The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-08-30 00:00:00

BRITISH AND S'ORF,IGN.

The health of the Pope, which fluctuates greatly, is
now reported to be somewhat better.
The probate duty paid on Lord Wolverton's estate
amouuted t, £113,500
The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges as
Conscience /dopey," the receipt of the first halves of two
L 5 notes sent anonymously for Income Tax.
The steamer Prompt, from Huelva for Newcastle,
has I,en wrecked off the Rock, at Ltebon The crew we,.
saved, and were brought Into the Tagus In two launches.

King Victor Emmanuel bag given 1,0001. towards
the erection of the monument to the late Id. itattazzl.
A man, apparently about 35 years of age, who
I olnd in one of the. cluaete at the Vauxhall Station en

Monday night, with his throat cut, the windpipe being com-
pletely eerered. A rasm wa, lying by his rile
Queen Isabella of Spain hee returned with her
children to Pres from Sling. Adresse, near Havre. Her
Majesty will shortly leave for Boulogne-sur.Mer, where she
will remain until October.
The London correspondent of the Manchater
Guardian says, " Baron Martin, whose retirement has been
.p asp of, bye. that, at the end of the long vacation, hie
hearing and general strength may be so much improved..
to render such • step unneceseary."
The Scotsman states that the herring fiehing on the
east-coast was moderately good during last week, and the
average is still far above that of ordinary years at most
port..
The Emperor of Austria has ordered twelve days'
mourning for the late Duke Charted of Brunswick. It is
stated from 11111.0111/ qnartsra that the Duke's will is to by con-
Crated.
The eldest son of Marsha MacMahon, accompanied
by Madame MaiiMahon, arrived at Folkestone by the tidal
steamer on Saturday evening.
A child was born in Worcester, Maeg„ the other
day, who.* mother is nineteen years old, grandmother thirty-
six, and great grandmother fifty five.
At Brighton, on Monday, a London vieitor, named
Donaldson, fell down on the beach Immediately after leaving
• machine from which he had bathed, and although medical
aid was very quickly at hand, no effort could restore anima-
tion. Deceased had enlisted from heart disease.

The increased importation of foreign cattle is remark-
able. In the lasteeven months the value of oxen Imported
was £1,434 684, againat £971,189 in the name period last year.
The value of ...lee Imported in the like period Ws year was
as much as £3 750,160, and last year £1,726,575.
The coloured citizens of Summit County, Ohio, have
silted the State Constitutional Convention to abolish the
word " negro" from the Engliah language—at least to pro-
hibit It from being Med In public document§ and school
books.
A bric-h-brac dealer in the Rue Drouot, in Paris,
has sold a document to which paming lend a curious
interest. It la the licence granted by the Commune of Paris
to Lents Philippe Joseph la urbon, ci-de !mint Duke of Or-
leans, at, his own demand, and to his poeterity, to bear the
surname of figalltt _ .

From On parts of Ireland a Catholic pilgrimage
joined on Sunday at the primatial see of Harsh, the OCCIIMOD
oeing the dedication of the cathedral In that city. Cardinal
Cohen and all the Catholic bishops were present; but Arch-
bithop Manning was unable to take his part in that cere-
mony.
A corner's ingnest has been opened on the body of
the poor WI Mary Constance tinning, who died shortly alter
being Injured In the railway cntilsi In at Eatbonthe Station.
Her mother, the widow of a bank clerk, Irn much overcome
by emotion in giving evidence
The increau of drunkenness has impressed the Not-
tingham magistrates with the necessity of inflicting heavier
lime Luring the put seven months the number of Ine-
briates dealt with by that tribunal hae been 405, as agatnat
IEO In the corresponding period of lut year
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--7` A— Phsnomenon was °beery' ed in Piccadilly and
A member of the Vestria family has died at Ehnen et
tra ho Feet, the other evening,
and was the subject of Con-
the nee of ninety-seven. Thin wa. Carlo Vestris, Count
Womble gossip. This wee e less than • four in-hand be-
ef Parma, once a celebrated dancer, lie afford. perhaps the
solitary instance of a noble title being borne by • ballerina longing to one of the mowers of the Coaching Club, who..
A correspondent says—" It seems that the first nee pluck at driving his handsome torn out through the West-
of the Broad Arrow by Government was when Lord Sydney, End, at the end of August, in the ml it of the dead season,
afterward. Earl of Romney, wee Master-General of the was commented on by • few solitary lounger., whom cruel
Ordnance, 1E93-1702. the barbed dart's heel (phron In fate or ImpecTudosity has compelled to linger in town when
hearldry) being that gentleman's crest or cognisance," even b 'ay else is enjoying himself on the Moors, up the
Barrietern have a Indicroue habit of identifying them- mountains, or by the sea."—Conet J047714i,
selves with their clients by speaking in the plural number. A statement has been published by a contemporary
"Gentlemen of the jury,- said a lumin•ry the other day, to the effect that the ex.Emnress of the French has paid
"at the moment the policeman says he saw us in the tap, I three several visits to Geneva, inepynita, In order to persuade
will prove that we were looked up in the statlon-house In • the Duke of Brtinswick to change his will in favour of the
state of intoxication. ' Prince Imperial. We (Daily 7'elegraph) are enabled to give
A memorial, signed by 17,000 persona, hae been a direct contradiction to this story. Her Majesty has never
visited Geneva, and has not seen the Duke of Brunswick
forwarded to the Home Secretary, praying that the life of
Edward Abbott, now under sentence of death for the murder since the 4th September, 1970.
et his child at Totterdown, near Br.stol, may he spared, in A frightful accident occurred on Sunday night at
the event of no reprieve being granted, the convict will be Wisheach daring the violent storm. Mr. James Rae, a tailor.
executed at the Somerset County Gaol at Tannton, Oh Molt- of Wlsbeacn, was driving home with hi. wife from Downbeat,
day September 1. when the hone took fright at a loud clap of thunder and
A return respecting the Court of Chancery has been bolted Into the canal. Mr.. Rae was drowned, and Mr. Rae
Issued under the Courts of Justice Act, P 69. The receipts in was g tout In an unconscious state. The horse was drowned.
the year ended the 3lst March last were £241,846 65. 7,1., The accident has caused great sympathy In the town. Mr.
and the defiCiency £45,381 lls. 91., making the sum and Mr.. Rae had been married only In April last.
£l-7,627 181 41. The various pument. are set forth. The The Metropolitan Police report that in the Metro-
salary of the Lord Chancellor Is put down at £6,000 per polls (exclusive of the city) 118 persons were run over and
annum killed in the etre< t. In 187.-10 by cabs, 13 by omnibuses, 1
by • tramway car, 6 by carriages and broughams, 18 by light
. Another fatal accident has just occurred to an Alpine
climber. A gentleman of Lausanne was asoetidingthe bent
d dangerouscharacter
with carts, 11l by waggon. and drays, 30 by vans, 2 by horse.
du Midi, when, In reaching over a precipice to gather some ridden, and 19 by heavy carts.
The total Is below the Mx
flowers, he supped and fell into the abyss,.' and was, of course, Preceding ewes' average.
roth the gen uin
Th
instantly killed. His mangled corp. was subsewtently re- The Bank of England warns the public against
covered and conveyed to Lowranne. iP
The dead body of a policeman named May wee found which have recently appeared. They are made of platinum,
In • field close by the turnpike gate at the village of mod' gilt. and asorevealr.migons.t 'ld' Identical in in somewhat
weight
coin; and although upon examination they may readily be
land, near Rochester, on a unday. His head was frightfully
disfigured, and there sure Mims of a struggle in the road. A detected by ringing, and by • gene al sharp roughness In
coroner's jury has returned • verdict of wilful mutter against manufacture, they are calculated to deceive the public when
ITCFpilayintaFkeintZgersltldl3 Wintonbelleved they
i has paraeten e d manufactured
a
some person or persons unknown.
A rather singular wager was decided a few evenings
since at Selling°. A man undertook to run with a sack of
wheat
ohm. hack a dii.a.ce of ten rod., whilst another ran simple Invention adapted for the ventilation of rooms. awe-
twenty rods. The runner with the sack of wheat actually Melly sleeping apartments, hospitals, carriages. Ac, wnere
proved the winner. Ihe pair got off well together on the Pure air is inDePeosable. It cowl., of a small metal tube
firing of • gun; but when the auk of wheat had completed perforated at the sides, and It can hem placed 1,, • wludow
his ten rods, Clifford's foe was Pee yards distant from his that they may be pushed out or drawn In, In the manner of
goal. a telescope, whenever iii. clearable to regulate th. email.,
Won. The Inventor claims for this little instrument an
The Co!ogne Gazette says :—Dr. Dndgeon of Peking/ .ctlon c bl ova eof producing • constant ch.ge of Mr without
" Two or three
has received from the Emperor a Russia • beeutifal dlamona permitting any sensible or Injurious drailehl-
,thg as an scknowledgment for his work, " re. Relation. of
Ramie with China The work I. baud upon researches 1 few days .y.tematlic
iir the archives of the Russian Embassy at Peklog end tn "have bisen making during the M. _ ____ ,___
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Chinese dmumente and bake. as a contribiltion to tho attacks on Queen Iwbella. At one tiltPtl ..°7.""., .lrinl.•
history of Rwaa in Asia it ham extraordinary value. selvcs with family questions, which aril be arranged
without recourse being had to tle lawsuit., about which they
The death is announced of M. Fenwick de Porquet, m.k. ~,, er, ai another, they announce that the
whose name has heen known for upwards of hall • century Wants tith Sebastian has left for Pau with a large thin Of
In confection with French and miter renew) scholastic Feeney •nd the lutontion of p thing himself at the bead of
works. He died In London on Tweday morning at the age of some Alphonmet pronnuiernienlo ; lastly, they pretend that
journals," says the Consiitutionnd,
seventy-seven He waa • son of Cant, sin Ferwrick, an Eogibli the Qtnen la irol. to .°U the Ithaer" I,‘"rele of her
, nicer. When a young "Man he crwsed the Channel and aneeetors All Chu is sensation news, and not Mg else Her
commenced hie career as • teacher of languages, adoi,ting Ma sit has not, and never had. any historical jewelry: for
ion mother's name—De Porquet. Daring the last fifty yews none exist 'if , the oar 4 1 808 Those poesemed be the
he wrote and nuhilaned upwards of seventy wrrke. the Queen are modern. and her own private property, which she
earliest and perhaps best known being "1,. ?reser," which can sell tf she thinks fit, the matter being a personal one
.
ha long been a test book Is. English schools. with which evidently no one his anything to do.