The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-12-02 00:00:00

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ROME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL,

MURDER OF A FAMILY.—A letter from Louis-
ville states that on the morning of the 12th inst. five
members of a family named Parks werefound murdered
in their house near lienrytille, Indiana. The family
consisted of Cyrus M. Parks, his wife Isabella, his son
John, aged ten years, and his daughters Eveline, aged
17, and Ellen, aged 15. The heads of all were terribly
beaten and crushed by some blunt instrument. The
daughters were found sitting in the kitchen alive, but
were delirious and fatally hurt. There is no clue to the
perpetrat. ors.

J U Eh' JUSTICE. SO, according to the
Judges, a baker cannot be punished for putting
alum into his bread. They manage these things—W*
mean bakers—better in the East. Let us have an
oriental kind • d Judge to sit in cases of adulteration,
and, as he must have a name, let us call him Alum Bey.
lie must Mid his own Hammer and Nail, and an evil
baker must find Ear and Doorpost.—Peotch. •
DESCEN DANTS.-111 the accounts
which have been published if the inauguration Of the
statoe of of Schiller at Berlin, lame erroneous state•
ments have been made an to the descendant* of the
poet (remarks the Athena von). He left Inie son and one
Ilaughter ; the latter, who is still alive, married Count
von tacit:heti, vdtose ~4.11 it was who It as present at the
uncovering of the monument in Berlin. Sehiller's
son was twice married, and by his first wife there is one
son living, namely, Banal Fritz von Schiller, a retired
officer in the Austrian service, who was prevented by
indisposition from attending the ceremonial in Berlin.
The present Baron von Schiller in married to the
daughter of Cot Alberti, of Stuttgart. There are
no children living by this union, and with the decease
of the present Baron, who is in very bad health, the
111.1.111 C of Schiller will be extinct.

A SERIOUS REPROCIF.—A clergyman whilst
preaching was annoyed by people talking and giggling.
He paused, looked at the disturbers, and said, " I am
always afraid to reprove those who misbehave, for this
reason. Some years since, as I was preaching, a young
man who sat Mere ins was constantly laughing, talk-
in.., and making uncouth grimace,. I paused, and
administered a severe rebuke. After the close of the
service a gentleman said to me, Sir you have trasle
great mistake. That young man whom you reproved
is an idiot. Since that I have always been afraid to
reprove those who misbehave themselves in chapel,
lest I should repeat that mistake, and reprove another
idiot." Dui in.; the rest of that service at least there
was go. RI ~rder,

A DoLEFur. Dmv.—Reader, you have pro-
bably seen advertised a Poem by Lord Nugent under
the title a rrlll/orlll. ho!,. This "hole,' once the
annual distribution id bread at Tiehborne, Las, you
know, been discontinued ; but would it surprise you
to hear it said that the greatest of all Tichborne Doles
in the Tiehborne Trial now pending to the dolour of
all nave the Public and the Lawyers ?—Pioach.
THE LAST OF THE MEG2ERA."—The Mello unit'
Argus of the oth Oct, in an account of the condition of
the Megara's crew while on St. Paul's Island, says :--
" The party were eighty days on the island before the em-
barkation was completed, and before they left they witnessed
the final breaking-up of the Matyrra, which occurred during
a severe storm on the 30th August. The spectacle, it seems,
was a thrilling ' one for the people on shore, for in the
midst of a hurt one, accompanied by thunder nod lightning,
the hull of the eld vessel Wan lifted from its place, swept
:tyre tin bar, and smashed to pieces. At the same time a
huge rupture was made on the cliffs opposite to the camping-
ground, and masses of ruck thrown down into the sta."

LETTERS TO FARMERS.—Josh Billings, in the
Fai•mrrs' Almawfx for 1c72, furnishes the following
chunks of wisdom
Beloved larmers,—Agrikultur is the mother on farm
pro.'uce : she is also the step.mother ow garden saws. Rise
at half past 2 o'clock in the morning, bild up a big lire in the
kitchen, burn out two moons of kandels, and grease yore
bouts. Wait pasliuntly for da brake. When day due Mahe,
then commence tow stir up the geese Mid worry the bogs.
Too 1111.1d1 sleep ix ruinous tow geese and the begs. Re-
member yu kant git rich on a farm unless yu rise at 2 o'clock
Ire the morning, and stir up the hogs and worry the geese.
The happiest 1111111 in the world ix the farmer ; he rises at 2
o'clock in the 1111 l ruing, he watches for de life tew brake,
and when she duz brake, hc goes out and stirs up the geese
and worry's the hogs. What ix a lawyer ? What is a mer-
chant ? What Is a doktor ? What is a minister I answer
lathing. A farmer ix the lablest airk ow God he riles at
2 o'clock hi the morning, burns out half a pound 05 wood
and two herds of halide's, and then goes elect tew worry the
geese and stir im the hugs. Beloved fanners adew."

REA RRANG EM ENT OF PARTIES. —Whip and
Tories now no longer exist, except in provincial towns
where the parties so respectively nanted mean certain
sets of persons accustoiLed each to vote on the side of
certain Ministers. Liberals and Conservatives, OA
opposed, cease to represent the old distinction between
Whigs mid Tories. Every honest man is now noire or
less a Liberal. Every man in his senses who either
has, or expects to have, anything to lose, is noire or
less a Conservative. The two parties into whith people
are really resolving themselves, are Constitutionalists
and Revolutionists It is high time the former should
part company with the latter. Then there will be a
long innings for a strong itovernment In the mean-
time her Majesty's Opposition (headed by I tiger,
liradlaugh, am! Office) will be the Opposition to the
Qu,en. Pinch
TIIE " LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR."—Ill
London, on Sunday, Archbishop Manning made an
appeal, at St. George's ( athedral, in aid of the work
which is carried on by the charitable ladies known as
"Little Sisters of the Poor." The earlier part of the
sernoin was devoted to instnictions in the Llose of the
year ISunday, the 26th ult. being the last Sunday of
the ecclesiastical year), and then the preacher pointed
out the nature of the work done by the " Little
Sisters." The bitter cold of winter had already com-
menced, and the poor were suffering much. The
"Little Sisters" beggesl for the aged poor, whom they
tended anti nursed with true kindness. They were
glad to get that which in many houses goes to waste,
such as broken meat and cast-off clothes. Ile advised
all who could to go and see their establishment, where
many aged poor men and women were sheltered. The
Archbishop said he wished to thank publicly those of
other creeds who generously helped Catholic charitable
works, and especially chemists, who gave ansually
large quantities of medicine. After the sermon, the
"Little Sisters" made a collection through the church.

THE NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENT.—In London,
on Saturday evening a conference of three hours' dura-
tion was held between Mr. Scott Russell and the lead-
ing members of the Skilled Workmen's Committee re-
specting the new social movement. The meeting was
held at Angus's Temperance Hotel, New Bricige-street,
Blackfriars. Among the persons present were Mr.
Scott Russell, Mr. Lloyd Jones, Mr. George Howell,
Mr. Applegarth, Mr. H. Guile, and Mr. George
Potter. The result of the conference was the adoption
of the following resolution :

"That, In the absenee of any definite proposition from the
Legislative Council for mutual action 1,, regard to the seven
resolutions, we, the acceptors of those resolutions, postpone
for the present taking any further steps in regard thereto ;
lint we are willing to co-operate with any members of the
Legislature, without ref.., to poht ieal party, for the pur-
pose ,4 improving the social and industrial condition of the
working classes."
EXEnUTION OP A FitANC-TIREL-R.—A Franc-
tireur named .Inriette, ii years of age, who had been
sentenced to death by the third court-martial for de-
sertion to the enemy, was executed on Thursday
morning in the Champs de Mars, at Lille, in
pre9ence of the whole garrison, lie bad exhibited
the utmost cynicism his trial, and walked to his
death firmly and with-it bravado, leaning on the arm
of the chaplain, along the troops who were slrawn
in line. Addressing the detachment which firmed
his escort, he told them " not to do as he hail done ;
for ambition, bad conduct, and love of money had
been his ruin." Ile was placed within ten paces pithy
platoon, with eyes bandaged; and on the first die-
char,:e be fell with face downward. Each regiment
then tiled off past the body.
THE TIEN-TSIN MASSACRE.—TIIO j,i,sql
Oificid states that the satisfaction made by the t 'hineae
Government in consequence of the Tien-tsin massacre
consist* of the following particulars The Chinese
Government has inflicted death upon 21 persons
whose glint was proved, and 25 others have been
transported. 2. The chief magistrate and the second
magistrate of Tien-tsin have been degraded and exiled.
3. Various indemnities, amounting in the whole to
3,150,0(N1f., have been paid. These sums will be
applied for the benefit of the families of the victims and
for the reconstruction of the buildings that were des-
troyed. 4. The Chinese Government is at present
having works executed at the cost of the city of Tien-
tsin for the purpose of placing memorial stones upon
the graves of the victims, and is to erect at the en-
trance of the cemetery where their remains are de-
posited a memorial gate, upon which will be inscribed
an official proclamation referring to the punishment of
the culprits, and denying the calumnious acoisations
directed against the Christians and the missionaries.
5. The Emperor of China has expressed the regret
whitli those violent ads have caused him in the letter
which he has instructed hi. Ainlaass.ior to deliver to
the pre-silent ~f the Republic. The Ambassador has
also L. the c serve of the cenferences which he has hid
with our Minister of Foreign Affairs made declarations
which are reganled as satisfactory upon various prints.
the definitive settlement of which will be left to th.•
care of the Freneis Legation at Pekiii.

CANNIBALISM.—Tho following ia an extract
from a letter lately reeeil ed from Melbourne :

I think I told you that W. turned up here after a silence
of eight years. I slid not know him at tire, he was so much
altered in appearance. He grew stout and look,' old; lila
hair mid beard white as snow. About • year shwe he went
with a few young men to the Fiji Islands, in a little venal
called the Ur as, and from their to the liebridee. They re-
turned in six months, as one of the owners. young 8., a
merchant's son in Melbourne. was M delicate health. They
sailed again three months since for Sandwith, Hebrides.
Three of them, It.. R., and C., owned cotters plantations
there. We have lids week shocking news in the newspapers
of the Ittidil Mt B. 11111 i It. They were kilh•.l IT the natives
for kidnapping mmi from the !dile; islands, and the Euro-
peans fraud their remains just as the natives were reacting
and eating them. W. settled lu the township, not on She
plantation. - _

BERRINGS AND ManniaGEs.—The connexion
between herrings and marriages may not be obvious to
all, but the Scottish registers make it clear enough.
In the returns for the third quarter of the present year
the Registrar 14 Fraserburgh states that the herring
fishery was very successful, and the value of thecatch,
incliiding casks and curing, may be set down at £130,000
sterling, and the marriages were $O per cent, above the
average. On the other baud, the Registrar of Tarbat
has to report a steady falling off in the fishing at that
creek, and consequently the quarter passed without an
entry in the marriage register. The Registrar of Loch-
,,,ilphead also returns that the herring fishery has been
a failure in the loch, and states that this accounts for
the blank in the marriage column this quarter. One
Registrar, in his return for the quarter, reports mar-
riages in his district, "like angels' visits, few and far
between:" at the fishing villages it may be put more
briefly—no herring, no wedding.

VILLAGE HOSPITALS.—A large and influential
meeting was held on Friday evening at Ealing, under
the presidency of Mr. S. It Wadix,le, M.P., to take
into consideration the establishment of a village
hospital, to meet the increasing wants of this portion of
Middlesex. For the last twelve months a dispensary
has been in successful operation, but it has been found
insufficient for the requirements of the district, and,
as several gentlemen residing in the neighbourhood
had promised liberal oubscriptions, it, was resolved at
once to commence a cottage hospital. Alsint 12100
was promised in the room in donations and annual
subscriptions, and £lOO by one gentleman towards the
erection of a suitabk building, and it was resolved to
commence operations at once in the cottage now in
use temporarily for a dispensary.

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THE IRISH IN AMERICA.—The Census recently
taken in the United States shows that the total of per-
sons in that country who were born in Ireland stood at
1j"55,779, and that there was not a single State or
territory belonging to the States which did not con-
tain mime persons who were natives of the sister island.
In addition to these facts, the Census shows that 12 of
the States number respectively among their population
upwards of 40,000 persons 'born in Ireland. The
figures stand as follows :—State of New York,
50•,4,06 ; Pennsylvania, 237,17.0 ; Massachusetts,
210, L,O ; Illinois, 120,1412; New Jersey, 0,14 ; Ohio,
82,574; 4 lonnectiiat, 70,630 ; Missouri, 54,953 . • Cali.
fonds, 54,121 ; Wisconsin, 45,479; Michigan, 42,013;
and lowa, 40,124.

•
ANEchOTE OF VICTOR EMMANUEL. —A charac-
teristic story of King Victor Emmanuel is related by
M. irldeville, formerly French Cliarg. d'Affaires at
Turin, in his diary now nicotine of publication. The
King, having received a letter front Napoleon 111., in
which the latter revoked certain promises he had made
to him on a former o..xxisi.,n, was furious, and took the first
.PPertunity of venting his anger on the Emperor's
repiesentative. At the next court hall be summoned
Prince Latour d'Auverrie to his presence in a private
room and addressed him in these words —"After
what is this Emperor of yours? The huff comer among
the European Sovereigns-- an intruder and a parvenu.
Let him remember what he is and what 1 am -1, the,
head of the first and oldest Royal dynasty that now
reigns in Europe." Prince Latour listened to this out-
burst with as much calmness as he could command,
and then observed, "Mire, you will permit me not to
have heard a single word that you have spoken." The
King said nothing, and turned away. In the course
of the evening, however, he came again to the Prince,
and tapping him familiarly on the shoulder, wbittpered
in his ears with a stuile, "You need not report our
conversation of to-day to Paris, cher Prince. Emblem,
you told me yourself that you did not hear what
1t sail."

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MURDER IN INDlA.—There has been a dread-
ful mm-tier in Calcutta of a Bombay Parsee, a returned
convict from Port Blair, and his wife, who hail accom-
panied him as a free woman to Port Blair, by their
servant, also a returned ionviet, set . free at the MILO
CM^ st, his master. The evidence throws little light
on the nnul's motive for the crime. The master of the
re-set in xhieb all three had returned from the Anda•
mans stated in evidence that he had seen something of
an improper kind between the woman and the prisoner.
Another witness deposed that he had I mce seen the
woman beat the servant with her shoe— a dire disgrace
to a native of India. It was clearly proved that the
prisoaer was to have been dismissed from his employ-
ment. On the day of the murder it is believed that
the prisoner called his master and mistress separately
to the foot of the stairs, as if to meet some one, and
killed them with an adze. At all events, they wore
found there, hacked dreadfully and quite dead. The
prisoner, who is badly wounded, maintains that the
attack was made on him, and that he was compelled
in self -defence, to kill both the man and woman.

•
Tim DIAMOND FIELDS. —The following lean
extract from a private letter, dated New Rush,
Vooriatzicht, September 25, IS7I
Since my last letter we have had a little luck. We
worked for some time in our On Toils Pau claims, but
worked without finding, so we considered them compara-
tively worthless, and lought a claim at Bulfontein, in
which we worked for some time, but with ill luck;
the last day one of the boys found a little one of 1-10
carat then returned to the helda and bought a half claim
ou the K opje lure for 1:150, and it has turned out the
richest place on the Held.. I have found ten diamonds. On
satunlay the claim was resold for £220. Since the num to
whom we gave our Du Toits claims has hemi winking he
has found a 7, 12' 10f, tt, 31, a 2, and II carats, in which we
have a share. In the claim nest hut one to tliem a
tnoignit-
ccitt stone of 90 carats was found on Saturday; so you may
Imagine that the claims In its neigh's:unlessi have advanced
tontiderably in value. This is a most extraordinary rich
place, and people are mad after claims. I heard a mall
offer a farm of 12,000 acres in the Transvaal Republic for a
piece of claim measuring lOU. !woad by Soft, long, nest
to ours. One man here found 40 diamonds In one day, and
many find live, six, and seven every day. £45, WM{ given
for a piece of ground about ift. by Sett. Although in a
howling wilderness, It almost rivals lombardatreet In value.
The great drawback is the scarcity of water. When we Unit
came here we had to pay Gd. a buuketful. The dust also is
something. frightful it seems am if the more dentate the
spot the more plentiful the diamonds. The weather is
getting very hot again, and sanitary arrangements there urn
ton, Bullocks (lie hi hundreds and volute the air with
their fetid vale:isms."

PAND• AT A PRIZE Fif:llT.—On Tuesday
morning a "select party" of jougilists and admiring
friendsof the art which they profess, numbering in all
about one hundred, left Glasgow by the Caledonian
Railway to be present at a Indic encounter between
John Miley, of -Glasgow, and Peter APltendrick, of
Partiek, the terms being catehweight and for fifty
pounds. The spot selected was Auchengray. Fully
an hour was spent by the combatants in I ler:wing each
other, and forty-six rounds had been fought with
varying success when a body of Lanarkshire police
entered the field. Instead of proving "game," the
majority of the spectators setunped away in every
.unction, but the officers were successful in securing
the principals, the referee, the two seconds (the latter
including the well-known Tom Quin, of the Man-
chester and Glasgow districts), and no fewer than
twenty-five spectators. Amongst the twenty five were
three persons who were released I m the plea that they
were " representatives of the press." The captives'
will be remitted to the authorities at Lanark, the en•
jouuter having taken place within their jurisdiction,

A 11ACE FOR A CORPSE !—III London, on
Tuesday morning, about a quarter before tem o'clock,
the el Pitillt; tide washed up the body of a man on the
muddy forexhoie between the Adelplii stairs and
Waterloo pier. A boat was at "ace launched from
the pie], but at that moment a waterman who WWI
rowing across from the Surrey side of the bridge, also
caught sight of the ghastly prize, and put on a tre-
mendous spurt. The excitement of the onlookers
reached the highest pitch as both boats came along at
racing speed ; but the waterman, who was evidently
an old hand at the work, managed to secure the body.
lie then towed his prize, for which, it appears, a re-
ward of five shillings is given, to the Royalist police.
ship, where it was handed over to the l'lnunes police,
who shortly after removed the body to the mortuary
of St. Clement Danes. The corpse was that of a
middle-aged man, poorly dressed. It transpired that
the cause of the unusual struggle between the }costa
was, that a reward of five pounds is offerei for tho
the recovery of the body of a gentleman supposed to
have been drowned a few days ago, The description
of the latter, however, did not at all tally with the
body picked up yesterday morning, which hiss not yet
been identified.
POISON INOCULATION.—A recent meeting of
the Boston (Massachusetts) Society of Medical
Sciences discussed the subject of protection acquired
! by the human skin against the action of certain animal
Poisons after repeat:A ineculation, one gentleman
maintaining that the frequent inoculation of some
I poisons gave a gradual immunity from any piiisonoue
effects. fie instaneol the effects of niosquito bites,
which, he thought, were more severe in children than
Lu adults, much mire severe in foreigners recently
arrived in America than in natives, and in support of
this he spoke of a whole family, recently arrived from
England, • hieb he hail just seen, upon the members
which the bites of mosquitoes had produced a
violent eruption of the skin resembling pemphigus.
lie thought that the immunity derived from frequent:
inoculations is analag. ems to that from vaccine matter
azaiost vim lila. He maid that he considered it as esta-
blished that poisonous snakes are not killed by their
own poisons ; insects, however' he said, do not enjoy
this immunity, as wasps and bees are known to ki
each °the: by their lioison. lie was -supported by
aeother gentleman, who said that, in regi. us where
I black flies abound, persons af.cr a few years are not
affected by the poison. This immunity LS not obtained
in one seas„n, but only after a prolonged residence;
such persons are bitten as at first, but escape all Ul4
disagreeable effects from which a non-resident suffers,.
KISSING IN THE UNITED STATES.—WheII •
wild lark attempts to steal a kiss from a Nantucket
gii I, she rays, "('n,me sheer off, or I'll split your main-
sail with a typhoon." The Boston girls !mid still until
they are hell kissed, when they flare up and say, "I
thirat you ought to he ashamed "—Boafon Transcript.
, 'When a, young chap steals a kiss from an Alabama girl,
she says, "I reckon it's man y time now," d she gives
him a box on the ear that he don't forget in a week.—
Irrirefon fltrald. When a clever fellow steals a kiss
from a Lottiximia girl, she smiles, blushes deeply, and
sayti--nothing. We think our girls have more taste and
Renee than those of down East and Alabkna. When a
, man is smart enough to steal the divine luxury from
them, they are perfectly satisfied. —N. 0. Picayune.
Wlitma female is here saluted with a puss, she puts on
her 'bonnet and shawl, and anscvereth thus " I am
Astor ished at thy assurance, Jedediah : for this indimiity
I will sew thee cip."--Lyrin Record. The ladies in this
city) receive a s-dote eh Christian meakness ; they
follow the Scriptute rule, when smitten on one cheek,
they turn the other also.—Busyllown Chronicle.
When a New York gall receives • kiss she squirms at
first, talks of ths parson, and wants to be spliced fcrth-
ith. If Doi teller sheers of, he is sued for breach of
promise in t..e cm if 1110.0110 dell:mei. es • sf. roe
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