The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-07-04 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FO:.EIGN.

At a recent bull fi,,,ht at Bilboa, a picador ventured
to the absinth mounted upon a velocipede
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Some mortars captured at Magdala have reached
Gosport ; as. • some Abyssinian dogs of a curious variety.
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The subscriptions to the Eyre Defence Fund amount
to £13,000.

The pension granted to the late Mrs. Leech, widow
of the famous artist, is to be continued to the children.

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The personalty • I the late Bishop of Hereford has
been sworn under £35,000.
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An attempt was made in the French Legi-lature, on
Friday, to reduce the number of men voted as the contin-
gent of MO from 100,09 to 714000. It was defeated by an
immense majority.
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The Lords ot the Admiralty have granted £lOO to
the widow of a man named Furlong, who was drowned on
the occadon of the Royal vidit to Kingstown, by a collision
between a schooner and the Minotaur.

"The Barnum's Museum property, offered in BO for
301,00,, dols„ arid porch:m(l a few months a.zo for 460,00 U
dids., was struck down at public auction yesterday for 132,000
dols."—Neto Yet Tribriae, June 11.

A correspondent in I 'aimola says that on Miss nye's
arrival in the Dominion with her latest batch of female.
emigrants, forty of the young men found situations at
Montreal as Mmestic servants in two hours, and the re-
mainder were disposed of in an equally short space of tone
at Toronto. The a riter adds that if there had been a
thousand of them they would have been absorbed as readily
as a hundred.

A young Herefordshire labourer, named Prosser, has
met with a fearful death. Be woe beating a young wit be.
I inginti to his unoter. o lien the animal, with its hind legs,
gave him a fearful blow bets eon the eyes, mid killed kiln
blatantly.

The " Queen of Nlohelia" has arrived at Marseilles.
The English Consul French journal says went on board
the neamer to receive her. awl took her in the evening to
the theatre, where "she was naturally the object of general
alt "db.." Her Majesty, w hose name to Non= Fatouma,
is e‘peeted to arrive in London in a few days.
The Rev. 1-1. M. Gallagher, in noticing some in.
stauees ill education of children, said he knew of a woman
who used to tie her boy to a bedpost on a Sunday. while she
went to church, and made him learn the hymn beginning.
"Thine early Sabbath, Lord, we lose !"
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In Paris they have already had bread made of this
year's wheat.
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The trial of Count Chorinaky for complicity in the
murder by poison of the Countess Chorinsky uas concluded
at 111 111 l ich on Saturday. and the pri-oner Wii, sentenced to
twenty years imprisonment in a fortress, with banishment
at the expiration of ids sentence.

"We believe th,t the suitable mode of rewarding
the conqueror of Aby,sinia has been the subject of much
consideration in the Cabinet, Some were for giving him a
peerage, whilst others thought that a simple G.C.13,"
would satisfy the nece,siity of the case. it would not
surprise us to learn that the solution has been found in the
creation of is baronetcy, with a liberal hereditary pension.
The issue of a medal for the war has, we understand, been
derided in the negative.--Unded Service Gazette.

At eweastle, a seaman was summoned to the police.
court for refusing to work on a :Mutiny. lie alleged that the
wit he was iequired to do um not • necessity, lint the
Beneli held that lie had no night to judge of that. and sent
him Inc a month's imprisonment. lie looked very it
surprised on receiving his sentence.

The last advices fr..m America announce that there
will Ise no payment .4 the July dividend on the virginian
State howls, there being no money In the vireinian treastny,
and no prospect of the treasury being replenished.

In one of the Society Islands the Siamese twins are
partllelled. Two girls, infants as yet, are united at the hip,
but are otherwise physically separate. The sympathy
between them is said to be extraordinary. 'the king and
queen of the islands have adopted them, and lately refused
to part with them Imei enough to carry them to one of the
villages to i.e photographed.

The Quakers. we see from their annual return, now
number only 13,185 is Great Britain, anti 2,898 in irehmii, or
little more than 5,000 families in all.

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Turkey has conferred the dignity of Paella on two
Prussian officers who had been occupied as instructors in the
Ottoman army. To three others has bee., accorded the
allowance in money attached to the same grade.

The Constitutionnel remarkri that the project of a
South German Confederation is growing into favour at
Stuttgardt, Munich, and uarmatadt.

The Irish Board of Public Works expended last
ear the num of K. 6.562 54. lid in repairing and maint Iliit
he model and agricultural aehoola in connection with the
National Board id Education.

A Sydney paper says—' Those interested in the
progress of acclintatisation of Emilia), larks in the colony
will be lad to hear that the liberation of several in the Gee-
long Botanical Gardeisa has U en a success, the hawks very
considerately refs silting lions attacking them."--- A Geelong
paper also states "that hi that twit some fish, said ti lke Co-
lonial mackerel, have been ret fled at the rate of elehteen
for Is. They are said to be somewhat similar to English
mackerel in appearance, anti delicious eating."

" Rambler," of the Fa. after giving an account of
quail shooting ii California, pr,ctically recommends the
country for emigration. 'its virgin and unequalled soil
rendos it the most invitiPg place for emigration by far of
any I have seen at present ; its wheat at Liverpool fetches
a higher price than the best English, and thousands of acres.
of lam! are waiting for occupants. The Wiled artisan will
get letter wages here than in any other part of the wot hl
that I am anmainted with; and with its perfect climate—
were it in emiy end cheap connounication with our shore—
it would 80,11 possess a dense population."

The subscriptions to the fund for the purchase of an
annuity for the widow of Ir. William Dorgan at present
amount to above .C 2,000. The name at his Royal
the Felice id Wales now appears in the list fir fifty guineas,
and General Knollys's letter to the committee states that.
whilst it is not ii.. Roy at Highness's practice to lend his name
to public subscriptions in favour of a private individual,
.the special circumstances attending the present case the
Prince feels are sutficient to warrant the deviation from the
tale."

A railway passmger was summoned in London on
Tuesday, for using lia:I words in a carriage on the Hoe,
which practice lie :stifled by the remark that It was "a rum
g If he mould not swear in a smoking cairiage. \Viten to
this he added that lie was glity sc can lug at his own man, he
rermed to think his ease enema erable. The lagistrate
.iouerer, ordered him to pay Ss. and the cost+. The gentle-
min who laid the information sail a great mai.): of
p gsengers mere i,f opinion that permission to smoke implies!
permission to swear, or he should hot Lave taken the trouble

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.o prosecute.
An enthusiastic reception was given at Cologne last
Saturday to the German poet Freiligrath, on the occasion ol
"r-t Wsttine foot oil German soil, after a re.itience if
many years in London, when be was lehl ledl is el esteem
a large thole 11 bnit Englis. and Gee= -ii fricis. List
•wo hundred ladies and gentlemen from various parts o
ermany assembled at a banquet glvtit in huin.ur if tia
tran by hill flidiids and Winners in the Rhine provinces
r.c pen einni toot was given by heir Cla.seu-Kappelmant,
sell known for tate imnuntent part he to k in the 1111,i-
J,i,itt:in•kian demonstration of the husaian Inclement In
I .03. stul at the conclusion of his speech lie presented
Frei ligrath xltit a handsome silver goblet, two feet high, on
wln Ii was an inscription in verse welcoming the poet back
to hi, native country. Telegrams were received in the onirse
of the evening from various German towns expressing
g7ToPath7 with the objeee of the meeting.

An ugly Al bachelor suggests dint births should he
published under the head of "new music ••'
An old Alienleen mini's wife, when other ladies
were enriching the tea-table with I woad descriptions of the
vices of then several spouses, rail her own •• was lost a
weehtempeted. couthy, quiet, innocent, daidln,',
dron'ken body, wi floe ill pinctices about him era!"
" Mr. Coble advertises his runaway apprentice, 11.
Strong, in the 1 dlowar, style :—• lie con la identified by the
fact that he ha= not c oohed his hair since New Yearlillay,
and cannel speak tell word at a time without uttering twooy
falsehoods."--- A in,ricon Paper.
In 1851, 23 per cent, of the population of Irclard
could speak Irish in us6i, only 19 per cent. could speak it'
of these, 164,000 pers as could speak Irish only.
The Spanish Andiassad, r is said to have com-
plained to the French Governwent that 6,000 ritles have
lately been purchased in France for the account of Geueral
Prim.
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Aiming the Assyrian tablets at the P.titioh Museum
have been discovered records cf earthquakes. These are nut
supposed, says the A them:rum, to have been recorded for
any scientific purposes, but as annals of omen and augury,
each earth, potke recited being accompanied by an enumeration
of the events supposed to have occured in consequence.
" We have, by visiting some of the outports, and
carefully gathering information of is character to be relied
• salbtled ourselves th..t we still 1A,,..V0S aT, unarmoured
fleet if wooden ships sufficient to eope with all the ,sonsdrons
of other maritime nations put together Its the way of ' police.'
—A rum and Nary Gazette.
The following singular announcement appears in the
Church Nears; lout it is fit stalest N% hether the cap is a
night air ,—" A Retreat of the companions of the Love of
'corns ti be heist at St. Saviour's, Osnaburgh-strect. London,
will commence On July la, at 5 p.m., and will chose early on
the ra•rning of July 17. Ladies attending the netreat should
be provided with a cap, and silk gown, are best scouted
account of the disturbance of the milling. The books used
for prayers will be the 'Day Pours of the Church of
England.' The Retreat win be under the direction of Pr.
Pusey."

A candidate has appeared at Sheffield, in opnoeition
to Mr. Roebuck. This gentleman is Mr. Mandella. so
favourably known as a friend of the working clmses, and ea
all earliest advocate of boards of arbitration and concilia-
tion. As might be expected, he avows himself to be an ad-
yawed Liberal. It is thought if Mr Mundella perseve:cs
with Ins candidature he can scarcely fail to prove a formid-
able antagonist to Mr. Roebuck.
The Earl of 'Devon's bill, to amend the laws for the
relief Cl the poor, has at length reached the House of Com-
MUM. and the Inn, as proposed to be amended in committee.
has been printed. The bill, if it passes into law, will un-
doubtedly effect a great improvement in poor-Intro atiministra-
ti While it will still leave certMn control in hoards of
guardians, it eatenss the power of the Poor-law Board to
order works awl furniture for srort,hnuaes, arid for other
purposes in which the boards of guardians have hitherto
proved themselves most inefficient.
On the loth of June, Pius IX. commenced the
twenty-third year of Iris Pontificia' reign. Since St. Peter,
far about history assigns twenty-five years, there have been
but three Poi :es out of 25S who have lived to commence or to
finish their twenty-third year of government. They are—
Adrian 1., the Pope of Charlemagne ; Pius VI., the Pope of
the Direct., y ; and Pius VII.. the Pope of Nerpoleon I.
PiuslX. will be the fourth. Ii he lives until June lor, 1869,
he will stand alone with l'ius VI.; if be lives till June 10.
1870, he will be matched miry by Si. Peter. But if lie sur-
vives June 16. 1871, lie will have outdone not only all pre-
ceding Popes, but St. Peter himself.
No fewer than 230 persons were brought before the
Liverpool ma,istrates, on Monday last, on the charge of being
drunk, or "drunk and disorderly." The previona week the
number was 246.
On Monday morning. about ten o'clock, a portion
of the grass in the Home Park opposite the north terrace of
Windsor Castle took fire rather suddenly. Fanned by an
easterly breeze, the flame spread rapidly along the grourrol,
lout an alarm ha, irig been raised, men who were at won k in
the Park imbed to the spot, and retarded the progress of
the flames by beating the fire with hr mms till the arrival of
a a ater-cart, which, aided by a number if men svitli hue:, els
of water, gooll !Mt an end to the conflagration. The ground
in the Park, owing to the caressive heat. Is very dry, and it
Is thought tie fire was mooned by a spark from the etlar sir
pipe of some passer-by, the plot of burnt grass being roar-the
road.
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The 4th of July, it is rumoured, is the day fixed by
the American ',eldest; liT a rani on Canada. Anise
preparations are being made to give the raiders RS Warm a
reception as scatted them In Moo ; and the citizens •f the
tsominion will apparently be, upon the allele, a wad deal
disappointed If all °ppm tussity is not afforded them of
signali.ing their valour and loyalty
The e•cavations whl-h are being carried on at Pom-
peii have brought to light tut.; fresco portraits. situated
under a poetic) of the Via Stabs:ma. It is believed they re.
presented the master and mistress of the house. Tim man
weat a a magistrate's togs ; the wornan is in the attitude of a
person reflecting aboit what sae is to write for she has a
' style in her right hand, and is about to carry it to her lips,
while in her left she holds writing tablets.
During the Crimean war a lady was distributing
tracts to the occupants of the ward it an hospital, and was
excessively shocked to hear one poor fellow laugh at her.
She stopped to reprove the wretched patient. °55 by,
ma'am," says he, '• you have given me a tract on the sin of
dancing, aliens I have got both my legs shot off."
It is rumoured that Her Majesty intends to inspect
the Gal-lea, the Duke of Edinburgh's ship, on her iv.,y to
()shortie. The Ga,otert liea at Portsmouth, as trim as if she
were about to start on her first voyage, instead of having just
returned from the circumnavigation of the world.
A girl of thirteen has been committed for trial at
retinal on a charge of swindling. She had obtained vainness
small SUMS of money on the representation that she was a
pupil of a Mrs. Runsley that that lady was shout to have
the neigtil,onrhosli: out that her scholars wished to present
her with some trinkets as a token of their affection.
"We learn that a soldier of the 13th Hussars, sta-
tioned at Moon rat, was tried by cowl-martial, about three
weeks since, for having caused the death of his horse by hard
riding lie was sentenced to a term if imprisonment, and
to be put under stoppage i•f his daily pay until the vahle .if
the horse awns EZO sterling) be made good. If the inns is
ordinarily careful of his cl 'thing, and can manage to keep
out of the cells and the hospital, the Government will pro.
liably have recovered the amonnt in about ten years from
this date. •—U affect Service Gazette.
Accounts from the camp of Chalons say that the
French Emperor, on Thursday in la,t. week, " assisted ' at
grand nemosivres of the trams executed under the orders
of General de Ferny. Ile, it appears, remained mote than
live hours on hermit:lA, and sonic of the Government
newspapers remark that this is a proof that lie is in good
health.
Mr. Bright, on his approaching visit to Ireland,
will, it is said, ii entertaitied. along ash Mr. Pealsidy, at a
complimentary breakfast liy the citizens of Limerick.
The King ;if Bavaria superintended the rehearsals
, of Wakpler'a new opera, "The Singing Masters of Nuremherg.”
•• The piece has just been performed with success at NI ankh.
It lasted from five to eleven. The composer wits called oir
repeatedly, and received in the box of his Royal patrols, and
, by his Majesty's side, the applause of the audience.
A queer little book, published in Paris, gives the
sigh:lll:LT.ol'4ons if many modern men of talent. Ilalevy's
; father wan a grocer; Rossitsi laths son of strolling players;
Verdi, of an oskeeper; Auber a as boss Island a print shop;
and the parents of Victor Masse sold nails.
' Damages have been given by Irish juries in actions
against the Dublin and M icklow Railway Company for In-
juries received in the a; eident at Bray Head. The aid.w
of a s-us hi fanner has obtained R-50 damages for herself and
• three children ; atsd a car-maker of Wicklow was awarded
£350 for the loss of his health.
" A stump speaker exclaimed, 'I know no north,
no south, no east, no west, fellow citizens!" I hen,' ex-
. claimed an olil fanner in the crowd, ' It's time you went to
school and hunt jography.'"—.4 at,riean Paper.
Charles Dickens is said to be indebted to the "Pits' -
, office Directory " for most of tlowe extramdinary names of
ladies and gentlelnen chico, of themselves, give no little
; character to Isis creations. Ile might have sestrched long
there without flatting st name More extraordinary than that
, of Gustavus Adolphus Whalebone, the ',saner of which, a
cah-driver, appeared before a magistrate, in answer to a
summons.
t The trial of the persons amused of conspiring to en.
sassinate the late ruler of Servia has been postponed,
us-
chisurses having been nsade implicating several other persona,
whose arrest lets been ordered. Answer daring outrage eon
CollnolleMl at Belgrade on Monday morning. Captain Mr-
• Zalovic, who had change of the police-barracks, was shot in
, the presence of a holm number of persons. The telegram
' does not state whether the wounded roan is ;lead, or
whether the assassin was arrested.
In the ten years, 1857-66, no less than 12,786 lives
have been dectroyed in- England and Wales i.y enthetic
, disease 53'phill0 alone. Allowing for increase of population,
the results shsm that the mortality by this diffease is stem tity
itioreasf lig; thus to 1,000.000 persons living in each of the
ymtrs, isSi-66, the proportion ii filliober of "oath. iesis 60, SO,
; 50 54, 55, 62, 08, 7.-i, 79, end 70 reipectlvely. The reitilui
published by the Registrar-General chow the lamestable
summit of nattering mid death which this; disease entails
up.rt infant life.
The rising of the Nile beg,' an on Thursday in last
• week.

The passage of H.M.S. Galatea, Captain his Royal
Highness the Duke of Etinburgh, KU., from Sydney' to
Portsmouth, has been unusually rapid. The Gccafra left
spine}, at 6.0 pin. on the Gth of April, and passed the 11111 t is
off the southern extremity of New Zealand—the only land
seen hetween Australia and England—on the 11th 4.1 April,
having rim the first 1,100 miles in 41 days. Pape Dom W:111
passed at taidaiglit on the 3 .th 01 April, the equator H.
C1.0E40 on the 28th of 31ay, and Ii tile morning of the
25th of June the Ge aka got soundings in 05 Win,w
sixty miles from the Scilly Islands. Steam nas or.a,snamig
Imo during the passage—for about eight or nine days
in all.

M. Replovsky, deacon of the Russian church
Stuttgard,lnas presented to the Post-office of alintioistration
of St. Petersburg a letter-box, organised in such in way aim,
the person who deposits a letter in it receives immediately a
ticket showing the year, mointin, and day of the act. A com-
mission app-dinted to examine the invention has found it
perfectly practical, and well suited for the object proposed
A journal called the Reriral, which is devoted to
chronicling the proceeding, of •. converted clowns " antt
other irregular preachers. prints in a recant numnet the
MI baying tolvertisenn tit rdmier, energetic
young man, age twenty-six, is desirous of obtaining a situa-
tion as above. Hits been bred to the pi-ideation. thoroughly
understands forcing, bedding, laying-out, anti the different
branches connected. (Is a labourer inn the Lord's vim:Yard.)
Testhnonials, both professiocal and Christian, in 111.1m#
student intrestigatii n—Address, itc;
In a paper read by Mi. Stilly, in London, the
Other day, he staled that there 'were 1 ,000 public-houses anit
been shops in London, and that if placed in a line they would
extent! thirty-three miles Astounding as tint may appear
In, any reader, the calculation is readily checked, and shriv,s,
3101 houses to a mile with an average frontage of Wet
5 inches.
On Monday, a deputation from the I:ogiish Church
Ennio, headed by Lord -Nelson, welted on the Archbishop
of Canterbury, and pee Med his Grace %vitt, an
declaring that they renounced all Clirisaan cotanninion with
Biship ('olenso until idi repented of Ink errots. The addssels
was signed IT upwards of twenty thototand clerical anti lay
communicants if the Church of England. The Archie:imp;
in reply, was of opinion that the Bishop of Natal ha 4 beet(
spiritually deposed from his functieloi
"Gold-bearing quartz, yiehling ro.urteela donate to
the ton, has been found on t p T,Mique River, a tributary to
the nit. Jim. The development of gold-mining ins hove
Scotia continues extraordinary."—Cenedion A ens,
In London, on Saturday morning, by elrection of
Sir R. Mayne, the whole of the dogs round stray ing not
muzzled, and seized by the police before nit 'night on "luesday,
were conveyed to the Horne for Lott and starving bogs, at
Holloway, for the purpose of being disposed of. I hose of
good breed and real value, fir fancy r inirposes, were
placed in "pens" at the Home," and the remainder.
numbering about 200. were riuivkly despatched by polion. •
An inquest haz Leen held at the eh:alieni convict
establ summit, inn the taioy of a convict Ilalits it Wili:6ll, who
died frotn the effects of (NMI, obVii, lb. '1.e..", 'II°
was thirty-four years of age, awl was undeigoing a ...enteree
of 60'1'0 years' penal semantic, was employed, siln a nundur
of other convicts, on the snot ins in progress at Chatham for
the enlargement of the dock) orni, line In, at the time was
'ttenrratlritiengrd owuhuilsast at
il'oankgtdelluee
reyed to the prison, where, on eisminazion, he in an WWI* In
be quite deal, death machg resuak-a Limn mustrolue, widen
produced apoplexy.
It 16 nnally settled that the inauzuration of the
Palmerston memorials at Run. y shall bike I.li,tre uf nes-
'l4, July 21. A si.etsal bent.. will take plate, i•lsti a so-sin
be peached by tine lush, p of London. At the ten initiation
of the service, a procession 0111 be re-formed nod proceed
to the market-place, when the statue will he uncovered, and
an inaugural addresu be delivered by one .4 the colleagues
of the late lameated statesman, line park and grounds at
Btbatilands will be thrown open, and the bauti of this
Royal Marine Artiller) will perform there. In the evennieg
Lisa view will illonnuato the western window of tin. after.