The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-09-05 00:00:00

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Ur an.— The delegate in Congress- from Tjfah-,
Mr. lhaper, has recently, in a letter, given an in-
teresting ace, unt of ti at territory. The Mormons, be
observes, have in twenty years built up Utah from a
desert waste, which was 1,200 miles from either settle-
ments or navigable risers. It is now a flourishing
young State, containing 100,000 inhabitants, with a
territorial extension a 75.000 square miles. There are
eighty-six flourishing towns in the territory, with near
100 prast-oftwes, while the grist and rylo/ india, wool" n
manufaet. rite, and many other branches of the
mechanic arts are quite equal to those of the other
States. There are 100 churches, 120 school-houses.
and three theatres, which equal in appearance those of
the older States. The Mormon emigration from
Europe, from 1550 to 1567 inclusive, is estimated at an
annual average of 2,000 souls, or an aggregate of
30,000 ; while the emigration from the old States
during the same period has been about 24,000. The
estimated cost of taking these people to Utah is
8,300,000 dols. The emigration from Europe this year
is put down at 4,000 souls. About one-third of the
emigrants have paid their own expenses ; the remaining
two-thirds have • een aided by the "Perpetual
Emigrating Fund," which has been in organised
existence about twenty years, and is composed of eon-
trihntions, tithes, legacies, and funds drawn from
various sources both in Europe and America, This
',id is kept up by the beneficiaries - when

It is usual for the peraons wbo alter their names t •
change it front an eccentric to one of a more el, gout nature.
lint. gentleman announces that iu future be will opt. be
kilown by the name of Ironer, but by t 'nit of Bravo.
It is stated that Alamayon. the son of the late
Theodane of Abyssiuia, is to be trained for the Civil service
of India.
An endeavour is being made by the admirers of Mr.
Edmund lleales, M.A., the president of the Reform League,
to present that gentleumo with the stun of £lO,OOO.
The street robbers of London have bit upon a new
dodge A ruffian stoops down as if In the act of fling bit
lsettlave, and then suddenly bout cam up butts los lo•ad vio-
lently into the .iaitnach of a pededi i at who is passing by,
mid semis him head over heels. Confederates then pounce
upon their victim.
A gallery of portraits of celebrities Of the French
Revolution haa lately been opened in lulls. •• What Nat
strikes Mil on entering," says • contemporary, • is the noble
and manly aspect of the great majority of the subjects& of
these portraits, most of whom were active menoters of the
Convention, famous for their cruelty and disregtril for
'lonian life Except Marat and Fondle, who are simply
hideous, there is out a face here which is not in bustle way
attractive."
The populations in Russia are at this moment being
greatly excited by the preaching of an old Mosetivate peasant
mimed Ale xis Alexandrovitch, who, after a seclusion of
several years, appeared in the district of Saner A. deelatiog
himself a prophet. Ile is now going from t ace to place
sitoomicing the approachilig destruction of the • teat:eat and
the substitution of the tine), a Ton !or it, on the dome cif St.
Sophia at Constantinople. The ilris,iaii goveri tent attest
every liberty of action anal language to Chi pipular
agitator, who besides aloes not attack the lace or the ad-
ministration in any way ;lain doetriaea are those of the old
Russian party.
The French newspapers having tired their readers
out by the numerous reports of inventions of pow guns and
cannons, have tamed their attention to a kindred subject.
M. Desisn ble is stated to have invented a nee gunpewder
which is ten times more powerful than that now in use.
An inquest has been held at Wortley, near Barn-ley,
ott the body of John Wither, aged 14. It appear. at that a few
days ago he, with revelsl other itoys, was Bimini ig over some
stack "hi-teals," when aine of then, ran into its thigh and
caused lock-jaw, from the effects of which he diud.
A Birkenhead draper, named Ginders. recovered
£2,500 from the London and North-Western hallway Corn'
party the other day as damages for injuries sustained last
year ill a collision at Cr.!,
in the will of the Hon. Charlotte Bottle Wilbra-
ham just pr i ived at Liverpool, the deceased lady has be-
queathed to William Lea, ESq., senior surgeon to the Gems-
k Dispensary, a legacy of "£l,OOO, in token of gratituale
for his skill and care in attending me through a dangerous
illness in 1043."
John Richards, who was convicted of manslaughter
at the late Cardiff assizes, and sentenced to seven years"
penal servitude, has received a free pardon A memorial
has been sent to the Home Secretary. by the all erney for the
defence, a.sking him to set the venial at the -airy aside, In
eurtsvittence of the verdict having been arrive t at by an
Glints like a lottery, etc.
A new gold coin, value 10 francs, is brio ; circulated
In Sweden, under the name of a Caroline. At arcing was •
English coin in the time of Charles 11.
In London, on Friday, a young fell,aec was hunt- -
bag for booty in the mud and filth of the Thiones when lie
found the body of a young girl of singular beauty, with
golden Lair. Na marks of violence were timid, and the
surgeon stated at the inquest that the hotly not in an
emaciated or preguant c flannel. It was state: that, accord-
ing to usage, the body would go to an anatomical school for
dissection.
Mr. William Uniacke Townshend Ilas contributed
£2l in such of the funds of the Hospital for I iieurables, as a
thank-offering to God for Ilia great merry in having saved
him from a dreadful death on the weasion of the late rail'
tray collision at Abergele His brother, Mr. barles Toasts-
bond, who escapod by haviog left the carriage in which Laird.
Farnham was, to join his brother in a Land on carriage, has
contributed a similar sum to the feuds of the same institu-
tion
The Mayor of Berney, in Normandy, is a tnan of a
most decided character. When be finds a law that does not
seem energetic enough for preserving order, he simply
repeals it and makes a new one in its place?
A Jew, the owner of a himse in Wilna which camibt
fire, cried ant, Eire ! Fire." in the Polhill lir•gtiage, the lia•
of wbinit is forbidden tat the streets. The root day he was
brought up before the magistrate, and fined 25 roubles for
violating the law.
A gentleman farmer in Wiltshire jou oliased 2,000
lambs at us. Gd. a-beat, about five weeks ago, owing to the
awners not having feed fair them, the grass lanig everywhere
burnt rap. After be had had them in Ins possesdon a tort-
night he was offered £1 per head for the 2,000--a good profit
for the fortilig it'd keep
A grand fete was given on Monday, at Fontaine-
bleau, in honour of the COUnt and Culottes% all Oirgenti.
Most of the Ministers and several high functionari, were
invited The Cionnt inn younger brother of the at of
Yooles ; the countess is a daughter of the tßleen 4.1 Spain,
I and the Paris coir.pontient of the Daily Nem, gays it is
sopposed that the marked bOnollr paid to the count and
countess Ity the Emperor unpoleusi is intenthal seas renuke to
Prince Humbert and the Pritieess Margaret, who recently
visited several German Courts but did not go to France.
The china anti earthenware manufacturers of the
Staffordshire Eotterim, as represented by the local Chamber
of Commerce, hare concluded a convention with their work-
' each for the settlement of trade disputes by arbitration. Ihe
I board to whom future differences are to be referred Is on'-
posed of ten manufacturers nominated by the chamber and
ten workmen appo nted at a large public meeting held last
week at Hanley It is a noteworthy fact that one of the
first questions addressed to the Liberal candidates for the
representation of the Pollan ies was, " Will you vote for a
legislative enaetment sank ng the decision of boards of arbi-
trition binding on the parties appealing to therul" The
affirmative answers given were loudly applauded.
It is stated with reference to compensation claims
arising out of recent fires caused by sparks from eughies, and
attended with the destruction of growing crop", that the
Great Elatorn Railway t.7olllpany will d spute it* liability. on
the ground that the prolonged and remarkable drottglit
which so greatly contributed to tile diaabtera ill sjuestascn W.
the act of God. As the Maiichester. Sheffield, and bialrollr•
shire, the Loud.. mid North Western, the Midland, the
Great Northern, and other railway companies have till to
meet similar compensation claims, the matter is of some in-
terest and importance.
The Buenos Ayrea Standard says that both engage-
ments in Pareguay resulted in favour of the Paragnayalli.
The attack upon Humana ended in a disastrous retreat,
owing to the terrible elteution of the Paraguayan artillery.
The tire was irresistible at all points, and the Paraguayane
rent the air st ith their shouts as they butchered the mon,
tunate Brazilians, who were ilellinlrd in tm all sides. The
precise number killed was not known, bat the llitialoll9 Were
literally cut to pieces.
A certain Fran Maria Methua, of Hamburg, who
has lately been singing to the Mormons, writes hat the German
papers an interesting letter, in which she speaks in the
highest terms of the theatre of Salt Lake City, and of its
managerneut She states that the stage is one at the very
, largest in America, that Shakespeare is not so much eared
for as slighter authors, anal that the theatre is much ft so
molded. Money being scarce, the patrons of the drama are
frequently obliged to pay for albili.ioll with ordets Inc wood,
potatoes, and corn.
In Sweden and Norway, during the meat heat, the
railway companies, instead of plating lamps in the carriages,
Oiled up the receptacles with a vessel containing iced eater.
The passengers could quaff and be grateful to the company
for this attention to their comforta. English railway
, directors might take the hint, and, of course, they would if
I they did not prefer being in hot water.
It is said that the tune "Ye banks and braes o'
bonny Doon" is neither English, as Napoleon thought, nor
fteottlsh, as Bores asserted, nor Irish, as many have sus•
peeled. hot French ; and is to be found in a Preach collection
published in Paris long before Burns was born.
It Ls stated that the judges intend in future to com-
pel all juries alike, no matter Whether they are tirgaged in
ins tryittg felonies or cases of misdemeanour, to remaiii
in
custody during the progress of the trial.
The Rev. W. J. Burgon, Fellow of Oriel in a
letter to Dr. Posey on the subject of the We-leyan Con-
ference, says :—" of all the wild expedients I have ever seen
committed to paper by a good man, I never in ray lite mot
with anything more wild more impracticable, than this to
which you have subscribed your honoured name."
One incident connected with the late fatal accident
at Abergele ought to be recorded. A young gentleman whoa
was veil active in opening, as far as he could, the carriage
doors, and assisting the passengers through the windows,
when on hoard the steamer off Holyhead, called the passen-
gel s together to offer tbaoks fair their deliverance. Dim ap-
peal Was MOM universally responded to Illness probably
prevented an entire attendance on this lit and proper Occ.

The French authorities are resorting to a cremd
method of testing the Chassepot gun. It Seems they have
taken to tearing experimental holes in horses with the bal.
let, Its order to test Its effect on living flesh.
"Doctor's Widow, 25, income £5O; Lady, 27.
gl,OOO • eirphan, 20, £4OO ; Lady, Id, S.AOO ; fee, 2s. ad."—
"A Widower •V, with comfortable home, in the
suburbs, and small private Income, seeks a domesticated
partner, about the smile age, with some means or business ;
widow not objected to ; strict secrecy maintained."—ddre,
inealeon in Manchester paper.
American women are said to be very anxious for the
right to vote. It can hardly be urged on their behalf, how-
ever, that they were unable to take their own part, even
while unenfranchised. The following laconic record in a
recent number of the New York 7 ribehe is suggestive i—
" Patersoir—sSarah Hoffman was arrested ami fined for whip-
ping three men."
The rage for velocipedes in Paris is increasing.
Paterfamilias is seen {eliding about, taking two or three of
his children for an ai lug. An expert traveller has driven
one from Paris to Versailles .20 kilos. in one hoar, and the
return journey was made in three-quarters of an hour.
The other day, a young man named Tyson, residing
In the Mackfriars-road. London, threw himself out of a back
room window into a Nagged yard, a considerable depth be-
low. His attendant left him for an instant to fetch some-
thing from an adjoining apartment, when he left his bed and
sprang out of the window, probably with the notion ef
escaptog, and fell heavily on his head.
A correspondent writing from St. Petersburg says
that the cattle plague is making great ravages in the govern-
nkents of Pskof and Novgorod, and that a committee ha
been appoint dto inquire into the cause of the epidemic.
The disease has also made Its appearance, he says, in the en-
virons of St. Petersburg and Moscow. One of the Burials
papers remarks that the cattle plague will do more mischief
In the empire than a thousand Polish revolutions.
It is stated that there has been another duel between,
French journalists. The combatants were the well-known
it. de Paul tie Cassagnac, the editor of the semi-official Past,
and his cousin, 111. Lissagaray, the editor of a provincial
paper. The meeting took place on Sunday the 30th, in the
Bois de Vesinet, near Pat-I.; and it is stated that 11. Lissa-
garay was rather severely wounded.
A munificent offer has been made by Mr. J. Day. •
member of the town council of Dewsbury, with the object
of promoting the erection of an infirmary for that tow n and
district. Mr. Day has offered to subscribe £ie,Soo if £be,oofr
should be raised, £2,000 if £40,000 only be subscribed, and
an on in proportion to £2O 000 The offer will be "fan for
twelve months, and, should the effort be accomplished, Mr.
Day proniises further to subscribe £5O a year towards the
maintenance of the institution.
Last year Mr. Spin:eon held a series of services in
the Agricultural Hall at Islington, London, and preached to
successive concregaiiiiiis of some ten thousand persous
had intended this (rat to bold similar see vices but has not
dotinitely abandoned the idea, on the advice of his medical
attendant The •fiends of the popular preacher will be
sorry to hear that his wife has been for months in very ill
health.
On Saturday evening, a woman named Phillips, the
wife of a mechanic employed in Chatham dockyard, killed
the youngest i.f her children by cutting its throat, and atter-
ward s took her own life by inflicting a severe wound in her
throat, death in both cases being Instantaneous. Foe some
time past the unhappy woman had given indications of
Unsound)..n of intellect, her mother having been for wine
time before her death confined in a lunatic asylum.
'A friend of Dreikopf's has ascertained, after
twenty years' experiments, that it takes thirty-two move-
ments of the upper and lower jaws neat and grind a morsel
of meat sufficiently to allow it to be safely swallowesd."—All
the Year Alma&
The following mot is ascribed to M. Rouher The
proof that the Empire really means peace is that peace has
been made three or four times since the tenure, awl that lb
will be made again."
In the year 1866, for which the returns have recent:,
been issued, th, it w ere Ifillstakides in Scotia.l—,,ns in every
23.57 U of the estimated population. 58 of these deaths wets
by banging, 40 by cut-throat, 17 by pUillOll. 12 by drowning,
two by gunshot, too by precipitation
.from a neit..ht, two ia
vvdr• • • .1 •.. d number of suicides in Zoidand ii the
s 0: . 01,I• in every la.oe. ot the estimated
that • ..• in Scotland ilea* 'rise
11.55. MiE414044h4 in a Li., otpostiaties.