The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-08-03 00:00:00

THE STOURBRIDGE OBSERVER.

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conduct, she again started off to run, and, being
again overtaken, IVY attacked in the manner already
deecrihed. The lingers of her left hand were con-
si.lernb,y lacerated, evidently through her grasping
the weopon with which the deed was committed.
The murderer ran off in the direction of Hindisiol, hut
fell on a vacant piece of ground about 60 yards from
where he had made the attack on the girl, and was the-
covered there about three hours afterwarde, just alive.
He won removed to his lod.iings, and every assistance
rendered him, but he died on Sunday evening, wii bout
making any statement. His victim, who seemed to be
progressing favourably up tii about five o'clovit on
Sunday morning, also died from her injuries the same
day, secondary brennorrhaire having set M.

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A Ciscutra ore Cram:Trans.—The senders by
poet of circulars inviting people to take shsres in new
Joint•stock Companies are hereby informed that the
paper on which their prospectuses are printed is of a
very unsatisfactory quality. It is so stiff that it does
not lend itseif to the purpose of wrapping things up,
and so little combustible that when iguitsd it goes out
slmoet directly. and is therefore of no ttie to light a
pipe with or a cigar.—Punch.
A Goon Tom costs AT OXFORD —The recent
fluttering of a white Hag over the gaol at Oxford, as a
token there were no prisoners witlin its walls, has
called forth the f. flowing no m,,rials of the prison
This pH..s was erected in 1709 alder a model if the great
:p,ors phi!anthropist, John Howard, and in substitution of
the old oate, called •• Bocardo," which was Pit, n dorm in
1771 There the debtors used to lower a hat by cord boo,
the wladows, to receive the shut • f the passers hr. uttering
this cry of ' Prey agnember the Bawd., birds." liege Arch-
blehop Cranun r and Bishops Ridley and Latimer Wer Con.
fir ii previous to their 11,0.0...10m, From the rot of the
prison Cranicer witliesseu the death of the martyred bishops,
on (Holier 15, 155% soffering himself in the ensuing Mandl
Near this sit 't the barbarous re-execution of L'irtbeth, the
servant of Miss Clive, took place at midnight, ih 1138. the
prisoner was tirst hung at Green Ditch, for the murder of
Isar illegitimate chilsl. aud her body was afterwards to be
dissected. Symptoms of life, however being discovered, she
was taken to the "Bell, Magdalen parish, and resuscitated,
but the authorities hearing of the occurrence, forcibly took
possession of the body, and re-hung her in Broken II ayes.
Steer May the daily number of prisoners has av, raged a
trifle over four and during the past year it has iemi 30. roe
remarkable fact of the prison being quite empty, is not Its
the recent ethos of any peril, n living, arid the archives have
b..en weirdly traced up to 1828, without discovering any
similar occurrence.

INCREASE OF PAY TO THE CITY POLICE.—At
the meeting of the Common Council, held at the
Guildhall, London, on Monday, Mr. Alderman Stone
brought up a report from the Police Committee, re-
commending an in -rease of pay to the City Police
Force. It appear,-.1 t hat the constables had presented
a memonal to the Commissioner of Police, and that
the latter, at the mg tieNt of the committee, had drawn
up a scale of increase of the wager paid to the various
grades. Toe report recommended that thm third.chlas
constables should receive an addition of 39. per week,
namely, 24r. instead Idr 215. ; that the second.claas
constable, f+houltl have 275. iostesd of 24e. bd , and the
tirst.class constables 30s. instea ,f 28s. The following
further additions were recommended :—Second-class
sergeants to he raised from 315. to 341 ; first-class
from 345. to 375. ; detective sergeants, from 40s. to 505.
per week; third-class inspectors, from 50s. to 60r. ;
second-class, from 555. to 655. ; firstrclass, from 60a to
70s. ; the chief inspectors, from 755. to 80s. The in.
crease of pay would amount in the whole to upwards
of £5,000 a year. The report wa,,, unanimously adopted.

ACROBATS AND ASSES—What is an Acrobat?
Literally, one who goes aloft. A sailor is an acrobat in
the strictest sense of the word. Whether as mounte-
banks or as sailors, acrobats go aloft to earn thtir
bread. For that purpose the nautical 1%1,1 p clacular
acrobats alike risk their necks; acrobats of either scot
are liable to be tumblers. The consistent prohibition
of acrobats' performances would be impracticable, the
partial prevention of them absurd; but these c insider-
ations do not lessen the wonder that the Imils who pay
to see them enough to make them profitable, are so
numerous. - -Punch.

A Lrrna &vireo& —The Paris Figaro has the
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following curious story :
M.Geoffroy Saint Hilaire, director of the Jardin d'Ac-
dimttation, had for some time past observed that his stock
of small birds was diminishing every day, a il he tried In
wall to find out the person oh stole them. The whole statt
of the eat .hlishment were en the w etch but for tome thne
without any result, awl the elinquent was only disc,vered
on Thursday. it was (Inc of thc little African near, es w
walk about the gardens with the camels. Ile was in the
habit of eatiog the stolen birds all raw, without eh) sort of
cookery, and at tne moment of his capture he was in the
act of devouring alive, after having plucked it, a line rose.
coloured crane, which raised horlible cries. The poor aninml
bad an enormous hole in the back when M. Geoff coy Saint
Hilaire Interrupt. ti the operation he negro, having been
.t free a.ter a severe correction, was three house after found
in the basin a the seal, engaged in a furious combat with
that animal, the noise of which attracted the attention of the
ktepers. The amateur of law meat was inunediat ly locked
up."
A CHANCE, YET ! Scotch clergymen are
given to eccuatricities in the pulpit. and a recent c at-
tribution of that nature is not the lea,t. amusing. The
reverend gentleman, who was noted for his simplicity
of style, was discoursing on the text, " Unless ye re-
pent, ye shall all perish." Anxious to impress upon
his hearers the importance of the solemn truth con-
veyed in tire passage, he made use of a very Btrikiny
figure. "Yes, my friends," he emphatically ufged,
" unless ye repent ye shell as sure perish," placing one
of his fingers on the wing of a large Hy which alighted
on his Bible, and having Iris right hand uplifted, "just
as sure, my friends, as ra kill this blue flee." lteboe
the blow was struck the fly got if, was which the
minister at the top of his vice exclaimed, "There's a
chance for ye yet, my friends !"
EROES AND HEROZB !—The Spectator re-
marks :

Scarcely any figure imaginable could be grander than that
of the redo old Doenr laming himself for three years in the
tropical marsh and jungle, beyond civilisation or commend
cation with civih,ed men, bearing hunger and sickness and
tie,rthreak, and miregiing,•noliasting tramping on in his
I pleat of the truths be has devoted his life to understand.
Nor is grandeur wanting, thringh It be accompanied by
something of the comic in thi other figure, that or the news-
paper correspondent who, in the regular exercise of his pro
fession, moved neither by pip, nor by love of knowledge,
or by desire of adventure but by au order from Mr. Men-
u. coolly ptitnes lot., no unknown continent to interview
ain't geographer, and after months of suffering such as only
African travellers endure, attains below the Equator an ob-
ject desired by all mankind.
A HINT ABOUT CELERY.—A writer in the
Farnur advises that celery should not be dug up noire
titan an hour before it is wanted for consumption, that
immediately following all green leaves should he re-
moved. If it in necessary to keep any for a day or
two, or if, in fact, any is packed for di,tant transit, by
no means wash it beforehand, rather let particles of
soil travel along with it, which will tend to preserve it
very materially. As to sorts, the reil varieties are a
Icing way in advance of white ones. For early work,
where, in fact, a good 'stick of celery " is wanted by
the lint of September, or before, some dwarf kind of
white should be used; and for stewing purposes,
perhaps, there is little to chomne between, the several
varieties offered. As a permanent variety grow no
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other than Williannes Msichless_lted, It is'at-unce the

most crisp and the best flavoured variety extant.
LEGACY DrTY. —An appeal in a question
under the Succession Duty Act came before the Lords
Justices on Saturday. The testator had no cliiloren,
and died in 1850, leasing his nephew, John William
Ring, his heir general, and he died in 1865. The
term of 21 years did not expire till 1871, when the
petitioners, who were the testator's four gr eat nieces,
--c-anie entitled to the property, which with the ac-
cumulations, amounted to over £lOO COO. The Crown
now claimed succession duty up us the whole sum.
Vice-Chancellor Wickens thought himself bound by
a decision of the Court of Exchequer, and, contrary to
his own opinion, decided that duty was payable. The
petitioners appealed. It WIM arranged that the case
should stand over for the present, that the parties
might consider whether they would carry it at once to
the House of Lords.
A MAN STRUCK DEAD BY LIGHTNING.—An
inquest has teen held at Mare-street, Hackney, touch-
ing the death of John Busby, a labourer, aged 34 yews,
who was struck dead by lightning during the heavy
storm on Thursday night in last week. William
Nutman stated that his house faced a back-field, and
on Thursday evening, about seven o'clock. he was
starplingat his door watching the storm when he saw the
deceased coming across the brick-fieb I on his way Mane.
When he was within 100 yat da of witness he saw a vivi I
flush of lightning Oahe perpendicular to tire ground and
strike the deceased, who fell instantly. Witin ss ran
render assistance, and found that he was quite dead,
his face being covered with blood. John Cobb, a
po ice-constable, saw the d -cease! fall, and upon exa-
mining the spot fun! at the back of the deceased
five little round holes in the earth. Dr. Thomas stated
that when he was called to the deceased he found him
quite dead. (hi snaking an examination he found that
the electric fluid had first struck the frontal bone of
the head, burning a hole in his hat, and singeing his
hair. It had then passel down his right side, scorch-
ing his skin in a frightful manner, and passing along
his leg tore his trousers opeii, and cut open all the laces
of his boot in the middie, but neither the toe nor the
sole were touched. He had examined the five holes
spoken of by the last witness, am! was of opinion that
those holes were caused by the electric thud passing
into the earth. A verdict aneordingly was then
recorded.

DEATH OF JCARIZ.—Don Benito Juarez,
President of the Mexican Republic, whose recent death
was occasioned by a stroke of apoplexy, was sixty-five
years of age. his life had in it many of the elements
of romance. The son of poor parents—Zapotek
Indians, who inhabited a small village in tie Sierra de
Ojaca —when quite a boy he contrived to obrain some
menial employment in a store in the chief city of that
Province. Here he learnt to read, and, as he maid-
fested a great ardour for 'corning, he was seat by his
master, a wealthy merchant, to college, where he p orsed
a very iiiistinguisheil care-r. lteturmnt I his is itipted
home, he married the daughter of the gehtleruan who had
159 befriended him, Cud, women elm the study or thelaw,
Relined fr himself a large arid lucraiiVe and
ultimately owe to the post of Chief Justice. 113 y the
death tsf the President, he sutowatied, under the Con-
stitution of Mexico, to the Presidential chair shortly
before the French intervention. In this high Mal re-
sponsible post he became so popular, especially with
the Liberal party, that at the expiration of his term
he was continued io office by the vote of the people.
In this capacity he strongly oppo-ed the dictatorship
of Santa AMU./ and the forces of Miramon, and, it is
almost neeillos to add, the prideet sit placing on the
Meal an Llamas a /scion of European rlalty in the
peroisu f tile Archduke Maximilian. It was be who
Oak the leading part in the capture of the Enyeror
Maximilian, and he again succeeded ta power on the
extinction id the ill-starred empire of whieh Maximilian
wag the head. The rest ot Ids story is tolerably well.
known to English rootlets, and his Career affords at all
events a proof that pure loilian blood is not iriusin•
patible with talents of a high order and a capacity for
, administering both law and government.
DEATH FROM. Tea IlsaT. —An inquest has
been held at Cannebury, London, on the body of Mrs.
Ann Roby. aged 47. On Tuesday morning last deceased
went into the garden without parasol or bonnet, and
for some time was exposed to the excossive heat. She
was seen shortly before eleven o'clock iu erfect health.
&cue little time after, Elizabeth Hunt,, the housekeeper,
who wished for. soma instruettuaa, %sent to receive them,
but oiuld not find h. r, and on a search being male she
was found lying on the fl tof sme of the °theta deal,
Mr. Grosvenor mode a poor walcr.2. exordia .tion, which
showed the cause of death was an olfusion of blood
Or the brain. Upon the jurj yrocerding to view the
cly they fount that it had been plat.) in a coffin
al screwed down; but in the lii a piere of glass was
inserted, which ends:sal them to view the lane of the
; demised lady, who-el". ly, owing to the hot weather,
was reiddly deccoilsoehos. The Cavorter remarked
, that L. a t _coated this for die better otectiou of
, the jury and tt this plan wore adopted in all such
oars, or in the case of a person dying fr ms one con-
tagions disease, it would be a gieat safegaard to the
public, espeoially t roe who iu the performance of a
public duty were compelled to view toe body. Verdict,
" Death from an effusion of blood on the brain,
Dooelerited by the extreme heat of the weathee."
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