The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-08 00:00:00

of the preservers of the peace, and it was hastily
concluded that they were Femans, probably Ame-
ricana, possibly head centres in disguise, and very pro-
perly the police resolved to visit them ; the strangers
were asked their Lames and business, preparatory no
doubt to an excursion not included in their programme.
One of them naked frankly aud satisfactorily told his
name and occupation, and was fully prepared to prove
his identity. My story is just over —the illustrious
stranger was a 'writer.' as he described himself, and
his name was Charles Pickens.' An apology at once
offered was good-humouredly received, and no further
trespass on the guests, and no ssicasion, like Mr. Pich•
wick, 'to bring an action when he went to Loin.'
Next day, Sunday, Mr. Dickens attended lib ine
service at the parish church, and spent the afterntsin
in Lord Doneraaile's Park, that classic ground where
the great President of Munster, Spemser, Raleigh. and
Edmund Burke had trodden long ago—through which
the lovely Mulla flows in sylvan beauty."
A SIOSIBLE SUGGESTION.—" A Briefless Bar-
ii 1i.11.1m1 cininit. writing to a contem-
porary trout York, suggests that it would be a great
relief to the classes from which special jurymen are
taken were barristers, when unemployed, allowed to
serve on juries. Ile says that whenever any of the
three superior courts sit in Westminster at nisi prius
there are present some fifty young barristers who have
nothing to do but look on and listen. They arc men
peculiarly fitted by education to serve on juries -
trained to weigh evidence, and not likely to be affected
byelaw prejudices. Why not employ them thus, and
allow them to earn a guinea or two a day, to the very
great relief of other special jurymen, many of whom
find it ninth cheaper to submit to an ...long fine
than to abandon their daily business for an indefinite
time to kick their heels about Westminster Hall
mating for causes that in all probability never come t,
trial!

SALMON: IN TILE ANTIPODES.—A letter from
Wellington, New Zealand, says

. .
The introduction of salmon ova has been successfully at--
comp:lied, some of the fish by the CePolka Queen having
justices hatched in the province of Stage. Eleven boxes
from the same vessel were forwarded to Canterbury, but it
Is feared that nmie would germinate. It is yet doubtful
whether the rivers of the North Island are coil enough for
salmon, so that the experiments of acclimatiaation are con-
fined at ymesent to the south. The success 1,1 the Celertioe
Que•r•Cs importation is in great measure owing to the care
and interest which Mr. Frank Bucklandi bestow el in England
.as its preparation and packing. Unfortunately the ship
made a longer passage than was anticipated, or the result
would have been still more satisfactory.

TREATMENT OF SUNSTROKE. The patient
should be placed in a recumbent position in the coolest
possible place, with a free current of air (says the
British Medical Journal). The clothes should be re
moved, and cold water applied to the whole surface .
or, if the symptoms be urgent, the clothes should im-
mediately be saturated with cold water without wait
ing to remove them. If the respiratory movement*
be failing and feeble, the cold douche is a powerful
excitor; but if the breathing be rapid and laborious, il
is better to envelop the body in a wet sheet, and to
quicken evaporation and cooling by a fan sir a pair of
bellows. If the patient can swallow, let him drink
iced water freely. Whether Inc. can swallow or not,
iced water may from time to time be injected. The
marvellous effect of hot venous injections in cholera
collapse, and the urgent need for cooling the blood in
heat-apmea, suggest the expediency, in extreme cases,
of injecting into a vein the same saline solution as has
cc frequently been employed in choleri, only injecting
it cold instead of hot.

REMARKABLE GAOL DELIVICRY.--The Mayor of
Leeds, on Saturday night, issued a proclamation
announcing that a previous mandate respecting the
capture of stray dogs was withdrawn. A little later
the fastenings of the temporary kennels on the Town -
hall premises wore unloosed, the dogs taken into
custody under the first prochunation were released.
and turned out to find their way home an best they
could. .

DEseENT rem.: BRIGANDS.— A telegram from
Constantinople states that the Governor-General of
the Danube informs Ow Porte that the bands of
brigands who had appeared on the left bank bad been
pursued to thy hills between Dirnova and Paiota.
Attacked inunethately by some corps of regular troops
Slid gendarmery, a number of men were killed and
several taken. Amongst the latter was one of their
leaders named Datschu Stefan, of Toulcha. About
forty only, with their principal chief, Hadji Demetri.
of Slinua, at their head, succeeded in escaping towards
the mountains of Gabrouva. Finally, in three engage-
ments, more than eighty hat been either killed or
taken prisoners by the Turks, while the latter, as well
as the inhabitants who have tab n part against the
marauders, had twenty-seven billet and seventy-nine
wounded. Tranquillity prevails throughout the pro-
vince. With the object of organising a vigilant in-
spection the Suit. has ordered Nlidhat Pacha,
President of the Comic 'of State, to pnweed to thc
vilayet of the Danube, where he is expected imme-
diately.

A TEMPTING OFFER --Sir George Bowyer
should st once communicate with "Captain C." (says
the PaII Mall Ga.:elte), who, in an wlvertisement .0
the hot issue of the TOM, offers for a trifling loan
to become a Catholic, and to supply the Pope with
an invention far surpassing the Chassepot, which,
as General Dumont bragged, did such wonders at
Mentana

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Rome.—'• Secret Invention."—thiaranteed to repulse any
existing army, equipped as they 110 W are, that may attempt
to force the gates of the Holy City. The inventor seven
years in the English army seeks the loan of to enable
him to 'Proceed to Rome, there first to embrace the Catholic
faith, and then place himself and invention at the service of
the Pope. Freehold property and effects given to the value
of the loan required. Address, Captain C., under cover to
the Editor of the Tablet.

_
STBEET TRANWATB.—On Friday last an Alct
empowering the construction of street tramways in
Liverpfsl received the royal assent. The company is
authorised to lay down aml work a line from north b,
south of the borough, passing through crowded, and
in some instances narrow, streets. Unsuccessful at
tempts in the same direction were made in two pre
VillUfl sessions, when the bills were opimsed by its
omnibus proprietors and the London am! North
Western Railway Company.
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THE MI LLENIUM HuxuAßY.—The thousandth
anniversary of the foundation of the kingdom
of Hungary is approaching, and people are dis
cussing the way in which the memory of so rare
an event in the political history of Europe ought to be
perpetuated. Some purpose the erection of a colossal
obelisk on one of the vast plains of Hungary; other
prefer a national Pantheon ..n the mountain which over.
looks the capita The commune of Pesth will soon
invite, by a circular letter, all the jurisdictions of the
kingdom to meet in that city; tb programme will
then be definitely fixed in a council of representativ.
-if all the municipalities and comitats.