The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-11-25 00:00:00

ADVICE TO THE ADMIRALTY.
The Giaffoo is a floating Fort,
Intended fo defend a let.
Mile! how you make ,d her a Cruiser.
For if you di so you may lose Tar—Pinch.

Piste(Famous Ilatclligcnce,

HOME, FOREIGN, AUL COJACMIAL

CANINE SAGACITY.—Tho Panama "9' te,lla
thk. fullovring story of extraordinary canine sagacity:—

" When the de? :Ashes to cross a river where -allig-ators
&hound he goes up tlit:Teum a great way and barks with
all Ma might ; the alligators go evr and wait for iris getting
in to swim across. The dog knows what h, is about , when
he sees from the number of the snouts above wider that his
enemies have all gathered to the feast, he runs lower the
bank as fast as lie can and swims across before the alligators
are aware of the trick that has been played upon them."
DEATH OF A WATERLOO VETERAN.—On Satur-
day night died Alajordleneral Everard William Bou-
verie, of 1 htlapri. Alloy, near Northampton. in his 83rd
year. He was the eldest son of the late Mr. Edward
Bouverie, by Catharine, daughter and heir of Mr. W.
Castle, ancl great grandson of the first Viscount Folke-
stone, ancestor 14 the End id Radnor. He was born
in I'Btt, and was educated at Harrow and St. John's
College, Cambridge. In 1812 he entered the army, and
waa present at the memorable fight of Waterloo,
where he was wounded. In the following year, 1816,
he married Charlotte, 1 laughter of Colonel O'Donnell,
of Newport, County Mayo, and whosurvives him. In
1840 he was appointed Equerry to the Prince Con-
sort, and Equerry to the Queen in Nil He became
a Major-General in 1554, and Lieutenant-General in
1560. In 1555 he succeeded to the Delapre estates.
He also held the cidonelcy of the lOth Hussars. The
eneral had been ailing fir some years past, and during
the last three years was confined to his room.
THE MORMONS.—The territorial law of Utah
fixes the punishment for adultery at imprisonment
for a term of from three to twenty years, or a fine of
not over 1,000 dollars, or both, in the discretion of the
court. Case No. 1 was a test case, and as such of
great interest. The Mormons have always claimed
that isilygatny is not adultery, and that their " reve-
lation" shwas et' thcni from all duty id obeying laws
at variance with it. Brigham Young himself is liable
any day to be mulcted in the sum 1,000 dollars for
each of his 50 extra wives, or be sentenced to lie in
prison twenty years for each marriage he has con-
tracted since the first. Elder Hawkins' counsel stoutly
resisted the motion that the prisoner be taken into
custisly ; but as the prosecution was firm, the United
States Marshal warn ordered to do his duty. Time
was allowed to prepare a motion for a new trial and
arrest of judgment. - .

MURAL THOUGHT BY MRS. MALAPROP Hirt
uharing with a Lail!, Friend a bottle 4. Fear( eliorwil•
- " Ah, dear me, well, the pleasures of life are sweet ;
but how an they pass away! how effervescent they
are! "—Punch.
THE VINTAGE OF CALIFORNIA.—One of the
leading wine-makers of California, who has extensive
dealings with gralie-growers, estimates that the crop
of this year will produce from 6,000,000 to 1,C00,000
gallons of "must" or raw wine. Alluding to this es-
timate, the San Fr-amino Bulletin of October the 25th,
says :
. . .

This must' Is worth about 30 cents a gallon, making an
aggregate value f 2,100,000 dols. The grapes for wine-
making sell in bulk at about one cent a mmud. There is, in
addition, a large amount of table grapes, raised for home
consifniption and for shipment. The choice varieties sell in
the home markets at much lower rates than formerly. It
will not be wide of the mark to estimate the cash value of
tile grapes grown for other than wine purposes at 403,00) dole.
The aggregate value of the vintage forthis)ear, in California,
may be set down at 2,500,000 dol. The estimate may be a
low (an, ; but there are data to support it. Moreover, there
are a large 1111111btr of vines which are just coining into bear-
ing, hut will not produce a full crop until next year. From
all quarters we bear that the quality of grapes was never
better than this year. The dry weather has nowhere
shortened the crop. In some vineyards noticed by us in Napa
Valley, the yield of the better sorts of grapes was enormous.
The prom ietor of one vineyard, containing about 20 acres of
choice varieties, unlimited that the net returns would be not
lem than 10 cents a pound, the entire crop having been en-
gaged for the home market."

"A WOELD'S PEACE JEBILEE."—AII inter-
natiohal musical festival is to be held in the city of
Boston, opening on the lith of June, and closing on
the 4th of July. "The New World," we are toll, in-
vites the Old to join in a universal expoeition of the
divine art of music---" a union of all nations in har-
mony." There will be grand chorus of 20,000 voices,
an orchestra of 2,000 instrumentalists, representatives
from all Governments, and bands from all nations.
A colloseum will be erected, capable of ,eating
100,000 people, " decorated within with the emblems of
peace and harmony, and without with the flags of all
countries, floating over all, and above all, the broad
banner of universal peace." The festival will continue
for two weeks, and it is proposed to dedicate one day
to each nation, the first being appropriated to the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

BRICK 'VAULTS r. IRON SAFES.—A letter from
Chicago says :

" The fire has done much to exhibit the relative value of
iron safes and brick vaults as places for the safe keeping of
vale.. hien. While the ...tea were comparatively woahless,
the vaults generally preserved their contents in a perfect
condition, of course, the condition of the safes was due
more or less to the intensity of the heat to which they were
exposed. Some safes came out all right, while others of the
most improved manufacture when opened contained
nothing but charred remains era handful of cholera. There
La not a safe in existence that could have withstood the
ordeal in certain localities. Slone of them, heretofore
considered indestructible, were cracked asunder and the
contents prematurely destroy ed. The exterior walls are
like so much rusty iron, and will chip off in great flakes,
a-IWe the interiors of more than one of the largest safes are
to-day so warm that one's baud sutlers when brought in
onitact with them. The conclusion unavoidably arrived at
is that the best iron safe is not near so safe as a properly
conmtrueted brick vault."

Tn E BIGGEST OF BULLS. —An agitation, newly
spning up in the Land id Leeks has been described as
" Wales for the Welsh." What it demands, how-
ever, is the 'Welsh language for Wales— in Courts of
Law among a Welsh-speaking people. Taffy might
be a pattern to Paddy. Whilst crying " Ireland for
the Irish! " Paddy should alm cry, " Irish for Ire-
land ! " What a bull to bellow in the English lan-
guage for rocognition of Irish nationality.--Peneh.

A CONTRIBUTION FOR CHB 7ABO.—The follow-
ing story is related of a clergyman in Athol (Mass.),
whose name, we are sorry to Pay, is not given. He
was PO enthusiastic in packing clothing for the
Chicago sufferers that he puts his own hat by mistake
into the box awl it went with the rest of the
donations. This was a truly charitable gift, for it.
evident that the left hand of the reverend gentleman
didn't know what his right bawl was doing; and can
there be a more unconditional self-surrender than that
which is implied in the formal', "Take my hat?"
As it was thus to be disposes! of, we hope that it was
a good one, and that the man who may get it in
Chicago will not, on are omit of its clerical fashion,
be bothered by invitations to preach.

COALS AND CANDLES. —The Consumption of
Coal, according to a statement in the Times, continues
to exceed a million and a quarter tons a month. Sup-
pose the sea were washing away the coast of England
at the same rate, in how many years would this island
be reduced to a speck of earth? Surely the typical
Prodigal, who lights his candle at both ends, is an
emnomist compared with Mr. John Bull in regard to
their consumption, respectively, of candles and coals.—

_
OFFICIAL REVELATIONS.—The elOurnal des
Petals states that the recent publication of M.
Jules Favre's book has been the subject if grave remiin-
strance on the part of many members of the National
Assembly, who have even urged some id their col-
leagues who are members of the Committee of Per-
manence to remind the Cabinet that it is unprecedented
that a Minister for Foreign Affairs should regard him-
self as at libertyto publish confidential diplomatic docu-
ments. The work published by M. Benedetti had
already, and not without reason, created astonishment
in diplomatic circles. But M. Jules Favre's book,
according to the objectors, goes much further, as some
of the docdments which he has published were ad-
dressed not to M. Jules Favre personally, but to the
Minister for Foreign Affairs of France, and as such he
had no power to dispose of them according to his own
pleasure. Some members of the Permanent Commission
intend to call the attention of the President of the
Republic to these complaints.
A NEW CAMPAIGN KITCIIEN.—The Precursertr
gives the following description of a new addition to
camp eiptimige, which is now being tried in several of
the camps near Paris : - -

"It is ;in artillery waegon drawn by one horse and driven
by a collier if the Milit•try Train. The waggon vontains two
large saucepans, 11110 for making soup and the other for
coffee. The cookine tattoo.. hy steam. mid is not interrupted
when the waggon ishi motion. lach PAUCCI.IIIIhas a tar by
means of which the soldiers at the proper hour fill their
panni kills. Each wagemt is tilted to supply a company."

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A PEER ON THE CLEROT. —At a 10e11 Church
Conferanee, which W3S lAA Week, Lord Cathcart
made sonic remarks Mat is.' to the clergy, which did
not inert winh unanimous acemal. Ile complained
that clergymen diii not rveognite the fact that they
were public sem ants, and that heing so they must be
controlled by the State. He WAS sorry to Say the
clergy was not 60 tolerant as they ought to be. When
clergymen talked of freedom for themselves, let them
tirst think it the laity. Were the clergy made for the
laity for the clergy? He said the clergy
a,,, trade tor the laity. They would never get lay
oo operation. in a parish until they altered the present
state of I hinas, liecause the the aeygvmso raid, "Si'
long as yon say ' Amen,' like a pnrish clerk, you may
stay in my council ; but the moment you say ' No'
von shall walk tint of it." If the clergy wanted the
laity to co-operate they ninst give them a Iwus
and he held that in'all ordinary mattms the layman
had as good judgment as the clergyman, and, in the
great number of CAM'S, better. be seen to advant-
age, a clergyman should be seen in his parish work,
hut to see him at a disadvantage, let them see him at
a puplie meeting. The words he had uttered would
meet approval among thousands in Yorkshire, and not
only in Yorkshire, but throughout England.

TIIK NATIONAL FINANCES.—The Treasury
returns just issued, show that the receipts of the Ex-
chequer between let April and Saturday last amounted
to £40,043,061 as compared with 1:38,367,a50 last
year, and that they were derived from the following re-
sources - t'ustoms, £12,461,000; Excise, £13,445,000;
stamps, I:6,043,000 • taxes, 1:115,000 ; income tax,
£1,783,000; Yost Ohice, 4.1,442,000; Telegraph ser-
vice. 1:475,000; Crown lands, £195,000; miscellaneous,
1:2,781,061. In the same ishiod the expenditure
amounted to 1:44,735,6i3, against £42,445,086 last
year, and of the former amount, £154,396,843 was
absorbed in interest on debt, and £21,661,675 for
supply services voted by l'arliament On Saturday
last there was a balance of £2,455,03 in the Bank of
England, and L:623,613 in that of Ireland.

PRINTERS' MISTAKES !—ThtTe II 110 flllnlieT
reading in the world than some of the printer.' blunders
that go the round of the iiress. In the office of a pro-
vincial paper there stood in type the report of a sermon
and a paragraph about the career of a mad dog. In
"making up" these two got mixed, and the readers of
the paper next day were astonished by the following
meta xgr ,---" The Rev. James Thomson preached to
large congregation but Sunday. This was his last
sermon previous to hie departure for London. lie
exhorted his brethren and rioters, and &Hi r °tiering a
de 01st prayer, toe!: a whim to cut some frantic freaks.
He ranup the High-street, and down Queen-street to
the College. At this stage of the proceedings some
boys seized him, tied a tea-kettle to his tail, and let
him go. A great crowd gathered, and for a few
minutes there was a lively scene."

LKWOR LAWS AT 'LIVER—POOL.—A crowded
and influential meeting was held in Liverpool on
Monday, to consider a number of principles which it
proposed should form the main features of a new
bill to amend the laws regulating the sale of excise-
able liquors. These principles advocated that justices
should continue to be the licensing authority, and that
ratepayers should possess the power of vetoing the
WOK' of new certificates; to establish a sydein of public
truiler for certificates to shorten the rre.ent hours.of
selling, and to Introduce much more stringent police
regulations. There wits great opposition by the
licensed victuallers and advanced teetotallers present
to the remarks of the speakers. A resolution wao
carried by a small majority to the effort that a state-
ment of the proposed principles of a licensing bill be
transmitted to the Home Secretary, with a request at
the earliest possible opportunity r;overnment would
bring in a measure for the better regulation of excise-
able liquors.

COVETS OF LAW OR LOVE ?—On one poinif
the proceedings in the Court of gneen's Bola relating
to Epping Forest arouse curiosity without satisfying it.
Time aprars to be "the Swainmote, 'ourt of the
Swaines, and also a "Court of Attachment ;" but we
are left in the dark AR to the nature of the attachment,
or whether the swains inspire it. Perhaps faithleso
swains, who have rendered themselves liable to an
acthe for breach of pneiise within the boundaries of
the Forest, are judged in one or ther of these ominous
Courts by the " Verderers," assisted by Mr. Ayrton,
who, it seems monopolises what there is left of the
ancient juridietion of "Justices in Eyre.-- Punch.

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A WARLIKE PROPHET.—TIIO Russian papers
say that a new prophet has arisen in Turkestan,. who
preaches a holy war (gasavata) against " the enemies
of God and freedom," and has even succeeded in gain-
ing is considerable number of followers at the head-
quarters of the Russian Governor-General. Ms name
is Isehana-Iseh-Mahomed-Khalif, and he is an in-
habitant of the district of Kul-Kara. The Govern-
ment has made every effort to capture him but with-
out success. In the daytime he is concealed in the
house of one of his followers, and at night he scours the
country, accompanied by two or three hundred horse-
men, attacking the Russian outposts, burning watch-
houses, and killing officers and soldiers. The terror
produced by these aparanders in the army is so (..Teat
that it besaid that The Russian soldiers usually take to
flight directly they hear of their approach. In Kara-
suysk the whole garrison, after one of these night
alarms, consisted of the commanding Aker and a
lieutenant, all the others having fled. It is added
that the Kirghiz tribes on the steppes have entered
into negotiations with the prophet and I,ave agreed to
march against the Russians under his flag.

"TILE WRONG Box" (IN IRELAND).—Tho
Jury Box. - Punch.
. . .

gf;IENCE FOR LADIES.—At the South Kenning-,
ton Museum, London, on Saturday aftermon, the
winter series of Science Classes for ladies was in-
augurated. About 150 ladies were present at Professor
Duncan's opening address, which was devoted to
Physiography. The professor took the Thames as hie
illustration. Under London Bridge flow down the
river every twelve months 115,000,000 cubic feet of
water, over and above the quantity which aseends the
stream from the flow of the tide. This mass of water
is derived from a rain-fall over the Thames basin of 24i
inches every year. It carries down annually 14,000,0011
cubic feet of solid matter, besides the pebbles and
blocks of stone that may be gradually rolled along.
BULLET IN THE BRAIN.—The surgical history
of the case of Talbot, developed at the recent trial,
gives a special interest to an extremely remarkable case
recorded by Dr. Howard of New York, in the recent
number of the American Jounirti of Medical Soitore.
The patient was a sailer in the 44th Indiana Infantry.
The bullet entered the skull at a great distance from
the point where it penetrated the scalp, and made at
first a sort of trap door fracture, and gave rise to but
few symptoms. When symptoms threatening death
occurred, two weeks aftenvards, its presence in the
brain was disposed by a hair which was found stick-
ing out of the aperture in the bone, and which the
bullet had evidently carried with it. The skull was
trephined ; the ball was found deeply buried in the
NaM, and was removed two weeks after the injury.
The patient made a complete recovery, and sub-
sequently enjoyed robust health, having returned to
duty, and sereed in the cavalry.

A FEMALE SHYLOCK.^" Mrs. Macready, who
is known to our public as an elocutionist (says the
.11-rte Yak Tribune of the 3lst ult.) will appear at Pro.
vidence, ILL, on the 13th of November, in the cha-
racter of Shylock. Mrs. Macreaslv is, we believe, the
only lady who has ever attempted' to lilay this part.
Female Manilas, Ilomeos, and lagos have frequently
emerged : hut a tonale Shylock will be a novelty. We
are toll that she will use the cane which Edmund Kean,
and afterwards Charles Kean, used in playing this
part. The relict, it is said, was presented to her by
the latter actor, in emphatic token of his approbation
of her performance of the Jew." _

SHORT THEME.—The Diaestablishment of the
Irish I 'Lurch was an event of incalculable importance,
and must be still fresh in the minds of all who watch
the current progress of affairs and mark the ever-
changing aspect of State polity. The abolition of
Purchase in the British Army aroused an extraordinmy
interest both in civil and military breasts, and will be
instanced in years to come as one of the greatest ad-
ministrative triumphs of the Gladstone Cabinet. lint
Iszhaps no greater downfall has ever convulsed Society
than that which the Pans newsletter of one of the
diurnal prints announces in these four momentous
words :—" The ehifmon is doomed." There has been
nothing like this since the day when the fate of crino-
line was sealed amid the regrets of many, but to the re-
lief of more ; and we await with anxiety the attitude
which the hair-dressers are likely to assume. —Panel.

VITAL STATISTICS OF SCOTLAND—TiIe report
of the Registrar-General of Scotland for the quarter
ending 31st September last has just been issued. It
appears that 25,09 births, 16,N35 deaths, and 5,421
! marriages were registered during the quarter, being
slightly above the corrected mean for the correspond--
1 jug quarter of the previ.dis ten years. (if the eight
principal towns the mortality during the quarter was
lowest in Aberdeen, and highest in Glasgow. In some
! remarks on the diseases in the eight principal towns,
the Registrar-General says that the epidemic constitu-
tion, which gives rise to or encourages the spread of
small-pox, appears to be very string this year, and
would seem to be on the increase. Measles, on the
other hand, was fast abating; while scarlatina, as
almost always happens, increased just in moportion as
measles abated. The deaths from diptheria very
slightly diminished, and it is worthy of remark, he
says, that in the towns diptheria has been pioportion-
any more common among the middle and upper classes
than among the lower classes. Apoplexy, paralysis,
and diseases of the heart were much more fatal during
the warm than the cold weather.
ARCHBISHOP MANNING ON THE NEGRO RACE.
—An interesting ceremony took place last week, at the
Roman Catholic Missionary ('l.le-e, Mill-hill, Hendon,
on the occasion of the departure 47f the first missionary
from that institution. A large nutuber of clergy and
laity were present. The proceedings commenced with
the chanting of hymns in tile grounds, and then fol-
lowed a sermon by Archbishop Manning in the chapel
of the college.
"The preacher nail that more than a thousand years ago,
an Engli.dmian, St. Boniface, had gone forth as the apostle
to Germany. ibis was the first occasion, in modern days. of
any English Cathodic institution sending out missionaries.
lie stated that those now going were rwoceeding to the
Southern States of America to devote themselves to the In-
struction of the negroes. England ..wed much reparation to
the negro race, as she had no long been prominent in the
slave trade, of the horrOrs of the traffic of which he drew a
striking picture. England had, by the payinent put twenty
millions Merlinr, abolished slavery in her colonies, and
lately America had done the a.me by a great sacrifice of
life in civil war. There were live millions of negroes in the
United States, and amongst a portion of these the mis-
sionaries now going forth were to labour. The Archbishop
addressed the missionaries is solemn and earnest language,
and they pronounced vows binding themselves to devote
their lives to the special work tif teaching the negroca"

THE PRECIOUS METALS.—The CUStoill HOMO
returns for October snow that in that month the re-
gistered expolts of gold bullion and specie from the
United Kingdmn reached the large amount of
£6,415.999. The export to I:errnany amount. d
to £4,349,355, and that to Brazil was 1:913,18S- The
value of the imports of gold in the Month WAS
Eit,210,62.0 • front France £g,113,160. In the first ten
months of the present year the register,' imports of
gold in the 'United Kingdmn have amounted to
E11•.731,729, as notch RA .1,1,431,232 °riving from the
United state, and 4:.1.,61,10 from Australia; and
the ten m . inths' registered ezpoit of gold has am.suited
to 1:17.312,:i43, OLC of the items being £ti,062,948
shippeil to Germany. The ten months' imports of
Srsilt have amounted to 4:13,621i,472, chiefly fc,int
America and ; and the exports were
1:10,:ilel,910, chiefly to Germany, France, Holland,
Belgium, and Spain, and 1:1,660,091 in bullion tient to
Egypt, being chiefly for India.

FATAL AccIDENTS IN INDIA.—The Homeward
Mail says :--

"There have been several lamentable accidents in bulls
lately, proving fatal to valuable officers. The art:Went to
captain t li. Hamilton, at Moral% thongh immediately
owing to the restivent surf his horse, is attributed in sonic
measure to our method of battery car rein, The gnu posed
over both horse and rider. 'While attention is tieing drawn
to this deplorable accident, we have to report two others.
Captain W. S. Lillnigston, of the 11th Hussars, Deputy Cos.
aervator of Forests, and formerly private secretary of the
Lientenant.overnor of the North-Western Provinces, WWI
Ming a few miles from Clank-rats, on October 15, when the
road gave way, and he was thrown over a precipice to the
depth of a thousand feet. fir. Metcalfe, in medical charge
of Karma, has also, we regret to learn, been killed by a tan
from his horse."

A HORRIBLE DEATH. —A yonng man named
William Cattle, 19 years of age, has been killed in a
horrible manner at the works of the l'arkgate Iron
Company (Limited), near Sheffield. He was sent to
let the steam off a large boiler in the works, so that the
boiler could be cleaned during Sunday. He opened
the steam eels e, and it is supposed that wmictliing had
stopped IT th., valve, an.' pu . vented the steam
escaping. Being in a hurry to get home, and rashly
thinking that there could only be a little steam in the
boiler, the young man loosened the screws of the
"man bole." In a few seconds the 'man-hole,"
plate blew of with fearful violence, and Cattle was
dashed against a wall Koine six yards off, while a tre-
mendous stream of boiling water and a strong rush of
steam purist lln to his lily for some few minutes.
Several men werestanding near, but they could render
no aid until the boiler had emptied itself, as the rush
of water and steam was KO great. When the poor
fellow was picked up it was found that his head had
Mtn dashed to pieces against the wall, while his Issly
was literally boiled by be water and steam.