The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-09-18 00:00:00

Mr. Gladstone itilce no less than 223 times on a
siagle Bill in 1870.-rt Journal.

The Grand Duke Constantine of RUSißily who re-
turned from Glasgow on Saturday evening, attended service
at the Russian Chapel in Welbeck-street, London, on Sunday,
when the usual Te Denimwas sung in honour of the Em.
peror's fete day. The Grand Duke afterwards called en the
Prince and Princess of Wales, at Marlborough House, where
he dined in the evening.

Under the head " Conscience Money," the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer acknowledges (in The Times) the
receipt of the first halves of two £lOO notes from "C."
An invitation has been given by the Lord's Day
Rest Association to the Executive Committce of the Amal-
gamated Society of Railway Servants to appoint a conference
between the association to consider whether any effective
steps can be taken to lessen the Sunday labour of railway
servants. The traffic men in the service of the North
Eastern Railway Company are agitating for payment for
Sunday duty.
Careless hairdressing is to be the French style, it
is said. The braids and curls are to seem ready to fall, and
the head must not be covered.— Court Journal.

The Canadian Government advices from New York
state that the total revenue of the Canadian Government for
the year ending June 30 was 2.1,708,58.5 (151 s. The expenditure
of the year exceeded this sum by 393,127 dols.

The arrivals at Liverpool of live stock and fresh
meat from the United States and Canada last week showed a
large increase in comparison with the preceding week, the
total being 2,206 cattig, 2,304 sheep, 686 pigs, 3,993 quarters
of beef, 302 carcases of mutton, and 116 dead•pigs.
The exports of wheat from New York for Europe
in July attained the unprecedented total of 13,676,000
bushels. This exceeded the shipments of any previous
month on record by nearly 5,000,000 bushels.
There were 23 British and foreign wrecks reported
during the past week, making a total of 929 for the present
year, or a decrease of 201 as compared with the correspond.
mg period of last year. The approximate value of property
lost was £500,000, including British £4OO.

During a severe thunderstorm which. passed over
North London on Monday, a geculiar phenomenon was wit-
nessed in the grounds of the Welsh Harp, Hendon, by some
gentlemen boating on the lake. A vivid flash of lightning
was succeeded by a tremendous peal of thunder, a great ball
of fire at the same time descending from the heavens into
the water. When the storm had abated over one hundred
Ash of various kinds, including two tine carp, weighing to-
gether 281 b., were found floating dead on the lake.
The death is announced, at the age of 88, of tne
Countass Lycia Von Wrangel, born a Von Below, widow of
the deceased Field Marshal of the same name who preceded
her to the grave about three years ago. Married in 1810,
the departed lady celebrated her golden wedding in 1800,
and her diamond one in 1870—a very rare achievement even
among the robust and long-lived gentry of Prussia. In the
Countess Von Wrangel the poor, the sick, and the afflicted
of Berlin lose one of their most charitable friends.

A telegram in the Daily News says that the move-
ment set on foot by Italy to effect a cessation of hostilities
between Peru, Bolivia, and Chili, which was readily con-
curred in by England and France, has now received definite
shape by the offer of the United States Government to
mediate, which offer has been accepted by the belligerent
Powers.

It has been remarked in Germany that the migra-
tory birds have this year commenced their journey south-
wards earlier than usual. The same has been observed In
England. By the 10th of August all over north-western
Germany the house-swallows whose broods were fully
fledged were visibly preparing for their flight; most of
the other swallows having already preceded them. Col the
24th of August a large flock of storks coming from the
north-west arrived in Berlin, evidently tired by long Sight,
and continued their journey towards the south-east,

A meeting of the Gener.g Committee of the Risco,
Explosion Relief Fund was lneld on Saturday, the Mayor
(Mr. Henry Russell Evans) in the chair. It was reported
that the aggregate fund up to the 10th inst. amounted to
£ll,lOO. Collections are now being made at the churches
and chapels throughout the country, and a considerable
amount is expected from this source. The weekly payments
to the bereaved families were reported to be £3B, and the
number of recipients 302. It was resolved to continue the
present scale of relief, viz., 53. per week to each widow and
is. ed. per week to each child under 12 years leate. It is
an computed that other £5,000 will have to be r

On Monday the Wolverhampton Town Council
strongly debated the Sabbath Observance Question in con-
nection with the enacting of bye-laws for the regulation of a
public park about to be opened there. Councillor Joseph
Wright proposed as an addition to the code framed by a
committee that neither games, boating, nor skating should
be allowed on the Sunday. The town clerk justified the
code on the ground that no other corporation in the country
had enacted such a bye-law as was now proposed. After
several amendments the motion was carried by twenty-
seven to six.

Prince Alexander Labomirski, a Galician noble-
man, who resides in Faris has made a donatien of a sum of
two million francs, to be expended in works of public advan-
tage to the people of Galicia.
American adric,es state that Dr. Tanner was to
make his first appearance in the lecture field on Thursday,
the 9th inst., atßooth's Theatre. The title chosen by the
Doctor for his lecture was, "What I know about Fasting."
When the telegram announcing Ayoub Khan's de-
feat was read in the House of Lords, the cheers of the bishops
were among the loudest —Court Journal.

An inquest has been held at Clifton, near Lytham,
on the body of a gamekeeper, named Watson, who was killed
on the Preston and W}re Itai/way. The deceased was en-
gaged with a shooting party, when one of the dogs rambled
from the field in which they were on to the rails. The
deceased hurried after it and was so intent on calling it in that
he seemed to be unconcious that a train was fast approach-
ing. The driver blew his whistle, but it was too late, and
the engine cut the man down, mutilating and killing him in-
stantly. The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death."

In the month of August the Dusseldorf Exhibition
was visited by 287,185 persons. The reoeipts from entrance
fees for that month amounted to £.13,467. Since the opening
of the Exhibition, in the second week of May, more than a
million of visitors have paid for admission.
The Hon. J. R. I). Tollemache has met with a
serious accident whilst bicycling at Ilelmington. When
passing a high bred horse the animal took fright and came
into collision with the bicycle. Mr. Tollemache was knocked
heavily to the ground, which resulted in his arm being broken
and his body being considerably bruised.

Muslims Pasha who has represented Turkey for
so many years at the Court of St. James's, has just received
from the Sultan the Grand Order of the Osmamle in diamonds.
The distinction conferred by Rio Majesty upon his old and
valued servant will be learnt with much pleasure by his
Excellency's numerous friends in this country.—Wednesdays
Times.

An accident occurred at Peterborough on Monday
morning to the train leaving King's-crosg at 10.10 am. A
waggon laden with timber ran off a a siding, and caught the
byake ran of the train just as it was leaving the station,
doing considerable damage. After a delay of half an hour
the train proceeded on its journey.

William Henry Cooil, of Dalton-in-Furness, has
died in the Barrow Hospital from the effects of an explosion
of dynamite. He left his house on the 29th ult., and soon
afterwards an explosion was heard. A friend of his found
him lying near a pool of water, with one of his arms com-
pletely shattered, and otherwise injured. It is supposed he
took the dynamite charge in his pocket with the object of
firing it in the pool of water, but nothing definite is known
as prior to his death the deceased was too ill to be inter-
rogated.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to permit
Lord Braye to hang up the sword of his elder brother, the
Hon. Edmund Verney Wyatt-Edgell, who was killed at
Ulundi, in the Braye Chapel at St. George's, and almost im-
mediately over the body of Sir Reginald Braye. At arse it
was understood that her Majesty intended placing the statue
of the Prince Imperial either in theßraye Chapel or in to
nave but now it is probable that a more convenient site will
be chosen in the aisle north of the chancel, near the gravest
Edward IV. Strangely enough, Captain W3:att-Ertigel was
one of those sent a few weeks before the battle of Ulundi to
recover the body of the Prince ImperiaL
Notes and Queries states that a Greek MS. of one of
the Gospels, written in letters of silver on purple vellum,
has recently been discovered in Calabria. It is said to be
ornamented with 18 miniatures, representing scenes in New
Testament history, together with 40 portraits of prophita,
The discoverers of the MS, claim for it the position of our
earliest surviving illuminated MS. of the Gospels, and
assign to it the latter part of the fifth or beginning of the
sixth century.

One of Beethoven's pianos is shortly to be sold at
Klansemberg, in Transylvania. Given to Beethoven by the
well-known maker,Wagel, of Pesth, when the great musician
was composing Fide.lio, the instrument is still in good preserva-
tion, and beam on one of its panels the portrait of Beethoven
at twenty years of age.

Mr. Gladstone, in acknowledging the receipt of a
resolutions
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head, states that he is much gsatified to receive so kind sa
expression of confidence in himself and in Her Majesty's
mineinbral of Awshsoeichialitieonis en ,
the
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by the the
Government generally, from such an important Liberal
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Association as that of Greenwich.
The Anchor Line steamer Anal*, from Boston for
London, came into collision on Mohday in last week in a
dense fog off the Newfoundland Panks with the British
barque Trongate. The Anglia sank in four hours. No paa-
sengers were on board. The entire crew of 50 men were
saved in boats which arrived at St. John's on Friday. The
vessel with her cargo, including 338 head of cattle, is totally
lost. The Trongate, which was not materially d
continued her voyage from Antwerp to New YorirM
Anglia was an iron screw steamer, of 1,412 tons, built at
Glasgow in 1869, and owned by Messrs. Henderson Brothers,
of Glasgow.