The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-06-26 00:00:00

It is lidento.lled ad all rxt.a,ruinsly tan umsta,gae.
that upwards (if 300 marriages wore celebrated in Paris 0%
the ath lest.
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The N•to York Timex, in an art;cle on th, relateti
gland end America, nthrilt.tildl 11.0Inlet1. of the
British ..t slated pro jug itt mull for popular sympathy
with the South is not unnaturaL
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The expected Fenian demonetration in Cirk at the
funeral of Campbell on Sunday proved &failure. There were
only about WO persons present.
'lnc current of emigration from the Mersey still
continues to flow rapidly from Us erpoul to the United suit, s
onl Canada. No less than eight vessels--seven f wlnch wale
-team vessels—miled from the Mersey Last week, with nearly

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4,500 emigrants on bowl
The onbseriotion in shi of Mr. George Hudson, ones
known as the Railway King, and now living in poverty in
Paris, has made a very satisfact,ry Cart Subscriptions to
the amount of 060 are already announced.
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A young woman in London has attempted t i commit
suicide by swallowing vitriol ! The cause of the attempt Was
that she was " very unhappy."
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(One of these shocking cases of I,rutality to wives., of
which there are so many, and which not unfrequeutly en I
in murder, Caine befits a London magis rate on tippuday.
he iprisolier, a sweep. WWI his Wife, hut frequent quarrels,
ohiefly arising out it their drunken habits, and on
ovie of these affrays, the hu.band, besides other bl we
'Joked the womati in such a manner as to cause her death
fr.° Idelnorrlinre in a few minutes. The prissier, who at
list could hardly believe his violence had produced so fatal
result, Wag remanded.
The Prince of Wales has been elected an honorary
pusnober of the So 1016 lea hilticntieurs de Franca.
The London Oozdte of Tuesday night contained the
announcement that on Friday lout Mr. Motley, the newts--
appointed AllleriCall inider to this cottony, hod at
au Hence of her Majesty at Windsor Castle, mot delivered lus
C: edentials. Mr Motley was lanai need y the Esrl of
. hire-dun. Secretary of mate for Foreign Attain
Advice's from the We 4 Indies any that Governor
Fyne, of Montserrat, was manly poisoned 011 the morning ~t
the 25th ot March. Some person had gained access ta the
,mvernor's bedroom, and nuked a quaintly of arsenic with
.OMe ;OE ic medicine Fortunately. medical assibtanc, was
mm at hand, and the presilent, after several hears' seVertl
-liff.ring, gradually recovered Arc-marl of 1,300 dads. woo
Mb red for the apprehension of the iiii.crevit.
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It is thought that if the Lords should handle the
.let its of the Irish Church Bill in a prisc, Mal spat:, x Ith
view to busitiess-like progress the sesehol may be brought to
.t close by the first week In August. But If, on the eonti cry,
they should make soft alterations In c munittee as would
raise complicated questions wit h t he theme tit Camille/11P, the
session could not possibly terminate mail a considerably
later period.
A rather singular action for libel has been tried in
the Com tof Queen's Bench. in London. rue det fool:int had
writti ir letters to the Builder and other journals complain-
ing of the manner in which the plaintiff was carrying out a
contract for which both of them hail origitually competed,
and charging him, arriong other things. with having used
materials of a character totally different from that AMA, ed
is the specifications. The plaintiff was examined, and
denied this charge, but it having beets shown that he had
previously admitted the truth of it. Isis c .unsel confessed
himself obliged to submit to a consult.
The Turkish Government has granted a sum of
£l,OOO towards the restoration of the churches in Crete
which were injured during the rebellion.
The King of Italy returned to Florence on Sunday
rather unexpectedly. His sujesty, it appears, considered
his presence was necessary in order to strengthen the 00,m-
i:tient in taking measures for restoring the tranquillity of the
country, which has beets utio h unsettlt it by not. us demon-
strations at Milan, Turin, Naples and .everal other places.
The Anurica n Presbytern rectum emits that culprits
, condemned to be hung 311011141 hilt have eldwolorm adutinis.
t. red to them, since it is, he purpose of puaishruent to remove
the otioniter out of the way, and not to cause pain. It also
suggests that it be introduced into school, when lave are to be
flogged.
The scene of excitement during the Bishop of Peter-
borough's speech in the [house of lords was almost ensnare-
dented in that usually seam e assetit,ly. It must hove teen
a splendid triumph for the Bishop, all the more sti Mug if he
baptismal to remember that it is but twenty years ago since
Ise was a curate at Bath, in the receipt of £.0.1 a year.
A singu,ar charge has been inveatigated at the
Middlesex S.ssimis. About fire weeks ago • Mall went
to au infant sell. I its Uarylelairte, and ruder the potence
that he was the fation .if a little boa three years old, to,k the
child away, and hail a lice emplisyril it hie rite par, lose of im-
p -sing upon charitable persons. Ile wim sentenced to he kept
to hard labour tir twelve nionths.
An• it her erike thus occurred among 'the roll era
Tyltissley The 'fleeter, having conquered the mmi ir ilia
recent dispute, now, it is alleged, reeptire a further a,olc-
thm in the wages to the extent of 12 per cent. The NI is iin'
hss promised to pay the men ten shillings each
weekly so long as they remain out.
The murder of Colonel Crane, by E lwani Verger,
at Jackson. Mississippi, on the 9th Instant, resuji,e.l hunts ,he
•eixisre of the tatter's piano lay the former f. .rTIon-s•ay,tient
I taxes. Verger had demanded personal explanation. as I
Colonel Crane soon after sheeting him in the stre', iar ty
gave an explanation. Verger would not •.ccept .t
turiuUSly and grossly icsultwi Crane, who ',sent st..kt
It in with a small rattail Walking-CAlle. Then Ver _el drew a
t• rug-tante, and stabbed Crane three times, severing his heart.
The verdict oh the Coroner was " Wilful Murder."
On the arrival of the Liverpool steamer Praysin at
Greenock, the other day, a little girl five years of :lg., did
on board from the effects id an overdose of brandy which
woo administered to her whit.: she wan hick on the pass go.
The child belismfed to Aberdare, ft. nth Wales, an.l, iv, in
charge of a Wolll4rl named Allan. Tao woman arid the child
ore about to proceed to Americ s inil bunt the (interne
Cambria, the child to join its parents, and the Woman her
hu-batid.
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In the northern counties a large nnmdier of sheep
which had been shorn have been starved to death.
A Utica landiiird has hired several wkingrin.lerA to
ej..ct a recalcitrant tenant. They keep on playing night and
day,

Anglo* S;egriat'a feat, riding a velocipede on * wire
rope twenty-five let thrive the gerund, at the City roe-leas,
Sall Francisco, in I rile oil the lob:gest institutions .4 i.e break.
ne,k kind. The wheel is grooved to fit the wire, lie will
attempt this summer to cross Niagara Falls in the same
manner.

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"Those who deprecate the ble,eings of per,onal
G sverionent should read the account if the arreds made
during the late dizturnances, awl the sufferings enUnred by
these perfectly innocent per-ons, li. number Connie iltvell or
eight honored, in the prison. Our M., poitCl2l cells are hot
pleasant places. in, our ..wit police oaten, very perfect, IT
our own polictunn ver) humane and intelligent. but, tnank
'leaven, such inhumanity its has been perpetrated ill Ii Mrs
Is impossible in this e.untr;, even in a workhouse."—Touse
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The gymnait, lliermann wan perforating at Berlin, a
few days ago, with his pupil Kolbe, .Ind of 13, on the tight
rope, at a great height from the ground. Suddenly the cord
broke under their mdted weklit, and they fell to the ground.
The younger was killed on the spot, and the other so much
Injured, thAt he died the neat day.
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"The Irish peasant is either not a voluntary at all,
or if he be a voluntary, it is in the sante sense as the soldier
w! cm Sheridan saw carried off by a picket with drawn
bayonets to do his duty.—;Laughter.)"— The Bixhop Derry.
An American editor of a finance paper sent one ,d
its editors to Memphis to look into the celebrated Asir at
the Transcontinental Pacific, but he mistook the rate, sal
went to Memphis, Egypt ; and he sends to his paper the 11-
lowing telegram :—'• No railway; nothing but monuments ri
ruins. Beautiful country ! R tilway necessary! Communi-
cations very difficult ! Crocodiles im numerable !"
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A couple of gun acevierits are reported front Exeter.
Mr Store, a jeweller, was eiximining a Meech. loader in his
nh p, not knowing it WAtl loaded, when it went off. Two
gentlemen were looking or at the time, but they fortunately
escaped injury, as als , did Sir. Stone ; much danaxe, hew.
ever, was done to the shop —At Alphisigton, near Exeter,
I.d sixteen years of age, who had come (rota London to spend
his holidays, was loading a walkitigatick gun, hi, sister
stalidi,g by, when the weapon went off, the charge lodging
in the lad's knee. The wound is a very serious one. The girl
Lai a narrow escape.
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The wages dispute in the cotton trade in the Oldham
in practically aettled, the operative, at the mills in
Oldham, Itoltou, liollinwood, and Crompton, having ac-
c,pted the five per cent reduction and returned to their
Work.
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The recent disturbances in Paris will have a had
effect on trade, as no less than 42,000 persons quitted Paris
In one day.
While some excavations were going on at Leeds on
'Monday a fall of earth Lt .& place, burying two labourers,
named Peter Lliggine and Parka Smoe. 11Igzins died almost
immediately after he was dug out. Smee can very seriously
injured.
It is said that the Duke of Genoa has written a letter
to the President of the Provisional (I ivernmeiff, expressing
his willingness to accept the throne of Spain if it is 111,8111.
mously offered to him by the Cortes—Oared/dr Chromcle,
June S.

At a recent auction sale in Augusta, Georgia, saTa
the New York 'Jima of the 23rd ult., 175,01,0 dolt in Oa-
federate States bonds cold for 9 25 dole tie lot; MOO 'I."
of collie I erate enrrreney for 12 dots the lot, and 2,200,000 doe.
in seven thirty Confederate bonds for 21 dols, the lot.
A strike of the totel waiters in New York has failed.
The tar dlords and guests bbffered crest hie nverneper for
Tonle time, but the hotels were finally supplied with waiters,
while the strikers are now out of empty ment. An Igno-
- surrender resulted, hut very tew of the oil hand, mil
be able to regain their places. A correspondent writes that
the labour strikes in various parts of America this .lomg
have generally been fathom ; they caused gr.'-,t iti•arot ge-
ment to trade, but as a means ot procuring advanced pd
were unsuccessful.
"A. 1.. Steadman, an Englishman of wealth and
standing. who woe stopping at the Brevooit house is
company with sir John Poirrington, at one time Mayor of
Dublin, left the hotel on Sunday morning last, awl has not
since been semi by his friends. Thee fear that he has hes
foully dealt with. Search has been and is still being made
for the missing man—New York Tribune, June 10.
There is no truth whatever iu the alleged perversion
to Romanis= .4 the Countess Spencer.

After the election, upon counting the votee in a
French village containing only 300 voters, user 339 votes woe
found ! Some of the voters evidently acted upon the prin-
ciple of " vote early and often."
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A Committee of Privileges sat in the nous, of Lords
on Monday, to inquire into the title of the Wicklow neersg,',
and their lordships gave signs that their remarked° patience
and courtesy to lady litigants have been nearly exhausted.
Mrs. Howard, the mother of one of the petitioners, appeared
and was informed that the house hail been put to much
inc Anvenience by alk sting persons under DO professional
restraints to argue at the bar, and she could not be heard
unless by counsel. The case was adjourned for three weeks
in order that she m,ht petition the House to allow her
to appear in forma paw peels, when counsel would be IF
signed.
The Janesville, Wisconsin, Common Council have
been troubled with the dog question, and have finally resolved
that "All dogs are to be muzzled or shot, except dogs from
the country coming ID on business.
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Some houses in Ludgate-bill, London, having been
doomed to demolition for improvements , one of them
who:ping to at tailor in a large way of business, the unhappY
tradesman has posted in his shop-window the followmg
pathetic announcement Disestablished this week Poor
Tailor. No regard for vested Interesis. !No appeal to the
House of Lords."

One evening, about a week since, two ladies alighted
from a second • class compartment ~f a carriage on the tires%
Western Railway at Southall Station: The younger lady
appeared to be greatly distrmsed, and had to be assisted out
of the carriage by two porters and, gentleman, who appeared
to take a great interest in her condition. The two ladles
and the gentleman proceeded by the next train to Vietsrt.
Station, lendon,, and nothing mono Wa, semi of them On
the sr: ival, however, of ih.. train winch then bad lei t. attle
Padningue terminus, the dead body ma rMaly-binn ttntle
infant ....a 1.00.1 mitt, s• at the la Ito.. bad oecupnd.
On Monday evening Dr. Laninater held an ',VICE on the
bony, and tie. jury retuned a s erdict of wliulnaorderad4nst
Keno person or persons unknown.
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Can ie Mo we, the celebrated velocipede perfdrrn. er,
mmounam that in her pert/ll:names ahe pick, up Lao o.xirk
I.oe 111 each hand, and minks them around the room : make,
O.- no cur.er without ace 1,1 hands ; makes a circuit of
tee :11 wit: e hr. the use .1 hand. or feet *nook. one foot
the &addle, net prrfortea the fest of pa tag *hoop ova
fathloLathe heed,aL.ai mana6e, tos.t throngall a hale ra.iim Maxima

The bill for clidranchiting the frw men of the eity of
UAW., has tern printed. The 101 l 1,p4.1.4 '0 eilAct that
inn Rai after the poedna ii thisactue. ti rein. of the City
of Dublin shell be entitled to vein tut eae t in au) electiot, of
n member rr mrinhere to serve In peril &merit tor the neld
C. un.y i the et yof 1,111113. A I Li,ere Shia be repealed CU
the provifiions of aLy act or acts relAtiog to the qualiticatios
or registration f I Oil entitled to vto in ill, eleciwo of
a -renter or meetora II to acne hi parlalinuat f •r any atl,
horooM, Co tar.a the Came rt late to the qualihes.
von and Iw.4unlike el vows' MI die Moues' MI la ill
aliy al Dahlia.