The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-06-05 00:00:00

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ROME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.

ANOTHER MURDER IN. GLASGOW.—A shocking

murder--the third within the laet fortnight—was per:

petrated in Glasgow on Saturday night. The mur-
derer's name is Thomas Dearns, and his victim is a
woman named Hall, with whom he cohabited. It
appears that on Saturday afternoon Dearns brought
home to his lodgings, in Little Dovehill, his weekly
earnings, amounting to some 17a, and that shortly
after his paramour, with the money in her possession,
went out to make some purchases, Hearne himself
going out for a walk. About eight o'clock deceased
and Drams returned together, the former much the
worse for think, and they had no sooner got within
doors than Dearns began to beat her. An alarm having
been raise 3, a sister of Hall entered the house and
found Drains with the dead body of his paramour on
his knee. The police were at once called in, and re-
moved the prisoner, together with the body, which
bore traces of ill-treatment, and. the mark of three

iingerea-ihe-th;O;i:as-""iide"ceas---ed .h;d-be-en-throt-led:
The prisoner was remitted to the Sheriff on a charge of
murder.

THE Dtricx AND Tam MONIC—A contemporary
gives the following . _

The chaplain to the forces at Shorncliffe recently asked
Father Ignatius to preach to the soldiers, and that the gene-
ral commanding backed his request. The chaplain-general
said that, being inhibited, Ignatius could not preach ; where-
upon the general wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury, who
replied that there was nothing to prevent the Father from
preaching. Then the Duke of Cambridge interfered and for-
bade the sermon, which has made the Ritualist press very
angry. The fun of the thing lies in the general's pleadings
with the Duke. " it.R.ll. had allowed the camp church to
be used for a magic-lantern show," and, therefore, why not
for the Monk of the Period? " Roman Catholic service was

performed in it," lhrrefcre,—Such in the ituerence,—why not
allow Ignatius to ape real monkery ? But the duke was firm.
However, a neighbouring clergyman gave up his church for
an evening service, and crowds of "recalcitrant disciples of
Mare" poured in from the camp to hear what the Ritualist
organ calls "a monk preach the gospel of Jesus Christ." The
duke's victory, therefore, was a doubtful one.

SHOCKING DISCOVERY.—On Saturday a man
was drawing water from a well at Boothroyd, Dews-
bury, when he was horrified at finding the mutilated
remains of a female child in the bucket. The chief
portion brought up was the trunk, but before then a
piece of bone supposed to be part of an infant's skull,
had been drawn up. The wet Inas been in constant use
in the neighbourhood. Its use, however, has caused a
vast amount of suffering, if not death, for it produced
typhoid fever of a virulent type in those who drank it.
Horses had been offered the water, but they refused to
drink, but this did not excite any alarm on the part of
the people, even though it had been noticed for some
time as giving off an extremely offensive odour, and
they continued to make use of the well up to the time
when the remains of the child were discovered.
COMPULSORY REPOSE !—A letter which has been
written to a Loudon contemporary shows that what is
called philanthropic legislation sometimes misses its
mark. The law forbidding milliners to work after
four o'clock on Saturdays has simply made the classes
it was intended to benefit worse off than they were
before. When the hour fixed by law arrives for closing
the workshops the milliners and others must go home
and toil, or the half day they lose is deducted from
their wages. "I find," writes a " mantlemaker" of
her work, "I cannot get it done; consequently I must
take it home, and find light, and in winter, fire, which
I should save were it not for the law. I get no more
money for the work." It is like the eight-hours law in
America—the employers can take care that they lose
nothing by it, and of courNe they do so. People who
have families to support, or who are pressed for money,
would much rather work a few hours overtime than
have compulsory repose thrust upon them. The inspec-
tors who are assisting to enforce these laws cannot give
a good account of them, and they might be modified
without the good that is contained in their principle
being lost.
To SIGHT-SEERS.—Lovers of the marvellous
may be glad to know that the Metropolis can show
something far more wonderful than the Siamese twin
brothers—" Seven Sisters' Junction" I—Punch.
EXTRAORDINARY ASSAULT UPON A WIFE.—At
Glasgow, Robert Dickson has just been sentenced to
three months' imprisonment for having, on the 3rd of
April last, in his house in Argyle-street, committed an
unprovoked assault en the person of his wife, by strik-
ing her on the head and face with his fists, pushing her
down on a sofa, tying her legs together with a cravat,
tying her wrists together with a handkerchief, cutting
out part of the hair of her head with a pair of scissors,
pouring a quantity of syrup on her head, and leaving
her lying on the sofa for the space of half an hour.

PATENT WINES.—The manufacture of imitation
champagnes and other sparkling wines appears to be
greatly on the increase, and likely to assume gigantic
proportions. It is declared that some German chemists
have patented a machine for facilitating the manufac-
ture of such imitation wines, which, it is reckoned, may
be produced at 10s. per dozen, and yet yield a profit of
£3O upon 1,000 bottles. A list is given of nearly 100
houses which have acquired the right to use the patent;
and, as two other lists have been made public, the con-
cession must have been granted to a large number of per.
sons in Germany. But it is probable that it will not be
long before these imitation "champagnes," "sparkling
hocks," and " sparkling moselles" make their way into
France and other countries, including England. It is,
therefore, more than ever necessary that persons, in
buying champagnes and other similar wines, should
only choose good brands, and be satisfied as to the
genuineness.
A CONTWADICTION.—A statement has been made
by the Manchester Guardian, to the effect that Mr.
Reverrly Johnson before quitting England had to pay
a forfeit of upwards of £2,000 on giving up a house he
had taken in Portland-place for a period of five years.
Noticing the statement, the agents for the proprietor of
the house writes :
We noticed a quotation from the Manchester Guardian re
(erring to the transaction of the lion. Reverdy Johnson
renting his house in Portland-place, where it is stated "the
agent of the owner, though little of a politician, had shrewd-
ness enough to introduce a covenant in the lease providing
for the payment of a very large sum as compensation in case
the Minister Plenipotentiary should find it convenient to
leave England before the period had expired, and under this
stipulation Mr. Johnson, I understand, was obliged to pay
before quitting England a forfeit of upwards of 420)00." We
beg to say that the above assertion is a simple fabrication,
and that the agreement only contained the usual covenants
used in renting a furnished house. There was no condition
whatever inserted requiring his Excellency to pay £2,000 In
the event of his terminating the tenancy at a shorter period
than live years.

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GOING TO EXTRFINES.—A friend of ours is FIO
humane that he cannot even bear to dine upon Hung
Beef.—Punch.

THE EXODUS FROM LIVERPOOL—The emigra-
tion from the Mersey still continues, without the
slightest abatement in numbers. The emigration
agents were never so busy before, nor has there ever
been such a continuous stream of foreigners coming
into Liverpool from all parts of the continent. The
numbers of Germans, Hollanders and Swedes which
are to be seen every day in Liverpool is something
marvellous, and in connexion with this it is remarkable
that the French emigrants are very few. This, how.
ever, can be accounted for from the fact that the French
going to America—unlike the majority of the German
emigrants—take passage in the steamers leaving Havre
direct for New York. During the past week there
Bailed no less than eight steamers from the Mersey for
the United States and Canada. The whole number of
passengers, including cabin and steerage, were close
upon 7,500 souls.

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U NPROFITABLE CUSTOMERS !—A bear escaped a
few days back from a menagerie at Prague, and, after
walking very quietly through the streets for a time, re-
marked a gingerbread shop, which he entered, and in
a very short time had devoured several crowns' worth
of the wares. The dealer had fled in terror at the sight
of this unwelcome customer, but a number of boys and
idlers looked on highly amused. When Bruin had
taken his fill he returned iuietly to his cage, and the
youngepectators burst into the shop and ate up all the
akes and gingerbread left.
BISHOP Goss ON TIIE IRISH CHURCH.—The
Right Rev. Dr. Goss, Roman Catholic Bishop of Liver-
I pool, has made his triennial visitation to St. Joseph's
Catholic Chapel, Preston. In the course of his re-
marks he alluded to the question of the Irish Church.
He observed that if the agitation for the disestablish-
nient and disendowment of the Irish Church had been
continued a little longer, the whole thing would have
been done away with; whereas Mr. Gladstone had in
his bill left sufficient for the Irish persons to make
mischief with. One great effect of the Disestablish-
ment Bill would be to send over to this country the
parsons of Ireland, and they had sufficient of them
already. He would have been better pleased to have
had the Irish Church question settled at once, for if
the Irish parsons had to come over here, there would
be more ill feeling than there was at present. The ill
feeling which raged in the country now was owing to
them, and he wished that Mr. Gladstone had put a
rider to his bill to prohibit the Irish parsons from
coming to this country. He was satisfied that the
ministers of the Church of England would in the end,
b 7 the course they were pursuing, work mischief to
England itself, and before 50 years was passed the
Established Church in this country would be dealt
with in the same manner. as Mr. Gladstone was dealing
with Ireland. They were forcing it upon themselves
through the clamour which they had raised against the
Prime Minister.
AN UNFORTUNATE PARALLEL.--" Ignoramus"
writes in the Standard :—" Mr. Gladstone, the other
night raised a laugh from the more irreverent among
his followers by likening the disendowment of the
Irish Church to the 'disendowment' of Job. Possibly
he would not have done so had he observed the com-
pleteness of the paralleL Do you not recollect what
was the name of the gentleman who was permitted to
disendow ' Job?"

A SUGGE6TIOS.—There seems to be no fabri-
cation concerning European politics too absurd for
currency in New York. Some one, being in want of
news, telegraphed to the papers there an announce
merit that a triple alliance had been entered into by
Prance, England, and Spain against America. The
message was at once carried to the President, but,
says the reporter who witnessed the thrilling incident,
"Grant looked as if he didn't care—another fine
example of his self-possession and fortitude. For some
days the tale was fully believed in by the public and
seriously discussed in nearly all the papers. Even
assuming that it pays to print such silly falsehoods in
America, it can hardly be worth while to keep cor-
respondents in England to make them up and go to the
expense of telegraphing them. They could be con-
cocted just as easily in New York, and while the editor
was in the mood he might as well tell another lie and
say they came by cable.
Tan BOOK OF GENESIS.—At the annual meeting
of the Royal Asiatic Society, held on Monday at the
society's house, Albemarle—treet, London, Sir Henry
Rawlinson in accepting the presidency of the society,
proceeded to gives sketch of the progress which was
being made in Oriental studies, referring particularly
to the labours of Mr. George Smith in collecting and
arranging the fragments of the Nineveh library, and
expressing his conviction of the connexion subsisting
between the Babylonian documents in our possession
and the earliest Biblical notices. He had no doubt
that they would be able to derive the whole of the