The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-10-16 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

LRITISH AND FOREIGN.

REBELLION AMONGST THE MORMONS.
According to a recent communication from the salt Lake
City, the rebellion of ffic Mormon girls against polygamy ts
progressing rapidly :
It seems that the Mormon girls who have not yet
got religion' are very much opposed to polygamy.
They had rather spend an hour in the company of a
congenial sinner than a year in that of a saint, eepei
cially if the former is young, holds his head high, and is
withall gooddooking. There are occasionally such
among the Gentiles, never among the Mormons. The
girls call the young saints ' cayumea ; ' the Gentiles call
them 'yahoos.' They manage to inveigle the Gentiles
into an acquaintance through their brothers, through
mutual friends, who are about 'alf-and-'ali,' by
telegraphing on the street, flirting at the tabernacle or
the theatre—with the eyes only, mind you, and that
very slyly. A likely young fellow, whom for variety
I will call John Smith (artyo a writer in a New York
paper), became thus acquainted with Nahley, one of
Brigham's daughters, and, in course of time, their
intercourse ripened into true hive. An elopement was
planned, relays of horses stationed along the road
kince to tmtsh, awl about two weeks ago, in the
latter hours of night. the atreeta rattier deserted, and
darkness lareely prevaiio.f. the adventurous main
drove slowly west with his buggy along South Temple
tereet, past the royal grounds, which were early closed
that night for some reason, past Temple Illock, and
still further westward. Four or rive policemen issued
from the vicinity of the Tithing-office and followed the
buggy. Anon a slight scuffle and a sue dhered
ore am were heard, and a naanent or two after the
Royal carriage with blinds drawl., dashed by on the
gallop and whirled through the Eagle Gate. John
Smith drove his buggy back to the stable, hung round
the town for a day or two and then went to San
Francisco. Nebty was locked up in the king's castle,
and that is aIL It appears that Nabby was to meet
John Smith three equines west of her father's corral,
and, getting into the buggy, they were to fly on the
wings of love to a land of liberty. Both had evidently
been watched, and just as the girl was entering the
buggy the police appeared, chucked her into Brigham's
carriage, which was unacountably on hand, and having
thus effectually clipped the aforeeaid wings, either
from policy or fear, allowed Smith to go about his

NOT FORGETFUL OF "NUMBER ONE!"
Brigham Young is commonly reputed to be the
richest individual on the American continent; and
certainly, if the list of his possessions which is given
by a Salt Lake correspondent of a Philadelphia paper
he correct, common repute must be acquitted of
exaggeration. At the head of the list stands City
Creek Canyon, which is described as "a heavily wooded
district, from which the saints obtain their wood ex-
clusively, every third load going to Brigham's pile."
It possesses, we are told, fine water power, and yields
an income estimated at 28,000 dollars a year. His real
estate in Salt Lake City, consisting of a block of
buildings called Brigham's Block, a theatre building,
a distillery which monopolises the whole Mormon trade,
and various stores anti private reeidences, is called at
975,000 dollars; and the Union Pacific Railroad owe
him for grading down 750,000 dollars.
Under these three heads, then, we get an Mcorne of
about 4:1,200 per annuls, and a separate property esti-
mated at something wore than a quarter rrf a million
sterling. This, however, is only a very small portion
of the prophet's possessions.
The list referred to above enumerates his landed
estates thus :—Cache Valley, described to be "fifty
miles long and fifteen miles in width, and the richest
and most productive valley in the territory ;" Rush
Valleys. "also a large tract of fertile country ;" Low
Rock 'Valley, "for ranch and henl ground, an exten-
sive tract;" and" 12,000 acres of land in Cash county
for stock raising purposes." What these immense dis-
tricts may be worth we are not informed, but even
they do not exhaust the inventory, which includes
further :—Faur-fifths of Provo City, sugar plantations
in the Sandwich Islands, rich coal-beds, cotton•farms,
woollen and flour mills, cocoonery for the manufacture
of silk, with thirty wires of mulberry trees, and " the
water right to Mill Creek."
Over and above this immense mass of legitimate
property, Brigham Young holds other property in
trust, which cannot certainly be less in amount than
the preceding, and probably much exam ds it in value,
and whica he has at least the credit of treating as if it
were his own. This trust property is of two kinds,
and consists 11) of ths property of "subjects sent upon
foreign missions," which, we are told, is " alway s ap-
propriated by the Lion of the Lord ; " and, secondly,
of the Church property. Thi. Church property espe-
cially must be very large. Independently of much
real and personal estate owned by it, the tenth nart of
the increase of everything beWiging to a Mormon is
exacted for the Church. And, as the Mormons are
supposed to number about 2041,000, it is evident that
the whole amount of their titbm and offerings must be
very considerable. But neither as to the amount nor
as to the manner in which this property is managed is
the prophet accountable hi any individual or body.

THE LATE RUMOURS CONCERNING 1
LIVINGSTONE.
Sir Roderick I. Murchison writes to the papers :
Although extremely unwilling to throw any doubt
upon the news recently announced as to the arrival of Dr.
Livingstone on the eastern shore of the Lake Tanganyika, ;
i I must inform your readers that this is only one of the o any
rumours regarding the great traveller which has from time
to time been brought to Zttn liar.
On my arrival in London I received two letters, one \
throngh the Adooralify, 14 C,nimodore Heath, of the East
African station, and the other from Dr. Kirk, the British
political agent at Zanzibar, both dated the 31st of August,
and both stating that an Arab had arrived that same day
with a letter from his brother, the Governor of Viiyanyembe,
In which it was stated that a servant if the Governor had
seen the" white man" at Ujiji, on the Lake Tanganyika.
Now, according to Dr. Kirk's estimate, four months must
have elapsed slice the mon who brought the information
left 11 ji. If this sem s should be correct it would certify
that the illustrious traveller was in safety at the end of last
April.
But so long as no direct news from Dr. Livingstone him-
self has been received, it will naturally be surmised that this
last report may have no better foundation than the numerous
preceding rumours.
It is, however, gratifying to state that if the news rests
upon a true foundation our suspense will soon be relieved,
, for the same letter informs me that a caravan from I. was
, expected to reach Zanzibar in a month.

Artemis Ward Was fond of telegraphing, and studied
it for amusement. He wan • very good "sender." To the
telegram of • California Lecture Committee, 'What will you
take for one hundred nights?" Artemus promptly replied,
" Brandy;and-water."
The Swiol journals report the flight of the cashier
of a bank at Zurich. He leaves a deficit variously estimated
at from 2(0,0001. to 400,000 f.
A bill-poeter has been fined ss. and costa at Liver-
pool for posting bills about the town on Sunday.
Mr. Macgregor, of "Rob Roy canoe" fame, was
one of the speakers at the Church Congress the other night.
His subject was the 'Riven of Damascus and Israel."
There is to be a Russian Crystal Palace (after the
plan and gigantic dimensions of the Syclenham building) at
Saint Petersburg next year.
The John Bull hears from • correspondent occupying
• high official position in the diocese of Exeter that iii.
more than probable that the election of Dr. Temple to the
See of Meter will be opposed in the chapter.
The schooner Eva, Edmonds master, has founders il
about ten miles from Exmouth, coast of Devon. She was
run into by • vessel unknown, and the crew had not a mo-
ment to lose to save themselves in the ship's boat.
The Church Congress is to meet next year at South
ampton.
A medal and 400 francs has been given to the man
who jumped into the water and saved Traupprnan's life. it
is a curious reward. What will the executioner deserve?
It is said that a Ballot Bill will be introduced next
nestou by a private member, nod will receive the support of
the Government.
John B. Gough is writing a volume of Rtnainiaetnrc
of Travel in England. Ile works on it from nine at night
until three in the morning, because he can think better at
night.
During the past week, 52 wrecks have been reported,
making for the present year a total of 1,814
Some photographs now selling in the streets of Paris
as the likeness of Klock, senior, turn out to be the portrait
of the illustrious Hungarian Deals •
We regret to learn that Mr. Woodward, Librarian
In Ordinary to the Queen at Windsor Castle, died on Tuesday
night. mr Wood weusi was a marl of c insiderable literary
and artistic culture Ile wrote a history if Wales, and a
history of Amcrica. and a local history of Hampshire, was
editor of the F•oe Arts Quarter/1f Review. and was lat-ly
engaged on • Inc ~t .• Leonardo d• Vinci." According to
the "Men of the Tones," Mr. Woodward was born at N;ir.
wich in 10111, and gradated at Lotd
A telegraphic despatch from Port Said states that
the steamer Lou ise-Marie, of Marseilles, coming from the
Red Sea, had tt aversed the Suez canal in eighteen hours.
A miner, named Halbeisen, and his wife, living at
Fr lessen -the Fever Rhine), have just been arrested on the
charge of strangling three children the man had by a
former wife, and then setting fire to their cottage to conceal
the crime.
" The English Emplre, sir," exclaimed a John Bull
to • Jonathan. "is one on which the son never sets." "And
one," replied Jonathan, "In which the tad-gatherer never
goes toted."
The Queen. according to the present arrangements,
will leave Scotland on the 4th of Novendrer, and will arrive
at Windsor C.ntle ou the following day. The King arid
Queen of the Belgians will shortly after. ards pay a visit to
her Majesty.
About MO female voters are now on the register of
of municipal voters at Lillffda. At Stamford the number of
female municipal voters for the ensuing year will be 150.
At East Belford, out ot 514 noinicipal voters I.r 1033-70, 60
will be women At Norwich the minde•pal register for
1061.70 will comprise upwards of 10,0;0 names, and about
1,300 of the voters will be women.
In New York, it is stated that from 15,000 to 20,000
children roam about the streets and never attend school.
To what extent scarlet fever, from which London is
now suffering, prevails throughout the country, there are
the Lancet says; no accurate means of knowing ; but the
net that the disease was even more fatal last week in Liver-
pool than in London, and almost as much an in Sheffield and
Leeds, gives very strong indication that we are passing
through one of those periodical epidemics which reveal all the
weak places of the country—an advantage which is far too
dearly purchased at a lamentable cost of human life.
A "Steeple Jack," named Thomas Butterton, has
been killed by falling from a tall chimney, which he had
been repairing in Manchester.
Eighty hired shipwrights an], twenty labourers ern-
plc) ed in the Devonport dockyard breaking up the old line
of battleship Britannia, struck work on Friday afternoon
upos, finding that they were only to be paid—the shipwrights,
Ills, lied the labourers 12s. per week, instead of 275. and 145.
respectively, as other men In the yard are paid. They con.
seated to return to their work on the condition that if they
completed the vessels In less time than was contemplated
they would be paid in proportion.
An explosion of gunpowder in a shop at Braila, in
Roumania, has killed and wounded several persons.
A disastrous riot took place on Saturday at St.
Aubin, Aveyron, in France, which has resulted in fourteen
men being shot dead by the troops, and twenty-two more
wounded. 'Yee disturbance arose out of • miners' strike, and
ibis stand that the 'lumber of the rioters was 2,000, but that
the troops have succeeded in suppressing it. None of the
workmen, however, have returned to work.
'rhe coroner for Liverpool, who, in spite of his grave
duties is one of the wittiest men in the town, made a very
apt quotation the other day at the laying of the foundation
stone of a workshop for the blind. The morning was wet
and gloomy, but just as the Archbishop of York had com-
menced to lay the stove, the weather partially cleared up.
Commenting on this inctdmit the coroner remarked,—
Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by the Sun of York."
A youri4 man of twenty•three, employed in an im-
portant ii-use of business in Paris, having been refused the
habil of a young girl with whom he was desperately In love,
attempted suicide the other day in the Rue Notrolfame de
N just opposite her dwelling, by discharging • pistol
into his own breast.
A num has been sent to prison for a fortnight, at
Leeds, for refusing to have his child vaccinated. He had
presented be him the alternative of a fine, but, as he said, he
preferred "to Ernest Janes IL" And so, it would seem, "to
Ernest .I,mes It" has come, among a certain class, to be the
symbol of martyrdom when it tases the form of imprison.
nient.
Prince Arthur has been visiting Niagara Falls, and
while tlo re made a journey into the United States, visiting
Buff alo, Ncw York. On the 15th of September, while at the
Clifton ii. arse, on the Canadian shore, the Prince narrowly
escaped being struck by lightning during a thunderstorm.
Oa that Icy a carriage, co.Vairting four ladies, fell over the
precipice near the falls, the horses having c .me unmanage-
able, and two of the were killed. The accident hap-
pened while an inquest was being held on the body of a man
who committed suivide by Jumping down the falls two days
before.
We (E'/co) have reason to believe that a report
favourable to the issue of • halfpenny stamp for the postage
of print'-' matter under two ounces in weight and news-
papers will be laid before a Cabinet Council, next month, by
the Postmaster-General, when it is probable that the 0 vent-
Tricot will resolve to bring in • bill authorising the issue of
such a stamp.
" And now once more she [Empress Eugenie] is off
on her travels alone. One of her longings remained yet un-
satisfied, a pledge unfulfilled. The wife of • man wim for-
merly aspired to the title of ' Protector of the Holy Places ,'
the Empress proniDed to herself a visit of Borne and Jerusalem
as the grew or .widlig joy of her existence It is even re-
corded lb so, when the height of her ambition was to give an
heir to her husband's Thu,i e, the pious Lady ' registered •
vow in Heaven,' alter the manner of those of her faith and
country, that her thanks should be rendere I on the threshold
of the most venerated shrines in Italy and Palestine."—The
8.
The St. David's Society, of Philadelphia, which was
formed for the assistance of Welsh emigrants In distress, has
heels defrauded of about three-fourths of its entire capital
9,0130 dollars, by one of its officers, whom it had trusted for
many years. The deficit was discovered in calling upon him
for SOO dollars, donated by the society tor the relief of the
Avondale sufferers.
Lewis, Kershaw, a card-room jobber, is in custody at
QUEENSLAND EMIGRATION. Rochdale on a charge of attempting to warder his wife and
a woman named Baker. !Centime, who was separated from
his wife, met the two women at Limbley near Littleborough,
A gentleman sends the following to the Daily Bones:— and persuaded them to leave the turn.pike road and walk
May I beg that you will kindly insert in your along the canal bank. When they were under the bridge, he
influential journal two short extracts from two letters pushed Sarah Baker into the canal, and seizing his wife
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and Kershaw then ran away. The woman Baker was rescued
intended emigrant s, who are being ',Abased to emigrate
An'ul agnult AB,,isitnealiorda,earntod dated round
straggled the
In • senseless condition, but afterwards recovered.
there. I would be one of the last to attempt to check
Profesaor Seeley delivered an address on Monday
emigration to places where emigrants are likely to do night at the opcning of the Working Women's College in
well, but I dothink we ought, so far as we are able, to London. He maintained that both men arid women ought
• warn intended emigrant,' from going to places where to be better educated, but that the two sexes ought not to be
they are likely to starve, and help to prevent them placed ova different footing. Ile considered that the pee'
from being deluded by false hopes and puffing extracte, sent system of education for men was devised in the interests
First extract—" Ido not like to give you discourage- of the schoolmasters rather than of the learners, and he
expressed hope that in any enlarged scheme for e educe
ment, bet things out here are very queer ; wages are tion a WOMell the error of devoting immense labothur to the
being lowered every week all over the country. I can- s udy of what is supposed to have occurred hundreds of years
not think how 'IL can write such untruths about the ago, before becoming acquainted with masters of every-day
country; he has never had the experience we have had. Interest would be avoided.