The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-11-07 00:00:00

BRITISH AND FOUIGN.

Mr. Ole Bull. most eccentric of commonplaANS
fiddlers, has been playing in Boatim, United States.
" Dear Peeps. —Bib entreats you to come home.
Business is being most satisfactorily arranged."—Advertise-
silent in l'inte*. •

Sir Richard Mayne has just issued an order to the
police, instructing them to take possession of all Mame
bowled by children in the public streets Some thousands
of boys' and girls' hoops are now to be found at the different
police-stations It, the metropolis.
The marriage of the earl of Ellesmere and Lady
Katherine Phipps, daughter of the Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Noimanby, is appointed to take place ou the 91.1
of December next.
The French military authorities are about to intro-
duce a reform of considerable importance in the cavalry—to
substitute the English trot for tile French, the tormer being
much less fatiguing both to man anal horse. Among civi-
lians—or, as French military men call them, pekins—the
English mode of trottinA has been practised for years.

It is asserted that the Messrs. Baring Brothers hare
offered to lend Spain £7,000,000 on " easy terms "—namely,
good security
Rev. E. P. Hammond, before leaving Jerusalem,
was presented with a crown of thorns, similar to the one
placed on the head of the saviour. The thorns are the same
species that have grown in -Judea for thousands of years,
each one being as sharp as the point of a cambric needle.
Owls' heads and the most frightful skulls are now
the favourite patterns in earrings worn by ladles in Paris.
The Queen of Spain, during the thirty-five years of
her reign, received 55,375,000.
The death of Miss Walters, who, under a well-known
sobriquet, attained some notoriety as an equestrian both in
the hunting field and in Rotten-row, London, is announced.
She died in Paris last week.

A communication from Rome says :---"Colonel de
Charette has arrived here from London with 6.000 English
muskets, as a present from sonic of the French clergy."
General Prim has stated, in reply to a deputation,
that the Government has entet eti into no sort of engagement
with any of the candidates for the Spanish throne, and that
it has not yet taken the question into consideration.
During the past week 71 wrecks have been reported,
making the total for the prw-ent year 1,784.
Game is very plenttful in Paris, and Europe appears
to be laid under contribution to supply it.
Mrs. Lincoln lately passed through Frankfort, on
her way to Wiesbaden, to place her BM Thaddeus at school
there. She waa aftcrwardst o proceed to Carlsbad, Nice, and
Naples.
A grocer living at Vincennes loon the point of being
married, lie has issued invitations to all his relations, then
Ilia friends ; be has gone so far as to invite the soldiers in
garrison. Further, every person who goes to witness the
marriage ceremony wi.l be presented with a box of sardines
outside the church gates.
" Matrimony.—A Gentleman (38), well connected,
anti of good means, wishes to correspond with an amiable
I and accomplished Lady, not over thirty years of age, with a
view to Marriage ; cartes excoangel, in strict confidence,"—
Advertisement in Manchester Exa Miner.
"Cromwell to Chatty—Farewell, darling, and re-
member there is nothing I will not do for you. Believe me,
and trust me. If so sickness or in sorrow, let me share it,
for fondly I love you, anti patiently will wait for you. Pray
for me, as I do for you."—advertisement in Time,'.
A book, entitled "Prophetic Outlines," hats been
published, its author being John Rees-Mogg This gentle-
man is of opinion that we have arrived at the "crisis," or,
Is other words, the end of the world is at hand, and the
various chapters of his book are devoted to proving this.
In the Faubourg St. Martin, in Paris, an Irish
Frenchman, who keeps a 1/1.C., ry, has placarded in his win-
dow, "beer is served here by female garcons."
There are in the Probate Court for hearing, during
the in eel nt nichaelmaa terse, 10 causes without juries
13 with special Pities, and three with common juries.
The latest curiosity of Broadway, New York, is the
so-called Mexican Resurrection Plant, which is exhibited and
sold there, tits plant is apparently dead, but it demands
only water to unfold before the ejes with rich leaves of an
emerald hue. It is a native of. Southern Menlo,,, where.

duritor the rainy season, it tMurishes luxiiriantly, bui in the A co'nsiderable riot ;pp ears to have taken place at
dry weather titles anti curls up, anti is blown about by the 13filton, cal Monday, arising out of the municipal elections,
win.l. Each such specimen, howev,r, when placed in a plate and appears to have sonic features in common with Die die
of water bunts into new life. turbances which had previously taken place at Blackburn.
itser five Inuidre..l ladies 44 I%fadrid have petitionedTi T Celtic element was, however, in me perceptible at Rotten,
the Prmident of the Counsel in favour ro thw e preservation of and the fighting, whieh was severe, ended at last in the
or illinpressioll has beengious decreed They biddy ask, in fact, and many broken heads. Several of the rth
the maintenance of the statu quo in all that concerns nil- sides are in custody.
all the churches and reli institutions hose destruction defeat ofth e I ris h . The re was a great de a l
goif .sdhtevn ere
on
. gbolasths
gion.
In the first nine months of the present year we have
frl'hae
jToiunrses.ao(f,i/OnudriaLisfri+ns ttho:tiihigehri.M,tj eetirbsei‘nTteraLes...
issecattureabdroaid. 2t.ildBB. ,59colu,2,‘Siitryy—arads
loafrgcoerttognuapniteicile goobydsnrruly-
lated into Marathi and Guxerathi, by desire of the chiefs of 150.000,000 yards than In the corresponding period of
Western India 1867, the year of the largest export of cotton manufactures
A bear escaped from his den at Belle Vue Gardens, ever known.
Manchester, on Saturday, whilst the keeper was cleaning the In a letter giving some particulars about the National
cell and before the brute was captured a keeper was severely Temperance League, Mr. Robert Rae, the Secretary, writes
bitten liy it. The wouttJed man now lies at the infirmary to say that the society is not "perpetually struggling to in-
in a dangerous condition.
duce the Legislature to forbid intoxicating trunk, but that
The France cantains an article on the state of
is
good intentions.' It may lie said that ' Europe is paved with from the highest to the lowest, to adopt the practices of
Europe, which says i—" It is said that 'hell is paved with
not to
pacific intentions.' Never were there so many reassuring ab.,p,e,, a beverage, as the
ttollepeonr:ug:deae_t objectoefonthne,o—Naatliloncal.sel Te;nolfnetrianencecomle.a=
ce from strong drinks, as a contra, n
declarations in the mouths of statesmen ; hut it must be most efficient means of reclaiming &tinkers's, and of pre.
acknowledged, on the other hand, that never have there been serving the sober from habits of intemperance.
so many preparations for war by the departments for war.
People speak peace and they arm to the teeth. Europe is
like a dimial forest, which nobody dares to enter without
nt Austria will be the amen of the Court at CompMente in
revoners, swords, and daggers, to protect himself from some
the course of this month, and that 1468 will thus, ins great
tuna. enemy." prltet
.7
hytpelesria;dut at
QS.te...Colof uldr.tshiaatanndottheontlmyprtels:
me.ure repair the otitis of certain aovereigne and crown
A characteristic anecdote illustrative of Mr. Spur- princes to bring their ladies with them, which was the cause
aeon's power as a punster is told of hiss, when preaching at of much heartburning in 1887. The Empress of Russia is,
Wotton-usider-Falge or one of the neighbouring towns. lie however, not expected, and yet it is said that on taking
was particularly anxious Lord Dude should hear him, and it leave of his imperial most at the Paris railway station, the
was understood that his Lordship was to be present. Mr. Emperor of Russia promised that she should canto.
Spurgeon frequently inquired as the meeting proceeded
A serious accident happened on Saturday night at
. whether or not the much-expected Peer had arrived At
muttered who a sigh of mortification, but a capital bon mot,
I play of Stolen ;or the Sweet Ballad.innger, she sustained
length, finding that there was no hope of his coming, he
'I fear of ter all, that he is but a Sadaucee !" sad Dude . titheei
guEogiedtae, Exeter
ho Theatrella
twelve
to hue. .
,lez,gd leading
e,afteheeer,.. Miss
i.
VII: character of Jenny 3111 some. In the coarse of the drama
The series of conferences, held under the auspices she had to cross a draw-bridge, which broke under her, and
of the Bieleip of Ely in Ms diocese, have 'seen brought to a she fell to the stage, a distance of about eight feet, several
close at Huntingdon. The questionn discussed by the three pieces of scenery falling upon her. 'the curtain was 'ardently
bustilred clergy and laity who attended the gathering in- lowered, and Miss Bxignolds. who had sustained severe his
eluded the best way in winch lay-nien could help rorward the jury, was removed to her lodgings.
work of the church; the present state of the church rate
ol on Sunday, in aid of the missions to Central Africa;
church, and the means of securing greater unity amongst
ional
inwtnre morning at the parish church, West Derby, and lathe
Its members. _. The Bishop of Oxford preached two 'sermons in
controversy ; bow to increase Die efficiency of the nat
evening at the church of the Holy Innocents. Large crowds
At the sitting of the Registration Appeal Court in flocked to both services, and at West Derby hundreds of
Edinburgh on Friday, the question of the right of females to people were unable to obtain admission. In the evening his
be registered as voters came up for consideration, on an lordship addressed a public meeting on the subject of the
appeal supported in the Conservative interest, from the African missions, in the small concerbroom at St. Georges-
burgh of Stranraer. The court affirmed the decision of the ball.
sheriff in refusing the claim. nolding that the common
law of the land restricts the tight to vote to male persons
The Salt Lake papers give the proceedings +4 a last, by the Prince of Wales, was losed. It was stated that
wh(ilcrit, SwaastuoraptanyedlastwilithgereFaitneeerAJLE,yxoh,!bti
the lath
.aht LofeledTas;
The Mormon Church unanimously agreed that the com- visitors was 800,00 e. Votes of than s were p 1
mercial intercourse w ith the Gent les be restricted to the Dudley told Lord Houghton, both of whom have gre,at y as-
general Mormon conference that hal recentlY been held. during the time the building had elieekn open ti.lesedn
t,be,
li.r .1,1
neceasities of the Motmons. Those purchasing getterally sisted the committee in bringing the Undertaking to a sue'
from Gentiles do so at the peril of expulsion from the cessful issue.
church. This measure was urged as necessary to
Ne
self.ne-
fence against the rapidly approaching danger of outsiders i
jnoe,,eplaztmerielkenn
oAnnhd,errnupaclLan.ycl,
coming in with the Pacific Railway who are avowed enemies .iept. 12tb, 15438, a Young Limy Passengers who witnessed
of ralormonism. .T.‘u‘ssjiuenid,pfredominthtoe sttheaenßiehr
this lamentable occurrence will oblige by Communicating
The foundation-stone of the first asylum for the with Mr. l'ollaky, private inquiry office, IS, Paddington.
imbecile poor of the metropolis was laid last Saturday at green, London."—Advettisement in Loudon Times.
Leavesdem about four nines from Watford. The building "A gentleman ariverti,a ' Vegetable Hair, from
is to he erected under the provisions of the Metropolitan
Algiers.' We have not seen the artiele ; but, as we presume
Poor Act of 18417, and its estimated cost is L 128,000.
that, like other vegetables, it require. a somewhat moist
" Much amusement is caused in military circles at smi, we can honesoy reconimend it to the notice ot people
the impossibility of getting Military Attaches back to their ~h 0 have got water on the brain."—Ternahatek
posts; they cannot tear themselves away Boni Old England. t• Proiestants to the rescue" may do very well furs
The season, mouse shooting. urgent private affairs of their own
and other elide's, kc.,ike., it is late in October before they are
all out of the country. The time has come tor the abolition h The man who in this way created
hhau.strdintsusemp,rolicueet
dsh,egating it m the Church is evidently &
of th semiiemus appointments. It had better be done soon,
ere tile question take. a more serious turn, for an ugly such a wild panic in the celebrated chapel of St Janes,
d his Pr t tant zeal visage alined
return might lie calleil for iny Parliament, which wrefid place Isßr.iiiitchetr(rno,ursts;.,. pF7iii.r:iptitae„, by the,,itz,v.
.31r. Parch. at tbe
these military einecurists in a very foolish position."—Court
Journal. lattehdepeitettytoonf lifts:lyinyatiyir4Tfirriisels implied 1 tnd ti-
An Arab, named Syud Ahmud .Mukhi, has just ar- It is said that copies of the celebrated Lanterne have
rived in Lahore from Araliia, bringing x ith liint a precioUs I recently been introduced into France from abroad ma very
cargo of sundry a lly articles, comieting principa wearing -eat us
apparel, which he declares to have belonged to Mahomet. in wuY.
Emperor, which for alone while passed unsuspected, until
They were inclosed in plaster bunts of the
Hundreds of wealthy and influeuttal native gentlemen Hock
, to his house to gaze upon these sacred relics of their pro- ' the fact.
; some one in the secret called the attention of the police IA
phet, paying v 81.10119 sums, averaging from 100 rupees and ' " l'here was once a Western governor named Powell,
upward&
' famous for chewing and spitting, of whom somebody re-
An Irish ministerial journal states that the railway marked that he was a very sociable man. • Sociable !' re-
commieemgers are preparing a supelemental repoit, con. plied the indi ual vid addressed, ' I rather think he is—darned
gillrect recinomendations for apm etase of the rail- sociable ! ISMS introdooced to him otter to Grayson Springs
Met tall, and he harbil been with me ten minutes Isefinie he
wet a of Ireland ; " [Ministers desiring to aubmit a scheme to
' parliament ahnost immediately 5f15
the session opens." begged all the tobacco I had, got his feet
"—.up in my lap, and
pat all over toe ! Darri-ed sociable /.' Far-Weeein ' It is said that Count Bismarck felt the tremendous 'Gamblers," in All the Year Bound.
risk of the game he was pla3ing with Austria, and it is ,
actually said list during the war he kept a loaded pistol In ' All Japanese newspapers have been stopped by the
his pocket, which he presented to his bead at the terrible Japanese Government,
eminent just before the arrival of the Crown Prince, when • Mr. Dalgleish gate a smart answer to an election w Sadoa w. all but lust ! ; " heckler," at a meeting Imld in Glasgow the other night.
• In the connect the heckling, he was asked a question upon
The Rey, Gerald Barry, a Roman Catholic curate, the Game Laws, when some ens shouted out There is so
has been board over by the magistrates at Tipperary Petty
game in Glasgow." Mr. Dalgleith promptly replied, "I beg
Sessions, himself in £5O, and two sureties in £25 each, to , to tell the honouraide eentleman that there is game in Glas-
keep the peace toward. Dente Cooney, • farmer, who com- !
glow and I ant the unfortunate victim just now."
plain.' that the rev. gentleman used threateniag language '
to him in a chapel. The Municipality of Madrid has already provided
The personalty of the late Earl of Normanton has work for 15,000 men.
been sworn under £700,000. A Birmingham paper states that at two in clock on
: Sunday morning a policeman found a flask of gunpowder It is stated that the Pope recently intimated to a : near the doorstep of the residence of the Mayor of Kidder-
distinguished Roman Catholic English peer that Archbishop , monster A quantity of loose powder was ecattered about
%laming! and Bi hop Cliathorne would soon receive the the flask, end several luciler matches were thrown down cardinal's hat, and that the Scottish heitarchy is about to be , upon the powder. The policeman i moved the flask and the
restored,cra
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of Glasgow and Primate of All Scotland. pl.ed the powder where it was found.
A Paris paper says that there is no truth in the re- The Rev. .T. C. Edward+, Rector of Ingoldwells, in
port that Isabella of Spain ever bitentled to take up her Lincolnshire, has addressed a letter to his churchwardens, in mildews at Brighton Some luggage of the 'Alum and view of the approaching elections He iays that candidates
Countess of Girgenti which was sent there, and which bore who are determined to support Mr Gladstone—" a man who the ex-Queen'a name upon it, gave rise to the rumour. The has an eye to see the real state of things, a heart to feel the
31hoonalDikdomatiqueconlirme the statement already made, necessity of doing a great work, and courage to persevere ha
that her Majesty will shortly arrive in Paris, and declares it through good and evil report "—have a claim upon the
that she will remstn in France until the Cortes " decide upon votes of the electors; all others are "blind parties.sa or aim
the fate of her destiny." ful ignomniuses."
Madlle di Rhona was performing the gun-trick at a Amongst the subscribers to the Wilberforce fund,
Brussels theatre, and when the weapon, after it had been for the maintenance of the Theological College of Custdesdon
handed round for the inspection of the public, was returned ass permanent inetitution, is Mr. Disraeli for 11.50.
hits her hands, she inserted her magic wand into the barrel, The personalty of the late Dean Millman hen been
and felt it come into contact with an unexpected ohstacle. sworn wider ,g 20,000.
agitation. it :subsequently transpired that some scoundrel
She retired, and afterwards reappeand in a state of violent
The Swedish Government has just issued a decree
among the spectators had slipped into the barrel a Screw of abolishing corporeal immlshments in the Army This in a
about au inch in length, which, if it had not been discovered, measure long demanded by the public opinion of Sweden.
would have killed or seriously wounded the fair enchantress. A Paris correspondent eats that the celebrated
On Monday last Prince Arthur joined the garrison rather Hyacinthe is to preach the Advent sei mons this 3ear
. otre Datne There has been a great struggle between
at IVoolwich, as a lieutenant in the corps of Royal Engineers.
The ex-Queen of Spain still arrive in Paris on the tl'i:. carmelite; 'and Jesuits for this privilege, but as the
Archbishop of Paris favours the former order it has gained
Bth or Inth. The houses taken for her on the Champs the
Ely area are the property of a somew hat eccentric old lady, l
tviwcto.ryild.
seem from a Paris paper that hint* NA--
whose mania it has been bur many years to appear RS though poleon, has conic over to England min a mission of sou./ Thi-
sbe wished to let these mansions, but to ask so high a price penance, as he does not propose to leave until he has had an
for them that no bidder accepted her terms. The Queen's interview with the Queen. The Prince had a Serrtb/y laugh
agent, however, has taken her by surprise, and has agreed to voyage across the Channel, his yacht, although one of the
pay 11,0051. (that is, £440 a month for both, hest, being compelled to put in to New Romney in eOlibe•
In the Fifth New York District, u here George quence of bad weather.
Francis Train and John 31orrissey aire running for Congress, A rho king "coolie tragedy" is reported frosts HA.-
a third car didate, Horace Gm eeley, of the Tribune, has ap- date. A vessel appeared at that port with forty-two Chine,.
reared. The voters thus have a choice I etween Traio, coolies on board, and no Eitropeavis Every article ot
Morrissey, and Greeley. The chances are decidedly in favour foreign manufacture had been, where possible, removed
of the ex-prise-lighter and gambler. Train telegisphs from From internal evidence, she appears to have been the pr r,,il
goal in England that he ha anxious to be elected, as it would dents, an Italian barque, consigned to the Portuguese "ceii-
" facilitate the recovery of his freedom." sal at Hong-Kong, which left Macao w Ith • iihiss%oad of
M. Marfori, it is said, has tendered his resignation coolies last Jelle. The captain and crew 28 in ftw,,,jher and
as intendente of Queen's Isabella's household, and re. 340 coolies are missing. Bloodstains abound abc,at the ship.
commended her Majesty to replace him by another Spanish Brigham Young is said to be anxiou", to dispose of
grandee.
thirty-live marriageable daughters.
A fracas recently occurred at the Broadway Theatre, It is customary at Birmingham to set apart one
New Tot k, arising from the attempt of some officers to serve Sunday In the year for making a gener,d collection at all the
an injunction against the pert°, mance of the dramas of churches and chapels in aid of the o'siarltable institutions of
" Foul I'lay," in width a man and a laW Were woanded. On the town, each of which partielPrac in turn. La Sundey
hearing of this Mr. Charles Reade fonvarded to 31eserS, week was devoted to this objer, t. The amount collected list-per £m, with a letter, in which he says _n Ido not was .C 3,500 which will this "jeer be handed over to the
know who was in the wrong; more Competent Judges will General Hospital. The allYount in this way obtained since
decide that upon a sworn esidenee. But it makes me very the .eheme was Its-at ...Tiled out in 1859 is about £37,000.
unhappy that blood should be
am connectel. shed"
about anything of this nal G •
rorl lo Government of Spain have +i siring
kind e ith which I He directs that the
money shall be given to the two sufferers. their short existence unearthed many curious statistics
having a epecial Mierest for taxpayers. 1 hue they found
A singular variation on the "Enoch Arden" mat, though the number of convents had been reduced by
romance is taunted as an incident of last week in a country eniehalt in 1837, the last °Bidet censue, of lute, ehOlere the
town ,if Cork. The heroine of the adventure married tea existence of 688 convents, with /9 nino roma, drawing ats
ears Mee, WaS shortly a•terwrads forsaken by her husband, annual !aeration 2Thelleting to the Muni of Iknan.ooo seals To
who emigrated to Amerca. At the end of nine years she these convents also belonged 2,174 Mille officials, chaplains,
ntarried again, the second husband, like the firet, be/tinging sitcristatis, organists, .d singers. who divided altar gst
to the labouring class. Soon after this the return of the them a further sum of 3,921,0 an reale. Shim 1800 an official
Oral husband was reported ; whereupon the woman, who had census has been taken, to avoid illnathred remarks. But it
kept the fact of her first marriage a profound secret, imme- was a notortom fact that the number of there houses was
diately disappeared, and the most diligent search by both daily increasing up to the time when Queen Isabella went to
httlibands has failed to discover Iser retreat. Minns tease another monarch in dillicultles.