The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-05-23 00:00:00

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has been volunteered to prove that, at the Ginn e tn., ..., . itc—l-gaieb4—atstetd—t—"he-jUrryth..Atrimtcons—iendedratthmlene qudatb'inlyi'Ufct'l7: . . ~,
explosion, he was in Glasgow, as was asserted by 10, silt- . is Ltd and snakefancier named John
situ on Thursday attenuant. lie died wale lifteen minutes
nonesese,:ii.de,ll:teshaucvhepforouorf.isiteuxet.,rem.e.lls:ousnmsyaetai,sttevy , nu, .1.: Brooks ‘,...a u:sit'ten.by in. pet rattle.ntake that he was pl lin,
London under circumstances that exclude min , ~ afterwards."—.s en fork herald
they have spokenthe truth, Lr they have commit.. a,,b !me Aim ,m4.;.olo:mmr loss pei', . Monis' t'do House of Common.
wept: y. On the other side. not only is mistake posailde, but to topen l the old Law by which all who " practice astrology.
. svmpathy with the criminal and 111 /4. or. In ei'LP, would are liable lobe taken np CS Vagninto,
Ictill t timny to falsehood.
But there is an easy method a Oscine Vie matter ley-aal A bronze ltm man coin of Coe age of Phillilets the
-,.: 1,'•1'1.. ' ... 20 n In• • 1-t -en tin; up at Varisbrook in tl.e isle
....MC impracticable at the trial, lint quite la:nth:air, c . ~ f ~.,... • ', 'is '
' if Barrett was really at Glasgow, as he as,ei-t,., he noild bnil ' '"• .
1 ,accinetly what passed them during the Circe day: before At Edinburgh a druggist's DA istant, labouring inn er
the explositat iii Loudon he could name tire person- he ti c innuence ie c• Criutot . rem, n., leapt awn& window, a..d
, ..11.-nke to, w here he net them, what they said and did, when., 001 •CV_.rely injured.
Ihe dined nut slept. and 5 hundred other small events. public A governess at Boston, United States, liawinz in a
and private, that others titc,t have seen and heard e,mally tit 4•1 vexation card her pupils a set of young adnier.n, on
. u lth himself. let hi- narrative Ile set down ver/atino ; semi being reproved for her language, apologi,ed 1, ',lying that
two sagacious detectives to Glasgow to igncertam the truth she Cal speaking to those ju-t beginning arithmetic !
of that narrative ; let tlieni see the persons he names, and
The Natim dna sunday Iccitt.ilie Banda ill Battersea
, 5 initial. telling them what Lanett has reported, innittire into ..• . .
' their memories of the :Ante times. If &mien WWI in and • in.rn.:l l'al ks,. lilt Ill'il MC
.1' SCIISOII last Sunday 'a Ohs
Glasgow, it cat ttttt tbe but that some of the pentad. refemsl to v• v.v..em.,,,,,,',..,m•me ...cm., 5......ernm ..!'m'el e........ch1Y tO al.l4,.iate
Iby hint would, front their memories. confirm his statements. th'-' - - -''c ', ~, ", 050'111, 1 ~''.',....- ''''l 1-'''', ,the''‘• V','l the ...°
If he is asserting the truth, the cliect the inquiry the more will 0t,1,-, nn,n•l on"...tmt ~,ntenneo Ini ',lr.-se...lke dull oitnerewm of
I.i: innocence appear. 11 111- cannot or will not produce such the "...1."... u.r." ''re•
a narrative of lit, wherealends. Or if the persons and places The Figaro has a bit of British news for Fremmolt
do not coulhin liis Amy othstantiaily, we may he sure that renters. flaying been inked by its snigger doers what is tire
I' .is an invention. TM, course, which affords a certain te-I meaning of the - Esq." atter English names, the Fp,ro
mt truth, sue impracticable at the trial. became the in it-nor says that is the title assumed by Englishmen w Ito tilink
c.mnot lie questioned, eve., for his I is: Vindilliii,.“ : but - Sir - Simi plain aud commonplace.
after conviction that objection no longer prevails. aml the 1 hirin,..
convict who pro:est. his innocence may be fairly called upon the past %reek 39 wrecks have been reported
inalsimmg ha tie present year a total ot OA.
to give all pos.nible information in Mc power that would lead
to the proof alit. An American repeating rifle, made liv Mr. Henry.
has liven mil/witted to the voninatice at Woolwich, which
cciita iiii • is eh:ages ; these WCIV tiled in 13 recounts, the rule
Wan tilCil rechargval in IS secontl4, and :main tired 15 times in
13 seconds, making in all 30 eltots in 44 seconds.
The rtalian papers state ti-at an interesting rorre.
spondence between 'End Byrn -n und tho Ai menian 1..,11k4 of
St. insure, near Venice, has been recently discovered in that
In omistery. It will le: 1,11..0a-red that lamed Pylon sprat
a considerable rennion of his time tit St . I arine. and that he
elnerbhuil a great affection for the monks of that internting
monastery, to whom he :dilutes in his " l'hilde Garold."
Mr. Charles Buxton, M.P., who withdrew from time
famacta Conanittin when It villa decided to prosecute Mr.
Eyre on a charge of murder, now asks to be permitted to
onamperate with the committee in the proceedings which they
have Pis, institnted against the eta omvertior. Mr. Innton
further offers to subscribe £3OO tow ants the expenses ot the
prosecution.
Time military profession is waiting a little anxiously

for the ilbtlib ii if the tolembly lip—ge amount of patron-
age tiow available for the higher ranks. The Govenion.hip
of Sandhurst, the colonelcy of the 70th, the majority of
Chelsea llostital, three pensions for dhtinguisbed and meri-
torious ~crvice, and two aides-de-canto:hip to tier Moje.ty,
are all unappropriat ed, and some of them have been vacant
for several weeks.
Mr. George Francis Train. although he has been
unable to pay his creditors in this country. has provided ift
of his own jarcket lirst-class is.rths for Colonel Nagle and
the reel of the Jae, net expeditionists who sailed from
Queenstown in, Wednesday last. for America. The Ameri-
can Government had taken third-class tickets for them fait
such an indignity towards the inure Hoes Feniam, Mr. Tbrn,
himself, fresh from the liankruptry court, could not endure.
Lord Brougham had lost the use of Ids memory
some time !erne his death, and in the last few sire s of
his life his mind uses as ate only for a few Seealills at a
time. An old acquaintance aho called upon him about a
mouth since, was informed M. his j by-clan that one
minute was the longest conversation he could be allowed to
sustain.
The present United States' Congress is known an
pre-eminently a emigreos of jobs. f here are now pouting,
in various stages of unfinished legislation. Mils appropriat.
Moto lessthan 268,2.50,000d015. to vsrious ailwaya and naviga-
tion comp:odes, the profit of which is intended to go into
private pockets ; and besides these there are also pending
moneLgrpts for every