The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-03-27 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY TRAGEDY IN NORTH

CAROLINA.
()n one of the spurs of the Blue Ridge, called
"Bushey Mountain," near the intersecting line of the
counties of Wilkes and Alexander, (says a New York
paper,) there lived a religiously fanatical family, con-
sisting of James Land, his wife, daughter, and two
sons. From some cause unexplained a quarrel arose
between the sister and one of the brothers, resulting in
a deadly hatred, which made the girl leave the house
through fear, and to which she did not return until
about midnight. 1:pon reaching the door and at-
tempting to open it she was met by her brother, and
on attempting to enter the house was shot by him and
instantly killed. Wilatever demoniacal spirit could I
have taken possession of the fratricide seems to have
been immediately infused into the other brother, the
father, and mother, all of whom then collected a large
pile of wood, which they fired, and upon which they
consumed the body of the murdered sister until not a
vestige remained to testify to the crime.
A few days afterwards the absence of the sister
being discovered, and no satisfactory account being
given of her by her relatives, suspicion became excited,
and soon evidence sufficient of her brutal murder
transpired to Cialde the arrest and confinement in gaol
of all the remaining members of the family. They
were all locked in the same cell in the gaol at Taylors-
ville, in Alexander county ; and on Friday night the
father and two eons murdered the wife and mother,
thus adding another to the horrible crimes already
committed. Next morning, when the body of Mrs.
Land was found by the gaoler, cola, and stark and
mutilated in a most revolting al,' disgusting manner,
the wretches, father and sous. coolly confessed the
murder, as well as the murder of the sister.
It is believed they are insane, and for fear another
murder might be added to the list the father was placed
in a cell apart from the sons.

" SPICE IstatNo."- —At the Cornwall assizes Mr.
Justice Smith has been engaged two days in hearing a
case of alleged manure nuisance at Torpoint affecting
the public health. The Western Counties Manure
Company were the defendants, and the action was
brought by the Lords of the Admiralty. The company, '
which was established in 1853, laid out about £30,000
in the speculation, and up to 1862 they expended
£12,000 in the extension of their works. A large num-
ber of scientific and other witnesses were examined.
It was alleged for the plaintiffs that noxious gases
issued from the works, which were KO offensive that
they had been called "Spice Island." The gases, it
was contended, were injurious to the health of the
workmen in the dockyard and the Keyham steam yard.
Amongst the neighbouring residents who complained
lof the nuisance was Admiral Hellyer. The judge, in
1 his summing up, called attention to the absence—ac-
cording to the evidence—of any injury to vegetation;
and the jury found a verdict for the defendants.
A MYSTERY CLEARED Ur.— Toe other evening
the uniform of a private soldier belorging the 7th
Fusiliers was found on the bank of the canal near the
budge in Bi iundary-street, Liverpool, under circum-
stances which lei to the idea that their tiwner niight
have been drowned. The bundle containin, the
clothing Was picked up by a policeman, who, being
unable to find any trace of the person to whom they
belonged, had the canal dragged, but without any
result. He then took the clothes to the Police-office,
and a communication was made to the North Fort,
where it appeared that there was nobody absent who The Earl of Rosebery is permitting his tenants to
was not, entitled to be so. The mystery was cleared kill both rabbits and hares on their own farms.
up next day by the arrival at the police station of the
A lord (Lord Radstock) and a navvy (W. Taylor)
owner of the uniform inquiring as to its sofety. He have been preaching on alternate evenings in the Town hall,
was considerably under the influence of drink at the Oxford, both attracting crowded audiences.
time, but it appeared from his statement that he had "Berr. Of Trades,
Unions, Beware of Ireland,
been discharged oa the previous day from the 7th Beware of America "—such is the oracular triplet in which
Fusiliers on the expiry of his period of his enlistment. Mr. Roebuck has conveyed Isis parting advice to his country-
He Was dres-ed in till uniform at the time, and carried men, in Ms political testament.
hie best clothing in a bundle, and he states that he In the Bristol County Court, the other day, a soli-
had a sum of money in his possession. In the course citor said to a witness, "I believe your SOS is down in the
of the day he was drinking with some of his former world, is he not?' The witness rejoined, to the evident dis-
comrades, and got very much intoxicated, and accord- comfort of the quietist, " Yes ;heis a lawyer's clerk."
ing to his story he was attacked and robbed of his The daughter of Mdine. Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt, a
money while proceeding along the canal bank, when he girl of twelve years, is said to possess much ot. the great
lost his uniform in the scuffle, talent oilier mother, and to have au excellent vice.
Admiral Warden is of opinion that the ,use of ships
GRANTS TO MECHAM ICS INSTITUTES.—A Par- as rams will only be called into play alum an action has coin-
liamentary return, moved for by Mr. Baines, having menceul, when ships, of necessity, are reduced to slow rate !
reference to grants to elementary classes of Mechanics' of speed, probably their lowest. He therefore apprehuuds
Institutes has been published. It contain copies of three that it wouldbe colistteabettiownithit, =ni,7raet
,g,u,s;:i::.=,s,
memoriala addressed to the Lord President tif the Com- lortii:'swedrt`n'wo'gr fleet r and 'that whether the force was
large or small, whether the enemy were numerically superior
mittee of Council on Education, praying that the privi-
leges and advantages possessed by the night schools and or otherwise to act as rams ; and when the action had eon,-
evening classes might be extended to the elementary menced, :ma noise and smoke and fire were doing their work
classes of Mechanics' Institutes. The first is from the the reserve to be brought into play, to act independently, as
Lancashire and Cheshire Union of Mechanics' Insti- circumstances might require.
tutes, and is signed by Algernon Egerton, M.P., and A German, named Christian Lauenstine, committed
forty others ; the second is from the Yorkshire Union suicide In (Imago on the ilth. after returning frovn a are,
of Mechanics' Institutes, and is Feigned by H. H. hecause, as he ant, the Chicago people had no sympa• hy for
emen.
Sales, agent to the Union, and ninety-three others • nr
and the third is from the East Lancashire Union oi The Decznfo/Lerwaintds.
bchronicles the execution of two
fashin i—" Suspense ,—Two
Mechanics' Institutes, and is signed by Sir J. P. Kay nwaetriev es.,
ipnelided from a eam ion front of the City Gaol onnatives the
Shuttleworth and eighteen others. morning of Saturulay last. Death ensued in the way which
THE CHARITIES OF DORSETS fl IRE. —Another it rusouanrf oti:gi.whtzsilrf:ngt lionn,:::
.reestorlvelirtcrumfeor.tih:l
instalment of the series of Parliamentary papers re- that degree of quietness which, in the absence of true religion,
lating to endowed charities has been issued. It con- answers exceedingly well as a sedative."
tains a digest of the charities of Dorsetshire. The At a meeting of the managing committee of the
total income of the 138 endowed charities in that
British and Colonial Emigration Soctety, held in London, on
county amounts to £13,586. The total former income
Monulay, it was stated, en authority, that the Canadian
as mentioned in the reports of the late commissioners Government would probably have no difficulty its finding
of inquiry was £9,102. The present total income is emLlinr, er6ito2t are. LorrmoLOtilb,ozers, .:,=fe4n7oleo
thus expended :—For education 24,946 ; apprenticing,
=CA snit% and 6.000 agricultural labourers. It Was also
£695; endowments of clergy, lecturers, and for ser- stated that about 3,000 emigrants could be at once provided
MODEL £1,074 ; maintenance of Dissenting places of for in Western Australia
worship and their ministers, £65; education of Dig- Mrs. Plow, the widow of the clergyman who was
centers, £3 10s. ; public us-s, 250 ; support of alms- murdered at Toilmorden last year, died on Friday evening,
houses, their inmates, and pensioners, £3,242; distri- at Wantage, Berksh me.
bution of articles in kind, 2.01 ; distribution of money, "Lady Eva Campbell has been doing wonders on
£1,946; and for general uses of the poor, £34. Loch Tay, killing, according to a report which h. reached
~ us in one week seven fine salmon, the two heaviest weighing
LONG DISTANCE WALKING RACE.—An interest- 2ffib. and 30Ib. respectively."—Scotstnan.
ing race took place the other flay between :Messrs!. At the Liverpool County Court on Monday, Mr.
Beard, E. H. Doble, G. P. Waller, of the South Parrat, son of a town councillor of Liverpool, was convicted
Herta Athletic Club, and J. L. Pank, of the London id bribery at the last municipal election for South Tocteth
Athletic Club, the distance being twentyifive miles, Ward, Liverpool, and fined 4.. and costs.
along the Great North road, from Regent-square, London porter is sold in Russia at 2s. Bd. per pint
London, to the White Hart, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, bottle.
Pank giving Beard and Waller three-quarters of an The omnibus which nuts from the railway station at
hour, and Doble half-an hour start. The day was very Mondovi to Fossano, in Italy, was attacked by robbers a few
wet, with a strong north wind blowing, which met the days ago, and the passengers were robbed of a sum of
competitors in the face all the way. Notwithstanding 18,0005., of which 12,0001. belonged to the proprietor of a
these disadvantages some excellent times were made, eilk faet"eY at "ea.
Pank, who walked in third, doing the entire distance The latest intelligence from Hayti states that all the
in 4 hours 33 minutes; Beard, the winner, in 4 hours wealthy merchants are leaving the country, and that the
western portion of the Wand is in a state of anarchy.
52 minutes; and Doble, the second, in 5 hours. ,
Waller, who walked well to Hatfield, there resigned. The Nawab of Bengal, with his two sons, and ace .
companied by Colonel Layard, has arrived at Tlarseilles,and,
A SCOTCH BREACH OF PROMISE CASE.—At alter a brief sojourn in France, will proceed to this country.
Edinburgh, on Friday, an action, brought by Miss A large number of gold English coins of the reigns
Waddell, dressmaker and milliner, Whitburn, against of Edward 111. and Ilenry VI, and French coins of the
William Lawson, jun., &slier and cattle dealer, Whit-
preicigikeisdoo. rip anteTtoifeaetkhpeooClharsan'z
near
Luictismoouf
thF,r"ducreiimwtehree
burn, was tried before Lord Ormidale and a jiiry. The
p IT reed tittaLlythalelct, atgo.oontsitra,t:rto,f,f p::els,oexrv,a,i
first issue was whether the defender promised to marry ft
the pursuer, and failed to perform the promise. The sit. witis su
specie on board a vessel which haul become a wreck in this
second issue was whether, in or about two years pre- locality, and that they became e tiliedded in the sand, from
ceding the month of June, 1867, the defender c mrted which they had now been washed out.
the pursuer, and professed intention to marry her; and A meeting of the Agricultural and Horticultural
whether, by means of these professions the defender, Association was hell at the Freemasons' Tavern, in London,
tniton.i e d
andi ae,
il,eue:iiisilfa:ilt.vegi
retakielriipwi 1
whoit
enh .
use a
in or about the month, 1867, seduced the pursuer, to on Monday. Mr. T. Hughes, 51. F., In the chair. The alc-
her loss, injury, and damage. The pursuer is at present
El ivee'rw: f: checking anytPar a ti'
ni ::u
.1 toef dt
22 years of age, and resides with her mother, Mrs.
Helen Waddell, or Bionic, at Wlntburn. The de- lutions wgere passed afirrrni"n7g'tshagt telfe
fender, who is about 35 years of age, four or five years of could be dealt with only in two ways—by the action of
ago commenced to pay his addresses to the Toursuer ; Pardament, and through the instrumentality of co-operative
he asked her in marriage, and it was at length agreed associations.
between them that they should be married ;he finally Mr. Cook's excursion jiarties came up with the
refused to implement his promise of marriage, and in Prince and Princess of Wales on the Nile, and " had the
the month of June last was married to another girl, honour of saluting their royal highnesses."
After a lengthened trial, the jury returned a verdict, Two duels have recently taken place—one at Paris
finding for the pursuer OU both issues, and assessing the between M. Tirade], a literary man, avid M. Anatole B--,
damages under each issue at £62 100., in all £125. eogamd in Bourse speculattons. rhe latter was slightly
wounded in the hand. The origin of the difference, was
THE Loss OF IKE " SANTIAGO."—By the arrival some hot wuurds interchanged alter supper. The other was
at Liverpool of the steamer Tycho Brain!, we have the t.rwzioeeuisei
,51..illiaartclig,ethee,rililtroerctoof
till:. tr.Koma„nrointi ieosn Lf
town. e Thehye focrimarehr
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following particulars of the loss of the Pacific Steam-
ship Company's steamer Santiago, in the Straits of
Magellan : November for the manslaughter of the porter of Christ's
Captain G. A King, late of the Santiago, states that he en- College, Cambridge, by throwing a stone at him during an
countered a succession of tremendous gales otter leaving election fracas on the polling day of the Cambridge borough
Vavparaiso, which continued utttil he entered the Straits of election, pleaded guilty w-hen arraigned before Berm Pigott.
Magellan, where the ship was anchored in the afternoon, in Before sentence was passed, c-tinsel strongly recommeualed
Mercy Harbour, on Jan, 22, the wind blowing heavy at the him to mercy 011 the part of the college authorities and the
time from the tie :.. W. The next morning the Santiago re- relatives or the deceased : and his hurdship, taking burn con-
sumed her voyage; hut soon after starting the ship struck on sideration the fact that the blow would not, according to
a sunken reef, and sunk in deep water seven hours after. medical evidence, have proved fatal had not the porter neen
The passengem and crew, with the exception of a seaman, in a haul state of health, ordered him to undergo one month's
steward, aml child, who were accidentally droimed, were impriaonment.
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at .!
saved in the ship's boats, and landed on Desolation Island.
.wohrkehau his
s Lsit ammt.e;: ck,
that, o
to lri
hshi. Emigration
the
They remained there two days, but with very little provisions Mr. Maguire, M.P.., has published a lecture de-
orn
clothing, until the America schooner, .0. 11. -Verret, hove vered
in sight and took them off. The crew anui p msengers were America, in t
afterwards transferred to her Majesty's ship Nassau, which Southern States now "ardently desire some share of that
at the time happened to he on a surveying expedition, and priceless stream of human wealth which is enriching other
, landed at Monte Video. But little was saved from the wreck portions of the Union." His object Is to warn the em•grarb
lof the Santiaoc. AS I gnat credit is .111 e t., Captain Kin, for uei arriving in America against neglecting to reach the trace
the manner Is which he acted after the 9.i 4iismster. Catutain
King was sbonaptielsil tem Meets Rim in the Twit, suitable for his eye dal industry, and sacrificing certain made-
.ulenee to momentary advantage. Toug. 014
Brrtehe by eleven passengers arid tine. of the officers mid Tan pend .questi cjaus Uzi, Irish
on, he arlds that Irishmen look t0r...7 the land at a
crew, fair value, and on a sufficiently lose and certam tmure, with
complete protection for the in .ustry and enterprise of the
FRIGHTFUL Qi7ARRY ACCIDENT. —On Saturday occupier. Security, however obtained, is the one thing
an iii [nest was held at Capernwray, near Lancaster, wanted, and lacking which all else avails but htUe."