The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-21 00:00:00

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broader spree' than it was, and he bad that eonfidence • A SzaliDaN TING OtiiDISNOIL-14friatOr0 •
In it hhnself that he believed that the more men were Constantinople announce that Mhlhat Paella, the new
educated, the tU, WO they looked into these questions, the Crraud V•zir, hs, resolved to realise great savings, not
more they would see the rst,hts at the bottom of them, like his predecessor, by redacieg the salaries of the
and the more they would bc satisfied that other Win f a subordinate clerks, who have suavely enough to live
—'erent class are not their enemies or ildwishers, but on, but by retrenching exaugerated or useless expenses.
it is in the interest of all CIASSO4 to live together He will enter on this course. report says, by a measure
ist) honest, friendly, and Csristian eliflt. (Cheers, ) absolutely in c nformity with what is Imowu of hie
de trusted it would be carried Out as time went on. It character. The emolumenta of his predecessor
was quite true that the real hiend,Lip of different amounted to 90,000 f. per month, but DlidhAt Pasha
classes depended upon solid interest.. 'llose solid in- abandons the greater part of that sum, and will only
termite t,ierta,als7freet,htiisseoeasiuchseeta,netiLal lri•Trt•kes
wall, they
eb)nikldeeuwp,
'tuirearwitsl;ri7l=fihaP't
did not stand of itself, and it wars this's, little acts id . n
EN OF AN ISLAND.— It assents there
goodwill and mutual svmpa•hy, su•li ars they had per- hemonth. The sacrifice is the more
• f 'lnds coming to us from Ireland. If
souse promise 0 r •
formed that day, tat made the mortar or cement that posseuses no private Tortune.
held those laite walls together. (Issud cheers.)
chan,e ITS name, nod be in richer language, tins
(Black) Diamond Isle,—Punch.
Lire ASSURANCE FUR TELEGRAPH CLERKS.—
thia promise be reat,c4l, Enier.bl lzde should
Mr. Serninwrore has ionsed a pope in which her proposes
to establish, on behalf of tier m:mbers I,f its staff,
system of life assurance made ray, under which neatly
tip whole trouble, not cll.? of urgotiating , tit

A LETTER TRAVELLING SEVENTEEN
YEARS in PURSUIT of its. OWNER.
'We have been ehown a lector by Mr. James
McCracken of this city," says the Ottaw Frte P eSS
whlell win; malle4ln the Poet Office in Three Rivers,
in Canada, ~n February 22nd, ISYVY, and addreiteed by
its %liter, Mr. James Veeracken, to his son John,
who had previously gone to settle in Islellemrne, Ass-
crabs. Ever since the year 1855, then—that jets say-,
for sevciteen years—that letter has been travelling
in pursuit of its “wner, and it WAR in that pursuit that
it was received iu due course through the Poet Office
here by Mr. James McCracken, on Saturday last.
The envelope, although faded and travel stained, WAR
well preyerved, and the Three Rivers and Australian
mist marks were quite legible. It was marked, • re-
turned to Three Slivers Post Office, from the ii at
letter office, Australia.' The Postmaster at Three
Rivers sent it under cover to Mr, James McCracken,
Ottawa.
" We have seen letters following up the persons for
whom they were intended, even when nits-directed,
and hinting them after the lapse of months and years,
in all eorts of out of the way places, but we are unable
to recall a case whet e a :etter was on the road seventeen
years, enacting the part of a wandering Jew. Just
imagine the mail clerk, sorting his letters at the anti-
podes, exclaiming, HA he turns up the inevitable John
McCracken,' throwing it away in disgust as he ex-
; claims, 'Well, if here isn't that letter again Steam-
ship mail elm its um,t have became familisr with John
McCracken's epistle, and no doubt would exclaim as
the errant letter turned up occasionally—l Ah, here
you are again I ' "

-of payingallierneelinkillbarla ViniaOrtalMiL oy saw sesess.,—
depariment. Au arrangement has ixisn etlroted with
ne-we then thirty of the hest ix panics to issue policies
to °dicers of the Piet Office, the preuiiums on which
will be paid num-roily by the Receiver aud Accuuntant-
General, and deducted by bins from the weekly or
monthly salary of the insured. Insurers who may re-
tire fr ins the Government crevice will have the right
to make their own terms with the company as to the
continuance of tteir policies. Sundry advantages are
held out to them in respect f prompt settlement of
nisi ius, and a special object of the scheme is to place
withie the reach of Post-Oflice employes the peculiar
facilities of benefit societies separated from their
attencant risks. Insurers for smaller amotuits than
£lOO are strongiy recommended to av ill themselves of
the provisions of the Government Itsurauce Act
under which policies can be issued as low as £lO.
RECIPXOCITY. —The Observer says that the fol-
lowing snowing correipoadonce has just passed between
the acting manuor • respectively of au eminent west-
end (London) theatre and an eminent west-end mil-

" sir,—lf you are now issuing any complimentary orders
for your theatre, may I ask you to circulate a few through
tot for the ltdie6 awl gentlemen of our tonic? By doing no
you may rely upon them being, used by taslitouable sad Wed.
dressed persons. I hope you will pardon the liberty 1 have
taken by writing to you, and truetiog this suggestion may
meet with your approbation. I am, sir, yours obediently..
I The following answer WU forwarded by return ot

EXTRAORDINARY CAREER OF A
YOONG WOMAN.
At the Bitv-street Police-court in I..mion, a handsomely
dreised young girl, aced twenty-one, has hoes charged with
•rohhery to an oxiuniis, %lieu some extraordinary revels-
lions were made respecting the suture:lents of the de-
Ituqueut
The present case WAR proved by an elderly lady
named Paisley, who WB,l in London on a visit from
Malvern. She was a passenger in one of the Camden
Town omnibuses, and having got out at Tottenham-
rourt-road, after paying the conductor the found that
during the short interval hole is her pocket had been
cut, atiii her purse, containing 6s. had been stolen.
She called to the conductor, awl a gentleman got out
and full (wed the prisoner into Oxford-street, where she
was accused and given into custody. She denied the
charge, but the purse was found in her possession at
the police-station (concealed in her umhrella), and she
t ien said she wand pay twice the nuns misted by the
lady to be let off.
The Magistrate : Surely I have men her face before?
Nedistall, the gaoler, said that he recognised her an
one of the most exivert omnibus thieves in London.
She had been repeatedly convicted at this court up to
two years ago, when she absconded from her bail. She
was "wanted" for dozens of caves.
Taylor, the summoning officer, stated that about two
years ago the prisoner was charged with robbing a
lady in an omnibus, and two respectable men were in-
duced to become bail for her. She, however, abnonded,
and the recognivauces were entreated; and 4flue poor
fellow, who had to pay £24 in consequence, went com-
plet ly out of his mind. The prig nor made her way
to Paris, where she was also convicted several times of
oiwiloroffences, and punished under the French laws.
If the care were remanded, evidence would be forth-
coming of the above facts.
Mrs. Paisley hoped she should not have to attend
again, but the Magistrate reminded her that it was a
duty to the public not to allow a young woman of this
description to escape punishment.
Tuse prisoner, who raid nothing, was then finally re-
manded, but the witnesses were bound over to appear
at her trial.

PEACE AT A PnICE.
(From Punch)
CoxY, dear friends of each calling and slass.
liaise a shout of unbounded delight;
Give the order to turn on the gas
For an Illumination at night,
With such mottos, devices, and stars,
As shall darkness convert lute day.
Arldlr Woo has triumphed o'er Mari:
And we've not quite Four Millions to pay.

post :
dress., may ask you to circulate a few through rue for the
ladies of this theatre? By doing is you may rely on their
being made up fashionably and worn by hon. of good
"Sir ,-11 you are issuing any coniplimeutary black silk
appearance and figure. I hope you will pardon the liberty.
but, trusting the suggestiou,may meet with your approval. I
am, sir, yours obediently,—.
A SCOTCH M NlB ER. —On Sunday afternoon
the Rev. Dr. William Anderson died, at his residence,
Prospect-house, Uddingstotte, near Glasgow. Dr.
Anderson was born in 1799, obtained licence as a
weather in 1820, and wee called to the mini-try of
John-otreet Church, Glasgow, in the following y ear.
At the outset of his carter the young clergyman
claimed the liberty of reading in the pulpit from maim.
script, and in nil his earlier sermons he quotea Shake-
speare. These were regarded as serious, offences; but
Dr. Anderson would nerthrr abandon his manuscript
nor ignore Shakespeare. He VIM one of the foremost
debaters in the Anti-State Church Controversy, and
on the education question his views were in advance
of the majority of his brethren. Perhaps he shone
more brilliantly in the anti slavery struggle than in any
with which his name was connected.
WORCESTER SAUCE.—Stationers' Hall is the
place for the Festival of the Twee Quires. This
Festival isn't a Moveable Feast because it's atationary.
Yours ever,—A Eldrai.—Pu /I ch.
THE PRIVILEOE OF THE 22ND REGIMENT,—
A correspondent writes to the London Standard :
Resaing In your excellent jaurnal that some surprise, if
not Jealousy, was expressed at the tend Regiment wearing
oat-leaves in their hats at the march past, permit me to in-
f..rm you in explanation, that the privilege of doing no at all
reviews arid inspections ww granted to them by his it.lestY
George the Second, who, It is said, Lod, temporary refuge in
a square f.t nod by that regurient at the battle of Dettiegen,
when his Majesty is leported is have told them they were as
item as their native oak, and toniark his appreciation of their
conduct granted them the above privilege
GERMAN EMIGkATION.—The German Govern-
ment n.ntinues to be much d squirted by the large
dimensions of the emigration to America. It is stated
that, according to "authentic" advice!, from Berlin,
the numbers are growing in suck propottions that by
the Ist of January the figures will be double what
they were in the years proceelieg the late was.
As usual, the bulk of the -emigrants are yomig
Risen ansions to avoid military service. It wag in
reference to this movement that the circular from
the War Minister, IT the Ereperer'n orders, was
isaurd hat July. As it has seemingly had no appre-
ciable effect in checkMg the ever-widening stream, a
accusal circular, couched in more threatening terms
than the Sent, has just been Lieued. It recalls to the
you, ho in question that they make themselves liable to
t'm seven st penaltica by the course they adopt, and
that if they peraist in it they will be teeated as outlaws
for life. At the came time, S special eel vice is being
instituted for the more effective surveitance and super-
vision of the diatricts from which the emigrants mainly
come. But, in spite of all thi., the emigration to
America has been only slightly affected.
AUTUMN MAMEUVItES.— The Isle of Skye is
proposed for next year's manieuvres. By all memo,
let the troops go up to Skye, and besiege a Castle in
the Ain—Punch.
LITTLE OLD Mart.—From "Little Old Me
iii " Undo. the Sun," by G. A. Sala
I own there is one class of little old men whom T comic'
well spare from the stage of a alstence. I mean the half-
palsied, shrivelled, wobennue little grey atonies in blue
smocks and corduroy shorts, and ribbed stockings on their
shrunken kil9llk9, nhsn the metropolitan boardsof guardians
send out to sweep the streets. They are always in Monies tat
danger of being rue over. They always sweep the refuse the
wrong say. It is terrible to look at their poor old faces and
bleary eyes, full of drowsy woe, black misery, inane despair.
"No Hope, end there ter, r has been any these seventy
years " ; these words seem legibly inscribed on the bands
round their oilskin hats. These little old men are a far and
a wonder to me, and in decency and mercy I think they
should not he alloaed to drift about ill the great river of
London street life.
WOULD-BE CARDINALS. —Yielding to the pre-
vailing epidemic, it is rumoured that the superior clergy
of the Church of Rome are meditating a strike, if the
Pope persists in still keeping all the hats he has so long
had at his disposal. He is Head of the Church, that is
admitted ; but, even so, he cannot want twenty-seven
hats.—Puerh.
A FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT.—An inquest has
been held at Snesiland, Kent, to inquire unto the cir-
cumotauceo attending the deaths of Thomas Charlton,
aged 23, waiter at a cluh.house in Loudon. and Emily
Boorman, aged 25, daughter of a wheelwright at
Maidstone, who were drowned by the aecidental up-
setting of a boat in the River kleoway, off Smailend.
The unfortunate couple were lovers, and had hired a
small boat at Maidstone, and went for • row to
Suodlanil, a distance of about five miles. At the
latter pace they disembarked and partook of luncheon
at the " Queeu'e Head" Hotel, starting on their
return journey to Maidstone shortly after two o'clock,
the tile at the time running down somewhat strongly,
but before starting the ferryman, a man named Gorham,
warned them as to the dangerous nature of the river
at a certain point. Churl, on rowed up the river until
near what are known as Snodland Rocks, which were
under water at the time. litre the current is very
swift on each kali of the locks, and the boat was caught
in it and capsized. A lad named Penny saw Charlton
clinging to the boat with the young woman under his
arm, but becoming evhauoted he let go and both sank.
The buy Penny raised an alarm, and the ferryman rowed
• to the scene of the accident, but he wars too late to
r render any assistance, and the bothee were not recovered
• until two hours afterwards. The jury returned a ver-
, dict of "Accidentally drowned."
ACT AND EUPRInd ‘` Intoxicating
Liquors Act," that was, has got to be called the
tt Licensing Act." Its anthore and promoters evi.
dentiv discovered that they had given it a bad name.—
Punch.
LEGISLATIVE INTERREGNUM. —The ,St)licifhim
Journal remarks :
Numerous failures of Justice have already arisen out of the
enipside carelessness with which the New Bastardy Act (36
and 36 Viet. cap nil was drawn Tne Act repealed sections
2 and 3 A he ',vima statute 7 and 8 Viet esphi)," except
as to 40011114 he:cloture duly done thereunder, and except
no tar as nay lie tiecessaly fir Vie purpose of supporting Alla
continuing ally g rotseeorna taker, hen ge the invitee 'tithe Sq."
and then, hy seethm 3 only s-ale provision for taking proceed.
hags in the case of hoot .rde from "after the waging of this
Act " The consequecce is, that if a bastard dud wan born
before the loth of August ',the date of the Act), hut no pro.
",dinea had teen then commenced, all remedy is taken
away This is the noire inexermali'e as the roceorted Act, in
repealing the then exhthig provisiocs for biota, ely order.,
',melded for proceedings being taken under the MIMI Act
when the could has heen born " ten hill the period of six
calendar montl a 44-re the passing of this Act " (section 2).
As it will be absolutely necessary to pass another Act next
Session t • mire the present mischief we would suggest to the
Horne Vibe the propriety of taking advantage et that
occasion to cm:lad-it:date the law.
CHEAP FIRES Etat SITTING•BoOMS. —ln view
of the alarmingly high price of cool, we would again
call att,enti n to a plan for economizing the consumption
of that article which we (The Rock) have successfully
tried for several winters. Moot grates, dapecially in
old Louses, are too large and too open. Obtain from
the neanist iron-foundry or gas works a quantity of
"clinkers" the residuum of the furrinces. They will
usually be given to you, as they are of it value to the
producers. Place these at the Mdes seri the back of the
grate; a little win may Ise used to hold them in posi•
tion, if necessarg. Having thus reduced the ditnenMone
of the ;Jet., light the tire with wood eerd-cotele in the
ordinary manner. In au hone or two the "clinkers"
Will become red but lord throw outwards a great heat
although but a small einnly of coals will be requireA
1 for the retire. 'rhe advantage nf ereiteg elinkers "
instead of bricks or other material is that the tire is
more sightly. Whether simply "inks "or lit, the
grate has the appearance of In,ing lill,l wit, coals.
It ie easy to Pave fifty per cent. ot creel by this pro-
cess. Small coal readily bums througeriont fires no
C°l:tr:t.:l;BbeUltinNgT hroeldDiElltible.—inAntbrsitn7lloolltf hxth:
"clinkers."
been held at the county gaol lams-, at Lea:ester, on
the bale of Catherine Francis Musun, aged 30, the
wife of Mr. Christopher Joieeph fillieson, a merchant,
of Liverpool. The deceah sl had been on a visit to her
fatherin•law. Mr. Wm. Mursison, who is the governor
of the Leicester county gaoL On the morning of the
4th September she was about to get up, when the room
being very close she lit a pied* of pa Cr at the gas and
tho ew it about the room tor the perpose et rarefying
the air, when the flame came in contact with the lower
part of her mg i talrese. This, however, was en-
observed by her uotil she found herself completely en.
veloned in fire, when she rushrd screaudcg into the
corridor, where she was met by her meld, Maria
Shearn, who laud only left her a few minutes before,
and who at once put out the flame by throwing water
over her. Her eight- rear was, however, nearly
wholly consumed, and lase was very muck burnt about
the body. She suffered coneiderable agony lop to the
time of her death, which took place on Saturday. The
Jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death. 4 The
unfortunate lady had recently been wanted.