The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-04-01 00:00:00

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Thu Weiser Zeitung Ptitee that Count Moltke hi•
tends to retire from active service.

Mr. Algernon S winburne, the poet, is dangerously
111.

The revenue of Victoria for the year ISO WM
£3,070,969. Thum to i:139,364 leas than the revenue to 1369.

At the assizes held at Presteign, a lady, said to he 57
years of age, vent Indicted for bigamy, but wee acquitted ou
the ground of thlormality In the first marriage.

Violent shocks of earthquake occurred in the Sand-
wich I glands on the 19'..h of February. Rooks were shivered,
and building shaken, but no lives I.,st.

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Last year's income of the Society for the Propagation
of the.,fPcl lu Foreign l'arta was .14000 below that of (ha
preceding year.
The following lines are by a bachelor barrister and
IC :—" Fedi' woman was made to bewitch; • companion, a
kurse, a blessing, a curse fair woman was made to be
which " Ile had better put the matter to • pracUcal test
The art of steel engraving is dying out am, oigst or.
the youngest lime ensraier now In England being said to be
over 40, and without a pupil Ihe various appli:atlons of
photography have Iwo/mildly taken Its place.
A deputation from the working-men of London on
Saturday waited upon General Menotti Glartbahli at the re-
sidence of Colonel Chambers, at Putney, to present him with
au address.

American papers state that a ruan g Washington
bas Won. wager of 500 dollars by eating a partridge a day
for a month. At lint he lost 1514. In weight, but regaineS
tilb afterwards.

The New York Journal of Commerce, in a recent
artwle, shows the very large trade between Great lirttaln and
her colonic,. and the port of New Vora In 1870 the British
entrlee reached 2,000 yawls of 1,618,972 tons, and the
clearances 2,034 vessels. of 1,625,390 tons.

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A deputation is about to wait on the President of the
Poor-law Board to urge upon the Government, through him,
to Introduce a bill authorising a metropolitau rate of Id. tu
the pound for the purposes of emigration

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"The most unreasonalile Legislative Assemhly in
Europe has added to its already abmidant titles to that
name. The House of lords has for the sixth time rejected
the Bill legalising Marriage with a I ceased Wite's Sister.
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Daily Net..

A telegram of Anatralian news, dated Melbourne,
the 28th February, cgs that In Viotorta apprehensions of •
nenclent harvest are entertained. In Adelaide the harveat La
said to be splendid, and the yield of gold Is Increasing

The New Tegtament Revision ::otnpany, which le
now flitting, has reached the last quarter of the Gospel of
St. llatthew It Is anticipated that the revised version of
that Gospel will be completed and publiehed at on early
date.

The C•tirt Jurnal sayii that on the arrival of the
Emperor of the French In ngland, the Queen at once WTOLO
a letter or sympathy to him, and our Foreign Minister called
upon the Emperor. Orders bad been given at Dover to
receive his Majesty officially, but the instruction came too
late.

In Anguat it is expected a fore e of '4),(100 rhea, com-
prising Regulars, Militia, Yeomanry, and Volunteers, will
march from Alderehott to some place in Berkshire, where
pitched battle. will be fought daily, and decided by an um-
pire, after the Prussian system. Ibis will test the capabilities
of the Control Department, awl even now. It Is said, they
are commencing to "pack op."

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Owing to the increasing circulation of the leading
London newspapers and the exigencies of the press, it has
been found necessary to restrict the reports of the parlia-
mentary debates after midnight During the Session speakers
—no matter of what standing, ministerial or otherwise—have
been surprised to find their eloquence unreported in the
newspapers as usual, when they have spoken after twelve at
night.

It is said that the happy newly-wedded Royal pair.
after spending the honeymoon at Claremont, will repair te
Italy, with the intention of visiting the works of at con-
tained, not only in the great cities, but In the remotest dis-
tricts of the Peninsula. This journey has long been projected
by the youthful bride, whose collection of artistic relics from
the decayed monuments of Etruria has already attained
considerable proportions.

The testimony of a daughter of the parties to a recent
Indian divorce suit seems conclusive—" Father got mad
because mother starched his stockings. Mother picked up
the stockings and hit father on the head with them, and it
sounded as though they were stick. of wood_ Father then
stuffed a hot wheat cake down mother'. throat, and then
mother set the dog on father, and twisted the dog's tall to
'-'v.o harder."

A correspondent of the Lads Mercurg luta informa-
tion that there is every prospect of the Postmaster-General,
in accordance with a request very strongly urged upon him
by a large number of members on both sides of the House,
adopting a simple and uniform charge for Post Unice orders.
What the memorialists ask Is that there should be a charge
of one penny for every twenty shillings transmitted, and Mr.
Moneell, it is believed, will acoept the suggestion. orders
for £3 would then cost threepence, for Li fourpence, and so
on pr,gressively.

In the centre of the great conservatory of the Royal
Horticultural :society, there stands at this moment what Is
probably the most magnificent floral object that has ewer
been beheld in Europe. This consist, of a plant—or we
should rather call it a tree, for it Is upwards of twenty feet
high—of the old Rhododendron Aboreum, which is now
covered with innumerable traces of deep blood-red flowers,
realising all that the late Dr. Wallick over wrote of the
gbolous effect produced on the northern slopes of the HiMe-
laya, where vast tracts are entirely covered with them. The
specimen in the conservatory le now in its highest beauty,
and is daily thronged by admirers.
The Bishop of Lichfield, addressing a meeting of the
North staffordshire clergy on ,aturday on the Perches
judgment, said that is was a mistake to go to a court of law
for the settlement of snob a dispute, and contended that the
proper course would be to ask the Legislature so to clear up
the law that disputes of the kind could not arise, lie
thought some relaxation of the existing law was &dyeable ;
and, so far as he was personally concerned, he did not con-
sider himself bound to enforce the decision of the Privy
Council. AU he felt to be incumbent upon him was to set
an example of obedience to the law, but not to enforce it.

An inquest has been held on the body of Henry
Mulligan, • little boy between four and five years of age, the
son of • labourer. 'I he deceased, with two other children,
was left the other morning by their mother who worked In •
ropery) In the kitchen, where there was afire. Somehow the
deceased got in It Ames, and was burnt so severely that hie
skin completely peeled oil. Ile was taken to the Royal
Infirmary, where be died the halloo log day. The Jury re-
turned a verdict of " Found bunt," and made a present-
ment censuring the mother oil the deceased for leaving the
children unprotected. The conduct of a neighbour, who did
her utmost to save the child when she heard his cries, was
highly commended.

A -distinguished party from the country being shown
round the British Museum by one of the chief ofbotale they
came to the collection of beautiful antique vases, all of which,
he Informed them, had been dug up at Herculaneum One of
the party echoed his words with the greatest astonishment.
"Dug up " " Yee, sir." "IV hat, out of the ground i"
" Undoubtedly." "What, just as they now are " " Perhars
some little pains may have been taken in cleaning them, but
in all other respects they were found just as you see them."
The rustic questioner, turning to one of his companion. with
smelt Incredulous shake of the head, assured him id' an
audible whisper, "He may say what he likes, but he shall
never persuade me that they ever dug up ready-made pots
out of the ground."

A shocking affair has just tranepired at Bootle, near
Liverpool. Helen Maher, aged twenty-ene, the slaughter of
a cart proprietor, left her home on Friday evening, the 24th
of March, niece which time nothing was heard of her until
Friday last when her body in two parts, severed about the
middle, was found in the canal, each part at some distance
from the other. It was devoid of clothing excepting only a
light flannel under garment. When she left holes she was
well dressed, and most of the articles of her clothing were
nearly new. This makes the case suspicious; at supposing
deceased had committed suicide, the body being in an ad-
vanced state of decomposition, may have been cut In two by
passing boats.