The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-08-05 00:00:00

Profensor a English at Cologne,
,and,a teacher of the
Cologne Gewerbeschule—had a iviimming Match in
the basin of the above mentioned baths. Mr. Duval,
. who swam below water, had made a uniscaloulation
thedlsfand the lieritiiikiV On-reit-an ft he
end of the -bat#li.- rhslipt willqicksatjjaiween two
bars of the iron grating. rhey bent somewhat ,
asunder, permitting the head to pass thintigh; 'and
then assained their former. rigidity Kr„, Unyal was ,
thus placed in 'a fearful- 'Position, the tir& big-a-holding
him by the neck as in wricez-lie tried in vain to with-
draw hia be,ol. from between tha two bars, the efforts to
extricate him by other persons present.bling giltßpf no
avail. He had been in that Perilous,pi.iintion for,qThont
two minutes, when, by a.clesperate.-dfOrt, Mr. 175;tiva1,
who was a povierfurman, suCceeded in bending the
bite a little atid hr freeing his head, but not without
severely lacerating his ears. _ The injured gentleman
bled profusely troth the wounds, but surgiciiiraid was
rendered him, and he is now reported to be in a fair
way of recovery.
FLOWER Woitertil4zik& George Bird
wood writes in the Athencrum :—" Very beautiful is
the Per-gala's love for flower'. In Bombay I found
the Penises use the Victoria Gardens chiefly to walk
in, to eat the air'—' to take a constitutional,' as we
say. Their enjoyment of it was heartily animal. The
ilindu
flower
t a
d , stroll
eurn.snt eoatdbf ays
tl yo tfhorroma gohr it
0,0
,ac bteud
o fiwlour
t
its scent. He would pass nem plant to ',Lint...Snatch-
ing at the flowers, and crushing them between_ his
fineers, and taking stray sniffs at the ends of his fingers
as if be were taking snuff. His pleasure in the flowers
sensual. Presently a true Persian, in
rpt
gnfiLlp;e2,6.,:rda.ot:.hisiteeelh,qatad ir.ar, his_ica4she, sheepskin
lita u.
, • v.. , • ,
would saunter in, ,aucl.stand and-meditate over every
timmbepar.,.aqd always AO half in vision. And when
Wait the vision was fulfillad,, and theideid flower he was
seekingjound, be would spread his mat and sit before it
unilhe setting of the pun, and then pray before it
and-rold`up his mat again and go home,. And the next
pitakV JtAtima. light after night, until, that particular
!rarer rialtEraway, he would return to it, and bring his
friends in ever increasing troops to it, and sit and sing
and play the guitar or lute before it, and they would
all together pray there, and after prayer still bit before
it, sipping sherbet, and talking the most hilarious and
shocking scandal; late into the moonlight; and so
again and again every evening until the flower died.
Sometimes,. by , way of a grand Angle, the whole
company wofild suddenly rise before the flower, and
serenade it,ltogethei with an ode from Hifi; and
depart."
LONDON TAXES.—In the year 1875 the London
9d. Coal Duty, with £11,659 Wine Duty, produced a
net sum of £239,912, which was paid into the-Batik of
England to the credit of the Thames Embankment and
Metropolis Improvement Fund. The Cpy's it duty
on coals produced 4,l3ave 100 90_0,ch rwa led in
paynlent bf Principal and interest of ilmborn alley
improvement loans and other debts. The City Grain
Duty, produced £19,174, which was applied partly in
salaries, pensions, and compenzationa to City meters,
and £2,688 was paid for expenses of works at Wet
Ham Park. The year's cost of the City Polsim,gorce
was £87.429, chiefly raised by rate. The 3' ewers
Consmidated Rate account for Cie year ending at
Michaelmas last shows £136.996 received from rates,
£50,000 raised dh loan, £9,072 fees for interments at
the City cemetery, and various fees and fines; and
among the year's disbursements of the Commissioners
of Sewers are £25,887 for proportion of expenses of the
London School Board, and 25 241 for Sanitary expenses.
The Metropolitan Board of Works' Sewers Rate account
shows that the Chamberlain of London, as treasurer,
received in the year £65,358 fram rates, and paid
£17,778 towards expenses of the Board:oflWorks for
main drainage purses, and £32,395 for the Eirt
Brigade and general improvements. , Thq_wrd rates,
for charges for wit& clerks; beadles;ivacdthdtes,
amounted to £4,475 in 1875.

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EPITOME 011 ..NXWS.
BRITISH AND i'OREIhN.

LW" T: rii VI
•B' Orem ot -the sufferers by the E x plosion on oortrd a the
Thunderer were on Sunday able to attend Divine service in
the Hospital Church at Hasler.
'I he number of visitors to the Centennial Exhibition
at Philadelphia, from its opening to July 9, 52 days, was
2,038 924.

The saddlers and harnessmakers in Sheffield struck
work on Monday morning, in consequence of the masters re-
fusing to reduce the hours ot labour.
C nh iUn
[received a donat natitute in hasion-or ere •01 V, 4108.

The Mark Lane Express reports that harvest pros-
pects both at home and abroad are still favourable. The hay
crop has been satisfactorily gathered in.

When you reflect that at picnics a hundred years
ago it was the custom for the girls to stand up in a row and
let the men kiss themall goodby. all this enthusaism about
national progress seems to be a great mistake.

A branch free library, which cost £6,000, was opened
at Sheffield on Tuesday. This is the thml which has been
opvned within two or three years, the total outlay upon
which has been 46,000.
; The arbitrators between the coalowners of West
;Cumberland and their men have decided that the wages of
hewers, trappers, ard drivers shall be reduced.B per cent,
and all others employed undergiound 10 per cent.

The Cologne Gazette says that Frau Theresa Fied'et
von Hillsenstein, wh died a few days ago at Prague, had
attain,d the age ot 119 years. She was born at Hamburg in-
-1767, and was in her veuth a maid of honour to the Empress
[Maria Theresa. —Pali Mal' Gazette.

A fifth public park under the title of Summerfield•
park, was formally opened at Birmingham on Saturday after-
noon, by the Mayor, Alderman Baker. It comprises a well-.
wooded estate of some 17 acres in extent, surrounding an old and.
:capaciou.s brick mansion, and is situated in one of the poorcr,
iquarters of the town, near the gaol and the workhouse. • '
I Death is reported to have occurred from the bite of
tan adder, sustained on Thursday, in last week, by al .young.
man who, with a friend, was ascending Leith-hid, in Bnrrey.
He received medical attention, bat the virus had so pene-
trated his systenx that be dial on Saturday at an inn to
whiCh he had been assisted by the friend with whom he was
making a walking tour in Surrey and saner.
A verdict of £6OO damages was given against the
!London and North-Western Railway Company at Liverpool
i„ Saturday in an action for injaries sustained by the wife of
!gi commercial traveller named 'Nelson in a collision near Black
'burn in November last.
! , A sombre anniversary is this year to be celebrated,
iby Antwerp, that of the plundering of the city by the Spanish
!soldiery, November 4, 1676 Tue Council have offered a
*priza of 1,000 francs for the best history of this event, to be
, written in Flemish, and in a manner which may interest and.
:attract the people.
I The ship Lady Jocelyn, Captain Senkiii, 2,138 tons,
!chartered by the Agent-General for South Australia, sailed
:from Plymouth on the 28th of July, having embarked at that
, port 664 emigrants, who are under the charge of Dr.
,M'Cormak, surgoon-superintendent, assisted by Dr. Sleeman,
'and including 79 single female domestic servants under the
?care of Mrs. Osborne, matron. .
1 A fatal accident occurred on Tuesday morning in
:Cardigan Bay, off Aberystwith. While the iloylake fishing
!smack Lurline was making for Aberystwith Harbour, with
!fish, a tremendous sea broke over her, and CaptainAowlan s,
i who was at the helm, was washed overboard. 1.1....);!, ,
' Dlr. John Bright has been elected an honor
member of the Boston Free Trade Club, and in a letter to
. the club the right hon gentleman writ.es :—" The existing
i depression in your trade must teach your people how little
protection can do to make prosperity permanent, and how
I much it can do to add to the severity of the pressure from
I which industry from other causes cannot perhaps be wholly
I freed."

• Mr. Mechi writes from Tiptree Hall, Kelvedon,
Essex: "Contrary to all expectation, we commPnc.;cl cutting
wheat on Saturday (29th ult.). The barley and oats are also
ready„ The searching ripening heat has-thus anticipated
Millelions: if theory weather continues, havesting will be
quick, easy, and inexpensive as compared with last year.
There is an ample supply of labour, and the price for cutting
will be much less than last year: All grains and seeds are
well ripened—too prtrciaturely -orison:le hot lands."
Sir Henry Percy Gordon, Bart., of Knockespock,
Aberdeenshire, who had been on a visit to nis daughter,
the wife of Major-General It. W. Disney-Leith, at Blackball
Castle, Banchory, while taking a walk over the moors at-
tached to 131ackhall, in company with his son-in-Liw on Satur-
day afternoon, suddenly fell down and at once expired. Sir
Henry, who was seventy years of age, had not been com-
plaining of ill-health. 'the deceased baronet was a Fellow of
the Royal Society and a barrister.
A. deputation from the Britieh Medical Association
waited-on Monday upon the Home Secretary to present the
resolutions recently adopted on the sulij,ct of vivisection.
These suggested that the Bill should be abandoned for the
present session, and that as to the future, a measure should ,
be passed for the simple registration of persona licensed
or the whole subject of cruelty to animals should be dealt
with.

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With regard to the Communists now residing in
foreign countries, it is said that great and serious differences
exist in their ranks, and that these divisions have beaome
mord apparent since the question of pardons was raised.:
Many are for disdainfully rejecting the proposed clemency,i
but the great majority are in favour of profiting by it to
return to France.
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Mr. Moody preached in his new tabernacle in
977t,1,3.emlizeihsetadtendnptrhoaTtidtehael
; for. "We have Just opened the building," he said, "osizow ,what hue beenbeenCb building cost
fimrs2t ,taimude,
done, and if our, friends ltke ay t,o p the
tohnatj'i knse,.
„, ,•
de-bt* we will dedicate it." A Collactsioa Wait Wren—, 'the
amount of which was £2,471.
- In • a breach of promise of parriage case tried at
Liverpool, on Friday, Mr. 'Byron Bramwell expressed an
opinion that it would be a good thing in the majority of in-
stances it actions of this kind Were abolished, for men were
goaded into marrying women whom they did not lute, and
thea there were unhappy marriages.
The Queen and Princess Beatrice attended Divinel
'service at, 03b0rne on Sunday. The Rev. George Connor„
IM.A., Vicar oi Newport and Chaplain in Ordinary to the'
Queeti, • officiated: Sir Saler Jung, G.C. S. 1., arrived at
;Osborne on Saturday, and took leave of her Majesty on hitt
!return to India, :‘ The Rev. George and Mrs. Prothero;
!dined with the Queen in the evening.
A race for the swimming championship of England
, and £,200, between E. J. Jones and J. B Johnson, took place
'on Saturday, and vras witnessed by a large number. of spec-
tators. Toe course was from Putney Aqueduct to Hammer-
smith Brtege. *Vries won by sixty yards, the time being bi
minutes 25 seconds.
, Toe depresteri state of trade was considered at the
meeting of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce on Mon-
day. Mr. E Ashworth (the cdairman) said American co3o°
goods were coming into our market in consequence of the
great depression which existed everywhere, except perhaps
in France j.lte believed that Eugl,ind would wr,aiii lase the
lead in the 'Orton market, alihougu he saw scarcely a gleam
of hope as yet. Some speakers ttiou.(lit we had now seen the
worst, and that trade would soon begin to get better.
A retanikable case of longevity is reportod in
,Virchosw'a ".,Arillityes," by Dr. Ornstein, of Athens. The
'man; inorge'llfralcriles, died in Smyrw, at the age of 122
years. Although this ale timselah had always lived an irregu-
lar life, and had consumed an average of more than a hundred
drachms of brandy daily, he retained full possession of all his
mitts, as also a complete set of teeth, up to the moment of
hia death. He also continued to the last to attend to the
duties of his avocation—a oaker. This man was born in 1743,
in the reign of Mahomed 1., and lived during the reigns of
nine Sultana—British Mogital iTournal.

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