The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-10-18 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

In the last financial year the malt duty was grow
£7,788,260 IN. 4.10. and net £7,644,176 Lc id.
Lust year the tax on land and tenements produoed
£1,108.226 he. in 1.

In the financial year ended March 3lst last £lO,OOO
Tat Issued for payment of motet serviaa.

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The sum of £724,030 19a. 11d. was the produce of
the duty on penny stamps to the year laded Ms Slat of
March last, as appears from a paper fad published.
The new saloon!, built by the Sheffield School Saard,
at a cod of £lB 000, wed opened on Monday morning, and
000 scholars were at once enrolled.

A music dealer not long ago received the following
order :—" Please seed me the music to 'Strike the harp'
for some colliers who have ion struck work."
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The Claimant writes te the papers to contradict the
etatement that Mr. George Blngley, who gate evidence on
the Tlehborne trial laat week, Ii dead.

The mum of £10,930 9a. Id. vas received in the last
financial year U "parental oonkibutions for maintenance of
children in Reformatories.

The declared value of railway carriages for pas-
sneers exported In the laid nine months was £106,44d; in
he Gam e period of the previous year only £21,166.
It Is stated that Marshal Machfahon has consented
to act as arbitrator In the gueetion between England and
Portugal relative to the Bay of Lorenz >Marques, on the
eastern resat of arrica.

A document ham been lamed showing that the rail-
way duty by the Noche In Me year ended the Slit of March
Mot woe, net, £507.071108. 54d. This to one of the few duties on
which there Is no charge for collection.

There has been a large increase hi the export of
printed books Lo the bit three years. In nine mouth§ of
1871 the value wee £6'6,381; in the like period of 1572,
1.828,800 and In the last ape months, E 860,852.

It Ls stated that the French Government has finally
abandoned the Idea of Imposing Cam on textile fabric., In
consequence of the urgent representations made by the met-
chants of Lyona and Si Etienne.

Gahontssi rays that the report that Queen Isabella
sea lately nearly losing her life In an attempt to save her
eon'. Me at • watering-place in the Atlantic I. contradicted.
Her Malady waa in Parte at the time, and Prince Alphonse
Si Vienna.

Daring a heavy gale at Leeds on Sunday one of the
large windows of the Town Ilall WU blown out. The broken
fragments fell Into the street, where many people were pam•
lag, but all escaped Injury except a little boy, who was badly
out on the head.
The United States signal service has recently eon-
denoted • telegraph line to the summit of Pikes Peak, in
Colorado, which I. said to be the MOW point reached by
any line in the United States, or, perhaps, In the world. Tim
height exceeds 11,000 ft.
By an order of the P/Sl3Blllll Government, all end.
gration and recruiting agent. who are not German subjectu
and domiciled in Germany are to be expelled from the
country.

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Her Majesty the Queen has forwarded £25 towards
the tend for • memorial to the late Rev. S. B. Gabst, rider
of Beaforth, and late vicar of hysoed, near Wrexham,
where he died In August before removing to his new living.
He was the sou of this Bishop of Jerusalem. Mr. Gladstone
hu also subscribed £lO.

A serious socid.nt has happened to the Crown Prince
of klaxon,. He has been thrown trio hie carriage and
eeverely InJozed, but wan able to leave hie bed on Monday,
andLe now out of danger.

From April 14 to the 11th Blatant the Treasury
receipts amounted to LW 251,687, as compared with
£15,569,495 in the oorretpondins period of last year. The
expenditure ham been £44 419,561 On Saturday laat the
balance In the Bank ot Inglixd waa £918,153.
Man hake not yet exhausted his ingenuity in making
animal. work for hint, and the Australian papers speak of.
oolonist who bas put • kangaroo to work. A machine I. put
In motion by the animal "continually springing up. It
works at about half-horse power, and turns • grindlog atone,
• obaff-cutter, bean mill, turnip cotter, and a washing-
machine, and all at the mama time.. The contrivance also
If water mparately for Irrigating the garien."
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Additional information has been received at Madrid
of the naval battle fought off Carthagena on Saturday. The
engagement lasted two hours, and the dual volleys are said
to have been fired at very close quartere. Much damage was
done on both sides, the Inenrgent voels Mendez Nunez and
Ntonancies having especially suffered. The latter would, it
I. said, have been boarded and captured had not her superior
.peed enabled her to escape. It Is rumoured that a foreign
•wieel tiaterlaossad between the Mi'itiler Nunez and the Vitoria.
At the doge of the action the Insurgent ships returned to
Certhagena
Marshal Biz tine's triA VIM resumed on Monday at
Versailles, the attendanoe bring greater than at the previous
sitibige, and all the forAgn Military Attaches being present.
The Due d'Aumale having explained the mode in which he
meant to proceed with the caw, and the order in which wit-
nesses ehould be called, the Marshal was himself examined
with regard to the first part of General Rivierc's report The
oneetlons base ul.on the period prier to the 12th of A newt,
before the responsibility of the accused commenced.
Mazda' Basidue having replied, the afttliag wax adjourned.
A strange episode occurred at the Church Congress
on Friday. During the diecuesion on the Rev. L Garbett's
paper on the "The Life of Uodliners," Archdeacon Emery,
the permanent woreary, rote and Mated that "acme one In
the garb of • clergimui was found In that hall the merlon@
day, with his hand in the pocket oi a lady." Re "feared
that then meet be come ungodly wernon there. Might the
dtecuselon which had been held lead him to repentance and
to • life of godliness. But it was well that the audience
ahoald be aware of the sad fact.' The Biehop of 'Manchester
hoped that ft would not be euppoeed because the pickpocket
was dressed in the garb of • clergyman that ha was neon-
madly • clergyman. This remark was received with "cheers
and laughter." The dlecussim was then resumed.

Mr. Bright's Committee on the Game Laws, which
sat in 1846104 1848, published 1,678 Pages of evidence, contain-
ing 16,804 question. and answer.. The Committee which ex-
amined wituesse. WU year and Last has added to the liters-
lure of the subject a thousand double-columned pages ki two
Bluebook., of which the second has recently beset amed.
The two volumes weigh over Mb., and contain more than
02,408 nesalons and answers, beside. appendices, reports,
draught reports, and minutes of proceeding..
Mr. Rupert Kettle, arbitrator in the ironworkers'
wage* question, has dalcica against the reduction of 12P
per cent. claimed by the masters on the ground of the be
prospect. of trade, remarking tltat the employers have not
satialed him that a reduction is economically right or com-
mercially expedient. Rear coal and ptg Iron have affected
a few works which are disadvantageously placed with their
si distracts, a rlek • bleb the capitalist must take. Mr. Kettle
finds the average price of finished iron higher than in
Apra The downward movement in the iron trade, he
states, which It so much dreaded as a result of high
rielcasti.kas not yetaweoNarced. fltemeaward , therefore, le
grew* r Over =mai
quaiter

In ths financial .ne 31st of March the
Excise duty on tobacco licences amounted to £840959 Os. aid.
Lord Tenterden has been appointed to suoceed the
Right Ilea. Einiund Hammond se permanent Under-Sews
tsry of State for Foreign Affair.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges, as
MOI ey, the receipt of the second helt of a
bannk-euonteumforbea, r
oftrodmes't•hid. 8.,"
tri" T ooultendbmye
juries
fait year to exceuires drinking was 379.258 men and 21S
women.

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At a deer drive in Invereanld Forest the other day,
two of the seven stags 'hot fell to the tine of one of the
ladles of the hooting porty.

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Both mestere and men in the Staffordshire iron tan&
have .reed that wages tor the next three months shall re-
main at their present rata.
Ch,,tivari (the French Punch) suggests time all
electors who decline to vote be condemned to CUT, C ballet.
box en their backs for three mantha

One of the New York churches pays its tenor single
I salary of 3,000 dollars a year.
Several rcemben of the London Roman Catholic
Committee hare arrived in Rome, to ragout the Pope to
bleu the Pilgrimage which a number of Smash Catholics
Intend to make to Rome next winter.
Earl Devon, in declining to rabic:the an anti-Rita-
Win memorial at Exeter, has slated.. his reasons—relnea
Ince to Interfere with episcopal lurladiction, and the vague
nese of the phrase, " Romanlaing leaching and preaticea."
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The Gazette demons dotes that a woman who Is oa-
th ed to the prison of that town upon a charge of poloontng
ha s Litien off part of her tongue, and la now unable to Utter
articulate sound&

According to the Italian papers • considerable bide
Ii being done by pedlars In Oatholle districts, who sell Ms of
straw, which they say come from the dungeon at !tome where
the Pope Is confined by the Italian Government

From Americo we learn that two Klu•Slnx men—
one white, the other celoured—ban been sentenced to be
bung for the murder of a negro whom they dragged out at
hie house and whipped to death.
The total amount of sales of landed rotates, houses,
do., registered at the Estate Exchange, Tokenbotteeprd,
London, from the lit of January to the 80th of September
has Ude year been £7,61/1.886, &phut £8,000,881 in the cor-
responding nine months of WA rear.
In the work of replacing the rope attached to as
elevator in s factory at -Dundee, three men have met with a
terrible seddent. The machine fell while they were Inside
It, and their Injuries were so great that one died within an
hoar, and the other two are Ins dangerous Mate.

A Midi journal publishes the following' curious para.
graph :—" lhe oldest Journal In the world IA published ma
l'eldn. It le printed on a large sheet of yellow E. and ap-
pears In the same form, with the same eharargern Ind on tise
mine kind of staff as took plaoe a thousand yean aim The
only thing changed Is the =Um'

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Owing to the high mice of coal e Sheffield firm has
been driven to dedde upon removing ibe badness to Ibe
UMW Rate., where the prone= of melting and *amortise
will be carried oa under conditions more favourable So to.
manufacturer than In England.

"Long life to yew, yce homier " saki an Irishwoman
—a very old offender—on being dis Chard the other day by
one of the London Pollee maestratea "Long Ilfe to,
and may the blaming of Heaven setlnd you evermore I"
" Ah," said the meanie, quite d.ondthgl7, "you said
that when you were bezels* bull don't think IS did me any
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'-i.-ocorduThg to the Wert report.. from unofficial sources
the cotton crop in America be. reently marred mars
damage from drought and worms. Thie he. especially bees
the case In Arkansas and Tanners*. An Increased area has
been *own with winter wheat, but the trod has slightly
Is-
fund the Indian corn.

"Some twenty years ago it was remarked by Mr.
Gladstone, In the House of Common., that ono noon why
we ought In be extremely cautious In making constitutional
changes wm the dldloulty, amounting alnOst to Impend.
Daisy, of repealing them should they diamond out expo.
tatione."—Daay N ewe.

The other day • tradesman yea nerved with a saw
dubs to make his returns. In the mama lee sang dr
number of cantages with lam than kW wiheete, ile limietekt
—.• A barrow, drawn by me In the igarden, Ina MO 11161111:"
The maven wrote under lt—" Ames and mmerlissimisligis
ar• swept from duty."

At a meeting of the Lancashire Fanned Mb, bell
at Wigan, a resolution was passed 'spread's on *Met Oa
inasmuch as She present operation of LOOM ima wood
unfairly on ten owners and menden Of land and house
(especially on the occupiers), them should be Mob a divides
of the burden as would provide for every description o
property oontributbig Ms fair proportion.
Twenty•seven members of the Municipal Council M
Parts have published a letter declaring that the Assembly hem
no right to alienate the eovereignity of the nation, and that
the people reject the Comte de Chambord. The letter, more-
over, calls upon the Part, members to state In what manner
they will vote on the Monarchical question.

One of the mast curious incidents connected with the
Bassin. trial is the establishment of • regular daily pigeons:-
pram from Trianon to Paris. The propetesors of the Libertel
Inthr had • pigeon.hotme constructsd on the roof at %Mph
premises, and every morning a man darts for Versailles with
a certain lumbar of those birds. The reporter attaches his
account of the proudiag• to a bird's body, portions of the
report being on brought as the carriers are successively let
loose. The average time these winged messengers take for
transit Is aix minutes.

A new motor ham been recently patented in America,
the °Decagon of which 1.., follows fa sprayed Into the
cylinder behind the piston, and, being mixed with all k
Ignited at the peeve time by an electric attachment Ito
consequent espansion drives the piston forward. the mo-
mentum of the fly-wheel returning it to Its former podtion.
An ej-ctor supplies the cif from the tank to the sprayer, the
e n too vale obkwrdrvee by •crank
attached to the main shaft.

A woman fifty-six year* of age, rambling In Liver-
pool, was found, the Other evening, hanging by a plate of
tape had to • stair rail in her hoses. The deceased had for
the past three months been very intealer friends
had heard her say, when she was intoxicated.that they
" need not be surprised at her destroying tt" Tana
porary insanity" was the verdict returned.
The Rev. Conynaham Ellie, vicar of Cranborna.
Windsor, whose appeal in The Times for Jonathan *lowan.
a Waterloo veteran, has elicited subscriptlomi amoanWag to
£4l, writes to The rimee to state that • trifling addilam
would enable him to purchase • Government annuity, thus
placing the old man in comparative comfort for the rest of
his life.
The Birmingham correepondent of the Daily NMI
say, that • statement which was circulated stew days ago, to
the sited that Mr. Might's physicians bed foriadden Ida to
speak at • public meeting is without foundation. The right
hem gentleman continues to enjoy good health, and has no
apprehension as to being unable to address the electors.

Chan R.ticker, the famon! loog.dietanoe rider, ex.
mots to get tip • race, to c,use off o‘er the Greenland course,
I,Juisville, Ky., of fifty miles within two hours and • ha/.
The distance to be ridded by two Canadian boys and blismell •
each of the boys to ride twenty five mile, and change boas;
whenever they please, while he Is to ride the WO. length
and to change horses at every mile. He proposee to raw
With them for any sum ranging from 10,000 dollars to 100,000
dollars.

Mr. Bright, of Kentucky, le the owner of a bullock,
"George Alford," the/ measures ns follows :—Gtrth, 9 feet
Inch..; around the fisnk, 9 feet 11 Inches; around the rib.,
10 fest 1 Inch ; point of shoulder to brisket, 4 feet 6 Mabee ;
nose to root of tell, 1/ feet . across the hips, 2 feet 8 Mabee
height, 179 bands ; weight, 2,80016*,

The delegate. of the- gamated Miners' Anima
tion have resolved that the member. of that body emit sot
at the general election vote for any osedldato who lb sob to
bayou of the repeal of the 14th section of the ilasted sod
Servanta' Act. They complain, too, that, by 1110.1111 at
erected rules, the coal °wows have shifted a port at their
nwponsiblllty on to the mailers. Your dekestes have hems
appointed a committee to waddler all new Ma iniredued
Into Parnainent
The next annual exhibition of poultry, pigeons, and
rabbits will be held at the Crystal Palace on the 17th, Mk
19th, and 9040 of November. for poultry awn are Ito
Watson pigeons 65, and 10 for rabbits. We dad that In
some of the classes for poultry al many as eight prizes are to
be given There ace exty-three elver cue., which are diari-
toted amongst the varlotm varieties ; aad in addition the
money prima amount to nearly 81,000.

hlt:. -Charles Paget, of Ruddington-grange, Not;
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Mrs. Paget, and her either. Mt= Tebbatt, went on the reeks
nest Fliey, and while sitting observing the waves at their
feet, a huge billow broke ow the rock where they were
and threw them Into the sea Mir Tebbnei WM wart
Ale. and hire Paget were drowned.

The Louisville Courier Journal ans wars a oontribatoe
U folio..:—" Your oommunication. 'Junius Junior,' le de-
clined. lii. quite too fri,l of qaotation marks and /MAW.
You should not honour with quotation marks every Mak,
hackneyed sentence you choose to borrow. And you may
often write for half a day without finding the use of a single
Italie letter. Give your Feeder credit for some bliallgeoa•
—for at least enough to know when a word seeds to be see
phasised without having the fact thrust down hla throat by •
tipsy sq.md of reeling

"A fine old gentleman named Plane died at Belvedere
• few day. since at the highly rerpectable age of 107. He was
• hale and hearty •—those men who get Into their hundreds
always are, People were In the habit of betting that he VIM
only seventplive years old, such a line, fresh, youthful cha-
racter was he. A Chicago newspaier says i—Ltis hates
through life were thou. of tempersnoe and vacittlity." 11 this
is • typographical error, what shall we read for vscitility I
And lilt bat what is vactliltyl We Ea because we want to
live 107 years, be the same more or lees."—American paper.
On Saturday afternoon a very sad accident watered
at Messrs. Llile and Son's brickyard, at Cowper. Bewley, eve
mile. from West lartlepooL Two men, named Irvin.. and
Harrison, were employed in digging out clay to roanuatteme
bricks, and had gone to • depth of nearly lift., when the
earth above them suddenly gave way, completely burying
them beneath It. Sc me titre itecesurily elapsed berms thsy
could be taken out. and before this could be done they were
quite dead Both were young men.

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A great maga meeting of raihrsip servants IMO held a
Perth to cdnsider the COW" to be taken to bare their homy
reduced to 10 per day. One .peaker dated that he knew el
cases where drivers had not left their engines for Et and anon
31 noun ou • spell. It was agreed to tranionit • petition to
the directors craving the immediate conomidoe or 10 hove •
day, overtime to count as time and half, with no roisamptiolll
ci labrur unless the person bad been off deity eight della
hours, and Sunday labour to count time and ball.

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Andean of undue devotion to the interests of
learning was that of the late Herr Pletrassewski, tensed,
Prussian Consul at Teheran, and afterwards an Oriental pro-
feasor lb. Uriversity of Berlin. His later years wen en-
tirely devoted to anew translation of the Works of Zoned!,
which he not only un lortook to write but to print at his own
cost. In the end he died with his work to.nulshed, and left
his unfortunate widow absolutely penniless. A small Borst
bounty bestowed on her has been exhauetel, and her friends
are now endeavouring to raise • subscription through the
public journals to save her from starvation.

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It has been determined to honour the memory of the
late Vicar of abeffield by building. church—to be called the
Sale Memorial Church—ln the district of Dyer's-hill. The
work was one which Dr. Bale had deeply it heart and which
he was endeavouring to promote lust before his very sudden
death. The Sheffttld Doug Telegraph publishes a nt lieS
of inencriptb us amounting to over A 6,100. including six
donations of £sdo such. Among She earliest subscribers WWI
Wesleyan and Jaw.

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At the Miners' Conference, held at Bristol, • rasa
lotion approving of the Coal Mum' Regulation Act mg
passed. A menial:lon was also passed espreming lb, °glad
of the conference that miner. weirs shmll be pal wed*,
without any stoppages being made from dm, sad emksing•
Ing the truck shop, kept by employers as a system muse
should be made a morainal offence by law. To another rein.
lotion the conference reoognlsed the necoulty of penis' a
measure by which employers shall be made respondlrie
compensation to any persons who may suffer Injury or iOllll
=b the magical of managen of mioes. desoluttons weft
In favour of the repeal of the Criminal Thralls Ad
sod of the mingnahportfon of the 14themitoa Of th• Madams'
sod Served& Contract of Service Act.

The barque Gkeier arrived at Bedford, Masaaditu.
oatts, on the fath ult., from a whalleg voyage he neeggigeg
Bay, bemiring as passengers Captain Parker, Jams Connor,
George Wood, and Frank Potter, the ottani sad !midis of
the Crew of the barque Orray TO, and John Williams, the
mate, and two men of the barque Ansa Cobbs, the verses
reported to be lost in Hudson's Bay. The Gsasier bronchi
several supposed relics of the Sir John Franklin expedlekow,
purchased of the bumlmmix at Repulse Bay, the natives
haring obtained them at King William's Land.

At the Flealingden County Court on SMnrday. Mr;
Hutton, judge, delivered judgment in an action truht
against the Postmatter-General for alleged damage
sequence of the destruction of • telegram. Mr. Overstell
sent a telegram to a tradesman at 800 win
meet him as Preston instead of at Lancaster, m Pree.eueir.„.
agreed npon. The boy entrusted with the ineenage...lll
the man to whom it was addressed swayfroos MI pi"•
barinrsa destroyed the telegram. la ednewetenee or skis,
the parties did not most, and the Pl&atter eteUnee lit seeisThdy,
damages. We henemsleth.d.r....leee PLlbload e°
I the pound that the P
el the MelligniMe 05Nimbi:761We Mow.