The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-01-13 00:00:00

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The smallpox scare at Baltimore increases having a
depressing effect on trade. The Mayor reports 450
cases. Numerous yellow flags fly from infected houses.
One hundred extra physicians have been appointed,
and are going from house to house vaccinating every-
body under a compulsory law just passed.
Last week's receipts of otton at all United States
ports were 225,000 bales; since Ist September, 1882,
3,658,000 bales. Week's exports to Great Britain,
123,000 hales; week's exports to the Continent, 66,000
bales. Total since Ist September, 1882, 2,260,000
bales. Stock at all ports, 964,000 bales.

The City Press states that the total sum expended
by the Corporation of London on the provision of sites,
erection, and enlargement of markets for the metro-
polis has been, since 1849, £2,943,778.

The death of another of the prominent men of the
Franco• German War is reported. General Da Valdes
Yinoy died on Saturday night. It will be remem-
bered that General Yinoy, at the head of about
30,000 men, was marching to join Marshal MacMahon
when the news of the catastrophe of Sedan warned
him that further advance was useless. General Vinoy
therefore fell back upon the capital, where his army
was the substratum of the defence, and the general
himself was chief of the staff under General Trochu.
A singular accident has occurred at Bramcote
It seems that the Atheretone hounds were out hunting
and while the hounds and the huntsmen were in hot
eursuit of a fox, a valuable horse, which was being
ridden, fell on a stake, and bled itself to death. The
animal was valued at 60 guineas. The occurrence
took place on the farm of Mr. Ancoat.
A fatal accident occurred on Saturday night at the
Turnton Station of the Lancashire and Yorkshire
Railway, near Damen. An old gentleman named
Wild, sixty-four years of age, was crossing the line,
when an express train from Bolton knocked him down
and killed him. The body was frightfully disfigured.
Sixty British and foreign actual shipwrecks were
reported during the past week, showing an increase of
20 as compared with the correspondieg week of last
year. British-owned vessels numbered 45, including
29 colouial ; nine were steamers, with an aggregate
tonnage of 5,972 tons, six being British steamers, with
a tonnage of 3,699 tons. Total number of lives lost
and missing, 31.

The Commanding Officers of the Metropolitan
Volunteer Regiments met on Tuesday, and resolved
to hold a review on Easter Monday. A Committee
was appointed to select a site, and the Committee
subsequently obtained official permission for the review
to be held.

A largely attended meeting of the Lancashire and
Cheshire Miners' Federation was held at Wigan on
Tuesday, to take into consideration the present posi-
tion of the coal trade with a view to applying for an
increase of wages, and to ameliorate the present con-
dition of the colliery population. The conference
resolved that all the workmen underground should not
work more than five days or shifts per week, and that
the best time to carry out the resolution would be as
from Feb. 1.
fhere were 3,044 births and 1,556 deaths registered
in London last week. Allowing for increase of popu-
lation, the births exceeded by 50, whereas the deaths
were 306 below the average numbers in the corre-
sponding weeks of the last ten years. The annual
rate of mortality from all causes, which had been
equal to 271 and 230 per 1,000 in the two preceding
weeks, further declined to 20.5. The deaths included
five from smallpox, 50 from measles, 37 from scarlet
fever, 21 from diphtheria, 31 from whooping-cough,
one from tyOus, 21 from enteric fever, three from ill-
defined forms of continued fever, and fifteen from
dysentery.
A curious accident befell one of the Thames Con-
servancy tugboats near Wallinford, on Monday even-
ing. The tug had steamed up the river and under the
bridge in safety, but, probably owing to the darkness,
shut off steam when only about 20 yards above the
bridge. The boat dropped astern and was carried
across the buttress of the bridge, where, owing to the
extreme rapidity of the current, she toppled over and
sunk, settling down a few yards below the bridge in
the centre of the river. There were three men on
board at the time, and of these one swam ashore. The
other two clung to the funnel of the tug, and were
rescued after considerable difficulty. •

Lord Lorne and Princess Louise left Santa Barbara,
California, on Saturday, on a steamer for San Pedro,
whence they will proceed eastwards by a special train.
They will travel slowly, and will halt at Sao Gabriel,
visiting Governor Stoneman's orange groves and vine-
yards, and at Tucson, Arizona. Then they will pass
through Albuquerque,. New Mexico, and the Indian
territory to St. Louts, Cincinnati, Richmond, and
Charlestown, where Princess Louise embarks for
Bermuda. Lord Lorne expects to open the Canadian
Parliament in February.
Matrimonial Insurance Companies muster strong in
the Southern States of America, where Tennessee and
Mississippi alone can count 168 of these associations.
They mostly rejoica In attractive titles, "Th.
Southern Confederacy of Benedicts and Brides,"
" The Golden-Egg Day Marriage Association,"
"The Heart-and-Hand Marriage Club," "The Daily
Marriage-Bell Association," " The Star cf the South
Day Marriage Association," " The Safety Anni-
versary," "The Superior Daily Nuptial Guild," and
80 On.

The body of a lad, named John Johnstone, who
three weeks ago was suppcsed to have fallen over a
cliff 150 ft. high in the island of Papa Stour, Shetland,
has now been found near the foot of the cliff. One of
his arms had been wrenched off, his right eye knocked
out, and the body was otherwise fearfully mutilated
by being dashed against the rocks.
The Right Hon. Sir Samuel Martin, well known as
a Baron of tie Exchequer. who, after eighty-two years

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of vig-irous existence, has during the Nit month been
ailing, b.,t has been conscious till two or three day.
ago, expired at half-past two o'clock on Tuesday
morning at his temporary residence in London, 132,

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The late Earl of Wemysa was one of the oldest
members of the peerage. His great age, eighty-seven
years, is exceeded only by the Earl of Mount-Oashell,
ninety-one; Earl of Stradbroke, eighty-nine ; Viscount
Eversley, eighty-nine; Earl of Buckinghamshire
eighty-nine Lord Brougham and Van; eighty•eight:
Lord Mostyn, eighty-eight, and Lord Teynham,
eighty-eight. There are, in addition to these venerahhe
members of the Upper House, no less than twent3r•
seven other octogenarian peers.