The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-08-10 00:00:00

SATURDAY, AUG. 10, 1872.

Mr. Spurgeon, it is said, has a shake-hand reception
hat lasts at. hour and shall "sitar the sermon is over."
The French Government in at last about to concede
the right of opening gamblieg.tables or clubs where gambling
will be tolerated in certain watering-pbacte.
There wan a large Conservative gathering on Mozs
day, at Powderham Castle. the seat of the Earl of Devlin,
near Exeter. As WWI the case with other out-door celebra-
tions, its success was marred by the unpropitious weather.
Mr. P. Warden, of Murdieeton farm, recently de-
ceased. was, it i• eani, one of the oldest cultivators of land
on the Greenock estate, and the family of which he waste.
presentative occupied the farm 1.. r upwards of CM yeara
The last new notion is on ornamental visiting card,
The cards contain various devices, thus—a tern leaf, a lidwer.
a crois, and the name of the person to whom the card belongs
is printed across the design, which is often very pretty,
The Nati,amle Car Bui'der describes railway cars
wheels of paper. The material, it says, is straw-board,
all respects the same as that used in the manufacture of
paper bales, and may be made of wheat, rye, or oat straw.
Liverpool aspires to be tile first of the great boroughs
to set its louse in order for the Hallot. A scheme is being
devised to divide it Into polling districts.
Mr. Stanley, the discoverer of Livingstone, is to he
entertained at a grand banimdt to be given in the course of
stew days by the American citizens residing in London.
Oa Monday a grand demonstration of Odd Fellows
took place at Nottingham, the ui•easion being the anniversary
of the Nottingham Imperial Order.
Between July hot and 20th 10F mad, or reputed mad
dogs were killed in Paris. The number of persons returned
as bitten lift
A pair of twins, born at Lowndes county, Miss.,
the other day--a boy and a girl—were named regpectively
Horace Greeley and Dolly Varden.,
Lord Penzance is at present prevented from pre
siding in the Probate and Divorce Court through an attack el
neuralgia
A curious theatrical production is promised in Faris
with the title of Kill Iler. What will the woman's rights

p-ar—t.y. say
Pic-nien in Pennsylvania wind up with what is called
the Dolly Varden march—the young ladies standiug in row
and the young men passing along the line and kissing inch
good-night.
The governor of Cambridge Gaol on Saturday re-
ceived a respate for tire woman Ann Dawkins, who was
sentenced to death at the late assizes for the murder ti her
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illegitimate infant.
The high and classic tone of the voting puff in
America may be gleaned from the following 'tame which
has been widely posted in the States :
" Father, may I go out to vote e'
Oh yes, my son quite freely.
Put on your old white hat and coat.
And vote for Brown and Greeley."
" By command of her Majesty, the summer distri •
button of oatmeal to the poor on the Balmoral estates took
place at Abenzeldie Mansion on Wednesday. The people
appeared deeply touched at this addition to the mato, Mod-
news shown by her Majesty to her hunible neighbonra."—
Dundee Adrertider.
An order has arrived at Chatham dockyard from
the Lords of the Admiralty announcing that an increase of pay
had been given to the sixth class men erupt°, 0 in the metal
mills and the third class men in the saw mills, to the same
extent as recently granted to the skilled labourers—that is,
the pay will be Its. a day in place of Its. 9.1.
A curious lawsuit will commence shortly in Paris.
On Jul) 23,1870, a wager of 200.0001. to 100,000 f. was s tiered
inn newspaper that the French would be at Berlin on the leth
August. On the following day a merchant addressed a letter
to the game jounial, accepting the wager, and he intends to
Inc for the money by law.
On Monday His Majesty the Emperor Napoleon,
attended by Count Davillite Dr. Conneau, M. Pietti (private
secretary), and other members of the Imperial household,
left Camden park, Chiselhurst, for Bognor. We understand
that it is the tutention of she Emperor Napoleon to spend
several weeks at Bognor for the benefit of the sea air and
bathing.
The Times of India says that there has been • very
foolish panic at Saeger, Central Provinces. The Europeans
there got an idea that the men of the 40th Madras Native In-
fantry stationed there were disaffected. Consequently
women and children were hastily removed, guards were
strerk;thened, and the European inhabitants panic-stricken.
It Wine out that there was not the slightest foundation ha
the rumour.
The New York Star of July 15th announces the
arrest of John Whet at Avranches, in the Province of Nor-
mandy, France, Red gives a biographical sketch of the
quondam member ft r Carlow, with a sensational account of
the manner in which the dead body was found on Hampstead
Heath. The writer deserves a prize—we will politely let hhu
imagine for what.
On Saturday night last, John Watson, aged 22, a
railway guard, residing at Carlisle, while stepping into •
waggon of a golds train, which was being shunted, at John-
stone, missed his footing. and fell. The train passed ovvr and
killed him. This is the fifth fatal accident which has taken
place within a few months, and within a few yards of the same
spot.
While the American insurance companies concerned
in the Chicago fire have—according to the auditor if the
State of Illinols—paid only some 35 per cent of their liabili-
ties, or thirty two oat of eighty-toe millions of dollars, the
the British companies have paid 98} per cent, of their liabili-
ties, only 79,227 dollars being unpaid out of atotal liability of
more than six millions of dollars.
The German bakers at the East-end of London have
presented a memo, ial to their employers, containing the foe
lowing demands—viz., that a Jay's work consist of twelve
hours, meal times included ; that work sheiild not begin
before five o'clock in the morning; that the wages of f ore-
nien lie increased to 305., and second hallos to 245. ; and
that Sunday work be aboliehed. Should a favourable
answer tothe memorial not be returned, the men have inti-
mated that they will go cut on strike on the 12th inst.
A telegraphic despatch from Alexandria states that
an Egyptian army of :IMO men with a reserve of 3.000 more
had advanced into Ale ssinia with a view to conquering the
country. The Emperor Kassel was marching against them
with • superior force in point of numbers, boast was be-
lieved that, as the Egyptians were provided with Remington
rifles and mitrailleuses, the Abyssieians would be defeated
arid Magda's eventually taken. Some European adventurers
are said to accompany the invading force.
Sir James Ramsay, of Banff, having agreed to let
his house, lands. 111111 11100116 for the coming season to one
gentleman, changed his mind about the desirability of his
tenant, and relet Ids property to another person. The original
lessee held to his bond, and Vice-Chancellor Malin. has de-
clared that the lessor could not be permitted to break his
agreement aud lease the property to another, and has granted
an illjtmotion to r reveal any ether person than the plaintiff
—the first lessee—killieg game or using dogs on the lands oh
Banff dune; August and September.
It is said that there is at present no chance of the
differences between the farmers rid labourers of Oxfordshire
being amicably settled. Three hundred labourers on strike
paraded the streets of the City of Oxford with a band of
musie on Saturday (merket day), and afterwards held a largo
meeting at the Martyrs' elemorial. The sjtopathy of the Ox-
ford public is generally with the men.
A drenlful murder was committed tri the line
bouis-le.fframi. Paris, on Monday, when a packing-case
maker, named Pepin. cut the threat of one of his children, a
little girl four years old, and then went and gave himself up
ti the police. Ile had for some time least given signs if
mental alienat ion. Ile said that he had chosen the youngest
of his family because he was sure that the child would go to
heaven.—Galignani.
A letter from Berlin dates that a considerable atita-
tiou still reigns among the necking classes In that city.
he men are greatly exasperated, and, notwithstanding the
repeated charges by the mounted armed force, crowds coil-
tinue to Resemble every evening in the Blumentrasse, and
loud menaces are hefted in the bier-saloons against the
police end the government. The WOllllBlll appear to be se,.
more excited fare, their husbands, end the atthuritie, gee
nightly hoofed and pelted with atones. In the leetcliserdeet
I,lol'l twenty pee.* odcers were ,eriously beet.
The A tietralif.n correspondent el The '(mes vrnic: •
' A strike among our egrienltural labourers is not nroliebbf
at the present rut., ef wages, which I extrect tram the trot'.
worthy Septic summary Farms eerventa....-Ploughmer.
e. 35 to Me per annum ; ordinary farming men, under long
engagement, £4O to £45. All the above servants are fed
and lodged by their employers. Where rations are given the
following lath, scale per week allowed in Victoria :-101b. to
1211,. meat (beef or niutton), 101 b. flour, 211,. sugar, and
jib. tea.'
ihe Government of the canton of Bale received a
few days ago a straege communication from a French officer
in captivity in Ceuta, nehosonerts to have been present at the
battle of sedan, and to have afterwards fought in Garibaldi's
legion. According to his story he saved during the fights
around Dijon the war treasury containing 250,000 francs,
partly in gold, partly in French notes, and burled It in
Switzerland, In the territory of Bale, and now offers to divulge
to the Cantonal Government the exact place, under the con-
dition that one-fourth pert of the buried sum should be given
aa a rewerd to his wife.
Last week the mortality in London and 29 other
large towns in the United K isigilem was at the rate of e 7
deaths annually to every 1,000 persons estimated to be
living. In the metropolis 2,252 births and 1,691 deaths
were registered, the former having exceeded by 39 the
average number, while the deaths were 55 below it. Twenty-
eight persons °Jed from small-pox, 20 from recedes, 6 from
scarlet fever, 5 from diphtheria, 49 from whouping.cough,
28 from different forms of lever (of which 4 were certified as
typhus, 17 Sr enteric or typhoid, nail 7 as simple continued
fever, and 984 from diarrlara. The fatal cases of whooping.
ceingh continued excessive, but the deaths referred to teen
of the other principal zyrnotic diseases were below the
correc'ed average.
The Courrier de Lyon announces a new expedition
now being prepared to the North Pole to discover the lee"-
sought pusage from the Picnic to the Atlantic Oceans. N.
Octave l'avy, nephew of the former Bishop of Algiers, and
secretary, oompanion, and frien I of the well-keown traveller
Lembert, is to command tbe expedition. During the last
three mouths IL rely lies been at San Fra1161660 pee rug
for his task, and will start from that port. el. Pavy proposes
to shat dun the route }alloto followed by navigators to the
east of the American coetinent, in order to ten by the west
which has never been attempted. The great difficulty will
he to free the ice which blocks the approach ; but he hopes
to 11.1 the Gulf stream, which, having crossed Behrine
Straits, ameht to meet farther 011 the ice streams from trie
north. The expedition will take provisions for two yeacc,
and it is intended to bury a portion of the stores in case ,e
being compelled to retrece its steps.