The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-06-04 00:00:00

be explained by the emigration of youm; men to trio
West. There were twice as many marriages between
.Americans as between foreigners, and yet more child-
ren born of foreign than native families, In the city
of Boston the number of foreigners and of Americins
married was equal, but the birth of the foreign were
all seven to three of the American families. The in-
crease of the population of the State is twenty-nine per
day. One instance occurs of a spinster of thirty-richt
becoming the sixth wife of a gentleman of sixty-live;
and three instances of marriages at ages exceeding
eighty have occurred.

COS LIC l• DER WITH THE AMERICANS !—An event
has just taken place at Son Francisco, which is excit-
ing in America much speculation of an exultant kind
a. its ultimate commercial and political consequences.
This is the arrival of the Idaho, the first steamer of the
new mail line from Australia, via Honolulu. to Cali-
fornia. She brings, we are told, a large mail and a
full complement of passengers, many of them for Eng-
laud. It is this latter circumstance e specially th, is
regarded as the peculiarly favourable omen. The
A airriCALlB arkue that as time passes, and the hoe
becomes firmly established, more and more of the
~. . •

ABOLISHMSNT OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN
HOLLAND—AIter several days' debating, the Second
Chamber of the States General have carried, by forty-
eight against thirty votes, the bill to abolish capital
punishment in Holland. The principal opponents of
this measure belonged to the ecclesiastical party—the
party of Mr. Green—and derived their arguments from
the Bible. Their motto was For all they that take
the sword shall perish with the sword." Only one
member of the Conservative party opposed the measure.
Another proposed an amendment that capital punish-
ment should be retained for the murder or attempt to
murder of the King or any member of the Royal
family, and for high treason to the State, • ad for pre
meditated murders aud parricide. The Coamher, how-
ever, negatived this proposal by * majority of eighteen
votes. When the First Chamber has pawed this bill,
as undoubtedly it will do, capital puoishment will be
definitively abolished, the substituted punishment
being imprisonment for from five to twenty years, ex-
cept for the army.
A "11AzA•n" Paorreeltmr.—A French jour-
nal!e.' 111. Bertrand, has discovered a new profession
which, it is interesting to know, is pursued in London.
He cads it a strange, eccentric pro'esaion—" bizarre"
is hi,. own word—and, as regards its characterization,
he is oat far wrong. It consists, M. Bertrand ex
plains, in picking out pretty girls of low station,
washing them, dressing them like young ladies, giving
them a few lemons in deportment, mermen, and the
in of apeakiiig English, and then exhibiting them n
the parks' public gardens, and theatres, until they
attra,t the attention at d gain the heart, and ultimately
the hand, of amine rich man. "Little by little" we
are told the pow ic illusions of the honeymoon die-
appear until a-. list the husband discovers that he has
married a girl without position or education. So much
the worse ! But in the meanwhile the bargain has
'wen struck, aud the matrimonial agent has pocketed
his premium." Them improvised young ladies are, it
appears, called "drapery misses."

stream of visitLrs which yearly flows home wards- will
travel by thin route. The first result, according to
Yankee opinion, will be that in the English mind the
Australians will soon become confounded with the
Americans, in company with whom most of them will
arrive. And the next, a natural consequence from
this, that the Australians themselves will soon adopt
somewhat of the same view. After a while our
sanguine American friends conclude that England and
America will not only be prepared for the peaceable
annexation of Australia to the United States; they
will regard it as the proper and even natural course.
DEATH ON THE ALPH.—A shocking accident
has occurred at Lugano, by which a young Englishman
named R yde, son of the well-known banker of
lt,chdale, has lost his life. He had artived at the
Hotel du Parc with his uncle, Mr. Smith, and others of
his family, on the evening of Wednesday, the 25th sni
net out for Monte Salvatore, accompanied by a sister
and a cousin. Toe long-continued hot weather has
made the grass very slippery, and the ill-fated young
man missed his footing, fell over the perpendicular
precipices of the mountain, and was killed
probably instantaneously. The poor young ladies,
heartbroken, spent some hours with utmost peril
to themselves, in searching for his body. When
found, one of the two remained on the mountain to
keep watihover the corpse, while the other returned to
Lugano for assistance. It was far in the night before
the sorrow•stricken girl reached the hotel, and about
one a.m a large body of men with lanterns, and ac-
companied by a doctor, started for the scene of the
accident. They relieved the solitary guardian of her
agonizing midnight watch, and conveyed Mr. Royd's
remains to the hotel. The relatives were stunned
with the suddenness of the calamity; but all that the
most considerate kindness can suggest was done for
them by the proprietor of the hotel, Mr. Beins, and
his excellent wife.
A PLEA FOR BIRDB.—We (New York noes)
learn from an English paper that the golden orioles
lately introduced into that country are slaughtered

Ton New POSTAGE STsmr.-We (Railway
Mercilessly by cockneys with gum. The orioles are
News) understated that the Post-office authorities have
finally decided upon the form of he new halfpenny
nat.
we protest e
with
.est against this breach of internationalus, as the sparrows are with the English,
:
mauip, to be used for the transmission of newspapers and
it
thr,,ugh the past on and after the let of October. Th _,...y. The sparrows in New York override every.
e "`
stamp will ne one-third smaller than the present body and everything-in shirt, do precisely what they
like and "bully" the whole population and yet
poetage etanap, the head of her Majesty, as at present
nole'dy meddles with them. It is a-most unhandsome'
,e engra i d on the stamps, to be reduced in a correspond-
acknowleffiitnert of this courtesy that the American
ing proportion. On each side of the head will be the
birds in England should be treated with barbarous
Mo i
res " ii." in the place of the words " Postage one ,_ .tm _„,
nnoemitaf penny,! row adopted. The stamp will be oblomg, the
itorizontal sides bring longer than the perpendicular, HORSE AND HEATHER.-" My foot is on my
thus preeenriug to the eye a clear and well.defined native heath, and my name is Macgregor." The
difference between the halfpenny and the penny thought of that might have affected the odds at New.
.tamp. The colour selected has been light pink, that market. So it may at Epsom, downy as Epsom is.-
saving been found after many experiments to be the Punch.
most fugitive, ard the most easily affected by any lug REWARDS OF TOTAL . ABSTINENCE.-Mr.
attempts at tampering with it. The figures denoting Angus Cameron, who won the Queen's prize at Wim.
-he value it the stamp will be left white, and the hledon, and who at the time was noted 88 having
tsound will be filled tip with engine work, or light p nii taken the temperance pledge, has been presented by
lines. The stamps will lie printed on sheets of 480, the St. Andrew's division of the Sons of Temperance,
representing twenty shiffinue' worth. Messrs. Perkins, New York, with a handsome gold medal, duly in.
Bacon, nod Co., who engraved sad now print the scribed. Tee following is the inscription :-"Pre..
present postage stamp, have received the order to en- sensed by the St. Andrew's Division, No. 300, Sons of
grace the new stamp, prepare the paper, and print Temperance, New York, U.S. of America, to Arians
1.200,000 sheets iii the new stamp, to be ready for Cameron, Esq ,as a mark of esteem for his unflinching
delivery early in September. fidelity to the cause if total abstinence."
A VERY GOOD Sion.--The Board of Trade re- Pious PRISONEtts !-There would seem to be a
turns for the mouth and four months ending the 30th curious mixture of petty larceny and piety in the
April last chow very favourable results, and furuieh territory of Idaho, according to the recent prison re.
strong evidence of the continued improvement in ports from that region. The prisoners have formed a
general business. The declared valne of our exports last Bible class, and pass a considerable portion of each day
month was £l7 335 470, against £15,624,475 in April, in praying and singing. Two prisoners, recently pare
181,9, and £14,575,152 in April, 1888. The increase is droned, left the State prison with reluctance, declaring
in nearly every leading commodity-beer and ale, that they regarded its moral atmosphere as much
coals, cotton yarn and manufactures, hardwares and superior to that of the rest of Idaho. One prisoner,
cutlery, linen yarn and manufactures, machinery, iron incarcerated for robbing an express waggon train, is
and steel, copper and brass, silk manufactures, woollen studying for the ministry. After ench facts, one may
yarn, and unenumerated articles being the principal, find a gleam of hope in the prospect suggested by an
There is a falling-off in apparel, haberdashery, and advertisement, inviting the citizens of Bohm city to
woollen manufactures; tut it is very slight in each attend the laying of the cornerstone of a new Idaho
case. Among the imports free of duty, grain shows a penitentiary: "A general attendance of every av:e
slight diminution, and cotton a very large increase, and sex is requested, in order that all may view at
The most important changes in the articles subject to commencement of an edifice that may son. '., be am.:
duty, entered for home consumption, are an increased home."
delivery of coffee, cocoa, and tea.
EXPERIMENTING IN CHLOROFORM.- Mr. Jain
VARLET V. EIJJA-This ease was heard in B. Anderson, of Govan, writes as follows :-
Judges' Chambers on Saturday, before Mr. Justice Apropos of the death of the lamented -ir Jame, Simpson,
Myles,. It was an action brought against the Daily allow me to relate my first experiences , I chleroterau The
Telegraph to obtain penalties on account of advertise- surgeon of the Alligat, hospital ship • 1 thing-King he 1830
talents inserted referring to property stolen or lost, and wwroseentidsliaceScolgeletsrnitede, and,o t wr-eh
~,, TAinvea:::l%
stating "that no question would be asked." The verdict wonderful properties, he was instal , , ,:miled .0 te,ard the
was for the defendant, and the costs were taxed at Alligator, when the first order ,ce. •• Steward, catch the
£43. The defendant called no witnesses; and Mr. cat."' Thin unfortunate animal was then rendered I ,sensible.
Parker, the plaintiff's attorney, asked for a review of
li,an,ileonnweejoairrntivoefdhlin. ttahlel anne,rair
Into
oortthheezenoritte t ' ""ice.
the the taxation on an affidavit which he produced in
support of his application, and urged that the Master aoilymitr invitation was •,,,; ~-i.u.r staeed iria•s , -
~ "I nond
recoveries his settees the animal cast ~tie n.. 1 a look
had allowed for witnesses not called, and there was no
affidavit that they were necessary. Mr. Lickford behind, and Immediately conimitted mach,. ', , • „,ng out
(L,avis and Lewis) said this was one of a series of of the after-gun room port. Thin is literally at,
actions against the Daily Telegraph for advertisements PoISONOUS Tot-The Food Journal says :-
under a penal statute, and the section cited had been The trade In the lowest class of adulterated tea still con-
repealed. The plaintiff, Susan Varley, could not be tholes, and this month Dr. Muter reports that there have
found, and the matter .was now before the Court of been no less than ii chests exposed for elle, c9' tSi he pro.
Common Pleas. The witeeeses subpmnr9d would he filo .* , , . ~e1;'0,1 ti,. ,014118.1 I, t, sviety of
nrCeebary had t.l. ~.kt- i.... 0,, 3,1 a the IN orin, , but roc, ~ ~ , . I
.t. sthl. 'or -01_ per pertno. 1t 1t dtled an
the plaintiff failed iii her case.. Mr. Justice lij'ain re- ,T,14,.'"',,,1T,;:,,,`„,:,;i4 .Gigr.,4,,ul,,,iix,c.rntiMV!,!-`,l isr(o'l
1
f osed to diaturb the discretion if the Mace,. "cal
man, 4444. • - t's',,e Midden: But the win' ' F• JOB
on,for.ed the stiff. noes" to r.r.6.1'. tfo'rduY d•aavv.''er t -.... , -"- •-"•." l ~ tea, _I, ~,, at, highly Immo, and ',ceding an *eh e 4,-... • ey,
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Cattier, il 1 /0111{19-4, y. ; ',' ~ ,nth.., I.r (le r.. tide mild '
a poeirriam who ha i oai , ......_ so demi. ..5, txl . s' „I tne roo, case
cwt." ek,,o pee unprincipled person. who are than &B-
F, ieeed errace, kentiv. 1.. Toe po.:arsau, a... --s -
his wife and six children, had occupied the house in
question thirteen weeks, and had heard that the last wriait'crin'cgospetehpmeer:,Lpmron'hbirlityabli iteilocnonpoppeurrodropfuao"nuadr. bi
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people had to leave in consequence of the number of
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What Is wanted is a new definition of what constitutes
rats. Ile set no leas than three traps, but had not
It ought to be assumed that the seller knows what he is
la:: i
ntrate
trap.gun
deceased
ieOlenlriSde,aajytuirnnadaoiendingw,iietkwhhhtheeer fraud, and an easier method of detecting and punishing it.
parentscoanue gwhat
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brother and sister, and on their return found her lying selling, and that the buyer cannot know what lice
ii,.. liaoilrhaiug;dl
in a pool of blood, with wounds upon the bead and and eveunn%oseel milk n
i dlby impartedowontortf.orlmnilakil these matters the
under the eyelid, and bitten through the cheek. An he P
elderchild in the same bed had also been bitten through has
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the thumb, and told her parents that • " pussy " had quently lax. The reception of Lord Ensta,ce Cecil's speech
been in the bed, but they kept no cat. The child was shows that the House of Commons in awakoning to the 'm.
at once attended by a doctor, but never rallied, the portance of this subject, and we
rate
etthee Gov:Ttielm, etnotsowmille
medical man being clearly of opinion that the kites seeedst:l,7 aaynAlevlgt,Treoauri
mo%uatuarenywhitec, h year
h will stop the, physical
were produced by a rat, and that death arose from 0
shock to the system and loss of blood. A verdict was ethveil
.agnedntthane mdotrhael dsievigmeracy of which adulteration Is at once
given in accordance with the medical evidence.
THE BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS FOR APRIL.-
To YOUR POsTS ! MY PUBLIC-Mr. Scudamore The Financier says:-
appeals to all sensible people to protect the telegraph While our imports are still very stationary, both In their
• and manufacturesexperienced .
moremidatnigc volume a hi thhativeexh.pokrt4 oef. Britishnencedanad Irishgreat
apdrso,:tucce.
tt' rePnaor af
ttuhe "cough" s species,that id
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our
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foreign
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colonial
nto a l practiceproduce, e c
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at
y ithen
same time have sold to other nations and our colonies much
than that of handing over to condign punishment all is an influx of money and continued low rates of discount,
ne telegraphkt'i ohtieconceiveaof
ttrhaen
transferred
e'rmurieoadrt4et7.3tN legitimate ol‘wilrtthi?Ps workingalgreandolfiltywh ;' more of our own manufactures end productions. The rea n I t
mischievous fools, young or old, found shying at the enablintiursitt supoflywottLersti,iatirrel!rigrrealLwainci:4l,jogan:tiaoann4
telegraph posts, or damaging telegraph wires.-Pundi andstateamtents, Pi:issued, fully confirm this view of affairs.
NOT MEANT FOR EVERYBODY !-" The Prayer Tea ECLIPSE EXPEDITION.-The arrangements
for Landlords," which occurs in one of the liturgies put for the Eclipse, Expedition are progressing very rapidly
forth by Edward VI., is an admirable specimen of and satisfactorily, and there seems every chance of
of plain speaking, and was clearly intended to be ad- everything being done which can ensure success. In
dressed to one section of the congregation instead of response to their circular, the Council of the Royal
being offered by all. A contemporary quotes it at length, Astronomical Society have received upwards of sixty
but the folloaing example will be sufficient to show its applications from observers anxious to help in an exam"-
pertinency :- nation of the phenomenon. It is proposed that, if
We heartily pray Thee that they (who possess the grounds,
pastures, and dwelling.placee of the earth) may not rack and possible, there shall be two expeditions-one to Spain,
the other to
stretch out the rents of their houses and lauds, nor yet take
unreasonable fines and incomes after the manner of covetou as the chin
s e.Ssicioflyb..dTwheeadtheseirraarbielitthyeorefbtyhiecoisnsiodbevii.obulry,
woridlings, but so let them out to others that the inhabitants reduced. Unfortunately, those who know Sicily well
thereof may both be able to psy the rents and also honestly state that the region to be visited is so brigand.ridden
to live, to nourish their families, and to relieve the poor. . .
Give them grace also that they may be content with that that that other precautions besides those usually employed
Is sufficient, and not Join house to house nor couple land to in eclipse expeditions will be desirable. The Italian
pse
land to the impoverishment of other, but so behave them- Government,! which will also, we believe, Pend an ex-
selves in letting out their tenements, lands, and pastures, ',edition to Sicily, will, doubtless, look to this. The
that utter this life they may be received tufo everlasting French expedition will observe in Algeria.- Nature.
dwelling.placee. LITERARY DuittusTs.-A cause of difference
This homily in disguise may be commended to the having arisen between two Paris journalists, Al. Henri
attention of the revisers of the liturgy as a model of de Lagarde, of the Paps, and NI. Refine, of the !lappet{
direct, specific appeal. Antiquarians will see in the a duel was agreed upon,wffich was fought on Thursday
above the true origin of that much disputed phrase. in lest week, at the Bois du Pecq, near the Vesinet
"rack rent." Racecourse. The seconds for M. de Lagarde were
A WIFE SHOT BY HER HUSBAND.-The New Meson. Robert Mitchell and Wachter. of the Corn.
York Herald of May 19 says :- stitutionnd, and MM. Grandier and La, Cecilia, of the
Samuel P. Broadwell, a native of this city, a track layer on Rappell. Two surgeons also accompanied the party.
railroads, came to New York on Tuesday, after tieing absent The conditions of combat were precisely defined. The
as a resident for seven years, and found out his wife; who combatants were to be placed 20 pace' apart, each with
lett him two years ago. She was residing at No. Ste Pearl- a single-barrelled pistol, and each was to fire no more
street. On Tuesday they bad some angry roeversati., but
he left peaceably. Yesterday afternoon he Jailed there than two shots. Each party was to fire as 1t.;.,
again, and, after some quarrelling, delicerately shot her chose, but the second shot was to be fired withfia sus
while she was standing in the hall. The ball lodged in her interval of four seconds after the first. The Oral,
stomach and Inflicted, It is believed, a Wound that must exchange of shots having been without result, the
pistol, were immediately reloaded, but the second fire
prove fatal. For several years past Broadwell has been
working at Dover, N.J. While there Browlwell says that he ~,,,, equallyharmless, e
had reason to doubt his wife's fidelity to her marriage vow, "
and he intimates that she was encouraged In this by her suggestion of their seconds, shook bands with extrenie
relative. lie had, however, no sathfactory proof until he cordiality, and .31. de Lagarde declared that the
came to New York on Tuesday, and then he nays he wee passage in an article Written by him, which M. Rafina
quite satisfied, and not only initiated, but maddened with deemed to reflect injuriously upon himself, had no
rage by his discoveries. The unfaithfulness of hie wife to reference to that gentleman personally, but to his
wet the marriage vow however, not his only cause of hilts- Urinal opinions. It must be added that before
tion and maddening excitement. He charges his Wife with
desertirg their two youngest children in a most heartless hilts-political
journalists both gentlemen had served in the
manner. army, M. R.afina as a sous•officier of the Grenadiers ot
MATRIMONIAL CHANCES.-(Feom the Man- the Guard, and M. de Lagarde as an officer in
,an
cheater Examiner):- infantry regiment.
" A respectable widower wishes to correspond with a lady, WORTH IMITATING. -An historical portrait
40 to 60, with meant -Address," &c, gallery has been opened at St. Petersburgh. It in.
"A widower, in first-class business, wishes to meet with a chides 800 portraits, of which 58 are portraits of
domesticated person, with means; strictly private.- Catherine It. and 23 of Peter 1.-sovereigns who are
Address," tte.. both honoured with the epithet of "Great." One of
" A widower, with a comfortable home and Income, wishes the most remarkable portraits is said to be that of the
Scotch soldier of fortune, Bruce, Knight of St. Andrew
to meet with a lady with means, age 30 to 45, with a view to
matrimony; this Is bono. fide.-Address," to, and a Russian count ; and all, with the exception of
"A lady, 34, wishes to correspond with a gentleman, not sixteen or seventeen, belong to the eighteenth century,
younger than 40, with a view to marriage, she is well
which is now, for the first time, thrown open to the
educated, and amiable-Address 8., to be left till called for,
Post office Exbrhige, near Tiverton, Devonahlre "
study aid ap';,reciation of Russian writers. Almost
,
" Wanted, by a widower, (bona tide, a well ffionght-up simultaneously with the opening of the Eighteenth'
anti educated young lady or widow, between 24 and 30, to century portrait gallery the Grand Duke, heir to the
take charge of his private establishment and email family of throne, at a meeting of the Russian Hietorical Society',
six, three provided for, with a view to Matrimony ; ceate announced that he wished to present to the [moiety all
means.- Aildress, A. S. W., Post Office, Cheatham Hill."
Catherine IL's papers; and the two events are wel-
A gentlem " m (35), of plain appearance, moderate Income,
and good education, wishes to marry a young lady, of free- corned by the Russian press as signifying, above all,
proachable character, handsome person, and fair practical that a period hitherto known to then; as far as their
education; one willing to reside abroad preferred ;or a lady own country was concerned, through the writings of
not exceeding his own age possessing an equal Income and foreigners is now submitted to the examination o!
position.-Addreu," &c, native historians.
MALAPROPIANA.-The Ritual Commission and PUZZLING ha/N.-There are one or tem it,,,els
the late atrocities in Greece mentioned in connection in the estimates for 1870.71. which are rather mailing ;
with the Philhellenes have got jumbled up together in in the Home Office estimate £l,OOO a year i., inserted
the mind of Mrs. Malaprop. She says she cannot but for "counsel" (remarks the Pall Mall '.;,e, tie). No
approve of righteous reform and the revision of the Dic- such item appeared for 1869.70. Uref.er the head of
titulary, but considers that the Philistines ought to Treasury, Class If., office of parliamentary counsel.
be smitten, and thinks the less said the better about appears the followitig : Parliamentary counsel, £2,623;
the Athenian creed.-Punch. assistant ditto, £1,275. It WOO the general impression
CLERICAL 114LUSCIPLTION.-The Clerical Dis- when on the accession of the present Government to
abilities Rill, introduced by Mr. Itibbert, proposes to office the salary of the parliamentay counsel Was
roetcl.the law l which
L.: viles.orbtrill'iercleraira t°
shall be
any
not raisedr
se from
ie r'i.'. to
£2,soars t. 2 PZ.3.:3l,',untlt.t*t be
fusnhug
only be free to leave the clerical profession, but also to continue to conduct the Home Office business as here.
return to it, after having undergone certain formalities, tofore, and that, beyond the increase to his salary
But here it stops. It does not enable him to secularise (which the late Government refused to make), no
himself twice. Should it pass, therefore, a change wil further charge for this service would fall on the public.
perhaps be made in the adage which at present ex- We must suppose that it is all rigid economy, and on
presses the Indelibility of Orders. The amended say. the same principle that the item for the salaries of
ing will accordingly be, "Twice a parson, always a "My Lords" is £3,000 this year, against 4000 the
parson.", --Puncia year before.

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