The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-11-03 00:00:00

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Yet, strange ti say, he was not 12114 in any other way,
and after extinguishing the fire in his remaining
(thing ho etarted hack tiilnd his companion. Mr.
:Janson was badly bruised; awl one of his bawls was
severely burnt, but he had suffered no s-rious injury. I
Ike two contrived to yet into Rnshford, thankful that
a worse fate had not overtaken them.
ATTFMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.—A man,
named Georee Earrishaw, a iduhber. residing in Lock.
anti, rear Huddersfield, attempted to murder one of
his children on Saturday night, and to commit auntie.
His wife went to Dewsbury on Saturday afternoon to
visit one of her daughters, lesving her husband and two
daughters, Eden, aged fourteen,nd Mary Ann, aged
four years, at home, and also a.lodger, who went to
bed, leaving Earnshaw sitting up and his two girls in
a bed in the loiwer room. At Tht time the kettle full
of water was on the fire, and Earnshaw said be was
going to use it to bathe Isis feet. About eleven o'clock
some of the neighbours heard the children crying for
help, and went and tried the door but found it fastened.
The lodger was also aroused, and he came downstairs,
and admitted some of the neighbours, and it was found
that Eartishaw was in bed with the children, but had
fastened a rope round his neck, which was cut by
Samuel Kaye. it was also found that the girl Ellen
was badly scalded about the face awl neck, and Mary
Ann WAS scalded on the right arm. Aid was rendered
to the childr. n, and Earnshaw was taken into custody,
but awhe had also scalded himself by drinking at the
kettle spout he was conveyed to the infirmary. He
said it was his intention to kill the children by
pouring boiling water into their earn, and then to kill
himself. Recently he had been ill and had uot ap-
peared to be in a proper state f mind.
EFFECT OF CHANGES OF FASHION ON THE SILK
TRADE.—Great distress prevails in Lyons on account
of the depressed state of the silk trade. Tbe enormous
decline in this once flourishing industry may be judged
from the fact that in 1858 the exportation oI figured
milks, though even then declining, amounted to eighty.
four million francs, while in 1865 it was but eleven
millions, and in the present year has fallen So seven
millions. The cause of this decay is one which it
would require the severest sumptuary laws to remove.
It is simply the caprice of fashion. It appears that
the amplitude of ladies' dresses for some years past
csmpelleil them, as a matter of economy, to substitute
plain for figured silk, though what has been gained on
one hand is, it seems, lost on the other, as the simplicity
of the plain material required an MVPSs of ornament
which was nearly as costly to conceal it. The rich
figured silk was for many years,produced in the city of
Lyons, and manufactories were ierected there at great
expense for that purpose; whereas the idain sdlsu
which are now the fashion are made in the country,
where wages are lower, and living cheaper. The
country looms are in full work, while those of Lyons
stand still. A Paris journal suggests that real relief
is only to be found in another ',volution of faehion,
and it earnestly urges the Parisian ladies to foithwith
return to the figured silks which they have` given
up, were they even forced to employ much less
material.

ADAM WAITING FOR EVE!—Shortly after mid-
night, a few evenings since, two mounted gendarmes
at Courbevoie perceived a man sitting on a stone bench
in one of the streets of the place, and quite naked.
"What are you doing there ?" asked one of them.
"You know well enough," was the answer; " I
am Adam, the first man, and I am waiting for you to
bring me a conupulion. You may take a rib froru me
if you wish." The gendarmes saw that he was a
lunatic ; and having covered him with mime clothes
which they managed to borrow, were about to take
him with them, whon he cried out, "ArChangels, the
moment has not vet come to drive Ire from this terres-
trial paradh•e!" Nevertheless, he did not resist accorn•
panying them. The unfortunate man, why is a shoe-
maker by trade, and 29 years of age, was sent the next
day to a lunatic asylum.
CRUSADE AGAINST TFIE JI,IVS OF WILNA.—A
letter from Willie, in the Patrie, says:-
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The Jews are itu^jected to a religious persecution set In
action by the local authorities. An association has been
formed the object of which is nothing less than to drive
sway the Jewish population which has been settled in the
country for eight centuries, and force it hack on the Cau-
casus or the hanks of the Amour. The Mibla Journal, the
organ of this society, goes so far as to say that the country
ought to be purged of this leprosy, and that the Jews ought
to be either converted or exterminated This journal receives
officiel encouragement, General flauffman, iiovernor of the
province, has enjoined the municipa hies and even the heads
of families to str.scribe to it and he has ordered the school-
masters to read it to the peasants so as to prepare them for
the woe kof extermination. Agents have also been sent Into
the villages to obtain new members for the society and pro.
psgate hatred to the Jews._ These latter wish to make their
. . . . .

C'omplalnta heard by the Government of St Petershurgh,
which haa ameliorated their comiPion of late years, and
which appears to them Ignorant of what Is going on l'ufor.
tunately, owing to the state of siege, they hare no means of
approaching It. .

MUTE OF Kamm" A prisoner, named
Nicholson, described as a clerk, was tried at the
Bristol Quarter Sessions, on Thursday, for stealing
cloth, In the dock he assumed an idiotic stare,
feigned insanity, and when asked to plead, took not
the slightest notice of the enquiry, or indeed of any-
thing that transpired- The Governor and surgeon of
the gaol had no doubt as to his sanity, and said the
prisoner only put on the preeent appearance a few days
since. The prisoner also feigned deformity by ele-
vating the left shoulder, tint the Governor said that the
other day he had the right up. The Jury found that
he was "mute of malice," and the trial proceeding, he
was convicted. It then transpired that he was con-
victed in 1857, and on his trial feigned insanity; and
in 18432 he was sentenced to four years' penal servi-
tude. He was now sentenced to seven years' penal
servitude.

WARLIKE PREPARATIONS BY RCESI.I.—A
letter from Warsaw, in the A ugsburg Gazette, says :
Matters assume every days more threatening aspect in this
country, and the military movement. which follow each
other unintemipteny inioatettit to Russia certain event ua-
lilies ale believed in. For ten days there have been Incessant
arrivals at Warsaw, from the interior of Russia, of trains
filled with troops, who, after a short rest, took the directim
of the Gallician frontier. A considerable portion of the
garrsion at Warsaw has also been sent to that quarter. The
Governor of Poland and three Eminent Ger crate have been
called to St. Petersburg, a fact which people connect with
the state of affairs in Gimbel& Under the pretext that the
Poles ere in a condition of great excitement, and that they
are dreaming (,1 the speedy re-establishment of their country,
the ituadan Govrroment is urging forward vigormily the
work of RinsifTAtton, and favouring as much as possible con.
0e orthodox rites.

THE SURGEON OF THE " ALABAMA."—The brave
resignath at of Mr. Llewellyn, surgeon of the Con•
federate cruiser Alabama, who, when the ship was
sinking under the enemy's shot in the action off Cher-
bourg, elected to go down with the wounded men
under his care rather than abandon his post, and who
died thus, is not likely to have been forgotton by the
public, and is to be permanently commemorated by his
friends. On Saturday a meeting of the subscribers for
a memorial to Mr. Llewellyn was held at Charing-
cross Hospital, in London, (of which institution he was
a student,) when it was resolved that permission should
be solicited of the authorities to put up in the hospital
a marble tablet in commemoration of Mr. Llewellyn
and his noble deed, and that to the same end a Llewellyn
Scholarship in connection with the hospital should be
founded with the remainder of the money subscribed.
A considerable sum has been rained, a large proportion
of which was contributed from India.

A Glen's DRAUGHT !—A man of herculean
str.-ngth, a man three in one, in fact, walked into a
marchand of wines' establishment in Paris the other
day, and proud of his strength and size, looked around
on those who looked at him. "Bring me," said he.
looking at every one, "bring me a drink for a horse
and his sides shook—" Ha, ha, ha, hi, hi, hi!" The
waiter, sharp in a small body brought the fellow a
bucket of water. "There," said he—" there in a drink
for a horse." The giant tried it on, and got only a
mortal's sip out of it, and was obliged to put it down,
upon which a smaller being than the giant, offended
at the giant's presumption, took up the bucket of
water and flung it over the man, saying, "After
homes can drink no more they are washed down with
their drink." The giant, of course, wanted to whack
him and every one, and some blood flowed, ending in
the big man being taken off to the guard.

DIPLoM AT IC f."-OCRTEftIi If 3. --A letter from N ikols-
burg, in the Fremdenblatt, says :
During the presence of the King of Prussia at the chateau
of this town, and the delioerations for the preliminaries of
peace, It Benedetti, the French AIIII,SUIL tor at the Court of
Berlin, wes received and entertained at Nikolsbure by the
prior, Auguste de Bartensteln. When the diplomatic relation's
were terminated, and M. Benedetti wished on quitting to re.
compress his host, the latterrefused to receive anything, and
the ambassador took leave, not without having left to the
servants a sour. nir of his stsy. Some we, he later 11 do
lisrtenstein received from Berlin, through the medium of the
French ambassador at Vienna. a *recto. letter of thanks
from M. Bened4tl, by which the last-named announced the
sending by order of the French Minister of Foreign Affairs a
present, consisting of a large chalice with cover arid saucer,
two cruet., and a hell, all in massive silver, richly gilt, and
contained In an elegant coffer, ornamented with figures of
precious stones Inlaid, and the letter N," surmounted by •
CrOWIL

A SALT ISLAND.—Near Vermillion Bay, on the
coast of Lonininia, there is an island called Petit Anse
Inland, which was mentioned by early i.npiiirers of the
Gulf of Mexico as an island of salt. During the late
American win., when Southern ports were blockaded,
the Confederates looked after this island, and found
that almost anywhere beneath its surface, which has
an extent of 5,000 acres, there is at an average depth
of fifteen feet a stratum of hard rock-salt, nearly pure,
and of unknown, but practically inexhaustible quan-
tity. The statement is now put forth, on the authority
of Professor Spencer F. Baird, of the Smithsonian
Institution at Washington, Oft there has been received
at that institution a piece of matting wrought of the
bark of a cane (Arundmaria macrotpermum) by a
human hand, which was certainly found in that inland
two feet below a stratum in which the fossil remains
of an elephant of the remotest period were em-
bedded.

A SINGULAR DRATR.—An inquest, under pe-
culiar circumstances, has been held on the body of
John Norris, who died at Carmowen, near Omagh, on
the 13th inst. The body of the deceased gentle-
man we exhumed for the purpose, after having been
nine days interred A eolicitor attended to watch the
proceedings on the part of the relatives. Drs. Thorny).
son, Fleming, and Love gave evidence as to the cause
of death, after having examined the body. After
hearing evidence, the jury returned the following
verdict :

That the deceased John Norris died on the rith day of
October, from an anthrax occupying the entire of the back
of the left side of the chest, and we find that he wee a per-
son of eccentric habits, and that his death was accelerated
from want of proper medical advice and care.
It is understood that the deceased has left his entire
property, amounting, it is said, to 30,000/. or upWardpi,
to Mr. Harvey, of Lisahoppin, less a bequest of 100/.
to the manager of the Ulster Bank, Omagh, and the
validity of the will is likely to be disputed by numerous
relatives of the deceased.

A SAD SIGHT FOR THE KAISER !—The truth
must be told (writes The Times' correspondent). A
sadder and more painful spectacle has rarely been
seen than the entry of the Emperor of Austria, Franz
Joeeph, King of Bohemia, into the caoital of his
kingdom of Kbernia —painful in its significance, and
sad in de present and in its future portent. Vet millet
can he mere awful than the future of a monarch who,
in the 11.10111.11 t of advereity anti defeat, appealing to
his subjects for sympathy, hi met by contemptuous
coldneen and by the silence of the grave? What can
be sadder than the sight of an absolute rider prostrat-
ing himself before the multitude and meeting at the