The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-07-23 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

It is said that Cardinal Antoinelli presented one of
his nephew. on his recent marriage with X2OO,COJ sterling.
Garibaldi has subscribed 100 francs towards the
fend for the Italian sufferers by the fire at Constantinople.
According to the Paris correspondent of the Court
Journal, the Emperor has b.come very lively, active, and
jocular since war was declared.

A French paper printed M New OrlPans recently
contsined the following announcement:—" Charles Dickens.
the great American romancer. died yesterday of apoplexy."
Ile was the Walter Scott of A m erica."

It in Paid that a Qu.en.ti mesonger was P.nt direct
from Windsor t Ems with an autograph letter from her
Majesty to the King of Prosna, earnestly urging upon him
to Into all pnsible means to avAl a war.

The Couloir (Perin paper) hag etuted a "patriotic"
fund, and nuliiishes a list of subscriptions. which is large for
France. Emile de Girardin, who has become a fanatic for
war after being on advocate of peace at au price, has put
down his name fur £4OO.

The Military Oarette of Vienna imillishes an article
stronsly rec.munentling an alliance between Austria and
France. ••The victory of France," it says, "moans the
existence of Austria: the victory of Prussia means the dis-
memberment of Austria."

" Totenty.nix iron.clade actual), in commission,"
quite ready for any work by August Ist, and seven or eight
more to hack them, with men enough to work and light them.
Such is Sir Sydney fincres's account or our naval condition,
and a very good one it is.

A notice has been issued by the Consul General of
the North German Confederation In London calling upon all
German siojects in the United Klnzdom of Great Britain
and Ireland who are liable to military service to at once
proceed to Germany.

A. letter from Namdeonville, Bittnnv, atevv that
the peasants, having literally no food to g ye tlnir cattle,
are selling them to dealers for almost nothing, ev,n aslittle
as a peony a pound for the live animal." In Parts an On
weighutg, net 7001b5., which two months ago was selling for
£1.3, now fetches scarcely

"At a araside place—we do not know whether or
not it was one of the many' Queens of Waterlog Places—.
duck was served up recently at a not too careful house. The
animal contained • considerable portion of a gentleman's
1).01111g-drawers. Did the duet eat the bather. und was this
the lest ot him? is the natural question for a philosoklier.—
Court Journal.

Opinions seem to difilr as to the requisiten necessary
to constitute respectability. A London contemporary con-
tains an advertisement for • wet nurse, " who must be re.
spectahle, and a single woman.' Considering what are the
qualifications for the office, we can hardly see how the party
who applies is to combine respectability and single blessed-
ness —Court Journal.

Prince and Princess. Christian were preparing to leave
Fromm* on Thursday last for the Continent, when they
received a telegram from her Majesty, advising them to
postpone their visit for the present ; and their royal high-
nesse, will doubtless now defer the,r journey till matter.
become more settled upon the 'ontinent.

The numbrr of pigeons slain at linrlin•rham at the
" Tournament t f Doves" every week is something quite ex-
traordinary. A phi:anthropic lady, who resides hi Die neigh-
bourhood, has established an infirmary for tie wounded
bird.; and it is remarkable to see the poor pigeons hopping
and fluttering about in their disabled state.—Court
Time inhabitants of the Faubourg.ft-Martin, Pane
were on Sunday morning thrown into commotion by a fright-
fat crime A young woman aged 28, married, and mother of
three children, was, after a quarrel with tier husband, thrown
by him out of the window of tMir lodging on the 111th floor
and killed on the spot, lie was in drink at the time, and the
whole Incident was witnessed by the eldest child, a girl of six
years of ago.

The "account" on the London Stock Exchange
concluded last S durday will be • memorable one, nine
failures having occurred on the Stock Exchange, chiefly
among brokers whose clients were unable to meet the enor-
mous differences caused by the panic. The crisis was so
unexpected that these suspensions are viewed with an en.
used degree of sympathy, except fu one or two instances
win-re reprehensiele crrcumstahcee are rernortred.—But-
lioniaL

In London, a woman named Aleaaer, aged 47, hui
been chervil with the murder of her daughter, tight yeses
old. The prisoner lodged at a tome to Bermondsey, and the
Other lodgers, hearing scream,, wciii to her room, and found
the decPased lying MI a sofa with blood streaming from her
head, the prisoner standing over her, am] ainktng her with
a hatchet. The poor child never recovered Consciousness,
and died In slew hours from the wound. inflicted. The
mother was committee' for trial en the capital charge.

Evan and Hannah Jacobi., the lia.reate of the un-
fortunate child who has obtained a miserable notoriety as
the Welsh fasting girl, have been tried and convicted of the
manslaughter of their offspring, awl seuteirced to ilifferent
periods of imprisonment. The husband and fattier, an the
more guilty of the two, is to undergo twelve months' incar-
ceration, with hard labour, while the wife and mother
escapes with six months', because juice and Jury believed
that she had acted at the instance sod under the control of
the male prisoner. Thus ends the tragic and highly sense,-
tional story of Sarah Jacobs, whose supvned power of living
upon air excited so much curiosity and gave rise to such
grave scandal.

The Working Itf en's Congrew, which opened at
tiarcelone on the 19th of June, seems to have passed off in •
sathfactory manner. The Congress counted eighty-five
delegates from all part. of Spain, the principal cities repre-
sented behig Vailadoild, Tarragona, Xeres, Seville, Madrid,
Cad., Tortese at the inauguration, which took place in •
theatre, there was an Immense concourse of working men
and women. In order tot spross the negation of all notional
sentiment, the delegates chose a foreigner as preeident. a
French refugee, named Basilica. The subjects under discus-
sion were, tint the federation of societies and funds for the
purpose of resistance (cantata de resistance). Second, the
present and future of co-operation. Third, the social
organizati,n if sot krnen. Fourth, the attitude of the
Imertattlo, al Association of Working klen with regard to
polities. Flak tcopositions cia mixed comactor

Lord Lytton has undertaken, it is said, to write •
new novel for Blackwood, for which he will receive £3,000.
Some thieves stole 240 dozen eggs from a warebeuse
In Dundee the other day ; the eggs had been to the plaoafer
two months, and were quite rotten.
A discussion has arisen in Pans as to which side •
gentleman on horseback ought to take when he la riding
with • lady.
It is possible that the outbreak of war will materially
Increase, the revenue derived by the Chancellor of the En-
c.hequer from the telegraphs.
Mark Lemon's notes on the origin and history of
PUI.II have, it is said, been found, and are to be pubse,,
a Me of its Editor also.

At a meeting held in London. on Sstardsy, st the
room. ct the /Munich, Turnverein,German Gymnastic
Society , it sea rewired to form at once an aid society for
the wounded in the terrible war lust began.

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The Liverpool Mercury say. thnt • movement on foot
In Liverpool for holding lay service. In private houses, hall.,
In connecVon with the Establialled Church, ham met
with much encouragement.

We learn from the Mark Lane Ex preas, that the
rains at intervals during the week and the bat sunny days
are bringing the crops fast forward to matunty, and with
fine favourable weather harvest will soon commence in early
&strict&

An exhibition of implements of Warfare, models,
photographs of places and per,onsges connected with the
continental war, and numerous other objects of Interest in •
military and naval point of view, will be opened on Satur-
day next at the Crystal Palace.
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A correspondent writes :—A clergyman in a subur-
ban church said last Sunday evening in his sermon, " I am
sorry to see that among those appointed to revise the trans-
lation of the Bible there is a Socinian. I wonder they did
not aak Satan himself to Join them."

The subject of the admission of women to Harvard
University is being earnestly discussed by the authorities of
that institution. At the Inte commencement dinner. Dr.
fledge, the President of the Divinity college, earnestly ad-
vocated the admission of women, and was heartily cheered
by the alumni present

Great excitement was canned in the London Stock
Exchange on Saturday morning by a "declaration' of the
wrong man. A communication was sent by a highly re-
spectable member to the commitee announcing the fact that
another member was unable to meet his engagement.
The writer of the letter was by mistake declared instead of
the person who was the object of his communication.

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A strange encounter is reported from Liverpool.
Some Freech and Prussian clerks employed In a mercantile
house got into an altercation concerning the matters in dis-
pute between their respective countries, and their patriotism
carried them from word, to blows. The result was s general
melee, and two of the Pruseians were so seriously hurt.. to
render their removal to the hoe, ital necessary.

The Rev. James Eagle% a clergyman of Birming-
ham, hes just conferred a signal benefit upon his parish by
prosecuting the keeper of a Inns° of ill-fame at the borough
quarter sessions. The result is that the man has been sen-
tenced to six months imprisonment with hard labour, to pay
a flue of £25, and to and two sureties in £25 each for two
years.

The Ncue Freit Prem. of Vienna, says that the act
of renunciation of Prince Leopold f liohenswllern stake
that the Prince wishes to leave to the Spanish nation the
Imitative of the election to the throne. If this assertion
should prove to be correct, a new light Is thrown on the
demand of France that the King of Prutsia should, once
for all, prohibit the acceptance of the throne by Prince
Leopold.

An International Working Man's Exhibition, which
contains innumerable articles of constructive rkill and in-
genuity, not only from Great Bntain, but from France, Italy,
Germany, Spain, and other foreign countries, was opened In
London. on Saturday, with some "pomp and circumstanee,"
by his Itiyal II ighneu the Prince of Wale., acting for the
Queen. Her Majesty, it may be remembered, some days ago
pall the exhibition a preliminary visit.
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The Chamber of Agriculture Journal gays that during
the month of Juue there was • startling Increase in the num-
ber of animals imported in a state of dines° and slaughtered
by order of the Customs at the pdts of debarkation. From
twenty in May, the figures have sprung to 203. Of that
number let came frAn Cherbourg and were landed at
Southampton; nine of the animals were sheep and the re-
mainder were swine. Only three cattle were found to be
diseased, and they Game to Hartlepool from Hamburgh.

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" There are some portions of Europe in which the
sews of the outbreak of war will he received with unfeigned
delight At every little sea-side town and village in England
the lodging, house keener, are crying "Vice Is guerre !" and
rejoicing In anticipatim of the abundant flow af visitors
who, cut off from the Rhine and unable to take their usual
holiday on the C-ontineut, will have uo alternative but to
seek the stuffy relaxation of a few weeks' residence by the
sea-side.'

Each day niece the declaration of war the pavement
In front of the Greed Hotel in Paris, has been encumbered by
English tourists c, me for an "outing ' to Baden and Hom-
burg, and whae lamentations that their plans are baulked,
and they dot know what to do with themselves, are audible
to bystanders. The old soldiers, who know what war is, take
a sorrowful leave of their Mead.; the young Garde
who have yet to learn what the Empire has in store for them,
are generally joyous
At the recent trial in Pullin of Peter Barrett for
the attempted murder of Captain Lambert, a large number
of gentlemen who had been placed upon the jury panel
faded to answer when called upon. The Crown, and the
prisoner also, challenged so many of the jurors who did
attend that it wait with considerable ditlkulty the jury-box
could be tilled. Mr. Justine Fitzgerald had fined thirty of
the absentees each. They were liable to fines of treble
that amount.

A chocking accident occurred at the Uannonatreet
station, in London, on Saturday evening. The foreman of
the porters crossed the line in front of • train coming in,
hut in jumping on the platform caught his toe, and was
thrown Mickwards on to the metals. to an instant the
train went over him, and smashed his heed to pieces. The
large number of trains entering and leaving all the metro-
politan ler so int, no doubt, necessitate what Is called • lively'
action on the part of the porters, but death in • terrible form
is too often the result of what might otherwise be praise-
worthy exertion.

At the camp at Wimbledon, last Sunday, the Rev,
J. Farrar, of Harrow School, preached an eloquent sermon,
exhorting the Volunteers as to their duty lu Its highest
sense, and drawing a forcible parallel between the discipline
of a camp and the discipline of life. Referring to the criminal
woe into whieli Europe is being plunged, ice m eacrer re-
marked upon the coincidence of Ms raving last addressed the
Volunteers from his present spealcher place just four years
aim, and on the day of the battle of SadoWa, and concluded a
eermon which, though read, was remarkable throughout for
its oratorical power, with • peroration of great beauty.

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We should not have supposed that "Foxe'; Book
of Martyrs' was a favourite in France, or that French
children were entertained with the pretty little stories of
Papal persecution with which our children's books abound,
but a serious accident lately occurred on the Boulevard
31,mt-Parnasse in consequence of an attempt by somo
children to represent an auto-date Tney erected a pile of
small sticks, versa French piper, and set it on fire. A child
of five years old, who undertook the part of the condemned
heretic, bravely ascended the martyr's pyre. Of course the
flames caught his clothes and those of the young inqulsiton
and executioners. These were rescued before they were
much hurt, but the principal performer was very seriously
injured.