The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-10-11 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

On Tuesday afternoon • violent shock of an earth-
quake was felt at Darmstadt and in the Odenwald.
"A Memorial Volume of Sacred Poetry," by the
late Sir John Bowing, to which la prefixed • Memoir of the
Author, by lady Booming, Is about tab. published.
Sir Richard Wallace has made another gift of 25,000
francs to the public wistarias of Par* for the purchase of
winter clothing for the poor.

Under the heeding of " A month'. Hat of killed and
wounded," the Pali Mail Gaune apse the brief particulars of
no lees than thlrtywiz railway accidents that occurred In
September.

A central committee has been formed at Creteld to
further the erection of • monument to Karl Wilhelm, the
composer of 'the Watch on the Rhine."

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It is said the Ashantees are being drilled, if not led,
by European officers, and that Dutchmen and nenchmen
are Instructing them In the art of war.

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Adrian from the Cape of Good Hope nate that the
gold delft there am paying, and that all pounds ol gold hare
bean waived by one firm in Natal.
A man who rode in the Name railway mrriap with
a bridal maple Iffy miles heard her mil him " Meat Marla"
Just &LS thaw

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The third son of the Viceroy of Egypt ham arrived
DA Berlin, with a suite of fourteen persoom. The Prince will
enter the Ftrit Iteitineot of Dragoon Guards.
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As a party of boys at Warrington, on Sunday, were
playing with • roughly extemporised forcannon, It burn,
and one of the Juvenile artillerists was struck in the neck by
• fragment, and Instantly killed.

A steam yacht of 117 tons, after coaling at Port
Glasgow, has sailed for Belfast and Dublin, thence to Cape
Coast, to wltneu the event, likely to take place in oonnection
with She Ashantee wax. The yacht is owned by Captain
Nolan and commanded by Captain Joluistone.

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The Cape newe by last mail seems to presage another
litt6 war on the Ciffrarlan herder. A peace commission.
which had been sent out to mediate between e)me hostile
tribes, has returned without obtaining an interview. The
border is alleged to betas vary unsettled state.
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A balloon fell on Sunday in • field near Auberril.
Hers, lust outside Parts. In the c/a were attached ell the
spperstus for serial navigation, se well se the inatramenta
neerseary or atmospheric oteervstlons. Fears are entertained
that the aeronaut hal perished.
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Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, who bad recently
made • considerable donattcn to the Public Assistance of
Paris, hss just addressed to the Prefect of the &aloe • sum
of 10,000(r , to be distributed among poor people whom the
rent of October 8 is likely to turn out of their lodgings.

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The Norwegian bark Amazon, timber.laden, which
went ashore on the Goodwin Bands some few days age ems
towed tntolDover Bay on Monday seeming by the steam tug
Palnicriton,• derelict, In charge of Deal hostet en. She is eater-
logged, and had only the stamps of her fore and malninsita
lett standmg at the time of her hetes stranded on the Banda.
Use crew were safely landed at Bamagate.

An arithmetical genius, seven years old, In a public
school, has figured up the wheat crop, and makes out that It
la enough to furnish thur to put a pancake two Inches wide
and the eighth of an inch thick around the earth, "lii cook
could be found wawa to the making of the pancake."
With much ceremony and rejoicing, the colossal
brouse statue of the late King Frederick VIL of Denmark
wee unveiled at Copenhagen on Tuesday In the presence of
the Royal Family. The day was that of the opening of the
Rigsdad.

A general strike of sailors is threatened in Leith.
Three men have been sentenced to fourteen dais' imprison-
ment each in the Sheriff's Court for refiwing to go to sea.
They had given only twenty.fonr hours notice of their In-
tention to demand an advance of wages from 275 6d. to 30a.

In answer to the Birmingham memorial on the sub-
j(r: of the Ashantee war, Mr. Gladstone bet Informed the
gee Capon WWrinson, D D, that her Majesty's Ministers
will consider with much care the steps to be taken In rela-
tion to the unhappy eveute on the Gold COM&
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The Amu Tuna says that at the last pilgrimage to
Savoy some of those joining it endeavoured to smuggle •
quantity of tobacco at Annecy. They were discovered by
toe custom house officers, who telegraphed to Paris for
not ructions. The goofier was, ' let the pilgrims paw-
A corporal of Chaseettre, who had deserted to the
Carilsts, and eras tnbsequently recaptured by the Republicans,
wan shot at Tarrogaca on Sunday. This ls the first
military executiov since the proclamation of the Republic.
The Bonpartist journal L'Ordre has begun to print
a special English eoltiun in Loudon daily. The paper is
printed almost 'entirely in French. The Sullen edition
besru as its second title, 'The French organ of Free
Trade."

" Gladstone, the Eatßah Premier, though by no
mean. an Adonis, is always remarkeble for the tests he dis-
plays in his choice of necktie., &a. Be Is acknowledged to
be 006 of the neatest-dressed men In Angland."—San Pren-
tiss° tingelettdr.

A BAUM!' military officer, who, after a long servi-
tude in India and Cilia, dedicated himself in this latter
country to tes culture, has addressed a memoir to the Italian
government on the eubject, offering his merriest to introduce
and superintend the culture of the Sea plant, from which the
Chinese reap such • rich harvest, and he p3lnta Out some
parts of Italy as being well adapted for this purpose.
A little boy was wired by his teacher to write a
composition on the subject of water, and the following Is the
production Water Is good to drink, to maim ilk and skate
on when frozen. When I was • little baby the nurse used to
bathe me every morning In water. I have been told that the
Ashantees don't wash themselves but once in ten years. I
Irish I was an Askant..."

So systematically are the Monarchists proceeding
with their design for reertsblishing the Throne of the Bour-
bons that the Bureaus of the Right are now engaged in
settling the terms of a Constitution. When drafted they will
be submitted to the Comte de Chambord, and their authors
are sanguine of their acceptance

The Hour lay.:—" It is reported in good quarters
that the question of dissolving Parliament has been under
discussion at the Cabinet Councils which have been held
during the peat week, and that it has been boldly decided
that no dissolution shall take place until the spring'

News woo received at Tuam on Saturday night that
• great portion of the bog at &dwell, near Dunmore, shifted
It. positi.n on the previous night, owing to the heavy reins,
on to some low had, adjoining, causing great destruction to
potato, corn, hay, and other crops. Two houses are said to
have been overwhelmed, and 300 acres of prime pasture land
are now covered with the bog. No Lives were lost

According to the Gibraltar Calperue, Mtdey Haman,
who appears to be hlrty.thrse years old, has been acknow-
ledged as Sultan in Sallee, Babel, and Lsrache, and is on his
way from Morocco to Fes Great feats of • civil war prevail
In Tangiers, but persons well acquainted with Maley el
Abbas do not think he will pertlmelously oppose • nephew
Who Is also his son-imiaw. A large party also supports
Maley Sollman.

At Dover, on Sunday morning, the body of a man,
apparently about thirty five years of age, respectably dragoon.
was washed on shore in the bay, and picked up by a boat-
man. The head of the deceased was much braised, and the
body In several places bore marks of violent*. It did not
appear to have ban long In the water.

"A tuft-hunting (hut hal devired an expedient for
paying oil the Prm Man Inds mnity, which la deficient neither
in novelty nor Ingectli,y. He proposes that a tariff shall be
fixed for the sale of titles. Ile huggesta that soy ribs m who
ts ambitions of cluc,sl honours shah gratify his ambition and
plecsid him panels with a ducal coronet on payment of five
milli na of francs to the State. He fires a marqulsate at
three Wilton', a coUntship at two ml hunk and the title of
baron stone =Mon."— Cour t Journal.

Mr. Henry James adiresstd a crowded meeting in
Ronbartou cu Monday eveuing. In the course of his ad-
dress the learned gentleman, speaking of woman suffrage,
odd he believed home to to • w man's world, and that
domestic and political life would alike suffer If she turned her
attention from home to politics. At the same time, Ifever
the day should come when half, or neatly half, the women of
England asked for the suffrage, he would grant It.

The largest steamboat on the Western waters of
America the James Howard, of 3,300 toes harden, has been
burnt. She belonged to St. Louis, and traded between that
City and mbar pone on theAllstisslppl and illmouri rivers
and New Orleans. When bunt, on septereher 12, she was
lying at the levee at the town of Commerce, en the
Miseissippi river, below tit. Louis, and was laden with goods
for New Orleans. llr value wee 150,00 dole., and the steam-
boat and cargo were almost totally destroyed.

The death is announced of Mr. Henry Brigbt,
water-color ptiuter of In me eminence He was born at
Ssantundham, In Suffolk, Iu lel4, and after • career of rnswe
th.ntwenty years In London, where he become the friend of
Turner, David U u asamel Pront, cot other well-known
ael.t. o retired about firs years ago, Incapacitated by t 11-
new, to Ipainoh, where be died.

The death of Mrs. Alfred Getty is announced. She
was tle wife of the Be.. Dr. Getty, Vicar of Kocleafield, a
fatly known in the literary world as the Editor of Aunt
Judee Magssous and author of several very popular books
of juvenile notion. Her last literary production, partly anti-
gnu di and in part pleasantly goripping, was a work ussoa
Sees DaS.. Mra. Gstty, who was lu her 64th year, wu the
lounger daughter of the Rev. Dr. Scott who was chaplain
to the Vistory at fru/agar, aad In whose arms lord Nelson
breathed lila last
The North Staffordshire ironworker, held a meeting
on Monday in reference to the action of the South Steil r.
shire men In rwiating the proposed reduction of 194 per cent.
In wages. No such proposal lat heel) made to the /forth
/Raiford men, but they have resolved that they will resist the
proposal if made. At the same time, they have eapnesed
their willingness to return to the ad valorem oaten, Mehra
all wages on payment to puddien, and one shilling per too
for each pound of sale pries, and adding one shilling to the
surspis—se, pries, twelve pounds toe ben, tasa pendia(
wages thlrleen alltlw pee ton.

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"No rain wag measured lent week," lays the
ItegkerarGenend Ii big wieldy meet
The Joke 801 l states that Mr. Diemen new novel.
towing tho development. of Soelallim, fs nearly bwi.,
The total number of persons who have visited the
been Exhibition Is slated to be 1,04115.
Father Hyacinthe has finally abandoned the clerical
iert.
The instiranoe offices ire asking an annual premium
of £5OO fora policy of £6,000 for Ashanti* going oflisent
Tee first postal card noel red in Aberdeen, from an
Aberdeen lady, we. marked private.
A number of young officers belonging to the Japanese
army, 'ibises.. puritanic their studio' in England, hare been
ternitteed to TINS the Itlyal Arsenal, Woolwich, to WIIMIIO
the process of mandamus of modems gins, gas imerhog ea,
and ammunition.
The Bonspartiat journal Le Gaulois, having opened
▪ ltst for the format!. of league to advocate se a=
the people for the furtherance of Bonapertion, ths
of the Interior haa informed the manager of that paper that
the publication of that lit cannot be allowed.
"It may be a sathdaction to married men to know
Shed under certain circumstanoss their wires may be com-
pelled to contribute to their minimum:ice by a rule of Poor-
law ',Tactics. '—Court Journa
"d curious fact bonded upon long and aces ob-
servation Is worthy the attention of the BMA* genoeletton.
Every .potted dog hat the end of his tall white, and every
spotted cat the end of the tail black."--Court Jame&
Four of the Modoc Indians, one of wheal wag Cap-
tain Jack, ham Man mooted at New York, Two Mimi
have been maim&

The demands for the new Amato= Wade dollar me
Increadent, sal additionsl orders ban recently be.. mo
dived Wow Cilia and elsewhere.
Fiji le In Mak of anarchy the white
offering an aimed aublanoe to Me aolleoton of =lira
°vista of Me Malistra ettip Mancha be. by proelaissfaan.
forbidden Baia* subjects lea take ny man.

"W. are informed that the OOmmissiossere of Wand
Revenue have at Magill &Premised to sigma* peeseate
their long mdselleadleg damoo eselain uiliwsyrangenled
for unpaid giegielegar aelg....ONlffeta
Three hundred delegates of Durham miners, Tomo-
manna MON am. held • sosellug cm flastorday, et whisk N
was 4.40440 00 agglykr is &dream of 10 per amt. on tie
agree paid *0 .11.1.... of workmen.
"The letter of If. Thieve to the Mayor of Nancy fs
an open declaration of war spinet the limezehr. When •
politician of his experience makes snob a move, It Implies
that the crisis le flier; he knows a great deal of the old
gene, and he sees that the question at hone mad be &oldest
70.7 5000. There Is little time to be lost."—Dsiir Telegraph.
A sale of Rochefore• prorerty at Paris, last
produced 3 546 60 francs. This aura, reduced 57911i1a
francs by tbe payment of some small &cat conalts
whole fortune of his children, tem the value of ma napeinlehil
1.0111•1,A
The lower orders of Naples have beet deprived of
sonno delloecles with which they at. wont to indulge. •
handbill bearing the signature of the Syndic., posted oa Oa
walls, prohibits under pain of an shawl nominal fine lie
male of mMis and mushrooma
According to the &deices from Panama, extensive
coalfields have been found In the middle of She Whams. he-
&WOOD Panama and Aspinwall, and In oommunimition with
the Atlantic by the Rio Indio, in oontredietton of the
theories of Humboldt and ether geolegieta that "coat dam
not exist in volcanic regions.'

A lad of 14 ham died in the Royal South Haab In
&miry, at Southampton, whilst under the in Susan of
ether, undergoing an operation on the eye. • corona's
jory returned a verdict of maidentel death, and IS wee mere
that this was the am woo of the kind in the Wrung
for 24 yearn
The Pope is said to be in excellent health, and
holds remotions daily. On Friday, while giving =dime§ to
some members of the Catholic party, he wee qaesticold as to
the period of the triumph of his came. He replied, We
give way Milo illusions on this point; humanly spthlftg ft
Ii very far off."
So many officers have volunteered to join
General Sir Garnet Wolseley's Athens... expedition, olflifa4
designated " special service on the Wert Coast of AIM'.
that 111. understood no more will be required, and among
all ranks there la expressed • willimpleas end oven a dedre
on the part of some to take put In the expedition.
The queetion is being asked of antiquarians and hb.
Milani which wee the Lord Mayor of London, who, when
James 1., in • capeicions mood, threatened the Lord Maya
with removing the mat of royalty, the mestings it Faille-
ment, Ac., away from the capital, replied, "Your Majesty
at Inns will be graciously pleased to leitth no the river
I Tharam"
A woman, 70years of age has died under armor
stem. of a ins &ions nature at Remy. The deoemed
mired her monthly perish allowance of fis. one mobil WI
week, and was found next morning lying is a field, &Mum*
In an epileptic St, her clothes wet 12400gb, and her MOW
ROOS. She wee removed home, and died after two dap, dale(
which she could give no amount of herself. An inquest was
held by the Attorney General, end vas adjourned for further
evidence.

The homeward flight of American. from Europe kee
commenced earlier than gang this sawn, having bees ex-
pedited, no doubt, by the financial crists In New Yoe; T'he
Cunard steamer Cuba, which melted from Lierpool I.
Saturday. took out 220 cabin passengers, amongst whom WON
aeueral Van Buren, who returns front the Ileum flitaUtt.
II on, Bishop Doane, and several member. of CJIIIIIIIIL
The committee of the London Hospitala Fund an-
nounce to their final report that the net amount realised,
after payment of expenses, was £26,9119 19e Ed. ?be whole
of It hss been disbursed by the diateiOntelos Commie's*, wit it
the exception of a small amount reserved for the weed.
nary expenses of next year AUM of instittliouegmbemiagegedile
a hundred In number, le given to show how the
was carried out.
Advices from South Australia any that the captain
of the bark Tongoy, Charles Alfred Wbittariceabe, was mere
dared on the 2.id of August by some of the mew, whet the
ship was In harbour. Captain Widttecombe was a young
men, on his brat voyages. a muster. He was a son of ala
officer to the Coastguard at Plymouth. He bad of* bees
married six weeks before belch Ragland-

A tunnel on the Linooln Mine, Suttee Creek, Cs&
fonts, caved In • ahirt time ago. and eight awe were awl-
located , no assistance could be afforded for a length al thou
owing to the preens* of font air In the mine. Thhiyobc
boars afterwards four men were rescued Moran. dibris, and
the bodies of those killed were resound.
At Dover, on Sunday warning the body of •
apparently about 85 years of en, remedially dresser=
wearing a black frock coat, area washed on non In the hay.
and picked op by • boatman maned Mahn We wee laid
extinct, althoogli the body had the Ippasrlatsef baying
been bat • short thee In the water. Tb.. head of the da-
mmed was very much UMW, and the body In mural places
bore marks of violenoe.

"Median widows have hitherto been au exception
to widow. In general—they have refrained from marrying
man, notwithstendlng the law in than favour. HU a youog
lady of thirteen, who has been promotumly hemmed, Is
shout to lend the way, and others doubtless follow hoe
example. All gentlemen interested In the imam of Modal
re-marrlegs lire invited to be present at the oirenamay."—
new of India.
An Oxford jury ham concluded an inquiry hog tie
&lash of if' Faster, a tradesman of that city, ono of No
'sidling of the Wires railway cotastrophs. A reedit* nut
returned that Mr Foster died from Injuries resolved M aia
accident which bad not been satisfactorily aommultid
the jury adding an expression of opinion that the Lambs
and North Western Company were not imallted hi
trains at so high a rego of speed through steam=
over facing point., more especially In the ease sfttrimi el
inch magnitude.
An inquest has been held at Jersey on the bag:
Pismire ...nada, a Frenchman, who was killed whilst
In a quarry at Bt. Jahn's. The deceased weligevX bp
him hi
self digging under • bed of stone, wsk gall
way, and hurled him beneath IL On the dome re-
moved he was found gaits dead, iodine wake listled to
belief that, seeing the stone shoat to talj. he bad sobs-
toured to run away, but had been overtaken.

Apropos of Prafria' n trophies I Froaoh bands Ith.
old oars all the colours kept at tn• Ilcdel des Invalid's all
Paris by the Invalids resident there were bang, as Ow/ ow
that the capture of Paris wog unavoldabb. It k sold UM
the invalids collosted the ashes of all Ye trorldia burs%
throw Ulm into a (mak of wise, and drank Ms -W., a.
the health ot au Emperor.

It is related that when Dr. Minton began his
studies he worked with such ardour that he often estand
himself the time thestimary for dew He proemial_ a mink
some awe to six feet log sad Wig mailmomas lima dm
extremities of which he Owed et ewe deka Br Mg wpm
it, holding his book open above him. It Is gall Melts Oft.
position the want of sleep is is. readily felt Wi=
of him, his eyes closed and the book fell, the shook
his balance, and he followed the book. The shook arellelth
him, and he got up and began his work again.
The Liverpool Courier mys bodies of
einployth have at various times lately raemerfaffillthaa=
employers on different lines for extra pay for ems* &IN
instead of its being reckoned • portion of the orillaary -
worth g week, but without effect, the arrangements Whim
the compaulea preventing one granting the co
unless others were *greenlet.). To meet this difficulty
railway servants of the kingdom, through the agency or
powerful society, are now getting op • anivonal palithra Ila
the various directorates, °olden of which will be presselisi
to each dmaltaneoualy.
At • meeting in the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, the
committee appointed to consider the tone of the Wilberforce
memorial reported that they were squaw diddled between
the erection of • new cathedral for the Althea* °ldiot* sal
the completion of Coddesdon College, lomagad al the WS
prelate, by the addition of • chapel awl as twee* et Ns
small endowment. The Bishop, who mai be lag always Imes
received et Christ Church Cathedral WWI 411181111•11 esediallres
by the Christ College authwities, said be mold art Mad sag
general inclination to raise the gam regalia, tor tha Imam
plan, and the Chapter would in no way asebit, being
opposed to it. On the motion of Mr. Banyan, M.P.,
by Ite. J. G. Hubbard, the Coddsedon scheme was arkellek,
and, on the motion of Mr. Mowbray, a aramalmar
appointed to carry it oat
At the Oxford Diocesan Conference, the Rev. Pre-
bendary Mores, of Nottingham, mid that 76 per met, of the
pauperism of this country we. due to drunkenness Pablft
opinion, there/ ore, expected the Church of inglared to bike
up the question, and The TOM* had, in • leadhog article,
challenged it to do so. He thought that every one should be
at liberty to drink what he pleased In moderation; but, so
far sa drunkards were concerned, very strong measures@
should be taken, for they moot be either drunkards or toed
abstalnen. (Hear, hear.) As one means of repetheing In-
temperance, he suggested the establishment of British Work.
men Institution,, which were neither Inc re nor lees than
publichouses without drink. Be could not see why, In the
course of time, one meld not be established In every pariah.
The remains of that distinguished member of the
mg,il3i,l profession, Dr. le tiatoo, have been interred at Pens
legOhithe, without pomp, to eecordanoe set h his expressed
wish; but • large eonoourre of his professional admirer@ ao-
compthied the funeral. Tics pall, ea • graceful compliment,
was borne by representithves of the learned bodies Ac-
cording to the French papers, IL N6lston has left in (mins,
sum equel to ABBO,OOO. The late Emperor Napoleon made
hit. • senator, an honour to which ELM per annum wan
attached, In return for having saved the the of the tithes
imperial
On Sunday Dr. Longmuir' from Edirar:ag h. ca.
elated in the pariah church at Balmoral en', delivered a
powerful sermon from Malachi xIvL 5. Tb's *Balmoral pew
was empty, service having been held at the Coatis In
morning. From Abergeldl there were t.ne Prt•oe end Pea-
ces. of Wales, accompanied by Prize., yob. of °hid.
Sir Hastings Doyle. General Prot," ass. 6"baa
Thomas and Lull Bleldulph- Tim day was add anal sfroemy„
and few stranger. were Prresaik to the afternoon thereinto
And Princess of Wales bud party went out to tea I. the opus
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—Mr. Pander, M.P., had tory harrow escape from
drowning is Mob hay ou Eiaturday afternoon. Ile was pro-
e.a(p.-_,:s out of the harbour In a pawagatoat to loin the
shoot $0 .41 for Kirkwall, a number of other pee-
mangers for Orkney being on board. When about half way
out • series ol heavy waves were suddenly thrown Into the
bay, braining In suodeasket anima UM boat, and Wades all
on board in very immineet peril The wow did their best
to keep headway against the nut and by vary &Ml=
the head at the boat was kept &reinstate waves The
excitement prevailed at the quay and on board the steamer
Until the boat reachea so near the lake that a rope Deald be
thrown bee.
"On. of the gravest defects in the eyeken obtain-
ing at may of oar prisons is the want of a elawfilealice of
prionere with some sort of reference to the ineSaitado.,
T
the offences of which they have bees rion= ....• :=
ration Iron each other of the chimes so
h
d* o Dottern9 t blra dqtPouW" orim.'xceriel7s4 tr.*" "ftcgaDd irkgietimec"."
confession of an summit, t niacharged the rim a_Ser an ',M..'
prbonment for a first offences of gosling • few shallop
penury' B 4 c 4.
,Inomwt4"dl oon;l—mishre""belirlM"l7".whmuiltilii;
and I know in. shoes whoa s"6ll2lea
forpri..tai.theomaigparpows,.
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