The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-06-08 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH - FOREIGN.

"Dolly Paden" snuff i the latest luraty out.
A company ia coming out to manufacture " con-
°liable fam-eotton," invented by Mr. Punshon.
Lord Dufferiu is gazetted Govenaor-Genenal of the
)minion of Canada.
The well-known lionapsxtist organ, the Gaulois, hoe
en allowed to reappear in Paris.
;rowing pearls in fresh
found lu the n-0,-

Growing pearl; in fresh water mussels lan. been
',dill the Bath canal, ahLh Is now being cleansed.

Acaording to Aga;six. man existed Upon this ewth
one hundred and fifty thousand years ago. He hal a good
memory.
The Westminster Gazette says :—" It is reported on
good authority that the eldest son of one of our most in-
fluential English dukes is about to be received into the
Roman Catholic Church."
T wenty-tive Mormon missionaries have arrived in
Liverpool to convert the benighted heathen in these islands
to the faith as it is in that estimable patriarch, Brigham
Young!
A new insurance company has advertised itaelf. Its
advertisement is headed •• insurance against I best " After
a preamble the fii,t is arrived at that good Normmdy eider
will he sold this year at so much the cask.

Old woodmen say that the forthcoming iurnmer will
be dry, for the oak is in the leaf Lag before the ash. one
who has worked in the woods thirty years says he has never
known the above sign to fail.
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Accordira, to official statistics there arrived in
America, during the calendar year 1871, 316,9,8 immigrants,
which makes an average of one immigrant to about every
fifteen minutes.
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It seems that the greatest hopes are entertained and
sanctioned by the highest geological authorities that coal
may be obtained in Kent and Sussex. This would double
the Industrial resources of the South of England. Iron
formerly was found in Sussex, but its manufacture had to be
eVon up for want of coal.
A sad accident occurred in Dublin Bay last Satyr.
day. Five small yachts started for a single-hamlud match
in thick weather. One of them, the Pert, manned by Daniel
irOwniell, grandson of the liberator, WWI musk and Mr
O'Connel drowned.

Our American coming are about to have a monster
jubilee at Boston. it is said that a lialßit.l ins runient
maker in one of the States is working up a saw log thirty feet
long into a life for he OCC.CeOII. it will be blown by nitro-
. . . . .
gly twine.
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The grand Idea of fashionable art lately seems to
be t.) pick out of polite London life any where some sceLe or
group which in itself would he absolutely uninteresting to
any unconQerned spectator, and to reproduce it on canvas
with a servile fidelity to all its commonplace details of dress
and decoration.

Ou the "evasion of President Grant's last visit.

Helena he was serenaded by the local band, the somewhat
illiterate leader of which played selections from Tenn/miser
because he thought that was the German for Tan-yard, and
would recall recollections of the President's younger days.
On Tuesday evening the Prince and Princess of
Wales paid a cleft to the Horse Show at the Agricultural
Hall, London. Their Royal Highnesses were received with
much entivsiasin by the large numbers which had gathered
in and around the building. _ _ .

On Monday, at the 1 figh Court of Justiciary, the
Lord Justice Clerk and Lord Jerviswo, de on the Bench,
James ides al, carter, 1.311 charged with the murder of
Lout. Purdie on the morning of Sunday, the 24th of March,
In Q 11.11.11 Park, Edinburgh. From the evidence it appeared
that there were no fewer than 100 wounds on the body. The
jury returned a verdict of "Guilty of culpable homicide," and
the Judges sentenced Giessen to 15 yearn' penal servitude.
American papers notice the death of Mr. T. Buc-
hanan, Read, painter and poet. lie was born in Pennsylvania
In 1822 Among his poetical works the most widely knoen
was Sheridan 4 Jade, written in 1884, when his countrymen
were exulting over the achievements of General Sheridan.
ti ing in feeble health, he resided for a.nie years past In
Europe, but died at New York on the 11th of May, six day.
after his arrival by the Scotia from Liverpool.
Official returns received horn France show a further

decrease in a number of cases of rinderpest oc..urring in that
country in the ten days over which the returns extend. The
number of animals attacked with the disease was only 16, as
compared with 39 in the previous ten days. The disease only
prevails in two departments, the Nord and the Somme, and it
appears to heat last dying out.
A dreadful accident is reported to have taken place
at the station of liolienheirn, near Worms. Just at the
moment when the train from Mayence was traversing the
way, the express from Basle arrived at full speed, and (lash-
ing into the other, crushed everything before it. Nine
persons were killed, and several wounded.

On Saturday, at Bolton, a prisoner attempted to
commit suicide by cutting his throat with a knife while his
case was being investigated by the magistrates. The persons
in the court were much shocked Icy the spectacle, and much
force had to be used to restrain the unfortunate man, who
was evidently labouring under delirium Ire none

The Leeds Men /try says the announcement of a rise
in the price of coal has led to a general movement on the
part of the colliera of Leeds and Methley districta in support
of an application for an advance of wages. In the can, of the
Leeds colliers a rise of 22i per cent. Is demanded, while the
Methlry men request an advance of 81. per ton, Bd. per
yard on all straight work, 8,1. on all packing, and an advance
upon bywork in proportion.
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The arbitrators appointed to decide the disputes be-
tween vie master builders of Ipswich and the Ipswich Labour
League made their ueport on Monday, and declare that the men
shall work fifty-six hours and a half per week, leaving off uu
Saturdays at one ; the mechanics to he paid a penny per hour
more, and the labourers three farthings per hour more. Thus
to be independent of overtime.

A curious discovery has been made at the Charter-
house, London, in the shape of an autograph of Six Henry
Ilavelock when a boy at that school. It has on It the date
of his leaving, and was probably pushed by his own hands
behind the wainscot of his cupboard or locker, where the
mice and rats have very kindly and considerately spared it
for upwards of half a century.
A deaf and dumb girl has been charged at the Mid-
dlesex Sessions with stealing a watch from a man in a cab.
The chaplain to a Deaf and Dumb Asylum said that, ten or
twelve lean ago, money had been raised to place her in an
Institution, but she left it and went astray. He had visited
her in the Lock Hospital ; but all efforts seemed wasted on
her. The judge, uitls a suitable comment on her wayward-
ness, sentenced her to twelve mouths' hard labour.

There have been some very good takes of mackerel
on the Cornish coast during last week, upwards of 120 tons
of fine fish being forwarded to London. East Country and
Mount's Bay boats, returning Irom the Kinsale fishery. fell
in with fine shoals of mackerel some 10 to 70 miles from
Scilly, and shot with meat success One craft made 01, oof
its carkoss another had 4,000 mackerel, and no on. the fish
generally being no large that 45t0 60 tilled spud. The boats
on the home ground have also lutd a good measure of success

"A beautiful girl, hearing that her lover had been
stricken with small pox, intisted upon flying to his betlAdc
and becoming his nune. She caught the disease and from
being the prettiest girl of the season, she became one of the
plainest. lier lover son WBB 8 lover no more. No reproaches
came from the once pretty mouth which had lost its
prettiness in saving the ungtateful one from math ; her
cheek, which the telltale blood used so often to tinge, grew
pale and sad. and she married an old gentleman worth £20,000
a-year. Such is life."—Court Journal.
The revenue returns hwuwl on Tuesday show that
the revenue ltetweeu the Ist April and Saturday last amounted
to £11,524,311, as compared with £11,230 54 last }ear
The receipts are derived as follows :—From customs,
£3,223 000 ; excise, £3,606000 ; stamps, £1,711,000 ; taxes,
£OBO.BO ' • income tax, £1,332,000; Post °flies, zint,mte
telegraph service, £00000; crown lands, £55,060; miscel-
laneous, £1,161 311. The payments in the some periol
amounted to 4A/500821. as compared with £l2 530 863. The
balance in the Bank of England last Saturday was 47,084,645,
and in that of Ireland. £1.936.571.