The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-07-10 00:00:00

gums.
One of the sons of the Viceroy of Egypt will shortly
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be entered as a student at (Ilford. ..
It is a fact worth recording that the temperature of
the shortest day, 1865, was only five degrees lower than the
temperature of the longest day, 1869.
Mews. Pickford, the railway carriers, have paid
£4,000 compensation to Mr. Heintz, one of the committee of
Lloyd's, for injuries he sustained while riding in an omnibus
in London, by a pole of one of their railway vans being
driven into the omnibus and fracturing his jaw.
Boston at present has a baby show, composed of 300
cooing, dimple-cheeked, drooling, flat-gnawing infants, in
the various stages of lacteal culture.
An old lady of 113 was recently accused before the
tribunal of Arad, in Hungary, of attempting to poison her •
family. She was acquitted.
At her Majesty's garden party, the other day, th -
Prince of Wales and about thirty other gentlemen appeared
in the new style of dress—blue coat with brass buttons—
which it is supposed will now be the fashion.
A German chemist, M. Kuhr, proposes a new
method for marking Mien. It is Sleet saturated with a solu-
tion of one part of hypophosphite of soda and two of gum in
16 parts of distilled water. The linen is then ironed, mid,
when dry, you write upon it with a quill pen charged with a
solution of one part ot nitrate of silver and six of gum in six
parts of distilled water.
"A respectable young gentleman, doing a good, res-
pectable business on his own account, would like to meet will,
a young lady of moderate education ; one who understands
music and can sing preferred: strictly hooourable ; no hoax.
—Address, it. N., Post-office, Colne, Lancashire.”—Advertise-
meat in Manchester Examiner.
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To celebrate the accouchement of the Grand
Duchess Marie Fiaidorovna, and the birth of the Grand Duke
Alexandre Alexandrovltch, the merchants of Moscow have
founded a school on a large scale for the children of the
poor.
The Sacramento papers give long accounts of the
funeral of John C. Heenan, the "Benicia Boy," or Yankee
pugilist. who came to England some years ago to fight Tom
Sayers, who has been dead some time.
A number of cattle have again been stopped at
Thames Haven, a cargo having arrived there on Saturday
morning in a very diseased condition.
A meeting of delegates from the various societies
for the protection of animals in Europe is to be held next
month at Zurich.
"The visits of royal personages to foreign Courts
cost a good deal of money. The Prince of Wales, no doubt,
paid many thousands away hi Europe and in the East, and
we are told that the Viceroy's presents, in cash and jewels,
lately came to £6,000 in Loudon alone"—Army and Navy
Gazette.
The tenth annual competition of the National Rifle
Association opened at Wimbledon on Monday, and will be
continued until the 17th inst.
In reference to a recent article on "Drunkenness in
the Army" it is stated that it is now strictly laid down hi
the Queen's regulations that " soldiers suspected of being
drunk are not to be put through their facings, or otherwise
proved for the purpose of ascertaining their condition."
An inquest has been held at Whits-field on the body
of a youth named William Hilton, aged 14 Deceased went
to the surgery of Dr. Binds to have two teeth extracted, and
immediately after the operation had been pert caned lie fell
back in a fit of epilepsy, from the shock to the system. Every
means possible was used to restore him, but in vain. Dr.
Mimic did not know the name of the deceased, and it 005
seven hours before his parents were communicated with.
Verdict, "Accidental death."
A new process for preserving wood by means of
borax is announced. The wool, it is said, can he made ini-
permeable to water by dissolving some shellac in the solution
of borax.
Garibaldi is reported to be in declining health.
The Gazette Musicale of Paris, seldom correct in its
news from London, states that "500 babies MIK hymns and
psalms at the Crystal Palace, under the direction of M. S.
The death has been announced of Lord Castlemaine,
one of the Irish representative peers, in the 78th year uf his
age. His eldest son, the Hon. Richard liandcock, who was
born July 25, 1626, succeeds to the title and estates.
An important question relating to trades' unions and
friendly societies was beak. the Court of Queen's Bench on
Saturday. The point raised was the construction to be
placed upon the rules of the Amalgamated Carpenters and
Joiners' Friendly Society, and the magistrates at Bradford
had refused to convict in a prosecution instituted by the
society, on the ground that its rules operated in restraint if
trade, as its funds might in practice be made available for the
purposes of strikes The Lord Chief Justice and Mr. Justice
Mellor concurred in this view, while Mr. Justice Hannen and
Mr. Justice Hayes were of a contrary opinion. Under these
circumstances the junior judge withdrew his judgment, and
the decieion of the magistrates was affirmed.
On .Monday night, at Salford, a boy ten years of age
was playing at cricket with some companions when one of
the halls thrown accidentally struck-him on the head. Ile
was conveyed home and attended by medical gentlenien. In
a few houra he became quite insensible, and expired next
morning.
Mr. Bates, of Umberleigh House, near Barnstable,
went out, out riday, retain shoring near his Marwood estete,
and returned to his house atom noon. The noise of a gun
going off waa heard, and on persons proceeding to his room
they found Mr. Bates lying on his face, with his gun by his
side, quite dead. It was found that the charge from the gun
had passed through his heart There is no doubt that the oc-
currence was quite accidental. Mr. Bates was formerly chief
manager and director of the West of England Bank at Bristol,
and is now registered public officer of that bank.
At the Usk Petty, Sessions, on Friday, Thomas
Rosser, who was charged with the murder of Jane Edwards,
at l'sk, in June, 1067, was committed for trial by the magis-
trates on his own confession. The evidence id Dr. Boulton,
who made the poet-ntortern examination of the exhumed
body, showed that there was no fracture of the skull, but the
woman might have sustained concussion of the brain with-
out the skull being fractured.
On the utiliz Mion of sewage as a manure, the ion.
Henry l'etre writes that his farm (Lodge Farm, Barking has
for the last two years been cultivated with London sewage
alone as a manure There are lam upwards of 100 acres
bearing corn, root, and other crops, produced solely by sew-
age, and Mr Petre has no hesitation in saying that sewage
can be profitably- and economically used in the cultivation of
all the ordinary farm crops of this country.
The Rev. Arthur Mursell, the popular preacher
and lecturer, has assumed a new character—that of a
littrateur A series of papers has been commenced by him
In Cceaell 'a Magazine, under the title of "Shady Pastorals;
or, Nights spent with Thieves." They describe, in the
author's well.known graphic and racy style, a number of
viaits which he made to the thieves' quarters in Manchester
and other large towns, and the miventures he met with while
there. The articles are both amusing and instructive, and
are full of information concerning the habits and modes of
life of numerous but justly ostracised lass of the com-
munity

The Melbourne Age says :—Among the loot found by
an expedition up the M'aitotara river, New Zealand, the
other day, was a canoe-load of Bibles, which showed no Indi-
cations of having been studied by the natives, who rather, it
would seem, had preserved them too carefully. They are
supposed to have been distributed 10 or 15 years ago.
A bankrupt named I ireene, described as an agent's
clerk, applied at the Bankruptcy Court, in London, on Tues-
day, for his order of discharge. He was opposed, and the
opposition was of a novel kind The debts in all were only
£llO, and of this sum £O4 lls. fid was due ton Miss Nod-
ding, of Islington, who had recovered damages in enaction
against the bankrupt for brea,th of promise of nitrimge.
ITils lady now opposed the discharge, and the court post-
poned the order till November.
There has been founded at Paris a Society of En-
couragement for the impeovement of sporting dogs.
Not long ago in one of the large Government depart-
ments, a junior clerk was mourning over the probability of
' injured prospects arising from a proposed re-organisation of
tile establishment, when he received this consolation from a
senior—" My young friend." said the aged clerk, " I have
carefully studied the records of this office, and find that
during the last century It has been 're-organised ' on an
average once in every five years, and In now in precisely the
same condition as It was a hundred years ago."
The preacher at the Chapel Royal, Savoy, London,
on Sunday, alluded to the dissmeione of the present day, and
told a story on the authority of John Henry Newman. A
naval chaplain, be said, who had long been out of the reach
of English theological discussion, was eagerly asked on his
return home by a partisan whether his floating chapel was
High Church or Low Church." "That," said the chaplain,
"entirely depends on the tide."
"Within thirty days harvesting will have begun all
over the kingdom. When we last touched upon the autumn
prospects It was anticipated that they were unpropitious for
hay but favourable for grain. So far the rmult seems to
justify that opinion; but the marvellously uncertain belies-
Hone of this summer really baffle all ofilluary estimatee.
Experienced agriculturists assure us that, although the
wheat crops appear full they are deficient in weight, and we
shall have to buy seven or eight millions sterling worth ni the
foreign market. This may be true; but hitherto there seems
no reason for expecting so unprofitable a result."—London
PaP,
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The proprietor of a menagerie, by the means of an
advertisement, makes known his requirements:—" Wanted,
four good Bagpipe Players, to make up Seven, in nand, and
dress respectably in Scotch Costume. Sobriety indispen.able
Salary, 30* per week. Address, <to." " Music bath charms
to soothe the savage breast." Sir Walter Sc •tt, in one of his
novels, gives expression to the height of a Highlander's hap-
piness—twenty-four bagpipe players assembled together in a
small room, all playieg at the same tune different tunes !
The Army and Navy Gazette asks a queAtion which
deserves attention. His Royal Highness the Field- Marshal
Commanding-in chief approves the system of allowing weekly
Instead of daily paymeots to "god-conduct men" and
"well-conducted married men" being put in force in
Why not at home also? asks our contemporary.
Mr. Robert Phippen, High Sheriff of Bristol, died
suddenly on Monday evening. He woe diving with the Mayor
at his private residence Crete-hill, Stoke Bishop, when he was
seised with fainting tits. Restoratives were administered, I
and he rallied a little, but soon afterwards he became drowsy '
and died. Mr. Phippen, who was in his sixty-ninth year, was
a prominent member of the Conservative party in Bristol,
had more than once been mayor of the city, and at the
time et his death held the offices of high sheriff, senior
alderman, city magistrate, and deputy mayor.
A correspondent of the Express states that as Mr.
Townsend, steward of Mr. llyas, of Athboy, was returning on
a car frank a distant farm belonging to that gentleman, his 1
horse was stopped by two men with the evident intention of
Moulting him. He drew a revolver and threatened to shoot .
them if they did not allow him to pass on. Being unarmed,
they became afraid, and let him go on. One of them, who
has since been arrested and identified, warned him to leave
the country if he wished to save his life, which was in danger
every day her- mottled. Tne second man is supposed to he a
person whom Mr. Townsend was lately obliged to prosecute.
An American paper says that "the oiled wood of the
Seats of a new church at Yorkville, New York, ruined silk
dresses enough last Sund. y, to pay off the debt on the
building."
On Monday a boiler in the saw•mills belonging to
Mr. C. N. Newdegate, M.P., at the Grill Colliery, near
Nuneaton, exploded while about forty men were at work on
the premises, and was Mown a distance of eighty yards The
brickwork by which the boiler had been surrounded was all
carried away, and BOMB of the bricks fell through the roof of
a house sixty yards from the scene of the explosion. A part
of the engine-house was completely blown away, and a large
shed some listance from the spot was partially destroyed.
several of the woikmen were struck by the falling bricks,
and one mall rather severely hurt, but no lives were lost—tin
Tuesday evening anotter boiler explosion took place at
Birmingham. A steam boiler, on the premises of Mr.
Andrews, engineer and nailcutter, exploded, and was blown
some distance. A number of workpeople and other persons
received slight injuries, but, no one was seriously burl.