The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-06-22 00:00:00

EPITOME OF SEWS,

EMISII AND IrOnkIGIC

Peel tea ice is the latoit Amer:can gastmimical
tuxury--bo pour l'apital.
Professor Airy, the Astronomer-royal, has been
gazette,' a K.CII.
A beautiful instance of undying affection was shown
by a lately-deceased prelate, who or twenty years everY daY,
storm or sunshine, strewed fi.overs on his otie's grave.

The carmen of the inetropolis have initiated a move-
ment for an increase of wages, and at a meetila held on
Sunday it eat restavcd to firm a "General Carmen 's Amal-
gamated Society' for the better attainment of this object.
The ".ainiford paper mills. near Oxford, were almost
entirely .its'royed by fire on Sunday morning Only the
eugMe-holise and ehitnney,ttagk were saved. The daraage is
ebtimated at about E 40,000.
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The various printing offices in Wrexham have con-
ceded the nine hours Inuit to their ent4,lo,!d.
The continuous dry weather in Cuba has increased
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the sow crop eight per coot.
Results of a revival meeting are computed at five
conversions, succ).tureu 13,4 colds, and one huudred rod
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twenty-three tbrtations.
On Sunday the boilera of the Spanish pteamer
Guadayea. lying at Marseilles burst, killing 55 persens, In-
cluding 44 passengers. A few persons west saved.

The official correspondence respecting the Geneva
Arbitrattea to now issued. It consists ot seventy-three
despatches anti other communications, ranging in date from
the 29th of A,ril to the 10th of the present mouth.
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A French gentleman who had taken lodgings in an
Enslish country town, alter his first dinner walked down
to his landlady, and said to her, 'Aft, madam,' understand
now why yultare a widow."
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A singular instance of change of hick is tobl by a
man who on last Derhy-nay dropped £5OO in hacking rrn.ce
Charde. He picked up sispcnee on the same spot before
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leaving the course. -
Ile Dragon Tree of Teneriffe, represented in the
Gardener's Chronicle of Dine Silt, it supposed to have
',Gained the age of 0,000 years If it could only begin,
" From information I have received !"
There is likely to be art unprecedented demand for
mutton in Boston during the jubilee. Just think of twenty
thousand people announeing at the top of their voices—" All
we like sheep ? '
King Amadeus of Spain is a teetotaller, and never
thinks anything but water. Though unpledged, he is a
staunch teetotaller. 'rho King's charities alone average
£17,500 a mouth.
The Janesville young ladies of the kitchen have set
a worthy example to their Tulles sisters of Dundee. The
former have signified their determination to have carpets,
easy chairs, and sofas in the underground reception r mina
In future, the usual payment of Is. as enlisting
money to men re-enlisting or re-et gaging will not be emu-
sidered necessary, and no charge on this account will be
admitted against the public.
A village near Aberdeen has a remarkable choral
society. The soprano reaches high C without effort, and the
basso profundo out* made a run down the gallery stairs,
striking B flat in a sitting position.
Pope Pius boa eignalieed the new era of his rove.
reignty by causing copies of a sort or Encyclical letter to he
distributed among the members of the diplomatic corps. '
The document, which haa not yet been made public, touches
on the present state of political and religious affairs in
Europe.
It is expected that the order for the expulsion of the
Jesuits from Germany, which is now put iitto formal shape
for presentation to the Reichstag, mil command a large
majority Its execution is to be entrusted to the 10AL:A
police authorities of the country.
A special telegram f foul Versailles says that the
German Government will withdraw its troops tram four de-
partmebta on the Ist of January and two on the Ist of
March. it France shall pay, before the 15th of December,
one milliard in cash, and two milliards in bankers' 1111 s at
four and eight months. The Germans will hold Belied until
the bills are paid.
Froua April Ist to the 15th instant the total re-
ceipts into the Exchequer were £16,265,870, as compared
with t 14.724 551 io the correspouding period of last year.
The expenditure has amounted to £14,771,282. (In Saturday
last the balance in the Bank of Englaud exceeded eight
millions and a half. _ _ _ . • • •

The experimental trials ordered to be carried out on
the (ilutton, with the view of ascertaiuing the damage likely
to h: caused to turret ships when in action, are to be made
off Portland, under the direction id officials from the Admir-
alty and Chatham Dockyard. The turret of the Walton will I.
tired at with solid Palliser 12-loch chilled shot, with SV'tv
charges of powder from the Hotspur turret ship, which will
he moored head and stern, at a oistance of 200 yards from
the Glutton.
A curious instance of Prussian discipline occurred at
Cologne some days ago. One of a gang oi nilitary convicts,
while marching over the bridge of boats, broke from the
escort and threw himself into the Rhine. That he could
have escaped 'drowning was of courBe impossible, but the
guard made no attempt to rescue him ; they quietly waited
mlii he rose to the surface, when he WAS received by a
volley of bullets, lie ettuk, of course, at once shot through
the head.
The sewing-machine workers at Berlin have joined
the machine liuileicra' union inumbering 2,000), and insist
1 °Poll being paid ISO. per week, and ten hours work. Ike
supernumerary post officials have reapectfuhy applied for a
rise of Is. per diem (:is. instead of 25.) The miners at Essen
have ;truck for 25 per cent, rise, eight hours, Including
entry and issue, mot abolition of the servitude of tilling the
coal waggons at the rate of 3d. each.
"Mr. Jones," said a clergyman, on a pastoral visit,
"I dent ECO you and Sirs. Jones at church. Sundsy even
legs." Well, no." replied or. uses;" my wife has to
stay at home to take care of the children, and as it comes
rather hard on her, I stay to keep lier company." '' Why,
how is Una : don't you keep any servants l" "Ilk, yes, we
keep two; but they don't allow us any privileges."
The German Correspondent says that according to
present arrangements, and as this session of the Reichstag
will very shortly close, the German Emperor will set out for
Ems about the Mid inst. It is the intention of his Majesty
to visit Gastrin in the course of the summer, and to return
to Berlin catty in September before the commencement of
the autumn matneuvres, which it is expected an Illustrious
royal visitor will honour with his presence.
The protracted litigation between Col. Dawkins and
Lord Rokeby occupied the attention of the Court of Ex-
chequer Chamber on Monday. It was an anneal by Col.
Dawkins against the judgment if the QUCEII.B Bench, which
had decided in favour of Lord Bose,/ on the ground that the
documents described by the plaintiff as libels were privileged.
The Judges assembled in the Exchequer Chamirr now
formally upheld the ruling of the Court of Queen's Bench.
The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs has re-
ceived a despatch from her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris,
communicatang s note from 31. de Bkmusat, to the effect
that vessels arriving in French ports on the Channel or the
Atlantic from the British Isles are no longer required to pro-
duce a bill of health. This decision is npplicable to
pleasurelachta as well as .o other veaels.—Foreiguellice,
June 17.
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We reguet to announce the death of Colonel W.
Sykes, the respteted ntember for the City of Aberdeen, at
the age of 82. The deceased Joined the Iddnbay army as far
back as 1804, and served with Lord Lake before Lhartrwor.
After gaining disthtetion in India. he quitted that country
in IE3I, aud two years subsequently received the rank of
Colonel. Ile was twice elected a director of the EAA India
Company, of which corporation he was appointed deputy.
eltailman in 1855. and chairman itt the following year.
Colonel Sykes unsuccessfully contested Aberdeen in 1847, hut
was returned in 1857, and has since continued to represent
that constituency.

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The great lock-out in the flax trade of Belfast has at
length come to an end. A very large and orderly meeting of
the fix dressers and rougheis of lielfaat, was held on Mon.
coy, to take into consideration the present condition of the
strike A great many members of both sides addressed the
meeting, as did several of the other trades di legates. The
utmost unanimity prevailed. All the speakers concurred in
the propriety of accepting the masters' proposal of two
shillings per week increase The suffering of those dependent
for work on the hackle, s and dressers use the reason ,
seemed to actuate all present.
A Paris paper says Lady Burdett Counts (this is
near mai ugh for a French journal) is in Paris, and will stay
w coral daps, and Lord Lyons will give a grand dinner, to
which all the English notabilities in Paris will he invited to
meet Barone.' Burdett Coutts. (According to Loaadon in-
formation Baroness Burdett Coutts was in London at the
time speculated upon, and assisted the Princess Lemiee at the
meeting of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals in presenting prizes to nearly 200 children, who
had written clever essays all kindnessto animals.)
A telegram from Boston states that the Jubilee
was opened on Monday, when Congressman Banks made a
speech. There was a chorus of 10,000; an on hcstra of
1,500, and an anal-nee of 30,00. Tee choruses, with can-
non accompanhneets, were successful. On the arrival of the
European bands they were publicly received, when a military
and civic procession was formed, the British hand having
' been greeted in the streets with great enthusiasm. Another
telegram from New York states that the English Grenadiers'
band played on Tuesday the British and the American
anthems, and were cheered with wild enthusiasm.
A tneetingof the proprietors of engine works ;us held
at Berlin on Monday, when the demands of the workmen
bra working day of eight hours, and an increase in the rate
of wages, were rejected. The meeting determined that at
the commencement of any strike an inquiry should be in-
stituted as to o 'tether it was justified or not, and further,
that no employment to workmen on strike should be given
in other factories. The Spener Gazette announces that a
strike of the miners its the upper mining district of Dort-
mund has commenced (extending to 42 mines), and that
about 12,000 men have left their work without giving any
notice.
Mr. J. F. Bontems, Hon. Sec, of the Ballot Society,
6, Cheapsiele, London, writes to the papers —"On behalf of
the members of this society throughout the United King-
dom, I take the earliest opportunity of most respectfully
urging upon the Government and the House of Commons
that they should, at the earliest possible moment which the
Constitution prescribes, refuse tea agree to any amendment.
made in the Ballet Bill which tend to destroy the seelesy of
the vote. It would be farbetter to leave the voting as it is than
to make the Ballot merely permissive."
Birmingham was visited on Tut-achy afternoon by
one of the most vie nit hailstorms which have been experi-
enced in the locality for many sears. Flashes of lightning
foil -wed each other with great rapidity, and for nearly all
hour the roll of thunder was almeht continuous. Mingled
with the rain, which descended at times in sheets, were hail-
stones of enormous size. The little river Rea which tiaverees
the town, ovonoweel its backs in several places, and all the
haw-lying parts were temporarily flooded. No fatal accidents
are reported, but the damage to property, and especially
crops and garden stock, is considerable.
A letter has been received in New York from Mr.
Froude, in which he says :--" I design delivering ten Or
twelve courses of tire lectures each, in your principal
cities, on tile relations of England and Ireland. I should
like lt understood by the Irish generally that I am neither
going to flatter them nor flitter DTI end. ThE relatims
which have existed, WO exist still, between the two
countries are a condi( to both of Us. Both have been deeply
to blame. I desire, by exposing the faults on each side so far
so I understand them, to elicit an impartial judgment from
America on the whole ease. I hope. therefere, the Irish will
hear me out, and that if they want to break my head they
still wait till I have Iluishe'l the course. So fne as 1 take a
side it will be for the poor Irish peasant against his oppressors
of whatever nation." Mr. Froude will arrive in New Fork
about October 1.
Loot week the mortality in London and twenty other
large towns in the United K iniploin was at the rate of 911
deaths anrually to every 1.000 persons estimated to be living.
In the metropolis. 2.1,9 ldrths and 1,207 deaths were reg.,
tered, the former having b en more by ilO and the latter less
by 151 than the average number. Excepting a slight ineream
in tile isinker of deaths from small pox, the fatality from
zymotie diseases, especially from whooping cough, showed a
general decline. It is remarked by the Registrar-General
that English death-rates are generally low dodos( June, bat
Loudon is just now unusually healthy, even for the time of
the year; the metropolitan death rate, moreover, is at this
wean always tomes-hat over-stated in collar mence of the
thousands of visitors who are not included in the population
upon which the death-rates are calculated.
' In the House of Commons, on Tuesday d a-ening, the
Marquis of liartington, in reply to Mr Whalley, said no
communication was ad rersed to the lend Lieutenant by
Mrs Neill as to a ,-tiou of leer hy a priest on the
senday preceding hat tuurder. She wrote on the lath to a
cm-Ist Ode pa inquire whether spriest lead commented on her
poi'aviiefings on Sunday, the 19th. This letter was cot re-
' ceived till after the murder, on the 27th. The facts as na-
-1 ported icy the constabulary, were that on the 10411, after
celebratieg Mass, the priest alimled to the intended eviction
of Mrs, s.emlls tenant, and recommor.3ol the parishioners
to raises fund to defray the aineneasof defending the else,
prom-sin; to head tiLi iist with ita, and arranging to receive
subscrueurms ai the chapel. Something occurred, however,
! to prevent the arrangement being carried out and con-
' semtently no subscriptions were received. There was no
denunciation of Mrs. Neill in that or in any other chapel,

which

The Sunderland policemen have had then- wages ad-
v..uccd la pa. %ea.
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There is great activity t Xirkealtly (ming to the
muneroni arrma of Ilia ships from the 1..3

Mr. Antboty Trollop: is now ea 3 i. 3 it to South
Auskrslia.

On dit that a series of articles to be vrritten by
Prinve Arthur, • n certain c %tuinetin the army, trill shortly
appear in one of the manazotes.
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The Queen of IL hand i very literary in her tastes
and habite, expending two-thirds of her income in this
direction.

The number of articles of Brazilian production sub.
jected to export taxation, is not less than 205, and they vary
from peanuts and hooves to diamonds and gold.
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“When my grocer poisons me, they simply fine
him,” says Alphonse Karr ; " but when I poison my grocer
tLoy semi me to the gmllotiue."

The Home Secretary hoe coneented to receives depu-
tetlon roprcting the long hours of work complained of by
assistants.

The education of children in the workhouse at
thteshead senools incluh ale the ordinary reading ififtea's
Paradias Lost. What do you say to that, grandma I.

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A memorial is being extensively signed in Lambeth
for preeatitnt in to tho flume Secretary, praying that the
petition of Wliiuto Roupell, seeking his diacharge. may be
granted.
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('he Wsstern Australian Bank has just consigned to
London, and Nleesre. Dabenham, Starr, and sons will shortly
sell, a valuable parcel of tetrls °Marione tints and sizes, the
produce of the Western Australian Pearl Fieheries.
A Kentish writer says --" He hopes our Ktntish or
other farmers will make experiment and plant the cane°
berry forthwith," as it was o: ce successfully grown in Kent,
though at tit it time the law was opposed to its being grown
as it is now to tobacco.

"Ross.- Your letter frightens and grieves me.
Please don't be rash. Your despondency is the evil I most
dread. Without that, more suspicions, though very annoy-
ing, are worth nothing. PleMl.sB o rite soon and fully, for I am
very anxious "—Advertisement ii. 2he Times.
The Times understands that Mr. Scudatnore's
scheme for the settlement of the telegraph brgneh of the
Post Office has been forwarded to the Treasury by the Post-
master General, who has recommended it to the favourable
consideration of "My Lords."
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Between sixty and seventy thousand men belonging
to the National Miners Association, and the Amalgamated
Amociation, met at Durham on Satirday ; their object being
to support the nines Regulation Pill, now before Parlia-
ment.
On Monday, at Norwich, sixteen leading firms in the
shoe trade decided on a lock-out—the men employed in
four branches refusing to take work except et an advance of
15 per e, ut. some 1,600 men are thrown out of work, although
the rade is full of orders.
A select committee of the House of Commona has for
some time been inquiring into the treatment of habitual
unkards in America. The committee had before them two
physicians from the United Mates, each of whom was under
examination one day. For this they have sent in a bill of
about £1,570.
It is announced from Rome that on Sunday, the 26th
anniversary of the Pope's accession, about 4,000 representa-
, tires from all parts of Europe mot in the Vatican, and gave
his Holiness a very enthusi.tic welt, .me when he appeared
I an, ,ng them. Some addresses were afterwards delivered, to
which Pius IX. replied in brief terms.
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" This is Gec;rge th,, Fourth," said an exhibitor of
waxwork for the million, pointing to • very slim figure with a
theatrical crown on his head. "I thomht he was a verb stout
man," observed a spectator. " Very likely," replied tlie man,
alertly, not approving of the comment of his visitor "but
if ymi'd a-been here vOthout victuals half an long as he has,
you'd have been twice as thin."
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In the second of bit lectures on preaching, Mr.
Beecher restrains the youthful ardour of parsons in this
way :—'Every young mau who is aspiring wants to do great
things and to pro ach great sermons. Great sermons, young
gentlemen, ninety times in a hundred, are nuisances. they
are like steeples without any bells in them things stuck up
high on the air, serving for ornament. attracting Observation,
but sheltering nob Cy, warning nobody, helping nobody."
An oath, which is not certainly one of every-day
occurrence, has Just been sworn at the town court at 13.11 in.
The peroon. sine took the oath no the heir.apparent of a
sovereign pi incely house, who also holds rank in the army.
The amount respecting which the oath had to lie taken was
1,500 tinders. An hereditaty prince who swears that he is
not blessed with a copper he the world is certainly nothing
less than a rara aria.
The Commander-in-Chief has approved and author-
ised the introduction of a new bugle end to signify "Stand
fast" l'his call is intended as an alternative for the " Cefato
fire "under certain circumstances, such as whi n cavalry or
infantry have to cross the hue of fire of artillery and it is
absolutely necessary to stay the fire of the guns for a low
minutes. The sound to cease tire would have the effect of
emptying all the WI., which in finch a case would do pre-
cisely what the Commander-in-Chief thinks it desirable to
avoid.
Last Saturday afternoon, a bailiff named Kelleher,
employed in the office of the Crown solicitor of Limerick,
was despatched to serve writs Oil some tenants residing at
Broadford, county Chore. In the evening he wai found in a
dying condition oon the road near Broadford, w ith hie throat
out from ear to ear. Ile n xpired shortly niter being din.
cove rid. Iho indications point in the direction of murder,
not of suicide. Judge Keogh was burned in efliay in seven
county towns last Sanday, and at Arden and- elsewhere,
meetings were held, and large sums subscribed to pay Mr.
Nolan's costs.

A correepondent says that the ceremony of crowning
Prince Kassa of Tigre, " King of Kings of Ethiopia, by the
will of the people of AlWssinia." If has been crowned
Ynuarnisse, otherwise John, Emperor of Ethiopia The
ceremony passed off very well and peaceably. There were
upwards of 30e.One people present. The camp reached foe
about eight miles the plain of Auxum was covered, and the
feast lasted for ten days. A shed was built, reaching nearly
a mile, where all the people feasted. About 2.0,000 cows
were killed, and 40,00 c) gallons iihoney.wine drunk.
At a large and influential meeting held at Waterford
on Monday afternoon, Sir Robert Paul, Bart , presiding, it
was resolved to take steps to induce the Royal Agricultural
Society to hold its Show in that city next year. A subscrip-
tion list was opened towards providing the requisite
guarantee fund of £5OO, and nearly the whole amount was
subscribed before the meetieg terminated. The competition
between Waterford and Cork in the matter will be very
strong. The show was last held in Waterford thirteen yeara
&v.
The Calcutta correspondent of The Times writes
There was an affair a few days ago at Slhow of a kind of
which Englishmen have little experience at home, A police-
man named Niliboo Khan, a good.looking fellow and an
especial favourite of the late Kotwal, had for some time
fallen into disrepute with his immediate superiors, probably
on account of his previous favouritism. Ile had heed
several tunes reported to the magistrate, and at last was dis-
missed. Ott this the man seemed to hate all control over
himself. lle sought the Jemadar (officer) most opposed to
him, and literally cut him to pieces. 'U ten he ran into the
Court house, which be apeedily 'cleared,' wounding two
other persona and aiming at several, lmt without effect.
Finally, on the approach of Major Montgonterie and some
men, be drew his sword across his throat and died."
The Cour/ Jour/En/gives the following :—" Mr. Glad-
stone has lost Ids worried, fidgety, fretful look, and GYM re-
sume his walks and can occasionally take up a book. A cor-
respondent recounts that he saw the right hon, gentleman in
one of the streets off the Strand the other day. Ile was
gazing it, at the shop w indowe, and looked as if he wanted to
buy something, but had not mate made up his mind as to the
character of the investment or the amount of capital to be
disbursed. At length he came to a hatter's shop (he ale aye
wears very shabby coverings to,his head), and here he appeared
to be lost in admiration of one particular chapeau marked
"Five shillings." It was not exactly a white hat, but a sort
of faded y ellowy-white, just similar to the tort of thing he
US.d to wear three.or four years ago stiles the weather was
hot. The right hon. gentleman inapected the object of his
attention in every possible aspect of light and shade, stepping
back to get the best view, and then approaching quite close
to the window te impect the condition of the article. At
length he approached the door of the shop and seemed about
to enter, when he drew back, and casting a long and linger-
ing look at the shabby five shillings' worth, passed on his
way. Ile was evidentlyaperplexed by the usual three sides of
the question."