The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1869-07-31 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.  On Tuesday morning a boy, fourteen years of age, who resided at Hendon, near London, quarrelled with his father, a tradesman of that place, and in a lit of passion went and hanged himself. The bridal dress for the Princess Louise of Sweden is being mule in Paris. It is to cost 22,000 francs, and will be of white tulle embroidered with silver. It is stated that the eldest son of the Viceroy of Egypt will commence a course of study at Oxford University, as a member of Christ Church, in Oetober term, and that his 11 ighness will occupy a house at Os'ord during hie three years of residence, and will he accompanied by a suite, in the same mailer as the Prince of Wales in 1859 Near Fostoria, Ohio, lives a gentleman aged 106 years by his own account. lie has a son aged about 85 years, and another aged about six months. He married his present wife about nine years ago, and now gives as his reason for taking a young wife that he thought he might get old some time and need to be taken care of. A kind physician in the vicinity, wishing to smooth the last hours of a poor woman whom he was attending, asked her if there was anything that lie could do for her before she died The poor soul, looking up, replied : "Doctor, I have always thought that I should like to have a glass butter dish before 1 died :"—Loston Traveller The Great Eastern, under the command of Captain Halpin, arrived at Sheerness on Monday, and is now anchored in the Medway. Immediate steps will be taken for placing on board the Anglo-Indian cable, which is to be laid between Aden and Bombay, a large portion of which is now completed by the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company. A distinguished Russian lady, after a short effort at the roulette table at Baden, last week, carried away 62,000 francs ,L 2,480. On Monday, the foundation stone of a new church to be erected by the Earl of Carnarvon, near his seat at Highclerc was laid by the Countess of Carnarvon. An experiment on the growth of tea in Ceylon has turned out very successful. The local papers anticipate a day when the s hole of the higher slopes of the Newer. I Effia range shall be converted lets gardens The report of the Select Committee on the Con- I tagious Diseases Act has been published, and the question of extending the Act to the whole population is stated to be so grave as to require postponement to another session. For military and naval stations, its operation is pronounced most effectual and beneficial to public health anti morals. The New York Tribune has published, under the head "The Poor Men of New York,' the names of seventy-three Well-known persons, who make no return to the income tax, scare assessed at very trifling sums. Among these is Mr. W. C. Bryant, but it appears that it is not the poet (as was supposed', who fails to contribute to the support of Ci..vernmost. Three other persons have challenged the correctness of the statemeots, and the Tribune congratulates itself On having heard nothing from the other sixty-nine. A conference of Reformers, representing the towns and villages in the Northern Counties, is to be held at Newcastle on an early day, to organise a series of great demonstrations in favour of the Government, and to elicit an expression of public opinion as to the position of the House of Lords lusts antagonism to all Liberal measures. A man in Adair county, lowa, has invented a cannon which he believes will sends ball fourteen miles (says the New I^ork !Jerald ) The peculiarity is in the ball itself, which is in seven sections with sin fuses. The powder of the cannon sends the ball hnnuning two miles from the muzzle, lighting fuse No. 1, which burns to the powder in the ball in the time the ball travels two miles, when an explosion takes place which sends the hall two miles lurthee, where fuse No. 2 does Its duty, and propels the ball two miles further, and an on to the end of the fuses and the fourteen miles. General Garibaldi writes to a correspondent in London that he does not intend to come to England at present Consequently the announcement made in some daily papers is incorrect. A well-knowu resident of Newark (N.J.) is about Issuing in tract form a most remarkable document (says the New Fork Tribwie). The idea is that a day shall be set apart by Christians of every denomination when prayer shall be offered that at certain day and hour the Lord shall set a sign in the heavens whereby Infidels mac know that the Bible is the Word of God. The tracts are to find their way all over the country, and will probably excite a considerable degree MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE of public attention. IN