The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-02-07 00:00:00

48ITI8ft AND titilliGN,

An anonymous donor in Glasgow has given £l,OOO in
sto.k to the &nate of the Unteerasy of that ctty, pr
ceeds to be applied to the better endowing:int of the chairs of
astronomy, botany, and na ural Mew ry
The email hnuoi at Ur btu in which tssnnat-1 was
born In 14+3, end which has hitherto be-u in private hands,
ha+ jtp.t been purchued for 22 000 :rates the Ac•de.i.
14.4-ello of Viet ct• y. It is t tribe o•ed and I read into a
museum to be paned after the illustrious painter.

Letters received from Jan Ytate that the nese
Mi icor I "meanie about to graut twrolietion to dealers 11l
stitiv.rois ewes to tray.' without hiu cairo into %h. lof.flot
of he countiy, that they may %Mid directly with $lO caul-
waters.

Afafrol aceldent occurr.l an Toes lay at a pi.,
matod glory In 11,ratinglasos 8 .me men, among whom war
°..e named Weaver, were raising goods from the lower part
t e balldthe to a higher story by menus of aik pp whet,
vie rve hehe aid they were throwd to the Krogh i
Weaver sustained severe uejdries, both Ms arms and mit of
Ws has being Mottle, sett his Lee and head were so bad')
it fared that he died.
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Fire-arrna have come under a legislative ban
J -ray% where a Bill hat b..rn brought before t,e newly
. petted session of the Sates to hop re art abunal tax of £1
on gnus, ta prohibit bars under IS fr ,os using them a;
all. It 10. 55 that y 011 th.ol root tanaoshlp has been cartled
to a demon°. extent In the Island.

Advic,a from Alreria give an account of a lion hunt
which t vdr p1a,303 last week. The Arsen discovered two of
those indmals In a ravo,, and then Cole cc Klhoul, taking
alto at orie of theon, killed It Ihe other took to flight ; hot
semis hours slier the Intrepid pu.suers came up with It and
fired ate hal. into Its tidy. kl “Ideord with pale she sutmal
turned and eprang nOne ot the hunters, who would Inert
{ably have lu en torn to pieces had not his brother rushed
forward, and, plunging his yatagsu into the side ot the lion,
killed It on the spot.

Oa Moodey Reading (Caod'emai) fair waa held fd
the s.le of stock and torsos There was a large held o!
stock, and buyers from all par cant the c tint; (Berke) were
preaent. Da rrtg c3ll/1 a id a. from £lO to g 47 ( not tieing
the meld.) and cows to calve down Cl 7 to E,24 ; atore
steers and wet, bred heifers Ell to £l5 ; beasts to con
nl‘lun, £l6 to £,°.2 a head, and ysarlo gi, iho., £6 to 67.
10.10 was an armies buslnen In tne horse lair, and WO
prices were made of sound young animals,

Athertiaing for • wife is the last etep toward. eivili
nation of the Hind 0 Mow.!m.o. f' Sir," writer the toll wet
of the prophet to the 'Ames of IcsvlisO, pivotae let me know
elorther you are prep .o.ft to tt,.rfl SD SOY rtfeem.t to the
ff-u. that I waut a young Smut.oo mat& u to share n y
fortune y way of sort-treouy. The fora, of the ,411,
meat will be duly sent to you, end the amount of charge paid
in advance lam • young .11shommhtan flan. in torm m,
without delay."

The West Retford Pit, at Tinsley CAlier;ee, Shef-
field, has teen on flre for a fortLi.,ht, and lots thrown 800
men out of coalgettit g empl-yment. the n.. 1 seam has
been find bra dwt mce of 60 yard., and as the FOAM Is dis-
tant 1,0 0 pads from the bottom 01 the that& crest cidll •inty
has been 51001 lenmsl In getting tic tne ilie. Not loss tom.
250 men have beet, e gasael In plains It oat, and la.& week
t tone of these men had a narrow escape from suffocation
The hear In the pit has h-rn fearful, end the n-en neve had
to be fr,shed with "claret and ',sass.? The th, was en-
ting uisheA on blondes, and the meu have returned to work.
The ds maga Is estim4ted at £2,010,
O,efetonday afternoon London reedved the first in-
stalment- of salmon lmally captured in Nuallsh waters tor the
season 'llBl4. I hls, a nice fish of 11th., was forwarded t
Mr. Gr.dro, of Charing cross. Is was taken lu the Severn
ear;y on Monday morning and arrived In London le prime
contagion,

Many of our readers will learn with regret (says the
Sun) that tie they. Em le C,,k, to Paris Protestant miois
ter, sated from the V.lie du Havre, sod then ,ron, 11.0
Lochearn. dl d on Ihursday In the South of France, S.
*hien place he had gone, with the lope of mitering s eonstl•
lotion shatter,' hy etp.aure on the niut,t of the fear:ui
stopwri-ct. Slr. Go-k refused to I.BVO brut`l, mititSLOl
ho was injured and rttualotd on bbard the Lochearn
The Right Hon. Henry Brand was driving through
'Mama& on 31.mday afternoon with an.dher wentlen an
when his h stile and ran the vehicle into a plate gloss
wiudow. NAther of the oecupAnts a the carriage was
injured.

The Communists seems to have found a temporary
resturg-plaw, In New Y y f.ave mat awl deterruh,
on oreautestleo, a”.l Mar procetuttn;s appear a`tngetuer at
• very my srerfous character.

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At a eueech delivered on Monday at Nevem M
Deseldlgt y the Minister of Agrlcul ore and Commerce In
Franc, cechered that a truce et several years was necessary
emong punt( al name., and the Intele.ts if twittery urn!
public teat quint), and with • view to the future soluf nm In
a d•flol.l.or manure! pending questions. The Goverhmen,
•tight, iher.foro, t be Pupported, he urged, In the dints to
promote the nattottal welfare. •
Having reached the Prah OD the lit of January. Sir
nano t W,lseier warm if amhassadors from the King ei
Aohantea, tut .g f r peace The Ife.gllsti commander's lowly was
.1 at mi Viotthi Only trelit with the King hirriselr at Conmaiele
the Naval brigade crois d the Pratt on the 6th of Jahuary
d mar:he • tower..a Coonois ie, veceded by ilaj r
flu-sal'. native regiment. Sir Garnet's staff are healthy, am,
iood spirits.
'ln.- Indian Gavernmin; will require, it is eatimated,
UV (0 WO. f lee to p coque for the suoslatetca cf 250000
p•rsons, being 10 per Dent. of th. p natation, for severi
mouth.. 'I In. securod quantity Is 542 toe, which nippy
tan been obtained at acot II S'.3 09 ~oto The rostra
at me, it will et sien, canoed 10 r,cce num
At a jdvenile p.rty, a young Aberdeen gentleman,
about seven ye.ra old, kept Elms-if from the rest of the c gu-
mmy.. T,oa any of the bunco c.I ed t him :—Owe ant ploy
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and deuce, my dear. Choose one of thee pretty Stria for
your VPI:e." "Not like') I" cried ti•e young eyeic ' N e
-or me ! Do yore think L want to be worried oat of nay life
Ilse poor papa "
At a meeting of the Itnilway Servants' Society at
Oxford Mr Car.lwell said he et eyed that a stela many so
c deals oectu red MAIN-ugh servants being overworaed, snil he
ahould bob aopy to give attention to legida I .0 on the sub-
ject. tie William Harcourt Moue/ tit was ui Ju-t that corn.
petaatio., warn tl,.t given to the railway servant& who met
accidents ben ond their natrol.
"Tine manager of • London theatm condescended to
hear hi Me sanctum a young men (oho has an unfortunate
limitation In hta speech) rondo short hoc., the.. i C ndit on
being tnst it aliould not tectioy mde time than It tot to
firish the weed the manager bed jo,t tit. Away tiny hot!:
*tart, the one reeding, Via other annoklug, I is, rt. the mild
Havana reac nails termluatien, the re •rae the young aut,me
stutter.. 'ulny fi..tah t ~,ether. 01 cowse the iptectivn Is
Intin•-:1:tely pat; 'What do you think of I. I" Well,' no.
ills Mr. Manager, 'nos Oaf • Oat idea; father, mother,
lover, daughter, el eatterluv, will have a n-mel olfect.' rue
author, Innotis excising 'They do:,'s steamier ; it's on y
my !materna. • 0.,, tittn, . Play at no yat all,
sorry I can't accept it' sad the manager."—Court Journal.
At the present General E'ection the spays rules will
be ii,lerveo snot tie recent municipal elec i.e. as well ix
the School B unrid elec amis. lb.. voter is to place a cross at
the side i f the name or names of the camildate or candidates
P.lr whom he vote.. The pencil ie to be provided in the coin
parterent after he has r,e.ivel the voile, paper as i.bie the
vutug piece, end the toter, having aerretly walked his vote,
late told up the paper and .tep nit the tootle it, the ballot.
nor, after show us the ftloi,i mark at the bade It the
voter votes be more candidate. than he i 3 entitiet to, or
mates cry other mark on the paper Is ballot paper aril re
void. its v.ter adv. now]) 'polio. ballot /rap. be cm
r turu it to tie v Iticrr, who sill, If satisfied of such Inad-
vertence, glee him another paper.
Mr, P. T. 13 :mum has been for some time past in
Lot-don mskii, preparatmns forth. magnificent Moro-
drone, which he opt.. early in April, In Na- York Matter.
are pr.weininm •Ith almost unexampled v•gour an, rapidity.
Among Ms latest pm chases have beet, a dozen first clam ra
horses, clutch, Sc minpsnied by skilful j ickeys twenty brace
of houndr, with kanuel-men, whippers-lu, stags for Minting,
SRI other perapherualia.
A muldtm of &railway elation Master took place at
Brats us • few day, ago on the line connectitg the Q metier
latoyal with the Northern Railway Pere ins wit° went t
the station to procure tickets were surtrieed to ficd It
closed, and no one In atto.dance, and on the doom tmlrg
forced open it was dlacorered that the •tatlon mo,ter Mao
harm murdered in. most ferocious ro.nner, there lulu. no
li,. than tnirty mvare wound• on his person. His watch
and other valuab:es bad In am taken.
A letter from Honolulu, dated the 22nd of November,
in tt edi gerneims Zeitung says th to h., predictions of th.
approaching death of King Limed o have proved false; he
I- oats mac i better, ann he has g.ined to ninth in streturth
that he has boon able to make a short vlot to Kal'us arm
flawed. one 111.: eaof th, Kingcnu.cs much anximy to thv
as he nes no Oil :et her, and there would probabl,
be a strut Ale for the mannikin.
"It in far too soon to make any estimate of bite pro.
bable losses and gains of the oppose I metal.: blit the fattest
Int. VIA can be tak- n of tne cov.test ativis te, the
that tee Goternme.r, will met Parltameut w.th • very small
ms, Inde,d. 11 1.4 u itf sib, too, whether the lAerals
will hi in any dissect, m re compacted hy the fervoma ot
par., conbat, or oboe it better array o men One thor,,thia
snort member has already oaten lost t t How, '.hr. 0
litre was a man of lor g exper.ence in often, or ~„„i Judp
Went, of In' e..tet,eht and coarsseout principle, who Pt gm,
down becatim, with all Mese quaint°, he came forward as a
savor Er f ,ne present Minliatry. ()Jot independent anal
valuable are threateneo wltti exile 1,121 the
flon,e—nien woo have almost earned a it tit to • plac•
there l Mr. Hughes for example. it Is altogether a hail to.k
r•,..en whatever boot at view we rgard it."—Pall Mall ,
Gazette

During the week ending loot Sater ray 5 695 hlrthe
and 3,444 deaths were registered in London Mad twenty other
la•g/ cities and towns of the Unto d Ki.,gdom. Ihe netural
loon- lase f populatton w s 2,231. 1 ist roort lltv from at
cau•es In these t.,vros was at the rate of 24 deaths 'focal;
to every lOW persons Ilvlng. In the mAtr..p.ol. 0,512 birth.
and 1,149 owls were rtirstered, the fo-nur bAug 72
hist,ve, n t the loiter 397 rreJore, the ay.-rag, TO, 1.,49
let, Included 57 from moasks, 29 trots, variet tenor g
from riohth rte. FA from who-tom -mull, 23 from ,•10e..,e50
forme of frvor, t 3£. .m I prrlmia moo nil tine from sinall-por
thus to the s-vet orMelpal h.eszes of the ty biotic clam 171
.1e .ths wore referred, against nam..ers M.eltelog fr to. 244 to
148 to toe four preweedmg ww-ka. The ',oaths referred o
.14esses of the respiratory 0r...n0 and phthlals, which 4 the
sin pmeeedfog weeks had steadily ,ecreasrd from 1,112 to
514 frirthtr deo,lntd (Wee tee It fl ten eif the reeatit mild
weather ti 4 4, nut w•re 1.R.0 h I vrtic Co. r•rte., erer.ge
weekly number. 28 rebelled In mu brawnier', 134 from
Pillaleta, and lb from pneumonia. Fere CMOS of in.Mde and
One of Infanticide were regleterid.