The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-22 00:00:00

service.

"A gentleman, aged thirty, holding first-rate posi-
tion, wishes to correspond will a lady about twenty-Ph 0,
with a view to matrimony. Must be of good family, fair
complexion, and ladylike appearance. Address, with carte,
Sc."—advertiscment in Manehesto r Examiner.
Some peasants of Cusano Multi, in tlic Terra di
Lavoro, succeeded last week in killing the brig:aid Francesco
Crecchio, and in wounding the chief Campatua, who si
however, able to escape. The troops are on his tracks, and
hope to capture him.
A San Francisco paper says:—" The volcano, which
proved to be a • nine days wonder,' has entirely subsidet,
and furnishes nothing for travellers to witness tat the mins
and desolation which it left. The suddenness id its cessation
is a perfect contrast to the prolonged exhibitions of furm r
years."
A project is on foot in Calif >min, to establish a trio-
graph line from thence to Ia Ina and Japan. It would ho
laud line through British Columbia to Alaska. A series
short ocean cables would connect the Aleutian peninsula
with Kamtchatka, which hi only 600 miles from Japan, not
from the latter country Shanghai Is only a low hundrsi
, miles . . . . . .

An American paper states that the last winter is
the Polar Seas was the mildest known for twenty-five years,
and that the natives of those seas lost all their sinter supply
of meat, which is usually preserved by being irons. II is
likely that the whalers, through the mildness of last winter.
will be able to penetrate during this summer even further
than they did last year Into the Polar Sea.
It appears from a publication in the Rec ae des Dews
Mondes that the cost of the Emperor's stable c rablishmenls
for lane was £30,000. A French journal, noticing
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satirically says. The salary of the President of the Republie
In 1545 was only £20,000, and yet there are peoole who deny
that France is advancing in prosperity.
The Emperor of the French, on the occasion of Mt
fete day, granted commutations of punishment to 9ig
soldiers in the military prisons, and to 1,553 convicts in peni-
tentiaries and other correctional establishments.
Very great distress prevails among the people living
in the district lately inundated in Baltimoic. About 200
(=thee are daily relieved by the city government; the dis-
tribution of money amounts to about 5,000 doh,, a day.
Fifty-seven thousand cart-loads of filth deyosited by the
Rood had been removed during the past month.
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James Hamilton, an artist living in Philadelphia,
has received from Mr. Dickens a fine edition it the novelist's
works, with an autograph letter, in recognition of • sketch
presented to Mr. Dickens last spring.
Somebody hoaxed the London fire-brigade on Tues-
day morning. About half-past one o'clock a rumour was
spread that Buckingham Palace was toa fire, and a nunilwr
of engines were at once sent there, but there was no Me cad
no sign of any.
As the band of the 2nd Regiment of ( :renadiern of
the Guard was a few days hack practising in Paris some new
music, the conductor turned to make an observation to MO
of the executants who bad played out of tune. The nialis
head suddenly fell on his breast, and he wtoild have cite
to the ground had not gime of the others supported him.
He had, however, ceased to live, having broken a vessel in
the region of the heart.
A meeting of "unemployed poor" was held in
London on Sunday morning on Clerkenwell-green—xlr.
O'Neill in the chair. The chairman, in opening the pro-
ceedings, said that those who got up these meetings did not
advocate socialism, but principles which were founded upon
justice and right. kir. Weston moved the first re-solution, as
follows That the appropriation of the lands of Great
Britain and Ireland to aristocratic domination and money
speculation is the primary and sustaining cauxe of the mien,
ployment, pauperism, and general degradation of the
millions, anti that the remeAr for those evils lies in a
reversal of that policy which Ws produced them, combined
with such organization as has for its object the general g..od
of the whole people." Mr. Millen, in seconding the re-ela-
tion, said what he advocated was—test tow* and more pa:l.
Battening at Sheffield seems to be irrepressible.
The other night some bands, used by three men win, were
behind in their contributions to the society, were stolen
from the Globe Works. The bands belonged to the master,
but as the men cannot work without theni, the money will
doubtless be paid, and the purpose of " Mary Ann's" visit be
accomplished.
The case of Madame Rachel was mentioned at the
opening of the Sessions at the Central Criminal Court on
Monday. It was stated that there were technical difficulties
In the way of sustaining the present charges of obtaining
money by false pretences, and tuat an entirely fresh Mat-
ment would be preferred.
There is a belief that compulsory church rates of all
kinds were abolished by the Act passed in the late session. At
Ipswich, however, a demand has been made upon the Car'! a-
lien for two rates of 3d. and id, respectively, for the burp...)
of augmenting the clergyman's income. The town clerk ad-
vised the council that the rate was legally made under a
statute passed in the thirteenth year of Queen Eliraiwth's
reign, and that the new Act made provision for an ex-
ceptional rate of Ma character. The application was
granted, but not before many objections had been urged
against raising the clergyman's stipend in such a manner.
A Board ,if Arbitration for the settlement of lis•
pities between masters and men in the pottery trade loin
course of formation. A conference took place some short
time since between a committee of the Stafford Chant] wr of
Commerce and a select body of workmen, when the resolu-
tion to form the board was adopted, and It was agreed that
the chamber should nominate ten members and tile work-
men ten.

A correspondent writing from Skibbereen on Frilly,
says :—About three o'cloult p.m. on Toe-d .y I Ist, aI. e
whale of the bottlenose species made his entry into Cook-
haven harbour, and was quickly captured and killed by the
local fishermen. No accident of any kind occurred, althonzh
not a few boats were upset In the exciting pursuit ot the
leviathan. The whale weighed several tons.
"Master Willie Way, four years old, son of Mr.
Way, of Boston, rode up Mt. Washington, on Saturday, from
Crawford's and back, nine miles, alone. The feat aas re-
garded as one of no little account, and made the courageous
lad the hero of the hour."—New York Times, August 5.
Among the minors in the peerage who attain 6.4
majority during the autumn are the Marquis of Bute and
the Earl of lichester, both in September ; and the Duke of
Norfolk, who attains his majority on the 27t1s of Decenthir.
"Without the slightest wish to sneer at, or in 15517
way ridicule enthusiasts, we must say that, to all appearan,e,
the chief characteristic of the New Parliament wilt be that
it will be eminently commonplace."—Saturday Review.
An amusing circumstance is related as having really
occurred at a school for medical pupils hi Paris. One of the
professors asked art intelligent youth ed fifteen what bait
that produces snoring m the rat t The youth answered, "Tile
rat'
The The schooner Catherine, Davie, master, of and from
Swansea, has been wrecked off the Lizard light-house. She
struck on some rocks on Thursday night during a strong wind.
Crew rescued by coastguard lifeboats.
A French writer gives " another" instance of the
arrogance of the British aristocracy. He says that over the
Royal Exchange, London, there is an inscription to the
effect that the earth and all the fullness thereof belong to
the Lords I

The sale of paper lanterns is prohibited in Paris, and
of cigarette, of a red colour with a deeign of a lantern upon
them.

The Rev. W. N. Truss, of Donington, near Wolver-
hampton, having written to Mr. Disraeli inquiring whether
women will be entitled to vote at the coming election, the
Premier replied, through his private secretary, that "it
rests with the revising barrister alone to decide whether
names are properly placed on the list by the overseers."
On Monday a painter named Tozzell threw himself
from one of the parapets of London Bridge into the liver.
In his hat, which he left in a recess, was found a piece of
paper, on which was written his address in the Borough, and
the words "Found drowned..
A Brussels letter state that the health of the on-
fortunate Empress Charlotte is worse. Her lucid Intervals
are less frequent and of shorter duration than they were. In
the night-time she often gets up, turns her bed topsy-turvy,
and throws the pillows out of window.
At Harvard University this year the funt prize for
declamation was won by a negro.
A large number of houses are building at Shanklin,
Is the Isle of Wight, in consequence of the influx of visit..
' by the railway.
There is now living in the neighbourhood of Ports-
mouth a soldier 85 years old, who fought at Waterloo, and
has no pension.
Mr. Andrew Fairbairn, the young mayor of Leeds,
into receive the honour of knighthood. The compliment 18
all acknowledgment of the hearty reception given to the
Prince of Wales In May, when his royal highness opened the
Leeds Art Exhibition. The mayor's father was knighted in
185 S, on the occasion of the Queen opening the magnincent
Town-hall, which is one of the sights of Leeds.
On Tuesday the Foresters celebrated their fourt—Tron
annualjete at the Crystal Palace. It is always a favourite
"people's day," and, notwithstanding the gloomy aspect of
the weather early in the morning, about No,tsm persons were
present. The " order " now numbers over 322,000 members,
and they possess an aggregate fund of about a million
sterling.
At a London county court an action has been
brought by a groom against a horse dealer for compensation
for injuries sustained through the bite of a dog. That the
animal bit the plaintiff there was no question, but the de-
fendant maintained that the disposition of the dog was in-
variably peaceable, and that on this occasion it had most
likely been provoked. The jury, however, gave the plaintiff
£4O damages.
The Emperor Napoleon having expressed his satis-
faction with the hearing and spirit of the National Guard at
the late review, and declared that he shall always rely ale.'
their patriotism, some of the Paris journals ask how it is, if
the organisation is so well disposed, and to devoted, that the
right it .mce possessed of electing its own officers in not
restored?

A sad accident occurred 01% Monday, at Athlone. A
boat, containing seven artillerymen who were returning tom
a regatta on Lough Rea, capsized, and five of them were
drowned.
A young man, a porter at the laboratory of the
General Apothecaries' Company, in London, destroyed him.
self last week by taking aconite. He was to have been
married on the following Sunday, and his sweetheart, who
gave evidence at the inquest, stated that there had been no
lovers' quarrel, nor could any cause be assigned for the at.
It was stated at the inquest by Dr Stephens. that poedvred
animal charcoal is themost efficacious antidote for vegetable
poisons, but the deceased was too far gone when admitted at
the hospital for this remedy to have been tried with any
prospect of success.
Now that the food supply for large cities has
assumed such gigantic proportions, it has become necessa,/
that perishable articles should he conveyed at the smallest
possible risk The Council of the Society of Arts have just
announced for the year iseo three prizes of £lO, with the
silver medal to each, for Unproved railway meat-vans, mlk-
vans. and milk-cans, the object being to provide against the
deterioration whirl. meat and milk row suffer in the trareot
by rail. Models mini specimen., rut the scale of half-an-inch
to the foot, for competition, nust be gent in to the Society of
Arts by the tat of February next.
England has been temporarily deprived, through
illness, of an interesting visitor. Mrs. Lincoln, the widow of
the late President, was to have come over undsr the escort
of Mr. Beverly Johnson, the newly-appointed I tilted States
Minister, to this country, but was taken suddenly ill on the
night before the vessel sailed. Although somewhat better.
Mrs. Lincoln is too much indisposed to undertake a voya
across the Atlantic at present.
The epidemic of lynching, now running throughout
the West and South-west, has extended to Sioux city,
Miaooori, where three gamesters have been hanged "for
eheating." This, doubtless, pour oucourapor in. went.

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