The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-10-30 00:00:00

A motion for the re-establishment of capital
punishment in the Netherlands has been rejected by the
Dutch Second Chamber by 41 to 20 votes.

Shrimps have succeeded pigs in Parisian favour for
charms and comments.

A gentleman whose high financial position and con-
nection with the Government wive weight to his assertions,
states that most probably an additional penny on the income
tax will be preposed next year to meet the large expenditure
for the Naval and Military operations whieh might have
been required in settling the Dulcigno affair. Court
Journal.

"Sixty-nine—Seventy-three.—' Honour bright.' "-
-Advertisement in The Times.

Mr. S. S. Lloyd, of Birmingham, banker, has stated
that about £270,000 was raised at the Reform Club for the
purposes of the last general election. Two dukes gate
£45,000 each, and a third a still larger sum.

A scheme for bringing Liverpool into direct com-
munication with the east coast is about to be carried out by
the Midland Railway Company. It embraces a new line
from Hawes through Swaledale to Hartlepool.

Mr. Morgan Lloyd, M.P., speaking at Beaumaris
on Saturday, said the true poll of the constituencies could
only be ascertained. by doing away with canvassing and the
payment of out-voters.

The Bishop of Peterborough has refused to conse-
crate a portion of a cemetery in Northamptonshire , and on
the Home Secretary being appealed to for his licence to
open the ground, he has refused to grant it, pending an
appeal to the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Beer and brandy are going out of favour with
Anglo-Indians, and whisky is the favourite "peg" now in
British India.

Mr. Frank Buckland writes that two beautiful
young Polar bears, eh about the size of a Newfoundland
dog, have just arrived at the Zoologioal Gardens. They
have been presented by Mr. Leigh Smith, of the yacht Dint,
who, during his last voyage to the Arctic regions, killed
eighteen Polar bears and caught these two cubs alive.

The whole Baltic coa.st was visited by a severe
hurricane on the night of the 20-21st, which occasioned con-
siderable damage. At Tilsit, on the night of the 19-20th, it
snowed so heavily that in the morning a winter landscape
was presented. In the course of the day, however, the snow
was melted by the sun's rays.

On Tuesday the Ramsay lifeboat of the National
Lifeboat Institution went to the assistance of the brigantine
Victoire, of Irvine, which was in distress about three miles
eastward of Ramsay, and succeeded in bringing her into the
harbour, with her crew of five men, in safety.

The "Brush "system of electric lighting has been
Introduced into the Royal Laboratory, Woolwich. With
one engine of about 25-horse-power sixteen brilliant lights
are supplied, any of. which can be extinguished without
interfering with the rest.

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The Berlin correspondent of the Morning Post says
that the German Imperial Family have received formal
notice of the Czar's marriage with the Princess Dolgorouki.
According to the same authority, news has been received at
Berlin of the health of the Czar, which is described as being
alarming symptoms oppoplexy having returned.
Advices have reached Melbourne to the effect that
a large river has been discovered nine Danes north of
Schnapper Island, some distance south of Cook Town, in
Queensland. The stream flows between thick, scrubby
banks, with abundance of cedar and other valuable timber.
The Queenslandeti suppose it to be a large branch of the
Ruby river.

During 1879 the number of persons who made use of
the 100 omnibuses running during that period at Berlin was
12,077,000. At Paris during the same period the number of
omnibuses in use was 619, and the number of passengers
carried was 91,248,000.

Up to Tuesday the shipments of pig-iron from the
port of Middlesbrough for the present month were not less
than 71,000 tons—a rate of shipment which promises to make
the total for the month in excess of the large amount sent out
last month. The increase is chiefly due to the large demand
for Scotland and Germany.

The splendid example of Florence Nightingale is
about to be followed by ladies of high degree. Two of them
are princesses, and they intend to acsompany the RUNiillll
army to Central Asia with well appointed ambulances to
succour the sick, and should there be hostilities, the
wounded too. All honour to them. —Court Journal.
At a town's meeting. in Barnsley on Tuesday night,
resolutions were adopted, calling upon the Town Council to
take steps for effecting the purchase of the gas works.
Mr. Edward Heathcote, lime merchant, Chapel-en.
le-Frith, died on Tuesday from the effects of being tossed by
a young bull, which he was driving from a field.

The Under-Secretary for War, the Earl of Morley,
in presenting the prizes to the ixeter Rifle 'Volunteers.
referred at length to the rise and successes of the volunteer
movement. He believed that the system carried many
benefits into the social life of the people which were quite
apart from the appreciable services directly rendered to the
country.

The Preston Corporation are now hastening the
measures requisite to enable them to take over the munifi-
cent bequest of Mr, Harris, who gave a sum of £lO,OOO. for
the erectioa of a lifirary, on condition that the town should
acquire a suitable site. in Act was obtained for this pur-
pose last session, and the town council have nominated a
committee to act in conjunction with Mr. Harris's trustees.
An inquest has been held at Cowes touching the
death of Thomas Lewis, who for a number of years has been
foreman to Messrs. Cantel° Brothers, Newport (LW.). It
appears that on Friday night, as a train from Newport was
entering the Cowes Railway Station a sadden jerking was
felt, and a subsequent search led to the discovery of the
mutilated body of the deceased, which was found to be
almost completely cut in halves, the wheels having gone
through it near the abdomen. It is 'supposed that he had
fallen on the line after leaving the lavatory, the spot being
dark and somewhat dangerous. A verdict of "Accidental
Death" was returned.

A strange event occurred on Sunday on the railway
between NI orceux and Laboubeyre, in the south of *atm.
A woman and her child were travelling by an excursion
train, when the child, climbing up to the window, fell out,
on to the line. The mother in her despair opened the door
of the compartment and jumped out after it. When the
train stopped at the next station the guard went back, ex-
pecting to find a terrible spectacle, but, wonderful to say,
neither the woman nor her child was injured, and both re-
sumed their journey.

Weveral lame boats entered Whitby on Monday with
herrings. The lowest catch was 00,000 ; and one boat, the
William Tell, had as many as 16 lasts, or 160,000 herrings.
The prices ranged from £6 10s. to £8 15s. per last of 10,000,
and over-day herrings brought £5 10s. to 1.6 15s. Der last.
vztz up pll u &tuvu coo ana sing, waists
sold at the rate of 20s. per score.

The Leicester Corporation are at present engaged
In carrying out flood works at a cost of over £30,000, and
on Tuesday approved a further scheme, designed by Mr.
Hawkesley, for the widening and deepening of the River
Soar, at an additionahoutlay of £BO,OOO. It is claimed for the
scheme that it will not only prevent the flooding of houses in
the town, but will increase the value of the corporation
estate much beyond the actual outlay.

The Electrician is glad to notice that the local
authorities are beginning to take precautions against acci-
dents by the fall of overhead telegraph wires in public,
thoroughfares. The Commissioners of Police in Dundee have
issued stringent grders that no such wires be erected in
that town unless the position, direction of the wires, and
the mode of affixing them be first approved by the com-
missioners.

The put-up of salmon by the Fraser River canneries
will, it is estimated, be about 60,V00 cases of four dozen oze-
pound cans. This is only one-half of the average put-up of
some years past. The decrease in quantity is owing to the
run having been late and unusually high water. The entire
put-up will be shipped to
.Liverpool.
Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to grant to
Lady Mountmorres a suite of apartments in Hampton Court
Palace.
The Rev. Dr. Jameson minister of St. Paul's
Church, Glasgow, the oldest and one of the most esteemed
members of the Glasgow Presbytery, died on Tuesday morn-
ing in Glasgow.

-A
painful occurrence happeted. at the Victoria
Barracks, Windsor, the other day. The 2nd Battalion.
Scots Guards, had just marched in to their quarters after
returning from a field-day, when Colour-Sergeant Mitchell,
while conversing with his comrades, fell forward, and when
raised from the ground was found ta be dead. Dr. Collins,
the surgeon to the garrison, who was promptly in attend-
ance, believed that death was probably (mused by heart
disease.

Mr. J. G. Talbot, M.P., speaking at Maidstone
on the treatment of juvenile offenders, expressed his belief
that very little harm was caused to children by confinement
In prison, and contended that detention in a reformatory
should be preceded by a short term of imprisonment, in
order to mark the sense of the community of the serious-
ness of the offences committed. He held that the extension
of the industriallchool movement would form the best pre-
ventive of juvenire crime_
The other night the captain of the Freneh schooner
Angeria, in company with his two brothers and a seaman,
put off from Cardiff pier-head in a ship's boat to reach the
schooner, which was lying on the west mud with a cargo of
potatoes, and next day a boat was found full of water at the
mouth of the river near Penarth, and the body of the mate
was picked up on the east mud. Nothing was heard of the
three brothers, and it is supposed that they have also been
drowned. They were all Frenchmen. It is possible that
they were carried out of their proper co-urse by a current
which occurs at the end of the low-water pier.
Another of the great notabilities of the Italian re-
generation has passed away. Baron Ricasoli, the "Iron
Baron," as he was styled, who was called to the head of the
Government on the death of Count Cavour, who was Dictator
of Tuscany when the plebiscite for the -annexation of that
province was taken, and who was again Prime Minister from
June, 1886, to April, 1967, died at 11 o'clock on Sunday night of
apoplexy at his family eastle of Broglio. He had for the last
few years, on account of his broken health, retired from
Public life and devoted himself entirely to agricultural pur-
zits.