The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-07-25 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BEITISH AND FO EIGN.

The Severn has rearbetl a lower level than has been
klinv.ll.l ill the memory 11 ell..

Two m. mel jali o Loid ra'werrton were ibaugurated
in the y .tofey, on Tueltlay.

A woman emplea as iiick nurse ia in custody at
Geneva. charceii with poisoning eight persona who had been
placed under her care. _

"There is but one good wife in this town," enid a
den:p.n., la the rows,- of Ids t•ermon—the congreLattun
loot.ed exi.e,tant, '• and every warded luau thinke lies gut
her," added the tohdeer --:tmre.con

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At Niagara, a rnau nano,' Charles Mason, al as
Tacker. Ina, 14,11 sentenced td it alb !or Ana ly poisonina
his wale o death hy means of ar.anic. afire 1116111111 g tier lite
for 5,000 dolor fie would hot heNe been susprete I had he
not tpr-lily rejoiced at her death and canied on an intrigue
unit

1 he hi at of the French Chamber during the recent
diettiqdow. has bet 11 I, Lc,. that the G..or bad to he sprinkled
Will. vinegar, and in spite of thh.pleeaution tientaal
eight4-twu years if 14e, who Wall ver• rated on the geld of
W,terloo, faltded alai was earth tt tta,,y. The working
people, who in tortry prts of Parfet live in the attics, Ore
suffering greatly flan, the high Irwin rotor,, w Lich is pro-
doming a meat deal of Mame r autoogat clidtheu.

A very melancholy event ha" occurre,l at Cong.leton.
Mr. lirliry Schofield, surgeon, havitm a comidm aide pi: cilia
In that town, being much fifth, tel with toothache, ho teen
in the habit of taking laudanum to mitigate the palm On
Tuesday be took a larger dose than usual, and synipt, ml of
poisoning were inuneoiately Tereeived. Medical all W. ob-
tained as quickly Cl po,.inle, anti every elf It made to Oct
the 1 quid, hut without aimless. Slr. ticiioneld died in great
agony, lie was highly ri spreted in Congleton. lie was
married, but han left no
The Rev. C. It. Kennard, ThA., Curate of New.
land, Oreat Malvern, has left the f ha, oh f Englawi for the
communion of the Chureh of Rome. tie was educat,it at
Univeoity Col.ege, Oxford, and lied not been ordained more
the two years.

Incentlilre firoe are again becoming tretinent in
v-rtoutt parte of Rut,' t hole villagrK c reported to be In
fin,ve. an I ev, al lare Won. bare IRtll part! kl:y Ina ot.

TLe eluim of the Doke of Blielenehato to I.e placed
011 e_e r .11 .1 tt e c tib,h peer.. 1,1,1 Kileoss 31 gain 4.etne
I..f"re ti.e tin eof Lord,. u.inte.ine. Tilde turd-I.llm de-
cided that thee a!m 11:,d beea estal li,hed.

The E.-am:net. ray% that a nfl.re impudent fraud has
p.lit,io e.g di...fluted tho ll O.( f making raons believe
that their payrueht of the we-kW tiara a hieh 11110 boleti
to he dee by theist to a c. min day is natiapeuttable to their
bel:g pheed 'Ton the 114 of l'or:lsineutary votei a. There it
1,4 I.e sligiteat in law for such a aatement.

An eccentric wrote to one of the Park papers,
hay,ng the "largest circulation In the world," that be was a
mar yr to the gout, led a atm my UP, lutd a vlo!ent temper,
hut wanted a yotaig ;in.l handsome site, on whom he sr. nil
settle 1.0,001 trines per leer. lie received forty-Six repli 0,
made his selection, and was warded ha three days after-
wards.

John 11. Surratt, having hrendi.charged under the
Indletivent agaiiiiit loin for complo .
ni the gisasshiation
of ',readout Lincoln, has been heti for trial on a new charge
—that f;Aetna " aid and conentt to the rehellion. ' Ills trial
oat this charge hag heen roatponed until ti f Sept einher
lost, lie tuella.; released on hail. The failure to convict
-urn.' t of conapirlna to anolastnrite Liocoln in generally
regarded aa ebtabllshing the huncretuce of he inother, why,
in a time of gre t pokulur excitement, was hanged on the
moue charge.

Mr. Ernest Junco has been adopted by the United
Libetal Party as third candidate ;or the representation of
Main he-ter. At a meeting of the Emecutive committee, a
regolution was tiumitionuily lassed to the effect that Mr.
Jones al the coo& tionot required by the new elect" B,
tint ti at ha., therefot e. ought t.. te,iee the sumort tithe
r.mtpd lii, cii party. which may he held to represent the
Trad.,4 1.111 ret Aw,diot,er, the geform League, end other
woriiing men's societire.

'l'we :,oldiera of the Ilayal Artillery, named Mintrn
and It uncut hod a quail tel rii Tucady I.,ning in l`or:ohello
ho-rock., mot aunt to I lie 111 uhc-tc:tool to rght it out. in
the third r, ua.l D..neeh sit uck Ilipt-ot a 1.1..“ hi tl,e region
.4 the heart, trout tile t ffeet of which he theo alo.fad, Inoue
Was found on a poot-ne.ttein examination that
111P•t teat t naa very touch debilitated, and the e,,atioi,
of title of the principal 013,e10 ii.lillt.iy thi.• It en.
iVel at tO tiqelt that tollttont. !Old tC,C, at tut CIO
11010 to ught, aol heal .aoly vote-wed alien taunted tir the
,kccase.l. Ale J..ry taxprotowl a desire to rao, t.to iileo
nd a s.rair . e". ap. t 1 da ~1 1 rturking. ~,t t the
tifect that It Oil Ii al i.e.'. 6-• ti ed ly the reign, e• to blood-
yokel, and let t ate) I jury attlitted b) Ltotihelly.

A n w Yolk ttramatist Las sat iri.ed the gn-a-headiem
of tht. for sex In hurk quit, whiC'o he calls the
IS,renT.s x. The sin tweed penal of the play is the 3est
1,76 The ladies In the drama hunt. fish. about, Jit'ge.
codect taxes, afdl make love to the 1et:11. f lie melt are simply
made love to, and tint, duty In life is confined to the
hashfulhess, and hesitation that are becoming to
that passive state A maiden called Victorivie lit ings a
bashful you Ii out of doors by singing "Oonie into the garden,
Outgo,' sad a diginguik.hed fealidn antiquary tl.seuvtie that
Shakespeare was a woman.

rutier the influence of the preeent eieeesiee heat
the annual rate • f mortality In tine fora teen large Mai, on
the United Kingdom, lies. week by meek. gteadth increase!
from 22 per low in the 1 winning of June to 28 Lint a
Ike jut, vase boa berliksleatent man I.olllltPli, LiVerpOoi,
at. ter lurninignam. 11.11.1 SliellieNl ant Wks 11,11 Wm F 1
mitirely due to tI e fatal I.teetlei.ce of amine r cli.irrhtert,
prin.-4..411y I fan.tnln Last week there wore fatal ea-n:
ni mine t in L 'nat-n, The tot.•l minder 4.1 deaths w:us
1042, exceeding hy 1.14 tie clinated mu 11111 l t for ihe e e
Sevend at ta,,,,f fr.u,Wamn 4:totter/are lenorted, hut ~1 the
:;11 penous ho led ..f 4ilia,llWlL only 1J acre adult,

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A eerrettp.ndept nt Furohtlzhern c;ves the f• rowin".
504 tatet of the state • f tolsisit 1, It, Leighhou, hood :
"Blogs tout, Sh,optallii are high, dry, table
deep id cloak *al;e.s, oot drainlog ioto any circa!, a'
the 1,11 0.. Weeks ago the took. aNd ism. IP g..ve on!. hi.t.
thr.t the It ,vs 't re • dirg toe wio.rtzett 105 h. ,t
wAt. ri. the river, rut f ,it to six hales off 1. telling aop lit
1.0., vt• X it hart.l.. The farmers, snit all their outlay,
will Anil Is. a%le tog l tinlrs,trep as laze of In-.,, unless
the nil, sines quickly ; for the last Ito, b„ gr.,„ „1 1 ~,,,
to tooted or eaten. Toe e.dtager• are log water at tin
h dtite es ap t. mi... It at itilt.% ~5 I for cooking, and
I edie • e g w.th washing ulteetiter.

Ftr the BISt t.iho for many Call% the ri3tl 1 ea.
Genelnt has the duty rrportmg 101 of
An ii 'ease of3sl would airkea. to LAVe tutou place to 114

popuha I,kn.
Oti the Chemin de Tr au N.l\ 1, in Frame, mtinres
lett- have lwe., iti :lit can higee, *to tlat
oan enter tuat.a, jt.t their bonnets lout awsies.
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No lees than 417.41,9 lives have been destroyed by
cholera and Mary-hunt In Enghunt 11n41 bleso ¶I in, y
,on! s 1,47-11,—tutwely. 121/0 b 4:110)..rn, lan' 311,2.0 ty
Wartime,

At the Wvraester aaah•es, a railway guard, muned
.reEkaal, pleaded gully to the cam ge of mal ci u,ly
attempting to m net a train on tie Great Western
The prhamer had can dh,charet it from the a,retee 1 the
company and had committed the effelie, ulit Of tonnago.
tin nan sentenced to panel seffitudelk•r Itte.
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As a proof of go:-.1 will. and a desire that the novsl
Aber Ili c0U1t1141.1.1 of her nJosty.3 ships on the Anotr.tOm
atation photon' Lo better walled to maintain the .11,tuty of
P,B Bon, the Loginhaute of .w ,outh walesto.,
the A r.y nod ware tiao.t e, assud,S to CvlaillkiXl,llV
Lambert, C.B , a rum of £54)0 per annum._

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aecordim; to :‘ toloo-aut from 111adtid, the Duke ao
itontpensier hoenow it i etOd to n.nonote LI. oe.con
so an Infant of 3, ..n, fits rthk to the army. rnd all hot Spl.
in.ll dtnnit aI ~ ron Melton we le..ru that th, Luke and
Lohehet. aat proeoed to ELglailiJ, o tie Spauhdt
t,o in-
total O!,it•CIS tO their runiAlu ug la I u: LUutta.
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Accor.lito; to the two 4 anting At, iera 011ying
411 betting hy 1.1) 1..1 *airing lit the govt. road, or ju to
!wort. a•e tee he I.et'lllati 10 110 itt 411104)011.1-, sv.ti to 4.4
1.1111,11c11 uh‘ler the AU 0, I bth tie* IV ,a. efe. llse Act
uolls. 4140 0pen.t1,411,11 tile tat .4 I,ot tr.
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The ti“u(h I ondon Pass says that the rector of St.
John's, soot ne ark. IR pnrpnritig a scheme to throw open the
present ,Intreh)nrtla in the pariah for the recreation and
use .1 the pal ~ The reverend gentleman thhdis
It a fitting plat* 1411,re 'pour old people WILY smoke their
pipes."
Lora Lyons recently hail an interview with the
ElliVerllr RI Fontaluebhiol. 111 C EIIII/Ctor expressed hts
re_ret that the Quito of En....land c. ul I not stop air" day t
in Paris during li r Ilajeo tone ou ae Continent, aid it
the tame Ii e expretred his strong dmire that the rut! it
relation, now existing between France and England bln.tild
continue.
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The tag Mall GoNile atatem that the Bh-hop
Capetown 18 NOWA to leave Euglahti, In Cotijuziciloh, it lit
atimatsed, with Mr Macrorie. incuitthent cot Accriugton,
...what %hoc, coil.. cratiott as hi4ltop for Natal all old di°.
hata,now 1.e.11 urtuove,l. Mr. MaCrili ie WIAI to COnSeCrld • tit
Capelown hy the south Afrlctot I:6ltotu. There In to 1,
grunt stat eat St. Lear ice Jewry btlore the departLre
the litgliop alit Ids prwrgr.
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The ~veniecra of the towns!dp of Conside nod
Kuitul.y, Wept Duriartin, hay n.; resolved to put rl3 the
Pitrlmmentsiy rediuter all w Herr p.088..141111g the 114 T, ty
quahlkotlohs, hove preporef their lit Jr omforwity ,uch
re .4111 i n. Ihe rlvr'nreia of 31t11,414111, in Limeauldre, rye
agreed to place duly qu titled women on the list of voters.
According to the Vienna journal,. the Austrian em-
pire it to disc pear from the political voe bulary ii I in)
mop of Europe hr phee of It we ore to lead the Ate 0.
ituuesrum monarchy Thiu ikci,fon is so d to Lave ben
Oonie tort the last souils'elid conned, held wider the pr,ul-
- y of the .E.eperer in Vienna.
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The lecturer-Alm-01y baa been before the magistrates
at Nihon on a warrant, ar.antc{ on the Information of
certain holm hohlera, oh,, attimial that, 11 his lecture. were
peruime,i, they auticipaLe I A ocitAiii 4hAturbance of the
rub in peace The n.agi,ratea urd:rwl hi rphy to enter jut.)
hit ow. recogniaance hi L.SJO, cud to find two suretka La
each, to keep the peace awl le: of goo behaviour.

Four Fifth-avenue Inanition., in New York have real
lace curtain, at the katlour a limows, valued at into there to
flee th0u...1 dollars each ; leo have monogram carpets, Oil
a 110.110 ,Irf4lll door-plate, one *private theatre, Itta lour have
picture pillories.
" young lade living near rimier Swing., Georgia,
was fatally poison/ d by nab g a to ig for • tooti..lo Ink
hereti the locusts bud .tee.,st tett Stain egg, liow true tit •
I. we dr, not know, but a 'tether IMO 4.1' 1144 IL L 1101.1.1 be
caution not to usc all) t6ing the locusts have depoalted tier
eggs 1-, fir It Is Fhl,l tluir eggs are deadly poison. we
learn from a I enuomiee taper that sin bo)a—three white +11.4
then" black—were found stead under a mu berry tree trem
euthm the berries in which the locusts lied deposited their
eggs."—New York Paper.
On Monday morning the Fire Brigade reperted that
during the liven:lls forty elght h mrs flat lea er thim twenty.
tit, tires had taken place in various parts of London.
" H. C. 8., who left his home on Thursday morning
as if for businoss.—lleturn immediately, and do not, by proe
hmged absence, lose your situation, which In stilt intsau Crane
or WI Ite In your broken-Learn:it inother."—Adverlistment an
Lentil,
The Queel of Mohely continues to attract great
attention at I aria, CollAiLlvi log the ennui cauivel lest year by
the v ILAN of crowned heads. Iler 114etity, who resme, it
the Hotel its Lat.re, is about MO:). }care ot age, nil
regular teatimes, vet y nark compl,gion, and hair iwft stel
glossy. Site lime TreelVed an European education. Her
51,jesty la very gracious ha pulthe, but apparently alum a
natural and Royal dnsire not to become " too monmon."
At Bouhill, Scotland, on Friday inorninw. a "wing
man named M'Veau, wee stabbed by a man named °Hee rht,
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awl diva iu a few t;oura. lie was I mid Iyhig li. tho atuTet:
talc .ea aole to qent!f7. the perez, aho
_mableed

OP.c.lon,t was app ebended. It if thought that the theeeded
us. wfa1.!..1 by ii4ke for another pers.on, of wil.ouL it L 3
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asiiil the lats.] e: MILS Jeeou oS meheehdngyromir
intimacy e 111 inc .1:e.

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A few days ago, at the Cashel Union Workhouse,
sisters of the female school children Were nearly 1.03,1;
pi-tanned by eatirg the seeds of a Inhuman, tree Which
dropped ,ts tranehes into their rdaygr.nnel. tie Graham.
the medical °Dicer, used the usual remedies, happily nisi.
ant.

By a collision on the Belfast and Northern Counties
Railway twelve conatabulury pollc4 men b ve been mire or
Jet inittnat. Au eng.ne .241.0 I into the train with gte.,t
force. knocking the men together the cowl artinel,t In
hich they nat. haying with then, their rifle... OSIC redee-
m. In.a had be eadt.h.oke broken, nuttier!. injured iu tLe
spine, ant four Or five wore are 'alder auraicul nary.

In an American cirona, where wild beasts were being
exhibited by a tamer" tile Ihnieee made a .ring at Ge
tamer, and, exWg Ida It-ft aria, bite It completely GA
.1 the socket I efore the eyes .1 the horrifi.d—.or, as they
came for a aentalLn, (very gratified r—speetatota.
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Death Ens robbed the BritA playgerr of a. Jong.
tried and ii ghly-eetwon:ed ntibletrart to bin atout.enu lit :a
tie 1:er•on 01 Mr stLlhig C:dne, the dranedie author who
thed on Saturday last. Mr. 6,yhe wrote 4i7 &MOB road Ata.
and fan cc, but his chief excellence My in Ms Maw.

The ether day an auetiuneer at liradf"rd lead
donkey lift Itree 1,1,4 Al, the property 0-,f Benith,n
agt d right), Jost deeeaaeth he donkey had twou
to I it posbtabivn the greater past of 1113

"Mieing, fri4o Brighton, face Friday morning, the
17th hog., a oeutkm.n, aged taeuty-twn. I.eigLt flee fe.t
%even inches, Let lour alai small u.oustaclie ; dres.ed in
llal k blue coat let waistcoat, bine+ and white Wired
trowels. Hack Oxford lint, dark lane tie with a Idle awl.,
He bad in Ii- pos,esii..ll a aniall pra3er.l.nook, Ulla ill ,1114.08, ii
10 i a ai.d,z hie about in a state to uervous exciten,eut. Any
peiann alvina infoiniation at the bright.,
which may lead to bls WWI be rem artled."—Ativer•
t:aeinent In Lonainn Time,

In a paragraph I.saded 'A Pm Cad Womsn,"ra
amorkau aper Far Yrt.. Dr. ,11.1 man Cf Viheland.
N.J., patute4 the 4.14de 41 her ham e lest an lc. and on
sinithiy preaelnut for the eniturfan milder, giving esee.leut
natiofaction to a Isrt_e I•Ld ut-pretiAtite utosiente lu the
medical profession. Dr. Wallin. 1., mi.r.rg the cation mut
most enl;ent of the female nrav it Waco."
A little I,oy. four A-ears and a half old. named Jules
Legeron, has Just d.ea In the hotiitel at by e of 11)410.-
pin Ads. lie was hitter, shout anorib lii Ca' 11111 i innately
attended to, but medical ticket.° hue Levu unable to suvo
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A St. Petersburg letter of the 13th racs:—"F,
the Ist tell ihttg zone V Wild suppose that tti ipitd Is
eituattd In the J/4.., h degree .4 latitude, es %e have the tea,
',endure of Senegal or Ca' enne inin own y stnets.”
A watchmaker of Perim has just turned Ind watch
for the shltw,, Urine one nnhiun francs. There 6, dlnm ni
at the hack as big as balf-a-ci own. The gentlemen pick-
picket- of Europe will doubtless learn the fact will the
liveliest interest, and be Bung lute a deeply tumuluative and
speculative turn if mind.

Several more London policemen havo been danger.
coldly bitten in their endeavours to "take " tioge. The
gone uddrea+ thi, pie tt, 11 rem, kto ti,,e genii:into in
the hlueo,—" Lied a bite to-day, Rt.:vernal'.
At a Mavelaader Polee r,urt, in a ease in whi,sh
the in indpol wltneos woe deaf aid timid', the comtehle who
had the c ~,,, met of it, la-ing metitteieri to fetch au " Inter-
preter," returned tato cowl bringiug another deaf toid
loan with him

"We are pained to announce the end of the well},
to take place ind,ber 2, lt6S. Our anthor ity is the scrotal
adeditiets ; as they Sr, never mistsken, U e ex! mint fire-
works will doubtless come off."—Atner.eatt raper.
In the Limerick County Record 0413. la.t week,
Silas }Award., of intdand.,ll. Cottlit) Cork, (1.t0it,..1 ‘5.0,1
damage., and Oil. mots, Inn, Ralph Fuller, for seduction.
There lean anecdote of an honest Irishman, whose
mingled sense of the duty of gratitude ant the awkwardness
of obligation, round vent in the characteriatic alart:oe,
"Oh' that I could See yer honour knocked di wi, to a figia.!
Sure, sod wouldn't I bring a faction to the rescue l"
he Journal 'le Freed fort Pttyn ,—" Arist strati:Rey,
Turkish Ambassador to the corn t if Pettit, while welkin;
In the path if lirehrich, was lately grossly insulted, and vu
struck. it Is said, by a keeper in the service of the vidarke
of ILtikßall, for having continent to smoke his cis,. which la
forbidden there, after he had been intern! to 4:Lowther
The offender w...r at once suspended from Iris fUIictLAIS and
arrested."
On Mendar, the new Act fir the next registration
was booed. It contains thlrty-sesen clan to, some of or h
are declaratory of the next registration .41 the next election.
The reviel. 1,1 to take place between the I ith Se i tender and.
the sth, Octioler. One hundred and thirty-two revising tat"
riders may be appointed. In the event of the pow 4 rto me
point addltlonal barristers tinder the Act 6 and 7 Vre . c. 15,
occurring after the oth September, the power is to he exer-
cised by the Judge sittieg at chambers. There is a proviMo
that notwithstanding the clone to the new Reform Act, the
" lodger." art to appear on the lists, and registers of voters
in separite 1140
"Ji. C. It., who left her home on Thu.sday morning
as if for buslness.—lS turn 1111111edbitely, arid do not to pto-
longed nl,neme bee 3 dur Owen., which is still open 1 ..s
or wills to your broken-hearted mother."—Advertimumut In
London lie/1.4.
At the Cirdity Conrt, Guildford, the other day,
claim for wagea tutued MI the ounition whether a motey
eau order a set vaut-grrl to led when he elmoisee. The Judge
gave this decision think your moister was quite inatill
Whtle your uniater told yiuxi go b. 1,1
It Wm. your duty to do I-o.aid as you old not obey his r, Sic;.
stile C 1.1110.116. he can quite Itottlieu in diauilaslia you. I
shall liud a verdict tot di fendruit."
Three youth. wet- Nfonenv, lev a 171,.R.";A-
-tr.te In Dud., Pr i.. at a ch,u-cii Ak-
during tie} Loads of service.
l'he Queer. ~f hoe caused a space to he re-
served In the Park of the Invalid"! at Berlin, on wit h fly-
ing 7.111ii111/111C, eug,gr.os is ill be establi-liell, to teach young
womed how to tend tue wound d in a campaign.
Twit inquests Were held in London on Saturday in
cases of death 1 y sunstroke. One wsc that of a man forty
named Archer. Riot the oitier a little boy of le r named
Fredinick it arisen
Tire Ili 'man Cathi die Arebbillnrin of the ('tilted
States hove I. sued a ctreuldr agairrst recruiting soldiers for
the Papal Queen:llllCM It, Alartiell. 111.1 recommend ail
the faithful to contribute heely of their means for the
defence of the Italy Father, dipeollt age inliatments,
these being in violation of the neutrality laws of the United
Stator.
Saturday, a working man, was at the Plackreel
Railway htation, awatlag the arrival I.f a friend from
slate:hie er nherr some per-nn opened the dror ii' one of
the carr.ages before tic train hail idol ped,
to happiness?" Wand the or
ate. the num, hurling him 1111,1111. the aliens. The u.an
wet.. fright( oily frotthted, one r 1.144 lers beirrt ferreted
from the 1..4. 11. Irks rmroved to a I‘lll.ili.g in limo‘h..Lity
of the station, but died in about t weld y
A lily and t, ntletran, oTI parsing Over t' Tridro
ile la cornaime 1.1 the other do,. o tie poirtip. a
go,icost. 41
by • re,ertalm-.1010.m iliac,• 1 Stitill
they lee .ke to s the read ore he reeid
receive a retil}, lie pumped on the parapet of the Irldse,
tame, el into the Tint., and to, hi sus afterwards Lis bony
uncid unit. Pe left tor memoir In j.1.1.11e11, ion
On Siturilry Thomas Hurst, aged twelve. in via
eui}loy Ile-srs. Ablimt, farmers, Sue lard, was sem I y
hb vnii4oero bi itet a eldure cal,' dat Delimit. The 1.,
on .11ith he toile bolted, aid tho 6111p.tr it, .1,
tir Wiligllir 11.1 forth in frill of ti e y ony ti,t ou•e di 1:
feet kept la the stirruP. ?tort!), a'terwards tie is tr. fill,
tut sit ur again lurnediatelv, and gag( 1.1 on. cm. r
pidir lad'a Lead alone Ph,- ri,t. I lii ti y tie rinir was
aid-lid, whet. It was 14 tadi that the boy us:said, Lrs
liathig birds hat lurid