The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-12-23 00:00:00

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HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLI:NIAL,

ENOLISH CookEar.—Monotony, or sameness,
is another failing of our system (says the FuodJournal).
Variety, especially in food, is charming, as well as
wholesome ; and to ensure variety it is essential that
a certain amount ,d practical knowledge of the art of
cookery be called into play by the mistress. Some
families, all the year round, have a particular joint for
each lay of the week; there is no change, neither is
the method of I Ire,sing it altered. Drop in, say on
Wednesday, and you may safely bet a thousand to one
that you know what is f. r. dinner. Such a state of
things is due to the small amount of consideration
which the mistress is disp,seil to bestow on the matter
of food. Time must be given up to explore the mar.
lets or the tradesmen's shops; and her knowledge of
cookery must be called in to direct in what manner
such and such things shall be cooked.

EXTRAORDINARY ACTION. A very curious
cam has been tried at the Liverpool agsizes, before
Mr. Justice Blackburn and a special jury. On the
2-,th February last, George Wylde, a locker in the
Liverpool Custom-house, whilst passing the yard of
Mr. Matthew ( lregson, timber merchant, wits attacked
by a Spanish bloodhound, kept for the protection of
the timber yard. The animal tore Mr. Wylde's face
and otherwise injured him Co severely that he died on
the fAh of April. For the widow, who Fought com-
pensation for the loss of her husband, it was proved
that the deceased earned about £l3O a year, and that
the profits of his stationery businea averaged from
4:15) to 1:200 per annum, but since the death of Mr.
Wylie they had decreased at the rate of about .1:70
per annum. The jury returned a verdict for the plain-
tiff—damages £275.

RAISIN-G
A SUNKEN VESSEL.—From Hiogo,
Japan, it is reported that the barque, Pride of Mr
Thames, which was conk during the typhoon in July
last, has been raised. The News says, "the divers
found her lying in a bed of sticky, black mud. They
took the marts out of her and battened all Latches and
mast holes •l own thoroughly, and then pumped herout.
During this pi, wens they hmud twelve holes in her port
quarter, which bad to be ',lugged before she would lift
—a job 1y no means easy to do in fie feet of thick
mud. N't, e are plemed,to eve that their peas,everante
has been rewarded, and that the barque now swings at
her anchors in the bay in an upright porition." In the
hold were found the remains of the captain, who, it will
be remembered, was the only man ,nt board who re-
mained unaccounted for after the wreck.

DEATH OF LADY BURGOINE.—Tho death of
lady Burgoyne, who has survived her husband, Field-
Marshal Sir ..14fin Burgoyne, by only a very few weeks,
is recorded. She was at his death too ill to remove to
the apartments which the Queen had offered her in
one of the Royal palaces, and she died on the 12th at
her old residence in Pembridge square, Bayswater.
She was 75, which, though a goisl old age, was 14
years less than her husband. They were married
exactly 50 years ago. Lady Burgoyne was the
dauAter and co-heiress of a Scotch gentleman, Hugh
Rose, by name. Thus in fifteen months, son, father,
and mother have passed away; the first, it will be re-
membered, being the ill-fated commander of the
(*amain, who was married in 1864 to the daughter of
Sir Baldwin Walker.

THE VALET THE MASTER !—Felix was the
faithful but somewhat tyrannical valet of the late
Baron Rothschild. It was his business to dress his
master, and he did not allow his judgment upon
matters of the toilet to be called in question. " What
sort of an overcoat is that, Felix?' asked the Baron
one morning. "That which monsieur le baron will
put on to-day," answered Felix. " But that which I
wore yesterday pleases me much better." "That may
be, but monsieur le baron does not know that the
weather has changed." "That does not matter. I
would rather have the other." "But monsieur le Lao in
will put this on," and, laughingly, M. Rothschild had
to put on the-coat Felix had brought him.
SHORT SKIRTS IN SCOTLAN D.—The new Chris-
tmas pantomime at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow, was
produced a few days ago; it is called "Tam o*Shanter."
On the ocean, in of its first performance, the young
lady It ho played the part of Nanny appeared in a
garment of longitude as "lane, scanty," and so sug-
gestive of the costume of the original heroine of the
dory, that it seems to have called forth the disappro-
bation of the audience. (We are quoting from the
Seot wart n.) On the following evening the lady refused
to go on the stage, upon which the stage manager
came forward, and explained that he had not
been aware that she was to appear ins garment of
such significant shape and insignificant dimen-
sions. The lady, however, now writes to one of the
newspapers aff follows —"As: such a costume is pro.
clued out of the wardrobe by order of the management,
they must have been thoroughly aware of the exact
dimension,' of the so-named • cuttrsark,' and con-
sequently it could not have been entirely unsanctioned
or unknown to the managements Had I seen the
costume previous to my first appearance in the
pantomime, I should certainly not have appeared in it,
but it was brought to me three minutes before my ap-
pearance in the Alloway kirk scene. What could I
do, situated as I was —between the constant urging of
the stage manager to go on and the clamour of the
audience which would have been caused by a stage
wait? My being placed--nay, forced—into such a very
distressing predicament was quite a sufficient reason
for my resignation and unexpected withdrawal.'

GETTING AT IT AT LAST.—The folliiwing Col-
loquy at cross purposes, took place between an agent
and an Irish voter, on the eve of last election
You're a Roman Catholic?" "Am I?" said the
fellow. "Are you not," demanded the agent. "You
say I am," was the answer. "Come, sir, answer --
what's your religion ?" "The true religion." "What
religion is that?" "My religion." "And what's your
religion?" "My mother's religion." "And what was
your mother's religion ?" "She tuk whisky in her tay."
"Come, now, 11l find out, as cunning as you are,"
said the agent piqued into an encounter of wit with
this fellow, whose baffling answers pleased the crowd."
"You bless yourself, don't you?" "When I've
done with you I think I ought,"" Confound your
quihlhing! --tell me, then, what your is are
—your conscientious opinions, I mean?" "They are
the same as my landlord's." "And what are your
landlonTs opinions?" " Fait, his opinion is that I
won't pay him the last half-year's rust; and I NM of
the same opinion myself." A roar of laughter followed
this answer; but the angry agent at last declareil that
he must have a direct reply. "I inset, sir, on your
answering at slice; are you a Roman Catholic "I
am," said the fellow. "And could you not say so at
once?" repeated the officer. "You never axed me,"
returned the other. "I did," said the officer. "In-
deed, you didn't. You said I was a great many things,
but you never axed me—you Ivor drivin' eras words
and embed questions at me, and I gev answers to match
them; for sure I thowt it was manners to cut out my
behavor on your pathorn."

FATAL ATTEMPT TO RATTEN.—An inquest has
been held at Sheffield, on the body of Henry Cockayne,
a tile-grinder, which was found in the river Don, at
Brightride, on Sunday evening. There is reasons to
believe the deceased lost his life while endeavouring to
steel sonic wheellands—in other words, to rotten a
fellow grinder. His own bands were stolen early in
November, and their disappearance caused him a good
deal of trouble, as he had been a long time out of
employment, and had only recently been in work. On
the 15th inst. he returned home rather the worse for
drink, and told his wife that he intended stealing some..
body's bands to make up for his own. To get to the
wheel where he hail been in the habit of working he
would have to cross the river bz means of some step-
ping stones. It was very swift, and it issupposed that
on his attempting to cross it he lost him footing and
was carried away. The body was found about two
miles from the wheel. The Coroner said the man who
rattened the deceased deserved severe punishment, be-
cause he was indirectly the cause of his death. A ver-
dict of " Found Drowned " was returned.

A CHILD POISONED WITH LUCIFER MATCHES.
—A child of about three years, named Lilian flutehin-
son, the daughter of Mr. John Hutchinson, traveller,
of Dalt stgreen, Huddersfield, was seized with sick-
ness on Friday at dinner. As the food was vomited a
strong smell of pho.phorne Was perceived, and it was
found that the child had been eating the en& of
matches. Medical nil was obtained, and emetics were given tithe shill, but she died in a few hours.
NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN ! It appears
now that the proAdamite malt— at least the Ant rival
brooch of hint --knew all about what we have been
deluding ourselves was the modern art of war, for,
according to the Halifax (Nova Scotia ) Exp,
lb
the 20th ult., a four-pound cannon ball was found in
a tulip of coal taken from a depth of 150 feet below
the surface of the earth, at the Acadia Coal Mine,
Maccan, Nova Scotia.
BAD IsiEWS FOR THE lit7F-tto.—An Ameri-
can paper states that experiments are abtut to
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made which may end in increasing the farm stock of
the United States in an unexpected way. It is be.
lieved that the buffalo or rather the bison (as natur-
alists tell us the first: name is inapplicable to ally
animal found on the American continent), can Is.
tamed and domesticattiL The result of the cross of
the bison with Jersey, Ayrshire, and Durham stock -
for this is to be tried will be looked for with deep
interest William Emerson Baker, of
WelLsleyville, Massaelimietts, has contrived to trans-
, port several of these will roamers of the prairie to his
stock farms, and will try the experiment at once.
A WARNING —Mr. Donald Dalrymple, mem-
ber for Bath, in addressing his constituents on his
return from America, concluded his remarks by
saying
hior to my late journey I was familiar with theories us
to other forms of Government different from our own, but I
never saw or heard so notch of their practical working as
have doneren the l'ulted States. It would be uncaland not
to acknowledge that while seeing much to admire, I have
been most decidedly continued In the conviction which
happily prevails almost universally, that nothing couhl
more unwise than to lift the antler of monarchy in old
Euglan Li. The frequent changes, the perpetual excitement,
the disgraceful rowdy km so common ill America, are stout
sufficient to warn us against substituting • Republic for a

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HER MAJESTY'S CHARMER.—The accounts of
her Majesty's Clothing Club at Windsor for the year
11471 have just been made up. From these it appears
there were 191 depositors of the first class paying 61
per week for 40 weeks making el each, and a total of
.tl9l ; 190 depositors of the second dam, contributing
4.1. a week for 45 weeks, snaking 15s. with A total 4
£142 10s. ; and 214 depositors of the third class, pay-
ing 2,1. a week for 48 wrk.s, making Ss. each, era total
of £.245 12s. The depositors thus numbered altogether
595, and paid hi a total sum of 1:119 2.. 'L. this
amount her Majesty the Queen added hr annual I loca-
tion of 1:100, the SUM of 38. being given to each deposi-
tor. The money of these 7,95 dep,„,;,,,,, um, eased
and increased by the Queen's donation is always ex-
pended in warm clothing for the winter. The manager
is Mr. Alfred Stevenson. Her Majesty has given this
.1:100 donation annually for many years- in fact, it is
understood, since Issl. Her Majesty's New Year's
gifts to the poor of Windsor will be distributed on 60
lot of January. These gifts consist of beef and coals.
DEATH OF A FRENCH VETERAN.—The French
ppers announce the death of an old officer namol
tenet, at the age of 97. He was called into service in
the year 1793, and went through all the campaigns
the north, lie fought in Egypt under Bonaparte and
Metier, at the pyramids, Cairo, Jaffa, and Saint.leau-
d'Acre. if was present at the battle of Austerlitz,
and afterwards those of Wagram, I.utzen Bautzen.
Leipsic, and the defence of Mayenee in 1814: He bad
risen to the grade of Captain, but after the fall t 4 the
Emperor he retired to his native village, where he en-
joyed universal respectand esteem.

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POLAR BEAR CUB.—Mr. Frank Buckland
states, in Land and Wale:, that by the kindne,,of
Mr. Bartlett he has been enabled to examine a beau-
tiful littlelar bear cub which ham just arrived at
the Zoological Gardens from the Arctic regions :
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" It was presented to the society by Mr. Smith, who has
lately returned from a voyage to the high latitudes ill ilk
private seMmuer Sampwn. Ile brought home this little
Mat with him. The sailors have ehristened the little beast
Sampson, in honour of their vessel. Ile is a jolly
little fellow, about a year old, as for as we I'M judge. Ile has
• private den next door to the original polar 'oar
which everybody kilo% s no well, anti which came to the
Gardens in September, 1546. I am sorry to say that
polar bear No. 1 does lrot welcome his young relative, *
p.lar bear No. 2, with the same cordiality as I rile might
expect at this Christmas time, for I saw him this morning
run at mid snarl at him like an ill tempered old hea,t
as he is. Sampson is abut the rice of a large Newfoloal-
land dog, but more short and stumpy. Ile has a
splendid shaggy coat of long yellow hair, and his general
appearance reminds one of an animated doormat VlI lon lit,
stands on his hind lega he hmks like a fat boy With an I ;stee
coat on. I should venture to recommend Mr. Benjamin to
examine Master Sampson with a view of seeing how Nature
llots her winter tailoring he might get a new idea The
old polar bear is about lilt. in length, and stands about lit.2in. high. it is, therefore, not safe yet to let oat the cult
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his den, as the cub would have no chance if the • old Milt.
pitched into him."

AN EDITOR'S ECSTASY.—The Grand DOW
Alexis, according to New York talk, has of course
fallen a captive to the charms of an American beauty.
The other clay, at a ball on Governor's Island, one of
the party. accom w panyi the Duke was a Miss Sulli-
van% a niece of General McDowell's, and the daughter
of a celebrated fanner in Illinois. This is the ee,tai.y
of the New York describer-in-chief, at two dollars a
line :—" It need scarcely be said that the lady was
beautifully on whom Alexis gazed so admiringly, yet
she was more. First I d all, she WM blonde and line.
eyed, but in those blue eyes there was a snap and flash
that would charm the heart of a stone. Her hair WaS
golden, and braided with the careless in'idifie which
betokens a wealth of the article, and then it fell in
short Hamlets over a brow pure as marble, with knit
enough of the warm tinge of life in it to show that the
warm current beneath was throbbing with character,
force, and native fire." Miss Sullivant is nineteen, a
trifle above the medium height.

BRAVERY OF A BELGIAN CAPIAIN.—The Board
of Trade have awarded a binocular glass to Captain
Louis Vantomme, of the smack Edemord Agudc, of
(Mend, in acknowledgment of his humane services to
the master and crew id the schooner Prlrd, whom he
rescued from their burning vessel im the 26th August,
1671. The Pavel was on a voyage from Sunderland to
Thurso ,vith a cargo of lime shell. Soon after starting
she was caught in a heavy gale and driven out to sea;
the heavy seas which were continually breaking over
her, ignited thecargo ad set her on fire. On the Nth
August, when about 60 or 80 miles southward and
eastward of Kinnaird's }kart the smack Eiceone
Auguste came to her assistance, and, though a tory
heavy sea was naming, her master put off with reveiml
of his men and succeeded in rescuing the entire crew of
of the schooner. The smack then made for I )imbar,
where she landed the rescued seamen on the 30th A ugtht.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY.
—The other evening the lifeless remains f a man
were discovered on one of the Dads leading to Siln:is
The body haying been removed to the watchdo 'use, a
coroner's inquest was opened, and evidence if ini lentifi-
cation watt proceeds,' %yid). One woman SVl,re the
deceased was a man named Michael :finks, id Inien-
skabole, near Sligo, and that he was her uncle. Si iine
of the jury also declared that they knew the deceased
to be Michael clinks. A son of the infirmary doctor
was also present, who stated that be could identify
the deceased to be the same man, a, he had lately been
an inmate of the Comity Infirmary. This evidence
had scarcely been given when a 111,,IITItC11 policeman
entered the room and stated he was after coining from
Drumskabole, where he saw Michael clinks alive. This
announcement caused great astiiiiishment, anti the
coroner remarked that it was a second Tichborne case.
The inquest had to be adjourned in order to see if the
deceased could be identified.

RIVALRY AT CATTLE Snows.--At the annual
meeting of the Staffordshire Agricultural Society, on
Saturday, it WAR decided to hold the exhibition nest
year at StaffonL It was resolved, on the motion od
Maslen, that stock which has been exhibited at
the Royal Agricultural Society's Show should not be
qualified to compete for prizes at the county elbow, as
such a practice had a tendency to prevent the owners of
good, useful, breeding stock sending animals to the
show, while at the same time it encourages the un-
natural feeding of stock, rendering them comparatively
worthless as stores.

QUAKER REVIVAL IN AMERICA.—The members
of the Society of Friends in New York and Brooklyn
have been holding, for some days (gest, in the Friends'
Meeting•house at Washington and Lafayette Avenues,
Brooklyn (says the Nor York Trite ..c of the 6th
instant), a series of revival meetings. This movement,
which is called a revival by the Friends themselves, is
the outgrowth of a sentiment that has been steadily
gaining
ground in the denomination for several ye are.
Fr nearly a century the Society of Friends has hell
what might be called a neutral ground among the
great religious sects, and while other denominations
have been spreading far and wide tle y have remained
comparatively inactive, and the work of Christianising
the world has been done by other Churches. But
for some years there has been a growing feeling anew
the Friends that they, as a lcy, should take a
more active part in evangelical work. In the West,
particularly, this sentiment has been very strong, and
has there manifested itself in the form of meetings like
these now in progress in Brooklyn. These do not
materially differ from that chi.,c of gatherings known as
revivals, and the Friends themselves have everywhere
characterised them, by th.tt oalne. A century ago, in
England, and I luring the time immediately following
the era of George Fox, meetings of this kino were very
common among them, and the Society was t:,en iii it.
most vigorous Oars. But since that time, in Ws
country espeeialy, they have seeneel to he
ground, and the :society has felt that something shoehl
be done to infuse new life into its meml.ers. At the
same time, they deny any purpose f denominational
aggrandisement, and claim only that tiny wish to sin
their share of evangelical work.

THE DERRY CELEBRATION.— The Is ioming of
cannon and the ringing of the cathe• Ind bells annov need
on Monday morning the return of another anniversary
of the shutting of the gates f Derry against the Earl
of Antrim's men in 16fis. The police. sbortlY before
twelve o'clock, forcibly seized the Cotporation
which the Apprentice Boys had rented for a private
meeting. Mr. W. Johnston, 31. P., Mr. John Rea,
solicitor, and Mr. Thomas Misilev. secretary of the
Apprentice Boys, pr.,,,,,kd without insignia to the
hall, and demanded admittance. Mr. Bea read the
written order of the ,aver granting the assembly
rooms to the Apprentices. The police refused to admit
them, and they allowed themselves to be pushed back after
asserting their rights. The Apprentice Boys apparently
in obedience to an ord.. r frem Mr. Johnson, faced round
towards the cathedral, an by a rapid and simultaneous
movement they put on their ..ashes and formed a pro-
cession. The mounted polio: charged immediately,
and a most exciting scene occurred. The Apprentice
Boys resolutely proceeded on their way and reached
the cathedral, having been repeatedly charged and had
their ranks broken. Service was then proceeded with,
when the Rev. Wm. Armstrong preached the anni-
versary sermon. In the evening an effigy of Lundy,
about 16 feet high, was burnt from the roof of an occu-
pied house in the centre of the city, amidst a scene of
the wildest excitement. The authorities only with
great difficulty succeeded in preventing serious dis-
turbances. The two parties, who cheered and grossest
respectively, were prevented from coming into collision
at the point of the bayonet. The figure burnt fur about
an hour,