The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-11-21 00:00:00

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Smarm/tit ACCIDENT.—It blew very hard from
the N. E. on the eastern coast on Saturday night, and
there was a heavy sea on. At about six o'clock on
Sunday morning the schooner Sea Gull, of Lynn, drove
from her anchors, and drifted on to the pier (on the
north beach), which cost in its construction upwards of
£6,000. Here she lay broadside on, and as the tide
rose she was driven with great violence against the
centre piles of the pier, carrying them completely away.
The schooner then burst through the pier, deatroyiag
everything in her coin's. Her masts werecaught while
she was passing through by a portion of the debris of the
pier, and they were snapped asunder instantly. The
crew of six hands escaped by clinging to the timbers
before they gave way. From 70 ft. to 80 ft. of the
pier has been utterly demolished, and the damage is
estimated at from i'7oo to £l,OOO. The Sea Gull is a
complete wreck, and the shore was strewed the next
' day with masses of timber. lhuing the storm in
October, 1859, a sloop drove through the same pier,
carrying away about 70 ft. of the end of it. The pier,
which previously to this first accident was 77.0 ft. in
length from the entrance-gate, NM afterwards short-
ened; when the present catastrophe happened it was
about 680 ft. long.
MORMONS 0. GENTILES. A correspondent
writes :

The Mormons are undergoing another spasm of exclusive-
ness. Gentiles have colonised numerously of late in salt
Lake City, and have thriven. Having waxed fat they have
probably kicked. At least their newspaper contains daily
diatribes against the Mormon faith and the Mormon practice.
At any rate, Mormon meetings have resolved not to patronise
. Gentile tradespeople, anti to discourage their residence in the
land of the saints by all peaceable means. What a low
person would call the" cheek" of these people is amazing.
They exist solely by sufferance, and it is a stretch or tolera-
tion almost intolerable that they should be suffered to exist
corporately at all. Yet they tranquilly persecute members
of the majority in the saute bitter spirit which, directed by
that majority against them, would sweep them out of exist-
ence in a week. Their latest grievance is the establishment
by a Gentile of a line of steamer: plying in.n their Great
Salt Lake—an enterprise which promises to become profitable.
The Gentile residents purpose, if their business is impaired
by Mornion persecution, to ndgrate to an eligible site some
fifty miles east of the city of the Saints. This step of found-
ing a new city would certainly injure the Mormons much
more seriously than the presence among them of many more
"outsiders" than are there now.

SUICIDE OF A FRENCH GENTLEMAN.—Mons.
Paulin, the son of a man who made his fortune by the
Illustration (the French Illustrated News, of which he
was the founder), committed suicide on Thursday, in
last week, at his residence, No. 3, Rue Grange
Bateliire, Paris. After starting in life with an income
of upwards of £3,000 a year, he ruined himself by
gambling at the Bourse and the German gamingtables.
At Homburg and Baden-Baden he frequently played
the maximum and broke the bank. He was often
heard to say that when he was thoroughly " cleaned
out" he would kill himself. He fulfilled the threat by
enveloping his head in linen soaked in enormous
quantities of chloroform
THE TUNNEL THROUGH AIONT CENIS.—The
Italian papers state that the great tunnel through
Mont Cents is making very satisfactory progress.
From the 16th to the 31st of October the istance ex-
cavated at the southern end was 28 metres, and at the
northern 34 metres, making together 82 metres. The
average of the previous fortnights for some time has
not exceeded 50 metres. The total length of the
tunnel is to he 12,220 metres, and the length already
completed is 8,958 metres, so that there now remains
3,26: metres to excavate. L nder any circumstances it
is thought that the entire undertaking will be finished
by the commencement of 1171.
IMPORTATION OF APPLES INTO PARIS. —The
first boats loaded with apples have arrived opposite
the Hotel de Ville, Paris ; the time is rather late this
year, as they generally get to Paris about the 15th of
October. The supply continues regularly for some
months, the number of vessels being usually about 130,
and as each contains about 300,000 apples, the result is
that about 39 millions of this fruit are brought to one
sole point of the capital. Add to these all that are
brought by road and rail, and some idea may be formed
of the annual consumption of Paris.
EVERY HUNDRED YEARS. —The text books of
physical geography do not take notice of the recur-
rence of an earthquake in Peru in the 68th year
of every century. An American contemporary
states the fact, and it is curious to see how he makes
good his assertion :—"The first earthquake :on record in
Peru occurred in the year 1568. A century after, on
the 23rd of April, 1668, at half-past 6 a.m. Arica and
the towns within its jurisdiction were destroyed by an
earthquake which extendedits ravages to Arequwa."
So far the progress is very smooth, but there wasno earth-
quake in 1768, am' our CI outemporary's theory m ight seem
in danger. He is, however equal to the occasion ---"The
year 1768 passed off without any unusual phenomenon;
but the great earthquake of the 13th ultimo, at a
distance of two centuries from the last mentioned, :nay
very well count for two."

MATRIMONIAL (111.11CCES !—(From the Man-
chester Examiner, Nov. 14) :
" A Gentleman, in comfortable circumstances, Wants a
Wife."—Address, Are.

;;X Wid-,;;:e;c1.;-;.good position, aired 40, wishes to Marry
a respectable and well-domesticated Lady, with means no
objections to a widow; strictest honour may be relied upon."
—Address, &c. _ _ _

" A Foreign Shipper, 29, of long standing and ample
means, wishes to Correspond with an amiable Young Laity;
money can be altogether dispensed with, but it is desirable
for her to be musical, moderately good-looking, anti pretty
well educated ; the most gentlemanly confidence may be
relied npon."—Address, Are.

A Goon STORY.—We heard a rather good story
a few days ago, in which the Maharajah of Jeypore
showed, we think, rather mo••e than the usual acumen
of native princes. Our readers are probably aware
that there has been scarcely any rain in ilajpootana,
and that a famine is expected. The other day an
individual came to the environs of Jeypore, and gave
out that he had power over the rain, and that if his
highness would visit him, he would cause the clouds
to give the long-wished for showers. In former days
lands have actually been given to persons who have
been supposed to possess such powers, and these lands
are still in the possession of their descendants, on
whom, however, the mantle of their forefathers does
not seem to have descended. Ihe Maharajah, on
hearing of this man's boast, pitied his folly, and sug-
gested that a man who was so powerful an to rule the
clouds, and cause rain to come, could surely order the
King of Jeypore to come into his presence, if it was
necessary to produce rain. We ought to hail with
gladness these breaks in the chain of superstition with
which the nobles of this land have so long been bound.—
Delhi Gazette.

CANVASSING TINDER DIFFICTILTIES.—The New
York Times nays :
Hon. F. L. Pennington, an Alabama State senator, and
lion. Geo. L Parrington, Speaker of the House, h all re-
publicans, have published a card, stating that while can-
vassing recently in Choctaw and Sumter counties, several
attempts were made to assassinate them. on one occa-
sion, while driving through a town in daylight, they were
fired upon with shot guns and revolvers ; and in Choctaw
they were threatened with immediate hanging. They say
that bi some localities there can be no fair election without
the presence of United States troops to protect Union men
frnin beirg killed by rebels. On Monday night a party of
Ituklux, in Marshal county, 'Tenn., went masked to the re-
sidence of a coloured man, named Louis Lully, tore him
from his home and family, and carried him a short distance
from the house and shot hint dead. There was no charge of
any kind against hhn, except that lie was electioneering for
Grant

THR END OF WILLIAM DCGDALE. - The
"strange eventful history" of William Dugdale, the
often-imprisoneil publisher of obscene books and prints
is ended, and the last thing to re3ord of him is that a
coroner's jury was summoned in London, on Friday,
to inquire into the circumstances attending his death
in the ClerkenNvell House of Correction. Dugdale
was sixty-nine years old, and his first imprisonment in
the gaol in which he died took place forty-six years
ago. Since the p4ssiog of Lord Camphell's Act he
%as been incarcerated several times, his offence in each
case being like those which preceded it. Not long ago
he was sentenced at the Middlesex Sessions to
eighteen months' imprisonment with hard labour, and
it was whilst undergoing this punishment that he died.
Several of his relatives attended the inquest, but no
complaint was made respecting his treatment in gaol,
further than was cc ntained in the statement that he
might have lived longer if literature of a higher kind
hail been supplied to him. The "Leisure Hour" and
" Chambers's Journal" are among the periodicals
which the prisoners are permitted to read, but it was
held that Dugilale needed works of a more solid kind.
The jury returned a verdict to the effect that death
had resulted from natural causes. To this verdict they
appended a statement expressing the following
opinion "Greater facilities should be afforded to the
higher class of men who are pri.Qoners, so that their
minds might he amused with books of a higher in-
tellectual character than those generally distributed
through the wards."

SINGULAR RECOVERY.—The A ides (/e/ Pepsin
of Palermo has that Dr. Enrico Albanese performed
the operation of transfusion of the blood with success
at the Hospital della Concezione of that city. A
youth aged seventeen, named Giuseppe Ginazzo, of
Cinisi, was received at that establishment on the 29th
of September last with a bad humour on his leg, which
in the end rendered amputation necessary, the patient
being very much emaciated, and labouring under
, fever. The operators reduced him to a worse state
I than ever, and it became apparent that he was fast
sinking, the pulse being imperceptible, the eyes dull,
and the body cold. In this emeweney Dr. Albanese
had recourse to the transfusion of blood as the only
remedy that had not yet been tried. Two assistants of
the hospital offered to have their veins opened for the
purpose, and thus, at two different intervals, 2'20 gins.
of blood were introduced into the Patient's system.
After the first time he recovered the faculty of speeds,
and stated that, la fors, he could neither see nor hear,
hut felt as if he wm e Hying in the air. He is now in
a fair state of recovery.

PRos
CUTION FOR FIGHTING A DUEL. —A
trial hasi ust taken place before the Correctional Tri-
bune), Paris, relative to a duel with sworde fought at

Saint-Mand4, on the 20th of September last, between I
DI. ikon Chslel, aged thirty-two, author of the '
"Martyrs Ridicules,' and AL Gustave Guillaume,
preparer of philosophical experiments at the Sorbonne.
The motive of the encounter was, by the admission of
the parties themselves, most futile, owing to a trifling
dispute during a dinner at the Caf4 de l'Europe. Each
of the combatants received a slight wound, aud both
were charged before the Court with an attempt to
voluntarily injure the other. Their seconds, M.
Garrison-llestilhac, thirty-two M. Bayeux, thirty-
eight, both literary men; Al:Jansen, twenty-eight,
a short-hand writer; and M. Pouset, thirty, civil
engineer, were inculpated as accomplices. The Court
condemned the principals to a fine of 50f., and the
others to 25f. each.

"1w DAYS GONE BYE !"—The planting of yew
trees in churchyards and elsewhere was encouraged by
the English kings for the cupply of the peculiar
weapon of the English yeomen (says the Roc4). In
the same way, by a law of one of the early Scotch
kings, every man who built a cottage was bound to
plant a certain number of aelt trees for shafting spears,
the weapon with which the Scotch withstood the heavy
armed English knights, before whose impetus the
!Stoutest swordsmen would have gone down like grass
before the mower. In many parts of Scotland clumps
of ash are found with no cottage near, but they almost
always indicate the site of a homestead. Probably in
both countries the customs continued after the neces-
sity for them had happily ceased.

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A RETROSPECTIVE INTEREST !—CandidatCS Can-
not be sleeted to Parliament by female y otes. That is
now settled to be the law of the land (says the Pall
Mall (lmette). Is a man lawfully tang.d who is sent
out of the world by the hands of a liesmesmian inst, ad
of a hangman? The question is one of merely retro-
spective interest, probably, for amidst the modern
agitation for female employment no question has yet
been raised of competition for this office. But in one
of our western provincial capitals, the "oldest
inhabitants" still remember to have had pointed out
to them in their childhood a harsh-visaged old crone
who once, when the executioner was not forthcoming,
and the sheriff positively declined to perform the office
which by law had devolved on him, came forward,
volunteered, and was accepted. For the benefit of
future historian's we may add that the city was Exeter,
and the woman's name Jane Radford.
AN EXPLANATION WANTED. Will the Pall
Mall he good endligh to explain the following sentence
which occurs in its artiffie on the new archbishop
(asks the Morning Star)?—

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Knowing and feeling all this, being men of active and
vigorous minds, the orchids ops must feel that it is not
always and without any sort of qualification, pleasant to sit
on the shore, when the winds ruffle the waters of the wile
sea, and to perform there in perfect safety a part in a
gorgeous ceremonial, much of which, after all, is less solid
than it might be.

THE EXILED QUEEN Or SPAIX.—As you walk
along the Rue de Rivoli (says the Paris correspondent
of the Morning Post) you observe at any hour of the
day a crowd of pcople about the doorway of the hotel
where the Queen of Spain and suite are lodged. A
number of police are stationed to keep order. Queen
Isabella, however, does not make her appearance, and
I am told has only been out to mass once or twice in an
Imperial carriage since her arrival amongst us. The
Queen is organizing her Court, and observes all the
etiquette of a reigning Sovereign. M. Mon is her
Majesty's ambassador at Paris. Count Ezveleta is the
master of the ceremonies, and arranges the reception
of any Spaniards or foreigners who wish ti be presented
to her ex-Majesty. The Count formally announced
the arrival of Queen Isabella to the Emperor and Em-
press at Comae°, to which Imperial residence some
say she will be invited. The Princess Mathilde has
called on the Spanish royal family, as well as some
foreign diplomatists and the Pope's Nuncio. The Em-
peror and. Empress show the fallen sovereign evtry
attention. There is no kindly feeling in Paris towards
the Spanish Bourbons, and jokes and severe remarks
are very general in all classes of society.

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AN Immo DIVORCE COURT.—There is in Idaho
territory a judge who is well known as "Alec Smith."
A woman brought a suit in his court for divorce, and
had the discernment to select a particular friend of
her own, whostood well with the judge, as her attorney.
One morning the judge called up the case, and address-
ing himself to the attorney for the complainant, said:
" Mr. H., I don't think people ought to be compelled
to live together when they don't want to, and I will
..decree a divorce in this case." Mr. bowed blandly.
Thereupon the judge, turning to another attorney,
whom he took to be the counsel for the defendant,
said : "Mr. M.. I suppose you have no objection to the
decree ?" Mr. M. nodded assent. But the attorney
for the defendant was another Mr. M. not then in
court. Presently he came in, and finding that his
client had been divorcal without a nearing, began to
remonstrate. Alec listened a moment, then inter-
rupted, saying, ".Ir. M., it is too late. The court
has pronounc,d the decree of divorce, and the parties
are no longer man and wife. But if you wat to argue
the case, right bad, the court can marry them over
again and give you a crack at it."
SUDDEN DEATH.—On Sunday morning, as Mr.
John Edward Johnson, President of the London
Bridewell Hospital, was standing with the secretary
of the Foundling Hospital at the chapel door of that
institution to receive the contributions of the visitors,
as an active governor, he suddenly fell and immediately
expired. Dr. Black and Mr. Austin, who m ere at-
tending Divine service in the chapel, were instantly
ready to afford professional assistance, but life was
extinct. Mr. Johnson was fi 4' many N ears treasurer
of Bridewell and Bethlehem Hospitals, chub man of
the Surrey Onarter Sessions, and a Lieutenant of the
City of Loudon. Ile was much r, spected by all who
knew him. The cause of death is stated to have been
apoplexy.

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CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER CASES—particularly re-
duced circuntstances.—Tonzahawk.
FEMALE EMIGRATION TO CANADA.— The Toronto
Globe, referring to various unfavourable statements
made in the Canadian papers respecting the girls
taken out to Canada by 1111ss Rye, declares that the
great majority have turned out remarkably well. "If
we are to believe some people,' it adds, "the intro-
duction of these girls has been an injury to the country,
repetition of which is to Ire prevented if p!,rsiirle.
Nothing could be more unfair, nothing wider of the fact.
We sail welcome Miss Rye's arrival in the country
with her 100 girls as a pleasing and gratifying fact.'
The Toronto Globe adds, however, that it would not
answer the purpose of the colony to pay their passage
money, because the same amount could be better em-
ployed in promoting immLration in" other ways."
TIIE AMERICAN WORKING MAN.—The average
life of labourers in the United States is estimated at 46.1
years ; the average number of days of work in this
climate, 250 in each year (says a New York paper).
'rhe average expenses of an adult for board and
clothing in this city are calculated at about 300 dols.
a year. Su,:pose a labourer to get on an average
! 3 dols. per day for his work, this, for the 250 working
days gives him 750 dole, a year. Deduct price of board
and clothing, 300 doh., and we have left 450 dots, for
all expenses of keeping a family, for amusement,
education, and contingencies. The sum is greatly in.
sufficient in many instances. The average working
years of a labouring man are estimated at about
twenty. His total earning in an average lifetime,
with 250 working days in the year, at 3 dole, per day,
would thus be 15,000 dole,, or 322 dols. 58c. per year
—6 dole. 20c. per week.
HORSES' NAMES.—Strait-laced I am not ;
nevertheless, in the name of common decency, I pro-
test against the growing custom of giving to racehorses
names which should be connected only with the
highest and holiest thoughts. Such a name as Surplice
we might let pass with the remark that a minute's
thought might have been well expanded in choosing
some more appropriate designation for a gallopin.g
horse; but Crucifix was decidedly objectionable. This
name, however, was surpassed, in profane audacity,
by that of Crucifixion ; which, in its turn, must yield :
the palm for outrageous bad taste to that Crucifixion
filly which, after winning the Blankney stakes, at
Lincoln, was named Atonement, by her owner, whom
the sporting wrirers call "the learned pedigreeist Dr.
Shorthouse.'"This learned doctor displays less taste
in his nomenclature than was shown by Mr. Bumble
and his fellow parochial authorities. —Once a Wet.

FRIGHTFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.— The Stu tgard
journals publish details of a horrible catastrophe
which took place three days back on a railway to
Geisflinger. A goods train had to go down the line
and in consequence of the snow lying deep upon the
rails the greatest circumspection was recommended to
the engine driver. Nevertheless, whether or not the
snow had accurauhted in too great a quantity before
the wheels of the locomotive, and prevented the proper
working of the breaks, the train ran off the line down
an incline, and the 28 carriages composing it fell one
on the other and soon formed only a frightful heap of
ruin. Out of the twelve persons accompanying it
three only escaped with their lives.

Buenos BET.—An Indiana paper re?,ords
wager between a lady and gentleman on the Presiden-
tial etion. If Grant was elected, the young man
was to marry the young lady ; if Seymour, the young
lady was to marry the young gentleman.

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NOBLESSE OBLIGE—At a gathering on the Fife
estates in Banffshire, to celebrate the maj.,rity of
Viscount Maciluff, the Rev. A. H. Morton, of King's
College, Cambridge, who has been for several years
that young nobleman', tutor, made some ob-ervations
which contrast favourably in point of candour and
common sense with the kind of oratory usual on such
occasions. Departing from the customary round of
fulvome and unmeaning compliment, Mr. Morton
said :
Such meetings as these are peculiarly valuable in times
like the present, when Privilege is the real " sick man of
Europe,"and when every man is liable to be called upon to
show fitness and worthiness for the position which he occu-
pies. Whatever may he our individual opinions with regard
to the House of Lords—whatever may tee our indhidual senti-
ments in regard to the succession to and division of land,
feel sure that there is so doubt whatever, that, in the fra,rk
recognition of the duties which the possessor of property
owes to those around hint—in the frank and in cordial
interchange of the kindliest feelings between class and class,
lies the tritest defence of the existing system. This, gentle-
men, is a lesson which no young nobleman can too early
learn.

Too Ben.—The Brigands, a week or so ago.
took off Mr. Campbell, Vice-Rector of the Scotch
College in Rome. Mr. Campbell WAS returned by the
brigands, on compulsion, safe and sound. Now what
was the observation of The Times' Correspondent on
this matter? Why, will it be believed, an unfeeling
pun; he actually wrote to the leading Journal to say
that "Brigandage in this province is not killed, though
Scotched." We shouldn't ha' thought it of him.—
Punch.

REASONS FOR ELECTING A CANDIDATE.—There
are occasionally queer reasons for electing men to high
offices (says a hew Yor4 paper). Peter Harvey is
urged for Pongret in Boston because he was a "friend
of Daniel Webster." There is a gentleman still living
who was elected Governor id Rhode Island many
years ago because he jumped into the water and saved
the life of a man (or woman or child, we forget which),
A recently deceased ex-mayor of Brooklyn used to tell
humorously how he ran when first a candidate on the
"anti-hog" ticket. The issue in those days in Brook-
lyn was " ho.,' or no hog," and was because of the
oppo-ition to street hogs that Mayor Hall was first
electo'.