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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1868-04-18 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

EPITOME OF NEWS,  BRITISH AND FOREIGN.  7he Pope assisted on Tuesday morning at the celebration of mass In the Sistine Chapel in Borne. In the evening the usual display of fireworks took place at San Pietro iii Montorio. The telegram says that "an immense crowd was assembled, but perfect tranquillity prevailed.' •  The Missisaippi and the Missouri rivers are rapidly Shifting their beds. The Falls of St. Anthony have gone up the river at such a pace as to threaten the city of 31Inneopoiis with a loss of the water fewer for which its factories and Itself were built; and now the usefulneis of the wlmrves of St. Louis is menaced. -  Mysterioua cliaappearanees have been singularly frequent in New York of late, no fewer than 230 cases having been reported during the last four months. lII' these SU were adult males, 35 ad lilt females, 33 boys, and 52 girls. The lost men are reported as generally young and engaged li, business ; the women were also for the most part young. Of the brqs the majority were between the ages of fourteen and nineteen, and the girls between the ages of fourteen and eighteen. The latter, when found, have in almost every in. stance been discovered in disreputable houses. -  --- A tele2rarn was rec.-wed in Southampton on Monday from C..mthrit nople, stati g that Captam 0 ize, with lifs pasty of English exeursioni,t+, had ar.i,e I there liter travellm4 thr.u.,h E:ypt ant the iholy I arid. They were about to ascend the Danutl• arid pass thro,lgh Viimtrit Sod Paris WI their wry home They have beau gone two months, and will arrive in Soutbainnt n in a tortnigtit's time.  In the maw of a pike caught by Mr. E. Cooke, the ether day, iu the Git,e, a full grown water-rat was feuud.  On Monday dames Burke, aged twenty-four, a brioduyees labourer, reaiolug in Sepulchre gate, murdered lie wife in his house. 1 hey hal I eon out drinkin.: n ith N On ther re urn too y. usuai, Co tonewed qUal Telling. Burke by it and Ideked Ins nit., till she 1,11 dead. After the ndirdur Burke ,aid, "She is mA, but! have% done it, allholotit I ha or 1 sl all viii g for it."  The ina,istratrs of the Stafford Petty SesAional Div ,hot It see just appo ate I the °verse. ri fr the current 3e r. 1 Wro6t 3, a the ovol,c,”; f sOd AIM Boyd,ss is one ‘f those for St i4h!o rd. The LeLislature of the State of Minnesota has abolished capital punishment, has passed a law that in all criminal casts the accused may testify, and has submitted to the people a constitutional amendment abolishing grand juries. - - - - • • . .  Archbishop Manning has paid a short visit to Manchi net, anti 011 Tuesilit) hick part in the cerone ny f the .Penh,e or a taailioriiry church belonging to the JeEults Itt Oanorihricel.  A police case in Loudon, on SAturday, browlit out the fad that before the Passover sets to, the Chief Rabbi vitlts all the prisons, awl makes arreilgenteols for the Jew,sh prisoners to have Passover cake, tried thh, and oil.  On Wednetrlay, Her Majeety, see.oupenied by the Princes Arthur and Leopold,
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1867-05-04 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

EPITOME OF NEWS,  BRITISH AND FOREIGN.  A woman named Belcher, the wife of a mechanic, living in Lambeth, London, murdered her infant, four months old, ouTuesday, hyeatting its throat, and afterwanis attempted to kill herself by the same means. In fact it is more than probable that the injuries she inflicted on herself will prove fatal. She had left some letters addressed to her husband written in a wild strain, and indicating that she must have lost her reason. - - • -• • - • •  The Owl says that a Royal proclamation is about to be issued requesting all loving subjects and peaceable citizens to abstain from joining the gathering which is announced to take place in Hyde Park, in London, on Monday May 6th. France and l'russia have promised Switzerland strictly to respect her neutrality its the event of war, so long as site herself maintains it inviolate. The deaths in London for the week ended Saturday last were more numerous than the week before, though still as many as 124 below the estimated number. There were thirty-four deaths from small-pox, and ,as was the case the previous week) one from cholera. According to various telegrams published on Wednesday morning, it was the King of Holland who proposed the Conference which is to meet in London to settle the Luxembourg question, and a despatch from the Hague says that the British Uovernment is now urging Ms Majesty to convene the Conference as soon as possible. It is added that the plenipotentiaries are expected to meet in London on the 7th of May.  • _ On Monday the remains of Captain Gravill, of the whaler Diana, whose death occurred off Frobisher s Straits on Christmas day, were interred at the Hull Cemetery. The streets were crowded with spectators, and It is computed that along the route there worse, less than 20,000 persons. Several accidents took place ill the crush at the cemetery gates, but happily none attended with loss of life. On Tuesday evening there wan a call to the Bar at the Inns of Court in London. At the Middle Temple one of the students called is a Afahomedan—Budroodeen Tyablee. lie is the first person of that persuasion who has been called to the English Bar. The oaths of allegiance, dce., were administered to him in the usual terms, but he was sworn on the Koran. He intends to practice at the Bar in Bombay. In that province there are Vakeels who are Mussulmans, but Budroodeen Tyabjee will be the first member of the Bar in India who is a disciple of the Prophet.  A journal of Pomerania announces that Count de 'Bismarck recently purchased for 82,5001. the domain of Barrio, situated In the circle of &Maw, and composed of five large estates.  A young English pickpocket, only seventeen years old, calling himself " John Johnson," and caught In the act of practising his profession In the waiting-room of the Northern Railway Terminus at Paris, WU sentenced on Saturday by the police-court to thirteen month, Imprison. ment.  The Coronation of the King of Hungary is now fixed for
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1867-03-02 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

FRENCH VILLAIN.  The aseassin lemaire, who, on Dec. 20 in last year murdered a laundress aamed Bainville, whom his father was about to marry, was, on Monday, brought to the bar of the Aseize Court of the Sine, in Paris, to take his trial. The facts charged in the indictment were all admitted by the prisoner with a cynical frankness almost unparalleled, and which caused a thrill of horror in court. The prisoner lived with hi. father In • house, No, 10, Rue de Chance., Ls Chapelle, Paris, which belongs to the latter in fee simple Lemalre senior lea locksmith, and his non &misted him In the hostiles. He was alwme an idle fellow ; and when hie mother died In 1866 he said, hi answer to some °Nerved( di of his father shoal the necemlty of attending to business, that It would be easier now since there was one mouth lees to feed. Lent autumn Lemalre, senior, though sixty-eight years of age, determined to marry again. its proposed to, and was accepted by, Madame Bainville, a laundress, who rented a .et of apartment, lo hit house, where she lived with her daughter, a girl of seventeen, and a young apprentice. The coercing° we. deed to take place on Dec 22 On Dec 20 vow,. Litman.° (aged nineteen), having ascertained that his fa, her was gone out to dine with a friend, toll Madame Bainville that his father wanted to speak to her, and by that means induced her t, accompany him to the rooms occupied by the L-mairea. As soon as she got inside he shut the outer door and attempted to pus • rope round her neck, with which he intended to haug her to • strong nail, whi:ll he had already driven into a wall for the purpose Bhe resisted sufficiently to prevent him from fastening the rope, and thereupon he took • poniard, also in readinee, and stabhed her In twenty places, exclaiming repeatedly that although she would not he hanged she should die all the lame, and that he would stick her till the toes of blood carrel her ii!. The Knurls of the unfortunate woman alarmed the con. elherae and other inmate, of the house. She eontrivrd to etegare to the door, which she opened, and then fell dead on the retinue, at the feet of the persons who came to her moisten.>  The murderer wan secured immediately. Ile confeesed before the Judge of Instruction, and repeated the conleseion on t la tile!, that his intention wan, after hanging klasiame Bahrain°, to get her daughter sod apprentice euccewlively Into his room sad dispose of them in the same way. He hoped to elect the three murder. without noise Then he would have laid in wait for his father'. coming hone and murdered him After that he would have taken all the money and valuable. in the two households and have gone off somewhere to have a great lark with the money. He knew that he should be caught ultimately, but was determined first thorouggly to enjoy himself. He was sorry his plan had not succeeded. So tar from having any repentance, he would try egam if hatted the opportunity, only he would manage'better The prisoner wee defended by ht. Verdian', and the trial lasted throughout the day.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1859-10-08 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

STOCKTON HERALD.  Szw—Having unfortnnately been chief mate on hoard the barque Mumaret at the time of the moister of the late captain Philip Barker, of Stockton. at whose death the command of the vessel devolved upon me, it will be in the recollection of your readers that I brought the vessel back to Fabnouth, buried my late friend, Capt. Barker, and handed the murderer over to the authorities. lam sorry to say on arriving home I found I had been severely censured by some parties in lids neighbourhood fir not throwing the captain's holly overboard. and proceeding on the voyage—one individual stating that I had " ruined myself for lids" by atting as I had done. Now, Sir, with your leave I wish briefly to explain how I was situated on board that vessel when the shocking affair took place. I must first however state that on leaving West Hartlepool we were one hand short, not having a carpenter on board. On the Captain's death, and the murderer tieing pot Into irons, we were two more deficient, but this Wll3 not all The panic which had seized all on board was no great, that no man would stand at the helm alone—consequently. two being plaeol there, rendered us still more short-handed, and not one of the crew would walk on that aide of tlw vessel past the berth where the awful crime was committed. There was the murilenr, also, chained to the deck, requiring some one to attend to his wants, Na well as partly to watch over him, the performance of which duty was an abhorrence to all on board, and great was the dissatisfaction expressed by the crew at the idea of prosecuting the voyage with that miscreant continually in their sight. With all those disadvantages, however, I might still have forced the vessel across the Atlantic, but on arriving in America, I knew that I. as well as other i% itnesses, would be taken out of her (as we were on reaching England), and then what would have become of the vessel? In that case a master would have had to be sent from England to take charge of her, or she irust have remained till stub time as the trial was over, and I could have rejoined her. With many conflicting ideas I had to contend: but a strong desire to give Christian burial to a person with whom I had never had a harsh word, as also to place the murderer, myself. anethe crew in the hands f the law, to have the affair thoroughly investigated, determined me, on the second day after the occurrence, to put the ship about, and with the fair wind then blowing, run for the nearest English harbour. If, try performing to the best of my ability, a very painful and disagreeable duty, I have injured myself in the estimation of my friends, I much regret it: but must live in hopes of overcoming the disaster, and trust I may never again be placed in such a distressing situation. Your obsillent Servant,
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1859-12-03 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

HORRIBLE MURDER.  A murder of a most frightful character has been committed at a house situated 13, King's head-court, Finshury-market. The following particulars have been ascertained in relation to the same At the house in question there resided in a first pair front room a lila a named James Moore and a woman, believed to be his wife, with a child about 21 years of age. Some months since Moore was charged at the .3lansion- house with assaulting a fentale by biting her in the hand, and for that offence was sentenced to imprisonment, but during his hicarcercation betrayed symp:oms of insanity, and was removed to Miles's Madhouse in lloxtim. Last Friday the room in King's !lead-court was takcn by More. and Monday morning about seven o'clock Mr. Turner, the landlord, heard quarrelling and noise between his lodgers. Nothing, however, transpired during the day to warrant suspicion of any particular violence having been committed, but in the afternoon Moore, who hail it was believed been out for hours, called Mr. Turner to the room, uhere a most horrifying sight presented itself. A woman in a per fret ly nude state, excepting some slight article thrown across her loins, lay flat on her back on the boards of the room, and near her on one side, placed upright in a white hand basin was her head, while on the other side, equally as near, sat a child, quite satisfied apparently with the position of itself and mother : a tong wound was seen on the woman's abdomen, and a pail in one corner of the room contained a quantity of blood with wearing apparel. The flour had apparently been washed up, for smeared marks and the presence of water were manifest. Moore disclaimed all knowledge of tltis frightful scene, protesting, with apparent truthfolness, that lie had tirade the discovery on returnit:g home just previously. At that moment there was strong ground for believing this, ins he appeared perfectly c'ear of blood stains, and bad on a clean shirt. Mr. Turner, however, left the house with him, and- reached the Worship Street Poke-court just at the conclusion of the day's business. There he met on the threshold Mr. Kattegat], the t flue keeper, to whom he n tioned the dreadful occurrence, at the same time alluding to Moore, then standing by his side perfectly compmed, as his lodger. Mr. ltattegan, on Imaring the relation, instantly took both men within the office, and marks of blood were discernible upon the trousers of Moore. _  A tew minutes after this the house wlmre the victim lay was in the pos-ession of the police, while Haynes, warrant officer of the ciinveyed the supposed murderer to the station-house, in old Street. Moore is I y trade an umbrella maker, and has two children besioes that mentioned, but they were away from home. Among the articles found by the police in the room was a tin box, on the lid of which was sketched a gallows, with two men hanging. It is believed Moore escaped from the asylum.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1859-02-19 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

NEU KO ROA AT ED.—A negro At Troy, Kelllileky. having murdered his master, • relative of the deceased addressed a number of persons who had assembled to buy and sell slaves, and so excited them that they at once broke open the gaol and Lynched the murderer. The Ma, trill, Eorok describes the horrible scene whirl, was enacted :—They marched him to the centre of the gaol yard, drove down a large stake and chained him in an erect position, hands and feet fast to the make. There was an abundance of shavings and fine split wood piled around him ; this consumed some half-hour. During this time the negro talked to  the negt,eB who gathered round him. Ile told them that he had a good master, and tit ,t be wan always treated too well, and given too many liberties, and for them to take warning in time and never do am he had done. Then the torch w s applied, and he seemed to he entirely indifferent about it until the flames began to burn 84 high as his knees Then he began to twist, and snort, and groan, and in about a minute more be commenced to scream. the gave Nome of the most hideoux screams that I ever heard come from any human being. I mold not stand to see any more, and left. hen I left, the flames were burning as high as his head. I was only a spectator—took no hand either for or against. I think that there were seine 1.5111) or 2,000 people to witness this dreadful scene, and 2011 or :001 negrots. FGIPD nit CA TT -- -The compound I tried for fattening feasts and keeping sheep in a growing and healthy state during the winter months has been one part beans or peas (old if possible), one of linseed (w hi, h I prefer to oilcake, as it contains all the oil), one barley, and one cheat, all mixed and ground up together. This combination I believe to be equal to any artificial prepara im now sold at four times the value, particularly if a small quantity of some warm tweil be mixed with it to aid digestion. W have here gluten for flesh, starch for fat, and pure oil for burning, in the lungs to keep up the animal heat. Judging front the effects, I think this compound to be more valuable than nileake, and witi•out the adul'eration. It is given dry with cut turnips to the fattening beasts, to be moistened by the saliva. Thin I consider totals to a more perfect digestion than if mixed with warm water, and at the !-aniii time it may be said as the animal chews the cud there can de no want of saliva. The quantity given to she p has been at the rate of half a bushel to 100 sheep, merely sprinkled over with turnips as a condiment awl corrective, an we use pepper fur our turnips ; little enough certainly, still it has the desired effect. I feel certain that nothing is gained by stinting sheep in winter ; where we gain one by saving in food, we lose doubly through leannesm and want of sigour in aping. I have no ecouring.—Froin the Ayricatarat Gazette.  EXPERINIENTS WITII • Nvw PROJECTILE, TOR Liqiyi ii- Flit K 111FLE
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1873-08-23 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

TERRIBLE STORY FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN.  Advices from S-alyrna dated the 4th inst., report tint a fearful tragedy at sea had just been brought to light there. Ow Eltenday a small native coasting craft came dashing wp against the Cerigo Quay at Smyrna, in a mantierishieb led to the belief that she had been abandoned. On boarding her the dead body of as elderly in" who appeared to be the captors was found lying on the deck. The bodywas nisch hacked abowt, the head nearly being severed from the trunk and- the clothes torn and in disorder,, leaving the impression that a severe struggle had token place. Near the remains was found a large hammer smeared with blood. A little boy ander 10 years, laid wrapped in a sail close by. Be was uninjured, but appeared to be stupefied, aid nothing intelligible could be elicteil from him. like- cyst was partly loaded with a cargo of melons, tut no papers whatever could be di. covered. The same evening the small steamer on I its way to Cerbeliw), fell in with, another body at sea, fearfully rtmtiltted. The public was still lost in conjectures-respeeting this stiattge event, when on Wednesday attorning a Russian- monk asked for an interview wlll-the&sul. He mid that he had embarked at Seib fbr Smyrna, in minpany with a ' Persian, on boar& costing tchirmik :teamed by two nen, with a little boy. Some hours ISsfore doubling Point dames Castilk.the monk overheard a conver,sation between the Persian and the (captain. The !Persian said that tire mook had alic•A) him a sum 'of 1200 in gold, Besilios some bauk notes, and proposed that timer shoe& murder 'dim for the ll:tut/Pose 04 obtainiwt- poste tsion of the-legacy, the other sailor being at the same time to- be got rid tot. The !Donk did net low h:s present* of mind, ibtrt hook up his posilen in a careless and indifferent way, near the hows-,Ativested himself of his , clothes, slipped over t.hhr side, and swami in safety hb the shore. He land-cal at Ayots-Cmoigiu, Tiflik, and on the ;wilier making itioniries at a Frisian rendezvous of Age's-Khan, they found that a Persian had arieved there from Sri° on thb privions Sunday. Cit de monk being con. fronted with this Persian, be a once idened his Allow %moieties on board the resisting craft.. The Pbrsian,oft (aurae, was arrested, and the stolen money belonging to the Isola was found amongst lak-efffacte. Re fres since mule ai•tsll confemion of hiscrimis.aud.biestory is thaii. alto, waiting fee some time below, aft arranged, be had mime up on. deck, anti:. finding the priest gose,. believed the the captain had facilitated his emaieni, High wovits ,enstind, and the Persian murdered, the captain. with the hammer. lie killed the sailor also, and threw his itedy iele, the sea, lie wisteped the boy mend end:round in a soil, thinking to sutrimate him.their ransaelkd the vessel, and tithing all the money he cent& Sid, including the lave sum found in the pockets-of the monk, made his-way to the shone in a isirmiliboat which the coasting craft draggedi in its wake