The Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1865-01-28 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

CRUELTIPS IN BESSARABIA.—EviI Ilays sevrn to have again fallen upon lehmail, In the Russian province of liesnarabia, for according to a letter pub. ljphd M an Odessa journal pillage and murder were frequent in the town. The letter contains the follow. ing passage :  The condition of affairs grows worse and worse. The hands of hrigands, finding that they are not punished for their misdeeds, become more and more bold, and find asylums among the well-to-do agriculturists, and sometimes even among the ecclesiastics. The police officials look upon (milting events with supreme Indifference. Daring the last few days a conflict took place in the midst of the town, between some Jews and ',ldlers, when the inhabitant"; took part with the former, and led the soldiers captive to the police. As they were passing the house of a major he sent out a body of soldiers who rescued their comrades. Then a complete detachment patrolled the streets, and committed 'musses of all kinds. Another incident is described to show the state of matters in this country. A detachment of one hundred soldiers was sent Into the Porzok suburb to carry . .  ;isatthtal at xtehcit; tstoo rnt o f a ec.o:ndnetmi nrieed.cho rti cnrtlhp t. housel'h er. cr.o Is.t oh et two persons who are required to lie spectators, though involuntary imes. Neither the cries of frightened children, tbe tears of women who protected themselves, nor the lamentations of old men excited the compassion of the soldiers. In their fury they destroyed all that they met with, they killed the cattle, broke the doors and furniture of the houses, and lit great fires at which to roast the meat and poultry they had secured. The drama lasted three days. GOING OUT SFIOFFING ! One Mr. Wilson; a shoemaker at Mahurangi. New Zealand (the north island), sends to the Southern Cross a letter stating that on the sth of November two natives oame into his shop, and asked to see some boots. One of them fitted himself with a pair, and said he would take them. Ile added that he did not intend to pay for them, and, says the shoemaker, "as one had a doublebarrelled gun and the other * tomahawk, and I and the bort were unarmed, I could only threaten him with the law, He laughed, and said he did not care For that; I believe they are two of the prisoners of war thahlately escaped,' , • , A DELICATE INQUIRY !—A case omit no does not often c'enne before our law courts was tried on Saturday in the Bail Court, in London. A family had hired a house in St. ,John's Wooill and !tent fo reside in. it, hut they were so annoyed With the vermin with which they said the house abounded, that they left it after a few night's trial. The owner sued them for the resit, which they resisted on the gaounds alleged, but the jury did not take the same view of the matter, and 1 returned a verdict for the plaintiff. In the course of the trial, the plaintiff's daughter, upon cross-examination, said she had once in her life seen a bug, but that was at Margate. The cot:wail was carious as to the hour and occasion when it was diecovered ; and having elicited from the reluctant witness that it was at " break of day," remarked that it was doubtless returning homewards to the air "We won't go home till morning." The witness indignantly denied that she knew anything of the habits of the bug, and declared she had never seen such a creature in her father's house, and never wished to do! A