) held an hiquiry on Monday afternmin, but no
evidence to show how the deceased got iuto the water WS
given, and the jury returned an open verdict.
The Times has been requested to state that Lord
Stanley of Alderley was married in 1861 to Senorita F. San
Roman, daughter of the late iieilor Don Santiago Federico
San Roman, of Seville.
By the new Act on the adulteration of seeds, to
"kill seeds," by destroying the vital power, or to "dye
seeds," by colour to give them the appearance of another
seed, Is punishable by a fine of £5 for the drat offence, and
4.50 afterwards, with publication of the offeuder at his ex-
pense in newspapers.
According to the Journal Offieiel the news of the
French amnesty produced considerable effect in Geneva, and
at once called forth from the French subjects and foreigners
established in that city "unequivocal derironatratiora ot
gratitude and sympathy towards the Emperor Napoleon and
his Mejesty'e Government." In virtue of the amnesty NI.
Felix Pyat, the well-known Republican, is stated to have re-
turned to France.
A young lady of great beauty has recently died at
Angers under very melancholy circumstances. tier lover
made her a present of two magnificent earrings, anti as her
ens had not been pierced, she decided to mniergo the opera-
tion. (tante to the sine of the earrings, a larger incision
than usual had to be made. The ear unforturodely became
inflamed, erysipelas ensued, and the unfortunate girl rapidly
got worse and died.
Mrs. David M'lver, daughter-in-law of Mr. Charles
Miner, the Liverpool manager of the Cunard Company, end
daughter of Mr. Rank., a well-known Liverpool shuiowner
and merchant, and ex-chairman of the Mersey Ducks and
ilerbour Board, was drowned on Tuesday afternoon while
bathing in the Menai Straits, opposite Min-y-Garth, one of
the residen..e. of Mr. Sliver, close to Bangor. No details of
how the said affair occurred have been received. The de-
ceased lady, who was married in 1863, hail been Mai hire with
her husband and three children at the Nitwit Straits tor the
Purp se of enjoying the bathing, a pursuit of which she was
--ery fond.