The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-09-19 00:00:00

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has just been inriliato go for is ('re,* in• f ,
yacht) :- -" Now, the q•estion is, whoiii shall we ..
to chaperone us ?--old Mrs. Busbee, or old MT
Martha f'-Jack • ois tor* of the party).
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. .;.. WESTERN A VSTRALIA. - The Legislativt
neil was sittiog at the time of the last advices ---
and the Colonial Secretary had submitted thefinancial The strike at the Penrhyn slate quarries is now at
,eou
et:iem:a t. The revenue for 1373 showed an increase an end, kiting laste.fulare than six weeks. At an intereiew
between the men s M committee awl r Lloyd, the agent, on
have been.drowr......
1111rAbont 20 psi: cent.lin the previous year, rind there
, Saturday, terms were arranged, and at a great meeting
was • balance in hand of £23,000 at the cud of 1873. in the evening it was announced that the dispute had ter-
It Was estimated that the available resourtese for 1873 'amiss&
would be £156,000, and the Government propose to The total numb, Of immigrants arriving in the
yard out a line Ii telegraph to the South Australian enited plates during the fiscal year ending June 30. 1874, le,
be)undAry, and twexpenti£lo,ool) in immigration. The aem*ing to the stationing of the Bureau of Statistitu,
part of the cast (.4 a line of telegraph to meet the West The funeral of Mr. C. Gilpin, M.P., took place on
gouth Austral* Government .is Willing to auidertake 312,06. Of these there were landed at New York 194,149.
Anlstralian lime; and Victoria is likely to assist by a . Monday, at the cemetery of the S,lety of Friends. Winch-
,. of tio
•Chriimun ~,ot tolo"phi, titian...Wl, seas Salsseason. • sir :Thomas Dakin, the Rev.
.ewman, Hall, Sir Charles Reed, Sir Edward Watkin, M.P.,
• Sir C. M heti.=' and Mr. Samuel Morley, M.P., were among
all the Australian colonies. A railway from:Fre- . , the mourners.
•ica being estallished between Europe and
mantle to York has been negatived by the Council as
.I. Negro rule 'in Ntw Orleananloes not work out the
trosteheislg at present a promising tindertaking. 'The very hest result. Five pages arida siipplement of the New
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question .of naroour Improvements was receiving care- Orleans Republican newspaper are filled with the names of
611 consideratioii. Every interest was reported to be the citizens of that city who are delinquent in the payment
ih a thriving condition, but all-timber trade, mining, of their city taxes.
farming, and squatting-to be in great need of The Queen 'has given a large order for Honiton lace
labour. To render the general conscription less distasteful to
. CALIFORNIAN STYLE OF ADVERTISING.-That the Rukolniki or Dissenters, the Emperor of Ru.ia has
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flowing hair in the army. I Only the 'Sands will continue to
says c-" &red-nosed gentleman asked a wit whether shave. •,
I,ooos sin
. to setuhse Le
squareikr :
whichin ch, att t onas 1
Ifu believed hi spirits. "Ay, Sir," replied he looking Few even among the thriftiest ' Scotchmen have
lona full in the faee .• "I see too much evidence before made a penny go further than a firm of brass and copper
y wire nianufacturers, who recently drew a copper coin into
tee to
aydot
jib3,,tdgiet.!o'f
the r 8 oenialcellexenreiannatdiobneaisuthyow,2 any
0,700 feet-more than half a mile-of wire.
otxlinirning and stair-building of Mesars. Sanborn M. Guizot died at Val Richer on Saturday evening.
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d Brynes, at their establishment over the mechanics& This eminent statesman was born at Nismes on the 4th of
ill on Mission-atreet, between First and Fremont." October, 1787, and consequently had nearly completed his
87th year at the time of his death.
I A LARGE FLOWER BED-The great central Germany possesses at present P 6 Masonic lodges,
plain of California for six months of' the year is a with altogether about 30,000 -members, under eight German
seorched and dust-swept desert. In April it becomes grand lodges id different rites, of which three are at Berlin,
she flower bed nearly 400 miles long and thirty wide, and the others are those of Saxony, Hamburg (the oldest in
set under a range of snow mountains. A traveller Germany), Frankfort-on-the-Main, Baireuth, and liessen.
writes of it :-" Go where I would-east, west, north, On Friday and Saturday the price of coal was
south- I was still surrounded by flowers which advanced is. per ton at some of the collieries in the south
closed Otter my feet at every step as if I were wading Yorkshire dist
ce is The rict. At the pitan there was no increase on
the Ist instant. advanot yet generaL It applies
in water." chiefly to hard coal. for which the demand is brisk for
"RED TAPEY ! "-They are rather red-tapey export and for London.
in Paris. A party appeared at tho mairie of arrondiss- Mount Etna is still in a state of eruption. A trans-
ment to register the birth of a child.; one of the versa! fissure, about a mile long, has appeared on the
witnesses was the secretary of the library of Saint northern side of the mountain, and twenty fresh craters
have befen thrown up. It is believed, however, that the
Genevieve. The emptope was not satisfied with the
f the i s
answer that he lived at this public library. Well, in orce o eruption s pent.
what street? Answer." "In the Place du Pantheon; Marshal hlacMahon visited the Cathedral at Arras
on Tuesday he d
as all the world knows !" was the somewhat irritable
reply to the nonsensical question. " hat number?" ktZra7, where was receive by the Bishop and 250 or
W,s;f
chotmatac,=2
aarf,t:mrsdss the Presidenttiof the
continued the employe, with unabashed coolness, in the Septennate, and the hope that etrarTasesmiinTly" wdeonj.7
" Number ! Why the place is a public building, as vote the Constitutional Laws.
well known as—" I ask you for the number, monsieur. I Captain Zembsch, the Commandant of the German
My paper is made out for a number." "Your paper squadron in Spanish waters, has drawn up an official report
iis n error then." "Seek a number, monsieur, and of the recent attack by the Carlists on the German gunboats.
the book was shut up, and the party was bowed out, it seems that shots were fired at the vessels as they were
The next morning the employe received a letter :-" I sailing along the coast. Captain Zembsch, seeing that they
have the honour to inform you that the library, like wer:
wan
nertintalnlyd fr., ecd,zie. ojedreersaet:n gtaz o,,iilire.
the column of July, has no number."- Court Journal. The Korth German Gazette, commenting on the I.:port:tut'
OPTICAL ILLUSION.--Host (to Captain Mango, the act of the Carlists was in complete violation of the rules
who has blazed away at nothing): i. Hon°, Mango! °of International law, and can only be compared to the attack
I band of robbers.
What are
Wyou up to ? There was no bird ! "-Captain
Madame Letitia Ratazzi has for some months been
Man :"e
-wasn't there? It's my wetched liver .tin h ' ' I
!wain, then !--always seeing something suddenly float- Luil
iilt,e3rlc2lhLognlulhoostp .',llrozeiletistle !shoe zaryr
ing before my eyes !! "-Punch, devoted to the treatment of cancer. As is well known,
PEOPLE TO COME.-The future population of several of the members of this family have succumbed to
the United States is the subject of an interesting paper this tenable disease. The first deposit will be 150,000 francs,
read by Profess,* Elliott, id Washington, before the tilewhisch willbe added asubj biennect,ial prize of 5,000 francs for
be t work on the . x ell as a sum of 20,000
American Association in session at Hartford, Con- francs for him who shall describe the true cure for cancer.-
neticut. in August. By a calculation based upon the Court Journal
Census that have been taken, the writer finds that on An
extraordinary pedestrian feat has just been per'
Jane 1, IS, the Population of the United States was formed by a lady in South Carolina. Wishing to visit her
43,167,000 an increase of over four and a half millions parents, she etarted off on foot, carrying her baby (six month,
since the last Census was taken. The estimate for old, and 211 b. weight , and got over the distance (34 miles)
1875, when a Census may probably be taken, is in eleven hours, travelling over a rough and hilly road, with
44,384,000 • for 1876, the centennial year, 45,627,000, the thermometer at 90 deg. during the greater part of the
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and for 1880, when the next decennial Census will be ourney.
taken, 50,858,000. These calculations show quite- The council of the Sunday League announce in their
plainly the waste of population caused by the rebellion. report, just issued, that the motionlor opening nowennis ou
Sundays w ill again be brought bPa efore rhas... nt early in
• Had there been no war, and had the population, there- the ensuing session by Mr P. A. Taylor, M. l'., and that the
fore, gone on growing at the rate previously shown, Sunday evening meetings will be held this winter in one of
the Census of 1870 would have given a population of the largest London music-halls, if the Middlesex magistrates
41,718,000, or over three millions more than the will pemiit it,
total actually given-38,558,371. The larger figure The peculiar kind of energy and enterprise for Willett
Wait not reached until 1873, showing that the war the American Press is no celeffrated have perhaps never beefs
caused a loss equivalent to three years' growth, better exemplified than by the Nom I'm* Daily Graphic of
the 22nd ult. In that paper all tile original letters and I
LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. - Certain Press- ments connected with the Beecheil n Tilto scnd re aal 'a
' "en'
writers of Paris affect to hold in such aversion the duced exactly in fac-similes of the various hand-writiireigr O.
f
name of a Republic, that they even talk of founding a the several persons who wrote them.
Septennate of Letters.-Panch. From the returns issued of the election on Sunday
A WONDERFUL APPARATUS.-An official in trunheeMletieetteir it
7.'l'l'l that M. Maine, the Repub.
the Bavarian Telegraph Office has invented a wonder- majority. A second election will, however,
rill
tty,maghln:
ful apparatus by which not alone autographs, but necessary, owing to the legal mnjority not having been
signs and even portraits can be sent along the wires. obtained. Much satisfaction is felt by the Republicans in
The inventor is Herr Heneker, of Munich, and his Paris at the success of their candidate, and at the Bonapartist
" Electro-magnetic Copying Apparatus," as he calls
candidatef being lastl on the lilst, with only a relatively small
b •t , T num er oto ts. re second eection will take place ou the
it, has been already secured by a Frankfort banking 27th inst , and it Is expected that 31. Maille x ill then be de-
firm. This apparatus, without the aid of a tele- liattively returned.
graphist can transmit writing in different languages,
signatures portraits, plans, &c., to any distance
with perfect resemblance to the original in all
points. Among other exploits of this wonderful
invention it telegraphed the opening speech of the
Singers Festival, which took place lately, as printed
surrounded by garlands of oak and laurel; also bills
of exchange, government dispatches in cipher, mes-
sages in Greek and Hebrew letters, an arrest warrant
with portrait of the person "wanted," and a map as
used by generals in time of war, with the intended
movements of the troops marked out upon it. An im-
pression of the object, writing, drawing, &c., is taken
in a prepared ink on a sort of silver paper, which is
rolled on a revolving cylinder and forwarded to its
destination without further visible aid.

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forts defence of Paris
‘oveniher. works will give em-
the Unitad states Agricultural
vr shows • decline of over 20 per
so obit the crop will be barely
me been received, announcing
and sir sailors .4 her klajesty s
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A TILADITION OF KILLIECRANKIE.—TraveIIera
proceeding to the upper part of the Pass of Kline.
crankie by the lower road will observe on their right a
deep ravine, known by the name of the " Troopers' Den ,"
crossed by the viaduct of the Highland railway. The
erection of this mass of masonry has in some measure
filled up the lower part if the den, through which a
stream (in winter a torrent) rushes to join the Garry.
Previous to the formation of the railway numerous
fragments of rusty iron, the remains of bits, spurs,
saddles' &c., occasionally made their appearance as
the soil was washed away, and the discovery of such
relics is accounted for by a tradition that before
Mackay met Dundee on the field of Killiecrankie,
he posted a regiment of cavalry on the upper bank of
the hollow. After the defeat and subsequent retreat
over the hill of Tulloch of King William's general, the
victorious i clansmen came down n force on the troopers,
who, with their horses, perished in the ravine. Their
bodies were buried, or covered over with earth, on this
sloping banks of the brook, but so superficially that
their decay produced very unpleasant results, to
obviate which a Highland farmer dammed up the water
of the rivulet in several places above the Aceldama,
and, when sufficiently pent up, the torrent was let
loose, and in its descent swept the graves and their
contents into the Garry.

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A SUBSTITUTE FOR STEAM. —A very interest-
ing invention, designed to supersede the application
of steam, in many instances at least, may be seen in
operation in Liverpool at Mr. Fallow's Rooms, Peter's
lane. This is the hydro-thermic motor, or oil engine,
invented by a Neapolitan, Sigaor F. Tommasi. The
motive power utilised is derived from the alternate ex-
pansion and contraction of oil or glycerine upon the
application of heat and cold. Just as in the case
of the expansion of water into ice, an immense
but not explosive force is obtained by the expansion
of oil under the influence of heat. This is the
leading feature of the invention, and the result
claimed is the saving of no less than one-half in the
cost both of "plant" and fuel. By the experiments it
may be seen that a small column of oil liquid under
the influence of comparatively little heat, will develop
a power equal to about 10,0001 be. per square inch.
Steam engines usually exercise a pressure of only about
2001 be. per square inch. While the explosion of a
steam boiler at such a pressure would be most dis-
astrous, a corresponding accident in the case of the
oil engine at the much higher pressure would simply
crack the vessel in which the liquid was imprisoned.
Visitors will have an opportunity of seeing in operation
upon the principle indicated a number of machines,
including a press, a punching machine, and a ri vetting
msohine.—Liverpool Albion.

ATIRDAY, WT.' 19, 1874.
p— .s• - 4r:
• ometrvetiogrif for the
commenced itN. - The
,ent to 2,000 men.
Le L...tton report of L.
trtolent for september
, on the Angus* report,
trti,,s of an overuse one.
A.,ericesirom Chin" ban
that lieut. Charles Gardner
*- Kelt( rel, white er