The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-07-09 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN,

The 60,000 acres of w late Crown lands in the New
Forest produce an annual income of about 61. per acre.

Prof...or Lightfoot preached before the Queen in
the private chapel at Windsor, on B.day morning.

hiring the past week 22 wrecks have been reported,
snaking for the present yaw. 922.

- •
Hunger is the hest Sauce ;" ergo, the Hungriest is
the most mum— Punch

The report.ed attack on two officers near Gibraltar
turns out r, be nearly altogether false ; the "brigand " was a
druukeo cobbler.

On Saturday night a youth who WM riding on a
velocipede near Twickenham, came into collision will. an
omnibus, and was instantaneously killed.

Orders have been dispatch-ed to the Governor of
Portuguese Guinea to receive from the British authorities
official poasesslon of the Island of Bolama.

The Journal Officiel announces that it will ohortly
commence the publication in its fruille:on of Charlet
nickeled I .at work, which In to on tranalatca Pito Frcnch by
Bernard-Derosue.

Preparations are being made in Berlin for the hun-
dredth anniversary of Beethoven's birth. The festival swill
begin on the Da of December, and last till the 2lot of the
month.

Capt. Preston. 45th Sherwood Poreaters, has been
severely mauled by • tiger near 'lingolee in the Ilyderabad
dianiet. No amputation has been necessary, and the gallant
captain la recovering.

- .
Cholera IA elaying its thousands in Rewah,
In i;ovindshur, the clue, town, the deaths are reportel to
have been more than a thon•and a day. The raj th has left
his capital for Deem a town thirty armies to the south.

A general outbreak I. expected on the part of the
Indians on the line of the Pacific Railroad, and the
Yanckton and Sioux Indiana Sr. taking the war path
General Shirman Is sending cavalry reinforcements to the
west.

"1 ghoul," like thin looms put on a number," said a
coquette to a French croupier at Baden-Baden ; "and, for
hick, lot it be on the ouruher of my a‘ve." Frightened at the
chance uf overdoing it, or in a very complimentary mod,
the croupier pot the fouls on number one.

At t-ho Afacclesfirld Polic,court, on Tuesday,
Richard Weaver, generally known as tin converted collier
and revivalist preacher, was ordered to pay half-a-crown,
weekly, and £lO extra costs, towards supporting the illegiti-
mate child 4-'1 Sarah Leah, who had lived In hie service as a
muse. W ,on leaving the court, was loudly hiszed.

•
Stephen Blair, Esq., who was M.l'. for Bolton from
1848 to ISS, 2 died on Tuesday, at Peel Gall, new. Bolton,
aged sixty-11x years. The deceased was eminent amongst
Freemasons, and at the time of his death was Provincial
Grand Muter for East Lancashire. He was also • county
magistrate.
-•

A French paper says that according to the accounts
of the harvest received from all parts of France by the
Minister of Agriculture the average yield of rye and corn
will he about a fourth less than ususl. France will therefore
have enough for her own consumption.
- - - -•— • •

•It ni raid that the Canadian Home Guardr, on learn.
lag where the lines would he crossed first by the Fentans,
carefully measured out distances and set up marks at 800
and 9 0 yards from where they had determined to make a
stand, so that when the Fenians advanced they found them-
selves the targets for • fire of extraordinary accuracy.
George Tarrant, the celebrated cricketer, died on
Saturday last at Cambrid.ze, after an illness of about ten
months. "Tear-em," or 'Pepper," as he was familiarly
called, suffered greatly during the leiter part of him illness,
which Wlig primarily cam.' by bowling, lie was one of the
Australian eleven.
'

Four hundred sacks of mails from England, en route
for Australia recentf) passed over the Pacific Railroad, show-
ing ;says an American correspondent) that this route from
the United Kingdom to its Australian U doilies has been put
Into practical operation, as the abortest and probably the
safest.

The anniversary of American independence was
celebrated in Liverpool on Monday (July 4) by a very nne
di,ooy of hunting on the principal American Inercantile
houses and shipping Offices, 1111 well all MI all the Alll9liCial
ship. in port, and the gasmen of the Cunard, Inman,
Guinn, and National Companies.
- - - - - -

A Circular has been Laced by Mr. Bank., secretary
to the Operative Spinners and Minders' Association, at Pres-
ton, in reference to the 'ruts in question. Ho bids the em.
p 1 ers Lase tne circular AA a timely warning, that before
lone, If no conceision is made by them, Preston will again be
the seine of an extensive strike.

The Law Lords of the House of Peers were on Fri-
day occupied in hearirg arguments in a cause which has
already come before two tribunals in Scotland, and is now
brought on is 4 an appeal before their lordship's House. The
question at issue affects the ownership of a triancular piece
of ground, about eight Hoare yards in extent, and estimated
to be worth 5.. !
The Iriskman announces that measures are in pro-
gress to give cited to the general feeling which, it nays, pre-
cede that some public compensation should he made to Peter
Barrett for the sufferings he has undergone in a troeecution
which is now fOrilld to he unfounded. The form of c unpin-
satins proposed is peculiarly acceptable to him—namely, to
raise, by private subscripUnne, slum sufficient to purchase a
farm in fee.simple for his lather.
'

The Civilian protests against the atten.pts which
are being made at the Treasury to force the first class supple-
mentary clerks to 'pit the service. The second.class clerks
have also been coolly informed the maximum salary of the
establishment will be reduced to £3OO, and that they had no
right to expect that the present sslary of £5OO would be
maintained.
It has been reported, and then denied, in several
Paris journals, that a printing press had been cot up at the
Tuileries for the use of the Prince Imperial, who, It Is said,
has a fancy for the trade of a comooeitor—the fact Is true
that his Imperial Highness has really turned printer's devil.
Ills printing prew has been arranged, and lessons in the art
awl nitstery it typography are to be given him by one of the
chief employes in the well-known printing and publishing
establubment of M. Firmin Dldot.

--- -
On Friday, Phehe Turner, ahout 19 years of age,
daughter of Mr. Turner, of Topperneld. Even, was on a viii.
to Mr. Dearing, of Charlton, when gun attracted her Wen,
Lion, aud she took it up and presented it at the maid servant
not supposhur It to he loaded, and pulled the trigger, lint it
did not go off. In a short time al leeward. the maid got pos-
session of the gun, and in her turn presented it at Miss
Turner, when the contents, a full charge, entered her side. It
ii greatly feared that she cannot survive the effects of the
ace. lent.
With reference to the death of the tour men at an
Ironworks In North Stafterdshire, by waste gas tram the blast
furnaces, Mr. J. Percy writes from the Royal g.thad of Mines
that the poironous Ingredient of that gas is carbonic oxide,
and the inhalation if it in very small qui entity whether pore
or mixed with common air, rapidly deatroy• life It is mm-
preset that the teenagers of such works should he acquain-
ted a ith its 'uglily poisoner,. nature, and take every precau-
tion to prevent their workmen fr.rm being exposed to its
tot ilenCe.
A young man named Weston, who was clerk to
firm of engineer. in K lugsland.road, London, left his home
on Thursday morning in bud week to go to hi. employment,
and nothing more was known of him until Saturday al ter-
noon, %hen he was found sitting on the doorstep of Peabody-
buildings, Shoreditch, with Ma throat cut and a penknife in
his hand. About a tirtnight ago he was bitten by a dog, and
since then he had been very nervous for fear he should die of
hydrophobia. the jury at the inquest found that he coin-
witted suicide wbile of unsound mind.
Mr. George Druitt, the general in eretary of the
London Operative Tailors' association left London on Tues-
day morning for Cork, to endeavour to mediate between the
muster ration and their workmen. The body he represents
have sent money weekly to their Cork trethren, although
they disapproved their action in opposing the introduction
of wiring machines, and have felt themselves placed In an
suomelous position, Inumuch as they acquiesce laths use of
the machine by the London masters.
The Birmingham Pot says :—" The favourable re.
port we were able to give last week in reference to Mr
Bright's health is more than confirmed by later information.
Within the last few days • marked improvement has, in all
respects, ti ken place in the right hon. gentleman's condition.
Ti ugh his progress towards complete recovery will neces-
sarily be slow, he is unquestionably in a fair way to the re-
atoration of his powers. Mr. Bright is still at Llandudno.
Ile has derived much benefit from sea-bathing, and is able to
take swam on tioresback.