The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-09-12 00:00:00

EPITOME OF. NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

It is stated that the contributions of the nobility
and gentry to the Conservative Eleetion Fund amount to a
quarteliot a million.
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In the list of new elaitne for the parish of Llanbar
there a/Tenn the name of Catherine Anne Poster, of Eirryn
Ablwy. near Larniunth, who claims a vote in relvct of
freele Ail property situate at Llanhar. Mrs Foster profes,cs
Liberal principles, while tier husband is one of the lintel
pr,.lllincut conservatives in the country.

The Lyons journals state that hlfle. Dejazet, who
made her dirbut on the stage sixty-two years ago, has just
made her first communion in that city.

Manchester is suffering from a scarcity of water.

The Langham tiotel.london, which cost £300,000,
is for sale to the highest offer above £1.52,000, the amount of
the debt upon the building.

A new association has been formed in Paris for the
denunccition of tobacco and the repression of the noxious
weed."

News from New Zealand states that a fresh out-
break had taken place among the natives, caused by the
escape of some Maori prisoners.

It is reported that a descendant of the diaTes Foscari
has lately been dise,,co,l at Venice, in the capacity of por-
ter in the palace ,d bis ancestors. and that a subscription.
headed by Victor Emmanuel and bk family, has been opened
in Italy to ameliorate the condition of this obscure descen-
dant of an illustrilms hotter.

The deficit in the American postal service this year
a-ill to S 000.000 dollars, chiefly toting to the reopening of
aouthern offices and routes.

The Indians are promising themselves a visit from
the Duke of Edinburgh in the course of a few months Sir
John Lawrence iii to lie in waning at esleutts to receive his
Royal Highness, and there will be a reception such as no
one has eVer seen ill hells.

Captain George Johnston, of the ship Troy. who
was cvictra at the Ind Bailey upuards ot twenty years
ago of munier and cruelties ton the high seas, but with the
qualification that he was of unsound mind, and who has
since been confined as a criminal lunatic, has been liberated
under certain sureties, Ills health having, it ha believed,
been aompletely restored.

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There is a great scarcity of British tourists in Paris
this Reason.

A sad case of sudden death has occurred at Ports-
mouth. A superannuated sergeant of lather, named Walker,
who hod gone to the pension office t4t take the pay of a fel-
low pensioner, fell down in a fit in the yard of the pen,ion
office, and tiled immediately.

A so:enmity, of peculiar interest and importance in
the •ye 9 of every orthodox Russian—the blessing of the
apples—has taken place in every church In St. Petersburg.
Miss Burdett eoliths has expressed her willingness to
offer prizes to encourage the coltivatiou of cotton, or to
promote the object of the Manche-ter Cotton fiupply
Association by any other means in her power.
The letter-carriers, stainpers, sorters, and other
Post-Thee emplo)fa throncliout the kingdom have prepared
a petition priOng or a Parliament:ay inquiry into their
grievance..

- Notwithstanding many confident predictions that
when the drought had been broken, thei e would be no morc
summer. a great rise in the temperature has taken place
within the past few days. Little or no rain is recorded as
having fallen in any part of the three kingdoms, the latest
return showing very small quantities vt two out of the thirty.
two stations from which repons are daily forwarded to the
meteorological department.

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The death is announced of George J. Adler, beit
known in the United States as the author of a German and
English dictionary. which has become a text-book in oar
public schools. Protesser Adler was an accomplished Oriental
scholar.

"Father" Mawe, parish priest of Thane, who
not been 11,ard of Mince the occurrence of the Abergele
Railway accident, and for who.e safety fear, were accor-
dingly beginning to be entertained, 1138 turned up.
"A young gentleman, age 24, in business, wishes to
correspond with a young lady, with a view to matrimony.—
Addreaa, in condleuce," etc.—Advertisement in II awheater
Exam ner.

The South London Chronicle says that the ladies of
South London are determined Ind to be behind the age in the
assertion of their political privileges. Out of a list roughly
estimated at about 500 claimants tor the borough hanchise
In the parish of Of. George, Southwark. scarcely ,ix me of the
sterner sex. If their claims be dispnted, and the hit call
them 00/5 494 attend in pers,•!, rubstantiate them, what
a happy task the revising barrister still have before him.
One of the Paris papers devotes half a column to an
elaboratedesenption of the dress of azure silk and .4 emerald
tulle, w huh h to be worn by the Austrian ambassadress at
Baden. The paper in question, he it remarked, is by no
means a journal de mode, or in anywhe a lady's newspaper.
The waters of the Seine are now no low that navi-
gation near Paris is entirely suspended
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The barley crop of Canada for MS is said to be un-
usually large; it fa thought that Canada's exportation of
burly this year will exceed that of last year by 750.000
bushels

The British Iffidient Journal finds, on looking over
the out-patient accident hooks of the various London hospi-
tals for ton months, that of 124 ' bites" id different kinds
entered, eighteen were attributed to men or women, which
number was in excess of any other ahainnal, with the excep-
tion of dogs, who were accused of inflicting the large number
of eighty-ave. Ifosoebites numbered twelve ; cat-bites, the;
the monkey and nonkey tieing acctged of one mull. The two
remaining were simply entered as bites.

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The experiment of drawing a tinin by an engine
heated with mineral nil has Just been tried with sueeess on
the line from ChMons to Mournielon Eaaterti Railway . All
the gradients, sonic of which are very steep on that section,
were ascended with the greatest facility.
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At the bud meeting of the St. Paneraa (London)
board of iruardiana one of the applicants fort vacant office,
who had tten in the army, was asked the question what he
had been doing since he left the army, and his ansv er was
that he went into the grocery and cheese:m.llam business,
and lost his money; a statement that was received ii ith loud
laughter by the members of ate board. One remarked, "
suppose he was not up to l'ffe weighing ;" a second, "lie
didn't know how to cut it fine ;" a third, lie was not up to
the mining " These remarks were reveived with laughter,
which the old took in good part, but he did not get
the vacant office.