The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-06-06 00:00:00

of their assailants on the previous evening punished
them most unmercifully--so much so that some of them
will not be able to work for several weeks. Several
persons who had nothing to do with the previous quart el
were also victims of this outrage.
HAIR C i.. TTINU BY MACHINERT.—Hair cutting
by machinery is now an accomplished fact, so far as
horses and oxen are concerned, and it seems to us
I Melia ours' Magazine I by no means impossible in the
case of the human head. M. Nabat has invented a
mechanical razor, which, in principle, is something like
a lawn mower. A helix, with steel blades tangent to
a comb, is made to rotate by means if a flexible chain
worked by a lever. I 'ne man works the lever, while
the operator promenades the comb over the bode
of the animal, regulating the length of hair to be left
by the inclination of the comb. It is said that homed
and beasts enjoy being clipped by machinery. It,
however, remains to be seen whether humanity will.
BISHOP SELW TN ON BAZAARS. A few days
ago Bishop Selwyn attended at the village of Curbar
to consecrate a new church. In responding to his
health at a luncheon which subsequently took place,
his lordship, referring to the work that hid called them
together that day, expressed a hope that they would
not cease in their endeavours in connection with this
church until school-rooms and a parsonage had been
albo erected. Let them on no account have a bazaar.
(Laughter.) He thought that was a very unmanly
is of raising money. The meanest thing men could
do was to throw work on the women. (Renewed
laughter.) He said that advisedly, because, having
lived twenty-five years among savages, he recognised
that their distinguishing mark was to make women do
the work of men. That was the system on which
bazaars were held. He hoped they would complete
their endeavours by direct taxation, not indirect.
(Renewed laughter.) When he returned from New
Zealand he hoped he should find the remainder of the
money necessary for the schools and parsonage had
been raised. But his last words were, " Don't have a
bazaar." (('heers and laughter.)
Pemdc SCHOOLS BILL. —This Bill has emerged
from the Select Committee of the House of Commons
with various amendments made in it. If Select Com-
mittees make perfect, the Public Schools Bill ought by
this time to excel. In the clause empowering the
governing body of a school to make regulations with
respect to various matters, this Select Committee have
addiel the two following among such matters , "With
respect to giving facilities for the education of boys
low,isehn hint uth;iethsedrahoowl t;haenuat
wfriuZethile'amrelitisousor iitrrudeirion
with respect to giving facilities for boys other than
boarders to attend at the school and participate in the
educational,l,,,aliti.LntiLgesii
altered by
tllihee.llisititioofne,pec,f
the
c o nI i sei:
IA arquix of Salisbury, and by the substitution of Dr.
C. Stuart Parker for Canon Blakesley.
EMIGRATION FRoM LIVERPOOL.—The emigra-
tion returns Id the port of Liverpool for May, made
up to 31st of May, show a large increase as compared
with the same month of the preyions year. During
the month 32 ships sailed from the Mersey, under the
provisions of the Emigration Act, carrying 18,90 Inn -
sengers, of whom 613 were cabin passengers and the
remainder steerage. Of the steerage passengers 4,310
were English, 362 Scotch, 3,190 Irish, and 11,107
foreigners T here sailed to the United States 24
ships with 14,032 passengers, and to Canada ti, with
4,937. Of the " short " ships, or those not smiler the
Act, there sailed 8 for the United States, with 003- ps
sengers, 3 to Kotona, with 103, 11 to the West Indies,
with 3 passengers, 3 to South America, with 47 pas-
sengers, 2 to Africa, with 17, and Ito China, with
6 passengers+, making a total of 18 ships and 779
passengers, The total number of emigrants who sailed
Irons Idvermal during the month was 19,7fi4, or 1,884
more than in May, 1867.
WHAT'S IN A NAME I—Among the curiosities
of the world may be mentioned a family living in
Michigan, bearing the surname of Thurston. There
are twelve children, who answer to the following
euphonious names : —The eldest is Ulysses lthieus ;
the second, Leodis Iphigenia ; the third, a srirl,
Chrystonas Andromeca ; fourth, Epanainondas Epaph
roditus ; fifth, Achilles. Lycurgus ; sixth, Miltiasles
Aristiatles ; seventh, Cassius Brutus; eight, Solon
Kossuth ; ninth, Agamemnon Hiland ; tenth, a girl,
Dulcena Dulcerado • eleventh, Patroclos Antilocus ;
and twelfth, Wendell Phillips.
MUTUAL LIBERTIES TO BE TAKEN !—Mr. Spur-
geon, at the Congregational Breakfast the Other day,
gave vent to the following:—
If I have a man's friendship, I will only have it on the
terms that lie will allow me every now and then to cudgel
lam, on the understanding that he should also be at liberty
to cudgel me. I believe these are times in which v.O stool all
cloak out what we believe, and of course we all have our own
ways of speaking it. It must not be said, " You shall be
silent on that point. and not speak upon the other ; " but.
" You shall speak each one of you, just as you please ; and
if sonic Of you are a little ill-mannereil, and cannot speak as
well as others, yet you shall be borne with and pitied, but
you shall afterwards still he forgiven."
SPEECH of' GEs ERAL GRANT.—General Grant
was stemmed.] on the 22nd ult. at Washington, and-
afterwards mills...ell by Mr. Boutwell, in behalf of the
Republican party, in a speech highly complimentary
and congratulatory. The General respintled briefly as
follows :- -
Gentlemen,—Belng unaccustomed to public speaking, and
without the desire to cultivate that power, it is impossible
for me tonna appropriate lansuage to thank you for tins
demonstration. Ali I can say is that to whatever position I
may he called by your will, I shall endeavour to tlischarge
the duties with fidelity and honesty id purpose- of my
rectitude in the perfornitiece of public duties you will have
to judge for yourselves by uiy n:cord before you.
REMARKABLE DEzTRUCTION OF WASPS.—Not
long ago a roil was made upon the foxes on the tine
old estate of Mr. T. F. Brockholes at Claughton, near
Preston, sod lar,se numbers of them were killeil. Sisice
then there has been a great slaughter among the wavy.
The squire. wishing to prevent or dintinislx as much as
poasible the ravages of the wasps during the summer
among his fruit, offered a bonus of it penny per head
on every wives) that was caught ford killed within one
mile of his I.:blows Clanghton-halL These for the
most part would be female wasps which had survived
the winter, and were i 'restating materials for their nests
for the pun lOSO 14 depositing their eggs. The children
of the tenants and wortmen on the estate, hearing of
the pnslfereut bonus, rushed forth with ardour, and
made a regular raisl upon the wasps. In the course of
a month the number of wasps killed WWI 2,5611, for
which, at one penny each, the sum :if I:10 14s. has been
paid Ivy the 'squire. , The children of one family des-
troyed 469, and those of another 35.4. The lowest
number in the wasp " account " was 14.
A YANKFE IDEA.— It is said that by adapt-
ing somebody's "system of electricity" to organs,
a performer in England can play on an instru-
ment in America, and rice renal. It is further-
more suggestesl that lines be laid down from VariOunt
churches to the residences of organists, so that
they may perform at home. One organist might serve
for several churches by judicious management.
GROWTH OF "THE TntEs."—The first Times
was published on New Yearn-they, 1788, since which
date it hart never failed in a single issue, although it
has so increased in dimensions that we have even seen
its double eimplement itself supplemented by an extra
supplement. P. it when it was first issued it was but
a tiny eheet of curtly-conveyed items of news; &modest
" folio of four pages." Not that these words of Coiv-
per's referresl to it, for they were put liehed three years
before The Times existed; like Mr. Puff's Spanish fleet,
it was "not yet in night" And now that it is in sight.
it is a night indeed. The paper alone on which it is
printed is worth all the money charged for the news,
and if you Omit its quality, ask any housemaid who
has vainly endeavoured to light her fires with the
"penny papers" instead of The Times. Its size may ,
be judged from the fact, that one copy of the paper,
with its full supplement. contains about 20.000 lines or -
200,000 words, is equal to an octavo volume of 500
pages, an commonly printed, and could not be written
out by the most raisid writing lawyer's clerk in a fort-
night, at the rate of ten hours a day.—Lciaure dour.
EMPLOYES IN THE FOREIGN-OFFICE.—It would
appear, says the Alibi News, by the Foreign-office List,
MA published, that the sixteen messengers are of aristo-
cratic families. Two of these gentlemen are " hon-
ourables." Aristocracy ;rereades the whole service;
it is, indeed, as Mr. Layard has said, a great aristo-
cratic monopoly. The Foreign-office clerk's are no less
A F PENCII TRAGF.DY.—A dreadful murder has aristocratic; audit would appear from the results) that
just been committed at Conzieu (Adn). Mdme. Fer- the plan in force of a Iliniteul competition among three
rand, 60 years :,f age, Who, in consequence of her hos. nominees for every vacant clerkship does not diminish
band being bedridden with inralysic, occupied a sepa- the number of aristocratic selections, the nominations,
rate room, not having anseared as mutual a few mornings of course, being principally given among aristocratic
back, the door of her chamber was broken open, and fansilies Among the fourteen youngest clerks (the
A LAMENTATION ON THE mm site was found lying in a 1.01 of blood with her skull 2uld and 3sl classeas of junior Fl.-rks) appointedliduring
LAST OF fractured. The state of the room indicated that robbery the last nine years, are five scions of noble fanu es.
THE DOOMED !" had been the motive of the crone. Suspicion home- FINDING A SOVEREIGN. —ln the cause of "The
diately fell on a man aged thirty-one, who had been Queen e William Clyde," the defendant in this case
Some of the Trish weekly journals have had articles brous,ht up by the Oucea:cO and her husbanul, but whom w'ss ronVicted, before the Lord Chief Justice, at the
commenting upon the execution of llarrett. l'h
';-
e the 'haul been eons elled to send away suite yeariback last Warwick Asnizes, of larceny, with having stolen
Irishman wears across its colt-slung two pieces of typo- , they . • -i Po.
ritr hits inufeont mt, ihe gendarmery were placed on a sovereign, the property of :Jane Austin. It appeared
graphic crape, and devotee 3 Whoie page t.is a lofty his traces, and he was arrested with a quantity of the that on the evening of the 16th .January last the
lamentation ahout "the last of the &meal !' It opens • ,
jette ers all 1/ A , which C. La rli. 0 8 I
II ' d 1' t • h ‘ -r' .1 off till 'it his
in the following strait : posseasion.
Rapidly and inoitally smitten, as before the rattle of mus- tpoorosdectartiktrit.,x,
llor:Rkt afosot
tvtersheiegnpiwin
ete,hieedrohaoditt,
home,
ditortinhge
hefty dashing iloWit a .hue drawn up for bottle, so fall Irish- FALL OF Myrtonic SW/RES.—Mr. Plant, in a letter follearing morning went to look for
.it. The prisoner,
men before the executive of English laws In the lest to the Birmingham Daily Post on the thundentorm of in company with others haul found It, and when asked
eampaign Id the tr.ops ot Britain against a desperate foe Friday last, says : bv the prosecutrix if they had found it, the slefendant,
MU not . many Elatlishumn as Irishmen have one down in
it tinie of peace helm° the laws of a State g which he tin d
calls it Tre was extraordinary pheiinnienon urilig the deluge W.ho ha dit in his pocket, denied any knowledge sif it.
of rain. From aa ille to tea o'eloek meteoric stones fell iii im- The questit in was whether the prisoner ,at the time he
friendly. Their troops have been sent to farther Africa ; moue quantities in vertuas parts id the town. The size of hiund. the sovereign, intended to appropriate it to ha
they hitve traversed dangerous passes terrilde defiles ; they these stones varied (nun one-eiglith of an hob to three- titvTl ' Use whether or not the owner afterwards became
they retur
have frOlded fearleas enemies and a frowning It ; yet. eigthi k
hths or an hwh in length, and al mut half those diewnsions - •
nto Diem with no list or dtsul, no list of iii cness They resennoled in shape broken pieces of
k
wtainded, no list or mi.ing, comparable to the daik Rowley =stone. A similar plsenomenon visited Binning- ,ed it would be better to quash the conviction.
fizyriet to bum . The (out , under th ircumstances,
e c
catalogue of her 140118 missed by Ireland—of her so. ham ten years ago. On the 12th of June, ISSB, during aso c' Conviction quashed.
sentenced to a life-long agony in English prisons, tl lerstorm, there fells great quantity of meteoric stones
of her sons condemn.' to death on English seinfolds, of in every respect like those discharged this morning.
.. ' DIFFICULTIES OF THE E. GERMAN LANGUAG—
her u
at asor with iuglnnul ,hersnns hanged on the grtlwa by English laws. Abyssinia A Paris correspondent tells the following :
but England is the I A FATAL RESITI.T.—On the Bth of May, a
ally. the protector, the frieze!. the sister of Inland. Yet, I tailor, named Juuseph Smith, was charged It has often been smatter of wonder to me how Germans, before the possessed as they are with an ordinary tongne, similar to
from the date of the first despatch, which ammunced the I Ihrw.street Magistrate, in Lontlon, with assaulting and that 4,1 other mortals. rould manage to pronounce their lan-
commencement if hostilities by the sanguinary Theodore, wounuting Im:specter Bradstock. The prisoner had geage. A curious incident has occurred, proving, at all
till that of the last telegram, which told the tale of his
Iron., death. Ireland's friend has sebjected seeres of Irish- been arrested fur drunkenness and dimorderly conduct events, that this member, the chief instillment of speech,
a .
men to crueller prison usage ihan ever England's foe ins. in the street, and was confined in the station-house. nssinsignite.a.t.l,ernistothetliintanguage. Mde Colts who, owing to
aiperfectly healthy state to articulate a
posed on his captive enemies England's foerestorni all his During the night Ise demanded some water, and while
llseration performed has been tongue-tied for the last
captives alive, in hill health, with all the oir god
s;hutre- lit was being obtained for him Ile made a violent assault 501
lames friend, Ireland's protector. Ireland's devoted sister upon the inspector, inflicting two wounds, one iipon. three weeks, but who is now fast recovering, wished a few
I seen one by one a dozen Irishmen pass from her prisons days ago to break the silence to which he had been con-
, the arm and the other in the neck, with. a pair ot I denined, and ringing for Isis valet, vainly endeavoured to
to her madhomes, from ber gaols to ber graves, and nes •
sent from her dock te her scaffolds Irishman after Irishman stassors, which had been concealed about his person. i,stteurrts.,sligheilo din German. All li s efforts failed. It
In h 'in try to express himself in French, and this
in sanguinary succession to evpiate their crime after the The injuries were of so serious a character that the
heeeinstantly accomplished with as much facility as before
manner and the penalty other lass No doubt, England is inspector has not been able to appear to hive evidence,
the operation These details were given by Nelaton Min-
ted at war with Ireland. Entiletiii has extended the borders and the prisoner has, from time to time, been re- Self. • '
of her pale, and brought is ithM its limits the Whole Irish manded. Erysipelas however, net in and dnipsy
nation tier loving-kindness is not restricted to the A DIVER .s GOOD FORTUNE.—ThiS old diver
Irwin, supervened, the unfortunate in,
died on
boundary of her einiiire. .. . Her eq.' and impartial laws ; , •
have bevn spread alsnad with the w ideningof the pale and 1 uesday.
no Itishorin sweetness nom under her banner, 'lnnen( his A P NEC ClOrtit LOVSR OF THE MATURE ..kOF. wasoa y,, manythe sc*.e„rars,,
hilatin.v.e,ve,amzpi.loey),erlainndthue,,ellat.lw,aiy.acos shiest
offspricg fior Iwo gettet at it. lives, Ison in foreicii climes,
F TW MN F..—At Shield's, a fast itoy twelve years of I' '
which tedium"
'rut is entitled to Site 'sir asel jest ettitinigretion of herone of these linen repeating, ft tral Minn i,
evenings in a publicjimme frequented by fishermen.
lees ettottliv 5 ith the most privileged Englishman in her age, has been given into cust'sly on a utiarge of rub'
existeul in the district, haul Gasat that sem of the
realm. This is the imast td Britain as It is her eters' that bins; the till isf his employer. The folbswlng, loes
Sh vessels had been wrecked not far from the
her stabler laws are 11101.0 fairly and mercifully arindnisteral letter was found in his pocket, directed to a; S panis
'south coast, and intimated tlett he hum elf could point out
tluan in any other country on earth. It is a proud boast, • Shields Miss in short frocks : the spot. Gann haring finished Isis special job, made
great Cluny r Pear alegeie,-1 write this letter himing to thel you well, terms with the fishermen, and they were both out for
It then presents a series of judicial contrasta• First, as it leaves see at present.ninth I leased to hear that
the PI ai.h youth who fired at the Emperor of Russia, , your family mere :ill well. lam nry well myself I huupe that yea. draping the met inilicated fun. any traces
ma"Yiv
They ' • last atrewarded by coming upon
when the guest of France. but who still lives, and the ; I ball I I I
. ~....... de au.e to meet you on Sunday Meld. I hope that you of wreck, ..We
refugee Irish vonth who, "in le natic frenzy.," ei-ot at ; .111 write a tell, r bask again, and tell us how ytm are getting of wan their
_grapnels. l: na brou ht out
I till be very eh-O.—Yours affectionate belayed boy. his diving apporotniee, atndiswuretheenouoathe troth of the
the son of England's ruler, anti "was hangt•il amid the ' in; ;
',dilation of an English people, who sacrificed their '
3 • SHAMEFUL Ott RAGE.— Castle Bromwich was on
1i!,,,, ties at the English nobleis' feet the day after." Saturday the scene uif a disgraceful outrage. The annual h originally wen packed in arrels ,
~ I tdr,mailaiLio.iwi
ilahs vim'. a
Next we are rensintled that three Englishmen in ow- , club feast 4 the village was Itch on Friday, and in the the barrels, however,
hhade rotted
~,„,.„,,,..hum shot at the SovereOm herself. "a tlefence- none id the evening a quarrel arose beiween two or In'l'l iiindwli in barrel.' nn • . • so re-
yleft the
less woman, a young Queen passing trustin:ly in the three Birmingham men and the villagers, both being covered,
which,
n blot +f her English subjects," were tint hanged, but , rather excited by the festivities of the occasion. In place, a row of hut tees to commemorate tho oir-
tihawthaey'maonnde
John Gann built at Vt. httutable, his native
were mercifuly considered insane, while three Irish- 1 this instance the Birmingham men had the worst of it, etunatimce, he called Dollar-row.
men who went to rescue a fallow-countryman were ; but on Saturday they returned, with about twenty THE MAGNESIUM LIGHT IN ABTSSINIA.—Ring
banged fer the constructive murder of a policeman, I ethers, all armed with sticks, and visiting the cottages Theodore, it is stated, advised his captains to attack

Leamside is the station for Ihtrinun city and the
Auckland Valley, and there is a large amount of traffic
at it. Abollt noon on Sunday an engine and tender
entered the station from York, and at that time the
porter init in charge of the station said he looked about
and all was clear. But ou rounding the curve at the
south end inf the platform the driver and fireman
obsemml four children on the line nearly at the other
end of the platform. They at once put on tine breaks,
shut off the steam, reversed the engine, and sounded
both whistles loudly. The noise of the whistles ap-
pears to bane been the first intim:di, in the children had
of the am munch of the engine. One little fellow of
four years old was seen to take to his heels anti make
towards the enil of the platform, where he could escape
from danger. He was followed by an older girl of nine
years, who also appeared to have a fair prospect of
escaping. Two little ones, however--a boy and is girl
—were between the metals, and making with feeble
Steps towards the three-hmt spasm between tine rails
; and the plat form, which Wa.4 too high at that place
for them to mount. As the elder girl neared the end
of the platform she looked back anal saw the danger
of the two little ones behind, and with a sudden
impulse she turned back and rant to them. She got to
them and huddled them in between herself and the
platform, when the engiee reached the moup, the con-
necting-rod striking her and throwing the three children
on tin the ground. Meanwhile the little fellow wino had
slashed off at the first alarm had almost reached the end
of that porti I,f the platform sloped low enough for him
to -Lep up. Before inecould reach it, however, the engine
overtook him, the cimnecting-rod struck him a fearful
blow on the head and knocked bhn on to hM back.
The engine was brought up a few feet from the
bridge. It inaneffiately returned to the spot, where a
most sickening sight was presented to dinner who ran
down from the bridge. First the body of the boy was
reached. Ile hail received a blow on his head which
brought him backwards over --a deep gash, ins if the
head had been pletely cut in two, Showing where
tine most Inani struck the pour alit]. lie was quite dead,
having isen apparently killed on the spot. About
ten yank further along the platform lay the n ,ther
three children. 'I he elder child, a little girl, had re-
ceived a bh an m the head similar to Unit of the little
boy, the bl mil gushing from thc wound inflicted. and
the brain being exposed. She had aloo received a
wound on the arm. Notwithstanding, the fearful in-
juries idhe innd received, she still lived when taken up.
On being picked up it was fin md that tine two other
• chiffirenrfor whotn the girl so nobly. risked her own, life
were not offic alive, but almost monjured, one having
" sustained a slight injory on the foot, while the other
had a small bruismon the hand.
• The little boy wh Was killed aml the elder girl were
recognized as John Wilson, aged fonr years, and M. 0.-
garet Wilson, aged nine years, brother intl sister, the
children of a miner named Wilson, residing at Rainton
Gate. 'The other two children were stated to be
Isabella Gilroy, aged five years, and James Smith, aged
four years. Tine escape of the twin latter children was
most remarkalde, for although clear of tine connecting-
rod,. they stood a mat danger of being struck by the
engme step. This was prevented by the unfortnnate
girl, when she was struck, pulling tine other two down
with her. A stretcher was lugs, ily procured, on
which tine body of tine little boy Jn din Wilson Was
together with his sister, and they were con-
veyed to tine home of their parents at Manton Gate.
Dr. Southern, of Rainton, and Dr. Allen, of Camille,
were SOOll ill attendance on the child Margaret Wilson,
but sine only survived two hours after the accident.

some excitement was cause I in Leicester and neighbour
hood on Sunday by the report that a man haul been shot and
was dying at the Infirmary. The statement proved to be
true. and the following rs....culars have transpired :
Two millers, nameitWa'ker and Keene, keep what is
known as the Crow's t,ill, about three miles from
Leicester, and in the parish of Wigston. About two
o'clock on Sunday morning the millers were aroused
I.y a noise of men at the mill dam. Suspecting they
were imachcra, Keen got up and ',vent out to them,
ordering them off. There were five or six in the party,
. and one of the men, named 'John Gilliam, called to
his companions, " Down with the —," and was Ad-
vancing to Keene, when the latter warned him off, at
the same time raising a gun. Gilham took no notice
of the warning, but was advancing on the miller when
the latter tired. Tile shot tick effect, anti the
wounded man was removed as noon as possible, and
afterwards taken to the Leicesta infirmary, where he
died the same day. Inspector Burdett was informed
of the occurrence, and on proceeding to the mill he
found a number of villagers keeping guard on the
building, who would have effectually prevented
Keene's escape, had he attempted to get away. He,
however, made no resistance, and was taken to the
county gaol. lie has been charged with the murder
of John Gilhaan, and remanded.

The Inquest was held on Monday on the body of the no-
fortunate man. The body, which by in the dead-house con- I
lief:tot wilt the infirmary, presented a sickening appearance,
the face being riddled with shot, while the left hand, winch
had evidently been raised no if to screen the face at the
time the gun was fired, was completely shattered, one of the
lingers having been blown away, a:Ili the bones at the hack
of the wrist bared. Several of the shots appear to have
penetrated the brain, and to hive passed through at the
hack of the head ; this is said to Nave been the immediate
cause of death. The only evidence taken was that of Anthony
Lord. biro deposed that deceased married his sister, and that
he want framework knitter, and tiny-five years of age. The
arellSed. George Keene, was not present, he having been
remanded to the county gaol, and the magistrates refusing
to surrend. r him to the coronet's court without a writ of
Habeas Corpus After some discussion the inquest WM ad-
journed.
From the additional farts gathered of this shocking
tragedy it seems that the poacher; had scarcely commenced
fishing fiperat ions In the mill nest when the prisoner came
upon them, and that after a few words had been exchanged
Keene deliberately fired upon deceased, who was foremost.
The foot marks in the grass wlwre the tragedy occurred
show that no conflict took place, and that deceased fell to
the ground directly he had been fired at.