The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-10-23 00:00:00

SATURDAY, OCT. 23, 1880.

At the Middlesex Sessions on Monday, G. E. Mot..
ham, a salesman in the employment of Mr Whitele',
of Westbourne-grove, was sentenced to nine months'
imprisonment for having robbed his muter to a largo
amount.

The Russian Government recently decided up'
relieving from certain Custom House formalities empty
sacks brought by sea from abroad to be used for the
export of grain from Russian ports.
Miss Mary Anderson has sent the Lord Mayor L 525
for transmission to the sufferers at Charleston.

Sir Charles Warren, in pursuance of his scheme fur
the organisation of the Metropolitan Police Force, has
decided to keep sufficient names on the roster for pro.
motion in orekr to provide for contingencies as they
arise, instead ot, as formerly, waiting for vacancies to
occur before seeking suitable candidates. For this put-
pose during the last few days as many as 74 constable 4
and 40 sergeants have attended at the University of
London for examination as to their educational quali.
fications.

The Rev. Henry Perrott Parker has been consecrated
bishop in succession to Dr. Hannington, who wasmu
dered about nine months ago while engaged in
missionary work in Eastern Equatorial Africa
The Harveian Oration was delivered on Monday by
Dr. Par), before the President and Fellows of the Boy Al
College of Physicians, in the library of the College,
Pall-mall. Dr. Pavy made special reference to the wot k
in which M. Pasteur is at present engaged, and said
that while judgment must still stand in suspense, tte
results obtained told decidedly in favour of the view
advanced by M. Pasteur.
A death from Asiatic cholera took place in Vienna on
Sunday, the victim—a high official of the Austrian
State Railway—having arrived in Vienna the day pre-
viously from Pesth. Measures for preventing the
spread of the disease were at once taken by the muni-
cipal sanitary council. No case of cholera has been
recorded in Italy for two days.
L •rd Stanley of Preston having observed a statement
in a newspaper to the effect that he had "privately ex-
pressed a desire to resign his seat in the Cabinet,"
writes as follows :—" I seldom think it n. cessary to
notice any rep rts relating to myself but in this in-
stance, as there is no foundation for the statement,
and as if uncontradicted it might lead to erroneous
impressions I must give it an immediate denial."
At t e Dublin police-court on Monday, in opposing
the gtanting of a publican's license to the Great
Eastern Steamship, Archbishop Walsh was examie d.
He was handed a Protesfan Tstament, but declined
to be sworn on it. The magistrate asked if he had any
objection to it, and he eplied. "Most certainly I ob-
ject to it, as Ido not elieve -in it." Several persons
in court exclaimed" Oh ! h! " By consent his Grace's
evidence was taken unsworn, a Roman Catholic Testa-
ment not being procurable.
The wreck of a vessel, name unknown, has occurred
on Lake Erie, during the recent gale. Twelve lives are
stated to blve been lost.

An epidtmic of diphtheria has broke:: out at Cam•
berley and York Town, Surrey. Seven cadren have
died, and the local medical men have now about fifty
cases under treatment. Nearly all the cases are amongst
the better class of the inhabitants.
A troop of the 19th Hugsars and a c impany of
mounted infantry have been ordered to proceed on
Wednesday to Assouan, to reinforce the garrison
there.

On Monday evening, whilst two men were at N4:.Nrk
in the roof of the Newbury Corn Exchange, the appa-
ratus which supported them gave way, and they fell
into a stone passage, a distance of 401 t,, receiving
serious injuries. At the same time a roll of lead fell
through an adjoining skylight, narrowly missing a
gentleman and his wife, who were in the office.
The Mahomedan lunar year 1304 should have begun
on the evening of the 29th of September, but the
Mollabs at Constantinople were unable to discern the
new moon until the next Jay, which so became the first
day of the new year. According to traditional usage
the Sultan sent up presents, with the expression of his
good wishes' purses of newly-coined five-franc pieces
to the Court dignitaries. The value of the sum een
to the Grand Vnier was £TSO, to the other Min Esters
£T4o,to others £T3O, £T2O, £TIS, or less according to
rank.

The deerstalking in the Forest of Athole has just
been brought to a close for the season. The number
of stags killed this year is 102. This exceeds last year's
number, but is not up to the average of years. The
sport has been very good during the season. The
Duke of Athole in one week had 13 animals to his own
rifle, while last week one of his grace's sons brought
down 14.

At a meeting of the shareholders of the Inman
Steamship Company held at Liverpool on Monday a
voluntary liquidation was agreed upon, and Mr.
riarmwood Banner was appointed liquidator. Ar-
rangensents are now practically concluded for the re-
organization of the company, and the steamers of the
line will continue to run as heretofore.

The first Blackburn Sessions, the charter for which
was recently granted, was held on Monday morning,
when Mr. M. Mattinson was sworn in as Recorder for
the borough. There were six cases on the calendar.

The Bolton Corporation new sewage works, covering
22 acres of land, and costing £29,000, were formally
opened on Monday afternoon by the Mayor, Aldo man
Fletcher, in presence of a large assemblage, including
nearly all the members of the Town Council.
The Dublin Port and Docks Board has requested the
owners of the Great Eastern steamship to move her
from the port, protesting against the continued occu-
pancy of her present berth, and stating that there is no
suitable berth for her in the Port of Dublin. The
owners have declined.

A detachment of about 100 soldiers of the 22nd.
Regiment, stationed at Cheater Castle, were summoned
by telegraph on Monday morning to leave immediately
for Wrexham in connection with colliery disturbances
there The troops at once marched to the station, and
left Chester for Wrexham by special train at 9.20.
At the Birmingham Police-court on Monday William
Oram and Eliza Thompson were charged with the
manufacture of counterfeit coin. The police made a
raid on Thompson's house on the 9th inst., and found
the prisoners plating zounterfeit coins. Nearly 200
base coins, and a battery and other articles requisite in
the manufacture of base coins, were found in the house.
They were both committed to_the_assizes.

A notorious criminal, named John Sweeney, was on
Monday committed for trial by the Staleybridge
magi-
trates on a charg of breaking jot a house in February,
1885. He was arrested shortly after the burglary, but
broke out o his cell at the lo,k•up, and got away. He
was not heard of again nut 1 Sunday morning, when he
was re•arrested at Ashton.

At the Manchester Police-court on Monday Francis
Foster was charged with stealing letters, the property
of the Postmaater-General. The prisoner had been in
the post-office for eight years, and in consequence of
comp aints of missing coins and valuables a decoy
letter, containing a marked half sovereign and six.
pences, was posted by a clerk specially sent down from
London. The letter and marked coins were found on
the prisoner who was committed to the assizes.
Archdeacon Long, Rector of Bishopwearmouth and
Archdeaeon of Auckland, announced to his congrega-
tion that he had declined the important living of Isling-
ton, London, preferring to remain amongst them.
The Pilot at the Porteads mouth of the Mississippi
reports that twenty-six persons perished in the recent
gale on the Bayous leading from the gulf of Mexico in
the direction of and at the back of the quarantine
station.