The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-07 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

George, King of Greece, has a superstitious dread of
firearms.
Swanton, Mass., is to have a reunion next month
of ail the ministers now living who have over preached there
A meeting of merchants of Limerick, on Monday,
adopted a memorial praying the Government to purchase the
Irish rsilwa) s.
A Reuters telegram says that the American Com-
MiFaioll under the Treaty of Washington have rejected
claims to the amount of 10,000,0 f 0 dole.
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The first cattle market since the outbreak of cinder-
pest in the East Riding of Yorkshire was held at Pickering,
on Tuesday, and was well supplied.
The search in the orchard at Croptomlane for the
remaii s of the murdered boy Joseph Thompson has been
continued, aid more human bones have, it is said, been
found.

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The tonnage of new hips launched on the Clyde
during November was 14,500, against MOW last year. The
falling-off resulted from the late strike. On the eleven
mouths there was an increase of 2,750 ton,
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A record has been kept in Bristol, which shows that
sine the beginning of November, I£7l, there has not been
one of the sueceudne 54 weeks without rain having fallen on
one of the seven days.

All the waiting giro in the Lorimer House, Dubuque,
lowa, struck, woe day last week, because the landlord dis-
charged a girl who had refused to wait upon a coloured man
at her table.
It was resolved at a special meeting of the Jersey
States on Monday, to erect a monument, at the cost of
El,O 0, to the memory of General Don, who we. twice
Governor of Jersey, and laid oat the military roads of the
island.
The John 801 l rape : 'We believe that the Tory
party will cordially support the claims of women, themselves
householders and possessors of property, to the electoral
franchise, believing that the right to vote should be given I
with retard to property and not to sex."
It jest once a curious and instructive circumstance
that while the deficit of gold at the Bank of England was
producing so much consternation in London, an amount of
£200,000 (sovereigns) was sent to Dublin, and returned in
, the same box unopened'
; At Weymouth, en Monday afternoon, dewing the
process of raising an enormous block of atone, weighing
lout six tons, a large portion of the extensive and recently
I erected mills of the Portland Stone Company fell to the
; ground with an enormous crash, and injured a numbers! the
men. Some of the principal uprights of the structure had
given way.
The Princess of Wales, attended by Lady Emily
Kingscote, left Sandringham on Tuesday afternoon for
Gunton Park, the seat of Lord Suffield. Her Royal Highness
and suite proceeded by special train from Wolfarton to East
Dereham, where Lord Suffield's carriage was in waiting, and
the rest of the Journey to Gunton, some 20 miles or so, was
by road, through the most lovely scenery of which Norfolk
can boast.
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Some idea of the recent rainfall is given in the re-
turn of the Registrar-General. Last week, at the Royal Ob-
servatory, Greenwich, more than three-quarters of an hall
of rain was measured; the fall for the month of November
being thus tablet to 2 9 inches. The rain measured during
October and November was 73 Inches, or two inches above
the average fall In 58 years. RAM fell on 46 out of 61 days
of those two months.
The Marquis of Queensbury has been charged at the
Bow-street police court with assaulting Tom toby, a de-
tective employed at the Charing cross Hotel. Him lordship
went to the hotel to seek some friends, whom he failed to
dimsnver. Having displayed some irritation at the apparent
indifference of the porters, the coo plsinant put his hand
upon the Marquis as if about to ejcct him and this led to
the assault. The megistrate, who pointed not faults ori both
sides, timed defendant 205.
Harvard University has, it is Ftated, lost heavily by
the Boston Ore, as it held property in the burnt di 'mint to
the amount of 062,000 d 01.., Inc udng the value of the land.
audit sill cost 3 iO.Ol 0 dcls. t reinuld Towards this work
It has 10,000 dols, of good insurance out ,1 the 216,000 dohs
for which it had paid premiums. Toe permanent loss is thu.
minced to 260,060 dole. By the losses of the lire, the ant
vs,rity is cut off from about 4,060 dols of rents uatil it can
rebuild.
The emigration officials, in their usual monthly and
quarterly return. which wet issued on Tuesday , state that
during ihe month of November the number of enilerants
which left Lsverpool was 1,093 in the cabin and 8,893 In the
steerage, and these people were conveyed in 33 ships
Tao nty-one of she passengera on board these vessels were
landed at Newfoundland, and to Mouth America there were
two ships with 92 cabin and 838 steerage, making a total
under the Act 01 10,412, of which number 4,731 were roglish,
94 Scotch, 909 Irish, and 4,671 foreigners. In 11 ships
which .ailed "not under the Act," there were in all 11,339
passengers, being an increase of 2,222 over Novemberof 1871,
The total increase from January to November was 27,815
as compared with the corresponding period of the previous
year.

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Lord Cowley and Baron Brnnow are the only
diplomatists now Hying who were laths Congress of Paris in
IaSS.
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General Ducrot has issued a circular to the com-
manders of gendarmerie throughout his military district re-
questing them to rend him lima of all dangerous characters.
Sixty nine of the London postmen engspdl in the
south eastern district of Loncim, have refused the good con-
duct stripes offered to them.
Baltimore it said to have such poor gas that the
policemen lose their way on their night beats, and have to
nquire the way to the station-house of strangers.
Government is raid to be making inquiries in the
neighbourhood of !Shirley and Ilkley, with the view of oh-
tainlng ground for an encampment of troops in the North

next stunmer.
Messrs. Palmer's shipbuilding works g North
Shields were on Monday brought to • partial stoppage by •
6thke of the indoor men who demand the same hours of
work In the winter no those recently granted to the men
outside.

The Manchester Guardian tayß it Li stated that the
Queen ha. addressed an autograph letter to the Lord Chief
Justice of England, expressive of her Nlajesty's warm and
cordial acknowledgment of his great service at the Tribunal
of Geneva.

A lady residing in the diocese of Salisbury has re-
(Tully offered £1,5110 towards the £3OOO required for the
execution of the eanopim to the stalls, the gift being on con-
dition that the ,•thee moity Is raised by Christmas, 1073
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The London Gcs.,..ette f Tuewlay night statee that the
Queen has been pleased to grant the dignity of a Knight of
the United Kingdom togoalah Sisson, of Norwood House,
Erdington, near Birmingham.
The Ohio and Miseiesippi Company have reduced the
paseenger fare on their road to three cents a mile, and its
earnings have been constantly Increasing from the day o
, the adoption of the reduced WAIL
The whole American press, regardless of
of
opolitics,aceGe,ser.oieer t
was He d epi deepest
Insane
ilorretsevaet
daysral d eaptr
vi
of
ti.Mti,
his decease. The causes assigned for Us death are overwork
dizintr the recent political campaign, and his recent domestic