The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-02-21 00:00:00

SATURDAY, FEB. 21, 1874.

Ancient bookbinding Is to be a feature of the London
International ExhlbitiMe this year.
Sir WilliaM Colborne. or e of the surviving few who
to,it ponies tha battle of Trafalgar, la lying serkmaly iu 411
his re Mance at Beth, at the advanced age of 81.
such is ate. Age in America for new furs that the
pelt of she despised rbunk has ao last been uGli.nd by some
new process of us oduroatiou.
The Pais Jardiu d'Acclim,t .tion is occupied with
he question of edible dogs, received as. present from Chlnet
al, eg ovjth the natio& (or cooking them. Toe dogs &reams!'
without hair, sod • masa of far.
M. John Lemoinne, in the Debits, urge! the
Fr, nth ably 0, Owyne should be tilr,:wa from C.vita
Vecchio, os bLind no toaster necessary for the safety of the
Foie.
An exploring expedltion sent out from Adelaide,
d Gannett In the ncthity of the West Aus rare. border a
solid took, net min long, one mile wide, and 1,100 feet
high. There was a fine water spring in the centre.
A Madrid telegram sa3s it is expected that the
Sponish Goverment will shortly Isle energetic sod decided
steps against the Cantata. It Is alio stated that She Idea of
pie incite to determine the form of Government In pain
appean to be gaining groouid.
The St. Petersburg papers regard the visit cd the
Emperor of kostris to Routs as • guarantee for the primer-
re. on of peace In Europe.
A splendid new saloon carriage, constructed by the
Great Western hallway Company for hot Majmto's journeys
between Wind tor end Gosport, wog token oat on Saturday for
a trial trip. 'Agave perfect, salts:action to the designate and
corstrectors.
Daturbances have broken out among the Mchamme.
dens and the Pmsees to Bombay, In wonequence of • Farms
publication reflecting upon the character of Mohammed,
Several Parseee have been Injured,
The exports of coal from the United Kingdom pie-
rental rather a substantial increase In Jaguars, having
amounted in thet month to 91/%116 toos, against 799,227 tone
In January, 1518. eel 842,326 tons in January, 1872.
There were 62,675 cwt. of homemade sugar r barged
with duty in the year ended the nit of Much bet, mad*
from beet-root and also from starch, being an increme of
27,773 cat on the promoting year.
The Warrington Guardian announces that Mr.
Greeimil, the newly-elected M.P. for Warrington. had given
iI,COO towards building • new hospital and dispensary In
tint town.
The Emperor of Auiria has bestowed upon Mr. F.
B. Beerwell the decoration and dignity of Knight of the Order
of the Yearns Joseph, Ito recognltt of his sernoes In con-
uosion with the repnreentation of Britian art at the remote
%%onus Uolversol /intention.
The Dowager Marchioness of Westminster has pre.
'anted a donation of &WO to the Loudon Cabmen's Benevo-
lent Anion time, 16, Bohosquare, at a contribution to the
*moults lured for aged or Infirm cabmen who are members
of the Society.
Mr. FrAncia S. Duttc.n, Agent-General for South
goitrolto, Worms (I he Times), that he has received •
telegram announcing the arrival of tbe emigrant ship Fur.for-
ibird at Fun Addable on the 71h lust. after a satisfactory
patssge
• You may punish the workman, but you cannot
destroy Eli gr. rk, said Mr. Punter to the electors ot Bead.
lord. lie limited his rem ork Is the 14 thealtdo 1011, but It
may be applied to all tbe administrative reforms ol the la
fire yenta.' —Extracts fromdeader lir Daily Telegraph.
In the year ended the 31st of March last there were
fourteen detections of iliteet distillation in &glued, ten In
Scotland, and 1,03310 leo land. Tin munler ties wonder.
amy d.cr.,earl. Last year, to the lint oi March there were
71 persons ImPrisoteed. The lowest minas is CO, end In
defauot, three months' inualoonment.
"M. Hubert de Broome, the proprietor of the Preset,
now a Bonapartist organ, has put forth an announcement
Pot he meths to glee a ball to Martha Minitel:eon at the
Palau de Pludostr.e. for which 40,000 invitatlon. are to be
lothed. 18. object of M. de Broome Wend to be to encourage
trans It is said that this fad will cost gymojg—perit
Correspondent of Tge Standard.
The Court of ASlsiZel of Hainaut has jut tried •
woman named Iteaupalu, a rag.deitier at lhaunole-Comte,
on severat charger of polsonlrg try aneulc on one of the
charge. ehe pleaded guilty, and the mon condemned her to
4-sib—her execution (by Um gaillotine) to take place on one
of the public equates of Mons.
A workman, white repairing one of the outer Veil*.
tlan blinds of an arlotooratic establithment, missed his foot.
lug end sell into the street. A crowd gathered round him
1.111.1 raised hint up, when It was found that be bad received
only a low alight contusions. idetholnle, one of the entrants
brought him a gloss of water, making a sem face, the men
raid, "Only water From what height should I have to fall
. .

Su Ne‘t&iol bet r.

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The Jardin crAcolimatation of Paris has just re.
sely.d • 11Jck of nix magoldorns male nsirlchs stud twelve
ftowdes, &nut by Generel Lacrols-Varthols. All attempts so
breed those buca In Mr.m have hitherto felei, the cop
having feOlkinbli aterVe ; but • fresh sassy IS now about SO
be tried under the warm run of Provence, and for which it...
staugera are to he rmt to the branch establialunent whlb
the AnAlmette•Uou suttety polities. to the Wei of Hyena.

At Muskoka, J oseph Arch wet with Yankees
sql,ring Some tin• treea lor etporta.lou " You're an Aug
to- mm l" It we. ache "Ye., lam," he replied. Wen,
I never knew one ci your people who could square t mho,
well . hooch for us' "You never did?" said Arch; "lend
ma your ale Without any aid Arch toot the anis and
squared the timber to the full satisfaction of the critics. Hs
was offered forty-flee dollars • month to cut timber.

The death was announced on Saturday of Mn.
Lane, of Woodbeetaink-hall, N clot k. Mrs Lane was stand-
ing oh the hearthrus when her tress caught fire and she De-
anne enveloped In flames. She wee rem. Ccci with all speed
to her bedroom, after the fl .mes had been extinguished, bag
she had be.ro dr. adiu, y burnt, nod, In spite or every effort
made to save her life, death Muted her auffarings alter stew
days 01 lingering agony.
A despatLh of the 2ud inst. from Quebec states that
in the afternoon e f the preceding day • sharp shock of
earthquake wins distinctly felt at rant er Feint. It shook
sa.ve• and everythirg moveable In the houses of the •illsge.
The shock was also felt about ten miles below that city. n
appears to hare come from the southward.
The Vice-Chairman of the School Board at Middles-
borough hang promned That It Is Inexpedient to p4y fees
for any children attending denominational or prlvs'e schools,
and that no suc'i lees be paid In future a. long as there are
Board Schools which are not full." Much ciPcusslon was
occasioned, and the mutton, when put, was lost by a mlortty
of one.
In the report of the Commirsioners of the Inland
Revenue just tuned, reference to mode to the Licensing Act
w,th regard to the sir day lictncee, by which publichottreg
are closed on Sunday. They state that the effect of the pro.
vision snot yet fully tunes, but during the peat year 7,160
licence. have thus hero eranted, the number of houses 40
Bemused being probably 2,743.

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The Sp-aktr of the latu House of Commove waa
present at the annual dinner of the Cembridgeshire and Isle
of El Chamber of Agriculture, on Saturday eveoing. The
thin hon. gent.emau, in responding to the tout of his health,
expreased a hope that the queatt 0 of local teretlon might,
before long, be settled upon • broad and satisfactory bats.
Lie was to favour of the ratepater being represented upon
c only 11,an end boards. A demand had been made for the
repeal of the malt tar ; but, while be old ant deny that
th,re were objections to this linixet, he reminded his
hearers that the surplus must be dealt with In the 'uremia
of the people at large, and that to abollah the duty On malt
would absorb the surplus and sconethirg more.

On Monday night a boat, cn her way home from
Ober, eaps.rud while rounding the western point of Kamen.
There were six persons In the hcat—tre men and a girl.
Two of the men and the girl were eirowced. The other
thr e were Saved by ab. at going to the came place. The
names of those drew ed are—John Carrie. Archibald
erotic, jun., and S Llelugstone. l'hose saved were found
. heeler to the bc..t almost Itl an inseneibl, state, and had
t^e boat hoes Into! minute, long.r in coming to the rescue.
they would haVe Met te fete of their companions.

While the cashier of the Back of Conneantellies
Peolmyivanis, D U. Williams, was riling at his desk, on
the Ist II at .he he erd a rap at the side door. Upon opening
the door two masked men sprang epic him, bmnd and
aroma him, and succeeded In making their escape with
14,001 d to culreury. sod 30,900 dole to United Sate'
hoods. Mr. Williams was found some hours after luau un-
conscious .'ate. r, covered cohsclousuess in a collPle Of
Yours alter bang released.

The retwaWse-of tt e late Lord Howth were interred
In the old Abiwy of llowth, after lying in elate ill Howth
Cagle WIC, their arrival on 6 .turrlay from Cultist The
Nonni was the largest which bet been seen in the county of
Dublin since that 01 the late Lord Mayo. All classes were re.
presented, and not the lariat loprr 'sive lecture to It wee the
presence of over 600 of his tenantry, who jointed In the
general demonstration of respect for the memory of a tn,pular
tr,bleman. Ihs two sons of the deceased were the chief
mourner'.

Muth sensation bee been emped In Petits by an
arthin In the diejaburger 414,erneine Zestung, declaring
Vat th.. preservati,,n of tile Talklsh Empire is not a dogma
with Germahy, and that If Griqua.), and Russia should deetre
to transferal the whole map of Eastern Europe al one would
prevent them. 31. at of the Paris erodes hew•pepers oorm
moot opu this article, and regard the E.stern question al
again opened.

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A letter from Rome, of the 14th, in the Ggornale di
F 1,7126. saya :—" We are undergoing hers for the last two
day.. very Intense cold. In .pile a a trillinit sun the
water freer"' in the streets, and • strong beets renders cir-
culation laborious. 11 recover, this fall in the temperature
Is nut conlined to the C .m peens, as the J0n911411 of Scily an-
bouhce that the whole island Is come t with a thick layer
Of anew, which also has fallen in such abundance in the
Apennine. that the railway tratus have been obliged to
slacken their speed."

The Inquiry as to the death of nine peraoni killed by
the tat of a huildlr.g at Bury was resumed on Monday. k
Pao icat builder raid that the beams set ri too itt, sad the
win le tad ding chttfly c instructed by p.n. ago. When
the warehouse we. Font such Mac I were but Co rtronglycou-
structed &Snow. Mr. Butcher, sme of e proprietor', relies
wail speaking at the time the building fell, said the meettni
was swain i ed • ply f r canvassers, and supporter, of Mr.
PL,tlllO arriving to see the state of the c‘nrass, when a
trowel of men, women, and children rushed in aid the floor
fell in. There ear en Idea that the room wu unsafe, it being
said that Me. Wod Lad ware ed the committee the floor was
not sofa. Mr. Wood wa• called and eroded that he had said
so. Be Bald he harl then stolen of another a joining built
tog. • verdict of ''Acci tental death" was rettuned, arid al
parties exonera.d from llama.

Mr. Cvdwell has forwarded to the Commission on
Officers' Grievance. a very elaborate minute on their report.
The latter showed that to comp...ton had been made SO
officers for the los. of gratuitous steps, which, under the
chi iyatem, they void have been entitled to led; that
ofAwrs ou half-pay had I. it the benefit of vacancies which
have led to such gratuitous step.; and that poorer
fillers were serf only affected by the abolition of the old
practice with r rut to exchange.. To reply, Mr. Cardwell
sends the Comilimalonera a seris if tables Indicating the
numb, rot grainliour .tepa granted du, tug the tea years pre-
ceuing the 4030 lade of purchase : the Dunbar of readmit. on
the luldpay Ilst during the same period the actual promo-
tion., ant the unattached promotions. Be enters historically
Into the operation of the Conte, which had given Ilse SO ..0-
perehese ateps and nonacidcu with a list of new heuente
rehleb the abolition of purchase lias oonferred on officers.
An extraordinary outrage (says the Liverpx,l Pod)
was committed on Tuesday at a village called Harwood, near
Bolton. A nor nened Jerre. RoacJw, aged sixteen yew.
employed at Firwood lileactiworkr, was proceeding to his
work, about six Ocl and upon crossing the moor, a
Orauge man called cut so him to come back. The boy, how-
ever, feeling a! rat.', ran off, but he was followed and over-
taken by the mar., who threw him to the groand, and, draw-
Inca knife out ,if ma waistcoat pocket, cut the boy's throat.
Indicting a emend two inches it leog It, I ruggiing out of
the fellow.. clutch., the bey again ran off, the MA,, shout•
big to him, "C to back awl 111 put a rm. on." The boy
wee convesed to the bonne of his father, where the wound
was *Waned be Sir Sash I, a irgeon. Fatal SOT seqoonces are
not antictpattd. The man has not yet been apprehended.
1.) Iring the week endit g la.t. Saturday 5,424 births
and 3,911 deaths were reglatered In Loodm and twenty other
large citron sod towns ol the Coifed Kingdom. The natural
increare of lviduation was 1.613. The mortality from all
causes in thee, towns was at the rate of 27 deaths annually
to eve. 1,040 sr noes living lathe metropolis 2,61 iddlia
and 1,197 deaths were regletered, the former having beets
Ib7, and the latter 91, below the average numbers In the
c •,reaponeiltif wei k of the last teu years. The deaths In.
dueled 4 from rm.ll.gor, 51 from measles, 14 from scarlet
Peer, 4 from di; hthe.la 71 7•oal who:pita cough, It from
Aft :rent form. of fever, and 7 Iron, diarrhina; thus to the
riev principM disease, of the E. mare cm. 154 deaths were
refereed, kindest decholug from 241 hi 160 in the
St preced.ne week.. The fatal effiae• of mescal spin
show, d ellA coxes,, whereas those of each of the sir other
rymotic disease, were Itelow the ll•erui.• Tbe mum Sem'
peratore of the air at the Royal Oh creator'', Greenwich,
outing the cold period of nine days ending on Thnreda
last averaged 32 1 deg., and was 6 IS deg, below the averag
for the errooooudlag peel ut in fifty 'imam : the mean tern
per., ore of Fddey and `inturday wee 474 deg , and 9.2 deg
above the averige. Ga Weeinoaday last the mean tempera
tire wu only 271 dog., while on eaSurday waa 681 dem.
showing an Increase ol 211 04