The Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1865-03-25 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

SID/DK ING WIFE MURDILR. —Ott Saturday night, a man named James Fox, a hawker of brushes, murdered him wife in Newcastle-on-Tyne. The murderer and his wife and family lived in a small iMierable house in Itailiffgate, a spot inhabited by hawkers and others who gain a livelihood by vending small and portable articles. Roth the murderer and his wife led • very unhappy his, and both were ad. dieted to drink. Fox never gave his wife or family a penny, and she had to support herself by making and selling wicker mats, and by renovating old clothes. It appears that he went borne on Saturday night rather drunk, and began aousing his wife because she had not got ready his supper. She retaliated, MIA the quarrel was continued noire or less till 'pearly midnight, when, on further renewing the quarrel about the supper, he struck her with his list, and followed this up by htriking her on the head with a pan. This felled her, and then one of the BOHN about nine years of ..ge, and whii was in bed, got up awl left the house to fetch his brother, who lives close by. Oal the return of the hriother he found that his mother was dead. Fox was then given into custody of the police. and on bring charged with his crime he only said " I deny it." Ile, however, afterwards showed contrition for his offence. The house in which the deed WWI committed is only about ten feet square, and served the family of man and wife and four children for every purpose. Fox and his wife are both fifty years of age. -  A FONTUNATE ACTRESS —lt is a, Singular fact that the reading world of Patio at this moment are atriorhed by two works,- -the one the production of a , movereign, the other emanating from the lowest class of society. "L'llist.:ire de Cesar" has a formidable rival in "Len M.:moires& There:ea." The first thrown light on the rise of an empire, the second on the accession of a lordly to popular favour. 'the st,ry of thim woman is worth noting. Her first engagement was 41, a month for singing at the Cafe Morel Theatre. Champs Elva...N., whence he wan transferred to the Eldorado, where she was taid 0/. a month. She returned to the Cafe Morel at the rate of 12/. per month. The Alcazar tempted her to it* enticing aimospbere at the rate if 401. monthly, which was prearittly increamed to Mt The Eldorado, furious at the theft of their goome who laid its golden egg every nicht in their caehier's bra, gt: to law with the Alcazar, awl deniand 1,8001. damagea, which the jury reduce to 3201. The Eldormlo prove on the trial that the lucky pongstress makes 31k 0/. aunoallj, and the director of the Alcazar no less a stun than 14 0001. a year pince the capture of the fair and frail lady. TULL, im; IT TO AMOUNT !-- A correppundent thus speaks of the 11e-inauguration of President Lincoln :  The procession was simply • vat moving advertisement. The rid .salon was seized upsil by manufscturers and shopkeepers to announce their wares. The procession was eight miles in length. It occupied nearly four hours in tdiadu• a given pint. Twen y thousand men and five thuntai d horses, fifteen hundred Waggons, cart,, mucks, dcc., made up the show. these men, horses, and vehicles— were ',rewarded with the advertisements of different firms, and even the mottoes and In•criptions which most neatly ap preached a purely political or "1,1.1" character-were adroitly employed to blazon f rrth the merit- of nierehants or n erchanoise. Many buildings were 11 urnioatad in the evening, the usual display of fireworks took place, and the usual buncom r‘e speeches were made Toe While affair was a vast advertisement, whetter as oonsidered to the mat Sr of loyalty or luc:e ; and Lbw, is all that cat be sant of it