The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-02-07 00:00:00

CUT fINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

A Peoria letter-cArrier, af+er walking nine wiles and
delliqving the ,1110 letter 1.137 men, 1)..11,0 of tv:-,om nouli
receive tr, sat down on a fire-plug aid wept. The letter was
directed to Me. Smith.

An obituary noncomn a weatern paper contained the
touching Intelligence that rho deceased "lad accumulate.) a
Li-lieinut ey and ten children.'
The New York Almanock says :—"Poor but die.
honor, you,g he) s freste-n wroug,t ails to thu cud ol /Aster,
and harpoon sweet potatoes and apples leon the stores
11. snap no coneldtred ippon, mutt Is thellnit stop in the
dos n ward toad 10 CODgre 5.."

4 Vermont newepaper announzes that ite minimum
charge for a that-elms marriage berme will he fifteen pounds
of ere i •Ipp Nuticas with "pJetry '' cast twelve poiseda
of onions more.

A Titnevalle Daper nays :—" A rcan called at one of
our shoe stores yesterday out rtinly elleyed to get on
tatter numbers It, if, and ii eh )es rho sforateeper then
3114. 'rested thst he should but out a thlnher pair of stockings,
and rep on the box.'

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The Washington papert are warmly commending
isnator Spragoe's hablc o ttu hoof a cualllon dollars n
each of Us cr.Vd,en at Its birth the castom IA • bellltlful
on,, and uo family should be without it.

A Washif.gton bel!e takes ft promenaie on the
avenue every tat.to,on with her ptt dog. The 4. gwe ars •
e chain of which asti .ceeti to the girls chatelaine.
0 c hese !he dog hes tha anl.o prayentPles that other dote
not. 01 pUratilag an Ulla v,n COst em the street, and, as he
It the atvneat, the chat., attechment center toe youtie icily
to diverge from p Inning the MD tanOr of her way, eni to
he °ragged hither .cl thither in aynost undignified manner.
It Its case of the tail wagging the dog.

Grestgrandmother Pecluitsd last week, aged on•
hundred sod ten. She di d mice before when she was ntne tlr•
s!x, hot just tter AW svSS 181.1.0. S she seemed to ress.laser
erenthaw that she had I egottan to Bash footings Coda, e
for her youogest boy, whe was holy reer,nty-tour Iflre it
age, SO that sle. c,me 4..1 again Idld, as winter was earning,
,10 SO adr!h kollelhg to be, eons, she con lurh-d to keep
oh e. (wetly years .1. au S e remembered very disthc'ir
when Cleoeral WashMtr on got the cheque easLed that Glad.
0,0103 gore for the Alabama busies ea ; also rem mhers the
laylog it the A,lahto Cab:6 when she was shoot live years
stout the t.me ot the Battle of Bunter'. Ohl.

DISPOSAL OF ELEVEN WIDOWS BY LOT.-4h ad-
Isnot—two, to Wmennew, et,ven wruor• w Co otaposed of in
marriage by lot. Toe Green Bay Advocate spanks to this
if seems tint t war: living in 11 dtewa
eleven widow. en twelve widoware it was thought by
society" in that piece that it would be economy to have
thew warded, and It war at first I,r voeel that eleven of
lb. widower. ch-aid marry the dl conaolae relic B, but on
further coed :maim, It was deci f•d that at tip re wee cue
n re atdower than there were eldowsry it w, rtoi only be
fec to dispose of the widow/ by lot. 'lie dellberation. of
.I.e . 1./iced It one hour. during watch tame there
Ca. much e.anmoti, attn he the widowr, and the widowers
aeon-Jell reetiras and uneasy. APh a view, iheretore, of
ahollt sing the p•rn 4 ci susnoince, e flame. it an :he
.an he report, "-en. placed at Once ill a ,e.r
and liseetse the Ova C, of the wtd I h.. drawl.
rant place at five p.m. on Si di, Vie nh ult. The twelfth
vs ower Ph met un' cumin; slims of j ty at whs. he ire.-
vently termed hi. “eacane." Ilia ruin. It, of anal duos.
toe, for the committee are row a- caffein; far and tiiur
t a it lb no a v .as widows is nelatthourtrg towns who
would like to tyre the remaining tot, appllcatkii can be
made to Ow Rene%

A SCENE IN A COUET OF JUSTICE
7 IS
At ihn Central& Criminal Cyurt, in London, Joh!
Lakeriaa, ii, s isepleker, bat been tonvicted on
ehargel ..f receiving the proceeds riltas lourglary witn
gully knowledge upon which evidence was given that,
besides havi: g been subjected to short terms of iin-
priiourrent, be had twice undergone renal eervitu
once fir live years—and Ma only been out of prno
nine days whim he committed the cite:vet: of
was now co: vict-d lie WAS also at that thug at
liberty on a ticket of leave.
Tbe Recorder, bu prising tientence, said, as the pri•
'loner seemed deternoued to lead tie life of • tided,
was his duty to see that he was restrained for elllll
hue. lienentenced him. to eels yeasal penal serve.
tude,
On genii-tire being prunouncsd a terrific scene oc
curred. The cot vict, a young, posse: fill noon , Mel -re,
—his eyea gleaming with inoescribw lc lave and his
nit whole frame burg fearfully agitated—that sooner ,
than endure ten years' penal servitude he would 11
on the scaffold like a dog. This be repeated eget:laud
again, each time with more vehemence than before,
and was preparing to sprirg over the front of the
dork, when he WM seized by the warders frolll
behind; but for a f-w moments he kept them all at
bay and roared aid foamed like a wild beast. The
p dicemen in attendance from all parts of the c net
ran to the.r aseietance, upon wbi,h the pritoder
renewed the struegle with still :greater deternioa.
than before, if piseible. He WAS at lemth
thrown on the floor of tee dock awl held down there hi,
main force; the audienee, meanwhilv, becoming rnwils
incited. For a moment or two, it seemed as if be
would have mssitered the policemen, but be was dragged
from the dock into a mill, behind, where additional
assistance was obtained, and where, in his now imp ,tent
rage, he was still heard aateverai ing that he would
rather die on the scaffold 1 ke a dog than undergo ten
years' penal servitude. Gradually Ho cries became
fainter and fainter, and at leng on dierilaway altogether.
as jibe had succumbed to sup u•ior force and was being
dragged to his milt.