The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-06-10 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND rCIAD,II4.

Mina Nightingale lam a new book nearly ready for
publication on Lying-in luatitutions and the Training of Mid-
wives.

A gentleman In Yorkehire left the whole of hia
pec-
pefly to Broil of Ins deece Klante only ea should reach the
height of six feet four Inc es.

Mee. Ramabothain, Jun, being asked what tenets
the toot of the " J.,motra" held, replied that she had
always heard that tie Jumpers' movement was entirely due
to Galvinn.m.--Ps 0.01.

Accordiug to a statement made by Mr. Lambert,
poor I. inepeetor, before the select committee of the }louse
of Commons the expenditure for the relief of the pm. r In the
metropolis was tact peer £1,406,000.

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The site of the Fleet Prison, in London, has been
selected by the Congregationalists for the spacious hall and
public buildings about to be erected by there for the purpose
of their denomination.

Earl Forte Acne presided on Monday over a Con.
ference, at the S oith K ruslngton Museum, at which the Im•
portance of having an International system of weights, mea.
sures, and coin. was steer gly trusted on. and resoluttohs
were carried In favour of the decimal dtvlst

In the courae of a case which was called upon at
the Central Criminal Court In London, on Tuesday, the
Recorder made some pointed remarks at the count pur-
sued by the Treasury in not allowing the expense. necessary
to the administration of justice. Inspector Brennan said
the police frequently paid money out of their own pockets
through the Wads quacy of the scale of costa now allowed.
The English church at Wiesbaden, on behalf of
which the Bishop of London made an appeal some months
ego for assistance towards replacing the church furniture
end vestments which had been stolen, has, in addition to
other Otte in England, lately received • beautiful service of
Communion plate from her Imperial and Royal iliglaneu the
Crown Princess of Germany.

On Tuesday, the Lords Justices gime judgment In
an appeal from a decision of the MasUr of the Rolls, In
which his lordship had disallowed the claim of M. CO.lee
Witte, the well-known Paris banker, for LI6O,CCO aPe,,ed to
be due to him by the limited company bearing hi. name The
Lords Justices reversed the cle,isbus of the Master of the
Rolls, and acquitted M. Untie of everything approaching
improper conouct in the disputed transaction.

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Prussia le avowedly the country where regular
revaccination la moat generally practised, the law making the
precaution obligatory on every peraon, and the authorities
conaclentlously watching over Its performance. As a natural
result, Cue. of small-pox are very rare. It has, however,
been objected, here as here, that lymph is acarce. In ralake
the moat of such lymph as there Is Government has tried its
application mixed with glyce.ine, and the result has been so
successful as to lead to a public recommendation of j the
mixture to official vaccinating surgeons

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Sir Wbert Lynch, Bart., of Balla, county Mayo,
who I. described aa an excellent landlord, • great friend of
the pint, af.d a very popular country gentle m,n has recently
been the object of • sale. of Outrage,. Within the last few
days his faintly cemetery has been entered, and a beautiful
marble cron erected over tc nib broken, the frag-
ment. being tome of them fiend In an adjobalng hg Ibe
perpetrator. of this outrage at the .ame time invaded a
plantation near at hand, and maliciously destroyed a Large
number of young trees Tawas cowardly deeds NO regarded
In the neighbourhood ea unsooonntoble.