The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-10-11 00:00:00

SATUADAY, 00i. 11, 1879,

The North British Railway Company have reduced
the working time of the mechanics In their lecomotivo shops
from 54 to 48i hours per week, which, it is said, will effect a
great saving in expenditure.

New Zealand bids fair to be one of the largest grain-
grwing cluntees in the world. In the year 1877-8 no less
than 12,265,000 bushels of wheat and oats were grJwn whilst
the 3 teld daring the year 1878-9 had increased to 14,427,000
bushels. Victoria, with more than double the population,
produced only 8,062,000 bushels. The yield during the past
year was 26 bushels of wheat, 31.6 per acre, while the
respective yields in Victoria were only 124 and 19 3 bushels
Per acre.

A movement is on foot in county Kilkenny to erect
a memorial in St. Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny, to the late
Lieutenant Hamilton, V.C., who tell in the attack on the
British Embassy at Cabul. A committee has been formed to
receive subscriptions.

The Commissioners of Inland Revenue acknowledge
(in The Times, as "Conscience Money ") the receipt of the
first halves of bank notes for £l4O, forwarded as "unpaid
income-tax," and 3 per cent. interest.
Mr. Forbes will probably deliver his lecture on Zu-
luland in Paris, where a strong desire exists to hear the story of
the death of the Prince Imperial from the lips of one who
was present at the recovery of the body.—Echo
The American papers state that Governor St. John.
of Kansas, gives a very flattering account of the 5,000
coloured refugees from the South woo have taken up their
homes In that State. They have behaved themselves well,
gone to work, and not more than seventy five of the whole
number are now receiving aid from charitable sources
Lieutenant Ganeral Lord Chelmsford hal an inter-
view with Lord Beaconsfield on Tuesday at his residence in
Downing-street.

Intelligence has been received from Constantine, in
Algiers, stating that while the races were being held there
on Monday two stands gave way. Seventy persons were in.
lured, several very severely
The Lichfield Diocesan Churchman mentions two in-
stances in the diocese where Dissenters allow Church Sunday
schools and services to he held in their buildings. It states
alto that the oldest Nonconformist chapel in Wolver-
hampton has just passed into the hands of the Church.

It is the intention of the trustees of the British
Museum to use the electric light in the reading-room during
the winter months, in order to extend the hours for readers,
and to illumine the room in foggy weather. The system will
be tried of a few lamps hung high above the floor level, and
a diffusion of the light by reflectors. The arrangement's will
be directed by Messrs. Siemens Brothers.
Major Burnaby, speaking at a Conservative meeting,
on Monday night, at Blrmingnam, expressed his belief that
peace in Afghanistan would soon be restored, and that the
sharper the punishment given to the mutineers at Cabul the
less chance would there be of another outbreak.

In the arable districts of Scotland the harvest is ex-
peeled to be brought to a close this week, though in some
parts cutting has just made a start. The returns for the
year, It is expected, will be worse than in 1877. Of white
crops, oats will yield the best returns, while wheat will be
inferior, both in colour and quantity.

The idea is winning belief that the tide may be used
as a motive power at no distant date. Of course it is an old
thing to use it for compressing air, but the modern notion is
to employ a dynamo electric) machine, turned by an engine
worked by the daily rise and fall of the tide. The primary
thought is to use electricity thus cremed for lighting seaside
town".

" Babymania," is the fa4hionable MUM at French
chateaux and seaside resorts. It fa quite easy to be a baby-
maniac. You have only to be a mother, and the possessor
of a pair of scalca. Bet heavily with other mothers on your
and their oiisprings' ounces, and you may make pounds. It
ia well to take the child when it is "heavy for sleep," re-
membering that when it is " h,avy as lead" it is, for this
purpose, "as good as gold."— Court Journal.

Toe Scottish Temperauco League commenced a
series of jubilee services in Glasgow on Monday. Addresses
were delivered by leading Scotch and English temperance
Yeformers.

The dreaded rinderpeat is raging in Russian Poland
with greater virulence than ever, and it has teen found
necessary to take further precautions on the Silesian fron-
tier against its introduction into Germany.

"six hundred years ago the price of a pheasant in
the English markets was 4d., being about the sum uniformly
paid for a fat lamb in those days, except from Christmas to
Shrovetide, during which period the price of lamb was
quadrupled. The proportionate values of the two have,
however, vastly altered since the reign of ging Edward 1.,
who then sat on the English throne. But places as well as
prices, and everything else almost, have altered since then,
except the national love of sport."—From "Pheasant
Shooting" in Land and Water.
Frog-eating is apparently in favour in America,
for, accord'. g to a New York paper, one Illinois farm is to
be devoted to rearing frogs for the city merketa. These
creatures come originally from Canada, and are known as
the "gosling frog" from their aptitude for catching the
young geese. They take three years to attain their lull
growth, whan they are five times the size of the ordinary
batra3hian, and weigh from 2lbs. to 211bs. apiece. Ameri-
cans are fond of copying French customs, and the present
Is by no means a bad importation, as a delicateiy-Prepared
frog makes a capital dish, the only objections to which
are the idea of the thing and th 3 innumerable bones.

A fisherman bag found a very remarkable weapon
near the lake dwelling of Locras, in the Lake of Brienz It
is a double battle•ase of pure copper. 42 centimetres long
and weighing three kilogrammes. Massive and heavy in the
middle, it broadens out gradually into two cuttinG edges,
each having a v.idth of 12 centim6tres. It ha; been added
to tae coll€ ction of Dr. Gross at lieuveville. Several similar
weapons have been found in Denmark; but, so far as is known
this is the first of the kind discovered in Switzerland. The
lake dwelling of Locras is assigned by archmologists to the
age of stone.

Lord Lyttelton, in speaking at the opening of a
coffee-house at Bewdley, alluded to the Ngalkt of thrift
among English work-people, and sP,III Cuts had greatly in-
tensified the suffering aritini; from the depres3lon in trade
and.agriculturc. Re pointed out the strong contrast be-
tween Eugland and France at the present time, and attri-
buted the greater prosperity of France very much to the
thriftier Labits of the French pegple,

Lord Leigh, Lord-Lieutenant of Warwickshire, has
addressed a circular latter to his tenants on the subject of the
present agricultural distress. He states that he regards the
system of malting 10 per cent. return to tenauts as unsatis-
factory in many respects. If he thought the present state of
things would be permanent he would readjust his .7entals ;
but, believing the depression to be temporary, he has decided
to return, at the Michaelmas rent zudit, lb per cent, of the
rent on arable, and 7 per cent. on grass lands. Similar
returns will be made for the two next years.

Tlia magistracy of the City of Vienna has passed a
resolution, nemine contradieente, that the Common Council
shall be requested to ordain that the graves and monuments
of Mozart, Gluck, Joseph Haydn, raid Beethoven (all of
which are to be fund itt the Old Fr.edhol) shall be deco-
rated the who! e+ 7cav through with flowers, as long as the
City of Vienna exist, at the cost of the citizens. These
musical magistrates declare that a debt of honour lies upon
the Vienna community, which has erj )yed so much delight
from the works of these great " tone-peetc," to say nothing
of the monetary aspect of tho o4se in a great capital of
opera, and they belieyo that the citizens will gladly consent
to be taxed as u proof of their gratitude to these giants of
music.

The Queen and Princess Beatrice drove to Aber-
geldie on Friday afternoon in last week to visit the Empress
Euzeoie. The Dowager Marchioness of Ely met the Empress
at Bailater station, and attended her Majesty to Abergeldie
Castle, the Queen's carriages having been sent to conv-y the
Empress and the Suite. On Saturday the Empress Eugenie
visited her Msjesty at Balmoral. The Empress Eugdnie
attended Divine Service at St. Andrew's Roman Catholic
Church. Braemar, on Sunday. The Empress drove to the
chapel in an open carriage drawn by a pair of bays, accom-
panied by Mdile. De Lasmindt, Lady-in-Waiting, and the
Due de Basun°, and a few of the suite. A front seat had
been specially draped in black cloth for the occasion Mass
was celebrated by the Rev. James Stewart, after which the
Empress and suite left. Before entering the carriage the
Empress conversed freely tor fully five minutes with the
Prince and Princess Murat, who had come to meet her from
the Fife Arms Hotel and afterwards drove to Abergeldle
Castle.
A letter fromlralta, OtLulea, says :—" The Emperor
is at Livadia, the Empress will winter at Nice. The south
coast this year is very full. Yalta has had more than 9,000
visitors. Every hotel and lodging•house is crowded, and in
some of the neighbouring villages even the Tartar cottages
are full. The weather this summer haa been unusually dry.
We had forty-two days without a drop of rain; and even in
tho province of Kharkoff, where I have been staying most of
the summer, we have only had a few thunderstorms. The
harvest has been excellent ; aud the grape, which is now
being picked, is also considered better than usual."

Mr. Rathbone, m.p., addressing tho engineers'
trades meting at Liverpool, congratulated them on the fact
that during twenty years they had only two strikes, and they
had now £250,000 in tho bank. lie said trade generally was
undergoing a fierce competition at the hands of people
abroad, greater perhaps than at any previous period; but
the engineers were able to sell their machinery to foreigners
by reason of its superiority. Alluding to trade depression,
he was surprised there was so little increase in pauperism.
This was the result of provident habits among the working
c/asses.
"The death is announced a Colonel William Lyons,
In command of the Brigade Depat at Ashton-under-Lyne, and
one of the very few field officers of our Army who have risen
from the ranks. Colonel Lyons enlisted as a boy in 1828, and
was gazetted to a commission in 1841 He was afterwards
appointed adjutant of the sth Fusiliers, served with that
regiment at ties Mauritius, and was promoted major in 1857.
He was afterwards gazetted lieutenabt.colonel of the sth
West India Regiment, and on its disbandment was appointed
Assistant Adjutant-General in Canada, where he served
during the Fenian disturbances. Colonel Lyons sorved as
.superintendent of the London recruiting district for several
years, and was appointed to the command of the Ashton
Dc-pot in May, 1876. He obtained his colonelcy In 1871."-,.
Tien' Obituary (Wednesday)

Mrs. Ann -Seymour, a widow, resiiiisg in Brown-
low-street, Liverpool, has met with her death under shocking
circumstances. on aaturday night her sister, Miss Ages
M'Murray, wont out to minakthee dining
-room When
sitting In an arm
Miss M'Murray returned she found the room filled with
smoke, and her sister sitting in a another chair with her
clothes on fire. Miss Mllurray at once extinguished the
flames with water and fetched a doctor; but the unfortunate
lady died a few minutes afterwards.
Mr. Walter, M.P., speaking at Maidenhead on
Tuesday night, attributed the bad harvest to four or five
bad seasons, culminating in the last, which was the worst;
but he believed the seasons would now improve. Farmers
could not compete with America in growing corn at thirty
shillings A quarter, and eventually they Must cease to grow
wheat and cultivate whatever crops paid best. The present
system of farming, with its covenants and restrictions, must
be altered, and farmors should be allowed to grow what
paid best. Ho did not think rents would come down.—
Colonel Loyd-Lindsay, NI P., attributed the depression to
the bad harvests, the restrictions placed upon our e4ports
by foreign countries, and the admission of corn at SO low a
pries. The remedy was for foreigners to open their ports to
us on the same terms as we opened ours ta them.
held in the Free Trade-
At a working•man's nseethig,
hall, Manchester, on Monday night, the Bishop of Manches-
ter said that he was grieved, when reading the report of the
Trades Union Congress at Edinburgh to see a suggestion to
form a federation of trades unions to struggle against the
masters. He advised them to take a fair, intelligent view of
the situation, and not to be misled by an erroneous idea of
their own interests. Unless they and their masters worked
together on a good understanding the prosperity of the
country could not be maintained.
The business of the Church Congress commenced at
Swansea on Tuesday. The Archbishop of Canterbury de-
livered a sermon, in the course of whit sh he spolle of the
bilingual difilculty in Wales as one of tho greatest impedi-
ments to the advance of the Church in the Principality. In
the afternoon the Bishop of ht. Asaph and the Principal cif
Jesus College, Oxford, read papers upon higher and inter-
mediate education in Wales. in the evening the Bishop of
Winchester read a paper on tbc canses of and remedy for
Dissent.

An inquest has been held at S. Petar's, Thanet, on
the body of Mr William Ritchie, eldest son of Mr. Ritchie,
member for the Tower lianhets. Deceased was riding a
bicycle when he fell off inuring his hand. A. week after the
accident, tentanu supervened, from which he died on Friday
morning in lmt week. A verdict was returned of accidental
death.
The receipts of the London Hospital Saturday Fund
up to Monday oth, are Z 4,700.
At the Social Science Congress at Manchester, on
Tuesday, Mr. Stephen Bourne read a paper on 4' The social
aspect of trade depression," In which he said the long con-
tinuance of trade depression and the conditions under which
it existed mailt3d the present as a distinct epoch in the
commercial history of the country, the more so from the
equally suffering state of agriculture. In considering the
causes from which it sprung, and whither it was tending, it
might not be useless to inquire whether it was not this
that whereas in former times the streams of production and
consumption, though not always sowing with
velocity, did yet keep average pace with each other, of ate
years consumption had spread faster than production 1 he
Meant the consumption of that which was absolutely eace,
tial to the continued sustenance of individual and nation 4
We.

"Be-ir and forbear," k•aid Bruin, as he ate up his
brother.—Fun.
The price of bread, which has remained for nearly a
year at eiehtpence the quartern loaf, has risen to Paris to
eightpence-halfpenny, owing to the bad harvest.
The compensations paid in the last financial year to
the officers of the late Ecclesiastical and Prerogative Courts
amounted to .C 59,877 17s. 41.
The Company of Ironmongers (London) have vol;ed
the sam of ten guineas to the National Thrift Society.
A conference between the coalmasters and the
miners of Fife and Clackmannanshire was held on Monday.
The masters stated that the proposal to work only elgh',
hours a day was not opposed, but only 15 per cent. advance
of wages could be conceded. These terms were accepted.

The Dutch Arctic expedition has returned t°
Hammerfest, after having penetrated as far as Fr3nc:3
Joseph Land.
In the financial year March 31111 A the fee etamPa
In judicature in England amounted to £224,606 14s. 7,1.,
awl in the Probate Court to £133,106.
At the Adam:, (Miehigan) agricultural fair on
Thursday in last week, ‘i,ooo people were on the grand
itand, witnessing the rac.ii' when i,he centre of the stand
fell. Six persons were killed outright and 50 were injured„
some fatally.

A meeting of 10,000 house carpenters has just boo
held in Paris, when it was unanimously resolved that the
corporation would suspend all work from Monday, Oct. 6,
exception being only made in favour of the employers who
should signify their adhesion to the reforms dt mended. •
The "Hard Times" now so universally prevalent
press severely upon the Californians, and San Francisco, ec-
cording to the News Letter, contains twice as many houses ,
as people to occupy them. The population of the city is or/
the decrease, retrenchment is the rule in almost every hong°.
hold, and nearly halt the town is for sale or to let.
The Savings Bank balances due to depositors on the
20th of November, 1878, gives the following average per head
of the population of England and Wales, £1 lie. id. ; Scot- y
land, £1 161. 9cl ; Ireland, 81. 2d. ; Channel Islands, 1,5
17s. Bd.
It appears from the comparative statement of
pauperism in August, 1878 and 1879, jast issued by the LoCia
Government Board, that the total number of pauper°
in the eleven divisions of England and Wales, in the last
wei k of August, 1679, was 604,613, against 636,136 in August.
1878, being an increase of 48,477, or 7 4 per cent. There wa'
an increase in all the divisions except the Eastern (Egse%,
Suffolk, and Norfolk), where there was a decrease of 01 per
cent.
There wore 24 British and foreign v, reeks reportad
during the past week, making a total of 1,208 for the present
year, and showing an increase of 116 as compared with the
corresponding period of last year. The approximate value
of property lost was £650,000, including British £560,000.

IL is said that the Clyde shipboildink the 'is VOW
fairly in the way of recovering from the trying depression,
which has long prevailed. Within the last few days several
large contracts have been entered upon, and more II
expected. These contracts will give ample employmeo
to a large number of workmen during the approaching
winter.

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At Seaton, Devon, the other day, the fisherinen
caught a "sea-goose," the first known or seen on that coastci
~
It has been forwarded to the Exeter Museum, to b place. ,
amongst the collection of antiquities and "monstrosities
-
In China, strong oil of peppermint, painted over the
part, has long been a familiar remedy for neuralgia '
gout.
A 3 an illustration of the improvement which 11
lately been witnessed in the Northern iron trades, it is poll)"
out that four blast furnaces have been blown in the Clevr
land district, and half a dozen others are being rapidly Pe; •
pared for work. If the increase of prices continues,
demand will speedily be overtaken by the greater utilizatioli
of the immense irommaking resources of the chief iron-Pr'
ducing district.
On the 25th of last month died at KOtzschenbrod,
the oldest veteran in the Saxon army, Colonel Ford
von Larisch. He was born in 1782 at Grommern and em
the army in 1802. He took part in all the campaign,'
wh'ch the kingdom of Saxony was engaged down to 1815
On Monday the railway and canal companies se'
lug the South Staffordshire district gave notice to the ra'
chants and manufacturers of their intention to lower I'
of their tariffs on and after November 1. Packed hardly.
goods are to be reduced from 325. 6d. to Ns per ton, an'
on spelter the drop is to be from 15s. to 12s. 6d.
Father Ignatius began an eight days' mission
Bournemouth last Saturday, when he held three services
the Town Hall, which were well attended.

and

The British Agricultural Commissioners, Mr.
M.P., and Mr. C. S. Read, M.P., who are travelling in
United States, were entertained at a banquet at WinnlP
on Friday in last week, Premier Norquay, of Manitoba, P
Wing. Both Commissioners, in their addresses, aP,°
favourably of the wheat•growing region of the Red EX
Valley, Mr. Read describing the soil as a mass of r
giviing the richest return for the easiest
United Gtatea' Consul Taylor said that three-fourths of
wheat-producing belt of the American continent lay north
the Canadian boundary.
A Parisian centenarian has been discovered by
Paris Figaro. His namo is Pierre Lambert, he was born
1777, and took part in the various Napoleonic campaigl
and speaks bitterly of the miseries endured during the
treat from Moscow. In 1815 he retired from the service.
the "Petit Corporal, being no longer at our heads, I "
up my mind to rest awhile."

Prince Bismarck is said to be still busy giving
Governments of Europe friendly assurances concerning
recent visit to Viebna. It was altogether peaceful. Nob(
no nation, nothing is menaced by it. It is said that
German Chancellor is especially anxious to impress
upon Russia.
The Governor-General of Canada, by an order,
Council, has exempted Belgium from the Canadian Coast;
Act, in consideration of the fact that British vesSebi
allowed to engage in the coasting trade of. that country.
"Under the title of 'Before and after the War,'
publishing firm of Brockans, at YAM°, has just 101
another volume on Russia by the talented author
'Pictures from St. Petersburg Society '—A work which '
for the most part already appeared from time to time
the Rundschatt. The author takes a very gloomy vier/ I
of the pre,ssut and the future of Russia; and just at
particular moment his reflections are well worth '
tion."—Berlin Correspondent Of no Tznies.

The Prison Commission for Scotland, in their
annual report, state that they expect to effect cousider'
economy by tha purchase, under general contract, of
articles required in prisons on wnich prison labour D,
pended. Tee law has provided suitable work for the
soners confined in the store prison; and has obviated
employment of outside labour au articles required for '
of the small prisons. The arrangement, however, c
be fully and effectively earned out until a General Sul
tendent of Stores and Manufactures is appointgd,
they say, they have reason to believe is under the
tiou of the Government.

A telegram from Australia says that the revenul
South Australia for the September quarter was £481,1
being an increase of £89,000 compared with the same q"
of 1878.—The revenue of Victoria for the gunter en'
September amounted to £1,134,000, being a decrease,
£34,000, as compared with the same period last year
.--
revenue of the colony of New S9uth Wales for the
ending September amounted to £993,000, or £Bl,OOO less
during the same quarter of last year.—The revenue rat'.
of Queensland for the quarter ending September en°,
total of £403,000, or a alminutinn of £32,000 as collar
with the same period lat year,

At the Social Science Congress at Manchester,
Lyulph Stanley, President of the Education Departroenti
livered an address upon secondary and higher educatio°.
expressed him Self in favour of an efficient and extended d
nizatiou of the system applied to the education of boYs
girls alike, the basis of which should be unsectartan- t
suggested an alteration of the present mode c f payolen4
results, which led to fraud and cramming. There 0115,
be a thorough inspection by a mixed body on wilic,l
Government should be represented, but where it shonl4
be supreme.
The bush•dog at the Zoological Gardens, the
live specimen of its kind ever brought to England, 11111
puzzled the officials on its arrival from British 14'
according to the Live Stock Journal, and it was
similar specimen had been found stuffed in the
Illti.eum that the authorities discovered what the o
erv-
all
really was. The dog strongly resembles a badger,
„Tit
short legs and long body, but as it is now only six EN
old, it will probably be more dog-like as it grows up-
dark brown in colour, with a stumpy tail, and shows
affection for its keeper.
General Shute, M, P., Mr. Montagu Scott, It
Mr. W. Grantham, M.P., were present on Monday Lig"
a meeting of the Brighton Conservative Association.
Mr. Grautham and General Shute defended the fol
policy of the Government, the former gentleman esPac
commending them for the rapidity with which they
shown themselves ready to meet a sudden!y arising,
and, comparing their recent prompt action with the '
ness of the Liberals on the outbreak of the Indian la'
General Shute expressed his belief that Russian Pre'
lesa was now gone in tne East, and that Russia was power
injure us either by arms or intrigue.
The Aberdeenshire mountains have not
this year their usual brilliant appearance, In nonsequencii
the destruction of the heather flower by the severe 08„11
In the spring, but there are fresh bright days noW °".
Dee side, and in the neighbourhood of Balmoral reit)
still blooming, and even wild roses are to: be found; "
rl
o
strawberries have only lately, ripened in the gardens, a
still served at the queen's table. The corn is rifle'
especially oats, and, the harvest bi proceeding 10
.places,
A colossal hotel is being completed opposite tile
Central Station at Berlin. It will contain immense ?
ments, luxnrionsly furnished and tastefully decorateo.,4
600 bed-rooms, besides a theatre, two chapels, ft,
synagogue. The courtyards are to be adorned with B'
of the most celebrated travellers, and attached t°
hotel is a magnificent garden, in which there are
hothouses

Speaking at Dundee, Mr, Yeaman said that, Ve
party feeling ran very high in Parliament, as it had en
late, the constituencies would look on, and note vill°,eg
working for the national good, and who were workw r
place and power; Amember might desire to go with t't
ticular party, but when the great interests of the nation
to be discussed and voted upon, he did not envy the
who would sacriflee the intere3ta cf his country for
,e
party feeling.
01)917f°
A peculiar accident occurred at the El g913,„t
Station at Liverpool, of the Lancashire and neite
Railway last Saturday. Five carriages were being e° eiti9
in at one of the platforms, and the momentum wit'or
they were impelied caused two of them to go 0- ig '0
fixed buffers and force the seat in front of them acroot,
area of the station. -Upon this seat at the time 5 of'r,
°
dozen persons were sitting, and they all receive aA,
shaking and some slight bruises. Three ladies:4o"e
M'Gew, Miss Emma Deleon, of Borgne village,
brightshire, and Mrs. Gordon, of Chapel-town, in tn,',
county—were so much hurt that they were unable, 'or
ceeil on their journey, but their injuries are not of
char. icter. „te,
Toe Chinese in New York, driven by pußblurDral
judlce from California, have formed a large and -0, ta
colony; Fie d white, on their first arrival, they conilne"orip
øelvcs to establishing laundriee,they have now taken uP
branches of trade and compete most successfully criteee
shrew,i New Yorkers. Many also are dereeatic sierv,e'of
distinct Chinese quarter, "New China.," is the honligel'o
immigrants," Who are as a rule of very delicateeee 0,01
°wit% to hard work and drog•consuming, while fi'dee,oli
little exercise forilear of ridiciCe. Nearly three WI 1.9
the colony hey° white wives, chiefly Spanish snt, '
women, the latter being preferred for their industri' „.
wives, however, are rarely allowed to work.
f 090°
The great Agricultural Exhibition, held :reio.
Bth to the 20th September, in the main building PI ;10401
Centennial Exposition, at Philadelphia, has proved 0 a ficti
in every way. The aggregate attendance number:llV
150,000. The total receipts were £13,000, £3,000 °,,otoori
were distributed in premiums, The profits were yaw ve
£5,000 and £6,000. It is.proposed to hold another n'ti te
fair in the same place in 1889. The premiums 4re80111,04
larg,ly increa, el. It is said that they will arn-eloo
£.10,000, £l,lOO of which will be offered for the besl'
fej
stallion.
There were 2,580 births and 1,318 deaths reBtios3
in London last week. Allowing for increase of P°Polleit
the births ezeeeJecl by 128, whereas the deaths „eyes,
below, thp average numbers in the corresponding, cee'bee
the eit ten years The annual deatlerate from ell tee 'OO
which had been equal to 19/ and 172 per 1,000 In ort
Preceding weeks, rose again to 190. During the he (Woe
Weeks which ended on Saturday, the 27th ultinao,
rate averaged only 184 per 1.000, against 193 and
corresponding periods of 1877 and 1878.
A
A Titus' telegram from Philadelphia, date-vas -os,
says :--" Two serious disasters occurred to Amer pellept
loonists last week. Protesaor Wise, with anothneLtecellSof
ascended from St. Louis, and has been lost in the 'coo ell
Wilderness, Illinois. No tidings have yet been
them, but it is believed that they have been loolgrutotc.
Sunday, at San Francisco, during a gale, Professor „leo ivg
with another person ascended; but the wind eetteo;
balloon across the telegraph wires over the houses,
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