The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-05-02 00:00:00

than NtiasachUsetta. A paragraph- recently aPPeiti:ed
in the American papers to the effect that a large num-
ber of mechanics and labouring men had quitted Bos-
ton unable to obtain employment, and had made for
California. Trade throughout New England is
notoriously in a most deplorable condition. The Pa-
cific States probably offer the greatest opportunities to
emigrants, but of course the emigrant ships will not
leave the nearer ports if they can help it. The diffi-
culty of obtaining employment in any of the settled
States is now far greater than the poor people who
dream of America as the golden land ever imagine.
ODD IDEAS.—VOII Hehuont tells us that Adam
was created without a beard, but that after he had
'fallen 'and glutted, beeause Of the sinful propensities
which he derived hien the fruit of the forbidden tree,_
a beard waif made part of has punishment and die.
grace, bringing him thus into nearer resemblance with
the beasts towards whom he made his nature approxi-
mate. The same stigma was not inflicted upon Eve,
because even in the fall she retained much of her
original modesty, and therefore deserved no such op-
probrious mark. Von Belmont observes, also, that
no good angel appears with a beard; and tins, he says,
is a capital sign by which angels may be distinguished.
A CATASTROPIIE.—An iii ruest was held at Bir-
mingham on Saturday on the body of Ann Allen. The
deceased was a widow, aged seventy-five years, and on
Thursday evening she asked a boy named Lomas to go
with her to drown a cat which had had its leg broken.
The deceased carried the eat and a brick, which was
fastened round the animal's head, in her apron, and on
arriving at Belmont Row Bridge the boy asked the
deceased if he should throw the cat and brick over the
wall into the canaL She refused, saying that she
would drown it herself. They went down to the canal
side, and, while deceased was stooping to mit the eat
in the water, she over-balanced herself and fell. The
boy immediately gave an alarm, and the deceased wan
got out in about four or five minutes, but she was dead.
The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental Death."
THANKS TO KING Tugonons.—Twopence more
of Income-Tax! It is enough to make one savage. As
one might may, but for fear of saving something vulgar,
"Twopence more of Income-Tax, and lip goes the-
Monkey r--Punch.
A LIVERPOOL PICTURE COTNOISSEUR.—The
other day a gentleman entered a Liverpool shop and
asked the price of a picture which had taken his fancy.
Twenty-five shillings was the answer. The gentleman,
however, understood him to say twenty-five pound:,
"Oh, nonsense," said he, "I will give you five pounds:"
"You misunderstood me," was the reply, I said
twenty-five shillings." "Oh, then, I won't have it,"
said the gentleman, and hurriedly left the shop.—[A
judge, that I
A PRESS PRGSvernoN.—A man of letters,
named Mau, and Noblet, a printer, have just been
tried by the Correctional Police, Paris, on a charge of
outraging public morals lay writing and publishing a
work, entitled, "II a eon plumet," in which, under the
, form of anecdotes of the life of Henry IV., a aeries, of
obscene descriptions are given, "the details of which,"
says the judgment, "are set forth with a crudity of
, expression which cannot be admitted in any kind of
; avowable literature intended for publication." The
, author was stoic condi nmed to two months' imprison.
1 ment and 500 f. fine, and Sublet to a penalty of 300 f.
r, A PROPER REBUKE TO TOADYISM. The
Empress of the French lists just administered a sharp
3 rebuke to some of those newspaper scribblers who
r chronicle the movements of Royal personages with
such minuteness, and whose adulation, always profuse,
is generally fulsome. The Empress has recently
visited the sick in the hospital at Amiens, and this
t visit produced the usual crop of paragraphs. Com-
- menting on these the Empress, in a letter to a friend,
0 writes as follows :
; do not like all this noise that is smile respecting my visit
to Amiens. In that act there was neither courage Ina. merit ;
it was only a simple duty, arising from nip position, and
which I am very well pleased to have fulfilled. Do not,
then, speak to me any inore of heroism. 1 have saved no
' one, and many a poor patient even nmst have been greatly
incommoded by the preparations made in the wards for my
/ reception. Let us reserve grand phrases for great nets; for
' example, to extol the sublime devotedness of the holy
r, women, who are not satisfied with visiting the sick during an
hour, but who tend them until health is restored or death
, arrives.

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sions she obtained the confidence of the agitator, and I
then went to Florence, furnished with letters to the
leaders of the revolutionary party, and with full.
instructions to organise a new seaet society, the llama
Itrai, which was to involve the destruction of
monarchy and the foundation of a universal republic.
She succeeded in obtaining forty associates, who wore
a red ribbon in a button-hole of their waistcuats. They
thought that their proceedings were perfectly secret,
but they were all known to the police; and when
Sister Rosalie went to the railway station on her way
to Caprera she was arrested, her papers seized, and as
the police possessed the key of the cypher in which
they were written, the whole plot was laid bare. The
inference which the ICazioa, a Ministerial organ,
wishes to be drawn is, that Mezzini was only a tool in
the hands Of the clerkial party, who really intended to
break up the Italian kingdom while pretending to sub-
stitute for it an Italian republic.

BOLD SPEAKING BY A. BITCALIST LECTURER.—
During a lecture delivered in Liverpool, on Friday
evening, by the Rev. Dr. Little&le, on the subject of
"Innovations," the lecturer aroused the indignation of
a considerable part of the audience by the violence of
his language. He said that a church which could pro-
duce in its highest lay and clerical ranks such a set of
miscreants as the leading English and Scottish reform-
ers, must have been in a rotten state, as rotten as
France was when the righteous judgment of the great
Revolution fell upon it. We did not make heroes and
martyrs of Robespierre, Danton' Marat, and the like,
yet they merited quite as much admiration and respect
as Cramner, Ridley, Latimer, and Hooper. The
statement was received with hisses, and cries of "Oh,
oh !" and "Shame !" in fact so strong wax the feeling
, that the lecturer was compelled materially to modify
the remainder of his address.

THE CRIMEAN WAR—The venerable Guizot
has just published a book of gossip, in which he gives
some particulars of the Princess de Lieven, who was
acquainted with all the conspicuous personages of
modern history. The Princess de Lieven was in con-
stant correspondence with the Czar Nicholas; it was
to the information and estimation of passing events, as
set forth in the letters of this female diplomatist and
educated politician, that the Emperor of Russia looked
and acted upon much more than from the despatches
of his official agents. The Princess de Lieven mainly
persuaded Nicholas that the moment had arrived when
he might begin to drive the Turks out of Europe.
This conclusion was arrived at perhaps somewhat
hastily, becatise it was a fixed idea f the princess that
France would never join England in a great and ex-
pensive war to save the Ottoman empire.
WIIOsE STATIIK WAS IT I—ln clearing away
the materials of the recently demolished hotel which
was formerly the residence of Jacques Lafitte, the
famous Paris banker, one of the labourers employed
discovered a statue embedded among the ruins, which
was generally believed to be that of some Roman
emperor, and a valuable example of ancient art which
had been buried where it was found for many cen-
turies. Lafitte's daughter, the Princess de Molikowa,
owner of the property, having heard of the circum-
stance, put forward a claim to the statue in question,
which she maintained was not that of a Roman
emperor at all, but of Napoleon I. in classical costume,
such as may be seen on the summit of the column in
the Place Vendome. The statue, she maintains,
decorated the exterior of the Hotel Lafitte until the
year 1814, when, in order that it might escape destruc-
tiou or, at any rate, insult, on the entry of the Allies,
it was concealed underground, where it has ever since
remained until disturbed the other day by the pickaxe
of the "ouvrier-demolliseur." The dispute has been
referred to the tribunals, which, pending their de
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cision have ordered the statue to be confided to the
hands of some neutral party.
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RATIWR AWKWARD !-At a public ball the
other evening, a dashing girl and her cavalier were
conspicuous in the assembly for their costly dresses
and elegant dancing. Suddenly the first fiddle put
down his instrumenst and jumped over the orchestra
into the body of the hall. He approached the "dash-
ing girl," and beat her with all his strength with the
bow. Her cavalier interfered, demanded explanations,
kc., and was told that his partner was the fiddlers
wife, who had been absent without leave from the con-
jugal roof for the last six months. During the ex-
planations the cause of them had disappeared.

A JITDGMKNT AFFIRMKD.—In the Court of
Queen's Bench, the case of "Lawrence r. King" has
been heard, and was an appeal from a conviction of
magistrates under the Highways Act. The appellant,
Lawrence, hail been summoned loy the respondent,
King, a police-constable, for permitting sixteen sheep
and twelve lambs tobe lying and straying about the high-
ways. The animals in question were grazing bythe side of
the rota with ahoy to look after them ; and as they were
under the control of a keeper, it was urged that they
could not be straying. The court, in giving judgment,
considered the case came within the High Ways Act of
lisl4, and this was one of those cases which the Legis-
lature intended to prevent. It would be an offence
under this Act for a drover to allow sheep to lie about
the highways, even for rest, whilst on their way to
market—Judgment affirmed.

FATAL COLLTSION.—On Saturday morning,
while the Royal mail steamer Australasian was pro-
ceeding up the Channel front Queenstown for Liver-
pool, and when abreast of Holyhead, she came
suddenly into collieion with the screw steamer Isle of
Arran, anti ran her down, going, in fact, right over her.
The Isle of Arran had taken refuge in Holyhead
harbour through stress of weather, and she was pro-
ceeding to Newport in order to take in a cargo of coale
when the unfortunate occurrence took place. She had
just come out of the harbour, and the Australasian
was passing close in on the land. It is said that the
Isle of Amon had on masthead lights up, and the look-
out man in the Australasian could not see her aide
lights. An soon as the accident wax observed, a boat,
under the charge of Mr. London, the second officer,
was sent off from the Australasian to the relief of the
men who were in the water, and two were saved.
These were the chief mate and the man at the wheel
belonging to the Mc or Arran, who apparently had
seen the rapid approach of the mail steamer and had
jumped into the water. Fire anon (including the
captain) and a boy were drowned. The two men who - .
were raved were brought to Liverpool in the The Sheriffs of London have appointed Tueuday, the
Australasian. The other vessel sank at once. Kith :of May, for the cue, talon if Michael Barrett, the
Ftmian. An intimation to that effect has betu made lur the
Tit F. FAMINE IN ALGERIA. -A mother shocking °Minion- I.f Newgate to the convict.
instance of cannibalism is reported from Algeria. A The Pri xer says, the rumour of an interview to take
little Arab girl was recently picked up on the pad place between the Fainie,r Nanoleon and Kie King of
half dead from hanger and fatigue. " Where are your Prussia at }laden-Baden or Ems at the emi of May is again
ciretilated.
parents ? " the Wk. asked ; " why have they abandoned
you ?" "My,family live in a tent in the 'fields,' Was The Marquis of Went:Mu:der has sent to the Hoyal
,
i the haudsome
the answer; we aris very poen and for a month we
ileo‘llriii';'llafioe'n 1:74e7.1(.114.' IL:I:T.:1'71e heath,
of the seine
have been living only on 1111111. M lied, I a the evening amount made by nit Lordahip to this inatauth no.
my father watches people who are passing by, kills
thf be can, and we eat them. lVe had seven in . Mr. Hebert Wilkinson,arrister, has prepared a
em i
vry convenient and useful 'edition of the Englidt Reforol
the space of three weeks, and as there was nothing
.art of last year, with enplaned/ay notes, and an holes,
more in the tent we were famishing with hunger. I The .tarchhishop of Westminstele letter on Ireland
then heard my father nay that he was ta:ing to kill me has been reprinted in the United States, and lia lee
became: nolse
ly was Waiting that way, and that there ex mate,- in circ i I _n li,,st/kll alone about 207tnal 'lll y
,pies
were tt no many of us. *With her,' he said, 'we were soil in four of five days. and in New York as many
shall have food for a few days more.' AS I knew he more were ideked up as soon as they appeared.
would do what he said, I ran away, and being very In conaequence of the death uf the Bishop of Here-
weak I fell on the mad, where you found me ; 1 ford, Insbep selwyn becomes :entitled ton sent ia the !louse
thought I was g, ding to die there." The story told by of Lords as a spiritual isvr. The new Indoip of Hereford
asrilt nl Aheentitl ed to a seat iu the Hhan og, 4,f Ini
this poor chilil M perfectly true ; an immiry has Iwoved
•acancy arises in another diocese t Canterbu Lords til ary, 1 ork,
it to be so. London. Dmhain, Or Winchester.
AUST It ALTA'S T REFS. -Measures are about to be The numl:er of wrecks reported timing the past week
taken for the protection and preservation of the State in 10. making for the present year 771.
forests of the colony of Victoria. A commission, ap- The death of Miss Coply, sister of the late Lord
pointed by the Government to inquire into the means Lyndhurst, is announced at the advanced age of 94.
to be adopted for this purpese, hae recently made a Connt Schwabe has offered to present to the city of
rep,rt upon the ;subject. its illustrating the natural Boston his collection of portraits id fallen Union soldier,.
with a view to their being properly cared for and kept on
growth of timber in the more favourable districts, it is
mentioned in the report that Mr. Percy Hodgkinson "labith'a•
recently measured, near the source of the westernof the Wori Valk& Creek, a tree (Eucalyptus Trial is being made of a new machine at 77. e Times
branch
office, in London, which is expected to transcend anything
Ampulalina) that had been felled for splitting ; its i'eli';‘ert'eNt'out".llr,,,roiitvade,, 71,;,.,,717:714..5. lue,7,,tranl4; ATI
diameter one foot above the ground was 10ft., and at print 40.000 sheets or 23.000 perfect copies per hour, which is
70ft. from the butt-end Oft. ; its length in a straight a greater number than has ever yet been accomplished ; and
line was 220 ft. Many of the adjacent standing trees it also cuts the paper into sheds, folds them, mid records the
were, however, evidently of a much greater height munlierprinted.
than this. A grove of the same kind of timber, at the There is a ekes of men in London who call them-
head of the creek, contained on an acre of ginund 20 selves commission merchants, and who get their living en-
large trees of an apparent average height of about elusively by obtaining samples from the large houses ill all
350 ft., and 38 saplings of a height of 50ft., the whole departments of trade.
being surrounded by a dense undergrowth of large An enterprising female has lately opened a
sw matri-
f
mony Ottice in Naplea i she pros tensca l
t to
m bek able to conquer
eru-trees, musk, clsi;it. id, &c.
the mcst obdurate old bachebu, nruo ae the love-light
A Disogec ,•irtJL A Cr.-A sailor, named Murphy, shine in the eyes of the hardest-featured spinsters.
has Leen charged at Birkenhead with wilfully A 1 allmaker, endeavouring to sell a large gong to a
damaging a carriage, the property of the Great Quaker gentleman, remarked that it woald be useful in the
Western railway Co. Prisoner on the previous day conntry, for it 11 1 WOll. no: , oiky Serve as a dinner-bell, but
had been travelling to Birkenhead in one of the com- would also, in case of an attempt tin brere taktlnnet,oetheeherelise,
party's carriage:: and had cut off the window strap,
which was aft:CrWartls found in his posses ion for the tel'el'ebfl:L=oloW." at.'irtilitr'lrer:l;li:,-lathe 4ualter gentleMani7
purpose, as he stated of " hitching up his breeches." :Torte these recommendations, "I will
if I put it to both those uses, how
Prisoner admitted the offence, and was fined alls. and ;t,t,7r
pulirsct
should my friends distinguish between a late dinner and an
ITa'sj'elgtlyttgeonnt lc!!
costs, and ordered to pay the damage, amounting to early burglary?"
23.Ce1., or to go to prison for twenty-one days. In giving Mr. Johnston, of Ballykilbeg, left his prison on Mon-
evidence, Mr. Andrews, the station-master at 51onk.e day He was met at the prison gates and escorted loins house ty
Ferry, stated that since the second-class carriages had a procession numbering several thou Sands of persons, who ,
lteen fitted up with cushions, dtc., scarcely a train came :::trel.., 01.,1;avy.h.alnjleeerethiLefes.ourosslfire. 'there slyer gr, o4l.llaei
tot hich was: nut more or leas damaged out o 4 wilful I:ssetrfithose'Was addressed by the Rev. Dr. Drew and Mr. ,
mischief. The company had offered a reward of £lO 301111 stoic, the latter demanding the lowering of the fraiwhiae.
for the conviction of the offenders. and freedom of representation for Ulster. A slight disturb- ,
AN: TABLEi NEWsPAPER MAN.-The Mouthed er ..111...eemotel•frmiltiat,tuheprrelnsec;i
io,yf gee
plL,ceeedings, but it was
Guardian records the death of Mr. John Harland, at .
'N'I . L't 11, the widow of the late John Leech,
than g,e of sixty-two. Originally a ktterpress printer, whesrse nema.°Zll3 SO long and SO nitlnmtely aasociated with
he, early in life, turned his attention to literary
Punch, died a few days ago, at Kensineton.
pursuits, learnt aliorthand, and rapidly asenmed a first The 15th of this month is considered the period for
rank in his profession. By his labeurs on the Guardian the cuckoo's in first to be heard in the south of Engliind.
he entirely changed the character of provincial report-
ing, givingit a power and a compreheneiveness which This year it was first heard at seine places on the 14th.
l'he nightingale was beard in the neighbourhood of
it had never before puaseased. The Manchester Southampton on the 23rd of April, and the cuckoo was heard
Guardian says :- near Bitterer, in Hants, on the 22n11.
The invention and development of Pitman's phonoeranhr The Paris advices mention that a loan of £4,000,000
of which Mn, Harland had a high opinion has made that stock, with lottery prises, is about to be introduced for the
familiar now which was then so uncommon ; hut until the Sues Canal.
introduction of the latest and best system of shorthand, Mr. The - It,m .u.t -
Harland had no equal. Ire was, in short, the fattier of olt gallery of pictures at Paris was sold
p rovincial re run the other day for £55.000. There were nnly twenty-thrt
e pog.
pictures. tine Ostade was purchased at .3.300 ; a Paul Potto,
PoohFr ',tow !-A young man of Vaugirard R 4.400 : a forest scene. flobbona, 05.400-5,111 a (awn. £3.1400
was desperately in love with a young lady who did the The Congress /if Munster, by Lertiurgh. was bought by NI.
plate and glass washing of an 'hotel. He "told his mannheint ss it is supposed for Karon Rothschild. for R, .20s.
love," and was rejected. 14e took it much to heart, "Patrick," said a priest to an Irishman, " how
much hay did you stead?" "Weil," replied Pat, "I may as
and resolved to emulate the Duke of Clarence in the
well confess to your riveeence for whle stack, for Inv
way of departing this life. e entered the cellar, wife and I are going to take the rest of it on the tlrst dark
fastened the doors behi H the
o
nd, sat on the floor, turned on night,"
the taps of several huge casks, and quietly waited till In Fronk Leslie's Illustrated Paper. published in
the flood rose. :When discovered he was nearly New York, is a caricature of the inmenhed President
dead, the wine having almost got up to the right Johnson, seated at a table with bottles and glasses on it, lie-
place, his mouth. The landlord kicked and cured tween Kling Charles I. of England and King Louis XVI of
him l. France, each of whom carries his head in his hand. The
Ma telt is called "Ghostly Comiselb as." and the following
A DANGEROUS GIFT.-The last possessor of the 1;a)oue ;
0.. e .s supposed to take place i-The Ex,c,0i,,,,, ~Ah,
watch, whieh was the cause of Barrington the Pick- my friends-you can sympathise with me-but tell me, does
pocket, being transported, has bequeathed it to the It hint very flinch?- 'lie Exact/VT! together, : "No-you
: South Kenaington Musuem. Curiosities of this sort don't feel it after the first minute or se"
: give no much delight to visitors, that, not improbably, Mr. Wm, Ray Smee suggests in a letter to the
• the watch in question will send some one into a trans- Morning Star that a halfpenny postage should he adopted
, port a second time -Punch. for newßpaperS and circulars, and tel into sonm calculit-
miomultsooriflytolse
t I
recently delivered in P y
tlons to show that it would pay. He would lave circulars
tn
sge, sooftintall'ewlit'elfnl'eneuNlemraeten :I'M
, AID C••VERED SCALP.-If. Heine, in a lecture tawkeinngat atdhvea:etaa
Paris, and reported in the EMU.
ch.i C'oa ra, in which lie narrates a ral:id visit he has re- ree7lin ?entttebrse 17n n ianireiretsnod Nentll74l.4l.7srvalho!
cently made to the Rocky Mountains, recommending a left in charge, being ignorant of their nature, are bound to
similar excursion to his additors in place of the worn- forward.
out Alpine and Pyrennean tours, relates the following Discussing the movements and career of the heir to the
anecdote (says the Mettle& Times and Gazette). He says, Crean, the !kW!, Neu., looking forward to the distant
While sleeping in one of the magnificent "palace period at which he in likely to ascend the throne, and suite
sleeping cam" of the Great Western Railway now gentling that long before that thne the amunements and re-
' extending to the Locky Mountains, he quite forgot creations natural to, and innocent in a youthfid prince, will
: the I liana who a few months before ki have ceased to be interesting or appropi iate. adds thepimark
ntd I oed
- P-a that the best security against the misleading iiihiCe of
i oh-tales on the line, in older to overturn the train I factious and self-seeking intriguers is in political study and
. and then to I.:liege it. One of the persons injured in ' reflection. Maurer age will peed theie resoumes, and they
I tine conflict Wila a young emplopo', 'I oinkins by name, cannot IR provided ton early. - -
: who Wint shot down awl beat with the butt end of the The following advertisement appears in ene of our
. musket and fell apparently dead. He was, however, London contemporaries :-... A lady of :retiring lintel., whose
t seized by the Indians to get his scalp as a trophy. AB husband is dead, wishes to dispose of a Small but muscular
s the unfortunate man had the courage not to flinch der- female child six months old. A captath of IV ship or an
t log the scalping process, he got free with having to wear itsltaltesy gerlernsn goirta ahroadwould be handeataely tego-
h The child is fair and of an eeoging
t a uig in future. Even this did not become necessary, pcsiden'n and ben been well christened in a iaitestant
I for he had the good luck to pick up his own scalp, church. ' Satisfactory reasons will he given by the n.othir,
i which the Indians had dropped during their eight. having no further use for it. By letter old F."
i M. Heine states that he verified the truth of this on The Bricklayers' Union at Liverpool have cansed a'
the spot. strike at the werks of Messrs linlme and Nicol. large
i A FLoRF.NTINE R,MANCE.---The Florence . lu:tinders anti contractors there. the "rounds of dispute being
I Nan one tells a singular tale, whose accuracy may fairly fonder:loo;n' tp.ii
yhe.tipinraltfvusj 5
f11,,,...5..5r,;-..lglein:. annilLitco/fras
i be doubted. Early in March a Danish lady arrived former strike. and an opposition to a 'new male of rules of
i aill the capital, and put up at a private lodging outside which the master builders had given notice. The Master
• tile Oroas-gate. She was a member of the Jesuit Buildera' Asarociation have intimated that, unless the strike
4 brotherhood at Moister, and by the orders of her against tis4arS'
1 Moline and Nicol be itunirliaWly withdraws,
, steps will he taken to protect that Man and Mat: after tile
• • 4th of May next. the master bricklayers will only enag:oy
; superior had e: ale to Lentlon t:: renew a " former emi
: Meldon with Maagini." By her auggeratal padew i men who are willion to work under the new ifiadAl CK IMM-