The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-04-25 00:00:00

EPITOME OF 2EVS,

Burma AND FOREIGN,

It ie reported from Vera Cruz that a piation of
the Mexican Government favours the t spulstou from the
country of all Spaniards who refuse to become naturalize
citizens.

News has bten received at Naplea that tho brig mds
ha, captured. ill the environs 01 U srlithano, the brothers
Nwola and Yraneet.cantonlo Elmo, G useppe SOUra, and
(huserpe Ougllelmellt The latter vim barbarously massacred
because he waa an es-stivadrtgliere ,armed policeman).

'The Tinto remarks that according to accounts
Irately mile public, but which, perhaps, partake of the
exaggeration customary la such matters, there are gold
deposits In Peru equal, if not soperier, In riohriess to any
yet discovered In California or Australia.
The Abyssinian peasantis say at the the faire, which
they frequent, that Theodore has got together a large army
by declaring that we carry with us immense treasures to
purchase the prisoners; that he will not crept our presents,
but will seize them from us and divide them among his
soldiers.

The Mormon prophet, Brigham* Young, is " slightly
a widower," live of his wires having died of pneumonia
during the past winter. The bereaved husband has still
win), ct.goilltiODS " left.

The finding and sentence of a general conrtroartial
held recently at Aldershot camp, on • private named Bren-
nan, of the 54th Iteglinent, for Insubordmation and dis-
respectful language to an officer of that corns, were promul-
gated on Monday, and read in the presume of the whole
regiment at morning parade. The prisoner was sentenced
to undergo an inmilsonment, with hard labour, for a petrol
of two years, to be marked with the letters "lit,' and to be
dhooileml the eexvice with ignominy.

The inquest on thely founil in the house at
Hackney Wick (near L Anion) terminated in a verdict to the
effect that the deceased, Ileraernan, was a person of unsound
mind, and th.t Ills death was caused by bison administered
by himself. Mrs. Backs has declared herself Whined that
the body was that of Mr. Ileasenran, and not that of her
own husband.

The ateamer Seagull haa been burnt on Lake Michi-
gan. Fifty Ilvea were loot.

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he number of public acts passed in the session
which commenced on the 19th of 'November op to the present
per94.l le fifteen.

Ou Saturday last the wife of }Laird Johnson,
labourer, of Shrub-end, ittanway, was delivered of three
thildreo, all of whom are living.

Fire young men, the sons of farmers in the neigh-
bourhooiel of llEttlirindrews, near Carlikle, were on Saturday
coovieteil by the magistrates he that city, of ooclinghtieg,
and tined 10e each and costs. Two ',dice officers caught them
engaged in the cruel sport, and captured one of the game
cook., which was armed with a feel spur.

The Times notices as extraordinary the divergence of
vim. between Mr. Disraeli. letters and the I' reign Serre-
tary's arguments. 1..n.1 Stanley meets a proposal to dis-
endow the Irish Establishment by declaring the proposition
premature, and it le expedient to deter it. illsemston till
next Session. lie. Disraeli tells his county correnarndesit
that.it is worse than foreign conquest

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There in a eunnitlerahle nutrber of fentalea earning
their hying lo London as wood engravers.

Baron Vida, who it may be remembered was set.
tenced to • year's impriionwent in England some time ago
for an extraordinary attempt to murder his son— an imprison-
ment which he aetually suffered lu Newgate—died on Mon-
day last at Dr. llubohi Sanatorium, In Purls, aged fifty-
eight.

-The Paris papers record • colinary noveltr which
era think trill not even be subjected to a trial to kugland.
At a dinner of agriculturists at La V illette, one of the features
Teas a dish of fried one bionee—i.e , lams of the cockchafer.
Some of the guests who had the courage to partake of this
ineffable nastiness pronounced it " not so bad," but that they
preferred smelts.

A summons against Ex-Governor Eyre was grtented
on Friday by Ur. Vaughan, tho Bow-nreet magistrate, upon
the application of Sir IL P. Collier, on behalf of the Jamaica
Committee. The charges to be referred against Mr. Eire
are that of inning an illegal and oppressive proclamation,
and of having continued the oppreetive measures ordered
therein when the necessity for them had, according to his
own allowing, ceased.

" The resistless power of frozen water is illustrated
In &lecture on hest and thld, delivered by Professor Tyndall
before the Ito)al !institution of Great Britain. anno:g Ids
experiments, an oidinary bombshell was tilled with water,
and securely plugged, and then placed in a bucket fillesl
with pounded lee and salt, to freeze It. In about half an
hour the bombshell was burst into fragments by freezing of
She oomblood water."—lbehonies' Magazine.
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One of the French law cowrie has just had to decide
a singular question. A person recently deceased had left
hy will to a poor needlewoulan, during her life, soup and
boiled beef for every day in the year. The point to be
established was the sum which such a legacy represented.
The Tribunal has fixed it at If. 25c. per day.

The disturbances in the neighbour-hood r Wigan,
consequent on the strike of °others there, were renewed on
Monday, but the efforts of the mob of tarnouts to prevent
the new men from proceeding to their work were not so
effectual as last week, the presence of the soldiers enabling
the authorities to net with more vigour.
The Northern States of the American Union in which
navvies vote 011 the sanie terms as VAIi(CS are Maine, New
Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Nlichi-
gals, and Minnesota. In Ohio more than hall white blood is
required of the Voter, and in Now York tho negro voter
must own 250 dollars. The new Constitution if New York,
II retitled, will remove this pecuniary qualification.

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Mr. Anson Burlingame closed his career as United
States 51inivter to China by presenting • copy of Stuart's
portrait of Washington to Sao-k1-ti, who was banhhed by
the late Emperor libemfung, for eulogizing Washington in
his work on The Geography of the World! He also gave
• watch to Father Gillie, • French priest of kfutkem for his
kindness to several Americans shipwrecked on the Corean
coast.

The Cheyenne Leader having 811/4trted that Cheyenne,
•city of seven thousand inhabitants, was probably the only
city in the woild free from rats, the Salt Lake Setrs repliet
that Salt Lake city is twice as large as Chmenne, and twenty
times as old, yet there are 110 rats there either. These are
turious f sets A contemporary, howertr, declares that
Comenne hss still the advantage of Salt Lake, since it is not
only free from rats, lint also from Mormons.

Samuel Hun= petitioned the Court of Sewers, in
London, the other day, that he might ha permitted "to go
lot. the City sewers to csich rats, in which he has for the
last eighteen years been engaged," and the curve) or having
been heard theie,m, the said fluinnt was solemnly Informed
by sir. De Jerre/ that he insist riot, In future, go below the
surface

l'he'llainaqt, of Brussels, says :—" A very fat lady,
on Rotting into one of nur omnibnses, which, It must be said,
are not over roomy, heard a gentleman make the grumbling
remark, ' omnibuses were not made for elephants.' to this
she replied, 'Sir, omnibuses are like Noah's Ark, Intended
to carry all sorts of beasts.'"

The following in attrilinteil to the Emperor Napoleon:
—" Bow is that so many speak of earl we are not going
to make war, why speak about it? If we are there is the
more reason to ha shunt.'

An eccentric thief in Memphis recently stoic a
rattlesnake.

" The Vestry of SL George'e, Southwark, contem-
plate laying down a tramway In the centre of the London-
road, for the use of all kinds of vehicles. If successful,
similar trams will be adopted on other roads hi the parish."—
South London Prow.

In the course of a trial of an engiue-driver at the
Olouceeter seems, on a charge of manslaughter, of which he
w&a acquitted, the counsel for the defence imidenially gave
an easy rule for remembering and distinguishisig railway
signals.

White for "right," red for "wrung,. "
And green for "gently go along."
Female physicians and surgeons are becoming the
fashion In the United States The Revolution, • :New York
Journal, states that in Philadelphia cix women•doctors return
to the ineonie-tar revenues ranging from 2,000 to 10,000
dollars a year, that in ()ranee, New Jersey, a 1.01111111•
surgeon returns her income at 15 000 dollars; and that
there Is In New York another who returns hers at 20,000
dollars.
In Rochester, (1.".5.,) a lover has been sued by his
sweetheart's father for fuel, lights, supper., and teen lodg-
ing, while courting the glrL The parent was nonsulteil, after
a pathetic appeal by the youth to the judge's feelings.
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Quintino Sella, an Italian legislator, said a few
days ago In hie place In Parliament, that without the stimulus
of abeolute want his countrymen the Italians cannot be
wade to work. "A. soon as a man has five, six, or ten
thousand franca a year," Sella continued, "everyone says to
him, ' My dear fellow, you are a gentleman; why ahould you
do another stroke of work!'

Cattle plague ha a again appeared in some of the
Po halt villages near the PruneLan frontiers. Precautions are
belng taken to prevent the spread of the disease.

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A writ,er in Harpers Weekly recommends a new
form of capital punishment. The method is " death by
electric tty." Ile says "It Is perfectly painless and a heolutely
Instantaneous." Another writer says: " Why I. not this in
every way preferable, and • thousand times less shameful to
S civilised people than the slow strangling now practilmil
upon our criminals

Archbishop Manning contradicts a report which has
been circulated that the Pope had ordered him the Archbishopl thank bit Gladstone for his attitude on the subject
of the Irish Church. Dr. Manning ups there is not the
shadow of • foundation for the story.

Colonel W. J. Nagle, who 119 A been confined in
Molintjoy Prison since last May, and whose trial for parti-
cipation in the .Icolnell expedition at PLR° had been post.
pond for want of foreigners to nerve on the pry, ha. been
released from custody on condition of leaving the country
immediately.

A French writer has sketched out a magni6cerd plan
of operations which it is expected King Theodore will adopt.
lie will destroy Magdala and retire up one of the valleys,
leaving the English to catch cold over the ruins of the town
during the torrents of rain which descend in April and con-
vert Abyssinia into a huge lake, and on the return of flue
weather he will emerge with his fresh troops and fall upon
the demoralised troops of air Robert Napier, due of course
A new convent Was " installed" at Longiiight, Man-
chester, last week. A cc,mmodation is provided for twenty-
four nuns and nine lay sisters: and a school room lots born
erected capable of containing a hundred and fifty children.
A return issued on Saturday relative to Poet-office
savings banks shows that the balance tine to depositors on
the Blsl becember last was £9,749,720 es. 91, amount of
expenses remaining tumid £25,000, and surplus of funds to
meet liabilities, £143,910 7s. ed. The total amount received
from deoriitors to the same date was £25.767,035 14s tid,
and the total amount repaid, £11,817,106 es. 11,1.

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A correspondent of John Bull Writes :—" Last
Saturday, at a bookstall in the City-road, London, I lighted
on all interesting relic of the poet Cowper—a copy of the
Greek Testament presented to him by John Newton, of St.
Mary Wooln••th After the death of the poet it came into
possession if Mr. Johnson, cousin of Cowper, who In 1800
presented it to It. late owner. For fourpence I was able to
secure it, and to place it on my bookshelves."

• An important meeting WWI held on Satftrilay at
Bnckingham under the presidency of the Bishop of oxford,
to protest against the principle of Mr. Coleridge's University
Tests Abolition BilL Besides the Bishop, who delivered an
eloquent address on opening the proceedings, the principal
speaker. were Archdeacon Bickersteth and 3lr. Hubbard,
M. P. Resolutions adverse to the proposed measure were
unanimously agreed to.

An inquest has been held at Woodford; respecting
the death of a London clerk named Wood, whole holy was
found between the rails on the Loughton and Woodford
branch of the Great Eastern Railway. Ilis bead had been
cut irem his body by the wheel of a placing train. In one
of his pockets was found apiece of bridecake, neatly wrapped
In paper, and with the compliments of the newly mulled
pair. As there was no direct evidence to show how death
occurred, an open verdict was returned.
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A Constantinople journal announces a circuincision
on a great Beale as about to take place at Xanelill. The
Bon of Blastapha Katt Pasha Is about to undergo the initia-
tory rite of his religion, and 500 boys—the children of
pexents in reduced circumstances—are to be treated to it
at his highness's expense. It is computed that the ceremony
will last ilve days, the surgeons being unable to finish MY
neatly more than 100 patients a day, and that it will cost
upwards of £s,th.o. prmeats are to be made to the parents
of the circumcised, and the whole party is to be lodged and
fed until their wounds are healed.
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Isabella, the flower-girl, is a well-known character
in Paris. She has the exclusive privilege of supplying the
members of the Jockey Club with bouquets on racing days,
and had the honour of presenting one to the Emperor of
Aimtria last autumn, who sent her from Vienna a ring and
bracelet in return. She is • little strong.minded. Lately
she recited some luxurious apartments, and as she keips no
servant, she had inserted In her lease a clause, permitting
her dog to ascend the grand staircase of the house—to bring
up her letters, journal', WWI Itil/41 //1411--40,44 to mato idin.
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