The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-04-15 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND PORMN.
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Several cuckoos were heard in the neighboin hood of
London on Sunday morning.
The King of Bavaria has, it is paid, asked in mar-
riage the hand of a Pelee/se of the Muse of lioheurollern.
A correspondent writes to The Times to say that it is
an ascertained tact that the dreadful disease of hydrophobia
Is just as prevalent in cold weather ruin hot.
Lieutenant-Colonel Melville, Bengal Staff Corps,
who was In charge of a topographical survey party, at 0 hash,
and Glare Hills, is dead.
The Alsatian prisoners are being treated. at Berlin as
visitors, and, by order of the Emperor, are being allows the
sights of Perlin.
Last week 2,100 births and 1,492 deaths were regis.
tered In London, 214 of the latter having been from small-
pox.
" The Chancellor of the Exchequer intends to offer
a prize for the beet essay on Strategetic Surprise. is Tax
Lion.' "—Court Journal.
Mrs. Blanchard, recently appointed a justice of the
peace in Maine, te called in her cummisson, "inns A. Blan-
chard, Erg."
The new and fashionable colours in New York are
"Mephistopheles red,"" London smoke," " crocodile purple,'
• alligator grey," and "mouse-oar."
It is stated that Menotti Garibaldi will take part in
the proposed Republican demonstration in Hyde Park next
Sunday.
A young lady, being asked by an enthusiastic poli-
tician which party she was most In favour of, replied that
she preferred a wedding party.
Much anxiety is felt its many parts of the country
on account of the lowness of the water supply, owing to the
dry winter.
The detectives from London did good service on the
Royal Marriage day, but they left themselves, In their real,
totally unprotected, for several of them had all their buttons
cut off by local wage.
Although the sum which has been paid into the
&chequer on account of telegraphs has not reached the
amount of the estimate, the total revenue must have
amounted to £640,793. Not far short of the reckoning.
About 100 ship joiners struck work at Sunderland
on Saturday afternoon for an advance of Gd. a day. Their
wages are now 275. per week. The masters have invited a
conference with the men.
Charles Perdue, who was found guilty, titter trial, In
the Untied States Circuit Court, of the burning of the ship
, Robert Edunedes, when 800 miles from land, has been sen-
tenced to death.
A correspondent says that it is becoming " fashion-
able " at weddings In New York for all the gentlemen
present to kiss the bride; and all the ladles to kiss the
groom.
Another African explorer has appeared, In the per.
son of Mr. 11. hi Stanley, of the Neie York Tlerabl, who has
proceeded from Zuzlhar to erplore the River 'FUJI and the
interior, accompanied by a retinue of 100 men.
The Dublin I:veninq 111,67 asks :—" Who are the
gentlemen who are now daily strolling about the streets of
Dublin in shabby French military unit orms—kepte, long grey
capotes, dirty red baggy trousers, :Lod boots of most informal
cut :"
A Spanish editor of a Havana (Cuba) paper ear,
" General Lacunza, whose death at the hands of the Merl-
curs we have all so deeply mourned, Is now In this city,
engaged In reading the accounts of the execution aud
funeral."
This iota poetic age, and it is evinced in the announce
ment that a Mr. Rom has named his Infant (laughter Wild
linee suppose, however, she should grow up and marry
Mr. Bull, not an uncommon name—she a ould have to drop
the Rose and the sentiment and become Wild Bull
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania has (says
an American paper) recently acquired the manuscripts and
archives of the family of William Penn, a subscription fund
amounting to 5,080 dole, having been raised for their pox.
chase.
As an example of the high price of land In the
county of Clare, it Is stated that a few days ago a tenant from
year to year geld his Interest In a small farm of seven acres,
let at 02 2s, per acre, for .Cl7O, although under the Land Act
Os sennid be entitled to only £7O for disturbance.
A middle-aged man has been fined £1 and costs by
the Devon county magistrates for refusing to make out a
census paper for himself and his child, lie declared that he
knew neither his own name nor his place of birth, and he
would not perjure himself by making • false entry.
William K. Davis, believed to be an American, fell
or leaped from the top of one of the Feryptals. Pyramids
lately and broke his neck. Ills conduct had been so strange
for some days that the probability Is that he intended to
commit suicide.
A clerical joke at the expense of a brother of the
cloth is going the remade. 111, said that a clergyman who
preached In a prison, a Sunday or two since, began his dis-
course in his traditional way by saying, "I am glad, my
friends, to see so many of you here this morning. '
That indefatigable lady, Miss Dye, having well
placed the children she took out with her last summer to
I amera, will return to England In e few days, for the mu,
pose of renewing her benevolent work. Guardians of the
l'oor and others who rney be disposed to co-operate with her
are requested to address their letters to 410, Strand, London
"We give it as a fact that a lady, who with her lord
and muter had advanced In social position considerably
from former times, expressly stipulated with her doctor that
she was to be vaccinated from the lymph taken from a titled
person. She mentioned a neighbour, a countess to whose
lymph she said she would give the preference"—Court
Joernel.
"Why Overton Churchyard was one of the seven
wonders of Wales is little known to this generation. Fifty
year. ago It was a local joke to task the ability of stranger.
to count the yew trees in the churctiyard, seldom accom
pliehed correctly, as there was one on the church tower,"—
Notes and Queries.
Those who look rather coldly upon Canada will be
perhaps astonished to hear that she is the fourth maritime
power in the world, and, according to the " Year Book of
1870." has 7,591 ships, with a tonnage of 559,090 tons. She
stands ahead of every nation except Great Britain, the United
States, and France.
A boy named Crump has been killed at Blllehouse,
near Plymouth, by the bullet of a gun fired In a shooting
gallery going through the target and entering his head. The
evidence at the Inquest showed that the target was defective,
and the jury returned a verdict of hiasslaughter against the.
proprietor.
Mr. Laurence Oliphant, after beinrpresent at twelve
of the recent battles In France, which he deseri bed In the
columns of The 7'intes, mused through L ,ndon on Saturday,
en route once more to America, to resume his strange life In
a strange set of people and things and Ideas, which seem to
have an unaccountable attraction for him.
Mr. James Smith is a little forgetful sometimes.
He counted his chiekens the other night, but could only
make fourteen. " llow I. this 2' he waked hie wife "
thought there were fifteen of them." So there were,"
answered hie wife," but little Sammy was drowned since
then." "Indeed !" said Mr. Jame. Smith, meditatively,
"why, it seems to me I heard of that at the time."
On Good Friday evening, two young women, sinters,
named Mary Jane and Isabella 11111, were pushed off the
platform of the Briton Ferry Station, on the South Wales
branch of the Great Western Railway, where a Large crowd
of excursionists were waiting fov a train. The younger girl
was killed immediately by the wheels of an approaching
engine, and the elder girl died the following day. Evidence
given at the inquests points to considerable Inhumanity on
the part of a guard.
The Cork Herald expressers astonishment at the con.
tinned drain of the population of Ireland, which It says Is
going on as steadily now as in the moat disturbed years,
Queenstown Is already crowded with emigrant., although the
season has only commenced, and it Is expected that before
summer the weekly departures from that port will average
2,000. The people come principally from Clare, 1 ipperary,
Meath, Westmeath, and the King's County.
in her way to England to fulfil her engagements for
the present season, Madame Adelina Patti eerie] not resist
the temptation of accepting the red, el Vedette In
" resents "at the Theltre de la Monnale. Brewers, for the
sum of about £360 for a single night. l'ne 4f place, rose to
251, and the receipts of a full house usually 3,000 f. advanced
to 20.0001. This shows In what estimatiou the fair
cantatrice is held on the Continent. Her reception was most
enthusiastic.
The quarrel among the Fenians in New York grows.
The leolan Conventron offered to the Directory" corn.
posed of the en-prisoners a compromise by which the future
governing body of the Fenian brotherhood shmld be corn.
posed of live of the" Directory " and five ef the Conventton,
but this the sellonovaso R Jess party rejected. The Conven-
tion then unanimously passed a resolution to make no more
overtures. So the Fenians are to have two governments in
this country as usual, with the customary squabbles. There
Is a report that James Stephens, the former "head Centre,
has arrived in New York from France.
At the Worship.street Police-court, in London, a
man has been charged with unlawfully detaining a puppy
from it. owner, end the gist of the inquiry was the identity
of the dog. The claimant said he had lost it [ADO months,
and it then had a tail. The animal alleged to be the same
had no cordal appendage whatever, beside. which a with.=
called to show
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conclusive, and the claimant was nonsulted.
" Matrimony (bona fide). —A young lady (20) of
means wishes to correspond with a young gentleman about
her own age."—" A young gentleman, of good appearance
and £lOO a year, wishes an Introduction to a welleclucated
young lady of amiable disposition, with a view to matri-
mony ; enclose carte In strict confidence."—" A widow
lady, aged no children, of prepossessing appearance,
would be glad to correspond with an honourable gentlemen,
with a view to matrimony • cartes exchanged the strictest
confidence obeerved."—Acvertismente from the Manchester
Examinee and Times.
The Doily Nave Special Correspondent in Eariu
says that conciliation Is being talked of again in guou
earnest ; but that no proposal will be accepted by the
Insurgents which stipulates for the disarming of the
National Guards. Yet M. Jules Fevre has distinctly stated
that they must lay down their arms. According to the same
Correspondent, M. Thlers, In a recent converntioo, again
disclaimed all desire to establish a MonerrMy in France,
Apart from his formal engagements, It mu not likely, he
he urged, that after being the Chief of the Executive Power,
he could consent to be "Ike head olerk of a Ring."
A Correspondent at Rouen says that every train
whieb arrive. there brings fugitives from Pure who
have left thelr homs, in dread of pillage and personal danger,
Public feellug to the town is strongly excited against Pee
Communists, and the Journals warmly favour strong &eel de.
clelve measures for the reseorstioe of order. Nue;eeee eg
French Writer., recently prteonees in Belgium, ere arriving
in Rouen every day, and Mel, ere very heartily welcomed by
the Inhabitants Attu halting for • night they as, sent on
to Venailles. The men, however, are somewhat disconcerted
at being called upon to fight Immediately on their return,
especially as the enemies to be Combatted are their own
countrymen. They are under the belief that the Paris In.
eargents are merely endeavouring to protect the Republic,
and that M. Thief' and the Assembly wish to establish a
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