The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-06-20 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN.
A ineetinct has been
.held, attended by about five
hundred of the leading citizens of Berlin, for the purpose of
forming a National Liberal Association in that city.

The Dutch Minister id Finance, in submitting his
Budget to the Second Chamber on Monday. stated that he
was not at present in a position to abolish the duty on
sugar.
The North German (Irrette learns from Russia that
an Imperial Government messenger front the Russian
MAMMY at Pekin was recently found frozen te death and
halt buried in stool on his way to K lead., The Gazette
describes the incident as 01le of no MICOMMOD occurrence.
A correspondent of the S,•otrourn says that four of
the competitors for the prizes offered by Mr. Edward Pease
on the opium traffic are young Chinese writers.

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An adjourned meeting of builders' labourers was
held on saturw4 evening, at which a deputation was ap-
pointed to wait on te Executive Committee of the Masters'
Association, with a view Ii adjust the wages dispute between
the association and the Li!. 'u-em in London.

"Fifteen years ago Mr. Disraeli at Manchester re-
ceived a deputation (nom Leeds, and promised to visit (lie
latter town in fifteen years. That time having just expired,
the Premier has been reminded of his promise and it is
understood that he will keep it. '—Doily News.
One of the Paris journalists has a grand scheme for
wideldnx ' all his subscribers— at 30 francs a watch. They
are to lie made at Jura."—Courf Journal.
At the South Kensington Musemn is now arranged
a very extensive ant complete collection. illustrating the
various forms of enamel work as employed upon the ono-
mentation of objects in metal.
A deputation of the National Education Union had
an biter, iew with the Duke of Richmond and Lord, Sandon
.01 Tuesday, to urge modifications of the Revised Code in
1.:m.11r of ilenominational schools, restraints on the expenses
of sthool Boardi and on the imposition of unnecessary
burdens on ratepayers, and the definitive incorporation of
religious teaching in the national system Their lordships
promised to give the proposals submitted to them full con-
sideration.

it is now definitively announced that the Duke of
Eduborgu will visit Liverpool during the month of Sep-
tember. and will he present at the opening of the new
Art 14allery aim the Seamen's Orphan Institution, He Royal
Highness also purposes to attend the musical festival.
A Parisian correqumrlent says :—" There is a new
fashion hi Jewellery which I mast mention, and thnt is, that
ladi•e wear pending to a velvet strip FOUnd their met, or to
their brooch, the medals or e-reran a won by their husbands
for the services they may have rendered their country.
The gentlemen wear the ribbon only the ladies wear the
medals.'

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The Lierppeol Mercury states that the London and
The Tweed fishings have improved. During last - . -
North Western Railway Company are re.iniring their engine
week the appearance of salmon on the coast, from tile 1111111.
driven to Sign an undertaking Icy which they I lad them-
aeveral days the stations near the mouth of the riverg, had
selves to obey all regulations now or hereafter to be put hi
her id IL.II seen leaping, in the sea, was encouragin mid on
in-
force, to give a mouthai notice in writing on leaving. but to
creased takes of both salmon mid trout. A'strmig northerly
be liable to instant dismissal at the Minds of the loeomotive
win itlew
derat on Friday, and
improveme at the sea t
-coaat
iswick, station. there was
anne,...rinteildent. Many of the men, it is mid, have eigned
a censiile nt. ACh on Friday, 87
eahnon and troeit were caught, and at Cheswick, 44 salmon this stringent regulation under warm protest.
trestle trout The fishing on the sea-coast was not to gond " Whether it is clue to the excited state of public
on Saturday. but there was an improvement at the stations opinion or the heat of the weather, it would be difficult to
M the lower part of the riven say, but it is certain that an alarming number of suicides
A t the last meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, have oceurred lately in Pane. On Tuesday no fewer than tan
in London, Sir Henry Rawlinson, who Presided in the absence cases were brought under the notice of the police, and it is
caper, d tha t for th e moo th the tig,nres will an nel id t o
of Sir Bartle Frere, said that the meeting would like to hear
what the Government would do as regarded the family of the . °- -'all Nall Ga2.4"e.
late Dr. Livingstone. Sir Bartle Frere had already Informed . At Portsmouth, on Monday evening, at ten minutes
the society that the pension of £2OO per annum would be after eight, the sunset gun was on the point of being fired
continued to the family, and that an application had been from the Garrison Saluting Battery by a party of gunners
made to the Government urging also a grant of money. The - belonging to the list Brigade R.A., when a boy named Alfred
amount recommended by the deputation has been tioooo to ; Scott, aged seven yean, who was playing with some little
£ll.OOO. but the Government, taking all the cireunatances , companions on the fortifications in front of the battery,
into consideration, had thought that justice would be done suddenly left them and crooned the line of lire. At that hi-
lly granting a sum of £3,000, and Parliament would be asked stoat the erring attached to the detonating tube, by which
to vote this amount. The leorerransrit had also undertaken . the gun is fired, was pulled, and the charge, of comae, left
to pay all arrears hi the followers and servants of the doctor, the gun, blowing the pair little fellow away on to the ram-
Mood £l.OOO had hoes due in this any when his followers . part, and, of course, killing him on the spot. Ills remains
refiehod Zenrlhar. ! were fearfully mutilated. No blame was attached to the
The American pilgrims at Rome have assured
gunners.
Cardinal Borromeo that when they retinn home they will "The extreme heat and the prolonged dryneea of
organize periodical pilgrimages. They have bought an ini. . tie air will lint allow the Pope's COIIVAie6CCII, %,1 lie as
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men', number of plietograPhs of the Pope About 2% rapid as his f . fends might desire. llin Moline, eototio'ates of
pikeinis visited the ancient basilica of Saha: Nero is and lasnittele and pi "strati,. Who of us her.. /......, Loot do the
Ai:bilk:its The pilminis were afterwards invited to lunch liy same? But some of bia rover alai MID conflict, r.,:nro., s their
kloesim 'r de klerode at a neiploboarina born. Monsignor apprehensions that the Sovervinon Pontiff is grielnally sink,
Frrmani ass seated at the head ot tto:• table. between %Imo, log. and even that his existence cannot be prolonged heyand
do • ,orcoolles tel Misoo Peto ra, a pilo,rint who has attained her a few moths, Lost your, however, at this Sep reasen,
seventy-I°lloll year. S. veral t.' tots wen; dumb, in.ludie; On Sr same peraens wave iitterance to even more gloomy
the hootiths of the Pope mid the Pilgrlina. Mousignore de , ini iginings arid the Pope bred to laugh at their hoo4 f.ee Mi:nale, in proponing a tont. said, " Permit me, a.grand,ol, i aud to mac his jakes at their idle prognedka lit is not
ili 1.11•13,1I,f, Is salute the American Pilgrims." The gnesta unlikely agaiu to disappoint the croakers on the present *e-
dit-felled amid cheers for the Pope. casion. —ltalian Correspondent el Ms Tined

Mr. Roebuck, writing to a constituent, states that
he has been very ill, and is still lying in a prostrate condition
There has been a violent hurricane at Milan, and 30
persons were injured.
A younger brother of the King of Siam has died at
cholera

Several fresh strikes are reported. 'fhe journeymen
bricklayers and masons of South Shields, unable to obtain.
airlines of 35. a week, have ceased work. The house joiners
of the same town have also struck because they object to
work by the hour instead of by the week
The journeyman plumbers of Sunderland have come
out on strike. They require a nse of 10 per cent., and their
employers sanction to some by-laws which they have drawn
up. The masters refuse to assent to these terms. At
present the men are paid 30s. per week, and the advance
would give them 330.
At the last meeting of the Royal Humane Society,
the silver medallion was unanimously voted to a boy, only
nine years of age, named Cecil Herbert Macmillan, for say-
ing two brothers, named Carliwell, the youngest being four.
tern years old, who wan in danger of drowning at Footscray,
scar Melbourne, Victoria.
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The Maharaja of liardwan is employing. daily 1,150
pet sons on relief werks, and feeding 2.;•_, at his food depots
It hns been decided by the Miners' National Assoeia
tion that the Cleveland ironstone miner. —who are on strike
resisting a reduction of wages —are not entitled to relief front
the funds of the association, because they are on strike, and
not lo keit out,

From a return in the London Gwette of Tuesday
nidht it appears that during the month of May last 36 cattle
were affected with toot and mouth digitise. Two were
brought from Hamburg, and 34 from Oporto, one was landed
at Hull, and the rest in Loudon. They were slaughtered at
the place of landing.
A reported fall of the city wall at Kandahar is said
to have killed 400 persons, and destroyed 100 houses
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The lock-out of the weavers in the valley of the
Devon, Clackmannarshire, continues to he strenuously
maintained, and there is little hope that a settlement will
be effected till the woollen trade assumes a more favourable
aspect. The lock-out has now lasted seven weeks.

Advice s from Washington say that the acreage o
land under cotton cultivation in the United States is to per
cent. leas than that of IS7S, and that the crop is it per cent.
below that of last year in condition.
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Fifteen remarkably fine specimens of the great
American king crab (Lamu!us Polyphemus) have arrived at
the Brighton Aquarium from the United States, and hare
Imen safely lodged in Tank No. 28.
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It is contended by a New York paper that trout
fishing is not a cruel sport ; that the wriggling of the fish on
Iry hind is not indicative of agony, but of ecstasy. It has
been taken from the water, where there is but little oxygen,
Into the air, where there is a good deal of it, and feels just
as a person does when he takes laughing gas. and suffers no
more pain. Oh
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A Ministerial change is reported from Vienna.
The Minister of War, Baron Kuhn, has, as It is said, re.
peatedly asked permission to resign, and his a ish has at
length been gratified. General Baron Koller is the new War
Minister. .

An inquest has been be in London at the Royal
Free Hospital on John Buckley, aged 20, a plumber. It ap-
peared that on Friday evening deceased was at Watson'.
Dancing Academy, Wilson-street, and formed tile in the
Lancers quadrille During the last figure he slipped thorn,
apparently in a fit Restoratives were administered, but
without avail, and he died early the next morning. The post-
nwetem examination showed that the cause of death was an
apoplectic fit, brought on by the excitement of dancing and
aggravated by his detention in the streets. Verdict accord-
ingly. -
One of the persons struck by the lightning during
the storm of Whitsun-Monday was George Herbert, butcher,
of Peter's-lane, West Smithfield. Ile was walking with a
companion in Hackney marshes, and, according to the state-
ment of the latter, both were struck several times. Herbert
never recovered, and died a few days ago. At the inquest
on Tuesday evening the jury found that he died from effusion
on the brain, caused by having been struck by lightning.

The New York omnibus drivers' strike will probably
be a failure, as the lines have succeeded in getting men to
till the places of the strikers and have already put one hall
their vehicles at work. The absence of the omnibuses has
saved Broadway from so much bustle, noise, and turmoil
that the public are in hopes that some system may he
secured for superseding them altogether Property owners
almig that street say the removal of these demoralising
vehicles would considerably enhance real estate values.
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In the week ending Smunlay (June 13th) 2,265
births and 1.204 deaths were registered in London, the
former having been 60 more, and the latter 198 less than the
average numbers. The death. included 3 from small-pot,
32 f measles, 3i from scarlet fever, 3 from diphtheria, 31
from whooping-cough, 33 from different forms of fever, and
39 from diarrhoea ; thus to the seven principal diseases of
the zyniotle class, 170 deaths were referred, against 130. 150,
and 161 in the three preceding weeks. These 179 deaths were
05 below the corrected average number from the lame
diseases in the corresponding week of the last ten years.

A terrible tragedy is reported by the New York
papers as having occurred in Brooklyn. Mrs. Dwyer, of
North Eighth-street, Brooklyn, struck her husband. a cooper,
with a hammer, anti fractured his skull while he was sitting
quietly in a chair reading a newspaper. They had had some
words about the distress of the family caused by Dwyer
having struck with otheis of the coopers' union against their
employer. As soon ns the unfortunate man rushed from
ths house for the police Mrs. Dwyer slew her three children,
aged seven, four, and two years, in a horrible manner.

"The coniunction of two exciting events drawn a
great many people to Sydney Just now. these are the Rand.
wirk I:aces—we are a people much given to horssracing
and the Agricultural Society's Annual Exhibition of all the
industries of the Colony. Both coming together com-
pletely fill the town, and send beds up to a premium. The
latter event increases in importance. This year the entries
of cattle amount to 400."—Melbourne Correspondent of The
Times.

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One of our Wall Mall Ga.-xtte) Spannth correspon•
dente writes Emigration from Spain to South America
continues on an extensive scale. The Pacific Steam Naviga-
tion Company's steamers take their monthly quota to Beunos
Ayres and other ports from Santander and Comma This
exodus was formerly almost exclusively confined to Galicia
and the Basque Provinces, but now it has extended to Anda-
lusia and from the ports of slicante. Valencia, and Malaga
go forth in hundreds in search of letter fortunes than their
native country can promise.