The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-04-25 00:00:00

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'OURBRIDG


A tradee demonstration wax hrld at Rochdide on
Saturday to celebrate the election of Mr. Macdonald iin4 Mr.
Hurt as representatives of labour in Parliament.
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The new Cape Parliament consists of 68 membent,-
and of these S never served before, and'37 did not Of in the
last Rowe

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Great satisfaction is stated to be felt in the Oyde
sugar markets at the abolition of the sugar duties Out eir
fourteen refineries eleven have been sopped. Most of them,
will remain closed until the beginning of nes. month, „ha,
object being to save the payment of duty on the large stocks
of raw sugar which are in bond.

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The death of the amiable and charitable Prinoeu de
a Tour d'Auvergne is announced. A French paper, in speak-
ing of her, says 'She was in every acceptation the word
a model of the good woman as depicted m Scripture."

The Moscow Gazette states that the Prince of Wales
having been present on the 28th January last at it trotting
race at Moscow. forwarded, on the 10th March, through the
Grand Equerry of the Czarewitch, a large silver vase. adorned
with two two horses' heada. and bearing the inscription,
"The Prince of Wales to the Society of the Trotting Rat,.
at Moscow.
It is stated on good authority that the Kinunericlise
clay and oil bearing ghat,. 400 feet deep, which has been dis-
covered by he Sub Wesidon Exploring Expedition in Sussex,
is of great value, as from l gas fur lighting purposes can be
easily extracted. A valuable bed of alabaster has also beau
found during the borings.
The Cologne Gazette states that a c.2inpany is about
to be formed to raise the treasures which are still lying in
the Lutine, a ship which went down abolit laO years ago in
the Zuyderzee. It is well known that the Wreck of the ship
still promisee to the value of 12,000,000 gulden (ill, 000,00 e) Is
ready money, while about 50 years ago about eight Millions
were brought to light.
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According to the Vienna papers, a tenor singer has
recently presented himself to the physicians of that city,
who, by means of some abnormal formation of the roost
organs, is able to sing two notes at once.

The banquet to the Black Watch and the Naval
Brigade will take place at Portamouth, either on the lst or
9th of May, Sir Garnet Wolseley having intimated that he.
will be disengaged on either a those days.

On Saturday afternoon, when Blackfriars Bridge wail
thronged with people watching the high tide, a well-dressed
man mounted the parapet close to the second recess on the
City side of the bridge, and throwing up his hands to his
head leaped into the river. An alarm was at once raised, and
strong efforts were made by some men on board a steam-tug
that was passing at the time to save the unfortunate fellow,
but without success. Ile is described as being about 3o years
of age, sft, tiin, in height, and light whiskery, lie was dressed
In black.

In a recent lecture on "Liquids,' at the Royal In.
'Mutton, Professor Tyndall mentioned that he had learned
from Captain Shaw, the head of the Loudon Fire Deport-
ment, that a scratch in the nozzle of a tire engine delivery
pipe, which an ordinary workman might overlook, will reduce
its throwing power from 200 feet down to 150 feet.

The Paris correapondent of the Daily News says that
a pupil of the Lyceum Henri IV., named Hubert Ferre, ass
ouly child, aged 19, who took to heart his failure to pass ex-
amination, attempted suicide by two pistol shot* in a cab at
the door of the school in the Place du l'antlieon He Iles in
a precarious state, his life being despaired of.
The native leader of the little rebellion at Natal has
been sentenced to imprisonment for life, and his sous and
the head men to punishments ranging from at months' Im-
prisonment to four years transportation.
Great Britain has now :36,000,000 spindles in her
milts ; the United States, 0,000,060 ; France, 5700,000; the
German Zoliverein, 4,300,000. of which Alsace possesses
1,700,000; Russia, 2,000,600 ; Switzerland, 1,600,000 ; Austria,
1,400,000 ; Spain, 1,400,000; Belgium, 600,000 ; Italy, 500,000;
and over 2,000,000 for other countries.

The city coroner at Chester has held an inquest upon
a woman named Hannah Payne, aged 66, who had resided
there 17 years, and during that period had been 113 time•
before the magistrates for being drunk and riotous, and, be-
tween convictions, had been kept In the workhouse. Con.
veyance to, and trupport in the city gaol and house of correc
lion, Knutsford, had cost the ratepayers, in round numbers,
between 5'.500 and £6OO. When she was in the dock for the
100th time she expressed an opinion that the bench had •
right to pension her off At last she seas found dad on the
seat of a spirit vaults, having died suddenly from disease of
the heart.

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A petition has been presented to Congress (cons
Mennonites established in America, and from others in
Southern Russia who propose to make America their home,
praying for a gran of land o some SO,OOO Russian Menno-
nites who, to avoid the new law of universal military ser-
vice, wish to set,le in the United States The Mennonites
are a peculiar Christian sect who object to killing and, as a
corollary, to being killed by their fellow-creatures. They
are to be found `not only in Russia, hut also in considerable
numbers in Prussia, where the Govenlment, while respect-
ing their religions scruples, turns their services to account
by employing them iii the sanitary departments of the army.
It is strange that the Russian Government, after borrowing
from Prussia i a military organisation, has not known how,
after tbe example of its model, to adapt it to ..he needs of
such a simple and tractable community as that of the
liennouLes.

During the week ending last Saturday, 5,933 birthe
and 3,485 deaths were registered in London and twenty other
large cities and towns of the Vatted Kingdom. The natural
increase of population was 2,448. The mortality from all
causes in these towns was at the rate of 23 deaths annually
to every 1,000 persons living. In the metropolis 2,542 births
and 1,339 deaths were registered, the former having been 148
more, and the latter 304 less, than the average numbers
Forty-five persons died from measles, 10 from scarlet fever,
7 from diptheria, 46 from whooping-cough, 23 from different
forms of fever, and 15 from diarrhom ; thus to the seven
principal diseases of the zymotie class, 104 deaths were re-
ferred, against 163 and 150 in the two preceding weeks The
mean temperature at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, was
47 deg., and 1 deg. above the average for the corresponding
week in 50 years; on Sunday and Monday the temperature
was somewhat below the average, whereas an exc.a pre-
vailed on each of the last live days, and on Saturday the
mean was 54 deg. The deaths referred to diseases of the
respiratory organs and phthisis, which in the two previous
weeks had been 489 and 499, declined last week to 460, and
were 01 below the corrected average weekly number.