The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-03-30 00:00:00

THE ABERDEEN ROMANCE.

is a great creature, even if he is a little An enterprising Chicagoan is going to EuropeSo .en
stingy about the franchise," lathe frank aelmowledgment of photographs of the Mr.
Grace Gresiawood. . Lord Mayo's children we said to have telegra lied
aiw.thaysviuustielttohedeinlectriner. c
ymoireFl, a to the nmrderer of their fattier, "May God Pl° riot
Episcopal bishop as he The Queen left Windsor last Saturday afternoon fes
tellAne:;rapiloldhstr ttyhhea:tranamiolleM:eThidasi.oepurs.ot
travelled over his diocese, and was confirmed several tithes Baden. tier Majesty proceeded by special train to Ports-
before she was detected. She wished the ordinance repeated mouth,
t,i. som
wheresheer.6e,lnt
noosesbar held a
kedonbloardtthTearosun•walnyacohnt,sawhich !
becalms she had "understood it was good for rheumatism." sailed next morning for Cherbourg.
to It
inhire"ll !" up
ine
Society for toprart'ProotefcPtingArisli:im\NalasThwaring A
day, the jury returned a verdict for £6OO damages in the tag,
uggshmou that according to law, they will be severely of Wilcox e. Godrey, an action for breach of promise.
punished if they ilitreat their horses. At a spirit meeting the other night, a gentle
Father Hyacinthe, speaking at a Bible Society requested the medium to ask what amusements were men f
meeting in Route the other day, declared that in the Bible popular in the spirit world? The reply was " Image, of ~,, ,
lies the real greatness of nations, and that England owed obituary notices."
her power to it more than the Great Charter. A school committee in the United States, nos, '
An elderly sehoolmistrese is mentioned, in the recent first celebrated on account of its Alabama claims, are re.
report of a Church of Englfutd School Inspector, who, when ported to have summit up their opinion of all examinatios :
he proposed to her that the children shituld sing, shook her which they had attended by making to the p•mils this addrea. '
cane in tile faces of the young folk, and said-" Now, YOU -" You
,have,i,ii,:ti
fho:yrlpt,:h:7o:g::l
sattphel
xai atttri aunts:eadrrdwii7l:l,:y ii
ii
nw
ay
,ori
ni
11,,Irt,ea,tpi,: eaarl:i eat/ ioap
ni
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little wretches, sing 'theist is merciful,' will your tool, but you hoist out sot still. A hevening class would be
The late Father Taylor said that Daniel Webster makingtslei„tiits
v,a,
was the belt man lie ever knew ; and of Collector Russell,
his eon-in-law, he once remarked, "Thomas is not exactly* going mein Germany. Oise who writes to as on tile suliject
saint, hat lie is a very sweet Maher."
daLy expected, by these proceedinga After all it may be
Soule one sent th the Prince Imperial of France on ouie t. meet and cutuder-aheck the vivacity of Preece in the
sueTh:: IfeinKaered.wobonrsCorrhave:nr.rnidient staoyaltatl,nl(2rll(t.7ithoot•
h..ii,hheir2oththilalurca lorhailicutt,:.eer:,,zu;o(,),ttit,:rio,wc.liega.t
to his Imperial Highness, and I,SOO letters.
their own. They itt present number lid souls, but it is sup-
f .!:triiynt
,rotitil,o
19,.....te.5id,rft of il noble Leuni
ee,t lan.
osed that two-thirds of t. members kof the Cathol Char ,ii
recently flied in PmM in the most humble eircumstmces Ile
u that finer (600 in all) will joie them. ' ,
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ruined Wowed by a series of diaastrous speculations. F
:11,1e. ehildren,,of th_e Primie and princess uf Wale.
" I am no afraid," said a young Parisian lady to an
lefte ,, mentor C."O on mummy memo* tor amsirtek 110 m.
Enlish miler. " Why, ma'am ?-"• Because, sir lord, I muy p.
ems
appga roching " the thirty,' " and she laughed her old.fashioned •,,„,ht where the will stay until the return of their Noyal
the
eehttheht.
summeriest. Miler said bluntly, "You needn't be afraid, ''''
maim, beeause the danger's leaving you, as 1 guess." From a private letter from Rome, under date March
14th, we take the following extract '-" We are all meek,
A pocket lire-escape has been invented. ing at the Prime of Wales's medical advisers sending hi,
One of the building laws of the city of New York from London, where the death-rate is 2/ percent., to Rome,
deserves attention elsewhere ;it requires that, whenever where at this motneut it is 51 per cent., with illpthor, .1
walls era supported on columns, such columns shall be fever, and small-pox to help it."-The Bock.
made tire-prom in accordance with the patent of Mr. Cornell. :
Miss Maria S. Rye, who has transplanted to hap. I
' The Palmyra Journal has for sey-eral weeks been pinees in a Canadian home so many hundreds of
soliciting "short articles" front its efflbscribers ; and last orphan or neglected girls, makes an appeal Inc further ea.,.
' week one of its readers sent in a baby's under-garinent, Lance to carry on Ler prdee a orthy object. We hope igm I
somewhat dilapidated, but dee enough to come within the will succeed. Those willing to aid her may be udortuog
rule. The Journal hurl a wood-cut made of it, arid claims that Midi Rye's othees are removed to Avenue House, Peck.
henceforth to be an illustrated paper. ham, where all letters should his addressed. Utlicehoun,
The author of that wonderfully successful child's 11 tot.
book, Alice in N'onderland, and of the equally popular one "We have before ufi a sad tale of the sufferings of
published this year called Through the Looking Glass, who the officers and men of Her Majesty's ship Chanticleer, lately
writes under the name of "Lewis Carroll," is Canon Light- paid elf at Sheerness. It is stated that she sailed from Eug
I foot, of Christ Church, Oxford. -
land with a crew of 175 all told. She lost by deserthat I •
I: A young lady was married without shots or stockings officer and 74 men; 5 offhfers were tried by court-martin,
, on, the other (lay, in accordance with an odd whim that such 12 officers left by exchange or other causes, 30 petty officers :)
I an act would bring her good luck, and men left owing to their time having expired, most of
whom would have volunteered afresh if they had not been .'
glad to get away, and 07 men and boys contrived ingot into .
Apropos of a cut having nine lives, a cautious
American philosopher of the Mill school writes; If chat is other ships "-Army and Nary Gazette.
killel in the tsilo v theyear, and los all winter under a
qusno w
roe Knorr i'k (Tenn.) natte thus describes* "wild .;
bank, and don't thaw out in the spring, and keeps iet
man saw a champi in of women's rigida 4
iterate the summer months, aunt rtill.t, lIIISSiIIg When winter f
aterday w
sets in agin, 1 bar alwus sed that that kat wag tied, or was
Tong steps. W genuinee
know she as an advocate of such by
she took, by the important swing of her bo the
holy as
playing deadful tine. she walked along, and by the immense and manly aim of ••
Fanny Fern tells of an aged female who thought she the piece of tobacco from which she was extracting ths
was "as young as ever she was, and as handsome as she juke, •
never Wll3. We are informed, gays the New Yurk Tribune, that ~
Wyoming boasts of a lady judge, before whom the Bev. Mr. Cudworth, the chaplain of the Massachusetts
several highly important cases are waiting to be tried. The House of Representatives, "bus adopted an original course 1
other day she was obliged to vacate her seat, and the came of prayer. lie addresses himself," says a Boston letter. )
of Wyoming justice will suffer disastrously for a month at writer. "to legislators, and touches on legislative topics, he .
least. The cause of this may be briefly stated in one word upholds the good, counsels the patriotic, and handles the
-"Twins" questions that coins before them in a novel way" This may
be all very fine and entertaining, but the Legislature employe
AVincennes photographerwlvertiees :- Babies taken
and finiahed in ten minutes," which is rough on the babies. ays Slr. Cudworth to pray : and itaa does not strike us
't7i'adtPthis is quite so much like praying it id like speech. .
The Emperor Napoleon has become an honorary making, or lecturing. However, as Mr. Cudworth is hot -
member of the Athemetun Club, engaged to pray for us, his method of supplication may be
Ml',, writes tothe Daily Tele.
ratAlo,p, patent eantit,,hir, . hes,
resntargorha,n
fir vegetable i
which is not soluble in water, and which, therefore, when graph to say that he did slot" crow" 411 the House of Cons
once applied, will remain throughout several successive
Franceti.fuee, for , the
upsrl.
ca.-, none
m Mr.
t Fo.o rA.bumsiliielbss...ke,
mons last Tuesday night as Mr. Odger said he did. "I he
washings. to say also," Mr. tillbanke continues, •- that I never chat.
Two "Victoria Hospitals "-one at Chelsea and the kneed Mr. Herbert, and it might be as well-though it
other at Victoria Park-lately laid claim to a legacy be- signifies nothing tome-that Mr. Odger should make himself
queathed vaguely by the late Mr. Briscoe, M.P., to -Victoria acquainted with facts before be brings such accusations
II ospital." Vice-Chancellor Matins decided iu favour of the against any man, whether a member at Parliament or net."
Victorbi Park institution, but the other asylum appealed to On the news of Lord Mayo's assassination reaching
the Lords Justices. It was ultimately arranged that the Rangoon, the Armenian community held a special service at
begneat should be equally divided between the two. the Armenian Church. The community with their priest •
chanted on their knees their National Anthem, praying to
On Sunday morning, about nine o'clock, while two their Maker that a recurrence of such a dastardly mange as 4
boys were svalkMg in the Queen's Park, Salinburgh, they ob-
the murder a his Excellency Eat] Slay°, Viceroy and
served the body of a woman lying in a hollow on the slopiim
Governor.Genmal of India, may never take place.
gronud. Information was seut to the police, apd the body,
which was almost entirely naked, was removed. The clothes All Paris is at present laughing over a clever smog.
were found lying scattered about. The Unfortunate a Oman gling device which the vigilaut FIVTICW .A.troi men have pm '
appears to be about 40 yearn of nee. It is supposed that she detected. The heavy ditties ou spit its have if course made i
had met her death by violence, as abets coesiderably bruised, the smuggling sisterhood (most of the smuggling now-edm 'l
and there are marks anti she had been severely kicked, is by women) doubly eager to bring into Paris au extra Illidw '
The ironclad Thunderer was euccemfully Immehed tity of the precious liquor., and this they have accompluthod
on Tuesday at Pembroke dockyard ; the ceremony of in • most ingenious manner-viz., by wearing zinc corsets
christening being performed by Mrs Sleyriek, wife of the "Provided with rotuudities which can easily contain four or
11. P. for the county. The weather was very tine, and several five gallone of braudy.' For a time the trick succeeded ad
thousand persons were assembled to witness the sight. Mr. rurality, but at length the officers began Cola suspicious of
(lunches was among the company present the magnificently developed busts w-hicks contrasted oddly
In some of the ladies with the "inadequate seeks and feces.
'lwo young princes, the sons of the Archduke Charles A staff of female searchers was enrolled, and the cheat
of Austria, had a warm dispute in the presence of no less a discovered,
person than the august Emperor himself. Greatly excited,
Warwickihire has been for some time the scene of an
one said to the other, "You are the greatest ass in Vninua!"
Highly offended at a quarrel in his presence, the Emperor agricultural sirike, which is daily assuming larger proper-
interrupted them, saying, with indignation, "Come, come, Haw, avai is now said to extend to eight comities. The men
young gentlemen, you forget that I am present." demand an advance froin 12s, a week to ISe., but the farmen
set their faces determinedly against the "Union."
A woman in Now York prefeeses to have discovered
how to make people live for ever, and on the proceeds, it is .An exceedingly choice and select collection of postage
said, mmage herself in the meantime to live remarkably stamps, has just been disposed of by Messrs. sotheby,
well. The plan is to pour something into your eyes, and Wilimuson, and Hodge, of Wellington-street, Loudon. The !
somethieg into your ears, awl rub something all over your foil awing were the rarest specimens :- A 20 cents. St
head. All these requisites are sold at a high price to per- Louis stamp, only one other in evidence-AS 12s. (ditto). A
chasers who wish to make themselves a nuisance by living
longer than in requisite.
jCAei'tffy"Th Expressvl
I'l'
Post,r'ktt largeol'f"tt-h' oval,.eill'Bsal 1 Iml'ira r rn:
this erki
--s
Buie: 1 li, genkel:l•l7.l
A protest has been made by the ladies of Ephraim,
romerey stamp- Si 15a. A 13 cents. Saudwich Isles stump,
San Pete C.funty, against laying eggs on a Sunday : as they
cannot stop it, they put aside all the eggs laid by their fowls figure in fancy border ; a very: fine specimen of this rare
on Sundays, and donate the amount for which they sell them stamp-ER 100. A 5-cents. Confederate States' Nashville
stamp, slate, unused, very scarce-Sy, A 3-cents. Marion
towards the emigration of the poor to Utah. stamp, black, written figure, unused ; -believed to be mann
We thought we were going to indulge in a poetic -5 guinoaa. A 10-estuts. oitte, extremely rare, unus.---6
pram when we commenced, "Mary lhad a little lamb, its guineas. A 2.cents. Memphis stanip, light blue, unused-g 5
fleece was white as snow, But Bert's the largest stock of pinto). The whole, consisting of 275 specimens, mules.'
hu7iejnerai 425M2 r1.71G. Oifdiard applied to Vice-Ctiancellor Wickens on
butter, cheese, and ham you ever know."
Was niece Yankee advertising, appealing toTitmihte,
taste and feelings. Saturday for an esteusion until the tot of May of the data
Mr. Pritchard, barrister-at-law, of Delhi, has read a from which the injunction restraining the Great Western
panes at the Society of Arts, London, in favour of giving a Railway from allowing the morning dr), n express and the
representative in Parliament to laths, as the only imam tff afterno,n up express to stop less than ten minute, St
maintaining England's supremacy there. The discuntion swindon, should come into operation. I'lle injunction, it
which followed endorsed the views of Mr. Pritchard. will be remembered, was granted on the application of the
Cape dial:monde are, according to latest accounts, de- lessee of the refreshment- room at Swindon, lint in order to
premed in valise, bat the diamond dealers at Cape town keep ayoi!! "L.' iuc''';vvui'uce "lull wf"lid be occasioned to the
nip their splri ts . Tli e y ace assiduously nursiit4o p r oj e t 1 u r
tio.ii;iiiid,.ll,eirichd:?..iiiip,,slay,oliff,:fitpicrdieltainolga:ei
et
e,
:ilL,whei
ildeais,O,fagi,t,tfrorh.atiAi i:opc,rdi..bt,;taiihntefl:u,e,fl,l,itinst,r‘lp":l:l;
the federation of all the &filth African colonies, diamond
fields included.
It is eaid that an Italian of the name of Corini LDS
ltilidnacet :NP.
dPt liiiAlthilFsot
It'd:. an: teo7bEyreddejitebgda :whsa.hatee:lnc ep-iC(,,,hr, is i nnaente.,,lill'fie:
iCrva i
Innd• undertaken to petrify the body of alamini within eight
months. M. Gorini has been for years engaged in special .
studies of this nature, and has arrived at the most extra- ranting the c mpany the extension asked for. The erten-
ordinary results. Among other proofs of Ins skid. the Doc- g
sion was• howeverf granted by the court as an indulger. to
tor possess. a stick of winch the head is formed of a human , •
eye. in an admirable state of preservation, and as load as re:74"Y' !" L. company '""t pay theco"... both
crystal. a f the appheation.

thumum is announced as shortly about to arrive in
Paris.

Salisbury Plain is spoken of as the probable scene
of the next Autumn Mameuvres. At a meeting on Satur-
day it was announced by Colonel Loyd-Lindsay that Mr.
Cardwell had not succeeded in procuring suitable ground in
the North of England.
The reported ramp* between Germany and Italy
Is now contradicted by the Opietione. the Opiotione says
there exists between the Governments of Berlin and Rouse
only " a very cordial understanding against the common
enemy."
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