The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1868-02-22 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

SATURDAY, FRB. 22, 1868  Mr. John Abel Smith has fixed the second reading of hiv bill for stopping( the amniay liquor traffic on the list for Wodneedat , the 18th of March. There has been a borough brrati fund raised at Poole, In Doreetahire, for the relief of the poor In that town. It has furnished 4,000 fourpenny loaves during the last Ma weeks.  Brigham Young has announced to the "Saints" that the spirit of Cod has instructed him to order them to leave off drinking tea and coffee. The military court of Vienna has just given juilg. meet in the affair of General Baron Koudelka, accused., frauds on the state during the war of ISCst Ile has been sentenced to four years' imprisomnent and the loss of his military rank and title, of nobility. The building of the Paris Exhibition in the Champ to Mars has beeneoldi for 1,010,000 f. It cost, and was worth, 11,000,0001 • Three outline have been dug up near 'Weymouth Illicit with human I.oncs. The collois were of oak, their position was due north :mil south, after the manner a the axon period. The Turkish Army, according to the last official re. ports, W 118170,376 men when on a war footing and 148,660 men when on a peat* footing. An aeronaut went tip from the city of Mexico, ors Christmas morning, ii. a hobair hallow lie struck a colts current, which chiiltr,l Isis apparatus and sent him down rapidly, and broke his bitter A few days since two young greyhounds, while cluoing a hare :it Kimeridge, ill the Isle of Purbeck, fell over a cliff several hundred feet in height and were killed. A negro who had outraged an Irish girl, aged fifteen years, and then thrown her over all enibankment. badly injure]. her, has bees taken front the gaol In Franktort, Kentucky, and hanged by an infuriated mob Tlw 7,llaine Liquor Law has been repealed by the new Massachusetts Senate by 21 to IS Patriek Lemon, who was convicted of treason-felony at the Detain Amines, has been eentenced Pt fifteen years' penal servitude. in, sentence being Prim. ........ he ...lel Willson with the expectation that the English government of Deltoid would be upset before that period had expired, and avowed that if he was set free he would agaiuJoin the Fettle,. conspiracy. " 10.1 progress towar.ls reciivti y has loon made by tier Royal Dig/mem the Princess of Wales during her unlit to Sandringham, which has extended to three months. The !Tim.. is now able to walk without the aid of a stick, and tutor obsivver would fail to perceive any remaining lameness "—The Uwe, Its stated that the MUM to be paid for the dispensaMin asked from the Pope M. the occasion if the marriage of Prince Humbert with Ida cousin the Princeas Marguerite, will be 100,000 th According to a parliamentary mturii the number of licences taken out in the l'iliteil Kingdnin for the financial year lee:A:6, by dealers in spline, wine, maltaters, brewers, publicans, beershop.keepem, and other retailers of beer was 340,000. The artillery iitores in 1 trecht have been reduced to ashes. The tom is estimated at thiti,oou threw). Au inland revenue return which has just been issued shows that in the financial year leen-67 no less than 136,!i7i,015 penny stamps were supplied to the public truce on receipts, eraughts, mid other dociunente other than letters) requiring a penny stamp. A paper gives a memoir of Mary Widatoneeralt, wife of ...Dein arid mother of Mrs. Shelley, with a portrait "•froni a photograph." As the strong-minded lady died in 179 n, how on earth did the ingenious photographic artist obtain a sitting Y " 0,1 414 that a distinguished clergyman sTint is aletet to visit the United State) is diagusted with the British laws relative to marriage with • du,eased wife's Oder, and that he will remain across the Atlantic in hopes of better timm. —Court Journal. The Roman Catholic journal, the Gla.tyine Frtc , has succumbed to the sentence of the sacred congregation Its publication I. to cease after this week, be the pro prietors mean to start in its place anew journal to be culled the 1,1.0 Patriot. A man has been arrested at Mona for forging shams , of the Orleans Company to the vale, of Zeat.ooof They were . placed with a notary of Brussel., who innocently ilispiated of timular of the forged (Mennen:l ill the usual way of busitient It appears that the suicides in the army of Saxony are increasing to a moat Warming extent. Ni, special cause has been elicited for this terrible pheremenon, save the fact that midi!. 'seem to be on the increase throughout all classes of society. France has again purchased &large number of hones In Hungary It is said that no lees than 25,000 will be i successively despatched from Pesth to Strasburg. A Maharatee Brahniin is now labouring as a catechist id' the Church mission at Cawnpme. Among the persons baptised are numbered two ladies of the Delhi Ibiyal 1 Family. ° The ruling intellects of the city of Cork decline to admit the II ilitalinst, &viola to their principal library, because it had an article lately on polygamy in Turkey. ° One of the artillery soldiers, named Hickey, who was in charge of the martello tower in Cork Harbour when the Fenian party attacked It in December, has been tried by court-martial, coilvicted of disobedience to orders and neglect - of duty, and sentenced to eighty-four dapC imprisonment - with hard labour. " Here is the sensational canard of the day—War with Prussia certain—an army to he marched ilAirosii the 1 , Rhine whilst a squadron will land a force at the mouth, of t the Elbe. The date for this expedition is not stated. but. there can ben,, mistake in lining it Inc the Ist of April"— Paris correspondent of the London Standard.