The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1876-09-23 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

THE MURDER OF GENERAL PB.Im. —A letter from Madrid says that the investigation into the murder of General Prim commenced on the 27th of December, 1870, has just terminated. The proceedings fill 32,000 folios of manuscript, and have been carried on by 18 judges. One hundred and twenty persons have been sought after as implicated; of these, 40 have been discharged for want of proof of complicity, the risidance of 4i others could not be found, six are dead, ten are in prison, and two of those absent are out of the country, and have not obeyed the summons to appear. During the proceedings it has been shown that some fabricated evidence was offered. Notwithstanding all the efforts which have been made it has not been found possible to fix the guilt of the crime on any one by absolute proof.  GOOD NEWS ! —The American Correspondent of The Timf.B writes : There is a general indication of a revival of the recently much depressed trade in cotton goods. A recent large aucHon sale of prints in New York attracted buyers from all parts of the country, developing a spirited competition for the goods and a decided advance In prices. This result, with some other indications of a reving demand for cotton goods, has put our manufacturers in better spirits, and there are several annotince.nents cf this atreing of idle factories and of full•time running where heretefo.e there has been only partial time. These statements come from different sections of the coaLtry, showing that the better prospect in the cotton manufacture is general. The A. arid W. Sprague Mills at Providence, employing 10,000 hands, started yeetee r. _ day. Half- dozen mills in Philadelphia diner havestarant and other are about starting. At Fall River, Lowell. Lawrence. other New England factory uoryiatuouwfancsturtheres purieNeociatEloolig;lafnodr starting are vigorous. 1t think there will be an advance in cotton and woollen goods 801 l cotton buying an advance in wages at Fall this autumn, and they wool tbotyoinrgepalreenisbhristkheudrndletroctlikiss impetus, and there may be a slight adva. i a d n which ha ivvene r. u Tmhue chbreehaeka pienr tchoae h` caosahl acdo muchrnb ri ttoi promolog the revival in manufactures. nONwasTHtEhe BeußbAjleNct. —of TlO o Association by Mr. C. T. a paper read to the British ThTellaloAn of alcoholcl oAuLtChell°brlai Kingz3tt, F.C.S., who stated atsheconactilluosuitont softhaalteohhaodl a at •—Fin.tt that been arrive • not increase with the con. holic diet • therefore, as all the eeddaalLoilay .must. of necNisity be disposed alcoholte ni al nu c toceodcn perut consumed certainly not e trial d Secondwithin ttdhhaaaiittliimhanee;iiiamt must siniiol was e nioest of alcohol in t y foil lla'wing the taking of a dose was completed in 24 hours after thee dose was taken ;and third, that the amount eliminated both in breath and urine was a minute fraction only ot the amount of the alcohol taken. Dr. Percy was able to procure a much larger proportion of alcohol from the brain than from a greater quantity of blood that could possibly be present within the cranium of the animal upon which he operated. Dr. Marcet held that alcohol operated upon the brain by means of absorption of the nervious centres. Other experimenters had taken alcohol from brain matter in the case of alcoholic poisoning. But these researches still left us ignorant as regarded the true action, if any, of alcohol en cerebral matter, and no method of investigation was possible until the chemical constitution of the brain was known. The President said there was a delicate connective tissue in the brain by operating upon which alcohol had the effect of interfering with the action of the brain.