The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-03-04 00:00:00

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STOUIIBRTDGE OBSERVEIt.

labove which towered the monster elephant, his tail
straight out, his proboscis curled up, running, and evi-
dently tired. With view helloes and cheers, the horse-
men pursued him, while the pad elephants came
trumpetting up in the rear, the drivers standing on their
backs, holding on with one hand and beating them
with sticks and mallets in the other. The wild elephant
stopped short, surveyed the horsemen, and rushed at
the nearest ' edible speed. 'Fly for your
livetlook oi• tlie:Prince 1 ' shouted Sir Jung,
and, ±s a second, Prince, Peer, and commoner were
scouring through the grass and reeds as fast as horses
could carry them. This was repeated again and again,
for the elephant's runs were short, and he gave up
speedily, but he came very near Lord Suffield and Mr.
Rose on one occesion, and uupleasantly near to the
-Prinee and °there also. All this time the'fighting
etephants werennwhere, and, in spite of all horsemen
and pad elephants could do, the wild one, who had
one enormous tusk and the Aump only of the other,
broke aw y. into -a marsh,- ,where he was seen
-down id tibo&A witek. The Prince disnue,
and; with. is paitei waited till the fighters came .
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Jung Perilhaucl at 'set appeared, advanced to the
swamp, and at once engaged his enemy. The com-
bat was short, for,the_wild one waseaveewhelmed,-
.es
as he was, by the 'prodigious bulk of the victor . a
hundred fights. He turned and fled, *ziaJung Pere . ne d
could not overtake him. The pursuit on hoz.: -, 7 k
was renewed, and after a -moat extraordinary run the'
wild one was driven out of a wood by volleys of bad
language, principally addressed to him by Sir Jung
Bahadoor. The elephant then advanced into the open
to engage BijliPershand, the second fighting elephant,
and met his conqueror. Bijli defeated him utterly,
knocked him over, battered him against a tree, an
finally so beat him i oeeti.the head that he was hobble
after severed attempt's, and deelared a prisoner. I
was then discovered he had only one eye, so Jung '
proposed he should be set at libertye -a. the
Prince wished, after the tusk had been sawed
off. Finally he was moored to a tree and..
his head secured, and we left him guarded by
elephants at night, his tusk, a beautiful piece of ivory,
ling brought in and presented by Sir Jung to the
P:ince at camp sre e It was dark before the-Prince
and party returned after a hard ride home, all-egree-
ing that it was the best day's sport they had in India.
"Sir Joseph Fayrer had a narrow escape during the
run described. While at full speed in chase his horse
leaped into a disused elephant pit,
wonderful to relate, neitlier broe-
Fayrer saw the rest of the hum
back."

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Lloyds :—" The incident of the loss of the Strathmore,
with a large number of crew and passengers, just dis-
covered to hive happened at the Crozet Islands on
the line of navigation between the Cape of dood.
Hope and the Australasian Colonies, shows the neces-
sity when a vessel like this, especially with passengers
and emigrants, is missing, of sending one of Her
Majesty's cruisers on a vigif - '• - -
possible, to
The Strati'?

field, without protection of any kind, and, from the
inscriptions, would seem to have been first set apart
as a burying ground for Protestants about thirty years
before Zeats died. . . ."

CASK MAKING BY MACHINERY.
Messrs. A. Rsnsome and Co., of Stanley Works,
King's-road, Chelsea, recently invited a party of gen-
tlemen to inspect their now completed machinery for
the manufacture of casks. The whole process was
conducted within a single shed, where by successive
machines, attended eitt or by boys or by unskilled
workmen, the staves were cut out, shaped, and fitted;
the hoops punched, • splayed: . and bent; the heads
~ planed, (wailed, anti bevelled ;- and the several parts,
—to first roughly put together by hand labohr, compressed
_ _ and united with the greatest possible firinnesz. Eve.
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In
"'On the evening of the 25th of , December, in the ortion of each cask being fitted _to the -rest wit.
iplanfl sea 04rir,_,,„,.......), the le a .. -- athematicial acC4iley; the, Complsted work is., far
Nageta- ma °rattily the Golficrie "Uget, tin i 1 etter, strong* mid tighteetbart. anything which, can
longing to aoiT anese oomPany --but do On t ,Ta .-fr ftrnedioAt 'by -the mat skilled hand labotir, and
transport Osaka-kwan, laden with naval stores, and the saving in coat is even more remarkable than the
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having 27 p.tstufagefs (relatives and servants of the improver- .
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- Rupiah isliitito their visitors, the present c.st
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,w. of 5/3 persons,o4.told.
1, Iler.sterns.wflairlg coat .1 9f making 600 hogsheads a week by hand labour would
;her,lanhe of s saWin about five rdinut Th4twt be $1.41 ss. or 4s. &id. each, while the cost of making
" besats ivete smaslitd hi the collision,thettwho_ Alittni. ,by inachineryiwould-be -255;r0r-ix-10&-sach:
-rthe starboard -Bide were instantlk.lsVAM; anct. e iii this estimate no allowance is made for coals, oil,ni
women, and as many as possible of the men, were put wear andl ,9A.plentt, Apecause-,-tkiet total amount :of
Into them. Boats from the Nagoya-nutru arrived on the these - wOtiliE-be-* less -thtVat of the trims
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scene just too late to be of any avail in saving life; laoopsand_nther matters required in a hand cooperage
she had a large piece of her "fore foot" knocked Off.' 'Of the sizomposed.
,The machine-plant for 600 hogs
The captain of the transport, nine of his otfi.:ers and heallievould c0at23;500,-so that the-Stated week!:
'ew, and fourteen passengers (elievan of them women) saving of £B5 ss. in labour would afford a very largi
rere dtosvzied; It. said at t 1 captain had 'xe . return upon the orWay, even without. considefing 01
-isfortune-tci-lose%largtvessel-some years ago, ,d. superior quality-attire casks and the -avoidance of tit(
that at the supreme 'instant of this last calamity • .breakage) andswactotofGwood 'which o6cviiiiin hand
leanectinto the sea, not to save himself, but to dro‘ 'manUfaCture.,
_IA, .wo;knien veho ,tvere jeepployed
himself, and this I can quite believe, for arm tilerti''iien4c-ak-"-tliisins-siakilled coOPers,,. slid they
Japanese of all classes there is the most complete col rho& only had a Vreekle:Practice with the 'thahhln4s;
tempt of death, and those of rank, from their you but the casks which they made were subjected to the
up, have this contempt fostered and cultivated, severest tests by some of the visitors, and were declarbd.
are -taught that the tomb is 'Vie only -AMA 104.. ga to be in every respect entirely satisfactory. It would
from dishonbur." - - k / . nem af4 if the trade,of journeymen- cooper -.vgge in
settle datikeinf iiiii altergither 14thi,gliitked im su4h
powerfullitillry.+/Tke' ' - .• ' n., °di „:,,,t-ei•
v.rn iefirliivie to Air, SSO`v4:/ikel Times, of . Monday
• said :—" Since the notice of the triaiiwith their patent
, pask-masking- - machinery appearit,
_.-iiia, ,The .irimee,
,MesfirS. ;Bansoriie and. Co. have received* great number
'of applications frOkn,Pe.rions who, under the impression
that they are coopers, hive asked them to quote for
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,a6l;i3 of various kinds., ' They, ,therefore, request us to
*at*',lthat the Machinery in question forms part of a
flitisibliliint which, they. have been constructing for a
company' in OportO for making wine pipes, Ste., and
that they were Merely exhibiting it at their works as
• o matter of interest to the trade before shipping it to
'Portugal.' .L. ' •
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THE LATE GRAND DUCHESS MARIg'
OF RUSSIA.
ng—ta @ctiWlNtersbourg, bordered with
atk In sign of mourning for the death of the Grard.,
Duchess Marie, publishes the following Imperial pro-
clamation :
We, Alexander 11, by the grace of God, Emperor and
Autocrat of all the Rustles, King of Poland, Grand Duke of
Finland, &o. To all our faithful subjects greeting —lt has
pleased Almighty Govt to call to himself our beloved sister,
the Grand Duchess Marie Nicolidevna. Her Imperial High-
ness expired the 9th of the present month of February, after
a long and painful illness, in her fift)-seventh year. In an-
noun,ing this sad event to all our faithful subjects, we are
convinced that they will share the affliction in which the Im-
perial family is plunged, and that they will unite their fer-
vent prayers to ours for the repose of the soul of the de-
ceased Grand Duchess in the kingdom of the elect —Given
at St. Petersburg this 9th day of February of the year of
Grace one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, and the
twenty-first of our reign. • A LEX.ANDEn.
By the Emperor's orders, the Russian Court goes
mourning for three months from the 9th inst.

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The S. Petersburg Correspondent of the Standar4
after describing the funeral ceremony of her Imperi.
Highness, (which was performed with great pomp
ceremony), remarks :

and

"The death of the Grand Duchess Marie Nicolaevna is le;
to be a severe loss, not to the Imperial family alone, but t
a very large number of persons who had either directly c
indirectly experienced the influence other kindness and col
sideration. Under her direction the utility of the Academ
was greatly extended. A greater scope was given to th
course of studies pursued in the institution, and crests
facilities were given to young men who devoted themselvf
to the study of art. Besides bei,,g president of the Imperil
Academy he we; patroness of the Society for the Encourag,
meut of Russian Artists, the object of which association
principally the application-of art. to industry.
Her love for the fine arts was prohably developed by tl
share she took in the pursuits of her first husband, the Dul
of Leachtenberg, whose devotion to science and art "
tcllolrll, ancl,ls was after his death in 1854 that, in corn
with the will of her father, the Emperor Nichol
assumed the presidency of the Academy of Arts.

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