The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-01 00:00:00

THE STOURBRIDGE OBSERVER.

tv past one,o'clock tivo steamers from
'tie
Borotwhe and the St. Patriot, entered, the
harboid;lnd Wing been noiorcd at their berths about
'at.dozsn thiLpelice at once boaroed the Brian Be.
roiWhe. dftefrn quarter of an hour's search they
emerged from the forepart of the vessel, Aaving in
custody two young men, on of them dre...rl roost
wspectsrbiy in black, and the other wearing a Yankee
postmen Handcuffs were placed on them, andthelr
portmanteaus were carried by two of the constabulary.
The prisoners were cheered, while the police were
hissed. The parties were safely placed on hack cars.
The greatest difficulty was experienced in bringing the
cars through the vast crowd. Having got completely
clear,abe prisoners were driven to Drogheda Gaol. It
is understood thpt both are Irishmen "rho have lately
I arrived from Arteries. and that in going on boarMthe ,
' steamer at Livelfpool they were &Nerved isP the cldtec-
tires, who titmice telegraphed the fact to Dublin.

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DISCOVERY OF AN AMERICAN MASTODON.—
A New York paper states that on the Bth inst. work.
men excavating a foundation for a mill at the manu-
facturing village of ('oboes, near Troy; 4ound the
remains of a complete skeleton of a huge rnaetodon
83 feet below the surface and about 100 feet from the
Mohawk River. It is believed that the frame can be
made quite perfect. The remains were cefefully
gathered together, cleaned, and oiled, abil it As
pected that Professor Agassiz would arrive to inspect
them. The jaw is 41t. Pin. in length from the
mouth to the cranium, to which a portion of the
backbone and jaw are still connected. The cranium
rises very much like that of an elephant. 'the two
tusks each measure Bft, in length, and their trip
position ie well marked on the upper jaw. Tfie hip'
bone is sft. long, and weighs 100 lb, while the shoulder
blades measiire 10ft. Pin., and weigh about'solb. each.
The under jaw, found some weeks since, precieely fits
the upper jaw now exhumed, and the rib are found to
be 4yt. in length. The measurements show that the
annual must have stood at least 151 t, in hi ight, and
have been a little nowards of 20ft. in length.
pendent of the tusks, already stated to be each Bft. in
length. Professor Marsh uf the Yale College Scientific
School, gives it, as his opinuiiu that the remains dis-
covered are those of a great North A mericau mast. lop .
comparing it in all its parte fully, with the thocriptie
of the animal given in the scientific works as ftillows:,—
" The animal has the vaulted and cellular skull of the
elephant. a ith large tusks in the upper jaw and heavy
form. From the character of the nasal bones and the
shortness of the head and neck, it has been concluded
it had a trunk." ,

A CONVICT WEDDING.—A despatch from Mil
wank., Wisconsin, of the 3rd inst., soya :
Yesterday, inlin C. Craig and Jennie Paterson, acouple
who were arrested for burglary some ten days age, were
arraigned before Judge Mallory Their guilt was manifest
and confessed, ant they were accordingly sentenced to eight
months' i fli.iirmeut in the State Person. They were quite
relieved at the light sentence imposed, IVO Craig rematkvel
that when their time was out they would be marrn el. It
was suggested that the present would be as good • time as
any to unite their destinies The Idea pleased both parties,
ano Justice Rattinger was therefore sent for, arid tied them
as fast as the law could hind them. They appeared happy,
and embraced and kissed each other as affectiouively as the
happiest newly.widded couple in the city. They then
started, manacled together, for • wedding tour to Wationn.
They will begone about eight months. When their friends in
this city will have an opportunity to welcome thsru once
more to their hearths and home..

WIFE SELLING IN FRANCE.—There still exists,
among even well-informed French people, a tradition
that in England a husband commonly puts a halter
round his wife's neck, leads her to Smithrield, and
sells her to the highest bidder. A labourer, named
Martin, aged thirty, at Vire (Calvados), recently went
still farther, lie not only sold his wife and a cup-
board together for five francs to a young man named
Vautier, but assisted the latter bv force to take posession
of his purchase. For this grave offence the two men have
just been tried at the Court of Assizes of Can. The
hearing of the case took place with closed doors. and
the jury having returned a verdict of guilty, bat with
extenuating cinutostances, Martin was condemned
to eight years hard labour, and Vander to five years'
imprisonment.

ANOTHER MOIMUTIT AMERILAN CHEESE.— The
Scheneetuly Union of the 13th inst. mentions the
atrival at that place on that day of a mammoth
cheese from the Ingersoll Cheese Company, Canada
West. Its destination M. the state fair at S Iratogs.
It was made from one milking of 7,000 cows, embracing
all the cows within a circuit of many index The
cheese is 0 feet 10 inches in diameter, 3 feet thick, and
weighs 7,000 pounds. In pressing it four large jack
screws were employed. The cheese was encased in the
original pressing hoop, and placed on a truck mann.
teetered specially for the occasion. The owners have
been offered 100 dole. per day, for five days, for an
exhibition of it at the Toronto Provincial Fair. It
was expected that enough would be made at the Sara-
toga fair to pay the expenses of transportation and
other contingencies.

STORY OF A Doo.—On Sunday morning, Oct.
23, the house and outbuildings, with their contents,
of Aid. Block, of Fredericton. N.B. were consumed
by tire. The Colonial Farmer, published in that
city, gives the following incident, which is worthy
of record. as showing the fidelity of this noble animal:
"it series that the tire was first detected by a
Newfoundland dug, the property of Mr. Block.
The noble brute, with almoet human iwitinct, tore hie
way into the hone, by means of one of the doors, and
aniused the family by his harking, and then ran to the
stable door, which he endeavoured to open, so that
the horse his almost inseparable companion, might
escape. There he remained struggling, though every
effort was made to entice him away, and when the tire
went out he was found lying dead at his pout." A
correspondent states that the dog effected an entrance
to the house by tearing out a.panel of the door with
his claws, and thus waved the liven of the itonetee, who
had time to retire, but not time enough to sive
anything.

A THOUGHT IN Onuece.---The income of the
excellent Archbishop of Canterbury—long may he
enjoy it—is £l5 OW a year. If he were travelling,
with a year's income about him, and he were attacked
by robbers who took about eighteen hundred pounds
from him, we wonder whether he would ex:irees thank-
fulness that they had left him a" remnant "of his
property.—Puncli.

A MoDu VILLAGE AND MILL-Dr. M'Cosh,
in his Belfast lecture on America, described • Yiait
which he has recently paid to the Pacific Mills,
Lawrence, Maseachusetts :—There are four thou-
sand workoeople, and it is • beautiful eight to see
them so neatly dressed as they go into and issue from
the nitle. The females in one department receive a
dollar and fifteen centa a day, and in another a dollar
and forty-five cents. The unmarried girls live in
boarding houses, which I visited. They have a cont.
mon euting-room, comfortably furnished; they have
aamparate dining-hall, where I saw them seated at as
comfortable a meal as the middle clamors have in GANA
country; while every two persons have a neatly.
furnished bedroom. The skilled workmen get towards
11XX) dollar* a-year, and the foremen (section men)
towards 1.500 dollars. Three foremen have homes
provided fig them—housee for which they pay 175
dollars a-year, and these homee are each three stony.
hi.rb, with a front door and eleven apartment*. Con-
nected with the mills are a reading-room and a large
library.

HAIR CUR CFIIONONL—Ma/BeilleS is the centre
of the commerce in this commodity which is exported
ready worked up to Spain and Algeria, sod imported
nnworked fr fin Italy. In 11405 the importation was
17,628 kilos, and in the first nine months of the present
year 11,367. An erudite gentlemen states that the
Guild if Perruquiers at Marseilles dates from 1696,
and that for a long time the number was limited. In
1700 the fraternity commenced proceedings against a
certain number of hair dressers who had established
themselves in the town, but their claim. were rejected,
and the business from that time remained free. In
1789 these hairdressers hail multiplied considerably,
for the coiffure of the period was most compli-
cated, and Marseilles was considered one of the first
cities in France for elegance. Since then they have
continually multiplied, until at present there are 397
in the town. As to the home commerce in hair, it is
in the hands of four houses only, and has quinuipled
within the last thirty years. These firms receive al.
together about (1 000 kilos annually from Brittany,
Auvergne, and Italy. After being worked up, 3,000
are sent into the it.terior of France, and 3,000 con•
mined in Marseilles. Of the latter, 2.500 are used for
women's false hair, and kilogramwe being sufficent fnr
ten headdresaes, which makes an annual sale of 25,000.
These plaits, chignons, hic., last on an average three
years each, which gives a nnniber of 75,000 of the fair
sex who wear false hair at Marseilles; that is to say,
nearly the whole adult female population of the
place.

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THE LAST SPECIMEN or CUIENI.6B! Two
enterprising Yankees have developed a new specn•
lation. The Glvernment recently contracted for the
exhumation and re-interment of the bodies of Federal
soldiers who fell before Petersburgh and Richmond.
By the terms of the agreement, the contra-tore for.
Mob corfine, and receive eight dollars for each body
re.interred. It has been diecovered that them" enter.
prising "loysliebi" have been engaged in separating
each body exhumed in, four sections, and burying
them, thus receiving four times the proper payment.
SUICIDE TFIROUON INBAPPOINTED Love.
Mary Lowe, a servant at the residence of Mr. Miller,
Rochdale, became acquainted some time ago with a
young nian living in that town, and ultimately they
became lovers. A short time ago, the deceased',
slater got to know that Lowe'a lover was a marri.d
man, and she informed her sister of the fact, but she
seemed reluctant to give him up. The married sitter
last week threatened to acquaint her father with the
affair, and spoke to her of the impropriety of keeping :
company With a married man. On Friday night the
deceased had an interview with her lover, and when
they were parting she appeared to be in great distress.
She was not seen after until her body was found on
Bondy morning in the canal at Moss Bridge.
tirIoOKING MURDER BY A MOTMER.—An tin.
natural murder has been perpetrated at Leigny•lez-
Charrolles (Sasinemt•Loire.) The wife of a farmer
named Vinare left the house in the morning, taking
with her her little girl, two years of age. She went
direct to the river, and there plunged the child into
the water, with one hand keeping the head down and
with the other the feet for a 'muter of an hour until
life wan extinct. Bhe afterwards wandered about the
fields, fearing to return home ; but, being missed, wail
sought for and found the next morning by the
neighboure. The particulars of the murder she
related herself, and her only explanation of the crime
was that her husband kept her in a state of want,
and compelled her to take the child to the fields when
she went to work, where "oh,, wail afraid it would
catch cold." The woman's intellect is supposed to be
affected.
AN EDUCATIONAL DIFFICULTY.— A grand
. echolastic foundation going a.beg,eing for papils is to
be found in Queen Elizabeth's Crammer Schtsd,
Hl•r.lydown (near London). %Vali a staff of mastere
probably inisurpaased in efficiency in all L eolon, with
a line school and au income of 5.0114 W. a year,
the governors actually exoerience great difficulty in
getting scholars to avail themselves of the. privileges
offered, viz., an educntion including the study of
claesice, 'mathematics. musiu, and languages, free of
all cost whatever. The reasint assigned is that the
middle clans will not allow their children to mix with
those of the poor. The result of the roluxil is shown
in the fact that the son of a policenarde widow, hors

whicate.l, TAL:oarshisad of 900 compokitilrs in the
hot /dor.' ex in 4n, in which he stood., first, that
if he mocks be ed for the theory M music arid
drawing had been deducted from those he Obtained, he
would yet have been lir ahead oLall competitors. •
-s;
N• A If OBING GhitigoW pap4r
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relates the followiti slihry '
A willoemen of Paisley was going his =mg Mandr one
night, When he observed- w man limning against a pillar
letter-box at the corner of • street, with one arm thrown
round it and his head bent towards it in close proximity.
The officer quietly came up behind the man, and overheard
him very earnestly relating to the letter box some adventure
in which he had that day been eng,ged. Al ter some time
the policeman accogted WM and fonidtbat fhe man's per-
ceptive faculties were
,ies meddled with .flint Oat he had
mistaken the metal plitsr for I conftdentisl friend :
CLOSE OF THE gTRIKIr IN THE TEADE.-o°'
Friditysthe *trip Ilk tlle ironitrade at islidilleaborough.
which has now, exteuted over eighteen weeks, tenni-
nated by the men agreeing ts return to work at the,
reduction proposed by the masters at the commence-
ment Of the atiskTgle. The turn held a meeting on
that previous day, and on Tuesday • deputation..
.Wai ed upon the firm-6! Messrs. Hopkins,. d.
Co., and decided to accept the reduced wages. Ott
Saturday they began to "fettle " their furnaces.
A deputation also waited upon Mr. Williams, the
manager of Messrs. Bolckaw Vaughan, and C.o.'s ex-
tensive works After some conversation the men with-
drew; but it was understood that they would agree to
return to work.

A FATAL FIRIL—A melancholy catastrophe oc-
gurieri at Paisley on Monday morning. At itn early
hour fire broke out in a shed forming part if the large
starch and corn flour works of Messrs. Brown anti
Poison, and burnt down nearly the wuole of the ad-
itining buildings ere the fl ones could be quenched.
On one of the boundary walls, in close prorimity to
where the fire had exhausted itself, &number of lads
had seated themselves to view the conflagration, while
others had as,embled beneath it, and without any
warning a portion of the wail fell and smashed in a
fearful maner two boys—the one about nine and the
other about fourteen years of age—both of whom were
killed on the spot. The loss of property is estimated
at 20,000/.

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UMVRRITY PISNSIONS FOR Cn_IOD READIRO.—
It was stated a few weeks since that an unknown bene-
factor was desirous of endowing each of the two Eng-
lish Universities with an annual pension of Ai. for
ever, to encourage good reading among candidiktes for
holy orders. The council of Oxford have decided by a
large majority not to recommend the acceptance of the
proposed exiiihi,ion to conv'ication, in consequence of
the many difficulties which exist in the way of accept-
ance by the University. At Cambridge the proposal
is still under deliberation.

MORE TYLISONAPHIC BLUNDERS.—Some time
since it was reported that a mutiny had broken out on
board the Mont, when conveying a portion of her
Majesty's 3rd Buffs to Calcutta, but the report was
contradicted by Messrs. Grindlay and Co., a London
firm. Those gentlemen have forwarded to The Times
the following telegram, which they received last
Fridty

CoPY OF TELEGRAM. EXPLANATION.
Grano ley to Grandley, 05, Grindley, Calcutta, to Grind
ralllament Street. London. lay, London.

bite has arrived Pith third The Ni'e has arrived, with
Bells on board all wall ho, 3rd 1111. on board, all well.
vet writhe last wing has been the Borne( with lett wing.
spoken at se. ali well save has been molten at sea, all
thia pal lished hi times. well. Have this published In
27, Time.
Messrs. Grindlay do not give credit to the clever en-
pert who deciphered this marvellous message.
DISTRESSING CHOLERA INcIDENTS IN SCoTLAND.
—ln hfethil Hill, where the cholera (says thelii:.'
bstrp k Courant) has cut off about one 'seventh of the
entire poptilation in One week, and rendered nearly
every holier a house of mourning, the following very
distresaing caste haw occurred A person [renting in the
village had a daughter, who was suddenly taken ill
and died ; a few days after his brother, who bad newly
got married, succumbed to the disease ; and a. nobody
could be found with courage enough to enter the
house, he had hiniaelf to perform the painful duty of
carrying in hie brother'. coffin, put the remains of his
deceased friend in it. pull it ont to the door, and accom-
pany the hearse alone to the cemetery at Eawt Wemytts.
Two days later (on Thursday) he brought a eon, about
twenty yearn of age to the same place; and on Friday
he brow( ht his two daughter's, aged respectively twelve
and eighteen years to their last resting-plaice, both of
whom were buried in one grave.
OUR FOOD SUPPLISS Al!!) FUTTER PRICES.—
The Shipping Gazette lays there are now on paa-aze
from the Black Sea pats abont 750,000 olra. of wheat,
and large cargoes are expected from California, Other
countries will also make an effart to supply co Nor
a time quotatious may show a further tendency to
rise, hut there is reason to anticipate the return to
the various marketg, at sonic future period, id at least
two. thirds of the corn sent in to granary by specu-
lators, and in all probability the value of wheat has
nearly reached its range for the present. Much, how.
ever, will depend on the large 'speculators, who can
now CAMIIIIIId money at 4 per cent. The Mark Lane
Regrets remarks that the stimulus of high prices will
do much to secure a good breadth of wheat in Great
Britain for next year.
IMPORTS OF GILD FROM Austrtims.- -The re-
ceipts of gold from the Australian group of colonies
M'Pear to he iciedhly reviving, having amounted in
September to 686,7771., as compared with 238,556/. in
the iuirresoonding month of 1865, and 405,6134 in Sep-
tetntor, 1864. In the nine mouths ending September
30, this year, the total value of the gold imported from
the Australias was 1,639,371/. , as compared with
2 155 212/. in the oorrespoisitng period of 1865, and
2.421.7221. in the first nine morithe of 1861. It may be
intereatiug to recapitulate the import, of gold from the
Aucraliss dnribg the right ye are ending 1565 :-1858,
9,061,76.3/,; 1559 8 624.566, ; 719 wt.; 1861,
63:11 325/.; 18621 6.704,7531.; 1563, 5 995,368 k; 11414,
2,656,9711.; and 1865, 5,0511701. The discovery of gold
in Australia excited fear., it will he remembered, ill
1851. 18.52, and DM that there would he kgreat de.
predation in the value of that metal, a contingency
which has not been realieed in the leant, although,
siege those eventful yearn, New Zealand has become
a gidil-producing centre. The deliveriea from the
Australian colonies thi4 veor nroinnie to come up at
least to the receipts in 1862 or 1863.

about the-l'irniit-n-ir-isinesiT rgi7-1 iaying that the
marCh of lite 000 Febians,intis Canada would cause •
gitr4 deal Of ainnwiment do some, an 4 thorough satis
factipn to others, partly on, account of the extent to
which the United States wiitild.tions 1111 relieved of the
•Veeeans, and if they were tit copular Canada, and
oommert it Into a heptarcby, the *hole tierformanoe
'would be greeted with shouts of Ikughter. There is
but one way of developing open oppneition to the Fe.
Dian moveinent, and that is by settling the Alsiediei
The opinion begins to prevail that this will
be done by Lord Derby, if he can stay in office long
enough. If it were done it should be arranged in a
hank and friendly way.
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, On Tuesdky th,Viiverpool detectives 'J
cm.
a Ikge
:box recently arri from America, which, on .
nation, wee found o contain a very handsome enjan
•tofficer's uniform-lo wit, a rich tunic of kreen clot,
elaborately braided, and with gold lace on the collar,
. a dress waistcoat with harp buttons, and a cap of
green silk, with the Irish harp in gold on the front.
The box also contained threes revolvers, a dagger,
'leathern belt and cartridge•box, and a book of "official
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