The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-10-13 00:00:00

SATURDAY, OCT. 13, 11360!

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1)r. lineklandretates that Chicikater is mope liahle
to earduldakcs than any other place in the kinadons, in con-
aequenot of tta befog on the continuation of the tale of
Wught formation.
Dr. Lyon Mayfair Mentions an instance in /which a
human body was preserved from decomposition for two
months. It reached a dtant gesso by means of Car-
bonic acid.

After a struzgle for several weeks by the journey-
men tailors of W, et flafVepool for Sri increase of their
wags the diapute has come to 811 end by the mew hawing
agreed to return to work on their employers' terms
Land and Water observes that out of a total ot.'
36,000 boxes of salm)n ;each emtaining 11210 ) received In
Lormon,, 21 725 c-me from Scotland, 9,325 from Ireland,
and 1,50 from Wales and England, and the remainder from
Holland and Norwoy.
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The railway between Calcutta and Bombay la about
100:mites long, and is tray.rsed by trains in about four
days. The only through traffic at present consists of mails
and cargo Eur,pean passengers cannot travel the whole
distance on aooor lit of she heat

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The Fenian Head Centre Stephens, at a picnic the
other day m .le a speech, in winch he reiterated that fight-
ing wouli commence in Ireland tide year, and that he wuuld
be with them In the fight.

In one of Cham's recent sketches in the Charirari a
gaol-bird is represertsi looking on at a stveplechas". A
horse jumps a wall cleverly, the ip- retort clap their hand,,
and the gaol-bird . exclaims.- ‘• Q,Lehe injustice on
yapplaw, it ; et rail, pour avolr trahcni un tour, on in'a cone
pour six mole to prison."
The young King of Bavaria on his return from
Munich t Stamberg on Friday Imt luvi the train suddenly
stopped, that he might get out and ride on the engine Cu tne
full mooulagid.
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It is announced from Canada that n large emigra-
tion has been going on all this year from the British pro.
since, to the western states of the I. NLeehanies,
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especially. thus change their homes, over 1,000 carpenters
having left Quebec during the present year.
A reference to the Nary List published by authority
oin the let instant, shows that only two asslatant-surgeons
jothed thy service during the last quarter, and as two others
resigned their commissions during the same space of time.
the Ben/lee hi no better off in respect to a supply of
medical officers than It was on the Ist of last July.
"It is stated that during the late war one Hungarian
regiment, which had only 103 killed and wounded, came out
with 1,696 miming ; and another having only 60 killed and
wounded, lista 205 misting. It is supposed they had taken
the opportunity to desert.
A young gentleman, aged eighteen, who has devoted
himself to the interesting purthit of collecting autographs
of "eminent men," has got trim Mr. Bright the fol.owlng
answer to his application England is like an ass staggsr-
ing under twd grieFons burthens—the army and the nary.—
death _Rr-rat.7. "
The Empress of the French has felt the greatest
alarm for the health of the Emperor, and made a vow, which
may he seen In golden form in the church of Notre Dame
des Vieteiset--nemely, • gold lamp, with the initials I. N.,
which burns before the statue of the Holy Virgin in that
sacred edifice.
Twin Albinos were born on Friday at the Hotel
Dien in Paris—an unusual event, and one which excites con-
' siderabe ourloidti in the scientific world. Very few Albinos
I are met with in France, and these babies have created quite

a sensation.

Barley fetched 5.35. a quarter in last Salisbury
market. The pale ale brewers are about to advance their
price es. per barrel, chiefly In consequence of the high price
of barley.
An American paper announces that of 51.6 members
of the late National Congregational Council, 431 were born
In New England, and the fathers and mothers of nearly all
the rest were born in New England, and yet the council
WM gathered from twenty-five different states and teed-
tortes.
The Empress Eugenie has, it is said, addressed an
autograph letter to the Holy Father, requesting We per-
mission to defray In the coming year the expenses of the new
foreign legion from her private purse. Die offer has beeo
graciously accepted.
The Bishop of Orleans, who is at present staying in
Dauphine, in delicate health, has jest sent instructions to
the clergy of his diocese to give shelter in the episcopal
palace toll many of the sufferers from inundations as pos-
sible; likewise to receive on his grounds all the cattle that
may be saved. The Bishop also abandons to these poor
people the third of his stipend, that is to say, a sum of
4,000 f.
The King of Birmah has been deposed, and a con-
flict was being carried on between four different Princes for
the possession of the throne.
"Mr. Bright is perhaps more dangerous than
O'Connell because his Influence Iles in Engl. I ; but he hsa
to encounter the same profound moral disapprobation which
preyed fatal to the success of the great Irish agitator.'—
Saturday Review.
The cholera seems to be spreading in Manchester
and South Lancashire generally. It has also appeared in
Newcastle and the other towns on the north-eastern coasts.
Ladies' dreeses are to be unusually short according
to some authorities who have looked into the future 01 1007
as fashionable Zoe-Miele The dresses are to be vans crinoline,
and leave at sensationally just below the knee, figured
stockings and high boots to do the rest.
On Thursday afternoon in last week a "sharp-nosed"
skate, sit easurieg live feet in length and three feet nine inches
in I ireedth, and s eie lug about sixty pounds, was cement in
a shallow on a sandbank in the eatuary of the Ribble,
near Preston, by some fishermen.
The Hon. Arthur Pelham, part of whose hand PM
blown off bo a gun accident, is progressing satisfactorily.
• A request has been forwarded from France to know
I the Process of making the thilled steel for Palliser's
I proj ctn..
The Austrian Admiral Tegethoff is coming to Eng.
land to study the orginigation of the English Navy.
An American newspaper in publishing the marriage
of an old man with a ming girl oppends the folowing
"Fe lends will please to accept of this Inlatuetion."
Byron's "DOD Juan," has just been translated for
the fires time into F. each verse
Upwards of 3.000 Prussian soldiers have died of
cholera in Bohemia, b 75 of whom were in the hospitals at
Preen.
Twenty ounces of gold (valued at 400,000 dollars)
were den tutu! lately on ssiaglo imy in the era,-eh mint at
San Francisco, being the leo-gest amount ever received in one
day.
The Chicago papers tell of a dog that was taken
from that city across the Plains to Colifornia. but not liking
that country travelled back again on foot and arrived at hie
old home very much emaciated.
Wendell Phillips, the antislavery orator, who here-
tofore has relne-id to go to Congress, ne tne ground that he
°mild not Swear to sopport the Constitution as it then was,
has been nominated to the third Congressional District of
Massachuaetts.
The French Government has decided to build a
large temporary hotel near Passe where travellers b. long-
ing to the working classes will lied Curing the IrShibitiou
comfortable lodgings and refreshments at moderate prices
fixed by a tariff.
The Rev. Dr. Boyd, "A. K. H. 8.," preached a
'armor, on Sunday, on the occasion of the opening of an
org sn iu one of tie Presbyterian churches at Deere. ol He
took for lid, text the words of our Lord to tne woman of
Samaria, "God is a Spirit," she ,and argued that both ritual-
ists and anthritualiste might equally offer spiritual and ac-
ceptable worship, and that neither they who employed nor
they who rejected ritual had any right to condemn their
opponents.
The friends of the late Canon Stowell have deten
mined on erecting a memoiial to him. It will take the form
of a church, with parsonage house sod shoots in Salford.
The church is to contain seats for about 700 people, and its
cost will be about 7,0001.
An interesting meeting took place at Sabden on
Saturday. on the occasion of the opening of the Cobden
Memorial Mills, which have been commerced on the prin-
ciple of co-operation, Mr. Hughes, M. I'., who presider,
addressed the meeting on the advantages and difficulties of
' co-operation, and stiongiy urged the extension of the prin-
ciple as • means of removing the occasion of strikes.
At the 13allinasioe sheep fair, on Thursday in last
week, the largest seen there for years, even larger than that
of last year, which was much in advance of former years in
the numbers offered lor sale, sellers were °longed to yield to
a reduction of ten shillings per head on the prices of last
year, after holding out obstinately till an advauced hour In
the morning.
The King of Prussia has ordered a cross to be given
to each soldier who was e welted in the late campaign. It
I, to be made of the bronde of the cannon taken from the
enemy. There are to be grailsa even for those who actually
fought, which will have the words, "God with its—ti Him
the honour," tied will be worn with a black ribbon bordered
with orange. The non-combatant's cross will have the motto,
"To the faithful warriors of Died," and will be attached to
a white ribbon with orange and black borders.
The Posrs city article says :—" Letters from Paris
state that the result of the harvest will cause about
300,000,000 francs to be gradually sent away for purchase
of corn. It Is, nervevey, expected that increased exports
will, in some measure, neutralise the result of the expected
withdrawal of bullion."
Some of the Madrid papers have asserted that the
British Government has admitted that the ship papers of
the Tornado were suspicions, but this is untrue. rne British
GOternmeet has made no such admission ; on the 'contrary
the British Consul at Cadiz reports the Tornado's papers to
be perfectly regular.
On Saturday week a gentleman and his son, a boy
of fourteen, were driving in a gig at Minnyhive. A plaid
wrapped round the son's neck got entangled with the axle of
the wheel, and, in a moment, the boy was dragged down
became the wheel nod the maw of the gle, his neck being
tightly bmindto the axle. Than, sufferer was was with diffi-
culty extricated, mid appeared to be dead for some time
afterwards. He eventually recovered.
The well.known German painter of battle scenes.
Frits-Lellemand, has died of cholera at Vienna. lie was
born at Banal,. in 1010, sod his first great picture was that of
" the Juloilee Dinner of the Knights of the Order of Morla
Theresa." De also painted several scenes in the last
Sehleswig-Hoistelu war by order of the Emperor.
A few days ago the steeple of a Roman Catholic
cathedral at Stockholm fell in while the men were at work
upon it, dreadfully injuring some twenty of the labourers.
Much sympathy has been oboes for the unfortunate men.
The Lutheran pastor placed his church at the disposal of the
Roman Catholics, and on the following Sunday the Roman
Catholic bishop oniciated within the walls of the Protestant

church.
The new constitution of Denmark, granting full
liberty of worship, provides that CO one is to he compelled
to contribute to the support of is church of which he disap-
proves, but that every individual who dots not show that he
it the member of some religious cement:4y In the country,
must pay towards pudic education time personal contri-
butions imposed by the law favour of the 1 album! church.
A Nice paper gives the following On the Bth
ninon., at Bleu elate, Canton de Contes, arrondissement do
Nice, Le Sienr A C—, aged eighty-four, married b-dote tha
Moire and If . le Cure, Melmc. 11---., aged eighty-one. Afire
the benediction the priest, according to usage, recommended
the bride and groom to bring up their children in such • way
so when they were old they might not depart therefrom.
This the newlymarried couple promised to do Alter mass
this lively brace of patriarchs danced a jig (tine gip, in
the public senare.''
The Orchestra publishes a letter from Charles Halle,
the famous pianitt, concerning the "musical phenomenon"
Blind I om. lie says Time Boy's musical gifts seem to
me quite marvellous, and the manner in which he repeated
scveral pieces I played to hit', which he had evidently never
heard before, was most remarkable. I named to him several
notes, choosing the most duel,: alt aed perph glee intervals,
these he instantly sang with perfect truth of intonation,
althongh they might have puzzled a welbeducated musician.
Altogether Bitt ii Tom terms to me a most singular and
ines,:licable phenomenon."
King George, of Hanover, has absolved his former
subjects, including the civil servants of the Crown, from
their oath of allegiance. This, every one must acknowledge,
Is a graceful act, sod lends dignity to the mtstorrunes which
have overtaken the Renal House The other clop vested
sovereigns of Cermany who hive relieved their people from
! their oath of allegiance have -lone RO er making arrange-
ments with Prussia cure or lens advantageous to themselves.
The act of King Georce can only have been prompted I,y•
liberal caneern for the happiness of Ws former peop:e.
The Loan Exhibition at Soudaampton will fe closed
on the fieth inst., ar:, r ben for aboct four month'.
Nearly 100,000 persons hove visited it. Stany's statue of
Medea still continues to draw crowds of persons. The statue
is life size, and representa the famous sorceress meditating
the murder of her children, according to Euripedea. Mr.
Chainlierisyne, one of th.t ichnst landowners in Hants, and
a clever nuchaniciau, has em t to the ex'.lbltion a model of
an invention of his, for preventtng accidents from the ineak-
log down oft wt. I of a railway carriage while in motion.
This is etfacted by the buffers of one carriage forming sockets
into which the poles of buffers of adjaining carriages mita)
so that one carnage egeolually supposes inoiher.