The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-08-03 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Queen Victoria, on hearing of the death of the Due
de Guise, telegrepheri as follows to the Duc d'Aumsle:—'' I
have suffered in a sic, and I suffered as a mother when I
saw the Price of Wales at the point of death. I know, there•
fore, latter than any nine what is your grief. Believe that
sve chore a ,:reat part ..1 it with you —Va.:roma.— The Duke
replied by a few WOrti. of h. artfelt thanks.
Sir James O'Connell, the last surviving brothe
the Liberator, died on luuday, at the age of eiff tgaik
M. Thiers has written a letter of condolence to the
Duke d'Auniale
Th.- Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges as
1.7 ,nairbo,e Money" thee. ccipt nil the nrst halves of two
.0.0 notes for incaine.tax from ' C B A."
A London col:temp wary in reviewing the past season
15)0 that oever woe BO much money spent In London before.
Cholera is sid,i to have reached Berlin, but the ?ants
reported are not believed to be of thereat Asiatic type.
l'he garden says the potato disease in reported t • be
making its apmensuce hut only in the West of England, but
iu Wirt parts of the country.
A report is current that Chirk Castle, Denbighshire,
the seat of the late Colon. I Middleton biddulph, has been
taken for the Prince of Wales during the alterations at
Satoh
The London and North-Western Railway Company
have ',yen enabled to secure all the men who are necessary
ho till the posts of those who have struck work.
During last Friday's storm a farmer's wife in Water-
ford county win struck dead by liglituing while in hod by her
husband,'s side. The latter es.peff uninjured.
Thirteen fires happened in the metropolin between
six o'clock on Saturday morning and the mune hour on
Monday, but in most of them the damage occasioned was
trivial.
According to the latest intelligence from the Isthmus
of riMILOIL sew hopes are entertained about making a alley.
canal across that obstruction.
A storm which visited Paris last Saturday evening
flooded the cellars in the Faubourg Montmartre, the Feu
bourg St. Denis, and other paste of the city.
The public will learn with general gratification that
there is no foundation for the alarming report of the Via-
eenbttai Ilarratinslield's
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anereesions are said to be lasting. Any one
who hio only been stuns; by a hornet once will swear to this.
A Prague pap-r in informed that the ex-Emperor
Napoleon is expected for a couple of de), in the capita of
Bohemia, prevLowi to taking a short thermal season at
Carlsbad.
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The Council of the Royal Agricultural Society of
Ireland have decided on holding the show of 1873 at Water-
ford. The people of Cork were also anxious that the show
should to held in Weir city. but Waterford has been selected
In preference.
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From April it to the 27th instant the Exthequer
receipts wcre £22,570,017, as compared with £21.21)3 anti in
the corresponding period of last year The expenditure has
amounted to £26,462,818. fin Saturday bat the balance in
the hank of England axe £3,104,003.
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Some parts of the i-laud of Sardinia having been
laid quite bare b) the terrible plague, poisoning the wells
not fountains. Or at misery is a,so reported from the
Vesurbin di trio, and the slithering of taxes is regarded by
the ruined inhabitants of those quarters sea mere mockery.

Civilisation is advancing at a headlong rate in
Alabama, a party of Greenville gentlemen hiving itgued a
pledge not to use tobacco, in any shape or manner, 4huiPU
church services.

The historical tree, known in Mexico as the " Athol
trifle, " under which lerdnand Cortes sat and wept upon the
memorable night when the discord and mutinous spirit of
his companions had destroyed the fruit of all his previous
efforts, hss been smeared with tar and petroleum and set on
fire. the authors of this act ot vandalism have not yet been
discovered.
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It is stated that the New York and Brooklyn
bridge, when completed, will have & total length of 5,862
feet, and a width of 80 feet ; the central span will be 1,000
feet long, with an elevation of 130 feet above high water
the towels will be 268 feet in height above the maltase of
highl4at,r, and at the base will be 1i feet by :A.; foil.
The German papers advertise for the sale of Prince
Napoleon's estate on the Lewan,l3 miles from The
estate, which may be bought by portions, covers about 100
acres, vineyards and park ground chiefly, with mansion and
three dwelling-housts near the lake.

Prince Arthur on Tuesday distributed the prizes to
the successful sanders in Dover College The °cession was
one of much local Interest, and his Royal Highness, in
acknowledging a vote of ties. La for his attendant*, ex.
pressed his gr,at satiafaction at the successful position at-
tained by the institution
Has the idea ever bt, auk any of our commercial men
of enterprise to Imn ,it turf Cr tnland4 Hundreds of
thew.autis of acres of such futile t'le-a lying waste, whioh
migut, at but a might experumule, is shipped to England,
anti afford our pooier classes a vs,y canal., healthy, and
plea'ant means of cooking and keepk the hearth warm.
The Lord Chancellor has grant d a patent of pre-
cedence to the Has. J. I'. Del ;amen, uh.ae sue.xas at the
English bar has been one of the many remarkable incidents
In Ids most eventful mercer.

Mr. Wagner, an American traveller, in a work
r_coutly issued, states that aft r being much sr xrisal by the
importunities of guides, whose servicos he Olt not ',red, he
adopted the toll rwing plus : When terse one approaching,
at once oiler to guide him. IL is an idea from which he
does trot rally in time to annoy us The other day 1 offered
to show a persistent follow through an old rain for 00
kroutz,s.; as his vice for showing urs eras 48, we did not
ome to terms."

It is rather a curious fact that not one of the gentle-
men, who have met at the Geneva Tows Hall to cnisteler
and wale the long-pending Alabama ounition speaks in
court in his own language. The proeeediugs are cooducted
in Enna], and there is nut a trenclunan there. Mt. Staemptli
is a German Seim. Euglish is the native toogue of must
of the persona connected with the proceedings.
The Trish "National " papers profess to regard with
satisfaction the resolve of the Government ta prosecute the
Killion of Clonfert, Captain Nolan, Mr. Sebastian Nehru, and
nineteen priests, on a charge of intimidation. The ground
of their approval is that the proceedings will be the means of
for ever destroying the comideues nit the Irish people lu
Whig administrations.
Major Count Leon de hlartrenon, who had been
dangerously wounded inn the leg at the hattla of Villerstessel,
ay.•s cart iedi to the neareat house, which hap,unied to be that
of the countess de Jouille. There Ms leg was amputated,
and he was lelt to the kind care of toe countess. The brave
offi;er has now quite recovered his health, and, as a com-
pensation for the loss of his leg, he has obtained the hand of
his beautiful and devoted hostess.
The education of Wesleyan ministers formed the
subject of discuipion at a meeting of the Theological Institu
Gott Committee of the Conference on Saturday. Or. 'Ogg,
Principal of the Westminster Training College, expressed 11111
opinion that, taking the breadth of the century, the Metho-
dist pulpits would well bear comparison with these of other
denominations. He did not think that any advantage would be
gained toy endeavouring to cordon' the Wesleyan style of
preteßing to the atandaid of " respectability."
The long-staudiug cue of Beattie e. Lord Ebnry, in
which it tv,sa sought by the talon Bank of London to make
Lord Ebury, awl his co directors of the Watford and Rick-
manisworth Railway, personally liable for about £22,500
the amount for which the company had overdrawn their
account—came on before the Lords Justices for judgment.
In delivering this, Lord Justice Mellish, after going through
the correspondence, said he had collie to the conclusion
that the Bank was well aware 41 the real circumstances of
the contpany , and, Lord Justice James expressing his entire
concurrence, the bill was ordered to be dismissed with COMA.
A notice has been served on the secretary of the
grand jury of the county of Dublin of an intention to make a
presentment at the next pre-entment sessions for compensa-
tion for loss 10.0010110,1 by Ihmiel Neiii, Jdnathan H Neill,
and Daniel A. Neill, next of kin of Mrs. Harriett Neill, who
was murdered in May last at her residence, Rathgar. The
amount of compensation claimed is £9,000, under the provi-
shms of the Peace Preservation Act. The notice alleges
that the tourder ot Mrs. Neill 0119 one of an agrarian cha-
racter, and states that the claimants were dependent on the
deceased, f.r whose loss the amount dammed is only reason-
able compensation.
An enthusiastic and consistent Good Templer sup-
plies the following Omit paragraph :—" There is in this lake
tontario f.f our., and Oct two hundred miles from Hamilton,
an island called Garden Island.' fwenty ',ears or more ago
• law was passed that no liquor should be brought on the
island 011 any pretence whatever. It now has a population
of about one thousand souls, and yet there is not a pauper
her policon MI among the inhabitants, nor has a single case
been netore toe magistrates for the past fifteen years " The
Good Tem, ,ar say a, "Are not these facts sermons tor
temperance r

The marriage of the Earl of Breadalbane and Hot.
lan.l /11111 Lidy Aillla Fmopen Leonora Carlotta °minim, the
youngest daughter of the Duke of Montrose, was celebrated
on Satuiday, the 27111 must., In the Church of Holy Trinity,
at Cowes, by ',moist licence. In ou.,equeliee at the recent
(truth of the Maltjuw of Graham the marriage was way
pci-
vute There %ere present the Duke and Duchess of Montrose,
the Marquis of inichanan, lard aud Lady Ernest [Unice,
Colonel awl Lady Agnes Murray, Captain and Lady Violet
Greville, Lady Eva Campbell, 3118 s Peevor, Mr. W. Thoroll
(heist man), Major Rowland, and Mr. John K Irk. 'diortly
after the ceremony the youthful pair startol lee the heantlfal
residence of Undm mount, near lionehnigh, which had been
placed at their disposal by Lady Elisabeth Pringle, to whom
it belongs.

During a fire at Uxbridge a peculiarly courageous
act was performed. A large oil and colour shop was hi a
blare, and siren the lire-engine hail arrived it woo discovered
that no water was in the reservoir Which supplied the town.
IL war, however, found that next door to the burning build-
ing were several barrels of gunpowder and us the dames
were spreading, and no time was to be lost, a number of
men volunteered to fetch out the explosive material. This
they accomplished amidst showers of sparks, and fortunately,
without any accident occurring.
Wagers, some of them of a very heavy description,
have been laid as to the precise amount which the celebrated
horse, Blair Athol, would realise at the Middle Park
auction. A master of forbo olds uhu betted a young and
noble lord 01.0e0 evr u that th. 'icrbj hero of iis'd did nut fetch
more than clnota) has lost his bet, and was so prompt
in payment that on liatu.-day morning the el...fine crag re-
ceive:: with a request that tb,. winner would live a 'pony "
out of it to some public charity. Blair Athol Inched 11 WO
guineas. Sound advice was recently given to a City gentle-
man who was complaining that he had such a superfluity of
eapitai that he did ring arms, what to do with it. lie was
told ko and buy lhair Athol," but he did not appear tc
appreciate the pollen of alias a epee/dation in hometlesh.
Mr. Ju,tice Brett, in opening the proceedings of the
Manchester *MIMI Oft Monday, gave s vend reasons for the
maii•tenance if the Grand Jury as a part et our legal stem.
The learned judge believes that grand juries are useful ass
cheek even Up, or the most able and counclentiorn magistrates.
Fmthennore, they show by their pre-anon to all who may
resist the law that people of importance and education were
di LA-mined t• at the law should be sustained." 31r. Justice
Itrett's third reason for niaintainli.g the present systeni is
that gentle,,c ii of the elate Of grand jurors represent
lie opheion," which is the mil, power that baa my control
over judges hi the administration of justice..
A curious scene took place in Hyde Park, London, on
sturday. vening. dhe Qu. en's Westminster Rifle Volunteers
were lanceted by Prine- Edward of Saxe WCIIIIIIr, and at
the same time a inert,, g was held in the park in cornice. ion
With the Builder,' Strike. As might have MAI expected, the
two operations interfered with eaell other, or rather the
strike meeting interfered with the impaction. It was burnt
impossible, even with the aid of no fewer than two mounted
policemen, to keep the ground. The roughs and Idlers hail it
all their own way, and mobbed the Queen's Wmtintrister to
their hearts' content, tine result was that the hapeetion
was a failure, and the gallant volunteers must have marched
off the grand with leo very friendly feelings towards their
tormentors.

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Some interesting weather etatistiee are furniled in
the weekly return of the Registrar General. The mean teM-
yerature at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, was 711 deg.
last week, and ti 3 deg. above the 6vetarre for the torretixoui.
leg week in 30 years Tionday was the hottest day, when
Lie thermometer M the shade rase,te 90 9 deg., and the mean
temperature Web 734 des. The beat waa greater than any
experia. ed In Lunduu bin.; July, 1.665, when during the
eitht dais from 16th to 22nd July the =e...0 temperature
evera4ed 73foltg. on four of those days tha thentuanet4r
In th shade rose above 90 deg., and ou 221 to 96 de'.
while ia the eau 166 deg.. was reLaded.

A ,:epntati"n from the Workiug Men 's Lord's Day
Rest A..cialion on Tuesday waited upon Mr. Forster, and
pis tented a memorial against the opening of the Bethnal.
green Museum, or similar institutions on Sunday. tile
right hell gentlenao. in re si y, stated tat the Cabinet had
no (Mention of saterlng the existieg al ralwski,fi!is %viler
there was a decided feel:rg favaur th For
hinixelf, he !Ammo harm in rem Sued creation,
anrUaWbotieh the opelniiie sit museneke or. that day would
cause additional work to fall heavily on certain classes, it
was s question whether such institutions should not come
WU> deeizeble and neetni competition Vial We PUNIC-1800itf.

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Five cows were killed by lightning et Wybrudney,
hear Crewe, on Monday.
A traveller named Ball has recovered damages to*,
amount of grao for personal injuries raerwined Man itami.,
on the Lsneashire and Yorkshire hallway.
A woman has been sent to gaol for three nr la the by
the Liverpool magistrates for stripping ehildren in the str.ay
and selling their clothes.
The r•olice, at a village near Inniskillen on Monday
night. had a conflict with • large mob of men who were
burning Mr. Justice Keogh in eMgy. Teey charged tee
crowd, and wounded four men, but were not able to rosks
any arrest.
Mr. Augustus Smith, lord and proprietor of
A.• Illy Islands. died on Tuesday night at the Duke of com
wall Hotel, Plymouth, after a severe Him.. He Wu es•
years of age.
The Empress of the French, the Prince Imperial aid
suite arrived at Edinburgh at twenty mount s to algIA on
Tuesday evening, and proceeded to the Roy al ll,tolthey
are proceeding on • tour through the glens of Scotland.
At Osborne, on Tuesday Lord Lvveden received
from the (Owen the insignia dine Knighthood of the Bsth
and Mr. George itiddell Airy and Mr Arthur Ifelpe the
simile of KnighteCommautiere of the Order.
The latest returns of rurai inspectors in North.
anaptonshire and linckiughawshire show that the footaact•
mouth disease is still alarrninglY prevalent.
The railway station at Metz was destroyed by fire
Sunday. This is the fourth large fire in .Metz in the hay
twelvemonths.
The number of Public Acts passed in the present
Session, up to Moodily. was 39. Local Acts EU, mot Privet.
Acts 5. Before the prerogatteu the number will be much
hicremed
It is eaid that certain difficulties, though not in.
superable ones, have arisen, which interfere with the tittal
settlement of the litigation besweeu Sir George Hamilton
Seymour and Sir Richard Wallace respeoting the Dish estates
of the lute Marquis of Hertford.
A law has been promulgated by the German Govern.
meat, assigning 40,250,050 thalers out of the French war in.
demnity for the completion of the fortresses and the cou
struction of other military establishments in Alsace-L Trains.
According to a report of the Agricultural Depart.
meat, the wheat crop in the United States is six ter cent.
below the average in yield ; but the yuadity is superior. Is
maize the yield L. also below the average.
Miss Jex Blake and the female medical students
have scored another victory in the Court of Session. Lord
Gifford has affirmed their right to be educated and to grae
dusty at the University on the same footings. male students.
Soldano and Sitbon, the murderers of the Tunisian
merchant Greco, were executed at Marseilles on Monday
m. riling. It will be remembered that Pitbon was captured
in England, and sent back to Frauce under the Extroditien
Treaty.
The coronation of Prince Milano IV., who has jinn
completed his fourteenth year, having been born on Judy
IS.'S, will take place at Belgrade on August M. lie Is the
son of the Pt ince Michel who was murdered three years ago.
Since that time Amens has been governed by a Regency,
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Two New York Assemblymen were waling down
State street, in Albany, after the passage of a certain bill.
"1 feel," said one of them, "as if I deserved to he kicked
for voting for that bill." file Mend replied, "That's Just the
way I feel myself ; let's go up this alley and kick each other.'
A letter from Rochefort states that a fatal dad km
Just taken place on the island of Aix, between two otlicece al
the steam dispatch boat, Le Tramilleur, UM-Lieutenant
Salim and If. Mtn, adminbtrative officer on board, in which
the former was mortally wounded. The origin of this eh
counter is not known. The deceased was aged 23, while his
adversary ia 21.
It has been found that silk goods containing plc-
rate of lead frequently catch tire tu transit of railway. /s.
pertmenta, made ha consequence, show that a very ught
amount of friction is sufficient to Ignite samples of such silk
fabries."—thlyter Pulytedc Journal.
A grand rat-hunt with English terriers, fifty of
which are kept for the purpose at Berry by the municipal
atiminbutration, took pities la the sewers of Parts the other
day, from live in the morning until uocn. The vermin de,
atroyed amounted to nearly hole. Two of the dogs, severely
bitten, hare duce died.
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A great demand prevails fur English•bred horses
for nxportation to Germany. France, and other parts of the
tturt, t. and foreign agents are now exploring Lincoln.
shim, orkshire, and other liorse-hreediug counties, and
bc) Mg up suitable does horses.
A clever Scotch witticism is narrated of an old
scotchnum. who took a lot of people to task for mobbing •
Turk in Edinburgh. The Turk turned savagely round at
last, and exclaimed, " Giaour ! giaour ! " (Infidel) The old
Scotchigan said, "Don't lash tee pair body so; do as he
bids ye, gie owr, gle owr " (give over), as he in reality
thought the Turn was exclaiming. It was witty, but in
didn't know it.

In reply to the Earl of Shaftesbury's memorial ree
spec:dug the Athenaeum Creed, the two Pnmates ha
minutely reviewed all past proceedings and proposals for the
mo•lifiatdm of the damnatory dames. While promising their
aid in furthering the wishes of the memorialists. they es-
preec a belief that legitimate scruplea on the other side can
also be respected.
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In Lonscn, hist Saturday, much surprise waa created
by a hearth of meat in the Smithfield market. The butcher,
astm eel their customers that tons of beef had come up Irma
the country unfit to be packed, and bad to be destroyed;
that meat would have to be eaten nearly alive to be whole.
ammo; that lightning had tainted at least .ClOO,OOO worth of
meat corn! fied to the market, and the heat of the weather
had done equally sumach mischief.
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A charge of intimidation arising out of the railway
porters' strike, and brought under the Criminal Law Amend-
mint Act of /art sission, was heard at the Worship-street
Police-co rt, in London, on Tuesday. The prisoner, who
was 20 years of ago, had threatened a fellow workman with
viol. ace, bee-use he refused to turn out CM strike will soma
hundreds of other porters. The magistrate passed 050
team of one month's hoprisimment, with hard labour.
On Saturday one of the prisonere in Kin-kale Gaol,
near Liverpool. named tante, committed suicide 111 his no
by barging 'Mused to a gaspipe by hie belt He was to have
been tried at the Auteuil Assizes on the charge of having,
with another man, kicked an out man to death at Warring.
tun. The prisoner's wile said he had been very down" as
to the result of the trial, and that he confessed to a priest
on Ft:day. The gaol surgeon said that from the position In
which the prisoner was found he must hays been a quarter
of an hour in dying.

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On Bionilay the whole force now stationed at Alder.
shot marched out to fismiburst, encamped in Vs ishmoce
Bottom for the day, and after a short rccontre with an
imaginary mien y, returned ti quintets in the evening. The
interest el the eiay's work consisted in the fact that In the
details of packing and unpacking baggage waggons, in routs
niarchiug, in picketing horses. in arranging ansi carrying out
outpost duties. and hi pitching bild striking tents, it was in a
measure a rehearsal of the similar duties which lie before the
troops in the forthcoming autumn MalltOUVrea.
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Last week the mortality in London and 20 other
large towns of the United Kingdom was at the rate of 28
deaths annually to every 1,000 persons estimated to be
living. In the metropolis 2 156 births, and 1 043 deaths were
registered, the former having been 49, and the latter 140
below the average. Thirty-three persons died from small.
pox, 25 from measles, 71:0w scarlet fever, b from diptheria,
60 from whooping.cough, 21 from didereut forms of fever cot
which 3 were certified as typhus, 14 as enteric or typhoid,
and 4 as simple continued fever , and 394 from diarrhea.
The increased mortality fnm the last mentioned disease
arose principally from the excessive number of fatal attacks
in the cases of children.

The Board of Trade have awarded an aneroid to
Captain Reverdy (Millielin, of the American ship American
Congress, of New York, in acknowledgment of him humanity
and kindness to the master anti crew (ten in all) of the hog
Ann Bandfie Id, of Scilly, whom he rescued how they sinking
vessel on the 4th of November, 1671, on the banks of New-
foundland, and landed in Loudon on the 22d ot the wane
mouth. The board have also awarded a gold watch to Captain
Oswald Miller, master of the American ship Agra, of &stun,
Massachnsetts, in acknowledgment of his twinedy and
great kindness to the master and crew awenty.one in alt. of
the ship Coringa, of Glasgow, whom he received on board his
vessel on the 2d of May, and landed at St. Helena on the 6th
of June last. The Coringa was coal laden, and was hound
from Shields to bombe), ; she was encountered heavy gales,
sprang a leak, and wee eventually abandot.ed in a sinking
state—and her crew being received on board the Agra, when
they were treated with the greatest khidness by Captain
3diller.