The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-06-28 00:00:00

ONIMMION.

The Uni
reports that

States Consul at Hamilton, Ontari
more than 6,000 people had left that provim
3t two months for Manitoba, beildes 2,80
.its of Canada and from Europe. Englishmet,
mit to see how this great crowd gets on .—Mark

during the I
from other pt
had better wi

Lane Expre
The Ms,
account of i
within the o
let of Octob,

A Eanguls
evening to 01
some boys I
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covered that

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For of Manchester has notified that, "on
the apprehension of canine madness," all dogs
lty are to be confined from the Ist of July to the

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at accident happened at Brighton the other
me of an borough constables. In running after
he slipped on a stone and fell. Being unable to
s conveyed to the hospital, where it was Ma-
he had broken his thigh.
at intention of blowing up the hull of the
las been abandoned. Her Majesty's ship
/Rh Lieutenant Darnford and party, has left
Harbour for Plymouth, taking the remaining
,namite. The Vanguard lightship is to be re-

resell

Vanguard
_

Vahiious,

Kingsto%in
block of *I

moved at once.
A project is on foot in America to illuminate the
Falls of Niagara by the electric light.
The health of Prince Leopold has of late so sensibly
improved that his Royal Highness has intimated his inten-
tion to go into society much more.—Court Journal.
An agreement has been signed bet ween Governments
of England and France, declaring the conditions on which
wrecks on the coast of either eountry shall be dealt with,
and providing facilities for the speedy surrender of salvage
A number of men have been employed by the
Princess Llulse for some time past in manufacturing splints
and bandages for soldiers wounded in the Zulu campaign.
A bundle will be sent to the Cape of Good Hope in a few

days.
the lice all'.b
t this not being deemed
firearms in their possession, u
d
otoscow,
exception, were commanded
tie an order re-
"Some time ago thdeadcittoizhelahnbsdaosofvesMir
sufficient, the Governor-Genara
athnte,
being 500 roubles or imprisonment for ix
n eg
obediencetort nt
BerliA
Correspondent of The Times.
pguroirviinngcesixawiiltahir
The beat agrlca from
la t, the h e a ll
penaltytrhse inhabitants
raf oorhtrh
se ce......crf
the
leaves. They sell for sixteen francs
culture of Mulberry
d.
cwt. The silkworms must be we fe
proclaiming
ltural speculation in France is the
land of Cuba who have.,
has
no legal elide-loaf.
resided in any country where slaverylB79
has t
The King of Spain has issued an order
all slaves free for ever in the is
The order, which is dated Madrid, 16th April, as
been published in the Havana Official Gazette.
celebrated at Versailles amid 'artillery
General Roche was
match' torch- •
flags, fireworks, rifle and velocipede eh
On Sunday the 111th anniversary of the bi•-th of
firing,
light processions, and general rejoicing.
- tar,
Cleopatra's needle on the Thames embantment, and
Sphinxes, after all, are to be placed on each side ot.:
two granite pedestals are accordingly to be, reduced in
Down to Monday evening the Hospital Slander setae;
Fund in London amounted to £lB,OOO and upwards.
Tuesday being the anniversary of the bate fought
at Custozza in 1866, the Dam d'Aosta, as repreeentative of
the Sing of Italy, and Count Thun, representing the
Emperor of Austria, each accompanied by many notabfli. ties,
met there to inaugurate the monument erected to the
memory of those who fell, within the crypt of which have •
been placed together the bones of frienda arid foes alike. •
The different regiments engaged were represented.
Two millions sterling is the Sum reckoned by a
Transatlantic contemporary to be spent in London over the
counter by shopping Americans every season.
The toilet of the city of Paris costs more than that'
of any other city in the world, but on the other hand there,
Is no waste. The blossoms of the orange trees in the different ,
public gardens and the grass around the water reservoirr
and on other communal property are all sold.
The most recent addition to fashionable slang ism.
"Are you intense ? " It threatens to become as popularema
"What Never?" " ever. —Court Journa4.
A.ccording to the Montreal Gazette, drovers fror
Ontario state that, although plenty of cattle can be for
in the country, the kinds required for export are ge'
scarce, and the demand will have to be satisfied with ;lege
desirable Glass of beeshe
The old Arctic exploring ship "R"64l'
a," which
it may be remembered was abandoned by a
floating in the
Arcstc Ocean by some American whalers,
1854, and which, being subsequently fon:l expedition of
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es bought by the
President of tile United States, and now
the British Government, is to be tit' returned toe& .
en up in Chatham
Dockyard. The best of her timbere All be made up into
rnaments, and pieces of furniture
, which the Admiralty
propose presenting to the Presider' e of the United States as
a grateful memento of his precise!
.ssors kindness.
.duction of the number of
Army, it has been decided ta
observe the same limit in
lash'elentcoohneee
(11 :gine teed of the
%h• its"
'hie Royal Navy, and we under-
stand d
l be obtained before the close
.i'ss clauses in the Naval Disciplines
tshtaendsetehstaoth at
o short
amend Aattv v
aSon corporal punishment.—Stanalani.
Act of 1866, bearing u
A testatrix at &Ist, in Germany, left her money to
her brothers and sisters, but added :—" If brother William
marries in his old age, he shall have nothing:' Legal ex-
perts hold that William, a robust sexagenariau, can receive,
nothing, as until his death it cannot be known whether he,
marries or not.
Mr. Ralph Waldo Etnerson, who was seventy-
seven years old, May 25, lectured in Boston on the 23rd.
The Journal of that city say: "In the delivery of his
lecture he would frequently lose his place in the manuscript,
and it was a pretty sight to see his daughter, who sat close
by him for the purpose, direct him back to the point at which
he had dropped the thread of his thought."
It is related that a young fellow in lowa was
married under some difficulties the other day. The parents
of the young woman refusing to allow him to see her, he had
himself arrested for breaking into a building and then
sutipcenaed the girl as a witness. By this means he secured
access to her long enough to accomplish his object by the-
friendly help of a minister.
According to the Official Iffenenger, there were 1,7311'
conflagration; in Russia during the month of May, occa-
sioning damage to the extent of more than 2,000,000 roubles
The loss of property of all kinds inflicted on Russia by fire
during the last six months is valued by the same authority
at more than e(1,1)00,000 roubles.
Mr. Meehi's farm in Essex will be open for public
inspection before, during, and after the Kilburn Show.
Cards for admission may be applied for at 112, Regent-
street, Londate. '
A riot has occurred in Chicago between a company
of volunteers and a mob. The tamer charged with the
bayonet, and one person was killed and several wounded.
Alt the volunteers were =nested.
A New York paper says: "Two Kentucky lovers
have centred their affections upon a damsel who would be.
happy with etther were t'othae dear charmer away. A walk-
hig Match has been propated, and the successful competitot
will get the girl,"
A great ineeting of agriculturists under the joint
auspices of the Central Chamber of Agriculture end the
Landon Earmers' Club la to be held in London during the
International Agrio,ultural Exhibition at Klthurn, for the
purpose of discussing "the practical remed'tes for the pre-
sent denreeslon in agriculture." The enteeing depression is
aecupylug the attention of most of the, neovincial chambers
, of agriculture, and the resolutions passed at these meetings,
offering suggestions as to the remedies, are being sent to the
Central Chamber of Agricaltage in London.
Mr. Gladstone having been asked to speak at a_
public meeting ta, London to condemn the foreign antl,
financial policy of the Government wrote in reply :—""I
view weth the utmost dissatiseaction the wanton invastona
during 1878 of the provinaa and prerogatives of Parlieement.
But I could not undereaae to take part in any pnblia demon-
stration respeclug them unless it were al "part of an
arrangereene del berately conetdwred and sanithioned by the
lefeetees oe the Liberal parteete
A telegram fror^ tilie Governor of Cherson, dated
the 23ed inst.; t.4ste.fahat the fields adjoining the villages of
thoblew.ka and Adschiaska, which are situated on the coast
of the Wade Spa, are covered with enozmous maws of corn
' laeetlea, washed on shore by the waves. Measuges have been
taken by the authorities With * view to deetroying these
Insects.
M. de Lessem in a lecture at Amiens on the
Panama Caaat, stated that this subscription would be
opened wo month% hence; tluat in November he should
latineelt start for the Wilma, that the first sod would be
tierned on New YeaVa Day, and that with 30,000 or 40,060
navvies, tome of them Clainesse, but 15.000 of them free
negroefe freer& Brazil, whom the Emperor Pedro would doubt.
tese agree to send, the werk would be completed in seven or
leight years.
Some of ' the through trains on the Canadian line°
have :,-,#cently had a novel addition, calculated to add to tke
Wtniort of travellers. It is a dining car, in, which dinnere
' can he °Wattled for 75 cents the carte being quite as tall
and as varied as that at any of the chief stations.
The thrifty way in whlch French public ;Jodie/
turn everything to aceonut is especially noticeslsla at this
season. The reertiage blosaoms and grass in the, Paris pawl°
gardena eeee. 'being sold to the highest bld,distie and at a pre-
glaatal railway-station yesterday I %Wad the waiting-roors.
deVoted, to the sale of th,e gree-g, growing on the emble.h4
auents. The company eeisseete4el chiefly of peasants' wives
residing, of cosseesa, and lots were hawked
down to them 'et ea lOw a stun as a franc each. There did
aiße'4r Id 'he any competition, a lot being either taken
ah ;he nialet price oh remaining undisponed el, for peasant'
are much too shrewd and too neighbaarty tee hid againstone
another and so raise the prica,"—teariseCarrespontient of TM
Times.
There we•-e 2„AFta births and deaths regigtered
in London Seib week. Allowiag for %floret's° of populatlielle
the etrths eaceeded len /he, whereas the deaths ware 72
leelow the average neentersi in the corresponding week of
the lase ten ye;vor 7ehe annual death-rate from all causes,
which has; 'ashen equal to 19 5 per 1,000 in each of the twes
pee-tsesue week!, declined to 19 0. The deaths included 12
;Isom small-pox, 104 from mesethea 38 from scarlet fever, 10
from diphtheria, 31 from eooping-cough, Fifteen different
forms of fever, awl ieone tyarrhop..
The .7,haelleta on acconnt clt revenue from the, ist
APril: 1849, when there wasi a balance of £6,915,756, to Jane
21, 1879, were £l7 statatith, against A 17,479,041 in the Lenge-
spoudtact pert
'L of 'the preceding financial yeke, which
began satea a Woe of £6,243,389. The net etpanditure
nee 4,11,0094)8, against £17,315,673 to the Slalle date in the
prealous year. The Treasury balance eon .fune 21 amounted
to £5,917,720, and at the same date in 1878 to 495081
At Irvine, Ayrshire, on Saturday afternoon, the
2nd Ayrshire Volleateeel wee engaged shooting at the Minos
when one of tbe markers, named .tohn 14,14 a, a young nuts
20 eee,e4 o 4 age, incautiously left tha mantlet at the time
wit tin iiiing was going on. * bullet struck Dick and
Penetrated through hineelae to, hia stamaeh. Death erefita4
ate; COnpie
11,-3/).c4fii of the growing crops in the Province of
Itle'oec, Canada, are generally favttirible, the crops Wail
• geed and forward for the season.
An accident occurred on Tuesday night at, Oa.
foundry of Messrs. Meeshall, Watson, and Morenneed, el
Sheffield.. While the eacn were pouring an ingot weighing
thirteen toe.% ea; mould burst, and the hot metal wee
throvng ale crier the workshop, injuring time men and fteheff
the eoet. There were sixteen we working there alitive
time, and had it not been for the promptitude wiltle
they acted she consequenees would have /aeon tar ewe.
serious. The fiee was extinguished be4c4ta it spril to Os,
othee'paeth hi abet woofits
Tuesd after4ol44 WiadePri.,:astle aria the Royal
ay
borough, wert IV a storm "hi unpreaeirented severity,
before eve° o'clock, acetone
and Whihh ecareaaeaced ehortty
• panted, by a sharp tall as large as peas. lot'
two bours the ateaosphere renaaened in an unsettled condii
lion, bright sunshine, altcr-4,ately with heaNy peals of thundett
and vivid flashes ce lightning, the storm culminating si
97trilititt.h e stot rah
twenty mineetaa ftce o'clock with remarkahle fall of hail.
stone!: ee large as marbles. After a violent peal of thunder
tteseaehdratiuneuet
tinahalletones commenced descending with great velocitth t
rattling upon the ;.et e and wind:ems and startling tb9
choonleinseeiend wesertelleeovheartel
ths: leoieu particles to the depth of an inch or two, the paves
metal; and roads patenting ginite a wintry appearance.
In a sermon preachtd on Tuesday morning at Ste
Steel:teat, Westminstet ea the occasion of the Dedicatiolt
titstleal el the chareas, the Dean of Westminster spoke el
the great inettroiement which had takea place during the
present ceatary in the habits and maral character of seameg
in tbe royal navy, and also in the merchant service. Profane
covered
t with
, oaths, which were once theaght even necessary in the case
of officers had, he ;aid, almost ceased to be heard' the,
orgies which at eel to accompany th 9 departure and return el
a vessel, wane no longer recogateed as part of a sailor's ento9"
meats and if here and them brutal passions ad recietese
folly were still seen, they were regarded ass disgrace to theßritish seaman, Tete offerteriea ot the morning and everiPag
services oft t'ne festival were devoted to the Thames trt..in' Leg
ate? Arethipa and Chichester tor poor Landon bo-;
The Poetmaster of New -York has isfor.:
an implord,
lug notice to the public te direct their lett-
ea
rmore careful',
_at teeing stated that there are often P's Dya, woo in?,
perfectly dereeted letters posted lu that cities in one oaf'
Moreover hilethh People omit to add '
ens State in which Of'
teem eeheras their correspondent ',ad" d is situated and OA;
this M itself is a difficulty
day be gathered from t fac.:
that the Uniteh c
States - •
• °east of 18 Brooklyns, 20 Wil burgs, 5 Baltirnores '
iea ee 1 B t 16
M• aori, 2 os one,Buffalo!,
Chaelestons, 4 chief, •
;me S Cincinnatis, 15 Loulsvillese.a.,
Phitadelphiaa 22R1.
80 WlOilnfitons.,
e onds 24$pringf.elds, 6 °malaise,

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