The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-12-20 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

A sadden and v'olent gale passed over the wEst and
north of England en Tuesday morning. A large am not of
damage was done allll3tflield, L eda, Bradford,
lad other places, by the fall or chimneys and the root. of
buildings, and in several cases life was last. The storm ap-
pears generally to have been unattended with rain.

Lord Overatone has Pent a donation of ,ClOO to the
Coubcii of the Charitable Organizatiou Society.

In the hat eleven months the value of gotta peraha
mp ea was £37,b67, which wee an increase on the preced-
ing ieev.

vrguerite Diblanc, who we convicted of the men-
slang iier of Madame Mel, In Pere-lene, London, tuts just
died in primon.

A new hall, erected at • cost of £25,000, and in-
ten,leo fur the performance of high-clue wuelcal works was
0pen.4.1 on Mom ay at St.. ffieid, with some ceremony.

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A Iteuter's televam from New York announces the
des:h of Mr fil.lsom member of the Joint Commlafilon for
the mtticment of W. Alabaina claim..

A cotton ship from New Orleant has taksn fire
while tubloading et Havre, and a large portion of her cazgo
Wl' destroyed.

It is currently reported that fourteen young Arabs
are sb 'at to • itor the University of Naples, being sent by
the viceroy for the purpose of studying jurisprudease.

Universal suffrage la being discussed in the Italian
Chamber rt Deputies on a propednon oy Signor Calron, The
principle hes an Important Collk Won attached to It howev.r
—Shinty ot the elector to road and write
A petition wee presented on Monday in Committee
of the French Assembly, signed by 120,00 J peOple, demanding
the redkranon of Harry V.

The manager of the London and County Bank, New-
Maim Basta L ndon, ace mteledeaa a contribution of El,oeo
to the Orphtne klume, West-square.

Prince Bouts°, who killed M. Ghlks In • duel,
having returneo to /Telt, has put himself In communication
with the pollee stating that he is willing to appear aS the
Court of Amaze whenever regalred.
Oa Tuesday I, case of raw meat, preserved In Buenos
Ayres in April list, by a new process, was opened at the
warehouse or Mews. Culrerwell, Brooks and Cotton, St.
Mary axe London. The meat wan found to be pert -btly
fresh. It le stated tl al It could be s3id In Kogland at 6d. •
pound, learicg • fair profit.

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lhe managers of the Edinburgh Lifirmary have re-
solved, by a matmity of etght to et:, to rause to •imit lady
medical students at the same time as male student. to the
operating theatre to the tunrmarr.

Artieins and labourers continue to arrive at Liver.
roJi from America and Canada at the rate of • thousand •
week, and, ...ding to preaent appearances the movement
will continue until the spring —I he Standard.

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The South Shields Chamber of Cuumerce ban re-
solved te convene a spectra meeting of shipowners and
others, to adopt mr mires for obtain ng an improved system
of surveying Tenets by he Board of Trade surveyors,
All the houses in Paris that recent events left in an
ant idled state are now c ,mpleted, the owners having been
.mpeilei to do so. The next step is tot d tenants Not
• hou.s Is being run no anywhere on epeccislon, a. plenty
are to he had cheap. Prince idueat's hotel, which cost half-
and lino o' francs to erect, has been sold tor onedialf that
tutu and with diflicalty.

ia thrt an d with a Kaffir war, arlaioir out of
the ...fusel id • chief to re,4lther ha arum. A party ICara-
b nears wilt out to impel him fell Into an arnbo.cade, and
Ii red of loam were ihied The chief, Langan o .lele, escaped,
aud It th feared he will mike his way to Ithantoland, where
his presence might be dangerous.

Mrs. Phillips, a widow of independent means, re-
slchog as Southport, was the plaintiff at the Li rem KA Anise@
to an action against the Lincashirn sod Yorkshire Railway,
and sought compentati a for Wjurles sustained during a col-
tumor, ou defendants line Rear Prod lekm on the 17th of De-
cember last, wit, n the plaintiff was, with one of her
daughters, travelling from Southport to Manchester. Since
the accment the plaintiff, wh4 had before eojo.ed good
bra tR hi nate confined to her be 1, and incurred Upwards of
iktt tn medical expenses, Their wan a me fear of parody, s.
—Che July tumid for the plaintiff—Dam .gee £ll5.

The San Franeisco Bulletin reporte that the arrivals
of wh.l,t.g v,ssels up Le the mold e of Novemovr, haa twiu
tory large. Aboni ;0 stows are enjaritil In the North
art some 160? 20 of these will reuatavr our at ie. Fran.
Vac,. Thirbecu vee had arrived I, °ate, with %VI)
barrels of otl, 100 9,0 h. I,ne, not 10,._5010. of Ivory. the
average take was 800 barrels of oil, 8,00010. bone nod 800.0.
Ivory.

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There appears to be • strong probabrlity that the
tff Jr.. of the euglmaers committee to obtslo an advance o;
wues In certain of th 3 shop .1 1. at least tor the present,
result In c rupsratlve failure. Amongst the reasons as
a goat for this state of affairs is the want of support given
to Vie mov,tneur by the conell of the Amalgamated Enid
neer& Sod .ty, the only body that hu sufficient funds at
amortised to uphold a strike.

A country fellow entered one of the New York
beldra, and, witlkln4 up t the cnnuter, exclaimed, 'Here I
am, I cant you to take • lair look at me." Without a word
fur her he strode out The next d..y the same customer rt.-
appeared, nit-red the same words, and again Maapp,ared.
The third day, at abou: the same time, he walked in, and
adranuine to the teller's desk, threw dow.i • draft peyeole
three daye after erghl. "Now," esld he, "your. seen me
three liale4, I want the money f,r It."

The distress of the Chinese with regard to the
audience given b gre Emperor to the foreign represent&
three is ladicrously apparent from the accounts which owl
thane to appear c ,ucarnlng the istervlew. At Kivei.lana too
It was told that the smessandors were to parai)sed at toe
augustness or LIU Imperial Majesty that not one at them
co.ild speak a word, and that moat of them had to be d out
In a fainting condition

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At a meeting of the National Agricultural La.
bonrere Union, held st Leamington on if ro.day night, Mr.
Arch defended himself end his movement from instil., news-
paper criticlam, cud a relegation wee tape apprort gof
his conduct end investing him with dlscreti nary poer/. to
undertake whatever would condu,e to the Whereon' or the
union

A conference wag held in Newcastle last Friday be-
tween the ',presentative, I the Durham &linen Ateocia
don and tbe Durham Coalowneri Areociation. The ptincipal
que,tton under dieennion WAB the applinttion for an alva,,,,e
of 20 per cont. anon the wager of all clan°n of c 'Dieu
workmen. The view. of the workmen worn atated by mr
Crowf,d, the mlnert' scent. At the conchal-in the owner.
intimated, without replying to toe arguments advanced.
that they would take • little time to consider their reply to
the application, and that they would give their deelaion In
due course. Butts la not at all probable that any concession
will be made.

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--12---th—e—eleven months ended the 30th ult. the—Val- tea of
woos Imported was £;81,917, and Ws year 1A55,054.

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The wardrobe of a fashionable New York poodle
tuna, wets over FS.

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Tee shillings takeu at the London Cattle Show leet
week eneou, t t £4 343 Of £1,817 leas than Ist year •

Foreigo hie..on j lariply consumed. This yen; the
value na d Imported wag £5,044,767, and laeC year
wee £3,600,27,3
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Who Pewee of Wales has most kindly sent twenty
pheasants, twenty putt Id ses. and ten hares for ill., um of the
patients ol the Wegmlootor Hospital
Advices from the Cape of Good Hope say tha
Commodore Commerell to *tenni} Improving In health, sad
Is able to take boating exercise In Slmon's Bay.

A large golden migle, measuring tight ftet across the
span of the wine., hut n captur. l alive In the south of
Berwickshire. In was t...k,n Ins ~rwlntro. haying been
caught by one of the to.,

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The consumption of foreign butter increases, In
the eleven months ended the 30th nit, the declared ratan tme
ported win £8,261,632, against 0,6.0.613 by tikv preceding
year.

BehrLen Saturday night and Sunday morning the
jewellery establlstruoct of tire Gilbert, til.zh-strott, If, If .st,
was entered, led watches and jewellery to the value ot £2,000
carried off.

Out of a crew of three-and twenty on board the
ateamer Beddow. of Newcastle, which foundered off the
small hlsnd of Oliveira, near Port Lego, only one man has
been saved.

Professor Owen has just discovered in the London
oiey at Sheppey a new foot WI with teeth somewhat, re-
sembling those In the Australian hooded lizard. He oou-
chides it to have been wen-fnoted and a fish-eater. No evi-
dence of true teeth had previously been known In any bird.
An offi dal trade statement received from Phila-
delphia estimates the produotion of Be/Ammer dee! In the
United Ststes this pier at about 140,000 tons. Next yawl
Colinnited ghat the prorinctive capacity of the Beesemeit
works of the United States will be carried to 222,000 tons.
Mr. W. H. Gladstone, M.P., as one of the Lords of
the (Inanity, Is busily employed with others in Dublin wan
an Inquiry into certain civil eetablishmenth He la
as president, and is likely to be detained some time oveartja
work.

Dr, Woodford, the new Bishop of Ely, Was oonse-
secreted on Sunisy in Westminster Abbey. The prelates
who took part in the ceremony ware the Archbishop of Can.
terbury sod the Bishops of Les,ion, Winchester, Rochesler,
Lincoln, Carlisle, Ripon, and Bishop Ractiongall.

Sir R. Phi Simon,. sitting In Chambers in the emrt
of Admiralty, ,m Tuesday, of dared the sum of L 7,060, whic.h
had been realised from the elle of the HurlZlo, t be paid
over to the OWDtr■ of the Nortivitet, thus terminating the
itigation.

tle Liverpool Winter Assizes Thomas Corrigan
was boon guilty of tte murder ot M. mother In Liverpool on
the let November, under very atrocious olrcunsfancvs. Hs
was sentenced to death.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster have
subscribed a hundred guineas In aid of the establistunent Of
the National Training School for Cookery.

They have enme very smart business awn in New
Jersey. Last we-k•youog man Was struck by lightning in •
field near Trenton, and when the people began to flock to the
spot to look for the victim, they found • man standing by the
crops° trying to seillightning rods to the crowd.

If St Petersburg is to be more than brilliantly
Illuminated on the night of the marriage of the Princes(
Marie and the I) Ike of fidinborah, Lonctin will tindosysur
to via with that oity for, according to account& Mare Wlll
be • display extraordinary on that night In London.

A telegraph messenger boy got his despatches mixed
the other day, and Winded • jockey • telegram whleh rest
"Can you &apply our pulpit next Sunday 1 and to • well-
known clergyman • ileapatch which rwd, "The raw la poW
posed till Monday. Can't you some down and spend Bun.
day "

M. Benfor, the roarer of Devon', held his annual
sale of fat stock at Broughton-house, Aylesbury, on Thum
day, In last week. fifty Devon oxen were sold. Borns of
thwn realised fancy prices. Two animals which had taken
prince at Vie Birmingham and London shows fetched £7l
each; the average was Lid 13e. eid. per head.

The Commiesion on the projeet of a submarine
tunnel between France ant England held a sitting lint
Saturday. Many delegates, engineers, dce , were present,
and the meeting was unselmously of opinion that the estab-
lishment of a submarine railway between the two itountrige
should be declared to be. matter ot public utility.

"We are requeeted to state that many of th•
branches oonnected with the Amalgamated Engineer.' 80d07
In the London district support the winces movement—the
men on etrike having receiv.d from 7s. to 9. pee week, with
1.. a piece for each child. Forty shops also are now paying
the minimum of ins. In consequonce of this agitation, which
promise to spread widely in the east of the metropolia."—
Daily TelagralA.

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It is announced by the In Exhibition
Commissioners that over. hundred stoves have been lent In
I. c rupees for the 8 clety of Arts prizes. Special rooms
are being hulls for testing them, and the experiments will
very shortly commence.

The Railway News Pays that twelve of the largest
chimp upon 11.0 /vernment arising out of the purchase of
the telegrsphs hove been enurai-ted to arlitration. Ths
latest parhamentary tetarns show that the surn paid for
taking over the telegrephs was n any £6 00U,V0 It IS
probeh'w that when the whole of the claims are alepeed of
the 0.4 io the country will not he far short of Z 10,000,000 or
£12,000,000

In the American Congress the first practical result
of the Cuban conflict is • vote of four milLlon dollars towarde
the expense 010 h tuts been incurred in the reorganbation of
the navy, ihe vote entailed • general discusdon of the
v. 1:y f the Gl vernment with respect to the Virginlue. II
was in the mein warmly approved.

On Friday evening a farmer named Cornish, occupy.
inc an estate near Creaisoa, was kllled by the accidental age
charge of a gun under rather peculiar circumstances. Mr.
Cornish was in the farm-yard, carrying a loaded and a
fowling piece, and by some mishap the barrel partedrt
the stook and fell to the grnun 1, instantly exploding, It Ii
supposed, in coneequence of the capped nipple coming In
contact with • stone. The charge entered the lower part of
Mr. Cornish's DAV, Mtitllatigg It severely. Death was In-
staitaneous.

A henpecked Aberdeen gentleman determined o sup
with a party of friends against the will if his wile. He wm
rev-teed that he would. and she that he should i.ot go lie did
not go. His friend, inland tin,,., d, jad fora lark, invaded big
residence, *hire they found him and his wife sitting in
their chair fast asleep. He had given her an opiate that
he might allp away, and she had given him one that he might
not.

The otrike in the lace trade at Nottingham, by
which 1,000 men sni several thousands of women and chil-
dren are out of work, has now reached its twentieth week.
The fand•of the men are exhausted, but the local trades
generally have decided to support them until 'settlement
has been effected.
" There is a proposal to have a superior class carriage
on rallwa. to the fir.t, which is not quite nut enough for
the ' better' clas, of traveilers. If the directors would have
pad td carriage., similar to the padded FOOl.ll in which
violent lunalcs are kept, so that pusengera w,uld not be
.0 !Icelt tote hurt durlng the now neceuary nodulous, the
lanovation w,m1.1 pay well, The chs .ce of escape would be
worth a large sum to any traveler.'--Court Journal.

A novel experiment is now on trial with regard to
Oh. artificial pr“ervati nof m-at in the shape of the tra•
pertan n to this Gauntry from Canada of the carcass ot an
or preserved retire in Ice. the animal was killed two days
befo, the departure of the ste .mer Soandinamon, and warn
shipped on bArd that vessel tor Liverpool, at which pendia
bo• arrtv,d, In excellent condition.

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The Doke of Cerobridge haa approved of a very
stringent regelstion viol • View to prevent any poseible
surreptitious revival of the purchase system in the army. In
say cue for the promoil n, transfer, or restoration to inn
pay torn hall-pay, the officer concerned will have to sign a
declaration on his hcnnur as an riliner and a gentleman that
he will not pay or cause to be paid any m 'nay in respect of
the promotion, transfer, or restoration, or recognise any
such payment on the part of any other p,rson.

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A New York paper Baia that • gentleman of that
city recently addressed a letter to "Her hi.j-sty Queen
Victorls, London, England," sating for her Ana graph. Ile
received the follo•log reply :—"Blr Thomas Eilden'ph begs
to return tle eneloaeo photograph t Mr. —, and to inform
him in reply to his clreu ar that the Qemen'a atrograpti Ia
never given away. Buckingham Palace, London, tub
October, 1b73 "

The Army and Navy Gazetec states that the Queen
hm, on the recommendation of Mr. Gladstone, allotted o
Lady M'Clure • penalon of £lOO per annum from the gall
List. Toe late Vice-Admiral Sir B. M'Clure died hitastate,
coneequently the widow only became entitled to one-third
the property Which was anon, under £6,0(0 WV M'Clitrill
cannot ordain the ordinary widow'. pension, owing (oth.
regulaUons of the tervi,e, which prevent her from claiming

Mr. Brady, inspector of 6eheries, 6, Percy-place,
Dahlia, says that In reply to Ws former appeal on behalf of
the three widow. and eleven orphans ~f the three poor
flshernan drowned off Arran 1.,. d. while hauling their
tishing lines OD the 22n1 tilt he had received RAO. HSI
este, • What lo that among 14 people I" and he mate •
further earnest appeal for such a sum of money al will en-
able the widows to he placed In some position to earn a
livelihood for themselves and their orphans until the latter
are able to support themselves by their one labour.
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Ac3ording to a Vienna journal German cigars are
seen worm, than the bad ones sold In thla country. All owls
or sood substance may be lotted rolled up to the leaf of the
fragredat weed. The welter states that within hie own ob-
servations the following have been Vaud :—Bristles, hair,
wag!, bits of lie en and of leather, needles, shirt I uttoin. and
teeth. These sulatances glow,ng In the smoker's ci far Must
satordsh him. Through the ruffian of one •Co se's feather
was thaw, In In pol to end. In another was • cm], and In
• Month.

Sunday (the 14th) having been the tweldh anniver-
sary of tbe death of the IT nee Consort, her tisiestf, with
the Prfixe eel Mlle., of Wales, the Duke of Niiriburgh.
Pun 'o and Prlnces Christian, Prince and Princess Louie
of lieue, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Prille.lll
Beatrice, paid the en, net visit to the B. i)al reausolestni
Pt Prorroore. Ihe Dein of Windsor, assisted by Dean
81an4y, read the service, and the choir. of the Chapel
Rossi and of St. tf,orat's chanted the Imuna. The undo.
conc'oded with the anthem " Bleesed are Use dead hat
died In tLe Lure "

ace the commutation of his sentence Marshal
Simone he written a 141er t Marshal 11 ac %teflon, inch oh
he says:— You have ra Mt rub re the time whe.,ciStlFVoll
our ".utry YI e by tide; but I fear that the kind fueling
of your heart hoe prevailed over venous of State. I should
hove led without regret, for the petition addre•sed to r u
by my judges fort commutation, avehges my hom,nr." M.
Lachand hat sent. letter to M. Them, thanking nlm ac-
cordiug. when Pretident of the Republic, the right to
Ma, god II Zdfle to eghlaln his conduct bef.,re Judges M.
Lace aud, moreover, thanks M. Thlers for firmly believing in
the luhocence of the Marshal, and mays that the future will
prove he sat not mistaken.

On Sunday last, at Hitch Alms in all the Roman
Catholic churches and chapels of the Metropolis the recent
Encyclical Letter of Hi. Hollogui "up, o the present persona.
Mon if the Catholic Church" was read, either partly or in
ez ewe, by the order of Archbishop anhing. By de-
sire of Archbishop li•noing the "fat ;dui" were at the same
time for r aLy warned. In their .....ol congregation., that
th se who dispute or deny that Definition of the Infallibility
of the Roman Pontiff or Impugn the decrees and dogmatical
c ustqutlhos f the late VIItiCAD COILLICiI Incur the penalties
attschin; to the sin of heresy, and are in danger of being
Pre .1111nrallested from the Unity of the Church and from the
F Id of Christ.

At the Roman Catholic Cathedral, St. George'r,
Southwark, on Sunday, hi usignor Capel preached at the .
High Mass u?on the etni,gle at present going on between
tre Church sed State to Germany and ffeltamrland, and
eoeraity npon the position am'dst all these contests of the
Roman Cath..lio Church ibu Cathedral wag crowded In
every put. The right rev. preacher c ,mmeucel by saying
that he war not actinz aganst the spirit of that which was
going on in the donate of Southwark ny referring to the
great perseculloo which was going on against the Church of
God aln.i4hty In every pulpit, and lu that pulpit, would
be read the EacycllCal Later which had been piblished to
the world of tiler Most Holy Lord Pill, the Ninth, In watch
he. the Chief Past m of the Church, thought It necemare
boldly to smart what the truth was and to declare what were
lb se priert,Ll,a which were to guide this C..arch in drag.
gang agatnst the world.

"Sir
Mlianca aLn%trwgiscland"of dnethrme United Kirslve hei
n
ceg
d
o
m
forth
to quote In their precedecite from ttreign legla ation. flame
Darmitadt his resolved to 14 the trade in white henceforth
elittrely free. For ten years to come wine merchants and
tante- per. are to pay at the rate of two-thirds of she present
direct tax levied OD their licenses , after which It Is lutended
that this should entirely cosi.* In all other Tripods from
the 1.1 of January neat the •lois trade through mt the Grand
Doc iy le to be pi ecilely on the saflt. luring a. the trade In
bread and meat. the preeeut ystein of police visitation and
inepection of wine cellars with • claw to inland reveatie
tszetion. and ell duties on making, bottling, and ell=
are to be aboolutady abolished loom the end Of the
roonth.°—PM Mutiategte.
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