The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-07-16 00:00:00

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HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL. •
OETAININO MONEY AND GOODS UNDER FALSE 1
PRETENCES. —At the Central Criminal Court in Lon- !
don, Mrs. Emily Macgregor pleaded guilty to several
charges of obtaining money by false pretences from .
tradesmen in London and Cheltenham. Her c
the Hon. A. Thesiger, addressed thocaurt inmitigation !
of punishment. and Paid that up to the date of these
procredings Mrs. Maegregor hadled a very exemplary ,
life, and although he was unable to canteud that she
was legally frees tensible, he submitted that ler mind
had been CO unhinged through pecuniary trials and
physical suffering, acting on a delta ate organization, as
to lessen her responsibirity, and to justify a lenient sen-
tence. Several of her relatives both on the paternal and
maternal side had been insane. Mr. Metcalfe, on the
part of the prosecution, disclaimed any wish to
press fair a heavy punishment, but remarked that a liet
of hanks, with their aildreeses, war fillllBl an the
prisoner ; that she drew on a different bank and gave a
different name arid address in almost every im4sa:c •
anil that she must have showu considerable assurance
and self-possession to induce tradestueu to cash cheques
drawn on plain paper as she hai done. Two meenc.al ,
gentlemen who had seen her in idiom had blind no ins
dieation of insanity. Mr. Thesiger said that two other
medical men who had seen the prisoner took a different
view of her condition. Sentence was deferred.
FRAnC In A FKIsbZ7.—W hat if Prince Leopold
of IlitheazollereaSigmarineen, Catholic Hither ze lern,
were to become King of Spain? As • coestitutional
Sovereign, what toyer would he have, even had he
the will, to help the Protestant King ef Prussia to ,
subjegate France? The French have the reputation
of 'oeing dainty. Tneir ltkuperor has a taste; SO doubtless,
has Olivier, BO has the Duo de Grainont ; and they
may have more to he offended with the great Teutonic
sausage, but must ha ever fastidious indeed to objects°
violently as they do to a mild "Small Germain"—
P rineh.
AN ATMOSPHERIC TELECRAPH.—Signor Goat-
tan, an Italian, has invented an atmospheric telegraph,
which he claims to be better than an electric one. He
charges a reservoir with compressed air, and, by the
operation of valves worked in the name manner as those
in use in the ordinary telecraph system, sender (initia-
tions throagh a tube, which pulsations are made to
work masa tire receiving instrument with an effect
corresponding wish that of the electric current passed
along insulated wires. The method adopted for the
working of the Gnattari is the Morse or printing-
cypher system. The wor Is were recorded in cypher at
the receiving end, and were real off by the gent lemon
from the Post Office. who found the valve at the
transmitting end niffleult to work, and requiring
a ma'aml pressure rif something like seven pounds,
inritead of the mere touch required by the regular
Morse instruments.
NOT ABLE TO AOREE. —The Court of Ex-
ohtquer has tried an action in which damages were
! claimed for pervonal injuries, alleged to have been
received under these circumstances :
The plaintiff, Mr. tOrivo, propriet rot a panorama, was
with his wife list April at Matsu-id, in Niatinghanalare.
Mrs. Frown happened to be riving on the side of a torpike
rood to that neighbourhood, when he Was id atitd by
raising lady on a pony suddenly cornitur semi bur. she
jumped up to ten outer her way, but the flock of the pony
,-might her and kn-eked hr doe n It was said she received
a severe !claw on the chest, was stocked with elei tug of
blood shortly afterwards, a .d on the loch lei:carried.
The young lady was Miss Annie Walker, aged
thirteen, daughter of Sir Edward Walker. who re-
aided near Mansfield. She was the defendant in the
case, and hi r defence was a denial that the perry
struck Mrs. Brown. As the jary could not agree upen
their verdict they were discharged.
DESSERT FOR CONVOCATION.—" First Fruits."
Punch.
A crloN AII.IIIIST LADY EirtniET.—ln the
C- nit of Oneeti'illiench,rin Tuesday,there was an action
to recover £l6o for a suite of walnut drawing-roam
furniture. The plaintiff was a furuiture dealer, and in
February last the defendant called at his shop. and se-
lected the furniture in question, but on her stating she
intended to pay cash ondelivery, the plaintiff agreed to
take £l4O. The furniture was delivered at 13, Lang-
ham•street, Portland-place, and the plaintiff's manager
called fir payment, when Lady Eardley informed him
that as his "lordship" was in Pan is, she could not pay
him for a few days. Afterwards she wrote to say that
she disapproved of the furniture, and intimated that
if it WWI taken hack she would take other goods to the
Fame amount. The furniture war taken back ; but her
ladyship had refused to take other furniture. A ver-
dict wag entered for the plaintiff for £l5, with a certi-
ficate for costs.
BRITISH AND COLONIAL EMIGRATION FUND.—
The Lord Mayor. as President of this Fund, has re-
ceived through Mr. Holy, the honorary secretary, a
letter from Miss Fl arena° Nightiugale, encl, sing a
fourth donation of £5 towards it, in al.swer to his Lord-
ship's recently published appeal fer additional aid.
" Small as the Burnie, ' ahe writes, "and I wish it were
100 times as much, I think it is more like can ing one's
mite into the femple to help people to help themselves
in cultivating God's earth, than 99 out of the 100
charities, and I wish that at this time nearly all
people's charity flowed your way."
nototr SHOOTInG —Tne following appeared
in Wednesday's Times :
I have jest read a letter In the Standard, stating that it Is
not more cruel to shoot blue rocks than pheasants and par-
tridges. But dies the intelligent author know that all birds
breed in spring and summer, which accounts for the shobt-
ing s,aa,ln beteg lii the autumn and winter? Is it more
cruel for &snob to sirs it a sea-bird in the breeding season
than It is fur o nob to ihint a pigeon in the breeding se sxon,
!hereby earring all their Awing ?—Youni, very traly,
DoRCIIEsTER, GreywelLbill, Hants, July 11.
A GREAT AITTIIOI,IIY.—Mrs. Ramsbot ham
(Mrs. Malaprop's (nem% who was brought up in the
creurtry, blames the farmers greatly for Lot irritating
their lauds more.—Paterh.
STOPPIAG A TRAIN !—Rather an amusing story
is told of a stranger, who, the other day, on returning
tar the station found he was just in time to be too late.
He hurried to the gate at full speed, but it was rinly to
bear the signal given, and to see tire train puss quietly
off. With as much authority as he was capaii:e of
commanding. he shoure i to the gnard at the top of his
voice, " Stop ! Lord Lifford's coming." It acted like
magic. The obsequious zeard instantly sigualled,
speed was slackined, the train stopped, moved hack,
and took its place at the platform, to wait his lord-
ship's arrival. Meanwhile, the very anxious herald
seeural his ticket, and with great c unposure took his
seat in a third-class carriage. Than, putting his head
out of the window, he ift formed the obi ging guar d that
Lis lerdehip had entered, and that he might move on.
TFIR SCiENCE tip ADVERTISING !—The art of
ado rtising is ever advancing. Bohold anothe r example
to illustrate the undoubted fact. It cornea from
America, ever ingenious in the discovery of new
methods of publicity. A newspaper in Georgia pub-
lishes an advertisement to the following effect :
"The last words utter( d by great men are often singularly
characteriatic. Their tone of solemn prophecy does not fail
to produce In U 3 the most profound Impressions. • The van-
rasmal of the army,' inurioni cal the great Napoleon' when his
mighry soul took its departure from its team earl of clay.
• More light,' sighed 0 .ethe `Crown me with flowers,' said
Mu abeam !Give a chair to 31 Dayrolles,' sahl Lord Chester-
field, in his supreme An-my. • l'itarce, Ch«ster„ charge ; oa
Stanley, on !' were the last words of 'Burr We,'
said Jack Edw... !in a suit made by Messrs. So-and-So; the
cut and excellence of the materials are wsrrauted, cad I ekh
to be burled as I have lived, dressed like a "
TRADE STitlIC, ft IN FNASCV.—Dariug the past
week the manufacturing t awn of Mulhouse has been in
a state of great excitement owing to the numerous
workmen employed n cloth manufactories haviog
struck work in consequence of their demands fi rr a
reduction in the hour, of labour, and an increase in
the scale ofl aymout, n rt having been c atupliel with.
The workpeople, including woman nut childrart,
formed procession, and marched though tbe streets of
the town and presented a statement of their demands
to the local authorities. No breach of the cam oc-
ean e I, but troops were summoned from the heigh-
t orinirg garrisoi s, and were quartered at various
points. On Saturday the precesiona were renewed
at an early Mare and were confirmed throughout the
slay, which, however, painted off wirhout ariy Parlous
disorders, tint in the et enina the masoha of the town
annouriced their determiriatian to cease wurk uutil
their triton should Lc acteded to by their en players,
aeitation has spread to the ne gabouring town of
Guebwiller, where the spinning factories have ceased to
work owilig to the withdrawal of all the Muria. The
manufacturers of birdhouse are represented as willir g
to adeame wages by lb per cent, anal to reduce
working hours from 12 to 11, but the work people dei
mand an increase of pay to the extant of from 20 to 25
per cent. on present Ya:CP.
" StuTTAD TAIL."—The K to Yock Times re-
ports the death of the favourite squaw of "Spotted
Tail," the greet Sioux chief, the day before Lis return
from his visit to Washirgton. All the presents the
chief brought back from the East were at once buried
with the wife. " Spotted Tail" is very marry, attri-
buting the death to white sorcery during his absence
front his wife.
MURDER OF A BEGOAR.—A labouring man
named Dezerville has just been tried at Orleans for
the tmirder of a beggar, one Morel, at Marsainvilhers,
L fret, in May laid, to obtain posseission of a sum of
about two francs in copper money, which the latter
hail incautiously exhibited in a small inn at which he
had stopped for alipper. The accused followed the other
nut and knocked his brains nut with a heavy storm.
The evidence was quite conclusive asthe snuff-hex of
Morel and a quantity of cigar ends which had been
given him were found in the preseesion of Dr zerville,
who was now sentenced to 15 years' hard labour.
RaTaantae VALUE OF MANCEIi.bTER.—The over-
seers' report of value of the property in Manchester !
rateable to the poor give the following totals :- -111ara
cheat -r, £1 312 951 14s. ; Chorltan. £229.409 To.
Wine, £225,239; Ardw ick, £92 B*j7 ; Chertham,
12114 (98; Beewick, £s,lB4—grosa value, £1,970,819 Is.,
as against £1,920,629 15s. last year, heieg arm increase
of £50,239 123. The taweship rate for Alaachsater
upon the above totals is to be 6,1. in the pound, and
the highway rate 51.
IRE " SHANNON" AND THIS " CIMAPFAR V."
As the rim of the late Commander George Ray moan
(writes this gentle Man to The Times). I beg you will
correct a statement in your impresion of the B,h inst.,
Lea led "1 he Wzannon and the Chesapeake," signed
"J. 5.," stating shut Commander I.l.yinosiel is still
liviag. He served an midshipman in the sh imam in
the action, but died at Abingdon on the 13:h of October.
1863, in the Neventy-seicand year of his age. The
statement relative to Sir Morton Petrds expedition is '
correct. I have the honour to be, Sir, your most
obedient servant, GEORGE RAYMOND, Staff Com-
mander, R.N. Dartmouth, July 9.
TWELVE MONTHe IMPRISoNNENT.—A charge
of perjury ariairg out of the Bridgwater election peti-
tion was tried on Monday, in the Central Criminal
Court, in London. The defendant, William Heale, a
briekruaker, was examined before both the Commies
stoners and a House of Commons' Committee, and it
was on account of the contradictions in his evidence
that he was now proaecuted. Mr. Commiestioner Kerr,
in summing up, said the defendant was charged with
having made false staternunts on oath before a duly
constituted committee of the House of Commons and
it Was only in con renience of the disclosures made be-
fore the Royal Commisaionera last year that the

alleged perjury of the defendant wse discovered. Ha
all the points of his evidence he had been contradicted.
It oat a MI tunate thing that at last the cunt, niary
do-
clamatins against briery were to end in something
better than mere words, and that action was tal.ing
place in styli matttrs. The only question for the jury
was whether or not they were satitied that the d, fen.
dant. in making statements 1 efore the committee f
the House of CO/11110nd delibt rattly swore what be
knew to be false. The jury returned a verdict of
guilty, with a recommendation of the pritoner to
mercy on account of the time that had elapsed eine
the offence was committed. The defendant was sen-
tenced to twelve months' imprisonment.
PAtIsSIA. A•ll THY. Si&nisu CAOWN. The
North Gcentau Correspotoltnt of Saturday nays:—

The real attitude of the Prussian Government in the sff airs
of Spain may he succinctly stated as follow.: Prussia has
hitherto avoided all interference to the question of the
Spanish succession, and is reaclved to adhere be the Same
policy in the futme. The Soul srds ought theinselves to ha
the judges of what is best for their country—whether a re-
public or a monarchy, this prince or th,t other, a Spahlard
or a foreigner, the Prussian G iveri.meut, while it respects
the independence of Spats, is nut Callitdolls Of having rsceived
any special rois-ion to solve the COlll, I'cated conatitunional
oiteliti.o. op which he attention of Earope is tined, hot
Heves it viii le moons ve and politic to lei ve thi, problem in
the hands or the Spanish motile and their accredited rt pre-
sentative,.

SUBSTIVITIS FOR &MANI ROLLEIB.—A steam
paving machine is at work in Paris. We are iltid in
want of steam rollers. But that is so reatou why our
roa 's should continue to be paved with angular fra4s
mente of granite and shingle. If our paupers, for
want of diet, have not muscle enouab to crush them,
why not employ &i lebodied convitte ? The spectacle
of criminals undergoing hard labour would be edifying
and exemplary to their associates ; thus two birds
would, in a manner, be killed with ore stone; esp, -
clans if the Feniane were employed along wi,h the
other maleLctore in breaking tine stones —Punch,

REP nia ON RAILWAY ooMPANIES.—The repo, t
of the Select Committee on Railway ("owl/Anita has
been issued. The Committee recommend Workmen's
trains with lial.iliiy for compensation in case of ac-
dent limited to 21C0 for each individual. For orrlikiary
piaserigerii they would limit the campensation to
£l,OOO, ZOO, and £3 for the first, second, and third
class pwsieugers re,ipectively, a power being reserved
to the public to insure at a low rate for further sums
amounting to £3,0t0, £2,000, or .000, according ti
class. They also recommend the establishment of a
court to try claims for compersation without a jury.

How 70 AlalCl7 MJNEY.—TI.IO New rle-aits
Picayune thus instructs peooe

Let the business of everibuly else alone, and a'ter.d to
your own. Don's buy what y r.O don't waist. I.e every hour
ti advanttge, and study to make even leisure hours metal.
ihtuk twice before you throw away a dollar ; remember ycni
have author to make for it. Find recreation 10 looking
after year business, and 60 30* bueinest will not be
neglected in looking after recreation flue low, sell fair, and
take care 01 the profits. Look over your honks regularly, and
if you find all error of only a cent, trace it out. Should a
stroke ot intsfortune come upon you in trade, retrench,
work harder, but Steve? thuch. Cdriront dtfilantios wills MI.
thing perseverance, nod they will ult.mately disappear.
Though you should even fall in the ate uggle, you wit be res-
pected ; but shrink from the task, and) ou will lar despised.
By folk cling there rules however, you need never say fail.'
Pay debts promptly, and ie.a exact your dues. Keep your word
most conscientiously, and yen have Lotting ti fear ".

_
RAII.FALL AND If kasoa.—A French Chemist,
arguing from the fact that great bottles have claim:Med
with heavy showers, has proposed that, in order toter-
mutate a drought, the attempt should be male to shake
riot out of heel toils by a general cannemade. This,
with the view, apparently, of getting the popular mind
of France t, ente.tain the idea of it, be suggests, might
he associated with mane religious celebratioe. We
should like to know what Faraday would have said
to this twofold proporaf, which, if it were practisini,
sad found to answer, might rather niislead the faithful
but unscientific mul.itude? A French philosopher
might not mind doing that, but a true English one
would. We would Ciolociate the theological from the
scientific experiment forth,, deduction of rain. Invoke
St. Swithiu on St. Swithin's day if you like. but try
your cannonade on EGGJet day before or after—Pooch.
LOCTSTei IN FAANCE.—" Our climate," says the
Solut Public of Lyons, "having become like that of
Sahara, threaten, us with the same scourges a, there
which sometimes desolate the African colony. At
presect locusts are making their appearance among
us. 'rue squares and the quays of this city are covered
by a quantity of there insects of ate ut average a as,
and with either red or blue wings. The wheat about
here is already liarveateal, but the other crop in the
ground may be further damaged by the visitation if
those seen in the city presage a regular invaaion.
THE PUBLIC INCJME.—From April let to July
9th the national receipts amounted to £17,37'0.811.,
and this was more than two millions and a halt short
of the revenue in the correspondine period of last year.
'lke total issues from the Exchequer between the same
dates amounted to £22,289,193. The ba'ance in the
Bank of England on Saturday last was £2582b9L
ATTEMPTING Ti MURDES A SWEETHEART.—A
pen g woman of AzayeenreCher, Indreee'eLoire, named
Pelletier, hasj ust escaped in a most providential man-
ner from an attempt at murder. Butirdcet, a tailor,
who had been paying his addresses to her, irritated at
• finding an e ffer of maul ige made by him rejected, cone
coaled limo-if in her bedroom with the intention of
shooting her. On the young woman entering at night
I he stepped forward and pointed a pistol at her, but
! just ante drew the trigger she put out her hand ins
etinctively to save herself, and a handkerchief she was
holding was by chance caught between the hammer of
I the hick and the nipple, and prevented the cap from
explediog. Her rcreams treueht some prone of the
family to her assistance, and the man was secured and
given over to the police.
'An ILLIBMIAL OLD GENri.LEMAN.—" Educate
the S•re et Boys—l beg your lard's, the Street Arabs.-
1 teach them ri ailing, writicg and arithmetic ! What
j then, Sir? " demanded Mr. Scrogga. '' Reading ?
they oil read the Police Nters and the Lira of the
Bighielymen. Writing ?—they will write lila st de
on the shutters, and Bub Lw,, on the walls, Nu
Popery,' and other street Arabic. Arthmetic 1--the
! Street Arabs will only do more addition sums on my
! gate-ti eta, hsaidea drawing Street Arabesques, and
I scrawlieg Old Scroggs is a fool. '"—Punch.

A bioupb_R tie P.auos.—Oa Wednesday. in last
week a horritle crime was perpetrated in a house in
the Rue de Rombutean. Upon the third story of
that house lived Matitme Cared, a widow, aged 27,
who WM in easy circumstances. A young man on the
afternoon in queetion pre sehted I imseif at the home,
mai hosing ascertained from the porter that Mattanic
Carle was at home, wet nded to Mr apartment. Very
sht rtly after vards loud cries anti the otise of a violeht
struggle, alarmed some of the neighbours, who vainly
enCesvoured to obtatn admittance until the door was
lelenly opened, and the young man I uohed out and
sought to pass CO ell stairs. He was seized, sod after
much resistance, was secured. The nrighhonix then
entsred the room, and foiled the body of Madame
Card lying 071 the floor Quito dead, with a dark mark
round her neck, proving that she had Men strangled.
The murderer, a tavern Wter, wax searched, and
three watches, articles of jewelry, and money wm re
found uton him which had been etolen fre m the
deceased. He admitted the crime, but caught to jus-
tify it by stating that he had been urged to i's coins
mission by another man, whose address, however, he
could not find.

THE WOMEN or AMESICA.—AIiss Hatfield, of
Northampton, Massacisusetts, has done more for the
higher education of her ox than all the ladies and
gentlemen of England together have teen able te Ac-
complish, in the vale of Ritchie. She has left '300,00
dollars to found a tirst.rate college for scomen. Other
American women are busy, not merely in "opening
doors" for further employment, but in pressing
through them. In Boston a new firm of conveyancers
has been established under the title of E Stevens
and Daughttr, Mice Mary Stevens being her father's
partner in the business. A still more curious and
novel iign of the times, however, must have been s en
in the Cor.nreticut House of Representative a last
mouth, when the "Rev. Mrs. floe a If anaforsl, the
patter of the 13liverealist coegregation in New
Haven," r ffi dated as chaplain. Mrs. !Lansford is
said to be an admirable prcachtr, as effective as the
Qqaker I,dy ministers of the last geberation, th. u2h
of much more enlarged views. Os she present °cc:.
sion she prayed that "the time might come when the
daughters of the State, not neglecting the duties of
home, may take part in the Siete and the Ceurch to
the good of the ConanonweaLh and the Elmy 5f Thy
name.'

SOVING IN A DRY SEASON.— (From the (ar-
dente, Ito go: ne).—l o sow seed iif lettuce and endive,eir,
indeed, soy other envoi like chat renter, in the 0' divar y
way in a Beacon like the present is simply a wmte of
time and seed, for it is impossible to transplant the
young plants a ith any degree of succise. In the first
place, a drill about ba inlet], a in depth should Mr made
with on ordinary draw.hoe, tand then foods! with
water. After this water has soaked into the suround-
leg soil, BOW the seed along the trench and cover-it
rather deeper than in an or.iinery season, and put a
layer of pealianim or long litter over the drill to pre-
vent the soil drying up quickly. The peed will soon
germinate, anii the covering mutt he removed to pre-
vent the your g stock being drawn up weakly. The
plants mint also be thinned out before they Puffer from
overcrowding. Select a showery day for this work, or
moisten the f..round artificially a few hours previously,
to render the check to those remaining as sligt t as pm,
ruble. Ily adopting this simple method of pi ocedure
there void not be any difficulty in securing a fair crop,
which by the ordinary method would be impospibie.
Of course, the treuelos must not be filled in to thi ir
full depth, but a sunken stoics allowed to enah!e the
plants to be waPered ext.telitiously after they bre
up.

A SrNortert b scarpnoy.-- A correTonder,t
writing from Fr. dezicksburg, Virginia, U.S., semis the
following seription from a tombstone which exict-d
in the churchy aid f St. George's parish in that town
up to the occupation of that town by the Federal
trope. lut bai row disappeared. "here lies the
body of E iwani Udder, pi actitionir in phy sic and
chirurgery. Born in leeeifordehire, Eogland, in the
year of our Loid 154, wen c atemporary with, mid
one of the pill-bearers of \Vitality Shakspeare. After
a drier his spirit ascended in the year of our
Lord 1618, aged seventy -six."

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IS I sin ar SICKSISE3S ?—A novel question of
very vital interest to tho members and formatters ot
Fiiendly Societies was recently submitted to the Liver-
peal County Court judge' Serjeant Wheeler, who, after
taking time to consider, has now di livered judgment.
A Mrs. Church, whole husband was a inemlwr of the
Southitn Bick and Burial &clay, and tat become iii.
sane, hl 61.1 Z ht &Il action spin it the society to reouvolf
the cost nt his maintenance to the Lancaater Lunatic
Asylum, whither Le hit hoen cent by the Toxteth
(Liverpuoi) Boafd if Guardians. The society resisted
the demand priucipaliy upon the strength of a letter
recsived from the late Mr. Tidel Pratt, Registrar of
Friendly Societies, to whom the case Ltd been cub-
milted, and who had said that insanity was not sick-
ness and that the allotment of funds on that pleawould
be dlegal. The learned judge held that insanity was
sickness within the nueaneng of the act, and ordered a
verdict to be entered for the plaintiff. In delivering
judgment, his Honour cited a number o German and
other high medical authorities, and in a learned patho-
logical argument set forth that the brain was a bodily
organ subject to derangement from ordinary causes,
like other organs. - . .