The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-04-21 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

In consequence of the mortality amongst sheep and
lambs, and the low point to which the sheep stock in
the country generally has been reduced, the Qtieen,
it is repoited, has commanded that no lamb shall be
served in the Royal Household during the present
season.

Last weeks receipts of cotton at all United States
ports were 72,000 bales; since Ist September,
5,466,000 bales. Week's exports to Great Britain,
39,000 bales; week's exports to the Continent, 60,000
bales. Total since let September, 3,867,030 bales
Stock at all ports, 778,000 bales.

The ship Kapunda, Captain Anderson, sailed on
Saturday for Maryborough, Queensland, with 140
single men, 110 families, ssi single women—equal to
363 souls. Dr. Joseph acted as medical superintendent
and Mrs. Macfarlane.as matron.

The Vienna Reichsrath was on Saturday, for the
first time, guarded by an extra body of police, a letter
threatening its destruction having been received by
the President

A return was issued last Saturday showing the
number of summary proceedings for drunkenness
taken in 1882 in Ireland. The total was 87,497. In
Leinster the charges numbered 24,183 ; in Ulster,
28,219; in Munster, 24,432; and in Connaught,
10,663.

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There is but one nickel mine idithe lUnited States
now in oi.eration. It is situated in Lancaster county,
pa. It is 200 feet deep, and has been worked 17 years.
The demand for this metal is rapidly increasing.
Croppings of nickel are found also in Madison, lowa,
and Wayne countiee, Missouri. In the States the re-
fined metal is worth 3 dollars a pound
As a further means of preventing any explo-ives
being carried into the House of Commons, all boxes
and portmanteaus which may be brought for use in
the Committee-roorns are rigorously searched by the
police at the door of St. Stephen's Hall. Some slight
inconvenience was caused on the first day on which
this order was carried into effect, owing to many of the
boxes being locked. The clerks who possessed the
keys had not arrived, or had preceded the messengers
into the committee-room opetairs, and their presence
had to be obtained before the boxes were allowed to
pass. The order, however, soon became generally
known, and the requirements of the police are now
being readily complied with.

Nineteen persons died by their own hands during the
month of March in the United Kingdom: The
females numbered five, and the males fourteen, one
being a boy. It is curious to note the means of taking
life. Four males chose the _rope, three drowning, two
shooting, two poison, two. the railway line., and one
the razor; white two women killed them:wives by the
roof., one by poison, one with the razor, and one
jumped down a coal-pit.
Lord Salisbury and Sir Stafford Northcotel were
among the guests at the annual banquet given by the
Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works, and
replied to the toait of the Houses of Lords t,nd
Commons. The noble marquis touched on the pro-
mised Government Bill for the reform of London
Government, hinting that its authors had been
dazzled by the achievements of the municipalities of
Paris and New York, and he prophesied that among
the oth-x great acquisitions of the new Municpality
would he splendid and magnificent rates. Sir Stafford
Northcote, who also alluded to the measure which was
novv in the breasts of Ministers, if not in their pockets,
trusted that Parliament would not proceed with it
with undue haste. The Duke of Cambridge, in pro.
posing the health of the Chairman and members of the
Metropolitan Board of Works, expressed the opinion
that it would be no easy task to get rid of a body that
had done its work so well.

An explosion of firedamp, causing the death of
seven men and injuring several others, has occurred at
a colliery at Lourches, near 7mlenciennes.

A monument in memory of the disaste: nt Tudhoe
Colliery, South Durham, last year, by which 20 men
and boys lot their lives, was unveiled on Tuesday by
Archdeacon tong; in the absence of the Bishop of
Durham,
.who was prevented from beiog present by

indisposition.
The police force doing duty at the dockyard and
other naval establishments at Chatham is ordered to
be strengthened by one chief inspector and ten con-
stables, iucreased precautions being at the same time
adopted for the protection of the GoTernment eata•
bliehments at the port,

Twelve Nubians and six elephants have arrived at
Hamburg, being destined for a show in New York.
The owners of the elephants, an Italian and a German,
met with many difficulties. They traVellsd in the
Soudan, were made prisoners by the tribes adhering to
the False Prophet, brought before the latter, and
liberated on papng rpusom.
Woman's suffrage is looking tiv in the world. In
Italy the Ministry have introduced a bill conferring
the franchise, communal and provincial, upon wo=en,
who are to vote if they please by voting papers—an
idea which Mr. Gladstone threw out in a debate on
the question in the House of Commons several years
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The widow of the Rev. Thomas Tuffield has been
elected Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District
of Woolwich Arsenal in the place of her late husband.
The Poor Law Guardians were unanimous in making
the election which will have to be confirmed by the
Registrar General.

The Paris Louvre has been presented with EnOne
Delacroix's huge painting of the "Shipwreck of Don
Juan," for which £12,000 were offered some years
ago. The picture is taken from the second canto of
Byron's poem, and represents a dismasted boat tossing
on a tempestuous sea, while the starving occupants
are drawing lots to decide who shall die to satisfy the
others' hunger.

A Sheffield lady has intimated to the weekly board
of the Sheffield Infirmary her desire to present a sum
of £lO,OOO for the purpose of sending convalescent
patients to a sanatorium at the seaside or elsewhere,
as the medical gentlemen may decide. The gift has
been warmly accepted. The lady does not wish her
name to be disclosed.
- At a meeting of the executive committees for the
building ot a cathedral in Liverpool. The bishop,
who presided, announced that Sir T. Edwardes Moss
had subscribed £l,OOO, and a Wesleyan minister £lOO.
The bishop thought there were 255 churchmen in the
diocese who could subscribe £lOO each without
missing it.

The great storm which was predicted on the
American coast for March 10th and never came off
has, it is said, cost the Gloucester fishermen in
Massachusetts £25,000, besides injuring other business
Interests. Believing the prediction, the fishermen
carefully avoided going to sea at that time, and
thereby lost over 3,000,000 lbs. of fish.

It is stated that on the occasion of the coronation of
the Czar in Moscow next month four operas by Russian
composers—Rubinstein, Glinka, Naptawulk, and
Rineky Korsakoff—will be played, and on the day of
the coronation an orchestra of 1,000 players will per-
form on the square before the palace.
General Booth stated at the annual meeting of the
Salvation Army in London' on Monday, that they
had now in Great Britain 1,202 officers, 491 corps,
with an annual local income of £12,000, and sitting
accommodation was provided in their barracks for
nearly half a million. Abroad, as well as at home,
the Army was progressing satisfactorily. The total re-
ceipts during the day amounted to nearly £lO,OOO,
which included several donations of £l,OOO each,
Monday (16th) was the anniversary of the battle of
Colloden, which was fought in 1746. The canonading
began about noon, and in less than half an hour the
rebel army was totally defeated. Charles afterwards
led a wandering life for nearly five months, concealing
himself in different parts of the Highlands, and at last
he, with a few faithful friends, found means to get on
board a French privateer and escape.l
During the past winter, at a large number of private
and official soirees in Paris, the electric light has been
used from storage batteries in a very simple manner.
The accumulators are carried in a vehicle which is
stationed in front of the house, and electric wires are
conducted into the building through the windows.
Incandescent lamps are placed in the ordinary candela-
bras, and the fitting of the most complex lighting is an
affair of a very few hours.

The same number of steamers arrived at Liverpool
last week with live stock on board as in the preceding
week from the United States and Canada, and the
total shipments show a slight increase in cattle, and a
somewhat large one in sheep. The arrivals of fresh
meat last week were below those of the previous week,
with the exception of mutton, in which there was a
slight increase. The total coßsignments were 2,751
cattle, 3,270 sheep, 7,903 quarters ofrilbeef,Land 1,758
carcases of mutton,

A New York telegram says that liiir. Patrick Egan
has delivered a speech at Rochester, in the course of
which he said : In America it is intended to drop
the name of 'Land League' and to form a league in
conformity with the National League in Ireland. This,
the object of my visit, will be effected at the coming
Convention at Philadelphia-I
At a meeting of the committee of the borough of
Oricklade Liberal Association the following resolution
was adopted with only one dissentient—" That in the
opinion of this meeting no future measure of Parlia-
mentary reform will meet the requirements of the
present time which does not provide for the repreeen-
tation of women householders and ratepayers.'
A tornado of great violence has swept over North-
Western Arkansas, causing considerable destruction
of life and property. Several villages have been
levelled with the ground. Violent storms are also
reported from Missouri and Kansas.
The Freeman's Journal learn that Lord Spencer
paid a visit a few days ago to St. Saviour's Church,
Dominick-street, Dublin, with a view to the erection
inside the building of some suitable memorial of the
late Under-Secretary, Mr. Burke having been a
frequent attendant at this church. The Lord Lieu-
tenant decided that the memorial should take the form
of a window, and it is stated that he has given orders
for its construction.
The Empress of Germany gives an Easter Egg Hunt
every year to the pupils of her Institute at Charlotten-
burg. The eggs are hidden carefully in various pieces
of furniture in the Empress's apartments, and both
• the Empress Augusta and the Imperial Princesses are
highly amused by watching the girls search vigorously
in every corner for their gifts.
Sir Phillip Rose, Baronet, of Rayners, Bucks, who
has been long ill at his residence, No. 1, Cromwell-
road, South Kensington, died on Tuesday morning.
Sir Phillip Rose was born in 1816, and was the con-
fidential friend of Lord Beaconsfield and the legal
adviser of the Conservative party for many years.
He had been a treasurer of county courts since 1858,
and had filled the office of hon. secretary to the Hos-
pital for Consumption at Brompton from its founda-
tion in 1841. He was created a baronet in 1874.
On Tuesday afternoon the cotton-spinning mill of
the Fylde-road Spinning Company, Preston, was
totally destroyed by fire. The flames were seen
shortly after four in the fourth storey, and in about
twenty minates the mill was one mass of flames.
Some operatives who could not get down the staircase
had to slide from the top storey by ropes, and two
or three had their hands injured. Three women were
rescued on men's backs. The mill, which contained
30,000 spindles, was destroyed in one hour.
The additions to the Zoological Soeiety's Gardens,
Regents Park, London, during last week included a
Leoeine Monkey from Arracan, presented by Mr. A.
G. Henry; a Mule Deer from North America, pre-
sented by Judge Caton, C.M.Z S. ; a Common
Squirrel, British, presented by Miss A. M. Frost ; a
Common Pintail, British, presented by Mr. Frank
Seago ; a Grey lag Goose, British, presented by Mr.
Vincent W. Corbett; four Palmated Newts, British,
presented by Mr. J. E. Kelsall ; a Radiated Tortoise
from Madagascar, deposited; a Black Saki, a White-
bellied Parrot from the Amazons, a Talapoin Monkey,
four Harlequin Quails from West Africa, a Brazilian
Blue Grosbeak, four Saffron Finches from Brazil,
purchased.

The New York Correspondent of the Daily News
says :—Mr. Jay Gould declares to friends that he will
retire from business life within a few months. He is
having a steam yacht built at a cost of a quarter of a
million of dollars, which will be completed in August
or September, when he starts in it with his family for
a cruise round the world. He intends to place his
business in charge of his eldest son, and not resume it
again. His fortune is esthnated at one [hundred
million dollars. Lila is forty-seven, and has six
children.
Sir Charles Russell died early on Saturday morning
last at his seat, Swallowfield Park, Berkshire. Sir
Charles was the eldest eon of the late Sir Henry
Russell, Bart. He was born in 1826, was educated at
Eton, and succeeded to the title on the death of his
father, in 1852. As a captain in the Grena,ditir Guards
Sir Charles greatly distinguished himself during the
Russian war, being the leader of the gallant body of
men who bravely attacked and successfully dislodged a
party of Russians from the Sandbag Battery during
the siege of Sebastopol. For this deed Sir Charles
was awarded the Victoria Cross. He retired from the
army in April, 1858.
At Canterbury the other evening a pupil at the
Clergy Orphan College left ‘his bed in the dead of the
night, and, getting through a narrow aperture in the
dormitory, fell from a height of upwards of thirty
feet to the ground. Luckily he alighted upon some
soft earth. He is believed to have remained insen-
sible for some time, but on regaining consciousness
tapped at a window, and when admitted by one of the
masters appeared to be under the impression that he
had been looked out. Medical aid being requisitioned,
he was found to have sustained two scalp wounds and
somewhat extensive bruises, but was not seriously
njured.

Dr. Profeit, the Queen's Commissioner at Balmoral,
who was entrinted with the arrangements for the
interment of the remains of Mr. John Brown, her
Majesty's late personal servant, returned after the
funeral to Windtor Castle, where he has been staying
for the last few days. Francis Clark, another High-
land servant who has been for several years in the
Queen's employment, has it is believed for the present
undertaken the duties formerly performed by the
deceased, and is now daily in attendance upon her
Majesty during the Royal arives in the vicinity of the
Castle.
A St. Peterthurgh telegram to the Berliner Tagblatt
states on good authority that the coronation of the
Czar is postponed from May 27 to Sunday, June 10.
The reason for this change is stated to be the fact
hitherto over-looked that May 27 is the anniversary of
a tragedy in Russian history, the young Prince 11-rne-
trine, of the Rurik family, having been murdered that
day by his uncle, Boris, near Moscow. The following
Sunday, June 3, is also inappropriate, being the anal.
versary of the Czar's mother's death. The invitations
are therefore changed to June 10. All the date's are
new style,

SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1883,

Lord Wolseley has received the Queen's commands'
to attend the forthcoming coronation of the Emperor'
of Russia.
According to a Renter's telegram the total number
of emigrants wise arrived in the United States during
garch last amounted to 38,730.
Prinne Bismarck's condition is so much improved
that he is no able to take short walks in his park
daily, after having been confined to the house for
nearly four months.
The great Jewish festival of the Pass Over comnaences,
on Sunday next, and will be continued until the even.,
lug of the 29th inst.
bySsenroiowustodrnamadagees
treArp
Ozark, they covered a belt of country three masa glue
oktdsats.o hLavasetbseeantnorticcans,io4eidr
and wrecked numerous buildings. Ten persons Vert' '
injured, several of them fatally.
A coachbuilders' exhibition has been-opened in Paris..
and will remain open for a month.
The steamer Wylley the other night struck a Pier. ,
of the bridge across the Chattahoochee river, halos
Eufaula, Alabama, and sank. Twelve lives were loet.
The German Chancellor has granted the suna ef
44,009 marks towards the expense of represeritirf -
German industry in the Amsterdam Exhibition, whirA
is to be opened on the let of May next.
"Extremes meet," as the two short-sighted gentle'
men said when they bumped their bald heade together
when making a bow.—Judy.
After more than a week of fine weather as! 00' -
pleasant and unlooked-for change occurred on Monde,'
in the north of Scotland, the weather becoming
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stormy, and snow fell ;4 frequent intervals in Veil,'
heavy showers.
One of the walla of the old Stadt Theatre, at Berlin';
which Is In course of demolition, suddenly fell on
day, burying burying seven workmen in the mina. One Wee
killed on the spot.
The London Gazette announces that her Majesty/1e
birthday will be generally kept on Thursday, the 2401
of May next, and that it will be celebrated in Londoll
alone on Saturday, May 26.
A passenger train from Soissons (France), dashed,.
the other afternoon into two engines standing on the
line at CrOpy-en-Valois. Eighteen persons Were
injured, one of them losing,his right eye.
According to intelligence from St. Petersburg the
secret police of that city and Moscow have effected
many arrests at night in consequence of the regent
strong revival of Nihilist intrigues.
The Patents Bill, which was well received in the
House of Commons on Monday night, reduces the
cost of a patent from £25 to £4 for the first tell'
which is raised from three to four years.
There have been great rejoicings in Munich on the
occasion of the marriage of Prince Thomas ef Sava,
Duke of Genoa, to the Princess Isabella of Bogle'
The town gave the happy pair a serenade, at schlw,
30,000 persons assisted.
The debate on the second reading of the Affirreiv
tion Bill, which will commence on Monday, 16°e;
pected to extend over three or four nights.
supporters of the Government assume," the StanaAr:
says, "that the second reading of the Bill will IP
carried by a small majority; but no great conftdele°
is felt on the subject.
The British representatives in foreign capitals el!
about to be instructed to send home special reports ew
the electoral systems of the countries they reside le:
These reports will subsequently be published f°`
general information in view of proposals for the ode°.
don of the county franchise.
The leaders of the Opposition in the House of Cony
mons have declined to nominate, in the usual srelei
two members to the Committee on the Chann
Tunnel, and the duty has therefore been handed 011:
to the Committee of Selection. It is understood the'
the feeling in Opposition circles is entirely hostile t!
the project, and that it was not considered desirable
to take any part in the nomination of the Committee'
A New York paper has been informed by one of thoef
leading church booksellers of that city that the sel„e
the Revised Version of the New Testament hag PL.'
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off so much as to be hardly worth mentioning. cia.
sale, he stated, stopped as if by magic when poprn"
curiosity was satisfied, and has not picked up again.
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Several strikes for advanced wages are threatela
at New York, chiefly in the building trades. lir
carpenters ask n dole. per day, the painters 3i
and the plasterers 4i dols.—in other words, an
of from 10 to 15 per cent.
When the Bill for giving effect to the Budget coe
on for second reading, Mr. Ecroyd will move a ree011;
tion declaring that "the growing injury inflicted nr.3
British industries by foreign tariffs can only be chece_,'
by our imposing,an import duty on foreign mane"'
tures, with the notification that it should ceai se tg
operate, as against each nation, from the day on trh,eo
its Government should admit British manufaott,"
duty free." f the
After a few days' illness from inflammation o eci
lungs, the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
at Berlin on Sunday, at the age of sixty. In him the
Emperor of Germany loses not only a nephew, fe
mother of the deceased, who survives him being
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Majesty sister, but also an able commander ehario
devoted friend. He has left a numerous family. •""ine
eldest son and heir, who is married to a cousin a
Czar, is at present In Sicily, in very delicate health.
A New York telegram says that the visible stipPd
of wheat on April 13 was 22,300,000 bushels, as *Bl°-
22,600,000 bushels the previous week. Visible snlo
of Indian corn 18,200,000 bushels, as against 17,500, of
bushels the previous week. The export clearanee°,o
wheat for Europe during last week arootte,%a
to 1,060,000 bushels. The export clearances of
corn for for Europe during last week amounted
1,690,000 bushels.
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Thirty•four British and foreign actual shipw,.-04
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were reported during last week, makir,g a total o
for the present year, oran increase of 220 as coraPerin.
with the corresponding period of last year. the 'go
crease for the week being 17. British owned yee,;3,30
numbered 21; eleven were steamers with an ag,gre.7;
tonnage of 9,084 tons, nine being British owned rll",,elt
tonnage of 7,884 tons; total tonnage lost for the
15,090 tons; total number of lives lost and miesingi
According to the official returns of the last °en%
now publishing, of the total population of .Atle„tl4,
proper, exclusive of Hungary, that is 22,144,qs
there were 11,930,099 who could both read and
and 1,345,777 who could only read. The total P"as
bet of entirely illiterate persons was, therefere'tue
fewer than 8,868,368, or 44 per cent. of the ell'
population.
The twenty-sixth anniversary of the birth of he.f
Royal Highness Princess Beatrice was celebrate d_!,4
Windsor on Saturday (14th) with the usual bonen,
paid to members of the Royal family. At early re,egi,
and at intervals throughout the day, the bells
George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, and St. 'Telt I
Church were rung, and a Royal salute was fired in '
Long Walk. st
Captain Foster, of the G. T. Perry, arriri„ilY
Liverpool from dobile, reports that on March -4°lfog
lat. 41.51 N, long. 40.30 W, he sighted a bere_ro,
ship, which proved to be the Kitt earn, from Danny
with a cargo of rum and sugar for Liverpool.,, ont
rescued 17 of the crew, and saw the Kittearn ein°
of sight. He then proceeded for Liverpool.
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In London last week 2,598 births and I,Bo.3_;:ajoel
were registered. Allowing for increase of
the births were 92 below, whereas the deaths exu'illoif
by 42, the average numbers in the correspoe -of
weeks of the last ten years. The annual reti
mortality from all causes, which had been ecluaegos
28.3 and 25 6 per 1,000 in the two preceding 0"
further declined to 23.8. Pl°
The steamship Glenmorven, of Leith, from. iota
Yolk, with a general cargo for London, loiLeing
Plymouth Sound on Saturday night, and,
coaled, proceeded for London. Part of the carr
slated of oxen, stowed in stalls on the deck. vtine,o
a hurricane, in which she shipped several sea, 0.,t130
very heavy one, swept her decks and carried 0;1;100
major part of the cattle and their stalls. J." 0130
destroyed two boats and damaged her bridge.
lost in all through the hurricane, 163 oxen.
A shocking case of sudden death has occorrOs
Walmer Barracks. On Saturday Colonel ipeo st
Maskery, Commandant of the Royal hierl,l49lthf
Walmer, who was apparently in excellent o,,eijo se
after inspecting a parade and presenting 02,,eu„tioil
some of the men for services in the late DFlnraert
Campaign proceeded to his office to try some 4028"„--
The proceedings had hardly commenced tyPir OA"
Colonel suddenly complained of feeling untren,'
almost immediately fell back in his chair, and
before medical aid could be procured.