The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-11-09 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The Pall Mall Gazette suggests that garotters should
be punished by tremendous shocks of a galvanic battery.
On Tuesday the ballot came into service at the
Scotch municipal elections for the first time. The contests
were very orderly.
On the 15th inst. a banquet is to take place at Mel-
bourne in celebration of the completion of the Australian
telegraph.
We learn by telegraph from Melbourne that fresh
casys of kidnapping South Sea Wanders have been reported
there.
The Duke of Rainzares.'husband of Queen Christiana
of Spain, has left Paris for Switzerland, where he is going to
buy an estate.
Engineers are now occupied in the Place VendOme
taking steps for erecting scaffolding for the reconstruction of
, the column.
' The Prince and Princess of Wales arrived at
Elvedon Hall, Thetford. on Monday evening, on a visit foes
few days to the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh.
Marshal Bazaine's trial will, it is expected, take
place about the beginning of next January. Two hundred
and forty persons have been examined, including the Marshal
himself.
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On Saturday the list of eases in the Divorce Court
was issued. The total is 261, of which thirteen are standing
over by consent. Of the 246 tots heard Ib7 are to be without
furies.
Some one, who has been writing about Royalty
lately, says that Queen Victoria's horses were worth
£lO,OOO ; Kaiser William's £120400; the Austrian Emperor's
nearly £30,000; King Leopold's £lB,OOO , and the Sultan's
£lOO,OOO.
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The young Emperor of China wa3 married on the
Pith of October. Beyond the procession of conducti, g the
bride to the Emperor's palace at Pekin there was no cere-
mony of any kind on the occasion, The Emperor will
assume regal power in February next.
A riot is reported from a coal mining district in the
department of Gard, France. A band of 150 men having at-
tacked an octroi station, and wounded several gendarmes,
the latter used their firearms. Two of the rioters were
killed, and one wounded.
A strike of miners has just taken place in Cumber.
land for a very singular cause. A young man was dismissed
for using abusive language, and the men have turned out
because the colliery owners refused their request that the
offender should be reinstated. Themes belong to the Miners
Union.
A strike has arisen in the building trade at Belfast,
in consequence of a resolution of the employers that on and
after the Ist of November the workmen should be paid by
the hour instead of a fixed sum per week as hitherto. The
workmen have held a meeting, and resolved to stand out for
the old system.
The advices from Berlin state that, contrary to all
expectation, the constitution of new companies still goes on,
and that fresh concoctions are advertised daily. There was
another rise in mining shares last week, some advancing 15
to 20 per cent. Landed property continues In great demand
at the most extravagant prices. To give Lerlin still more
the appearance of a great capital, it is proposed to make a
railway traversing the city above the houses.
At a meeting at Rouen of thecommercial community
for the relief of the Alsatians and Lorraine emigrants M.
Pouyer.Quertier appealed for subscriptions, and said that
more than 200,000 of these emigrants were in the frontier
towns. The late Minister of Finance said that he had wen
the Mayors of the occupied towns, and they all told him they
dreaded the opening of the French papers, fearing that the
attacks on the Prussians would lead them to make reprisal'
on the Inhabitants.