The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-08-28 00:00:00

Blisctilancous .:4intcllignitt,
SOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.

A MFDICAL SCAPicoo&T.—At the last weekly
meeting of the Board of Guardians of the Blackburn
Union, Dr. Garstang, one of the medical I fliers,
tendered his resignstiim, pending a charge of neglect
preferred against him, and now under the notice of the
P. or Law Board. Be tells the guardians, in his letter,
" wiih all doe respect,'' that there is not one am .nget
them whip knows anything if the actual condition lif
the sick poor of his district, and adds :—"Taking into
calculation the number of cases— medicaL surgical, and
obstetric - which I have attended, and the amount
total of money which I have received, each Cane, of
whatever nature and duration, averages the bewilder-
ing sum of 21." Dr. Garstang thinks that the" pauper
doctor is the scapegoat of the For Law medical ser-
vice." The resignation was accepted, without discuss

Mon.
HEAVY LOSSES BY THE PHILADELPHIA FIRE—
The losses by the tire at Philadelphia will fall heavily
on the English insurance offices. The Imperial of
London hail an aggregate insurance on the whisky of
319,000 dollars ; the Liverpool and London and Globe,
180,000 dollars ; the Royal Insurance Company,
152,500 dollars ; the North British And Mercantile,
12,000 dollars ; the Queen, of London, 58 000 dollars.
This gives an aggregate of five British companies ins-
voiced for 719,500 dollars on the whisky alone,without
considering the insurance on the building, which is
valued at 500,000 dollars. The American offices do not
lose snore than an average of 20,000 dollars each.
EX rRAOISDINaIIY DIBAPPEARANCL—Quite a
panic has been created amongst parents of the
working classes in and around Cork by the mys-
terious disappearance of a number of children, mostly
if tender years, durirg the past fortnight. So runner.
one are the cases stated to have occurred that an ex-
tensive system if kidnapping seems the only possible
explanation. Placa" ds posted throughout the city
state that two little girls of twelve and five years
respectively, have been miming from .Mayfield for the
past week. No less than five children have disappeared
from Blackpool within the last two days ; two are re-
ported as missing from the neighbour hood of Lady's
Well, two from Fair-lane, and two others from Ever-
green. In the majority of instances the children were
sent on errands by their parents and never returned.
• The police bad their attention directed to the matter,
• but as yet no explanation of the circumstances bias, in
any case, been arrived at.
• VOLPECIDISM IN CHESBIRE.—The following in-
scription on a piece of paper was attached to a dead
fox found in a lane in Banbury on the 10th inst. :- •
t' Gentlemen and sportsmen, our doom is sealed if the
farmers' claims he not paid for the fowls and lambs we have
' eaten. lam not the first who has paid the forfeit with my
i life. Mind, brother Iteynard, what you eat, that you don't
get poisoned, as we shall all I. if the Grown' dahus are uot
Pahl —To the Mader of the Cheshire Hunt."
THE JAGOANATEI FESTIVAL.—The Friend of
India sap; :
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The Jagganath Festival at Setampore closed on the 19th
instant after a pitiable fashini. The two great cars Mill
stand on the road side, half in the ditch, because the people
will not pull them back to their places. In spite of the num-
bers hired to pull and to applaud, the cars were moved on
the first occasion only half the usual distance, and there they
lie in the mud, with the idols on them and flags tly big. As
usual the Brahmins applied to the authorities to order the
people to pull, but of course or vain. The common
peasantry were heard to reply to the miserable creatures who
from the car urged them to pull It is all very well, hut
conic and give a hand yourselves " The crowd. f which a
rough census was taken, was never more than 75,000 at the
highest, and rarely exceeded 35.000-0 third of what it used
to be. For one man there were 50 women and children.
The police, under Mr. Rochefort, the energetic district super.
intruder.!, kept order well. There were 110 accidents and
only three cases of drunkenness The spectacle presented by
the cars arid idoa on the Tiunk,road outside of Smainpore
may be regarded as typical of the Mate of itiolatory at least
in and near the great cities—tottering but still defiant, with
no enthudasm and little faith.
A CAB I9DICATOR.—A Paris correspondent
writes:—
tab Indicators, or machines for Indicating distance tra-
velled, which have been hitherto a sort of plaything of the
ingenious in England, has become in Paris a practical fact.
New cabs have been started, furnished with a piece of nie-
chanism which not only records the distance acconiplished,
hut shows the traveller the time of day, and the exact sum
1,. which lie ii iiidelded to the driver at any moment in the
Journey. The writer rode for some hours in one of them
new vehicles and found no flaw in the system. The Indi-
cator is a sort of black box fixvit on the seat before the
driver, with its dials before the passenger's eyes. At every
ten yards one figure or more drops into line, indicating the
distance; while at every kilometre, or thousand metres, a
corresponding change takes place in the money indicated
An element of uncertainty. however, is introduc by the
fact that the driver when ordered to wait has the right to set
tea machinery In motbin at a certain rate, no tlmt sometimes
distances are marked where none hove been travelled
Too AICCH TO Eitel= !—President Grant re-
cently visited Newburg, in the United States, and
replied to an address of welcome presented to him.
He waa afterwards entertained at a collation, and his
health proposed. Upon this he rose and said, "You
don't expect any person to make two speeches in one
day ; therefore you will not expect me to make a
reply."
THE AMERICAN SCHOOL SYSTF.M. —la a con-
tribution to the Spectator, Mr. Robert Coningsby, who
recently visited the United States in connection with
the Society of Arts, makes some shrewd retuarks on
the American echo.' system. He says that if there be
a fault in that system it is that the children are made
to study too hard. This he attributes more to the
tuirents than to the teachers, for a large ieTccutsco of
•10, , 7 ; u. 100 lal 1.0 ue, 1.0 011,•iy
themselves diligently to study for a period varying
from three and a half to even hours. Notwithstend-
ing every effort to instruct, the young enemberis grow
up in a ',tato ,4 ignorance. To reach these the Anion'
cans have devised an excellent system of night-schools,
which are so cosmopolitan that Mexicans, Russians,
Germans, Cbinese--indeed, almost all nationalities—
may he seen under one roof. The cost of eibigation
varies from twelve dollars per head in New York to
half that amount in Michigan. The cvstematic
manner in which American youth are drill-i 1 into a
sort of patriotic faith is also noticed by Mr. Uoningsby.
In come St ties masters are required to read once a
year to his pupils extracts from Washingtm's farewell
addrem. At a rchnorl in Boston the child of a etreet
hawker sought be seen next to a senator's son. Know-
ledge is, in America, a great leveller of social distinc-
tnms, and, indeed, a cure road to the acquisition of all
that men deem valuable.

A Nuns's° FATHER.—When a man believes
anything absolutely, it is always pleasant to see hint
make an ocular demonstration of his faith (says an
American paper). At Algona, lowa, one Mrs. Ingham
was appointed to deliver the oration last Independence
Day. Su she carried her infant and her husband into
the assembly of the people, and while she occupied the
platform Mr. Ingham meekly held the baby ! Probably
arrangements were made which prevented the child
front yearning for the '• maternal fount ; '' or perhaps,
as Mr. Chick observes in Dow hey and Son, "something
temporary was done with a teapot." Mr. Ingham it!
said to have been "very proud of his wife's success '
on the occasion. We think he had more reason to be
proud of his own, for it was an essay in a harder field.
A Two Suns HERO.—A little boy ten years
old was, the other day, taken to an hospital of Lycra
with a two-noun piece stuck firmly in his throat. dhe
child, it appears, had gone to the mayor of his locality
to wish him a pleasant fol,e, and in return he received
the coin in question. Two other boys, to whom he
showed his windfall, wished to take it from him, and
he found no better method to avoid that result than
to place the piece in his mouth, and in the struggle it
went down. At the hospital, just as the operator
approached him, the instrument in his hand, the child
manifested some anxiety. "Au, ah !" said the sur-
geon, "are you afraid, my little man ?" "oh! no,
sir," was the reply, "I have no fear; but will you
give me bark my two-sous piece ?" "You mall have
it certainly, if you are steady." The operation wan I
successful, but in place of the penny the boy received
a piece of silver.
THR BOTTLE-NOSES AGAIN.—MT. Drew, of
Nairn, with his "bottle-nose" grievance, has again
come to the surface. He was told by Mr. Bright that
he (Mr. Bright) was not aware that bottle-nosed whales
came under the care of the Board of Trade; he was
snubbed by the Duke of Argyll, and indeed by nearly
every person whom he bored with his great bottle-nose
scheme. Me plucked up courage to address Mr. Lowe,
and Mr. Lowe, in the usual style, replied, that the
bottle nosed whales 'concern the Board of Trade. "
His last resort was Mr. Gladstone, whose secretary
fiolitely aCknowledges receipt of Mr. Drew's commu-
nication. Mr. Drew will now be necessitated to take
to the last resort of all "grievance-mongers," and
come out as a pamphleteer.
BAD NEWS FOR WINK DRINKERS.—Great con-
sternation prevails throughout the wine-growing
districts of France. A new disease of the grape has
made its appearance in the neighbourhood of Bordeaux
where it has already caused incalculable damage, and
is .ow beginning to spread to the a ineyards of Bor.
goody. According to a paper published on the subject
by M. Planchon, this disease is caused by the ravages
of a hitherto unknown insect, which he calls the
Philloxera vasterix, and which all means usually
employed in similar cases have utterly failed to en.
tirpate. M. de la Loi, ere, in a report addressed to M.
Drouyu de lehuys, suggests that a reward should he
offered for the discovery of a remedy that may serve
to avert that which otherwise threatens to assume the
proportions of a national disaster. It was lately
asserted in the Acad6mie des Sciences that partially
favourable results had been obtained in some parts by
encouraeing the propagation of a sort of woodlouse
which preys on the Philloxera.
NOT LIKING WORK ! —An illustration of the
demoralising results 4.f workhouse life is to he found
in a scene that occurred at the meeting of the Limerick
Board of Guardians the other day. An able-bodied
fellow, applying for aduoission to the workhouse, was
asked why he Ohl not look for work, of which there
is plenty to be had at present in the country. His
reply was that he toad trio d work, but did not feel
comfortable at it—that, in fact, he was unfit for labour,
hosing been reared in the house. The fellow felt no
shame at living on charity. Be had been a pauper all
hi, life, and the idea of hodependonee or the obligation
if earning his bread had never entered his blurred and
degraded mind. Nor was this an isolated case. In •
few noinutes afterwards a young woman. equally
capable of working, came before the board for admit.
sum, and in reply to the question whether she bad
nought for employment, gave exactly the same answer,
that she had bean reared in the house, and was unequal
to the task if iuf.ptrting herself.
Tnx &lieu &Lima —The New York papers
of the 811 and 9th, are filled wlth reports front various
quarters of the observations ma-he in various parts of
the continent of the total eclipse of the sun ton the 7th
inst. Although in some places disappointment was ex-
perienced in consequence of unfavourable weather,
yet observations were made elsewhere tinder more
favourable circumstances, sufficient for the more im-
portant purism-en of scientific investigation. At WAAL.-
10 F,Oll obsereatieus are reported to have been •
failure, ovrong to causes beyond human controL At
Boston, too, great disappointment was experienced,
and from Philadelphia only a partial success ia re-
ported. But at Des Moines, Indiana. which had been
selected by a large number vers as btfimlitig the oc
mat favourable spot for observing the totality, the
wombs apposes to luros boas mere propitious. -

THE Nave LAW OF EVIDENCE.-The tires one of irewer-reeterai brightnees from interfering with the
the new law of evidence, which admits as witnesses the sombre harmony of the chapel as a whole, even were
parties in cases of adultery and breach of pronere of l that brightness more garish than it is. Nurthine has
the new law was, and in themarks the Low 7',..,) that cleaned and the small portione that are silt brortglit
marriage, has been made at York, One Oleo ion to ' yet been tine to the ecreen ; but doubtless it will be
pretty plaintiffs will wheedle tender hearted juries. out. Lookieg at the tolerably complete apearaiiee of
"Oh too convincing den/weedy dear, the monument at first sight, it is pottiest hat starthrug
, ,
In woman*s eye the imansweraide tear, to hear that 1,500 pieces are wanting to make it per.
That weapon of her weakness she can wield feet, yet such we believe is the cane.'
To save, @undue at once her spear wed shield.
CHRorsliMs 8 or GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
Avoid It; virtue Was, and wi dom errs,
Too fondly gazing on that grief ..f hen." -The Demme-Keeper of the Peeler Records rci c Tea
that the six voluttree published in 1868 ef the chr. ou: l's
1 he Whidotil of a common jury is not likely to be proof
and. memerials of Greet Botain mei Irelami dote . 1 1 e
Middle Ages make a tent ref 92 volutnes,and tter• u: uur ego at it, nor, to that matter, of a opereal jury
either. than 20,000 cumin of three volumes have been a dewed
MINING ACCIDENTS IN GERMANY.-In reference more than 3,000 copies have been presented to borne,
to the late explosion in the Plauenselan Grund, the foreign and coionial libraries. This great national
National Zinn', of Berlin continents inl the necessity publication has materially contributed to the sesietaace
of legally compelling the owners of mines to support of historicist inquirers. Nineteen more volumes are
the miners who are disabled, and the families of those now in the press.
who ate killed by accident. Private charity, on which
WS-
alone the unfortunate sufferers have now to depend, is Mosn's ANia NUNS IN AUSTRIA.-Atletria
insufficient and particularly apt to be exhausted when
- distributed . .
sesees at present 263 nunneries and 4,390 nuns. hey
1 -Tyrol has 103; bohenda, 53 ;
two or three great calamities follow each other at short
are thus
intervals. The owners might be protected against
d B. Besides these their are
sudden and unavoidable lose by a nmtual assurance
.uS,tYrise 1.7 . . .
th Carinthia,to ire with 5 318 meek s, 3,441
society, for which the statistical basis already exists. el'
Austria proper, et • Moravia, 19 ; Salzburg, 17 ;
of 7 monasteries in
t. e
re e 1 1e,877 lay btu:there. The at
In 1861. 167 miners were killed in Prussian collieries,
pfenning the cwt. for insurance would have made up a
and 235,189,996 cwts. of coals rained; a tax of 1 tnwlle.hd7tiliadiFdiNc:lrla"viheija3.th.lles,7ygrtZ-V.2:B";* 566. l
el ~A, ,
ru,ll t .9ii
apneedlea'rinthi 6. Thus 10.'208 persons in Austria have
sum of 653.000 thalers, or 3,900 thalers for each family,
devoted themselves to a religious life.
That journal adds :-
In Eurgland the owners of steam works are obliged to cover BRIEF BUT EMPHATIC 1.-A new piper In the
the damage done try any accident that may occur, and Boise City, Idaho, introduces itself t . the public in
associations have been formed for mutual inspection and the followines.terms :-" Salutatory, We have etsteerl
wcusatice. The number of explosions in the estiodishinents . ~.,p,.. Zaille • Capital Chromele. Prima rdee I
thus united hail decreased. Accorditig to Prussian law, the I
owner is only responsilde if the accident is c ,used by his P,..r.
Dr 'tic to the hilt. Object: to melte a living.
always to he held responsible when it is not proved that the below the Overland Hotel, opposite an 01deaster vaniron boater that of his agents ;on the other hand, he ought °flew :On Main street, about three hundred yar Is
miner has fallen a victim to his own carelennese alone. in the road. And we' ill run it or 'bust.'"
i AUSTRALIAN PAPER.-We (Brisbane Courier) A CLEVER Derscriva.-At the Ilford Petty
Pave received a sample of Parer from the Liverpol Sessions, three boys were charged with etealiog four
Paper Company, New South Wales, and have much live I igeone The prosecutor stated that he thiewil the
pleasure in finding that so excellent an article ienneau- birds on Tuesday evening. He mentioned hie loss to a
factured in these colonies. It is rather heavier than friend, who was a spiritualist, and a medium and iiie
the English paper we are at present using, but it is friend stated that the spirit might discover who had
equally well dreureed, and possesses as much toughness got the birds, and the next day the medium Informed
We believe the Sydney Mall and Herald are at present him the birds would be found at a bird shop at Poplar.
being printed on this colonial-made paper. It is most Witness went to the place indicated and there found
gratifying to find new industries and manufactures one of his pigeons, which he identified. The keeper
taking hold in these agonies, and pushing out of the of the shop eaid he had bought the pigeon from one of
market, as they should do, the foreign article. We the boys, who stated it was given to him by the rithr r
shall be gladto see the Liverpool Paper Company, two. The spirit did not disclose the whet-eel:outs of
New South Wales, go ahead, the three other missing pigeons. One of the lon wee
THE BEST SEAWEED.-A cigar on the Beach,- sentenced to six weeks' hard labour, and the other two
Punch. were discharged.
THE USE OF LIDY-BIRDS. - A correspondent
AN ANTIQUE FLOOR AT OXFORD.-A curious
discovery has been maiden one of three old houses writes l-
in Broad-street, between Kettall-hall and Trinity Col- "This morning I placed flee latly.birds (whit+ I colleete
lege, now undergoing repair. Upon the removal of the fetra'th taller:l:l'7°X, iil‘t'u iTlyregir grtit 'get!. rias:e!::lare. all
il
Ii toning board o Inn room on the ground floor, having
atom a quarter of an hour the ladybirds had made an tacsl,
underneath them a considerable depth of earth and ism hi-eau:at of the unfortunate flies. The experinient 015
lame rubbish, the original floor of the room, which is to me interesting to witness. That the creatures may etc
ten feet square, was brought to light. It was laid with sunie all the green IlMs in tlee country before they return
trotter bones," in a pattern of squares arranged whence they, came, is the sincere wish of, yours, et-Con-
angle-wise, within a border. The pattern was defined sERVATeitr. '
by hones about two inches square. rubbed or Pawn to Another correspondent writes :-
an even surface, and filled in with the anal' bones of "For some weeks the choicest apple-trees in my meth
sheep's legs; the knuckles uppermost, clesely packed
and driven into the ground to the depth of from three '
eave.
mbe,ertii.tgoerne.di}warhd.'
garden;Aalztet.errinbinllgyhteA feLydia
to four inches. It has been hastily and needlessly des- week, the trees am perfectly tree, and looking as healthy as
7riteediately set to wi..rk on the blight, now, after tote
troyed. Floors thus composed full two centuries since
are now not unfrequently discovered during the ahem- prior to the disease. The lady-birds are all gone."
tion of the timber and plaster edifices rrf the early PROBABLE PAPAL Pits-His Holiness the
Po eis sometimes cremated to be facetieue In one id
part of the 17th century. Oxford has supplied several
hislemerry nueele the Holy Father will perhaps, ta ply
examples. to Or. Cumming's letter, requesting leave to speak at
ACTION FOR FALSE IMPRISONMENT.-At the the approaching CEcumenical Council, by hamming
Liverpool Assizes, Mr. Edwards, for seventeen him that nothing any Scotch Presbyterian may have
Western Railway Company, brought an action against jure his Knoxious heresy. -Punch.
years in the employ of the London and North. to say cet roughly be atteneed to, unless he fine ale
that company for the recovery of damages for fain. THE GRFATEST MAN IN THE FRENCH AEMY l-
impriaonment on a charge of felony. The plaintiff General Lelezeuf, the new Minister if War in Frances
had made nee of some sleepers which lint been given is, like his ',redeemer, Blarehal Niel. an Engineer of.
him by a fireman to make a pigstye. He was taken turner, and, like him, won his epurs in the wars in Al'
into custody on a charge of stealing this wuxel, and Ceria. He took a prominent part in the battle of the
I kept in cc nfinement till Monday morning, when it was Alma, and was in supreme cornmeal of the artillery in
' found that his statement was true, and that toe wood the Italian campaign of 1859. It is alleged that, but
I had been given him. A miner charge weather. be iught for his tine-1y aid in the battle of Solari., the army
1 against him of stealing a piece of wood swami at of Viet, Emmanuel would have been crushed. Slues
: about threepence, but the plaintiff wag acquitted. then he has commanded the canip at Chalons. an din
1 Alter this he was discharged from the company's 1e66 he was deputed to receive the province of Venetia
service, a week's pay being given him. His bedside from the Austrian Government. lErrum that time he
thought that the dismissal rif the plaintiff looked as if has commanded the Sixth Carps d'Arniee, but it ig
the company countenanced the act of their offieer, said that he is in favour of abelishieg thr se large tali.
and the jury took this view, and awarded plaintiff tare mainlands, which &flora little scope for wheat's-
two damages. trative ability. The new lfl Mister ie runty years of
A SELF-SUPPORTING GAOL -The annual report age, and in said to be physically the bigsest men in
of Mr. James Caldwell, the governor of the gaol at the French army.
Dunedin, New Zealand, dated the 14th of April last, SIIoCKING ACCIDENT.-A Custom-house officer,
states that the value of the labour of the prisoners named Coates, has just met with his death it. a eery
during the year ended the 31st of March last more than extraordinary manner. He and a friend named Ash.
covered the entire expenditure af the establishment, field occupied a floor in a hole, in Bediord.row, loin'
withont taking into consideration the labour of such don. S ime time ago a strap, pigeon flew into their
'miaow-re, as were engaged in prison empleyment, much room's, and for since time they kept suit fed it. Owing
as washing, cooking, cleaning, Stre, mid valetas other to the tear, habits they tried to get rid if it. They
works connected with the gaol. The prison contained. gave it away several times, hut it always came back
when the report Was printed, 7e9 inmatee, of whom 43 again, and recently it return" I with five or six young
were debtom arid six lunatics.. During the year there pigeruns, and settled on the it :l of a blank window next
were received 595 wale turd 147 female prisoners. The to the wirelow of Mr. Coe ter's room. Fearing the
expenditure for the year on account of the gaol Was landlord might complain of the birds being kept there,
£7,085 Is 81., wed the value of the priwiner's lab me the two friends bad rewdved to catch Ow old one and
was 1:13.778 to, 7.1., showing an excess if el 393 Os. 11,1. put it in a cage. A few day- ago, Mr. Coatee, in ful-
over the expeneitnre. A considerable number of the filnient of his intention, neatly fell riot rif the ...law,
male prisoners are empleved in dredging the harbour, and said he would never take the attempt again,
reclaiming swamps, and even in sweeping the streets of Next night Mr. Aehfield left him lying on the seta, and
the town, Ate. The ration scale shows that the follow- went to lied; and a short tine afterwards Mr. Crates
intr allowances per day (in ounces) are given to male Was found lying dead in the area with Bente lards'
m-t`c • s'ampre at herd lab, err : -Male r r r oaten frathers in his lintel. and a pigeon walking round his
meal, 8 &ad 6; bread, 20 and 12 • meat, 16 and 8; heal. A surgeon Who Wail called in stateri that the
potatoes, 16 and 12; sugar, less, each; soap and salt, deceased had probably struck his head ferniest a pett-
ier. eacle
jecting brick ledge wheu drawing himself back after
A Hoßn iBLE DISC ,VERY.-A Fifeehire corre- catching the pigeon, an: 1e er had caused him tui lose
spondent of the North British Daily Mad wiites:- his balance and fall out r . the window. An
death
inqueet
No little excitement has been created to the vicinity of was held on the body, and a verdict of sect
Kleinhans inconsequence of the body of • martins. greatly
returned.
advanced stage of decontpositton having been found hargitte
A RAND RECOVSRY.-At the Greet ock police-
from the brsech of a tree in an unfrequented plantation not • „..rt An. M.Leod a Ilighlurnder, pleaded guilty
far frnn the burying menet of Method. totally. ' a,
The smell ' t - t
emitted from the hely led to its discovery. The teatimes to a 'ha-ge if having placed I iinself in a arab. in
were htittrely unrec.wiisable, hut fn •m letters found in the Rue-End-street, on Saturday night, vita, to excite the
pockets of the dress it was ascertained to be that of a Mr. eympathy and charity of the public. Detective
Fraser. who some twe menthe ago was butler at putridly, in . Donnelly rail that on being informed that a man was
the neighbourhood, slid who, alter some rand], gnarled, had
disappeared from the district, and 1 mi nou heard of ; dying on the street, he went to where there was •
'HMI his body was di covered aid min t bee
ed crowd cAlected numel NPLetel. who lotiked very ill,
, and the people were Ovine him wine stud coppers.
A LIGHT ON RAILWAYS AT NICIHT.--ACCOM- Witness had him conveyed to the Infirmary in a cab
ing to the American journals &novelty in railway man- for examination. On the way up, he tepidly re.
sot ment is to be introduced lty the Erie Companyeeho covered, and began to abuse the efficer for interferag
propsse to illuminate the whole line of that read at -got violent, and broke the glen in the cab. The
'debt by electric lights at the ferries, in the tuntrels,on medical officer at the infirmary sail Al'lseed war
enghls, l'ierMon'se shamming illness, and he was taken to the police.
matter, that he has made
allwh d, abnagye,rhou.rsgc:ir,rfv etah,eazdatot,n
riffice, where 14,1 th coppers were found on him. mils
several important improvements, among others a plan dently the contributions of the crowd. Ile was sent
far I ireaerving the carbon points from wasting away and for 20 days to gaol.
keeping them for months in good condition, a self-sue-
taming battery, and an invention by which the turning EDUCATION IN CONNECTICUT. -Children under
of the wheels of the engine shall collect electricity outteen, in Connecticut, by a recent law, cannot he
for use in illtuniunatior. There will be a light emperyed to labriur in any matufactnring establish'
at each end if the ferry, which it is believed ment, rir in any other Maness, unless each child ehall
will make a el alCsion practically impossible 011 have attendee for three months out of the twelve 80114
the darkest and foggiest night. Even with the public or private day-schrrne under the charge of a
diminution of light caused by the jarring of the
locomotive it is estimated that the head- lights will show teacher qualified to instruct in orthography,
.reading,
writing, Euglish grammar, geography, stud arithmetic.
the track to the engineer on a straight line for three Any person emplos ing any child under fourteen, eons
milea - [More welcome,however than any announcement trary to the provisions of this act, is liableto a penalty
of material improvements would be a notification in the of 100 &Mare for each offence. This law is a revival
cause of public- morality that the managers ef this line of the provieiene of three months' schooling each year,
could ler brought to a condition of responsibility forthe which were required to be ineetted in indenturee rif
pecuniary claims of the shareholders]. apprenticeship. It will be °nerved that the child
TIIE DCNMOW FLITCH.- - All Gammon.-Punch. athtnuisghbet scahiloo"wl'd
wask' acottensnidderea dtlauttiscchietiontl. In old times
TIIE RABBIT IN AUSTRALIA.-The Melbourne A CHARCOAL FLOwER.PoiT.- A. " scientific
At-gas of June 19 says :- flower-pet" has just been brought one awl is thug de-
The wild rabbit, which has for some time been resented as scribed in the Scientific Opinion r--" The object of it is
the 'vine of the agriculturalist, has become a useful article of not only to purify the water which is auppbed to the
toed, .d is bow going to be turned to account in another plant-a process we should certainly (mention the
eoninestreee to esfahlish a felt mamilactory, and the
way. An attempt is being made hy Mr. Grey. of 164, Little advisability
ti e ,-bnt t reindo ense ammoniecal gases.
venture ought to he successful, seeing that the chief material It is from this aspect that we think the new flower-pot
required Is furnished by the too plentiful rabbit. The soft, deserves atteutien. Agricuilturists are well aware II
silky undergrowth & hair ou the rabbles back is the material the effect of porous subetances, like cinders, in, IV it
of which the light grey felts used by batten Is chiefly coin- were, accumulating ammonia in the soil. There can be
posed. anti the "down " from
by the Victorian rabbit is dereared no doubt that chat-awl ableorle atDrininia in very large
experts to no decidedly superior to that obtained in
France, Eogland, or America, while its price is Is. Id. per lb. quantities, and poseibly, by afterwards adowing it,
R M the
mayi"i it
almso aaYffectituitulahe eoi
as against the English price of Ss. per lb. when converted into a salt, to lie taken up by the
water ,:f tetlintrg o
e nuttrittihrienfirif,wthrue
UNAWAY ARRIAGE.-Last week we (_Vew- plant.'
castle Chronicle) receirded the stoppage of a marriage either for goat or for ill. Red Colinire it Will radially
ceremony at Morpeth, by the father of the groom ap- intensify. The hues of white or yellow &were it may
peering and declaring the woulrbbe husband to be under totally change.
relenting father sent the candidate for conjugal life to
age. It appears that after leaving the church the tin. OUR HMI OFS AT CHALONS -A correspondent
Kirkwhedpirigthn, where he placed him under the care
of one of the Paris newepapin,t; Le Potpie' Franc' lit
of a guardian, but not withstarruing then precautions the (the emperor's personal organ), writrng from the Caum
young pair contrived, by the help of it third party, to at Chalens, says :-
baffle the anxious parenteand the watchful paetor's vigi. "General Codrington, Colonel Claremont, and a third
lance. According to arrangement the bride elect left
.tniril,eiath. nidlitary attire attached to the English embassy at
a n Mee camp. General Codrington J. an
Mrtrpeth in the letter part i,f last week. and trok up her exact ty"pe"7thmose admirahle English 14ficers whose st, re
residence in Newcastle, and on Saturday night a ram- e. mew.", energetic, calm, and heroic tenacity, have I.linAinlea
pathising friend stole out of Morpeth with a pair-hone balanced on the battlefleld our irrisiatible ardonr and Is'
chaise, in which he drove to Kirkwhelpington. Hem aentiary impetuosity. Sixty years old, anti riding well,
at the early hour of three o'clock, on Sunday morning,
6.edierkalLidrindmitoVtoot like ;t simple citizer..hiD.Tted in
cth.e.t,w.tiil.funl, y.ro:dinhgurtnriarnd wanartfastatka.ensfprez
otthheorrr.tort. o.f.lidide Ms 'redeem " like'' an 'intellthgrrse'rnygereZlioni irtihrorii
escapes. Un 7er his large blue cap with gold band is seen
carry Idm to St. Andrew 'e Church, in Newcastle, Ills Verge head; white whiskers, small mouth-which lAA Is
where he met his young and blughieg bride. A special frequently tormented by a stroeg square-shaped hand-so
licence having been previously obtained, the young dear to ecnipters. Ile conversesoften in English with Colossi
couple were united in the bonds of holy matrimony
Claremont, but is familiar with tbe French lammage,
, anti discusses the movements of the troupe with the efficers
and are at present staying in this town. as a warrior who knows warlike things from experience."
DYING HARD. -I never heard ft more striking CAPITAL PCNISHISENT.- Stopping in London in
instance of strong men "dying hard " than rune that is August -Punch.
given in last night... papers (writer, a Parisi Correa- FATALITY WITH FIREARME4.-An ieginst has
pendent). A well-kaiser, wrestler and athlete of
Avignon, bearing the illustrious some of Meiwonnier, been held in Liverpool, on the Jody of Michael Fearns,
caught, a few weeks ago, his death illness by carrymm.g forty-two years of age, a peneirmer from tie 75th Res
a little girl acrow a swellen ford, which she was obliged (Orient. .111.1 deceased was cleaning a horse pistol
to traverse in order to take to her father hie dineer which he hail kept from the time he left the army, and
This action was performed in the Most good-natured for the purpose of melting apiece of lead Ile put the
way. Meissonuier seeing the chill, who was to hiva end of the barrel in the fire. It happened to be loaded,
an utter stranger, trembling and weeping tin the and as he was probing in the barrel with a Piece of
brink, said tai her, "Take heart, little on , wire the charge went off, the bullet loclaritris in hie right
11l serve se, a terry for you." Swinging her on laT hand. He was removed to the Royal Infirm -try, when
shoulder, he carried her over. On returning to the he died on Saturday. Verdict- Accidental Death.
hank,whence he started, he slipped, and wartheroughly A LION FIGHT !-Mr. Lucas, the lion tauter
submersed. A cold, which led to a virulent fever, had a narrow escape of being eaten by his lime the
was the result. As his end approached Meiseonnier other day at the Hippodrome, in Paris. Ile went into
iiterally struggled with the malady, and his at the cage where there were two lions and twuu anuesses
words were, '' Oh, Death, if you were a man what with only a whip in his hand, instead of the heavy
short work l'd make of you."
has happened at Hillhearl crial-pit, neer Arrdrie. FoUr cudgel which he generally came& A Henna preallin-
FEARFUL Pir ACCIDENT.- A dreadful accident ir.:g rinlis being unarmed, wprung at hint arid seized
fr7irieritYbe spectators. Many women fainted. a d (Alien
his eon William, whit all reelded in Airdrie or "te soapy of the neck. A Cry if herrta a• Me
ru int of the theatre. The other lire a, 'tweeted
Miners, Darned Taylorson, AlihWi pod, James Beid, and
li by blood rushed upon Luc., and bit and scratched
neighbourhood, were brill; lowered down the sbaft. i j '
parted, and the cage, with its unfortunate occupente, s„,e )
whieh is ninety fathoms a depth, when the "t aw " lam,e7ernel.Y. In a few moments, he would certainly
was precipitated to the bottom from a height agent.% killed had hot our rif his assistants. who etas
fethome They all oustained severe injitries front the n the habit 9f entering the cage. mune forward at d
knocked the ho. n *beat the head with an iron I as. It
fall, l'aylearin's legs were broken ; Aiihwmere jaw.
line was i.plintered ; the elder Eel l fell on a pick- is repored that Lucas sail t him "Go away, leave
to, die alone." Howe:ver"that,inay be, the man
had Ids thigh cut in a ;shocking manner. They like- Irt,drierieard lee.. away from the lions, and he was taken
wise received internal injuriem non- the dreadful shotLk.
shaft. which penetrsted his abdomen, while the youth
Three rif the men are married, and it is feared they will i 1 e ii.-law'shou.e, No. 31, Avenue Montagns.
lens tine. ,na tyerne wounds, and after lung- ring a few
&ye be earl. The heroism of the Mani by whom he
not survive. Work was not resumed that day. w - rescued it the theme of enthusiastic paha,. NI
THE ToMB or HENRY S'll.- The well.koown .. e rend, the io. , .re or ta« alippedrome, had the
central monument in the chapelef Hem y VI ... v,- „.. ' p• u aquae of mind te r o ise rra d •• . .1 the cage when
Minster Alrbey, has been tie rmt, d awl I tV/V,d. 'i, , lie faitlefe /P- r, ,ii r • •it M• . Lioias out Iti it, otherwise
oobvituiretizr.vadtiotl
iT.l.crire
patitiobnjeci.ts
kogif
htieh.e rucTuhleptdaruredk
,i,tt.h:rge
beflv, A: I:
every
. di ill Jh
.0R
.we I:ed
.yßelfr if.
tomb itself is seen tabs of black marble ; the effigies the hobs 1,.,id, 1. .... e ream e raid rip. t: e audience.
and other metal adjuncts are gilt. The Builder says :-
"fThe gilding is for the most part in an excellent 'gate vents-a a knife that cuts so fast that nobody can feel
areisßnai,tc,thabairndgf.asvoitnih:thnetwrinoin-i
ge,•it or in the circular panels round the tomb are DOW this eal • . ' 'wrist • InVeution. People in noviety cut each
-Dr,
hpeyrr e,
metal norm mewl tie bomb would prevent hill 61.111 WI ite7P9lo4h.

_
GALLANT CONDUCT OF A BOY.

We (Scot onan) have learned the following part hmlsea
of an accident that occurred in Leith hal hour. On
toretdroo, two boys, aged eleven awl four re•
spectively, children of Mr. Opiate, detective officer
Leith, took a walk down the West Pier, when th;
younger brother, going too near the quay edge, was
blown into the harbour by a squall. .I'he elder boy,
nano d Ernest, in a simple, e oquent mariner, thus
serrates the accident and his re cue of his Mother
When I .w d all over the pier, I r,shed to the place
and I. iihrd.lloll, if any 000 Is. 111 argot 'there na.,rely
ale hat he wri a good wm •IT I then g .ve one
loud ,cream, arid Jangled In after my br dher I had to swim
&bIItI huh, or true yards before I got near hi,.. He
•fl or trio We when I got near Min, and I knew
b. wodd soon choke. I therefore dived 1,. below hi.,.
eel g..t him on to my hack. When I got this done, I
let him aide t di/ On to iris own back I then put my
tem 1011114 i his neck arid made my way for one of the
sts which support the pier. During this time Alfred
hag caken to nie once. Ile said, " Where are we Ernest !"
y answered, "lii the water." Ile did not speak again, WM
make snip motion whatever. When I reached the pint I
daved my arms around it. I had Alfred It, my arms between
the pat and me. My clothes were getting heavy with water,
and s.,was my brother's. It was about halt high-water, for
the tide war going back. Alfred slipped from no, arm., arid
gosit d away about two yards from non I again laid hold of
kat lollies, and kept him above the water.
Mr. Fyfe, who had been walking on the pier, and
beard Ernest's scream, pr cured the Rob Roy ferry-
boat, and noved op the harbour to the Lord Aherdour
berth, where he found Ernest with Imo arm clasped
kound a post and supporting his brother with his dis-
engaged arm. It was with great difficulty that the
gallant little Ernest could be induced to let go his hold
of his brother, in order that he might be lifted into the
boat; ivoi even after both had been rescued, Ernest,
lab string under the impression that his brother was
still in the water, had to be restrained from again jump-
ing into the harbour. Both boys were conveyed to the
ishrwary in a cab, and, recovering shortly, were there.
after taken home.

week. Her answer, therefore, to the defendant's last
letter was aa follows:
Dear Mr Tod,--I feel quite testified in retaining all
Pretente anti letters until Iri entre letter from ml broiler,
whom I have contulted on the matter. Is is I who hove
!,eeli made the fool of, not you. I have made all prepara-
tions for my manage; nty dresses are all ni•110, atm who is
the fool, I should like to know? Any retnotiatrances ou
Mrs Hyland's part could niake no difference in me,
as she did not know the fact tilt I came to Lir,-
owl. Matters such as those I take ea so evety-day
occurrence In lie [hiving so offer is one thhtg, mad lying
li,- tied is another, and hotting preparations made to that
effect. As regards your boner I have newer made an' in-
glories. I only spek nolo experienc, I must say I any
truly sorry for the way in whitth thit go hove torte d out, all
through 4 misunderstanding on your part. No &Mit you
are Instilled In your own opini 4444 but I beg again to say that
it is a mitionderstantling which I hope some day you shall
Iliad out, but another shall never make • hail f nte. Yours,

" MARIAN BARRI."
After that the plaintiff returned to Ireland, and,
notwithstanding the foregoing correspondence, wrote
the following letter from thire to the defendant in
April : . _

"Newcastle, April S.
My dear Mr. Tod,—l have a favour to ask of you, and
one which you must grant me, to convince yl 0 that I had no
motive or wish to keep you from coming to Newcastle. Will
you come and spend a week with us about the end of this
month, when the weather will be a little warmer, and our
little village will be beginning to look its best? Now that
we have got the trains all the way to Newcastle you could
leave Liverpool on Saturday evening, and he here for break-
fast on Sunday mornour. I believe there has been a great
nmny stories told on troth' shies, I do wit know by whom,
hut when you come over we can vice each other a proper ex
plane' ion, and then the trills Mill all be known. I wan
tickling at the isle of Man mountains )esterd.)—we clan see
them quite plain from here somethi e--and thinking of the
Sunday we wtnt to the top of One of them. now happy and
omtent I was then, alld what • change sin one twelve month* !
Dear Mr. Tod, there is only one on this earth cm ever meant
make me lmppy, ant I have fully made up toy mind tlmt
another In ever will have. I have time I to forget, 011.1 the
more I try the w.ove I get Dear Mr. T.Ol, arc,pt best love,
&lid believe me ea, wurs sincerely,—MAßlAN BARBY.
" P S —Anxiously waiting a retorts."
The

return was sent in these words,—
" April 13.
"I am In receipt fit yours, and have to inform you that 1
cannot consistently comply with your request. I have been
expecting to receive the brooch and comb from >on which
you are aware was my late wife's. The otoer presents
although forfeited you can use y, ur own discretion with.
" Yours respectfuliy, J. Ton,"
The plaintiff replied :
" Newcastle, April 16
"Dear Mr. Tod,—l received your note this morning ; sour
presents I OW trn,valoe On. but my relatives, under e hose
control I AM, will not all .w me to return any pre.ents till
they consult a lawyer on the matter. It to not going to end
so easy as you expect; your conduct towards me has been
unaccountable —Yours, dr, , MARIAN BARRY."
" P.S.—Please address Newcastle, not Castleton."

As has been stated, the defemlant WA, married to
another lady in the cinme of the month of April, and
the learned coon-el for the plaintiff dwelt upon the de-
fendant's faithlessness and the cruelty of his conduct
in thus breaking off the match. lint, in addition, he
had the effrontery to make an affidavit in thin cause,
and affeit to give an account of the interview of recom
and destruction uif the disagreeable letters
which had lava,' betieeen them, thus :
'' In the course of the negotiation for the alleged profuse
the plaintiff ',tote and sent to WO letters in relation thereto
of which I believe the plaintiff retained conies, and I say
that in or about the month of November last the said
negotiation was br• ken rdf and terminated by a letter
from the plaintiff to me, dated, as I believe, in the month
of November, and which letter was taken from me as
hereinafter mentionedly in the month of January last
I collected together all the letters written to me by the
plaintiff and then In my possession. arid took then. with me
to a meeting with the plain' ill at the hong., of her sister,
Mrs II)land, ctc. The laid plaintiff and her sister,
Mrs. Hyland, were present, arid I showed them the plain.
tiffs letters to ine. Ind the said plaintiff mit bring ready to
exchange letters, I uI IVA give to the plaintiff In• her sister
the plaintiff's letters to me. In the course of the evening I
became uncorischrus in the said Mrs house, where
I the plaintiff then was, and oil my return to consciousness I
could not end ani of the plaintiff's letters, which were so in
my possession when I became tinconscions, and I very believe
that during my 1111COLSCI01191101an the said plaintiff tm,k the
said letters from me, arid that they are now in her pos.essiou
and I ray that I have never seen or been able to find any of
such letters since the aaid meeting."
This allegation, which amounted to nothing less than
a charge that the plaintiff and her sister had drugged
the defendant in order to obtain the letters from him,
was without a particle of truth, awl greatly aggravated
the case. For days after the destniction of the
letters the defendant bad continued his intercourse
with the plaintiff on the old foiting; and on this sub.
jock Mr. Hyland proved in the box that the defendant
came to him and RAM he would be glad to hear that
the quarrel haul been made up; to which the witness
replied that he was "very glad to hear that all that
hankeypankey had been given iii.." The learned counsel
concluded by claiming very substantial damages in this

case.
The defendant's Counsel cross-examined both the
plaintiff and her sister pretty closely as to the inter-
view at which the letters were burnt, and su_tgested
that, as it was Chr4itinas titne, the defendant must
have been ..upplied with something to drink, if only
for the sake of hospitality. They, however, denied it.
The plaintiff also denied that the defendant, when they
first met on New Year's eve. refused to kiss her tinder
the mistletoe ; but It waa the fact that, alth..ugh she
had comeover to Englandon the 23rd of December, the
rt.conciliation was tiot effected till the 5 h tif January.
To the jury be made an amusing address, in which
he said that everyone, not even excepting his learned
friend or himself, must have been delirious at such an
interview AS that at which the letters sere burnt, and,
of course, the defendant was so also, but his account of
the matter was jir b.bly substantially correct. Still,
he did not call the defendent, or contest that there
mint be a verdict against him, and the question was for
how much. The jury would pnibably be of opinion that
these actions should not lie brought, either by plain-
tiff or her friends, wittiout substantial MIRO or
where there was no other remedy. In this case the
plaintiff was yming and very pretty, and likely to have
plenty of offers; while it was proved that the defend-
ant's business Awl only produced a matter of some £3
a week to him. WWI he hoped that the jury would not
cive the plaintiff heavy damages, because some if her
friends thought that when she went hack to Ireland it
would be much better she should make her api.eartice
"with one 1 this old brushinakeie best besums at her
masthead."
the jury after a short co-insulation returned a verdict
for the plaintiff, with E.4oo.lainages.