The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-11-18 00:00:00

Misitliantous

SOME, FOREIGN, AM. COLLMAL.

CONSCIENCE MONEY.—The Chancellor of the
Exchequer has acknowledged the receipt of the follow-
ing viz., from J. F., a cheque for £! 1i I Q. A.,
iii stunps, 1.. GL ; S. Y. N., half-note, CAA); awl of
L 7 7s. from K 11., for unpaid dog-tax.

THE PARIS PIU:sS ON THE DUELIN AcQUITTAL.
---The Paris FiTini of yesterday says : beilledly
the world is mad all the world, you unden:tanil. lit
~t,etf the numerous demonstrations ot which I Mblin
is dm seem, an Irishman ut I Kelly, yielding ti the
ii.tl,rcssihleteinus,tf his nation, assassinates a conAtable
named Talbot, who dies of his WOUMIA in the hospital.
The Soil tells us that a jury win: summoned, and Kelly
appeared before them. Talbot,' argued the counsel
for the defence, 'tile! from the effects of the operatiiit
which watt perfonmsl upon MM. Prosecute the cur
11110 not my client, WhOSe part in this lartiness
was confined to sending a bullet into Talbot's body.'
This lutninoul defence enlightened the conscience of
the jury, who acriuitteil Kelly. This argument has a
novel effect, although it is borrowed front a French law-
yer, M. I 'haix &Est Ange, who in a case where an old
man had been murdered, put this case,---' Suppose
that the unfortunate victim had been struck with
aisiplexy between the moment when his msailant
lifted his axe awl that at which the axe fell upon hint,
in such a case you will have condemned sm innocent
man.' "

As ORIENTAL STORY.—The other night (says
the Sluingimi Courier of Sept. Iri) a native watchman
sd a Chinese theatre saw an sager I %human taking a
cheap peep et the performance through a side wiretkow.
Nkhile the gazer was thus intent, a professional rogue
stole up beside him and relieved him sd a gold watch.
Having abstracted the property without awaking
suspicion, the devotee of Mercury was making b.r the
door, when be bad to pass the watchman, who quietly
taxed him with the theft, which the other admitted,.
The watchman propos.' that they should go together
and pawn it, which the other agreed to. Arrived at
the pawnbroker's, the watchman suggested that, as he
was an honest ,an (?) and the other a thief, he would
get a larger advance than the latter. He accordingly
took the watch in and got two slobs. on it. Of this, son
going sit, he (4.21,1 200 cash to the thief, who pro-
j.osed to thrash him if he slisl not give him half. A
native policeman heard the row, and took them both
hat. ell-tidy.
A SEsSA TION AL DISPUTE SETTLED. —A (list.
pute, which it wait expected would be the subject of a
sensational trial in Ireland, has been quietly settled.
Early in July a statement, which was the subject of
some controversy, appeared in reference to a question
of legitimacy, raised in the Landed Estates Court in
the matter of the estate of Mr. Napoleon Bonaparte
Wyse, upon a claim put forward on the part of Madame
Rattazzi, AN slaughter to the late Sir Thomas Wyse, to
a sum of CIAO. An issue was to have been tried to
determine the question, but the matter is now at an
end, an order having been pronounce.' on the ulna as
ssf the solicitor having carnage of the sale, with the
consent of the solicitors for Signor Itattazzi and his
wife, who informed the Court that their clients had
abandoned their claim to any portion of the funds.
The former order directing the retention of the above
sum has been rescinded.

CRUSHING OUT CHOLERA. —Cholera has lost
its terrors. A scientific investigator of Florida has
studied out the problem, and announces that as yellow
fever and cholera are caused and fed by animalear
floating in the air, a system of concussii at can dean
every infected atmosphere, and crush out the epidemic.
In proof, the invent. r, Mr. Hardee, proposes to begin
in Charleston, whrre the yellow fever is 11111 V raging,
and attest the truth f his discov ,iry at the risk of his
own life. He gives himself ten I lays to clear out the
disease, and means to work as follows :- -Take one ton
of gunpowder for the entire city of Charleston and
work twelve consecutive nights, using five pounds of
powder at each explosion, beginning at nine p.m. At
the end of ten days there would not be a case left in
the city.
POLITICAL ToRP F. DOES. —The ;4#t phi!, Rer;etv
remarks i—'The powers of the agitators for mischief
is derived, not from their authority over the working
classes, but from the spurioas importance with which
they are invested, and the means of agitation with
which they are supplied by misguided Liberal poli-
ticians, who, it may be presumed, have no sympathy
s it. subversive schemes, but who in. that they can
use these firebrands for their own purpose, and then pre-
vent them from doing any forther injury. The rich
fisseuters who are in such a hurry to pull down the
Church and revolutionise the marnage laws may find
to their cost that, in allaying themselves for these
objects with medai. inary agitators, they have been
doing their best to undermine their own position."

A SION OF THE TlMES—French publishers
are beginning to feel the heavy twessure of taxation in
France. M. Michel-1,4,v), announces his intention of
raising the price of all his publications at lie. per
volume 25 per cent., and many other firms are taking
similar measures.

MASTER MARRATIL - The achievements of
Lord Lurgan's celebrated dog, which for three times in
succeed,,n won the Waterloo ( 'up, are alsmt to he coin.
memorat. 41 in an enduring manner by the Irish ad-
mirers of the wonderful greyhound. A monument is
about ti, be erected in the demesne at Brownlow /louse,
Largan. The design consists of a square pe,lestal sup
jesting a bronze image of Master Magrath, and in
each of the four sides are sculptured groups representing
the principal events in the career ~f the celebrated d,,g.
The grams are enclosed in arched panels, and are sup.
ported by canopied within each of which is carved the
Lhownlow arms. At each of the four angles are ap-
propriate carved figures resting on pedestald ; the
whole springs from a base which rests on a raised plat-
form.

THE LATE MR. BLACKLOCK. —The will of Henry
Maddock, printer and publisherof Bradshrties Railway
Guile, has been proved at 3lanchester, under £140,000
personalty, by his relict, Ellen Macklock, George
Mt'trquodale, printer, of Newton Willows, awl Henry
Fairbrother, printer, of Albert-square, Manehestsr,
the executors and trustees, and to each he leaves a
legacy of £lOO for their trouble. The will is dated
July 4 last, with three codicils, the last dated the Sth
of August, and he died on the Bah of the same month,
aged 59. lie has left large annuities to his wife alai
children. To the wardens of the parish church of
Didsbury, CIO for the poor • to the Church Missionary
Society, the Foreign lb ble Society, anti the Manchester
City Miasieu, each £lOO. All legacies to be free of
thiq. Ile leaves directions that his business shall be
carried on in the name of " Bradshaw and Blacklock,"
or "Henry Blacklock and C 0.," or may be converted
into a limited liability company. His sons Thomas,
Charles, and Frederick, on attaining 21, may become
partners, receiving each one-sixth of the profit.-t, anti
should Mr. Fairlirother become a partner, to receive a
like share. With regard to the London agency busi-
ness. it is the testator's wish that Mr. Adams's advice
should be taken respecting all publications relating to
Bradshaw; an.l should he retire, a sum of £lO,OOO
shall lie presented to him. To each of his foremen CIO
and mourning, to each boy and girl in his employ 20s.
and mourning, and to his old servants each 1:10 and
mounting. There are numerous legacies to his nephews,
nieces, and other relatives. The surplus residue to
form an accumulating fund for the benefit of his family
anti devisable at a certain period.

AN ATTORNEY SHOT AT CHlCAGO.—Despatches
from Chicago of the 22nd of October state that an un-
prtunate tragedyoccurred at midnightnear the Chicago
Univ. city Cottage on ( rove Avenue, resulting in the
almost instant death of Mr. Grosvenor, the city prose-
cuting attorney. Mr. Grosvenor, somewhat under the
influence (4 liquor, was challenged by the University
Police while pasAng along the street. He replied in
an offensive manner, and was shot deal Theodore N.
Treat, who committed the deed, is a resident of Janes-
ville, and a student of the Chicago University. lie is
now under arrest. Treat was a member of the lot
Regiment of Chicago Volunteers, and claims to have
acted in accordance with orders.

A NARROW ESCAPR.—Miss Annie Pierce, re-
sident at Racine, Wisconsin, bas recently been ilaced
in a very uncomfortable position. She fell down in a
fainting fit at the Scandinavian Church, of which she
was a member, and a.s she showed no sign of recovery
it was concluded At the end of two days that she was
dead, an opinion with which the doctor accorded.
Preparations being completed for the funeral, aml a
large number of sorrowing friends assembled at the
house, and the clergviman had commenced to read the
burial service, when Miss Pierce was observed to move.
The more timid of the persons in the room followed
her example ; but tlio,e who remained, guessing the
truth, applied restoratives, which presently brought
Miss Pierce round to a condition in which she was
able to listen to an explanation of the little mistake.
CREITINO TitiNcs. —A new work is ad vertisird
under the title of " Insects at Home." Most homes
are niore or less infested by insects, which also have
various ways of making themselves at home, many of
them very, and s.que unspeakably unpleasant.
Ilack.beetles, earwige, and a variety
114 inie rid slices, are contemplated by Fancy wider
the idea of " Inserts at Home," and the volume is,
named may be imagined to have been written by seine
therm' I:el-fellow Destroyer. But no. It is a book,
no doubt highly interesting, on British Entomology in
general; and its author is a Clergyman and a Na-
turilist, the Rev. J. Wood.— Poach.

Tug OXFOLD MURDER.—The Secretary of
State iota Oro via reward of £lOO for the discovery of
the murderer of the poor woman who was found with her
throat cut in a field on the right of Botley-road and on
the left of llinsey-lane from Oxford, on the morning of
Sinulay week last. As yet the police have not the
slightest clue, and an impression seems to exist that
the perpetrators of the deed will escape detection. The
total absence of a motive for the murder renders the
task the police have in hand a very difficult ono, and
gives rise to many suggestions, one being that the
murderer, although a stranger to Oxford, may have
been an old acquaintance of deceased who was actuated
by a feeling of revenge.

DEATH OF MAl:tillAL BENEDEK.—TIIO death
of Mandial Benedek, of the Austrian Army., happened
a few days since from an attack of apoplexy, at the
age of 67. The Marshal was born in the year 1894,
entered the army of Austria in 1822, and attained the
rank of colonel in 1843. He served in Italy in 1848,
in 1849, and again in 1859. Our readers will remem-
ber that he commanded the right wing of the Austrian
army at the Battle of Solferino. When the short but
decisne war between Austria and Prussia broke out in
1866, Bcnedek commanded the Army of the North,
and great expectations were entertained of his general-
ship. At the Battle of Sadowa, however, he waa
overwhelmingly defeated. The command of the army
was taken away from him in consequence, and he was
shortly afterwards placed upon the retired list.

VIOLINS OF TIN. —A few yeat sag., says a
correspondent of the English Mt 1., I made about
anion, lolic,, Sollle of the tin t I made were very
squeaky alai 1.1 jut,.lle, 101 It a, I gabled experience
Iliad.. then. better, and one if the last three I made was
equal tip any in. 1 i•ser heani The matioial I used
Was tnt, and I ain if opinion that, as hum. iii he made
of tin to equal the hest Cremona. The only drawl.k is they are heavy to :me ohe t 4. them.
The cost of material is about Is. GI. I.acli, and I think
I ...add makei.ne in about four limns.
A MUNIVIcIINT (ht-r. Salt, senior the
member for the borough of Stalfonl, harast the offer
free use of a bite range of buildings in the Mark-t-
-place for the Salt Library, without any condithons, ex-
cept that the county shall subscribe a sufficient fund to
insure the maintenance ..f a Jib. Orion an I other invalid expewes, gi.tierous offer has been conantinicaksl
to the Earl of Lichfield, wit.. will lay the matter I ef..re
:Mrs. Salt, the donor of the Salt Library, and if she
the Ate, immediate steps wiii doubt he taken to make Mr. Salt's Itiler of use to the comity.
The laii!diug in question cost nearly 1.720,01/0 in the
erc,tion.
"DnWN AnAIN !"- -The Tlll,l priola the fol.
lowio7 ootiee 016 boor 7t. We has,. inueli plea,ure
in oil 114 one I :eptitvniponta y the adi,antage of our circu-
lation for fin allhohllerhient Which it gratifyin.. to all
who have laboured for the inereisie of cheap and 'whole-
some literature :--
o on Neil after the hit of Jannary next the !Cal will he published three times a week, itistrad of twice as heretofore.
The price of eat-in lonelier will he reditrea fr.on threepence lii toil...nee, no that subseni ars will henceforth ohtain nine copies instead of two for the millie unn,a,r There will In- 11.0 alter:l6olin the Cite, onalliy, or general iippearaiwe of The
Mull ; but the addition of another noinher every week lull
give to its readers a large increase Id the contents of Ti..
l'inees, besides all earlier republication of them.-
SPIRITUALIMM Fon SCHOOLS. —A member of a
Society of Spiritualieds, writing to a Spiritualist news.
paper, speaks of certain of his amociates as "Tipping
'Mediums." l'he rising generation may not he aware
Shat there are 111ediun0 of that description. If any of
our youth come to know that such exists, they will
perhaps be desirous that any clisiedinted 1 'tides or
Aunts they may have .should become Members of a
Spiritualist ("Mille, Ni, an, if possible, to be "developed
int..." tipping Mediums." - Punch.

_
Tint Nt' VANCE 4,1, THE RAILWAY WHISTLE.
-- The railway uhistle is an instillment of torture en-
dured with the patience commonly extended to rail-
way nuisances. On some lines the excruciating trick
of whistling is practised on the smallest provisath 41.
Th. re is a whistle when the train starts, when it passes
another train, when it enters a tunnel, and there is
generally a triumphant half-shook, half-howl, when it
approaches the terminus. Why should the slumbers
of the traveller from the West by the night train be
always disturbed as he reaches the Box tunnel The
wh irtle instantly brings out the watches of nervous oh!
belies, who otherwise would not have known they
were in the tunnel at all. If the steam-whistle is to
be considered the musical accompaniment to lomino-
thin of the day, there IlaN been a marke.l.leterioration
since the time 14 post horns. As a signal we suppose
it must be endured, but there is no reason why we
shouhl put up with the shrill volunt.%ries of the engine
drivers, when there is alrefoly of necessity a sufficiently
heavy strain on the nerves in travelling by raiL

- -
A HINT TO PUBLIC LRCM-MRS.—The Iter.
A. D'Orsey recently, at l'avendish-romns, in London,
delivered an interesting and instructive lecture on the
art of reading aloud in churches, families, Ike. At the
expiration of half an hour's address he requested the
audience to stand up and chat with each other for the
apace of about two minutes, for the purpose of reliev-
ing the monotony of the pmceedings. The lecturer
said that he first saw the experiment tried in the course
of his travels, and liking the idea, he had invariably
adopted the system. Mr. D'Orsev was of opinion that
no public lecturer or speaker should detain an audience
more than half an hour without relieving thou by
changing their positions. The idea is novel, and the
effect of 200 people beginning by rule to talk to one
another without introduction or any subject to talk
upon, will be odd if followed up.
A CONSIDERATE OFFER. The Preston,
Herald publishes a letter from Mr. Herman, M.P. to
Alderman Mil. Myres, mayor of Preston, in which
the former says :

I have felt deeply the terrible calamities that have be-
fallen our mining population of late, and have considtred
whether anything could be done to prevent these catastro-
phes. With this object in view, I propose to give a pre-
mium of £2OO for the best essays on the scbject, to be com-
peted forty practical miners in the coal fields of Lanco-
shire am! Vnikshire—say a1.".0 for a first prize, and CO for
a sueOldi. in your official capacity as mayor and coroner I
am sure you will assist in coining the attention of those
concerned to the subject. I have no doubt we shall Mut
three able and impartial judgt s t., decide on the merits of
the pamphlets, one of the conditions la ing that the phrase-
ology or spelling shall not influence the decision, but the
prizes to be awarded to the most useful and life-preserving
suggestions. Yours very truly, EDWARD IlEanSli.— To
Miles Myres, Lieu, Mayor, etc."

THE FORTHCOMING CHRISTMAS CATTLE SHOW.
—A supplement to the Leaden gazette, published last
Saturday, contains an Order in Council relating to the
Smithfield Cattle Show. The order states that cattle
that have been in the metropolis for more than seven
days before the opening of the show shall not Is, ad-
mitted thereto, and cattle brought to the metropolis
for the show shall be taken direct thereto. No cattle
shall be admitted to the show without a licence for the
purpose from the Control ...loner of Police of the Metno
polis or od the City of London. Each animal before
admission shall be examined by the veterinary surgeons
for the show, or one of them, awl if. n suet. examine.
ti no any anMtal is found to be affected with any con-
tag i.ats or infictious diselne, it shall not be to!ntittell
the oh iw. If any cas, of cattle plague occurs in the
show, the Council of the Smithfield Club shall cause
all the animals in the h.,w to Is forthwith slaughtered,
in pursuance of the condition to that effect co •ntained in
the licence. Cattle mowed out od the sbow for slaughter
in the metropolis shall be moved only nith a pass
given by the pasq.master of the show to the owner or
purchaser desinons i,f moving the saute. All cattle ex-
hil lited in the show and not moved out of the metrop Ai*
shall be slaughtered in the metropolis on or before the
21st day of December.

THE DANGER OF EATING FUNGI.—TIin Rev.
W. F. Welch, vicar of Stanford, Norfolk, has died
under painful circumstances. Ile found some fungi
which be presmned were eatable by the side of the
Thetford-road ; he gave sime to a Miss Gibbs, fail
took sonic home himself. On the following day both
Mite Gibbs and the rev, gentleman partook of the
ninshroom.4, and in a few hours they were Feiz,,l with
vomiting. Mr. Welch appeared for a time to revive,
but dangerous symptoms again presented themselves,
and after a few hours of renewed suffering he died.
Miss iibbs has regained convalescence.

CHICAGO AT WORK.-111C Chimp Tri,lnom
of the 31et tilt. says :

" An idea of the number of teams and men employed may
be had from the fact that 5,00.0 loads of &kris are emptied
into the like liasin daily, and this work can continue all
through the winter, giving continuous labour to the thou.
sands now employed. So great is the demand that hun-
dreds of boys from fourteen to eighteen years of age are
hard at work wheeling, cleaning, and piling bricks. All
honour to the brave men who have met mish•rt une by re.•
Intely beginning the work of reconstruction, and all honour
to the num and Imps who have gone to work, preferring to
earn the bread and shelter they enjoy than to compete for
the same with the Ida: and helpless at the church.. The
WWI who thinks Chicago has been destroyed ha only to
cross the river into the burnt district to be undeceived.
Labour and skill, directed by enerzy and enterprise, ore
working like bees in the hive: arch, when the spring comes,
the des, Ante lliCeB will be desolate no longer, and from the
adies have arisen new monuments of industry and
faith."

AN ADVENTURE IN PAPUA. —MT. Richard
M`Lean, the mate of a vessel trading in the South
Sao, has written a letter to the Arg,l; in which lot
save that Mr. Minton (sou of Captain Minton,
Melbourne), who had been picked up at the Mills
Group, where he had been wrecked, persisted in going
ashore at Papua, though aware of the dangerous
character of the natives. Mr. M'l.ean accompanied
him, but seeing indications of treaelnly on the patt
of the natives, Mr. Minton insisted that he should
return to the ship while he distraetetl the attention of
the natives, saying be would remain nut meet his fate.
1111,ean got safely back to the ship, anti with the cap-
tain watched the result. They saw Minton attacked
by a crowd of savages. Ile slit three with his breech-
loader and five with his revolver, and then stabbed
two. While reloading his gun a spear pierced him anti
ks fell. The natives then closed on him and carried
him into the bush. The captain made signs to the
savages that he would ransom their captive with guns
and cloth, but they took no notice, and the vessel pro-
ceeded to New Caledonia. Mr. 1111.ean believes that
Mr. Minton may yet return safely to his friends.

UNLUcKT AT LAST !—A singular story of an
accidental death is reported by the French imirrials.
A young man of twenty-three, living near Orleans,
whit figured as a volunteer in the army ,if the Loire,
was lithely invited to a birthday festivA by an undo
in the Rue Vaugirard, Paris. The banquet was gay,
and the youthful hero enlivened the conversation by
teeounting his hair-breadth escapes &rim, the war,
and how he was extricated with difficulty alive from a
heap of dead :nut dying. lie Was congratulatol on his
good luck, an•l it was the generalopinion that he must
have been born tinder a fortunate star. The party
had warmly unborn-Rol ti the drawing-naan when the
volunteer of the Loire remembered that li.- lad left
something in the slining.rnsna, and went luck to leok
for it. in unhurt passage Inc tact a maid ,ereunt carry.
ing a pife of plutelk Friall the Middle of tho
in ,ut IA ..l ....f a carving knife, a,n.in tin. a: 1.-
:..i iiihhe ran. The end .A li. lii
:Ll' garK Oh st, alillthic ,-11;..•111,:i:lh. it
, u,c the ‘veapov it ni-iefly
• tine P•ung 111.11 i ;tll,l
:-. • •I intuit that he die.l in a few minuet ,
al:er 1,- had told his friends how the accident

STATUTE KilitS.—The lirst of the great annual
statute fairs for hiring fano servants and .I,4nestio
servants was held at 3ialon hot Natal 10. The
attendance of male servants was immense, arol it is not,
known that the trains have been so heavily laden
previAusly. The great atten•lanee is indicative of ok
general charge 111101 an WI,UIU-I feelin4 among Oro
men servants. In shot t, the pret:d.ing cry for
more wages has extended to the s.nicultural ser-
vants. There was a loisk hiring of foremen and
binds, but the fanners, holding that the increased
price of provisions fell upon them and not upsas
the men, made a determined stand against higher
wages, and they have undoubtedly the whip luau),
from being well worked up on their farsus and
from a general resort to the double-fnrroos
plough. Very great numbers, espethdly lads, re-
mained unhired. The efforts of the clergy of the
town and district have now almost quite enticed the
girls away from the open market, only a few of Cos,
roughest appearing to " stlnd the market" with th.,
The Corn-Exchange was placed at the disposal
of the girls as a hiring-booth, and Was crowded, Geod
wages were obtained. The fairs continue till the 25th.
The Martinmas hiring for agricultural and domestic
servants at Carlisle was held on Sat unlay. The weather
was fine, and there was a large attendance of masters
and servants, though most of the hitter were only
second-class the first-class servants havin; mostly
been hired beforehand. The hiring was eme.idered
pretty good. Second class men servants, £8 10s•
£lO 109. ; thirsbelass and boys, £4 to £7 10. ; second-
class women, Li to ; third-class and girls, £2. to
zi 10e. for the half-year, including board and lodging.