The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-02-29 00:00:00

SATURDAY, FEB. 29. ISAI

Upwards of 5,000 pupils, eight per cent, of whom
are females, are daily receiving music leasons in Boston.
A Tyrolese sharpshooter hal bee* yforrlemned to
eight mouths imprisouthent fr Loris( turnstile Crucifix into
• target. The crucifix hail been hit t iCP. Iliad the juigus
eousid.ree Shit an outrage Upon roflglon, however thought_
leasly tree from intent and %electing an object at random,

The followine laconic despatch was received attl
Federal head-quarters durine thd late war in America :
" Averill, 28th December. j4—Sty command or battalsow
too marened, climbed, slid, and swum ;150 miles since the
Bth inst."

Among the lecturers in New Volk this winter is a
seeedine Shaker, who gives humorous lecture 3 on the Wa).
of the disciples of Ann Lee. _ _

At Bristol, a young man absconded a month aim
with £7:al, the property of hie employers. When arreEt, d
the other day he had is. 34. upon him, and stated that he
had spent the rest of
.the money.

Mr. Charles Dickens recently Bent 1,000 &la to
Mrs. Clemm, mother-in-law of Edgar A. Poe.
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The city of Brosaels lately put np to competition the
printing of 250.000 certificatm for the new loan. The lowest
estimate was fS44O, while three years ago the same work cost
£1,140.

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The Church Times says: " We are happy to state
that one or the late esters of St, Mary's Pslory, Hackney,
who had seceded to the Roman communion, has already re-
turned to the English (hooch!'

At the last Meeting of the conference of the Paris
bar, Mil; question was diacialae,l;—"Can a person who
directly aids another to commit onieide be indicted as accom-
plice in an act of murder The point was decided in the
negative.

Lord Eldon has given £l,OOO to the Society for the
propagation of the toJapol.

The Copenhagen papers state that her Royal High-
ness the Princess of Wales has been invited to be present at
the inauguration of a monument at Nice in memory of the
late Czarewitch, but has been unable to accept the invita-
tion.

Bishop Williams, of the Catholic diocese of Massa-
chusetts, has declined to allow the Catholic clergy in Wor-
cester to say High Requiem Masses for the repots of the
souls of Allen, Larkin, anti O'Brien.

By the advice of the medical attendants, the !day of
POD. Leopold at Osborne is to be prolonged, and the Queen
has consequently deferred her departure for Windsor from
the 28th instant to the 3rd of March.

The report of the serious illness of Baron Channell
Is contradioted by the Soticilites iountal. The learned
Judge has just undergone successfully a slight medical
operation, the effect of which will probably be to modem
hlm In better health than he has of late years enjoyed.
It is understood that the publication of Lord
Brougham's antobiography will be delayed, owing to some
differences which have arisen between his lordship and the
gentleman who is assisting him.
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Jeremiah Allen was put to the bar at the Central
Criminal Court, in London, on Monday, charged on the
coroner's inquisition with wilful murder, as implicated in
the Clerkenwell explosion. No evidence being offered on the
part of the crown, a verdict of act guilty was returned, and
the prisoner was discharged.
Squadrons of almost all the navies of the several
nations have for some time post been cruising in the Medi.
terra... After the American and the English, the Aus-
trian squadron, front the Levant, has Juet left the Greek
waters, and cast anchor in the Bay of Saint Andr6, which
forms the southern portion of the roadstead of Trieste.
The significant statement is made with regard to the
depression of the American shipping interests, that on the
29th of January there was not a single vessel of any descrip-
tion in the port of New York loading for a British port.
Scores of foreign vessels were up for freights.
The Minister of the French Fmperot's Household
and rine Arts has just submitted to the Council of State a
decree fixing the retiring pension cf Millie. Augustine fireball,
of the Tid',atre Francais. The amount is fixed at 6,4001.
(g 25- for twenty.seven years of consecutive services.
Great regret is felt in military circles at the untimely
, end of Colonel Guam V.C., of the 33rd Regiment, who ac-
cidentally shot himself in Abyssinia. This gallant other
had seen much good service.
The British Aresiica Juurnal learns that the cases
of cerebro-spinal melngitus are becoming more numerous in
Duolin, and that they are to lie found at present both among
the civil and military population.
Last year 1,001,545 acres in Ireland were devoted to
the growth of potatoes ; in Great Britain, almogt three times
as large, and with more than four times the population, only
492 217 acres.

Twenty. pounds was, in
_lBO, Considered a !air

week's re-i;'eij:t for valentines at a first-rate London shop.
Five hundred pounds taken over the counter is now held to
be a fair, but not extraordinary, business in the seven days
preceding, including the 14th.
The Committee of the Mechanics' Institute of
Clonmel have refused the use of their hall to Mr. Train for
his lectures, "in the absence of any definite information as
to the object for which the hall may be required." The
Waterford Town hail has likewise been refused to Mr.
Train

The Rev. Gordon Calthrop, who is known no the
most popular preacher among the Islington London) clergy,
preached a special sermon on Monday night to boys at
Trinity Church, Islington. About 1,500 boys were present,
and some thousand persons besides.

The number of dogs in Moscow has increased so
greatly, and their depredations and attacks have become so
frequent, that the Municipal Council haa imposed a tax
upon them of a rouble— if. each'—a head, payable by their
owner.. Such animals as are int claimed and paid for are
to be destroyed. _ _ _

One day last week 100 railway waggons left
Anstruther and the adjoining stations laden with herrings,
chiefly f. ir the London market. The total quantity was
nearly :IMO crane, making altogether about 3,000,000
herrings brought from the east coast of Scotland.
Mr. John Stuart Mill has just published a pamphlet
on Ireland. lie proposes that a rarhaaleatary commission
should be formed, with compnlsory powers to examine every
farm let to a tenant in Ireland, and to change the present
variable rent for a Seed charge. which would hence-
forward be secured to the landlord by the State, the tenant
becoming, subject to this charge, the proprietor of the soil.
Samuel Hart, a lad thirteen years of age. was in
charge of a horse and cart, the cart laden udth stone, at
Bolton, on Saturday, end he went underneath to take the
break off. Whilst in that situation the pin fastening the
body of the cart conic out, the cart went up, and the poor
bay was crushed to death.
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An inquest has been held in Shoreditch, London,
on the body of James Massey, aged fourteen months. On
Saturday night the child had been put to hod, and a chair
had been placed at the bedside to prevent it falling out.
Subsequently the infant was discovered hanging by the neck
between the rungs uf the back of the chair, and quite dead
The jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death.
A man committed ankide in Paris the other even-
ing by throwing himself into the Seine from the Pont do is
Concorde. Ile had left on the foot pavement a small parcel
containing a blob., cap. and neck-handkerchief...nil flouts
bearing these words :—My name is N—, I live in the
Roe de Grenelle St. Germain—The same day a seamstress
named Maria V , aged 18, jumped into the river Irons
the Quai de 11:cole ; she sat, however, resened by so me
watermen. A disappointment in love WU the motive for
this attempt on her life.

Some -Fenians last week visited Freshwater, in the
Isle of %NM, and have attempted to administer the Fenian
oath. Information was given Pi the police, and the detectives
were placed on the track of the Fenian& A few days since
the telegraph wires that communicate with the main land
from the Isle of Wight were cut not far from the neighbour-
hood of Freshwater.

The English have invented a new crime, if they
cannot invent a new sauce. On Monday a drunken sailor
was sentenced at the Thames Police-court, in London, to
seven days' imprisonment for an assault On a constable, and
the case was repolted to the newspapers under the heading
Of "Police-phobia."

On Friday the protracted inquiry before the coroner
as to the deaths of two of the persons killed by the Fenian
explosion at Clerkenwell was brought to a close by a verdict
oi wilful murder against the seven prisoners, and others not
in custody. Allen was not included In the verdict; the
Jury stating they were divided In opinion as to his guilt.
They also handed in a resolution to the effect that, in their
opinion, bufticient precautions had not been taken by the
police at head-quarters to prevent the explosion.

A farm tenant of the executors of the Earl of Moray
sued them, in the Smtch Court of Session, for £270, for
injury done to his crops hy game. The question was whe-
ther, during the year 106, the Earl had upon the land an
unreasonable and excessive stook of game, beyond what
existed thereon at the date of the plaintiff's entering on
the tenancy. The jury found for the plaintiff for £197.
The reports from Nice respecting the health of the
King of Bavaria are by no means satisfactory. A first in-
cision had been made in a tumour which hail arisen in his
leg, but as the desired effect was not produced his medical
attendants thought It advisable to proceed to a second. his
Majesty is in a state of extreme debility.

The Indian Cutholie Chronicle has rep:11,1101ml, with
all the honours of a black cross and border, the " mortuary
card," which asserts that Allen, Could, and Larkin corn-
nutted the clime for which they were executed from their
profound love of poor old Ireland and of the Fenian cause.

At the dose of the Atnerierin war a large quantity
of preserved fruits, vegetables, and meats, originally intended
for the Federal army, were left In the hands of the Com-
misssriat. A bill has been passed, and approved by the
Pre,ident, to distribute them among the people of the
South.

Sanson, descendant of the celebrated executioner
of the Reign of Terror, himself a worker of the gitillotine,
has written to the Paris papers denying that he had any in-
tention of resuming his public duties. Ile retired in 1447
to enjoy as he states "the peaceful obscurity of his caste."

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In one of the Society Islands the Siamese twins
are parallelled. Two girls, infants as yet, are united at the
hip, hut are otherwise plQsically separate. The wupathy
between them is said to be extraordinary. The King and
Queen of the islands have adopted them, and lately reCused
to port with them long enough to early them to one of the
vlllages to be photographed.

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In consequence a the recent assumption of
Earonetcies by persons possessing neither right nor title to
the rank, it has been suggested that, Monier to prevent the
utter degradation of their dignity, the Baronets should unite
in a petition to the Queen, praying her Majesty to establish
a tribunal, with full movers to investigate, prosecute, and
enforce its decisions in all cases.

According to the South 4 metralian Broi.lter Mr.
Poilerdown, of Adelaide, the exporter of Australian birds to
Europe, has now in stock 35,000 pairs of shell parrot., 1,000
pairs 01 cockatoo parrots, 7,000 paini of zebra docile', besideil
white cockatoos magpies, and Port 'Arcola parrots—alto-
gether nearly 1011,000 birds. 9,000 birds are marked as sold.
The 70,000 shell parrots are this year's 1,67, birds.

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On Saturday evening, a married woman residing
with her husband in Wallington, committed a most atro-
cious crime on her infant child. The wows,/' it appeared,
became excited over something that the child had done, and
taking np a basin of boiling water, she poured it dos n its
breast, inflicting such serious injifry that ft is not expected
to recover. She was taken Into custody.

The PITIS of Vienna publishes a long list of the
objects belonging to the Emperor Maximilian which have
been distributed since his death amongst his relatives. The
King of the Belgians obtained the Cross of Knight of the
Order of Guadeloupe, which his dectated brother. in-law
wore during the siege of Queretaro. The Count de rlandre
received the Emperor's will watch and chain anti the
Queen of Et,gland a medallion containing a lock of the
Empress Charlotte's hair.

At the Cumberland Assizes two boys pleaded guilty
to felonious/3, and unlawfully placing three iron chairs on
the Marynort and Carlisle Railway, at Dalton. Mr.
ll'Oubrey, for the prosecution, spoke of the frequency with
whiel such acts bad been conniitted on the railway His
lordship 'Mr. Justice 3tplkir senteoced them to forty-eiglit
hours' imprisonment and to eh e a whipping with a birch
rod, the doer boy to receive fifteen strokes and the younger
twelve strokes.

A nevi ;weekly jonrnal, bearing the title of the
"Penny Mechani!," is announced to be issued sin Monday,
March 2nd. It professes to give information on all mechaei-
cal arts as applied to railways, agriculture, chendstry, tile.
granhy, photography, electricity, and other sciences ; and if
the promises made are feigned, it will he a valuable addition
to every mechanic's collection of hooks. A large chart of
mechanical movements Is to be given away with the first
number; this, we should think. if well products], should
secure for it considerable attentgon amongst mechanics and
our artisan classes.

A letter from Rome aura :—" Onr Carnival has
hitherto eeen a very sorry oft or, scarcely carriage to be
seen in the formerly gay :Old noisy Come, SEA the pede,
trians taking little part ill the gaieties. Except of Americans
we have few foretipiers, and especially few English—our
count, ymen being detained at Cannes and Nice by the un
founded reports circulated there hy intikeepera, and eui7b
like interested persons, relltive to the ii.alubrity of knee,
whereas perhaps at no former periml did less Line,s exist
here, and that consisting chiefly of slight .pulmonary at
Smelts, the effect of transition from our lovely cloudless days
to cold starlight nights."