The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-12-04 00:00:00

MORE HORRORS!

They appear to be unearthing a considerable
number of horrors just now in France. Besides the
body of the elder Kinck the corpse of a man has been
discovered at Levallois-Perret with one leg frightfully
mangled, which appears to have been bawn with a
hand saw. It is also stat-al in one of the Paris
papers that during the works of demolition rendered
necessary by the construction of a new street
in the Quartier Saint-Marcel, a cemetery used
in the dais of the first revolution has been un-
covered. Among other human remains was found
a remarkably beautiful hint of a woman in a wonder-
ful state of preservation. the fair hair still adhering to
the skull bears the coiffure in fashion in 1713-4, with
ttviatad and potoderea tlf•P•Tlseif, no clooht that
the head belonged to one of the victims of the revolu-
tionary triOurial, but it is a singular circumstance that
the eyes are covered with a black frontlet. As no
mention is made in the chronicles of the time of any one
among those executed being blindfolded before mount-
ing the scaffold this discovery has much puzzled the
workmen who have been conducting the excavations.
Le Remit bays they have sent the head to M. Jules
Claretie, who has made the customs and particulars of
the Revolution his especial study, on the chance ot his
being able to solve the mystery which at present en-
velopes this accidental discovery.

The Secretary of State for War has invited tenders
for the purchase of 8,000 Whitworth rides, uow lyins at the
Tower.
Two English sailors who were sojourning at the Sea'
men's itome, in Cleveland, United States, for several days,
talking and associatiag with each other, have accidentally
discovered that they are brother.. Fr eighteen years they
have been wanderers, the merest accident bringing them to
gether.
The "Carolinska Institute" in Stockholm has ex-
pressed Its willingness to admit female students to its
lectures iu the public hall
The town of Derby was in a state of great excite-
ment from about half-past nine o'clock to about half-past
eleven on Saturday evening last, in consequence of a large
I lack dog making its appearance in the principal streets, mid
biting no fewer than twenty individuals On Monday evening
information was conveyed to the Town-hall that a large black
and while doe had bitten several persons and clogs in Lough-
' borouah in Sunday, that parties had been out in several
airections with guns, and that the dog had been shot near
that tows).
Two Bradford butchers have been sentenced to two
months' hard labour for selling diseased meat.
In the sheriff's return from Tipperary, O'Donovan
Rossa is described as " Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, of
Pentonville, or Portland Prison, England."
It is stated that the receipts from the telegraphs in
France already show a considerable increase, slime the last
reductions, although it has been but a short Mine in opera-
tion. A decrease la the first instance was anticipated.
Tuesday night's London Gazette announces that
" Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa has leen returned as a
member to serve in the present Parliament for the county
of Tipperary. iu the room of Charles Moore, Esq , deceased."
A Wiltshire correspondent writes that at the Swin-
don Chamber of Agriculture the other day a farmer gravely
argued that while the law existed which fined the farmer if
be chastised the boys in his aeivice, the moral condition of
the labourer could never be improved.
A collision took place on Monday off Ramagate,
between the Briti4h Queen, from Shields to Rye, and the
Protein, from Sunderland to Caen. The latter received such
Injuries trial it immediately foundered ; three of her crew
were drowned. One man belonging to the British Queen was
also lost.
A movement is going on in London among men wise
know their work, having for its object the stamping out of
mendicity, and at the name time the more effectual relief of
distress by the better organisation of charities.
Daring the past week several large flocks of wild ,
geese, some of the flocks numbering nanny hundreds, have
been seen flying over several parts of England. It is gene-
rally believed that they are certain signs of severe weather.
in the milder of Mc 5, which was unusually severe, the
fr .st lasting from six to seven weeks in succession, many
wild geese were shot.
The Itlaidavite Jultruul ray r, that in consequenee of
the disastrous bop season Viscount liolmesdale, M.P., and
other principal landowner. in the Weald of Kent have re-
mitted to their tenants 10 per cent, of their rents.
The Guardian states that the beautiful lace worn by
the Duchess of Marlborough at the recent marriages in
Westminster Abbey, was the very same lace which formed
part of the spoil taken by John, the great Duke of Marl-
borongh, In his wars in Flanders, a century and a half ago.
The Blenheim lace, as it is called, is said to be simply price-
less.
Meetings are being held in London for the anrpo9e
of protesting against the enormous taxation to which the
householders of the metropolis are subject, and to advocate
its general nod Immediate reduction. A memolial to the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, calling his attention and that
of the Government to the daily increasing taxation which
was being levied on the householders of London, in to be pre-
sented.
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It is stated that, for the future, convict labour will
be employed in the manufacture of boots for the Metropolitan
police.
At Ilenenden Church, Kent, Mr. Gathorne Hardy
has lately erected a memorial of the marriage of his sun and
heir in the shape of. window.
The government has offered a reward of £lOO for the
discovery of the murderer of Esther Davies, who was shot
at Illaenduad, Carmarthenshire, on the 4th of November.
Large posters, printed in English and Welsh, announcing the
fact, have been distributed throughout the country
The Marquis de Narbonne Lars having disputed the
right of Count Aimery de Narbonne Lara to belong to the
family, a trial has Just taken place on the subject before the
Civil Tribunal. The decision of the court was wholly in
favour of the count, and the marquis has Men condemned to
pay the
2,000 Jewish families have been suddenlytransported
on carriages from Kischenev into the Interior of Russia.
This action has been taken in virtue of an old law which
forbids Jews to reside within fifty versts of the frontier.

costs.

A registered parcel, containing £2., 800 worth of dia-
monds, is missing from one of the mail-bags recovered from
the wreck of the Carnatic. and it is supposed that it hal
been taken by the Arab divers.
On Monday night, the Poles resident in London as-
sembled at Cleveland-hall, to commemorate the anniversary
of the Polish insurrection of 1531. One of the resolutions
pledged the exiles to strengthen by every possible ineans the
national unity of Poland, and so assist the people of that
country to regain their independence.
On Friday, Mr. II Moorehead, son of the proprietor
of the Royal Hotel, Devonport, whilst carrying a loaded
gun, the barrel fell out of the stock, when there was an imme-
, diate explosion, and the charge lodged in 31r. Moorshead's
left foot, carrying part of it away.
A corresp,mdent says there is not • library in the
United States which has yet reached the number of 200,000
volumes, although there are not less than twenty in Europe
which can claim that number —But, correspondent, have
the Yankees had the same time to do it in?
Mchne. Grisi, the celebrated singer, died at the
Hotel do Nord, Berlin, on Thursday in last week, of inflam-
mation of the lungs, in her tifty-ninth year. The fact wax
formally announced 011 Saturday in a Paris law court when
Mdme. Griers evidence was to have been taken. Mdme.
Grist had been ill during the whole time she had been at
Berlin, and she had never left that capital. Dr. Isbell was
sent for to see her, but she died before his arrival.
A Man named Andr,', Michel, aged 47, and formerly
a merchant, has just been tried before the Tribunal of Cor-
rectmnal Police, Paris, on a charge of sending threatening
letters to the rfilledBll de la lioskowa Lattitte, for the
purpose of extorting money. The letters had been written
at intervals extending over • period of upwards of a year,
and threatened assassination in the event of non-compliance
with the demands for money. The prisoner was convicted,
and sentenced to be imprisoned for a year and to pay a. hue

IE,Of
A Dutch publishing firm recently pirated Mr,
Wilkie Collins's "Man and Wife" and sent him a copy, ad-
dressed to Madame Collins. Mr. Collins replies :—" I avow
It with sincere regret, but the interest of truth are sacred.
The trumpet of Fame, gentlemen, has played the wrong tune
in your ears. lam retitle charming person whom you sup-
pose me to be. I wear trousers ; I have a vote for Par-
liament; I possess a beard; in two dreadful words, I am—a
Man.'
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Under an Act of Parliament passed in 167 G a
crossing-sweeper in London has been convicted at the Mary-
lotion° Police court for having exercised his calling on a
Sunday. The prosecution was instituted by The Association
for Enforcing the Better Observance of the Lord's Day."
At the same court a tobacconist and a greengrocer were also
Sued for carrying on a Sunday business, The crossing-
sweeper and the greengrocer Intimated their intention
of appealing, and in the case of the former the magistrate
expressed his opinion that the Society had unduly strained
the provisions of an Act of Parliament nearly 200 years old.
A diary of the Prince and Princess of Wales's tour
In Egypt, kept by the Hon. airs. Grey, one of the ladies In
waiting, has recently been published for private circulation.
According to the Court Journal, only four copies, and these
handsomely got up, have been printed.
A German and an Alsacian got into a dispute th i
other night on the Boulevards about nationality. Th
Alsacinis contended that, notwithstanding the fact that his
country belonged to France, he was still a German, and In
order to prove it, wagered that he would drink more beer
' than his opponent. The bet being accepted the couple
adjourned to a brauerie, where they each drank during the
evening a hundred glasses of beer. At this point the Alsacian
was attacked with congestion of the brain, and died before
medical assistance arnved. The German won the bet, but
was of course obliged to pay.

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