The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-07 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

- Brigham Young's son has left _Utah on a preaching
mission to Germany.

The number of wrecks reported last week was 21,
making for the present year 1,037.

It is stated that 10,000 women and girls have learned
to a wim at the free New York baths this season.

Certain defences are curiously like the traditional
achool-boy's plea, "I never had your knife—besides, it was
my own—and you know I returned it."

The King of Hanover and his daughter have arrived
at Biarritz to pass the autumn for the third year in succes-
sion. The weather there is reported to be exceedingly fine.
About £B,OOO has now been received at the Mansion
House, in London, on account of the Eastern War Sufferers'
Fund.
It is stated that the labouring people of Iceland are
Buffering great privations owing to the fishing season proving
a complete failure. No fewer thl,Boo Icelanders have
emigrated to Canada.

So great is the dearth of engineers in the Royal
Navy at the present time that some delay has been occa-
sioned in the commissioning of some of the ironclad and
other vessels ready for the pennant.
The Agent-General for South Australia has re.
ceived the following telegram from the Government at
Adelaide, dated September 22 :—" Emigrant ships Forfar
shire, Hesperus, Monaltrie, and Buccleuch arrived, all wed."
Two thousand Spanish pilgrims, says a Madrid tele-
gram are preparing to set out for Rome. They are to travel
by railway through Sptin, France and Italy.
Mr. Jonathan J. Richardson, formerly M. P. for
Lisburn, while dressing for dinner at his residence, near
Tramore, on Tuesday, was Beimd with an apoplectic lit and
cied in a quarter of an hour.
Thomas Wainwright, brother of the murderer of
Harriet Lane, was one of the batch of prisoners that arrived
at Portland the other day.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges in
the Times, "as Conscience ?Amoy," the receipt of £2O In
Bank-uotes for Income Tax, from "D. W. S."

A large new public market, erected at a Cc:A of
£4,000 by the Corporation of Leeds, was formally opened on
Wednesday by the Mayor and Corporation.
The following are the average prices of British corn
for the week ending Sept. 30, as received from the inspectors
and officers of Excise :—Wheat, 475. id. ; barley, 393 11d. ;
oats, 255. 9d. per imperial qr. Corresponding week last year :
—Wheat, 459. lid. ; barley, 365. 4d. ; oats, 269. sd.
The Solicitors' Journal states that the late Mr.
Justice Quill, who during his lifetime showed a warm in.
terest in the improvement of legal education, has bequeathcd
a sum of £lO,OOO to trustees to be applied to this purpose.
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In the West of England the number of signatures
appended to petitions presented last session in favour of
woman's suffrage exceeded by some hundreds the total of
last year.

The London and North-Western Railway Company
have just issued a new book of rules to their servants. One
new rule provides that no company's servant shall enter a
railway refreshment room for the purpose of taking drink
whilst on duty, on pain of dismissal.

The vessels at present atißesika Bay are the follow-
ing :—The helicon (fug of Vice-Admiral Drummond), the
Triumph (flmr of Rear-Admiral Rice), the Swittsure, the
Monarch, the Saltan, the Hotspur, the Rupert, the Research,
the Wye, and the Wizard.
The trials of the 81-ton gun were resumed on
Tuesday at Shoeburyness, and the results were declared to
be satisfactory. It has been estimated that the damage done
by the firing to the soldiers' quarters amounts to £6OO. One
of the projectiles tired last week has been found at a distance
of six miles from the gun.

The Earl of Carnarvon presided at Derby School
on Monday, and referring to the Eastern question, entreated
that Englishmen should be patient at this supreme moment,
when we might be on the eve of a great war, and put a
liberal construction on the motives and acts of the Govern-
ment.

The West news rouesyea from—thev-West Groitet—tif
Africa represents the mookade of D.thomey to be maintained
by seven of Her Majesty's ships. The expildition up the
Niger is reported to have had the effect of quieting the
natives. Ti is added that oil was coming down in large quilt-
titles, and that the West Coast trade was brisk.

Speaking at the consecration of a new church at
Belle Vu., in tke suburbs of Wakefield on Saturday, the
Bishop of Ripon stated that the sacred edifice brought the
number up to 114 it bad been his privilege to consecrate since
he came to that diocese. The right rev, prelate was appointed
to the see of Ripon by Lord Palmerston in 18)6.
There were 59 fatal CRPES of scarlet fever in London
last week, exceeding the number in any previous week since
last January; and of the 15 deaths from small-pox, 14 were
registered in the North group of districtg, and nine were
deaths of infants and adults who had not been vaccinated.
Different forms of violence caused Si deaths, 45 of which
were the result of negligence or accident, and eight of them
arising from injuries from horses or vehicles in the street,.
Sir Philip Egerton, speaking at the annual show of
the Cheshire Agricultural Society (opened at Chester), said he
would not say anything about practical agriculture for fear he
should, as many people had done lately, talk of what he knew
nothing about. He dwelt on the necessity for -a higher edu-
cation of farmers' sow, and the policy of cementing the bond
of union between landlords, tenants, and labourers, and
strongly urged the labourers not to place any trait in the
utterances of such men as Jose;ih Arch,
Mr. W. S. Nicholson, a magistrate of the Rochester
division of Kent. was on Saturday accidentally shot by his
brother, Captain H. Nicholson, R N, whilst snipe-shooting
in the Medway marshes. The brothers were on opposite
sides of a bed of reeds, which hid each from the other's
view, when the magistrate turned an angle of the bed, and
thus unconsciously brought himself in front of his brother's
gun, the contents of which, on the captain firing; lodged in
his side. Mr. Nicholson's wounds are not considered
dangerous.

The King of the Belgians has offered 5,000 f. as a
prlz3 to Brussels, local authority, or private association,
which shall by improvement in the dwellings of the working
classes effect the greatest reduction of the death rate at the
lowest cost. This prize is to be awarded at the next Inter-
national Hygienic Congress. The Qaeen will give a silver
cup to the public institution or private association for rearing
orphan children which shall present the most successful
examples of the employment of practical means for the con-
servation of infant life.
Lieutenant Henry Lees, late of the 3rd Dragoons,
was killed on Saturday evening in the Phce aix Park, Dublin,
by his horse falling on him. He raised the animal to jump
across a hurdle, which was placed to keep reserved ground,
but was too close, and the horse's fore feet getting under the
top bar and striking it, it fell, throwing Mr. Lane underneath.
He never moved or spoke, but died immediately from internal
injuries.
On Saturday afternoon one of three large boilers ex-
Ileded at the William Pitt Fordell Colliery, near Damferm-
,ine. Eight of the girls employed as pit-head workers were
buried by the debris. Two were killed on the spot, and two
died shortly alter their removal. The engine-worker, who
was standing on the top of the boiler, was blown into the
air, and his dead body was found in a neighbouring field
about 70 yards from the works. Six other persons were
severely injured. Tno cause of the accident is uuknown.
The boiler was 39 feet long, and had all the modern appli•
ances for safety.

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The following ships conveying emigrants for the
Government of New Zealand have been despatched during
the months of August and September :—Frorn London—the
Rangßik!, with 320 emigrants ; the Waltaira, with 191; the
Jessie Osborne, with 2C2; the Hamm!, with 25; and the
C ercligan Castle, with 321. From the Clyde—the Dunedin,
' with 285 emigrants; and the Gemara, with 330 Being a
total number of 1,951 emigrants. The Waitangi, which left
Landon for Canterbury, :New Zealand, with 337 emigrants
on the 24th of Juno last, Arrived out un the lath ult., all
well.
In a brick building capable of holding 8,000 persons,
specially erected for them at Chicago, Messrs. Moody and
Sankey, on Sunday last, commenced their revivalist services,
which are to be continued for three months. The structure
was entirely filled during the morning, afternoon, and even-
ing services. A large number of persons were unable to
obtain admittance. Another meeting was held in Farwell
Hall, which was also very well attended, 15.000 persons being
turned away from the doors. Arrangements are in progress
for holding simultaneous meetings in other large Western
towns,
Mary Watts, aged 26, domestic servant in the
employ of Mr. Brooks, of the "Coach end Horses," The
Grove, Stratford, died in the London Hospital en Sunday
morningfrom the effects of serious burns, of which she was
the victim the day before. Deceased was engaged cooking
the dinner, when her dress caught, and she was instantly
enveloped in flames. Her cries brought Mr. Brooks to her
aid, but she was so terrified that she clutched at his hair, and
thus retarded for some time Ids efforts to extinguish the
flames. When this was done she was removed to the above-
named hospital, where she was admitted in a shocking state
of suffering, but died shorty afterwards, despite every
attention on the part of the he use surgeon.
In London, last Saturday morning, a young woman
paid for a second-class private bath at the Endell-street es-
tablishment. Shortly after admission she unlocked the bath-
room door, stepped into the corridor, and became very ill.
Ora the attendant asking her what was the matter, she replied
that she had taken something. A paper, which had ovidintly
contained some powder, was In her hand, but torn and the
address label destroyed. Son afterwards she expired. She
was about 22 years of ago, black hair, freckled about the neck
and face; fourpence was found in her pocket, and her
chemise was marked E. W. In red; she wore a cotton dress,
coarse straw hat. trimmed with black, blue serge dress, and
clam velvet jscket. •
The Isle of Anglesey is in a singular predicament.
About a fortnight ago the coroner died, aLd the authorities
seem to have expected that for a time nobody would die any
other than a natural death. Unfortunately, a man, in an
attempt to enter a moving train, at Llanerchymedd, was run
over and received fatal injuries. In this emergency the Lord
Chancellor and the Home Secretary were communicated with,
but they stated that no authority could be given for holding
an inquest. The body will probably be interred under a
magistrate's erder, and the inquiry, which may or may not
be necessary, dispensed with.
Mr. Gladstone on Monday night, on his way to
-Ainwick Ca.stie, made a short stay at Berwick and attended,
by request, a meeting of the subscribers to the Museum In
that town. In a short address, Mr. Gladstone said that the
love of nature was, in his opinion, a cpialry of the greatest
value. Its power in humanizing and educating the mind of
man was scarcely to be measured. It formed a bond of
union between class and class, and it was one, he believed,
of the moat innocent and effective instruments which taught
the subject of creation. He did not place it in competition
with the higher interests which belonged to the highest
welfare of man, but it was among those instruments which
tended to embellish life, ennoble man, raise the mind, and
promote the general welfare.