The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-06-21 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.
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A shocking murder is reported from the neighbour-
hood of Athlone. A farmer named Devery was brutally
murdered in his own house, his skull befog broken and tits
throat cut. The murder Is supposed to be agrarian._ _

On Tuee lay the Duke of -Edinburgh presided at the
dinner of the Royal Albert Orphan Asylum, which woe held
at the Luidon Tavern. Subscriptions Cr the amount of
more than £3OOO were announced.

A stain' ed•glaes window, to the memory of the
officers and men who perished through the foundering of her
Majksty's turret .hip Captain, has been placed in the north
transept of Westminster Abbey.
From April let to the 14th mutant the Treaeury
receipts amounted to £15,000,626, ma compared with
£16,286 870 in the corresponding period of lest year. The
expenditure has been £16,091,016, or within about £IO,OOO of
the income. The balance in the Sank of England on Satur-
day lent exceeded nine millions and a quarter sterling.
At the ordinary meeting of the Incorporated Church
Building Socipty, on Monday, twenty-three grant. were made
in aid of the building, rebuilding, enlarging, or reatoring
varioue Churches in England and Wales. During the last
three months the committee have voted nearly £5,000 in aid
of the above objects

The house in which the Polish patriot of 1833, the
once famous Koschliwko, spent the last year of hla Me and
died, at, Soleure. In Switzerland, is being advertised In the
German papers as for sale and Is recommended both as a
comfortable family residence and shoot ientimental grounds
as a memorial of the hero.

The members of the blicklleeer Bicycle Club, who
left L.ndon on Whit-Monday on a bicycle expedition to John
O'Grost.,,, on Mondsy evening concluded their journey. The
distance from London to John O'Groat's is atant 800 miles,
no that the aVerage speed ha. been nearly GO miles a dsy.

It is etated that the Geographical Society of Berlin
will receive ,onvliierable pecuniary ald from the State, houl,l
they apply for it, towards the enemies of their projected
exploring expedition interior of Africa.

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A German ID New York—Herr Gemmuler—eibibits
at the Vienne Exhibition a single viollu of his one make fcr
which he asks the modest price of ten thousand dollars ! Jo
• prospectus, he claims to have discovered the secrst not
only of making violins possessing all the features aud the
tone of any One of the old masters, but also of making many
Improverneuts of which they knew Troth!, g.
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Iheir Imperial Ilighnerees the Cz.tr- ewitch awl the
Grand D when Co.rena of Russia—the slater of the Princru
of V. eke—arrived In the Thames on NI ,nday moraine, and
bunted shortly after our o'clock at the Woolwich Arsenal T
pier. The Prince and Princes of Wales were preffent ti re-
ceive their imperial victim., and the Russian and Danish
Ambassadors were also in attendance.

At Bordeaux, one day hat week, the steam packet
Senegal had taken up Its position near tile quay, when about
eighty persona standing on • ttniporary bridge connecting
the cease' with the land, wsre midden') precipitated into the
water by the woodwork giving way, and five were drowned.
The rent Were saved.
The Indepcndance of Brussels mentions that an ex •
traor.heary Only of fecundity haa recently occurred at
Fezbe-S'ins in Belgium. A woman named Larose hat Jut
given birth eo four children three by. and one girl, all per-
fectly formed and In good health. The infants are all alive,
and like the mother, doing well. Toe husband I. • lahnur.
log men earning 4'r. 600 per day. Ilis family, which before
consisted of five children, ha. thus been sad .enly inzreased
to nine

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The death is ehnonneed of Dr. J. C. Nott, the
moot celebrated American alehrop iloalst ti V.." preseht
Ip:lin-orlon. Ile war Win in Er. 4 and entered the molest
profession early. Re practised at C 'fumble, South Csro
dna, and at Moblie for many years until the Americ so rear
In 1541. which compeiled him to quit the B..tith. In con
junction with the late Mr. G R. Gli.bion, he was the anther
of two Important work% "Types of Mankind," and "jolt-
genus Races of the Earth," published In 1.5i4 and 1857 re-
spectively.
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At the annual meeting of the Pa(Patine EXploriltion
Fond, which was held lu London, on Tuesday, both the
Archbishop of York and the Dean of Westminster earnestly
sp dm of the importance of continuing the work of r.aearch
which has been carried on under the auspices of this or-
ganization.
Lord Carnarvon, on Tuesday, presided over a con-
ference at the Albert Hall, with a view of promoting im-
provementi in the silk mmufarture. A resolution was
passed recognising the value of such discussions in eon n ec-
lion with the series of annual international exhibitions
which were inauzur4 1 two years ago at South Keliatooton.
The Shah of Pervla has conferred the Order of the
Sun and Lion, in hrllitaats, on Prince Bismarck The Prince's
eldest son, Count Herbert von Ithenarck, has received the
same decoration Ins less dlstingulaheti form.

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An extraordinary series of meannree, requiring un-
limited Nods, has been at length roa,nied at Vienna, to
stop tig panic on the Bourse. Credits are to be given to the
principal bulking establishom ids to purchase cmtain classes
of securities which otherwise would suffer serious &intents-
tu3n, to make the riquired advance. on merchandise sad
ammo nd the Slreo salee or et.. Ofveratn Os under thee
ansugemento commenced on Monday.

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A Renter's telegram from New York rye that the
cholera is spreading in Tennessee. Thirty.'lee deaths from
that disease oeearred In Nashville on Tuesday.
The circumstance that has excited the greatest
astonishment hi Berlin with regent to the Shah is toe enor-
mous amount of jewellery which he and many of Ms suite
wear about their persons. The epaulets for instanoe, are
described as "great masses of large diamonds, with a large
emerald in the middle."

The Taelcurghan Chancellor of the Exchequer,
"hard up" for fund', has according to the Times of liaiss,
rendered marriage compulsory, only there it is the woman
that pay. the parson. Thus every widow Is to get married
and pay a marriage fee of 20 tangy, or pay a fine of 100
tangos; while maidens are tO be married to their betrothed
and Pal 30 taupe aa marriage fee.

The Roamers of the Authorised Version of the New
Testament met on Thee ay at the Jerusalem Chamber, and
sat for seven hours Fourteen memoen were present :
The Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. who presided; the
Deans of Westminster B.,chester, sad Lincoln; Archdeacon
BlckerGeth Canons Kennedy and Lightfoot Professors
Brown, Milligan, Moulton, and Newt& ; Drs Angus and
Scrivener, and Ur. He rt. The company revised pan of the
14th at d the 15th chanters of the Acts of the Apostles

The Von Gazette announces that an " International
Postal Congeas" will shortly take place, either at Vienna
or at Berlin, at which the following proposals will be din-
cusseii :--t. That all the gat °pan States, the United Bates
of America, Egypt, Algiers, *Platte Russia, Turkey In Asia,
the Spardeb pa/session. In Northorn Africa, and the
British possessions in North America should form •
postal union. 2. That • uniform aril for ordinary and
egistered letters should be introduced in the Bates forming
this union. 3 That a uniform rate should be charged for
newspapers, printed matter, and patterns.
A newspaper correspondent, wridqg from Dumfries-
shire, states that grouse have been dying in considerable
numbers from disease all through May, and nests are re-
ported by the shepherds to be very scarce. The death is
reported to be greatest along the Queensbury range of hill%
above itacallie, and on the hills about Moffat, and at the
head of the Dry te. The prospects of other game seem quite
at an average.
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A treaty for the suppression of the East African
slave trade wee signed by the Sultan of Zanzibar on the fith
blatant, and ou the same day the slave market at Zanzibar
was closed. According to the Economists d'ltsiis, Sir
Bartle Freres is of opinion that Italy, by her geographical
position, is meelehr qualified to take part iss the commerce
of the East African coast, and this view has been officially
communicated to the Italian Govertimwit.
A new process of preserving meat has just been dis-
covered. and Is likely to prove most valuable (rem its the
Court Journal). Mr. Frank Rockland dined on the Mb of
May. ost,h • friend who placed upon the table • brace ot
pheasants and a hare. Ooe pheasant had been shot on the
19th of last December, the other on the 19th of last January,
sod the bare at about the Lyme time Mr. Birthed pro-
nounced them to have been "lust fit for the table," though
there was a slieht taste of soo.ething unusual on the it t
side. They bad been preserved by a,me process for which a
patent is to be at once taken out. If this process should
prove succersful there will be no diflicalty In establishing a
dead meat traffic with Australia and Dew &eland.
Ths bells used as a signal for closing the Vienna
Exhibition every moths having been found iusatilcdent. an
Ingenious Italian has inveited • steam tog-horn. This
trumpet is eight feet long, and proportionately wide, and
with a steam pressure on the metal mouth-piece of some
fifteen pounds the performers can wake up the dullest
visitor in the Exhibition. Occasionally, for diversion, they
put on a pressure of four atmospheres, which rouses deaf
old ladles thirteen miles of.
The strike of platelayers upon the Great Western
Railway is at an end, and it has terminated adversely for
the man. Those of the men whom the company have con-
sented to accept back have all returned upon the
terms on which they went out, some who took the most
active part In bringing about the strike have net been re-
eLirged. The men sought an Masan of 64. per day, time
abalf for over work, and other concessions, Including
holiday passes for themselves and Wive..

There are halfpennies in the world worth £l4 fie.
That was the price which a specimen of King Alfred the
Great's coinage latched at the sale of the late Mr. Bergne's
collection, and collectors may be of opinion that such a
halfpenny was cheap at the figure. A double sovereign of
Edward VI. changed hands for £lB5, and a silver sixpence of
Queen Elizabeth for £4l. A Queen Ann.. guinea went for
the very respectable sum of £42 10a., and two of her farthings
for FA and

The death of Colonel French reduces, it is said, the
members of Parliament elected before, or during, the famous
dissolution of 1892, to Mr Gladstone, Colonel Cecil Forester,
Lord Ernest Bruce, Mr. Hutt, Sir George Grey, and Colonel
Wilson-Patten. Them comprise all the living memben
whose drat election to Parliament occurred more than forty
years ago, and still retain a seat in the legislative assembly
which has written its name to undying cbarectere upon the
past history hf England.
The Spanish Cortes have appointed a committee to
draw op a draft Constitution for the nation, and also to con-
sider a bill empowering the Government to suspend the
libertine of the Insurgent provinces and to raise • war levy.
The Carlisle are repotted to have gained a victory In
Catalonia over the Government troops. Both sides lost
heavily.

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Senor Salineron has been elected President of the
Spanish Cortes, and entered upon his duties on Friday in leat
week. At the sitting on that day it wee ennounced that the
separation of Church and State would be included in the
programme of the G .verument. At a Cabinet Contact' held
the previous day the Finance Minister proposed to his 00l
leagues that a war oontrlbuti m of three hundred millions
of teals should be levied, than, he t•xes should oe collected
six months in advance, and that some new taxes should be
introduced. On Friday night the mei ority of the Cortes
held a meeting, at which they appointed a Committee of Di-
rection, with Senor Costeler as President. From a state-
ment made by the Foreien Minister in the Rouse on Satur-
day, it appears that the United States and Switzerland are
the only two Powers which have yet recoenle-.1 the So enish
Republic. Toe Illideter, however, expressed the hope that
Other Powers would soon follow their exam
The sittings of the fifty-fourth annual Conference of
the Primitive Metimoist Connection, held in London, were
brought to • close on Saturday, alter extending over a period
of eleven days. In the course of the proceedinge a letter
was read from Mr. Joseph Baxter, offering for agribution
I among the connectional institutions property in anted= .
worth between £l,OOO and £.5,000 ; also the copyright of all
his published works in the defence of Christianity. The
hearty and unanimooa thanks of the Conference were pre.
tented for this munificent gilt. A widow also sent £5O to
the Conference which had been saved during the past four
years, and represented one-third of the entire amount of the
income of the donor. The next Conference will be held in
IfulL The Conference broke up, after expressing its thanks
to the friends in London for the kindness and hospitality
shown.

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One of the humoristic papers of Paris relates the
following t•-•• Monsieur X— was comfortably sleeping and
storing in an orchestra stall at a theatre, which it is needless
to name. The occupant of the adjoining seat, losing all
Patience, proceeded to awaken him. 'Since when,' salmi
X—, rubbing his eyes, • is it forbidden to sleep at ti—'s
pieces?' • But you make too much noise." I prevent you,
perhaps, from hearing the play I' On the tontrary, you
hinder me from sleep•ng, and force me to hear It ; that is
what I complain of.'"
Ass Atnelican prop tees, for the benefit of American
musical talent, a grand national conservatory, or school for
open, to which those who have shown satisfactory skid and
taste in music may be admitted for gratuitous instruction is
a profession which will furnish the means of living usefully
and honourably to the well-behaved, and glory and fortune
to the more gifted. Such a school, the writer thinks, founded
on the bads and plan of the Palls Conservatoire, and ad-
ministered conscientiously in the history of true art, "would
in slew years make the country Independent of European
marts for eperatic stars, and enable it to produce its own
orchestras and choruses, to say nothing of the important
consideration of educating public taste to an appreciation
of the higher standard of art."