The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-02-26 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The linivereity of Vienna has decided to open its
medical lectures and confer medical diplomas on women.

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A great Conservative banquet will take place in
London on the evening of Wednesday the 9th of March.
The titie of Mr. Di'lren's new serial in to be " Th 4
Myncry of Nish. Drood.'

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The c.. neeation of Bradford have diemed it nem,
eary t reqwo the lads and mit lulling newspapers in the
streeta to take out licences as hawkers, 4 a charge of 6d. per
annum.

At St. George the Martyr Workhouse, in London,
on Sunday, a very poor married woman named Elizabeth
°addle was safely delivered of three living children, two
boys and one girl,

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Iv'orty thourand poundx, not two hundred thowand,
ii wild to be the value of the real and personal property
left to the Marquis of Bute by the late Mr. W. E. Williams,
of Perll-y-pant.

In Cof-idon, a dose of syrup of poppies has been al-
ministered to an infant eight weeks old, in mistake for
Godfrey's Cordial, and it dint in a few hours afterwards.
rhe jury returned • verdict of "Accidentally poisoned."

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Tueßday (the 22sd) was the a,niver4ary of the birth
of Washington, the flrst President of the United Ftates, and
according to usual custom was observed in America as a
holiday. Waahington died on Dec. 4, Ma
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At the Rolls Chambers in London, on Tuesday, an
application was made for a certificate of claims in the case
of Mary Elmsley, who was mnrdered some years ago at
Stepney. As she died intestate, several claims were made
to her property. The property will now ha distribuw.
Seventy-five towns have signified their intention of
contributing to the fund required by the British A,seitjon
Committee on the Treatment and Utilization of Sewage,
for the investigation of this subject, Manchester heading the
list with a contribution of £l9O.

A parliamentary return states that the number of
cases of smuggling detected for the twelve mouths ended
June 30, 1860, by the customs, was 1104; by the police, 80;
by the coastguard, it ; and by the ...Do. 1 ; total, 1,230.
The total value of these detections was £4,850 10s. 74.
The Bishop of Exeter preached a sermon at the
Private Chapel, Windsor, on Sunday morning. The Queen,
Prince aud Princess Christian, Princesses Louise and
Beatrice, and Prince Leopold were present. The Prince and
Princess of Wales attended Divine service at the Chapel
Royal, St. James's, on Sunday morning.
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The Agricultural Statistics of Leland for 1868, just
published, show that there were In Ireland in that year
40,700 holdings not exceeding one acre, 77.108 above one and
not exceeding live acres, and 172,040 above five and not ex-
ceeding 15 acres. The total number of holdings in Ireland
In 1860 was 694,341, being 2,777 less than the preceding
year—Echo.

The third court ball at Brussels took place loot
Triday evening, and was attended by the King and Quern,
the Count and Countess de Flandre, the Ministers, and the
chief dignitaries f the Crown. The young Duchess d'Aren-
berg created great sensation by her magnificent diamonds,
whleh she is said to have worn to the value of 8,.0,00tdr,
the diadem alone being worth 200,000 fr.
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On Saturday, Mr: Digby Seymour's two daughters
canvened Nottingham and distributed tu the public nreets
and market-place photographs of their fatht r in his robes as
Recorder for Newcastle, also cards bearing the following In-
scription :—"Nottingham Election, 1870.—Sins Seymour
solicits your vote and interest on behalf of her father,
W. Rigby Seymour."

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The convent case of" Satiric v. Starr and Kennedy"
is now underetood to helically settled, on the following terms,
viz :.—The £3eo dowry to be returned ;which It tantamount
to • verdict for the defendant) ; each aide to pay their own
costs : the snit in chancery to be net aside, each party also
to pay their owe cost.; cli papers which hays painted in the tuft
to be returt el to the respective parties, and all imputations
on both sides to be withdrawn.

"A death caused by a fl uth of lightning took place
at Castlemaine during a recent storm. A tittle girl, daughter
of • Mr. Gray. was %Wino at n tolll-1 when a portion of th•
hone° woo struck by lightning, and the eh atm fluid coming
in contact with the child, set her clothing in flumes, and so
Injured the girl herself, that, alter lingering for ufe h mrs,
she died. The chair on which the child was sitting was
shattered to pieces "—Melbourne Argus.
In the course of his concluding sermon on the Vati-
can Councils on Sunday, Mr Patterson alluded to the re
marks of a certain class of the public who said that the Pope
was fretful, impatient, and fell of ambition. With regard to
his ability, the Popo was in youth noted for his uncommon
cleverneu. So far from his being fretful, every oim who
approached him woo struck by the sweetness that shone on
his countenance. The odor at:caw...hum were squally
groundless and malicious.

In an action of ejectment trhd in the Court of Corn.
mon Pleas, on Saturday, it was stated that the matter in dis-
pute had Arleen in 1794 After the case had been settled by
arrangement, Lord Chief Justice Dural congratulated the
persons interested in the rase, and mentioned a suit of a
like character which hail been in existence more or less since
the compilation of Domesday Book, but which had only been
settled during the present century.

"The friends of the female immigrants who arrived
a few days back from England M the Charlotte Gladstone
will be glad to her that the whole of the new corners, save
some few specially consigned to friends, were within slew
hours in comfortable situations, at wages varying, according
to capacity, from £2O to £2O a year. It 1. reported at the
Immigration Depot that three or tour time. the number
might have obtained emplo)ment during the same morn-
ng.—Extract from a letter front Attatraha.

The Duke of Edinburgh made a public entry into
Bemires, by the side of the Viceroy, on the 17th, held a
levfe, and visited the temples and the gold and silver brocade
shops. The city was illuminated, lint as an eclipse of the
moon was going on, all the Hindoos flocked to the river to
bathe. The Viceroy and the Duke witnessed the unique
sight of the whole population of the city in the river, by
torch light and blue lights from a barge. The usual tedious
and filthy nautch followsd. The sport at Chukea on the
next two days was not very got; his Royal Highneu
wounded one flue tiger, which escaped.

An action has been brought in the Court of Quieen's
Bench against the proprietor of a Cardiff paper for libel.
The plaintiff was the chairman of the committee of Mr.
Ilardinge Giffard, QC, who contested Cardiff in the Con-
servative interest at the general election of WS: and the
alleged libel consisted of some adverse comments upon the
evidence given by the plaintiff before the Parliamentary
and Municipal Elections Committee. It was contended for
the defence that the article was a fair criticism, and
nothing more, and this view was taken by the jury.

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The Graphic gives a clever epigratrt by the late Rev.
Charles Townsend, the octogenarian reotor of Kingston.by.
Sea. Once when thieves entered the rectory, taking every.
thing of value that they could find, the rev. gentleman found
solace in the following epigram :

" They came and -prlggid my stockings, my linen,
and my store,
But they couldn't prig my sermons, for they were
primed before."
A match has been arranged to be played in Dir.
minghain next mouth, between William Cook, jun., the
present champion, and Jho Roberts, the elder, his pre-
decessor. The same will be played in the Assembly Room of
the Masonic Ball, on a talde specially imported for the
occasion, hut not constructed on the new principle of narrow
pockets and higher-placed spot.
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"Mr. Spurgeon seems, judging from some of his re.
cent sermons, to he devoting himself to the study of birds.
On Thursday week his tent was The voice of the turtle
is heard in our land;' on Sunday evening he preached from
the words—' Yea, the sparrow bath found au house, and the
swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young;
and MI Thursday evening from I watch, and am U 4 4
sparrow alone on the housetop ' An article, Ly Mr. Spur-
geon, on a double test respecting the eagle arid the hen,
also appears in this month's number of his magazine.
Corset Jortriia

An action in the Court of Queelfa Bench wail
brought by a clergyman named Hawke to recover £4,000 paid
by him on 200 shares he had taken in the firm hf Pile,
Spruce, and Co. Limited). The defendants were Mears.
Mellor and Child, directors, and the allegations against
them were that the statements put forward were fraudulent.
The Judge directed, in the early part of the proceedings, a
verdict to be returned in favour of Mellor, agaituit whom
there was no evidence ; and on Satur.lay, at the close of two
dos' trial, the Jury returned • veroiet for the other del en.
dant.

The trial f Peter Barret, charged with the assassina-
tion of Captain Lambert, at Castle Lambert, near Galway,
was concluded on Saturday evening in the Court of Queen's
Bench. The trial had lasted four days. The Chief Justice
summed up the cue with manifest care, after which the
jury retired to consider their verdict. As there was not the
slightest prospect of their agreeing, they nero discharged at
hate hour. It is stated that ten of the jury wore for con-
viction and two for acquittal; whereas, at the former trial of
the prisoner, at Galway, nine gave their opinion that he WAS
• Not guilty."
A deputation of the Licensing Amendmez.t League,
including several members of Parliament, had an Interview
with the II ome Secretary on Tl,eaday, and submitted a series
of proposals for oantrolling and restricting the granting of
licences and the opening of public-house.. Mr. Bruce, in
replying to the observations made in support of these pro.
posals, sahl the bill A Well he was about to introduce in the
course of the week would, he believed, AO as far as Pa-his-
meet was at present prepared to go In the matter, although
it might not be no thorough as the members of deputation
desired.

A French w.per Bays that M. Lombard, the husband
of Ildme. Lombard, who was murdered by her servant
Lathanvers, is a curious instance of the beneficial effect of a
violent shock to the nervous aystem in cases of paralyais
ht. Lombard had been pant) zed for ten years, and incapable
of moving or uttering a single word. The horrible scene of
which he was the dumb and motionless witness seems to
hive worked a complete alteration in his condition. tle 68a
begun to speak within the last few days, and two days ago
received a visit from an old friend to whom beheld out his
hand ; whhh he could not move a month ago), and also ad-
dressed a few words.

The Dundee Presbytery were engaged on Tuesday in
hearing the charge againat the Rev. George Oilfillan, who
was accused of holdinz heretical opinions. The charge was
made some weeks back at a meeting of the Edinburgh Pres-
bytery, when the subject was sent to the local body for in-
vestigation. Mr. Gidillan now expressed his belief in the
fundamental doctrines of the Church, and apologized for the
way in which he had criticised the Confession of Faith and
the Shorter Cirechiron While doing this, however, Mr.
Gilflilan advocated a revisior of the standards of the
Church. The apology was accepted by the Presbytery. and
the proceedings will be stopped. The rev. gentleman be-
loags tg Prosbytedion body. . -

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The (Ecumenical Ceuncil will, it is stated, shortly
adjourn its sittings.

The personalty of the late Admiral Sir George
Francis Seymour has been sworn under £BO.OOO.
A c )ntemporary speaks of "a man with one eye
natu) al Robert Welch." but does uot tell what his other eye
was named.
"It may safely 1) said thit if the Irish Land Bill
passe., the grievancee of the Irish tenant will be wholly at
an aud."—Saturday Renew.
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('Earles Stone, formerly a sergeant in the 2al
Dragoon Guard,s, bat plat died at Newbury, in ho ninetieth
year lie wee one of the few remaining veterans who fought
in the 'tattle of Waterloo.

A young gentleman named Croft was drowned last
Saturday evening, Shout rive o'clock, while skating on a
priwit, India in view of hh lather's residence at Edgbaston,
near Birmingham.

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The released Fen•an convicts have been entertained
at .linuer in Dublin, and ntuon.z.t the compaey were sons of
Vamp-man Rolm ,ad Leby, whose presence, on account of
toe c 'natation of their fathers, was regarded with especial
iiterest.
A Parisian journal Buys that the Cente Garet, who
line the stmrcase during the ball at ths Toile ion, always firnt
win n they remove their notion. X number 1 bilk! dogux in
tlnir boots ! A curious pust-olllci.--s mere innocent MiY-
take !

A Icon named 74follins was *lot deal on Ireher's-
quay, thisain, no Sumba. tOaht. It is helkved that the
a,siesinatiou is the len& of wme dispute cotinceird with
the Fenian conspiracy. Four m m have ham arrested on
sagpiehlu.

The 1,,nn,10n end Nortb-Westernlway Company
have speht, f..r the proteltion of the imolie, no less a stun
than £4,f00 ft the single ari..lc of no. worsting autl Lick-
p. hits, so tl:st these shoull he no lo:dd.:tit front any of
their facing points.

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Large Ct owds em!,l,d at the Cork r.alurny station,
on timidly, in expect,dioii of the arrival of some of the
Fenian prisoners fr m Dublin, who however, did not make
their a. qicarance, rind the polio quietly withdrew. The
police wore under acme, but nothing occurred to require
their interference.
On Sunday afternoon, Mr. Whiteherel, a g. nileman
connected with the River Don Works, near Suffield, was
visititic at the house of a sick friend in the neighbourhood of
Brincliffe, when he suddenly fell dead. He had apparently
been In his usual health previously, and had attended the
service at St. Andrew'. Church, Marrow, in thu morning.

Professor Bourlot, of Colmar, in Alsaco. from a corn.
parison of ancient records of the time of year at which the
storks arrived, and similar data, concludes that the climate
of his province was milder in the middle ages than it is now.
At the end of the thirteenth century the storks used to arrive
In the middle or at the beginning of January. They now
rarely appear before the beginning of February.

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Aceurdiug to Messra. Semys m Low's monthly
bulletin, ''durieg the year 1889 216% hmks. including new
editions, hsve beenfnhl led in toe t.ti dtates. Of these,
I 080 were m iginal American works, 11l were rein inta of
Eulish hooks, and 118 were translations or reprints of works
publisheel 011 the Continent of Europe. 40J origlnal American
nooks of 1863 were imported and registerad in England.

The revelations of emuggling thronrli the mails of
Chicago continue Packageahave been seized au dresaed to a
Freeport, 111. milliner, who acknowledges smuggling to the
amount of NO dolq in valuable furs and laces, in packages like
ordinary newspaper package.. A gross of hymn books ad-
dressed to Brigham Young, Salt Lake, has also been seized.
In a return just issued, it is e•ated that in the month
of January of this year there were slaughteted, at three porta
of this country, 140 animals by o o order of the CuTths, On ac-
count of their being diseased The pins t s hich the
anima,s landed were London, Hartlepool, and hes mistle-
upon-Tyne Antwerp contributed the largest number of
these unwelcome visitors.

John Dempsey, travelling. on Saturday, between
anch,ster awl Rochdale, in charge of a detective, while
the train wns proceeding at amp,,! pace, suddenly opened the
carriage door and jumped out. Wheuthe trainer! ived at Blue-
pits the officer returned to look for the nian. expecting that
he was seriously injured, if net killed, lie failed to find him,
but it occurred to him to call at the house of the prisoner's
mother, at Miles Platting, where he found the prisoner
suffering front Injury not so serious as he expected.

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A suit has been heard before Vice•Chaneellor
Mahon in which a bill was filed for the purpme of making
Mr. Albert Grant and fem. Min r directom of the Belgian
Public Works Comp.), answerable for £6,450 which they had
lent to Mr. Frederick Melton, one of the promoters of the
company. The case was in the form of a demurrer on the
part of Mr. Grant. The Vice.Clancellor thought tlmt the
case required further investigation, aml directed that the
demurrer should be reserved till the bearing of the cause,

At a sale of corpwittion property in Liverpool, the
other day, a small office and at ut 162, yards of leasehold
land (corporation lease of seventy-two years), eituate in the
old churchyard, Chapvl-strt et, colt for £3,360, briny at the
rate of £2O 13a. 7d per yard ; and a block I,f 262 yards of un-
occupied laud in New-street. Victoria-street, realized £4,360,
being at the rate of £l6 ad per s ard.

A strong combination has hen formed among the
directors of some of the leading railway coinparits for the
purpose of introducing • bill into Parliament In the present
session on the subject of compensation for occident. It is
proposed to limit the sum to be paid in cases of loss or per-
sonal injury, but to give passengers the right of insuring
with the companies for larger amounts for a moderate pre-
mium.

A duel with p'stola at fifteen uaces lately tank place
at btralsund, in Pru,sian Pomerania, between two school-
ho) a, who had quamlled about the loan of scnre trifling BUM
A bullet passed through the jackct of ot.e of them, and the
other wool have infallibly been killed, but that the ball was
turned aside by a cigar-case which he had in his breast-
pocket, These young fire-eaters and their seconds were
taken into custody by the police.

A very curiou3 accident, which might have been
attended with fatal consequences, occurred at Liverpool on
Monday night. A shopkeeper, in order to clear his stock off
rapidly, gave away prizes' and so attractive did the scheme
appear to the public, thata crowd of many thousand persons
assembled near his place of business, and in the crush tour
children were severely injured. Fortunately a strong body
of police were on the spot very promptly, or a fatality like
that which recently occurred at the Rowan Catholic (haps'
would most assuredly have resulted.
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Dr. Albkrt Dressel, the enspected author of lettere
concerning the Vatican Connell, pllMlShed in the Atkpburig
Gazette, has escaped the vengeance of the Pontifical Court.
lie was sentenced to expulsion, despite the proof of his
innocence, and has only been navel by the Intervention of
the North German Ambassador it. Itoms, Who has takers the
unfortunate doctor under his protection. That being sr. th..
sentence or toa,.bhment, it is somewhat suptilludiesty added,
is not to be carried into Effect.

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Dale Tunnel yam the scene of an alaribing oc-
currence on Aunday evening. Shortly bawethe exprean from
Manchester to Derby, ou the hlidLnd It diway, wan due to pate
Lougstone Station. a large rnava of rock fell, blockhur up the
line. Fortunately the accident had been anticLp.ted, aud
the platelayers, who were on the watch, su2ceetied in clearing,
the linen, so the, the train pawed after a deb), of about forty
minutes.
Two boys named Liruforth, aged eleven at.) thirteen,
were charged at the Liverpool pollee-court COI %inlay with
begging. It appeared that the younger al them was in the
habit of delivering lectures" on phrenology. The occupa-
tion was not an unprofitable one, for he obtained from is to
30. a day. The lad gave a brief specimen of his oratorical
capabilities in court, and the magistrate seems to have had
his heart softened thereby, and dismissed both the boys with
a caution.

A collier, namod Wadsworth, has died at the General
Hospital, Nottingham, from hydrophobia The poor fellow
was bitten bye black retriever dog on Christmas-day, sad it
wit. afterwards ascertained that the dog was mail. Decesulea
took to notice of the matter at the time, but last week h,
was seised with symptoms of this terrible disease, al,d was
unable to sleep. He was removed to the hospital, chest he,
died, alter suffering great agony, ou Monday evening. Tim
deceased was only twenty-five years of age, and was every
strong young man.

An accident has occurred to a train on the London
and North-Western railway. The aignalman at Marsden,
near Huddersfield, bad received, acc. riling to his accourat
intimation that the mail train would be preceded by a pilot:
engine, and the points were opened in order that this engilm
might pass from the down line. This WIS an error, and the.
mail train ran on to the up line and came into mulision with r,
luggage train. E,g IA passengers were cut and bruised, and
the stoker was seriously injured. The Unlit WSS delayed WI
hour by the acei.leat.

A very amusing bill, bearing, on M. fort's
peculiar pnition, wius presented to the Corps Legislatif is
week by M. Girault. lie proposed that whenever a der:asty,
pursuant to the authorisation of the Chamber, stein be
sentenced to Impfisoument, without being at the same Urns
(!epr ived of his civil rights, be shall uoderg, Lb im,irison-
ment in the precincts of Um cli iniber, se as to ISO able to
attend to his legislative duti, s; and that, in case of his
attempting to escape, he shall be held ipso Asti, to have
resigned, and in that case a new election ehail take Maw
within a mouth, the culpable deputy being diaqualined to
stand.