The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-21 00:00:00

'rogation ?—Applicant In some mravitre ; they are
affected in different ways, as the spirit diresta them.
The Magistrate : But if arms and legs are so thrown
about, might not your neighbour have struck 300 ?
Applicant : Oh, no ! It wan done in the street.
The Magistrate t Do you know any of the names
of the persons you complain of !—Applicsut : No, nu.
fortunately, I don't, and there were no police nhont
The litaitistrate : You certainly have a rotht to he
protected, and I would gladly grant a summons against
any petson you name to prevent outrages of this de-
scription. Addressing the police inspector in Court,
the Magistrate recommended that notice should be
taken if the matter.
Inspector Arnold said it had already received special
attention,

Alisttlialitous
ROME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.
BRAVERY AND BEAUTY. —The Officers and
Men who were engaged in the Luoshai Expedition
are, it has been announced, to receive the India Medal
of 1851, with a clasp for Looshal. None but the brave
deserve the fair. Clasp is equivalent to Buckle. If
that clasp which those gallant fellows have especially
merited could be conferred upon them, that would be
something. --Punch.
ADVICE TO BACHELORS.—Never marry a
Honey Girl. She will be a Nagging Wife.—Punch.
A Dsvemr Racx.—Of all the races of France,
the lee'onards are, perhaps the most devout. No Me
portant action of their life is undertaken without Tell.
gious eeremonies, and no meal is eaten that is not
signed with the token of redemption. The new house
is blemed and the new thrashing Moor, and on Rogati in
Day the clergy still make the procession of the cross
through the hello amidst the growing trope—without
it, the peasant believes the laud would be barren.
Only the extremity of illnee., age, or infirmity is re-
Ranted as a sufficient diapermation from attending mass
on Sunday's and on the great feasts and festivities. his
existent.e is tinctured with a sort of religious fatalieni
from his birth, but it is etrougeet is his laid sickeess
611i1 ad. his death. He rarely calls a phyeician to the
all of nature, for he liars no faith in human rentediets,
awl prefers to rely on prayens to his favourite mint
and on special uouises in church ; on that The number of
deatlostricken persons in a parish may be known by
the number of tapers burning on the altar of the Virgin
each Sunday all the year round.
EXTRA PoLIcE IN Mayo AND LIMERICK.—
The Irishman protests aiTkin4 the "armed occupa-
tion" of the peaceful countie s of Mayo and Limerick,
by an extra force of eunstabulary, the expense of whose
maintenance is an oppressive tax upon the inhabitanta.
It proposes that the Government aliould traveler the
surplus police to the English shires, where their ser-
vices are really wanted for the repression of crime.
' The calendar of prisoners for trial in the Winter
, Amino. at Leeds is contrasted with the evidence of
traoquility and order established throughout Ireland.
It doss not offer any guarantee that if the polies were
withdrawn the crimes and outrages which rendered re-
pressive measures necessary would not be soon repeated
Turn INUNDATIONS IN BELGIUM.--The ite
counts of the inundations in Belgium are most die
teeming. The Scheldt in nanny places has overflowed
in a very serious manner. The environs of Tourney
are severely menaced, and the IneailoWn have disap-
peared tinder a considerable depth of water. At
Antoine the houses were obliged to be abandoned in
all haste, sun at Bruyelles the streets can only be
crossed in boats. The inhabitants of the Ile du Concou,
at P.m were obliged to evacuate their houses M all
haste owing to the rapidity of the rise, and oue old
woman, who had never seen the water reach her cot-
tage, although she is 81 years old, and has always lived
mein the spot, had to be removed, as her room Was
Hoe led to the depth of one loot. The railway from
Tournay to Peruwelz has been injured in three plaete,
anti the service is interrupted. Further disasters may
be feared, as the givers are still rising. The Belgian
journals state that great disvietude is felt at Charleroi
at the continued rise of the sambre, some of the quays
being already submerged. The gas works on the banks
of the river Pictoir were also invaded, and the town
suddenly plunged in darliners ; the company, the next
day, issued a notice that it would be unable to supply
any light that night, as the water had got into the
pipes. The Meuse, at Liege, is again higher, and is
now within six inehes of the point reached on the
let inst.
IS THESE NO AUSTRALIA I—TllO Peet Mull
Gazette remarks :
We fear that emigration is toe often conducted in a very
torso fashion, and that many poor persons In this muntry
who have been induced by philanthropists to leave their own'
homes for lands alleged to be " Itowleg with milk and
h.mry " fled too late that they have made their position
worse Instead of better, and have, In fact, per'enued that
feat vulgarly kuown as "jumping out of the frying-pan into
the tire." Nothing can be more melancholy than the account
given by some agricultural labourers, who emigrated to
Biasil in May last, and whose letters of a -pataluDy inter-
esting charades" have just been published of their
coeditton in that country. " They have used us very
badly," nays one. "We have not tasted bread since we
have been here. . . lh'e live together like pigs—in worm
than pigatiee ; and se shall Boon all be pined to death here.
We would not have come here for all the world if we had
known, ills a shame to get us out hoe like this. There
are 114 out here with us, and we have all petitioned the
Emperor to come back. There have five Med in tloree
weeks." Another complains .—" They have deceived ins very
much. You may expect me back in a short time, as cosines
haie the men-y and he bur, and 1,11 my ',miter George
not to come out here, for its no good, for they never fulfilled
their promises. We have not found anything true what
they have said. The houses are ant so good as they are in
England. We have nothing to eat but black beans and rice.
There is no bread here. We have no Md to lie on but the
cold ground. I have not undressed hut three Miles since 1
left old England." It would be luteresting to keew who is
responsible for the sufferings these imfortunate emigrants
have endured.
A WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH.—Catherine
Hanlon, aged fifty, a hawker, has been tried for the
murder of TIMMi odon. a, at Lividde 01, on the 3.1 h
November. Mr. Potter, who roseented, stated that
the deceased was a lad eighteen years of age, the son
of a labourer in Liverpool. On the evening of the lidih
ult, the deceased and a young companion went to the
gallery of the Amphitheatre, and about hatfipast seven
they came out to get some refreshment. They passed
the fruit.stsll kept by the prisoner, which was near
the theatre, and while doing so the prisoner ran at the
deceased, caught bold ef his hair or collar, and, accus-
ing him of having stolen an apple, made a blow at
him with her other Mulch Immediately afterwarda
the boy cried out that he was stabbed. and it was
Muni that he had received a wound in the lower
p int of the abdomen, from which the intestines pro-
truded. Ile was taken to the Royal Infirmary, where
Ire died on the 2nd inst. Before his death deceased
positively denied baying taken any apples from the
prisoner's stall. Wimesses in supp int of these facts
having been examined, Mr Ilawtharne addressed the
court on behalf of the prisoner, urging that, being
under the impression that the deceased had stolen an
apple, the provocation she them received reduced her
crime to manslaughter. His lordship, in EMU-doting up,
said he fail( d to see any reasonable provocation given
by the deeemed which wondi reduce the crime to man-
slaughter. The jury found the (Meaner " Guilty," and
his lordship sentenced her to death in the usual way,
NoTE FOR THE MORALIST. —Virtue in 110 i Its
own reward. Bit wore, it would I. as common as
Vice--Punch.
FREAKS OF A MADMAN.—An inmate cd the
lunatic asylum at Jersey, Jaeques Cabot, managed to
elude the iigilance of the keepers on Thursday last, and
got clear away from the establishment. On Friday
morning the military guard at the Government House,
the residen. of Major General P. M. N. Guy, C. 8.,
lieutenant eteivemor, heard the sound of window break.
ing, about five o'clock, in the direction of St. Saviour's
Church, and a non commis.ioned officer and two of the
guard went immediately to ascertain the cause. They
there found Cabot, with a large etick in his hand,
hr aking all the windows within his reach, being at the
moment busily engaged at the window above the COM-
amnion table. He was immediately arrested and
takeu to the guard house, told thenoe to the police.
station, Ile told the soldiers he was " inspired" to
commit the damage, which woald be "only £10," In
the forenoon it viaa discovered that the madman had
during the night viaited a number of dwelling-houses
and committed similar destruction, in one case going
beyond the mischief of window breaking. Amongst
the houses visited was that of Jurat Le Bailly, one of
the jalges of the Req al Court in the Valley den Vaux,
where several large lanes of glass were deetroi ed.
Tea RADCLIFFE FAMILY.—Sir Joseph Had'
cliffe, whose death wait mentioned Last week, was the
grandson of Mr. Joseph Pickford, the repre.entative
of an ancient e family, who subsequently
assumed the name and arms of Radcliffe. Ile was a
most aetive and elle, getic magistrate at the beginning
of this centiuy, and for hie services Wan created a
baronet, with the singular honour ef a gi atoitous
patent. The north of England at that time was in a
most disturbed conditi en, illegal combinations every
where abounding for the punsise of destroying machi•
nery and sculls; and foremost was a notoriotia faction
called the Luddites, proftming to be followed; nsf
King Ladd. At York, in 1813, fourteen men were
capitally punished for tumeltuonsly assembling in
order to destroy shearing frames. and dent i diah mills.
Another branch of this ancient family is represented
by Mr. Radcliffe, of Fozdenton Hall, in Lancashire,
who also owns eetensive eatates in the comity of
Dorset, and who claims dement from the Earls of Per.
wentwater. Their estates were contiscateel on the de-
capitation of the het earl for his share in the rebellion
of 1715, and bestowed on Greenwith Hospital. The
recently.decemed baronet is succeeded in Lis title and
estate by his eldest son, Jmeph Perceval Bickford
Radcliffe, Esq., born in 1824, and married to Cathetine
, Doughty, of the family of Tichborne.
THE ARCHERY MEETING.— Clirate (to Fair
Stranger) perceive you are not a Toxophilite!"
Fair Strangeripromptly) —" Oh, dear no ! Church
of England,' I assure you! "—Punch's Almanac.
ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.— SOnie years since
a report of the Children's Aid Society gave an Recount
of a sad event in Brooklyn (writes the Neta York
Pima). A woman had been murdered by her drunken
husband, NMI ft kind lady of that city discovered
three wretched children weeping over the corpse—two
boys and a little girl. They were utterly friendless
after the arrest and imprisonment of the father. The
two boys were brought to the Newsboys' Lodgingehonee
in New York, and the girl temporarily sheltered. At
length the Society sent the two lade to homes in the
West, and the girl was adopted by is gentleman of
property, near the city. The latter never knew that
her adopted. father was not her own. The boys have
now grown up and acquired property, one being a
druggist and the other a farmer. They hare been ex.
tremely anxious to communioate with their dater, and
have been in correspondence with her guardian fog
some time. During the past week they rex. ted tine city
for the first time, very weldedneatel young men in good
circumstances. They visited the Girls' Lodging -house,
the Newsboys', and other inetitntiona of the Society,
The adopted father of their sister consvnted that they
should new her in his office, pi:evicted they did rot dis-
claim their relationthip, as she is only 15, and he
wishes her to .upps,se herself his daughter, no that her
affection might not be weakened for a few vexes longer.
She is to inherit his property. They felt the propriety
of this, and have hail their interview with her, with-
out discovering their relationship, and then returned
well-satisfied to the West,