The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-06-13 00:00:00

THE GRAND PRIX DE PARIS.
(From tho Express.)

The greatest fete for French sporting men and for the
Parisian world in general is unquestionably the day on
which the e.rund Prix de Paris is run for in the Bois
de Boulogne. On the Saturday night preceeding the
once, between the hours of nine and twelve, the Eng-
lish bookmakers, who have crossed the channel to turn
over a " cool" thousand or two, make up their books
at the Salon des Courses; shopmen and clerks invest
their five-franc yieces at the " Sporting Office " on the
Boulevard des ltaliens, in much the same manlier as
an Englishman, ignoi big the French language, would
order his dinner from the Lill of fare at a restaurant
where none of the wallet s speak English; and grooms
and coachmen quarrel over their pots of Leer, and give
their opinion about "that 'ere how.," in Mane how
public-house in the neighbourhood of the Champs
Elysdes.
on Sunday about mid-day cabriolets, atanhopes, and
drags may be seen to draw up at the principal hotels
and clubs ; spicy little rouprs and victorias, with natty
little coachmen in blue and gold, white buckskin
breeches and top boots, with bouquets of rOsex4 fastened
in the front of their coats, dash out of the Chaussee
d'Autin and the Rue Laffitte, and follow the Boule-
vards in the direction of the "Boo." From the
Faubourg St. Germain, over the Pont de Is Concorde.
collies the heavy pair horse barouche, and the old•
fashi -.led brougham, whilst down the Rue Royale
Loin • I oultvard Malesherbes, and out of the
streets -sing into the Champs Elysees the belles of
the season -e borne along in C-spring barouches and
victorias, ei la "env- Mt t. Up the Champs Ilys&s.
down the aristocratic Avenue de l'lmperatrice, and
along the shady avenues of the "B. s," go the
drags, loarouches, landaus, and stanhopes of the grata
~,, de, intermixed with the victoria., and coapis of do
,frirti. The roiture a huff ,-,so ,to of some duchess who-
inhabits an hotel in the Champs Elys6es, follows the
little coupe of the de neintonda tne, who lives on an
odreso/ in the Chaussre d'Antin or the Rue Blanche;
the shopman, out for a holiday, canters along on his
livery-stable hack, by the side of a little viscount who
never pays less than 5,000 f. a piece for his horses, and
who traces hisdescent in a direct line from some Norman
baron of the Uth century. In the midst of this mass
of carriages is the &mew °etc, with his wife and family,
all crammed into a single horse cab, drawn by one oi
dew remarkably lean grey horses so common on the
Parisian macadam. His skin seems to have become SO
hard that the lash,which is continually comingdown upon
his back, appears to make no Mpression on him what-
ever, unless it is that he nervously switches his tail
from right to left, as if to drive away a fly that is
tormenting him. Along the Alke de Longchamps,
and across the Avenue de la Reiue Marguerite, and in
a few minutes they will arrive at the cascade. The
bourgeoise and the demeanondaine drive on to the
ground and take up their positions in the midst of the
•' Pante,- the "Sporting otlices," and the vehicles of
the Browns and the Joneses " front London," which come
down in swarms on a day like this; while the exquisites
drive round to the back of the tribunes and block up the
adjoining avenues with their carriages. Hem are long
trains trailing in the dust, and bonnets hardly larger
than a penny bun, which dainty little fingers
have been working at all night; coiffures a la Mora
A Mohicar, executed by the Euipress'e hair-dresser, and
wigs in the fa.shionable colour, which NI adame's femme
if. ehanebre requested should be sent home not later
than ten o'clock this morning,, in order that this
capricious beauty might be seen at the races with
twenty or thirty pounds' worth 44 flaxen ringlets hang-
ing down her back. There, too, one recognises the
work of the great Dusantoy, who, besides being tailor
to his Majesty Napoleon 111., and claiming to be
"coat builder " to half the crowned heads in Fume-,
wits, but a short time since, the proprietor (of a daily
political newspaper. Had he been as successful in
journalism as he is in tailoring, he wmild pro-
bably have continued by giving a political cut too
the various articles of clothing that left lila
establishment ; thus we should have le-cognised the
legitimist by the cut of his waistcoat, the Bonapartist
by the fit of his trousers, and the shape id the coat avid
the number of its buttons would have denoted the
staunch Republican. A swarm of dandies are at I ~,,, g-
champs, looking as if they had just come out of so
many bandboxes, with the skirts (of their coats -di inch
shorter than they were a fortnight ago at bantilly,
111111 the lower portion of their face concealed by a for-
iiiidable stand-up collar, while an enterprising Inlet-
maker has supplied some half dozen of them with
lavender kid boots tipped with blark. Cupidon, the
Ink of the Jockey Club, was on the grass Ma pair horse
brougham ; she wa.sdressed in a black silk dress trimmed
with white lace, and was playing with& very fine black
pug dog. The first three races excited little interest.
In the Prix d'Armenonville, Nelotherme. belonging ,
to the Count Bethune-Sully, was first. In the Prix
des Pavilions Perettee, belonging to M. Moyse, was
61st. The Prix de 13 Ville she Paris was won by the
Duke of Hamilton's thistal after a very capital race.
The Emperor, the Prince Imperial, and the Princess
Madill& occupied the imperial tribune, attended by
a number of ladies and gentlemen, amongst whom were
the General Fleury and the Baron Hausmann. Seven
horses started for the Grand Prix (le Paris. When The
Earl made his appearance he was saluted as a cartlmrse
by the ignorant spectators. Little did they think
that he could win in a canter. Just before the race
two little incidents afforded considerable amusement ;
the one consisted of a little fight exactly opposite the
iniperial stand, and the other was the breaking of the
cord at the bottom of the hill, and the consequent
covering of the course by the crowd. At last the bell
rang, and the horses made their appearance.
They all got off together the first time, Sedan taking
the lead, followed closely by Nelusko, Illueskin, and
The Earl, l'hey occupied the same places on passing
the windmill, but at the cascade the boy in yellow CUIIIC
to the front and took the lead until they had passed
, the bushes. On coming down the hill, and (on turning
the last comer, they were all close together. Here
Nelusko was called upon, and Mr a few moments
answered to the call, but 1 he Earl, separating himself
fr. an the others, came to the front sod won by a length
with the most perfect ease. At a few feet (nun the
winning-post, Nelusko was beaten by Suzerain, clot
%vas second, by about a neck, and Satan CAIII11: in fourth,
and a disappointed Frenchman was beard to re-
mark :—" it& l'empurte encore, oh oh! perfide Album
Sacr-r-r-r ?"

AMERICAN WIDOWERS.—A man lost his wife
(of nurse this is from an American paper) ; his
might-snow called upon him to offer co onsolaticon, and he
canoe itoto the house all covered with dirt and water.
" Why, Mr. Brown, what have you been doing ?"
Why, my wife ;lying inade it a broken day, so I
thought I would clean (out the welL" Another, a town
crier, couldn't cry because hia wife want dead. Another
barbarian had inscribe.' on his wife's tondedone,
'Tears cannot restore lien therefore I weep." While
upon this subject we will tell another " gots' one." A
man lost lois wife awl had a stone erected over her
grave. He married a second wife, and when she died
he hail the gravestone split, and it thus served for the
two (leparteola. He proposed to a third, but she de-
clined the offer, with the remark, "I do not believe
that stone will split again." At the Central Criminal Court, in London, on Tuesday, a
DR RAIEIO/I AND THE CONGREGATIONALISTS, well.dreased awl good-looking woman, named Annie Reeve,
—The Rev. Dr. Raleigh, one of the ablest preachers oth.•rwise Annie Litam Reeve, surrendered to an indictment
chards., her with the colloid...li if bigam* y The prisoner
among the Congregationalist ministers of Londo hn, as pleailed- " Not Guilty." The trial, front the attendant
got himself into, hot water with the snore straitlaced circumstances, appeared to excite very great Merest.
portion of his co-religionists by his addreas as president Mr. Serjeant Ballantine saiol the facts were ex-
of the Congregational Euion. Dr. Raleigh armee(' t - oc:ly simple though, as woulol he seen the case wan
that there are errors in the Bible, and having been orZked by e„'me ,e7mlb,eity. Ile pe, :e wristyer,‘ ,
taken to task, he writes a long letter to the Engtish iestituted loy a gentleman named Blackmere a
twropopient to explain. ti P e says :--- Physician, between whom and the lady at the 'bar
Since toy attention has been called to the matter I have a ceremony was perfmmed in Scotland which might or
Collie to think that I iniAt have said B.nm:thing like this when mi•dit not have amounted to A marriage. Mr. Illaek-
speaking of the agency it, fallible men. I inight 11AVe Atiil nog
ht
re afterwarols heard. the lady had been married
that ole,pite the errors and itii4akes which are natural. and --° , , ', ~
without c.iiitii Mil miraele ieevitabls time i 4 Yet an infallible, previously, anooe employed& solicitor, who discovered
or at any note «certain and onffieient. romnamoication to the that she had been married, not only once, hut twice
world of the mind and will of tiod ; tiut really when one to before—first at ( 'anfiff in 1863, and again at Carlisle
earnestly Inest en a purpose. it is (somewhat hard to tie re- in 184(6. Those were the short facts ; and personally
wired to think of eventhing and everybody. lie should Inc glad if, on the part of the defence,
In concluding his letter, Dr. Raleigh says :--" If it circumstances wove adduced which would justify the
is meant that that the Puritan stand-point os to be ours, jury in fitooliiog a verdict (of " Not Guilty."
without variation or adaptation to living men or pre- The first witness was the Rev. M. A. Pierpoint, a
sent needs, I can only say that! believe this would be clergyman of the Church of England, who proved that
Ott our part tantamount to giving up the England of on the 2nol of June, 1863, he performed the marriage
the future, in which, if we are wise and ready, we may ceremony at the parish church of St. John, Cardiff,
play so great a part." late vela I 'harles Julian Reeve and the prisoner, in the
THE FENIAN OTARRELL.—A correspondent of natio, of Annie Rickaby, and he
bmaimed a certified
copy of the register, in which the onland, 11r. Reeve,
an Irish paper states that O'Farrell, whose parenti . wax described as a loa,cha, awl the .n of a gentle-
were so independent as to Inc almost account.' wealthy-,
man, and the prisooner as a spinster and the daughter
was educated for the legal proofession, anti that at the
of a merchant. Witness saw the husbawl, Mr. Reeve,
age of about 22 he expressed a desire too take holy
ono the 24th of April last, at Exeter. He had seen the
Imlers. This inclinathon seeming to he real and prisoner awl Mr. I; eeve on the day before the
sincere, he was sent by his friends to this countiy,
where he remained for some time, and received minor They called at his house to make the
marriage.arrangements, and he married them (on the
onhva, hut at this jieriod the growing' disease (of the
flte
Id
to loave conomenced to develo Woolf, and 1"11°w11.4 Morailoor. He bad never seen Mr. R
braineeve
e that, and (lidsee r
thi he Inddenly disappeansl fnm the collegep witls sit befor
s year and th tanfor h him again until Ap il in
our or two. Ile had not
noaking any communication to the superior, and un-
the leas,t doubt lie was the same jocr.n.
expectedly insole his :qua:armee again in Australia,
A young woman named al ary Ann Sparkes. from
The idea of entering the Church Wm abandoned, and
Carlisle, !moved that on the 22nd of January, VOL she
O'Farrell 80011 after went into business, .but lois eccen-
WAN present at the marriage ceremony between the
tricities having been increased by a tendency to in-
prisoner aod Mr. Robert Mills, which was loy licence,
temperate halals, produced, as a natural conseomence,
at St. Coothbert'a Cloun;h, Carlisle. She Wis 4 I tie of
failure in business. From this period he was under
the witnesses to the ma n marriage, ad signed the register,
particular supervision when the full develogommit of
a enjoy of which WWI now I iniditicsd. In thoot Mn
•.f the madness tomk place in the terrible attempt made
Mills WAY designated a bachelor and an esquire, and
on the life of the Prince. the 'prisoner was named Annie lama Itiekalov, anol
A MAN WITH HALF-A-DOZEN WIVES.—An ;Inscribed as a spinster and the daughter oof a major in
American paper says : the army. Witness ofid not know Mr. Molls at all lie-
'Mr. Oyler, of Lafayette, Ind , las dispose.' of six wives, fore that day, and never saw him after the marriage.
three by death WO three hp divorce. Suppoie this 1111t1 been By the Recorder : She never saw either of the parties
a woman that hail "disposed of six husbands, ,liree by before. She WAS serving an apprenticeship as a dress-
maker with the wife of the parish clerk, and, being
death and three by divorce," what a great nnise the opponents
of W0111:1114 Rights would have made ; but since It was a asked to act AA bridesmaid, she did so.
«bite male" all is right. Chrirtopher Little, the parish clerk of St. Cuthbert's,
Oto TIMES !—A gentleman in company with I"arl..;s t
,'.e,wino had also been A witness tin the marriage,
Foote took up a newspapers, saying, "He wart.' to identified the prisoner. He had never seen Mr. Mills
see what the -Ministry were about" Foote, with A before the day of the marriage,
smile, replied, "Look among the robberies." John Letty, a police-constable, spoke to apprehend-
ing the prisoner, on the 20th of April, on the arrival
WOMAN'S RIGHT TO VOTE.—In a debate the klatforno
....of. the Waterloo&tation of the South-
Hon. 'Nfr. -- said, as he Knight the Speaker's eye,
ty.n Railway. She then gave the name of Fanny
" Sir, I am opposed to wonan's rights, for woman
is a snare and a delusion, and --" " Men are always I", K ,Y.
float WIWI the ease for the prosecution.
getting caught by snares, and always hugging de-
Mr. Ribton addressed the jury for the prisoner,
lusions," interpolated another member. contending that they could not convict her of con.
Mn oLI • ENT FOR THE Point. —A new trade has tracting the second marriage unless they were con.
recently beconle popular in the marketing streets of vinced the first husband was alive at the time, and
London. A class of individuals have sprung up, as it that he was alive to her knowledge.
were, by magic; these take their stand opposite the Mr. Roobert Rockaby. nearly 70 rears of age, whom
-nliaoireo'r:verl,l4 1
chimps "f drulN•"l.l em11111"n lleigl'handaanta and nffrr, I the learned counsel called for the defence, said he was
nor sale tine patteina of various chscriptions of ladies ! the father of the lady at the bar. He Wss not present
at the marriage with Reeve, who wax All actor, lout
abnutlsiic:,l oildarie,ll (:,..,,e1 oath:1%11
one,
andioo tiitss;.sie,
knew of it at 'the time. After the marriage in 18r,:i
ocimpati.,ii that seems to offer a boon to the humbler she lived with her husband five or six months, at
classes, many of whom have been compelled to put out -
Exeter, Bradford, Yarmouth, and London, and at all
' the:e jolacea at the expense of witness. Reeve left her
ctluoetitrztotrike.irinnciaotenserzen_cse,aotfio.beeriwg, ignorant how to
about January, 1564, and she afterwanls reside,' with
THE i•VE, TOR OF ENTEL•TES.—Abont fon y witness. In conseomence if Reeve Wing indebted to
yean; ageu tloere lived at ItriAton a bookseller anti him, witness mule inquiries respectiag bins of his
stationer I.f the name of S. IC Brewer, and Inc used to mother, who resided in Pimlico, and she said lie wis
ilace in his shop window piles ,if paper, beginning at , dead, and had (lied in Dulolin. On th h e Nth ot Marc,
the largest up t(o the then smallest size Ilinoo. ; but to I 18o;:a, the mother of Reeve addressed a letter to the
finish off the pile he cut cards so as to hiring them up 1 defenolant, through witness, stationg in effect that their
to a iot,,t.. , adjaa no(a(1 to ZO in and ask for that , marriage WAS not lawful, assigning as a reason that
" (bar little 14uper." which inolueeol him tio clot paper I Reeve was oonly the prisolivr's stage name, awl that
in small sizes. Then came the olilliehlor of the place i his real lame was Bryant Ituther. She added Coat
for address' and the result was he invented the env. I the pnsoner need not fret on that account, for that
I ope, and had metal 'dates made for cutting them them I "the poor fellow " died on the 24th of the pn, ions
;
to shape and size. This just pleased the ladies, and month of small-pox. Witness communicated the con-

The Emperor Napoleon, when he presented the
Marquis of Hastings with the work of art which hi.
Majesty annually adds to the Paris prize, invited the
owner of The Earl (the Marquis of Hastings) to dinner
at the Tuileries to meet the Count and Countess of
Flanders and the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia.
Some of the Paris papers estimate the winnings of the
Marquis at £2.80,000, and say he will pay all his debts
in full.