The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-10-06 00:00:00

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SATURDAY, OCT. 6, 1866

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The American Treasury has just received an
spivelope, contalnitig 16,775 dollen, conscience money.
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_t is morrently reported In military circles that
ilisiteral Peel has Lakin the whole mAject of militia promotion
Moder hiamotice.
rifle regis/I,:mits , at Versailles has
guns.Uomsl*th needle
One of the South Western Steam Packet Company's
steamers landed at Southampton last week 150 tons of
butter from France. Your or five of theme steelier* WU
French ports every week laden with dairy produce.
The officer, of the American vessel, now lying in
Southampton Water have declined the invitation to a banquet
projected In their honour by the Mayor.
The Nato Jaunt any. that the property of Dr.
Glandler, where Madame Lifers. poisoned her husband,
has last come into the poeseesion of the Carthusian monks,
The Poet Office authorities have under their con.
eideration a 'chime for taking into their own hands the
telegraphic utter° of the Tatted Kingdom end it 11 men.
Mud as probable that a bill on the subject will be lone-
doced into Parliament early next session.
on the North-Esatern Railway, it is believed 1,000
men are to be discharged between York and Newess'le,
owing to the decrease of traffic through the Iron atriks.
About 80 at Darlington have received notice. The melee
manufactories of the Stockton and Darlington are working
half time for the same reason.
How to utilise cant-off crinolines has been golved by
a clerk at Streatham, who has placed his wife's steel jupon
In the middle of hi. rerdeu and used it as ft trellis tor a pyramid of creeping plants.
The divers engaged in getting rip the cargo of the
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caused by the large amount of gaud which It contain..
However, they get well pail, as they receive half the value
of the salvage. This sometimes amounts to 1914. a dsy.
Riots took place at Hanover on the anniversary of
the Crown Prince's birthday. A siK.p In which Promise
helmets and shakos were exposed for sale was broken bite,
and several other houses were Injured on account of the
supposed Pruselan.sympathies of their tenants.
Some of the cities of Texas are growing rapidly
Galveston, *latch before the war had 8,000 Inhabitants, het now 2,900 and If oustin, Austin, San Antonio, and lisndudl,
are proportionately Increased.
The Oder Zeitung says that the "will-known dwarf,
Adm ire! Tom" Toni Thumb?) is about to set op a dairy.
Zuillichow, nee, stattin.
At Tuscalomia, Alabama, corn is selling at five
dollar, a bushel, and north of that place It cannot be pur-
chased st all.

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It is announced that ex-Governor Eyre in engaged
writing a history of the Jamaica Insurrection. His Tent-
gonemi committee have received Womb and promises nearly
12 4 001. and they have already had under serious considera-
tion the course to be adopted and the council to he retained
In the event of the threateued criminal prosecution being
carried out
The American papers state that unrnietakeable signs
of winter have made their appearance, one of which is that
swarm. of squirrels are passing through Michigan towards
the south.
A Mormon emigrant train, on the road between the
Miesouri river and Fort Kearney, was attacked by cholera,
and twenty-sin had died at the last reports
Eleven pheasants brought to England from Japan
by the captain of the Leopard have been sold for the enor-
mons sum of 2401. Two Japanese pug dogs brought home by
one of the other officer., and which were advertised for We
for 50 guineas remain on hand.
The annual ceremony of crowning the king of the
pumpkins at the Central Markete, Paris, took place on
Friday The vegetable which obtained the honour this year
weighed 250 pound., and measured 10 feet 4 inches in cir.
cumference
Mr. Rodger, the owner of the clipper Toeping,
which won the China ocean race, has presented the captain
with 5001., in appreciation of ids skill as a navigator.
The other night a lady had her pocket picked of
1001 at a missionary meeting in Bristol
Within the last month salmon have appeared in the
river Wear, Durham, after an absence of fully seventy year.
The result Is attributed to the recent formation of • local
preservation society.
The contribution of the city of Detroit, Michigan,
to the Pali. Exposition 11 to consist of several half-barrels of
fresh water white flak trout, and "Makowit."
There is a report that an energetic effort will be
made nixt season by the leaders of fashion in Paris to revive
the practice of powdering the hair.
A United States Grand Jury in Baltimore has pre.
seated a Maryland Justice, for refusing to receive the
' etridence of a coloured woman, who charged a white man
with having committed an outrageous assault upon her.
The Dean and Chapter of Canterbury have abolished
all charges for viewing the interior of their cathedral.
A oonsiderable sensation b as been created in mechanic
circles, In America, by the recent discovery of Mr. liene.ga.
of Buffalo, that sheet iron will serve for belting In place
of rubber or leather

"Everything French is more elegant than that of
I any other nation " says a Parisian enthusiastic chronicler
" Even the crocedile brought from our possessions In Cochin
China to the Jr din des 'metes is more elegant than she
horrid beast of a crocodile brought from the shores of Me
1 Nile " Ar • bit of self-complacency that will do.
A firm of Scotch warehousemen in London have in
their employ a knitter who has discovered the art of knitting
two stockings at one time on the same phis. When finished,
the stocking. are drawn away from each other.
A correspondent supplies the Pall Mall Gaze. tte with
; • complete and amended version of an epitaph quoted in
' that paper on Tueeday Sacred to the melon at Lady
O'Looney. She was greattielce t Barite, commonly celled
the sublime She was bland, passionate, and deeply eli-
lion,:
also she painted in water colour+, and sent several
pictures to the exhibition. She was first-conain to Lady
Jones; and of inch is the Kingdom of Heaven."
The old saying, " an ill wind that brings no one
ivels " Is sir gniarly ton,! by the recent lotted Moos le
France. It &operate that three million pairs of wo• 'I ot shots
were manufsetured in the den:; merit of oqe,.t doting the
hat summer, of which 6.0,011) have been sold if within the

last week in consequence of the saturated state of the,
grtAind. Sabot makers are evidently on In. high road WO
fortune.
• On the 9th of September a married V/ 0111&•, • Ger,
matt, freeing In New York, poisqnt-d herself tel to do no
, by contlonstl depression of tpirlts, superit tldostl by bed
, health Before committing suicide she made UP set
! mourning drew., for her mother and children, put crape
I round her husband'• hat, and prepared and laid out hero..
I burial "

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(',mat de Bismarck's long word " mittelensa
prischostaatengruppen," is 'Orly eclipsed by the title of si
I.lb,ral journal published at Routers, entitled La Rottwei.
Inorechnietettweekendiging+Wade The paper has ceased 1
&PP..%
Lord Brougham ham talked with a lady who Heel In
the reign of c arl,n II : that lady was his great meet-aunt;
who died at the age of 106, In the year 1789 Longevity runs
In the Brougham family Lord Brougham's grandfather
died at 93 and Ms mother at 89.
The Vienneee special correspondent of The Time:
tells an amusing story of • Prussian profeaor and • Prussian
doctor who had to serve as privates In a regiment, and eke,
not being very bellicose, sought the humble position of,
cattle drivers to the regiment NVlen the cattle took refuge
In a park the drivers sent In their cards at the cattle, ald.
were received with proper colaideration
We quote from the Leeds Mercury a very complete
narrative of the strike now existing among the Ironworkers
In the North of England Busing the eleven week. thab
the strike has lasted 12,00 n workmen have been ont of
employment the weekly loos of wages has been upwards of
16.000, ; and the furnaces now laid Idle, if at full work,
would have produced 70,0001 worth of Iron per week.
Great distress premls among the workpeople throughout,
the whole district affected by the strike. At C meet the
men are beginning to resume work at the reduced rate of
wages, and there la, therefore, some prospect of a termina-
tion of the dispute.
The Netepori (Rhode Island) Mercury, the oldest
paper In America, has lust commenced it. InBlh volume.
The first number was published by James Franklyn, June
12, 1759. In the first number there I. a paragraph refenirg
to the arrival of some flour at New York, which gays that
at that rate New York will presently rival Newport, whick
gives a curious glimpse of the relative importance of the
two harbours at that time. New York has new shout
100,010 times the population of the place which then spoke
as patronisingly of it, and which Is now little more thane
watering place for the wealthy merchants of Its neighbour_
We suppose that everything has its market value,
hut we should scarcely be Inclined to ticket the followmft-
article, which is advertised for sale In the columns of The

Tinws, M the price affixed to It A Foreign Office Pam-
port, granted by Lord Granville 24th August, 1847, covered
both front and back with vises of numerous foreign Coorts,
and Ambaasadore in all parte of the globe, to the extra-
ordinary length of 214 Inches (17 ft. 10); price 1001. Att-
drew, Arc. Ac."

•
A herbaliat named Chamberlain at Hertford ham
been conimitted for trial for manslaughter, in having '."sod
the death of a patient who consulted him by the app .ion
cf arsenical ointment to the skin Tbe medical pract..ioner
who made the poet mortem examination said that dea,h was
occastmed by the absorption of arsenic into the system, and.
that the use of the ointment In question had been abandoned
In regular practice, owing to its danger. The coroner
accepted ball for the herbalist's appearance.

It wee stated at Dorchester market last week that
wheat before next harvest will he 17f • load, and bread iski.
a gallon. The consumption of bread in the United Kingdom
require. in ordinary seasons, the importation of a cargo of
wheat of 2,000 qrs. daily, and owing to the bad harvest that
quantity mid now have to be doubled. A great portion of
the English wheat, owing to its dampness, will have to be,
mixed with dry foreign grain for the purpose of being ground.
151 • load has been refined for dry stacked wheat

The Board of Trade Returns for the past m mith
exhibit an amount of business which, in the absence ~f any
special explanation, would seem to indicate an Min aralbled
degree either of commercial proqierity or of specul4theh,fly.
lion. Compared with the corresponding month at bat year
the declared value of our exportations of Brit'ah and Irish
produce shows the extraordinary increnee o 2.3 per cent,
while, even compared with Aland, 1F64, wheel was a mouth
of unusual activity, there is en increase oi I per cent.
Subscriptions are being mimed ia Frarioe for tbe,,
relief of the poor peraons whoa., property bas been deetroyt
by the recent floods The Emperor has given a hundred
thousand franca, the Empreea twenty-five thousand, and the
Prince Imperial ten thousand.

Amouget the uses to which the Atlantic cable haw
been put Is one which would hardly be anticipated. A phy-
sicim In London. received a telegram from a patient Who,
being seised with a renewed attack of an illness from which
he hal suffered in this country, and for which he had Wee
successfully treated, telegraphed to hi. old medical &Used-
ant for directions These were returned by the same
channel without delay.

"Mr. Johnson has got back to Weahington, to the
great relief of everybody, both his Irian. and enenclea It
I. impoulble to etre you an Idea of the consternation arid
dismay which his speech. and thaw, of Mr. Seward have
pr.ol amongut hie friends. If they could have known what
was coming I do not think, headstrong ache is, he would
ever have been allowed to go on Ms tour."—Correspomient
of Daily News.
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The Suriday Oazette has reason to believe that a
warrant will be lavueo by the Secretary of State for India,
In the coons, of next month, authorising the distribution of
600,004 g of the Atrwee prize money; and those whose claim&
, have been recognised by the late decision of the Admiralty
' court win receive their proportions of that sum, probably
before the cloee of the year. With the accumulations of 'al-
tered, the prize will amount in the gross to more than
000,0001 but as nearly 60,000/ will be consumvil In law
costs, and other expenses have to be provided for, it follows
that the recipients will not have to loot forward to much
more than their share of the half million about to be placed
at their illaposaL

The papers last week commented upon the cwe of
a child between three and four learn of are who had been
committed to prison in Dublin by Mr irDanel, the police
magistrate there. Mr. O'Donel has written an explanation
in reference to the case. The child was, mays Mr 0•1lone', in
a frightful condition, and It was solely with, view to hl,-,
phyeical welfare that the order for Ma committal 'rd..
made. The addition to the order of the word. wit)', hard
labour' was, Mr u'Donel explain., not made by tdr.,me
words are printed in the order in accordance wit), the Act of
Parliament, and the magistrate has no dlecretlo;, to reference
to the matter.

" Mr. Fender, the ex-member fe,c Totnee, writes
ulnas a cheerful little note to Ti. Ti err m, pointing out that
his two eleettots for that borough nave warmly cost him
Ml,OOOl. A. at Mr. Fender's lint election there wax no coateet
, sod saw. believe there arenot shove MO voters on the.Totres
register, It would thus seem that voters at Totnea have not
averaged. In Mr Fender's case, Mlle. I more than what Mr
Mantalini would have eslled the derunition aruali sun" of
shout 201 each. If Mr. Tender, havieg lost his seat, h
satisfied with the result and with Ms present position he Is
decidedly thankful for =all naerotee."—Paff Nall Gazette.: