The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-15 00:00:00

TRIAL FoR AltSti/i.—Georgo Laurance and'
'rEIE KiNo or ITALY IN Bum r.--The special
Ernest Laurence, brothers, were tried at the assizes
correspondent of the Daily Nem?, at Rome, under date
at Jersey, on Friday and Saturday, on a charge of July 2, thus moralises on the entry of Victor Emmanuel
wilfully setting tire to th- premixes in King-street, ! inha Motile: _
A..oeuried by the tirst-teuned prie.aier as a jewakr and ; -"All :saute," says the old prey it ..l tad to Rome." and
dealer in fancy goods, on the I in, ~f march toot, with . the proverb thee up with a strange force to my mind to-day
intent to defraud the Imperial Fire Insurance C.-7m on witnessing tin magnificent entry of Victor Enuninnua
panv, in which the prisoner Laurence had insured his , Inui the Eternal city. PI what rations malls has he at
rthre it',e'iir en'ecrloctl3k7rgleaettifgt tt'hee_younger , oiconne and French intrigue ;
stock and fittings for the sum Id t. 3,465. The ease length reached the quirinal ! More than twentytwo years
against the prisoners was, that on the night of March lxioactivo.mocii,lennln.cwr.lrle, I.7liir t;ii,e11,1,...,4,:.,,,..,:,,tedati.4
pmnise, , flollrit ililS been helid steadily r‘di In the face of Austrian
Unnunontene w iles ; now winding along the banks IA the
a4la(laut:S'ad'tiTudaarteY) amid Mazrintan plots and
eriMean eernala ; now dashing up the height of &Merino;
,11..,ri,,50 e n
and
AtilielAes,
xt,)uttoae,l
lotst ea r
tth,,Te
01;1 iiili!it
la„t.tre
al i.fi
fire
hwiL. was 'i
. covered raging in the shop, and, un all entrance being ; "..aairi:,llithc iirbil: If tile ermisiat. Landwehr, or at tile council
IlealWerS under the counter. The heat was so grsikt ,070, the iit",Vre"lT h" terted to - ii.'
effected, it was found that a fire had arisen in nomi. rho: otialle. 1
ant
,!ladri,L In these twesity_twv(i=
• , the work elides of the same "Pc
that the plate-glass windows were cracked, and the hezan ; the mistake., and ndsealeulatimm of a Imhapaite
shutters were finite hot to the touch on the outside, j have ha.teued the work which but for the Italian proclivities
of
fChe..N7i7LTll:G°Bli;ll7l4o:::::..'--"TlreteefveOdr,;eltstiaTt
fire.slio wiinig tehcaitreatit.,:istareat.l,l7,,tohfiLitliiebeeze eiTii4;ttetlstofTimeimthwe,
aganaha
japiltle
the prisoners were arrested by order of the Attorney
General. The trial lasted two days, and ended in an ; says : It iv a curious feature 01 Cann life under the
unanimous verdict if not guilty by the jury-- 24 in I Second Empire, If it be true, that :warty all the pro-
number, of whom five dissentientsit can turn • verdict nduent ladies at the Tuileries, including the Empress
The announcement of the decidon was received with , herself, wo-e in the habit of consulting eertain torten:L-
ai:ph:use by a crowded court.
~ tellers 1.111 the ev.wits of ths future. Three of them
especially are said to hare received visits from Eugenie
Tea-Dealers and Grocers' Association, the other day, ~„ ,
THE AcTIVE BoARD. —A deputat• of the I
ma ler; laia a
hum. :
xbunie.
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,ecienine and all Old Siiiilllsill t, and magician nanied
waited on the Right Hon. Chichester Forteseue, at the
uits;tslannet,tartii:::
,alauvt.c of affairs to
Dr. MMiricardi. The latter; diet! reeentl in Paris,
Board of Trade Office, to complain of tire ontinued
and among his papers WaS found a diaryY containing
importation of spurious tea, and ask the Government
tiedo something to prevent it from coming into con;
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sumption. Of course the answer they got from th which Wie have: referred. It is said that 116 curi('"3
1 ty'ilivi:llllll,earqtiabtl:bee .
leagues wait, eIN SHOCKING MURDER.—The MO,lnts .4f/toot ma ,
leltreTulifilocantditimoni; ;
in effect son possemas. -. pourry.
right Hon. 1 iielri:lat,ivi:tr,
(1,x,,-1,:rtal!,;.:!
; of June ii, says :--Our correspondent hum Vollure
An extrnonlirlary story is current here to the effect that
ap, mlent r.f the Leeds Xtre +try writes :--
I about a fortnight or more ago a rich 'smear, with his little
" SPIRIT DRAWlNris."—The London corre- writes so follows :
One ld the most extraordinary exhibitions ever held out of I
, 1 son came to Conjeveram, mil distinguished himself by his
draw. bY Nli" 1 Brahmins belonging to it Almit it 1, days ago it appears
Bedinto in now to be seen at a picture gallery in London. it , liberal donations to the Vishnon temple there, and to the
, 1 that the sowimr had occasion to a.. away a distance mm the
spirits it is impossible to give any adequate. des,Hrti",... I howl on business, leaving his little im. Ixbhul bills ill the
lil inaigU.l,ll.;,rtai°l2 n(l'ef dit'.'it ,''''stipliiriile durianwleirngt'ie influence .1 the
them. Fancy a tangled mass of seaweed, entrails, and pearls, I , care .1 the Brahmins of the temple The little fellow was
and you have sonic flint notion of what these astonishing .man .e,. . with s.
valuable ornaments and jewels, rumour says to
freely drawn curves and brillimt colouring, you Wlml,l nay 6,, ..,,,, „A,,,,ii,g; . upon a r 111111 e.arelt being instituted the
productbms are like. If they were $llOOll as speciliwns of the „ewe el Kew rupees. on the return ,ii the e0%.,,e,.. hi.
that they were clever enough. and x, onderfully faatastie. ! body of the lad was found iti a well within the sacred enclm
But Miss Houghton contends that these drawings have deep , sure .1 the templie stripped of his ornaments. Suspicion, of
meaning and significance, and hi her catalogue she ',lliadic. ! conn:e, attach.' strongly tone Brahmins of the pagmla, who
the interpretation. Every colour is a symbol of 5.,i11,l llietld I are How under the kind care of the police whilst the matter
quality or spiritual truth. Thus yellow, idne, roil, represent is under investigation:.
respectively the three
Its isd persons of Ii
ande Trmity, the three car-
A QuEsrlotsi OF Cater R.— A curious questhat
dinal virtues t,ottn Truth, Love. Scarlet stands
for anione, vermillion for, real, sepia for " nuNing powers:" has arisen at Bombay. About two months ago a
brown, madder, for " a.ljuatingness of mind." ft is worthy young widow was married by a Mr. Madhowslaa
of lode that the earlier and as mias Houghton monomial Kaghunathdas. The consequence was that two leaders
only joutially developed drawings do bear some resemblance .3f the caste to which they belonged called a meeting of
to flowers of the most grotesque kind. But as the medium the body, and denounced the newly-married couple as
treemues
ach iev MOrs, Versed
become inniore the mystfantastic eries o
until thf spf Ht. dra w
latelug
sag her ,
ID .
~
unfit to su m ciate with the other embers, lasi ements , e st . MIS m
gest midsummer madness. You look upon one of these were urged to excomm.micate them. One of the hn.ders
111., of many-coloured streaks and dots, and turning to the also read a paper recommending that no member of the
eatalogue you are told that it represents "the perfect love of easte should have any communication or connection
God ;" and by way of explaining the flatter still further the with them by way of drinking, eating, or intermar-
pasnage frill St. Lune is quoted, "Suddenly there was with
limo. • furthermore it was urged that their Indies
the angel a multitude of the heavenly host." ttc. Miss Ii o. ~
11 the to by theireas-fellews after death.
Houghton says that at first her hmd was guidmil,y a (leaf
and dumb toy, and the two together succeeded in producing Mr. Madhowdas Raghunathda, not unnaturally thinks
on r n. .
something like things that we have well before. But after a that the object of this!penwention i-: to deg: tithe hiui in
while she was guided entirely by the spirits, and the result iii the eyes of his caste-fellows and other Hind, os, and he
what I have described, has therefore brought an acti, m for defamation of
LONGSITTINGs. —lt is WhiSpered that the A:tractor, which was being tried when the last mail
walls of the Royal Academy will be adorned, next left
year, with full-length permits of the Giant and HALF-A-YEAR'S WORK—III the first half of
Giantess in their sot sling dress. The artist engaged, the year Din we sent abroad, from the fruits of our in-
one who stands high in public estimation, hopes to dustry, cotton manufastures of the value of £27,298,461,
make these pictures the finest examples ever yet seen and yarn and twist £7,091,7.7. ; woollen ando worsted
of what is kIIOWII as "size " painting.--Puelt, manufacturwi £12,065,467, and yarn i1,N91,270 • linen
den t ommifactures k 3,558,916, and yarn, £1,149,33; • silk
AN AwKW AM) FIX.—A Germad correspondent Ii
L'975,631, mid twist and yam i113.1.,tr20 ;
of the Pall Mall G'o:ette writes :—" A singnias diffi-
: pparel, haberdashery, hats, £4,312,599 ; ironand steel,
unity has arisen at \Vintage, in Hanover. The heiress
to a considerable property had shortly before the WaS ill all states (from mg upwards), 1:11,775,817 ; 11=1-
ware and cutlery, .t1,715,M7 ; telegraphic wires anti
married, and her husband, at the breaking out of
apparatus, £839,319; machinery, £1,466,194 • copper,
hostilities, had to march for Fatherland. After the
, first battles the hotly received the official certificate of , rought and unwrought, £1,250,251 ; earthenware,
4,17,351 ; leather and saddlery, 1:611 952 ; coal,
the death of her husband. After six months' mourning
C-5.735,692; beer, £1,045,554. Adding about one fourth
the disconsolate widow married again—and twit week
'ii..re to the value of these leading articles of our export
her first husband pz,usented himself again, on his return trade , for lesser items not above enumerated, we reach
. from captivity in I ranee. A similarity of names had
the 101. millions sterling, the value of the British and
! given floe to the official error. It is not yet known
Irish produce and manufactures exported in the first
; how the difficulty is to be settled." half of 187 L
.

ACTION TO RECOVER A PENNY.—At the Brad-
ford County Court, on Friday, a plaint was tried
between the Great Northern Railway Company and
Mr. John Cookson, plumber, of Bradford, for the
recovery of one penny. On the 27th of May, the de-
fendant, Mr. Cookson, took a ticket from Bradford to
Batley, but, changing his mind as to his destination,
rode 'forward to Osisett. Fourpence was there de-
manded of him as the extra fare due. The fare from
Bradford to Ossett would have been lid., if the
defendant had taken a ticket for Ossett at Brad-
ford, and having paid td. for the ticket from Brad-
ford to Batley, he paid 3d. as the difference, and refused
to pay 7d., as required by the station-master. The
action was for the unpaid la. The Judge (Mr. Daniel,
Q.('.) told the defendant that he only entered into a
contract with the company that they should carry him
from Bradford to Batley, and they performed that con-
tract. He was now trying to make out a contract
which the railway company never confirmed—that
they should convey him to Ossett Between Batley
and Ossett he was riding without a ticket, and liable
to a penalty, and properly it would have been his duty
to get out at Batley and get another ticket. The de-
fendant would have to pay the id. and costs of these
proceeilings, but at the same time he thought both
parties were foolish to allow such a case to come into
court.
BRISKNESS OF PUBLIC BUSINESS.—Ever and
anon Honourable Gentlemen in the House of Commons
move in Committee that the hairman " report
progress." Considering how much he has had to report
this Session, one takes the motion for his performance
of that ceremony to be rather ironical.--Psoch.
NOT ASHAMED OF IT--OH NO !---R must have
been with infinite chuckle that Henry-Ward Betsher,
during a late vacation, heard one of his own published
sermons delivered in an obscure village. At the close
of the service be accosted the divine, and sail, "That
was a fair discourse ; how long did it take you to write
it?' 'Oh, I tossed it off one evening when I had
leisure," was the reply. " Indeed," said Mr.
Beecher, "it took me much longer than that to think
out the very framework elf the sermon."" Are you
Henry Ward Beecher?" am," was the reply.
"Well, then," said the unabashed preacher: " all that
I have to say is that I ain't ashamed to preach one of
your sermons anywhere."
THE Ex-EMPEROR AND EMPRESS OF THE
Flu:Not—The ex-Emperor and Empress of the French
paid a visit last Saturday afternoon to the Prince and
Princess thrbtian at Frogmore-house. They travelled
by ordinary train from Chiselhurst to Windsor, arriving
there at four o'clock, awl were met at the South
Western Railway station hy the Princess Helena and
her husband, Prince Christian, who acccmpanied them
by the private drive of the Home Park to Frogrnore.
After a short visit the ex-Emperor and Empress
returned to Chiselhurst by the same route at half-past
five. There was a large number of spectators
assembled at the station, who heartily cheered them on
their arrival and departure.

SILENCE Snows CONTEMPT.—The Newspapers
are right to denounce Pigeon-slmoting, but the News.
papers should lye consistent and abstain from publish-
ing Hurlingham and Shepherd's Bush reports.-- ProwH.
THE EDUCATION ACT.—The employers of
labour at Histon, an agricultural village contiguous to
Cambridge, have determined to carry out the prin-
ciple of " moral compulsion " with reference to the at-
tendance of children at school, and have agreed to the
following rules, in order to carry out the instructions
of Government :
Children under 10 years of age will not be hired unless they
can read and write, and work examples in the four simple
rules of arithmetic, and from all children above 10 and am to
12 years of age the four communal rules of arithmetic wilt Is,
requircd in addition. A certificate of qualification signed by
the managers tof the school must be produced by all children
applying for gmiployment. Is order to give boys above the
age of 12 and under the age of 18 opportunity for qualifying
themselves a night sehmol will be established in the vil-
lage, open three evenings in the week from oember to
Starch.
The Rev. C. W. Underwood, the vicar, hopes by this
system to demonstrate that there is no imeessity to
force the poor by legal enactments anJ the threat of a
penalty to do unwillingly that which they will now
see to be to their interest to do willingly. The regula-
tions for education, specifying the school hours and the
requirements necessary before children are employed,
have been circulated in the lialiBh.
DEATH OF AN ECCENTRIC LADY IN LONDON.
--On Friday afternoon an inquest was held in Penton-
on. the body of Saint Winifred Stubbs, aged. 79
years, a maiden lady of considerable wealth. Deceased
reaided at 41, renton,teret, the rooms on the lower
floors of which were crammed with furniture and
articles yyf vertu of great value, the upper floor being
appropriated for the housing of dogs, of which at her
death she possessed 14, the whole of them basing the
run of the house, which was scarcely ever cleaned, al-
though deceased kept both male and female servants,
who liad been with her many years. The stench from
the place became no offensive that complaints were
made, and at last she was summoned before the police
magistrate, who ordered her to clean and relenr the
place. It was thought that her death, which took
place rather suddenly, was accelerated by the smell
caused by the cleansing of the house. The polll morton
showed that the lssly was emaciated, and the heart
very feeble, the cause I ,f death being a chit of fibrine in
a blood veasel, which obstructed the circulation of the
Um& The jury returned a verdict of death from
natural causes.
ManniaGE By AUCTION. The Grombarta
Pnlkadtika relates the following curious case of maw
nage, which is too good to be lost :
A Brahmin residing in a village lying close to Burdwam
unable to find a proper match for his daughter, or too
indolent to find out a bridegn son himself, determined to sell
his daughter by auction. A day was fixed, and sevend suitors
came in at once. After a hot bidding for scone hours, two of
the Brahmins found that they could bid no higher; and the
father of the bride thought be had gained enough try the
marriage and fixed tumn one if the Brahmans as his would-be
-^ when In,

A LEGAL QUERY.—Pope asks—" Is there no
bright Reversion in the sky 1" This is, clearly, a
question which only a Lawyer can answer —Punch.
CAPTURE OF COMMUNIST AGENTS.—The police
of Paris have just captured, in the neighbourhood of
the Place de Trone, two brothers, of the name of
Baudouin, who were active agents of the Commune.
One of them, Eugene, who had a conunand as an
artillery officer, ordered at the time of the entry of the
Versailles troops, the arrest of various persons. awl
among them Monsieur Della Rocca, editor of the
Revanche de Caro, known for a eulogistic biography of
Prince Pierre Bonaparte. On the Nth May, Bau-
douin presented himself before his private hostages who
were confined in the church of St. Eloi, and announced
that they were about to die. Happily, the arrival of
the soldiers prevented the accomplishment I ,f the threat,
and the savage had only time to kill one of his victims,
M. Herron, by a revolver shot.
ARREST OF A GUIDE AS A CoMMUNIsT.—
Knumninski, a Pole, who held office under the I ',im-
mune, and who was charged by Deleseluze and It rsel
with the arrest of Cluseret, has just been made prisoner
in his turn. Being acquainted with sevenal foreign
languars he had obtained employment at one if the
hotels in the Rue Ills oh as interpreter charged with
shown:, visitors about the ruins if Paris. He was on
Saturday conducting all English family round the
Palace of Justice, when he was recognised by two
police agents (although his mustsche had been cutoff)
and was taken, with the persons he was accompanying,
before the Cominissary if Pollee of the Rue de la
Barillerie. The English visitors were immediately
allowed to leave, but the other was detained in custody.
THE ORLEANS FAMILY.—The following state-
ment in guaranteed by a contemporary : At the
present time all the French princes are in France
making a tour of visits. They vvill return to England
in about ten days to fetch the princesses, and then all
the members of the family will he together. But they
have no intention of giving up their residences in this
country, purposing to sonic over at short intervals and
take up their abode at Twickenham and Ham. The
turn which events have taken in France led 11.11. H.
the Due de Nemours, moved by that high feeling
which is always present to every member of the (Hs.
tingnished house to which he belongs, to express a
wish to give up possession of Bushey 110114 e, which he
occupies by the desire of the Queen. Her Majesty
has, however, both by letter and verbally expressed
her pleasure that the French family should continue
to occupy Bushey House until they are all well esta-
blished in France. The alteration in affairs will Cause
a reduction to be made in the establishments at Ham,
Twickenham, and Teddington, but the houses will
always be in a state to receive their Royal tenants.
FRUIT OF JUST FlNANCE.—Consideralde stir-
Prise ham been created by the alacrity with which an
enormous loan has been subscribed by the French in-
dustrious middling classes. How easily weak minds
are aatonislasl ! In France precarious earnings are not
confiscated by an Incometax.—Plowh.
THE STRIKES.—The engineers' strike at New-
castle and Cateshead is continued, and down to Satur-
day night there was no more prospect of a settlement
than at any time during the past month or six weeks.
The masters and men have had no communicati in
since the strike began, and neither seem dilS/Soid to
make any overtures. The weekly payments to the
men made by the It Hours' League are small. Ac-
cording to the number of men out the sum of money is
handed over to the men of each factory on strike.
There are nearly 10,000 men and boys on strike, but
hitherto it has only been necessary to give aid to about
3,000 of the men, and in no case has it very much
exceeded 4s. per head. The resources of the other men
will ultimately become exhausted, and they will have
to apply to the League for sintenance, hut they state
that they can get on very well for at least a month
longer without much difficulty. There is some talk of
introducing foreign workmen into the engine factories,
but how far that IS practical to any extent is not known.
The joiners' strike in Newcastle is still continued also.
The masters are getting a few more Belgian workmen
from Antwerp, but, on account of the briskness of
trade outside of Newcastle, all the joiners on strike,
with the exception of 30 or 40, have got employment
elsewhere. Some boiler-makers are on strike at Jarrow,
ttherwise the working Men in other parts of the Ws-
tritts ulnae Newt:Wit aav dteAdily euiployed,

son-hi:law. The day of marriage came, however, el._
the two Brahmins were found at loggerheads with each
other, each struggling to have the girl to himself. The father
was equal to the OlTaSioti, anti his ingenuity was immediately
displayed in the prom,ll for another bidding. The contest
now became excessively hot, willm the richer of the two of
clause prevailed, and the whole ',amain was concluded by
his offering to the father a sum of CA rs., which was as-
gelded.
SECRETS FOR JULY.-011 the fourteenth the
Algsnn is in Apogee. On the 27th in Perigree. Yriead.
at s diAsnce will please accept this intimation, No
Cards.—Purich.
A " WHITE ELEPHANT" ON HANIL-011
Mnn-
day another fruitless attempt was made to sell the
Royal Amphitheatre in Great Charlotte-street, Liver-
pool, which attracted a large attendance at the Law
Association %mins. The auctioneer stated that the
mortgagees acted as vendors, and were ready to sell at
a very small profit indeed. On the last occasion a bid
of £lO,OOO was made for the property. The Corpora.
thin, who own the freehold, had bid £6,000, or Ate
£4O a yard for the 132 yards on which the fggur adjoin
tag shops stand, as the land was required for widening
the street. The amphitheatre and three adjoining
shops were put up in one lot, and eventually Mr. it ro
Inure secretary to the North-Western *Rank, id
110,000. Alderman Thomas Rigby bid I:11,000, aLd
the bidding, was confined to these two gentlemen,
Alderman Rigby making the last bid of £17,100, at
which figure the poverty was withdrawn, the auc-
tioneer professing himself unable to understand how
the place could have depreciated £3,000 during the last
five months.
FACTS ABOUT SwagEsrEang.—The researches
of Mr. nalliwell have added one more to the scanty
collection of known facts in the life of our national
poet (says the Athewroton). It appears that, by order
of James the First, Shakespeare and his " felhiws"
attended in the Spanish gindiassador at Somerset
house for upwards •if a fortnight, in August, 1604. In
sending us a mite of this interesting discovery, Mr.
lialliwell expressed a hope that some of our readers
may he acquainted with a detailed account of the visit
of the arnhassinhw, in which further information on the
subject may be recorded.
Miss RTE.—We (Toronto Glan9 are glad to
learn that the interest in the emigration of orphan girls
under Miss Rye's amities is greatly extending; an
instance of which may be cited in the fact that tine
gentleman, a wealthy London merchant, originally
from Cumberland, has offered to hear half the expense
of every orphan chill that the guardians of his native
parish in Cumberland will put under Mil. Rye's care.
It is literally the fact that to many of such a class, if
wisely and judiciously selectml, cannot be sent to this
eountyy. The dearth of female servants in Canada at
this moment is very much greater than it was when
Miss Rye first directed her attention tg the matter with
which her name is now on, much associatelL It is very
evident that bringing adult females across the Atlantic
is beset with difficulties and open to objections from
which the present undertaking of Miss Rye is entirely
free. She will not easily supply the demand, let her do
her best.
AN IRISH LAND CASE. —An appeal from a
decision of the Chairman of Westmeath M a land case,
in which Lord Longford was the appellant, alid a dis-
possessed tenant named Charles Fox tine respondent,
has been before the Lord Chief Justice at Mullingar.
The tenant, who held 16 acres from year to year, had
expressed a, desire to be allowed to bell his interest, as
he was about to emigrate. Lord Longford offered to
forgive him a year's rent due, mid to give him £3O, but
he declined the offer, alleging that he could get 1:100
for the interest. Failing to induce the landlord to
comply with his demand, he wrote what was reganbsi
an a threatening letter to the effect that he would give
the farm to a pers.: elm would exhaust the land. A
notice to quit WieS th,•il nel, 111,011 Idm. liv offend
4; , l• • nut if tic relicc ycm withdrawn, hut
tlae arpvlLLt ssi,J, ifs Unn daimed compensatiyn
for shttturinants,aud WAS awarded£l4oby the chairman.
The claim was resisted, and the decision appealed
against, on the ground that the land was a town park,
but the thief Justice held that it was not, and re-
marked that, although in mgotiations with other pro-
posing tenants it was carefully designated a town park,
it dig I not appear to have been ever called so before. lie
finally aWardl.4l the tenant £lOO and his coats, posses-
sion to be gin. Uup as FAIOII as possible. His Lordship
expressed a I,,pe that both latullurd aud truant wvuhi
part in an amicable

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