The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-12-23 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The Natal Me,rq states that Bishop t Ammo has
Issuid a translation in Kafir of the hooks of

The Baroness Burdett Coutts has entered her pro-
test against the wearing of chignons.

At Tiumley, four persons have been fined tic eneh,
including mete, under the compulsory powers of the Burnley
School Board, for neglecting to semi their children to school.
The ages of the children were nine, ten, eleven, and twelve
years.

Itrigbam Yonnu boa been married no less than
twenty-nine time., ()this twenty-nine wives, the thirteenth,
Margaret Alley, and the twenty-second, Clara Gbase, are
dead. Mary Bigelow, the sixteenth, ran away ; and nothing
is known of five mimeses except that they are " wigging."

Mr. Cook, the celebrated excursioniet, of 98, Fleet-
street. London, ha, received a telegram from Baron Schwartz,
of Vienna, in which it is stated that the Exhibition in that
city will not he postponed. It will positively he opened on
She Ist of Slay, 1073.

The Queen., with the thoughtful kindnewi and con-
sideration which always characterizes her, has directed that
the apartments at Hampton court Palace, which were ap-
propriated to the late Lady Burgoyne shall be continued to
Slim Burgoyne.

"Within these last few days a person haring the
appearance of a French. peasant presented hiniscit at the
istintodfice of the Sow., Itadkale, and with sa. Ine
truly surprising, inquired if be could not have printed for
him some forged Bank notes. It need not be added that he
ead promptly handed over to the poliee."—Smass Times.

From April lot to the 14th instant the total re-
ceipts into the Exchequer amounted to P41;,5,..7,229, an In
crease of nearly two millions and a half man. the returns In
the comspondina period of last year The eneioliture has
amounted to £49,274.302. The balance In the Rank of Eng.
laad on Saturday last exceeded four sillious ster!ing.

A St. Petersfang official journal Kaye that tavola
Intends to further the general peace-policy ..f Europe. She
will attend to the development of her own resources, an./ the
augmentatisn if her internal prosperity, awl while she fears
the threats of no other lower, she will continue to prepare
for possible future contingencies.

The Juurdal dt. St. Pete rakp,ry atates that Madame
Patti's benefit in Moscow was the greatest triumph ever
achieved by an artist on the Russian stage. The enthusiasm
orthe audience rose to a kind of frenzy, and the /air teno-
- was almost overwhelmed in "the mountains" of
bouunets and wreathe which were showered upon her when
she appeared before the curtain.

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Another shocking murder has taken place in Ireland.
On Saturday morning, lie. William*. th contractor for the
drainage of the Itiver Inney, near 5111Tringar, a very exten-
sive work at which large numbers of men are employed, was
shot dead. Ills crime was that he insisted in managing his
business In his own way.

The following is a barirt•fide advertisement from a
recent number of the Montreal Evening Scan :—" Wanted,
a servant for a small family--comforts of home, meals with
the family, and use of piano and family doctor grail.. Will
be allowed to go out every evening. Can give to an eligible
party the best ~f references. Salary no obleot. Call At 102,
St. Lawrence, Main Street,

The Local Board of Searborough have appointed
a committee to investigate the sanitary condition of the
town.

Mazepp.s, a horse belonging to a Paris doctor, which
had two of its legs shot off during the Wege, has been pro-
vided with two wooden ones, and gets along admirably.

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A German writer complains of the diftieultios of
the English language, and cites tho word Boa, which he says
Is pronounced Dickens.

Twelve thousand of the South Yorkshire miner*
have demanded lin increase of 5 per cent. holseir wafts with
the new year. it is feared that the ilemsZtl will lead to a
dispute.
The Loudon working mg ineers are ahnnt to make a
great struggle to obtain the nine how,' system in those
establishments in which it has not been voluntarily intro-
eimad.

On Fri.lay night (the nth inst.) the Onchess of
Atilt, le was confined of a .on and heir. The happy event
became quiekly known and was hailed with great rejoicing
over the extensive estates of his Grace the Duke of Athole.

At the rtsmest of the English Roman Catholic resi-
dents at rau a solemn mass was celebrated on Saturday, the
lath inst , in the parish church 4.f St. Jaques, for the speedy
recovery to health of Ills Royal Highness the Prince of Walt*,
which was numerously attended.

According to a recent estimate there are thirty
Native pleaders practising in the Bombay Police courte.
of these nine are PIirSCCS, nineteen Ilindoos, and two Maim-

It is stated that Professor Huxley hasbeen requested
ta attend at Whitehall to determine the nature and species
of Several varieties of maggots, chrysalis, collected at
Gibraltar by Mr. Rowsell, the superintendent of contract.,
on his visit of Inquiry into the cause of the decay of the
biscuit stored there.

The Rev. W. B. Marriott, 8.D., died somewhat
,ruddenty at his residence, liton College, late on satuiviay
evening. the late Rev gentlemen was a great scholar. and
foe many years one Id the college masters. He resigned the
appointment only a few months ago.

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All the toes about to 1.. e exposed for side in the
Christmas stabs ,4 Paris must he sulouttle.l to the mature ot
General laulndrault, commandiog the state of siege. lest
sedition should lurk hi a Jack-tu-the.box, • harlo.auln, •
doll, or • new purzle.
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It is otated that an appeal ham been lodged hy Sir
Richard Wallace against the recent judgment ad*erse to him
In the Hertford estates case. It will come before the Irian
Court of_lixehequer in Dublin.

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The Queen of Spain hie+, it is said, been in a atate of
great dejection since the suicide of her son-in-law, Count de
l'ount de Sternberg. a captain In the Austrian
army. has just committed suicide on learning the death of
the Count, whose tutor and friend he had formerlg bees.
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At the Devon Assises, Jane Petheridge, charged
with the murder of her two children at Tarnscombe, North
Devon, by strangling them with her apron string, was !moved
by the surgeon to be insane, awl ordered by Baron Martin to be
detained during her Majesty's pleasure.

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A new engine factory at IhrnAtari, on the Tyne,
was blown down on Monday during the gale. The work-
men had a narrow escape tine of the proprietors and a
boy were buried in the Annus, and on being extricated, it
was
.found that the former was severely injured.

The IMO!, News has the f..liewing-info-rn- intion re.
girding Mr. Bright : ••Our readers will be glad to learn
that Mr. Might continues to enjoy excellent health, and that
the improvement wide!) we long ago announced is still
steadily maintained. l'ufortnnately, however, he is suffering
some anxiety film the illness ed a member if the family.
The I icht hon, gentleman fs stopping at Llandudno, itis
favourite watming place."

Simill.pox is on the increase in Birmingham. The
number of cases under treatment at the workhouse had risen
on Monday to 21, and in most of them the disease was re-
ported to he of a very virulent type, although many of the
sufferers bad been vaccinated. A temporary structure for
the accommodation of smalbpos oases only Is nbaut to be
erected near the workhouse.

They have a proverb in India, intended to point
the moral that every little helps, to the rifest that when
HanleMinder built a bridge elver the sea between t'eyboi and
Madras, even the squirrels assisted. An enthusiastic corre-
spondent of a London pane' seems to have taken a lesson
frost. the squirrels. and has seat home postage it4llllllB sa hiS
mite towards a subscription which he proposes for the re-
storation of Warwick Castle.

"'An independent gentleman wishes to e..rrespond
with a lady, with It view In matrimony; endow carte
(money no object).'— 4 A young gentleman,s2,desires to cor-
respond with a young lady of means, with a view to maid
mony.—Address, with carte 4le visite.'—' A business man,
having some means, and a member of an Evangelical
Church, desires a wilt; some means expected, and age may
be 35 :• religions lady is sincerely and kindly desired to an-
swer thia'—' A widow lady, aged 2n, highly respectable,
good looking, very ladylike and genteel, educated and
thoroughly domesticated, is desirous of e,,rrenmndipg with
a gentleman, from 40 to FA, with a view to marriage ; first,
class refetence.'"--Advertisements in Manchester Examiner.
Mr. ileshrrave, Inspector of Factories, states in his
report recently issued that he has learnt that for the last 13
years it has been a rule at the large flax thread works of
Messrs. Knox, at K *Mimic, in Ayrshire, lot to employ any
young persons who ea t read intelligibly n passage In the
New lestailleht. line of the principal schoolmasters lit Kit.
Nellie informs Mr. licitgrave that he has known if many
instances in which children would have been removed from
Ins school earlier but for the fear entertained by their
parents that they would not obtain employment at the fac-
tory, the only one in the place.

As a man nemed Drew was working, on Saturday,
at the Wiekwar station on the Midland Hallway, his child,
six years old, who was with him, wandered on to the rails as
a down train was approaching. Drew immediately ran after
It and caught it punt.au the train reached the spot, 11141 he
stood betwemi the urinals to let it pass. Almost imme-
diately a train emerged from the neighbouring tunnel, the
engine of which struck hint tool tarried him some distance.
When picked up lie was quite dead. The child expired In
the Gloucester Inlirniery shortly afterwards.
The I noticing the close of the grouse shooting
season, says that a better season has not been enjoyed for
many years. The birds, were perhaps, a trine wild, but the
weather as a rule was remarkably tine, and favourable for
man and tug. The hatching time was very good, and as no
very rough or inclement weather succeeded it, calculated
to destroy the young hints, the coveys were largo, and quite
up to fair average in point if numbers. It is cheering to
has that no symptom id the so-called "grouse disease has
manifested itself throughout the season, and we may now
reasonably anticipate that we have tern the hest of the
scourge. A capital breeilingatoek is left for next year.
The Shifficlel Tut r!yrapit prints an extract trim a letter
written by Mr. hoeldick to postpone his intended addres•
till ;titer Christmas, no hug to the illness of the Prince of
Wales. "The state if the public ailed here In London,"
says Mr. Roebuck, "is such as has not been seen since the
day of the death of the Princess Charlotte., and I see tin ttttt wh-
eat the c' natty meetings of all sorts are being ism istponed.
Under these circumstances I beg of you
me in thinking that our meeting should he indefinitely poet.
ported. A favourable and quiet thee will come when* What
I shall utter, ihthere be anything of well, In it, giri receive
due attention, and my warnings, if worthy, wit'. have their
due weight."

" AnEnglish traveller of Our ktrinaintance has just
returned from the women•hating settlement of Act, hi the
Cocci. Archipelago, where. bachelor's Arcadia has exkted
from time immemorial. It in monastic oonfedt ration, con-
sisting of twenty-three convents, and numbers more than
7,000 souls. Soldiers are paid by the monks to guard the
boarders of this happy laud, and no Woman is allowed to
enter. 'the very idea of woman. whether as skin, wife, or
mother, seems to be wholly lost. To all sour obi bachelors
who complain of the wiles of women seeking to entrap them
Mb, marriage, this territory, belonging to Mount Athos, Can
safely be ree imineudedlas a haven of refuge."—Coort Jou,' nal.
lAA week the aggregate mortality in London and
19 other large towns of the I sited Kingdom was at the rate
of 35 deaths annually to every thousand persons estimated
to be living. While the rate was 23 in Portsmouth, it rose
as high as 62 in Wolverhampton. In the metropolis 3,440
birthsand 4,121 deaths were registered, the former having
been 4rne below and the latter 401 above the average. There
were 106 deaths from small-pm, 97 front measles, 37 from
scarlet fever, 7 from diphtheria, 99 from whooping "tough,
42 front different forms of fever (of which 9 were eurtified as
typus, 23 as enteric or typhoid, and 10 as simple con-
tinned fever , and 15 from diarrhtea. The fatal eases of
measles awl whoopingenegh showed a further Mores., upon
the numbers in recent weeks. Excepting only the 15th of
November, the mean temperature was oontl ~,,,, usly below
the average from 2ini November to 13th iteccmber,!both days
included • the average daily debviency in these 40 days was
7.1 ,It. 'During the lour days ending Saturday tut More
WAS an average excess of 2.5 deg. The considerable 'nerves,
of deaths last week was prinelpally due to the greater
fatality from bronchitis, to which 4161 deaths were rtsferreds