The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-02-14 00:00:00

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THE STOURBRIDGE OBSERVER.
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, a )0U , • he bey ed tee/dam are So ba publicly exhibited
Chief Jostles, resmnin his iummingileareen I
eel,le, charge 1. pored ' France "te pat • tax of ton francs per minim „on, .. itiouttn.. , th Dr Texas oN Music.- It seems there is a pro- 111,1"Hil. of *a fat° D.k. .f fi'ap.wia. •
--,t male won &for $ wheel olld!• ll llon eve tin° thr out the country. ' aitay Cban-
., isesitly„stbsesse feeUeseeene,a.Wieushe
etehassr, rssillueeilkesseEe reaosteerinscee
eileea :
li alit t t
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.....rellated ta d hi
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use al gh d every retorean her ins of street-mrteie
iiiale
trs ;CC,.
tcter,
..Ex,cilie
.wahyoolrf Onidpboative ilseyeo.llr,rahg:'
0b.14,..!rir.::*.
, ' a It is reinarksble Oat the Lord Mayor of Load xr,
iult de, and ultimately
.0 old siosualeta Ids, wt 11e, 1,„„j td,,,,, of D d th üblin, ahe Lora Provost ol Elm.
a lawyer,
lust., atattetuni toi Windsor.
Cr'4l.'4 WriP in England, wo eserve, a peerage,
Abbey.-Eunch. burnt, have all three Mee returned to seen In the Leg
pdvecy, del Hu .
a and
s; Thostn igstentsle, mhr, both strangers tio ~h , 1
Id Billl WAY RoBBERY INbe AM ERICA .-- A stage Pam rliaent.
A easeir4; lecturea on the structure of animal life,
when not ehoosing t i nee them, he shut hini.li up lo
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any I.asible right to treat lam In toe wey they did. .•
b, ,
ronm. they made a ulstur ti mm ; rpoke nspareelcitlY el 1..1d, Arkanea on the 1511 ii of January by five highway °° t b
. 'are of eutrlnelge pr co.h was stopped and robd near Hot Spring.,
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fpr are o e issued in a new editlon.
dhstsheobrd,LityW thedeittNarstVg;sit., .be ~,,,,,„„ d mounted and armed. The Little Rock Republican o
Onint, Saturday Mr. Skene, Fell .w of All Sonls
es cash ill-sd. says :-
nut help looking ou the whole PrileeedlliS - ' ~i riege, was married at ittfor.i Cathedral ttohlitiss Lorin,
visel, and tmf roper ; but, on the other hand, it seem
s 4:: lerenem
In ta G oe.eeyrn tor chain, oalitliD
amendl t they eybLl t iss::
Indttit drabgibceferooff afb;arNeiece Chancellorrsise,oluctidli4Tgle
efetzenitecatia,v.,,,ont ~.140het? . his old -
from Cherie& More, of this city, they toot about 70 don In p
. Leopold and several heads of houses.
reuew the rengeNens of
•welsdaftifloSiatt 1 irtelf e.' so of the Dinh.. of Edtnburgh there is one that was SIM:AwI
-Among the pocket•loandkerchiefs in the trousseau
b P E •it n I tell in the Italian department.
.ter Odor
apiceersaudnatee.... as to Mies ho do e In an inside picket; kir. 'Taylor,
as purchued last >ear in lt,ly for lane traces by tha
Lt'setle*tir, at Ms will was preeZtd_hy tr.r.:-,-.!,-,....it 57,1 rt.seity:bt74l.7l.4e74uff:-d tilild7sr:Ofi'et:.,irefidrrlbe egfelisleeiffinlerifehcoertlele.e;t
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Lowell, surrendered the sum of 650 dol.. or thereabouts .
made by Slaughter e that be wee otiorteiaa ." ." - --e'i l'i
Ktldare, elate was not used a. a camp until Roger hael so 1 180 dole. ; tbe pccketbook of Mr. Peoples, living nese the e yeirateytt4
sesseewbsrbotedeereservisezen of
tree anny ; and that he west- to-Tieltoorne Ye tairekno Springs, contributed the sum of 20 dolt, Torre fanners were
a passenger from Syracuse made an apmeprlatlon of
Among recent di. scoveries of valu.ble minerale in
his aunt and uncle before leaving fJr South America, w erne:
Roger obstinately refused to go and bid them goosed bye. MO , thCl tf
*let %bd.:sole' hde rto
o lifebaaled h°
Ma..taump, of AlamPlite, edded to the spoil. about so dole. lerdarli hematite at Walierawag Victoria, in close proximity
also forgot the name of his colonel, Ws having ill G. l d in cash and is watch, and the express packsge yielded , waarra,dia. gre,err,,., cord, arid a ran., gratr„.
unfortuartie en ugh to have shout 40 dole between them: Australis is that of WM tu the form of magnetic iron, i0.,1
some curiosities collected curieg his travel., an ',cadent
435 dole The robbers completed their work by ripping open
which neared to him on Tichhorne Downs wnen hie horse
the mill hag. In search of registered lett•rs, and hy aPPree
the now mune). tette:no. of GerMisey eareed t..e old sully
r. away, and the names of Me dogs which be had left
priaang the best hone &Malted to the stage The leader of The Berlin correepondent of The 2'imes states tlaut
buds tlt by 15,0.0,100 thalers.
behind. in t
n the crossaxa
ldt
rs mluation at the last trial the detedant bend al .d that he lead inouly tarty against the Taints,
positively denied the rood damsgtm: pat of Goen ford's
account o the coveai eon ntic eto k p eice in de Pre- it eze use Le the Int. a Coufetierae toer.- exp i f ressoe o Ob. but It .; has been lipsed by to ece Freuch
mace of Holmee, who had not been called, and It was left, node rturned the weteh and morey taken from Mr. Crump One might have heard apM fall," is • proverbial
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therefore, for the j try to say whetner they ba 1Y td Nevi' RtGITLaTIONS UNDER THE BALLOT - • cr. P ' '
cambric handkerchief. '
I rue m ght Lave heard the nalolftng of • lady's
t r the delimitate Some cruel observations were directed ny -After the election ann transtrision of the doeumente
the learned counsel for the defendant malt st 00110 rd. Be, dented by nineteen Liberals and three
no doubt. stood in . palpful meld. : because, being lite. warn th.e.relarlp,Parliament the metropolitan constitu.
of tie I ichborne estates, end belt g allowed, uncerhthe
be twelve L 13,rals and tent Conservidtvea.
Cbyhan.the rriet,utrhueinpgap,,, flirsoear.rs tototbehe clerk of
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to
the
ne,,
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the
proportion
sill
tiniest otiotrwiee ordered by the House of Commons or
loose system of keepteg Um aeeennts, to carry every t ing
to Ids Own account at a provinclal bank, he entered one of the superior warts. Ni rejected ballot $ &per ia
The Court of Assize at Melun have condemned
Into spendatiors which woved unfortunate, and ended by to be inspected without such an 'order to be granted on Prince Boaz', who la:ely shot Prince °hike in • duel, to
owing the treaters • balm. of several thousand pound.; evidenoe that such inspection is necessary for a prose- got, years' imprisonment, sad Ms two seeohds cad those of
but when the leaned counsel spoke of him as • felon, who
motion. No sealed packet of couuterfoile is to be Prince Gale& to two years imprisonment.
had been gent, of embezzlemeut, and moreover said be had
opened except by order, and such order to be made on Archbishop Led ichowelei, a telegram from Ostrowo
given tales testlmouy in consideration ot his uot being pro-
conditions at to the inipection of the ballot paper. All states, provides Ms own food, aud is permitted to have lights
seeded, he could not help thinking the jury meet have
ahared the jut and honed indignati which they on the
that ht. comedic chaplain may be ellowed to visit b m idly,
beech, and doubtless every rigbambidcd persou, felt at of the Crown in Chancery, other than ballot mere, . . . . . _
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anal that a special oratory may ta prepared eor him. These
documents forwarded by returning officers to the clerk in 11. call and to reed the mwspao, es. lie hu rietiudested
charges so utterly unfounded and ao unworthy to come from are to be open t, impeetion and extracts obtained on
requests have been referred to the Appeal Court of Pisan,
a member of the bar. payment. The production of a ballot paper from the ,
Ile metrical system has just been adopted in Ger.
The Lord Chief Justice then 'etntlnued his cum packed endorsed to be prima facie evideuce that it
many fcr the meuurement of distances. The °aided papers
refers to the elector on toe register of voter/ of the
have published the order which decrees that henceforth tie
am.. number. kilometre shall replace the Prussian mile.
A 1 liAlt'a EMICHILTION FROM THE M•ll.stlr. The following was recently inserted in a news.
-The statistics of emigration from Liverpool compiled paper-" Wanted, an experiencedh.n,uhr:e, tohirtake charge ot
by the Government officiale at that port r.h.av the fol. a yosueetg:heleld_,
ebeeteseernetseret e.t.a; L..
el.:ie,d
.ptinpr;mwegotic
al.
lowing returns .-The total number of ernigrantaduring
ee1p•r0.,..0. ilho b.:, r..„...,.,...
the I'2 months was 1.79,486, of whom 18 523 were cabin
Of the fifteen million
million. neith
inhabitants of Spain, twelve
ar.d 160,963 stmer&ge. Of these, 154,506 proceeded to
can er read nor write. There are four thou.
the United States, 21. 360 to Canada. 2,280 to Noes
mut villages, towns, and cities presided over by mayor., two
Scotia, 8,985 to Victoria, and 336 to South America ; Meowed ~fwhom are unable to sign their nasues to any
their nationalities befog - English. 89,031 ; Scotch, public document.
0,203; Irish, 26,688 ;and foreigners, 60,564. As rout- All the act ore in the Shanghae Theatre are melee,
pared with the returee for 1872 the pant year's figures and the fell ow who plod Mid Ftelditig in the Titket of
show an inereue of 272 cabin passengers, but a decrease Leave Man actually makes the apectetors cry.
of 6.529 steerage, and in comoarison with the national. Act crier of hee Majesty in Council is published in
ities of the previone year the preeeat returns show a II e Gazette of the gin of February sanctioning by-laws for
decreaae of 922 Eoglah and 7,362 foreigners, but an rte cotepulsory attendance of children at school, made with
increase of 477 Scotch and 1,750 Irish, the approval of the Educstion Deportment under the Pith
ction of the Elementary E alcetlon Act, IS7O, by the School
TIIE AGRICULTURAL LABOURER.-At a meet- "
del l.ander.
hug of the Natioeal Agricultural Labourers' Union,
As the express train from Nottlneham to Grantham
held at Ineamirgton on Monday, it was resolved to wi,,, p,00,0t,,,, to the 1., r,rp,,, , .. &aura., at the rata
commence an agitation among the farm labourers in
of between thirty and forty wiles per hour, one Cl the axles
the Isle of Wight; and Mr. Joeeph Arch, the preed• of the engine suddenly snapped, but the driver succeeded in
dent, was iustructed to open the campagn there en trio tag the train to a statelstili without any Injury to the
Friday next. -The secretary reported that another passeneers. A handsome collection was made in his behalf
batch of 750 farm kbourers had left England for New. by the paseugers.
Zealand, and others would be ready to etart shortly. The Mexicans are good judges of opera, and when
No answer had been received from Sir Thomas they dozia Ilke a performance they let the performers know
Itid.luloh respecting the condition of the Qiieeu's
separated at the istructous mun M cre the music. and put a
it, Lately an audience in the city of Mextco became ex-
laboured. etop te it by Mabee chem., beuches, cotillions, and other
WOMEN'S Ernms.-Ancient Lady. "Lot me portable upper tenants of the house upon the *tee°,
drive you, Mies Sharpe. It is quite in nay way, and I Oa Monday morning the Duke and Duchess of
can't bear to think of your walking home all alone ! ''- Eatithurgh returned to St. Petersiolget froeinceltioseceoz,s in
Modern Ditto. " Oh, I don't niind walking a bit, rmiryl4l nt
eh:.
it'orter. th e Csarewl - , h
thanks, Beeidesti want to smoke ! "-Punch. Prince of Deninak. Wain, Prince Arthur, andVe C wit
ro
AN INDIAN roar !-A Hindustani Ode has
The Zidahl &via in English, the Golden Tulip) of
just been addressed to the daughter of Lord North- China, Intoenis Us alat "one cannot be a great poet unless
brook by &gentleman whom the Calcutta Engllshntan he has the majestic carriage of the elephant, the bright eyes
cads the "irrepreeeble Poet Laureate" of that town, of the partridge, the agility of the antelope, while ills lace
11. re is a translation-'' Bat," eats the Entilithingin, must rival the radiance of the full maim."
"the Eugliab languitge has no words. in which we can Dr. 1, mg, swell-known and respected Liberal of
express the extraordinary beauty of this poem" :- Therbliery, was seized with a lit while preparing to go Cotta.
it r
The renowned llon'ble Miss Baring has obtained much tal .e, and tiled almost Immediately.
.
l le7C.. iBnel aurgre,te and Mr. V. Berkeley. the Liberal
delight by her tour.
All of us ever pray to Almighty God for her health and Mr. Mitohell Henry suggests that at the conclurion
welfare, of the general election a academes. of Home Rulers should
She is adorned with the,ornament of leaning, and Me eon be h. 1.1 is deckle what nurse they alkeulcl take In Perils,
venation gre.ceful. reenter, action. Ills opted,. Is that me Home Knit-, should
And this I. the beauty of the flower of nolinty, Ile sweet Vole tOr slither the Whiga er the l'ory party until there be a
I agrance fills the mind, perfect auderstandlug upon the suited of Home Rule.
Her return hero and the presence of his Lordehip will A correspondent writing from Naples on the 31at ult.,
enhance and ensure the prosperity if the City, dates that no farther dims of an approaching eruption oe
The durbar and Entertainments at Government House will V,ouvius have shown themmlves than &volume of smoke Dau-
b° characterised by elegancy. lug from this crater towuds the uorth. It the eismograph
For his Lordship's couthmed happiness, we era heartily speaks trMy, however, au eruption mitt ensue or a series of
pray.
Alay this m earthquake. may be apprehended.y humble tribute of respect be kindly accepted,
r The Dublin Corporation have resolved unanimously
PRoGR eSS OF THE MIeSION. '-lice I l
to memorialize the Government for the approprtatiou of the
" ',I,
Moll Go'ille says:-" The midnight servicee at St. Irish Church Surplus Fund to the wideolog of Carlisle
Peter's, W indmill.st red, for the peraone who are leaving Bridge; the construction of a new street Mediae to chose
the Argyll ROOMFI and other similar places in the Church Cathedral; the drainage of such parts of the country
neighbourhood of the Haymarket me (a correepordent a_inrZionrldpuo'f,pdolieV"tr,l:ildoihrn"f,',Vt''Xitl.ll°tve.muentl:
(nit
informs us) being largely attended, and on Monday '
city; . ad ttray
ealiv.ancement of the material prosperity of the
night upwards of two hundred women and about fifty eooete Lg.,.
wen were present. 'Father' Prescott conducted the A gentleman in Glaegow who does not wishhis name
to be given hat Jost made a donation to Glsegow t niveralty
nervice, and gave the addreeses, and the proceedicgs did
not cocclude until itile in tie mornieg. Effort. are of Ci,oo t for the better endowment of the chitin of &deo.
being made in several districts to arrange special ser- Dusty, ;tany, end natural history.
vices for the workmen of factorise; and ether hearten of Mr. du Preez' of Olivenfonteim advertieee in the
bueiness. Thus, at St John the Evangelist, Hemmer- Dutch language, that he has discovered between Philip
smith, the senior miasioner, the Env. W. H. Lowder, Town and titer tlonte he what he believes to be a rich dismoud
haa gathered together the workmen from Messrs. mine, and notate, to tan Government and public tkathe Is
litrkman'e pianoforte manufactury during their dinner lor.earcdorvolve.rtoopt the leiiictist;yz,:,,rgt
rtillilmdal n I age
hour, A similar service hast been held at Padoington event el his dlicovery being genunie.
for the Moup.tricumers of the Great 'Western Railway. l'' ro m Stuttgart the death is announced of Dr.
In (lurched attended by fashionable coneregattons David Frederick stratus. the manor of 'Teo Life of Jesus
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addressee are being given-as at St. George's -.Hanover. Ihe deceased was born in June, DOS, ann war consequently
square-' to persons of wealth and leisure.' Mothers In the 66.11 year of his age He psi lathed, in Deb, the Work,
are tee object of intereat in many districts; and at St. "lice Life of June" which is asioulated wish hi. name, It
Mary'e, Newington, the reetor, Mr. Blisulagan, an-
tett tu,ooitall,aviatrs. jaitiLusliwee.of typhei.ilyilreis
at once hi ought him prononeutry before the world, arid was
flounces that during their meeting babies wi lbe taken '-':r.t".,401a.
care of in the adjoiaing school-re im. Street proceadone Cently been bib h° '
have been attempted at Stratford (with a brae,: Laud) 0,,
mayday al ternoon a eipenial meeting oli the
and at Walworth and in Regentstreet,"
- Worcestershire tel held at Wolper hampton, to cot steer the
Jr none/Hers' Adoclatton of South S Affordahlre and East
MR. MACDONALD, M.P., ON nIS RETURN.
Mr. Macdonald, the reoettly elected working man rsaitrttiarri„ the.rshadlouttolonsatadhoiLeidh at Xi!:
emeatingdot the
candiddesireda
to
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disabuse
cre
eSb'ultei!,otree
publicin, spLeicnhd tit f
.G.lasegiodwe., swaihdich:
cua
The report and emulation. o nIl not be a espied as • whole,
advanew in the curretirt'scale of Prices for "Lisheet glre.Dant.
were entertained with regard to his return. His had and a coremit.ee was appointed to prepare another report
no influence in Stafford at all-in fact, he had Lever and revised list I', a future meeting. There seems little
seen the town except from the railway :lotion while doubt that sheet iron will soon be largely advanced.
pressing to London, there was not a miner within Boring has commenced t i aecertain the practicability
eciTyhifeeyuifFdrii
twenty miles of it ;and it was solely by the Unaided of • tunnel under toe Solent. so as to effect a Wiser cum.
and determined infueu te of a band of noble, honest Irrutic,atet.c.iipvt‘t thltele:f Weigt7.otUe bines are at work
down fifty fret, and have reached • layerrnfl:
ewfo
cr kote,sn mengsne
Hs. t h
la ti had
andaesh ee
esecuredostis
ua,ne act
beeni n th.e
uHnoi ut:de Sue it rap Coast, ofpbposrte West Co;
as Stefford, many more working men's candidates of the Solent near Stu spit Is about thirty-six feet.
might have been elected. With regard to the future, A race in which Mr. Revell drove a b'cycle from
for em months of the year he would require to reside the Moetlatier-road, Brighton, to the Oval. Ketabingtom
permanently in London, and be at his place in the L didon, whilst Mr. Gregory walked from Samuel street,
House. He suggested that a committee of five helgate, to the Oval, Kennington, took place on Monday, and
delegates should be formed, who would consult him on
grno r
cyo,
named,,
nw .h oi t wwtd
Bradleyi
ne vl
County
was won by Mr. Gregory, who arrived at the Oval at 330
all important matters affecting mitten' affairs, and he L.l,ll,,,vdraltkitlige
(a)v,e.11,,
irri
et izolnntlaet
heliehtzased.o Mr. Revell
would be ever ready to communicate With them by
t he Mayoehleo n:
wire or letter when necessary. hours 27 min. 47 secs.
su,,
hiriaiLiii,oemtehrli istance from hl. home
THAT WHICH HAP VENED TO AN ELDER.-
A:
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aS
homehi t' tr
dphfibyf&ht IraTnight..sbrhs'eerden.
He bought a tomato to take home for seed. He put
it into his coat tail pocket and forgot all about it, nafd
he did not wear that coat again until he went to church Y
OE Clii, causing immediate death It 11:bOttniarelemdetibccila
on Sunday. While he was taking part in the collec• an old woman named McDonald was murdered near the
tion he felt as if he must suer 'I., and he put his hand same place. Your snots have been male,
into the tornato.poeket to get his hanikerchief. A A lamentable accident occurred on Saturday on the
look of pain and amexement mingled upon his counte- manes of Mr. James 13msey, Ilme-burber, Mouwhold,
nance with the preliminary contortions of the sneeze. Norwich. ft me of Mr. Bussey's workpeople were digging
But the isnetZ, would male, and in tie confusion he material to bun hito lime when • mass id sand slipped and
dropped the money-box, jerked his hand out of his fiesli upon Charlet, Wright, aged 20, and Gemge Mute, egad
pocket, and, in endeavouring to support himself, tiCirtiVreefetheybueruyeinlg theemsesiTeeliseeya.hat,disede fromsrfigti.
Planed his hand, coveter all over with mashed tomato, on Monday afternoon. After Deering severalq= "es, the
Upon the shoulder of old tire. , who eat at the head jery atir bided the sad occurrence to the sudden action be
of the adjoining pew. As soon as she perceived the rums the nun Upon a quantity of previotaly irons earth.
upon her new dress, ehe roee, arid forgettiog the sacred. Addressing the Fellows of the Royal Geographical
nees of the place, hit the Elder over the head with her Society, on Monday evening, on the quecton of Dr. Urine-
umbrella, upon which he precipitately fled from the stone's fate, Sir Bartle }nee observe i that, wide a ray of hope
church, the congregation declaring that Mrs. had was still remaining, he was neve:Hided bound to say it was
dashed out the Exier's braille, and the was eecorted to rbena'cinli"glabi2 "Jitlnseb.ce.b before
the lest particulars had
hid honey to be given in charge-when after much pe ud thei ads meet and at7okipe°l°orwtehe to
k them to sue
delay cud much fainting, the truth came out-out of At four o'ci,ek the policemen in charge of the sever&
the door-in the pereon of the cleansed Elder. stations lathe Clay of L Anion el-ction plauted themaelvels
before the door and barred further Ingress. Oa the lase
stroke of the hour a gentleman c ,me running in. "It's too
late, sir," ealo the officer in charge, "the booths are clued,"
"mm a need emaker," said the elector auxiously and.
hurriedly. -Ah I you should have beea sharper, on cannot
peuetrate here,' replied the Imperturbable policeman, tuna
thus by a dozen seconds somebody lost a vete.
Admiral Pious hal addressed a long letter to The
Times on •' Turf Prospects," in which be aunts that our
thoroughbred ritmk is as good as ever and must be Improving
every other breed. He strongy maintain. the wisdom of
our system of running two year.olds, which Is the very
foundation anti essence of our pro-eminence. Nothing nuld,
iti his opinion, be so fatal to Lae Turf ea the Interference of
Parliament in matters of this land.
At a especial meetingcf the Metropolitan Volunteer
ofnetra c. Saturday afteraoms, it wets sesolved that appli.
cation should be made to tin• War (Moe for permission to
hold a TolUnteer Review en Easter Mood sy.-A vote of con.
doleuna swirl Lord and Lady Doh° on the loss of their ton
after being disabled on the Gold COMM was carried unani-
mously.
The half.yearly return of pauperism in England and
Wales shows that the number of persons in receipt of relief
from the poor rates on the Ist of July, 18713-narn, wOmes.
ant children, sane-and insane-was below 82300 being leu
than on• in 2b of the population, or about iti per cent. As
compare I with the preceding year there wets decrease a
it 2 per cent., or upwards of 54,100. The number of a-huts
atlas bodied paUpere, less than 110,000, and the great majority
women, shows a decrease of upwards of 10 per mot.
A curious affair is pending before the Paris Court of
Appeal. In 1851 a watchmaker of Baeda, In Holland. named
Nsundorif, put fewsed the claim to bee son of Lulls XVII.,
who he alleged had not died at the Temple, as supposed, and
demanded to be reinstated In his titie. and fortune. The
Civil C iurt of Paris than olsmissed a nit for ejectment
brought against the Count de Chambord, but as the claimant
none declans that he hes discovered some fresh papers which
he believes will eututantiate Me rights, he has brought an
appe il against the fornier judgment. M. Jules Wane be
c. unsel for the pretender.
The colenere uniform occasionally worn by the
Grand Duchess Marie merits cescription. It is charmingly
deigned and eirrkuied. Arrayed In it her 'amulet Higbee..
(who is • biollile 0i I.ll.plibitO lateness) must nave the elect a
pocket Perinestlea der hOmet Is of cunning Muscovite
workmanship li le a beautiful product of the Russian
artificers satil in blending geld, steel, and silver Those
who visited the Paris exhibition of 18107 may form an Ides of
Its peculiar riterns as • work of metaLurgy front the Musco-
vite soars watch were ou Clew lathe Rued. department.
Ass matter of course, so great a pen. nuee as an. Czar's
oily daughter has a right to appear It reviews with hee
~reut covered with deeoratlom, which enhance the effeciFeY
gold lace end braudenburge.
Should the Hachette of Edinburgh live to the age of
fourscore, It is trupoulble to contemplate her wearing out
the different articles which compose her trotlearau. The
Louis Qadoree, Louts Q :inn. arid Alerts Antoinette beots
and ot.oes to litter leavened Highness's foot are numbered
elf the gross. The portibeity of her discarding high ter low
heels is also centemplated Parental fortthonght, moreover,
anticipates excursions in Swiss and ecotch mountains, hunts
In I huringain forest., probable visite In the winter mason to
Route and reviews of the regiment of which the Grand
IniChele Is a Color:eh Her miner and military boots are
atlched with an elaboration of detail which might be thrown
away In Weirton Europe,
The death is announced of Mr. Herman Merivales
at the age of to. Mr. alertvale Clothe son of Mr. Herman
derivate, Couniisaioner of Bankruptcy, and of Louisa,
daughter of Dr. I) ury, headmaster of Harrow; he was Mn.
tatted at Hanoi. and , Word, was called to the bar lit IMI,
end was subsegnently the grit o. natant of Mr. hi. D, tun-
.nond'. chair or Politics' Neon ony at onforil. In 1047 be
'us iiinmiutiol Un ier-ienetery for the Colonies, end la 186 W,
Le 'mane nt. tin ,er.-ecretary at the Didion OfiLas. AP jr.
M., vs'. ~all ratteh more widely known as an eatfaY, of
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schoolmaster sphit, bet with almost as much whdom
- as wit, that he could tell him how to do the 1180,t,
ditli.ult thing he had in hand, tamely, to cure the ills
of Irdand. He should jmt take, he told him. "the
..tms in tits tars hand, atulthie.,7'eetalnont io the ti'holsl=
Engrossed as he was, the duke sent an ocknewleds.-
meat, signed by himself, and for some time it was
difficult to say which of the two Daniel Ramo -
proudest-rot "hiving tattekt 12r. pialinenk andlho
as be waialelaye accustomed to boast, the fornel,
4.... is fame, Air of having .instspatedgOe Dlikit t--
NRllingtel sAo the best why orgovednis Helaud,
and barb* gotan rimier from his grate hia..self.
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Roman Emperors was it who may he supposed to
have' beet accustomed CO talk dog-Latin? Ntro !
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AN EXAMPLE TO CIVILISED NATIONS !—TED
Fortunate bles are evidently those of the South Se
where Tahiti, the chief of the group, possesses, and ham
poss.:di-a for nearly twenty Tears, a compulsory Edu-
cation Act without a 251 Clause, remarks the Dail,
News, and proceeds :

,
Switzerland, Pravda, and Saxony are the countries genre I
rail pointed to as thou In which the working and effects of
ccrupulaory education may most pr,fitably be studied. Bat I
Is would be interesting to know what amount of compulsion
I. required, and in what manner it is applied, among •
primitive p.pulation : also, whether the education given Is
denominational ;secular tempered by the inculcation of what
are conceived tribe elementary religious truths, and by the
tending of sacred books ; or purely secular. In any cue the
Act has been passed, is accepted as it stands, aid for the last
nineteen years has been in active operation. The legislation
In Tahiti on the salj-ct of popular and co mpulscry education
was commenced as long ago PS isl 9, so that the measure
which only seven years afterward, became law was not
adopted In too great a hurry. A writer who seems to have
made hlrwrell well acquaii,ted with popular feeling tutahiti
speaks of the existence of a general beli,f in that Claud to
the elf act that • father has "no more right to deny to lila soft
the fo .d of the mind . hen the food of the body," A clause in
the &location Act of December, 1515, is as follow.—" School
hours shall be established such as exist among civilised
people, whom Tahitians should try to imitate in all their
ways to improvement." la many parts of the world tz the
so-called civilised people Who ought to try to Imitate "the
Tahitians."

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AvfERDTED MURDER OF • LOVER.—A kevioun
attempt at homicide has taken place at Senozao (Saone.
et-Loire). M. Boonebaigt, an avoue at Pamters (Ariege),
had been paying Ms addreeea for the last two yearn to
Male. Marie L., the daughter of a professor in the
Baculty of Science at Toulouse. The young lady lately
came to Seriozan on a visit to her uncle, M. Lacroix,
late president ~f the Tribunal of Commerce of Macon,
and immediately on her arrival informed her
suitor by letter that everything between them
was at an end. The latter at once drove to the
lieu's and asked for an explanation. An angry dis-
cussion aro.e, and the lady demanded the rot tun of her
letters. The suitor refused to give them up, and the
son of M. Lacrox, an advocate, forty-five years of age,
suddenly drew out a rev Aver, and, firing at AI. Bonne.
bade, broke hie lower jaw. He fell, and the servant.,
alarmed by the explosion, hastened in and raised the
wounded MHO. As they were doing au M. Lacroixi
again fired, striking his victim in the abdomen, but thal
hall, dead.-ned by the clothes, only produced a severe
bruise. Ito then ordered the servants to remove l'sL,
Bonnebaigt, and they carried him to the earring.,
wlrce, wan still at the dcor, and which conveyed hum
to the Louse of the cure, who gave him an asylum.'
The assailant afterwards went to Macon and gave him-
sell up to the police. No explanation is given of tnes
reason for this attack.

A PATRON OF THE PRESS GONE !—The
French periodical press has lately lost a warm friend,
end patromin the person of a wealthy inhabitant of a
French provincial town, who died there under circum-
stances as i-ingnlar as those of his life. He lived alone
in a secluded house, admitted no one to it but a char-
woman who cooked for him, and a newspaper agent'
who sold him thirty or forty journals at a time. At
length he did not appear to open the door to these
habitues when they sought entrance. They accordingly
applied to the police, who being armed with the neces-
sary powers, forced their way into the house of the
eccentric owner, and broke in the door of the bedroom,
the threshold of which no one had evcr been allowed
to cross. Here the poor man was found lying dead.
The state of his room and lot his clothing was simply
Indescribable, but the really uncommon feature of this
Fritialil den was the amount of literary matter it con-
tained. The bed could only be reached from the door
by massing through a ravine, the sides of wbih were
compoBed of thousands of newspapers and novels,
their perusal having formed his sole occupation and
delight. _

1711 Z Irogruirr or loronsroz.—The address
upon a letter recently mailed in South Carolina sorely
puzzled the Post Office clerks, but was at last de-
ciphered by an official in Wilmington. It read as fol-
lows " bon SaC posofes. ron okforginey. tonan
Cv blankship." It was intended for " Bonsac Poet
Office, Roanoke County, Virginia. To Nancy Blank.

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THE LONDON DEMOCRATS AND THE NEW
PARLIAMENr.—At a ITlettlDg of the London Democrats
the following resolution, in substance, was passed :
" That this meeting dmires to protest against the new
Parliament legislating In the name of the people, on the
ground that it does not represent the majority of the people
for the followliz reasons :-1. That the suddenness of the
dissolatlon prevented the people tram discussing the artist
podtical questions of the day. 2 That popular midi late*
were ensile to come forward because of the expense of the
election. 3 That less trim ten niddion adults out of • popu-
lat,on of fifteen million have votes. 4. That the proportion
of representatives or the twenty millions of working classes
is limited to two as avalust 663 representatives of the
moneyed and aristocratic classes."
HOW TO LEARN HEBREW gentleman
with an inquisitive mind (says tie Court Journal)
being recently struck with the offer, per bill in a.
parlour window of the northeast o 4 London, to teach
Hebrew at a remarkably low figure, stepped in, met
. an old acquaintance, who at once thought it wise to
be candid, an I confessed thus :—"Well, you see, sir,
this is an honest way of getting a living. Lvery
Monday and Wednesday I take lessons myself, and
every Tuesday and Thursday I give lessons to others. It
pays me, and at the same time lam learning something
myself." The gentleman asked, "But why not apply,
yourself to adue modern language, such as French,
Italian, or German; I should think that you would
get more pupils than you do for Hebrew ?" "Oh,
no," he replied; "Hebrew is the dodge. Everybody
can teach French or German, but there's only a few as
can teach Hebrew. You see, young chaps now-a-days
pretend to be learned, and when they are contending
against one another in Mechanics' Institutions in these
parts, and such places the one as knows how to read
Hebrew just puts a book into the olives hands, and
says, 'Road that for me ;' it's a licker at once. All the
clever ones want to know is the alphabet, and then
they can gammon others that they are Hebrew
scholars." He was evidently living comfortably.
How TO BECOMS A WRATRER•PROPHET !
We hear from America of a modern philosopher's plan
by means of which every man can be his own weal her
Prophet, you with to know whether it is going to
storm or not, all you have to do is to find the storm
vortex and see which side of it is the roost moist. Mul-
tiply this by the square of the latent heat, subtract the
time of day, and divide by the weathercock. The
result will be rarefication, plus the thermometric evoiue
tion of the north pole; and then any wm faring roan,
thoush a natura lknow-nothing, can tell what will fol.
low."

THE 111. W FASHION FOR BALL DRESSES. —The
Paris correspondent of the Warchouseeitn'sa,al Draper's
Jouraal wr.tes :
The second ball at the Elyste was even more crowded than
the firmer, and the drenses quite as estravagad. Ins
Duchess. de Magenta wore • mauve sills skirt covered with
bourlionu6s of mauve tu'le . a bodice and tunic of mauve
silt, ornamented with Mechlin lace, and caught up at the
sides with large bouquets of Parma violets ; in her hair a
wreath of the same fl.,wers and • diamond. aigrette. At the
tlrdt of these balls a new style of bodice MY Inaugur ited by
one or two of the most c nrageoue of our d'e /mites, which
fonnd many Imitators at the second. 'lke innovation is a
hardy one, it does away with the bonito entirely, and also
with the tunic. The iliirt must he long and flowing, and Is
generally of tulle or taristan. The bodice is made to come
much below the waist, and is euessively tight fitting, the
ornamentation being put on to the lower-edge of be bodice
in the shape of fringe or flowers. It le somewhat the style
of dress In which we are accustomed to see portrayed
Romeo's Juliet and Faust's Marguerite."
TUB 111411sTRAIL-OZN &HAL'S 11811:11INS.—The
return of the marriages for the quarter ending S,pt.
30, and the births and deaths for the quarter ending
Dec. 31, 1873, which have taken place in England has
been issued. From it may he gathered the facts that !
in the United Kingdom the birtna of 265,117 children '
and the oeathe of 168,252 persons of both sexes were.:
registered; the natural increase of population being
93 865, and that the registered number of persons n Sr.
ricl wan 121,244. The reeident population of the
United Kingdom in the middle of 1873 was estimated
at 32,131,488; that of England and Wales amounting
to 23,356.414, of Scotland to 3,430,923, and of Ireland
to 5,341,15 L The cerrected death-rate of the quarter
wee 211 per 1,000, the birthrate 348, and the mar-
riagerate in the third quarter of the year was 16 0 per
1,000. In England only the summer marriages ex-
ceeded the average, and imply that the country, on the
whole, wof prosperous. The births in the autumn
quarter that ended the year 1873, though fewer in pro.
portion than in the previous autumn, were above the
average of the season, The public health was in a
favourable state, and the mortality was below the
average both in town and country. The extremely
severe cold week of December was accompanied by a
remarkable continuance of dense fog in London, which,
fatal to many, deprived it of ite usual superiority over
the other great cities of the kingdom.
THE Goon TIME Comm: ! The young,
hearty, industrious, able agricultural labourer May
Secure, in more parts of the world than one, a rapidly
earned and condor able independence (remarks the
Bolder). But this is the very mans whom statesman.
ship should seek to keep at home. His arms and in.
dustry are the very fountain of national wealth.
Against the goichin temptations held out to him, the
cost hail to be counted. To many, the severing of all
local ties of relationehip, friendship, and habit, is in
itself no slight pace to pay. Still more important
is the immense incertitude of the venture. It
is true that there exist such spots ac we have
named, the very Paradise of industry. But they are
not the epota to which the labourer is called by
the advertiser. For one Paradise there are ten
pitfalls. Deadly climate, arid soil, swamp, fen, mora.ds,
uheleared and impenetrable forests; dwarms of Mou.
quitote, with active venom that makes life a burden,
and causes a strong man to cry like a child; deadly
makes, lions and panthers ; wild hog., that come down
punctually as the crops begin to ripen; tweet, lonely did.
Itances, which surround the settler as with an iron
chain. All these are far more frequent than the
brighter prospects of the case, And to whom is the
intending emigrant to trust? How very few of th um
1 who say, "Come," have any real advantage to offer :
The good wine of the really proeperomi eettlement does
not need the bush of the emigration agent. The up-
shot iv, that a better time ie at hand for the industrious
man in old England, and that he will du bettor
Icheerfully to look forward to it than to transfer hin,self
ti • foreign soil, unites he knows from personal friends,
the exact character of the spot to which he thinks of
emigrating.

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