The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-12-11 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRIT'S.' AND FOREIGN.

Grid has left directions in her will that her body
shall rest is the vault in which her two eldest girls are laid,
at Pere la Chaise.
Adrt•iral Rolls is seriously ill, he having under
gone a somewhat severe surgical operation without the use of
chloroform.
The shore end of the cable connecting England with
the French Atlantic cable was landed at Salcombe. Devon,
on Friday, the 3rd instant.
Kangaroo sausage is the latest notion that has been
sent to this country from Australia. They are meant to be
of service to the million as cheap food.
The Law Times suggests the probability of a short
winter session of Parliament being held In the event of the
Government resolving on "a vigorous course of action in
Ireland."
The south-eastern section of the East London Rail-
way, which connects Now-cross with Wapping and Shad well,
was formally opened on Monday. This line, which utilizes
the Thames TIME], is about three miles in length.
A decree of the Papal Index, condemning, amongst
other works, "The Pope and the Council by Janus," has been
approved by the Pope.
A novel point WWI raised before the Recorder at the
Liverpool sessions on Tuesday. A publican appealed against
a conviction for selling liquor after twelve o'clock on Satur-
day night. The police, is appeared, found poisons drinking
in the house at ten minutes after twelve o'clock according to
Greenwich time, but it sas pointed out that the natural
time at Liverpool was twelve minutes later than Greenwich
time. The Recorder was of opinion that the natural time
of a plan should be taken, and quashed the conviction.
A trade union riot occurred on 'Monday afternoon
In connecti in with the strike at the Thorncliffe Collieries,
near Barnsley. A collision took place on that day between
the unionist and non-unionist miners, and several of the
latter were somewhat roughly handled. The police, armed
with cutlasses, dispersed the combatants, and found it neces-
sary to remain on duty all night to preserve order.
The Knights iif Malta have just collected a Sum of
itio,ooot to be presented to DA, Pope as a contribution towards
the coat of the Council.
The faithful in France, by way of revenging thorn.
selves upon Father Hyacinthe for his backslidings, have cir-
culated a report that he has gone over to get married to a
ricb Boston widow, and that it is not his intention to return
to France,
In some of the less refined negro tribes in Africa,
when a man dies his body is cut up and sold by auction as
butcher's meat.

Mr. Spurgeon has 80 far recovered from his receent
Illness ea to be able to leave London for Paris ; and it is be-
lieved that he will he enabled to return and occupy his own
pulpit the Sunday before Christwas.
It is Again reported AA a prohsLilitv that the 4.11,111-
acid " wlI ike rmtorml to the ndlitqry Inuids of France
It would be a clever coup dYtat of the Emperor to take pea-
in of the revolutionary air, and thus enli4 1m his shle
all the sympathies awakened by Rouguet do inspired
strains
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Another death from starvation has been before one
of the London coroners. The victim was a steady young
ram who, unable to obtain a livelihood at his trade—that on
a picture moulder—endeavoured to earn something as a hoot
black. Sometimes he was emoted to pick up fouromiee a day,
brit very often he earned nothing. The usual verdict in such
cases was returned.
It is stated that as O'Donovan Rts us has been
advertised in the London Gazette as the nn mber for Tip-
perary, a motion will be made, on the assembling of the
[louse of Commons, that the convict shall take his seat. The
fact is urged that, until Parliament repealed the law dis-
qualifying Jews, the section of Baron Rothschild by the
City of London, was never gazetted The appearance of
issa's name in the Gazette is held by some lawyers to give
hint a prima facie title to a seat in the House of Commons,
and it is said that the House would possess the power to call
him to its bar and to his seat.
Some of the arms in the hands of the volunteern
have ;says The Tilnea;. become indifferent It is likely that
they will he replaced by good Enfield rifles, and that the
Militia will, as far as possible, be armed with Snider's breech-
loaders.
The New York Fat Men's Association have just held
a meeting; President James Fisk in the chair. There are
150 members, 88 of whom have "paid up." The arrange-
ments for the approaching " Fat Men's Ball "were discussed.
Gratulles band, it was announced, ens engaged for the ball,
anti there were to he twenty four regular dances, and two
pieces of music, composed expressly for the Fat Men's Asia-
cation, a polka, redowa and a waltz. A brother thought it
was rather rough to make the fat men waltz, but without
deciding that point the meeting adjourned.
The reduction if telegraph rates in Switzerland fins
proved so profitable to the Government that it is intended
immediately to construct twenty-two new liner.
At Lee's, on Tuesday. Mr. Justice Lush sen-
tenced to ten years' penal servitude a man named William
Ingram who hail been found utility of having laid a long
hoe across the Manchester, she Meld, and Lincolnshire Rail-
way, near the A ales Wood cutting.
"We are requested to state that the announcement
in our impression of the Ist instant of the marriage of Col.
Arthur Need is an entire fabrication."—Pall Mall Gazelle.
An instance of the precocity of Manchester children
has recently occurred. Last week a youth of about eighteen,
eloped with a abl of feurteen, and went to Liverpool. The
girl's father followed, and found them, and took with him his
truant daughter. The pair when found were penniless.
The Schleswig-If olstein affair gave occasion to the
only good not ever recorded of Earl Rusaell. He said
"Only two men ever did understand this question—another
gentleman and I. The other gentleman is dead. He ex-
plained it to me, but 1 have forgotten all about it."
A letter in the Leeds Mercury says that the Cabinet
bas authorized Mr. Forster to draft an education bill—a teak
mmti which the right hon gentleman Is now engaged. It is
not yet decided whether this bill will he introduced during
the coming session, or whether legislation upon the subject
shall be deferred for a year.
A point in etymology was raised at the South Lan-
e shire a.i.29, on Tuesday. A policeman who was examined
as a witness said that one term by which members of the
force were known was that of "copper." Sometimes .he
said) we her a person at she street corner use the expres-
sion, "the copper is ceming." Mr. Justice Allies asked what
the word meant, and after sundry attempts to settle its
derivation, his lordship decided that it came from eapio, I
take.
Toe Prince of Wales and party shot on Earl de
they's tostffe, at Lindriek on Tuesday. The number of guns
was ten, and 1,175 head of game were brought down.
Traupmann, it is stated in feet losing his hardihood,
but, although his nights are extremely agitated, no words
which might enlighten justice escape him during his uneasy
slumbers. The regret this circumstance inspires in France
cannot be otherwise than surprising to us at home who enter-
tain such a holy horror of surprising the confidence of criminals.
Figaro says the unhappy man is now occupying himself with
theoloWcal subjects, and after, doubtless, a mature and dis-
passionate investigation of the matter has declared himself a
free thinker. In that case, adds Figaro, the phalanx of free
thought has gained a recruit who will not long flourish i•-a its
ranks.
A literary association at Berlin has done itself
honour by electing, as as honorary member, Baron von
•fauchnilz of beipsic. This distinguished bookseller repub-
lishes the works of British authors, lint in their native dress;
and, moreover, Baron Bernhard Baron von Tauchnitz is an
honest man, awl insists on paying, and liberally paring.
British authors for a privilege which he might mijoy without
paying a kreutzer. A notable example. American pub-
lishers, please copy.
A setions trade union outrage at Sheffield formed
the subject of a trial at the Leeds assizes on Monday. A man
named Ddvis was charged with having attempted to murder
Sarah Sykes in July last. 51rs. Sykes's husband had taken a
side in a trade dispute at the Manor Colliery, three miles
front Shi Meld, at which the prisoner, a unionist, had been
engine tenter. The prisoner had expressed for the
injured woman, notion the day named, during a disturbance
arising out of Davis's violence, he deliberately shot her with
a revolver. For some time her life was despaired of. Hewes
sentenced to seven years' penal servitude.
About fifteen years ago the judges of Cincinnati,
Ohio, having been appealed to by a lady for admission PI the
bar, decided that there was nothingto render it necessary that
tine" candidate"for such admission should be of the male sex.
The lady, however, failed to pass the preliminary examina-
tion. There have since been several applications made by
ladies to the American law schools for permission to study
in them. The St. Louis law school has been the first to
yield on this point, and there are now two young ladies
among its ;mills, one from St. Louts, the other from
Brooklyn, New York,
O'Donovan ROSEM'S election (in the opinion of the
New lock Tribune) is the most remarkable event in the re-
cent revoluntary manifestations of Ireland. He is elected
from 'I ipperary, the home of a brave, stalwart, patriotic
peasantry, whose act speaks In a very great measure for the
country. It is well the Tribune adds: that Mr. Gladstone
should thus have the Irish question illuminated for him.
Some considerable reforms have just taken place in
educational matters in the canton of Berne. The school-
masters are to have their salaries raised ; the minimum
henceforth will lie 450 francs per annum, with house, garden,
and fire. The masters are required to teach " religion,'
and this requirement led to some controversy. The orthodox
Protestant party demanded that the Christian religion
should be specified, and this was agreed to, but the Govern-
ment succeeded in carrying a conscience clause, which is
made applicable alike to Protestants and to Roman Catholic
schools, as well as to any schools which may happen to
belong to any other religious body.