The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-07-05 00:00:00

demolish a la;ge block of buildings eroded for_the pur-
poses of a museenvachool'of art; U., aris-lost of nearly'.
£500,000, owing to the foundation limn -defective.
They have pnly been erected kre or three-years.
Samuel Lazell, a platelayer employed on the. Great
'Eastern Railway, and living at Brentwood, was knocked
down by a train at Chadwell-heath, on Saturday even-
ing, and was instantly killed, his head' being severed
from his body. The deceased had been at work on a
piece of garden ground by the Weil the line, and it
is supposed he was walking doirh the, line with a view'
of catching a train for -Brentwood-at the Chi:dwell-.
heath station when he met his death.
Two small boats capsiied on Sattrday in a rough sea
at the mouth of the Columbia. river 'Oregon, and
seven men on board, wlio were from atoria, were
drowned. - .
On Monday the revenue returns for- theyear,. as well -
as for the quarter'ending June 30, were- issued. The
.national receipts for the pa 4 three months Iraver been
£19,942,403, a nett decrease Of £854,385 ass compared
with the corresponding period of 1883. Onthe revemie
for the year there was a net decrease of 3,48,58.
A fire took plate on Monday afternoon at the exten.
sive works of the Kirkcaldy -Linoleam, Oompany
(Limited),situated in close proximity to the Sinclair-
town:Railway. Station,Birkcaldy. Owing,however, to the
activity of the fire brigade the cOnilagration was con._
fined to Oork Mill, which was *entirely destroyed -along
with the valuable machinery it contain Ed. ThPdaznage
;._
is estimated at several thousand pounds.' -
On Monday Joseph Bartholonevr-surrendeted ttne
his trial at the Central Criminal Court on the charge of
stealing sixty-eight gallonsof in from;Messts: Wright
and Co., distillers. - The-Jury returned a verdict of Not
Guilty, and the Common Serjeant said the defendant
would leave the Court without a stain op his character
...-
A landscape occurreassa Monday at the new works
which the South-Western Railway Company are con-i
structing at Exeter, by Which one man was killed and
another so severely injured that he is net exPedtedl.6
recover, and a third had his thigh and ribs broken. The
men were working at the head of -a' gulletr-when the
earth came away without the least warning. _
The election of a mayor for the city of Cork -totok
place onMonday. Mr. Sheehan, a Liberal, was electia
by a majority of two votes over the nominee of the -;
Nationalists; a coalition of the Whig and Conservallitis
members having defeated the Nationalist party. J.
A woman who was arrested on a charge of murdering .
her child at Calais has been sentenced' at St. Omer to-
eight years' imprisonment. The child, which was about
twelve months old, had been strangled, and was found
in a drainage pipe in the fortifications._
Wive miners from Springside, Dreghorn, went bathing ;
•on Sunday afternoon at Irvine. John Rodger, aged
28, the only one of the number who could swim, swam
out about 30 yards. Being rai*d, two Of his com-
panions waded out and found him
,floating on the stir"-
face of the water with face downwards. He was
brought ashore, and means taken to restore animation,
while a doctor was sent for, but the latter on arrival
pronounced life to be extict. The deceased was a
native of Airdrie.
A despatch from Bingiargia, in Sardinia, announces
that a girl, ten years of age, has been brutally out-
raged and murdered at that place. The assassin was
arrested.
The total number of beasts entered for consumption
at the Metropolitan Cattle Marlieffor the iireek ending -
Saturday last was 3220 head; .the Corresponding pericid
of 1883, 2930; 1882, 3160 ; 1881, 3360; 1830, ;
1879, 4550. 1878, 4290; 1877, 3750; 187614980 ; and
1875, 4260. .
At Kennington Oval on Saturditithe'Autitralian team
continued their second innings in the -cricket "inatc/1 :
with the Gentlemen of England, and were finally dis-
missed for 219. This left to the Gentlemen the task of
getting 188 to win, but they were dismissed for 1,41, !
leaving the colonists victors by 47 runs. I
In 'Consequence of the Social revolution created by
the opening of the American-through railway communi-
cation in Mexico, a considerable change has taken place
in the 'United States. On the Californian coast the
study of French has been in a great measure abandoned
in favour of Spanish, which is also being taken up in
Chicago, one of the cities foremost in the new Mexican
venture.

Mrs. Robbins, aged 43, the wife of Police-constable
Robbins, 119 H, who resides at Peabody...buildings,
Spitalfields, London, has just -presented her husband
with three fine little boys, all cf 'whom, in'cludinglee
mother, are at present doing-well.
The Liverpool Corporation has offered a reward of
£2O for the apprehension of the person ivho has stolen
15 or 16 valuable works from the Free Public Library.
The works are nearly all on art topics, and are freely
stamped with the corporate seal.
James -Adams was fishing from a small boat in the
Clyde, off Greenock, when his craft was run down arid
smashed by a tug-steamer, Adams being drowned.
The Chief of Kiantung is negotiating with the
of Siam to place Kiantung—which is being liarraskd -*
by the Burmese—under Bi-aniese protection. 'lie
Siamese border will thus be carried on W6se of •
Cii-
bodia to within 70 miles of the Chinese frontier: 7
The Secretary of State for War has al6proved:of
attendance of about 1200 Artillery Volunteers 'at;_,
Devonport in July to drill with the regular trodpia
that arm there. The corps seleate&to send-jarovisioical
brigades are the Ist Cornwall, Ist and 2nd DeVon, Ist
Gloucestershire, and Ist Glamorganshi,re., •
Lady Ripon has offered 1000 Its. to the prize - fund in
connection with the High School which it is proposed
to establish in the Deccan for he education. of native
girls in English and Sanscrit ns„well. as in the ver-
nacular languages. Sir William Weddell:4.l,ra iiriejuly
to contribute 10,000 Rs. as an endOviment in iaenaori of
his brother, the late Sir David Wedderburn. Som.
native gentlemen also intend to found, a fpw scholar-
ships in memory of H.R.H. the late Duke of Albany.
The Duke of Newcastle has again returned his tenants
20 per cent. of their rents. The reduction applies to the,
past half-year.
The Franchise Bill was read a first time in the.notpe-
of Lords on 'riday night in last week; and the
.Second
Reading will be taken on Menday,- the 7th of
Lord-Granville's time and attention being now greatly
occupied with the business of the Conference the Earl
of Kimberley will -take charge of the bill.
The total number of periodicals- printed in-Polish
amounts to 230, of which 106 are-published in Austria,
81 in Russia (including Poland proper), 3-5 in Prussia 5
in America, 2in Switzerland, and lat Paris. . _
.Two boys,.named James Bruce and James Smith, the •
former aged ten, were-playing on the bank of the Clyde
at the end of Well-street, Glasgow, when Smith fell •
into the river. His playmate stripped, and gallantly- ;
jumped into the water to rescue him, but unfortunately
he was himself drowned. Smith was saved by some by-
standers. The body of Bruce was recovered.. • •
In London the other day, at Aldridge's Repository,
85 valuable 'dogs were • disposed of: • A pointer, The ,
Fop, from the kennel of Mr. -Abbott, of Walton, Surrey,
fetched 40 guineas, and Brave Bijou 50 guineas; and a
brace of setters, Baron and Bine, 39 guineas. From
Mr: A. P. Heywood, Lonsdale, a brace of pointers, Mica
and Spangle, realised -'43i ggineas ; and Nellip,'Egiother
_Liter, was purchased for 33 guineas. The remaining
its also fetched. good prices. ,
In Dumfriesshire numerous complaints are beard

ut the ravages of rabbits.. • -


Scarlet feve; has broken out on board some of the
hips of the Channel Squadron. - - -
The Dundee jute spinners • and . manufacturers have
resolved to reduce the wages of their workers by 5 per-
cent., in consequence of the unprofitable state of trade,
and also to put their mills on short time, Bo as to lessen
the production of material. The workers in two of the
largest linen manufacturers in Brechin have struck '
work beeause of a reduction of 5 per cent. in their....
wages. . -.1. is;,
The members of the Madagascar Committee
France have have agreed, with one exception,.to,n vpfc -0f...0,
1,851,000 f. for the blockade of
.all commercial porta fit""
the island, and another of 1,781,000 f. for the.permanent
occupation of Tan3atave, Wohemar, Majunka, St.
Augustine's Bay and Fort,Dauphin„
The one hundred -and, tenth anniversary of the bfrth`Lab
of General Roche has just been celebrated at Versaillis, ft
the place and statue of the Republican hero being. Z.
decked out with flags during the day, and illubainated.,,„,
at night, on the occasion. • fi, ,
The open Natural Science Prize at Corpus .College,'S
Oxford, has been awarded to Mr. Frank Pullinger, front
... -
Manchester Grammar School.
A Reuters telegram from Breslau, dated -June 270.. ,
states: "Forty-two miners who have been ent,OnA)e,cl.:9ll,
for a week in a pit near Schwientochlowitz have beep: t-011
reszued." - • • -.- . . , wwn
Paris advices state that business .
ss in the corn.trade hae-iti '
not been more active than hitherto, and that wheiitime
quatatiOns have remained at about their former lcvqa
No important transactions have taken place inivheat'ut
the French ports. : ••••• ..,, : . .-- --.,'• . . - ..• ~.
Last week's receipts. oflootton 4t.-all United States .
ports were 6000baleappinee.lat fileptember.-4;760;000
Wee. Week's • erritirte to-OreatrOntain, 16-0000.balesi..,
ditto to Continent, X 1043,... , Teta sineellet Stpt,embe*,.'
3,658,000 bales • Stoek itt:. 41-"fotts, Ak6,0100950.:A
ditto interior poits, 3f,600 IoWS., - ' -' . •. ' '' -
A Calcutta telegram. sayiA maw "rim aintic)c;:ie oh. .
small village occupied by:railway, Workmen.. „ilia, was,
caught, sent to Thalfand confined in a- gnard -roonfti
Suddenly breaking away, he enatche'd a sentry's. bayonet.
arid stabbed him severely, but 'before lie could attack-
any other persons he was shot and his body-was after!'
wards burnt. . P . . .. ..• -.
At Glasgow, on Friday. evening inJaat.week,whil.„,*
two boys, named respectively Davidson, aged 13
and MeKinlay, aged 14, were amusing theinSek.e62.l‘? .
raft in a clay-bole, .one. of. the- planks seParatetLVlW •
both boys were thrown into the water.. A-sismanlan on .
reeothanemalrebouidnt intbwoothhralaoiludwrssahayafrrdizPecipdspearinthed.bibbe:Thtiaarywhe3ewtaitis.'thi.,.
.00.The:sa: -c.:):.
saAturdcatTri.ouTsrdoisccaon%neoryns
Cullen, on the property of ths, E .
..
A New York telegram
states that the visible supply of
aranees of '
wheat on June 27 was 14,900,000. bushels., as against
15,800,000 bushels the previous -week. Visible --supply
pwieerceestawkeerneposfsset. long anofd y
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:cpEao;rrrnueizvi,olcoiB3eaou,s3,nsoo:edai4aaro:ank.borag"mtadhsourgehearacotala.nKsata4la
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bushels; the export elear f ' coils
for o Indian corn '
for Eurcve airing the week amounted to 980.0001u5heL3,...
The additions to the Zeolo ical.'' '
by Captain H. King; Society 's Gardens,,
Regent's-park, London, durin glee, n4
.4
Mae -g t week included two
wee monkeys from India 'tearespectively n 4
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presented
- a
front 1 ed capuchins from South 'America, presented- by
I.
ettner; two white- . I
by 3lrs- Constance lictily ; a harpy. 1
eri presenriti A 4
eagle (-)11,•,... t.i.
America, a red-billed tree duck ffenaAmerira,presentec,l, , a
a white-tailed buzzard fre44ll -
America, presented by Mr. Lewis; a viedge4ailedm,l,
from Queensland,presented by Mr.,llenrir X.....in,,,g
two choivhs, British, presented, hy,8ir.,,,•!: Lor,--„„
Lees; a grey-breasted parrakeek fro.nl . '''''`'n''' '''''''',., -.
prescribed by Mrs. ,Moore; two Cape crowned oraneni„;, .
from South Africa, presented by Mr. J.R. Chapman ; N ,
white stork, European, presented by Mr, Hubert IX
Astley ; a partridge .Britishfpresented bydhlr..Geo•ga- •
deposited; a hrush-tailed kangaroo, -from New South
Wales, four white storks, three European land or-
toises, Europe,an, a common boa, from South America,
a blue and Yellovr macaw, from South-4142131bi IP
purchased; a black-necked. swan, from Antara
America. received in exchange,
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