The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-04-24 00:00:00

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HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.

LETTER Or Gerusam.—Garibaldi has just
written (from Caprers) the following letter to a
Working Men's Association at Naples :

My dear friends,—l congratulate you on the success of
your society; as one of your brethren, lam proud of it. But
all pr i great will be neutralised by the shameful superstitions
In which our populations are still plunged; con.equently, in
your programme you demand the worship of the True, and
the downfall of the priests, who are the enemies of Italy.
When that shall be attained, only, will you he in the real
career of prep ess. —Yours for life, G. GARIBALDI.

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ATTEMPT TO DEFRAUD THR BANK OF ENGLAND.—
Isaac Chamberlain, a herbalist living at Hertford,
Caroline Judd, his sister, and Ann Hutchinson, a
woman in his ercploy, have been charged at the
Mansion House, in London. with forging and uttering
a transfer of stock in the Three per Cent. Consols to
the amount of £2,194 4s. Cid., with intent to defraud
the Bank of England. Chamberlain, it seems, was in
October, 1866, indicted for an offence of which he was
acquitted. Before his trial he made over the stock in
question to an old woman named Chandler, who had
lived with him for more than twenty years. After
the trial he wished to have the stock retransferred to
him. but Chandlsr declined. Last week Chamberlain
went to the Bank with the other prisoners and
obtained the money, the prisoner Hutchinson ',pre-
senting herselt to be the person in whose name the
stock stood, and signing her nad e as "Mary Anne
Chandler." A few days afterwards Chandler herself
sent in an application for a Is wer of attorney to trans-
fer the stock, and the prisoners were then appre-
hended. They were remanded, the Lord Mayor
declining to take baiL

SUICIDE OF A LAWYER.—A young Greek advo-
cate, named Eurivade Berdimbelis, has just committed
suicide at the Hotel du Montpelier, at Naples. The
mistress of the house had remarked that he was
labouring under great depression of spirits, and had
spoken to several of his countrymen, who, by pro-
curing him various diversions, had endeavoured to
draw him from his state of melancholy. A few days
back, while in company with a medical man, he end.
denly jumped up and cried out, "Hose are the trai-
tors !" and pulling out a revolver, fired at his friend,
but without hurting him, and then discharged the con-
tents of a barrel into his own head, killing himself on
the spot. The unfortunate young man had studied
law in Paris, and had already gained some reputation
at Athens.

Two BROTHERS DROWNED.—On Sunday after-
noon two brothers, named Thomas and Hugh Cowans,
aged 13 and 10 years respectively, stripped themselves,
and attempted to ford the river at the shallow part
between Harvey's Dyke a d the dl Glasgow Water
Works. It appears that while near the middle of the
stream, one of the two—it is believed the younger
brother Hugh—accidentally dropped his trousers in the
water, and in attempting to clutch them lost his foot-
ing. He called to his brother, who, in endeavouring
to catch him, also fell, and both of them were swept
away by the current to • distance of fully a hundred
yards, where there is a deep pooL The poor boys, in
their efforts to save themselves, caught hold of each
other, and both were drowned.