The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-11-30 00:00:00

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It is rumoured that the Vicar of hton has bought
the freehold of St. UMW'S Chapel, held by the late Rev. J.
Esirchas.
The first hook placed on the shelves of the new public
library in Mew was a preaentation copy of Mr. Bright 's
speeches, with an inscription in his handwriting.
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persons, whose united cans were 770 years, giving an average
of over es} years to east
The demand for lace, set by the present fashions in
millinery am: deasemiak ng, has giveo S &sided impulse to
hand-made lace, and !he prospect is that the demand haa
loon permanently enlarged by the prevailing fashion..
As a sign of the times, it may he stated that a young
dee, Mr. Lionel D. Rosenthal. of Dula,. has gained the
Juincr rreahma n Exhibitioa Prae at Dahlia Uttiveraity,
value £sa. tenable for two years. There were forty com-
petitors
It nearly all the Presbyterian churches on Sunday
special references was made to the life and tutioence of John
Kuca, in counectlou With the tercentenary commemoration
of his clialh.
A service of wall elate, of the Value of 113,000, an I
an address, have been preseeteibv the member • of the Bram-
ham 01cor Hunt to Mr. George Lane Fox, who has been
master of the ha:Ater twenty-four years.
Professor Tyndall Went to the Patted Staten to
lectare. An account Is gbecn of his debut at Barton before
the fire had made it toohot. The subject. siogniarly enough,
was heat."
It is said that ND.. Childs proprietor of the Phila-
delphia Ledger, has made Mr. .1. Gordon Bennett, pro; eetor
of the flernid the offer of two million dollars. .i 1400,000 for
the copyright of that paper, and it has been refused.
The accounts of the game idiot thin Beason at Sand- I
riegham have been greatly exaggerated. Not more than I
three thousand head were killed, and of these a very email
proportion consisted of hares and rabbits.
151, Courbet has commenced a grand picture of the
overthrow of the Colonne VenclOme. It haa been bought by
a German prince. "0!., what a fall was there • would be an
essentially happy motto for the frame.
The amount received for admission to the Wallace
Monument, on the Abbey Craig, near Stirling, for the year
ending Martinmaa, 1872, is £ll9 Is. Lent year the amount
was £lll 105. 61, than showing aux increase this year of
£7 12s. 6d.
The Lords of the Admiralty have approved of a site
being selected within the precincts of Greenwich Hospital
for the monument to the memory of the officers and men
of the Royal Nary who fell in the New Zealand war of
1863 64.
" The gnarled and curly grain of the wood of a
walnut stump renders it very valuable for cabinet work.
deny old stumps have been dug up, the lumber from one of
which has been sold for as much as £3o"—The Garden.
The Right Hon. John Bright, with Mrs. Bright, are
now at Llandudno. They intend sta)ing a few weeks, as
they usually do at this season of the year. The right hon,
gentleman in said to be looking remarkably well.
A canine epidemic has broken out in the district of
Garrickeon-Suir. One hundred animals are reported to be
suffering from its effects, and deaths are lathe rate of about
twenty per emit. Shivering, vomiting and choking are the
chief symptoms of the disease.
Two United States vessels of war are on their way to
Zanzibar, whither 11 M.S. Briton will convey Sir Bartle Frere
and his party. The Pasha of Egypt is about to send a force
of live thousand men to join Dr. Livingetoue in a search for
the source of the Nile.
The directors of the German Immigration Society
held a meeting in New York on the 7th of November, when
the reports submitted showed that in the first ten months of
the present year 110,888 German immigrants were landed at
that port, an increase of 41,329 at compared with the corres-
ponding period last year.
The Bishop of Winchester, speaking in Camberwell
on the occasion of re-opening the National Schools, spoke
very strongly on the subject of using the ratepayers' money
in building unnecessary " opposition schools." Be designated
stern employment of School Board funds as "an abominable
abuse."
A few days ago a servant in the employment of a
farmer La Perthshire, while baking, mixed among the oat-
meal, by mistake, a virulent poison instead of carbonate of
soda. She eat a portion of the bread herself, and also gave
pieces to a little, girl and a dog. All three became ill. The
servant and the dog recovered; but the little girl died on
Friday.
An open competition for 100 situations an Assiataiit
of Excise in the Inland Revenue Department will be held In
London, Edinburgh, Dublin, Liverpool, Birmingham, Bristol,
Leeds, Glasgow, Dundee, Cork, Galway, and Belfast, on the
10th of January, 1873. The subjects are—hand writing,
orthography, arithmetic (to vulgar and decimal fractions),
and English composition. A fee of 115. will be required from
each candidate.
On Sunday (says the Edinburgh Daily Review) a cer-
tain well.known revermd doctor, after reading from the
pulpit several anneuticements referring to Christian work in
connection with his own church, said he bad received %great
many other notices with requests that he would intimate
them to his congregation, hut as he was not a Sunday edition
of the North British Adverti&er, he declined to do so'.
Councillor John Fawcett, of Huddersfield, met With
his death in a shocking manner on Saturday. Accompan!ed
by a cotton spinner, named Whitely, he was superieteuding
, the operations of a body of workmen at the ruins of au old
mill, which was set on tire about a week ago, when the roof
[ fell with aloud crash, burying both gentlemen beneath the
I debris. When extricated Mr. Fawcett was dead, and Mr.
Whitely terribly injured.
Captain Tyler, inspector of railways, has reported to
the Board of Trade that the acci lent at the Kelvedon
Station of the Great Eastern line, which occurred on the loth
of lest month, was not owing to any fault in the permanent
way, but to the amain eta and failure of the leading trans-
vet, e spring of the engine, which caused it to oiellate and
run off the rails.
At Dover several hundred tons of cliff, looaened by
the late In avy rains, fell early on Tuesday morning. For-
tunately—warned ty the downfall a week ago—the inhae
bltants of houses at East Cliff had betaken themselves to
safer dwellings. No. 57, East Cliff. Ives razed to the ground,
carrying with it an end wall of No. En, and damaging 08.
Happily, no human life was lost—a few fowls and rabbits
only being buried in the dc`bris.
Two policemen, finding the door of a publichouse in
the Adelphi, London, open at four o'clock in the morning,
entered ant went upstairs. They were taken for burglars by
the landlord, who cut at them with a sword, a hile the land-
lady was about to fire a Mato' at them, when the diet:every
wan made that they were guardians of the peace. One had
a narrow escape from bein; wounded.
The Marquis of Londonderry died on Monday at St.
Leonard's. in his sixty.eiglith year. His lordship was a junior
Lord of the Admiralty in 1028, and alterearde V ice-C
am-
berlain to William IV. in 1531. He was appointed lord-
lieutenant of the county Down in 1540, but was compelled
by mental malady to relinquish that post in 1064. He is
aucceeded by his half brother, George Gooey it. C. W. Valle-
Tempest, Earl Vane.
The anniversary of the execution of the Manchester
Feuisns was celebrated on Sunday by a demonstration in
Glasnevin Cemetery. Some thousands of men, headed by
Mr. John Nolan of the Amnesty Association, assembled in
the cemetery, and proceeded to the cross erected to the
memory of Allen, O'Brien, and Larkin. Here one or two in-
flammatory speeches were delivered. They then visited in
turn the graves of other noted Fergana. No disturbance took
place.
A conference hew been convened at Birmingham "to
devise a plan of united action tor the purpose of insuring
the return to the next Parliament of some members belong-
ing to the ranks of labour." The conference is called by the
L ihour Representation League, who deem this course advis-
able in consequence of the development in such active life
during the existence of the present Parliament "of the de-
mand everywhere of the artisans employed hi our great
centres of industry for the direct representation of labour."
An inquest was held at Sherington, near Olney,
Bucks, on Saturday, on the body of an old man named
James Boon. The deceased was a road-mender and was
engaged in his ordinary occupation when a farm labourer
named Sharpe (who had that morning been discharged from
his employment for idleness and incompetence) came up
and killed the unfortunate deceased with a blow from a large
straw fork. Sharp afterware 5 attacked two other road
menders, one of whom is seriously injured. A verdict of
" Wilful Murder" was returned against Sharpe.
Lord Harris died on Saturday, at his seat—Belmont,
near Faversham, Kent—in his 63rd year. George Francis
Robert, Baron Hard. of Seringapatam and Mysore, G.C.5.1.,
I) CL, was the third Baron, his grandfather, General Harris,
who commanded the English troops at the siege of Seringe
patron having been raised to the Peerage in 1815. Lord
Harris' was in succession Governor of Trinidad and of Madras,
and held for some thne the office of Chamberlain to the
Princess of Wales. Ile married, in 1050, Sarah, second
daughter of the yen. George Cummlns, Archdeacon of
Trinidad, and leaves issue George Robert Canning. a minor,
who succeeds to the title, and a daughter, Francis Charlotte
Irma case before the Court for the Consideration of
Crown Cases Reserved a curious detect in curlew has been
revealed. A prisoner had been convicted of stealing, but a
point was reserved at the trial. When the case cameos for
argument on Saturday, the Crown was represented by three
counsel, one of them being the Attorney. General. Against
this I •rmidable array the prisoner had no one to represent
him, and the points in his favour remained without argu-
ment. The Lord Chief Baron very properly animadverted
in strong terms on the defect in our system, and pointed out
how much better it would be if the Court had power to
widen counsel in such cases. All must agree with the Chief
Baron.
"The wedding outfit," says the Figaro, " for the
eldest daughter of Mustapha Pasha the future bride of
Khalil-Sherif Paella, Is said to be of the most splendid de-
scription. Four carriages and six borees have been sent to
Constantinople to complete her equipages. The number of
robes ordered from fashionable dressmakers in Paris
amounted to thirty ; a lace veil to be worn on the wedding-
day, ordered at Brussels, will cost 20,000 fr. The complete
furniture of two rooms, provided by a Paris upholsterer, is
valued at 60 000 h. Besides all the jewels offered by Khalil
Pasha, the Princess will wear, on the day of the marriage, a
diadem and necklace in brilliants, presented by her father,
which are said to be worth half a million of francs."
Some time ago the attention of the War-office was
drawn by the London Trades' Council to the alleged Injustice
of employing soldiers in the harvest field, to the exclusion
of the agricultural labourers. A reply has now been re
ceived to the effect that it is not the intention of the Queen's
Beaulations, nor the wish of her Majesty's Government, that
the employment of the military should be made use of to
affect the result of disputes between labourers and agricul
turista The benefit of the whole community is the legiti-
mate object of sending soldiers into the harvest field, and
care a ill be taken in future to prevent the existence of tiny
questlon whether that object has been exceeded.
Durieg the week ending Saturday last 5,424 births
and 3,352 deaths were registered in London and twenty other
large cities and towns of the United Kingdom. The mor-
tality from all causes in these towns was at the rate of 24
deaths annually to every I,ooopersous estimated to he being.
In the metropolis, 2,277 births and 1,277 deaths were re
wintered, the former having been nice more, and the latter
455 less, than the average numbers. During the past eicht
weeks of the current quarter the Loudon death rate has
averaged but 20 per I OW, against 23 in the corresponding
period of last year, when small-pox and other forms of zymotic
disease were much more fatally prevalent.
On H tturday, Mr. HurAt, in the employ of Meagre.
Barlinghani and Co., agricultural implement sinkers, Eve,
ham, was drowned in the River Avon, near that town. De-
ceased's hat was blown into the riv, r, wheel' was much
swollen, and, contrary to advice, he went out in a slight
" whiff" to recover it. The boat got across the strong
current, the water au driven into it hy the wind, and as
the boat was filling he plunged into the at•eam, although
he could not swim, and was carried about 20 yards, and then
unit near the bank. Mr. Hawkins, captain of the Evesham
Rowing Club, made an ineffectual attempt to save him.
At the Bow-street Police-court, Paul Julius May,
the young man recently indicted at the Old Bailey on the
charge of murder, was brought before Sir Thomas Henry
upon an extradition warrant to answer the charge of forgery.
It appeared from the depositions which were taken before
the Berlin City Tribunal that the prisoner was apprenticed to
Mr. Goldsmidt, a brewer. The prisoner bad forged a receipt
upon the bankers of his employers, by which means he ob-
tained a sum of 1,00 thalers. The prisoner was then fre-
quently in the company of Nagel, who was described as
teeing out of employment, and who, it was believed, urged
him to commit the offence. Sir Thomas Henry committed
the prisoner to take his trial in Germany.
Boston advicee, which are now to band, contain
many interesting particulars respecting the great fire. The
Boston ddoerti.er says that the scene In the streets from
midnight on Saturday to noon on Sunday was one of the sad-
dest the city has ever been called upon to witness. The
crowds of people seemed to increase after midnight, said
showed no falling off until the fire was well under control.
The fury of the firs is described as tenible. It leaped over
streets and ran through immense granite warehouses with.
out being impeded anywhere in the slightest degree. Blow-
ing rip buildings was resorted to, but too late; it did not
apparently tlirow the smallest impediment in the path of
the flames. Ile Bnston Advertiser says that the calamity
may well appal the stoutest heart, but that no one ought to
think of it as irreparable. The losers will not be rendered
houseleas. there will he no deficiency in the neeavaaries and
°motor's °I Ilk, awl Us& will Noll WI Into Its ad channels.

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Queen Victoria hag gent a donation of £4OO for the
relief of the sufferers by the inundations ba Italy.
Prince Leopold has commenced residence at Oxford
mean amiergraluate of Chriut Church.
Mr. W. If. Smith, the member for Westminster,
has returned from hls lengthened tour through Canada And
the United States.
A committee is being formed at Brighton, which wil
shortly make a national appeal for funds to bead • memo-
rial church to the late Rev. John Purchas.
A singular society has b,-,en founded at Minden, in
welphs,ia ; its onjtct is to give ilfl members •'a mnsie.ti
funeral.'
Eight men behliging to the Ihmalaya troop-ship
with arrived at Devonpor ais a .tyyg ovi-rn drowned
last Saturd wornieg to toe capins,mg ..f ab .t
In Ilansoc.
The Michigan Centril Railway Committee is plait-
ing a row of American chestnut trees at all available peintsi
al..ng its entire line.
1 he Beard of the Inland Revenue aAnowledges ag
6, Omagh nce Monty " the receipt of the first half et notes
for zed, for unpaid income-tax.
Forty pdper kiiivee, made from the wrect- of the
Royal George. were reccntly sold by auction in Loudon.
Th-y fetched 2s. fill. flow low our naval greaCuess is

fallen !
A terrific hurricane swept over county Mayo last
Tussday, accompanied by heavy rains, which have ffootled
the lowlying nistricts, and destroyed a large amount of pro-
dues.
The Cross Gazette annonncea the dismantling of the
fortification of Bitche in the Vosges, the siege of which
coutioued till the conclusion of peace. The citadel alone
win be p7eserved.
A colony of English sparrows settled in Reading,
Pennsylvania, a year or two ago, since when they have in-
creased so largely, that now every street to the city Is said to
be alive with their cheerful twittering.
Previous to leaving Balmoral the Queen visited con-
siderable numbers et poor people in the neighbourhood
of
Balmoral, and distributed among them blankete and other
warm clothing.
A learned pundit in India has, it is said, formed an
association in llenares for teaching the young men of India
navigation and shipbuilding, and sending quick and well-
conducted youths to England for education.
Mr. Gladstone, who was one of the earliest patrons
of the Liverpool College, I. announced to deliver the prizes
. to the pupils on the list December next. This will be the
, second occasion on which the Premier has performed this
duty.
The Corporation of the City of London have given
' formal notice of their intention to apply to Parliament for
powers to establish a "Tribunal of Commerce," with per-
mi.alon to appoint arbitrators and judges on disputed quee-
r Won
France is experiencing the predicled effect of her
heavy taxation. During the nine months of the official year
for which returns have been made there is • deficit in the
yield, as compared with the estimate, of over £5,000,000--
two-thirds of the falling-eft being in the Indirect taxes.
Advices from Australia informs us that the heavy
rains of the part winter, which were every month consider-
ably above the average, have brought the young wheat crops
throughout the colony forward in a most flourishing manner.
Should no extraordinary freak of Nature intervene, the
farmer may look forward to a very satisfactory year.
From April let to the 23rd instant the Exchequer
receipts amounted to eae..ooonse, as compered with
£11,040,53S in the corresponding period of last year. During
the same time the expenditure was £44.733,3,3, On Satur-
day last the balance in the Bank of England was £4,725,103,
and in that of Ireland about a million and a quarter.
On Tuesday, the first annual meeting of the National
Union for Improving the Education of Women was held at
the rooms of the Society of Arta, London. Lord Lyttelton
presided, and amongst the speakers were Mr. C. S. Roundell,
Mr. W. D. Christie, Canon Barry, Mho Emily Davies, and
the Rev. W. Arthur.
A public meeting was held on Monday night in the
Cutlers' Hall, Sheffield, under the auspices of the Land
Tenure Reform Association There was a fairly numerous
attendance. Speeches were made denunciatory of the
present mode of tenure and taxation of land, and resolution"
were passed declaring such modes to be injurious, and con-
trary to the will of the people.
A Liberal M.P. appeals to the public spirit of all
the respectable classes of the metropolis as to whether it is
not time to put an end to Sunday demonstrations in Hyde
Park, and he adds :—" Pray let our el‘.vernment put an
end to such scenes, fur they are really too bad to be any
longer tolerated with impunity by the respectable classes of
society "
The Accountant-General of the Court of Chancery,
by his return, shows that during the year ending the tat of
October, 187 i, the sum of £19,539,740 was raid into court,
and the sum of £17,595,959 was paid our in the previous'
year £17,000,e00 were paid into and nearly £20,000,090 paid
out of court.
Intelligence has been received from Cores of a dread-
ful fan:11110 In that country. The Regent has seized all the
crops for the general public benefit, but these do not suffice to
feed every one, and multitudes are dying. The Chinese
smugglers from Welhai-wei and the neighbourhood of
CM foe have bought scveral Corean girls for their harems, a
measure of
.millet being the price of a young sod pretty elic-
it has been deride I by the South Wales ironmasters
to give notice on Seturdav of a reduction of 10 per cent. in
te rate of wager, the irders for menufactured iron being
le,,,,e;‘,lent to keep works going at present prices. Rails are
to here , ;need 305. to 405. per ten. ULder the terms of the
arbitration ;agreed to last Feleuary, the reduction will affect
the colliers &ego-
On Monday ,;00 farm labourers proceeded to Liver-
pool from Dorset armt adjacent counties, en route for Brazil,
£l,OOO having been a. Ilvanced by the Government of that
country for the frsesettleulent of the rneu in Cananea Colony.
The Emperor has through hie Minieter of Agriculture, ap-
pointed Mr. T. Alsop, farmer, of Leamington, as emigration
agent, being anxious to intro lue., into Ms country the British
system of husbandry.
Some anxiety is felt as to the ponervation of the
Roman catacombs, as the Italian Ministry um Preparing the
project of a law, soon to be presented to thy Chambers, by
which it is intended to define accurately all rights relative to
monuments, whether Christian or profane, atonable on Pri-
vate property. But unless this law recognises arse expressly
declares the public'and ecclesiastical character of Lhe cata-
combs, it is feared that both what has been airemly dis-
covered there and what may yet remain to be discovered
will be lest.
Miss Isabella Stamp, whose name will be remembered
In connection with the boarding-out system, was desired by
the Princess Louis of Hesse to attend the recent Congress at
Darnntadt, in order to give aome ieformation on that system.
Miss Stamp and Miss Mary Carpenter were guests of the
Princess, and found her next "channiug." lier Royal High-
ness seemed as it she could scarcely show too much honour
to Miss Carpenter. The last-mentioned lady went from
Darmstadt to Se itzerland,'in oriel to visit the Swiss prisons.
Miss Stamp is shortly going to Australia.
The Elam) of Worcester has addressed a letter to
the following effect to the clergy of Lii The
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Fureigu Parts
and the Church tlisstonary Society have united in pro-
posing that Friday, December 2etb, should be observed by
all who desire to promote the missionary efforts of our
Church ass day of prayer for an increased supply of mis-
sionaries. I wish to recommend this proposal to your best
etteutime The recent Act for the amendment of the Act of
Uniformity allows any ports of the Holy Scriptures or Book
of Common Prayer tote used ass special I ormuf service to
church upon the occasion."
"The wealthy and the happy give many hostages to
fortnne. Only The wretched and the poorare invulnerable.
Lands that seem to bask in perpetual sunshine, mei to revel
In Nature's choicest Oita of beauty and fertility, are seamed
with hidden fires ; and cities in which life Is a voluptuous
enchantment, dance upon volcanoes, and feast and sing and
sleep in care;ess ease or fer,;etful coMblence between the
lava flood and the earthquake. bay pass the penalty of her
privileged climate, her bounteou.7 soil, and her teeming
plains by periodical Inundations Vbich devastate whole
regions wore fatally than fire or sword, and reduce thriving
I 'amulet'n in to instant beggary and stars alloy. —Lender In
from Doily 3roxB.