The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-11-23 00:00:00

ENTomE OF NEWS,

"• London Merchant," says the Joks 11143, bas
atm 46,000 so Ilse lkisop of Wiashester's Fend.
It is reported that Bennett is about to isms a Ger.
man edition of the New York Herald.
It is now definitively settled that the Prince of
Waite will visit ChoSeworth on Dee. 17.
John B. Gough is reeking efforts; to raise a testi-
monial to the artist George Crulkshank, and has subscribed
600 dollars.
The Sheffield town trustees propose to set apart Part
of their revenue for the purpose of providing public recrea-
tion grounds for that town.
Heavy English carriages, large jet back horses,
gold plated homes., and dark liveries are the present ne
plus ultra of style in equipages in New York.
A writer in Itaily'e Magazine says that to bring
foreigner to see an English hunt in perfection, be should be
taken a week's sport with the Duke of Beaufort's honest's.
Liakut All, the old Indian rebel of 1857, hay arrived
safely at She Andamans, where, it is supposed, he will remaln
for the term of his life.
The culture of the olive tree and the manufacture of
oil from Its fruit is gradually becoming a leading industry in
Calif orals,
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The death rate of London continues to be low, not-
withstanding the incessant rains and chilly atmosphere of
last week.
Poets are not always poor, remark the A mirican
A thenoeum. Henry W. Longfellow pays a tax of 2,868 dole.,
and James Russell Lowell pays one of 753 dole.
In • police case in New York, lately, a boy being
asked if he knew the nature of an oath, gave en affirmative
reply. When asked what they do to persons who swear to
a lie, he replied, " They make policemen out of 'em."
The horse disease has been very severe in Phila-
delphia, causing a decided cessation of traffic. The street
cars have run but Irregularly, and many of them have been
pulled by men.
Lord Clarine, of Elm Park, near Limerick, third
baron, died at his residence, on Tuesday, in his 74th year.
His son, Colonel the Hon. Byre Massey, succeeds to the title
and estates.
The death is announced of Lady Elisabeth Brownlow.
Her ladyship was the daughter of the fourth Karl of Darnley.
and married In 1833 the Very Rev. John Brownlow, Dean of
Clonmacnoise, and vicar of Ardbraccan, Navanu, Ireland.
"Not to bark when you are unable to bite, is a rule
equally applicable to political as to private life. Yet it Is
one the force of which the Conservative party in the French
Assembly seem unable to realise."—Leader in Daily Tele-
graph.
A chrysanthemum show was held at the Corn Ex-
change, Northampton, on Tuesday, under the patronage of
the Mayor. The attendance was good, and the plants ex-
hibited very fine. The number of exhibitors was about one
hundred.
At Monday night's meeting of the Royal Dublin
Society it was stated that Mx shafts have been sunk Is the
Roscommon coal-gelds, and last week a first Instalment of
100 ton. was rallied. The coal can be sold in Dublin at a
guinea per ton.
A dead whale, measuring seventy feet in length
has been stranded on the Island of Talley, in north Fist.
It most have been a long time dead. The Board of Trade
will take possession of this monster of the deep, and will sell

It.
The magistrates sitting at the Castle of Exeter on
Saturday decided that. Wesleyan minister could not claim
exemption from the payment of turnpike toll when pro-
ceeding to a place of worship in a conveyance on week-
days.
An effort fir being made by some warm-hearted
Brooklynites to raise fund. to bring home from Tunis,
Alien, the remains of John Howard Payne, author of 'Borne,
sweet Home," and to erect a statue to his memory in Pros-
pect Park, Brooklyn.
Some Dublin householders have been heavily fined
for permitting • reckless waste of water on their premise.
In one case it was stated that no less than seventeen thou-
sand gallons • day were being lost.
In an affray with a number of poachers who were
discovered trespassing upon the lands of Castle liewson,
Limerick, at an early hour on Saturday morning, Mr. John
Howson received a gun shot wound in the forehead. Fatal
consequences are not anticipated.
The printers in the Edinburgh book and jobbing
offices, upwards of 700 in number, with few exceptions went
out on strike on Friday night in last week, on account of a
dispute with the masters about wages and the hours of
labour.
A portion of the military clothes taken from the
French fortresses by the Pmssiana had been sold to Berlin
speculators for £27,000. The "Consortium " has now re-
turned the apparel to the French government for £48,000,
thou clearing something like 45 per cent, on the job.
On Monday evening two men were saffocated at
Crookson's factory, lead smelters, near North Shields. They
were engaged at a furnace, when one of them pulled a brick
out of it, and the gas rushed out and suffocated them before
assistance could be rendered.
Two Japanese theologians have expressly come to
Berlin to acquaint themselves with the state of Christianity
in Germany. They are at present taking lessons, through an
interpreter, from Dr. Use°, a well-known clergyman of the
Liberal school,
The Westminster Journa2 of October 11, 17%,
describes a cave of hydrophobia, in which the juice of rib-
wort( the rib grass) was administered with great success. It
is worth noting in connection with this story that one cause
of Idiopathic Bydrophpobia in dogs is said to be their being
prevented from physteking themselves with grass.
It is not generally known that the Poet Shelley at
one time of his life was an agitator in Ireland, and contended
stoutly for "Home Rule:' This, with many other new facts
and writinm of the poet, will be given in the new Life of
Shelley, by Mr. Denis Florence Maccarthy, which will shortly
be published.
In Lancashire there are twenty-nine "societies of
females," a-me with curious titles—as " Female Druids:
Female Foresters," "Grand Protestant Confederation
Females," "Star of ilindley Odd Females," and "Grand
Union Daughters of Temperance."
Mr. Morley, M.P., on Tuesday, laid the foundation
atone of a new Congregational church in the midst of the
Colleges at Cambridge University. It is to cost £12,000.
The hon. gentleman promised to add 42.50 to his subscrip-
tion of £5(O, on condition that the building was opened free
from debt.
From April Ist to the Pith inst. the Treasury re-
ceipts amounted to £12,525,883—an increase of about two
milliona and shalt as compared withthe corresponding period
of last year. The expenditure has been £44,337,177. On
Saturday last the balance in the Bank of England was
£1,329,058, and in that of Ireland £1,008,120.
Two disastrous fires are reported from America ,• one
at Boston, which is said to have endangered State-street,
ano to have occasioned a loss of two himdred thousand
dollars ; the other at Brooklyn, where a large grain ware-
house has been burnt down, the loss being estimated at
eight hundred thousand dollars.
In a cage which came before him on Saturday the
Master of the Rolls in Dublin ruled that as to the claim of
Miss Unthank, who had entered the Presentation Convent in
Limerick, she, having been professed as a nun, and having
received the £4,000 bequeathed her in that event in her
father's will, was precluded from farther participation in the
assets of the testator.
A commercial gentleman handed a merchant, upcn
whom he had called, a portrait of his betrothed, Instead of
his business card. The merchant ermined It carefully, re-
marked that it was a fine establishment, and returned It to
the astonished and blushing gentleman with a hepe that he
would soon be admitted into partnership.
Of the eight new pontoon bridges building over the
Rhine between Aimee and Baden that at Hauling% has just
been opened, and, on an average, Is crossed by 0,000
passengers per week. While Alsace was French there was
but the one bridge of Strasburg along the whole length of the
Province.
A correspondent of the Photographic News sends the
following formula for an incorrodible ink i—Asphaltum
lox , oil of turpentine 40s. dissolve, and add lamp-black
sufficient to bring it to a consistency to use with • camel's
hair pencil on the glass. Alkalies, acids, or iodine will not
destroy it.
The Bishop of Natal has in the prom " Twentreix
Popular Lecture' on the Pentateuch and the Moabite Stone,'
with appendices, containing-1 The Elohistic Narrative in
Genesis ; 2. The Original Story Of the Exodus 3. The Pre-
Christian Cress. The work will appear on the Ist of January.
—A thel‘crunt.
A Swedish lady, the Countess Skenns, has arrived
in Paris with the Intention of organising there a new expe•
dition—a feminine one—for the succour of Dr. Livingstone,
as she thinks the work done by Mr H. Stanley is not suffi-
cient. She states that she well knows Central Africa, which
she explored in company with or husband ; and she alleges
that she is personally acquainted with all the chiefs of the
country.
Guernsey, the fireman, who lost his life at the great
Ore In the City Flour Mills last week, was buried in a
semi-pultlic way, on Saturday, in the Abney Park Cemetery,
not far from the graves of Mr. Braidwood and of Ford, who
also fell a sacrifice to their duty, under circumstances some.
whit similar. .

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An American paper states that the only persons
left at the Tip top Mita° on Mount Washington are three
signal officers, who are equipped with a large stock of coal,
four barrels of onions, about 40 hams, 20 bushels of potatoes,
a good supply of canned good., and all manner of groceries
In profusion, • violin, harmonicon, a good-sized library, and
large quantities of newspapers and other tip-top material
to enable them to spend a pleasant winter.
The police of Paris have just made a descent on the
Carrieres ffAmerique and arrested about 50 vagabonds. In
their stores were found quantities of provisions, hams,
de foie gras, geese, rabbit., chocolate. sausages, rum,esniseed,
and even champagne. Their wardrobe was equally well
furnished. In the midst of blouses and overcoats, a dozen
difftrent costumes were found, of harlequins, Turks,
Spaniards, &e. All these articles were of course the produce
of theft.
It is said that at the time ef the three Emperors'
conference the ex-King of Naples sent It. de Canoferi, one of
his former Ministers, to Berlin, to induce the assembled
Sovereigns to Intercede In hes behalf with King Victor
/mime muff Ms petition was that his private property should
be restored to him ; and, his wish having been com-
municated to those whom it concerns at Rome, there seems
to be some prospect of Its being fulfilled provided the ex-
King engages to abstain from all political agitation.
A large meeting WM held at Torquay on Monday
night in aid of Cburch and State. The Earl of Devon ad-
dressed the meeting, and declared that the severance if the
union between Church and State would be most detrimental
to the country, an the State would thereby be divested of
that which had contributed greatly to its butre. Arch-
deacon Earle advocated reform, without which Church de-
fence would not be of much avail. Archdeacon Emery and
other speakers addressed the meeting, which was a very
enthusiastic one.
" Mine.—May God bless and preserve you now and
for ever ! lam working and try lug hard to do and to he ail
you wish, and all that may help you In your tight. I can
bear everything if only 1 can know that you are well, and
brave, and strong, and happy ; and I mu happier for so trying
to make this sacrifice for you, since I believe it will help you
now and in the future. For my sake take great care of your
health, and he brave and good. My heart Is and always will
be in the right place. My love for you can only change to
become stronger rod better. Whatever happens, in trouble
and in happiness I am ever, as ever, yours."—Advertisement
in The Times.
Torquay is much perplexed which to choose of the
three rival systems of dealing with her sewage. Mr.
Bazalegette proposes throwing it is. its raw condition into the
sea, but to this plan the majority of the inhabitants object.
Another scheme is to purify it by irrication, hut the cost of
pumping renders this very costly. A third plan is to de-
odorize the sewage in tanks, and at their last meeting the
Local Board voted a mum of money for the investigation of
General Scott's or any other tank stem.
A curious literary parallel is pointed out in connec-
tion with the death of Mr. Thomas Bilby, for more than's
quarter of a century the parish clerk of Islington, who parsed
-- recently at the se^ of 78. He was the author of the

fietriar iti-Lessior
The Pint batch of CoMmunist prisoffelra have =free
at New Caledonia
Oysters from Chesapeake By. Virginia are shipped
In large numbers to lingbi and .
The British-American Commission under the Wash-
legion Treaty has allowed claims to seven ffnielisiinson
amounting to 40,000 dollars.
A rich Depths spring has been dlsoowered in the QM'
Alice of Cassino, near Naples, and Is now being worked ey •
Milanese firm.
It has been finally decided, in the Court of Cosumew
Pleas, that a British Peer cannot vote in the election of a
member of Parliament.
Cholera having broken out in Austria rigorous
quariunine regulations have been enforced with regard to all
vessels arriving at the Italian porta from that country.
Some thieves lately despoiled a statue of the Virgin,
in the Cathedral of Acquaviva (Bari`, of valuables worm
more than 150,00 et
An American paper asserts that much of the pro-
fanity of the age is the result of sending people magarlum
with uncut leaves.
It apppeare that the expense of the ballot at the re-
cent risuuiclpal election at Boston was about £ll3. At
Colchester similar expenses were Incurred to the amount of
about £2OO
Denmark has been visited by • fearful hurricane.
which swept over the entire kingdom with terrific roe.
Several ships were wrecked, whole districts inundated,i
large amount of praperiy destroyed, and many lives seal-
The Peabody dwellings in London._ likely•r• paying.J.lng •
dividend of five per cent por annum. It
now
buildings on the same principte intse.mir
uj erected In She
metropolis one very large scale.
The crop of olives at Nice I. remerkably abundant
this year, and Is estimated, for the Metric' corresponding
with the former province, ate sum of twelve millions. lads
lithe largest yield remembered during the pluseue century.
An aristocratic New York tailor hi engaged in
evolving • suit of clothes to came* entirely el a cravat that
will wind about the body from neck to ankle, and be fas-
tened with a diamond pi
A Trafalgar hero still survives in the person of
Captain Samuel lindesby, who served in that action as a
volunteer on board his Majesty's ship Defence. Re retired
forty years ago on the half-pay of the York Chameure
It is proposed in Londonto utilise the tnunwayer in
the very early hours of the mottling when there Is no pas-
senger traffic. The design is to rue on the lines suitable
scavenger lonise or waggons, by which the dirt and refuse
of the London streets should be carried sway to • distance.
"We are glad to learn, on the beet authority, that
during the past three mouths the improvement In Mr.
Bright's health has been greater than during the previous
years of his disability; and that his return to the House of
Commons next session may reasonably he expected, ti
the extent to which he will be able to lake part inag
businesses still • matter of uncertabity.--Desiie Nam.
Sir John Lebbock, in • letter to The Times. Pro-
mulgates the opinion that the weekly return of the Bank of
England should be altered In form, so as to show the de-
posits it holds belonging to other banks. Ile communicated
this opinion to the chairman of the Court of Directors with-
out success. It is probable that Sir John will bring the
matter before the House of Commons, where he has Mae-
rusted several important measures with success.
The Army and Nary Gazette mentions a proposal to
grant to general officers the money valet of their last regi-
mental commissions aa • compensation for the withdrawal
of the pay they now receive as colonels of regiments. The
officers would in future draw El es. per diem unattached
pay. This Is merely a suggestion at present, but the scheme
Is said to have been received with considerable favour.
At Nottingham, on Monday night, a torchlight
meeting was held in the Great Market-place, to protest
against a proposal of the School Board to spend £eo,ooo
upon New Schools. It was alleged by the speakers that the
existing accommodation would malice for 4.000 children
more, and it was resolved to memorable the Government to
sent down an inspector to inquire into the matter.
The continuation of the Thames Embankment to
Chelsea is making rapid progress, as well as the gigantic
works for the northern low level main sewer, and two
" gangs " of men of 500 each are at work night and day in ef-
fecting these Immense operations. With • boulevard, from
Blackfrian to Chelsea, and the riverway well lighted, this
magnificent work will be something for Londoners to be proud
of.
What has become of a potato introduced from Chili
some forty years ago by the Royal Horticultural Societe_ It
was called the asparagus potato, from the resemblance
which ita tubers had to the bleached shoots of that vege-
table. After it, Introduction it grew well anal spread
rapidly; but somehow or other it now seems lost to the
country. For table purposes, it. long narrow tubers Were
delicious.
What were the Communists who destroyed Paris?
Nine were shoemakers, six condemned thieves, four un-
frocked priests, four working jewellers, four hunchback and
four halt, three loafers, two liberated convicts, two assas-
sins, two forgers, two actors, two acrobats, two keepers of
bereputable houses, two one-eyed men, one stable boy, •
concaege, a rabbit-akin merchant, a cooper, a staymaker,
and 11Q madmen ! What a respectable governing body!
On Friday afternoon Sheriff Logic the sheriff for
the Akdrie ds:trict, was on the bench trying • case of assault,
and was in the les.:e of administering the oath to one of the
witnesses, when he Suddenly dropped down unconscious.
The alarm at once spread, and five medical gentlemen were
soon In attendance. They immediately applied restoratives
to his lordship, who was got able to bear removal from the
bench. lb recovered consciousness for a short time, but
afterwards sank and never rallied, expiring about an hour
after the shock.
In Dresden glycerice is generally used in place of
water in gas motors; after it has been so used for some
years It becomes foul, and requirea purification. The fluid Is
Bret heated for twelve boot/ to from 60 to en degrees, and
next to from 150 to 130 degrees in order try eliminate water,
ammoniacal compound., and other volatile impurities, the
glycerine is next filtered over granulated animal cliarooaL
Some 300 cwt 10 400 cat. of glycerine are annu.Mly purified
In this manner at Dresden.
The death of the wife of a carrier named Curtin,
living in Broad-street, Portamouth, occurred on Sued",
morning under shocking circumstances. Her husband, It
appears, was absent, but in the same house was her son, who
not hearing any sound in his mother's room, went there, and
found the body of deceased in the fireplace, her bead and
arm being completely consumed by the ere, and the other
arm nearly burnt away. The chest and uprise part of the
back were Mao fearfully injured. Deceased had Intended to
hsve her breakfast alone, and it is thought she was about to
fill the teapot when she was seized with alit, and thee fell
Into the fire. She was fifty years of age, and when Mat win
alive was in good health.
On Monday the death was announced of Mr. James
Capel (aged Si) head of the firm of James Capel and Co., the
oldest member of the Stock-Exchange, and formerly Chair-
man of the Board of Managers. lie was also for many years
chairman of the Committee of Spanish limedholders. Mr.
Capel came up to London from a small village near Worces-
ter. and went into the office of Edmund antroten and Ce.,
of the Stock-Fachange So valuable did he become. that as
soon as his age justified a partnership, a share In the easiness
was offered him with the full sanction of old Mr. Ceuta, the
banker, who was consulted in the matter. From that Mine
to the present—about 82 or 83 years—he has been • member
of the London Stock-Exchange.
The American Drakes assembled recently in New
Yolk, and indulged in a very long and Interested cackle.
'they all lay claim to a share of the property left by the
celebrated Francis Drake, which is now estimated to be worth
140,000,000 dollars. The " heirs "in the trotted States have
formed themselves into an association, with • constitution
and bye laws. They hold a meeting twice • year, or oftener,
to consult on measures to be taken, and receive such Inter-
matins as may have been gleaned in the meantime. The as-
sociation has resolved to adopt new and vigorous magnums
in prosecution of its claims. Are Drakes at home here going
to allow their namesakes in America to make "ducks and
drakes" of the vast property in question?
The hearing of the adjourned summonses arsin.st the
speakers at the Hyde-park Demonstration of the led inst. was
resumed on Monday at Marlborough-street Police-Court. A
test case—that of James Bailey—only was taken, and
evidence having been given tending to show that the defend-
ant had contravened the rules made under the ?arks
Regulation Act, Mr. Baker Greene addressed the magistrate.
contending that the charge had no foundation; and that
there being a right to speak In the Park according to the
Act, the rule prohibiting public meetings was void. The
Magistrate, however, considering that the rules had been
properly made, and were legally in force, imposed a penalty
of £5. As notice of appeal was given, the other case stood
over