The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-01-29 00:00:00

DEATH OF SIR JOSEPH WHITWORTH.

A telegram was received in Manchester on Sunday
night from Monte Carlo announcing the death there
of Sir Joseph Whitworth, Bart., the head of the great
engineering and arms manufactory at Openihan
Manchester. For someyears Sir Joseph•had been in
failing health, and has had to winter in the south of
France. In October last he went to Cannes, and
thence to Monte Carlo, where he died on Saturday
night in his 84th year. Sir Joseph Whitworth, who
was the eldest son of the late Mr. Charles Whitworth,
by Sarah, daughter of the late Mr. Joi.eph Hulse,
was born at Stockport in 1803, and married (firstly)
in 1825 Fanny, youngest daughter of Mr. Richard
Ankers, and (secondly) in 1871, Mary Louise, relict
of Mr. Alfred Orrell, of The Grove, Cheadle. In
1826 Sir Joseph came to London and spent some
years in mechanical pursuits, and in 1833 com-
menced business in Manchester, under what is now the
well-known firm of Joseph Whitworth and Co., as a
maker of engineers' tools, and in 1840 read, at a meeting
of the British Association in Glasgow, his paper "On
the Preparation of Plane Metallic Surfaces ; " soon
afterwards inventing the "street sweeping machine,"
and teceived the council medal at the exhibition of
1851 for his "measurement machines." In 1857,
after repeated private experiments, the first Whit-
worth rifle was fired at Hythe, the principle of which
was afterwards applied to field-pieces. In the same
year he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society,
created LL.D. by Tri;ity College, Dublin, and D.C.L.
by the University of Oxford, and received the Legion
of Honour from the Emperor of the French on exhi-
biting a field gun at Chalons. He also received the
Albert gold medal from the Society of Arts for his
inventions, and in 1869, in which year he was created
a baronet in recognition of the eminent nervices he had
rendered to the State by his inventions. Sir Joseph
instituted the "Whitworth Scholarships," consisting
of 30 scholarships of £lOO a year each to be held for
twe or three years for the encouragement of mechani-
cal and engineering science. There being no children
by either marriage, the baronetcy becomes extinct.

EACH of us has a special call to duty; and as surely
as disaster overtook Jonah it must overtake every
one who goes towards l'arshish when God calls him
Logo to Nineveh.

Tnn desire to be beloved is ever restless and un-
satisfied; but the love that flows out upon others is a
perpetual well-spring from on high.
GRE&T ideas travel slowly, and for a time noise
lessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.
GOD, space and eternity are incomprehensible
because measureless.

Tiiu really generous man has pleasures of which the
self-seeker knows nothing. Even with him the need
of sacrifice is never Outgrown; it only occupies a
higher plane, as higher ideals open up to his view;;
and, containing as it does a germ of all progress, it is
ever uplifting him to nobler regions and strengthening
him for nobler efforts.

AFGHANISTAN.

PROJECTED RISING OF THE ANDARIS.

A Reuters dispatch dated Bombay, Monday, says:
Intelligence has been received here that the Andaris
are n.aking active preparations to attack the Atneer
of Afghanistan as soon as the winter is over. it is
added that they have sent a messenger to Persia to
ask Ayoub Khan to join them or to send them a
loader.

Gazi Zsdul, the son of Gazi Abdul Rahman, who
accompanied the Afghan Boundary Commission, has
been appointed Governor of Herat. He is instructed
to make inquiry into the means by which the late
governor, who is now confined at Cabul, carried on his
illegal appropriation of the revenue. •
The Ameer has ordered the Khan of Lalpura and
the Jellalabad to prepare to shortly undertake military
operations against the Bajawris.