The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-04-08 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

DRITISII AND FOREIGN.

A Glasgow firm have just designed a new pattern
In triowerolgs, aud have named it—the Louise,"

The Princess Royal it is said, will shortly come to
England on a vlatt to thu Queen.
off ttlevryyoensttehneslzelektfe.oLs.le has been discovered
A ycitug lady of Lian C. linty, Kentucky, ban
advertised for "se..ltd proposals to her hand and heart"
It Is not stated whether she will take the lowsst "lender.
The Princ.,s3 Louise and the .111arquis of Lorne left
Windsor Castle on Monday morning on their bridal tour to
the Continent.
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The American pmeion for abbreviation hae reduced
thee Aloqutal title of the members of the High Joint Com-
mission to High-Jointers.
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I t has been intimated to a well known artiat that it
is contrary to rules that he should use the lobby of the House
of Commons for the purpose of sketching members.

The " programme" at a recent ball in New York
city wao printed coon a calico at ron, edgcti with lace 0?
course every lady was preseuted with cue.

As an evidence of the enterprise of the London
morning papers In furnishing news from Pane, it Is stated
that no fewer than four special steamboats croFsed the
Channel with newspaper parcels ou one afternoon last week.
The Zokuvfi, the only Republican paper of Berlin,
has been discontinued for want of subscriber.. It has existed
for tour year., and, as the editor avows In his parting addre,e,
never paid its expenses.
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The Ftgaro reqpeured for one day, but on that d,y the
Getithis asp that BO oleo took possession Famish of the !thee,
from which they reared after obtaining a procaine that, tho
julrnal ehould not again appear. None of the editorial
at,if were found. All copies which could In found were
selnd.

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A telegram lum Bombay Bays that the news•of the
Urdveretty bunt rale took four minutes only to reach Bombay
hy OA Submarine Cable, and thirty minutes by the ova rland
Russian route.

No accurate Information respecting the number of killed
and wounded appears to have beau pulk shed In Paris
during swlday. The So, stated that as many as 1,500
National Guards bad fallen.

A correspondent says that the Germans in France
did not leave any private house they entered—and they en.
tared thousands—without miming off the gilt clock which
invariably decorates a Frenctircan's mantelpiece.
Thero is every prospect of the I'&atraaster-tleneral
adopting a simple and uniform charge for post office orders.
Orders for £.3 would then cost threepence. for £4 fourpence,
and so on progressively.
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In London, last Saturday morning, a laughable oon-
nston war caused In •' paper.land ' by a telegram published
at eleven o'clock. Two of the leading papers gave Oxford
the winner, while two others gave Cambridge !
A tradesman who had failed in the city of Baltimore,
wrote on his front door, " Payment susuended for thirty
day A nolgl,hour reading this said—. You have not dated
the notice." n No," he Bald, "I do not Intend to do so ; It
wcu'd run out 111 did."

On the occasion of the recent rejoicings in honour of
the marriage of the Marquis of Three. the Islanders of
litmessan, Mull, of which the Duke of Argyll Is proprietor,
provided a substitute for the thunder of artillery by boring
several granite boulders, which were then charged with gun-
powder sad fired as a royal salute.
The advocates of women's suffrage are again
beginning to make a stir. Several members of Parliament
have given in their adhesion, and are trying to insert the
thin mt of the wedge Into public opinion. It seems that
the ollelt at presel,t is only to give the vote to unprotected
%aldose and splust.rs who happen to be ratepayers.

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What the late Emperor of the French looks like now
as a gentleman in retirement at Chime'burst, and after all his
troubles and defeats, may be seen In some remarkably good
photograph., lust published by the Stereoscopic Conapavy.
Judging from thesa pictures he certainly does not affect
despair or present himself as. spectacle of ruined greatness.
Oa the contrary, he looks very comfortable indeed_

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The Turkish Ala 39daft or was at a public dinner
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recently in company with some of the mognatu of the
I ,nd : the president gave as a tout, in compliment to his
Excellency, The Sublime Porte and the Turkish Ambas-
sador." The waiter echoed it down the table, A supply of
port for the Turkish Ambassador,'
At the Manchester City police-comt, a middleaged
woman, named Frances Roger., a bany-farmer, has been
committed for trial at the assizos on the separate charges of
wtlful murder, attempted murder, obtaining money by false
pretences, and miademeanou In not having provided children
under her charge with sufficient nourishment.
A Maine paper reports a spiritnalmarriage, &wetting
that eta recent circle" a young woman asked if the spirit
of her dead lover was present, and on being answered in the
affirmative, tnt told moreover, that he wished to marry her,
had a justice of the peace called In and the ceremony per-
formed. The spiritual and spirited bride 1101 V claims the pro-
perty of the dead man.
There is no nation where madness is to rare as in
Turkey, where the people, of all others, think the least. In
France, Germany, and England—countries more distln-
guished for intellectual activity—the number of suicides is
greater than In any other countrtea—Medual Times and
Gazere.
A farmer named Ryan has been murdered at Clash-
drum, hear Cappawhite, county Tipperary. The head was
almost !levered from the trunk, and the face deeply cut and
slit. The man's wife has been apprehented, as well as two
: men named Collins, farmers. The cause I. supposed to be
jealomy not a land dispute.

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At Poaen, the birthday of the Emperor led to a con-
flict between the Germans and Poles. The Polee not ilbusil
noting their houses, a Garman mob congregated in the
market-place, and by way of summary punishment srnashPd
the windows of all dissentients. The rioters were chiefly
artisans, boys, and soldiers, among the latter a good many of
Polish descent. Patrols, headed by the commanding General,
succeeded at last in restoring order.

Galignani's 31 gee of Sunday announces that, in con-
queoce of the disorganization of the postal service in Paris,
it has received no newspapers or letters from England for
forty-eight hours. It is, therefore, compelled to appear halt
its usual ska. Ai soonas the Post-office is agdo in working
order its old form will be resumed. Another Paris journal,
the Coiner-C, Ironically declares that the postal service had
been very much simplified, as nothing Is now received from
the provinces and nothing can be sent there.
A Ladies Educational Association has just been

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formed in Birmingham, and comprises among fis ember. a
large number of ladies of it finance in the locality. The
oiled& of the association are to raise the standard of female
education generally; to promote University examinations
for girls and ',men, and to consider the question of endow.
manta in regard to female education. Other minor objects as
to encouragement of lectures and classes for ladles are also
mentioned.

The Cottrell of the Church Association have pub-
lished then opinion that the (1,,,f10n of the vestment to be
a orn In preaching was not it eluded In the articles against
Sir. Perches, and conzaquently was neither argued nor sister-
mined In that case, tinder these cirenrestance. the Ct,uncli
I/decidedly of opinion that all clergymen are fully justified in
continuing the established usage with regard to the nee of the
black gown in preaching, unless it shell hereafter ba Scolded
to be illegal by the Cann of final appeaL
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Some dissatisfaction has been occasioned at Chat-
ham In consequence of discharges of workmen from the
dockyard bast to; re commenced, and that not withstimding that
the utmont activity is Jut now observable in all the depart-
ments of the establishments. It should, however, be etated
that the whole of the hands eischarged up to this time have
been those who were sp.-Jelly engaged to expedite the come
pletlon of vessels preparing for sea.
"We understand there is no truth whatever in
various reports which have been circulated as to • fusion
between the Comte de Chambord and the member. of the
Muse of Orleans. Any such Melon would he an abandon-
ment of the principle which has dictated the policy of the
Orleanist princes during their ion§ exile. namely. that while
they me ready at any time and In soy manner to offer their
services to France, they have no intention of interfering with
the free choice of the nation."—Observer.

The reply of Dr. D.llirger to the Archbishop of
Mullah, justifying his resistaime to the dogma of infallibility
has lust heen published. lie arks leave to maintain his
nositmn t efore the forthcoming assemtly of bishops at
Falda, maintaining that the dogma In opposed to Scripture,
to the pastoral letters of mmy bishops from tim earliest
times, and to the decision+, of councils, and that It is con- 1
trail to the constitution of most European S:ates.
The Emperor William has just founded an order of
merit for the women and young girls who tended the sick
and wounded during the late ear. The decoration to to con-
sist of a blavk enamel cross with silver border, and bearing
on tte face the red cross of the Geneva Convention, and on
the reverse the initials of the King and Queen, with royal
crowns, and the date 1870-71. It is to be worn on the left
side, suspected by a riband of white silk with black edging,
and passed through a silver ring.
An inquest has been held at Bath, on the holy of
Mr. Sarah Caroline Tripp, a widow lady possessed of extensive
mean. The decaneed lady, who was 73 years of age, retired
to rest at her wonted hour on the previous night, end soon
1 afterwards an alarm proceeded from her bed-room. The
servant girl ran upatrire and found her mistress enveloped in
flames, her night-Oress having caught fire at the candle.
With presence of mind the mid roiled her in a blanket and
thut succeeded in extinguishtug the fl .me!, but so severe'y
was she burnt that she died from the affects about two hones
afterwards. A verdict of Accidental Death front burning WAS
recorded.
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A barrister being concerned In a cause which he
wanted to postpoi e for a few days, asked a Judge when he
would bring it no? The judge mentioned the day on which
Good Friday fell. " Will you please to conaider, my lord,
that that day in G nod Frldu " I don't care for that—the
better cay the better deed" " Well, my lord, ye,a will ef
course do aa you please ; but if you do Mt on that day, I be-
lieve you will be the Brat Judge who did bualness on a Good
Friday slate Pontine Pilate's time.'
At the Marylebone pclice-conrt, in London, George
Bantle's, and Joaaph Brennan, two clerks in the employ of
the London and North Western Railway Company, were
charged with embezzling about £3,009. liaddely wee em-
ployed as a clerk to book horse, carriages, dogs, £3, carried
ny the eibnpany, and Brennan was a clerk in the audit Alice,
and had, it wee alleged, altered figures in the account' no as
to conceal the defalcations of the other prisoner. tie was
discharged in December, and Baddely then absconded. The
magistrate remanded the prisoners, and refused to take bail.
In fulfilment of a promiee which Professor Huzley
made during the visit of the British Association to ',temp eol
hut autumn, the Proleuor, on haturelay night, del.vered •
lecture to working men in Dope 111,11, bi,fore a ernvided
audience, which Contained a fair representation of the °pe-
nalve clawed, butt, chided many gentleman connected with
&dentine associations to the town. The su lect wee the
geographical astray:Jon of an,lnal life, and the drift of the
lecture was to support the doctrine of evolution, which, he
said, was daily receiving more completeness of proof. lie
&earthed the diverelty of animals to geological changes hav-
ing isolated the erleinal fauna in large talands, where, under
tke billn-ncs of climate, departures trom the origleal types
took DiSCO. At the dote of the lecture It was annoiniceil
that Professor Kingsley had also promised to address tin
operatives of Liverpool.

America.

Ostrich farming is largely on the increase in
The Lord Chief Justice has threatened to recom.
metei the ditconttnuance of the Megaton mina wakes
some improvemerst ts made in the court-house of that town
A company is to be formed for promoting the appli-
cation of )(CAW power to the cultivation of laud and the
other parposes of husbandry._

H ore ia a atoimouiandvertimnt cut from a con-
teraporia7 • A youos lady of extorter aud pleasant .p-
-eslo Cs, withas to marry • gentlemau of last the tame way
of thlutlog."
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The a'ate of affairs in Paris is d-am,kl ouffi ziently
grave by French houses In L...don to here led to the uu-
shipment of wool and other produce Intended for despatch
to Rene and other French ports.
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An officer of the garrison of Bltche writes from
thence on the 20th ult , to deny that the place has inrren-
d,re,t The French flag, he says, Ii jets over the fortress, and
no foreign troops have entered it as victors.
A young lady of It ston Rouge sent a poetical piece
to a local paper, entitled " May SOth." She felt unpleasant
rest day to seo it healed by the printer oh, those printers ')
My 30th." It was about her birthday.
A large number of proprietors and editors of English
newspapers have unused to make a tour through the United
States, and will probably leave this country 10 Jane next, rot
Liverpool.
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A hapless New York infant is loaded down with
the names et WasblegtomUuser-Frlts-Wilhelm-Carl-Bbe
mama- Moltke -Mantautfel Grant • Sherman -Shortdaa Tog:a-
tlas."
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" Christian gambling" has just been engaging the
ettention of the Willlngton s American) Methodist Con-
ference, which has unanimously passed a resolution con-
demning "gift enterprises" and "gambling at church fairs.
Mr. Flockton, leesee of the refreshment rooms at
Mirtield and Dewshury Railway Stations, was killed at
Victoria Station, Manchester, on Saturday evening. lie wail
crossing the rolls, instead of using the footbridge, when •
vats train came up and knocked him down.
The Liverpool Local Marine Board have presented
to Captain (iwen, of the British ship Is'o,rie, a splendid gold
watch, In recognition of tin bravery In saving part of the
crow of the John Todd, an American schooner, which
foundered in the Atlantic during • heavy gale In December
last. •
One William ('.obbett has done a quaint thing. Ile
has presents d a peti.iou ti the noose of C nun one, praying
that manorial estates may be specially and exclusively
ratal tor the extinguishment of the system of purchase In
till erny.
A lieturer has stlected the singular title for his
entertainment of" Fast Life." The subject is entered into
easy fully by the lecturer, who forcibly °entreats the horrors
and wickedntss of a "Fast Life" and a " Lost Life" with the
beauties and happiness of • •• Noble Life."
"Why," said Miss Anna Dickinson on one ugramion,
stepping forward to the footlights, and commincing •
lecture with &flight of eloquence, "Why was I born?" " Why
was I born?" she asked once more, in Under% accent.. A
boy lu the gallery shouted, "I give it up"
A well-known English lord is said to have given the
following instructions to his steward we arc coming
down, a large party, in a day or two, to eat strawberries and
cream. We shall want plenty of the latter, so don't let any
of the cows be milked meanwhile."
The following is a fair specimen of a dialogue which
frequently takes place in police-courts .—Magistrate to
vagrant) —Von say you have nowhere to sleep. Did you find
any money on him, °dicer I Oiliswr —Not a penny. Magis-
trate Ito vagrant) —Then I due you 405.
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An official paper wee forwarded by the Commie.
stoners in Lunacy to all proprietors of Lunatic i•yinins, and
other persons herby; the core of the lionole, Intimating that
the Lit ale only of persons of unsound mind need to be in-
serted in the schedule for the census.
Tbe British Aftdical Journal states that at the
volunteer review on Koller Monday the National Aid Society
propose as an experiment, and with the permission of the
War-office, to furnish nix ambulance waggon., with • elm-
plete ambulance corps, composed of gentlemen who served
uesder the society at the rest of war.

Mr. Serjeant es has given notice that shortly
after Easter he will move • resolution to the following
effect :—That the right of the House of Lords to re sect bill.
which bad been several times passed by that house 111 incon-
sistent with the principles ef our reprfeentativo system, a
scmece of public grievance, dangerous to the stability of our
institutions, and ought to be limited.
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A publiuhoure at Chatham, called the " Hitter
Miss." was completely gutted I.y fire on isaturday morning.
A considerable number of persons dept on the premises, but
all were rescued but a soisier named Waldron, of the Nib
Regiment. lie was found dead from suffocation, under a
bed, having passed from his own room to the next in the
hope of escape. At an inquest held in the evening, a verdict
of accidental death was returned.
Two ladies talking agriculture, referred to sparrows
and praise t their usefulness In ridding the land of worms,
though their early chirpli g wes a nuisance. Just then •
Dundreary came in, and use appealed to : Mr. A., which
do you think the wont—sparrows or worms?" Us imme-
diately answered, "1 don't know; I never had sparrows."
An inquest has been held at Sheffield, on the
body of a widow yr, wan, named Burrowes, who was found
tying dead Is a pool of blood in her house on Sunday morn-
,mg The evidence went to show that the deceased, her son,
' and • man who I..dged in the home were all Intoxicated on
liAturday night, Nlaii that during a disturbance the woman
received • blow from one of the men. The jury returned a
verdict of "Found Dead."

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The largest magnet ever produced is now in course of
manufacture at Colllngridge Works at Westminster. When
completed it will weigh nearly two tons, and will be el the
value of £5OO. The semi-circular portion of the Instrument
will he c.,vered with many miles of copper wire. It is for
Lord Lindsay, the eldest eon of the Earl of Crawford and
Balcarres, who promises to be an ardent student of science
and a munlacient patron of art.

A beggar called at a gentleman's door in Edinburgh,
lad week, and requested something to eat. The family had
had vermicelli mem at dinner. a plate of which was offered.
The old man, however, mistaking the vermicelli for "the
other little white fellow.," stirred it several times with his
spoon, and looking Imploringly in the lady's face, sada "1
am a puff auld roan, and very thaulfu' for onything poll
Me me, but really, mem, I couldna eat maggota."
Among the 'wild viciositudes of taste and fashion"
nothing is more striking than the different manner with
whieh society is ruled in town and country during Lent.
Take, for instance, Brighton and London; at the former no
balls ever take lAA. between A..h Wednesday and Eaater
Monday; In the metropolis some of the gayest are given, as
may be seen by the fashionable records of the present
Sell.oo.
At the meeting of the Dublin Town Council held on
Monday, the Lord Mayor hoeing read her Majesty's reply to
the address presented to her on the marriage of the Princess
Louise, a councillor brought on the subject of • Roy al rest-
dance in Ireland, when a "Nationalist" member said that
" If Mr. Gladatoueor any other Prime M Water were to spend
hundreds of thougands in betiding a Royal midden. In every
county In Ireland it would not satisfy the people There
was a feeling that the people should haves right to levy thelt
own taxes and to spend them."
A Board of Trade inquiry has been held at Swansea
relative to the loss of the oarene Cornwall, which came into
collision off Lundy Island with the steamship II trnalaya,
and by which eleven of the crew perished. The court C.os
to the conclusion that in consequence of the dense fog that
prevailed the lights of both ships were obscured untilthey came
Into such close contact as rendered a collision unavoidable,
They considered that the Himalaya must be absolved from
the consequences of the melancholy casualty, and as the
mauler did everything in his power to Kane human life, they
returned him his certifiewte.
The distinguished tenor, M. Capoul, noted for his
great bravery in two sorties upon the Prussians during the
sit ge ot Paris, and also for great gifts in many other ways,
ha, been engaged at Men Majesty's Opera, and will make his
appearance 151 Loudon so soon as his military duties—to
which he is determined to adhere to the last moment—will
admit. hi, Capoul lea lieutenant in the National Guards of
Paris. It I. much to his credit that. instead of availing
himself, notwithstanding the temptation, of the ease,
profit, and safety, dieted by his brilliant operatic engage-
ment in Loudon, he determine, to remain ill the post of
danger up to the very last moment, and he oily come. whets
the redemption of his agreement with tier Majesty's Opera
necessitates.