The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-08-07 00:00:00

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ew York City this year, it i estimated, will con.
a e 6,000,000 baskets of peaches.
ollections on.behalf of the Hospital Saturday Fund
were made throughout the metropolis on the 31st ult. It is
expected that the total amount will be considerably in ex-
cep; of that realieed last year
The celebration of the Fourth of July costs Boston
10,000 do's.
The friends of Bowdoin„College are making great
efforts to raise 10,000 dols. for the establishment of a Long- .
fellow Professership in honour of the poet.
'ile whaling vessel Hope, of I),taheskl, has arrived
aMerwick, from the Greenland seal and whale fishing,
bringing 170 tens of oil. _ _ _

ilhe petition ot "Viscount Molesworth., elairainz a
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at trl,sorx aetntrehefeerlreav gersz rrer CIA
ii' peers
consider
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and report thereupon to the lionse of Lords.
he Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges in
The Times, under the head of "Conscience Kiney,.. the
receipt of the second halves of notes for £lO from T. T. 0.,
slot a note for £lO from W. 8... P. : of its. in stamps from
3-. • ; and of a£s note from C. N., for Income Tax.
Sir Edward Watkin sailed on Saturday from Liver-
pool, in the Canard steamer Abyssinia, for New York, on his
mission to the United States on behalf of the Erie Railway
shareholders. '
Marquis de Ponson d'Allegne, the last representa-
tive of one of the oldest families of France, has just died,
aged 102.
The average personal wellth throughout the whole
United States, including the Territories, is 775 dole.
On Wednesday morning Messrs. Moody and Sankey '
sailed for New York, in the mail steamer Spain, from the
Mersey. Their departure was witnessed by an assemblage
of over a thousand people, who cheered both gentlemen very
heartily.
The emigration return at Liverpool for the month
of July shows a decrease of 2,500 as compared with the
corresponding month of last year. The decrease during the
past seven months is nearly 16,000. , •
A copy of a letter to the Board of Trade appears in
a Parliamentary document just issued, addressed by the
Town Council of Deal and the Local Board of Weimer, corn-
plaiping of the burden thrown on the localities of maintain-
ing convict seamen committed under the Merchant-Shipping
Act, 1854. Last year in men were committed, and the
expense was £4OO to £5OO, while for other offences only 38
were committed.
The University of California has organised a sum-
mer exploring party, which will be occupied about nine weeks
in journeying through the Sierra Nevada Mountains in
Mariposa, Mono, and Lnyo counties, and will bestow parti-
cular attention to geology, paheontology, and mineralogy.
The party will be in charge of Dr. Joseph Le Conte, assisted
by Mr. Henry Edwards, Mr. F. P. 31`Lean, and Mr. F.
Slate.
The manufactures of San Francisco, not including -
gold and silver relined, have increased from 52,603,475 dohs
in 1870, to 67,333,930 dole. in 1874, an increase of nearly 25
per cent. in four years.
A gambler in lowa, U.S., to escape arrest, attempted
to cross a river with a pocketsbook between his teeth. His
strength or skill not proving adequate, he was obliged to open
his mouth in order to call help, and his poket-book, contain- '
ing 1,000 dols., went to the bottom.
The velocipede has been adopted by the Italian
army, and is now used for the carrying of despatches from
the various corps to general head-quarters. They go at the
rate of twenty miles an hour, and thus save a great deal of
horseflesh. The innovation has turned out so useful that
each corps will be provided with velocipedes for its couriers.
An outbreak has occurred in the prison of Turin.
Th a prisoners concerned in it were armed, and woundedstwo
of the warders. The military were called in and had to fire
upon the rioters in order to restore order.
The South-Eastern Railway Company have for-
warded to the French authorities for the benefit of the
sufferers by the innundations in the South of France, the
sum of 12,500 f., being the amount realised by the excursion tl
train from London to Boulogne and back on the 19th of July
last. .:,6e
There has been discovered in San Francisco an insect ,
which is believed to be a species of the cochineal. It has
been described by the San Francisco Microscopical Society ,
as a specimen which may be of possible commercial value as
a producer of "dye." The insect is also thought to be new snY
to science.
A most singular accident occurred at Mt. Joy, Ohio,
lately. A young lady and gentleman were amusing them-
selves with a pair of scissors, when the young man threat- .
ened to cut her nose of, thinking, of course, that she would
draw her head back when he would snap the scissors at her,
but she wasn't to be scared or dared, and stood her ground,
and the consequence was that he cut the end of her nose
almost off. A doctor fastened the nose on again, and thinks
it will grow fast.
In Texas, the Legislature, at its last session, passed butt
a license law, for all trades or occupations, and makes it a lit
penal offence for any one to pursue any occupation, calling ,as
or profession, without having first obtained a license The ...-••
object of the law is partly for the public protection and '4
Partly to raise a revenue. at
By cutting a truss of bay into chaff every blade of
..as
will be consumed, and it will be found that three-quarters
of a pound of cut hay will go as far as one pound of uncut
hay in the daily ratiens of a horse.
It has been decided at a meeting held at Aldershot,
under the presidency of General Sir Thomas Steele, to erect
a tablet in All Saints Church, Aldershot, and to purchase a
presentation to the Soldiers' Daughters' Home at Hampstead,
in memory of the late Sir James Hope Grant.
A meeting has been held at Calcutta on the subject
of the visit of the Prince of Wales to India, at which resolu-
tions were passed inviting public subscriptions for expenses
connected with the reception. The meeting was attended by
both natives and Europeans.
The Russian World announces the formation in St.
Petersburg .
of a society of ladies who have renounced the use
of silk dresses and every other kind of expensive attire, in
order to employ the money so saved in the education of poor
orphans.
There was unusually good herring fishing last
week off Berwick, both the quantity and the quality of the
fish being exceptionally good for the season of the year. f. T
Owing to this success prices fell considerably, and ranged 11
from 17s. to 40s. per cran. The highest take was 30 crans,
and the highest average ten crans. The fishing showed a
great falling off on Friday, and owing to stormy weather, no • 'l'd"
fishing was reported on Saturday. : Milli
dull
The third International Corn and Seed Show will
be held at Vienna on the 23rd and 24th inst. Reports will be
read on the harvest in Austria, Hungary, Prussia, Saxony,
Bavaria, Wurtemberg, Baden, France, Italy, England, "Will
Roumania, and Russia. On the 24th, samples will -be 'se s.'i
exhibited of this year's grain from the various countries in :els
Europe. A report on the results of the show will afterwards A
be drawn up, and a copy sent to every visitor. • r
The United States Government lent the City of !,.tus
Boston 4,000 flags for the celebration of the 17th of June, -
and they were distributed among responsible persons ,k)
wturabiutt
mit as w
throughout the city for the purposes of decoration. Their ,
value was about 100,000 dols., and upon
ascertained that the aggregate less by
thteliireinsere as
dols.
A meeting was held in Washington recently for the
' purpose of taking measures towards establishing a weekly
journal in that city, to be managed exclusively by coloured
men, and devoted to the interests of coloured people.
A quilt made at West Point, Ga., contains 21,963
pieces. r '
Journalistic statistics recently published show, that - 3
during the past year the sum of 8,000,000 dols. was ex-
pended in newspaper enterprises in the United States.
The flora of the Black Hills afford a fine field for ,ri 1
the botanist (says an American paper). Here may be found ' I
growing together plants common to the Mississippi Valley
intermixed with those peculiar to the Rocky Mountains.
The May apple, poison ivy, wild pink rose, white birch, oak,
and elm are all found.
A young woman, near Port Jervis, U.S., has been ,
burned to death. She was subject to epileptic fits, and *
while descending the stairs with a lighted lamp was seized ,tat
with one and felL The lamp exploded and covered her with auT
oil. No one was in the house. Her screams attracted the
attention of neighbours, but before assistance reached her
she was fatally burned.
The largest library in the United States is the .....-
library of Congress, which contains 274,000 volumes; next •
in order is the Boston Public Library, with 273,CG0 ; whilst
the Harvard University Library, with 198,000 and the New
York Mercautlle Library with 155,120, are respectively third
and fourth in point of size.
A moor fire recently broke out near Ochta, Russia,
and at one time threatened to involve a neighbouring powder
magazine, but the danger was averted by local military .
energy.
A gentleman named Pigott, an extensive Dublin
merchant, was drowned while bathing on Sunday morning at -
Sandy Cove, near Kingstown. He also took down with him (yr
a gentleman who plunged in to rescue him A third gentle-
man went in and brought both to the surface, but life was .
extinct in Mr. Pigott, the second gentleman, who had not _,„.
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divested himself of his clothes, recovered. , acts
Mr. James Saunders writes to The Times, from St. _.. _
Paul's Close, Clapham :—" Perhaps it may interest some of 7:
your ornithological readers to know that on the 30th inst ,
while driving from Bradley towards Preston, Hants, my at
tention was called to a large flock of fleldfares (apparently in ..
great excitement), and. I also observed a few between Brad- , ja
ley and Alton. As these birds seldom arrive in this county •ks
before the middle of October, it is remarkable to find them sisses
arriving so early; probably they have been driven from their -
summer haunts in the northern and eastern parts of Europe
by an unusual state of the weather in these districts.
A Times' telegram says that during the last week in ..;
July heavy rains prevailed in the Ohio and Missouri valleyi mien.
with serious injury to the wheat and corn. The streams were
rising in Kentucky, Southern Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and ,
Missouri, and some of them overflowed their banks, and the ' won
rain was still falling.
California is one of those happy States that have no '4"4111
debt to speak of. All the money which it owes to creditors • sI us
other than itself is 733,000 dols., and "The San Francisco . 's
Bulletin" says that if a system of rigid economy should be
set on foot California might be, before the close of the next
four years, not only " comparatively the wealthiest, but the
most prosperous State in the American Union." The debt
was once more than 3,000,000 dols., whirls, it is claimed, was ssaiii
illegally contracted, but was, notwithstanding, assumed by ~.imiri
the people. sair
According to the quarterly return of the Registrar ,i a
General, in the United Kingdom the births of 284,256 children
and the deaths of 175,689 persons of both sexes, were regis- ~. •
tered in the three months ending the 30th Julie. The
natural recorded increase of population was thus 108,667.
The registered number of persons married in the quarter -'7•*",
ending on the 31st March was 114,253. The resident popula- 1 sitna
tion of the United Kingdom in the middle of 1875 is estimated ; • 1141
at 32,737,405. .4;4114
A deputation from the Aborigines' Protection Society . Aci =it
on Tuesday called Lord Salisbury's attention to the disci!). osS Jia 1
sures made in the report of the Royal Commissiouers to the • ss,,,
Mauritius respecting the treatment of the Indian labourers stss •
in that colony. Amongst those who addressed his lordship ttapst
were Lord Stanley of Alderley, Sir G. Campbell, 31. P., Sir ~9 ~..,
C. Wingfield; the Hon. A. .Kiimaird, M.P., and 31r. E. ,
Jenkins, M.P. • anted
At the Manchester assizes on Monday, before Mr.
Justice Archibald and a special jury, Mr. Frank Farrant, a ~., _.
woolstapler and commission agent, residing at Rochdale, , r'":
sued the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company for Vigml
compensation for personal injuries on the 18th August, 1874. •I rollke •
The plaintiff was maimed in a collision on the defendant's
railway at Eastwood, near Todmorden, and owing to the
shock was incapacitated from business for seven months.
The defendants did not dispute their liability, and the jury
assessed the damages at £250.
The War Office are making arrangements for the
encampment of 5,000 men and 1,000 horses in the autumn at
Lewes. The water company have guaranteed to lay pipes and
supply the necessary water. The ground has been visited
and approved by the authorities. AS - •,
President 'White, of Cornell University, did not :grsoslit
stand upon his dignity when he heard of the second victory 0,,,..„_•
of the Cornell crew. The Attburn Advert ser says "he was
taking dinner when he received the despatch announcing
the result, and became so excited that he rushed from the
table, headed for the University, and arriving e
pulled there and
finding the doors locked kicked them in and made for the -•-lt•tea
ringing apparatus of the chimes, which h
vigorously as to disarrange the machinery, ceasing con-
ringing
erable delay before it could be adjusted and the
proceeded with." ,
, . . .
Galignani Istktes that a' fa ARA-dent ins. recen— iii
happened on one of the passes near Monte Rosa. After a 6
period of storms, clear weather set in, and three separate
parties of tourists with their guides met on the highest point
toof
enjoy eTrsihrtejospchle,nwdhiderevitehw of they lunched
pea
ktsog
cetohveerreadnwdiltihngsenroewd
freshly fallen. One of the guides, named Antilles wished to
return to his home, and joined the party which descended
towards towards Zirval. lie was not attached to the others b
immenses
hn
they
yw onlyan and he
afhovetti
onfedell
hisi, riortmem arockins comradest o
horribly r
hastenedo ck tmoatnthgool
mangled,
s bottomwr ehaic,,uhoofw,
and when half way down his foot slipped on theymeignei
buteathee
eventually removed to Zermatt. Antille was inneh esteemed
as a guide, and had married only two months ago.

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