The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-08-02 00:00:00

EPITOME Ot NEWS,
BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The Cardiff coalovrnera on Saturday agreed to Adopt
the statutory ton. but to reduce wages. Thy refused to ray
for small c A lock-out II ell*Okld.
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'rhe carriage in which the Emperor of It..in was
travelling Iron Berlin to Warsaw, broke do.. 0.
Joan. y. The iron axle of the saloon cartMge broke in two,
bet It eru fortnnateir °beamed and mended at Schneidemohl.
The train wee &hued over three hours.

A dispute has taken place between the mentor cloth-
dressers of lends and their hand., the men having appeate.l
for an advance of wages, and there are now between 3 000 and
4100 men on etrike or locked out. It bee Men decided to
refer the matter to arbitration.

The Bristol Times has information that partridge
'bootleg prospects in Gloucestershire and the neighbourhood
are not very brilbaut : small coveys and a good many barren
pairs are very generally reported from the preserves.
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A committee has been formed M florence for the
celebration In 1874 of the fourth oentenary of Michael
Angelo's birth. M. Pernezi Is the chairman, and the members
are Mews. de label, Psaserktl, and AlcardL

A monument has been unveiled in the University
of Napleo, hearing the Inscription :—."ro Pope Clement /LW ,
who, bp the bull of the 2.2 of July, 1773, dissolved the
Society of the Jesuits the University of Naples dedicates this
monument.-

A great sale of young horses from four to seven years
of age, took place at Eysham Hall, near Witney, on tlatur
day. The animals, et In number, were the property of
Tames limon, and they realised 6,615 guineaa
The Emperor of Germany has conferred upon
Captain kturgela and Major de Winton the Order of the
I3oldot Crown, In recognition of their nerviest during the
Franco German war.

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Joseph Turnbull, who was condemned to execution
at Durham Assizes for the murder of Michael Regan, at
Wellington, haa been reprieved, the sentence being commuted
to penal servitude for life.

Dr. Petermann, the German geographer, hae written
a letter to the secretary of the Amenoth Geographloal
Society mewling the Arctic expedition of the Polaris. Dr,
Determan thinks that the geographical restate of the cop
Cdt-
tion are of extraordinary value. "At any rate," he adds,
" they are the hieheet that any vessel among the immerons
expeditions of all nations to the North and South i olee hare
ewer accomplished einao many oenturiee."
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The Shah is understood to have spent £50,000 in
jewellery sod objects of art waist In Nair.

It is estimated that the damages caused by the great
fire at Baltimore, announced b) telegram on Saturday morn.
Ine, will amount to about £lllO,OOO.
Alexander Semple, who was shockingly burned a
ten days ago by the upaettlng Of a ladle lull of molten iron,
In Cartelde Foundry, at Johnston., died on Saturday. Be
lingered In gee.! Lwow fall his demise.

A parliamentary return ebows that the number of
ollicrrs of the army who have memorialised his Royal High-
ness the Commander in-Chief. with reference to their posi-
tion and prospects consequent upon the abolition of pus, base,
Is 2,242.

Tbe Prosaism troops destined to remain in Frencb
territory 101 the war debt Is quite paid are part of the 11th
regialObi of Utdans, the 4th tabled° of infamtry, two heavy
batteries and three companies of artillery, a company of
engineers, and some Prussian columns.

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The quantity of coal retained for consumption In the
metropoiltan district, with a population now ut above four
millions, was 5,133,667 tons In ;he year 18139, averaging 1 ton
7 cwt 1 qr. stud 7 lb. per head; in 1870 It was 6,679,671 tons,
or 1 ton and 9 lwt per heed; In 1871 It was 5810,788 tone, or
1100 9 net 3 vv. per heed; and In 1672 It was 5,901190
tom, or 1 ton Ices. 2 qrs. per head.

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The convict Jean Ferrari, eentenced to death at the
Court ot Al•iiel of the Aline for the murder of the wife of a
wlneshop keeper, was executed at Leon at fire o'clock on
Saturday morning. He was quite calm, but did not express
any repeutanoe. Very few people were present.

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Those who me seeking the means of combating la-
bour by machinery will be Interested on hearing that an In-
vention of more than =Lai importance for cutting cud,
heaving it up when cut, and for c ,rapresaing the sir used to
wc rking, hes Just been patented by Mr. Hard, of Wakefield,
and Mr. Siena 0, one of the proprietors of the Lund Hlli
Colliery. The !awhile has been suoceadully tested In the
Wigan district.

A sensational play has been produced at the Ambigu,
In Paris. in one scene a man and his wile, who are mar-
deren, are overwhelmed with remorse , the husband drinaa of
I the poison which bow.. about to pour out t his wife, and
falls dead on the ground, while Theme, taking the phial,
empties the rest, and dies In her turn

AB a souvenir of the Shah', visit to Paris, the Shah's
favourite horse—the tall perttcularly—lo jewelled trappings,
and Ms dog Akmed, have been painted by orders of Mac
Mahon itJth subject., " sat " several times for the artist.
A Vienna journal contains the following announce-
ment :—.‘ Anus Agrikol, sick nurse, watcnes dead Bodlek
replan straw chair., applies leeches, and makes pastry
dessert., and delicacies."
The Parisians rejoice that they have revolutionised
the dress of toe Persian., and that those gents have gone
away having their lung tunics behind, and clad in frock
cuats and pants.

According to General Charenton'e report on the new
or,anuation of the French artily, the olfficulty of obtaining
the riguitite Number of horses for the cavalry and artillery
will be met, it ii hoped, by the eatablianment of a "borne
emicription cite Germany. All dlipotable horses will be
registered, arid, in case of need, they will be taten up at •
Used price.

The Leeds Mercury mentions • curium circum-
stance Saturday, as several of I, ri Zetrano's workmen
wort returning from thetr wrrk through Aske Park, they
dbcoverel the trunk of • ni-isive Ireo to be on Lire. The
tree was struck by lightolug owing the storm of Wednes•
day morning, and notwithstanding the continual heavy
Wes sine; the rice was burning until Saturday, wh.n it
took the men several hours to but it out.

The increase in the Manchester Unity of Odd Fel-
sus the Foreetere Jounua for August, has been,
during the put }ear, upwaids of 11,000, anu the Foresters,
during the same period, have added upward. of 25,009 mem-
ber, to their muster-roll. The combined streng-h el these
two great affiliated societies at present exceed,. 900,000 finan-
cial membem

The Secretary of the National Agricultural Li-
batter. Union Ims announced that 10,000 men can obtain
free passages to Queensland, the Queensland Legislature
having voted £150,u00 for the purpose of Introducing farm
labourers and other classes of woiketen sad eerveuts into
that colons.

A Coastguard man named Green last hie life at
Walton-on-the. Nate on Saturday robrolog, while performing
an act of bravery. He volunteered to take • boat irom the
coast to • tin distress, and when Say yarns from the
Custom House Station the boat capalsed, and Green, being
unable to swim, was drowmd. The Custom House officers
plunged into the sea its their clothes to rescue him, but with-
out avail. The body ws• r,covered in about four hours.
Green leaves • site and three children.

In London, on Monday afternoon, Mr. W. E. Forster
presided at the opening of the Wilmot-street, Bethnal-green,
Board School. 'Me right boo, geotlemen said that was the
largest school buildiog he had ever seen, accommodating, as
It did, from 1,000 to 1,700 chilloren and added that there
were rue cone feet of apace for each child, though only
eight were iniperative. lie also highly intloglied the London
School board for Be valuable labotirit. It had, he said, al
reedy increased the attendance at achool to the enters of
55,000, and it had been proved that the Board schools were
not taking ewer children from voluntary echoola Mr. Bonder
added that the Clerk of the Board, Mr. Broad, had misused
him that the rate eras not likely ever to amount to 3d_ in the
pound.

The anncrancement of the death of Bertzowski, the
Pole who attempted the Me of the Emperor of Easels In
Peels, la contradicted, as he is still undergoing, In New Cale-
donia, the sentence of tramportation passed upon him,

At the Weeley.= Conference now being held in
Newcastle there has been mother education debate. The
Rev. W. Arthur urges the essential Importance of an In.
created supply of good Proteetant teachers.

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The weather has been very hot in New York, Al-
though the beat bad been "mitigated by heavy storms," the
thermometer marked 100 dem, in the shade last Sunday.
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A.mass meeting cf colliers employed in the p-ita of
the Aherdare Valley hoe been held at Mountain Ash, at
which the following resolution was unanimously adopted
That this meeting, considering the high price of coal
throughout the country at present submita to the terms of
the masters in regard to the weight queatl m " The request
of the employer. for • readjustment of the wage rats haring
thus been agreed to by a leuge hod) of the men, • strike IA no
longer apprehended.
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The pro-- prietors of the Nottingham General CeMe
Lary, to obedience to a petition, have decided to abolish
Sunday Interments, except from nine to ten o'clock in the
morning for extreme cues. The deterruhmtlon will take
effect on the lat of Anglut.

latptain Drew, 1. N., and Richard George Jago,
chief officer of the Coast guards, have been todlied at the
Galway Assizes for the manslaughter of two fishermen at the
Island of Lectermullen, County Gala ay, on the 28th of Feb-
ruary last. It appeared from the evidence tor the prosecution
that the defendants were in command of a body of Goad
Guards taring charge cf a quantity of timber which waa
being washed ashore from the wreck of the ship Julia, and
Owning some men hauling away a balk they ordered the
Coast Guards to Ore, Captain Drew firing himself and killing
one of the men. Jago alerwards fired and killed the other.
It was sworn for the defence that neither of the chfendants
fired the fatal shots, and that the Coast Guards only tired In
discharge of their duty, after calling repeatedly OD the fisher-
men to come back with the wreck. The jury said they had
heard enough of the caw, and would acquit the prisoners.
Ms lordship mad he quite agreed with them.

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Mr. Gerard- Shut, !one of the members for Dorset,
told his con•tituents on Saturday night that the present was
the dull et of the 26 sessions he had set in the HOLM) of
Common., and be told them why. "Early in the ...Ion,"
he said, "we knocked on the head the bill of the GJVOnl-
meut on the quesam of Irish University Education ; and over
since, there they are to be teen every day. ex,x,pt Satin, ay and
Sunday, sitting all of a row en tile Leman, y bench, with
tin Or Leads to heir brassie, roil I ,okiu4 Jolt line oh 4 they
a- e—a lot of beaten cocks with not a annle pe.lie left In
them"

The :fleeting of the Nathaoll Ar illery A..ief Lea
001111Itt0C • itext Moi.d.y ot Sheburyi.eas. the im,,,efeoes
of tries: gethtrlaAs has be-n steadily on the 11,,re..ae over
mince they that 14.-sau. At the prtseist nne-in4 we are
officially informed, the competitors wilt rzhn4t the c tp•t.l-
- of th, 40 pounder Arm•trong tun and the 64 poundtr
c )nvertet P.lllr gun. The entries are from all parte Of
the world, and the prize hat le • valus..le one.

The following cad announcement was in the obituary
of The Timee 00 gaturday Int 01 the 3rd of June, at
Durban, E.& Natal, Amite (11, am), aseu IS years; on the
Ch, Violet, aged II years ; ern t.a 5:11, Men, (Dais)), aged 12
tear. ; ,c, the itti, &Alert William (Peter), aged 6 )ear.; on
the Pth, Kate, aged 41 years; or. 1,10 ii Lb. Snout, aged 2
)Oa,, and 9 moeth—tile children of It W lEckinson, Esq
of olptith, n ." 810 lune Lhildren taken away—a whole
nurrery silenced cud made • iolltade—in eight days! God
help the poor parnts on whom Lie lands such • pitiless skew
as that !

The Serampore which left Liverpool on the 4th
',unary bat or Calcutta. bu but elute In heard hf, and It
I. auppoeed that she must have been kat soruewhere between
the Ida hf Man and the liebr,dea as ahe wan last seen if
Whitehaven on the Bth Jacuwy. She was 1,500 toes burtheu,
and f. 60 reward bee been offered for the recovery of au)
wreckage that can be proved to have belonged to t. 6
Serampore.

Mr. Beaufort, the postmaster and district surveyor
of Manchester, states In his rel. cot t the Poetmaater-Cieneral,
that there were more cams of drunkenness lout Christ.as
than he remembers at any previous Christmas, the fault in
In almost every Instance resting with the public, who cannot
be prevailed upon to troche ordinary die.retion in their
mode of teutifying their malefaction with the loiter carders,
and will glee them drink. A similar oomplabit is appllcahle
to a quarter of London occupied largely by Mzucheettr
houses. The t'cutinaster Geneml appeals strongly to all con.
corned to refrain frm manifesting their approval of the
oelduct of the letter-carrier. In a way which,, in truth, the
r-v.r,oolr.aikindse.. Of all mo•es of dismissal ft m the
w.rvice, often it consequent penury, drunkenness Is the
must common.

An inquest hoe been he'd in London on the body of
Kra Ellen Saunders, a widow, aged lorry years. 00 Friday
last, the deceased and her take were walking near the Ux-
bridge-rood statt m, when it was discovered that the skirt of
her dress behind was on fire. The deceased was greatly
Warmed, and attemptea to run Into three hoover one after
the other, but is. each case the door WS/ shut in her fate.
She then ran into a pnhltc-h, use, when a man named Olden,
a bricklav,r at once took off his coal, and throwlug her on
the grossed wrapped her tightly in It, and with groat dile-
culty put out the flames. She died on the following mere.
log. There was no evidence to show how the lire really oc-
curred, but the deceased stated before her death that Not
before she discovered that her dreu was outlet she saw ahoy
who passed her lighting his pipe With a fosse The oeroner
spoke of the greet danger attending the practice of throw-
ing lighted macho in the streets, and thought It wan a
matter the polies
20 ilshould take up. The .q returned a
odleat

I(Me of the competitor. at Wimbledon, Mr. Fenton
In shooting for the Rich° Challenge Shield, made eight bull's-
eyes in succession at 1,000 y ards.

Sonth.Eastern China Ives been %kited by a severe
typhoon, which has newel moulder:Ole losses among
thipting, as well SY great cestrue.ient ol property on land
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The Rock has reason to believe that a -statement of
the Bishop of London on auricular confession may shortly be
expected in reply to the ideroorial on Use subjeM from.
fashionable London parish.
The honorary mediesl and surgical staff of the
Bristol Hospital tor dick Children nod the Out-door Treat-
ment of Women hare us hody resigned their appointments
as physicians and surgeons In consequence of the recent
election of a lady to the etaos of house surgeon.
The value of the Bishopric of Winchester is now
C. 7.000 • year. Winchester is one of the primary sees. and
Dr. wilberforcs's successor via take hisseat without being
ailed upon to act as. Junior prelate.
The state of health of King John of Saxony is such
an to caulk, apprehensions to be entertalued of the existence
of a disposition to dropsy.
In modern times very few bishops have died except
from " natural causes.' Half a century SRO an archbishop
was accidently pdsoned. 1.1703 Bishop Kidder and him Mb
were killed by the fall of a stack of chimneys in the palms at
Wells. 11w. add the name of Bishop Pattemon, we shall
probably have exhausted the list.
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A Parisian- musical dictionary defuses a shout to be
.• au unpleasant mdse produced by overetridantl=
the
tor winchngreat Bingen will be paid, and small c
punished.

A large bog at Cappamore, Tipperary, ie reported to
have recently changed lta potation half • mile. Tim move-
ment was accompanied by strong vlbratloue of the ground
and loud nobs..

A demonstration will be made by the journeymen
bakers of London on Monday. August 4 the Beek Holiday),
In Hydoyark, in favour t f the repeal of the limoke Nuisance
Act, which it le contended d 0... great deal to make the Made
worse than It would other wise be.

"Few dinner piwties, says an observant rule, are
without one or two Ladles whoa hair la either of an Innate-
nay brilliant 'Aden hue of of that still more unnatural
lemon yellow, which resemble.. familiar sort of spun gists.
When • woman contributes ahead of artificially coloured
hair to the adornment of her friend's drawing-roorn, she
ought to be told in whet spirit the persons present, at least
the men among them reliant her ingenious kindness ''—Cosir
Journal.

From the lot of April to the 26th instant the total
receipts WAAL.' Exchequer amounted to 411,867648, again.'
£22n7( .017 In the correevudlng period lad year. the
to Wanes to meet payments were M0U0,614, arahme
£2O 482,818.

A little romanoe from the post-offios of a New En-
gland town, In America, speaks of hope Oefened and a Wok
heart, and all that sort of thing. Regularly .vwy two weeks
for the last six ymn • letter haa *wired Mere, In •
feminine hard, to eons unknown person Over and over
again they are adverUsed. b$ h. DOM maw to claim In..
and one by one they we Ma to the deed-latter Mike at
Wathlngton. Rill they come, and still the mystery con-
tinuer.

According to a parliamentary return just issued the
Royal gun factories re capable of producing about e,OOO tons
of guns of yahoos calibre. per year, or 7,109 of rough forg-
ing., and the number of bands engaged on the Ist of January
last was 921. The time required for the manufacture of
wrought-iron murele-loading rifled guns Is stated as one
week for each Inch of calibre; lima, a 7-Inch gun requires
about seven weeks to manufacture it up to
The City Press says that the will, with one orlicil„
of Mr Matthew Marshall, formerly chief cashier of the Bank
of England, but late of Amenham House, Beckenham, was
provod on the llth ult. by Matthew Marshall, the son, and
Mims Sarah Marshall and Mrs. Harriet Killer, the daughters,
the executors, the personal estate being sworn under £lB,OOO.
After devising. freehold house to Ms daughter Berth, the
testator gives and bequeaths the residue of his popery
equally between and among his children absolutely.
In connection with the Autumn manmurres the he
portent experiment of moving cavalry by rail is this yaw
being tried. The transit began on Saturday, when the eth
Dragoon Guards were conveyed In four trains from Fain-
borough to Meter. The journey occupied from sight to ten
hours.

An inquest has been held at the Camberwell Work-
house on the body of Ellen Edwards, aged 97, one of the
hymns ineates of the Lambeth Union. rho evidence given
ahowed that the deceased, although of wank intellect, was
occasionally allowed to taken day's holiday, wig* she seme-
times extended to • month or nix Without anyone
knowing where skews.. About the middle of June last eh*
was permitted to go out alone for the day, but she neves re-
turned, and It was not known where &• had gone to; but
on Thundey morning last her shawl, neatly folded ap, was
found upon the towing-path of the canal at Camberwell, with
her bonnet and hoot. lying on It. A search resulted in the
discovery of the body, which wee quite warm, and had evi-
dently been in the water only a few minutes, bat life was ex-
Cum It was not shown that the poor eld creature had any
reason for taking her life, and • verdict of " Temporary
Insanity" was recorded.

A return obtained on the motion of Mr. Plimsoll
haa been presented to the Howe of Commons " of the crews
of merchant ships who have been oommitted to mhos in the
year. 1070, 1871, and 1872 for rob:ming to proceed to sea
showing toe number ol men in each cam, the name of the
ship, and the lei m of imprisonment, together With the
reason alleged by the seamen for refusing to go to sea."
The total numher cortmutted was, it appears, 1,638 : 1,352 In
England and Wales, 1(9 in Scotland, and 177 in Ireland.

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A fearful petroleum accident has taken place at
Knell, the village clow to Maimalson, at the foot of Mont
Valorise A grocer in the v•llage bad apparently • lug.
quantity of petroleum stored on his premises; a Sr. broke
out in his shop, and a cetechment of the leeth ffirciment,
headed by Its lbutenant-colonel, and a detachment of the
Ore brigade, attended to put it out, and bad nearly suc-
ceeded in Lang so, in ignorance of the large quantity of
mineral oil stored there. While they were time engaged the
petroleum caught fire—thorn NILS a tremendous explosion,
by which 45 men were badly hurt, 21 of then., it is said, be hopes of recovery. With a great deal of difficulty the
fire was prevented extending to the red of the village. Ma
lieutenant colonel or the 104th is among Use wounded.
During the week ending last Saturday 5,017 birth.
and 3,636 deaths were registered In London and twenty elide
large cities and towns of the Gaited Kingdom. The natural
increase of population was 1,861. The mortality from an
causes in them towns ons at the rate of 25 deethe ennuaug
to every 1000 persons estimated to be living. In Um
polls 2,137 births and 1 609 deaths were registered, the foemee
being 114 above, and the latter 230 below, the average. Thirty-
one persons died from measles, 15 front marls* fever, 8 from
diphtheria, 62 from whooping-cmgh, 37 from digesang rhnhg
of fever, and 306 from diarrheas ; and not one from enutu-pon.
Thus to the seven principal aided. of the moue dug gag
deaths were referred, lIKILIMIt numbers increaaiug steadily
from 129 to 334 in the five preceding week& The mesa
temperature at the Korai Observatory, Greenwich, egg ggh
deg. and 7 2 dogs, above the average for the corresponding
week 10 10 sears, although 23 deo, lower than Is the mime
week of lilt On Tuesday, the 22ne1 inst., the temperature
Was 887 der. In the shade,