The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-07-02 00:00:00

Mr. 1 omlinson.

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PhOFESSOIt AGA! s:z —The Mends of Profess°
A g,sesiz have alr, ady learnt that le Ins had an attack
of illy, es which will prevent his /wailing his ,cientilio
studies for some month:to come. The singular fart is
now related if him that, at the rondos on of his 'mit
protracted iffut in the way of barely, be suddenly be-
came very drowsy, and sltpt a number of days alino4
without any ceesation, which his phi siclaus looked
upon as an unfavourable symptom. His labours dur-
ing the put winter were uunsuilly severe, and perfect
quiet both of body and mind is now a necessity.

TUE GaEAT SALT LAKF.—American papers re-
port that a:subterranean outlet to the Ge eat Salt Loke
has hoen found opposite Connie, and beset n Fremont
and Kimball Limos. It is :gated that the schooner
Pmewer, Captain Hannah, while sailing in that v:cinity
on the sth of June was draws into an opening, which
is an immense maelstrom, .r whirlpool, and the des-
cent and circular motion of tie water over, so rapid and
violent that the veg4el was wade to spin around in it
wido frightful 'velocity, audit was only in conseqmnce
of a high wield prevailing at the time that 8,1 E: woe enao
Me l to soil beyond the iifluince of the awful c
A party of scientific men wise about to levee Cor:nue
to examine the supposed on let

AN ENGLISH -LADY eND DER leftEnCH HUS-
BAND —lt will be remembered that KAM time ego a
Miss Perkins, of the greet brewery family, made a
very romantic marriage w.th A M. Scholl, a French
journalist. Like incest of such unions, the marriage
turned out unhappy, and Madame Scholl sued in the
French court for sever stion on the w ual grounds of
cruelty. 'the court after having token a long time for
consideration, has now nonstited the complainant, and
condemned her in all the costs. M. Scholl created
some amusement in court bykisiurup his counsel several
times Int both cheeks as a mark of his aatisf action—on
which it was retrial ked that it would have been much
better had he pelf armed the eagle operatim on his
wife.
A PHOV, GRAPHIC INCIDIN.e. —A farmer went
to Paris, recently, accompanied by his two eons, to get
their photographs taken. To make the youngsters
neat and trim for the pose, papa asked the artist to give
them some water to wash MI the dust of travelling.
The photographer, being very busy, eimply told them
they would find a lavatory in the adjoining room, awl
the lads retired to polish up their faces. Scarcely, hoe.
ever, were the negatives taken, when the canntenances
of the lads were observed to be gradually becoming of
a dusky hire; and, finally, to the horror of their father,
they became as black as crows. The photographer
then divined the truth. They had plunged their heated
faces into one of the chemical baths Lard for photo-
graphs. The wrath was great of their fond mamma
when two Liggers wore brought back to her the same
evening.
ARCIIIEPISIOPAL FATIGUIS.—A Country Vicar
writes to The nines
It was announced at Archdeacon Churton'a visitation that
we were not to expect any more "charges' from the Arch-
bishop of York, the fatigue arid monotony of the delivery of
tire same words in nine different places Milne toe much for
Iris Grace. Will you allow me to ask if, in 1111, statement of his
own case, the Archbishop has thoug tit of the contrasts which it
brings to view of the daily work ef marl of his own clergy
Is large towns, and "the fatigue and monotony." almost
without a bresk, of their lives? I feel sure that the hearts
o these true men will be made sad hy the thtmght that their
cap'ain, in the full tide of his strerigth and prosperity, has
so little of the spirit of self-denial In him. To them these
nine visits to new plmes to meet welconiing and respectful
brethren aepear more like a pleasant holplay and simmer
excursion than " a monotony arid fatigue." May I be per-
mitted to add, in mineusien, that we not only want the
advice of our Arehlr;shop in the shape of "fl triennial
charge," but we want to see his lace? We do not ruin Mutly
roalize the grace and power of his weserce by polite letters
mitten by Ills secretary, and signed W Dem' We want
t feel that we really have " A Commander-in-Chlef."
PdOSPLCIS OF TRADE.—It is many years since
trade was conducted on its present large scale PO noise-
lesely (remarks the hullionid). For whatever reason,
manufacturers do more work and barrow less than
they did. So general is this that in the leading dis-
count circles in London it is sornetia.es asked if it is
true that a good trade is doing. The traflic returns of
the leading railways, the Clearing-house figures' tee
Board of Trade returna, all show that it is hirli.plltelly
o. The reason is, perhaps, that weak manufactnrera
have been used up, and that bminess is more than ever
in the hands of men of capital and energy. The Clear-
ing-house return of this wes k aitorda entatent:el evi-
dence of the larger business bow doing. It is exclu-
sively a ,commercial clearing, sod we will compare it
a ith former returns of a like character. The total is
.4:.74 755.00. In the corresponling week of last vear
the total Was £61,017,010: in 1866 it wee £58,018,000;
end in 1867 it was £54,787,000.
Ton LABOUR MARKET IN AIISTRALIA.—The
followirg extract, relating to the state of the labour.
market, is from the Melbourne Argus:
"Tire long continued drought haviog now fairly broken up,
farming emanations have been resumed with great activity
throughout the country, and the re lias Leen a corresponding
demand created for farm lab users All descriptions of
tradesmen are able to obtain full work at tire current rate of
wages. In many parts of the country the rates rule higher
than those quoted. On one Government contract the brick-
la) ors empleyed were receiving 101. per day, and an attenipt
was made to extra 145, per day by means of a strike. For
' domestic servants the dereatel is as great and as bully
supplied as ever. Since last mall the hinnigrart ship Percy
has arrived with 366 passengers, bet, owing to sickness 011
board, the 'vessel has been detalued at the quarautihe
ground As most of these passerigera will go to their friends,
the market wall be but slightly relieved."
A "DIATOM OF THE 0013NTST."—A curious
" custom of the country" was brought Dialer the notice
of the county magistrates at Kirkby Lansdale, in
Westmoreland, the other day. Two farmers' sons
were charged with assaulting John Aakinsi n the
younger, on Sunday evening the 19th instant. The
complainant said he was walking with a youna woman
when the defendants ran behind him, and while one of
them held him round the waist the other threw a sack
over his head. On the complainant trying to get
away, one of the defendants struck him entire face at-d
gave him a biack eye. The cowl lainant en being
cross-examined by the defendants' attorney admitted
that he was out upon a "courting expedition," and
that it was a custom prevalent around Kirkby Lone-
chafe, that if a young man went out of his own townehip
to court a girl in another, be was expected to `• pay his
footing" or be "sacked." He had refused to pay a
shilling for Ida "footing," and had been " sacked" by
the defendants. The defence PM that there bad been
no hostile intention, and that the complainant bad
struck first. The magistrates, after coneulting, Bug-
geisted that the information should be withdrawn
upon the defendants paying the costs. That course
wa, agreed to.
UN MOT DE MADAME ItAMSBOTFIAM.—MrS.
Rawahotham (Mrs. Malapropiss (riend) was much
grieved about the tire at Pere. It-counting the details
to a friend, she said, "You will be glad to hear that
though the British Consul last almost everything, he
managed to save his anchoviea" It turned out that
she meant the Archives. —Punch.
Poon WWI AN !—The follow ir g incident is re-
lated of the great fire in Constantinople :
A woman was seen rushing through the tercets, and dart-
ing into a friend'a house at a distance from the dames,
bugging something in her arms. "Sale, safe ! ' she ex-
claimed, •• Tharik God I've saved my child ! My plate is down
the well, .d that can be got at when the fire is over." A
piercing shriek immediately followed, for, looking down, she
fouud that what she held in her arms was only her plate tied
spin a kerchief, and that in her bewilderment and huiry
what she had thrown into the well was her own infant!
A HINT ABOUT STRAWBERRIES.—A correspon-
dent of the Gardener's Magazine writes:—
Of course you know haw to eat them, and trove known for
a long time past, and therefore feel disposeet to treat this
note as useless " What are teeth for 1" quotai the wolf in
the story, and Little Red Biding Hood made an answer with
her life. But do allow me to record, as the result of 4ibser-
vatim that very few fruits, however well grown and how-
ever perfectly r.pened, are so good if eaten instantly upon
being gathered as they are when kept in a cool dark place
for 24 hours or more. Strawberries plucsed
,when the sun
shines tiereely are simply unlit to eat, for they are warm ;
ditto peaches, anil all else. To obtain the full, true,
delicious, flavour of a strawberry or a peach, gather the
fruit one day in advance and shut it up closely in the fruit-
MOM, and It will then be tit for the dessert arid a credit to
the cultivator. A second-class fruit prepared by this course
of procedure will actually surpass a neat-class fruit eaten
freshly gathered. Yet the current potion is that soft fruits
cannot he too fresh and that the keeping of thew deterior-
ates their flavour.
A Goon SUGGEETION.— The treatment of jury-
men in courts of law is one of the scandals of our
judicial system. It is monstrous that it should require
to be suggested that they should have decent accom-
modation in or near the Courts during their unem-
ployed moments. A correspondent of The Times pro.
arisen that out of thirty-six jurymen summoned for
each Court, twelve should be sworn and put in the
box forthwith ; twelve more should then be sworn and
put in a decent room with pens, ink, arch paper, where
they might read and write letters or transact any
business they may have ,• the third twelve he would
di-miss out of hand. The twenty-four sworn men
would thus have the satisfaction of knowing that they
would not have to waste their time in waiting, or in
kicking and squeezing and struggling among a dirty
mob aria crowded court. As soon as the first twelve
retired to consider their verdict, the second to-ring
would at, IS inrtr the box without keeping the court
waiting one Militate,
AMESICAN S —According to-the Ceco,lS
of the Indiana in the United States, taken last year by
Comma inner Parker, their total number is 378,5;7, of
whom Yid.ooi) are inhalthmatiref Alaska, 31,290 of Cali-
fornia, 4 991 of New York. Deducting these itemothe
total Indian population of the Mississippi and NV, stem
pwaarrhoies,,
giving
vlisnBg;
nt
availableC he y e tif
oar: ,e
plains is not much more than 277,000. Of the tribes
not represent the
now more or lcss engaged in hostilities agahut the
ofLasoo little ;thmeoreklit'hnal'
United State., the Goulashes number 2,538, the Arra.
28,120; and Apaches, B,ooo—makings total of 41,316,
menede
owelro which
of whom probably eine in eight is an able-bodied
tailor named Schmidt, was la ought up on the charge
of unlawfully se-- nd Oeorge Henry Williams, a
efficiency of that body of men in a regular Chin ,
cso7)oour
because its numbers are never concentrated.
beforel'l
DISOUSTINri FEROCITY.—At '
eq, a German
head encircled b' the court with his
y a bandage, and minus "
It appeared that the his right ear
prisoner entered the house where the complainant lodged, and without the eli bt t
provocation caught bold of Williams and Hire g hrm
upon a fire which was blazing in the grate. Nwext h

throwing

hurled the prior darkey nisin the floor, and, throwing
himself upon him, bit off his right ear. SchWindt wan
quite sober at the time. A 'Kik lie•aialEtAln said when
he apprehende I the prisoner the mouth el 'the latter
Was covered with hi eel. A we 0100 WU,ci Mary
Hand, who we present when the di,guseing affair
occurred, said she saw Selitoidt 'chatting" the severed
ear in his sonnet, from whisk blood was limning. The
sight had so affacted her thatishe had not 'broken her
GA," nor been well slice. It M.lB the " awtolbst
thing" she had ever seen. The only defence the
cannibal-like pi isoner had to niske was that si,me cue
struck lien when lie entered the home. lie was
beeteliced to two moiths' imprisonmesit.

DRATII or PROFESSOR Mr. Syme, late
Profersor of Clinical Surgery in the Univeitity of
Edinburch, died nn Stindity evening at hie redidame,
Millbank, near Edinburgh. In April last 3 ear Mr.
Syine was sefzed with parelesis, but be ii far recovered
from the attack as to he able to perform sue prnfes-
konal work. About a mouth aff,U he was again laid
prostrate by another stark, muter whim he has suc-
cumbed. Mr. 'me was appointed to the Char of
Clinical Surgery in 1833 lie was for a shoct time
Profeaeor of Surgery in Univvrsity Colleve, London,
after the death of Mr. Liston, but he subsequintly re-
turned to Edinburgh, and risumed tire pnaition he had
formerly hell lie was compelled by the state of his
health to resign in the course of fast year. Mr. Syria'
was surgeon to the Queen in Scotland, and had a Isirge
number of honour,, conferred on him by various bodies
in Great Britain and on the Continent.
. .

WORRIED TO DFATIL —The sitting mdetrates
at Gosp irt have investigated echarge preferred aeaibst
two boys, named Edward Wirkiee, 17, and Widirun
James Lodge, 18, of killing arid alaying George
Hughes, Reel 70, formerly a quartermaster in the
navy. 1! appeared that the old man, wen wise healthy
for him age, left his home in Geeport on Monday to sell
some brass, when Ire woo stesaileer by tie ;micelle's, who
pushed his bat off anil knocked him dewy. They
afterwards threw cabbage leaves and other naisailee at
him, and he was obliged to take refuge in the store of
a general dealer. He was an a very excited state and
fell on the floor, death following alemet instantaneenely.
The surge -n who made a posslmortrev examinati ea of
the body found fatty degeneration if the heart, and was
of opinion that death was caused by excitement, con-
sequent on the treatment the deceased rem wed. The
magistrates committed the prisoners for trial.
'lntr./ANDS IN TURKs.Y.—The Levant Herald
states that wording to telegraphic advices from
Vatina good results have ensued from the energetic
measures taken by the Ottoman authorities against the
Greek brigands who cross the border. 'rioter, latter
find it no longer safe to seek rehige on Turkic&
territory. Two more of their number have been cap-
tured, one named Dimirri Mendota, in the neighbour-
hood of Arta, and another known as Am a Vasail, in the
district of Parga. The villagers are card to aesiat the
authorities in eve re way. They give notice when the
brigands pass the frontier, and thews cut-throats being
hotly pursued, uhnost invariably fall into the hands of
the troops, living or dead.
CONVENTUAL AND MONASTIC INSTITUTIOSS.—
It appears from Mr. Cuildon's evidence before the
committee, that a few days ago the number of pHeets
in Great Britain wets 476, engaged ie the ten willeges
and abo in the 121 pa: ishes. The number of young
men being t repared for religions offices was 300. The
number of men called lay brothers, or gentle ramie ser-
vants engaged in the college, was 200. They performed
the duties of servants. In regard to the ser eve of
the monastries, he stated that the total, if calculated
according to statute measure. weuld be 2.432 alto-
gether. The principal land held was in Lowashire.
The total rental of 1600 acres belonging ti religious
bodies, but not held by colleges, ma- £3,400 a-year ;
PO that the total income would be £10,350 from personal
estate, ani £3,400 a-year from land. He tanitiusd his
information to the communities of men.
PORTE AND WHISKEY.—We hear that in the
event of the noble Ruiners liberating tranepied Ire-
land from the galling yeke of the atrocii us Rune the
Suiten of Turkey is to be asked to become Severeign
of Hibernia. The reason (not bad for an Irish one)
is that he is the Paddy Shale—Prince.
A" SLAVE" MEETING iw I'ReFALGAII4QUARE.
—ln London, on Monday night, at eight oVoirk, aeon-
siderable number of ;e isle assembled in 'Frafalgar-
equare,attracred by the following advertisement, which
had appeared in some of the London papers last
week : 'Slavery in England.—A meeting of
Slaves will be held in Trafalgar-square, at eight
o'clock, on Monday evening, Juue 27 (to be coutieued
weekly), when 'a Poor Slave' will take the chair, and
exidaite the means ley which elavery may be ebolished
in Eegland." As no rifle appeared ti take the chair,
those aseembl- d began to look ueoa the proposed meet-
ing as a hoax and eredually to disperse. At nine
o'clock only a few etraeglers were lett in the s mare.
Just about that time a pereen who is connected with
the Democretic League meeting in el.-Ikea:well, entered
the square, acco&panied by two or two three friends,
one carrying a large bundle of pepers lab& r his WM.
From their demeanonr it was evident that they were
promoters of the movement, but after takieg up
poeition at the foot of the monument and eensulling
together for a few minutes, they acre evidently di--
cone. rted at the small rumber p,euent, and walked
away from the E glare, apparently much disappointed
at flailing no few "slaves" hal responded to their
appeal.
AN EGG POAC3EII. Everybody krtr-..W3 with
what persistent zeal the gamekeeper will follow up and
destroy every bird of the falcon tribe whicii may be
domiciled on his "prescreen ;" tut, altheingli it may
not be generally conceived, they ouseionally serve the
keepers a good turn by destroying the notorious egg
poaching customer —the common adder. Qieite re-
cently a remarkable instance of this recurred in the
neighbourhood of Camberne, Cornwall. A harrier
hawk, two cunning ever to come within range of the
beet er's, gun, Was invited to precipitate himself on a
gin, or trap, over whin was put Wraith% bait in the
shape of a young rabbit, awl then a hied, and again a
weasel. But all to no purpose; for, hovering over the
plane his keen eye detected sonnethin; wrong in the
"make up." At last the gamekeeper, having killed an
adder, put it over the trap, coiled up as if asleep, and
awaired the result. He had net long to wait, for the
hawk, quietly sailing along with outstare tahed wing,
&Tied the reptile, and, without a moment's hesitation,
pureed on it, and was caught in the trap.— Chamber
of Agriculture Journal.
Snuit-nbacms IN ROSSIA.—A new sign of pro-
gress has manifested itself et St. Petersburg. A shoe-
black from somewhere in :ensues (probably Leon syna.
pathrtic Prague), has established himself on the
Nevsky Proseect, and is said to be d 'in: a good
business, though hitherto the very geeerel we of
goloshes in Russia has made ouch an °counselor' rainiest
amu erflueue one. However, in a ceuntry of seventy
million inhabitants there will doubtless be enough
work for one store-black; awl probably numbers of
persons in St. Petersburg, finding they can have their
boots cleaned at short notrce, will give up the wearing
of goloshes which has Le-n adopted as a safeguard
against dust in summer awl mud in winter. The name
of the euterprising shoe-black who, alone and armed
oely with a blacking brash, hint taken neon himself to
invade Russia is Dzendzelovsky. He has enlisted a
certain Lumber I f reunite, arid inter:die it is rail, to
form a shoe black brigade.
STaT; reuses OF VACCtNATiON.— A retnin issued
by the Pent. Law Board shows that in the parochial
year 1868-69 .529.568 rsons were vaccinated by the
public vaccinators iu Englaiel and Wales, 524 1-13 sue-
cessfully. In the 3 ear 1859-60 the number success-
fully vaccinated was equal ti 705 per cent. of the
ber of registered births in the ear ; in 1860 61 it was
62.1 per cent. ; in 1861 62. 613 p=r cent. ; in 1862-63,
p-r cent. ; in 11-63 61, 71.6 per cent.; in 1e64 Cl,
77.9 per cent. ; in 18415 66, 61 0 per wort. ; in 1866-07,
64 0 per cent. ; in 1e67-68, 66 5 per cent, ; in 1868-69,
67.3 per cent. These statements do not include vac-
cinations in private practice,
&IVIED BY A COMPANY f —The Roman amphi-
theatre lately discovered at the left bank of the Seine
is, it appears, in danger of destruction, and M. Poulon
d'Amee nit. President of the Numismar le Art:keeled°
S. ciety of France, appeals, with tome if his eieleagnes,
for help from the abViperrian wield. 'Prosy had
counted, "as it is a mire ate always to do ie Frerca"
on the Government to purchase the grimed in which
the discovery was made trona i's present proprietors,
the Omnibus Company; but the Government refuses
to ace and leaves the matter ti private enterprise.
ryes
ah',.? le to span-
" To prevent an set of vandalism, an irreparable mis-
fortune, it is necessary," say the writers, "to raise a
sum of 600,0001. immediately in eight days." A com-
pany hare been formed with a view to aumiring the
land, with shares of £2O each, and its cepiial guaran-
teed on the security of the land itself, the value of
which is certain to increase.
CABMAN'S QUe ST LIW.—If Mr. Iladclain'g
Alphabetical System of Progression ever becomes the
Lew of the Metropolis Cabbies will hate to mind
their P'a and cro.—Ptertc:h.
A TIEMPTED SHIMS!. —CH Monday, a park-
keeper was on duty in Richmond-park, when he saw
a re ipectablvelrewed man lying on the ground, sp.
rerently suffering great agony. Near hint Was lying a
smell bottle, labelled "spirite of salts." Assistance
wee procured and the man was convoyed to the intir-
mary, where it Was found that he was suffering from
the effects of peison. In biz porkerebook-the following
wade were written :
ci Slay God blwe ivy poor wife ! I know He will be with
her. Dear wife, I hope Gosh will bless yen, and give you
etrength to help you through the cares of this life. Ti-',
net of me, for the spark has flown to its rest. froeeerye
until we meet in Heaven.
The unfortnnete man lies at the infirmary in a very
Ic
dangerous
arl,ln ittni
ty.hgr:oeaet:ll,3olHni
t—osTrou sgotsfth:teetael Dniist:g:etwor.4,:gat
.ehilei—aak:mhh:leniigni,
:tth Second,
marke :
badly cracked, it was feared the% some day in striking it
relg`st hresk .4 bring cl,ck.works and clockovtights all
odt e eot
hs tee' n wvi
sloe hed es.
new Houses of Parliament. Stich a mais of met:a—about
of course, snake the fouadations of the tower to ther very
fall from any accident, Mr. E isratil Barry wae ea:molted In
1861, aa to the best means a taking ma:cautions against the
ilsnger. His rcaly ww, a bed at sand about ten feet deep
under the weights. This euegestion was, hltvev,r, rejected
by the Beare ig Works, who deci.ied for a saterittfic
"cnshiou " of mixed jute eye ar et matting, a high pile
of tis c inibusithie naterinle ne.ll; aenordbigly raised in
close proximity to a nee. About seven years agO, at three
in the afternoon, this " carillon" took fire, as might have
been exputeci, arid setue damage and caused mar.
1.,f0f the Lard. and Corn-
alarm. 83311, in spite of this warning, the " maw- -
mac
010c;,,,d0
boar_uett exa
as w,;:r
oe e
tlf;
o.gle
but are per ntl -rc-a.inwthane
Surely there Ile quite enough elemease fire auatn.
in the roofs of butts the clunilier- .ot d.ger from fire
uug
as
his
ir
taue"u' petua y in danger from the
PM-Lolly of a heated tlue. tt
:iteteantipw
chdh:reale: :oh!:
tt fire
rbe
EQUAL TO THE OCCASION.--It is anrouneisl
, •
snat our Tennyson hen expressed a wish to go with
one of the parties alinnt to be despatched by the Reyal,
and Itryal Agtronomical Societies to Gibraltar, Sicily,
and Algiers in December next, to observe the total
eclipse of the sun. Let us hope the Laureate will be
enabled to carry this wish out. We shall be sure to
have a grand account of a phenomenon displayed by
the sun from a witness epiarially qualified to describe
it by having already achieved the kind of renown
peculiar to those who are famous as Pluebodignaloeithe
—Punch.