The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-07-13 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Every dog in Paris is now required to bear his
master's name on Li, collar.

King George, the ex• King of Hanover is now in
Ragland on a vlatt.

Coal has been discovered in the southern district of
t'eZnintibar dominions, about seven days' journe) from the
coast.

The Duc ,le Chambord has, it is stated, advised bin
friends to cease from agitating in favour of a monarchy on
the ground that France must be left to select a form of
government which she thinks best.
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Some of the country papers have been publishing
the Treaty of Washington as a aerial. Just as the rural
reader gets to the thrilling pert he has to break off and wait
until next week.

Lieutenant. General de Creben, who commanded
duriug the war tbe cavalry of General de Manteufiel, has
been ordered to go and spend three months at Hogan
(Silesia), in consequence of • quarrel with the last-named
officer.

The other evening Marshal MacMahon and the
Duches of Magenta paid, with: ut invitation, a visit to M. and
Madame Thtars. This visit is considered as a protest on the
part of the Marshal against the rumours recently circulated
that he had listened favourably to overtures hustle to hi.

An address signed by 1,784 women has been pre-
sented to Mr. Douglea Straight, M.P., thankbgt him for his
bill, extending the punishment of flogging to certain cams
of atta...ks upon women and children.

A statue to the Emperor Paul L of RllBBl3 has just
been erected at Puylosk, on the Don; it is of life sift, and
the pedestal on which it stands bears the inscription In gold
letters, "To the founder of the town of Pavlosk, 1872."
At Leicester Assizes, on Monday, Edward Button
was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude for assaulting,
some weeks since, an elderly lady, named Burgess, for the
purpose of robbery. The assault was one of exceptional
violence. MibB Burgess is a niece of Sir Gilbert Scott.
Archhish p Manning on Sunday opened some new
schools which have lust been erected in connection with St.
John's Roman Catholic Church, Duncan-terrace, Islington.
There was a procession of the clergy and ~flice bearers of
the church, and this Archbishop afterwards preached in aid
of the schools.
A strike among the undertakers of London is threat-
reef for the "Sunday free" and shortened hours of labour;
and if only acorrespoorhiag curtailment of Abe hills of ne,r-
tality could be the result, the public would most earnestly
wish this peculiar "movement "guest speed.

Monsignor ('apel, preaching on the Bennett jurig,.
ment, said that in his opinion no deeper wound has been in-
flicted on the doctaine of the Real Presence in the Anglican
Communion. The Court has struck three blows (1) at the
Idea of a definite end dogmatic revelation, (2) at the certainty
of faith, (3 at the condemnation of any heresy It is the
latitudinarians who will benefit by the judgment.
On Monday the Prince and Princess of Wales opened
Lauderdale House, on the slope of ilighgate.hill. is a eon-
vAleseent home in connection with St. Baztliolomew's Hos-
pital. It was munificently handed over for its present object
by Sir Sydney Waterlow, who has fitted it up for the
accommodation of 34 male patients. •

Prince Arthur, on the invitation of the Corporation'
of Leeds, tine consented to visit that town on the 19th of
September-Ain which day he will open nonialhay-rark, which
has been purchased by the Town Council for a people s park.
The park is 600 acres in extent, atel has been purchased at a
cost of £139,00. It contains *magnificent lake, covering :S6
acres.
A Southern American paper relates as a significant
fact Oust an enthusiastic Greeley publican in 14.11t0n, Ga ,
recently changed the name of his hotel from the Georgia
House lathe Greeley House, and shortly afterwards it was
struck by lightning. The hotel was immediately repaired,
on the principle Mat lightning seldom strikes twice hi the
same place.
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The prospects of the harvest in Austria are, accord-
ing to the last 'accounts, tolerably good In Weetern Austria
the crops have not suffered from the recent rains, while in
Hungary the extraordinary drynerw cf the spring, which it
was feared might produce disastrous consermences, has been
followed by au abundant rainfall which has restored every-
thing to its normal condition, and there is now every pros-
pect of au abundant harvest of corn and maize.

The thirteenth annual prize meeting of the National
Rifle Association began on Monday morning on Wimbledon-
GOllllllO% with every promise of being tVcll more successful
than any of the most successful meetings of preceding years.
Looked at In every light, there is reason for believing that
the Association Ii luAlflhiog Its functions, and OA a natural
consequence la becoming more popular, more truly national
every year.

Mr. Brace was present at Saturday's sitting of the
International Prison Congress. Remarking upon the de-
crease which of late years had taken place in all claases of
crime, the right Lou. gentleman compared the ailian.
Wes of the deterrent 'with those of reformatory system,
and spoke highly of the efforts of the Discharged Prison... 6'
Aid Society, and of 6iruilar orgaDiZ Ationls. He heartily
thank, d the delegates Pr their contrViuticns to these
.153i0116, and took GClUei,lito deny that the Uovernment wea
nidderent to the labours of the Congress.
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