The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-05-25 00:00:00

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"BAD THING FOR TIIE COO."—A few days
since a bull was being conducted to the slaughterhouse
at Basle along the road in a line with the railway, when
on a sudden the animal became alarmed by the whiotle
of a train arriving from St. Louis, broke loose from his
conductor, and leaping the barrier, rushed forward
with his head downward to encounter the engine.
The result of ouch a contact may be imagined. Many
seconds had not elapsed before he was knocked down
and so mangled that out of a weight of between eight
and nine cwt, there was not more than a few pounds
that could be used as food.

CONSTITUTIJNAL AGITATION. —Of all agitations
now in progress, the one least astonishing and most
characteristic is the agitation for Women's Suffrage.
But the fullest concession of political rights to women
will fail to allay the agitation which most of them are
subject to. Unprotected females, especially, will
continue to be agitated by the slightest causes inso-
much as to exist in an almost constant state of agitation.
In many instances their agitation will be, as now,
Protectionist.—Punrh.

DEATH OF LORD CARTFFORT.—We regret to
announce the death of this nobleman, which occurred
on Saturday evening at Florence. Lord ( 'arysfort had
spent the winter in Egypt, in the hope cf recovering
from the severe fall he had from his " drag" last year,
and died at Florence on his way home, after a few
days' illness. His Lordship is succeeded by his brother,
the Hon. William Proby. Grenville Leveson Proby,
late Lord Carysfort, was the son of the third carl
and was born at Bushy Park, county Wicklow, in
1825. He married in 1853 Lady Augusta Maria,
eldest daughter of the second Earl of Listowel ; was
Controller of Her Majesty's Household from June,
1859, to July, 1866, and represented Wicklow from
February, 1858, to November, 1868, when he became
a peer. His successor was born in 1836, married in
1860 the eldest daugbter of the Rev. R. B. Heathcote,
graduated B.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1858,
and was appointed captain in the Wicklow Militia in
1861.
THE SERVANT QIIRSTION IN LONDON.—A
gentleman applied to the Magistrate, at Worship-
street Police-court, in London, for his advice, and
wanted, he said, a summons against his servant for non-
performance of work, when the following colloquy
occurred:—
.

The Magistrate What has he ihme?
Applicant No, unfortunately, it a woman, and I can't get
ier to do a thing.
The Magistrate What, a domestic servant?
Applicant Yes,
The Magistrate: Then turn her out of doors.
. . . . . .

Applicant : I've given her notice, but she won't go, and
Se won't do a thing in the place.
The Magistrate We have nothing to do with domestic
ervants here. You must turn her out of your house.
Applicant : If " it " were a man I might, but—
The Magistrate I cannot help you at all.

servan

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The gentlem in' apparently in a state of the greatest
perplexity and indeoision, considerably increased by
the last remark from the bench, then left the court.

TIIE WOBES AT SEBASTOPOL.— IT is announced
at St. Petersburg (slys the Eastern Budget) that the
Russian Government has not made any statement, re-
assuring or otherwise, to the guaranteeing P..:wers' re-
specting the new works which are beitg carried sot at
Sebastopol; but that General Ignatieff, in reply to a
question put to him on the subject by the Minister of
Foreign Affairs at Constantinople, said that the works
are of such a nature that they might have been com-
menced direetly after the conc!usi at of the Treaty of
Paris without in any way violating that treaty, besides
which, the convention of last year has left Russia free
to fortify her coasts as she pleases.
THE UNITED PRESBITERIAN SYNOD. —On
Friday in last we:4 the United Presbyterian Synod in
Edinburgh gave their decision in regard to the ques-
tions as to the use of instrumental music in public
worship and union with the Presbyterian Churches in
England. As to instrumental music the following
resolution was carried by a large majority :--"That
this Synod declines to pronounce judgment upon the
use of instrumental music in public worship, yet do
not longer make uniformity of practice in this matter a
rule in the Church. But the Synod urge upon the
Courts of the Church, and upon individual ministers,
the duty of guarding anxiously the simplicity of public
worship, and press on the ears est attention of all the
members of the Church watchfulness over the unity of
our congregation." The following resolution in regard
to union was also carried by a large majority: The
Synod regards with much satisfaction the increasing
desire for union on the south of the Tweed. as ex
pressed in the recent decisions of the English Presby-
terian Synod and the English Synod of this Church,
and appoints a committee to co-opeiate with the
English Synod in cherishing this desire, and in advis-
ing as to the measures which it may be fit to take for
realizing the desired union as soon as practicable."