The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-11-04 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

Marshal Lebceuf will probably be called upon to de-
fend himself before the Commission of Inquiry.

The future of the Mormon wives, about to be rudely
divorced. is the hapoitant polut of the great 31onuou pro-

blem Just

At' Sheffield, a child aged five months has been
nisono by its mother administering an overdose of syrup

0 poppia.

The Print, Imperial is studying in King's College,
Strand, Loudon. Ile is luder Professor Eldon, and in en-
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gaged In studying mechanic.
It is stated that the next number of the Contem-
porary Review will contain au article by Professor Iluxley
comiumtlum ou some portions of Ur. .Ilivart's •• tienesia of

Species."
One telegram from Vienna reports the maim death
(4 Field-Marshal Beneilek from an attack of apoplesy—whilst

another telegrmn contradicted the report

It is now stated that her Majesty will probably
leave Balmoral Castle for the south about the 11th of

November.

The children of the Princess Alice have been suffer-
ing from an attack of whooping cough, at Balmoral
Castle, _

The Liverpool Recorder har sentenced a policeman
named Davies to penal servitude for nee seam, for robbing a

shoeblack of ed.

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It id estimated that the population of Paris is 250,000
less now Mau it was at the cud of 1009. There axe 00,000
empty lodgings in the capital.
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A forgotten parcel of nary yards of black and yellow
Prussian tlag silk having been discovered bi Mout Valerian,

i.b—onii; was made if It.

At Port Glasgow a prisoner tore up all his clothing
In his cell, and when brought before the magistrates was M-
ired in a sack, with apertures cut for his legs and arms.
The Committee of the Ballot Society have adopted a
resolution expressing satisfaction at the tone of Mr. Glad-
stone's speech on the question of secret voting.

." On; effect of the state
,of disorganisation through

which Paris has passed is that there is-at present no rec;.-
nised time there. Every clock, on true Republican prin-
ciples, follows its own rule."—The

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woman who killed her husband in Cincinnati was

recently tried nod acquitted, because the jury believed In
woman's right to shoot," U she believes her husband un-
faithful.

The manchedcr Guardian says that the School
Board of that city have resolved to take proceedings, in a
large number of eases, against parents who keep their chil-
dren away from school without a reasonable excuse.
The Lancd. calls attention to the injurious effects
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upon the eyesight that arise from reading small print in a
railway train, especially when the light is waning or de-
fective. .

Two thousand railway waggons of the Paris and
Lyons Railway are retained by the Germans, as ho refuse to
give them up. The French Government has addressed a com-
plaint on the subject.
A second sale of the ex -imperial carriages, number-
ing in all seventy-two, is advertised to take place on Thurs-
day, the 11th of November, and three following days, in the
tour Visconti of the Louvre.
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The Hamilton Spectator gives a very favourable
account of the a heat crop in Canada, and assures us that
even if the tinted States be unable to supply our wants, we
shall have no difficulty in obtaining all or maid from the
Dominion.

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The twelfth animal exhibition of the National Show
of Sporting and other Dogs takcs place at Birmingham on the
27th, Oath, 20th, and 30th November next, when upwards
of £OO5 will be awarded in prizes. The entries close Ist
November.
At Dudley, on Monday, John :kronen, the engineer
whose negligence resulted in the drawing of live men over
a pulley in one of Lord Dudley's pits on Wednesday last,
causing their deaths, was committed for trial on a charge of
manslaughter.
A stirring debate took Owe at the London School
Board, on Monday, on the subject of paying the fees of
children whose parents are unable to pay for their attend-
ance at denominational schools. This raised several import
ant questions, and the debate was adJounted.
The New York licrald of the 14th instant says :
In the Brooklyn thy Court, yesterday. Mita Roxellena
Homan recovered 15,000 dots. front Alexander Earl, as com-
pensation for his unwarrantable trilling wills her heart,
w Well, as young ladies go now, must have been a very dear
heart nuked."

A young girl at Barcelona, aged eighteen, has just
been murdered under horrible orcunistanees. The body was
found in a fetind spot, tlinost hacked to pieces. Site
appears to have lived on bad terms with her stepmother, her
father hating recently unuried a sf cond time, and the parents
are believed to be tile perpetrabou of the crime.
It is reported from India that hostilities have broken
out in Abyssinia between Wagslinom Gobazat and Prince
Kassa of Tigre, and that the former bad been defeated and

captured. A " Cohmel " Kirkham', of Gordou's force i
Chiva, has since the begitudug of 1,0 engaged iu dfudplll
lug Iliuce Kassa's force.
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The London charities, 83 in number, will Fort]
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receive on addithlllid SIMI motor U d ii. 'Seynomr's
From a personal examination it has Leen found !bat the
property. Is safe at Paris, notwithstanding tho disturbances,
and the servants well, as also the annuitant horses left to be
taken care of by Lord IL Seymour. The London charities
will receive upwards of gsov each.
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Mr. Maguire, M.P., speaking at Dublin on Tuesday
in favour a ome Rule for Ireland, said:--" After twenty
years' experience of parliamentary life he eared nothing for
the declaration of Mr. Gladstone and other Ministers against
it ; for Mine Treasury Bench now sit men nmst Conspicuous
in their denunciations of the measures they afterwards
helped to carry:'
Sport of all kind appears to be getting more and
mire popular in France. The Government has just sold the
right of shooting over the forest of Barbean, in the coping
year, for the sum of 6,900 f., over the forest of Fontainebleau
for 40.000 f., and over the frost of Villefer:my fir a few hun-
dred francs less. These prices sl.w that good shooting com-
mands its price in France as well as in Scotland.
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An English "Steeple Jack" has written to the
Governor of Strasburg, proffering to take down the visa.
Hone French flag that Mill flaunts defiantly from the flag-
staff of the cathedral, defying the prowess of all who have
yet striven to haul it down. He only asks for his travelling
expenses to be paid, and will do the rest for the honour of the
thing. He detests the French, he says, because they cat
frogs.
A Parisian, accuaed of being drunk and d6orderly
in the streets, pleaded by way of showing his respectability,
that when he was married, during the siege, on January 21st,
31. Emmanuel Arago attended his wedding, and that 31.
Jules Simon, who was invited, honoured him With a cour-
teous excuse. Notwithstanding the, certificates that the
prisoner belonged to Republican high ate, lie was sentenecd
to fifteen days' imprisonment.
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The women of Utah have addressed a petition to
President Grant, requesting the interference of the Govern-
ment of the tinted States to prevent a el quo f Fob-rat
officers from destroying thehonest, industrious, and happy
community." The petitioners express their approbation of
polygamy.
The German Correopondeal says that a farmer lately
diet in East Prussia who is said to have attained his 1301 h
year. Down to the time °t his death he was in the enjoyment
of the best health, lie wont feet 1 inch in height, and served
as a body guard under Frederick the Great. Hiss., who lives
on his father's property, is 109 years old, lie takes long
walks every day, can read without spectacles, and is an
excellent companion.
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On numbly Mr. Alderman I 1. Id I preshled
over a Conference of representatives from the London
vestries, to consider the manner of raising local and im-
perial taxation. It appeared to be admitted that the in-
fluence of combination was required, in order that the
existing inequalities might lie leniadisd, and a r, solution was
adopted, recomnionling the vestries to co-operate with the
Metropolitan Poor Rate League.
M. Thiers's Government has declined to make fur-
ther modifications in its propo als with regard to the Treaty
of C minima, with England. As these now stand, railway•
Iron and coal will be admitted at the present rate of duty,
while cotton fabrics and raw cotton, flits, twist, spirits, beer,
and a number of other articles will be subjected to an addi-
tional impost of 20 per cent.
The house of a small farmer named /irtioinnese,
living in the parish of Bucks, county Maya, was forcibly
broken into last week by eight or nine nien anned with
revolvers and disguised. They exacted from him an oath to
give up sonic of Ids land to some person they thought more
deserving of it, on pain of being shot on their next visit.
31 'Guinness has sworn an information, and it is said one of
the partiss has been identified.
Tuesday night's Loi•don Crrtilf contains the follow-
ing official announcements ; —The elevation of Sir Frederick
Rogers to the peerage, under the title of Baron Blachford,
of VVisilome, Devon ; Mr. William Law, Assirtant to the
Secretaries to the Board of Trcamry, and Auditor of the
Civil List, and Mr. John Henry Parker, to be. Companions of
the Bath ; and the appointment of the Rev. John Cale
Miller, 0,11, to a canonry in Worcester Cathedral.
The obituary of The Tbilea of Thurbday contained
some remarkable illustrations of prolonged existence in use
gentlemen and four ladies, whose united ages amounted to
719 years, giving an average of 33 years mid upwards of two
months to each. The ohileot in the list was a gentleman who
had reached the great age of 96 the youngest of the sante
aex was 011 years of age. Of the ladies the oldest WaS $2, and
the youngest 50 years of age.
A shocking case of parricide occuired on Sunday at
Crony, 111 Jerßey, under the following circumstances .—A
man named Hilaire 'tonneau was partaking of the midday
meal with his wife and his stepchildren, a girl and a boy,
the latter aged 15 years, 'when an angry altercation took
place between the stepfather and the lad, in which the latter
received a box on the ear. Getting violently excited, the
lad rushed at his stepfather with the knife he was using at
his dinner, WM plunged it deep into his abdomen. Voimeau
fell to the floor mortally wounded, death resulting in a few
minutes. The hint has been wrested.
" The German floveniment, in resolving to lock up
six millions sterling in a military chest, put forth as a reason
that, if they were suddenly to have to raise funds On an an-
nouticement of war, it would he at a heavy sacrifice. The
sacrifice, under the most alarming circumstances, could
scarcely exceed In per cent. on the price of their stock, and
this npon six millions would be £900,000. The loss of interest
by the lock up would iu three years ailment to more than
that sum. The question therefore arises, Imes the German
Government calculate upon the certainty of anew war before
that period I—Mosey Article in The Times.
; Two children were burnt to death at Killeton, a mile
and a half below the village of Stradlually, county M'aterfiirti,
on Sunday. After putting her children to bed the owner of
the house went to a neighbouring farmhouse. The children
awoke in her abrence, mot the boy begun to amuse his sister
by striking matches. The bed took fire, the flames spread to
, the house, and soon the whole building was in flames, is ith-
out any chauce-of its being saved. An attempt to rescue the
' children was made too late, their bodies were found reduced
, to a cinder.

On Sunday, Dr. Goss, Roman Catholic Bishop of
Liverpool, in the course of his sermon strongly blamed the
conduct of the Nonconformists on the School Board. He
contended that as aenominational schools had other sources
than rates, the religious instruction was supplied gratis, and
afforded no valid objection to the payment of fees Noncon-
formists. if consistent, should object to the bible, which in-
troduced a Protestant element Catholics would be justified
in resisting, even to the point of rebellion, any such en-
croachments on the rights ,d conscience.
At Berlin, on Monday morning' the Emperor of
Germany after unveiling din memorial to the Rides of the
Guard who fell during the French campaign, addressed the
survivors of the battalion. Having thanked them for their
distinguished services, he paid If Hie. sword should
again be forced in our hand by our enemies—ishieli God
forbid !—.let us he found ready. It is in time of peace that
,x,eas,,Are,nate ournelves for tin, defence of our country.
Remember the words of your chaplain, urging you 6-,
siren then and improve your powers in time of peace. May
those who succeed you in the ranks prove as true and valiant
as you have proved yourself to be."
Last week the aggregate mortality in London and 19
other large towns ofthe United Kingdom want the rate of
23 deaths annually to every 1,000 persons living. In the
Metropolis 2,202 births and I,ms dentin were registered, the
former having been 76, and the latter 89, below the average.
Sixty-one persons died from small-pen, 86 from measles, 3:
from starlet fever, 6 from diphtheria, 40 from whooping
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cough, 37 from different formsof fever, and 32 from diarrlitea.
The 4,3 deaths referred to dinnaes 4 the respiratory organs
and phthsis, showed a further increase upon those in recent
weeks, and exceeded by 20 the corrected average munber in
the corresponding weok of the last ten years. The mean
temperature at Greenwich was 46.9, or one degree below the

average.
The Philadephin Leirser states that Indian women,
in some tribes, are no longer treated as bearers of burdens
only and made articles of merchandise, worth so much to
their parents from the husband who bought them. As an
evidence of the advance of civilization among the western
Indiana, it is reporti U that on many of the reservation the
courting of wives is carried on in the same way as among
the whites: the marriage ceremony is performed before a
missionary or an Indian agent, and the wedding certificate
is taken, framed and preserved carefully. Only one wife is
I allowed, and no price is demanded by the parents or given
1 by the husband.

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