The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-01-31 00:00:00

VIITOME OF f

eRITISB AND

A man haft been arrested in New Albany, Ind., for
stealing a unbrella The world moves?

TorOushout hc reeent illness the Emperor William
har not trkn a crop or grain of pbysfo.

Roman advice represent the health of th Pope to
rave so far Improvt d Sat he wa, able to take a short walk
In the gardena of the Vatican.

The thtitiois tstates that all till European SAtereigna,
with the ex.Neption of the Orman Kniperer, addressed
letters of cundobence to the Empress Eugenie on the anal.
',weary of her hitabqud's death
In a letter to the tditor of the Union the Count de
Chambord thaeks him tor the Coal and ability with wal,h his
paper has foiv,cated the Legitimist cause for sixty years. It
co de ins with a it pl that he may live to witness Its
triumph.

ountempotary a sys, 'Same of our fotare poets
may be loud em dlg cur street boys.' We live not. Street
bon are bad enough now."

A congratuletory address, signed by 401 English
mid end in PI.. 'smalls to his Itoy,ll lit/hu.ss the Duke
anti Duchess of Elioluir,h on their marrilire. The Lake
and Du. :less replied by telegraph, expressing their thanks.

Galignau states t At a Chiccie of high doitauctioo,
awned Tallinn Tarn, a relative of Prince Kling, has arrivssi
1., Paris. TAt personage is t sting * journey of pleasure in
EnropP, and P go. with Prance. He arrived, In tact, lit
Mani hies direct front China v *Suez

The congregation of Union Chapel, lalington,
London, on grannie', pregent,ol to the Rev. Dr Alton e puree
C g ft, 6, ai a to:tioo.notal of their high apprecia-
tion of hi+ honour, as thtlr postor during thirty years.

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A correspondent remarks with ref ereuce to the state.
meet that the Duke of E hublire h r.ceived the S. rament
two or threo times over, th.t In the Eastern marriage ritual
the bride and bnclegroom drink Miles out of a cup of wine
at a eymled • f unity, but; hat the Its not the Se eramental
chalice. In the Oriental rite the Host is tippet in the
chalice, and the laity are then communicated therewith in
a golden spo.n.

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A LamLa Snaday is m,ually quoted by Parisiani
tho acme of &Lees and tflfUi. Tiny do not, however,
always find Lhotrotvn capltal perfect lath a respect, to judge
Dy the following letter hp a reccnt Cu cide, es planatory i.f his
reason for angling We lii ny a ran of charcoal. •.1 kill
myself bra tern Iciu.not stand kanday. Ktndl Id my family
know of this."

(one teen were engeged on l'aceday In ex-
,' ding (he e round under the flooring of two colt-ties close
se; the "Ka and 11 oanda • hotel, Bratntree, 1,1,1 ex di.
covc,rt d • Inman akekton about 18 or 19 inches below the
matron of rho arennd. No trace of a a ills c dad be die.
govere4, The I. nth arei P.Z3 of the a•ei.,tor, potut It the
CJLeillioe that it mutt have been that of a full-gr....v.1 man.
A Geneva tt,:riciari has &merle(' hint among poptV
lotion' tr,ellli got a high eicvatl o above tie level of till sea
caret of coesuropttoo ere very tare, while on the other helm
C.. 0.1 of potent Mitt are very frtq tell. flawing to stowed ac.
v alloy alto up In the th .r-p odic effect. of aoh ...ge of lath
bide he comes to the cor,eluahm that a given Increase of alit-
twin pro.ln 'ea alwara the same ace; whatever the ellitude
of the ttartlug-2olnts

On St.tardAy afternoon a conference, c-tnop.med
chiefly of representatives of the traoe and working-el .sur
nrgarjisnttOfl of the metropolis, and precided over by Sir
Sibhold D Scott, took piece at the studio of C-ptlin Merrier,
neat. Albert gate, to cottelrier the propriety of eeteiliehin; a
s. Hswpitsd .4,.turd ay for Lmdon," in order to an.l3!so the In.
dnatrsal classes to contrinute towards the supp nt of the
metropolis au ito mit as. Captain If s Myr stlie that a Ds-
pitsl Saturday was eet.blietted in Glargow thirty years ago,
and that the total of the subscripti.sns had inerer ed from
£344 till feet year it au:wonted to £7,307. A resolution In
favour.' the object war pars,l, and a general committee
appoint-'d to oar, ylt out the Saturday fund Is to b 3 kept
quite dittluct from the Sunday one.

Prince lileanerck's organ, the North German Gazette, ,
coetrad,cts the statement that the Unions seas suapeooed
in cotter-entente of a eptchic demand to that effect by the
Oct orm G svernment. It presenter to know shut the French
Oevernment was etedee eddy by a sense of Ha own dignity
and a regard for French let rent.. Allu-ion is made to .me
power alines Nines littleneck holds in reserve of proce-tding
against the French bieltoy
Lemoinne devotes an article in the Mats
to Lord Russet!, apropos of the meet lain of sympathy with
the Pmperer of OPrusany hs the clerical question. The
writer's views may be seamed up in one brief extract,
Lord 1L1160,111 an Engleak Liberal, but not • real Liberia'
Count Wengiereki, a Pole, well-known at Malvern
and in otiatr parts of Ergland as an active and zealous
member of various religious and benevolent institution., has
undertaken, in cenjus ctlon with several e f his countrymen
of different religions in the kingdom of Ibteand, anew trans-
. lation of the four Goepele ant Ilse Acts of the Apostles Into
: the Volish language from the original Greek. This work has
fast been publLthed by the Triniterlau Bible Soddy In
London.
The following advertisement, which appeared in a
Hessian journal, Blows the eendition of Proteatent ministers
In some ears of Germany "A entnis•er's wife, aged f ortio
two years, the daughter of one of the superior clergy, de-
sires, having previoesly obtained her husesed• perentsaion,
to obtain employ mant ass cook, in conrequence of the pree
sure of circennttances. Site has at tar brought up fire sons
and Iw, daughters thee they are Independent of her, and be-
lieves her greater experience well command better wrger
than those of witch either of her daughters could obtain.
Toe name of this unfortunate person is known to the
editor."
Since the firet week in January the London fish
market has been supplied with numbers of One salmon, the
produce of some Irish rivers, on which fishing operations are
allowed to commence In the firet month of the year. The
&la forwarded this January to L3rdon have generally, been
in excellent cm litlon, and, owing to the supply bring
einmerous, the price asked, although high, is considerably lest
eh. L mdenera have been reccustemed el Into years to pay
at this early servo. leech salmon are high:), neje el Icy the
London fishmonger, who, Its a rule, prefers them to either
Engllah or tic den fish.
Probably for the last time—inasmuch as the JUdielie
tyre Act shortly comes Into operetion—the ancientJorruall-
ties ot initiation to the decree of the c ef were on Saturday
observed In the Court of Common Plea.. The colt was Mr.
Amphlett, Q.C., who was order@ I t 3 take upon himself the
state and dsgree of serjeanteat-law, wider the penalty of a
thousand pounds. Hevieg read a counties dower, " Brother"
emptilrtt was called .withen the bar, shook hands with the
gentlemen to the front rank, and retired.
At Liverpool, in the case of a person who Waki tam-
monesl at the instance of a neuter visor of excise for keeping
• dog without a licence, a question arose as to the legality of
the service of the SUMMOIIII. It was stated that it had been
put beneath t ,e door of the defendant's shop, which was
closed at :he time, and tho defers lent did not now appeer
It was enbeittee by the superviror tnat under the Customs
and i.f,aad Revenue Act the summons had been property
s rvcC. is reply to this, it was rem irked that the h cuss
Wee kali toe heve been elesed. end the rummons reight at
that time be lyme where the ea c r left It. The essee wee then
• dismitsetl, the Beech °leery:Lig 'ha: the Etchre ethheritlcs
c mid, if they theeght proper, fame an ether Sr mesons.

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The Court of Exchequer was rirowded on Monday
Afternoon to initiate the " (mewl." of Boren Muth,.
Beside. the Lord etOtt B %rid; and Barone Pigott, cliiseliy,
no ponock there were preteot the Lod Chief Justice of
Enclond, Mr. Jurtice Mellor, and Mr. Joeiice Lush, the Bend
ot Qoren'e Bench honing slimmed en hear earlier than
n•ual to enthie their lordrhips to titer d The Attorney-
General, in daliveithe the valedictory addiem, °hear ved that
no Jorge wan ever wore respe,:twil by Lb* profession. Sir
Samuel Marla, who was deeply aff,cted, thanked the 800
I r their kied topresttm ti good fueling oftor his forty
years' proteeelnnal

Mr. Adam Black, the Edinburgh publisher, gad
whn represented the city in the House of C./M.IIOW from
15,56 to 1666, died Cu Saturday, to bra ulnalleth year.

Lt yer the value of priotea books exported was
£912 534 ; in the previous par, E 888,914:
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Apropa of the death of Lord Blayney, it fa not a
little ctutnts that, although the peerage was created 250
years ago, and the docketed I.lrd was the twelfth holder ol
It, there should not be a sin& male descendant left of Ws
first baron, and the title becomes extinct. _

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Rabbit breeding promisee to be profitable in point Of
fur as well as In flesh. France conatimes 800 millions of
rabbits annually, whose fur is valued at ten sous per skin.
The grey-blue rabbit is at present much sought after for It.
fur—a good skin selling an high sa two francs.
A great sensation has been created in Paris by the
arrival at the Jard in des Plantes of • dromedary which Is
perfecily white. This animal. rarer than a whits elephant
aid, it is to be hoped, not quite so costly.
"A London beadle sent his card to the members of the
congregation he administered to. praying that they would
leave their New Year'. gratuity for him on ths cushion oi IMO
seat."—Court Journal.

"I wish a decoration, foreign order of kolohthood t"
said a gentleman to a Paris shopkeeper. %nadir In-
quired the thopkeeper. "No matter, any one win do, nil
desire to go into society," answered the purchaser.

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During the poet (inert.r eight veysels have been
added to her tisiesty's Navy, and at the present time theca
are 27 other. in course of construction at the vutona Govern
meet yards or by private firms.
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A telegram from Berlin says that the Emperor's
medical advisers have recommended his Majesty, for the
complete recovery of Ina heel* to travel for shout three
weeks In tidy
A Tunes' telegram from Calcutta states that there
has been sin hours soaking rain Shore. The Viceroy hag
assigned fS.),CUJ for emigration to Burmsh. The magistrates
and recruiters send tt.e starving people in return rice
steamers. Tuere Is distress In portions of Goructkpore and
Buster.
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A fire took place on Monday morning at the stables
of the 11th Hassan at Shon.cllffe, by which fourteen troop
horses aura burned to death. A fifteenth animal galloped
dd. n the slope end broke It. neck. Many of the horses that
broke 1 wee rall away to Folkestone and li)the, but were 611
safely recovered.
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The ottilat St Peteriburg Gla:ette briefly records the
fact of the it,yai marriage under the headin :if Court news.
The other journal. reprint this seatement, but abstain from
all comment. It appears that the regulation which forbids
all authorz id mention of events ,ln the Imperial family la
being strictly enforced.
The correepondent of the New York Herald at
Ilavannah writes, that although the fate of the Vs/rains la
still fresh In everybody's mind, it Is generally supposed that
the example will not hinder the Cumin' from undertaking
similar enterprises.
There was a great demonstration at Blackburn/3n
Saturn ay, in favour of the nlue hours movement, and among
she influential persons who gave the weight of their personal
idtcildaLce twit remarks were Mr. Mundell; M.P., Mr.
Starkle, hi P., and Mr. Bergravet, of Accrington.
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Tke Maori King, who recently took the colonists by
surprise by suddudy with irarving himself from the Isolation
in whi.-th ha has so long lived, and manifesting a desire to
mix swan with the European., has paid another visit to one
of the settlements of the whites. 1 h's change Is regarded
by the colonists aa an evidence of pacific intentions, and, at
a recent native meeting, King Tawhido declared that hie
visite meat peace.
A communication from Sydney should make maetera
and men In the Iron trade pause before allowing the wages
question to interfere with the results of their united labour.
It it said, upon what ar.pears to be reliable authority, that
within the lust few mouths discsveries have been made in
Now South Wales which will shortly enable that colony to
snmill Iron of superior quality cheaper than any other pert
of the world.
The grocers of Greenock have adopted • rml.,dclie
course with respect to the Food Adulteration Act. The;
have resolved to ask Government to introduce such amend.
meets Into It that, while providing for the detection and
punishment 01 the guilty, It will secure protection for the
Innocent dealer.
A story in current in Parts that a gentleman went
the other morning to pay a visit to one of the heads of the
ladled party. "is our muter In ?" he enquired of the
servant. t• Ile is engaged, sir." " Oh, 11l call again in an
hour." "Ile will be engaged all day, sir.' "Indeed r
Yes, sir, he is going out this evening." " Well I'll you
please, sir, he's—washing.
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Special advices from Cape Coast Castle, to the 11th
hut , et ite that the Manitoban had arrived out on the 2Sth
ult. with the First Weet India itiglmeut, 600 strong. They
were at once landed. Tire disembarkation of the other troops
had been proceeded with regularly, and all had been landed
and sent to the front, except the 23rd Regiment, which had
beel ordered to embark again, owing to the difficulty of ob-
taining carriers to convey the ammunition and stores. An
attempt was to be made to mite a corps of 1.000 carrien in
the West. Sir Garnet Woleeley with hie staff had arrived
at the Prah. Captain Glover. with 1,600 men, wee on his
may to loin him, iii, news from the line of march was
favourable and it was found that the Inter:or was math
more healthy than toe e lest