The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-12-27 00:00:00

11iStettallt.t1S 4ntelligaut,

HOME .ONEIGN, ARO COLONIAL.

THE PROPERTY OF THZ LLTE EMPEROR
NAPOLEON.—The Paris Correspondent of The Times
writes :—The real facts relating to the Chinese museum
at Fontainbleau are these :—lt has been admitted that
the museum belonged abso!utely to the Civil Lint, in
the same manner as the linen, wine, and plate which
were sold for the benefit of the Imperial Civil List.
In accordance, therefore, with a conditional agreement
entered into between MM. Desseilligny and Router,
the State has purchased the museum at the price of
£120,000 sterling ' • but the contract, in order to be
valid, must be eubooitted to the Budget Committee,
and must be approved by the Aarembly. It in tberef re
merely a question of a simple bargain, dependent upon
the Ansembly for ratification or rejection.
LORD DERBY ON SELF CULTBRE.—The Times
(in a leader) observes that a life of balanced powers and
of large aims wan the ohject Lord Derby encouraged
the lads of the Liverpool College to try to attain. He
spoke to boys, and the boys will some day be men, but
his words may be appropriated with advantage by those
who are men already. It will be easier for the boys to
keep alive the good that is in them if they can grow up
among a generation whose influences are favourable to
its development; and men cannot influence the young
without being benefited by it themselves. Is there any
reason for suggesting this thought? If we look back 40
years and compare the young men of today with the
young men who were just coming before the world at the
time of the flint Reform Bill, we may find the compari-
son not altogether to our advantage. We are afraid, (says
the Times,) it must be admitted that large aims were
more widely spread and more heartily pursued then
than now. The incompleteness of the view of life en-
tertained by the energetic men who supplied the
motive force of that generation wan, indeed, a main
cause of the failure of such of their aims as were not
realised, and a conviction of this incompleteness pro-
duced a reaction against them; but our views of the
poeiitie development of our race ought not to become
contracted because our oowaptions of the breadth of
our faculties have been enlarged. We ought to aim at
something more instead of less, since we have risen
from • lower to a higher leveL
DELTH FROM MISADVEZTI7RE. —An iniluost
has been held in London on the body of Edward ,
Antoine D'Aurlol, a Frenchman holding the title of '
Count, who was found dead at his resid,erce, 4, I
Compton.place, Hollowsproad, under the following
oircumstimaces. The deceased was 64 years of age, had
resided in England eighteen yaws, and pmessed a
fortune. Dr. Glover said that he was called to de.
°sailed, and found him in great pain. He told witness ;
t tat if he did not bleed him he would take • razor and I
do it himself. Witnets declined, and fetched some I
medicated cigars (saltpetre) and gave him one. Some
time after he was called to see the deceased, who IMO
dead. A razor was found under his pillow, and a
wound four or five inches in length in the abdomen..
The p 0.51 mortent examination showed the cause of
death was heart diseaee, accelerated by the wound.
The jury returned a verdict of "Death from mis-
adventure.

tHI EDI7OATIGNop FACITOItY CHILDRU..—
Mr. Baker, the Inspector of factories, in his late re-
port, complains that children are kept from school.
lie states " that many portents still seem to core
up
little forth. education of their child', n as ever, if
they can only obtain for them full employment, which
they can readily do almost everywhere, on great is the
demand for full.time hands; and it is often next to
Impossible to obtain a repetition of evidence given by
children in the first instance to a prosecutor, if it seems
at all likely to reduce their wages from full time to
those of half time." Mr. Baker further reports that
trade has been good, and the temptation to overwork
and slur over the education clauses of the 7th l Viet
c. 15, hitherto so useful, had been proportionate. "
STATISTICS OP PAUPSSISAC—ThO OfliCial re.
turn of pauperism In Englsnd and Wales (mines th
usual 33 per cent. for lunatic panpersriu mylums asei
vagrants, not included in these'returns), shoes theist
Michaelmas,. 1873, the number of persomi in rtcsipt of
relief from the rates was 755,664, .being less WAS at
the corresponding period of 1872 by 51 per cent., am
of 1871 by 153 per cent. The most striking improw.,.
ment is shown in the northern division. C4lllp/inii,g the
four moat northerly clunties of England, Leans, a
fourth of our coal sup; ly ; here the decrease of pauper.
in 11 3 per cent, compared with the nal., perio4
1872, and with about 1 million people thie diviaion
aliDwVonly. 37,222 paupers. Three other div 'micas of
Eugland—the northwestern, the north-ccidiand, and
Yorkshire—include the chief manufacturing Oistrial;
and these divisions show a decrease of paupers amount.
lug to 63 per cent, an compared with 1872, inid 16'6
per cent, as compared with 1871. The metropolis
shows • decrease of 3 per cent, as compared with 1872,
and 161 per cent, as compared with 1871. The de
crease in the other divisions, as compared with 1872,
ranges from 7.3 per cent. in the Welsh to 36 per goat,
in the south-eastern division.
HASID AIID FAIT LINES !—The Times hm
published the following letter :

As president of the North• West London Shoe Black
Society, 1 received, a short time ago, a letter from toe School
Board authorities, stating they were Informed we had several
boys under 13 years of age for whom • proper amount of
education was not provided, and calling my attentive te
the Act under which such employment was illegal. Ar ii
was quite impossible for the society to provide the requirp
amount of teaching, I Immediately directed the mama b
dismiss all boys under 13. The poor parents, mak
widows, depending almost entirely on their boys sandals
9. or 104. per week—were terribly distressed, and these Mrs
are now idling about the streets, and the School Board tgte.
no notice of their condition. lt is difficult to =dental
why the School Board should compel no to dismiss saa ye,
unless they were prepared to provide the neeessary
Woe, a. with us they had a night school, one clam at walla
is now broken up—Yours truly, George Hanburr, 11, Port-
man-square, London.
MultMuN PItOSPEGTS .—Senator Fr elinghuy-
sen's Bill to regulate affairs in Utah promisee to effed
a radical change in Mormonism for the future. The
Tribune gives a summary of the Bill :--"A dhrot
attack upon polygamy is made in a section which sets
forth that in all prosecutions for bigamy, polygamy,
or adultery, proof of cohabitation by the accused with
more than one man or woman as husband or wife shall
be anflicient, and that the wives of polygamous M.
mono may be discharged from such relation. by dirsroe
the same as though the men had been guilty of edit.
tery, the women retaining by decree of the Court con.
trol of their minor children, and a just share of their
husband'S property. Section 15 of the Bill forbids any
alien, while living in bigamy or polygamy, from here-
after being naturalised. All cases decided by inferior
Courts of the Territory are to be appealable to the
District Court. In conclusion, the Bill proposes to
repeal a great number of Territorial Acta, sad II
whole tenonr is to place tip Mormons entirely in the
power of the United States' officials."
A PBBYISYLVANIAN Plaza Flour.— A prize
fight was arranged to take place the other day at
Wilke/bane, in Pennsylvania, between two men named
Rooke and Coyne which was remarkable for none °,
those brutal and distreseing features which have rest
so much discredit on the " ring" here (says the Pell
Mull Gazette.) The men having shaken hands &actin-
terchanged complimentary remarks, the ground MI
prepared for the combat, being "etched with rough
cedar stakes and roped in by hands hardened by she
pistol and slung shot.' The snow was shovelled away
by "willing miscreants," and the stones picked out
that they might not bruise the fighters. Then a shoat
was heard as Rooke advanced and threw him 'caster
over the ropes, Coyne following one minute later, sad
a "hoarse yell" arose as men took up their rumbas
the chaise prepared for Loin. These preliminaries being
arranged, the terrific drug* eciamenced in earerse
Rooks rose from his chair, and advancing into theudddis
of the ring, challenged Coyne to "come on." Colwynt
the other hand, who was well muffled up with coati and
wrappers, remained motionless in his chair. In vela
did Rooks skilfully advance and ietreat, muttering the
moat alarming threats and Invitations ; Coyne abso-
lutely refused to star, and although Rooke magnent•
mously offered to "waive the stakes and fight ke
fun," his formidable antagonist would not Bo much as
, even open his lips, but eat 'Went as a atone, sad sp
parently absorbed in reflection. At last, however, "a
mob" suddenly jumped from Coyne'. corner, headedby
a gentleman named Bryan Campbell, who, "with
drawn pistols and slung-shots, rushed over to Rooke'e
corner, and, with terrible oatha, drove him and Ills
SWAM& out of the ring with the weapons at their
heads." Rooke having been thus clisposed of, loud
cheers were raised for Coyne and his friend., and the
interesting exhibition came to a conclusion. Coyea's
imperturbable courage and good.humour under Qs
moat trying circumstances called forth expressions ci
urn cereal admiration from the most respectable porticos
0 the spectators.

THE RISC AND FALL OF • PETROLEUM CITY.
the rise of the petroleum cities of Pennsylvania I
only equalled by their collapse, if we may judge Eras
the sad fate of Pithole City, air related by the Pitts*"
Despatch (remarks the Globe). Three yean ago Ole
place wasesearcely known. Suddenly oil wells wereas.
coveted in the immediate neighbourhood, and within,
mouth of the, erection of the first log-shanty its place
was taken by an 80,000 dollar hotel. In two months
Pithole had at least one daily pbper, and in three a
theatre was started. In the usual succession observed
in the American cities, these evidences of civilintles
were followed by a second theatre, an academy el
music, and, as water was scarce and possibly explosive,
a mud fire-extinguisher. Before twelve months had
elapsed Pithole had seventy.four hotels and saloons,
and a population of 25,000. Then came the change,
not arising from any falling off in the production, but
rather from an incase of the raw material. As the
boring for oil Increases the yield also increases, said
speculators begin to fear that the days of large profits
in petroleum, as in shoddy, have passed in consequence
of the immense competition. The result is a general
stampede at Pithole. Its theatres are closed, its knell
bankrupt, and its population vanished, and at ths
present time only nine families remain at Mak be
discharge the duties of municipal functionaries.

A DBAD BODY GETTLWO UP WEIL' Bull
Bruit—The Hozorah Herald says :
" ' •

On Tuesday night a remarkable' scene °surfed at SS
burnirg ghat at Ramkistopore. A ifindoo, supposed 0 be
dead, was brought there to be burnt. When half the edit.
loony had been gone through the dead body got up sod gel
erect with his teeth chattering, and presentii g other frit*
tel eights. Those that came to burn the body Wanted whllt
the deed got up and waited a few yards, when thenumweig,
being strengthened in Lumbers, miutered courage and Wk
hg him brought him to the ghat again. They thee got hold
of dare and koodelies, and after cutting him down, proesdel
with cremation. We give the atm uit has reached ar, bet
meet vouch far the truth at it.

A BIELLMOHOLY DEATH.— On Thursday in
last week, an inquest was held at Stockton, on the body
of Thomas Garbutt Jackson, aged 57, wellknown
London, Liverpool, and Glasgow commercial &dee
an • contractor for public works. The deceased ons•
menced life as financial manager for Bolckow
Vaughan, Middlesborough, thirty years ago. Salsa
queutly he became partner to the firm of Jackie;
Garbutt, and Trussed&le, contractors for the lisle
viaduct at Yarm, on the North-Eastern Raffirsy.
The firm attained celebrity in the United Kingdoms
and since then the deceased had executed many lalle
oontracte. From the evidence given at the inquest it
appeared that on the previous afternoon he was take
into custody for being drunk, and removed to Stooktra
in • conveyance, having previously been supplied, at bb
own requeet, with a glass of water. At the Skates
Police-court he asked the officer in charge to send for a
doctor; this, however, was not done. Next day, before
being taken into court, he spin procured a glass of
water and requested that a doctor might be called.
He was assisted Into court, but was unable to stand.
The presiding magistrate dismissed the charge, in-
structing the police to oommtmicate with the relative(
of the deceased. It was then noticed that the deceased
was very ill, and he died before a medical man could
be fetched. Mr. Odlam said that he had made NI ex
ternal examination of the body, and believed from the
evidence, that the deceased had suffered from heart
disease, which, aggravated by exceesive drinking, had
caused his death. Toe jury retained • verdict of "Desth
from natural comm."

A VALUABLE Houdin !--Mark Twain once
bought a horse by auction. "In the aftirnoon," be
sap, "1 brought the mature into the Plaza, and Div
tam citizens held him by the head, and others by
tail, while I mounted him. Ai soon as they let got
he placed all his feet in a bunch together, lowered
his back, and then suddenly arehed it upward. 601
shot rue straight in the air, a matter of three ee
four feet I came as straight clown again, lit in
the saddle, went instantly up again, came clown almost
on the high pommel, shot up again, and came dove
on the horse's neck—all in the space a three or four
seconds. Then he rose, and stood almost straight
up on his hind feet; and I, clasping his lean neck
desperately, dal back into the saddle arel hel I.os.
Ile CaLla• down, and immediately hoisted his he., is mats
the air, delivering a vicious kick at the sky, and stood
on his fore feet; and then down he came mice more,
and hegan the original exercise of shooting ale htraight
up again. The third time I went up, I heard a strops
say, 'Oh, don't he buck, though ' While I was Of,
somebody stuck the horse a sound thwack with I
leather strap, and when I arrived again
'the horse not there.' .

ACCEDE/ITS BY MACHIIIIISY. —A terrible Iht
is that comprised in the returns of deaths and injurice
In factories for the half-year ended April 30 lasi (n,'
marks the Lancet). The tale of slaughter and mewl.
tag reads like a record of the results of a tierce and
sanguinary straggle on the battle•field, and is' FriP
satire on the proverbially gentle arts of peace. Watts
the period mentioned 162 persons were kills] In her
tories, 491 were so roach injured as to necessitate the
amputation of a limb or part of • limb, 390 received
fractures of one sort or another, 257 were wounded
more or less seriously in the head or face, and there
Were 2,340 instances of injury of a less grave nature,
such as lacerations, contusions, &c.—in all 3 640 wool.
ties in places of industry in six months! With Mod
to the causes of this sad catalogue of disasters we ban
one remark to make. While admitting the probabillif
of the great bulk of them being due to carobs/new se
the part of the victims themselves, we must conies ti
a fear, justified by some amount of personal knowledre
that for this very carelessness, with its lamentable res-
sequences, employer' are in many instances cbi!lAr.l
responsible, in that they place the working of ral,n
moving and dangerous machinery in the hands of Po'
eons incompetent by Feason of youth or inexpenenca,
from whom the exhibition of much caution is not to be
expected. Evidently there Is need for the exercise 01
more oonscientiousness in the process of numobotarr
ol other ertioles beside' those of food and drink.

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