The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-03-02 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

It is believed that a pension of £2,000 or £3,000 a
year will be granted to Lady Mayo for her We, bah remain-
der to her eldest son for life.

In London, a young woman, a dresamaker, has
obtained £330 damages against Mr. Rainey, a negro and an
English barrister, for a_ breael_i_of promise of. marriage.
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A rumour prevails in Brussels that cove-al Corn-
munist leaders are at Geneva, preparing all insurrectional
movement in the South of France.

General Sherman and President Grant'e eon have
visited Pompeii. Some special excavations were made disc-
log their stay. . .

The Elev. J. Selby Watson, whose capital sentence is
commuted to imprisonment for life, has been removed from
florsemongenlane to Pentonviile Prison. lie thanked the
Governor and officials for the kindness he had received.

At Baron Krupp's works, Essen, they have cast
another " infant' weighing 36 tons, and throwing a pro-
jectile of 6inlb., with a charge of 11411,. prismatic powder.
The " infant' is to form part of the port ornament of
K iel.
The Marquis of Hartington, chairman of the Select
Committee on the Law of Rating in Ireland, has handed in
a draft report in favour of the adoption of the principle of
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union rating.

" It is :Aid that the Piemier is very anxious to push
on the Mines Regulation hill through the House of tom.
mons as he much dreads another Colliery explosion—Court
Journal.
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lhtily newspaper paragraphing is getting to be fear-
fully abbreviated in America. Here is a specimen recording
a death "Clay Spencer, coloured. Pint of Memphis
whisky."
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An official announcement has been iEsued by the
police fit Leipzig, prohibiting the enrolment of members of
the International Society, on the ground of its democratic
objects.

The official declaration of the polling at the North
Nottn election was made on Monday, when the High
Sheriff announced that 2,500 votes had been recorded for Mr.
Monckton, and 1,524 for Mr. Laycock, than giving a Con-
servative majority of 1,056.

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The Lord Chamberlain and the Dean of St. Paul's
granted to the London Stereoscopic Company the privilege of
takink views from the Cathedral on Thanksgiving Day, and
a special platform was erected on the Western Portico for
that purpose.

The death is announced of Colonel William Nicol
Burns, the last surviving son of Robert IMrns. Colonel
Burns wan In his eighty-second year, and, like his younger
brother James, who died in November, 1865, was an officer
In the East India Company's service, from which he retired
mearly thirty years ago. Re died at Cheltenham.

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Mr. George Potter, who contested Westminster as a
working men's candidate at the School Board election in
November, 1870, hi being solicited by numerous persons to
stand for the seat now vacant by the resignation of Lord
Sandoz), M.P. Meetings to promote his candidature are
about to be held In various park ol Westminster.

A German authority hints Ma marriage between
Prince Arthur and • Prussian Princess.
The authorities of the War Office are about to COM.
menet the Ordnance Survey of Oxford on • larger setae.
A police magistrate is reported to have said reeentl3
that uo class put more real feeling into their vocation thin
pickpockets.
It is announced that their Royal Highnesses tit,
Prince and Princess of Wales are likely to leave goes&
shortly f!,r the Italian Lakes, where they purpose pssWng

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oouple of months.
A medical man stated during the progress; of a eas
I, the Court of Queens Bench last wrl that he had bee.
vaccinated 477 times. It was his practice to vaccinate him
self when parents objected, to prove there was no harm in it
The subscription in France for the liberation of th,
territory has reached a minute fraction id a milliard. it to
announced to amount to ta entydbree million francs.
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How many buffaloes did Alexis of Russia shoot on
theplulnnl Every enterprising restaurant keeper in every
enterprising city in America, it is mid, hangs in front of his
premises a sickly looking animal, which he labels " The
buffalo shot by the Grand Duke. '
The ship Ptritrian Congress, 1,500 tons register, of
St. John, New Brunswick, Captain Stockton, MU on Saturday
burnt in the Bute East Dock, Cardiff, and had to be scuttled.
She was in ballast, and was preparing to enter the grantsg
dock. The tire is supposes! to have originated with some old
matting, which accidently caught tire.
Perhaps not within living memory did the leading
thoroughfares of London preseht, on a Sunday, a more ani-
mated appearance than was the case last Sunday. The
whole line of route on which the Royal curt,* was to pam
ma, thronged by a crowd often so dense as to render circu-
lation difficult.
In a speech at Brooklyn, Vice-President Colfax
declared that the Washington Treaty was a more decided
blow in favour of universal peace than could have been struck
by all the peace societies of the world, and that he did not
think (treat Britain would dare In the face of civilisation
recede from the compact.
Some genius has suggested " cablegram' as a fit
and proper word to be adopted for the purpose of denoting
a telegram which has been forwarded by Atlantic cable.
We have accepted " reliable' as English, and now almost
tolerate "collide," but against " callegram" a protest mast
be entered.
Gold mining in Australia has been very lucrative
during the past year, the total quantity of the precious metal
exported from Victoria being 1,494,013 en—an increase of over
200,000 ouncss on the preceding year's yield. 'There are
about 60,000 miners employed.
A learned Italian astronomic announces the end f
the world for January 11, 1877. The shock of a comet is, he
declares, to annihilate the unfortunate planet. Ws are
first to be suffocated and then burnt. [The first will be quite
sufficient)
In London, two girls, aged fifteen and seventeen re-
spectively—(ono at Clerkenwell and the other at Thames
Police Station)—have been charged with assaulting
their mothers, and also with attimpting to commit suicide.
Each was remanded by the magistrate.
At the inquest on the body of Captain Butler, who
fell from his horse at Southampton while training a troop
of yeomanry cavalry, it was elicited that deceased had an
epileptic fit during the autumn muniments, and it is believed
that his fatal fall arose from the sonic disease. Deceased was
only 26 years of age.
Two young negro gentlemen, of great talent in pick-
ing op s-ientific education in England, were referred to
recently by a lecturer, who added, "They are from dill erent
sunny lands, yet in physiognomy they are like—" Here
seine one electrified the sedate audience by exclaiming, "15
like as two black puddings."
Here is an addition to the curiosities of " printers
errors." A contemporary publishes the following note :
" The article ' Prophecy and Materialism' of Feb. 5 con-
tained an error seriously affecting the sense of a passage
towards the close. It is printed, 'who dread anuihnetion
apart from immortality.' The real words In the manuscript
are 'dread annihilation, and pant for immortality.'"
A new and excellent project has been put forward by
an influential body of gentlemen in Brighton—namely, to
erect On the beach a large open-air swimming bath, whieh
will poetess all the advantages of a bath by regularity of
depth and freedom from danger, and at the same time be as
beneficial as a plunge In the tea itself, which will keep up
a conatant flow of fresh water through it.
The Pall Mall Gazette says :—." The success which
has marked the exportation of small-pox from the United
Kingdom to the United States, free of duty, mud have stir-
passed the most sanguine hopes of those interested in the
Society for the Intl usion of Messes "
Two young women left home near Wigan about five
o'clock on Saturday morning, for the purpose of gotta to
work at a factory. They never reached the mill, and during
the day their dead bodies were found in the !cede and beer-
pool Canal, by the side of which they had to walk. It is im-
possible to say how they got into the water, but, as they
have no marks of violence upon them, it in believed *at
they met with their deaths accidentally.
The Navy Estimates which were issued on Saturday,
show that the total sum required for the current year is
£9,508,149, a decrease as compared with last year of
£281,807. The items in ',Well the largest increase wears
are naval stores, victuals and clothing, dockyards, and
Admiralty Office. The decrease is In steam machinery and
, ships built by contract, new works and buildings, and wages
, to seamen and marines.
On Monday, Mr. Foretop received adepntation from
the Tower ID tll lete Radical Association, whose members
offered a number of suggestions for the improvement of the
Ballot Bill. Amongst these was the extension of the hours
of polling, but the right hon. gentleman, while admitteng
that this might lie a convenience for the working enemies,
doubted whether it would be very easy to effect an alters-
' tion at present.
According to the New York papers, there is more
I. yielding in the views entertained at Washington with respect
to the indirect claims, and it is even possible that a compa-
ratively trilling sum in money---say ten millions sterling—
aught be taken in final aettlement. Although put forward
by the most popular American journal, it does not in the
least appear as yet that the idea carries the sanction of the

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During the general joyous chirrup and band inage
with which the first decision of Mr. Ayrton was received, not
to admit the wives of members of Parliament to St. Paul's on
the 27th • voice was heard exclaiming that be wanted a ticket
for " the deceasedwife's sister."
Japanese auctions are conducted on a more orderly
system than our own. Each bidder at an auction writes his
name and bid on a slip of paper which he puts in • box.
When the bidding is over, the box is opened, and the goods
declared the property of the highest bidder.
In the Chancery Court on Saturday, an order was
made under the will of Lord If. Seymour, by which eighty-
five London charities, which have already received £402
each, will receive £lOO more. A further sum will be received
under the will.
A Plymouth correspondent states that reliabYt in-
formation has reached him that the scene of the autumn
mahieuvres will be Aldershot and Portsmouth, and the
country lying between. It is intended that the ironclad
fleet shall participate lu the engagements, probably assisting
to repel an invasion, or siege of Portsmouth.
The victim of the Lambeth murder, George Merritt,
was buried last Sunday in Tooting cemetery. The Foresters,
in whose society he had been a ranger, determined to give
him a public funeral, and their design was carried out telth
great but also decorous effect. From 20,000 to 30,000
spectator. witnessed the procession pass down on Its way to
the cemetery.
The Economist takes a very sanguine view of the
prospects of the surplus. Everything in the amounts tend
to eonfirm the sanguine anticipations formed at the be-
giuniim of the quarter ; and we see little came to doubt that
at the end of the year Mr. Lowe will have at lea.. about
£3,000,000 Morn money than he thought safe to estimate.
It has been resolved by the working men of London
to present an addrese to Mr. Blight ou his restoration to
health. In thanking the otiginatone the right hon. gentle.
man asks them to postpone tile presentation for awhile,
addine, "I know Well that it is far better for see to give
myself a little mere time than to plunge into the turmoil of
public life before I am well enough to encounter it."
According to a Berlin telegram to a contemporary,
the supposed conspiracy to assassinate Prince Bismarck has
not stood Investigation. The young Pole who WM arrested
on suspicion of intending to assassinate the rfilleAs Is little
better than an idiot, and the detectives who were sent to
Posen to inquire into his anteceUnt• have discovered nothing
of importance.
The Saturday Review thinks that, whatever criti-
cism may be bestowed on the various details of Mr. Card'
well's speech, every one must acknowledge that he had a
scheme to submit to the consideration of Parliament which
dealt with the army as a whole, and aimed at giving vitality
and organization to ita component parts.
The Director of the National Gallery, in his annual
report, which was issued to members of Parliament on Mon-
day, etates that the collection was during last year visited
by 511,658 persons on 107 days Besides tile collection
which was bought from Sir Robert Peel, the trustees have
purchased for £l,OOO • painting by Teniers of his chateau at
Perch. The pictures most frequently copied daring the
year were the portrait called "Gevartim," by Vaudyck, and
Reynolds's "Age and Innocence."
"It seems altogether to have escaped notice that the
day appointed for the National Thanksgiving almost exactly
coincides with the anniversary of the death of Sir Christoptter
Wren. The illustrious architect expired on the 25th of
February, 1723, in the 91st year of his age, and though the long
period of 149 years has since elapsed, the great cathedral Mill
remains unfinished for lack of the necessary funde.”—Landzn
N. Mirror.
Gambetties railing accusation against the French
President on Saturday, that he had preferred peace to
honour, surrendering five milliards and two provinces, has
been sustained in a subsequent sitting even to the extent of
what appears to be a downright breach between the 6044111-
ment and the "True Republicans." M. Tillers, on Monday,
rebuked the ex-Dictator, who declined to withdraw his
words, and was "called to order."
At the Southwark police-court William Chester
Minor, the American physician charged with nalidering George
Merritt lathe Lambeth-road, Londou, was adlin ex/mined on
3londay. Evidence WU given by Superintendent Willamson
to the effect that before the date of the murder the prisoner
hail frequently called upon him for the
'purpose of stating
that "people were trying to poison him. Witness thought
at the time that NI him was the subject of harmless delusions.
rhe prisoner iffts asked If lie wished to make any statement ;
but, declining, he was fully commit led fur trial.
Captain Pringle, a paymaster of the Royal En-
gineers, committed suicide in the Royal Hotel, Dundee, on
Thursday iii last week, by shooting himself. Pringle entered
the army as a private, served in the Crimean war as a ser-
geant, was appointed paymaster at Southampton to the
Royal Engineers, and was much respected for his excellent
character and trustworthiness. It is said that about £O,OOO
or £lO,OOO paned through his hands in a month, and that
his salary was between £4OO and £5OO. Ile leaves a widow
and a grown-up family, who reside at Potswood, near
Southampton. •
The rules of the "yew Woman's Dress Associa
thin" are said to be thus briefly embodied :—" Declaration
I.—l certify that I will censcientiously obey the rules of the
' Women's Dress Aseociation 'as far as lies in my power. 1
will not spend more money upon dress than I can honestly
afford, or be in debt. Declaration II —I certify that I have
obeyed the rules of the 'Women's Drees A ssociation,• since
I became a member, so far as it has been in my power, and I
am not in debt."
On Friday afternoon a young man named Markcrow,
19 yeas of age, the son of a Rarnsgate tradesman, was found
on tlinande at the foot of the East Cliff so fearfully injured
Internally that he died the following morning, The cliff
there is 70ft. or SOB, in height, and he appeared to have
fallen from the top, as his bat was afterwards found under
a bush a short distance from the edge. An inquest was
held on Saturday afternoon, at which it transpired that the
deceased had been affected mentally by the sudden death of
his father about six months since. The jury returned an
open verdict.
The Board of Trade have awarded a binocular glass
to Captain John T. Curtis, of the schooner Cicerone, of Dart-
mouth, in acknowledgment of his humanity and kindness to
the master, crew, and one passenger, Illne in all, of the
brigantine Constance, of Liverpool, wilom he received On
board his vessel on the 25th January, 1072. The Constance
sprung a leak and lost her rudder on the 10th January,
whilst on her voyage from Nickel+, to Liverpool, and we.
abandoned hi a sinking state on the With of the same month
in lat. 41 30 N. and long. 31.45 W., whoa the distressed crew
were received on board the Cicerone and landed on the 3rd
February at Gibraltar, Captain Curtis generously deelltileg
to accept any repayment for their subsistence whilst on
board his vessel.
"Despite the confused reply of Mr. Gladstone,
which occasioned universal laughter, there seems to be no
doubt that a residence for the Prince of Wales will be pur-
chased, of course a large surn of money will be required,
and the reticence of the Premier may be due to his fialiied
to place this fact before the public. Ile need not be ala
It le too clear that if the estate is to be bought, the
private purse of the Prince, which has already so many very
heavy calls upon it, in proportion with his Royal Highness's
rank, his duties, and hfi active mingling lathe gaiety of life,
cannot encompass any ouch an outlay. lithe good expected
to be derived from a Royal residence in Ireland Is to be
gained, then it will be cheap at • round UM, "--
Gladstone need not fear that 'good sense' will at
this, and accord to 11."—Court Journal.

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