The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-05-29 00:00:00

Nearly three million persons have emigrated from
Ireland since 1861.
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eeks ago four convicts were killect and several wounded.
Two European gentlemen have applied for the
nt of some waste lands in the Rangoon district, to make
eras:tents in grering jute and indigo.
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Cardinal Manning has issued a pastoral, in which
n asserts that the church accommodation is insufficient for.,.
e Roman Catholic population of London and its suburbs.',
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The fortuilWiett -by ti i titte.M. Inchea;ovy, .;nb-,
her, is, says Oalignani,
,eatigukt.eslitt seventeen
francs ; but nobody as yet knows eraillY wfiiiis . be the
. ir, as a will hattot:been fortint j e_7:;Tcr 7TT 'r
The Paris Jardin des Plantes will receive in a few
ays a boa more than eight yards in length, which has just
ived at Havre. We believe it takes a goat or a sheets to
ppease its appetite at one time. —Nature.
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ended in the;purchase of theatre tickets for poet' 'but to' '
pectable teeple in.Bostdrt. • ' ‘,.
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Rivali to the multiplicity of English Smiths, Jones, 4 -
and Robinsons have been found in Paris. There are in the{
city 4,900 Duvals, 3,2soLeroux, and 3,600 Dubois. • - -f!.
The annual meeting of the National Refugees for
Homeless and Destitute Children was held in London, on ' •
Tuesday evening, at Exeter Hall: the Earl of Shaftesbury in e
the chair. A satisfactory report was presented, and it wait • -
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stated that the income for the year was larger than any
that had been received since the commencement of thee
work eit,,e tl;de 1 A
The meeting of the Oriental Congress is this year toil,
be held at St. Petersburg. Announcement has just appeared
in the Journal de St. Petersbourg fixing the time for the asfel ,
of September, 1876 (new style). A committee has been ap- ft, -
pointed to make arrangements, at the head of which 12,2, •.
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placed Professor Gregorief, of the University of St. Peters-:1
burg.
One of the few surviving French veterans who tooka
part in the Battle of Waterloo, the Marquis de Blagne, died.
recently. He was one of Cambronne's guard, and always de,
nied that his commander had made use of the well-known a
phrase, "La Garde meurt," cti.c. .!.t.... -.
The reports received from the departments, in.eel.,--.7.
reference to both winged and ground game, says Gaiignanc'a •
are such as to warrant the most extraordinary expectations," -
for the season 1876-6. In general, so far as can at present be
judged, the coveys of partridges and pheasants have made ,
most successful progress. .1.1
At the annual meeting of the Lancashire Chamber 4
of Agriculture, held at Liverpool, a report was presented
from the council approving in general terms of the Agricul- a
tural Holdings Bill The result of a discussion was the - -
adoption of a resolution acknowledging the bill to be
valuable concession to the principles of tenant right. .1 -
On Thursday the 13th inst. the evidence was con-. 3
eluded in the Beecher trial, and the case was adjourned until ,i •
the following Wednesday. Mr. Beecher's counsel, in their
addresses for the defendant, had promised not to occupy '..i.
more than four or five sittings of the Court. It was supposed ;,/
that not more than a week would be required by the plain- ,
tiff, and that thus the trial might perhaps be concluded at
the commencement of June, or even earlier, according to -
some estimates. .1
The great marble monument representing Christ's...l
passion, and measuring 40 it. from the crucifix to the base
of the pedestal, which was executed by order of the King of q
Bavaria by the sculptor Halbig, is completed. It will be. s
placed shortly on a hill overlooking the village of Oberam :
mergau, where the representations of the passion are given *
An inquest has been held in London, at Westminster .4
Hospital, upon the body of a mechanic named Peter Scanlan, .1
aged forty-two, whose death resulted from a fracture of the , )
skull caused by a fall on the pavement from treading on a
piece of orange peel. A verdict of accidental death was tio
returned, and several of the jury expressed an opinion that cp .
throwing orange peel on the pavement should be made
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punishable offence. "f /0
A discovery of treasure has just been made at Conr- .
bevoie, near Paris. A labourer, while digging the foundation 4
of a wall in Avenue de St. Denis, near the site of a former con- il
vent of I.Trsulines, found at the depth of about a foot below
the floor of a cellar, two small boxes, one containing 75 gold -
pieces of 48 livres, bearing the image of Louis XV., and .1) .
the other 537 silver coins of 6 livres, of the same and follow-
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ing reigns, the whole forming a value of about 7,000 f., to the
half of which the finder is entitled. ..1
A Parliamentary return just published, shows the -i
total receipts of local authorities during the year last ended ,i
previous to June 1873, amounted to £32,819,956 of which .
£22,860,985 was from local taxation, £5,292,941 from loans,
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and £3,655,055 from government subvention and other ;.i
sources. The expenditure was within a few thousand pounds li
of the receipts, and the loans outstanding at the close of the
year amounted to £72,157,811. : A
The difficult problem of how to get to the summit of ,e 1
Mount Righi by railway has at last been solved by the coll-' ./1
struction of the line starting from Arth, on the lake of Zug, ir . .
on the side of the mountain opposite to Vitznau. This new
line will be thrown open in a few days. It is one of the - J
highest in the world. • -a •
Presiding at the annual dinner in aid of the funds of a
St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London, Mr. Lewis Lloyd ,
stated that since its foundation, 25 years ago, the institution .44
had relieved and dealt with about 400,000 cases.
The Midland Railway Company have obtained the it) .
sanction of Parliament to the extension of their premises in, te,......--
St. Pancras. This extension will have the effect of closing
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no fewer than twenty streets, and of demolishing 300 houses.'w
A special clause, however, inserted in the Bill prohibits the id
removal of houses tenanted by labouring men until the com-
pany shall have provided for their occupants other suitable
accomodation. .. .it
In a Paris café the other day a gentleman gave the 4
waiter a five-franc piece, and told him to take for his glass' ;a
of hock and bring him the change. In this change he re-' *-
smirked a suspicious-looking coin; so, holding it out to the •
man, he explained that it was not good. "Oh, that's of nom s
consequence," said the waiter, putting it in his pocket; "it..i: .
does not matter. Thank you, lam much obliged."
abashed was the gentleman, that he did not dare venture to 0 .
reclaim it. ,11
Monday, the 24th, being Her Majesty's 56th birth.
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day, there were the customary rejoicings at Windsor. The -'" -
town was gaily decorated with flags, and the Royal Standard !it
was displayed at the Town Hall. The bells of St. George's . 7
Chapel and the Parish Church rang at intervals during the ',
day, and at noon Royal salutes were fired in the Long Walk U
at Windsor, from the Royal Adelaide frigate, Virginia el
Water ; and at Fort Belvedere, Windsor Forest. Her a
Majesty's tradesmen dined together at the "White Hart"
Hotel in the evening under the presidency of the Mayor. 11
Her Majesty contributed a buck to the entertainment. . 41
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