The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-07-21 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.
An official return shows that in the Province of
Quebec there are 4,400 schools, with 236,000 pupils on
the rolls.
The ship Dharwar, of 1,300 tons, Captain Hutchins,
chartered by Sir Saul Samuel, K.C.M.G., Agent.
General for New South Wales, sailed from Plymouth
for Sydney on the 15th inst., with 413 emigrants.
A great fire occurred last Saturday at Lipto-Szent-
Miklos, Hungary. The number of lives lost was not
ascertained, but eight bodies were extricated from the
ruins, and about twenty persons, including the Prefect
of Police were missing.
Two of the shipbuilding yards at St. Petersburg
have received orders for the construction of two ocean
cruisers and an ironclad frigate. A gunboat, provided
with a pneumatic torpedo gun on the English system,
Is also being built.
Blasting paper is made by a firm in Vienna, consist-
ing of tuasized paper coated with a hot mixture of 17
parts yellow prussiate of potash, 17 of charcoal, 35
refined saltpetre 70 of potassum chlorate, 10 of wheat
starch, and 1,500 of water. After drying it is cut into
strips, which are rolled into cartridges.
At Carrickfergus Assizes Chief Baron Palles was
presented with white, gloves, there being no fprisoners
for trial. Mr. Justice Andrews, in opening the
Antrim Assizes in Belfast on Monday afternoon, con-
gratulated the grand jury on the peaceable state of the
country at large, and especially at Belfast.
A telegram from Charkoff says that on Sunday
morning a fire broke out in a row of shops in that
town, which were destroyed, together with the goods
on the premises. The damage done was considerable.
The adjoining buildings, including the Agrarian Bank,
were not injured.
Senator Cameron, who is Chairman of the Foreign
Relations Committee of the United States, and Senator
Hawley occupied seats among the distinguished
strangers in the House of Commons on Monday.
In the recent matriculation examination at the
University of London, the results of which were made
known on Saturday, Mr. F. Hannan, of Beaumont
College, Old Windsor, stands first on the honour list,
the second and third places being taken by ladies.
Mr. T. Woodlccir, also of Beaumont College, is fourth.
This is the first time that a Roui an Catholic College
has taken the first place.
The Queen has honoured Mr, J. Baillie Hamilton
by accepting from him a small vocalion designed and
mantactured under his direction. The largest vocalion
yet made was played upon in the Grand Chamber at
the Castle, the Princesses Beatrice and Elizabeth of
Hesse being present, and it was heard by Her ]Slajesty
from the opposite side of the quadrangle.
Messrs. Dore, Smith, and Radway sold by public
auction, on Monday, in their sale yard, Swindon,
three pens of fat ewes, out of the wool, which had
been fatted on grass, without corn or cake, at the
following extraordinary prices—viz., 848., 875., and
81s. per head per pen.
The voyage round the world of the Swedish frigate
Vanadis will be shared by the Duke of Gotland, Kin
Oscar's youngest son. The Journey, which will be o
about eighteen months' duration, will chiefly be a
scientific one, several eminent Swedish savants partici-
pating in the same.

The company appointed for the Revision of the
Authorised Version of the Old Testament finished
their 81st session on Friday afternoon in last week, in
the Chapter Library, Westminster. The company
finished their final review of the Pentateuch.
The final tie for the Lawn Tennis Championship,
played on Monday between the brothers W. and E
Renshaw, was witnessed by more than 2,000 spec-
tators; a number which bears ample testimony to the
popularity of the game. As had been anticipated, W.
Renshaw, the elder, beat his brother after a hard-
fought match, and secured the championship title for
the third year in succession and the Cup as his abso•
lute property.
The Great Eastern steamship, after lying idly at
anchor for many years, is at length to be employed
again. A company has been formed to purchase the
vessel and occupy it in the ()nal trade between Queen's
Ferry (Firth of Forth) and the Thames. It is in-
tended to put 20,000 tons of coal on board, in sacks,
at each voyage. The vessel is described as being in
splendid order, having been carefully and expensively
maintained.
At the Wenlock Baths, in London, on Saturday
evening, a man about forty years of age engaged with
some of his fellow-workmen to swim a race, the
distance to be 1,000 yarns, and on his covering about
80 yards he was observed to suddenly throw up his
arms and sink. Re was immediately got out of the
water, and a doctor sent for, who pronounced life to
be extinct, the cause of death being disease of the
heart.

Bulgaria is increasing her army from 12,500 1,-.
29,000 men, and expending two-thirds of the Budget
for military purposes.
On Monday the boiler of a paper-mill at Glensfalls,
New York, buret and wrecked the buildings which
afterwards caught tire and were consumed. 'Twelve
persons were injured, two fatally.
Lord John Manners, after a long absence through
'illness, resumed his duties in the House of Commons
on Tuesday. He was warmly cheered on making his
appearance.
The Admiralty has ordered 1,000 Morris rifle tubes
with 21000,000 cartridges for experimental use in the
Navy.
The Queen has approved the appointment of the
Most Honourable the Marquis of Lansdowne to be
Governor-General of the Dominion of Canada on the
retirement from that office of the Right Hon. the
Marquis of Lorne, G.C.M.G.
Spike Island has ceased to be a convict prison. The
prison has just been emptied of the last squad of
prisoners, who were conveyed away under police escort
to Tralee and Mountjoy prisons. Spike island will
now be changed into a large military station.
In Paris, on Sunday night, a fire broke out in the
stable and carriage yards of a conveyance contractor
on the Quay Valmy. The flames spread to an
adjoining house, but the fire was subsequently got
under without any casualty occurring excepting that
11 horses were burnt to death.
New gas works are about to be constructed in Win:
nepeg, Canada, on a scale for supplying a city 01
100,000 inhabitants.
A very valuable collection of curiosities of ever)'
description has been placed in the Cathedral Librarit
Canterbury, having been presented to the Dean ana
Chapter by Mr. A. Wetherelt, a gentleman who takes
great interest in the Cathedral foundation.
The number of visitors to the International Fisheries
.
Exhibition last Saturday was 20,919, making a total
for last week of 94,175. The total number from the
opening of the Exhibition has been 782,453.
Advices received from the United States state that
considerable shipments of merino sheep have recentl9
been made from California to New South Wales Ana
Victoria. the object being the improvement of the
quality of the flocks in the colonies mentioned.
The Niagara, steamer, one of the New York and
Cuba mail line, has been burned off the coast of
Florida; the passengers were saved.
Princess Beatrice left Windsor on Tuesday evening
for London en route to Aix-les-Bains, whither sho
proceeds for the purpose of taking the waters. Her
Royal Highness, after staying about a month on the
Continent, will rejoin the Queen and ac3ompany her
to Scotland.
As a little boy, named Charles Shew, aged nine
years, of Nightingale-street, Manchester, was playing
on the roof of an empty workshop he fell through the
skylight and was terribly cut by the glans, his head
being almost severed from his body. He was con-
veyed to the Infirmary, but was dead on arrival there.
Addressing his followers at Hanley on SaturdaY
night, General Booth said the Salvation Army tese
still marching on, and in 20 years, if the rate of
progress of the last six years was continued, there
would be 1,250,000 officers and 250,000,000 soldiers.
The Court Circular announces that the Countess of
Kimberley arrived at Windsor Castle on Saturdare
and had an audience of the Queen' when her Majesti
conferred upon her the insignia of the Imperial Order
of the Crown of India.
Miss Arabella Kenealy, second daughter of the late
Dr. Kenealy, has just obtained the license of the Kip(
and Queen's College of Physicians, Ireland, and special
license in midwifery. There were some forty male
candidates, and Miss Kenealy's papers were adjudged
the best.
A surplus remaining over after paying all the
expenses connected with the Irish memorial to Lora,
Wolseley, the committee, it is understood, inter'
devoting it to the purchase of a " souvenir " for Lad)'
Wolseley.
The arrivals at the Metropolitan Cattle Market
during the week ending on Saturday, comprised
2,510 head of fat cattle, against in the corresponding
week of 1882, 3,610; 1881, 3,880; 1880, 3,080; 1879.
4.390; 1878, 4110; 1877, 3,620; 1876, 4,530; 1875,
5,040; and 1874, 5,140 head.
The return of New York foreign trade for the fiscal
year ending Jane 30th is :—lmports, 485,353,013 dole.;
exports, 383,864,176 dole. This amount insludes the
specie movement, which was as follows :—lmportef
12,685,300 dole.; exports, 22,472,511 dole.
The British Government holds 176,602 shares in the
Suez Canal, on which it receives 5 per cent. untillB94.
when the shares will rank for full dividends. Four
millions sterling, or about £22i per share, was the
amount given.
A severe thunderstorm, accompanied by water,
spouts and hail, occurred in Silesia on Sunday, an°
caused serious damage. A paper manufactory I"
Eylau was struck by lightning and burnt down.
Andrew White, formerly the owner of much pre:
party at Chicago, but who became insane, escaped leo
week from the lunatic asylum, and made his way 10
the spot where his family lived, near Joliet, Illinois;
He killed his wife and two children, and then destroleu
his own life.
The supporters of the Sunday Closing movement ie
Ireland are pressing their friends in Parliament. V;
strain every nerve in order to get their Bill reinstate'
in the list of Ministerial measures to be passed UP'
Session.
A Parliamentary paper issued on Saturday contain;
a return of the price paid for Ber Majesty's shiP
Neptune and of the amounts subsequently expended
upon the vessel and her armament. The net cost ,„evl
the ship up to date of completion for sea is stated Ir
be £693,612.
A shocking accident is reported from the village ei
Sotmar, near Brunswick. During a thunderstorm
mother and her four children, to whom she was read'
ing, were killed by a single flash of lightning. TO
other children who were close by were uninjured.
Another process of impregnating wood for its Pre:
servation has been patented in Germany. This O.!,
slats in first treating the wood with a solution of sio"
vitriol, and then with a solution of chloride of calcitlo2,
so that the preservative coating is formed upon teil
wood by the chemical action of both substances el/
one another.
The lives of two children have been lost in Belfsst
Lough. They were amusing themselves at Ballyhotne
Bay, adjacent to Bangor, by digging sand, when the
bank gave way, and buried them. Every effort VOA
made to rescue them, but Alex. Cooke, aged seven
years (grandson of Sir John Preston), 80011 expireds
and another boy, thirteen years of age, son of gr.
Greer, died shortly afterwards.
The sale of the third portion of the Beckford Libra/
was brought to a close last Saturday. The day's 01.1
realised about £920. The total realised by the that'
portion of this library, which occupied twelve d__etys to
dispose of, was, ,el 2 862, whioh, with Z 0.3 pr°,;
duced by the two previous portions, makes the rep"
total for the library £66,708,
On Tuesday, William Jackson, a warder at Portland
Prison, was charged at the Dorset Assizes with cal;
mitting a burglary at the Grove Inn, Portland, 501
stealing a quantity of spirits cigars, tobacco, ae"
money. The prisoner, who had, previous to becoo3s
a warder, served nine years in the army, was acquitts,
on the ground of insanity, and ordered to be detaillo
during her Majesty's pleasure.
There were 2,534 births and 1,736 deaths registered
in London last week, the former having been 62 belot
while the latter were 155 above, the average nurchlre
in the corresponding week of the last ten years. 'lilt
annual rate of mortality from all causes was 22 Pt).
1,000. No fatal case of small-pox was recorded Imt
the metropolis, although the corrected average nurabit
in the corresponding week of the last ten years wee
Lloyd's agent at Bagdad telegraphs under d0July 17, that the Turkish steamer Teliafar has bee
burnt about 100 miles below Bagdad, and it is ribi
ported that every thing has been destroyed, She ,„
on board cargo transhipped from the British steame"
Eustace at Basreh and a large general cargo.
The project for making a canal into the Red 04146
alluded to by Mr. Childers in an answer given in 1,4
House of Commons on Monday night, provides for tuf
making of a port at Acre and flooding the ValleY°.
the Jordan, thus leading into the Red Sea. It hag
fluential supporters in bath Houses.
During last week 20 British and foreign actual 013iPi;
wrecks were reported, making a total for the presses
year 1,035, against 817 at the corresponding period
last year. Eight vessels were British-owned, lflCbo
ing three steamers. Thirty lives were lost.
corresponding week of 1882 was notable for the
of 75 lives by the sinking of the American steae3
S'cioto.
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The shipments of live stook to Liverpool fromds
Uoited States and Canada still continue on a
scale, and those landed during last week were
large, and show an increase on the arrivals of to
former week. The quantity of fresh meat 110(
I,,ad
were also larger than the previous week. As
sheep, there were no arrivals, a circumstance lens'
has not occurred for many weeks past. The te's
consignments were 3,323 cattle, 7,346 quarters of Neal
and 508 carcases of mutton.
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Much excitement was created by the arrival 0- to
Channel Squadron at Cromarty, and on Saturdst,7lo,
ships were boarded by thousands of interested view'
two steamers plying to the ships. On one of tNe„niiii
the Earnhobn, of Aberdeen, an unfortunate see7c-er
occurred. In approaching one of the ships her o.eos
mast was caught and the top carried away. ..,°,,rto•
alarm prevailed among the many passengers.
nately all escaped except one lady, who was re"
seriously injured.
On Monday Mr. Thomas Burt, M.P., addseegeci,,,;
gathering of over 1,200 miners in the Rho riddaVe'hsr.
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Re urged unity of action between the .Northute-15
land and Welsh coal miners on the ground that tr
had common interests to promote, He also adc:joci
them to insist upon the extension of the franchise_„,. 0.
emphasised the necessity of land law reform.--Iros
lotions were passed in tavour of the extension 0: oh
franchise, redistribution of seats, reform of land is
establishment of wages and arbitration boards, ael•
The additions to the Zoological Society's G'aru,
Regent's Park, London, during last week taelooe,a,
l'ennant's squirrel from Ceylon, presented by Mile
Ross • three spotted tinamous from the Argv-ssre
;resented by Mr. E. M. longworthY ;00.
common buzz trds, British, presented by Mr. Ja,f° r,
Cookson; a land rail, British, presented by 4. •
W. Merison ; a jackdaw, British, presented bY it": 0" tea
Baldwin; two cockateels, from Australia, Pre°,,,TetrO
by Mrs. Day; three angulated tortoises gel)h-alre.
tortoise, an areolated tortoaus, a Robben onto-
a Laaland's grourd snake from South Airfei4,„, ;
sented by the Rev. G. H. R. Fisk, 0.51-14.'"d0
margined land tortoise, South European, presenteficse
Lord Arthur Russell, MP,; an Indian baddsifd;
Assam, a rough-billed pelican from Mexico, Purfaren
two red-crested whistling ducks, a variegated sholl,,
five summer duclo,
five Philian pintails, brio
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