The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-11-03 00:00:00

81TURD4S, NOV. 3. UM

A column of grarahoppers ir4 mum wide and 100
deep is sweeping across Kansas. Where they go they leave
the veg tation nub to aka no a. A detachment tta- went
to Salt Lobe Wlte 4.o.plete'y tit,oute 1 by myriads of white
birds. *loch the Mormon. declare to have been due 10
Brigham Young'. miraculous power.
Telegraphic communication between London and
New Ynrk It again Interrupted by some break down In the
land line, on the N,wloundland side. The ca,de In still In
per'eet order

Field Marshals Benedek, Heniketein, and Kris.
manic will, It to said, shortly retire from the Austrian
army.

Although in England only about 3,000 cripples are
born as ouch in the year, so many infants become so, through
neglect and penury, that it it is estimated that the floating
population of cripples in England ls 100,000, of whom
39,000 at least are girls.

•
The Board of Trade returns for the month of
September show a decrease in the exports as compared
with the month of September la 4 year, but the exports for
the nine pest month, of this year very largely exceed the
exports for the same period of last year.
The King of Prussia haa ordered the Crown Prince,
Prince Charles, Prince Frederick Charles, and Prince Albert
to be each presented with one of the guns taken front the
Austrians during the late war.

The number of Italian soldiers in the Austrian army
who are, by the treaty of peace between Austria and Italy,
to be given up by the former to the Italian Government is
40000.

Mr. Horace Greely of the Nf 20 York Trilotne hae
lately receind an agricultural prize for producing the
largest "squash" at an exhibition. lie has abo ben nomi-
nated for Congreu.
A new paper with the object of promoting a know-
ledge of the science of political economy In France, is to
appear In Paris on the 25th of November. It will be called
L Avenir And be edited by M. Boudhon, formerly editor of
the Journal des detlonnairea.

Eighty thourand square metres of glass are wanting
for the Paris l'olv,sat Exhibition buildings, sufficient to
cover a space of eight hectares—equal to 14 Etglish acres.
The French are fully preparing for the effects of a
bad harvest. In the first two weeks of October, for instance,
not less than 142 vessels laden with corn were brought into
Marseilles from Turkey and Russia

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In the year 1865, 29,500 persona ascended the Lou.
don Monument.

The Derby-day next year is fixed for Wednesday,
May 22.

Mien Burdett Coutte is about to add to the abundant
claim* which she already possesses upon the gratitude of
English working men, by. establishing a great covered
market In Bedmabgreen, London. Provision. will be sold
there cheaply under strict inspection, so that the sale of un-
wholesomb food will be prevented.

it ie ..oreoluced that the son of a peer has gone into
business at a stockbroker.

Large subecriptione are being eought for the
building of e nave to 13ristol Cathedral; for this purpose
7,000. la promised; 30,0001. will, it is estimated, be required.

Colonel Colt is to have a monument, which le to coat
5,0001 , and to be girt y feet high, and revolve We thought
he had one in Ma fortune of minions for the sale of the
revolver.

King John of Saxony has published an address to
his people, in the ccurse of which he says I shall ad-
here to the new alliance into which I have now entered
with the same fidelity I displayed to the old Ceifederation,
and shall do everything in my power to render that alliance
as advantageous as poarible to our own immediate country
as well aa the general fatherland."

Accordmg to the Railway News, the directors of
the Atlantic Telegraph Company have determined to reduce
the tariff of memagos on their line from 201. to

A Farb; journal (L'Europc) says the French diplo-
matic agents in the East have received the most precise
orders from their Government to energetically oppose every
revolutionary movement in the East. On the other hand, it
Is stated that Russian agents are overrunning Roumella and
Bosnia, and are encouraging the inhabitants to raise the
standard of revolt.

The King of the Belgians has conferred th e Order
Of Leopold on Mr Frith, 11. A, whose picture of ''lto inmate
Sind' " bas recently been exhibited at Brussels.

The agents of the ex• King of Nantes declare that
they are authorleed waive a complete dental to the rumours
propagated by the Italian joirbals, that this Prince thmks
of leaving Rome. Like the Holy lather, be Will remain in
that city, and await events.

M. Gladstone, who is now in Rome, paid a vieit to
the Pope on Wednesday in hat week. The object ot the
visit is not stated.

Whereas fonmerly five children might be counted for
nob marriage hi France, at the commencement of the
century that number fell to four and now each marriage
hardly proddtes three children in the country and two in
Peri,

The Rev. Morley Punsbon la stated to be so aerionsly
11l as to preclude any hope, though he may yet live many
years, of his being able ever to write or preach again.

Decorations must be easy to get abroad, or desert
must be high. as a midshipman fourteen years old was ob-
served at the Opera In London last week with seven decora-
tions on his coat.

The Sunday Gazette predicts a considerable increme
In the army and navy estimates of next year, and speaks of
the budget' meetings of the Cabinet as tikely to promise
as much earnest debate as the Reform question.

The object of the Prince of Wales' rieit to St.
Petersburg is to be present at the marriage of the Princess
Dagmar, sister of the Praloes* of Wales, to the eldest son of
the Czar.

In the United States there are 754) paper-millsin
active operation. They produce 270,000,000 pounds of raper,
which, at an average of 10 cents per pound, woull be worth
27,000,000 dole As it rewitris about a pound aad a half of
rags to make one pound of paper, Ultra are consumed by
these mills 40,000,00 pounds of rags In a einale ) ear. If we
estimate the raze to cut 4 cents per pound, there would
ke a profit of 11,00.1,000 dolt. in this branch of menu.
lecturing.

A comical qualTel, says a Paris contemporary, took
place the the ntuer day on a boWevard A genman roughly
acc,sted • working man, and accused him of swindling.
"You sold me," he said, "• pomale to make my hair row:
see, my head is as smooth as a place of leather." ' Sir,"
answered the vendor of ointment, "you wrong me. Them
are lands where the best seed won't grow. It is not the fault
11 Or sac I it is the soil " The gentleman did not contlutte
. •

Each morning at the Paris station of the Western
Railway there may be seen great vats full of as water
brought from Dieppe. This wider is used tor baths and
aquariums, which increase in number in Parts There is
even now In Paris a merchant who deals in nothing but salt
water. lit. a new trade,. aa may be imagined.
The Free Trade Hall of Manchester was occupied
on Sunday afternoon by a numOer of railway servants who
bad been called together to consider by what meaos they
could further in their own case the short time movement.
The principal speaker wan the travelling secretary of the
Railway Working Men's Provident Society, and his remarks
went to show that a change was generally necessary in
the condition of railway servant.
"A gentleman had taken his little Eon to a Christ-
mas pantomime. Some time afterwards he took him to see
of the Ritualist churches. As 'the green and gilded' priests
advisee d to the c.„ancel with the choristers the little boy
eagerly exclaimed, 'Pupa, where tithe clown? Papa, where
, Is tile clown?' "—Record.
In the matter of the attack on the Archbishop of
„ Canterbury for laying the foundation stone of an Epivoloal
church in Scotland, the Daily News takes up thc cudgels for
the Archhiabop, and twits The Tones with representing the
bond of State churches to be not community of doctrine,
discipline, and worship, but equality of position as to endow-
ments, pre-eminence, and other mundane advantages
After a brief interval, the Totnes election inquiry
was resumed last Saturday. The evidence of the witnesses
shows that votes command a rather higher price at Totnes
than at most other corrupt boroughs.
Referring to Sir William Mansfield's remarks on,
and his conduct in, the Jervis case, the Saturday
gays lie has actually succeeded in making his Own con-
duct towards Captain Jervis appear in a more odious and
contemptible light than it appeared before, and in bringing
ODD of the paltriest and meanest of military scandals to a
conclusion which every one admits to be in thoroughly artis-
tic harmony with its whole character."
Charirari (the French Punch) last week had several
amusing caricatures by that veteran Chem. A gentleman
gees with astonishment • lady dressed as the Eastern Ques-
tion, first opening an eye.—ln an editor's room are several
wounded journalists discussing if it would not be better to
let their subscribers fight Mar, to be continually running
each other throngli—A painter's wife finds her expiring
, husband, easel in hand, dressed as a jockey, because jockeys
are the only persons regretted—lt is supposed in Paris that
poor Grinishaw will be dose in marble and placed in West-
minskr Abbey.
Another abdication of royalty in talked of—that of
King V,ctor Emmanuel, whose health is said to be such as to
inspire great uneasiness, and who, moreover, is known to be
most anxious to avoid being forced Into an attack upon Rome,
And thus incurring the nominal excommunication that would
sweets...lily follow. II is thought not improbable that hems!
abdicate in favour of Prince If umbert, who is in the hands
of the advanced party.
One of the revising barristers for South Lancashire
has decided that the simple possession of a pew in a parish
church la a sufficient qualification for a vote a case upon
the point was applied for and gr Intel The sameea,,tlemun
has alsodecidei that the living of a Nonconformist minister
confer, a qualification.
The following description is on a picture of "Per-
gene and Andromeda," for sale in Berm.otelseystreet
This yon'-g lady was expreted to be devoured by the un-
feeling wretch at her feet, but the cove on the imaginsry ant-
mile up in the corner rescued and married her for 353."--•
South London Prers
The Morning Pod says that the following short d-
dress is open for signature by those of the clergy who re-
joice at every fresh bond of union between the several
branches of the universal church—May it please your
Grace—We, the undernamed priests and deacon, of the
Church of England, numbly offer our hearty thanks for the
act of communion with our brethren of the Church of Scot-
land, in which your grace has been recently engaged—To
the Most Nov. the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury."
The Sheffield manufacturers, headed by the Mayor,
will join the Town Council in requesting the Home Secre-
tary to appoint • Royal Commission to investigate the sub-
ject of trade outrages. Few persons believe that snob an in-
quiry will bring to justice particular offender& But these
crimes would very likely be checked by the disclosures
: which would be made, and the indignation which wonid be
roused throughout the country irides from the communi-
cations addressed to the Sh,ffield Dlegraph since a Royal
Commlasion was first mooted to its columns, people out Of
Sheffield have no idea of the extent and frequency of the in-
timidation and violence exercised towards artleans and
manufacturers there, not, perhaps, directly hy certain trade
anions, but at all events in their Interest.
Referring to the much-debated question of foreign
orders, the A thenaeum recalls the story of Nelson refusing
to submit to official dictation when he had earned sundry
foreign decorations and the title of Duke of Bronte. Ile
was told that he could notappear at Court with those orders,
or bear that title, till he had received the usual sanction.
His answer was that those honours had been conferred on
him by his sovereign's allies for service he had been deputed
by his sovereign to reader them; he would go to Court with
all his titles end honours, anh lie did not suppose any one
would stop him. No one did stop him, but perhaps this
was one of George the Third's reasons for his odd dislike
of Nelson. Still as Nelson, could execute his proud boast
of having agazette to himself, it mattered little what courtly
precedent and shoebuckle red-tapism thought of his taigni-
ties.

The tuuwemly disturbances which occurred recently
at Nurthmoor Green church, In consequence of some persons
burlesquing the ritualistic proceedings and the vestments of
the officiating minister, have led to proceedings before the
magistrates at Bridgwater. This principal actor in the dis-
tnrbarce, a man named Kitch, has teen charged with "un-
seemly and riotous conduct" in the above church, and with
maulting the Rev. James Hunt To this charge he pleaded
guilty, and was sentenced to twenty-eight days' iMPII.OI2.
mem, the chairman remarking that a stop must be put to
Such indecent beheviour, however much we may &sap
prove of the practices at this church."
The death is reported of Dr. Conquest, the well..
known London physician It took place at the doctors
country residence at Shouter's Hill. The deceased, who
was eeventy-seven years of age, was formerly lecturer on
midwifery at St. Bartholomew's Hospital lie wrote a
pamphlet on "The Use and Abuse of Roney," the putili,A-
lion of which led to his giving • prize of 100 stillness for the
best essay on the subject. ibis resulted In the publication
of "Mammon," by the Rev. Dr. Harris a work which evened
some interest and obtained a large sale. He also polished
• work entitled " Outlines of Zi idwifery," which has essted
throush elz editions in this cow dry, and has been iranaleted
Into the French, German, and Hindustante language! Dr.
Conquest was also the author of a revised edition of the
Blbts.g.mesally knows as "The Bible wlth 20,000 meads.
Nets."