The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-07-31 00:00:00

EPITOME OF
_NEWS,

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 High-
clerc 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..vern-
most. 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 New-
castle on an early day, to organise a series of great demonstra-
tions in favour of the Government, and to elicit an expres-
sion 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 pre-
sent 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 THE ISLE OF MAN. pr Consideratle attention has been directed to an im-
ovement tor increasing the sonority of the violoncello
A drunken woman murdered her child, and at- invented Icy Servals. The instrument, instead of being held
tempted to kill herself, at Douglas, Isle of Man, at an between the knees, rests on a bar of meta‘, end BO Corn-
early hour on Sunday morning last. The scene of the rounicates its vibrations to the flour.
crime was one of the vilest places in the old districts The next annual congress of the Social Science
of Douglas, in a room of an old three storied house. The Association is appointed to take place at Bristol from the 29th
room opposite was occupied by a shoemaker and his September to the nth October next.
family. From the latter room was obtained the fatal The Manchater Guardian remarks that in that city
instrument —a shoemaker's knife—with which the there appears to be loyalty as well as the proverbial
murder was committed. The floor was full of holes,
w" (iehneetcr "amtm! thieves. Itttislnti that week. rot-
glving easy access to the rate, of which, it is said, there prnocessi ding
cro'natiection with theet'igilrculfutrhal Me,
were so many that it was necessary to watch all night only one prisoner had been brought before the magistrate at
over the dead body to prevent its being devoured. the City police-court for pocket-picking, or theft of any kind;
The name of the murderess is Margaret Stewart, and there has not been even one at Salford. During the
wife of Samuel Stewart, a cardriver. The couple
Rai visit in 1051 there was the same singular absence of
Tne.
were both greatly given to cri
drink, and the result of the The Prince of Wales has notified in an official form
husbands dissipated habit.; was that he got hurt on to the Mayor of Manchester his entire approval of the ar,
the 6th of July, and since then he Las been an inmate rangements made In connection with the Royal visit to that
of the fele of Man Hospital. During the three weeks city last wok. Ills Royal Highness had preciously General
that have intervened the wretched wife has been con- Knolly's letter Bays) expressed personally to the Mayor,
tinually drunk, and has sold every piece of furniture the provisions
the
.part of the Princess and himself, their thanks for
they issesessed. During the last two or three days, good oordesiro"asnaurade forcomfort,itthyewutiicllmar t :Tit
itt,ehepi rteseeeneedeht,sgf the
however, she had not had the means of procuring the day."
drink, and it was evident she was Buffering from de- A French paper states thatM. Ferdinand de Lessepe
lirium tremens. having successfully united the Red and Mediterranean Seas
It is stated that on the previous Thursday she went by the Suez Canal, is about to create a sea. M. de Lesseps
into a room upstairs, and addressing a woman named has discovered that the Desert of Sahara in Central Africa is
Jane Goodwin, said, "there will be murder coin- twenty-sevenl=z:el:e'er
frlrivi,:fd the:
titl
Sea, conse'
nutted in this house yet. My room haunted. It is q
tli'Mlelert the constant et'l'ow of water would soon cr..ate a sea.
full of devils." Shortly after midnight on Saturday That hitherto unprofitable waste would become navigable by
Mrs. Goodwin was aroused from her bed by hearing ships, and a lucrative commerce mtablished with the people
the voice of a child crying "Oh, don't, mother." Mrs. residing on its shores.
Goodwin lived in the room immediately over that oc- A conference of representatives of colliers was held,
copied by Margaret Stewart. The cry being repeated on Monday, at Manchester, to consider the subject of the
Mrs. Goodwin rushed out of bed, and, rousing another recent colliery explosions, and the measures which it is
woman in the house, they ran downstairs, when they cltetrtebeld:(ttaeiliteebteeeNoephltetelet:
ene site stWajedmi:atteeersretelet
saw the body of little Samuel Stewart, the youngest praying that a special jury should be ernpanelhd to invest?:
son of Mrs. Stewart, lying upon the floor in the corner gate the recent itayeoek explosion, and also that petitions to
close under the window. His head was in a pool of Parliament should be promoted for the issue of a special
blood, and his throat was cut from ear to ear, the head commission to inquire into the coliesy explosion. in Lanes-
being nearly severed from the body. shire sod Wales during the past to Ice montt s.
The murderess had disappeared. Search was in- On the occasion of the late visit of the Prince and
!dandy made for her, but be. some time without avail. Princess of Wales to Bull, the Danish rssi.tents presented to
The shore is close by, and a girl named Jane Ward her Royal lii doles% an address they have received the ha-
wses there looking for her father, a boatman, when she lttainAh7plye \izeerat It:ireeWhilelei;mhKernollyris tifeihdeeell
was alarmed by seeing a woman on the shore, hacking thanks.drestool the
welcome.
relstidienastsbeotennumllt.otratrhaetiirt)ailescttioonla,teer
at her throat with a shoemaker's knife. At this
monueut the girl's brother, Daniel Ward, came on to Royal Highness to visits town so closely connected by the
the shore. Upon this the murderess, uttering a yell, interests of trade with Denmark, and the reception which
rushed madly into the bay, evidently determined to t„tailrisitaalfrollmigitheirlemhaovrye met e withhailrletmeL be
drown herself. Ward at once plunged in after her, Bull have the Princess of Wallies sincere prayers 'for their
and with great difficulty succeeded in dragging her out Imre wipes wigwam