The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-12-13 00:00:00

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Ednestifon,
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of Nil trots teaching T.wer. _ however
good and desirable, was but a means tows—is an end,
and, putting mid., the higher quee• Lun of religion, its
object was to make men better citlz.ns, and to teach
thew b-tter to understand their duties one towards
the ocher.

vow of Muni in one of
le fl the lower perte of North-
n fell down fait Friday, ing • child ars ye at age.
The roped; hat, been IL S (lisp:dived eine for .11111
and %be holism) Ci not been occupied tor two 'ewe

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Ono of tl.o ,tofertra cc:tin the railway collOgion at
Guide ktrid . kmrisSFtchdl. 4.1 the Weillogooa auftel,
Wee, d : frJot the etfec'e of hie h

It atatel that of 250 peraoos locked up dly the
LiverpoJi hrtw,, inturday ,V 0 ng aue retuday
morelng, tio fewer thwa 165 were drill*.
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Mess-re.. Williams, De, al, and Co., informs us (2/
Tioies) that they hay, tecolvod Ib, loton of CI 04 fnm
r as a donation o the Ratan Orphan Asylum.

The Society of Catholic Interests at Rome hat
canoed an immense number of copies of the Pve's EnCy cllcal
to be printed for gratuitoue distribullow,
'roe Culajne Gautte in informed from Berlin that, in
ati probatlliv, the l'r :Wm flovernineat will shortly she
It. canrse of death g with regard to re'raatory Romig]
Catholh3 priests, an•l, instead of fining, will imprison them.
It is stated, "on good authority,' that the health
of Prince Leopold ham of Late greely changed for the better,
and that the only htnerance to his persmal comfort 14 a
little sitecti mt of the knee-joint, ahicl, It in pd 13 also
gradually in3provia g muter the in fl lice of m01n:4161

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Lord French h, rent a donation of £5O to the Home
Ity!r Lague, and In the 141, r accompanying the Oft ho ex-
prem. We opinion that toe movement will have a signal
triumph at the next general election.

The United States and Germany have emeluded a
poetal card convention, providing for an szotutnee of poets'
card. between the two countriee at a fixed postal rata of
two cents. each.

Brtwern Saturday night and Sunday morning the
sh,p of Mr llay.dt9o, jewener and watchmaker, Dundee,
was broken kto, an: watcher, brooches, aid other articles
carded off to the amount of about £7OO. Tart roboary ap-
pearsko have been carefully planned.

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It is stated that a movement is on foot among the
ladies of E linbargh for the purpose of presenting in their
name a suitable gift to Princess Marie of Russia on, the oo•
casion of her Royal Highness's marriage with the Mike of
Edinburgh.

An American contemporary publishes • rather
startling Item describing • ballatorm in klissonrL It la
stated that none of the hallst,nes ware "lees than an egg,'
and that ”several lumps of ice were to be seen as large as •
keg." This is a story suggested by a keg.
On Monday afternoon her Majesty held, at Windsor
Cattle, inve,h tore. of Kl.lgt,tl of the Bath and the Star of
I, cl,a, unto. a cumber 1 diquiguished naval and mint try
were decorated by the devereign. Lunch,. Was
moored In the dining aLd octagon room, for et Alt filly
go. at..

The condition of Captain Will;sms, M. P., whose
&tin was ieverely Injured Islet week by bulky; caught In
some agricultural maninery that it hag to be amputated,
ham h,therto been very preearl us ills medical attendants,
however, are now sanguine of his recovery.

Several of the Paris journals have given au wvotuit
of a desperate duel fought wtto swords a few nights back in
the Square Clary. It now appears al.t the iffa r was got up
by some Idle young men for the purpose of mystifying the
pollee.
Cardinal Cullen has declared himself in favour of
cleaho: uuhlichousea on Sunday.. Moreover, he would
live the puMioans Sdhday commence ear) on Saturday
night, irecau,e be c .141.1rn 111, then tte working chums
begin to squander their week

The accounts of the Na•ional Debt Commissioners
ph. that at the cted f the old savings banks year In
N, vember the fund belonging to the trustee nylons-banks
of th Utited Kingdom, b rested at the National Debt Office,
amounted (.0 r uud Lumber.) to £99 816,000, and toe
fund helongirg to the Post., flice savings-banks, we.
£2l 267,000 The total retches th• lime and unprecedented
amount, 'if 61 millions • and , thla is excluaire at the balance.
necentiasi4 kept in hand &Stile levers' banks.

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In London, last Saturday, a deputation from the
Cr...liftmen of Sewere had an interview with Mr Stans
told, to urge upon the Government the neceasity of taking
immediate legislative aciton to put a atop to the I eports-
lion cf apurions tea lot; this ceuittry Powers to local
authorities to ez•mine and seize such teas as should be
adulterated were advocated, It being stated that it inch
powers wore given the importation would atop. Kr.
Stansfeld said be thought some check should be put upon
frauds of the description referred to, and he promised to
endeavour to come to some cluc'udou np.ue the matter.
Lord Cahill] ham directed that a third and final
dividend of 541 In the pound to be paid to the creditors of
the Albert ASSOrOII.74 Compai,y. lice previous alvtaends
were Li. and la 6d. The tot 4 amount, therefor , whick the
creditors will have received will bt as. Mi. in the tound.

The heaviest fog that has yet occurred in London
during the present ...Boa prey Med in I ondon on Tuesday
morning. ItO trslns on th 3 su`ntrben lines were much
delgyed, and the ugelgatlon of the Thames ab lye bridge wu
stopped. G.. had to he us. d ever, where witntu doors. The
fog was accJruptined by a severe frost.

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It is shown by the judicial statistic' for keland of
,ast year that the treasons e Hennes, w hien 113 leti7 escoulod
fs 0, were reduced in 11.70 to 37, had tAleu to 7 in lt7l and
had entlr.ly Meant:ease 1 In 1:.72. Last year there were
211,470 cffencet cleat with sommariiy In Ireland, arainst
22 ~175 to the previous year. Ihe number convicted in 1872
wee 177,526.

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"Toe fsebirm of wearing fans of an enormous 'lstria
coming up in Part.. Any,,n- in England wishing to imitate.
now times ire e- c (moral c ad cosh desr, is recommended 10
Cut qn oil umbrella in two, by which means two bantam*
sod f .siltonabk fans will he obialurd, and aa Bi.glish ladle.
of ci.uree wish to hide their charms, they will thereby
thorougnly succeed."--Cou,t Journal.

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A deputation from St. Paul's CatbFdral, beaded by
Dr. S"aluer, the orgahlst, pad a ',let to Worcester on
fistur •ay tor the purpose of hearing the new peal ot twelve
h its a hlch has recently been p aced In Wrftster Cathedral
t r, nl whtch lißs the repu'e of being one of the Sr eat
t et. t. In the iugdom It .6 in -rstood t c:;.nteroplat lon
t lace a shadier pt al In eo of the western coatis of 81.
l'Ru 's sorrether with chimes and a Carillon machine as at
Worcester.

't'he Doily News admits that "for the present the
prosy... loot trade are certainly not unfavourable, and a long
period of depremion has been traversed, as It was almost
too much to hope It would he, with a minimum of injury.
The fact that England hat suffered so little wit also dia.inlah
the distr..ts which has been occasioned by money panics In
mar), cther markets ; aid their speedier restoration after
panic should in turn contribute to an earlier revival of our
trade In all quarters of the globe.''

The municipal authorities of Paris have a scheme
ber,e them for the improved naming of the t. streets. Al it
11. at every corner or naterssatb, pa.taa, the vow. May be
real in clear, bald 701:0ra It is now proposed tot the
piropies upon le lb the names ere printed should be tran-
c.a. ant and illuminated when the yes is lit; and that the
sane arrangement shout I be adopted In numbering every
tenth house so 1114 a strarger have no ddlicullty, day or
tirbt lu hurling a given a Scum
General Sherman is ;1 to have declared, in reply
to numerous olf,rs to voletit,er into the army, teat he noel
not • rpact war, and th.t the G.,verninent dots not desire it.
Correepourivut at Mairid sera Cat: Pre,ident Grant
deolineat 'accept the resigt,,,Von of G ,floral Stott,.. and ap.
proves of his action generally with et gard to the rirginiue.
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In Tuesday's sit'iug of the French Aextuhly, during
the d'edussion of the miff:oaks a the NI tulstt ry for Foregu
Affairs, a membss moved thst the grant to uuemp'oyed
nip-
lnmfllc asei,te should he reduced ohe-helh and condemsed
the frequent change* which had receotly. been made in the
service. Ike 1114 t ion was iaten foto constferstlon. An. Vies
motion was elm token Into c: laddered n proposing a grant
r the eppolutmtnt of • Commission to exAntne into the
means Of iv., Ming c illatous at sea

Mr. Thomas Baring has loft about £3 000,000 sterling,
which he has distributed In vari,.us proporkions over • pretty
wide circle of ml Mves, I reettmg mme. The principal
'crater la L rd Northbrook, who ruc-eeds . to about
£1.250 VOO, and, In addition to that, the London house and
plAures, valued at ha wean £200,020 and £300,000 more.
Fho estnte of Norman Court, which Mr. T. Baring Inherited
from Mt. Baring Wall, govs to a nephew or oyoglo of Mr.
Wall, with £500,000 adied. £300,000 Is left to Lord North-
broos's half-mother. The Bishop of Durham Dr. Baring)
gets £40,000,

The following parliamentery papers were issued on
Monday. Reports of the Inspectors of Facto lies for the
half-year aiding April 30, 1873- returns relating to railway
croorings ; rat- no ti the estimated popirlation of Noshed
and Wales fur the years 1807 ..co 1871 1.14111Vd return of the
nombrrof boys in the Royal Navy ; abstrsct of the municipal
borougl acc Junta (England) for the year emiedAugust 111070;
Index to the rep ft from the Select Committee cm Boundaries
of Pariahs/1. Unions and CJuntles ; and Index to the renort
from the Stl-ct Committee on Wild Wrds Protection.

During the feat ftw months the trade in pearl fishery
on the western cout of Austral. • bas been rapidly increas-
ing. Experienced divers from Ceylon have arrived, and are
a. fisting in the work Otte of the latest comignments re-
c.ived In till. country has t eeu on view in Lo[lloO, at Ideaars.
D-beuham, Storr, and Sons' sale-rvoma in Covent-garden,
previous to their saki by *cation. The ea &loam, comprised
about 240 lots, many if which entaineti p-arls of great
h aim, fairly rivalling the Oriental pearls In lustre and
purity of colour.
A large pert of lowa is threatened, like Bengal, with
famine. in 1072 a number of settlersfrom the prairie bought
lands at low price. in v•riotts sparse y ponalmed count'e, of
that State. the first year's crop was abandant, and it wan
believed the yield . his autumn would ire equally estiatactory.
In June, however, •• untold myriads of snot:toppers- I vatied
the districts. and C easel almost • total failure of corn and
small grain." Some families have gone to more fortunate
neighbourhoods ; but the majority are unable to leave their
present quarter., and among these gr,at distress prevails.
Twisted grass and weeds are their only fuel, and they have
been obliged to slaughter their horses and oxen for food.

On Sunday morning • fire, attended Witl fatal Con-
sequences occurred at toe worn. of Messrs. Thomas Milner
mud Co., rale menufacturers, F'knee-street, LiverpoJi.
1-11. fire was discovered shot hli.yMt nine, and In two
hours one extensive olj In which it nccuered was gutted.
Daring the rdgreea ,71-ibe fire the otter wall fell on some
act doing cottager, burying three of the Inmate, beneath the
rum,. When extricated, two of them, en old man and•
boy, were dead, and the other one another boy, heti re-
ceived such Inj vices, td render It doubtful whether he will
rec vet, The full iiamage cannot yet be estimated, but the
Lou in ,ate. Code is supposed to amount to between 1.4,000
and £7,0e0.

Prince Bisuierck (Galigna re i says) has just nist with
• their lie hat Un It eta, ken t obtaio the adopilin by
(Melo, Po.er. 4,1 Gtl,lllllll MI the language f negotiation,.
He bed I-other.° endratv,turd tn lisp se it on:Litany, but had
tat C a Mod himself to semi-official prp..lti no by he
agents. tie has Jost himself commenc-d the stru,gle. Re
se.,t a note In German to Prince .0 4.. tcheii on, who repiled.in
Russian. Al toe Emperor William a Lame Minister dies
not uLdersians that fen.nsee, iie had ti send fore trans-
lator, awl the Oppreition j et it rl u st,ae that he
wins much imitated at the result of hie experismut.

It I,F Wel on god authority tha,, now :hat tha
andent b remolded at the making "of setjautart-law A,
about VI be abol shed, and itn it the I twos Interest', n
prooeedirg of the tying and recelvt'g of a ring, Ira
Jl.jeety pretence in conver the a a..y rings the ha, received
from the theses elevated to the bench since her accession to
a parpav at once useful and ornameaal. It le Intended to
c, neat the rings, each of will di Is two Inches broad, an
tn ars the motto of the learned g'va on an ei smelled ribbon,
Into • set of Gunnt stick., each to hove am mei re base. The
set will form an itoretttog mern,nto.

"There is a Highlaniler at liresent engsgei in the
neishbourhi of of Kilpstrick In the construction of a wheel-
barrow, which he proposes drac ging from Glasgow to I ondon
without any aashanoe, carrying cliii him every ttdnir neces-
tar), for the j runny in the slispe of provlst.dp, water, bed,
$ll4l clothing, Ile will took au.l p on the barrow with-
out shelter, and add neibleig to his stuck on the way, and
p-rform the joirrey uniler all weather., only restlug• at
ulht fall wi en ltdotring toe wily. V, i.h this porteme
camp on wheel, he expects-ere long to enter London to
triumph."—Court Journal.

The Correctional Tcibunal of Donal has just tried a
weinsu normal Jt.serhine L grand, s,went)otwo ) ears of age,
no charge of emttrovening the low on hawking b uk, sye
hod sold and d.t,lbntei la the villages of Penoin mid
'mato various 13 toapartlet pamphlet., '1 Le 2,8
Dec- mitre," "US en out mentt," L'E aro rear est in rs."
Vahan lists prep ,red to remise slenotares, one tore,, appeal
to the people, &author headed, "T oil Majesty Nopotellk
IV. the 15 is of August, 1878," ond wilds of a wetter;
beeittninc tolih the word .1P noted e," and concluding w to
that sf Nay Iton," and on skich waa pasted e phut ge mit
of the Pat et Imprrlal, were atat frond cm I.er 't to nes
toned guilty mid se ttenced to pay a floe of :61. aod the
eqats _ .

The practice rd wearjug
gr,ue out ol teal in In m darn warfare. Captain Harlon
,••ht • • •,•' ennv ton this point which will surPiieo many.
armour hi supposed to have
Ha says "during the I.st 7 sp.c -Prusdan sv,r ecveral -fm,
fri• ads escaped severe wound, by wearing in action strip,l
bard leather, with a rib or angle to the fore. It must tie
-.vs enough to c,vrr /pert, Itpots, and stomach pit, and it
meld be ai-lltt Inside the blOttaa or tuitus a -urea the
looser the better." He eines not give this tuf rmatiou
it a 1,1 'ACM cbjeet In view, hr he imeseuistely t
'both a 0-Into, cli ha ,straiiitn'y valuable for the.
must often exposit tbent•elaea to toe both to A. gin-Aal
ttade gnus I aoltd wita pebb,ea ai d one of leo." It
case of ariy war a Men the sabre was likely SO ploy a
Captain Hurion w, old recommend curo-chairui worn,
the cap, along the shoulders, and down the Ems and T

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