The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-04-03 00:00:00

Mayor.

Miss Mary Wasey, who recently died at Prior's-
court, Chievely, near Newsbury, has bequeathed £3,000 te
the Royal Berkshire Hospital at Reading, £2,000 to the Bath
Hospital, £2,000 to the Cancer Hospital at Brompton, and
£2,000 to the Consumption Hospital, BromPton.
Applications for perages and baronetcies are
pouring in upon the Premier. He is asked to make a hundred
members of the House of Lords and five hundred baronets.—
Court Jowrnal.
Between 7,000 and 8,000 persons assembled at Lillie
bridge grounds on Good Friday afternoon to witness the
various competitions organized by the Cumberland and West-
moreland Wrestling Society.
A few days ago, at a bear hunt near St. Petersburg,
a huge animal was shot by Lord Frederick Hamilton, and
fell dead at the very feet of Lady Dufferiir. - • '• • •
The Gibraltar Chronicle regards the dehth:ci-probably
the, oldest resident on the Rock, the Chevalier. John Lind-
blad, late Consul-General for Sweden and Norway, whose
death happened on the afternoon of. the 18th -March, at the
very advanced age of 99 years. •
. .
Last Saturday the Mayor of /stewport, at the request
of the Board of Trade, presented Captain Hodge, of the
steamship Lady Tredegar, with a silver.medalA ha recognition
of the gallantry and presence of mind shown by him in
saving life. On the 9th of February last the steamship
Constance, on her voyage from Cardiff to Malta, sank in a
terrific gale. The master and six men were observed by
Captain Hodge floating on some broken spars, and he, at
great risk, in a heavy cross sea, changed the course of the
Lady Tredegar, and succeeded in saving the'Whole`seven.

"There is no truth in the statement that the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury went to Sir Stafford Northcote and pro-
tested against the writs for the General Election being issued
In Holy Week."—Whitehall Review.
It is well-known that all authors are bound to send
a copy of any work which they may publish to the British
Museum as well as to each of the Universities. But from
this necessity one great publishing house, namely;
.the House
of Commons, is exempt. The happy result is that in our
great National library there is not to be found a complete
set of the nation's Parliamentary Blue Books !—Whiteheli
Review.
"The body of the late Dr. Hahn was cremated at
Washington, Pennsylvania, on the oth of March. A slight
odour, as of burning hair, pervaded the vicinity. In twenty
minutes the bones of the feet could be seen devoid of flesh,
At the end of an hour the friends went away pqrfe,ctly satis,
fled. Orders were given to have the ashes- sent by express to
Newso York.uth ‘_ "—Newutral Ya or a T
now
mo es .
w 533
miles of railway in
working, and 475 i miles either in course of construction or
authorised.

The vital statistics of New South Wales for the past
year shows an increase in the population of nearly 10,000,
which is unprecedented even in the best days of gold-digging.
The total of the population of the colony is now nearly7so,ooo.

At the request of the Russian Admiralty autho-
rities, M. Martens, Professor of InternationaLLaw,•delivered
a lecture on the 24th inst. at the Cronstadt .Itravy Club upon
Central Asia. The hall was crowded with naval officers of
all ranks. The lecturer declared the Russian advance in
Central Asia to be a calamity provoked by the rapine of the
uncivilised tribes in that part of the world, He was strongly
of opinion that a struggle between England and Russia would
be a great misfortune for both countries, aueLdemonstratedt
the necessity for a friendly solution 'Of tlfe Central AsiaA
question. The Professor's observations were received Nvi,tl,A
great applause by his hearers.
Dr. Werner Siemens'
plan oT an .electric" po.oars
pears to be taken up by the Parisian postal adMiulstration.
Electric telegraphy was recently superseded in that capital
by a complete pneumatic post, but this, in turn is, the
Eleetrician understands, to give way to ark
_underground
electric, railway on which diminutive electric- locomotives
will bowl along. - One of these little engines will carry a load
of 141 k at a rate of 15 miles an hour.
"This week, as if by law of evolution the solemn
letters M.P. have dropped from the names Of h4ween six and
even hundred gentlemen. There will be Something like
scramble for them. There must be disapPointment. To not,
as few of the six hundred and fifty the future willleave on
)-
the consolation and pride of talking of the thne w
-
was in the lloue of Commons. ' The glory of a ere
- `..:t remem-
brance is all that will remain to them. '2
--Daily:
etas.
Last Saturday a travelling menage Ale on view
at Bath. A number of persons weie, present to witness a
snake performance, when one of 'the reptilql-4iled itself
round the exhibitor's throat. After some struggling, he fell
from exhaustion. There was much eonstenia on amongst
the crowd, and the ladies screamed loudly!' 'Ultimately the
snake, which was about seven feet in length,' was detached
by a fellow employe.
In political circles at St, Peteisburg the possibility
of war with China is freely discussed, but those Who are best
qualified to form a sound Judgment on the matter are of
opinion that hostilities will be avoided. The New Times
urges that in case of war Russia thouktmake a descent on the
seaboard of China. It also advcicated the cultivation of
friendly relations with the Chinese.
• Guests at Transatlantic dinner parties now lincl their
places at table marked Iv a rich scarf of silk end 'satin, with
their name inscribed thereon in gilt letter's, -th6' scarf ful-
filling the double purpose of enlivening the -table with bril-
liant bits of colour, and giving: the guesfs a substantial,
souvenir of the entertainment.
"Mr. Samuel Edward Bolden, who died- on thq
of March, at his son's residence, Derby, was- eaucated as a
solicitor, and as a young man, having been .broUgb,t in con-
tact with the elder Stephenson, Locke; Bootkorliverpool,
and other pioneers of railways, became so deo-winced of the
important part that railways would play in the future OA%
he took a very active part in their
_proxpotion. owl.
cert with John Swift, the solicitor, Thomas Brasspy, the
contractor, and Joseph Locke, the engineer,' he was pro-
minent in carrying out the Lancaster and. Carlisle' Railway,
which was opened throughout in the winter of 1846., It now
forms part of the London and: Ndrth-Western Railway
and yields to the' original shareholders neatly T12..-per cent.
To many Mr. Bolden was better known as a most successful
breeder of shorthorn cattle, The son of Mr., John Bolden, of
Hyning, North Lancashire, a well-known breeder, he early
became convinced of the value of pedigree, and, Pinning 111 S
faith on the Duchess blood, began to collect a. herd- in 1845.
On the -death of his father he anialgiunatefi-b6t"e"cle to
'herds at
r
Springfield-hall, Lancaster, where tie was the first breeder
efl
realize four figures for a single animal. In 1862
Linea-mr.dsotihdehno,
through failing health, sold his herd; but up to iiid
continued to take great interest skg-iit- ian was re-
garded one of the soundest VI Thas
manyy
The e Times
yearsa n active magistrate of Neoah ue, was for
shire"—Obi-
tllary