The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-11-27 00:00:00

The well-known painter of German historical sub-
jects, Overbeck, lately died at Rome, aged 80 yearc
A white partridge was recently shot at Muttonbole,
Kinloas ; there were two others in the covey.
The Pall Mal! Gazett thinks that C ilcraft, having
become old and feeble, should be superannuated.
A few nights pact a party, numbering, it is stated,
over one hundred persona, visited the tenants on the estate of
Major Blackan, In the county of Longtord, and swore them
not to pay any rent at present, or it they did so the come-
quences would be fatal to them.
A young wife of seventeen, in Chicago, has got a
divorce. she married a fellow who said he had 20,000 dots.
when he hadn't a cent ! Besides that, he pinched her.
A newnusper ptihtisher at Lafayette, Indiana, is
responsible -for the following Married, on Wednesday
last, after a vast amount of trials and tribulations, by Squire
Duffield, Colonel Robert M. Foster and Mrs. Sarah thighea,
all of this plaze."
Tom Thumb found a beauty in California smaller
than his wife, and fell in love with her ; but Mrs. MIMI,
SOW) broke in upon his dream and brought him back t !dread

It has been computed that if all the people who
into the city of London in one day were placed in
rank they would reach upwards of 600 miles.
The Duke of Buckingham haying lately hero de•
dared the inheritor of the Scottish barony of Endo.. is
now, like Lord Verdant and the Duke of Abercorn, a peer of
each if the three kingdoms, iiis dukedom is Eugliah, and
he Is Earl Nugent in the peerage of Ireland.
A conference of landlords and tenants in the county
Longford took place on Tuesday, when the various bearings
of the land question were considered. Amongst the reauln.
Mons passed was one strongty condemning the evil of n-
senteeism From Dundalk we learn that several lea ling
auctioneerl in the county Meath lutve received tilled
threatening them with death if they odor it sale the groin
land of certain landlords.—l Happy Ireland j
The Queen has announced an intention of sittirg to
Mr. Lewis Dickinson for a Velure I wing a replier it the
enamel portrait presented t , the late Mr. George Peale .cly:
and, when complete, list Majesty has sip. Died her I badute
that it should be made public is the form of an engrat ii 1.
One of the popular sights on the great l',i r.imid is
the signature of the Prince of Wales, "..Edward, 1662 9."
On Saturday afternoon, in Kirkland woodyard,
Dundee. • travelling crane gave way while lifting a log of two
tons. One nian wss killed ant another injured. ii,, the
Milne day, at Aberdeen,a travelling crane, employed at the
harbour, gave way, while being tested with seventteu tuns
of iron. Five men were injured--one dangerously, amt
anidher had a fractured skull. Both accidents took place
about the seine time in the afternoon.
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reality.
The American blind preacher and lecturer, the Rev.
W. 11. Milburn' also recently visited Europe with the un-
attained object of having I,ls eleht restored, has been lectur-
ing since his return to the United States.on " What a blind
man saw iii Paris."
La France at an awkward moment republishes from
La Lanterne the following mot, signet " Rochefort : "- -.• I
have observed that a man who wadies to be a Deputy is
capable of anything."
A feeling of general regret was experienced in Glas-
gow last Friday, ellen it became Kase u that Dr. W. Scott
Aitken, at. B.C. NI., hid died in the 'Minns re on the erevious
night. The deceased hid just completed a six months attend.
mice as visiting three's° at the Intl :teary when he was seized
wlih ti elms fever, to watch he fell a victim alter a tort-
' -hts illness.
The Eastern Budget says that the preliminary ex-
amination of the nuns of the Carmelite convent at Cracow
has now been concluded, but no deesion has yet been
arrived at by the authorities as to what further proceedings
are to he taken iu the matter. The local court has recom-
mended that the nuns ehould be released, on the ground
that as Kaiser. Übyrk was insane, they had not committed
any illegal act in keeping lice in confinement ; the Govern
nicht prosecutes., on the oilier hand, proposes that the ultra
should be brought to public trial, in order that the link
may be thoroughly Investigated Meanwhile Berbera Cloak
has been placed in a lunatic asylum.
Writers on polygamy should look to Natal, where
the authorities are troubled by the polygamy question. The
els' Kafirs, having many cows, buy up all the selves, leaving
the young men without wives, and thereby causing much
discontent. The Natal legislature has therefore limited the
price of a wife to twenty caws, established a regiatry, and
fixed a inatriage fee. The question is, whether the old and
rich men will not buy up mole wives than ever.
Theßishop of Lincoln has sent in his formal appli-
cation to the government for the appointment of a suffragan
bishop, and it is unsterile." that either the Archdeacon ot
Nottingham Mr. Mackenzie) or Mr. Morse, the vicar of St.
Mary's in that town, will ie selected for the appointment.
It is at least 200 years since a bishop of this Maas has been
appointed in England.
Mr. Gladstone, the Premier, has purchased the As-
ton estate, In the parish of llawarden, which comprise*
Aston Hall and Aston Lodge, in all about 923 acres: also
three collieries, the whole producing a rental of about £2.696
ner annum. The property formerly belonged to Admiral
Duudas.
It seems probable that the editor of the Chicago Tri-
Mose. will take the first place limner duelling editors. M.
Paul its Canaan:lc pales Isis ineffeetuel fire by the side of
such a hero. The American editor thole it necessary to place
the following 'Ululation at the head of his news :—'"The
editor of this paper, in consequence of the number of ana-
logous °menet:milts previously contracted, will find himself
compelled till Easter, or Trinity, to ref mine challenges from
his honourable adversaries, political or otherwise."
Last week receitt was acknowledged of £l,OOO from
"N. P. T." for Mrs. Gladstou's Convalescent Home, and
£l,OOO from " It W. T." for the British Orphan Asylum.
Within the last few days Mr. Spurgeon has also received two
doriations, one of £5OO and one of £l,OOO, in aid of the funds
of the Stockyvell orphaeage, into which orphan boys are re- :
ceived (without the espouse and auiety of going through a
contested election) and boarded, clothed, and educated
gratis.
A young lady, while going to her wedding in Ron-
dont on Sunday, wait thrown from the eari iage and broke
her leg. It WAS proposed to take her to a physician and I
have the limb set, but else refused, saying she was going to
be married first. And, as usual, she had her way—Nile
York Timex, Oct 29.
Advices from Buenos Apes mention that the samples
forwarded for competition, for the premium of £BOO offered •
by the Argentine GOVOrlllll¢lllt, for the best method of pre-
serving meat in a fresh condition, were opened on the let of
October in presence of the jury. " The smell," it is stated,
" was in most cases very offensive, but of the thiriy-fire
san-ques there were half a low, good, and one in particular,
sent from Glasgow, is likely to take the prize." The jury,
however, had not yet decided.
The venerable Binhop of Cashel has done an act of
thoughtful kindness to the curates of his diocese which will !
endear ho name to the poorer clergy of the Irish Church. I
Ile had made arrangementa for giving them each, by his will,
a token of remembraue, but, in the altered circumstances •
of Ilse Church, he thought it better—and the curatea will hot I
question the wisdom of the more mature decision—ti hand '
the gift over to them at ouce. Ile has accordingly directed
the amount to be paid over. It is varied in proportion to the
claims of the respective recipients, some receiving £5O,
others £75.
"Next year will witness a celebration of some inte-
rest to the commercial world, as it is the two hundredth
anniversary of the estalslishreent of the bank of Mears.
ustner and Co. at Leipsic. The house was founded in 1670,
and has ever since remained in the hands of the family, an
event almost unprecedented in the hlatory of modern bank-
ing."—Nort/s German Correepandent.
It instated that three British men-of-war have passed
through the Suez Canal from the Mediterranean to the Red
Sea, viz. :—H.M.C. Pxyche, Newport, alai Rapid.
Mr. Peabody Russell, the eldest male representative ,
of the late Mr. George Peabody's family, has arrived in Eng-
land, to take charge of the remains of thelate philanthropist.
The preparations for the reception of the body on board the
Monarch are nearly complete, and this vessel, which is the ,
finest turret able in the navy, will sail from Spithead on
Saturday morning for Portland, Maine.
Father Ilyminthe has written to M. Emile de I
Girardin, of the Paris .Libertl, upon the subject of the letter
he recent'', addrestei to an American clergyman, who is
about to publish a translation of his sermons. Father Hya-
cinthe says thet under existing clicuinstences be is specially
&Deems that the letter should he made known in Europe.
"1 hope," he adds, "that the cause of liberty may triumph
and fructify in Europe as it does in thie notate country. It
Is, with the triumph and fecundity of Christianity, the only
safety of the present, the only hope of the future.'
Two cases of sudden death occurred at Wiadsor
last Saturday. In the morning, Miss Jane Ilessey, of
Adelaide-square, suddenly fell down dead, opposite the
" Round Tower" Inn, Vietoriastreet, and 'in the afternoon,
William Wheelhouse, a private in the 3rd Battalion Grenadier
Guards, while cleaning some windows at the infantry bar-
racks, also dropped dead.
Rear- Admiral Charles Stewart, Senior Flag Officer
of the Vetted States Navy, died at his residence, Borden-
town, New Jersey, November 6, aged ninety-two. Admiral
Stewart was one of the foremost men of the early days of the
American navy, and gained great celebrity during the war of
1812-1 e between England and America. lie commanded the
frigate Constitution hi her contest with and victory over the
GuerrWre, and Was familiarly known as " Old-lronsides."
Ile was a native of Philadelphia, and was buried there with
the honours of a public funeral.
A meeting was held in Leeds on Tuesday for the
purpose of making arrangements for the Conference of the
National Education Union, to be held there on the Bth of
next month. The Rev. Canon Woodford presided, and re-
viewing the scheme of the Education Union, expressed his
general approval of it. The Rev. J. 11. I'. Kendal proposed,
the Rey. hi. Temple seconded, and the Rev. Canon Browne
(Rumen Catholic) and others supported, a resolution ex-
pressing an opinion that the scheme of the union ought to
form the basis of future legislation.
The last Brazilian papers give an account of the pro-
gress of an American settlemeut founded about three years
back in the province of San Paulo, alter the conclusion of
the American civil war, by settlers from the Southern States,
and describes their condition to be very prosperous. The
region they have occupied is one of the most fertile in
Brazil, and lies 011 the route of the proposed estension of
the San Paulo Railway from Juudialay to Carnpinas.
It is reported from Compiegne that the Prinoe
Imperial ha' smoked his first ciisr, and that his papa gave
it to him. ! If he is like other buys, his first was in
the 'table or ups chimney.]
From the English tourists the donkey boys of Cairo
pick up any names they hear frequently, and use result is
that dankey. are met with bearing the name. of *meal
English and American poets sad politicians !
The Florence Nazione says it is rumoured that
Victor Emmanuel has received a letter from the Pope con-
gratulating him upon hie recovery. In the Ultramontaine
paper, the Unita Cattolica, It is stated that during the
Rug's illness the eeclesiestical authorities did their duty,
sad that the august patient acted as became a Catholic
sovereign. "We will say Bo more," It adds, "for seerettan
regis abscondere Leman eat, lint the time will come when
history will reveal GOd'd work.'
The Chamber a Commerce of Marseilles has pub-
lished the results of two deliberations on the subject of the
International treaties. In these documents the Chamber
says it remains colivinced that free trade is a I ertlle principle
of commerce, amid that the uneasines which has prevailed
lately is connected with general causes, entirely independent
of the tariffs. "But it was indispensable,' it adds, " that
our manufacturers should he placed in a position to battle
with competiticit." It concludes by declaring that a parlia-
mentary iliquiry is necessary to elucidate these questions.
The Free Society ibr the Defence of Commerce also publishes
a programme in favour of free trade, adding, however, that
certain measures were too hastily adopted, and that liberty
abroad most have, as a corollary, liberty at home.
The Post Office department of the United States`
Governiemit keeps' register of the time occupied in the
transmission of the mails between San Francisco and the
chief eastern cities. The average time between New York
and San Francisco is 7 dais 2 hours 23 minutes but fre-
quent trips have been made in less than 6 days and 16 hours.
11 15 intended to reduce the schedule time, so as to bring it
down by half a day on the average.
Murderous outrages are reported in the Irish papers
at Borriseleigh mid Cattlener. In one case a blacksmith re
ceived a mortal blow from a stone, and his assailant has
escaped. The occurrences, however, had nothing to do with
land.
Nearly 200 persons were apprehended in Liverpool
on Saturday and Sunday for drunken and disorderly con-
duct. Of these only eighty-three had money, and these
wealth ranged from 2d. to £3. Amongst the culprits were
several mere children One, a girl of fourteen, stated that
she and two other girls had been drinking at a beerhouse
during the greater part of Sunday,
The famous Southern spy, Belle Boyd, has become
insane and has bees sent to the California State Lunatic
Jayluns.
A CllTiolls method of celebrating the accouehement of
the Princess Margaret was adopted by the people of Naples.
Everything pawned for a lees sum than ten francs was re-
deemed said presented to the original sands. The Jerald*
Prince has the City of Naples for a eodfather ! The mayor
and municipal council attended at the christening, and ac-
cepted the responsibilities on behalf of the city.
As the Staifordaliire puddlers, whose wages have
been advanced, off ered to make no improvement in the
poeition of their under hands, on Monday the latter struck
throughout Earl Granville's extensive works in the neigh-
hourhood of Ilanley, and compelled the peddlers to leave the
forges. There was much stonethrowitg, and one man was Rather less animation has prevailed in the hop market,
seriously hurt. Nevertheless, a firm tone has continued, anti prices nave been
It is stet -d that the late Earl of Delby has left be- well maintained. Foreign parcels have arrived freely
hind him a for' une of £19,000 a year. When his lordshlP The prices are as follow arid East Kente, £7 Oa to
succeeded to his estates they were said te be worth £60,000 £l2 125 • Weald of Keats, £5 Bs. to £7 Ste.' Sussex, 1,5 10s.
a )ear; but the great increase is attributed to the wondeiful to £7Oa ; Bavarians, £7 to Ell Os. ; Breach, RA to Al
extension of factories in Lancashire, and the consequent Americans, £5 10s. to £7; Yearlings, E 2 toe. to £5
enormous Increase of building.. It said that miles in
attendance
batidtdhienvii.blic
asainimesatedof cfoolronitMostwdoolez•
extent have been covered with houses built on land much of
thinuees WOOL.
which was formerly barren and nearly unproductive.
°aP en
and is'igoza.eicttv tn laf a's
perint os
o 01171.,:tpalnalesai''
The American newspapers have been sadly mystified tons,mt
.tn Sheed, it
lb
by the Landon telegraphists MiZilIR up the Suez Canal ith
well
the Hellion Viaduct, The New York journals of the 11th
Inst., received on Tuesday, all publish the following enig- n r
with
matical despatch The correspondent of the Daily News, last sales. Vlnglish wool has been firm in value, with
writing from Suez, regrets that the opeuing of the canal had a fair inquiry. current prices of English wool :-
not been delayed a few months. Ile fears that the passage to Fleeces: Southdown hoggets, Is. Id. to Is. list; halfehred
larger shipl will not be free f rum risk. Ile states that the ado, la ed, to lc fiel. Kent tieece*, la. 31. toll Sed.
Southdown ewes and wethers, la. Id. to ls. led. Leicester
granite pillars of the viaduct are badly cracked, but thinks ditto, le. 20. to le. 30. Sorts : 111. toSed,
the injuries not sufficient to prevent trellis." combing. lid. to 10. bd. per lb.
'The census in France is taken every five years, and
preparations have already been made for taking the census POTATOES. •
of 1871. The population of France in 1821 was 30,461,575; These markets are well supplied with potatoes. BUIdIIGNS
1031. 32 569,2'3 ; 1841 14,339,178; ISSI. 35,753,170; 1561, to a moderate extent has been concluded at our quotation..
37,301,225; ism 35,04193.e14. The rate of increase of mule- English Shasta, ties. to het; Regents 705. to 90a; Rocks, Gm
Wen In France is slower than In almost any other country. to 755 ; French, 805. to 705. per ton,
Tbe British Government will have to obtain the necessary TALLOW.
powers next Session for tiddler the Lemma iu le7l throhout I
the United Kingdom. The day for taking ugcensu
the s will The market has been inactive. Y.C., en spot, Gs. R.pe'
be the Out Sunday in ApriL cwt. Tows tallow. Ow. $4. watt wok:

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A singular accident happened to Lord Leoonfield's
hounds, on Friday. The meet was at /simmering, near
Arundel, Runt a find NM made in the Duke of Norfolk's
c vers. The fox made way to Burphain Chalk Pits, where it
either took to earth or jumped over. Eight couple of the
leading hounds prt cipitated themselves in the pit, and all
were snore or less mangicil. Sr rerhms were the injuries
014 they lia 1 to be conveyed home ix carts. The hunt was
suspended.
The great double scull match between the Thames
and Tyne oarsmen was towed at Newcastle on Saturday.
Kelley and Sadler represented the Thames, and Renferth
and Taylor the Tine. roe distance was nearly four notes,
and great interest was excited. The contest was severe, hut
terminated in favour of the Londoners.
The Court of Queen's blench has just decided that
where a public footpath runs across arable laud, the occupier
or owner thereof has a right ton plough it up.
Figaro (the French Pooch) which has been very hard
upon the successful candidate for the first circumscription,
contains the following squib on the Imperative mandate:—
" An elector said to at, Rochefort, 'I ani ready to vote tor
you on one condition,' 'Which " That you will promise
to find the body of Kinck pens.'"
The vicar of life, near Exeter, Rev. J. Walters, ad-
vertises for a curate, "one who is as earnest Churchnieit,
Evangelical, and of broad and Liberal views, and who will
be dutiful and loyal to the bishop of the diecese."
Some weeks ago the body of a woman was found in
the canal at Sheffield. In succession it was identified by
several persons as that of a relative. At length oms person
was so positive that it was nor sister that the body was
buried in tb‘t, name. The sister is now found to be living!
Joshua Cannock, of Ossipee, New Hampshire, is,
"according to the best information," 106 years old, and lisa
just left off the use of tobacco, because "its effects are ins
Willis, and it tends to shorten lile."—Never too late to
mend
The Queen attended divine service On Sunday in the
private chapel at Windsor. The Rev, Charles Kingsley
preached the sermon. Prince and Prince's Christian, the
Duchess of Roxburghe, the Countess; WV Ye, the French
Aintesssfoler, the Marmite and Marchioness sit Ailesbury, Earl
Granville, Mr. Bright, and Baron 1.88180 dined with the queen
and the King of the Belgians on Saturday evening.
Sir George Colthurst met fifty tenants of his Bally.
Tourney estate on Friday, in reference to the charges ii,siust
him of raising the rents on that property. Be spute at
length, stating that be had laid out eight thousand pounds
on the estate, and that the increaee was inconsiderable com-
pared with the extent of the improvements he had effected.
lie also showed that the rents were only raised to the
original standard, and replied satisfactorily to all the
charges.
The vineyard of Clos-Vongeot, wh'ch was purchased
a few days back for 1,631,000 f. by the hisequie tie Is Garde.
has since been resold by the new proprietorto Baron f henard
for 1,800,0001.
There wan a very high rate of mortality in London
last week. It was 31 per 1,000, while the rate in 13 other
large townn of the hatted Kingdom was 30. The births
registered in the metropolis were 2,155, and the deaths
1,659. The latter exceeded by 293 the estimated number,
and were 170 higher than those of the previous week.
Scarlet fever was not quite so fatal 84 in the preceding seven
days, the greatest mortality having been almond the aged.
A man named Molesky, foreman at a composite
candle manufactory at Tillernout, Lear l'aris, suet his death
on Saturday in a horrible manner. lie had got on is ledge
level with the top of a large copper of stuff in a state or
ebullition to take up a sample of it with a ladle, when his
foot slipped in some of the fatty matter which had been
spilt on the place where he was standing, and he rolled into
the boiling liquid. He was got out with some difficulty, but
expired in horrible suffering a few minutes afterwards.
Colonel Greville-Nugent, on being raised to the
peerage, will take the title of Baron lireville. The Right
lion. J. Fitzpatrick will he Baron Gowran ; Lord Edward
Howard, Baron [toward of Glossop; Mr. Glyn, Baron Wol-
verton ; Mr. Robartes, Baron Roberts:rt.—Pali Alan Uazette.
The Bishop of Ripon, presiding at a meeting of the
Bradford ('lurch Institution on Monday night, said he
earnestly hoped whatever might be the course of legislation
with respect to education, that no attempt would be made
—that ro attempt should succeed—to divorce religion from
education, lie trusted that the voice of this country would
be prosiouteed so clearly and unmistakably upon this point
that those who occupied the high places in the Legislature
would see that if they were to legislate according to the will
of the eountry they must so shape their measures of edu-
cation as to secure that religion and education went hand in

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A dreadful accident has occurred in the coalpit of
Bully Grenay, France belonging to the Company of
Bethune. A steam engine used for hoisting the mineral et-
tracted eet fire by some accident to some woodwork below,
and in a short time flames burst out. !Sews of the occur-
reotntcheewertaaitloileme
establishment,
de Ihetoolt.dle.
rDedelatil.erorritlifiree, toilette letgplniteetor
be closed. The smoke not finding an issue mu forced back
on the works, and out of 05 men below 1...) were suffocated.
The increase of out-door poor in the metropolis has
become so alarming that the Poor-law Board have thought
It &dilatable to iasu an important min ute with respect to the
assistance given by charitable organisations. Its object is
to obtain a cordial understanding between the guardians Mid
the charities, so that the benevolence of the latter may not
clash with that relief which the Poor Law renders legal.
On Saturday, at Mr. Ives's mill, Yeadon, as some
machinery was being blocked up in the third story, a young
man named lieldhouee had hold of the rope. Ile was pulling
it, and accidentally stepped back into the harrel wheels, and
was literally torn to pieces, his head and legs being severed
from his body.
On Monday the Prince of Wales presided at a special
meeting of the governors of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, con-
vened in order to give Mr White, the treasurer, an oppor-
tunity of replying to certain charges made against the insti-
tution. The result was pronounced by his Royal Highness to
be highly satisfactory, and a very cordial vote of thanks
was passed Sr the remarkably able manner in which the
Prince performed the duties of Chairman.
On Friday morning, Dr. George Stokoe was found
dead in the bed-room of his house, Chapter-row, South
Shields. He was found kneeling by the bedside, his hands
clasped, and his face lying on the clothes. He was 44 years
of age. lie had been suffering from bronchitis, and the
cause of death is supposed to be congestion of the brains
' -ought on by convulsions. lie leaves a widow and a child
..s 12 years of age.
On Sunday night five armed men attacked a lodge
at Hop Island, in the county of Cork belonging to Mr.
Edwards, wino is not at present residing there. The lodge'
keeper refusing admission, they threatened to burn the
house about him, and compelled him to admit them. Two
guns were taken away.
Tile Rev. C. H. Spurgeon is rapidly recovering from
the attack of small-pox. It is expected that the rev. gentle-
man will shortly be able to attend to his religious duties.
If one ceuld implicitly trust the Official Journal )!
the French Empire, it would be impossible to doubt the
success of the Suez Canal. That paper. In Its issue of Sunday
morning, declares that the peat undertaking has been ac-
complished, and adds that the Government of toe Emperor
cannot but look with satisfaction upon the success of an en
terprtee which it has never eeased to encourage. A work
like this the °Metal paper continues), auccesatully ammo-
plished in the face of so many obetacles, does honour to the
energetic lniative of the French mind, and is a testimony to
the progress of modern science.

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