The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-07-24 00:00:00

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HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.

GALLANTRY IN THE flouss. —There is DO
truth in the report that Mr. Henry Herbert, the ad-
vocate of better accommodation of the Ladies in their
Gallery. has been offered the vacant post of President
of the Virgin Llands. Rather grilling this weather
behind the grating.—Punch.
THE SUBSCRIPTION FOR MR. HUDSON.—The
following letter, in reply to a communication from Mr.
J. L. Forster, the secretary at York to the subscribers
to the Hudson fund, has been received by the Lord
Mayor of that city :

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"Calais, July 14,1869. My dear Lord Mayor,—My friend
Mr. Forster has communicated to me the resolutions adopted
on Monday last at the meeting of gentlemen who have
promoted and supported a subscription In your city and
county in co-operation with other Jeanie in the north for
the purpose of creating an annuity for me. May I, through
you, express my grateful thanks for this great kindness?
Amid all the afflictions with which my latter days have been
clouded, it is to me a source of deep gratitude that so many
friends have united to express In so substantial a manner
their sympathy towards me, and their acknowledgment of
my se TViCes in the promotion of public w,ks. Be assured,
my Lord Mayor, that to y.u, and to all my other kind friends
I feel • gratitude which words cannot express, and which will
ever remain deeply engraven on my heart —1 am, my dear
Lord Mayor, yours very truly, Ggo.

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FORTY PERSONS STRUCK DOWN HY LIGHTNING.
—The excessive heat is causing frequent and violent
thunderstorms in the United States. During one of
these storms the Seaside House Hotel, at Rockaway,
was struck by lightning. The guests, to the number of
nearly forty, had gathered in the main parlour, and
were seated, the doors and windows being all open,
when a bolt of electricity suddenly prostrated every
person in the room. In an instant the persons least
injured sprang to their feet, and found seven or eight
of the guests unconscious and apparently dead. The
ladies who were dressed in silk were the least injured.
There being a doctor on the premises, rest..ratives were
rstaAisa, and all he /1.11 seem to ree..ver. and is less than
two hours were out of danger. The bolt that entered
the room appeared to some to be about the size of a
six-pound cannon ball ; as it spent its force, it left in
the mom a fmffocating smell of sulphur. It is remark-
able that no one WM conscious of hearing the thunder
accompanying the bolt of electricity, nor did those
who were hurt the most see any flash of light. Some
felt the shock it; their backs, some in their arms, others
in their feet. The lightning entered the room near
the conductor, and shivered the ceiling on one side of
the chimney.

A CHANGE FOR OLD IRELAND. May Hope
(not Beresford) turn out to have told no flattering tale
to the Right Rev. Samuel, Bishop of Oxford, when
she said that to him which made him say to the Lords
In the Irish Church Bill debate, that he was "hopeful
of a great resurrection in Ireland." A resurrection
will be a great improvement on insurrections.—Pasch.
ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT ASASSINATION !—Mr.
Warburton. High Sheriff of Queen's County (Ire-
land), was fired at on Monday morning, while
driving to Maryborough to swear in the grand jury.
The a=atssin was concealed ins wood at Killeen, behind
a wall ift. high, and fired in an oblique direction ten
yards' distance into Mr. Warburtun's face. The oh
destroyed his left eye, and wounded the side of his
head. The gun was raised too high, and the greater
part of the charge riddled his hat. Richard Kenny,
his servant, who was seated behind him in the two.
horse phaeton, sprang beside his master, drove furiously
into Maryborough, and placed Mr. Warburton under
the care of Dr. Jacob. The constabulary searched the
wood, and discovered some old clothes and two sacks,
which probably formed the 8008.9.111.8 bed. The out.
rage is agrarian. Although Mr. Warburton was dan-
gerously wounded, hopes are entertained of his re-
covery.
THE MURDERS IN ABTESlNlA.—lnformation has
been received at Newport whiai at last sets all doubt
at rest respecting the sad fate of Mr. and Mrs. Powell
and party. Mr. Walter Powell, M. P., a brother of
the deceased gentleman, has just returned from
Alexandria, where he had gone to deliver a firman
which he succeeded in obtaining from the Viceroy of
Egypt. and which directed a strong military escort to
be provided for Mr. Henry Powell and Mr. Jenkins,
who have gone in search. Mr. Walter Powell brings
intelligence which is believed to be substantially
authentic that Mr. Powell and party were attacked
and massacred by the Tekah tribe, and not by the
Bezan tribe, as first reported. The Hexane afterwards
came upon the murderers and compelled them not
only to relinquish their booty, but to deliver up the
bodies, which the Benne conveyed to the Swedish
missionaries, by whom they were properly buried.
No doubt is entertained of the correctness of this state-
ment, and there is every probability that Mr. Henry
Powell and Mr. Jenkins will succeed in bringing home
the remains of their unfortunate relatives.

A LADY AT THE BAIL—Mrs. Arabella Mans-
field, a lady of twenty-four years of age, has been ad-
mitted to the bar in lowa. and practises in partnership
with her husband.—American paper.

DIABOLICAL Ac T OF A "VVI;NAN. —A shocking
cage came before the Liverpool magistrates last week.
An old and apparently respectable Irishwoman, named
Elizabeth Lynch, was charged with throwing hoihng
water upon the infant child of a man named Thomas
Huller). On the previous day a number of children,
who had decorated themselves with Orange lilies and
ribbons, were play ing near the prisoner's door in
Queen Anne-street. This display of the Orangecolour
greatly annoyed Mrs. Lynch, who is a Roman Cath,r-
lie, and she threw a quantity of boiling water upon the
children, amongst wham was a daughter of Hellen,
who had the infant in her arms. The latter was well
nigh fatally scalded, and one of the other children was
much hurt. The prisoner was remanderL
TFIE LORDS' BLUNDER.— Said an Irish Lunatic
to an Irish Rector, "The Lords must have mistaken
you for I when they are for transferring 'the surplus'
to 'the surplice.' "—Punch.
A GOoD PRINCEE S. —A fire lately broke on at
Potsdam in an old wooden building, the property of a
poor day-labourer. The grandmother, though an in.
firm old woman, rushed into the shed in the It of
saving some of the goods, and had really succeeded in
dragging out part of a bed when a piece of burning
wood fell on her clothes and set them on lire. Though
assistance was immediately rendered, her back was
severely burned. Just at this moment their Royal
Highnesses the Crown Prince and Princess (the Prin.
CCSA Royal of England) arrived at the scans of the ruie-
fortune. The old woman was carried to a place of
safety, where the Princess, who had accompanied her,
dressed her wounds with her own hands, and attended
her with the greatest care and gentleness till a medical
man arrived. By her commandthe children were then
taken to the palace, and washed an furnished with
new clothes. The fire burned out without causing any
further damage.
CATTLE PL &GUN IN SICILY.—The
Minister of Commerce and Agriculture has
following notice :

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Itore than 300,000 head of cattle have been lost to Melly by
typhus. The pasturages produce nothing, and the animals
remaining are insufficient for the cultivation of the corn
crops. The prices of milk and meat have risen et:inalterably,
and there is a complete dearth of the latter in the centre of
the Wind ; at Palermo it has become an article of luxury,
and is sold in the markets at If 20c and If. boc, a pound
The middle and lower clasTee have almost ceased to eat animal
food, and Inn town of 200,0 0 inhabitants only about 20 oxen
a thy are killed, and a port nm of those are for the use of the
troops and the hospitals Even to provide for the small coin
Emotion le Sicily recourse has to be had to importation
Foreign bri_eders might therelure had a good market for their
produce in that country.

EXTRAORDINARY SETICIDE.—A suicide has just
been committed under extraordinary circumstances at
St. Petersburg. Colonel Hunnins, an Esthonian u.
birth, teas lately engaged in discossinA with the Czare•
witch a fumucial.optwation concerning the armalueut

of the troops, and the Grand Duke, considering the I
terms proposed too high, exclaimed, "With Germans
one is always stirs to be cheated." On the Colonel
civilly requesting his II ighnsss to withdraw so offensive
an expression, the latter forgot himself so far as to
strike the officer in the face. The Colonel immediately
applied to the Emperor, who ordered his son to apolo-
gise, but this he positively refused to do. Despairing
of obtaining any satisfaction, and smarting under an
insult he was unable to resent, the unfortunate officer
committed suicide by blowing out his brains. The
Emperor is said to have been most painfully affected
by the sad event, and insisted on the Grand Duke at.
tending the funeral.
SODDEN DEATH OF A STREET PREACHER.—An
inquest has been held at Chatham on the body of Peter
111,111pEOLI, a street !reacher known by the sobriquet
of "Happy Peter," who died suddenly while preaching
in one of the streets of Chatham. The deceased, who
was formerly a navvy, had latterly devoted himst If to
street preaching, in which, it was stated, he had been
very successful, and had effected a great deal of gmsi
among many of the depraved classes in Chatham. On
the evening of his death he was preaching to a large
audience at the corner of one of the thoroughfares, the
weather being intensely hot. He had just concluded
his preaching with the word "Ames," when ha, was
seen to stagger and fall, and on sonic persons going to
him he was found to be dead. The surgeon who was
called sail death had arisen from heart disease, acceler-
ated by the effort of preaching to a great crowd during
the intense heat, and the jury returned a verdict ac-
cordingly.
DR. L IITINGSTONIC.—" MT. H. A. Churchill, GB . ,
her Majesty's consul and political agent at Zanzibar,
has just arrived in this country on medical certificate.
We are happy to hear that Mr. Churchill speaks with
confidence as to the safety of Dr. Livingstone, from
whom he has had letters of a date more recent than
that of his reported murder. It is Mr. Churchill's
opinion that Dr. Livingstone, having heard of the dis-
covery of the northern portion of Lake Albert Nyanza
by Sir S. Baker, has directed his route in search of the
southern boundary of that lake, and that in the course
of a few months it is probable that further news will
be heard from Dr. Livingstone himself."—Medical
Time and Gazette.

NEARLIC BURIED ALIVE.—The Bien Public of
Dijon relates an instance of suspended animation. A
man, living at Douhey, had, from over indulgence in
drink, fallen into a state of lethargy, so complete that
he was believed to be dead. The man was laid out,
and friends came to pay their farewell visit ; one
woman, howevc. remarking that one of the arms was
hanging down, o,k it up to replace it on the bed,
when at the touch the apparent corpse suddenly opened
its eyes, and looked around the room. A doctor was
at once summoned, and the man is now gradually re-
covering. Singularly enough his own father was once
nearly buried while in a state of coma, which lasted
thirty hours.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO A HORSE RIDER
Mme. Kenyon, one of the riders in Robinson's Circus,
exhibiting in Allegheny, Penn., met with a serious
accident on Friday. She was about jumping through
one of the paper hoops when her clothing caught on the
hop and she was thrown violently to the ground,
striking on her head and breast. She was very painfully
injured, and had to be carried from the ring.—New