The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-08-23 00:00:00

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HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL

LIFE A tOotarnte.— In order to give effect to
n Act lately passed, providing greater facilities for
the payment of life annuities, regulations have been
issued from the National Debt Office under which any
proprietor of an annuity residing in the United King.
slim may, by sending in an appli ration in a prescribed
form, have his annuity warrant transmitted to him by
post. I his will be done at the risk of the person re-
questing such transmission, and this warrant will be
made payable to order of the annuitant, through a
banker.
An ENIIII7SIASTIC ANGLER ! "I met the
other day," writes • foreign op liftman, " with an
Englishman who travels some hundreds of miles every
year to indulge in his favourite sport, trout.fishing. I
believe that, provided his favourite stream were midis.
turbed, this enthusiastic liehsrman would be but little
concerned if the whole world were submerged in a
second deluge, as may be judged from the following
anecdote. One day he WB9 exploring the banks of his
favourite stream, accompanied by the landlord of the inn
at which he was stopping. The latter happening to
come too close just at the moment when his guest was
throwing his fir' the hook caught the poor wretch's
eyelid, causing hint intense pain. The sportsman coolly
took out the hook. readjusted the fly, and, as the inn-
keeper continued howling at the top or his voice, ' You
can,' said he in a whisper, put your eye down in your
bill; but I'll trouble you to stop that noise, so as not
to frighten my fish."

" Slazzr HICES."—Come along o' me, and
I'd stand two hices." The speaker seemed to be about
eleven and the speakee bordering in ten, Soene :
Geswell-street on a sunny day. The voutig gentlemen
were very dirty—very Ara-dam—and evidently lived
Emil dressed irregularly ; but —think of it, ye failione
able ones, who play with a Neapolran, a ',finale, or a
lemon ice, and crumble up a wafer therewith- think
of it : these street boys take their "hire" as a regular
thing, even as of old we, if a generation or
two earlier, purchased parliament and brandy balls.
Street ice-sellers are now at almost every c srner,
ready to fill a shallow glass with the pink or yellow
frigorific—price one halfp.inny. Italians these dealers
seem to be, as a rule, and a brisk trade they do. But
don't—take good advice—don't stop to see these ices
eaten ; you might repent. Ido not allude to thedirty
aspect of glass or dealer; neither cti I try to analyse the
coustituenti of the cooling spine, or cond. mu the dirty
buyer. I merely hint tha,, as aforesaid, the awes Pre
very shallow, and that the signor who pre ides at the
barrow does not supply his easterners with spoons.—
Frost Once a Week.

GIGANTIC FUNGUA PROM TNT BANK OF ENG-
LAND.—The Gardener's Ch aide Faye :

We have bad sent to us by Mr. Allred &nee diving the last
week a huge fur gus, found griairig penult cyjly upon the
plteh pine Joists of the Bank of England, in Threadneedle.
etre et. Trios entire growth was so large that when packed in
a box I r transit it was as much as Leo strong men route!
carry. The largest piece was 110 lets than Oft. 3M. is c mum-
ference, Tao. thick. and weighed 3111 b., growing upon a piece
of joist sseighissg Woe. we Mat el, the box our thoughts
wandered from .• Halliard " to "bullion," and we were In
it pet el a " Bifida" of Agaricus minus; " but the fungus
turned out to be Polypinus 1L111305111. Fr., a plant peculiar to
the Cenife• re, and perhaps not uncommon In similar situt.
Hon, beneath Soon, teas we have already recorded it from
the coal mines of Wales. The mycelium had completely de-
stroyed the wood of the pitch pine joists, and In the decayed
parts we I. und an alundant crop of young cock-roaches,
spiders, and mites. The fungus will be shown at the forth-
mottling Fungus Exhibition of the Royal Horticultural Society
Ott (le let of Octouer.

A SUIT OF OLD CLOTHS !—The uniform in
which King Frederick the Great died having, by an
old-establiehsd Pruseian custom, become the property
of his valet, has been preserved in the lithe; itar a
family up to a few weeks ago, when, the head of that
family dying, the heirs resolved to convert it into coin.
It was disposed of to a dealer in old clothes for 150
thalers. The old clothes mei chant soon met with a
patriotic admirer of historical relics, who invested 500
thalers in the suit. The next purchaeer was a Briton.
who ventured the comparatively high price of 8,000
Gliders (21,200) upon it, hoping to realise es much as
£3,000 by re.selling. A prince of the reigning house
in Prussia was anxious to possess himself of the
venerable snit. but the price staggered him. An enter-
prising American has now shipped the interesting
garment to the United States, where he believes he is
certain to obtain even a higher price than that asked
of the great king's descendant.

" SPEAK FOR YJURFIELP " Jack. (rho lids
a neat Lea and Foot): "I say, Tom, don't you think
Kniekertpockers would be • very eensibln sort of a Cos.
time for the kind of Trip you and I propose ? "—Tom
(who is without these eldrantages): "Yen—bat not for
two old fogies like you and
!"—Punch.

MELkIiCHOLY DISASTER. —A correspondent of
the Helder and Nieuwe Dieppe Contrast gives the follow-
ing account of the lens of atm English ore-el on the coast
of Holland :—" On Sunday morning, August 12, about
four o'clock. the inhabitants of the village ot Pesten,
on the coast of North Holland, discovered a brig which
had hoisted a Hag of distress. She was Peen to approach
land, but no assistance could be offered her. as every
means of doing so was wanting. About eight she had
got within 150 or 200 yards of the beach. A boat into
which a man had got was men to capsize. Two men
then jumped overboard, rind in vans attempted to swim
asht.re. The captain was seen to take leave of his
wife and child, who were soon afterwards bound to the
mast, into which some of the clew had already climbed.
At last the ship sank, and all per:shed except one man,
who was wasted ashore alive, but in a ttate of moon-
in:lowness. We were obliged to witness this heart-
rending Ppectacle without being able to aflird the
slightest assistance. The sea, it was true, Iran rather
boisterous, but if there had been a lifeb-tat at hand
every one might have been saved. The ship was the
Gratitude, of London, laden with ct ni.dit and bound
for Amsterdam.

MISS RYE'S Gim.s.—The Local Governme t
Board have forwarded to the tit. George's, lianover•
equare, Union 13 .ard of Gu macaw a copy of a report
made by the Itinibter of Acriculture of the Domioion
of Canada r, specting the children taken out from Eng-
land by Miss Rye and Mite Macpherson. The Minister
reporie

'There are homes for the reception and illstribulion of
these children at Knowlton, In the province of Quebec, and
also at fifsgsra B-Ilevllle at Oct, in the province of Ontario.
Toe children are properly cared for at these homer, end
from them they are pl iced In situations in reipectahle &roi-
liest, care bsi, g tiken in the 411,4rib4100. In many costa
the children are auopted a. part af the families into which
they are placed, and all of them are pot .010 poi:anis soc•
cv d In file. The great majority ot them have dine exceedingly
well. Iho people of the country look upon ths hoax' sub
fawitir. The children, on their arrival at Q Thee, come im.
mediately ufiller the supervision of the Imnogratlan I. Me. of
the Dominion DOVlntlinni.t. winch 1111Dtf•illiOn accompanies
them from the poiLt of d semliarkation to Veil. homes."

GREAT FINE AT NEW YOKEL —The New York
pap.ra nctived at Liverpool en Saturday report a Ire-
mentions fire at Hunter s Point, Long !eland, on the
3rd most. Hunter'. Point is a great oil district, and
tire present lire would hove beer, mur h lume disastrous
lithe weather at the time bad not been per& ctly calm.
As it was, 8,000 barrels ol oil, five barges and four
tank, were rl.troye.l, and three laves are supposed to
have been 10-t. The tire eniginat,d in a man', lighting
a match in one of the terms. lb., led to a fearful
explr moo, awl to his own imm rdiate derdruction.
Several of the veseels caught tire, but Prey were
promptly ',moved and the dames extinguished. Tee
loss of one 'United Stotts effi,re is entitn.t.d at 30,000
dole., and the following English Insuranee Companies
are amongst those who suffer by the rdeaster :- Liver-
pool, London, and Globe, 15 000 dots. ; North British,
10,000 dolt. ; and Phrunix 10,000 &la.

" FENCING-IN " Niaosita.—Fencing-in Nia-
gara, aid charging it) much a head for admixion, is
the latest Yankee " notion." S ine enterprising
speculators ore reported to have ac piked the land ad-
joinicg to the Falls, and it is said to lie their intention,
through the medium id a joint-stock company, to lay
out the grounda park fakhion, and eurrouvil tt e wh.tie
with a huge wooden fence! There is of course a good
tleal of grumbling, for even Am ri ans do not like the
ibea of the natural marvels of their country being
turned into so many ahow place. Besides, it is more
than questionable how far theme speoulat cm would be
warranted in taking such an ign .ble course. The
atij mvitt land may be theirs, but they have not pur
chased Niagara, and their claim to fence it off (row all
the world Wlllll,l tvrtainly not hold water. It would,
we thick, be a much more brilliant speculation, an
tin
greater accord with the genius of American enterprise,
to bring the Falls to England. The exhibition would

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SOMITHINO TO SPRAY A SOUL—Authentic
statietiex of the Herring Fixhery would be ae:i,t4b4
co an e..tanomical philosoph-r, who ix plepgi4
p.p.., LAMP .1 for the enaertammamt of one of al"
A.-ociations about to aeLa.emble an comic xecti,..
Whet he parta ularly. wanta to get at, atmon,i;
careummtancea of Herrong.capture, a the Net Prot

A CZATZNAILIVr. —On Tuesday the 19th
-t., Mrs. Hannah Peaty died at King's Lynn at ths
are of 102 3arr. The de ceased was hap izeed at flt
Margaret'e Church, Limn, on the 3011 of Ang,„
1772. She Vi 3.11 married January 9, 1815, hut hoef-Z
children. Since her husband' death she has been IA
inmate of the Valinger'e Almshouses at South Lye&
Up to the time of her last illness, only some
an cc, she ehowed much vivacity, but was very deg
and nearly blind.
BURNED IN A WELL. —A few Cble ago, 8„3,1
the Chicago Tribune, a terrible accident occurred oche
farm of Mr. William Pee ton, at Butler. Tiny ",„
iet work boring for oiL Three men were in the 'veil at
the time, when suddeoly oil was etruck, bunting hja,
into the air. Scarcely had it epouted above the tern",
when the oil took fire, sending a blaze hie'l into the
heavens for A dirparee of over 10t) feet. Great excite.
meat p-evai'eel. The fact of the men le-inq in the well
caused a patiii. Tiny were burned to ee .eh, and
their bodies were recovered they were a henale
shrivelled mese. The derricks and machineiy eer
corumnied, involving a lose of several thousand dillon.
AI..TICIOITY OF STRIKES. —The origin ,sf strikel
is to be traced to the Romsne. The niers lad the
right once a year to enjoy themeelvem, and their en,
liar music being produnive of parched threat, the,
drank too much, SO that under the censonhip of Apia
Claudius he withdrew their right to enjoy thereon",
around the temple of Minerva. They hid their it.
etre scents, declined to amuse their fellow citizene, ood
withdrew in a body to the village of Tiber. The Sent,
tried diplomacy, but found the fifers veritable Instreui.
genie; a ruse was adopted; on ler pretence of pityul
them, some cit zone called on them, and made tike
drunk. In this state they were bundled intocoen,„„
brought back to Rome, where, on recovering them,
eelves, the crowd insisted on their playing, which'',
complied with, an,l na the strike ended.

AN OPINION REF3PtCTING P&RANBULITOBS,...
The Medical Times and Gazette Pap :

In one if his ra cent feuilleions, if. Latour calls &Rustiest°
the tad chief atilt may arise from the now aim* animal
tmpbiyment of perambulator, for the transport of chariest
He dully dwell, upon what happens to young infanta vto
in place of resting on the nurse's arms ant gradually itty.
Mg the nmscular system which supports the trout weak;
use by excreta, mid accustoming their senses to the pop,
Hen of surrounding objects, now lie recumbent ani
in a state of dangerous quiescence. Woman, he believe,
thus abdicating yet another of her function., which it
eyes but her owe, render her attractive; awl althougine,
may relieve herself of some fatigue, it is it the risk of tiq
welfare at h,r "Certain I am that an enfant
CeMpage tin retarded Infect; it will walk later, tel law
and snide later "
A HaMARITABLE ART EXHIBITION. —" An by.
teresting was opened here," a Brussels me
respondent writes to the l'all Mall Gazette, "by dm
Burgomaster, at the Cercle A rtistique et Litterairt
Mr. John Wilson has lent for a time to the Mato
Brussels his remarkable collection of pictures to be
exhibited for the benefit of the Bruseela poor. 11r,
Who is is bearing all the expenses f the exhibitiox
The collection is composed of 140 paintings, mostly of
the Flemish, Dutch, and Engl,sh schools. Among the
last are specimens ..f Bonnington, Brooking. Constable,
lobetson, Morland. Mulrea.dy, Opie, Sir Joints
Reynolds, Turner, Wilson, and Crome. Mr. Willa!
has also publisher), with Jules Claye, at Park, a
catalogue of his gallery, which is in iteelf • remarkable
w irk art, containing 55 artistically executed ems,
hags uf the principal pictures of the collection. Of the
500 copies of the catalogue whichliave been printed,
400 wail be sold at 21bf. each for the benefit of the
Brussels pour. Mr. Wilson's generous work promises
to be very successful, and the Burgomaster, on opetisy
the exhibition, expressed to him the warmest thanked
the town of Brussels, the lowers of art, and the pose,
who are to be materially Lei. c itted by the exhibitios."

THE FRENCH PILGRimi AND THE POPE—The
Paris Um eves publish.- the followng address to the
Pope, which is being signed by those who have jowl
or re about to join in the pilgrimage of 1873:

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'• Most Holy Father,—Rome and France could not be
separatel. In renewirg the consecration of Franca to us
Virally Mary, the pilgrims t all our holy places think at
their Pontiff and Father. It le because their country be
forgotten Its inhaloa that it Is now bumbled. and It linty
baconre it has fing.tten Its mission that you are a tattler
Our crimes are the cause of your eniferbags, and our minon
tunes are bound up with yours. Your triumph will be on
triumph. You alone can show us the road to victory. Cos.
Wine to enlighten our course by your Infallible teaching;
direct us In the way marked ont by the great and &roes
Syllabus; present Franco to the Immaculate Mary; on*
our converston and nor salvation. The salvation 4Nice
I. the triumph of the Church. The salvation of Frame 11
your deliverance To you belong our hearts, our mind...tin
power of our country, tha blond of our chair, u. Ad nogni
annos vital —August 15 Fite of the Assumption ol
Most Holy Virgin."

TH I ktii-(317a SS PASS ILIPOERS. —The revolution
which is quietly going on in other railways with regard
to the passenger traffic is strikingly ahown in the report
fti toe North•Flasteni (retcarks the Railway Stmt
The number of first-clam passengers carried lad del.
year wtiA 559,673, while in the corresponding half of
fast year the number was .138,666, being a decreased
28.993; while the fares from this class of passengee
were slightly higher, being £89.733, againat £86,27,1,
the explanation rteing that the tirst-claar pallenten
of last half-year travelled longer ehatmces than in the
resions year. Seer.nd-class assengers have filled
in number from 1.544,024 to 878,813, art] the recaps
from £115,476 to £71,821, being a reduction in number
of 665 181, or nearly 50 per c-nt., and in receipts of
£43,655. Pass, ngere of the third-clam have availed
thrzuselvra to an extraordinary extent of the /aniline
afforded by running third-clam with every train. Ica
only have the ocmpants of secoad-class carriages true
ferred themselves to the third, but the working ai
usual third-class passengers have increased to instant
which can only be explained by the great increase is
the pr Isperity of the country. The number of third-
class passengers carried Mat half-year waq 9,753 42), a
compared with 7,361,200, being an increas- or 2 397,5,
and the receipt, from them have advanced fres
£297,631 to £408,452, being an increase of £lle.t2L
Cocsiderably more than one-third of the arms increase
in the traffic receipts of the company were derivedfrox
the third-elate passengers.

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T6RRIBLE FIRM AT PORTLAND, ORYGON—
The Nor York Tribune of August 4, in a despata
datfd Portland, Oregon, Augu.t 2, Bays :
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" A very destructive fire began at 4 20 a.m. In this city, etl
the furniture store of Hnghren and cedudier, and sang
over an entire block, burning the "Metropolitan Hotel
before any steam ecgine was at hand. The wind rose lii
caused the fire to extend in all dlre,tlone. There were only
seven engines to !tibia,: a fire h4l a mile in length soil
quarter of a mile wide. As fast as the fire was suppress
in one direction it broke oil in another, and it usual
mainly for want of material. New liree, the wort
inc,_noiariee, were constantly discovere I. The ace
supply was iosofficient. When the fire wee hull
lordu4lit under control twenty-three blo,ks hai bee
destroy, d. Nearly all the city lw.nn,leri by Yeronle
street on the north, Secondareet on the west, 11,1nroble
street on the south, aud the river on the east, was in Sias
There wee- two engine houses, two sash factorl,s, One •
foundries, five hotels, 100 store , 250 dwellings, and proahli
other structures not enumerated, destroyed. The loot
estimated at 1,500,005 don., 00 which there was an wren*
Insurance of 300,if10 dol.. Foreign insurance companies ie..,
heavily, among which are the imperial of London ttl..X
dole ;Luirion and Liverpenl sod Globe, 40,000 dol.. Beside
the lossee from fire, damage to the extent of 100,,,00 dole
was suffered in removing goods. Many persons considered
rich yesterday are new poor."
STRIKING AGAINST THE STRIKEIL-It will he
remembered that a man named Asti, who played a
prominmt part in getting up strikes at the large ins.
works at Creuzot belonging to M. Schneider, joined
the Commune, and was transported (remarks the Pall
Mail (Ja:efte). In New Caledonia his acquaintance
with mining procured him the poeition of chief of some
mines, and the s orks were going on very well, when
sudd.nly some men demanded higher wages. Al
immediately antici,mted a alike, and was not long in
finding out that foreign influence was being brought to
hoer on the miners. He tail in wait wilt a few
friends, and discoveeed the culprit to be his qu edam
oolleague and ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs mder the
Commune, Paschal Geouset. ASPi and his friends
gave the ex Mtnieter a thrashing. Now that Aele
at the top of the wheel he has a decd'e I aversion to
etrikeP, and M. Schneider will doulAless be glodlo
Ii ear of his tardy conversion.

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MACHINERY AT THE VIENNA EXHIBITION.—
A correspondent writes :—" Daring a short visit tolls
, machinery hall my attention WEE called to an Oa
' ordinary piece of mechanism in the American de,tartt
: meet, by which shoes and hoots are ins le with imoit
miraculous rapidity, and at a cost that appe.aw
ludicrously small contrasited with the retail
: exacted for such arti:les by the trade. Frani one caci
of this machine are given old pegs, from anothsr
nails that hold the duff-rent layers of the solee
heels together. The several leatnern parts of the bog
are staLrie,d out of sheets of hide by steel cutters, 01
the pressure omitted by a ban I lever welds the whole
substructure of the boot together with one scrunch. The
• mere labour of making a boot, exclusive of cost a
material, is executed by this machine at a price of Old,
and ocuipies about seven minutes of time from lime te
last. Close by this ingenious contrivance stasca
mechanical brdehmaker, width will turn you oat I
brush of any descrd tion, psrfectly finished off, in a
umple of minutes. et little way oil may be found two
exceptionaliy resoluteelookicg machines, one of which
makes cart and carriage wheels by what aj'penrto be
a comprehenedvo and irresistidle squeeze, whilst the
' other takes In a certain amount of woad and iroo st
one of Its etids, a d from the other ejects a complete
bucket, tub, or cadr, accordirg to order.
THE SCHOOL Tit EAT.— YOting Lady (to Liltl4
, GO): "My dear, what's your name ?"—Litite air.,:
i •• "—Yowl!, Lcdi, : "What's year name, lal
dear ?"—Littie : "0, we ULM% coin here 0 117
our Catechism : We Came to play and enj iy oureeltsa
Cdfrie along, Alice, and have • DOusLey ride!'--
, Punch.
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i N SAN K Mu R WIRERS. The security of the
public against acts of violence in not in these days hp
ruffianism to be reinforced by criminal lunatics eeelPed
cyan plebs that we con safely allow the ranks of tin
teem Itroadmeor (sari the Pall Mall Geneve). It is not
plea ant to reflect that two maniacs, hinds one of than
after nearly murdering hie keeper, escaped from deter.
thin, and are at this moment at large in eur midst
The circumstances under which they have retain'd
their liberty suggest a doubt whether it is on the elsne
advisable to employ prism:lens at Broadmuor e, field.
work under the custody of a single warder. It is n°
doubt, to he desired, on rcoaomical and other ground!,
that criminal lunatics confined "during her Mi.fentle
ph satire," should occupy their time on works of sr:-
fu'bess but It 'night be as well that inde'or dune!
shoulebe provided for them, unleost euch a staff G'
warders cmll be attached to each lunatic as ti make it
Cafe to emplils him outside the walls of the budding.
If tine be impossible, and at the game time the intern
domestic ducted of the establishment are not
cient to me'
Inuvide wo fur all ite inmates, it le &IMO
better that lunatics ehould remain with " idle esnd''',
rk '
1)r. \Vette to the contrary notwithstanding, than the
they should empioy them in knocking"
down
warders with large
stones as a preliminary to making
ti : vie escape from rust .dy. Anyhow, such an arrange-
mebt ea the present can only bejustified by sumo,
and its recent failure has been so serious that we 04
the arrangement ally be abandoned for the future.
their

ACTION AGAINST THF. GREAT
NORTHERN RAILWAY.

At Glaucestsr asaq.di the cause 01 .• Warrsn n. the Great
Northern Railway Company " hal been tried, arid was an
action to recover il•Maatill tor tej cries .n.talued by the pleb.
tit in a relive sy conision. The dereodan-e pleaded that the
Piaintni had htred t a,cept .ClO la full discharge of him
claim, and that sum bid t, en paid him.
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Buddleston Q C and Mr. A .0.3 were counse, for the
0,41,4 1 'lr. U IttLlo n, QC , aud Mr. T. 0. Griffiths for
the defendant.
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The plaintiff e'vseribed himself as having been sue.
cescieity a chiwney-s seep, a carpenter, a pedestrian,
a letter-carrier, a carpenter again, and lastly • me-
chanical inventor. On Friday, the 20th of December
last, he wan travelling from London to Dariibgt- n in a
third-class carriage. MA soon after the train left York
sec llision occurred i , n which he was considerably shaken.
The train at once put boa to York, and the plaintiff
was helpid out of the .-arriage into the laidieis' waiting
room, where he rested a short time on a conch. Ac-
cording to his own account Dr. Crautmock, a medical
man employed by the Railway Company came in
while he • 70, in this position and insisted on his either
going on with his journey or goire: to bed. He said be
would ge t li. i 1 where he sen., and accordingly was
helped by two porters Mtn the Station Hotel, and up-
stairs to a brill, atm on the third floor. On the nextday
he had partly recovered his COILMICiOIPOOPP, when Dr.
Crammock called to see him again. and the plaintiff
stilled him to have his wife sent for, and inquired at the
same time whether his illness was a serious one. The
doctor replied "Oh, no, it's only a shock," and told him
he would get well in two or three days. He said the
doctor looked more like a minister than &doctor, and on
a second visit the same day he asked the plaintiff whe-
ther he could say anything to the company for him, and
how much would satisfy him. The plaintiff said if they
would give him E..) and find his wife a return ticket to
come and take him hack he should he very well satisfied,
Dr. Crammock said he would speak to Mr. Welbourne
about it, hnt there might he a difficulty. On Monday
the doctor paid him another visit, and told him the
company could not send for his wife, as Cheltenham
was not on their line, but they would give him £lO and
he might send for his wife himself. The doctor also
told him he would be well enough to resume his journey
the next day. Mr. Welburn, the district enperinteu-
dent of the company, came in soon afterwards, and
said be had hromht the money; he pulled out a re-
ceipt ready written, and asked the plaintiff to read it
before signing it; and although Warr, n said be was
quite ready to leave it to Welhurn and did not want to
read it, the latter read it to him, and the plaintiff then
signed it in the presence of the chambermaid, using
both bands in guiding the fen. The receipt, which
was partly written and partly printed, was in the fol-
owing words :

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" York. liecembe 23, 1,73 canal receipt. Received of
the North Eastern RAlway t °email), the sum of xlO, being
COmpelisatlon in full autlement or nly claim for Injuries
received In collision near V .rk, on December the 2. in, 1875,
and for all expenses incurvel except the Sfation Hotel bill
from the 20th to the 24th December lt.clusive, which the
railway company undertake to pay. £lO 0 0
"WILLIAM WARIML
" E lticnasbs,y,
After this document was signed the plaintiff spoke to
Mr. Welburn of some clothes. node pipe he had lust in
the accident, and Welburn promised to pay him for
them if they were not found. On Tuesday, the 24th,
he went on by train to Darlington and returned to
York on the 4th of January. On that dsy he had
another interview with Mr. Welburn, and received
from him £2 10s., which was half the cost price of the
clothes and pipe he had loot. Ho went home to
Cheltenham, and soon afterwards got worse. he
had before the accilent been in the habit of drawing
and modelling the machines he invented and con-
structed, but his hand was now so shaky that
he could not draw at all, and could only
sign his name with two ban ls. Ho had been of-
fered a place at 10ii. a wee c Borne time before the
accident and had declined it because the salary was
insufficient. In the present year lie had applied for
the same situation and rej,cted as physically incomi
patent. The plaintiff's counsel in answer to the
defendants' plea relied on the case of "Lee r. the
Lancashire and York-hire Railway Company (Law
Rtp., 6 ch., Ap. 527), when a similar receipt to that
produced in the present case had been given by the
plaintiff. in which Lord (lite( Justice Mellish held that
it was a question for a jury whether the mind of the
person who signed such a receipt went along with the
terms of the document.
For the defendants Dr. Crammock was eall.d, and
stated that the suggestion of his getting coripensation
for the plaintiff from the company came entirely from
the plaintiff himself. He said the plaintiff was quite
sensible and well aware of what he was doing when he
signed the receipt. His hand was shaky at that time,
though it did not shake to the came extent as it ad
when he was under cress-examination in the witnese
box, and the plaintiff stated to him that it alwayo
shook when he was puzz'ed and trying to make Lis
machines work. In the evening after the money had
been paid the plaintiff had a Meg talk with him and
told him he was very glad he lied made a settlement of
the matter. Mr. Welburn confirmed Dr. Crammock's
account, and said that after the matter was finished
the plaintiff expressed himself well satisfied with the
settlement.

Elizabeth Richardson, tbe chambermaid, in whose
presence the receipt was signed, was caned, and stated
that for t an days after the plaintiff's arrival in the hotel
his band shook so much that she was obliged to feed
him with a spoon ; he appeared quite satisfied with the
settlement till the next mornitur, when he bought a
paper containing an ace ,nut of the a,cident. and after
that he said he could !tave had £2,000 or £.4,000, and
the witness in,gbt have !lad Ell 0 out s f it. She said
that one morning when the plaintiff was lying in bed
he called out to litr that the.-e were cats on the dressing
table, and when sbe told him that there was none there
he said, "Don't you see that ltrge one trying to get at
me! ' This was relied on by Mr. Huddieston as a
proof that when the plaintiff eigued the receipt hie
mind was not in a sound state... .

Mr. Justice Denman carefully hummed up the case,
telling the jury that the question war, whether the
plaintiff intended to take the £lO in satisfaction of all
injuries whatever they might turn out to be, or only
accepted that eum as a compen.ation for his loss of
time and such rumor inc tnveniences as he was aware
of at the time. After eigning such a receipt as that
which had been put in evidence, it lay upon the plaintiff
to make out that be had not intended to make • settle-
ment of all claims.

The jry, after retiring for half an hour, found a
verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, £lOO.