The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-11 00:00:00

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A ninety-five-year-old colon.— Jame,
West Chester, Pa., is down with the whooping-cough.
The iron works at Beaver Falls, Pa., are using gas
for fuel, at a great saving in cost as compared with coal.
A baby show was lately held in Chicago for the
benefit of a Universalist Church.
It is estimated that more than 200.000 dols. is due
to Albany, (N. Y.,) physicians by patients in that city.
Shoes made of rattlesnake-skins are becoming
fashionable in Alabama.
An East Granby, Conn., farmer has the original
deed to the land on which he lives. It has been in his
family for 162 years. •
A Massachusetts snuff-taker estimates that he has
taken during the past forty years two tons of the dust valued
at 3,300 dols.
At the anniversary of the Independent Order of
Good Templars, held at Birmingham, it was stated that the
members of the Order could be counted almost by hundreds
of thousands.

Pittsburg claims that Daniel S. Davis, of that city,
Is the oldest living boatman. He was born August 16, 1776,
and was a keel-boat pilot and captain on the Ohio from 1808
to 1812.
man in Philadelphia has a postal card with over
4,700 words written upon it, and he expects to write 2,000 words
more upon it, making 6,700 in all, It is to be sent to the
Centennial Exhibition.
The trustees of the John Hopkins bequest of Balti-
more are carefully carrying out the wishes of the donor.
They have purchased 24 acres of land for the purposes of the
Coloured Orphan Asylum. The erection of the buildings
will be commenced within the next two years.

A Middleton (Del.) man is building an immense re-
frigerator in which he is going to stow away 200,000 baskets
of peaches, expecting to keep them fresh till next Winter.

The Emporium Independent says 2,057,583 pounds o•
cheese were received at that point for shipment on the Phila
delphia and Erie Railway this season. The cheese is deli
vered by the Buffalo, New York, and Philadelphia at Empo
rinm.
A Chicago real eState man ha -sued his pastor for
50.000 dole. damages, for implied slander in refusing him per-
mission to partake of the Communion.
The floods in the Susquehanna has been the means
of floating down over one hundred million feet of lumber,
which will give employment to at least one thousand men
for two months or more in manufacturing it into boards at
the mills.
The bid of the American Photo-Lithographing Com-
pany of New York for engraving stamp-cheques is doubtless
the lowest bid ever received by the Government Thist
company offered to print the cheques for one cent a million.
The light at Atlantic City can be seen from the
deck of a vessel nineteen miles out at sea, while that of the
Cape _Nay lighthouse can eaidly-be,distinguished in clear
weather a distance of forty-three miles.
The last representative of'tle Uchee tribe of In-
dians died at Hawkinsville, Ga., the other day. He had for
43 years lived with a family whom he had faithfully served.
Among his religious beliefs was one that he would never
die.
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Ai stratge aoci ent befell a .Dirt :Moines (Iowa)
farmer, the other day. He ..was driving his cow to pasture
by a rope tied round her neck, when by a sudden movement
of the animal he was thrown down and, turning a complete
somersault, he drove his head violently into the earth, break-
ing his neck.
Two immense furnaces—the largest in Ohio ana
among the largest in -the world—are being constricted at
Ironton. They will have all modern improvements, and Will
each turn out fifty tons of metal per day. .
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When Andrew Johnson was Governor Of Tennessee,
~n-exthlackstnitli war chi l Justice of the Supreme Court,
Joied.Stie h4s4twn hands made a vest for the
Chief Justice, while the Chief Justice went to a forge and
made a shovel and tongs to Oresent to the Governor.
Large wraps of Turkish towelling are now worn
;over the shoulders of ladies after emerging from the water
at &wig Branch and Newport. Some of the styles of these
wraps are gotten up very handsomely.
The,/Yein, _York Tribme satys) i"-lilleppite the laws
iggvqrnAl2toeitnporta,tiodol.cittlefin Englai6d, which are so
strict that if only one animal is found diseased the whole
cargo is slaughtered, the distemper has broken out in Dor-
setshire, land is rapidly spreading. Happily, few cattle are
brought to the Unitod States from Europe, but the present
circumstances warrant every precaution being employed at
American portsto guard ourherds frAin thiillearf plague."
At Slisbury Point, MAssachlisetts, there are three
churches, the minister of each of which rejoices in the name
Wright. One lives in the miner part of the town, one in the
lower, and the third at the mills ; so the people have dubbed
their spiritual utdes as " Upwright," "Downright," and
"Millwright.." • ' '

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Immense beds of sulphur have been found in Hum-
boldt Co., Nevada, at a distance of about thirty miles of the
tracks of the Central Pacific Railway. The material is found'
at all points on a small mountain, which explorers say is a
mass of sulphur. A. company is engaged in operating the
works, and a town has been laid opt which
,hears the approl
priate name of 14 Interne." ' • •
It is stated that Montreal is fast becoming the ilar.at
dise of loafers of every kind and description, including street,
!ballad-singers, Italian hurdy-gurdy grinders; 'female must'
clans, one-armed and one-leggecl impoiftorss .beggars of
descriptiona, and itinerating Vagabonds generally.
Among the foreign exhibitors at the' Interilational
Exposition of Chili, California, will be very respectfully re-
presented. Every steamer bound to Panama,during the last
five or sit mOnths conveybd 4xhibits, approximating in the
aggregate a thousand packages, and embracing almost every
branch of Mineral,•agricultural, and mechanical industry in
`he State.
An American gentlesnan now,:traveiling ixi Scbtland,
says: I question if a More beautiful !light, on bsanenin tkisr
wide world than the fashionable promenade of rinpfs-
street, Edinburgh, Scotland, any pleasant day about four
o'glack_Let the spectatorke his eyes from the picturesque
glories'of -that exquisitelandscape and fix them upon the
more bealftiful of Nature's works who pass him by. What
I admirq about the Stotch ladies/Is their healthy look and
educated facet." ' • '
In 1865 the taxable property in Georgia was
126,635,81,0 dole; -now it is 273,092 000 dole,, more than
doubling since the war. There are 35 railways in the State„
with an aggregate length of 2,300 miles. The State debt is
,5,105,000. dols., and this part,ially pffept IpyiprfP9rtY..pw,4edy
L'by the. State wdrth 6,000,000 dole., 'leaving the net in'
ldebtedness 2,000,000 dole. It has 3,602)000 dole. invested
In cotton and woollen mills, namo dole. in iron foundries,
and 000,000 dole, in tonnageit -
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