The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-09-19 00:00:00

-ITONIE OF 'NEWS

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Advices from Canada inform no that Whelan has
been convicted of tite assassination of Mr_ D'Arcy NUGhee,
and has been sentenced to be hung on the 10th December.
The National sehoolma.ster of Raheny (Ireland), Mr.
James Fitshenry, him been charged with unmercifully beating
a little orphan boy who had been placed out at nurse by the
guardians of the North Dublin Union, and sentenced to one
month's imprisonment, without the option of paying agile.
The child bore evident marks of ill-treatment.
For many yearn past nothing approaching the
present aleuniance of fruit has been seen in the Paris markets
and shop windows of dealers Grapes of the finest qmility,
slimed in

large used, full ripe table grapes, equal to those proMiceo
England in hothouses, are selling for ten sous, or .sd. per
11, The finest quality of pears, such as la duchesse, may be
bought for 3 sous, or lid. Stone fruit abounds and sells at
Set per 11, Peaches are hawked about is carts, and sold for
1 sou awl 2 sous, or Id. and Id. Even the famous Mentreuil
peach can this year be purchased for 2d.
An inquest has been held at llreenwich respecting
the death of Mr. Kreekeler, a saddler. The deceased, who
was a remarkably Lel man, was in the habit of lying down
on his bed in the afternoon, staid it was supposed that while
divesting himself of his clothing the deceased, who was
known to be affected in the head, had slipped, and his hand-
kerchief, catching in the ironwork of the bedstecil, had pro-
duced strangulation. The verdict of the jury was that death
had resulted from strangulation, but whether by accident or
lip suicide there was no direct evidence to prove.
At an early hour on Monday morning, a man named
Ilinnegam, a labourer, was found lying dead in II pool of
iliooll its one of the public streets of Athlone. The wounds
which have caused death appear to have Iteeth inflicted with
a loaded whip.
lime Majesty has left many evidences of her well-
known kindness its Lucerne and its neighbourhood. thie of
the last acts of her Majesty was to send a donations of 2,000 f.
to the Rev. G. L. Fenton, the Chaplain sf the Colonial awl
Continental Church Society at Lucerne, as a donation to-
wards the expenses of the church.

The King of Prussia has awarded a gratuity of five ree—ie;t7Y7sitation of ritalerp;st.
pounds each to John Cartwright, John Harding and William
Buckingham, masters of British fishing ve sets, and to lii St. Louis a lady demands a divorce fiiim her hiss-
Reidy iiiite, a pilot of Hull, for their services in saying the band ,55
, hose custom it is to discharge pistols , t her. It is
crew of the Prussian vessel e.th,,,i.a. d WYk, which was evident that he Is not a marksman, since he iii', rustily misses
lost on the 2nd Ottolier last near Heligoland the lady; but lie is persistent in his affection. :did may suc-
ceed at last if not checked by law.
A Mimsieur B—, well known in Parisian I..fe,
having recently lost every shilling at a certain sporting club Timing the past week thirty-two wrecl s have been
where play is carried on in Paris, went to the military, where reported, making for the present year 1,402.
his sister lent him 150/. Ile won all back again, arid got a
considerable sum of money in hand. Ile then edit to his
hotel, to his bootmaker, and tailor, paid them, and made reAtamtuasstif,ii,.merem.rnintelyi,
arrangements to lie fed, clothed, and shod for ten years. and as he understood no French he played 1116 finger upon
the first article ; a soup was lirought him : zifter he had
aracrrionvheadndined lili:imi ilt-ii,, irlit'O'fre'llltrea,
At Belle River, on the Great Western Railway in eaten It, he desiiniated the second article, whit h was another
Canada, on Saturday, one Van Orden, his wife and nephew, soup ; there is nothing here but soup, though, is. neverthe-
were murdered ; the murderers alters arils set fire to the less lie ate it, but desiring something re . -.lo.st:tidbit, lie
mill in which the assassination was conimitted, and the pointed to the third , still another situp, fart, ,s, lie .. his
bodies of the victims were consumed. Another large mill finger down to the last line, and the garcon i :ought hint a
set on fire was burned at the same time, and a large quantity Feld ntrre of cognac. Retuniing to his mitiv, countrY. the
of lumber destroyed. Muscovite said bolds friends, " Paris is fine, I lit they live in
Toere is a chance, it appears, for the revival of a singular insulter."
hawking in England. His Royal Highness the Maharajah A workwoman of Balagny, in going to her employ-
Dhuleep Sing, who is at presefit residing at Kingussie, has meet recently, found a watch, and immedialt :y deposited it
eleven hawks which take groTuie in the forest of Guick. in the hands of the Mayor. That sapient fin •.;ionari i. 111,1
Pointers, vie are told, find and net the birds, the falcon a notice announcing the finding tyf the we 11, and stated
hovering in the air above the spot where the covey is made that honesty still existed "even uniting work{ . •.ple "—a com-
mit. We should imagine this would prevent the birds from 'lament to workpeople which they scarcely r, osh.
rising, and cause them to scatter. "It is a curious fact that the four EieJish prelates
A Prussian niilitary journal lately instituted a coin- who take the highest rank—the Archbishops of Canterbuly
parison between the needle gun and the Chassepot, and and York, anti the Bishops of Loudon and Durham—arc icli
concluded that, on the whole, their merits and demerits away from England, and the Church in inn h danger
wore about about equal. The French weapon was admitted lighter, Olmerver
alld carried farther and truer , but it had the disadvantage ,...ne .
i last number of the Charivari very happily
of missing fire very often. The Patrie takes issue upon the
satirises tile present martial arbor
f:if trance send PI russia.
latter point, and affirms that the result of recent experinients A
.eartoon repre,ents the moon irti yang h rse f With
at Chalons, Lannemesan, and Vincennes, proves that the
artillery as a defense aminst the threatening armaments .4
Chassepot misses fire less than any other rifle known.
the earth.
A London correspondent of a confiding French news- ' A riot has occurred at Hampton, N'irginia, between
paper states that the Orleans Princes at Twickenham always
the whites and the negro., and the latter rioted through
burn coal before their English servants, for fear of giving
offence; but they sit up late, after the servants have gone to the streets 400 strong, but were finally dispersed by the
Imil, and hurn wood, the same as they used to in France.— military, who tired upon them. No casualties are reported
burn wood for the love of France and for •' auld hang sync !" An extraordinal y and fatal accident occurnsl b a
little boy, live years of age on Montlav at Chilwell, near
The much-coveted Order of Merit, which confers - - ' ' - '
Nottingham. It appears that the little fellow was running
nobility and is granted only to the most distinguished per- to meet his father, who is an agricultural lalmurer, with a
8011 S lit civil life, has been conferred by the King of Italy toy windmill in his mouth, when he stand iled and tell, the
upon tlercadante, the Neapolitan musical composer. handle if the toy hieing forced down hi; throat. Ills
At Canterbury, several London betting-men were hither lifted him up, .d took out the stick, heat the wound
summorilli for betting on stands or offices erected on Bar- bled so profusely, that the poor little fellow died SI/011
ham Downs, at the latter end of August, on the occasion of afterwards.
the Canterbury Races. The defendants pleaded guilty, and On a Ataasachusetts railway, on the :3rd, a train
the magistrates tined them k 2 Is each, with costs, anti said loaded w ith petroleum fell through a Midge ; the petroleum
they should he son to find that the race committee had en- ignited at .ince, and, of course, consumed the entire train.
conraged a practice by which so flagrant a breach of the law Fortunately, no passenger train was near, or they might have
had a disaster like that at Abergele.
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WAS etannintect.
They settle the woman suffrage question in an Mr. Justice Lush did not, as was reported, spend
offhand way in Michigan The laws, it has only just been some hours on Sunday, during the recent As.size, hi visiting
discovered, permit the votes of women to be taken in an the Leeds Exhibition. The Justice, in reply to a letter on
election for local school officers. In one town a centrally of the subject, says i—" There is not a word id truth in the
120 ladies marched to the polls and claimed their privileges. statement to which you refer. I never went, or even thought
The officer presiding at the ballot box received their votes, of going, to the Exhibition on a Stimlay ; and, as to my eil-
but with the treachery no characteristic of man he put them , league, Baron Bramwell lie was net in teeth on either id
into a hog by themselves, and never counted them when the ' the two Sundays ii hile the Assizes lasted snail late at night.
mill was closed. It :mussed the ladies to vote, and did not I should be sorry to have it supposed that any act of acne
Is any way interfere with the course of the election ; had afforded a precedent for visiting, or an argument for
Longfellow, the American poet, is at present pass- , opening, places of amusement on a Sunday."
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leg some time on the borders of Ingo di Como. •
! The Prineess Royal of Prussia will pay a visit to
this it with her children on the Seth of October, and
Some further " Murphyite " disturbances occurred
at Manchester on Satuntey refeerriemt From 12,000 to 15,000 1, tile Frown Prince will follow her royal highness is
persons assembled at a inecting called in support of Mr. ___
The Queen appears to have been much benefited by
, Murphy's candidature. In the coarse of his speech 'Mr.
I Windsor Castle, at which the Premier, the Bete
several desperate charges . one ahnost entirely by women) Com en at W Murphy did not spiire the priests and Church of Rome, ard her Continental trip. On Menday her Majety hell a
. an ey, an tie
sent. 111 the evelMc, 11..1.
resisted. In the end a resolution in favour of Murphy was . Judge Advocate General were pre . 1 . .
were made on the platform isy the Irish, but weresuccessfully , of Marlborough, the Earl of Devon, Lord St 1 • •
carried by a large majority : and he was Imnie in triumph .Majesty anti the Royal family left by specie trims IA
on men's shoulders to a cab, and escorted to the railway Balissoral
station. ' The following advertisement in from the thea.
station of Kuessigsburg. It contained 50,000 thalers in bank Little Boy, aged five years, for any period, to be brought up
A Russian gentleman lost his pocket-book near the trical coltunns of the Era ,—" 1 Sante Ito place out an Active
notes. He did not discover his loss until two hoses after- in any branch of the profession."
wards, whets he reappeared at the station, pale and agitated, An interesting episode occurred during the stay of
where his pocket-book was handed him, with its contents the Emperor at the Camp of Chalons. Three brothers,
safe by the chief of the station, who, while passing Gm named Andre, all sergeants of infantry. presentee themselves
station was attracted by exclamations of admiration Dons a at the Imperial quarters to beg the Emperor to giant their
elsild six years oil, who it seems, had picked up the pocket- father, an old brigadier of gendarmerie, his retirement, he
book, and seated hheself upon one of the benches near bY, having served thirty-two years in the service. The Emperor,
where he was amused by what was, as he supposed pretty having inquired into the servica s of the old brigadier.
pictures. granted the cross o. honour to the three sergeants, "which,'
The problem of utilising sewage is receiving a care- says the .11o1sitertr, " will be in the family a title of glory,
fat trial in France The sewer water is purified with and a powerful motive of gratitude and of emulation."
sulphate of alumina in the proportion of fourteen grains to Fears are expressed id the breaking out if an Indian
the gallon, and is then ready fa use The manure thus
war on the western Isteders tn. the Vidtml Stites Buell; of
h prepared sells at 155. per ton, and the Cost of it pisalection
ostile Indians are prowling about in the neighbourlsoml of
varies from one tlftls to one-third. It has already produced the settlements and along the overland mail route, and
some excellent crops of beet and maize. murders, robberies, and the seizures of post coaches are
'Sir Roger Doughty Tiehbonrne, the Australian frvspient. United States' troops are already being comes,
claimant to the Tichbourne baronetcy, was ammo; the pas- Dated to oppose the Indians, unit much excitement exists
sowers who left Southampton in the Royal snail steamer among the border settlers.
Oneida last week. His destination was Rio Janeiro, the Mr. Joseph Crossky, of Halifax, of the firm if
port at which is April, 1854, he states lie embarked on board Crossley Brothers, died on Monday. Though less known to
the ship Bc/kr of Liverpool, le I for Sew York. He was, the general public than his brothers, John and sir Francis,
however, wrecked, but was subsequently rescued and landed the deceased gentlensan, says the Manchester P:xion ;nee, woo
in Australia. His present journey has probably some con- most mumficent ni his benefactions, and a liberal supporter
neetion with the pending suit. of religioes mei educational undertakings.
The irrepressible Barnum has opened anew "Mm. The registration roll for the burgh of Glasgow for
, IslIS-9 has punt been issued. The new constituency nuinleirs
heron" in New York. The establishment is nominally owned
Isy one Wood ; but Barnum is the real protnietor. ; 47,749, which hieing compared with the previous p-tie's
Religions passions run high in Belgium. A Pro. retinms shows an increase of 29,385. The Milinher tif lionse-
tenant missionaryh who, like some partisans of the Irish holders under £lO admitted to the roll is 27,824 ; at mei
Church Missions, appears to have selected the most mph,. above fllo the number is 19,925, being an additioh this year
sive bunt at which to net the match, underti,ok to preach in the latter claim of 1,504.
the other day in the market-place at “"de".de. lie was, The newly-laid Anglo-Danish cable was inaugurated
in a very Irish fashion, protected by gendarmes ainl local 1v:, message f the K ing of Denmark to Queen V icterift. as
poliee during his sermon, but the mob became too violent, follews :—"I aywit, with sincere pleasure, of the sew ly-
began first to shout, then te pcdt id . and finly the preacher established direct communication between our esuaries
and his defenders had to take to their heels. to congratulate you on your safe return." It was originally
The House of Representatives of Georgia have ile. • intended that the first message should Ise sea to the kings
' clared, by a majority of five, that negroes shall not be eligible daughter, the Princess of Wales, but owing to tile Queen i
I tun sit in that assembly. This resolution, as uitconstitutional, arrival at Windsor Castle, this arrangenieut was departed
amounts to a challenge h. Cm tigress, , from.
Mr. Bright has declined the honour of freedom of ' Upon a whaling barque which sailed from New
the borough of Elgin, offered him by the Elgin Town London the other day was a young man who arrived hi Sew
Council. York from a ten years' residence in China and California on
The obituary of The Times of Monday last contained , june,r:livi,vuln t.„1",•,.', I,l',rasri.,T,Url,s, 1tt',.;:u0tk,,,,!:,',
some marvellmis illustrations of prolonged eXiStence iti five I gaii ' • . . ~. 0 ,
ie was penniless.
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ladies and a gentleman, whose united ages amounted antr upon Jul my to 520 1
years, giving an average of 66 years and 8 111011 the to each. ' The Rev. Frederick Goold, D.D., Archdeacon of
The ages of the ladies were respectively 80, 85, 88, 02, and 95 ; Rapitoe, writes to the Evening Mail stating his views, as iiii
the gentleman had reached the age of SO. Irish clergyman. on the Chureh question. lie "dreads Mr.
Disraeli 's treachery much is than Mr. Diatistomis open
The gnarl of a hoods train, last Saturday mviening
I and Mali ;anise,' hostility ; " anti atlas, .` lAM m i prophet or
got in front of the up night mail between the Southall anti
propheteon, but I do Manly believe that the hour is fast
Hayes station of the Great Western Railway and Was killed. opproo.ohi„g_floy, ho, okoo,b, 0,,_e,,, , 1, t 1
For more than a century, it is said, such heat has Churelimen would wish to retain one shred of purity, freedom,
not been known in Paris in the month of September as in or independence, we must dissolve onr connection with the
1868. State." That tonic diets has, On the whole, been Archdeacon
It is said that the Prince of Wales contemplates a Goold thinks injurious to the Church. The Archdeacon,
visit to the African continent, and that should, Ids royal howcver, whilst advocating a resolution of the connection
,
highness carry out his intention, Ile will most likely visit ith the State wishes " notto be understood as also'
Egypt and the cataracts of the Nile, eating disendownsent"
On Friday, Captain John Jacob Nyland, of the Another fire on a farm at Hnlywell, near Cork,
Alliance brig, now lying in the port of Imams, was found in makes the fifth vs ithin a month attributed to incendiatism.
his bedroom, l'optar, with his brains blown out. Ile had to this itistance two thousand pounds watts if property,
evidently placed the muzzle of a pistol in his mouth and I.selostOng to a Mr. Maynard, Was cOliStlined. Ali arrest hail
discharged the contents hit', his head, killing himself bee's made ms suspicion'.
instantly. A medical studvni. of a Paris hospital named Curtois,
There is a rumour abroad that Mr. Disraeli is tnediv twenty 3-ears of age, bas just met an untimely death. Ile
tilting another flanking movement on the Irish Church. was engaged in dissecting a corpse when be incautiouslity
The cabmen of Paris have their grievances no well touched Ills lip on
which there stasis
as their London brethren.' The velocipede hasdoes seriouslyail in- return home he suddenly remembered what he hail done,
but too late, as he died the next day in great suffering.
terfered with the calimans income, fund he not fto
drive against the velocipede and upset it if possible. several Tile National Acrieultural Societyof France form'', vi
accidents from collision have already taken place. and organised maiely by Ids Excellency M. Prialyn its lbw.,
The youngest of the three women accused of poison- has already received the names of some of the more can-
brought up in one of the charitable institutions of the town,
leg their husbands at :Marseilles, Ming illegitimate, was spicuous members of the Royal Agricultin al S•ociety of Eng-
land. ILI ...Sof tht LW ' illtui il bode& ho likely
iri prodlulcice iii'vaotun' tble ress;lts i'o'lft'll. cosset' ths. '
and received whilst there a prize for her virtue' -
The number of " drunk and disiirderly " cases before It is stated that the project of uniting Lake Huron
the Liverpirm magistrates on Monday last was 195, of whom and Lake Ontario bids fair to be a reality. Able engineers
141 were hooked on Saturday. have decided that the work is feasible, alid that it will not
Cost More than doars. It iS isose f 0 raiie
An American has taken out a patent in France for
the descendants 01i,000.00U dnate 40.0 ofooo.ooo
this in thll rop d
e United States, and 20,000,e0
a style of printing which may be reel in absolute darkness. dollar's in Eegland. The loans to he Secured by a grant ef
" At Lewiston, on Wednesday last, Lo/jelLos,, finer 2 of land by the Canadian thivernivici.t.—
of Ebenezer Ham, to the number of one hundred auil '''''''''''', ,"
"—') L'ade'
seventy-five, assembled at a family reunion on the old home- Since the ef enirg of the Bth iiist there hes la en a
stead, now oeermied by Nelson Dims. Mrs. Nancy nun, printers strike at Marseilles, on accoillit of a difference
widow of one of Ebenezer's sons, is still living at the age of hetween employers ma employed with respect to a new
ninety."—Aincrican Paper, ta w riff hich the latter dm eanded. The Cow rice de .11n, e,ll. e
In Morocco, when anybody is bitten by a mad ti's!, appeared a few days since printed only on one side of a half-
the wound is deepened anti enlarged m itli a knife. (iun- sheet.
powder is then rubbed into the sore, and a little pyramid is The rmarcl of Trade have ordered a telescope hbe
raised with the powder over it. A match is then applie I
t , prepared Pur preSentation to Captain Casio Maggiole e"..
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and the operation terminates with a fiz, which has s monster of the Italian banize Mariquita, for the humanity
ll•suble etfect of cleansing she wound ona ajanuehing the displayed by him tewards the shipwrecked crew of the
blood. Fanny, of Llamilly, who were picked up by 1 ' at sea and
Lady Franklin, recently returned from Asia, is now conveyed t,o Falmouth iu August last.
staying at ItagiG:res de Litchi.) Maine-Garonne . On Monday morning a passenger train entering
John Briggs, a ShilighterMan, Was it, tlie act of }Again station, Liverpool, at greater Speml than usual, ran
placing a rope round a bullock's-neck at Tooting, when the info several empty waggons. The latter were smashed, the
animal midway tinned upon him, and ran its led,. Mho his butters if the engine% ere broken, the engine itself wtns stools
chest He Was Bo Mich injured that he died 01l the follote- damaged, and the passengers in the fore part of the train
Ing day. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental were severely shaken, some of them sustainieg cuts and
Death." coutusions, but fortunately no One was dangerously hurt.
Much sympathY is felt for the Bishop 4.4 Limerick, In the papers of last week it was stated that a
Dr. Graves, wheat eldest WM lOIS 10,f Mel fioni the effect, young Man !lathed I 'Ainpbell, who had taken his vacation
of Stilistroke, ill the 2;t11 year Of hi 6 age. The det eased be tour him Wales, bad sent benne 1,, Highgate MS Carpet kw
haiged to the I liditt Civil Service ; but in consequence of hi a in,ae,e_ais inai,n,..„l had disappeared. Ile has
imPa red health name mon Itiie Leif,: it absent,. A few returned h , after tieing advertised, anti the taiblic will be
days since he went to Veldt. hir a garne at cricket, and t I I iCI- el fi• - • • • • that he has
gal tO Cil,ll, al tkr L le beset Isappearailes la,
becante ill on the field, and never rallied. accounted for lilB absence.
Ti,e other day the Emperor Napoleon gave a rather At a recent meeting of the Liverpool Tail I.7nion
original ruins' for the briefness i 4 his farewell spe-ch to the of Operative Briticlayers, it was imaninsously resolved toti
generaw who accompanied him tram the camp at Chalons to quest the Master builders' Association to join them in
the railway station lie would say nothing niiire to Mein settling a permaneut vile Of regulations she', shall be
than that he had been very happy dui ing the aelst du).* ise .tisfactery to all parties, through a court of alltillatiolit as
had passed ill the camp, because the newspapers would be suggested by the masters in may last. A resolution was also
sure to draw prognostications of war from hiS words, how passed in favour td conducting the business of the society In
ever moderate they might be _,...., _,.... its own offices, instead of at a public-house, as heretofore.