The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-15 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The Liverpool SAmol Board has Mg* advertised fr
twdee inspeetor, no less invo 656 applications were sent in.
The appointment still stands over.

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A mine ehar,l with pierate of potae.e to blow up
about 150 yards of the Versailles Railway (left bank) has
been discovenal near the fortineations by an inhabltaut of
hwy.
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Areonling to the German papers the Crown Prince
of Prussia met with a very friendly reception from the people
of Hanover turitci his late visit, notiiithstanding the carts
made by partizans of the dethroned lynasty...
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The l'aris ck ieal jeurnal Le loudy latihmts
the histalatlon of Victor Emanuel, a honi it calls a robber,
and &I's that lb U,1i,V,1• ,cl,,sbt
stopm,, in a few yearn we shall fall into 1111 fi11y314."

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!tfost 1 the I;reneh papers comment in an unfavour-
able manner upon the manifesto of the count de Chambord.
The Debate declares that the white Bag is almost as much
dreaded as the red.

An American, name,' June Weston, has just =cow-
the " biggest walk "on record. Be has .moetrti
hi, undertaking to walk 400 miles is live days. Ile had Is
naiades to spare at. least.

The litsgistrar-General of England states that the
population .4 to United Kingdom is increasing at the rate
t.f 1,173 a day. But ethignition takes away 468 of the mlmher,
leaving 707 a day to ,well the tapulation at home.
An old man named elements, residing hy himself, at
Parkhani, near Bideford, has been brutally murdered by
some person unknown, his skull having been beaten in with
some blunt instrument. Robbery Is supposed to have tarn
the object of the murder. „

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Accortling to the Brisbane Courier, "the orange-tree
Is now thsnly established as one of the fruits of Northern
Australia, and nurserymen are endeavouring to supply the
demand, which most increase, for trees. Oranges promise a
heavy crop this season."
An authority on travelling in gorway says —" It
must be tunic in mind that to see that country a man must
be prepared to rough It, and one who cannot jolt in a cart,
sup ,a 1 porridge, and sleep with a few Hews, had better pryer
go thole."

The Law Times undmitands that the governing
body of the Inner Temple intend to make examinations com-
pulsory upon all their students before calling them to the
Bar, and that a sum of £2,000 per amount will be devoted
proilding all efficient stall of lettnrers and examiners.
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N early 1.9.000 troops were revicwerl at Aldenrhot on
Monday by the Queen, who was accompanied by Prince
Arthur, Prince Leopold, Princess Beatrice, the Crown Prince
of Germany, and the Duke if Cambridge. The wet weather
unfortunately interfered with the 1111:019 of the spectacle.
An amnsing incident took place in the Australian
House of Representatives. A member, whose edirstion had
been sadly neglected, was reading out a document to the
house, and vainly endeavouring to decipher an obscare
letter. Turning to his next friend, he asked anxiously. ••IS
that a hem or a hen r Oh," replied his friend, " call it a
hen, and move that it lay on the table."

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In the French Assembly, on Saturday, the Bill im-
posing new taxes upon sugar, coffee, tea, cocoa, and other
colonial produce, was passed by 483 against 5. Previous to
the debate the Minister of Finance announced that a large
amount of that produce had arrived in French ports since the
measure bad been proposed, and it was, therefore, absolutely
necessary that the new taxes should ic at once introduced.
A farmer residing a few miles from Walla Walla has
a genidne woolly horse, whose fleece is much longer and
finer than is generally found on the ordinary sheep. The ani-
mal is three years old anti rather large fir his age. The
owner 4.1 this curiosity proposes to take the annual to Oregon
and California for exhibition.
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Brew r..n twenty and thirty is 'ye belonging ht a school.
at Hove Wert: 0/ I 11,1 Cat Shoret, mar Hastings, on Satur-
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day, when several ot them ventured too far front the shore,
and .wing to tile force a the current were unable to return.
They were under the rare y tutor, who, with the assistance
d CoatitelMethelletl, reSeeed ;:re of them, but olle was
drowned. His body was wattled aajwre bUUt a mite east-
ward 011 Saturday night.
On the lot of July, 1501, exactly 70 years nO, the
first steamboat made its trial trip upon the Thames. lAn
experiment," said the London patios, has taken place
the river for the purpose of working a barge' or any other
heavy craft against wind and tide by means of a steam.
engine, on a very simple construction. The moment the
eflehly Wes Mt inn Work the IMege was brought about,
answering her helm quickly: and she proceeded at once to
make way against a strong ebb tide at the mte of nearly
two miles and a half an hour."

A duel with sabres has just taken place near Amiens
between a young man of that town, aged 20. and a rra.aiaa
officer. The latter in walking through the street had puffed
the smoke of his cigar in the face of the other, who replied
to this insult by slopping the Gennan iii the face. The officer
had the good taste not to demand the intervention of the
armed force, and a meeting pmk place the nest morning,
when the Yrtmichman who hail been a corporal of Hussars in
raidherbes army, killed his adversary.

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The other day In Liverpool no fewer titan seventeen
children were poisoned by eating Calabar beaus, which they
had picked up on some vacant land. Medical aid was at once
invoked, and before evening set in they were pronounced out
of danger. The corporation carts in three loads removed the
whole of the rubbish to a pit where the beans were properly
covered with clay. It is supposed that the beans Werr
bisnight from the docks, but fnm what ship or stock has not
yet transipired.
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Few occurrences ef late years have affected society FO
profoundly as the early rising of the Enipemr of Brazil. At
an hour when all honed people are abed Ills linpelial Ma-
jesty Is "oat the rampage" over London and its suburbs. in-
credible as it slay appear, he was actually up and moving at
six oeleck the other swirling. Not five per rent of the whole
wroulation of London over saw the ism rise, unless it was
before going to bed. . _

On Monday, at the Rolls Chawherx, hehme the
chief cleft, i• the ease of "Buhl. v. Sir H. Telverton," appli-
catbm was made ,•• the part of Sir George and hatlo ehetwynd
for leave to appear to the pvoceedings. lier ladysli4h •s the
Mudd. aIeSS of Hastings, was en P•n•I to the income up ti the
time of her marriage with sir George Chetwind. The Odd
clerk granted the applicati 4444 and expressed • lope that the
accounts would be brought in and the matter browtht to
conclusion. Order accordingly.

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It seems that the statements reventle made as to the
difficulty of working the Mont UM& tunnel, 4,wing to the lle-
(Mkt., ventilation, were entirely without foundation. The
line is still sit far from Ilan; tolillilete that no experimental
tmin has yet been aide to pass through it. Workmen are
actively engaged in widening the passage, and the rails have
nowhere been permanently lahl down. It is stated that
there is no reamll for supposing that any difficulties will
occur with regard to the ventilation.

At two o'clock on Tuesday morning a seni. nis fire
broke Imt In the Duke td Norfolk's Nunnery 'ornery, near
Sheffield. One bemired colliers were in the pit at the time
the conflagration was discovered, but they all managed to
escape by the Silkstone pit. The the was that seen at the pit
head, where the drawing shaft wash-anal inflames the mpes
were soon burned through, and both cages were hurled to the
bottom. The corporation brigade hastened to the RPOt, and
the tire was soon got under. The tire is supposed to be the
work of an incendiary.
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Counts de Flavigny and Serrurier, representatives of
the Illternational Society for the Relief of the W.onoled, and
Drs. Ricord and Demarquay, managers f the ambulances of
the press, are on their way to London for the purpose of ex-
pressing to the British nation the thanks not only of the two
great societies they represent, hut also of the French Goveni-
ment, for the generous relief afforded to their countrymen
during the siege of Paris and the late civil war.

The New Y2rk papers report that the Indian chief
Satanka, recently arrested at Port Sill, widle on the way
under guard to Texas to be tiled, freed one hand from its
shackle. seized a butcher-knife, and attacked the guard.
The guard sprang from the waggon, leaving their guns. The
savage secured one ,d the rifles, and while he was preparing
to discharge it was shot in six places by the escort, aunt died
fn twenty minutes. - _ .

The singular adventurer nameil Regnier, who went
to Metz during the siege and about whom so much was sail
and written at the time, is now in prison at Versailles. It
will be remembered that he got into that fortress at a time
when it was almost impossible to get either in or out with-
out lwing excellent terms with the besiegers. that General
flowbaki then passed out by the help of his imssport, alter
Which Regnier himself left the place, with what passport is
not known.

Mr. Henry W. Peek, M.P., of Wimbledon House,
has placed in trust with the National Bank the necessary
funds, and oilers prizes of £lOO, £3OO, and ENO respectively
for original treatises on the subject of the maintenance of
the Church I,if England as an Established Church, if, in the
opinion of the judges who have undertaken to award, so
many shall be found of sufficient merit. The judges are the'
Marquis of Salisbury, the Rev. Dr. liessey (late of Merchant
Taylor's), and the Rev. Dr. Vaughan (Master of the Temple).
General Faidherbe bass just published a history of
the late campaign ill the north of France, and has dedicated
the work to M. Gambetta, as the Minister to whom be owes
the 110110I1r of having commanded a French army before the
enemy. M. Gambetta is, it seems, very popular with the
army. The troops in Paris raVe him 1,700 votes, and only
1,300 to General tic Cissey. In the provinces the proportion
was the saute. M. Gambetta is about, it is said, to establish
a newspaper celled La Remade, and General laidlierne
be one of the contributors,

All lmibiing operatirms in Dublin have been sus-
pended in consequence of a strike among the carpenters, who
,Irmand all increase of sixpence a day in their wages. The
employe) F stawl upon a concession of fourpenee a day, which
they offeied before tile strike, and beyond which they refuse
to go. Ihe plasterers who also struck Sal the same account,
have been more fortunate than the carpenters, the majority
of them having obtained the advance of sixpence a day which
they demanded. . .

'We learn from the Fif wee that, in spite if striking
appearances to the contrary, it was the French alt, really
won in the late war. What was it all about? The nomina-
tion if Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern as a candidate for the
throne of Spain. The French had declared that he should
not occupy the throne of Spain, DWI in fact it is not a Ger-
man, but an Italian prince Who DOW reigns in that country.
The French were badly beaten in a good many battles, their
Empenr and their two great armies were made captive; but,
for all that, the Prince of liohenzolicin is not King of Spain.

Asa is beiter exhibited at the Channel Island
Exhibitions, which, from the description of it in the news-
papers, ielikely to prove rather a bard nut hir clever thieves
to crack. It is a "revolving safe," and is constructed in such
a mann t r that when the key is turned the safe revolves, and
the froilt is turned to the wall, the back facing the spectator.
The process of turning the safe is most ingenious, and
while it is in motion the machinery rings a loud alarm. The
interior is very complicated, each department being in reality
a sate within a safe.

The Brecon School Board has refused to issue a pre-
cept in respect to payment of £7O, that being the amount
charged by the town clerk in payment of services for causing
the preliminary arrangements to be made in the formation
of the board. Some of the items charged in the account are
very large, as one for filling up lipting papers is charged £lO,
being at the rate of 64. each. The Educational department
being unable to give information on the matter, the members
of the board have taken upon themselves to suspend pay-
ment.

Laot week the aggregate mortality in London and 19
ether large towns in the tnitcd Kingdom was at the rate of
21 deaths annually to every 1,000 pencils living. The rate
was 12 in Norwich, and 43 in Sunderland. In the metrotmlis
1,929 birthis and 1,200 deaths were registered ; the former
having been 189, and the latter 220, below the average number
in the correEponding week of the last ton years Zyinotic
diseases caused 321 deaths, including 164 from small-pox, 12
from measles, 24 from scarlet fever, 4 from diphtheria, 30
from whooping-cough, 17 from different forma id fever (of
which 8 were certified as typhus, 4 . enteric Or typhoid, and
has simple continued fever), and 39 from diarrhea. The
fatal eases .4 small-p., made up the lowest weekly number
since the cnd of January- last. The largest decrease was in
the east of bindon, and the fatality was get alit yyy son„.,
Camden, and Kentish towns, and in fionoondney, liattertiek
audit. (italic, of Caufbcrr cll