The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

A Radical speaker at a recent public meeting can
eluded his appeal by the remarkable warning—" Remembei
the eyes of the roe popvli are upon you! "
A balloon, the "Jules Favre," ascended from Liege on
Tuesday, in last week, and came down the same day at Lint.,
a small village between Cohlentz and Bohn, on the right hank
of the Rhine. - .

...
Mr. Short, a builder, at Kingswear, aged sixty, has
been drowned whilst endeavouring to save a young woman
who had accidentally fallen into the sea from the rocks near
Castle Mount. The young woman was rescued by some by-
standers, but Mr. Short's body was not got out until life was
extinct.

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Some time ago a certain Zouave, Jacob, gained great !
notoriety in Paris icy professing to cure all diseases with the !
simple touch of his Miner, and thousands id " the most !
civilised people in the world" patronized him. Figaro tells !
no that he joined the Army of the Loire, and was abut on
November 2oth by his own comrades for treachery and espion-
age.
The Paris papers state that the committee of engi-
neers appointed to report tpon the construction of a tunnel
across the Channel between England and France have
accepted the plan of N. Thome de Gamond, and that the
works will shortly be commenced, ou one side at Dieppe, tad !
on the other side at Newhaven. The cost of the work is
estimated at 425,000 Mi!,
and the duration of the work six
yeah.

According to tbe Cologne Gazette, the French Govern
-
meat has commenced the negotiations in Hungary for the
purchase of 40,000 horses for the cavalry.
A Paris paper, the Gantois, alleges that a consider-
Me fall has taken place in the level of the ocean iu conse-
quence of the tropical heat.
Mr. Thomas, the editor of Notes and QUeril R, is
bringing out a book on human longevity, in which the author '
will strongly declare against centenarianism.
They utilise foreign noblemen in San Francisco.
A sahmirkeeper hires one—heir to a lag line of inustrbous
ancestors, twit no cash—at six dollars a week to clean bottles.
For a " lark," near London, A lad got a little girl to
put her nAlid into A chaff.eutting machine, which he set hi
motion. The poor girl's hand WAS cut
An effort is being made to establish in Edinburgh a
hospital for women. where none but women will be admitted,
and unlit but lady doctors " allowed to practice. Miss Jon.
Bloke lathe principal mover in tins design.
The German pre.: expresses satisfatiiiin at the recep-
tion of the Prince Imperial of Prussia by the people of Eng.
land. The .1 ugsburg Gazette says the public have redeemed
the neglect sf the knovn.
Four hundred and fifty mechanics struck work at
Halifax sot Saturday, in consequence of a rule adopted by the
' masters, who refuse to ellgAfte men unless they have left
their last service after due notice, and in a satisfactory
manner. _ _

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The Labour Representation League have adopted a
memorial to Mr. FoNter, protesting against the adoption of
a provision accepted by the Government in the Elections
Bill, requiring a candidate to deposit AAOU previous tonomioa,
A correepondent says that the great majority of
Frenchmen feel rather aggrieved at what England did to re-
lieve their distress, and will not believe that our aid was
din-
iutrentvd.

The Lords of the Admiralty have decided that in
future every officer entitled to half-pay shall, is about appli-
cation on his part, be placed on the half-pay list as &JOU as
his full-pay- ceases, and his accounts are elenr.
Mr. Duncan, one of the Earl td gamekeepers,
at Caenlochan, tacnisla deer forest, has succeeded in scaling
a rock 305 feet high,•and taking a golden eaglet alive from au
eyrie.

Ninety-eight years ago (on Thursday week last) Pope
Clement Gang:meth aholished the order of Jesuits. On the
same day, hint week, the society, with their general at their
head, left Rome to establish themselves in Sicily, principally i
at Palermo.
M. Paul de Cassagnac, who was with the ex -Emperor
at the capitulation of sedan, has written a letter to the
iffoix defending the ex-Emperor against attacks which have
appeared hi that paper. Ile says the only pohd where the \
}lining, is unassailable is with respect to his conduct at
Sedan.
A Frenchman who has lately visited the ex-Emperor
at Chisclhurst reports that his Majesty spoke of his overthrow
without the least bitterness against the men who effeeted it
or have pmfitted by it. "It was written, sad," he said, "alt
that was written must come to pass !"
The South lAndo» Prato says that 42 South London
tindesmen were last week fined for having unjust weights
and measures in their posseasion. Teu had been previously
fined, and in two eases the full penalty was inflicted. The
' total amount of tines was £55 175. Oil.
It is stated that the municipal elections in Paris,
on Sunday, excited very little interest. The electors, in fact,
displayed no much apathy that not half id them voted, of
the SO candidates to be chosen, only 28 or 29 obtained the
legal numl or of votes. In 52 cases, therefore, there will have
to be a second ballot.
From April lot to duly 22nd, the Exchequer receipts
amounted to £20,113,055, an increase of £61k),11i7 upon the
return in the corresponding period of last year. The ripen.
dilute has been £25,858,473. The balance in the Bank of Eng-.
laud on Saturday last was £751,028, and in that of Ireland
£1,002,080.
It is stated that most of the contributors to the
Rano( are now in London, and are about to start a news-
paper there under the auspices of 31. Victor Hugo, with
whom they are in communication. They. are now fifty-six
members of the
Commune
in the nretropobs.
An elderly Aberdeen lady, telling her age, remarked
that she was born on the 22nd of April. lier husband, who ,
was present, observed, " I always thmight you were loom on
the Ist of April." " People might well judge so," responded
the matnm, " in the choice I made for a husband."
A young lady, giving in her religious experience,
that she once wore jewellery of all kinds, and took
.reat pride in it, but, becoming convinced that the practice
was sinful, and would destroy her soul, she sold her jewel-
lery to her younger sister for ten dollars, and bought a
lottery ticket."—Ainericaa
The London correspondent of the Leeds 21Icrow7e,
lays:—'' The Tichborne claimant is a pretty constant compe
titor at the pigeon matches of the thin Club at the Shepherd's
Bush grounds. lie is a member of the club, and his visits
always excite much interest and curiosity. His reputation
as a shot is considerable, and his success above the average.•
A duel took place on Saturday morning near the
Boulogne gate, in Paris, between two speculators en the
Bourse, an altercation on which was the cause of quarrel.
Shots having been exchanged without injury, the seconds
declared " honour satisfied," the principals saluted each
other, and the affair was over.
The quarterly meeting of the Manchester Chamber
of Commene was held on Slmiday, when Sir. Ilugh Masco],
the chairman. expressed a hope that the Fl,llell at 1.1111(1 not
abandon the emitmercial Treaty. Al the Sante little he would
see it entirely abrogated nth, than that the Oovernment of
thin onnitry should consent to any increase of the duties now
lmied upon British manufactures imported into France.
His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, who with some
ether members id the Royal family, will proceed on a visit to
Ireland ',lithe Ist of AngiLst, and remain there :thorn a week,
will get, Aldershot at Iti 5 return. to rejoin the Bilk Brigade,
which will leave WIPPIWidI about the oth proximo for that
station, in order to take part in the forthcoming campaign
in Bei k-hire.

George Francis Train hutured the other night, at
Cork, on his eraupe from &nth in the Bastille under Gam-
bctia, the Washington t mac, and his plans for the invasion
I:ermany. lie stated that whilst in France he had des iced
a plan of exterminating the PIIINSLIII3 in four days, but that
at the critical 111011101 t thllllbttta bitalic jealous of him anti
threw hint into prison where an attempt xas made to poison
him.

A passenger train on the Nashville and North-
western Railrmidl. Tennessee, which left Nashville On July
3rd, composed of two coaches and a sleeping ear, met with a
&plot-Able accident at Ilameth Rite, Aft, the locomotive
moi baggage e,,e bad erossed the bridge over the river the
bridge gave way and the remainder of the train fell into the
stream. Fifteen persons, so far as known at present, were
killed and twenty-three wounded.
"Would it surprise Ton very much if a maiden of
seventy-five years were to become suddenly squeamish about
being seen home of an evening by a yonng man, and all :done
t..l+ Would you not be equally surmised at hearing that the
Gdos-ernment had got sudden and pressing mat is of con-
science at the illegality attending sales of commissions, a
proceeding as old as the aforesaid maiden lady ?"—Court
Jourout.

An amusing circumstance occurred on one of the
visits of Prince Arthur to the Wind &don Camp. His Royal
Highness, who was expected at the Putney entrance, drove
to that near Wimbledon, and was met at the gateway by a
demand for 73. cot. " Don't you make any reduce for a
Royal carriage?" said the Prince. " I knows nothing about
reductions," was the reply of the gatekeeper; " all I knows
is carriages pay is. Gd." The Brines paid the money with
great glee.
A testimonial to the skill if a chiropodist, in a con-
temporary, testifies that, " four or rive years ago he success-
fully extracted several corns from my feet without pain, as
also members of my family, Ulid they have not retunied
since that time." 'Ms operator sloadd he consulted by those
troubled with motheruin-law.
The following are the sentences passe I upon the Com-
munist prisoners tried at Hamill. :—llubert has been con-
demned to twenty years' imprisonment with hard labour,
Angeard to ten, Blanc to six, and Loyet to rive. Mille and
Volaire are sentenced to rive years' imprimannent, Balthater
to two, and Ballard and Barthelemy to one. The wife of
Balthozer has been acquitted.
Mr. Horace Greeley, in a letter to the New York
Soo. says—" I have done a little, and hope to do more,
toward securing tO every human being opportunity to earn
an lamest living by his or her own useful labour. That I
hold to be naked justice. But a philanthropist, in the juipu-
lar conception, is an easy, credulous simpleton, who chooses
to work excessively and live meanly in order that rogues and
vagabonds may be enabled to riot in idleness ; and that lam
not."
The abeyance of the barony if Willonnhlw De F.resby
having been terminated by admitting the Right B on. awahle
elementina Elizabeth, Dowager Lady Aveland, as senior