The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-06-07 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

There was s great trades' demonstration in Hyde
Park on Monday ageing the Criminal Law Amen iment Act,
the penal clauses of the Masters and Servants Act, and the
conspiracy laws as far as they are applicable to combina-
tions of 1,,b ,urers. Ab .ut 14,000 or 15,0 i 0 men—reprr Benting
the several districts of 13,w and Stratford, Limeh one and
Poplar, Bermondsey and Southwark, Islington and Clerken-
well, Walworth and Lamoeth—assmntiled on the Thames
Einhankment, and marched to the park under the direction
of two marshals. Having arrived In Hyde Park, where tile
estimated that 30 0 0 persons were gathered near the scene
of the meeting, speeches were delivered from pin platforms,
and • manifesto was adopted, embodying the views of those
Who had organised the demonstration. It is said to have
been one of the most succemiul ever held in London,

A telegram from Waehington, dated the 3rd meat.,
says that the Modoc war is ended. CAplain Jack and his
companions were captured on Sunday without resistance,
and the entire band have now unconditionally surrendered.

A statue of the late Earl of Derby, which has been
executed by Mr. Noble, was on Tuesday unveiled at Preston
by Colonel WVam-Patten, M.P. There was a very large
gathering, and amongst the speakers were the present Earl
end his in-other, Mr. F. Stanley, M.P. Oa the same day
Lord Houghton unvePed a statue of the late Sir_ltobert Peel,
which has been raised in St. GMorgealiquar7 Rudders.
held.

M. George Olger was adopted as • candidate for
Southwark at a large open-an meeting held on Saturday
night.

A monster Good Templars' demonstrltion warn held
on AI pday In Wynstay-park, Itusbon. At least 10,000 mem-
bers of the order from all parts of Sorth Wales took part In
thoPte. The weather was flue, and the day was observed
as a holiday.

The American troops have succeeded in overtaking
and capturing the rernainhig Modoc Indiana, with bye excep-
tion of Captain Jack and the three companions, who managed
to eecape in the darkness.

The members of the Int. rnational met at Manchester
on Monday, and In the course of the day formal resolutions
were passed to the effect that the hours of labour ought to
be limited to eight hours per day; condemnlng the govern-
ment for not recognising the Spanish Republic and de-
nounclng the imprisonment of Poe Funlans. The next
congress 'dß be held in Birmingham.

The Shah of Persia arrived at Berlin on Saturday
evening, and was welcomed by the Emperor, who presented
to him the Crown Prince, and the other Princes of the Royal
House. The Emperor and the Shan then proceeded together
in a cordage crown by six horses to the Royal castle, amid
the salvoes of artillery and the cheers of an immense crowd.
The Hon. Captain Grant, brother of the Earl of
Sestleld, while sitting at tea in him residence, at Cried,
Perthshire, on Saturday afternoon, suddenly fell from his
chair on to the fl or and instantly expired. He had been
oomplaii.ing for some time of heart disease. Captain Grant
was married to a sister of Sir A Gordon Cumming, Bart., of
Altyre, who survives him with a young family.

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It appears from the ofhcMl re- turn- a Joined on Saha,.
day. that the numher of paupers (except lunatic panpers in
asylums, and vagrants) in receipt of relief in England and
Wales on the last do), of the fourth week of Starch teat was
1163,650. The number at the coresponding date of the
previous year was 507,815, Mowing a decrease of 54,126, or 6
per cent.
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- The German papers tell a story of the disgraceful
sale In the Czech country of young girls for exportation to
Moldavia and ports of Ada. They are purchased by dealers
at from 8 to 10 ducats a piece. :lode 143 of these victims
were lately arrested at one of the boundary cnstom-houses,
but the trafllrkere generally ma,iage to get this through the
others unmolested.

The Rev. R H. Morrie, Principal of the Training
College. Carmarthen. hes been appointed by the litshop of
St David's to the Prebend or Canomy of Mathry, in St.
David's Cetbedral, otherwse cslied the "Golden Prebend."

Dr. Tylor Smith, a well- known locales' author,
and formerly Physician to the Westminster Hospital, was
walking by the river side at Richmond, on Monday night,
when he was seized with .popery. fie was speedily con-
veyed to the Infirmary and died in a few hours.

The value as declared of hams imported in the last
four months was £21728; in the Ike period of 1822,
£178.260.

"Toe house in Great Coramatreet, London, in
which the nuttier tonic place, has niece stood empty, and the
greatest difficulty has been found I. getting any..ne to occupy
it, me popular ides being that the house is haunted. Tne
Charity Commissioners, to whom It belong., have now let It
on lease to Miss Rye, whose exertions in educating and pr,
•iding for destitute children have been attended with no
much success. Miss Rye is to have the house rent-free for
two years. '—Lecord.

On Tuesday a very hearty reception wait accorded to
the Prince aed Princess of Wales in Wigan, which their
Royal ilighnemea visited for the purpose of formally opening
a new infirmary.

The execution bas taken place at Chalon (Saone.et•
to re) of a man named Rimier, who, with an accomplice
named Gartner, had murdered a man and wife at Same, in
November hat, after burglariously entering the house for
the purpose of robbery. Two sons of the unfortunate
victims—young men of 18 and 20—would have shared the
same fate, had they not resisted and secured one of the mur-
derers. Gunner was comb tuned to hard labour for life and
Rimier t death. The latter in his last moments showed
great w-akness, and had to be supported to the scatiolcL

the death of M. Lebrun, M. Guizot, who im now
eighty-Ix years of age, has become the oldest meruner of the
French Academy.

Father Hyakinthe has now a coadjutor at Geneva
in the per.ou of the Abbe Hurts.]lt, Cmion of Tours, and
formerly secretary to the present Archbishop of Faris. The
AMA arrived at Geneva on Saturd.q. He has published a
letter, in which he states that he Intends to assist Father
Ilyaeluthe in his work, being firmly convinced that Catholi-
cism Is now becoming as disastrous to society as to the in-
dividual conscience, Father Hyacinthe again celebrated
divine service on eunday, and administered the Sacrament
to one hundred persons. He ha now fifteen hundred
followers.

An attempt was made on Saturday night, at
limerick, to blow up the bronze statue of Vise nut Fitz-
gibbon, sire of the late Earl of Clare, who fell at Balaclava.
A barrel of blasting powder was placed on the pedestal
underneath the figure and ignited by a fuse. The explosion
was heard tor miles round. Ihe statue was but slightly
Injured, and the top stone of the pedestal was shifted about
an inch. No clue haa been obtained of the perpetrators.
This la the second attempt made to demolish this statue.
On Saturday the Queen, accompanied by the Princess
Beatrice and Prince Leopold, visited the picturesque falls of
the Quoich. The Royal party drove by the south side of the
Dee, rid 'overcallld. Aft, spendb g upwards of an hour at
the falls they returned by the north side of the river, writ g
through Braemar on their way to Balmoral about eislA lu
the evening. the Queen drove in an open carriage drawn
by four horses, with postithons, and preceded by outriders.
The wi ether was beautiful.

It seems that inconsequence of objectionable lan.
guage in Marshal Mao Maboni inaugural peocl..mation, the
German Government will not enter Into regular clr plontatic
regulations wi.h him unless they ace satisfied Silas he will
faithfully adhere to the term, of the Treaty of Peace. The
aemi otholat 'or4eu(scho Zeitung mai that the whole
French diplomatic terviCn are convinced that Marshal-Mac-
Mahone foreign policy will be very different from that of Id.
'inters.

" The Scotch circuits, which are just over, have been
unusually heavy, both as regards the number and the kind
of cases tried. At Glasgow one Judge hid set down for him
110 lees then six cases of murder alone. the fact ie that the
ime of murder is considerably on the increase in Scotland,
and we are afraid It Is only too likely to Increase, tinder the
present system of no punishment, or uncertainty of punish.
meat, which is much the tame thing—Law Magazine.
In London, last Saturday, about four o'clock, a
serious accident mxurred in the printing department of a
morning paper in Fleet-street. A young man named Boy er,
while engaged in taking off some eiteets from the printing
machine, got hts left arm entangled in the machinery, and
before he could be extricated the limb became detached a
few inches above the elbow. He was promptly rJmoved to
ht. Bartholomew's Hospital.
"Mr. Lehmar, of the Lehigh Valley Braes Works,
Pennsylvania, manufacturers for hie enlightened American
customers an article for which, unhappily, there is no de-
mand in England. Ills a "stesnywhittle chime:' consisting
of three or mere whistles on one pi e, which are so tuned
that when mounded they produce a perfect musical chord.
.e effect is said to be pleasing to the ear—it cannot well he
worse than the hideous screaming' in which our engine.
drivers delight ; and the fecund eau be heard at quite as
great a distance as the ordinary whistle."--/ron
Commander I. C. Eviaon, RN., whose death
occurred at Weston-super- Mare stew days since, entered the
navy In 18,,-9, and was midshipman of L'Entrevernance cutter
when she beat off four privateers off Malaga, in 1810, and
destroyed one under the batteries of Faro in 1811 ; of the
Belle Pottle in the operations in the Gironde In 1813; and In
the Albion at the battle of Algiers in 1816 lie was promoted to
a lieutenancy in 1627, and, after next serving in the Coast-
guard, obtained In 1834 the command of the Lapwing,
revenue cutter, and In 1837 was again appointed to the
Coastguard. Commander Eidson was afterwards for some
years Deputy. Governor of the Queen's Bench Prison,
The new practice of sending been by poet ite cansing
trouble. A Washington correspondent expains thus :—The
cage is a block of wood, in which are three large hole.,
covered with a fine wire netting. Sven hem, including a
queen bee, are placed in each compartment, and are intro-
dnoed througn a hole In the side of the block, which is
Plugged up by a piece of sponge soaked In honey. The
postmaster. and clerks allege that the honey .oaks tnrough
the paper placed over the holes and daub. other mall matter,
and braids., as one podmaster compleined, the clerks in his
°Mee del not get through examining and studying the eon.
• trivanee tint!' the bees slung every one of them, and In
showing them how It was made, end how to handle it.wlthoilt
Injury, they dung him Loc.—Sow York Times,

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Bob's Life stair that ()apish' Itacli•11 has
Alteo for lmneester, the while, ot the Derby, bat lir,
Merry has refused the offer.

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Japan bee at hut vt • National Anthem, and it lie
the anuposition of x ootshman. The accompanheenlli
baspiplng.
A fire took place on Saturday in Constantinople
ard destroyed ten house. Auother tire occurred next day;
tellig the sixth within four days.
Up t) the present time the number of Acti palmed
In the session which commenced on the ath of February la
be, of which 25 are public and the others local and private
outages.
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A Pariaian restaurateur has just found In the maw
of a salmon a diamond ring of great value. This reminds as
of t) e fortunate ropimaker In the Arabian Nights
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The little boy saved from the wreck of the Atlantic
is said to have been engage I by T. wheat. The term. are
£4,000, and the right to eell hit photograph.

The New York Herald recommends the Go,.rument
oe England and the United States to join and 14y a ixew
telegraph cable across the Atlantic.

Two hundred and fifty thousand carte.-de-vieite
were received by Marshal Mac-Mahon in two days after Ids
nomination to the Presidency. It mutt have ra ned the
article.

' The Pope has left Lis fortone, art works, &e., to
Count Laisi Mastai Ferretti, his brother's eldest ton, who
married not long since a Princess or the Drago
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Tile Prince of Walt a bits givon £250 aa a prize to to
run for at Perth races next year, and a similar amount for lb.
races st Vienna.

This hail been a singularly favourable year for
nightingales. Nightingales have metal*, rot been frt •
long Imo so numerous In all parts of England.
An addr,s sent to Lady Mayo by Madras,
March. 1b72, has been "inadvertently" detained at the teas
Office [dr twelve months.

In Marmachosettr, when the preacher retchca
teentb:y" in his sermon, a knowing chap yells • it. e, and
the eonaregatirm is promptly dismissed.

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Tte carpenters' strike at Bristol, which wen referred
to tie Itev. John Percival, of Clifton College, has terminated
by the dedmions of the referee. The men will obtain an
addition of a halfpenny an hoer to their wages.
The istelt novelty in the way of amusement for
moldier+ has been introduced at Meerut, were Colonel
FP. wygram has erected a circus in which the men, women.
and children of the 15th Ileums deity practise feats of
horsemanship.
On Saturiay, at Duhlin, Master Burke certified the
costs of the Galway Election petition at Z6,766)178. M. They
were originally furnished at £8,144 16m. 3d. It ',stated that
further appeal will be lodged &signet the taxing by captain
Nolan, who was unseated by Judge Keogh.
German newspapers announce that the dictionary
of the Garman language to course of compilation by the
Brothers Grimm will contain more words than any othet
publication on record. It has already reached the number
of about 150,100. and by the true It is complete it will owa.
prise at least 6& 0,000.
At the opening of the Vienna Exhibition the Herald
correspondent paid over two thousand guineas for telegrams
to New York. The money spent by the Herald for telegram
to simply enormdiut It. London agent often pays age or
£6,0 for a speech in Parliament or other London news of
Importance.

The eolvices from Boston, U.S., state that the total
M low by the ein that city amounts to V 50,000, of which
fif 0,, 00 is covered by insurance, including 450,000 in 011114
Britain The confltaration, it appear*, was confined to the
retail sh.,ps and private houses, for the most part Insured la
local offices.

A revolving light has been invented, to be attached
to the rear of trains, by uhich engineers behind can tell by
the speed of their rotations, as shown by the succesalon of
different coloured lights, at chat rate of speed the tremens
moving, and when they are at rest.

Six men have been killed through an explosion In
the Bryn Hall C3lliery, near Wigan—the same pit where
twenty lives were sacrificed by • similsr accident about tines
years ago. There was only a party of shot lighters in the pit
at the time otherwise the consequences might have been
disastrous. The workings afterwards took lire in several
places, but it was extinguished. During Saturday and One.
day search parties descended repeatedly and succeeded at
last in recovering all the bodies. • boy who was brought
out alive hes in a hopeless condition.

The Bath and West of England and Southern
Counties Agricultural Auociation opened their exhibition
at Piymouth on Monday morning. lhe weather was favour.
able, and the attendance was about 700 in excess of the
number present at the corresp lading day of last year's 'how.
The collection of live stock is deecribed as the largest and
beet which has ever been brought together under the society's
auspices.

Weymouth this year has been selected as the town
for the annual movable committee of the Manchester Unity
of °delta'lows to hold their week's sitting for the general
transaction of business relating to the Order, and the first
day'. ntttkg wan held on Monday. -
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No Beni Holiday wan more thoroughly obeerved In
London than that of Monday. There was a general suspen-
sion of business In the suburbs as well as In the City, and
the floe weather attracted immense numbers to the 'radon'
places of recreation and amusement mit of town.

In the menthe of April and ?day the Excheonee
recelpes amounted to £11,061,702, as compared with
k 11,524,311 in the corresponding period of lad year. The
expenditure has been tl2 2...*461 On Saturday last the
balance in the Bank of England was eight millions and a hall
Sterling.
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One of the large specimens of American aloe at
Kew is now throwing up a strong flower.spike. It has been
removed from the succulent plant-tiouse to the great palm.
stove, whsre it may be seen. The plant Ls in vigorous
health, and the flower spike, which Is already some eight or
ten feet high, is making rapid progress Some weeks mast,
however, yet elapse before the plant will be in flower.
A new fashion of pet has been started at the West
Frei of London in the form of mastiff or bloodhound doge.
The toy terriers, the Skyes wlthont beginning or end, are
being left to the ladles, while the gentlemen give • good deal
of spare time to attending upon the bigger animals.
The qu,stion whether or not s travelling booth fall
within the act respecting licensed theatres bee been
variously decided in the case of " Tarling (police Inspector)
v. Fredericka" It came first before certain Middlesex jos.
tices, who thought that a booth should be exempted from
the liceming statute. The Court of Exchequer held that a
booth was a place for the representation of stage plays. Now
the Court of Queen's Bench has confirmed that reversal of
the magistrate's judgment.
The act ,o abolish religions tests in Trinity Collage
end the University of Dublin has just been printed. From
the passing of the statute, on the 26th ult., inch tests are
abolished , and a portion of the act 38 George 111 , c. 21, is
repealed. No person to hold office or to teach is required
to make any declaration of his taith, or attend any Church;
and no person if elected to a fellowship is to he deprived of
his °Bice by reason that be is not, or does not, become
ordained ir, holy orders.

When the Pope is dead, the Cardinal Chamberlain,
adorned In purple, knocks three times with. golden hammer
at the door of the bed.chamher, calling the Pope by Ids
Christian, family, and Papal names. In the presence of the
clerks awl attendants he then declares i• he dead,' the
flaherman's rine is brought to him and broken, he takes pow
session of the Vatican, and the great bell spreeds the oem
over the city. The dead Pope In embalmed, and lie. In state
at St. Peter's for nine days. On the tenth day, sod after
tne burial, the new Pope is eiecteol by ballot, and the cere-
mony of the Adoration is then per wined.
It appears that there were forwarded from and re-
ceived at Epsom during the 'Derby" week ne fewer than
10,000 messages. Of these nem ly 3,500 accrued on the
" Derby' day itself, and about 2,60: on the "Oaks" day.
The telegrapi- hag for the Press amounted to upwards of
31,000 words: while of foreign telegrams more than 150 were
sent. A staff of twenty clerks was employed throughout
the meeting, and the systems of teiegrapoy at work am-
braced the Wheatstone automatic and duplex instruments.
On Tuesday morning Marshal MaoMahon received
the representatives of the Conservative newspapers, It, eu.
plained that the foreign policy of the Government would be
the came ae that of M. Thlers, which had alway • been ap-
proved by the Assembly, and that in home affairs the sole
object was to ensure respect for the laws and preserve moral
ant material order, In • proclamation to the soldiers the
Marshal refers to his own election to the Presidency from
their mills ass proof of the confidence felt by the Assembly
In the loyalty and patriotism of the army.

The Emperor of Austria, says the New York Times
has two ldini.tert in his employ to-day who have both been
under sentence of death for high treason—Count Andrsuy,
Milliliter of Foreign Affairs for the Empire, and Lieu. Florian
Zicandkoweki, Ma)or of Lemberg, who has lately been
appointed Prime Minister for the province of Galicia.
These are striklng instances of up. and downs In We Hare
is Count Andrusy, who, while in exile in London, upported
himself by giving lemons 011 the guitar, and was often •cf
poor that, like Johnson and Savage, be pace.' the streets
throughout the night, having no moan, to get a lodging, now
the most powerful subject in the Austrian Empire.

From Vienna is announced the death of the Countess
Teresa Spina, whose name maypontbly Sc remembered In con-
nexion with that of lii• Holiness the Pope, who, on the out.
break of the Rsvolutlon at Rome in November, 184 d, after
the asseasination of Count Rout, escaped in a private
carriage and made his way to Gaeta, the first town in the
Neapolitan territory. The Countess just deceued was the
lady who, at no little perisonal risk to herself, conveyed the
Pope safely out of Rome on that Oct-11100, disguised—so
rang the popular story—u • footman, or, according to the
better information of Sir George 13,,wyer, as her domestic
chaplain. Pope Pius haa always regarded her good eflices
with grateful recollection; and we believe that her last
hones were gladdened by the benediction of His HOlllieti.

According to the Conatitutionnd, the new French
Government intend/ at once to adopt a free trade policy,
Rive up the commercial treaties of M Thlers, and return to
those of 1060. It la stated by the Semoine Financiete that
arrangement, have been made with the bank of France for
the palnient of the last milliard of the war inolemnity, lad
that the money will be ready whenever required.
In the case of Edward S. Stokee, convicted of the
murder of James Flak, Jun.' the New York Supreme Court,
before whom argument has for some time been going on for
allow trial, has denied the motion and affirmed the judroent
of the court below. This has been a tevere blow for Stokes
and his friends, for It indicates that he arid probably rider
the extreme penalty of the law. The one is, however, to be
carried to the Court of Appeals.
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The agricultural correepondent at the InclEpenelanet
Beige remarks that the meat difference between Enspisb
agricultural machinery and implements. and those produced
by other countries, is that the makers of the first know how
to adapt theirs to the earyine eonditinns of the countriesfor
which they are destined with !demi ni to climate, sod,
habits, &c, while those from oth, r countries are unipted
only forth. country whe're they were manufactured.

Last Saturday of ternoon • distreseing accident
happened in the neightt .urhond of Onpar, ?Boobies. Min
Laird, daughter of the Rev. John Laird, minister of the l'ret
Church at that town, went along with one of her brothers
and a female cousin to enjoy • ramble In the country. In
the course of their stroll they reached the top of • hilt,
about three miles front the town, on the summit of which
stand. a monument 100 feet high, erected to the memory of
Lord liopetoun. ride monument ttlas Laird moulded, and
on reaching one of the pinnacles she suddenly lest her equl.
librium and fell to the ground. Several of her Maeda
observed the ca.ualty, but were unable to rescue her.
Medical all was speedily procured, but the young lady never
recovered conactousneee, and died in four hours after.
may be mentioned that she was • legatee for £l,OOO under
the *ill of Air David Baxter of Kilmaron.

The Sheffield Telegraph Mates that within the hot
few da3s letters have been received from the United States
countermanding adarge number of orders on account of the
high prices which now prevall. These order, are being
placed in America, and both manufacturer. and workmen
In England are likely to feel the effects of the grasping
policy which has been recently pursued by too many coal-
owners as well all by the best paid artisans. The result ,1
that policy has been an advance of price which is quite at
prejudicial to the interests of this country as are the heavy
protective dljon n the other aide el the Atlantic—of
which we ha-. all been complaining so loudly, The thereat
of our uxpok,.s of iron and steel has recently been at a
diminishing rate, and it Is high time that the question Low
far we are driving trade from the country should lie care-
fully considered by mine owners as well as by workmen.,
"Ito. a little premature to require of the Agricultural
Labourers' Unions that they should at once let up girt and
superanuation funds. To provide against sickness itad old
sae is • work which established trade societies may very
properly undertake ; Indeed, it would be well if their ruled
were more directed to enact a certain amount of thrift and
forethought from their members. But to expect this from
newly founded nniens, composed of men earning far the
rhoet part very low .cages, and committed almost as soon
founded to an ashecating struggle with their employers. IN
unreasonable in the last degree. It is like leaking the Wm
Ohio., to reo7ganize the admlnistrablen of the army in the
middle of a campaign. For •ome thne to come all the hut&
which agricultural unions can emanated will be needed for
the rapport of men who are on slaike or who have'
looked out. It Is open to my one to dieapproce Tinton/eine
Mit if unions are to mist this mut be Ink primary
and they are eurtalaly Oct exembrpartrem the common
Ullte=naillary e•Chreartgaii =eal. aggend.3

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