The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1872-06-08 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

OCC.CeOII. it will be blown by nitro. . . . . gly twine. •  The grand Idea of fashionable art lately seems to be t.) pick out of polite London life any where some sceLe or group which in itself would he absolutely uninteresting to any unconQerned spectator, and to reproduce it on canvas with a servile fidelity to all its commonplace details of dress and decoration.  Ou the "evasion of President Grant's last visit.  Helena he was serenaded by the local band, the somewhat illiterate leader of which played selections from Tenn/miser because he thought that was the German for Tan-yard, and would recall recollections of the President's younger days. On Tuesday evening the Prince and Princess of Wales paid a cleft to the Horse Show at the Agricultural Hall, London. Their Royal Highnesses were received with much entivsiasin by the large numbers which had gathered in and around the building. _ _ .  On Monday, at the 1 figh Court of Justiciary, the Lord Justice Clerk and Lord Jerviswo, de on the Bench, James ides al, carter, 1.311 charged with the murder of Lout. Purdie on the morning of Sunday, the 24th of March, In Q 11.11.11 Park, Edinburgh. From the evidence it appeared that there were no fewer than 100 wounds on the body. The jury returned a verdict of "Guilty of culpable homicide," and the Judges sentenced Giessen to 15 yearn' penal servitude. American papers notice the death of Mr. T. Buchanan, Read, painter and poet. lie was born in Pennsylvania In 1822 Among his poetical works the most widely knoen was Sheridan 4 Jade, written in 1884, when his countrymen were exulting over the achievements of General Sheridan. ti ing in feeble health, he resided for a.nie years past In Europe, but died at New York on the 11th of May, six day. after his arrival by the Scotia from Liverpool. Official returns received horn France show a further  decrease in a number of cases of rinderpest oc..urring in that country in the ten days over which the returns extend. The number of animals attacked with the disease was only 16, as compared with 39 in the previous ten days. The disease only prevails in two departments, the Nord and the Somme, and it appears to heat last dying out. A dreadful accident is reported to have taken place at the station of liolienheirn, near Worms. Just at the moment when the train from Mayence was traversing the way, the express from Basle arrived at full speed, and (lashing into the other, crushed everything before it. Nine persons were killed, and several wounded.  On Saturday, at Bolton, a prisoner attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat with a knife while his case was being investigated by the magistrates. The persons in the court were much shocked Icy the spectacle, and much force had to be used to restrain the unfortunate man, who was evidently labouring under delirium Ire none  The Leeds Men /try says the announcement of a rise in the price of coal has led to a general movement on the part of the colliera of Leeds and Methley districta in support of an application for an advance of wages. In the can, of the Leeds colliers a rise of 22i per cent. Is demanded, while the Methlry men request an advance of 81. per ton, Bd. per yard on all straight work, 8,1. on all packing, and an advance upon bywork in proportion. - - -  The arbitrators appointed to decide the disputes between vie master builders of Ipswich and the Ipswich Labour League made their ueport on Monday, and declare that the men shall work fifty-six hours and a half per week, leaving off uu Saturdays at one ; the mechanics to he paid a penny per hour more, and the labourers three farthings per hour more. Thus to be independent of overtime.  A curious discovery has been made at the Charterhouse, London, in the shape of an autograph of Six Henry Ilavelock when a boy at that school. It has on It the date of his leaving, and was probably pushed by his own hands behind the wainscot of his cupboard or locker, where the mice and rats have very kindly and considerately spared it for upwards of half a century. A deaf and dumb girl has been charged at the Middlesex Sessions with stealing a watch from a man in a cab. The chaplain to a Deaf and Dumb Asylum said that, ten or twelve lean ago, money had been raised to place her in an Institution, but she left it and went astray. He had visited her in the Lock Hospital ; but all efforts seemed wasted on her. The judge, uitls a suitable comment on her waywardness, sentenced her to twelve mouths' hard labour.  There have been some very good takes of mackerel on the Cornish coast during last week, upwards of 120 tons of fine fish being forwarded to London. East Country and Mount's Bay boats, returning Irom the Kinsale fishery. fell in with fine shoals of mackerel some 10 to 70 miles from Scilly, and shot with meat success One craft made 01, oof its carkoss another had 4,000 mackerel, and no on. the fish generally being no large that 45t0 60 tilled spud. The boats on the home ground have also lutd a good measure of success  "A beautiful girl, hearing that her lover had been stricken with small pox, intisted upon flying to his betlAdc and becoming his nune. She caught the disease and from being the prettiest girl of the season, she became one of the plainest. lier lover son WBB 8 lover no more. No reproaches came from the once pretty mouth which had lost its prettiness in saving the ungtateful one from math ; her cheek, which the telltale blood used so often to tinge, grew pale and sad. and she married an old gentleman worth £20,000 a-year. Such is life."—Court Journal. The revenue returns hwuwl on Tuesday show that the revenue ltetweeu the Ist April and Saturday last amounted to £11,524,311, as compared with £11,230 54 last }ear The receipts are derived as follows :—From customs, £3,223 000 ; excise, £3,606000 ; stamps, £1,711,000 ; taxes, £