The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-03-21 00:00:00

EPITOME Of NEW 6,

ARITIFDY B.ND FOREMP.

At the London International Exhibition of 1874
25,000 samples of all the Portugense wines will be exhibited.
•The declared value of bacon iinportea in the last
Iwo months was £1,869 405, against £e45,2,3 In the like
perloo in the previous "tax.

It is announced in a special telegram that Stockholm
Ii *uttering tearfully from a visitation of mallvoi and
typhus fever. The raortallty Is a, terrible as to have caused •
panic hi the city.

A year's (345 nights) performance of La Fate de
Madame d ngot In Parts bee brought dear profit of 030,360
tO the mnuagement of the Folio, DrematLineg In Purls.

Her Mmeety'is letter to Marehal MacMahon, notify-
ing the netalabe ,f the Duke and Ducheu of Edinburgh, ia
duly recorded In the Pada journals.

The Birmingha m Post has information that Sir
Robert Peel has men offered by Lord Darby an
ship to to one of the treat European Power., and It Is said the
right bon. baronet has intimated hie withugnen to accept
Wu otter.

The Great Western Railway Company have pre•
aented the Rid JI• of the gusrd Ih skit. (who Rlll killed in
the West Dr. s lon collision) with 4.800.

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In the laat two mouthe the value of potatoes im-
ported waa £219,993, against £544,519 in the same fertod of
11571.
Si. Patrick's Day passed over quietly in the large
tow,. of ',eland. The streets of the capital were tar lees
disgraced by scenes of drunkenness than in tqgoue years. In
London nothing occurred la yond the ordinary social obser-
vances of the day. A Home Rule ball was given .n Edin-
burgh, and there was also some oratory in relation to Irish
political questions.

On Wednesday morning (the 18a) at half-pt
1113V611 o'clock, by command of her Majesty, the band of the
Orenadfer Guard., under Mr. Dan Godfrey, proceeded to
Wlnosor C site end serenaded the Princess Loulee,
Marchloneas of Lorne, beneath her apartments at the palace,
It being the kith anniversary of her Uoyal Highness's birth.
day

Mr. James Haslam, ca'tle dealer, Bolton has
brought an actlos, which was tried at the Manchester
As•lzer, against the Lincashire ant Yorluhire Railway
Company for damages for pole:mai 11. Juries which he sus-
tained In a mdlision at Windsor &lege, SAlfcrd. The jury
awarded him £1,510.

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The annual meeting of the Asacciated Chambers of
Cotornerco of the United Kingdom woe 12,10 on Tuesday,
when the report, which dealt with& great variety of questions
effecting trade and commerce, was adopted. Certain reso-
lutions proposlog emehements in the Bankruptcy Act were
rejected in favour of an amendment that the whole subject
of the Bankruptcy Law aould be referred to a special com-
mittee of the aseociation.

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Orden have been received from the Horse Guards to
caxe hieing down the pipes tor • supply ft water to the
millbsry depfit at Oxford the coot, wit for the building hes
been signet, and operation' will shortly commehet.

At Cnelrusford, Mr. C. C. Lewir, one of tbe Essex
coroners, ha. h.veatigated a deplorable fat fly, the result
of playing with firearms. Toe dece.ed seas the .on of •
poor widow ; his age was 17 years. He was emplo)ed by
At. Co k, a farmer to scare birds. Having entered a work-
Chop atcl placed a ha ea piatel on a bench, he was followed
b) • son of ills employer, woo took up the weapon, pointed
It at him, and mad, " about you' thereupon puled
the trl,ger and shot the boy In the brute. I. 'lnn Poor
fellow suffered great agony for some days, and died on Sun-
day woruing. Cook laid the pistol wan without a cep, and
he was startled when he heard the rep ,rt. Verdict, '' Ado.
dental death."

A Reuter's telegram from Gibraltar aryl; that the
British steamer Owen Ehreeth, rf Gattg,w, from Calcutta
with a valuable cargo, col,sistiug of tea, rice, hides, wheat,
mad upwards of 2 500 chests of Indigo, has been wreosed at
Punts, Areallls, near Tarifa. It Ls stated that the Wilton
had on bgard the most valusole cargo ever shipped from CI-
Cults It Includs,l £330 02.; worth of ludic.,, 400 of tes,
and F 23,010 of silk, shellac, and Induce. The ship, etc., was
worth £72,,00, making the aggregate las £235 000. The in.
nuances effected here on ship and cargo are helleved to he
not less tliJn £lOO 000. Tne following are the names of toe
Mao g n who were drowned :—Mr. and Mrs. Allardyce,
four children, aul Mrs. Suckling. Nice paseens. n .ecre
saved—namely, Captain Suckling, Mr. and Mrs. Robinson,
Johnstone, three natives [of India, and two sailors from
Mills. The chief officer, parser, add doctor, toroth.' wilh
tan of the crew, perished,