The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-03-06 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

General Grant is opposed to the reduction of the
United States army excepting by absorption.

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The Emp,ror of China 1B not apt to be sick long at
a time, became the very moment he is " taken "he stops the
pay of hii four doctors.

The text of the Iriih Church Bill contains GI
chuseg, occupying 28 pages, four ef which consist of an in-
dex of the louses.

The population of London, living on an area of 122
square miles, s.au estimated in the middle of 1868 at
3,126,635.

At the Warwick assizes on Tuesday, Richard Cooper,
an engraver, residing at Birmingham, was indioted for
attempting to strangle his son, six years of age. The
prisoner hung his son to an anvil, then went out mid told •
neighbour. With difficulty the boy's life was saved. The
jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced to Ilse
years' penal servitude.

The bill introduced by Mr. Sykes for the preserve.
tion of seabirds has been printed it provides that any
person who shad !ill, or w und, or capon T or Use any
Wcapoll, net, .1. tither instruno lit br the purpose of kdling
sea birds between the 14 of May and the lot of August,
shall be liable on conviction to a penalty of not mole than
£1 and costs. rate Act. is not, how ever, to extend to sea
lords killed or taken Lorin fide for the purpose of food. All
offences mentioned n the Act couininted within the Ad
Miralty jut isdiztiou ide to he held as committed on lend in
England, but the Act is only to apply to Urea& initidn.

An Ohio farmer, aged seventy, having attempted
to mar y a girl of aixteen, his children had hull a.rrem.vd for
insanity.
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A Philadelphia reporter apologises for the coarseness
of his language, he says, by the gold pen with
which he was writing having been lately used to open
oysters.

Why are Sedate Old Maids like some of the best
qualities ~f the Spn,dh soldier Becalm they are found in
gentral MlL—Punch.

The official correspondence respecting the rupture of
diphonale relations between Turkey and Greece has been
presented to Parliament In this collection p ere are 209
separate despatches, besides inclosures ranging in date from
the 25th of Last November to the gird ult.

The sale of the Crown diamonds deposited in the
Bank of Spain is talked of, the proceeds to be applicd td
public works.

The authorities of Mr. Goldwin Smith's University
at Ithaca, havmg discussed the question of admitting women,
hvedecoted not to do so.

"The notion of Protestantism in Spain is almost as
fantastic aa that of rain in Egypt, or a clear sky in London."
—Tablet.

There have been several prosecutions and convic-
tions in London for the sale of indecent valentines, and one
stationer was sent to prison for ten daps for exposing in-
done it valentines.

At a Chester penny reading, the other night, just as
a reader came to the lines In Tvnntaon's Dee, " ho e
child is that? Whit is it doing here?" a baby screamed,
much to the anms meat of the au hence, but to the disortn-
fl I ure of the mother, who, no doubt, thought the question
personal.

The New York lines of the 17th ult. says that,
according to a Washington correspondent, Mr. Ravingly
Johnson will shortly avail himself of a leave of absence
granted to him by Mr. Seward, and return to tie united
States.
The Boston Common Council, the Boston Journal
says, is about to settle by resolution the long-mooted ques-
tion where Homer was bunt

The death of M. Troplong, the President of
the French Senate, who had for some days previously been
In a very critical state, has taken place. M. Trot,long early
In life obtained distinction and advancement by his legai
writings, and succeeded ill keeping on good terms with the
various Governments which have rub d France during the
last thirty years. With that of the present Emperor he was
an especial favourite. M. Troplong was lions is 179.5, and
was thus 74 years of age at the time of his death.
The attention of the officers of the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has been called, and
apparently not too soon, to the mode in which the poultry
trade with Ireland is carried on by souse persons in this
country. On Saturday, two men were charged at a London
police-court for causing the ill-treatment of a number of
ducks and geese which were consigned from Dublin to
Loudon It appear, d that 10 ducks and geese were packed
into live crates, measuring 6 feet by 2 feet 6 inches, and
the poor creatures were tound to be in a wretched con-
dition on their arrival. The magistrate took time to consider
his decision.

Mr. Purdy's return issued on Tuesday shows that
the number of paupers in England and Wales (except
lunatic paupers in asylums and vagrants), in receipt ot relief
co the hist day of the fourth week of December was 987,621,
the corresponding number for the previous year being
980,421. There is, therefore, an increase of 7,200, or at the
rate of 01 per cent.

A supplementary estimate was issued on Wednes-
day for £3,600,000 as "the further mm required to be voted
towards oefraying the expenses of the expedition to Abys-
sinia, beyond the ordinary grants of Parliament for army and
navy services."
Mr. Leatharm has given notice that on Tuesday, the
16th March, he will call the attention of the House to the ex-
pediency of taking votes by ballot at Parliamentary elections,
and move a resolution with a view to inquiry upon the sub-
ject. Sir Henry Eniwer has given notice that he will move
a resolution in favour of adopting vote by ballot for the
future election of members of Null:meld.

An undergraduate of Wadham ('ollege, Oxford,
than writes to the Rack:—" I should like, through the
medium of your wide circulation, to call attention to the
alarming aspect Ritualiam is taking among the Oxford under-
graduates. My own college used always to lie considered one
of the most evangelical, but I am compelled to admit that it
is now rapidly changing for he worse.
A London Gazette extraordinary was issued on Mon-
day night, announcing the safe aceouchementof the Princess
Helena I:.ri..cess Christian), at Froginore Rouse, on the 26th
February, at six o'clock in the morning.
A livery stable keeper, io New York, cal s his
establishment the "Hotel de Horse.'
The Pioneer, in publishing a telegram of English
news received in India last month, remarks:—" the follow-
ing item entitles the telegraphic department to our grati-
tude Only elecjed green price apricot relinquished Scott
favour of Ilartin7on." —Probably meaning that Mr. Green
Free had retired from the Radnor boroughs in favour of
Lord Martinet..
The Great Northern, the Midland, and several
other railway companies have signified their intention of
discontinuing the payment of church rates, in consequence
of the passing of the Compulsory Church-rates Abolition
,sct,lstia
A committee has been formed in London for the
purpose of taking inimediate action for the exemt lion of
Sunday and Ragged Schools from the poor rates. The draft
of a bill to be presented to Parliament has been prepared
and steps are being taken to get petitions ready for general
signature.
The Wisconsin Aasembly has passed a resolution
"to promote good morals by prohibiting the chewing of
tobacco in the Assembly Chamber."
The intended purchase of the telegraphs by the
Government has had a sudden and most beneficial effect on
the prosperity of the companies. Not only have their shares
risen hi value, some of them twofold and others even four-
fold, but the ordinary revenue of the companies appears
also to have undergone a is markahle development, which is
all the more astonishing in comparison with tbo general de-
pression of trade.
A woman was charged a few days ago, at Cork, with
bigamy. Ten years ago, when fifteen years of age, she married
a Moll named -nllivan. At the end of eighteen mouths they
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Be, ;rated, and she did not bear of bins for five years. The
girl then manned a militia ierjeant. The other day Sullivan
was found tinder an assumed cams In Cork workhouse. The
magistrites, having elicited the facts of the Cull., ithmissed
the charge.
In an article on the functions of the House of Lonls,
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the Saturday Review Elt)s that the Lords my toossib y
re-
reoeot some cla,ses in
._England, hut they do eot reprelnt
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the classes in which the motive power Cif change resides.
They are thus necessarily cut out of the sphere of legisla-
tion, and every day their exclusion becomes more complete.

Oa Saturday (ate of a nyw clmw of verwels for

the English navy was launched at the Thames Ironworks,
Blackwell. The Volnge is an iron-plated vessel of the
Alabama type, having great swiftness, but carrying only two
or three powerful guns. The ceremony of christening was
performed by Miss it, daughter of the Chief Omstructor
of the Navy, and the vessel received the approval and
admiration ,1 a large party of scientific men. A sister vessel
let,, he laidu hell,, a few weeks, t 3 be called "the Active."

A tnan and his wife, who have hitherto occupied
respeetaiiie positions, the former having been a clerk in a

stationer's establishment, while the latter possessed several
hundred pounds' worth of landed property, have bee
ihdieted at tie Surrey Sessions for having neglected the
children of the husband by his first wife. Each of the
prisonere was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment
with hard late mr.

The Salt Lake Dail!, Telegraph invites strangers to
visit Utah, eat strawberries and apples, and adds—' You
need not have more than one wife if you tlon't want to.
There's no compulsion about it.
At Tours, the other day, a retired hanker of that
city, suspecting something wrong, went down to his wife's
room in the morning with a loaded gun, and shot her dead;
her paramour escaped.
The deaths in London last week were 1,419, or 166
less than the estimated number. The mean temperature of
the week was 4 n, or 15 above the average of the last fifty
years.
A Southern paper says —"if: the Street Com-
missioner delays its removal much longer, the dead
dog at the corner of Capital-street will dry up and blow
away."

On Tuesday the Repinn left Gravesend for Brisbane,
having on board a valuable shipment of pure bred shorthorn
cattle, consisting of a yearling bull and three two-year-old
heifers, selected by Mr Thornton from the principal herds in
this country. as representatives of the three leading strains
of fashionable blood.
It happens every year that some useful measures
are showed to lapse because there is not time to carry them
through before the close of the session. The Marquis of
Salisbury has brought in a bill to remedy this by allowing
the proceedings to be resumed in the next session, notwith-
standing the prorogation 01 Parliament. The consent of
the Crown must first be obtained, and the house in u hich the
proceedings oil the bill were suspended must pass a reso-
lution to the effect that it is expedient that the proceedings
should be resumed.

Very gloomy accounts are given of the condition of
the Lancashire cotton-manufacturing districts. A large
number if mills are wholly or partially idle, the employers
In many cases are becoming embarrassed, and the opera-
tives are reduced to distress by the prolonged absence of
work.

"A young man wishes to marry a young widow in
public line "---" Ay , 11l ,g lady, well educated, wishes to
correspond with a young gentleman."—Advertisements in
Manchester EnTraitur.

Death has been busy amongat the members of the
new Para anent. To the number of peers who have already
died linnet W.n he added the name on Lord Wyn ford who
expired on sunday in the 72nd year of Ms age. The deaths
of five peers and five members of the House of Commons
have thu. hems recorded bet de the Parliament which met in
December last is three months old. Inn contrat t with this it
may be stated that last ye4r up to the time of the dnaolution
on the lith of November, only six members of the old klouse
of Commons had been removed by death.

In an action of ejectment, heard in the Exchequer
Court of Dublin, last week, an amusing affidavit of the pro-
cess server was produced, stating that he delivered a copy
of the summons and plaint to the defendant's wife outside
the door of her house, the defendant having locked himself
Inside; that the wife threw the document on the ground.
and refused to take it; and that the deponent then pushed
It into the house through a broken pane of glass, the de.
fendant shouting front inside, "It is the laurels you served
and not me," meaning some laurels that were growing nea
the house. His lordship held the service to be good.
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It is evident that Dr. Wordsworth, the newly.
appointed Bishop of Lincoln, will enter upon the duties of
his office with a full sense of the responsibility he has
undertaken. In the Upper House of Convonition, on
Friday, Or. Wordsworth announced, with solemn emphasis,
that held, the necesmt% 01 a suffragan or coadjutor Bishop
in his di tees. Or. 1% ordsworth had been consecrated only
two days previously, and had not, even as Bishop, visited
his diocese.

: The perfervid membeni of the Glasgow Pr testant
Alliance nave succeeded in r ailing a" convent case' in the
, west of Scoland. A lottery on behalf of a Roman Catholic
Orphanage was announced lately try the Sisters of Charity at
Lanark, but just as all the arrangements were completed,
an "interdict" was procured and an abrupt stop was pm to
the proceedings The Crown prosecutor ',met his applica-
tion for an interdict on a host of Acts of Parliament, both
old and new.
"More prisoners in Abyssinia," is the alarming
title of a letter which appears in Monday's Times. We are
reminded by an Armenian that the Archbishop Isaac of Je-
rnealemz4 his companions have not yet returned from the
misOon s web they undertook to King Theodore on behalf of
the Chi istian captives; and a letter which has been received
from them states that they are detained, under circum-
stances of great privation by the Wagshimi Gobarye. The
Archbishop is greatly duatusted with the Abyssiniaas who, he
: say s, are quite improperly named Christians, for they respect
neither the Alumnae nor the bishops nor the priests
Some months since the Rev, G. R. Adam, the in-
cumbent of St Mar's, Killnirn, where Ritualist observances
were developed to their full extent, died, and the patron
the Ron. A. Upton; appointed the Rev. A. Kennion, a pro-
nounced Evangelical. The old congregation at once left
the church, and formed themselves into a "St. Augustine's
Mission." They also took steps for erecting a church in the
adjacent district of Holy Trinity, the incumbent of which,
the Rev. 0. Despard, liar. Evangelical, and of course opposed
to the new comers establishing themselves in his parish.
Under these circumstances the Evangelicals propose to erect
a new church, dedicated to it. John the hang, lint, In
Trinity dflair et, and they annouece that the incumbent of
Triiiity has been allow el &ail the lit of September next to
ovnie a site and ilie requuete fluids to commence the erec-
tion of the new church; sod to he event of his success tile
promoters of the St. Augustine's blissi. n will not he allowed ,
to proceed wita, their plans A site has been pr-mired, and '
coutriOutioin to the amount of £1.500, but £3,000 more will
be required by the lit if September. It is proposed to vest '
the patronage of the new church In the event of it., erection;
In the hands oi trustees, au 1 the Rev. R. D. Cocking, %LA.,
has been named WI use first incumbent.

Barnsley has been elevated to the dignity uf a ear-
porstiou

liava is has just suppressed the monopoly of salt,
with a view t, the interest of agriculture.
The annual number of passengers through ths
Thames Tunnel has averaged for the past live years 1,000 WO
a year at hi. each.
The grand jury at Drogheda have fund an fisdieb
tuent for manslaughter against Rumble, the soldier who shot
one of the moli in the late election.
The Norfolk Chamber of Agriculture adopted a
resolution on Saturday declaring that iii. eipedi, in that
there should be a distinct depintineut of agriculture, over
winch a permanent secretary should preside.
The Levant Herald states that a palace is heing
prepared nu Constantinople for the reception of the Prmee
and Princess of Wales, and that they still be the guess of
the Sultan during their stay.

A new French newspaper promiaes as a price allnpg
Its young lady subscribers a marriage portion; and as a prise
to all elderly nude subscribers is promised a dooming ale,
who shall excel in warming the bed--with a waribingpal,.
Referring to a correspondence as to the charities of
the late Archbishop la hately, a correspondent sass--.• I heg
to tell yen the f, 'flowing anecdote evening, at a S,.emt
Science meeting at the late Provost's, a knot, of no had
nib-
cussion upon street beichig. 'he archbishop, Who wane',
opposed it, suddenly endeavoured V. enforce his argument
by saying, • Well, since I have been Archbishop of Duldm. I
have given upwards of £50., 00 in charity, but never even a
shilling to a beggar in the sti eets
Kachekalayana Rungappo Kaiaks Tola °Misr, r,
Kachivijaya Rougappo kaiak& Tole Oodiar" is the title of •
cause that has been before the Court of Common Pleas

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The report of the Commisgioners f National Educa-
tion in Ireland for the year 1067 has been Issued. From mi.
document it appears that, as compared with 1066, there
seas an increase of 67 In the number of schools in operatioot.
and a total increase lii the number of pupils on the 1,11, of
2,379. A still more satisfactory announc• molt is, that there
had been an increase in the average daily attendance of
5,458_

On the " leather cockade" question, a gentleman
writea to the New rock Post I use them to distinguish
my coachman's hat from my own. We are both good-looking
men ; we both wear ten doll, hats, and when we go out for
a drive in the park I think it due to myself that the puling
should know who owns the carriage and who drives It."

"A horrible profanation of religion took place at
Venice during the last days of l'arnival. A party of young
men, dressed as priests, went to the cafe, and, opening a
packet of hosts, proceeded to give a burlesque of Holy cow.
mullion, with the most blasphemous insults and jests, in
which the bystanders joined."—Tablet.

A bill of great importance to agriculturists is about
to he submitted to the 'louse 44 ce,enems. It is entitled,
.• The Adulteration of Seeds Act, 1069," and it enacts penal-
ties for the adulteration of seeds-8 process which, it ap-
pears, has been carried on to a serious extent, both to the
prejudice of honourable teed merchants and the injury
farmers.
The Hampshire grand jury ignored the bill against
the man Thompson, who was indicted for blasphemy under
circumstances which were reported some time soce,
son hat distributed tracts setting forth the claims of some•
Isdy to be considered as the Messiah, and this was the
blasphemy complained of. A clergyman was the prosecutor.
A Providence (Rhode Island) paper announces that
a rope-walker will begin on the tat 4 Tune the feat of pro,
pelting a velocipede 3,000 miles in 30 days, averaging MO
miles a day, fir a wager of 5,000 dollars During the trip he
is to rite the velocipede 150 miles in 24 hours, and only one
trial will be allowed.
Seven cases of illness, caused by eating pork affected
with trichina spirolis, have occurred in New 1 ark city, two
of them proving fatal. This reappearance of the dreaded
disease has caused some alarm.

The body of J. Wilkes Booth, the murderer of Pre-
tideut Lincoln, has been given up to his friends, and will
be interred in Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore, near the
grave of his father, Junius Brut rs Booth

Captain A. W. Fulke Greville-Nugent, member for
the county of Westmeath, and one of the Grooms in Waiting
to her Majesty, has accepted the office of Assistant Whip.
The Rev. Glyd White, of Ewelme, died on Sunday
night, at Canon Payne Smith's, Christ Church, Oxford, from
a fall down a flight of steps, on Friday in last week. An in-
quest has hero held, when a verdict of "Accidental death"
was returned. The deceased was Si years of age.

So large was the amount voluntarily sent in to the
committee for securing the election and re-election of Mr.
Gladstone for Greenwich, that it has been determined to re-
turn to sula.criorrs of ros. and others three-sevenths of their
contributions.

Dr. NFlaton, of Paris, has just extracted an eye,
with the aid of chloroform, from M de Mot tertian, will, was
threatened with total hlinduess. It is hoped that the skirt
of the other eye, which was in danger from " sympathy "
with its diseased companion, may now he preserved.
It is announced from Vienna that the ex-King of
Hanover has sent afresh protest to all the German Sovereigns
against 1,1,13 law contl,cating his private property, recently
adopted by the Prussian Diet.

Mr. Edwards, the ofdic.al assismee in bankruptcy in
the Court of Commissioner Holroyd, has been dismissed
from his post by an order from the Lord Chancellor, "ho
stated that he felt nnnpelled to take the step in considera-
tion f Mr. Edwards haviog deliberately violated the sth
section of the Act of 1861, whereby official assignees are for-
lilt en to hold any other Mike, or to follow any business, on
pain of dismissal.
Two small Greek vessels, hound trom Paxos to
Corfu, with marble and Indian corn, were fallen in with
during the night of the 12th of C. bruary, four miles ~ff
Marto, by two vessels, each manned by six men, who towed
the Greek vessels into a neighbouring creek, and plundeied
the crews and passengers of all their money and then left
their.

In Boston an ambitious acrobat assumes as an op
peliation, " artist of agility."

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Hat boxes are placed under the seats in a new San
Francisco theatre.

The Court of Queen's Bench, owing to the protracted
Starr and Samba trial, has been called " ne Star Chamber."
The United States Ilouse of Representatives have
resolved, by 140 votes against 33. to confirm the Senate's con-
stitutional amendment prohibiting any distinction of lace,
colour, nativity, propel ty, education, or creed in regard to
the suffrage.

" The pious Abbess l'ilakrina, better known to your
English readers as the Altbekg of Minsk. has been called to
the reward of her long sufferings. During the latter yeai sof
her life she was unable to descend corn to the parlour Id the
convent of Basilian nuns of which she was mperioress, ml
she died last Thursday evening the death of a saint, as she
had lived the life of a confessor of the faith. Ihe Italy
Father sent her his special blessing and the last indulgeece
just before she expired."-7'ablet.
A Boston firm has received an order from China for
600 cases of boots and shoes—probably the first consignment
of the kind ever sent to that country. The goods orilered
I are of a cheap class, and it is intended to introduce them
I among the natives generally.
Lord Leigh met with a somewhat severe accident
while Minting with the North Warwickshire hound- at
K enil worth last Friday. His horse, stepping Into a newly.
covered drain, threw his lordship, who fell with tormon his
head and shoulder. A slight COliCllB-4.11 of the brain ensued.
His lordship was removed in a carriage to Stoneleigh Abbey,
where he is making the most favourable progress.
At a sale of rare coins in Glasgow the other day, a
Queen Anne farthing was mid tor one guinea.
The Paris Society for the Protection of liable,
awards prizes to the most careful nurse, and to the fattest
and healthiest baby.
Why does the commerce of our country, as repre-
sented by the Gladstone Ministry, present a strange ano-
maly I—Because though our Trade is Bright, our Exchetmer
is Lowe.—Puitch.
The Naval Committee of the United States House
of Representatives reported on the 12th of February a bill to
pay to Commodore Winslow and the officers and craw of the
war steamer Kea rsarge the sum of 190,0 0 ilola. as prize
money, that sum being the estimated value of the A b,bo tna,
which was destroyed by the K,armrsrye. An amemlnn-lit was
adopted provic hug that no pant (it the money should he paid
to an assignee oh any mariner, and the bill was pasted.
The Tablet denies that the Duke of Norfolk is about
to become an Irvingite. He remains a devout Calla,.
The army estimates, which havenow been published,
show an actual net reduction of £1,098.000, from the nal
granted by the House of Commons last year. In the ensuing
, year the cost of the effective service will not exceed
£10,834,000. There is to be a reduction of 11,121 in the
numerical strength of the army ; and of this by far the
larger proportion will fall upon the infantry regiments
From a parliamentary return, which was i-sued on
Monday, It appears that the military expert& g e in the
colonies durieg the current year will be £2,tBlJ,BBlr mr bile the
repayment to the British Exchequer will amount to only
£4152,100.
The navy estimates were published last Saturday,
and show that the sum required for the service of the
coming financial pearls £9,900 641. The actual net deermae,
as contpared with the estimates of last year, is f. 927,351.-
Of all the items of charge for the effective service, medicine
and medical stores alone exhibit a trifling exce&s ; in all
the other departments there is to be a diminution of
expenditure
The Bishop's Stortford, Dunmow, and Braintree
Railway—as to which there was so much diseugion a few
months since between Lord Retiesdale, Mr. Bramiey, Mr.
Bidder, and otters—has at last been opened nor train It
has cost the Great Eastern ric her more than £lOO,OOO Its
length in eighteen stiles, so that the cost would not be exces-
sive if the tli,triut were good for asythisg from a traffic
, point of view. But only two train. are to be run each way
daily. As Led rsalialrury printed out last week the present
Great Eastern board arenas responsible for the making of the
line.
A new fashion is springing up in Paris, that of
adding the "last words" of time deceased on the tombstone.
At ! Mon Dieu ! is the mgt frequently employed phrase ;
sometimes, as. rem& and adieu. Others am political,
some martial, and not a few irreverent to English ears at all
events.

A man who wan shooting "for fun" in Colorado,
recently shot au individual, who he says unfortunately
popped his head round a corner and sti tick the bullet.

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We are glad to learn from an amusing dialogue in
La Vie Parisienne that the necessity of classifying French
novels has at last been recognisad. A lady entering a
circulating library asks for a novel: " I don't know how to
tell you exactly the kimi I want," she says. "flit, I think we
shall be able to suit you," was the reply. "1 mean some-
thing lively," explains the intending reader; the sort of
book that would not he recisely suitable for the library of
a young girl " " Marie," cries the keeper of the book-shop
to her assistant, "novel for a woman of thirty-five."
There are now 75,000 invalid pensioners and 92,000
widows and orphans on the national pension pay roll of the
United States.
The editor of the Vicksburg Timm says :—" We have
before us invitations to a private musical soirée, a cock-
fight, and a we, ding"

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The Bavarian Minister of War has demanded from
the Chamoer a credit of 4,00,001, florins for io-w bleach-
loading rifles. In the course of his explanations he illiMmed
the house that the Dreyse system (Prussian needle-gun, had
been rejected.

The Permissive Prohibitory Liquor Law Pill,
brought in by Sir W. Lawson, Air Basle), and Mr. Dula Ay,
contains eleven clauses. It provides that on a requisitioa
from the ratepasers (number not specided the Mayor or
Overseers of the Poor shall give notices of the day 01 polling.
and eh sll cause notices to he celivel ed at the toter?
residences three days beiore the polling. These papers
having been collected and scrutirosed, a majority of two,
thirds shall determine the adopt on of the Act. Ratepayers
Only are to be the voters; end the fabric:idol] of voting
papers or the personation of 1 oters is to entail three months'
imprisonment. There shall Mot he two attempts to adopt
the Act made in the same year ; and after three years front
the adoption of the Act the ,terayers way reconsider the
quest ion. The effect of the Ac c-levier it may be adopted
a-ill be to prevent the ors ation or renirs al of 11C0111.11 for
the sale of alcoholic or linos:eating drinks within the Mutts
of the borough or parish

"A discussion has been going on about 'Flying
Childers.' This is not a nickname of the First Lord of the
Admiralty, as might be imagined from the great speed with
which he swooped down on the unfortunate clerks in his
office, and the rapid road to economy which he attempted_
' Flying Childers was a celebrated Caere. Mr. Chillers' am-
bition is, by striking out no many items of expenditure, to be
a celebrated eraser"— Tomahawk.
Daring the early part of last week, a blind man
denim,. 41 alms 4. the Pont Neu:, in Paris, whining lament
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aid) :—" Have p.ty 011 au unhappy blii,d man, hither of two
children." A fcw days subs-quently he was 1.. idtenda me at
the railway s at.on of Aanieres, soiddids mournful.) ' Have
pity on an unl. ,ppy blind man, father ,d lour oh hirer.,"
"What? you have then two children since last weelir
demanded one of the passengera who had relieved him in
Paris. No, sir ; hut in Pans the living eso dear that two
children mu sufficient to excite pity ; in the L.i onny I am
forced to have at least four, and even then !Lase stwi
trouble to make both ends meet.