The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-10-19 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

In London 2,133 births and 1,213 deaths were regis-
tered last week.
The Morley Main Colliery was reopened on Mon-
day, having been reported to be in a safe condition.
The Excise duty on wine and sweets in the year
ended the 31st of March last was £193,842, 175. 40.
The expenses of fortifications in the financial year
ended the 31st of March last were £37o,ooo—the largest sum
expended for three yearn.
A pretty girl lately entered a saloon at Dubure,
la., kicked over a table, drew a revolver on the bartender,
and lead her father out by the ear.
On Monday morning, Sarah Beal, an elderly woman,
living a lonely life at hither-green, near Sheffield, was found
by a policeman, burned to death by her own fireside, her
clothe' being in ashes and her body horribly charred.
fhe death is announced of Prince Albrecht, of
Prassia brother of the Emperor William of Germany, at the
age of 63 It is expected that the funeral will take place in
Berlin on Saturday cent.
It is stated that last year's profits derived from
several large collieries in the Sheffield district exceed
£lOO,OOO each, while the rate for the last quarter is even
greatly in excels of that amount.
The Rev. Peter Cartwright, the great Methodist
Itinerant preacher of the Western States, died at his home in
Illinois, on the 25th of September, aged b 7 years. He had
been over 65 years in the miniatery, and enjoyed a great re-
putation as a powerful preacher.
The extremely interesting series of letters appearing
In the Daily News, from the coal districts, and in which the
condition and prospects of the miners are so graphically
and powerfully depleted, is from the pen of Mr. Archibald
Forbes.
At a meeting recently held in a small provincial
town to consider the ensrmous and increasing price of coals,
it was proposed, seconded, and unanimously rewired that
" tidy sort of thing should not be allowed to go on any
longer."
Michigan, says Hearth and Home, raises some very
floe apples. Some klichiganders thought an. and sent live
barrels last year to Queen Victoria. Queen Victoria thought
no too, ant rends an order this year for seventy barrels for
her winter use.
Mr. Andrew Currie, of Fife, has presented to Mr.
Disraeli a gift of a walking stick made from wood which
formed the staircase leading to the dwelling-house at
Kirkcaldy which history assigns as the birthplace of Adam
Smith.
A speech has been delivered at Langres by the
Prince de Joinville, at the inauguration of a monument in
memory of the Mobile Guards killed in the late war. The
Prince said he longed ter national concord, as that alone
could pint a stop to revolutions in France.
'The young Countess de Montfort was returning
from a drive in the 11.4 s ile lionlogde, when she was
suddenly seized with the pains of labour, and before she
could reach home gave birth to a boy in her carriage. The
mother and child are dcing
Some of the cab proprietors in Manchester have
raisol their fares to is. per mile for any number of pas-
sengers, the fares hitherto charged having been ihi per mile
for one or two passengers and ls. for any number above The
reason assigned for the advance is the increased cost of
wages and materials.
The poor underpaid labourer, who must strike to get
his rights, has just been exhibited to us by the Labour News,
which states that there is an ironwork, in the North of
England who earn. wages at the rate of £l,OOO a year, and
that there are many making as much as £250.
The Vestry of Lambeth has the credit of being the
first local authority in London to carry out the new Adulter-
ation Act It has appointed Dr. John Muter, F.C.S., of the
South London School of Chemistry and Pharmacy, to be the
public analyst for the borough.
At a Court 1,14 at ISalmoral on Tuesday, Lord
[Latin rley had audience of her Majesty, and resigned the
Great Seal, wh,ch was thereupon consigned by her Majeaty
to the k. ening on Sir Roundell Palmer, who was sworn of the
Privy Council, and appointed Lord Chancellor.
For many years Paris has not been so full of Ameri-
cans as at present At the Grand Hotel as many as 200
people have been turned away in a single day ; and from the
Grand, ranging down the list to the modestest pr.wion, every
hich of room is occupied, and has been so for several weeks.
Not only Paris, but all Europe is full of Americans.
The total receipts into the Exchequer from the Ist
April to Saturday last amount to ,P 35,568 495, being £1,899,133
over those in the corresponding period Lest year. The ex-
penditure was £40,790,693. The balance ha the Bank of Eng-
land on the 12th inst. was £.1,673,905, and in the Bank of
Ireland, P. 967,646.
It has been decided that men belonging to the militia
reserve who fraudulently enrol in any regiment of the militia
other than that to which the reserve belongs will be required
to refund the sum of £l, in addition to the usual stoppage of
18s fid., and will be struck off the strength of the militia
reserve.
An interesting trait of modern Japan figures in the
last mail news. During hie visit to Nagamki, the Mikado
waited upon the telegraph operators, with the intention of
exchanging civilities with the crowned heads of Europe. Oa
discovering that even electricity may keep a man waiting
longer than he has time to spare, he relinquished the project.
The rapid melting of the snow on the wok!. and
moors caused very serious feedings of all the North Riding
rivers of Yorkshire on Sunday. The railways were Inun-
dated on both shies, and at night the farmers had to drive
their cattle out of the flooded fields. The lowland farmers
must be heavy losers, as this is the third flood since mid-
summer.
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The Quarter Session, for the borough of Rochester,
held on Monday, was a aiden session, an event which has
not occurred for some years. The Mayor, Mr. Woodhams,
presented the Recorder, Mr. Barr or, with a pair of white
gloves, and made some remarks as to the satisfactory work-
ingot the Licensing Act, in which the Recorder concurred.
From a financial statement presented by the clerk to
the Leeds School Board, it appears that the current expendi-
ture of the Board, including office expenses, amounts to
4,000 per annum. This is in addition to the fees paid by
children and the Government grant. A rate of three-half-
pence in the pound covers the cost.
On Friday, a coroner's jury at Rainow, near Maccles-
field, returned a verdict of Wilful Murder and Suicide in the
case of a young woman named Swift, the wife of a collier,
who had drowned herself and child, eleven months old, in
Forge Pool, the previous day. The unhappy women at-
tempted to drown a second child, two years old, but he
scrambled out of the water.
Advices from China inform us that the preparations
for the Emperor's marriage are being pressed forward; 010ne7
and silk are being sent up for else in the ceremonies. Jewelry
is brought up for the Mandarins, and schemes are discussed
for adding lustre to the spectacle, which, unless it be marred
by some coup WOO and consequent civil war, is to inaugurate
a new era of magnificence and prosperity.
The Home Secretary has forwarded to the Glasgow
authorities a reprieve in favour of John IPGinley, who at the
Circuit Court held in Glasgow, on September 25, was sen-
tenced to be executed for the murder of John Shilling, in
connexion with the party procession riot at Witham on the
12th of July last. It is expected that the reprieve will be
followed by a commutation of sentence.
M. Louis Blanc recently undertook to deliver a
lecture at La Rochelle, but the French Government pro-
hibited it. M. Louis Blanc now writes to his friends announ-
cing that it is intention to publish what he had proposed to
sat; and that he thinks this will be the beet mode of protest-
ing against the mummer in which the Government of the
Republic applies Republican principles.
Mr. Barnum, the Prince of Showmen, has, it is said,
been successful in obtaining for exhibition in his Museum of
Wonders a great novelty in the slut eel of a three.arnied man,
who appeared the other day in the State on his way from feis
native town of Unadella, Otsego county, to North Carolina,
to visit a sister residing in that State. Why not bring him
tn England to point out the three ways for the benefit of a
distinguished politician t
Large quantities of potatoes are being imported into
London from Rotterdam and the Dutch ports. In addition
to these, very large cargoes of potatoes are being brought
into the Tyne and other north-eastern ports by steamers
from Hamburg. Handy little sailing vessels and steamers
are also engaged In bringing potatoes and corn from France
to the east coast of England. As the French have not the
requisite kind of tonnage for this trade, most of the vessels
In this eneployment are British.
The case of the Tichborne Claimant came before
Mr. Justice (loath, in chambers, on a summons calling on
Messrs. Gorton and be Fiva, who have been his attorneys, to
deliver to the Claimant all documents in their custody re-
lating to his defence. The application was twisted, on the
ground that the soli-hors had a hen on the papers until
their bill of costa had been paid. The trustees of the Defence
Fund were ready to pay the amount on taxation, but the bill
could not be taxed lentil after the vacation. Ultimately, it
was arranged tnat the matter should be referred to Master
Pollock.
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On Sattmday, a meeting of the South Wales atearn
Cog owners. under the pre Adency of Mr. George Elliott,
M.P., was held at Cardiff, to tate into cmaidsratiou the
action to be adopted by them in view of the impending lock-
out in the iron trade. It was unanimously dedded that the
terms of the arbitrators award, delivered in February last,
should be adhered to, and that the rate of wages established
at the iron-works should continue to govern the steam coal
trade. At the same time, and while resolved to follow any
upward movement, the coalmaiters reserved to the mselve
the right of deferring any reduction till such time as might
seem advisable. About 12,000 men are employed in the arbi-
tration collieries.
The Paris Erencment relates that a few days since a
man who was digging to his garden at Roithy came upon a
shell half burled in the earth. He struck it with his spade,
when the missile exploded and the unfortunate itan was
blown to pieces. Another accident of a similar character
occurred a few days previously at Ermont. A dealer in old
Icon found among his purchases a shell, which, being unable
*.o sell, he placed upon the pathway before his house, and
endeavoured with a heavy hammer to break it up. The shell,
being still charged, suddenly exploded and the man was
killed upon the spot, his limbs being torn from his body.
It is announced that ANIL the member of the Com-
mune, attempted to escape off the coast near the Cape of
Good Hope, by swimming away from the trails') 'rt. ship which
was conveying him to New Caledonia. The fugitive was im-
mediately fired at, and recaptured with a broken arm. Ibis
draws attention to tie harsh treatment French Political con-
victs are subjected to when they try tt escape , thus Osai
ilt pass heft re a conned of war on reaching New Caledonia,
n, t only for his attempted flight, but on a charge of theft
The clothes worn by the convicts are considered Government
property, and unless the fugitives choose to leave behind
them the only habiliment they possess, they are liable to
suffer for stealing. The punishment inflicted in such cases
varies from six months' to five years' solitary confinement In
a cell.

Nice luta been reached by the " strike " mania—the
cabdrivers there having been 'out' for upwards of a week

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At several collieries in Fife the price of house coal
has been reduced about 2s. per ton.
Prince Hassan, eldest son of the Khedive of Egypt,
who has finished his Oxford career, will, it is understood,
make a three )ears' tour round the world.
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Through the foundering of a steamer in Lake
Stiehlfm four persons have been drowned and two boatloads
of survivors are still missing.
The committee of the Alexandra Orphanage fo
infants have a third fine been favoured with a donation of
£l,OOO from their generous and anonymous friend
A strike has oceurrel at the ironmilis of Strabane,
Londonderry. A thousand persons are thrown out of employ-
ment.
It is said that the Prince of Wales will, early in the
hunting season, honour the Duke of Marlborough with a visit
at Blenheim Palace.

The nett produe, of the inbaMteri house duty in the
year en led th: st,t of March la3E wee .4:1,2 2,81153 eg, out
of 3:1,2ti3,0'8 iS.. 104.

M. Idniher intends, it is said, to appeal to the
Council of State against the expulsion of Panne Napoleon
from France.
The Secretary of State for War has directed that in
the present and future tears the Volunteer year shall termi-
nate on the 31st of October instead of the 301 h N0V0110.101%

A penny church for Ft" Main, London, is the latest
novelty. A lady ail eertiFes ler subscriptions of a {elm
each with a view to raiiine a sacred edifice in Fulham fields.

The jourrioymen f ,rriers in London have silted for an
increase of the'r wages, and are organising with • view to
enforce their demands.
A Fretich company is about to establish kideks for
the sole of good claret m various parts of London, after the
mode that has been found so suecesaful in Paris.

A rehbiahop Manning ham prohibited the employment
of female vocalists in the Roman Catholic places of a orship
within his diocese.

M. Rochefort is reported to be in a very precarious
state. Ile Is suffering from a nervous fever, which even pre-
vents him from wielding the pen.

The Empress Elizabeth of Austria has written to the
woman's rights club in Vienna Ladies, take my alviee
and keep away from polities. There Is nothhig but misery in
M. Saint Hilaire, private secretary to M. Thiers,
who has written so many letters of late as to alarm and
frighten the nubile by turns, has received the sobriquet of
"Alphabet."
The Swiss Times says that a young Englishman has
just diud in Cher from the effects of drinking of the water of
the Roseg glacier. Ile was advised by his tutor not to
partake of it, but di.l so, saddled after four days' illness.
At the Oxfordshire Quarter Sessions on Monday, the
magistrates resolved s increase the pay of the constabulary,
from the deputy chief constable downwards, ten per cent.,
In consequence of the increased price of provisions.
Here is a curious advertisement from the " agony "
column of The TialeS Who art thou? tans Skull, the
son of Skeleton, tribe of the bloodless, and native of
Ghostland. Bertram—Further Information of, ,he."
According to a statement just issued by the city of
Paris authorities, the expenses of the war and the insurrec-
tion as affecting the capital are set down—the former at
1,628,000 francs, and the latter at 3,082,', 30 frame
At St. Louie. Miss M'Pike, a maiden of 86 summers
was married lately to a civilised Indian, aged 67. During the
ceremony the lady looked pale and anxious, and finally fell
weeping on the breast of her bridesmaid.
It is announced in a New York telegram that the
iron ii orbs of Messrs. Johnston In Pennsylvania, the largest
in America, have been burnt, the loss being estimated at half
a million of dollars.
In the year ended the 31st of March last the revenue
received by the clerk of the Parliaments in the House of
Lords was £20,3115 145. lid , and by the House of Commons
under the Act 12 and 13 Victoria, cap. 72, £37,494 4s. 3d.
At a meeting of the Town Council of Hamilton it
has been unanimously agreed to present Mr. If. M. Stanley,
the discoverer of Dr. Livingstone, with the freedom of
the burgh on the occasion of his visit to Hamilton in No-
vember.
At a meeting of Oxfordshire magistrates on Monday,
a resolution congratulating Sir Roundell Palmer on attain-
ing the exalted office of Lord High Chancellor was agreed to.
The resolution states that it is without precedent that any
native of Oxfordabire has attained this elevation, with the
exception of Simon, Lord Harcourt, in the early part of the
eighteenth cectury.
At the close of the French and German war quan-
tities of seed potatoes were sent from Great Britain to enable
the half-ruined French farmers, whose lands had been over-
run by the contending armies, to produce a crop for the
ensuing year. Part of the second year's produce of those seed
potatoes is now being shipped for the English market.
From a financial state-ment presented by the clerk to
the Leeds School Board it appears that the current expendi-
ture of the board, including office expenses, amounts to about
£4,000 per annum. This Is In addition to the fees paid by
children and the Government grant. A rate at three half-
pence in the pound covers the cost.
On Saturday last the Cunard steamer Seotia, Com-
mander Lott, left Liverpool for New York, with 200 saloon
passengers, amongst whom were General Boric', Miss Nellie
Grant (daughter of the President of the United States), The
O'Connor Don, M.P., and Mr. Sartorie, til.F'., and ale
Thompson, the great railway magnate, who, it is said, has
contracts on hand for 7,000 miles of railroad.
The living of Great Malvern has been offered by
Lady Emily Foley to the Rev. J. Gregory Smith, rector of
Tedstene Delamere, and prebendary of Hereford, Slid ac-
cepted by him. The value is small. Mr. Gregory Smith is
liampton Lecturer at Oxford for lei; and author of e'nith
and Philosophy, and other works.
"Adolphe the First, President of the Republic, has
made his enthority 'respected ' Tile citizen ruler of France
has compelled Prince Napoleon to ease the country, and
seek shelter in a itate which has been a refuee tor outcasts
during centuries. Arbitrary rules which the Bonapartes
applied without stint when in power, are now enforced
against themselves, and an Imperial Prince who desires to
have his children trained in a Parisian sohool is treated as a
trespasser."—Daily Telegraph
A commemorative service on the occasion of the
twenty-secone anniversary of the death of the first Queen of
the Belgians (Louise, daughter of Louis Philippe) took place on
Saturday, the 12th that, at the Monumental Church at
Lack., built in memory of her, to which the chapel servile(
as a burial-place for the Belgian Royal Family is attached.
The King, Queen, and Count of Flanders were present at the
service.
The Duke of Bedford has offered to contribute £l,OOO
towards the removal of certain houses and other buildings iu
St. Peursaquare, Bedford, so that the whole of the square,
with it, floe old church in the eentre, may be thrown quite
open to view, lids great public improvement has been for
really years contemplated, and ills now probable that with
this munificent aid the object will be accomplished.
A singular rage wan heard at Preston on Saturday.
Four bakers were reimmoned for baking bread on Suedays
the prosecutors being a number of other bakers who had re-
solved to discourage Sunday baking, and formed an associa-
tion to carry out that object. It was admitted that the law
prohibited the baking of bread on Sundays, though it
allowed the baking of dinners up to half-past one. The
offending bakers promised to discontinue the practice of
bread-baking on Sundays, and they were dismissed.
The Secretary of the East London Hospital for
Children desires to acknowledge the receipt of a donation of
£l,OOO is 'rich was paid into the Alliance Bank on Saturday
last by a gentleman giving the initials "U. G." lie states
that the Board of Management wish to express their grateful
thanks for this fourth ruunificient donation, and adds that,
In December last year, whoa the third present of £1.00"
reached them from "li. G.," the Board were about to sell
Stocks to meet current expenses, and that last week they
were compelled to sell out their only invested capital (LIMO)
for the same object. Thanks, however, to the unknown
donor, this sum need not now be touched.
The probability of Oxford being made a military
centre has drawn attention to the adoption of the "Conta-
gious Diseases Act "In that city ; and on Friday evening last
Samuel Fothergill, Esq , Parliementary agent of the "
National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious
Diseases Act" addressed a public meeting at the Town Hall,
when he endeavoured to explain "11,0 origin and workleg of
the Act," and "show its cruel, tyrannical, and unconstitu-
tional interference with the rights and liberties of women. '
Although the city was placarded for the meeting, the attend-
ance was not large or important.
It appears that the French Government, by the
grant of a concession for the manufacture and sale of
niatches, are about to realize a revenue of £640,000 per
annum, with a probability of its being increased to £960,000.
Looking at the success of an analogous impost in America
(remarks The Tirries), and at the losses 'sustained by insurance
offices and the public by the reckless distribution of these
articles, owing to their almost total want of value, some
doubt may, perhaps, gradually arise as to the propriety of
the ridicule heaped last pear upon the proposition of our
own Chancellor of the Exchequer.
At the adjourned inquest, held on Saturday, on the
bodies of the 34 men and boys killed by the explosion at
Morley alain Colliery, evidence was given that in the pockets
of the deceased matches, f awes, tobacco, and pipes, and a
key wherewith to open the safety lamp, were found; and
Ralph Berry, the underground steward, spoke to having
smelled tobacco-smoke in the pit two hours before the ex-
plosion ; but that did not strike him as being an oueof-the-
way occurrence. The inquest was again adjourned.
There were no less than thirty-two charges of
drunkenness Mr hearing at the Worship-street Police-court,
In bendon, on Monday morning. The magistrate, comment,
Mg time the fact to tile persons charged as they came bsfore
him, remarked that it was well known th it the law relating
to drunkenness was now so altered that it was impossible, in
any Mature, to pass over the otfeuce. Singular as the fact
mi ht seem, if one could imagine it, the Licensing Act
seemed rather to have increased than diminished drunken-
ss. The tines raeged from halls crown to 205., with the
alternative of from seven to fourteen days' imprisonment.
Archdeacon Denison lISA written to Mr. Gladstone
respecting the report that a sle(rt bill will be brought into
Parliament next Session—hy whom it is not stated—provid-
ing that no clergyman of the Church of England as by law
established shall be subject to any penalty for not saying the
Athenardan Creed on the several days specified in the Rubric.
Archdeacon Denison considers that as the question is still
under the attention of Convocation, by the direction of the
Crown, the Goveniment will he placed in the position of
having broken faith with the spirituality if it allows any such
bill to become law.
A correspondent of the Lundierman's CozeUc writes:—
" I have not the least hesitancy in asserting that there are
.1111 standing in the forests of Michigan over forty Millen
feet of mrecantable pine But such Is now the mill capacity in
Mi thigan, and the determination to wo:k It, that In the pre-
sent your one-eighth will be consumed of all the pine stand-
ing in the beginning of 1872, and the same fate will avail for
1873, and so on MIMI the pine forest will be swept away in
eight years, even it the woodman's axe Ls not aided by the
destroying flame."
The Prince and Princess of Wales arrived on Tues-
day at Chillingham Castle, is, the heart of the Cheviot Hills,
on • visit to the Earl and Countess of Tankerville.
Iran, Castle is remarkable for containing within its domain •
herd of wild cattle which once roamed over the country,
and of which this herd are the only surviving epecimeea,
1 hey are still in their wild state, and will no donut afford
sport for his Royal Highness.
"Since the reeignation of the President in January
'no incident has occurred which has produced no much ex-
citement in Paris as the arrest and expulsion of P:ince
Nepoleon from France. It is never possible at the nrst
moment to form an a:curate judgment of the effect upon the
public mind here of events of this sort. The Parisians have
been subjected to so much severe treatment of various kinds
that they have become cowed and timid, and their first
Instinct Is to cringe and accept without a murmur any
measure, however illegal, to which it may please the Govern-
ment to resort."—Special Paris Correspondent of The 7 nom.
"The belief that the south-west coast of the Aus-
trail. Continent, from Nicholl Bay to the head of Yorke'.
Peeinsula, abounds in pearl bank., has led to the starting of
a pearl fishing expedition, to start from Melhoune. The ex-
penses of a twelve months' expedition are set down at £1,000;
and, with silty days' clear fishing, it Is calculated on reelle-
leg Z.!,400, leaving a net profit of L 5,400. The calculation on
which the scheme is based places the value of mother-of-
pearl in the English market at from £B5 to L 225 per ton.
This is independent of the pearls, which represent a con.
siderable deer,. Age.
A correspondent writes to the Poll Mall e7azrtte
o In, a recent 'ember you call attention to the fact that the
system of heating buildings by means of het air has been
long in practice in Russia. It may be interesting to note
that a similar principle was adopted in Central Germany
more than nine centuries ago. During late excavatioms In
the basement of the now retried (Kalserhaus ' at Goshac, in
the Hartz mountains, the workmen discovered an extensive
series of horizontal flues. leading from • large central fire
vault. It is quite clear what their purpose must have 19 en,
for no evidence of other means of warming the place Is
whore to to be seen. This palace was the favourite abode of the
early Fremontnu kings, from the first Conrad in 911 AD. It
Is rsther curious that the Germans should have given span
really scientific and economic a method in favour of the
close and oppresidve stoves that are now in vogue through-
out theft country."

Peatal cards will be iesned in Italy in the coarse of
S few weeks.

A Scottish Fanners' Live Stock Inenrance Society
Ii being astahllthed, with a capital of £lOO,OOO.
All the railways which have their termini in Calcutta
now use Indian coal.

The library of the late Ileart of Lincoln has been
disposed of to• London dealer tor £1,200.
The excise duty on game produced £1.50,C24 in the
year ended the mu of Nisch huit.
Au analyst under the Adulteration of rood Act 11/
about to be appointed in ulascow.

The Prince Imperial was under examination last
week as a candidate for admission to the lio)al Altlitiry
Academy at Woolwich.
The Bishop of Lincoln boa issued a form a prayer
for use in his diocese supplicating the invine aid for the re-
moval of the cattle diseases now so Aft %Alen..

Penny school fees have engeged the ntlention of the
Llvcrpvi School 11,ani, anti it is prcp,seft to erect a Una-
pantry stho. I for the purpose •,1 an experhnen%
The first ifutnbvr of a new quartorly, docoted to the
cause of "Spiritusham," and c:alost Het Spiritseh l'ydscArift,
has appeared at The Hague.
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By an order of tile Cloremlr of 'New York, Mon-
day was observ,d ass day of e.etnr.d mom fling in the United
States, in memory of the late Mr. Sewar
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Indiana hag given the eon), de !mace t, Mr. Greeley's
eandidsture for the Preiiiioney. Its reieniiican majority
arn,nutd to tour senators anti ten ineulbers of the State
Ltgislature.

At the Hants Qntrter Seettione, Mr. G. Scharr.
Booth, M.P , Chairma of the visiting Justices, reported that
Audi... Ban meat had been introduced into the County Prison
with marked sue,esa, both from an economical and !sanitary
point of view. _ _ _

The funeral of Mr. Seward was solemnised on Mon-
day, at Auburn, ant President Grant telegraphed to General
Seward, speaking of the death of Mr. Seward as a toes to the
nation. Re says the late lamented statesman's services to
the country have locoing a part of its history.
A "wonderful discovery" is reported from Colorado,
in the shape of an enormous silver ledge, or system rf ledges,
near Carloon It is said to be ea feet iu width and live
milts in length, ante) ins from 17M1 deli, to 1,000 dole, per ton.
It is also report< d that a solid Vele of silver ore, ao Maio
wide, was struck in the Marshall tunnel, near George.
town.
The First Commissioner of the Metropolitan Ici=e
having replied to the memorial of the mom that he cannot
make any fresh arrangeraent with regard to the pay, they
have sent in another memorial, in thick they set forth their
reasons for an increase, but they state that this is by no
means a preparation for a strike, which they should depre-
cate.
The Conservative party in the West of Scotland in-
tended to take advantage of the forthcoming visit of Mr
Disraeli to invite him to a batiquet, and ask hien to address
' the working men of Glasgow, but tide idea has been aban-
doned, in consequence of the right hon, gentleman basing
indicated • desire that hie vielt should not be identilled with
any political demonstration.
The Baptist Union of England and Wales, sitting at
Manchester, have passed a resolution expreaseig alarm at the
prospect eta further extension of the denominational es stem
of education in Ireland, and calling upon the Government to
apply to all State aided schools in that country the principle
of secular education.
The Pall Mall Gazette indulges in the pleasant
anticipation that the year's revenue receipts will exceed by
some .e. 4,000,000 the artionut estimated in the last Budget,
Assuming that a large portion of the surplue should be ape
propriated to relief of local taxes, our contemporary suggests
that the American indemnity ought to be defrayed by means
of a loan, repayment of which might extend over not more
than two or three years.
The system of sewage irrigation has been en opera-
tion at Warwick One years, anti the accounts presented at a
recent meeting of the 'town Council of that borough showed
that during that time the receipts have been just opial to
the expenditure. The Council, however, have resolved 1010 k
their sewage farm, as they fear there will Weenie uncertainty
in realising the hay crepe.
A striking indication of the activity of Germany in
the perfection of its armaments is supplied by the fact of the
Prussian Government having ordered 150 OeO new titles and a
million cartridges from an eminent nienufaeturing company
In Birmingham, The rifles are to be on the Mauer system,
adapted, and will have a rango eaceeding that of the Chasse.
pot or Werder.
The King of Sweden lay in state for one day at
Malmii, 9,000 people went to see him, and many tears were
shed. The transporting of the body byrail to Stockholm was
like a funeral procemion through the whole. country from
south to north. The coffin was placed on a railway one nuncio
like a hearse, so that the coffin was seen all richly decorated
and with flowers on It.
If the alarmists who, two months ago, predicted the
utter failure of our potatoes and • good many other crepe were
merely mistaken in atteching too much importance to lc-ed
casualties, their error, while it has done really no seed to
the home producer, has proved of infinite beorlit to the
hungry consumer. Under the influence or ace doleful state-
ment a crib] ished, anti with the desire., profit by so promising
a market, the foreigner has be" pouring in supplies on a
much more alamdant scale Man usual.
An old lady mooed Mrs. Beaton, has been burnt to
dean in her eon house, at Revolt urseetrost, Birmingham.
She and tier husband lived together, the old lady being td,
eiid air. Beaton SO years of age. It Pt Ellipoaell that ber
dress caught ilre when she was boiling some water. Her
dress mid underclothing were almost bunit away, and ma
one side of her body, from the head to the foot; the flesh
was literally burnt to the Lone.
According to r& Daily News telegram from Rome It
is said that lu the conversation with the Pope on Saturday,
Cardinal Cutlets urged his Ruthless to support Lim its his
endeavours to place Irish education in the hands of the
Catholic priests. Cardinal Cullen, it elide° Heel, wished the
Pope to act enerzetically in the question of the I halway
ton, but Pius IX. reclmmended moderation, declariug that
the time for action hut not 9el arrived.
It is Paid that M. Thiers has received a box con-
taining two Orsini bombs, and a message that, deepite the
watchfulness of the police, 2,000 of those explosive missiles
had been sent Into the capital. It is probable that soma
malicious persons have been playing a trick on the venerable
President to frighten him; for it is almost incredible that
2,000, or even 200 bombs could glide through the lingers of
the custom Reuse officiate.

A return of the footdowldrionth disease in the county
of Berkshire during the past quarter shorii that the number
of cattle attacked has hen 7 041 the number of sheep,
11,441 •, swine, 1,563 Of there 7 cattle had to be killed arid
140 died ; 1.2 sheep died and 213 swine. The total number of
those that recovered were 0,002 cattle, 10 130 sb ep, and 141
swine. There remain ender treatment 1,032 cattle. rot) sheep,
and 152 swine The districts more especially ravaged were
Abingdon, Farringduu, Reading, Newbury. Wokingham, and
Windage.
In London, last Friday night, at the Baker-street
Station, on the Metropolitan Railway, the gnarl of the hells
discovered the body of a maci entangled between two of tke
carriages. Tee body was disentam led with some
and It was found to be quite stripped of every arthde otdrag
bet Its sacks and boots. The head was PO blackened with
the ballast and dust as to make the features unrecognisable.
Ile appears to be of middle age, clout dye feet IliX Inches faa
stature, and of spare form. Although the body was entirely
stripped there waa no multihitlon, nor did any of his bones
appear broken.
The persons in the employ of the Great Western
Railway Company at the engine-works, Wolverhampton,
numbering about GOO, held s demonstrative meeting on
Saturday to consider what steps should be taken to secure
the advance of 10 per cent, in wages for which application
had been made in the month of August, and again In the
month of September. Several of the speakers denounced the
conduct of the directors in regard to this matter as wanting
in courtesy. After considerable discussion it was agreed to
again memorialire the directors for the advance named, and
failing a concession a strike is considered imminent.
An inquest has been held at Huntombridge on the
body of an old man, named Shadrach Grace, aged 70, who
had committed suicide by placing himself in front of an ad-
vancing train. The evidence went to show that the deceased
was seen by a boy to place himself lengthways on the down
rail of the North-Western Railway, just as the train was
within a few yards of him. The train immediately passed
over him and mutilated him in the most horrible manner.
His head and shoulders were smashed, nail several of the
limbs were severed from the body. Deceased had recently
been discharged from the railway works in consequence of
having a bad arm, but had since been iliving with Ilia son.
Ills means, however, were exhausted, and on the day pre-
vious to the occurrence he was heard to say Hint
drown himself. The jury returned a verdict that "D“,eante
committed suicide while in a tit of temporary Insanity."