The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-05-29 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The other day, Messrs. Grove, fishmongers, of
New Bond-street, London, received an unusually large Thy
salmon, weighing nearly 70th.

At Cramp's ship-yard, near Yhiladelphia, two costly
steam-yachts are being built. They are twin vessels, and
will coat about 100,000 dais. each.

On June 4 the Earl of Carnarvon will bring
under the notice of the Government the principle of in-
surance against sickness and old age under public gua-
rantees.

The infant daughter pf Lord and Lady Carington
was baptized on Monday afternoon, at the Chapel Royal,
Whitehall. It is a very unusual circumstance for that rite
to take place there ; there have been only ten christenin;s
at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, during the last sixty years.
The Crystal Palace to be erected on the ruins of
St. Cloud will comprise a variety of building's. There will be
a Museum for Temporary Exhibition, an Industrial Museum,
a retrospective display illustrating the History of the burnt
Palace, a Concert Hall, Aquarium, and Panorama; while the
gardens will be laid out on the model of those at Kew. The
prehistoric fauna and flora of the Seine basin will also be re-
presented, while Science and Art classes will be held.
An inquest has been held at INlalton on the body of
Miss Louisa Ebbs, 32, who committed suicide on Sunday
afternoon. For some months she had been suffering from
melancholia, and was sent by her friends as a patient to Dr.
W. Deeley, of Mahon. On Sunday afternoon she was walking
in the garden with Miss Deeley ; the latter went away for
two or three minutes, and on returning missed Miss 115
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who was found shortly afterwards floating down the river
Derwent, which runs alongside Dr. Deeley's gardlAnic6e
'Suicide
was quite dead. The jury returned a verdict a
while temporarily insane."
The memorial stone of the new Town-hall at
_llnve,
the western independent suburb of Brighton, was laid on
Saturday evening by the Chairman of the Board of Com-
missioners, Mr. T. W. Howlett, assisted by the Bishop of
Chichester, the vicar of Hove, and others. The buildin i
g s
.to cost £32,000. Hove, at the commencement of the century
a fishing village of 100 inhabitants, now has a population of
18,000, with a rateable value of £184,152.
Sir Edward Thornton has presented to the Secretary
of State of the United States a communication stating that
Lord Granville has telegraphed to him instructions to convey
to the Government the sincere and cordial thanks of her
Majesty's Government for the Constellation's cargo of pro-
visions, which, besides being an aid to the Irish people in
their time of affliction, is accepted as a proof of the friendly
feelings of the Government and citizens of the United
States.

M. Louis Blanc has written a letteuthe Republique
Frangaise, defending the right of holding t' lugs in France
exactly as they are held in England,
The Civil Service Estimates which are just published
shows a total of £15,432,442, or an increase of nearly £300,000
upon the previous year.

On Monday the State apartments of Windsor
Castle were re-opened to the public, and will remain open
upon the usual days during the absence of the Queen and
Court in Scotland.

The Postmaster-General announces that on and
after the Ist of June the charge for telegrams to Germany
will be reduced from 4d. to 3d. for each word.

Mr. Goschen has had an interview with the Em-
peror of Austria, and is reported to have been generally
satisfied with the results of his visit to the Austrian capital.
Mr. G °schen left Trieste on board her Majesty's despatch
vessel Helicon for Constantinople.

The improvement noticed in the Tweed Salmon
fishing has again fallen off, as last week the takes were
Poor. The fishing has not been anything like up to the
average this season. Prices on Saturday afternoon were :
Salmon, Is. 10d. ; trout, Is. 'id.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges,
in The Times, under the head of "Conscience Money„" the
receipt of 13s. in stamps from "D. E. F.," and the first halves
of bank notes, amounting to £2OO, from "A. B. C.," for In-
come-tax.

Lord Norton will move, on the 31st of May :
That the present introduction of secondary instruction in
the publicly-aided elementary schools requires consideration;
and that the Code of Regulations of the Committee of
Council on Education be referred to a select committee for
revision and simplification."

A private telegram states that the Glencoe, with the
first cargo of new tea, had sailed for Hankow, and that the
other ships are fast loading.

Lord Willoughby de Broke has given his tenants
permission to kill hares during four months of the year, and
rabbits during the whole of the year.

A Reuter's telegram, under date San Francisco,
May 23, says that a bridge on the narrow-gauge railway is
reported to have given way during the passage of an excur-
sion train; twelve of the passengers are stated to have been
killed and forty injured.

An inquest was held onlionday in one of the lecture-
rooms at Exeter College, Oxford, on the body of Mr.
Lawrence Eldred Harrison, son of the late vicar of Mortlake,
who died through injuries received by jumping out of a
pony trap on Saturday week. Mr. Francis Edward Smith,
undergraduate of Christ Church, who was driving with the
deceased, deposed to the pouy bolting when within sixty or
seventy yards of the level crossing at Stratfield-brake, on the
Banbury-road. The deceased jumped out and received a
severe lacerated wound at the back of the skull. He was
picked up insensible, and subsequently died. The jury re-
turned a verdict of "Accidental death."

The expenses of the three Liberal candidates for
Glasgow at the late election amount to £3,500. The ex-
penses of Sir James Bain, the Conservative candidate, were
nearly £6,000, and those of Mr. Pearce fully £5,000.

Earl Cowper, the new Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,
has sent a donation of £5OO to the Lord Mayor of Dublin in
aid of the distress in Ireland. His lordship expresses a
hope that a bountiful harvest will, in a few months,
materially mitigate the existing distress; but there is still,
he thinks, much need for private charity in Ireland.

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America now has nearly a hundred varieties of
American grapes under cultivation, and more than eight
hundred varieties of pears.

The strikes in France, now nearly at an end, are
estimated to have caused a loss to the workmen of over
7,000,000 francs in the three weeks. The firm combination
of the masters has been the cause of the defeat of the work-
people.

On Tuesday morning a stack of pine wood fell in
the yard of Mr. Aspden, in Blackburn, and three labourer
were buried beneath it. They were fearfully crushed, and
all were quite dead when extricated. A verdict of "Acci-
dental death' has been returned.
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London children of the poor, whose only summer
holiday is the brief "Day in the Country," provided by some
neighbouring school or institution, may well envy their
Transatlantic contemporaries in Boston, where a Young
Men's Society annually gives a week or ten day's country
trip to numbers of little street Arabs, whose vacations
otherwise would be spent in straying round the streets and
alleys. Last year 1,259 children were thus cared for. The
Rev. Samuel A. Barnett, of St. Jude's, Whitechapel, has
organised a similar system. 170 poor children have had a
three weeks' holiday, being boarded out in various country
cottages, at a cost of about 4s. or ss. each weekly.—Graphic.
At Windsor, on Tuesday, the 34th birthday of
Princess Christian was celebrated with the usual honours.
The bells of St. George's Chapel and St. John's Church were
rung at intervals, and salutes of 21 guns were flred. from
the artillery in the Long Walk and Fort Belvedere, Virginia
Water.

According to a New York paper a despatch from
Lima, dated the 13th inst., has been received by a New
York firm, stating that the Peruvians have recaptured
3foqueg,ua, and that the Arequipa forces, while marching
south of Callao, were ineffectually bombarded on the 10th
inst.

In the Russian Empire during the month of April
there were 1924 fires-224 wilful, 792 accidental, one caused
by lightning, and 144 from unknown causes. The aggregate
loss was 2,875,754 roubles.
Sir T. Chamber's Bill to legalise marriage with a
deceased wife's sister will be opposed by Mr. Beresford-
Hope, who will submit as an amendment to the motion for
the second reading that it may be referred to a Royal Com-
mission to inquire and report upon the law of marriage in
relation to the degrees of consanguinity and affinity in the
various countries of Europe and in the States of America.

A report just published shows that the total income
in the last year of 34 of the principal religious and philan-
trophic societies holding their meetings in May was no less
a sum than £1,216,000.

The chief wedding present to a Japanese bride is an
immense white veil-the gift of her divers friends and rela-
tives--large enough to cover her from head to foot. After
the wedding day this veil is carefully put away to be used as
the bride's shroud at her death.

On Sunday the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince
Albert Victor, Prince Frederick George, and the Grand Duke
of Hesse, attended a special service at the Royal Military
Chapel, Wellington Barracks, to hear a sermon by Canon
Liddon on behalf of the Guards' Industrial Home. The Prime
Minister and Mrs. Gladstone were present.

The first meet of the Coaching Club for the present
season took place in Hyde-park last Saturday, when thirty-
one coaches assembled, the gathering being described as of
more than average excellence.

The agents of both political parties at Burnley have
filed the election expenses account with the Town Clerk.
Mr. Rylands, M.P., has had to pay £859, and Lord Edmund
Talbot, the unsuccessful Conservative candidate, is stated
to have spent £764.

Among the inquests held on Monday before the
Liverpool coroner was one on the body of a young labour-
ing man named Curley. On Saturday night he attempted
to jump ashore from the rail of the steamer Canopus, as she
was leaving dock, so as to bid adieu to his stepmother on
the quay, when he fell into the water and was drowned. A
verdict of "Accidentally drowned" was returned.

Serious disturbances have occurred in Barcelona,
2,000 workmen having pillaged and attempted to burn a fac-
tory. They were dispersed by the military and the mounted
gendarmes, and for twenty-four hours much alarm prevailed
in the city.

The Duke of Westminster has contributed £l,OOO to
the Liverpool Bishopric Fund.
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A Parliamentary return has been issued of all
public works commenced or authorised to'be commenced in
the year ending December 31, 1879, upon the islaud of
Cyprus. The estimated cost is £20,392, and the work is
chiefly the construction of roads and building of piers One
item of £BOO is for cutting through the Paphos Gate at
Nicosia and the road connecting it with the High Commis-
sioner's house.

A reward of £2OO has been offered by the Admiralty
to the first person who gives such information as may lead
to any definite knowledge being obtained of the cause or
locality of the loss of her Majesty's ship Atalanta, or who
finds the first traces of any part of her hull or equip-
ment.

On Sunday immense crowds flocked to the Chantilly
races by express trains every ten minutes for two hours,
organised by the Northern Railway with its usual admirable
punctuality. The Due d'Aumale and the Due de Nemours
did the honours of the Central Pavilion, where were con-
gregated many members of the Orleanist family and their
friends. The French Derby was won by 13eauminet; the
favourite came in first, distancing Lion by a short head.—
The little village of Chamant, the home of Beauminet, and
of his owner, M. Lefvere, was the scene of great rejoicing on
Monday night. The chateau was full of guests, and in the
stud department the numerous grooms and others had a
merrymaking in true English fashion, in celebration of their
representative's victory.

"The arrival in England of a survivor of the Cabul
massacre has afforded touching reflections to those more Inti-
mately concerned. On the arrival of the British army in
Cabal city, one of the first discoveries was that of Sir Louis
Cavagnari's china-pug dog. Altogether adrift and unnoticed,
his well-knownpet had safely escaped the turbulent Afghans.
It may be imagined that such a memento, at once recognized,
was jealously cared for, and transmitted on the first oppor-
tunity to England. Unluckily, the evidence of this stir-
Gazette.
viving eye-witness is a sealed book."—Pai/ Mall

Cotton mills at Blackburn were reopened on Monday
morning in accordance with the arrangement made last week,
and work was generally resumed. Almost all the operatives
presented themselves, and there were no more absentees
than is usual after the general holiday.

Tuesday night's London Gazette announces that
Peerages have been conferred by the Queen on the Right
Hon. Robert Lowe, as Viscount Sherbrooke, of Sherbrooke,
in the county of Surrey; the Right Hon. William F. Cowper-
Temple, by the title of Baron Mount-Temple, of Mount-
Temple, in the county of Sligo ; and the Right. Hon.
Edward H. Knatchbull-Hugessen, as Baron Brabourne, of
Brabourne, in the county of Kent.
Oranges and lemons (packed in sawdust) from
Adelaide, South Australia, have been sent to London per
steamer Lmitania in perfect condition. The Orient line of
steamships has the credit of inaugurating what may evi-
dently prove an extensive course of trade. The supply is
practically unlimited, and the demand equally so.

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Two new lifeboats, about to be despatched by the
National Lifeboat Institution to the coast, have been sub-
jected to their harbour trial in the Limehouse Canal, at the
rear of the store yard of the Institution, and the results of
the trials were in every way satisfactory. One boat, which
is to be stationed at Tramore, county Waterford, has been
presented to the Institution by the relatives and friends of
the late Mr. Alfred Trower, a well-known yachtsman, and is
named after him. The other boat is named the Fair Maid
of Perth, at the request of the donor, Mr. Peter Reid, and is
to be stationed at Ardrossan, on the west coast of Scot-
land.
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otlif smimulheauYelarsons,
---.(;lne interesting facts regarding the Sunday ques-
epfenthteo the
Zoological Public
tion in America have recently been published. At Cambridge
s oAftHard Philadelphia College are rge
gardens
ebne
so
ImVe been visited during the Sundays of last year by
the receipts on Sundays being more than
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four times as large as the other days of the week'
The receipts on account of revenue from the Id
April, 1880, when there was a balance of £3,273,428, to May
22, 1880, were £11,311,594 against 4;11,598,372 in the corres-
ponding period of the preceding financial year, which began
with a balance of £6,915,756. The net expenditure was
£12,217,006, against £12,888,891 to the same date in the pre-
vious year. The Treasury balances on May 22 amounted to
£5,544,426, and at the same (late in 1879 to £4,653,494.
The 21funiteur Egyptiewhas recently published an in-
teresting report (by the Belgian Consul at Ismailia) on the
Suez Canal. The report states that the number of ships not
English using the Canal, which had been on the increase up
to 1875, has decreased since thatcyear, while the number of
English ships has constantly increased, and if this state of
things continues the monopoly of transport through the
Suez Canal will fall into English hands. From 1875 to 1879
(five years) 5,865 English ships passed the Canal, against 1,819
of all other nations combined.
Sir Garnet Wolseley and suite landed at Plymouth
on Tuesday from the Union Company's steamer Conway
Castle. They were received by the Mayor of Plymouth, in
Whose carriage Sir Garnet Wolseley drove to the Great
Western Railway Station, where a saloon carriage was in
waiting to convey bins and his staff to London.

It was reported at a meeting of the members of the
tSevern Conservancy held at Shrewsbury, that salmon fishing
In the upper waters had been very unproductive. An im
mense number of samlets had, however, been observed
migrating down river, which showed that the breeding
season had been productive.

"There are few- railwctys outside of this country
which could safely accomplish
.the feat performed by the
Great Eastern during the
.Whitsuntide holidays, when from
Saturday to Monday it conveyed and brought back no fewer
than 85,000 persons. This is, we believe, by far the largest
number of passengers safely Carried in so short a time over a
comparatively small mileage. The Midland Company conies
next With numbers ranging between 40,000 and 50,000. The
Chatham and Dover, however, deserves a word of notice, for
on Whit Monday it conveyed 1,200 to Calais and back without
accideut."—Rcho

Blondin's rival, Thompson, has been killed at Pegth
by falling from the rope at a great height.

A gentleman who appeared to have suffered from
sea-sickness in crossing from Calais to Dover on Monday
morning died suddenly on landing at Dover.

There is at the present time a very good demand for
Welsh flannels, keeping the hands at the Montgomeryshire
mills more than usually employed at this season of the ye as
Energetic attempts are being made to settle the rich
country in the far west of Queensland, in the neighbourhood
of the Herbert, Diamantina, and Mulliganativers.

With considerable ceremony, the remains of Vasco
da Gama,, the Portuguese navigator, and Camoens, the poet,
are to be translated from the tombs in which they at present
lie to the mausoleum at Lisbon specially prepared for their
reception. October 8 next has been-fixed for the ceremony.

Four thousand two hundred and twenty-five emi-
grants landed at Castle Gardens,
,New York, on Wednesday
in last week. The total arrivals ill May were :;7,841.

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A meeting of the paner Manufacturers of France
has been held in Paris, at which the aboliiton of the tax on
paper was voted unanimously, and a deputation was ap-
pointed to wait on the President of the Republic and biz
Ministers.

One result of the Committee on Army Organisation
which has been sitting at the War Office will, it is said, he a
change in the arrangements with respect to military prisons,
and these establishments will again be brought under direct
military control, the present system being, ih the opinion of
all regimental officers, most injurious to the well-being of the
army.
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Ihe ilfaidstone Journal, reporting on the agricul-
tural aspects in Kent, says :—"ltain is greatly wanted for
all crops, but particularly for the spring sown corn, some of
which will not come to anything unless it is speedily irri-
gated. Hops are also in need of moisture, and the pastures
are beginning to feel the effects of the drought, and severely
where the soil is gravelly. In the eastern part of Romney
Marsh there are acres burning up."

Cardinal Newman arrived at Oxford at five o'clock
last Saturday afternoon, and proceeded to Trinity College,
of which foundation he was made an Honorary Fellow two
years since, and of which body he is now the guest during
his stay. The Cardinal, whose voice has not been heard
from any pulpit in Oxford since his secession from the
Church of England, preached on Sunday at the new Roman
Catholic Church of St. Aloysius, ISbth morning and evening,
to crowded congregations.

The accident which occurred at the fete near Birken-
head, on Whit-Monday, when a horse taking part in a race
broke through the enclosure and trampled on the crowd, has
resulted in at least one death. Mrs. Jobson, who resided in
Claughton-road, Birkenhead, died on Sunday night fr.Qm
injuries received on the occasion. She was hurt about the
knee and head.

One of the formal orders just passed by the new
House of Commons is "that notes and proceedings of this
House be printed, being first perused by Mr. Speaker, and
that he do appoint the printer thereof, and that no person
but such as he should appoint do presume to print the same."
The gravity with which this order was read by the Speaker,
and passed by the House, almost equalled that with which
when strangers are "espied," the House proceeds to denounce
them.

Though a good deal has recently been heard about
gold-mining in Southern India, the Madras Mail says it is
not at all unlikely that even the brilliant future that ap-
pears before those persons who are the fortunate possessors
of rand containing auriferous quartz, may be eclipsed by
others who are holders of land in which copper and other
minerals have been found. In the Calastry and 'Wen-
catagherry districts there are large tracts of land containing
copper, the essays of which prove it to be richer than most
of the best mines existing.

Dr. Ireland, Roman Catholic Bishop of Minnesota,
who has established a flourishing Irish colony in his diocese,
has announced his intention of providing homes for fifty
families from Connemara. They are to be taken out in one
of the Allen line of steamers, which will call at Galway for
the purpose on the 11th of June.

It is expected that the surplus which the German
Exchequer is this year to distribute among the German
States will enable Prussia to relieve the poorest classes from
personal taxation to the amount of £240,000.

Friday night's London Gazette contains the following
extract from theiDublin Gazette of Mar 18 :—'The Queen has
been pleased to declare his, Royal Highness Prince Alfred
Ernest Albert, Duke of Edinburgh, Duke of Saxony, Prince
of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, K.G., a Knight of the Most
Illustrious Order of Saint Patrick, as a mark of the sense
entertained by Her Majesty of the services rendered by
his Royal Highness in administering relief-in Ireland."
Mr. Henry Richard, M.P., and Mr. S. Morley,
M.P., addressed a meeting, at Plymouth, on Monday
evening, in connection with the laying of the memorial
stones of the new Congregational ChapeL Mr. Richard said
he observed with great satisfaction that there was a clearer
and fuller recognition among all religious bodies of the
great principle that the best way of supporting Christian ser-
vice and worship was by the exertions and sacrifices of Chris-
tian willinghood. Mr. Morley hoped to see the day when by
a systematic change of pulpits, they would demonstrate their
common Christianity to the world.

There were 2,296 births and 1,297 deaths registered
in London last week. Allowing ferinerease of population,
the births were 109, and the deaths as many as 181, below
the average numbers in the corresponding week of the last
ten years. The annual death-rate from all causes, which
had been equal to 2.02 and 19.8 per 1,000 in the two preceding
weeks, further declined to 18.5. During the past seven weeks
of the current quarter the death-rate in London has averaged
only 203 per 1,000, against 24•0 and 24-8 in the corresponding
periods of 1878 and 1870.
An inquest has been held at Bristol on the body of
Albert Porter, who fell from St. Vincent's koeks at Clifton,
and was killed instantaneously. The deceased, a youth of
seventeen, had been searching for bird's eggs, with two com-
panions, against whose advice he climbed to a ledge of rock
eighty feet from the point to which they had reached. He
then missed his hold, and falling, his skull was crushed in.
The body then rebounded into a quarry. A verdiot was re-
turned of accidental death.

The Dundee Town Council and Harbour Board
have resolved to petition Parliament in support of the peti-
tion presented by the North British Railway Company
craving the suspension of the standing orders to enable
them to present a Bill during the present Session of Parlia-
ment for the restoration of the Tay Bridge. The petitions
point out the advantages of the bridge, and maintain that
its restoration is urgently required on public grounds, as
great loss would be sustained by the inhabitants and traders
of the district more particularly, and the public in general,
by delay.

A movement has been set gn foot at Bristol to con-
vert the old graveyards around The parish churches of the
city into ornamental grounds for the benefit of the inhabi-
tants. Temple-churchyard has thus been utilised at a consi-
derable cost. Hundreds of trees and shrubs have been
planted in it, and the walks paved with old gravestones the
inscriptions upon which have become obliterated.

In London, on Monday, Mr. W. Carter held an
inquiry at St. Thomas's Hospital as to the death of Mr.
Philip Arthur Parson, thirty-one, a retired officer of the
Royal Navy. On Thursday evening in last week he dived
from a spring-board in the Lambeth Swimming Baths, and
as he did not rise to the surface a lad named Wigley and
others swam to the spot and found him lying insensible
within a foot of the surface of the water. He was placed in
a warm bath, and Mr. Brookes, a surgeon, found a slight
abrasion at the base of the skull. The deceased afterwards
stated that he struck his head against the bottom of the
bath. The evidence of Mr. Sheppard, one of the house sur-
geons at St. Thomas's Hospital, was to the effect that the
spinal column was fractured. The fact of deceased striking
his head as described would cause such an injury. Mr.
Parson died on Friday morning, the 21st. The jury returned
a verdict of "Accidental death."

In London, at an early hour on Monday morning
a tire was discovered on the premises of Mr. Goldstein,
Cannon-street-road, Commercial-road, East. Five persons
were rescued by means of the fire-escape, but, unfortunately,
the heat and smoke were too dense for the escape of a Mrs.
Dunsford, whose body was found in the back room of the
second floor, evidently suffocated.

Sir 'Wilfrid Lawson, M.P., has secured Friday, the
18th of June, for the discussion of his resolution in favour
of local option in the regulation of publichouses. Mr.
Hugh Mason, M.l'., will second the resolution, to the prin-
ciple of which, it is stated by its promoters, more than 250
members of the present Horse of Commons have pledged
themselves.

Dr. Maclagan, Bishop of Lichfield, in addressing
the annual congress of school managers and teachers on
Saturday, at Wolverhampton, referred to the operation of
the conscience clause, which had a tendency to banish reli-
gious teaching into a corner, and put it on the same footing
as any other branch of learning. The best thing they could
do was to abandon all thought of opposition to the introduc-
tion of Board Schools, and to try from their vantage
ground to make the most of their position. The tendencyjof
these days was to separate more and more the national and
the religious life of this country The history of the last
fifty years corroborated that. The tendency was no doubt—
he hoped he should neither give alarm nor offence when he
said it—to separate ultimately altogether the connection
between Church and State.