The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1884-03-01 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

POI- emmple,, resulted as follows: Oatfle shipped, 2335; landed in good condition, 2331; t..e loss being- only about ono in 600. In the London Gazette of Feb. 9ncl, notice is-givert that by-section 106 of the Pttent, Designs, and TradeMarks-Ad, 1883 (46 and 4T Victoria, <sap. 57), a. penalty of £2O is incurred by any persons who, with.out proper authority, assume the Royal Ikuns with a. view. to lead other persons to believe that they &reemployed under any ilepartment of. her. Majestle, Household.  It has been decided at She .:eld to ereot & building in Weston-park, at a cost of notless than £1'5,000, to accommodate the collection of paintings, value. £BO,OOO, recently left to the town by the Tate MrMappin, of Birchlands. The Ihnlding will' be erected so as to admit of extension, with a- view to, other bequests.  In London, on Saturday, at Police— court, Lilian Murray, Ovington-gardens, was remanded on, the charge of murderouslr assaulting Edward Lyons, a broker's man, by beating him with a poker. It appeared that both the prosecutor and the prisoner were under the influence of drimk at the dine.  Mr. Gladstone, in response to the request of the Bangor Liberal Club for a piece of timber to be utilised in. framing his portrait, has forwarded a portion of slime tree which he felled in Hawardenpark. The son of a Congleton farmer named' Hodkinson has committed suicide on the North Staffordshire Railway, by placing his neck on one of the rails ii front of a train. His head was cut ofFand carried a zonsiderablo distance from the body. The Novoe Vremya publishes intelligence from Tashkend, stating that a number of tribes from the neutral territory. between Russian territory and Afghanistan have soliated the protectorate of Russia: The King of the Belgians, on granting his patronage to the Antwerp Exhibition, promised some exhibits from the Congo. Fever is reported to prevail in Southern ;irtai,a.. The number of victims is said to be ali.eady many thousands.  ------- . The report is again current—and this time-, iL believed, on good authority—that Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes intends to visit England shortly. He is novr at work upon a catalogue of his correspondence and miscellaneous papers. The original MS. of Anthony Trollepe's "Orley Farm" has been purchased by Messrs. Scribner and Welford, of New York. It consists of about 1200pages of note-paper, closely written on both sides, tn a free running hand, with few corzeations or inter-. lineations.  The profits accruing from the sale of the English edition of "The Letters of the Princess Alice," will, it is stated, be set aside by the Princess Christian for the endowment of the Princess Alice Memorial Hospital in Darmstadt. During the year 1883 there were 89,526 persons in Ireland proceeded against summarily for being drunk, ar drunk and disorderly. Of this number 26,022belonged, to Leinster, 25,848 to Munster, 26,919 to Ulster, and 10,737 to Connaught. Leon Farrell, who gave evidence in the recent charge against two men, named Woolf and Bondurand, on the charge of being in the possession of explosives for unlawful purposes, is now in custody in London on a warrant charging him with having committed perjury in his evidence given in the above case. The charge is preferred by William Woolf. An address has been sent by the Working Men's Lord's Day Rest Association, to trades unions throughout the country calling attention to the increase of Sunday labour. It concludes by an appeal to the trades unionists of the country to resist the proposals._ to open museums, galleries, and places of amusement on Sundays, as such opening cannot possibly be carried out without bringing into operation a great iriereaso of Sunday labour and depriving many working men of their day of rest. The sudden death is announced of M. Auguste BoAhcia, brother of Rows lionheur, hi/near a very eminent animal painter. He died from heart disease in a railway train near Bellevue, aged 60. Direct telephonic communication has been successfully established between the Carlton Club and the House of Commons. It has been stated that Messrs. E. De Mattes and Co., of London, have purchased the Great Eastern steamer with the intention of converting her into a coal hulk, to be at Gibraltar. The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs has granted permission to secure her near the Rock.  Four of the crew of the ship Santa Rosa, of Liverpool, from Glasgow for Valparaiso with general cargo, were drowned under the following circumstances: The Santa Rosa left Glasgow on the 7th, and on the following day, while engaged securing the anchor, the chief officer fell overboard and was drowned. On the 16th, during a terrific gale off the Irish coast, three men were washed overboard and the decks of the vessel were swept by the seas. The arrivals of live stock and fresh meat at 'Liverpool during last week from American and Canadian ports amounted to 1040 cattle, 1422 sheep, 2466 quarters of beef, 519 carcases of mutton, and 50 hogs, which show an increase in the imports of live stock, but a further falling off in fresh beef when compared with previous week's arrival. The conveying steamers were five in number. mw uhrod Cincinnati,erhead s abhneaoestnhera r confessedirleestgr od and da t his oe wn di andfael ea,nan da )elice o as tic ebAou rmibn adopted daughter in order to sell their bodies to the Medical College, for each of which they received 15 dols. The affair occurred last week. No blame in the matter is attributable to the college authorities. The additions to the Zoological Society's Gardens, Regent's Park, London, during last week included a. Macaque monkey, from India, presented by Miss Furniss ; two common roe, from Dorsctshire, presented by Messrs. Charles Hambro and J. C. Mansel Pleydell; a Passerine owl, European,Tresented by Mr. G. R. Lake; a naked-necked iguana, a banded basilisk, from Nicaragua, presented by Mr. Albert Vidler ; two prairie iparmote, from North America, a Shaw's gerille, from North Africa, a military macaw, from South America, two Iceland falcons, from Sweden, deposited ; a red-eared monkey, from Fernando Po, two slow loris, from the Malay Countries, a red-eyed ground finch, from South America, an eyebrowed weaver bird, from West Africa four Asiatic quails. from India. nurchaserl. , _ _