The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-11-12 00:00:00

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EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

There &re said to be more Irish-tesen citizens in New
York, according to the C. 1311., than In Dublin.

A Glasgow watch dealer has been sent to goal for
sixty days for feloniously receiving a stolen watch.
Sergeant 'T. B. Ryle, 2nd battalion 4th Regiment, is
the best ebot in the gritish army. Ile has been awarded •
prize of £2O and • bronze medal.

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Several clergyinen have withdrawn from the Irish
Church Convention on account of the recent vote regarding
the revision of the Prayer-book.

Great activity prevails in Woolwich Anenal with a
view of perfecting the ermament of the reserved forces
belore the spring of 1871.
Telecasted of hedged diddle, in vogue in England,
has just been introduced into America at Milton on the
Hudson, by a "harent home."

A New Zealand journal remarks, as a proof of the
advancing civilisation of the Mimics, their penchant to
becoming bankrupte when unable to pay their debts

The Scotsman understands that the managers of the
Edinburgh Infirmary have refused tlckets of admission to
that institution to the female medical students attending the
un!Terti.O.

On Friday morning Mrs. Ashton die at her reeie
deuce, Skinulogale, Perth, at the greet age of 103 yeard. She
was. widow for many years, sod the youngest of her large
famify la now 61 yowl, of age.

The sth of November at Oxford, which ban in
former ages been associated with bloodshed and latterly
with riotous and disgraceful proceedings, passed off without
any breach of the peace.

price. offered for competition at the Smithfield
Club Cattle Show of the present year amount In the &Rare-
rate to nearly C 2,500. The inhibition Is to be opened on
Monday, Dec. 5.
Prince Louis of Hearne. 0..1.- •
Mks, wilo

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Prince Louie of He. the husband of the I'rinci•ee
Mica, who cosionands tha tiessian division in in. field, in.
received from the King of Prussia the Iron Cross t f the first
class, for diAtogutshed military conduct.

Orders have been received at Chatham, darecthig
volunteering to be opened among the men of the in bat-
talion of the Inth Regiment, now at that garrison, for the Id
battall,n of the 10th Regiment, In Japan. }ct volunteer
receives the sumot one guinea.

Here ie an advertisement from a clerical news.
paper Can any brother clergyman oblige the advertiser
by recommending a man, of the mechanic class, ahke arm
and kind, who would receive Into We hone* a boy of eleven
years old, unhepplly guilty of theft?—Address, Rector," &c
The Commissioners of Inland Revenue ac.knowledge
the receipt of postage-stamps amounting to 416, forwarded
to Mr. Knott, surveyor of taxes, Tower-MU, London, by
•• 5.," on account of Income-tog. The Chancellor of the
Exchequer also acknoWledges the receipt of All frem "A.
11. B , ' on account et legacy duty.

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Nothing can be handsomer than the Stained Window
jaw ineerted Into Ouildh•11, but It was not the happiest
thought to erect • &Mined window as • Memorial of the un-
stained character of the late Prince Consort —Punch.

The Special Correspondent of the Daily News at the
Head-quarters of the German army at Termini°. sass that
the balloon, which was captured by the Prunian. at Chartres,
contained so many letters and papers that it took ten official,
half the night to glance through them. The printed matter
was mpecially full of intermt, as Its... long accounts of the
distal bances that had taken place he the cny, and of the elec-
tion which followed.

Private letters from Barcelona report the state of
things there as mournful lu the extreme, in consequence of
the ravages, of yellow fever hall the shops are ghat, and.
great portion of the place is no longer inhablted. The
suburbs, on the contrary, are crowded, se are also the large
camps which have been made on the neighbouring mountains
for the poor . . • . .

Between 200 and 300 stonemasons have struck work
in Edinburgh In consequence of • propmal having been made
to reduce their wales from 6/d to Old. per hour, equal to
about 2s. 4d. per week. The reason given for the proposed
reduction is dulness in the building trade.

The Sitde takes op George Prancle Train seriously,
speaks of him ea "U American patriot,' and wonders how
the anpineoma of the provincials" can resist the " indignant"
commons to arms which he has adoreseed to the people of
France. Hon it come in nth', then? Art thou fallen an low,
indeed, fair France?

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The census of Philadelphia has been completed, and
the population is announced at 7,1955 an increase of P 4,660
in the last ten yearo. This result la a great diasppointment to
the Philadelphians eho confidently expected a population
of 800,000 at least, and, like the New I °ricers, a hose popu-
lation did not come up to their hope., charges ths onol.
token with negligence.

From April
let
to November sth, the total receipta
Into the Exchequer Were £36,3115,623, or rather more than
four million..terling short of the revenue 10th. correspond-
ing period of tut year. The expenditure he' amounted to
£41,357,642, or £6,000,000 in excess of the receipts The
balance in the Bank of England on Saturday last Wu
£1,273,627.

Mr. Benson, the well known jeweller, of Old Bond.
street, London, sued the Marquis of Blandford, on Saturday,
to recover £2O interest upon • bill. It appeared that Lord
Blandford, In sending Mr. Benson a cheque for the Delano"
of an account, made no mention of the Meerut, bat stated
tn a note that the amount sent was "in fell of all demands."
Plaintiff at once applied for the Interest, but as he retained
the cheque, the court held that he could not now recover.
On Monday morning the Prince of Wale., sCOolli-
puled by Count fileit.hen, and attended by Major Grob left
London for a daa's shooting in Windsor Great Park. nines
Christian of Schlemig-Holateln met the Prince of Wales as
Windsor Station, from which the illustrious party drove In •
char ebanc and four hones through the town to the Park.
Their Royal Highnesses shot over the well-stocked pruerves
in the vicinity of the Flemish Farm, and made excellent
bags, the park abounding with game in the shape of pheasants
and hares. After the sport was over, their Royal Highnesses
having lunched, drove back to Windsor, the Prince at Wales
returning to Loadon.
Advices have been received of the loan, with all on
board except the second mate and four men, of the Verunne
steamer, on • voyage from New York to Galveston. Accord-
ing to the report received, detail, being wanting, the ship
foundered, off Jueitea Inlet, Florida, on the 20th of October.
There were on board thirty•all cabin passengers, besidee the
crew, all of whom, with the exception of those pat enumer-
ated, have perished. In the list of names occurs that of Mr.
Jenkins, M.P., supposed, as there Is no M.P. of that name,
to refer to • .on of Sir Geo. Jenkins..
The new buildings of the Glasgow University were
formally opened on Monday, by the Duke of Montrose,
Chancellor of the University. Among those present were
the Marquis of Bute, the Lord Justice General, Mr. Gordon,
If P., Sir Mlle. Colebrook°, M. P. and Mr. A. Orr Kering,
M.P. It wee stated that from subscriptions and from Go-
vernment, 1...254,000 had been obtained and £117,000 had
hem received for the pound upon which the old college
stood. Everything in connection with the new building was
paid. There waa still, however, required the sum of 4.350
for • hospital, and 1,440 for • coitus hall. Of the £lOO,OOO
In public subscriptions, Glasgow had given nearly al/.
The Rome correspondent of the Tablet says "A
most extraordinary Aurora Borealis terrified the city leaf
night (Path). The whole northern, eastern, and southern
heavens were literally red as blood. On going out Into an
adjacent villa cormianding a magnificent view, the speotacie
was one of awful grandeur. P. MISS of blood.red lire seemed
to hang over the whole of Rome, seeetie Vatican and its up-
prouder, • circumstance so singular that the Bonuses:id
other Revolutionary prints mention it as inexplicable !"
A seaman named GIB, serving on board her Majeety's
atdp Vanguard, has received a flogging of four doges tastes
for alleged haubordination. On Sunday, the 00th ult., the
wires and friend, of seamen on board the Veer/tent wen
ordered to leave half an boar before the anal tame, and adi
the master-at-sons was subsequently showing • party of
American °Ricers over the Vanguard, several seamen harmed
the marier-el-arme wau thellebt to be an insult to the
Americans and their flag. and several of the offenders were
•-"ed uhder arrest and Gill was subsequently ordered to he
He duke having committed the °flew., alleged
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" Complaints multiply against the Post Office in re-
lation to the mods is which Its new regulations are Wag
curled out Mice-teethe of the postal annoyance" expe-
rienced from that to time might be obviated II an amount
of discretion were exercised such as would be need by any
ordinary business firm. Tor Instance, the new or newly-
enforced rule exacting • are of threepenoe us all chealan
'cloud &phut inspection,' by the stamp haring been
affixed partly on the wrapper and partly on its content',
might, it le suggested, have been waived at first by stamping
on the outside a notice that all documents with the postage
labels thee affixed ars liable to be charged as letters and
that on and after lUCI2 a date the fine wotdd he strictly
levied."—lista Mosey Article.

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' Ara Ohara Loam photographer offers to ti
pidasie sad wawa of mercy it half-Kier.
An electric cable lbw at I,ngt h been successfully laid
from Dartmouth to the Channel Islands.
It in stated that at Mold gaol • doz.n officiali are
employed in leaking after two prisoners.
"A widow was introduced too man in Perrysburg,
Ohio, on Saturday, and married OD Tuesday. The groom went
home drank on Wednesday night, and we. kicked out by the
bride, who threw his baggage altar htm."—l•hdadelphus
Ledger.

The other evening a woman residing at OstlerLon
experienced • curious pain in her throat, Ai ;hough ahe was
choking. She tried to relieve herself by forcing the handle
of a large /poor, dowel her thrtet lu the attempt the spo ea
broke, and death occurred almost Indantaneously.
The other night in Glasgow, a young woman walked
out of • window 20 feet from the ground while In a state of
eomambulleas. SM woe discovered lying on the green In
front of her master', house In her night-areas, apparently
fast asleep, and had sustained no Injkay.
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Mr. Carlyle, in a letter to Professor TynchiL with
respect to the W.. it i STICh on intOee of Michael
oelligif Suss as I have Dever react in all history before."
[ lice philosopher dOta not explain which In "Micheal" not
which it -Sxtao,"—blepoleon or William
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The King of Italy-Mu preeented to the Emperor of
Austria, through the Marian Ambassador at %Imola, a meg,
officers' hunting chest, mounted Insilver, and containing a
number of articlee used for the chase, all made of the horns
of animals which had been killed by the King.
A coachman, residing with a gentleman in the
neighbourhood of Hamrick, received • telegram Site other
day containing Um welcome inteLligenee that, on account of
the death of an uncle, he was heir to 440,000, together with
S mansion and large estate.

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"A Silent Member" has taken the trouMe to rear, m
op Mr. Gladstone's speeches last session. Ihe Premier am
on his legs 178 times, and MI speeches oocupy about 80
columns or The Time,: if placed In single column It would
be a sheet reaching to the top of the London monument.
Frenchmen will be witty—in the times of greatest
eorrow, aa in those of greeted Joy, they must have their
Scot. What do >ou thing ten of the Fret...won lodges Its
this city have last dote Why, they have actually passed •
resolution expelling the King of Prussia and all German
Princes from the Institution.
A young man lost his life by an accident at the OW
Colliery on Friday. Singular to say, hie wife, to whom he
had only been married a few month., has now two dead
hotheads In the same pit—the rentals, of her first husband.
who perished in the calamity of MOO, not havieg yet been
recovered.

Dr. Jaooby, ban, on being set tree, received an
4. ovation " from the municipal council of KOJlly,snerg, of
which he to a member. When rendering thanks he ob.
served :—" However divergent our political views may be,
when the right and the liberty of a citizen are in question,
We must close ow nuke and resist on one man." The electors
of Berlin will again return Dr Jacoby to Parliament.

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In there• place in the world where it would seem so
odd to ride In a 'bus as Bagdad Nevertheleae, omnibuses
are about to run in the city of the Caliphs ; they here been
ordered at Birteh3gham from the Midland Waggon Cain-
pany--eight tramway cars, two first and six second class—
and the oonstructors are on the point of deapatching the
carriages for genies in the metropolis of the Arabian Night.'
Entertainments.

As a fishing boat was on Friday out in a heavy sea
cif Um*Hy, baron, It suddenly foundered, and the crew,
comprising father and son, were seen clinging to tias masts
and apart The lifeboat wu launched as soon as poomble„
but in the meantime a 1111112 named John Whitetleki, who was
fibbing in the vicinity of the accident, cut away his own nets
and proceeded to the 'pot. He succeeded in rescuing the
father, who was transferred o the lifeboat, but the younger
Dl= wee drowned beiore aid arrived

" Among the mercantile and manufacturing dames
of Great Britain the mimeo/ the Miura of the Armistice, and
the prospect of eeveral month, more of devastating War,
will came general dlaappotntment The teudency of busloads
somas to be sanguine, and It to curious to see how readily they
catch at favourable intrallgence, and act upon it In regard to
their dearest Interests, when others, who cannot be supposed
more convulse& with politics than themselves, are dublom,
and wish to walla little before forming an opinion."—Leader
In Tunes. _

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A merchant who left Paris on the 29th of October
arrived in London iset Monday (the 710—the whole of to.
Intervening time having been absorbed by to. difficulties of
the journey, although every fecility was afforded him. Ha
atatee that the Parisians when he left were Mill tuff of hope,
believing that their deliverance will be effected by large
armies from the provinces. With regard to food hie report
I, that the limply of meat was already failing, but that if tie
people could live on mead and wine they might hold out for
two months and • half.
The first article of the Japanese proclamation of
neutrality, may be commended to the attention of those
whom it may concern:—' In consequence of the neutral
attitude of Japan, Japanese subjects should nbstain from
discussing the question on which side the right or wrong
Ilse, end great care should be taken to avoid doing so, not
only in written documents, but also in conversation The
tenth clause of the proclamation prohibits the transport of
arms or munition, of war to the belligerents, and it may be
maimed that this decree would fully satisfy even the exigent
temper of Count Bernstortf.

The more contradicts authoritatively and emphati-
cally the charges brought against the Italian Government by
floe Pontiac.] Z mares, Ins letter published on the 10th
in that Journal, respecting their alleged treatment after
the capitulation of Rome ft is now said that, though their
behaviour towards their captors was most arrogant, they
were only put under arrest, o save them from the Roman
populace. In all respects they were treated as ordinary
prisoners of war.
A writer in the English Mechanic speculate* on the
display of November meteors. and expresso, a belief that on
the nights of November 11-15, alter twelve, many meteors
will be visible, and that at Intervale on the night, of No-
vember 12-13 that Is, the nights between November 12-10
and November 13-14 , there well be from midnight to dawn
showers of stars not comparable in splendour with the dis-
plays which took place In 1896 and 11167, not leaking many
minutes, but still well worth observing.
The saturnalia with which the anniversary of gun-
p.wder plot has Usually been obeerved at Godalming were
put down on Saturday by the strong arm of the law. In
obedience to directions from the Hama Secretary strong
bodies of special constable. ware worn In, and, with the re-
gular force of police, paraded the thoroughfares from Muir
to midnight. The Home Secretary, howerer, with great
discretion, provided an outlet for the exuberance ot the
more taroateet Write. No le.truodees with regard to the
village of Farncomb close by were giveo, and there, with a
rowans bonfire, squibs, crackers, and Roman candle.,
England's "great de-Uranium" in the days of James the
Minces dilly celebrated ; and it le satisfactory to learn
that no breach of the peace occurred.

Last week the aggreg- ate mortality in London and
19 other large towns of the United Kingdom was to the ratio
of 28 deaths annually to every 1,000 of the gement estimated
population. The rate ranged from 24th Wolverhempton
to 55 In Liverpool. In the metropolis 2,198 births and 1,343
deaths were registered, the loaner having been 57, and the
latter 125 below the average. Zymotic diseases caused 378
deaths, Including 23 from amalLpox, 27 Iron, measles, 174
from scarlet fever, 7 from diphtheria, 11 from croup, 10 from
whooping-cough, 10 from typhus, 20 from enteric (or ty-
phoid) l , 1 from relapsing fever, 14 from simple continued
fever, 14 from erysipelas, and 16 from diarrtme. From
"simple cholera" or choleraic dlarrhma 2 deaths *ere re-
gistered. Five fatal accidents caused by hones or vehicle&
in the Areas were returned, The mean temperature
during the week woo 441, or 11 below the average of the
corresponding week in 50 years.

Air. NV. C. Lang, editor of the Sheffield Telegraph,
surrendered on Tuesday in the Court of Queen's Bench, to
receive sentence for having publiehed a libel upon the Mart
and Counteu of Sefton. The statement complained of ap-
peared on Aprll 4, and on May 6 the court made the nil*
absolute foi • criminal information. The case was tried at
Leeds before the lard Chief Baron on August 11, when •
special jury found the defendant guilty of publishing to.
libel. The Court, taking into condderatton the fact that the
insertion of the offensive paragraph was the work of •
iabordinate, that testimonials of the highest charseter hut
been headed in, and that Mr. Leap had suffered much both,
mentally and financially, decided that the justice of the aye
would be airlifted by the infliction of • flue of E5O