The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-11-23 00:00:00

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ROME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL

El/MT CHILDREN AT A BIRTIL—The
Lanett and Observer records the following
On the 21st of August, Mrs. Timothy Bradlee, of Trum-
bull County, Ohio, gave birth to eight children—three boys
and five girls. They are all living, and are healthy, but
quite small Mr. Bradlee was married six years ago to
Bolder Mowery, who weighed 1731 b on the day of her mar-
riage. She has given birth to two pairs of twins, and now
eight more, making twelve children in five years. Mrs.
Bradlee was a triplet, her mother and father being both
twins, and her grandmother the mother of live pair of twins.
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CHARGE OF BIGAMY. —At the Central Criminal
Court, in London, Walter Kempster, a respectably'
dressed man, 32 years of age, described as a draughts-
man, pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him
with feloniously marrying Ellen Piuch, his wife being
alive. —Mr. Metcalf addressing the court, said there
were some mitigating circumstances in the case. When
the prisoner separated from his wife he agreed to allow
her 10s. a week, which he faithfully paid her. With
regard to the second wife she knew very soon after the
marriage was celebrated that the prisoner had been
married before, but she continued to live with him.—
The Commiseioner said he regarded the offence an a
very serious one. The prisoner had deceived the
woman Pinch, and induced her to marry him by repre-
senting that he was a widower. It was said that ehe
continued to live with him after she knew his first wife
, was alive. But what was she to do? One of the most
solemn rights of the Church had been profaned, and
the offence that had been committed must receive a
severe punishment The Commissioner then sentenced
the prisoner to eighteen months imprisonment.
SF.RY SANT BATES.—A London American gives
the following particulars of Serjeant Bates :
Mr. Serjeaut Bates, who bears the Stars and Stripes
across England, is of distinguished his. A brother of the
late Bon. Edward Bates, the Attorney-General uuder the
administration of Abraham Lincoln, and connected with the
Into Joshua Bates, the great banker, he first eutered public
life as an advocate of distinguished qualities, appearing as
attorney lathe now famous case of the United States recess
George Alfred Townsend Be graduallv rose to eminence
until he became one of the ornaments of the American bar.
His fondness for British institutions led him to adopt the
title of Serjeant (not Sergeant) Bates. Odd as it may seem to
behold a lawyer of his great reputation carrying a flag
through a strange country, yet it may be termed one of those
curious and pardonable freaks which are sometimes de-
veloped in the character, of great enthusiasts. General
Adam Radom has written a very excellent biography of
Serjeant Bates, published among "Beadle's Biographiee."
Mr. Morgan, the gentlemanly representative of the United
States, is, it as understood, arranging a reception—a public
dinner—al which it is hoped the chair will be taken by Mr.
George Bancroft, who has been suddenly called to Wash-
ington, and who will atop in London on his way for a tow
Says.
Jut= IMMIGRATION.—We (The Times)
derstand that Mrs. Stapleton Bretherton, of Ditton-
hall, near Prescot, Lancashire, has placed her mansion
at the disposal of such members of the Jesuit body as
may be driven to England from Germany, and that •
considerable number of Jesuit fathers and lay and ec-
clesiastical students are expected to arrive there before
Christma• Mn, Stapleton Bretherton (says Catholic
Ophsion) has received many anonymous letters threat-
ening to burn down her house should the Jesuits be
received within its walls. It will be remembered that
some three-quarter. of • century ago the mansion and
estates of Stonyhrust, in Lancashire, was in like man-
ner placed at the disposal of the Jesuits who were
driven hem France at the time of the first Revolution
by its owners theVelda, into whose hands it had come
by marriage from the Shireburnss, the heiress of that
sealant hones having married one of their ancestors,
Walken Weld, in 1672