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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-04-04

A MAN CHARGED WITH MURDERING
HIS RON.

At the assizes held at Bristol, William Blackmore,
described as a mason, was indicted for the wilful mur-
deL,,nf Thomas Blsckmore at Bristol.

When the prieoner bad pleaded. the Judge linked
him if he had any counsel or attorney. The pi-isoner
replied that be had no money, and not a friend in the
world.

His lordship told him that he had requested Mr.
Collins to undertake the defence, and that gentleman
had kindly consented to do so, unless he objected.
The Prisoner t "Thank you, my Lord."
Ihe court was very much crowded, and the case
excited a great deal of interest ; and it will perhaps be
desirable to give a history of the case rather than a
detail of the evidence :
There is a river called the Frame, which riles into the
city of Bristol, and discharges itself into the Floating bar-
blur. Part of the river is open, and it is not until alter it
Pete some way within the city that it is covered over, and from
that point it runs through a mil vsrt in Monday, the 27th
of January, a little girl named Merrick, who lived aire to
the open part of the river, saw something in the river which
she took to be a monkey. She told her father of it, but
he took no notice of the matter. Later in the day his
son procured a ladder, placed it in the river, went down,
and this perceived that it was the body of a little
boy eight or nine years of age. Its took up the bocy
it was dead, and from enbsequent inveetigation, it was
evident that the hey had ems to hie death by drowning
Of course, the quesUon then arose as to the manner
in which the boy had conic into the water. There
was a wall on both sides of the river, and a road on
Use outer side of the wall, PO that it was considered impro-
bible that the boy could have fallen into the river, and In
qeiries were made with regard so the time when the boy was
last seen alive, awl with whom lie then was, and the follow.
hg facts were then elicited :—The prisoner, a widower, was
the father of the boy, and followed the occupation of a
mason's labonrer The conduct of the prisoner towards the
boy was. ace-rdine to seine of the witnesses. cruel ant un-
manly, awt be had 'wen heard to express a wish that the boy •
Wu &ad, and that be was In bin mother.. well% toe It was
a great harden to him, and he always exhieited a ereat
aversien to the child. ,The evidence on this part of the .
ease tailed. Onjaionday, January 27, the prisoner and his

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-04-04

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-04-04

THE CONDEMNED CONVICT IN
SHREWSBURY GAOL.

The date of the execution of John Mapp, convicted
at Shrewsbury Assizes of the murder of the little girl
Catherine Lewis, at Longdon, has been fixed for
Thursday, the 9th of ApriL Up to the present time
Mapp has preserved the apparent indifference to his
fate which has characterised him ever since his first
committal on the capital charge. He still protests his
innocence, and declares that he shall die an innocent
man," but public feeling in the locality of the murder
Is very strong against him, and his protestations have '
not availed to cast any doubts upon the justice of his
sentence.
It is not generally known that Mapp was convicted
nine years ago of an attempted outrage upon an old
woman, 60 years of age, at a place not very far distant
from the scene of the murder of Catherine Lewis. The
offence was then very nearly terminating in murder,
for he tied a cord round the old woman's neck and
threatened "to do for her" if she did not accede to his
purpose. An attempt was at that time made to show
that Mapp was of weak intellect, and this defence had
weight with the jury to the extent of inducing them
to recommend him to mercy; but the Judge remarked
that "though he might not be the wisest person in the
world, he well knew right from wrong." and sentenced
him to 10 years' penal servitude. Mapp received a
ticket-of-leave in July, 1866, and a little less than 18
months after he committed the crime for which he now
lies under sentence of death.

daring invader, or rather her servant did, and took
him into the house, where she best him on the back
till he cried out lustily. This brought Mrs. Travis
and a policeman on to the scene, who rescued the
child and took him home. Mrs. Shaw, who con-
ducted her own caae, did not deny the assault, but
pleaded in justification that young Travis wars the
"moat vicious" boy she ever knew and the "peat of
the neighbourhood," and that as his mother would not
correct him she thought she was justified in doing so.
The magistrates, however, did not share her opinion,
for they fined her 40s. and costa, or a month's impri-
sonment with hard labour.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-04-04

The Rev. Mr. CRAUFIIRD'S SERMON.
[Froota Ott Daily 7 yraph.l

What Calf be said of such a sermon and such
a mall Ths poor ohl gentleman has been, it
appears, thirty.two years in the pariah, and has
not even yet arrived at the years of discretion.
There is s kind of disease called "clergyman's
sore throat." Is there any special mental ec-
centricity developed by long residence in a coun-
try parsonage? The other day we had a clergy-
man who, after many years of sober life, sad-
deuly disappeared, and kept his friends and the
public in agony and anxiety for Nix weeks; and
now we have a man of good family, of education,
and probably decent life, playing fantastic tricks
in the pulpit where he was placed to preach
God's word. The gadfly gossip of the neigh-
bourhood stings him into rage, and be reveals
his sickly thoughts, his mental infantaties, his
poor little foolish family pride, his petty spite
against ilia petty persecutors, with a frankness
of disclosure that no penitent before a priest
coald excel. Its has evidently brooded over
what he saw, or heard, or fancied, in the parish,
mitil he could no hunger restrain himself ; and
he has tried to avenge himself front the pulpit
on every lady who has sneered at his wife or
spoken bitterly of himself. To tittro• a serious
rebuke of such a sad yet cotnieal offclice against
all decorum is impossible. One is lost in won.
dr and pity that the oars should so far forget
himself and his sacred calling, aid should give
his local enemies new materials of attack. It
is impossible, tilao, not to feel sonic sly satisfac-
tion at the terribly practical application of this
lesson on humility. Other parsons tell their
hearers to be humble and lowly-minded, but the
Stourbridge congregation get much more than
abstact advice. They are not only told to be
humble, but warned that they have no right to
be proud; and the general lecture on high and
low birth, on the presumption of the man who
dared to aspire to Miss Craufurd, on the local
defiance of Lindley Murray, and on the general
want of grandfathers, is abundantly illustrated,
arid, indeed, clearly made out. In fact, if
Stourbridge has been offensive to the rector's
new wife, it has now "got it hot" in return.
What will be the new relations of the locality?
Will the grandfatherlesa dames of the pariah re-
pout iu sackcloth and ashes, and call at the roc-
' ' tore dropping a shower of " l's" and visiting
I •
; Garda ? Or will they still lift up their horns ou
high, and speak with a stiff Lula, when they
I meet the goutv obi gentleman and hie wife.
ntitaii P Gar ilfnllnghem ohmic:veery that
that aapplies us with tiis report should continue
to give ua abondant intelligence from "slat of
was." Unless some bishop interfere to silence
; the reverend Was by Ala UMW' "det hiw roar
agile."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-04-04

OLD RILL.

ENTERTAINMENT.—On Monday evening the members
of the Cra,Bey Young lieu's Mute ii Improvement So-
ciety give an entertainment in the Primitive Methodist
School-room, in aid of the Temperance Society of this
place. A tolerable audience was present. The chair was
occupied by Mr. H. Newuam, of Stourbridge, who
opened the meeting with an address on " Education."
Afterwards E. Brazier recited the "Rained Cottage."
followed by another address on "Education" by W.
Leach. J. Cruniall then gave a selection from Gold-
smith's " Deserted Village," and E. Brazier read Elihu
Burritt's grand piece, One niche higher." A good re-
citation followed by E. Watts, entitled " What might be
done ;" and then C. Lamsdale read "Lord Brougham on
taxes and the privileges of an Englishman." Afterwards
A. Brazier delivered an admirable address on " The
greater evening," and B. Cartwright recited " Toby Toss-
pott." "How to take care of No. 1," an a ldrimni, by C.
Darby, elated the eveuing't entertainment, which gave
considerable sathftetion.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-04-04

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ROWLEY REGIS.

TIM ALLEGED DEATH FROM VIOLENCE.—The adjourned
inquest on the body of George Smith, blacksmith, resid•
leg formerly at Blackheath, was held on Monday last,
before Mr. T. M. Phillips, Coroner, at the house of Mr.
A. Fe'wood, the Three Horse Shoes Inn, Upper (torus!.
On the 16th ultimo the deceased was at the bouse of Mr.
Joseph Hackett, of Blackheath, and he there became so
violent as to render it necessary for police int.rference.
Poliee.constahle Sipa was called in, and the deceastd
was then in the street in front of the home. lie refused
to move on, and said Ile would have revenge for the treat-
ment received in the house. The officer, assisted by a
sueond ollieor, succeeded in taking him to the station,
and on the road he stiuck Sipe in the chest, and the
officer was compelled to use his staff. During his inear•
ceratien he became no ill that it was deemed necessary
by Mr. Phillips, surgeon, of Rowley, that he should be
conveyed to the Dudley Workhouse, and this course
having been adopted, the man was conveyed there, and
attended by the medical officer. He died on the 21st
ult, and the certificate of Mr. Haden was to the effect
that death was caused by excessive drinking. The wife
of deceased, however, demanded an inquest, and Dr.
Newoliam, of Wolverhampton, was called to make the
usual examination, he being totally disinterested. The
result of the examination verified the opinion given by
Mr. Linden, the Union surgeon, and the jury returned a
verdict to the effect that death was by excessive drinking,
but they censured the sergeant in charge of the station,
and the officer Slym, for not having obtained medical aid
sooner to deceased, it having transpired that he had been
in custody thirty hours without any medical man being
called in.—The Coroner informed the officers of the
censure of the jury, and the proceedings terminated.—
Captain Cougreve, chief constable of Staffordshire, and
Mr. Superintendent McCree, were present during the
inquiry.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-08

AN INTERESTING PIGEON MATCH.

L'Eper,irr, a Belgian paper, gives an interesting
aeount of the great pigeon race which takes place
annually in Belgium. The King of the Belgiins
oflers a valuable prize to the owner of the first bird
in, and the Count of Flanders to the owner I,f the
second, the total value of the prizes competed for
being 1:760. This year 1,507 pigeons were conveyed
born Brussels to Ag en, a distance of more than 500
miles, and were then thrown tu, at 5 a. M., on July 18,
under the supeantendence of M. Huybrech's, who
had been appointed by the society " L'Hirondelle "
to mark and liberate the pigeons entered for the
national concourse of 1868. The first prize was not
claimed in Brussels until the following day, when M.
Growers, of that city, presented his bird at 6.4 a.m.
A few minutes afterwards the ssme gentlemi.n el timed
the third, fifth, eleventh, eleventh, fifteenth, eighteenth,
I and twenty-fist prizes from the commissioners. 11y9.30
am twenty-one of the rigeons bad reached B,ussels,
eight of them belonging to M. Grooters, who is
beyond dispute the most succeseful lis eon fancier in
the world.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-08

THE HEAT OF THE WEATHER.
(From Punch.)

Punch has received some more letters on this im-
pressive subject. He permits a few to appear.

To THE EidToß OF

Sir—Last week an argument between me and Father
becan e so warm that we were not cooled down until nevem]
blows had resulted. I enclose my name and addrese—
Yours, AJAX.

Tt. THE EIITR F PINCH."

lyear Punch.—A few clays ago I was foolish enough to
plunge Into a controversy. at Bath. 1 speedily found myself
In hot water.—Youm truly, A LIATIi CHAP.

To THE EPITOR OF "PUNCH."

Sir—This simmer I have suffered much from boils—Yours
faithfully, Salo DV.

THZ EIkITOR OF ‘' PI:NCH."

llonnerd Sir,—My misses uses matches as "lights only on
the box." I feel as I mu uncommon likely for to follow the
example of them matches—Year humble servant,—Tux
DRIVER lII+ THE TEN o'Clocit BROMPTON Bus.

TO THE EDIToR OF PUNCH.

Sir,-1 am a milkman, awl in my walk am considered an
ungenerous man, but last Thursday I will admit it was so
hut 1 could net help giving hey.—Youra obediently,
0. enEstEn.

TO THE EDITOR OK

_
Dear Mr. Punch,—l have just written a duck of a novel,
I think. I haven't a notion who should publish it. My
Cousin Fred &unrest. Mr. Haitian, or :Saunders and Honey.
I wish you would advise ma—bun, A WARM ADMIRER.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-08

110 PS.

Owing to the long continuance of the drought the hop
plant begins to wear a sickly appearance. and the prospects
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-08

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MEETING OF UNEMPLOYED POOR IN

LONDON.

The second of a series of meetings of the unemployed
poor was held on Monday night. in }lmam-market,
Mr. O'Neill in the chair. The Chairman, in opening
the proceedings, spoke of the great influx of Irish
people into the metropolis, and stated that Sir Robert
Kane, President of the Queen's College, Cork, had
asserted that with proper management, under the
present laws, Ireland could sustain a population of
31,000,00, while with really good law,: in operation
that country could support a imputation of 48,100,110;
therefore, if good laws were made for Ireland, and the
people of that country were prosperous and happy,
labour in England would have a far hatter chance.

.Afr. Riddle then proposed the first resolution, es

That in the opinion of this meeting the enclosure and
cultivation of some of the unenclosed and waste lands in this
kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland present the beat means
of giving employment and comfortalde support to the unem-
ployed poor, including in that category all persons receiving
parochial relief : and that Parliament he petitioned in
furtherance of that object.
Ile said he should like to know the object of "level-
ling" the people up, Did it mean "levelling" them
up to prosperity?

•
Mr. Weston, in seconding the resolution, said it was
calculated that 1,000,000 of people were out of tqn-
ployment in Great Britain. Now, assuming that the
people so unemployed were placed at some useful
work say, ha the advantage of the State, the value of
their labour, putting it down at the low smn of 108. a
week, would amount to £4100,000 weekly, and to
£25,000,000 yearly, sufficient to pay off the national
debt in 200 years. .

The resolutionWElB put and carried unanimously.
Mr. Mote, in moving the second resolution, said
he had forwarded the resolutions passed at the first
meeting of the unemployed, held at Hostommarket,
to Mr. Disraeli, and had received an acknowledgment
from Mr. C. W. Freemantle, private secretary to the
Premier. He begged to move—

That, whereas the union of Ireland with Great Britain, and
the oppression of the former through the had legislation and
misgovernment of the latter, are fruitful of evil, not only to
the native Irish, but to the people of other countries, and
especially to England, whither the Irish people exile them-
selves, entering into competition with and displacing the
labourers thereof, this meeting resolves that the means of
restoring and increasing the demand for lalsoir in this
country would be had either by adopting a better system of
government for Ireland or by repealing the Legislative
Union.
Mr. Mote maul that the bad government of England
in Ireland had sent the people of the latter country
over here to swamp the labour market. If good laws
were nnule for Ireland her people would stay at home.
The resolution havingbeen seconded, was carried, and
the proceedings closed with a vote of thanks to the
Chairman.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-08

OLD HILL.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—An inquest was held on the 4th
just, before B. blooper, Esq., Coroner, at the house of
John Stafford, Blue Ball, touching the death of Alice
Jane Hackett, aged six years and eight months. From
the evidence it appeared that deceased 005 engaged on
the Stet ultimo in roasting potatoes at the Brettell Pit
mound, when her clothes caaght fire, and she was so
burnt that eh, oi the 2n:i . The jury returned
verdirtof

Asstrt TTWI .5 T. tara ARO —At the Petty Se,sions, sos
Wednesday lad. before E. More and F. W. ti. Barrs.
Rays., Sloop I Noel( was eliarord hy.Tohn Stafford with
assaulting him on the 251 h ult. From the evidence of
the complainant it •npeared that he wa, landlord of the
Blue 8011. Old Hill Defendant was there. and rime
be hind him and stench him /I blow on the fleets while he
was talking to another son. Did not give the defend-
ant any voyocation. It watt lodge night. The Berth
canal leers] the ease proved and fined the defendant 2.
61 and eosts.—There was a charge against the defendant
of refusing to leave the Blue Ball when requested. This
case Was withdrawn on the payment of coats.

, . . .
Ass k 1.71.1. CAgr.—Tanieft Smith wars Awned by Joseph
Darby with assaulting him on Wednesday last. From
the evidence of complainant it sppeared that he lived
with the defendant. who coy hishrOther-in-low. (in the
above date he met with the defewlant, v.ho struck him
four times. Defendant admitted the assault, and was
lined 61 and costs.

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LNPROVOKED ASSAULT —William Wright was clomp d
by Joseph Williams with assaulting him on the 25th ult.
Complainant Raid he lived at Reddall Rill, and about 12
o'clorb he met the defendant at the Four Way.. Ile.
fendant eatue up to hint unit struck him and knocked him
down. Defendant pleaded wilily. Fined Is lid and costs ;
in dt fault 21 days.
AssaurriNn Boy.— Thomas Brookes WAS charged
by Charlea Bridgwate with assanlting Min on the :llst
tdt Complainant said that on the above date there was
gaarrel with some children. when the defendant Caine
up and strnek Idol and knocked him down. The a.einult
was admitted. Fined (41 and co,ts; in default seven
Java.

Disonuanhv CONDITT.—TIInm as Stringer was ebargell
ho Superintendent Mills with being drunk an 1 disorderly
on the ..2slli ult. Poliec.ennstable Marriott proved the
offence, which was admitted by the defendant. Vinci
Oil and costs: in default seven days.
Sul: urn or TUC PE l'ar+oll% AO Henry
Hall were charged by Superintendent Mills %int com-
mitting a breach of the peace by fighting on the :list
ult. Ji'lilts Payne, Parish.eonstable, said that lie was
sent for by a man named Paliner, and found the two de-
fendants fighting. linth parties pleaded guilty, and they
were ordered to find one surety in £lO to keep the peace
for three months.

AMIN.: AND ALT:rIINO.—WiIIiAM Hall, George White,
and James Bagley were charged with aiding and abetting
at the above fight. Defendants pleaded guilty, and were
ordered to ply the eosti.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-08

WORDSLEY.

IMPUDENT TITEF r.—At the Public (hike, on Monday
last, before F. Evers, T. k. Lee, and H. Hall, Rave.,
Thomas °Bins, a youth of 17, was ensrged with stealing
the money of Robert IVarhy. Prisoner was apprea•
tired to a hairdresser at Wordsley, where the prosecu-
tor, who is a grocer at Brierley nabbed a branch estab•
li:dimwit under the management of a young man named
George Ayton. Prisoner and Ayton were on intimate
terms, and the former was almost rightly in the prose-
cutor's shop. Ayton noticed that money was occasion•
ally being taken from the till; bat he did not mime
the prisoner till about a week flgn. He spoke of the mat-
ter to • friend named Whitehouse, who, paeiee eat a
bole in the door leading down to the cellar, tick his
stand behind it. Ayton went out to close the shop, leav-
ing the prisoner sitting in the kitchen. While Ayton
was away Whitehouse raw the prisoner leave the kitchen,
go to the till, and take some money out. Police.4ergeent
Hudson wan subsequently sent for, and in the prisoner's
possession he found a sixpence which Ayton identified
by a mark he hail pat upon it.—Prisoner denied the
charge, and Mr. Malloy, who appeared for him, ad-
dressed the Bench in mitigation of the offence. The
Bench thought the theft a very impudent one, and sen-
tenced the prisoner to titres inounths' imprisonment.
HIGHWAY' OFFF.NCE.—WiiIim Wilkinson was charged
by Superintendent Mills with riding without reins on
the highway, at Penmen. Police-conetable Williams
prey.' the offence. Defendant was ordered to pay the
Costs.
NEOLECT OF W.-MlT—Henry Roden was charged by
Richard Perks with neglecting his work. Mr. Wall de-
fended. Front the evidence it appears that defendant
had been employed by complainant for the last year and
a ball; that he left and came back to work again, and
that he again abseut,il himself without givieg fourteen
days' notice. Upon cross-examination complainant ad.
'flitted tint other men had left withoutgiring notice, and
the Reveh dismissed the case.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-08

POTATOES

air average supplies of potatoes are ou sale. On the whole
the trade has ruled steady, at full prices.. The imports into
London last week consisted of 684 eases 20 sacks 352 bars
from Boulogne, 590 packages 84 tons from Cherbourg, 1,597
logs 58 casks 5e7 baskets 910 sacks 152 packages from Dun-
kirk, 2,C4S haakets from Rotterdam, 74 tons from Jersey, ale
hoses 25 tons 102 eases from Harfleur, and 131 paekswes hum
flavre.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-08

DAMAGES FOll LOSS OF A HUSBAND.

An action has been brought at Belfast by Matilda
Barnett against Robert Lucas and Edward Lucas, to
recover £l,OOO as damages, alleged to have been sus-
tained by the plaintiff by reason of the bursting of a
boiler purchased from the defendants, whereby
plaintiff's husband, Robert Barnett, leather merchant
and flax scutcher at RandaLstown, was killed on
August 27th, 1867.
The plaintiff stated that the defendants were manu-
facturers of steam boilers in Newry, and that
they had sold a boiler to the late Mr. Barnett.
Mr. Barnett and his servants, not knowing that
the boiler was dangerous, made use of it, and
when no using it, and in consequence of its being
unsafe and dangerous, it exploded, and killed the said
Robert Barnett and others; that the defendants bad
warranted the said boiler to be good, safe, and secure,
and that it was not good and safe, and that Mr.
Barnett, believing it was safe, used it, when he was
, killed; that the said Robert Barnett bought from the
defendant this boiler under a contract, which engaged
that it should be of strong and good materials and that
it was not so. and that it was .arranted by the defen-
dants to be a "first-class job," and that, so warrant-
ing it, they sold it, and that Mr. Barnett, confiding in
that representation, stied it, and that it killed him
when so doing.
The defences were--that the boiler was safe in point
of fact, and that the deceased contributed by his own
neglect to the explosion which killed hint. To the
second count there were four defences—that the de-
fendant did not warrant the boiler as alleged, that
the boiler WM good and sound, that they had no know-
ledge the boil r was bad, and that there was contribu-
tory negligence on the part of the deceased. To the
other counts the defence was, that the boiler was good,
and that there was contributory negligence, that the
boiler was a first-class job, that the defendants did
not warrant it to be a first-class job, that they had 110
notice of what was alleged in the fourth count, and
also that there was coati Pinto' y negligence on the part
of the deceased.

The case occupied the day, and resulted in a verdict
for the plaintiff, with ZOO damages, and 61. costs.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-08

CONVICTIONS UNDER THE FACTORY

ACT.

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At Stoke-on-Trent Police-court, on Friday, the fol-
lowing charges under the Factory Acts were preferred
by Captain May, Sub-Inspe. tor of factories for the
Staffordshire potteries, against Messrs. Keeling and
Walker, earthenware manufacturers, Longton :
First, employing a certain child more than seven working
days without obtaining a surgeon's certificate as to the said
child ; secondly, employing another child without having a
certificate of its attendance at school in the previous week;
thirdly, neglecting to keep a portion of the factory properly
clean ; and, lastly, Mr. Walker a member of the firm, was
charged with obstructing the sub-Inspector of factories in
the performance of his duties.
Captain May went to the defendant's manufactory
on the 29th of July, and then discovered the acts of
negligence with which they were charged. He asked
for the production of the children in question, and Mr.
Walker professed to send for them, -lint they did not
come, and Captain May ascertained that Mr. Wal-
ker had sent them away from the work,, regard
to the third charge, one of the rooms contained seve-
ral heaps if dirt, the sweepings of the floor, and the
shelves were also very dirty. For the first offence the
defendants jointly were fined 40• and costs, for the
second 20s. and costs, and for the third 1.:2 and costs,
and fill' the fourth • tine of £3 and cods was imposed
upon Mr. Walker
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-08

MURDERS AT SEA.

The Dutch vessel Fennidtions arrived at Pernambuco upon
the 25th of June, with a cargo of jerked meat from
Montevideo. During the voyage the following scenes
occurred :

On the 18th the first mate, J. J. de (troth, ordered
an Englishman, called James Rudger, shipped at
Montevideo, to take the wheel from him, when the
latter struck the mate upon the head ax.d knocked him
down. He then cut his throat and threw the body
into the sea. The cook, J. Biemhold, was awakened
by the splash, and, believing some ons had fallen
overboard, began to shout, "A man overboard !" and
to throw planks and ropes into the water, While ,
thus engaged Rudger sprang at him, split his head
open with a hatchet, and threw him into the sea.
The captain and second mate were awakened by the
noise, and the second mate in coming up the com-
panion way was struck at but missed by the hatchet
wielded by Rudger, and he jumped back, whereon
Rudger closed the hatch and piled chains on it to (r,
vent it being opened by them. He then called the
two remaining men, an Englishmas named Nicholas
Chest,r and an American called John Hughes, and
forced them by fear to obey him. He then told them
he was about to scuttle the vessel and abandon her,
hut they persuaded him to wait till the vessel was
near land. On the 21st, Rudgeruneovered the hatch
to see what was going on inside, and while so doing
Captain Hotze attempted to shoot him with a gun,
but this missed tire. Rudger then hastily closed the
hatch and called to the men on deck to put a large
stone on the top. While he was waiting for this the
captain fired at guess, but the ball only scored Ibid.
ger's leg. This, however, had the effect of alarming
him, and he ordered the boat to be got ready, while he
himself made preparations for firing the vessel ; but
his companions again dissuaded him from leaving her so
far from land. At night Chester went to bed,
Hughes was at the wheel, and Rudger, who had not
slept for three days, laid down near it armed and with
his hatchet close to him, telling Hughes to waken him
when land was in sight. In a few minutes he was
fast asleep, and Hughes then left the wheel, and
seizing the hatchet buried it in Rudger's head, who
, tried to rise, and drew his knife, but fell dead before a
second stroke. Hughes then shouted that all was
safe, and after throwing the body into the sea, opened
the hatch, whereon, after sonic hesitation, the two im-
prisoned men came on (leek. No money or other
valuable portable property existed on board to tempt
cupidity, so that the ferocious conduct of Rudger
must have originated from a maniacal thirst for blood.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-08

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A HARD CASE.

The following !seem to require attention—

At Doncaster Police-court, on Monday, a labourer,
named Charles Musson, married, having five children,
and in the receipt of 19t a week, was charged, at the
instance of the union authorities, with refusing to sup-
port his father, who is now in the workhouse. Ihe
cost of the father's maintenance is laid at 4s. a week,
and defendant's two brothers, each earning 188. a week,
married, but without children, were each ordered last
week to contribute Is. GA a week towards this sum.
The relieving officer now asked that defendant should
pay the other shilling a week. Defendant said that he
had to pay sixpence a week to his club, and when he
had paid his rent and sehoolpence for his children he
had 28. left for each member of his family. It was
hard to draw blood out of a post, lie had often to go
with a bit of dry bread himself, and he really could mit
pay anything. After a long consultation the Magis-
trates ordered him to pay the sum asked.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-08

THE HARVEST.

Mr. J. J. Meehi, of Tiptree Hall, Kelveilon, Essex,
writing to The Timex, on August 1, says :

As wheat harvest progresses the evidences of first-rate
quality and condition and ample yield become more and
more apparent. We know, also, that almost every farmer has
an extra breadth of wheat, the high price and fine autumnal
condition of the soil having Induced and favoured the opera-
tion of sowing.
,

I have just threshed the produce of thirty acres of white
wheat sown with one bushel per acre in November'. ; the
yield is 190 quarters, weight per bushel 6311 i., amount realized
£970 Some very line and closely-dressed white wheat
weighs over 6511, per bushel. The wheat crop generally has
been so,thoroughly ripened and dried hy the intense heat
that all is in first-rate order for the miller, and there is no
need for the addition of either old or foreign wheat, both of
which are neglected. All this presents a great and pleasing
contrast with the harvests of the last two years. Wheat has
fallen in price Ms per quarter within the last ten days, but
we can hardly expect it to be much lower, for the potato
crop is cottage gardens and generally is, so far, a failure;
vegetables are also very scarce and dear, and we have a long
year before us, unless the next harvest should be as early
as the present one.
. .

'the
quality of the wheat straw is as perfect as it could
be, amt its quantity abundant, This will be a very bad year
for grass land farmers, whose stock is immensely depreciated
In value and demand by the absence of cattle food. Half
the kingdom is in pasture.
Let us hope and reasonably expect that when rain does
come, charged with a long accumulation of ammonia and
other fertilizers, its effect on the deeply heated soil will be
to produce an abundant and rapidly grown vegetation.
P.S.—Owing to the very general use of reaping machines
there la an ample supply of manual labour for harvest pur-
poses. Great loss and inconvenience arise in many places
from want of water, it points to the necessity for storing
sonie of the winter supply. In my case, (in lag to my spring
drainage, I have not only an ample supply for my own use,
but a running stream for miles to lay neighbours below me.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-08

A LIVELY NEIGHBOURHOOD !

At the Manchester Police-court, on Friday, the
stipendiary Magistrate was engaged upwards of an
hour in investigatibg charges and countercharges of
assault, in which a large number of men and women—
especially women—were concerned. One of the wit-
nesses said that the street (off Rochdale-road) in which
the row occurred was a fearful place to live in, for the
men and women were "agate all day and all night,
and there was no chalice of any satisfaction without
taking the now before the Magistrate." Bags of stones
and other missiles, and paper parcels of women's hair,
were laid on the table. The evidence went to show
that the doors were broken open with tilol4e hammers
and that the windows were smashed with brickbats,
while a quantity of cups and saucers and other
crockery was "tired at [1134."
The Magistrate, pointing to the paper parcels, naked
if that was all the hair that was "unfastened" on the
occaeion. Several women replied that there was more
at home, and there would be no peace in the street
unless one or other of them (the parties being diversely
selected according to the leadings of the witneases)
should be locked up.
The Magistrate: You will all get some peace now.
It is useless to fine any of you, for in half an hour your
friends would be here with the money, said you would
Is, driven away as usual in cabs, with colours flying.
One and all, 3 ou are committed to gaol for a mouth.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-08

THE MURDER OF ZUSDIAN.

ACQUITTAL OF HARRIS.

On Wednesday morning last, George Harris
was again brought up in custody, and placed in
the dock at Shrewsbury Assizes:. charged with
the wilful murder of Barnard Zusman, on the
15th November, 1867.

The Judge (Mr. Justice Byles) summed up
the evidence at great length.
The Jury afterwards retired, and on re-enter-
ing th 2 Court, returned a verdict of "Not
Guilty.-
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-08

WOOL.

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At the Surrey amazes a verdict of 12.200 was oh.
tabled by a militia oilier, against the Great Northern Rail
way Company, for injuries be received in a collision near
Hitchin in April last. Ile was a young Irish gentleman who,
before the accident, had been strong and robust, and in the
constant practice of taking violent athletic exercises, but
now could not even appear in court without danger to his
life. The company did not deny their liability, but alleged
that cult of the plaintiff's present prostration of strength
arose from a disease of the blood from which he was suffer-
ing before the accident.

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There inn been a want of animation in the demand for
colonial wool, at about late rates. The third series of public
sales for the current year will be commenced on the loth
Inst. The arrivals up to date are ato foUoaa —Port Phifliji
rtii,l/20, Van DiVll.ll.ll Land t,,477, Sydney 54,714, New Zealand
119,06., Cape i 0,112, Adelaide 9,02 C, making a total of 100,1
bales. It 13 estimated that a farther ...WOO bales will coin-
to hand. For English wool the market has been firmer, at
full prices Last week's Import consisted of 1,254 bales from
the (ape, 2.1)5 from Adelaide, 1:1,711 from New Zealand,
3,874 from Melbourne, and 1,714 fr. on Odessa. Fleeces South•
down homtets, Is. Std. to Is. ad. ; hail-broils, la Aid. to
Is. 051.; Kent fleeces, ls. 40. to Is. bd. ; Southdown ewes
and wethers, Is. 8d to in. 451.; and Leicester ditto, is. 3d.
, t01,.0 t ,orts: clothing, Is. 11. to).. 641.; and combhlß.
Is. Os. to Is. nid.
TALLOW.

The market continues fine, eith prices tending upwards
y c., a. spot, 441. Mk to Hs. fit; Town tallow 411. SM.
net clan.

LI
; and etimtM7g:
TALLOW.
The market continues firm, with prices tending upwards
s
L.. cur the animal, I:',rgltUragne"s7ti t,n,n,eusji T.C. on the sprd, 445. nd. to 445. ilsl.; Town tallow 41s. Wt.
ornorance. Their movements attracted the notice net Cash.
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-08

LADY'S SONG OF THE SEASON.
(.4<lal,tal froia "La Unt,od Duelte:lsr.)

MR—" Ah ! qua ?alone les otilitairea."

How I dote on the millinery,
How I dote on the millinery,
How I dote on the millinery,
Husband will
Defray the bill
For things sent in to me ;
For I dote on the millinery, &c, —P-h.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-08

BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.

At the Leeds Assizes. before Mr. Baron Bramwell, the ease
of 'Marshall a Feber " was heard.

This was an action for breach of promise of marriage.
The plaintiff, Alice Marshall, is a power-loom weaver
at Todmorden ; and the defendant, James Feber, is a
cotton manufacturer of Canteen, near Todmorden.
Both parties were members of a Baptist congregation.
The defendant plead. d that he did n t agree to marry
the plaintiff. Miss NI acihall was thirty years of age,
and the defendant twenty-eight, and each had been
acquainted with the other for a great number of years.
Five years ago the plaintiff was engaged to he married
to the defendant, and a large number of letters had
passed between them of the most endearing nature.
The following letter from the defendant to the plaintiff
amongst others was read :---

June 24, I inchohn, My dear Alice,--I feel myself at
a loss how to address you. I often think of you. oh, how
I love you. thud only knows. May the Lord keep you in the
faith of the just, no that you may receive the crown of re-
ward which the Lord bath promised to them that serve him
faithfully. In this world, whence I rove, wherevere I rest, I
often think of you. I t leave your lounge. bee:nine I
believe that God is mysteriously joining us together. May
the Lord bless you with his heavenly grace. Amen --Yours
truly, Ja 51 s:s FEDER.

About November, ISfi2, the defendant felblangerouslv
ill, and was nursed by the plaintiff. In is letter which
be wrote on December 29th he expressed thanks for
his recovery, and said ,that he bad a heart that loved
her as tenderly as ever, and added, "I louse we shall
be permitted to live tomther in peace and harmony all
the days of this mortal life, and after this betrays-
planted to the paridice above, wham e all is peace and
happhlean.- The Intimacy bet..cen he pho.inLiff and
defendant fell off about twelve or eighteen months ago,
and three months had only elapsed since he married a
Miss Horsfall. The father of the defendant was dead,
but he was a cotton manufacturer, and had made a
will which seas sworn under 1:600, and, oubject to
certain conditions, his estate and effects were equally
divisible amongst the children on the youngest attaining
majority. The defendant was now engaged at his
father's mill.
His lordship, in summing up, said—ln considering
the damages they would take the whole circumstances
into account. Tlie plaintiff was thirty years of age,
and the defendant was younger, so that he would not
be much more than twenty when he made the engage-
ment. The probability was, therefore, that the de-
fendant had changed hot mind in time. It was better
he should do so than find out his mistake when it was
too late, and the plaintiff ought to be very glad that
she had not married ii moan who slid not love her.
A verdict was given for the plaintiff—damages £2O.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-08

PENSNETT.

ANNEAL FLOIrrII OF PRIZES 114
Inca LYTTELTON.—The third asinwl Cottage Flower
Show and Horticultural Fete in connection with this
place. was tall on Tueeday, at the Parsonage (ironic,
The 'towels, plaits, fruit, and vegetablee were arrang•d
in a large tent. and presented a pleasing appearance, al.
though the show was not no good as in former year'.
The jartges wire Mr. Searle, of Motley. and Mr. t
trey, of Stoorbridge. At five &clink the price-takers
and visitors were called together by the sound of a eor.
net, and the Rev. J. Atherton 'incumbent) addressed
a few introductory remarks to them previoui to neking
Lord Lytlelton to distribute the prices. Considering
the dryness of the weather the show was a very good
one. Lord Lyttelton said he had great pleasure in tak-
ing the part assigned to him that evening. The weather
however, was against making or listening to a long
speech, so he would at once speak of the show before
them. The exhibition of produce from the little garde.
of the labouring people in that district WM deserving of
commendation. The growing of such plants and flowers
was very desirable. It added to the resources, never too
large, of the labonring people and it tended to Mere.°
in their minds admiration of the works of Providence,
and an appreeiation of the beautiful as well es the use-
ful. There was more credit doe to the price-takers and
exhibitors in a district like that than in rural places.
There was an old proverb that God made the country
end man made the town, and the proverb contained as
much truth as thoAe old sayings usually did. Of enureo
it must not lie taken so literally. It means that is largo
towns the face of nature was shut out. Still, iu the
I heart of the city of London he lied seen kindlier diapla'a
to that before him. The exhibitors there had no gar-
! den or little plots, but they haul some bits of boxes out.
siae their windows, and there they produce the plants- -
a proceeding which he might rah horticulture under the
greatest possible dirii,ulties. Reverting to the'exhibition
i before him, the exhibitors bad not only the smell spate
for growing crops, but they bad a season never, probably
in the recollection of any person present, equalled. On
I (the speaker; ha I been out of England during the a intei ;
consequently he had seen no rain of any account for
some long time. (•• Hear, hear, and langliter). Whig,
however, the want of rain was much felt, there was every
prospect of a 'denten,ra liarvod—ihear, heart—and th it
was the only bright side on which they could at present
look. He was ily glad of melt a harvest. for treat
, dependance would have to lie placed upon it for name
, months to coin,. Rear, beer). His Lordship eosl-
' eluded by expressieg, his belief that the splendid harvest
j was something to console them for the lose of the green
crops, no every on sl he as cheerful W. poseilile.
The prices were then distributed, his Lordship ocean.
sionally bestowing a word-of praise as the recipient up.
peered.