The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-15 00:00:00

EIITOIYIE OF. NEWS.
BRITISH ANb FOREIGra.

The municipality of Antwerp has ordered on eanitary
The Prince of %Valero returned to Sandringham
oat at
ds
tl...esertoyncelionase ye‘lro the teem to he Painted inside and
Hens° on istorday evening from his continental vi.it The
Prince w'ts accompanied by the Doke 01 Edinburgh in his ,
j -unity from Lonoon, and was attended by Lieutenant-
Colonel Koppel and Lieutenant Haig. The Prince of Wale, '
appeared to be in excellent health.
,A French newepaper offers to give annually 40/. as a
Wilddiug portion to the "poorest and noreg virtuous girl'
lidlcslrd by it. suescrihern, and also to glee 21 a mon- h to
sack e,f theta am give the brat solution of-a riddle. Mow
in virtue, that the " MOM Virtuous"
hnetaantyo dbeeg"*"he
nought afre tterreil
Returns lately sent in to the Censusoaffice at
Washington give us an Interesting glimpse Into the growing
prosperity of the country. It would seem from these
returns that, notwlthatandinir the terrihle wages of the late
war, the population of the United States has heel and Ls in-
creasing at the rate of a million a year.
"Talking the other day with an able and popular
leeturir, who seldom failed in gettlim a full and attentive
midleuce, we ventured to ask him what kind le subjects and 1
eh it sts le •sf treetineut he thought the public liked beat
was hi. reoly, 'I hardly know ; hut there's "tie sec, t
i's'e row, rer —•hat. she ouhl.c hales is information.' "
Blackwood s Magazine for Decimuer
The royal commiesioners appointed to inquire intr,
the rennin, forms oaths now fa use In the Vet .1 King-
dom, with • view to stinmit a form ol oath to salt the emu-
seleht•ous view. of all parties, have adPurneo till February
next, when it is uuderatood their report will be presented to
parliement
An action involving a heavy agemisment for damages
wot tried at the Manchester well.. it, SaturM.y. The
plain ill who was formerly • milk merchant, mom violently
shaken In • collielon on the London and North- Weatern
Company's line, near Ardwiek Station, in November, 18q5
and from that time he hail been Incapacitated from taking
part in any business, or, indeed, from almost any pursuit
whatever. The jury assessed the damages at 4,5001.
Judge Bramwell severely reprimanded gie Hants
constahulsry • few days since for qtiestioning prisoner.
when apprehended, so ns to draw a confession of guilt from
them. In two instances prisoners were accinitted because
they were time tampered with by the pollee. One policeman,
said that he was not aware he was doing wrong by geed-
ti.itut prisoners.
A tele_gram corning direct from New Iteele ftismiehee
some partienlers respeetine the great OCeals yacht race be-
tween New York and Come. The 'achy:Mere to start on
Tuesday. and the Owner of the first yacht on arriving at
Comm w!ll receive the whole of the Makes, which amount
to 90,000 dollars—ln English money 18 750/.
Intelligence has reached Great Yarmouth of the ,
total lons of the brig Guardian, of Itiytti, together With
nine hand,. She was on a voyage from Cronatadt for ,
London. with a cargo of wheat The Guardia n was com-
ma], led by Capt. Stephenson, who leaves a widow and one
daughter.
The)? demon in the title of anew weekly paper pub-
lhnheil at ft-tassels. Its columns are devoted to the interests
of the Yolueteer body, and being designs-1 loran " Inter-
netional" organ, the contents are printed in French and
English
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An I ffort in being made to establinh pmfessorehip
of engineering in conneetlon with owerili Coliege, M in-
cheater. The sum of 10,000/ has been fixed upon as the
amount necessary for the purpose. and at a meeting held .
on Tuesday 0001 of this was promised.
A nerinus explosion of gas occurred at a colliery at
Little Hutton on Monday afternoon, by which twentpone
peraons were injured. severe of them so seriously that they
are not expected to recover.
Four of the men charged with the extensive robbery
at the Manchester Stamp Office have been found guilty.
Three of them were sentenced to fifteen years' and the fourth
to eight years' penal servitude.
Father Gavazzi, it is said, hen mynteriounly
Pe"d
awlasianlaLt.hyes.r-1 of as being present with a por-
tion of He
the Italian moving easiest Austria In Venetia.
Since then, though diligent Inoteries have been made by his
friends, no Intelligence whatever has been received of him.
Notice has been incited that on Tuenday next a call
of 40/ per share will he me e in the matter of Bsrued's
Brattiest C impany. This is the whole unpaid capital of the
concern called up at once.
Chief Justice Bovill had a narrow escape from
wimp injury on Monday morning. His lordship bad ridden
to the 51'. king station intending to take an early train for
London when his horse took ftight, and rushing among
,conie trucks threw the Chisf Justice, who was much
shaken, hut was able to take his sent in the train and come
to LOOOOO The horse was suffering from what is called
me mein."
Jame. Rttcliff, a London policeman, but now one
of the rensioners of the City police fund, haa come into
p earnl n of -un ed proper y to t in am cult of 123,0001.,
besides an estate wide i r alias 3,0001. p r anaam.
A Paris correspondent writes :—" Cioake are to
conic bark to 'aMl n this winter Patetots are to be utterly
give op. and all male bipeds who respec thernsel- es and
them deletes of e Jockey Cl .6 ae t appea raped l,t e
, ample fol a tif some hing bet w. eu a SAM h atd the
. old in liar, Cl oat."
An influent has been !phi at Rockland on the body
of T omen Wharrell, ages' •eventeen The dece sent was
het to • to co. some otbake • y • ilia blue, w• • n the hi' -
fins r of the right hand was near y taken off toet jaw
came on, and he thed it in the elects. Ihe jury retu•ned
Velfdl,t !CC Yiliio.ly.
The Queen of the East sailed from Raiment for Fal-
mouth on, the 1915, of Ap 11, was spoken on the 17th of May,
in lat 8 S.. lorg. 94 0, and has not since beeu heard of ;
is therefore clamed as a" missing ship."
The Homer Iliad is the title of a newspaper started
recently in the town of Homer. Louisiana.
"Another accession of blue blood to the ranks of
cesium rce hen h en maCe In th- pets h of the lion II 8.,
who is •I.,dying eeyoe ies o' finance in tie t,lll en a
city s ockhroaer.' —Court Journal.
A Philadelphia paper is responnible for the following
fish story Mr Schoelbura, of Eel-. P, went ihnil.B tO the
light house dock • short time alto WhVe exemihing hi. watch.
• tine gold .03e. • fish lilt, taking off his hook, at the same
time, the sudden leak thl.lo/ his ween out of his hand Into
the lake. On gong ashore ter S bought of another flatter-
man an eight- peuneer black ham, just caught. In whose
mouth he found hit hook, but .tr•Dge,t 0, •11, upo,, cutting
the 11,13 epen, he fund his watch, which had not even
'tonne I tic nog.
A singular equipage has been creating a iternation in
eonsiming of a van covere•l all over with dead rats.
A p Atter a,tachel announces that these animal., to the
euruber ol more than 5,0, had been killed in only one eat italtat
meet, that ol SI Frettgsn, dealer in rags. Roe Helene This
heestomh had been obtained by • pr .ceas Invented by M.
11-rgeot, of Orleans, a DOVOi destroyer of rata, who had
alreedy acquired • greet reputations from the Immenne
numM•r he tosti killed W. Mareenles,
Th. Union puhliehee a statement from which it
appear, that, front 1,62 to 10.35. there occurred 980 ship-
wrecks or dismiten at ilea, the crew, of the vessels
amounted to the aggregate to 3.280 men, 18)3 of whom
perished. Of the disasters renlittred, fee were caused by
the state of the weather; 107 by negligeoce, want of ex-
yerience, or had managetneet ; 240 by overloading, bad
rigging, or defects of cons•ruction. There were two ex-
plosions, one cue of barratry, one fire, and 127 cases owing
to unknown cause. There were 23 cotlisions.

At the Birmingham shows peculiarly clever invention
exhibited, vie, Mr. Schrooer'• Tree • locuhator," which
has at last overcome all the difficulties connected with
hatching eggs hr artificial heat. 11.111 act with gas or lamp,
withmt an undue strain Coen persons] attention, in defiance
of changes of temperature in the room where it may be
placed. and yet can be purchased for • comparatively small
sum of money.
It is reported in Paris that the Shah of Persia is
about to follow the example of the King of Fru.sia in bring-
ing an action of libel sg.inat a French writer. The writer in
question Is NI. de Gobineau, late charge dhiffairs at Teheran,
and the libel complained of occurs in • book he has lately
published, entitled " Les religions et lei philosophies de
l'Asle Centrale."
The Fa' Mall Gazette says that the Austrians are
evidently growing impatient of the priestly thradom under
which they have so long suffered ; and that there le probably
an ominous meaning In the fact that people at Vienna are
beginning to reckon up the vast wealth of the Church. It is
calculated that the aggregate property, returning a full
revenue, possessed by tne churches and religions homes of
the empire amount. to no less than 185,870.000 florins. rho
Income of one of the archhishops Comes CI ac much as 300,800
firms; and an abbey near Vienna, the Klostenenburg, In
which there are twenty monks, hes a revenue of 168,000
florin..

The high price of oysters in ermine has induced an
enterprise to the northern seas—it Is not known precisely
where—for the purpose of aupplyirg the market with cheaper
and better oyster. than those which are now Bold retai, at
21., or 15. ad , per dczen (Oetends), and Is. Id. the dozen for
the large, coarse French iytitere Some of three oysters have
been landed at Palate, and • few dozens have found their way
to Paris. They are large oysters—larger than the common
French oysters, hut much more fat, full, and tender, whilst
the flavour is delicnus They were selling the other day at
Calais for from if. to 91. the HO.
" A etnteman's best ally is a clever wife; and,
although one does not hear much about her, the wife of the
proutit Chencellor of the Exchequer is said to he • very
efficient helpmeet Some oays au, a depotation went to
Ilueheoiden to uk Mr Disraeli to take the chair at some
hehot'.lc,..bevillod,iantnteerr heTartheiyitt 711'er:1:74710d, blytTtehlel, iffeinyil'e'fmtehne,
I will by what you said before Mr. Maraell, but I cannot
gly. you much hope of a favourahle answer; for, what with
thie Reform Bill and one lb nit and another, he is so busy
that he he. scarcely time to speak to me.' Of course it was
not by accident that this little revelation was made, and it
was very neatly done."—Court Journal.
Some important diecoverien of Homan r..maine were
Made at Lyilt ey, in Gloucester hire, not long ago, and in-
su Ivo' a very mime joel tnt. Amon* the remains of •
ten,, to detli ated to the god broge•i, found there, eras brass
ll.'. on which was as ins:Minion offering a reward for •
ibis, and slail. g that In LU event of 1 s being found some
port. of nion.y would be dedicated to the Ind Nod.), but
that if any peison who hound It failed toe tee ore it to the
owner the coral of ?Soden wool I bs upon him Most sin•
gills, to say, a nog odt eye tb ing with the lost one, and
basing the Tomis of the persou offering the reward, has
hem tound at Such. Men
It is related that a tradesman recently called his
creditor@ together When they had duly assenslolod, he
ope.ied the proceedings with prayer, and then went on to
inform them that owing to mundry longs and crosses he found
he could only pay 108 in the IL transpired, howevee.
when his no 'mints were in veetigued, that he was Ude to pay
255. in the pound, and he was ordered to pay the accounts In
full in three Instalment. A day or two later, he actually
went rem] to several of his chief creditors and ,ffered then,
payment at once, it they would allow him • good discount
for rosily nioney. •
Mr. Edmund Fry, a gentleman well known in con.
nection with the Peace Society and kindred orgenizetions,
died soddenly In London, tile oth• r night. He had attended
a meeting of the Athenteurn Debating Lociety, and the
subject under discitselore was " Non-intervention," with
resod to which Mr. hey held the views of the Peace Society,
Ile was speaking coolly and calmly when • strange twitching
of his fingers was noticed He was obliged to stop for a
moment, hot again went on. In a minute or two afterwards
lie was unable to proceed, and he then ceased to speak.
Met-hog that he gess ill, his friends led him Into another room,
and no medical men were emit for, hut he died in shout two
hourn and a hall, from what proved to be an epileptic attack.
Mr Fry was •ilout slaty yeses of age.
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"I do hereby give notice, that by • deed-poll, dated
the led day of December, 1/1103, end 'mended to he forthwith
duly enrolled in Her Mejiaty's High Court of Chancery, I.
Daniel I/tingles Home et 22, Sloane-street, Knightsbridge,
have for myself and my heirs taken and assumed the sue
nuns of Lyon in lieu of Home; and that in future I intend
to use the names of Daniel Home Lion, and to he called
and kilown by those names only —Dated this 3rd day of
D•cember, 1.806, 1). D. Home."—AdVertleement tu Tuition
Times
The cattle-plague returns last week show a consider-
shin inores,e in the number of reported cases. During 'the
week ending the Ist if Decerritier Se attacks are stated
to have occurred in Great Britain, being an increase of 250 u
I the previoui return. Fresh oUtbrealni took plsen in six
fume or niacin, where cattle are kept ; the numher in the
work preceding was two. Twentywis healthy cattle were
slemotered during the week on account of hayloft h-en in
coin act with diseased animals 'f 'ie attacks ref...nod are for
the following four petty seulonal liviaiosa of Viz :
wittahlrel ('hippeonam 1 heifer ; (Cheetire) bust Bone low,
1 heifer Anioiniderneisi, 1 bullock; and Yore,
shire, Bast Ruling) SOlith 1 hull, 1 bunlick 9
slur., 1 cura II heifers, S calves Of these animals, 1 heifer
In Wiltehire Med, I heifer In Cheshire was killed by order of
the ewe e, and the whole of Woe ahlacted in Lancashire
sad Yorbobbe were laid by Mir of SW lospicSoc.

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The Bishop of Orleans has hist 'intik/46rd a work in
Perla entitled 'Atheism and Social DAnger
A New York Herald corre.ponskiht, writing from
Buenos Ayres, says that the South Awgplean wool crop edil
this year aggregate one hundrwl millions of pounds
Au American editor. writing of a contemporary,
says : Hid intellect Is so dense that It would take ,he augur
of common son•e 1,0 ger tr. bore into It than itwould to bon
through Mont Blanc with a h.dia curot

On Friday a man WAR engaged in a drain at Pad-
dington, Lade, when he wee burled by • slip of earth
Eleven hours elame 1 before he was extricated, none the
worse for his interment.

In pulling down an old hones in llatcliff -highway,
London, let fur many years as a lodging Muse, the front
part being need no a pie shop, the alisilmon of a female her
been found, and no doubt is entertalmd that the deceased
was the victim of foul play. Efer body sm. burled In lime.
probably with the come intention as that which actuated
the Mannings when they disposed of the body of O'Connor.
The Record has a leading article condemning the
Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol for having withdrawn
hie name at Vice-President of the Brittah and Foreign Bible
Society.
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lln the obituary of the London Tinut of Saturday,
Dec the bit, the death. are recorded of live ladles and one
gentleman whose united ages amounted to 625 years, Oleg
-la average of exactly 67 years and six months to each. The
ladles' eget were respectively SO, 85, 67, 92, and 90 years
each; the gentian. was 87 years of age

The girls working in the mills of Lowell, Mean.
,t,e‘ett•, he krirest nianuNieturing city in thr I oited owes,
bays all resolved Li wear the Bioomer costume as more
sultarde to their work.

Mr. Disraeli has been suffering from a carbuncle.

A story is in calculation that the Crown Prince of
rfIIPPI• has refused to take up hie residenoe in the Pals.
the King of Hemmer, as his wife, the Princess Royal of
England. formally declined to occupy a palace of which her
motlim's cousin had been forcibly disposse“ed.

A French paper mentions a trait of a dog which
would to honour to the most persevering dinerout in the
beau monde A lady. Madame X , went every Friday to din•
with her relative, who gave a handsome spread ; she always
took her dog with her to share the crumbs. Since her death
the dog has continued to pay his visit on his own account
every Friday.

The whole of the London lunatic asylums in and
near the metropolis are quite MIL

The Reform League hse decided to hold its next
" great demonstration" In London, on the Monday after the
opening of Parliament
One of the jokes of the Reform Demonstration in
Lonon, was at the approach of the Ironmoulders, when
MIMS one in the crowd cried out, "Take care of your linen •
But there was. many exhibitions of operative intelligence
—Also, • young woossnan standing in Waterloo place was
heard to say to his companion, isn't this per Dizzraus et
the bottom of • good deal of thia per bother?"

It has been decided in one of the French courts that
to call • women-a " female' is to Insult her, and la fineable !
Apropos of the competition of needle-gun inventors,
may be cited a paragraph to the following effect, and
which is taken from a Paris paper :—'' President : You are ac-
cused of being a vagabond. Have you any calling?" " Yes,
yes, SI is l'resident, I am inventing a new breech-loading
gun."
A marriage was abruotly interrupted the other day
at tionreuge, in Fran&e, when the contr.cting parties were
fast about to have the tie bound It waa discovered that the
girl had absolutely been registered at birth as a boy The
bridtgroom entreated piteously, declared he had no doubt,
but was answered, 'the law 111 imperative and most be
satisfied ;" so they were dismissed till that day fortnight.
Baron Adolphe Charles de Rothschild, who presided
over the Naples branch of this great house, Is now living at
Geneva It is understood that Baron Adolphe retiree from
business with a fortune of 6,0,0,000 k

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The Chinese who were lately on a Yidt to England
and France are publishing their views a ta Sala of the two
countries The account is given in the Gazette of Pekin,
and will be shortly translated for English consumption.

The late Austrian Commiseary of Police, Conti, has
been assassinated at Mantua.

It la atat,ed that a wellknown author baa lately
made • prison Ids abode for • short time, In order Co be able
to give hls experience of life in a gaol.

English speculators are buying up the milk on thn
Continent, reducing it by a drying proms to powder, Im-
porting It to England and miring it with water for nee.
A Venetian, Count L. Paaini, has been appointed
one of the Vice PrtoMerits of the Italian .enate, He was
the President of the Venetian Assembly of leaf,.

It in reported that the Emperor Napoleon will pane
the winter in the palace of the Elysee, as the large garden
attached to It will give him an opportunliy of taking exer-
clic The reports a f his health are again unfavouraole.

On Tuesday morning the French flag upon the
Castle of St. Angelo was hauled Aowo, and the Pontin-al
flag hoisted ht Its stead. The French troops evacuated the
castle.

The Eaat Teignmouth Ritual ewe—Flamm:lk v.
Simpeon—has been brought aqruptly to an end, Mr. Simp-
lon haring retigned Ms berefice.

(hortrori (the French Punch) says :—"BisMarck
hue r turned to Be,lin. Flourish trumpets! heat drums!
We are assured lbs h- found It Ire antechamber 1,200 ap-
ph AAA. Th. y art inerntora who came to submit to the
Minister 1,200 sW s)ctmi of netAiloguns."
At Sheffield, a girl thirteen years of age was
attacked by two of her female companions, who held her
by the head, aid kicked her and beat her selth a door key
tied tea handkerohlet. The girl has died from the effects of
her Injuries

The celebrated panther hunter, M. Bonhonnel, has
just left Martotilos for a now campaign In Africa against
wild animals.
The Pope has written an autograph letter to the
King of Pronto, thanking hi". for his kind exertions in the
In west of the potrbta tnnporate, and alto for the handsome
prtsont of ROO n,eale guns jult received from Berlin.
A man named Savage, thirty years of age, has just
met with a shocking death at a mdl In Littledale. Deceased

wr.t to the grled;rone to
..!harper. a hammer, ant
.wan

caught by the machinery. ills cloihns were completelytorn
off his bony W long beds, which, together with his watch,
were folio., tightly wrapped around the st aft The body
presented an awful spectacle

The Saturday Review anew.; Mr. Bright of malig-
nfty, of . 1f.r1..g onsgesthma, c,f wantonly appealing
to intol-rant and tressonaide propen•iths, and of ha ,ag a
demagogue It. difficult, It ...ye, to been with patience to
hia implications of disloyalty. Englishman respect the crown,
hut they also venerate the conitltutlhi, and they resent
nnenous attacks soon Parliament as deeply as personal
alights to the Qteen herself

Prince Henry, eecond eon of the Crown Prince and
Princess of Prussia, and grands,o of the Qqeen, has arriv.d
on C visit to Her 514-sty, sad remalu in England with
the Queen for the winter.

The following ia a apecimen of American brevity:—
"A double murder occurred last night at Coldwater.
Michlgen. Mr. Mentzer Keach met his wire walking with
George 0 Brown. • young law)er, and abut them both dead.
Cause, jealousy."

The fixture of the Yorkshire Agricultural Society's
/Show for 1867 hi. teen mare for the fret Werines lay,
Thursdsy, st,d Friday in August, and the Think prole are
reseirg root progress with her subacrlytlons, modeller the
race cootie as ii ,e sae of the show.

Early next year fattening old horses will be co.n.
menced on • large oc.lo in France. with view to the re-
quirement• nt the capital during the Exhibition, COIIIKVICIA
upon the lutlqx of foreigners Koglishmen had better take
their own rumpateake with them.

Some American genius has invented a new paatime
of extraordinary value, both In a physical and a moral point
of view. It Is a sort of parlour akittles, played billiard
fashion: the chief loaorinvent of the game being called •
" cue alley." The Sprangficid Republican declares that it
is • just the j pra,tiest, uuiqueat game out ;" and
strongly recommends Its. "combining amusement, exercise,
gout humour, and social affections, all lo a compact tern."
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The immigrants who have landed at New York
shire the Ist of January, 18343, n tun her 214752 Against 168,33 J
in the corresponding pedal of 1865.

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A New York paper states that an old woman of
Fenian proclivities sent in a large cheese knife, old fashioned
flint lock muskets, shot pm' and antiquated brass mounted
pistols

A French journalist announces in grandiloquent
language the coming of • new newspaper. He says—" Be-
hold • corvette in the horizon ! sails proudly swelling to the
wind, fully armed, and ready to pour in a broadside, the
captain elated and ready for the fray !"
A new Baptist church, dedicated to St. John the
Evangelist, with nave, chancel, transepts, clerestory, rose
window, tower and spire, reredos, communion table, and all
the accessories of • handsome Gothic Anglican church, has
Just been opened at Hull.

A cab-driver named Howard has been charged at
the Stafford Asazes with attempting to murder an " unfor-
tunate," named Topham. for whom he had formed a viol, nt
attachment, but who appears to have cared little for him.
Having vainly sought to get Into her good graces, he met
her at a public-house anti inflicted four serious wounds upon
her, none of which, however, turned out fatal. When ar-
rested on the charge, he confeteed at once that he "did it
for love." He was found guilty, and sentenced to dye years'
penal servitude.

An illustration of the revolution which the Atlantic
Cable is working in the business relations of the world I.
afforded by the fact that Engli,h oroers upon the San Fran-
cisco market for the fine wheat. of California have passed
through New York by Atlantic Cable, and hence by Over-
land Telegraph.

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The following advertisement, which is coed from
Tuesday'. Timor, will be considered by many as a sign of
nat,onal decadet.ce. Who would have thought at the com-
mencement of the present century that England would ever
have been than degraded, and that the blood of Nelson
wool I have 'Woe,' the deck of the net nro th us in vain I—
.' FRENCH FRCNN AND NARBONNE HONEY:—BALL and too
beg to announce they have received importations of the
above delicious rarities in original packages."
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The following advertisement is from a Birmingham
paper :—"Want•d • sineral servan% in • small amity,
at r• amn is ke,,t Pie house wink and emking all done
ho the ment^ers of the faulty. the Gentlen an of the h use
rises sir y, but prepares breakfast blinsel'. Ali the w.shine
is put out, and the ki,ehee s proniord WI h every comfort
a. LI nun y. C.ld meat and hash studiou ly avoi..ed Wages
no o pvtl nto a competent party. Rettrencis aud photo-
grai ha exchmged

A pad occurrence has just happened at Arth, in
Limit lelettin was some thn • back bitten In the
thumb bv a man mom d Mull, r but he t ought coding of
tho wound, ant went next day a journey on hi. private
atfalrs Ou rotcht g Bale he f suit his hand ant arm begin
to swell, and a 1m iltod [man declare t that the case was one
of pots .fling from a human bite. Its at once tete, ne I home
Ii hate, but he refused to have the arm amputrted. he
cot sequence war list tne inflammation Mains d fright( all,
and he di.d some data atter in horriale suffering.
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The longest message yet transmitted through the
Stlsorm To egr•pli Was a despsteh from the Unrt.d 'Oates
government at Wash ngton to the Amer can SidOster a;
earls. It wa• serA through in the early part of th s vices,
and consisted of snore than 400. words It 0 tripled ten
hours n trait nos on, and -m sent a• the average rate Of
see. n w via per minute. Tee cos of the m• as ge was over
2,0001. The message, I penned, would occupy &Ault three
columns of a de ly paper.
It is rumours, I that Government is about to inal-
tnte • sytern of gratuities to purrlic vaccinators, according
to the degree of euecrae, and that &SUM of money has hen
provided for that purpose. It is known that such • plan
was proposed in tee hill which was settled hy the select
Committee tit the HUMS of Commons last at asion, hut with
which, as our realer, are aware, the present ministry old
Dot proceed. We have resoon to heli,ve that the present
rumour is well founded."—Britidi Medical Journal.

General Peel hae initiated • small army reform
Which will be a great boon to married confirm. Hitherto a
married soldier, whether a non-commissioned officer or a
private, has when on detmted duty had the burden thrown
upon Mtn of maintaining his wife and family in the garrison
which he has temporarily left Br a reCent order of the War
Office this I, nit longer to be the case The wife and family
are to tie allowed rations out of the Govemmeut stores, or,
if preferred, the wile is to receive threepence and each of
the children three halfpence Per day tottotni•
The cholera has made ita appearance in the
anion workhouse a, Bernard Os Tuesday in last week an
inmate vetoed Chnlkley. aged sistsunt years, Was td,:acked,
•1111 attic izoahel ti, the tiioPlibe in twenty-four hours.
The medical ,Ilicer reported the case to the guardian. ou
Sa•unixy m one of choleraic Mare cos, and mid that,
judging from the s•ate. f health of the inmates generally
Erhail n reason to ...Inn as that the attack w..ul I he fol-
cm' 7. :temt r repine'! p othersis
in re i
Atht.at7astmCo°fll:77mr"ts.tel,'
critghmeedr,Breoi,s7yde.d raise,
ta that
beent,hte,
ethid. attacke.l. anti that bad samplonot hail set M. The
wa'er ratuld be taken for drinking purposes from the well
which tuoolleti the workhouse. It should be stated that
the workhome Is owthig oisostod about half a mile trom
Os town, bat that IS to. no propu dnlaage.