The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-09-26 00:00:00

EigTOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

On the Wt Coast of Africa we maintain some
1,200 black soldiers at a cost of nearly klOodlol a-year.

The Po Oa:ette announced. on Th»raday in
last week, that the Marquis of Bute had formally j.dned the
Roman Cathodic Church. Next olay the Globe received a
telegram from the Marquis of Bute himself, in which ne
says :—'• I authorize you to state that it is not true that I
have joined the Roman Church."
One .T. H. Mower, of Tonawanda, claims to have
discovered a new method of sub-aqueous communication, by
which he can converse with persons at a distance without
cable or other conductor than the water. Ile proposes to
establish communication between America and 'palms within
three months at an expense of not niore than 3,000 dollars.
Electricians discredit the statement.

Frank lA, he, well-known in America as a publisher
of illustrated newspapers, has brought a suit against the
eminently respectable Boston Post for libel. charging damages
of 2000 dola The Post had announced Leslie's arrival at
Richfield Springs, an up-country watering-plaee, "with a
lady and two fast horses."

It is estimated that the salmon caught this year by
the twenty licensed nets in the rivers Taw and Torridge
Devonshire , have realised over £1,300. The fishermen have
never hail such a good year before.

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It may be remembered by newspaper readers that a
few days back, just after a wedding at Rochelle, a Madame
Lequeniat was accidently shot dead by a notary of Arced,
named Mechin, who, when handling a charged revolver,
happened to touch the trigger, and, the piece going otf,
killed the lady. He has now bees tried before the correctional
p dice of the first-named place for homicide by imprudence.
As the unfortunate incident was evidently quite uninten-
tional, be was only condemned to a tine of 5001. and costs.
That shrewd business mm n who rides the destinies
of Egypt did a wise thing when he turned his attention to
the cultivation of cotton. It has largely increased the pros-
perity of Egypt, and may ultimately lead to the regeneration
of that country. Last year the crop yielded 250,000 bales,
while this year it is expected to amount to 400,000
This fact is pregnant with importance as regards the future
of the land of the Pharaohs.

On Saturday, Mr. Markham., the revising barrister
for North Lincolnshire, held his vairt at Gainsborough.
Having returned to hi: hotel. he was writing a cheque when
he was suddenly attacked by apoplexy Medical aid was
promptly in attendance, and deceased appeared to be better,
but the medical man liad not left the In.use before he was
recalled. On returning to the chamber he found Mr.
Markham was dead.

It is announced that a baronetcy is to be conferred
on Vr. Charles Mill, is recognition of his forty-six years'
service in the home administrati4 Oil India. Mr. Milli was
elected a director of the East India Company as far back
as 1622, lind through the various changes which have since
occurred he has remained a member of the home govern-
ment.

A hook entitled, Path, the Socertion of France, has
just collie out. The author's aim is to prove, what every One
knew, that the Revolution has made Paris the master of the
nation's destinies lie has, however, some statistics which
are interesting enough to he quoted. In 1066 there were in
Paris 1,800,000 persons. Of these 1,08,000 were born out of
Paris; workmen and their families amount to 740,000 ;
,ervants and door-keepers, 210,000 students, 17,0430 ; and
vagabonds, 50,001). "I am certain," mhls the author " not to
Ile contradicted loy the Prefect of Police when I say that there
are over 100,0110 persons in Paris who ask themselves each
day lola- they are going to live the next. It is all army quite
ready for evil."

The Notion states that two ,if the political prisoners
in Australia, Patrick Doran, convicted with t;eneral Burke
for high treason in 1007, and Daniel Moriarty, of Mallow,
have been discharged, on condition of md returning to their
native lagl, at that, within the last ten days, Michael
Stanley, who, since February, 1007, has been imprisoned in
Millbana and Portland, has been unconditionally released.
The Democratic candidate in the United States for
President was recently liresented by an admirer with a huge
melon weighing nolli., ant it was at once converted into an
electh uttering instrument. The Democrats are circulating,
and the Republicans ridiculing, the following letter written
by Mr. Seymour to the melon grower My lear rir, your
water-melon made a sensation in our town, where we are not
often treated with a sight of one of such remarkable size. I
am gratified with your kind consideration in sending me the
present, and also with your kind letter. Thus far everything
looks well for us in this State, and in the North generally.—
Very truly yours, Horatio Seynnatr."

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The Queen will (says the (eel ..hpurnal) remain at
Dahnoral till the 2nd of November, and then reside at
Windsor until December. Her Majesty will spend the
Christmas at Osborne, snd, as usual, return to Windsor
t'astle for the winter season.

" Father Ignatius has been outraging the sensitive
feelings of Lonihani-street by telling its denisens that even
Jericho, in its worst days of Maminomworshim was not so
hod as i. 01161011. They have retaliattol by begging him to go
to Jericho, and adding that they, for their part, prefer to
stay in Jerusalem the Golden."—Tomohmele

The Springfield Republican rays —"A: worthy deacon
in a town aomewhere in North America gave notice at a
prayerineetino, the other night, of a church-ineeting that
was to be hell ionediately after, and unoonseiously added,
There is no objection to the female brethren remaining.'"
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Amusing stories are told of the precautions taken
by or for the Emperor of Russia, on the occasion of his
forthcoming vis.it to Warsaw. The Poles are warned never
to walk about in groups, or even two together, during the
Czar's stay there. Met, must all wear round hats, and be
shaved on the same pattern. l'amiages are not to go
through certain streets, except at appointed hours. The
inhabitants have also been ordered to clean the fronts of
their houses, which must be decorated with garlands, and
lighted up at night lil by a '• spmtaneous illumination." All
this would he incredible if there were not a very special and
circumstantial decree upon the suldect.

The Catholic bishop anil clergy of Galway have re-
solved le oppose any candidate not pledged to Mr. Wad-
stone's resolutions, and to vote against any Government not
making them Cabinet measures.

A London publican is advertising full-flavoured ports
and sherries (foreign vintage at a penny per glass !

Marshal, Marmahon, Governor-General iif Algeria,
attrilades tile misiortunes of that colony to the Press. which
he says he ought to have suppresae.lfrom the beginning.
The Duchess of Newcastle was safely delivered of
of a I laughter on Friday last. The Duchess and infant are
both &dug well.

On the occasion of his visit to Hambure,h, the King
of Prussia appears to have hal the most pacific. langtume.
Ile assured the merchants whom he met npon the Exchange
that every one shared in their desire for the maintenance of
peace: and expressed his surprise that his speech at Kiel
could have been construed In any but a pacific sense.

A catrrespondent at Rome writes Humour.; are
afloat about the Pope's health, which some represent to he
extremely good, while others speak of it dolefully and declare
that he will never see December. I believe be is not so well
as be appears to be."

The reported discovery of a Fenian plot, at Sheffield,
telegraphed to a I.ondon contemp:.rary .11 Friday in last
week, turns out to have been a stupid hoax.
. .

A California paper speaks of a murderer as having
"a nonderfni talent for bereaving any family he does not
happen to like."

In London, the other morning, a woman, apparently
about thirty years of age, 11149 seen walking over London-
bridge. She smblenly mounted the stone parapet, and then
leaped into the river Thames. As the unfortunate creature
sprang over she cried out, "Gone, for ever !" Assistance
was almost immediately at hand, hut too late.

Mr. Beeeroft, M.P. (Conservative), who has repre-
sented Leeds for twelve years, on Saturday announced that he
would not again contest the borough, but would retire in
favour of "a younger and abler man." Mr. Beecroft has
been induced to take the step thus announced by his in-
ability, acing tc the state of his health, to comply w ith
what his election committee regarded as an indispensable
candidature, viz, that he should attend and address an
aggregate meeting of his supporters In the Victoria Hall.

"William Owen Wynne, who left the ship hamaxo,s
:a Geelong. Australia, is earnestly requested to communicate
Wth his friends in Ireland." advertisement in London
Time*.

A respectable-looking man, has been charged at the
head polic--01fice in Dublin with tampering with the
allegiance of two privates if the 66th regiment. It was sworn
that he net the soldiers on Sunday evening, and asked them
welt they like to become Fenians, and offered to treat thew
to drink. They accepted the invitation, but atter entering a
public-house balloted the man over to the police. 4118 Ilvtenco
was that he was intoxicated and did not know what he said
Ile was allowed to stand out on bail
The seveaty-sixth anniversary of the French
Republic was celebrated at a public meeting held at Cleve-
land Hall, Fitzroy square, London, lin Tuesday evening. A
resolution was proposed that a national association should be
formed he the purpose of advancing the princVes which it
was the object of the promoters of the revolution of 1792 to
establish, lOW after a lengthened consideration of details the
proposal was weed to, and a programme ordereol to be
drawn up.

Among the brevets &invention recently grunted in
France we read of a strong coffer, the peenliari.y of which
seems to be that if (ran Inlently 01,011 tad it Will kindle a
Bengal light, brilliant enough to assemblua multitude, Sr lie
will firmly believe that a house is on fire.

The quarterly return of the Trish Register-General
shows that the number of emigrants from Ireland
the quarter ending on the :tOth of 311110 last wt. 25.433, or
Uttti less than iii the same quarter if 1067. The numher of
births timing the quarter on,tiric ill June having bees 43,502,
the deaths 22,401. and the emigrant, 25,453, it would appear
that the increa,e in the populat ion reported in the previous
quarter has not been maintained and the decrease now
reported consequently amounts for the three months
to 4,352.
Since the commencement of the dog daya between
11,000 and 1.2.000 dogs have been "apprehended "In the me-
tropolis, of Si hich 8,000 or 9,000 have been destroyed,
An inquest WAR held at Kirbythore on Saturday
upon the body of Winton George Hoare, aged 14, a farm
servant. On the Nevi... day, Hoare was working a steam
ploUgh, and while removing a rope en the front part of it, lie
missed his hal, and fell before the plough, whieli went
over his hotly, tearing him dreadfully. He only survived
fifteen minutes. A verdict of "Accidental death" was
returned.
The Belgian Tir National wan opened on SundaV
without ceremony, and the tiring points were crowded each
day. Maut 100 British volunteer riflemen haul arrived.
The fees in celebration of the thirty-eight anniversary of
the National independence commence on Wednesday, and
will be continued till Saturday, but a gloom is east over al/
the proceedings, and the preparations are made in a half-
hearted way in consonience of the precarious state of health
if the Duke de Brabant.

The members of the Scottish branch of the Women's
Richts association are bound in honour to vote a piece of
plate, or something still more complimentary, to the asses.
sor for the burgh of Aberdeen. That official haii includes' in
his list of voters all females holding property in the burgh.
The result is that I,os female voters have been added to the
male register of 8,2h8, making the total constituency OM

The
.;kairnals state that Count Vincenu
le has been assassinated at Fern. He was killed by
uneket shot. The murderer has not been discovered.
The printers at Marseilles came to tenses with their
employers en Tuesday.

The senior partner in the celebrated London bank-
in,: house of (Ailing and Co., Sir. Edward Marjorilianka, ex-
pired on Friday morning in last week, at the advanced ago
of ninety-four. The deceased gentleman was highly esteemed
awl in WS own person may to said to have represented the
commercial and banking experiences of three generations.

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A correspondent of the Spectator asks Mov it is that
clergymen never preach against tine sin of Pillory?

The 14"cei1 states that the Emperor Napoleon has in
fifteen years cost the country nearly X. 8,000,000 more than
Louis Philippe. It is to be remembered that the misate
triune of the latter, inherited from the Due do Penthievre,
was immense.

The Rev. .T. I). Latouche, Vicar of Stokcsay,
Salop. has declined to sign a petition against the di,-
establishment of the lrish Church. lie Hunks the Irish
Rom!. Catholics have as much right to complain of lining
compelled to contribute to the support of a Frottstant
clergy a, the people of England would have if they were
conquered by the French, and compelled to maintain an
inusortat ion of French priests.

A severe shock of an earthquake was felt at Con-
stamo.opie on Thursday in last week, but fortunately caused
• r

kt Heaton, Bradford (Yorkshire), a ilinner was
..rly given t, .4.1 people, the youngest of a Mini aits 70
years. The avei., • ot 16 of them was ea and over. 'F:10
average of the strait was 79. 11110 ohl fellow was there
ith his son and dmighter-in.law, whine united ages
at minted to 246 The population of the parish last census
was 1,600.

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It is reported by the journals that Francis 11. in-
tends to abdicate in favour of the Count de tlirgenti,
. . .

•• Abdicate abet ?” says the .S'ii•efe. '• Ilia rights to the
throne of Naples? Let him offer them to any usurer in
Bottle, and ask to borrow Oil them. By the answer 4,f the
Jew he will ascertain their real value."

The Athena's's assures a mrrespondent that Andrew
Marvel was the author of the familiar and beautiful hymn
beginning "The spacious firmament on high " The poem
came to be attributed to Addison through the essayists
IiSSIOII of the author's name when he inserted the hues ill
a speeta ter.

A gravestone at Litchfield, Connecticut, has the
following inscription Sacred to the memory of in-
estimable worth, of unrivalled excellerce and virtue theo
the name', whose ethereal parts became semph im the 25th
day of May, 1567."

The Prince and Princess of Wales will, according to
present arrangements, arrive at Sandringham in the ttttt nth
of November for a brief shooting seasmi, nod as the 01,1
house has been demolished and a new :nine is }wing erected,
their Royal Highnesses will stay at Park House, the resi-
dence of the Comptroller.

" A negro who hail committed an outrAge upon a
little girl in Louisville, Ark , was hung by the citizens (d that
place last week. The negro's brother threatened vengeance
against the citizens, whereupon the citizens hung him up
also. A mob of forty or fifty negroes then commenced an
assault upon everybody in the town, and the citizens op-
110sing them, seven negroes and live white men were killed."
—Á tarries., Paper.

The total limn realised by the Festival of the Three
Choirs, at Gloucester, which goes in aid of a fund for the
relief of clergymen, their widows and orphans, amounts to
£1,0:4).

Another accident has happened to the Irish Mail.
On Saturday the points of a siding near Chester were in-
advertently left open just as the mail was due. It accord-
ing73' came into collision with a goods train ,tanding there.
Fortunately the driver of the mail had slackened speed in
preparing to enter the station at Chester, out very little
damage was done, no passengers being injured.
Between "potato riots" and incendiarism the city
of Cork and its neighbourhood are kept in on, unpleasant
ferment There have, within the last few weeks, been seven
incendiary fires, and nearly as many riots—the prime
movers in the latter being the poorer class of women, atm
are waging a bitter war with the potato exporters. The
enraged Amazons disperse then.elvcs in skirmishing parties
on the various highways leading to the city, and when a
, tanner's cart appears, they make a formal capture, and
escort it in triumph, not to the harbour for which it started,
but to the potato market, where the farmer is compelled to
dispose of the load to help to keep the prices dOWIL
The agent in England for the Red River trailers
states that the crops in the Red River settlement have been
deAroyed by a plague of grasshoppers. The devastation
has been so complete that not a green thing or a particle of
grain has been saved from the produce of the land.

The Duke of Albuquerque, a Graudee (.f Spain, Las
entered the ranks of the Pontifical Zouaves as a common
soldier.

The London papers remark, as a somewhat note-
worthy fact, that from twelve ~'clock on Smolay night up to
six o'clock on Monday morning not a single fire was reported
In the metropolitan district.

A London contemporary is authorised to contradict,
on the highest authority, the statement, copied iron, a
Dundee paper, to the effect that the Margins of Bute has just
purchased a number of racehorses.

An armed party, numbering, about sixty persons
some of whom were mounted, and headed by a supposed
American leader dressed in green uniform, attacked the re
silence of Mr. John It. Justice, of Mount Justice-house,
near Mill-street, • minty of Cork, about half-past eleven
o'clock on iqintiay night, and canted off all the arms they
could find.

An inquest was held at Instow, Devon, on Saturday,
on the body of George Fishley, aged eleven. Fishley's
brother took out two gentlemen in a 7 boat, each being pro-
vided with a gun for the purpose of sport. Returning in the
evening they were net at the landing place by the deceased.
and while a Mr. Wmoolcock was taking up his gun it 'Went
off, aml the elmrge entered the poor Loy's neck, causing
almost instantaneou instantaneous tenth. The jury returnt.d a verdict of
'Accidental death," and recommended the gnu, ehicli had
been fund to be in an imperfect state, to lie destroyed.
A movement is on foot in Boston to enfranchise boys,
of eighteen. "It is proposed," says the Boston Traveller, "to
make this a national movement, and it in to lie agitated
immediately in other large cities in the United States."

Students of every creed attending the lectures in the
superior schools of Warsaw ale now compelled to say the
usual opening prayers in the Russian language.
During the festivities at Cardiff last week in honour
of the Marquis of Bute attaining his majority, a performing
goat was exhibited which had been taught, among other
things, to pick out froni an alphabet strewed about the floor
the letters itt T E, and from numerous figures and ciphers
the number 300,000, which represents the marquis's yearly
income in pounds.

At one of the London police-courts a man, Neh“
declared that rather than have his child vaccinated he would
. . . .

be tined, was tined accordingly. He defended Ins conduct
I .11 the ground that vaccination, so far from being a pre-
ventive of disease, is often the cause of it.

Mr. George Peabody has instructed a Hungarian
jurisconsult to select for him a country seat in the neigh-
bourhood of loath. The price has been limited by him to
100,000 florins. Mr. Peal may, it is reported, intends to reside
part of next 305 r in the Hungarian capital. On his Hungarian
estate he will build a large steam-mill, in which only grain
for export is to be converted into flour.

An amusing incident is related as having taken place
recently in the Australian House of Representatives. Ann
unfortunate loyal Liberal, whose education hots been sadly
neglected, nag reading out a document to the House, and
vainly endeavouring to decipher an obscure letter; turning
to Ids next friend, he asked anxiously, "ls that a hem or a
hen 1," "nih " replied his friend, " call it a hen, and wove
that it lay on the table."

An Australian paper says, "Horses are sellingii•
Gipps Laud at tenpence apiece, or seven for five shillings.
It is lucky for the horses that sheep can be bought very
nearly at the same rate, else would hippophagy soon becoie,
an institution with us."

" Brother Ignatius" preached again last Sunday in
the small church of St. &Mould the King and NI artsr wills
St. Nicholas Aeons, in Lomhani-street, London. Thhre was
a larger attendance than the place would hold, and the
crowd outside numbered at least half the lirsteners who haind
seats or standing room within. A contemporary says —"la:
Mr. Spurgeon's customary vein, but without any approach to
Mr. Spurgeon's ability, he preached as if he Mel been preach-
ing to a congregation of children at a Sunday school It
was a succession of that flippant homeliness of imagery
which is painful. Well may Mr. Lyne suppose that the
understanding has little or nothing to do with religion. if
he talks always 011 religious topics as he talked last night"
At Bognor, on Sunday, the body of an infant in a
wooden box was found floating on the sea, and next after-
-110011 the body of a man six feet high, and apparently about
twenty-six years of age, was also found floating on the
waves. In the latter case there were marks of a violent blow
on the chest. The body was drowsed in a blue gueinsey frock
rind canvas trousers.
Mr. James Camas, the high sheriff of Bucking.
Mumhire, has cousented to preside at a public meeting
hieh is to held in the county MIL Aylesbury, on the stle
of Octols.r, for the pm pose of uniting Protestants in defener
of tho principles and doctrines of the English Church, settled
at the Reformation, and counteracting the efforts being
made to assimilate her doctrine and services to those of the
Church of Rome.

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Mr. %Mow, one of the reviaing barristers for
cumbetrand, has admitted nine women as voters in the
I,rish of Castle Sowerl.y. They had been placed on the list
by the overseers ; no objection was made to the retention .of
their names, and the revising barrister did not feel himself
justified under the circumstances in ordering their removal .
The "working man" candidate for the representatism
of the borough oh Chelsea, Mr. G. fidger, has received, un-
solicited, the following letter from Mr. J. S. Mill, M i, en-
closing a cheque for x 25 towards defraying the expense of
contesting one of the seats for the borough Avignon
Sept 17, 1868. Dear Mr. Odger—As I do not knim the;
mune of the secretary of your election committee, may 1 beg
you to forward to hini yourself the cheque I enclose towards
the expenses? There is no eleetioti is. 'which I Cali take a
warmer Interest than in yours.-1 alp. dear Mr, ()tiger, yours
very truly, J. S. Mill."

Among the passeniNta who left Liverpool on Satur-
day last in the Cunard Company's steamer Cuba, for New
York, wan Cninmal of the United States Army
who has ;wen rehbling in Europe for about two years. lie
was tweoutpuMed by la, wife and family.

Au enterprising glesirmis of combining will:,
his admiration for the house of Bute a stroke of 'easiness,
exhibited a novel trans,warency, on which was painted a pan
id inexion6lsittleA," with the motto, "Long live the !tiarolds
to wear sixteen shilling trousers."

The rumour recently circulated as to the probability
of Mr. fdadstone's early :olhesion to the cause of the ballot .
is understood to have originated in a misconception. TUu
explanation given, is that the right hon. gentleman hoAs,
expressed his admiration of the force with which thy cc
for the ballot was put by mie id its advocates 7 and the nee
It was hastily aSutimid Ply sonic one present, that thk, aro-
ments allowed to be forcible were also accepted, as eon-
If Eliza Burgh, who left England for AU, tralia in
the year 1841, or any one who has anrknowledge •,,f her. It ill
communicate with Thomas Burgh, 67 W. Ninth-.,treet, New
York, United States, she may hear of something to her ad-
vantage. Australian papers please 000y."—A, ivertisenieht
in London Times.

Mr. M`Gregor, the camel< fuse etar ted with his
canoe for a paddle down the Sue. and the Red sea
Coast to SMai, returning by silent the branches of the Nile.
'We are in a position to atr_ste that since her sojourn In Switzerland the Q1112(11 has
greatly improved in health.
The untoward symptoms el, ioh cost her Majesty F.,1 her
subjects no notch can have Pithiest to the fresh
mountain air and the ehar.xe of scene in the most romantic
of European countriett. The benefit, indeed, has been F.I
marked that the natio n may luck forward hopefully to her
NialeaiY'a resuming (at least partially those public duties
(non which she been so long andno unhappily estranged."
—Lance!.
A painful 'feeling was created at Oxford last Sunday
mamma by the suicide of Mr. Reynolds, the university
grocer, who precipitated himself from the top room
window of his house into the street and met with almost
instantaneous death. Deceased, who was an old and
respected university tradesman, had been in bad health for
some time past, and was of late subject to epileptic Ms. On
Saturday he had expressed himself to the effect that he
should kill himself, and arrangements were made to look
sharply after him until he conid be placed in a lunatic
asylum, hut during the temporary absence of his attendimt
deceased carried out the idea that was evidently uppernsose
In his mind.

TN, cases of what are described as " cannibalism "
has occurred in Ireland. Two men, half drunk. engaged in
a tight near Nemtgli, hit off, the one it portion of tin: esr. the
other of the lip of his nil, r •ry —ln Londonderry a Titan
fits'wen convicted of a savage assault upon two amine% one
of the women taint, nearly ninety years of age, lit the
struggle which ensued gnu his entering the room where the
women ImMed he bit a piece out of the aged woman's arm,
and the face of the younger woman he also "caught in his
teeth." A criminal intent was alleged, but the magistrates,
Unit thinking this sufliciently proved, awarded him six
Months' imprisonment with hard labols.