The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-06-10 00:00:00

eutfere'd lots by long absence from home, thougg
returning with sound limbs, should receive Govtrus
moot assistance—not gilte but loans repayable with-
out interest by easy insaintrits—hae been rejected aa
undesirable both by the Chancellor and his vicegerent,
Herr von DelbrUck, though, recommended by a great
majority in Parliament. Many of the men rr ferred
to are absolutely ruined by an enforced absence, others
are reduced to comparative poverty. Surely these
men deserve some acknowledgment beyond a bit of
coloured ribbon or a bronze medal.
WIFE MURDER AND SUICIDE IN FRANCY„—A,
dreadful crime WWI committed lact week at Limiest=
by a man mulled Mulet, a maker of sabots In comes
quenco of the continual disturbances that took place
between the nehappy couple the neighbours became
quite accustomed to hear the cries of the woman, so
that when, on Thursday morning at three o'clock, they
heard her cry out " Help ! he is killing me !" they
paid no art-ntion thereto. AP, however, the day
passed on without the shop of the man Mblet being
opened, the neighcroure became alarmed, and informed
the police, by whom the door of the house was broken
open. On entering the bedroom a most frightful
spectacle presented itself. The woman was found in
bed lying ins pool of blood, her Ludy being hacked in
several places by sabre cute, the left arm and the
upper part of the body especially being dreadfully
hacked, and the cheat and the abdomen cut right across
from aide to side by the point of the blade. The hor-
rible tableau WM cbmpleted by the body of the husband
hanging from a beam, quite dead.

Too BAD or roam !—The idea of the Bolt o
man Chester yeoman is to billet, may be gathered
from the recent conversation between two troopers.
"Well, I suppose you've got into a good shop ?" "1
donna no ; I've had better billets before," was the
reply. "But they're decent people, and are likely to
give you smut-thing pretty good,"waa the rejoinder; and
then came the crucial question, "What have you had
for breakfast this morning? Upon this the trooper,
with a face as doleful as if he had been dining for the
week with Duke Humphrey, answered, "Oh, we had
nowt but a bit o' ham and a bit a fish—l thowt a cal!ed
'ern soles—as for t' coffee and tea, I towd t' gal she
mun as well let us use t' tea kettle."

PENSION' MID LONOFNITY.—The Army and
Navy Ga.:, Itc says :—"A veteran officer completed last
Wednesday his 89:h year in her Majesty's service—a
fact, we believe unprecedented. Ensign Atherton
Watson, half.pay 914 Foot, entered the service on
May 31, 1791. Mr. Watson app,ars to have served
barely twenty.three months on full pay, anti to have
since received half pay to the amount of 1:4,288 3s.
RELIGION or MlNorts.—ln DubliG, list Satur-
day, the Lord Chancellor delivered judgment in
Re Kearney'e, minors, in which a petition bad been
presented by the testamentary guardians of the
minors, five boys, aged seven, nine, eleven, thirteen,
and fifteen respectively; and entitled each to one.
seventh of twelve thousand ponncle, under the will of
their father, who died at Melbourne, in Australia, in
October, 1885. The father was a native of West.
meat!), and went early to Australia, where in 1833,
though a Roman Catholic, he married a Protestant
living in the backwoods. He paid no attention per•
tumidly to his religious dutit e, and his wife brought the
children up as Protestants, with the father's taci
consent. The petition prayed the court to direct all
the children to be brought up Roman Catholics—the
fatht r having in his will expressed a desire that they
should be religiously brought up, but without saying in
what relig on. The Lord Cuancellor said, according
to the principles of the Court, the thildren should be
brought up in the religion of the father, unless circum-
stances had occurred to render that coarse injurious to
the children's religions ilitere,te. He had seen the
children—the two younger had formed no definite
rtligions opinione, and therefore in their case the
father's opinions must prevail. The other three had
utquestitmably formed Protestant opinions, and their
mother was left to act as she pleased.

•
WES TEIE TROTH-SPEAKER !—" 11.,w are you V'
says Jones, a pour and struggling &titbit, of London. to
a proud city nailionaire, who pretends not to know
him, and replies hesitatingly, "Sir, you have the ad-
vantage of me." "Yes," retorts Jonee, "1 s'poseso ;
everybody has that's got common sense."
Bcosca JuKtB —The care with which Scotch-
men look at the events of life is illustrated by familiar
records of what has been Paid and done on ordinary
uCCa.ahme. Tile Moat cautious snowier certainly ofi re-
cord is that el the Scotchman who, beieg asked if he
could id ey the fiddle, warily answered, "1 c iuldna
say, for I never tried."—A farmer who lives half.
way between Selkirk and Galashiebe found it more
convenient to attend the church in the county t 'ern
than his parish church, and absented himself from the
latter for a considerable time. Having returned, how-
ever, the minister accosted him with the observation
" Well, John, you have come back to us—a 6004;
sermon, I suppose ?" " Oh," replied John, "as for the
sermon, there's no sae mickle difference, but I got a
better mug o' ale at Galashiela."—" Whatki eps our
friend Farmer B— away from us 1' was the anxious
question proposed by a vigilant Ab-rdeen minister to
his clerk;" I have not seen him amongst us," be con.
tinned, "these three weeks ; I hope it is not
Socinianism that keeps him away." "No, your
hononr," replied the cleik, 'lt is something worse than
that." 'Worse than Socinianism? Heaven forbid it
should be Deism I"" Worse than Deism." "Good
heavens ! I hope it is not Atheesm !" " No, your
honour; it is something worse than Atheism !"
"Worse than Atheism? Impo.sible ; nothing can be
worms than Atheism !" "Yes, it is, sir—it is
Rhentnathm."
THE OE EMPEROR AT CHISELHIIRST.—The
health of the ex-Emperor Napoleon is said to have con-
siderately improved of late. He had been labouring
under an attack of rheumatic gout, which confined him
for a time to his bed, and has rendered him invisible to
the outside public ever since the Thursday before
Easier. Last Sunday, as the Empress Eugenie and
the Prince Imperial were returning from Church across
Chiselburst.oonumon, the Emperor stood at ene of the
windows of Camden house, and this is the first time he
has appeared since his illness. He is said, however, to
be sufficiently recovered to walk about the grounds
without difficulty. The public colt .sity from which
the Imperial family at first suffered so acutely has
finite subcded, and on Sunday buit the Empress and
her son, as they went to and from Church, were seen
by barely half a.doxen persons.
TEE LATE ARC3Biellor OF PARIE—The fol-
lowing letter from the Rev. Martin Paschoud, Prisi-
dent of the Commit of the Reformed Church in Pia!,
has been published :
" Horrified, like yourself, at the execrable crime which has
recently been committed, I cannot avoid saying that St
was not slope ti the clergy of his diocese that the Arch-
bishop of Paris gave as example of virtue. The Pro-
testant clf-rgy and the Jewish clergy can hear similar testi-
mony. During the siege the President of the Consistory
of the Reformed Church, the President ef the U mslatory of
the Lutheran Church, the (thief Rabid of France, • pastor
I.loogtog to the Free Courches, and the writer of these
lines met together at the Archbishop's hose to c4m-
cart upon en appeal to the King of Prussia with the
object of arresting the horrors of war. How much do I re-
gret not having recorded, and that I am unable to repro-
duce textually, all the admirable and touching word. that
I bad more particularly the privilege of hewing from tin we
truly Chrletian lips, delivered with so much Lublin:lm,
unction, tuld ahnp,ichy ! It was, indeed, a beautiful and
rare trample which that prelate—the new martyr—gave us
when ho met so fraternally with the Jewish priest and
the Protestant pastor upon the COTIMOII ground of peace
nail cued;;. Hay all priests, all pastors, arid all the faith-
ful, at whatever altar they may have been baptiz fd, ever
follow that holy and salutary example for the cousolation
and restoration of our unfortunate but bel.ved collete) r•

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A HINT Ti HI/KbE BUTERB.—A man who
wanted to buy s horse, recently sake(' a friend how to
tell hove's age. 'By bis teeth," was the reply. The
next day the man went to a hwae dealer, who showed
him a splendid black horse. The horsehunter opened
the animal's month, gave one glance, and turned on
his heel. "I don't want him," said he; "he is 32 years
old." lie had counted his teeth.

SWEPT ()van NIAGARA.—Three men attempt-
ing te cross the Niagara rivrr hem the New York to
the Canada shore, on the Nth alt, were drawn into
the fatal rapids, and carried over the Great Falls. It
is surmised that they had hut one pair of cam, and the
curr.mt proved too strong for them. At the first rapids
their boat broke in two. One of the men, an expert
swimmer, struck bravely out for • spot on which to
land, and, despite the angry torrent, Came within six
fret of Smith's Island, but could not gain the bank,
and was hurled past it by the watirs. It is long since
• horror so hopeless has been witnessed by the Mira.
bitauts.

ALAS ! FOR HIIIIIAR NATRRF.—The perlenti-
hifity of mankind is tither a delusion altogether, or its
distance from our present position is abeolutely local.
culahle (remarks The Times in a leader on the late
atrociti,s in Peri.). We have made no progress.
Those very remote ancestors which modern science
assigns to our race must tell for more in our actual
nature than we are pleased to imagine. Let anybody
read the creed—if we may use such a term—of the
Communists published in these columns, and then say
if the beasts that perish may not by credited with
conceptions quite as lofty and aspirations just as noble.
A herd of elephants or • colony of beavers might claim
fraternity with an International Commune, and not
gain much by the connection. It is not French
nature, but human nature, which has thus suddenly
revealed itself as if in evidence of its type. Scratch •
citizen," and you will find a crocodile underneath, or
whatever creature Mr. Darwin may choose to name.
Perhaps we ourselves under similar provocation might
be found no better than our neighbours. We have
done some strong things in lands where strong
measures seem almost indigenous ;but here the French
have had a wholesale mutiny and a savage Mennen.
Lion at their very doors, and have repressed them in
their own bloody spirit. Even now that the fire seems
to have burnt itself out, the world will hardly feel
secure that h may not be kindhd anew.