The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-03-29 00:00:00

Here Hee Adolphe Tiller.,
Preeideut of the French heplihilc.
lie glorified the lust Empire,
Wea.the justification of the Second,
And prepared the Third."

It is told of a certain Glasgow bailie that, when visit-
ing Paris, he was shown through the national library. The
English classics w, re pointed out, and It wtan added. for the
sake of talk, '' You will know Milton very well r Oh, bless
ou, yes," said the bailie cheerfully, delighted that some-
thing had been mentioned that he did know " 1 know
Milton (a suburb of Glasgow) very well; we're just building
slaughter-bon/au there !"

At her Majeety's Drawing Room to be held on the
Id of April. the C mit will be in mournhig for her late
Msjesty the Queen of Wurteruhurg, according to the published
notice. It is expected that all persous attending this
Drawing Room wib, according to custom, appear in slight
mourning.

Lord Coventry, on his retirement from the master
ship of the Cutswuni Hunt, has been presented with a por
trwt.picture of himself IVO the Countess, on horsebat k. The
ceremony of presentation took place on Saturday, at the seat
of Lord Northwick, at Blockley.

Stadling news reachei us from Monaco. An Eng-
m who had won 70 000 franca at the .7asino. and who
hal telt by rail for Menton°, waa found dead in the carriage
the arrwal 01 the tram Ilia pocketa hail been ransacked
,0 everything. IL is thought he wan poisoned with
chloroform.

A correspondent informs the Scotsman that one of
the most extensive shale oil companies in the West of Scot-
land has for some years been receiving their coals for 2s. 94.
per ton, lice price was fixed by contract, and has many
years to run before it expires.

Job carriages, hired by the month, are very much in
vogue In Vienna. The aristocracy, as well as men of bust-
mi. keep one or more of these c Aumodi,us • • nacres" (with•
out a number) at their displsal. the lure u wally paid for
one of these carriages is about 300 florina per mouth. For
this consideration it is at-the service oL the inter from morn-
ing till night.

The Leeds Mercury reports that the dispute in the
Barnsley linen weaving trade, which has existed for upwards
of seven months, has been amicably dispx ed of. The em-
ploy' rd have agreed to a proposition from the workmen to
give an advance on wages of 5 per cent, the remaining 10
per cent, claimed to be dealt with by arbitration. Work will
he resumed on Tuesday.

A petition has been addressed to the Committee of
Council on Education by the Weduesbury School Board to
bring under the notice of Parliament the desirability og
adopting a decimal system of calculation and couiage in all
schools arld seminaries. A similar memorial was forwarded
by the school board lee Klnsgswinford, iu the same county.

A Bostonian of magnificent possibilities wishes to
organise a company with 12,000,000 dollars capital to inclose
a tract of several square miles in an immense glass structure,
within which invalids may make their permanent ahode,
having a tropical climate with it. appropriate fruits and
foliage, good hotels, picturesque drives, isrt galleries, an
opera house, and in short everthing that consumptives could
possibly wish for except ventilation.

Under the presidency of the Bishop of Lichfield,
and in the presence of many magistrates and coal and iron
matters In the Wolverhampton district, the presentation of
an address and handsome testimonial to Mr Hugh Macerea,
who has been for many years at the head of the county con-
stabulary, was celebrated on Monday.
The Conciliation Board of the South Staffordshire
ironmasters arid Irons takers met again on Mmday, with no
conciliatory effect. The men refuse the offers of the em-
ployers, and the employers will not entertain the demanc
of the men. It is sot even definitely agreed between them
that they shall abide by the decision of the North of England
Board of Arbitration. though the m des delegates have
promised to consult their constituents and give a decision
next Monday.

On Monday morning the Mayor of Wrexham, Mr.
James C Owen, was presented by the Council with a gold
chain weighing 27m , to be worn by him at the banquet-of
the Lord Mayor of London. It is to belong in succession to
the Mayors of the ton,, during their year of office, and on
the massive links are engraved the names of past Mayors.
"My reply (to an anonymous communication urging
me to revenge and demand atonement from —) is, that
no person can be truly dishonoured by the act of another,
and the lit return to make to the most enormous Injuries is
kin Mess and forbearance, and a resolution to convert the
ii.jorer from his dark passions by peace and love.—klegla.'
—Advertisement in The Timex

The Emperor of Germany's birthday was celebrated
on Saturday (the 22nd) by all easel... In the morning his
Alsj^sty r,celved the o'ngratulations of the Imperial family,
the G, ratan Princes In Berlin, and the high State officials :
flags were displayed In the streets, and arowils gathered
round the pslace and cheered his Majesty, and at night the
city was illuminated.

At the Mauchoiter aesizes, on Saturday, Mr. Brown,
clerk to a Liverpool firm, brought an action again:4 the
Lancashire and Yorkshire Rat!way Company to recover
compensation for injuries sustained Virough the negligence
of the company's aervanta. the company adrnljted liability,
and the jury awarded plaintiff £74.10 damages -Another
action, against the same company, was brougot by Mr Lock-
wood., hotel manager, and his daughter, for compensation Mr
injin tea sustained in 1,1n3 collision at Poulton Junction.

Mr. John Bright, having been invited by a member
of the Birmingham Conservadve WiTking slen 4 Association
to Waimea certain principles net forth in a liter addressed
to him, has written declining the invitation. Ile,- however,
expresses his opinion that toe malt tax cannot be repealed
without a great redaction of expenditure, and that farmers
ought to have an absolute ownership of all the animals bred,
and reared, and living on their farms.

A Pane correspondent writes :—The Emperor Ns-
polion's will, which by the English journals is .1.1 to have
been sworn under three millions, has been the subject if
some comment, the ultra Itepublican papers ex•latining at
the sum as a proof of hew the cimntry was plundered dur-
ing the late reigline. Tao Empress's grand travelling rail-
way carriage has plumed into the hands of the E:npress of
Russia, who Intenda using it en her jouin,y to Italy shortly,

Two cotton mine at zitalybridge, the property of
M. Borisor, were on Saturday niorning totally destroyed by
fire. The two mills stood in such close proximity to each
other that the roof of the second was tired by sparks before
the flee brigade arrived and both were completely gutted in
to .• than two hour.. A forge uttruOur of people wilt be
thrown out of employment by the calamity, which, It lamp-
posed, originated in the overheating ,4 the machinery
thrum Iriction. The damage es estimated at nearly
420 000.

The Mune/later Guardian states th kt the master
tailors if Mancntater Lave had a emend made upon them
11 the journeymen for an increase Cl 10 per cent to their
wages. Alter a full c,rosiderat,on of this request, and after
consulting with the Liverpool mastic who have had no
such demand maoe upon them, and who pay the name rate
us are paid Au Manchester, it was resolved that the present
circumstances at the trade render It impossible to accede to
the request. Oily twelve months since au advance 01 10 per
cent. waa given, making thd present rate of wages 40 to 60
per cent. higher than was paid cone eight 3e dliago.

"the Secretory of State, since the conviction of An-
drew Joseph Duncan at the late Glamorgan Arista.n for
murder, has re,r hied merne.rials containing tresh facts bear-
ing upn the ca.e, which memorials were referrer by him
to the learned Judge who presided at the trial. The Judge
havtua recommended that there shou4 ii medral I quiry
made as to the state of the prisoner's mind, Mr. Bruce, in
percuance of the provisions of the atatute 27 and 28 Vic., c.
s 2, directed De. Or,nge sad Dr. Briscoe to make such
ir gain ; and they having rem.rted their opinion that the
prisoner was insane when he committed the murder, and is
still so, Mr. Bruce has, with the concurrence of the learned
judge, advised Der Majesty to respite the capital sentence.
At the Manchester assizes on Satunlay an action
for breach of promise of marriage was tried The plaintiff,
APBs Morgan, was the datialater of a cabinet maker In Ac-
crington, and the defendant, Meter, a guard on the Len-
caahire and Yorkshire Railway, who has lived at Accring-
ton. The parties become Mat acquainted and shortly after-
wards engaged in letgr, and the engagement lasted without
any hitch or interruption until October last, by which tine
the wen ding-ring was bought and the marriage about to be
solemnised. At the end of ractorgr, however, the defendant
cuddei4 dropped all coniinunication with the plaintiff mid
oho airy shortly &Gee-aids heard tint be had married a
I.:ow with some property and th, keeper of an lot-el
Bornley. the Jury returned • verdict fur the plaintiff, with
£175 damages.

The latest feminine fashion of wearing the front
hair is known as the ikife terrhr 14)1
kecording to a return printed on Tuesday, the duty
..oanied on mime licences in tho ye.r end. d the 31st ci
March lasi was hi Englund suet Wales £166,881.

A tiseur-paper nimegnerwie was given in New York,
at which all wore tin s.es of that material.

It is autieblatel that the beetroot harvest of the
Present year In France wi.l )1211 torn 60 to 75 millions of
killograoanes of argar in exeas of that
~,I last sear.
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" The largest diamond in tl.e world' has been found
In the African diamond fields, and it to be sent to the Vienna
lichinitiou it weighs 28,1 etude.
The total number f to.wmpapas publielled in Paris
Miring the past year was 785, ranging from the Journal
01ficieZ to the Shoemaker oniteur.

Many of the StaffordAire eoabunnitere have been
invited to tend coals to Newevil& owing to the cliff-rence in
the price and scan:l,y of coals at the last place.
John Bull sma:--We learn with pleasure that the
Royal families of E• glaud and Russia are about to be united
by a marriage betwecn the sec nui son of the Qum and the
daughter of the Emperor of Russia.

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Rabbits' fur is by a new invention woven with
wool and cotton in the manufacture of textile fabrics, and
an important industry seems likely to grow out of the
experiment.
An ingenious Yankee has proposed a plan by which
he otters to warm Boston safely and cheaply. Ile will erect
enormous furuaces in some re.note locality, and convey heat
by means of pipes to all houses whose owners will pay Um
his terms. .

An International Congress is to meet in Vtenna on
the 4th August to diseuas the question of Patent Eights.
The Congress, which was Luegested by Prisident Grant, will
consist of scientific IMOD, manufacturer,, political econo-
mists, and skilled workmen. Each Government will be re.
presented by a special delegate.
It havinz been stated that the grave and monument
of Edmund Kean are in a dilapidated state, the ftev. C T.
Proctor, vicar of Richmond, states that the grave is in good
order. and the tablet (which is ou the outdde wall of the
church, near the s..uth.west door, and almost immediately
over the grave) is in excellent c edition, having Weil
thoroughly cleansed and done up within a recent period.

In the fifty-one weeks of the financial year up to
Saturday last the Exchequer receipts were £74,919.127, while
the Budget estimate for the entire year was £71,644000.
The expenditure has horn £67,920,915. On Saturday last
the balance in the Bank ot England was more than eleve,
millions and a half st,ling.
A shoemaker, named Dyke, murdered his brother
011 Monday molding, at Ymighal. He had recently been dis-
charged from a lunatic anylmu, and hut become violent dur-
ing the last few days. On Monday m..reing he got up and
attacked his brother with a knile, inflicting nine wounds.
At a coroner's limiest a verdict of "Wilful Murder" was
returned.

In all the dintrfcu of South Wales, except Rhy, mney,
hors wee a general resumption of work ni Monday morning
!-.3+ the colliers, and by Its 11111 illy of th,. tic corkers as cal
hod been provided for. At Rhymney, hlwever, the strike
still continues. The °others will not accept the reduction,
and the masters are di termined that they shall not return
except upon the same conditions an the men have accepted
In other places. The old rate of wages was restored at all
other works
A Yankee in Paria, who was listening to the boasts
of a lot of English aml French artists about the c ouderful
genius of their respective couetryrnen, at last "broke out,"
and said, "Oh pshaw ! Yeou git eout ! Why there's
Divine, of our village, who kin paint a piece of cork so
'r ictly like marble, that the minute you throw it into the
water it will sink to the bottom huh-chug, jet' like a stone."
Recently (says an American paper) in one of the
cars on a New York Central Railroad train, a Maputo arose
between two old la ties. One declared if the conductor
opened the winiow she would die, and the other protested
against ite being closed, for she would certainly smoth.r to
death. rho c inductor was in doubt, when a venerable
gentleman exclaimed, "Open the window and kill one of
them, and then elute it and kill the other, and then we shall
have peace."

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A correspondent of the Manchester Examiner says
the Earl of Durey has forty pits, each yielding 400 tons of
coals daily, thus showing a day's output to be 16,000 tons,
which at the lowest price, Ss., shows a daily profit of £3,200,
a week's £19,200, or a yearly coin of £991,400, But the pit
price for engine coal only has been 205. per ton, and all is not
engine coal, so he shows a grand total profit of £4,992,000
per annum, and a margin left for what ía called burgey and
slack.
The National Union for Improving the Education
of Women hu offered seven Scholarships of £2.5 each,
tenable for one year, for competition throughout the United
Kingdom; the competitors to be young women over 16 years
Mage. The scholarships will be awarded by the Universi-
ties of Oxford, Cambridge, and Edinburgh, Trinity College
Dublin, the Science arid Art Departmenl, Society of Arts,
and Cullege of Preceptors, London, at their examination this
year.
Followic the example of Li verpool and Birmingham.
the Sstffield School Board have resolved to revoke certain of
their by laws, so as to render mineceasary any proof of the
service upon the parent of &notice to attend school when he
I. called b,.fore the magistrate. The practical difficulties in•
volved Au the service of notices upon recalcitrant weals, no
much locreased by the lay nig own in the by-laws of any
course to be rigidly pursued lu each case, have led to this
measure. The department ore not badk ward in meeting
boards half way en this point, and recommend the omission
of all e'en,. partaking of the nature of instructions to the
board officer from by.laws which are submitted to them for
approval.
A singular story is told by a Milbridge physician of
Ruf as Mitchell, aged thirty, who recently bled to death
from a slight cut, says the Springfield Republican :
" Ile waa one of those unfortunate men who bleed from
the slightest scratch of the skill, and many times he
has lain and bird till It scented that the blood had all
run out, and then he would gradually recover. This
time the cut was quits large, and he lived but a few
hours. There is something remarkable about this family,
7-,ha are here termed as belonging to the blee ling
Hone but the males bleed, and they are sons of the females
of the same family. For instance, this man has left children
none of them will bleed ; but if the girls should have boys iu
MusD families, they will be of the bleeding kind, but the
boys are themselves free and their families will I e the same.
I cauuot explain this. I have practiced in the same family
for more than 2/ years. During this time a uunalier of them
have died from this cause, and other. have bled, often
dangerously. They seem to be as careless als Alt edge tools
as though they were like other people.