The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-07-18 00:00:00

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After dinner the other day, at a Liverpool table
&hate, a young man was relating how he had miraculously
escaped from a fearful shipwreck. " Yes," said he "fifteen
of my friends w. re on board. The ve.ael went down,
and they were all lost." " But how," asked a listener,
who,.e interest was painfully excited, "did you manage to
escape " Oh," was the calm reply, -1 was on board
another vessel."

The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges as
Conscien,s Money " the receipt for unpaid Income-tax of
the first halves of to Bank of Instant' notes, amounting to
£l5O, from "J. 0." through the First Lord of the ad-
miralty); and of the first halves of three notes, amounting
to £OO, from an anonymous correspondent.

Among the recent publications of the Holbein
S.-60y in a set of foe simile reprints of the curiousold wood-
cuts by Hans Iturgmair, entitled the " Triumphs ,d the Em-
peror Maxiinilian I." Inirgmair was a painter and engraves
on wood, living in the 15th and lath centuries. In the early
part of his life he was the contemporary of Albert Durer, and
It has sometimes been ssid that he was a pupil of that great
artist, log this appears to be doubtful.
The Revisers of the Authorized Version of the New
Testament met on Tuesday at the Jerusalem Chamber for
their 42nd session, and sat for more than six houra There
were present--the Bishop of Muenster and Bristol (she
presided), Bishop Wordsworth. the Deans of Westminster,
Rochester, and Lincoln, the Master of the Temple, Arch-
deacons Diekersteili and Leo, Canons Ketinrity and Lightfoot,
Professors Brown, Eadie, Mulligan, Moulton, Newth, Edward
Palmer, and Robots, Drs Angus, Scrivener, and Vance
Smith. Prebendary liumphry, and Mr. llort—in all 22 mem-
bers—mid Mr. Troutbeek, the secretary. The company pro-
ceeded with their second revision to the end of the second
chapter of St. Mark (Jospeh

A special service was held on Sunday at three p.m.
In Westminster Abbey for the fined, net on foot by Lord
Lorna and the Princess Louise, for the augmentation of the
poorer livings of the Church of England. There were
present at the service the Prince and Princess of Wales, the
Crown Prince and the Crown Princess of Germany, the Duke
of Connaught, the Marquis of Lorne, and the Princess
Louise. The Archbishop of Canterbury also attended.
A conference of the wholesale tea dealers of London
was held on Monday, at which the report of the Select
Committee on the Adulteration of Food was discussed. Re-
solutions were passed, suggesting that in the proposed
amended Act provision should be made for givingsubstantial
costs to innocent defendants , re • •tiding all appeal to
the analytical department at Somerset Home before any
local convictions be emorced and appointing a depUtatinn
tn lay to. vida••• of the moot foff ..... 000. t

The Hobart Town papers announce the death of Mr.
Francis Flesmore, one of the pioneers of Tasmania. lie w,is
the youngest son of Mr. Francis Flexmore, who was re-
wattled for services under Government with several large
grants of land. The EOM received grants of land near
Green-pond, the annual value of which alone is £l,BOO.
In consequence of the high price of bread, a popular
demonstration took place at Florence on Saturday. The
crowd was dispersed by the police, but another and larger
one assembled, and the lUot Act had lo be read.
A supplementary return of the number of communi-
cants in the Eitablished Church of Scotland brings up the
total number to 4410,5151, of whom 197,592 are male and
282,074 female comtounicants.

The Palais Royal Theatre is the only theatre in
Paris in which the employoB are benefited by the receipts of
the theatre, they having a certain percentage on the moneys
received, and it is stated that it Is a profitable arrangement
for the dirctor of the theatre.
A Rome correspondent writes that by far the best
news to he given respecting Italy is the cheering fact that
this year's harvest is one of unexampled abundance, and will
go far to compensate for the shortcomings of the three last
seasons.

Cholera has not yet been successfully combated in
Calcutta, where, according to a return furnished by the
Registrar-General, 37 deaths were attributed to thin disease
in the week ending the 23rd of May.

There has been an abundant rainfall in the Bombay
Presidency, and the crops are said to be in very good con-
dition.

It is announced from Madrid that the United States
Government has insisted upon an indemnity being paid to
the rtrginiur prisoners, and to the families of those who
were shot at Santiago. The documents are accordingly to
be examined, in order that the Spanish Government may
give its decision in the matter.

Last Saturday afternoon's thunderstorm did con-
siderable mischief to property in the western division o
Surrey, and m one or two instances persons were injured,
although no fatal casualties are reported. A stack of
chimneys at Ylesford House, hear Guildford, the residence
of Mr. Denzil Onslow, M. P., was struck with lightning, much
to the alarm of a large company of guest,. The electric
fluid shattered the building, scattered the bricks in all direc-
tions, some of them falling outside and others inside the
house. Several of the servants in the kitchen were knocked
down, and all felt the electric shock

Last week 2,195 births and 1,293 deaths were regis-
tered in Lomb n, the former having been 20 and the latter
110 below the average Twenty-three persons died from
measles, 13 from scarlet fever, 2 Irvin diphtheria, 28 Irvin
whooping-cough, 23 from different forms of fever, 122 from
diarrhoea, and not one from small-pox ; thus to the seven
principal diseases of the zyruotic class :41 deaths were re-
fermi, against 178a0d 203 in the two preceding weeks. These
211 deaths were 110 below the corrected average number
from the same diseases in the corresponding week of the last
ten years, the fatal cases of each disease being below the
average.

At- a meeting of the Committee of the National
Anti-Income Tax League, in London, on Tuesday,
It was proposed and carried unanimously that the
League, notwithstanding the division in toe House on Sir.
Lewis's motion 011 the Income tax, still denounces the im-
post as an odious inquisition into private anburs that no
national necessity justifies, and an Invasionof the liberty of
the people which calls on them for detmmtned efforts fur its
repeal.

At the Fitting of the French National Asitembly on
Saturd iy stone excitement was created by an inquiry made
by a member of the Left Centre as to the re 31.11 why the
Figaro was allowed to publish an article attacking the
Assembly. The Govemnient announced that instructions
had been given to the Governor of Paris to suspend the
Journal In imestion for a fortnight. Another member then
asked that M. de S.rint Getiest, the writer of the article,
should be called to the bar of the douse. He ilenianded
urgency, but this demand was rejected by 341 to 257 votes,
At a large moos meeting of colliers which wait held
at Dudley on Monday it was decided by a considerable
majority to reject the terms for a settlement of the wages
dispute In that district which had been proposed at a recent
gathering at Dirminglitun.

An accident of a serious character, happily unat-
tended with personal injury, occurred on Tuesday morning
at Wimbledon, at the tiring point. where the competition
for the Queen's Prize was going on. Ensign Hunt, of the
Hon. Artillery Company, was lu the prone position about to
shoot, whin suddenly his rifle, a Martini Henri, burst. One
portion of the lam! flew whizzing into the air, and has mit
yet been found, while the stock was quite shattered. Strange
to any, neither Mr. Haut nor any of the other competitors
In his immediate vicinity were in the slightest degree in-
jured. Their escape must la looked upon as little abort of
miraculous. Considerable consteroation prevailed for some
Hine. Itofore lyinz IiOWO to 81100 t. Mr. Hunt had wiped out
the barrel of the rifle, and he is I opinion that a portion of
the rag, with which the rifle is cleaned, must have been itit
In the barrel. A new rifle was issued to hint

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Apropos of the large cheque for Northumberland
House, £497,000 At which our readers can exercise their
hands ass good copy), it is not geoendly known that the
largest Bunk of England note la onli for the tuiwralue spin
of aoilOoti, and that there are but three of them, very ilia
appointing to those who have hig notions. The Bank of
England Directors, when old Mehemet all visited the city
palaig of bullion, put a parcel Into his hand to astonish hum,
saying it contain, d two millions sterling. —lle repiied.
"thank you," and it wog long before he could understand
the nature of the illustration of compressed values, as he
was on the point of putting in into his pocket as a present_
Court JournaL

The widow of M. 'laillardon, Central Commissicner
at Mane.lles under the Empire, who was arrested
mediately after the battle of Sedan and died in priton has
brought an action againat M Labadie, the Prefect appointed
by the Government of National befence, and also against
the Municipality, for the illegal detention of her husband.
The question whether the action is maintainable has been ,
argued before nee Judges at Maraeillea The Municipality
maintained that M. Labelle was alone restumsible, the
anal being made by his order the day before hit appoint- I
mess as Prefect, while M. Labadie s counsel urged that the
~h,fect was to protect the deceased from the fury of th, mob
The Court held that M Labadie cell be sued for damages,
and the aetton will therefore proceed. The Municipality is
also being ailed by the widow of one of the persons who lost
their lives in the communist rising in Manietlles in April,
1871, 90,0001. being the stun claimed.

Ahi g tlismiond is now on exhibition. It is as large
as a haaellait, and fa w.•rth 000 tona chf rail.ay iron, to
tone I,f Inlgkr, or L.,04.10 barrels of flout.

A eorreep.wmlent writes that Paris is emptying fas
et all aim eecape from It, and the exodus hasheen aims
lated by the heat of tlw last few day,.

It le propoird by a Committee of the Corporation o
Loudon to take down and rebuild the Monunieot. as the
cheapest way of effectang an improvement In connection with
the proposed new street in that part of the Ott.
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Two hundred and forty thousand Bibles and Testa-
ments, and ti-arty half a million nooks of Common Prayer
were iss.nst last year by the Soriety for Promoting Christian
Knowledge.
A report is current at St. Petersburg that the
Austrian lilac expedition, of which nothing has bees heard
for a considerable time, and respecting the safety of which
apprehension is accordingly entertained, is lying off the
coast .1 Nova Zambia.

A singular accident happened to a goods train from
Brist.d (m the Great Western Railway last Monday night.
When the tram had passed Moulatord station. two fat besets
felt thr aigh the bottom of the truck conveying them. ono
was out to pieces, and the other had to he killed. Five trucks
were throuri off the bile.

On 3.Jonday the Mayor of Bradford opened the new
St James's wholesale Salt trait, and vegetable markets Ia
that town, which have been erected at a cost of £13,000.

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Australian papers state that a company has been
formed to work the sulphur deposits at White Island. a
warms volcano 140 miles from Auckland. It Is estimated
that 100,000 tons of sulphur in an almost pure state are
lymg on the island ready for shipment.
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A Tasmanian paper records the death, on the Bth
of Slay la-t. of Mr. Zephaniah Williams—one of the Chartists
whose names were associated with those of Frost and Jones.
Ile had been a vahuihle colonist. an I had done much to
develope the mineral resourc.s of Tasmania. tie was
verging on his 80th year. The same paper states that Mr.
Frost is still living, and is 90 years of age.

The Sussex Express states that on Wednesday, Dr.
Harding, of it adiotrbt. successfully extracted • French
musket bullet from the hand of Jamee Jenuer, weighing over
three-quarters of an ounce, which was firmly embedded in
him at the Battle of Waterloo. In spite of the inconvenience
arising from the bullet during near! 60 years the man has
worked uninterruptedly as an agricultural labourer in the
parish, where he bears an excellent character. He is SO years
of age.

The Lord Provost of Edinburgh has received a letter
from the Home Secretary, granting • respite to Martin
Gilboy, who was convicted of murder and sentenced to be
executed at Edinburgh on the Met lust. When the news was
communicated to 011 boy he did not understand it at first.
but after it was explained he appeared very much alerted,
and expressed his deep thankfulness to Almighty God The
Governor of the prawn immediately wrote to Gilboya wife,
conveying the welcome intelligence of the respite granted to
her huaband.

The anniversary of the 12th of July passed off
quietly in Dublin. the celebration of the day wee confined
to religious services and special sermons. On Saturday
night some persons contrived to elude the vigilance of
guard of twelve constables left to watch the statue of Bing
William 111. in Coliege-grecn and placed an Orange crown
and sigh upon him. They were removed neat morning by
the police.
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The Lords of the Admiralty have sent a very hand-
some acknowledgment to sir Wuliasu Palliser. Informing
him of the adoption of his al moor bolt for u.e in the Iron-
clad Navy. Their Lordships have been further pleased to
intimate that the Palliser converted guns and chilled pro.
JesAiles continue to maintain their efficiency, and that their
employment is annually becoming more extended in the
Navy.

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General Morin has just exhibited before the French
Academy, says the Mirror, a bottle containg eight kilo-
grammes of °annum, the most poisonous metal lumen,
This is enough," he exclaimed, "to poison the utflverse,
as one milligramme of osiniuni diffused through one hundred
cubic meters of air renders It irrespirable" Naturally our
contemporary wants to know what the general is going to do
with that bottle.

An inquest has been held at Clewer, near Windsor,
respecting the death of William Phillips, about nineteen
years of age. The deceased was a clerk ill charge of Messrs.
W. H. Snuth and Sons' book-stall, at the South Western
Station, Windsor. On Saturday, while swimming across the
river at Lower Hope, he suddenly threw up his handsand dis-
appeared. Some. boys in boats were called to. but one of
them replied. "Let him drown," and no assistanee was
rendered. The Eton College alderman came up in a punt,
and in about five minutes recovered the body. Ile en-
deavoured for half an hour to restore animation, but with-
out success. He stated that while in the water youths would
call out in a frolic, " I'm drowning," and he was often
laughed at when he hastened to rend, assistance, dad he
been called immediately the life o the deceased would
probably hay been saved. The jury returned • verdict of
"Accidentally drowned."

A correspondent writes: "One of the funniest
things a dog ever did happened the other day. A friend
owns a splendid Newfoundland that has been taught to
bang his wire muzzle to his toaster every time he is going
out. Coining to my house on a visit, his muzzle was lett
behind_ As his owner was going out after breakfast he said,
You can't go, Lion ; you didn't bring your mussle.' Quick
ass Ihnh the dog bounded into the kitchen, returning in an
instant with a wire basket salad strainer, which, hanging era
the dresser, ha" attracte I Li 011.6 attention, arid seemed to
him be a new kiwi of asztle." Whether the noble Lion
e rinsed in this case ..reaa.ru '' or "instinct," we leave the
grantltty y • -• CO.. • ;•,,tdwiaa Worst,