The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-09-09 00:00:00

In Wolverhampton, on Monday, Mr. J. C. Buck
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master delivered an interesting lecture on cookery to a large
audience. The Earl of Dartmouth presided.

The School Guardian says the dearth of school-
mistresses continues, and there seems no prospect of it
coming to an end.

It is proposed to reward the good boys of the higher •
class municipal schools in Paris by giving them a ten days'
trip to the seaside. .

Three brothers, sons of one of the Siamese twins,
are joint owners of a fine farm in Jackson county, Missouri,
on which they raise large crops of tobacco.

An exhibition of newspapers of all times and
countries is announced to open at Prague on the 28th inst.
At a recent clam bake near New York one of the
participants eat 897 clams, whilst another devoured four
spring chickens and 84 oysters.

A malignant form of febrile disease has broken out
amongst the horses in Lower Egypt; and what is known
here as the carbuncle fever has attacked the cattle in Upper
Egypt There is a great mortality. •
A great fire has occurred at St. Hyacinthe, in Canada.
Nearly six hundred buildings were dertroyed, one hundred
families are rendered homeless, and the loss is estimated at,
two millions of dollars.
Lord Hatherley presided on Saturday at the opening,
of a school in Leeds for the higher education of girls. nix ,4
lordship pointed to the examples of London, Manchester,
and Bradford, gave some advice upon study for girls, and ex-
pressed his conviction that a movement which had been so
successful elsewhere would also succeed in Leeds.

A coroner's inquiry has been held at Maidstone on
the body of Frederick William Crikenden, aged 17, who was
crossing the line at Avlesford station with other passenger's,
in spite of the warnings of a signalman, when he was
knocked down by an engine. A verdict of "Accidental
death" 'was returned.

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An American paper tells of a grey horse which, in a
lifetime of twenty•eight years. had travelled with a circus,
been mortgaged four times, served in the rebellion, and been
less gloriously useful at farm work, died recently at a farm
in Wisconsin. His owner had a coffin made of black walnut,
handsomely finished, bearing a plate inscribed with the
name and age. The funeral was attended by two hundred
villagers.
The Marquis of Hartington has consented to take
the chair at the 212th anniversary festival of the Scottish
Corporation, of which the Prince of Wales and Dole of
.Rotbetay is president, on St. Andrew's Day, N ov. 30, respecting
which his lordship says :—" I think there is now little doubt
that I shall be in England on Nov. 30, and that I shall be
able to attend the Scottish Corporation dinner on that day."
"We have reason to believe that her M.jesty has
been pleased to summon Viscount Bury to the Houle of
Lords in his father's Barony of Ashford. He will sit as
Baron Ashford, of Ashford, county Kent, but will retain his
present name.—The Times (Tuesday).
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Brevet Colonel J. C. 11. J(snes, commanding the sub-
district of which Liverpool is th 3 centre, died suddenly 'on
Sunday evening from disease of the heart while entertaining
some friends. Colonel Jones had lately returned from
Ireland, where he had been on leave, and on Saturday was at
his office transacting business, apparently in his usual health.
He j Aned the service about thirty-four years ago, and for
some time commanded the 54th Regiment.

The Daily Telegraph of Tuesday said :—" We deeply
regret to announce the death of Mr. George Smith, of the
British Museum, and recently the leader of the explorations
at Nineveh on behalf of The Daily Telegraph. News of this
sad event arrived yesterday in a Constantinople telegram.
Particulars have not reached England; and all that is yet
known is that Mr. Smith died on Aug. 19 at Aleppo."

Advices have been received at Dundee, with respect
to the whale fishery, from which it appears that the Dundee
fleet at the early date of the despatches had achieved com-
parative success. The tonnage attributed to the Dundee
vessels is 376 tons; but on July 22 three of the ships—the
Arctic, the Active, and the Ravemscraig—were Qleaned. The
catch is worth about as,ooo.

"Although little or nothing is known about the
character or the ability of the new Sultan, there seems to be
a faint hope in some quar ers that he may display the vigour
of a Reformer, and thus lift the Ottoman Empire above the
greatest perils by which it has ever been encompassed
oven in the course of its long and eventful history: •It fi
thought that he may possibly display the same political foie-
sight and strength of will as his grandfather, Sultan
Mahmoud."—Leader in The Times.

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The keel of the armour-clad ship Agamemnon, which
Is intended to be the most formidable both for offensive and
defensive purposes of any of the iron•clad ships yet con-
structed at Chatham, has been commenced at that establish-
ment. Upwards of two Yew will be spent in building her,
with about 1,000 hands daily employed on her during that
ne, and her estimated cost will be half a million sterling.
The electric pen of Edison consists of a pointed
style connected with a galvanic battery which, when held in
the hand and properly directed, will m‘ke 5,000 points every
minute on paper. On passing an" inked roller over the
writing thus produced, a fac-simile is printed and an inde-
finite number of copies can be made in this way. The
instrument was recently exhibited at the conversazione of
the Royal Society.

An inquest was held at Plymouth on Saturday on
the body of a man named Stoyles, a cooper, who had died
from the result of severe wounds in his throat. When taken
to tbe hospital, Stoyles said that while sitting on a seat by
the seashore at Plymouth, a man, whose description he gay*,
came behind him and drew some sharp instrument across his
throat and ran away. Stoyles persisted in this story until he
died. The jury, however, after a protracted Inquiry, re-
turned a verdict of suicide.

The family of Sir Isaac Newton is (the Academy
says) at the present day represented by the Earl of Ports-
mouth, whose ancestor married a daughter of the philo-
sopher's niece; and a large mass of Newton's manuscript
have been carefully preserved at Hurstbourne. We are In-
formed that the noble owner has recently submitted these
papers to the inspection of Professor Adams and other
Cambridge men of science, with a view of presenting to the
University such as are of purely scientifil interest.

An accident from somnambulism happened on
Friday night to a Mrs. Sabina M.. Daniel, aged thirty-eight
years. She was staying with some friends at Warrior-road,
Kennington, and retired to rest as usual, but,shortly after
midnight she was heard walking about her bedroom, It
was known that she was a somnambulist, but no danger was
apprehended. Suddenly, however, a crash of glass, followed
by a scream and a heavy fall, was heard, and it was dis-
covered that Mrs. MD miel had, during her sleep, walked
through a glass door on the second filar, and fallen into the
garden below, a distance of 35 feet. She sustained, very
severe injuries, and had to be removed to the hospital, where
she lies in a precarious condition.