The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-03-25 00:00:00

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EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN-

proved

The King of Sweden's recent malady was a carbuncle
on the kg
The Town Conntil of Chester, by 19 votes against 4,
have decided not to take any steps at present for the creation
of a school board.

Her Royal Highness the Princess Louise and the
Marquis of Lorne have sat for special portraits, which will be
engraved to the forthcoming Royal Wedding 7., umber of tie
Graphic.
A serious epidemic, locally known as "black sick-
ness," but In reality typhoid fever,llls raging amongst pigs In
Bolton. As It makes Its appearance mainly amongst Irish
pigs, It Is supposed to be the result of Importation in vessel.
not properly disinfected.
Considerable anxiety has been aroused in Berlin by
, the complications which have arisen In France It le stated
' that the surrender of the French prisoners of war hae been
stopped lhere is no truth In the rumum that the 'town
Prince of Prude is to return to France

The reaeipts into the National Exchequer from April
1, p. 70, ta the 13th tat , v ere £67,201,295, against
£72,b95.926 In the corresponding period of last year The
badger esttmate for the year earning on the litst last Iva
£67 631,600. thistoms and Exstse have already exceeded the
estimate, the forruer by 197,000 and the latter by 6474,0,0
The expen inure has been £615,161,37, against i..€ 5,077 015.
The estimated expenditure for the year was 669,446,000.
The balance In the Bank of ltnelan."! on -aturday was
£6.723,7^1.

A youth named Hagerman has shot himself dead
t Hamilton, Ohio, rather than !WM a marriage engagement.
The new name for the mob in Paris is "the puree"
ir the "pure bloods."
The late Dean Afford of Canterbury's WM Lae been
proved under £25,00 I.
The Paris journals assert that the Pope has written
a letter to M. fhiers, asking for au asylum hi Corsica.
It is Rail the forthcoming Budget will show an in.
crease of three milieus, the results of au economical
Ministry.
M. de Lesseps estimated the receipts of the Suez
Canal for the first year at £1,000,090, They were barely 'l3
per cent. of the estimate
A number of literary men in London talk of cele-
brating the anniversary of Shakspeare's birth—April 23—by
a dinner in themsoet's house at Stratford.
The Chit 01075 Tima asks :—" Whither are we
drifting?' fo which the Knoxville Whig replles "It would
be profane in al to say."
The King and Queen of Spain made their public
entry into Madrid on Sunday. 1 Artie crowds congregsted on
the occasion, by whom their Majestlea were enthusiastically
welcomed.
' Up to Monday evening, the fund
,en;dmt beinghi tr raised
hioourt :
relief Yet the
ten
I o'‘thifne°l4'dtli°nantdres-ohnoSuitterii; danuadtn4a7onillifnuhdeenleltsp °el
of
the
Lord
detects ravaged by the war amounted to about £123,900.
The Echo du Nord has received a despatch from
Rouen, dated the 19th Instant, announcing that Intelligence
had beer. received at Dieppe that the boiler of a French
transport from IlaMlnlrg. with 3/00 returned prisoners on
board, had buret, and ;hat the vessel and all on board had
been lost.
Frankfort has returned a etrong Democrat as her
representative in the both el (Innen Parliament, Herr
Sonnemann, the propri.lor of the Frankfort Pre., having
defeated the former member, Barna Carl ItOtalchlld (tEe head
of the home of the ltothschild• by a large majority. The
election was closely contested, and the result has occasioned
much surprise.
Miss Alice Carey, It wellknown writer of fiction and
verse tee American journals. died in New ork on the 10th of
February, aged fifty. Several of her nos Ms have been reprinted
U England toe popular circulation.
Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer will be raised to tbet
Peerage by the title of Baron Palling and lialever. Dulling
being the name of an estate and redden. in Norfolk which
have been held by the family of Bulwer since the Conquest.
The fatal eases of smallpox in London during the
pat three weeks have shown • slow but steady decline, the
numbers having been .227, 213, 194, and 155, respectively, In
the four weeks ending lost Saturday. it may be hoped,
therefore, that the deaths from this disease In the metropolis
will now continue to decrease.
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"Side by aide in our columns yesterday (Tuesday)
appeared the reporta of two memorable events. The new
Emperor of Germany, after eight months absence, re. erftered
his capital as a conqueror, and the ex-Emperor of the French
lauded as a refugee at Dover."—The Time,
A man who was caught stealing a pair of boots in in
Boston store, the other day, proved to be a selectman, a bank
director, a church deacon, and a person of means, position,
and family in a country town not Inc from that city. its
declared that he was driven to tile theft by an Irresistible
influence, and he was allowed to depart alter paying forth
boots.
Mies Frances Daggs, aged sixteen years has been
burnt to death at Drogheda, owing to the overturning and
explosion of a paraffin oil lamp. For several nights before
she had been In the habit of sitting up late at night In her
bedroom, studying for a school examination. just before
death she stated that while reading she became weak, lost
her sight, and fainted: she remembered nothing more.
It in said that Mr. Thomas Hughes intends during
• the present session to reintroduce his Racing BM. In con-
s, quence of the reforms effected by the Jockey Club, the bill
will of course have to be altered in various particulars. If
report may be credited, Mr. Hughes intends to deal with
races in Scotland. it is understood that he will act in con-
mart with Sir Joseph Bewley.
On Tuesday the German Reichstag was opened at
Berlin by the timperor William in person. libr Majesty,
after referring to the struggle in which the nation had been
engaged, said that it had secured the unity of Germany and
the safety of her frontiers. The spirit which animated the
people would protect the country from the temptation of
abusing the power it had gained. It Is stated that during
the proceedings his Majesty more than once faltered with
emotion, and his voice at one part of the speech altogether
failed him.
Elizabeth Georgiana, Dowager Baroness Clinton,
mother of the present baron, died at her residence, 67,
PrinCell gate, Ilyde Park, on Sunday last. In her 63rd
I year. Her ladyship was the second daughter of the sixth
Marquis of Lothian, and married in 1,31 Charles itedolph,
iriih Baron Clinton, who was aI.P. for tikehamptou before
the passing of the Reform Bill, and who died in 1666. She
leaves a numerous family to lament her loss.
At the Maidstone aselzee a labourer named Salim
has been tried for the wilful murder of a companion named
Peter Smith. The two men, with others, had been at a
public-borne, and having quarrelled over a game at skittles,
renewed the squabble on the way home, when Stilton drew his
knife and killed Smith with a frightful atab in the abdomen.
the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter, and the prisoner
was sentenced to fifteen years' penal servitude.
The Trieste Gazette gives an account of the death
of Hanson Tkure, who had styled himself the man- fly, and
exhibited himself walking on ceilings Ile gave an exhibi-
tion in the theatre of Trieste, and on: the first evening fell
into a net which was suspended Underneath. rin the next
evening he fell agate, but unhappily outride the net, and
his head and the upper part of his body came against some
of the scenery. We expired ins few minutes.
There is a lady—wife of a captain prisoner in vler-
many—who comes every day to the river side at the Pont
d'Alma, to wash her baby's linen. Her Infant—the only one
she had—was cut in two by a shell: she lest her reason, and
fancies she is purifying the blood-stained garments of her
child. A French Count—aged nineteen—a volunteer, was
wounded in the early days of the siege. Ile lost his reason
also, sea consequence of the operation whit deprived him
of his limbs, and his mania is, to be driven every day to the
Palace of Industry, to witness the Prussians, whom he con-
founds with the surgeons who saved his Me.
Among the maky mysteries which require elucida-
tion is the extraordinary differences so often to be °hearted
between the tenders of different building contractors for the
same work. The fodder of lad week gives a list of tome
tenders sent in a short Mule ago to the local board of sale
for sewage works. The tenders were for four separate con-
tracts, and the highest two and lowest two of a dozen sent In
for the whole stand at the following amounts :—.+.11,563 be.
I j 1., £9.306, 1.4,665, £4232. In other words, the amount of
the highest tender, which is calculated to the niceness of 35.
lid., is 21 times that of the lowest. The same 9uantltes
were supplied to all who tendered by one surveyor, and the
difference does not result from any accidental wholesale
mistake, because it nun through all the separate contracts.
Sir Roderick Murchison has received a long letter
from Sir Samuel Baker, dated 'I ewfi idoeya, on the White
INile, N. lat. 926, dated the 6:11 of December, 10. Sir
Samuel announcer that during his stay at that station he had
entirely suppressed the shove trade of the White Nile, and he
• eruats that England will appreciate the sincerity of purpose
Idisplayed by the Khedive is thus purifying the river from
, that abominable trade. After speaking of the death of Dr.
Gedge, and seine sickness which occurred in the rainy season
In camp, She samuel adds, "Thank God, my wife and I axe as
as well as It we were In Europe." Sir Samuel's next letter
will be from Gondokore, when all the flotilla are gathered
together and his eteamel in action.
The bill for exempting persons of the Jewish per-
suasion from penalties for employing workpeopie of the
same religion on Sundays has been printed as amended in
committee. The conditions of exemption are—that the
workshop or manufactory is In the occupatiou of a person
professing the Jewish religion, that It is closed till sunset
on Saturday and not open for traffic on Sunday, and that
the total number of hours of labour per week of any of the
workpeople does not exceed the total number of hours
allowed by the Workshops Regulation Act. .0 bill to pro-
tect the goods of lodgers against distraint upon the pro-
perty of the landlord, bearing the names of Mr. 11. 11.
Sheridan, Mr. !Dolma, Mr. Brogden, awl Mr. W. Si. Torream
has also been printed.