The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-12-20 00:00:00

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ROME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.

THE BEST SUBSTITUTE FOR COLL.—WSSM
weather. —Punch.

A Baasas.ors MURDER.—A singular case of
a spoilt barb ...gm murder °amend the it or day at the
v 11.ge of Ckerreal e, Telo, ka Havei.i e (says the
Pooner Observer). A Mahout ..edan went ti tie above
v.l ete from one of the antiurban district. of Poona to
brag away hie wife, who was with her family. Some
word,, it would appear, mound between the husband
and the be ther-imlsw, we which the fox mer becoming
incensed, drew from his peers& a garden Made, and
slew, eute.git, hie wife. He in.. inflicted severe in-
juries or the fatiter lan ell man), the ei ter and the
brother of t.• deceased, more eepocially ii tit
who is in meet precalieus !data, his bow, l. beiug
iiopod open. Tu. old mark cad his surviving daughter
are I.kely to reeuver. They are all three cow iu the
11.woitel ike murderer is cut .3y, and viol
elseitly as aroa‘at isjaeciee.
Favai. B ACA,IDLNT.—A fatal boat acci-
dent happened on lionday afternoon in Weymouth
By, by which William G. 01.0 Saggs and Alice Beggs,
brother and sister, aged respectively 16 and 20, met
with their death., It appears that the deceased left
a email &thing place called Ringstead to bring lobsters
and prawns to Weymouth. They started on their
return journey about three o'clock in the afternoon,
their boat, about 1411. or 16ft. long, having a jib and
mainsail set. Abut half a mile frem the harbour the
boat oapsized. Some men n the quay immediately
manned a boat and prove- ded to render assistame, but
to no purpose. The young woman floated on tue
water, her dress having kept her up, but she was dead.
The body of the brother had not been found at five
o'clock.

AN AMERICAN TNAGEDY.—Ashocking tragedy
occurred at Harrodsburg, Kentucky, on the 20. h ult.
It appears that a lawsuit was being heaid, in which
P. It. Thompson, men., was the prin ipsl on one side
end Theo.D iv •• , sem, on the. ther, sod esch principal
was attenoed during the trisl by his suns fuliy armed.
At the conclusion of the testimony • son of Thompson
and a son of Dsvii s moved towards tre door. They
wire followed by all the other!, and in a a:omen:ht.:lig
commenced. Many shots were tared, and Theodore
Davies and his son " Lame " were killed, and Theodore
Davits', jun., mortally wounded, and ban &ince Oied
P. 11 Thorup,on, sea., ad tie two eons were slightly
wounded. Uald well Davies escaped unhurt.

SOOTCV LoY•LTY.—At a meeting of the Lord
Provost and magistrates of Edirsbborgh, held on Mon-
day night, it was resolved on the occasion of the Duke
of Edinburgh's marriage to illuminate the Casile Hill
and other prominent heights with " padellas," to have
bonfires on Arthur's Seat and Salisbury Craig% and
to diuminate the Connell Chamber and other public
office.. It was agreed to recommend all public bodies
to light up their buildings. It was also determined
that there should be • banquet for the people in the
Corn Exchange, and that another should be arrange 1
for a ceitain number of the citizens and the Council-
The expense, it was estimated, would not exceed 4:500,
and this sum was ordered to be spent in the re-
joicings,
DEATH OF THE BIG RHINOCEROS.—The Lon-
I don Zoological Gardens is in mourning for one of its
hugest and oldest Inhabitants. The great rhinoceros,
which had been from its earliest days a conspicuous
object in the elephant house, has at last succumb-d to
the scythe-bearer- or whoever the rhinoceral typical
representative of death may be. For 24 years the creature
had lived in comfortable quarters, and withstood the
rigours of an English climate; for 24 yea's it had, day
after day, partaken of its plain meals of hay and
similar food, and day after day for 24 years it
has thrust its snout as far as possible between the
InaaliliVe bars of he den, and opened its capacious jaws
to receive the gratuities of its admiring visitors in
the shape of bans and biscuits, oranges and
apples, and other tit bite. The rhinoceros is liable to
sudden outbursts of violent temper, and the late
I lamented individual was no excettion to this general
tailing cf its race. Several years ajo, in • furious
attack on the rails of its den, it broke its jaw, and was
for some time in rather a dangerous condition. It,
however, survived the accident, and has safely paaseo
through the vicissitudes of English weather, and it may
be nomad& ed that twenty -four years is about the
average length of life among the species of ',achy-
dermets. The hippop 4ainus has bred in the gardens,
but no success has attended the attempt to breed the
rhinoceros in captivity, their violent tempers render-
ing it dangerous for them to be temporarily housed
together.
THE AGE OF PARLIAMENT. The present
Parliament was begun at Westminster on the lein of
December, 1.565 ; and, therefore, 'Tuesday completed
its fifth year. Must of the Parliaments of the present
reign came to a premature end through accidental
circunustaucea The Parliament sitting wheu Her
Majesty came to the throne was, of course, distelved
as soon as conveniently might be, for a new general
election under the new reign. The Parliament then
elected, in 1837, was dissolved in 1841 in consequence
af a vote of want of conedence in the Government being
carried in the Muse of Commons. The Parliament
lected in 1847 wets dissolved in 1852; Lo/d Derby, on
Coming into power in that year, stating that he thought
the country should have an opportunity of pronoun ring
judgment on the entire general policy of Lord J.
Russell's Government and that the election must decide
the great question of our commercial policy. The Par.
'lament then t ireted lii 1852 was dissolved in 1857, in
consequence of Lord Pelmerstou's Minietry being in
• minority in the House of Commons in a Division on
the war in China. Tne Parliament elected ia 1857 was
dissolved in 1859, 1. conseq state of the Derby Ministry
being defeated in the House of Common& The Par
liaoient elected in 1865 was dissolved in 1838, Reform
Acts tn.ving been parsed, and it Whig jadg:d proper
that the reformed constituency should elect a new
Parlament. It will be observed that two Parliaments
of the present rein are not mentioned in the above
enum.ration namely, the Parliament elected in
1841 and the Parisment elected in 1859. Those •
two Parliaments were not brought to a premature
end by accident; and each of the two, besides a short
autumnal Session at the beginning of their career, I
sat thr ugh six regular Sessions, or one more than the
present Parliament has yet seen.

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TIP FOR THE eisr DERBY. —A Gentleman,
well known in Sporting Circles, was lately seen in the
neighbourhood of Epsom exercising his Discretion.
Knowing one; look out. —Pooch. •
AUTHORSHIP UNDER DIFFICULTIES. —lt is
probable that the ingenuity and industry of man is
never thoroughly developed until he in shut tip in
prison, and spends his life in a single handed combat
with monotony. A convict in the State Prison at
Charlestown, Massachusetts, named Frank Lawry,
has just completed a magnificent work, which he en-
titles " The world's curiosity." It consists of steam
boats, row-boats, and figur.a of man and beast in in-
numerable attitudes. Therein a circus with specta-ors
seated in a circle in the centre of whion the 'show" Is
going. It contains altogether 200,175 images, of which
112 are horses. It was constructed in his cell at odd
hours, after a day's work in the shop, and nearly all of
it was made with a common jack knife Lawry is
only twenty-three years of age, and is serving out a life
-,entence for "taking the life of a companion," in
,ther words, for murdering him, a few years ago on the
Heridian-street Bridge, at Boston. He displayed a
certain amount of ingenuity in committing this little
escapede, for, after stunning his victim by a blow on
the bead and robbing him, he put an end to further
iiiocuision by pitching him Into the river. The evident
genius shown in his mnistificture of "the world's
cariosity has added much to the interest felt In Ms
bite,