The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-07-04 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

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420,000).
! A young man, who has been working as a honest
An old man of threescore married A girl of tell at I painter in Anstruther, rifeshire, for the past twelvs months,
Ahmedabad. A few days after the marriage the infant a ill . has is the death of a distant relative, come into the pos-
elopsd with • manservant another of property to the value of nearly ElOO,OOO.
Two sharp shocks ,if earthquake was felt at San The
Francisco on the 11th of Jule., No damage was dine
it is stated that in consequence of depression of .
F,Frenchownrlityer, has
daughterjust
diedfCan ateuri prittl,eleuraye,atthhe
Her
little
girl while playing with matches set her clothes on nrow,:incdh
trade a general reduction of rents, theeamouning, in some in- the mother, while trying to wve her. received inj
stances to forty and fifty per cent., has taken place in Berlin, , proved fatal
and that the teudency is still downwards. Frogs are worth wholesale in New York 1 dol. to 5
The bicentenary of the birth of Isaac Watts a dola per dozen pairs of hind legs, the frog beteg cut into and
Southampton will be celebrated by the Congregationalists in the in striped off ove rg the feet. The only difficulty in
that town on the 17th of next mouth. bmeclsk p
ing them is M keepina pond carefully protected from
hawks, snakes, coons. We Millions of tadpoles hatch out
" The gentleman, Mr. L., who so kindly took care
left. Canada ships thousands to New York annually
of two young boys at the Portsmouth Station on the even-
ing of the 6th April. (Easter M.rnday), is cordially thanked dozesliepring, but by autumn there seem to be but a few
itit;zert„,,,. tilltzwenoqe,t.oyr..b.ta.s. been
by the boys' parents in India.-- Advertisement in Monday's 1
Time tt..„,;1N,1i11e,,,..,:71...7f0rzhii:1,
lle-dy„,
The French Government has at length prohibited yhwiriirisailtit! otherpresident, t i ir:.thilde
' the dietribution of photographs of the Prince Imperial
I throughout the couetry. this being considered es one of
the society is not making much headway.
syli'Tlitsie-51.i.:1 tollnue anerereTherer..leoerteifi.a.l.aseuily , yet, as 1110) be guessed,
! the means of propaganda employed by the Itimapartist Saturday. . . , .... ~,
agents. On about noon. as a man named cow eu,
The French Government has decided to erect a ' .
in tchaenjeangrierloiszpeert o.rf, tallif,f;s:gaLeE.ittiteinrnhißals
work
ky I.l:o.nriparcll
monument near the Swiss frontier or commemoration of the 'llion. the buffer or a passing eugine by some means struck
generous course of conduct which was adopted by es-liner' foils on the head fracturing his skull in a horrible manner,
land towards the prisoners of Bourbakes army. The mortu. lie was immediately taken to Aildenbrooke's Hospital, Cam
jpent will represent" Exhausted France confiding her chit' bridge, but died immediately on his arrival. The deceased
arm to Switzerland," who is a native of Cambridge, leaves a wife and six children
A reward of fifty cents a-head for stray do,,,st has I In France, where strawberry culture is very eaten-
furnished the New York street walls with profitable occupa-
sleety pursued, and the tnumport of the fruit to the great
Hon. There were as many as two huudred captives on the
markets is an important consideration, small jars of baked
first day. earth have superseded baskets for the package of fruit of late.
A Detroit gentleman prides himself on his fine fowls, They bold about a quart if fruit each, and are conveyed in
and his neighbour is equally vain of a fins coach dog. The large baskets. The fruit is said to come Co market in these
doe worries
he dg receivedritesthelifeout t
of the chickens.
f
eefraiekkwelsg nt
. nAfeew days ago the Jere in fine condition,
lesser o
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keep dogs , "Friend,
your
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"We understand that the Empress of Austria,
1 keep chickens. If nay chickens w
travelling incognita antic Countew of Hohenembs, intends
dogs, shoot 'ens.- , to reside for a portion of August arid September at ventnor.
Nearly an inch of rain was nieasured at the Royal Her Majesty's visit will be of a strictly private character"—
Observatory. Greenwich, last week, raising the amouut Daily Sews.
measured at Greenwich since the beginning of the year to Early sin Monday morning the Spanish llovernment
g 5 Melies, which is however. still 4 7 Mehra helots the
received the startling information that Marshal Concha had
average. amount measured in the first six mouths of the
year during 56 yeie s. been killed by a rifle bullet, while leading an attack on the
Carlist entrenchments at Mimi', within a short distance of
" The Duchess tie Magentais credited with a mot that Estella. It was stated that the Republican army retired
is rather sniart. Alighting frtira her carriage at the church door without disorder, leaving no trophy in the bands of the
at Versailles, her foot caught in her dress and she fell, but re- enemy. A Carlist dispatch from St. Jean de Luz qualifies
gained her feet in an instant. An ex-Minister, who rushed this last assertion. Besides Marshal concha many superior
to her assistance, expressed a hope that she was riot hurt. officers are said to have been killed, and the Republican loss
The Duchess thauked hum, arid added. ' You see, M. le Due, was great both in wounded and prisoners.
I can get up. when I fail, sooner than Ministers can. ' " A man named Russell, aged 45, residing at May-
Court Journal. field, WSu est ssex, has expired through tieing accidentally
The bankruptcy of the Tichborne "Claimant " was shot It appears that Russell and a gentleman named Cole
again before the London Bankruptcy court on Holiday man had lost a number of chickens, which were supposed to
morning: and the first meeting was again adjourned for the have been taken by a hawk. On Thursday last they took a
17th time. It is not yet known whether the SeoreteTY of gun to kill the bird. While they were walking along Mr.
State will give permission to the bankrupt to file his no. Coleman's gun went off. and Russell was sled. At the in-
counts. quest held en the holy Mr colemair stated that at the time
A meeting of colliers' delegates wag held at Dudley of the accident the deceased was showing him a place where
lon Monday, at which it was stated that the men connected some rate came from The gun accidentally went off, and
I with the Union, about 4,000 is number, have expressed their Russell called out .. ilh dear ! you have shot me !" Witness
detenninafion I. remain out for a bug time to come rather borrowed the gun from a neighbour and did not understand
than submit to the reduction in wages insisted upon by the the handling of firearms. Dr. Hall stated that the contents
masters, of the gun lodged in the right side if the chest. The injury
A tire which broke ontin Wellington-street, Ottawa, was eutticient to account for death. The jury returned a
cork in the morning if the lOtli of June, destr,yed, among verdict of "Accidental death."
other premises. the house occupied by the Prcinier. Mr.
nzie. His wardrobe and some valualee private Some remarkable bonesrapparently fossil, have been
Macke
discovered in Livingston County. near the town of Duneville,
papers were burnt, but most of his furniture was removed about fifty miles south of Lake Ontario, in the western part
and saved of the State of New York. Dr. reline has charge of the
Mr. l'homas Hughes in presiding on Tuesday at the excavation and furth. r research. Professor Allen, of the
half-yearly meeting of the Crystal Palace shareholders, called Genesee Normal School, has examined the fragment., and
attentioni to the manifold facts showing that the Palaie pronounces them the louses of a mastodon, one larger than
Maintaiie ii its reputation as a place of high-claw public en- any hitherto discovered. He estimate that the animal was
tertalnment, add.; that last week's Handel Festival had fourteen feet high and twenty feet long, or forty feet
been the most euecessftl of the series, long, measuring iron. the tips of the tusks to the end of the
tail, and that it must have weighed twenty-five tons.
At Barnsley, on Tuesday, a very large meeting of
the Yorkshire and Derbyshire colliery owners met to receive The ascent of Mont Blanc is no longer regarded as.
the resolution passed try the delegates of the South York- an abuost impossible test: it is not, however, generally
shire Miners Aseociation. They came ti the unanimous known how lately it was viewed in that light some eta-
decision to enforce their previous determinaticar, for a reduc- tisties just published show that It is only since the year HMO
tion of 124 per cent on present gross wages, BO that on I that ascents have been regularly made. From the time of
July 8 fro fewer than 20,000 miners in both districts will be I the first Recent by Balmat in 1786, 724 persons have reached
out of work, and i ollrers yielding an annual output of the summit of Mont Blanc, hut for some years after the
8,000,000 tons of coal will be probably set down.
Through a disastrotts occurrence on Tuesday after- earliest attempts by Balmat and De Sausaure long intervals
elapsed, during which no one ventured upon the hazardous
noon at the East LOlldell Railway Work• Wappinz, five men enterprise. There were, iedeed, no aliments between 1788
have lost their lives. Several shafts had been sunk for the and 1802 and between 1802 and Ma Since 1860, however,
the mountain has never been altogether unvisited, hut the
purpose of underpinning the lit George's East Workhouse,
and as some of the werkmen were descending one of these greatest number of ascents between that date and the year
they came upon an accumulation of Mul air which catist 1800 were to in 1854, and 24 in 1835. From 1661 to 1865 the
the decewed men to fall to the bottom a the shaft in an in-I numbers rose to 39, 24, 54, 63, tifi, and tell in 1870 to 14.
sensible condition. A sixth man named Smith was rescued Twenty-two ascents took place in 1071, 67 in 1872, and,
with difficulty, and brought up to the surface also in a sense- finally. GS in 1873. This year is likely to show a much
less state. Ile was restored by means of some stimulants larger number, the ascents having begun on the 3rd of June
but when the bodice of dm five unfortunate nien were got whereas the ard of July was the date of the lint attempt
up life in each instance was found to be extinct nude last year.
On Saturday afternoon a deputation from the Bir-
mingham Scriptural Education Union urged upon the Duke
of Richmond .d Lord Sandiei several points which they
held to Ire defects in the working of the Education Act of
, 1070, and asked .• the help of the Government against the
, tyrannical proceedings of the League." The Duke of Rich-
' . urinal, in promising to lay the subject before his colleagues,
intimated that it would demand much consideration before
Ministers could take steps to undo the legislation cola-
plaiued of.
; Last Saturilae her Majesty the Queen received a
large 'arty of blind students from the Normal College it
Icier Norwood, and, having entertained them with a
, luncheon, heard their musical performances in St. George's
, Hall, where likewise their proficiency in several studies was
demonstrated. The ages of the impils ranged from eight
L years up to about twenty-five. The Queen shook hands with
, Ithe whole rarty, expressed deep sympathy and interest in
their welfare, arid said the instituUon would have her prayers
for its continued prosperity.

ilistributing some yachting prizes at Dover on
Saturday evening Earl Granville referred to the complaints
which hail been made respecting the scarcity of our seamen,
and expressed an opinion that the demand for them was
greater than the supply. Ile considered that yachting de-
served the greatest possible encouragement, both in account
of the large numbers of men which it employed, rOld of tbe
development which it gave to the construction and naviga-
tion of ships.

In a paper just addressed to the Academy of
Science, Dr. Ore describes a case in which ammonia injected
into the veins proved an antidote for the venom of a viper.
He compressed, the left forearm with a bandage under the
elbow, and then injected at once into one of the veins a
mixture of ten drops of ammonia in seven gins, of distilled
water. Would it succeed in hydrophobia?

"The Paris Journal is answerable for the statement
that a young earlist officer recently declared at Tortonis
that, In an affair near Bilboa, some of the Carnst soldiers
who had no bullets took out their teeth and fired them at
the enemy. No doubt, and the elderly officers used their
wigs for cannon wads! "—Court Journal.

"Bad sailors" will be pleased to hear this : "The
Bessemer saloon steamer is nearly completed. Like the
Caitalia, it is designed, as our readers will remember, to
"obviate sea-sickness in the passage •Orolifl the Channel."
Passengers by it will not, ups the inventor, feel any more
unpleasant sensations than they would iu going up and
down the Thames.
Sir William Fergukson has eansed plaster casts to be
made of the fractured anndione by which Dr. Livingstone's
body aas identified. They will be placed in the museums of
the Royal college of surgeons, Edinburgh, and King's College,
London.

-TrifTr.' the 2Gth inst., at her residence, Tottenham,
Nfary Addis, aged 100, much respected. Friends, please
accept this intimalon."—Obituary of The Timed, Monday,
June .19.

A German forest keeper, 82 years of age, not wishing
to carry to the grave with him an important secret, has pub-
lished in the Leipzig Journat a recipe which he hal used
for fifty years, and which, he says, has saved several men anti
a great number f animals from death by hydrophobia. The
bite must be bathed as soon as possible with warm vinegar
and water, and when this has dried a few drops of muriatic
acid poured upon the wound will destroy the poison of the
saliva, and relieve the patient from all present or future
danger. This is an old remedy, and one approved of in
MiKland.
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English physicians are not allowed to practise in
Chili, and the reason of this, as Just explained to the British
minister at Santiago, who made a representation on the sub-
ject, is, that •• the medical knowledge imparted in Great
Britain is greatly inferior to that required before a degree
of doctor of medicine could be obtained in Chili. This
statement will certainly excite some surprise at our medical
schools.
It appears from a return put published by the
Local Government Board that during the month of April
there was a decrease in the number of persons in receipt of
pm•r relief in every part of England, as cmnpared with the
same period last year. In the lost week of April the paupers
relieved numbered 763,006, being a diminution of 55.345, or
nearly 7 per cent. The improvement was greatest in the
Welsh and northern. and least in the south-eastern, comities

The West Yorkshire Association 1 Miners held
their annual "demonstration " and " mass meeting at
Bradford on Monday. About 12,bee members of the various
lodges connected with the association arrived by train from
different towns At eleven o'clock they were formed into a
procession and starched through the prk.cipal streets of
Bradford to Peel Park There were torty•seven hands of
music in the procession and seventy beautiful flags. A large
meeting was afterwards held in the Park for the transaction
of the usual business f the annual meeting Rain fell and
spoiled a gala which was in the programme of the day's
proceedings.

A notice was issued on Monday, by command 41 the
Postmaster-General, to the effect that money-orders issued
after the end of June will remain payable for twelve clear
calendar months, alter which period they will, as at present,
become forfeited.

The decree of the Spaniel' Government, when Senor
Castelar was at the head of affairs, abolishing titles of nobi-
lity, has been rescinded.
On Saturday evening a large open-air meeting was
held on Brandon-bill, Bristol, to express sympathy with the
locked-out agricultural labourers. The meeting was ad-
dressed by several speakers, including Mr. Odger, who main-
tained that the right of combination was not antagonistic to
the laws of England. The trades unions had sixteen hun-
dred thousand skilled workmen, and they were not to be
told what they should do by inexperienced farmers. Ile was
not in love with emigration, but he would accept it to
escape from greater difficulties. Resolutions of sympathy
with the labourers, and in favour of the assbuilation of the
borough and county franchise, were passed.
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On-Monday, in the lions Court, hegtn the suit in
Chancery Instituted by the Corporatii.m of London on behalf
d the public against the lords of manors and landowners in
Eppine Forest, the effect being to prevent further enclosures
of land. Little progress was made in the statement of the
case, which is so voluminous that the counsel's brief, instead
of being carried in the customary blue bag, filled a umlaur
of large tin bones, which obstructed the passage of the court.
A remarkable strike of coal miners is in progress at
Nelsonville, a town in Ohio, near Columbus. The singularity
of it consists in this, that white miners having struck ---to the
number of nearly a thousand men—and their places sup-
plied with negro miners, the issue Is now one of the pro-
prietors co-operating with the negroes against the striking
white miners. The strikers are trying to indnee tha negroes
to desert ; and have succeeded with snout ii hundred Of
them. The sama issue has never been presented before in
this country. A nearly similar issue once arose at Loin,
Musa, when the trades unions tried to oust the Chinese shoe-
makers, but there the unionists used violence.
During last week 5,506 births and 3,140 deaths were
registered in London aud twenty other large towns of the
United Kingdom. The natural increase of population Was
2,886. The mortality from all causes was at the average rate
of 22 deaths annually in every I,oeo persons living. In the
metropolis 2,226 births and 1,210 deaths were registered, the
former Miring been flee more, and the latter 167 less than
the average number. One person died from small-pon, 22
from measles, 34 from scarlet fever, 5 from diptheris, 26 !MTh
Whooping•coUgh, n from different forms of fever, and 28
from diarrhiea ; thus to the seven principal diseases of the
syn3otle class 178 deaths were referred, against 179 and 177
in the two preceding weeks.