The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-01-02 00:00:00

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THE INUNDATED SALT 7.1; NES. —Ail veal; feolll
Lembarg state that the fate of the salt min, s of
I Wieliczka, in Galicia, not long since suddenly inun-
dated by a subterranean rush of water, is the subject
of grave apprehension. A commission employed by
,1. ,
A GOOD THING IN .‘ We..NG Pl. \,' . I, irt, !he ep ••r Of Banno a Putt in examining on the p t
we are frequently told. is, sly a ,moal thing iri aas °lig into the bet meat. if relosanna re
• the disaster, has toren
place (remarks The Times, in a leader on pauperism.)
obliged to depart without being able to devise any plan
so
of arresting the invasion of the waters. The works
The same may be said of nearly all our Pauperism. It
is
already conanenced with that object had to be aban-
a bad thing in our purely agricultural counties, where
dolled in consequence of a neialibotifing partition hay-
the or laipurers with their low wages and liege ing partially given way. The flood accordingly is
families have neither the money, nor the strength, nor
rising without olostaele. and there is no hope now but
the spirit, nor the knowledge to go where they are
in the emplor mentof forcing pumps of 300 horse-power.
more wanted, and where their lahour will fetch two Should thsse succeed in drying up the mine the source
os three times as much as it does now. Palmeri-in
of the inundation may be discovered, and the waters
is a bail thing in this metropolis, where ship-build-
turned into another direction. In the opinion of corn-
at d cks and twenty other undertakings all stop
ing, 0 . peteet judges the calamity has been thus far treated
at °ace, and the workpeople are left stranded
very inefficiently and with an unpardurrable want of
far away from their old connexions, and nobody want. very
ing them lore. All over this country in ost of the .s,
Pauperism is only a good thing in a wrong place. THE MILDNESS OF THE SMASON.—A COMTS-
If anyhaly sat
11 ' • rose his attention to it, he will find pendent at Danurow, Essex, of Laud and IVatee,
that ino4 ~f the persons, 144 or young, male or female, says :- -
nalotasting, on weekly pittances out of doors or on a Yesterday December in , whale out, waltintal.sawlac3=l,l
dietary within have plenty of work in them, and tile bird on the ground just nefore narier,,awn j g
, tustaiLetcot the nest, and
will to vs irk to, but they. me not wanted enough to it; I,eltiairedt,i, sit4s,%yllittlig sit.:
ra seems to me so unusual an
get a maintenance by their work, even with good in- t
:',:reurrenee that 1 thought it would interest you. I noticed,
tentionts. It is needless to specify cases, f. x they too, another very rare event fm• this season. Last Sunday,
might be multiplied to any extent. whilst in church, a beautifully-walked peacock-butterfly
. , was crawling on the willti44w-seai by my pew, fully developed.
A " HEAD GARDENER."- - A maker of artificial 'rim 1 Inel iedi he ced t sunday Vidor; near the same pl ice, .
flowers for ladies hair !—Judy. but not seemingly in so forward and lively a condition
surely both instances mark the very mild weather we have
A RAILWAY DISASTER PREVANTED.—On Sunday
.• had. At Seuthanipton a nightingale w. hem,' tinging tie
morning an arch of the Blackburn and Clitheroe It al- the 7111 at this ntiotab, not in a cage, but in a lence by the
way gave way, and had
it not been for the exercise of a side of the road.
little forethought by a labouring man the acciolent PAPAL POLITENESS.—At the last consistory the
might have reSulted in the loss of life. A passenger pp,, in speaking I.f the interference of the King of
train started from Blackburn for Whalley, Clitheroe, Italy on behalf of the Ajani and Luzzi, who have been
and Chatburn. A Wall was seen to be running on the sentenced to death, is reported to have qualified it by
pThermanent way, and beckoning to the driver to stop. the wOr-- tl Jrefrontez:4" impudence."
e driver broaght the train to a standstill, when the
Vi HELE You WOULD EXPECT IT.—Ylileby,gOing
Mall told him that it would be unsafe to proceed, also
into lois CM mist's, looked (town and read on the door-
iron arch whish spans the hi2h road was broken. The
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train was taken bark to Blackburn, and the arch was Ri
examined. It was cracked froin one side to to the other. .atlitm singularly appropriate.- '" Salve ; a word which, in that place, seemed
riate.- -Punch.
and the probability is, that has !the train proceeded the W HAT MAYOR Henri, it DID.- The Rey. Dr.
' bridge would have given way. It is believed that the Blank, one of the great bores of America, told once a
' arch broke during the night, owing to a very heavy lb tle anecdote of James Harper. "I asked the mayor,"
train passing over it, drawn bythree large engines. said Dr. Blank, what he did? I sail to him, "I know
GARIBALDI'S MANIFESTO.—The Roman COM- •
that Mr. John Harper attends to the business; Mr.
We-ley Harper looks after the literary correspondence ;
spondent of the Tabfo t says: - Mr. Fletcher harper receives authors, and balks after
Mazzini's manifesto of last week has been succeeded by
new books and the magazines—but you, Mr. Mayor, I
one feint Garibaldi, in which he intones his friends anti
brethren of the approach of another crisis "Let the have boy. e been able to discover what you do." ' 11l
patriots numbei their ranks, organise themselves. and hold tell ou answered the mayor ' butt yin
yin a whisper, •
iliiselven in readiness. Ai anon as the republic ,ball be must not let it out : I entertain the bores." The best
proclaimed at Madrid, we intetid to act througl I, the penin- of the joke was the unconscious innocence with whia
sula, mid overthrow a king whose hesitations fetter and re.
the reverend doctor narrated the anecdote.
tard the free march of the nation. The republicaus, sup-
ported by the people, will Only stop at the Capitol." . Ibis
WHERE TO SPEND YOUR HoNEYsiourr.--`
(ails the 5 ht.- is plain speakiug, and Catholics will do trikit,d Had.”_p.,,,h.
well to lay to heart the warumg that has been given them.
PICTCRE-LENDING EXTRAORDINARY.—A snip-
AN IMPORTANT DECISION.—An important de-
lw affair has for some days past been much talked of
chrism has besot just rendered in the Supreme Court at
in Parisian society, and commented I/11 in newspapers.
Richmond, Va., by judge Underwowl. A woman, ,I'he Director-General Id the Museum of the Louvre
named Sally Anderson was brought before the court
took on himself, it appears, to lend several of the
on a habeas corpus she having received the death rictures, not fewer than forty, it is said, of that estab-
sentence for the crime of arson. It was contended in lisimient, to ornament the private apartments of M.
her b-half that one or the magistrates before whom she .
Croplong, President of the Senate, in the Palace du
was tricd was disqualified from holding office by the L,,x,m,),,urg.
14th amendment to the constitution, behaving been ings were acci A few nights back two of these paint-
dentally destroyed by fire. As they
in the rebel service, and that consequently the court
were by great masters the loss of course is irreparable.
which sentenced her was illegally constituted. The There is accordingly a loud outcry against the director
judge sustained the plea and released the prisoner.
of the museum. Its contents are, it is said, public
One hundred and fifty-nine convicts, now in prison,
property, and he has no right to let public property
and who were tried by courts similarly constituted,
pass into the hands of private persons, however elm-
will doubtless take advantage of this decision. nent they may be in the State. The question 18 asked
SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT A RAILWAY STATION. whether he is to be rivulet° pay a pecuniary indemnity
An accident happened at Shrewsbury railway station for the loss, or whether it must I. fall on 11 Troplong,
on Monday night, whereby a passenger named Smith or both of them.
met with a fearful death. Mr. Smith was going to A Roca DANCER ON FIRE.—An exciting scene
Leaton by the Great Western line, and having taken occurred the other day at Aleazar. Mollie. Ilsose Saqui,
tickets for himself and his mother and sister, who were a rope dancer, wag performing some jugglery feats,
to accompany him, he waited aisout on the platform instancing daggers, lighted to 'robes, tte., on the tight
till the train came up. Mcsnwhile, the Landon nod scope, when ion lolenly the terrible cry. "Yon are on
North-western train was despatched, and as it passed tire l" arose fnim the audience. In reality, a piece of
the west end of the platform an extra guard in one of burning staff from one of the lighted throttles had fallen
the vans noticed Mr. Smith standing lllvey ear the on her head, and set her long hair on fire. With one
erlge, and waved him back. Mr. Smith turned on his hn.t on the ironsl 'oe and an in the air, the woman
heel to rake, but his foot slipped, and the guar,' saw al not lose her presence of mind. She pursed her
him fall back and disappear beneath the train, E chithand ower her clothes and felt nothing. Aaz ehereux,
heavily freighted carriages passed over Irina and when : a 1
criea tde excited people. Mdlle. Saqui understood,
he was I)iched up he Wa'l found to be dreadMlly mutt.- and carryii ig her hand b, her h aoL ral tifl l t
eoblly seihe
late d, an Idied on being carried to the infirmarr• A
TRAGEDY IN LoNf.oN.—A most shocking tire. Sloe then continued her performance asif nothing
bad happened.
domestic tragedy was well-nigh played out on Monday A FLoaxsicx TRAGIDY.—A horrible event has
evening in Southwark. About three. years ago a recently been the talk of Florence. A young servant
children, a
woman named Lack, murdered two of her 3 oung.•st girl, remarkable no less for her beauty, than for the
amid attempted the life of a third. ,
'Tht was irreproachable steadiness of her conduct, was found to
tried and acquitted on the ground of insanity, and is
now confined in a penal asylum. What the history of roue of the windows of the house in which she served, tll have been barbarously murdered and thrown out of
On NVerffiesilay, in last week, the neighbourhood of the family has been since that time is lea known; but Her person was dreadfully disfigurel, rood her mouth
fel:Afield, a suiall village near Whitchurch, was thrown on Monday evening the attention of the police was filled witli earth, for the evident purpose of stifling
into a very excited state front a report that Mr. Whit- called to their house, when it was found that the her cri• s. R.T inistres.s, an elderly woman, married
field, fa er, of Ightfield, had been found lying in a father haol isiven paisan to hi
ssits, hail taken a tote
o
diteh on his farm, shot through the heaol Mr. Whit- himself.. and had also cut his throat in several Ithte"'.• to a y cog husband, has been arrested, with her
broth. r, lal sliiilillilll. of having committed this crime.
field was in the habit of going oat shooting, with his 'llle prism., 0.d.1 that on the previ Ms evening los which is salaamed to have been prompted by an en-
gin,. anil dogs, and on the morning in imestilm went father brought in some rum atxat, after I:l;stligniehi,:rl e
tirely groundless jealousy.
I out soon after daybreak. He returned home to break- in a o•up, hanaleol it tirhhin,rha _
,srohritti
THU CHURCH OF ENGLAND. —The following
fast about eight o'clock, and after partaking of this i 1 raecoollecti• on of little lie became inset's' e i 4
.1 f t
h.
with • ale tt- tyrrinsts
again went out wrt his sun. . m am, , 1 t e anything that occurred afterwards until re 011111 lia.
... adiliti, ins were made to the Anglican ministry at the
sell . the hso sit
or half an hoar after deceaseol going out the second a llt ,e , 1 ~ -. •
aL Mr. Lack Ben., was taken too the late ordmations :-
1 ' state I tl s
time a shot Was heard, which appeared to come frown hoeltithh where Ile nett in 3 . `ln,,Y_rOn. ; atm, I ' It) the eish. pof Bang.% 3 de:teens and 4 priest's ;by the
a hell near there. About two hours after this a man stomach-pump was applied t o the son with such an irishrop of he'll and Wells, 7 deacons and 8 priests ;by the
on the farm saw the ologs in a field, anti thinking they effect that he was able to appear before the inasistrate lasing, of Carlisle, 4 deacons and 6pi 'este :
of Chester, by the Bishop
8 deacons atilt 6 priests : by the Bishop of Ely,
were after the sleep k the Seuthw: r. k dice-c• Rut. The
l h went to them, when ta his "n Mt4l'lo3'• al . 15 deacties and 6pile ts y e p sst s bth aisles IA liocester and
I Ick a %owl. ith,ait li 'ears it ,' ' M.' MI 1 deaeou end V' riests •14 tile lash° 4ld Oerefimi
horriir he Panel Mr. Whitfield lying dead ti tho• Pristlller, George s, ,• . 3 st • ols , 1 . ,
ohtlo. The tipper portiom of lCs he el was Liman was remanded for a few days. 4 deacons and 5 pnests ; by the bishop of laidiflehl, 11
t &aeons anal 21 pi tests : by the Malmo of Litic,iln, II deacons
enti! ele aW:IV. ii,ie part Id tile 1.110111 ~1111 f• mud some Sur (K lac Di. ti is - A workman mutual Jllllll .., ~ pile.t,, ~y the Bishop of London, 17 lie:leolel:le 2 ,
di,tat,i, :.w.:y from the spot, in an iiMmsite direction Britt, met with a terrible death en the 12th inst., at j peresrs : los the ill sop Of ()vont, 16 ileacons and le prie,ts;
to where it werthl have been shot, and where it had no Wilnrington, in the United States. Ile was empleyeil :hy the Bishop of Bede ster, lilace. an 141 riests ; ited by
doubt been carnea i., th. a...,,,, wt.. had actuallY at au Iron Foundry, and Waa gent r 41:y a ste Ally and ' Ile 1 whop I,l' Noraic. eacons aiM 2 priests ; making a
eaten the flesh and lickesl the bluad frau, the hew( .4 industrious man. On the evening in question he hail total of 1..8 deacons 1441 124 priests.
the unfortnnate man. The butt of the gun rested on hem driirking with some men, and afterwards went to AN F. oLiSHMAN MURDERED IN II AWAIL—A
the opposite side sof the ditch, and the IMIZZIe between at avern near the foundry, and remained th ere until relisMans rebellion of a peculiar kind has taken place
decease,l's knees, as if it had slipped do atr taan lois nearly twelve o'cleck. When lie went out he saiol he at Hawaii, and in one oot the affrays Nlr. Neville. the
hands after having exploded. saw a liglit in the foal. dry. rood that he would outool ,slo•rig, and a native of Liverpool where some t,f his
An inquest was held, when the jury, after Some Se wloat it. was. Oa tly f dlowitra loannina his hoily 1 rehtti,,, still reside, was kited. lasoria,
l n a Ilawaiian
deiberatio, returned verdict " Found shid hin was found partially burnt, lyin.g i a trench in the awer . emMeuce, formed oies. Dia ,he Wats a
there was net sufficienta of
evidence to show . whether Ity fonialry, against a red-loot castin n ly 4 the i
g. How tae unfor- • prophet sent direct from God, and b• per preaching
accident or design. innate man got into the trench, which had olds been j and gained n111..1,11,4 converts. Th. se foolatics believe
Deceaseol as single man, aged 33. The doge who dug the night befere round the liar of the casting- a that the end id the world is at h snd, oval they must
made such aw a
revolting meal were shot. large fly-wheel—to let it c.s4l, is a mystery, which an be ready. They therefore clothe thenoseives in white
inquest on the body failed to solve. J robes, ready to ascend, watch at night but sleep during
"J IAN UNFORTUNATK FAMILY.— 1n inquest was ' the day, rlecline tor cultivate alrythiiog except beans,
held last svr•ek at Sheffield on a child, three years oof coals or the molstircinitn
tik mon food. They live together
age, the son of Henry Blunt. At the commencement iii O' e e"1. '''Y. .11 ion f sortie land and
I y i t"t i theise'r'w7r r " 1 thM; I os:c..in• •
of the preAent month, one of Blunt's children WV. ' refused to sureeno er 4into :
Neville
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necessary to eject then; and Mr. with se. o•ral
scalded to death, and on Saturday week anoother was • . • „.
so severely burnt, that he died on the following day. polio. men went p toe rfoirm the task. 1 hereupon the
The deceased and his brother Francis were left in J followers the with t
of Knona attackede police s ~nes,
charge of the house, and as the former was lighting a j killeol Sloerilf Neville, an 1 cut off his head. His head
1 huts Pithy
• the sfuck n I I.n a po e • they would not
stjek, his clothing accidentally Caught tire. The little , Y s 1
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fellow ran out of the house enveloped in flames which ' give Mt. 'Clue Government a et htl s
it a force to
the neighbours were successful, after a while, inputting • the rebels.
outs but the unfortunate creature was fatally injured. I LOOK TO THE DRAINS!—The following case has
Verdict, " Accidental death." ' just occurred in my practice, anol it may be a warn-
A REMINISCENCE OF 'WASHINGTON'S PRESI- Mg to others, writes a medical gentleman residing Peal
DENCY.—The Pennsylvania Historical Society has London --
of flve—mot
A fend), her, father, and three children, aged
recently come into possession of a letter written by
17, 14. and 8 years respectively—bail the starlit fever last
Mrs. Nlartha Washington to a friend during her .110—tye, searlatina angitiosa The father had a severe
husbanks first presidency. The Virgiuian dame evi - attack, tphe mother slighMr, and the two daughters and son
dently knew little about spelling. The most correct ha litin a iiiihl form. They all dill WO, and went to the
passage in the letter runs thus : sea site when convalescent, but during lust month site id the
Mrs. Sims will give you a better account of the fashions j
dau, hters hail the fever auain, arid though every precaution
w s' used to 1 revent its spreaelog. the son also became ill
than 1.811 -I live a very dull life he .r, and know hotl dim ~.,,, ti,, fever,
that ha9Se. ill the town-1 ip-ver ve to any pub In place—
.4l fearer, that it might again prostrate the
indeed 1 think lam niece like a state primmer than any- while eitis , AIM fuelingT certain there 111114 be some cause
t rit il'i ' Y.,1 pearin ,so Sllllll, the seweiace was investi-
thing else. there is etrtitin bounds set for me which I must ,
..'t if' aii?lsurt'i:l'e'riteattlikthe kitchen floor was found a disused
not depart frent—anot as I cannot 1100 as I like lam obsti- . K ~
1 welt, nill of filthy stagnmt water. The servants now s stud
nate HMI stay at home surest deal.
, I they const.tly had " hail smells" in the kitchen, but Imo,
A MILD REIRJE II ! —At her MajeSt‘ '8 Chapel, ' tienboly so at the changes 4.f the weather. of einuse the
'Whitehall, the other day, the Archbishop of(lanterbury wen was ',mimed out at once, but 61 Ii ;,eiLlV,lillil SeOni,lilut,ol%
held his last ordination for the diocese of Londe's. '
nus'ilriithgrtbnec ansV wasis'n'sePsrneauter°,ilise the ooffeiarlve whom.
The rale of the oliocese is for all cantholates to be habiteol .rhe loeure is a detached villa, sitttate in a very heabity
in surplices, with their acatlimical hoods, and plain I,„..ality. and is well ilraine I, but this disused well has
black stoles orscarfs. One young Irian presented him- evidently been the solace a the mischief.
self wearing an embroidered scarf or stole, with gold RITUALIST FAL-LALS.—Dear Mr. Punch,—'?t
cross and decoration on the back. Just before the can- laugh ' ' at lather Ignatms for wearing sandals. It is
dilates were moving to ascent! the staircase to the
funny of him, and more than we slo, even—out of
chapel, the candidate in question was waited upon by
doors. But. then why o hoes he shave his head? 'Why,
one of the archbishops chaplains, with a kind message
when lie wears sandals, does he not also wear a
from his grace and the present of a plain silk scarf, f . , •
which be was asked to substitute for the one he had 1 1' t his poll? Ever
Amnon on ms crown, anti a c rigtron a ..
on, and this he did. your affectionate ROSA. --P.S. Now, don't you think
a Ritualist Follet would be very pretty.—Punch.
A PRoVE,SIONAL POISONER.—The last Police SnocKING DEATII.—A dreadful accident, ending
Ga:ette, North-West Provinces, publishes the coo.
in the instant death of a martied man, named Jan
foram of a mild Hinoloo, named Ramordbeen, not
Slack, occurred at Gainsborough the other kitty.
smite twenty-one years (If age, who for the last twenty
ceased was a maltster at Mr. Wilkinson's kiln. A
Dc-
moths has followed the calling of poisoner. There is
onantity of germinates! grain had been raised to the
110 nonsense Mout itatnadheen. lie does not pretenil
hil dstory' baskets • ' f t 1 oors
, through a &Ilea 0 rap (
to scruples or remorse of any kind. He calls his victims t m
°Peeing ;shave each other, iii readiness for the kiln.
" shikar " (game), and alleges no other excuse for his
practices than that it was very dull at home in his as an
Dece el' w shovelling u the ' with li back t
p e grain wi hiso
the open trap door, when he unconsciously stepped too
village. SO far as can roe mormeratml the persons he ~ , .• • ' .
• tar lock, Mel mil tnrougl, the opening to the brick
poisoned in the year and a lialf are about tweuty•seven ;
Hoer tenon' It, a distance of more that 30 feet. He
but he is very cavalier anol careless in figure, and talks
alighted on his head, and his skull was fractured both
of a family whom lie nuts. murder with a I onlly negli-
at lhe tip and the base. He was quite dead when
gence as to the number of its nrembeos. Ramadheen
nicked no NO cry escaped him either in falling or
..
is not in the least superstitious. Most of his victims a• fterward,
..re either It . • rahnons on fl maers, anti his favourite _ _
hunting-grounds were what he calls "holy placer"- Tux 'Ls NOISES OF SMOKING IN RED.-A me-
Imidaelmil, near Mirzapore, and the Alagh Mela •
lancholy case if death by burning Wali reported to the
lets, anthorities at Hanailto.n a f A 11
few slays ago o. n 0 I man
name•l Robert Croshie a weaver, residekalone in a
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very complicated, but it-has hitherto wo-Tied vrith—an
accuracy which would have satisfied Euclid, or the
venerable Cocker, or any Astronomer Royal that ever
lived.
The

City PresB gives some curious facts as to the
cost of the procession and banquet on Lord Mayor's
day. It amounted to upwards of £2,630, the dinner
and wine alone coating £1,232! Some of the items are
worth noting. The repairing and arranging flags and
armour cost £27; the hire of shrubs and plants, £35;
gas and gas-fitting, £142; insuranoe of pictures and
statuary, £l3; the printing of the dinner tickets,
£25; wands and decorations for committee, £59; gold
pens and pencil-cases for chairman and secretary, nine
guineas (!) ; which latter item contrasts strangely with
£lO for fifty commissionaires (4s. each, poor fellows !)
The Lord Mayor, two Aldermen, and the City Lands
Committee paid this enormous bill between them—and
if it amuses them it certainly hurts nobody Ise.

THE SCHOOLMASTER GOING ABROAD.—An odd
misapplication of a well-known line was made at •
meeting held at Whitchurch last week for the purpose
of presenting a clock to a schoolmaster who was leaving
the neighbourla aid. The chairman, after addressing the
honoured gentleman in affecting terms, wound up by
expressing the hope that he might enjoy health and
happiness in his new sphere of existence, and that in
the end he might not fail to reach " that bonnie
where the wicked ceased from troubling and the weary
are at rest."'rue fervent utterance of this hope
that the schoolmaster might not escape ultimate
burial, evoked loud applause from his assembled
• ietnis.
Ix VI SOV, It ITAS.—We see fro ment advertise-
ments of " Mountain Port at 15s. per dozen." Why
ia this cheap port call'- o Mountain? Is it Is-cause
el it, at fifteemsmce a bottle, this" Mountain " is
above its rullep
L's r.-- Pod iir,pped in a cab, a toothpick,
a live rattlesnalse, a ci ignon, a eh ar stump, and is
par, of untold gold. W lawyer will restore, imact.
the Litter article, is perfectly at liLerty to I pocket all
the others, and will in addition, be presented with a
coy ot P f.imothi Almanark by way of a reward.
Address "Moonshine," next door to Aldgate Pump.
Punch.
A Idisodartho PICTURE OF FL:Al:a—Another
sensational criminal process has just been concluded in
Vienna. Counsellor Schwab, a retired Judge of the
Supreme Court, has beer. convicted of forgery and
embezzlement, and sentenced to six years' hard laboar.
Althom.h from a perhaps misplaced delicacy the pre
sident of the Court discouraged revelations that wet e
volunteered on all hands which did not seem in imme.
Mate connexion with the case itself, sufficient was re-
vealed to show up the oil official world, which is now
oeing transformed, in a very doubtful light. The
ease turned upon a RUM mriev invested in mortgaze
bonds which a friend, a lady 14 rank, had fictitiously
transferred to the coun,ellor to save it f corn her
creditors, and which he, who had thus received it on
trust, tried to appropriate by f rging deeds of cession.
Worse, if possoole, Rims the owe was the defence,
which was that the culprit threw the blame on his
wife, the mother of hie children, who died lately. It
was a disgusting picture of fraud and lying from
beginning to end. At the bottem was found
ovt-ravaasnce.

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small garret at Farnhill, in the parish of Blantyre.
It appears that he had thrown himself down on the
bed with his clothes on, and it is supposed he had
afterwards struck a match, lit his pipe. and fallen
asleep, when his clothes somehow caught fire. A
neighbour named Wilson wan aroused by Croshie's
crien, and went to his assistance, hut the poor man
was so severely burned that he died the next morning.
He was MI yearn of age.
'lnn P pie. AND THE Poo.—The correspondent
of the I'ol GazOte writes on the 19th of Dec.
Some days iion the Holy Father walked through the city
awl peri.t•ivial that some poor men were tr)ing to iii 'lce their
way up to Min, when, hiding them approach, he 340 what
they wanted They mai...a that • heY wf-hed him to give
them I.onte work. to ea, them an,' their families men starva-
tion Holiness d re, ed them to attend next warning at
tl•e 1.51151 01, wile • they shonbi i topl••yed ; mad, returning
t the Vatican he sent for lir Marquis Cayslletti, Senator
44 lignite, an,i C aliplained that the monicipality did not pm-
i4ll! Woo. for the too, The Marquii • • dared that the
(.11dg ••1 the municipal Ty were not totequate to this nidt•et,
0 -Iclii t• VP To tom Idol tot, aunt what W. practicable,
and he would supply the deficiency from his privy purse.
rhe Nlattpds tt.•valletti, I may a•td, has re -i tel his post,
finding it nnposailile to work li.d-rnottiously with Monsignor
I,ltt•i, the prwident of home and its environs.
11150 CAKO BAIT AT CITURCH.—An Otago
paper has recently given an account of a visit to the
Fiji Islands. The writer introduces his readers to
various scones, among them King Cako Batt at
chiirch :
As Divine service's held daily at Bau, we attended at half-
past 5. The church, alio without furniture, with the excep-
tion of a amen enclosed space round the pulpit fitted with
seats, and just outside of which an arm-chair was placed
for the King. Sixty mien were soon assembled en one aide of
the church, ard about seventy women on the other. Then
entered the King with his two body-guards. His Majesty
had changed the shawl fora into "of tappa or native cloth.
etko gait is at all times stately in spite of an old
• ••und witi•.h.has -..1 beret hi, left I tr, and the eyes of the
coogr, gation were lowered respectfully as he walked through
thrill t'. his arm-chair After kneeling and devoutly praying,
the King took his seat, pot en a nair of ,pertitcles, and do-
like untying a cotton pocket handkerchief, t••••k from
it a large and writ-used Bible t•tal hymn-hook. Of the con-
gregation lean out, say they were attentive awl devout.
the preacher was a native, awl his sermon, as I was after-
ward- informs.% a flreu ell address pritif to his removal to
another district. Both prayers and sermon were highly
effective. if line Might judge from the frequent ejaculation
of '• Dina, dna" True, true, and similar signs of approval
from members of the congregation during the semis..

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