The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-11-24 00:00:00

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I(llistellancous nAttlligotte,
HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.

A RELIEF.—If the trees could npeak, to what officer I
would they appeal? The re-lieving officer—Punch.
I hal. RMINFD AND $1.43UL01.
inquest has been held in Dublin on the 'lmply of, a
patine man named Donnelly, a clothier's assistant.
The deceased had recently given way to habits of in-
temperance, aad hadnr-cttived notice that he services
would he dispennal with lay his employers. This, with
the consequent disappointment in a marriage it was
said he contemplated, appeared to prey on bin mind,
and on Friday night he was found in his bedroom,
thefloor deluged with his blood. The 'deceased lay
acmes the bird on his back, and on the floor was, lying a
razor smeared with blood On examination it appeared
that the unfortunate suicide had turned up tle right
leg of his toners and cut one of the arteries, on the
calf, and had thus bled to death. It wan stated at
the inquest that the decreed had a strange terror of
betraying certain septets entrusted to him bvaames
Stephens, the head of the., Fenians, but there was
r.eaeon to suppose that this was a mere hallucination
on his part- The jury (china that he committed the
act while in a state of unsound mind. Decealied was
respectably connected, having a brother in the rginistry
of the Church of England and iteland.
A. CIIIIIOIPS QUESTiON.—The case of Baron de
Saint•Symphorien, condemned to pay an immense fine
for clandestihe distillation, came on before the Civil
Tribunal of Mons, in France, a few days since. The
baron had refused: to gay, electing rather to go to pri-
son. -The gov4rdinenenow le*e authority to seize his
property, but the baron contends that this cannot be
deco, since he is ready to undergo incarceration. The
question rill, I, it will be seen, is rather alcurious
one.

, magazines aid periodicals of the day. The large
AN APPEAL TO TRUK PROTISTAS7O3.—Mr. B. cartoons in the new series of Fits were all by Mr. Gray.
Culling Hanbury„ of 10,, Upper Grosyenorstreet,
London, has written the. fJllowing letter to the London sannedl so..erißineoyofeathwerrth—sßucohr,a,, ••.(4...onerefrip
Times:— separate form. Tenderness and delicacy, purity and
republished dHe ir a"
After the very (ieciiied emirs, which you and your COMP. grace were the characteristics of his work. Fieuo‘ and
stmodents have taken against the " pernicious nonsense" tif fortune eeenied fairly within his reach when 1::s health,
trig Ritualists, it would be a source of deep regret if ti e sub
feet were allowed to drop like Any ordinary prising question work, for which
always delicate, failed
ahaim.th,,lnintelise.arcap,,nliicarecononto.,
..f the day. As One of the laity. I should r,joice to see an
it.tl taint's! meeting held for the purpose of streegthening the may have accelerated his
Ideathi , but nietthiun.ghc„oluthile
hands of the Bishops, andof letting them knowthey nee. fear haye hong retarded It. t aet ie was ii ra
nothing from the want cle fundu in hiking legal proceedings rest, but he took up his pencil iince more to draw a
'eldest the offeudgrs I should be Owl to cirreepond with drown for • the benefit of a brother artieffe window.
any who might he Willing to co-operate ',Wine In woven- ThA was his lak work; he just lived to finish it, anil
leg a meeting of the prinelpa laity of tondos and else- died of coneumption in the cold morning of NVednes.
where I may add that a friend ot mine Is reltdy to comet-
.4
butt I.oooi towards a "iniarantee fo
nun und providod the eum I
will under. eay week, at Brighton, aged 24. He was buried at the
l liected tOn Catholic cemetery, Keneal-green,leiniluin,iiu Saturday.
of 19 0 01. ie roor o-e ; and
take to see that no needless . xpei•ell lee is incurred in cany- Hia talent, were readily acknowledged by all turn ,if
Me out our object I have 110 desire to take a prominent his craft: hut only those who knew hhu itutimately
part in the movement and have waited in nmes that some
one would come forward Surely, Sir If Dore be any real cold,' tell how much love aud ginelness, how much
gentlenesa and truthfulness, how much virtue and
earnestnest Among the true friends Moue Protwant C rouch,
sech a practical propoeal, hy whomsoever made. onght to genius were buried in the grave of Paul Gray.
meet with a hearty response Your able correspondent A LADY'S QUIsTION.—An Ailvertieement in The
"9 G. 0 "rightly saysthst ••unleini the laity make toe cause Times announces " The Lady'. Own Paper." Is it
of truth their own the evil will Increase " tutted paper or curl paper °— Punch.
•
AN East GAOLER.—A :Massachusetts paper WHY MR. ChM/STORK WENT To RoMIC !—The
reginde a certain Sh*riff of Franklin County in that optaione gives all the prominence in its power to the
State se a humane man. dealing gently willo the erring. billowing ramarks For example, Patrick Fitzgerald, one of the chief
offenders among the liquor sellers, was sent to the t...etaf•tset wwoerthbyusotfin:tentlon Is the extent to which the Pro-
themselves with the Papal imeetion.
Sheriff, care for a term of Aim months_ and, on the Mr. Gledstoye ant Lord c areudeu'e Journey to Ruins is IVO
whole, the prisoner rather enjoys it. He hae harvested • nitre Phaedra MP. Stop seek ;,.,,PellvtirultZ,tiitt 174:1,111
his crops and attended to his businew ab,out town as :I :hi': ,P.',..'"grpo'i..t.:44l`Lue c "
loOked upTn with fivour, its sit
usual, except that he is usually expected to spend his it ea, hoped that It would entail the weakening of the
nights in the gaol. . loirtfusi power At tile Pope. flow, the glow in that country
A GOOD STORY.—The correspondent of the fireeefr7uningt;ul.ne cabeginsrest,owheoul7in'irelen=dre that the
In
Morning Star relates the following : religious nodding. that, Cath archon would purify Itself, and
would acifuire 'huh preetige from contact wit i imerte.
Prince Napoleon tr.velled home from his lad Mellen SI.
cursion incognito with his friend Doct,—. Thev [stopped T., hus r"i''"l of caumlic "'ll'''"" with tha i''''' is Italy'
on their way at a station where the Prince was Mete.), us. acres not Olesilt, the loretic and' echignatic Stat,s, which
behold themselves lq their internal legislation deprived of
known, and slept at a mere country Inn The Prince warned
~
Penal intesterenee while the Catholic
hie compact! in not to address him •B usual; however, during a" arias ""'"" ' I
Power. Mid in a gre,der or lese dem, e in their public are dinner, thie doctor forgot the Inpinctton. and replied to a
tee hi •11 e tad the action of the spiritual power
quention, "Out, Mons- tenter " 4he tend who attended at Ww.." ' w ' ' ' • ,
table made no remark till the next morning while thg doctor °` tile Pope.
was paying the Mil, when the maid remetk. d that she had HURRICANE AT TDRE's IRLAND.—Aboutl,aa imi 00
,heard him ad•fress his comranion as " Monseigneur," and bnshels of salt have been destroyed on Grand and Salt
therefore WAS iouvinct,l that he was an archodshop. gables (says the New York Herald). What hae been
Scarcely a food hit, considering all things, and more the damage to the salt at East Hatbour we have not
especially the open warfare the Prince has ever carried yet heard; but we have learned that there are but
on against temp.gal power and priestly influence. I fifteen housee, standing in the entire place. The salt
met rerhind you that archhaboffe as well as princes ponds are all destroyed everywhere, and there wid be
are addrensed in France as Monseigneur, Bishops as none raked for the next two years. There are i erhaps
Votre Grandeur. 200,000 bushels saved at Grand :411,1 Salt Quays, hut
PE t RoDY OR P,EatilighL.—As with .a sound of at Eest Harbour there in nine' left. There are but
• trnrnpet we rejoice to prowls& that tie munificent little provisionn here, bin all are sharing equally and
Mr. P. abodyhas just added to the number of his generie.p.ly with one anAther. The PresidenCe hoopoe
large 'ermines the sum of 150.000 diode', to Vele at Grand Quay, along with the gaol, armoury, market
College, after having endowed Harvard to the name and echoed houses, have all beeu movelot away.. Over
amount. What a Peabody it is to shell out !-- Pasch. 3,000 poisons have been left bon ideasand pent:lllmm.
Tug LATE Me, CORDSN AND tnn LAND
ft TEAM E. NoiNee.— The value of the steam-
QuesTloN. [he following is the cooy of a letter for.
engines ex oritted from the United Kingdom ehowed • warded by the late Mr. Cobden, 51. P., to Mr. It. B.
considerable advance in Septa ober, the total for that Jfeles, of the Temple, a gentleman who endeavoured
month having been 192.906/. ae compared with im.amt. • e
so Odin a compaby for the purchase of laud in
in September. 1865, and 132,216/. in the corresponding Ireland :
month of 1864. Th 6 increase observable in September Midlinnt, 241 h Decembe-, 1863. Dear filr-1 am obliged
was attribtoable to the augmented demand from by your offer to seed me your thetusciipt upon tne
British India awl Illinsia. The aggrerate value of sulroct of moan boded propettles It is much to he
the etearmenvinee exported to Septimher 30 this year regretted thtt you could not carry out your plan
was I,l6o,r>ssi. as compared wit h 1.458,84'21. to the ,filf,ethi: mrir2b6MlTl4t
.re=gn'i,e Ve.=.,131,g..
correspooding date of 1865, and 1,130 3411 in the irst able I ani a trustee to the British Land C marshy, which
eight months id 1864, so that on the whole the deman ! ha, bought a1..1 oi,posed of a great imsntity of building
for steam•encinee hue declined tin yeat as compared land, sad I roinetimes think that It night extend its opera.
with 11165, although it preset:Go a slight increase as throe with •Ivantege to agricultural htliti Ido not ,tp. ~.,
compared with 1864. T e value of the steam-engines fitly Inneflefal ',deletion on the eutj c.. There,• . ea- a
sent to Egypt ham largely declined thin year, the total tinwee.if::l o.ii.r
.ILitislitzownt en
itliek p.r.;prttarty, et.:
cwiutLi
to Set., emher 30 being may 66.285 L, as comrared with. I
Poaching Bin. The ftweren an:l the middle classes of the
302.2444 to the core...pending date of 1865, arta rural iitetrats are quit. powerless. The large owners rile
232,003/. in the first eight montlaof 1864 The value through tenants.at- will. A. il the small freeho'dere have al;
of the steawhengines sent to llttissia appearo to have elsappeared. It Is olincel to nee how the tendency to
steadily increased diming the loot two years, the total in moody is lend Can be checked—l female, tidy yours,
to September TO being 14-1,5711. an compared with 111" Ar." C"'"'"
108,129/. in the first eight month. of 1865, and 89.674/. Re maitgeime FATALITY—AS two men, named
to the corresponding date of 1864. British India is Bevies and Burns, were returning from Ulvernon the
also taking more and more steatu•engines, the value ..f other evening, they called at a public.house in a
the street trotote sent to that quarter to September:lo village about three modem from their loonies. Whilst
being 293.435/. againet 204,552/. to the corresponding there, they began to dispute about the charge bra
dais of 1865, and 182,2441. in the first eight amines piece of work which Borne. who ig a joiner, hail done
of 1864. for Bevitee. In the warmth of the dispute, Burton,
who hod an nmbredla int hitt hand, either dashed the
SUICIDE IN A BATH, AND MURDER. -An ex-
-s int of it into Rosin's face, .or held it out as Bovine
traordinary 'murder and muicide was committed Ise:te rushing towards him. The result, however, was
Paris on Friday. A stranger, carrying a rathed the point of the umbrella cone with such force
voluminous parcel, entered a bath establishment in the against the inner corner of 'his eye, ae to cause hie
Roe Racine, at about half-pset eight in the evening, death. Ile fell at once senselete on the floor. Medical
and having remained fer a considerable time in one of assistance was obtained as speedily as possible, and he
the private cabinete. - the progrietor. fearing an acid was removed to hie own house ; but after lingering in
dent, ordered the door to be opened, when the man a state of unconncionsnens until about eleven o'clock
was found to have opened ft vein in his arm and to have on Friday morning. he expired. The men were near
bled to death in the water.. The packet on being neighboure, and tile event has thrown a gloom over
opened pro.. ei to contain the corpse of a male child the village in sinith they lived.
shoot three months ill, which had been eufhicated. The
roan was a German tailor, who hail been living with a A BISHOP'S OUTFIT ! Mr. GaTlly, " the
young WOMIII, by whom he had the child in question, Robins of Ireland," to about to sell by smith u the farm
hut for whieh he had always manifested a great aver- stock of the late Lord Plnnket. The Freeman's Jour-
sign, in consequence of some doubto aß,to its paternity. nnl, under the head of "'The Ontfit of a Missionary
He had murdered the infant at' home during the Bishop,'' pnbliehee what it sarcastically calls :
absence of the mother, and then carried it to the bath A CharaCteriA4 Inventory of whet in evangeficsl circles
whereihe committed suicide. will, no Mail* lasi-eke t upon as the complete episcopal Imt-
fit of the late Arch.hierarch of the Church Militant In Coo-
' 1 4.
. AN trUT-AND.OUT•ER.— Our friend, Dacey'Grey. taught :—ltem first-817 head of cattle, Item secomi-29
$llll, is such an 'indent /angler that, when he Jr.n do short-homed K• rry moon. hem third-5 Durham mid Kerry
bulls. Item fourth-77 dittobullocks. Item fifth-204 ewes nothing else, he flake. for a compliment—Punch. Item sixth-159 bonnets. Item seventh-242 lambs. Bern
A Hoefte TaiROWINO A SOMMERLI7LT OVER eighth—Sl two and thi*-ye eeolii welder.. l'ern ninth—
. 0 „ 2. lambs Item ten, 11— SI wedders Item eleventh-17
Exx BRIDGE.—On Monday afternoon Messrs. Pincus rams Then copies. Inigillirt of "carriage horses," '•weleht
horite was standing with a. van at their door in Fore- carrying" cobs, to family and form horses, sows and
street, Exeter. The van was laden wag; boxes and litters, fat pig. mat Imam carts to the number of it.
barrel*. Suddenly the horse took fright, „p 41,1 Warted ploughs tit and harrow. four; *lngle and double broughams,
down the hilL On reaching Exit Bridget he made a phaetons jelliteng cars, chariots, and saddles ; grubbers:mil
411,1111111,11.
t ..11, SCS.PS (urns at the barrier, his breant cleareitthe patapet, hy dropult
and the shah to strock the wall Mith Stich force, ex to ANoTilltli .11.1.1 VAL AUTHoR.—rt is rumoured that
drive out blocks of atones, malting a large breach, the Ex-King of NlNl'lesl Mee employed himself in hie
through winch the home was driven. The velocity retirement to wri, ing a novel, Ao be called " The
chimed the animal to take a hinunientaaft,,thee nhafta Two cio.t."--2.li.nch. •
broke, and Man instant the runaway burst' out of the • AN A ukase FROM MAZZlNl.—Mazzini haa
harness, and fell a distance . f about thirty; feyt into publieheil an aeldreee te;) the hontans, in which he
the river, At the spot the • water wag Bow and ',aye:—
the mud thick, ISO that he fell all,, ri, I ...gbied up The time le at hand for a solemn act—tho withdrawal of
the hank app,rently none the Worse for it leap. forewn occupatien from the land ill the &Woe, one Rome.
t helms., the getierane sone of that greet city to show I.'ehitrott.tor.—An inquest was hehter Jersey
on Saturday, on the holy of John Patten, an Irigh diplomacy • pretex, to rnfm fre,h combinations and tighten
UMW and a petedoner. The deeramed hail recently been hoods abmit to be eniniered fur ever. 1.,..t the po.itical
diecharged from the filet Regiment, and hael takeh
i. fehsi.ges ace,mplished ify then:ol.Sn ilellille 1,11840 warn you
his abesle in Tersely, and commenced paving , .not t.O art lioinsiderattly this time, and by popular move.
e
adelreettes to a widow. On Wedneeley evening, 'hire. dir I,),l,rnTta„t7l::',.r pt",`,l';'"rP.,",:t°n The
COgillan (the Widow in question) gave. him a ehart eceur. Remotes Immo has litth:rto edinned yi ow attitint:re.
reprimand on account of hie being drunk, telling him To menace a kisiro,onth :of the compered mull he in-
there was hut a poor prospect before them if they were generous 'il'i your hart; vengeance 11111,11, 110 i tareish the
united. He saw her 'the nlloct Morning, end inquired victory of a people tee onquerieg its liberty. Moreover, the
after :her health, and then he retired to his own room brotherhood of peoples Ls advsticing with rapid strides.
in the same house where she lived, and was never seen A NICK Pot ay.,-,--The Court of Caseation has
more slim. About:lino hours afrerstiards In was found just nolemnlyeAlechle& an appeal iron the Imperial
dead, with • ginger-beer bottle containing prussic acid Conn of Besancon, that a man who went out with a
beside him. Knott mortem exendnation discloned that ernn in his hand wolf bunting, and who seeing a Mir
the deceased had ooine to his death by ppisoning. In io a thicket, tired and killed a doer, watt not eubject
his box was found a paper, of which theVollowing P. a to peuiehment for sporting wi,thfillt ii. license. 'Fhe
copy:— ,puhließwoßeentor eimUnderi tie ito tasee lit eontravrn-
" I am about tp die because I will, not endere the illa thin, which unlike ettfmeOcideniedettieanovire. d
hearts prompts e.eintn in qr, the ttuffs
-**l that

i.ifist

connected with Proveiii- me to he
generous, and I cannnt bear to be without the means.
Farewell my friends, fareweil my foes;
My peace with these, mytpve with those.'
lath Nov , 186 d." "J. PATTEN.
The jury ,returned a verdict of Felcode•se.
, WINTER. PROPFIP.CT. —Some of our (Canadiaii).
papers notice that the phenomena which, according
to the oldest,inhabitants, papally presage a hard win-
ter are becoming very marked as thd season pro-
gresses," Hives are said to be overflowing with
honey ; the husks of corn are declared to be of extra
thickness; and the furs of animals are pronounced
exceedingly rich and heavy. The Panne old rats that
have been "travelling eastward in great numbers" for
so many years past are again contemplating the same
trip ; and their second cousins, the squirrels, are
making arrangements on an increased scale for the
siorago of nuts.
,
Hit. C tisigiNo.B PllOl'llE/flan )T. Cuninting, it '
hie sremonion Sunday night (accordint to a ',meagre!,
which appears is the Post) maid that twenty
years ago he hail tired upon the year IMii as the
probable period when time should come Co an end, and
he lied then and since been much ridiculed for his
belief. Hut where were the scoffers now ? Hid Dot
the present time portend none dreadful catastrophe?
The Teill-fe of men were much troubled, and the
councilo of tuitions perplexed, by the dread of some
gn-at and tertihle calamity that was presently to come
111111,111 the earth. The Papacy was in its last throe,
and all the Pope's lamtot were ready to turn upon their
shetherd and tear him asunder. The 10,000 nuns and
the 10,000 priests dispossessed by Victor Emmanuel

_.lre, imply
nothing maim in fe. thagi„.ition of intention coal
not to gone into, age that-when the act ymihiblied
WP, n proved to have -been committed a contleinna'ion
fhtlowed of course., he ;court, however, said that,
although gond faith 4iae not an excuse for a c,ontraern-
r eon, it could not be.:C/Itimitted without a Volillltary
act, svh,ch it hell to be ablwat ha the. cane of shooting
at • wolf and killing a deer. -
• NOT A 'TOR Paris corresp4,l•!ot of
•
the .110-ninv Star vaites :
DIM COMMON Wiles Monde are Merl up fry the coronet
if a miracle ri4c.hatm,k plage a few iievaaanin Paris, Rue
No-11, ~4..ierinint girl was on her death bed; she
had already received extreme oection,,lia. become apseehlem,
and her flee had dolled, when a confestor emewl tile death,
chamber and rubbed her eyelid, with a small pier" of the
Pore' whit,- g oolelpettimuit. I trsosifite iltcroiy sonfairte
en laine blanche). Ti., affect of this new species bf f, letter);
which 11001 now I have smear heard of —theugli l have burnt :
• considerable amount of nvididgbt ell In poring over books
on therapeutics—was thet the young girl niuch,to the foliflea-
Mon of Mr weeping Mena, jun,pe•l op an& 0g1111,1,011,11 of
hunger, and drank snoceaalrely threes'etioa Of.broth fier
bower. howeser, increive d to sorb an starme• extent that
ttil to ray her Comely provierma wore:lied The-to • neigh-
bouring hotel. Thit may real liko ft) he. but y-.li have
only hl Open La Mende of shis the lath of Novemo..,
convinced lhal. I have strinly adhered to the inilunhalde
corSet y of truth in the ahOya peeve of the salt three
c,lurana.
l'ita BRICKS OF THE PT Ralf IDB.—PrOfessor
Unger, the celebrated Viennese botanist and palten-
taligint, lan recently pohliehed is, doe reniarko Oh the
brick, of the ancient 114yptiana, especially those if
the top-Amid of Iteehour, which wan huilt about 3,400
years before our era. One of them being examined
through the mieroecope by the Professor, he discovered