The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-01-26 00:00:00

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The Archbishop of York has decided on dividin
the present archdeaconry of York by cresting en arch
deaconry of Sheffield, which will include the rura
do%neries of Sheffield, Rotherham, Ec.clesfield, and
Wath. The new archdeaconry will conßist of four
deaneries, 100 benefices, end a population of over
100,C00.
It is stated that the Atchinese demand 300,000
guilders as a ransom for the thirty-two men belonging
to the English steamer Nisero, shipwrecked on the
west coast of Atcheen. The captives are said to suffa
much hardships at the hands of the Atchinese.
It, is reported that the number of Egyptian officials
decapitated at El Obeid was eight, amongst them was
the Mudir of the town, their heads being afterwards
fixed on poles before the Mandi's residence.
The Prince of Wales has consented to lay the
foundation-stone of the new Central Tower of Peter-
borough Cathedral, The date of the ceremony has not
yet been fixed.

A corn mill bas been destroyed by fire at Sulby
Glen, near Ratnsey, Isle of Man, together with the
contents, which included a large quantity of machinery
and an unusually heavy stock of grain. A miller
named Gale was burnt to death.

Intelligence from St. Petersburg states that a secret
printing office has been discovered in that city, 18
persons being seized on the premises.
General Lord Wolseley has accepted the Senior
Wardenship of the Wolseley Lodge of Freemasons at
Manchester, which was consecrated on March 28, last
year, Lord Wolseley will visit Manchester during
the ensuing spring to be invested with the office. The
Wolseley Lodge is conducted on temperance principles.
ly on Snnday morning a north-westerly gale
waned with exceptional violence over the north of
ScoCand, and already much damage to property is
recorded. On the northern section of the Highland
Railway the gale was felt with great severity, and
the morning mail train from Wick was delayed
fully an hour by the force of the wind. The tele-
graph !Fires between Lairg and Thurso, were blown
clowre end telegraph communication was otherwise
interrupted.
The additions to the Zoological Society's Gardens,
Regent's Park, London, during last week included a
bonnet monkey, from India, presented by Mr. C. S.
Norman; two great kangaroos, from New South
Wales, presented by the Zoological and Acclimatisa-
tion Society of Melbourne; a dorsal equirrel, from
Central America, a greater sulphur.creeted cockatoo,
from Australia; twenty-five Indian crocodiles, from
deposited. _ _ _ _ _ _

An explosion has occurred in the mixing house of
some dynamite works near Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Three of the men engaged in the building were killed
and three more were injured.
The Dublin Queen's Bench Division has granted an
order, under the Crimes Act, changing the place of
the trial of the pereons charged with the murder of
Mn'. Smythe, and with conspiring to murder her
brother, Mr. W. B. Smythe, an extensive landlord
in West Meath, from Mußinger to Dublin. The
Crown officers were apprehensive that the accused
would have too many sympathisers in West Meath
amongst the jurors.
A New York paper states that Lord Tennyson re-
ceived 1,000 dole. for the little poem "Early Spring,"
that recently appeared in The Youth's Companion, It
contained 48 lines, or 205 words; so that each line cost
over lA, and each word about 20s.
The Electrician says that France is evidently deter-
mined not to lag behind Germany in the matter of
underground wires, According to a statement jest
prepared it appears that the French Government have
determmed to lay a further length of 7290 kilometres
(rather over 4530 miles) of underground cables, the
cot of which is estinnated at 51,000,000 franc; or
£2 160, CO.

The traffic receipts of th— railways in the United
Kind )m for the week ending Jan. 18, upon a mileage
of 16,627 i, amount to £1,110,337, being equal to
ECG 15s. per mile. For tht.. corresponding week of last
year the receipts were 21,115,111, the number of miles
open 16,124 or £67 192. per mile. A comparimon of
the two weeks shows a decrease in the total receipts of
£4774, and an increase in the number of miles open
of 2042.
An American paper says that after a recent tornado
on Meno Lake, in California, the foam on the lee shore
was pilFd up twenty feet high in places, and in it were
hundreds of dead wild ducks, which had been killed_by
being dashed against the rocks.

(Ming to the depressed condition of the shipping
trade there are now about 16 vessels laid up in the
Northumberland Docka, a great many more at other
parts of the Tyne, and at least about 70 more are lying
altogether unemployed on the north•east coast,

A New York telegram says that a man has made a
statement to the police that he saw his brother
strangle the two women named Maybee, who were
found murdered some time since in a house at Brook-
ville, Long Island, The murder created consider-
able sensation at the time of its discovery. Both the
man who made the confession and his brother have
been arrested.

At the adjourned inquest on the remains of Eliza
Cartwright, who was so brutally assaulted early one
morning at Deepfields a short time ago, the jury
returned a verdict of "Wilful murder" against some
person or persons unknewn.
A New York telegram says that the visible supply
of wheat on Jan. 18 was 35,000,000 bushels, as
against 35,500,000 bushels the previous week. Visible
supply of Indian corn 10,100,000 bushels, as against
10,100,C00 bushels the previous week. The export
clearances of wheat for Europe during last week
amounted to 620,000 bushels. The export clearances
of Inrikn corn for Europe during the week amounted
to 420,000 bushels.
Last week's receipts of cotton :at all United States
ports were 109,000 bales; since 14 Septmber
4,544,000 bales. Week's exports to Great Britain, 97,000
bales ; to the Continent, 49,000 bales ; total since let
September, 2,133,000 bales ; stock at all ports,
1,166,100 bales.
A pension of £3O a year during their joint lives has
been conferred by her Majesty's Government on the
father and sister of Mr. Pileworth, the engineer of the
Superb, who was one of the victims of the massacres
at Alexandria previous to the bombardment of thug
port. •
A fire occurred the other morning in the gas-room
behind the stage of the Princess's Theatre, Glasgow.
Much alarm was created; but the fire brigade, by
promptly extinguishing the flames, prevented them
from reaching the scenery.

Intelligence from Rome states that the Garbaccio
woollen manufactory In the Valle Mosso, near Blells,
has been destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated
at half a million francs. Six hundred hands are thrown
out of work.

Twenty•frano pieces very skilfully made of gilt
pl&tina have been discovered to be in circulation in
Belgium. They are said to have been struck on board
a small steamer which is continually travelling from
one port to another.
A telegram from Cape Coast Castle says that a
severe fight took place on Dec. 22nd between the in-
habitants of two small towns. Twenty•four men were
killed and sixty wounded. Some of the latter have
since died.

A peculiar discovery has been made in Belfast. A
person who lived under the na of John Coulter was
brought to the Royal Hospital, Belfast, suffering
under severe injuries, from which death resulted. An
examination of the body having been made, it has
been discovered that deceased was a woman. For many
years this person had worked as a quay labourer and
in other capacities, clad in male attire.

The boiler in a shoe factory at Rochester, New
Hampshire, exploded on Friday in last week, des-
troying the building. Five persons were killed and
seven injured.
A man and hi a wife at Ouray, Colorado, convicted
of the murder by ill•usage of their adopted orphan
child, have been forcibly taken from gaol and lynched
by a body of masked men.
The Caledonian Challenge Shield was presented on
Saturday to Corporal Caldwell, the champion shot of
Scotland. at the Greenock Town Hall, in the presence
of a full muster of the Ist Renfrewshire Rifle
Volunteers.

The Daily News understands that the Prime
Minider will receive a deputation of the natives of
dia at Downing-street on Thursday, Jan. 31. The
dfputation will present Mr. Gladstone with a con-
gratulatory address hs.ving reference to his 74th birth-
and also thanking him for his sympathy with the
Indian people. The movement has excited much
enthusiasm among the members of the Indian com-
munity.
Prince Min Yong, late Ambassador from the Corea
to the United States, left London on Saturday morn-
ing, accompanied by Soh Kwang Porn, Chamberlain
to the King of the Corea, and Attache, on his way to
Marseilles, where his Excellency waa to embark on
board a United States frigate.
During the year 1882 there were produced in New
South Wales 4,042,395 bushels -of who at, 4,057,635
bushels of maize, 133,050 bushels of barley, 617,465
Lu-hels of oat, 17,380 bushels of rye, 3066 bushels of
noillett, 43,460 tans of potatoes, 17,510 cwt. of tobacco,
104,0240 wt. of sugar, 16,05416. of arrowroot, 1440
tons of grapes, and 4,076,E29 dozen oranges. Those
fi!ures do not reorF:gent tho productive capabilities of
the colony, *b" qq.dit7, of rgricultural land under Quip
tivation being very limited,