The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-02-15 00:00:00

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It is scarcely possible to have a better test, or more
encouraging picture of an advance in the social con-
dition of the plor.

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A NICE HAUL !—ln London, a few days ago,
the police made a clever capture of stolen watch re-
ceivers. Three officers in plain clothes placed them-
selves to watch a certain Ii use at Hackney. While so
doing they became aware that three men were also
anxiously on the look out for some arrival, and the
movements of the latter were closely observed. At
length a railway van arrived, and a small box was de-
livered. By a ruse one of the officers approached with-
out suspicion, and saw one of the men sign the
delivery book. A signal was then g-eiven, the other
policemen came up, and the suspected men were taken
into custody. The box, which came from Liverpool,
contained twenty-one gold watches and some chains,
all the produce of robberies. In the cellar of the
house was another box of exactly the same size, and
addressed in the mine handwriting ; while on one of
the prisoners was found a letter invoicing the lot at
£29 18s., and expressing a hope that the transaction
would be completed without any such squabbling as
occurred on the last occasion. A number of pawn-
brokers' duplitiates, representing watches and chains,
were also found on the prisoners. On Saturday Ike
men were brought up at Bow street, and some evidence
having been taken, as to the ownership of the property,
they were remanded.
PUZZLING EPITAPH ON A SUCCESSFUL RACE-
HORSE.—Of ten flogged, but never beaten—Punch.
EMIGRATION FROM LIVERPOOL.-11 the returns
made last month by the government emigration officials
at Liverpool, there was one very significant feature
stated, viz., that the number of Irish emigrants to the
United States had undergone a considerable decrease
when compared with that of several previous months.
The emigration officers were unable to account for it,
although it was a known fact that in the English mid-
land counties agents were at work under the influence
of the Rev. G. Montgomery, a catholic priest, in get-
ting, together a number of emigrants, but for what
destination they knew not. The simple fact is taat
the Emperor of Brazil has long been anxious to
establish in southern Brazil an Irish catholic colony,
and that the Chevalier de Almeida, the commercial
agent for Brazil, and his agents, have been very active
in getting together suitable emigrants for the "new
Ireland." On Tuesday the ship Florence Chipman,
Captain Jones, left the Mersey for Rio de Janeiro,
with about 300 emigrants for Brazil, this being the
first batch of the 0,000 or 8,000 souls which will em-
bark for southern Brazil during the present year.

A CONSIDERATE GENTLEMAN !—The following
advertisement appeared in the Leith Fort, 17th Jan.,
1868:

The advertiser is a gentleman possessed of such finance.
lions as are best calculate,' to make home happy. Outwardly
he is not attractive—his hair is like the setting ann. Being
somewhat advanced in years, and without an occupation of
a remunerative character, he is desirous of being married to
some young lady possessed of sutibrent means to assure the
comfort of both. Should the lady's income he ample enough
to admit of two residences, immediate arrangements might
he entered into under which the lady would lie enabled to
lve apart from the advertiser. This he would prefer. Ile
would consent to her occupying their country house during
winter, and their town house during summer. In this, as,
indeed, all other respects, it would be his great pleasure to
minister to her comfort and happiness. Candidates may
rely on the strident confidence. Address,

THE BIRMINGHAM AILTRDER.-4t the Public-
office, Birmingham. on Tuesday, Thomas Marlow (alias
Beesley,) Joseph Beesley, William Beesley, Charles
Grayson, and Elizabeth Grayson were brought tip on
remand, charged with having been concerned in the
murder of Miss May Millbourne, on the 21st ult. All
the facts have been published. On this occasion
several witnesses were called by Mr. Elers, of the Mid-
land Circuit (who appeared for the prosecution), but
all they proved was that two of the prisoners, Thomas
and William Beesley, had been seen in the street in
which the murdei ed woman resided in the afternoon,
and at about the time the crime was committed ;
Thotnas Beesley and other men were also seen at
Joseph Beesley's house in the course of the same
evening. So far the evidence against the prisoners is
very slight, they were all of them again remanded
until Tuesday next.
A WIDOW'S CLAIM TO DOWER. —At the
County Palatine Court of Chancery, St. George's-
hall, Liverpool, last week, before Mr. W. James, a
nice point arose during the hearing of a case, Smalley
v. Rippon. The question was whether the estate of a
person dying intestate was by law applicable to the
payment of his ordinary debts in precedence of the
widow's right to dower. The deceased, at the time of
his death, was possessed of an estate upon which there
existed a mortgage of £2,500. The sale was effected
for £3,300, but the debts were more than sufficient to
swallow up the balance. Dr. Pankhurst, for the
widow, contended that her rights to dower (the exist-
ence of which was discovered upon investigation of the
title, but which it was alleged had been disposed of by
an arrangement with the plaintiff whereby she was to
receive 1:420 out of the sale proceeds) remained intact,
irrespective of the claims of her husband's creditors.
In support of this view he cited the cases of Spyer
Hyatt (20 Beavan), and Jones v. Jones (4 Kay and
Johnson's reports), which were parallel with the pre-
sent. The Vies•Chancellet said he was so satisfied
upon the point that he had no hesitation in making an
order in favour of the widow.
WISH HE MAY Gam Fr —We wonder whether
the gentleman who advertises as under will ever dis-
cover the bundle of perfections of which he is in
search :
General servant Wanted—Two in Family— Given : £'l2
ivirres, with everything necessary holiday once a mouth ;
time for church—Required Cleanliness, thrift, honest ser-
vice, not slavery, truthfulness, early rising, and good
character, as a truthful one will be given. The following
need not apply ,--One who would walk over a broom rather
than pick it up, who likes cobwebs or dirty corners, and is of
a bad temper.—Address, he.

Whilst about it the advertiser might as well have
added to the required qualifications a soprano voice
and a talent for psalm singing, or a capacity for French
cookery, or something else never found but in your
"perfect woman ?" We wish the advertiser every
success, but are not very sanguine.
MR. DICKENS IN AMERICA.—Mr. Charles
Dickens (says the Philadelphia correspondent of The
Times) is still received everywhere he goes in America
with the most gratifying proofs ot esteem, and his
readings continue to attract crowded and appreciative
audiences. The sales of seats in the various cities
continue to attract large competing crowds, and Mr.
Dickens is coining money, though, like every one else
here, he is suffering the penalty, and will have to pay
a heavy tax—probably 20,000 dollars—to the Inland
Revenue collectors on the money given to hear his
readings. He constantly receives the most polite
attentions from the American people. In Philadelphia
the mayor tendered him the hospitalities of the city,
but he has made it a rule to decline all proffered
hospitalities, though they have been made on every
side. He walks about all the places he visits, and
says of the American cities that he could never have
recognised them from his recollection of their appear-
ance at the time of his former visit to that country.
In Philadelphia he has taken great interest in the
thousands of small but neat houses which are the
homes of the working people; and his visit to the
Public Ledger building in Philadelphia was commemo-
rated by Mr. Chills, the proprietor, by christening a
large new Hoe printing machine, first put in motion
in Mr. Dickens's presence, the "Dickens Press."
BRIGANDAGE IN THE PAPAL STATES.—A cor-
respondent of the Florence Nazione, writing from
Rome on the 6th, says :
Brigandage is flourishing in the provinces of Frosinone and
Velletri. I have before me a site, written by the leader of
a band which infests the wood of Faiola, in the neighbour-
hood of Velletri, to a country dealer, who is ordered to
bring to him 300 crowns in golf, two pairs of boots, le shirts
of fine linen, for bottles of Rosolio, sod two of old rum,
being threatened otherwise with death. This brigand•like
demand was punctually satisfied. The brigands are begin.
nnic to kill the cattle again of those who refuse to yield to
their exigencies.

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THE RELATIONS OF THE Pop.—The Italie learns
from Rome that "amongst the Cardinals and high
functionaries of the State great anxiety prevails,
attributable to the nature—less amicable than is
generally believed—of the existing relations between
Rome and Paris. Cardinal de llohenlohe has fallen
into disgrace for having visi,ed his colleague, Cardinal
Andrea, before the latter's retractation and imme-
diately after his return to the Eternal City. Mgr. de
Hohenlohe, a near relative of the King of Prnaida, and
allied to all the Sovereign houses of Germany, has

taken badly the severe remonstrances of the Pope,
which he considers dictated by Cardinal Antonelli,
with whom he has little sympathy. In consequence
he no longer goes to the Vatican, and will peas the
spring and summer in his retreat at Tivoli, where he
has bought the celebrated Villa d'Eate, formerly the
property of the Duke of Modena."

'IIIE- JEWS IN THE UNITED STATES.—The
I Hebrew Messenger states that the city of New York
, contains fully 70,000 Israelites. In one Congressional
I district there must be not far from 20,000. In this
I locality the Jewish Sabbath is faithfully and strictly
observed, and on Sunday blocks of stores, occupied by
Jewi.h tradesmen, are epgn for the transaction of
_business. The police are vigilant in enforcing the
Sunday laws against all whose stores are not closed on
' Saturday: The Israelites-in Maryland are meeting
with considerable orpo,ition in their efforts to obtain
in that State a Sunday law asliberal as the one in New
York.
A CHANGE OF NAME !—A South Carolina
paper publishes the following " card" :

To the respectable white citizens of the State. Drs. J. W.
Staggers and J. Cl Staggers have concluded to change their
natts a to that of Standard, a grand maternal descent oil
paternal side—of Virginia fame in years gone hy —from the
fact that the larger number of their former slaves have
maimed their names ; and, as it is likely it will be Atricainsed
Is, tune to come, they are determined not to be on an
equality with them socially, since thetr original position from
slavea to freemen has been changed by no agency of theirs,
but by the demagogues of this country, and from the fact
that in the scale of creation their rank is inferior, even
descending to the beast, as per Ariel, of which we are con-
vinced.

LONG ODDS.—TaII Husband and Short Wife.
—Punch.

SLIGHTLY INACCURATE ! —The arrival of the
new British minister, Mr. Thornton, reminds us (New
York Tribune) of a little incident which happened on
the 27th of December last. On that day the New York
Herald published an account of the foundering of an
English ironclad mail steamer called the Suuturn off
Montevideo, when 380 persons, among them this identi-
cal Mr. Thornton, went to the bottom. Our readers will
not be surprised to learn that there were several mix.
takes in this story. 1. Mr. Thornton was not drowned.
2. Nobody was drowned. 3. No ship foundered at
the time and place mentioned. 4 There is no English
mailsteamer named the Sauturn. 5. There never was an
ironclad so called of any flag. The story, in fine, was
evolved from the moral consciousness probably of the
same fertile brain which imagined the sinking of
Tortola and the Christmas insurrection in Jamaica."'

SUGGESTIONS FOR HIPPOPHAGISTS.--The best
liormrs for the Hipphophogist's table would be
"Coursers ;" arranged in the bill of fare as First
Coursers, Second Coursers, &c. Why was horse-radish
omitted in the menu at the Langhain? And horse-
chestnuts were wanting. Where, too, among the
, sweets was the Pie bald? —Punch.

SHOCKING DEATH OF Two PAUPERS. —On
Saturday an inquest was held in the Aston Work-
house, Birmingham, on the bodies Of two wcinen,
named l'ritchett, mother and daughter, who met with
their deaths under singular circumstances. They had
been suffering from itch, and were sent into the ward
of the workhouse devoted to the treatment of that
complaint On Tuesday night or Wednesday morning
either the mother or the daughter (it is not known
which) went down into the nurse's room for the pur-
pose, it is supposed, of fetching a lotion, and, in the
absence of the nurse, a bottle containing carbolic acid
was taken in mistake. The poor creatures rubbed
themselves with the contents of the bottle, the effects
of which was to put an end to their existence, the
mother dying in the most intense agony about mid-
night on Wednesday, and the daughter on Thursday.
The inquest was adjourned until Friday, the 21st
instant.

TIGER KILLING MADE EAsY.—An Indian
journal records the following novel and simple mode
for ridding any locality of dangerous visitors in the
shape of wild beasts —"A Royal tiger had killed a
bullock, and the first night had eaten about forty
pounds of its flesh. Colonel Scott caused part of the
remainder to be poison-d with seven grains of strych-
nine ; the tiger came again to regale himself on the
carcass of the bullock, and as luck would have it, com-
menced eating the poisoned part. The strychnine
which hat been put into the bollock's carcass, acted
almost instantaneously, for the tiger after having eaten
about a pound of the poisoned flesh, was able only to
walk away about twelve yards, when he fell dead."