The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1871-04-01 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

GREAT CURIOBITY.—SiIver Spring, Florida (says an Amei ican paper) is one of the grestest curiosities in the South. It bursts forth in the midst of the toast fertile country in the state. It bubbled up in a basin near one hundred feet deep and about an ac:e in extent, and sending from it a deep stream sixty to one hundred feet wide, and extending six to eight miles to the Ocklawaha River. In the spring itself fifty boats may lie at anchor—quite a fleet. The spring thus forms a natural inland port, to which three steamers now run regularly from the St. John's, making close connection s ith the ocean steamers at Palatke. The clearness of the water is truly wonderful. It seems even more transparent than air; you see tbe bottom eighty feet below the b.ittom of your boat, the exact form of the smallest pebble, the outline and colour of the leaf that has sunk, and all the prismatic colours of the rainbow are reflected. Large tieh swim in it every scale visible, and every movement distinctly seen. If you go over the spring in a boat you will see the fissures in the rocks, from which the river pours upward like an inverted c iteract.  NuW AND THNN !—A Corre,pundent of the Dodd, Telegraph indulges in the following rc fl ,ctions : Passing onwards, we traversed the Place du TrOne, where this year there are not yet, nor will there be, preparations for the celebrated .• Noire ens Patna tilipices." Twelve months since I went, according to annual custom, to the Ginger-bread Fair. At that time there was no thought of war, and everybody was happy. SaitietbaMpeB tumbled ; strong men lift,it weights weedy wrestlers odered to throw all comers tia they hod thrown Initiallers in London a few weeks previously amidst deafening din, children and babies of larger growta whirled en r mudabonta ; fortunetellers earned silver fortunes; Troppmann could be seen committing his murders, through the medium of gigantic bull's-eyes; and I paid two eons for a look at waxwork portraits of ...Monsieur Joseph and Madame Fottphar," as the 'Mtwara' informed me. Feria was then in a flood of enjoy. ment Within a few short months the vaunted armies of the Empire have crumbled, and lu Parts anarchy reigns •upremo. _  Voan RNMEMBFRDG !—The Rev. Profo.sxor Jowikt, Mailer of Calliol College, Oxford, preached on Sunday evening at St. Luke's Church, Btrwick• street, Loudon, on behtlf of the parochial achools. He maintained that they could not form any safe judz,meut of nations or men from their fortunes. It could not be said because a nation had been defeated, that it was meant as a punishment any more than because an army had been victorious it wat a special favourite of God. It was utterly wrong to bring the name of God ioto relation with the weapons of war, for it could be His only desire that the quarrel, of His people ahould be reconciled. Looking to the state of affairs abroad, it would be well for Englishmen not to forget the,r own uolitical Inc %pacity—their own great moral and social evils. They had allowed generations to grow up in vice and ignorance, while they were die. cussing ipiestion. of religious controversy. Who could look without dismay upon the pitiable condition of the maeses in our large towas I It was to be feared, too, in conscquence of the way in which it was taught, that religion was hieing its hold upon the polite.  - TEE SADDLE 014 Til E TZ 10111. —