The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-02-01 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

In Edinburgh, a boy was attending to a revolvir g ,
shaft, when it caught a long cravat which he wore, and I.
was strangled.
A young Russian lady, aged twenty-four, has just
been invested sith the degree of Doctor of Medicine by the
University of Zurich.
The Scotch ironfounders have unanimously resolved
to dispense with the servicsa of union men n and after the
let of February next until all the shops in the trade ate I
opened tree id all restrictions. There are about 1,500 men
connected with the union in Glasgow alone.
. It is confirmed that the mysterious velvet hat and
sword blessed by the Pope for the Prince "who best,
deserved of the Church in 1867," have been conferred on
Napoleon Ili
It is said that the Queen sent three times within a
few days to inquire after the State Of the health of Mr. C
Kean
The following paragraph, copied from the Sydney
Moraing Herald if the 23rd of November last, is suwative
of the comparative value of advertisements and Parlia-
mentary reports in the antipodes:—" Parliament. —ln con-
sequence of a press of advertisements, we are compelled to
hold over our reportinchiet of the proceedings yesterday in
the Alssembly."
Mr. Nlqulton, the son of Wesleyan minister, has
come out senior wrangler at iMinbridge.—lir. George Dar-
win, a son of the well-known author of the Origin of
Species," is second on the list
It is believed that the Pope will shortly promulgate
an energetic denunciation of the Fenian.
"Sheriff Parkinson, in Dyersburg. East Tennessee,
attempted to arrest an old man named Duncan, recently,
when Duncan fired at Parkinson. Parkinson's son fired at
and killed Duncan. DUIICHII.S.Ii fired and killed Parkinson's
P., and 01,1 Parkinson tired and killed young Duncan."—
New lurk Herald.
The following is the product of the sport for four
,lays, at Enville Hall, by Lord Stamford and Warrington and
his friends :-1,331 pheasants, 610 partridges, 237 hares, 247
rabbits, 7 woodcocks, '22 various, total 2,463.
Stamp collectors are disgusted and indignant at
the North German Confederation's new postage.stamps,
Thpy are he most comm •n-looking productions over seen,
"The Rev. Charles B. Smyth addressed a large
congregation at Bunyan Hall, on Sunday evening, on the ,
'New York Pim, Preachers, Demons and Dollars and the !
Dickens. "—Sr lock Herald.
The premises of a person named Casey, at
Newport, in the county of Mayo, have been broken into
by Fenians or burglars, and 8 cwt. of gunpowder stolen.
Several young men have been arrested on suspicion.
In the kitchens established in the building of Eugene-
Napole. Faubefirg St. Antoine, by order of the Empress,
upwards of 300 children of both sexes were on Friday
annulled with food. Her Majesty was present, and the
little participants testified their gratitude by loud soda
The Board of Trade have determined to present to
captain Antonio If, Budinich, master of the Austrian barque
Eke, a binocular telescope, in recognition of his services to
the crew twelve in number) of the Eudora, of Sunderland,
who were rescued by him from their sinking vessel on the
30th November last, and landed at C unitantitaiple on the
sth December. Captain Budinich generously refused' to
accept any compensation for the subsistence of the ship-
wrecked crew whilst aboard the She.
A brush with pirates took place on the Ist Decem-
ber, by the Chinese gunboat Feiloong, Captain Edwards,
assisted by several Imperial junks. The, pirates were
defeated.
At the fearful explosion which took place near
liankew, at Wuchung, various accounqi estimate the loss of
We ',Chinese, at 890, 1,000, and 2,000. The destruction of
property was most fearful, and, it is believed, unparalleled
In the annals of similar accidents.
The Italia of Naples states that three handsome
, bronze bedsteads have been diso,vered at Pompeii, and that
they are the most elegant yet found there.
The magistrates at Waterford petty sessions have
fined one of their own order, Mr. Carew, DL, £5 and costs,
for sending into the city for sale a cow unfit for human food.
If they thought he had been aware that the meat was un-
sound they would (they said) have fined him the full penalty
of E2O.

A Paris journal represents the arrest of Mr.
George Francis Train—none of the most illustrious orates
and most powerful individualities in America "—as likely to
troduce a conflict between England and the United States.
Far-seeing politician!
It is becoming quite fashionable in Londoi. far
popular preachers to publish their weekly sermons, and
Janie them after their church or chapeL
" A young lady of forty.eight, having a moderate
income, but possessing a patent for a new Invention, wishes
to marry a gentleman of sixty-flve well versed in chemistry."
Thus runs an advertisement which gecently appeared.
The other day an editor received the following
mysterious telegram :—" From Geo. Francis Wayne. Ar-
rested word spoken on Scotia saying in America pay
Alabama claims or fight release American citizens or war.
Ireland independence England Empire Lord Russell." After
meditating over the styles of various great men, the clue
was found, and it was unanimously credited to the account
of the great Train
A fresh precaution to check any outbreak of
Fenianism is being taken in Emden. Wherever colonies of
Irish exist the police are making enquiries as to the billeting
accommodation which the licensed victuallers can afford
indeed they have gone so far as to warn publicans in some
districts that very prabably it may be found necessary to
billet soldiers upon them.
A man at Detroit has skated sixty consecutive
hours for 500 dote. Towawis the last I lankets had to be
held up about him to keep the wind from blowing him
over !
"A boy ten years of age, named Jacob Bunnell,
has committed suicide in his mother's residence, in West
Twenty-fifth-street, in a fit of despond( 'icy, because his
• elder brother had been sentenced to the Island as a con-
firmed drunkard."—New Fork Herald.
It was determined on Friday, at the annual meeting
of the Leeds Liberal Registration Association, to memo-
rialise the Mayor to call a public meeting in favour of the
ballot and the repeal of the ratepaying clauses of the
Reform Acts
Among the number of persons who were married in
England during the past year, 22 per cent, of men and SI of
women could not write. In Scotland the numbers were It
per cent. on men and 22 per cent. of women ; while in Ire-
land, during the same period, to per cent of men and 52 per
cent of women were ignorant of this part of elementary
education.
Lag month the diligence carrying the mail bags be-
tween Lipetsk and Remo was stopped by a band of
marauders, almut ten vents from the latter town, anti
plundered of the large sum of 75,000 silver roubles. The
postilion and driver were killed, and the horses unharnessed
and led off by the rubbers, no trace of whom has peen
hitherto discovered.
At a recent ball given at the Hotel de Ville, in
Parts, no less than seven thousand white and rose camellia
trees were employed to decorate the apartments. Trees were
sent from the city gardens.
The London Working Men's Association have re-
solved to send a deputation to wait upon Mr. Gladstone, to
"converse" with the right hon. gentleman "upon the
actions and principles of trades unions," as criticised by Mr.
Gladstone at Oldham. Mr Gladstone has expressed his wil-
lingness to receive toe deputation, and has no objection to
the presence of a reporter, but he cannot fix an earlier date
for the interview than the 10th of February.
Last year, 837 inquests were held at the Liverpool
Coroner's court, at a total average cost of £2 Os 2}d. per
inquest. The total number 4,1 deaths reported to the court
were 1,211, showing a satisfactory decrease, as compared
with the previous year, when the number was 1,690. For
murder six persons were committed for trial, and verdicts
of wilful murder against twelve persons unknown were re-
corded.
The council of the Aeronautical Society have de.
cided Upolll holding ail exhibition in London of objects viol-
fleeted with aeronautical science in the month of Jute
yingements have been made for the exhibition to be held
St the Crystal Palace.
A vivandiere, who accompanied the armies of the
First Napoleon, has just died in the Asylum of La Sal-
petriere, at the age of 104. She went through the Russian
canipaign and was at Waterloo, anti in the °mimeo( her long
life traversed a thoimand dangers She retained her intel-
lectual faculties to the last.

A French medical journal announces the discovery
of a perfect cure for, the madness produced try the bite of a
being the venom of vlpers, which
7rn,.nanpe:ti,",itdi2u4lo,tdhl,e;has:i)::,cf
a brute is a new idea; whether an
agreeable one or not depends on the taste of the Inmates
and their visitors. It will be better, we think. to prefer
running the chance of a bite from a mad dog to the society
of pet vipers kept ea antidotes against hydrophobia!
Two more American " national " hanks have met
with misfortune. The Commercial National Bank, of Mem.
phia Tennessee, suspended January 13, and its capital will
be totally lost. A teller of the New York "City National
Bank' absconded the same day with 350,000 dole, of its
funds The hank will continue business, however, as it has
an ample surplus to meet its losses. Disastrous speculations
have caused the trouble in both banks.
! It is said that the Queen is greatly pleaaed with the
reception her diary has met with, and the effect is to make
her more anxious about the publication of the second volume
of the "Life of the Prince disort."
At Preston, on Saturday, Wm. Barry, a private
soldier in the 107th Regiment, stationed at Fulwooil Bar-
racks, was charged with using seditious language Whilst
tirmik in a public-house on the preceding evening he cursed
the Queen and the Government, and threatened to knock out
a man's brains for speaking lig-dust Fentaitiant It was
'dated that he had been in the army seventeen years. Ile
was fined 58, and costs for being drunk, and was then handed
over to the military authorities to be dealt with for using
the seditious language
The Iriah Attorney-General, in reply to the Cham
her of Commerce Belfast, has stated that he ciincurs in the
opinion that the law of bankruptcy lit Ireland requires
amentimeut, and that it is desirable to assimilate it to the
law in England ; but he thinks that until the English hill
shall have made some progress it would nOt be useful to
commence any Irish legislation. He proposes, In case the
, English bill has made fair progress at Easter, to "place it in
, the hands of our Irish drattsman to prepare a similar bill for
' Ireland, mutatio mutandi,"
Peter Reilly, a man about forty-nig years of age,
has been committed for Did in Dublin for killing his wide
by beating her. The cue was an extraordinary ope. A boy
of thirteen reported to the neighbours the death of his
mother by saying, "My dad da is atter killing my mamma;
know she's dead!' The woman was found in a pool of blood ;
she was perfectly naked The prisoner's son sold hia father
kicked his mother repeatedly; tore her from under abed by
• the hair of her bead took a candle and attempted to set
fire to her; again tried to set fire to her by putting her head
under the grate He was partly drunk The woman died
shortly after being tak•ri to the hospitaL Her body was
covered with bruises and wounds.
An "attack on Duncannon Fort," Waterford,
reported in some of tha papers, has been expladied.
The men in the fort not having hoisted the ladder communi-
cating with the entrance door of Ike tower were awakened
at nicht by a noise of blows tupon it, wh ch was not un-
naturally attributed to a Fenian raiding parry, on going
nisei the roof, however after a short interval, they heard
arise from under the wall of the tower at a little distau.e
the chorus of the song, "We won't go home till morning,"
tuna by three not ill-dreDited persons, who were indulging in larg " Cid miiht hive had & bid sadist

SATURDAY, FEP: 1, 1868

Somebody has sent Mr. Disraeli a bank-note for
£lOO, which he desires may be placed to the public credit.
•• Somebody" must fancy the country in want indeed, for he
does it style it, as usual, " ...science money."

In America the people lire an eater to obtain the
Queen', Journal as her Maj.istva own sufileeto. This
harpers, New York. have announced an inunedisue
ti !non early stunts of the work. The Eat* Yrare of the
Pr; Consort was published by this firm airo are mud to
base It. as pinch surprised at the demand tar it &a were
the EnalLdi publishera
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Eighty-two of the Guards, who have been quartered
at Osborne as a guard ot honour to her Majesty during her
stay in the island, were last week ordered back to London,
the duty their being very heavy. This leaves now about lon
wen still lu attendance at Osborne.
The statue of Sir R. Peel has be ,n placed upon its
pedestal in front of the principal entrance of the New
Palace-yard, in Parliament street, Westminster, London. It
stands upon a double pluith, about six feet in height. The
lower plinth is of grey and the upper of red polished granite,
relieved by worked moulding, and are of an oblong octagon
shape.

A correspondent draws a sad picture of the con-
dition of the agricultural labourers in Yorkshire. The
labour market is overstocked but, in addition to this, the
farmers have succeeded in reducing wages to all almost
starvation point. Cases of great suffering have been made
known, hut it is said there is a good deal of silent endurance
which foes not come before the public eye.

"We are assured, on good authority, that on the
skirts of the vast misery there hangs all immeasurable
amount of imposture, vagabonding and idleness. In some
distrieta the rush of vagrants to share the liberal dole of
indiscriminate charity has been so great as positively to
have raised the rents over a wide area"—British Medical
Journal.
An American telegram states that the Rouge of Re.
presentatives has passed a resolution requesting the Presi-
dent to intercede with the Queen in behalf of Father
Sl•Mahon, the Fenian prisoner in Canada. and also for
Lynch, Warren, Nagle, and other Fenian'.
I The Queen has sent to Dr. Jenner a hoi filled with
; copies of her "Journal in the Highlands," to be distributed
I by him among the several hospitals, so that the library id
each of these institutions may possess a memorial which noise
of them can fall to prize. • •

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The death is announced of Dr. Davy, the brother
and biographer of Sir llumphry Davy, and eminent as a
chemist, geologist, and physiologist, which took place on the
24th inst , at his residence, Lesketh-how, near Ambleside.
The Banffshire Journal of Tuesday morninz reports
the loss in the Moray Firth in the storm of Friday last ..f
twelve fishermen belonging to Buckle, leaving eight widows
and nineteen children.
The total amount subscribed in the locality for Con-
stable Duggan, who was fired at and woluided u hen carry-
ing despatches in Kerry, on the breaking out of the first
Fenian revolt there, is i.. 110, which has been headed over to
him.
• The certificate of Captain W.Nay, master of the
steamer Chicago, which was lost on the atm hist at the
entrance to Cork harbour, has been suspended for sin
months. The Board of Trade assessors were of opinion
that the captain was at fault in approaching land during
the thick weather which prevailed at the time.
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The O'llonoghue, M.P., writes a letter to an Irish
paper authorising Ms signature to be placed to an address to
Mr. John Martin, against whom a prosecution Is pending or
his participation in the late funeral procession in Dublin.
The tr Donoghue signs the paper "with the conviction that
a more worthy representative of the national cause than
Mr. Martin' can nowhere be found."
There is rather a singular dilemma on the East
Indian Railway. Tile system is so vast—being upwards of
1,100 nailes from elid to end—that the same time does not
. prevail at either extremity. The management has resolved
on adopting Jiilsbulpore mean time, but by this arrangement
mean Calcutta time will be thirty-two minutes before rail-
way time, while Bombay will be twenty-eight minutes be-
hind it.
Fanny Xemble is to begin a series of readings in
New York about the Ist of March, and afterwards to visit
Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington.
The mine of Trienraisin, in Belgium, has taken
Ore, and 12,000 tons of small coal are burning. Measures
are being adopted to prevent the conflagrations host
extending.
In 1867, 117,591 immigrants landed at New York
from Germany, 67,134 from Ireland, 38.712 train England,
6,315 from Scotland, 4,843 from Sweden, 3,965 from - witser-
land, 3,204 from France, 2,156 from Holland, 1,623 from
Belgium. 1,372 from Denmark, 1.032 from Italy, and 1,744
from other parts of the world. During the last 20 years
3,739.498 immigrants have lauded at New York, averaging
166,974 annually.

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'i he Right Rev. John Henry Hopkins, Episcopal
Bishop of Vermont, died at his residence in that State on
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January 9, after a short illness, in the 76E13 year of his age.
Bishop Hopkins was the oldest American Bishop, and was
President of the House of Bishops Of late years his 1181110
has frequently been dragged into American political dis-
cussions on account of his pronounced Conservative views
and his publication of a work asserting the Divine origin of
slavery.

A dispute has arisen between the Duke of
Buckingham and the committee who hove the management
of the Colonial Bishoprics Fund. It appears that the latter
holy nominated Archdeacon Harris to the bishopric of
Gibraltar, and !signified the same to the noble duke. The
Secretary for the Colonies resented this interference with his
patronage, and refuses to acknowledge the right of this
irresponsible burly to appoint clergymen to colonial
bishoprics.

The Rev. Ifiidh 111'Neile denies the statement of
the London Guardian that he WAS at the high celebration at
St. Alban's on Sunday last Writing to the Record he says:
"I have not been in Loudon since November. You will
radiice me by adding to this that I am Co conscientiously per.
waded that what is called the high celebration at V3t Alban's,
Holborn, is idolatry, that I could no more consent to share
in it than I could to be wiliully guilty of Sabliaqi-breaking,
adultery, or *eft."
The will of Edward Tames, Q C., 111. P., late judge
of the NAM! e Court of Liverpool, wttotney.general
and Queen's serjeant for the souuty palitalie 06 Lancaster,
4whs died at the llntel do Louvre, Paris. November 3rd last,
at the age of slaty-mu, was proved in the London court on
she 3rd Inst., sod the persomilty sworn snider £16.000. It is
contained in the following words : "This is my last wilt
dated July 00th, 1055. 1 deilse and bequeath my estate to
my wife, Mary James, her heirs, executors, and adminis,
Waters, and appoint her the executrix."

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The Lancet announces that Prince Rama Varma,
the first Prince of Travancore, has supplemented the purse
already offered for the discovery of an antidote to the cobra
poison, by 250 rupees, nuking a total of 1,750. In his letter
to Dr. Sliertt, the Prince remarks that no sum of money can
be misspent in the furtherance if the cause of humanity;
and it the trifle he offers can enhance the inducement for
the disclosure of any existing secret, or further the prosecu-
tion of a well-directed inquiry in search of an effective
remedy to however small a degree, he shall feel satisfied.
A return issued by the Italian government shows
that the different ecclesiastical estates offered for sale in the

Pro:lnce of Genoa. between the 26th of October and the 31st
of December, 1867, were originally estimated at a total of
625,3861. : they, however, brought 1,335,671 f. , or an increase
of 710,2351. on the upset price.
The Morning Post asserts that Russia has been at
last induced to postpone for atinie the active advance-
ment of her traditioual policy ' n the East, and that this
result is mainly due to the firmness and good sense of Lord
Stanley.
On Friday, at the Wigan borough sessions, the Re,
corder sentenced David M William to five years penal semi.
tude. The prisoner was the collector of mewed and in.
come taxes for the borough, and in the autumn of 1866 he
ahsconded, leaving a deficiency in his accounts of e 2,000.
No criminal information was laid against him till a twelve.
month after his departure, when it was found that
collected Income tax from several people in and
for a year for which he had not been ;
hence the charge upon which hews, 01"onvicted.
beflisd
into collector
The progress of hippolAt'agy is shown in the state•
meat that the fleet shop for the sale of horseflesh was opened
In Paris on July 9, 1866, and already there are upwards of
seventeen such shops in differeet parts of the city. In
twelve months 2,312 horses were elaughtered, yielding some
600,000 kilos. There were also killed in the same time
78 asses and some mules: is it possible the carcases were
for coesumption ? At Vienna 1,054 horses were slaughtered
In 1863, yielding 341 950 kilos. of meat ; at Berlin 1,507; and
at Turin 73 wore killed in 1865.
A native of Wurtemburkt, residing at Cincinnatti,
writes to Secretary Seward, stating that his name his been
published in the papers of Isis native country as a deserter
from the army, although he had left that country when he
was only five years old, eisildeen years ago. He now inquires
In case he should make a visit to his native country would
he lie liable to impressment into the army. Mr. Seward
answers that he may be subject to some detention and
trouble, to which the Government cannot recommend him
to expose himself.
The total length of railway in operation in France
at the close of September, 1867—the latest date to which we
have precise official information—was, on the old networks
of the six great companies, 4,704 node.; on the new net-
works of thesis great compaines, 4,770 aisles; and on miscel-
humous lines, 1511 mile,; making a total of 9,624 i miles
Three brigands named Coda, Qutranta, and Nardi,
were executed at Marseilles on Monday morning The tele-
gram says Nardi and Coda asked pardon for their offences
from Heaven anti nian, and died courageously; but Quantal&
maintained silence. The sentence upon a companion of
the men executed, named 'Si Mater°, is reported to have been
commuted. An immense crowd witnessed the execution,
but no manifestation of popular feeling took place.
A highway robbery committed at Swords, near Duly,
rei.allit the stories of the wild doings of Irish Rappar,,,..
As a baker was returning to Multitude •Ith his
received far bread delivered throughout tne . ..'"'
..rict, three
men sprang front a hedge, dragged him off ' cart, rifled
his pockets, and warned him, on leaving
allot, that if he
reported the occurrence Or i attempt", t to identify them he
would "hear from them strain." iney wore the low hats
of the " etratigere " to whom
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Irish police.
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The Weekly Rkyieter, a Roman Catholic organ, has
1.0.011L0 nelleVe. that, before many days are over, a con-
version to the Catholic Chureh wilt be announced that will
cause more talk than even the reception of Dr. Nlarinieg, or
Dr. Newman, or Mr Oakeley did twenty years arm. "If what
we have heard pi true," adds the Itegiegei, "11l conversion
to which we allude is more than likely to he followeil by many
PereoliS who for a long time have been anxious, but a raid,
to pass the Ruhieon."—f Who is ill]
On Friday, night, about eleven o'clock, the barque
Waciipatn, of Bath, U S., 720 tons, Captain Orr, from New
Orleans to Liverpool with cotton, strand, d on the beach five
miles north of Barmonth. All remained on board till morn-
ing, when they entered two boat., which instaptly capsized
amongit the breakers, and out of fifteen persons only four—
two men, a boy, and a womau—were saved. Captain Orr and
the officers were lost
A Marseilles telegram gives the speech of the king
of Greece at his official reception on New Year's Day, which
In Greece, as In Russia, falls twelve days later Mau in
Western Europe. King George said—" My heart wol that of
the Queen bleed at seeing so many thousand Christian
enliged to find a refuge on the maternst soil of Greece.
Humanity and the indissoluble laws of fraternity impose
upon us a duty to give what succour we can wider so great a
calamity. I hope and trust that the New Year will be a
happier one than the last."
An artesian well of naphtha has been discovered at
Know°, in the CIIIICIana, by hi Iring. At the depth of 274
feet from the mid.° the liquid was first struck, and for •
whole month ,ft,m Nov. 24 to De, 24, gave a supply of
1,500 barrels daily. Since then a treat source has been
tnei, wLich rises with irresistible force to the height of forty
I feet ale ive the ground ; the Jet being four inches In diameter,
and delivering a daily supply of 0.00 barrels.
' The first attempt to desecrate churchyards in Imp.
land, by the erection of memorial crosses in honour of the
men executed at Manchester has been promptly put down
by the constabulary. A tyros. was put up tit the graveyard
51 Rathowen by, as the Weekly Neu* states, the Roman
Catholic iehabitauts ; but it woo immediately pullet down
and out to pieces by a constabie, while in officer and some
Members of the force stood by to protect him.
Mr. James, the inspector cif weights and measures
for the Wo Owich district, recently presented himself at the
Illeaarnorn.of the Coast Brigade Royal Astillery, with snide
of testing the weljghts and measures of the corps. The
officer In charge refused to allow him to do go, and a sum.
mons was in consequence taken out by Mr. James against
the officer. The case was heard in petty session., whet, it
was decided to refer the question ti the War Department,
and Sir John Pakington has decided that civilian Inspectors
ought not to examine or meddle with military measures sad
weights

A local mayor in the neighbourhood of Lyons was
informed that • mats wax lynig on the public road in the
SHOW. -1 be fiat or and two of his marmite went to the
piece Indicated, bat declined to interfere, ',miffing the
are vol of a justice of the peace. They Placed a lantern,
however, at the man's •eet. Next morning they procetded.
X h the magistrate to we rho man, who watt hy this tune
fresen to death . and, what 111 Worse, watuu al few hundred.
viTtli of hie oan arm-house. Do they tuavage thee.) thaw&
hAter Znglandt