The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-01-21 00:00:00

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A TROUBLESOME ANTAGONIST.—The moot diffi•
cult task of the whole War must have been silencing
Fort Noisy. —P unch.
Sir. WYLLIE CASE OF POISONINO.—A former
named Knowles, living at Tipp's End, Unwell, near
Wisbech, was on Monday committed for trial for the
manslaughter of the child of Robert Smith, a labourer,
living at Upwell. According to the evidence, the
Boner had g repared a little more than a peck of wheat
with arsenic I r sowing; and this he mixed with two
bushels of clean wheat, and sent the whole to a mill to
be ground. After it Lad been ground a small quantity
of Knowles' grist remained in the mill, and was mixed
with other grist. The result was that ten or lifts en
persons having partaken of food prepared wkth this
flour, they were all seized with violent pains and si,k-
nets ; but with the exception of the above zhild, all
have recovered. The doctor's evidence showed that
deceased was suffering from bronchitis, but death WM
accelerated by the poison. Arsenic was discovered by
the analyst in the stomach of the decessA, and also
1 in the food.

POOR WOMAN !—Another agrarian outrage,
which it is feared will ultimately have to be added to
the list of murders, was perpetrated on Sunday in the
King's Caunty, on the borders of Westmeath, near
Moate. On Sunday morning a comfortable farmer,
named Moran was driving with his wife to mass, when
as the car palmed through Kilfilland, it was fired upon
by three men from behind a wall. The shots missed
Moran. but struck his wife, one ball entering the upper
part of her head, and two lacerating her face. The
agetuokiril then ran amuse the fields and escaped. He
saw them running away, but could not identify them.
He was so engaged in managing the horse, which be-
came fr:ghtened at the shots. that he did not at first
observe that hie wife, who AVM at the other side of the
' car, had been wounded. She lies now in a precarious
state. Moran received a threatening letter about
nicte months back, warning him to give up some land
which he got twenty years ago.
SOMETHING LIKE " PEOTECTION.4 A state-
ment addressed to Congeal atom; that on one invoice
of 716 tons of salt, costing in United States' currency
1,637 dots., and imported from Liverpool, the duty
amounted to 3,291 dole., or 200 per cent. on wet. In
another instance, on 690 tone, coating 1,326 dolls, the
duty was 3,043 dole., or 199 per cent. In yet another,
on 270 tons, co,ting 695 dole., the duty reached 1,265
dol., or 209 per cent. The New York TIMM says :
The freight on the cargoes averages about 175 per
cent of coat, and that, (surely, shonld be sufficient pro-
tection for this branch of American industry? If to
this item be added the duty, we have in the cases
cited evidence that the Onondaga producers are pro•
tooted to the extent of from 374 to 384 per cent, of
the value of their product. Is it wrong to describe an
intermit that is cared for so extravagantly as a
monopoly?'
Me- J. A. ROEBUCK ON THE PRESENT CRISIS..
—Mr. Itoebuck ha. written a letter to an elector
at Sheffield, in which he says, after stating that li•
had thought two years' adoence was quite enough to
wipe him out of men's recollections :
o I can easily fancy, however, that the want Of • plain,
hold speaker, with s woe political kiloal,ige, may be felt at
the present hour, whoa England's interests are trembling
to the balance. I sit and chafe, knowing I can do nothing,
and seeing that weakness and imbecile vanity rule and
guide our councils in this important crisis. The next year
eavi,lgt! Inacceeoifn jeopardy peaorudltyheatodnoLr4teheejszeL,
t:yeel tbhye
wycia
folded hands, and accept quietly what fate shall bring.
But this language is useless; we must submit. As for my-
stlf, I am very well, and mentally I believe myself to be as
vigorous sa ever. 3ly blindness, thanks to modern art, has
beim greatly relieved, and I cause ad and write BA liQual.
am writing to you by the aid 0! whst I may call my new
me, and the result lies before you, no very had specimen id
renovated sight. Years are stealing on I know not what I
may be capable of when the time for action comes. But it
then I shall be as turn now, I shall be willing, if culled on,
to light my old light In favour of truth and free tom, and
to do tattle against noisy humbug and valgar hypocrisy."
PRESENTATION TO MIBI CARPENTER.—MiSS
Mary Carpenter, whose noble exertions on behalf of
female education in the great Indian Empire are
familiar to the public, has just received a very valu-
able present from the people of Schick,. It confliets of
a large tablecloth most elaborately embroidered in
gold and silver ; the design is exquisite in conception,
and is wrought with a careful regard for the minutest
of its details, in a circl, in the centre of the cloth is the
inscription,worked in silver letters—" Presented to Miss
Mary Carpenter, from Sind,' and around the border
are some verses in Persian characters. It wax containeil
in a richly-carved box of Indian wood, in the front of
which was inlaid an iiory tablet bearing Min Car-
peaty* mana, Aocompaayiag the mftaalal was