The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-05-08 00:00:00

THE GENERAL ELECTION.

On the subject of the number of votes recorded at the
elections of 1874 and 1880, The Times has published the
following letter
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,has been met by Another to the effect; that,, in like exibral .Ire established,
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on the' 31st December, 1878, amounted to 845,54 :against.
:shows that there are 1,062,387 Conservative voters out £3,814,920 on the ist.of January atthe• wide year..,,
of a total of 2,310,404, which,would give to the Con-
servative 300 members out of the ..652,-.: instead nf the ,tt-
south-east
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sentation on a numerical basis would have reversed *
A Times telegram from Philadelphia says :--,, The
the state of affairs. —I am, Sir, your obedient servant, steamer Moravian, which has arrived at Ralifax, reports that
9, King's Arms-yard, London, April 29. M.
YaLESIAS.
of Cape Ray. It is supposed to be the Wainer Polynesia. ,
a large steamer is fast in the ice fiftimiles to the

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According to the Birmingham Post it is likely that
Garibaldi will shortly pay a visit to Loudon should his health
contirtue to improve

A large gathering of Primitive Methodists took
place on Tuesday afternoon at the Dome, Brighton, where a
thousand persons sat down to tea, the occasion being the
closing of several dais' proceedings in connection with that
community.

Lord Falmouth's intimation as to redueting the
rents on his estates in Cornwall 10 per cent., is equiTalent to
a sacrifice of about £3,000 a year.

According to a Westphalian paper, four extensive
layers of black marble have been discovered lathe Wichenge-
birge.

The tragedian Rachel's country house, the Maison
de Moulin at Montmorency, is to be sold. It was here that
the actress spent her scant leisure time, and received some
of the chief French literary and artistic celebrities.

Ostend rabbits are certainly appreciated in England,
to judge from a statement in., the Lime Stock Journal that
over two millions have been imported within the last five
months.

The Paris Post Office is to be removed next week to
its temporary abode at the Tuileries, during the rebuilding
of the shabby and cramped old office in the Rue Jean Jacques
cßoommusseoaduat.ionThinirtteheeneboiuurddiungscalraovuesel. ben erected for its ac-
An electric girl is now living at London, Canada,
the San Francisco News Letter tells us. She is nineteen
years of age, and on recovery from a two years' illness has
become a perfect walking battery, for no one possessed of
ordinary nerves can shake hands with her, or even place the
hand in the same pail of water as this highly charged
maiden.

More sweetmeats are said to be eaten by Americans
than by the rest of the world combined, and most of the
" candy "is made in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia.
Boston uses annually some 25,000 barrels of sugar to manu-
facture 5,000 tons of candy, while New York yearly produces
about 7,000 tons, some of which is exported to the West
Indies, South America, and even to Europe.
On Friday in last week the Bishop of Bath and
Wells laid the foundation stone of a church in the district
of Rowbarton, Somerset. The cost will be defrayed out of a
fund of £5,000, towards which the Rev. F. J. Smith, of
Taunton, contributed £3,000 as a thankoffering for the con-
clusion of peace between Russia and Turkey.
The threatened strike of Liverpool dock labourers,
who are agitating to recover the amount paid before the un-
successful strike last year, is likely to be averted, the Steam-
ship Owners' Association having unanimously agreed to leave
the question to arbitration, the advance, if the arbitrator
decides in favour of the men, to take effect from the 10th inst.
The ship Samuel Plimsoll, 1,444 tons, Captain
Boaden, ohartered by the Agent-General for New South
Wales, sailed from Plymouth for Sydney on Thursday in last
week, with 394 emigrants.

The Empress Euenie (the Durban correspondent
of the Daily Telegraph says) left Maritzburg off April 29th,
in excellent health. Her Majesty was escorted by the
mounted police.

A Moscow Correspondent of the Cologne Gazette de-
scribes the misery and starvation prevailing in the south and
south-east of Russia as unknown in the memory of man. No
food is to be got for the horses and cattle for any money, and
the animals are consequently dying everywhere of starvation
in the Transural Steppes and the Don Steppes.

The saw mills of M. Santerne, at Aubervilliers, in
Paris, were burnt down on Saturday last, immense stores of
timber being destroyed, and a more serious fire broke out in
the same quarter of Paris at the firework factory of M.
Honore, at Pantin. Two of the workpeople were killed and
several were seriously injured.

Dr. Wilhem Wagner, professor in the Johanneum
of Hamburg, died at Naples a few days ago at the age of 37.
Dr. Wagner had gone to Italy on a scholarly and artistic
tour, and succumbed to a sudden attack of typhus fever in
sight of Herculaneum, the object of his most enthusiastic
curiosity. Professor Wagner was a devoted student and
admirer of English literature.
A Renter's telegram says that the Chili= Legation
In Washington has reeeived a telegram from Panama stating
that the Chilian fleet bombarded Callao on the 22nd ult.,
causing serious damage to the town. It is added that the
Peruvian corvette Union was nearly destroyed by the
Chilien vessels. Lima was threatened by the Chilian army,
and great distress prevailed there. The Chilien army was
marching upon Sama, in the province of Arequipa.
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It is stated in the Indian papers that the desira-
bility of importing Chinese labour is being discussed among
the planters. The gerrral. opinion seems to be that the
labour supply is sufficient If it could only, by Judicious
legislation—or perhaps freedom from legislation—be made
available. It is also felt that, before looking to foreign
fields for labour, the Government should be moved to per-
mit the utilization of the home supply. There would then
be less need for a Famine Insurance Fund.

Colonel Strelitzby, of the Russian staff, has re-
cently published an atlas of fifteen maps, accompanied by
explanatory text, in which he shows the extent of the Tur.kish
possessions in Europe as settled by the chief treaties signed
during the past 180 years. From this it appears that they
have gradually decreased from 15,454 square miles in 1698 to
4,559 in 1879.
The Europe Di plomatique says :—" We have received
intelligence of an alarming character from Shanghai, stating
that a very hostile feeling to all foreigners is prevalent in
China. It is considered likely that there will be a complete
change in the system of government, and possibly a revolu-
tion in the country. All the members of the Diplomatic
Body in Pekin have requested their respective Governments
to send squadrons to Shanghai to protect the lives and
property of their subjects."

The Paris Correspondent of the Daily Teregraph
says :—" France ha.s come forward very liberally to relieve
the distress in Ireland, and up to date nearly 500,000 f have
been sent to that country. Count O'Connell, the treasurer,
has forwarded one-third of the amount to Lord Lyons for the
Duchess of Marlborough's fund, one-third to the Lord Mayor,
and the remaining third to the Irish bishops. Further sums
are now being raised for the same laudable purpose."

"After the political storms of the past four or five.
weeks, an inevitable calm has set in. The ship of State,
tossed recently on the lively seas of a general election, and
driven by fierce breezes of party, has got into the 'Dol-
drums,' aid floats idly over the space of time devoted to
re-elections and Parliamentary preparations By and by the
trade winds of regular politics will blow again, and a new
course will be laid; but for the present public affairs are
dull, and public speakers uninteresting."—Leader in Daily
Telegraph.

The Ist May in Liverpool was celebrated as usual
by a procession of gaily decorated horses, wagons, and trade
insignia, and as for the first time in the year the weather
was warm, bright, and summerlike, the show attracted
thousands of spectators; who lined the streets, and gave the
city all the appearance of an organised fete. The show of
horseflesh on these occasions in Liverpoolls always extremely
fine, and Saturday proved no exception to the rule.

On Saturday afternoon some cattle from Zululand,
presented to the Queen by Sir Garnet Wolseley, arrived at
Windsor at four o'clock by the Great Western Railway. They
are handsome specimens of oxen, but exceedingly small. On
their arrival at Windsor they were taken to Prince Consort's
Shaw Farm.

In the course of the ceremony attending the founda-
tion of a chapel for the Bible Christians at Hatherleigh, the
Earl of Portsmouth said that, as the chairman for the North
Devon Liberal Association, he could but recognise the con-
fidence which the Nonconformists of this country had shown
in that great man who was now the Prime Minister. In the
struggle which Mr. Gladstone had led, the Nonconformists
of this country had been his staunch supporters, and he did
not doubt they would receive from his hands a further ex-
tension of religious liberty. The Nonconformists had set
aside what he might term "fancy,. politics." While looking
for a policy of "practical politics, it would be neither wise
nor expedient to endeavour to hamper a Ministry by making
demands for that which was impracticable.

Last week 2,559 births and 1,387 deaths were regis-
tered in London. Allowing for increase of population, the
births were 60 and the deaths 201 below the average numbeil
In the corresponding week of the last ten years. The annual
death-rate from all causes, which in the four preceding weeks
had steadily declined from 241 to 20*2, further fell to 19•8 per
1,000, a lower rate than has prevailed in any week since
October last. .

During the excavation for the extension of a pier
at Southsea, on Tuesday, some workmen discovered the
gibbet upon which Felton, the assassin of the Duke of
Buckingham, was hanged on Southsea-common after his
removal from Tyburn. The gibbet is of solid oak, and stands
about ten feet high; it is twelve inches broad at the base,
and gradually tapers to a width of six inches at the summit.
The block is thickly indented with bullet marks, and more
than fifty shots are still embedded in the wood.

The recent additions to the Zoological Society's
etardens, Regent's Park, London, include a Cape hunting-dog
from South Africa, presented by Mr. C. Ernest Pope; a
vulpine phalanger from Australia, presented by Captain
Fife; a green-winged trumpeter from Maranham, presented
by Mr. R. M. Hyde; a blue-fronted amazon from South
America, presented by Miss E. Bentley; a black scoter,
European, presented by Mr. J. E. Harting, F.Z.S. ; a long-
long-eared owl, European, presented by Captain C. A.
Lumsden ; a stump-tailed lizard from Australia, presented
by Captain J. Thomas; a common adder, British, presented
by Mr. W. H. B. Pain; a drill baboon from West Africa,
tdepoo
jsamitedes;ont,swgouncso,mbmreodnin thsealse, British Seas, purchased;
w gardens.

numerous British families who claim that their ancestors
sroryrpaisssend9w being
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studied by Major Hastings, the chief political officer with
theTChaeb ull eFnige ltdh Foofr ce. pedigree,A c cord ins tohighly
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whiosse far
history
has established a sort of Heralds' College at Sherpur to trace
maily
the line of the chief notabilities of Afghanistan, and finds
descent
eenot voefr
Afthgehaenonnoqbuleers, n o
their families most ancient—one elderly gentleman, indeed,
claiming to trace his lineage from Adam himself.
Mr. P. F. Langham, the deputy coroner for West-
minster, has held an inquiry as to the death of William Hum-
phreys, aged 56. He was cleaning some windows at 10,
Prince's-street, when he over-balanced himself and fell
through a skylight under which four men were at work. Two
of them were very severely injured, while a third was slightly
bruised. Humphrey's was quite dead when picked up. Evi-
dence was given to the effect that there was not the least
necessity for the deceased to get out on to the window sill.
The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death."

The latest report of the Municipal Statistical De-
partment for Munich shows that the number of marriages in
that city has been annually declining since 1875. This is
quite in ,accordance with what has taken place generally
throughout Germany. In 1875 the number of marriages was
2,318, 2,067 in 1876, 1,947 in 1877, 1,902 in 1878, and only 1,621.
In 1879. But these diminishing figures do not fully represent
the rate of decrease, for the population of the city has been
all the time increasing. In 1875 the proportion of marriages
to every 1,000 inhabitants was 12.18, whereas in 1879 it was
only 699. Some interesting particulars are given in the
report. Thus, 83 per cent. of the men married in 1879 had
been previously unmarried and 90 per eent, of the women.
The cormsponding proportion of 1875 had been for each sex
93. The youngest bridegrooms were in their 21st year, the
youngest brides in their 16th. The eldest bridegrooms
were 79 and 76 years old respectively. The oldest bride was
68. This lady, who had been hitherto single, chose for her
partner a widower some ten years younger than herself. The
-youngest bridegroom married a widow double his own age;
difficult
while the youngest bride, a girl barely 15 years of age, had
for her husband a man in his 33rd year. In 17' per cent, of the
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afternoon 1:1y, one
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past: .rtiiiiP.treoaftulr seiiienshthinuntle or rine barkiligrnest
• be coming from the.south-east, And. withiA.a few minuteti
'the:wind arose and heavy rain commeneedlo fill, which wag'
soon intensified with lightning 'and-..thunder. •rThe 'storth
only lasted half-an-hour ;. but on ..Tower-bill ' ap.4. itt the gar-:,
. dens dithe:Tovieithe • hailstones :fill to a depth of more
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preactitt ower s ',Mon It tire Brdiigi parish church, at
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and completely scented the chancel of the Church. They
were afterwards taken to London by Canon Farrar, and occu-
pied ssveral large packages. The Canon selected his text
from Matthew vi., 20, "Consider the lilies of the field, how
they grow.'