The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-07 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

It le calculated that there arc 100,000 women named
"Marie" In Paris
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It is e.timated that the damage done during a week's
rioting in Belfast will reach £OO,OOO.
The expenses for the repairs of the damage caused to
the cathedral of Strasburg by the bombardment amounted to
320,0001.
An eccentric gentleman fond of widows, it would
seem, named Jean Lemieux. has lel, by his will hi 3 30,0.101.
of income to the widows of Pails.

Amongst the bequests made by the late Mr. Alder-
man Rtunney of Manchester, are the following :—The Lan-
cathire Inch pendent College. £2,000 ; Owens College, £2,000;
and the Manchester Royal Eye Fleapits!, £lOO.
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The effect of attaching third clasi carriages to every
&al,, on the Great Nortl ern Beltway has been that the com-
pany hoo carried a million iimre third-class passengers than
during the same period last year.
The Prince of Wales has, through General Knollys,
expressed his regret at being unable to accept the invPation
of the Aberdeen Harbour Commissioners, to lay the founda-
tion stone of the new breakwater there.
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A most valuable addition has been male to the
Brighton Aquarium by the presentation of a large Welt
Indian green turtle weighing 11 cwt. This is the largest
turtie that has ever been exhibited In an aquarium, and
creates great interest from his graceful movements in the
water.
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During the five months between April let and
August 314 the total recetple into the lts slimmer amounted
to £23,010,971, as compared with £25 b 42 052 lo the corre-
sponding period of last year. The expenditure has been
430,392 2515. On Saturday last the balance in the Bank of
Eum and was rather overt Air millions sterling.
The original cope of F6n4lon'a. Telemachua, specially
prepared for Louis XIS'., with twenty-four engravings, and •
the cohered drawings from which the engravings were made,
hiss lately been purchmed by Colonel Moore, late of the ,
United States Legation in Paris, and will be sent to one of
the great libraries of America.
The Swiss reports that a few daya ago, in a
village near Arberg, a Men peasant named Leiser, aged forty-
five, hanged himself in his cellar. Ilia motive tor doing no is '
said to have h-en his vexation at having been Mitred to pay
bin workmen higher wages for getting ios Ids harvest than he
did last year •
"The Due de Montpensier," rays the Xl.Yme
" hos jolt porches, it the Chateau of Greeds,' at
Cannes, with all lis drpeedeneia. This ruanfiws, admirably .
situated, contains furniture wortn 125,000 have:. NI. Oral d-
ial, in his lifetime, hail refused 1 650,00.0 francs f ir this fine
domain, but his heirs have coded it for 650,000 francs "
A company is being started in London for the pur-
pose of taking steps to secure the moat constant and pc-feet
supply of preserve.] meat trim whatever racism. It may best
be obtained, and, by a thorough organisatten of del-Ole and
other requisite mtablishments in every part of the country,
to popularhe its use among all classes.
A German correspondebt soya it has been eatablisbed
by official inquiries that the tirst shot In the Franco-German
ear cot fired by the Prils,,ian sergeant-msjor of cavalry,
Schram, who with a patrol from haarhruckeu met French
cavalry and wounded one of them. lie has been decorated
with the Iron Cross, and presented by the Emperor William
ith a revolver of very rich workmanship.
Father Hyacinthe who was married on Tuesday to
Emilie Jane, daughter of Mr. Amory Butterfied, and widow
of Sir. Edwin Ruthven Merirnan, of the United states of
America. had firevionsly written to the Paris Temps a
long letter announcing his intention to enter into the bonds
of matrimony abroad ; declaring, however, that he doom not
and will not in so doing Mve up ha title a priest, and affirm-
log that this act of independence, though it nay be con-
sidered of terrible solemnity, concerns only his private life.
There Are in Newgate Gaol prisonem under sentence
of penal servitude for 15 years, 1; ditto for 10 years, 6 ; ditto
for 7 pars, ; ditto for 5 years, ; ditto w hose jodginent is
respited, 2 ; ditto committed for trial, 13 ; ditto remanded
for next mission, ; ditto ienaanded for farther exammatioe,
6; ditto for House of Correction, 2; total, fn.
It ia quite astmilling, says tire New York Tribune,
to find a man 103 yeaa 01.1 hanging himself, as William
George did at Rochester, ill, last week ; for since death at
any rate omit be close at hand, the trouble of a rope, or
finding a place of oispriaboi, 811,1 adjusting the halter seems
to be hardly worth taking. 11 we have any reader who is
le3 years old, we advise him to he patient. What little is
Id t of his mortal m il will shuffle itself oil soon etiough.
Dr. Constantin James, who had brousht an action
against the Paris and Mediterranean It tilway Company for
damages, it, consequence of a murder.t attack having been
made on him in one of their carriages, has lost his suit. A
burglar had secreted himself in a railway compartmeut, firld
attacked the doctor while asleep, left him for dead, and
busted out of the train. The d Citlioll of the court 'vs
IJuivied on the Intl that the compahy lad taken all necessary
precoV ions.
Archbishop Manning and the Roman Catholic clergy
of London generally are making strenuous efforts to eats. .
blith in London a catholic Temperance A isoclation which •
shall have branches throughout the metropolis. The MISO.
nation is to be modelled on the Temperance League, and
has already had, within a few weeks, some thousands of
members enrolled. Very beneficial effects are tail to have
resulted from the movement in the Etat-end of London.
The regulation has gone forth that the s. 'diem of the
French army are henceforth to be instructed in the rail-
ments of vocal music by the bandmasters of the various regi-
ments. Ilse order under which tide most desirable work Is to
be preceded within an all circular of the Minister of War
Issued in 1853, which rendered the study obligatory, it was
song that inspirited the German arms ha their late war.
"Fin' testa Barg" cheered the way to II oniggratx ; the
Wacht am Rhein" pnt heart into the march to Pasta The
French have borrowed the hint from their enemies, and here-
alter patriotism and song are to be conjoined to science in
the armies of the Republic.
On Monday morning the North-Eastern Railway
Eonipany advanced their fares. The price of single j‘mrnff
tickets is not altered, nor is there any diminution of third-
class accomodati.n ; but the charges for return tickets are In-
creased to the proportion alone fare, and two-thirds instead
of one fare and aball as formerly. In reply to remonstrances
against the increase by passengers and traders the general
manager of the company, Mr. Tennant, has sent the Inflow.
hug circnlar ,--" I am instructed in give natioe that in eon-
eequence at the unprecedented rise in the price of fuel and
the continued increase to other Items of outlay, the diree
tors have found it necessary to give directions for • revises
to be made in the rates at present charged for the convey-
ance of traffic and to intimate that such alterations will be
made in the charges now in operation as may from time to
time appeal to be espedent."


It is stated from recent returns that the money spen
on cab tares in Litton averages Cll,OOO a dry.
Mr. Stanley, the discos erer of Dr. Livirmstnne. has
be, n invited to visit Glasgow, whirr he lia.s been assured •
Malty and unanimous welcome awaits him.
Mr. Bra font the American artist, has received •
commisdou from Queen Victor's and me Marten of Lorne
to paint for them several pcLuc epresentlug scenes on the
Arctic Mean.
" The Terror of Scotland," was the toast recently
pToposed bye gentleman from England at • whiskey party.
The guests wire rafter glum at the accnsatiou conveyed,
when he explained that it was the thietle—if you sit on it.
in the three years ending the 31st of March, 1872,
gobl coins of the noinmal value of £1,973,7 were orally the
neck of England. The loss sustained by ths owners of the
coins amounted to 1124 11S, a seventy-eighth part of the
nominal value.
The City Press states that, in ooneideration of the
present Iveh price of provisions, the Governors of the Bans
Earland h vo ad toil a gratuity ef live I.er out. to the
salary of every officer, clerk, ant portsr in the estabiLshment.
A sarcent writing oh rut the n nes-rose of a comet
striking the earth and annihilating it says. says—" there
could be no collision—no shock; bemnue you miont put ml
the silid parts of a comet Into a claret kl
.ev--What would
a teetotaller's feelings be on being isaed Unita° something—
s glass of comet!
A young Japanese, Sze-ontiai Sate" 'son of the chief
Physiciaa of the eidiad, arrived at Gerlin, In Narember,
at
hiti9,e time,tois..ud buyrtne hdo caraticiine it i, fin n
e di,tnotkiuh, andnowtaw wont of
ai
ot,Gniann.
Ile rect utly passed in a brilliaLt manner his third warning,
lien for a doctor's degree.
A servant of an old maiden lady, a patient of Dr.
—, of Euinburgh, has meter orders to go to the doctor
every niorning to revrt the state of her mistre,a's health.
' how she shin, de., with strict injunclons to aMI, " With
her compliments." At length the girl brought the following
startling menage Miss S—'s compliments, and she
deed last night at Mold o'clock."
A magnificent pianoforte (says the Musical Standard)
has just been sent from Loudon to the Empress of China,
lie manufacturers, doubtful of the a tiny of the celestial
lady to play, have thoughtfully added "a grinding appas
rants" The hints chosen are "God Save the Qimen.' kimt
" to rive," from Trorature, the "Lancers Quadrille," and
the " Marseillaise."

The Vestry Clerk of Kensington, Lonelon, attended
at the Hammersmith Police-court, on Monday, to prosecute
two men, one of whom was a carpenter and the other a
chimney sweep. for destroying lists of voters as alit red to the
doors of the Notting -dale Chapel. The oftenoe was com-
mitted about a quarter to three o'clock on sunday morning,
and appeared to have been perpetrated simply from a desire to
be mishtevous. Each of the defendants was ordered to Pa 7 •
line of 405., or in default to undergo a mouths' imprisonment.
In an address recently delivered by the Czar to the
representatives g.f the Don Cossack army, he tl..jesty ob-
served that at the present there was no danger of the peace
of the country being disturbed ; end that, in order stll
further to assure the maintenance of peace, he was about to
undertake • journey abroad, which be hoped would not be
without results favourable to Russia
Speaking of the wit of Buchanan Read, a recent
magazine article sods —'it. was only stew wordings before
he breathed his last that a dear friend, sitting by his bedsido.
held his wasted hand. Upon one linger aas a la wait al
cameo ring 'ill, I see you have • head of Shakespeare,'
she salt, an she exam Med the well cnt ttatures ol the bar
'Yes,' he answered foeMy ; 'it is the only way I could get
ahead of him.'"
The Journql de nand ray, :—" The exhibition of
antiquities at the Hotel de Ville. Paris, has Fist in-en en-
riched by a very valuable object, belonging to M. Cockuy
the sceptre of Mary Stuart. It is about 3.2 inches long and
snistically carytel li, Noy with portraits of the Queen mid
her hi- baud, as well as the eniklems, devicee, and arms of
Scotland. England, and Francis I. of France. It bears the
date of la, 8, and Is composed of four tutees, mounted in
brace, and wionied a ith medallions ill silver "
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Those who are superstitious may pick a deep mean-
toe arid menace ior sue or wore Of the three Emperors nut
of the fact that theirllneetim; begins on the unlucky day Lre.
marks the Doily Tel'graph:: Al. kander the Second arrived
at Berlin at half-past two on Fr day afternoon and as
Francis Joseph sields the pee by a day to his N'.rtlitrn
brothtr, perhaps the vaticination nray lie ventured that
destiny will deal hardly with ti nada rather than with Am tria.
Aril y• t it is riot to be left out of account that the Emperor
William first of the three arrived at the scone of the inter-
view from °ashen on Friday last.
In the days when man was everytuing and woman
nothing it Was correct enough to say, A person, whatever
hi. beliefs rimy he, can d i so said But as woman has
forced her way up she has rebelled against the mutruline
howessive. nod demanded that we should use the please,
" Whatever his IT her beliefs may be." a new wurd should he
formid equivalent to "his or ;" " bizor" Las been
suggested as a suitable one.
The Great Eastern steamship, l lug In the AI
a short distance above Slicerness. in row taking on hoard
some of the new Oretr c cable which a Fiend. company In
tend to lay from the kind's End to Halifax The destiny of
this vesstl has been moat remarkable, v doable, and um
anticipated. If one had lald 4d her at her lannching, " Only
give her rope enough." it would not I,lcC bees thought very
ColephelentAre, 3'et that is ail she wants to bring out her
serviceable qualities to tho whMe world. —Court Jour, at.
The inhabitants of Eeilan, olyerves aaligiorni, re-
solved to celebrate the let of Septimim.r as a day of m ourn-
log. At an early hour most id the houses iliaplet oil the
tricoloured flag dramd with long pieces of crape. At nine
the German soldier, ascended and removed all those em-
blems that measure being induced by some imprudent
' person, who bud inecribid on his colours, "Vice la France!
A bientat la revanche:" All which were not draped with
block we, e left
A literary English gentleman at Dumas' table rather
astonished slim by asking Gm servant, 80(0 Icee, but im-
pressively. for "Racine." The iplick ear of the attentive
host caught at the whiapi red want of hisginst . • he beckoned
to the 'errant, and gave him instructiors, thiuking that the
literary F.rmtlish gentltnian wan.ed to quote something from
French chasms, and to refresh lain inerniry. Groat Was great
Briton's surprise at receiving a birge imh hotted
volnme. An exhilaration consequentiy eitsui.d .rwal
kllo
table in fur ken English and Fieueh, when it was niscovere
that our countryina want.' le rseradlih Wlth HA slice of
beef, and had explained his neediness in the best way is his
power by asking for "ravine," or root, as the nearest he
could come to to horseradish
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A very interesting application of the mndeal flames
temn mad. by Dr A. K. Irvine, and commior cavil to the
iron and Steel institute at Wahaow. Ttii, application takes
the form of a millers sidety-lamp, Indic ding by sound the
presence of exp'usive mixtures of *is and air, based on anew
form of the singing flames. When a mixture of inflammable
tow and air pauses Into the lamp, it is limited on the sur-
face of a disc of wire gauz above which is placed a suitable
chimney, in which is produced the musical sound, varying
in pitch with the slue of the name and the dimensions of the
chimney
After three hours' sitting on Monday, the Court of
Arbitration at Geneva again adjourned. With every session
the end appears to approach In au inereasingriti•i of speed ;
and an early day next week Is indicated by Mr. eater's
°cent as the probable data wher every thin,' will he settled.
The projected hospitalities seems to bear out the anticipation
of an early finish to the lahours of the Tribunal; Mr bowies,
the well-known American banker, issued 2,600 invitations for
an entertainment on Weimmelay, in honour of the Arb'ters.
At Washington comforting intelligenc.i for the American
side c.mti idea to be received, though no calculation is ven-
tured auto the extent sf the damages that may be awarded.

An extraordinary aredent (says (ialognani) has just
happened at Chesengrs Obit no. at Two children of M.
Drimet, a rich farmer, were SMUSLOR themselves in a fidd
behind their father's house. The elder, about eleven, was
mounted on a donkey and galloping about, when the animal
pdiced its foot on a wasp's nest, and, feeling Melt stung.
guys so violent a bound that the child ens thrown, mei fell
Pito the midst of the inf orbited Inserts, whili attacked him
Instantly nri all sides. Ills cries attracted the attention at
the neighbours, one of whom, by the aid of a mask, suc-
ceeded in withdrawing the poor boy from his dread: ul posi-
tion, but too late, forks died very shortly after. Ills tongue
and throat were dreadfully swollen, and oitiocation produced
a rapid death.