The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-04-22 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,
BRITISIi AND FOREIGN,

"Lord Lorne shirts" have appeared in New Yolk.
An annonymont donor has forwarded tOOO as an
Easter offering to the forty Inllrrnsry,
The "church shoe" is the latest thing in ladies'
foot coverings. It w. Invented in Parir t nrieg she Cents,
when hasty toilets were °Ten a necciany.
"An Austrian Barontat and a IfusTin Princess
will shortly take to the stsge In Lend r the bills the
, latter will appose as II It ll"—Court mortal
I The City 1 Broollyn ;learner, a til, ht, fedi a it.lstee
report woe eli,t a day or two since, athic.d safely at It :then
Point on Monday night.
The lornn attendtd Divine set v:c, at Whimingliam
Church on sunder mornlss. The line. George Ir,th,eo
preached the sermon
A residtnt of Birmingham ha. given tiITDO as the
mickus of a fund for tho tormttiou of a public pletarr gaaery
In that town.
Au Indian chief, near CUeyenne, boasts th.d, though
he Is only 40 years cld, he has taken :10) scalps, and has had
the deliriiiintrcaling 15 titer s.

It ia F aid that the keeping of the üblie parks of
London itt hencen.rth be doue by contract; Ibo loweet o/or
will of .nree be selected.

The Chugoto Star state.; that ec 'ordinz to the re-
ceutiy.take,. (tenure the p puisttion 01 Aberdeen Is 88,133. an
Increase of 14,233 in tor yea-s.
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The Lau, Ttntev believes " the time is not Ur off when
silk qowna and colta will dbuipptar, anit all sifoe.iles
ou an equal footing."

The returns of incorno made in Ann ries this yell.
111,1 not to ha pubilthed, and the Ulcers tobilalsterlug the
law are re pared to keep then. secret
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A soldier named Cooke of the Gill Regiment, ham
died from iha effects of hjrerie, recaivad In a inrke
civilian. on Good Friday night, at Cora.

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An orrice ha a been deepatched from Canada to Eng-
Ismi for 60e sparrows. racy are epnelaily for the use of the
city of MontreaL

Garibaldi ix tired of war, and haa anked of the Italian
Government 209 000 hectares • t laud, abandoned In Sardinia.
lie wisllea to eulttvate It.

John May, who entered Devonport Dockyard nearly
ninety years ago, Mae Med at the age of 101 At the thee
of Ms decease hu was in the ful posseadou of hi. Notate'
"It is laid that some faellionable darowle, tired of
bracelets, of neckleta, of carrlogs, and tf trots have adopted
the 000teili WM. n of anklets."—Colat Jour,s24.

At a L.nnion plce.ourf, tno other tl:y, an effet"-
tllnate son was committed tor trial on • c'lmKe of barb g
asywilted his faller by biting cff ono of hie eyebrows.

A gentleorm st;ites to The Timt, to -;a37 that
n'ahttegale was shgh g at e!cven u'el.lek hut Tuesday mom-
log in tne south flower vulk of If eualugton•gardena, and that
he not only heard it but ass it.

Oa Monday afternoon, a man, almut rixty years of
age, poorly tlreased, thtew hlinsult end, the ehetls of a
Iraiu at the Notting-hill-gate stall., and was rifled instal.
taneoutly.

John Johnston, tie man who was committed fin
Oki on three separate charges of having rob ,e I betting tutu
at the last Northampton Roots, has coma.itted suicide in his
etll in Northampt.n Gaol, by hanging himself wl.h a rose
of cocoa...nut fibre.

In the second week of the financial year the Ex-
chequer receipt. hat amouotai to £2 177 147, sod the ex-
penditure to £5,886,816. The halm. to the Ilarik or Engirt d
on saturday last we. £2,648,001, sod in the Balk el Ireland,
£873 371.

The lacEea who are endeavouring to promote the
education of their histers, the women of India, Lava made a
public oupeal, asking every " female whow some!! returned
to the C 11•114 paper to make a "Census elfertug "of one
penny !

Fling a patient's pulse by telegraph is the latest
achievement. Tne sick man was In Washington and the
physician In Now Vol, Toe beats of the pulse Were
tran=m4ted by a doctor with one hand on the patent's
wr:st aud the other on the telegraph key.

Among the royal personages who have signified their
Intention of being present at the openiugoi the international
Exhibition on the Ist of May, are his Royal Ilighneet the
Count of fender. and the Conntest, the Count being
President of the Belgian Commlstion.

S.)rne of the Artillery at the irightnn Review really
gave it them "right and left" It tired heartily iuto ha own
die, and on behig lu'ormed of the mistake, quietly turned
the muzzles of the guns the other tray and fired into the other
Party.

The astounding information is conveyed to as by a
Burmese paper, theta young white etephantreeently eal.tured
"le being cochlea by women, who are force by the Mandalay
authorhtes to perform this matern..l office to the animal,
whPet their own Children are givers away to other worn , n to
r•urse."

A teacter in Fall River, AlAssachnsettn after hear.
lug a complaint twin one of her little scholens that one of the
boys had poli.tal a Wel at her, a: ked all the boys who had
p•stols t. 3 come forward. F,ve blys promptly c•tne to the
della with pistols in their pockett, coped and loaded.
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At a large dioner nit-en, a short time ago, a: New
York, tie names ol the ~ttests, deilgratlng their Woes at
t Able, were related on robber ball ,nni which 0 mted
over the ti!.le, being fattenei to loqt airings, bee la the mem
of each roan'a goblet.

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It appears from a ptrli unen!.ary return jnst i-rued
that 94 694 men enlisted last year In the army, of whom
14 917 were finally accepted. The number of voluntetd, enrolled
for the militia ma, 11,,0 0, and tne nunih,r of militiamen
who volunteered for the regol.ir army, 4,733.

The Wawa(' Star says that the Itght lion. W. E.
Ghtki.toue, •• "nth hie wonted kindliness towards the EA.-
°ova Church to &Mind," Las contributed a su,rscription of
t 5 toward!, the erection of VA, new li.decopel Church on the
S nab S:de, 13:a•gow.

The Rev. F. SouthgatP. vicarof Northfleet. informed
his congregation no Easts,r 1) 4, that as" buttons, bad money,
aud other things bot lit to useht:on " were put in the otTur-
tory bags, the cAlectlons wou!d in future be made In open
plates.

h 3 ralumstolon Journal has received a privzte
le:ter from tiereustewn, stating that an aspre, ha l just
re abed that place with flout of • diamond of 119 cora.'
found by a Fort Beaufort party. It la eald to be a wont
beautiful gem—portent, nod of the brat seer.

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The new German Imperial eagle will be r-preeented
With only oi.e head and view] wlhas ;wearing on the place
of the h. art Sae P;usslan eagle, which again will weer on the
same spot the tinier z dien. eaghe, the notion being, it would
leen), that the three eagles win Ural a conclee eoulpeodluta
ot Gzruato histety.

A clergyman writes :—" A short time since I met a
p.u.n. man who was andtr the doctor'. care, aid asked him
bow he was getting in, Tie replied that ha bad a polo in his
aide, ana that the doctor had told him ho hint anew moon In
ht. The rev. gentleman found out that the pot man
was nit:ring from pot n monta.

The Indiaunp des Journal Pays :—Thrre is • citizen of
Jett,reowellio, coo, pone yta.s agd, nought a piece of ground
la Cnicago, for which he pald • mule and fifteen &Hare n
moot y. He sold the property a short thee afterward, and It
Is to day woe h a million dollars, and the aforesaid gentle-
man Met worth scent."

A gentleman was sadly delniled at a fancy fair the
otner day. lie offered a young la iy two guineas kr a curl
from her head. His surprise fury be imtglile I when the
young lady promptly cut it off and gave it to him with a
smile. Ills further indigratlon may be Imagined when he
learned that tie entire covering cost only two shillings.
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In the execution of a deed by a man and his wife
the Tails was taken aside, bet.,re the seknowledgment was
nr.do, by a commissioner, who, In the usual form, asked,
DJ you execute this deed freely, and without say fear or
compulsion of your husband?'" Year of my husband
exclaimed the wife, "ire had are husbands, and never was
afraid of any of them !"

The Cap of Now Oilcans, an American steamer
lately engaged in coLveying war material across the Atlnn:lc
for the supply of the French army during the war, sailed on
Moray from the Memel with 700 tons of cartridges and a
thouniud cases of small arms--Cossrepote, needlegu, s, and
&Utters—together with !nosy ogees of rev“lvirs, swords, and
othcr weapons. The freight will be delivered at Havre for
the use of the Republican Onvernment.

An addrematcompanie,l by the gift of GOO Rov,re'gnß,
hos been presented to sir. Johnston, M P., by the truant
firmer. of Meier, as a token of gratitude for the assistance
which he gave the U 3vernment in pssdng the Irish Land Act.
It was et ,ted In the addrms that MOO former, took part I.
the demonstration, and that many of them differed from him
as widely as he does on in me questions from the present
Government; but they apyreciatel his patriotism and Inde-
psnde,ce.

It appears from a parliamentary return that the
sum deo:hilted to military savings hanks during the year
ended Match 31, 1370. was C 150.222 11s. O 1., the withdrawals
durtng the year 180 72 annotated to £18D,063 16i. The in-
terest allowed to military depositors during the year was
£7 392 al. Pd The balauce due by the puhlic on March 31,
1970, was £2BO 3203, IA I ,ned the number of st:csnuts open
was 16462. The totai amount of the fund for military
savh,gs banks on March 16, 1-71, as £117,685 7s. eil.

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lt sap:noted out by the Itenstrar-Geoeral that the
fatal case* of .mall-pos 1.. Loudon, which during the ten
weeks ending 01t Instant had ranged between ISi. and 227,
averecing 226, rcse last weak to 7117, the highest wmkly
nuinher that has occurred during the present epidemic. it
Is probable that part of this increase belonged to the pre-
ceding seven day., In which registration was somewhat in-
terrupted by the occurrence of Good Friday, The highest
weekly Lumber of deaths Irons small-pox In L'indon during
the various epidemics wh!ch prevailed during the Si years
1010-70 was 102 In the last week of 1840.

A parliamentary return, recently lreuei, shows that
the amount expended in In.maintenance of paupers lu 018
unions and parishes In Enghind and Wales during the half.
year ended Michaelmas, 1870, was £091,478, and inn anion it
expended In outdoor relief £l,lio7,77o—inaking • total of
£0,499,188 Aboqt flveahrths ef the expenditure for outdoor
relief was given In money, and ono-sixth In kind The avenge
weekly cost pgr heed of paupers mal..talned in the workhouses
and the ouil $ for food and clothing respectively ace given In
the return.

A correspondent informs no (Da 1, Pinta) that in
consequence of the great annoyance the ex Enn eror
Nap -demi sustains from C,ckney curiosity, he has determined
to leave Caiselhurat—strict at ilmde being recommended for
the benefit o/ his I. in treaty for renting Al
grave Castle, near Whitby, Yorkshire, tha root of the Slarepila
of Normanby, who is gohig to Q•mensland.—We also read
in the Simation:—" A rumour is in circulation in London that
the Emperor Napoleon Is up n the point of quitting Chisel-
burst for Yorkshire, in the intetior of E,lgland. We do not
douht :hat Chistinhurst will loon be de soled ; but we do not
think its anew,/ will leave it in order to retire still Luther
into the mists of Albion:'

A fresh instance of the proverbial rsalleaanese of
exiters has been before the Newsastle-under-Lyme petty
sessiot.r. Two men were char..' with having Infringed the
ceiliery regulations, and endangered their own lives, aid
thee of their fellow-workmen. I y having matches and in.
struments for opening safety lamps In their popession while
at work In the Levet; Colliery, In which an explca lon, wh:ch
caused the loss of line lives, occurred a few moths ago
We of the emoted had been seven-1y Injur,d by the
explosion, and had resumed work only a short time before he
m.mmitted the offence with which he was charged. liv was
sentenced to tides month's imps Isonm. at with hard labour.
The other i [fender gotv if with a tine of 40s.
The Mai nechi SAin bun in the title of a native
Japanese newspaper recently started Its mere canterep's.
Lion would almost drive an English master printer to com-
mit suicide; yet taking Into consideration the fact that the
Japanese have had no experience in the matter, and that
it is, sot, speak, a float attempt, Its, a very creditable sff lir.
The contents of the dna number are of a very varied com-
plexion. There are advertisem,nts in plenty, notices of
ships sailing, a list of the mercantile marine In port, the
men of war, and a rrice current of all staple articles.

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The Duke of Genoa, nephew of the King of Italy,
and brother of the Crown Princess llsrgbertta, h. Jet
finished his scholastic court° at li,rro chore be h. canted
eft pr'r as f ficiency In hist »y ard modern Ta..guages,
and is paying flying visits to the mat Intererti. Enghah
towns previous t. his refuse to Italy. His Royal Highness
was Is Birmingham on Friday, and on Fiatnroay vis!l•4 the
Small AM. Factory and the E net of Dudley's tronworka. Oa
his return to Italy he will take up hie quarters at Genoa, and
entcr the service of the Royal Italian Navy.

The Buon Scnso of Rome devotee a long article to an
exa-nination of the question, what the Roman Catholic
Church has totes! or to hope from the uew German empire?
On the one side it sees a Protestant dynasty, freemasonry
extending from the throne to the cabin, Protestant lint verultle.
the religione order, prohibited from teaohinn, and obstacles
without, number to the establishment of a Catholic univer-
sity. The only aced it sees on the other side is that Prussia
does not favour religious persecution. Whether the advent
of the new empire most be considered as a new calamity or
as • great benefit will, according to the Oncel Sens°, depend
upon Germany's resolution raise again the moral edifice
by commencing with the foundation stone" of • restoration
of the Pope's temporal power. U she doe, not as begin
e verything will go to the bad,

John Chatterton, the well-known harpist, is dead.
A Berlin hitter gay that the Emperor, Bismarck,
alll4 MAtke unit livld kixtt, 01111Cile of wAr ju,{ a. in
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Another lob ix in course of formai .10, to be
exiirt The Alberta Lidlee' luternatlouel

A Vienna telegram announces the death, on Satur-
day, of Profeaaor Oppolsar, the eeiehrated phyalcfsn.
The Birmingham rapers report that Mr. Bright is
recnveleg 'tom an atta a of etyttpelsa.

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At Coventry a man ha a been rent to inis al for two
months for porsonation at a mn aelpai election.

Upwards of 2'10,000 rersont. left I.,,rntmonE Wee
Monday ftom v.rl,ui rsilway 1.W14/ht hr nborbAil nna
e.,uutry excurst-n..

A contemporary, Ia cosAmenaing 41 mgo ht!la
mssoz,n6l to its readers, says that it nisht to' 4,1; by in Ivyni
in v town and 3p:rids ' hi the kiiiiploos.
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A I.3.sitt•ti shoe dealer bui to.en d 14t.,1 t.y the r'-
of an era.. for kneel to the family of s %1-•rni tAleien
3,1 t Lake- Sanely nice% awl C..% fifty chitArfolt.
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A Imiiiiman, Ml) illy, ha l I.*fti hiplolitel with it
coostattug of a proow 0t.0., with hand .4
101141 C, &C., upon Lis rniel,e fawn puts-rn In what ho hwd
bum cAtinen for refuting to have his hdw.nii.a id !

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The latest invention of the Mont •na tnhjsns is the
I Setting np of tollgates on 114/I,ln pates of If; riot awl
conspequig travellers to pay for the pried:ego of crossing
their ntunlng grounds !
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The other day, at G:en Urquhart, near Inv r IPPP, a
pout g child was Lillo.l by a row, watea bad PIM pit en birth
tot litter of pigs, and whi..h had been tot n 7 the 000.,
together with her brood, into the house for warmth.

"A act diamcni my be teeted by pl,ing wAx
trri back The lustre or a true gem will zed be &deeded by
Ibis operatku, whilst the spurt rughriif I dery or riee,
Mous will be tot‘11) (toil Aped Tra Jt•arnal
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"'roe chntupion hodpist" is the title gil it to a
young luau who, having lost to eutl,. one of o *ode of his
boy, in said t 3 hays p,lorni,cl tn• eat nt•ht,i, teat of
hopping • mllo to Ltu no the ioh ult , in.kiag but

The Raton Chronklc rf nerds an extrsorlin,nry pro.
sentatlon Iwo attehda.te on the lunacies Ifir the. K Rion
vrtprkhoure Inleit shout to leave Ow estshilebluat.t. the
patients peeeente.l thc ea reepectleel> nith a width.; de .k
a B.ble. To report Cates that lee Insane peep:o weer pre.
lane en the occ talon.

The poor little Prince who W 5.4 born on Msonday
Thunday and dad on Goad Frl ay wa. the first Z.,allah
Prince store ,he roWt of Ilene, U. .110 has been chroteued
J,ho." The great Doke of It dhr bore the tut•be, as Ohl
John of Gann% his grandfather; telorseee we 10, k In vAte
for It from the time of lOngJ do. I ntrollf until now

The state' eat ihLie ie./ .e /Wile that t e
Lnedou .d theunt) He, It bar. .eel lw . ettnlnnt Merit g
at the tl of the Ft,: h G veth ern! Mr 5 per cent. uutll
the emelt int rd a new loan it, it Is stated, entrely without
foundati 11

At a c..f,rence of r:prescuLatives of the Lanewth ire
and Vo Stlctmen aøt Botch. re Union, I,ld It. Man.
chatter on Monday, it wet resolved to orgsolse public car et-
-11.0 In the larger centres of populatlor, In order to protest
against the continuance of reatrlctions in the Importation of
live foreign rattle and sharp to Inland kwvot , and, further,
that. deputetton +hould watt upou the Government with
reference to the matter.

A correspondent of the Rangoon Oa:, Ift says : —" The
Christian prjlorj€r. b,rtock has Is ely been, the scene of a
deed shocitine air, .ely, of which at present no ae on,lyl ti
priesilon of the hare portico! an. A European c..nvict
killed another by knocking ht brains out, and subsequently
filled a teacup a Ith tit victim'. !dom.. Tne perpetrator of
this enormity was befog tried when the Oriental left on the
2nd hat."

A return of the nan,es of the Fenian convicte re-
cently relrased shows that the total number set at liberty lit
&Wand was twent, fnur. Nlne were alto liberated In Aus-
tralia. Turee of the prisoners had been convic.e lof high
treason, one of. endeavouring to am-Owe soldiers front their
alleriance to t,:e Queen, and the red of treason felony. The
total Isom:nes incurred with the ',lease of the twenty-four
prisoners liberated in igland wut £755 Ts. 4d.

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A smart shock of earagoake was chatinctly felt along
the coast of An. yle on Saturday evening, a few mfnutes before
efght o'clock. Tne houses In Kilcreggan, Ifl.firrnore, Dunonn.
and other coast towns were shaken, told In some %stances
crockery was thrown to the ground by the vibration. At
Roset:eath one house Is said to have sunk Want. a foot, and
ant waken of the Gareloch are sail to have presented the
appearance of a boning caldron during the shock.

fly necennta from ITtnballah, dated the 15th cf
March, we learn that the •.Loodisnalt" ntsease was raxien
to a dletressieg extent among the horse. The Government
had lost an m tr. mile number, and private Individuals hail
also suffered to a serious extent. One officer id the oth
Hussars had lost two valuable animals r. orth £lOO each,
and some officers of the A troop of the F elando of the
Royal Horse Artillery had to lament ova the death of both
charger and carriage horse.

A SAn Franch-co than e!ahne to have invented a
machine which will produce 150 lbs. of ice per hour fie as)a
that ' t y this elniple process of extracting the air Irons the
water to be iv z so told and transparent ice can be produced.
and that, In a recant exi,rimental trial, 1,0011,.. of water
Owed in the text was solid at the .1,4 f tin hour., and the
1_ mperature had fallen 016 deg below fret nag point.

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iternty ears ago, ucon the 14 of May, 1851, on
the occanou of Vt e • pealog of the Intvroati,nal Echthition
In 11)do park, the Mike of Wellogron preteot, d to hie little
&Aeon, he• 'Loyal Illgilueis Prices Arthur, then only twelve
tuotAh,nlt, semen seaied casket, with 'hatred loos that the
bittoday gilt slo cold not be opened till the Prince attaineA
Ws roil Inty. The let of May, 11,71, Is Tepidly approaching,
when the casket should be opened. It wld be Interesting to
learn its contents.

A census enumerator in the report of his experience
In c fleeting the papers says the two extremes of society
per,ormed their part towards the Census Inlize cheerfully col
satlifactorily, and the shot.: comings (chicle have after all
been very luconsideraWe; all axone anumg I hum who warn
uncertain as to their social position, and feared writing
themscivee down In the world. As a mewls of seeing house-
hold interiors, and of becoming personally acquainted with a
thousand and one particulars of the loner life of tile mem-
bers of the community in which you live, there Is, believe
me, nothing to approach the act of going the census rounds.'
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In the Court of Common Mew, In London, on
Monday morning, 000 0! the gentlemen atimmomel upon the
Jury appealed to his lordship and said that he wins sanitary-
mrtector f the Strand Union, in which district email-eon
was still prevalent MU duty was to vhdt place. where
patient. were or had been, to removelofeeted clothe., and do
other sanitary work ol thst kind. lie submitted that the+
performance of this duty was Inconsistent with his sitting In
the jury.brix. Ms lordship thought so too, and excused hie
further attendance. The juryman then retired, and the re-
porter atates that although the court was crowded he had uo
difilculty In making his exit

Death upon the men y.go•round is a grim spectre to
cordon plate during I seasoa of hollelgy paltlin, At Derby,
during the &tater Pletsure Fair, it Isr„e whirligig or
boat In fell pity broke from the Srb on which it hong while
boded with people, and discharged its screw:lll,c freight to
the rround with terrific force A doz-n out of the swing-
binst cargo were seri uric injured Two children were picked
up for dead, and were carriod to the hospital without hope
of recovery ; two others Were Wien sway in she it us had it
plight. It is only a wonder that accidents of this kind do not
occur more freirtehtly.

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J. R Da% lion, M.P., the Judge- Advocate-
General, was found dead is his bed on Sruntay mornlng at
the rmidence of Mr. Si. George pot he, where the right hon.
gentleman mu staying on visit. There had been nothing
lahha previous ',We of health in the least ladletting a death
to sudden. Mr. D.vtson had for tettral years a lags practice
at the Parliamentary bar, end at the general eleMion of 1868
waa returned for his native city, Durham Ile has filled the
office of Jadga.Advocatedl :mend Just three month.. Ills
dealh will be deeply regretted by all those at the bar and In
political and official life with whom he was associated, among
whom hew,. greatly liked for lals kindly personal qualities
and respected for his abllity.

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