The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-18 00:00:00

Itlisctilantous alnitltigtna,
HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.

MCIRDER OF A VISITOR AT A BATHING
EsTABLIsIIMENT.—A cruel murder has just been com-
mitted at Antogast (Grand Duchy of Baden). A
gentleman of Friburg, named Mathiss, left the bathing
establiehrnent at the former town on the 18th of August
walk iu a neighbouring forest, announcing his
ii to come back to dinner. He never returned,
and on a search for him having been instituted the
body was discovered ten days later between two rocks,
and covered over with branches of trees. His breast
had been pierced with sin wounds with a knife, and
near him were lying his hat, cane, and a portion of a
cigar, whilst his purse, containing 201 florins, his watch,
and his boots had been taken. The author of this
crime has, however been found in a singular manner.
Nine days before the discovery of the body a young man,
named Dcehich, living at Roberteau, had been arrested
for creating a disturbance at a bowie in which his
sweetheart lived ass servant, and on him was found a
sum of 200 if rine, a poignard, and a watch ; was
also remarked to have a fashionably made pair of elmt is
boots. Subsegnently the police were struck with the
coincidence, and on the last two mentioned objects
being shown to the relatives of the deceased they were
identified as having belonged to M. Mathias. Dcelich
then e,ufe,sed his guilt, and pave icfortuation which
has led to the arrest at Metz ox an accotupli,e named

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FEARFUL ASSAULT ON A GAMEEEsPaIt.—At
Warwick, six young men, named Harkull, Garrison,
E lwin and Charles Teats, and William and Henry
11 tchuck, were charged with maliciously wounding
George Henry Watts, one of Lord Warwick's keepers.
Watts was the principal witness against two Warwick
men convicted of night poaching at the last assizes,
and has since been repeatedly threaten d. The other
night Watts went to the "Dun Cow," in the Saltiaftxd,
*here the prisoners and their friends were drinking-
here he Was knocked down, and the !trimmers and
others kicked him forty or fifty times in the face, until
it was one mass of bruises, and varied their brutality
by jumping on his chest. The medical evidence showed
that Watts' iujurit s were of a fearful character, and
that serious consequences might ensue. The Bench
committed the prisoners fcr trial, and fixed the bail at
£lOO each.
THE HOME SECRETARY AND C )NFIRMED
DRUNKARDB —A puzzling problem has just been put
before the Home-Secretary by Mr. Darrah, a Yesident
of Manchester (says the Letorpod Mercarp). Mr.
Muesli, it seems, is acquainted with a drunkard who
-offend from fr, qitent attacks of delirium tremens, dur-
ing the existence of which he is obliged to be placed
in a luratic asylum. His wife is willing to pay for his
retentir n in safe custody, but the I,fficiald declare that
they have no power to detain this confirmed drunkard
after recovering from the rabid symptoms of the
, disease. lel r. Darrah, asks the Home Su cretary.
"What can be done to protect the wife and to stave
the man from his min folly." lelr. Bruce replies as
follows : "The Government has announced its inten-
tion of intri clueing a measure fu et the better regulation
of the trade in intoxicating liquors, which it may be
, hoped will have wine effect in diminishing druiffienness
I and itt attendant evils. The metleal hewever in deal-
ing with pereetts in the condition of the Mita described
in your letter is one of great difficulty, and Mr. Bruce
is lett at present prepares! to recommend any. change in
the law with respect to such cases."
Srohttle 1.813 Loss OF LIFE ON THE CONTINENT.
—A storm of great violence burst over Fecemp and
the neighbourhood a few mornings since. At Loose
a cow WAS struck dead by the lightning. The electric
fleid fell upon the clock tower of the church of Saint-
Alartin•aux.Buneanx, etris ped one side of it. and set
the building on tire. The exertions of the fire-
men and the inhabitants aoci..*eded in extinguish-
ing the flames, but not before con si lerable damage
had been done. During a violent storm which
broke over Antwerp, ten labourers and two
b 'vs admight shelter from the rain under a small shed.
Suddenly, with a terrific clap dof thunder, the electric
fluid fell upon the group, and strook down four if
them. One—a man of fifty—WAS foundtobe deal, the
second afterwards recovered consciousness, but was in
a critical state; the others!, lads of eleven and twelve
I resptctively, were soon restored to animation.
NEVE REGULATI:iss FOP. THE RITHSIAI ARMr
—A ukase has been issued at St. Petersleirgh reducing
the term of military service from seven yearn to five in
I the case of young men under twenty who enter in the
army as volunteers. A furthsr reiltiotion if a year's
set Vice is premised as a reward for good conduct.
This regulation is to be followed by another restricting
m iniaers in the army. Hitherto soldiers were en.
cu arrived to marry, in order to induce them to make
the army their home, and their wives and children
. were ruaint aim el by the Government. This practice is
now regarded as too expensive and not desirable even
from a purely military poiet of view, ae the nieve-
ments of the trodtps from ylace to place has been
greatly encumbered by their taking so many women
and children with them. It is found that the numbers
of soldiers' marriages has considerably dlimiuished
since the introducti II four years ape ot the present
system of short military service. In 1860, four soldiers
out of ten were married, whereas the proportion now
is tour out of seventeen.
BRIGANDAGE NEAR ROME.—A. Duke and his
daughter were robbed by brigands the ether day near
(Thigh Perk. This, seys the report, "causes much
tru tuble and apprehersion to those who are ruralisieg,
at
Albano." If the "Apprehension" could only he ap-
plied to the brigands, the cams, of the neighbourhood's
trouble whuld be soon removed.—Punch.
ATTEMPTID MURDER AND SCICIDE.—AII at-
tempted murder and suicide were committed a few
data ago, at 49, This Vivienne, Paris. A commercial
ttaveller, named Barthelemy, who occupied an apart-
ment there, had he en for some time past on terms of in.
timacy with Maria Chedkoska. a young Pplish Woman.
She hail, however, recently rptitted hint, anti resisted all
his attempts to induce her to return. However, she went
to take away some articles of dress which she had left
behind, but on her entering the room Barthelemy
locked the door, and fired at her two shots from a
revolver, and afterwards discharged one Mb, his own
mouth.' The woneds received by the woman are not
thought likely to terminate fatally. Mit the mail, eft,
being removed to the Hospital Lariboieilire, expired
the following evening.
A NOVI.I. IDEA !—An enterpriaing individual
at Berlin has submitted the following plan te the
authorities :-• He proposes to board over all the
gutters on each rule of the streets aid this roadway,
three or four feet wile, is to be the future velocipede
high road of the cite. A thousand tricycles are to be
placed on it, each with a practised driver dressed in a
neat uniform, who will undertake to conduct one per-
son with letters, parcels, &c., along this road. As
velocipedestrians always drive straight room to
turn is not required, and when the road is free it
will serve as a footpath. A small charge for
passengers, parcels, and letters will, it is estimated,
give a fair return for the cost of construction.
He argues that, besides the general convenience
of his plan, it will be a great advantage to Berlin to
bridge over the gutters, as they are at present very
lowish ly, and are liable to be frozen over in winter.
Ald Tower, the establishment of footpaths will facilitate
the better regulation of the street traffic, and effect a
great saving in the expense now incurred! by cleaning
the streets. The trice el. s are to have a little cano:ty
in winter, an umbrella being a suffi ient protection in
the summer. The project ir calculates that a speed
may be attained equal to that of an ordinary carriage
at least, and guarantees au possible convenience and
safety in the transit.
A MOTHER AND FOUR CHILDREN DROWNED.—
A sail disaster took place in the Seine, at Paris, on
Sunday morning, when the hurricane was at its highest.
A barge, called Le Celestin It., used for transport-
ing cargoes of sand and gravel, and in which a man
named Leben, his wife, and four chilren were sleeping,
was suddenly deluged tuy some enormous waves, and
not being able to eustain the weight if the water began
to sink. Lebou himself hail but just time to save him-
self through a window of the cabin ; and then du-
niediately returning made desperate efforts to save his
wife and children, hut the darkness of the night and
the rush of the waters frustrated all his attempts.
The mother, three boy s, and a little girl, remained
submerged.
AN AMERICAN ADVEETISER.—Mr. Hembold'a
magnificent four-in-hand double team of dark-brown
horses is one of the sights of Long Branch (say a an
American paper), and this no newepaper man envies
bum for the great druggist has obtained a fortune, as
the most courageous—some people, who do nut mule r-
stand, might say reckless—advertiser in the world.
Ite commenced with 2,000 dole. eighteen years ago, and
now he spends 10,000 dole, a week iu advert lung alone;
always worsieg on the plan of the more be gets the
more he advertises. He has 2 700 papers on his 1 st,
and he has paid to several of the leading jeurnals from
L5OO dole. to 3.000 dole, for a single insertion of his
great advertisement. Ile always COMMUllieJteB with
the editor or proprietor himself. and does his own busi-
meta with them. To the Nov York Herald he once
offered 5,100 dols. for a page, but it woo of the
iesue which announced the fall of Richmond, awl inter.
eating matter then so pressed on Mr. Bennett that he
was obliged to decline the offer.
THE ORLEANISTS.— The Times in an article re-
commending the Emperor Napoleon to cancel the
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partridges in their pockets; and by peasants, who hide
game in cartlowie of hay? but the octroi officials are
very sharp, and there is a woman attached to each
bureau whose apt ciallduty it in, search members of her
sex who may present a surdpicious appearance. The
octrot entries gives the following returns of the amount
of game for which duty was charged this year at the
gates of Pat is from the lat to the Rich inst. inclusively
12 woodcocke, 159 snipe, 117 deer, 176 PhYasaute
(pheasant shooting is allowed from the Ist of Septem-
ber). 55,903 partridges, 742 teal, 61 blackbirde t,
13,761 quails, and 36,514 rabbits. Sparrows which
form an important item in every French epolksmen'.l
bag, are admitted froo of duty.

INM ORMATION WANTED.—W ill 90Ine out e
how it happeni that- thouizh wheat falls, bread con-
tinues to ?' rise?" We have dipped into Yeast, but Can
fad no solution of this puzzle Chem.—Punch.

AN U 0 THANKFUL ONE !—A Greenock paper
relates the foll.l wing :
On Sabbath afternoon last, the ehmnent minister of the
West Parish, in his chaing prayer, ref errsd to the long pre-
vailing drought, and earmaVy besought the DivoleO.ver of
all good to vouchsafe some setsonablo and mace wished-for
rain. Immediately rain began to fall—the first for many
weeks—and for a short time it fell like a shoe or bath_ Mean
lime, the ,burgh service having concluded, the congregation
was dismissed, and then came the scramble for umbrellas.
One lady, who had no umbrella with her, corm-milord to
gather the skirts of her gown over her head before .jotting
the church vestibule at the same time remarking to a iwigh.
hoer, "En, wumman, is.,'t it too bad o' the doctor; lie might
hat ',Men OIL hame first."

IitILISING THE OLD MAN.—A newspiper corre-
spondent, meeting a party of American settlers the
other day in Texas, inquired from the conductor what
the men in the brat waggon were intended for. "To
clear the forests." " Well," said he "and what are
those in the second for?" "T., build the hats," was
the teply. "And that old white-headed man in the
third a as,gon—what is he for?" was the next question
asked ; to which the reply was given, "Oh! that's my
father; we shall open our new cemetery with him
Our correspondent did not it quire further.
A FHENCLI NOTLON.—The other day a notary,
describing the cause of the premature death of an ,
English lady, summed up by saying, "And probably,
as the lady was English, she drank copiously of gm!"
An English lady went the other day into a c lebrated
grocer's shop in the Boulevard IVlalesherbes and
ordered a variety of articles. When the order hail
been duly taken down from her dictation, the shop.
man begged hard to be allowed to add some bottles of
gin. Apparently he never doubted that the lady "en
Si qualde d'Anfrlais" was a daily imbiber of gin, and
his anxiety was to be the purveyor of the inevitable

liquor.
Are EXPERIMENT.—A merchant on his death-
bed sent for a Free Church clergyman. Having some
fears regarding his future prospeets, he asked the rev.
gentleman, "Do you think if I were to leave RlO,OOO
to the Free Kirk that my soul would be saved?"
" Well," answered the cautious minister, " I couldn't
just promise you that, but the experiment is worth
trying."
IS/ILK:KING WIFE MURDER.—A deplorAble event
has taken place in a house equated No. 12, Rue de
Fte .a, at Gentilly, near Parke inhatited by a journey-
man roadmaker named Bellied, and hie wife. This
DAM had been treated at I3icetre for an affection of the
brain, but was dismissed about a month back as cured.
The neighbours having remarked that the shuttels of
the house had not been opened durieg the day, went
to inform the police, and when an entrance was 4-
fected, the woman Betinot was found ling on a bed
with her bead nearly severed from her body, whilst the
husband was kneeling before a crucifix and reciting
prayers. He confessed, with the greatest tranquillity
that he had strangled the woman about midnight with
his hands, and then cut her throat lest she should be
r stored to life.
A Mirennoora Tow.—The headlong manner in
in which things are done at the West, is ;bowel by the
pet gress of the town of Duluth. upon the projected
route of the Northern Pacific Railroad, and which
metropolis is now fully three months old (saye a Phila-
delphia paler. Within the period which has elapsed
mince its birth seventy-five houses have been built,
plank side-walks laid I loan, a 'mete hotel commenced,
which will be completed in September, and two churches
are tinder weigh. Four months ago the land upon
which Duluth is to be built was worth from I dol. 25c,
to 2 tiols. 50c. per acre; tW town lots in the city are
worth I,eoo dt Is eat h. From ab tut live persons —the
pepeletion of Duluth on the lot of April—the resi-
dents of the town has swelled to fifteen hundred.
ATTACH ON A CoTFIN
"%islet, father and son, lately opened, in the Rue .
Terme, Lyons, a shop in which coffins of all patterns
were displayed. This exhibition chocked the neigh-
Kens en much the more that at nieht a brilliant illumi-
nation made every detail conspicuous. The discontent
of the whole quarter was aroused, aid letters of cm-
plaint were addressed to all the journals of the city.
Nothing, however, could lie done, as those tradesmen
had not committed any infraction of the law, lint
there is a prey, rh of jurisprudence which seea "Sum.
muss j suinnia iniuria." The moh uudertook to
comment on that axiam by rioting in front of this
funeral b3zaar, and, at last commenced to bombard it
with stones. The timely intervention of the police
prevented disturbances which might have become
grave. Two of the most vieletit individuals were
arres'ed, soil the probability is that the obnoxious
display will be diecontieued.
COMPLETION OF THE WALLACE MONUMENT.
On Saturday afternoon the Wallace mtediment erected
on the Abbey Craig, near Stirling, was formally handed
over by the committee of subscriltere to the town coun-
cil tf Stirling as the future custudiere fl the etructure.
The monument consiete of a Scottish batonial tower
220 feet high and 3ti feet square, containing several
large halls designed for the display of armour and other
aetequerian relics illustrative of early Scottish history.
The tower is n the highest point of the Craig, which is
about 300 feet above the level of the Firth of Forth,
and overlooks the field of Stirlingthridge here Wal-
lace achieved his greatest victory. The total cost of
the monument was £13.401 is. Bd., and the amonnt
subscribed was £12,902 Rite Bd., leaving a deficiency of
nesrly £3OO. The original estimate of the cost of the
building was £7,000.
NOTES or ADMlRATlON.—LoTeLetters.—Phitch.
SMAitT WoßL—During the recent Cruise of
H.M.S. Blanche when under steam at full speed, the
sudden alarm of "a man overboard" called every one
to their satin". A boy had fallen from the foie rig-
ging. The life buoy was promptly let go, engines
avowed and reversed, lifeboat lowered, the first lieu-
tenant. boatswain, and the boy picked up, boat hoisted
U, and ship going ahead at full-epeed again in nineteen
111111 W es five eeconds. This we may call Stuart ea), k.
Lieutenant Markham and the boatewain ha I both
jump d overboard to save the life of the youngster.
MAX:M Fon M ES. BF:Milan STOWE.— De Mortuis
Nil nisi Bunuin.—PuNcu.
A MAORI DEFINIIIoIf OF MITR DEL—At the
recent meeting of the King native Mtioriee in New
Zealaud one of the chiefs said, "According to the
opinion of you Pakehas three killings you speak of
were murders, but we say that they are not, This
would be a murder : If I were to kill you now that you
have come here on a friendly visit, or if I were to kill
Mr. Firth, that would be a murder. if I were to say,
to-day, in a friendly spirit. Come round by this path,'
intending evil while professing friendship ; if I took
you out of the safe path into that of ('anger, and you
were killed, that would be a foul murder. And here
are your foul murders: General Cameron told us to
send our women and children to Rangiawhia, where
they remained unmolested ; but he went away from
Peterangi with his soldiers after them, and the women
and children were killed, and some of them burnt in
the houses. You did not go to tight the men ; you left
them, and went away to fight with the women and
little children. These things you conceal because they
are faults on your side; but anything on our side you
set down against us, and open your mouths wide to
proclaim it. That deed of yours was a foul murder,
and yet there is nobody to proclaim it."
THE DISMAL SWAMP LIGHTED UP.—A remark-
able coeflagration is reported to have occulted in the
Dismal Swamp, Virgiuis, The New York Tribune
gives the following description :
Miles of feucieg, cord wood, and other property have been
destroyed The area if the contigration is confined to the
territory bets een the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad and
the Seaboard and R, anoke Railroad, about eight miles from
Norfodi, and the pasting trains are exposed to such an
extent that the docile and windows are tightly secured to pre-
vent iejury to the pai:engers. Swamp cattle, black Wan,
and all sorts of wild game ore driven from the Swamp, and
thefarniers are securing large quantities.
A WO,DERFUL ENOINEERISG OPERATION.—In
the work of straightening and widening some of the
very croeked streets of Boston it became necessary to
move a huge buildieg known as "Hotel Pelham."
This building is of freestone. 96 feet high, and weighs
10,e00 tons. It was moved 14 feet in three days. by
means of rollers anti screws, a portion of the sidewalk
being also moved with it. So carefully and well was
the work done that not a crack was made in the hut W-
ing, and nothing in it was at all disturbed. Large
crowds of people watched the process and the fasteet
time accomplished was two inches in four minutes. A
large bank bedding asijeining the hat' was used to
[Tate the screws m;aiiist. A great number of these
screws, 21 inches long, were employed. 25,000 dela
was paid the contractor for moving the hotel.
BRokEN-HEARTaD BUT DLTERMINED !—A cler-
gyman who was lately consoling a young widow on the
death if her husband, spoke in a very serious tone, re-
marking that he was "one of the few. Such a jewel
of a Christian —you cannot find his equal, as pea well
kntiw." To which the sobbing one replied, with almost
a broken heart, "I'll take the odds that I do r
Ter FOR TAT.—There is a story told of a former
minister of ours at Brussels— Sir Robert Adair--which
is worth reviving, Amongst the names on his visiting
book he one day thauced to see that of Joseph Hume,
the well-enown economical reformer, who, passing
through Isel,:utin, had celled at the legation, with a
reasonably-grounded expectation of official attentions.
Sir Robert's dinners had a wide reputation. An ad-
mirable cook, and an exquisite cellar, had given the
English legation a European fame; and it was said
that Mr. Hume was one of those who are in no wise
insensible to such excellences. Indeed, a junior
member of the legation had heard and reported
to his chief that Joseph delayed his departure to
enable him to pronounce on the fare of the
legation. Sir Robert, highly indignant at the
paltry reductions so pertinaciouely moved in official
salaries, and belonging to that old whig party
whose creed was that there was a class which should
never be subject to vulgar discussion and popular
opinion, Was very adverse to any attention to the chief
leader of these sesailants ; at last, however, he gave
in, and sent Mr. Hume an invitation to dialler. Mr.
Hume came, doubtless brimful of expectation as to the
exquisite character of the banquet that awaited him.
He had heard marvellous stories of the delicacies for
which laud and sea were ransacked, and of vintages
which only Royal cellars could rival. What wee then
his diegust to be served with a weak potage and &glass
of weak sherry, fellowed by a leg of mutton and light
Bordeaux, the whole clueing with a chicken and some
salad—Sir Robert apologisiug in all humility, for the
fare by saying, 'You see, air, what these begiorly
Radicals have Itrought us to, with their reduction,! A
little more of this, and we ehall come to a prison die-
teary, with some pudding, perhaps, for a Sunday."
VELOCITEDING.—It has been ascertained by
experiment (remarks The Engineer) that a man of orde
nary streneth anti activity, cleating a vertical ladder,
is able to ascend for eight hours per day with an
average speed of about half a foot per second, which
gives as his day's work the raising of his own weight to
a height of 14,400 feet, or nearly 4.400 metres. This,
however, is known to be the newt favourable way in
which the muscular power of the legs can he exerted,
the patteure of the foot being at all tunes equal to the
whole weight of the man. During less favourable
modes of exerting the legs, and eepecially when the
pressure of the foot parallel to the direction of motion
is much less than the weight of the man, a much
smaller 11/1011Ilt of daily work is to IN expected.