The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-03-01 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

1 The Prince of Wales was present at a meeting et
the Standing Committee of the Trustees of the British
Nuseum on Saturday morning.
T4l e Rev. C. H. Spurgeon has been suffering for
some .days from rheumatic gout, and was unable to
officiate .on Sunday morning at the Metropolitan
TabernaA
Sir Saul Itamue'l, K.C.M.G., Agent-General for New
South Wales,•has been informed by telegram of the
arrival in Syc',hey o,c the ship Peterborough, which
sailed from Ptymouth :with emigrants in November
last,

A Times telegrali states that a great robbery was
committed at the Calcutta. Exhibition building lass
week, jewellery watli ..El7O being taken from
Ressrs. Eyre and SptttiswoodAr staff: The thief, a
Chinanian, has been artsted at Chanclernagore, and
the greater portion of tle•property recovend.

The Queen's new bo:s1 is being, translated intc,
Gerroanhy the Countess Euphemiat Ballestrem, anct
it will albc, shortly be pvblished int the Tauchnitx
(Leipsic) edition of Englishguthors;
The Standard says that ele speech the Prince'
(If Wales in, the House of orols on Ihiday even-
ing in last week was the Jrst that -ix has- ever.
delivered in that Assembly. Sinn° years ago, in.pre--
senting apetitiom in favour of tae Marriag-i• with they.
Deceased Wife'S. Sister Bill, Ea. expressed: his con—
currence with the prayer of the petition; but made no
lengthened observations on the st-idject.

A bill has-beenittroduced in t?..e. New. Yoryl&Stato
Senate, providing that, in all cities ct 500,000 cfl-moro.
inhabitants; telegraph wires and cal!.ths of all dtscrip--
tions shall be placed artklerground gfore .Nbverinber;-
1685.

Mr. .Salmi litoree,•wan. failed in ti IJr and(invour to
introduce the Passion, Flay into Ns-AA V.ork, being:
overwhelmed by misfe-rtnne, has drow/edi himself in)
East River, The body has been foAndi The de—
ceased was a native- of .sorwich, in Rivand; and',
aged 53.
According to inttiligey_v3l. received fronoSt.- Deters--
bury, sixteen persons ha- been banisheil from that:
city 'by, order of the pollee authorities since th@.
commencement of January.ineluding!lime Win—
nizkaja, the well-known. zutboress. The Ffefect oF
intry,sswermi-,Thi
has been arrested, eliargeir with lOelonging tnethef
Socialist' party,

The other morning the stk.—vie-of St. Mary's eltureti;,
Kidwelly, Carnarvonshire, wag ctruck by lieitiaing;
and much damage was done 3otli•t; the edifice-and:to.
the houses-immediately around:it:-
According to a Parliamentzry. return which has,
been printed giving an• account) of receipts and pay—
ments by the Postmaster-Genera in respect of tele—
graph undertakings, extensionsi. Eia., for the yoarr
ended March 31, 1883, the receipts on the telegraph.
capital account from the commencement to March 31,.
1883, amounted to £10,131,073. Me -balance remain—
ing at the disposal of the Postmaittfr,,General on the-
above-mentioned date was £ll;4=

At Boltchinsk, a village in the Dbn.(Tbssack country,.
has occurred a serious agrarian ontrege. A crowd or
discontented peasants attacked ths•establishment of a,
sheep farmer thererand were firedlup6nseveral being
killed:
James - Newton, ttie oldest Freemasomin England.,
died at Richmond, Y3rkshire, very sudflenly on Friday
in last week. For' fifty-seven years deceased was-
" Tyler" to the Masonic brethren; having been-
appointed in 1827, when the Duke of Sussex visited'
Richmond. For many years he worked with the.
renowned Matthew, Greathead, the centtnarian, who.
died in his 102nd year. Deceased. NrUft. in his 89th+
year.

Notwithstanding the bad weather wiiich has-lately
prevailed in the Atlantic some of the large Atianticr
steamers specially adapted for the trade continue to,
deliver their cattle in splendid condition and with,
remarkable immunity from loss. The last five ar,--
rivals of the Monarch Line have, POI- emmple,,
resulted as follows: Oatfle shipped, 2335; landed
in good condition, 2331; t..e loss being- only about
-
ono in 600.
In the London Gazette of Feb. 9ncl, notice is-givert
that by-section 106 of the Pttent, Designs, and Trade-
Marks-Ad, 1883 (46 and 4T Victoria, <sap. 57), a.
penalty of £2O is incurred by any persons who, with.-
out proper authority, assume the Royal Ikuns with a.
view. to lead other persons to believe that they &re-
employed under any ilepartment of. her. Majestle,
Household.

It has been decided at She .:eld to ereot & building
in Weston-park, at a cost of notless than £1'5,000, to
accommodate the collection of paintings, value.
£BO,OOO, recently left to the town by the Tate Mr-
Mappin, of Birchlands. The Ihnlding will' be erected
so as to admit of extension, with a- view to, other
bequests.

In London, on Saturday, at Police—
court, Lilian Murray, Ovington-gardens, was remanded
on, the charge of murderouslr assaulting Edward
Lyons, a broker's man, by beating him with a poker.
It appeared that both the prosecutor and the prisoner
were under the influence of drimk at the dine.

Mr. Gladstone, in response to the request of the
Bangor Liberal Club for a piece of timber to be
utilised in. framing his portrait, has forwarded a
portion of slime tree which he felled in Hawarden-
park.
The son of a Congleton farmer named' Hodkinson
has committed suicide on the North Staffordshire
Railway, by placing his neck on one of the rails ii
front of a train. His head was cut ofFand carried a
zonsiderablo distance from the body.
The Novoe Vremya publishes intelligence from Tash-
kend, stating that a number of tribes from the neutral
territory. between Russian territory and Afghanistan
have soliated the protectorate of Russia:
The King of the Belgians, on granting his patron-
age to the Antwerp Exhibition, promised some exhibits
from the Congo.
Fever is reported to prevail in Southern ;irtai,a.. The
number of victims is said to be ali.eady many
thousands.

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The report is again current—and this time-, iL
believed, on good authority—that Dr. Oliver Wendell
Holmes intends to visit England shortly. He is novr
at work upon a catalogue of his correspondence and
miscellaneous papers.
The original MS. of Anthony Trollepe's "Orley
Farm" has been purchased by Messrs. Scribner and
Welford, of New York. It consists of about 1200-
pages of note-paper, closely written on both sides,
tn a free running hand, with few corzeations or inter-.
lineations.

The profits accruing from the sale of the English
edition of "The Letters of the Princess Alice," will,
it is stated, be set aside by the Princess Christian for
the endowment of the Princess Alice Memorial Hos-
pital in Darmstadt.
During the year 1883 there were 89,526 persons in
Ireland proceeded against summarily for being drunk,
ar drunk and disorderly. Of this number 26,022-
belonged, to Leinster, 25,848 to Munster, 26,919 to
Ulster, and 10,737 to Connaught.
Leon Farrell, who gave evidence in the recent
charge against two men, named Woolf and Bon-
durand, on the charge of being in the possession of
explosives for unlawful purposes, is now in custody in
London on a warrant charging him with having com-
mitted perjury in his evidence given in the above case.
The charge is preferred by William Woolf.
An address has been sent by the Working Men's
Lord's Day Rest Association, to trades unions through-
out the country calling attention to the increase of
Sunday labour. It concludes by an appeal to the
trades unionists of the country to resist the proposals._
to open museums, galleries, and places of amusement
on Sundays, as such opening cannot possibly be carried
out without bringing into operation a great iriereaso
of Sunday labour and depriving many working men of
their day of rest.
The sudden death is announced of M. Auguste
BoAhcia, brother of Rows lionheur, hi/near a very
eminent animal painter. He died from heart dis-
ease in a railway train near Bellevue, aged 60.
Direct telephonic communication has been success-
fully established between the Carlton Club and the
House of Commons.
It has been stated that Messrs. E. De Mattes and
Co., of London, have purchased the Great Eastern
steamer with the intention of converting her into a
coal hulk, to be at Gibraltar. The Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs has granted permission to secure
her near the Rock.

Four of the crew of the ship Santa Rosa, of Liver-
pool, from Glasgow for Valparaiso with general cargo,
were drowned under the following circumstances:
The Santa Rosa left Glasgow on the 7th, and on the
following day, while engaged securing the anchor, the
chief officer fell overboard and was drowned. On the
16th, during a terrific gale off the Irish coast, three
men were washed overboard and the decks of the
vessel were swept by the seas.
The arrivals of live stock and fresh meat at 'Liver-
pool during last week from American and Canadian
ports amounted to 1040 cattle, 1422 sheep, 2466
quarters of beef, 519 carcases of mutton, and 50 hogs,
which show an increase in the imports of live stock,
but a further falling off in fresh beef when compared
with previous week's arrival. The conveying steamers
were five in number.
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Medical College, for each of which they received 15
dols. The affair occurred last week. No blame in
the matter is attributable to the college authorities.
The additions to the Zoological Society's Gardens,
Regent's Park, London, during last week included a.
Macaque monkey, from India, presented by Miss
Furniss ; two common roe, from Dorsctshire, pre-
sented by Messrs. Charles Hambro and J. C. Mansel
Pleydell; a Passerine owl, European,Tresented by
Mr. G. R. Lake; a naked-necked iguana, a banded
basilisk, from Nicaragua, presented by Mr. Albert
Vidler ; two prairie iparmote, from North America, a
Shaw's gerille, from North Africa, a military macaw,
from South America, two Iceland falcons, from
Sweden, deposited ; a red-eared monkey, from
Fernando Po, two slow loris, from the Malay
Countries, a red-eyed ground finch, from South
America, an eyebrowed weaver bird, from West
Africa four Asiatic quails. from India. nurchaserl. ,
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