The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-02-01 00:00:00

ENTOME OF NEWS,
BRITISH AND FOREIGN

A cable telegram reports an enormoum quantity of
snow as having fallen In Canada.

Abd•el.lia-cler i 8 reported to be Iyin4 aerionaly ill at
biz rnali'ence in DAMSSCUS.

A }Affalo wax-work man has worked over Co; Duke
of Wellington Into Henry M. Stanley.

Mr. I': B. Potter, &Mr...sing atone of hie Rochdale
conetituents on Saturday night, .ch.racterized the cumulative
vote in aehool board elections as • gruel humbug.
Strawberriee were sold in the ettecte of Rome on
New Year's Day, and gardeners have pigged pens goon a In
the open air.

Mr. Urbane Moore, Etat of the rector of Boughton
Ma'herbs, near Maidstone, has been killed by the falling of
a large ash tree which he bat mined with gunpowder.
Herr B.bel, the Gamin eocialitt and apologist of
the Paris C.aumun.. Isar bete ro elf eted to the Reichstag by
the district of Glanchin-51erane, in Saxony.

A Polio telegram boys a funeral service for the Ew-
eri Naptti.ou aoa to Glyn beeu uslebrstsd at St. Denis ou
utuiday, but sass countermsmird.
The homes xhich co au,eocfullv te.red the subs
%Lich were buru oc he Bth 4t Jul 1572, la the Z,olegical
80e14)'11 gaideus, Liudou, is stsati.

One of the most frightful murder* to be found in the
whole rmc.mrd of crime in New York wee discovered on
Januaiy 15, at a Inw tenement holm in kiaLkerelville, share
a drunken husband killed and ecalped his drunken wile.
Tieerber Stowe in now giving readings from
her own works On the occasion of her first reading, she
wore a grey milk dyne with a train, while her cmy hair was
adorned with a diadem.

Within the bat few dgya ia Pada, the gale of the
photographs of Nap Aeon 111. ha a largely increased One
photographer alone ha; received an order for 10,000 copies
[hose photographs are not to be sold In Paris, but are to be
Santo Germany.

The Romau Catholic Biel.ops have acloptvd a long
manifesto which reviews the state of the Church and educa-
tion generally to Germany, Italy, France, and Ireland.
They also strongly protest against the ate. rule introduced
by the Board of Education, relative to managers and
teachers.

“ Wedding presente took a very practical and un•
sentimental shape at a late marriage, where the ceremony
was performed in church, and each gueat voluntarily paid
for admittance, the roll( ction being handed over to the
bride to commence housekeeping with.”—court Journal.
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The hunts which were lately announced as having
been brought from the Arctic regions by all Amcric or ex-
plorer are believed to be the remains of Mateo:tilt be Via.
comte, one of Franklin's officers. They are to be imme-
diately Inteired in the mausoleum of the Roial llo:pital at
lireenwich.

William Hall, a colliery contractor at Masford, near
Castlecomer, on Saturday saw a light issuing from his stores,
where gunpowder was kept. He went to ascertain the
cause, and on entering a terrific explosion took place. Mr.
1141 received such injuries that he died in two hours.
"Respectable woman, 40, having some means, would
correspond with steady moo, wit's view to marriage.—A
gentleman, in business, wishes to correspond with a lady,
not over 30, and of moderate means, with n view It,, matri-
mony."—Advertisements en Manchester Examiner.

A Frenchman, nand Odile Martin, has invented
an apparatus called an rpinette, by which over four hundred
chickens can be fed In as hour, and fatted Is throe weeks
for the market. Tce birds are much prized by conaoissturs,
and are known in the markets as Pou to de Pluenix.

From April let ta the 25th instant the Exchequer
receipts amounted to £57.174034, as compared with
£55,339,533 in the corresponding inniod of last year. The
rep nditure has been £59.270,2 O. The balance in the Bank
of Digland on Saturday last exceeded three millions and •
half sterling.
It is reported that 6,000 or 7,000 tbs. of Australian
gold, recently coined at the French tiled, has been found no
brittle that the pieces coined from this gold may readily be
broken, and it is therefore found necessary to in melt them,
and touihen the metal. The brittleness is referred to the
presence of a small proportion of antimi uy and arsenic.
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After much dehate, the Berlin Court haa finally
decided to go foto rn turning for the Into Emperor Napoleon.
The measure is not popular, and is adopted only in obedience
to etiquette. The mason Court has gao into mourning also,
for three necks, on account of the death of the Emperor
Napoleon.

A public meeting on the question of disestablishment
was held at Wolverhampton on Tuesday night, but party
feeling ran so high and the uproar was so great that the
speakers could scarcely get a hearing. Attempts were made
to move resolutions by both parties, but were unsuccessful.
In the North of England, where the wages question
Is settled by a Board of Arbitration, it was detided on Mon-
day to continue the present rates of payment until the nd
of March, and In the meantime endeavour to come to some
agreement with the Board of Conciliation in South Stafford-
shire for the adoption of some permanent plan for the de-
termlnation Of wages In the two districts.

A fibrous plant, ealied Aporynum nes atom, has been
discovered growing wild in such quantities in Turkestan that
It may be expected soon to make Its appearance in the
market. Its fibres, as tender and delicate as flax, as strong
and tenacious as hemp, are, by combining the qualities of
the two, get atly superior to either.
At Naples the weather has been brilliant of late.
It has been so warm (s tys a correspond., t) as to delude the
peopl. into the belief that this ix the month of June. The
lilac, the geranium, the iris, and a host of other flowers are
in full bloom whilst peas and beans have noisily all thrust
th.ir heats above the ground, being nearly a foot high. Such
a season was scarcely ever known.

It L 4 sta'ed with. regard to the Dungeneea accident
that the life assurances opened by the contractors on tl e
lives of the emigrants in the NortMert were effected In the
London and lAnca,hire Company, who, however, reassured
three-fourths of the marine rise with the Railway Passengers
and °Our offices, and have, therefore, sustainei only • small
low.

More than £130,000 remains in the hands of the
committee appointed to distribute the national bounty to
the Lancashire operatives during the cotton famine. At a
meeting of this committee it has been decided. an the nu.tion
of Lord Derby, to apply to the Court of Clianmry for leave
to employ these funds bathe establishment of a convalescent
hospital.
The Invaltde Busse of the 17th inst. states that the
effective of the Itusalan army on a peace ooting is lined at
739 000 men, with a reserve of 021,0e0 on leave of absence,
making a total of 1,360,000 nice. the number of breech-
losing firearm, In the arsenals, et , eaceede by 420,000 the
humher neensuy to snpply the whole army.

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The I,orti Mayor of lennion prop.. e to entertain
the whole of the Mayors of every city Ulla 0 Orr corporate
town in Enzland and Walt s et a banqu,t at the Mansion
House, to be held on Wedutndey, the 2Oth of March. Mr.
Gladstone has accepted an Invitation to be present on the
occasion, and the other n.L.mbers of the Ministry will also
be invited.
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Should no unforeseen accident occur, the Queen will
open Parliament In person on the 6th of Feburary. Whilst
willing, however, to dia,harge this part of her public duty in
comformity with precedent, Her Majesty, for the reasons
that ha, governed her continc since the death of the Prince
Consort, has resolved that there shall be no State display.

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A witnnis recently stated in answer to a London
magistrate that he wax a penman. lhe magistrate, punted
at the answer, which did not exactly correspond with the
witness's appearance, asked in what class of literature he
wielded 111. pen, when he replied that he penned sheep In
the New Cattle Market.

A workman who was at South Glastonbury, Hart-
rd, Coml., on Jan. 14, engaged in cutting ut an icebound
gasometer, struck his pick through the shell of the appa-
ratus, and out of mere curiosity a fellow-workman put a
lighted match through the hole The result may be imagined
—one man was killed on the spot, and many others danger-
ously injured,

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A meeting was hold at Bath on Tuesday night in
favour of the total abolition of the income tax, and was
addressed by Sir Alfred Slade, Bart., Mr, E. C. Lewis, M. P ,
and other.. Resolutions were pasedd to the etirct that the
tax was inquisitorial and unjust, that It. imposition in times
of peace I. uncalli d for snd offensive, and the cause of much
discontent throughout the country ; and calling upon the
Chancellor of the Exchiquer to adopt some leas objection-
able mode of supplementing the revenue.

A story is being told of a fashionable tailor. One of
his aristocratic customers, thinking to annoy him, went up
to him as he was walking on the Parade, at Brighton, at the
most fashionable hour of the day, and said to him, "See
hew badly this coat fits.' The great Sartor was fully equal
to the occasion. Taking up a piece of a chalky substance at
the side of the road he marked sundry hieroglyphics over the
back, and then, turning him adrift, said, "There, my lord,
you go and show yourself to my peopiii, and they will soon
put you right."
" Snowatortn," thringh the agony column of The
Tim'o, makes the following romantic appeal to • person evi-
dently on the brink of sense yawning social gulf L im-
plore you trod earnestly not to trust yourself to the
treacherous Ice; keep it at a distaii re, 410 avoid it If you
knew the dangerous dopth that lies beneath the smooth and
captivating surface you would shrink from it with horror,
and without a guide you cannot possibly had out the dim.
gerous parts."

A fetal collision occurred off the Lizard pn Surelay.
The American brigantine Alberti, Captain Harriman, from
Londeen, pot into Plymouth, having been in collision on
Saturday night with an Enlists barque, name unknown.
The vessel. received damage, but were not disabled hut a
shocking result of the collision was that Captain Harriman
was crushed to death between the two ships Ills wife
rushed up from below' and stumbled over the dead and
multilated body of her husband.

The sale of the real estate of the late Miss Read,
known as the "haunted house. hiStamfordetreet," London,
took place on Tuesday at the Mart, Tokenhouse.3arit Long
before the hour for the auction & number of persot s
sembled and tilled the room, and there wu much excitement
and confusion. The tint house, a corner one, fetched £l2OO,
but the bidding was very slow until the last lot was put up,
which consists of a large house at the corner of Blacktriane
mad and Stamfordstreet, and which realised .0,600 The
whole property fetched £9,810, and some other house* in
Wintechapel £3,541, msking a total of £13,350, which will
guts the heirs atalaw of Kiss Read.
Captain Tyler, in reporting to the Board of Trade
upon the accident neon the :Metropolitan railway Israeli
caused the death of Sir Donald Si'Lsod, recommends an uni-
form standard for passenger plat ones and carriages on the
metropolitan lines, and suggests that in the meantime the
carriages should be supplied with continuous footboards.
Csplain Tyler also points out the Ceeessity for careful super-
vision in regard to the starting of the trains, and expresses
an opinion that there ought to be at trait as many porters
at etch stations, there may be trains in it at any One time.

" It really seems an If M. niers would be obliged
to go into mourning for Napoleon ill. The spiteful Opposi-
tion newspapers have unearthed a rule of the chapter of the
Orler of the Golden Fleece, which they declare compels all
members of the order to go into mourning for deceased
br ither mern,iers, tinder pain of ignominious expulsion from
the order. Now, NI. Thb.rs is known to be almost as proud
of the OoldemYleece as of his famous brown frock-coat, and
yet if the above-mentioned rule be correct he must give up
one of the two"—Paris Correspondent.

A very emphatic triVoite to the bravery of Marshal
Martine and the French soldiers who fought around Mt tubas
just been uttered by the distinguished Prussian General Von
Manteuffel, who said the French were quite equal to the
Germans on that occaebn, and expressed a hope that history
would to Justice both to the character of Marshal Bennie
and Ide army. These remarks were made at If onigsburg on
the occasion of General Manteuffel i r.ssidln4 at the cere-
monial celebrating the completion of a funeral monument to
to the German soldiers who fell before Meta
Professor Sedgwick, LL. I)., P. R. S., died at his
rooms to [trinity College, Cambridge, at half-put one o'clock
on Monday m .ruing. Ile venerable deceased, When fame
as • geologist was world-wide, graduated at Trinity C liege
as long it,o as the year Ms, whet] he wax fifth svranialer, to
late Lord Langdale being senior, ati,l the lee Bishop of Lon
don, lb. Biondleld, tinrJ. ihe ea, allot bad vttaioei to
age of t. 7 and Ns demise wet the e. cult of a grA Mel decay of
nature, lie was never mar d.

An American paper Ftatia ant Pr afemor Baird, of
the Mairimonian inatitu'e and United Staten' Fish Commis-
sioner, has received a telegram stating that 760,00) salmon
eggs would be shipped from Bremen by the steamship America
on the 16th host , aid probably arrive in New York about the
25t1s They would bete charge of an eminent Eremen ash
culturiet, and on their arrival in great part he delivered to
tie State Fish Commimi intrs for bitreinction into the
waters of the area ~..agoe and Atlantic c .a.‘t Ono third of
the .ggs were presented by the Gemnan 0 vernment.

Mr. Goldwin Smith writes from Toronto, denying
that he bee recanted the °Oolong formerly expressed by
him on Colonial questions. He says:-- Toe syste-n has
been greatly changed since the date of my first letter.
Still. I remain convinced that the system itself la inherently
evil if indefinitely prolonged and that the aim of one
Colonial policy should be, as in the eyes of the British states-
men of the last generation it wee, the gradual development
of the Colonies into nations. T'ms conviction has bean
.strengthened by rnerealdence in a Colony."

Afr. Robertson Gladstone has declin.d to contort
Liverpool in the Liberal lei,reat
Last year the cabal of quickailver imported was
£497,229, against £414 965 in tail.

It is stwted that Lord Clarendon and Lord Vernon
will propose and second the Address in the House of Lords. '
Last year the declared value of lard imported was
£1,308,07?., against £1,307,687 of the previous year.

A man and Ida wife have been drowned in a home at
Antee, by the overflowing of a bog.

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Faaourable roues of Dr. Pnaey's health rontinnetn
come fro w (know; his sleep Is more tranquil and hie moire
Won less mieaereq.
The 114th anniversary of the birth of Robert Buina
was celbratc.l In Edthburgh on Saturday evening. The
meeting wee Attcuted by upwards sift hundred neuttenien.

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M. rtt de .Toyenee, sou of the celebrated ad-
miral of that name who commanded the French fleet when
the rouge la aW. teak, tun pet died. at Veruilller.
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Tht -Lolliern in the neighbourhood of Dudley hav•i
resolved to give notice of oapplication for an advauce
ages to the extent of one shilling pee day.
A uuuaLer of itiewhera of the Royal Geographiex.l
Soeiety have lOOQ begotiatiug with the owuers of the whake
steamship dia.: with the view of obtaioiog the use of
for some mouths LI Arcke exploration.

Coiteiderable Leal ezeiteratAA Leeit cased in tL
hile of %tau by ths ritort,d dieovor tsllthl I,lte
Clatifaha llri4e I,A far from Peel lean. Is .rings are to los
made to ase,rtaia the real !ketone of the deposits.
he Observer inakea the statetEent that ,oi the advt.,
of 'Jr. Disraeli the 17 mservatlve pasty a 111 task° the iplestite
of Irish ethicatiori the ground if tet.rmizsc.i oppotitlea to
the policy of the Governmait.

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The sale in the streets of Paris of the Ore/of,
weekly e.unic print, has been impended for a month, for pub-
lishing a song on the tionapartes, entitled "Le trait vie
fait use omit en crerant"
The shooting galleries in Paris have multiplied
rapidly of late, and all are well patronised. The Invariable
target Is. Prussian soldier with a chimney clock clasped to
his bosom.
A strike of printers is rep -irted from Leipiic. The
asiodated en.ployers having rejected the Reale of wages
submitted to them for approval by those of their men who
belong to the Fociety of German Printers, 311 have struck.

A suca,ssful evasion of the Prussian order forbidding
the display a the tricolmir was rceent4 made at StrAsburg
by three young ladies who walked mind the otreets, one
dressed In red, another ii. white, and the third In hill..

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Ladies' leather belts are now worn in the United
States three inches wide, coloured to match the toilet, with
a large buckle of oxidised silver, and a sh,rt chain of t'
same uniterisl, to which is suspended the umbrella, Is 1,
hunch of keys, Or retch.

The Dublin city census return for 1871 shows * two-
pnderanee of Hunan Catholics liver all denomlnetloh•
ProUstants of sllght!y less than lour to one. 11.•
appearance of the tables is the subject of unfsvonr .411
remark In the papers.

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The Journal Olfinel states that one hundred an I
seventy mliii 11,1 of trance—the first hstalment on the fan: ci
milliard of the indemnity due to PHIII/lill- Were pald ov., 01
the German authorities on the 16th, 11th, and ISth of tie
present month.

The Daily Nom underptands that a memorial f.nt
the Imprisoned gas stokers to the Dome Secretary is in]
pars' ion, expressing the contrition of the prisoners for the
offence of which they have boon convicted, awl pray lug tor
a remission of their sentence.

In cot eequene.e of the advance of wages aud the coat
of matcrial, thb North British Railway direvtors have lamed
cimilare intimating to ccannmitere and others another ad-
vance of Pd. per ton on coal and mineral traffic after the
Irt of February.

A letter from Milan states that the amateurs of the
lottery in that city have not failed to turn to account the
demise of Napoleon 111. They staked on No. 20 (a Napoleon
being worth that number of francs) and on No. IS the date
of the &Atli' ; and the two cabalistic figurer actually Come
up in the drawing of Saturday. Report says that the tvin.
nings were numerous.
A ccording to the official figures concerning there nit
of the conscription in Alsace, 33i young men had presented
themselves as volunteers for one year ; and 279 were ad-
mitted. Of 7,454 other conscripts, 9,392 were declared l for
service, tut 553 of apse obtained a postponement the
effective, there.. re, of Alsatians incorporated In the German
Army, is 2,839, with 279 volunteers.

The steamer Wanrerland, the Prubsian emigrant
ship bona! for Brazil—one of whose passenzers war Dr.
Ilessel, the elerzyman detained on suspicion of beimc con.
meted with the Corstn street murder—sailed on Monday
morning. The emigrants have been kindly treated during
their enforced stay, and several have determined to remain
in England rather than proceed to Brazil.
The Hospital Sunday collections at the pieces of
worship in Nottingham lan Sunday realised about £B5O, and
the contributions by the working men on Saturday am 'tinted
to £l5O. Hospital Sunday at Sheffield produced about
£1,300, being a slight inereese over last 'ear. of this amount,
the Church of England congregations contributed nearly
cat-half, The whole will be apportioned between the
General Infirmary, Public Dispensary, and two or three minor
hospitals.

The death is announced at Florence of Mi9B Tea
Blagden, the authoreot of" Agnes Tramorne," " The Cost
of a Secret,' " The Crown of a 1.1h.t," and many magazine
articles. Miss Fl'anden the Daily Aetcs saya) was iinaad to
Mr. Browning and his il merlons wife by the ties of the
closest friendship. She nursed the p oeteie in ha final ill-
ness, and performed the same loving office for Thendosia
Trollope.

The Financio• says there ic another order f.r
for Germany The amount first required will, it is under-
stood, be about half a million sterling, but further amounts
will doubtless be absorbed. The Austral•an arrival, amount-
ing to over 45e1.1,0i 0, due this day, wilt, as far as the bullion
Is concerned, be mostly taken i.e Spain, while the Sovereigns
will stop here. But some large sums are oh on the way
hither from New York, and there is a prospect that thee
German demand may be met—at soy rate for the present—
without requiring any heavy contributions from the Bank of
England.

On Sunday evening the Dean of Weetmituter
priached before • very large congregation at the Unlversity
Church from Job xxvill, v 7-8. The diuourse bore
upou the moral aspect f Christian theology, and was
concluded by a graceful allusion to the late Dr. Lushington,
and to Professor Sedg wick, whose life ban .s by a thread.
The lives of these venerable gentlemen mere, said Dean
Stanley, filled with burning enthusiasm for abut was noblest
sad best in human kind, and the same humble not firm
belief In what was holy, Ptak and good, in ti. nature of God.
Lives such as these confirmed his text.

At a meeting of the Devon County rilunteers, held
at Exeter on Saturday. a long discuation to k place respect-
ing the probability tht.t the tart Autumn NI .nrcovres will ho
Laid at Dartmaor The following resolution s•ats anoniroonaly
adopted That this Associallan Icarus with aati.faction
that Evetar an,. sec-al one- toe us have memorialised the
War citice suggesting that the Autumn Manreuvrcs for the
current year be held at Dartmoor; and this inPeting ex.
presses the hope that the proposal may receive the favour.
able consideration of the War-office."

A proepectue Las Leen issued of the Texas Preceirre
Meat Company Limited), with a capital of £150,00i1 In 15,000
shares, of £lO each, to work in Texas the process of Ms.
Henley, for the manufacture of preserved meats sod meat
extracts. A. there are about ten million head of cattle in
Texas, many hundred thousands of bullocks can be utilised
for an export trade, without affecting the ',rice of stock In
the state. Thu poita of Indianola and Galveston are within •
twenty voyage from Liverpool or London. Under Mr.
Henley's patent, the hydraulic pro ass is lased for the instan-
taneous removal of a certain amount of meat-juice from the
fibre, and thin not only preserves the fibre mid facilitates ita
being tinned, salted, ffc., but it yields a product which
constitutes the best concentrated form of meat essence.

Thirty years ago, when 'Lowland Hill established
the penny post, it waa considered a marvellous thing that •
letter weighing half-an-ounce should be conveyed from one
end of England to another for a penny. But what will be
thought now of being able to send a parcel from Londonto
the remotest village in Imila br one penny an mince, or
le ci. a pound? Yet thil can be done, the Peninsular and
Oriental Company having made arrangements with the
Indian Post Office, by whl 'h parcels delivered at the Com-
pany's office in London will be conveyed to any post town On
India, and delivered to the person to whom they are ad-
dressed at • uni'orm charge of 14. 4,1. a pound, which coven
all charges except the In dart customs ditty if the parcel
happen. to contain articles liable to duty, and may I. paid
on delivery,