The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-01-31 00:00:00

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The Paraguay has arrived at Havre with 10 000
slaughtered sheep, preserved by the firlgoritic process.
At Greenwich Observatory last week 67 hours of
sunshine were registered. _ _ _

It is said that 300 lives were lost during the revolu-
tion in Lima on the 22nd December.

The New York Times records the death, in that
city, of Henry Carter, better known by his nom de crayon
"Frank Leslie," who was born In Ipswich in 1821, and early
In life brought himself into notice in England as an en-
graver, and was engaged on the 17,1ustrated Hews.

The Reyisers of the authorised yersion of the New
Testament met on Tuesday in the Jerusalem Chamber for
their 951 h session, and sat for seven hours.

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Twice recently at the Reading•room of the British
Museum small pieces of red-hot carbon have fallen from the
electric lamps, to which are now suspended large transparent
saucers, in order to avert any danger.

A Paris journal says that the strike of the journey-
men bakers seems about to enter on a new phase, as, so far
from desiring an arrangement, the workmen are thinking of
putting forward new claims in the shape of a demand for
the suppression of night work.

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Wood carving is an industry which is carried to
considerable perfection among the Germans, and it is
fostered by the establishment of carving schools, particularly
in districts where the wood used for the work—the Spanish
walnut, the finest and best walnut the Germans have—is
plentiful.
The time-honoured custom of throwing an old shoe
after the bride and bridegroom had an unfortunate result at
a recent negro wedding in North Carolina. Just as the
happy pair were departing in a waggon, an enthusiastic
friend owning a very large foot flung his shoe at them with
such unfortunately good aim as to knock the bride senseless
on the floor. The bridegroom jumped out, punished the
unlucky thrower by a sound threshing, restored his whie to
consciousness, and then resumed the wedding tour.
In London last week 2,641 births and 1,900 deaths
were registered. Allowing for increase of population, the
births were 33 below, whereas the deaths exceeded by 139
the average numbers In the corresponding week of the last
ten years. The annual death-rate from all causes, which had
been equal to 25 and £46 per 1,000 in the two preceding
weeks, rose to 27-1. During the past three weeks of the
current quarter, the death-rate has averaged 256 per 1,000,
sgainst 27 and 275 in the corrosponding periods of 1878 and
1879.
Captain Colville, an Englishman, and his wife have
arrived in Algeria on their way home, after exploring
Eastern Morocco and South-Western Algeria. They started
from Fez, with an escort of six men, and, though traversing
regions inhabited by tribes of ill•repute, they were every-
where well received. Their object was scientific, literary,
and artistic.—Paris Correspondent of The Times.

The other day, while an express train was approach-
ing Kilmarnock at full soced. tha doer ot a carriage flew
open, and Madeline sell, six years of age, fell out upon the
ballast between the twe lines of rails. The train was stopped,
and search made for the girl, who was found almost unin-
jured. The only wounds were a cat on the temple, and en
one of the legs.
An ir,quest has been ht.id at the farmhouse of Mr.
James Hockley, Hatfield, Broadoak, Essex, who was foaled
lying dead in a field in his occupation on Saturday, having
been shot through the heart. The evidence showed that
deceased went out to walk over the fields, taking a doable-
barrel breechloader and accompanied by a dog, About noon
one of his men, attracted by the dog, went to the spot, and
saw his master lying dead with the gun by his Mae. He had
evidently been getting over a hurdle front one field into
another, and his left foot catching in the hurdle had thrown
him forward, and one barrel of the gun had been discharged
the shot entering the right side and penetrating the heart,
death being instantaneous. The jury retuned a verdict of
' Accidental death."

The German military Estimates for 188011, which
were presented on Monday to the Federal Connell, amount
to 292,185,916 marks. This is exclusive of the expenditure
of Bavaria.
Daring Monday night a fireman was on the engine
of a cattle train on the treat Western Railway, between
Bristol and Taunton, when he attempted to climb over the
tender, and falling off, was killed instantaneously.
On Monday morning, while one of the porters at
the Shoreditch station of the North London Railway, named
George Cross, was closing the doors of a down train as it
was starting by some means or other he was dragged along
and slipped between the train and the platform. He was
dreadf ally mutilated, and on being picked up by two fellow-
porters was found to be dead.
A. New York Correspondent says that the revival of
prosperity in America has been so sudden and so un-
expected that manufacturers, far from desiring more cus-
tomers, are perplexed to supply those they have already.
The North German Gazette states that on the occasion
of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Czar's accession to the
throne the Prince of Weiss is expected to be amongst the
number of distinguished personages who will go to St.
Peteralrarg.
The Queen and the Princess Beatrice attended
divbne services at Osborne on Sunday. The Rev. Canon
Prothero, MA, officiated. Mr. Cross arrived at Osborne on
Saturday and bad an audience of the Queen, and afterwards
dined with her Majesty.

The Labour News says that the home labour market,
especially in the iron and coal trades, continues to improve,
and, if prices and wages can be fairly adjusted, steady pro-
gress in business may he looked forward to.
The remains of Mies Helen Jane Gladstone were
interred in the family vault underneath St. Andrew's
Church, Fasque, on Tuesday. Although the funeral
was private, many ladles and gentlemen evinced their
respect for the family by told, g their places in the
church. The mourners were Sir Thomas Gladstone, the
Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Lady Gladstone, Miss Glad-
stone Misses Annie and Mary Gladstone Mr. J. R.
Gladstone, the younger, of Fasque, Mr. Artlisir Gladstor
Liverpool, and Mr. John Gladstone, Wilts, nephew 0*
deoeased. Mr. W. E. Gladstone, who has not been at _.ie
for several years, called on a number of old residents; on the
estate. He also visited the village of Lettercairn.
A valuable collection of skulls and skeleton% is
shortly to be added to the Huntertan Museum of tl,e Royal
College of Surgeons in London including some 1,800 speci-
mens of all variations of the human race scattered over the
world. They belong to a physician who has been gathering
them for over forty years, having himself exhumed from
barrows most of crania and skeletons of the early inhabitants
of our own country, and having obtalned the majority of the
foreign specimens from British travellers.
The collection for the h epDals of Sheffield, on
Sunday, realised £l,OBO, which, with a small balance from
last year, males over 0,000. This is a slight Increase on
the amount collected last year, but a much larger sum was
expected, owing to the revival of trade.
A ghost has been met in Connecticut clad in a linen
ulster. This departure from the orthodox cerements is
notable. The beholder says, unconsciously humorous, that
the apparition was "grave-looking."—Funny Folks.

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The Very Rev, Dr. Duncombe, Dean of York, (Nei
on Monday night, after a long illness. He bad been ill
several months and had a favourable change, but on Friday
in last week he relapsed to such an extent that a special con-
sultation had to be hs-ld on the following day. On Sunday
his condition was most critical, aid on Monday Sir James
Paget was called in; death however ensued in the eveniog.
The deceased Dean will he much misted, his interest in the
restoration of Yorkshire churches generally and the cathe-
dral in particular having been most liberal and marked.

The Duchess of Marlborough has written to the
Mayor of Leeds, acknowledging the receipt of £7OO from the
Leeds Irish Distress Fund Committee. Her Grace says:
"it is indeed most gratifying to receive such a mark of
sympathy with distress from one of the most flmaishing
citiee in England. The distress is great, and the need
urgent. Tne money entrusted to us shall be well spent.
As the spring comes on and the landowners are able to
avail themselves of the facilities for giving employment
afforded them by the Government, I trust distress will
decrease."-The sum of £lOO has been received from the
Duke ‘.l Norfolk as a contribution to the Sheffield fund for
the relief of the Irish distress. His Grace, besides this
amount, has forwarded £2OO to the Duchess of Marlborough's
fond

Bell's Messenger points out that "a feature of eome
importance in the grain trade just now is that France is not
so large a buyer as she was early in the season ; hence it
follows that a large proportion of the supply afloat and in
prospect is available for British wants. In Germ,ny it is
the opinion that European wants for the season are already
assured, and some authorities believe that before long
American supplies will come forward mush more freely than
has been the case diming the last few weeks. Millers, Ow'
fore, only buy to meet present requirements, and both in
France and Germany the quotations have a downward
tendency"
The Paris correspondent of the Standard Pall :
"In the course of a controversy with the Ifstafette, M.
Paul de Cassagnac makes the curious revelation tnat the
late Prince Louis Napoleon contemplated to effect a lauding
in France. I quote his own words ;—' You state that the
Prince Imperial nevec had the idea of effectieg landing.
He has himself told me the contrary a score of times. I
can say so now as it is but a matter of history. /18Y, I
rememher that on one occasion, finding in more than
deiermlued to attempt eventually this adveuture, I sue-
needed in wresting from him a solemn oath to warn me
beforehand. Why do you ask me 551 d the Prince.
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Perhaps to try and prevent you, if the tirn should not he
your side If
opportune, and to have myself killed bY you
should persist in your resolve.'"

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