The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-02 00:00:00

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• v:hibition to be held

The works for the Universal Exhibition to be held
In Lyons in ion hen been commenced.

Her Grace the Duchess of St. Albans on Saturday
gave birth to a non.

Mr. Charles Green, the well-known a•ronaut, ex-
pired suddenly on Saturday afternoon, at his residence,
luffnell-park. He was Si years of age.
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New York and vicinity were visited on Monday with
• furious storm of wind and rain which did great damage,
many buildings being blown down, and several persona
killed or injured,

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A lady recently said to an Irish man-servant, "I
wish you would step over and see how old Mrs. Jones is thin
morning." He returned in a few minutes with the informa-
tion that Mrs. Jones was seventy•two years old.

Some very fine Dutch salmon have been sold in
London, since the breaking up of the frost set the rivers of
Holland free. One tine fish, consigned to Messrs. Palnil and
Sons, of Billingsgate, weighed 53Ibs.
A meeting of operative cotton spinners was held at
Bolton on Tuesday night, at which it was resolved, by 274 for
to 536 against, not to strike for an advance of 5 per cent.
In Bolton.

It is stated that a letter of a mischievous nature,
containing some fulminating compound, was sent to Lord
Stratbnairn a few days ago. It lay for some time without
being opened, and got, damp, so that no elplosten WM pro-
duced by the act of breaking It open.

Izzet Paella, late Governor of Jerusalem, hese been
condemned, for dishonest practices in his government, to
three years' exile in Kutahia and to 6,000 ducats damages
and hi. assistant, Mustapha, to five years exile and 10,000
ducats damages.

The Rev. T. G. Hatchartl, P.D., Bishop of
Mauritius, died in the colony on February 28. He was conse-
crated on February 24, 1449, and had personally presided
over his see only eight months, lie leaves a widow and six
children.

Such was the rage for information about the trial of
Prince Pierre Bonaparte that a Paris jounial felt itself coiled
upon to give its readers a plan of the court—and, to save
trouble, used the one of the court where Tropintuin was
tried !

The Queen has had a telegraph wire connected with
Windsor Castle, and a few days since her Majesty sent a
message to Prince Arthur and went for a walk on the slopes.
There was an answer on the Queen's return. [All messages
give place to the Royal cipher.

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A young prince has been performing at one of the
Vienna theatres for several mouths past under the modest
name of Polllitz. lie is the son of a general in the Bavarian
army, and he himself has forsaken the epaulettes for a theat-
rical career.

On Saturday morning Mr. Bedmead, collector of
rates for Stroud, was engaged in cleaning a gun in his back
yard, when from sonic unexplained cause it exploded, lie
received the whole charge in his stomach, a frightful wound
being inflicted, and he died within half an hour.
The Rev. Peter Mackenzie, a Wesleyan preacher in
Sunderland, was garrotted by four men on Monday night in
a bye-lane in the outakirta of liishopwearmouth. lie was
very badly treated, but escaped from his assailants with tile
watch and about £lO.
Samuel Taylor, the late secretary of the Birmingham
Victoria Land Company, has been committed for trial at the
Warwick assizes on a charge of enibenzlement. It is said
that the deficiency in the funds of the Company amouuts Co
43,000.

Evidently and logically wearing a beard la con-
ducive to the longevity of ladles—in France. Madame Airla6
T-- has just died, at Toulouse, at the advanced age cd 104,
having a magnificent beard the length of a sapeues, an
handsome curly black whiskers.

It appears from certain statistics given by the New
York Herald, that, notwithstanding the price of passage by
steam vessels being from 30 to 50 per cent, more than by
sailing packets, emigrants to 4merlca now almost universally
" former.

resort.

The girls in the employment of Messrs. Young & Co.,
Glasgow, have struck work in consequence of the reduction
of their wages, and have resolve] not to resume operations
until the recent reduction is abandoned. There are In all
about 700 women who have quitted their employment.
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The police in Ennis on Saturday afternoon removed
from the walls the placards of the Flag of Irelam. and the
Weekly News. They also entered the newsrendors' shops
and destroyed the placards in their possession. Some of
these bore the words, "Reign of Terror," "Chains for
Ireland," "Gagging the Press," "Who are the Renegades?"

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The Pope's money, which is at a heavy discount in
Paris, has found a patron at a wine shop, where the Pope's
franc is taken, and live centimes premium are even given for
it to consumers. The man is doing a tremendous business,
and makes it pay. The French are beating the nation of
shopkeepers and the smart Yankees at their own business.

The last chatter of the sad romance of Lamartine's
life has just been brought to a close at the Paleis de Justice of
Paris. rho celebrated property of Montceau has been sold
under the hammer. The first lot realized 202,000 fr , and the
socond 153.0001 r., afters very spirited bidding. Both of them
fell to M Lebouc, an advocate, who, it is said, was one of
Lamartine's most enthusiastic admirers.

On Tuesday the Chancellor of the Exchequer re-
ceived a deputation of gentlemen wishing to urge upon the
Government to repeal the duties on sugar, tea, and coffee.
Mr. Lowe declined to anticipate his Budget speech; but he
told the deputation that he hail no intention to remove the
import duties and so sacrifice an entire branch of the
revenue. He added that he did not wish to Bee the most
numerous dais in the community wholly free from taxa-
tion.

A Parliamentary paper just published shows that
during last year in England duty to the amount of £5,996,160
was paid on 44 211.245 bushels of malt. In Scotland £312.100
was paid on 2,355,142 bushels, and in Ireland £390,311 upon
2,579,c75 bushels. From the same return it appears that the
Import of barley into the l'ulted Kingdom was 2,255,025
quarters.

Seven men were committed for trial at the Tipperary.
petty sessions, last week, on a charge of illegal drilling. One
of the prisoners was a militiaman, and he was caught in the
act of drilling others, at a place called Tullough. Three
policemen who were on patrol at the time deposed to having
heard the usual words of military command.

In re-interring the bodies of some of the slain at Sol-
resin° a silver watch was found at Cavriana. It had stopped
at thirty-three minutes past four. The last fighting on that
part of the field was at 4.30. The watch is full of blood,
and doubtless the wearer was wounded in the breast and the
blond stopped the works. so that it marks the moment of his
wound, and perhaps of his death.
The fatality told in the song of "The Mistletoe
Bough " was, says the Musical Standard, repeated at a place
in Scotland recently. when a girl aged five, and a boy aged
three, the children of the gardener at aiallany Flax Mills.
shut themselves in a large corn chest In a stable. The lid
hasped itself outside, and the children were not discovered
until they were dead.
M. Ulric de Fonvielle, who a few days ago declined
to come forward as a candidate for the Corps Uglelatif in
the vacant mrcumscription at Lyons, on the ground that
he was too much occupied as a witness at the Tours trial,
now intimates that he is ready to stand, and will go to
Lyons to canvass the moment the ten days' imprisonment
which bets now undergoing at lours for contempt of court
are over.

There were several applications affecting the Albert
Life assurance Company, before Mr. Blozam, the chancery
Chief clerk on Tuesday. In order to save litigation, a ques-
tion is to be raised as to the repayment of advances made
on policies—whether the Borrowers are compelled to repay
the official liquidators, or can retain the same ass set-off to
their claims. The point is tote raised and settled as a re-
presentative case, without proceeding at common law.
"We can have little doubt, that at the Central
Criminal Court in London Prince Pierre Bonaparte would
have been convicted of manslaughter, and would have re-
ceived a sharp sentence from the presiding Judge. The trial
at Tours serves to show that the same circumstances which
would in England reduce the slaying of a human being to
the category of manslaughter, bring it down in Fratioe to
that of justifiable homicide."—Daily Tekgraph.
The mother of the lamented Count Montslembert
was neither a Scotchwoman nor a Presbyterian. She was
the daughter and heiress of Mr. James Forbes, a branch of
the Granard faintly, a retired Bombay civilian, author of the
Oriental Mausolea, and a member of the French Institute.
The Countess de Montalembert returned with her husband
to France at the Restoration, and lathe suite and service of
the Duchess d'AngoultMie, by whom she was prevailed upon
to become a Roman Catholic.

A person, apparently curious in matters of ortho-
graphy, recently addressed to the Duke of Argyll a query,
which his race has thus answered —'in: very old times all
spelling was very uncertain. You will find Argyll spelt
' Argoyle, as well as • Argyle ' and Argile.' But my rule has
been the signature of the family for many generations. I
have letters, charters, Ac., for a long way hack, and the
signature has been, almost without exception, 'Argyll,' with
the double L"

Mr. Cotterill, an eminent solicitor, of Throgmorton-
street, London, about whom serious cumours have been afloat
for some time, has absconded it is alleged that he ii. large
defaulter. The Times says Difficulties have been
announced in connexion with the old-established firm of
Cotterill and Sons, solicitors of Throgmorton-street, the senior
partner Mr. William Cotterill, who is under liabilities
estimated at £109,000 to £120,000 having disappeared nearly
a fortnight back. A judge's order attachment to the amount
of £14,500 had lust been Issued. Mr. Cotterill waa solicitor
for many leading City houses, and the business at one time
was one of the best in London. He also represented some
large trusts.'

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