The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-22 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEW Se

BRITISH AND FOREIGIL

MATURDAY, DEC. 22, it+66.

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The cattle plague has re-appeared in Suffolk, in the
ovighnonehood stowmarket, under circumstances each as
to cause some anxiety.
The following mysterious paragraph appeared in s
Potts paper the otter evenins. under the I •' Latelt
1.1r.11P, 2 o'clock :"—" A m-st serious Diem of Iwo Ii curunt
blynit the Ithiperor Meximilhux Beore publishing it we
await further Information."
An address, signed by seventy-five occupiers of hand
In Watahing, whom average occuoations exceed a thousand
sores, has been Demented to "S. (1. Oft. Rev. Lord 8. G.
Osborne). thanking him warmly for his late lettere against
the ritualistic practices
It appean that there is one branch of pathology
which soientilic enterprise In this country has hitherto
refrained from "attacking" tot replying to his numerous
correepondents the editor of the Field Informs " Nethience,"
that "we know nothing of the °lsamu of oats ' In the
suburbs of Parts, If we are got mistaken, there LB • eat.'
hospital on the line of the Chemin de For do. Nord.
The old Town-hall at ffomsey has recently been
Purchased by Mrs. Henderson, 41 R he Manor, with the
benevolent intention of founding there an hospital for the
poor of the district.
Furnished houses and apartments in Paris are now
only let to occupiers for short period, and In many cases no
engigement is made to extetd beyond the month of
January.

In the Court of Divorce, on Tuesday, the Judge
Ordinary delivered fur g cent In the cerise of Milford r.
df,rd, w ich eves • wite'a petition for dissolution or mu.
rla_e on the ground of her harsnn'a cruelty sod adultery.
The adultery wee confe,sed. In respv ct of the charge of
cruelty vei little actual vto,ence or threat of violence was
provvd, but It wee contended that the continuous pr. fl gscy
of the respondent. • barker at Exeter. fu ly sustained the
naive in its keel sense 11. lordahip held that the p. 41.
loner tad foiled to make out her case, and that the only
relief which the court could aff Jrd her was • judi is
separation

In an action for breach of promige tried in the Court
of Queen's &nets last week, a laundlen, thlrty.nlna yaarn of
un- rPcover,d 2.501 damages from a publican at Tottenham,
iced fairly°.

Ford's Theatre at Washington, the building in
which President Lincoln was assassinated, and which wee
Ourchated by the Government, is being rsp,dly filled with
Inter...tine relics of the war. The atchives of the Southern
Confederacy are deposited there already There are to he
seen there all the latest inventions of artificial limb., and
also in J.ris ue•rly all octal Jos of the human body attacked
by diseases or wounds incidental to war.
"I hove heard some horrible stories against the
Papal antra, but oeyond •fi unifiers for doing nothing, and
for cheating anybody cu' of ten bejoachl when they have a
chance, I don't 'appose they are wore. Par, n'h.z —1
yu icemen
elsewhere."—Correspondent of Daily Telegraph.
A corrempondent of a provincial contemnorery oom.
plains of a remarkab e misprint in one of the letters be had
Vdressed to the editor on German vlitica He alla that
Tom Beast the Corlatian" has been substituted by a typo.
graphical error for "Von Beast, the Austrian'
Sir Roderick L 3furchiaon has received from Dr.
Kirk, now acting as Vice•Constil at norther, • very In-
teresting letter, giving an account of the progress of Dr.
Livinptone towards the head of the Lake Nyease.
The Venice correspondent of the Athenrrum, in
writ ng of the battle-fl. II of Coat era, which he hao visited
ease Traces of war were visible On every h does
riddled with shot or partly burnt, trees cut down to facili-
tate the °love mantes of caveiry, and to he used for stockades
and is,,attia (It is but rut to ray that the Austrian Go.
vert,ment Is having the teem veinal, and will pay for them,
which they are by no means hound to do) Toe peasants
were ploughing, picking their grapes and weeding their
lodian corn, as if nothing had happened, and the contrast
was very striking.
A woman has been sentenced to death at the War-
wick As. ices, tor the Murder of her infant, three weeks old.
The vetdtct of “guilty" was accompanied with • recom-
mendation to mercy.
The Biehop of Lincoln has prohibited the use of
I vearment• at Sc. Angus, Inn's Church, But-ti, near Notting-
' hero, hut will not Itrerfere to prohtott tights oath, altar, or
the toe of the mixed chalice at mm nunton.
, That plating has become a fashionable exercise in
the Traded stem Is evident from the lol,owing statements
alto the materials consumed dur;ug the pn-sent year In one
skate factory at Worcester :—rwo tons of Mem, 6,000 g-ow
, screws 60,00,1 hens thimbles, 1 0001 b. of G-ernan steer,
nearly ate tons of ronswoor, and ten tons rf keel worked
, up by thirty-flee men and women into 25,000 pairs rf stake
With regard to the queetion no much debated of late
of the taking over of the telegraphs by the Government ,
, It Is stated ors gored author-4y, according to the City
article of The Timer, that the only intirnalon on the
point yet given on the part of the Government I. to the
effect that no such measure has ever been entertained.
The Queen, having visited the Windeor Infirmery,
has sent a letter to the secretary to say how pleased she was
with all she saw there. Her if "kitty ins sent eta brace o
thee/tants no the patients, aid desired General Syymour to
call and Inquire huw many of them were allowed by the
doctors to have the game tor dinner. Toe G -n.aal had the
satisfaction of reportgag than only rise unlucky ineividual
was prohibited from 'nothing by her Majesty's kindneem.
Brigham Young, having just bnried his twenty-
fou• th wife, h., married his forty-fiftb. They any he "c m-
gt./ally osciliates between a crape hatband and white
gloves."
The cab-drivers of Huddersfield have ceased work,
In cou•equence of not havirg ohtyinod an advance of 2s. •
week and one Sunday off out of three. On Monday tarns
was • deficiency in the number of cabs, although helper'
and others had been piston as cabmen
Captain Macgregor, of London, has undertaken the
oreilardnary area- gements for the inmultaneous small-bore
matches for 1807. IL Is prop -sell to have three competi-
tions—in April, My, and June—and to have pr era for SOO
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sod 600 yird;, as Weil aa for .00, 900, and vl,OOO yards.
The small-bore shots of New South Wales have lotirost,d
their in:entton of coospetiog with the rllLmen of &gland
In them matches.

S ,me extraoniinary news bits been gent to The Times
via B.lin. We gve the tel. gram as tt was pchbehrd on
Monday morottg; It is dated eaturday :—rho Waehing.en
Government I vites the Pope In America, where he well
P. wore It itklbeeettnltlnall to Europe One American frigate
Is at C vita Vecchia, anoLacr le expected. Ittextmillen Is a
ort‘o, or."
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The Ear/Safer states that the recent strikes are
serlomly dani.mon the British machinert trade. Mechamteal
engine-n, It sss 'especially those residing in London, find
that they can get plenty of orders, hut only at pries at
which they CAP uot execute them employing Engish tuaterials
and English !ahem.. Therefore they endeavour to re cues
ths c 'St uf the first Item by send... to the continent tor
their materials." It, rod that one firm In Smith Wales lost
a Russian orcer for 40.000 tons by hesitating tomato •reduc-
tion.

°Will, who is apparently fond of writing letters,
Rim WI ow letters have the h•IS or 'iodine their way into
print, the other day conrestolytast one Dom Abele, 0.1 nsing
to the nr.naetery of Monte Cesslo, on some eburebamoc
of the holy father's mat ng. In his epistle he announws
htik intention of avain bessiging the P•mtiff with • view to
the admission of females to the !...msn Catholic muitc ti'.,
—when, he is acionsly adds, the uncertainties Of the P. Ws
prest nt nttuari,n shall Issve pawed by.

The French Chambers will meet in February. The
Emper.if's speech h expected to be highly pacific,
and c.immercitl to tone, out of compliment to the
greet Exhibifion of 1867.

"Aux OfS vr," addrewingaipndon contemporwrY.
make. some r, fleetms, suggested by the discovery amongst
• dome slurt collars ehmg-o to him at 18s by • Welt.end
haberaosher, of the orhrtual Mil which that tradesmaa had
paid to the shirtutaket by whom the e‘ Pan had been sup-
plied, which Mil swanned to but nine

A quantity of arms were seized a little while sine@
M Cardiff She local police nelleving they were desitned for
Iranian purpmee. It now turns out that they were lent to
Cardiff by a tradeeman with a Mew of forwarding them to a
tore-go country as soon at he could make the 'Accessary
arrai.sements.

It is reported at Florence that Knuth has per-
suaded the Italian authorities not to (Maoist, the Hungarian
legion.

General Butler baa been indulging in further invectives
'kismet Presioent Johnson he none of him ell having.
when Metalled, • mumbled the oath of office. and s'oblered
the no. y Book *tin • orunken Mei, and with having ungraded
and debaFed hie country !"

The Earl of Shaftesbury, writing under the infloence
of C usiderable alarm at the progress of the rltna,istic move-
ment, say% It le acid—and truly sat —that the laity have
the power in their own hands. No doubt; hut will they
NM. forward and exercise lii Will they adorers their
bisirms, rnem,allte their clergy, leave no sham unnot,cel,
snstain one another, at d sink all minor differences to sub-
sets, the comm. cause' If they will do this, we trail be
secure If from a variety of reasons they decline to do to,
a n.lrac'e alone, and nothing elms, wdl save the Raton:nation
in heat Britain."

An investivation it being made by the Committee of
the London Sock Exchange into the circumstances con-
nected with the despatch of • teleirram to alancheater,
alkalise that .• the Chairman of the South Eastern Con-
pans had failed" The Committee will of course make a
public announcement ou the antject when the Mowry
ailed have been conelnoed.

An Trial sdloolmseteri Dr. Percy Diodwart, Imo had
4001 damages aviri costa awarded against him I.y a Duhlut
jury for haring beaten a boy named Somers He, none,
the aTI of a gentleman of property to the county f Core,
too ieverey. and will no attemot to degrade and humiliate
hm. It was alleged that the sehonlma,ter harboured an
angry feeling again 4 the boy f .r h.sving stated that articles
w, stelen from him In the school, and It was proved that
the flo.ralng was tultultdtterad after the matter had received
• letter from the b ,y'• mother, announcing that he would
be immerliarely taken from the school.
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On Friday, Matilde Somers, a domestic servant,
twelve years of age was charged St the Tennton AM.-. with
attempting to poison her mistress, Mrs Towns, at Carrington,
on the gird inst. Mrs. 'fortis notioed that time twer 'had a
ge collar taste, and charged the prisoner with Iming pot
something into it. She somitted 111.1 .11. had pot some
muriatie sold, witch yrs. ,at the premise., Into ttt• beer.
Ithe was sentenced to twelve months' hard Isboer.

The Home Secretary baa uffered a reward of 100/.
for leformation that shalt lead to tne eresvictlon of the per-
son or persons who inflicted certain Injuries on a tretanlier
dreadful
named William Ensworth, on the 9th nit, in the White-
chapel-tool, In London, beceuee ho rein ied to pay f rice..
liqetor Eusworth .tied on the Out ult. in the Loudon Hos-
pital from the effects of the ibiurbs. a Is anted that It is at
the request of the London Temperance League the reward
has bets offered.
cas-s do not cease to Increase, aud if the progree* nt,amel
to have been made by the disease since the end of November
reel:tea scamt,lnegsrltalfeuoaeitalepplir 11.ilitoandheihme'llitinnlbg.tr• of f.ta
continue, the Imam of the Dutch ferment will won exceed
those of the English csaleowners at the time when the plague
was most violent, The last another is more than double trait
which sea. recorded when the epidemic was at its worst in
Dee., 186.5. a- 4 everything tends to chow that it dom not
indica° the greatest height of the disease.
The correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette, writing
on the 80, 5575 the Pope is extremely !reltsted against
Nap .leon and the French, and was so di quieted by this
feeling on Sunday last that he could not eat Inc dinner, hut
after taking two or three spoonfuls of imp, strode up and
down the sAlion, expressing ids artier shied, and declaring
that the French were tee cause of his losing the greater part
of his king lore, and now left him to be nespoliea of the rest.
In place of seeking to calm the Holy Father, the prelates
of Lis household, all implaimble enemies of N trool•-on and
FrA.Cd say everything to lid uriste hint, hoping thus to
goao him to the extreme merouns th-v have counselled.
Nor can it be dented that he is much tenth need by their re.
preeet.tatlnna "
Vina•Chafittellor Moline' haat taken on himself the
reerominoity of saving the Overend Gurney Cu nines from
ON confused and end ass litigation into which it seemed to be
hopelresls drifting. Ile has decided that an end stale no put
to the examination ot the dirtctors 55 thisinheM, and has
end-red trial case to he bronchi into Court., ones. Co to
this time the course pariah d has been moot injurious to
all the interests coocenied, with the exception of the
solicitore engaged in the v,ri dui suite The depositor* have
Neje, reeeleed notnii,g, alto it 61 is all that Woos,
gmvraisid. o.i.tbe other hmd, it is stated that tk• iht-rest
of credit re in running up at •ha fa.. of 7Out # Wet alasiugh
funds are loeted up in the Bank sum dent for a istributiou
of 59. or 13; Bd. in the pound.
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In London, on Monday, Moises MOllOB,. the whole-
sale receiver ot stolen goods. haa tat,- n Ma trial. ir here
were no fewer than Ogle nutic manta and on his conelEtion
wen the first, lb- Court a,n,,enutai him •i IC years' Awls-
portutt U. Au application having been oswie to give g• the
anden glade mention,l In tile other eer.n tudio:m.nts to
the owners who had identified them, it was $ll.l ail* thil
prisorow before his conviction had been made • binitrupt,
and an application was made on the part it the a•stailese
that the prow, y shalt he given up to th-m. Upo,i this
Lim prosecution Wont on With all the otuer indotm...., rid
the prisoner being convicted, his elnt one Was Increased to
twenty venal in rvitu le Another priamor Nun.
Blake, who was included to the firo indictment es the_,
thief, a,,st onnykded, was sentenced to seven yours' Pow
arrvitacia