The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-02-22 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

13RITISII AND FOREIGN:

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The Bishop of Tennessee delivered a lecture on
secular Ellication," in the Newcastle Town-hall. on
Monday
A letter from BAle says : -" The Grand Council of
the canton at Frihunz has just re.establishe I the Penally of
death which was abolished twenty years ago. at of b votes
51 supported the re-introduction."
The number of deaths from the fever at Terliug,
Essex. has now risen to thirtyPlve. Altogether there have
been 260 attacks.
The number of bills in-posted for thin Sesnion which
relate to railways and tramways in the 1 nited Kingdom
amounts to 112 ill those ldlls thirty-one propose to autho-
rize the construction of new railways, and five the construc-
tion of street tramway.
Parisian traders sometimes give their shops strange
signs, for signs for shops still exist in that country, though
they have long since disappeared in England. At the present
moment one of them is advertising his shop under the sign
of the " Illustrious Establishment."

It will be a subject of general regret with the public A marriage has been arranged at Nice between
that the great t oxford and Cambridge University boat race /dr. Henry thipenheim, a partner in the well known Egyptian
will not take place this year. The Hon J. H. Borden, who backing-house of that name, and the daughter of the Hon.
came to so melancholy and untimely an end a few days ago, James Butler younger brother of Lord Duntaloa.
rowed No. 4ln the Cambridge crew, and out of respect to The Carnival at Rome began on Saturday. The
hie memory, and probably from inability to fill his place
Curio was very animated. Although few carriages were ob-
satisfactorily, it has been determined to withdraw the chats
served, large creeds filled the streets. Perfect order
lenge.
prevailed.
General Butler has been challenged to a duel by „we
are
re,
inested by the Lord Chancellor to con-
Colonel White, a Methodist preacher of Virginia, on coconut
of an order issued by (Seneral Butler reflecting upon him tradict a fitatement of the intended marriage of his daughter,
which, without any authority, was moat improperlyinserted
during the war. The challenge has not been accepted.
In the Court Journal, and for which there is not the smallest
A hopeful symptom is chewing itself in Italy. In ibb,,a.u.........m,,,
the principal cities addressees to the chamber are eeing
tins committed
signed, urging it to suspend all political diecuaslon, and to :rile second valet of Lord Perin'
throw aside all other matters of minor importance, in order 6 1.1.12..1ceitb y,
oc uotiou,g, f his h throat.e female
domestics
setriecasr learn thatt K ~,h,
we
slllel
hr...
to devote the whole of its energies exclusively to the task of
11,1111:1311utt a marriage between them had been arraneed, and
improving the fluencee and reforming the administration of
the country.
however, the deeetwed lexame imprestael with the delusion
waa shortly to have taken place. Within the last few weeks;
delusion" Mr. (lord ti, who accidentally shut himself the
other day at cambridge," one of hie friends eeys, "Was one that he had been tepid:lntel by anetlar ia her affections,
awl this circumstance pre) oil much meet his mind.
of the moat careless nice in handling a rifle I ever met. I .
have nen hen, as a feat a strength, hobl out at erne!, levieth
a loaded rifle with the muzzle towards his head" The vitt I, •. - annual mh• by bawd," 11121.1111111 ed to take plsce
• . . l'he Ilmue Secretary Las put his veto on a gigantic
enivereity marker had knows Mut to cock his rifle with his
d the h I f 0 ford " The Mayor M
tit t'ilx'for'di, for the benefit "of the suffering thous:yids of
London 2D le OM WE poor o r . .. r.
foot, with the mural° towards hlm.
Carr.. has been communicated stint by Mr. Hardy, Alld a eer-
One of the most touchingly einiplo wing was left a respondence has ensiled white st 111 proltahly Iced the fin.
few days ago by the cert.n pastor ifoixaped, of Iteifnitz. verunteet to prohibit the numerous monster throws which ate
Is consists of this one line only ,—" My soul to Sled, my hodr now going on throughout the kingdom
to earth, my money to our deaf en.l dumb hospital." The
An rotplogi on the Orleans Railway has invented an
property of the deeca.sed, who had led a most rigorously
abstentious life, amounts to And 70,tiee florins. 1. . 1 f • I other ceminatibie materials,
.111111 ',mut oil o Loa slut
especially petroleum, tue.le for the t• etvenience of use iii the
An " attractive novelty" is announced in one of the form of bricks, whieli, it is said, is caliniatyl to efftet an
sporting papers A youth, waif sell in the right leg, and no. ;,50 :eying iii the fuel necessary for generati,•g steam
using a crutch, ellen to walk 1,000 mike in I,oou couseetatin It burns with tutense heat and for 0 long time, and is likely
hours for a "moderate rermmeration." to be extensively emphe od very shortly 011 the Orleans hue.
President Johnson has not yet in any way remit. where some very te'tJaclore experiments have lbeen made
flitted Mr Stanton as the Secretary of War with rbie inattraL The compound Is called Priyueltcr bor.
A candidate fur the Royal lOn Asylum ••f St. Anne's x, Sun•lay ast t•••• p ace, in le vueni y o are+. k I ' tl "'t f P '
has leaned a poetical appeal tt o he charitable supporters of
that institution. Here is a stanza:— A nee with velocipedes, epee to all nations. A great crowd
assembled, All.l appeared highly amused at this voluntary
° I crave not alms, I ask not food or drink;
treadnell exercise, which lasted ab-ut an hour 1111.1 a ball.
Deny me not, kind souls, a httle ink.
The successful competitor was a Frenchman. This knit .t 1
I plead for love, for proms, not for pence—
amusement is becoming very general with elliillrell of larger
Vote for my little sue, peer Hantpden Metee "
growth, awl bids fair to supersede recking.horsea
A ship laden with petroleum took lire at Antwerp
Iler Majesty the Queen has been graci•maly please.'
is saturday. 1111,1 at dine o'clock ito Um afterlk.ll SIDS COD- to Selld to tun Royal Free Hospital, Gray's- -road, in Lon-
flegrati n had a dangerous appearance, several vessels being
don, threugh Dr dennor, a copy of her Majesty's work
threatened with destruetioe.
0 Leaves from the Journal of our Life ill the Highlands -The cloud Peelle; to be thickening over the Last, Iler Melody has written on the fly-leaf, "Preeented to the
The North Eaderit Co.ro.popid, rice of Vienna speaks 1:011- Royal Free inexiarai by Victoria ice
ndently of insurrectionary peepers' Ome is Bulgaria, and
other Continental Pelmets, unfortunately confirnt this view
rer;Teahrii'eSar
w'kaern.YAll*,,yrYal inyetoirairidatrabe.tvehtle•
eanped 41.41 a
In t very particular.
. Mr. Charles 11-aleet story, !Hard lash,' will rememlwr how
linen. Ayres has been visited with cholera, awl its the hero of the tale was captured yid incareerated in a mad -
ravagea are of such a character ae to almost parebie louse on the eve of his tuarriege. It is said that this is the
cerneterce real explatiati,, ~ of Mr. Speke's fate, and ' the clue' to which
Pk 71,--. of Frith ' alluded"— Lee do 11,,,,,-••

A New York paper says : "A Newfoundlarllog
was seen carrying it bundle in his mouth down Second
Avenue, nn Tburaday night. Arriving at No 451, eittcupied
by Mit "an Winkle he walked op the steps, and having
deposited thc linfolle on the topmost step ran off. The
package contained a female infant about one week old."
A rumour was extensively prevalent on Saturday --
it was, indeed, published in merited of the papers—of the
death of Mr. Justice Slice, hut the report ims happily with-
out fnintelatlon Justice Shoe has been ill, and is now t.wnt
to he improvieg
Iforses in Victoria are as mimaleable as sheep. (
paper speaks of them as helium at Lisps 00€ each Another
saAs ,—" On Thursday last live were knocked fig.,. TI for huff-
s-crown. and ten othera only realised twenty-eight stuffings,
the purchaser buying then) to feed pigs with "
Runumrs are again current in Paris of une.u)inessi
In the relations between France and Prussia, and tome people
go to far as to any that Prince Napoleon in urging the Em-
peror to declare war against Primate. The story scorns to
have no halls of probability.
A newspaper is about to be started at Sitka, in New
Archangel in ,kairinleig
A Boston shipowner, who is building vessels at
hotelier, writes home that, while first elass vessels can le
built in transits and Nova Scotia at fie dolt currency a ton,
It is impossible for United States shipbuilders to compete
with them, as the same class of vessels cannot be proilmied
here at less than 05 dela. • ton.
In Indianopolis recently a negro was sentenced to
pay a Ine oi 5,000 dole, and two years in the penitentiary for
marrying a white woman Whether anything was done with
the woman Is not stated.
At Kazan is religiously obaerved the custom of
bathing on the solemnity of the Epiphany oth January .
This year at a tempendure of 20 degrees Redumur 1.3 below
sero Fahrenheit , ruorethan 100 individuals, old met,, young
ones, snd lads, plunged Into a hole broken in the ice of the
river I{ Menke. and came out seine looking as reel as boiled
lobsters and others pale Si a shroud.
"Rebecca" is afoot in Scotland. Fourteen men,
with blaekened fives, knocked up the toll-keeper on Dunkeld-
bridge, curly on 'Tuesday morning last, and told him that
they had come to relieve the public trom paying the toll any
longer. They then divided themselves tote two parties : one
party purling the toll keeper, whilst the other lilted the
gate off its hinges and threw it into the Tay. liaving demi
this they departed, and the tell-keeper wisely made no
attempt to follow them. The gate lloated down the Tay
emit five miles, and was found an o shattered state it a
ferry below.
At Rome, on the 10th of February, in the gardens
of the Vatican. MO singers chanted a hymn by the .Maestro
Father Rosati. in honour of the rfaory if Mentana. The
Pope was present and the performanee attracted an immense
crowd, thonah admittance was only obtained by ticket At
the conclusion el the hymn the Pope presented Father
Raati with a gold medal, end gave a silver one to each of
the singers.

times 0. .lay alluited."—Lcids Newer!,
The King of the Belgians box just sent a hando an,
gull watch to M. ale Block, litugoniaster of Zele, on the
OCeaUlikall Id his 102nd birthday. The following inseriptiou
Is engraved an the Case : "Given lay the Meg to M. (mu-
founts de Block, the 14th of Fehruary, 18418." This gentle
'IMO still 11066r119e5 all 1114 illielleettlal laicohlirs;
hoemary president of the local shooting smiety he walks
out daily uhnie, and sonietimes attends the rifle meetings
The Prince anal Princess of Wales 'mid a visit an
Mellalaty to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, in London, of which
the Prime is Preeldent It is understood that the Crineena
had I mg wished to are the institution, and especially *ince
the re,eption them at mast at the unfortunate persona sake
were injured by the Clerkenwell explosion.
On Monday the Bishop of London, Mrs. Tait, anal
the Rev E. Maguire visited Hie sufferers by the Clerkenwell
explosion now ill the !loyal Free Hospital, London, and were
accompanied round the various wants by lir. Marsden They
expressed themselves much pleased with the improved stet
el...lrbil rendition in which they fouud the patienta. The
poor little fellow, Arthur Abbott, who has all but last his
sielat, node his little horse about the ward much to the
satisfaction of the visitors.
A man living on the Nankai of the river Ness dia•a-
receetly, and his corpse was tall on a stretcher, which was
I placed on it box or tnuak The river rose higher than it hal
thine for fifty years, and the inmates of the ea 'Maize, with the
exception of a boy, fled. On Rohm back to the house when
the water began to recede, the corpse was found floating in
two feet of water, anti the boy sitting Oil the coffin half
taterved.
The Charieari (the French Pee(*) publishen ma
woodcut in which Wand, in the guise of all asaronomer, It
represented looking tliretigh a telescope at the star Theodora;
li. the far distance, and, in consequence, never sees the well
of Fenislaism open at her feet, and MT, which a fall 114.41.,
Imminent.
There is a class of people in Paris who obtain
living by picking up the ends of cigare in the streets, ev,..
Some of these people paranoia freni the head-waiter of e
my', the exclusive right to pick up the butts "of cigars
It le estimated that the total value of these cigar-ends in
about £2,000 per annum, anal that they are worked np Into
tobacco and oftentimes exported as pure Oriental weed.
In the obituary column of the London Tinter of the
13th inst. were recorded the deaths of fourteen peraone
whose united ages amounted to 1,110 years. Nine of the
number were men anal five women, the total of whore years
numbered 713 and 397 respectively. The average age of
each pet non was, therefore, a little over 79 years. The
youngest was 70, and the eldest Sir. David firewater) 87.
On Saturday night Mr. Richard Marshall, farmer,
of Wyse% near Notthigham, met with his death lay an ex-
traordinary misadventure Ile went to an oyster stall
the Market-place, Nottingham, and ordered some °Wen,
to be opened. The first handed to him wan a very large one,
anal attack in his throat. Ile was unable to dislodge it, lad)
to the ground gasping fur breath, anal was carried at once
to the hospital, but died on 114 way. The deceased was a
. .

" Two distinguished persons have arrived at Jack-
son, YlississippL One of those is Jefferson Davis, who has
been received cordially but quietly by the white people.
The other Is iterjeant Bates, who has undertaken to walk
from Vicksburg to Washington, without money, but bearing
the Fnited States flag. Bates has been received by the
negroes with much tom-toming, and supplied with food and
whisky. The boast of Bates is that be will carry' the flag'
through the South, and that nobody will molest him"—
American correspondent.
A letter from Rome, in the Mktg, atm :—" Every
body knows that the Papal army contains subjecte of all
countries, but what It not generally known Is that it is not
composed exclusively of Catholics, and that there are soidien
in ft belonging to all creeds. I myself could scarcely believe
the fact, and I was ciiliged, to be convitced of it, to take
note with my own eyes of a.certaiii number of TOCU in tip.
Pontifical uniform attending a Protestant church "
A letter from Rome to the Harax Agrney states
that a monk, Father Curd, who enjoys scone reputation in
Italy for eloquence, recently insinuated in a sermon that
the Emperor Napoleon was acting hypocritically in the ger-
vices-rendered to the Holy See. A "painful sensation" WSP
In consequence created in Rome, and the French ambassador
6.1 a conversation with Cardinal Antonelli ou the subject.
The Roman secretary of state at once declared that the Pope
had already administered a severe reprimand.
"A distinguished London philosopher and M.P.
will early in the session draw the attention of the rhan-
cePor of the Exchequer to the necessity of providing more
dead hones for the consumption of the. cats, since they
have human competitors in their food. The Chancellor of
thc Exchequer, It is presumed, will say, Kill the eat, But
thy philosopher will retort, What will become of the rats
and mice, and, from that point of reasoning, of the stores
of corn in the land? The question may become a party one
, and load to a amigo of htlnlatry.'—Court 'puma

married man, and hex left a large family.
A suggestion which appeared in The Tina some
days ago, that a new industry might be created for Ireland
by the cultivation of beet-root sugar, was Wet at once by the
discouraging statement that it had been tried some yearn ago
and bad failed. This is literally true: but it turns out that
the failure proves nothing, because the experiment was
fairly tried.
The commissioners sent abroad to select the best
model for a rifle wherewith to new the Pope's troops have
juat returned to Rome, having decided for the American
Remington rile as modified iu Legland, a simple but solid
model. Some objectiot,s to the form of the cortouche hove
led to an improvement in It, lien thousand of these weapons
have been ordered, and in six Months they are to be hi the
hands of Pio Noon's soldiers.
Mr. Bernal, her Majesty's Contml.at Havre, draws
attention to the approaching rnaritinie exhinition at Havre,
exprioors regret that the number of demands for ad-
Illialoll from Great Britain have fallen far abort ei what
bad reasonably been expected The exhibition will cnilirsco
every description of article timinected with ships and seamen.
and. ris it will be held In the ' • Liverpool of rina. en," and at
our very •aors. Mr. lienotl thinks that it ought to powers
very great attractions for a maritime nation like CHit
Britain.
An old man in .lanehestkr named O'Brien, suffering
from bronchitis, obtained last week au order on a dispensary
tor • mixture composed of laudanum ipecacuanba. Haoia
twthowed a dose of it, he found himself no much relieved
that he drank on the entire contents of the hotfle, on the
supposition that t h•• ?pore 1 Iho MCtlil'ille be took the bett,r
he auhl b iv nos found deed lb his bed thi he t
scorning with the empty nettle hi his twat At the corm oe'S
inquest the pay ....,,ured the dispensary man for giving out
medicines unaccompanied b., written directions an tr., the
h quantity to be token.