The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-07-11 00:00:00

Sheep are sheared by machinery in Texas.
Ladies will be pleased to hear that a pnvess has been
discovere4 by which they can electro-plait their huir.
Dr . Il,hi aitland, 1 New York, bas given a bet
of no.tener than two hundred varieties ot spelling et the

The price of a telegram between London and Fal is
was reduced on the tat of the premat mouth to tour fill=
for twenty words. or
A Yankee paper says that an inventive genius
Minnesota has .• got up a stove which saves three-fourgis
of
the wood, a bile the ashes it unites pays for the remainder..
On Friday in last week her Majesty, for the third
time this year, patd a short visit to the camp at Aldershett
and inspected the troops.
Alfred Lee, a negro, of Georgetown, U.S., died re-
cently. LW had accumulated property valued at WAD
- . .

dollars.
The Milan journals announce the publicathm of the
bann., of marrace in that city of Menotti God, ,bli tv.t It a
young lady named Italia Bedeschini, born at eau rua, and
living at Padua.
"Tinker," a pony which was sent down Weste. ton
Pit, Newcastle. Si) years ago, and only once brought to kink
for a few days during that long period, was one day recetitly
finally brought it the shaft, and knocked off work for the
remainder of his life.
A rumour is in circulation to the elect that im-
mealately after the general inspection, eine-fifth of the
French army will be sent on furlough. We taunt it May
prove well founded.
At Porttenouth, New Hampshire, recently, a ship-
owner, Charles Mather, committed onichle by tying S stone
weighing 401115, to Iris ankles, con -Mug his hands behind
with handcuffs, and then jumping into the water.
President Johnson has issued a proclamation par-
dotting all participants in the Southern Rebellion excepting
those who have [teen indicted for treason-felony.
A locomotive on a Western railroad has been adorned
with the title "1 still live." That is more than many of the
passengers can say at the end of their journey.
A coal-pit near Bolton has been on fire since Tuesday
in last week. The shafts are now covered in as the only
means co stifling the flames ; hut, in order to ensure their.
complete extinction, the pit will have to remain covered tor
some seeks.
An inquest was held in London, on Saturday, on
the body of a ntusic-hall singer and dancer, named Buena,
alto committed suicide by jumping through a window in one
id the upper wants of St. Barthol ~ w's Hospital, it here he
hail IrOCII taken to be treated for an illness brought on by in-
temperance and the excitement of his life.
The Cork Reporter "has no hesitation in expressing
a belief " that the Fenian "Supreme Council" document
posted so freely throughout Ireland, "has been concocted in
a public-house ; and the council of the Irish Republic are
some half-dozen foolish young fellows who never handled a
weapon more tnrible than .50050 quill or a needle."
A splendid gift to the Huddersfield Infirmary has
just been announced. Sir Charles Brook, of Enderby Ha
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has offered to build and endow a convalescent hoepital
connection with the infirmary, at a cost of £30,0e0. The
tuff wary Board, it need handy he dated, has gratefully ac-
cepted the munificent benefaction.
It is said that several of the Lomhm police have been
severely bit ten in several instances in their efforts to carry
out the wishes of Sir R Mayne, shred he has turned Mussul-
man. The police prefer taking up lap-dogs, and show great
friendship for the bull-dog, preferring to let ilitll pam on.
'lle Munich journals speak of the approaching be-
trothal of the King of Bavaria with the Princes Maria Alex-
androwna, daughter of the Emperor of Russia, aunt born on
the 17th October, 1853.
Between one and two o'clock on Sunday morning, a
desperate enconnter between a party of poachers RIO MOP
gamekeepers took place near Barnsley, when the keepers
were left seriously injured on the field.
Mrs. M. Victor, of Cleveland, Ohio, who has been
on trial for some time till a charge of murdering her brother
in order to obtain his property and the amount (if an in-
Entrance on his life, has boon found "guilty," seutenoe being

reserved.
Intelligence has been received at the Admiralty that
Mr. Frederick J. Whitta ur, assistant-engineer 4.f the
Il;;aldo sube was supposed to have lwen lost in the steamer
Vats in March last. reached the island of Miaki, about
eighty miles from Yokohama, iu a boat belonging to the
Volga.
"There it a rumour to the effect that the report of
the Irish Church Commission, the publication of which has
been so long delayed, will, alter making ample provision for
the Church, leave £200,0,0 available for other purposes. It
is f orther rumoured that the number of Irish bishops is to
he reduced to tour."--oGereer.
On the 20th ult, a collision occurred on Lake Erie,
thirty miles from Cleveland, between the steamer Morniea
Star, bound for Detroit, and the barque Coritaod. Both
vessels were sunk, and of eighty-three persons, pa.sseugers
intl
crew, on both vessels, only thirty-two are known to have
been saved.
l'he Leader concludes an article on the Bishop of
Otford's speech. by asking the following questions:—
" What sort of faith in religion is this, which refuses to
back it to win without heavy odds in its favoeri is our
good Lord of Oxford thinking of changing his sunset Or
would he hereafter tempt men to call him Bishop Beaddare4
Wee "
A curious trial is now taking place at Naples. Ass
individual who haa been captured by tlne brigands was re-
leased on the payment of several thousand ducats as his ran-
som Ile now claims this sum tromp the Italian governmelit,
on the ground that they bad not taken the proper measures
to secure the public safety.
An immense gatheringof teetotallers' and temperance
societies was held in Lord Carlisle's Park, at Castle 110WArd,
1 on Friday In last week, and comprised most of the ab-tainers
of the North and East Ridings. It was computed that in
the afternoon fully 10,000 persons were present. Anoint: the
speakersy,ti
on Iron, t.T.eulithatiefdlitriteglioanm,Awitomacteten,:aler,ila.shaa
I advocated the Permissive Bill, and called upon tile assembly
' to vote for no Mall at the next election who would not go
for it. On a vote being taken a wrest of bands was hem up
for the bill, and none against it.
' The ,Latraal of the Society of Arttq states that tablets
have been fixed in front of No. 16, liolles-street, and of No.
31, King-street, St. James's-square, recording that bed
Byron oure lived in the tirst-mune4l cure, and Ole Emperor
N'ipolcon 11l in the ,ecolid. Leave has been obtained to
airtv similar tablets in front of the former residences of Lord
Nelson Benjamin Franklin, James Bony, and other cele-
brated individuals, but the executien of the project has been
delayed, in consequence of certain experiments now mat ing
as to the best means of manufacturing the tablets required.
A Parliamentary return shows that the amount of
property anti profits eharzed to ie.-one-tax in Ireland was
21.231,567 in the year 1854: £23,399,021 in lsel and
£25.273,390 inn 1866. The gross amount of revenue received
I in the United Kingdom (excluding " miscellaneous ") in
1 1854 was £64.653,894, of which sum £5,901,559 was received
! in Ireland in 1861 the total was (69.880,407. and the mat
received in Ireland c 6.020 357: in 1066 the total we 0069,190,967,
I and the amount received in Ireland £7,403,710.
Mr. Disraeli's firat peer, Viscount Bridport, enjoys
a somewhat exceptional honour remarks the Daily
I Ile exchanges a barony in the peerage of Ireland 'au hole our
which confers no right to a seat in the II ouse of Lords) fora
viscountcy, the fourth trier in the peerage of the Filited
Kingdom. As a rule an Irish earl or viscount is content with
the lowest order in the English peerage—a hal ony. hr
instance, the Earl of Dunraven site as Baron Kenry, Viscount
kfonek as BariAl Monck, and Viscount ikurne as Bann
Brancepeth. During a little over 37, years 24 lri-h and 16
Scotch peers have been created lords of the United Kinzdom
The Indian papers publish what they call an
amusing instanoe of edictal exactness. A native member of
tile Uncovenanted Setvice penned the follouing Imes to his
official superior Honoured Sir, I humbly beg you uill
excuse any not attoutince office this date, cause I got a boil
as per margin." In the margin of the letter a she. oh of the
boil was drawn out, anti the writer went on further Marty,
"the breadth of paper being short I have planned the boil
small, but it is dubble the size."
The following calculation, based upon reference G
n Owl's Parliamentary Conipanion," has been sent to one
of the morning papers :—The 97 peers who voted in favour of
the Suspensory Bill present to 305 Bei igs ; while the Isi2
voted against it present to 1,692. Of the 27 pairs. those in
favour present to 66, and those against to 154 dying/. The
total number lion fellows favour, 124 peers, presenting
to 371 livings ; ago nst, 219 peers, presenting to 1,046 hv mg,
majority, 95 peers, presenting to 1,475 livings.
Intelligence from the North Sea describes the Inns of
a fishing-smack and six lives, by a most .oam-din:try want
of care on the part i f a qamburgh steamer called the
p,ronia. A fleet of Barkieg anuteks were tkhing off the
Texel, at hen, at daybreak, they were run into by the steamer,
which narrowly missed the first, went right over the second,
and damaged the third. On the approach of the steamer,
the smacks all burnt "a flare up." but the warning lies
unheeded. The lien ails, which was lost, was • H. new
smack, of fifty tons burden, and six of her crew were
drowned.

Anew method of cutting, or rather dividing, glass
has been recently Invented in France, and is praclied in the
large estaidishment of the Glass Company 01 Bakal at. A Jet
of highly-heated air is directed from a tube on tine vane or
t•(her object to be cut, which, while made to revolve cm its
axis is brought close to the nozzle of the tube. The object
being then cooled suddenly, the glass divides at the place
operated on with extreme accuracy.
A grand review and sham fight, isv which over
to,ooo men were engaged, took place hi the Queen's Park,
Edinburgh, on Saturday. From 80,000 to 0,000 per-ons
were estimated to have been present as spectator.. TO add
to the picturesque effect of the scene, the tune on the hid
nide dry as tinnier with the long-continued drought, was net
fire to at several places, and threw up sheets of flame and
fumes of smoke into the air.

In the Rolls Court, Dublin, applieption ha.s been
made for leave to substitute service of a legal paper con-
nected with the estate of Lord Avonmore upon the solbit
of Major Yelverton in Doblin, and his solicitor in Edin-
burgh, as the plaintiff's attorney could not learn his add', sk
It was stated to be .• the wish of the Majo mist Its family to
keep the address secret; but this sink had refei cure ono- to
one matter." The Master of the it lb; considered the Aida.
vit insufficient, and directed application to be made La _Muir
Yeiverton's family for his a ldress.
Cirenlars have been isteleil by the great beetroot-
sugar refinery at Itzehoe, in Holstein, to the farmers in the
vicinity of Eutin, inviting them to cultivate beetroot on an
extensive scale, and binding themselves to erect a new
efitalkiiBlllllelit in that town capable of working dp 200.000
cerdners if roots annually, provided the proprimm, of at
least 1,000 acres of land are willing to turn their attention to
that specie= of cultivation, and engage lint to sell their pi,
duce loan, other establishnient that may spring up during
the next ten years.
Saturday, the 4th inst., being the anniversary of the
Declaration of American Independence, was Melo sued with
I the usual festivities throughout the titian, and t, as ob-
served as cloAe holiday.—The anniversary was dilly CPIII-
- by citizens of the United Plates in London,
Liverpool, and other large towns.
The Corps Legislatiff is fairly frightened by tie
debit winch M. Ilaussmatin is Imposing upon Pari;, and
Which threatens to ale her present heavy taxation a per-
manent burden on the citizens. 'I he members have there.
fore insisted on a bill which provides that whenever Ills
Prefect of the Seine spends more (hut £1,200 MI any under-
taking, he shall obtain the previous authorisation of the
legislature.

The want of rain is beginning to be seriously is 'lron
Of in Ireland. In consequence of the continued drought. the
hay harvest is extremely light Ithough of the bent quality ,
and the supply of milk anti butter is necessarily cuihdle.l,
owing to the distress whieh cattle endure from want Of
sufficient moisture. The l',eonsnles Journal says that sone
the summer at 1798 such Hams. has not been known. ‘• We
have had no witter, and March was only equalled in its
genial character by April and May, in "bids we had nearly
all sunshine and no showers.'
"To aay the least, the Duke of Edinburgh loolta
quite as well as blare he left this countiy •n *slime to
the Antipodes. No one would suppose, trots his
appearant e, that he liad at recently received a bullet. si trim
traver.ed nearly twelve inches of tile interior of his body.
lie is notch tanned by exposure to the weather. Like los
father, the Prince of Wales will be bald very )oung Ite:ce.,,
the Prince of Wales's age hit father had not lost so inuch
hair on the crown of the head. The Prince of Wales keeps
it 0.00 the forehead, where the Prince Consort 1.4 it but
Al-meet ?Award's hair is thinning very palpaoly on the crcwn
of the head."—London correspondent of the Lie ,:r.4.1
The unhappy dispute between Mr. Hugh Mont
gomery Moore and Ids wife, res cot tug the custody Of their
children, came before the Lord Chancellor at Dublin, ou
Saturday, for his decision upon a petition presented hy i re.
Moore, to he allowed to retain possession of the younger
child. Some time ',Mee her }disband applied fora writ of
Habeas Corpus to the queen's Bench, but that court allowtsl
the matter to stand over pending the jotlgn:ent of the ford
Chancellor manikin: petition. In the meantime, Mr. Moore
took away to France the boy whom he had taken from her
in Waterford. At the suggestion of his lordship, an under-
standing was come to that the father should reta.o the by
and the mother the Infant daughter, and that tactual
rawilislaa fee mein tam &Masa alsenall H Eflaredall