The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-22 00:00:00

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HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.

1 "MEN WERE DECEIVERS EVER."—Mr. Punch
is at present in the Highlands "A
-chasing the Deer."
—WI. Punch is at Home, and has promised all her
Friends Haunches of Venison as soon as they arrive !
—Punch.

NEW WORKING MEN'S DWELLINGS—One of
the last Acts passed in the late Session was to facilitate
the erection of dwellings for wocking men on land be-
longing to municipal corporations in England. Where
a corporation determine that land belonging to them
shall be converted into sites for working men's dwel-
lings, and on obtaining the approval of the Treasury
to the corporation making for that purpose grants for
leases of 999 years or for less terms, of parts of the
land, then the provisions mentioned in the Act are to
have effect and apply. The costs and expenses incurred
by a corporation in carrying into execution or other-
wise the law are to be paid out of the borough fund, or
by money borrowed as authorized. The forms set forth
in the schedule to be used in carrying out the statute,
as to grants and leases, are of a very concise character.
The At, which is now in force, does not extend to
Scotland or Ireland.

To A CORRESPONDENT. —Are you not mis-
taken We never understood that Dr. Priestley, to
whom a statue has just been erected at Birmingham,
was in any way connected with the Ritualistic move-
ment. —Punrh,

RAILWAYS IN AMERICA.—The American rail-
way journals believe that in the year 1880 there will
be 100,000 miles of railroad in the Republic. The
total has already reached 70,000 miles. and as the
increase in prosperous years has been as high as 13,000
miles, it would attain the number stated in less than
three years if the country could at once regain the rate
of construction to which the panic of last autumn gave
a cheA. Even taking the increase of 1873 as an
average, the 100,000 would be pa..sed in four years.
The railroad mileage has doubled in ten years. Should
this progress continue the total mileage in 1884 would
be 140,000. Just now, it is said, railroad mileage is
increasing faster at the South than in any other
section ot the country.

A RASH REITSAL.-6,8/oTher (flying from
ImportunaSe Tradesman). "No. thank you, nothing
more really! Notanother article, thank you Good
morning !--[Escapes--ha ! ha !--refusing his wen Um-
!—Punch.

RAILWAY ACCIDENTS. —A return for the year
1873 of the accidents reported to the Board of 'trade
by the several railway companies in England, Wales,
Scotland and Ireland has been issued. From this it
appears that a total of 1,372 pers. ms were killed, and
3,110 injured. Of the killed, 160 were passengers,
773 were servants of companies or of contractors, 721
of this number having come to death by their own mis-
conduct or want of caution, and 52 from causes beyond
their own control. The total is made up by 308 tres-
passers and suicides, and 74 persons who were killed
while passing over railways at level crossings. Of the
remaining 57 no description is given. It is a notice-
able fact that, while 74 persons were killed outright at
level crossings, only 17 are returned as having been
injured.

THE NAPOLEON FETE DAY. - The 15th of
August was, as is well known, the fete-day of the late
Imperial Family. The present adherents to the cause
of the Napoleon dynasty at Boulogne-sur-Mer availed
themselves of the anniversary by attending the "Bosse
Mem" at St. Nicolas Church, displaying at their
button-holes a bunch of emblematic violets, the most
prominent in this devoted band being M. Levert,
formerly Ptifet of the Pas-de-Calais and now Deputy
for the Department. A counter demonstration of the
most pacific descriptimi was organizised by young
gentlemen of anti-Bonapartist leanings who attended
the same Mass, each wearing a red geranium in token
of his Republican principles.—ln Paris the leading
Bonapartists attended Mara in St. Augustine's Church,
in honour of the Napoleon file day, most of them
wearing a violet in their button-hole. About 18,000
persons assembled.