The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-04-17 00:00:00

SATTTP,DAY. APRIL 17, 1869

"A wonderful horse, which noels through dames
from the stage to the flies, with • young woman on its hack,
Is to be a forthcoming attraction at, one of the metropolitan
theatres."—Oretenera.
An intereeting divovery of old Scottish coins, lone
hundred and fourteen in number, has been made near
esetiomens They are all of the mixtemith century , roe. are
wouderfully perfect. the of the pieces barrel was struck in
commemoratron of the marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots
with the Dauphin of France.
The colliers and puddlers of the extensive coal works
end machinery establishment. of Messrs. Cocker.ll, at
Seising, veer Liege, have struck, mud ants too often the CABO
with Belgian orkmen, they have resorted to acts of
violence, which have led to the usual consespiences, the
canter; out of the troops to restore order, and • collision
with the rioters, in which several were killed and wounded.
It is hailed that the rioters have some ulterior designs in the
plan they are adopting.
The Rev. Mr. Johnston, a missionary at Ranipore
haut, India, went out recently to shoot a tiger %Mai was
plaguing the villagers. lie met the beast, but missed his
aim, and the tiger springing upon him seized his arm, and
was COlnnusileilla a meal when, fortunately, assittatice arrived
and the tiger ran off.
A Mrs. Hichin, living at Bermondsey, left her in-
fant son, nine months old, asleep It, a press-bed. A sister of
the infant, a young woman on going into the room a -hors
tiros a terwarda, ignorant of the child having beeli placed
there, closed up the bed, and the poor little thing was killed.
The Maine Legislature was recently debating the
bill for the abolition of capital punishment, and an alumni-
ment was proposed that, previcerely to the hang," ol a
criminal, chloroform be wiministered to line. Site was
vehemently opposed, because it was dangerous to life.°
seed finally rejected.
There has just been discovered, at what is still known
as " Martin Mere," near Raiford, a relic of the prm ties
ages—a canoe—which, front its appearance, most have been
entombed for centuries in the bed of what was once a gigan-
tic lake. •
In a new book we Meet with the fit wing strange
words:—" Entoilment," furnouv," •. proclivities," •• ram
tinowely," hitroactive,' analysation,' " lit tail of," "to
conc. et oneself of," "in behoof of," and the verb "to con-
note."
The conviction of a farmer for sending bad meat to
the Lotidon market, with a renteuce of two month...imprison-
ment, was on the next day followed by a Leicester hatcher
being sent to prison torn month for a like offence.
" Riding-habits are worn so short pet, now that
some ladies in Rotten-row are greatly embarrassed to
manage then, "—Court Journal.
A lady at baptism in Chicago neglecting to remove
her bonnet, the clergyman diil it, bringing off with the
arVcie a vast amount of hair, to the amusement of the con-
gregation.
It will, it is said, cost the Great 'Western Ritilwer
Company £5,000 to isetablixh a means of cmumunication
between passengers and guard and driver of the trains, tit
conformity with the new Railway Act.
The following advertisement is from a Ballarat
paper '—"To Clergymen.—Tetelers are invited for marrying
two or more coup'es, at the Railway Hotel. Lydiard-eireet,
on Tuesday, 19th inst. Tenders to be left at the above ad-
dress."—What next?
A large claire of Englishmen have hitherto treated
the " Alabama claims" ass joke. They ought to feel stiedi
ally re-assured now, that the Pnited States Ambwandor is
about to present himself in Motley —Tomahawk.
A return, prepared pursuant to a motion of Sir
George Jenkinson, was published on Tuesday, showing the
number of convicts discharged from or retained in couvict
prisons in or to this country in the years ending M irrh It,
1865, '6, 7, and 'S. In the four years the average moldier re-
leaned he each year on Royal ihrdon was 7. Only liners
released on c mmutation of sentence during the four years,
and Son medical giounds. Daring the same period e 76 com-
pleted their sentences. Of thole released on license to< re
the period fixed by the circulars dated Jute 21, 1857, and
August 1964, 319 were in lade, 466 in 1866 Slits 1867, and 43
in 1863. Tile nuniher 'charged on license within six
months of the period fixed by the circular of i 857 was 1,250
in 1865, 1,005 in 1866, 979 in 1E67, and Snyin 1868. the
return does not include military convicts.
"At the suggestion of a gentleman who happened
by curious circumstances to know the future intentions of
certain South London preacher., two of our reporters
attended separate places of worship last Sunday week,
Icy
arrangement, and reported the mune sernam—sentence for
smitence—woni tir word. We leave our readers to draw
their own concluaion."—South London Press.
In London, a few days same, there was paid in to
the hankers of the Metropolitan Free [Limited under the
initials .• E. G.," a douation to that institution of £1,09'.
At the first if the Empresa Enzeni e's receptiona, danc-
ing took place in the Salle des Maim:ll:me. lier majcndy wore
a StraWscoloUred Ire s looped up with gerlende of givers;
diamands on tee head and neck. Tile Princem alathilde was
attired in orange, and the [Movies de Geternich in white
with cerbe ribbons The Euler,. wail: I *limit for a con-
siderable time with the Duchess of Hamilton.
Ahoy was charged before the thriningham magis-
trates on Saturday nub vagrromy, having hem, found sleeping
in a waggon. Ilia mother appemeil, and on being asked what
nligien she professed, wlth a view to tier son bei-e. sent to a
reformatory, she replied, " I go clean mg and working."
hills were issued on Tueeday inonlinif, the
object Id which is to extend the operations of the Govern-
meut savings batiks and insurance system. The first fixes
the sum whirh may be received from a depositor al £,O tin
ally tele year and not more than £3OO at any time The
other authorises the Postmaster General to con, tact life an-
serami a to the amount of £lOO, the modinuni being £5 pay-
able at the death of a policy tediler. The minimum figure of
instalments is redliCed from Is. to Is.
In the French Chamber on Toesday, it was pro-
posed that the Imperial Guard should lie aupposeed, and •
reductimi of 2,0 ON men be made hi the army. The proleisal
was rejected. Iti the course of the diliCUSSian Marshal Niel.
et .ted that the effective strmig 11 of the French army wi iudi
bee, t sired 4101 000 nem Oil Vie preemie clay he an-
nounced that the Imperial Government could always have
600,000 men under arms in eight or nine days.
Of hate years it is much the faaltion with certain
Illustrated papers to publish the caricatures of well-kin own
characters One et these had the carieature of the Celel•rsted
limeocier, M. Sloes, ready for printing ;the Prefect had even
authorised it, but at the last morneet he forbade it The
editor then decided to publish the caricature with a latee
ot of ink covering it. The Prefect (orbits him to publish
the spot of ink.
•"rhe Dirk, of Arzyll did no more than consult the
wishes of Lord W ace Camplicli when he placed His Lord-
ship in the ,iflice of messes 'Thomson. of Mite:Mg-lane This
tirce ia the largest teade "kers' probably 111 the world, and
I Lord Walter lias now bean Iwo years with Moves. Thomson.
So that the story is an old one. Moreover, Iris Lordship is
the third, not the youngest sou of the Duke."—Court
Jitiurnal.
Valuable are some of the offertories at High Church
early celebrations ! At that of St. Mary Magdalene, Pad-
dii.gton, on Easter Day, it exceeded £590.
A woman in one of the censire districts on Long
Island gave to the enemerator the names of teenty of her
cht dr. is s• .1 then snbl nh li dered there Were tWO or three
more, but she couldn't just then remember their names.
From Vienna another ;nein, speech is retiortert
rig to the Press of that city IL de Grammont, the
French alinister there, has energetresily declared, since his
nitorn fern France, that peace will riot be disturbed
either the sprime or mminer of this year anti it says
th„ t loses no occasion of Insisting upon the sincerely pa-
cific intentions of his Government."
A Brooklyn undertaker recently wrote to a doctor
that if the doctor would recoloniend him to 1 onilies,
where he visited, he ,the undertaken would "reciprocate."
In the Perla flower market, last week, a placard
attracted the attention of visitors to a new rose—a green
rose. A horticulturist of Orleans, about ten years since,
with the intention of producing a roee of -orrpassing eleJance
, and odour, succeeded in obtaining a sort of thistle nearly in•
odoctrous The green rose was a failure The inventor kept
but one root, for the sati -faction of giving it a kick when-
ever he ?eased within reach, awl the kick was accompanied
by the words which Las Cases has attributed to Napoleon at
St. Melens—"Passons, cent une de men erreurs !"
On Saturday evening a "tent dinner" was given by
the Liebig Extract of Meat Company at the St. JaineAl
Hotel, London, for the purpose of demonstrating the excel-
lence of the preparatimi, and especially its value as an
article of diet for the labouring classes. "Tile great madi of
the people," raid one of "the emieent savans " who attetided
to expound the merits of the Extract. " could be inipported
by it at a mueh reduced cost. A better entertairiment•
says the enthusiastic Standard reporter, "no one need wish
to sit down to?
On Saturday, at Newcastle, Thomas Hodkinson,
schoolmaater. Welke-, near Smith Shields, was charged with
shooting Robert Huge*, a boy fifteen years of age, with in"
tent to murder lam at Walk, r, On the 25th of March. Tri.
timer was ommitteel for trial at the &seizes, lin the charge
of wounding with intent to du grievous bodily barna.
It is said that preliminary steps have already been
taken to dispute the validity of the will of the late Mr.
Samuel Holland Moreton, solicitor, of Liverpool, and lord of
the Werra' Hundred, which left the whole it the deceased's
property to Dr. Goss, the Rowan Catholic Bishop of Liver-
pool. to time exclusion of the widow and other relativos. A
caveat has been lodged in the Liverpool Probate Office, which
for the present bars administration of the will.
The other day there appeared in The Times an
advertisetneut bi three terms All persona affected by
statements in Lord Campbell's Live, of Lord Lyndhurst )111e.
Lord Brougham,' and intereated in the pure adminiatration
of public justice, are requested to favour Miss Ralston
ihedden by coinsiunicatiog immeiltately by letter with her."
—lf Lord Lyndhurst and Lord Brougham were themselves
"to the fore," they would have something to say to "plain
Jock's" OMAR.. of Vent ; but Lord Lyndhurst took his
revenge by anticipation when he said, "One's death leans
new tenor added to it when one hears that Campbell Jaen&
to write his biography."
" How do you like the looks of the varmint?" asked
an Arkansan of a Down Eas, er who Was gather with
di/tome 1 eyes at an alligator with men jaws in the bank
the Mississippi. " Wa'al," responded the Yankee, recovering
his °rent.) "he aunt what ye eu call a han'sonie
critter, but he's a deal of openness 0 hen he smiles "
The death in announced, in New York, of the
Swedish engineer Ericson It will he remembered thee he
invented the moutons which played such a conspicuous part
during the late American war.
l'he Court of Common Pleas in Ireland has decided
that Mr Weguelln, who was returned far Yougal, siala re-
sponsible for the acts of bribery committed between his ar-
rival in the town and the diesolution Parliament, and that
the election was thereby vitiased Sir Joseph 00'Ke111111, the
unsuccessfal Conservative candidate, has already commenced
to CairraSS the constituency.
The ustimates for the Civil Service for the year end-
ing the 31st if %larch. 1070. have keen published. The total
sum asked for is £9,530,158, which is an increase upon the
votes of the previous year amounting to £279,421 TUe only
votes iu which a diminution haa been effected is the vote for
public works and buildings, anti that for mi•cellaneou.,
special, and temporary objects, the fernier amounting to
£52,726, and the latter to £38.32.t. The sum required, in
additlon to these estimates, for the Revenue le.partments
and Packet Servie, is £6,06a,530, which is £8,039 in excess
of last year's demand.
The students of Trinity College, Dublin, appear to
have made Prince Arthur's visit the ri .casion for a political
demonstration. When his Royal Highness had concluded a
very courteous reply to the addrees, tieygave emend rounds
of " Kentish fire," arid while the Prince was hispecting the
tonseum they rushed into the building arid gave mans for
Maynooth—the college his lt.iyel Highness had jest yi-ited
—and Cardinal Culen, and cheers for "the Qiieen and the
Church" The ,Freeman's Journal characterises this be-
haviour ass violation of all the rules of hospitality, arid a
disgrace to Trinity.
Lord Rich°, as president of the National Rifle
Associatioe, has Issued • letter to de Members, plac:ng
before them the pesition and prospects of the institution.
His lor,lehip reminds them that the tenth &mime' prise
meeting is about to he held, and that although the iaistarkd
defleit need not be viewed with alarm, In one way only can
the association be placed on a secure basil—namely, by
large increase In the !lumber of subscribing member..
Prof Goldwin Smith has written a letter to the
New York Nation with a view of reniovieg the iinprevaion,
" prevalent among Americans," that the time chosen by the
British Goverement for the recmiuition of She conederatee
as belligerents wits a ntanifest sign of hostility to the United
Stater "As one of those," he says, who believed that the
came of English liberiy was booed up with tlpit of the
I mon, I jealously watched, in the interests id both causes,
the actions of our Goverumerit. Though perfectly independ-
MA of it, and on many questions opposed to it, I had
perscwally mod opportutattes of informi .g !Wei( al to
the real disposition of its members. And it is my firm
conviction that its setled policy from the outset slid through-
out the struggle was strict neutrality, practical s,n oth as
legal, and that if it erred sat: am myself hicliueelto thine
It did`, in Ita choice of time for the recovnition ni ifie 0.0-
federates so belligerents, the error was the result, not of an,
sinister bias, but of misconception alone."
The atten•ii in r.f newspaper repertere and proprietors
Is particniariy cal, Ito httle irmehlet, • cititled xi Ito
Short-Hand Om It c.•mprisitig Arlin r.i7ies, erefix• 5, '
Mittens. Ac, adapted to all systems et atenographf
Short- Haiti Maxims, by Henry Newman." It is sent P.
tree, tie e. use, by Xlr. Hall, Windmill Street, Graveeend.

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