The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-01-02 00:00:00

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According to the .Ripublique Francais ,e a German
camp et manceuvres for 150,000 men is to be formed near
Trier.* in the spring, under the Emperor's command„
Dr. Newman is now engaged on a pamphlet in
answer to Mr. Gladstone.
Nearly forty Bills in Parliament for the ensuing
- Session relating to the Metropolis alone have been deposited
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1 ..,With •tikkgetropolitan Board of Work"'
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. / It Is: Stated in the Italian newspapers that the
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821 Festivities of St. Tannarius was celebrated according to cus-
xm i tom. at Naples. on the leth inst. but this year the blood of
' ! the saint remained firm in its Phial and showed no signs of
' liquefaction.
. The retired Indian officials and others who seek in
Nice a warm climate during winter must have been terribly
disappointed this year, for letters from that place report
,that so much snow has not been seen there within living
"them ory.
Last Saturday afternoon the five o'clock expres
from Euston to the North came into collision with a passenger
train at Runcorn, about twelve miles from Liverpool. Two
of the carriages were smashed, and several of the passengers
.were injured. One gentleman had both his legs broken.
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The Hon. Robert Offiey Ashburton Milnes, only son
of Lord Houghton, has obtained the gold medal annually
offered to competition among the Harrow boys by Lord
Charles Russell for the encouragement of the study of Shake-
speare. Mr. Mines is not quite seventeen years of age.
Captain A. S. B. Van de Weyer; of the Grenadier
Guard., expired on Monday morning at the New Lodge,
Windsor Great Park, after a short illness, of typhoid fever
The deceased was the second son of the late Baron Vande-
weyer, the Belgian Minister. -
The death-rate in Glasgow last week reached the
extraordinary figure of fifty per thousand, a degree of mei.-
tallty which is mainly attributable to the severity of the
weather. ,
A youth-named -Richard Williams while walking on
the London,- and North -Western Railway on Saturday, be •
tween Llanfatrfechan and Aber, was knocked down and cut
to pieces by a goods train.
A young man was drowned in the reservoir near the
Welsh Harp at Hendon on Saturday. A companion who •
attempted to rescue him nearly lost, his own We, and was
only rescued by the energy and skill .of two young men who
. were skating near the place. .
Lord Lindsay has telegraphed a report of his obser-
vation of the transit of Venus at the Mauritius. The last
half, he says, was very satisfactory. Good photegrapfis were
obtained, also measures and time determination.
According to a Paris telegram, 16,889 persons were
banished to Siberia between May and October last. 1,220
were sentenced to hard labour, and 1,624 had been expellefl
from their communities as obnoxious, drunken, or burden- . • •
some. 1,080 women and children over 15 years of age, with . "
1,209 younger children, voluntarily accompanied the exiles. '
If you girls reAlly must make Christmas presents to
your bachelor friends, give them something else than k
slippers. A flannel bag that will hold a hot fiat-iron, and .
won't be kicked-off easily after a fellow gets in bed, isn't a•
• bad idea. —Mil:eau/de Sentinel.
It is officially announced that the Grand Duke .
Michael Constantinovitch is suffering from mental derange- •
ment, and an Imperial ukase, based on the reports of the
Prince's medical attendants, places him under the guardian- ,
ship of his father. •
An agitation has been going on for some time among
coffee-house and refreshment-house keepers in London to '
obtain a relaxation of the eleventh section of the Licensing :
Act, which compels them Lto close at the same hour as ,
publichouses. -:

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The SZISSCX Daily News reports two more
fatalities at Christmas at Chichester. On Boxing-day a
little boy was drowned in the canal while sliding at Harting.
Near the same place on Christmas-day an old lady, seventy-'
six years of age, was burnt to death in her own room. All
her clothing was burnt off except her stays, and the room
was also on fire. She survived long enough to say that she
was not aware how the accident happened. In each case a
verdict of accidental death has been returned.
The example of M. de Ferrari, son of the Duke de
Gallier, in becoming a teacher, is not, it appears, the only
one of the kind, as Prince Letzinski, descendant AI the
Kings of Poland, and grand nephew of the wife eV •Lonis
XV., is professor of the German languages at the College of
Caen. The pupils of his highness have frequently ,distin-
guished themselves. :
The Comte de Chambord has subscribed 1,000E40
the fund for providing libraries for subalterns and soldiers.
The Orleans Princes had previously subscribed in all 3,300 f ,
ad many deputies of different opinions have also con-
ibuted.
Lord Shaftesbury has received a letter from .Mr.
/brae'', in answer to a memorial complaining of the in-
subordination evinced by many of the clergy, and remarking
Upon the increasing alienation of the laity from the Church.
The Premier expresses a hope that the Act of last Session
may supply a remedy for the first grievance; and,.while be-
lieving that there has been an increase in the intimate rela-
Hens between the clergy and the laity, suggests that it is bk. •
the great cities that the Church can in this age effect US
most signal triumphs.
. Among the presents received by the daughter of '
a. wealthy Arizona miner on her marriage were a 5,060 1
dollar mirror, a 2,000 dollar gas-fixture, and a 125 dollar ..
coal-scuttle. •
i Colonel Younghusband's special committee on gtufl-.
cotton have forwarded their report to the Secretary-for
War. They recohimend gun-cotton as a valuable explosive
both for military and naval purpose 3. With regard to safetl
of manufacture, storage, and conveyance, it compared
favourably with other explosives examined. t
Another fatal accident from unloading bombshell
eseaved since the siege of parts, occurred the ,other de,y. ets'
la.re
iiton, Tsto locksltiths were thus occupied, and hall
charged three safely, but the -fourth' expinded .as they , .
were unscrewing it, killing both men, and setting fire to the
abartment they were in. When the flames were got under
the two bodies were folind partly burnt. -
rns horological Frankenstein has been created by an
u lucky French clockmaker. He had spent twenty years in
p tructing a wonderful and ingenious watch, and he
xi bound up in his production that when the work was
ftished he firmly believed that his soul had passed into the
tch. "When the watch stops," said he, "I shall die;
life is identical with the existence of my invention." A ,
feiw weeks since the watch got out of order; one day it lost. ,
another day it. gained, and fere Stiebmann took to his bed -
In a violent fever. One morning the watch stopped, the old
clockmaker, with his eyes fixed or. the dial, sprang up, illicit
seeing the minute-hand motionless, uttered a cry and felt..
blek dead—the victim of a too vivid imagination.
iThe October return shows that at the .close of that
m'pnth there were 717,603 persons receiving relief • frem the .
rates in England and Wales, but this is less than the-trtie ::
number by about 3 per cent., for paupers not included le .
the monthly returns. The return shows a decrease of 4 9
per cent. in the number of paupers as compared with the, '
corresponding period of the preceding year. In, the South
oft England the decrease was less than the average of 49 per,
cept. ; but in the Metropolis it was 'as much as 7 9 rer cent.i, -.-.
in,the Welsh division 6/ per cent., in the Eastern 6•0 per:' '
cent., in the North Midland 5•4 per cent, in Yorkshire 51' ..•
per cent., and in the four most northern counties 51 per, ..
cent •tr;
In St. James's•park, London, on Sunday, there were.
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upwards of 4,000 skaters and sliders on the ice, and •at
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/east 10,000 spectators, who crowded the banks on either'
side. Every now and then some poor fellow would drop hi -;
the water up to his knees or up to his waist, and then the
icemen would trot him along, much to the amusement ot •
the spectators, to the Royal Humane Society's tent. Here
he,svould be given a gentle stimulant and ordered to go lien3e ....
as fast as he could. . There were about forty such immer-
sions during the day.
_The Diritto says the Pope has taken up a project .
which he formed many years ago of placing twelve staineS
round the cupola of St. Peter's, in accordance with the idea
of }lichee' Angelo. Twelve sculptors are to be charged each '
with the execution of a statue, but they are not to be chosen
by public competition; nor will any artist be eligible for the .
work who was not domiciled in Rome prior to 1170, or who . •
has manifested any opposition to the cause of Holy Church. .
The Diritto adds that, seeing the enormous sums which are
just now being poured into the Pontifical treasury in the
shape of Peter's pence, there should be no lack of funds for • '
carrying out the project. . ,

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