The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-03-14 00:00:00

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HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.
Tut LATE KING LOUIS OF BAVARIA.—A letter
from Nice has the following :
The body will be embalmed before being removed to
Munich, where It will be enclosed in a sarcophagus formed
of a single block of grey marble taken from the quarries
which his Majesty possessed in Austria. The heart will he
deposited at Alt Ottigen—on the Inn—in the principal church,
according to a family custom consecrated by time, and which
hae, so to say, the force of law for the eovereigr s ef Bavaria.
The sarcophagus, without any ornaments or inscription
whatever, according to the design of the King himself,
stands elevated shove the ground in the right aisle of the
church of St. Bonita., which his Majesty got built after his
own plans, and at his own cost, in the purest Wei., style.
A Benedictine convent, also founded anti maintained by the
King, forms an annex to that magnificent church.
COMPENSATION FOR INJURY ON A RAILWAY.—
On Saturday, at the Dorchester Assizes, Mica Goode,
twenty-three years of age, brought an action against
the Great Western Railway Company to recover corn-
peneatiim fcir injuries. On the 4th of September last
the plaintiff took a ticket at Yeoruinster to go to
Yeovil, and when the train came up, as she was
getting into the carriage, as she alleged, the train
moved, and she, falling between the carriages and the
platform, was seriously injured. On the part of the
company it was contended that the accident arose from
the plaintiff's own delay in getting into the train. The
jury found for the plaintiff ; damages, £2:50.
HEROISM OF A BOIL—The Rev. E. J. Beck,
the Bishop of Newfoundland's Commissary, relates
the following heroic incident furnished him from that
whiny :
A poor boy, whose name no one knows, but we may hope
that it is in the Book of Life. found three little children who,
like himself, had been washed !Lahore from one of the many
wrecks, wandering along that dreary coast in the driving
sleet. They were crying bitterly, having been parted from
their parents, and not knowing whether they wit's drowned
or saved. The poor lad took them to a sheltered spot,
plucked moss for them, and made a rude but soft lied, and
then taking oif his coat to cover them, sat by them all the
night long, soothing their terror until they fell asleep. In
the morning, leaving them still sleeping, he went in search
of the parents, and to hie great joy found them looking for
their children, whom they hail given up for dead. He
directed them where to find them, and then went on himself
to try to find some place of shelter and refreshment. But
when the parents were returning with their recovered
little ones, they found their brave preserver ly Ing quite dead
upon the snow, net far from where they parted from him.
The long exposure in his exhausted state was too much for
his strength. and having uved his little charge—a stranger
to them as they to him—he by down to die.
A DISPUTED PoINT SETTLED.—The hearing
of the case of "Sadler v. Smith," an action, it will be
remembered, arising out of the late contest between
Sadler and Kelley for the sculler's championship of the
Thames, was resumed on Monday, in the Court of
Queen's Bench, in London. The defendant, Mr.
Smith, was the stakeholder, and although there was
no race, handed the money - £3oo over to Kelley,
who rowed over the course by himself, averring that
Sadler would not start. The case for the plaintiff
was, that he was ready to start, and indeed did so
twice, but Kelley would not go, and after much dis-
puting Kelley rowed the distance alone and claimed
the stakes. The jury returned a verdict for the plain-
tiff, with leave reserved to the defendant to move the
Court above on a point of law. The case has excited
intense interest among the sporting fraternity.
A LAD TORN TO PIF.CES BY MACHINERY.—
Mr. Coroner Heath held an inquiry on Saturday, at
Bulwell, near Nottingham, on the body of a hal named
Titus Smith, aged thirteen, who was killed by
machinery on the morning jirevions. The deceased
and two others were at work in a room together. There
were three machines in the room, one of which was
standing, and the belting by which it is driven was
thrown off the wheels and left hanging loose from the
revolving shafting. Deceased, while going to his work,
passed the belting, and caught his foot in it, causing
him to be carried round the shafting. He was dashed
with great force against the roof, and his body passed
seven times round the shafting before the engine could
be stopped, and was frightfully mutilated. Verdict,
"Accidentally Killed."
DEATH OF THE "TEES IlEumiT."—The York-
shire Post says :
The unfortunate half-craned man named John Wills, but
better known as the Tees Hermit," was found dead on
Sunday morning by two boys In a boat he has occupied all
the winter at the south outlet of the Sunderland Dock. The
poor fellow, though eccentric In character, was mad beyond
doubt, as he was under an impression that lie was heir to
large estates but had been changed at birth. Some ten days
ago he disappeared from Seaton, where he obtahied his
I cognomen, and afterwards turned up at Sunderland, of
which place be is a native, anti has a wife from whom he ham
I been separated for years. Ile was perfectly harmlus, and
numbers of boys frequented the dreary habitation he had
formed out of an old boat. On Saturday night he visited Ms
brother's house and complained of a pain In his stile, when
his brother advised him to go to the workhouse, bet he re-
fused. In the boat was found a loaf of bread, and he had
Os. ed. In his pocket, so that he wsa not destitute.
A. RATHER NEAT COMPLIMENT—One of the
younger members of the French Legation at Washing-
ton has become noted for his gallant speeches and
his exquisite compliments (says the Neto York Herald).
A few evenings since, at a " geram" at Governor
Morgan's he was introduced to a witty New York
lady, who has an unmistakably ugly, fiat nose. The
polite Frenchman discreetly complimented her on her
dancing, to which she archly replied :—" Ah ! I have
heard you are a flatterer; but you cannot find it in
your heart to compliment Inc on my personal beauty,
so you praise my dancing." " Melanie," was the
reply, with a Parisian bow, "you are an angel from
heaven, but you fell on your nose." The lad.), narrated
this compliment with great complacency, until it was
insinuated that she was a "fallen angel," since when
she has been silent on the subject.
A PANTHER FIGHT.— Captain Cumberlege,
Deputy-Commissioner 44 Surnlanlpore, in writing to
his sister, under date the 24th of January last, says:—
Rio not be horrified when I tell you that I have been in bed
ten days with wounds received from a panther. I was very
roughly handled, but am now unite out of danger. It hap-
pened thus had womided the brute and was tracking it
up by its blood, when all of a autiden it rushed out of a patch
of ham grass and charged a coolie. I rushed forward and
fired to save the nian, though I could scarcely see for the
grass, and in auother second, before I knew where I was, I
received a smaehieg blow on the face, which nearly stunned
me and knocked me backwards. I managed to turn on my
fare, and the brute then seized me by the shoulder and shook
me like a rat, lie then left me and attacked a policeman,
who was the only roan standing near. Ile pulled hint down,
and hearing his shrieks I revived, and, as they were rolling
over and over together, I felt about for my rifle; it had still
one barrel loaded, and, on recovering it, I drageed myself
up and shot the panther while he was still gnawing at the
poor, wretched policeman. I have three lusty scratches
under my eye, and some eight tooth-holes in the back. The
poor policeman died last night he completely lost heart,
had delirium, and saw tigers in his sleep.
AN ECCENTRIC MAN.—The Brad.brd Observer
says that amongst the oddities and singularities exint-
Mg in the village of Clayton there is is man who is ex-
ceedingly eccentric in his habits of life. He is about
sixty years of age, and during the last eight or ten
years he has never been known to speak to anybody,
although living in a busy and thickly-populated neigh.
boos:hood. He is a lachelor, living alone in a cottage
which is his own freehold, and which he never allows
any one to enter. He also occupies a small garden
allotment, which he is in the habit of visiting every
day at one stated time, and so regular is he with these
visits that when he is seen by the villagers they; know
the time of day as well as if they were within sight of
the church clock. He is ales regular in his attendance
at Bradford on Thursdays, where he may be seen often
in the pig-market. He wears strong shoes, worsted
yarn stix:kings, a pair of knee breeches, and a coat and
hat which to all appearances might have been worn by
somebody when he was born. It in stated that some
time ago he suffered a loss of a sum of money, and
that ever since he has exhibited these singularities in
his conduct.
MR. RASSAM AND HIS RECEIPTS FROM KING
THEODORI:e.--In a letter addressed by Brigadier-
General W. L. AI erewether to Lientenant-General
Sir It. Napier, commander-in-chief of the Abyssinian
field force, and dated "Camp, Zoolla, 18th January,"
the former says :
A discussion took place In Parliament regarding the
money received from King Theodorus by Mr. [imam. In
justice to the latter gentletnan, I have the honour to state
that the money so received was at once credited by him to
Government, and appears so in his accounts, with a foot
note that 13,500 dollars were taken back from him by the King
when the mission was Imprisoned in July, lee&
This letter appears amongst the parliamentary papers
issued on Monday.
FEARFTJL CASE OF STABBING IN LIVERPOOL.
- -A fearful case of stabbing occurred in Liverpool on
Saturday night. It appears that a man named Joseph
Walsh and a wonian named Catherine O'Daiinelly
, had been cohabiting for some time, and that about a
week ago Walsh left ()'Donnelly to go and live with
another woman. On Saturday the latter met Walsh
and accused him of deserting her, when a quarrel
ensued, (luring which O'Donnelly stabbed Walsh in
the neck, near the jugular vein. The woman was at
once taken into custody, and Walsh removed to the
hospital, where belies in a very critical condition. On
Monday the prisoner was brought up, and in answer
to the charge said, "I have nothing to nay, only I am
not at all sorry for it." She was remanded.
HORSEFLESH AS FOOD FOR ENGLISHMEN.—Dr.
Dyce Duckworth writes to us (British Merdienl Jour-
nal) that, after careful perusal of all that has been
written concerning the late dinner at the Langham
Hotel, the really important bearings of thin question
seem to him totremain untouched. The strongest of
the prejudices against horseflesh is, he thinks, the plea
of affection between man and horse; and he would
dismiss at once such objections as that its flesh is but
food for doge and lower animals, and that one's asso-
ciations with it are mixed up with tales of war and
besieged garrisons On the other hand, the home is
an animal that feeds in the most cleanly and dainty
manner,; affording in this respect is marked contrast
to the pig, who feeds greedily on garbage. Horse-flesh,
he says, closely resembles the best kind of ox-beef' it
is tender, palatable, and nutritious. Age does not in
any degree affect the quality of the meat ; the flesh of
a horse over twenty years of age is as good and tender
an that of one of four years old.
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MURDEROUS ATTACK UPON A POLICE-CON-
STABLE.—On Saturday last, at the Northampton
AsAizes, Oliver Drage, Alfred Drags, John Smith,
and John Palmer were charged with wounding with
intent to kill George Berridge, one of the Northamp-
ton county police, on the night of the 7th of October,
1867. A second count charged them with intent to do
grievous bodily harm. The policeman met the
prisoners in a bridle road, when, without his having