The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-08-11 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Mr. R. Winn, M.P., has made a reduction of 25 per
cent. on the rents of his agricultural tenants for the
past half- year,
A Chimney-Sweeper's life has its "Sporting" side.
He is deeply interested in Sweep's takes !—Punch.
At Jena, near Weimar, the other day, about 1,000
students assembled to witness the unveiling of a
statue to commemorate the founding of patriotic
students' clubs. The first club was founded at that
town a few days before the battle of Waterloo.

An international market for cattle and pigs, com-
bined with prizes, will be held in Budapest on the
22nd, 23rd, and 24th of September of this year.
The Earl of Aberdeen gave a dinner on Saturday to
the doorkeepers and messengers of the House of Lords
at the Fisheries Exhibition.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh was
born on August 6th, 1844, and thus attained his 39th
birthday on Monday last.
It is stated that Mr, John Holms, M.P.' will sail
for America either on the 11th or 18th inst, in pur-
suance of his mission as. representative of the 13<mrcl
of Trade at the opening of the Nurthern Pacific Rail-
way.

At the last weekly meeting of the London School
Board a blind scholar named Annie Cornwall,
eleven years of age, was elected to the Gardners Trust
Scholarship,
Miss Florence Nightingale has sent a donation of £3 3s.
to the Indian Medical Scholarship Fund, with a letter
expressing her deep sympathy and warm interest in the
proposal. This Fund has been started to enable
female students to study medicine with a view to prac-
tice amongst the women of India.

The sale of the furniture and other effects at Straw-
betry-hill, the residence of the late Countess of Wal•
degrave, was concluded on Saturday, and occupied
ten days. The whole proceeds amounted to about
£14,000.

The strike of ironworkers in South Stafforiqhire,
which commenced five weeks ago, terminated on
Saturday morning, and all the operatives, both
puddlera and millmen, have now returned to work at
the reduction of 3d. per ton.
Several fires have occurred in the neighbourhood
of Sheffield and on Saturday, the most serious
taking place at the Rive:in Paper Mill, at which the
damage was considerable, a large portion of the mill
being burned down.
The forthcoming Dominion Centennial Exhibition
at St. John, New Brunswick, promises to be a great
success, entries having already been received from
all parts of the Dominion and from the United States.
A sixth squadron is now being added to each
cavalry regiment of the Russian army.
Up to March 31, 1882, there was standing due to the
depositors in the Military Saving Bank a total of
£315,159 45.

A lady of Orenburg, just returned from a pilgrimage
to the Holy Land, has personally presented to the
Empress of Russia, at Peterhof, a number of holy
pictures, painted on pieces of rock from Mount Sinai
and on pebbles taken from the Jordan.

The twenty-fourth animal meeting of the Associa-
tion of German Engiueers will take place on August
13 to 15, at Dortmund. The society now numbers
nearly 4,800 members, distributed for the greater part
over the whole of Germany in twenty-eight district
associations.

The July return of the Cleveland Ironmakers
Association shows the following as the month's makes
of pig iron, namely-155,000 tons of Cleveland iron,
and 75,000 tons of other kinds—a total of 230,000 tons,
or 5,000 more tons than in June. There are 118
furnaces blowing, 85 of which are making Cleveland
pig iron. Stocks decreased 4,800 tons in July.

Just after the London express from Aberdeen had
passed a crossing near Coupar Angus on ties Caledonian
Beltway on Monday night, and the gates were opened
t,o allow traffic to cross over, a special train came up
unexpectedly, and the wife of the gate-keeper, who
had run to assist her husband to close the gates, was
knocked down by the engine and'killed on the spot.
The number of impromptu questions put to Ministers
in the House of Commons on Monday exceeded that
of which notice had been given. The total interroga-
tions were 101, of which only 49 had been notified.
A petition signed by 231. missionaries in China was
presented to the House of Commons on Monday pray-
ing for the discontinuance ~f the opium trade.
A supplementary sum of £12,000 has been allowed
by the Admiralty, beyond the amount originally pro-
vided in the Estimates, for shipbuilding at Chatham
Dockyard, in order to expedite the completion of the
armoured ships which are now under construction at
that establishment.

The race for the ten miles bicycling champion-
ship took place at the Aylestone-road Grounds,
Leicester, on Monday, resulting as follows :—F. Wood,
Leicester, 1; R. Howell, Coventry, 2; P. Medinger,
Paris, 3; F. Lees, Sheffield, 4; F. de Civry, Paris, 0.
Won by a yard. Time-30 min. 52 1-5 sec.

A Supplementary Eatimate has been issued showing
that to meet the expense of establishing the Parcels
Post a vote of £399,466 will be required by the Post
Office in addition to the total ori,inal estimate for the
various departments of the office of 241,123,752. It la
expected that the additional amount required will be
covered by revenue.
The father-in-law of the late Captain Webb pro.
oeeded to New York by the last German steamer for
the purpose of claiming the body of the great
swimmer and bringing it home.

The harvest prospects of Meerut, India, and the
suurounding districts are at present gloomy, owing to
the long-continued drought.
A startling incident is reported from the Isle of
Man. A lady and a gentleman were out for a drive
along the South Quay, when the hone suddenly
swerved and leaped over the chain giarding the
harbour. The tide was out at the time, and a
schooner named the Argo being moored at the point,
the driver was saved by clinging to the ringing. The
lady and gentleman were unhurt. The horse was
hoisted up by the schooner's tackle, but died.

A return has been issued of the fees paid by the
Archbishop of Canterbury on his promotion to the
Primacy. The total amount is £BB5 ss. 6d. Of that
sum £62 19s. goes to the Horse Office, which charges,
£l4 is, on account of the Royal Assent, and £l2 12s.
on account of the Oath of Homage. The Crown Office
gets £ll2 17s. ; the Cathedral official., £9l 7s. ; the
Principal Registrar of the Province, £36 ss. Bd. ; and
the payments to Queen Anne's Bounty amount to
£2Bl ss. 6d.

Prince Prisdang, the Siamese Minister, and suite
have returned to London. During his absence from
England Prince Prisdang has, on behalf of his Govern•
merit, concluded treaties on the spirits question with
the Governments of Sweden, Denmark, and Belgium,
on the same basis as that entered into with England in
April last.
Mr. F. W. Wardell, the Inspector of Mines for the
Yorkshire district, says that lad year 95 deaths were
caused by naming accidents in lCorkshire, being one
death to every 648 persons employed in mines.
Three men belonging to the Imperial corvette
Blucher, now lying off the Pomeranian coast, were
drowned the other evening by the capsizing of a boat
in which 11 of the crew were returning to the vessel
after a pleasure party on shore.
In York, on Monday, a man named Henry Nichol-
son, was drowned, and a child aged five had a narrow
escape. The former was rowing on the Ouse, in an
outrigger with the latter sitting in the bow, when the
boy began to dabble one hand in the water. Nichol-
son reached forward to stop his play, when the boat
upset and both were submerged. The boy was saved,
but Nicholson was drowned.

As an agricultosal foreman named Jackson was
shooting rooks on Monday at Sutton, near Mapel-
thorpe, on the Lincolnshire coast, the gun exploded,
completely blowing away his face and instantaneously
killing him.
A very large quantity of rare silver coins was found
lately at Borzecice, in the Krotoczin district in Prus-
sian Poland. A farmer was having a large stone re-
moved from one of his fields, and the workmen found
deep beside it an urn with 530 sever coins of Bohemian,
German, Hungarian, and even Anglo-Saxon mintage.
With them were some silver ornaments and a few
silver bars. They were all taken to the Royal Museum
of Coins at Berlin.
The firat'native female lawyer known in India has

been admitted to a local court in Madras, to practise
as a private pleader in magisterial cases. She is the
wife of a native Christian missionary, and has entirety'
adopted European habits, although she still %mars the
native dress

Reports received at the Foreign Office represent the
prosperity of Egypt up to the time of the outbreak of
cholera as something remarkable (says the Daily
News). Trade was everywhere reviving as confidence
increased. The taxes were paid with unusual regu-
larity, and there was every prospect that within a
short period the losses sustained by the war would be
wholly recovered.

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sentation of vegetation, and the sky effects.
A Blue.book has been published giving a list of the
School Boards and school attendance committee in
England and Wales. On April last the total popula.
tiou of England and Wales under School Boards num.
bered 15,980,403, and the total population under school
attendance committees 9,994,036.
A New York telegram says that the visible supply
of wheat on Aug. 3 was 17,700,000 bushels, as against
17,700,0 )0 bushels the previous week. Visible supply
of Indian corn, 10,500,000 bashele, as against 11,500,000
bashels the previous week. The export clearances of
wheat for Europe during last week amounted to
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yield was much higher than in any former year, The
average price, however, fell very low, being often in.
sufficient to cover the cost of production. The prospects
look better this year, and the new trade with Australia
and America is expanding,

David Mackie, 47, machinist, who was sentenced to
ten years' penal servitude at Warwick Assizes last
week for the attempted murder of his wife at Birming-
ham has committed suicide in Warwick Gad by
hanging himself in his cell.
A Royal Commission will shortly be nominated to
inquire into certain grievances alleged in connection
with trawling on the British coast. •
The Princess Louise has promised to send a nrtmber
of her paintings, both in oil and water colour, to the
Boston Exhibition.

The death is announced of Svend Grundtvig, pro-
fessor of Norse language and literature in the Uni-
versity of Copenhagen. He was 59 years of age. He
was son of the Danish Bishop Nicolai Sever!ll
Grundtvig, who died only ten years ago, and Who had
a great reputation both as a divine and a poet.

The lock•out of the cigarmakers at New York has
ended in a compromise, and 15,000 workmen will at
once return to work.

A Rood-imental Study. Land surveying. --
"Topics of the weak."—The oft-told ills of the hypo-
ehondriao.—Funny Folks.

By a Parliamentary return, issued on Monday, the
ravages of the foot-and•month -disease for the six
months ending June, were as follows :—England,
2,503 animals died; Wales, 62; Scotland, 899; total

animals died, 3,464.

Whilst a cannon was being fired near Bangor ma
Saturday to celebrate a visit from the British Medical
Association it buret, and three men who were standing
near it were fp-riousiy injured. One of the men had
his arm n blown off, and the others lost their eyesight.
All three are in a critical condition.

By the beginning of next year there will only be
break of 425 miles in the Canadian Pacific ReAlway
between Montreal and the Rocky Mountains.

M. Victor Hugo has sent a thousand francs as his
contribution to the fund for the relief of the sufferers
by the earthquake at Ischia, which he describes as a
universal catastrophe.
The Council of the Bath and West of England
Agricultural Society have selected Brighton for the
show of 1885, and a deputation has been appointed to
visit the town to select a site.

Two excursionists from Bolton•le-Moors, whilst pro.
ceeding across Morecambe Bay on Saturday, were
caught by the rising tide whilst they were standing on
a sandbank, and drowned. Their bodies were recovered
next day within a few feet of the spot where they were
last seen.

During the ten years from 1873 to 1882 the number
of persons who have visited the collections at the
Bethnal-green Museum is officially reported to have
exceeded 5i millions.

Copenhagen advices state that the Czar and Czarina
will arrive at Castle Bernstorf before the end of the
present month, and there meet the Prince and Princess
of Wales, the King of Greece, and the Duchess of
Cumberland, remaining six weeks.
It is officially announced in the London Gazette that
baronetcies have been granted to Dr. Andrew Clark
and Mr. Prescott Hewett, Sergeant• Surgeon Extra-
ordinary to her Majesty.

The Emperor of China has conferred upon the
German Crown Prince the Order of the Double
Dragon, the insignia of which have been brought to
Berlin by the Chinese Military Attach 6 there, Colonel
Tseng Ki Tong, who spent his furlough of several
months in China.

A Siberian newspaper states that the American
Government has despatched a steamer to the coast of
Kamschatka, with a large number of presents, consist-
ing chiefly of sugar, tobacco, and sporting guns, for
the Jehuktchees and other natives who befriended the
shipwrecked crew of the Rogers the year before last.

The number of visitors to the International Fisheries
Exhibition last Saturday was 21,992, making a`; otal
for last week of 106,648. The total number from the
opening of the Exhibition has been 1,085,346.
A dispute at the Dearham Main Colliery, near
Maryport, where 150 miners have been on strike since
May, rather than submit to the masters' demands for
the abolition of bonus-money, has been settled in
favour of the men, and work was resumed on Monday,
Last Saturday was the anniversary of the Battle of
Evesham, which was fought in Worcestershire on
August 4th, 1265. Henry 111. was present at the
battle, and the Earl of Leicester was killed during the
engagement, which put an end to the confederacy of
the barons.

King John of Abyssinia has written letters to Queen
Victoria and Sir Edward Malet expressing his satis-
faction at the presence of the British in Egypt, which
he trusts will contribute to the maintenance of
friendly relations between England and Egypt and
Anysainia.
In Paris about thirty street hawkers have been ar-
rested for gelling broadsheets beaded "Fail of the Re-
public and Proclamation of King Henry the Fifth."
The number of British and foreign actual ship-
wrecks reported during the past week was 16, against
37 for the corresponding week of last year, making
the total for the present year, to date, 1,092, against
904 last year, 1,012 in the year 1881, and 820 in
1880. Total lives lost for the week, 35.
A glacier garden with glacier millstones and water
worn excavations like those in the glacier garden at
Lucerne, has been discovered on the Maloja, in the
Grisons. •

The Dundee magistrates have resolved to confer
the freedom of the burgh on the Earls of Rosebery,
Camperdown, and Dalhousie on the occasion of the
inauguration of the Dundee University -College by
Lord Rosebery in October next.

Amongst the many members of the House of
Commons proceeding to the United States for the
recess is Sir Lyon Playfair, who sails for New York
on the 23rd inst.

A petition has just been sent to Prince Bismarck
by the Kingzig Agrieultural Society, near Cassel,
begging the Chancellor to order the statistics of this
year's harvest to be prepared immediately it is over,
for the purpose of prohibiting the importation nt any
grain beyond such amount as may be necessary to
supply any deficiency.

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The steamship Roma, Captain Mann, left Plymouth
on Aug. 2, for Queensland, having on board 344 adults,
:-150 families, 90 single women, and 104 single
men, equal to 397 souls.
The total arrivals of live stock and fresh meat at
Liverpool last week amounted to 1,857 cattle, 2,000
sheep, 4,732 quarters of beef, and 465 carcaies of
mutton; showing, when compared with the arrivals of
the previous week, a decrease in live stock, but a slight
increase in fresh meat. - _

An accident occurred at Woodhouse Junction, five
miles south of Sheffield,. on Monday night, and
upwards of 4,000 excursionists were delayed for hours.
About seven o'clock two goods trains came into
collision at the Junction, blocking both lines. A
breakdown gang was sent from Sheffield to clear the
line. Great anxiety was manifested by the friends of
the holiday makers, but no fatality was reported.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel L. Clemens, of Hartford,
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Cann., have marked the birthdays of th,eir children by
placing three granite watering troughs at convenient
intervals on one of the roads at Elmira, N.Y., where
they have their summer home. The name and date
of birth of one of the children is chiselled deep on each
trough.

Last week's receipts of cotton at all United States
ports were 74100 bales; since Ist September. 5,920,000
bales. Week's exports to Great Britain, 18,000 bales;
to the Continent, 9,000 bales; total since let Sep-
tember, 4,616,000 bales, Stock at all ports, 298,000
bales. •

During the progress of the Regatta, at Cambridge,
on Monday, an iron-built ferry, at Ditton, Plough-
common' turned over, with some forty or fifty persons
on board. A scene of great excitement ensued, as a
number of people were imprisoned beneath. Some
members of the University, assisted by. townsmen,
however, speedily went to the rescue, and succeeded
in saving the lives of all who were immersed, In
several instances animation was restored with dif-
ficulty.
In Paris another suicide has occurred from one of

the towers of Notre Dame Cathedral. On Monday
morning a stout man of some sixty years of age,
dressed in deep black, threw himself without the
slightest warning from the Bourdon tower into the
court below. When picked up he was, of course,
quite dead.
Amerisan papers report the death of "the fattest
woman in the world," Farina Conley, a member and
one of the special curiosities of Nathan's Cleveland
Circus. She was found dead, lying on her face, in the
sleeping waggon of the company, and the presumption
was that she was unable to turn in her bed without
assistance and was so suffocated. She weighed 4971 b.
It is stated that a serious epidemic of small-pox at
present prevails in Birmingham. The chairman of the
Health Committee announced to the Town Council on
Tuesday that there had been 56 cases in the past fort-
night, and that there were 78 case; at present in the
borough hospital, the extension of which has been
taken in hand. Scarlet fever is also widely prevalent,
95 cases being in the Borough Hospital and 10 received
for the municipal authorities at the Children's Hoe-

pital.
At a meeting of fish-curers in Wick it has been
agreed to make a trial of the new refrigerator railway
cars for the coaveyance of fresh herrings to the southern
markets. It is stated that each ear is capable of
carrying sixty crane of herrings from the most remote
fishing station in Scotland to London in as fresh a
condition as when landed from the boat.

The total imports of foreign stock into London last
week amounted to 21,31.1 head. In the. correPponding
period of last year Were received 21,663; in 1881,
24,520 ; in 1880, 26,553 ; in 1879, 21,010; in
1878, 22,343; and in 1877, 27,388 bead. At Liver-
pool were received 191 beasts, 1,604 sheep horn
Quebec, 1,683 beats and 490 sheep from Boston, 286
beasts and 819 sheep from Quebec and Montreal, 146
beasts from Oporto, and 120 beasts from Ganntununis.
At Southampton 18 beasts from Jersey and Guernsey,
and 130 beasts from Oporto; and at Bristol 222 beasts
and 251 sheep from New York.

• The additions to the Zoological Society's Gardens,
Regent's Park, London. during last week included a
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python Macaque monkey from India, presented by Mr. J, W.
Lucking ; a white-throated capuchin from Central
resented by Dr. D. Hume
America, presented by Mr. F. H. Hoey ; a
leopard . from Somali Land, East Africa, pre.
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Bicheno's finches from Queensland ; a funereal cocka-
too from New South Wales ; a Saisset'e parakeet from
New Caledonia ; a New Zealand parakeet from New
Zealand, presented by Mr. T. H. Bowyer Bower,
F.Z,S, ; an Australian cassowary from Australia, pre-
sented by Captain Mann ; four black guillemots from
Ireland, presented by Mr. H. Beecher; a South
American rat snake from Brazil, presented by Mr. C.
A Craven C.M.Z.S. ; and two peacock pheasants from
British Burnish, deposited.