The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-03-11 00:00:00

Her Majesty the Queen of Greece gave birth to s
daughter last Saturday morning (the 4th).
The plague has, according to a telegram from Bom •
bay, appeared on the banks of the Euphrates.

-•-- -
In Austria a lam has been passed that eivery schoc.
shall have a .Kinder-Garten attached to it.

General Schenck, United States' Mitheter, left-
Liverpnol on Saturday for New York in the Cunard oeamer
Abyssinia.

‘-‘oar Brusetio correspondent telegraphs that two
splendid saloon carriages have been built in that city for the
Continental travels of her Majesty Queen Victoria, at a mat
of eight thousand pounde—Daily Telegraph

- - -
The cremationists of Germany have resolved to hold',
an annual meeting, in the month of April, at Gotha, where.
the government has officially sanctioned their xe of dis-
posing of the dead, and permitted its public use.
The Birmingham Daily Post announces that, by a
trust created by the late William Dudley, jewellers' factor
and merchant of that town, the sum of £100,006 is to be ap-
plied to certain charitable purposes.
It is announced that a photographer of Lyoms has
made a discovery which is likely to produce a revolution in
his art. Nothing is known with regard to it at present
furthct than that it relates to the production of naturally
coloured ;Matures.
From Apr 22 let to the 4th instant the Exchequer.
receipts amounted to £70,378,081, as compared with
£68,864,171 in the corresponding period of the previous year.
The Budget estimate of rcvannelor the financial year, which
closes on the 31st instant, is eb,625,000.
A fire broke out in a large c9tton warehouse belong-
ing to Mr. D. Magee, at Liverpool, ;.:111 Saturday, and in less
than an hour the premises were levelled to the ground.
Several women were employed in an upper room, and en-
deavouring to escape by a jigger rope, three cif them fell, two
being killed, and the other seriously injured.
An exhibition of a novel kind is to be he3d at the
Alexander Palace on the 25th inst. This is a combOed show
of cats, rabbits, and guinea-pigs, the first of the kicid ever
held in London. The prizes amount to £l5O, exclusive o: nine
silver cups, and the prize lists are now ready, the ent.'zies
closing on the 10th inst. a
The Pail Mall Gazette is informed that, according to
the latest telegrams received from India, Canon Dackworth,
who is laid up with fever at Lahore, is progressing favour-
ably. Sir Bartle Frerc has been with the Canon from the
beginning of his illness, and Dr. Fayrer has been attending
him at the special request of the Prince of Wales. Sir Bartle
Frere now rejoins the Prince, and Mr. Sidney Hall will re-
main with Canon Duckworth until he is able to tiaveL
Mr. Edwin Bacon iiublishing a series of papers on
human longevity in the New York Herald of Health, and
from one of these we learn that Dr. Lambert has offered a
reward of five hundred dollars for a clearly established case
of a life prolonged to upwards of one hundred and five years,
and a thousand dollars for an established case of a life ex-
tended,to one hundred and ten.
On Friday, the dead body of Mr. Albert Ellis,
chymist, of Bracknell, Berkshire, was found on the floor of
a second clay; carriage of a down train, on its stoppage at
the Earley Station, where all tickets for Reading ale
uollected. One of the railway officials went on to Reading
in charge of the body, where it was examined by Dr. Wells.
An Inquest was held, and the jury returned a verdict of
"Death front natural causes, probably heart disease."

A Lahore correspondent of the Delhi Gazette states
that Mr. E. B. Eastwick, late M.P. for Penryn, recently had
a narrow escape. He had been examining the fort at Lahore
with some native gentlemen, and making copies of many of
the inscriptions. AN the party were driving home, the horses
took fright, ran down a steep descent, dashed against an arch-
way, and upsetting the carriage, smashed it to pieces. The
party were much bruised and shaken, but were not believed
to be seriously hurt.
In London, on Saturday, at the Westminster Hotel,
a conference took place between a number of gentlemen and
the Standing Committee of the Railway Passengers Associa-
tion, on the subject of the passenger duty. Mr. Cobb, the
chairman, explained that the conference had been called for
the purpose of devising some source of revenue that might
take the place of this tax on locomotion, as it was not to be
expected that one million per annum could be at once re-
mitted. A number of suggestions were made and considered,
and it was agreed that the committee should draw up a re-
port of their deliberations, and distribute it among the
members of the House of Commons.

-
It may be remembered that during the visit to Paris
of the Sultan of Zanzibar, one of his favourite resorts was
the Jardin d'Acclimatation. The monarch had lust ad-
dressed to M. GeOffroy Saint-Hilaire, director of the esta-
blishment, a letter, in which he expresses his sincere hopes
for its prosperity, and offers for his acceptance, as a souvenir
of his visit, several Valuable specimens of African antelopes,
some rare varieties of apes, and finally three pairs of small
Abyssinian horses, remarkable for their beauty and docility.
These new acquisitions now occupy an important rank among
the animals of the Garden.

A deputation from various highway boards in Eng-
land waited upon the President of the Local Government
Board on Monday on the subject of the repair of public road-
ways which had ceased to be turnpike roads. Mr. Selater-
Booth, in reply, held out no hope of assistance from the
Consolidated Fund and urged that the abolition of turn-
pike trusts was merely a question of time. However, when
Government came to deal with the question, the statements
made by the deputation would be carefully considered.

A memorial window and brass have lately been
erected in the English church at Algiers in memory of James
Bruce, of Kinnaird, the celebrated African traveller, who
occupied the post of consul-general there from 1762 to 1765.
It was at Algiers thus he commenced the study of Oriental
languages to fit him fcr his great journey in Abyssinia, and
before starting he made extensive explorations and archaeo-
logical researches in the interior of that country, as well as
In Tunis, the Cyrenaica, and the Pentapolis. We understand
that Colonel Playfair,. consul-general at Algiers, through
whose instrumentality this memorlal has been erected, is
engaged on a work to illustrate Brace's travels in these
countries, and to give to the world a sellegtion from his ex-
quisite archaeological drawings, now buf2ed in the muni-
ment-room at KinnaircL —Pall Mall Gazette.