The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-12-12 00:00:00

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On Wednesday morning the marriage between 1
Francis Charles Granville, third Earl of Ellesmere, and lady
Katherine Louisa, second daughter of the Marquis anti
Marchioness of Nonnanby, was solemnized at St. James's
Church, Piccadilly, London.
Mr. C. Dickens writes to deny that lie is about to
give up the editorship of All the Year Round.
A subscription is being made in Drogheda for a
stone monument for the young mall Woods, whit was shot
during the late election riots.
In ref IV to an application made at Bow-street police
court, in London, by a gentleman who wished to punts his
hawker for cruelty to birds, the Magistrate said that a lid
was not an animal in the view of those laws which punish
cruelty to animals. Cock-fighting was illegal only under-
special Act of Parliament.
The New York Trihune states that the Emperor of
Russia has sent two civil engineers to the United States, who
are to examine the operations of the Pacific and other great
railways in that country. " The Emperor," the 'fributte
"contemplates building a railroad from China, acrost
Asia, to the capital of Russia, his purpose being to prevent
the United States, with its railroads and steamships, from
monopolizing the whole China trade."
At Alfreton, on Friday, right persons were com-
mitted for trial at the next Derbyshire quarter sessions, on
the charge of rioting at Clay Cross, in the 20th of November
last, which was the polling day for East Derbyshire.
kir. Elias Trendett, master of the Iri'dlacandie
bounds, has met with an accident in the hunting field, lie
stopped to unfasten a gate, which proved to be waning, and
It'll against him. Ills horse started, and one of Mr. Trt m-
lett's legs heti:tuning entangled in the bars, the gateavas thus
dragged some distance, until the rider was thr iwniktiolently
off. Mr. Tremlett was much hurt, but though unable to
leave his couch, he is believed to have sastained no pet inanent
injury
A pauper named Church was brought before the
local bench of magistrates at Ramsgate, on Monday. charged
with misbehaviour during Divine service at the Minster
;Thalia Workhouse on Sunday. The misbehaviour consisted
In making grimaces so as to cause some of the other paupers
to "smile " Church. who had been guilty of other misbe-
haviour on former occasions, was sentenced to twentyome
days' hard lalmur.
The Siamese Twins left New York ou Dec. 5, in the
steamer lowa,. route for Glasgow. Owing to their pecuniary :
losses by the late war they purpose exhibiting in Great
Britain a few weeks before being surgically separated. little
operation proves succeasful Mr. Chang will revisit his native
Siam, Mr. Eng returning to the United States.
It is stated that the complete accounts of the
sian Budget of 1367 show that the revenue was 15,000,000
rubles more and the rapes lPure 15,000,000 hiss than hail
beim e4iinto ed. It added that the Governnient has at its
disposal with foreign bankers a flouting account of 60,000,000
, ',aides in specie.
An interesting trial is at present before the Court of
Cessation, in Paqs, where the descentlatits of Lesurques.
who was tried and executed in the year IV , for the murder
of the courtier de Lyon, are seeking to quash the verdict,
and obtain the r,haiiilitath n of thtir ancestor, it has
always been maintained Iyr a number of persons that this
was a case of mistaken identity, in which Lesurques was
mistaken fir a man called Dubose
The Morning Advertiser announces, on the authority
of "a lady friend" of Garibaldi, that the general Is in
excellent health. The " lady friend" had had a letter from
Garibaldi only an hour before communicating with the
Advertiser.
The South London Press says there is scarcely a
street lathe district of St. Glare's, Southwark, where fever,
in some form or other, is not raging.
The Saturday Aline contends that there is no reason
to suppose that if the election were to come over again the
. Liberal majority would be lessened.
" Lord Derby. it is said, gave his agents a cheque
for ti 20,000, to be used as a 'basis of operation' against Mr.
Gladsto.."—Cutut Jourita/.
A French provincial paper, the Arenir of Auch, ale
peered in mourning on Wednesday, December 2, the
versary of the memorable coup d',.tat. It has been seized,
and is to be prosecuted.
At the Collegiate School of Enghein, in Belgium,
during a quarrel between two of the pupils, one, aged 16, the
other 13, the elder struck the younger a blow in the face.
The latter, in the heat of passion, took iliB penknife from
his pocket, opened it, and stabbed his adversary in the region
of the heart. The unfortunate youth expired a few hours
after.
It is well known that the late Is!. Berryer defended
Louis Napoleon a-hen tried for his life, on account of his
unsuceessftd landing at Boulogne in 1840. It is not equally
well known that the French exile on that occasion wrote
to M. Berryer, sating that "if that trial had no other effect
than that of winning his friendship, he should not complain

of his lot."
The Duke of Rutland has joined the Victor'a
Instil ate. the soci«ty which professes to pursue scientific
investigations with allegiance to the letter of Scripture.
Mr. Longfellow has ransacked the libraries and
homostores of Paris for rare works to enrich his library at
home.
It is said that Mr. Chaplin M.P., is going to follow
the example of his deceased rival, the Marquis of Hastings,
ard to dispose of the whole of his horses iii training.
A French veterinary surgeon, writing to the Ace,-
&ode de alsolicine of Paris, states that for the last eight
years be has been in the habit of eating the flesh of all the
horses that have died in his service, no matter what their
disease, whether tarry, glanders, typhioil, eharbon, or what
not In ltis opinion, the flesh of phthisical cows and oxen
may be sold without the least detriment to public health.
Mr. Potter, M.P. for Rochdale, has communicated ,
to the corporati 111 l of that town that portraits in oil of Mr.
Cobden until Mr. Bright, painted by an American --Mr.
ynne,ii—hat been presented to them by the art:st, and re-
questing their acceptance of them. The council unanimously
accepted, and expressed their thanks for the gift, and ills
proposed to place the portraits in the New Town hall.
"Miss Marsh, niece of Lady Anstruther, of Bat-
caskie, preached an eloquent and deeply impressive sermon
to a crowded and greatly edified audience, in the Union-ball
of St. Monence, on Sunday evening. The sermon was a gem
in its way "—Glasgow Citizen.
A young woman has been condemned by the Lille
magistrates to two months' imprisonment and 100 francs Site.
for introducing into France a batch of Lanferne, the had
hidden the objectionable print under her crinoline.
Mormonism is trying a strange expedient for exclud-
ing Gentile light and consequent perversion This is nothing
less ambitions than the invention of a new alphabet. Thera
have recently been delivered at Salt Lake City 10,500 copies
of certain school-books printed in the new language.
An action for libel brought by an ex-inspector of i
public carriages against Sir Richard Mayne, the Chief Com-
missioner of Metropolitan littler, occupied two (lays in the
Court of Common Pleas. The alleged libel was contained in
an order of the day issued by Sir Richard, in which it was set
forth that toe plaintiff had been dismissed from his post,
and assigning reasons why this step had been taken. The
jury, after having been locked up between three and four
hours, were discharged without coining to a verdict.
The Agricultural Gazette of Saturday says :—" A
sanitary commission has been issued having spec-al reference
to the drainage and water supply of the country villages,
and the names of a number of gentlemen ale pub ished as
having la en honoured by ber Majesty's commands to inquire
Into tins very inipoitant subject.
It is announced from New York that the trial of Mr.
Jefferson Davis has been postponed until next May, and that
bail meanwhile has been renewed The Inability of Chief
Justice Chase to preside in court is the reason ghen fer the
postponement,
Mrs. H. Ward Beecher intends to publish a
magazine which will bear the title Mothers pt Home. It will
print the contributions of & large Amber of lemale
reformers—mothers vrtfrmit never at home.
''She defeat of Mr. Roebuck is an indication that
no statesman who makes animosity toward this country the
corner-stone of his policy can now look for popularity in
England. American influence is rapidly spreading and
rooting itself annatg the mass& of the old World, and the
growth of Liberal sentinietds must be freely reegigni*d by
any I )13e who would hereafter become a leader in English
politics."—Nete York Tribune.
Last Christmas, the inmates of the Stockport union
workhouse were regaled, as is usual at that season, with
roast beef and plum pudding. Tobacco and tea were also
provided for the old folks by Mr. Bottles : and N'ir. F. Hiker
and a few friends contributed a quantity of gin for the
" comfort "of about fifty ot tile people whose ages varied
from Otto 100. The guardians, however, at their weekly
meeting on Monday, decided, on the motion of Mr. Alderman
Walthew, to disallow the consumption of gin and water, on
the ground of its being illegal.
"I lie Queen of Spain is a most parsimonious
person The other evening she went to the Opera to hear
Mdlle. Patti in Linda, and occupied the Emperor's box. The
box-keeper received one franc, in addition to the honour of
receiving a Queen. Her Majesty went to the Vaudeville on
another night, and the attendant received from M. Marfori,
or the Dispenser of the Royal bounties, the sum of nine sous
."—Coart Journal.
The Royal Botanical Society has discovered a new
China grass, from which lagiies dreves may be mate, aid
beautiful ones too. Fancy the eflect of a lady "walking fit
the goo," and getting too near a grass-feeding animal. What
an expos. !
It is s'ated that whilst some one was expressing
regret at Mr. Gladstone's defeat in Southwest Lancashire.
Archbishop Manning said, "I don't see how we could do
better than we hays always done—take the time of day from
Greenwich."

The Delhi Gazette says that during the hat three
years the amazing number of 1,604 tigers, 2,037 panthers,
1,4;i0 bean, 742 wolves, and 1,295 hyeenas have been
destroyed in the Central Provinces. In the same peTiod ,
1.71 lives have been lost by wild beasts, and 1,674 by snake
bites,
"We wonder how many's experience would warrant
their saying, as did Mr. Peek when he returned thanks to
the electors of Mid Surrey, that he had never felt so happy
but once before, and that was the day when he was married," '
—Court Journal.
One William Brown, aged thirty, was charged on
Saturday at a London p lice-court with breaking into the
New Baptist Tabernacle on Stepney-green, with intent to
commit a felony. Several adults had been baptized on the
previous evesing in a large cistern beneath the level of the
floor, which had not been covered up after the ceremony.
, The prisoner fell into the seater and appears to have extri-
cated himself with difficulty. In the vestry be found als
of port, of which be too touch, and be was found the
next morning in a state of helpless intoxication on the
I boor