The Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1864-11-26 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

REVOLTING WIFE MURDER UNDER EXTENUA. TING CIRCUMETANCEI4."—A man named Sautier, 25 years of age, was charged at the Court of Assizes of Seine a few days ago with the murder of his wife. From the period of the marriage in lail2 he had cruelly ill-need the woman, and one result of this treatment WA3 the birth of s. still-born child. This brutality continued until the 12th of September last, when he COlll. pleted it by returning home in as state of intoxication in the middle of the night, and strangling his wife by means of a piece of cord. In the agonies of death the unfortunate woman gave birth prematurely to a child. The murderer kept the secret to himself, and slept in the same bed with the dead bodies of his wife and child for several nights. At length he could endure the stench no longer, and he wrote to inform his fatherin-law of what he had done. He was arrested while drinking in a wine shop, and when on his trial pleaded g•.ilty. The jury found him guilty under "extenuating circumstances," and he was accerdingly sentenced to hard labour for life.  A CUTE CANDIDATE —A novel development of political economy, or economy in politic. has taken place in connection with one of the XI allarat elec. torstea as will be seen from the following extract tak: o from an Australian paper :  One of the e.andklates has undertaken the distribution of Ma own circular addresses to the electors, cud has happilj :.ded the commercially useful with what May politely lie assumed to be the politically beautif Ut. line side of a bill containa the candidate's address to the electora, and the other side contains some trade advertisements, which probably more than paid the cost of printing I.,th the address and the advertisements.  Wily DO 711EY Serr !—Why the Americans do no continually spit I am not physiologist enough to determine (writes Mt. Sala). Whether there be anything in the atmosphere which effects their mucms membrane or their bronchial tubes I leave it to the doctors to decide. I can only note the fact. I can only further observe that the States of Maine, Vermont, and New York very closely adjoin Lower Canada, and that the Canadians do not spit. Chewing tobacco in the States, I have been given to understand, is a custom which is dying out. The young men do not chew; but old and young expectorate perpetually. Such a nation of unlicensed hawkers I never beheld. Of course, my dear madam, you who net such strict and commendable store by the purity of your carpets and the snowinees of your window-curtains, you will at once ascribe the prevalence of this unpleasant custom to the "nasty filthy, demoralising practice of smoking." I think smoking a deleterious practice, and I am afraid it is demoralising, for it certainly val. duces to the cultivation of intense selfishness among men and a distaste for the society of women -at least of those ladies who object to the odour of tobacco fumes; but when we conic to discuss the alleged uncleanly nature of the habit, will you tell me, fluvial.), how it is that the Spaniards, who are for ever pulling smoke from their lips, never spit? -why the Turks, who are seldom without a chibouque, and the Bin. dons, who are nothing without a hookah are incessantly bathing