The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-02-21 00:00:00

Iflistellantous ntethout.

ROM; FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL,

GENBRAL GssLisz —There is no longer any
c 1 t6t that the unhappy death of General Gablens at
Zurich was due to tae cause t ) which rumour first as.

signed it—heavy pecuniary embarrassment caused by
over.epeculation (says toe Pall Mall Gazelle). This
Is conclusively shown by the terms of his will, which
was found at Vienna, and was prepared not more than
fortnight before his decease. The document siniply
states that it is necessary that any property he died
possessed of thou's' be surrendered for the benefit of
his creditors, and that he commends his children to the
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care tflila wife's family in the absence of any more
proper means of providing for them. The high respect
no which the deceseed General as held in his own

servite was testified to by the large assemblage of
Austrian officers of all arms who travelled to Zurich to
attend hie foneral, in civilian clothes, of course, sa the
ceremony waa nominally • private one. In his bed.
room the General left a brief memorandum, written
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just before hie death, stating that he was driven to It
by his condition of constant wakefulness), he not having
known sleep for many nights, though he had in vain
sought to gain rest by trying a change of air and scene.
A DAUGHTSIt o Do. Dabwirr.—The obituary
of last Monday (eisys The Times) contains a notice of
the death of the daughter of the once well-known
Dr. Darwin, philosopher, and author of The Botanical
Garden. She died in her 91st year, and was probably
the last lurk between us and a society of provincial
celebrities to whom the progress of British industry
has been enormously indebted. Her father was a
prominent Member of the well-known " Lunar Society."
so called because of the day of meeting, that of the full
moon, to enable the *biters to see their way the more
clearly home in the evening. Among it. member. were
Watt and Boulton, of steam-engine celebrity, Wedge-
wo.,d, the father of British pottery, Priestly, the
chyruist, and very many others of little less note. The
lady just deceased had made tea in her youth for all
three celebrities, and her 'memory of past times re-
mained wonderfully clear. Her own grandmother,
with whom she lived as a girl on most affectionate
, terms, was born in the year that Queen Anne died.
CLAIM FOIL • SWORD. The: ,Sii:c/c (Faris
paper) states that a claim is made ter the sword of
Francis I. —"On: the 21th February, 1525," the writer
says, "that monarch, when defeated at Pavia, delivered
up his weapon. What has since become of it? Pre-
served for 283 years at Madrid, the French found it
there in 1808. It was sent to Paris and is still here,
but in danger, for Bonapartism is watching and covet.
ing it. basing the claim on the principle that 'trophies
brought home by the army belong to the sovereign
when the Bonapartes reign, and, when that monarchy
Ceases, to she family.' rhat doctrine is now invoked
Jr tie object in question to be given up to the
Princeee Mathilde."

AGoNISI ! —Damon. ''Hulic, Pythias !
What's the matter ? "—Pythias, "0, my dear fellow,
Olejtergatiosii)—" 1 've been writing to
my tailor to give me another Inch and • half in the waist-
band, and competed • valentine to my adored Clara,
and-0 !—I 've put 'em into the wrong enrol, pea,—
and they're posted ! ! I "—[Breaks down ll—Pcuoll.
Diewssis' PAOSITS. —He twice received, Mr.
Forster tells us, a thousandipounds for • story not half
the I. ngth of one of the numbers of Copper fidd • and
Mr. Forster adds that there are no "other such In-
steno. in the history of literature." The success of his
writings was beyond all precesient. The Chrietmas
numbers of All the Year Round had a sale of 300,000.
Ile was to receive £7,500 for 25 000 copies of Xdwin
Drood, and to have half the profit of all sales beyond
that number, whilst during his life, the sales reached
50,000 copies. Scott in all his glory was not to be
compared with Dickens in point of immediate pol.u.
larity. Surely, one would think a man in each • posb
tion might be independent enough of pecuniary cares
to allow Ms mind due rest and employ it upon worthy
tasks. The arguments, however, which induced
Dickens to lecture in America simply come to this,
that he calculated upon making 215,000 by eighty
readings. Oa his return from America he continued
his readings in England, and calanlated that by both
together he would have made £20,000 in a year and •
half.
FZMININE INTELLIGEFCE. Our esteemed
friend Mrs. Malaprop has no patience with the people
who want Women to have votes. She declares that,
for herself, her nerves would never bear the chock o
having anything to do with the Electrical Franchise.—
Punch.
EsibillaTlo/I.—The following is a list of the
'hips and nuriber of emigrants sent oat to New Zea-
land by the Agent General for that colony during the
month ending January 31 :--The Rakaia, for Canter-
bur), with 365 souls ; the William Davie, Otago, 294;
Um borate, Auckland, 315 ; the Wennington, Wel-
lington, 191; the Apellte, Canterbury, 301 ; the Golden
Sea, Wellington, 3e37 ; the Asia. Otago, 468; total,
2,4111. The ship Iloyol Dane, 1,632 tons register, 3,000
tone burden sailed from Gravesend on the 24th ult.,
bound for Brisbane, Queensland, Captain Cooper. The
Royal Dane is the 120th vessel that has tailed under
the land order system of emigration, and under
the immediate direction of the Queensland Govern-
ment office, 32, Charing-cross' London. She carries
520 persons divided into tull•pa)ing, remittance,
insisted, and free passengers, and consisting of 262
members of families, 170 single men, and 88 single
women.

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Tax Exroar COAL TIIAML—The exports of
coal from the United Kingdom presented rather •
substantial increase in January, having amounted in
that month to 916,116 tone, against 791,227 tons in
January, 1873, and 842,328 tons in J•snuary, 1872.
France sustained, as usual, the largest share in last
month's exports, having figured in the total of 916.116
tu. for 240 528 tons; the shipments to France in
January, 1873, were 206,217 tons, and in January,
1872, 253,6.10 tons. Odle coal exports increased last
month to Russia, Denmark. Germany. Holland,
France, Spain, Italy, Turkey, Egypt, and Malta but
tbey decreased to Sweden and Norway, Brazil and
British India. In addition to the 916,116 tons of coal
exported last month, 251,152 tons were shipped for the
u.e of steamers engaged in the foreign trade In
January. The value of the coal exported from the
United Kingdom in January—exclusive of that
shipped in the same month for the use of steamers
engaged in the foreirn trade—wae £913,861, as corn.
pared with £834,598 In January, 1873, and £469,628
in January, 1872.
Fuom Tea Fan Wser.—We read the other
day, in an American newspaper, an account of how a
lot of cattle, seized by a sudden impulse, leapt upon a
railway just as a train was passing. The writer might
have boded, had he thought over the matter, that the
impulse which seized them was a fit of Cattleleptsy.—
Punch.

MR. BOIT PERIN ON HIS POLITICAL EXIT.—
The Right Hon, E. P. Bouverie ham issued a farewell
address to the ...id xs of the Kilmarnock dinirict of
burghs. A whole generation has passed away, he says,
since he was fast chosen as their representative, and
during that time he has seen esteblished, after much
conflict, entire freedom of trade, freedom of the Press,
religious equality before the taw, and a large extension
of political liberty; and he should always be grateful
to the electors that through their choice he had been
able to cr. operate in the House of Commons in effect-
ing these vest improvements by means of legislation.
He bad valued their confidence, and should have been
proud to retain it, but be should never have been wil.
flog to purchase it at the cost of his colt-respect by
silence at priestly oppression, by lubeervience to an
unscrupulous local faction, or by simulated approbation
In Parliament of acts and methods of a iminierration
which, in spite of the prevalence of Liberal opinions,
have alienated the country, disorganietd the Liberal
party, and at lest destroyed a once powerful Govern-
ment.
ARCHBISHOP M ANNING'S LENTEN PASTOR A L.
Sunday last (being Quitquag calms Sunday), the usual
Lenten Pastoral from Archbishop Maiming was read
at High Mass in all the churches and chapels in the
metropolis and its suburb% It dwelt chiefly on the
necessity of practicing the duty of self-denial during
the atproachiog seseon, which is more than ever this
year a Be 110011 of rebuke, humiliation, and sorrow," now
thdt " the Church is harassed, the vicar of Christ
robbed of bin rights, and shut up bard by the tomb of
the Apoetlee, the Bishops and the faithful in Germany
and in Switzerland are persecuted by the high hand of
uejust men, and Christianity openly derided or denied
in the midst of ourselves." The Archbishop also
urges the necessity of providing for the education of
the children of the Roman Catholic poor, and especially
for that of the orphans. He states that between 1,200
and 1,500 such Catholic children are still in the work.
house and district schools, who ought to be draughted
hitotheorphanage and schools which Lave been prepared
for their reception, and counting all the diocesan schools
together, he reckons the children who seed help at
2,000. In conclueion he urges that three Roman
Catholic chaplains ought at once to be provided to give
religious instruction to the children still in the district
schools and invites the "faithful " to sobscribe for
their maintenance and support for three years. The
pastoral litter has appended to it the mewl' Dispense.
tions for " In the arobdloosof of Wooffolookr.

pafeat
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Pzoorox's Roma Lisa.—The Mont
lyric ever addressed by s poet to his wife is tl
leo& known through Nsukommn melody, in so many
homes :
" H•w many inuomen,
Ravi' I boon Ulm r
The final start* exquisite .

" kb !—With what • thanklele hien
I mourn and slag?
Look when our children stark
Like sudden matt g I
With tongues all sweet and low,
Like a pleasant rhyme,
They tell how much I owe
To thee and thrill !"
After Proctor's marriage his muse was Went foe •
while; partly, no doubt, from a growing oonvlotion
that no mission was then open to a dramatic poet;
partly from the necessity fee close professional
under the domestic obligations he had assumed,
was lost to rot was gained in the happiness of the
artist's home • and if he 'soaped the discipline of learn-
ing in suffering what he taught in song, I, for one, do
not regret this enviable exception to a very bitter rule.
—Sertbner's Monthly.
"Tan GAZAT UNWABIIiD."—OIIr &AWOL--
Punch.

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AN ANIODOTI OF DR. LIVINOITONI.—Dr.
Livinptone, before he went abroad as a missionary,
was placed, or placed himself, for • time wader the
tuition of the Rev. R. Cecil, then of Onger, Frei.
The reverend gentleman being ill, Livingstone was
asked to officiate. The young Sootchoian soon sar-
prised every one beyond measure, for having taken his
text, be become bewildered, and could not utter • words
Then, without any apology or remark of any kind, he
snatched up his het and made his way to Ono,,
leaving the congregation to think or say what It
pleased. Modesty and partial failure often precede
greatness.
VALIJA3I.I AUTOGRAPIIN.—A. valuable collo*.
tion of autographs was sold in London on Thursday
last at the rooms of Marra Sotheby, Wilkinso,
Hodge, producing unusually high prices. Among the
more eagerly contested were a prelude for the lute, by
S. Bach, for .£l6 • • letter from Beethoven, announcing
that he had been offered the poet of KeptUmelater,
£ll ; end • song to Hope, by the same musician,
£10; a letter from Michel Angelo Puonstrotti, an.
knowledging the receipt of 1,600 gold ducats as part
payment for the tomb of Pope Julius, £6 10e. ' • a
letter from Burns £l3, and • cantata, El 2; • letter
from Erasmus, sating that the King and the Arab-
bishop had invited him to England, £l6 10... •
letter from H. Fielding, complaining of money dime
appointment, £6 10s. ; • letter from Goethe, £22 10s. •
• letter from De Foe, complaining of his treat-
ment, £ll 11..; • letter from Goldsmith, giving •
doleful moonlit of his travels on the Continent,
£37 10..; • letter from Hogarth, consenting to be •
member of the Academy of Augsburg, £lB 10..; •
letter from Keats, £7 15s. • a letter from Lamb,
£9 15e. ; songs of Mendelson:lth, £l5; • letter from
Mozart respecting his intended wife, £6 16s. • • letter
from Rubens, £l5 15s. ; • letter from Schiller to
Goethe, £9 5g.; letters from Shelley, £7 and £6 121.;
• letter from Smellett. £ll lie.; • letter from Sterne,
requesting a loan of £5O, £9 9e.; • letter from Swift,
stating that, on account of his poverty, "If I come to
Morepark it must be on foot,' £9 9s. ; • letter from
Tomo, with • sonnet, £2B 10..; • letter from Words-
worth, criticizing Ouy Manuring, £7 2s. 6d., inc. The
entire sale produced £636 16s.
Suicana nom Lovi.—The Journal de Calais
relates that one evening last week • respectable
habitant of isiontdidier, in the department of the
Somme, upon returning home, found his house door
fastened against him. Fearing that some thieves bid
entered during the sheence of himself and daughter,
he sought the assistance of • neighbour, and obtained
admission by the back of the house. Upon entering
his daughter's rocm he was startled to perceive • man
lying on the bed, and on approaching he found it was
• corpse. It appeared that • young men who had
fallen in love with the daughter, but whose addressors
were discouraged, had carried out • threat that he
would kill himself if she remained obdurate. He bad
made his way into the house, undressed himself, lain
down on the bed, and then blown out hi. bream
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PROZIN POULTRY. The New York Bul-
tetin, noticing the practice of fretzing poultry in the
steady, cold and dry air of Vermont and some other
of the States and Canada, for the supply of New York
markets, says :—" The general manner of putting up in
to place the stock in open air during favoursnle
weather, pack • layer of poultry in an open box, with-
out straw or any other packing, and let It stand for
about 2-1 home, or until properly frozen : then a second
layer, and so on until the package la full, when it in
nailed up and well covered with straw, say 21t. or 31t.
in depth, and kept in this manner until shipped. The
demand for prime dry. picked frozen poultry late in the
season has always been good, dealers taking them in
preference to fresh dressed, as all kinds of poultry,
though more eepecially turkeys, become coarse and
flabby es the reason progresses. The arrivals of frozen
et, ok at this market so far this season have not been
very large, and much of it rather badly put up ; and
even the good lots do not realize very good prices, en
the supply of fresh dressed has been pretty liberal and
prices have ruled exceptionally low. Last year frozen
poultry was sold in this market up to within a week
or two of the let of June, the sales of good stock being
at about 20i. per lb. There is a rumour in the market
that a considerable quantity of frozen poultry hag been
and will be shipped to Europe,"