The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-11-03 00:00:00

THE STOURBRIDGE OBSERVER.

ha of hie people indifference and neglect It was
An-prising to SO such dating conterfmt on the part of
a roes Po 11,1,41 to worAiii their toasters. What!ver
may have elsewh,re. ii. is a fact plain and in-
controvrrtibie that the Emperor mule no more. ith-
prerision on thdr .people than an ordinary -aldermite
prodnere at the Lord Mayor's show when the crowd
has brim satiated with the num in armour and the
',gent allegories of the city mythologists.
A L tn. CANDIDATE FOR CONORIIBB.—We read
in the New York Herald
That smart, tntell,gent, enterprising, and fascinating lady,
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1. up for Congress against the
Hon. Mr. James Brooks. 'Against such a competitor what
ought Mr. Brooks to do? lieus a ',Mies' man, and common
gallantry requires his retirement In her favour.
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When there's a lady In the case,
Of murse all other things give place.
Mr. Brooks, then, ought to surrender gracefully and gra-
ciondly in favour of the first petticoat for Congress. Why
not? He did the best he cool I do at tho lad session of Con-
gress to assist Thad Stevens in behalf of negroes right, and
negro suffrage and Mra Stanton will do this, If elected,
with far greater atoilty; and In addition to this .he w II stir
out every spark of gallantry in Congress in behalf of woman's
rights and woman suffrage. Moreover, with an Itifitpritlal
lade in the house of ltopresentativea, the ronghs of that
Italy wool I no longer make it a Tammany Hall. Let Mr.
Brooks retire.
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A MUST NOBLE RECORD OF Kw° HENRY TILL
—King Henry VIII. used to walk his rounds by night
in and about London. One night, on going his rounds
as usual, with his large walking staff, to ses that the
constables did their duty, he was stopped by one of
those officers near the foot of London-bridge, who de-
manded what he did with such an unlucky weapon at
that time of the night, upon which the King igruck
but the conatsble calling the watchman to his assist-
ance His Majesty was apprehended, and carried to the
Poultry Compeer. He lay confined till morning with-
out either fire or candle, but when the keeper was made
acquainted with the rank of his prisoner he despatched
a messenger to the constable, who came trembling with
fear, expecting nothing less than to be hange!i, drawn,
and quartere I ; but, instead thereof, the King ap-
plauded his resolution in doing his duty, and made him
a handsome present. At the same time he settled
upon St. Magnus parish an annual charge of 23/. and
a mark, and made provision for furnbhing thirty chat-
drone of coals and a large allowance of bread annually
for ever towards the comfortable relief of his fellow-
prisoners and their successors.
A YOUTH WHO NEVER SAW A WOMAN 1—
" Meadow's History of the Chinese," lately published
in London, in a chapter on love, has the following
story:
A Chinese, who had been disappointed In marriage, and
had ge . rowdy suffered through women in many other ways,
retie, d with his intuit sou to the peaks of a mountain range
in K weichoo, to a spot quite inaccessible to little-footed
Chinese women. Ile trained Ms boy to worship the gods,
and stand in awe and abhorrence of the devils ; hut he never
mentioned women to him, always descendieg the mountain
alone to hue food, At length, however, the infirmttles of
age compelled him to take the young man witli him to carry
the heavy beg oe rice. As they wete leasing the market-
own together, the ion suddenly at ,pped short, and, pointing
to three approaching objects, cried, •! Filcher, what are these
thing.? hook ! look ! what are they !" The father imtantly
answered, srPh a peremptory order, "Turn away your head :
they are devils The son, In some alarm, Darned away,
noticing that the e•ii things were gaging at him with stir-
prte from behind their fans, lie walked to the mountain In
silence. ate no supper, and from that day lost his appetite,
and was afflicted with melancholy. For sonie time Ms
t oulded and anxious parent cotild get no satiefactory
answer to his Inquiries hut at lei gib the young man burst
out, crying with inexplicable pain, "Oh, father, that tallest
devil ! that tallest devil, father!"

A CIIILD KtLLED ON A RAILWAY—On Friby
afternoon last a very distressing accident occurred at
Claypole station, on the Great Northern Railway, Is
few miles north of Grantham, to a little girl named
Ada Newton, aged 7 years, the daughter of the
signalman attached to that station. It appears that
the little creature left her parents' cottage about half.
past three o'clock, at which time an express train is
due, which does not stop at Claypole, in order to
speak to her father, whose duty it is to signal the
train, if the line be clear, to pass by the station; and
as she was in the act of crossing the line the train
came up, unobeerviAl by her, and before she had time
to get out of its way she was knocked down by the
engine, the entire train passing over her. Of course
death was instantaneous, and her body was seriously
mutilated. The jury returned a verdict of Accidental
Death.

BOUND FOR TIVCAL—In a few days there will
tail from the Mersey, for Galveston, a ship with 34A)
emigrants. About 240 of this number will be Scotch
agricultural labourer., and the remainder will come
from Devonshire. On the arrival of the vessel at
Galveston, the emigrants, after a delay id a few days,
will be forwarded into the interior of Texas, where
they will be employed as agriculturists. The ship in
which these emigrants sail taken a large quantity of
agricultural implements made purposely for the work
they are intended for. In a few weeks another batch
of English and Scotch lahourers will sail from the
Mersey for the Caine destination.
ARREET OF Jr.WELLERS AT MARSEILLES.—The
Marseilles journals give some particulars of a very
serious affair which has just taken place in that city—
namely, the arrest of a number of jewellers guilty of
using false stamps, with the object of defrauding the
excise. The Semaph,ffe says—

A few moroinga since six controller. of indirr-ct taxes and
111 C 'rtonlasarles of police, the b•rmer accompanied by a
dozen employes and the latter by fifty aeraents de ville,
assembled at the Prefecture. They were d,vi ed into sit
parties, each beetled by • controller and. commisaary De-
tailed instructions were given to all, and hy daybreak every
preliminary arrangement was completed. Each party then
proceeded to the shop or workshop of titter.elt Jewellers in
the city, and a lone and minute starch was made, not with-
out results False stamps, or stamps stolen from the pre-
mises of the Ins iced : 'lases, were discovered. Nine persons
were arrested, against whom criminal proceedings are now
being carried On. A witness, formerly • conmerelni traveller
to one of the In-Cs c mpromised, the heads of which are
in close confinement, bar been interrogated at great length
A large number of families witl be thrown into consteration
by this discimore. Are the articles which they possess and
supposed to be gold and rile, r genuine or slot? No doubt
es er yone will have the matter trate I without delay, and this
Is all the more necusaary that the fraud has been going oil
or twenty years.

THE LOSDON GAME MARKETS.-011 Saturday
there were large supplies, and among the importations
of game from Scotland were several hampers of the
capercailzie, or "cock of the wood." The prices were
as follows :—Pheasants from 64. to Ss. per brace; par.
tridges, 25. to lk ; grouse, i. to 44. lid, ; black game,
64. to 7s. ; the capercailzie, 10.4. 61. t•i 145. per do. ;
hares 34. to 44. 6d. each • small leverets, 24. to 3a, and
wild rabbits, is. to in. 41. each; woodcocks, 45. 64. to
74. a couple; and snipes. Is. 61, to us, per do.
Venison : Haunches of {mime bucks, Is. 4d. to is. 63.
per lb., and forequarters, and doe venison, dd. to is.
Per do.
A CURIOUS DRPOSIT.—The following were de-
posited under the corner-stone of a unitarian church
just but in New York :
Holy Bible, " Book Worship of the Church of the Messiah,"
" lie, laration of Independence and Constitutirn of the
Cited State.," "Cqsuntng's Thoughts," "F. W. Robertson
Sermons," "Abraham Lincoln's proclamation of Emancipa-
lion," Abraham Lincoln'. Second Inaugural," "Tribune
Almanac of Ison," with national document.; Christian In•
quirer and Regieter, London Inquirer, Independent Ihetho
diet Erangeliet and Church Journal, 7'ablet and A nib sea-
dor, Harpers Weekly Illuotrated London News, mmles
even., caper., Herald, Journal of Commerce, Commercial
Adrertieer, Hebrew, German, French, Spani.h, and Swedish
newspapers of New York ; "Horned Alumni Oration and
()Mikity School Addre”," notes of this corner stone laying,
and of "Star King Commemoration, ISM ," photograph of
I the Lincoln's memorial, photograph of various persons, Dr
1 D-wey, Ac; ViPon of present Atlantis cable, Christian Ex-
' ambler and Monthly Iteligioue Magazine, "Dr. Bellow's
Memorial of William 81 are," "Dr. Oairm.d'a Historical Ser-
mon of the Courch of the Messiah," " Easter Service of
1661," list of articles in this nor, hat of church Akers,
bran p ate with Inscription, specimens of national cur-
rem.

}cirri' Yawls IN A CAGE!—There is now living
at Rockland a maniac nitmed Joseph Spaulding, who
hut been confined in an iron cage for more than fifty
years, and for above thirty yearn has not stood erect
(remarks the Springfield (Massachusetts) Republican).
He was the only son of the Rev. Josiah Spaulding,
the first minister settled at Rockland. His birth was
premature, and when a lad he made attempts to
murder his father, mother, and sister, and was placed
in this cage. His insanity has been gowing mare and
more hopeless, and is now utterly incurable.
A REMARKABLE DREAM.—A strange story is
told of a fanner in Pennsylvania who—so the story
runs—had a dream during the recent severe and pro.
tracted storm, that the fill across a chasm some bun-
dred feet deep, on the Atlantic and Great Western
Railroad, near Mansfield. Ohio, had given way under
a passenger train, and let it down into the abyss. The
next morning he visited the place and found the road
all right, but the dream made such an impression upon
his mind that he could not Weep that night. Getting
up he procured a lantern and went to the chasm,
found that the fill had been washed out since morning,
leaving nothing but the unsupported ties and track
over the chasm. Hearing the train approaching he
clambered across the break and running lown the road
succeeded in stopping it jost at the edge of the chasm.
Tne train was a very large one, and leas filled with per-
sons who had been to the great Union meeting at
Mansfield.

A GOOD TIT FOR TAT.—The following ia of
course, an American story
'The Quaker president of a Pennsylvania railroad, during
the confualon and panic last fall, called upon the W
Bank, with which the rout kept a large regular account, and
asked for an extension of part of its paper falling due In a
few OR.. The Bank president declined rather abruptly.
"Mr. K---, your naper must be todd at maturity we can-
not renew it." Very well," our Quaker friend replied, and
left the bank But he did not let the matter drop here. On
leaving the bank he went to the depot and telegraphed to all
the agents and conductor. on the road to reject all bills on the
W— Bank In a few hours the trains began to arrive, frill
of &panic, bringing the news of the W— Bank all along the
line Stockholders and depositors flocked to the bank,
ipi,king with panic, inquiring the.: " What's the matter t
la the bank broke?" dm A little inquiry on the part e the
officer. showed that the trouble origh,ated in the relectioU
of the bills by the railroad agents. The president seized his
hat and rushed down to the Quaker's oftl. e and came
bunting In with this Inquiry : "Mr. K—. have you directed
the rs (mai f our currency by your agents?" " Yes," WAS
the quiet reply. "Why Is this? It will ruin us." "Well,
friend L--, I 'supposed the bank wag going to fall, as it
could not renew a little paper for u. this morning." it is
needless to say that Mr. renewed all .the Quaker's
paper, and enlarged his line of dlecount,, while the n,egfe
wires carried all around the road, to every agent, the Ned.
tire message: "The W-- Bank to all right. Thee may
take all it. currency."

ALLEGED IMPORTANT PROPOSALS OF Rutlata.—
The Posen Journal of the 26th publishes in large type
a piece of news which, if found to be correct, may
lead to most serious consequences. It appears from
information which the Posen Journal has received
from Vienna, and which it says is entitled to all con.
fidence, that the Cabinet of St. Petersburg, feeling
uneasy at the recent attitude of Austria in Gallicia,
has within the last few days proposed to the Govern.
ment of Berlin to give up to Prussia the left bank of
the Vistula, provided Prussia consented to the annex-
ation of Eastern Gallicia by Russia, and allowed the
Cabinet of St. Petevsburg freedom of action in the
E wt. The Posen Journal calls on the /nratide Rune
avid the North Gorman Gazette to deny the news of
Which it..elf asserts the perfect correctness.

NOT 1 OF. FA, BEA oF THE MAN !
Mr. Davenport Bromley made a speech on Saturday
at a meeting of anieleribers to the Birmingham Heinz.-
Matury School, in which he announced Bowe rather
original views on Juvenile depravity. In urging the