The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-12-02 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

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The Time.:
The ex-Queen. Isabella of Spain is suffering from an
attack of bilious fever, and is confined to her bed.
The Glasgow magistrates have resolved to enter 'on
a fresh crusade against stray and unmuzzled dogs, a number
of persons having been bitten within the last few days.
The names of 132 young women had been entered
up to the 10th of October as students of the Faculty of Medi-
cine at St. Petersburg.
A student ira Paris, after passing three years in the
Latin Quarter, wrote to his father as follows :—" I have made
up my mind to set to work, dear father ; therefore I should
like to know whether it was law or medicine that I came to
Paris to study 1"
Me. John Craufield, of Elstow, while out shooting,
and getting through a hedge, drew his gun after him; It
exploded, and the charge entered his left thigh. Amputation
took place, but he died from the loss of blood.
Miss Sarah Purchase Griffiths, a young English-
woman, who has been educated et Fontainebleau, has passed
the matriculation examination of Paris and will attend the
Sorbonne Lectures, in order to obtaka alicenciatel, degree in
Natural Science.
The Imperial Library at St. Petersburg has been
enriched by a munificent gift from Prince VotsChonberg of
30,000 works on classical and political subjects by distin-
guished writers. • ,
The Berlin papers express a deep sense of the com-
pliment paid to Germany by Mr. Carlyle n.proposing ,that
Prince Bismarck should act as arbttratortbn the Esitern
(lactation. They doubt, howevpr,,the ptioticability of the
.proposal. • 4,
, A. boiler explosion took place on Tuesday night at
Kibblesworth Colliery, in the county of Durham, by which
two men were killed and six injured. The boiler was one of
five in the engine-house at the mouth of the pit.

The Duchess of Edinburgh gave birth to a daughter
on Saturday evening at Malta, which wakes her Majest3's
sixteenth granddaughtei and twenty-fifth grandchild.—A
Petersburg telegram to the Russian agency in Paris states
that the Duchess of Edinburgh's daughter has been named
Victoria. ,
Toe Sanitary Record commends the following state-
ment to the consideration of Mr. Gladstone, in the hope-that
It may tend to influence his "open "mind in the direction to
which the facts recorded unmistakably point. The Registrar
General in his last report informs the public that among the
vaccinated cases treated this year the mortality has been 13
per cent., whereas among the unvaccinated cases it has been
equal to 37 per cent.
On Saturday, at midnight, Robert Roes, a plumber,
agad twenty, climbed to a kitchen window of the third flit of
a house in George's•road, Glasgow, and while tapping on the
pane to attract the attention of his sweetheart, the servant of
the house, he fell backwards into a sunken area. Pia was
lifted up insensible, and conveyed to the Western Ibilcmary,
where he died shortly ufterwards.

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The Prase, a Vienna • journal, says Prince Bismarck
told Edhem Pasha prior to his departure for Constantinople
that the Porte would do well to give in, otherwise war
would become unavoidable. Prince Bismarck is further
said to have advised the abandonment of the Treaty of Paris,
and:the concession of the guarantees claimed, as the honour
of Russia is too deeply engaged for her to be satisfied with
stride.
Speaking on 'Wednesday night at a banquet given
by the Mayor of Liverpool, Lord Bandon said that from his
observation of Turkey, and its dlveraities of -race and creed,
war would be the direst calamity. He advised in this na-
tional crisis that Englishmen should seek not to embarrass
the Government by fastening too much upon any points of
disagreement.
A letter received in Plymouth mentions that during
a snipe-shooting expedition near Hong-kong, Lieutenant
Bower, of H.M.S. Nassau, baying accidentally loaded his gun
with ball cartridge instead of small shot, and fatally woueded
a Chinaman 300 yards distant, the villagers turned out and
took him prisoner. Our Consul at Canton was communicated
with, and -the detention of the officer being pronounced
illegal, Commander Napier of the Nassau, with a steam
launch proceeded to the spot and obtained the lieutenant's
release on paying 200 dole. compensation.
On the 22nd of November, ~a Boulogne fishing. boat,
while cruising six nailer south-west of Dungeness, picked up
a large water spaniel, swimming in the water. It was a fine
animal, which had probably either fallen or jumped over-
board from some vessel passing up or down Channel. The
dog had a leather collar, with a brass plate engraved "D V.
Gl., 6, Oxford-terrace, .Manchester. road, Isle of Dogs." The
Contmissaire de let Marine took possession of the dog u
wreckage. picked up at sea. 17ett
An official despatch sent by the Turkish Minister for
Foreign Affairs to the representives of the Porte abroad statai
that 950 houses have been rebuilt in the burnt villages (4...
Bulgaria, and that 810 more are in course of constructiope,
The necessary measures have also been taken, it is added','
for giving assistance of every kind to the necessitous, in-"
eluding agricultural implements, and money advances to the
peasants.
In London, on Tuesday morning, shortly before
nine o'clock, a refost determined suicide was cemmitted by a
young woman of respectable appearance from the Whitehall
Stairs, Victoria Embankment. She was noticed standing on
the top step, when ail ot a sudden she ran down the stairs
ard leepei into the Thames and was drowned. Thu Th4mes
police were communicated with; and commenced dragging
for the body, which they failed to recover'.
The Madras -Mail has received a telegram from
Cochin, dated October 23, Announcing a fatal aecidsnt to a
lady :—Mrs. Stevenson, wife of the Conservator of Forests,
Cochin, was killed by a wild elephant on Thursday, at Palapul!y, near Trachoor. She was travelling with her husband
on horseback with. a number of coolies when the elephant
suddenly anpeured. Mrs. Stevenson being heightened, jumped
off tier peels and fell, and before she could get out of the
woes', the s iephant rushed on and trod on her neck. Death
was instantaneaus.
A terrific explosion, by which ten men were fearfully
injured, took place on Wedneeday morning on beard the
Allen. steamer Prussian, lying in the Wellington Dackr,
Liverpool, loading for Portland. The lower h6ld was being
filled with coal, ad there were a number of laboarets engaged
In trimming it, when about a quarter weight o'clock an explo-
sion occurred, blowing up the lo'wer deck and hurling the
men about in all- directions. Assistance was speedily
rendered by the shore gang, and ten poor fellows were taken
.out terribly mutilated, and removed to hospitaL It is feared
some will not recover. The explosion is attributed to an
accumulation of coal-gas fired by a neked light. ez..se
"I am told that three Russian officers of rank,
bringing letters of introduction from their embassy in London,
visited Portsmouth this week. They were shown all over
the dockyard, allowed to inspect all the ships they wished to
see, and made a very minute inquiry into all that concerns
our new torpedoes and how they are used. And this on the
eve of aby no means improbable war with Russia! What
; . ARCTIC -ItILLOONING. would have been said to any English officers who asked leave
at the present time to inspect any Russian dockyard or
~. . ;
. Rimini toreedoes ? "—" Through the
.Looking-Glass," in the
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Mr. Usury-. Cox well, 'Tottenham, writes •to the Daily - Whitehall Review. :-.0.:, fI; .:: ...,•: , ,
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Netts: ~,,. ' . .. = 1., •- ••- ~ - , •••'' " A pre-entation by the underwriters, onroprwng a i
" In, attempting to solve , the problem of a balloon silver service and a purse of sovereigns. was, on liaeday
to Captain Daniel Duna, 4:ll3tlgeOlietitlntiess` of Dublin (British
route to. the Isfpxth, Pole, ,aeroustits- should not, forget
the :formidable horner*. to simeers which would
daring to reecaingthe La . E i y g moult, and hr..iiltor her into
ausutedly encountered in the way of reduced tempera- . curt in a Storm. Watches Weft: ales) given to tbe officers and
ture,, huge - icebergs,_ and glacial impediments. If a week's wages to the crew, the occasion being celebrated bv
Oaaffrier obiNatt tall'. in
jo. and Trial:Steam Service) d
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.courage
and
through' ignorance tir a want of judgment-these points a dinner at which the underwriters and respective owner-a'
are lust sight of, any, efforts in this' dinction -would were severally reerrosett.tgtik,kocl gAllotfAxTur.Prani,
Ni:t.:l3e.egs:Ae:
prove abortive.- 'There are no doubt those who will were highlY land ed.
glibly talk of the easy way imwhieh balloons could be.: Advices from India announce the death, fromloss-of
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spheNic conditions on 'ilk cloth or iudiarubber fabrics nit henna lu the village.: near Nawad
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with those who have well considered the matter, there ryots, wweneteintinsgearoh of it. The tiger was soon fontd, antt,':
le jueV one course of procedure which might enable on bc.ing fired at, at once. sprang upon Mr. Langdon..and;:
the aerostatic art to co-operate In the hoisting. the vasnisd him severeiy. He was able to flea some shote from
English flag on the earth's polar axis and to return with a piStol, but'hyttnt time the tiger was driven off Mr. Langdon ,
wall. deid.-•,, l' '-‘,- ,
a eair wind over icehelds in a similar- way. --Some --- t - . ' - . . .
crude suggestions havubeen already thrown out, but 1 .• At .
of the, committee of S. John's 'Hoe- '
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