The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-10-05 00:00:00

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MR. FORSTER AND THE QUEEN.—At a dinner
given to the workpeople of Messrs. W. Flamm and Co.,
Greenholme, on the occasion of the marriage of Mr.
Fison, jun.. the Right ion. W. E. Forster, who is a
member of the firm, proposed "The health of the
Queen," awl in doing so he said he felt that there was
no description of meeting attended by her subjects at
which her Majesty would feel more interest at having
her health given and responded to with real feeling than
at that gathering. They were proud of their Queen;
they were not merely loyal to her as their monalch,
but they were proud of her as a woman, and they
honoured and loved her as setting an example to all in
every family relation. They knew what she was as a
wife and as a mother, and they felt for her as a widow.
It had been his privilege in the performance of his
duties to witness how ardently she endeavoured to dis-
charge her duties, and how she succeeded. There was
not one of Let subjects but might look up to her as an
example to endeavour to follow.
Time Csrua PLsouE. —Mr. Brandreth Gibbs,
honorary secretary to the Smithfield Club writes to the
papers :
" For the information of intending exhibitors at the
Smithfield Club's shows, I beg to inform you that the Council
has resolved 'That so animal (cattle, sheep, or pig) exhi-
bited at any other show within one month previa.us to the
etli of December, 1672. be allowed to lie exhibited at tile
Smithfield Club's shows ; 'also, 'That certificates will be re•
guired from exhibitors to the effect that the animals have
not been, or will not be, so exhibited,' and • also that the
stock has not for 14 days previous to leaving home fur the
show been in contact with any animal suffering from con-
tagious or infectious disease, and, further, that all animals
coming by railway must be sent in horse-boxes or in private
conveyance.—
'rug FINAL STRIKE.—It was unthinking of
Jeremy Taylor to describe the Arian controversy as a
dispute about a vowel, when all the difference in the
, world between two words may be made by a single
, letter. You can manage to tide over a Bakers' Strike;
but what would you do in case of a Bankere' ?7 Punch.

DERBY GREAT CHEESE FAIR. This great
annual mart for the sale of cheese—one of the most
important in England—was held on Tuesday, in
Derby. Long before daylight waggoni and carts,
laden with dairy produce, began to arrive from all parts
of the c minty, and the " pitch " proved to be fully up
to the average. Wholesale factors were present from
Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Leicester, Nottingham,
Manchester, Leeds, and many other parts; and sales
were very brisk, the lots getting nearly all sold by
nine o'clock in the morning. The quality of the chi ens
was above the average, and useful dairies fetched from
60s. to 70a. per cwt. Fine coloured cheeses were, how-
ever, eagerly bought up at as high as 755. per cwt. and
we heard of one very fine dairy fetching 775. per cwt.
Some very inferior samples fetched from 50s. to 555. per
cwt. The fair maybe described as a satisfactoryone both
to seller and buyer. The streets were very thronged
throughout the morning by the farmers' teams and
waggons waiting their turn to deliver at the extcn-
si re cheese warehouses adjoining the Midland Railway
station.
EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT STIMTILANTS.—The
following is a translation of a paragraph found in the
writings of Professor Von Liebig, the distinguished
German chemist :

'The white wines are hurtful to the nervo is system,
causing trembling, confusion of language, and convulsions.
The stronger wines, such as champagne, rise quickly to the
head, bet their effects are only of short duration. Sherry
and strong cider are more quickly intoxicating than the
generality of wines, and they have a peculiar Influence on
the gastric juices of the stomach. The intoxication of beer
is heavy and dull, and its use does not hind, r the drinker
from gaining flesh. The drinkers of whisky, and brandy
are going to certain death. Red wine Is the least hurtful,
and, ins one muses, really beneficial."
THESUCCESSFULGAIIESTER.—ACorreSpOIIdent
sends the following from Homburg-les-Bains i—
" I have on several occesions written to you about the
wonderful good fortune of Commander 'Made, the wealthy
inhabitant of Malta, who comes here at irregular times, and
invariably wins large sums. Oa his return lately from the
fetes at Berlin, he recommenced playing, and won every day
from 50,000 f. to 100,000 f., and sonietimes even more. In
fact, the bank has lost so considerably of late, that doubts
are entertained of its continuing open until the 31st of
December, when the privl' ego, as you are doubles. aware,
entirely ceases. M Bugeja has even forced the director
to throw in fresh capital, to the amount of 300,M0f.
and as so completely absorbed the sums which the
establishment may have won from other players that
Its half-yearly dividend, which in other years was 15, 20, and
even 25 per cent.. will scarcely be for the present one more
than a few kreutrers per share. Such constant and wonder-
(el success has alarmed the company which farms the rooms,
and IL Blanc, the director, has notified to It. Bugeja that
the permission which had been accorded him of putting
down 25,1001. at once is now withdrawn, and that he must for
the future content himself with going up to only 12,000 L,
like every one else. It appears that the authorities have had
something to do with this alteration, as the town of liom-
burg has. certain share IL the gains of the table. But as a
very large atake is required occasionally for the m stem of
11. Bugeja, that gentleman is trying to obtain a change, and
perhaps some arrangement may be arrived at.
DISSIPATION AND DEATII.—On Saturday even-
ing the dead bodies of a travelling showman and his
wife were found in their caravan at Stockt. la-on-Tees.
The deceased, whose names are Denton, had been ex-
hibiting a panorama of the French and German war
at Stockton races in the middle of August. They sub-
sequently adopted • course of drinking, and were fined
before the magistrates for leaving their caravan in the
market-place. After that it was taken into Parlia-
ment-street, and during the present month they have
been constantly drunk. Neither was seen after Toes
day. On Saturday afternoon the violent wind blew
open the caravan door, and a man named Eden, who
chanced to see the door blowing about, then looked in.
He saw the woman in one corner, and the man was on I
his back beside her. Both bodies were in an advanced
state of decomposition, and were removed to the dead-
house. Several empty spirit bottles were found near
them, and more than £6 in money upon their bodies.
It is supposed that they bad died from suffocation.
COAL IN IRELAND. —The Wcitcrfurd Dully
Mail contains the following :
" A company of farmers and labourers, to the number of
six hundred, assembled on Friday at the Slieverne coal fields,
and dug down to the extent of four feet, when they found
several specimens of coal, which geologist. regard as iden-
tical with what is called the Old Newport coals. The fibre
is soft, but admirably adapted for domeatic purposes Many
ladies were present watching the proceedings, and the con-
stabulary were there in full force. As each lump was thrown
up cheers rose from the crowd, and were re-echoed by those
at a distance. Boring machines were brought to the ground,
and it was ascertained that coal could be found in sufficient
quantity to pay the working expense., and " the compaily •'
offered Mr. Power 55. for each ton raised but these terms
he declined to accept. Owing to this difference, at present
the matter remains in slot!, quo. The burl nets quite easy,
although mho re dread the loose soil ; but the danger of this
could be obviated by the lubroducAion of proper machinery,
DEATH OF LORD HASTINGS. —Lord Hastings
died at his seat, Melton Constable, Norfolk, last
Saturday evening. Lord Hastings succeeded his
brother m the title and family estates only in February,
1071, and at the time of his death he wait in his 47th
year. His Lordship was summoned hastily from
Wiesbaden on Wednesday week in consequence if
Lady Hastings' severe indisposition. His Lordship
was suffering from gout himself, and on reaching
Melton Constable he was atta:ked with inflamma-
tion of the bowels. He afterwards suffered from
oppression of the respiratory organs, and before
his son could reach his bedside from Eton lie
died. The late peer was the second awl youngest
son of Sir Jacob Ashley (who was summoned by
writ to the House of Lords on May Bth, 1841,
being a co-heir of Sir John de Hastings, summoned to I
Parliament as Boron Hastings in the 18th of Edward
1., and who was also declared by Parliament in 1839
one of the co-heirs of the Barony of Camoys), by
Georgiana, second daughter of the late Sir Henry
Watkin Dashwood, and was born on March 24, 1823.
The deceased, who was in holy orders, woo educated at
Trinity College, Cambridge, and Was appointed rector
of Foulsham in 1554, and vicar of East Barsham,
Norfolk, in 1853, both livings being in the patronage
'of Lord Hastings. He married in August, 1848, the
Hon. Frances Diana Manners-Sutton, second daughter
of Charles, first Viscount Canterbury. He succeeded
his brother Jacob in the barony on the death of that
nobleman in March, 187 L and is now succeeded in the
title and estates by his eldest son, Bernard, born on
September 9, 1855. •
A SAD END.—An inquest has been held in
London, at King's College Hospital on the body of
Margaret Jones, aged 75, the widow of a tradesman.
Since the death of her husband the deceased had been
compelled to work very hard for her living, but dur-
ing the past few months had been in such ill health
that she was unable to do anything beyond half a
day's charing now and then. She became so ill at
last that she was unable to pay her rent, and was con-
sequently left without shelter, preferring the open
streets to the casual waft On Saturday night week,
being in the loot stage of destitution, she sat down
to rest in a doorway in Broad street, St. Giles's, at
the corner of a yard. Suddenly she fainted, and fell
41 the step with her feet hanging over the curb-
stone, and at that moment the wheels of a cart went
over the poor old creature's left foot, crushing it
severely. She got up and tried to limp away, but the
p.c..sers-by, geeing that she left a track of blood be-
hind her, called the police, who took her to the has'
pitaJ, where she expired on Thursday from exhaustion
consequent ogh;Zsury. A verdict of "AevidentAl
DeatA" wm

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—CONCEIT BY ACAIIMAN.—They says you should
put by Kaneda:he agin • rainy day. But that 'ere 'a the
wery time wen I tWura moat mordry.—Pancli.
A Max TO Dm' Byng's dinners
were things to remember. Lord Blawington. by no
means a bad judge, used to say, "Brag, I often go
out to dinner ; but when I desire to dine I come to
you." They were first-rate old English dinners. No
sours, no kickshaws, large dishes of magnificent fish,
a haunt* of four-yeavold Southdown, a pheasant pie,
a coursed hare, or other equally excellent edibles,
according to the season, and nothing out of it. No
forced asparagus, no house lamb, and in the centre of
the table stood always a large wooden bowl, as white
as milk, filled with the finest potatoes perfectly b tied
In their "jackets." He kept an Irish kitchen-maid ex-
preasly foe that purpose ; and palled must have been the
palates, and morbid the appetites, of thaw who could
not enjoy such fare as was always td be found in
Clargewstreek—J. B. Plaaehe's Lecollections.
Tiiz Puornn HOME Itu.E.—Full measure.—
Punch.
A MiscsLcutariox.--A young man had a
lady friend who was the fortunate possessor of a half.
dozen gold-beh. He went fishing one day and caught
a pound trout. He preserved it alone, thinking it
would be a nice companion for a gold-fish, and con-
cluded to surprise the young lady by putting it iuto the
aquarium while she was away. The suriTilde was cam-
plete ; for the trout swallowed all the gold-fish, and
then calmly turned over on its dorsal fin and died of
indigestion.
THE GOLDEN AGE.—Great news from across
the Atlantic! The problem which has battled BO many
heads through so many sites has at laid been solved
(in the autumn season) in America. A lucky and
mysterious individual, in California, has discovered
the long sought art of transmuting the baser metals
into gold, and asserts his ability to supply it by the
ship-load. The news is not without its interest for us,
for, with bullion to any amount within her reach,
America cannot possibly think of taking the (compara-
tively) few sovereigns Mr. Lowe was going to send
over, by a Treasury clerk, between now and next
"Fall."—Punch.
EASILY ANSWERED.—A correspondent of the
Field writes :
"1 have kept nightingales for twenty-five years, and, until
the last five, most succ,ssfully, never losing a bird; but
during these five years t have lost every bird, and always in
the same way .S time bet we,u June and December they
got a cough,. short sharp cough, repeated several times,
and then a rest of often some hours The breathing between
times is in some cave wheezing, in others there is a kind of
click. The birds die at various tines after the 83 mptoms
appear, feeding well and being in go it condition up to the
last. What east dolor them? The two I have this year are
just attacked."
WHICH WAS IT 1—" Jack was called up
by the schoolmaster to account for his possession of
some apples," says a biographer of an eminent lawyer
deceased. "The apples," said our hero, "were Tom's,
and I don't know how he got them; and now they're
mine, and he doesn't know how I got them." The
biographer in rapture says, "This evinced the future
great lawyer." What did?—taking the apples, eh,
biographer?
Mote VIRUMQUTE CANO.—Describing another
idiotic French duel, the papers say that "one of the
combatants was unhurt, and the other sustained a
wound in the arm of no importance." Which arm is
this? Idiotcy seems contagious.—Punch.
EXTRAORDINARY MEDICAL CERTIFICATE.—A
correspondent ot the Madras Standard nays that the
following medical certificate was recently given by an
hospital assistant :—" I do hereby certify that the
village Moonaiff of —. aged about 45, was found
on my examination suffering from shaking of two front
upper teeth and four front lower teeth, and besides
several other teeth also in a slight shaking state. I
consider that the shaking appears to have been caused
by another individual, or by fall, or by natural or
previous administration of cruel mercury. lam of
opinion that the hurtle not mortal."
MURDEROUS ATTACK.—At the Nottingham
Shirehall on Saturday a man named William Brandon
was charged, on remand, with violently assaulting his
sister, a married woman, named Sarah Ann Tomlinson,
at Huckuall Torkard on the 11th ult. The evidence
showed that on the evening of that day the prisoner
went to his sister's house and demanded a bedstead
which belonged to his father, who a few days previously
had sailed for the Salt Lake Valley. Protiecutrix re-
plied that her father had left the bedstead for her,
whereupon prisoner exclaimed, "If I can't have it,
you shan't enjoy it," and struck her a fearful blow on
the head with a hammer which he had in his hand.
The women fell to the ground insensible, bleeding pro-
fusely, and prisoner left. He was afterwards appre-
hended at his own house. The medical evidence showed
that the skull of the proseeutrix was severely frac-
tured, and that for sonic tune her life was in great
danger. The prisoner was committed for trial at the
sessions.

A BOOK PRINTED THAT WAS NEVER WRITTEN.
—A book which was printed and published in 1844,
but whiali was never written, has now been reprinted.
(It is published by Holliston and Sons.) Its author,
Mr. Lordan, who exercises at Ramsey "the glorious
art," set up the hypes as he composed the work. Its
title is" Colloquies, Desultory, but chiefly upon
Poetry and Poets." Apart from its intrinsic merits,
it is a curiosity, being the first unwritten book. There
is, indeed (remarks the Athentrum, in noticing this
unwritten book), a tradition that Retif de Is Bretonne
composed his " Paysan Per verti " in the same way, but
he was not himself the originator of the tradition.
Mr. Lordan began his career "at case" very early.
Before he was five years of age he put in type portions
of "Paradise Lost," and the first proof of his handi-
work is still in his possession.
THE DIFFIDENT MAIDEN !—" What is your
consolation in life and in death r asked a clergyman of
a young lady that he was catechising for confirmation.
The young lady blushed and hesitated. "Pray think
and tell me, my dear young lady," urged the clergy-
man; "ft is a very easy question. ' "I don't want to tell
his name," said the ingenuous girl; "but I've no ob.
jectiou to telling you where he lives."
AN ITALIAN MURDER.—A correspondent of
the Ga,re(ta dell' Emilia writes on the 20th ult. from
Sant' Agata Feltria as follows :
On Sunday last, at nine o'clock at night, the Commander
of a detachment of Carbine,a and two inferior officers were
returning from a country fete with a person who had been
arrested on a charge of having been found in pomaded, of
arms. At a distance of a few mile. from Sant' Agate they
were attacked by the friends of the prisoner, armed with
daggers, halves, and firearms, their ohjeet being to Bet the
prisoner free. After a desperate fight the three riflemen were
overpowered by numbers, and killed. Their bodies were
cut In pieces. This act of barbarism recalls the most fright-
ful crimes of the Neapolitan brigands. The inhabitants of
this place are filled with horror sod indignation. The
anthonties are actively engeged in making inquiries, assisted
by a company of bersaglieri and a large force of Carl:dime's.
Some arrest have been made, and, among others, one person
who Is not expected to recover from the wounds he had re-
ceived. Ills expected that the other offenders will soon tall
into the hands of justice
WAGES AND WIVES. —PhilallihrOpie Fanner:
"Well, Tonikins, after this week, Instead of paying
you partly in cider I shall give you two shillings extra
wages." Tomkina : "No, thanks, muter ; that won't
do for me!' Farmer: "Why, man, you'll be a gainer,
for the cider you had wasn't worth two shillings!"
Tomkins : "AI. but you see I drinks the cider myself;
but the ow'd 'ooman 'll 'ev the two shillun I "—Punch.
STRIKES AND CONTINENTAL COMPETITION.—
The Rotterdam correspondent of the Putt Mall Gazette
writes :
Some clays ago an event occurred in the neighbouring
village of Kralingen which is worthy of being known in Eng-
land, because of the light it throws on the effect of the strikes
on the interests of English workmen. The springs used for
railway sea other carriages were always heretofore imported
from England, but the English manufacturers have not been
able of late to supply them in sufficient quantity, because
their workmen refuses to work. One of the moat important
Sheffield houses thereupon resolved to set up, in combite.
Won with a well-known iron manufacturer of Holland, Mr.
Hots, • breed, of his establishment at the village named, in
order to provide the Continent with springs. Tide establish-
ment has been Inaugurated it icon a ver) large scale, and it
will be extended as soon as this becomes necessary. I hear,
but I cannot guarantee the rumour, that other English
manuracturers intend to establish branches in Holland.
Tug Boy ! —There ia a certain species of young
animal held by many mothers as at best a double bles-
sing ; by many sisters of slightly supenor years an an
irrepressible nuisance; by settled spinsters and con-
templative old ladies as a sort of small Red Indian
skirmishing upon the outposts of civilisation, and speci-
mens of which these good people would voluntarily
invite into drawing-rooms or flower-gardens no sooner
than wild horses. Thin creature is a boy.
FORGIVEN WITH A VENGEANCE. —A couple
ran off to get married, and came back to the bride's
Louse, where she hmnbly sued for the forgiveness of her
father, kneeling at his feet all tears —" Forgive, forgive
me, dearest father !" sobbed the lovely suppliant.
" Forgive you exclaimed the old gentleman "why,
lam only too glad to get rid of you. Your teniper
and idleness have been the plague of my life, and make
your marriage no It's, to me my dear child. Su take
her," added the old gentleman, generously, addressing
the happy man ; "and may you be happy!"
A PLEA FOR THE HALF CROWN. —A "Coun-
try Backer" has done a public service in directing at-
tention to the fact that in calling in half crowns and
substituting florins, Mr. Lowe is not studying the Con-
venience of Her Majesty's !subjects The reason is that
"while the half crown performs the functioiaof both the
shilling and the sixpence, the florin performs that of
the shilling only." The writer quotes his own ease :
" I require for the wants of my branch a comparatively
large sum of silver per annum. In one instance
lately, when the stock was entirely exhausted, a re-
mittance of i'soo reached me, which consisted of £3OO
in florins and £OO in shillinge, so that I had not a coin
whieh could do the duty of a sixpence, wnereas, had
the £3OO leen in half-crowns, I would have had eight
sixpences to, every pound—eash very conveniently
attached to a florin If the florin displaces the half -
crown, a great many more sixpences must be coined,
which will often gather together in large and very in-
convenient numbers, while the converse, equally in-
convenient, will also probably occur."
SCHOOL OF LNDtJSTIOT Ati ROUEN. —The
Journal Officiel says there bass just been founded at
Rouen, under the patronage of the Chamber of Com-
merce, the Sociilte d'Emulation, and the Rouen Lloyd's,
an "Upper School of Industry," organised on the
widest bags, and epecially intended for the instruction
of persona who are to be placed at the head of manu-
facturing establishments, &a. The School will be
opened on the ith of October next, and will not only
give that general education necessary for the manage-
ment of any industrial work, lout also the special in-
struction required in all the chief departments of na-
tional industry, such as spinning, weaving, dyeing, the
chemical arts, mactine making, &c. The teachers who
have been selected are men who unite to extensive
theoretical knowledge an extensive acquaintance with
practical work. Workshops, laboratories, and collec-
tions of specimens of various objects have been fitted
op with the greatest care, and efforts will be made to
maintain them on a level with the propene of discovery
and invention, no that the students may be provided
with all that is necessary for the successful prosecution
of their studies. "The Upper School of holustry " is
to be so inserted with "The Upper Commercial School"
and will be placed under the same administration- It is
expected that it will receive support from all those
persons who interest theamelVetiLa oommerclal bp
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A FORECAST !—A Special correspondent writes
se follows, front Richmond, Virginia :--
" Sim* I have been in the Southern States I have Sighed
with many Southerners, and I am sorry to WV that the
bitterness whieb wee caused by the late war hint:V.o means
yet died out. The South, of course, feels oosquered,
awl
knows well that it is not strong etioneh at presebt to cope
with the North, but none the less is a separatnn of the
Union into a Northern and Southern Republi, ardently
desired by many of the leading nun in the Fouth. It is,
indeed, I know, the opinirn of many thouehtful Americana
with whom I have conversed upon tho matter, that
eventually. the Union will be br,,ken imitate thrve great

republics."
WoCI.I. THEY WERE 11FRE.—We never
thought to respect the Spanish Cellists. But we read
that "they threaten an attack on the Railways, audit
will probably go very hard with the uulncky otliciab."
We hetzin-to think that there is some sense in CarliaM,;

after all—Punch.
A PARISIAN "SPORTSMAN."— Vie PariBi,
enne tells the story of a lover of shooting, as related
by an intelligent coachman. "Eh ! Moneieur, all
these peoplie you see going about in open carriages,
La
with their dogs and their guns, are only make-believe.
Nothing amuses *e Parisians so much as to stroll
about the streets with their guts. For instance, this
wansiagest nine, I picked up a gentleman encumbered
with shooting paraphernalia, gun, gaiters, cartridges,
and game bag, &c. We left the Boulevard Beau.
marshals, and he said, • Take me to the station Rua
St. Lao ire, by the Boulevards. 'All right, sir.' When
we reached the Rue du lizavre—'l,ll I coachman,' he
cried, 'I have forgotten something; go back to the
Boulevard Beaumarchais by way of the Boulevards."
When we arrived at his house, he just got out and in
again, saying, Now drive me to the Boulevard Mont
metre ; I shall breakfast before I start.' And there he
breakfasted with his gun at his side, at a table on the
trottoir, and looked delighted. On getting into the
carriage again he said, 'Coachman, just take a little
turn on the Boulevards; I have plenty of time.' At
loot, at two o'clock he alighted in the Rue St. Lazare,
paid the fare, and ran upstairs. Well ! who de you
think I meet two hours later driving in another car-
riage on the Boulevards with his gun by hie side? My
patron of the morning."
STOPPING THE INTEREST !—A good story is
told of a gentleman on dining with a merchant. A
dusty old bottle of wine had been carefully decanted,
and a glass tilled. "Now, you can't guess what that
cost me?" said the host. 'Surely not. I only know
that it is excellent." "Well, now, I can tell you, for
I made a careful estimate the other day. When I add
the interest to the first price, I find that it cost me the
sum of just eight shillings per glass?" "Good gra-
cious! you don't say so!" said the gentleman; and
then draining his Riese, he hastily presented it again,
with the remark, "Fill up again WI quick as you can,
for I want to stop that confounded interest.
PROGRESS IN JAPAN.—As instances of the
march of civilisation amongst the Japanese, the fol-
lowing items from the China Mail are interesting
Accommodation for reporters for the press is now pro-
added in the native courts. A number of children, bought by
Chinese for exportation, have been seized. The new railway
Is working well. Fears are entertained of the riuderpest
spreading to Japan. Squabbles between the Customs officials
and foreigners appear to be on the increase. The murder of
an entire family of thirteen by native police is reported
from 'redo. Japanese bank-notes, manufactured at Frank-
fort, have been put Into circulation. A Japan branch of the
Royal Asiatic Society is in course of orniatiou."
SAD CASE OF PARRICIDE. —The danger of
carrying loaded firearms upon the person finds a
me.ancholy illustration, remarks the Ave York Times,
in the caws of the late Michael Sandford, who was re-
cently shot and killed by his eon, Melville, at Madison,
N.J. It appears that the deceased, while in a state of
partial intoxication, had been preparing a leg of
mutton for dinner. He approached his wife imme-
diately afterward, and had a quarrel with her, the
knife he had been using still remaining in his fluid.
The son, coming suddenly upon the scene, was no ex-
cited by what seemed to him an attempt on the life of
his mother, that he drew his revolver and shot Inc
father dead. The cape is, if possible, made even more
sad by the circumstance that this eon Lad been the
constant companion and favourite of his father, sharing
equally.in all his sports and pastime.
PITY FOR A LONELY YOUNG MAN.—O. W.
Holmes in the Atlantic, writes as follows
I know of nothing in the world teederer than the pity a
kind-hearted young girl has for a young man who feels
lonely. It is true that these dear creatures are all compas-
sion for every kind of human woe, and anxious to alleviate
all human misfor:unes. Thty will go to Sunday schools,
through storms their brothers are afraid of. to teach the
most unpleasant and uutractable classes of little children the
age of eletbusaleh, awl the dimensions of og. Meg of
Bashan's bedstead. they will stand behind a table at a fair
all day, until they are ready to drop, dressed in their
prettiest clothes awl their sweetest smiles, and try to make
you buy what you do not want, and at prices you cannot
afford. all this as cheerfully as if it were not martyrdom to
them as well as you. Such is their love for all good objects,
such, tie ir eagerness to sympathise with all their suffering
fellow-creatures—capeclally the lonely young man.
POOR FELLOW !—A Cleveland lawyer lately
lost his mind in trying to remember and deliver the
parting message of hie wife, who, on bidding him good-
bye in the morning, told him to "go to the dress-
maker and tell her that she (the wife) had changed her
mind. a'i'l tell her," said the wife, '' that if she thinks
it would look better with ten bias flounces without
puffier, and box plaiting below the equator, which
should be gathered in h in-stitched gu igeons up and
down the seams, with gusset-stitch between, she can
make it up in that way, instead of fluting the bobinett
insertion and piecing out with peint-appliaud, as I
suggested yeeterelay."
DAINTY PAUPERS ! —The inmates of Clapham
Workhouse having taken a dislike to Australian meat,
refuse to eat it, and make their dinner It potatoes when
it is served up. In consequence of this refusal more
than half the quantity of meat served out has to be
thrown into the pig tub. The matter was brought
before the attention of the guardians at their last
meeting, and the opinion of one of the members was
that the paupers had combined and were deb-endued to
carry thew point; another member was (against the
use of the meat, because it bast been tried at the board,
and only one guardian ate any of it, and that was to
Pet an example. After some diecnseion it was resolved
that no alteration in the diet should be made.
A COLONIAL Itomexce.—The Australian Cor-
respondent of The Times sends over the following
It often happens that men grow rich here who form no new
ties in the country, and for various reiwous say nothing of
those which have been broken off, and avoid giving any clue
which might renew embarrassing associations. When such
a man dies intestate there are many chances against those
entitled to his property coining Into possession of it.
Judgment has just been given in a siugular case of
this kind, determining the right to an estate worth
now about £25,000, after allowing for depredations
which have wasted about a fifth of it. The tot.
towing facts were with dillizulty proved in the suit to which
I refer. One Thomas Graham was horn in 1802 at Kildgate,
Beverley, Yorkshire. In 1820 he married, and two sous were
born of this marriage. In laati, having quarrelled with his
wife, he sailed for Tasmania in the ship Hibernia with
another womineand a family by her. The ship WIL9 burnt at
Ira; she and her children perished; but Graham and a few
survivors were picked up. Graham found his way to Hobart
Town, where he worked at his trade of a cabinetmaker and
kept a puellehouse. In 1840, his wife stilt living, he married
at Melbourne, a Mrs Crook, whose husband was living. Ho
acquired considerable properly as an hotel-keeper and
brewer. In January, 1671, he -lied intestate, and his widow,
by the double bigamy, took possession and administered to
it Graham had never troubled himself by inquiries about
his sons, and never spoke of them except In reams hints to
one or two persons. but, moved by some strange impulse
only a month before his death, he broke the silence of 40
years by addressing a letter to hia two sons—" John Lan-
caster Graham, or William (sic ,his brother, Beverley, York-
shire, England," informing them that he was out of health
and rich, awl that if they came to him he could put them in
possession of his property. They were both living in humble
life, and fortuuately near their birthplace, so the letter
reached them. Its delivery secured them the balk of the
estate.
A STRANGE SUICIDE.—On the 21th of July
(says a Melbourne paper) one George Edward Massey
committed suicide m Adelaide, The deceased was a
member of an old Inch family, being the son of the
Hon. Mr. Massey, and the grandson of the late Lord
Clarina. Some years ago he resided in Victoria, but
he returned home and remained in Ireland until a few
months ago, when he again visited Victoria, having
acquired some property. On his return here he re-
newed his intimacy with the Dean of Melbourne, wholoon
perceived that Massey was labouring under the delusion
that there was a conspiracy to murder him. Massey
went to Adelaide, to hide himself, as he said, from his
pursuers, and after residing there come three weeks,
abet himself at the door of Dean Russell, of Adelaide,
to whom he had prevhimly written announcing his
intention to commit self-deetruction. Letters were
found in the room inhabited by the deceased ad-
dreaseil to the Dean of Melbourne, and also a will
dieposaug of I-100 and other praperty. An inquest was
held, and a verdict was arrived at that the decesael
shut himself while in an uneound etate of mind.
A PLEASANT DoC M ENT !—" I have taken off,"
nail Mr. IsOwel the other day at Glasgow, "£'J,OOOlOllO
of taxes, and yet the Revenue for the present half-yeale
which ends in a few day 14, amount to C 1,200,000 more
than it was in ISfiB, when these 29,000,000 of taxes
were in existence." The half-year referred to ended
on alondayeatel we (The Times) publish the fl,4llrefl
which justify the Chancellor of the Exchequer's' Con-
gratulations. A pleasant document it is, showing the
nation in the full tide of prosperity, making money
feet, and " consuming" in an equal or even greater
ratio. We are not a very eating people, all clatesee
live well, and our workpeople especially live on a scale
of expenditure which, aa they have been lately tol.l, is
equalled by no European country' and not much ex -
°ceded in the 'United States,. The la:venue, in SOM*3
of its most important departments, °wee lunch to the
lave of plenty, of comfort and Roam",
which dietin-
guiehes the million. It is the index, not of what the
nation heal earned, but of what it deems itself juetifivel
in parting with out of ite earnings, and therefore is an
even truer representation of the security mad confi-
dence of the masses.
A E Ulm FOR DROPHOBIA.—ReferTiLg to the
death of a groom at Salford, from hydrophobia, Mr. F.
Price, the caroner for the Manchester district of
Lancashire, stated at the conelusien of an Inquest that
he had received twe communications as to the remedies
for hydropho'ia. One was from the vicar of
in Kent (the Hon. Mr. Ebel.), who etated that a person
in that village had a recipe loathe cure of hydrophobia.
It had been in the po-seasion of the family for a
hundred yeara and had always been founa effectual.
Ile second corummication was flow Mr. Whitehead,
of the Raggel and Industrial Schools, Huddersfield, who
stated that Dr. Rich's extract was an unfailing specific.
Numerous testimonials were given of persons who had
been cured. It seemed a pity that these remedies
were tot better known, and he believed it to he the
duty of local Boards and other public bodies—for
the question was of national importance tao test
them, and if they were found to be effectual, then
Government ought to purchase the recipes and make
them public for the benefit of the people at large. lie
might add that his colleague, Mr. Edge, had received
communicationa of a similar kind, and any one who
wisheil fit earth', information could apply either to
him (Mr. Price) or to Mr. Edge. On the same day Mr.
Edge, in holding an inquest, made some remarks with
regard toils inquest he recently held at Bary as to the
death of a surgeon's son, who died from the bite of
a- toad dog. On the occanion in queetion he ha,
suggested to the jury the desirability of soine sort of
1,1 epeutumut Lei..g made to :he Government upon the
frequency of deaiitui from hydrophobia, there having
been within his own district five such deaths within the
last 12 months, and in the district **coot to his there
haci gm far deal& tbil