The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-01-17 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWL,

DRITISF AND FUAEIGN

A Melbourne despatch says that 2,500 tone of bread.
stuffs were exported but week.
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The War Office le said to pay the printers employed
on wore marked couddentlel" at double

The importation of egg's still increases. In the year
emir,' the 31st ult., the value Imported war £2,367,741,
against El 762,803 In the pre vlout year.
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In ;Taman newel-31er editrms are among the class
privileged t.. cvrry sw,rds, and, like policemen, are per-
mitted to run m In, especially Into disagreeable callers.
Continental whines state that the dude...past has
become extinct in Prue in. The military surveilianee *stab-
ihmed by the German authorities with a view to the sappers'-
lion of the disease were very f evere, and has proved cdllikent.
" Mr. Martin F. Tupper has received a pension f
a v.v... the Civil Service List, as the author vll Pro-
verbial Philovephy "—Rock.

A hundred years ago it only tk 1,200 lamps to
light Paris. Narr It require@ usArly

The Spencrsche Zertung saya that throughout his
receut dales. the Eruper.r William has hot takeu a drop or
grain of physic.

In the United States Senate, on Monday, the
Eli reideg the naiades of members ot Congress eel re-
pealed.

The consumption of potatota imported must be very
ergo. The declared value imported in the last 12 months
was 2,121235;i in the prectulug year, £1,04,240.

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The Chancellor of the Etchrquer acknowledges as
Conscience %toner " th recelpt of £6l 15s. 6 1., sent anoup
monsly, for unpaid Income-too; end of lus. 111 stamps from
N. S. . . _

In the last twelve months the value of cocoa imported
Into Great Britain ass £605, which was a considerable
ine,e4re on Me previous year, alien tne amount was
£470,695. •

According to a Parliamentary volume just homed,
church rates are still levied wnere m lrts ages caret on their
sectuity. In the yea ended Eater, 1872, the receipts were
£23,340, smithy srpendltu.e was £21,0 0. Tue outstanding
loot s anscuutut at that pellod to £93,443.

Dried oyeterr are among he imports into San Fran-
oleo° from Chms. They are eiroblr taken out of the shell,
dried in the aun, and packed In wooden boxes. The Chinese
are the principal consumers.
Acoording to an riffi dal return, the quantity of
tobacco coa,i:md in this country appeart to be largely In-
creaking. Besides cigar., the value imported in the twelve
months ended the 314 1011, was £2,113,547 egainst £1,152,914
In the preceding year.

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A correApondent of the Cologne Gazette rays that the
Duke of Edanburgh will, after lilt Ivan:age, r. sloe for some
time cvery tar at Coburg, where • beautiful palace, ar-
ranged with English colatkri, bas been built for him.

duel with swords took place at Floren :e on the
Bth Inst. between the son of an Italian marquis and a Govern-
ment official, In a War the tatter wae killed. The cause of
the duel arose out of a disp.--te at the Pergola Theatre.

" Plea% don't shoot the cows,"'is a sign on a farmer's
fir co a few miles from town, Intended for city sportsmen
who go out snipe shading.

Dariig the year 1873 nineteen duals were kught in
Franc- ; two of them ended fatally, and a few of the
relmdulng seventeen resulted in srievlous woun,!s, the
maj orgy of the sword duels being terminated at the " first
blood," and some pistol duels after a few (In one ewe as
many as five) ineffective milady.

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The Premier baa appointed Mr. Charles William
Tom)ley, of Fulbourue, Cue. Itotulcrum of the Woof Ely,
to be L rd Lteuter,aut of the aunty of Cambridge. In place
of the Eel of Lisrovicke, deceased. The Duke of liedford
has been also selected to succeed Mr. Townley an Cast.
Rotukourn of the Itle of Ely.

Mr. Seth Adorn, who died recently at Boston, left
an estate velned at 1 701,000 dollars. Me willeprovides for
the ettabliehmoot of a home or hoepital for hypoehowirlaes,
to be built within Often miles of Boston.

The Supreme Court of Juetice of the Brazilian
Erup're he f ,uurt the B.shop of Pernambnco guilty of at-
tempting to set stride an Article of the Coutt Omen, and has
ordered him to turrendtr to the Coart to receive inclement.
The Hit.hon's offer cats punishable by four to sixteen mouths'
Imprisonment.

The committee of visitors of the Ciunty Lunatic
Am mm at Comfy Hatch have Increased the charge Sr the
maintenance of pauper lunatics confined In that my dim, and
chargeable to any union or perleh in the country, tr
93. 7+l, to 9.. lid per bead per week, being an addition of a
hal'peouy per ay.

Mr. Bright in acknowledging e receipt of a reso-
lution r assed at a inestlng of the Miuland International
Arbitration Utd. n ~pres.es his opdalon that the Ashantee
war ti the conseinence of a wrong volley and of years of erg-
let. He hopes that no man In England wishes the war to
continue.

From April let to the 10th instant, the Exchequer
recall Is MOlll'l6l to A 5407,608. as compared with
453,189 694411 the corresponeing p.tiod of lass tesr. The
expenditure bets been tell 233.(63. On Saturday last the
balance in the Bank oh England was rather leas than a mil-
lion
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The mail steamer Neva, which arrivel at Lisbon
het Monday, bron.ht a !pedal etspatch from the G Ad Coast,
announcing that the Mete of Datooney was reported to have
entered foto an alliance wtth the Ilsnantem. The report,
which seems to have b.om omitted on the cewtt odd. that
Strong reinforcements were on Muir way from Dahomey.

At the last meeting of the Etlinb-urgh School lioard
the oasts ot parents who refuse to setid their childwn to
school were hr eight up IS n.l dealt with. A mum or. of the
CAMS won remitted 1,, committee, ti be Inquired luso while
In other4the promif es of the parents to send the'r edidrea
ho tehouPwere aecapted.
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There bee been Borne revere fighting in Stunatnit, be.
Lateen the Dutch and the aelilnere The former lost r men
killed, and 197 wounded. They, heart, e carried hy asaault
one of the poaltions they had att ackeo. according to atrete.
gram from Ponang, thy hut In capturing the Morgue 240
killed and wounded inclading 12 effi ere The Achigete are
laid to have made a de aperate realstonce.

The Frcs-tlruraid officern of Ch am pagne,acanned
of frying by couritner.lal on th ,ollog, elite the errulitlee,
a e,rti.r with eappllee for the eerier, have all bein ae-
(lentil! 00 tbernand than they 01.1 y Icoew of the armistice
Irma iuritau fhb/ovation, whica they were Let bound to

A jtovnal of Geneva states that the hod), of the once
GVOIITILS Nos est,» Am4l Ii lying la a Temper s stave An the
cemetery of Ciet city, aHO aothl:44 t, mark the ep.,e
wooden seek.. beartug the momber, 1,176 Ile died arknown
and destitute in a tumble lodging-house at (knave, last year.

A man tykgrapbei about • Pituation to Dublin.
'Shall I come, or It the place fillmd I" Ih. antwer properly
IM. NCI Place flied en the 17ih." The telegraph nptrator
receive,. at." Nu place filled on the 17th." He Went, and WM
MI, US traveling expenht‘

A corretporidmit from lilutlch menti,ns that the
Km; of Bavaria new recently sent gm ral photoomphers to
Vernetles for the parpoee of tastier exe,t cents, of the de-
corations, et., of the pulses. Ihs Kli gof Bevaria Intends t,
produce Item in a country yuLe Go It nw bat:ding hear
A sum of fifty pour da is offered for the best esQay on
the importance of the rest of the etventh day for ail, but
especial y for those who are employed In ishorious occups,
Muni Memoirs are to he addressed, not Interthan September
30, 1874, to thc president of the Sevias Sscety for tie Sehtlile
cation of the Sabbath, Place de Champel, 497, at Geneva.
It is cffi Icily announced first the Duke of Elm.
burgh and the Grand Duchess! Marie are expected to arrive
In Ws canntry about the herlonlng of March, and win t roe
ceed direct from the port of disembarkation to Windsor
Castle.

Our trade with countries beyond the seas employed
more shipping in 1873 tiian In the preceding year. The vessels
entered at our Torn with cargoes In 1873 were, lu the
aggregate, 0( 18 791,983 tons, using 888,023 Gins more them In
1672 ; the reisels cleireil with caruOns were of 19,142,687
tons, or 105,6.5 tons lass than in 1072; the total entered and
cleared In 11721. 37,91440 tow, being 780,338 tons mien than
in the preceding year.

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At • sp•cial petty PePBiolle held in Douglas, Isle of
MI., OD Saturday, a number of grocers .holutrig wholesale
wine and spirit he licse were fined for selling tiasintities of
spirits loss than one pint, the smallest amount authorized to
be sold under • " prirkte" or wholewde 110ence in the island.
The prosecution was lattlgated by llle 'lowland v ctuallers,
eh,' engaged the effete*, of two ex-detect yen from Dian-
cheeter.

111dre. Titiena has llenn presented with a testimonial
•nbsoribe.l for by the clVz ma of I/ iblin. Ihe testlmbelel
c 'manned of a to mutant specimeo of Iri43 pqplln (role co,our)
rkivl a snit (1 fri,h point lace. The preseuteti-n was YIII•Ibf
by ?Alai hdOlale Jo'rlllloll, secretary to tbs committee, who
fond, In.werer eight tt °Agra he, It showed the appreciation
in whic,*3Mdlle.fiiolewooh.tAieDnlsjin U &Mate ftd,
a gatiaiewom. and of her charity In alleviating the Wak•
WWI 0 She