The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-02-14 00:00:00

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rush at Roes. But Bruin was not in it. One qt.
upward blow. The bear's under jaw dropped cut
two. One more quick descending blow behind '
shoulder, and Bruin rolled over with his heart cit
in twain. Amid a storm of vivas, Ross wiped
bloody bowie on the grizzly's hide, and walked
without a scratch.
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JUVENILE Pawrizs.—(What they are getting to.
Madeline (aged four). "What do you thb
Gerald! 'We're to be fetched from the Brown's
half-past nine! It says so on the card !"—r
(aged five). "No !—what a shame 1 I votes
don't go !" [Seconded and carried unanimously,
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THE PACIFICATION OF ZULULAND.—" L" writes
The Times :—" As much has been said against tI
chance of success attending Sir Garnet Wolsele/
measures for the future government of Zululand, so
as our Government have also been severely attacke
on the score of the inhumanity of the late war, I shoe'
be obliged if you would publish the following short
tract from a letter I received a few weeks ago froze
relation in Natal who has lived the greater part of 13
life within 20 miles of the Zulu frontier, and who 11
lately been travelling in Zululand for the purpose
buying cattle: I travelled from Port Pearson aim'
as far as Ulundi by the coast road to Point DG
ford, and returned to Natal by Rorke's Drift. Ere
where I went I found that all the young men
getting married and settling down to a quiet life.
regiments have ceased to exist, and the men
ashamed to own that they ever belonged to any
ment, and pretend to forget the names of them.
women are loud in their praises of our soldiers.
say, You conquered us, and yet you killed none
our women and children, burnt but few kra,
took but a very small amount of our cattle.
evidently contrasted our behaviour with that w)
they knew would have been their soldiers, had '
ever managed to overrun Natal.'"
QUITE UNIMPORTANT,—ThompIon (interrogativ
to beauteous but haughty damsel, whom he has j
helped to alight) : "I beg your pardon ? "—Hang
Damsel: "I did not speak ! "—Thompson: "0'
thought you said ' Thanks ' ! "—Punch.
JOSH BILLINGS ON GHOSTS.—A ghost is about fi'
feet seven inches in height, and weighs from four
six ounces. They are of the maskuline and feminf
natur, but principally nutnr. They ain't afraid
nothing, and will hang around a graveyard as karell
az a skoolboy will around a norchard in green spl
time. They are like a grate menny other things
this world—often heard ov, but seldom seen. I
giv fifteen hundred dollars to see a ghost, and
dollars more to own one; but I want one kaught will
and not hurt. Mi friend Phineas T. Barnum

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ghost, and not quarrel about the gender.
bring your ghchts. Ghosts allwus dress in a .
nitegown, sort of rig, and are the quickest that hs\
ever been trotted out yet. Their ordinary gait iz
mile in a seekund, but it iz lied for a purse they
beat this handy. I would really like to see one go Ds
publik for mutiny—private time is alwus swiplsbt,l6
WI don't some of our agricultural hoes-trot after'
shuns offer a ghost puss, free for all ghosts. It
draw like a mustard plaster in the month of At
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• REMARKABLE LONGEVITY.— T. C.," remar
upon the extraordinary longevity recorded in
°Dana*? of The Times of Wednesday, 4th inst.,
to The Times :—" The obituary is in itself the
that has appeared certainly during the present wink
containing as it does announcements of the deaths
as many as 89 persons. Among these we find
deaths of 16 nonagenarians and octogenarians (r
ladies and nine gentlemen), whose combined
amount to 1,369 years, which gives an average
fraction over 85i years to each of lthese 16 persono;
Their ages are as follows :—one of 98, two of 92, one r
87, two of 86, four of 84, three of 83, and one eat
of 82, 81, and 80. Further there are mentioned th('
deaths of 15 persons between 70 and 80, whose se
amount to 1,130 years, giving an average of exac'
75 years and four months to each, The total of t'
years of the 31 persons (14 ladies and 17 gentlemen)ll2.
last Wednesday's obituary'who had reached the itir
of 70 years and upwards amounts to 2 499 years, gif;
big an average of slightly above soi years to each 0`
these 31. persons. This is certainly a very remarkable
occurence, and is a striking proof that the extra
severity of the present winter combined with the,
frequent fogs has had a telling effect upon the vitfo
powers of many of the aged among us."
POETICAL NAME FOR A SHEPHERD'S DOG.—The
collie-flower of the flock.—Nunny Folks.
HAVING SEEN SERVICE.—To have served in five
different campaigns in the last thirteen years is a piece
of good fortune that has fallen to the lot of only one
officer in Her Majesty's service, viz., Captain Williaes
George Knox, of the Royal Artillery. Since his first
entry into the army in July, 1867, Capt. Knox boll
served throughout the Abyssinian campaign; through'
out the second phase of the Ashautee war, including
the battles of Amoaful and Ordahsti, and capture of
Coomassie ; in the Afghan war of 1878 79 including tbe
assault and capture of Fort All Musjid ; in the lattet
part of the Zulu war, to which he hastened frous
India; and through the now completed operations Of
the Transvaal campaign, when he had command 01
the artillery at the capture of Secocceni's stronghold.
Captain Knox will therefore shortly have at least fout,
medals to glitter on his breast, and will add a fifth is
a separate decoration (as is hoped) is granted for the
Transvaal' campaigns. Lord William BeresfoiA
comes in a good second to Captain Knox with rervicill
in the Jowaki campaign in 1877 (medal with clasp) the
Afghan war of 1878 79 including assault and capture
of For Ali Musjid (medal with clasp), the Zulu war,
including the battle of Ulundi, when he won his Vic-
toria Cross, and service in the present Afghan cern.
paign, in which he is now serving with the 9th
Lancera,—Court Journal.

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THE LIVERPOOL ELECTION. —At the close of the
ballot the boxes containing the voting papers were
conveyed to the Town Hall, where such.. complete
arrangements had been made for counting/them that
at eight o'clock the result was made known. It wae
found that 49,991 electors had polled, and of these
26,106 had voted for Mr. Whitley, and 23,885 for Lord
Rvusay, thug giving the Conservative candidate
majority of 2,221. This is by tar the highest poll
which ha e ever been taken in any constituency in this
country. Tbe actual number of registered voters at
present on the list is 63,948, an increase of about
10 000 since the general election. At the last bye
ele tion, in February, 1873, the late Mr. Torrt had a
majority of 2 012 votes over the Liberal candidate.
sod at the general election in the following year Lord
Salaam polled 2),206, Mr. Tarr 19,763, Mr. 'William
R Alibone 16,706, and Mr. W. S. Caine, the second
Liberal candidate, 15,801.

THE DUKE OF PORTLAND.—Tueedsy night's London
Gazette contains the following notice, dated Whitehall,
February 3, 1880 :—`l The Queen, taking into her
Royal consideration that upon the decease of William
John, fifth Duke of Portland, unmarried, on the 6th
day of December last, the title and dignity of Duke of
Portland devolved upon William John Arthur Charles
James, now Duke of Portland, as the eldest son and
heir of Arthur Cavendish • Bentinck, Esq., Lieu-
tenant-General in her Majesty's Yorces,,who was the
second but eldest surviving son and heir of William
Charles Augustus Cavendish-Bentinck, commonly
called Lord William Charles Augustus Cavendish-
Bentinck, and the grandson of William Henry, third
Duke of Portland, and brother of William Henry,
fourth Duke of Portland, the father of -William John,
fifth and late Duke of Portland, and that according to
the ordinary rules of honour the half- brothers and
sister of the said William John Arthur Charles
James, now Duke of Portland, cannot enjoy
that place and precedence which would have been
due to them had their father survived his
cousin, the said William John, fifth Duke of Port-
land, and thereby succeeded to the title and dignity of
Duke of Portland, Her Majesty has been graciously
pleased to ordain and declare that Henry Cavendish-
Bentinck, Willittm Augustus Cavendish•Bentinck,
Charles Cavendish-Bentinck, and Ottoline Violet
Anne Cavendish-Bentinck, all minors, shall hence-
forth have, hold, and 'enjoy the Mnsit title, place, pre-
eminence, and preaedence as if their late father the
said Arthur Caverdish Bentbark had survived his
cousin, the said William John, fifth Duke of Portland,
and had thereby succeeded to the title and dignity of
Mks of Portland."