The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-04-11 00:00:00

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Fl Taw., Nt.,”tingale has joined the Nati,,oei
tiodsty • I Wometi4 Suffrage.

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The personalty of the late Mr. Justice Shee h.,e; Ixen
sworn under £lO,OOO.

On Friday Thomas Close, aged 76, died at Darling.
ton from having heen violently beaten with • Poker Ly a
woman with whom he had lived.
Dr. Grey, &medical practitioner, aged thirtv.five, a
native of Scotland, recently poisoned himself at kleleseorth,
Canada, by taking a large dose of tincture of digitalis he
VW of intemperate habits.
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The medical officers of Volunteers have had a meet-
ing in London to express their dissatisfaction with their
present status at reviews and at the Wimbledon meetines

A couple were married at Boston church on the '2oth
ult., whose united ages anioutited to 136 years. The bride-
groom was 71, and the bride 65.
The Abla'., Migne, whose extensive printing e.t.a},
llshment at Montrose.° was some weeks its ee seeidertally
destroyed by fire, lies on the point at death, and has re-
ceived the last sacral...tits The Abbe, who is seventy vear,
1.1 age. oould not says GotiTnani• resist the loss ol the
cherished work of his whole life.

Sunday last being Paint Sunday, the Pope offidated
at St. Peter's. He blessed and dlstAbuted the palms to the
vardliods, prelate., and nat•mhera of the diplomatic body.
The telegtana adds that his holiness enjoys good health

It ia e-xpected that the Queen will visit Balmoral on
or about the 19th of May. Preparation. are being made tor
her Majeso's reception.

The otbor doy a message WM sent from London to
San Francisco ant answer,d all in two nanutea The
distance travelled by the message going and Coining w.
abut 14,1155

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The ordinance of baptism was administered on Sun.
day, to John Marcus Goldfield, young Jew, at St Paul's,
I.ondon, by the Rev. J. E. Sinysuki, of King's College, Ms.
simian, to tile Jews.

Pm-fessor Looms, of Yale Coilsße, says that this
winter has been the coldest in New Haven. in America, for
ninety years, with the exception of the winter 1a35-6, which
WV One degree colder.

t Li. whispered in the lobbies of the Hmise that the
last adlition to our stock of aphorisms le an invention
new Premier's—viz., "There may be valour, but there's to
virtue in resignation."

I'roffiesur- rime-off recently left Odessa to see a
patient at a neighnouring village. On the Journey he was
attacked by idahwa)nien. Ile killed two, and escape-I, bet,
received Injuries from which he died,
The Poet, iffice department, having now to carry
official correspondence without charging the postage to the
s,veral Goveroment others, have given au eAtimate of the
quantity for the year. It is calculated at 14.121,300 ounce.
Mdbite. Miramon, widow of the Mexican general of
thvt name, who was shot, as way he remembered, ha
arrived at Brussels, accompanied by her children.

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A luotit.* appears in the window I d a tobacen.shop in
the (Muller SG. Deins, Paris, as follows:—" several first-rate
deformed people are wanted Monediately." It is not sad
what they are wanted for.

A country clergyman, the Rev. Scott T. Surtees,
has written a book to show that Julius Omar beyond tea
sonable doubt never crossed the Channed, but sailed from
Zealand mid landed In Norfolk

One of the most singular uses to which a railway
arch can be put Is shown at Kennington, near the Elephant
and Castle, in London, where, it seems, a complete theatre,
with pit, boxes, and gallery entire, la iu course of construc-
tion the sides and crown of the arch forming the ...inland
ceiling of the establishment.

Judge Nathaniel H.,hnes—an accomplished scholar,
but twat known from his very able support of the theory
that Mfake,peure WAS bacon—has left the bench of the
MISEOUTi SllpreMe Court to take the senior law professorship
in the Harvard LAW &hoot

"I he Dais of Florence eats :—" The Archbishop of
Turin intends to present, In the name of the clergy of pis
diocese a wedding gift to her Royal Highness, the Primer.
Margherita. It is to consist of a litre d'heures, having an
one cover the representation of our Saviour's tomb worked
in gold and ivory, and on the other the image of St. Mar-
garet in a medallion surrounded by precious stones."
A subscription, headed by Mr. Smith. mayor of the
borougn of Reigate, mot Mtwara Farquhar and blunders,
borough magistrates, has been made on behalf of Mr. In-
spector Miller, whin was dismissed from the Surrey con.
stabulary far. a. atleged, simply taking in the Pwire Serrice
Adrertiser. iii addition to this the police and constabulary
forms thioughout the kingdoin are almost unanimously
making subscriptions in his aid.
A curious letter in causing great amusement to the
Parisians It ruin thus:—" M. arid Shines E— have ths
honour to mate known to you the loss they have experienced
In the smarm of Sir William E--, their SOO, a naval officer
lii her Majesty's service. lie was eaten by smages, on the
isle of —, the 1567."
The annual rate of mortality last week was 22 per
1.000 in London, 31 in Edinburgh, and 29 in Dublin . 27 in
Liverpool 27 in Mai cheater, 27 in hillel, 23 in Riming
ham, 25 in Sheffield, 23 in Leeds, 32 in Bristol, 24 in Bull,
27 in Neweastle-ntion-fyile, and 49 in Glasgow. The rate
In Vienna was 36 per 1,000 during the week ending the 21st
ult., when the meas temperature was 32 deg Fahrenheit
lower than lu the same week in Loudon, where the rate
was 22.
Cardinal Bonaparte lice just had conferred on him
by tine l'ope the title of Ahem, Etninentbaima, instead of
F.rninenza Reverend issima, borne by his etalfrered the Papal
Court has also placed at his disposal, for ecclesiastical cere-
monies. four state carriages, the servants of Which will wear
the Imperial livery.
The French Government has, through the Chambers
of Commerce, requested sum...nen to order their captains
at sea to take observations of the eclipse of the SIM of 17th
August, next. The Government explains that it does not sup-
pose that the observatious can lie such OA would he made
by prat, Leal astronomers, furnished with suitable bistro-
mettle; hut, nevertheless, it thinks they may be MOW no
cohtributinu to elucidate doubtful points In the phenome-
non of eclipses.
The Prince of Wales was in the Molise of Coynmona
no Friday night when the division was taken, and witnessed
the frenzied shouts of joy of the Liberal party.
We (iiiiperiat Rainy) believe that the current ru.
moor that the Maryut. of Aberoorn will be raiseo to a duke-
dom on the occasion of the vidt of the Prince and Princess
1 of Waite. to I'cland is well founded.
The Charirari (the French Punch) publishes a amod•
gut, having the title of •• Le &uncut. Miracle," and repro-
aenting on Austi Lai in the military uniform of the country,
welkin:, erect, and with head high, whilst female figure,
representing Liberty, point, te him with grave exultation
and exclaims. ..A patient who sus cons.riered by all as cer-
taM to din! Look how he bears himself at present, thanks
to sin !"
The training law for Oxford and Cambridge boat
crews was lireakiast and dioner of cold heel or mutton—little
or no fat—a pint of beer tune. day, no spirits or wine, and
plenty of bard work. This rule for growing strong might he
taken as the finger-post showing the royal road to health
by anyorie who wishes to find out the way.
A young woman nulled Anna P—, aged thirty.
two, an inmate of the refuge kept by tie Dames Diaconesses
ill tlie B.ue de Reuilly, two day. back attempted to fmminit
111lieble, Ina was almost miraculously saved from death. She
had throws herself from a svindow of the second door, but
In failsug her dress caught on an iron fastening projecting
from a shutter of the story beneath, and held her suspended
in the air until she was rescued from her perilous position.
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Executions do not, however, wholly stop terrible
homicides. On Saturday night or Sunday morning a most
revolting murder was committed at Barnsley. A man Denied
James Harris, a stonemason, killed a woman with whom ha
had cohabited for a number of years. They had been dr oh.
log together on Saturday night. awl on Sunday morning she
wan found dead in her house, her body being fearfully
beaten.
A curious fact presented in the annual report of
the New York Column"loners of Emieration Is this that of
the 222 682 emigrants brought from Europe In 464 steamers,
in 1867, 255 died, Shun of the 49,038 brought in 280 sailing
vessels, 494 died. From Jan. 1 to March 18, 1860, 12,634
emigrants arrived at Castle Garden, in New York, being
8,542 leu than during the similar portion of 1867.
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A man named Yalu was charge,' the other day at
the Paris Police Tribunal with selling swordcanes, which are
a prohibited weapon. The accused pleaded in his defence
that he only sold them to honest people, but the Judge
doubting Ma faculty of discriminating between his customers
by a mere glance at their ph)siognomy, sentenced him to
six days' imprisonment as a warning.
Mr. Darby Griffith is to move an address for a return
of the peerages and baronetcies which have beet created or
cowerred from the commencement of the session of 1852 up
to the present time, specifying, in • separate column for each
year, a nominal list of etery such peerage or baronet.age,
and also stating who was the Prime Minister who was in
office when those honours were granted.
It is said to be' in contemplation by the War Depart-
ment to out in and utilise all the Russian gnus taken in the
Crimean war at present scattered about the nietropobtan
parks and other parte Of the country. These guns have for
a long time past been et Raiders(' obutzious to Russtahs
tisiting this country. should Government decide to call
them ni they 0111 las seat tothe Royal Arsenal and melted
down.

A I'aris gtatistician has calculated that, during
twenty-four hours, nearly 11.,W0 vehicles of every kind
circulate on the Ek•ulevard des listens, while in the Acebue
des Champs Elys(es, there are only 10.000. The area total of
all the streets of Paris is about 4 millions of square yards,
containing (5 millions of paving stones.

The Zottavee de la Garde left Paris the other day
for country quarter.. They were escorted as far as the
tortiflcatimis by a tremendous crowd of workmen, with
whom they are great faroUrites, line of them la a splendid
negro, an ex-subject of Emperor Theodorus. The hntory of
his entering the French bervlce is most singular. Ile had a
dog "f)lo,l•Triorb who was at iloferinnnn, alld who diatinguibirel
himself by Mac milieu in action (so the 'Lotuses inert , and
accompanies the regiment whereser it is qoartered.
The New York papers state that General Lopez,
the hetra)er of the hire Emperor Maximilian, is in prison
at Mexico, and that the Mexican Judiciary courts have de-
cided that the law under which Maximilian was executed
was unconstitutional.

The petition to Parliament that has been prepared
by the London Natbeal Society for Women's Suffrage, is to
lei presented to the !louse of Commons by Mr. John Stuart
Mill, M.l'., during May. It ha's already received more than
15,000 signatures.

Not the least striking fact in connection with the
abuses of endowed schools is. that some of there m,hools
have .ly one scholar. A correspondent of the Pall _licit
Gazette mentions a case if this kind. In which the endow-
nitut id the school was shut £420.0r £430 • year. The one
scholar left was the son 01 the chimney sweep of the pirish
sod he at last took his son away from the school because his
education was negleettd
The Bally I'elegraph protests against the alleged
intention of appointing Prince Christian se succemor t • Lord
Cann; an in the Goloncky ot the 11th Ilusears, and r. marks
thud lithe Prince requires an augmentation of his lOC,Uath to
the extent of £1,350 • )ear lea • demand be made upon Par-
liament, Tut do nit allow it to be abstracted from the
pockets of liritiah vetentna.

The merchants of Victoria who are interesting them.
lelve lit the price! if supril)lng the English market with
Australian primary. .1 meat were lately subjected to a fret!
Lii.ppoltitilient. It at enis that a telegram wow received
Mating that 36,000 I.olrl, 01 the meat had been• sold In Lon-
don. The news came., much rejiiiciog. It was subsequently
however that there had fleet, all error oil a letter
111 Ihe meAsaze. All "0" had been substituted for an i."
It should have been 20,000 tins, not tons. The tins only
c a iew pounds

The Ohio Legislature has passed a bill which pro-
vides that all ',emus el,aged as principals in any prize fight
which shall take place in that state shall be liable on con-
viction to imprsoument In thepenitentiary for • period of
not less than one nor more than ten years; and that backers,
seconds, umpires, reperters, to., shall be liable to a fine of
from fifty t five hundred dollars, and to unprisonment from
ten days to three months.
The father of the Ilsume of Lords now ie Lord
(1)7"7'71.°wL. 7rhdolitsadinitohri,th7 eearr, ishahLinsgettreinboPranrilnian°eittii"taryber.
einierlenee, having entered public life In March, 1801, as
311 P. for Dos moo, and having bolt • seat ever since In one
of the two Douses of the Legialigure. But there Is another
noble eArl oho, though Fodor hi hoth these nonlemen, has
been a nilro,,,er of the Peerage far longer than ether of thorn
—we mean (rd betas err, who succeeded to his coronet in
1795, and who, we believe, is the only tobleman now living
Who date, his accesaion to his title from the lgth century.
"A curious report in in circulation about the Queen.
It is URI, In well informed roamers, that she is alarmed at
the threatened destruction of the Irish Church, and eg
• doubt as to her ability to sanction the course thefritTill
party are panning. II er Majesty fears, It is said, that her
coronation oath will prevent her giving her assent to the dis-
establishment of the Irish Church. She had a long Interview
with Lord Derby on Thursday it Is alleged) on the point.
On Friday she had an Interview with Mr Coleridge, and the
gesipof
to tier eni
position to d:i:i....,::4;:.:'ne'obsoluheaat?h:tohiwtheprad:%,l7l;usl:tdybor,:i'rLa'tifecte'h.ielsric'nebTetc-aso.ht"iturti,l'och.l"hp.iri_eo4.
Ne armada Chrenieks.