The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-11-13 00:00:00

The Iladeworth Hunt had a memorable but aome•
whet melancholy day me Saturday. No fewer than three
gentlemen of the hunt were thrown from horseback and
seriously injured, and it is stated that about half-a-dozen
minor casualties occurred during the day.
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It is said that there are only two persons in the
United States who have not communicated their views on
the Byron question to the newspapers, and they are two
citizens of Cape Cod, who went off mackerel fishing Os weeks
ago, and have not returned
General Garibaldi has written to a friend to say that
he Mill contemplates visiting the North of England before
long.
The Indian papers record the ceremony of "pulling
for rain "has lately been performed at Mandalay. It seems
that the inhabitants of Burmah have au idea that pulling a
rope will produce rain. Two parties tug against each other.
One Ins rain party, the other a fair weather party. By pre-
vious arrangement the rain party are allowed to be vic-
torious.

The radical movement which has been noticed from
time to time as taking place wring the European Jews appears
to have extended to America. A telegram states that the
National Reform Convention of Jewish Rabble in session at
t'hibulelpitis have passed resolutions in favour if adopting
modern languages in the prayers, and of introducing modifi-
cations in the dietary, marital, and other laws.
A circular has been issued from the War Depart.
crest, calling the attentlon of Volunteer. commanding officers
to the importance of being punctual in the transmission of
the animal returns showing the strength of their respective
carps. List year, in some Cages, the returns came in so late
that the necessary figures could not be included in the ear-
l( rmentary estimates for the year.
The reception of the King and Queen of the Belgians
Its England promises to he of a very hearty character. At a
meeting ol the Reception Committee in. Saturday, it was
stated that the address of welcome to their Majesties had
already re ceived the signatures of 170 chief magistrates of
the counties, cities, and boroughs of the United Kingdom.
The veteran Mrs. Ellis, who began in a past genera.
tiou to reform 'the Women of England," in a work w caned,
has begnn her task again in a work to he called "the Educa-
tion of the Read."

A whale of large dimensions came ashore in the
Firth of Forth, near Longulddry, last Thursday. It was seen
struggling In shallow water, and the people having turned
out, it was soon despatched—not less than thirty bullets hav-
ing been fired into it. It measures SO feet long by 30 feet in
girth. Tete North Itritisis Stalls ay commenced running cheap
trains for the benefit of those who wished to sou the monster
of the deep.
"The operations of the diggers have, during the last
week or two, been interrupted by unfavuurable weather, and
the success of those emplo>ed has not been equal to that of
former months, so that it is generally lolievoi gold dig ;111,g
in Sutherland DI, for the present at least, at an siol."—Joh
O'Groat Journal.
Madaule Patti concluded her season in Paris last
Thursday, and taL natt day for ea. Pa.aealateg. nee lant op-
pearance was the signal for her great annual triumph. Si,.
was in splendid voice, and sang in the "Traviata," "Ciii-
pirio," and "Lucia." Stalls, or rather seats, were let for Ltd.
LOSO were taken besides the subscriptions, nod is correspon-
dent sa3s) the house would not have hold another man,
woman, boy, or baby.
The newspaper accounts of Lord Derby assert that
he was the author of a little book for children In explana-
tion of the Scripture parables. This is a mistake. The
author of the work in question was either his father or his
grandfather. We believe the claim is due to Edward, the
twelfth Earl of Derby, who died in ISA and was grandfather
of the lately deceased at Aeolian.
An amnesty and tenant.right demonstration was
held at Toughs' on Sunday, ex-Judge Little presiding. The
crowd refused to hear any allusions to the land question,
compelling the speakers to confine themselves lathe Cate of
the Fenian prisoners.
A few days since, whilst hunting with Mr. Garth's
hounds at White Waltham, the Hod. Mrs. Ey kyn, wife of
the hon member for Windsor, met with a serious accident,
her horse having thrown her just as the hounds found. No
bones were fractured, but there were extensive bruises and
contusions, from which it is hoped Mrs. Eykyu will soon re-
cover.
A letter from Rome asserts that General Dumont
has elf ered to the Pope, on the part of the French Govern-
ment, 5,000 men, wins are to stay in Rome during the Council.
"It is said this proposal has been accepted. The Papal Go-
vernment tears some Garibaldian movement, and does not
trust implicitly to the fidelity of its troops.
A great gloom has been cast over the university of
Oxford by the sad and untimely death of Mr. Herbert 11.
Clarke, commoner, of Lincoln College, who expired on Tues-
day afternoon, about three o'clock, from the effect' of
chloroform administered to him.
The Ncw York Herald says that William B. Astor
during the last twenty >ears, has so managed a fortune of
twenty millions as to roll it up to sixty millions.
There is an American lady—one of two sisters—in
Paris whose fortune in dollars may be counted by the
million. Her pa and ma sleep In Greenwood Cemetery.
A "Count" who has proposed for her, asks only that an
equivalent of his own income--15,000 francs al ear—be
allocated from her fortune, and the rest divided between
the needy of Paris and New York.
The secretaryship of the Society for Promoting
Christian Knowledge, has been reciguel by the Rev. J. J.
Evans, M.A., who has held it for many years.
At the request of several medical and other gentle.
men in Wales, it has been &nonce.' to seiol from London
three reliable nurses from Guy's Hospital to watch the Welsh
fasting girt who has lately been the cause of so much curiosity
to the public mind.
Tideend House, Teddington, late the residence of
, Benjamin lltggs, the defaulting cashier to the Great Central
Gas Company, has been purchased by Sir Clifford Constable.
The suin realised was £0,500.
I The Prince of Wales returned to Marlborough House
Irons Scarboroligh last Saturd_a_y._ln the evening the Prince
and P m
Princess went to the Haymarket Theatre to see the per-
formance of" New Men and Old Acres."

On Saturday evening, M. Prevost Paradol was en-
tertained at a banquet by the Edinburgh Philosophical Insti-
tution. In responding to the toast of his health, M. Paradul
made a feeling and graceful allude° to the enthusiastic re-
ception which her Majesty had that day met with in her pas-
sage through the metropolis.
The International Exhibition of Art at Munich was
closed on the evening of the 31st ult. It is satisfactory to
hear that an undertaking no eminently successful in an ar-
tistic point of Si. Nr, has caused 110 lons to the projectors. Toe
expenses a e et mdc.l at 50.000 guldens, Odle the receipts
have 5111.010:t4,1 to tO,OOO guldens.
A copy if the fire-. edition of the Bible in Welsh, a
you c,,, k c. ii ins 640 ilk and Simpson's,
Leicest • r ootare, 1, ana although imperfect, was
knocked down for £37.
It is stated that at the commencement of the year,
on the Government taking over the telegraphs, the public Is
to be benefited by the choice of having their messages trans-
mitted In cypher.
'Chillicothe Row" is a new American dish, whereof
the ingredients are one prairie chicken boiled on toss', two
dozen fried oysters, seventeen gizzards, and as many livers
stewed sills tomatoes, two pounds of beefsteak and a quart
of coffee, stirred up and moistened vs ith hot apple toddy.
No wonder our ermine have such a pronone yellow colour.
It is reported that Mr. Gladstone contemplates the
abolition of tax collectors. In that ease the tax- a will be
paid at a regular office, just as the dog tax now Is.
" That the soldiers of Aldershot and tbe'r wives
have received an extra blanket for the winter months
without any extra charge must in these days, we presume,
be considered as a munificent act of charity. It most not,
however, be supposed that this is any relaxation of the rule
for the payment of bedding laid down by the recent circular."
—United Service Gazette.
Mc ssrs. Harper Brothers, who first published George
Eliot's novels in America, gave for the early sheets frau time
to time 5,000 dollars in gold.
The Russian workmen claim to have 120 working
days observed as holidays, or about one-third of the year (I)
No wontier they ore in a state of semt-starvation.
Mr. Charles Dickens is engaged on a new story.
The work will come out in the old serial form—the first part
to appear in March.
Dr. Mary Walker has been lecturing in St. Louis,
on the necessity of a law compelling men to marry b-fore
they reach the age of forty.
The Lower House of the Prussian Diet has rejected
a motion for disarmament by 215 to 99. A resolution asking
the Government to endeavour to reduce the military expen-
diture of the North German Confederation was absolutely
rejected.
The Duke of Buccleuch recently sent no hares and
100 rabbits to Dumfries. They were divided among the fol-
lowing institutions—Ragged School, Muirheads' Hospital,
Infirmary, Female Orphanage, Boys Home, Alms House,
Poor's Home, and others.
The Correspondent of The Times in Paris says that
the lamentation of the French ruanufacturers—especially of
those in the cotton and iron trades—has attracted serious
attention in 'the highest quarter," and he Intimates that the
commercial treaty with England has been the subject of dis-
cussion in the Imperial Council at Compeigue. The writer
does not go so far as to suggest that the French Government
will be persuaded to abrogate the treaty, but he hints that
certain modifications may be proposed.