The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-02-04 00:00:00

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-aid 1,60-6-dollars. Re stated he should reserve the
money until the mecond contingent of released prisoners
reached New York. Arrangements have been made
for a demonstration on a huge scale in the city in
honour of the prisoners. In the 11,use of Represents.
tives, General Butler introduced a r,eolution welcoming
Mr. O'Donovan ltossa and the oil- Cr recently arrived
l'enians in the c nintry. The 11 Juse by 172 votes
against 21, passed the resolution.

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being performed, one of the three men dangerouse was
orchestra head foremost. The audience intow the
stricken. Men yelled and women screamed. "'AM
young man was taken up, and medical aid summoned.
On examination, it was found that one of his arms was
broken that three di( the lingers on the left hand were
smashed, and that he had sprain.: I one of his anklet.
On this evening the Brothers Bavivard were to have
been presented with a couple of silver erosaes for their
timing feats. It is said that the satne young man had
his arm broken a short time ago through a similar ac-
cident.
ODDLY TITLED.—"The Queen, the King, and
the Virtuous Laity." You shall have three, nay, three
times three, nay thirty chances, and yet never guess
what these names represent. They are not Twelfth
Night charm:tem, or characters in a Chr'stmas pante-
'rime, or persons in an allegory, or devices in a tran-
sparency, or figures on an 0•11 Fellows' flag, or nettle.
turns on a Town Hall, but- Three Mines !-Penh.
THE ENGLISFI HAVE MK CREDIT OF IT.— The
Titers Correspondent at Le Mans writes :--
The morning greeting of Presitan officer to Prussian officer
two days ago was, e We have occupied the Intrenched camp
at Conlie, and taken an immense number of English arms"
The one Englishman present at ilead•Quarters requested •
suspension of judgment until the arms taken eould be
examined by • person competent to cecide whether the rifles
were English or American. The anewer was, You sleeps
sty everything ta Mae:loin • The tulterion is great µwant
1141•td, for it France had not removed arms from one
oenntry or soother, the war mast have come to an end long
ago, and the winter campaign, withal hardships and terrible
Was of life, is put down to the account of ear °away with
many • bitter speech. So I rode over to Coolie with the
determination to get at the truth There were • few =law -
able old muult-losding Enfield., which must have been
taken from among those condemned by our Government as
uhdt for use, probably rrjecled at proof, or they would long
ag, have been c Inverted into snider breechloaders. There
was also a mass of American arms, some packed in boxes,
others standing to rows or laid in heaps under the shelters!
wooden huts. The Mies were Spencers, none of which are
maeutactured at all in England. They bore the American
meek, alai I brought one in to Ilead.Quarters in order that
there might be no doubt The ammunition was also
American, from South Coventry, Connecticut. A. a proof,
send • rebel which was taken from a box marked as con-
taining I,UOS cartridges, and the box was one of an immense
heap left behind by the French 42 Metallic Cartridges,
for the Spencer and Joslyn Carbine, Nu nit Navy and infantry
Sue. Manututured by Crittenden and Tibbablll'g Co., South
Coventry, C 01211., U.S."
A VERITABLE CENTENARIAN.—An old lady has
passed away who had more then completed her 100
yearn—Mrs. Shirley Morse Codd. She was born on
the 11th of April, 1770, in Welbeck-street, Cavendish-
square, London, and baptised before the end of the
same month at the parish church of St Marylebone.
Her maiden name was Robinson. ant she was married
at least 83 years ago, as is preyed by the fact that last
year she lost a daughter who was in her 82nd year.
With the exceptien of her sight, she preserved her
faculties to the eed. Last year she fell and broke a
wristbone, which wan set and healed. Mrs. Coded was
the mother of no lees than 16 children, of whom 14
grew up to man's and woman's estate, though only two
ef them now survive. She had outlived her husband 40
years, and was buried • few days since at Stockbnry
Church, near Sittingbourne, Kent. The dates of her
birth and death are engraved on her coffin-lid. Had
she been spared for another three months she would
have completed the 10Ist year of her age. When up•
wards of 100 she was in the habit of walking in her
garden at Kingstomon-Thamee without the help of
stick or an arm. This ease of centenertaniem is the leas
open to doubt an the lady was in a sphere of life in
which the registers are carefully kept, her hueband
being well known to more than one of the Royal Dukes
of 50 years since.
A MELTING OBSERVATION ! "Ah !
sae' impecunious Brown, to his friend of the Stock
E sehange, "you Must be deuced rich." "Yes 1" re-
plied Smith, but what's the use? I can't take my
money with me to the other worldle" "Very likely
not," was the malicious reply ; "if you did, %would
melt."—Blarney.
MR. GLADSTONE AND THZ FRENCH GOVERF-
HENT.—A correspondent at Bordeaux writes :—" 1
learn that a gentleman holding an all ii position hers
here received the copy of a letter addressed by Mr.
Gladstone te an Englieh member of Parliament, which
will tend to disabuse the minds of those Frenchmen
who regard the English Celdinet as having hostile feel-
ings towards the present French Goverment." The
letter is as follows:
" llawarden Castle, Chester, anuary le, 1671 —My dear
Sir,—lt Is impossible to read without deep interest the letter
of If Benard, which you have been kind enough to send me.
We, who witness with the deepest pain the continued and
Increasing horrors of the war, most not be surprised if, in
that agony—for such it Is, though it is an agony of herotem
—in which the people of Ports fight for their country, our
motives, and even our acts, are not always correctly appre-
hended. There is no request before us from the French
Government !or recognition. There never has been any
since the mission of Inters, several months ago, very
shortly indeed after the Government was formed. Vet, for
every practical purpose, we have proceeded towards them
and with them just as If their origin had been the most
f. mud in the world, and never hy word or act have we
implied that they were not entitled, in the highest degree, to
our sympathy and respect —I rematu, my cloaca?, faithfully
yours (Signed) VV. Si. GLAbsTONE "
"LOVE RULES Tllit COURT," &C.—" Attach-
ments in the Lord Mayor's Court."- In what nelikely
places do we find all conquering Lave assert his hem
mistible power ! nothing now would surprise us ; not
even "Flirtations in the Old Bailey," or "Broken
Engagements in Basinghalleareet," or "Offers in the
flier., Court," or" Marked Attentione in the Queen's
Bench."—Ps 'CO.
DEATH OF A FRENCH NQVELIST.—M. Ponson
du Terra, the most fertile sensational novelist that the
French Empire has produced, has died at Bordeaux
from a combined attack of email-pen and %meet fever,
at the early age of 43. No man since Alex. Dumas
possessed in such a high d-gree as he did the facility
fdr producing large quantities of readable mate-r,
which commanded a high price in the market he
ephemeral literature. He waa paid munificently by
the line, and his lines consisted frequently of notbine
more than such phrases as these—" No." "Yes."
"Jo it poseible." 'She fainted." "He wept." 'He
turned from the Boulevard." "A man followed him."
But with all his book-making capacity Potion du
Terrail bad a vein of grehre. For Ame time before
his premature death M. Pontoon du Terrill had been a
captain of Francs-tireurs, and for two months he
haunted the forest of Weenie which was his native
place, and did much damage to the enemy. Th., hard
life he led durng this campaign broke down his con-
stitutioe. A few days before his death, when SODS
friends were talking in his presence about the awful-
ness of 1870, he sail he was greatly 'leased with the
year. Artonished, they asked him why; and he
answered, "Because nobody can hereafter tax Rocam-
bole with improbability." " Rocambule" is one of his
most extravagant works.
LANCASHIRE INDUSTRY.—At the general meet-
ing of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce on Moo'
day, Mr. Bennett, in moving the adoption of the re-
pet, congratulated the Chamber on the maintenance
of the improvement in the trade of the district, to
which be had called attention at the last quarterly
meeting. The price of cotton had gone down, whilst
that of yarns and cloth had gone up. The working
classes in the district were never better employed, nor
had better wages than they now received. Mr. Mason,
of Asliton.under-Lyne, advideated the reduction of the
hours of labour from sixty to fifty-eight hours • week,
maintairding that the complicated nature of the
machinery now being employed, and the ever•increase
ing speed of operatives, rendered it Impossible that
men could ever sustain the etrain imposed upon thin,
over an extended period.—At Bolton on Monday even-
ing a large meeting of master cotton-spinners was
held, respecting an advance required by the men of
five per cent on their wages ; and it was agreed that
the denmnd ehould be acceded to, the rise to take place
on the teed of March.
TnE FRENCH CATHOLICS is LONDON.—At the
Roman Catholic Church of " No.re Dame de France,"
Leicesteusquare, Lendon, on Sunday, there were
special devotions all day for protection for France.
At high martthe light Rev. Bishop Morris officiated,
'resisted by the clergy of the church, who are all
French. Terre wan a large congregation, all of whom
we, ein mourning. The mermen (which, of course, we)
in French) was on the text, "Spare, 0 Lord, riper'
thy people," anti was a most earnest and imprecate°
discourse on repentance and mortification. There
were no passages directly upon the war, but there
were references to the taking of Jennie!t in by the
Romans, which called up thoughts of cotemporary
evenm. The preacher seemed deeply impreireed with
the eidembity of the OCCIAiIIS. The mass was followed'
by the cereal°, y called " Benediction," and there was
sir certion of priests and many dif the congregation
protection, throuah the church, while tastefully dressed children
scattered flowers. The several altars were lighted up,
A ()Alin FOR CADS.—The Republican gentle-
arenediti:erla.Yelrli'desriekcwiaeltley seasekeTagi (o;tilieBr services, and it
was not till late in the evening that the
monetration. Toe Volunts ere will prove them-
dersieAoly tohredpavement
ihnagvie)aerxthientrtaecilertth4e
nVioybrtite..eirs6t:
mives worthy f their name. A Volunteer is err called
luwded."
because he is a voluntary soldier, choosing to be come
mauled by his commanding officer, and not because
he is one ecenatemed, in marten of military discieliaet
to be commanded by a will of his own.—Punch.
Wusres's RIORTS.—In a case (' • Peapell
Jones") which Wee before the Lambeth County Court
on the 24th ult, the question was raised whether the
Plaintiff could maideein an action for work done and
goeds remedied by his wife, a dressmaker. The judge
et ferr-d to the " Married Women's Property Act,
1870," and on finding that the claim arose previously to
the paining of the Art, gave judemint independentle
of it. The learned judge. however, went on to retosik
that ars very numerone cares of this 'tied came before
him which the Act effected, he might es well take this
eltliortunity of making an observation or two on the sub'
jee It
in her own name for the recovery of any wages, ' itic• ;
the "may," of course, implying option. But by the let
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section all such wages, &c., stall be " taken t'o.!,tre
prop:rty held and settled to her separate use,"
her receipt alone shall be a good discharge for sue:
awes," lee. These words seemed completely to tak
away the implied option in section 11, because the
poison whose" receiet alone" comeitutes a de,.
must be the petters to b Hen
ring an action. ,
lowed that in all cases where we men corned on bust.
nets as dressmakers, confect oxen-, smailivare dealers,
or followed the occupation of nurse, charwoman, lied-
iscilits trol.
wife, &c., all of which are generally carried on sepa-
rately"
wlth the right of
separate action, but incurred no seterate liability, es
there was no provision for suing a women if Wager, 0?
names. fro m theT They
husbands,were the w.ountdan mast sue in there
veother property were due by her.
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