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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-03-07

TRADESMEN'S ADDRESSES.

THE IRON TRADE.

There was not a large pthering upon 'Change
at Wolverhampton on Wednesday, and very little
business was transacted. The reports of any-
thing like activity were very few and far be-
tween. That (Ito district is not doing more is
attributed by many masters to the remissness of
the trade in neglecting to reduce wages; and as
the next preliminary meeting approaches, the
feeling of a necessity for doing something in the
nistter gathers strength. Another impediment
is the feeling of distrust and insecurity which
prevails in the district.
At the weekly meeting of the Cleveland iron
trade on Tuesday, at Middlesborough, there was
no change in the pig-iron quotations, but the
market was firm, and makers report a further
increase in inquiries. A considerable quantity
of iron changed hands. Hopes were entertained
of Russian contracts coining to Cleveland.
There was no change in manufactured iron, the
foundries, or the coal and coke trade. Again
disappointment was felt at the non-production
of steel rails by Jones's process, which were ex-
pected. The patentee is, however, as sanguine
as he was at first, and trusts soon to have sneh
machinery at the Newport Works as will fully
prove the groat value of his discovery. Several
articles of cutlery, the steel of which was said
to be made from Port Clarence iron, by Sander.
son's (West Hartlepcs!l; patent, were exhibited ;
as were also 'Lome small specimens of steel made
from A.:nasui iron, by Heaton's process.

The weekly meeting of ironmastors at the
Birmingham Exchange. on Thursday was not
very largely attended, nor was there much ac-
tivity reported in businesr. The inquiry for all
kinds of finished iron at the works is still small,
and it is doubtful whether business is anything
like so brisk us it was a week or two since. Low
prices are offered in every direction to secure
what few orders there may be about, and this
branch of the South Staffordshire trade still re-
mains unremunerativo to tho majority of the
masters. The.unirket for pig-iron is unchanged.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-03-07

The SUPPRESSION of DRUNKENNESS.

In London, on Tuesday night, a meeting of the
Catholic Association for the Suppression of Drunken.
ness was held at Exeter-hall. The meeting, which
was the first Roman Catholic one ever held in that
building, was very unmet., usly attended. Archbishop
Manning presided, and Mr. John A. Smith, M.P.,
and Mr. J. A. Blake, M.P., were present.
Archbishop Manning criticised with much severity
the present legislation affecting the sale of liquor, and
expressed his strong belief that if the working men of
England were polled a great majority would vote
against the maintenance of these laws.
Mr. J. A. Smith said that he would never have
brought forward his bill did he not believe, with the
archbishop, that the great majority of English work-
ing men were opposed to Sunday drinking. He had
attended a public meeting in Manchester at which
working man after working man stood up and con-
demned his bill, not because they did not approve of
closing the public-houses on Sunday, hut because they
did not think his bill went far enough. The follow-
ing resolutions were unanimously adopted :--
That this meeting, viewing with deep anxiety the wide
spreading evil of intemperance amongst our own people,
leading to squalid poverty and crime, and crowding our
gaols and workhouses, would call upon all catholics to sup-
port and carry out the Catholic Association for the Sup-
pression of Drunkenness, which already numbers 50,000
members, 90 priests, 5 bishops, and 2 archbishops. This
association embraces willingly all catholic societies, whether
C ts,tal or partial, which are engtu,ed in making an organised
attack upon the enemy.
That this meeting would urge upon all the importance of
' providing houses for honest relaxation and amusement,

where the members can meet in social intercourse, and
spend a pleasant evening at a trifling cost, instead of being
driven to the public-house, where they have to pay for per-
mission to enter by drinking.
•

That the spirit of Mr Smith's bill, which proposes to close
beer-shops on Sunday against drinking on the premises, and
open them only for the supply of what is needful to the
public, is quite in accordance with the rules of this associa-
tion, and therefore merits the united support of all the
members
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-03-07

" March 2 1365.

"James Tromans i rite these fugh Linea to you as a
secret to tell you that thears as been a secret committe
held conaarning you and this summonnising on wedneip
day next and i have you be careful what you are about as
if them females go to Stafford you Will stand a bad
chance ever seeing them come back i can tell you as you
and your Premises are in great Danger at this tune theare
fore i wolde have you be carefull what you are dowing
And Prepare to meet your God if it is (loyal Gut this ia
from a fra ad.
"J. P."

The crowd was at his door, and the noise began, and the
defendants had liked to have knocked him down. lie
(witness) was giving the price. Defendaista called him
bad naskaae. Witness had heard complaiaaut's statement,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-03-07

THE IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT
JOHNSON.

In consequence of a doubt thrown upon the intel.
ligence which had been already received through
Reuter's agency of the impeachment of President
Johnson, we (Times) telegraphed on Monday after.
noon, at five o'clock, by the Atlantic Cable, to a trust-
worthy authority at New York, and received, at
eleven o'clock the same night, the following reply :
" Trial will yo on mart west.
"Party is united."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-03-07

CRADLEY HEATS.

taa- We beg to intimate to nor nninerous friends tine
readers th Crudley Heath, that the branch ofbee tar thr
agerrer for that district, is at Mr. P. Homer's, Printed
and Stationer, Five Ways, Cradlev Heath, where adver-
tisements will be received up to seven o'clock on Fridoy
evening.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-03-07

A FAMILY DISPUTE.

At Durham assizes, the cause of " Slatterthwaite r. Crosth.
Waite," has been tried, and was an action brought to recover
about £OOO, for necessaries given towards the support ami
education of the defendant's daughter.

The defendant, it appeared, had obtained many
years ago a divorce from his wife in America, he hay.
tug at that time two children, a boy and a girl, about
four or five years of age. One of them, the girl, his
wife's sister, Mrs. Slatterthwaite, with the consent of
her husband, undertook to maintain, to keep her out
of the workhouse. The defendant came over to this
country, obtained employment in the neighbourhood
of Sunderland, and kept up a correspondence for years
with his sister-in-law, the present plaintiff, about his
dauguter, in the course of which he undertook to repay
the cost of the maintenance and education of his daughter
as well as he could afford, In 1861, Mr. Slatterthwaite
died, and, his widow not having taken out administration
to his effects, all costs defrayed in respect of this child
previous to that time could not be recovered. The
circumstances of Mrs. Slatterthwaite became much
more strained in consequence of her husband's death.
She nevertheless continued to maintain her niece
until January, 1867, giving to her every advantage of
education, and she being then grown up it was
arranged that she should come over to England to her
father's care, and Mrs. Slatterthwaite accompanied
her. During this time the defendant had remitted 1.75
to Mrs. Slatterthwaite in respect of his daughter's
maintenance. When in England the plaintiff applied
to him for £lOO, and for such further BULB as he should
think reasonable in respect of the bringing up of his
daughter. The defendant declined to pay, on the
ground that he had always been given to understand
that ifer aunt—the plaintiff—had adopted her.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-03-07

COMMISSIONERS' MEETING.

The monthly meeting of this body was held on Wed-
nesday afternoon last; Mr. W. Akroyd in the chair: 1
There were also present Messrs. Walker, Athol>. Collis,
Packwood, Newnan]. and Webb. The last named gentle- '
man made the usual declaration before taking his seat.
The minutes of the last meeting were read and con-
firmed.
The subject of appointing abilletments for troops
passing through the town was brought before the Board.
Nothing was found in the Act relating to the matter,
which accordingly dropped.
The Clerk called attention to the fact that at the time
the Commissioners placed two Ertincteurs In the keeping
of the police a sovereign was promiseit i.e be paid. An
shier for payment was tnatia,
The Clerk was instructed to have the markets, tolls,
dm, let by auction, on the 20th inst.
one Chairman gala that be tad heard within the last \
two or three days that them was some probability of the
Telegraph Station being removed from the Great Western
Railway Station into the town. Looking to the tact that I
there was some reasonable probability of Goterntnent
taking all the telegraph!, in the ltirtgrlout intO their r,trt
Wolk and ih that event the amount of accommodation
which the inhabitants of any given district could give
would not depend upon any local influence or control,
he thought it behoved the Commissioners to get the
best place for the telegraph station they possibly could.
He thought it should be as central as possible, and also
that it should be on premises which were the property of
the town, if not the property of the Government. Its
believed that something had been done in the matter by
their predecessors. Mr. Taylor said the last time the
tolls were let the Commissioners reserved a place OD the
premises for the telegraph office, in case it should be

required.
The Clerk having read the minntes passed by the old
Commissioners on the subject, it was then ordered that
the Clerk inform the company tint the Commissioners
were willing to provide accommodation at the Corn Ex.
change. A committee was appointed to conduct the
business with the Telegraph Company.
The meeting then broke up.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-03-07

COUNTIES FOR

STATIONERY OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.

"WRNS FOI7ND MAIM A-N-OSII OW "--Captaim

WILLIAM WILLEY,
WHOLESALE PLAIN AND FANCY STATIONER,
UNION P4SSA6I,,IIkaI-wea
BIRMINGHAM.

LeJgers, from la to 100 s, always in Stock.
Shopkeepers supplied on such terms that must command
a contianance of their favours.

W. GREEN,
(Late It. A. Gram)
PLUMBER, GLAZIER, PAINTER,
PAPER HANGER, COLIGURER, &C..
26, WOW.:ESTEU-STREET, STOURBUIDGE.

IVater Oast% id Lead Pa— .7.SPId aid down and repaired.
Lead C'othas at the shortest mottos.

TO FARMERR, ORAZLERS, DEALERS,
AND OTHERS.

W. BARNES AND CO.

MEAT, POULTRY, OMER, AND EGO
SALESMEN,
BUTTER FACTORS, AND PROVISION
MERCHANTS, kc.,
GUSEHT'S PASSAGE, CLARE
LONDON.

IVB. and Co., are open to receive CON.
• SIGNMENTS of the above, bcing enabled to
make high prices. The above Market being most advan-
tageously eitouted ncar the Strand, by the New Inns
Court, is the centre /or the %Vett End Trade, econbitied
with many years experience, ensures good returns.
N.Il.—No cornet hill mitt say other Lotto: ot the same
name.

A COOONTS POSTS° Dam

CATHERWELL, 111 BER
UPPER UNWN•sTuEhT, STOURBRIDU.E.

SIMEON BATEMAN

1 EGS to return his sincere thanks to his
/ numerous paving for the liberal support con-
ferred upon him since Lis Colllol.CCUllalt U. Baeinems
the English Ticoher rade, imd Li gs to iuMllll theol
that las‘ing commenced in For, igo Timber, trusts, by
beeping a welbeelected Stock, to gain their patronage.
S. B. is prepared to Tender for Fencing of oil at.
soriptiou. Ylain and Orounasaial tiates, Am.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-03-07

BOPS.

For all kinds of Lops the trade has continued very quiet,
at prices about equal to last week. Continental merketa
have been inactive, and In America the trade has ruled
heavy. The imports into London last week consisted of t 2
belie from Antwerp, 161 from Dunkirk, lie from Itotterelani,
140 from ilamburgh, 31 from Calais, col 13 hales from Bou-
logne. The following aro the quotations and lleet
Keats, /Z. Is. to IL 155.; Well of Kent., 44 1011. to 61. 61.
sums, If. 40. to Of. ss. ; Yarnharus, 7L 04, 40 CL; and
Yearlings, 41. Os. to 51. per cwt.

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Aid Published, Prim 6d., by Post 7d.,

FEW WORDS to YOUNG 'MOTHERS
JA on the Care of their Children, in Siam.. und
Health, by MRS. INOATZ.
LONDON : SINPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO., &WOWS,
Hall Court.
BTOVIUSBII/06

: EDWL&D Lsyi, BoocssLLaa.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-03-07

HORRIBLE CRUELTY TO A CHILD.

Dr. Diiduelr, who has julit been elected coroner fur
West Middlesex, bold his first inquest, at the Mitre
Tavern, Fulham, on the body of a little gitl named
Honora Sweeney, aged one year and ten months, who
was alleged to have been murdered by burning.
Margaret sweeney said that deceased was her child, and
it was one year and ten months old. She knew Mrs.
Manning, who lived in the next room to her. On Thursday
afternoon she left the deceased in the cradle by the tire in
her own room while she went out Into the yard to chop some
wood for Mrs M cOning. While there she looked Into a room,
and she saw Mrs. Manning seated In It, with the child in her
lap. Shortly after she heard the deceased scream, but as •
Mrs. Manning had been in the habit of beating her she took
no notice. She heard Mrs. Manning then say to the child,
° Don't be crying, you little —; she is not your mother."
Witness then went into the room, and while she was doing
so Mrs. Manning put the deceased on the floor. She took her
np, and while doing so the skin peeled off her person.
Witness then said, •' You wicked woman, what have you
done to my baby ' The accu.sed then tools up a chair tostrike
witness, and said, "You --, I never touched your baby.
The neighbours then rushed int.i the room and ejected her
from it. Wadesi then took the child to the pollee-station,
and the doctor dressed her burns. She then returned home
with the child, and Mrs. Manning tried to get Into the room

to 101 l her with a chopper. The poliiw then took her

custody.
F oboe-constable Turner stated that • hen the prisoner was
charged with putting the I•hilt on the lire, she said sins
knew nothing about it, and that it was lying on the dive
when it received the iiijories. she thought that the bums Ina
been caused in consequence of there being no fender to thd
tire-place. The witness produced the clothing MOM by thi
deceased at the time .f the occurrence. They did not slr,w
any appearance of having been burned. The witness thou ,bll
that the clothes had been held up while the naked body wet
held over the fire. Mrs. Manning's hands were tot burnet
In the least. In answer to a juror, the witness said that mita
knew perfectly well what she was about.
Mr Lee. Fit S., said that he was called to see the do.
cesi,ed at the Fulham polim.etation. The upper part of tins
thighs, buttocks, and abdomen were burned, the shin W.VI
ale° burned, and the calf of one of her legs. The privatd
parts of the child were burned away. lie dressed I los
wounds and sent the child home She died from the effectS
of her injuries on Friday night.
The Coroner having slimmed up, the jury, after
consulting for one minute, returned a verdict oe
"Wilful murder against Mary Manning for destroy-
ing the life of the deceased child by tire."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-03-07

A SINGULAR POINT IN LAW.

At the Warwick Assizes, Samuel Charles Hatch,
who described himself as a broker, carrying on business
at Birmingham, was indicted for having fraudulently
converted to his own use a sum of £133 is. 61, which
had been entrusted to him with a written direction for
its disposal. Mr. Corbett, a miller, sent a cheque for
the amount in question in payment of twenty shares
in the Birmingham Bank iLimited), which the pri-
soner advised him to invest in. He never received the
transfer of the shares, but some time after wards the
prisoner told him that he had been deceived in the
matter, as the scrip was in pawn, but as he did not
wish the deception upon him to come out he handed
him a bill at sight for the amount Of the fll:V is.
On being presented, however, the bill was dishonoured,
and other inquiries led to the discovery that the shares
had never been applied for, 8.11,1 that there bad been
other misrepresentations on the part of the prisoner.
A technical objection was raised for the defence, viz.,
that the prisoner had not violated the act, inasmuch as
he was in the position of a direct vendor of the shares,
and not an agent acting for the plaintiff and under
his direction. His lordship remarked that the case
was one of some novelty, and, ruling in favour of the
prisoner, directed the jury to acquit him, which was
done accordingly.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-03-07

ESCAPE OF BRIGANDS IN ITALY.

The Italian papers inform us. of the escape of 13
brigands from their prison in the fortress of Taranto
(says the Florence correspondent of The Tines). They
smashed the door, slew the sentry, fought the guard,
and finally got away, leaving one of their number
dead upon the field of battle. The fugitives were pur-
sued, and, up to the latest accounts, one inure of them
had been killed and three wounded and captured,
leaving eight of these fierce and desperate ruffians
still at large for the benefit of the public.
Oases of this kind have lately been of frequent
occurrence in Italy, showing great laxity, and
perhaps corruption. There seems no longer any
security in Italian prisons. The most atrocious
criminals—for whom, if their lives be spared out of
deference to a morbid philanthropy, escape should
at least be rendered utterly impossible—break their
, bonds and bars again and again. Witness the case
of the infamous Coda, thrice a fugitive from Italian
cells, and reserved at last to grace a French scaffold.
Only the other day a malefactor named Ceneri, who
was being conveyed by sea from one prison to another
without, as it seemed, any urgent necessity for the
change, and who appears to have enjoyed on board
an extraordinary degree of liberty for a person in his
circumstances, was quietly fetched off in a boat by
some of his confederates, and made good his escape.
From Paullo, in the province of Modena, two notorious
criminals recently escaped. In short, numbers of
such cases might be cited, and it would be curious to
keep a register of them, and to ascertain how many
robbers and murderers contrive to break out in the
course of the year.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-03-07

BELBROUGHTON.

THE LATE CHARGE Of ASSAULT.—At the Potty Sea-
stuns at Stool-bridge. yesterday, before J. Hunt and E.
Freer, Esqrs., Eliza Green was brought up on •
remand charged with assaulting Luiza Haslewood. The
evidence was similar to that Luseu last week. After
which Eliza Green was charged by Lolliilll Hazlewo.ul
with stealing a quantity of watercress, her property.
Complainant produced a receipt, sod said that the
watercress was her property. She went to get come, and
found the complainant pulling it out of the broak. She
remonstrated with defendant, who retorted by pulling
her bonnet oil her head, and pulling her on the ground
by the hair of her head, and she then strimk defendant,
The Bench dismissed both cases, each one to pay them
own costa.

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terminate in consumption. The Ointment, well rubbed
upon the cheat and bark, penctratiug the skin, is carried
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FIELD, at Ins Offices, 92, Higb-atreet, Stourbridde, ia
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Saturday, March 7, IRS&
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-03-07

intereating than el

was a man after bin own fashion—a man of Tis own
time. Away from Italy he was out of his own ele-
rnent. Lola Montrs' insolence and his peoples im-
patience sent him back to Italy. Henceforth, Rome ,
or Venice, the whole world of art, was open before
him where to choose. He was a placable, amiable
icon, and soon reconciled himself with his subjects.
He had his choice of the Royal residences in town
and country, but he became a wanderer, and was to
be seen at Rome, at Nice, at Paris, wherever the skies
were bluest, wherever men made colours, or forms, or
sounds, or dreams the real business of life. A
courteous Prince, and sociable, sympathetic gentle-
man ; a poet, too, in a small way, leaving behind
three volumes of his juvenile pieces; taking his
diamond collar from his neck at Weimar, and putting
it with his own hand round Goethe's neck; he had
a gracious, winning, kingly way of his own, and, many
as were his faults and his foibles, neither his son nor
his grandson has supplanted him in the affections of
the Bavarian people.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-03-07

AN UNPLEASANT PREDICAMENT.

The Marquis Townshend found himself in an
unlooked-for position the other day in the prosecution
of his laudable endeavours to check street begging by
children, lie attended at the Marlborough-street
police-court, in London, to give evidence against a
girl fifteen years old, named Ann Platt, and told the
following story to the magistrate :
About ten o'clock the previous night the prisoner, with two
other girls about the same age, begged of me for money and
also accosted me for an immoral purpose iii Leicester-square,
and were very importunate. In order to release m)selt from
their importunities I pretended to ring the bell at a house,
thinking they would then go away, but, instead of doing so, ,
snout them rang the bell hen self, which caused the keeper
, of the house to come out and abuse me. I walked away and
the girls followed me, and caused a little disturbance. See-
ing a constable I caught hold of the prisoner, and the other
girls ran away. The constable acted very promptly, and took
the prisoner to the station. I wish to state that I have not
brought the girl here for the sake of having her punished,
but to see whether she cannot be rescued from her present
wretched condition. I have spoken to her and ascertained
that she is entirely without education, and I consider it a
shocking thing that girl dike the prisoner should be banded
about of nights in such a neighbourhood as Leicester-
square.
The magistrate said he would remand the girl, and
see what could be done for her.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-03-07

song, no supper perhaps. But here is something
more mysterious still. A "corner man" is wanted.
And pray what is a corner man? Perhaps he is one of
those very "useful people " who, when the manager
finds himself in a corner, owing to the non.attendance
of a heavy man, a juvenile gentleman, or a walking
gentleman, can take any part. But I give it up. I
have only been showing my ignorance, I know, but in
these fast and clever times even ignorance is some-
times refreshing.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-03-07

MISSING PEOPLE.

The disappearance of the Rev. Mr. Speye was con-
sidered to be a most unusual and alarming circum-
stance. When the discuksion of the subject brought a
number of letters to the newspapers relating other
eases of mysterious disappearance, the excitement of
the public became intense. Because at one time or
other a dozen persons had been lost in London and
never again heard of, a good many people were begin-
ning to think that London WAR not a tit place to live
in. Others were incredulous, and.ref used to believe
half the tales that were told. What will these
alarmists and these sceptics my to the return furnished
by the police of persons lost and missing during the
years 1641 aud ? Here is the return :

REPORTED LOST OR MISSING.
1 911-L OW 1848-1,866 1855-2,178
1842-1,179 1849-1,473 1856-2,371
1843-1,218 1850-2,204 1857-2,171
1844-1,111 1851-1,876 1858-2,409
1845-2,201 1852-2,103 1859-2,374
1846-2,4E9 1853-2,034 1880-2315
1847-2,216 1854-2,206
RESTORED BY THE POLICE.
1811- 160 1848-1,009 1855- 964
1842- 623 1849- 594 1856-1,084
1343- 623 1850-1,137 1857-1,198
1814- 543 1851- 923 1858-1,264
1/41-1,00 1817-1,013 1859-1,050
1916 - -1,091 1858- 900 1860-1,164
1917-1,111 1058- 541

_
This return was furnished by the police to Mr.
Henry Mayhew, when he was investigating the
condition of the London poor. The bores seem to
imply that about 2001), persons are bet in London
every year, and only half of them found again, leaving
annually 1,0110 disappearances never accounted for.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-03-07

PuIATOZ.q.

These markets are well supplied with potatoes. The
is heavy for all descriptions at our quotations. Toe import,.
into London last went consisted of 643 bags from lierli!,-
tto, 14 bags from if arnburgh, 240 tons from Nantes, 54 KigA
from Rotterdam, 260 bags and 105 na,ks from Boologlic,
081 bags and 1 024 sacks from Dunkirk, 235 tons from Rouen,
tel tons hone Cara, GJ toni from Granville, and PO bags from
Ostend. itegeutr, 110 s. to UFA: Fink... 1355. to
Rocks, 'Oils to 132 e. ; French Ivos. to 10Ps. per ton.
WOOL.

The public sales of colonial wool have beea well &Waited
by Lughall In) ers, and French as well as Belgian houses
have been well represented, but the transactions on German
account have been limited. Biddings in all descriptions
have progressed steadily, 4 enhanced rates. Australian
qualities hav, advanced ld. and Cope Id. to lid. per lb.
The sales are expected to laid until the tat of April. Th.,
arrivals up to date consist of 12,241 hales from Sydney,
19,G60 from Port Philip, 111.015 from Adelaide, leg from W,-at
Australia, Pie from New Zealand, 30,174, from the Cape, 513
from Van Piemen's Land, making, with 10,040 bales left un-
sold from last sales, 113.3131 bales. English, especially long
wools, have commanded more attention at full currencies.
Current prices of English wool i—kleecea—Sontna:iwn,
boallwts, la 2d. to is. 21d.; half-broils, la 41 Cr, is. 53. ;.
herd Beeees, is. 21. to la 211.•, Southdown ewm and wethere.
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-03-07

A " COURTSHIP CORNER."

A matrimonial fever seems to be raging in the
North, if one may judge front the advertisement
pages of the Scotsman (remarks the Pall Mall Gazette).
In the "courtship corner' of that otherwise sedate
and decorous journal, a score of amorous advertisers
may daily be found sighing (in small type at so much
a line) for connubial sympathy. Every rank of life
seems to be equally smitten with the same passionate
yearaings, from the 'four domestic servants who
wish to correspond with four engineers or joiners" to
the "gentleman, aged twenty-seven, residing in a
beautifully situated house two miles from a county
town, who is desirous of meeting with an eligible
young lady of good position, who would make a
pleasant companion for life money no consideration,
the advertiser having ample funds ; " and the
English Lady (aged 28), good personal appearance,
and amiable temperament, possessed of mode-
rate fortune; wishes to correspond with a gen-
tleman of steady habits, and of domestic taste, with
a view to matrimony." There is an Arcadian
simplicity in the appeal of the " sheep farmer
in comfortable circumstances who is about to furnish,"
and who evidently thinks that while he is about it he
may as well include among other articles of furniture "a
young lady wider twenty-five." "Two commercial
gentlemen" betray the instincts of trade in their
search for two young ladies "with some means," and
the "young gentleman, bearing a high position in the
legal profession," who wishes to find a wife "not ex-
ceeding twenty, and possessed of an annual income of
at least is plainly of opinion that love in the
" aibstract" may be very well in its way, but matri-
mony should be based on more substantial considera-
tions. As for the ladies they seem to judge a man
rather by his occupation than his income. "Two
young ladies, a blonde and a brunette, under twenty,
considered pretty," sigh for military men ; "three
young ladies, comddered very handsome, of amiable
dispositions and attractive manners—aged respectively
seventeen, nineteen, and twenty-one -wish to corres-
pond svith three special constables, with a view to
matrimony ; " and "two domestic servants" have set
their hearts, one on a tradesman and the other on a
seaman. The sympathy of a common misfortune
leads a " jilted young lady" to offer consolation to a
"jilted young gentleman." But, perhaps, the most
curt and business-like advertisement of all is the fol-
lowing :---" Young Lady Wanted, about Seventeen or
Eighteen, to go to a Ball on the 14th."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-03-07

OLD HILL.

CHARGE OF INT/MIDATION.--At the Petty Sessions, on
Wednesday last, before E. Moore and F W. G. farm,
&Rini., Sophia Price and Ellen Williams were charged
by Sylvanua Wainwliglit with using intimidating lan-
guage to her on the Slth ult. Complainant said that on
the above date she went to James Tromans', to take her
nails. When sbe came out of the warehouse she saw 18
or 19 girls, who called her " blackleg," and other bail
names. Price picked up a stone and threw it at her
(witness's) daughter, and it caught her on the eye. Wit-
ness had been having 21./s to the pound. She was afraid
to go about her work in consequence of the threats.—
Catharine Wainwright said she was daughter of the last
witness, and was with her on the above data, when she
saw a crowd of girls, men, and boys. Sophia Price
threw a stone at witness, and said they (meaning witness
and her mother) should not work, as they were not hav-
ing the price. The stone struck waness on the eye.
Defendant again said that they were not having the
price. Witness told defendant that they were. Defend-
ant said that no one was at work but witness and her
' mother.—J awes Timmins said he received the letter
produced, which was as follows :
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-03-07

ANOTHER BRUTAL MURDER.

On Sunday morning a man was found murdered In a drain
adjoining the high road leading from Cliff Common station
jon the Selby and Market Weigliton line of railway to Weigh-
ton turnpike rood, where four roads meet. The neighbour-
hood in very lonely.

It appears that a person named William Jackson. a
groom, in the employ of Mr. Micklethwaite, of Black-
wood house, was proceeding at a quarter past 9 on
Sunday morning last to Cliff, when at a place about 500
yards from the four lane ends he found a bundle,
a hat, and a trowel in the middle of the road,
and a little further on the right hand side of
the road he found a thick hedgestake, about four
or five feet long, and bloody at one end. On fur-
ther searching he discovered the body of a man
in the ditch nearly covered with water, his head only
resting on the side of the drain. The arms were raised
in an attitude of defence ; the head of the deceased
presented a horrible spectacle. In addition to a
dreadful wound on the left side of the eye, which
was vutfieient to cause death, there was a frightful
wound at the back (,f the head, another cut on the chin.
and a very severe wound on the right side of the head,
dividing the ear. Alarm NV2.4 immediately raised, and
the rural police, together with several farmers, were
immediately on the spot. The body was dragged out
of the water and conveyed to the Cross Keys public
house, in South Driffield, in which township this par- '
ticular piece of the Cliffiroad is situate. The deceased
was dressed as a working man, and looked much like
a bricklayer, but not of a common order, every part of
Ilia attire being good. He was a young man of about
28 years old, well built, and of middle height- His
name is not yet known, nor can his residence be dis-
covered, but in his pockets were found two letters ;
one addressed from "Scarbro' " to "Mrs. Driscoll,
'l'ottenham, Middlesex," began " My dear mother,"
and ended "Your affectionate son, Daniel Driscoll."
To every appearance he had been robbed.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-03-07

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF ELOPE-
MENT AND ROBBERY.

At the Nottinghamshire Sessions, on Tues-
day, Harriet Clay (17), and Henry Rossall (27),
were charged—the former with stealing .t 20.
the property of her father, at IVlansfield, on the
11th of January ; and the latter with receiving,
harbouring, and maintaining her, well knowing
that she hail committed the above felony. The
female prisoner pleaded guilty. Mr. Mellor
(for the prosecution) said it would be conducive
to the interests of justice to call the girl As a
witness.—Riehard Clay, the father, deposed to
430. being kept in his bed.room, and his dough.
ter knew where it was.—George Webb said he
SAW Harriet Clay on the night of the 11th of
January, and she asked him to write to Ronal
who is a married man). The note Was for the
prisoner to meet her near the Exchange clock
at Nottingham. The mother of the female pi.
sonar proved missing the money, and, after some
further evidence had been offered, Hareiet Clay,
a girl of prepossessing appearance, was exam-
ined, and said she was the daughter of Richard
Clay. On Monday night previous to the rob-
bery she stayed at an eating-house in Notting-
hem with the prisouer. Rossall asked witness
if she had got any money, and she replied that
she knew whore her mother kept it. He asked
how much money there was, and she said she
did not know. He then asked her if she could
get it, and she told him she had a key that
would fit the drawer. He told her to got it, and
is she did BO she was to take a ticket from Mans-
field to Radford (near Nottingham), and he
would meet her. She went home on the Tues-
day morning, and in the evening she got her
clothes and the money. She went to Notting-
ham that night, and met Rossall between eight
and nine, and gave him the money. After that
they took seperate tickets for Grantham, where
they slept together. He paid the bill next morn-
ing out of the money she had given Lim. They
then went to London, and took lodgings in •
coffee-house. Reason then bought a new purse,
and put the money into it. He thou placed it
in;her hand, telling her to say he never had it.
He said, "They will ask you whether I have had
the money, and you must say no." She had
known Russell about seven weeks. She never
knew lie was a married man, lie promised to
marry her, and then they would go to America.
Metham, cattle dealer, of Mansfield,
said he went to Nottingham and Grantham, and
thence to Loudon, in search of the prisoners,
and, with the assistance of the metropolitan
police, found them in a coffee-house in London.
—A verdict of guilty was returned against both
prisoners, and they were both sentenced to
twelve months' imprisonment, with hard labour.
The female prieoner was removed screaming.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-03-07

LOANS AND MORTGAiES.

LOANS of not leas that. £lOO, granted for a
term of years, at a reas.mable rate of interest.
Several Sums. amounting to £lBO,OOO, to be invested by
way of Mortgage, at rates varying hum three and a half
1. five per trot.
Apply to Messrs. ANSON, 25, Great Janies•etreet, Bed-
ford-row, London. Eatehlished

JOUR FUTURE FORETOLD.—Madame
J. DE VERE will reveal by CLAIRVOYANCE, Second
Sight, and Perception, the thoughts and intentions of tho4e
in any part of the world. Give age and sex. Four questions
answered for nine stamps and stamped envelope.-42, 24ett-
ing-house- lane Brighton, Sussex.

APOLLO STUDIO,
[Anionfoo THE SCHOOL OF ART.]

H . BIRD,

PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTIST, STOURBRIDGE,
BEGS to iutorm the Public that he takes
PHOTOGRAPHS of One or Two Persons at 511
per Dozen ; a whole Family or Group of Six or Right
Persons, at 6e per Dozen. Specimens of every style may
be inspected at the studio.
Parties wishing can have their Photographs Painted in
Oil or Water Colours.
H. B. will take entire sehool., regardless of numbers.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-03-07

CRUELTY TO A PIG.

William Midgley, John Smith, Thomas Hall, Hugh
Owen, and James Collins, appeared at the Toven Hall,
Salford, on Monday, to answer a charge of torturing a
pig. Mr. Edwards, instructed by an officer of the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,
appeared for the prosecution; and Mr. Cottingham
and Mr. Cobbett appeared for the defendants.

Mr. Edwards stated that at the Butchers' Arms public-
house, P,liilleton, a number of persons associated them-
selves together for getting up a "pig hunt," and they par-
chased a boar for the purpose. On the 24th of January the !
animal was led by two men to a field in Seedley, where it '
was surrounded by the subscriliers—armed with guns and
fowling pieces, loaded with small shot—who commenced
peppering it, not in the first imtanee with the intention of
killing it, but for the purp,te of raising any spirit there might
he in the poor creature, awl so getting tips "boar hunt."
After lithig shot at in volleys, the animal rail towards •
loud, and 141 the way it was still peppered with small shot,
until its skin was riddled like a colander. on its coming out
of the water it was filially shot at mid killed by Midgley.
The carcase of the pig was found at a butcher's shop, com-
pletely riddled with holes.
Cottingham and Mr. Cobliett both took exception to
the form of information, but their objections were over-
ruled by the bench, and evidence was called in the first
instance against Collins.
EMllla Whalley, laiellaily of the Butchers' Arms, proved
that Collins had purchased the pig, and she kept it for him.
There was a bill for subscribers to the "hunt", op in her bar
It some days, but she Ohl not know who put it there.
When Collins left the pig she asked him what he was going to
do with it, and he said he was going to get up a sheeting
isisteti fir it, either with pigeons or sparrows. The pig was a
very wild one it was very vicious. It was kept in a stye
by itself, as it was not tit to Le with another pig.
George Ileywumil said there were fourteen or fifteen men
ft rlog at the pig They fired at it twice each. Oki its coming
eat of the water, Midgly rail up to it and fired at it, killiug it,
when be sail he had son The pig was hi the peed only
about a intents.
Mr. Kiwards was bringing forward more evidence when
the magistrate interposed, awl asked if he cull,' carry it
any farther. The two last witnesses had only protest that
tile matter tiedi up two or time minutes. The animal was
ttken to the field, fourteen or fifteen 11.1 tired at it, it ran
into a pit, and wae killed immediately alter being taken
MO.
Mr. Edwards admitMd that his witnesses had not proved

what they had been called to prove.
The nrigistrate said he would like to get a copy of the
bill that had been shown in the public-house. If he could
have it proved that the public in allowed a raffle for a thing
of this kind to be got up, the licence of the house would be
In periL
All the summonses were then dismissed.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-03-07

IMPORTANT NOTICE.

A BONA-FIDE MONEY SPECULATION
rt a fl 2 000,000 ritrtling. fluarantoed L. Govern.

-
ment. is to tie allotted In varion• sum, upward, to

£25.000. Anv one, by Invei.ting LI. may obtain £gs QUO
sterling. For Prospering (which will 4. Relit gratis),
apply by letter. addressed Mr. J. A. Mimi', 14, Duke-
street, Adelphi, London, W.C.

WHOLESALE & RETAIL TOBACCO
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-03-07

JONES r. BADLEY.

At the Court of Chancery, on Thursday last,
before the Lord Chancellor, this case was heard.
The question at issue in this suit was whether a
Miss Pargeter, an Unitarian lady of very bene-
volent disposition, late of Foxeote, near Stour-
bridge, had devised certain residuary real estates
to Mr. John Badley, her medical adviser, and to
Mr. James Peyton Badley, his son, upon secret
trusts for charitable purposes, and therefore void
under the Statute of Mortmain. The property
was valued at about .£160,000. Miss Pargeter
appeared to have been of nervous temperament,
and lived much alone, having no strong attach-
ment to her relations, without actually'disliking
them. It seemed that she had made several
wills prior to the one in question, and they had
disclosed her intention to dispose of the bulk of
her property for the benefit of charities. The
evidence of her solicitor showed that he, during
a discusssion as to the mode and property by
which charities could be legally endowed, had
mentioned the method of giving real estate to
a devisee in whom she had coAlienee, and to
whom a secret trust, not expressed in the will,
Imight be communicated. In the court below
the Master of the Rolls observed that there were
two questions to be determined—first, Did the
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-03-07

BREAKING AN UNDERGRADUATE'S

LEG.

. II

At the Oxford assizes, before Chief Baron Kelly,
Charles Itandall, a farm labourer, has been indicted
for feloniously stabbing Mr. Robert Stains, of Oriel
College, in March, 1867. The prisoner had already
been imprisoned two months for a similar assault upon
another undergraduate, and the trial had been stand-
ing over from the assizes last year in consequence of
the severe injuries inflicted upon Mr. Stains, who had
been compelled to leave the university and go to Jer-
sey for his health.
Mr. Stains, the prosecutor, was, on the 2nd of March
last year, with twenty companions engaged in riding
in a "paper hunt," and was crossing the farm of Mr.
Rippington at Marston, when the prisoner, who was
in the employ of Mr. Rippington, went with a pitch-
fork to stop the riders and ascertain their names. The
prisoner placed hhuself in the middle of a narrow
road as Mr. Stains came galloping down. Mr. Stains
continued his course, tke prisoner got out of his way,
and as Mr. Stains passed him he felt a blow on the
calf of his leg which caused it to dangle by his side,
and it was afterwards discovered that two bones of the
leg were broken, and that a weapon such as a pitch-
fork had perforated his trousers and drawers and the
skin of the calf of the right leg. Mr. Stains's life was
in danger for some time, but he has now c.,mpletely
recovered.
The defence was that the ungraduates were all
trespassing and doing great injury to the fields; that the
prisoner was instructed by his master to stop them
and get their names; that they refused to give them ;
and that the occurrence took place accidentally,
owing to the fork being kicked up by the horse from
the ground.
The learned judge commented on the unlawful
nature of the sport in which the undergraduates
had indulged, and mid he could not but thiuk it would
have been more consistent with their position in society
if they had given their names, or expressed regret for
what they had done. At the same time, the nature
of the sport had nothing whatever to do with the issue
they had to try, and he regarded it as impossible that
the occurrence could be accidental after the evidence
which had been given.
The jury found the prisoner guilty of unlawfully
wounding, and he was sentenced to one mouth's im-
prisonment.

it was then arranged that his Lordship chould give
his opinion on the construction of the correspondence
between the parties, whether it formed a contract on
the part of the defendant to reimburse the plaintiff her
expenses regarding his daughter, subject to the decision
of the superior Court, the amount due being agreed
upon to be £2OO for the last four years.
Ills Lordship thereupon expressed his opinion that
the contract was made out by the correspondence, and
directed a verdict to be entered for the plaintiff for £2OO,
leave being given to move the superior Court.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-03-07

ICIPIVER.

NEGLECT OF Wona.—At the Petty Sessions, held at
Wordsley, on Wilda), Met, before F. Evers and T. Y.
Lee, Esqrs Villiam Drew was summoned by John Tim-
mins for neglecting his work on the 11th Mat. Ur. Bur-
bury defended. Complainant said that he engaged the
defendant on the 11th of May, 1667, for twelve mouths as ;
a waggoner, at 1:8 per year. On the above date defend. !
alit left his work and refused to come back, saying he
had got a better job. He had previously sent defendant
to another farm to work, at Chelmarali, and the defend-
ant agreed to go on board wages, which were lOs per
week, and lodgings and beer. Defendant took the team
there, and did not return. John Davis, a servant ill the
employ of complainant, proved that defendant brought
hint 6, DM, and asked hiin to give it to the unsater, ache
should not work for him any longer. Mr. Iturbury ad
dressed the Bench for the defence, and contended that
I there was an agreement between them to give and take
1 one month's notice, and called defendant, who swore that
he agreed to give and take a month's notice; that he did
give notice, and his time was up when he kit. The
Bench said they were of opinion that the defendant be-
lieved that his time was up, and as there was no evidence
to chow to the contrary they should dismiss the case.