The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-06-17 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The ex-King and Queen of Naples are residing in
Brussels in the strictest privacy.
Short sleeves are not fashionable in New York
society hut now. Cause—general vaccination.
The anneal congress of the Social Science Ale°ela-
tion, to be held at Lied., has been fixed to take place from
the 4th to the 11th of October next.

The Lord Mayor of Dublin, Mr. flu'fin, died at the
Mal Won House on Monday night, shortly before twelve
o'clock. Ills Lordship had been Unwell for the last few days.
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Betting men are said to be doing a brisk bnsineen In
the Tichborne case, several book-makers standing to win or
lose enormous Samson this event."

A swooning woman can't be handltd, says an
American philosopher. You may hold an eel, a pickpocket,
a pickle, or a politician . but a womau—nohow. Take •
sample home and try.
Charlock, a troublesome weed hitherto, is said to be
excellent human toed The tops ahould be broken off Just
before they are In blossom, as below the breaking.off point
they will prove tough and stringy.

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Mr. liutler-Johnetone, M.P., who, from impaired
health, wee compelled by his medical advisers to seek a
milder climate. ts crulstng to the klediterraneam Ills
health has been much becented by the voyage.

The Prince of Wales, the Duke of Rlinborgh,
Archbishop Manning, end General schenck, the Minister
from the l'nited States, were In the House of Lords on Mon-
day tight during the debate on Hari Mummies meLlon on the
Washington Treaty...

"A young gentlexcan, aged 24, fa wialitul to aunt
with a wile.—Address, (enclorio.g carte)," etc.—. Prole,
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atonal gentleman (bachelot of good position, desires to
oorreapond with an educated lady with a slew to amid-
mocy the most honouraWn confidence observed.—Address,"
&c.—Advertlastuents 1,. Manchtaer "inane*.

• At a meeting presided over by the Duke of Norfolk
on Tuesday, • report on Catholic education was read, from
which it appeared that the i,m.n Catholic population of
Great Britain it shout a million and • hall, that 138,040
children are at school, and that 92,000.1111 remain to he pro.
sided for.

It is proposed by the Fretrh Minitter of Finance to
Imp.ise now tax,. In }ranee, anicuuting to 403 millions of
francs. Of these 200 millions will be rased by tneresaing
the duty on the raw material of textile fabrics ; minions
by stamps; 9e millions by Intoxicating Delors ; 60 million'
by some end c,,ffee, and the reat by other meant.

It is eatisfariory In eome score to know that the
aeledated steeple chase rider, George Stevens, whcso un-
timely death from being thrown from his horse was recerc,
recorded, bad taken the precaution about three years age
to insure his life against accident by a policy In the Railway
Passengers' Asaurance Company, and that, In consequence,
£lOOO will he payable to his family.
It has been stated that the lime light is td. be dis-
played on the great clock tower at Westednaier during the
sitting, of Parliament. Nature, hownver announces that ttg
light fh qu.tiou win not he Vaelline light, but a much move
brilliant one—the rgagneto-electrlc. Such alight has r.c.w for
some Limo past shone from the Capitol at Wathington, and
was wader the consideration of Lord Jan Hymen sonic few

re. Clarke, the daughter-In-law of Mr. Clarke,
the wealthiest man In this hemisphere, died In conse,euence of
being severely shaken through the hones Ir. her carriage be-
coming unmanageable. It is belleva:: toot her husband will
Inherit scum of nearly three millions eterling, which, Invested
to the colonies, should reallo at lout 'MO per annum."
—Melbourne f,.e,

Yrcm April- let to June 10th the total Fx;,helner
recelpta amounted to £12,444,t6{, an increan of rather more
than £200,0.0 upnn the correspondlr,y period of last year.
The expenditure has been 20. The balance ha the
Bank of England on Saturday hat was and In
that of Ireland, .1 050

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The Daily News' Special Correspondent In Paris gays
that the traces of the late etraggle there are dleappeulng
with astonishing rapidity. The great thorough/arse are now
better watered and swept than those of London ; the paring
stones are nearly all laid down again ; and the street lamps
are being restored. Meanwhlle the prime of the restaurants
have gone up about 25 per cent. since last year, though the
arttcles themselves, it tar from improving, hare deteriorated
In QUALM).

The court•martial for the tcial of the insurgent pri•
souera opened at Marsala...loo Monday morning_
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On Saturday the Princess Ism's.) and the Marquis of
Lorne returned to London from their tour on the Continent.
The Princeee appeared in eacelkut health and write,

To Ilater, farmers are ereatly alarmed st the pros-
pct of au almost total failure of the flat crop, caused chid],
by the hieunlclency of raft.

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Toe kfar.l Mg of 'Amite took his neat in the Route of
Commons ou Slominy night for the lint Wild Alice tits
doge.

A circular has been ineneti by the Italian Govern-
went announcing that the °Metal grander of the capital trona
Florence to R ce will take place on the lit July.

The editor id e. Munich pane; ie shout to be proae•
cut.' for an article cuutalultg insulting remarka upon the
German army.

TheAlit heater police are taking vigorona measures
to suntrees the sale of intosie-atlng 12QUOrti In houses of a dis-
orderly charsder.
Two young gentlemen ran a foot-race on tiunday for
the honour of escorting a belle to ,hurch. The winner found
she had iust gone with another fellow.

Men Witn.ltoman macs are seldom cowards. That
tutu azcoraauco with the old adage. A Rowan know, no
danger.

Whet, ithall wisloin be found?' is the tnelatt•
ch.ty inquiry which arises in the mind when speculetiug
noon the t'uture of France."— Leader in The TIIIII6.

AVm. .1. Brook., a resident of Waehingtoo, aged
thirty three. while in the pre.uee of his athemood, suddenly
drew • pistol and shot higneelf deed.

Mr. Stenhouse, the former editor of the .SoU Late
Telegraph, Is emenged upon a work on Siormoubm. whin Is
likely to peas some leoportanos.
The wide of Greenwich and Its neighbourhood
Sure raised soul) £260 towards the &lieuor of lidarund Pook.
who I. charged with what Is commonly called the =haul
murder.

An attempt in being made in Rochdale to rat up tin
agitation among the factory operatives with the view ol hav-
ing the intlls closed on Saturdays at noon, Instead of at two
o'clock as at present.

The Versailles lovers are exee.lingly angry with
Mr. W.obbunle. because letter,. are said to Liss. beeu retina
addressed by Mu to M. Paschal lirousset My du .
Irlnatd."

A forgemau, named Youle employed at the Cardigan
Wok hrnkl. bo,amo enangled In the machinery on
Saturday, and was whirled round a shaft Every bone of his
body was bra,kno ; death, of aurso, being instantaneous.
Texas paper. tell of a man who, a( tor boinG buried
for live days by the caving in of a wea, was reamed alive, and
ate, drank, smoked, and said he was all right, and a few
hours atter began to sink, ALA died without • struggle.
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Leaves from the Journal of our Life in the High-
landir—has been translated luto Marathl, and Inn 1311 Maned
on tVednesday next, her Majesty's larthday.—Tnnesof Indaa,
May 20.

"They record of John Bishop of Arizona, that he
had killed eleven men, and no one had thought much of it:
but recently, when he stole • bone, he WY mired and hanged
without delay.--Philad,Zphlit Lefiger.
Mr. A. Johnston, one of the members for Smith
Essex, has been Interviewed by smile at his Nonconformist
supporters, in consequence of hts vote against Mr. malt's
motion for the dfsestablishment of the Church The expla-
nations given by the hon. member were not deemed wholly
satisfactory.
A New York correspondent 'tato' that, except
O'Donovan Rona and "General" Bourke, who are stumping
it in the ,talcs, the other released Wenlan convicte are
quietly settling down to mercantile or agricultural pursuits
An order has been received from the NVar.ottiee
directing that the standard height of recruits enlisted for
general service, or any special regiment, shall be Increased
from 5 feet ti niches to fi feet I ,eebee. Nothlog is said with
reference to Royal Artillery drivers, but ill. presumed that
in their case the standard will remain as at present-5 feet
!Bohn and upwards.

A " koevid "from 'Vend, in Persia, brings intellb
genes of some fifty children having been killed and eaten by
the starving Mahomedan population So severe Is the famine
in certain purts of Perala that not oily have the dates and
sugar of caravans been seised and eaten by the starving inha-
bitants of village& throiusli which they paled. but the pack
mules were greedily devoured as well.

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John, why wilt thou do .o?' 'This 1,1101 'said by a
aunatantial quaker merchant to amain% to Johnny. a negro
in hls employ, whom he Maud before r magistrate, and that
not for the grit time, charged with stealing. " Why will
thou do so, thou foolish man? thou always gete caught?"
'Why, masts,* says Johnny, "I don't gat caught hall the

n nJey, June Pine IX. will complete the
twenty-nith year of his Pontificate. Acccrdiort to the tradi-
tions of the Church, no Pope &Inca the days of Mt. Peter has
ever reigned for more than a quarter of • century, and the
Holy Father himself he. always attached immense Import-
ance to the approaching atudveraary.

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The people who dwell in Siberia, ond bear the name
Of man Ted, are reptoly dying out. They torrnerlp
muttered a nuraerour nation, !smolt, for their candle and
coup eating propenettlea, but are now redueed to a am II tribe
017 WU persona. Ills the old atom) —namely, that eaUng
soap and candle/Ile not good toe digestion and the =latest-
anoe of • rine.

The Board of Trade have awarded a gold watch to
Ludwig Weetendorlf, master of the North German brig A ne4
of ttAStock, to acknowledgment of tho humanity and yew
great kindness; he attended tewaedit the crew and pamengere,
02 In e2l, of the schooner A nnie Laurin, of Harbor Grace.
Newfoundland, whom be emceed from their bulking vessel
on October I.q fait, and Lauded Bed 113 y, Labrador, on the
23rd of that mouth.

Lord Echo has given notiee that en connhieration of
the Army Regulation 1101, as amended, ho will move, that
It is Inexpedient to consider the Report until the whole of
the scheme of the Government for the first appototment,
promotion, and retirement of oincers, together with an eeti
mate of its probable or possible cost, and also the plan for
amalgamation of the regular and reserve forces, have been
laid upon tte table.
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Ihe returns of the Legistran•Generel show that the
number of deaths In London from emell-poz has again, although
slightly, Increased. Itie figores for each of the la.t els
weeks respectively have been 2.88, 231, 26y, =4, 229 and 215.
The annual rates of mortality Is the following places per
1,00 of the population were :—PortamouLlt, U', Wolver-
hampton and Nottinahain, 10; Bristol, 19; Norwich and
Birmingham, 21; Dublin, Hull, and Leicester, 22'; London,
Leeds, and Shelthil, 23 ; adJnburgh, 25; Bradford, 26; Man-
coeeter, 20; Liverpool, 31; suuderhund, 32; Glasgow, us ;
Newcastle-on-Tyne, 36; and :ialford, 10.
Among the petitions presented to the Frenoh Alige111•
by on Saiurday several were specially directed against the
anscarte family. One prayed that the authors of the Coup
,110105 should be prowcuted ; another that the judges who
had es,lated In carrying it out should he proceeded against;
a third, that Louis Napoleon should be impeached and tried
a fourth, that the ex-itinperor and his family should be do-
clareltv hare tow ever forfeited tlitir nationality, and that
as inquiry should be made Into the causes which led to the
war with Prussia ; and a fifth, that the name of Louis
Napohou should be struck ~ff the roll of memliere of the
Legion of Benue?. None of the petitions were lutes Into

Last week the aggregate mortality in Lontlrr,, mod
19 other large kerne of the l'ulted Kingdom we at the
rate of 25 deaths annually Ito every thousaint of the
eeti-
ni.te,t population In the niersopolis 2,132 births and 1,437
deaths were registered, the former having exceeded by Di,
and the latter by 02, the average uumln.r. gymotic dfseasee
caused 418 deaths, including ?AG from small-pos, 23 from
no Isles, Si from scarlet fever, e. from diphtheria, 32 Irons
whooping-cough, 30 from different forme of fever ,of whish 4
were certified as typhus, 12 as enteric or typhoid, and 14 as
simple continsed fever'. With respeetto small-pos, the fatal
cases in the north districts were not quite al nmnerous as in
the previous Week. while they showed an Increase hi esaM of
the other groups of dhtricte. The greatest fatality wee
shown In Pancras, Walwortk, and Battersea; in the letter
sub-district, of 28 deaths 13 resulted from small.poa, equal
LO fIU 111110 S rate of 12 per if 00 of the popolaUon,