The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-02-22 00:00:00

SATURDAY, FRB. 22, 1868

Mr. John Abel Smith has fixed the second reading
of hiv bill for stopping( the amniay liquor traffic on the list
for Wodneedat , the 18th of March.
There has been a borough brrati fund raised at Poole,
In Doreetahire, for the relief of the poor In that town.
It has furnished 4,000 fourpenny loaves during the last Ma
weeks.

Brigham Young has announced to the "Saints"
that the spirit of Cod has instructed him to order them to
leave off drinking tea and coffee.
The military court of Vienna has just given juilg.
meet in the affair of General Baron Koudelka, accused.,
frauds on the state during the war of ISCst Ile has been
sentenced to four years' imprisomnent and the loss of his
military rank and title, of nobility.
The building of the Paris Exhibition in the Champ
to Mars has beeneoldi for 1,010,000 f. It cost, and was worth,
11,000,0001 •
Three outline have been dug up near 'Weymouth
Illicit with human I.oncs. The collois were of oak, their
position was due north :mil south, after the manner a the
axon period.
The Turkish Army, according to the last official re.
ports, W 118170,376 men when on a war footing and 148,660
men when on a peat* footing.
An aeronaut went tip from the city of Mexico, ors
Christmas morning, ii. a hobair hallow lie struck a colts
current, which chiiltr,l Isis apparatus and sent him down
rapidly, and broke his bitter
A few days since two young greyhounds, while
cluoing a hare :it Kimeridge, ill the Isle of Purbeck, fell
over a cliff several hundred feet in height and were killed.
A negro who had outraged an Irish girl, aged fifteen
years, and then thrown her over all enibankment. badly in-
jure]. her, has bees taken front the gaol In Franktort,
Kentucky, and hanged by an infuriated mob
Tlw 7,llaine Liquor Law has been repealed by the
new Massachusetts Senate by 21 to IS
Patriek Lemon, who was convicted of treason-felony
at the Detain Amines, has been eentenced Pt fifteen years'
penal servitude. in, sentence being Prim. ........ he ...lel
Willson with the expectation that the English government of
Deltoid would be upset before that period had expired, and
avowed that if he was set free he would agaiuJoin the Fettle,.
conspiracy.
" 10.1 progress towar.ls reciivti y has loon made by
tier Royal Dig/mem the Princess of Wales during her unlit to
Sandringham, which has extended to three months. The
!Tim.. is now able to walk without the aid of a stick, and
tutor obsivver would fail to perceive any remaining
lameness "—The Uwe,
Its stated that the MUM to be paid for the dispensa-
Min asked from the Pope M. the occasion if the marriage of
Prince Humbert with Ida cousin the Princeas Marguerite,
will be 100,000 th
According to a parliamentary mturii the number
of licences taken out in the l'iliteil Kingdnin for the financial
year lee:A:6, by dealers in spline, wine, maltaters, brewers,
publicans, beershop.keepem, and other retailers of beer was
340,000.
The artillery iitores in 1 trecht have been reduced to
ashes. The tom is estimated at thiti,oou threw).
Au inland revenue return which has just been issued
shows that in the financial year leen-67 no less than
136,!i7i,015 penny stamps were supplied to the public truce
on receipts, eraughts, mid other dociunente other than
letters) requiring a penny stamp.
A paper gives a memoir of Mary Widatoneeralt,
wife of ...Dein arid mother of Mrs. Shelley, with a portrait
"•froni a photograph." As the strong-minded lady died in
179 n, how on earth did the ingenious photographic artist
obtain a sitting Y
" 0,1 414 that a distinguished clergyman sTint is aletet
to visit the United State) is diagusted with the British laws
relative to marriage with • du,eased wife's Oder, and that
he will remain across the Atlantic in hopes of better timm.
—Court Journal.
The Roman Catholic journal, the Gla.tyine Frtc ,
has succumbed to the sentence of the sacred congregation
Its publication I. to cease after this week, be the pro
prietors mean to start in its place anew journal to be culled
the 1,1.0 Patriot.
A man has been arrested at Mona for forging shams
, of the Orleans Company to the vale, of Zeat.ooof They were
. placed with a notary of Brussel., who innocently ilispiated of
timular of the forged (Mennen:l ill the usual way of
busitient
It appears that the suicides in the army of Saxony
are increasing to a moat Warming extent. Ni, special cause
has been elicited for this terrible pheremenon, save the fact
that midi!. 'seem to be on the increase throughout all
classes of society.
France has again purchased &large number of hones
In Hungary It is said that no lees than 25,000 will be
i successively despatched from Pesth to Strasburg.
A Maharatee Brahniin is now labouring as a cate-
chist id' the Church mission at Cawnpme. Among the
persons baptised are numbered two ladies of the Delhi Ibiyal
1 Family.
° The ruling intellects of the city of Cork decline to
admit the II ilitalinst, &viola to their principal library,
because it had an article lately on polygamy in Turkey.
° One of the artillery soldiers, named Hickey, who
was in charge of the martello tower in Cork Harbour when
the Fenian party attacked It in December, has been tried by
court-martial, coilvicted of disobedience to orders and neglect
- of duty, and sentenced to eighty-four dapC imprisonment
- with hard labour.
" Here is the sensational canard of the day—War
with Prussia certain—an army to he marched ilAirosii the
1 , Rhine whilst a squadron will land a force at the mouth, of
t the Elbe. The date for this expedition is not stated. but.
there can ben,, mistake in lining it Inc the Ist of April"—
Paris correspondent of the London Standard.