The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-09-05 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The 12th inst. will be the first day of the New Year
5,635, termed " Tishri," and the Fast of Atonement, which
all Jews keep, falls on the 21st Inst.

The total receipts into the Exchequer from the let
April to the 79th August amounted to a:27,494,458, as com-
pared with £28,671,443 in the corresponding period of last
year. The expenditure during the same period has been
£31,077,343, as compared with a:33,778,542. The balance In
the Bank of England on the 29th August was £2,139,035, and
In the Bank of Ireland £819,645.

At Westminster Police-court, on Monday, the
magistrate sentenced a man to six months hard labour for
assaulting his wife, and deelared that he would have sent
him for trial, but that he would probably get a lighter sen-
tence there, as the injuries to the woman would by that time
have disappeared.

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If you put two persons in the same bedroom, says a
philosopher who has a genius for icing life, one of whom has
the toothache, and the other is in love, you will find that
the person who is in love will go to sleep first.

Mount Etna ban been in eruption since Saturday.
Lava is issuing from three mouths m the side of the moun-
tain but none of the streams are trending dangerously near
to any human habitations
.T. B. Johnson, the English champion swimmer, is
making a great sensation at that favourite American water-
ing-place, Long Branch. fhe shores are lined daily by a
gay multitude, who marvel at his performances in old
.Neptane's bosom. Moreover, venturesome ladies get him to
escort them through the briny deep.

The French authorities have at length taken steps
to cause their territory to be respected by the Carlist troops.
It is announced by the Paris Morirteier that, in consequence
of the violation of French territory near Puycerda, a Carhat
battalion was disarmed, and in order to carryout the rigorous
instructions of the Government a body of French artillery
has been dispatched to the frontier.

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to official despatches received in Madrid. five Carlist guns
have been dismounted by the fire of the garrison, and four
assaults in all have been repulsed. The Carlist general,
Alvarez, is reported to have defeated Marshal Zabala, who
was endeavouring to revictual Vittoria.
The Prince of Wales arrived on Saturday at Burg,
where he was received by the Crews Prince of Germany.
His Royal Highness having received the Secretaries of the
English Embassy, paid a visit to the Emperor and Empress
and other members of the Imperial family.
A man died at the Manchesterlnfirmary on Saturday
evening of hydrophobia, resulting from two bites which he
had received front a stray dog in February last. He had re-
fused to have the wound cauterised at the time. He felt no
cause for alarm until about a week ago, when the place
where his hand had been wounded became painful Ile
then appears to have made up his mind for the worst.
On Saturday morning he began to be seized with violent
paroxysms Ind in one of the intervals he embraced his
family and bade them farewell—cautioning them to keep
away. He soon after became very violent, and for two hours
defied all attempts to approach hint. lie was at length over-
powered and conveyed to the Infirmary.

A foolish scientific gentleman recently leaped from a
train in Rochester—not our Rochester, but the American
Rochester—to save himself a long walk. As be might hive
foreseen, he was hurt severely. The New York Tribune
describes the incident in the following terms;—" lie came
face down upon a beautiful pile of stones, of the various
kinds dear to the geological heart. He saluted these relies
of ardent eras no affectionately that his face was badly
etched, and looked like a map of creation just after the
flood. We like science but close stady of this sort hardly
seems necessary or desirable, if the race of geologists is to be
perpetuated."

At the Blackburn Borough Brewster Sessions the
chief constable read a report in which he stated that the
amendments of the licensing laws had been nullified
by shopkeepers being allowed to sell wine and spirite. He
had no complaints to make. AU the old licenses were re
newed. There were eight applications for spirit license,;
four were granted No new licences were granted to shop-
keepers and only one new beer licence wee given.
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The Perla waiting-inside dreee almost as finely as
their mistreacee, and many amusing contretemps have oc-
curled in ionieuuence (says the C9ur, Jcurneli One et
theEe young women maa atanding on the piazza, when a
gallant young gentleman offered her a chair, which she ac-
cepted. He was repaying himself for his courtesy by speak-
ing " pretty nothings "to her when a little boy ran up to her
and said "Maman says she wants you to come in and put
Marie to sleep •" The Trench Chesterfield was much
shocked, and, when he saw everybody tittering at him he was
no less mortified.

School acations in Scotland are turned to industrial
account Au English gentleman from Oxford, roughing lion
one of the Lothian coiuitlen. met en the road a little fellow
about twelve years old, with whom he had a little chat.
'Well, my rood boy, are you at school?' "Yea. I gang to
the schule every day." " What, in thin fine harvest weather,
"hen alinont all schools are in vacation ?" •• °or schule
disnay got the play, oo get the vacinda after hearst when the
talks to liften when nu gang t• the feeld ati help to All the
lacks.