The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-09-06 00:00:00

EPITOME 01 NEWS.

BRITISH AND FORHIGN.
Tbe baying of the submarine cable between Eogland.
Deatuark, and Sweden has been completed, without scoideut,
Her Majesty the Queen, and Prince and Princess
Christian, the Duke of Edinbursh, PrinceF• Beatrice, and
Prince Leopold att,nded Divine service In the wish church
of Crathle on Sund,y. The church was crowded.

The receipte into the Exchequer between the let o
April and the 30th of August amounted to 28671,440 as
a.sinss £68,010 971 In the corresvuding period ot last year.
The expenditure has been £53,778,t42, eOn the b dance in the
Bank of El Wand suit Irelaud on Saturday last was i 4,234,455.
A Paris correepondent 'tates that cholera hes broken
out at Rouen and many place. In that distrlot. It Is follow-
ing the course of the Seine towards the capitol.
The following elegant, notice of the change of
weather appears lea N6W York paper—" Th. sun Is swing.
log up the chess again, and will soon troll Illto the overcoat
line from the regions where lighter clething and ham and
eggs tell us the condition of the atmosphere."
E 50,000 is not • bail windfall for a parish. The late
Mr .8. Schroder left this sum in trust to the parish of 81,
Luke, London, the Interest to be distributed annually by the
rector and churchwarden. to a certain number of poor
men and women parishioners of tit. Luke's, who have
been reduced to poverty by no negligence of thole own, and
who were not In receipt of parish relief.
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At the Birmingham musical festival Lint week, the
total attend Ince ou Tus.day was 8 receipts, £37047. bd
on Wednesday 8,804, receipts, £9,20s Oa. Id.: on Thursday;
688, receipt., £4,629 9s. 64.: on Friday, 11,9-7, receipt.,
£3,297 7.. UJ.; making, with some subscribers for the
entire series, a grand total of 18,41 9 atteednocce, and
a receipt front all sources of £15,660 9s. 74.; or £1,529 10a. 44,
in erotism of the highest amount taken at previous festivals.
Two labouring men, WilliaM Thomas and Thomas
Thomas (brothers), quarrelled whi'e in the house of the
latter at Swansea on Sunday. Thomas dealt his brother
Willis.. • terrible blow OD the temple with a poker, from
the effects of which he died almost Immsdistely.
The day's work of a Parisian scavenger commences
at half past four in the morning And terminates at five in
the even:og. 'he work to dote both by men and
women. The former receive 2., the latter 1.. • day. The
Mosques are held subject to • rent of 50L for the ground on
which they stand. ml. aum C tvers the necessary licenses
from the Prefect... of the Seine for holding • booth in the
public thoroughfare., and from the Prefecture of Police for
tlw sale of newspapers. The annual cat of watering the
streets amounts to about four millions of trans.. The keep.
lag up of the square, and public walks cost. over half a
million, the Bois de Vincennes • quarter of a million, and
the Bois de Boulogne £300,000. is the old deys of the
Empire nearly double that sum was erprndrd on the bullion
-
able drive of Paris, but then the,, --no part of the French
capital so intimately associated with the Empire in the
minds of the Parisians as the Bois de Bonlogus Besides
thaw charges, the pavemenM m.. 41 an annual szprantrara
of alz