The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-07-10 00:00:00

The marriage of Viscount Petersham, um ef the
Earl of Harrington, with the lion. Eva carington. was
,demnised tin Monday morning, at St. Martin's-m-the-Eields
Church, London.
It has been announced, by telegraph from New York,
that Mr. Peabody has given a million of dollars to the
s..ethere Ehtontional Fund, in addition to his previous
donati.ots.—Mr. Peabody livery ill.
'the Wilmington Illieoii Independent says :—.A.
printer last week proposed to go into partnership with us.
lilt name is Doolittle. The firm name would sound very
had either way you put it, " Steal and Do Little," or Do
Little and Stesl." We can't fine. One of us would soon be
m the poothonee, and the other in the penitentiary.
A paper called the araashopper will appear during
the Wimbledon meeting.
The precise title of the Viceroy of Egypt has excited
some curiosity among the public, mid we take the oppor-
t 111 l ity of informing our readers that the exact designation of
this potentate is Ehiclivi Miser. The almanac of Gotha fur
lsen glen the incorrect orthography, hedervi-el-Nlasr.
Kindle' IS a Persian word signifying sovereign ; Miser is the
Arabic word for Egypt.
A short time ago the chief cook at the Trafalgar
Hotel, Greenwich, was °auricled of cruelty to a duo, and
sentenced by a London polke-magistrate to three months
hard labour lie was proceeding on horseback through the
Camberwell New.road, When the dog, a half-bred epaulet,
barked at the horse's htels. Me alighted, and killed the dog
by dashing its head against swan. From the decision in the
police-court the defendant appealed to the justices at the
Surrey Sessions, who have quashed the conviction.
A fatal accident has occurred on Tooting.eomuson.
Sonic men were playing at what is popularly know. ea
"three spells a penny " for cocoanuts. Alitck thrown by
one of the p ayers, struck a ',antis woman who was posing,
on the head, causing shoot instant death.
An act of courage on the part of • young woman was
mentioned at the YI nldiesex ',mann cni Inesday 1, rtittlan
was assaulting a police-constable and had alintht suffocated
him, when the young woman, who happened to he passing,
came to the policeman's rescue, and relented his throat from
the grasp of his assailant. She was warnliy complimented
by the Assistant-Judge, who ordered her a salon peemaary

reward.
At a meeting of the Cork Town Council, on Mon.
day, at which fitly members were present, a resolutiou wag
unanimously passed calling upon the Government to release
the Pentane who are still Is prison. A •• monster meeting •
Into be convened on Sundey next, at Mallow, to cmdeinn the
language used by the Attorney• General for Ireland dunug
the recent discussion on Mr. Moore's motion
The Arnie and Nary Gazette complains that while
fourteen generals, sietema colonels, and two majors repre-
sented the army at the recent breakfast at Brehm:ham
Palace, the only naval Aide? present besides the Earl of
Lauderdale, who was there in his capacity of a Peer, and
aidedecamp to the Queen, was Staff. Commander Welch.
An application was made to Mr. Baron Martin at
the Judges' Chambers on Monday on the part pf the peti-
tioners in the late hull election petition to draw the dl.' lb
deposit out of the Bank of England. His lordship niade the
order, without prejudice to any application on the tette of
the sitting members for costs.
The following advertisement (which appeared in a
London contemporary) although brief, is pregnant with
meaning George. Poor fool. your curses to ins are like
Bank of England notes in my pocket."
Some years ago the Emperor of the French was
astonished at the great space occupied by flour when snicked
in sticks in the usual manner, and imagined that it marae lie
compressed into a much smaller bulk, and be thus rendered
of easier transport. Ile at one authorised some experimente
to be made on the (subject, which resulted iii the flour twang
submitted to powerful hydraulic pressure, and served to the
various regiments in tin caws, not only occupying a very
small bulk, but protecting the fe en I roto the damp of the
atmosphere, and so preventing it from becoming mouldy.
On Saturday the whole of the miners emplcryed at
the Silkstone Hall Colliery, near liarnsley, brought oIIL their
tools in consequence of their having received notice from
their employers owing to a dispute with respect to the cheeke-
weighman.
A letter from Siniseola states that the small-pot is
making terrible ravages in that locality. The epidemic
attacks both children and adults, even those who have been
vaccinated. Ihe mortality is assuming enormous propor,
nous, and a general feeling of discouragement prevail..
"A Sepoy of the 35th Native lafatitry in Madras,
because pawed over for promotion, shot Lieutenant Brook-
ing, the adjutant, today, and then killed himself. Lien-
tenant Brookirig is still lingering, but his case is considered
desperate"— Times of India, June h.
The Lima National of Ulth May says that the most
extraordinary slid unheard of phenomenon has been dis-
covered in the road of Lootimiia, worthy of being studied,
and which appears to have been caused by the late earth-
quakes. hvery beast that reaches a certain spot immediately
falls dead. This has so often taken place, that immeme
numbers of carcases are heapee on the spot.
Three sheep were found buried in a snow drift last
week in one of the recesses of the mountain High Street, in
Westmorland. They were recovered alive. Snow was still
lying in some of the shaded parts of Skiddaw last week.
A series of exceedingly clever sketches of London
street scenes, by Mr. F. Barnard, are just now appearioe
Careb's Magazine. By their om),ined humour and pistilos
of motive, and their characterndee and accurate drawing,
they promise to euh.ce the popularity of this rising young
artist.
On Friday night some workmen found in an empty
house at Land's lend the body of a middle-aged worn., with
the head nearly severed from the body. It has teen ascer-
tained that she left her home with a considerable sum of
money in her possession, and weep the body was discovered
the money was gone.
"The Princess de —, before leaving Paris, must
have come to the conclusion that all is not couleur if, into in
the life of a fashionable woman as the bill presented by her
dressmaker, and paid, amounted to the modest sum of one
million two hundred thousand franes."—Cmat Journal.
The Rev, Dr. Butler, the Roman Catholic Bishop of
Limerick, has been exareitied before the Municipal and Par-
liamentary Elm:trims Committee. Referring to some state-
, merles which had been made hy a previom witness, or Butler
I denied that he took any active part in the last election, lie
recorded his vote for the two Lieeral candidates who con-
tested the City, returned ti his resideoce, and did not go out
again dining the day. The people seemed to be afraid of
offending their landlords lii voting against their wishes, but
before the testi-talon now in progrem there was great difficulty
iu inducing them to take any interest in political affairs.
The Rev, J. C. Ryle has published a letter in which
he says-- If we must either pay the it macs calleilic priests
or be prepared for complete disendowruent of the Pro.
' testant Church, I have not the slightest hesitation about my
Ammer. I would rather see the whole United Church of
England and Ireland disestablished and disendowed to-
morrow than see Roman Catholic priests paid by the State.',
Another attraction was added to the "Queen of
British Watering-places," Scarborough, oil Monday last, in
the opening of a splendid promenade pier on the North
Sands, which commands the whole of the rugged and bold
scenery of the castle headland, hitherto unseen, except from
the water. There was a great influx of excursionists by
railway. Two erand military' promenade concerts were given
in the if:, rt...,, and evening.
The ship Cavalier, of Aberdeen, from Quebec, with
Umber, for London, put into Plymouth on Monday, water-
logged, and cut down several feet below the water-line by a
steamer running i( • her at 11.15 pm. on Sunday. The
steamer, which is belie ted to be the Bremen mail-boat, left
• her figurehead, a full-length man painted white, on board the
' Cava set. The steamer proceeded, after refusing to tow the
Cavalier into Plymouth.
"The latest rumour regarding the festivities at Agra
155 January next, when the Duke of E linbargh visits India
is that Messrs. Kelleer andiCo., of Allahabad, have already
secured the contract for the supply of vimds, mil that a
dinner has been ordered at a cost of ge,000."-7'iines of
India.
American Independence Day fell on Sunday last,
and the fact was prominently alluded to by Dean Stauley is
his monthig sermon at Westminster Abbey. Ile strongly
deprecated the use of irritating expressions by those Or any
position of authority to either of the two countries (England
or America). And, said the Dean, Woe to those—woe to
those who, by any act of theirs, strive to put asunder those
who by blood, speech race, and the grace of His Gospel, God
bath joined together f"
M. Bullier, the proprietor of the dancing garden
dear to student, and immortalised by Paul de 1: ock and
Alexandre Dumas, has left a large fortune. His will be-
queaths a legacy of 12,040 fr to each of eight servants, and
of 30,4,00 t. to his wife's lady's maid.
On 'Tuesday the Attorney-General applied to the
Lord Chief Justice for a postponement of the Overend aid
Gurney trial until December. The learned gentleman stated
that he was instructed on the part of the prosecution, although
not in his ceparity of one of the law officers of the Crowe.
Both the Solicitor-General and Sir John Kersleke, who re-
present the Messrs. Gurney, Mr. Birkbeck, and Mr. G d•don,
agreed that it would he imp esible to complete the trial at
the present sittims, and the case was postponed on the under-
standing that the prosecution Is, as the Chief Justice said,
"then to be really, and bona fide, and properly conducted.
The other evening, at Southampton, John Smith, a
publican, went to the policestatim there, and, commencing
a COnversation with the inspector, told him that he had cut
his wife's throat. The inspector treated the matter some-
what lightly, hut sent two constables to the house with the
man, where the wife was f eind to have sustained a severe
wound in the throat, th•ingh the windpipe not being severed,
It is expected she will recover. Smith baying here mixed up
with election matters, at the time of hearing the election
• petition was served with a masts:ems, and hung himself, but
WAS cut down before he was dead. Ile now talks imoherently
upon the subject, and it is believed his mind is affected.
At Buenos Ayres, at the end of May, Id. Bavaille
ascended in a balloon. There being no wind, it descended
Into the harbour. A steamer and a number of boats put off.
By some misfortune, the balloon in rolling about came in
contact with the funnel of the steamer, and the gas getting
ignited, exploded with terrible forge, blowieg the crew over-
board, as also those in the boats. The steamer was set on
fire, and sustained much damage. The Buenos Ayres papers
state that eight persons were fatally injured, and twenty five
were much burnt and injured.
Intelligence of another murder has been received
from tally, county Tipperary. A farmer named Nellie was
driving geese from laud on which they were trespassing,
when, after a slight altercation, he was struck on the head
by one of the tenantry, Denis Fahey by name. Nellie ex-
pired almost immediately, and his murderer has not yet been
wrested.
The official liquidator of the Joint Stock Discount
, Company lately inatituted proceedings in Chancery to com-
pel the directors and two of their officers to refund to the
shareholders I:30,000, which had been, without their authority,
paid out of the company's funds ler shares in Beetled's Berik,
Vice-Chancellor James has decided that the purchase of the
shares was a breach of trust, and ordered the directors to
refund the I:30,000 with interest.
The Paris Rappet gives a list of the French papers
which have been prosecuted since the elections, and the
punishment itifficted, in fines and imprisonment, 011 each.
The list includes the Rappel itself, the Siecte, the Opinion
.Nationale, the Eleetner Libre, the vrell-kuown Lanteroe, and
eineteen others. The total amount of the fines levied npon
these journals was 42,370 f. The terms of imprisonment
varied trim five days to three years.
An influential meeting was held in Burnley on
Saturday evening, to proteat against "the duties imposed
upon yarn and mmufectured goods exported to Oohs and
the coloides," and to pray for their immediate repeal. The
Mayor was in the chair. The result of the meeting was the
adoption of a petition to parliament.
The Cuicetta Eitylieliman says that a railway
ead Ssssions on a charge of drunkenness while on thee.
employe, named Daley, having been committed to the Alla-
ha
was confined in the eliraepere gaol while waiting trial for
fifty days. The cell was six paces long by six wide. The
attention of Government has been drawn to the subject.
Lord Stanley, in presiding at a meeting held at the
Society of Arts, on Monday, made rime obeervations on
posthumous dispositions of property. His lordship believed
that there had been much &bilge in the management of public
charities, and deprecated a too scrupulous adherence to the
terms ,d obsolete endoe merits N.• one would contend that
the State had not a right to ieterfere in the government of a
charity which had been Reused, and where charities had
failed in their objects the State ought to assert its power by
appropriating them to other purposes.
Professor Guide/in Smith has written to the New
York 7'ribune, denying that in hi• recent epee. at Toronto
he said "the American prefix was not universally celebrated
for intelligence:' He did not, he declares mike use of that
expression, or of any expression equivalent to it The Sell,
York Tribune says that the American public "will be gie I to
recogriise in this denial Mr. Smith's true character, as a man
of sense."
An inquest has been held at Clewer, on the body of
a man who was drowned while bathing in the Thames, at
Clewer Point on sunday. All effort. mole to save ein failed.
Mr James it. George Burke,and Mr. Henry two old Etmeara,
who were rowing up the river, assisted in the attempts
to rescue the deceased, and Mr. Burke became quite ex-
hausted with his efforts. Sin Henry plunged in and brought
the hody to the surface. It was net identified. 'the jury
returned a verdict of" Accidental death," and expressed the
highest admiration of the gallantry displayed by Mr. Burke
and Mr. Henry in their WIGIASVOU2I AO save the life of the de
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