The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-04-20 00:00:00

EPITOMt OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

A lady at Marseilles has chosen the name of Gam-
bettina for her female baby.
A new dance, called " Deocicocichicocanard," has
lately been introduced, and bids fair to become popular.
The Chancellor sf the Excheqner acknowledges the
receipt of £l, In stamps, from "li. F.," for income tax, as
"Conscience Money."
A few nights since a man named Newman, residing
at lialliver, in county Meath, was tired at and dangeroualy
wounded, when returning to his residence. The outrage is
believed to be of an agrarian character.
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From the Ist to the 13th instant the Treasury re-
ceipts amounted to 1L2,&13,911.3, and the expenditure to
£6,341.377 The balance in the Bank of Englanu on Saturday
last was £4,703,937.
A singular disease has broken out among the dogs in
some parts of Shropshire. They exhibit great rootlessness,
aml en being opened a black fluid is found in the stomach,
which!. much inflamed.
The Select Committee upon the Government 11111
for the abolition of the track system met on Monday for the
flint time, Mr. tlatherne [lardy in the chair. No evidence Was,
however, taken, the Committee having decided to consider the
measure with closed doors.
A Radical gentleman hi an opponent of school boards
from' mitniple " Ile goes "afrin education," not because
of its unconstitutionality, but because it's unnatural. Igno-
rance Is " uatur," he says. We are born ignorant, and ought
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; to be kept is.
Ten garotters, who were sentenced at the recent
'mires to Leeds, received theirflonring on Tuesday afternoon
at Morley thud, each having twenty lashes.
In accordance with the new regulations, passengers
from St. Male to Jersey on Monday, were enabled to leave
France without the exhibition of passports. All that was
required of them was to write their names in the police book.
The death is announced of Sir Henry Sacheverell
Wilmott, Bari. The deceased baronet was horn in 1002, and
was formerly in the Royal Navy. rile is succeeded in the
baronetcy fly his son Henry, horn in 1831. ISo VIM formerly
in the Itrile Rrigade, and has the honour to wear the Victoria
Caws for personal bravery at Luckuow, and in addition was
appointed Judg,Advocate-lieneral of the Forces during the
Chinexe war of 10,11-61.
Berlin is menaced with a renewal of the abortive
contest which took place some time go hetwei n master.
and operativen in the building trades. In consequence of
partial strikes which are now in force, the masters have
resolved no a general luck-out, whilst the operatives are
determined to sustain the strikes.
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Brazil has had great rejoicing over the return of it,
Emperor and Empress. They were enthusiastically received
at Fernarulmco and Bahia ; but the national welcome was
being arranged for at Rio de Janeiro. •
On Tuesday the annual meeting of the clergy and
churchwardens of the diocese of London was held, the object
being the promotion of the Fund established by the present
Archbishop of Canterbury. It was stated that • sum of
0435,000 had been promised or received, and that, in addition
to this amount. £040,000 had within the past few years been
raised within the diocese tor church mut sehool purpose..
The old conspirator Blansini, sentenced to transpor•
tatlon for life (the little life that is left in him) icy Colonel
Jobey's court-martial on February 16, for the small part he
took in the insurrection of October 31.11470, han yet one more
chalice of posaii.• his chair-days in freedom and quiet—sup-
posture milet to be poszible for him. 'The military Court of
Revision has quashed his conviction on a formal point of
law.
His Royal Hig,hness the Duke of Edinburgh will
open the Dublin Exhibition in June, for which great pre-
parations are being made. The /Loyal Dublin Society have,
in response to the request of the Extiitiitiou Onrimittce. re-
solved to afford every assistance in their power to make the
Exhihition effective, and have agreed to lend portraits in
then possession. They have also directed that the Agricul-
tural Committee he enipoivered to lend any suitable objeeta
from their department.
On Saturday night some of the Exeter Volunteer
Engineers were engaged to blow down a large disused brick-
kiln. Their efforts not proving successful, a large crowd
which had assembled began to ridicule toed, and attempted
to force an entrance into the yard. This led toe conflict be-
tween the volunteers and the citizen., the former having to
take refu e in the workhouse enclosure. to the upnee several
persons were injured by blows from bricks and stones thrown
by the mob.
A member of the School Board recently in a town in
the north, dropped into a village school, and after bearing
the urchins sing, passed them this compliment, begot of his
opera experience:—" Boys, when I heard your beautiful song
to-night, I had to work hard to keep my feet still. Now,
what do you think am the matter with them?" The answer
came with great promptness, " Chllblainth !"
A young man in New York was the victim of mis-
placed confidence a short time ago. Ile was particularly
sweet 011 every young girl, and milled one evening, having
previously paid tier several visits The girl's parents, think-
ing both too ',mug to begin to keep company with each
other, gave a gentle hint to that effort—Out, by coiling the
girl out of the room, and sending her te bed : and, secondly,
by the lady of the Maere bringing in a huge slice of bread and
butter, spread with jam, and saying to the youth, in her
kiedest manner, "there take this, aid go home ; It is along
way, and your mother will be anxious."
- r.•—otool Police-court, an Irishman has been
that abollt twet Ve years

At the Liverpool Police-court, an Irishman has been
chargkd with bigamy It was stated that abut twelve years
ago be was marri, d to a youth, woman in Mayo, and some
two years since he came over Sc, England and married
another wife. The prisoner stared that in the first case he
was married against his will, having been seined one night
about eleven o'clock by a party of his first wife's friends and
carried rate the priest. The second wife said she did not wish
to prosecute, and as it would be necessary to semi over to
"the wilds of Connemara " to procure the certificate, the
magistrate, hi order to avoid this expense, liberated the
prisoner. _ . •

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Sunday, the 14th, was the fifteenth anniversary of
the birth of her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice, and ac
cordingly the hells of St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle,
and St John's Church, New Windsor, were rung in !meanie
of the event —At nine o'clock on Monday morning the
choristers of St. George's Chapel, Windsor, assembled under
the window of the Princess Beatrice at Windsor, to serenade
her Royal Highness. The following is the selection of music
which was performed under the direction of Sir George
Eivey, " Hark the Lark,'" The Thorn is in the bush," "The
Old Romance," " In this hour you stole my love," "God save
the Queen."
With the fine weather of the last few days, London
is looking gee and agreeable. M.t of the "upper ten"
have returned to town, and from the numiwr of invitatious
known to he out for dineer parties, receptions, and 'all;
there is every premise that the settees will he s
one. The Queen is said to be in better health thee she has
been for along period, and private biters received in town
repmtent the coedits. or the Prince of Wales lobe so ants,
facmry Ana improving that there can be little doubt that
his Royal Highness will return to England completely re-
stored
I Mr. Munriella's bill for the further restriction of the
hours ef labour of ceildreu young persons, and fern ties in
certain factories, has been is-ued. It proposes to enact that
they ,hell net lie employed after one o'clock on Saturday, nor
for more than pi bourn on soy day, nor for more than 54
hones in any week The bill expressly aims against the
making up for lest time.
It is Ante. that out of 1,650 pictures submitted for
the L.,11t1011 International Exhibition this year, only ab
Coo have been accepted Amore, the British pictures will he
found Millais's first exhibited oil paiutieg, executed when he!
was about sixteen years of age; also Frith's "Railway
Station."
The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has addressed a I
lettered the Commissioners of National Education in Irelaud ,
offering prizes for the better cultivation if small farms. Otst
of we 564 agricultural holdings in Ireland, 317,457 are valued '
at less than £$ • year. Lord Spencer proposes that his
prizes shall he given to the ferniers or this class in certain
dietricts, ter neatness of houses, character of produce, and
eondition 'five stock the prizes to be celled the ' Spenoer
Small Farm Prizes," mei the judge' to im the Agricultural •
School Inspectors of tie... National Board. •
Paris picture dealers are making fortunes at
this moment at the expense of foreigners. The public •
auction matt is crowded with pun hissers. The idea got
abrowl—at first puitly se—that objets d'art were to be had
for next to nothing, lining to the niisforturice of the to.llll-
- ; strangers arrived. and the brokers are making them
pay frtecy prices for all kinds of rubbish. Them is a very
sensational painting on view, "The execution of a 'Fro +lc-
Greer by the Prussians." The prisoner has deposited his
capote, hat, and chassepot in a heap :bares his breaat, half-a-
Meeri Prussian muskets are levelled with a zealous pre-
cision, one being told off to silence the PriSt nee. dog ; iii,
morning, the greimil is covered with snow, and it, the dis-
tance are the evidences ef the revision. A painting sachas
this keeps the memory for revenge very green.
A large meeting of the seceding members of the
International was held at the " Black Swan," Leicester-
square, London, on eurday night, ter the purpose ot protest-
ing against unconstitutional conduct in the management of
the International, and also for Puking means to expose co the
world the shallowness ot its pretensions, and propose a vr•te
of want of e,,mhttiioeeo to some of the principal silts dogmatic
and dictatorial leaders. There were also protests against
the leternationtil hy-laws by which Inemhers ste to be sworn
I not to euleicrihe or belong to soy other democratic moda-
-1 lion het the Int ernatiomil. and charges agaiest members for
retorting to unfair pm, el edings to get themselves elected as
paid secretaries or delegates to various meetings. Several
of the acceding members of the British section concluded by
declaring that they had On idea before they joined Hutt •
society could exist in F.ngland where such tyrannical laws
h add be attempted to be impused by one man over another.
The meeting adjourned till Monday week.
A moot audecious robbery has just been committed
lat the tort of Arm canes. A battery of brass mountain 110 -
Knees, each weighine about two cwt. were taken from their
carriages during the night, and earthed off they are sup-
posed to have been threwn into the moat, WA then drawn
up by ropes and carried off on carts. They were afterwards
i de covered concealed behind a barber's shop in a eeighltour-
I Ing village. The object of the thieves appears to have been
I to melt down the cannon arid sell the met at The complicity
of some artglermen id' the garrison is considered certain, as
tie stranger could pessibly enter the place, and a sentinel is
placed at rAll paces from the spot from which the guns were
• • removed. Two soldiers have been arrested oh suspielote
Iwell oh arse laliabltaats ut llosWooll, who hog res•tygd. the
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