The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-01-03 00:00:00

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A Parisian business cir oLar announces " embalming
on au t nand) nee 11114 cheap sk st. in." What a prehnle to
• merry elsristmu and a happy new year
The Anti-Income Tax League having found that
Mae pr-voted then holdlng a meeting at Bratitosd h-tore
C,hristuno, as they bad iutemied, hAve deteretted to hold
• series of rueetioss to Yorkshire during the c,,reij,
mouth.
A Nov, Sootian pewit says that nearly 600,000
teL Omni in the barque Acbert
Kood
t'artkagena, several thieves have been put to
by the insurgent authorities with • most salutary
effect on the evil portion of the population.
A painful emotion was felt on Christmse Day by
the congregation of msny • church througqout the kit,dore
when prayers were oft rel up for the soldiers now engtged
in the Ashantee Expedition.
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At one of the Perin hotels viaitors are informcd
the carte that " Th.es prices its not ervauabie wen rt.y
vegetables erras news ," which ill English means,
prnies do not hold good wl.eu the vegetables are not l
arafat
Advioes from Brues.ls state that in the rharlerd
disalokliteduction of from 10 to lb per cent. is bAng ra.de
to eoaldnioess wsgas. The miners acqulewie In the redu.
Hon as tiny know that the local trAde is dull and thin
stoics are accumulating in the Main.
Christmas feelings in Berlin were, it is stated, jjor
bribe extreme. Hardly Ittly buttonss is done, And there ar
pear to be mach privation and &Waring, not only ameogst
the poor and labouriug, but even sinorgat the
dames.
At t,he suggestion of Lady Warreuder, ftßiala-nay
subwriPtion tel a chlkirAi's memorial to th,, law Mr.. Alfred
Oats) has been set on fail. it W proposed to creel aith
the proceeds a marble talflet In the parish church Cl ihizles
field
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A hoarding has just be put up in the open space
in the Hue de Hlvoli formed by the Place des Pyrainidse
where a bronze statue of Joan of Are Is about to be erected
II in near this spot that the Mold of Orlesue was wounded
by a bolt from a crose-bow while besieging Park, the.i
occupied by the Engliah.
At a meeting of the London engineers on strike and
lock-out, on Monday night, the committee distributed on Ufa
weekly dividend to ',Oilmen on strike 9t for each man and
Is. for each child. The non-society men were also paid an
esti. am-out, The chairman mild next Monday there would
be about 100 men on 'trite and lock-out.
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One of thcse irrepressible bores who protean to brow
every literary man in London met • well-known writer or
the press the other day, and claimed acqualiatanoeship "
sapped together one night last Christmw," said he. "ii ou
remember, there was • turkey stuffed in • remarkable; way "
.1 remember the turkey Very ar.en.,.. but. I Cannot say that I
re
remember you," was the ply.—Court Journal

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" I rejoice," ay e a 8-clionl Board phil iropher, "in
the declaim of the old brutal an tyrabuical system ol
teaching, which, however, did encased In enforcing habin of
application ; but the new, as It seems to me, is training up a
race of men a ho will be incspuble of doing anything whit%
I. disagreeable to them.:—Coart iourtoo4

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The strike In the Nottingham lace trade, by which
1,000 men and aeverel tlionsand women and children are out
of work, has reacted the twenty.seeond week. Tuough much
Writhes has been the result, the men hold tirm, notarlib.
standing that the master, have threatened to lock out all
the men who are at work and supporting thee* on strike.
The thip Alexandra, h9l took rrg,ster, 1,500 tons
burden, gelled from Gravesend on the I to Dec., bound for
Brisbane, Queensland. The Alexandra is the 126 tn veuel
which has sailed under the land order system of emigration
and under the immediate direction of the Queensland
Government Office, 32, Charing-ave., London. She carries
331 souls, divided Into luil paying, remitianoe, mutated, anti
free passengers, and consisting of 220 members of Wailes,
112 single men, and 39 single females.
The expedition to Khiva has brought into notice a
rival to the celebrated German Erbswunt. The Russian
soldiers were fed chiefly en biscuits, composed one-tided of
flour of rye, one-third if beef reduced to powder, and one
third of sauer-kraut also redeced to powder. The soldiers
are stated to have had a great relish for this food, and their
good health during the expedition Is attributed in great
, pert to the use of it.
An inquest has been held at Broad-green, upon the
body of senor Jou Baptista Cafferena, Chancellor of the
Brazilian Legation at Liverpool, who was killed on the Lon-
don .d North Western Railway at Broad-green Station. It
appears that the deceased and another gentleman were
croeing the line from one tlatform to another, with the in-
tuition of taking a train for Liverpool They were warped
by an official not to cross by that way, as two trains were
then due, but they did not hear him, and contli ued to ciNes
Just at this momenta luggage train passed, and the deceased
who was somewhat behind his companion, Was struck hy the
engine and knocked against trie wall at a railway aiding id,
was quite Insenstqe, and died the rtly afterwaroa Sr ularly
enough the deceased was not at all bruited, with the rump
tion of having two black eyes. The accident was entirel., doe
to the neglect 01 the company's regulations, as an under.
ground peerage between the platforms has been provided for
the use of passengers, who are @Wetly motioned not to ak
tempt to cross the line in any other way. The jury returnel
a verdict of Accidental Death.

A Parisian journal gives a fascinating sketch of the
wits of Sferehal hamslue. We are told the young Mexican
beauty was not eighteen yeaS old when she fell to love with
the no dler who held the e While. of Mexico In Ms hands.
"She was fascinated, and a VAloter pension succeeded her tot•
miratkn." During the occupation the marshal end is wile
were the constant guests of the Emperor and Einpross, the
unfortunate Maxim&lran delighting in • waltx with the
Marshal's bride. There were four children born, but only
three are alive —namely, EutOule Bszaine, Achille, ind
Ali bonne who are the godchildren of the late Emperor
Napoleon and Queen !sheens. In 1870 came the German
war, and the close of • most happy matrimonial life. Nothing
bet euaceeeing afflictions, as may easily be imagined, has
fallen on the marshal's young wife, who now only asks to
share his Imprisonment
During the week ending last Saturday 4,280 births,
and 3,456 deaths were registered In London and twenty other
large cities and towns of the batted Kingdom. The natural
Increase of population was 724. The mortality from all
causes In these towns was at the rate of 172 deaths annually
to every 10,0e0 pars us living. lu the metropolis 1,702 births
and 1 510 deaths were registered. After making due aika•
noes f tr lemmase of population, the births were 352 and the
deaths, 15., below the average numbers In the correspondieg
week of the last ten years. lies Chris, mu holidays have
doubtless, to some extent, delayed the registration of both
births and deathe. Ihe unfavourable effect upon the London
mortality exercised by the low temperature and fog which
prevailed during the week mediae 14111 Instant appeals to
to have passed away. In the 14tro provincial towns, where
the same cold weather was unaccompanied by fog, the In-
crease In the mortality wan slight compared with that
which recurred in I: 844. Tte 1,1, smith, Included 2
from small-m x, 107 from measles, 11 from scsrlet fever, 3
from diphther a, 13 tenni uhoopintecough, 28 front different
ferns it fever, and 7 Irmo diarrbom : trios to the metro
principal eh twee of the e)motic chum, 917 deaths were fe-
ttered, against numbers Met-aiming I rum 23210 314 in the four
preceding Went.. These 217 death. were Ti below the eel -
Tided average Dumber from the same diseases In the cetera
Wading week of e last ten vegeta