The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-07-05 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH kND FOREIGN
The Port of London Sanitary Committee are taking
pelmet:tom against cholas.

Amateur eteamboate on annals la the latest fancy.
There ere two or three =Moe anent in various parte. It
iwty be picturesque. but the sodety Is rather barge,.

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" The Tisza most be congrstulisted on • new source
or revenue. It is uow becoming the fashion to annoance
deaths several times over in that lournal."—Court Journal.

A heavy safe, containing £5O, arse carried off by
thieves fres the Viotceia Railway Ste*" Shellteld, es
fletasehy.

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A Scotch Registrar accounts for an exceptionally
high rla• Of marriages In one of hla district, In the fact that
It has lately been provided with a popular mistake.

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Sir Joseph Whitworth has awed priss of the value
or raw, to be obtained through the tockOy of Arta for the
beet many. on the vantages that would be !Mealy to art.
II railway companies and limited companies generally were
each to mtabltsti a savings bank for the working clams In
them employ "

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Dr. Elias Walker haa been appointed hones physician
to the Bristol liatattal for Wooten and Chihires. In future,
rasdical sad surgical appolutamnas will be open to lady
ceadidates. _ _

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The Worshipful Company of Mermrs have voted
two hundred guineas to the tirade or Si Ci•Oriffel Hoe],ltai
Laudon

The Marwick Saga.; hem heading called " Strike
Nava," a alas feature of oar dlearpalaed limsa. and wag.
grata@ al moms corning.

A new Inbrie, ma-de of woven gime, him been in-
vented In America tor ladles' dross material. It ma% H
atalned, aad la Ineombootlbla.

The threatened strike of 8,000 rowers in the Burn-
ley &drat ham been averted by the acceptance of an offer
from the maser% In tome seems the wads. offered are hitter,
ts others lower than the Illeekbant wares, sorcedton to the
standard lb* but the eetandory sr the WINIVIIIV AamosisSloe
Mass that the average .12 be shout equal.

It is stated that Priam Adalbee. t of Prussia be-
the whole of hls private fortune, lacluding a hand-
some palace, gtaated et the PAsdana Gets to Berlin, to hls
morganatic wife, the Beronees yen Banda, ate IS.Sez, who
has offered to sell the same to Government, as her haleation
Ii to reside In Austria.

Another great fire te reported from the far West
by which the town of Balmlike, In Nevada, lbw been do
grayed. The damages are ealhaated se £lOO,OOO,
A voter praising • favourite candidate at • late Irish
sisation. Id, Ho t• •• dm • fellow as ewer =ad a hat to
sled/ or a boot. I blackguard.'
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The potato disease is reported to have appeared in
carious places In North Yorkshire. The early Ammicen
validities sewn mainly affected-

According to an ordinance lstely published by the
Pregglent of Alsace Lwratne, all public doentneuti issued by
the local authorities of Metz Thionville, naarburg, and
Chateau Satins are to be printed In Emrich aa wall as German.
The decree axis the end of 1577 a. th period when OM in.
diligence tz to caeae.

No progress ham been made during the peat few days
toward. the settlement of the differences tn the London
building iced* . and unleasterme are meenwhile made between
the meaterm and the men, it la expected Mut a general efirdis
og the latter will begin on isturday, July 19.

111. dated that when the Shah visaed the Queen at
Windsor be sainted Her Majesty arlth most perfect delicacy
and grace, and mid that Minato It. had reckoned hie years
front the day of hue birth, but that In future ha .horrid data
them hoe the hour of his meeting the Queen of England
The English technical newwpaper, Ennineering, has
established an dlw Vienna, aro la illtistrming the beet of
Oh. machinery exhibits. It intend., after the clone of the
Exhibition to publiah to • book—collected and properly
arranged—the whole of the engrartngs and descriptions
which are at prement appearing In its coignes.

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The o - wner of • tenement locum informed his
tenants the other dey that he wa• going to raise their rwte
ail rowed, wherwpon they held • meeting sad wined • re.
whillou of thanks to the landlord for pax mining to raise
their rents, at the times were hard, and they Wired without
hla wthstanalt meld not he robed at all."

Ewl Russell has &Asked a return showing the
number of persons tried for warder In Ireland during the
Met z tuantlis previously to the 9th May last, and the res.
diet. returned There are nine cases In the list. In dye of
the trial. the jar, disagreed to the other Instances the
verdicts Isere for 4' lines'nuahter..

At a late examiustion of the Civil Service canclidatem.
queetioe was ynt go them as to the meaning of ' hypothesis "
One oandidete answered that it was " • machine I r rale ng
water. • Another geld he didn't remember of ever hearing
the word before, bat It sounded to him "u th:n4h it meant
the pregame which the head of • tepartment pet. en his
subordinates when there is an extra snacking of evlrk to be
done.'

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A rich French banker, who alwayi paseep the winter
In PSI adopted the fallowing plan when he wished his
gartsw.r to send blot from hts coantry house • dish of green
peas du-Ing the month ,)f Jennery. lie deepatthed • carrier.
pigeon with the I llowtnz note under his wing : " Gather •
bethet ~f green peas in the tonnes house. and send it to me
by express with the pigeon which earns. ibis note, for the
bird Is vtry fat, and !Intend to eat II with the veget.ttee
oretred

A &gee...mg eccnrrence took piece g the 'Nigeria.]
Lske,h Rounohay Pk Leeds, on Youday eventLg Two
men and a boy got into a b et. One of the men, beteg the
worse for liqu m, began iumphul abut and caps'zed the
boat. Both men were dzowned, but the boy clung to the
bset and was rescued.

Dr Bottini of Marione ham been killed by • carriage
accident elide going with a friend to 'hit a patient. His
vehicle was beginmng to amend one of the passes of the
mountain, when, by 1100111 mismanagement on the pert of the
driver, the horse swerved too much to the debt ard the
Unveil.," 'me Pfeninftated Into a deep Pafta. The d utor
wee killed ; the other traveller and the driver wae much
Injured
At • Good Templar demonstration M G3sport on
Monday the tee was noticed to be remertsbly strong, and
shortly Vier...aryls shout arty persons became midget ly Lil.
It transpired that the tea had been made in an urn which had
previonaly contained naphtha

A rumour ha. been extensively circulated, mid has
obtained general credence that on the oecaelc n of tie Ohah's
visit to Woolwich HI, Ifejesity lost some of hie diamonds,
some my three and some say six, the common story brag
that the gored ,us jewels had been cut away from his midis
by some adroit that The police have heard nothhig of the
loss, and the moon-tem which have been made prove almost
beyond doubt that the story of the lost diamonds Is an aatdre
fabrication. . _

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A demthetration wee held on Saturday afternoon at
Ityton %%now., ow Newcastle, attended he the met of the
various collieries in the chariot. Resolutions were passed
at two plat/,rm. in favour of untverskl seffraga and a r
athution of seats, and the meeting determined to use every
effort to extend the erttetion A similar demonstration was
also held at Crook, near Bishop Auckland.
At the Quarter Sessions for Othresithr, the Recorder,
lir. Kenyon, Q C In his enure deplored the prevalence of
drunkenness, • blob he behaved, not oak, in that neigh-
bourhood, bet throughost to. conatry reaseally, had bees
very mush oath. inereses since wages had beam so much
augmented. Out of forty-nine eases soled suramerily in the
(leather, twenty-oven iron chirps of drunkenness, and
moth of the remaining twenty-two were smelts Wang from
szsesitve drinking

The Stale Mpg says that a moon
adaai the peer-ion. Moor wtth trtdchnla=ttadarstad
on the occaaion of the eitak parformance hi the Brussel.
theatre at two Nallflos issues. Ha was wall ocattied.

At the ball at New Haven, during the recent military
teithrlites in that city, one set in the grand quadrille eon
Mined tiro governor% tour ex-governors, the general of the
army, In. Ilentessatieeinal, three majorgerimala end
three brigadiers.
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Last Friday afternoon • workmen threw him-
from the top of the Tour St. Jacques, In Paria, and
fell with mob violence au tbs gallery rann'ng round the bees
of tits tower as to tear one leg completely from the body.
The remains of the minima' ma am wiled to the
Keegan

A-ludicrous ndidoke eras mode by one of the evening
gapers of Neer Yost vim tts .1 ohs Almendro raw.
*marred. Tim psper lively announced thai 'mat firm Ina
in Peer.= to lopt soil that Os Royal palace
Woo In ems

The total Nam reoeived by the Lord Mayor of Loo-
dos on amount of flo.pth.isooday, amounted as Satur-
day aftemesa to Moat AMMO, Oat esilections me still
Whig paid to.
The following parliamentary paper' have been
famed .—lstorns nitailag to irlool boards; lobate of the
grata Idnoatlon Department =Wilton mrtaLa provisions
of the WM artisie of Ur Scotch coda, and silo approval of
Mao labia tlfieenth report of her llskaly's laapector of
C4Matadary to Scotland..
The leberte- states that, scoording to the project
shortly to be samdised to to. N.MaL arambly. the French
50007. 00 war ioting, would hare so effrrOve 4 1.104.000,
viz- 756,000 men In the deid. and 347,000 rerasinhig to Prance
Tielteta of admon to the Floral Hall on the night
Shed the Klan of lingo pained throagh It so hI. nay •j. 41.
Opera, gc4 al last to be tee guineas. Fancy paylng Ave
Mess In order to sash • right for an. mania ef the
An Ameriosa correspondent says :—The new panto'
IN./tie:ma ware put In me as Me lat May. are marimely
, so mash to Mal the Post-offica Depestsaent Is sot
=o supply the nin demand for the... Onion have bean
rosebud for 24.000,00001 Mom cads, bat Uta depertimad
Mae far sub bean anis to nowt/ about 8,000,000
Although so Inc.. a poetics of the Shah'. time is
occupied dolly be Meas. nearly three hoar' every
to ratting Ida diary. He allows nothing to Inlargetir
QM Mak.

The ploughmen of Plfsehbe are agitating tor shorter
boots ma/ iorlghUpier Caen their demante le of h
leered that cropswthoffer.
Hiram Powers, the celebrated American sculptor,
boo died of heart Mem. at Ide reilderee to rionoce. 116
fasefel wet etteaded bysumeor frier* seesgeletag many
ham Sad tamagn aid artiste
Among the Artillery in the Vienna Exhibition is a
min animal., la power tie hornets Kropp gum Wire the
creel, refeee-ef Gernsay usw It he resneated that ft wee
penclM:ly seeleak es the report of the cheese of powder
regoked would dear the gasser Orin the fame at the Ins
shim.

Ode of the objects aanoweeed tor spacial prayer last
week at the Ullamak:ahrk " eoafereaes," aa iveagetlasi
ge therlng likatlattad the tote Rev. Peaasadhet. was
the aosvanion of the aad Ids mita

The Italian Journals Gentili seeounla et the death
from burning of a =lady aged 17. litte had lighted a
cigarette, when the whlois she had thrown down, eel
Ire to her aiuslin dress, and la a inowent her clothes were
In a blaze. She lea alirlablag through the egarlewitg end
her father and a manwerniat Male to her aid., but tbay bad
p.m (meow to egtlegolehhig the Swam She sea..
frightfully Varna that she endued In greet searing a few
boors later.

A fearful thunderstorm bard over Vilma =Sunday
arteramm.o mend a maple or hours sad the dead were
deluged with rain, which tell hs perfect •
wire also hallatones el large as marbles."."l=llP elrd
trees In the Prater wart wooed by lbe aid
several humans were rnea. The Surdas= A. wad
German Gallery ot the Exhibition were sedeady damaged,
and the roof of the Chicago Eastenrant wee amid IT. •
portion of the Pra•ar sad the eller, Sad e. Imam IT de
UMW= were boatman*, Wag looted Imessisea.
lemma bonne were drowned by de Mamma= or the dabble
In Leopoldstset. No logo of bumm ttfe Is repined.

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At the National Agricultural Labourers' Committee
aseettnie held re Monday et Lesedegtee. a reply wee mead
hem Kr. Gladden:a evamilary te aa appalealles tram that
'Celan that he 'mold meant to Serhaemens a vendee t or
extending household garage to comedian Yr. Meadow
had ca. Tattoos esordees espened bmeal at the tseport-
anee of this gaiellina, seid the Loft ad his adad aloe it.
bat does not dill* it espoileat. coasideriug the elks be
bold; Oat he ebeeld swami this petals., which weald be
more 'Wieldy Introduced by sone aseseber not wassated
with the Goverment.

Fotty-ose of the lead* &Viola flow-ken of
Parte have =ablest to ant so lie Vienna thhibialth •
openness of Omit union *kW, which will prove theathents•
biy that the capital of France still reign. memo in the
in•tter of athinthal lower suurn.thewre Th pantheir con-
tributie• neeeins of • thespians theen.truaa, Shed with
I non of even dewripliont jnakeLly baltalri. In it are
hyacinth., the Moat= of Intl& are the 1t,.. thrown rat by
tn. rook; bon4aeta, it which one tree tle. honor freshly
blown, and that which he. then to antitheft nth two auk
wild honor., the soft grey down of wtioli thew seedy to
lost sway. The within work is a marvel of athletic eill and
d patience

Ame-ricas-. competition is beginring to be au=
felt in Birmingham end the Bth eistardstdre
Lad year's prorate of lice rails is the Oar, vas ossify
1 MAW tom, of which Pseassivires arse prided ready
one-haf. ocher Sacristies@ of gabbed his ass are berg
c daced bl large sad rapidly Isaresalag ir d
land=lies of Program ire deprist itrim Is.. En.
the ellesde will. It Is fare& goes His...
Wag of Urgent.

Daring tie week ending bat Saturday. 5.153 births
and 2 917 Maar Pero regietared in London ant twenty able
largo ottlas Ikwus of the r.twa nageww She ineenni
income of popiddlos nos 2,2h1. The soillwilly
mum in Mrs towns en. M she rots of II aikido saavaly
to every I.too persona mtlauded to be ltvneg. UAW noir&
poll 2,108 births and 1,129 daetho wore rosistarod, SM
imam haring been 171, and Ma I Wen the average.
One person diod trom somilmon. Mom massim 10 from
scarlet tovem 8 from dipthoria, 57 haw Nttoopingonagh,
from different forms of form end /2 from dloreboin :thus to
the seem principal ammo of Me mulatto am iss dress
we?. Mimed, whine 117 sad 10 in Ms two preinding
nooks. The Marren me due to Ms puler MOM of
whooping-cough.