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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1867-09-21 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

EXTRAORDINARY CATALOGUE OF CRIMES.  A New York letter in the Scotsman gives the following record of a week's crime At Melby, Kentucky, a duel is (might between two young gentlemen, rivals for the hand of the same maiden, awl one of them Is killed and the other mortally somide.i. A party of yotmg men ride into the village of Stanford, Kentucky, and, dismounting from their hones, walk to a shop where one Bridgewater, an ex-oflicer of the United States artny is sitting, shoot him, remount their homes, and escape. A young woman in Animate, Georgie, having quarrelled with her lover, swallow.' a dose of morphine, and jumps into the river; she is rescued from drowning, but dies of the piano. At Water Valley, a negro assaults a young lady, is chased for seven miler, is shot, and killed. At JelfersonvWe, Indiana, three negroes assault two white girls, and ace killed. Eight inquests upon persons who were killed or who committed suicide are held at chicago. A Osmium tiny, ioty eastern years old, pleads guilty to the charge of murder in St. Louis. In Casaville, Missouri, a little girl, eight years oil, shrams her brother with her father's revolver, "because ha pulled her flowers," aml Irags his dead body from the house Into the garden. In Utica, New York. the Rev. W. H. Green I. arrested upon the charge of having poisoned his wife, and , drawing his knife cuts his own throat, In Greenville, Ohio,  Dr. Feliens insults the sister of a Mr. Cameron; the two men meet, draw their revolvers, and Fellens Is shot. In Buffalo, New York. a cooper cuts his wite's throat with an axe. At Frankfurt, Kentucky, Allen Bridgeford and John Nichols shoot each other, Nichols dying Instantly, and Brulgeford expiring after suffering amputation of his leg. At Chillicothe, Ohio, a young man kills hig mother. alto Ina come to coax him away frolic a rum mill." At Union City, Tennessee, a negro breaks into the residence of and assaults a Widow; hole puraumi by her sons, captured, carried before her, identified, and killed by having his head cut off At a political meeting in Tennessee, a white man and a black man are killed, seven men are mortally wounded, and thirty are slightly wounded. At Norfolk, 43einge Martin was killed by George Smith for the seduction of the latter's wife. In CM. cionati two concert singers, recently from England, quarrel with each other, when one shoots the other through the breast. And in Quincy, Illinois, a gang of coloured men break up a prayer meeting held by some other coloured people, and ill the fight that ensues one man is killed and Seven others are *tabbed.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1867-11-23 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

TIIE ARAB JUGGLERS IN LONDON.—MT. Frank Buckland gives, in Land and Water, the result of his observations of these performers. The snakes they handle are not poisonous, but belong to a harmless species common in France and England. The man who thrusts skew, Is through his tongue and the back of his neck has permanent holes for their introduction, and does not suffer more pain than when a lady puts on her earrings after leaving them off for some time. Other features of the exhibition remain unexplained. Mr. Buckland concludes: " Altigether, I do not reeollbct having seen an exhibition which combines so many horrible and truly sensational sights in so short a space of time."  As UNKSoWS Smolt:lg.—The identity of the man who shot himself at the Li:ln Hotel, atCambridge, during the night of the 13th inst., still remains ur..Itmistin. At the adjourned inquest on Monday night nothing to throw any light on it transpired. It appeared that in eleaui(,9. out the ro nm wh: re the suicide occurred some hotel bills were found under the carpet, supposes! to have been placed there by the deceaseAL These were produced, and snowed lfor there was no doubt from communications received front the various hotels that it was Ile) that deceased had visited the Cock :At Epping, the Lion at Cliippimr Ongar, and the Saracen's Head at cheimsfonl between the tat and 9th of November. The bills were for small amounts, and were receipted. The jury return.-41 a verdict to the effect that deceased, when he committed suicide, was abmiring iumdr tempoxary insanity. Eutcartox IS PEtiltffn.VANl.A.,—The State of Pennsylvania has a system of common schools, supported by the commonwealth, of which her people are quite proud. In 1860 she had 11,597 schools, in which were 13,194 teachers and 365,303 scholars. The expense of the system for that year was 2,1110,000 dole. In 1866 the system had greatly increased its usefulness, there being in that year 13,146 schools, with 16,148 teachers and 725,312 scholars. while the total expendithre for the year was 4.195,258 &la—which is believed to he a lar4er sum than was expended for similar purposes riming that year by any other American State.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1867-03-02 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

SUICIDE OF A CHEMIST.  An inryneet has been held at Midilll4hr°' on the body of John .fackmon, a cb.nii.tt, who been funnel dead in his shop, on Friday afternoon. The following evidence was given:—  Elizabeth Cooperthwalte—gaid: Deceased was thirty years of age. About twelve months ago he commenced business in Commercial-street sea chemist and druggist On Monday morning I 11,.w him go Into his shop. The shatt.rs were not taken e own then, and the shop hae remained closed until Friday, when It was broken open by inipector Skelton. I don't think he did mach Matinees, for he told me • while ago that he could hardly make what would keep him In tobacco. inspector Skelton said : On Friday afternoon I went to the deceased'. shop, and broke open the door, which was locked from the inside, I found the deceased lying on the shop 0 'or, and he had the appearance of having been dead some time I found a glass and bottle standing on the connter close to where he was lying. I searched his clothes and the shop, but maid not fled any money. In • desk I round • pawn ticket for a gold watch which had been pledged for 41. Tha ticket is dated September lest The shop is pretty well stocked In the room where he slept there was only an old common wooden bedstead with some straw on li, and a pair of old Woolen, coat, and waistcoat for coverJonathan Dick surgeon to the pollee farce, said he had made epos/ mortem examination Ile was edified that the deceased had died from having swallowed a quantity of Oil of bitter almonds.  The Jury returned the following verdict—That the deceased died from having taken a large dose of oil of bitter almonds, while in an unsound state of mind.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1867-02-09 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

FELON HT11.0P11.:131_1. —An inquest Ins held on Saturday. at the London Hospital. on the body of &ClLard .tances 31.aecn. aged font. Deceased wee with his father in a pubiic-"nouse, at MaliwalL on the rti2 of Decenicer, and whilst paying on the door a large dog came into the honse and bit the child on the cheek. and then an away. The coil,' wee taken to the London HapitaL and was discharged in three weeks .1 clued. but symptoms of hrir 3pilUilia appear. he was again sent to the hosottaL and d of in peat agony on Thursday in lest week. In accoriance Mita the evidenc e after a yort-stoetesi examinatca., the jui7 returned a verdia ot Desalt from toe bite or a dos:. The anima warn shot, but tts owner has not been discovered. Pooa Fattow well-deed named Alexander Reid, committed suicide. by takind prussic acid, in a London lodging house. art week. The following letters. one addreesed to his brother and the other to his daughter, were focmd in hie pockets :  _ 1 Deer Brother. cave lona my work. and 'corm" thin reaches Ton I trill '34 no more. I :annot to yon_ if Tin can In any way end the cote to Kin. Blake plasm, to ro. tor my take. Ytur affectionate cut =fortunate mother,  E,sr Eliza. Wham this reschne yon ai n ore. 3.1 lend to your mother. and think aometames yonr =Uwe-unarm Daidle. minas Lire a Inman to anyone again. T. sopa you Ira lo well. Don't fret boons an. I ion t know what I am =Lying or doing. In death. yonr affectionate Dant:Mr  Ma. BRIGEMS Par7Ars (711.13.1 c-rim.— In one part of Mr. Bright's complaint. we Linden Times most mum', agree with Man. Nothing efil be Ilkore infair. nothing more unhandsome. nothing more =list, than the private attacks of which Mr. Bright 'mid been the &fleet. The puolic has nothing whatever to do with rale manner in which he condi:iota his bnsinega, nothing to do 'rim his relations with his workmen. nothing to do with stories winch may be coilected frond rivaLs in trade at a distance or hostile neighboeirs in the spot. It is only as a political character that we have to deal with Mr. Biesht. and that certainly with iufflueni 3126Gtr1-hi. wiim,oo intending onraeivea into his Manners or axial relations.  Tux COST Or a P.R.:MS Harie_s, the ; breeder of the ox which won the SmithtieLl Cop, has , geshished in the .13419:Tiitir, J.,arnal a debtor and ; creditor account of in, iareer of that animal. It originally at ; ha expenere at the London and f Inverness 11110•11 amounted to :Of.. and its keep from Seprxisiber. IS/14. to December. 1i66. at 71. t a week. fI. 411. 5e.; m all, Lill. is. Against this oatiay Ms. Hama pieces prime to the amount of 51. 158. won at ; Forms, which is within a :els mile' of Mr. Harris's ! Farm. Earn Ea ; of won as Invernees, and of 25. wan in Loudon. which. bided to
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1867-06-08 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

CRIME IN AMERICA.  The following eases are recorded in one of the New York papers :  A gentleman named Ward, residing near Rochester, detected two persons unlawfully fishing in his trout pond on Thursday. He tot one of the trespassers, killing him outright. and beat the other terrildy with his gun. in Madison, Indiana, on Tuesday, two old men quarrelled about the sale of a small quantity of corn. One killed the other with a revolver subsequently the murderer shot and killed himself with the same weapon.—An old man living In Oriswohlville, Massachusetts, on Thursday. beat out the brains of a woman living In his house. and shortly afterwards attempted to men theithJs wife—On Thursday 14 men entered a hall ki?ig hon., in Richmond, Missouri. killed three of the officers of the bank, and stole 4,000d015. in currency.—A man living in au hotel In Chicago was attacked in his room on Wednesday night, frightfully beaten, and robbed of 19,000d015. in Federal Bonds. —William Carr, a manufacturer of toys, left •drinking saloon in Brooklyn to go to his home. As he pacr...,l through an unfrequented street, a Marl stepped from the shadow of a tree and deli' iendely shot him through the head. The sleuth was witnessed by a policeman, who pursue and captured the assassin. On being taken to the stationhouse It was discovered that the criminal was a person lately serving In the police force as a sergeant, He did not dm ly his guilt. The instrument of assassination was an air gun, the object of the mime was robbery.— On Tuesday a suicide occurred to a gaming house in New York. F. 11. Fisher, formerly in the Federal cavalry, having lost all his money at faro, coclly shot out his bruitis, Is. his pry.ikst wits toUud a flute to this effect 1/.le by my owl, wicket hand. Came Demoralised by. playing faro bank. And may the Almighty God have mercy en my soul." Another letter via found in which the coroner was asked to inform the snicidun i• poor old Christian mother " of her sulfa death.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1869-05-14 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

GEMS OF THOUGHT.  War.—F,very war occasions a greater or less relapse into barbarism.  Impudence.—No•hing carries a man through thc world like a true. genuine. natural impu&nce. Ita counterfeit is good for nothing, nor can ever support  Intemperance the Parent of Mu•der.—The murders (including suicides and murder by duelling) that 11 re the fruits of intemperance cons•itule fsr the greater portion of those which stain the records of the judicial or private hist.ry of society. The Struggle of Life —This world is a world of atrugsle; hut it is not true that to he compelled to struggle is a misfortune. In live is to straggle. Every human being has to struggle, and it is the point of struggle that is the point of vitality and the point of victory  Family Worship —Family religion is of unapeaks •hie importance. Its effect will greatly depend on the sincerity of the head of the family. and on his mode of conducting the worship of his household. If hi. childen and servants cl/i not see I.Ps prayers exempl,fied in his temper and manners, they will be disgusted with religion.  Necessity of Cuitrolling the Ptssions.— A proud. irritable, discontented, and qonrrelvinme person can never be happy •He has ihrown a tempestuous atturo. phere around himself. and must for ever move i the roelon of storms. He has employed sure means to embitter life, whatever may be his exiernal circumstances. He has been the architect of his temper, and misery must be the result of his labour.  C"urt-hip.—A over should be treated with the same gentleness as a new glove. The young lady should treat him with the utmost tenderness at first, only making the smallest advanee at a time, till she gradually gains upon him, and twig's him ultimate'y round her little finger; whereas the young I dy who is hasty, and in two great • hurry, will never gnt s lover to take her band, but be left with nothing but her linger-ends.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1869-12-03 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

BIRTH IN A CAB.—On Thursday afternoon week. shortly af. er the arri.al of a trail from Cam bridge at King's Cross, a woman. named IHrlden. a member of a iamily shich was on its wa% to Tunbridge Wells, became suddenly ill. She was imini-d,ately placed in a cab, in which, after a short time, he wive birth to a healthy child Mrs Dryden Was removed to Si. Luke's Workhouse, in the Caproad.  A lady refused to relieve a beggar, but heard him say, in a deep time, " Then I must resort to my first resolution." Thinking th a alusion mitt be a robbery or a suicide. she iurne hack and gave him money, and a.kod what he meant to have done. "Oh," said he, "I intended to go to work!"  A Jerusalem telegram reports that the Nine, of Prussia had received from KiAmil Pasha the formal transfer of the site of the old h,spit...l of the /Coldlra of Sr. John. %Ilia' the Sultan had presented t• his Royal Highness ea a personal gift to King Willi:Ml on the occasion of the Prince's visit.  THE MURDER IN NEWCASTLK„—The young man George Weirs was again charged on remand, on Friday, at the Newcastle Police Court, with causing the deivli of Matiida Martin, otherwise Renwick t.y si•bbing her in the breast, at Pandas, on the 18th inst. The prisoner was committed for trial for willui murder.  LORD BYRON'S MOTHER —The Athentrtan Nay% that there is or ought to be, somewhere a book which is almost as well worth •r toning after a, the Charlemscne Bible. The mother ot Lord Byron coll.-o,d all the eritirii,nis 141 her son'a." Hours of Idleness " She had the whole ',mind and inte, leaved. On the blank le,ves so int-erred she sroto her own comments on the poet. the poem. and the reviewer.  M. de Lesseps telegraphs to Istnaila to emitrntlicr the uniltvouranie rumours respecting the Su. z Ginal. which had caused a depression in the shall of the company. lie slys that within the ten d •ys ending November 26t1i 50 ve-aels, representing 35,000' Onl4, have pat.ned .rom the M. diterranean to the Red sea, and ilia there had been no damage to the banks of the canal.  THE LATE LoRD
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1869-07-30 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

WINDERMERE.-Ou Monday week it riot uk place at the terminus of the new Lakeside Railway, Witt.fernier° The Weineyans of Barrow had got up a cheap trip to the lake, and this was taken ' advantage of by a large number of navvies and roughs, who, at ter becoming intoxicated, began to wrangle abnut tit ir individual prowess, and ultimately to About a hundred of them took fore be po session of a field set apart for the Wesleyan scholars, and, not con. lent with using their fists, they to e up nearly the whole of the fences, and struck at all who came in their way. The scene that ensued was; appalling. Blood flowed from :he heads and faces of men, women, and children, many being carried to the hotel seriously injured, and the screams were fearful. Policemen were 'rot for from B•ackbarrow, and telegraphed for to Glverston, but before their arrival partial quietness had been restored, slime of the most active in promoting the riot lying about the field covered with blood stains and helplessly drunk. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE FROM DISAPPOINTED Lova —On Thursday week, at the West Riding Court, Halifax, a young man named Walton Hindle, gardener, of Skircuat Green, was charged with having, on the pre•ious day, attempted to commit suicide by drowning. It appeared that Hindle had been keeping company with a young woman, but that lately site had refused his attentions, sod on the Sunday evening previous he saw her with another young man. This seemed to have preyed on his mind, and he told a companion ihat if ever he was lust they must look for him in the pond in the grounds of Mr Child, at Copley. On the day above named he was silting on a wail near the pond along with another young man, when he said he would drown himself luiroed• itchy afterwards lie went towards the pond, threw if his coat, said jumped in. It appeared that he quickly repented the step he had ,aken, as he made desperate i fforts ,ta get out of the pond. The water was deep, and he would undoubted y have been drowned, but for the assistance of his emupanion, by whom he was rescued in a very exhausted state. He was remanded.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1869-01-15 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ISIIOP AUCKLAND.  rouoili  BLE AND FATAL ACCIDENT TO Two AnitainA CoLUitar, Neat BISHOP ActOAionday morning, a mela,clioly simident ores daide Colliery, near Still,lon, the propel ty of e and Partner., by which two youlig men ere killed under the following temarkabla The brothers were hewers, one working ad the other at the day shift. About tvii vas piieparing to leave work and way On 110 ; on b a clothes whilst the other, staoding by prepaying for work, when a large-stone, gum it, fel upon them, killing them both on th ilatini; them in a fearful manner. The ekes sea Pratt, about 30 years of age, I, children, whilst the younger, Oeorge Pratt, mtly married, and leaves a young widow. de deeeued young men, and a man named ;Med in a similar manner at Eldon Colliery, ), whilst in the act of changing places ; sr of the deceased young men fell at hikerof the family having thus met their deaths  lea*  'cancels,  r eke  brotf)ler  lioie  CASE OF ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF .—A painful cape of attempted suicide oa. hop Auckland on the afternoon of the 7th ijamb n Wright, builder, who has been many own and established a business as builder, tbened period been much addicted to dritk, almost entirely to give himself up to it. He to confined to his house, and been at times delirium tremens, and had to be watched On the above date he became very violent, irig -watched by two women arid a man, be iall clasp knife, and deliberately made a cat I, which, though severe, did not serer the rhe parties watching attempt, d to get the im, and an alarm was given. Just at the avian was passing the end of the Great Mr Wright resides, and ho at wice malted res, jut in time to grasp the knife as be was t of raising it to his throat, and, after a mded in wrenching it from him without any being inflicted. After the k fe Lad been 1, he put his fingers in the w,ond, and entoke himself, but was, if course, instantly ict watch is being kept over him, and it is are not of a fatal nature.  -snap  biPn  iro4,  'trial'  neci:eded  ,4ries  'OOL it
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1859-12-24 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MIIIDER AND STACIDE. AT THORNBURV.-011 Friday, James Crebitry, a wretched-lookMg fellow, who had his throat bandaged from the cif-ets of his attempt to commit suicide, was charged with cutting and woundieg Emma Mahhett, at Aldmomi,hury, on the 29th October, with intent to murder her-- Emma Slaldiett, the prosecutrix, deposed that the prisoner formerly lived with her at the , !mires, of her mother-in-law, hut left about Michaelmas. On Saturday the 29th October, her mot her•in-law left home early in the morning to go to Bristol, when the prisoner forced his way into the house. He bolted the door, and seized her by the left arm. He said, " Turn round, there's a flea on your neck." She then saw that he had a razer in his hand, and she fell or was pushed upon the thtor. While so lying she felt the racer go through her left sex, and then inflict a cut upon her forehead. A struggle followed, aml she lost her senses, hut on awning to herself she found that her throat mid hands wore badly out.--Other witnesses were called, and proved that on hearing Mableett cry " Murder," they forceal their way into I the house, and found the prisoner and the woman in a small rout,, tip stairs. Frebury was lying in a pool of blood, w ielt his t brunt cut, and the woman was leaning out of the window, also bleeding badly front a wound in her throat.—Under the direction of the Judge, a verdict of guilty was at once returned; and sentence of deoth was recorded against the prisoner.  A :MILKMAN at Klosternenburg, a town in the neighbourhood of Vienna, has been sentenced to three months' imprisonment for speaking disrespectfully of St Leo' old. the patron saint of this province. THE Clerk to the Hartlepool Guardians has been committed for trial, on charges of extensive forgery. The .oingisterial examination took place at the prisoner's own house, to which he is confined by illness.  The range of an English archer was not less than WO yards, which is about the effective range of the Enfield rifle. This fact speaks volumes for the strength and skill of the EngliAnnen of Cressy and Agincourt. It is not generally known that there is in the possession of the Rev. Lord John Thynne a ring which is supposed to be the very same one that was given by Elizabeth to the Earl of Essex, having descended from Lady Frances Devereux, that nobleman's daughter, down to the present possessor.  cIDENT IN RYGENT's