The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-29 00:00:00

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ages railway bridge at Mannheim is to be ed for
goods trains on the lat. of January, and forpsuseiger trains
a few day. later.
The Volk, Zeituna and the Sucial Demokrat of Berlin
were confiscated on the 18th Inst.
A apecitnen of the peacock butterfly was caught in
Stoneham Park, Hampshire, Last week.
Ann Lawrence, who was indicted at the Maidstone
assizes for the murder of her child at Tunbridge Webs,
was found guilty and sentenced to death The jury were,
however, locked up for three hours before they could Was.
To the lad she protested that she did not kill the hild
"It is the fashion in California," says e New York
contemporary, for gentlemen to take their families to the
country and camp out for • month. They pitch their tent.
and lead • sort of ginsplife, shooting, bunting, fishi, g, and
coking. The doctors object to the fashion, as it is con-
ducive to health Tilers are any member of ladies who can
handle • double-barrel with effect, and bring down their
birds with the nonchalance of old sportsmen."
We (Army and Nary aarette) are informed that Sir
Daniel Gooch and Mr Watkin, U. , have made an offer to
take from the Admiralty. at a cost of 100,000 i, the iron
ballast with which some of our admirals and captains super-
intendent have paved her Majesty's dockyards, and which he
now remit any known under the name Of Mr. finely s pigs."
The iron 4 said to be of • very floe cold-blast quality.
The inquest touching the death of the six men
killed by the explosion at Messrs. Wright's colliery on the
10. h Inst., terminated OD Friday in a verdict of "Accidental
Death."
The statement published by some journals of nego-
tiations having taken place between Pope Plus iti and the
Patriarch of Constantinople, with the view of bringing
about a union between the Roman and Greek churches, has
been publicly denied by the Patriarch himself.
Cardinal Cullen haa published his opinion on the
Sunday sale of intoxicating liquors. The law, be says,
which forbids the sole of other articles on that day should
nine no exception in favour of liquors. Almost all the
crime of Ireland, he adds, is traceable to drunkenness.,
which ran never be successfully combated until the public-
houses are closed on Sunday. In the Roman Catholic
diocese@ of Cashel and Ferns, the Whops have induced the
people to refrain from selling or buying drink on Sunday..
The recovery of Professor Selwyn from the severe
injuries which he received has been (flays the British Mechcal
Journal) singularly rapid and almost beyond hope, it is
understood that the injuries were fracture of the base of
the skull and ConCIISSiOn of the spine. The spinal symptoms
first manifested themselves three day. after the scold.n t,
and some paralysis ensued. The Professor Is now regardei
as convalescent. Few men escape thus happily from fracture
' of kite base of the skull.

Hare le an epitaph on a Mr. Jones, a celebrated
bone merchant

Here lies the bone. of William Jones,
Who, When altos, collected bones;
hot Death, that bony, artszly spectre,
That most amaz'ng bone collector.
Has boned poor Jones so snug and tidy,
That here he Iles in Lona fide.'
The Inquest on the victims of the colliery accident
at Barnsley is sdpierned to the 7th of January.

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The coroner's inquest on the bodies of the persons
killed by the accident on the Metropolitan Railway has been
al unwed for a week. The witnesses called did n
euccevd In showing as satisfactorily 1111 could be wished the
way in which theaccidentoccurred. The jury, altar hearing
the evidence, were taken to see the spot where the catas-
trophe happened

It ham been asserted that any one bold enough to
spend igooot in advertislnß, he the obje,:t what it may, will
hardly fall t., realize 20 0001. by the operation. If tills he
to, what must the effect be of advertising a genuine and
8, 01 article ?

l'he cup of tea we drink, according to chemical
anN'yets, contains volatile uti. chlorophyl, wax, resin, gum,
t 1.11112, theme, extractine, apatheme, albumen, sulphur,
phosphoroue, chloride of p,rtarni um, oxide of iron, carbonate,
sulphate, and phosphate of lime, carbonate of magnesia,
maganese, and silida—twenty different articles. What will
the okl women say to this?

If the numerous Joint-Stock Company (Limitel
undertakings, which have injured so many thousand In-
dividuals, have done good to no one else, they must have been
mines ci wealth to tne legal profession. In the Law Notices
for one single day of last week, there were no less than
forty four cases net down for hearing in the various courts.

Professor Benjamin Pierce, of Harvard University,
who has acquired • national reputation as • mathem nth len,
has recently shown that the sun will continue to enliven
tl.e earth and sustain human existenu 30,000,000 years Oar
descendants will ei.j..y themselves for ages yet to come. Wnat
I. technically known as the meteoric theory of solar heat
has been cut aside.

Rather & clever ni,d is ascribed to M. de Goltz, the
Prussian Nitniater h Paris, on M. de Pend, who, 115 yon
know. is now high in Once at Vienna He is a political
grave digger. Alter burying the Divides, he burled Saxony,
and he is now engaged in digging the grave of Austria.'

We have great pleasure in recording the following:
—The miners hi the employ of Earl Fitrwilliam have been
In the habit of receiving an annual sum for a supper at
Cnristmas. At a general meeting it was unanimously
resolved not to have a sunper this year, but to hand the
money over to the ski Relief Fund. A fund was also
originated amongst kits lordship'. workmen for the relief
of the sufferer..

The Italian Budget for is not • very promis-
ing document, fe It shows • very dreary deficit. The total
reeenue giV@II at ;54,900.073 lire, and the total expendi-
ture at 997 Ad Clf! lire. leaving • death of 208,666:44 lire
It must be borne In mind, however, that Italy is omy just
out of • war, and that her resources have }et to be fully
developed.

Of the aoldiera who fought in the American revolu-
tfooary war of 1775-00, bus one la now living. Samuel
Downing, of New York. He receive.. pension, and pensions
are al.o paid to 931 widows of revolutionary soldiers There
were on the 30th June, 1006, 136.733 military and naval pen-
sioners on the rolls, and to pay thin pension list during the
• urrent year the secretary ask. an appropriation of over
33,000 000(01. With the exception of about 3,000, these
.r. 531 pensioners of the late civil war.

It anprara that the War Department have meet.
talnect that there have ham MAX'S coloured men enlisted ln
the rotted States' aerrice Of thefts 51,238 have been dis-
ci-urged, principally on .cunt of physical disability ;
31 End died while I. the .ervice: 14,687 deserted . 1,514 have
teen Mile lln action, and 1,344 were reported alter angage•
ineLts as Misting.

The entire amount of the public domains of the
Vette,' States le 1,465,468,84)0 acres, of which 474,160,55/have
been surveyed

A oublle meeting bas been held in Dublin to peti-
on P.sr lament f.l.r the clo,ing of puhlte-h Ilse* threu.:h.,ut
Ire,autl on Su. days. The metting was a n,44 one, and •
Ivsq'ut•o,l was pA.sed apprormg the petition over an amend-
ment wt.ich urged the adoption of the original resolution
that day six months.

" Pilot Knob," a mountain WO feet in height, in
Missouri, Is c ,mposed, It is said, of almost solid iron: huge
boulders of iron (‘re hue the sides of this hill, and beneath
she surface the Iron I. in..oild 1.1•08 almost re though It
had heensmelted Professor Stillman has estimated that the
iron extends to • depth of 1200, feet, and that it would take
the whole world • thousand years to nail!, up. It is very
little worked at present, because no coal has been folio 1 in
Miseour 1.

An American paper quotes the following notice,
which it my. is posted in • publle 7.• in New York :
n Lost, a vaimilde new silk umbrella, belonging to • gentle-
man with • curiously-carved ivory head '

A young American lady, being asked by a boring
politician which party she was most in favour of, rePlled
(bat she preferred a wedding party.
A young lady weeping the etreeta with a trail two
gards long Young man stepped upon it, partly tearing It
from the waist. She turned slowly upon him, and said,
"Sir, you area rowdy." He retorted, "Madame, you area
dowdy. " "If I were a man I would thrash you," she said
If sou were pretty I would kiss you," said be. "This is
insufferable," said the lady, gathering up her calico, and
turnout away. "That Is true," he replied, "whether your
remark applies to yourself, your dress, or the weather."

Since the process of photographing upon silk and
linen has been peifected in France, many persons have their
portraits upon their linen instead of their names or initials.
Washing, it is said, de not injure the portraits.
A frightful railway accident is reported from Spain.
During the journey of the Queen to Llslion, the pilot engine
preceding the Royal train ran over the crowd assembled at
the station f a few miles before reaching Ciudad
Real, and about thirty people were killed or wounded.

Advice!, from Madrid state that the snow, which for
Dome days past has not ceased to fall In several provinoes
of stn, has been, accortling to the farmers, extremely
favourable to the ground sown with seed.

We read in the Amico old Popolo of Palermo :
"Ltd week • pub‘ic carriage leaving this city, In which was
:Signor Glaclnto Trentacosse, • woman, and one of the guard
of the Qoestura, was attacked at about a mile and • halt
from Mistimed Signor Trentacosse was killed and the
guard dangerously wounded. The nest day • diligence
coming from Cubit was stopped at • place called Vallotta,
between San Lorenzo and Tommaso Natalie, and the travel.
tors were robbed of 2501 The police are stated to be on
the track of the robbers."

A man in Dacotah thinks he has found Paradiee.
Hear him "No income tax; no internal revenue no soles
to sect! you treat a friend on Sunday; no mental police
DO dog tax; no poll tax; no school tax or bounty land: sod,
to end with it, the Indiana and half bred. can't tell oue
greenback from another, so all our ones are tens."

Professor Marsh, a Yale College, pronouoces the
fossils recently found at Colmes, New York. the bones of a
female mastodon, of full growth, though comparatively
roma, and says that the animal must have existed over
10S00 years ago.
There are in the United Kingdom 3,268 ffullieriea, in
which are employed 307,542 coal miners, who produced by
their laboun In 1t.65 91050,887 tons of coal, which is valued
at the pit'a mouth at 24,637,616 f.

An extraordinary case of attempted child.mnnier by
a mother at Leeds has been tried. The mother first threw
the child, a WI, five years of age, over the parapet of is
canal bridge, but the little thing, falling on the towing path
and being restored to the mother, was next thrown into the
canal, and with d:lflculty rescued. A smoothing iron was tied
round the child's neck. There vraa proof of throng mtuderona
thim.tion at the time, the woman, though fond of the child,
believing that her husband had betrayed her. She was ac-
quitted on the ground of insanity.

The Athrnrruni givea an account of an international
meeting ,d the book,eller. and publishers .1 the three
northern kingdoms, Sweden. Norway, and Denmark, recently
held at Stockholm. The assembly numbered 145 member.,
and comprised. In addition to booksellers proper, printer.
and papermak .re, and a few men of letters. One of the
widest results of We meeting waa that, though each speaker
sp,ke In his own 'ensilage, slwAish or Denleb, as the ease
might he, they were mutually !

A curious etymology of the expreseicrn " Chrietmas-
box" Isere. by • welter In Siorda, arid ljtierier, who says
Tnnrists In Egypt and Syria are watered by begging Turks
and Ails. for fia./.4,-1 , a eft or present. At Ca'cutta,
the poor klindoos, with both bands extended, Imploringly
run for Bari 4 The word seems common all over Asia. and
Christmas ' Koala' or' , presence—ft no doubt •
term introduced by the Crnsauers Into the language of this
country."

The Emperor Napoleon and the Empreas Eugenie,
With their usual munificence. have given the following
sums to the vartons charitable institutions at Clmplegne:
Bareau Is Blenfatsance, 4,04 t 1 /toyltun for the Ineigeet,
100 1. the If capital. I,ooof ; the Infant School, 1,0001.
the Society of Sr. Vincent de Paul, 5001 Mutual Aid
Society of Saint Francois Xavier, 500 f ; sitters of Compas-
sion, 1,000 ; Protection of Young Women, 3001 ; ditto of
Young Men, loot.: Christian Brother.' School, frOOL ; Fir.-
men's Superannuation Fund, 300 f. ; for the Bureau de
Blenfaisance of the Commune of Inerrefonda and for the
Slaters of Comp...lon there, 600 f. each.
The D,fag rCIerIMPA anaerta authoritatively that
Bead-Centre Stephens as all abroad, that the Government
are fully aware of Ms movements, and hope to follow in his
footsteps so effec:u ally that should he land iu Ireland or in
any part of the British Wands he will have very little time
for Wieder The Telegraph add. that it may also tend to dire
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ate that the captures now recorded testily to new treachery
by Fontana agaltat their fellows, and new activity on the I
part of rue pollee, rather than to any revival offset yearn '
treasonable preparattoen and plan.
During a recent inventigation into certain establish-
me fe Now York charged with evading the Government
tax, .ome curious developments have been made concerning
the liquors with wnich that city impelled. One house has
been surging out vast quantities of an article retailed in
Broadway at ten and nfteen cents per glum, which h coma.
posed of the following ingredients :—'•To tore, gallons of
common whist, ad.i thirty gallon. of water, tire gallons of
the tincture of (Baines pepper, one quart tincture of pillttory,
two ounces of acetic wilier, one stet a hall alto= of strong
In., and One ounce; Ig Pulvcciand c