The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-08 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS

BRITIsii AND FoREIGa.

Forty tons of rust were taken out of the Menui
tubular bridge at one thorough cleaning.
English pickpockets have done a good stroke of
business at the Venetian demonstration. They assisted as
"liberators'

The flotilla on the Sea of Aral le to he placed under
the order, of the military governor of Turkestan in time of
war
The cattle Owns in Holland iP increasing. In the
week ending the 24th of November 3 257 head of cattle were
attacked, against 1 595 in the previous week.

The Globe is authorised to state that there is no
foundation for the report that the Governor of Western
Australia has resigned his office.
In many of the London shops instead of coppers,
they offer you post-, dice stomps As silv, threepence. and
fourpenc are not in plentiful as they mhthe be customers
generally prefer stamps to copper.; and the tradesman, who
cannot get his stamps cashed at the post-offices under ten
per cent., is saved from Liss.
The wheat crop of the United States this year ibis
estimated lel I he 180 la 0 000 bushels ; of oats, 272,000,000
bushels; of rye, 41,000,000; and of barley, 11,500,000.

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The Durham winter gaol delivery will commence on
Thursday before Mr Justice Lush. The calendar contains
.eventevn case., of which five are wilful murder, three for
rape, five for feloniously wounding, two robber, with
violence, one riot, and one unnatural crime.
The committee of the Sandringham Estate Cottage
Horticultural Society, of which the Prince and Princes. of
Wales are the patrons, have, throngh the Rev. Willoughby
W. D'ollinson, forwarded to the National Lifeboat Institu-
tion 61—being part of the proceeds cf their last .how—in
aid of the eleven lifeboat stations of the institution on the
Norfolk mast.

The late late Mr. R. Garrett, the eminent agricultural
Iron,ernent maker, bequeathed in his will to 300 of Ma
empteyee a veat-coat each The diatribution of the coat,
Ma just been made.
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In "La Corraspondance air Lonis XVI. et Marie
Antoinette," vol. 1. p. 195 are the fgllowing tier.:—" A gun
has been shown to Louis XV , which can fire twelve rounds
at a time. Ills Alidesty, although he .:mired the in`lolllirM,
forbade that the escret of this murderou• weapon should
he revealed to the pubic" William of Prussia haa been
less scrnpulons.
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Richard Brightsvell, a mulatto. has obtained ver-
dict for three hundred dollars damages against the trustees
of Green, toenehip, Ohio, for refusing his Vote at the general
election in 1885

l'he total amount of tobacco produced thronghout
the world Is settntated as follows :—Osia, 3 9,90,00 lb;
Europe, 241,844 600Ib America, 24,6,290,5001 b. ; Africa,
24,34,0.0001 b. ; Australia 714,000ib.
In the course of the present year sixty-nine persons
hove died, and seven", bays been wounded, in consequence
of railway accidents, to Belgium.

The famous steel manufac`ory of Herr Krupp, at
Essen, employed upwarde of 8 000 workmen lut year, who
produced 100,000,00 of pound. of cut steel.
According to a report lately ieeued there wore 3,774
large brewers In the towns of Frittsle, and 3,652 In the
villages.
The Tempo sts+es that • telegram wee recently sent
to .nerel Cutelnan at Mexico. by the oable, the transmis-
sion of which cost 47,0,0 f. (1,8001 !!

One evening legit wi•ek a rather novel scene took place
at the St James's fhestre, London. 250 head of game mere
presented by Miss Herbert to her company and every person
employed in the theatre.
Mr. R. Arthur Arnold has sAdreeeed a letter to the
various local hoards in Lancashire, announcing that the
office of the Public Works Act, mital haled daring ale cuttou
famine, srlll he cloeed after the 21st instant.

The Courtier de Vilna draws a mad picture of the
Poles In this province. the Pobsh famines shetain from all
puhlic life ; they neither eoleo,l theatres, concerts, soirees,
nor bane but live In absolute retirement.

There are 370 churches in Moscow, and all the bells
rung at one time on the occasion of the royal marriage. The
clanging was fearful
A meeting of main line shareholders and " chore-
hot 'or. in the general undertaking of the western extension
capital" of the Lmdon. Chatham, and Dover Railway was
belt! on Monday, when two committees were appointed to
confer with the director.—lne with respect to the Rent
Coast and nevenoalts lines and other subjects, and the other
as to main line Intereets only. Thus every eistinct class of
ihareholders now appear. to he represented by a committee
of Its own.

In the ,ouree of s Parliamentary inquiry last
Session respecting the transit of Anglo-Indian m.srages,
It ...elicited that the time of iriIIBIOISSiOO between London
and liombey, Madras, or Calcutta has warted from two hours
to sixteen days, and that tbe average number of messages
received from India I. about thirty per nay. The omit of
message of twenty words to India is 51. lc

" Amongst several of onr religions sects there are
Individuals who call themselves Cammlogites, after the
famous ScoVish Divine, Dr. Cumming. These Individuals
helleve that the world will come lo an end this year. N
withstanding that 1864 has nearly erpired, twiny of thee
persons fancy there is time Sr some great physical Ont.-
trophe to happen "—American raper

A shooting party, composed of eeverel well.knowm
sportsmen belonging to the cemp of Aldershot, has been
organize I to prbe..sd to Algeria. to pursuit of the Mesta of
prey which are to be found in ahundaLce In the forests of
that colony.

It is reriorted that Garibaldi's letter, promising his
aftl to the Cretan Ingergente, le S forgery.

Gold has toren found in Ecuad, in such quantities
that people have come therefrom California to the digging..

A young French pianist, Leon Roamer, has, it
appear., neen voyaging ronn I the world, atd whilst In
lit belle was so fortunate as to attract the notice of the
elde‘t daughter of Queen Pomare, in such wise that the
mat let fell in love with him They are now ietrothtd, and
NI Bonner will shortly be heir presumptive to the throne of
With« lie.
Mr. N. P. Willie, the American author. has hail •
paralytic etrohe, and Is In a very critical position
" The visit of the Queen to Wolverhampton haa
more imporianos than belongs usmily to R-yal rnovemert•.
If she felt the effort to appear before hersubjects on an neon.
sin which especially recalled her bereavement to be a
painful one, she mu. also have felt that the suffering was
net withal allerlatiors Loyalty has been eating a pint
which does not flourish In the absence of Binge Bus the
..,hdrewal of tne Sovereign fr..m the pageantries of her
offiNs hue not diminished the respect and offeetion of the
masses of her sob). eta, well-earned by more than a quarter
or • century of exemplary and beneficent rnie. She ha only
had to appear In pithir so awaken the latent feeling Into new
life and expression "—Daily Nerve.

A letter from Zug to the Latteannt Garette playa !
" The village of Walchwyl wee the theatre 1,1 C eery Pei
event fat week. A runaway horse dashed, with a carriage
containing five per..., Into the hike, in the middle of the
day. A charming young lady, Re. Hartmann, and her
nephew, a child of three years 010, sank with the horse and
carriage, but the other three persons were saved."

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The Royal Society has undertaken the duties
hitherto performed by ilia Metenrehitiml Drpartmentof the
Snarl of Trade. Toe storm warning. are erelarel to ha
founded upon ride. mainly empirical and, In rifect, niacin.,
and they Sr. to be d iscontinued, but the weather reports will
be puolahtd a. usual

A box filed with papern and parchment documents
ham been inscovered by the workmen engaged In olgring the
foundations of the L there Oue of the moat skilful French
paleontoligists ha, been entrusted with the test of decipher-
ing these papers, which belong to the thirteenth century.
39, MI. drunken Fenian.] have been cresting a e«ri..us
row at West Ilartiepohl. They took forcible poitse•si.nt oil it •
public house, and wlrng all the drink there. Innen t 3 grow
riotous aud being armed with pikes, It was found 'mug. roll
to deal With them, They were rtduced to order with con-
olilerable (Ankeny, and as tine-thlri of th• inhshlitsers of
West Hartlepool ace Irishmen, the Northern Dalt", Rupees.
stys that the other two-thirds are naturally very 131113101111.

The London corroPpondent of the Mane/teeter attar
dian hears tmr certain" tha,. a•ter c didaseab e discus-
sion, the Ministry have determined to make Reform " the
anhject of prominent observaa.n iii the speech from the
throne." The Internal dissensions, too, have been yule te I
tot the time, arid all threats of resignation are said to have
been withdrawn.
Ptirtht p experitrionts were made on Monday at Shoe-
burp riu with the Pallisser shot and then The general re-
sults confirmed the hiah value of those remarkable ml.ailes,
and leading to the inference, so contrary to all previone an-
ticipations, that it will be by shell and not by snot that the
thickest armour platen will hereafter be penetrated.

One of the novelties of the day is a boot-blacking
nutchtne.

So mare calla are made upon her Majeatv'm private
parse that shots rumble to hontlihnte to the funit now oring
raised to afford relief lathe a.employed mechanic. of Green.
wich, Deptford, Aro —SO *tote ('nounl Bliton'ph, in sumer
to an application for a subscription from the Queen for that
prirpoSe
The Engineer reports an intereeting seienWe ex-
periment. 11111Lhorto, It Says, it has been toilful impossible
to aoopt the ordinary piantng niachirres hr clorvilitiear
plahlng, hat at leneth thia problem has neen snivel by Mr
Mido :etch, thy heed of the machinery department in
Chathsm dockyard, rho has ennentlond in platihig the whole
t !the curves and angular surfaces of the iron aterhplece for
the Monarch, with no other appliance*, than the common
planing rnannlnea.
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Andrew Brockmann, one of the victims of the Indian
in/weary- at New turn Mountain in 1P63, has areived at Mt
Louie Fle exploit need the torturra Of .oeing his wife and
tsar children murdered, and Warn then horrndy mintimej,
h nine cut out, h•nottring severed, hia fingers cut, his
bands mianird, his peel.) torn reeking front his tired, which
had previously beers perforated with three bullets- but
despite the,,. *mind. the unfortunate mon turret % eel, and
rres earned to Salt Late City, where he remahmt irs hospacal
for three years

The Scotsman's London correPpandent —usually well-
Informed—wow on Friday lest that there Is a split in the
Cabinet Am,orone to ht. story, Mr. Disraeli has hoed/lea
some of the other members of the C•bil3o6 by his it ef..roi
proposals, and that helm now entlearouring to bring iliem to
reason by threatening ronnnanon. tisneral Feel Is said to
have off-red to rotten rather than consent to any It•form,
ant only remained at his post at the oartteet solicitation of
Lord Derby. the Glob. states that this statement is totally
devoid of tonnoationj

It Wail atatori Wile time Sinee that •Ports ware being
snide To in um: the Fre..ca .vernment to abandon the
1,0. of weare'l lei former of Eoulishvielisers to Franc during I
the Exhibition your Tame 'Mitts, The r MIER' Parts corres-
pondent says, Ire fy io he anciessiee. Sir Wailer., if P.,
Me, B .orah, Mr. ForOrt, and Mr Bluely, aco.empaided by
Lorel Alfred Paget have had a long tuierview on toe sull ct i
with M. I.eolo, Minister of Yinalion, oy whom they were I
awe; cordially rseehted, and M. Fould ben Riven direction•
to the Customs department to arrantLs incite mitigation of
the present vexation* prime,. as will confer a greet boon
upoie the multitude Of travellers who Will visit Paris next
year.
A very clarions idea of the Empress Engenie's is
reported frown Plata doe intends, it is said, ti hoot two
retrospective exhibitions of her lttrn during the next fell;
one is. 1. 15000. allot thl oWee at Nlallnlalatto. At Ta ninon all
the fnlnittlre Mot things that have noy reference to Marie
Antoioteete ore to he brought together; at Ilahnalson thous
renrrllt to J.Pwephme and Mollerup, They weld be, to a
' pertain extent, loan eolltellnue, all the Emprest In gOlng to
address boned( pool dy to the proprlstore of all anew.
relics. The, two peleeell will he ascorateli exectiv a. theY
were the lifetime of the illustrious personages. A
'lnit.,. wish . himoritalintroduction and nomplem ElideX
44. d the furniture, drawee, Jewels, linen, stc., is said to be
' already in presentation.

The enf:tle. plane hes reappeared under what ft*
1440kia1or Szarwarser ..ans vary almanac. and M7rWri.U.
tu Lim Amonniariseas k.d.a
castore A few .1,” a ago Mr. Avinal, of al .11•rol•y finli
Tam, Eleto, ot the huncred named, h./1 a imilock whiled
skewed sLoe if t,![..m. On fttuou‘s It was vo.l•eti he the
• 1.. cal ineptc•or, hut the c‘se was not maid/sells determined
afterwards toe bailork not worse, cl or symptom. of the
plague we, e nosnif.sted, and on Mor.day It was lulled and
tooled. Three halloca• and a Miter. whtch fled boon lot
sontact coltq the decos•*l noimsi. base sines bean
I !slaughtered. The handred of Amoundersawsh Men
antiwar tree from the plasm toe louse Ma truant