The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-10-31 00:00:00

L 'ME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.

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THP. CHARGE OF SHOOTING AT FOUR CHILDREN.
—At the Leicester session, Charles Mitchell, aged
sixteen, boatman, was charged with maliciously
shooting at Edwin Brown, aged twelve, on the let
October. It willbe remembered that the children of the
Wesleyan Sunday-school, of whom the prosecutor was
one, were playing in a field adjoining the Leicester
Canal, and that some were amusing themselves by
throwing stones into the water, and others by playing '
at " duck and drake," skimming the water with
stones, when prisoner came in a boat which he was
steering. He went into the cabin, brought out a gun,
and took aim at the children, but the charge did not
go IT. He however cocked the gun a second time,
and, firing, the charge took effect in the face of the
prosecutor, causing severe injuries to his right eye,
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awl also wounding n various parts of the body Arthur
Bull, thirteen, John Shelton, nine, and Emma Fowl,
eight. Fr the defence it was urged that the prisoner
hail no idea that the gun was loaded when he fired
amongst the children. The jury found the prisoner
, guilty, and the learned Recorder, after giving him a
, severe reprimand, sentenced him to six months' hard

_ labour.-
COURT NEWS EXTRAORDINARY !—The Monti-
too. of Saturday contains the following extraordinary
announcement at the commencement of its sum

'nary :
tier Royal Highness the Princess Royal of I'rusSiti arrived
yesterday evening at the royal residence of St. Leonard,
where Queen Victoria. her mother, is at present staying.
The princess was warmly welcomed by a population amid
which she passed part of her youth, and which remains
much attached to her.
AN EXCITING SCENE.—On Saturday afternoon
whilst several fishing yawls, which hail been die-
charging herrings, were riding in the Filey bay, a
sudden gale from the south sprung up and brought on
a short but heavy sea. Those fishermen who were on
shore at once put off in their mules, but one of them,
containing Robert, son of Captain Cammish, of the
yawl Dibgence, and Francis Camntish, was capsized,
and the crew were thrown into the sea. Both of them
managed after much struggling to seize hold of the noble,
which was bottom upwards, and get upon her keel, but
immediately after a sea swept them off. Again they
struggled to retain their pointion. Robert accomplished
it, but the other sank. Whilst then alone clinging to
the keel another sea swept him off again and the cable
righted. Again he struggled and succeeded in grasping
the side and getting into the coble, which was filled
with water. Numbers witnessed the sad disaster from
the cliff, the wife of the drowned one amongst the
number. A ruble from one of the yawls in the bay,
and another from the shore, put off, the former arriving
first at the scene, and rescuing Robert ; the latter for
some time hovered about the spot hoping to find the
imdy of the other, but without success. Francis, the
son of the late Joseph Cammish, leaves a wife and three
children.
How WOMEN ARP. PAID IN PARIS.—An offi-
cial report lately published in Paris gives some in-
teresting facts relative to the price of female labour in
that city. The number of women earning wages in
Paris is 106,310. They are divided into three sections.
The first consists of 17,203 women who get from 50
centimes to 1 franc 25 centimes a day ; the second of
88,340, who e irn from 1 franc ro centimes to 4 francs
a day; and the third of 707 only, earning from 4 francs
50 centimes to 10 francs a day. In the first section
there are a great many girls under sixteen years of
age, most of whom get besides their wages, lodging,
final, and washing free. The real representatives of
the female working class in Paris are, therefore, the
88.340 women •if the second sect ion. Of these 24,810
earn 2 francs a day, and 30,104 more than 2 francs a
day, and their average daily wage is 2 francs 14 cen-
times.
N.w LIMIT ! —TIIE BOSfOn, AdrerfiSer sarcasti-
cally remarks:
tine can never know what Is going on shout bim until he
rends the papers at a distance. We had supposed that we
hail learned pretty nearly all the tricks of election proms-
si ttttt , alit hail duly recorded them, but the Philadelphia
correspondent of the London Timex has certainly thrown
new light on the matter. We learn front his letters that It is
the habit of republican processions to drag cannon through
the streets of the cities anil fire them off there, to the terror
of women and children. We are also told that the cock is
the symbol of the democratic party. and that specimens of
that popular fowl are carried about in the processions of that
party, while the republicans choose the eagle and the rac-
coon as I heir party emblem. and bear them in processions,
which we are fart -Cr informed, are generhlly led by hands of
men with axes and brooms, the filmier indicating that they
MI break down obstructions, and the latter that they can
an-rep their opponents out of sight at the election. All of
which lass good as it is new.
NEVER THRoW AWAY A CHANCE.— The follow-
jai; story is related :
Daring one of the election contests in Miseries, a gentle-
man if republican principles meeting a friend of his, milted
hint if be hail been to the poll. The latter replied. "No,
I haven't made up my mind which side to vote, and it doesn't
much matter, you know, whether I do so or nit; what is one
vote among so many ?" " You had butter go," was the
reply. "there Is • sharp contest, and you may decide the
election." The waverer followed this advice, reeor.l“l his
vote for the republican party, and the election was carried
by a majority of one. The vote of the representative from
that district placed Jefferson in the position of President of
the United States.
THE MORMOV TXMlGRANT9.—Yesterday (says a
Detroit paperl the Great Western Railway landed 00
Mormons here, where they take the Nliehigsan Central,
ro route for the valley of Salt Lake. More than 5,000,
of whom 3,500 passed through Detroit, of these fresh
convert* to the Latter Day Saints have gone from
European conntries to Utah diming the past season,
but the yesterday's lot was the last for 1808. The
agent says that during 1850 he will import 10,000 or
19,000 of these people. It is said by those who have
sem the Mormons of this year's importation that they
are scarcely as intelligent and cleanly in appearance as
the other Immigninta.
Basvo ! Lvrrta osa !—A small paper has
bets started at Brussels at the ridiculously low price
of two centitnes, equivalent to the fifth part of a
penny, under the title Les Nottrolle.l dim join' (the
Daily News). As nobody ever believed it would live
beyotad A few days, people were eager to buy it as a