The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-28 00:00:00

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Great religious . Lausanne,
Switzerland, shortly.
The National Education League has resolved to
raise a fund of not lob then flihtMO to carry out Its objects.
Snow fell in Sheffield on Saturday, the 21et of Sep.
tember. There was a thunderstorm MB no lightning.
Mr. Spurgeon was taken suddenly ill at the annual
meeting of the stoetwen Orphanage am Wednesday.
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It has been resolved to keep the International Exhibi-
tion open till Sattird ay, October Is.
An "Insect Show" is to be held in l'wris in
October. _ _

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There is serious talk of the omanimation of a Metro-
politan Peat Company, to brins pests from the Irish bogs as
a substitute for the present high-prieeal coals.

Some of the colliery firm; near Sheffield gave notice
that they a ill, on and alter Oct. I, reduce the price of engine
coals 3s. pnr ton. _ . .

Mot Inane has been suelessfully ascended by three
English young ladies, aged respectively Sweets. one, seven.
teen, and fourteen. .

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The Slei.Sllio says that tie work upon the St.
Gothard tunnel is IN In, ',wheal lot wOOl with great energy.
The workmen on both *Saes use mid to have cut more than
100 feet into the rock.
Willie impri•kunment for debt ban been abolished in
Great Britain it still remains in furcain the Chsxml Islands,
though a lull to effect a partlai change him been referred to
a c..mtuittee of the Jersey states.

Berijie
is evidently on the verge nf more great strikes.
The owners of one of the largest machine works in that
tan have broken off all negotiations with their men, who
have neinimelcd an increase of 182-3 per cent, on their
wage.

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The Northamptonshire Mutual Cattle Assurance
Association on Saturday deterplioed,..,naccount of the cattle
plague haring again enteric tte country, to petition the
magistrates of the county to close all markets and fairs, ex-
cept for fat stock intended f ,r immediate slaughter.
The Irish Civil Service Commission, which will begin
Its sittifigs in October. will MI composed of lord tlonck,
Major O'Reilly, M P., Mr. Blackwood, of the Treuury, and
Mr. Horace A. D. Se occur, also of the Treasury.

Among the odd people who are amusing us with
their striking are the pipe.makers. No more lopes, they
said, except under an increase id 25 per cent. Masters
ofT.,ed 17.4 per cent, men resisted ; finally felt their own
pipe iiinte put nut, and accepted 121 percent.
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The people of Belfast, having now been partially re-
stored to a calm state of mind, have the pleasant prospect of
caloulating what they will have to pay as "consequential
damages- resulting frrin the riots. The "little 101 l ii
stated to amount to about £14.000.
A curious instance of " ramming " took place at
Berlin on the meeting of the Czar and the Emperor of Gee
many. A piece of paper fell, and both, hi their eagerness
not to let the other pick it up, stooped and rammed each
other with the points of their helmets. The courtiers, of
course, intend to adopt this as a new mode of salutation.

The Echo de l'Est relates that a man named Tronalawl,
of Malanconrt, Meuse, being In the meadows of that com-
mune three dAys back, perceived a wolf advancing upon hint
evidently with a savage intent Being armed with a sickle,
he went to meet the animal, and, after a conflict of nearly
ten minutes, succeeded in killing it.
The following is a copy 8f a notice served by a milk-
seller slab his nustoniera Sir—As the provisions of the
Act paseed and u w in force for the aJulteratioa of food in-
flicts a penalty of £2O on persons selling alulterated or
watered milk. I give ton notice that the milk supplied by
me on and after the Ind of September will be charged 24d. per
quart." The admission conveyed is candid at least.
The Emperor of Germany has cohferred the Order
of the Iron Uross on Mrs. Alsagar, a lady well known through
her connection with the hospital. of Saarbrlickeu during the
Franco-lfrussian war. Her unwearied exertions on behalf of
the sick and wounded had already bees reoognized by a
number of medical officers stationed in that town, who, on
the conclusion of peace, presented her with a handsome
bracelet.

Coal in Ireland ! The report seems almost too good
to be true, yet it is made circumstantially, and on what
seems to be suffbient authority. An immense coal-bed has,
it is said, been discovered two miles from Waterford. The
seam is declared to run ten feet thick, and it lies so near to
the River Muir that the carriage of the mineral will be •
matter of sue.
The Burgomaster of Brussels, in receiving the
British Volunteers visiting Belgium, made a speech in which
be said that they would again meet with the cordial recep-
tion due to the citizens of a great and free people, whose
Influence and prosperity were closely connected with the
peaceful institutions which Belgium had won for herself. lu
reply, Mr. Gourley, M.P., expressed the thanks of the
Volunteers for the reception itee,•rded to them, rho foreign
riflemen were afterwards received by the King.
A supplement to the Lowimi Gautte of Friday, the
20th S,ptember, was lecued on Tuesday night. It consists
of 340 pages, and contains the protocol of the proceedings of
the Geneva Court of Arbitration at the sitting of the 14th of
September ; the decision of the Arbitrators; and the reasons
of Lord Chief Justice Cockburn for dissenting from that
decision. The reasons occupy no fewer than 293 pages.

According to the return of the Regi.trar General,
the mean Luiperatore of the air at the Royal Observatory.
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iiiee;;;lai, -which during the 16 days ending Tuesday, I:th,
had averaged 03.2 demi., or 5.6 degs, shove the avenge, de-
clined raptly a.ter that day, and howed an incr,siing
deficiency on each of the last four days of the week; on
Saturday the mean was only 4. 4 dep., or 104 degs. heir w
the average, arid Corresponded with the usUal temperature
at the beginning of November.

Last Saturday morning a man about thirty yars of
age was found lying on the turnpike road, about two miles
from Ayr, in an exhausted state from loss of blood. Ile died
about half.an hour afterwards. A post-mortem examination
of the body showed that he had been stabbed through the
heart Deceased, who was an engineer, had been attending
Ayr races on the previous day, and it Is sUppored he had gut
into a drunken quarrel.

"There are at this time four chemical laboratories
in Japan, where the science to taught, three of them being
presided over by Germans, and the fourth by an American.
The chief one is at Osaka, where there are nearly 100 stu-
dents. The lest are at tinge, nindziika, and Fukuwl. A filth
wi.l soon be opt ned at Jedio. The students an said to be
fain) hitelligent, but their minds treat present encumbered
with astrology and other kindu of spurious philosophy."
—Nature.

A New York mercantile house held an =settled
claim of long standing agAinst a lame duck "out hero;" and
hearing he was becoming 'well-to-do,'' sent their claim on
to a Western lawyer to collect. In due time they received
his reply :—" tients, you win never get any spondulick from
Bill Johnson. The undersigned celled upon him yesterday,
and found him with nary tilt (ne'er a hat, it is prcsumed, the
learned lawyer meant), his feet upon the naked earth, and
not clothes enough upon him to sad a gun. lle was whistling
Mid so may )ou."

During the week ending Saturday last 5,205 births
and 3,291 deaths were re gidered in London and twenty
other large cities and towns of the United Kingdom. The
me rtality from all causes in these towns was at the rate td
deaths annually to every 1 000 p.rione estimated to be living.
lathe metropolis 2,259 births and 1,100 deaths were regis-
tered, the former having been eight ab ye, anti the latter
202 below, the average. Five persons died from small-pox,
10 from measles, 12 from scarlet fever, 5 from diphtheria,
31 from whooping-cougn, 30 from different kinds of fever,
and 95 from diarrlicea The fatal cases of each of these
xymotic diseases were below the corrected average numbers
in the corresponding week of the last ten years.
On Saturday evening a serious accident occurred at
a shooting gallery in Birmingham. On the day In question
a shooting gallery was erected on apiece of waste ground
stljoking the street, anti, as some Mos were standing at the
back, a bullet pasted through and wounded one of the lads,
named David Holloway, in the neck The unfortunate boy
was conveyed with all speed to the General Hospital. it
WM found that the bullet had parsed through the li,ck of the
neck and was lodged in the throat, and the houso surgeon
was compelled to cut the throat in order to get at the bullet.
The critical operation was successfully perforated, and the
bullet was extracted. Hopes are entertained of the lad'e re-
covery.