The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-11-22 00:00:00

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The New York Herald. commenting on the Stokes
trial, says that hanging is evidently played out for the rick.
Nineteen missionaries have just imported themselves
Into lAverpool from the Salt Lake district.
The appointment of Dr. Lyon Playbir to the office
of Postmaster Genesal has been gasstted.
The report on the health of the navy, just published
records the death of a seaman who had bees in the habit of
smoking forty cigars a day.
Tore working colliers hive been elected to the echoed
board of Hoyland, near Barnsley.
The Viceroy of it din entered Agra on Friday last.
There was a procession of 65 elephants.
Tne Lancet recomnienele doctors to raise their fees.
The eulnes, we are told, is not whet It wits, and people
would be quite willing SJ pay their physicians Stan increased
tariff.
An enthasisetil editor o • New York sporting
paper thinks Congress should appropriate 100,000 dollars to
be used as prizes for norseraelng.
Commodore Commerell's friends In London have re-
ceived news of him to the 14th of last mends. lie was then
much better, and good hopes were entertained of his re-
eivery.
It is told of one of the " sopernumentries" who re-
moved chairs from the stage with great effort, on the death
of Macre& ly being announced to him he exclaimed "Grist
Wynn another one of us gone F'
The Birmingham News says Mr. Thomas Carlyle*
It is stated, writing • pamphlet on the controversy between
the German Emperor awl the Pope, • subject In which he
Sate. a profoureclinterest.
At a special council meeting of the Reformen
Union (held In London.on Saturday eveuleg) it was resolved
to invite Mr. Arch to meet the wok Meg men of London at •
public soiree on him return from Cenada.
Great public enthusiasm attended the opsning of the
Italian Parliament at Rom* on Saturday. King Victor
Emonneneis speech was frequently interrupted by boisterous
applause. Fopeclally was his declaration that he would he
ready to repel any attack on recent ecclesie leal legislation
hailed with approval. Respecting him Journey to Vienna
and Berrie he assured the assembly that the friendship of
the German and Austrian Sovereigns was sincere.
It will give some notion of the vastness of the spoil
of war that vas failerrinto German tame., Irrespective of the
pecuniary Indemolty, she nit is stated that the Giese of gun-
rests) from captured cannon alloted to Bevala alone, as the
du • of her t•ii army corps. am i nets to no less than no ton
lit this King Louis has ordered lifi y tons to he d stributed to
certain parishes to be rucied no the church cells they are
in peed of. Toe rest is h n .we over to the Bavarian ilevero.
meet arms foundry for future conversion hsto Human gnus.
Attention is drawn by the Register General to the
fact, that on or he influence of the recsnt cold weather the
deaths registered in Loudon to thr Last thn • weeks have
rsceeded by 33 lur cet.t. those reseeded tn the three priced.
tug weeks of moderate tempersture. Among children and
&halts seed between 5 and 00 years, the increment lis 14051 te
lb per mot among Infante and young children under eve
sears of age it is 33, end among pers^us aged over 00 years,
46 per cent.
I The death, in a garret at Paris, is announced of a
irODlan named Louise BRIG, who some jeers ago, was One 01
the celebi ides of the public bells, under the sobriquet Of
"Queen Pomat E." Her ren wn commenced in i 843, when
she began to distinguish hermit at the Salle Vsl- nteno by the
eccentricity of her dancing. At that epoch ell the world wa•
talking of the events of Tahiti and the indemnity accorded
to Prichard. That place was quite the ram and the name
I was given to the Valentino ball, and as a natural consequence
that of Peresare fell to Is, 101 of the wet oeruspienotis of the
(Lamm
I The Doily Telopropk announces that the researchee
In Assyrhs, eunducted with so much skill ard good PAU.*
by Mr. George Smith tor that Jutland, ore to he oontdased by
Use British Mintents. Recorgulidog the great Itamweenes of
whet has been obtained, and She ri M promise wain Ste
opened treacles give of other relabel* masammits of
antiqelty. the Trades' some time ago made arrewsestenes to
furnish alr. Smith with funds for a smood espeetuen es ihe
same spot ; and reemesed Ms sanction of Govencsose ter
chie project. Tn., Prime Minister has approved Ms
and Ur. Georl. Smith will shortly lean for the =IA
maga iusifli labours which wore hiterrapesil Me
idol rem&

CoWalton' woe glade at the Oahe& &mem
tu Datil% tleaday, ea behalf or the Cla*olio ildwiralgy
" Gentlemen, aged 50, wishes to oorrarad will a
Lady, with s view to matrinoay.—Addreta asa—ddrel,
Waal la the Monehestor Nwawswww.
" Tweet—Pause before you rubs your future Few
peels entirely. I oestettli wisp.., and sm willies to fie is
Writs., telegraph at ones to Army sad Navy slab—Dits."
—Advertisemeut le Ths

P. T. Barnum oat made an offer of about 290.000
tor the norineact corner of Ninth and enenant•lrmts.
Phtia.elphla &siring the location for the swan= of •
lowan. ad museum.
A Professor Donaldson wants to traverse*, Atlas.
Ins paper balloon, aid Invites Whip descriptive asowspains
repose.. to accompany him.
A rumour has got abroad that Mr. Gladdens mum
to repeal the obnoziona Schedule D and len • home IM In
11. Maul.
" At a late wedding the bridegroom's present to the
hrtir was a thousand sow:reigns on • golden salver..--Cinirr
Journal.
Here ii.. argument in favour of tho co-editorialise
ot the essin. The Int female graduate of the Itelvemilepci
Illchatan has guarded one of liter classmates.
The Labour News says serious apprehensions are en•
tertatneo tieptetron to the rotate industries, sad la setae
mill. short time has already been reeorted to.

Tho IFllehop of Winoboator. Dr. flerold Browne, has
appoint,tl the 3rd of Deoemher at a day of Intercession foe
forelge missions throu4hout !ha dlooase, and has MOM-
tvied the same tom 0, iFrelee authorised by the WA
Bishop.

The cusiOwners of the North Waite district hare
held a ...tine •Ith Teem as to an application by the sesie
for an advance of wear., and resolved that, looking at the
state of the int ney morket, the growing depression to Hie
Iron trade, and the falling off he the doused Ice Nei, tek
Impossible to entertain the request.
Calcutta advice. State that the distriola threatens'
with famine contain a population of tweedylhe sota.
%Wants, and that the crops are expiated to ylehl enly
three-eighths of an average. A sum of UNA% is to he
meta lath. parches. of tioe and for relief works.
Among the treasuree to be found in the Khedive'
Museum (says lb. Ail Journal). is • nendsos worn by Went
Aish-lispt, mother of Xing %bens, the kande/ rd the
eighteenth dynasty, who was not only wend with Akan
and Swat but the Wended Pesaro% who was t`plagned With
mess plenum" because of Send, Abrams wile.
Notate states that the Copley Medal end Vie two
Royal Medals In the OS of the Royal Sonny, have this
year been awarded as odows t—The Copley Medal to Pro-
fessor Helmholtz, the distingubbed physiologist, physialet,
and mathematician, ot Herds; a Royal. Medal to H. R.
Roscoe, F R, Profaner of Chend.try in Owns Online,
Manchester; and a Royal Medal to Dr. Allman, Plaques: of
kilo say laths University of Rdinburgh.
The death Is announced at New York of the
Patriarch of the American Church. the Rev. Dr %Adel G.
Gear, lis olden presbyter, who had been in the priesthood
for eftyenine year.. In hie earlier days he WM an seam
worker as • rolssionary among the Indiana and
Whipple, at his funeral bore eloquent tesllmcmy to hitt:
and earneetnen.
A deputation waited upon Mr. Russell Gurney on
Saturday t reque.t his renewed support of the Married
Won en's Property Bill, which was formerly introduced by
him, and in consequence of his absence taken %ergo of by
isle. Hinds Palmer, who has given Doti% of it for Den reanset.
The learned Recorder promised to givens nuns and beet as-
sistaoca to the bill, but declined to take the conduct of it
from Yr. Blade Palmer, anti could not be in beam hands.
Two persons, to whom an orange tree had been be.
get...abed, divided it by sawing it through from the lop in
the bottom. They covered the wounds made be the saw
with • mixture of clay and anything, and pleated. By
donna, tbe bark covered the exposed surface, and each of
the halves became a petted tree.
Mrs. Rowland Eiliott,.who has just given a window
for the south transept of the Abbey Church. in Balk la eon-
melsoratlon of the restoration to health of his Royal High-
ness toe Prince of Wales, has also given to the tharttlea of
that city a. follow., via :—Ezin to the Royal United Hospital,
£5OO to the Female Peottantiary, WO to the dunitile
la-
dnstrtsl Schools, and £2OO te the Fund for the Preentration
of the Park.
The health of his Royal Highness Prince Leopold
has, it is understood, improved. The Prince has been suffic-
ing from one of these periodical stinks of Illness le which
ne i liable. It is probable that the condition of his Royal
lit.thnen has made the precise dale of her Makety's return
from Scotland somewhat uncertain. At present there i.e..,
expectation of her lisiesty leaving Balmoral for the South
abAtt, the 25112 264r1ind.
The executive of the National Agricultural La.
bonen' Oaks, at Leamington, ban inn% inatruelloos to
the district secretnin to promote emigration throughout
the cnntry In rot- • e -Goa with the central odiee. lite Oa-
fr. d delegate ....tad ,ust early in December he will saes for
New Zealand with lin hundred labonrers and their fanlike.

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Hr. J. H. Butterfield. a well-known reporter for
the metropolitan prow, expired suddenly from the Weds ot
rheumatic Mare dimes whilst he wee sitting at Munn in
his own re/Memos on last Sunday afternoon. Tbe deceased
had formerly held a Nelson under Government, but, having
retired from it with an adequate pension some Mese piers
since, bad up to tbe time of his death been engaged as
reporter.
The first departureof troop' from London for the Gold
Oes4.tooethe arrival of Sir Garnet Wolealey's dempaisbes toot
place on Tuesday. Tee nth Company Beni Engineers, from
Chatham and a half-battery of Hoye& Artillery. from Wool.
wich, left Paddingeon by the &10 train for Plymouth, When
the Himalaya lay all ready to receive them Iles
were loudly cheered at Paddington by a crOwd SY=
Iliad the platform.
A book printed two hundred yeses ago, Irst Elfgr
hist published, should ife • literary cntiesili.
the Ojkium, 8.V.1 1, printed in 1677, by Oho Mang
Flamm, was recently discovered, folded la ohms% b an at
bowie at Amsterdam. Some copies bam foetid.* try
over ham They see vary small, prettily pealed Weed mei
black, with cuts, and as fresh and Mean mm If Meg lad WI
some from the press.
On Sunday last an eight days' minion, under the
unction of the Bishop of Rochelle', was somemeseed he the
toe.. of Rochester, Strood, Chatham Old IteragAns, erg
Sew Crompton. The Mello!, and Ms feather, Mae news
Clanghton, and • large number of "affinkmare"--paishme
front various tarts of the oonntry—will preach GOMM MIA
deliver addresses; the churches will be open daily frie Pfaff
services, and them will be special mentos. for seen. las
women, and for children.
" The writers in some of the public aloes wife Is.
loomed last cock that their present segagessess would Nue
on the met pay day, and if they wished to mem, lima tier
most sign an agreement that they were wean to loses.
I.d per hour order the emew regulations (whittle mate mama
stew time), and which terminates the iseres=6.wffiheng
notice, after each payment made^—Pell ell
Pending Chancery proceedings with respect to the
rlgicte I, Hiepteur Forest, the gentlemen who have untied to.
body to reser further encroachments are watchful of every
olio/inanity that may arise for practical protest. By a right
cooNer,,, hi Q leen Elliot/oil, the poor of Longhton are pile
vilneed at mt. u eve/y 11th November to begin conk*
wood, and to continue so doing till the 96th of April. The
custom has been duly observed this you and the assembly
of " tippers " was sodressed by filr Antonio Brady sae bike
gentlemen.
The death lie annormoed at Leary, Jefferson Comity,
New York, on the Bird of Octoner of Robert aixbury,
the greet age of 110 years and seven montha, He wash/mese
In former years as a Mints,' and had killed in Northam
New York over 2,100 d.for. When over XI beet with..
seefdent nemealtatfug the amputation of a kg, mad wiliest
Inching he audited the phyelcim to perform the sureisel
eperati fn. His moral wos attended by several of /Meta.
dren, who were aged between 40 and 90.
At a general meeting of the Neweestlezne
Farmers' Club, it was stated that the mischiefaZby
stray dogs was enormous, eapeciaily is the violably of yk
villages, and that in the district lying east ot Newcastle 151
sheep had been killed and 60 wounded in a Mom time. •
committee was appointed with Instructions to learn the at-
test of the damage done in the two northern cmantles,
to report to a future meeting.
The 'Firth coal-cutting machine is doing Ironies
wherever it la intredmed lb. machine oats 176 Melrose
about 67 tons, in • shift of nine been, and it is believe/dash
this can not only be maintained. but otmeldersh/y taereeML
It appears arm that at lispleside CotlieOy, Gairtabarris. Mil
same machine Me reeently eat 877 feet, equal to IR tons in
one hoots The ultimate gamma. of these milldam OM no
longer he considered at all doubtfel.
"The nee of paper as a substitute fee wood In he
construction of railway cordage, has Wag been harem, but
the me to whittle UM material out be pat seems now to he
without limit. The Tonna* of the leelely 01 AM ears there
I, a paper church mem* anlattig arm Nervy wit& le
capable of negate*/ about 1.0811 peeps, It is decoke
within and octagonal without. The Metes mill& and the
stemma Inside, and the roof, the masa Ns di of pwier
gide 40, rendered 'stemma bt salleallia titriol. Maim
water, whey, and whits of egg. —Budder.
As an illustration of the marvellous change whish
haa taken place In the Southern Stabs of Amadei Inas the
abolition of slavery, the Nets Pork Tribune mentiose the
fact that the drama of Uncle Ton'. Cabin was lately played
In one of the New Orleans %boucles. It lea elempie sad In
Melt an uneventful feet but those who remember We bitter
feeling manifested by the ilenthern slemboldere on the pub.
licesion of Mrs btoeres celebrated story will not Ind It
difficult to understand its importance. At that time It would
have been as mocha, • man's life was worth*, sell the book
in any of the Southern &Wes. and to hale openly owned to
the posses/100 of it in New Orleans would have bees fol.
looted by adfoutbresk of popular violence.
An amusing incident, iiinetrating the disadvantage
att.hine to holm lye mem lies oomposed of • variety et
"nett me and languages "le recorded as miming the opening
I the present Austrialf Perliement. The Kiehl*, of the
croen, exordium to tie time-honoured usage, requested the
old-se member to ermine providonelfy the readential rank
until the election of • permanent head. The oldest member
happened to tee member from Galicia, a Pole oldie Jewish
permission, who did net know sword of Gerinalk Ilis °My
attempt to explain his ignorance be the language he did not
know culminated in the words "Nix Thatch." Wars o
laughter greeted this naive confeselon. • substitute wee
easily f mud.
The Channel tunnel must not be looked upon as
merely a communication between Frame and Zeeland, but
as tee main rood to and from the whole continent, by wide la
passengen and goods will be conveyed from all park cd
Europe and Ana, and it would be a hold emertion to define •
limit to the progressive movement. The opening of thls
tunnel would lead to the sante Income of traffic that bee fol.
lowed the adoption of enthrals In the pima of other modem
of conveymee, my in the proportion of Ito 40 If thin pros
nosticatien were only partly realized, It is evident that IMP
tunnel wonid soon Moms tneuthciont. Ills net, however,
to be erpected that this Menem will be lostenteneolia, but
Shot experience alone will lead 101 l
A newspaper oorrespondent at Brussels writes :
A Convention has been eon/eluded between Germany and
Helgiem, establishing the reciprocal recognition ni all sow
merctal, industrial, end financial c meanie", constituted
and authorised according to the perticulair laws of @Mae
country. It It expected that than formai Federal Council
will at once ratify the convention. It may, perhaps, not be
to much to /at that the quettlon of the entry of the Mates
surrom ding dierminfy—Doomark. Holland. Belgium and
Seitz rend, and perhaps the whole of Austria—lMO the
Germ. Ca/toine Union will arise in allot very distant *no
lb. Customs Unbar has not boon abolished by the establiela
gient of the ffinpire. Luxemburg continues to belong to
the trni on without belonging to the Impire.
During the week ending het Saturday 5,509 births
and 6,624 deaths were mantel, d in London and twenty other
large cities and towns of the Culled Kingdom. The natural
Increase cf popnlation was 1826. The mortality from all
muses in them towns we. at Me este of 26 deaths annually
to every 1 000 pinions living. Is the metropolis 2,877 births
and 1,685 deaths were ?NM , the Isomer Moine been 67
ato
pnov"ef:ddffill'hgr.rwol6l4.meekpwraothijou:Shio....plb!:sowomegh,jottetliwthin yas477B:otief roma Thaedll:lLndselimb:setdinliwasormeth:
ctoowl:eftdoe:dreree4l6:lregairnedr;a:fic4finu""aulrtil:lllille: e22linedffin"litt:7escarirt:mall.mihwirl7l",tol4llt74l: thus
the four preceding weeks; The depths from thee. (memo
cr.re, however 68 15-100 the corrsoted average auder in
tee corrapouding neck of the last ten years.
The twentieth half-yearly conference of the Wiser"
National Association was opened at /he Leah Town Hail en
Tuesday. lb. business was chitty of a routine abater
ter, but before the &Mug whe adjourned tee meet
of the committee appointed to mbut the charit
ms that
miners wire the come Or the present high
he
coat and that they were driving away the "de w. '—
country, was read. In me part of this document it Is
asked Thy working Men are cooetinoslly triage 60.
I count for the manner to which they mind salo .00m
es.
"They." In the ruffian* of the rsocit. .94d feel-
tnj.ry. but.
Wily MOUgh, no doubt, and greatly ,
specs gh;.ap.
noterlthston. log this, the wags. cit d • "
• c:.l7.E."iy.
port of working Nesn's &mikes lo its pro
thee *Monde its matey, eon-
n•a• a" In i" of tee national walla
esthetes more thee may lima" The report wes
to the proportion of dm salloAsed
aid ammo,
ammo
selopled, and codified lo De
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