The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-11-02 00:00:00

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. AnarntaTlON.—The Arbitrator,
has _______- notices to the policyholders and to the
holders of annuity and endowment contracts to be
advertiled that all claims against any of the companies
ha liquidation not sent in before the 30th of Nownber
next will be barred. All claims received since tin first
dividend list was closed and admitted will be includediii ,
a sunlemental li.t, which will be insole up to the
30th of 'November, and notiaes of the payment of the
first dividend will be sent to each claimant in the sup-
plemental list as soon as possible after that date.
Two MODES o OOKING ,NT • THING.—
(From the "Editor's Drawer," " Hot'fftr's &le
Monthly Moga2ine.")-0f Scotland's ..reat preacher,
the late Rev. Dr. Macleod, the followin,l i? t"ld
visiting his Dalkeith parishioners to say life, well he
called on one of those eharratongned old In 'te" whose
privileged gibes have added so ssuch to the t. -"war, of
Scottish humour. To her he expressed his t egret at
leavin, his friends at Dalkeith. but stated that
hie invitation to tilasgow in the light a
call from the Lord," "Ay, ay," was Um herl'
response; "hut if the Lord halos called you s
better oteepend. it might hae been Wig gin ye I. In
heard
A DEEP MITBSECT.—CdxefuI naturalists, who. r
have devoted much time and attention to ichthyolo-
gical studies, tell us that, after long and patieat
investigation, they havo arrived at the conclusion that
if fishes. have a language, it is most probalbly Finnish,
—Punch.
WOKEN GETTING MEN'S RiCarrn (?)--An
"Eye-witness" deszribes so follows the loading a the
isen ore at Bilbao :
"Ii le a curious eight to see the women I muting the ships
with their dinky cargoes, carrying it is Imi rkery en their
heads, singing natty the while, sod tripping up and down
the steep plants with their short petticoats, brown. hare
legs, and straight senile backa. What the Mt Odo heivai
fame under the archways of the market-pis ces, or sit
suldk±us on the stone benches ort ti.. quays. than e not been
able tot Stotover The able-bodied population of 5k do Part of
Span IsdoradedlY the women, who in actual muscular 'strength
seem to excel the men--
ilitt4RB Dice:Nips Smizmit.—The mineo wners
and lronmasters of S. eith Staffordehire and East Staf.
fordshire have been furnished with copies of a L'raft
scheme to provide for the systematic drainage of the
Wines of these districto. Its three primary objects are
to pre seat the percolation of surface water into =in.',
to clear mines at present under water, and to wet:4e
permanent outlet for water. The jurisdiction propo sol
is a commission, to include the chairman of the iroM
trade and the chairman and vice-chairman of the coal
trade, with the chairman and deputy-chairman of the
' courts of quarter sessions in the two districts. It is te
have power to form "drainage district," and to appoint
arbitrators in respect of costs and compensation. All
, awards given by the arbitrators will be subject to
appeal ice the commissioners, who will also have
authority to levy rates. When the scheme has been
approved by those concerned, a bill.will be drafted front
41asri::sre
natural than
it fur submisidon to Parliament.
CHANCES !—A French circular
of a matrimonial agent runs as follows -" I appre-
bend that in the course of your daily life you are now
and again coming across people placed in the difficulty
of not being able to contract or arrange a well-assorted
,-,,,arriage, that is, a marriage according ti one's right-
-1.1 pect,tions. Permit me to call your attention to
a f,a, apeClMellls from our het of bond fide candidates,
fo wboef I have the honour to act as intermediary.
5. A Freach l'rince, well known in the world for his
aim& am: irreproachable manners, agreeable phy-
and a fortune of from
million. 2. A magistrate, 35 years,
Bsliri:7o.o;antsche..aty,,,,,,ears Sof aegve'e'ral doctors, 25 ts 33 years,
and iO,OOO to 30,000 francs. 5.
rh,Lf76,,, 3:00, N 0.45 60,000 francs. 4. Several men
fortunes, 40 to 50 years,
acid
R SVARE.—Tho arms.
,ç- occurred on the
bn.tet,l,7„..°feticu ierewith may be men-
hniaovneuom7nutrreiliii
ortoobef
i!he
tioned a criticism
:1110:1i
Landseer's Lions—but look at their lower
to a foreigner contemplating Net..
fur -'4l`. Lions are all chapdallen.—Pa nCh.
11:9:atilbe•
jaws. The
AT THE GSTSTAL PAE.L.CE.—The
CAT SHOP
. openeddto. t
ire' last
. fore e
p.
annual cat show wae v•garded as the most oft °Plebs
Satniday, and it was seignanimals of the spa'
collection of home an cies
that has yet been brought is. •of this class of thy'
a .t h Cal Pblaa:c
country. The range of specimen. 'Wows from Sian.,
feline tribe is wide, there being iropora There is aLso
ova, Smyrna, Algeria, Archmsget Ix% Santos, in
a speciality, in the shape of a Liget...mot foam rafr,
South America, which, while in repose se a.. ;ed
dles not look very fierce. Amongst the prise:f. ti
's,
was one for an Angora cat, and two others for thetaw
totinc and white he-cats belonging to working mono
Some es:et...ivies are notable, namely, a Angular
coloured cat froM the Azores, a characteristic ex:smolt
from Java, which has eye blue and the other ipsni,
• "ad there is one remarkable zciaml, which does nat.
laP nIIIX bri puts it into her mouth with her paw.
DRESS IN JAPAN,—The item of the most fin.
porthwite hatt,Tapaneoalsglv's toilet is her obi, or girdle,
which is tiovilly of lady's bright colours, and arranges!
behind with gfeat care +0 as to form the camel's Mimii
on peculiar among ettr ultra fashionable belles. The
Grecian bend is an old inotitution in Japan. To see ono
of her dark-skinned ladies, with her extensive head-
dress, a hump upon her baoh, and extremely narrow-
skirt, high, wooden-heeled patfros, her body thrown
forward, and as elle mieces her steps you would ionwtine
ithe was caricatnrink the brainless votaries of fashion in
other lands but she is only dressing as her people have
dressed and walking as they Lave walked for centuries.
The obi serves another purpoce in Jamul. When a
woman becomes a widow she 1111 Add no change in it
nukes she wishes to announce hei' lmrpose never to
marry again, in which case she ties her obi in front.
How effectual this is to ward off prop veals who
ciii
know? but as it is always and everywhere the privilege
of a woman to change her mind i , it s said th.o übi nee".
sionaltv in suffi a case works its way arineid t° its
normal position behind.
THE 801100141•STER ABROAD IN SPAIN.- -A
gentleman, fel-wetly holding an important official
position in Edinburgh. and who has lately returned
from is tour iii Spain, relaten the following anecdote
Tx's:ethos ins railway can lave. in company with se
' Spanish stentleman who appeared absorbed iso the cc,.-
tents of a small volume he was reading, the latter raised
, his eyes from the page, and, turning to his travelling
companion, said, in tones of the deepest commiseration
—" What an unhappy country ia England !" " What
makes you say that?" asked the other. " Thg con-
tents of this book," replied the Spaniard. "Will you
permit me to look at it ?" courteously asked the Eng-
lishman. "With pleasure," said his sympathetic
fellow-voyager. at the same time handing loin the
book.
igh eEnhge iia tae
lishnsano v
examinedrki .0
tile . a
title-page, Znkat to `
be r
o
relent Spanish!
A FIGHT WITH CAMANCHES.—The ittllowing
despatch is pnbliihed by the Nets York Tribune nt ttin
18th Oct.
CHICAGO, ILL., Oct. 15.—T0 the Adjutant-General of the
Anny.—CoL Mackenzie's command had a fight with the
Camanches on the North Fork of the Red River, killing 2:
Indhins, whose bodies were found, and capturing the camp
ALiderr.
05
sCrothsbe r eno..v.tainortthaaltlylwieontn.
dLeedwbily an
and 121 squaws and children. In addition to the killing of
d Infantry,
Crosby,
Indian on the 4th inst, and died on the oth, Lieut. Adair
mortally wmimled the Indian who shot him, and the Indian
was subsequently killed. Colonel Stanley's servant wasalso
killed by Indians who chased and came near catching
General Rosser. This all occurred near Heart River Cross-
ing. it:prey-tour mite. from Rice. Lieutenant Adair's body
will be brought In. Stanley'n command sill be at Rice en
the 18th or lOth.—P. It, WIEGMAN, Lieutenant-General.

310ROARIATIC MARRIAGYS.—ACcounts were re-
eently given of the marriage of Emmanuel, Doke of
Doggio Cujano, son of the King of Italy by his mor-
ganatic marriage with the Countess Mir:dem. On the
other hand, the death ie aniesuncedof Prince Albert of
Prussia, brother of the Emperor William, said who
formerly contracted &similar alliance with the Countess
de Honenau. Thieve two facts call attention to the
left-handed marriages which take place in Germany
between members of noble families and women of an
inferior condition, and which rlo not canfer on the
children issuing from them a right to the rank and title
of the father. The following personages are among those
who formed such unions : -Frederick William 111.,
father of the prevent Eloper(/' of Germany, with the
Princess of Liegnitz, née Counters:3 Harrach, who still
lives, respected by all the royal family of Prussia; Leo-
pold L, late King of the Belgians, with the Baomess
Mayer ; King Ferdinand of Portugal, widower of Maria
IL and regent during the minority of Ids son, with
Miville. Hensler, created Alareuese ; the ex-
Elector of Hesse, with Gertrude Princes ,s of Henan
and Comatose of Schnumburg ; the Archdufm Henry
of Auntra, with Maslila. Hofman, a singer, ntnfrin
Countess of Waldeck; Duke Louis of Bavaria, 110th
Henriette de Wallersee ; and Prince Adalbert
Prussia, with Themes de Barnum, née Easier.
BRUTAL MURDER IN FRARCE.—A brutal mur-
der has just been committed at Bayonne on the person
of a gentleman of property, named Bausch, a foreigner
by birth, hut who had settled there, after making his.
fortune sae a jeweller at the Havant:lab. He resided
witla a female servant at the Alliwe Marines on the
road to La-Barre, but was accustomed to pans his
evenings tst ,ofc in the town, usually leaving at about
halt-past ten. Ile did not return home on the night of
the 2Ute, and on the following morning his body was
found in a garden which is separated from the road by
a palisade. The head was almost severed from the
trunk, and a knife-wound in the bead had been in-
flicted with ouch force that the point ot the blade had
broken in the skull. The coat and wancoat had been
taken off, and were found lying by the side of the
corpse with the pockets emptied, and these of the,
trouiers turned inside out. His watch, money, and
keys had been taken, but the murderers had left a
pencil-cave, a geld toothpick, and an eye-glans, Afs9 a
diamond ring which they had apparently attempted in
vain to draw from the finger. The crime had err.
dently been committed by more than one person.
KILLED BY A Corruc —An inquest haa beet/
held in London at the University College Homglevi on
the body of Henry Taylor, aged 66. 'lke evidence of
an undertaker's foreman, and others, showed that the
deceased, with others, was engaged at a funeral at
Kensalgreen Cemetery. The Church service having
been finished, the coffin awl mourners proceeded in
coaches towards the place of burial. The day being
damp, the foreman directed the coaches with the
mourners to proceed to the grave by the footway, and
tue hearse across the grass towards a grave-digger who
was motioning the nearest way. The coffin was moved
from the hearse and being carried down a path only
three feet by six wide, by six bearers, when orders
were given to turn, so that the coffin, which wan what
is known in trade as a 41b. leaden one, should go
head first, nile the men were changing, it is sup-
posed that deceased evight his fisst against a side stone
and stumble.' ; tire other hearer:. to save themselves,
let the coffin go, and it fell with great force on to de-
ceased, iracturieg his jaws and ribs. The greatest
eoufWliol, was created among the mourners who wit-
nessed the accident, and the widow of the person
about to be buried nearly went into h 3 Aeries. Further
&existence having been prOcurektthe RefOlett was
proceeded with, while deceased was ow, eyed to a
surgery, and ulthreitely to the above-mentioned hos-
pital, where he expired on the 2lth instant. The jury
recommended that straps should be placed round
coffins, which would tend to prevent such accidents.
Verdict—" Accidental death.'