The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1869-10-16 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

POETRY.-The San Francisco News Letter walked off. Sheridan Knowles joined his friend. Says BE Sheridan Knowles to his friend a minute afterwards, gives the following in reply to • correspondent "I'd give ye a thousand pounds,' me boy, if ye'd tell me Young Mother -Your little poem upon " Baby "Is a gem, who that man is !" and we regret we have not space for so exquisite a tlfrbit. If you have a fault it Is the trifling one, nonillion to all young Tim Faxus APPEAL FOR " Jusircr."-The writer., of sacrificing melody to hard sense. The third Stelae act of the Fenian., maintains the Morning Herald, was is a striking instance• crime, and none the less a crime because ignorance Doxery doodle-um, dinkle-um dum, and passion may have blinded them to its guilt It Turn to Its morzery memory mum. might not be necessary to repeat these things were it r!tf Leery boozery boo, not that the speakers at recent meetings appear to .letrty so sweet and so pitth 55 00. labour under great confusion of mind on this point, SLIGHTLY SENSATIONAL !-A manufacturer of and fancy that they can affirm the Fenians to be Alsace has received an order from a Paris commercial innocent of all moral 'guilt on grounds which it is house for one hundred dozen cotton handkerchiefs, on possible for English statesmen to admit and to act which are to be stamped the various episodes of the upon. Thim, if anything, must be their meaning when Pantin tragedy. Portraits of the murdered victims they appeal ' not to our mercy, but to our justice." will adorn some of these handkerchiefs as they appeared Or, they tell us, the prisoners have been punished lying in the zinc coffins at the Morgue whilst on enough. This is, perhaps, the strongest proof of ethers will be depicted Tramp:mann in the act of leading mental confusion they could have given. We do not Madame Knock and the two youngest children from the pretend in any case, least of all in political cases, to cab to the place of their murder. He is represented mete out punishment in proportion to the moral as obligingly carrying the little girl. Traupmann as gravity of the offence. So far as that is concerned, we he appeared in presence of the corpses was to decorate might be content to let most political offenders escape others. These 'lively sketches on cotton will be sold with simple exile. The object of punishment is to for sixpence. The hero of the murders, it appears, has deter; in such cases as the present, to teach political a fancy for hatching eggs, with which he is liberally malcontenta that they cannot, without peril to them- eoPPlied. He has been photographed on condition of selves, take up arms against the Queen, shoot her his likeness not being sold in public. Re merely soldiers, disturb the country, impair the security of wishes for a few copies to distribute amongst his priproperty, and injure trade and industry. According vita friends. being lately asked how he met with to the universal practice of nations rebellion is punish. the wound on his left cheek, he quietly replied, "It able with death. It cannot be pretended that the was whilst I was defending Madame Kinck from her Fenians have suffered any punishment which they husband, which statement he made gravely, and would not infinitely prefer to being hanged. It is evidently expected it would be credited. In truth, the absurd, therefore, to accuse us of cruelty. non-discovery of the body of }Uncle *re allowed him