The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-10-05 00:00:00

The women of France has just handed to Govenr
meet 6,580,0001. in aid of the liberation of the territory.
In the year ended the 31st of March the Ernie*
duty on spirits amounted to £12,770,9;0 195. ed.
The purchase and sale of Chinese women is reported
to be still carried on on the Pacific Coast.
A nephew from the country came up to seethe rains
of Paris, and, calling on Ids maiden aunt, said he reserved
his last visit for her. The lady, feeling site was the rain, has
sines altered her will.
A new daily paper, to be called the French Timer, •
will make its appearance in Loud to shortly. it will be
under the direction of M. Odyese-Barot, who waa formerly
the chief editor of a Paris journal.
The Pope is hard upon the marriage state, for be
wittily said, on hearing that Father Hyacinthe WRS married,
° The Saints be praised, the renegade has taken Ins prialle.
meet into his oen hands. The ways of providence ate to-
serutable.''
At Sheffield, the other day, one servant flatly refused •
to he railed "the girl." and gave notice that she must hence-
forth be called ° Mies —." Another gave nouce because
she had always been accustomed to bacon and ergs for break-
fast, strawberry Jam to her tea, and"something for
supper!
French English is as funny as English French, which
Is sAying a great deal. It is said that recently a French lady
went to see a One boy baby, and iu endeavourieg 10 eiVeell
admiration, said, "li, wy, what a nice fat bawbee ! now
fat she is, don't he "
It is not precisely agreeable to be drowned at sea or
lost in a crevasse, but at least the victims of such a mites.
trophe have the pleasure of reflectieg in their last momenta
that they will not give employment to 'undertakers or to
those persons who hate made the suburbs of London Wipes
by epee:Miens of British aculpture.—Suturday Review.
Paris is now suffering from a plague of small brown
ants ; they are not "ephemeral" like the °Prusaian flies"
that visited as during the spring : they are resolute, and the
last tiles they appear to have is that of going away. Some
say they are a sign of good luck others think that they are
strange " autuniu manoeuvres."
An advertieen2ent of a land sale in the island of
Anglesey has appeared in The Tinav, which describes the
property as lying in the several parishes of ° Idanbettlan,
traisth, Llanddylbut, Antioch, Llandyfrydog, and Llanellian.'
Llantrisaint, Llauddauseint, Llanfairmathafarneithaf pee.
A London publican availed himself of the new
Licensing Act to get rid of a pottuali who came home drunk
after midnight ; but the magistrate declined to deal with
him aa au "intoxicated' customer, on the ground that the
man was at home, and could not be turned out without
notice.
In London, on Sunday, five thousand railway ear.
rants joined in a Hyde Fmk 'demonstration in istilMert of the
emigration movement which is now going on extensively
among that class of employee They were addressed by Dr.
Langley Baxter and several of the promoters of the /studs
garnsted Society. •
George Sand sold her lastnovel for 6,000 fr. Previoni
to the late war she never received less than 10,000. Eve.
Victor Hugo had to submit to • reduction of his copyrights,
his publishers, both in Paris mei Brussels. having enpnrlesieed
a large decrease in the sale of his works. Formerly &bon. .
e ix thousand copies of his complete works were sold annually.
Since the wax less than three thousand copies have been dis-
posed of.
The Elgin and Morayshire Courier of Friday ha/
the following—' We have much pleasure in stating that her
Majesty the Queen has acknowledged receipt, through
colonel ronsouby, of two copies of the Elgin anal Moray-
shire Courier, printed In gold, containing an account of her
brief but auspicious visit to the city. The papers wets for-
warded to her Majesty by Lord Provost Cameron."
The largeet bridge in the world is the Victoria, over
the River St. Lawrence, Jliontreal. It cousista of • heavy
iron tube, resting upon 24 intermediate piers, and Is 9,194
feet in length. The bridge now in course of construction
Os-or the Tay at Dundee will he 10,321 feet In length, 1,12 T
feet longer than the Montreal structure. It will have 90
intermediate piers, and 89 spans.
The Prefecture of Police in Paris has been informed
that Mormons are now visiting Paris, trying to engage women
disposed to go to Utah to be married to their fellow believers. v
The passage out is naturally paid by these commissarial, .
who, moreover, guarantee a husband for each lady en her
arrivaL M. Leon Say does riot approve of this entieementot •
young females, and has given orders in consequence. _
On Friday, the schooner Samson, owned by Mr: B.
Lee Smith, of London, arrived at hull, after an absence of a '
little over four mouths, from a cruise in the Arctic Seas. 16
I, said that some islands seen by Mr. Smith riming his cruise
lest year were not marked on any chart, and it is thought
that he has had the honour of determiuing the west point of
Spitzuergen, and of discovering islands in nearly the same
latitude.
The Indianapolis Nem gives the following deecrip.
tion of the dress worn by a young belle of that locality oil
her marriage The bride's dress cousisted of a white mega-
therlum silk, trimmed with acid line, pranpaded front and
lambrequins of the same, looped up with illiea flecked by
mellaced trivere—imported expressly for her. tier veil wee
biassed, pink silk pdonaise, trimmed with double fluted
ruchiugs.surmounted with a wreath of the snowy trinebV
nallis.
There is an estate in Australia worth about £60,000.
which is now, so fair aa can he ascertained, without an
owner, and is In the hands of the Covernment Curator.
Patrick Coady, or Patrick Coady Bmkiey, a Glee's Land
squatter, died intestate on the retb of Jane. It is believed
that he was born in Dublin in 1817, that he tint arrived ill
New South Wales as a child with his mother, who afterwards
married • small farmer named Buckley, and died without
having had another child. Nothing more is now known by
which a right of succesrion can be traced.
It ie stated that the colliery proprietora of Lanes.
shire have resolved upon allether advance in the Vice of
hoth house coal and engine fool, in consequence of the sim-
ply being inadequate to the demand. AS &meeting held on
Saturday, at Cheater, the coalowners of the North Wales
district, in view of whet then considered the generel down-
ward tendency of prices, refused the men's demand for a
further Melva.. of 20 per cent, in their wages, and hinted
that they would only be able to maintain the last advance
of 10 per ceut, should prices be not further reduced.
Eliza Harriet Boxall, a girl aged fourteen, who
threw herself off Waterloo-bridge a few days ago, wee charged
at the Bon-street Police Station, London' on Saturday with
attempting to commit suicide It appeared that she told ahoy
unwed Angell that she had given her likeness to her lover,
and intended to drown herself, fie believed it to be a joke,
but, in his presence. she stepped upon the parapet of Water-
loo-bridge and threw bonen into the water. The mother of
the girl stated that she had noticed that her daughter had re-
cently become very dull, and bad stayed so ay of a night. The
girl was ultimately delivered up to Miss Stride.
An Irishman was convicted at the Manchester City
police-court on Monday of a very brutal assault on one of hU
Cumtrywonien, by which she had lost the sight of one eye.
Mr. Rickards seutenced the prisoner to six months impre .
sediment, and acrompanhd the sentence with the following
obaervations :—" Something must really be done to bring -
the Irish population of this city into something like chattier,
Hon. The worst assault cases brought before the court were
Invariably committee by Irishnien, and a large proportion of
the drunken cases were also Irish. The people who seer-
deed any authority over the Irish, whether spiritual or
temporal, should endeavour to place them in some degree
above the condition of the heathen."
An inqueiit was held in London, on Monday, on the
body of as, unfortunate woman who was found dead the other
day under a staircase in the Seven Dial.. See does !tot ap-
pear to bane been starved arts have met with foul play, bet
shows. utterly friendless, for the police are ur able to trace
her identity. It is supposed that she had been drunk and
had crept in under tne stairs where she was found, for
shelter, and there miserably perhhed of drink and exposure.
—The Issas e of the kitchen where the dead body was found,
stated at the inquest that the place Way very often taken
possession of by ueinvited lodgers She had frequently SO
hold the candle to them while they dressed when she
wanted to turn them out —The body of the. unfortunate
woman ,which ilaS been lying at St Gileies Workhouse hu
been visited by more than 2,0e0 persons who had lest relatives
or friends, but has not been identifierL
The Scotsman says e—" The people of the Airdrie
district the tither day received intelligence that a son and
heir had been born to the Airdrie estate. Me. Alexander Is
at present living abroad on some of his other estate., and
II r. Deedes, his brother-in-law, who resides on the estate, e.
began to make arrangements for celebrating the event, and
among other things Invited the whole of the Sabbath @oboel
children of Airdrie, along with their teachers, to a treat in
the grounds. Whilethe preparations were being wade, how-
ever, the teachers of the Protestant schools met. and, after
some discunion, resolved that they could not go in coicpsny
with the letholic Sabbath school children to celebrate the .
event. A minute of the proceedings having been sent to Mr.
Deedes, he resolved to stop all further proceedings in con-
nection with the children's treat; but has intimated his In.
Lennon of spending the money thus saved among the dsossw-
tug poor of the district."