The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-03-04 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

MITISH AND :C1.7.1t,11.

Spanish republicans call thtir new king "Macesron
Eight pairs of brides were M one of the Brighton
hotels one day It week The btcholor boarders fled.

At I/üblin an I I man Fan hen sent to gaA for a
month tsr anliciOng Mtn+ on S.do from ladies and pude-
won going to .o.o4thip. To pewter, no being touched,
wee fond 10 have in hi, pockets £5 7. 1 41.

In a fire which dentroyed Pinging tirdi in New
Y. rk, the ether erenifir, a rifted parrot was hood ejaub•
"Polly ante a cid: '' When the alma grew too bat
and scarchtd his feet, he attempted to seek relief by clinging
with bis bill to the roof. lint Ws too was untenable, and
burned his tongue, in he let go and dropped to the bottom of
hie cage, homelytittelini. 'You know how Ii le younell."

The number of wrecks reported during last week
was 40, making for the present year 430.
A number of paid schoulmaatera are bang appointed
In the metropolitan police.
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The German Emperor " William" defines Mundt to
The V. .11 of TrovideLca."

A firm at Ipswich have received an order fee 60,000
p (riot shun and 60.000 gotten ter the Yrnoch army.
The recruits of the mil:tits will Le called out for 28
daye in>teng of II date piehninary training MU year

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The Prince of Wales went out with Baron Botha-
allt's hounds on Monday morning. . .

In the course of the lehrt month alone, six Eaglish
pickpockets have been arreeted at Brussel".
The strike in the lace trmle at Nottingham continues,
sad at preirrit there Mies not heem much prospect via settle-
ment being arrived at.
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A stfttement is published that her Maiisty ham been
vitceinstcd, and wishes the tact I, legenernly

A Cremona violin was cold in Edinburgh the other
day icy £0.7.0.
Mr. Wattle, an Englishman, who resided in St
Petersburg, hu died from the effects of • malignant Mawr
caused by a bite on the lip by • parrot.
Tho cam of El,(Y)0 has been given to the funds of
the Welt London llospital, W,by W. L 11, through the
hospital's Muter', /deism liernes, Farquhar, and CO.
Tie AmoriCall paPers, just received, announce the
death, at No. Vet, of Ulm Altos Cary, • novelist of some
Lone to the United Metals

The New York City Fund, f4r the relief of the poor
of France h s reached the hamtemne agues of 70,000 dOls .
but will be et tercel, inereated.
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In (lermany, when a paper Faye anytlinq witty;
they kill the editor , arid not one editor has been kiol there
tor lot )e.ire.

It is stsitsd that • marriage is arranged between Mr.
Vernon Ile:court, ML., and airs. Ives, rudest daughter of
Mr. Mn:leY, the lato American Minister In Lindon.
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Tie Archbishop of Canterbury has left St. Remo,
and Is now with lila bendy fifteen in number, at the Victorta
Hotel, litntone. Ills grace g ,as out daily.

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Colonel the lion. A. E. I fardinge, C. 8., wax thrown
from hts horse on o&lards, last whilst hunting with
her M j isty'a stag hounds and ide collar bone was broken.
The gallant colonel is progressig satisfactorily.
Whilat two of the Liverpool detectis er wen o on
Moneay in watch of a wisatity of t4bacts which had been
stolen on Saturday night, tney not only discovered the
fob ,ec,, but a large Iruutly of wearing spprrel, and the
proceetta of nunter,us burglailes and highway robberies

When elle Was fifteen years of age the present Mrs.
Adams, et the FOolier'z Arms," Denbigh, jumped Into •
river and laved her employer's llle. Ile has jinn died and
left her f. 30.

In answer to an mytiry from Wolverhampton, the
legal advisers of the Crown have glyea their melon that
the up:Odra:es have puffer to enforce the vacenatlon of
Infante, or, In default, to proceed spinet the parenta lot
contempt of cone..

Tne -J3paneso have but one newspaper, which comers
out once a snonth, In theshape of a stitched pamphlet, of
about ICO pages. It has been established a httle more than
year. The country boaata ale° of one railway, twenty miles
log; but ott.crs are in progress.

Ruekin cella ;poll workmen to protniee three
things :-1. To do your own work well, whether it be tor
life r death. 2. To help other people to do theirs when
you can, and seek to avenge no Injury. :; To be sure you
can obey good laws before you seek to alter bad ones."

liem:y-White, & young man apprenticed with a lirm
of London jteretlers, fell down and expired the other evening,
In a ball-roomsjust as he WWI shout to take part In • quad-
rille. A rot mort. In examination showed that hia heart was
a:Madre:), diorama. . . _

A number of lettere of thank by distinguished!
persons WhO wore preeentell by the Emperor I's spohen with
coirce of hie Life d Crt,ar, has lwen puhliehed. Among
Ike ino:t resnalknble are those of IVlllism, Priece of Baden,
and Ch‘riew, Prince et iloheur Al.sru, tooth Expressing the
writers' high appreciation of the work. .

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A We!sh local board rtcently dtitennin.d not to
adroit reporwra to it. meeting.. ThefFirne Secretary was
aliliraled to, and hls reply asps that though a reporter cm,-
n it claqn as of right to Lie preeent at the meetii.gs of a local
board, the a irautoies or publiclty are too otonous to fC.itilre
any official eaforeements from the Home ollf oe."

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A public meeting was hell at 1 ork on Monday, to
express sympathy with the French ration, and to raw a
subieription for the relief of the suffering peasantry. About
£lOO was subscribed, and resolutions were udopted ox-
pretsing profound sympathy with the liench people in their
preseut sufferings and trials.

The Iligh Joint Conmission on the American ondee•
ti ti met at IVA+Mutton on Monday, and the proceaologe
wtre conducted secretly. All the members were present ex-
cept 80 S 011.041 NorMcote (who had ielt yet arrived, herb g
left E ~lend some dap; later than Earl de Grey , Sir J.
Macdonald, and Mr Haar.

A piks, weighing nearly 40 the. was C3l,tured the
other d to the river B woe, between Drogheda and ,ntleen,
ins novel manner. Mr. J oho U eons was driving home, whets
he observed the huge fhb floundering In shallow water near
the bank. Ile pat a noose upon the lob ,A Ids whip, end
droppleg ft seat!) beside the pike, succeeded to • moment In
lauding the pr:se on tile bank.

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A scientific. Journal says that if, 011 opening an
oyster, the liquor Is retained in the lower or deeper shell,
ard viewed through the microscope, It will be found to con-
tain multitudes of small oyster-, covered with shells cud
to imodog nimbly anout—lfie of which extend but our loch,
besides animalcule', and myriads of three diatinct species of
worms.

A Ppecial Meeting of the Beverley Town Council
was held on Monday to consider an application of the Lords
of the Tmasury for payment of £2,570 ss. Si., their expenses
in the ccmos,ssion of inquiry Into the election. After dis-
cussion, It was teetdved to defer the metier, and In the mean-
time to take tie opinion of eminent counsel as to the legality
of the demmids.

A correspowient writes to gay that to Iny oil the
enormona sum of .1:200,030.t 00 sterling imposed on the French
ny the Germans there will be required 51,282 400 ~UUCe$ of
at the price of 7is. per once, which Is coulvelent
4,273.553 pounds of 12 mulcts each, and to 1 M tool of 2.. f.)
pouting eec
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Ile Sandwich Islanders bave been talking of In-
tervening between France and l'rusais. The ministerial
journal of Honolulu concludes Its strong leader In these
words:—" lloonohcenolto Ica pgsspo nba huakaboo bowl So
'Mho o ha pupo e kiwis knlo o ka halut."—lt would be a sigbt
to see the expression it dear old Blsmarck's genial face when
he reads t, OINI vanes It on to goodnatured.looking Moltke.

The South NV,sles ironnsjters have given notice of
a reduction in the wages of the wm kers. The men have not
shown • desire to °results resistance. although there Is
strt.ng feeling in some localities that the trade is not In CO
(encased a state 114 represented by tbe maker., and the divi-
dends pall by several of the local Iron companies are ru-
feued to an a proof of the correctness of this view.
Among the remarks'le foreigners wheirete I rest nt
at the last Court hell at Buckingham Palace, woe thy use-Is
of the patient 311kado of .1 .pan. This gentleman hen the
front part of his head shaven, while the hale en the back part
I. gathered Into a single plait, like a 01,04 tall, on the top or
crown, and ornamented with pieces of ribbon The °Metal
must have aome difficulty in announcing the name of the
Illustrious Jep mere, for on Ms card it read thus—' llis
Imperial Highness Higashi Fushimi no Ufa"

In presiding over a meeting of the Board of Manage-
mu ut of the Bishop of London'. Fund on Monday, Pr. Jackson
mow kel that a large and important work still renratio I to
he done, while very inadequate means existed fcr carrying it
cut. hull, ou comparing the pant with preceding years ho
saw no reason for diecouragemeot, nor had there been any
diminution of interest In the operation of the fund.

" Artisan, 26, dark, wishem to become acqnninted
with a young woman, with a view to matrimony; no oh•
Jectim to a youeg widow.—Aderess," A, —'A gentleman
of eel pectabillty, and salth part means, wishes to correspond
with a respectable, weldet.u.etted, ladylike person, domed,-
tutted and loud of Come —Addrese, atating petition, con-
nections, age. Ac., with carte, it cunvenlent."—Advertlit -
tut.: In Mantl.ter Leo a mar.

The Britieli Government, in reply to a note from
Prl.th complaining that rigs. bearing the Eufield and
Tower marks had been fotiod upon captured Frercn prisoners,
has Informed the Prussian Government that a certain number
of Kellen rifles had been sold Nome years ago to private
fleet.; and that as to the r:tles found In the bands of French
prisoners bearing the Tower mark and the date IX7O. they
could not have been obtained from Government workshops,
as the British G.lvernmet t disposed of no arms In ItitZ) or
1879. It was likewise explained that the Tower mark wan
used Insitscrirulnately by private manufacturer..

The grand jury of the County Monaghan have
awarded C.' ee as compensation under the Peace Agraervation
Act to the widow of Sillahon, the Orangeman, was shot
on the 12th of July last. She drained bl,too. Toe present-
ment was traversed briars Mr. Justice glisterald and counsel
for the ratepayers contended that the district not having
been proclaimed, or the murder sgrarlan, the grand jury
were cot entitled Co present. His I .rdship held that the pro-
clamation was not a necessary condition, and that the swot Is
of the Act were large enough to embrace every seas{ com-
bination. Ile therefore upheld the pretentment.
A string and gun trap for tiger., invented by eau-
main il.nrers, seems to be a great success The Jutbuipere
Ctrenucl,etttts that a man. eating tiger, long the terror of
the district, and " filch bus been known to attack a party
and kill four or live persons at a time," was a short time ago
despatched by havlng Incautiously put hie foot to • string
attached to a trigger that discharged a bullet which killed
Dim. The trap term, to be an admit...tete lav,rtion, het
rather duagrecable to net, for the bait, 111, said, was a "dead
Woman."

The Trenury returns issued on Tuesday show that
the total receipts lot.l the Exchequer for the current gnu-
dal year. up to Saturday last, were L 10,911,003, as compart d
with £6O 627 0.0 last year. The revenue WAS composed of
the following —Customs. ZIB 2140(0 excise, £19,001,004;
stamps. £8,031.000 taxer, £3 333,00 ; Income tax, £,3,7,000
Post OM e. £3 730,000 : telegraph eervlce, £OOO,OOO ; Crown
land., £345 on. ; mht ellaneous, £2 610,603. The payments
amountvl t £66 805,101. there remained a balance In the
Bank of Engl.. loot Saturday of £5,711,664, and In that of
Ireland of £1,041,600.

A public meeting wan held on Monday, at Cork, to
express sympa.r y with the French nat,on, and to raise •
anhecription for tire relief of the suffering peasantry. About
£4OO was eatery hed, ant resoluta°. were adopted expressing
profound aymoathy with the bunch people In their present
sufferlugs and trial.. 7he Rarshoent 14 the terms of
wan strongly commented on. and • wiab was ex that
the 1:411•11 000am:tient might interfere to procure more
lenient condition*.

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I'ne Railway Companies Bill, just printed, (which
beers the names of sir Li stlwin-lohet.., Mr. tilde
Palmer, and Mr. Rowland Wlnn,) proposes to enact that the
maximum liability oh railway comp-.ales to compensate In-
karei pusengen shall root exceed .13,40): but it la proposed
to Web:Wl!, ogles of
.Inst!rancs.by which the claims int,

increas:-.d. at the rate of a halfpenny per .Cl 9 Among
other matters It I. proposed to enact that all railway. shall
be worked on the absolute block and continuous brake
system.

On Monday the final award of the Marepd. of Sall,
bury and Lord Calms, as arbdraton in the affairs of the Lou-
don, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company, wa. Issued to
tile public. The principal financial difficulties were dispoaed
min the award of iturist but, ant that now published deal.
with outstanding ioe•tionsrelating to Individual claims for
comparatively amail Min, and provide. for the recocatita•
lion end fawn, government of the company.

The Finenci'al Iteform IJuion hs've 'adopted a peti-
tion to the lichee Of C =mon., expressive of an opinion that
the tura voted last Session for tho maintenance of the Army.
Militia, and Referred F oere/4 ill amply suntainit to pronen
a force adequate to the defence of the country sod the pro-
tection of british interest., and praying the House to
we fare to marten soy increase in the Army ertimates for
the pre.tent star, awl that In any mealier. for securtng
greater efticmecy In the military services, the Imperative
necessity of economy may not be lost sight of.
A Republican demonstration was made in Notting.
ham on timdey night. „t procession haring been formed In
the Soeintou :ilark4 marched to the Great Market-piece. no-
e =pealed by a bend of music, and tearing banners with the
Maul/Mons, 'Lee. Taxation," "Lees Starvation," "A Re-
public," " Vberty, Ktpiality, graternity." There a meetly e
was hell. Several thousand persons were present, but it was
estfent that empathises" with the object of the demouetra.
lion were In a minority. Speeches of the must wild descrip-
tbm were deliveled, the ...ions speak. r. being saluted with
shows re of cayenne pepper, filer, and rotten eggs.
A daring outrage in reporlel to have been committed
last Friday sisht within four miles of bells, In the county
Sitath. A man named binary, also csilet Dann, who is
employed to thine a bread cart furs baker Is Hells, was re-
turning home alter delivering some bread, when be was met
la the road by two men with their faces blackened, one of
whom gels KI the lirvse while the other presented a revolver
at him, ar.d demanded the money which lie hat received. Ile
...famed to give it, KIM he was then fired at, but the shut
mimed lain Tag horse titling fright broke away item the
man who held it sad started ff At a furious pace. A etc 3nl
shot wa. fired after him, but without effect. This pert
at the country has been tor nome lime free from such
rime.,