The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-01-25 00:00:00

PASSING EVENTS, RUMOURS, &c.

floor. The rar•sult writs that s.fac'don6e.. ------ -
From the examination at liow.street poUce.court, in fracture of ofe of his &rues, which rendered hie removal
London, on Monday, John Clansey, who was charged with
feloniously shooting at two policemen, it does not appear to the hospital necessary, whence, after his limb had
that the crime is attributed to Feniantem, which at first it been net. he was conveyed home. He ia now re-
was impposed to be. Clancey is a deserter from the Rot al covering.
Beigineers, and oh the police attempting to arrest him he
"rew a revolver and fired two chambers In his flight, for- . EATEN OF Buisxs.—The island of Java must
tunately without fatal effect. on attempting to fire a third be a pleasant place to live in. According to the latest
alsot the weapon foulest and tiiti not go og. The prisoner official statistics published, 148 persons were devoured
tias remanded. • by tigers in one year. and in another the same fate
• The Mark Lanelarprestetates that Lord itik's fat elend,
hich attracted so nsuch -notice at the Islingtah Christmas
We Show,-has teeth slaughtered and eaten. A sirloin of
e beast was placed on the table at the Vasseers',..Vtab
over A the salabstry Motel, in London, and thosewho
, shok of it and were nut in the Newt of ito heiug ejond, .
"nuanced it to be capital beef. w " The flesh L. al t
atn, dark M colour, tone carrielea lair layer ritill fat. bethe
is befell 131 persons. The crocodile. during the same
period ate about 50 people a year, and between 30 and
I
40 a year were killed by serpents. 'The inhabitants,
however, do not seem to allow their habitual equani-
mity to be much disturbed by the fate of their fellow-
colonists. The Governor-General some time since
offered for every tiger that was killed the vista of
wot of particularly tree flavour—not at tilPikke vv.... - The twenty-two guilders (B 2 but thin did not tempt the
and was slaughtered by Mown. Pansisistat *she iwitteht it
1
Dutchmen tst action.
slow price, there being no coMpetition for such strange
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A HEAVY Pt; N ISIIMENT.—Henry Hallington,
eat. a quaeteinnsater on board the African mail strainer
iis Men-slay .The,Thaes gave exceptional prominence to a Calabar, has been sentenced to four mouths'•imprisoh-
'rpm rebel., to the deaigna of Russia lathe Es 1i merit, by the Liverpool stipendiary, for having
] hat received from Sienna, whether from its accfertlted sniusglod a quantity of matches on board the vessel on
u
rrespendent there la not stated. Here is the oh :
Tha report Which has mten appearta lately in the apatch Veenna
whMh he was emi,loyed• The prisoner was brought
- id other jarnals that Russia was arming on the.Pristli is _
..
tarely without foundation. Russia seal never less In to
✓ ,sition to po to war than at the present momeut. She has
f WILLIAM DESMOND, TIDIOTRY DESMOND, NICHOLAS .
up un. der the 2:39th section of the Merchauts' Slittsping
Act Ihe owners of the Calabar are under contract
with the government not to carry anything which.
F " ' I ' A ' • J • O'KEEFE d
.NLLIsli, . LREMIAH ILLS., OHN . ,an
' Riser men, teases, breech-loaders, not money."
ANNE JusTME were then placed at the bar on the —w:
'. It may reassure the miblic 0 learn, when f•ts gof the charge of wilful murchtr isf the persons killed by the
din TIJI be likely to endanger the safety of the, wads.
Ti y however are allowed to carry gunpowder, for
let Fenian arrests, that the police have seized.nearly all the exVosit as at the House of Detention. ttt which purpose tile vessels are specially fitted up With
e magazines The matches were discovered atowed in
traiefs who are really "very much wanted," except two or ARRATT and MULLANEY were then placed at the •
to who arlrose hitting, in the hope of Matisse means
to tly the con ashen the storm Itas blo•voi over ansmigh to .bar. As they steppeel into dm dock and placed them- t_he forecastle, close to a magazine containing about
selves beside the other nrisoners a look of recognition
. tltaok,ooon lbs. of gunpowder. The prisoner denied having
,j tatify them in eking the attempt. Fenhoniesen, as far as . . the matches on board. The high price for
"tse police can ascertain, is fm the present seared almost hs not unmixed with surprese, was exchanged between.
alai/a Englanitomulnesther it this saoustryworatareland them. It passed in a moment, and during the rest f which Incifer matches can be sold on the coast is sup-
posed to have induced the prisoner to commit the
Na an Nave the leuiselther leaders or funds. ' the examination, with the exception of .an ltcealiional
. - furtive glance, they took no further notice of each offence.
ESCAPE OF A BRIGAND.—A Florence letter
.!The Rev. Sewnlion Mall gases lectern in.)ir. spurgean's other.
"ITabernacle " the other night on his recent visit to America [lt may be mentioned here that another prisoner he. says :
' Hie told his auditory of an hllellfieW be Out W1)-14. Robert side Barratt had been taken at Glasgow,. and that 'I he mils topic herein the escape of Ceneri, whom your
L swan, the son of the President, "'WM he•ited h'Sbreak- though not referred to at this stage of the inquiry he readers stay not have forgotten as havii4 been the leader
Inst. Mr. Hall rehashed thot if be had been its England M the El ogna band of maletactors which the police sus-
hi, would have been Pinice Robert. : lale reply was, "lk law was brought up in the course a the examination.]
ceeded, hy an act of vigour rare in Italy, in capturing at one
nay father's position would snake no difference tonic, that l Thomas Wheeler then stated,-1 live with my parents at swoon, anol the members of which were tried in the city just
lt work for my flying ; " sad no ho did jp his .is,fealliqn 11,4flummer's-lalsoce, and amoseaily eleven years on age. I named, confined hi an iron cage, like wild beans. Ceneri
it solicitor, except for the short time at lie med been hay + been brought here froth St. Bartholomew's Hospital, was Aso the leader in the tar rig euterprieo in which the
fighting under General Gnat • Mr. Han asked abont the where I was • Patient. I was in corporstroo.ises with a gang committed a robbery of Sonamfr, in lank notes, in one
Queen'. lett, to Mrs. Lincoln. " Vex." said he. ".we have tittle asy named charley on the day or the expdosion. ins a the prmelpal street. of tnia city, at two o'clock in the
been asked often about that letter—we have been asked to looking up Corporsotion-lasie I Saw a man stoopisig over a after.... Well, this man, with two of his accomplices,
publish it. But ais a lola letter of three pages ; the out- tub. A cloth Was placed °tor the tub, and the man raised was put on board a essmi its enter to be removed foot
. gushing of a generous•woman's heart, and my mother mot -it up sod put a squib into a hole in the top of the tub. He Sardinia to the mainland. The carhineers in charge tm,k
myself thou6ht it would not be right to piilitishalt.': sis -,---.1•Mbilll lighted. thosquits with a Inciter match. I cannot re- the handcuffs off the whole three, whom they left at liberty
cognise the man here now. (As the witness said this he was in the vessel. Some of the passengers and the captain
According to the Patris as Paris. paper,. France has ad- look ng towards the beech. He then glanced all round the observed to the eoldiere that it would be more matelot to
dressed "energetic verbal doniniunications" to ealgrade in court till he perceived the prisoners at the bar ' I think place the convicts is, the bold, and keep atr.et watch ever
consequence of the warlike demonstrations that have that is the man noisiting to Barrett.. I tricked him out at them. The gendarmes replied that they would answer for
recently taken plase in S.e,rvia. It says : —`• Austria has the station-house this moralise. I Was at the corner of everything. Arrivieg near Leghorn, Ceneri got down the
ven her support to this step ; Esiglanol hap asp siddressed Rosoman-street when the tub exploded, and I was blown side of the vessel, and was picked up by a boat, In which four
: It. categorical note in the same sense to the Sertlat Govern- down. My third finger and thumb have been blown off strang rowers soon pulled him out of reach. The soldiers
mount ; and finally, Petuaia has made analogous communica- from my left hand. I did not know I was hurt at the time, are to be prosecuted.
Mona." The P conclud
ieria es as f,slivs:.-- The stepwers, tawill
lw ken Isa another low
wnh whom% 1 Ms not hi ow pick up the samib
.14 Prussia, su accordance with the otha•r gree tPo fue run away it. FURTHER DISCOVERY OF COAL IN NOTTS.—
sfrestrate any efforts o. a nature to disteelethe peace lot Mr. Miffing thou tallied Henry Morris, a pale, sickly-look- Borings for coal have been for sonic time past pro.
Enrope. The mane Powers have addressed counsels of ing youth, apparently about 16 yeara of age though he said credal with on the estates of Sir Robert J. Clifton,
soudeentien to Bucharest. ' he was Is . Even in stating his name, in answer to the first at Clifton and Wilford, near Nottingham. On both
gaestion pit to him, he stuttered most painfully, which led
to tle Csiffard mentioning that he had illl impediment in MS estates the borings have been attended with success.
speech. Upon Mr Burnaby asking the witness his address, Tie etperations were resumed on Moreday on the estate
Sir. Giffsrd observed, "We to not want his address," end at Wilford, and were witness.' by the mayor of Not-
the questien was not pressed. He deposed : lam apprentice tinghaui, Mr. J. Woodhowee Day, mining engineer of
to Mr. Mullaney, 1,110 of the prisoners. Ile is a tailor. I London, Mr. Evans, government inspesator of coal
know a person who used to visit him, and who was called mines, and others. The coal was pronounced to be of
Brown. I have heard my master the prisoner Mullaney; say
that Brown was ti.lonel Burke. I reber the time of the first-rate quality. More than 160 samples have been
arrest of Burke and Casey mem
. Ihe my master say that breught up from the varhais lasing& The rode have
"poor Brown was taker," and I have never since seen Burke passed through 188 yards of different strata, including
or Casio at nip master's house. The day after the arrest a three seams if coal. The plans by which the ainkings
man named Burnett called at our house, and was telling my are to ho effected are now in course of completion,
master how it occurred. He salt be was in the Easton-road
and Casey, when they found that four men were and when these are done the sinkings will begin.
with Burke a
following awl watching them. They then separated, Burke PROBLEM FOR AIATHEMATICAL BUBBIES.—Find
and Casey going one way, and he ;Burnett; another, and the..
jrCentr r,e,s of the. Fenian circles. —Punch.
agreeitig to meet again at the eud of tke Eustoisroad. Ile
• Bernet() liot there first, and waitetl for the others, but they .IN tni- WILTING MEN IN TIIE NAVY.—We
did iot come, so he supposed they had "gut taken," and lie (Coiled Serriee Gevelte) are informed that on beard
came away. Alter that I heard my master tell the men On H.lll.'e bowl Oak, during the late commiasian, were a
the board that Burnett Imit gone away to America in can-
-sequence of some parties having suspected him of betraying number of men, members of a sect known as Ger.
manitea, who " never attended Divine service, were in
Burke.
alr. Gillet,' : Do you know any of the men in the stock? direct opposition to the teaching of the chaplain, and
The witness saluting with his finger in a very traumatic termed themselves 'non-fighting men.'" A comes-
manner; said,-11 know one, two, three—Mr. Mullaney, Mr. pondent says :
English and Mr. Jackson. I have seen Mr. Deamond I must tell you this class of men never or very seldom
at my master's house once,, misconolucted themselves on board, always obeyed the pipe,
Mr. (liffard : Which do you call Mr. Jackson? Witness.: and were slow workers ;shut my firm belief is that they are
That one poluting to Barratts as dangerous a class of amen as ever entered a ship, private
ale Gillard : and which Desmond do you mean I Witness or 1,,,,1i0.
pointing to William Deamond) : That onet—theex ehoesnanker
—with the lasgo red beard. I remember he plosio. I Some of the ten years' men of this sect, on claiming
saw Jackson at nip master's house shortly before. I think their discharge, were asked why they wished to leave
it was the day before. the said he was going away with the service, and replied, " For the love of the Lord
Mr and liberty." "There are a number of these non.
Mr. Gifted : Don't mention names unless you are asked. 1
Witness : With fig
another man wh
by till om I knew. On the day hting men in the Mediterrane:vn fleet at the present
titne."j We glean have further remarks to make on
of the explosiou they came in together e twit door.
The other man had apiece of his ear off. The wound was this subject shortly.
fresh and bleeding. Gee of the men takes' my master what WII KW WILL lIE RE SATISFIED I—Santa Aria
the man had been doing Ile replied that he had been
y con n yin i eis com or a y
will never be wholly te ted t'l h ' f tbl
lighting, anti they had bitten his ear off.
Sfr Illiffiard : Who replied ?The man? Witness : No. shot (remarks a Bunton paper.) The perils he has
Mr. Mullaney said the man had been fighting, and had got .gone through appear only to have whetted his appetite
his ear bitten off. The man went into the back room to for more dangers. When he has fairly succeed,' in
Jacksomi who had nit swell in the front room at all . Being ! securing himeelf as a prisoner of war, or an a traitor,
curious to know what was going 1/11 alllllllg them, I made an 1
to fetch an ironing pad to put an iron in the fire. I or as a Milliner, he is frightened enough, and piteous
sawexcuee Mr. Jackson washnig Ms neck, which was black, as if . are his entreaties to he let off this once ; but no st toner
done by gunpowder. I think he had changed his trousers. j has he regained freedom than he shows his lack of ear-
l. know the other suan had, for he wore a dark pair at first, ' neatness by getting himself captured again. If he
and afterwards a pair of clock trousers. I did not see them really wants to secure martyrdom, it is to be hoped
change their clothes, but I saw Mrs. Mullaney folding np that whoever captures the present " Dictator of
the things they had taken off in a large black wrapper. She , yucata. IP will gratify him. It cannot be merely no-
placed them in a cupboard. Barrett has ehangeti hie heard. • ,_ • ,
•Ile had only wine whiskers on lois cheek, soot neither a ' seariety he la after, for he has enough of that to satisfy
'moustache nor a beard. Ills now had a short stubbly beard, i the most insatiate aim ition. It meat be that in his
apiaresstly of about three or four weeks' growth and of ~ calmer moments he longs for the bullet, the rope, or
nearly equal lees; h, so that if he recently had full whnikers 1 the garrotte.
the whole most have been ahaven at once ]
1 THREATENING LETTERS. —The eorrespOndebt
In further cross-examination by Barran the witness J of the Pall Mall Gazette says :
said he did not know how he got the clothes, but Mul- There has always been a certain amount of fear that
laney conk' not have supplied him, as he had no spare lII.IIIIIIIihIII might arouse again some of the old Rockite or
snits in the house. When witness came into the roiem Whitelmy spirit from which Ireland has been for many years
Barratt had washed his face and was beginning to I SO free, 811.1 the mention of the fact, theretore, that two
wash his neck, persons reeiding near Clonmacuoise. and employed, one in
Mr. Gifford here said that, in consequence of a com- . thremseilicocroefci:ixtatli=peary api.l.the other in a mercantile
tom; .e..ers produces some littie
munication which he had just received from the I micas' mess in the district. The old Whiteboy materials, how.
Treasury solicitors, he thought it would be. necessary I ever, do not exist now in Ireland, emigration having at least
to include in this charge another prisoner (O'Niell), the I been useful ill this respect, that it carried off the greater
second prisoner brought from Glasgow. 1 number of those who had graduated in the Rockite school,
James O'Niell was then brought in and charged • arsi were a constant trouble to eociety.
with the other prisoners. WORTHY OF IMITATION. Public benefi-
Thomas Francis Young recalled.—Since my last examine- cence in Paris keeps pace with the wants of the
thin I have semi the man I mentioned, and thought I should destitute. The twenty soup kitchens of the Prince
know again. I rbow him at the station-house this mortinig Imperial distribute daily from 40,000 to 50,000 portions.
among twenty or thirty other men. I recognized hint at Thanks to the aid given by the Civil List, each portion,
once. The one beside him was also present during the ex- consisting of bread, meat, soup and vegetables costs
plosion. o'sdell is the MAII who fired the barrel. He then . . • .• , ' s. ' ,
wore a tall hat and a brown coat. ;Ile now had on a deer- only five centimes.'the kitchen or est. ...men, where
stalker hat and dark blue coat with a velvet collar.] I only the greatest wretchedness prevails, distributes gratis
mew the barrel tired once. I saw a couple of Inciters lighted, daily, in the Emperor's name, upwards of 2000, rations.
nut did es, see two F4IIIiIIP. I c.euld almost positively swear J The Emperor invited the co-operation of the city of
that Barrett is the man who threw the hic.fer box. He ant 1 Paris, which has ordered the establishment of addi-
on a black frock coat and stall hat. ..11e now wore a dark tional kitchens in the sth, 11th, 12th, 13th, 19th, and
brown overcoat and felt hat.)
ilb OX ll You had light moustache and
2oth arrondissements. ll'he city besides elistributes fuel
Cross-extunnesy ie ;
whiskers, as you have now. Yours is the face. same coloured in large quantities at the various offices of public
whiskers, eyes, and hair, charity, and the quantity of bread supplied to families
Cross-examined by Barrett, You were dressed in a frock who are assisted has been increased.
coat. 1.011 had more w hiskers
und your face and als h slight moustache
than now. They were all
RELICS OF TIIE ANGOLA RAILWAY CATAS-
ro, yon o ad a
O'Niell : I hope I shall be allowed to communicate to my TROPHE.—It is stated that there stiU remain in Buffalo
friends in Glasgow. I can produce a hundred witnesses to eighteen boxes of mutilated bodies or charred frag-
prove that I was in Glasgow at the time, and that what this limas of the victims in the Lake Shore Railway
mall (Young says-is false smash. Of course, the calcined bones cannot be blend-
Sir Thomas Henry ; You must not make observation&
,but wo or
fled, t three of the less roasted corpses may
You will have every opportunity for a statement at the
proper time, yet be claimed. The railway cdsupany exposes for idene
Barrett wished to make a statement now. tification the following peraonal property of unknown
Sir Thomas Henry: You i:- do so, but I caution you portico i—Xeity ;brindles of kgyLsburnt and twieted;
u that whatever yo so say may be taken o and used against you. the remaihs six gold'alsatcflesilid one ailver watch'
Barrett : I don't care. I wish to anolegise to tho gentle-
app a small gold chain; a tobacco box '; A &idyls press;
men of-the pees* for my earance. I /Rye seen retnarks in .
the paper on the prisoner.' appearances. The reason my pm ; a pair 14 skates; a small trowel and a hataiet.'
hair is not dressed is because I was not allowed a can. No coin was found in the ashes of the cars, paper
to-day, and therefore I hope they will excuse it. I nmst also currency being in general use.
express my thanlor to the gentlemen who brought me here IS THERE A REMEDY 7—The Paris TC77IpS
for their kindness on the tourney. I have hart nothing to
complain of since I have been no custody. Ply treatment has published a very clever and interesting letter of
has been very different from that I received at Glasgow. Louis Blanc on Ireland, of which the following is the
H'Silell : I quite coincide in that. concluding mentence :
Mr. Giffard here applied for a further remand. He There exists in the masses of the Irish people a fermenta-
tion which might be styled chronic, and which is connected
did not propose now to go further with the charge of
with national aspirations, of which it would be imposstble to
treame-felony, us Fe especially as all the prisoners ifiztyththaet,==.l
elsett,htjaerrieele,!,tf satzeit‘litiengiuslTkEi::ggiaii,e,dtbi:
remanded for that offence were now included in the
prosecution on the capital charge. still on the point of suspending the Habeas Corpus Act in
The prisoners were remanded till Tuesday the 28th. Ireland e Whose fault is this? Whence comes the evil 4 Is
English again expressed his desire to see his wife, to there a remedy? If there be one, what is it? The subject
which Sir Thomas Henry assented, deserves profound study. I shall return to it.
The prisoners were then removed. ON THE PAST YEAR.—Mr. C. Buxton, M.P.,
lectured at Cromer on Friday night on the past year.
lie sketched the leading political, social, and phyaical
incidents of 1807, dwelling particularly on the progress
of events in France, Italy, Germany, Russia' and the
United States. No one, Ise thought, could have failed
to see that there had been an accelerated rate of in-
tellectual advance, and that nations were by degrees
attaining to a larger and wiser tone of thought. The
darkness of stupidity seemed to be slowly lifting from
Europe. At home he considered that the national
mind SWIM being more and more led to insist that
government should be at once by the people and tor
the people, and that they should no longer be like
children, under the care, however wise and good, of
others. 'Upon the whole, althongh 1867 had been a
year of disappointment and depression, he believed
that England was still making her way forward to a
yet higher and happier career. Mr. Buxton was fre-
quently applauded during a lengthened and interest-
ing address.
THE EARTHQUAKE AT TORTOLA.—The Bar-
badoes Globe publishes a letter from Mr. Porter, of
Tortola, acknowledging the receipt of a contribution
for the relief of the sufferers by the hurricane and
earthtinake, in which the writer says:—
The severe vertical shock on the 18th of November lasted
nearly fifteen niinutes. This was succeeded by the retiring
of the sea to &wont four feet perpendicular, and then on a
sudden it rose newly five feet above the original level. com-
pletely inmelatieg the flat part of the Hand with a current
of tully twelve knots along the street and sea shore. For
the first twenty-four hours we were not free from a shock
for more than live minutes; sometimes there were three in
five minutes, and for snore than three weeks twenty.four
hones did not pass without one or more shocks. There has
been a great smell of sulphur. Along the seaboard on the
first stun k the earth opened and volumes of water rushed
upwants as from a force pump. One or two small chasms
were opened on the hills.
TWO GAROTTERS CAPTURED.—On Monday
two young men, named William .Tohnson and Thcanas
Manning, were brought before the magistrates at
Manchester, charged with a garotte robbery. Mr.
Armitage, shopkeeper, Stockport, said he had come to
Manchester early in the morning of the 113th tent., and
saw the prisoner in a public-house in Deatisgate, at
which he called. They followed him out, an i near the
corner of John street Manning se ixed Lim round the
neck, pressing his throat, while Johnson stole a watch
and 30w fin tin him. The pressure on his throat ren-
dered hini insensible, and he fell on the pavement. A
policeman and some witnesses of the robbery gave
chase and captured the prisoners. • The watch was
found in Johnson's possession. The prisoners were
committed for trial at the assizes.
DEA'III OF A VETERAN.—There died at Chelsea,
on the 19th inst.; Captain Robert Grier, aged 75 years.
He entered the army in February, 1810, as ensign in
the 44th Regiment, and shortly atter went on service
to the P,ninsula. 11, was present at the defence of
Cadiz, hams of Torres Vedras, pursuit of Massena,
siege of Burgos, and retreat therefrom', actions at
Pomba', Hedhina, Condeixa, Punts de Murillo, Guards.,
and Satmgal ; battle of Fuentes d'Onter (wounded in
right shoulder) ; siege of Badajoa, Where he led the
advance of the feigned attack, which ultimately
became the rucceseful one, and commanded "the

Sergeant Chown then gave hia evidence, confirma-
tory of the above, and the prisoner, who said he was
a reader and reporter, bat he did not with to mention
the paper he was engaged on, was remanded.

A Imik fraud has been invented on She -Yew YorliVkitit
Exchange. A broker botrowed stocks, giving his cheques
for them, sold the stocks for cash, deposited the money in
bank, and then, confessing judgment to his sister, had his
deposit in bank seized by the sheriff to satisfy the judgment.
When his cheques for the borrowed stocks were presented
for pajment they were refused, as there was no money in
bank. By tins newly-invented trick a number of New
Yorkers were defrauded in one day to the swan of 60,000
dollars.

The statements respecting the importance of the arrest of
Patrick Lennon have been copfirined by the fact that he has
been identified by Sergeant Kelly as the man who discharged
a revolver at him on the night of the Slat of October last on
Wellington-quay, after firing at Constable Kenna who died
from the effects of the' woand. The prisoher was brought
out of his cell at Kilmainham, iind placed in a group of four-
teen other men, similarly dressed, when Sergeant Kelly at
once identified him as the perso who shot him on the morn.
big in question. When he observed the aergeant scrutiniziog
his person, the prisoner, it is stated, became pale and was
greatly agitated. Kelly, on going up to .him, asked him to
any " stand !" the expression nevi by the person who fired at
hint, previous to presenting his revolver at bin breast. Lennon
was unable or unwilling to do so, and merely muttered some-
thing which was inaudible. Sergeant Kelly states positively
that Lennon lathe man whom he encountered on the morp-
hia referred to, and that lie entertains no doubt whatever on
the matter. 'the woman who saw the shot fired was subse-
quently brought into the apartment, and pointed out the
prisoner as being in every particular like the murderer, but
she would not be positive as to his identity, lle has been
committed on the charge of murder.