The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-04-25 00:00:00

iffam,himiamitsdidismissinsammi-7.

Four young women aro preparing for the prac!icv of
modi-ine at Zinich, in Sangerlud. Three of [him are
Eng'lth and one a Swiss
The John liv,ll states that Miss Edith Litton, who
Is now acting at the rrineeta's Theatre, I.endot,, to the el.le.t
daughter of the Rev E A. Litton, examining rbaldah, to
Ili ohp Baring, of Durham formerly Vleo-prinripst, of St.
Edmund IlalL The young lady Is granddaughter of tlo
Ecv. Carus Wilson.
-

Some of the American imrnals arc tli,
eultaMllty Of Cemoral Butler ea a succeuor to Mr A.t., t
the court of St Jamee.

A field of Italian grass (a species tf eed rocontly
adopted in State)) is noir being cut at Flreatham, I 1. green
food for cattle, and the crop is fully 000 moth earlier this
year than at any previous spring since its introduction
into this country.
-• • •

Twelve hundred mechanics of Boston, New England,
unable to obtain employment in that city, have taken
passage for California.
It is said that .11Ir. Anthony Trollops has sailed for
the United States, where he la empowered to arrange the
terms of a new postal treaty.
It is rip wted in Paris that Marshal Niel, on being
wand at a eat, es at his official residence whether he had read
M. lisroche's Rambontllet speech, pretended at first to know
nothing about it. Later in the evening he said, "All
Baroche has made • pacific speech. Ca carol o'gal. I have
received the Emperor's orders to prepare for war, and I am
ready."
A new gun has been invented by M. Lacoste, a
respectable shoemaker in Paris It will fire twenty balls in
ten coconuts. It is to be hoped that NI Lacoste has reflected
that his gun will take off such a number of legs that it will
seriously damage the shoemaking business.
- -

A loan Was brought up the other day before the
p dice Sr running through Paris at midnight, in a retired
part, without sty trouser. on ;on naminal: before the
magistrate he dearly proved, to the edification of all, and
amidst general hilarity, that the man hod betted his trousers,
after losing all the, upon the throw of the dice and had
lost his trousers. the inveterate gamester was Mr:limed
ith a caution.
- - -

_
"The statement which hag hcen going the round of the
Landon Press, to the effect that the Queit has Intimated her
intention of honouring the Earl of Derby ssith a vistt it
K uonsley In the course of the ensuing month, has not the
slightest foundation in feet'—Olar over.
-••- • -

"flay" was reproduced at Wieabaden on the let of
ahen a Russian general won £12,000, which he hu-
m. Irately went (dr with to Russia.
-----• • • • •

The late Marquis of Salisbury was buriml on
Monday m in the family vault at Hatfield Church.
Herta. The funural was very simple. Many of the local
clergy attended out of respect to the memory 44 the deceased
mai guts, together with a number of the principal tomato
from the family oetates In various counties.

The indictment against the Fenian prisoners at the
Central Criminal Court Is GO feet long. This is legal riqh
em ugh surely

- -
Something like an editor is Don Giacoino Margotti,
of the Turin Journal Unita ColinLep. lie has o.dite.cd and
forworded 0 the Pope, since 1,030. offeringi in money to tho
amount of 3,000,000 trance, with rc,kuning gifts in jewel-
Wry and precious object..

- -
It is said that there is an absence of all preparations
for war at the various French dockyards. anil this fact is
significant of the continuance of peace, for it is tartly likely
that F.I.IICM w,uld make my movement of a warlike mann, -
withriut putting her navy in a condition to co-operate *Fit
her land forces should uremia]. nquire it.

The Muniteur nays "Telegraphic despatches,
simultaneously sent from both Florence and Naples to-day,
the 19th April, oont'adict In the most formal Incliner, the
report which had been elronlated of the departure %d
halal for Naples. litrlbaldl has hot (plated the ibland o
Capron.' . . .

The New York Tribune says that a Beidatnin Booth,
of Ilamptonnureh, "li,, become brie to ,01 estate in England
worth several millions of liollare," he being the repreaentative
of an old Eugllah family, of which the purely 1,..1151 broil
is extinct.

Newapapera in the Western Staten' of North
America are predicting the " bloodiest Indian war on record "
as ,nie of the events of the entell.g sonimer.

Genrral Garibaldi i atated to has e left Calmer t
and arrived in Naples, where he was received with ebthu.
111

A free library, containing about 10,000 volumes, has
been opened in Nottingham.
The dreworke of Nfewire. Haigh and Heaton, at
ilusbridge, near Huddersfield, were on Monday morning
the scone of • very distressing accident. A machine, clicd
an extractor, is lewd ill drying the WOOL anti when in eye.
ration it revolves at the rate of POO per minute. Workmen
were employed near the machine, whon it burst with the
fore.° of an
.explusion of artillery, the fragments of iroll

striking and fatally woubditig two men who were near.
The lifunittur gives a glowing description of the
Volunteer review. The writer, who Is suspected of being an
Englishman, as he speaks of '• our Volunteers," has as-
tonished the Journal de Para by the purity of his French
and his flaures. Id Edouard Iferve drawn the conclusion
that the Volunteer system should have been adoptyil iii
France, instead of the Garde Mobilo.

The latest use to which iiaper has been put is its
substitution for loath r and vulcanised robber in belts for
driving machinery. The new belt consists of layers or paper
cemented together in such • manner 01 to be little affected
by moisture, or heat at ordinary temperatures. Those who
hare tiled It during the last sir months report that it ties
not stretch, and on account of its chilli...rye it is preferred
for light machinery.
A mot with reference to the Pies preparing in Italy
for the occasion of Prince Humbert'. marriage iv, '• IV4i than
have ten If. days—days of joy, fireworks, free theatres,
races, regattas, wrestling, ,to., all for nothing, and nothing
will be wanting, but bread."
In an action brought on Monday in the Court of
Common Pleas before Mr. Justice Wales, for boring and
breaking Into a chimney, Mr. Brown, Q C., retained for the
plaintiff, told the jury that it was tmpoesilile fir any titan to
understand the circumstances of the case, unless he had
previously gone up the chimney to inf errs himself of them.
Under such circumstances the case was necessarily referred.
The Fort Wayne (hid.) Gazette says that the follow.
tug correspondence recently recurred "between a Democrat
of that city and the White House —'To: his Excellency
Andrew Johnson, Preutflent of the United States,—l ant
ready to assist you with men and money at a mornont'.
warning. The Democracy of the Whiteley County are with
you—Cal. --." To this offer the President's private
secretary sent the following reply —"To lot
—Despatch received. Who the d—l are you t"
The rharivari (the French Punelt)publishem a wood-
cut representing an auctioneer, 114inisner in haul, offering
for sale a statuette dressed like the gra Mars, and bearing
the word War" on his shield. Below the high °menu seat
stand a number of persons In untforin—Austrian, French,
Prussian, English, to. " Come gentlemen," says the sa•esinan,
" who will bid fur this fine lot? 'War?' Who desires war?
No one will have it! You have all will constiered and de-
&led ? No? 'Withdrawn for want of bidding."
- -

"I witnessed a curious occurroncrr during the retreat
through the village of Coaham" twrites a spectator of the
Volunteer Review). 'A retreating company faced round to
fire on its pursuers, when one of the men in the second line,
having 41ilachargell his rifle before the order was given, and
before the marl in front of him hail dropped on his knee, tire
paper of hie cartridge struck the round knob on the fore-
most mati's shako, taking the little ornamental appendage
clean oil. A bystander picked it up, and restored it to the
loser. It Is unite as well that the cartridge did not strike
the man in the back of the neck.
Bigamy is most frequently the crime of men, but on
Tuesday, a "tall, handsome, and failtionably-dresset lady"
(according to the description A the r..porter, was brought
lAfore the Smithwark magistrates charged with having four
husband.. From the evidence it seems that she wee niarricil
at Cardiff, hi June, ISM at Carlisle, in January, ISM, and
In October, 18,17, at Perth and that all this time her first
husband was and is now alive. She was remanded, and not
finding the bail, was sent to llorsemonger-lane

•
On the 4th limit. a little girl, eleven years II age.
monied t Ilan Pichford, disappeared from Ihulaston, sad
search was vainly made for her. On Saturday last her dead
body was taken out of the canal at Stone Cross, West Brom-
wich There was a suspicion that deceased came by her
death by unfair means, and those suspicions having been
Stated to the coroner at the inquest, he ordered MI adjourn-
we'd, with a view to a careful examination of the body being
made.

A "P 6 Deum " was celebrated on Thursday, In last
week, at Rome, in the church of St Ignatius, on account of
the anniversary on the 12th of April of the Pope's return
from Gaeta. A large congregation was present. It V 0,19
proposed to Illuminate the city, but the illumination, aim
postponed on account of the had weather.
A singular literary discovery bas just been made at
the monastery of Mekitarlstra, In the Islands 01St. Lazarus,
at Venice. A pet monkey haul climbed to the top of a book-
case, and was amusing Itself In Imitating the grimaces of a
venerable monk, who was trying to induce it to descend.
The animal, In a sudden freak, seized hold of a bundle of
papers, and breaking the string, showered down on the
Father's head a number of letters, the Ink of which had be-
come yellow with age. They proved to be a long corres-
pondence between Lord Byron and the monks of St. Lazarus
with whom he had once reddeut.

Mr. Thomas Hughes, the member for Lambeth,
ham announced his intention of putting the political virtue
of his eoustituents to a rigorous test at the next general
election. The entire oust of the former Pvittst was
£l,lOO and, as Mr. Hughes justly says, It Is probahle
that no metropolitan borough was ever won so cheaply
before. But • result which would have been highly satis-
factory to most representatives of the people is not satisfac-
tory to Mr. Hughes. his declares that he cannot afford
to pay even £l,lOO for his seat again, and therefore that he
intends to do without committee rooms, public-houses, and
, all the rest of the stock election machinery.
On Sunday morning the Archbishop of Canterbury
preached in St. ticorge'e Church, Itsiounte. When Ins
direct, arrived the chnrchwardens received him In the por,li,
fine of them, Mr. Fuller, an old and respected Inhabitant,
suddenly fell backwards anti expired, just as the Archbishop
stepped from his carriage. Althoinli medical usistance
was promptly obtained it nuts unavaning. The corpse was
lad out in the porch till the congregation had all passed in,
and was then removed to the rei biome of the deceased.
The meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society to
lie held in Leicester in July promises to be an unusually
brilliant affair. Already tradesmen are busy with their de-
corations, and "town improvements" are being advanced as
rapidly as possible. The show-ground will be situate en the
racecourse, which comprises to acres, of which 45 acri•s
have been placed at the disposal of the Royal Agricultural
Society and the Royal Horticultural Society, who will also
hold their animal country exhibition at the same time.
The Rev, Benjaniin Speke is said to have quite re-
covered from the unhealthy tone of mind with which he was
recently afflicted, and to have hall the permission of his
medfral advisers to resume the duties of his living at
Dowlish Wake, near ihninster.
The Nero York 2'ribune of the :ird publishes the
following in conspicuous type:—" We have assurances front
Washington that GentrAl Grant find. it not inconsistent wi;li
his duty as a soldier to announce it as his opinion that the
only hope for the peace of the country is the silo-vas of the
lending impeachment trial. Ile feels that national security
ciertillide the removal of the President. If the trial should
fail, the people can only expect more assumptions of power,
and a Mire determined resistance to law."
"The 'Crest Tichbeurne Cave,' as it is "ailed, has
been introduced at Tattersall's and made the subject a
speculation. We hear that the last odds were ten to WIC in
favour of the claimant's succeeding to the title and estates."
—Land and Water.

The Rev. Mr. Daley, a Roman Catholic priest, ham
been charged before the stalybritige inagletrates with having
shot and wounded a young man who waa present upon the
occasion of the attack by a moli upon the chapel with
which the reverend tenth man is connectet. After a lor.g
Inquiry, the magistrates dismissed the case, but expresstd
regret that firearms hd been used.
.......

" With the view of theeting the great and increasing
demand for living accommodation for artisans in Paris, :di
ingenious architect of the name of Bone has obtained the
necessary concession to erect °now:puns edifices, which he
proposes ti call Aerodomee They are to he not less than
ten storeys high, to accommodate et. least MOO persons, slit
and access to the upper storeys is to be Monied by means of
lilts.'"— A/hew/um.

At the ball at the Dublin Mansion House on
Saturday night, her Royal highness the Princess of Wales
wore a dress of pink satin, with bouillons of tulle and a
flounce of rich Irish lace, presented to her royal highness
by the ladies of Ireland ; skirt festooned with pink flowers.
Head-dress, a tiara of diamonds ; ornaments, sapphires and
diamonds. Orders, Victoria and Albert, and the thinirh
Order of Catherine of Russia. Prince Trek wore the blue
uniform of an Austrian Busman

- ---• ---•••••
On Monday night the annual meeting of the National
Sunday League mu held in the Freemasons' Hall. Sir
Joshua Wahnsley preside.L The report stated that the
League had sustained a great loss in the death of Mr Fiches,
of Derby, the largest shareholder In the Crptal Palace not
one ahe was most strongly in favour of that place being
opened on Sunday. He has left his £30,000 stock In the
Palaee Company to be devoted to promoting the Sunday
Opening movement. During the year, 660 persons had con-
tributed to the fund, of the League, the Wiltde JACQ/210 being
41614 10. The evegttUlas 104 Mit