The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-14 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.
A French Army an,' Navy Club is talked of in
Pies.
The walnut crop is reported to be almcvt a complete
Nature.

There are ten million cows in the United States,
be!nleis a large Lumbar of ponds, brooks, and wasside
pumps.
A coal-field of excellent quality has been discovered
iu the district of Castrevdtaii, in the Italian province of
Catautarta. A company has undertaken the working of it.
A hits:lean troupe of equestrians has arrived in New
Yerk city, and gives • series of exhibitions, consisting to
part of lassoing wild cattle.
One of the newest rifles submitted to M. Thiers ,
times the advantage that the cartridges to suit it can be
manufactured even on the field of battle.
The egg of a eutthrfish has been hatchtd at the
Brighton Aquarium. The little one Is a miniature counter-
part of its parent, and it is amusing to see with what
rapidity it darts oboist when touched min any way annoyed.
Here is a prospectus of Oil City, by a Titusville
paper :—A small, gnarled, frowzy, knotty, bare-backed, up -
and-down humped, round shouldered, guilty, precipy, and
generally Shot-up, scooped out, ravineil, inflexible, irregu-
lar, greasy, and slab-sided shanty town.'
Tne French Government has promied, in reply to
appeals on the subject, that no more arreits shell be mode in
connection with the Pons Commune, except in the case of
leaders or the insurrection two persons guilty of crime.
against the common law.
A very as if-sufficient M.P. said one day to a lady,
"1 should certainly hese succeeded rapidly and brilliantly.
it my absurd modesty—" When the Lary, Interruptine.
said, •! Remember the good old rule, never to speak ill of
the absent."
• At Tronville on Saturday night a concert was given
in ail of the wounded during the late Wtir. It was numerously
attended. M. Tillers was present, and on his entering the
concert room was resolved with acclamations. The audience
iCie en maser, shouting "Long lire Titters !"
A man who had won a gold watch at a raffle, and
whose pious wife was very inquisitive about the way in
weich he bad obtained a gold watch so suddenly, satisfied
Icr scruples at last by telling her that " the filial:era had
given it to him."
A few months ago a famous Prussian general was
'salami Mg some military sta-le.. "What tic, I see there?"
tie said,
.i.l tones of thunder, to a seri-mut ; e. cobwebs
"lee, ire," Was the respeollull reply ; •' we keep them to
imteii flies and I,:event their teasing tine homes."
. Metallic •money being now scarce in France, the
project of an aluminium coinage has been projected, and hoe
obtatnen the eatictlene of hi4ti chemical authorities. Ear
the present the Rotuma: is postponed, lint the ex;ruMnents
ori use sullect are bring continued, and tie projact may
hereafter tre revived with rucoess.
When business was had at one of the theatres a
pompous would-be great actor, on receiving but nalf his
totk's salary, sat with the almost dignity, "Well, if this
be the remuudYlltion, I shall know how to act barer In
Mare.. "I am glad to hear it," observed the tieasuror,

An enterprising soap.maker in New York daubed
the rocks all the coy up the II adeon wit e the appeal, " Use
Smite's Seep ; " whereupon tits 'dial. toe stilt more enter-
prising d.uwa, after mach cogitation, started Rift whitawasher
up the river to limor d to each of Mr. Smith's aemals : "11
you can't get Jones's."
It in thought probable that Father dryacinthe's
marriage wni be followed ey that of a large number of
Frencli priers, scary f whom are, ...remelting to iii, Patric
gong to rebounce publlely their voos of celeacy. The aver-
age umuler of priests in France who marry ie, it appears
not lees than from twenty to thirty a year.
'he foil-awing appeared a little while back in a
Chicago newspaper Ear-of. Corn and Dirty-Face, two In-
dian beauties, copped at the briees' last eight, veceiviug
assiduous atteetlous from Carry.the-Crow-ourhis hew; and
A,rebled-the-Eagle. It is reported that the parties are ein
gaged."
The express train from Tiarce!ona to Valencia IRAS
upset by a laudelip of nearly a mile In extent en Monday
afternoon Marry of tie passengers core killed ; ainong
them Geveral Smith, creator. She accident oeuurred on
seedy soil between Terragoca and Tortosa. Details are
menthe., In consequenee of the interruption of the teh graph
between %lean,. and Tortoni,.
The Brother Jonathan' one of the largest trig
steamers On the Mersey, which has been und, r water near
the Prince's Landing stage, Liverpool, for about two years,
was last wcek auccessfully raised and beached, principally
through the agency of two large Iron "camels,'• or wreck-
Intern, capable each of Ihtieg 300 tope weight by their
buoyancy.
A violent assault upon a policeman in London was
on Monday ionise.' by the Clerkenwell police magistrate
by a month's imprisonment, without the option of a nue.
Another similar offender was ordered to trays penalty of £5.
At Greenwich an attack upon a constable was visited with a
sentence of two mouths' hard labour. At the Lambeth
Police-court sentences of six weeks' hard labour were passed
Upon three persons for this classy( silence,
George Colman, the younger, was dining at Lord
Mulgrave'n when, just before joining the lad,, a, he was
leiterieg about the picture of Lord Moierave n brother locked
up in the ice, li, the Arctic expedition in whieh Nelson soiled
as a middy. Lard Mulgrave, holding up till lamp, said,
"What is that my brother, has got held of 0" Is its heat-
hone 2"--" No, n;y lord," said Colman, in his half-throttled
witty voice, "We the North Pole."
The exhibition of antiquities at the 'Hotel de Vile,
Paris. has just been eimiched by a very valuable object,
belonging t Cl. Cockuy—the sceptre of Mary Stuart. it i 3
about thirly•two inches long, and artistically carved in ivory,
with portreite of the Queen and her husband, as well R 3 the
emblems, devices, and arms of Scotland. Fuel:tied, nod
Frauds I. of France. It bears the data of 1558, and is com-
posed of four pieces, mounted in brass, and adorned with
Medallions iu ginner. '
An interesting fact has recently been observed re.
specting the growth of corals. Somewhat leas than two
years ago Captain SI 'Gregor, of the 'teenier Kilauea, moored
a buoy in Kealakekua Lay. A few days non he was ordered
to hoist the anchor and examine the condition of the chain.
The latter, which is a heavy two-inch cable, was found
covered atilt corals mid oyster shells, some of which are as
large no a man's hand. The larger corals measure 44 inches
.In length, shich represents their growth turine the period
of two years that the anchor and cable had been submerged.
A newspaper correspondent says :—" I wish our
country gentlemen would consider how mach may be done to
make oon roads more pleasant and Devitt( by planting
fruit trees along them, hi not oontieueusly, at least in groups.
Tne trees would not only be a grateful shade in summer, but
might break the force of the north-venter 25 deg. Fear. In
January." Da Germany the reeds are hued with delicious
fruit ; the tramp even neeerie to respect the property, med be
cubt; at with the whoifalls on the road.
Chicago has ju-t been the scene of an extraordinary
Own° from price Fear juvenile thieves couflued in the
gaol oi that city, having obtained periniwion from the gaoler
to walk In the corridor, stole the prison keys, and one of
them, somehow Or other, got possession eta pistol. Seehieg
out the gaoler, the y 01111,4 deeyerano yreseeted ;he weaeon
at hia head, and metered him to unlock the doers. The
efTleeraetneilY obeyed, and the tour young thieves quietly
walked away.
Aft' Ingenious inventor in'Plulacielphia has devised a
way of blowing a jet of etemn throneh a current ed liquid
slag, and thereby he produces She threads of war from
to tonne •feet in !meek wed more or lees eletatio. To this
matesiathe gives the conan "mineral einkun," and as it is
found to he un admirable nomconductur of heat, it Is to be
Manufac,ured in quantities, arid tied as paddle,: for pi Os
and steam biters, .01 in places where seine oi heat is to
he preweeted. A specimen of Ude thread or Strobes been
exhibited at the 51auchester Philesopidcal Society.
A Calcutta journal bears that almost daily a baiikel
or two of live snakes Ma great many species sic sent down
by the East Indian Railway train from the Upper Provinees
Loth° address of the ex-Ftug of Dade, for his Majesty's
Mensgerbe at Garden thaoh. The ceneignom.who declared
and booked the first butch of three haekets as =theme, now
d• clams them as serucnts, and will, it is SIM. 1,1,10111 M Cal.
lectlng amide snatching them to the number of 20,1.011actnally
required by his Majesty.
The appointment has been made in Paris of butter
Inspectors ot the octrois and hailer, apes:oldie, for tee pur-
pose of milting a at p be a kind of adulteration which nes
been dlrceve red in ling'and as well wr France. Better is
now largely tranefactared in Lurie with flour, suet, lane
and unwholesome colon/ilia mutters, and having been
packed In little eqeare jars and labels, it is sent to toe
suburbs to lie , ent I a k again Le Paris. In pmaing thrm .h
the petrol' tbasreaey compound is stamped " Brittauy But-
ter " it Is after,' ards purchased at from two to three
banes a pound.
Those who go round with the contribution-box in
Californian &lurches plead and argue the ease tri the pewe as
they an along. Clue bellowing dial toe, it is said, took place
between one of these geetry iced all honest-looking miner.
Person extandieu the box to Lill, aim slowly shook
his head "Come. VlM:ern, give somethine," says the
pEnlen. "Can't do it," said Bill. " Why not ? Is not the
cause aged noel"" Tee, g eel mouth: bull am net able
, to give anything," answered Bill. "Pooh pooh ! I know
better : yon meet Rive me abetter reason thst that." "Well,
I owe too much m; airy ; I math be Best In fore I am generome
you know." "Eat. William, yea owe God a larger unlit thin
any one elm!". Thaea tr., pars., but Ile ain't pashing
sue like the rest of my creditors."
Everybody knows what a goiden wedding is • also
what a silver wedding bat a " WOodell. wedding Is
tiomethiee new. Keel, it is the latest Vaekee "notion,"
and Is celebrated en the OM anoivereary of marriage. An
American p ,per estates that, on the day In quesel 01. a lira
was eurprieee VI see a eant load of wood arrive at the door,
he cert., handed in the card of all Intimate friend of the
family, "with compliment" of" pencilled over the name, sod
than prom:tied to throw tie wood tat the lady's cellar. All
day long canoe other Messengers, bringing 0110 or more
articles of wooden ware, with cards, or little cougratedatory
notes, uutil the dining-r,om urea nearly ball filled with
wood'en ware of every Imaginahle description, frion wash-,
tubs to salad holm and Spoons., lii the evening the frienda
nod relatives mole tbenniehres, when many were the win.
gratulation, bestowed upon the worthy couple. Otherathat
did not come sent word that they wood it they coat

It is 1 that there ia eome proltalti!ity of
ruc4rgl sa,t4 the hmrtr.
titr." baio
er'o4'l4o4""e''
The ptana echai consenting the rscelpt hf t'be five
hundred millions jast cent to Germany or as at IStras
trrgoo lhu,sday etuug in List seek. 'loule opcluti.ni
of weighing lasted three 50t$.
Comiderable damage has been done to ilia grain
crops in Stales by floods consequent oil the heury relLs of
Saturday morning.
Venaviu 3 appears to be giving premnnitaryinthr.ation
of another eruption. Shocks have been felt—oily slight
hitherto, however—near the mountain, and smoke is being
emitsed from two of the craters.

sleeping

The total qnentity of coal rni-ta in the work; is
estiniated at 194 milliqn toni ; Europe yielOing 1671
millions America 27 millions, altitoe, natirtly front tits
United States ; Atla and Anstralsria, nearly 11 Mlthong.

To meet the demand for coal and iron, our mining
men are inactive, and companies have been formed in
Linden, through whose efforts csot remote c,nutrdis, such
as inland, will be celled upod to enatribute to our wants.

At a receht mooting of the Blelbourue
Association encouraging Iseti Were etsted tn th Miura
of the Vieterian lee tied, 0; kit vs continued to k. (run
tio,ltnd ahA the r.eighbouring eohnees Walt tan c.n
be titeented.

rawielt lwa bees- v.aLlatod,
a rem.] k being the only thing thot would vidnot t:cr
prevailing heat :—"U the evelther clow not lope gook r vcry
so oit Fahrin hell, in Justin° to his patrons, sholVti at once
add a &gond story with a Mansard roof to its thorniome-
ter "

It i a curious fact that it'aras on September 5, 1171,
the bat tire took pl ice in Canteibary Cattiedral, the Instory
of which ts left op record by all eye-witness—the M•.nk (ho-
vase. So gteat Wes the injury then etosse that the Cathalt/11l
woe not again opened for putdc.: service till 1180, cix yeans
afterwards.

Her Majesty attended a private service in Duarobin
Csst!oon Sunday. Dr Cumming preached the sermon, and
her Majesty, at the close, coon limented the Doctor, reread.
tog that is was exactly twenty years since she last ard him
preach. Dr. Cumming leknowledged the Royal rea gallons
In appropriate tel nis.
From April Ist to the 7th Met, the national income
ainounted to £29,v93,037, as conipared e-ith £20.i27.1t4 In
the corresponding period of Ile year. The expenditure has
been £.31,042,293, and tdis also was an increase ut,..a the sum
expended la the same tone twelve month, mg P 0.1 Saturday
last the balance in the Haut of Engl.ind eximeilea foal M.ll
lions anti shalt sterling. It
• It will be in the recollection of newsrpver mailers
that the eeitentric old lady of Stamford-street let to the
Itturapton Consumption Hospital, L.ll-lon, £106,005. This
the committee have received, and Invest lest eietel mined to
use for the prep se it erecting is new hospital, immediate',
opposite the old VIIP, to be snbii Mary to lb laity have •
alreirly purchased four houses, and are ft rottatin t try the
purchase of find others. The entire frontage wilt to 200
feet, widths site I, ascot square.
It is stated that thi Freuch Government has re-
solved to prohibit all political banquets, raeoria,.. 4.r ether
demonstrations in celebration of te e dist or 22nit ..1 Septem.
her, In a circular to the prefects to this Sect Ihr Gov.:ru-
m:a exploit-a that it does not oppose the celebration of
anniversaries in itself, and does not favour one °Oil hill more
. than another. It acts simply in the interests of peace and
tranquility, necessary up, ier present circumstances, anti to.
dependently of all party conshierationa
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Colonel J. 11. Simpson, engineer, describes the
operatbm of the 0:08 .1 the temporary railway 1101, In
operation at Matagordc, Texan The road is used for con-
veying the materials hr the new lighthouse mew in proems
of erection at that place. lie says Transportation of
material over the ruilload at this work has heels much
facilitated by using a sail on the c is. As great speed as a
mile he E minutes was obtained ley this means, and the
heaviest loads the cars could take core moved along as well
almost its if the cars were propelled by steals. It was found
that the cars would snit almost Li close to the wind as
boat."

It is stated that an Englishman in Naples made a
bet with some young Italians that he could set running all
the lame and paralysed beggars crouching in a certain corner
of that city. Matters having been arratged, the Englishman
retired, and after a while came rushing wildly round the
nearest corner, followed by a rabble, all shouting, "The
tiger is loose ! The tiger Is coming r and dashing madly past
the beggars, they in their terror forgot their professional
trickery, and, leaping to their feet, fled with the crowd.
Amongst tlie strangers at Berlin during the peat
weak was Mr. Einimird, the unauber for Perth. lie was the
bearer to PIM:* Bismarck of an address, strongly condemna-
tory of the dogma of Papal Infallibility and approval of the
Bismarck policy ion that question. Th,s,loanuent bears the
signatures of four members of the Douse of Peers, 41
members of the Monte of Commons. two bishops of the Eng-
lish Church. the President , f the Wesleyan Conference, and
numerous Influential ministers.
An Irish intolerant, just arrived in the States,
read the following M his American paper —" Toe Manuel-
mouthed poll-parrot of the Paoli Scavenger Inks Va., long
rousted to t..e shadow of our gooil-natiire. Let him beware.
Itorbearancs is no longer a virtue. We shall art, iris dainty
passage scurrying on the four wins of heaven, and give
his bloated carcass to the vultures." Soon after pen using
tli;s he went to look over the printfugtoffic! !If a pnper by

irritation. Contemplating the ma,hine *t fell Immo Pir its
time, he exclaimed to his inmpenion, "Holy mother of
Mo.!! aa the Anierinaus alpese each other by Machinery,
ite no wonder thi y pitch it oa alroeg !"
A retnrn of the Landvd listarrie registered at the
Estate Ezoluoszo Tokenhouse.yard, Lon dm, as Fold by Dahlia
action sod private contract from the lot of January to the
31m, of Am'emt, 1572, shoes, ins coninareil withtneerooopinil.
in,: period of loi. year the extraordinary in-mass of bs per
mnt., the totals havinz been .C4.1.485,C9Ciii Ik7l, and E 7,684,783
in 1872. The run, moreover, it le Bold, hes been ripen large
estates, the demand for which conthiuM tmahated. Farms
eds, hove been esp.:m.ly sought
All accounta from Berlin mirve in rrpreannting that
the Idles in honour of the three Elope rers went ofteni Friday
in last week, iu the most brilliant mariner. the monstor
torchlight tattoo was a !marvellous enemas. Ballo was
Illuminated, and the streets not Fepiares were literally
gorged with sightseers. On siiturelsy there was a greed
parade of the German troops, &menet which were the tan
regiments of which the Kaiser and the Czar seethe colonels

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re.pecttvely, and who phrred themselvis at their loud as
they marched past in presence of the Emperor William.
This was followed in the eveuing witls a CAL. slimier, at-
tended by all the illtistrit.us personages who are now as-
sembled to tho capital on the Spree. On Sunday after
Divine servhe, a visit was pot to tile Zoological Gardens,
duel, wa, gaily decorated far the oecisiom mid where a
cordial reception was given to the distinguished visitors.
During the week ending Saturday lea, 6,0:.:0 births
aid 3 411 steams core top:At:rd. in London and I meaty
other large edit s and towns of the United Kingdom. The
mortality from all causes in these towns was at the rats of
24 deaths annually to every Le.oo penale estimated to he
living. In the metropolis 2,100 birtha and La 33 II aths were
registered, the former havirg been 41 anove, and the latter
222 below, the average numbers in the corresponding week
ot the last ten years. Six persons died front sroall-pex, 17
from measles, 10 from marl, t far rr. I from diphtheria, 31
from whooping-cough, 16 from different toting of fever, ant
134 from Wart hook The fatal cases of each of these zymetic
dioceses were below the average. All the 32 deaths from
whooping-cough were of cl.ilireu tv.der live years of age.
Tile deati Tato from dimritea in Loiolon It as arab. lower
than tnat which prevailed in .ny of tho 17 other Jorge Eng-
lish towns from which returns are received. nix persons
died through being run over in the streets.