The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-04-26 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.
The protracted printers' strike at Leipzig has termi-
nated in the withdrawal of the notice against the Union
hands.

Amid much ceremony, and in the presence of a vast
concourse of people, the Shah of Persia has taken leave of
his capital prior to his departure for Europe.

An impending strike of Bath coachmakers has been
averted, and an arnicaide settlement arrived at between the
employers and their men by the interference of the Mayor
of the city, Mr. It S. Bleat.).
The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges the
receipt (as conscience money ') of f-13 sent anonymously
for Legacy Duty; of 145. id. in stamps from G. R. B.
1111,1 of the second hall of a £s.note from "11. IL" for income.
ton.

The Burmese Ambassadors on their way home were
entertained at dinner by one of the leading Galle merchants.
At Belfast on Saturday night the police made a
raid upon a betting-house and captured thirteen persons.
Amadeo (ex-king of Spain) is reported to have
xiid to his father, My enemies in Spain at least gave me
the frank acknowledgment of their enmity. Those who
said they were my friends opposed and deceived me.
A massacre of the Christians is rumoured to have
been planned for last Sunday by the fanatic Bosnian Ma.
hommedans, that day being the orthodox Easter nunday,)
but the execution of the scheme was prevented.

From the Tat to the 19th instant the Exchequer re.
ceipts amounted to E3,61a,710 as compared with £4,309 937
In the corresponding period of last year. The expenditure
has been £7,219,186. On Saturday last the balance in the
Bank of England was nearly seven millions sterling.
As the half-yearly Circuit Court was assembling at
the Aberdeen Court House on Tues.lay, the Rev. T. Dewar,
minister of the south parish, Aberdeen, who was to open the
proceedings with prayer, fell down and died immediately in
the presence of the whole assemblage.

On Monday the prioe of house and engine coal, at
the several pits in the Oldham district, was los end by 21. 61.
per ton. Machin,, has commenced at the majority of the pits,
and another decline in price is anticipated.

The Court of Queen's Bench has granted a rule nisi
for a new trial in the case of " Bawden b. Engliah," which
has hen already tried four times, and was tried at great
length for the fourth time at the last assizes at Kingston,
before Mr. Justice Brett.

H.M.S. Dirastation steamed from Spithead to Port-
land on Monday, with Admiral :dr Alexander Milne, the
Earl of Camperdowm and AdaArals Stewart and Richards
ou board. The behaviour of the ship was excellent. It is
understood that the first of a series of experimental cruise.
"ill be made when the weather is sufficiently trying for that
purpose.

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By proclamation of the police the inbahitante of St.
Petersburg are ..p,mitted " to decorate their houses with
flags and carpets, tot only on the Czar's birthday, but during
the whole time of the Emperor William's visit. The flags
allowed to be used for decorative purposes are the Russian,
German, and Prussian The inhabitants are also " permitted,
to illuminate their houses on days still to be fixed.

Particulars of the earthquake in San Salvador reduce
the lee of life to foil, and that of property to 7,000,000 dolls'
The first shock, which occurred on March 4, was a slight
one, hut the Inhabitants left their houses and encamped on
the Plozu and in the fields. A great shock was felt the cent
day, which left only two buildings standuig. A fire followed,
hut was quickly earls ulehed, and the authorities checked
all attempts at phindering. The sutroundiug villages
within a distance of 40 miles suffered.

The Dail,' News believea that the report of the GU-
comment Commissioner appointed to inquire into the con-
dition of factory labour will not only sanction the principle
which legislation has adopted, hut urge its exteniion or
more stringent application in certain Industries.

The Earl of Carnarvon writes to deny the state-
ments which were recently made, to the effect that the la-
bourers on his property had applied for an increase if wages,
which em declined ; that many of them went to work Orl
the rails ay, and, Di consequence, received notice to quit
their cottages ; and that some had been thus "Induced to
t,turn to their agricultural occupations, but that ethers still
remain on the line and defy the threat' his lordship says
that trio only point of resemblance bithe ;statement Is in the
fact that he has been obliged to sanction a notice to quit in
the ease of a limited number of cottages, which are in a very
unsatiafactory state, and which require immediate re-
building.
A pleasant life moat be that of the Carlist Santa
Cruz. It ir said that he has a bodyguard of fortt m. n, the
only men In whom he has any confidence. "When he
sleeps—and he sleeps vi ry little—he has always two sentinels
of his bodyguard near him, lie only partakes of food after
It has been tasted by eight re ten other persons. He never eats
bread, butt, iti the habit of consuming small thin cakes
cooked tor him by his own people. always on his guard, he
never forgets that a price of 10,000 fr. Is placed on his head,
and he distrusts every hidy."

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On Menday, the County Dublin grand jury hard an
application, under the lace Pre.ervation Act, froul the
husband and sons of Mrs. Harriet O'Neill, who waa murdered
at her own door in Rat Ingar, in Mat fast. the claim was for
£9,000 and it was opposed b) the Commissioners of the
athgar and other townships, out the ground that the mnrder,
which was undoubtedly agrarian, had not arisen out of any-
thing done by the deceased lady in Dublin, hut out of her
unhappy relati, wrth her ter ants in Tollamore The
grand Jury au ailed compensation to the amount ri £5OO to
Mrs. ii Neill. husband, but nothing to the sons.

The ad vices from Buenos Ayres describe continued
buoyancy Mall branches of trade, and state that the sales of
and, which have been increasing in number and amount
during the past two )ears, hod reached a negree of activity
never before kilns -• At the sometime, the tide of immi-
gration from Europe Mid become greater than ever. "Steamer
after steamer," it is said, "enters the Plate crowded with
strong, able-bodied emigrants, who all find instantaneous
employment, and at wages higher than in the United States."
o assist this connition of affairs a new Labour-ottice had
been established under a decree by President Sarmiento,
which would /lave for one of its uhf, cts to provide forms and
homesteads for those by whom they might be desired in
the neighbourhood of the earl Antolini and railway stations,
Most of the immi. rants are Italians, but the Irishmen of
Buenos Ayres have just formed a St. Patrick's Society, with
the view of bringing in a briber number of their own
countrymen.

During the week ending hat Saturday, 5,582 births
end 3 F 33 olea,he were registered in London and twenty other
large cities midtowns of the United Kingdom. Toe mortality
fr,m all Causes in these towns was at the rate of 27 deaths
annnally to ever. MOO persons estimated to be livhg. In
the me,ropolis 2,312 births and 1,1(3 dets•he were registered,
the former having been 06 below, and the latter 14 above the
average numbers in the corre•pondlug week of the last tea
Ivan. Two persons riled from small pox, 25 from measles, g
irons scarlet fever, 4 f•om diphtheria, 75 from whooping
ennvh, 29 Irma different forms of fever, and 15 from
diarrhea : thus. to the seven prinApal diseases of the
symotie clam 155 deaths were referred, agamst 143 and 145
in to, two piece Oleg weeks The deaths from diseases of
the respiro.zory organs and pbthisis w4re t 92, While 52
persons died from various torms of Molenoe.

Mr. Fulgene,e G6rard, the once well-known coils
borateur of Eugene Sue, died a few day. ago in great
poverty.
Among the visitors received by the Pope on Sunday
was the Doke of Edinburgh, who congratulated his Holiness
on his recovery.
A meeting of Old Catholics was held at Bonn on
Monday, at which it was resolved to elect an Old Catholic
Eishcp at cologne on the 4th of June.
Dr Benee Jones, consulting physician to St. George'
no•pital, London. and late secretary to the [total Institu-
tion, died on Sunday after at ,ng and severe illness
New regulations for the guidance of recruiting officers
have lately been Limed. One of the rulee, which 15 to be
stlineently obis reed, is that no recruit is to be enlisted
whilst fun state of intoxication.

The exp,rtation of steam engines is increasing. The
%slue in the first quarter of 1871 woe £367,781 ; in the came
pe,10,1 of 1872, 4676.095 ; and In the last three months,
346.
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" Among the many nicknames that have been given
to the Budget, the oue that seems to meet with most popu-
larity is the designation o The Sugarplum Budget.' "—Cowl
Journal.

There is a man who keeps • ;Cat of all the banks in
the eotultry, no as to be able So ae: aer,ua a beak
account.

Strawberries are now -d-iag in Coven'. Garden
market at about Ss. an oun,

l'he Colo,gize Gazette a that as many aq 28 gold
mines have been recently opened in Elsteri Ibe I, all ot
which promise to be worked with pro Ct.
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The Marquis of S,liahurrha cout-ributdd to the
April number of the ti,i10601,, Pal Magazine, an original
paper "On Spectral L. of iremi.arathre."
The death is rep rel oft. frohn Fagg, Bah., at
his re+idence at Cha ned tanterh. ry his 75th year,
lie was a keen epr,tmatn w.,,ein ardent uoporter of the
turf The first baienet w‘ie r created ft, his h yet), to
Charles 1., and hie exerti,-,, in farour of the Restoration.

There were rote et Frankfort on Monday, in C 0121%.
offence of the pri,:e -d beer. eeveral beer-houses were boken
Into, and the furniture and crockery smashed. The military
were called out, arid flred on the citif : One soldier and
seven citizens are killed.

At a large netting of ohipowut re held at Sunderland
on Monday ..onstricr Mr. l'ltmsoll's Bill, It was resolved
that hasty 18,..v.int1 vu the sublet • of our ships and seamen
was to be deprecated, as iikely tol',Jtire those whom it was
sought to protect.
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The receipts from indirect taxation during tbe Met
three months of 1873 have, according to a Paris telegram,
exceeded the estimates by 10,500,00dr., and are greater by
55 millions than the receipts curing the corresponding
period of 1872 Ihe Government ha,, besides, on hand,
draughts to the extent of 450 millions towards the fifth
milliard, which Is not strictly payable until September
next.

The Courrier des Etats Unis states that Lonalll°, the
new King of Eh. Simdwieh lalande has made the tour of his
States on hoard the Anierican steamer Bent:el:a, will .1i has
been placed at his service by Admiral Pennock.

On Monday, in the Court of Queen's Bench, Sir
John Kerslake applied, on behalf of Mr. C. Norwood, M.P.
for Mud, for a rule calling on Mr. Plimsoll, Ml'. tor Derby,
to show cause why a criminal information should nit be
filed against him for libel, for statements contained In his
well-known boAi. The rule was granted.

Lord Whamsliffe presided on Monday over a meet-
ing held in the Cutler's Hall, In furtherance of a middle. class
system t educatt m. The Rey. Dr. Lowe, of St. Nichols
College, Sussex, Sir Percival Heywood, and other gentlemen
spoke, and resolutions favourable to the scheme were passed,

The Good Templars of North Devon, who are nearly
5,000 strong, inteuef holding a great demonstration at bars.
staple on the 19th of May ; and the Bishop of Exeter has
provisionally consented to preach a if rmon on the occasion,
and to preside at the public meeting in the evening.
The first of a series of meetings for the instruction of
persons engaged in husbandry ass held on Monday evening,
at the offices of the Agricultural and Horticultural Anode.
tson, in Millbank.street, Westminster. Mr. T. Hughes took
the chair, but only for a short time, resigning it to Mr Van.
sittart Neale; and a paper on artificial manures was read by
Mr. Roberta.

At the Liverpool police court, no lees than nineteen
lodging-house keepers have been Hued for permitting over-
crowding in their houses. The practice of overcrowding was
stated to be incidental to the emigration season, and some
remarkable revelations were made In respect to It. In one
house 31 persons were found sleeping in an apartment
licensed to accommodate 16. There were eights beds in the
room, but a large proportion of the inmates had to sleep
upon the floor.

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An appalling accident hag happens 41 America. A
train, proceeding to Providence, was cr,_sing the Pawnsluc
River at Richmond, when the bridge uas carried away by
freshet, and several carriages plunged in the river, while six
others, that escaped that fate, caught fire There were 150
paasengera but how many of them perished In this combi-
nation of horrors is yet unknown.

The first of the elocid ervices at Weetalinieter
Abbey on Sunday night was so numerously attended that
hundreds of persons were ur able to obtain admission. The
Easter Hymn was sung befure the sermon and the Hallelujah
chorus at the end of the service, The Dean preached.

Emiz,ration i 801 carrying away the bone and
sinew of Ireland as briskly al at any period within the last
decade Hardly a day passea that parties from the mamba
rural districts may rot be seen taking their departure at the
railway station for Derry or Liverpool.

A Detroit negreee allowed a gentleman of that ety
to o.tue her baby the oth.r day, in consideration of a two
altar bill, and the poor little thing was christened Witham
Henry Washington Colfax Grant Scipio Brutus HOW Weed
Joshua Lone Jack Madison Buffalo Bill Saunders_

A professor, in explaining to a class of young ladies
the theory according to which tho body is entirely renewed
every seven sears, said, "Thus, Miss 8.. in seven years you
will in reality be no longer Miss II." 'I really hope I
shan't," demurely responds i the girl, casting down her eyes.

In the United States of America peach orchards are
now, almost without exception, stocked with seedling trees,
• practice which of late years has become quite general
amongst growers for the Melbourne market.

When any person of distinction visits Inverary
Castle, the Duke of Argyll gets him to plant a tree in me.
mory of the visit. Thus there Is to be seen in the ducal
grounds on the banks of 1,0,14 ne a stately avenue pouessed
of quite an exceptional interest. Everytree has been planted
by a celebrity, such as Humboldt, Tennyson, Baroness Bur.
dett Conn., and others.

The desire to shorten the hours of work doe■ not
exist in France and Beigiun to the same extent as In Great
Britain. In the cotton district In the neighbourhood of
Rouen the time of work Is twelve hours a day, or seventy two
per week. At Verviers, the chief seat of the woollen industry
in Belgium, there is no particular limit to the hours of work

On a train recently, the placard, "For Ladiee," in-
dicating a reserved compartment for the fair sex, wasted-
dently changed to ' Unclaimed Baggage.''

The library of Sir Richard Talton has been sold hi
Paris for £5 000. It Included a beautiful quarto MS (Rom
of the 15th century, profusely illustrated, In vellum, which
fetched £1,200.

A newspaper for the deal and dumb is published at
Washington. It is entitled the SVent World, and Is supposed
to be the only one of Its kind in the world.
Rumours are current in "certain circles" to the effect
that should the Pope die, that tact am be kept. secret until
the conclave has elected his successor. This, it is explained,
Is to prevent Interference on the part of Italy and Germany;
and it is said that the Emperor of Austria and M. niers
consent to the arrangement.

Lord Cairns is said to he rapidly approaching the
end of his gigantic labour—the Albert Assurance arbitra-
tion. On Monday he made a peremptory order for the
completion of the purchase of a reassurance polilf about
which difficulties were being raised by the purchaser.

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The art critie of the New York World says A
lady of Modern Rome (No 23 carefully painted and it
a good interior, went for 120 dollars to Mr. Williams."

Some gardeners lay much stress on the value of tree
leaves as a fertiliser. Dr. Nichol., of the Boston Journal of
Chemistry, says that such manure has only onerdsteenth the
value of good gable dung.

In the city of St. Domingo itself, or in its suburbs,
civilisation, according to our European notions, would seem
to be in a backward state; for, on entering a village school
near the town, a traveller was earprised to Sad between each
pupil in gamecock attached to a perch. On making forts et-
p &nation, the children said, "Oh, they bslong to the school.
master, who lights them on Sundays."
America is to have a grand exhibition of industries
In the summer of 1876, at Philadelphia, in commemoration
of the &Aeration of independence, 1770 The Leelalatuceot
Pennsylvania has voted a million dollars towards the enter-
prise.

"Snowstorm.—The letter signed S. C. has nothing
to do with us. Shun ice and all connected therewith. Thine
for ever. —C. —Need be under no aprehensions respecting
note you refer to. Obviously a mistake Can't recollect
what the promise was. fell me. Other questions need no
reply. 4 safe.— K."—Advertisements in Ihe Times.

Information has been received at North Shields, that
Captain Rebell Town., of taltimore, North America, the
eldest son of the late Robert Town& of North Shields, had,
while his vessel was at Basmian, near Calcutta, beer attacked
by one of his crew labouring under insanity, and so severely
stabbed as to cause his death.
Mr. Stanley of the New York Herald was a passenger
by the Canada, which arrived at Queenstown on its way to
Liverpool on Sunday last. Kr. Stanley's African boy, Kande,
accompanies him

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Madame Rochefort, whose marriage with the Con-
demned Communist will be remernbesed as having taken
place at Versailles at the close of last year, when the ille-
gitimate wife was supposed to be in extrema, died last
Friday after a long illness. For the last week she had been
delirous, and uttering the must panful cries for her husband
and children She was buried on Saturday In the Church of
Saint Louis at Versailles, where the holy will be left until It
is transferred, in accordance with the desire expressed by
Rochefort, to one of the cemeteries in Faris.

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Five memobera of the Surrey Bicycle Club, with a
almitar vumber ,d the Plckaick club, have just had tour
deje' excursion of a rather remarkable character. On the
first day they travelled from London to Margate, about 71
rule; on the second day they proceeeed to Rye, being a
journey of 60 miles ; thence on the third day to liriahton,
56 miles; returning on the fourth day to Loudon, making
total .1 some 243 miles.

In London, on Saturday evenina, the Rev. IT. SrAly
presided over a conference, at the Artisans Coil), which had
been called with a view f assi,ting In tho establishment o? a
Trades Guild of Learning. After some discussion a res,e-
an was passed, hailing with satisfaction the proposal to
form such an inetistution, and a committee was appointed to
co-operate wi,h the syndicate of the University of Cambridge,
and with all other bodies wilting to aid in the education of
the people.

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A widow who waa terribly afraid of thunder 5111,1
ligbtlltllg, every time a Storm C.olle on would run into her
neighbour's house (he was an old bachelor) and clasp her
little hands, and fly around, till the man•was half distre.sted
for fear she woul I be killed. The consequence was that
before three thunderstorms rattled over his head he hit
taken her Into his h ,use legally b mud to him for his who;e
We.

It is estimated that the Dutch have lost 500 men by
theft recent engsrennnts is Sumatra with the Achinese, and
the p uitloo thry ocsipy since their retreat to the seashore
Is thought to be uhtenahle Reinforcements are at once V
be sent out by the Dutch Government_

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Two women were executed in Naples by the axe a
few days ago. The deed was done by e. masked executioner,
who severed each head at a single blow. The crime of these
women was baby famine," and it was proved that thel
bad starved and deliberately murdered by other methods a
large number of inTants entrusted to their care. The awful
mode of punishment was chosen as a mark of the abhorrence
which their crimes had excited.

At the sitting of the Court of Exchequer on Satur-
day morning, Mr Arthur Cohen, who has succeeded sir.
Welkin Williams, Q C., in the ancient office of Tubman, took
possession of the lent which appertains to his office with the
ctstomary formalities. Ihe office of Tubman is a very 62*
dent one, and give. the holder of it certain rights of y'
audience, which, in former years, were the means of making
itof considerable monetary value, hat unfortunately, in these
degeeerate days, it is ah,rn of all hut its honour. Ihe Corn'
moo Law Proceedure Act of n 0,2 destroyed its emoluments,
but left untouched its right of pre-audience, The office, WI
role, is be.torred by the Lord Chief Baron for the time, being
upon a stuff-gownsman ot eminence at the Bar, but he Vl'
onto, it upon taking a silk gown.

For loom@ time past the National Agricultural La-
burrs Union lidve nen eountnutileating with Irish

organixatldris with a view of preventing the influx of Irish
labourer. Into England during tan hay and corn harvest+
These negotiations have been completed, and on M .nday,
a meeting of the executive of the Ltbourers rnlou Si
beacidigtun. It was decided to birm nranohes throoehi'ci
lrela d, nil Mr. Gardner was appninted delegate to prociied
at m.e to that couritry. lie will be accompanied by in Ida
delegate, to Introduce Maio his oeuntrymen.