The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-01 00:00:00

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ROME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.

CIVIL LIST PENSION/L-I%e following is a list
of pensions granted between the 20th June, 1807, and
the 20th June, 1808, and charged upon the civil list :
Miss Emily Southwood Smith, .E6O.
Mrs. Anne Warm, Robertson, £lOO.
Dame Louisa Ellis, £6O.
Mrs. Mary Mae, 1111111111 l £6O.
Mrs. Sarah Faraday ,widow and Miss Jane Barnard ',niece;
of the late Professor Faraday, £l5O.
Miss Cecilia Kitts, Mrs Ferooza ()mimell, Miss Helen
Rhoda Kilt,,, and Miss Frances Edith Tracy Kitto, EVA
Miss film lunch., Miss Anna Frances ilineks, and Miss
Bertha Ulnas, Elec.
Dame Jane Kerk Brewster, £2OO.
Mr. Jolm Charles Warrington Leech, £5O.
Miss Ada Rose I eech, A:5O.
Mrs. Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant, £lOO.
Miss Maria Susan Eye, £7O.
Sir. George Thomas Doo, FRS., Vat
Total, £1,200.
FIENIAN DEMONSTRATION. —On Monday, in last
week, Mrs. Mackay, wife of Captain Mackay, who is
now undergoing penal servitude, M-14,1 delivered of a
male child, which only survived its birth a few days.
The funeral took place on Friday evening from Mrs.
Mackay's house, in the North Maimstreet, Cork, and
was attended by an enormous concourse of persons.
Besides the regular procession, several thousand men
and women, not in procession, attended the funeral. The
first few rows of men following the bier wore crapes
and sashes, tied with green ribbon. For two or throe
hours before the funeral procession started the Main-
street, in the neighbourhood of Mrs. Mackay's residence,
WM completely blocked up by the vast crowd which
had assembled to attend the funeral. The event
passed off in the most orderly manner.
THE HARVEST IN ReSSIR.—The Gobs, of St.
Petersburg, says :
The die seems to be cast ; the harvest jr 10e0 is announced
as being bad in several provinces of the Russian empire.
The news from thosc on the Baltic are not better than from
the southern ones. In Livonia and Courland &or some time
past MI unfavourable lesult has been expected; but a toter-
, ably goal year was hoped for in Esthonia, where at present
nothing but lamentationa are heard, The communal re-
serves are almost exhausted, and serious doubts are enter-
tained as to whether the new yield will refill them. The
following is the report WC receive fmni the South All the
farmers in the government of Pultowa are in despair. The
' reaping ought to commence in a fortnight, and there is
nothing bt gather; neither rye, taw oats, nor hay, every-
thing is burnt up; not one drop of rain has fallen since the
beginning oi May. At this moment rye-dour costs one rouble
twenty copecks Ls, La the ln,uiil 33110.',1111 unheard of price
In this district. In Kief, Podolia. and Volhynia, matters
are no better, and prices rise daily.
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READY-MONEY—Be who goes to the market
with money in his pocket. prepared to pay for what he
buys, is master of the whole market, can deal where
he likes, and with whom he likes. If one dealer's
goods are not to his taste, he can have recourse to
another, and, in fact, to the extent of his purchasing
power, is master of them all. Consequently, ha can
use his own judgment in the selection of the wares he
wants, and need not be put off with inferior ones.
He is under no obligation to the seller, but can assert
his independence, and bargain with him on equal
terms, while his very independence will secure fur
him a greater degree of civility and attention than lie
would dare to expect were he deep in the seller's
books. In the next place, the man or the woman who
deals forcash only, and runs up no accounts, avoids the
risk of paying twice over for anything. This may
seem at first view of comparatively small importance,
but in truth it is not so. Demands are constantly being
made for such second payments—not so much, it may
bu charitably inferred, from the dishonesty of trades-
men and shopkeepers as from their carelessness. In
the bustle of business over the counter, they neglect to
cross off small sums received, and forget all about it
afterwards. Their memories are more tenacious of
debts incurred than of accounts settled, and if they
have any doubt as to whether a "little bill" is settled
or not, it is scarcely to be wondered at that they should
give themselves the benefit of it.
THE FATE OF PRESENTS Ti) NAPOLEON.—I
recall (says a writer in Harper'e New Monthly
Magazine) the case of a well-known publisher who
sent the Emperor Napoleon the most beautiful speci-
men of the bookmaker's art on which my eyes ever
feasted—a IVorcester's Dictionary, printed on satin
paper, soft as a baby's cheek, bound gorgeously in
green morocco decked with gold, with the Imperial ,
arms and cypher dexterously inserted at every avail-
able point, gilt-edged, perfumed—a very triumph in
its way. Arrived at the palace, this book was care-
lessly knocked about from one room to another, cared
for by nobsly ; until, feeling sorry for it as if it were
a living thing, I one slay asked why it was so ill-
treated. "Ms ! Diable !" said M. Mocquard, im-
patiently, "these things pester us. I, for one, wish
people would stop sending them. If you want it you
can have it." "But will not the Emperor object to
my having it?" "Parbleu," said the secretary,
shrugging his shoulders, and laughing in a manner
half-contemptuous, " what does the Em
perm of France care for Wit .chestaire Satire's I liction
naire." This case is not related because there is any ,
thing out of the common way in it. Quite the con-
trary. It chanced to be the first of several elegant
books which were freely given to me, which came to
the Tuileries in the same way. Nearly all these were
from American authors or publishers, though a few
were from English sources, audit is easy to conceive,
were the centre of many a fond hope, and prepared,
at great expense of time, labour, and money for th -jr
special purpose.
INFLUENCE OF MARRIAGE ON LONGEVITY.—The
Journal des Connaispinces Mi'dicoles publishes the
following statistical remarks, lately communicated to
the Royal Society of Edinburgh by Dr. Stark, on
the effects of marriage on longevity is—lt appears that,
between the ages of 20 and 25, the number of deaths
among bachelors is double those that occur among
married men. This inequality of mortality diminishes
during the subsequent ages, but the advantage always
remains on the aisle of the voluntaries of Hymen.
Thus from the age of 20 to the termination of life, the
average attained by married men is 521 years, while '
that of bachelors is only 40. In other Words, after the
age of 20, the former are likely to live 19.1 years longer
than the latter. After the age of 25 the average life
of married men is somewhat more than 60, while it is
not quite 48 for bachelors. This curious fact sit, as
that the chances of life vary with every age, and •he
mere fact of our having attained a certain liver sl, is a
sort of earnest of sufficient vital powers to carry us to
a later age. About one-half of the bachelor tribe die
before 30, while, on the contrary, the immense majority
of married men live to betwein 60 and 80. Regarding
females, the difference in the duration of life between
married and unmarried women is not so great as
among -the other sex ; nevertheless it is still consider-
ably in favour of the former. In wedlock, it is true,
females are more subject to premature death than
otherwise during the three quinquennial periods--viz.,
from 15 to 20, from 20 to 25, and from 25 to 30; but
they find ample compensation between the ages of 30
and 40, when spinsters in their turn die in much greater
numbers. The latter get ahead again between the ages
of 40 and 50 ; but beyond that period the advantage
constantly remains with married women.
THE SMYRNA BRIGANDS.—The Malta Tinua
Bays :
%Ve learn by a private letter from Smyrna that the Ottoman
police, carrying out the peremptory orders of the Pa-ha, had
tracked the notorious band of Cretan fugitive brigands who
lately sacked £1,500 as the price of ransom of Mr. Van
Lennep, the son of the Swedish mid Norwegian Consul, and as
they refused to surrender three were shot in the encounter,
and their heads brought into town in triumph, leaving the
bodies to be feasted upon by jackals. On the 27th of June—
a few days later—three others of the band were taken, awl
brought in alive, for the disposal of whom the Pasha awaits
the orders of the supreme Government of Constantinople,
which will, no doubt, make short w.utk of it, and order their
execution. The capture of these miscreants has caused
great excitement among the Greeks at Smyrna of all classes.
They maintain that the prisoners, at well int the tninkless
heads, are not those of any of the band, but of peaceable
collectors of seammony iti the plain Mr. Van Leaner,
however, has unluckily recognised the three trunkless heads,
notwithstanding their mutilation and disfigurement from
gunshot and sabre wounds. The Greeks pretend that he has
been bribed by the police to depose to this fact, in order to
cover the murder and capture of innocent parties. On the
other hand the pollee assert that they ore ready with proofs
not, only that the parties are of the itientteal band, and re-
fugees front Crete, hunted down by the Ottoman troops, but,
moreover, that Greek merchants, who would be very much
offended at having their respectability questioned, have been
in communication smith the (site crusts.
A MELANCHOLY DEATH !--The writers for the
Hannelon announce the suppression of the journal in
the following terms :
mm. Victor Azam, Ariste, Cedeon Vermersch, Ac, have
to inform you of the loss which they have sustained in the
person of the Ilarowton, their adopted ehild, struck by a
violent death in the Sixth Chamber of Cotrectional
Friday, July 10, the Feast of itainte-Felicite bitter derision ,
at the age of seven years, accompanied by a fine of I,Xoofr.,
and they beg of you to receive their thanks for the sympathy
which, when alive, you showed for the deceased. A' r
pos.
BRAVERY REWARDED.—A party of lintlerwriterg
assembled recently at the offices f Captain Downward,
Birchin-lane, Cornhill, London, for the purpose of pre-
senting a purse of 300 guineas and a gold chronometer
and chain, valued 60 guineas, to Captain Henry Wyeth,
master of the ship Seristinsotaiii, to mark their ap-
proval id his conduct under very trying circumstances
while at sea. The ship Seringayutam left London on
the oth of Atip-,ust, 18414, bound for Japan, with a cargo
valued at 275,000. In the early part of the voyage she
encountered a fearful hurricane, during which she
sprung a leak and did great damage, re miring the
pumps to be kept constantly going for forty days. On
the 7th of Octolk.r the crew, observing a vessel in the
distance, toll the captain they would remain no longer
by the ;hip, mpl were determined abandon her,
Wyeth told theiil Ida detetTninaticit wioi hit
remaiii by her, whereupon the Cr. WLttiaiuptcd to
home], the loni,boat to eat; y I.lit their purpose. The
Captain, iteiiiing himself with a rovolver, warned them
not to jell the hit.declarin,4 that he would fire on
the tir,t, m.O ai e iii; his bail the effect of quiet-
in r the nom, awl, Cu days rt. r the ship was safely
taki nt into the 51 Mr. iiwan, an un4lerweiter,
pail 144 ti triiiiito to Captain Wyeth for his courageous
conduct in not 41,41almong his ship, as some Captains
mould have done th' " eiruuni4ances. The delay
ill not pr. twa.; in 'aptgillWyeth wig; a suitalule testi-
monial m :triequentle of his having matte anividha
voyage,
WHAT Mit:g isslir, roUGIIT ADM- T.— Colonel
Montgonory Al 11.4 shot in A ilua ..nt a ; ; Colonel
Ramsay ho olio abut a servant . • Mr. Featherstoneiii
one about a recruit ; Sterne's father i rine aLcaft
goose ; and another gentleman hi ono shout an "acre
of anchovies;" one officer was challenged for merely
asking his opponent to the second goblet; and another
was compelled to fight about a pinch of snuff. General
Barry woo challenged by a Captain Smith for declining
wine at a dinner on a steamboat, although the general