The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-12-18 00:00:00

So intense has the cold been in Navarre, that man/
Carnets are reported to have been frozen to des th.
The Smithfield Club Cattle Show was attended
during the week by about 100,000 visitors.
According to a Royal Warrant recently published,
free conveyanoe will in future be provided, at the regulatinn
rates, for the families of all soldiers on the married establith-
men%
Victor Emmanuel set Tokay wine one hundred and
fifteen years old before his Royal guest, the Emperor
William.

A riot between blacks and whites, in which seven of
the former were killed, is reported from Vicksburg in the
United States.

Victor Emmanuel is opposed to wearing flannel
shicts. He says no sturdy huntsman like himself has any-
thing to fear from rheumatism.
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It appears from a recently issued Parliamentary '
paper that the value of merchandise Imported from the Gold
Coast in the last three quarters .was R.309.g78 • the exports
of British and Irish produce amounted to £354,633.
Mr. Stanley, the African explorer, has found near
Lake Victoria, in the interior ,xitds near the Ehoro of the
lake, a breed of dogs so large as to dwarf his large English
mastiffs. We hope he may be able to export some fine
specimens to England and America.
A Daily New telegram from Boulogne says that the
American vessel George B. I hacher, laden with petroleum,
trelm Baltimore for Dunkirk, wcnt ashore on Saturday night,
owing to the fog, an hour before low water, at Arnbleteuse.
The vessel floated the next tide, and has been towed into
Boulogne. Part of the crew walked ashore with their clothes
when the vessel struck.
I The Moravian missionary, Mr. Redslab, lately
undertook a perilous tour to the northern side of the Hima-
layas. He alludes, in a narrative of the journey, to a very
curious custom which prevails among the natives. "I
learned," he says, "that some of the natives, believing our
books to contain more wholesome instruction than their own
are in the habit of converting the leaves into o,lobul, a and
prescribing and swallowing them le cases of sickness."
The Bishop of Winchester has issued a lengthened
letter to the clergy and laity of his diocese in which be
strongly urges that no doctrinal significance should be attached
to the eastward position or to vestments, The right vev
prplate recommends internal union among Churchmen of the
two bis, •
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blishment.

. iThe steamer Illinois, whit reorlfty sallied in the
ATursey frc.rn Philadelphia, brought aiaetit •.e0 dressed beeves,
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run by a tre•horse power eugitw, forees a constant current
pf;eir through the ice chests, which circulates through the.
campartment, and thence is drawn back ttimegh the blower.
which keeps the meat at a lew le-rnperature. Thu Lee% le -
which the meat was placed lee:apatite oftoult;!- -
All the meat is stated to have bees. ai eood
On Tuesday, the brat einiortion oi swains anu
other dogs at the Alexandra Palace was opened under the
management of the Kennel Club. The amount offered in
prizes exceeded £l,OOO, and over 1.200 dogs were collected.
The Prince of Wales sent ten exhibits, and the Princess five.
General Walker, superin'endent of the United
States census, in a report welch he has just made, expresses
his regret at the paucity of results in the state censuses of
the year, but, after naming the few states which have taken
the census' he says, " eine& is already known to indicate
clearly that the progress of our population has received a
temporary check."
A grand international football match took place on
Monday at Rathmines, near Dublin, between teams com-
posed of representatives of the principal English and Irish
clubs. The contest which was conducted with spirit and
animation on both sides, resulted in the English team being
victorious by one goal and try.
On Monday evening Sir Wilfred Lawson addreSsed
a meeting at Derby, and said that the cause of teetotalism
was gaining ground every day. The Alliance was gaining
the allegiance of the leading men of all classes. Speaking of
the Maine Law, he declared he would vote for such a measure
if .he could see reasonable hope of passing it. Practically
speaking, he acknowledged the moderate drinkers might
suffer by prohibitive legislation, but that argument ought not
to weigh.
Fur is so much patronised by ladies and gentlemen in
Paris this season, that it is difficult to know who's who.
Hitherto, ladies adopted fur as a lining for their silk
mantles; now they weer the silk for lining and the fur as the I
material' they have also purloined the gentlemen's dressing- 1
gown and top coat, aud as both are trimmed extensively ,
with fur, it is difficult to divine to what sex the owncr
belongs, especially as the fur bonnets are not uncommonly
like bearskin caps in the distance The very rich etegaiites
ettronise ermine with sapphire clasps, or turquoise buttons
I in diamonds.—Court Jourhal
Mr. Forster, 1,p,, Lai an interview with some
sobers of the London Trades' Council. who conferred with
m respecting the regulations of the Privy Council regard-
ig the importation oi cattle, and whether existing reet ic-
lons increased the price (4 meat to the English consumer.
he right hon, gentleman did not express any opinion as to
hether those restrictions ought to he continued; but hinted
at they had not so much to do with the high price of meat
was generally supposed, that price being attributable, in
opinion, rather to the increased demand. He promised,
,wever, that if the restrictions should be found to be un-
eessary he would do all in his power as a member of the
once of Commons to get them withdrawn.
From returns laid before the German Diet relative
the change of currency, it appears that the calling in and
Itting rid of the old silver coinage has resulted in a loss
Ms far to the State of £52,000, being4ust 8 per cent, on the
nount received in specie, and sold or recoined by it. A
)te adds that this moderate rate will not be maintained
hen the modern and less valuable coinage of thalers (which
13 still in legal circulation) is bought in. As to the old gold
olns of Germany, the rerovkable fact It shown by these
turns, that of over £32,000.000 put into circulation in dif-
rent States at former periods, less than z
,nae back to the Mint, the other £26,000,000 having somehow
'appeared from the country

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