The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-09-15 00:00:00

A carpenter, named Cunningham, was accidentally
drowned on Tuesday at a "salmon leap" near Cole-
raine. The boat which he was rowing was caught in
the rapids and swept over the falls, being at once
swamped. The body was a,terwards recovered.
On Tuesday seventeen sub-commissioners held
courts in variuus parts of Ireland for fixing fair rents
under the Irish Land Ants. 80,000 cakes have up to
the present been disposed of. It is estimated as many
more remain to be heard.

The dead body of Lance sergeant Price, of the 3rd
Battalion Grenadier Guards, who had been missing
for three weeks, was found on Monday morning in the
River Liffey, in Dublin. The deceased was dressed
in regimentals, and a watch and money were found
upon him. There were no marks of violence.

The total exports from Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney,
and Queensland to Great Britain for last month were;
Wool, 11,00 bales; tallow, 2,600 casks ; copper, 200
tons; copper ore, 1,200 tons; wheat, nil; flour, ml;
tin, 33,000 ingots.
The Chief Commissioner for British Burmah, in his
report upon Criminal Justice in tbat province for 1882,
points out that there was a large and general increase
of crime during the year. The number f convictions
rose to 30,145, as compared with 24,761 during the
previous twelve months.
The extent of the cattle plague in Russia, which
still continues its ravages with unabated fury, may be
imagined from statistics gathered on the subject by
the Minister of the Interior. According to these, no
lees than 1,010,962 head of cattle perished during the
last four years in European Russia alone.
A proof of the increasiag wealth of the Italian
nation may be derived from the latest return of the
sums deposited in the savings barks and postal savings
banks of the kingdom during the last few months.
Those deposited in the savings b•nk-i, which amounted
on the 3rd of May last to 1,088,887,005 fr., had
risen on the 30th of June to 1,094,331,400 fr, , while
those deposited in the postal savings banks amounted
to 98,696,1146 ft.
On Sunday morning the Very Rev. Randall T.
Davidson, who was recently appointed to the deanery
of Windsor, in succession to the late Dean Connor,
preached at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, for
the first time since his installation. There was a large
congregation.
In applying to the magistrates at the Birmingham
adjourned licensing sessions for a licence for two re-
freshment rooms at the new station of the London and
North-Western Railway, Mr. Hinton, solicitor, stated
that the building would cost £500,000. The station
adjoins the Midland Railway Station, and the two
etruotures will, it is stated, form the largest railway
station in the world. The licences were granted.
The sentence of death recently passed upon thirteen
membera of the Mustaphazeen corps for baying taken
part in the Alexandria massacte has been commuted
by the Khedive' in the case of ten of the men, into
penal servitude for life, on the ground of insufficient
evidence.

Rain fell during last week in the Indian North-
West Provinces and Oudh, but the fall was unequally
distributed, al.d in many plaoes it was too ccanty to
benefit the crops. There has been a good rain through-
out the Punjab, but more is wanted. The prospects
of the crops are much improved.
On Saturday afternoon a party of rifle volunteers
were at practice at Blackburn, when the firing, having
temporarily ceased, Jhmes Kelly, 17, weaver, was and-
dentally shot by James Martland, a companion,
through the left shoulder. Kelly died in five hours.
A New York telegram says that the visible supply
of wheat on Sept. 7 was 21,400,000 bushele, as against
20,313(.00 bushtis tbe previous week. Visible surlily
of Indian corn 11,300,000 bushels, as against 10,306,000
bushels the previous week. The export clearances of
wheat fcr Europe during last week amounted to
13490,000 bushels. The export clearances of Indian
corn for Europe during last week amounted to 820,000
bushels.
By order of the Emperor of Russia a hospital for
diphtheria patients has been opened in St. Petersburg,
where the homeopathic treatment only will be used.
The Red Cross Society has sent a matron and eight
nurses,
A Philadelphia telegram says that the fishing
schooner Resttess, of Lunenberg, has been wrecked on
the Nova Scotian coast, and all hands (nine) lost.
The water-logged wreck hss been towed into Barring-
ton with four drowned bodies in her cabin.

Last week's receipts of cotton at all United Stater
ports were 33,000 bales ; since Ist September,
33,000 bales. Week's exports to Great Britain,
14,000 bales; week's exports to the Continent, 10,000
bales. Total since let September, 24,000 bales.
Stock at all ports, 216,000 bales.

The receipts into the Exchequer from April Ito
September 8 were £34,883,647, against £33,980,503 in
the corresponding period of last year. The expendi-
ture was 06,733,075 against £37,844,896. The balance
in the Bank of England last Saturday was £3,32L814;
the balance in the Bank of Ireland was £1,129,905.
The arrivals of grain, tea., into London last week were
as follows :—English wheat, 4,412; barley, 86; malt,
15,888; oats, 3,575; peas, 730; beans, 252 • maize, 70
qrs. Flour, 14231 sacks. Sootch maft, 30 qrs.
ruraign wheat, '
102657; barley, 1,994; oats, 50,190;
peas, 64; beans, 2,088; maize, 22,227 qrs. Flour,
12,141 sacks, Exported: Wheat, 461 barley, 30;
malt, 1,283; oats, 419 ; beans, 569 qrs. Flour, 161 cwt.
Mr. Fawcett has written to a correspondent that
"there are grave objections to reducing the minimum
Savings Banks deposits to sixpence." The Postmaster
General thinks the stamp slips afford a ready means
of making very small savings, and says this opinion
is borne out by the extent to which the slips are made
use of,
Acoording to the revised lists of voters recently pub-
lished by the overseers of the different parishes in the
Parliamentary borough of Wolverhatupton it appears
that, chiefly in consequence of the number of artieans
who have left the district owing to the had state of
tra, le, there has been a total (leer ease of 150 voters.
An unusually large transport of gold has just arrived
at St Petsraburg from Irkutsk, in 15 carts, valued at
seven millions of roubles. The precious commodity
was escorted through Siberia by forty peasants on
horseback.
Last Saturday morning a man named John Nicholls,
aged 48, was found hanging by the neck from a strap
suspended from the top of an iron palisade in front of
the Boston Cottage Hospital. He was quite dead.
The discovery was made by his wife, who went out to
look for him.
The wife of a Vienna gilder, named Obrist, with
her two sone, aged nineteen and eleven, and two
daughters of seventeen and twelve, were found dead
on Monday morning, having taken cyanide of
potassium. Letters were found declaring that they
had agreed together to kill themselves, as business was
so bad, and further distress was feared.
The police authorities have received information
from the banking companies that there are at the
present time upwards of 20.000 spurious Australian
and other sovereigns in circulation. These base coins
are somewhat more difficult to detect than the spurious
ones usually in circulation, inasmuch a., in addition
to being of superior make and finish, they contain
about 76. 6d. worth of gold.
The total number of beasts entered at the Metro-
politan Cattle Market for consumption for the week
ending Saturday last was 3,070 head; the correspond-
ing week of 1882, 3,800; 1881, 4,00; 1880, 3,760;
11,79, 3,290; 1878, 4,890; 1877, 3,650; 1876, 7,360;
1,875, 7,470; and 1874, 6,780.
A fatal accident occurred on Monday in Chatham
Dockyard. Several men were engaged in removing
an immense cog-wheel by means of a tripod when one
of the legs gave way, precipitating the huge mass of
metal upon one of the men, a wheelwright, named
Edward Hall. The man was crushed in a frightful
manner. He was at once carried to Melville Hospital,
but expired in a few moments.
While a boat's crew belonging to the Dundee
whaler Thetis was fast to a whale in David's Straits
on 7th August, the rush of the whale through the
water caused the boat to capsize, and two of the
crew were drowned. All would have perished but for
a young man who dived and cut the line attached to
the whale.
At the adjourned annual licensing sessions at
Birmingham deputations from the United Kingdom
Alliance and the Good Templars presented memorials
against the granting of new licenses, and urging the
magistrates to withhold others which were not abso-
lutely necessary. Birmingham, it WM stated, had
2,240 licensed houses, or one to every 35 inhabitants.
The magistrates promised to consider the matter.
Free canals in New York have greatly increased the
business carried on over those highways of commerce.
The first three months af this year show an increase
of 200,000 tons, compared with that of the correspond-
ing period of 1882. The new boats appearing upon
the canal promise a larger increase In the future.
"A wonderful cave of unknown depths" has been
discovered at the base of Lookout Mountain, th-
miles from Chattanooga. It "opens at low water on
the edge of the Tennessee river," and it was found at
a recent examination that "at the extreme point of
exploration a very large lake was encountered, into
which a fall 150 feet high poured its waters with a
noise like thunder."
His Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Command-
ing-in-Chief has been requested by the Council of the
National Rifle Association to convey its thanks to the
officers, non-commissioned officers, and men employed
during the late Wimbledon meeting "for the zealous
and efficient manner in which their duties were per-
formed by them on that occaelon."
The Daily News says :—We understand that Baron
de Maclay, the Russian naturalist, and the Rev.
James Chalmers, of the London Missionary Society,
have addressed a joint letter to Lord Derby, protesting
against the attempts made in Queensland to recruit
labourers in New Guinea, and warning the Govern-
ment that if the system is persisted in it will result
in bloodshed.
The statistics of Tasmania for the half•year ended
36th June last show the following increases over the
corresponding period of 1882: Cu,toms, £1.3,947; tct 41
revenue, £25,504; value of imports, £159,818; exports,
£174,32. The total value of gull ex oorted during the
s x months was £86,509, and of tin £184,524, being an
increase of £7,035 in the former and of £26,071 in the
latter. The total revenue for the six months of 1883
was £272 543, against £,163,682 for the corresponding
peric4 of 18Y9, being an increase of £108,881:_
At Liverpool, on Tuesday, James McDermott was
again charged on remand with being concerned in the
conspiracy to destroy public buildings by means of
explosive substances. l!ifr. Marks, on behalf of the
Tseaeury, applied for another remand, as there were
further inquiries to be made before he could ask for a
these
committal. After. amprodtse,sttfhreomphritssonsoerliciwtoarsagsagianisn
remanded for a week,
repeated
The Registrar-General's weekly return states that
in London last week 2,434 births and 1,257 deaths
were registered. Allowing for increase of population,
the births were 194, tend the deaths 160 below the
average numbers in the corresponding weeks of the last
ten years. The annual rate of mortality from all
causes, which had been equal to 179 and 17'0 per
1,000 in the two preceding weeks, further declined last
week to 16'64 a lower rate than has prevailed in any
1 week eine° the end of September, 1881.

The Minister of Public Worship in Germany has
ordered all Protestant school children to be presented,
on the approaching Luther anniversary, with a valu-
able little work containing a well-written life of the
great Reformer.
The new session of the Institute of Agriculture will
open on the let of October, when Mr. Bernard Dyer,
F.C.S., F.1.C., will begin a course of lectures on
"Chemistry in relation to the Soil at the Museum
of Geology, in J6rmyn•street, London.
The Dtichess of Teak has transmitted to the Kew
Church Enlargement Fund the sum of £1,062, this
being the net proceeds of the concert organized a few
months ago by her Royal Highness on behalf of the
fund. The Queen, the Duke of Cambridge, and the
Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz have each sub-
scribed £lOO towards the same object.

The first movement to light the channel of the Clyde
as one of the city public thoroughfares will be corn-
menced in less than a fortnight. Sit specially con-
structed buoys have arrived at Glabgow to be filled
with gas made frcm paraffin oil at the Clyde Light-
house Trust Works on the principle of Pintch's
patent.

The chapel of the Royal Naval College at Green.
wich is about to be enriched by the gift of a handsome
new marble font, sculptured by convicts at the Chat-
ham Convict Prison. The work is stated to have been
entirely executed by convicts, and that they have dis-
played great skill with the chisel.

Two correspondents write to a morning contem-
porary stating that onion juice applied to the sting of
a bee or a wasp will never fail to effect a cure. A raw
onion should be scraped and the pulp placed upon the
sting; if stung in the mouth or throat a piece of raw
onion should be chewed, and slowly swallowed.
The Ex-Chancellor of South Carolina, Mr. Jame
P. Carroll, has just died of a spider's bite (says the
Globe). Two recent deaths from bees' stings, and two
from those of wasps, a dock labourer killed by a beetle,
and an Ex• Chancellor by a spider, make up a curious
list of fatalities from trivial causekin a single summer.
Cattle and sheep from the United States and Canada
arrived at Liverpool last week in almost double the
numbers of the preceding week, while the quantity of
fresh meat from the same ports also showed an in-
crease, particularly mutton, which was above the
average of the past few months. The conveying
steamers were nine in number, aid the total consign-
ments were 2,143 cattle, 2,644 sheep, 5,833 quarters of
beef, and 625 carcases of mutton_

The Aberdeen herring season was brought to a close
on SAurday, when an average catch of 89 crane for
463 boats was announced, as against 166 i for 483 boats
last year. The fishing at Aberdeen has been excep-
tionally poor. owikg to the scarcity of fish off the
coast, and also to the unfavourable weather which
prevailed during the season.
During the twelve months ending July 31st, tiur az-
ports of merchandise from the United States were of
the value of 921,615,955 dole., an increase of 79,489,772
dole, over the corresponding period of 1882. The im-
ports amounted to 714,236,719 dole,, showing a decrease
of 23,785,054 dole.

A novel sort of yacht race is talked of in America.
The owners of the Atalanta and the Yosemite wish to
try the speed of their respective yachts under steam,
and the winner is to take both yachts as his prize. As
the so-called yachts are really ocean steamers of con-
siderable size, and fitted with every imaginable luxury
the stakes will perhaps be the largest ever contended
for.

The Conservators of the Exe have decided to appea
to Parliament to remove the cormorant from the list
of birds under the protection of the Wild Birds Act.
The cormorants have so greatly increased in number
that they have done great damage by the large
number of young salmon and other fish they have con-
sumed. The conservators were moved in this matter
by the memorial of 100 salmon fishermen.
The Lord Mayor of London has sent £l,OOO to Sir
E. Mallet, the British Consul General at Cairo, from
the Mansion Howie Fund for the relief of the sufferers
by the cholera in Egypt.
A Central News telegram from Montreal states that
the directors of the Canadian Pacific Railway will en-
tertain Lord Csrnarvon at a banquet on the 38th inst.
About the same time the citizens of Montreal will in.
'rite his lordship to another banquet. Lord and Lady
Carnarvon are at present the guests of the Marquis
and Marchioness of Lorne.
On Saturday afternoon, while James Turnbull, aged
seven, was climbing on the parapet of a railway bridge
near Hawick he lost his balance and fell over just as
a goods train was passing underneath. ?he boy fell
into an empty waggon, and was not discovered until
the train stopped at Riddings Junction, several miles
from the bridge. He was injured, but not seriously.
The employment of natives in India as engine
drivers on the railways, as directed by the Govern-
ment of India, constantly increases. According to
the latest returns, there were at the end of 1882 no
fewer than sixty Indians employed in that capacity on
the Great India Peninsular Railway, while a smaller
number are at work on other lines.
Speaking at an industrial exhibition at Darlington
on Tuesday night, Mr. Theodore Fry, M.P., observed
that the alteration in the patent laws recently brought
about ought to stimulate the inventive powers of the
people. It was generally admitted that in the matter
of ingenuity of contrivance England was far behind
America, but now that the law as to patents had been
simplified the British working man should no longer
be second to any.
A severe frost set in on Tuesday morning in Inver-
ness shire, causing much damage to the crops, espe-
cially potatoes. Fields which were fresh and green at
night were, in the morning, quite black. The tem-
perature fell from 49 deg. at ten p.m. on Monday, to
28 deg. at five a.m. on Tuesday.
The Municipality of Bombay has, a Reuter's tele;
grain states, voted a sum of 50,000 rupees for the
arrangements in connection with the public reception
to be given to the Duke of Connaught on his ap
proaching arrival there to take up the military com-
mand to which he has been appointed in India. It
was also resolved to grant another credit to the same
amount if required.
Two explosions occurred at Messrs. Curtis and
Harvey's Mills at Hounslow on Friday in last week.
Tne shocks were terrific, and windows were violently
shaken for several miles around. Doctors and polio.
from the neighbourhood were quickly in attendance,
but fortunately their services were not required, as
none of the men engaged at the mills were injured.
The buildings were somewhat damaged, and this was
the extent of the mischief, the explosion taking place
in the green charge shrd.
Daring the eight months ending on the 31st of
August 238,010 persons of British origin left the
United Kingdom for places out of Europe, besides
59,093 foreigners and 1,800 persons whose nationality
was not distinguished, the total thus being 295,903„
During the corresponding eight months of 1882 there
were 318,469, showing a falling off during two-third*
of the present year of 19,566 emigrants.
The Austrian barqne Uros arrived at Dundee on
Tuesday from Nsw York, and her captain reports
having seen an iron barque of 600 or 700 tons, supposed
to be British, founder during the disastrous pale on
the 2nd inst., about 15 miles south-west of Beachy
Head. There was a strong wind and a heavy sea on
at the time, and the [Trot; could render no assistance.
A telegram received :at Dundee from Peterhead,
reports the passing of the whaler Aeretie, with 200 tuns
of oil. It also reports—Thetis, five whales and 85 tune
of oil; Polynia, five whales and 60 tuns of oil; Nar-
whal, five whales and 30 tuns of oil; Esquimaux, five
whales and 20 tans of oil; Is ova Zembla, one whale;
and the Wolf, of Greenock, five tuns of oil,
At the Central Criminal Court on Tuesday in the
case of a young gentleman named Kent, who was
charged with manslaughter in having caused the death
of his father's gardener by the incautious and negligent
use (f a rifle, the grand jury ignored the bill, express-
ing the opinion that it ought not to have come before
them. It is stated that Mr. Kent's father has made a
provision for deceased's mother, who is a widow.
The additions to the Zoological Society's Gardens,
Regents' Park, London, during last week included
rhesus monkey, from India, presented by Miss
Garwood; a golden eagle, from Scotland, presented
by Mr. Bertram Hagen; two long•eared owls, British,
presented by Mr. Percy Fordham ; a mocking bird,
from North America, presented by Mr. A. Townsend;
two marsh harriers, European, presented by Lieut.
Col. E, Delme Radcliffe; two Barbary apes, from
North Africa, deposited; a silvery gibbon, from Java,
an Indian Muntjac, from India, four passerine doves,
from America, a Malabar parrakeet; from Southern
Indian, a boatbill, an anaconda, from South America,
a sharp-nosed crocodile, from Central America,
purchased; two ostriches from Africa, received on
, approval.
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