The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-06-27 00:00:00

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'Bor—Tn—hig , to know the terms. fre emit them,
and Barnes (broiled 20 tons to be sent to him by rail-
way, and Bad.. ,i‘nt him a prombisory note, which
had never been paid. On the sth of March, witneei
came up to London and called at Israel's establishment,
where he saw Barnes and Israel; but he slid not know
either. He said he wanted to see Mr. Barnes. Israel
said, "Oh, I wish I NV SA Bartle." He spoke to a
woman about Barnes, and the money he owed him,
when she said he expected a remittance from Ireland,
and as soon as that came he would be settled with.
Witness also went to 2, Angel-place, and found it a
very small house where there was no business.
Willi -en rton, teed salesman, said he advertised
some hayseed for sale in a Leeds newspaper, and
received a reply from the prisoner Barnes. In con-
sequence of that he sent tank 20 qrs. ; but he .hrol
never been paid for them.
Inspector Potter said that in consequence of in-
formation he had received, he called at Israel's house
on the sth of May, and asked him about some pro.
perty lie suspeeted id being concealed about his
premises. Israel said, "What do you want to know
for r Witness asked him if had ever purchased goods
of Barnes and Morgan. He said, "No, I don't know
IBarnes; I know Morgan ; they call him 'Sugar but
I never hail any goods of him. ' On the following day
he apprenended him, and found willows in the house.
Witness said that lie had traced £I,OIKI worth of
property to the prisoner ; and added that there were
:it least twenty other eatteß of a similar nature. The
Magistrate observed that there was no necessity to
lsinless the depositions with any other cases. The
prisoners were committed for tnal at the Central
'riminal Court.

two ,on ieho I(;dged-itsr—n ban hard by. The holes
was kept in the stable. Two days before the races Mr.
Frederick :Ainallridce. one of the suns, callow I Little
Sally round the couri(e, and on his leaving he was met
by the prisoner, who was riding Little Fairy,
which was also intended to compete. They
afterward(' met at Bishops Tawton, and in-
oilier remarked remarked •• The race lies between our horses."
At 10 o'clock on the morning before the race. Little
Sally fed very well, appeared healthy as usuaL She
was in the stables of the inn. About noon three
nien and the prisoner entered the inn. The prisonei
went into the stable, and was seen standing at the head
of the mare with the halter oil and his hand on its
neck. From that time the horse failed. She did not
eat anything the same day, nor yet the following
morning. She was taken to the races to fulfil her
engagement, and on her way she began violently to
purge. (in her arvival at the course she was examined
by Mr. Hewish. veterinary surgeon, who ordered that
she should be taken home. About 12 o'clock the horse
expired in dreadful agony. Mr. Hewish made a post-
mortem examination, and found that the horse had
been poisoned. The stomach was sent to Mr. Hera-
path, of Bristol, who discovered oxalic acid, sulphuric
acid, or oil of vitro!, and other poisonous spirits. The
isoner's hose was searched, and the pace took
possession of the three ls.ttles, one of which contained
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ninriatie acid. The bench remanded the ease, to
further e% id, nee. Bail accepted—two sureties
in 5:100, and tine prisoner in £2OO.

-Glaietier, widow, end IttaZrrtwi—ww2-411-iitifir,
re-pectively the relict and son of deceased, and Tom
ltav, the executors. The personal property is sworn
under £60,000. The testator by his will bequeaths to
his trustees £lOO, upon trust, to divide and distribute
the same amongst such of the poor fishermen of Deal,
and in such manner as they shall in their discretion
select and think proper' to the vicar and church-
wardens of the parish of Wigton £601.0, upon trust, to
invest same in the Government funds and to pay and
apply the dividends annually on St. Thomas day
amongst twenty of the most deserving pour men and
women if the ages of sixty and upwards. being
inhabitants of the villages of Lesson Hall and Waver.
tin, near Wigton. The trustees are also to set apart
such a sum as will produce £2O per annum, and to pay
aline to the schoolmaster of the school at Waverton,
founded by his late made. By the codicil the testator
leaves to the Hospital for Sick Children, in Great
Ormond-street, £5OO, and he states that he does so at
the desire of his late daughter Eliza. All the said
legacies are given free of duty._

SrUDEN bEaTII.—I n London, the other morning,
a lady and her two daughters were being driven by their
coachman to the Crystal Palace, and as the cartiage
reached the Vauxhall-bridge road one of the young
ladies asked the coachman the way he intended taking.
No answer being returned, the question was repeated
with the same result. The ladies got alarmed, and
the carriage was stopped, when it was found that the
coachman was sitting on the box ill an almost insensible
state. He was taken down froin the seat and carried
to a chemist's shop, and medical assistance being
obtained every attention was paid to him, but after
lying there for nearly two hours he was removed to St.
George's Hospital, where he died soon after being
admiited.

Givi NO THEM a LEsRON.— Here is a reliable little
fact, given on the authority of the chief actor in the
comedy. He is an -American merchant. Last Sunday
he went into a fashionable London church, a few
minutes after the service had commenced, and stood in
the aisle. The pew. opener mowed him several times, and
took no notice of him. " they show more respect to
a stranger in American churches." said my Yankee
acquaintance; " so I determined to give them a lesson.
Seeing that there was plenty of room in several pews,
but the pew-opener passed me again and again without
offering me a seat, I quietly spread open my coat-tails,
and squatted down on the neatly-matted aisle. The
clergyman noticed me, and looked at the pew-opener,
who at once came to me, and offered me a seat. 'No,
thank you,' whispered I, 'I am quite comfortable,
and shall sit here all the service.'"
A VERY RARE Disaasa----The British Medical
Journal says :
There exists on record in medicine up to the present day
one only case of enormous overgrowth of all the bones of the
body with was.ing of the muscles. It was observed by
Saucerotte. The second has been recently observed by Pro-
fessor Friedreich, and is now described at length in Virchow's
Apchir, bd. 3865. Saueerotte's case was that of a man,
aged 39, the weight of whose body rwie, in the space of four
years, from 1191/is, to 17sIlis, by the increase of his bones,
the muscles all the while wasting 'I he head of lids man
was monstrous, the eyes being pushed forward to the level
of the forehead, and the lower jaw having attained an
enormous thickness. Attacks of insensibility and difficulty
of breathing characterised his complaint. M. Frledreich's
patient, aged 26, is one of six children, of whom all are
healthy except the youngest, who has a minor form of the
same affection. At 13 he began to tlnd his feet and ankles
growing large and heavy; then the hands and fingers. The
lower and upper limbs are of enormous size the measure-
ments are given , due entirely to the growth of the, bones,
the muscles being wasted. Standing, walking, lying, are all
difficult. Ile finds comfort from cold baths. His internal
organs appear healthy, and there is no disturbance of the
brain. Medicines have been ineffectual ; but latterly the
disease has seemed to be stationary.
Tun WILL OF LORD BRoUGHAM.—The will Of
the late Right Honourable Henry, Lord Brougham
and Yank, of Brougham Halt Vtrestmoreland, who
died on the 7th ult. at Cannes, was proved on the 17th
instant, by his brother Williams, the present lord, the
sole executor. The personal property is sworn under
£2,000. The will, which is dated the Bth of December,
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1801, is all in the deceased's handwriting; it is written
on one side of a sheet of paper, and on the other side
there is a lithograph of his sea', Brlugham Hall. The
testator, after reciting that by two deeds, dated the
18th of March, 1847, and the 16th of November, 1857,
he has settled and disposed of the whole of his real
estates in a manner perfectly satisfactory to his mind,
goes on to say :-
80 far as I lawfully can I confirm these deeds, yet having
regard to the want of any place of safe custody publicly
authorised, so often complained of by me, and to the acci-
dents happening at the offices of solicitors and elsewhere, I
think it tight to provide for the event of the deeds I have
referred to being lost or destroyed, and no satisfactory evi-
dence of their execution or contents being forthcoming.
In this event, he then gives and devises all his real
estate, situated in England, to his brother William,
his heirs and assigns in fee, and likewise bequeaths to
him all his personal estate whatsoever and whereso-
ever. _ _ _

SHOCKING CASE OF SCALDINCL-011 SMUT(Iay
a lad named Dyson, aged 15, engaged at the dye.
works of Mr. Holroyd, Gretland, near Halifax, was in
the act of lifting a bucketful of hot water out of a
cistern, when the weight of toe vessel caused him to
over alance himself and to fall head foremost into the
cistern, which was a quarter full of scalding water.
His cries soon brought a fellow-workman to his assist-
ance, and he was speedily rescued, although not
before he was shockingly scalded over nearly the whole
of his body. What ii ade the matter worse for the un-
fortunate youth was the mistaken treatment of him by
other men working at the place, who immediately
afterwards put him into a tub of cold water, under the
idea if checking inflamnution, thereby seriously endan-
gering his life. He WES afterwards conveyed to the
Halitax Infirmary.
MARINO THE LAME TO WALK.—Liverpool has
a good local story if a tiger which escaped from a
menagerie, and terrified the suburbs for some hours.
In one outlying district a man who had lost both legs
has sat for twenty years —a sturdy, stunted vagrant,
making a good thing out of his infirmity, and, like
tradesmen who die, "generally known and respected."
But in an evil hour for his professional profits, the road
a-here be had taken up his seat for a score of years was
on the morning of the tiger escape the scene of a fierce
stampede. Down it poured pell-mell men, women, and
children at full speed, sereaming with terror, and
crying out, "The tiger ! The tiger !" The cripple had
heard the news of the escape, and now fear lent him
legs, or restored his old limbs; he started up, threw
away the big bowl on which he had sat doubled up
every day, and with an energy that left nothing to be
-desired he bounded down the road, and soon out-
stripped all competitors. The tiger was caught, but
the "cripple" was never seen again—at least, in that
neighl iourhood.
ESCAPE OF Mn. ST. GEORGE GRENFELL.—Mr.
St. George Grenfell, an Englishman, was convicted
during the late American war of an attempt to burn
the city of Chicago, in order to liberate the Confederate
prisoners at Camp Douglas (says the Pall Mall Gaulle).
Ile was sentenced to be hung, but his sentence was
commuted to hard labour for life at the Dry Tortugas.
Subsequently a number of his fellow exiles were
pardoned, and an application was made for Mr.
Grenfell's release, but was refused. Lately, however,
Ire managed to escape in a boat, and it was rumoured
that the boat capsized, and he was drowned. A letter
has been received from Mr. Grenfell at the Havannah,
saying that he hail made good his escape, thanking the
officers at the Tortugas for their kindness, and an-
nouncing that he was on his way to England.
EXPENSIVE BeoNomY.—At Stoke-on-Trent po-
lice-court, on Friday, John Sheri). ttom, pig-dealer, of
that town, was charged with cruelty to animals. On
the sth inst., the defendant hired a railway truck at
East Dereham, professedly for the conveyance of 70
pigs to Stoke-on-Trent, but he packed 113 pigs in
the truck, mid on its arrival at Stoke-on-Trent three of
the pigs were found to be dead through overcrowding,
and no food having been supplied on the journey, the
straw and chaff spread on the floor of the truck ha ff been
eaten up and the surviving pigs were found to be in a
shrieking condition. Mr. Davis, the stipendiary, maid
the only way to put a stop to such cruelty was to make
it unprofitable, and inflicted the highest penalty, £5,
and costs, the fine and costs together amounting to
1:12 4s. &I
THE HERMITS QUARREL —(From the Sunday
Library).—Two old men lived in the same cell, and
had never disagreed. Said one to the other, "Let us
have just one quarrel, like other men." Quoth the
other, "I do not know what a quarrel is like." Quoth
the first, "Here I put a hricr between us, and say that
it is mine, and you say that it is not mine • and over
that let us have a contention arid squabble." But
when they put the brick between them, the one said,
It is mine," and the other said, " I hope it is mine."
and when die first said, "It is mine, it is not yours,"
he answered, "if it is yours, take it." So tney could
not find out how to have a quarrel.
Wont IV ASSERTING THS Inn RIGHTS.—The ladies
of New York have formed a club called "Tire Wo-
men's Club ! " Latch-keys are in great demand, so
much or, that tWO new shops have opened in Broadway
for the sale of that article of luxury. Husbands are
reduced to a semi-state of madness, and Clara has only
to say to that wicked Charles, aho will stop out late
at night, that she intends putting her name up at the
club, to reduce Charles to a model paterfamilias and
early hours. There is serious talk of petitioning Con-
gress to pass a bill forbidding the opening of such an
institution, but, as the female sex are strong sup-
porters of the Republican party, the grumblers are
afraid the bill would not be carried.
A NEW WAY OF SPENDING A HOLlDAY.—News-
paper readers will perhaps remember that it was stated
in the papers that a gentleman last season took lodgings
for the season on board the Ramsgate Steamer Eagle,
and accompanied the vessel on every trip, deriving
much benefit from the sea air. The directors of the
company have determined to fit up a limited number
of berths on board this vessel and the Albion, which
will shortly commence running, for the convenience of
persens c-ho may feel inclined to engage them. They
may be had by the week, month, or for the whole
season.
A SEASONABLE SCOGFSTIONT. Sanitas,"
writing to the .111,dieal Press and areular, refers to
the billy of persons plunging into a bath after a full
meal, thus risking sudden death from congestion or
some other fatal mischief. Numbers who escape such
a calamity are sufferers for their imprudent mode of
immersion—shiverings, headaches, and other symptoms
often succeeding; but the true cause is rarely sus-
pected. Tire writer, therefore, suggests that notices
should lie put up in appropriate places, requesting no
person will bathe within two hours of a meal, and Rug-
gesting the desirableness of all persons consulting their
medical adviser before taking a sea-bath as to the need
or benefit of doing no,
THEODORE'S CROWNS AND RooEs!--The articles
brought from Abyssinia by Col Fraser, as a present
from the British forces to the Queen, are mom splendid
than, from the character of the country, could have
been imagined. The crowns—for there are two, one
for State wear, and the other for common use—are
both remarkable. They are made of gold, and the
State crown is no heavy that it would task the endurance
of an ordinary man to wear for any length of time.
In height it is about 18 inches, and the gold is inlaid
with Precious atones. The commoner crown is lined
with dark silk velvet, but the colour is much faded. There
, are also two robes, worn on State occasions, being
made of gold tinsel, worked in floss' and lined with
I brown satin. The other robe is not of so costly a