The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-22 00:00:00

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HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.

" APROPOS Bwrms."—Why in it that shoe-
maknrs are so fond of calling shops "Noah's Ark."? -
Why, the reason is obvious. It is to infer that their
Wart* are water-proof.--Paa ch.
_

PEDLAIis' CERTIFICATES BILL—The Earl of
Morley has laid before the I louse of Look a new Id'
for fjranting certitiuttes to pedlar. The charge for a
certificate is to be raised from WI. (under last year
Act) to 'is. -fifth on granting a certificate and on in-
dorsing it for another district the chief officer of police
lutist be witisfiwl that the applicant is above Li years of
age, is a person of good character, and in Nina faith
intends to carry on the trade of a pa-liar; the fee for
indorsement remains lid. The claw, in last year's Act
providing that no certificate shall be granted to a pew
ion convicted (at any time in his life) of felony or of
ally misdenalunfur involving dishonesty is omitted in
this bilL A choice in the new Bill provides that a
pedlar's certifieste will not be an exemption from the
vagrant law. If a pedlar is convict.' of be,ging, the
(unit is to deprive him of his certificate. Any
of summary jurisdictb in may sumnion a pwllar to ap-
pear before them, awl if he fail to appear, or on appear-
ance to satisfy the Court that he is in good faith carry-
ing on the business of a pedlar, the I mut is to derive
him of his certificate. The Pt...liars Act of 1810 is re-
pealed by this bin.

DEMONSTRATION IN HYDE PARK.—OR Sun-
day afternoon last a considerable number of persons
gathered in Hyde-park, at the spot usually occupied
hy "demonstrations," the "call" on this occasion
being made by people of name and position for an
agitation in favour of "free emigration." The views of
the intended demonstrators were that this try
should undertake the conveyance to some settlements
under British rule of the useful dames of this country,
and give secmity for the costs of ?pealing up new
lands. These points were published In detail on the
walls of London, but in the park the propasers did not
attend, and the summoned meeting was left in the
hands of the "mock litany" wen and a religious
pres,cher. The mob made short work with the
preacher, whom they were disposed to use roughly,
but the ruffians in college caps continued their per-
formance some time in peace, until the police, acting
here in the cause of order for the first tune nines the
Hyde Park riots, compelled the fellows to decamp.
The l'ark was left at six o'clock to the ordinary pub-
lic. No explanation w:ei given for the nonrap-
pearayce of the speakers.
RAILWAY DA M ES. —At the assizes at New-
castle, on Saturlay, Mrs. Sarah Morton, a widow
residing at Howden, near North Shields, recovered
t."siff from the North-Eastern Company for injuries
received by her from falling over a post (connecte,l with
a public crossing ,on the company's railway) which had
been allowed tofall into decay. Time Midland Railway
were also defendants in a compensation case tried at
Derby, the plaintiff, Miss Thelm, aged eighteen, being
the daughter of a widow at Helper. On the 9th of
November, MISS Thelin was a isrewuger by a train
which iusing to a ilenSsi fog ran int° in train which
was standing on the line. Ile plaintiff who was
a teacher or music, was much injured, the medical
evidence bring that idle would never recover in body or
mind. For the defendants evidence was given to show
that the injuries were less serious than the plaintiffs
witnesses alleged. The jury awarded Miss Thelin
Etv-J't

A f ikATEFUL CoUNIT Y. Front the Army
(oot ry Co: 4k :
John Alltsitip is el years of age ; he is as attendant on
hackney carriages in ',mil:m.l.yard, and manages, in an
average, to earn from the liberulity 4 the °Mt-
sitmally visit that mdice locality about ad. a day. Fifty-six
years ago, on the 18th I,f June, John's should was sore from
the kirk of" Brown Beta," and hia mouth was black with
biting cartridge ends. fir, on the leth of June, Isls, he was
one of the gallant fellows mho held, during that long Ilays
tight, the kiy of the Englialt position at Waterloo against all
comets. lie was a IleVan years' num in the Regiment... 4
Grenadier Guards, and at the expiration of his term he
claimed his discharge, and for more than 20 years sorrel one
employer diligently aud faithfully as a coalheaver. Age crept
upon him, and he wak no longer able to carry on his labo-
rious occupation, and he then thought of Chelsea Hospital :
so, about three years ago, he trudged up to the military
asylum, statml his case, and, although, as lie modestly says,
he bad no legal claim ~11 the institution, yet he was awarded
fsi. per Ilient. On this pittanee, with the 'windy contribu-
tions of •• Cabby," he continues to exist. Call malting ingot
than s. lid. weekly be secured for John Album, old as
he is, linder a threadbare hut clean coat, sports his Waterloo
medal ?

A REM: LAB " COIL' p DE 111 —" I say,
what's th, reas,m that young ewxon,lo, iterate Mew,
every time he talks to a holy, seizes her hand 1.-- -'•
it's only his familiar way ‘.f /o•titiog a conversation?—
ode.

Tiii STRIKES.—The strike of the Newcastle
and Gateshead engineers has entered upon its eighth
week. In the early part of last week the relati,ao; of
the masters and men seemed so embittered that any
prospect of a settlement looked as far off as when the
strike began. But on Saturday all parties seemed to
be in a is, re reasonable frame of mind, and a hope was
entertained that possibly before long the good offices of
a third party might be called into request to try and
bring about a settlement. The men are likely to get
assistance from the amalgamated engineers., and other
trades are coming to the support of those who are not
employed ; but a few good. men have got work out of
the town. A deal of work that would have Inn done
in Newcastle is going to other distlicts ; angl recently
a pair of engines, which would have been got at New-
castle but for the strike were brought from London, for
a new steamer fitting out on the Tyne. The men in
the employ of Messrs. R. Stephenson and eo. have
kept at work during the strike, the men having c, nfi-
dence that whatever terms those on strike may make
with the masters the same will be conecsksl by Mr.
Stephenson, the managing partner of the large firm.
The joiners' strike still continues at Newcastle, anti the
masters are bringing more Belgian workmen across.

INGENUITY IN OFFICE. —A rigid, not to say
cheese-pariw., economy has been practised (to the
misery of clerks and workmen) in every department
under ii.vernment. This has coincided with nicreastxl
taxation, at which, however, even the privil&ged persons
who have the honour of being appointed to bear it will
surely not griunble considering how very much, in aug-
mented national security, there will be to show for their
money. --Poach,

ACCIDENT TO ADMIRAL HOPE. —OR Monday
morning Admiral Hope met with a rather serious
accident in Portsmouth Dockyard. The gallant officer
was showing some ladies over the it rustatiott (turret
ship), which is lying in the sta.-mil basin of the dock-
yard, and had gone from the upper to the main deck.
This deck was rather dark, and Sir James, being aware
that there was au aperture in it, stood before it, in
order to protect the ladies ; but unfortunately he him-
self slipped into the hole, falling a distance of eight
feet. Having been picked up immediately, he assured
the ladies with great coolness that he was wit hurt.
It was found necessary, however, to convey hint to his
official residence on a stretcher, and, medical assistance
havin, been promptly obtained, it was oliscovered that
both tonts of the right leg were fractured, and that
there Nvas a severe wound over the left eye. The in-
jured limb has been reset.

NATURAL SELECTION."—Choosing a Wife.

A GALLANT REIWUE.—(Fronk the Me/bourne
dotes). -"At half-past four on the morning of the sth
of March, one of the crew of the ship Brit Sorenitoo,
outward bound for Melbourne, fell overboard off the
forecastle head. A cry of man overboard r being at
once raised, the boatswain, who was standing by the lee
fore braces, threw one of them overheard, which being a
good long rope the man luckily managed to grasp, but
as there was a strong breeze, and the ship was sailing
at the rate of nine knots, he was, as a matter of course,
towed under the water by the speed of the ship, and was
in great danger iif either letting go his hold of the rope,
in which ease he would in all priibability have been lest
(as it was very llark :it the tune), or else of being drowned
by the rope dragging him mailer water. The second
mate. Mr. Charles Fry, with great promptitude and
intrepidity, immediately jumped over the side of the '
vessel and held up the an:wiling man until the ship's
way was stopped, when he continued to hold the man's
head above water until they were both with much diffi-
culty rescued filon their perilous position by means if
ropes, the poor fellow who fell overboard being at that
time in a state of insensibility, and consequently per-
fectly unable tusk anything to save himself."

BAD LooK-Our.—Those sli. laave the Statis-
tics of Trade and Commerce at their lingo,' ends,
could tell you, if flog dared, that however much the
supply may he in excetia of the demand in other e,tali-
hahmenta, Steuographera are always Short-handed.

FATAL Gl'N AVVIDENT.—An inquest has been
held at Evminster, upon the body if a young woman
who in Sunday was shot by a boy living at the indus-
trial School. On Saturday evening Mr. Dickens, the
master of the school, was engaged in shooting small
birds in the garden attached to the institution, and,
• being called in on business, placed the gun, which
was loaded, in the corner of the entrance-hall, and
forgot all about it. On the following morning he
remembered it, and sent a ls.y mulled George Ash
to remose it from the hall to the study, where it
was usually kept. Ash started on his errand,
and a few moments after the report of a gun was
heard, and the boy came running back in a state of
excitement bordering upon frenzy, and incoherently
exchtimini, "Ann—the gun—the steps !" fell down
senseless. On going out the master found Angelina
Ware, the servant girl, lying on the steps of the
entrance-hall, bleeding from a fearful wound in the
head. Medical assistance was promptly at hand, but
it was of no avail, the girl dying within an hour. It
appears that she had been cleaning the steps, and Ash,
as he passed on his way the study, raised the gun, and,
not knowing that it was loaded, "playfully" presented
it at her. The charge, passing through a glass door
which divided the lowcr portion of the hall where the
girl was from that wh,-.re the boy stood, entered the
girl's head just above the left eye, blowing away a por-
tion of her skull

TIM ALABAMA, AC., CLAIMS.—AOOOPCIIIiit
the Washington correspondents of the New Yorkr
(says the Poroalo Glohr), Mr. Charles I'. Beaman, jun.,
if 'New York, has been engaged for sant time la
arranging the ...dutninotts papers now on file in rdatiol
to the .4 ”... Oahu., for pmsentatiou to the tribahal
of Arbitration under the Treaty .4 Washimtt. 41. M.
Beaman has vmumiled a list hum Ow teconls af thc
Department .4 State, which dewm that 70 vessel".
captured by the Afob.osa, 35, by the pb,,,,,,, ninol,
the Gtorgia, 94; by the Shotondooh, 34 by the tender
1.13 by the Sumter, 29 by the Taltalfootse, and two by the Nun lie From claims tiled by United State? eitiaeca
for the losses of vessels and their cargoes by the Nor
vessels first mulled, it appears that the lowa on thin
head alone are estimated at 12,00,009 doh,. The leases
by other 'easels not yet filed will bring, it is estimated,
the gross Mt:4 to at least 13,000,00 U dots. We should
be inclined teithink so, too, since if for 151 vessels the
less lS I.l4inuttwl at 12,590,000d015., b.allow only 170,000
dols, for the remaining NI vessels is allowing them to
go " thrt-eheap." Sperudations, however, will has.- a
naiaivooo of influemm in the arbitration eourt, and Mil
I, no possible good. They may not la., though, with.
out some harmful results, by giving birth to hopes
which will not lie realiaed.
AN IMPERIAL " Pleli-ME-PP."— The ioilier
morning, on his return fnan an early drive to Futh...
and Putney, the Emperor of Brazil stepped, at 7 am.,
to take a Turkish bath at Mr. Pollanrs estahlbhmegt,
Brompton, and after going through the whole loom,,expressed himself delightol at the brAcing tuni inrigo. rating effects .1 the skilful and clatylEate shaumssaz murihe cold riooehr.

"THE BEST OF ALL GOOD COMPANY...--The
emadie Fr-ma:aim'. We were only too sorry to part
with such good company.—Yanch.
ME 011:ANTIC MoA.—Soine faint live is en-
tern:lined that in the mountainints ris,4i.ins if Iv,
YAltland a few specimens of the gigantic 111,0 may still
exist. Dr. J. Hector, }ALS., ban lately aciptired pos. of part if the skeleton of one if thee MINIS
which have been supposed to be extinct, and infers ita
recent existence from the fact that feathers still ail
here to it. lie }whey.; that in the inland district of
where the grassy plains and rolling hills were
eovered with a dense tend., the giant wingless birds of
New Zealand to a late period lingered. Bones are to
be found in great profusion in this region, and Dr.
Hector himself observed, in iGL, upon one of the flat-
topped mutmtains near Jackson's Bay numenom well.
beaten tracks through the *Tali which could have been
made (though not then used) only by some very large
indigenous bird. The south-wett district of Otago is
even at the present tune imperfectly known, and we
may owe its complete survey to mottle enterprising
ornithologist in search of the gigantic molt.
GONE TO TILE STARS. KoSSUtIR weary of
research and disputation, has turned, it is said,
his pen to scientific investigation, and produced, " ram-
benveranderung der Sterile" (changes in colour of the
stars), an bin first contribution.

MONUMENT TO WAsHINGToN
ceremony of publicly unveiling a colossal bust of
Washington Irving, at Prospect-park, Brooklyn, took
place on Saturday, July Ist, in presence of about
10,000 persons, including a large number of public
officials and clergymen. The bust is a gift to the city
from the Hon. Demas Barnes. It is iruos,rted im a
pedestal of Aberdeen granite, and stands bit. 6in. high.
The only inscription is the name of Ivring on the
pedestal. The Rev. Henry Want Beecher was among
the speakers on die isicasion. After various addresses
had been given, a wreath of ivy from the malls of
Westminster Abbey WaB placed on the I,r.w of the
statue by Master Washington Irving Bish,p, a god.on
of Washington Irving, and the ceremonies then con-
cluded.

FRENuII POLITICS.—We read a goad deal in
the nvwspapers, and learn very little, about the " situa.
tion in I ranee." The only situation whieh we know
anything about there with certainty is the situation t 4
Soverekm, and all we know of that is that is vavtnt,
and not at present likely to be filled.- -Po lot

TERRIBLE EXPLosIoN oN ProARD A liRELK
STEAMEIL—By a letter dated from Athens, July S, it
wind. l appear that travelling in Greek waters is scariely
!safer than travelling in Greece by land. Ina Monday,
the 3rd of July, the Greek I 'ompany's steamer the
Emoaaj,, left the Pircus to make the tour of the No-
innmesus, having /di board about 130 liansengers. among
whom were a newlydnarried couple liptind for the
island of Spezzia. It was reasillv!sl at lireakfast to fire,
!in reaching that island, a salute in their honour. and
for the purpose of getting powder a than descended
with a lighted candle into the !linguine underneath
the !saloon, leaving the trap-door open. A little girl,
the !laughter of Colonel Skarn', annuniandant if the
Pincus, coming into the saloon, stumbled overthe trap-
d,or,anl thecandle wan upset, a Itoirihile explosiim lnang
the result. The chili, and her father were two of
upwards of 10 victims whose charred remains were
recovered from the sea. The unhappy bridgmum
rushed into a cabin, and amid the smoke, out of which
be carried off what he belie% ea was his bride, and
plunged with her into the water. On being picked up
by a Iniat, however, be found that he had rescued from
death a young lady of Athens and lie returned to the
steamer to find his wife burned to death. The scene
if this terrible catastrophe was near the town of
Sperria, the inhabitants of which place crowded io
their boats! to the rescue of the surviving passengers.
THE PRINCE IMPERIAL OF GERMANY.—The
Oftlr, with reference to the proceedings at
Munich on the liith inst., says :

" After the parade held' by the King. the Imperial Crowe
Prince, in the name of the Emperor, presented to Kenna
Von 4ler Tann anal live officers of inferior rank tine deoorstkai
of the Iron Cross of the that class. At the Kieuesthor the
Kungomaster (Erhardt) delivered an address to the King and
the Frown Prince. After the triumphal entry a Innately
banquet was given at the Itesidena. The toast of The
Victorious Army anal its Leaders,' proposed by the Kitsn. ass
'tidied to by the Crown trince in a hang speech, 01,111 nsa
received with general m101.11)41), at the c•italusion ci altich
he proy3e3,l the toast if • The King.' In the nplwaninve
the King anal I 'row)) Miner at the theatre there was another
ovat on. At 3 referent, in) the pntiologue to the hopes width
the Empire placed in the eth3ll Prince. the King, standing
up in presence of the audicnee, held old his right hand to
the tom)) him r. lien tumultuous applause tined the
Mame. The illuminati. of the city was the most brilliant
ever known in Munich Hof one house felliathed Unlighted.
At half-past ten the court anal their illustrious :meg, %tall
an escort, passed thronigh the city. On thin occasion. Si on
all others, the apreardllce Of the Crown Prince ca 10331 the
utmost enthusiasm aiming the multitude. which hada...added
from all parts of the c•ountry."

THE PATENT LAWS.-At a recent meeting of
the London Patent Agents, held to consider the pro-
posed changcs in the patent laws- Geo. llsseltine,
chairman-- it was resolvol:-1. That inventors
have a right to the sole toe of their inventions, which
it is the tioty of legislators b. harmonise with the iw
terests •4. the State. '2. That patents should m longer
be granted to mere "first importers," but should be
eontined to actual inventors. 3. That the term of
a patent should be 21 years -- now 14 without
irs isim for extension. 4. That the official fees
should he reduced (nun .me hundred and seventy-five
to ten pounds for the entire term, which is sufficient to
tit-fray the expenses of MI efficient patent system. 5.
That the French mode of granting payments without
any official investigation of the merits of the applica-
tion- -shouhl be adopted. G. That in patent suits
the rights of patentecs should be determine,: by a coin.
latent court of equity, dispensing with jurors:lml "ex-
pert " uituesses.

BARONIAL QUALIFICATION,: IN :JAMES'S TIM:.
- -The date of Sir Ashley'sbaronetey is July :1,1022, and
that of Sir John Cooper's the day after. The on ter of
lianinets had been created by James the First ten years
before, and in the present year he completed the
number, two hundred, of which it was originally pro-
vided that the onler should consist, and which, it liad
al, been stipulated, was never to be exceeded. Every
0.1,11 ct t 1 lel j oil 4.11 e UM Patialad and ninety-the kounds
for lii, 110114 qtr. No one was admitted to it N: ho lOW
Hot po:sessol of a thousand 1.1111,1 t, a year, dom. lof eat
cumbrances, and who could not prove descent from a
grandfather on the father's side Who liad borne
Life of Aodhoo y Axhley Cooper, Find Earl of
Shofteehors, 1621-103, 8., W. D. Chrietie,
forodels her .211,thrddx Minioter j 0 Me Aim:stint Coo.
fedtratioo sad to Bro:d.
CATCHINO A TARTAR !—A TelllaTkable inkance
of the daring of eagles when they are in don- of
moliztation is related by the Elgin Ootrant. hile a
mu-seryman named Stuart Wa, waiting to Opell the
dams on the Spey that float down the timber from
Abernethy, at the foot if Cairngorm, he watt startled
by the cry of a large eagle immediately above him. On
looking up he observed an eyrie in a broken tree stout
forty feet high, and to satisfy his curiosity lie began to
amend the tree. This was, however, a ratherdinieult
job, the branches being decayed. The nearer he ap-
proached the nest the nearer the eagles approached
him, till at last one of them made a elart at him and
fixed in his head. With some difficulty he got its data
out of his head with only a few scars, but basing hie
hat in its talons. The bird then flew about with it foe
some time, and left it on the edge of the nest. Stunt,
I coining alarmist, got down the tree as quickly iss he
could, fortunately for him, being umuolcsted by the
eagles in his descent.

A TALE OF DISTRESS.—III Linidoll, at the
Westminster Police-court, Lady Herbert of Leta who
takes so mach interest in the houseless and frieutlless
poor children of Loudon, attended before the Magistrste
with an intelligent little child and solicited his assist-
ance in getting her into an industrial school. 'the girl%
mother was dead and the father a bedridden pauper,
and the aunt had taken her out of the workhouse and
maintained her some time, but getting into debt she
had sent her to her grandfather at Jersey ; Ids house
was burnt down, and the child again thrown upon the
world, and a charitable lady bringine. her to London
the Sisters if Charity had taken the child into that
keeping till now. he Magistrate said he had no
power to assist her ladyship unless the child was
destitute' found wandering, or WI orphan, and it
appeared to him she was mate of the three. I fer lady-
ship said she had attended before the Lesion School
Board and had been given there to underetand that this
was just the sort of case contemplated bv the Att. ; the
child was destitute and an orphan. lite Magistrate
said the child could not be an orphan while it had *
surviving parent, unless that parent was undergoing
penal eervitude, and the child was not found wandering
or destitute, because the Sisters of Charity had charge
of her. He could do nothing in the matter, the father
WZIN the proper person to support her, and if he could
not by reaeon of his poverty then the authorities would
not prosecute Lim : he could not entertain the applica-
tion. leadv Herbert thanked his worship and withdrew
with the clad.

A Cumin's HIPINu-I,LAt.E.---A Paris paper
tells a rather improbable story concerning the hiding'
place found by t eli&Pyat, and which it says was
covered after his escape. The house, No. 4, Rue des
Martyr,, wheie he tea; suspected to be, was repeatedly
ecircheil fri el! t • nit. In the kat hen of an
apartnient nu the ILI!. occupied by an old woman.
wa., a i.OO 'ait i ; lene called —a ler,re receptacle
for w,ier, vi' a ~11 11,11. the munch It was of such
unusual size that the police had more than ~we taken
off the lid, but found it full of water, not of the most
pellucid kind. On opening the tap water flowed, P.o.
there seemed no ground for suspicion. But it is said
that the water was only at the top and bottom, and
that between the two there was a place hi which a man
could contrive. at a pinch, to coil himself up for a short
time. And hare, it is asserted, 111. Pyat bought refuge
when hard preased by his pursue's.