The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-02-24 00:00:00

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The Birmingham Post is informed that the Russian
Government is making inquiries in connexion With Site ilia.
appearance of Mt. Bauer.
The Duke of Hamilton won the second prize on the
second day ef the international pon-shootiug competitions
at Monaco.
The Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, in compliance
with a request made to him, has given his pennisehm for a
ThariMeiving Service to be held in St. Patrick's cathedral, at
three o'clock In tire afternoon of the 'ith inst.
In three cases ints.stieatisl by the Liverpool borough
coroner on Saturday it 003 proved that death had been
caused by excessive drinking.
At M. LSon Say's residence in rArlx, On Waylay,
the Lord Mayor of Loudon met a number of the Parisian
Mayors and other functionaries of the French capital. The
representative of Loudon "conversed chiefly with M. Clarice.
eras, that gentleman being acquainted with English."
The London Rowing 'Club hove accepted a challenge
from the New York Atalanta Boat Clef to row a four.oared
race upon the Thames from Putney to Mottlahe due iug the
missing season.
The Post-office authorities have, it is said, decided
upon increasing the present price of postal cards one half-
penny the dozen, and not to sell a smaller number than a
Mires at a time. So that one dozen °arils will, after a date
to be fixed, be CO. instead of ed.
A new system of mitrailleurs has been g4"pted by
the German Minstry of War, named after the invento f !wet.?
Gorloif. The mitrailleur consists of nine steel barrels of die
length of ordinary cannon; itirequires only four men to
serve it, and can fire 400 shots per miuute.
The executive committee at the Sunday-school
Union, representing more than 10 ~Gt'e Sunday-school
teachers, have presented addresses of cons ratubiti'm to her
'Majesty the Queen and the Prince of Wales on the reCn•ery
of his Royal Highness from his late danger ors illness.
A serious accident happened to the Eight Hon.
the Earl of Coventry in the heating-field, near Ifinchwick
Douse, on Thursday in last week. Mr horse stepped Into a
rut, and fell with his rider, who sustained it severe shock,
but no bones were broken. The earl was conveye: tri a car-
riage to the " Lygon" Arms Rotel, Broadway, Worcester,
and his lordship recovered sufficiently to be able to proceed
die same evening to his residence at Croome.
From April lst to the lith instant the Treasury re-
ceipts amounted to £03,401,304, an increase of more than
four millions sterling over the conespondiag period of last
year. The revenue from stamps is already within £155,000
of Sir. Lowe's estimate for the financial year. The expendi-
ture has been £02,553,110, or nearly three millione in excess
of the figures of last year. The balance in the Bank of Eng-
land is Za,568.726.
The bill for the better protection of infant life, intro-
duced by Mr. Charley, Dr. Brewer, and Dr. Lyon Mayfair,
proposes to enact that persons receiving for hire two or
more Infants for the purpose of nursing shall be required to
take out a licence and keep a register, to be produced when
lawfully required. The licence may be revoked by a justice
of the peace, and an inquest is to be held respecting the
death of every Infant so received unless a registered medical
practitioner shall certify that the death arose from natural
causes. The penalty for neglecting to give information to
the coroner of the death of a child, or for other breaches of
the Act, is imprisonment for not more than six months, or a
fine, on a summary conviction before a justice of the peace.
Viscount Ossington has just issued an address to his
late constituents. Ills lordship says that lie has been com-
pelled to withdraw from the duties of the office of Speaker,
which bait become too laborious for his strength. The
Queen has been pleased, in compliance with an addrese from
the liouse of Commons, upanimously voted, to summon him
to the 'louse of Peers. The trust, therefore, that they ,the
electors) confided to him has passed out of his hands. Ile
returns them his grateful thanks for the confidence they
had reposed in him for a long course of years. Ile may hope,
residing among them still to assist usefully in the manage-
ment of local affairs and in the conduct of the business of
the county.
" The tragical death of Lord Mayo has thrown upon
Mr. Gladstone the duty of reconunending to Iler Majesty a
successor to the late Viceroy of her Indian Empire, and we
do not know any task that could involve a keener sense of
responsibility inns discharge. For this great office Mr. Glad-
stone has been fortunate hi securing the services of a mem-
ber of his Government Whose past career gives promise that
he will be found superior to every exigency. Lord North-
brook inherits the talents of a family whose members have
exhibited a large variety of tastes, but who have been dis-
tinguished in whatever walk of life they have chosen to
pursue. Be has devoted himself with an assiduity rare In
any man, and most rare in those whose ample fortunes wile
them away from labour, to the service of the Stale."—Leader
in The Times.
Mrs. Olive Logan, in a speech at the Brooklyn
woman's meeting, said "1 reject the trousers with con-
tempt and scorn. Men cut a sufficiently ridiculous figure in
them themselves. The troth ie, they don't like their own
costume, anti are envious of our laces, jewellery, frills, and
dresses. Trousers, forsooth, trousers !' Skake not the
rid iculous garmeut at me. No; so long as we ean have our eilks,
satins, and shawls, we will repudiate your absurd buforeated
unwhisperables. Look at your swallow-tailed coats, stove-
pipe hate and you wear your hair so short, some of you,
that you fook precious like monkeys ; and I don't wonder
that one of your number has written a book showing that
animal lobe the father of his ram." The epeech was greeted
with roars of applause.
Dr. Goupil, a Paris physician of some celebrity, has
just been tned by court-martial at Versailles for inciting to
civil war on the 31st October, 1070. Dr. Goupil during the
seige was a maj.ir in the Natioual Guard, and for a short
time belonged to the Commune. On December 31 he was at
the IlOtel de Ville, where he was installed by his supporters
In the arm-chair of the Mayor of Paris. In the evening he
arrested an officer who came with an order from head-
quarters to call out the National Guards. The Public Prose-
cutor, in stating the case, admitted that Dr. Goupil was not
like the "wretched misereants " ordinarily brought before
the courts eternal, but declared that he was an old re-
volutionist, and had been elected a major of National Guards
entirely from political considerations. M. Lachaud defended
the aroused, and maintained that he had acted in the interests
of public safety. The Court, however, senteueed him to
two year's Imprisonment.
On Tuesday, the chair and table seized from the
residence of Mr. William Warburton, a member Of the
School Board of Salford, for refuaing to pay a School Board
rate amounting to IS.. 3d., were sold by public auction la the
police drill-room of the Town-hail. When the dais was
ascended the first bid was £2 is., (the amount which was
stated to cover the rate and ail expenses incident to seizure,
&e.), but this was quickly succeeded by another cry of C. 2 154.,
followed alternatively with £3, £3 Sm., £3 lOs , £2 155 , £4,
£4 55., £4 lOs £4 154., and, after a few moments' passe, £5.
The buyer was Mr. Chieviers, of Stockport, a friend of Mr.
Warburton's ; and the money was paid by Mr. Wilkinson, a
burgess of Salford. There are many rumours prevalent that
Mr. Warburton Is only the first of a large number of the
ratepayers who have determined to resist payment of a rate
which they consider obnoxious.

A gentleman named Millard has bequeathed to the
President arid Yellows of Trinity College, oxford, £O,OOO for
the advancement of mathematical aud general science.
It is stated that a marriage has been arranged be-
tween the Marquis of bate and the lion. Ills Howard, eldest
daughter of lord Howard, of Glossop, and first, cousin ot
the Duke of Norfolk.
The ilway Knee encourages Irishmen to keep the
management of their railway property in their own bands.
If tWey tb eo and give it proper attention it will be Me to
IntY
The Exeter Town Council have resolved to offer no
opposition to the priveinle of the proposed railway amalga-
mations, but to take such action as would ensure the inser-
: Mon of protective clauses as regards the public interest.
A ward has joist been named the "5.W.V.," in the
Great Northern Hospital, London, the Initials of an unkune n
benefactor who has for the fourth time, generously sent
Kl,OOO to this unemiowed charity.
An Australian millionaire named Mona'., who went
from London to Ilve at the antipodes some years ago, died
recently at his mansion in Victoria. He was the man who
once sent an order to England for '' a ton of books?
The other day an individual threw himself ,urt of a.
window of the fourth story in the Rue du Vert Bois, Paris.
According to his tmaawla all his property is to go to the -
first person who fails in his attempt at suicide.
A gentleman named Fleueton has been shot dead in
the street in open day at Saint-Etienne ,Rhone. The mur-
derer, a man named Chanhae, formerly a sergeant-de-villo,
had' been diamissed from the force for having illegally ar-
rested two young women, sisters of the deceased.
On Monday Lady Charles Kerr, wife of Lord Charles
boles Kerr, was out hunting with the Windsor Garrison Drag
Hound 3, and whilst taking a fence near Langley-park, the
horse full anti rolled over her. She was taken to the newest
farm-house, and medical assistance telegraphed for to

London.
An English gentleman waked the terms for a year of
a suite of apartments in Paris. "Ilow old are you ? " was
the answer of the coneierae. •• Slidiy," was the reply ; "but
what has that to do with it?" " Everything," rceponded the
eoneierje. You can't have the rooms. My master objects
to deaths on the premises."
The E.rkeh ire Peal announcee the death of Mr.
Hamilton liume, of consumption. lie was formerly in the
army, and served both hi the Crimea and Is India: but he
was known In London chiefly as the energetic secretary of the
Eyre Defence Fund, the biographer of Governor Eyre, and
as a frequent contributor to country newspapers.
The Prince and Princess Christian, who have been
residing at Cannes during the whiter, are now about to
travel through Italy previoue to their return to England,
which will not be before April next. The children of their
Royal Highnesses armed at Frogmore House un Saturday
, evening from the Continent.
I The Manchester Courier says that five boilers !vest
simultaneously at a chemical works at tit. Helens on Sumlay,
killing three persons and injuring others, and destroying a
large *mount of property. Had the explosion occurred on
any other day than Sunday the louse! life would to all pro-
bability have been much greater.
The Temperance Reformers at Massachusetts hav-
ing denounced tobacco and runs In a lump, and declared
"-• loon of Bettor is stimulated by the use el tobacco,
the New urN 11301111,
who are both temperate ansass,d long-liveu, arc a....
that the Mahometans,
Inveterate smokers in the world?"
"A recently arrived English servant girl pitched
cup of scalding coffee into her mistress's face, at San Pre,
eine°, because the lady hoped the Prince of Wales would
die. She Is now looking for another place British family
preferred ; references unexceptionable." PhiladelpAies
Ledge".
On Monday morning the Bolton magistrates--after
a sitting of nine days on the examination of the fourteen'
men charged with manslaughter, riot, and demolishing a
building on the occasion, of the Dilke riot at Dolton on the
30th November last—committed eight of the defendants for
trial at the next Msuchester As.sisea, on the charge of tioti4
only.
The Baroness Henri Hottinguer, tu.'e Delemert, has
written to the Freed' "Committee of Deliverance" the fol
lowing note —"I intend contributing immediately a sum of
25,000 fr. As soon as the amounts subscribed shall have
reached fifty millions, 1 will again pay in 25,000 fr. ; and
lastly, when the total shall have exceeded one hundred
I will add 50,0001 r."
F. Von Hauer, of the Austrian Geological Survey,
communicates to the Mitt. der anthropologesehen Geeeel.
chaff ;a Weir., for December, an account of the discovery of
an :dulcet entire human skeleton, in the neighbourhood of
Pros, in bohemia. The skeleton was found in a bed of sand,
overlaying a bed of tertiary coal, and a stone hammer was
found near it.
A conference of Nonconformist ministers and laymen,
presided over by Mr. Jellies Heywood, *as held at the
Cannon-street Hotelin london, on Monday at which resolu-
tions were passed in support of the position lately taken up
at Manchester, and • London Noneoidurmist Committee wee
formed to watch the educational policy of the Government,
and to take ouch action as may be deemed expedient.
The Noe York Timm states that the Administration
of President Grant has brought to account for default or em-
bezzlement 40 Internal Revenue officers, 15 Customs officers,
13 officers of the Interior Department, 105 Postmasters, 16
money-order officers, four officers of the navy, and two of the
army-196 in all, (evolving an actual or possible low to the
Government of 2,301,621 dole.
A great labour conflict appears to be impending on
the Clyde. The shipbuilding trades have formally demanded
the introduction of the nine hours' system in its integrity.
The maaters replied with a proposal of flf ty f our hours per week
and 5 per cent, additional wages. At a noeli meeting held
on Glasgow-green, the men, with a few disentients, resolved
to stand out for their ultimatum.
Me. Gladstone, in reply to the memorial signed by
the Bishop not Slayer of Cork on behalf of a meeting of
Roman Catholics on the subject of education, says he as
ill
make the memnrial known to his colleagues, and at present
he need do no ruore than state that when the Government
lied themselves able to make any proposal on the subject, it
will be framed in accordance with the declarations hereto-
fore made by them on various occasions.
Lynch Law is again rampant in Kentucky and
Indiana. At Evansville, in the latter *tato, a' commtttee
of citizens of Union towuship ordered a certain disreputable
person to leave the place, under pain of hanging, and at
Richmond, in the former State, thirty men In masks went
to the gaol in which Stough, the murderer of his wife, was
coneoed, overpowered the gnarl?, took the wretched man
from hie cell, and hung him upon a tree outside of the walls.
The Forest of Dean strikes at Trafalgar and Fontem
Bridge Collieries, where 1200 men went out on strike hot
, Monday, are now at an DIA The former colliers will bans
1 alive per cent. advance and short hours from the Ist pros.
'nee latter men will continue their weighing machine on the
pft beast wlih 10 per cent. advance and the eight hours
systenl, onehanics 5 per cent, and nine hours. tuner minor
strikes still prevail.
The London correspondent of the Cologne Ga:clte,
who leas present at the recent Republican meeting in
Trafulgar.si mere, states as his experience that lie was In the
nret artistic timelier dieembarrawed of his snatch, a souvenir
of the Orel 1,1111011 Exhibition, and worth about 40 guineas.
The artist, if a Republic., is requested to send the watch
on the day when be shall become President of the Eligliali
Republic to the monager of the Colowte Gazett,, who o ill
thankfully acknowledge the receipt !
Ale Pinches, the well-known medallist. publishes
through Mr. John Mitchell, of Bond-street, London, a silver
Gothic medal, consisting on the obverse of a vesica bearino
an appropriate inscription, and enclosing a shield of the
Royal arms. On the reverse are the word., 'lists Gratios
Domino. Niitlimal Thanksgiving for the Recovery of his
01. o) al Highness the Prince of Walee, Feb. 27," and a Prince
of Wales's plume. The whole is surmounted by an Imperial
mown, and forms a very pleasing ornament.
The Spretatur save that the Government in "in the
throes of military reform." The information would be of
much service if any oue would tell us when the last throe
WRS observed, audit-hen the next may be expected. There IR
a great deal of anxiety on the subject, much ignorance,
winch incredulity even ; belt that may be because Mr. Card-
, throes, so far as they have yet gone, are privet., and
wads-Muff —Pail Mall Gazette.
I The DUOi eorrespondent of the Pall Mall Gautte
writes :—ln the hem Bode received by last mail, Illicit the
following curious interpretation of a telegram. Mr. Reuter
I wired, when it had been announced that Mr. Brand would
I he elected Speaker of the House of Commons, "Proposed to
brOffi Speaker." The Bode translated these words as
follows . Ales heeft voorgesteld den Voorzitter to brand-
merken " Itis proposed to brand (to mark with a
red-hot iron) the Oprelser."
A meeting of infletontial Frenchmen residing in
, London took place at Willie'. Rooms on ?iaturday afternoon
Bff the purpose of raising subscriptions to midst in the
generill efforts now being manic in France to hasten tbe pay-
ment of the Wee Indemnity and the cractiatien of the de-
partmenta still ot'cimied by the Germane. A committee,
under the presidency of Mr, A. blagußres, WM formed, and
the enbecriptlons obtained gmong the members present
realized upwards of £2,000 all payante in cash, the idea of a
conditional subscription having been abandoned.
" Obligatory and gratuitous primary education,"
under the superintendence of the Federal authorities, is he
be henceforth tne rule in Switzerland. "The Wilms " are
revising their Constitution ; and the National Council,
over-riding the resolution of the Couecil of the States, has
adhered to the educational system, the main principle of
which we have mentioned. Three years will be allowed to
the respective Cantons, before the new law Is carried into
effect : so that they may have time and opportunity to adjust
their internal eidministration to the change.
The Rev. John Parches, the minister of St. James's
Chapel, Brighton, was on Sunday morning served with the
order of suspension, made by the Judicial committee of tho
Privy Council. Mr. Purehas is by it enspended from preach-
ing, and from administering the Sacraments, for one year
from the lab Inst. Ills stated that after the order was
served, Mr. Purdue+ officiated at the Communion service.
In the event of Mr. Putchas not obeying the order of suspen-
sion, further proceedings will he adopted against him.
Lest week the aggregate mortality in Lori don and
twenty other large teams in the United Kingdom Was at the
rate of 20 deaths annually to every 1,000 persons eatimated
folio living. In the metropolis 2,363 births and 1, Nit deatbe
were registered, the former having been 71 and the latter
301 below the average Forty-eight persons died froneemall-
pea, 30 from measles, 16 from scarlet fever, 6 from diphtheria.
99 from whooping-cough, 29 from different forms of fever (of
which three were certified as typhus, 20as enteric or typhoid.
and liars simple continued feverl, end 11 from diarrhice.
The mean temperature during the week was 43 degrees, which
was flee degrees above the average.
Attention has been drawn in the French Assembly
to the circumstance that a Bonapartist alumnae, called the
beak, is being widely distributed throughout France. A
member, who read some extracts from this publication. In
which the Assembly seas attacked for its vote at Bordeaux
deposhot the Emperor, spoke in very strong terms against
the Bonapartist propagandism, which he said was becoming
more impudent every day. When he read another extract
dwelling upon the " herolem" of the Emperer, he was re-
warded with roam of laughter. In concluding his speech, be
asked the Minister of the Interior to keep as sharp an eye OD
the lionapartiet adventurers as he would 1111011 "other male-
factors "slid the Minister, in reply, said that a prosecution
had already been commenced sootiest the
The Board of Trade have awarded a binocular glass
to Captain Symington, of the ship 1,7011 Venus, of Liver-
pool, in acknowledgment of iiis gallant and 11M111010 conduct,
to the master anil crew of the ship Unrivalled. of Liverpool,
whom he received on board from their sinking vessel on the
9th Septernlor, 1970, when off the Cape of Good Hope. The
Uvriealled was disabled on the 6th of September, durine, a
heavy gale, when Captain Symington, at considerable risk,
boarded her. In order to see .bat aid he could render her
crew. Ile afterwards lay by her for 24 hours, when Om be-
came so leaky that her crew were forced to abandon her. Ho
received them on board hie vessel, and lauded them at St.
Helena on the 23rd September.
The Birmingham act:etk has authority to state that
the Right Hon. s visit to Manchester is to take
place on Easter Wednesday. It is anticipated that he will
Ice the guest of the Earl of Wilton, at Heaton Park. On his
snivel at Manchester the light hon. gentleman will be
received at the station by the officials of the principal Con-
stitutional associations of Lancashire, and afterwards proceed
to the Pomona Garden, where addressee now in course of
preparation will be read by the heads of the various assoda-
lions, to which he will respond. In the evening he will
address an assemblage in the Free Trade Hall, where it
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presumed he will deliver his principal speech.
The cause of the "Attorneydieneral c. Akers" has
been before Vice-Chancellor Sir John Wickens, and waa an
Information filed by the Attorney-General at the inatance of
the guardian of a young lady with whom the defendant had
eloped. The young lady in question walk, at the time of the
marriage, under the age of 16 years, and was one of three
children of • captain in the army. On his death all the
children had been placed by their guardian under the care of
• near relative. The defendant was footman in the family,
and shortly after leaving the service, by false statements
to the registrar as to the young lady's age, sate residence, ike,
procured a licence, under which they were married. The
suit was instituted for the purpose of having it declared,
under the statue 19 and 20 Viet., cap. 110, that the defeud-
ant having "falsely, wilfully, and knowingly, and with
intent to deeeive, made the declaration before the registrar.
bad forfeited all estate, right, and title" In his wife s pro-
perty, and a decree was niacin accordingly, the costs incurred
In the nit by the defendant being diselleWed.

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