The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-08-14 00:00:00

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Norwich, Conn., U.S., b3sBt of a " pheno
hackman," who, when a lady paid him a dollar for his
services, and inadvertently folded up a two-dollar bill with
It, hunted her up the next day, and returned the money.
The Berlin correspondent of the Daily News says
that the long-projected pilgrimage of German Catholics to
Lourdes is fixed for next month. Subscriptions to a large
amount have been obtained.

The cotton and g4n crops of the United States
are not alone in their abluidance, The July report from the
Department of Agricultural shows an increase in the tobveo
crop of twenty per cent, above the average.
Hugh Donahue, the American pedestrian, has corn-
pleted the wonderful feat of walking 1.100 miles in 1,100
consecutive hours, one mile each hour, at Mystic park., He
was in good condition at the close. _

A few days since an engine-driver on a Belgian rail.
way died suddenly on the locomotive while the train was
travelling between Eccloo and Ghent.
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According to the Dgbats the Pope has refused to
consecrate the Roman Church to the Sacred Heart, on the
ground that such a dedication would be an innovation. In
o oiwg thispe refuses a request made, it is said, by 12,000,000
petitioners.
The Princess Louise Home and National Society for
the Protection of Young Girls has just received a grant of
one hundred guineas from the Corporation of the City of
London.
The .Reime et Gazette Musicale of Paris stateethat the
Sultan of Zanzibar astonished amateurs and professors who
were present at his visit to a pianoforte-maker by playing one
of Thalberg's fantaseas with the skill almost of a virtuoso. .
Indian advices say that a serious outbreak of cholera
is reported at Simla. Temporary hospitals have been erected
there. Small-pox is also prevalent.
Tete-4-Mte "dons put to his sweetheart by a bash-
ful Highland lad :—" How's your father? 'How's your
mother ?" "How are your parents 2' How are your father
and mother?" "How are they both?'
It is claimed that the business of bee-raising in
Louisiana, will be made one of the most profitable enterprises
in that State. Dr. W. B. Rush, of Point Loupe, said that in
five years, the State can be made to yield 1,000,000 dols. worth
of wax and honey annually.

The Laurium mines, in which hitherto modem com-
panies have worked only the debris from the ancient work-
jugs, are now said to have been far from worked out origi-
nally, discovery having been made of the exact spot where
the ancient Greeks suddenly suspended work.
A fourteen year old boy, weighing 280 pounds, and
a French lady claiming to be 132 years old, are among the
curiosities a census-taker at Crown Point, N. Y., found in the
course of his labours.

A writer in a late number of one of our magazines
argues that the Atlantic Ocean is gradually drying up. This
will be pleasant for those peeple who want to go to America,
hut are kept back by the fear of sea-sickness. In two or three
hundred thousand years, perhaps, they can go over on dry
land. And, by the way, steamship companies had better be
making preparations to put waggon wheels on their vessels.
—Court Journal,
in answer to a deputation of dealers in foreign
cattle, who complained of the existing legislation with regard
to the foot-and-mouth disease, the Duke of Richmond, while
dissenting from a proposition that laws on the subject tended
rather to increase than Le diminish the evil, promised to
confer with the Council.
At a recent meeting of the French Geographical
Society a letter from the Sultan of Zanzibar was read thank-
ing France for the reception she had given to him, and pro-
mising protection to such of her subjects as might pass
through his dominions.
According to the Treasury accounts, published at
Washington on Saturday, the revenue of the United States
for the past year exceeds the estimates.
The dispute between the boot and shoe manufac-
turers and their workmen in the City and East End of London
Is now assuming proportions of considerable magnitude.
The men, it is said, are willing to submit their case to the
arbitration of Messrs. Efolms and Fawcett, the two members
for the borough of Hackney.
A special telegram from Berlin says that the state
of the Emperor William's health is most satisfactory, akd
that the baths have had the best effect. He will probably
visit Italy in the beginning of October.
A bottle has been picked up off Jersey containing
the following inscription on a piece of paper, apparentlt
torn from a pocket-book :—" An awful gale is blowing •
towards the rocks. Lost Pray for the crew of the ship
Jean Baptiste.—Emile." The paper has been handed to the
French Vice-consuL
Suffolk County Journal, TJ.S., makes the following.'
curious announcement :—" F.euben R. Springer has given
125,000 dols. as the nucleus of a fund for the erection of a
grand musical and exposition hall in Cincinnati. Where's
the man that can Springer trap like that in the Highlands,
and make himself immortal?"
A Scotch minister who had been reproving one of
his elders for over-indulgence observed a cow go down to a
stream, take a drink, and then turn away. "There," said
he to his offending elder, "is an example for you; the
cow has quenched its thirst, and has retired." "Yes,"
replied the other, "that if; very true. But suppose another =
cow had come to the other side of the stream and had said,
'Here's to you,' there's no saying how long they might have
gone on."
O'Connell celebrations were held in various places
on Saturday. In the evening there was a banquet at the
City Terminus Hotel in London, at which Mr. Mitchell
Henry, M.P., presided, supported by Mr. O'Shaughnessy,
M.P., and other Irish gentlemen. A letter signed by Cardi-
nal Manning was read in all the Roman Catholic chapels on
Sunday, announcing that at the evening benediction the
"To Deum " would be sung, in token of thankfulness to God
for those religious liberties of English and Irish Catholics
which Daniel O'Connell was so greatly instrumental in ob.
taining.
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