The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-22 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEW,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

A f.tal cattle disease calk(' "Blackwater" is rife in

Ippersry.
Lord Lytton la paid to be writing • play for Niblo's
'neatre, New York, for which be le to be paid 5,000 dollars.
A bill hag born introduced into the Georgia Lego-
. making " ilissatisfactiou " a ground for divorce.

'Mare

The Doke of Arovll and the Marquis of Lorne have
3en on a visit to the Queen at Ila'm maL

The rope has ipeued an encyclical. announcing the
utpennou ist>the Council in the present situation of Rome

Hoop., arranged so aa to make the drapery of the
female form hang gracefully while kneeling, are a late pro-
duction of fashion.

Some good soul hes suggested in print that the
London police should have • cup of coffee each during the
winter nights. . _

The Chancellor of the Exchtnner acknowledges the
receipt of the first bayonet notes f 1240, from •" A Country
Parson," on account of Income-tax.

An infloPntial independent meinlier of Parliament
has announced his intention of bringing in a bill foot 11011/10D,
for compelling the appointment of stipendiary magistrates
In all livroughe containing over 30,000 inhabitants.

"The evente of the last three months have tang,ht
Ull that the for uoe ofwar inclines to the side not only of
the lizgest battalions, but of the strongest Artillery."—
Leader hi The Time,

When the French homfeirded the Paleer, of St
Cloud on the 10th a prem.' e burst in the bedroom of
Napoleon eameled the grand looking.glasses, and shattered
the wall..

According to extracta from the papers found at the
1 nileries 26,812 persons have been arrested in France for
political offences siece the 2.14 of December, 1851, and
14,118 have been transported, exiled, or detained to prlaon.
Captain henry Ley, of the North Devon
committed suicide ou Tuesday by shooting himself in the
saddle-room attached to the stables of his house, at NI %mood ,
near Barnstable. Captain toy's father shot Maisel/ in the
same M use.

The New Testament C..mpany of Revisers of the
Authorised Version cloud their session on Friday. They
sat each day six hours, and are making steady And uniform
progress in their work. The number present each day
was 23

Dr. Lum-Ling-Wen is about to open shop in New
York a Ith Lee-Sing as interpreter, and Ah-51 dr and Ah-Sam
as apothecaries. Any Englishmen dearous of trying the
Chimee treatment can be accommodated by • visit to New
York. The ictarn ticket and treatment will covers month.
A weddirg is to take place in New York city, at the
latter end of October, which will equal, if not excel, to tong-
flhlleetice, the old diamond wedding There are to be twelve
bridesmaids, twelve groomstuen, and (-welt e ushers, and the
church decaratlons are to cost over 5,000

A cane of female daring in related of an Arkannaa
belle, who rode on the edge of a precipice and netted Any
man in the party with whom ahe an riding to follow her.
Not a man accepted the. challenge: but A tantallaing
youth ktood on hie head in the saddle, and dared the lady to
do that.

A uol her WatPrloo hero, in the person of Lieutenant
Charles It Bowers, of !id 31, Wilton.place, and I,Ltle Tew
Lodge, ialordsliire, has just died, at his country seat, at an
advanced age. The deceased officer entered the army In
January, 1810, and was wounded when serving with his regi-
ment at V. aterloo.

At the BAton polir,e•conrt sewn memlora of the
lath Lancashire Artillery Volunteer Corps were charged
with neglecting to pay the guinea for which they were liable,
In conseghence of not attending the requisite number of
drills to obtain the Government capitation grant. 1 hey
were all ordered to pay the money with not,; in default,
fourteen days' imprisonment.
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Oo Saturday an inquest was held on the body of
Thompson, who was enffocated while engaged with
several others In cleaning out a well at the CI reenbank Alkali
Works, St Rehm. The jay highly ermine Wed the conduct
of John Toland, who volunteered to derend into the well
with a chain fastened round him, mid at the ri.k of his own
life succeeded in rescuing four men alive and bringing up the
body of Thompson. A verdict if Ac,l lentil death was
agreed to.

It Imo always been the custom in the Jewish
synagogues for the men and women to sit apart—a hit oi
discipline which George Fox borrowed for his (I,sairer con.
gregatious, MA one which they still observe in. Jews of
tan Francisco, by a vote of tb to 24, have abolished the TWO,
and henceforth the sons and daughters of Israel will sit side
by side in that city, and speedily no doubt, elsewhere. The
fact is an Interesting one, as further pruning the tendency of
mete to outgrow Ritualistic laws whlch may have a certain
value in the infancy of faith.

The Modern 2 Ainker, a Now Volk magazine, is
prin, ed in as many colour* as adorned Joseph'' coat ; the
editor di Oaring it PS MD opinion that mere blank and white
as mediums for the conveyance of information are " simply
int amons." lint the type in which the slew magazine ap-
pears Is nothing to the splendour of its diction. In an article
on "Its Scientific Basis of Toeology," the author says
" History is the struggle of the human in the direction of
aheauthropy, eventuating in incantation, owl having for its
end the ultimate lostorical syntinesls of the human with the
Godcousclonsneu."
Oa Monday, a deputation, principally composed of
medical men, wisit,vd open Sir. Gold en, President of the
Poor Law Board, with the view of urging the Government
to adopt a plan of reglitration of disease In connection with
the system of Poor Law medical relief, and the relief afforded
at public hospitals and dispensaries. This, it was proposed,
should he done at the public cost, as being necessary for the
proper nimiristratt n of medical relief, and before any
sanitary legislation could take place. Mr. Goschen readily
admitted the value of registration of disease, but thought it
would not be desirable to take any steps In the matter until
the report of the Royal Commissioners had been made,
Caleb he balloted might It before the end Of the year.

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Large numbers of horses are being daily shipped
from Southampton to Franca.
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Tbs "kilt" mania seems to be spreading in London.
According t‘_. a London paper •' • new fourth hit creep L,,y
of volunteers" la la agrfrse of formation.

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Many hunrn 11,v1 not elapsed after the Italirn cent:.
t'ait! of Rome before the wells of the city were p,a,arue I
with naiccs of the ltalho translation of Lothair.

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The NouvelLis of Rouen sayo that about 4,000 Irish
volunteers, all well armed and equippe!, are expected nt
Cherbourg.
In the hearing of a ease at the Liverpool pole.
court the other day It WBA stated tlio, a youth of sixteen,
named May, tad married a matron of flity,ne. Remarkable
to relate, the pair lived unhappily !
Oa Wedneoday morning a Datcb ochooner, laden
with wood, drifted into Wick Bay and sank. lie boy was
saved, but the rest of the mew, four In number, are Sup-
posed to have been drowned.
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A Nottingham firm have brought out a new glove
with • Docket on the inside of the palm, to suit the habit
indulgri in by the fair sex of carrying money in that
position.
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A gentleman tvll3 announces in The Times that he
has charged his name, natee that he bee done es " in de-
ference to the wish" of a person "who died in the year
Al). "

It appears that the Enaprest;, after leaving the
Tuileries, passed the night at the house of the Paris dentist,
Evans. He took her in his carriage seventy toilet to the
coast, and accompanied her to England.
Some idea can be formed of the immense cost of
arming a fort with effective artillery, when iii. atated that a
12 ton muzzle-loading rifted gun of the Fraser pattern, with
its carriage and platform complete, coats about £1 200.

A circular from Gambetta orders the railway corn-
pan es to orotnise special services day and night for the
conveyance of troops and material when required by the
Government.

At Navan, county Meath, two German ladies who
support themselves by teaching, were recently attacked by a
mob, and their windows broken. The magistrates hares
sentenuid the rioters to two months' Imprisonment.

"Among the won&re of 1870 will long be remem-
bered the tact that dukes, earls, and ether noblemen have
figured in tlc nankruptcy Court. Many nobleman display
placards to their wardens, ' Keep elf the tuif ' What a
happiness would it be If they followed their own command !

Mr A Mill contradictm a report that he had left
London for Avignon. to ensure the gaiety of manuecripis
and other valruinie property." Mr. Mill nye that be hen not
been In France since the leclaration of arr, and that be has
neither intention nor need to take any such 'mamma.

An authoritative denial is given by the Ilsone-ottiest
to the Atement made In a rFport addreaseo to the Emperor
of the French by the Director General of the Secret Pollee of
the Empire that an agent of that body in London belonged to
the Metropolitan Police.

The Siandsrd ia authorised to give a droplets eon.
tradiction to the statement contained lu the letter of the
respondent of the Doi! y Ne.., at Tours to the effect that
the Empress of the French was cognizant of the mahieuete
by which General notarbaki was Induced to quit Mete.
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Gonood, the composer, hie wife and two children
are living in the suburbs of London, in the utmost privacy.
Whether his viLit Los yet escaped the pillage of the enemy,
we are not interned. Much sympathy Is felt for the corn-
viler of Fatat, thus exiled from his native country, at •
time when engaged In a new opera of grand design, rtquirlog
tLc raeditatiou of an undisturbed Mind.

A fat :it carriage accident happened on Saturday to a
Russian gentiewan named Foda, who acted aff steward to
the Empress Eugenie at Chislehurst He was driving with
his wife In a phaeton at tham, when the horse took fright
end darted off at a rapid pace, the cumpauts being thrown
from the vehicle. Mr. Pods was killed on the spot, and
his wife was severely cut about the head and face.
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It has been deierrnined at a preliminvy meetinr,
held in Luldon, to establish a aociety. on the model of simi-
lar institutions which exist in France, to be called the
"Infant Life Protettion Society. Its first object will be the
promotion of a Bill In Parliament for the registration and
Nupenision of nurses who receive children into their liquid,
and of the children entrusted to their care.

From April 1 to October 15 the total receipte into
the Exchequer amounted to F3%457,956, or nearly four
tteracg short of the revenue in the corresponding
period of last year. The expenditure has been £30,905,332,
of which m.or than seventeen millions and a half have
gone toewrds the interest on the national debt The
balance in the Bank of England on Saturday Wit was