The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-28 00:00:00

EPITHALAMIUM.

PERE HYACINTHE abjures monastic vows :
The childless Father has become a Spouse.
Blest with his Conscribe their uuptial bower,
Behold the hyacinth a double tiower.—Purtel,.

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The Marine Society has received a donation of
1,000 for the Warspite trainiug ship from " W. T. S."
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Among the remarkable mineral discoveries recently
made in Utah is said to be that of a bismuth mine, the only
one, so far as known, in America.
Mr. Stanley has been offered, and has accepted, the
sum of xlo,noo to deliver a course of lectures in the tufted
States, describing Ms discovery of Dr. Livingstone.

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San Francisco is to have an inclined railway, 2.500
feet in length. The ears will be operated by stationary
en bee, and steel wire ropes will ba employed.

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Since the net fishing closed in On Tweed, some fair
sport has been got with the rod. A good many fish have
reacht.d the higher districts of the river.
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Rome has celebrated the anniversary of its emanci-
pation with a Joy unmarred by any political disturbance,
but somewhat damped by unfavourable weather.
His Royal Highness Prince Leopold will, it is stated,
commence • course f study at Oxford in October term It
Is also stated Prince liassan's younger brothers will shortly
enter at Oxford.

Brigands have perpetrated A railway robbvry in
Andalusia with their usual recklessness and success. The
rails were torn up, several persons wounded, • large amount
of specie plundered, and a safe escape effected.
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A Swedish woman, who arrived at Maryborough,
Queensland, by the hat emigrant ship, gave birth to four
female children ; all are alive and doing well. A subscription
is being raised on behalf of the mother.
It is estimated that the late autumn mainouvres cost
£130,000, irrespective of compensation to farmers. The
question of continuing them in future years will, it is under-
stood, be left to Parliament.
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The four huge etatuee erected at the two ends of
the Pont du Carrousel, Parts, have been entirely repaired,
and covered with a coating of some composition to protect
them against the weather.
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The Chancellor of the Exchequer received in the
financial year 1871-72 sum amount iug to £7,132 forwarded
to him for conscience sake. This is nearly double toe
£3,852 received on the mune Recount in the ',receding year.

The teat of the judgment which condemned the
pseudo General Cluseret to death by default has Just been
postei up at the gate of the Ministry of War, that being his
last known residence in France.
The Preston Herald gives currency to a renort that
most of the cotton mills in the town and neighbourhood are
about to run short time. The high price of coal, the dear-
ness of gas, and the uncertainty of • productive trade have,
it is said, led to this step.

It mat, be among "things not generally known"
that unfit the first of December next there will remain open
at Bordeaux the poetic competition, to which the bards of all
nations are invited to compete. Those who posaLss eyes
with the fine frenzy rolling can select what subject they
please—the principal point is to contribute something.
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The Exhibition now open at Moscow was visite,i
last month hy about 30,000 persons daily, and the British
contributions to the exhibition f, um the iirit att acted
much notice. It is understood that many of the prime': al
attic es exhibited from this county will, after the close of
the exhibition, be permanently placed in the Moscow
Museum.

A professor, who recently distionishel himself by
making the discovery that the prevalence of the foot and
mouth disease in Ireland was owing to the want of Home
Rule, has classed amongst the Incidents of the Autumn
Matueuvres 'thy Battle of Aylesbury, where the ducks come
from!"

Sir John Lubbock has, it is stated, undertaken to in-
trodace a bill to ettend the provisions of the Factory and
Workshops' Act to all shops open for the manufacture, sale,
or repair of any article, or part of an article, throughout the
United Kingdom.
The Board of Trade return recently issued shows
that the amount of capital proposed to be raised by railway
and other bills brought before Parliament last session was
.C8i,444,031, of which it was proposed to raise £57,003,590 by
shares and £28,01,241 by loans. The total number of bills
was 304.

From April Ist to the 21st inst. the Exchequer
receipts amountcd to fiY2..717,190, an increase of two millions
and a half as compared with the corresponding period of last
year. foe expeiniituve has been .r.:33,497,115 On Saturday
last the balance in Lb, Bank of England was nearly live mil-
lions and a half.

A game shop of a peculiar kind has been opened
In a etreet near the Italics, Part..
.It.la dedicated to the

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Gourmet sans Prejugei, who can be furnished there with
the flesh of badgers, weasels, tenets, wild cats, foxes, owls,
jays, rooks, crows, megples, and gilder an youtfterea—a
etiphouism for domestic cats, rats, mice, atid such small
deer.

A gentleman, renowned amongst hie circle for his
driving proclivities, recently, ori his wedding day, received
a present from a sporting friend of the model in silver, a ith
gold buckles, of a set of harness for one horse. The affair
was ahcut 14 inches long, and of considerable artistic merit.
As the giver has a sarcastic turn, the belief Is entertained
that there was more in it than met the eye.

The London School Board have (says the Metro-
politan) at length secured a site for its proposed new build-
ing on the Thames Embankment, and have requested the
following architecta to send in designs for the building in
competition :—Sir Digby Wyatt, Mr. Scott, Mr. Podley,
and Mr. Waterhouse, of Manchester. The architect whose
plans are chosen win be intrusted with the carr) jog out of
the works.
Oscar 11. of Sweden, brother of the late King and
Prince Bekaa, has been proclaimed at Stockholm, and taken
the oath of allegiance to the Constitution. King Charles's
remains are to be embalmed at MalmO prior to removal to
the capital for interment. In the proclamation announcing
hie accession the new King says that Ms motto will be, "The
welfare of both peoples."

"From the -8.41;es of the old Chicago," says the New
York Tribune, "ha, come a new Chicago A peculiarity of
the young city seems to he an odd m,sture of all imaginable
styles of architecture. Nothing could be funnier than the
hotel with a front partly Doge's Palace, St. Mark's Church,
Vaudeville Theatre, and Louvre. Nevertheless, we are pre-
pared to consider its, the Chicagoans do—the most remark-
able building in the country.

Speedy work has been made of M. About at Stras-
burg court-martial. On the recommendation of the Judge.
Advocate he was accouttted, and allowed to leave the town,
which he did forthwith lle has telegraphed to his friends in
Paris that the Imperial prosecutor had determined to give
the Paris press a lesson through him, but was foiled by the
Judge-Advocate. Characteriatically, he concluded by saying
that he has "much to tell.'
Great meetings of miners were held throughout Fife-
shire last Saturday, at which it was reported that at three
different collieries the masters had conceded the full demands
of the men, who were accordingly working on the advance
of Is. Pd. per day. With regard to the other coined., how-
ever, the masters had declined to grant &further rise. It was
determined to adhere to the former resolution until such
tine- as the additional Scl. Is granted. Considerable excite-
ment prevails.

The rown Council of Sheffield recently incurred
heavy expenses in making applications to Parliament in re-
ference to the svat,r supply, and in opp sling Parliamentary
applications by the Water Company. It Was subsequently
as lretained that the expenses could not legally be defrayed
out of the rates, and a voluntary rate was made which has
yieided ELVA lie. 10d.

The "Victoria Faithful Service Medal," instituted in
the present year by the Queen to reward Tier Majesty's
personal servants, is in gold and silver, bearing on the
obverse the royal effigy; on the reverse the name and office
of the recipient within a wreath of the rose, shamrock, anti
thistle. The link connecting it to the clasp is composed cf
the royal monogram beneath an imperial crown.

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The Caloane Gazette learns from a Russian newspaper
that repeated earthquakes more the middle of July have
caused great alarm in and near the town of Shemala, in the
Eastern Caucasus. Very severe shocks have recently re.
correct, and the inhabitants, In consequence, have been so
dreadfully frightened that they have left the city, and are
encamped in the country. Some are under tents, but • large
number are unprotected.

Bad news has been received at Stockholm from the
Swedish party. Dr. Oebumg, the mineralogist, returned on
the sth to Tromme, and has sent • telegram to say that on
the 28th August the steamer Pion met the two refuels of the
expelition at the north point of Spitsbergen. The Ice con-
tinued to prevent them nearing the Seven Islands. The ten
reindeers sent out to the explorers had Indeed at Norskoen.
Nine ice bears were killed on the westernmost island of
Konig Karl's land (Sillislaud.)
A correspondent of the Dclhi Gazette at Knmaon
says—There Is • perfect reign of terror in these parts at
present on account of the depredations of a family of tigers
that seem to be slaying men and women Indiscriminately.
It Is said that these pests have been emboldened to commit
such havoc by the villagers at this season picketing their
cattle mat in the open. I hear that two men and one woman
within the last week have been killed within a few mile. of
this, and now cows and buffalo,. axe tailing a prey to the
mameaters. It is to be hoped that the Government will do
something to rid th& country of these tigers. At present
people are afraid to tilvel, unieseln gangs.

A fatal duel, of which but meagre particolars are
recorded, has occurred at Laval, in France. hi. Appleton,
the sub-perfect of A vesncs, had an altercation so big as two
months ago in the drawing-room of a lady, the Itmoneas de
lii!ze, with Baron Ritter, the receiver of taxes for the depart.
meat of the hlimenne, and struck Lim a blow iu the face.
flow it happened that "satisfaction' was so long deferred
Is not explained. But on Sept. 14 the parties met in deadly
combat in a wood near Laval. tine of the seconds of Baron
Ritter was M. Carr6.Kerleoet, a member of the Assembly.
After two shots exchanged 51. Appleton fell with • ball in
the lungs, lie was carried to toe h-,use of a relative at
seal, and very shortly died. The local papers gave cut
at first that he had been killed by an accident in the shoot.
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A fatal accident has occurred to I'd. Canolari, an hl
servant of the ex-King of Naples, who though young at the
time of his premature death, represented the Court of the
Two Sicilies successfully at !Madrid, Turin, and Paris lle
was delving down the Champs Elys“s, accompard,rl by an
attaché of the Austrian embassy and another friend when
the horses of his carriage ran away, suit coming into col-
lision with the pedestal of one of the statties in the Place
de Is Concorde, the vehicle was upset with such violence that
M. Canotari was tithed on the stem hy the concusstm Neither
his companions nor the coachman were seriously tutored.

A short time since it was remarked upon in The
Times that coals fr. im helgium were being I lelivered at
P..rt,inouth, awl that the tff,ct of the speculation was to
re tic° to the consumer the cost of coals by about ss. pert
This foreign supply of cool to the inhanitants of nouth Hants
has unfortunately been stopped, inquiries dire.ted to Ant
werp for further supplies being met with the reply, that all
coal that can be brought to the surface has been contracted
for by large firms in England up to the end of the present
year, loaded on waggons at the pit mouth at from 25f. to 30f.
the 1,010 kilogrammes, the coal being taken sets Is sent Up.
• correspondent at Dunkirk, writing (in English) in reply to
ithanar inquiry, says All coal here is sold to end of
December, and the prices now are from 301. tont the 1,000
kilogrammes."