The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-10-16 00:00:00

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A Cincinnatian has wagered 100 dollars that he can
carry sn anvil, weighing 700 pounds, seven miles "."'
resting.
The French Court gcesips say that when the Em-
press %tweaks pays her state visit to the ladies of the Sultan's
Harem, she will, out of compliment to the fair, fat, and over
forty inmates of the Imperial Seraglio, wear no precious
I stones but Twill:mime
The son of Prince Lucien Murat, a youth of seven-
teen, ha, run off to sea He is said to have engaged himself
es a common sailor on a transport bound for the Antilles. A
little salt water will probably do him • world of good ; it
will, at all events, keep him out of the mischief which besets
the gilded youth" of Paris.
Mr. George Francis Train has returned to his home
in New York, and announced his arrival in a letter to the
Sun. in which he says that his election to the Presidency,
in 1872, is beyond question !
The President of the Poor-Law Board is now making
a personal inspection of the principal workhouses of England.
There are said to be no lees than five millions of small
proprietors in France—a most astonishing figure, for they
only hold one-third of the cultivated soil.
The value of the principal Sees is as follows :—Can.
terbury, £15,000 • year ; York, £10,000; London, £30,000 ;
Dulham. £50001; Winchester, £7,000; Ely, £1,500. The
other bishoprics ore worth Some £5.000 and others £4,500
• year.
A Jewish immigration society hail been organised in
San Francisco, for the purpose of Whig those in Europe of
their nersuasdon to come to America. Prominent Cali-
fornians are also trying to organise a society similar to the
Ilarylaud Immigrant Union.
The ex-Queen of Spain hail serious thoughts of re-
tiring from the gaieties of Parisian life The Gaulois states
that her Majesty has bought a little property near Gonesse,
in the department of the seine et-hiss, ether* SiSeder Petro-
cinio and • score of nuns are going to set up an establish-
ment. The original landlord of the property is said to have
been a retired rag-picker of Paris, who has gone to his native
town to enjoy his ofiurn-cuin dignstatr.
The Rev. Win. H. Green, the wife poisoner, has
been found guilty of murfer in the second degree at Litch-
tield, Connecticut, and taken to the State prison, where he is
sentenced for life lie was once found guilty of murder in
the first degree, but • new trial was granted in his case.
Another shocking caisualty at sea is reported. The
steamer Capri, of North Shields, with • cargo of grain on her
first voyege from the Black Sea to Great Britain, was caught
in • gale, and foundered about twenty miles from the lice-
phone Seventeen officers anti men went down with her,
but about half-a-dozen of the crew were saved.
Few are probably aware of the fate of Byron's heart.
After his death at Missolonghi in 1022 his body was em-
balmed and sent to England, but the heart was begged and
obtained by the Greeks, who enclosed it in a silver case. Four
years later, after the protracted siege at Missolonghl, a
sallying party, carrying the relic with them, cut a way with
great sacrifice of life through the Turkish lines; but the heart
was loot in creaming the marshes.
A suggestive telegram comes to us from Rouen
which the trade "revivers," will do well to take into their
most serious consideration. The French cotton capital has
been the scene of a meeting, to be followed in • few days
by another, for the erpress purpose of "protesting against
the existing commercial treaties.' which, of course, must in-
clude the one with England.
Of a Welsh Baptint Church at Plymouth, Pennsyl-
vania, all but three of the members perished in the Avondale

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disaster.
A lady living in Paris has been affected with mental
alienation in consequence of the horrible circumstances o
the Pantin murder. She thinks every man who approaches
her is an assassin ; and has given orders to the servant that
no knives should be kept in the house
A letter from Aberdeen states that a bottle has been
nicked up on the shore near that port containing a piece of
on which the following words were written in pencil:
..mg. 4. 18e—Ship Binaloo wrecked off the W. coast. We
are all on a raft. Eighteen died by want of food. Ate • dog
yesterday; we had nothing else to eat. We are all expecting
to be down immediately Hoping whoever will find tide
please to report—'J. Ilenderson, mate. Eighteen died for
want. Eight to go down."
Mrs. Stonewall Jackson, described as • youthful
and attractive widow, is at Rockbrldge Alum Sprinp, Vir-
ginia.
An extraordinary fact was divulged at the meeting
of the Cork guardians last week- -namely, that the smallpox
has ceased to exist in Ireland.
An application is about to be submitted to the town
council of Edinburgh for permission to run a steam omnibus
between the west end of Princeestreet and Leith.
The London Gazette has announced the appointment
of a cow:1118ton, with the Lord Chancellor at its head, to in-
mitre into the operation of the various courts of law, and of
the present division between the several courts, and into
the desirableness of making any changes In the number of
judges, or the mode of conducting the business of the MEM.
the commisdon will also inquire into the worklug of the jury
system, and into any changes that may with advantage be
made in it.
The Rev. Stephen E. Gladstone, aeon of the Premier,
preached at the Church of St. Edward the Martyr. Lombard'
street. London, on Monday evening, on the occasion of a
harvest thanksgiving. The text was taken from the 15th
chapter of the let Corinthians "That whick thou sweet is
not quickened except it die " A liberal offertory was made
during the !Denim.
In consequence of the opposition which exists in the
neighbourhood of Luton to the Compulsory Vaccination Act,
it was decided at a recent meeting of the Luton Guardians
that ell further legal proceedings against persons not comply-
ing with the requirements of the Act should be stayed for six
months. Three guardians voted in favour of the Act being
enforced, whilat eight voted tor prosecutions being delayed.
The Ilampstead Express understands that a gentle-
man, nearly eighty years of age, who is possessed of consider-
able wealth, has presented Dr. Gale, medical electrician and
inventor of non-explosive gunpowder, with an annuity which
is represented by four figure., a. an expression of his grati-
tude for recovery, through Dr. Gale's instrumentality, from
a malady which other eminent medical authorities had pro-
phesied would prove fatal to him in a few days.
The exodus from Greenwich Hospital has ceased
and there are now only about thirty bedridden inmates
located in the Somerset ward.
A correspondent of a contemporary, who sends
graphic account of the fire at Bordeaux to that journal, was
struck by the " ludicrous inefficiency '' of the means em-
ployel by the fire brigade for extinguishing the conflagration.
He talks of two men squirtilig out of a waterbutt on two
wheels, which was meant for a fire-engine !
At a wedding in a Methodist church at Jersey City
recently, the organist played a selection of airs from
Gen:nese de Brabant —A New York organist some time since
played •• I.`n Mari Sage," from the Belle Haene, on a similar
occasion. ilia New Jersey rival outdoes him, however, and
encourages the bridegroom with the "lie Song."
At a meeting of farmers held at Chester on Satur
day, a resolution was agreed upon aflirming the principle
that all animals affected with pieta!) pneumonia should be
slaughtered, and that compensation should be given by
means of • county assurance association.
The costly expenditure of the Queen of Spain, after
her arrival in Paris, has, it is understood, largely reduced
the res. orceo of Spanish Royalty, and they do out now, it is
believed, much exceed a route of 300,000 francs. Personally
Queen kabella appears to be popular ; she is accessible and
gracious to her friends, bears adversity well, shows herself
einstantly in the streets and in the Bois, and wears a plea-
sant, matronly, good.humoured look.
The Devonshire Chamber of Agriculture have
agreed to petition Parliament to adopt • unif,m standard
of measure for grain throughout the country, and that the
Central Chamber be requested to institute an inquiry, by
putting itself in communication with the several local
chambers as to what would be the best equivalent.
Mr. George Peabody, before leaving George-town,
Massachusetts, gave 5,000 dole, additional to the town
library, and instructed the trustees to erect a lecture room
for the use of the town. It is reported that he will return to
England next month.
At the Brentford Petty Sessions, five cattle dealers,
attending Southall market were summoned under the Con-
tagious Diseases 'Animals', Act, and fined £5 each, for ex-
posing for sale a number of sheep bettering from disease. The
full penalty was not enforced, these being the first preeecu-
Mons under the Act.
A despatch from Earl Granville to Sir G. Bowen,
Governor of New Zealand, in reply to a communication in
reference to the detention of the 18th Regiment In that
colony, is published. Her Maje.ty's Government adhere to
their already expressed policy, that the Queen's troops should
not be employed in the hostilities between the colonists and
the natives The consequence of carrying on war under a
divided authority are forcibly pointed out, and the removal
of the regiment in que-tion from the colony is ordered to
take pia* without further delay.
In Paris, a milliner's apprentice, aged fourteen, has
been tried for robbing her mistress, and afterwards attempt-
ing to poison her. The girl confessed that she had scraped
some lucifers into a bowl of soup for her mistress, in order to
make her 111, so that she might go home to her mother and
spend the money she had robbed. When asked by the judge
where she got the idea of such an infusion, she replied that
she had read of It In the Petit Journal. She was ordered
to remain in a reformatory institution until the age of twenty