The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-07-17 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

At the Hertford assizes, damages to the extent of
£5,250 were given against the London and North Western
Railway Company, for injuries received by a clergyman
whilst travelling from Birmingham to tihyl, in the autumn
of last year.
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A swordfish 0,1a caught a few days back by pome
nAlCl.tnett in Seaford Bay. The monster was a
very tine specimen of this formidable fish, measuring in ex-
treme length eft. Gin , and in girth • rally 41t. The sword
was Him leng, mid the width of the tall was 33i0.
The Ttrisaian Government is making preparations
for the Universal Exhibition which will be held at St. Peters-
burg next sear. Five hundred workroom are already engaged
in its construction, and this nuniber will ahurtly be increased,
as the Czar is determined to have it ready by the Ist of May,
1870.

The Ulster Orange celebrations in commemoration
of the Battle of the Boyne took place on Monday. In the
majority 01 in,tances the day passed unattended by riot or
serious disturbance

Dr, James Yearsley, of Savile-row, London, a gentle-
man who has practised in London for many years with great
success, died on Monday. From an early period of his medi-
cal career he directed his studies to dismixes of the ear, and
became one of the most skilful enlists in England. tie has
written several useful works, theoretical and practical, on
his favourite branch of medical science. Dr. Yearsley was
sixty-four years of age.

Amongst the competitions which took place at
Wimbledon on Saturday, three attracted a large share of at-
tention. These were the contests for the International
Enfield Challenge trophy, and for the Belgian and the China
Challenge Vases. In the loternational match the shooting
took place at 200, 500, and 600 yards, and in the result the
representittiVen of England scored 1,112 points; of Scotland,
1,092 ; and of Ireland, 1,037.
The dressmaker's account which a princess submitted
to her husband last week, before leaving Paris was of 112,000
frau. (E 4,480. The husband opened his purse like a Prince.
Madame is Princesse then produced the bonnet Mil, which
amounted to 2,250 francs (Z 330. This the Prince paid again,
remarking this time, with exemplary resignation. •• My dear,
I have noticed that in proportion as your bonnets diminish
in rice the price of them increases. One of these mornings
we shall be having the milliner bringing nothing but the
bill.

The Standard says that a large number of Irish peers
met by circular invitation on Saturday at the town residence
of the Duke of Abercorn The electing lasted nearly two
hours, but the ',object discussed was kept " a profound
secret " the meeting waw stated to be, "In every sense .31 the
word, of a private nature.

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The latest victim of the Kurdieh brigande in Behdjet
Bey, consul at Tabreez, wh.., while on his way to Con-
stantinople, was waylaid at Alashkerd, Bayazid, by a dozen
Kurds, who plundered him of all his effects. u,cluileg 0,000
piastres, a Dumber of shawls, and other property valued at
50,000 p mitres. The Bey, in order to continue his Journey,
was obliged to borrow 4,000 piastres of the eatonaccon,
Month Pasha, who dispatched a force in search of the maven-
uers.

The revenue of the western railroads of the United
States appears to be large]) extending. In May the Chicago,
Rock Wand, and Pacing acquired 419,100 dole., as compared
with 304,891 dole. in May, 1868; the Chkago and Alton,
345 556 it. dot., against 10 ',342 dohs in May, 188; the Illinois
Central, 655,047 dole., againat 572,551 dole. in May, 1868; the
Michigan, Southern, and Northern Indiana, 445,792 dole.,
against 400 486 dole. in May, 1868 ; the Michigan Central,
40i,646 dolt,, again 4 369,236 dole. in May, 1868; the Pitta-
burg, Fort Mayne, and Chicago, 656,285 dots., against 615,600
dole in Slay, 1468; and the Toledo, Wahash, and Western,
312,559 dolt, against 260,529 dolt, in Stay, 1968.

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In replying to a memorial from the Independent
Orange Association of Ulster, Mr. Gladstone, on Monday,
declared, through Ms private secretary, that the Government
Wilt give no countenance either to a direct proposal 14 con-
current endowment, or to any plan for postponing the appro-
priation of the surplus. "They regard any such postpone-
ment, independently of the incalculable mischief of keeping
al,ve the controversy for an indefinite period, an the almost
acknowledged road to concurrent endowment at some future
(me.s

Tee French papers announce the suicide of the once
famous Kommisaroff, who a few years ago saved the life of
the Ernoeror Alexander by seizing the arm of the would-he
assassin, Carakosoff, at the moment he was about to tire.
Born a serf, he wati at once elevated by Imperial favhur to
the rank of a nobleman ; a national subscription was opened
in his favour, and wealthy courtiers vied with each other in
showering gifts on him, whom they delighted to honour as
the saviour of the country. Whether this sudden avalanche
of fortune's favours turned the brain of the ci-devarit sort,
or whether thesgreatuess thus thrust upon him proved too
irksome to bear, must remain a mystery; all we are informed
is that he has committed suicide by hanging himself in a
room of the hotel given to him by the grateful czar.
Since the great impulse givers to the manufacture of
velocipedes by their universal adoption throughout Europe,
innumerable improvements have been patented, and two
more startling novelties are announced in France and Geneva.
A Frenchman, Monsieur Blinn, has adopted to his veloci-
pede a pair of sails, and in a fair wind skims along like a
terrestrial nautilus, at • rate exceeding the greatest speed
hitherto attained with the ordinary vehicle propelled by the
feet; while, at Geneva, an ingenious nnisiCat-bui maker has
actually constructed a" vMocipede I musique."

An order received at Chatham dockyard, from the
Admiralty, directs the powerful armour-clad turret ship
Certerus to proceed with her refit in readiness for com-
mission, as she is required to be despatched to Melbourne
fir the protection of the Australian colonies. The Cerbtrus
will accordingly be removed into one of the vacant docks at
Chatham, where the work of preparing her for sea will be
carried on with all despatch. the cost of fitting out the
Cerberw will be defrayed by the Audrahan Govermnent

The "great national Protestant demonstration"
against the Irish Church Bill, at Blackheath, last Saturday,
seems to have been a failure (saY. the Poll Mall Gazette..
Not more than between 2,0 o, and 3 000 persons were present,
and among these the it idical element appeared to be pre-
dominant. A cart containing .everal members of the into
Reform /Rayne war driven up to the front of the van wh Cli
contained the principal promoters of the meeting, and at .ine
time there seemed to be a probability that the occupant, of the
two vehicles would resort to phyaical force argument., but
the interfei mice of " a solitary mounted policeman," we are
told, "hail the effect of checking ph) aical vi,lence." Reeolu.
Lions were prepared protesting against the Irish Church Bill
and any enouwnsent of the Roman catholic religion, aint
thanking the opponents of the lull in the two House. of Par-
liament ; but who proposed and seconded these resolutions,
or what became el them, the reporters were usable to
amertela

M. Hepworth Dixon is about to lenns England
a tour In Russia It underst.od that he win not rutunt
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Prince Alvoaye, of Ai,raginia, in &ergo of Captain
speedy, hls tutor, en, ls acc..mmtuiod by Mrs Spec
RI" I wed at Malta, on the sth of July en route for India, and
I I. ft for Aireshilris ou the same day.
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An er al machine. intended to make the trip
to eon Sew York awl all Francikco In twenty-four hoar..
c.; been invented by a genius in the latter c t), and accord-
.ng to reports of its fleet trial trip. It works like • chum,
heirs prooelled lu any oirectlon in the
At Coventry, a quack practitioner of the worst kind
ham been aentecced to ten year, penvl serv,tude by Mr.
Juatlce Brett at the Warwick asaizes on Saturday.

Doctor Dorlima, a celebrated German surgeon, has
just performed the operation of sew-atilt!: two fern ale chil-
dren, tire years of ace, who were j, tined together in the rants
manner as the Siamese twit., The Genus,, p t pas rate that
the operation was attended with perfect tome.. : but one of
the patients seems to have died the same day.
The North German Correspondent saya that a great
revulsion of feeling has taken place in Southern Germany
during the last two yeare. The efforts of agitators to per-
petuate discord between North and South, by fomenting
' mutual jealousy and pandering to antiquated prePplice are
beginning to to taken for what they are worth. rholgh
no doubt incendiary papers still mist, and prooably will for
I some time to come," it adds, "the most respectable journals
on the other side of the Main show a moderation in their
I Judgments which may be hailed as the harbieger of a new
! and better era."
On Monday, the foreman porter at TZ svenethorpe
station, was crossing over the metals in fruit of a train
which should have skipped there, when it a•ent forw ird at
full speed, knocked him down, and cut him to piecm, causing
ins instant death.

According to a telegram from Florence, the Corn:
mittee appointed to inquire into the clur4e uf venality
brought agalhit a member of the Italian Parliament, has
decided that the charge had not been proved. _ -
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The Emperor of the French has awarded is gold
medal of the second clamant] a diploma to P. ter de la Mare,
and • silver medal of the hest class and a diploma ..ach to
Mr John de to Mare and Mr Phlllippe le Riche, of At. Whet's,
Jersey. In acknowledgment of the, services in Jael“ry last,
to the survivor of the crew of the French lugger Filinfrunca,
of Inn..

The International Exhibition of Works of Art at
Munich will probably he opened on the 2qh inst. Almost all
countries will he represented in it Austria ae..ds 327.
Italy 225, Belgium 95, Park 60, Holland 53, Switzerland and
England 19 objects for exhibition. while AllitlrlCA, Sweden,
Denmark, and Russia each send several pictures.
The practice of sending haul meat to the London
market is frequently visited by the magi.trAtes at Guildhall
with heavy penalties, and occasionally with a term of im-
prisonment On Monday two Suffolk farmers were sent tis
prison for • month each for this offence.
An American paper rave that a double.heailed
negro Is on his way front the South to give exhibiti II•
goes on the pruiciple of the old proverb that two heads are
better than one."

The Queen attended Divine service on Sunday
morning in the private chapel at Windsor. The Rev French,
Pigou, M.A A. incumbent of St. Philips Chapel, Regent-street,
preached the sermon.

The comaossionere for the exhibition of 1851 have
decided to h-ld a series of annual international exhibitions
of sleet works of line and industrial .f se,entirl • in-
ventions at Kensington, I..ndou. The first exhibition hilted
for Ib7l.

In the new fruit and vegetable market, recently
opened in Edinburgh, there is an experimental refresh-
ment-tmoth where breakfast-tables are spread from
seven o'clock in the morning till eleven o'clock at forenoon
for persons frequenting the minket from the country. In
this matter they are copying the example net by many
Endilsh market towns, and the practice of having special
market refreshments provided by munimpal authority is al-
most universal on the continent.

The annual dinner of the Cobden Club took place at
Greenwich on Saturday, the Duke of Arg)ll in the chair.
The Ron, G C. Brodrick in responding to the toast of the
evening, rated that the club now numbers 300 members, of
wh, on 140 have seats in the House of CORIUM.. Mr. Mill,
Si. Michel Chevalier, M. Arles Dufour, Mr George Walker,
of Massachusetts, and Mr. T. It. Potter were amongst, the
subsequent speaker..
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The New York papers of the 20th ult. publish •
letter which has been sent to the Harvard University RAE
Club by the Committee of the English Canoe C,oh, proposing
• Canoe Race on the Thames, to take place within stew days
after the International Rost Race. The challe.ige is •,gned
by Mr. John Macgregor, of the Rob Roy, sod Mr James
Mevards, of the Ringleader. The Harvard crew, with their
boat, left New Yoik for England, in the City of Paris, on
Saturday.
M. Genera., Mayor of Gill,. in Belgium. while on
his way to visit the schools, arrived at the level crossing of
a railway just as the gate had been shut for the passing of •
train. M. Genard. thinking he had time to go across,
climbed over the barrier, n twithstanding the rewon,tratice
of the signalman, and was traversing the iron-way when he
fell over our of the rails. (let .re he hod Lime to rise he was
struck on the head by the buffer of the engine and killed on
the spot
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During the second quarter of the year 1869 the
butchers of honsumeat have supplied the Paris market with
005 animals of the species, some asses and mules .eing in-
cluded. This gives an average of 88.000 lbs per month.
The New York Tribune, referring to the long HA of
Income tax returns which recently occupied SO milch bt its
space says it is confident that at least tw.,-thirds of twist re-
turns are lower than they oughi to he, while at the same tone
It believes thst they are fairer than these made by any other
milluin of the forty millions of the American people. "is
our judgment," it adds, " the total paid into the Treasury ea
incoine-tax is not moi e than one-third what the law calls
for.''

The death fa announcrd of Mr. WilFam Lee, Q.C..
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who was for many years an eminent member of the Chancery
bar, fie was hont 151786, and in dun course became a mem-
ber of the lion Society of the Inner I emple, by whom he
was called to the bar. At the time of his death he was MIS
of the hellebore of the Inner Temple and the oldest member
of the society.
The town of Gefle, in Sweden, from whence large
quantities of wood are imported to this country, WaS on lion.
day last completely burned down. The origin of the fire is
at present unknown.
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"A frightf ol fall was experienced a few days age by
John Barnes. a boy twelve years old, who was bied's nesting
at Pennare Cliff, Mevagissey. He tel off the cliff to the beach,
a depth of nearly 100 feet, and when found was ap .arently
dead. but Is now recovering, no bones being broken That
he was not killed on the spot is regarded by those who
know the place as little less than a mlracke."—Westorn
Morning News.
An accident, not unlike that which caused the
disaster in the hunting-field a few months ago, ocean, d on
Sunday in the river Aire, nem. Itnweliffe. Two men. wishing
to cross the river, entered n small boat, twkins with them •
pony After they had left the bank the animal suddenly
moved, the boat capsized, and the human occupants were
drowned. VONi Nan able to reach the shore.

The marriage of the Marquie of H untly with Amy,
the eldest daughter of Mr. Cann& Brooks, took ;dace on
Wednesday morning, in Westminster abbey. The 1311012.0 t
Osh.rd officiated, asdsted le the Very Rev. the Dean of
Westminster. The nave a crowded. although admission
was only to be had by tickets. The bride was given away by
her father.

About 250 beasts were stopped at Thames Haven,
on Monday, on account of disease.
The Toronto Globe of the 25th ult, says, that by noon
on the previous day the whole of" Miss Rrea girls" who could
lie spared for the district were engaged, and 'hat, judghig by
the number of people who were disappointed in °owning
servants, the sooner another complement appeared the nutter.
" he opinion of every one," it adds "oil., cane into con-
tact with the atria is that in every respect they are superior
to any of the same class that have hitherto. Tived here, and
that • very valuable addition has been MAU. 10 WIZ pupal.
Mon by Miss Rye'. exertions."
The gold saved by the crew of one of the missing
boats of the ship Blue Jacket, burnt at sea, appears TIOW to
he £15,000, instead of £4,000. The survivors who Kept the
boat afloat are entitled to a third of the value of the gold
salvage.
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A return pigeon shooting match between the Lords
and Commons took place at Hurlingham Park a Saturday.
There were ten competitors on each side, the Pro. et
Wales being one of the ten who shot for the Upper Muse.
The Commons won by one bird.

Oa Sunday a division of the Jute spinning•tnill, two
stories high, the property of Messrs. AM° and C.• of
Dundee, was burned to the ground. Ike preparing, spint:ing,
and weaving department. of the works are totally destroyed.
The damages are estimated at £12,000, and 4,000 workers Ws.
lone employment. The cause of the fire is u known._

At the -I'haniee police-court, in London, on Wedneie
day, three seatm,n were charged with smuggling hout alb.
id tobacco, and tined the treble value and duty. They paid
the money and staked for the tobacco to he restored to them.
The magidrate sail that the forfeitive of the tobic, was
part of the punishment. It was forfeited to her Majesty.
On this, one of the prisoners said, " Does the Queen smoke?
if no, she is welcome to the tobacco."

Another telegraph has been laid between Great
Britain and the Continent The line is only a short one, rx•
tending from Peterhead, In Scotland. to Ezer-ond in No,
way, the distance between the places being some 27 ,
It in said that rotatory road engines arc Inreely on
the increase in notland, and are constructed of three 011.
the largest taking sixty tons over an ordinary road at the
rate of four milts an hour The upright @wine resemble.; a
ship "donkey." 'the airectin4 and two side wheels are shod
with parted four Inch iron laArs, chained at the cireuinferat-
ing margin over eight-inch thick rubber, which not only
cutlet's.; the general pressure, but prevents slipping up Or
down hill.

The tunnel under the Thames near the Tower is
nearly half etimpleted The engineering praress made since
the days when the old Thames Tunnel proved soot, a bore to
Brunei h.s lightened the difficulties immensely. There is ne
fear of water coming ;MI the eon retry, the roof I. so dry
that water has to be brought into the tunnel for the purpose
of wetting the cement with which the roof and sides of die
tunnel are covered hi the first instance.

Not more than three South American revolutions
are reported by the papers received by the West Indian
steamer the Nem. In Bolivia the President, Melgarej. had
given up the dictatorship mot re-established a consti talon.
In Costa R,ca the constitution had been suspended, and
President Z.eneshad been appointed Dictator. A revolution
had occurred against epam at Puerto Bice Toe city of
Ponce was set oil fire by insurgents, and nearly Marred to the
ground. Several prominent and wealilly Spaniards and sol-
diers were killed, and most of the rich families hart left.
Spain and Chili are at peace—that is to say, an
armistice has been agreed to for art insietlutte permit, and
hostilities are not to be regulated without two years' notice
being given by the party wishing to fight.
James Grinoshaw, the jockey, received his order of
discharge in the Bankruptcy Court on Saturday.
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The Chamber of Agriculture Joarnal says the wheat
plant has undergone considerah e improvement during the
past week, but there is much damage to be rectified befdre
appearances can he regarded as altogether satiates:tory. The
Jolamest still inclines te the belief that the clop ahl be vo'Y
variable both as to quantity and qualir Y, and treat it sill in
no way be comparable to the yield of last year.
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At Orleans, a lion n a wild beast show snatched an
Infant out of Its mother's arms and devoured It before bar
face Her huMand got a gun and shot the autmaL The
mother became insane.

In the Court of Bankruptcy, on Monday, there wee
a sitting for dividend under a bankruptcy which occurred so
long ago as the year 1828 The proceedings were vely hulkY,
and upon reference to the volume in which they are con-
tsMed, it appears that the commission won granted by the
late lord Chancellor Eldon upon the commaint of a cmditer.
The bankrupt, Francis Putts, was an appraiser, formerly of
Newport, in the Isle of Wight_ Upon debts amounting to
£14,898, dividends of Ss. Bd. in the pound have been Paid, and
it was stated that about £l,OOO more was in hand, aPPlic.,.o
to the payeatut of a further and final dividend. Order accor-
dingly.

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A French savant, in giving a relation of the curious
maladies which attack the organs of vision, hays that smite
time ago a whole regiment in garrison at Str.bourg
found to be suffering from a strange disease the soldiers
could see very well during the day, but directly the run set
they became quite blind, and could distinguish inidoni; by
the light of the most brilliant lamp. In another tinge •
gallant tar became suddenly affected in a atrauge manner;
when a ship appeared on the horizon he nod see trio yards
plain enough, but not the mast.; Of horizontal lines, and
not perpenuicular ones.
A neighbouring farmer in a remote district of the
Yorkshire molts receitly met &country Rector who had been
two years •lisent on travel. "Mr. Rector," said the firmer,
" pout ve been to the Bids, Land I hear." have, John, and
got safe hack you see." " Well, I often thou't I'd like to
hear abed that spot. It's a line country, I lay." '' 1,”
said the Rector, i• I saw Lebanon and Jerusalem end the
twelve palm trees, and the webs of water in the great desert,
and we went across the Jordan, and we went up Mount
-" "Excuse me interruptin' you, Mr. Rector, noo. But if
It be star question. boo was Swamis (turnips) looking eat
ristve