The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-01-11 00:00:00

SATURDAY, JAN. 11. 1868

The Paris Fantro says that an illustrious Eastern
personage lost the other night at the glob of the Rue Royale
the sum of 120,0)0f. 44,000/ , and that in consequence he
has left l'aris &Mt sold his picture gallery.
The Board if Trade have given Instructions for the
payment of a reward to each of the I Wash seamen who
manned a I,,iat sent from the Ksssbhrn Lightship to rese,,,,
the crew of the Britannia, of Montrose, wrecked on Ain.lt
lt,-ef in the Cattegat, on the Pith November last. the boat
saved the lives of five seamen, who were taken on board the
lightship and treated with much kindness for eight days.
Br. Swift, of Eceleshall, near Stafford, met with a
shocking accident on Monday evening, which proved fatal
to him on the spot. Ile was returning home after dusk on
horseback along a bridle-road, when, on coming to a hurdle
which had been placed across the way during the day to
prevent sonic sheep straying, his horse stumbled and
threw him to the ground, dislocating his neck. The unfor-
tunate gentleman lay there dead some time before the
accident was discovered.
The coroner's jury at Liverpool have returned a
verdict of wilful murder against some person ar persons
unknown, by whose violence ,with a sling shot, an 411.1 man
named Lennon, living In a cellar In Great Howard Street.
Liverpool, lost his life.
A Shanghai telegram of the 7th ult, says that a
political revolution has taken place in Japan. The Tycoon
has resigned It is supposed that the foreign relations of
Japan will not be prejudiced by the change. An adjourn-
ment of the opening of the new ports for a few months is,
however, considered probable.
Fourteen Fenians were brought up for examination
before the magistrates at Nlerthyr Tydvil, on Monday, and
considerable evidence was taken implicating them as mem-
bers of the Fenian Brotherhood This diabolical conspiracy
La said to have obtained considerable footing amongst the
numerous Irish lalmurers and furnace-men employed in the
Welsh ironworks and mines.

; It is said that the French Government is sending
troops from Cochin China to Japan.
Don Patton, the one-legged dancer, made a desperate
attempt at suicide by cutting his throat with a razor, at his
lodgings at Southampton, on Saturday. Ile was remove,: to
the infirmary, and lies there in a precarious state. lie is
. supposed to have been suffering from delirium trentau at
the time he committed the rash deed.
On Tuesday, the Prince of Wales, accompanied by
his suite, paid a visit to the patients in St. Bartholomew- a
, Hospital, who were injured through the late Fenian outrage
at Clerkenovell. Ilia 111 51 Highness expressed 'great syni-
patby, and commiseration for their condition, and the
, patient& seemed much pleased and gratified by the visit.
; The Royal party then proceeded to the House of Detention
. to look at the scene of the explosion.
At sunrise and sunset the light of the sun h'is to
; pass through about 200 miles of atmosphere within a mie of
the surface of the earth, in order to illuminate a cloud a
; mile from the ground.
, Alfred Day, the once famous jockey, died on
' Saturday last, alter a long and painful Mimes.
The lion. C. S. Hamilton, a member of Congress
from Ohio, was on December 22 brutally murdered by his
son at his home in that State. The soil had previously
' shown symptons of insanity, and the father bad mine home
to have him taken charge of. Dir. Hamilton was killed by a
blow en the head with all axe, and the son, 'before he was
restrained, also inflicted severe wounds on a younger brother.
As an indication of the present scarcity of employ-
ment in New York city, it is annouticeil that, in response to
an advertisement of is dry-goods house for an "entry clerk,"
A second declaration of the Limerick priesthood,
adigs,,hrutiLd.reettaappppliezeti
rs were received during the day the
.which Wars the signatures of two dignitaries and thirty
restoring the blessings of domestic legislation. This con-
cession, which they believe •. to be fully compatible with the
.paptionshthper6ien,tsverorn.c,ieinrattteosaantilfyisttohe
.g:it,ifrumrtlite.r
onianiremis.,,,cdalblys
integrity of the empire and the security of the Crown,"
would, they add, "have the like happy results in Ireland
• that have signally attended a similar adjmtment recently in
Hungary."
snttateitst thosetr,
I A circular signed by the principal secretary, bard
Majesty's dockyards shall he examined before Use Civil
has
passes In the most Satisfactory mannerist be placed in the
,• for the Lennox,f
tit r, been
candidates isue 'fio'r wadiliVaincitemis
•
first vacancy, itrespetive-of all 'other caosiderations.
Sl:erne:eye Commissioners, and 'that in every eau the man who
rt may he' interesting to ow readets,to know that
M. Louis Blanc has written to the Loudon press, disavowing
any censure on the esisting -GerernMent for the energetic
steps they have taken to check Fenian progress, and ex-
cusing their action on the ground of the State necessity.
It is, says the Lase Times, the intention greatly to
Increase the number of county court judges. line report
states that too judges will be assigned to each circuit. one
to take the equity site, the other the common law, and, if
the jurisdiction be conferred, the Admiralty side.
. The following, which may prove attractive to some
; adventurous young English nobleman, appears in a Patin
' daily paper :—" Marriage—A young lady ot high rank pos-
sessing a fortune of three millions (£120,001.d.', and as much
. more to come, desires to unite herself with a Fresco or
. foreign gentleman, young, and with a fine title and fortune.
. Address," etc.. rte.
; Great activity now prevails in the French dockyard,
i There are thirty-nine vessels in course of construction of
, which nine are armour-plated. The French navy now num-
bers 504 ships of war of all classes.
, The two wings of the Fenian brotherhood that
have so long been quarrelling with each other in America
have at length agreed to unite, and the Preeidency of the
, united body has been offered to John Mitchel, at present
. publishing the Irish Citizen newspaper In New York.
Mitchel, however, has declined the post, and it Is said that
It will be offered toe General Shields,
Mrs. Yelverton (or Miss Longworth) has raised a
new action in the Edinburgh Court of Sension for the
, purpose of netting aside the judgments in the former 'Riga-
' Lions in the Scotch courts in the House of Lords. The point
upon which she relies is that the Scotch courts had no juris-
diction to pronounce their judgment, Major Yelverton
• haying never had a Scotch domicile.
" Chignons have fallen; those abominations have
at last come to grief, and there is scarcely one to be seers in
I all Paris. The fiat of fashion has gore forth, and.chignons
i are abolished. The new way of doing the hair is toroi it up
into a large flat cart wheel on the top of the head, coming
• to within sri inch of the forehead. It requires no artificial
aiii."—Ladies' Own Paper.
A fire occurred on Saturday night in Paris at one of
the most unlikely places for such an event—the ice-house in
the Bois de Boulogne. It is not related that Shelve in it
, was burned but owing to the frost, which caused a delay ill
getting water for the engines, one section of the ranee of
' buildings was entirely consumed and another much damaged.
' Ultimately a long "chain" of volunteers was formed Lott %sell
, the building :noddle Passy Artesian well, watch fuenliffied an
, abundant supply of water, and the-flames were extili_uished.
; 'The Chaplain of the English Church in Paris writes
toThe Times to warn young governesses against going to
Paris to team French, or to teach English. The market is
much over-supplied already.
The Journal du Havre mentions that the Count de
Golfz mason the point of leaving Paris to vomit a Berlin
physician for disease of the liver. The North German Gazette
; says he was coming to liaeliu to consult the nelelorated
oculist Grate for disease Of the eyes. The telegraph an-
nounceshis arrival in Kerlin. With regard-to hiSeye COM-
, plaint, the ',chats remarks that "of all the ambassadors
In Paris in 1866, Count de Goltz seemed to have the clearest
. . .
vision !"
The Welsh colliery owners have, it is said, resolved
to reduce the wages fifteen per cent, at the end of this
Month, and it is feared that the men will resist therdecrease.
In North Staffordahire there is also likely to hen conflict
• between the employers and the employed in the iron trade,
owing to the former having 'come to the conclusion that it is
absolutely necessary either to stop the works for the present,
or " rearrange wages on a fair basis." • •
• The Leeds Mercury says that the iron trade dispute
in Sheffield, which it was feared might extend to other parte
of the district, has come to an end. The puibilers employed
' at the Atlas works, one of the largest establishntents in the
town, have accepted the reduced terms those at the Cyclone
works, it is believed, will also dean, and it is expected that
those employed at the other works in the town will do tha
same.
The special constables sworn in for the City of
London amounted up to Saturday night to 6,532,
On the lake in the Bois de Boulogne, in Paris, a
young American lady, Mies Beckwith has been attracting
immense attention by the agility and grace with which she
executes with her skates letters not exceeding one foot ant
a half in length, the words thus cut in the lee being perlettly
, legible. The Emperor and Empress ha it watched Miss
. Beckwith's evolutions with great interest. The YOUlla in Ir
. is considered to be one of the prittiest and most accomplished
, of the American colony in Paris.
Some of the survivors of Mentana have had a
• banquet. The following telegram was sent to General Gat i-
habil :—" Some of the survivors of Mentatia send their
General an affectionate greeting. Push on the completion
of our unity. Call upon us; we are ready." The General
sent the following reply Camera, Dec. 22, 1867. Sly
Dear Fungi,-1 have received from a lady the following
, motto :—'Victory is achieved by perseverance' I hope Italy
, will remember this motto next spring. My affectionate
compliments to the companions in arms of yours, G
GARIBALDI. "
We have reason to know (says the Churchman) that
steps are being taken with the view of prosecuting i,,r heresy
a very prominent meniber of the Ritualist party. Th. here
tient doctrines have been proinulgated in a recent punli .ll-
thin, and are too clearly expressed to leave a doubt that the
proceedings will be attended with success.
An arrest, believed to be of an important nature,
was made at Limerick Junction, on Saturday, by the con-
stabulary Stationed at Soloherni. The man arrested was ,it
gsittlentanly appearance, and held a ticket for cork lie was conveyed to 'ripperary to await further investigation.
The Prussian journals pithlish strong appeals to the
public charity on behalf of the labouring population of the
eastern provinces of that kingdom, who are not only already
suffering dreadfully from want but threatened with absolute famine from the scarcity of the late harvest. Aires ly
the hospitals are crow, led, and typhus has made its appear
ance. The (Ineen of Prussia has invited nearly seventy ladies,
chiefly the wives and daughters of commermal men, to COll.. suit with her respecting the most proper meatie of aiding the
necensitous people. The holding of an Immense bazaar in
the Royal Palace was determined on, all the ladles engaging
to assist
On the 3r4 of January a purse was present, if con-
taining 50 sovereigns to pensioned Sergeant James Mar-
nhall, latent the metropolitan police, who hal been twelve
years in charge of the police station at Beckenham. It
was contributed by magistrates, clergy, gentry, and ra (tea-
time, in testimony of their sense of Sergeant Marshall's 'in.
remitting attention to duty, and of the valuable /Mitten. of his moral consistency of conduct in the parish.
Bishop Gray, it appears from a stotement he made
recently at a meeting held in London, has not yet found .y
clergyman willing to go out to Natal to fight an episcomot duel with Dr. Cotentin. At a meeting of the English 4.71111. Tat
I -Ilion, held on the 13th of bat month, Bishop gray said he
hoped to find a new Bishop in the course of a few days: he
now nays he hopes to hnd. Somebody during the present
month. Nearly enough money seems to have been raisal
I) enable the promoters of the movement to promise the new
Bishop smo or £71.1:1 a year, said yet one clergyman alter
another, to whom the offer is made,,refusea,
Dr. Stne,
,dating from. Ovenden House, near
, Sevenoales, Writes to The Titnatb stride that cooked pot itoes
are as efficacious against scurvy as raw ones ; a 'act not
generally known, but ascertained loeyond doubt toy sir
,
'is
m illia Italy, late physician to the Millhank PenitentiarY.
where nenrvy at one time was flat IIUCOMMOD. The intern.
wholly disappeared on the addition of a few pounds of
potatoes to the weekly dietary. Next to fresh vegetables
desiccated potatoes are the most certain an(ineorimaticsanuul
then onions, tomatoen, turnips, oranges, and leinoms.
Is also decidedly, thoitA mot infallibly, anti ieorbutic ns arc
the leaves of the pokeberry plant (phytolacea) and of the
cactus otuntia.
A great scandal has been caused in one of the com-
munes in the neighbourhood of Paris by two young felt:mei,
one of whom entered the box of the confessing priest aloe
the other went through the farce of a confession. Soon a
veiled fails- approached, and the young man who was on his
Mires hurried away. She innocently (oak his place arid
be the mato to whom !Me was engaged to be married. and
sthhame boexn
confessor
grefoarn deareuspiundgi aateds.hedra.
noaile her confession to the supposed priest, who proved to
who, hearing some disagreeable disclosures, rushed front
• tint aerechwurch,,
, a scene, and a preens renal has been ontwo up agaoist the
anti ragingont-
the praotice of religion,
The toearwhriottohgr iic worldremapltthe.ndenadned his numerous
will athoitatv:terfLi,enalris
disiinguished artist, Mr. Claude!. Among the earlk-st and
Most successful followers of Dagnerre, Mr. Clandet vas
almost the last to abandon the use of metal plates for the
: more modem and improved processes cf photography, :11.4
I it was in some degree due to hie skill snit knowiedee that
daguerrotype at first made earTh progress In this coniarv,
While the inventer's tr.n conutryinen were 44 eagerly bent
men developing the new art is the direction traced by our
Fut Talbot Mr. Claudet's nice discrimination and man ipoi.
lathe dexterity gave to the productions of his camera an
extraordinary refinement. He mu a Fellow of the ;Loyal
Society and other learned bodies,