The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1869-10-02 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

SLEIPING LADY.— Much curiosity and interest have been excited at Hartlepool by a case of long•prctracted souniolanon which ham just occurred in  that town. A young lacy named Clarke, who reside@ c interuplated committing the act early the same nail, 1 i ordinarily at Selby, Yorkshire, came to t i•it Mrs. nine:, Alt I took out a cartridge for the purpose of load. Drake, of the Town Wall, Hartlepool, a few weeks , Mg his rifle ; but his heart faded him, and it was not ago, after a "stay at Brighton. She appeared to be .until the discovery by the deceased that his knapsack in good health and spirits, but on Tuesday, the lith, , was empty, and he was sent back to till it, that Le she sunk into a state of prolonged . somnolence, and resolved upon committing the murder. since that time has remained in that condition. if we TIT FOR TAT ! —The fullowinv; aneedive shows 1 that the path of great singers isnot always strewn except a few very short intervals. When ths caae tirst assumed its. present aspect the advice of Dr. with roses : Inglis, the medical attendant of the family, was madame IS , a celebrated leader of fashlo2l in Paris w sought, and that gentleman has since given to the case to give a fathiolllll.l6 so,rt'e, and to therm the ears of' he'l his most anxious attention, administering occasional guests she requested the brotheas Lionnet (sit:gels' to be "douches" of cold water, which have had the effect present. The price was fixed at 100 francs. " You will dine of so far arousing her as to enable him to administer with ini," added Itadame IS—, with a most gracious smile, small quantities of liquid nourishment; but, as a gene- ...but as the dinner! offer is worth at least ten francs—that ml rule, food, even in this form, has had to be given her " tPaYtutl'lli''iihfiarFaleclee'prEieTut : ill'ltil,eiltioc:lici d'i'l'illtlr:io.tl't frr"a:llii by means of injections. During the whole visitation, which still continues, she has appeared to he utterly the Our specined. They seated themselves gravely at table, oblivious of all that has gone on around her; but, with and ate everything with an appetite which Gargantua might the exception of two or three slight evidences of have letki inveitoeodttt,:iiiyilei.,v,egeaerreotnpeocence, lsayinglniolit..7aw:iir :du. of „Attwodihsefsregf, rnt,eblit both rove tr ,ihi, Buie.. paralysis, she has presented no symptoms calculated to cause alarm as to the ultimate termination of the .in n W" attack, the cause for which is as puzzling to her medical turious ; but thaPtlV not bring beck her stagers. attendant as to all others who have been made aware of the circumstances of it. Up to the moment of the Dr Alll OF A NIOAMON Art/WlLL—Ezra Taft sleep seizing her she had always appeared to possess a Benson, one of the twelve Mormon Apostles, died full average amount of vital power, and she is in her suddenly at Ogden, near Salt Lake City, on Friday, twentybeighth year. September 3. Benson wan born on a farm at Mend 'e, Worcestor County, Massaclausetta, in 1811. In 1836 . ... „ .. . .. . .  he moved with his wife to the West, locating at Quincy Illinois, where he first met the "Latter-day Saints." They had just been driven out of Missouri. He spupathised with them, and soon embraced their faith. His wife first avowed her belief in the new religion, and he was ordained an Elder in 1840, at Nwavo. After several rui-sions in the East, awl much en, recite labour in the cau-e, he was appointed by lizigham Young. then at Council Bluffs, Mo., to the Qin irum of the Twelve, being ordained to the Apostleship in 1846. He was a member of the Provisional state of Deseret, previous to the organisation of the Territory; was a member cf the Territorial House of Representatives for several seadons and for the past ten years has been elected to the Territorial Council every term. WHAT Ni.str - That the lower cas-es hale not a monopoly of ignorance is proved by the deplorable fact that a London Police-Magistrate the other day, wished to know what a witness meant by a "dickey !" —Punch. A Melt