The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-07-11 00:00:00

A RARELY VISITED ISLAND.

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS

HOUSE OF LORDS. it is altogether too absurd to say that " man is not
perfect." Who is there who has not met with many who
COMMITTEE FOR PRIVILEGEi—Judi 6 were perfect strangers, and sonic who were perfect rascals.
(Lord REPESDALE in the Chair) and not a few who were perfect fouler
An Arizona editor describes a wedding party in that
BELHAVEN .‘ND STDITON PEERAGE.--The claimant territory as follows ----"The bride in whit, -the happy groom
in this case is Mr. James Hamilton, of North Leith, —the S,Hellill minister-the sniffing parents -and from
elonning the .lignity of Lord of Belhaven and Stanton, twenty-fee to forty :dud-gnus ...Guiding :twang the wall ready
in the peerage if Scotland. It appeared that the for use—make up a pawn ama not soon forgotten"
eighth Lord Robert 'Montgomery Ha.oiltim died on the A Californian poet has bought a mule, and a
22nd December, 1868, without issue. The claimant brother poet chronicle.; it as a remarkable instance if sell
presented a petition claiming to be his heir male P""e"1"".
whatsoever. He applied to the sheriff of Chancery, in A belle, upon being asked her father's profession,
Edinburgh, to be held in that character to 'he eighth I.iiiil he "embalmed pork she believed." lie wss a bacon
Lord Belhaven, and he was then opposed curer,
Co Lieut. rel.' • s
Colonel Hamilti-m. The petitiiin came by appeal before II:
the Court gif Sewlion, and after litigation and proof Bi7r7eA wa;aernathejluedfa'tely'ta, iinitenc"ol"enBo r ehis Y r'g gT
ru' ,
used the word " disparagemmit." " Step using Eating
the present petitioner wasfound in that proness to be words," said the Judge, 'or sit down." The poor lawyer,
the heir male whatsoever of the eighth Lord BentliVen, undertaking to explain, was ruthlessly fined By dollars for
and Lieut. Colonel Hamilton was found not toWNlSegn contempt.
the character in which he claimed. Evidence having "For twenty long years," says a New Jersey paper,
been proi tuned in support of the claim, the further con- "tie wolf stood at this poor widow's door.- To keep a wolif
sideration was adjourned sine die, standing that long in nothing less than cruelty to animals,
• and the attention of Bergh in called to the circumstance.
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NAIRNE PEERACE.—This is a case presented on be- --- - --
half of Emily Jane Mercer Elphinstone de Flahault, _
Dowager Marchioness of Lansdowne, widow of Henry, DEDICATED 'TO OLD MAIDS.—A recent writer
Marquis of Lansdowne. KG., claiming the title, expresses his opinion of old maids in the following
honour, and dignity of Baroness Nairne, In the peer. manner —"I: am inclined to think that many of the
age of Scotland. When this claim was first before satirical aspersions cast upon old maids tell more to
their lordships in July last, they inquired at the corn- their credit than is generally imagine I. Is a young
mencernent of the proceedings in whose possession the woman remarkably neat in her person? ' she will cer
estates which were intended to have gone with the tainly be an old maid. Is she particularly reserved
title now were, when it was stated by the claimant's , tow Ards the other sex? 'she has all the squeamishness
counsel that they had long since been forfeited and of an old maid.' Is she frugal in her expenses and
were now in possession .of • :
s
estate

; lout he -
; by their lordships, old maid. And if she is kindly humane to the
:e should he in the animals about her, nothing can save her from the
with regard to which 1 appellation of 'old maid.' In short, neatness,
charter the claimant modesty, economy, and humanity are the never
within, it was submitted failing characteristics of that terrible creature, an
failed the claimant was • old maid."

that -according to previous
it was not necessary that the
possession of the claimant. A
of the limitations in the Cro,
considered herself as coming
that the heirs male laving

ibmitted

exact

doinestic

-dee- i'k'iions

Crown

within,

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