The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-05-10 00:00:00

EPITOME Oh NEWS,

BRITISH AN-) jOREION.

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c7An lowa newepap-r propriet or hi trained a large
bn lderfler for the p bi In of ti4htiog edttor.

A loan rflvertises for a Punpetent perem to ntde •
take tie seo of a Dr sr medi,lne, and !deb that twill pr'ore
highly Murat'''e to the undertaker.
"A laly lately ordered of a London firm a silver
cross, with five long sharp polite on the Inner eMe, for pur-
poses or mortlficalon, bat when it was 'totalled she did nit
like its look', and it bow forms part a shop stock, ad is
a mon' tication to the maker."— Court Journal.

The Select Committee of the Hones of Commons
appointed to tootle, Into the coal supply Nein met on Mon-
day. Evidence was given by Mr. Forster, • mining engineer
In Northumberland, and by Mr. Wood, who Med • similar
position in Dartft.

The first number of Junius, a paper reselling msni
of the cbantetertattes of the Temattawk, wu te.ued on
Tuesday.

At the meeting of the executive of the National
Agricultural Labourers* Union held at Leamington on
Monday, a delegate was appointed to visit gwaffharc and re-
move to other districts the 2to there locked out.
On Monday afternoon, when the 1.55 train from
London arrived at Richmond, the body of a young gent•e•
man was found in a first class carriage. A Met, I which hs.l
been recently discharged was on the floor. Dr. Elliott, on
making an examination, found that the deceased had been
shot just under the heart. It subsequently transpired that
the deceased was Alexander Ashton, of Acton. The pistol
was quite new, and had the maker's name unit. It Is c.tu-
jectured that he ellot himself.
Th.r laet survivor of the colamity at the Wyi nHtay
Colliery, Mahon, Peter Darlington, sou of thr
died on Monday night There is no one now left to tell how
the explos!on an caused, the seven men being now dead.
The inquest on barhugton was held to day, and adjourned to
the 23rd mutant.

One of the most curious exhibits forwarded to Vienna
Ii a model of Paris in pasteboard, and, measuring twenty
yards In ctrcumference ; it is a faithful copy of the capital
before the Communists changed its features, or the GermaLa
Its suburhs. Each public building Is distinctly shown, as
alto the chief streets and the fortification, look as large as

A large meeting of the labouring classes was held at
Kantnrk on Sunday, to meet Mr. Gardner the delegate from
the English Agricultural Labourers' Union, who has been
sent over to Ireland to solicit c3-operation among the Irish
labourers. Mr. Gardner explained that the object of the
Union was to secure the labourers prop, r hours, wages, and
food, thus giving them an interest in the soil and preventing
emigration. He was favourably received, and several
speeches were delivered denouncing In vehement language
the harsh treatment of the Irish labourers by landlords and
farmers, and the entire neglect of their Interests In Parlia-
ment by the Irish members.

The whole of the work, of the late David Cox,
which have rem ilned In the possession of his eon from the
time of the painter's decease in 1859. have been dispo•ed of
I.y Messrs. Christie, Manson, and W.axls. at their great
rooms, in King .street, London. The that day's sale realize i
the large SUM of £17,854. The second day yieldtd. £.7 470.
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Major Stileman preeided over the annual meeting of
the Natienal Temperance League. winch gnu held at Eteter
Hall •tn Monday evening. It was dated in the report that
the year had been • iroaperoua one. and that tie Income
was great., thn that of any period since the existence of the
organization.

-The villa which the late Emperor of the Freneh pos-
seamed at Vichy was disposed of by auction on Sidorilay, at
the CiVii Tribunal of the Seine, the Num brought being only
Mir. over the upset price. vie , 60 0601 r. A cottage enjoining
the villa was disposed of for 30,0501 r., also 60fr, above the
upset price.

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" Mr. Holman Hunt has, we understand, received
Ivo* ;mires.. for his painting, "The Shadow of Death."
This sum, of course, tecludee the copyright for the engraving
an I the privilege of exhibiting the painting. For a small
rep/Ica the artist Is to receive 1,00) guineas Her Majesty
has commissioned Mr. Hunt to paint for her a copy of the
head of our Lord These sums, ergo as they may appeop at
feat, are not In excess when the length of time occupied by
the work has been considered."—The Architect.

The Registrar-General, in his quarterly return of
births, marriages, and deaths, remarks that "the deaths by
cold weather were lees numerous than might have been x-
peeted, for happily Heaven, though severe at times, was less
unkind than the divinities that rule the Coal mutat."

The men employed for watering the avenue of the
Champs Klys6es, in Paris, by means of hand hoses in con-
ueption with the main pipes, have been In the habit of• lay-
ing' on the douche on carriage dogs ; following the vehicle
these unfortunates received suddenly a downpour ; taking
fright they sought refuge in the carriage, destroying valuable
toilettes. The practical joke has been discontinued, and
the Municipal Connell he. had to make good no less than
seven damaged onetime,.
The Civiiian believea Government ham it in con-
templation to permit the applicati in of the Bank Holiday.
Act to be extended to the Public Departments.

It is noticeable that the site of the house in which
Mr. Macready died, was, as nearly as possible, part of the old
Birch Farm, where Mrs. Siddons spent the declining years of
her life.

A correspondent of a Manchester paper observes
that never in the history of the coal trade were so many new
collieries being opened out as at the present time. Many
eardlields, which In extent may be calculated by Idles, and
in quantity by millions of tons, have recently been taken to
at prices from 3d to 40 per cent. higher than was ever paid
before.
A Daly Pews telegram Bs}, that the Pope is again
Indl•pored. Ite has expressed a desi,e to go to Castel
Gandolfo, bat kb advisers would not hear of it.

Ptince Adalbert, cf Pinss'a, with his !wife, vi,ited
Chatham Do.liyarw on Satuntsy, to inspect the establish.
smut and the various vessels now constructing or complet.
keg._

The Empress hugenie pail a visit 0 her Majesty
the Quern at Windsor Casale last Saturday afternoon. 11,
hiojealy and the Piincess Beatrice met the Empress op 'n her
amval. After an Interview with the Quo n that lasted nearly
an hour, the Erntrese, attended by Lord Alfred Paget, Vis-
count Sydney, and her suite, quitted the Cadi.i. and drove
back dean the slopes to the Datctet.r. ad Station of the
South. Westein Rails ay. where a speeds' train was in waiting
to convey her Sinjeity to Cnislehurst.

A correpond.nt wants to know whether, consider-
ing the great utility of the ozean, poeta are not wrong in
oiling it • " waste of water."
A rural visitor upset the Chattanooga gasometer
under the Impression that it was • sugar hogshead, and the
city was left in darker..

The third hatch of emigrants sent out under the
auspice. of the Brighton Juvenile Emigration Society left
Brighton on Mondayaftentoon, en route for Canada They
consisted in all of 79 permits, each o whom was presented
before leaving with • Bible and Prayer-book by the vicar.
and • copy of the "Pilgrim', Progress," or some other reli-
gious wort, by the Mayor, who also addressed the emigrants
at some length' pointing out the occamity of their being
Imustriou, and sober, and showing the prosperity which
would in that case probably attend them. The vicar also
addressed himself to the advantages of keeping up religious
and virtuous habits, particularly in the case of the females
ho were going &minted strangers and temptations. Sir
Cordy Burrows dealt chiefly with the social sweet of the
emigration movement, and suggested that it might be well
to send out persons who had lost their characters, and who,
after a pollod of prohatioo here, desired • fresh and wider
field for leading • reformed-life.

It h twirl sthat the grouse disease has appeared rin
the moon of Eastern Forfarahlre and Western Kincardine-
shire. The keepers in port that It is similar to that which
appeared In 1667. The disease, so far as it has yet gone, has
been in,ist prevAlent on the low yr, Innis. MI accounts re-
present the creating season to be two works late this year.
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Monaco, now the last resort of the lovers of rottlett
and trente.et queraute, Ls said to have made £1134 000 tt, Its
gaming tables tart year.
A Sc Ach missionary, in epeaking of cannibalism,
solemnly dee'ares that tor hls own part, he" would rsther
go hungry for two days than eat an old personal friend.

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In further distribution of monies under the will of
the he Lord Henry Simuir a sum of more than £51,000
will ehnrt'y he divided amnng tighty.ftve charitable In.
atitutintu. A similar amount flu been paid to the hoet,lces
of Parte.

Two summonses against milkmen in Lon& n for
lolling adulterated mi,k have been ,Ilsmissed by the nine-
trite, on the ground that the terms of the Act required
proof of guilty knowledge. lie deferred hls decision as to
grantkg a case for a superior eett-t.
There was a deny nstration in favour of the Per
missive Bill in Dublin lost S.durday, when a reso'utt,m was
adopted expressive of satisfac I on at the spread of Vie prin-
ciple. advocat,d by the United Kingdom Alliance, an.] point-
ing out the necessity of Ineresaed esertions. Sir Wilfrid
Lawson M.P., was presented w,th • number of a !dresses
from various temperance associations through irelivnti.

The average school attendance at Brighton in the
halt-year last past has risen from 09/ to 1,022. The ten board
schools are now full. With a view to enforcing attendance
at only efficient schools (thPre still being great irregularity
to this respect), the hoard have drawn up a scheme of amend-
ments of the Act. These are of the usual character, though
they contain a Nomewhat new provision for the adaptation of
that Act as as a half time Act, a construction which It has
been ruled not to admit ot at present.

A strange story comes from Bombay. Near the
Towers of Silence, on whose summits the Prrsis expose their
dead by way of restoring the earthy fabric to the supernal
elements, hes a piece of ground to which their community
asserts a claim. Certain persons having obtained possession
of it as the rightful owner,' determined to build upon It,
and ran up huts and sheds for the workmen. The lower
order of Pants worked themselves into • religious frerky,
setud upon the disputed ground in considerable force slot
after after • fight with bludge um smashed everything they :multi
lay bands on. Reinforcements of the police having arrived,
the rioters shut themselves up In the Towers of Silence, and
swore they would kill the first person who dared to enter the
holy place. The Commissioner of Police, however, forced
the doors, captured the garrison to the number of eighty,
and marched them off in irons to gaol. The total number of
persons seized in overt riot is reported by the papers to
exceed a hundred and thirty.

A charming bit of goasip ban ben goin4 the round,
about some of the amenities of the "Upper tett in Calcutta.
The story runs that a lady califs •at a louse, on up her card,
was admitted, paid the um.l visit, and eels> eei the usual
amount of mall talk with the lady of the house. Returning
home. she Informed her husband where she had been, when
that distinguished member of society at once wrote off to
the “Occucant of the house No. -----street, ' saying
that his wife had called by ndstake, and requesting the
return of the card she left on rioting the lady of the sail
house• The husband of the Illy slatted, however, was equal
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ti the occasion, for he replied lint, on 'returning' hont;'6-;At
tindiec the card, he had lo• ked at his wife's 'faith g I ist, and,
not finding the name of the visitor, be had torn up the card,
and was therefore unable to return it.

Mien Harrinon, of Moeton. a lady distingniqbed for
benevolence and piety, died on Sunday lad at the age of
seventy.one. The deceased lady Inherited a great fortune
from h, father, will we a Sheffield rnaunfarturer, and for
shout hall-a-centqry she has applied her wealth to works Of
charity, in aliditioll to buildithr churches and schools in the
neighbourhood. She has di penile,' about t 4 000 a year to
the poor and unfortunate, and when her Income was cur-
tailed by the damage done to her property through the great
11 ,oel in Shetheld, sloe sold her earriagi s and induced her own
expenses, rather than let her pensioners suffer.

On Monday af, er noon, at the Royal Exchange
Middlestiormign, delegates from the Ironstone thmr.' As-
sociation met reprotentatives of the Cleveland Alineowners.
Anoclati In, respecting the application of the men for an
advance of 2d. per ton. The empl .yore d..chied to make
the advance, the men having receivel advances amounting
L i the it;:gregate to about 47 per cent, during the year.
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The value of the geld imported into the United
Kingdom from the Ana' rallan colonies In March this year was
very small. amountine to only £l ,40, as compared with
£398 4U7 in march, 1•72, and £352 lain in March, 1871 In the
flrat three no nth. of this year the segregate receipts were
£1812979, as compared with £1,767,33 in the corresponding
period of 1872, and £2,249,31, In the corresponding period
of 1871.

The three Bills introduced by Mr. Stanafeld on Mon-
day night formed the subject of discussion at Tueeday's meet-
frig of the Connell of the central Chamber of Agriculture.
It was re3olved that whatever minor Improvements these
measures might eff,ct In the existing system of Leal t.s.
Von, the Council molested against ti c (odes° taken by the
Government In Ignoring the resolution of the HOMO Of Corn
moos passed on April 16th, 1872.

Dating the week ending last Saturday, 5,436 births
Seed 3 474 deaths were registered In London and twenty other
large 'cities and towns of the United ICI rind on. The 'nor.
tali, y from all calms In these towns was at the rate of 24
deaths annual to every 1 000 persons eslimatectrto be living.
the metroplis 2 343 births and 1,339 deehs ere re,..ls-
ti red, the former having been 26 awl the latter 146 below the
&reran. For persona riled from r mail.p, a 13 fro. ...mos,
7 fn m scarlet fever, 2 from olotheits, VI from w hooping-
cough, 2, from different forms of fever, and 13 from aim,
boa ito moan temperature of Ue Ar during the week at
to Royal Otwerva•ory, Green% ich, was 48. deg. 6 Mir,,
and slightly bcl ow the average for the corresponding week lo
fifty ye vs.
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A—number of gentlemen nominated by the Church
geoclation on Morday waited upon the Atchbishops
C interhury and York, at Lamb, th Palace, and preeented a
memorial urging Ito most rev, prelates to use all their in-
finewn for the entire ruppresrlon of ceremonies and pructLes
In the Coerce of Eugi .nd ahib h+d been a jidged to be
Illegal lora grime .1 er, Mr. Holt, 1.4. P.. and Mi. Newdegate,
61 P. were amon4ll tnne epe.kers, and it wee stated that the
memorial WAN elgned by 14 u ible lords, 17 Isrone a, 17
k itch's, 6 honeurab'es, it m-mhers of Parliament, 15
may qs, 263 j Incite I ii the peace, 324 elnrchwa-dens, besides
a numb v of the laity, making a total of 60,210 signatures.
Tee Primate, Ic reply, expretstd his thenks to the laity for
welting non him In such numbers in reference to this untie-
*ion. Me was 4repsred, alto the Archnbh .p of York fo do
everything pi ssible to enforce the law. U. hoped that the
clergy and the laity would work together on a united spirit,
and that they would carry the Church tnurnphanily over all
difficulties, as she had been curled la times put.

In spite of an unusual motion for its rejection, the
Danish Ministry ha. miceeened In carrying its Budget through
the Danish Parliament.
A portrait of Cromwell by Cuyp was purchased in
Parts the other day by M Thiene, at the Oe of the cabectlon
of the late Count direpagnae, for the moderate sum of
80 f. The Pre.ic Lnt bad given orders to his agent to go as
far as 15,0001.

Tearful eyes are considered to be a beauty in girls of
a knelling kind. In view of thig, New York cheer. ht, who
deals in cosmetics, hoe Inven,ed an application 'Net pro-
duces the deidred tender t &et.

" M Laugorrnis has found that putrefaction and de-
eemvosltion of ._,dmal mattete can be prey nted, even se!en
en to.d te the. or ad in an elevated temperature, by the
miecl email ynauittlee of anillne ,nr the eiluer,ug matto got
Iron coal tar ' AI ehes! free and Ctrcu a
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At the London coal mti;:ice-j,-on-11-1-,,-, !ay, there W..
a lame srrtvel of canoe. for sale, and a reduction of la a
ton was submitted to. The Merchants' pikes are lowered
today to 36a.

At daybreak on May day morning (says the Scots-
nlaW scattered groups of lays and girls ascended the grassy
elopea of Arthur', Seat for the pure.° of washing their
Is the "May-dew." The greater number of those who per-
formed their ablutions Is this way seemed comparative
strangers to daily exercises of a similar kind.
A solemn Requiem wen celebrated on Saturday at
it, Mary's, lierseterry-road, Westminster, for the repose of
the seed of the late John Francis Maguire, M.P. The chinch
waa draped throughout with black. The Archniahop of
Westminster, preached a sermon suitable to the occasion
Mr. M'Carthy Downing, Sir. O'Reilly, Major Oasin, Mr ~
Heron, Mr, Smyth, and others of Parliament, were present.
A Frankfort paper says that while the police in.
outer will find out the true causes of the late riots, there are
certain pecitliartdea such as the red fag, the cottempera-
neoue appearance at various points of exactly similar aim
of organisation, the tenacious resistance opposed to the
armed force, and the attempts at fraternisation would In-
dicate that the tumult had deeper and more durable causes
than are supposed, and that there is all the appearance of
tendency and organisation working rgahist property.
A very influential meeting was held at Hanky on
Mondwy afternoon in support of Canon Woodward's scheme
of middle class education. Dr. Lowe, the Provost Elect of
Denbtone Golitio, which is to be opened In October, gave a
lu. Id explanation of the working of the school, nkendy La
op. ration in Surma and the oiher speaker. were the Red
f Shdtesbury, Sir Percival litywood, the Rev Sir L T.
stsner, Bart , Mr. Roi set Heath, rud dlr. Herbert Minton.
Res •.utions in support of the scheme were prated unapt.
m ugly.

A large number of actors and actreeses, artists, and
Journabets assembled on Saturday round the grave of Mr. W.
C. Aiscready, whose mortal remains were committed to the
duet m the picturesque cemetery of Kenul-green, where
already repose so many whose names were Identified with
the Drama

A man dreesed in rags wae arrested In Paris, the
other day as tie was trying to force an entrance in the hotel
the Princess d'Alembert for the purpose of begging. When
he was taken to the station, • sum of 1.635 francs. was found
on him, and at his lodgings were discovered fuhlonable
clothes, in which he admiited that he each evening disported
on the Houk yards after his dayerounds had been terminated.
lie declared himself to be • German.

The Paris Figaro states that the body of a man was
found In the Bois de Bonlome on Sunday, shot the u. 411 the
head. It was at terwards dismv,red that the man bad been
ralet de dumber to Si. it drigues, a well known stock-
broker, and that be had announced to • felloweervant his
tention to commit suicide. When it. Rodrigues was made •
acquainted with his valet's death the shock was. great that
befell down in • lit.of apoplexy, from which he never re-
covered, d)tug a fewahoura afterwards
Captain Tyler, in his report to the Board of Trade
npon the capital, the traffic, and the working expenditare of
the railway companies in the United Kingdom during the
year 1571, remark, that the train mileage receipt& Increased
to .greater extent than the expenses sod hence it may be
inferred that the average amount of work done by each train
was greater, or, in other words, that the traffic in each
country was In that respect more economically worked in
11171 than in IE7O This economy was greatest in England,
and least in Ireland.

In a recent Hale by Messrs. Pattick and Simpson, of
Leicesterequare. London, the copyright of Hatton's well-
knee n song, "Simon the Cellarer," produced the large sum
of £409, the purcbseer beleg Mr. J Williams, of Cheeps
London. Also in the same sale there occurred the following
popular part songs by R. L Pearsall, for which high prices
were obtained .—"Who shall win my bady fair?" 405 10e. ;
‘• 11 who will o'er the Down. so free 0" £3913 : and "The
Hardy Norseman," £344, ell of which were bought by Messrs
Noveilo, Ewer, and Co., of Bernerestreet., London.
There was some time ago an outcry that quinine vs.
becoming very scarce, that the trees from which It is pre-
pared were being recklessly cut down, and that no adequate
steps were being taken for enacting a continual supply.
Great attention has, in consequence, been paid to the culti-
vation of the Cinchona', and many facts about them have
been learnt. A paper on the Cinchona was read before the
Linnman Scciety the other day, from the facts stated in
which it would appear that of a number of plants reared
from seed from the same pod, some will produce an abun-
dance f excellent quint e, while othen will yield a bark
which is quite w wthlers for medicinal purposes.

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On Saturday General Sickles, the American Minister
at Madrid, presented to Senor Riviera' the message of the
United States Cangress congratulating the Spanish people
upon the establishment of a Republic. In doing so General
Sickles complimented Senor Figueras upon the success at-
tending his measures and the favour enjoyed by his Admints-
tration. Rekrring to the abolition of slavery In Porto Woo,
he said that by that measure Spain had provided the surest
guarantees for the pacification and loyalty of her West
Inotan poseeisions. The reailAion of the American Minister
was very brilliant.

The Yorkshire Miners' Association, in encloeing
their draft for £lOOO to Mr. Plimsoll, in aid of his defence
fund, state that it is given ff as a sacred duty, in gratitude
for the assistance received by the miners from other classes
of the community in obtaining that protection which they
now enjoy under the new Mines' Inspection Act while follow.
Mg their dangermis occupation."
The French Government, desirous to perpetuate the
memory of the services rendered by Alderman Pardon, late
Lord Mayor of Dublin, to the French agriculturists during
the Franco-Prussian war, has ordered a gold medal to be
struck in commemoration of those services, and this modal
has been forwarded to Alderman Pardon. The French
Minister of Agriculture has also requested Alderman Pardon
to be his interpreter to all • ho took part in the work, and to
rs turn thorn hie most sincere thanks.
The crowd of pictures sent to the Royal Academy
this year was far greater than last year, just as last year It
bad far exceeded all previous experience. The Increase is
said to he no fewer than 1,700, though this is probably an
exaggeration.—One picture was kept back by a curious acci-
dent. The artist, at the last moment, was rubbing Ms picture,
and near htm stood • lamp containing paraffin, became, or
something of that nature. ills cloth caught the flames,
blerlig up, it instantly burned out a boat which lay in the
foreground of the picture.