The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-08-19 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRlllSli AND FOREIGN.

The anonyullollii initial donor has again begun to
scatter donations of £l,OOO among the London charities.
The Svdney Mint has begun to issue sovereigns which
are like the English coin,
Texas has a new game in cards—one holds a revolver,
the other holds the cards. A coroner holds the Inquest.
Land of the value of 13,759,913 has been sold in the
1.:M.1 Estates Conl.t of Ireland thee the Ist of January,
L•7o. The account is brought down to the 10th of July,
1:471.
The Duke of Edinburgh was one of Dr. Guthrie's
congregation at the Free Church, Lochee, on ttunday. The
collection was the largest ever made since the church vim

Twenty thousand applications for tickets of ad-
mi.!, to the Weideym Clmpc! at Lseds were made when
the L.,. Morley PunThon preached thei 13.4 meek. The
ShapA hold; abcad 2,.5a0 pers,ns.
At the first incitin4 of the Soviet. des Aziriculteurs
de Frmwe since the war, 1.,,r,1 VernOn, preSnlent of the
French rinsant Fanners' Seed /MO, Was Unaldillothily
eleetcd an honorary member.
The 71'i•ic York rald reports that on the 27tli July
three young nice supposed to he from New York. attempted
to cross from the Canadian to the American side in a small
hell, and were carried over the Niagara Falls. Fragments
of the boat were found next monling.
The Times of India status that cholera has broken
out tit Lingah, in the Persian Gulf, arid the mail steamers
have not been calling there of late in consequence. Cholera
also exists at Bahrein, on the Arab littoral, and in the Turkish
camp at Khalif.
inc a specimen of logical consecution of ideas the
follewing is commended to the Board of Education from a
schoolboy's recent composition Tobacco was invented by
a man named Walter Raleigh. When the people find saw
hiitt Nnioting they thought he was a steamboat, and, as they
Iran never seen a steamboat. they were frightened.-
The monthly paper of the National Education
League, states that 37 new branches hare been formed. Pre-
parations are being Made for an active campaign during the
whiter. The annual meeting of the league will probably be
heist in the third week ,1 October.
Coleridge, travelling down the Rhine one day, was
induced to taste some thichheimer. lie vented his disgust at
the hiesod in the bdlowing impromptu :
••ii, Spain that land of monks and apes,
The thing called wine doth come from grapes ;
But on the noble river Rhine
The ti g called gripes doth conic from wine.
A good sitter is a pleasure to an artist. A good
Bitter at the shop-door of a tea-grocer in the West-end,
London, has been utilized. The sitter is a eat, and around
its neck the enterprising proprietor has hung a placard, with
the announcement that So and IM's tea and coffee are Un-
rivalled."
At Stanley-park, Liverigml, on Saturday evening, a
young than termed .101111 W. V icears, aged 2,5, was playing in
a galas, of cricket, and was struck on the side of the head
With the ball. Ile was reintoVed to Ids honSe, but sliest six-
teen hours after Wards, concussion of the brain having been
caused.

A Loudon eorresponaent saes :—" The system of
regimental agent, so closely connect.' with the purchase
system, is to be gradually ah, dished—at least appearances
paint very strongly in that directb b. The allowance of 10.
in the pound hitherto allowed on sums advanced by agents
is henceforth to be discontinued—a change which involves a
loss of £ll,OOO a year to one agent alone.
On Sunday, three hundred policemen went to the
Phienix Park, Dublin, to prevent any meeting which might
take place. There was im meeting. A conference of the
promoters of the previous Sunday's meeting was held in the
evmdng when it was decided to take criminal proceeding,
against the police, and to institute civil actions against the
authorities.
Mr. Ralph Montague Bernard, the senior surgeon'of
the bristol Royal Infirmary, was accidentally killed on
Thursday last by falling from the cliffs at Gwbert, in the Bay
of Cardigan, on to the I wadi, a depth of Tilt. The deceased
gentleman was walking with his wife along the cliffs, when
the edge gave way alld allowed hint to fall. lie sustained a
severe fracture of the skull, and died in a few minutes.
A great Home Rule demonstration came off on Tues-
day iu Dundalk. The meeting was held in the Fair-green,
and was attendedby tie ,nit 12,000 people. Mr.Callan, for
Dundalk, twesided, and among the speakers werc ProfefiSor
Gall,raith, id Trinity College, Dublin, Mr..Tohn 'lirrrlitn, M.
and Mr. Sullivan, if the Nation. Resolutions in favour
limn, Rule were carried unanimously. The proceedings
were perfectly orderly.

The exigencies of the times at the East-end of
London have brought out the following version it Dr. Watts
addrcssed to the West-end :
" Whener I take my walks abroad,
How nanny poor I see,
And as I never speaks to them,
They never sneaks to me."
" King Victor Emmannel," says the Paris Joyrnal,
"had as narrow escape of being killed while hunting recently
in the scowl of Valsrvaranche, inn the valley of Ansa. He was
soddenly attacked by two wild boars, one id which ripped
open. with its tusk, the stomach of the king's horse. His
Majesty WAS saved by his suite, but received a slight wound
in the thigh."
The German Corrorpfm,loli says : -The Cerman land
army possesses, it is well known, an " railway battalion," and
steps have been taken to organise a pt rinainent "torpedo
detarinnuent," which is now nearly complete, and will con-
tinue to exist even in times of peace. It is alon, considered
desirable to form a special eompany for flehl-telograph
servb.. : at all events, the number of soldiers in each regi-
ment who are to learn telegraphing will he inereased—an
arran,ment which cannot fail to Ine of great advantage to
the 101 l itary service of Germany.
An American family dispute, based on local pride,
runs Gam :—" But, sm, you will at least allow that Ohio justly
,nperiority oVur New Hampshire in nada of the ex-
tent ,d the tern-it ivy?' " No, sir !" promptly and emphati-
cally replied the Yankee. " Your State spreads out because
it is gat. Look nnt the mountains of New Hampshire ! Good-
ness mercy ! Just roll 'on out flat and they'd made terri-
tory enough to cover up the whole of Ohio and liii up a big
slice of Lake Erie !"
An amusing story is told of a Clasgow Merchant.
Ile had gone auto. Sabbath to hear a candidate inn one of the
city churches, of which the town council holds the presen-
tation. Next day Inc was speaking with high commendation
of the sermon, when &rine one happelted ti ask, " What was
the text r The merchant, whose knowledge of Scripture
was rather hazy, and who had probably been dosing the
greater pant of the time wag taken It little amoco. ''Tine
text I" Inc said, " the text I What was it again? It began
with New—sow is —" now is the--' any, that's it? • now's
the day and now's the hour.' "
A correspondent of the North l:erniair Gre:Tele main-
tains that the French Government has been guilty if an vio-
lation of international law, inn permitting the establishment
in Faris eta society, the declared object of which is to sever
Alsace and L orra ine from Germany. This society has opened
an office, has ISSIIO4I circulars, and has called a public meet-
ing by advertisements inn the papers. The French Govern
unni-nntll,ls taken le, MATs to prevent the meeting: but if it
does sit in so it will bo guilty, the correspondent maintains,
of an I wench iif the treaty' of peace it signed nd Frankfort.
; The Eriendlv Societies Commission Bill, brought
I. down front the Lords, has been vented. It gives power to
the I Monnissioners to enforce the attendance if witnesses,
to cioupd the production of documents, to punish persons
guilty of uontempt, sad to grant a certificate of indemnity to
any witness who makes an full and true disclosure respecting
tin,' Mailers upon which Inc is examined. Protection Is also
granted to liersnns pulolishing true accounts of evidence
taken by or under the authority of the Commission.
"iNn von know what the end of all thia will Inc ill
Frallee Bald olle member of the House of Comanms tin
another, as they left the lIMISO one night last week. "There
is every token of a general break-up, and before six months
are over y.nui will perhaps see the whole country divided into
a numb, r .of little Republics, the small change of that great
wavered Republic, with a Frenchman Maine according tin
party> at its head." If we were only at liberty to mention the
name of the speaker it would carry such an amount of con-
vietion with it that the prophecy would be regarded as
already half accomplished—revert Journal.

It is pointed out by the Italian journals that the
great tunnel under Mont Cods, which is to be opened on
the lsth of next month, will then have lteen eolllllleted three
months before the time stipulated in the contract—viz.,
December, lot!. The works were commenced in 10117, and
have thins been fourteen years in band. The rate of pn.ngress
has been about three yards per day. On the French side
there is still part of the connecting line—about six miles in
length—incomplete. This will not be ready until a nowth
after the opening If the tunnel.
Ms Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant, at the desire
of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales before departing
irons I signified his wish, in order to mark tine satis.
faction of Her Majesty at tine cordial reception given to the
Heir Apparent, Prince Arthur, the Princess Louise, and her
husl land, by the citizens of Dublin, tin confer the honour of
knighthood on the Lord Mayor on board the Royal yacht ;
hut his loslship, is mile fully sensible of the compliment, re-
spectfully declined to receive the honour so graciously pre-
sented for his acceptant*.
The climate of Minnesoda, according to recent infor-
mation, has entirely chang.ed within the last fifteen years,
since the forests have been cut down and twelve millions of
acres of wild laud have been brought under cultivation. Inn
consequence of this change, it is now doubted whether the
climate of Minnesota is any longer beneficial to consumptive
invalids. An invalid residing at St. Paul, Minnesota, for
the benefit of his health, has written a letter to the Kern
Fork Trilmne comolmrating the alanve account, and stating
that Itt those who go to Minnesota in the early stages of
decided consumption between five and tell per cent. only
recover.

A parliamentary return just issued states that eight
Fenian convicts are still in prison who were convicted of
being concenied in the Nlanchestei outrage In 10117. Two of
them, Edward Shore:nal Patrick Melody, are under sentence
of penal servitude fir life, having been originally sentenced
to death : the others are undergoing a sentence ot five years'
penal servitude, with two ywds' hard labour concurrent.
.No one is now in custody for being concerned in the Clerkeifi
well outrage, and no Irishman is under punishment for
treason felony. Another return states that four persons—
Jaines Moho, John Seery, Thomas Daly, and Patrick Dunne—
were el the lot of August detained in prison under the bird
Lieutenant's warrant °lithe ground of being menthem of the
Rildion Society.
The condition of the Jews at Slweraz during a famine
must he indeserilialdc, for their normal state, aveorling to
the tostimony of the celebrated Wolff, is wretched In the
extreme. A Persian Ilussulman gave him the following in-
formation, which he afterwards found to be correct :
" First, every house at Sheerag with a low narrow entrance
Is a Jew's house. Secondly, every man with a dirty woollen
or dirty camel's-hair turban is a Jew. Thirdly, every cmd
Innen torn and mended about the back, with worn sleeves,
is a Jew's coat. I.airthly, every one picking up old broken
glass is a Jose. Fifthly, every one searching dirty robes, and
asking for old slices and sandals, is a Jew. Sixthly, that
house into which no quadruped but a goat will enter is a
Jew's."

The Smis, Time 4 says that the ascent of Mont Blanc ,
was sucee,sfully made on the lot of August by Prioce
Rodolphe Lobkowitz, who was accompanied by two rabies
Mid his cc-vast. The little company of travellers started
from the Hotel du Mont Blanc on the previons evening as if
simply going to take a stroll in the granola, and without
giving ;my intimation of their inteution to attempt to reach ,
the summit, which they silcereile tiohalgat nine o'clock ,
next morning, and remained for an hour in the enjoyment
of the ninmincent view which is already 0; well known by
description, but which no few have actually seen. The
Prince, on his retort, astonished his fellow-tourists, who
are staying at the hotel, by an account of the feat he had to
successfully and so unostentatiously performed.
A deputation appointed at the meeting iif -London
undertakers held at Freeniasons' flail wane time spoon th
subject of Sunday funerals had an interview on Satoribie
with Archbishop Manning to urge the closing of the Romany
Catholic Cemetery at Leyton s,n Sundays. lie. Mmming said
he entirely sympathized with the movement, and would not
only do what he could towards eventually closing Leyton
cemetery on Sundays, but he would also consider how he
could otherwise further the object in view. In the mean-
time he would give instructions to the Catholic clergy to dis-
courage among their congregations as much as possible the
, practice of Sunday burials. The deputation have, it is
stated, visited some of the lmards of the principal ceme-
teries, which still remain open on Sundays, and have good
hope of ultimate success.
A Report of all the offences and misdemeanours com-
mitted by soldiers of the North-German army during the
late campaign has been submitted to the Minister of War.
On the whole, says the German CorreApondent, it gives a
very favourable idea of the discipline of our army. Breaches
of discipline scarcely amount to more than a third or a
half of those that occur among a proportionate number of
soldiers of other States. On the other hand, offences of all
kinds, committed during the war were 01011 t twice as numer-
ous as in pence-times. The most Common of these were un-
authorised requisition and theft : it must be remembered,
hoe-ever, that in war the tights of property are not always
very clearly defined. Cases of insuhordination are very
rare. The Landwehr almost uniformly distinguished itself
by its exemplary conduct. The report will be submitted to
the Emperor, awl afterwards communicated to the com-
manders of the various regiments.

It is saki that the vine disease is making grsot Inv:ages
among the grapes in Portugal

An- odidnot- ion has seized the Eneldh tourist this
year—namely, to wear a costalue made of Turkish towel
The King of Bokhara is now a prisonor of the Run
dans, and Abdool Rahman Khan is mid to have been ap-
pointed by the foreign power to rule in Bokhara.
Of the TOO students of the Berlin University who
served in the army during the late war, 2.6 fell in the defenee
of their muntry.
While Wing a kite at Birmingham, a boy thirteen
years- of age fell down a maripit, feet in dept, and 'Wan
killed.

A COITOSp.IIaCiIt says that the works on the Settl
and Funds Railway are law/lashing for the want of 4,900
labourers to carry on the works. The contractors cannot
procure ha:tas.

Between the 23rd of Auz,nst, 11, and the sth inst.,
there wcr, attack td with 1 -and-imatth di,,aiev in Cheshire
31.630 animals. (Si that number 17 were killed to- market.
30 far Serial, Via died, :0.4,a; tee,,Vo,i, awl remained
under treatment.

A large open air lueeting was held in rirmin,..,hato
,Ott Monday night, at luau a in.solittion nos pa, et to the
cacti that the lush people 11.1 d the maid right to incel
Hams Park, Dublin, as the English people Initt, 1,, asseinhle
hi Hyde Park, London.
The latest thing in London thieving (saya a corre-
spondent is Dress in the unifonn of Iler Majesty's navy, go
Chit late, walk smart') up to old gentlemen, and ask the time,
snatch their middies from them. and he off with all available
speed.

The Glasvom Star says that the Rev. Robert Thom-
son is going to preach two sermons, believed, on good
authority, to have been r posed by sir Walter Scott, at
Ahhotsford, in Is2s, for a young clerical friend of his awn.
The sermons are almost out of mint.

•
I.ast week a bricklayer, living in London, shot him-
self with apiece of gas-pipe, about IS inches long, with one
end lapped over. !laving nearly titled it with gunpowder
and rammed it llows, he heated is small SCIVW-driVW, and
put it in the barrel, then placed it in his mouth, aud held it
until exploded.
Tuesday twin'' the Feted iif the Assnmption wan
observed as a holiday in Faris. The Bourse was closed : the
National Assembly did not meet there was Ito sitting 44 the
eourt-maitial which is trying the 1111 l munist prisonors and
the papers suspended their publication. Tuesday was also
the Emperor Napoleon's Fete day.
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From April fat to August 12th the Exchequer re-
ceipts amounted to A:23,081,545, an increase of lather over
half a million upon the return ill the corresponding period
of last year. The expenditure has Is,. t 25,231,941, The
balance in the Rank of England on Saturday last was A:602,330
and in the Bank of Ireland, t 1,018.148.
Earl Russell has consented to preside at a conference
which is to be held at St. James's Han on Tuesday, the 29th
instant, to consider the licence laws, with a view to their
amendment. The conference will be held under the direc-
tion of the National Union he the Suppression h lotemper-
anee.

A large number of girls employed at the muuerous
worsted mills at withetielil are at present 0 strike. About
a fortnight ago sonic if the manufacturers gave the girls in
their employ as advance of M. per week; hut as the worsted
trade is at present rely brisk, the girls have struck for a
further advance.
On Monday a deputation, headitil by the Lard
Chafe Ohm, waited upon the Princess Louise, and present... 4
a Bible 101 behalf of the Cluirell of England Sunday Schools
of the United Kingdom. An address was read by Arch-
deacon Bunter, in whkii the heartiest wishes were expressed
for the health and happiness of the Princess and the Marquis
of I,ria, Iter Roy-al Highness conveyed her acknowledg-
ments in a few melons words.
The semi-official conversations which were begun at
flompiilgne between General Manteutfel anal NI. Pouyer-
(Mettler with reference to the evacuati. of the Fonts on the
Northern side of Paris have not led to any deci,ive result.
The negotiations relative to the miyments my %idyll this
evacuation is to be secured have removed to Frankfort, mint
It will not, therefore, he effected so speedily as was antici-
pated by the French Government.

Ireland is likely to benefit for a very considerable
time by the Royal sojourn which has just terminated. Not
only has it given an immense impetus to business of every
kind in the metropolis, lint a large proportion of those who
have come to Ireland for the occasion are 'prolonging their
stay, and intend to visit the beautiful Lakes of Killarney,
the wild grandeur of Connemara, or the Giant's Causeway,
amt last, though anything but least, the lovely scenery of
Wicklow. Kingstown, too, and Bray, with their surround.
jugs. may expect to be gay in the extreme during the re..
[li:tinder of the summer and autumn.

Her Majesty's Covernment liaa permitted Padui
Wise, Secretary to his Majesty the King 4,f Iturinah, intl
Miming Dung Theo, an officer of the Burmese :limy, to reeOlVe
a course of instruction in the several manufacturing depart-
ments of the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich. This is not the
first occasion on which this privilege has been extended to
the Minuets" allies. A young Burmese gentleman, said to he
a scion of the Royal house, after being educated at 'neat the
Woolwich military schools, has for the last twelve months
heen allowed to devote himselt to the study of the manufac-
ture id guns, shells, fuses. awl other warlike material at the
Royal Arsenal. Woon and his companion took their
first lesson last week, in the Royal Laboratory.

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There was a" Scott Celcbrath "at the Crystal
Palace on Tuesday, with ample entertainments befitting such
an event. it port. ark of the character of a national Scottish
fete, under the patninage of the Dukes of Argyll, Sutherland,
Itoxhurghe, end Athole, the Marquis of Lorne, the Marquis
of Bunny, and other noblemen. In the course of the day
there were an exhibition of pictures illustrative of the
universality of Scott's genius ; a pipers' competition and pro-
eessioa a Pcrfonnance of Geet/anneciett; :11111 a variety of
Highland games. The proceedings were wound up with a
banquet in the evening. At the celebration which took place
at the taunonatreet Hotel, London, Mr. Hepworth Disco
presided ; while Pr. Rogers took the chair at the dinner of
the etratopian Club, held at St..tames'shall.
The Medical Department of the Privy Council have
issued a series of precautions against the po,isible attack of
cholera, it is pointed out that if reasonable care be taken,
there is ,careely :my risk that the disease will spread to
pursons who nurse and otherwise closely attend upon tho
sick. Bid cholera has a certain peculiar intectivenessof its
own, which, where local conditions assist, can operate with
terrible hove, and at considerable distances from the sink,
The main object of endeavour should be to serum that
" cholera contagium," when not dishifected, shall he unable
to act extensively on the population. Au immediate Illud
searching examination of sources of water mpply shoot,' Inn
made In all cases where these are In any way open to the
, suspicion of impurity, and the water, both from private and
'Mine SOUreoB, should lie examined.

Last week the aggregate mortality in London anti
19 ,•thee large cities and towns of the United Kingdom was
at the rate of 20 deaths annually to every 1,000 persons
living. In the metropolis 2/67 births and 1,208 deaths were
registered, the former having been lot, and the latter 56,
befow the average. Zymotfe diseases caused 504 deaths, In.
clotting 90 from smallpox, 28 from measles, 30 from
scarlet fever, 5 tom. diptheria, 41 from whooping.
rough, 20 from different forms of fever (of which 0
were certified as typhus, 13 as entelie or typhohl,
and 7 as simple continued (ever). and 299 from diarrhost.
The fatal cases from the latter 435.140 exceeded by the
average minds, returned in the e.uresponding period of ten
years. This increase, however, was seareely an large as
might have been expected from the high temperature
which prevailed. These 29..) deaths from diarrhtea included
234 of Infants ler one year of age, 34 aged one year, and
but 31 of children and adults aged above one year. To cholera
and choleraic diarrlitea 17. deaths were referred, against 17
and IS in the two preceding weeks 13 were of infants not
exceeding.rme year, and two were of adult females, fmth cer-
tified as "cholera)., diarrhtea."