The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-07-24 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

ERITISII AND FOREIGN.

Mr. John Bright M.P., has been unanimously
elected a member of the Athenaeum Club.
An English pickpocket was arrested a few days
since in the gaming-rooms at Homburg while attempting to
rob Mustapha-Fazil of a potketcbook containing bank notes
to the amount of 15,0001.
A young man and woman were married on Saturday
morning at Kennington, London, and afterwards the bridal
party hirtd a boat at Vauxhall Bridge with the intention of
going to Putney, and thence to Wimbledon to see the volun-
teer review. At Battersea Bridge the boat was upset, and
one of the party was drowned.
The cost of repairing the kiosques destroyed on the
boulevards during the late disturbances at Paris amounts to
4:1,t 00.
A lad of ten, son of Mr. Thomas Marsden, while
playing In Greenwood Cemetery, New York, recently tipped
over a small monument, which fell upon him and crushed
hini instantly to death. Ills father and mother were wit-
nesses of the occurrence.
The Queen has been pleased to command that a
medal shall he conferred on every surviving officer, nowcom.
missioned officer, and private who was present at soy one of
the various military operations which took place between the
years 1549 and 1565 inclusive on the north-west frontier of
India.
During a storm at Strasburg, a few days since, three
soldiers were sitting on a bench under the shelter of a tree,
when the electric fluid fell upon them, killing one instantly,
his shako and necktie being strewed about in minute frag-
ment, The second was struck on the back of the neck and
only lived a few minutes. The third had his legs burned;
but not severely. A custom-house officer, who was standing
not far off, was flung down, but received no injury. His
watch was, however, broken into a great number of pieces.
A thunderbolt, a few days ago, struck Mdlle. Fran-
connet, aged 19, who Was with her mother in the vineyard of
iceuves-Nlaisons, Vosges, France. The young girl expired on
the spot; the electric fluid, entering by the foot, furrowed
all the right side of the body and came out by the chin. The
unfortunate mother, who was also prostrated, was enabled
to rise from the ground without serious injury, but the sud-
den death of her daughter appears to have affected her
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intellect.
A man supposed to be a notorious outlaw named
Hildebrand recently died of wounds in Missouri; he is said
to have murdered at least eighty persons. A reward of
100000015. had been offered for hie apprehension.
On Saturday, in last week, at Marlborough-street
Police-court, London, preliminary proceedings were taken
against Mr. Grenville Murray, on a charge of perjury.
A new Roman Catholic Church of large dimensions
was opened on Tuesday, at Longton, by Dr. Ullathorne, the
Bishop of Birmingham. The church is in the Victorian style
of Gothic art, is of great height and of considerable beauty.
Up to the present time upwards of £1 000 has been expended
upon it. Tile church will seat a thousand persons.
There is a silver lining even to the cloud of grams-
hoppers. In Nevada, if they have destroyed all the crops,
they have made it unnecessary to give any other loud to
chickens.
After twenty years' service in the Detective Depart-
ment of Scotland-yard, London, Inspector Tanner has retired
from the police force on a pension of £lOO a year. In the
cc tirse of his connection with the police Mr. Tanner has been
very successful in tracing and arresting celebrated crimi-
nals. Among those whom he apprehended were Mullins,
who murdered Mrs. Emsley ; Forward, the murderer of the
three children in a coffee louse at Holborn ; Hunt, who com-
mitted murder iu a cab; and Muller, who kil et' Mr. Briggs
en the North London Railway, having arrested him in New
York.
The Count of Chateauvillard, who recently died in
Paris, was famous because of his having once ridden up the
stairs of the Jockey Club, and played and won a game of
billiards on horseback. But when the memory of these and
other eccentricities have passed away, his " Basal sur Is
Duel" will still remain the Hoyle of duelling, the undisputed
authority consulted by all the seconds implicated in these
meetings.
The Philadelphia Daily Ledger states that at Terre
Haute, Ind., on the oth inst., U. W. Brown and Major 0. Y.
Smith, editors and proprietors of the Saturday Evening
Gazette, were shot and wounded by a policeman named
Erwin Sernia. Sernia is reported to have first assmlted
Smith witn a hilly in the street, and on the latter drawing a
pistol, shot him in the leg. At this time Mr. Brown appeared
and hernia fired at him also, dangerously wounding him in the
breast.
At the American celebration of Independence Day
at Vienna this year a speaker, growing eloquent on the future
of the Republic, repeated a description of its boundaries
given by an enthusiastic Yankee who said, "It was bounded
on tim east by the Atlantic, on the north by the Aurora
Borealis, on the west by the Setting Sun, and on the south by
the Day of Judgment." Mr. Carlyle said many years ago that
every day was in truth a judgment day, and this is not the
first time that the Amelican day of judgment has been
declared to lie towards the south.
The dispute between the Yorkshire masons and their
employers has terminated. The latter have withdrawn all
the demands they recently made as to the introduction of
the hour system and other meatus, and are willing to take
back the men upon the old term,
On Tuesday the Thames Tunnel was finally closed
as a public footway. This undertakii it., which at the times!
its design wee considered a nte=terpiece of science, and which
formed a communication under the river Thames between
Rotherhithe and Wappins, was, after numerous difficulties,
thistly accomplished and opened on the 23rd of March, 1e43,
having been comma ced by Sir I. S. Brunel in lrds. The
total cost of the tunnel was about £600,000, but the East
London Railway Company recently purchased it for a little
over a third of that sum. The company will run their trains
through the tunnel, their line bringing the inhabitants of
Wapping. Studwell, Ac., within easy distance of Southwark-
park