The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-11-03 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The Agent-General for South Australia has re-
vived a tel,gram announcing the arrival of the phii.
Alder Grove at Adelaide, All well ; passage seventy•
zoor da)s.

The Liverpool Town Council have decided to extend
,he Walker Art Gallery at a cost of £5,500.

The Earl Derby. Captain Kerr, sailed from Plymouth,
for Maryborough on Saturday eveuing, having ou
board 96 single men, 83 sinele women, and 104 i
families, making a total of 283 i adults, Equal to 328
souls.

Intelligence has been received at Cairo that 150
ggyptian troops hava been surprised and cut down by
insurgent bill tribes in the narrow defile of Singat,
between Snakim and Kassala.

A sharp shock of earthquake wag felt at Bermuda
on the 20th instant, but no damage was done.

On Monday thirty-tbree stacks of grain out of a
total of forty-one were burnt at Oarlinwell Farm, in
the parish of Airlie. The CAIIRO of the conflagration is
unknown. The damage is estimated at 8870, which is
eovered Ly insurance.

At Pesth, on Tuesday evening, a fire broke out at
the circus. The building was couip'etely enveloped
in flames. No losg of lad, however, occurred, and all

liiie-h-n—r-s-e-a were saved.

On Tuesday whilst the Salvation Army at Weston-
super-Mare were celebrating the marriage of two of
their number, their hall was attacked by a large crown
of peopk, who threw various missiles and wrecked the
windows of the building.

Twenty-five British and foreign actual shipwrecks
were reported dining last week, against fifty-two at
the corresponding week of last year, the total for the
pre-:ent year being now 1,538, against 1,184 for the
year 1882.
Another explosion of an infernal machine occurred
on Sunday night at Lyons, near the entrance to the
Café Du Rhone, situated at the corner of Place Belle•
cour. Fortunately no one was injured, but the
criminal who perpetrated the outrage was not ar-
rested. _

A majority of the Canadian cotton mills have re•
solved to reduce the output by one•third. Several
have now stoned completely, and two thousand

operativ,a are idle.
A. large launch belonging to the German frigate
Grosser Eurfilrst, which was wrecked off Dover some
years ago, has been raised and brought into Dover
Harbour.

A serious decline has taken place during the past
year in the lcbster trade of the maritime provinces of
Canada, owing to the partial exhaustion of the supply
and the diminution of the size of the lobster. The
value of the catch of this year is only £137,210, as

against £163,483 in 1879. -
The Norddeutsche Zeitung, commenting on the situa-
tion in Europe, denies that any alliances exist for
aggreasive purposes. The greater part of Europe, it
says, is anxious for peace, and the great military
Powers themselves are friends of peace, and only
draw closer te each other in order to more thoroughly
assure it.

On Monday Isabella Dalrymple, aged 13 years, was
charged at Bootle with causing the death of Grace
Love. The girls were playing together, when they
found a revolver belonging to a lodger. Dalrymple
pointed it at Love's head, and pulled the trigger until
coming to the loaded chamber, whereupon the
charge exploded and the bullet lodged in Love's
brain. The injured girl fell to the ground and asked
for a drink of water, then became unconscious, and
died a few hours afterwards. The prisoner was re•

monde&
A coroner's inquest was held on Saturday at Lough.
borough on the body of Alice Woodhouse, aged two
years, who died from injuries inflicted by her brother,
aged four. The children were at play in the garden,
when the little boy held up the garden rake which
fell on his sinter's head, causing fracture. A verdict
of "Accidental death" was returned,

According to a Berlin telegram, the interesting
trials which have been csrried on for the purpose of
testing a plan for propelling steamboats and street cars
by means of waste steam and soda lye have proved
successful.

A Vienna telegram states that Bishop Prucha ha
committed suicide by hanging himself with a strap.
This unpree-dented event halides a great sensation in
clerical circles, and is attributed to Insanity.
Last week's receipts of cotton at all ITnited States
ports were 253,000 hales; since let September, 1,2190' 0
bales. Week's exports to Great Britain, 44.000 bales
week's exports to the Continent, 78,000 bales. Total
since Ist September, 479,000 bites, Stock at all ports,
724.000 hales.
Mrs. Ramsbotharn was puzzled what book to give
her youngest nephew as a birthday present. Lavinia
suggested "Fairy Tales." "No, my dear, I know,"
said her aunt; "I can't do better than give him a nice
edition of Adsopp's Fsbles."—Punclt.
The trial of the originators and ringleaders of the
Coathridge ?iota between rrotestann and Roman
Catholics, which commenced at Airdrie at ten o'clock
on Monday morning, was not concluded until one
o'clock on Tuesday morning. One of the prisonrrs
was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, and
another to nine months.

Messrs. Mlody and Sankey commented a series of
services on Sunday at Waterford Orating rink, whioh
bad been fitted up at a cost of £i,250 for their aiet:0111.
modation. They held thrte services duriug the day,
each of which was largely attended,
At Is!arida on Satnrday King Alfous Laving ro-
c tv,rvd trow hie recent inai.p.sition, prtenied at a
Cabinet Council, and afterwards was present as the
races. The principal race was won by the English
thoroughbred Yorkshire Lass, belonging to the King.

Before the maOstrates at Burslent on TuFerlAy
morning a youth named John Concannon, hori.e driver
in Brownhill's Colliery, was chariteo by Inspector
Leonard, of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals, with cruelty to a horse. It was hown
that after violently beating ths animal with a heavy
chain the prisoner gouged out one of its eyes with a
pickaxe. He ws.s sentenced to one month's imprison-
ment with hard labour,

A paper steamer has been built for use on Lake
Opted.). This novel vessel is nearly twenty feet long,
and can carry twenty-five persons and three tons of
freight, while the compressed pa ier of which it is
built is so solid that a bullet fired at the side only
four paces away failed to penetrate the material, and
glanced off.
At a meeting of the Greenwich Radical Associa-
tion resolutions were ad -pted in favour of the restora-
tion of Cetewayo to the kingdom of Z duland and a
thorough reversal of our Transvaal policy, so as to
place the Republic in the same position which it occu-
pied previous to the annexation.
A telegram from Alexandria says that the cholera
neither decreases nor increases. From eight to ten
deaths are recorded daily, ciiefly among Europeens.
Disastrous floods have been caused by the overflow
of the River Peneue in Thessaly. One hundred houses
have been destroyed, and there has been some lose of
life. The town of Larissa and the neighbouring
yidag. s are surrounded on all sides by water. Com-
munication has been int.irrupted by the floods, and
the railway between Larissa and Yolo has suffered
considerable damage.
It was reported at a meeting of the Board of the
Metropolitan Hospital Saturday Fund on Saturday
evening, that £7,000 had been deposited at the bank,
as against £6,(4)0 at the corresponding period of last
year, after £l,OOO had been paid in defraying neosesary
expenses. It is expected that the total reoeipts, in-
eluding the street and workshop collections will reach
210,000.
A telegram from Bombay says that the oity of
Muscat is being besieged by the brother of the present
Imam. The British gun vessel Philenael is shelling
the camp of the besiegers. The siege has already
lasted four days. All British subjects have gone on
board the Philomel.
There were 2,724 births and 1,450 deaths registered
in London last week. Allowing for increase of popu-
lation, the births exceeded by 12, while the deaths
were 148, below the average numbers in the correspond-
ing week of the last ten years. The annual rate of
mortality from all cause., which had been 190 and
18 6 in the two preceding weeke, rose last week to
19'1.

The Law Journal understands that on the reassem-
bling of Parliament Sir Henry James will be proposed
by the Prime Minister as Speaker of the House of
Commons upon the resignation of Sir Henry Brand.
Cardinal Bonne° hose, the Archbishop of Ronen
aged 83, has died from the consequences of a fall, not
at first considered serious, on the steps of theiParis
railway station.
At Stockton, on Monday, a crowded mass meeting
of ironworkers from Middlesbrough, Stookton, and
Hartlepool was held to consider a proposed broils for
wages in the North of England iron trade. Uader
the circumstanoes of the late reduction by 7i per
cent., it was unanimously resolved to send in a claim
that Bs. per ton be the minimum rate of wages, and
that the basis of payment be raieed by 10 per cant.
In London, on Monday night, an accident oecurred
at the Blackfriars Station of the London, Chatham,
and Dover Railway, by whiai one man was kill(d and
a second was greatly injured. The men, both guards
of a goods train, wsre engaged in shunting, and were
on tiie main line metals, when the Sheerness train
same on at express rate and ran over them.
The Arnotinan iinp:irts of iron and steel from Great
•Britain for the month of September amounted to
55,144 tons, which is a decrease of 11,000 upon the
corresponding month of last year. For the ull'e
months of this year ending with September the im-
ports have been 540,079 tons, as compared with
9t'i0,905 tons in 18:•.2,
The number ot workmen employed by the Llc4l
Board of Madrid i• 5,2,4, of which 504 belong to
the city police, 653 are employed on public roads,
1,020 in public storks, 121. es tirenion, 19$ in the
slaughter houses, and eitit as coachmen, footmen,
and grooms for the carriages of the judge ar.d tr.her
dignitaries. The annual wages amount to about
20,500,0001. Am
Mr. Aitt•ur Arnold, M.P., speaking on Monday
night at Oldham on the qw-ation of reform, said he
oi.jrcted t., what the Tories callcd an assimilation of
the frauchise in the counties witn that in boroughs.
Trey triu.it be pteparFd for the ahol tint, or the pro-
p, rty qualification altogether. By equabring tre
v,ting wwer they wi•u4l 100,00,
and there was not oriel of those so disfranchised tut
who might oi.itatu a vote in the place in which he re-
sided.

Auother peasant disturbance has occurred near
Valenoo do Ilinho, in Portugal. The women of the
viliage, notwithstanding the recent orders blamed by
the authorities themselves, buried the body ef a
young peasant girl in the church, acting under the
belief that the souls of pemons buried outside a church
are lost.