The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-02-17 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

A society is being formed at Madrid to demand the
surrender of Gibraltar.
Saturday, March 23rd, has been finally fixed as the
date for the University boat race.
The Rev. G. A. Jacob, P.D. was re-elected Bean
of the College of Preceptor. on Saturday.
Millie. Christine Nilsson leaves New York for
England on the 20th April.
Lord Suiteldh Horatead-hall estate in Norfolk has
been purchased by Mr. Albert Grant for £105,000.
A movement on foot for all workmen in France to
labour one hour IllEr elsy extra and devote the proceeds to
liberating the territory from the Germans.
Fox-hunting in Rome has been especially brilliant.
At the last meet this last season there were over 200 splendid
belonging to the Homan eolelity and to American
and English visitors, who came to view.
It is said in Westminster Hall that the fee marked
upon Sir Roundel, rallner'd brief for the Geneva Arbitration
Is 30.000 guineas. llin foe for prepariug the English easo
Was 2,000 guineas.
A rag-picker of Paris has diPtl and left behind him
350 MS. plays. Tess only saw the light The remainder have,
however, now a fair chance of doing so, as thc ciii niuet
likely be burnt I
Earl Granville in his private capacity offered to sub-
scribe £l,OOO towards the Livingstone &coloration Fund,i
Captain Burton would consent to undertake the command
of it. The famous traveller could not be induced to accept
the command.
On Saturday the Queen received intelligence of the
death, from scarlet fever, of her niece, the Duchess of Saxe-
Meiningen—the youngest daughter of her Majesty's half -
sister, Princess Foodora Victoria of Hohenhole-Langenbruw,
to whom Duke George of Saxe-Meiuiugen was married in
ISSB.
An eloquent tribute was paid to the memory of the
late Bishop Patteson by the Bishop of Winchester. in the
Upper House of Convocation. Au Address to the Queen was
voted, suggesting that steps should be taken to put a stop to
the accursed traffic IP Men carried onto those distant Islands
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the Japanese Government in banishing them simply mmoved
them out of the sphere of propagandism,. taking care that
they were properly treated en their exile.
The Brown Institution for Sick Animals, in London,
Is likely to commence at once avert of great public utility.
Aided by a handsome grant Boni the Chamber of Agri-
culture, Professors Sanderson and Klein and Mr. Duguld
will undertake an extended series of observations on the
treatment and comparative pathology of pleuro-pneumonia --
an epizootic which coMmlts the most costly ravages anions
our herds.
In celebration of the recovery of his Royal Highness
the Prince of Wales, the most spirited contributions have
been already annoumed at Windsor towards the rejoicings
to take place on the 27th inst. Mr. Richardson It. Gardner
intends to have roasted on the Gardiner estate three fat oxen,
to be distributed to the poor of Windsor, Eton. and Viewer.
In the evening there will be n ermill display of fireworks and
huge bonfires. There has been a committee already formed
to carry out the proceedings.
The London correspondent of the Leeds Mercury
writes :—A reduction of upwards of £1,000,000 has been
in the army and navy estimates. This very con-
siderable decrease in the national expenditure has, I have
reason to believe, been effected without in any stay de-
creasing the efficiency of either of those two great branches
of the public service.
A melancholy boat accident occurred on the Aber-
deenshire coast on Saturday. The fishing boats from the
village St. combs were overtaken by a gale, and in miming
for the land one of them having a crew of six men sifts
struck by a sea and swamped. Five of the men were almost
lii-
Staidly drowned, but the sixth managed to get hold of two
earn, to which he clung till rescued In a state ef such ex-
hamition that Ills doubtful if he will recover. Most of the
men are married, and related to each other, an is often the
case In fishing villages, and have left large families.
The French Government, in recognition of services
rendered to the victims of war, has sent very handsome
testimonials, consisting of SZvres china, with suitable in-
scriptions, to the Marchioness of Lothian, who formed a
ladies' committee to relieve French refugees, and to Lord
Vernon, who presided over the committee of the French
Peasants' Seed Fund.—lt Is stated that several members of
the diplomatic ho lyin Germany have received presents of
Sevres china from the French Government, as an acknow-
ledgment for the protection afforded by them to French sub-
jects during the war.
Three separate attempts at murder were made last
week at -Si ainneville, in France, by a liberated convict and
former franc-tircur, named i'ourty. In the evening, lie scaled
the wall of a house occupied by 31. Belhache, whom be tried to
stab with a knife. The latter however escaped by lumping
from the window. Courty then went to the cottage of
Revenel, a notary's clerk, whom lie wounded, and would
have killed but for the intervention of a neighbour. A litth
later he attacked a mason named Dupont and struck him ou
the head with a shovel, rendering him insensible.
The Emperor of China in Soon to be married, and
has imported a pair of elephants to assist at the ceremony.
His future consort is undergoing a careful training in the
etiquette of Court life. For three years the looms of Nankin.
Bougehau, and Canton have been engaged on the silks and
satins for her bridal trousseau, and just now they are an-
nounced as completed, at a cost of nearly half a million in
our money. While the bridegroom, who han the sun for his
emblem, goes forth in a car drawn by elephants, his bride,
who represents the moon, is to be borne to her palace iu
palanquin composed entirely of strings of pearls.
An English gentleman in Paris has just become the
fortunate winner of a most valuable lottery. It appears that
a preneh lady pereuaded the gentleman to take tickets of
two I us ins raffle which she naa getting up for the
purpose or disposhig of some magnificent jewels, which
rumour says had belonged to the Empress. lie paid the
sum, and thought no more of the matter, when to his utter
astonishment he received a sniall packet one day, and ou
openhig it he foiled he had become-the happy possessor of a
diamond cross and nealace worth about k.:12,000. Tbis is a
piece of Iffek that one seldom bears of.
The Swiss Times PONS that 51. Plantamour, the
celebrated Professor of Astronomy at Geneva, has latch Ms
covered a new comet, which in volume far surpasses all
comets hitherto discovered. According to his ebservations
and calenlatioue, it is darting with immense velocity. pro-
ceeding In a direct lioe towards rem globe, and will come
into collision with it on the 12th of August emit. Its
approach will be rendered sensible by an extraordivary de-
gree of heat. The catastrophe calved possibly be avoided
but by the deviation of the rapidly approacliing comet, pro-
duced by its coming within the scope of the attracive
influence of some other heavenly body.
Last week the aggregate mortality in London and
twenty other large towns in the United E iugdom was at the
rate Of 5; deaths annually to every 1,000 persons estimated
to be living. In the metropolis 2,402 births and 1,524 deathe
were registered, the former having been one above, and the
latter 121 below, the average. Sixty-eight persoes died from
small.pox, 40 from measles, 31 from scarlet fever, 3 from
diphtheria, 88 from whooping-cough, 27 from different forms
of fever (of which four were certified as typhus, 15 as enterie
or typhoid, sin S as simple continued fever), and 13 from
diarrhea. The torriperarme again Mowed a remarkable ex-
cels ; the mean of the week was more than 40 degrees, or
eight alcove the average for the same week in fifty years. The
average daily excess during the 00 days ending Saturday last
was 4.6. The 450 deaths from disease of the respiratory
organs showed a further slight decline upon the numbers iu
recent weeks.
On Monday morning the Earl of Moray Was found
dead in the room where lie had breakfasted, at Darnaw ay
Castle, near Fortes. Apoplexy had been the cause of death.
The deceased nobleman, who was 62 years of age, is sue-
ceeded in the title and estates by his only surviving brother,
the lion. George etuart.—Mie. Grant, of Invererne-house,
Forres, wife of Colonel Grant, M.P. for Morayshire, died
suddenly at Invereme on Monday morning. She had been
In church in good health on the previous day. The deceased
lady was a daughter of the late Sir Robert Abercromny, of
Birkenbog. The sudden deaths of the Earl of Moray and of
Mrs. Grant in the same locality, both events occurring within
the same hour, are a melancholy coiacidence. It may be
noticed, further, that both his Lordehip and 31e5. Grant were
at Brodie Castle on Thursday evening, dining with the Brodie
I famllY.
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