The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-15 00:00:00

THE STOURBRIDGE OBSERVER.

Cons, friends, or apparent mean. of int IN enc.; but
when undressed and put into bed a bag of money was
found suspended by a string round his deck. To this
he clung with tenacity, refusing to part with it to
any one, and wearing it about him by day and night.
As hie end approached the treasure became a matter
of anxiety to those tending him; for the sum was
evidently large, and it who feared that it might offer
temptation to sonie patient in ease the moment of his
death oh mid io unolwerved. At length the hour
arrived, and when death had apparently claimed him
a nurse gently unfastened the string and removed the
bag. At the same moment the old man opened his
eyes and felt instinctively for his treamire, which .was
no longer in its place. He uttered the word "Gone !"
and died. The money, which was found to amount to
1741., was handed over to the hospital liuthoritiee.

A HUSBAND Kitten Br EIS WIFE.—A sortie-
what singular case of Petit.tresnon" hail taken place
in London. A cooper, named Eitetee, having carted
for his week's wages 2/., took 1/. 17e, home to his wife,
tellMg her Is, had been stopped by his employerfor some
cause Or other. This led to an altercation, in which
both were excessively abusive. However, they went
I,llt together to marke,, hut on their return the quarrel
was renewed. The woman, who appears to have
been a frightfully passionate person, attacked h• r
hoshand, it is supposed, with the poker, and awn
the. him down the main into the street with great
f eve. He was found h big on the pavement with his
skull fractured, and died next mu ning. It in not
known whether the fractures were caused by a previous
biow with the poker or the fall. At the inqueet the
jury returned a verdict of manslaughter.

DR. CUMMING CRITICISSD.—Mr. James Orrllld,
of the Morning Advertiser author of the work "The
End of all Things," gives the following respecting Dr.
Cumming and his prophecies :
Dr Cumming, with his great variety of information and
fascinating atyle, would have done much more to advance
the Millenerian cause, hut for certain Injudicious state-
menta which he hes on various occasions made To give
only one example: I mrelf heard him, as far hack as twenty
years ago, affirm as a matter of fact—not advance as smatter
of opinion—that in four years, dossibiy in a shorter time
than that, the world would come to an end, tn the literal
acceptation of the words This was stated on a Sunday
morning in Exeter Hall, not in my hearing only, but in the
preeen net about 5 101 people, among whom, as may well
he imagined, the absolute, unconaltlonal assertion produced
no ordinary excitement.

Gam? SUFFERINGS AT SEA .—The Local
Marine Board of Liverpool, acting on behalf of the
King of the Netherlands, has presented to Captain
William Grainger, of the barque Queen of India, a
certificate and silver medal in appreciation of his
services in rescuing seven of the crew of a Dutch ship.
In the month of June of the present year a Dutch
barque, called the Joanne's, foundered in the Indian
Ocean. Part of the crew having been loot, seven
persons took to the boat, and after being something
like si ventren days at sea, having nothing to live upon
buts little pumpkin and water, Captain Grainger fell
in with them Ile found them so utterly prostrated
and exhausted that they were utterly powerless even
to seize the rope which was thrown to them, and
Captain Grainger had to get his own men to jump into
the boat. By these means he succeeded in rescuing
them. They remained on board his vessel fifty-three
days, and during that time he to .dc such care of them
that they were restored to tolerably fair health. Capt.
Grainger, however, found that he was short of pro-
visions, and he had to transfer the men to a Dutch
vessel which took them to Amsterdam.

THE MACHINERY or THE Law—At Notting-
ham winter aesizes, on Saturday, there wee only one
county case (night poaching) for trial, at which 146
officials were engaged, being one judge, one clerk, one
marshal, one butler, two servants, one clerk of lassies,
one deputy, one high sheriff, one under sheriff, one
deputy sheriff, two clerks of ditto, the sheriff's chaii-
lain, the sheriff's coachmen, two sheriffs footmen, 23
grand jurymen, one grand jury bailiff. 48 petit jurors,
one common jury bailiff, the court keeper, two deputy
ditto, one gaoler, two prison wardens, one chief con•
stahlea, two inspectors of police, 18 policemen, 18 bar-
risters, and two magistrates; total, 146. The grand
jury, through their foreman, made a presentment on
the inconvenience of this priieeeding, and Mr. Baron
Channel promised to send it to the proper authorities.

PJLITE WRITING ! Hoer would the civic dig.
nitaries of England like critacism of gait sort?:—
A Scrubby Lot —Two or three days ago we remarked
that the average character of the present candidates for
Aldermen and Councilmen in no better than we have had
for several years past. After a close scrutiny, we feel
inclined to amend that remark by siting that the lot now
presented is the shabbiest that we have seen in the 11.-Id
for a lots time. With a very few exception., they are
of the worst and I vee.:t &ass of pot-house polbicians,
yninsellcrs, and pr fessional rases's. Turning such charac
tars into pace. where they can reach the public crib will
be like turning a pack or ravenous wolves Iwo a rubst
market,"

This is a cutting from the New York Sun, which, it ia
needless to say, is a "c ipperhead" paper reviling the
candidatee of the Radical party.

A POPLAR Dattalog. Some competent
person ought to wrtte a " Day at a London Club," to
enlighten the working classes. and to disabuse their
infected mind (remarks the Eeonomiea Its about
as true to say that the puhlicMinnew rue the working
ohtoses as to say that the clubs now rule England, or
oeriouAly irfl•ience on great subj-rts its prepondera-
ting dikes... England ia really governed by grave
and occupied men. The statesmen who rule parties
and direct government are seri 111 l • men with little
thought of gotwip or amusement. They do, of course,
have their names on various club., and use them now
and then for eating purpories and for talking pur-
pose.. But the Writer:l .if the clubs, who make their
days and frame their talk, are men of a different order.
They are well-dressed Otero, who have few connec-
tions in the world, who have dropped out of most
things, who have little influence in the world, who
have no experience to make their opinion valuable,
and no power to make their opinion important, Per-
haps some others may have smiled, as we did, to see
25,000 industrious operatives so anxious to impress a
small number of idle anti useleat middle.ageil men.
AN ESTATE Is BANICRUPICY. —The following
account is given by a Lund •in firm am an example of
the present mode of realising bankrupt estates :

Statement of the accounts, showing the re.ult of the
ft...actions of the creditors' assignee, amt ale° of the
oftn•lal anafgnee, forwarde I nursuaut to the 13Oth section of
the Bankruptcy Act, IM3l:
L
7153 It 7
654

RECETPTS.

s:d.
.. 94 7 7
17 0
40 6 0

over. aid:, may be detainecj M port if the medical
Mimic* certifies that the is not properly provided
with inettpcines and satiscorbutica-
" Octilsbget YotTEI" AT TREIR FREAKS !--TWO
loungertiackhom th Paris papers delicht to call elegants,
created a will senntion in the Champs Elyseee, in
Paris a few days time. One drove up in hit phaeton
to the Ittondidoint, and the other immediately followed
him in his brougham. Their dress, horses, car-
riages, and servants all proves' them to be of that close
known as the "golden youth." They got cult of their
carriages, telling the servants to wait, and then pro-
needed to hire a well-known little carri age drawn by Mar
white goats. These two chiltiten of • larger growth
then gravely squatted dotes in this sort of double
perambulator, smd onntlackedgkiy that old woman who
has been at tbeirwle for *ears, and who, must be as
old as her own goats, were driven up and down the
Cosmos Elysees, apparently not only to their own
satisfaction, but to the admiration of maety scores of
musery-maids and of other children. Probably this
was for a wager.
, END or Cam:nom—Crinoline is in.it state of
collapse (sgianicihe PMVAlartWazette.) The cad has been
long einee prooliesitel, hot the toilettes at Compiegne
this season seem to hive finally settled the question for
OTIVe and al. 'rhe robe that is destined to he Sit haute
Mode his present wist.-r is the robe a queue., with its
straight narrow stir ciuging olat, go the figureotini
its loft sweeping train; still it wiiPuever be in great
favour on 9a walking drew., unless train•lwarers are
again brought into leohion, siva' is not likely. For
visiting, and more particularly for evening dress, the
eleteance of the robe in question will ensure for it •
more general adoption
Tim KIND AND NIE TAILOR.—A Berlin letter
has the ft &lowing
The King anti the Primes have returned from their shoot-
ing excursion at Dessau Ells Stalest, during his visit was
received at the entrance of a village hy the principal Inhabi-
tants, preceded by the schoolmaster, charged to deliver an
address The documert, being well drawn up, lISI very cre-
dos ly listened to, and the King shortly after asked for •
COPY as he wished to muerte it The schoolmaster greatly
pleased, drew from the pocket of a new coat which he wore
a paper, and banded its, his majesty, who, on opening it
exclaimed with a smile, "le tinders 20 groschen ! I promise
you the bill shall be punctually paid." The schoolmaster, in
the confusion of All py, ls handed the King the tailor's
bill, left In the pocket of the new coat.
A MEDICAL OPINION ON MON.—Rain, OD the
whole, would seem to exert a kindly and healthy
influence. 'rhere is nothing very deadly in it It may
occasion catarrhs and Seurnatic complaints, but these
are curable with a little management and medicine.
And we are to put to its credit the washing away of
many of the most itjurious causes of disease by a good
flushing of the sewers. Summer diarrhuos, cholera,
and typhoid fever would be likely to be greatly
lessened by a copiota rainfall. It is quite probable
that the comparatitely small mortality from cholera
this year. with whim hitherto we have escaped, is due
to the excessive ralifall of the summer and autumn
months.

A CHURCH CIERGYM AN IN A DISSENTING
PULPIT.—Last week a sermon was preached in the con-
gregational church, Cheetham-hill, by the Rev. J. C.
Edwards, rector of Ingoldmells. Lincolnshire, and a
collection was male on behalf of his own parochial
schools. The serviir was conducted by the Rev. G. NV.
Condor, congregatonal minister. The sermon in which
the divinity of Chest was set forth EVI the central fact
of the Bilre, only occupied about ten minutes or •
quarter of an hour. Al ter the collection the Lord's
Prayer was said by Mr. Conder, repeated by the con-
gregation; Mr. glwards then offered up an extem-
pore prayer, and cincluded the service by pronouncing
the usual English church benediction.

Too BAD !—The following advertisement ap.
pears in an American paper :-
. .

kIi•NING MAN —left his home, the Hall of the Monte.
somas, an old man d feehle mind, a foreigner, answers to the
name of " Mazimilisn," and has an deft that he is • Mexican
Emperor. It was ipticed that his mind has been wiinderlog
Intel, and it Is feard his body has oeeti doing the same
tidos When last wen he was on the road t Vera Cruz.
apparently fir a hwri, rmaing good time. lied on, when be
belt, a ticked hat French peg top pantel ions, with a
few French coins In the pickets, a short tail coat, and Ma-
lone, with the Ilezta,, eagle on the tail goy information
concerning him will he thankfn,ly recAved hy lii. anxious
friends —Address rcrepalo' L. N , roiliest.* Paris, France

TRW. PARIS EXHIBITION.— ID consequence of the
numerous applicatiiins for assistance which are being
continually made to the British Charitable Fund of
Paris, by workmen who have been disappointed in
obtaining employitent at the Exhibition building, the
London papers haes been rtquested by the Committee
of that charity tocaution workmen against going to
Paris to Reek emir employment, unless they have
obtained beforehand • positive engagement throndi
peniona officially connected with the Exhibition.
The Corneuittee of the British Charitable Fund
lively decline to afford assistance of any kind to this
claim of applicants,

PUBLICATIOS or BANNS.—The Bishop of Ox-
ford asserts that the publication of banns of marriage
should take place in the church service immediately
after the Nicene creed. On this the Sotitifors. Journal
says :

Whether this error Is adopted blind /y or wilfully It ought to
be nut horitattarlyrtluted not only because fro • [IMO 4 such
extensive lesroong as the bishop tinny stet. m-ot come, with
great authority, hut also because an utdootwered witertlon
l'f thu Sri tends to utotettle, in an nitnnecewary an
hurtful wanner. the minds of the public. We can only
e what has twee a,rewly stated, namely, tint the
pu dlcattott of him,. is rsguiate I by the Act Oso IV , c
• 2, and that the proper interoretatkri of that want,. 10,11.
Cates that the time for their publication la Immediately sites
the second Meson

THE IRON CROWN OF LOMBARDY. The iron
crown, handed over by Austria to Victor Emmanuel,
was solemnly replaced on the 6th met, in the Cathedral
of Monza. Th., diadem of the ancient Lombard kings,
broosht from Florence to the Palace of Monza, was
carried to the entrance of the sacred edifice in a gala
carriage, escorted by a guard of honour, and followed
by • second containing the Grand Master of the Cere-
monies and General Solaroli, delegated by King
Vier", Emmanuel to rd i resent him at the ceremony.
On the open Mpatle in front if the ohtirch was erected
a richly decorated stand for the civil and military
authorities. There, after • proc,s-verbal re:ording
the restitution had been drawn up in form, General
Solaroli handed over the precious object to the arch-
prie.t, and it ill henceforth to be deem/natal as the
Crown of Italy,
mEKICAN SHIPMASTERS GLORIFIED !—The foL
lowing letter trim a ahip captain appears in a New
York paper :

When matched against fcreigners, who hi eight cues out
of ten erdl make the smarten t passage to any part of the
world? Are they not Am. Mean shipmasters? Who stands
by a sinking ship to the last, using every expedient known
to seamtpithip to save and bring her into port? Is it not an
American shipmaster? Who stands h.ad and shoulder"
above all foreigners, the English not except* In two greet
essentials of a competent thipmarter. sob idly •nd business
qualification.? Is it not so American shlpoia.ter I Who-
ever saw air American exhibit his " bl,kboard " at sea to
laquire his longitude of • foreigner. No one, because he
him perfect cone Priell if) his ol•11 ability as • navigator.
From cite cause alone, that of abandonment, the English,
the only people who can compete with us, lose two vessel,
to cur mia I claim for the American shipmasters, ass
alas', annuity, sobriety, pluck, etolorance and business quali-
fication second to no others in the world.

E X PLANATOKY.-1 he Coln positors, it appears,
declined to join the Trades' Reform Procession. Pro-
bably they thought that if there was any crowding or
crushing in their division, people would say it was the
letter-press. But printers can hardly be classed with
working-men, they more resemble the Bourgeois type,
—Punch.
A Lon's Jo.—A story reaches us from
Belgium, where the railway officials are very severe,
as in well known, about luggage. An English lady
had her dog —the smallest thing in the world—with
her in the railway carriage.. " Madame," said the
"you must pay for the dog, and I mast put
him int() the clog'n department." "I will pay willingly,
but in England I always carry him in the carriage."
A crowd collected at the altercation. " Madame, here
it in impossible for you t.i have the dog with you."
"Very well • take him, then, and put him with the
others." The official seized the dog, and amidst
universal laughter, had to hand it back, and receive a
franc for luggage, as it was an imitation plaything.flog
the lady had with her, which she caused to bark
furiously at the disconcerted (ffillial by squeezing
the wooden bellows-like apparatus beneath the woolly
toy.

DIABOLICAL ATrklin AT MCRDBIL—The other
day • box, addrenned " Mr. Ellin, Bearcroft Farm,
Little Abington, Camhe," was found on the door atop
of a cottage lON la • hundred yardn from Bearcroft,
which Mr. Ellin has ceased to occupy for some monthx.
The appearance of the box created nom° misgivings
as to he character of its contents. A suggestion wan
thrown out that it contained "something to frighten
them," and no sooner wan the lid rained a little than
an explosion from a pistol took place. Mrs. Scotcher,
a sinter of Mr. Ellin, in the procenn of opening, had
been partienlarly cautious to avoid facing the box, and
when the explosion occurred wan ntanding snide and
rather to the rear, no that providentially • heavy
charge of slugs with which the weapon would appear
to have been loaded, instead of injuring her, lodged
in a cupboard door.

AN ECCENTRIC CHIEF!— A rather amusing
affair took place shortly after the commencement in
the summer of hostilities between Syed Salem, Imam°
cf Mumat, and Syed Toorkey, claimant of that dig.
nity. Syed theism, to protect himself against his
enemy, built a barricade of hags of rice and dates
across the eastern part of the town. Sped Toorkey.
being very short of provisions, made a desperate
movie from Fort Jelalli, which he held, carried off the
entire barricade, and lived for came time upon it. Syed
Selem made another little mistake. He called upon
some of he wild tribes of Arabs in the interior to come
and &hi him; but noon second thoughts, he came to
the conclusion that they might prove harder to get rid
than Syed Toorkey, so he recalled his ievAtatien,
and placed gone in all the roads to keep back his allies
if they should Insist on coming.

" SPORT " IN New YORK—There is a well-
known Anglo.lndian story of a sportsman who, having
missed a Himalaya bear, WM hugged by the animal ;
they wrestled together, and gave each Other several
ugly fah,. The native heaters, having climbed rapidly
into neighbouring trees, looked on at the performince
with great delight, and cried out '' Bravo Sahib !" or
"Bravo bear!", according to circum-tancee. Some-
thing of this.kifid took place, according to the World,
in New York on Evacuation Day. Certain eittzens
thought fit to celebrate the occation by dog fights and
ratting. There was a bear kept on the premises, pro-
bably for the purposes of baiting, and a sailor named
Moore offered to fight him for drink,. The "spiritcd
proprietor" turned the bear into the pit and
three rounds ensued, which the reporter describes
'in the dialect of the prize ring. In the tint round the
sailor hit the bear between the eyes, and the bear reta-
liated by clawing the :Mitten fore-arm. In the second
round the bear laid open th- aailor's cheek, knocking
hum down with a well-planted facer. In the third
round the bear came quickly up to time on his hind
feet, and allowed an intention to give the hug. Moore
tripped him up fell on him, seized him by the throat,
and i °untied him till the proprietor threw up the
sponge. The World laments that there should be such
brutal ex hibitiona, but considers it only due to its NlA-
scriber', that as they do mint they should be described
with animation of style and fidelity of detail.