The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-01 00:00:00

A turtle, packed inc tight box, which,eresoanghtilF A
fe an settee saloon in Charlreton, flied woven Rotittlu, • , ! -
oat water or food of any kind. ; /,1*......
Eight thousand new buildings were ereetid in
Chicago daring the put year.
Thousands of hares were destroyed by the late lam.
dation'. . ~
At the beeinning of next year the Patriot and the
Brltisi Stanotart wlil be merged Into the Erigli4h ',Wool.
dent. . ..- .

iiATUKIJAY, BEC. 1, ia66.

Of the 1.256 children between the aged of four and
sixteen, In KtKingly, Connectnut, less than one halt attend
school. The factories absorb them.
A young woman has died in an awfully sudden 74 1k
meaner, at Gardens, Lancashire, on Friday night. She e-.
was at one of the inns with her sweetheart, and when lust
about to Join in a dance was taken lit, and died immediately.
The Midland Railway will noon have a terminus in •
London, is the around Ii now being cleared for it between •
Kuston-square and King's-cross.
The Russian troops are to be armed with the breech. '
loader. Orden have been gives ion the immediate convenice ,fruL,
of 160,000 muskets, and the work will be distributed among six
of the principal Russian towns. 4 7S
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The Tycoon of Japan died in Septenalae. r. His sue- .
,or le stated to be favourable to foreigners. It is rrit
understood that the civil war la at an end. rre Ilk •
A smart mot of a French bishop is reported by the
Fabian urnals. An abbe, editor of a religi..us paper, was
Indicted for hoeing discussed poltical questions in the •
eolumne of the journal ender his eh ection The bishop of -
his diocese, who was Lu court during the trial, was invited
by the Procureur rieneral to [alma seat on the beech"
replied he ; "the place of honour to-day is by the side of the
accu.ed." The abbe was acquitted.
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Mr. William Dargan, the Irish contractor, hag
made an assignment ; the liabliiiits are ettimated at
150,M.0i The assets consist matt ly of about 3. o f of
railway securities, which, if forced upon the market, would
probably not brhg more than an average of about 41 per
cent , but with care In realization may yield a much better
result.

Mr. Alexander Herschel has recently succeeded in
subjecting another order of the heavenly bodies to pris-
matic analysis. Re has obtained the spectrum of a bright
meteor, and also the spectra of some of the trains which
meteor, leave behind them A remarkable result of his oh-
Bervations appears to be that sodium, in the state of luminotti
vapour, is present in the trains of most meteors.
Cob-nil Lynch, the Fenian, who hoe beeneondemned
to death at Malta, states that be'" is the youngest son of .he
late Thomas Lynch, of Ileadford, county of Galway My
father was never in the British army, but • print. country
gentleman, and • younger branch of the Ly wises of Bally
Curren Cantle, county Mayo. My moth, was neither
English nor Protestant, but, thank God! Catholic and
Irish. I fare no brAther in the British service, and but
mu now living, and for the last twenty years in Milwaukee,
An old woman, of penurious habits, Wine found dead
to her lo longs at Glasgow the other day ; and on a search
being made, 1754 in cash was found secreted about her
room, besides • miscellaneous assortment of articles, con-
slating of blankets, napery, satin dresses, shawls a number
of parasols, boots and shots, pieces of war candles, Aro.

The newly.bornyhild of the Infants Maria.rhristina

de liJurbon, w,ftl of the Don SAbastian-Gabriel, has seen lisp.
tis,d at Madrid with twenty seven names, the first being
Alphonso, and the last Todoa los Santos ;an the saints).
On Wednesday last, there died at his residence, Bir.•
iningham, Sergeant Thomas Watkins, an old pensioner. De-
ceased. at the age of twenty years. enlisted in the let bra- t .•
goon Guards, and was in the following engagement,:—B,. •
def., Salamanca, Vittoria. Toulouse, end Waterloo. Mt., ;
twenty-five years' service he was pensioned olf, and ha. been r
In receipt of his pension forty-tight years. Ho was ninety- ' ". •
three years of age in July last. .
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The Saturday Berica, suggests that, instead of there
tieing any danger, as contineetal quid/imams suggest, of Mr.
Gladstone's carrying off the Pope, it is far more likely that
the Pope will carry off Mr. Gladstone. ,
The population of Canada last year was 2.881,862. -
There are 2 148 miles of railroad in Canada, which cost
121,54e,108 dollars, and the receipts last year were 10,910 C/3
dollars. The length of telegraph wire= is 5,467e.i1e5. There
are twenty-one hospitals, six savings banks, and ten building
societies in Canada.

The artesian webs of Orenelle and Poesy now emit
volumes of steam: the temperature of the waters which
rise from a depth of 2,30 e feet, reaching 85 devrees Fahrem -
belt, while that of the atmosphere at the surface by night Ii 2,
obly 35 or 36.
Eight thousand new buildings were erected in
Chicago during the past year.
The wreckm of last week are reported to number
150. The total for the present year Is rather over 2,000 •
1
Only two cases of cattle plague are reported to hove
occurred in Great Britain during the week ending the 17th
instant, being a decrease of three on the previous return.
healthy cattle were slaughtered during the week trots
having been In contact with [ticketed animal..
Mademoiselle Itoea Bonheur has nearly eompleted •
• large piseure of cattle and orovers in the Highland..
A man who took part in the captor! of the Bastille .•
has just died at &meet, at the age of 107 years. •
It in said that a Punch is shortly to be published in
Edinburgh.
The new fashion in the chop; in Ozford.street and
, Regent Street. London, is a ho net to which • clii4p,” u' • •
attached so that • I.dy purchasing a coverieg for per need
can be at the same time supplied wite her back hair as well.
There is an amusing anecdote current about Lord
Herby It Is said that some want merchant persecuted the
Premier into bating a wuie—claret or sherry—elect, was to
keep off the gout and that he got this reply tate ,
tasted your wine, and I prefer the gout." . •
The story goes in Paris that NI. Sapia, M. Fonld's
principal asustmot in the Ministry of Finance, wno resigned
his appointment the other day, and has, It is Bahl, made a •
large fortune by speculation on the Stock Ezchenge applied
for the Crows of the Legion of H moue on his reslfreatton. •
This application was reused by the Emperor with the words, -
"L'honueur et lament? emit trop !"
A letter from the association of London shipbuilders
draw. a sad picture of the present state of the Lotion ship-
hulloing trede. It appears that the masters find themselves • -
unable to compete well the low rate of wages which prevails
elsewhere, but the men resist any reduction. The remit is
that there are cow, it Ls stated, 27,1,a0 men connected with
the trade out ef employment. •
Vice Chancellor' Kinderelev has given judgment in
cue connected with the Leeds berating Compsny wurch la.'
voiced rather a curious point of law. One of the Ware- •
holders in the bank was • married la-y, who possessed
properly in her own right, and the question wan, win' ter,
being married, she could be mode liatle for the calls wlech
kbowed the failure of the bank The Vhm-Chencellor
decided that, as she had traded with • separate estate, the •
was liable to the extent of the property witch she pose-sed
In her own right to be plucei upou the het of con,rtint ors. '
The .11 chniond Etiminer eatunates the tobacco crop
In Virgibia at %lei-thirds of the crop of 1800. The general
qualty Is excellent. There has been much less made of the
heavv. black, and rich tobacco which is especially villa ii in
the E,glish and foreign markets; but of the lighter coloured
and more attractive bran is, which are the favourites of the • '
home merkets, and winch, consequently, c .mmand hire e.
prices, there is a very fair crop, actually above the usual •
average.
A eia aux dames ! Every dress worn by the 1.. m.
press Eugenie at Compiegne this year, whether in the morning
.'
or evening, has been specially matdifac ured at Ly.dis of
brocaded silk—the object of this bring to employ the hands '
which the late fashion of weartog plain ailk had throwieout •
of employment. The most brilliant and artletic desigue •
have been erecuted in colours oil • dare errand, and he,
Pal ril-rity has expressed to her guests her anxious hope that
sucn talks may he wern this winter, for the Lake of the
starving weavers of Lyons
"A child which was kidnapped in England two
yeses ag at the Instance of a relative, who was to receive
considerable property in ca,n of its death, has just hem] die-
morered in Curcinnai is Ohio It wu first taken to Sated'
lami by • servant, during the temporary absence er, its
mother, and thence removed to the servant's home Here,
by reason of the edvertisernents, suspicion was dime ed ;
towaro• him, and he tied to muerte e, hut detectives followed
him, and at last discovered the child."—Neto lurk Times.
Tne Emperor of Austria, who in his late journey
through his dominions (see orders that no official reception • rr
should be given him at licee,ggratt, visited the nattiebe d'
of Sadowa, which he went over in every part. He was deeply
Affected at beholding the various mounds formed by lend'
bodies of the Austrian soldiers burled below, and on 11171fiLg • •
at the little village of Lips, where the slaughter had been
exceptionally great, he was so much moved as to shed
abundant tears 4.

On Tueeday in the Court of Exchequer a cue—the
Crows Dutiman—was tried. Mr Dudman, whole a b 1,.• C-
smith at Duteich, had been assessed by the hicomtrume. m-
nomioners Cu his alleged incame, and the amount he am
required to pay was 61 Ile denied that his 11.0111.3 was,
104, and therefore refused to pay the 51. He harricaced
his house and threatened to assault soy fficers who nit,:ht
come to enforce a distress warrant Under these circum-
stances the Inland Revenue authorities brought the arti, u
against hint Baron Martin, who tried the case, sad he
thought the action was an unnecessary proceeding. and the
jury, in finding against the defendant expressed an option
that the proceedings against him were very I ar

On 31 oniay Daniel Mandl, a mailmaker, RBA
brought up at the County Gaol, Darby, under tecullar cir-
cumstances. About a month ago an inquest was he) I at
helper, at which it was shown that the prisoner ha) caused
the death of a man named Alfred (Ahem), by rho, tihe him
with a gun The jury returned a verdict of manilaugnier,
with which some inhabitants of the district stereilasatnlhil.
and communicated with the Home Secretary. Mr. Walpole
ordered a magisterial inquiry into the case, arid that was
held on Monday. The result was that the prisoner was con,
wittext to take his trial on the graver charge of wilful mui tler.

A train took fire on Monday on the Greit Icoithern
Railway The train to which the accident haiipened was
the 10 45 express from Bedford to Lonson. Tee puns.-
tinhethg nr: ros
gems were unable to attract the attention of the guard by
their united shoutings, whistling', and banning, of dove
amnadntagheercaorr sloe ei:illawnßth
Re Ta;lt.r.y. htf... A liLps
t.rhte,
for at lent ten minutes. during which time a hole was burnt
train, and by his exertions the lire was soon exibignished,
and the passengers removed to another carriage The fire WAS
caused through a tarpaulin blown over the oil lamp be-
coming ignited.
A singular theatrical performance took place the
other evening at the Versailles theatre. The negro tr+ge-
clan, Ira Aldridge, played the part of Othello in Inc English
language, while the remainder of the performers 'eon
through their parts In French. Whether it we.. owing to
the dinner with which Othello entertained his c•ithw imme-
diately before the performance, and which the insjdrity of
them describe with far more minuteness than they do the
acting of the hero of the evening, or whether it was twic
to the difficulty which the actors had in getting on with en
Othello who gave them the cue In at tretcn lingo, we cannot
say ; butts. piece was not got through till one o'clock iLI the
morning.
With regard to false weights and measurss in
don of which no much haa been mull tely, the Sixth Lon.
don Pre., publishes a case which is, it ays, vouched for by
a oorraspoudent on 'shoran relies. This gentlemen sent his
servant to the shop of a halter, who had been fined three
days previously, to purciwore a Inf. It was weighed laths
shop not prot euncttt butopiug weight," but on Swing put
to the came teen to the gentleman's Irdise it was fourcano.s
Oho, too, three days after the 1111112 had hem
herd'

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It is reported that the French Government has jiiBt
caused an extraordinary levy of le&MCII to he made In ell
the seaport+, the purpose for which they are required being
to bring the French army from Mexico. In the small pc rt
of Dieppe as many as one hundred men have been taken—
aixty lielot,gimr to the town, and forty who happened te,. no
on board fishing smacks in the port Is Dieppe thin levy
has occasioned much inconvenience to the shipping iiitere,i,
but those which have been made hi ports of greater Import-
ance have produced still more.

The efforts of Mr. Fox to dispose of the Miami°.
noi•loh by lisle in Europe excite some merriment in Arnett
among those who were opposed to ids expedition to itussis.
It to suggested that otter ail the praises his ironclad lois
receiveo for crossing the ocean, he woiud find it soniswhat
ernharrassing to have it towed back by lite sruships as worn
It first crossed the .Atlantic. Tne Coonannti Gazette in is
article headed "El•witiug our Monitors," slew ibes his
For as 'hi the situation of a titan late at a lair wish n
which he cannot take horde, aid which nohosly wants," a
thinks the ship may tventnally Ening something ad 50:01'
Iron.

iecu I ati on in }Midis securities is carried tin Loan eat.
mous exteht in realist the present mono iit N• t och istra rd
the h rune proper. but there is .ho the Petite Bourse, a sort
of Stsit's-alley, which may lie atoll in full operation on Iho
asphalt. of the Boulevards alter the regular tstebllsnmeht
closed for the dyy Print this little Bourse it Pi a oinsui
enough thios for a pester by to tee a man expelled lye
kick, but It Ls an unusual if pot all net., ec,tinowl event to
have smt.ta defaulters expelleil en max., no one day. II
wee the case a few day. back at the burns de Paris Toe
affair, as way be supposed, hes excited a g0..1 .teal of colt-
st.rnallon among tbe sieclulublgue and nnandleng In'
tethlly.