The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-02-28 00:00:00

Nistrilantgus rticit-t4entt.

ROME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.

TEE RULE Or THE ROAD.—Query (from a
Correspondent).—When a street runs into another
street, wna, is the remedy at Lsw.—The Answer,—
Consult a Solicitor. —Punch. _

HINTS ABCCT PICTIIIIII FRANIZS.—It is not
everybody who has taste in chooeing plcture.frames.
To many, therefore, a few idmple rules for framing
ohromoe will be acceptable. As • general ride, the
predominant colours in a picture should be taken sac
guide. Black walnut frames, or brown panel., will be
suitable for bright picture; while dark pictures, and
especially those in which brown predominates, should
always be framed In gold. When unable to decide
between the two, take • gold frame by all means, ii
gold will agree with every picture. Black walnut,
especially when enriched by delicate engraved and gilt
lines, is iikewise very beautiful. 'rue width of the
frame should also be determined by the character of the
picture, The stronger the picture the wider the fram I
should be Width of frames adds to the importance
and dignity of the picture. The style of wall•paptr
should, in some degree, influence the selection of •
frame. When the paper is figured, the frame should
be wide, in order to separate the picture from the
paper. The best background for pictures is a neutral
grey or a dark morooo.

Eveme CLAIM.—In 1872, during the Ameri-
can Presidential election, one of the chief questions
entering into the campaign in Pennsylvania was the
" Evans' claim," (writes the Correspondent of The
TtmeB ) Evane warn • Pentusylvania State azent, ap-
pioted to collect certain money due to the State by
the Geneva Government, and he helped himself tolop,r
cent, of the amount as' commilsione," this percentage
being over 300 000 dole., w h ic h was divided among various
p deticians who then had control of affair.. Charges
and coeinter.charges of complicity in thin matter made
up a large part of the argument's during that memor-
able campaign in this State, and the State Government
Woltz ht suit against Evans to recover the money, which
wee fixed at 304 WO dole. in the bill of complaint,
Trial wee delayed by one cause or another until last
week, when Evans was arraigned at Harrisburg, and
the jury finally brought in a verdict against him for
185,643 dole , end he is now in custody. E VALIN is in abject
Poverty, and inc complete wreck physicially, the wear
and tear of the terrible ordeal through which he ham
peened having broken him down. The State cannot
get anything out of him, and it Is difficult to tell what
will he the next movement in the matter.

"MOST MELAN C HOLY." - "Two thousand
plan, f rte frets" are offered for sale. We shall not
compete, suliering too much already from vexations of
Ws sort in the musical neighbourhood in which we try
to ex.st.—Punrk

GARDEN HEDGES. —Apart from their general
utility, there are few things tnat add more to the ap-
pearance of a garden than good hedges. With garden
hedges there is generally a twofold object to be kept in
view—their utility and their appearance. Numbers
of plants are and have been employed for garden
hedges, such as holly, yew, beech, privet, thorn,
laurel, arbor(vits(, rose, &c. ; or a m(xture of some of
these, such as beech and privet, holly and thorn. For
genera( utidty, however, combining strength, duration,
adaptability to most soils, and price, thorn has no
equal; but, for appearance, nothing excels the holly,
its price only being a serious consideration where re-
quired in quantity, as in planting for hedge purposes it
Is necessary to use the bullies in a much older state
than would be necessary in the case of most other plants.
The common yew makes a noble hedge, but it has the
fault that in some soils it dee, if it is kept cut in to the
size that 110190 other plants will bear without Injury,
and, if it is required in quantity, it becomes expensive.
In dry situations, such as when it is planted on the top
of a dry bank, it also, rometin es. suffers severely in very
dry summere. Another very important consLeration
IA that the yew is poisonous to cattle; consequently, it
should never be employed except where there Is no
likelihood of cattle coming near it.—The Garden.

A CONSIDERATE CONCESSION.— The following
important circular has been received at Plymouth
from the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty'.
Treasury

"Sir,—l am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of
her Alejesty's Treasury to acquaint you that my lurus will,
In case of any person employed In the dockyards and elo-
- yarOs under the Admiralty, whether established or
hired hereafter, meeting with and oeing compelled to gait
the public service by reason of severe bodily Injury occa-
sioned without hie one default In the discharge of ina public
duty, he prepared to consider the propriety of granting him
a aptclal allowance or gratuity, kly lords will also, in CYO
of the death of any such person hereafter occitrring, whore
the death Is either caused directly by, or cnn be clearly
traced to, an Injury or accident speclncally attributable to
the nature of the service on which he was employed, be pea.
pared to condder the propriety of granting a special allow.
auce or gratuity to his widow, or to his children, being
under the age of fifteen yews.—Your obedient servant,
W. LINORN."

A NAGRO ON THE SCAFFOLD. Thomas
Sankey, a coloured man, was hanged at Montgomery,
Alabama, on the 30th of January, for the murder of
another coloured man, named Graham. Sankey ad.
mitted that he had grei iously wronged Graham, but
maintained that the killing was in seltdefence. Sankey
marched to the scaffold, eerorted by two coloured
minister., the tiree singing a hymn, the lines a
which Sankey gave out from time to time. lie
mounted the ecaffold smiling, and with a limn and
elastic step, and addressed the spectators, expressing
his conviction that he should loon be in heaven, and
declaring that he was forced t kill Grattan". Tim
trees and buildings overlooking the gaol were crowded
with negro spectators. When the can bad been drawn
over his face, Sankey gang aloud," Hang me high and
stretch me wide, an,l let the world see how 1 die."
The executioner's hatchet then knocked the prop from
under him.

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SELF-MADE MEN. —We wieh one or two more
Working Men had thiainel seats in the new Pan's.
ment—a Carpenter, for instance, who, if • man of
Maine, might have worked Ins way to the Treasiny
Bench.—Punch.

Tun BAKoNY OF CABLINGF(oRD.—This title,
which is about to be created anew in favour of M.
Chichester Fertescne, is oce which has existed during
the last two neuturiee and a half in three different
I ama s (remarks The Times). It was first bestowed in
1627, no a viscountcy, on one B rrnhain Swyft, or Swift,
a member of a Yorkshire family, who want over to
Ireland to make his fortune under the early Stuarts.,
'1 he title, however, became extinct, according to
Sr Bernard Bunke, on his death without issue
.vven years later. In 1662 it was again bestowed,
as an earldom, on the noble house of Taaffe, the
I.reofid Vies. not Taaffe bring nee, el Earl of Caning.
ford in reeogni.inn of hie services to Royalty and
losses In the King. cause during the Usurpation. This
earldom wan held down,pc 1738 by four Vhootuite Tann
in succeision, the third" of them being the celebrated
Count Taaffe, of the Germanic Empire, who, though
he represented an old Homan Catholic family the late
head of which had fallen fighting on the aide of King
JadEo6 in the Battle of the Boyne, had sufficient
flume. with the crowned heads of Europe to obtain
nem William 111. 'special Act of Parliament exempt.
leg his title from ten lure by attainder. In the year
1761 the title of Cirliugford —this time again as •
viscountcy—was confined on the Carpenters, Lords'
Carpenter of Ireland. the third of whom, George, was
created in 1761 Earl of Tyrconnell and Visoonut
Carpenter which titles became extinct on the death
of the third earl (and fifth baron) in 1838

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