The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-07-14 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN,

In consideration of the continued depression in
agriculture the Duke of Newcastle has returned to
his tenants 20 per cent of their rents for the past half
year.
Piracy is said to be rife in the Gulf of Tonquin.
Nineteen men have been made prisoners and twenty
killed by the cruiser Hamelin.
London has now 881 i miles of streets which contain
water mains constantly charged, and upon which
hydrants for fire purposes could at once be fixed.

At Toulouse two ranges of buildings, forming part
of the local Lycee, or public school, have been de.
stroyed by are. The contents, including the beds and
beiding, were burned. No one was injured.

In the course of an attempt to escape from th
Oregon State prison, at Salem, the convicts attacked
the officers. Three of the convicts were killed, two
were wounded, and eight others escaped.

Several English exhibitors have received prizes for
sheep at the Hamburg Agricultural Exhibition. The
first prizes for pigs were awarded to Mr. James
Howard, M.P.. Bedford, and Mr. Charles Elmhiret
Puckering, of Whitehoe.

A maiden quarter sessions was held at Dover on
Monday. This was the first maiden sessions held in
the borough for years. The Mayor presented the
Recorder with a pair of white kid gloves.

Reports published by the Chicago Inter-Ocean, re-
specting the grain crops covering a wide area in the
west and notth.west, show that the yield, except in
the case of wheat, will be equal to the last two years.
The crop of wheat will be about up to the average.
The harvest of winter wheat in lower latitudes is
large.

The Queen has conferred the honour of Knighthood
upon Dr. H. A. Pitman, Registrar of the Royal
College of Physicians, and upon Mr. Edwin Saunders,
who has held the office of Surgeon Dentist to Her
Majesty for thirty•seven years.
Letters from Florence announce the death, on June
28, of the distinguished Italian architect de Fabris
who had just completed the new front to the cathedral
in that city. The work was to have been opened for
public use on the very next day, the festival of Saints
Peter and Paul.
In Switzerland disturbances having arisen at Folle,
Canton 'Vaud, in connection with meetings of the
Salvation Army, the Prefect, with the sanction of
the Council of State, has ordered the meetings to be
discontinued.

Up to the 7th Ina, the sum allotted by the In-
demnity Commipsion in respect of claims for damage
done during the burning of Alexandria last July was
fifty•four million one hundred and sixty•eight thou-
sand francs.

Mr. Gladstone has declined to accede to the request
made in a memorial from the National Society for an
increased Parliamentary grant to Church schools.—ln
replying to the arguments in the Prime Minister's
letter of refusal, the National Society asks that an
effective restraint should be applied to the excessive
expenditure of School Boards.
Bradstreet's Journal estimates this year's wheat crop
in the 'United States at 442,600,000 bushels, being
60,860,000 decrease compared with the last crop. It
states that with a surplus of nearly that amount from
the last crop, the country will be well prepared to meet
the home and foreign demand.
The French Minister of War is about to institute
two annual prizes of twenty pounds each for the best
works on medical and surgical matters connected with
the army; and one triennial prize for questions of
military pharmacy, chemistry, and salubrity treated
with skill.

A note has been received from H.R.H. the Princess
Louise's secretary, Capt. Bagot, promising to send
some of her paintings, both in oil and water•colour,
to the Boston Foreign Exhibition next fall, as a re-
cognition of the pleasant time she had in Boston last
winter.

The Wardens and Conrt of Assistants of the
Loriners' Company have p-esented to the Lord Mayor
or London a handsome loving cup, as a souvenir of
their regard. The cup stands 16in. high, and is orna-
mented with spurs and stirrups, and the handles are
formed of horses' "bite" and rosettes.

The Archbishop of Canterbury and Mrs. Benson
gave their second garden party at Lambeth Palace
on Saturday, and it was numerously attended.
Paris advices state that the appearance of the vine.
yards in the Aude and ILirault departments is excel..
lent. The intelligence received from Burgundy is also
favourable, but in the Beaujolais district the situation
leaves something to be desired.

On Saturday, at the Liverpool sessions, two men,
named Woolahan and M`Ginn, were found guilty of
wilfully smashing a group of wax figures representing
the Phoenix Park tragedy, exhibited at a waxworks
and valued at £250. The prisoners were each sen-
tenced to four months' imprisonment.
Mrs. Quincy A. Shaw, of Boston, Mass., maintains
thirty-one free kindergartens for poor children in and
near Boston. Four of these began their work in 1877,
and the others have been started since then.
One Maine clothes-pin factory keeps a force of forty
hands busily at work, and the product is 200 boxes, of
700 pins each, per day-140,000 clothes-pins. The
firm has 2,000 cords of birch wood on hand.
It may interest intending holiday-makers to note
that the projected fetes at Ostend include the horse
races on July 29 and on the 23rd and 26th of August;
the boat•races on the 19th of August; the Inter-
national Dog Show on the 28th, 29th, 30th, and 31st
of July; and the Flower Show on the 12th of August.
The Strasburg papers report the appearance of the
Colorado beetle in great numbers in some potato fields
near Colmar. The authorities have ordered the most
energetic measures to prevent the spreading of this
terrible scourge.
Intelligence received at Calcutta statc.s that a de
tachment of the let Battalion Essex Regiment has
been attacked by a body of 500 Nagas, who were
repulsed with a loss of no killed. There was no casual-
ties on the side of the British.

The private subscription raised in the House of
Commons for a memorial to Lord F. Cavendish has
reached a sum of about £5OO. This has been expended
in a commission for a handsome stained•glass window,
which will forthwith be placed in St. Margaret's
Church, Westminster.
Early on Monday morning a destructive fire occurred
in the yard of the England Shipbuilding Company,
Sunderland, and resulted in the destruction of the
wolkshop containing the machinery used upon the
heavy work. The damage is estimated at £5,000, and
the destruction of the plant will render 500 men idle.
It is stated that Mr. Chaplin has exchanged his
celebrat-d pack of hounds, consisting of 40 couple, for
Lord Lonsdale's, North Pytchley. Mr. Chaplin
receives a pack of 50 couple, with a considerable sum
iv money.
Fatal accidents continue to happen all over France
during thunderstorms, in the Vosges a man and
woman have been killed by lightning, while a youth
at Bralleville had his chest scorche I by the electric
fluid through his watch chain acting as a conducto-.
The Morning Post understands that M. de Lessens,
who is now in London, has c me to a satisfactory
arrangement with the Government for the construc-
tion of a second canal between the Mediterranean and
the Red Sea.

A commercial traveller, named Warr, was killed at
Guildfurd R.ilway Station on Monday morning. He
was hurrying to catch the 11.20 train for London-
bridge, which he attempted to enter while it was in
motion. Missing his footing, he fell between the
carriage and the platform, and was killed on the spot.
The Standard says that the new Duke of Marl.
borough will probably not take his seat in the House
of Lords for some little time to come, and that Lord
Randolph Churchill will not take any part in the pro-
ceedings of the House of Commons during the re.
mainder of the Session.

Yet another season of cheap bread, with all its
beneficent effects upon credit and trade, seems iksured
(says the Pall Nall Gazette). The stocks of wheat end
flour in this country ate estimated at 3,480,C00 qrs.,
being rather more than double the quantity of July 1,
1882. Indeed, the stocks are almost unprecedentedly
large for the beginning of July.
On Tuearlay Peter Bray, 27 years of age, was
charged at Durham with the wilful murder of Thomas
Pyle, who died from injuries inflittPd upon his throat,
apparently with a nail, on the night of the Ist April
last year. It was stated that the prisoner had pro.
posed to some comrades to murder deceased, and on
their declining be committed the deed himself. The
prisoner, who has undergone seven years' penal servi.
tude, was committed for trial at the assizes.

A Parliamentary pamphlet has been published
giving the results of the census of 1881 in the Isle of
Man and the Channel Island& It appears that in the
Isle of Man the population had increased from 51,042
in 1871 to 54,089 in 1881. In Jersey it had decreased
from 56,627 to 52,445, and in Guernsey and adjacent
islands it had increased from 33,969 to 35,257.
A telegram from Constantinople says that on Friday
night in last week, near the village if Melzei, which is
half way between Constantinople and 'smith, a band of
brigands seized and carried off Alexandre Corpi, a rich
Galata banker. They have asked £6,000 for his
ransom,

In London, on Sunday evening, V.hile a number cf
persons were crossing over Westaiinsfer Bridge, a
stout-built man was seen waLdering about, when cud
denly he pulled off his coat, placed his hands 'in the
'Aron balustrade, and vaulted ioto the Thames. Several
boats were passing at the time, but bt fore they could
reach him he was drowned. The body was not re-
covered.
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On Sunday morning Divine service was performed
in the presence of the Queen and Royal Family in the
Royal Mausoleum at Frogniore by the Very Rev.
Randall Davidson, Dean of Windsor, who also
preached the sermon. In consequence of the difficulty
in a.cerding the steep staircase leading to the Royal
pew in the Queen's chapel, Her Majesty has found it
more convenitnt while her knee was stiff to attend
the performaace of Divine service in the Royal
Mausoleum at Frogmore instead of the private °haps!,
Windsor Castle,

Adisease incidental to the young.—Love sickness.
--Wish for the season.—" A merry holiday and a,
pleasant home ! "—Moonshine.
From market statistics, it appnrs that recently in
Paris for during nine days in s a,.cession two hundred
tons of strawberries were consumed daily !

There are Ind iar. girls in the Indian Territory Uni.
verity whn are studying German, French, Latin, an 3
Greek, geology, moral philo4ophy, polilical eco:.omy,
and other branches of the college course.

On Friday in last week three boys were drowned in
;he river Avon, near Avonmouth Dock, Bristol.

A telegram from Constantinople says that the town
of Kara-Hissa-Chebin in Anatolia has been almost
entirely destroyed by fire. Official assistance is being
organised for the inhabitants.

The assessment of Winnipeg, Canada, this year is
32,000,000 dole.
It is announced that on and after the 13th of July,
1883, Greece will issue and receive double or reply
post cards. From that date, therefore, reply cards
impressed on each half with a penny stamp may be
sent to Greece.

The Lord Mayor of London will entertain her
Majesty's Ministers at dinner at the Mansion 11,3 use
on Wednesday, August 8. The date was fixed after
consultation with Mr. Gladstone.
In Paris the Minister of Public Instruction has
lately, with a view to alleviating the distresses of the
caruenters and cabinet markets, ordered four thousand
tables and some twenty thousand desks for the
Parisian and Provtncial Lycdes.

By command of the Queen, the Institute of Painters
in Water. Colours is permitted to assume the title of
"Royal," and is now to be styled "The Royal Insti-
tute of Painters in Water•Colours."
An acrobatic diet.—A tumbler of milk.--Racing
fixtures.—The course and a grand stand.--Moonshine.
On Monday the Prince and Princess of Wales at.
tended a concert at the Guildhall in London, given by
the Lord Mayor on behalf of the funds of the Royal
College of Music.
While three young men, named Henessey, Walsh,
and Barry, were sailing in Waterford Harbour on
Saturday their craft suddenly capsized, and Walsh
and Hennessey were drowned. Barry succeeded in
reaching the shore.
The total length of the German railways is 30,002
kilometers, or 18,750 English miles, of which 29,354
kilometers are main lines. In the aggregate the capital
value of the German railways is about 300 millions
sterling. The large proportion of 22,178 kilometers
out of the total are State lines.

The Khan of Khiva and the son of the Emir of
Bokhara have agreed with the Russian Government
for the construction of a tramway 300 kilometres long!
uniting Khiva with Turkestan. The tramway will
traverse the sandy plain of Bokhara.
The Anchor line steamer Furnessia, arrived at -
Queenstown from New York on Tuesday morning, -
having on board a number of pauper emigrants who
were not allowed by the New York Emigration Com-
missioners to disembark in America.
It is expected that the Marquis of Lorne and the -
Princess Louise will spend the greater part of the
summer at Cassepedia. They will probably return to
Ottawa early in October for a short time before leaving
for England.
On Tuesday the Emperor of Russia held a review of
the fleet at Cronstadt, at which the Empress was also
present. Ten men•of•war were assembled, and his
Majesty having inspected the vessels ordered his
thanks to be signalled to the squadron, and then
returned with the Empress to Peterhoff.
News has been received at Calcutta that Dr. Charlet
Little, of the Indian Medical Service, Sanitary In.
spector of Berar, has been killed by a tiger. Dr.
Little was regarded as one of the most rising of semi-
tary workers in India.
A Cabinet Council was held cn Saturday, at the
Premier's official residence. All the members were
present, including Earl Spencer.
On Monday evening the balloon Neptune ascended
from Calais, carrying M. Durnof and a friend, and
took the direction of the North Sea. After being out
for about two hours M. Duruof managed to board the
steamboat Champion, which carried him in safety
back to port. A large and enthusiastic crowd assem-
bled.
The ship La Hague, 1,331 tons register, Captain
Francis Wagstaff, chartered to the Ag9nt-General for
Queensland, left Plymouth on Saturday with the fol.
lowing emigrants on board :-55 married couples 122
single men, 73 single women, 39 boys, 49 girls, arid 16
infants, making a total of 409 souls, equal to 349
statute adults.
Mr. T. C. Horsfall, the treasurer of the Manchester
Art Museum' states that a sum of £2,800 has already
been received, as well as about £4,000 worth of first-
rate pictures, in furtherance of the scheme for placing
pictures in elementary schools.
An International Exhibition of Journals will be
open at the old Mint, Brussels, from the Ist to the
15th of September. The proceeds are to go to the
Belgian Royal Philanthropical Society.
The German Society of Analytical Chemists offers
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two prizes, of £25 add £l5 resliectively-, -f—orTiie-13-est
treatises on cocoa and cocea manufacture, with
reference to their commercial value and efficacy ill
nutrition.
A ton of wheat or seeds may now be sent from
Delhi to Howrah, a distance of 954 miles, for
Li 95.11 id., equal to 0,3765 d. per ton per mile.
According to a despatch received in Paris on Tney
day evening from Saigon, King Tu Due is seriouslY
ill, and 4.000 "Black Flags" are menacing Non
Dinh, while other 10,000 are erecting fortifications at
Soutay. _
The Lisbon newspapers announce that the Potts'
guese Governor of Timor, in the Indian Archipelagc•
has bombarded the village of Cotubaba in cowsequenoe
of disturbances among the natives.
The Haze', British steamer, from Greenock to Bar'
celona, laden with coal, was abandoned on fire oa
July 1, in lat. 46 N. lorg. 9 W. The crew were pieke,cl
up by the Friary, British steamer, and landed at
Fayal.
It is understood that the authorities of the South •
Kensington Museum, with the sanction of her NO'
jesty's Government proposes to commemorate the
present International Fisheries Exhibiticn by the es'
tablishment of a National Economic Fisheries
Museum.

The Walrond Ranch Company, near CalgarrYi
Canada, have purchased the Judith Cattle Company
herd from Montana. It numbers 5,000 head, includtag
calves. The ranches on the eastern slopes of the
Rocky Mountains will soon be stocked with the beet
blood of Montana, improved by pure•bred bulls frosa
• Scotland and England.

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Last week'e receipts of cotton at all 'United Stat
' ell
ports were 12,000 bales • since Ist September, 5,887,0 w
bales. Week's exports to Great Britain, 9,000 bales'
to the Continent, 4,000 bales ; total since Ist Septere•
ber, 4,530,000 bales. Stocks at all ports, 387,000 bale&
A New York telegram says that the visible suPPII
of wheat on July 6 was 19,400,000 bushels, as agaills•
20,200,000 bushels the previous week. Visible still
of Indian corn, 13,100,000 bushels, as against 14,600,
bushels the previous week. The export clearances '
wheat for Europe during last Week amounted t°
970,000 bushels; the export clearances of Indirall
corn for Europe during last week amounted tO
91.0,000 bushels.
On Sunday night, as the steamer Renown was leavihg
Broughty Ferry for Dundee, crowded with passenger°,
a panic occurred in consequence of the vessel sudden
heeling over. There was a rush to the side nearen
the pier, on which the starboard paddle-box fortunatea
rested, and so prevented the steamer capsizing'
Hundreds of people leaped into the water, but now:4
was drowned.
There were 2,478 births and 1,521 deaths registerell
in London last week. Allowing for increase of popti:
lation, the births were 71 below, whereas the cloth`
exceeded by 53, the average numbers in the cerli
sponding weeks of the last ten years. The anvil e
rate of mortality from all causes, which had been be'
16 9, 17.6, and 18.9 per 1,000 in the three preceda
weeks, further rose to 201.
The Treaty of Commerce and Navigation betWeeti
Great Britain and Italy secures to the subjects etti
the vessels of both countries the reciprocal rightsO
natives, and provides that in no case shall higu'so
duties be imposed on exports or imports than are 0%,
in the cases of exports or imports from or to any
country; placing, in fact, trade and navigation re'
ciprocally on the footing of the most favoured natiol3'
While the border athletic sports were being held al
Jedburgh on Saturday, a large portion of one of the
stands gave way, and hundreds of men, women,
children were precipitated to the ground. Great e',l
citement prevailed for some time, as it was belieifs'
that several persons must have been killed. HsPPITI ,
however, there were no fatalities, but a nuncloer
persons were more or less seriously injured.
On Sunday morning, at Potsdam, Princess Willie!'"
of Prussia, wife of the eldest son of the Crown Friel
was safely delivered of a son.—A Berlin telegram le
that Queen Victoria was immediately informed
telegraph of the birth of her Majesty's second greg
grandson, an event which has occasioned general r`
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joicing in Berlin.
At the railway terminus at Cowes on Seturde9
accident occurred which might have been of a seriore
character. The train from Newport to Cowes.,o
disconnected at Mill-hill from the engine, and r• 00
down a slight incline into the station by itself. „b
Saturday evening the train ran into the station tt''ra
more than usual speed, and, dulling against the butrwo
at the end, threw the passengers in the first
carriages into confusion. Several of them were
bruised. The The guard was also injured.
A relic of the British victory at Corunna duritc_eit"
Peninsular War is now on its way to Englsl3`3 jll
bronze cannon lately discovered buried in the
a cove adjoining the town. It is in good preservri'd
and bears the Royal arms, the initials "U. 1 eeel
the motto " Honi Soit," &c., with the ntirop
" OCCOLXXXXI.," and the inscription, " is
King, 1797," supposed to relate to the maker.
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The additions to the Zoological Society 'a ur,",,,,a •
Regent's Park, London, during last week irleittuge,
feline Dourocouli from Columbia, preir.nted "153
H. H. Thiele; an Indian civet from India, Pres'froei
by Capt. Wilson; two squirrel-like phalavgerll iples
Anetr.oa, presented by A. Pretyman ; a
phalan6er from Auetralia, presented by Alr• eete
Dothie ; and Australian crow from Australiat.reo
sented by Mrs. A. H Janarach ; a Nicobar gaga
from the Phillippine Ish,s, presented by gr.,frC.
Low; two common gulls, British, presented by t'_`„titil
W. Jervis Smith; a spotted mud frog from the Poe
cf France, presented by Mr. H. P. Cambridge ii!ffiele
ant bear, twelve Derbian zorures from South °sole, -
two Canadian beavers from Canada, a villain.° a, per'
from North A Lica, a tree boa from South /1113erieeoe'll
chased; a hairy footed jerboa from Arabia, yi ge ;
dwal f jerboa from Algeria, received in exeles
Japanese deer, a hybrid Syrian wild ass, an rev"sbi
pheasant, four Amherst's pheasants, bred
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