The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-10-21 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The Khedive of Egypt is said to hare a fortune ef
500,000 dollars.

A new paper is on the point of being started. It is
to be called the hash rtahlicator.

The London Cancer Hospital has just received a
third donation of 1.1,4.,00 from •. G. M. E."

The foot and mouth disease has slightly abated
during' the past wk in orthamptoushire.

It i aia that Garibaldi is uTitiluT an autobiography
which will not be published until of too his death.

M. Alfml Mativa, of the Civic (kiard of I.h,ge,
itained the great EngHA prize it Mal woo eoopeted for at the
'fir National of Bru‘seLs on the I.sth.

As a result f the inundations in Uengal, the maidan,
as well as the suburbs of Calcutta, have been visited by
alligaton.

ft k unilemtood that Lord Bloomfield, our late
anibaasailor at Vienna, will be made a peer of the I lilted

At the village of livultils, near Ode,sa. SOO houges
have won hunted. Than. liens in Or 1,1141111 C occurrence,
anal are attrilatted to fanatical sects of Nihiliiti.

A new Roman Catholic place of worship, called the
(mIMI of the Holy Name, wag opened for Moine service in
Maio:heater on auutay. It has coat nearly £40,00‘).

The ex-Ernperor Napoleon, itecomieutiot by the
Prince hope' al, paid a visit to Plymouth uu Saturday, and
returned to Torquay the Battle evening.

A lierman paper state, that a hill rendering civil
marriage routpuligny bill be laid before the Reichstag nest

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It is annonneod from Park on what is "
liahle information," that the French thaernment has re-
born...ill the "chyme of hA)ing a tax of 20 tar ceni oni raw
mat Hal.

Lvil-a-bat Ali, a leading mutineer and by
whose orders In wrilde crimes were committed at All :dmload,
has been captured in Bombay, identified, aunt hww aided
under a guanl to Allahalsid.

A liiimbard telegram, dated Itedin, net. 15, says :
An extensive strike is reported front Nlayehee, where
almost all hands in the railway-carriage manufactories have
discontinued work.'

Millie Schneider, who is in Paris, ha-s just been pre-
sented by an unknown gentleman (who Is said to be an
Englishman) w ith a magnificent gold and diamond comb,
worth 200,000 francs (I:NOW sterling).
M. Ilenti Taine hits a Newcastle stain in one of his
articles in the Paris T, lie estimates that the amount
of money spent In Newcastle every year by the working
classes on strong drink is ,LOOO,OOO.

The A rellir LiWral ic publishing a series of letters on
The Empire and the W orking Classes." The object, of
course, is to prove that the workmen were latter elf under
the Imperial regime than they ever were before.
The well-known (lilac tea clipper the Tgrping has
been lost. The master asnl eleven men Ore states! in a
telegram received at Liverpmsl to have been landed at
Saigon. The rest of the crew are mst accounted fir.

'rlannav .T"nes, a private of the 49th Regm ient,
stationed at I "Wel, ill -India, has been shot by a cozonele
named John Martin. The shot Was believed to have been
tended for a sergeant, uho escaped. Nlartin has been coni-
mated for trial on a charge of culpable homicide.

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From April Ist to the 14th instant the total receipts
into the Exchequer were £33,60,362, an increase if nearly a
million ;old a platter sterling upon the unwind in the cor-
responding period of last year. The expenditure lins been

Ihe annual gathering of the United Kihg,loin
Alliance was held at 311mehester on Tuesday, when it was
resolved to raise a guarantee fund of 000,000. The list was
headed with three en hseriptions of £5,090

Fears having been entertained that the foreign work-
men would he subjocted to molestation at Newcastle, a
meeting of MO Danes was held at that two on Saturday,
and the men decided to remain at the works and trust to
the honour of their employers and follow-workmen for fair
play.

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Ashini Khan ha c been rininlercsi in prison at Cabal
two of his brothers, thin removing the Aincer's great
domestic ditticulty. There is clear proof that Ashim Khan
murdered Feramorz, but an open trial has evidently been
decided. -Tine,' telegram.

The monetary crisis in has reaehed such
point that Scareely ally elle Will give f, totes, and
litany cat.,a and shops notices are poited that cliame
CH tie '4,11. 111 e itteetiVettlettee is telt universally, and
IL is feared that it will soon be dinteult to make the mat
ortlittary ItUreltast.A.

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A ticket-of-leave convict who had neglected to comply
with the terms of his licence, by omitting to give notice of his
removal from one mdice district to another, has been sent by
a London police magistrate to serve the unexpired term of
his sentence.

A notice postol up in the receipts office of the Bank
of France puts in force again a ruledf that establishment
forbidding the collectors to wear their Urania and
moustaches, which had been allowed to grow during the
siege.

"A per:on very well informed " assures the A rrn ir
Lib,,ral that General Ignatielf is sharged to bring about an
interview between the Emperor of Russia and the Sultan.
The very wellinformed person" adds that this is to be re-
garile.l as the drat step to an alliance between Russia, Turkey,
England, and France.
Some of the New York papers eongmtulaM their
readers on the fact that the Chief Justice of the Salt Lake
City had just decided tliat Mormons were not qualified to
serve on Juries or inn receive letters of naturalisation as
citizens of the t7nited States.
Ott TlleSday morning the dead &sly 1/I an elderly
female, named Jane Hunt, was found lvlmg 011 the socks at
the liaise of Hartlepool cliff, near to Fairy cove Battery, it, a
terribly mangled condition. It Is supposed that she wan-
dered thither after turbo the previous evening and strayed
over the cliff edge, and so suet w ith her death.

it would appear from some reliable agricultural re-
ports that the potato disease has touched the en,p in England
as well as in Ireland. Knowing this, it isrenuisite we should
be on our guard against eating diseased or even tainted
potatoes, for they an. extremely dangerous an on article of
food, awl upon weak constitutions it arts like it poison.

Amble:won Denisan bag written a letter, briefly
dealinga ith Ito education •plestion. Ile says that sidle
church-rate was abolished liecause it was alleged to he a
grievance of conseience to !Nonconformists, school-rate is a
grin-collie of eonacience to all religious NMI:, alike. If tine
latter is imp uwil upon him he shall not pay it, or allow it to
be pall on his account, except by way if distress.

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A meeting of the Home Cattle Defence Association
has been held ha London, at which statistics were given,
showing the enormous losses many stockbrokers were now
suffering through the ravages of the tat and mouth disease.
It was determined to request Mr. Gladstone, on his return
to town, to receive a deputation, whose members might re-
present to him the gravity of the present position ,if anairs.
The SiKalinq Chrulte hears that M. Charles Lef ever,
the French gentleman who races under the slimmed mune et
"Mr. T. Lombard," has just Caine into a fortune of over half
a million sterling, left him hy a cousin whom he never saw
in his life. The gentleman in question died hi America,
whither Inc had emigrated many years since with the sum of
Lf,oo, which M. Lefevre's father lent him when all his calks
relatives turned the!r backs upon him.

"'rile vintage," says the Sable Prd,lir r,f Lyons, "is
almost terminated Is France, and the aubllillt of produce is
excessively varied not only in each large district bitt in each
small locality. The general opinion, however, of the wine-
growers scout° toe that the price of wine, almady much too
high, uill still lie increased, on account of the scarcity of
wine tit for driuking.

A sad accident (says (717 igna i) occurred in Paris the
other evening in the line Ni ire. Lorette. A che-
mist's shopinau having gone into the cellar to arrange some
hottles if alcohol, by accident broke ore, awl as the liquid
immediately caught lire be tried to extinguish it; me clothes
were speedily iii flames. In that state he rushed Into the
street and rolled himself in the gutter. where he was added
by the passerwhy. Ile was soon after removed to the hospital,
but his injuries were so severe that he died in a few hours.
On Monday evening a travelling crane was sent to
the Maryhill Station of the North British Railway, near
Glasgow, to raise a truck which had run off the line. The
express fnnn lielenslitinrh came up at full speed while the
jib of the crane was still hanging over'the up line, the points.
man having signalled all clear. The engine strook the
and thus a hole was made in the huller, and at the same
time the sides 4of a third and a first class carriage next to the
engine were torn away. A young woman, name unknown,
and airy eight years old, seven killed ou the spot, and liftedn
persons injured.
Between 3,000 and 4,000 persons attended a demon-
stration at the Pomona Gardens in Manchester on Saturday
to express sympathy with the recent nine hours movement in
Newcastle. 3lr. Burnett, President of the Nine Hours
League, remarked that the issue of the recent struggle in the
north was not only to be looked upon as a triumph, lint KA
shwving that the working men was in is position to treat
with the employing class upon terms of perfect equality. It
is stated Inuit Newcastle that Mr. Burnett is about to resume
work for his old employers.

A painful story was told on Saturday at an inquest
bell In Bethnal green upon the body of a inns, 64 years of
age, ish,l had died from starvation. The deceased lived with
his son in an under-ground kitchen, and the latter had en.
deavourml to support himself and his father by selling
leather straps for butchers"' steels." They had gone three
moths without tasting animal foul, sod had neither tie.l-
- nor bedding in their wretched abode. The jury balmt
that th- num had died !min want of the common
necessaries of life.

"Let the British public give a 'long pull' un4 a
• strong nun at their purse Strings, and let it not be con.
fined to a few wealthy merchants In the large cities, who
seem ti be expected to stand alone in upholding the honour
of England on such occlusions as this. There are thousands
of working men in chicago who are hurnt out ill • and
out of workahop. Let the workmen of England (id one week
forget the Nine Boors' Movement' and the great strike
just ended, and generously contribute a shilling or two for
the sumo irt of their ten hours' brethren .1 Utile:iv.- From
aletter in The Times.

" The Fenian rail on Canada is a rather untoward
occurrence eta time when the Government are pressed to
grant an amnesty to the remaining prisoners. When the
national journals straw all illVidiOUS contrast between the
conduct of England and other countries It is only natural
and Tairto ask whether there is any precedent for setting
men at liberty to ho have not abandoned their revolutionary
schemes, and do not eVI-II digglible their sympathy with
these who continue tI plot mischief against England, slit, on
the contrary, lose no opportunity of holding up to execration
the Government whose clemency they clans, and use their
freedom in organising another hostile movement."—lmblin
Correspondent of The Times.
The trmmiaiionens appointed tie settle the Alex ma
and other claims arising out sit the American civil war, held
their first meeting at Washington on the 9.4:th ultinio. After
the usual eivilitim hail been exchanged count cO,ll wan
chosen to preside at the future meetings of the rommiesion.
lie the following day Mr. Oa, a clerk in the United States
State Departm,nt was appointed secretory, and a dealt form
of roles :tool regot Int bons fr thet ransact o ollo•ifleaa agreed
to. The tOminission,ors this adjourned until the 11th of
November, to slim time for the claimants to present their
mei-worts Os and enmity with the other provisions bad down
its the rules.

One of the writers in the rnlnerd tells his readers
that they had better subscribe for the relief of the Pope than
for that of the sufferers by the Chicago fire.

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Encke's comet, it is predicted, will he seen daring,
the latter and of November and the early erenings of De-
cember nest.

The Shipwrecked Mariner's S.ciety has received
another contribution of CL(W) from an auon)mous donor,
under the initials •'lt. D. 1."

Itl. Thier, has decided to levy a tax of three francs
per head on oats. Has it come to this? Alas ! poor France
Alas poor pussy !
It is ststed that the article in the current number of
ahmminse', shmst;se, entitled, How is the trot* of the
Ntow .10110 ?. is from the pen Koatehbull-flugmeen.

The Si, , (Puri,. paper) iris been ueilerea sentence
..f c,,urt inertial to puy a line of If. for knowingly pt,b.
hailing unfaithful reports of the proceeding', 4.lthe court.

Sir Richard Wallaeo has received permission from
the Paris municipal authorities to erect and maintain at his
omit expense a lin:Wier of puhlic drinking foiultaint on the
plan id those which exist in London.

Boston, having " impro‘eil" away moat f the relica
conneoted ith its history. as the resitlenoes id Franklin. the
tad Hancock house," ikv., is about to demolibli kluuker's.
hill.

A Chinese drama, now in proFress in San Francisco,
has been running 164 years in China and twelve years in
this country. They have got well into the middle of the
second net.

An enterprising Birmingham firm, which purchased
for •• a mere song " a mat quantity of the French arms
taken by the Missians in the late war, has already sold back
to the French Government Flussseputs to the value of £tio,ooo
A work is in preparation in America attempting to
prove that the golden image net up by Aaron for the
Israelites was a cow instead el A calf. It la said to be very
learned.
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A Vienna banker, whose son recently married, has
presented a singer named Slitter, fur having sung at the
wedding, with a villa near Vienna worth 15.000 florins.
Noblesse oslige will henceforth yield place to Banker °Wage.

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The Queen till sutlers, thouah in a lewer degree,
from rhetunatism, and although her Majesty has for some
time ilriicil out daily, ahe has uut rti:orcred sufficiently to
Join the family circle at meals.
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In Leeds the nine hours movement Is being rapidly
adopted. On saturday afternoon a procession of several
thousand workmen, accompanied by bands of mink, marched
through the principal streets in celebration of the chan so.
The 'cute American farmer who set his farm on edge
.ml took a crop on I,oth sides, would ilnd many an eligible
acre in the thousands of milaa of railway hanks throughout
the kingdom now inertly barren or grossing weeds .

The sanitary condition of Pal-is L, reismted ex cellent
the modality is Mill diminishing. Six hundred and ninety
deaths were registered during the week ending Saturday.
Among these to were eases of diarrhoea, 1.9 of dysentery, C.sit
Infantile cholera, .27 of typhoid fever, and si of bronchitis.

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We are glad to leant that the statement of a eon-
temporary that sir Roderick Murchison has experienced,
serious relapse is unfounded. air Roderick's health is not
Worse than it has been Miring the past (ache mouths, and
Ito is alole to take out of door exercise daily.

The borough police of Sheflield bell a meeting on
Saturday. and resolved to agitate for an naVanve4 eve..
They oomplain that whereas fit Nlanehester and other places
a lllnd ehuts ,•onstable re-tine, 2... Iner week and one .13).a
holiday every fortnight, the sante class it Sheffield Cr, only
paid 223. per Nt.a.k. and are allo.ra no holiday.

It 112114 bairn sn.,gaiastaial by the Mayor of l'nrta 11111 l
that the inentnrial in that tt.wli t., Iliad', Dickens ahoulti
la. manly instillation in Which tiro grsizat atiat urault InaVo
taken a special niterest, or. ill the event al a tatilit•ient •
liot licalisaal for that nhjeet, that an r,irutik, with an
1.. ~ tonal ann !hag the birth anti death ttf irieketra
should lie erected in the People's park.

An independent y, lung w,tutaul,Jsi. Mitchell, p.tr
herself, hut having a 1111 l nber of rich relatives in Missouri,
determined to mate her I ,wn livelihood rather than be sup-
ported by others. She accordingly bacame a telegraph
itf orator in St. Charles, and had not been there two years
before she received her reward in the form of a legacy of
20000 dollars left by an uncle.

The French papers palish a curious statement, said
to have been prepared front authentic statistics, showing
that during a year's occupation of Champagne the German
army of occupation consumed no less than .2,50,000 bottles
of the famous yintage of that country. of that quantity
Rheims supplied 1,864,0Un bottles ; Eperaay, 433,000 ;
Al, 272, . . . .

(:arilli luta ruldresseil ta the tirelent of the ban-
quet at Geneva on the 27th of mat month, the following
letter:—' Dear Poussier, —Rome returned to Italy is a Way
Whioll has found again its head. However, the hair must
yet he well combed to clean it of the insects. I associate
myself with all lay heart in the patriotic manifestation at
our fellow-citizens of tieneva."

A I.:jugular and ludicrous incident marked the pro-
ccedings .4 the Shrewsbury 5e.i1,119 on Monday. A girl was
indieted for theft, and the trial al moat concluded—evideuee
lit-ant, counsel's speech delivered, and the Recorder's charge
veininenced—when it was discovered by the clerk that he
had omitted the all important •' In reading the return
of the grand jury on the bill of indictment. The diseovery
of the blunder can rt','ijccil will much laughter, but the
Reeonler did not seem to :quire, late the joke.

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The irnited States pre4lent, while recently making
Ms tour of the publishing 11114 i printing office of The Brooklyn
Union. during his recent visit to that city, t,ook 1111.81,41 to
remark, •• Well, I guess I have set a gmal many columns ,of
type myself in tieorgetown, I this, per ago." " Why general,"
sail tieneral Porter, " I never bear! of that." But the
president replied that it was true, nevertheless.

The Natiomd Education League opened its Mini
animal meeting at Birmingham on Tuesday, Mr. 0. Mixon,
M.P., presiding. The adoption of the report was moved by
sir C. Mike, M.P., seconded by Mr. lllingworth, M.P., and
weed to. A long dna:M.loa ensued upon a resolutiim pro-
posed by Mr. Chamberlain. setting forth the reasons why the
Impale disapproved of some of the provisions of the Edu-
cation Act, but it was ultimately carried, with uue dis-
sentient.

"The House of Orleans have now become Frey, h
once more. After twenty-three years of exile they bat,- kW,
only returned to France, but, with the email, ill, or at least
the acquiescence, of the public, they lull, entered these!, ice.
of tin•ir eountty. The Doc du PctithVvrc, mon of the PHU,
In Joloville, has been admitted into the French navy, and
the line to Chartres in permitted to run the risks of aft
Algeria') campaign. The Doc d'Aumale himself was one of
the elected ci the !Ali inst., and, whatever disabilities may
be msintained with respect to sitting and voting in the
National Assembly, there can he little doubt that lie will be
free to take his placeilt a local and comparatively unpolitical
counril"—The Time*.
According to the New York papers of the 3rll Mat.,
' al charges had been preferred against Mr. Hall, the
may, of the city, and he had been cited to appear on the
following day. Meanwhile, the Nov Y,,rk Times had pub-
lished further disclomrcs from the pay-ills of the Corpora-
tion, showing the annual disbursement of enormous sums to

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run' rsellerZ gamlolers, rowdies, and newspaper men, to
whom the Ring tind it cone. phut to pay salaries for doing
nothing." In several eases the ironies if dead men have been
retained. It is stated that upon a moderate computation
over GOO persons have been paid yearly Out of the city taxes
without rendering a single hones work in return, and that
as many more have had exorbitant salaries for services for
which they were incompetent. In short, "the support of
the army if Ring hirelings, jar-lading retired rum-sellera,
bar-room loafers, ex-convicts, gamblers, bruisers, and other
bad characters, is believed to cost the city X250.1)(10 a year"
The funeral of the fireman Fowl, who lost Ins life
recently at the lire in the Gray's-init road, London, took
place on Saturday afternoon at Abney Park Cemetery. A
procession was formed at the llolhorn tire-engine station in
tile following order : timid attire E division metropolitan
Wilier; the looly, drawn on a tire engi ... • mourning coact.;
firemen if the Itb tropolitan Idlgade; four engines of the
brigade draped ; the London salvage Corps ; noel the band of
the II division of metropolitan ',lice. Various volunteer
corps from distant parts attended, nothing the procession
about had a mile twig. Crxmils assembled ab mg the whole
route taken by the processlon—a distance of five or six mile.
—and both in ll,niianrn and in the neighlmurhood of the
cemetery shuttera were put up at the majority of the shops.
The cemetery was thronged with people, and when the
funeral procession hail entered thittdrounds the gates were
closed, or the relllvtery would have Imen completely °Vern'u
by the molt. Ford's remains were placed in air oak coma,
'anon the top of which WAS his battered brass helmet, axe,
belt, ay. Ike grave was near that Of Mr. Braidwood.