The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-08-14 00:00:00

The New, York Herald has made arrangements to
have an account of the international boat race, to the extent
of • column, sent over the woe day, by the Atlantic cable.
A farmer's wife in Scot.nd (Stratli..peir ) was last
week watching het Iwrlllve. One of the inseets stung her
nose, and she died within a few minutes.
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The old historical 'Temple Parte," near Y' ow to
Virgirda, upon which Lord Cornwallis senreiniered foroes
and signed the articles of capitta .... , has just been sold by
public auction. It Co, talus form 400 to 500 acres, and is said
to he one of the hesl cultivated farms in that portion of the
state. It brought 8,006 dole.
A band of brigands has appeared on the Pontifical
territory, anti had made incursions at V ollecorso and Seu
Lorerso The bantfit chief, De Martino, being attacked on
the territory of Paghela, was burnt alive, with his mistress,
In a hut in which they had taken refuge. A carbineer nulled
Caruso Mae seriously w.•unded in the left leg. .1 fresh bend
of five brigands Is signalised in the district of Palma.
The total eclipse of the sun, which was visible in
some parts of the American continent on Saturday, was
observed under very favourable circumstances by represen-
tatives of vitriolis scientific oodles in dirt error places. It was
hoped that scum of the more interesifith questions whioh
were ralse•l, out not settled, by the observations made in
India on the last would be elucidated by the energy
of the American astronomers.
A woman in New Orleans was recently arreste.l for
throwieg a pail of boiling water over a man. tier defence
was that she mistook him for her husband !
The Leeds Mercury learns from a trustworthy source
that there is every prospect of a .erione deficiency in the
wheat crop over the North arid La-i ittrineas. In many dis-
tricts the ears of wheat are imperfectly filled, the central
husks being bairen ; this is attributed to injury received
whilst flowering, ant C usitptent innt-tertilisation.
The Viceroy of Egypt reached Alexandria on the
10th ult., and on the following day he teas waited upon by
the Cousidar B ely, who congratulated Min upon the recep-
tion he had met with from the sovereigns and people of
Europe. His httgftnsss. in reply, said befell much gratified
by the kindness and sympathy everywhere exhibited towards
him.
The passengers on the East India Railway are said
to have been lately much surprised at the anxiety displayed
by the guards to to their health. Any passenger at all in-
clined to be stout is visited at every station by the guard,
who inquires affecVonately after his health, and centime; ,
him in emphatic language not to go to sleep. To a nervous ,
passenger this would almost be worse than the constant fear
of sunstroke.
Mr. Stone, of Dulwich, M.P. for Portsmouth, has '
been allowed provistonal protection for-tile invention of
" improvements in arrangements and apparatus for taking,
counting, and recording votes by ballot."
The diligence from Clertnont.FoTand to fort, a few
days ago, ascending a steep hill-side beyond Tenths, when it
Was suddenly enveloped in two clouds heavily charged with
electricity, coining in opposite directions, and which met at
that point. Suddenly a flash was seen, accompanied by a
loud detonation. and the pootilion with the five horses by
which the vehicle teas being drawn wren all struck dead.
None of the paeseegers were hurt.
A curious recovery of a ring is narrated by a New-
foundland paper, which wee shown by a gentleman from
Trinity Bay, a lady's gold weddii•g ring, taken from the
entrails of a codfish caught off Hants Harbour about the
16th ult. The ring was a very solid and substantial one, per-
fectly plain, and bearing the inscription upon the inner circle,
cut in Old English or" black letter" style—May God above
continew &Le our love.
A wealthy gentleman who owns a country seat
nearly lost his wife, who fell into a river which flows through
his estate lie announced the narrow escape to his friends,
expecting their congratulations. One of them—an old
bachelor—wrote as follows I always told you that river
was too shallow."
A slave schooner, with 100 slaves on board for
Queensland, has been seized by her Majesty's ship Rosario
near the Flits, and the master has been committed for trial
at Sydney on a charge of piracy.
The wife of Rev. Mr. Cheshborough, pastor of the ,
Methodiet Episcopal Church, in Newburg village, was terribly
and perhaps fatally burned a few days since, by the explosion
of a can of kerosene oil. She was engaged in canning fruit,
and in order to increase the fire, which did not burn well,
she resorted to the exceedingly dangerous expedient of pour-
ing on kerosene oil from a gallon can. The result was the
same as in hundreds of similar instances.
A new claimant for the Breadalbane Peerage has
appeared in the person of Major-General Simon Fraser, late
Colonel of the Royal Marines, General Fraser claims tote
descended from the Royal Houses of Bruce and Stuart.
The See of Saliisbury, rendered vacant by the death
of Dr Hamilton, has been conferred on the Rev. George
Moberly, DC. L., rector of Brixton, Isle of Wight. The new
Biehttp has had a distinguished academical career. At one
time a bellow and Tut•er of WIWI College, Oxford, he has,
oil several occasions, been Select Preacher; he has also been
Bampton Lecturer acid for a long time he held the Head
Mastership of Winchester School. Of that College he Is still
• Fellow, and he is also a Canon of Chester.
The refusal of the English Government to recognise
the Fenian Haggerty as American consul at Glasgow is, We
are told in a cable telegram, favourably regarded by numerous
journals. The New Fork Herald is among the number.
chat paper, it is said, denounces the appointment as a mark
of Ignorance, and a wanton insult to Gthat Britain. •
An Act of Parliament bat just been issued to amend
the law relating to the protection of seamen's clothes and
property, in the same manner as soldiers' clothing is pro-
tected. In dockyard towns a penalty is to be inflicted on the
purchaeers of seamen's clothing.
The London Gazette of Tuesday night contains a pro-
clamation, declaring gold coins made at the Branch Mint at
Melbourne, in Victoria, a legal tender within all parts of her
Majesty's dominions in which gold coins lathed from her I
Majesty's Mint in London are row a legal tender.
A young man named William Young, a carpenter,
seeing two men fighting near Wallingford on Sunday morn-
ing, remonstrated with them, when one of them rushed at
him and stabbed him in the stomach with a large knife. lie
is not expected to recover. The two men who were fighting,
and another man who was with them, are In custody.
The Committee of the United Kingdom Band of
Hope Union recently offered prices of £lOO and £5O for the
first and second best Moricu illastratii•g the advantages of
temperance to the young. Eighty-four tales were sent in,
and the a judicators have awarded the first prize to the
story entitled "Frank Oicifield," written by the Rev. T. P.
Wilson, of Shrewsbury, and the second prize to Mies M. A. •
Paull, ef Plymouth, for the tale entitled "Tim Maloney."
The Pacific Railroad is now bringing us fresh fruits
from California ; arid the despatch of a fruit-car laden with
plums, pears, and grapes for Chicago and New York, opens
up the sit ospect of a large fruit trade between our Atlantic
and Pacific States. Ihe California fruits are surpassingly ex-
cellent in quality, and we shall welcome their cocstaut
arrival in our markets—New York Times.
At Bideford, on Monday, a brandy bottle, with
French words on a gilt label, was picked up, which contained ,
a piece of paper, Oct which was written in pencil t "The Sea
Gull went down with all hands but two, lat. 25 11, long. 16
W., July 29, 1069.—John Thompson, skipper."
Prince Pierre Bonaparte (a son of Prince Lucien,
and a nephew of the first Napoleon was married t e
ago In Belgium to the daughter of a workman in the o ti
boors St. Antoine. The marriage has just been publicly
acknowledged, thus rendering justice to the two children
who are the issue of the marriage.
A contemporary statea that there is 1 Jew to 7 in-
habitants in Poland, to 3) in Austria, to 42 in Rus-
sia, to 52 111 Holland, to 61 in Turkey, to 105 in Germany,
to 333 in Belgian!, to 412 in Italy, to 446 in England, to MIS
in France, to 595 in Switzerland, and to 684 in Scandinavis.
The trial of the six men for taking part in the fatal
colliery riots at Mold has been brought to a termination.
With tine exception the prisoners were found guilty, and
each of them was sentenced by Chief Justice Bovill to tau
years' penal servitude.
Preparations are malting in Venice for the recep.
time of the Empress Eugenie, who, it is expected, will arriva I
or. the let of next mouth. She is to be accompanied by King
Victor Emmanuel.
"The revenue authorities have unmasked a singular
piece of trickery. In some parts of the country where tigers
abound the peasantry have hit upon a manufacture of
spurious tigers' heads in order to obtain the reward for kill-
ing one of those auimals."—Cakurra Englishman.
A terrible hurricane has swept over the eastern part
of the arondissement of Pau, rooting up trees, levelling the
maize crepe and vines, tearing off roofs, and spreading
general consternation. The storm took the direction of the
Haut...Pyrenees, rather incr./ling in violence as it went
slow 1,1 the commune of Larreule the devastation is said
to be extraordinary.
The visit of the Duke of Edinburgh to China, or at
leait to Pekin, is likely to be interrupted owing to the inflated
pride and vanity of the Celestial Court. A telegram from
liong.Kong states it is generally believed that it has been in-
timated to Sir Rutherford Alcock that the Royal Duke
cannot be received by the Royal Family of China on a
footing of equality.
The captain and one of the crew of the vessel on
board which three Polynesians were murdered in the South
Seas have been sentenced to death in Sydney, but certain
points have been reserved for the consideration of the
judges.
From January 1 to July 21, 1869, 159,019 immi-
grants have arrived at New York, as compared with 125,649
during the corresponding period of last year. It is estimated
that half as many more have arrived at the other American
ports, making the total linmigration thus tar during 1869
nearly 240,000.
A butcher named Thomas Newbury, living at
Chalvery, near Windsor, about three weeks ago was bitten
In the hand by a pig. It was thought the wound had healed,
but last week symptoms of lock-jaw appeared, and be was
removed to the Windsor Infirmary, where he died within
twenty-four hours after his admission.
At Dudley. on Tuesday night, a girl of fourteen,
named Alice Stanfield, was apprenended by the police for
hanging herself. She was discovered, and cut down just in
time to save her life. She said she had been ill-treated by a
step mother.
Mr. Lamb, the Bristol bankrupt, whose seizure by
the English police at Rotterdam was regarded by the Dutch
papers as an outrage upon Holland, has arrived at Flushing.
He was set at liberty by the Briottnl Commissioner in bank-
ruptcy last week.
The Toronto Globe states that notwithstanding the
large augmentation the working population of Canada has
received during the last few months, its effect so far as sup-
plying anything like the demand that exists in the labour
market has been very slight indeed. "At any hour of the
day when one happena to drop into the Emigration Office," it
adde, "he Is pretty certain to find use or more disappointed
farmers anxiously asking when any more will arrive ; and
letters are continually being received eagerly &eking for
hands." The demand for farm labour is In fact so great,
that the emigration agent at Toronto says there are fifty
applications made to him for every man who arrives.
A sprightly Frenchman, writing about London
says—" Gold circulates everywhere by handfuls, and is more '
coarmon than copper coin in France. If you buy two penny- ,
worth of snuff, or an mange at the street corner, the dealer
will produce a handful of gold to give yon change." But he
does not adniire English food. It is, he says, "thick stupe- •
fying beer, meat almost raw and horribly spiced; strong li-
Widens of port wine, followed by plum pudding—such is the I
meat of these islanders." However, he admits the English
are very distingue "The English have an air of nobility !
rarely found amongst the French, and this type, so tar re-
moved from vulgarity, is to be met with in all classes—
amongst cabdrivers as well as amongst baronets and lords.
The arithmeticians of the Underground Railway in •
London—which Cockneys vulgarly call The Sewer," but
which is the eyes of strangers is as great a wonder as the
Thames Tuunel waste the last generation—have been reckon-
Mg up the amount of service which the Company perform
for the public. They find that in the half-year ending on
the 30th of last June, they serried more than Twenty MIL
lions—or, to be precise, 20IM87,802—paseengers—a number
exceeding the whole population of England and Wales as It ,
was In 1880. What, perhaps, Is yet more remarkable, is that
the diversion of so enormous a traffic has made no sensible
difference in the appearance of the streets, which seem to be
as crowded as ever during the busy hours of the day. The
New York tramways, according to Dr. Mackay's statistics,
carried about forty million passengers in the half year.
The Liverpool Mercury states that on Saturday the
Conservative wolking men' of Liverpool and the neigh-
bourhood had arranged to hold a picnic in Knowsley Park,
and present an address to the Earl of Derby. Several
thousands of persons arrived at Knowsley, hut it rained
heavily, the excursionists were wet through, and when they
went to the refreshment tents found that a number of per-
sons who are described as "riotous youths" had already
made a raid on the tents, seized a large portion of the re-
freehMents which had been provided for the Conservative
working men and their friends, and had taken away a quan-
tity of the crockeryware. Marty of the excurelonieta had
consequently to retie= home hungry as well as wet. The
address, it is stated, was not presented to the Earl of Derby
As the Isle of Man steamer Tynwald was nearing
Liverpool on her passage from Douglas, a respectably. dressed
woman, about forty yea's of age, who was seated at the after
end of the boat on one of the side seats, either fell or jumped
overboard. She had no luggage with her, no friends or com-
panions, or anything by which her identity cold be traeed.
She was noticed amoag the passengers, when she appeased,
tote in very low eptrite and mentioned emeethlag above her
imband hieing deemed hem

Two children, boy and girl, aged eight and ten years,
are giving performances on the velocipede and bicycle at ono
of the music-halls in London.
Dr. (ledge, of Caius College, Cambridge, will sc.
company Sir Samuel Baker into Africa, as superintendent of
the medical staff, and collector of natural history specimens
for the V ioerriv •
',n Ant 0! P..f...fin-nt has just been printed, making
an important alteration eto cents of deeeased persons. On
and after the Ist January, all siilal and simple contrail
debts are to stand in the same degree. and to be paid in the
same manner—no priority of payment.
Th, crop in Cornwall is turning out much
better than was anticipated. The disease has done but
little damage in many hicaliiies, while only in a few basil
caused considerable destruction.
The extensive bonded warehmisee in Philadelphia
were burnt on Wednesday night in last week 50,000 barrel
of whisky were destroyed. 'the total losa is estimated at over
6,000,000 dollar.. A terrible tornado is also reported as hav-
ing taken place in the southern part of Minnesota, by which
several persons were killed.
The Fre,man's Journal says it is currently reported
that Mr. Gladstone intends to visit Ireland during the
autumn. The Dublin paper promises him it hearty welcome
By the Cape mail, which arrived at Plymouth a few
days since, we have intelligence that diamonds still continue
to be found in South Africa, and that oue is reported to be
worth £BO,OOO.
A decree has been issued in Austria, under the
signatures of the Minister of Public Worship and the Minis-
ter of Justice, which, in view of the recent conflict between
the civil and the ecclesiastical authorities, and the still
more recent nunnery scandals, has special significance. This
decree limits the pewee of bishops to imprison priests and
members of religious orders of either sex to cases where the
person so condemned voluntarily submits to the lunatic-
There are 5,429 Smiths who received dividends on
various sums in the public stocks. Two thousand four hun-
dred and teventy.eight Browns are also among the distin-
guished quarter of • million, and 2,190 bear the name of
Dim Eduardo San Just, late Spanish Consul for
Sydney, threw himself from the third storey window of his
house on the 20th June, and we. killed on the spot. ile had
been In a very nervous state for some time and was being
watched.—Ssidney Herald.
Another duel between newspaper editors has taken
place in Paris, the combatants being M. de is Pouterie, of
the Paris, and M. Naquet, of the Nisei,. Rappily neither
of them was Injured.
Mr. Thornton, the British Minister, has announced
to the American Government that an International Eshibi-
tion of the produce of workmen's labour is to be held in
liond.in in 1.870, and that he has been instructed to make it
known to the people of the United States. It Is probable
that the American contributions to the eshibition will be ex-
tensive.
The New Zealand mail brings intelligence that
Prince Alfred tailed from Auckland on the Ist June, without
having had an interview with the Maori. King, who thereupon
refused to see the Governor.
It is stated that a fierce war has broken out in the
Samoa islands, in which seventy men were killed and the
British consul's flag was torn down, but no European was
molested. •
At the late ordination in Illinois of a son of the
Rev. Edward Beecher, D D., the candidate was solemnly
" charged " as follows : I "charge you never to forget that
you are the son of your father, the grandson of your grand-
father, and the nephew of your uncle."
Finsbury Park, London, which to the present time
has cost about £95,000, was opened on Saturday.
A bar of iron one inch in diameter will sustain a
weight of twenty-eight tons a bar of steel fifty tons, and,
according to a computation based upon the fact that a fibre
only one four-thousandth of an inch in diameter will sustain
fifty-four grains, a bar of spider's silk an inch in diameter
would support a weight of seventy-four tons.—Engineer.
One day last week fresh mackerel were sold in
Douglas market, Isle of Man, at Is. per 100, and in the even-
ing were retailed as low a. eight and ten for a penny. The
1 bay has, for some time past, from the abundance of this kind
of fish, afforded some rare amusement to the visiters, many
1 of whom are daily engaged in fishing.
Mr. Titus Salt has followed the example of the late
Dean of Durham by presenting to the Royal Albert Asylum
for idiot. and Imbeciles, for the northern Counties, now being
erected at Lancashire, the munificent sum of £5,000.
A butcher named Barden, at Douglas in the Isle of
Man, was cutting up some lamb his shop far two ladies a day
or two since, when, without any apparent cause, he suddenly
plu• god the knife into his own throat and killed himself.
This was at a quarter to one o'clock, and at half-past two
eri promptly, according to the Isle of Man Times, are such
affairs disposed of in that island), his worship the high bailiff
held an inquest, and the jury returned a verdict that the de-
ceased committed suicide while labouring under temporary
insanity.
A young girl, about four years of age, daughter of
William Ostel, blacksmith, Whickham, died on Monday from
hydrophobia. The girl was bitten on the arm by a large
retriever dog about a month ago. On Saturday morning she
showed symptoms of madness, and a medical man was called
in. The child was then in dreadful agony, and at times it
'took four men to keep her in bed. On Monday m-rning she
became much worse, and commenced to bark and howl like a
dog, until she was relieved by death from her sufferings.
The dog has since been shot, but not before four other dogs
In the village were bitten by it
A few days ago a band of brigands surrounded the
, diligence from Viterbo to Orte, but the coachman put the
1 horses to a gallop and drove through them, carrying off his
passengers without injury, though the brigands fired several
shots.
The Indian papers state that during the visit of the
Duke of Edinburgh to Agra in JBllllBl7 next there is to be a
Soldiers' Exhibition, open to the whole army of India. This
proposal originated with the Government of India, in conse-
quence of the success of similar exhibitions at Lucknow.
Lahore, and other places. Articles of any nature whatever
will be received provided only that they are the bona fide
work of the officers or soldiers and their families.
An International Congress, with the following pro-
gramme is to open at Brest on the 20th September To
maintain and encourage the study of the language, literature,
customs, and history of the Celtic races, and create a bond ot
1 union between the men who take an interest in those ques-
-1 Mons in France, Great Britain, and elsewhere."
The President and Council of the Royal College o
Surgeons in Ireland, at their meeting held last week, unani-
mously conferred the high and unusual distinction of an
honorary fellowship of their college on Dr. Brady, M.P., in
recognition of his professional attainments, and untiring and
, successful exertions in the Moue of Commons and elsewhere
on behalf of the medical profession.—leash
On the :Ird inst. the first stone of a monument to the
celebrated German geographer Mercator was laid with great
solemnity at Duisburg.
A serious fight occurred on board the steamer
Dubuque, on the '2Bth ult., at Hampton, on the Mississippi,
• few miles above Rock Island. It was begun by a number
of raftsmen from Rock Island, who were enraged because
they were not allowed to occupy the cabin. The passengers
as well as the crew were drawn in. Eight men are reported
killed. The Sheriff of Rock Island, being telegraphed for,
came down with a large force of police, and succeeded in
restoring order.
A man who has worked for years in the Brooklyn
yard as a machinist has learned, in his leisure hours, to
speak, read, and write Ilebrew, French, German, and Itallau,
and obtained a thorough kuowledge of geology and botany,
Out of his savings he has purchased a library of 1,200 volumes.
The number of dangerous lunatics confined in die-
triet asylums in Ireland on the 30th June, 1869, was 2,380 ;
and in private asylums 65. The numbers of idiots and epi-
leptic patients respectively in district asylums were 146 and
446 ; and in private asylums 35 and 32. We have thus •
total of 3,104 lunatic persons who are under restraint in
Ireland.
The particulars of another railroad accident in
America have been published. Early on the morning of the
28th ult., a passenger train, containing a well-filled sleeping
cak, from New Orleans, on the Memphis and Louisville Rail-
road, tell through a trestle bridge near Clarksville, and the
entire train, excepting the sleeping ear, was destroyed by
fire The eligineer, fireman, and a passenger were killed, and
a large number were badly wounded.
An appalling catastrophe (says the New York Times
of the 29th: occurred last evening at about a quarter-past
eight o'clock in Printing-house-square in this city. Some
fireworks in a waggon, the six occupants of which were re
turning from a chowder party, were suddenly ignited, one of
the party having carelessly dropped a box of burning matches
In their lir dst. An explosion followed by which BOV•11 per-
sons were injured, three of them fatally.
The Minister of Justice in France has addressed a
circular to the French prelates, in which he informs them
that on the 15th inst. a century will have elapsed since the
birth of the founder of the Napoleonic dynasty. This cir-
cumstance, he lays, will add to the patriotic character of the
F.te annually celebrated on that day, and the glorious re
collections of the First Emperor will blend with the senti-
ments of profound gratitude towards the heir of his name, his
traditions, and his devotion to the interests of the country,
The prelates are therefore requested to call upon the faith-
ful to unite in offering up prayers for the Emperor, the
Empress, and the Imperial Prince. Similar circulars have
been sent to the heads of the other Churn ae..