The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-02-14 00:00:00

GROANS IN GUILDHALL.

SAID ll,gog to Gog,
" This horrible fog!"-
-" llaa got," Gog replied,
"My cheat all Inside !"—Pvneh.

EPITOME OF 'NEWS,

BRITISH. AND FOREPitO,

It WM recently remarked by a y ohne lady M a plirty
at Mancheattr, of a a lemuly pree ae youth :—" its kKiMI SI
If he were setting an example to ha auceatore."

Horses are becoming scarce in India, although there
aro In that country the large. breening eata,dishose tr In
the world, and, accord,og tu the Friend of indict, the dtarElli
A case of breach of promise—Maclean v. Knight—
was before Lord Coleridge and a speclahlory on gsturday, In
the Coon of Curnm .0 Pleas. Mr. Haskins, it C., who ap-
peared for the plaintiff, said that a consultation between
self end Serleant Parry, who representsd the -Wends, t, had
resulted In an arrangement that s verdict for the plaintiff
Should betaken by c resent for £2,000.

A veteran New York hotel proprietor is now euper-
Intending the erection .d furnishing of a new hotel In San
Francisco, which the local papers say let be the " finest
hot,! In the world." The cost of this structure Is now fixed
at 8f,0,000 dole. On the lint floor with be the main entrance,
which will be 20 feet wide and 25feet high, and will lead to
an Immense carriage court, which is to be covered whit glass
and eurrounded by arcadecl galleries. The building will be
sir stories high, and water will be supylied by two artesian
wells. It Is Intended to make prvision for 1,200 guettf, and
all the rooms are to he lighted directly from the open air
The eas an Ice used in the hotel will be manufactured on
the premises.

In his speech at Buckingham on inserlay, Mr.
Disraeli call that two Ipecla foatuco, In the election. width
Impress,d him were the mince.. of the genuine w. ni g.men
candidates at Sc ff ,rd and Morpeth, ih+ nOtion of the
sham working men,and the w,mder tut growth of Conte rear
In the area. metropolitan anti provincial boroughs. Be b..
',eyed that a death blow had been *Duck at the system of
restlessly attickl oft all interesta and instituti.ms ia the State,
tie forethalowed a great crisis In lull., ..13,re yet, he sold,
'you may have to account for the scotn millions of !trey,'
Mc re was the slightest hint given that a million or two of
the " ipoculative surplin," might well be assigned as a pro-
vision mania the Bengal famine.

_
A moat manful death by Luming has happened at
T,Aqinty. Louie& Bow, aged ten, lost her nuttier • few
weeks ago, and on Into dr the cooking for her father, • la-
bourer, and the rest of the family. She had well performed
the duties deriving upon her 'since her mother's (latch,
until ode day she went too near the grate, her frock Ignited,
and the was Lirrib'y burned. The poor child lived several
ita)• after the accident. At the Sequent a verdict of acel-
dei,tal death was returned. Thus jar, gave thelr feet to the
tether.

In London, on Tuesday evening", Sir E. G. Mac.
dounelt, KC M G., read a taper at a meeting of the hoyal
Colonial Institute on " Onr relations with the Ash. t,es
and other trines on the Gold Coast." He condemned oar
gore/mental poii^y In Africa, and recommended as the key
so ma fugue policy the opening of a way for the Aslunt.
.d other Inland ttibas to the sea, an abolition of interme-
diate imposts, and the estebEshment of order by the orgm.l-
- not an erticient po:l.e. He eindicatod the Aftlean
charecter trout tee popuier ecculatiin of It z nem, and etc m-
mended roadnialsing es the hat pullcy fur the c4un,y. He
contemned Only onentsiv.Awl.y the sham protectorate latch
has been In force duce the caution of Basile& by the Dutch.