The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-08-23 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISR Atli FOREIGN.
The painter Winterhalter has left a fortune of four
million, of (room

The cholera appears to be severe in Chicago. As
mary as 322 deaths In one week are reported.
The air gas with wbich Great Marlow in lit up, inw,
after a five months' trial, proved a peifect enemas. It pee-
scale, double the illumloatlng power, and Is much ch.apee..

The receipts from the 1;t: Exh.thi ion of tho I{7,yal
Academy stnounted to between fifteen and sixteen th ussod
pox de Not five years ago, thirteen thousand pounds was
considered a marvellously huge sum to he obtained by this
[MUM . . . . .

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Mr. Gladstone, we understand, has been advised on
hich legal authority that his a•sumptlon of the Chancellor-
ship of the Exchequer doe, not oftouts hi, seat for Greenwich.
I." odor these circumstances, no notification of his ac:eptance
of the odic° will be made to the Speaker; and, therefore,
even aupposlnc, which there Is absolutely no reason to be-
lieve, that the speaker should hold a contrary opinion to
that of the authorities consulted, no action can be taken,
or writ hinted, till after the meeting of
wryer.

Mr. &them appeared in San Francisco on June 30th
as " Lord Dundreary," and during the first week of his en-
gagement the receipts were close on 2,(00 dollars a night in
gold. It le clear that Dundreary has not been done dreier)
yet.
Sad mementoes of the ill-f ated Northlfeet continue to
be forthcoming. A day or two ago the sails of that 111-fated
Olio were spread out on Dover beach. Lately there has been
more than tine sale by auction of articles which the divers
have succeeded In bringing up from the wreck.

1 From the official railway returns for 1872 it appears
that the clpital sunk in railways has increased 16 millions
'lnce 1871 and the average dividend on capital paid up as
: risen from 42 In 1869 to 4.74 lad year.

On SatneJay evening three vying men, named
Tcbbs, Kay, and Dowling. were on the clouthampton Water
In a Nablus boat, which capsized in a sudden squall. Kay
a young man aged 22 and flowing, aced 20, were drown( d.
It is intended to erect on a suitable place in the
contra of Lotion statues to the memory of Wycliffe and
Tyndale, in connect:on with their efforts to secure " • free
Sod open Bible" for the people.
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Mr. Fechter, the tragelian, hes purchased a farm of
57 s.:res, three miles from Quakertown, Bucks county, Pa,
and intends to spend all his leisure time on it.
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The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges
(under the head of " Conee'ence M 'Hey ") the receipt of thc
tiret halves of two eo uotes from "IL P I." for Tocometax
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In the last seven mcnthe the nnmher of homes ex-
ported was 1,3 M, oi which 543 went to lemma. -rue value
was £77,02,. In the same period last year the number was
1,684, and the value .ClO4 913. In seven months of 1871 as
many as 4,104 horses were exported to France.
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"A needy incumbent with a young family" writee
to the Standard that he has just been presented with a small
incumbency, worth £B9 a year, and that the fees for institu-
tion cost him clime upon £7O.
A much needed improvement in to be adopted by the
French railway companies—that of directing the porters to
open the carriages for travellers on the arrival of the train.
The practice is to leave the honour of this duty to the public,
who to their credit perform it complacently.

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It ix stated that the Khan of Kiva poesesaos hoarde
of gold and silver, and that be Is in a position to pay down
the whole amount of the war indemnity with the greatest
ease did Roads care to pres, him for Immediate payment.

Isoline MiMond, who was arreeted and has been
several times remanded on a charge of murdering her baby
at au hotel In R.men, was brought up at Bow-street police.
court In London, last Satnrd4y, and In the absence of the
French depositions she a. discharged.

At Geneva, on Sunday, Father Hyacinthe celebrated
masa in Franc for the first time, and adoreesed his coogre-
tion upon the aigniflcance of the event The attendance wax
lars e.
The Brighton Daily News, in a leading paragraph,
eals:—" We hoer, oft what we believe to he the best au-
thority, that we shall have one more Budget before the
dissolution."
Mr. Robert Goodman, the commercial traveller of
Glasgow, who was sLriously injure lie the late railway tool.
duet at the NVl,:an stati .11, died on Tuesday.
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A despatch from Frankf.rt F, tate a that a frati has
',,en discovered to have been pervettated upn Mean.
Rothschild to the mount of IEO,OOO fl.

The Liverpool School Board have, after a long de.
hate adopted the report of a ant -committee, re •ornmending
an increase I.expendlture of about £2OO 00 for further school

" A denial is given," says the X 1 Xme Siècle, "to
the stetemeut that the Count de Chambord intends coming
to France in the month of September, and taking up his
residence In the chateau from which he derives his title."

In a trade circular issued by a firm of colliers at
Caraff, It is stated, as a reason for a diminished output at
the colleries, that quite onuhalf of thee dlleries are en j yips
themselves at the naside or assisting In harvesting opera-
tion.

The wheat crop in the neighbourhood of Oxford is
generally considered an average one. Barley, of which there
was • large breadth sown, is an extraordinary crop, and a
great yield is expected Ile bean crop Is very good, and
oats on heavy land are very prolinc. In some few districts,
we regret to say, the potato disease has broken out.

A shocking occurrence took place on Tuesday after-
noon during • storm of thunder and lightning at Maccles-
field The rain fell In torrents, and • poor fellow named
halm Pearson, a partial cripple from paralysis, ls supposnd to
have been standing Milder a beech tree in Chester-road for
shelter. Fierce flashes of lightning were noticed, and a few
minutes afterwards Pearson was found bins dead at the foot
of a tree, having evidently been killed by lightning.

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The yoang woman who was found dead ia a field at
Ham, near Richmond, the other day, has be identitled
Ham ah Browning, a housemaid at Burlington-house School,
Richo.ond. Au Inquest au held on Saturday evening, and
the Jury returned • verdict " that the deceased died from
sell strangulation, Inflictzel while In a state of unsound
mind." _

M. Thieve, in traveilling to Lucerne, stopped on
Friday evening at BeMort. The town was decorated in his
honour with flags, end he was serenaded. On arriving at
Muthouse on Saturday moil .ng he was welcomed byt large
crowd assembled to meet Lim, and greeted with cries of
"Long live Thiers, the Liberator of France !"
The Inland Revenue Commissioners have to take
proceedings in many csaes for the rec very of p.nalties for
non-,l3ment of the tan cn doss. In the tinanci II year
Ib7-73 a minify wee imposed by the ma,.l trates to E..gland
In 1,516 lostuices in 2,614 others the COMlllitliiolB[ll
accepted a compromise line

"Perhaps the largest orchard in the world," says M
Pynsert, hi the Ballet,ri it Arboreculture, "la to be tinn
In California' It ea .end. ever 426 acres, sod contalas more
than 75,000 fruit trees of various kinds. A single orange tree
growing in this orchard is said to produce about 20,600
oranges Ins favourable MOM.

At the church of St. Bamabas, Pimlico, on Sunday,
the minivan, which was preached by the Rev. Mr. Itro Nue,
consisted for the most part of a defence of outward cere-
monies, ornaments, and architectural embellishments in
churches; and in the course of his sermon the preacher
reinarke i that " this is not a time for C SU ion and mod eration
in the use of symbolic ceremonies, when men are openly
ridiculing the doctrines lying underneath them."

James Connor, a boiler maker, who recently resided
In Ltrtdon, sits tried at the Liverpool Assizes, before Mr.
Justice Brett, f-ar having caus.d the death, at Liverpool, of
Jomes Geffney, a nett ve of oh, Meld. Connor was ill.treatlnc
a woman, when G diney interfersd In her behalf. Bonn 'r
eta .bed 0 ffoey lo toe Lack so severely Mot he died early
neat morniog in the nouthsrn Ilmwitai. The jury returued
a verdict of "Wilful murder," and his lordship paused sew
fence of death in the usual form.

A hi, ycle race from London to Brighton and back,
betwteu all gentlemen sele-ted from the Ili Id!mex, and nix
from the Surrey Bloycle lilubs, came off on Saturday The
start was mare at six am , and the race was woo by Mr.
Mood, of the Middlesex Club, who reached the goal, Ken-
nington Oval, on the return journey, at eight minutes past
five, being followed 16 minutes after by Mr. Cauron, cf the
Surrey Club.
No censure can be too harsh for that wretched man
who, being married the other day, put the wedding ring Into
his im,nth, when the service began, that he might 11.,d it at
the proper moment. That in ment arrived. The minist.r
winked fur the raig. The trembling bridegroom gave an
edient start, a sudden gulp—and the ring had disapp,ared
down his unlucky throat.

The dealers in game and principal restaurateurs of
Paris, entered into au arrangement last year among themselves
not t purchase partridges or hares from any person out of
the authorised season, the penalty being 2 000 frencs for each
offence Several of the journals no. declare that the agree
meat has been most h..mourably observed.

The Lord Mayor and Sheriffs of London will visit
Southampton in state on the 5,h proximo, Uhl IV 111-be enter-
tained by the corporation and Inhabitents ol the latter t )sn
It it Intends I that the procession srall eater the teen from
the ancient metropolitan roadway. Tne last time such a
ceremony trek place was about twenty years ago.

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Ladies in fashionable attire are gentraily supposed
to bk uptivating even to the eyesof nusophisticsted nature.
Bet look at the facts. A dog brought up on a whaling vessel,
who had been absent on a three years' voyage, and who had
never seen a woman, was so frightened at the first he saw
when be finally reached port that he immediately went beta
a lit.

The conference of miners' delegates, representing
30,00 J South Lancashire colliers, concluded Its sittings at
Wigan on Saturday. The subject under discus. tun has heel)
the weighing clause of the Mines Regulation Act ; and reso-
lutions wale passed insisting that the Act should be carried
out, protesting against exemptions and exteusi ins of time,
and ptedging the meeting to use every legitimate means to
estabtish the system ox payment legaliael by the Act.

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The Omnibus Comps ,y of Paris intends for the
future sendinc It unsaleshle horses to the abattqlr, and to
retell the flesh of dear percherons to those of their servants
woo desire it. Meat is SO Alan that the employe,* In question
could never afford to purchase It The coin.csuy has 9,000
hones In its service, on an average 124 are more or less
knoeted up, and six per west have to bu slPposed of.

A man named BlAck, while wurkiag at Dieser*.
Bruce au d Co.'s steam canvas manufactory, near S ,uth
Shields, went ibto the engiue-r ann, where, by some mishap,
he became entaug'ed to the maehlnery. Ile was whirled
round several times before he coird be extricated by a
fellow-workman, and was IlteraPy crushed to pieces. his
remains having to be taken up in fragments. The deceased
was main i d, and has left • widow and several young
children.

Another fight ham occurred at the Curragh Camp
between the Queen's Company Rifles and the North Cork
Militia A number of the Queen's Company men crossed
over to the .• Gibbet Rath,' Where the Conic men are
are stationed, sod meeting two of them, gave them a severe
beating. They attempted to set near the huts, but did not
succeed. An °Meer of the North Cork Militia reported the
affair to the Provost Marshal, and • party of four men were
out till a late hour searching for the aggressors, but did not
make any arrests.
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In conaequence of the irrepreedble rain on Monda3r,
the military programme at Dartmoor had to ha pmdponed
till the afternoon, much to the disappointment of visitors,
who swarmed into the camp In the morning, and had to wait
several hints for their anticipated spectacle. The tight,
when it did commence, bad to he shorn of Its fair proportions,
aid nal not altogether gratif)ing to military critics. The
C..lloock Cease manoeuvres opencd under conditions of
weather ains“t as ant Avourahle as at Da:tumor.

Tne London correspondent of the Alanckester Guar-
dian arms that • forthc.uning volume b!, C ierniter Ernst
Bunsen on the " Chronology of the 8uh1.," winch Is I, be
1-sited bituultaneousl), flit only only • n both stirs ,dt the
Atlantic, but in four of the leading lamusges of Europe—
E,,g; nib, French. German, and Italian—will present some
%stares of extraordinary Mt. rest. One of the most startling
of its eccznticities will he the calculation wh:ch assigns to
Jesus Christ the sge of fortydaine years at the time of his
cruet:ion.

An rfficial account of the evacuation of Belfort gives !'
the quantities of meter at of war removed, for the chief port
oslaleost y French, which su.gests the ,Mmensity of the spas
of this description that must have fallen into Goren us hands
in the whole of the fortresses captured, and now at the dies
p nal of the victors. Tee list rims thus: 294 r diwsy waggons
laden cite essences of sari ass calibre, 39i with projectiles,
129 wilh powder, 239 with timber, 17 with tents or tarpaulin.,
5 alth ambulances, sod 23 with minus 4rtillery stores. All
these were nclsneivs of tle r. &tar ettramisstritt it tree to be
removed, which were of themselves en the place
hovirg Men completely prAletorred Icy the G -cadre wi.h
rations for 100) men for a perioi f ten months.
The Welch National Eiste,ldfed woe 014. nei On Thee-
iiay at Mold, when Sir. libaustone, co president, delivered
Lit. Inaugural eddroa Ile reviewed the conduct of the
Eagreb Gavernmtnt In respect to Wake, showing that since
tine revolution, until a few years ago, it hal ben the im-
waist pol:cy to till ecclesiastical appiiintmerits indhat county
with Ettglishmen ;that the English Government endeavoured
to bectsr the Welch people into the abandonment 01 their
I dlgnage but they had clung to it with a fidelity obsoletely
urn sampled, because It had bee for them a • celing not of
lonsulge merely, hotel patriotism, and this he said was a
great lesson stitch Governments might apply to oil subjects.
A moat melancholy boating accident occurred in
Belfast Lough on Saturday, whereby two young men lost
their lives, ar d three others leads narrow escape. A racing
gig was being rowed across the lough from Holywood to
Green Island to take part in a regatta at the latter place.
The evening was strirmy and the eel, rough, and In one of
the squalls the gig was upset. Three of tho crew managed
to get on to the craft, which was Illation bottom upwards,
and from this perilous position they were rescued by tee
steamer Britt on her way up to Beirut ; but the other two
were o.fortunately r:ro vetted. Otte of them was son of the
Rev. Henry Donau.. n, Presbyterian minister of HolywOod,
and the other's name van Withers.

A German cortfepondent writes :—All the Prussian
cavalry regiments have had to report td, the Emperor
%Mho, their experience of the French horses wt Ilh they
captured and utilized dining the war. Though differing on
many p Ants, the reports agree in general that the elerman
military . orses,are preferable in nearly every respect to the
French, and especially to those of Arab race, This COtifirrilt
what was stated to me In September, 1.70, at the camp of
Bayonne', in Belgium, when I went to tee the French pri-
soners there, who had a number of their horses with tibm
Ise Belgian officers, as well as the French cavalry sergeants
(there were no French °dicen in the camp), declared to me
that the Arab horses, of which there were some AM sped-
mens in the camp, could be considered In a military point of
view only as pretty Soya

A denial has been given in official circleg at Berlin
tl the report that Metz will be short,ly returned to France
through the good offfilee of the Emperor of Route..

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The residence occupied by the Emperor Napoleon
on the Island of E be, I. 1814, will gently be offered for .el
at the upset price 01 400,000 Insect

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The Foresters held their annual fete at the Crystal
Palace on Tuesday, whic,‘ sr, attended by Llsty-elght
thousand person"
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The total receipts into the Exchequer from the let
April to 16th August a-ere es 735,96 e, se egalnat £2%170,180
at the correeponalng period hut year. The expenditure was
£32,155,720, and the balances In the Bank of England and
Bank of holand on Saturday last were £3,271,617.
During the week ending Saturday last, 2T3 births
owl 8,834 deaths were registered In London and twenty other
large c ttes and towns of the United Kingdom, the ntortantr
her g nt the rate of 27 dexths nonnally to every 1,000 persons
Lying. In Loudon the rate was 25 to the 1,000.

Five girls, neither of them over twenty yearn of age,
have entered 920 scr.a of land In Room, and Intend to make
a dairy farm of It. All but two ot the girl, are graduates of
Ead.rn itch, nig, and two of them are proficient In agricul-
tural ehenninta7.
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Lnnlnn Occette contains a return bowing that
during t4u mouth of July four cattle. s fflicte,l with pleuro-
pneumonia were brought from Hatutairgh to London, and
ideughtered at the place of landing.
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i sign on the door of a Paris lod zing house reads
"Ilueic Leasona—Pieno and Rig Drum—from eight o'clock
a.m, to ten o'clock p.m." Phu mt house to Ilve in, we
should think, especially for a poet.
Preparations for the execution of Montgomery on
Tuesday, the 2fith inst., have Men commenced at Omagh
Gaol, The Protestant chaplain endeavours to imprees the
unhappy man with, sense of his position, but with Utile
effect.

A power-loom weaver named Bates bee obtained a
verdict for £3OO against the Lancaahire and Yorkshire Rail-
way Company, for injuriee re .elved by him in a collision at
Lowmoor.

" Feudal Castle. —Do you think you can seek Yorick ?
It so, please write to me. Am still in the country where you
left me, so you can direct here soy day mkt week. Do not
be uneasy."—AdvertLsement to The Tomes.

At a public gathering lately one of the gentlemer
present was called upon for a speech, and 'do la how her e
sponded Gentlemen slid women, I a. Ino epeecher
moron tirent) years back learn. here an Id.ot hey, ands's,
what are It"

Mr. John Bright, in a letter to the Chairman of the
B!rmthg .o Liberal Association, naphtha that certain for-
malitit a which have to be tr.o.e througn be:ore he can vacate
Me seat ma) de4y the eiretion tor a few weelm In re-
ference to visiting Itirmin,,ham, the right hon. gentleman
edit I am .011101111 to COMO. MUG!. more •OtiOFIS to 001310
than anyone In Birmaigham can be ti receive me:'

French railway companies are very severe in their
punishment of engine-drivers and stokers for neglect, the
driver or stoker must remain beside the engine once steam is
Pdnetual running and economy In the consumption of
oil, grease, and c.od are rewarded according to • fixed scale •
the nueolhuccs must insure their lives, the companies paying
half the prexulum. lint famines of any serval t ki,lnd in
the service will be provided with employment by the nom.
pan es.

Turalay ni4ht's Ca:ette contains s statement that
competent authorities have officially notified that epidemic
cholera exist. in Stettin. It also contains notices 10.1 the
Portuguese Government have declared the port of Venice
and the cities of Memphis and Bashvdie in the United States,
to be "infected," the ports of Turkey, of the Austro-Hun-
garian Empire, and the ports of the Mississippi to be
"suspected " of cholera morbus ; and the port. of Sweden,
Denmark, and Russia, in the Baltic, to be free from that
disease.

At the distribution of prizes on Saturday, at Vienna,
1,091 exhibitors in the =intimacy deportment participated.
Of 40 diplomas of honour awarded, England received ; and
She also gained 39 medals for progress, 43 for merit, and 41
certificates. Belgium had 2 diplomas of honour, 9 medala for
progress and 11 for merit, an 15 certificates. The United
State. of America, ebtained 2 diplomas of honour, 26 medals
for progreoo, and 19 for merit, and 18 certificates
An extensive strike has occurred in the lace trade at
Nottingham. The lace maker. have hitherto been paid
during "alterations" (that is, while preparing the machinery
for new patter= of lace) at the rate of 3s 42. per day. They,
however, now demand 51. per day, and to this the masters
are determined not to accede. The consequence is that a
number of the men have turned out, and IL is expected that
more than a thousand of them will be on strike. The atti-
tude of the masters I. very firm.

Lawrence Smith, who was convicted at the last
Cavan Avian of the murder of Patrick Lynch, wee executed
on tiaturday ahhhi Cavan Gaol. The hangman was the
same that operated at the execution of Carr, at Richmond
Briciewell, two or three years ago, when the rope having
been made too long, the head wail completely severed from
the body. On Saturday, when the drop fell, Smith's feet
touched the gr, mid, and the hangmen seeing this Immedi-
ately drew up the rope a foot. Smith died in three minutes.
"M. Adam," any. the Rappcl, "went to pay a fare-
well visit to M Rochefort on board the Virgniti, and was ac-
companied by the three children of the prisoner. He found
the latter ill from sewsicknese, which had attacked him
during the fora hours crossing from Saint-Martin-dank to
the harbour of Aix. Otherwise M. Rochefort seemed calm.
At parting, he embraced his blend, resommended
cbiidr,n to him, and gave hi the mcesaary lnatruction how
to, Soot the sale of the few articles of furniture which con.
atitute his last resourcts. He left t the hands of N. Adam,
as the guardian of the children, the money which he had
pOPI3,IIOd, lestrvlog only three or four hundred francs for
himself."

The Daily News correspondent at Vienna, in a tele.
graphic de.paten, speak, of the general distribution of
prize connected with the Exhibition. which took place on
al.nday afternoon In the Winter Riding School of the lm.
periwl Palace, as a "milincauer," inasmuch as no prizes were
distributed, and the ceremony consisted in reading out the
names of the successful exhibitors. Three thousand people
were assembled. comparatively few t tclog in court dress.
The Archduke Karl Ludwig, who made a shirt congratu-
latory address, represented the abet at Emperor, being ac-
companied by his broth. rs the Archdukes Albrecht and
Leopold. The reading of the list of prize winners, so far
as was ready, occupied about half-an-hour.

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The suit of Dun Francisco D./teals against Dona
Lisa (.-s Queen of Spatn) Is to stand over till November.
fdeanwhile the plaintiff has applied to the Civil Trbunai of
the Seine for an order obliging his coneort to place in the
hands oft recolvoro sufficient sum to secure the regular pay-
ment of certeln ansmitiea, which are chargeable on her
eat ite, to himself, the Prince of the Asturias, and each of the
four 'identity Ile accuses his wife of squandering her
fortune in political enterprises and extravagant amusements..
She was, -he says, worth a mildon francs a year ev`!en she
came to live in Paris, but since then her incltne has dwindled
down to fa 0,00 fratset, and if ate Is allowed to go on se she
seems Inclined to do she will in stew years be penniless.