The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-06-29 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND E'OREIGN.

The Leeds brickmakers have demanded an advance
in wages of ad. pert houaand, and have ham lo,ked out.

An opera house isnow being built at Auckland, New
Zedwl. Prowess Indeed ! where no lately the war whoop
reaotnided, the little boy's hoop is now safely trundled.

Autumn maineuv res are, it is said, to he held in
Austria on a grand scale this year. The whole Bohemian
army is to participate, and the special object propo=ed i= test-
ing the new nrgaulration for provisioning the army and the
field telegraph system.

The Jewish Chronicle says that the object of the pre-
sent persecution at Smyrna Is to compel the Jews to allow
the release of the Greek ruffians now in prison. The Greek
mob tlmatentd to fire the whole city and massacre the Jews
If not gratified. The Ottoman government has seat down a
still more energetic governor general, tiadik Pacha.

That branch of the London paintin„r, trade known
wider the designation of "house painters,- have, it is lista,
resolved to combine for the purpose of ontaining from the
masters the concession of the nine hours period for working,
with an increase of wages.

A distinguished journalist announces in his colnmus
that he has positively rece, ved the following request :—•'
—I should feel much honoured by having your autograph for
my album ; if you deem the request unwarranted in my
part, pray Damon me, but, at the same time, send the re-
(usal In your own handwriting, and with ) our ownaignature,
that I may know the refusal is authentic."
On Sunday, after morning service at the workhouse
at Chester, the schoolmaster took the boys out torn walk on
the Roedee. While there, several of them plucked water
hemlock in mistake for wild celery, and ate a portion. They
were soon afterwards seised with convulsions, succeeded by
tetanus, and two of them, named Dobson and Kinsey are
dead. Tile others are recovering.

The Bishop of Winchester, speaking on S4turday
evening at the St. John's middle-elass schools in Kenning-
ton, London, expressed his codification at finding that an
Important part of a boy's education, Us ph steal training,
had not been overlooked in that school, but that the teachers
were mindful of the fact that tnere were occasions when even
Greek must give place to a knowledge of swimming.
A care of some interest to banking firms and their
employes has just been decided in the Common Pleas Court,
Dublin. The Bank of Ireland brought an action against
one of their tellers for breach of his surety bond for the
faithful discharge of Ids duty, and the safe keeping of the
money given Into his charge. It appears that iu September
last, miring the temporary absence of the defendant from
his box In the bank on bank business, a parcel containing
£4,200 was stolen, and the Directors sued him for the money,
which they say wallost owing to his negligence. Be, how-
ever, called in the other tell re, and they proved that their
usual practice in the bank was to leave money on the desks'
the defendant had done when leavii4 for a short time on
huffiness The jury found for the defendant, in cows-wiener
of the laxity permitted in the hank. The directors have
dismissed the Mee, an he Can taken an alkali against them
dub dbins.

A cynical old bachelor says that it is the privilege
of noels t,urrow,d the loveliest ot llamas things, amoug
which are girls and whisky.
A terribte railway accident has occurred in Canada,
on the north shore of Ld. Ontario, more t ts tnty
pers., being scalded to thath, and many others beirg oc-
peeteti to the.

Twelve of the Waterloo veteran v whooe rarrea ap-
peared in the Arioy List oa the lavt nouivervary (the 570) of
the great battie have paid the debt of nature during the
past twelve mouths.

The spleterii train, consisting of eight eal,nn ear.
riages, built at w ago by the East France hallway Sr
the use of the Emperor Napoleap amf his fundly has I've°
purehased by the flowerliau Railway Company ter the
mama, awl was lauded a few clays ,go at htainhouL
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A Paris fashionable paper compLlins that some of tbe
11104 noble families of France seud their servants t., the l'aris
market to sell the fruit and ',gonadks grown in the grounds
of their uuntry houses. good friend, remember that if
noblex:e obrige, Sonora a short income.

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A .gentletnan using bis beet endeavours to escape
treadles tesh the !ong walkleg train of NLaly, did bet
succeed, elite the lady tuimd up .rt him fiercely, and gate
him some of the lees-after marriage style of language."
Brehm. bealted the gty bachelor reeponoed, "Matotu, I
gain humbly beg your pardon, I thought pm hod panied
some time ago"

We deeply regret to announce the death tat -
Stanl. y 'Mott, daughter ,d Lady Maedouald Lockhart.
Itothhad Omar> ed from Pau in the railway train which met
with the dreadful accident at Juvigy, and had to all appear
area entirely es-aped injury. hut the shock to the nervous
system of the younger traveller woo so overpewering, that
this amiable lady expired to the coarse of Thursday night.
Guilt; nani.

On Monday there was a demonstration against Mr.
Justice Keogh at Drogheda. Lands paraded the streets,
followed by a crowd carrying banners, and about 1,500
people are reported to have attended the meeting. There
were few persons of respectability present. Resolutions de-
nouncing the Judge aud calling for his dismissal were passed
tumultuously.

On Sunday, %dile two young men, .Al,aand.r Male,
lurk, and Itohert Wightou, joiner, were 4ttempting to lens.)
a small boat to go on board vessel Wog in the Tay, a little
above DuLdte, they incautiously went on the gunwale, .d
upset her. They were thrown Into the water. A man on the
vessel endeavoured to rescue them. but was unsuucesbful,
being almost drew ned himself. A boat was sent after the
null, but just as it reached them they sank, and Lever rose
again.

"In consegnence of the great interest shown in
Victoria in cricket during the past season, It has been
suggested that an attempt should be shade to induce an
eleven of the gent's men of Ineland to visit Australia at the
end of this year. We are given to understand that a few
lovers of the game will take the matter into consideration
immediately, and we trust their efforts will be attended
with success."—Jl elbourne Argmc April 23.
In Pearl-street, New York, there is a mill which
makes hom paper such articles as milk-pans, cups, bread-
pans, wash-bowls, d‘c., which are said to be superior to wood
or metal. The paper, after being pulped, is pressed into a
shape, dried, enamelled, alai subjected to a heat that would
destroy some utensils of the kind. The material is light and
easily handled, ma dues not rust, shrink, Icak, or easily
break.

At the funeral of Dr. Norman Macleod in Campaie
churchyard, Dr. Robertson, by COMM:111d of the Queen and
the Royal Family, placed on the coffin three intinortelles.
The first, from her Majesty, bore the inscription, " A token
of respect and friendship from Queen Victoria." the second
was " A token of respect from Prices Leopold," and the
third was "A token of respect from Princess Beatrice"
In reply to a deputation, the Chancellor of the
Exchegner on Monday promised to communicate with the
Inland Revenue on the best rideahs of placing Working
Men's Clubs, as far as freedom from Excise interference was
concerned, on the same footing as the West-end establish-
ments. Mr. Bruce can, at the auntie time, waited upon by a
deputation appointed at the recent Building S. Males env
ference t. lay before him some of the features of the Govern-
ment Bill which were then pointed out as obJecttmable.

Very shortly the first Sovereign of P- erhia that has
ever visited the English shores may he expected in Et:g!and.
Connected with this visit of the ruler of Persia—a sovereignty
of 4,000 years ldsteric interest—is the organkation of a
mighty enterprise, that with the adoption of Mr. Fowlers
loternational Communication scheme will enable a traveller
to go from London to India without change of carriage.

A meeting of the committee in connection with the
International Prison Congress was held on Monday, in the
Adelphi, London. It was resolved that the Congress should
be (fielded into sections, hut that they should not sit simul
taneoudy. The arrangement of the questions for din ussian
was referred to a sub c anmittee eotup,sed of a delegate of
each nation, to meet daily. The Congress will be held in the
Middle Temple Hall.
The most curious and the least observed circum-
stance in connection with the flrewoik Manley at the Crystal
Palace is the number of w orkmen, who, parched at a giddy
height on the glass roof of the building, are vigilantly watch-
ing the whole proceedings below, with a view to ettimmisit
immediately any spark resting on the runimit. The a onder
ful nerve and alacrity of these rues, who walk like cats over
the slippery surface, where a false step would be fatal, forms
a singular sight to contemplate.
A meeting was lately held for the purpose of for-
warding the object a.f presenting Lunt Itehlhaven with his
portrait, on the occasion of his attaining his major my. His
lordship Is tire master of Grant anti prospective head of the
clan Grant. The meeting was held at the "Grant Arms,"
Granto.n, and was presided over by a Grant. A Grant was
commissioned to execute tire portrait, and on the motion of
a Grant, nine gentlemen of the name of Grant, resident in
various parts of the country, were added to the committee.
It is reported that the Emperor of Russia is pro-
jecting the junction of the Black Sea with the Caspiau by a
short canal connecting, the Munatch, an eastern trientary of
the Don, with th- Kerma, a river running into the Caspian
The total length of the cammunicatiou will be 080 v. ruts,
or 90 German miles; bat the length of the canal will be only
ab ut one Gertnan mile. The piercing of the mountain which
separates these rivers will, however, be an engineering work
of gigantic magnitude, and is calculated to require the
labours of 38,000 workmen for six years, and to cast 81,000,90
roubles.

The action for libel brought by Mr. Leonard
Edmunds aeainst the Lords of the Treasury has collapsed in
consequence of the plaintiff's inability to prove the publica-
tion of the Minute of which he complained. On Saturday
Mr. Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Stara-
fold, and Mr. Glyn were severally called, but as neither of
these gentlemen had authorised the making public of the
document, and as Mr. Edmunds had no other witnesses, the
edge directed a nonsuit.

Several cases of pocket-picking on the occasion of the
Prin. of Wales's visit to the East-end were detected by the
vigilance of the poll., and adequately puni,hed at Worship-
street Police court In one instance the magistrate expressed
a wish to see the mode, operandi where three tlfil.ves con-
spired to rob, and it was illustrated for the magistrate's
edification by the detective, who performed upon the chief
usher's pocket in court.
A parliamentary return published relating to
seamen's savings panks states that the total amount re-
ceived from depositors dosing the year ended the 20th of
November, 1071, was £.39,,19 3s. M. ; the total repayments
were £05,650 194. 10d. The balance in the hands of her
Majesty's Paymaster General, or invested with the Com-
missioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, is
£* 6518 35 3d. The number of seamen's money orders
issued during the year ended December, 1517, at ports in the
United K ingdom was 57,425 for MIMS amounting to
£299,470 Os. 9d., and at ports abroad 3,207 orders were
Issued for sums amounting to £39,15, 9e. 11d.

At the annual meeting of the Glamorgan and Car-
marthen English Baptist Association, held at Cardiff, the
following resolution was unanimously passed:—" hat this
Ass ,ciation pgards the application of public money for the
purpose of religious teaching in day schools as a violation of
the principles of religious equality, and, as it has been
proved already, as productive of sectarian strife and bitter.
neas throughout the country ; and records its conviction
that no m stem of elementary education can work fairly or
efficiently to this country that does not leave the reltlious
traioing of the young to the voluntary zeal of the churches."

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The National Gazette (puhliehed at Berlin) says that
Bishop Krements of Ernieland, in his reply to the decree of
the Ministered Public Werehip, in a hich he was commanded
to otiey the law of the land, declines to render the obedience
demanded. The Bishop says that he can only obey the law
of the land when it is in accordance with the laws of God It
Is for the catholic Church to decide what is the law of God,
and to such belongs the excommunication pronounced by him
on the two Professors. 'That being so he cannot, despite
the Prussian law, take off the ban he has laid upon them.
The New Testament Company of Revisers again as-
acnibled on Tuesday, in the Jerusalem chamber, for their
twenty•flest a solos. The lehhop of Gloucester and Bristol
presided. 'lire other mewbers preset were the Bishop of
Salisbury, the Dean if Westminster, the Master of the
Temple, Archdeacon likkerateth, Archdeacon Lee, Can.m
Kenneoy, Canon Lightfoot, Canon Westcott, Professor
Moulton, professor Newth, Dr. Angus, Dr. Brown, Or. Vance
Smith, Dr. Scrlvener,and Mr. Bort. The Company proceeded
to the revision of the twenty-second chapter of the Gospel
of St. Luke. The first and provisional revision of the third
Gospel will probably be completed during the present
session,

The Pet'plc Souvera i a (publialied in Patia), which
publishes a weekly caricature by Gill, appears last week
! with a blank space, destined, it explains, to be filled by a
sketch of the &not roe at Sedan, which, after tieing autho-
rised in due mune by the Minister of the Interior, was pro-
, hibited by General Ladmirault, the Commander of the State
of Siege. the editor thinks the General has exceeded his
I very ample powers, because his secretary grounds the prohi.
I bitten en the opinion that a caricature of General Cliangar.
! flier published on June 17th was so objectionable that the
' journal must not be allowed to issue any in future. The
People Souverain, trusting to General Ladmirault being
better advised, proposes to Ming out the caricature next
eek.
During, the week ending on Saturday lank the mor-
tality is London and twenty other large towns In the United
Kingdom was at the rate of 22 deaths annually to every
1,000 persons estimated to be lining. In the metropolis
1,997 births and 1,230 deaths were registered, the ft enter
having been 198, and the latter 140, below the avenge.
Twenty-six persons died from small-pox, 41 from measles, 9
from scarlet fever, 0 from diphtheria, 53 from whooping-
cough. 23 from different forms of fever (of which 2 were
certified as typhus, 11 as enteric or typhoid, and 1i as simple
eontinned fever), and 25 from diarrheas. Diseases of the re-
spiratory organs cowed 352 deaths, and 10 pet sons died from
different tem, of violence, no le,s than Line deaths having
been caused by hones or vehicles in the streets.
A London correspondent says—The Select Com-
mittee on Habitual Drunkards are clearly of opinion that
ab .ut 40 per cent, of habitual drunkards may be cured of
their disease by the simple means of preventing them from
feeding it, and they suggest two classes of retreats, in the
first of which drunkards may become voluntary imitates, but
having once entered may be defamed for a certain period
compulsorily ; and the second is to be a general reformatory
for persons who have been at least three times cmivieted be-
fore the magistrates of drunkenness. The enforced confine-
ment shall slot in any case exceed twelve months, and the
person so detained Is to work for the support of any one de-
pendent upon him.

"How mit h longer will Frenchmen continue to
wrangle vainly about the forms of their Government and tine
ascendancy Id parties, when the real question before them
concerns the very existence of their country? At this
moment one might alniost say that France ix but a 'gnu
graphical expression. Six of her fairest departments are
garrisoned by German soldiery, the shadow of sole,e fj.,4
lies upen the entire land. From the strong podtion which
the conqueror hold in the Eastern districts, Faris and the
N•rtb are open to his comment: he has retired, it Is true,
from a certain number of departments on the payment of the
stipulated instalments ; but, without counting Alsace and
Lorraine, which no longer form apart of France, the victor
—lt is idle to disguise the fact—holds the whole country in
pawn by the existing occupation."—Daily Telegraph.
An application was male to the Judicial Cnnnmittee
of the Privy Council ou Saturday to deprive the Rev. J.
Purdue, of the perpetual curacy of St. James's Chapel,
Brighton. on account of his disobedience to a monition of the
net. Mr. Purchas was proceeded against for using certain
vestments sand for performing certain rites ar.d ceremonies
in the celebration of the Holy Communion. A sentence nt
one year's suspension w, pronounced, to be commenced
from the service of [haulm. The order of suspension was
made on the 7th of February last, and served on Sunday, the
18th of the same month, Be had, however, continued to
preach, and to observe the practices prohibited by the wed.
tion. It was stated that the rev, gentleman had obtained by
purchase the proprietary riAlts of the chapel, and under all
the circumstances their lordships entered the Platter to
stand over sine die for further information.

An interesting ease, arising out of the complications
of the late war, has been decided by Sir It. J. Phillimore.
A number of English merchants consigned cargo to • Ger-
man ship, the San Ihnnan, which put In Valparaiso on the
26th of August, INTO and remained until the 23rd of Decem-
ber, In cousequenc.. It was alleged, of the pi esence of French
sh pa of war. The march tuts urged the owners of the ship
to proceed, though the German consul at Valparalao pointed
out the dower of dolow and they now brought an action
to ',cover losses coined by delay. It was decinol, h oweetr,
that where a neutral merchant puts his goods on hard a
bel:here such a claim was not allowable, as the
master of the ship. justified in exercising reasaustAn Caution.
The mut wan Itharotors dianlawd, wit& fottv.