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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1871-06-17 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

PROTECTING PEAS FROM BIRDS.—A writer in The Gavkners' Magazine says : "i have teed nearly every tcheme to keep the blTis from nibbling pest that are jut coming through the toll, but only two plane answer. The first Is dusting the foliage wnli pepper, and the second Is placing an effigy of a cat among the rows, and then shifting It npw and then, the birds ditappear like magic before the cat, If It Is moved about occasionally.. IIEROISM ITS OWN REWARD —Joseph Allen, in the service of Meagre. Groves and Wane bre werd, in giving evidence at the Salford Police-court, in regard to the rescue of a woman who attempted to osmmit suicide by throwing herself into the Irwell on Mon lay morning stated that during the peat six years he had rescued 27 persona from drowning at that place, and hod taken out of the water three dead bodies. In reply to Sir John Mantel!, the witness said he had received rewards from the Royal Humane Society to the amount of about ros. Sir John ordered the witness's name and address to be recorded, with a view to mentioning his conduct to the mayor. MtislcAL Mism.—Mrs. Malaprop paid her first vilit to the Enternational Exhibition last week, and had the ph asure of hearing the band of the Honourable Distillery Company.—Punch.  „ - 11ARVeST ritOSPECTSI.—The Mark-hint Erpr.s care 'The fluctuations of last week again threaten to retard the harvest. With a good three months yet to be provided for, mattera are not very satisfactory. Grass Is bad, fruit worse, and wheat must run short. lin and straw in many places are nearly used up, and, should, large demand from France for wheat return, It might be difficult to meet It without sending up prices lit, true that millers hesitate to mate purchases at the present price, and the holiday :haracter of the time has let down values in some places ls per quarter. Bet hesitation dose not increase stock ; moreover, the Baltic though further on in the season, thew, no signs of relenting, but ilnds customers among neighbours, so that it may be an error to think London We. ruling market.  " ENouso LuxuaY."---France is to have it now. An Income Tax is slaked. —Pu:lch..
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1871-12-30 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

MTS. Proper raw the buggy traverse just Unit intern-on. log space with the man alone in it. Again, foot-prints were found along the side of the read extending front the snot where Miss Deyee pit hed out, or was stipposed to have pitched nod, for about twelve feet. Then there was a track, or trail, as if a body had been dragged under or behind tine brag/. At the junction of twin roads, a little further inn. a pile of lumber stands, and around this the body of the girl most have heel], by the SigllS on the anew, twice dragged. That the buggy was =Awl; ps Will.er said, there mould be bo doabt. The facts spoke fir themselves. Rut there was, and is, a doubt whether mr mint he ainated Miss lieyne first, and Vali amt.( out the ensuing seolne iny way of accounting for her death. If we suppose, as han been angetested, that the young cannon was caught by some extraordinary accident and swung under the buggy w it neat Whiner's knowledge, and the Icily became detaebed, all bleeding and mutilated, at the bridge, how came it that Slims Deyine could afterward. or should f terwart, warn- dint tine rail and throw herrelf into the winter? The idea that she cold have been kicked over by the inane is disintsred by those is 11.1 innernobly-as einiply lnnijv.soihie. itehidefl, /1,, is it that there w ere no SCI eamnno, and that Mrs. Proper although One could see horse, man, and buggy so distinctly and tim latter in two different eonditions, .w nothing of a body clinging to It The improbability of Winner committing the murder rests on his previous good character, and in the fact that no ISPi feeling xas ever known to exist betwetu binewlf amid the deceased ; the probability that he did commit tine crime Is founded 011 the apparent imposniHay that the different things that happened could have happened otherwise.  The last act of the dismal drama occurred two days after Miss Depot was buried. on the Wedm sday succeeding that Nonday,l,Wilber. was libusell found IlesA. His body was at the bottom of his own welt, into which Ile had plunged headlong. DLI he kill himself out of remorse, or because he &new he was suspected, and the circumstantial evidence was so strong agunist him Heaven only can tell, for there are no other witnesses, and with Wilber's suicide the know], igeof tile secret passes away from the earth. Theories there will be In plenty, and plausible conjectures without end, but the real heart id the mystery will only be known when we all meet at last, and the sea glees up its dead.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1871-04-29 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

DOUBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE.  The following dreadful tragedy occurred at the villagers! llntwle.e, ord. Gleamy, Cheshire, on Monde : A woman named Gregory, the wife of James Gregory, • ganger employed on the Manchester %Vat .r-worka, murder, d t .roof her children, aud thencomneitted suicide. S lortly before eeveu o'clock in the morning the husband was awakened by hie wife, whom, to his surprise, he found dressed in holiday atire, she hav:ng le, en confined only a week previously. lilse told him it was time to go to work. About seven o'clock he left the house, his little boy, aged Wien, and the infant babe le-lag in bed at the time, the other child being away for the right He returned home about half pest eight o'clock, and found the front door b eked, although a neighbour had been in the house to light the fire and get the breakfast ready as usuaL Tue back door aloe was fastened, and, procuring a ladder, he entered the house by means of the back chamber window. Here he found the little boy laid on the Hoar in a root of blood, with his heal ahnost severed from his body. He had bled to d •ath, and there were evidencee that he h :0..14T:ea for his life and crawled about the floor. In the some room was found the infant child quit, ,lea!, and in the cellar woe found the mother, r."..0 dead,  env. nded frau a beam. The boy hau first been murdered with a rtz a. fetched from the room below, and then a pail of ater had been ttken upstairs and the infant played in it, for its clothes bore the marks •f the murderees's bloody fingers. lt i+ said teat the poor woman had been for come time past in • desponding state, and it is re.' •I that her recent Motes bad deranged her brain. She lived happily with her husband.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1871-01-28 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

DRAWING-BOOM ALCOHOLISM.  The Saturday Re rodaobnerven the...is an increasing evil under thevlun, one d preening in., °dance, but en contrary to our English traditions, at to rue notions of ill., htness of things, that we Cr, ..norrely inclined to hash it up. Now and then a wh'sprred scandal re. minds oar Pharisees that a Yhalinee's win indulges in alcoholic stimulants, "has been taken as-ay frocu some ballby her trends, unite drunk.poor thing. if shot Ir. ing t" or " Really should have been allowed to ride when she could hardly sit on her horse." But such , stories we agree to get rid of as quickly as ponible.  Yet -some sincere effort shMidd be made to clieik habit which are notoriously on the increase, and which threaten to degrade women even of the well-born and educated classes beyond the help of theories, how. ever brilliant, of tLeir rights. It is honest and prudent to confers that drunkenness is no longer quite unknown even in the most charming drawing-rooms, be it under the form of dipsomania or oincEnania, habitual or occasional excess. The increasing ,Erevalence of what is considered allowable stimulation is the evil especielly to be remaiked. Marguerite dallying with Faust's gifts is trut t!te prelude „o Marguerite's suicide, and it is more useful to tiseek her as %she opens the glittering casket than when she is the htlpTees prey ktleßloll. Women seldom drink for the gratitcatlen of I their palate, and the pitiable drain-drinker ROME • ' times loathes the spirit Ehe gulps down. Good or bad wine, I.,otato-brandy, curacoa, or gin will satisfy her if only her nervous organisation be sufficiently saturated. The ,plume of light wine or beer sometimes taken is alnaLet incredible. One important step will be gained if the use of stimulants between meals is sedulously checked. The test of safety in the moderate use of alcoholic drinks seems to be the power in persons of fair health to leave off their accustomed beer or sherry without inconvenienes or moral effort. This test might be occasionally applied by rational women t ti einaelves or insistrol on by their toast Ind aml a senslble improvement in both moral and physical well-being wonetg.ruerally surprise the fair abstainer.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1871-08-05 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.  An incendiary could not destroy a New York church, a ventilation was 01 biet—Bodon I'o4.  One of the toasts drunk at a recent celebration was, " Wonian t she requires no eulogy—she speaks for he A Cincinnati woman recently attemptcsi suicide the twentieth time, and failed as usual. A crazy man got into a St. Louis judge's seat, and "opened court" in a lively manner by tiring pistola at the lawyer..  Noyes, the Radical candidate for Governor of Ohio, lost over forty legs daring the war, according to reliable ateonntn.—fiet. Free Pre..  An Illinois farmer ham one !minima ACTP3 Net Out I With 01110118. A poet of the locality In. been trying to apostrophize the balmy air begot of onion. . _  An ingenious Weatern clergyman recently kreached a begging seimou from the appropriate test, " eit down quickly and write fifty." If love is blind, why is it that when a young man falls in love, he is almost universally required " to see papa r .  - An old bachelor recently gave the followir,4 toast " Wciaan—the morning star of infancy, the day star of manhood, the evening star of age. Bless our stars, and may they always lye kept at telescopic distances. A most worthy man, unaccustomed to public speaking. being suddenly called upon to address a Sunday school, rose to his feet, 1111.1 after vainly struggling for utterance, at last hoamely muttered, 'Dear children, don't ever play with powder." The Australian saying for taking a glass of wine together recommends itself to the sympathies of the female world, and by them ciii he considered infinitely far more refined than tbe Americanism of •• liquoring up." The Auatralisna say, 'Let na kizs the baby."  • At a certain hotel in Ohio a large mirror s rlaced at the entrante of the dining hall, which to co conotructed that yuu >eo youreelf a thin, cadavercuo hungry peroon, but when you came out teem the table and look again (tithe gLarst. your body is distended in the extremity of corpuleany. • - . - . Wohoon are rapitlly marchittg fc,rward to complete emancipation. 41 beautiful, well-educated young lady has judt opcneti a large boot, aml shoe ',tare iu rhiladelphia. Oho has three girl ekrka ad they ail wear kat:, fancy aproxt. made of leather, oas to look bitainesa-like, and at the eaale titue pretty.  - A lecturer an the. " moral eentimenti, " in Philaallphis remarked that the "dearest ship in the world was friendship ;" whereupon a young man rose from among the con„resation and stated that he knew another—a dearer shni still—and that was c,..urtship The yoang man had once been a defendant in a claim for breach of promise of marriage.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1871-11-11 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

DISTRESSING SUICIDE.  An inquest hao been held, in Loudon, to inquire into the death of Mr. Antonio Bini, aged 55 years, drseribed as an Italian surgeon, who was found poisoned ilia losiging.house, under the following circumstance, •-• •  Mr. Ilenzonni,-of Frith-street, Soho-square, said he was an interpreter of languages, and had known the deceased for mane years. lie was a surgeon, awl until lately resided at 31, Castle-street. where he had been in practice as a medical man. Ile had &case in the County Court, which he It wt, and that appeared to effect his mind. Ile owed a large sum of money for rent and other things, which he expected he should have been able to settle in a short time, as he had written to the Italian 4 tovernmeut for it large slue id money which he had said he wits entitled to, and which he expected. Witnedo did int .t believe lie 11:.1 received anything from Italy up to the time if his death, and if such were so it would no doubt tend to excite hint. Several letters and other thiciunents were here produced in court written in Italian, which had been found upon the deceaded, and which were translated by the witness. One document wad read which went to show that the deceased had derved under Garibaldi. The letters were in the handwriting of the deceased, and one document hail been written to be Kent to Italy. Witness believed the deceased hail latterly been reduced in circumstances, although he carried on hid practice as a dttetor. Ile had attended friends of witnem, and witness had paid Lim 1110 Cr 1.112 at a time to assist him until he received his money from Italy. In consequence of the money not reaching him when he expected it the whole of Ins furniture was dozed for debt. .  Mrs. Smith said the deceased came to her loolginqhouse on Friday week and resided there until his death. Ile .uns home on Tuesday night, and then he appeared in good health. He went op to bed, bat did not appear at his usual hour on the following morning. At two o'clock in the afternoon he was called, but as he did not answer the police were called in, and his room dorm was loroken open, when he was found dead in bed.  Dr. Clarke said he examined the glam found on the table, and found it to contain a strong solution of strychnine. The toes, fingers, and other joints were drawn up, and showing that he had apparently died from poisoning by strychnine, lie had since made an autopsy of the body, and found the cause of death wai poisoning by strychnine. A policeboustable said the only property found upon the deceased besides the letters was M. in coppers, two razors, and a pawn ticket for a coat which he hail pledged for 9s. Some further evidence having been heard, the Coroner summed up, and, having reviewed the evidence, the jury returned a verdict " That the deceased poisoned himself with strychnine while of unsound mind."
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1871-05-20 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

SUICIDE.—A robbery Was nemmitted near Orleans, on the night of the 4th December last, the author' though long suspected, escaping detection till • few de) e ago, when, to escape the punishment anticipated, he committed suicide by swats lowing a strong dose of poison. On the night of the robbery a captain of franc-tireuns, accompanied by some men of his company, obtained shelter at a house at Portereau St. 3larceau, the only inhabitant at the Vine being a man servact. They had scarcely retired to rest before a report was brought ot the entry of the Prussians into Orleans, when they deemed it advisable to beat a hasty retreat, the captain in the confusion leaving behind him a leathern bag containing bank notes and cash to the amount of 10,000 franca, destined for the use of his company. He discovered his loss when he had got some distance from the place, and sent back one of h;s men, disguised as a peasant, to regain the bag. The domestic, however, denied having seen it, and the messenger returned from his bootless errand. The captain was obliged to put up with the loss, but entruhted to a ;v.:Lilo:nen In the neighbourhood the task of watching the proceedings of the domestic in question. No trace could for a long time be had, but when the affair was supposed to have been forgotten, the suspected indiilual was found to be making purchases beyond his apparent means, and paid a tr,fluig del,t with a 540 f. note. Being questioned dc Nely as to hie possession of so much money, he made a c mfession, and implicated an accomplice —accessory at ter the fact. Not being able to read, he was unaware of the value of the stolen notee, and made a division of them with his accomplice on condition of his retaining the secret. The accomplice, a man GO years of age, has been arrested. The perpetrator of the robbery was also an aged man, and had enj,yed an honourable reputation in the locality, where he had resided many years.  A
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1881-08-20 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

KIDDERMINSTER.  ATTEXPEED SUICIDE BY A Bo.—A. boy named Thomas Barnett, aged 12 years, attempted to commit suicide by hanging himself on Wednesday night. He had been siucy to his mother, and she boxed his ears. Shortly after a neighbour saw him in a closet hanging by a scarf, the other end of which was fastened to the roof. She gave an alarm, and a man named Leadbeater cut him down lie was at the time black in the face. Restoratives were administered and he reeovered.—A.iter he was conveyed to the station the boy said he did it to frighten his mother, and that he tried to unfasten the scarf but was unable to do so.  DEAFNESS, Notams re TEIR EAR', &Se. DELL At' tissErson Pon DEAFNEsS sh)aid always be tried, as in numbers of eases, seemiegly insurable, it has One wonde:s. Slight Deafness, Obstruations in the Ears, and the inessosnt humming sertads so frequent with affected hearing, are removed after two or three nights' applications. Dellar's Essence can be spoken of as mare to tire sonte relief in any ease of Deataers without pausing the slightest injury to the delicate organisms of the ear ; and, hewevir surpriding, persons for years Deal have heard sounds after a fair trial of Dollar's Esselte*. Bottles, Is. lid and 2s. 91. Bold by all Chemists. Post free for IS St.:cops sent to Bedford Laboratory, Bayley Street, London, W,C. CURED 114 A FEITI DAYS, CORNs, BUNIONS, AND ExLAROID Ton JOIIiTs.—DELLAR'S CORN AND BUNION PLASTERS are the only remedy. They differ from all Plasters. Shields, or Compositions ever invented. By instantly softening the callous surrounding the pain goes at once, the Corn soon following. Baritone and Enforced Toe Joints require more time for perfect cure but the aotion is certain and relief instantaneous. Any boots may be worn with comfort three hours afrer apply lug Del:ar's Plasters; on no account be persuaded to buy any other.Lootes, is. lid. each, are sold by rust Cliemiat Street. nee, 14 Stamps. Bedford Laboratery Payley Street, Londe*: W.C.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1881-05-14 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

DRINKING.--On Aionday trioyn:ne Mr. W. H. at the Oldbury County Court. 0:1 1' he went Phillips (di- trict ceroner) resumed an inquLy at the to the house wht re deceased resided ie Church- Roebuck Inn. Anableeote Road, 13-ierley Hilt, street, Oldbury. to levy an execution. He s w the touching t` e death of :Jane Holland 52), the wife ot deceas..d and gave her a copy of the warrant, and Thomas Holland, cewkeeper and mlk-seller, eh,: said she stiuuld be able to Lay the money. She Amblecete R Ti,Tif' inques-, was opened a week i went about her work for &elle time ie the hue }lgo, when it traespirei from the hushend's evidence aud afterwards went upaeirs. In a few minut, s that tee de eased was a women of very drunken he heard the deceased crying out "Lord have habits. On the previous Saturday night Fe e was mercy upon me, lied iorgi4 me for what I have done." As she did not eve- down-t airs he asked ied borne be four pat eus and placed up .n the &or. Afterwiii ds she sat in her cleer nertially Liebe next doer neighbour to go up anti see if ehu was dr' seed, ane refused to go .to bed. 11, r husband, all right. Upon g. ing up-etairs Mrs. Hezlew od eowever, roti:ed, and about three o'cleck on th • found Mrs Pugh dead and lying on the bed. Dr. next morning he was awoke by his dog, which had Lyddou said et, was call d t see the deceased on been loft downstairs, reeking a peculier n ice, and ridny last, but found no marks of valence on the on going dewn he found his wife dead. No '3.. ibody nor any ur u:ual al,peareness Lie had si nee deuce could he roduced te sh .w that the deceased made a Post-mortem, ioieteleuted e,ath to ; had been thinking on tie Saturday; but the poisening by eteeehnine. Inc police produced a ; husband stated that he b lieved her con.lit;ol leVer, which war fount' Out the deceased, in her I that nieht, wae attr:butable to drink. The inquest haedw.itng, stetieg eeet see had •,‘ done it herself t wn.s adj ,urn d for a post morteni examination of i as elle ea- a trouble te ber friends; ' because of tee her h-dy to be lead,. Dr. Walker now stated tleit m;-enable condi.ion she was in. The jury returned he had made ihe Pxamination. and found the den v relict to the ett.ct that deceased committed t ceased's lungs shrivelled up into a bard lump and suicide whilst in an unsound state of mind. ?, her stomach empty. In his opinion the deceased ClucAp
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1881-03-26 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

DRTERMINED SUICIDE.—On Wednksday night, a uonian notueci 3laria Bratell, aged 30, cut Ler throat with a razor, severincr the wi,ud pipe. It apptars that she had been suffering from a slight attack if typhoid fever ant Dr. Goulder had teen attending her. Soon after eight o'clock her husband David Brettell had given her the usual medicine. On going up siars jtut before nine o'clock he found h.s wife sitting on the floor and Wood about the room. Ile at once went for assist duce and got her on the bed. It was then found she had cut het throat with a razor, he died in a ew minutes after. Deci seed leaves five children  The most remarkable results ev'T %ffected by a lies in; Remedy ire prothictd by Piiirat.eti Eace.carios ti,e Dcike DIA male, ;lie ktiiiit Hon. the late &ail of lAarention, K U., the Right Hon. Broncos ,J.,uritess Wahiegraye, the iligh;. Hon. the Contacts of eta,lnor, and many other milieu& Persons have giros tlstimomais as to the .3ittraordi.ary efficacy Of POWSI4III osTIO EMI3I,,CAT:OIiiTLe irvild which it affords, cis, emu unich it effects in all easel' of rsietkoatie cad nrureigie pains, goat, iulubsgo, mini all sullen and pal:11111 Attacks, a:Awe, pins, and traanesses 111 any part .st &iv. body callo:g for an totter ii application, *its at ,ipr,dT and ),e:mAneut it us 40IJ cbruiit ouri- lsta at L. li,t.Aut, 2, tid. Mr. S. Hughes is our  't am lio,v Joint 41tewar4, of Ailitou, Kent, wrote Cietpber 291.11, 187 ti :—'•My herves more 39 sitatiered that i .ctrefie4 the .ILuplest oULIE•, /tadlt tntelierAy RIO ,itebille 11l the pertormauce Of Uiem. the desinmotutcy I endured became aanost unuaarable. sitice takieg t.Lm toe change in hay health fur the 3,0,07, is tre,y 'Walked,. I. have lost that horrible Awl,. my nerve's are much StrOlig,..r, Add my g-,tieral ,iett•ith veiy greatly ini,rovest. tetintot exp,•re,F. hoW iriily thauktuf I led l for tiie reetaric iir Auct incasing ...4.N1) 2110.32.10gives streegth, energy, aud %theta:" to eoustiiu,ion, in shy way en:eel-el. Ivt,llble to .Neuralgia.—Ask tor " Coursxs's Pins," and have/ no others, 211 94 and 4s 6 Atty Ldiiebutst WWI get WOOS it &tie; ate uo tusteels, or they Will De. nUt POSi re* teueipt of 33 or 51 stamps (great SaYillg:., ey rho anse.it ',rug Co., 135, queen's Rued, rigbton, A. cent Air Burgess. tihemist. Itarket Atn-etAir . ALasmato Dxss.ass