The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-07-27 00:00:00

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ROME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.

A PIPER THE BATTLE !—Here are the ipsissima
verb's of a young lady who went to the Caledonian
Ball in London :

" I'm so tired. No wonder. It was nearly five o'clock
this morning before I got home—of course broad daylight.
I enjoyed the ball extremely; it was no different from Lon-
don balls generally. . Not a common-looking person in the
room. Such pretty women and lovely dresses, and such MR-
wfl.nt jewellery and lace. I'm afraid I was constantly
coveting my neighbours goods. I'm bruised all over, black
and blue, even my neck and aa for my poor dress! the
flounces were hanging in shreds about nit. Even the flounce
on my petticoat was tor, . Sly fan was broken to smithe-
reens, but there were plenty of ladies worse off than I was.
You see all the men in cavalry uniform wore spurs, so the
ladies' dresses suffered. . . The people got so excited over
the Scotch dances—stamped and shouted: it was great fun
—quite like a fashionable romp."

THE LADIEB AGAIN.—Mrs. Loomis, from the
East, whilst lecturing against woman suffrage at San
Francisco, was interrupted by the hisses and jeers of
the leading female suffragists who were present. The
Hon. David Meeker insisted that the disgraceful con-
duct be stopped, or that the offending woman be com-
pelled to leave the halL Mrs. Emily Pitts Stevens,
the editor of the Pioneer, the Suffragist oil an, drew a
pistol on him and demanded an apology, but was
forced to put the pistol in her pocket by the bystanders.

- DISTRESSINO OCCURRENCE.—A Bad case of
self-destruction is reported, by the evening papers,
from the agricultural districts. Yesterday afternoon,
about four o'clock, the Wife of a respectable Farmer
who had been in her usual spirits all the morning,
deliberately went into the dairy and churned herself.—
Punch.

AN EXPLANATION.—It has been stated in the
papers that Lord Claud J. Hamilton, M.P., Sir J. P.
Kay-Shuttleworth, and Mr. John Hassard slept at the
Cannon-street Hotel, London on Sunday night week,
and were amongst the first "fishmongers" in Billings-
gate-Market on Monday morning, arriving there, dis-
guised as respectable costermongers, about five a.m.,
and not leaving the precincts untill after nine a.m. Mr.
Peek, M.P., is reported to have stumbled upon "the
visitors" near the market, to his utter astonishment,
when going very early to his business-- Noticing the
paragraph, Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth writes to The
Timm to say :—'Permit me to explain that on Mon-
day, the 15th inst., with a young nobleman and an-
other friend, I spent three hours—from half-past five
to half past eight in the morning—in Billingsgate-
market. This visit was one of a series to the City
Markets, and I have to express my strong sense of the
good humour with which the party was received. One
of them, however, was thought, not to be a roster-
monger, but the New Clerk of the Market, and I sup
pose because he was distinguished by a handsome blue
necktie."

A GRIM JOICE.—The late Isaac 0. Barnes had
been invited to attend the funeral of a particular friend
and crony, and as the deceased had, at their last inter-
view, specially urged his being present, he felt in duty
bound to respond. Arrived at the house of mourning,
he found the family assembled in a very small and un-
comfortable room, in the middle of which stood the
coffin, that all might take a last look at the face of the
departed. The service was concluded by two clergy-
men, friends of the family, who, with their long
prayers, and extended "remarks," consumed fully two
hours, during which Mr. Barnes suffered untold agony
of suspense and impatience. Hardly had the second
minister pronounced his "amen" when Barnes, in
his well-koown squeaky voice, turning to the person
sitting nearest to him, said, "Did you know Kid ° "
"Yes, sir," said the man addressed, in a low voice.
"Good fellow, wasn't he ? " continued Barnes. "Yes,
sir," still in a suppressed tone. And he wee a
mighty smart one, too," squeaked Barnes. "Very
smart," almost whispered the other, as the company
present began to look in that direction. "Ye,, he
was," piped Barnes, still louder, with one of his ex-
pressive expletives, "and if he'd had the running of
this funeral, he'd have been under the ground an hour
and shall ago."—Anierican Paper.

THZ HIGHWAYS OF ENGLAND.--The returns
rendered to the Home Office from 15,442 parishes,
townships, &c., show that in 1870 the highway receipts
in 15,442 places in England and Wales comprised
£1,329,962 from rates or assessments, £14,874 by team
labour performed in lien of rates, £1,964 from other
work in lien of rates, £16,886 from turnpike trusts ;
money bon owed and other receipts brought the total
to £1,394,320. The ex -..oenditure reached £1,398,070.
and comprised £532 301 for manual labour, £212.420
for team labour, £379,095 for materials. £63,338
traderimen's bills, £2,352 law charges. E 30,767 im-
provements, £98,552 salaries, dtc., £22,986 to turnpike
trusts, £l,BBB interests of debt, The above two items
for work done in lieu of rates appear also in the items
of expenditure. The returns for highways in districts
under the recent Highway Acts are for the year 1870,
but the other returns are for the year ending at Lady.
day, 1870. The "districts" are 346, rateable value
£28,774,617, length of highways 58,839 miles, and their
share of the £1.329,962 received from rates or assess-
ments was £'728,081.
THE SORT OF HEAVEN THEY'D WANT!—"I
know what sort of heaven you'd be wautin' 1" shouted
an earnest Highland minister, much esteemed in his
present locality, into the ears of an apathetic congre-
gation, to whom he had delivered, without any apparent
effect, a vivid and impressive address on the glory of
heaver. "I know what sort of heaven you'd be
wantin'. You'd pe wantiu' that all the seas would pe
hot water; that all the rivers would pe rivers of
whiskeys; and that all the hills and the mountains
would pe loaves o' iffingar! That's the sort o' heaven
you'd pe wantin' 1 Moreover," he added, warming to
his work, " you'd pe wantin' that all the corn-stooks
would pe pipe staples, and tobaccos, and snreshin',
that's the sort o' heaven you'd pe wantin'!" The con-
gregation enjoyed the notion amazingly, and talked of
the long journey with considerable pleasure all the
Sunday after.

Tim OPERATION OF THE BALLOT BILL. —A
somewhat novel incident occurred in Gloucester on
Saturday. Owing to the resignation of cue of the
councillors for the South Ward, candidates to fill the
office were nominated on Tuesday last, and Friday was
fixed for the polling. Two candidates issued addresses
to the electors, Mr. Sessions, a Liberal, and Mr.
Grimes, • Conservative. From the first hour Mr.
Sessions took the lead, and at two o'clock he was 80
ahead, when his opponents suddenly discovered that
the election itself was a mistake, and the whole
proceedings null and void. One of the leading
members of the Conservative party had, it appeared, re-
ceived a telegram that, inasmuch as the Ballot Bill had
received the Royal meant on the previous day, the
election was of no effect unless the votes were taken
by ballot. Accordingly, the Conservatives stopped
polling, and handed in to the presiding Alderman a
protest that all votes polled or about to be polled
that day were illegal and void, in consequence of the
polling not having been conducted in accordance
with the provisions of the "Parliamentary and Muni-
cipal Elections Act, 1872." The Conservatives believe
(says The Times) that the protest is sound in principle;
but the friends of the successful candidate argue that
the election commenced last Tuesday, wan the cere-
mony of nomination and that the officials had no
power to postpone the final act, or to have the votes
taken on Friday in any different way. Whether the
Conservatives will go to the expense of applying for a
mandamus in the Court of Queen's Bench is doubtfuL
ENGLAND DOES NOT LEND TO FRANCE. —The
Daily Telegraph in noticing the announcement of the
new French loan, remarks—" The masts of the huge
pile of gold will be built up by the French people
themselves. England, although the great lending
land, has never been eager to become the creditor of
France. Her moneyed men lend to Turkey, the South
Amei ken Republics, and even to Spain ; they will sub-
scribe millions to work silver mine.; anywhere out of
England to pay the war debtsof commonwealths whose
Presidents they do not know by name; and they prove
themselves once in ten years to be the dupes of the whole
world. But they do not show proportional eagerness
to buy the stock of a people which, in the course of
eighty years, has effected four revolutions, beheaded
one Sovereign and exiled three, changed its form of
Government seven times, once overrun Europe and
twice found Pa capital in the hands of a foreign sol-
diery, gained some of the most brilliant victories re-
corded in modern history, suffered incomparably the
most disastrous defeat s, been shaken by the two most
awful outbursts of Democratic parnion recorded in the
history of mankind, and is paying the heaviest war
tine ever inflicted on one n etion by another. Such a
country did not draw flocks of Engtish applicants for
Aims of the last loan. The real subscribers were the
great bankers, and the gales on the Exchange were
gradual. So, perhaps, will it be again."
THE RAILWAY COMPANIES AND THEIR MEN.—
A singular commotion has again 611 C 'flout among the
men at the goods depots of the Lon lon and North-
Western Railway Company. After the recent con-
cessions they obtained from the directors in respect of
wagee and hours, they memerialised for the reinstate-
ment of two ttf their number who had been discharge-el
for complicity in the successful agitation. As a counter
blow they demanded the removal of an unpopular
superintendent, Mr. Greenish. The directors having
intimated on Saturday their refusal to comply with
such demands, excited meetings were immediately held
at all the depitte and the viol pledged themselves to
stand by their niemorial.—The Grea. Northern Rail-

way m'en are equally agitated afiTutt-the-;;; of a
claim which they have presented for a revised scale of
porters'wages. A Meeting was held in Winchester
Hall, Caledonian-road, when it was determine i to in-
sist On the advance required. Sympathy was also ex-
pressed with the London and North- Western men in
the contest they were waging against their chiefs.

KILLED BY LIGHTNING.—AH inquest has been
held at the Unionhouse, Epping, on the body of a man,
whose name is unknown, who took shelter under a
tree during the storm, and was struck by the lightning.
Robert Featherstone, a labourer, said that he was
paysing an elm tree near Ivy Chininies, at Epping, when
he discovered the deceased, who was lying upon the
ground under the tree. He wae dead, and had evidently
been struck by the lightning. The witness called a cart,
are! the body wee removed. The tree had also been struck,
and several pieces of bark were lying upon the path-
way. Police constable Skinner said he was called to see
the deceased, and ordered the body to be removed.
Close to the body was a handkerchief, which contained
some dried bread. The deceased's left boot was nearly
off, and newly rent, as if by force. Near his left
shoulder down the back was a dark streak, and lower
down a dark patch. Under the left thigh and down
the left calf were burns, and his hair was singed off.
The police in answer to the coroner said they had failed
to find any one who knew the deceased. He appeared
to be about thirty-two years of age and was poorly
attired. The jury returned a verdict of " Struck
Head by Lightning."
SHOCKING INCIDENT IN CINCINNATI.—A cor-
respondent at Cincinnati, Ohio, writing on the 7th
instant, says: "A shocking tragedy was enacted here
this afternoon, in which a boy twelve years old, named
Frank Schiklc, the son of a widow, was shot and killed
by the Rev. Samuel J. Browne, an aged local preacher
of the Methodist Church. It appears that Mr. Browne
has been for some time greatly annoyed by boys, who,
in spite of repeated remonstrance, have entered his
premises to take his fruit and commit other depreda-
tions. To-day a number of boys were playing ball out-
side, when a ball waa thrown into Browne's yard. Young
Schikk entered the premises to recover it, and the
old man fired at him with slugs, one piece striking
him in the breast, inflicting a wound from which the
boy died in a few moments. Browne WAI3 arrested by
the officers, and was subsequently released on 50,000
dole. bail. The terrible affair caused intense excite-
ment in the neighbourhood of Brighton House, near
which it occurred. A large crowd assembled to-night
in the vicinity of Browne's house, which is guarded by
a detachment of police, and there is danger from the
temper of the People that they will take the law into
their own hands should Browne be found. It is a
most remarkable case, and appears hard to account for,
save upon the presumption that Browne is not in his
right mind. He is 80 years of age, one of the oldest
citizens, and has been considered hitherto above re-
proach. He owns property to the amount of several
hundred thousand dollars."

COAL IN THE OLDEN TIMES (—ln 1762 the
excessive price of coals in the city of Dublin was a
subject of anxious consideration by the Parliament of
Ireland, nerd a Committee was appointed to inquire into
the subject. This Committee recommended that
Government should appoint persons to buy in a certain
qu intity of coals when they were at their cheapest,
and retail them out again at a moderate profit to "such
journeymen, tradesmen, manufacturers, and poor," as
should produce certificates from the ministers of their
respective parishes of their actual poverty, Coals
must have been valuable in London at that time, for it is
stated in the Annual Revieter for 1762 that on the
6th of February an old man standing at the fire-side
of the Three per Cent. Office of the Bank was observed
to pick up the coals and put them in his pocket He
afterwards went to the books, and received his dividend
upon £6OO stock. He was then immediately captured,
and carried before a magistrate, where the coals were
taken out of his pocket; but "by rear; n of his age
and his extreme penitence he was released."
AMMONIA AS A MOTIVE Powtß.—This motive
power (put to use by G. Bastianelli, of Florence) acts
in the same manner as steam, and is as easily Con-
trolled; requires but a small amount of fuel to develop
its immense force, the beat necessary for producing
the pressure of ten atmospheres being limited to 131
degs. to 142 legs. Farenheit, and can now, it is said,
be readily adapted to any machinery worked by
steam, the new engine being quite simple in its
construction. The saving of fuel is nearly 70 per
cent. The complicated copper boiler, with its 150
tubes, is entirely dispensed with. The ammonia acts in
continuous rotation, as it at once condenses and
returns into the boiler, the quantity escaping be
log scarcely observable, and requiring only annual re-
placement. In sea voyages the saving of 70 per cent.
of fuel is naturally of paramount importance, as, be-
sides reducing by two-thirds the daily expense, it also
allows of more space for freight The inventor has
laboured incessantly for twelve years in endeavouring
to find out a practical mood of applying this new
motive power. The machine exhibited in Paris at the
International Exhibition was complicated and lumber-
ing. The actual engine is said to be simple, and its
advantages and expediency therefore obvious. The in-
ventor has taken out a patent for Italy, and will
insure to his invention the same privileges all over the
civilised world.

THE VALUE OF EARLY EDITIONS OF SHAES-
PEARE.—A few years ago, at an auction room in Dub-
lin, an old edition of Shakspeare was put up for sale,
its possession being vigorously contested, and ultimately
the lot was knocked down for what seemed the high
figure of 25a. In lege than a week it was sold for £5O.
The purchaser took it over to the great mart for all
curioeitic., London, and the book, which turned out to
be the first folio edition of Sbakspeare was sold for
£4OO. A more striking vicissitude of fortune, and one
perhaps in which mere chance did not exercise so fluc-
tuating an influence, is of still more recant occurrence.
But two months ago, at a large sale at a well-known
auction-room, another first folio edition of Shakspeare
was put up for sale. It can scarcely be said in this
ease that the value was umiscertained. and yet the
work was knocked down at less than £3O. Not long
afterwards, at a second side amongst a more select
number, the book is said to have fetched £5OO.

Chancellor
acknowledged
n.s-Sax. The
pays his In.
strong language.
• !—Ptench.

FRANTIc DENUNSTRATIoN.—The
of the Exchequer, one day last wsek, eau.
the receipt of £2 "in stamps "for Income-tax.
earner of a precarious Income generally -co his
come-tax with stamps and also stro
Doesn't he wish he could stamp it out'

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INDUSTRIOUS COURTS. —A quarter ~)f a century
has elapsed since the establishment of the County
Courts in England and Wales. In that time there
have been 17,300,036 plaints entered. A large propor-
tion of the causes are settled at once, but there were
9,758,186 which were tried, or in which judgment was
entered; there were only 21,949 in which a jury was
required. The sums for whi.h the plaints were
entered amounted to 1:46.203,954, and the sums (ex-
clusive of costs) fir which judgment was obtained
amounted to £23, 449 ,402 The court fees amounted
to £6,851,999. Upwards of 900,000 plaints are now
entered in the County Courts ev ry year, the claims
exceeding in the whole above 24 millions sterling ; and,
after many causes have been settled out of court, judg-
ment is given in above half-a-million and for about
£1,300,000. The County Court Judges sit at 500
towns, and hold court above 8.000 times in a year.
Although so new an institu ion, it now seems a wonder
how we could ever do without these courts.

HAPPY DEsPATCH. —This year there has been
no Massacre of the Innocents—if we may trust our
William. Mr. Gladstone said the ilill which Govern-
ment was about to drop were like " criminals standing
in a row awaiting execution." If they resembled
criminals, of course they were quite the reverse of
Innocents, more shame for their parents. There is no
occasion to mourn the creatures' untimely end. The
msssacred, this time, have been the same character
with those which usually survive. Had they lived,
they would have mo4ly helped to make our liberties
kw, and to increase our annoyances, as usnal.—Punek.
ISABELLA OF SPAIN !—The Paris correspond-
ent of the Daily News writes
Walking recently at noon-day in the Avenue Rine Tfor
I tense, I noticed a well appointed brougham with two
prancing horses pulling up at the door of the little chapel St.
Ferdinand. A bulky lady, who at first sight might be de-
scribed as elderly, but who is only prematurely fat, descended
from it, and followed only by a footman went into the
church. She was Isabella of Spain. She went there to re
turn thanks for her sun, the Prince of Asturias having passed
a good examination at the Vienna College. The hotel the.
silewski is now crowded with visitors every day to congra,
tulate the Prince on his proficiency.
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A" Goon TEm nail" WEDDING.—In London,
at Clerkenwell Church, last Sunday, was solemnized
the marriage of a young couple belonging to the Order
of Good Templars. The event was interesting, as show-
ing the active interest the members take in each other's
welfare. It is said this is nearly the first couple in the
Order who have had a public recognition by the mem-
bers rinse its formation in Engiand, only two or three
years ago. The members of the Order, male and female,
of the various lodges in the vicinity attended, to the
number of 200 or 200, dressed in them regalia, the bride
being led to the altar at 10 a.m. by Brother Cobb, of
Islington, a high dignitary of the Order. As the
happy pair left the church, the brothers and sisters
formed a double line for them to pass through, while
outside the parish church were assembled some thou.
sands of the astonished inhabitants, who lustily cheered
Brother Cobb and his party as they drove away.
A " BENEVOLIST " QUESTION. —lt has become
customary with a certain sort of persons using "itera-
tion," of the kind which Falstaff stigmatises, to quote
as against the better-off classes the question, "Ain I
my Brother's Keeper ?" The proper answer to be re-
turned to it and them is another inquiry —"is: my
Brother a Lunatic ?"—Eunch.
EMIGRATION TO THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC.—
The Emigration Commiseioners have been directed by
Her Majesty's Government to make known, fur tho
guidance of persons intending to emigrate to the
Argentine Ileoublic, that, by des _I etches recently re-
ceived from Her Majesty's Chargo d'Affaires at Buenos
Ayres, it appears disturbances hove broken out in the
province of Corrientes which imperil the lives and
property of the settlers. It further appears that some
months ago attacks were made by Indians on the settle-
ments of Bahia Blanca and Tandil ; that at the latter
place a number of the settlers were mu, dered, an I that
recently the Indiana had made a descent in one of the
most populous centres of the province of Buenos
Ayres, and had carried off more than 200 settlers with
their families, among whom, it is said, there were a
' "

number of British s'fibjects,.t,gether with upwards of
100,000 head of cattle. These outrages bad eau -ed
great alarm am ng the setGere, tepee ally as no adequate
measures had been taken by the Government for the
protection of the settlers or the punishment of the
off en, lers.
SoLDIERs sign LawrEns.--At the recent trial
of General Cremer and M. de Series at Lyors, one of
the witnesses imputed as a reproach to the last-named
accused that he had not taken up arms for the defence
of France, to which the prisoner's counsel replied that
his client had been charged with a most important
mission, by the performance of which he could render
. . .

better service to his co ntry than by shouldering a
musket, "Yee," interrupted the President, Marshal
Paraguay d'llilliers, in
.a quiet tour,," no doubt, the

country may often be better served by the pen and the
tongue than by the sword." The counsel for the defence
thought they perceived an ironical meaning in these
words, and exchanged smiles. The Marshal having
observed the effect of his remark, sent for the council
during the adjournment of the Court, and assured them
that he had spoken quite seriously and without any
concealed meaning. lie added, "t am very iid, gentle-
men. lti.notrnyprofessin toadminister justice. I may
often forget forms awl fail to observe your usages, hut
if so it is quite unintentional. It is a long time since
I last presided at a Council of War. I have forgotten
much, and you must forgive me for marry things."

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Moviam ON !-lii Japan considerable reforms
were taking place when the laid mail left. The Govern-
ment had established a patent law. Women have been
granted the same rights as men as regards visiting the
temples, Ite. ; all indecent plidues and exhibitions are
henceforth prohibited ; gas will shortly be laid at
Yokohama; a tine suspension bridge is being erected
at Yedo ; and the burnt-down Dart of that city is
being laid out in streets 90, 60, and 48 feet wide.

CITY Pannell Es. —The census returns of 1871
show that time and chance have made such changes in
the City of London that the population of some of
the parishes hos become so small as to be unable to
be very much less. The enumerators found only 53
persons resident in the parish of St. Margaret Moses;
51 in Allhallows, Honey-lane; 51 in St. John the
Evangelist; 49 in St. Olave Sliver-street; 46 in St. Mil-
dred, Bread street ; 45 in St. Christopher-le-Stock ; 42
in St. Leonard, Foster-lane; 38 in St. Mary Staining;
and 32 in St. Beset Sherehog. A return, prepared by
the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, shows the advantage
gained by the union of small City parishes, not need-
ing an Ecclesiastical establishment for each. The site
and materials of St. Benet's Church, Gracechurch-
street (a parish with a population of 113), sold for
£24,650; 696 square feet were taken by the Commis-
sioners of Sewers, and the remaining area of 2,218
square feet produced k. 2.4. 000. Out of this fund the
sum of £1,500 was applied in erecting a parsonage-
house for Allhallows, Lombard-street, and 1;4,000 for
repairing and re-pewing the church of that parish;
£'6,000 in erecting a new church of St. Bench at
Stepney, and 4:9,000 in endowing it.

CENTENARIANS IN AMERICA. The great
"centenarian question' seems likely to be solved at
last in America. Some time since, says the Nur York
Tribune, the Pension Bureau sent out circulars in-
quiring if certain widows of revolutionary soldiers
were still alive, and if so, what their condition was.
The postmistress at Accornac Court-house, Virginia,
in answer to such inquiries, replied that one widow
there, Mary Ann Snead, was very feeble, and de.
pendent on her relatives and others for support. The
same postmistress stated that Sarah Ann Steward,
the widow of Thomas Lewis, who was also a revolu-
tionary soldier, was subject to fits and lived with her
father, who was upwards of 100 years old. More of
these circulars will soon be sent out by the Pension
Bureau for information. It is the intention to
arrange an alphabetical list of the names of all revolu-
tionary soldiers' widows living on the let of January,
1870, and to keep up their histories from that date to
the time of their deaths, it is a notable fact that
there are living two widews of revolutionary soldiers
under forty years of age, while the oldest surviving
widow is 113 years oil.
OLD SCOTTISH SLANG.—In an old Scotch Act
of Parliament " anent the punishment of drunkards"
a clause adjudges all persons "convict" of drunken-
ness, or tavern-haunting, "for the fir,t fault" to a fine
of a, "or in case of inability or refusal, to be put in
jogges or jayle for the space of six hours." Vhat was
"jogges," as distinguished from " jayle "? Possibly
a somewhat milder place of detention for the rather,
than that appointed for the very, drunkard. If so,
"jogges," in the lapse of time, we may suppose,
hating last its distinctive sense, came to be regarded
as simply a synonym of " jayle," and, as such, now
passcs urrent in the People's English (not to say the
Queen's) abbreviated into the contraction 'jug."
Thus imprisonment for a state of too much beer might
be described as jug for jug.—Panck.
LYNCH Law IN .OHIo. —A shocking tragedy
has been enacted at Celina, Mercer county, Ohio.
Three men, named respectively Jacob Kimmel, Abr.,
lom Kimmel, and Alexander M`Leal, were confined in
gaol on the charge of having outraged and then mur-
dered a young lady as she was returning from the
Sunday school. On the Bth inst., three thousand
people collected round the prison, and breaking in took
the keys from the gaoler, brought the three prisoners
out, placed them in a waggon, and took them to the
spot where the girl was murdered, and in sight of the
home of the Kimmels. A rude gallows was here
erected, and halters fixed round the necks of the pri-
soners. At this junAure Elias Secor, brother of the
deceased girl, came forward and pleaded for the life of
Jacob Kimmel, the younger of the criminals, alad
seventeen years of age, and the crowd agreed to this.
Absolom Kimmel then reiterated a conferee-ion he had
made, and he and M`Leod were hanged, the younger
Kimmel being taken back to the gaol, in order that he
may be tried. The father of the Kirumels has been
ordered to leave the country in a specified time.
CHOLERA ON THE MARCH.—The cholera is
surely and even rapidly travelling from the East of
Europe to the West (says the British Medical Journal),
It has already almost reached the Russian frontier, and
Berlin is growing alarmed. This is not without reason;
for, owing to the negligence of the municipal authori..
ties, some of the broad navigable watercourses of the
city were a few years ago converted into open sewers.
The unhealthy condition of Berlin is proved by the
death rate having increased 1 per cent, during the
last four years; and a visitation of cholera will be
severely felt in a city where drainage is so criminally
neglected. A correspondent writing from Cork com-
pares tha sanitary system of that city to Berlin, and :
complains that the beautiful river should be turned
Into a noisome and pestilential drain. Official notice
has been received in this country of the outbreak of
cholera in St. Petersburg. On July 12 there had been,
since the appearance of the disease on June 22, 565
cases, with 54 recoveries and 240 deaths. The number
of cases is sufficient to demand from the authorities in
this country immediate steps in supervising yawls
t he measurese .
iwiinihghtii !hido,sitlaiolitiditnyywteri:ary:;atjyrejearre.v.eenthttrered:
arriving from the Baltic, and otherwise carrying aut
theai.'l a eentranceefficient
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a continued increase during August and September,
if the weather continues warm.