The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-05-22 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Another endeavour is being made to establish Han-
som cabs in New York, former attempts having failed.
The last stone of the Landsff Cathedral spire has
been erected. The spire is 188 feet high.
The other day, a New York young lady wore a
10,000 dollar lace dress at her wedding.
The well-known thoroughbred race-horse De Conroy,
who won the Jersey St. Leger In ISO?, while en route to
Colerado on the night of the 24th ult., was burnt to death
through the hay in tho box taking fire.
On Sunday morning three cotton mill fires occurred
In Stockport, two of which are believed to be the work of
inceudiaries.
Boston it to put up 20 drinking fountains to aid the
enforcement of the prohibitory liquor law.
A decree against the growth of opium in China
appeared in the Pekin Gazette of the 22nd of January.
Tamberlik, the well-known tenor, has just set up a
large manufactory of fire-arms at Madrid.
Paper petticoats are now sold in London at ca. each!
Imitation cretonnes and chintzes for bed furniture are also
being made of the same material, as well as shoes!
The Countess of Albemarle died at Lyons on Sunday.
lice ladyship was the dau2hter of Sir Coutts Trotter, Bart.,
and she was married to the Earl of Albemarle in 1831.
The Royal Agricultural Society of Nngland are to
hold their meeting in 1870 at Oxford.
A characteristic illustration of French modesty WM
given the other day at an election meeting "What is your
opinion upon religion!" bawled out a constituent to Count
d'Alton thee (a blind man of sixty, who has to be carried to
the tribune whence he speaks!. "I dislike boasting of my
own merits," was the reply, " but 1 have the honour to be
an Atheist, as I declared in 1848."
An appeal to the trades of England has been issued
on behalf of a section of the Preston operatives. The
weavers, it is stated, have agreed to accept the employers'
terms, but the spinners and minders are in the same position
as before, and assistance is implored to enable them to carry
on the struggle. The hands still on strike, " though broken
sod diwirited," are determined, "like Leonidas of old to
fight to the last."
In London, a lady who stated that she was the wife
of a captain In the army, has been fined los, at the West-
minster police-court for being drunk on horseback on Tuesday
evening, arfil "riding to the common danger of the public."

Mr. Wilcox, of Melborune, has prepared a model
illustrative of a method invented by himself for using sub-
merged guns for purposes of naval warfare, by running out
a gun so as to project for a distance of twelve feet from the
vessels side.
A physician in Providence, Rhode Island, estimates
that the people of that city pay 43,000 dollars a year for the
water in their milk.
On Saturday night a brutal murder was committed
In a public-house at Kendal_ Several men were drinking '
together, among whom were John Goodhurn, aged sixty-
three, and a militiaman named Simpson. Goooburn laughed
at some remark made by Simpson, upon which the latter
Sew in a rage at the old man, knocked him down, and kicked
him to death. The rest of the company witnessed the per-
petration of the horrible outrage witimut manifesting the
slightest concern. Simpson has been taken Into ustody.
The mass meeting held last Sunday at Cork was at-
tended by about 500 of the lower classes. The proceedings
ended, ass matter of course, in a fight. Resolutions were
adopted blaming Sir. O'Sullivan for resigning the mayoralty,
and supporting Mr. Nagle, the proprietor of the Cork Herald,
as his successor.
A French lady recently told her husband that if
ever he deceived her she would kill herself. "Pray do not,
my love," responded the husband, "think what a disarrange-
ment it would cause in the house!"

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The Manx newapapers state that the Queen is likely
to visit her subjects in the hie of Man, some time iu August
and add that a baronetage and a kidAthood will be conferred
on the Lieutenant-Governor and the Speaker of the House of
Keys respectively.
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"With characteristic fickleness of purpose, the
Mayor of Cork, dreading the effects of a sea voyage during the
prevalence of north-eastern gales, has abandoned all idea of
the German tour, and, accompanied by his wife, goes into
Lancashire, where some of his relatives reside."—/rish Times.
Mr. Edmond Beales has issued an address to the
electors of St ,fford, especially those belonging to the work-
ing classes, exhorting them to return 'Mr. Odger to Parlia-
ment, and to allow no "miserable class Jealousies" to deprive
them of the opportunity of choosing such a representative.
Mr. Busies states that he has written the address without
any communication with Mr. Odger, and entirely without
his knowledge.

The tv.,a4by natives of Bombay, to mark their esti-
mate of the character of Sir Joseph Amount as a judge,
especially his desire to deal out even-handed justice without
reference to caste or colour, have resolved to institute a
scholarship, to bear his name, in the University of Bombay.
The fasting girl at Ulverston, who, it is said, has
abstained from food since last October, has now commenced
to both eat and talk. She luta, according to rep rt, been
twenty-flee weeks without any solid food mining her lips,
and sixteen witnout having her lips even moistened.
A man tried to shoot too wife in Paris last week,
but the bullet entered her chimon, which was sufficient to
resist its passage into her skull.
The Court of Assizes at Hainaut has just condemned
to death a woman found guilty of murdering a little child
her grandson. No signs of violence were discovered upon a
superficial examination, but a post mortem disclosed the
. presence of two needles in the brain.
Two vessels came into collision off the Copelands,
near 13elfast, on Tuesday morning. The Lord Gough steamer
struck the Marquis ti bercorn, cutting her down, and she
at once began to tiff The passengers were saved, but 200
head of cattle which were on board the Marquis dbercorn
were lost.
A shocking affair took place last Friday on the High
Level Crystal Palace Railway, near Nunhead Cemetery. An
elderly man named Clarke, residing at Peckham, and who
carried on a respectable business, went upon the line, and
deliberately stretched himself with his neck on the rails
before an approaching train. lustead, however, of the train
passing over him, the guard of the engine struck him in the
back of the neck and drove him out of tan way. The blow,
however, injured the spine and produced insensibility, from
which he visa never aroused, and he died on Sunday.
A trade dispute at Bolton has been settled by means
of arbitration. The house carpenters and joiners of the town
had made demands upon their masters which were not con-
ceded, and resisted the proposal of the masters that the sys-
tem of payment by the hour should be introduced. The Re-
corder of the borough, who had treen called in to settle the
questions, met the representatives of nuieters and men, and
fleeted • settlement of the points ill dispute.