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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1868-05-30 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

SYDNEY SMITH'S PREFEIIMI,NT.— The las Rev. Sydney Smith owed his first valuable piece of preferment to the persistence of Lady Holland. Erskine was a constant visitor at H. dlanil-house. As soon as he was made Lord Chancellor, Lady Holland laid deo. siege to him to compel bins to confer a living on Smith. Erskine at last yielded, and Smith called on hini to thank him for the appointment. The Chan! cello'. disavowed all claim to being thanked "Lady I Holland," he " insisted on my giving it to you; and if she had desired me to give it to the devil," he I added, "he must have had it !" There was something I of the same spirit in the remark of George 111. when  . _ he nominated a man he disliked-'- to a bisie Tric. The pe, ai thus preferred coyly confessed himself unworthy .11 the preferment. To this the King replied that he knew that well enough. but the Prime Minister tumidhave it so, and he (the King) hid yielded to the Ver. sistencv. 'This mock-modest prelate may have been the bishop of whom Smith said that he looked so like Judas as to induce Smith at htst to firmly believe in the apostulical mccession !- -Sa Pitaand Sinntra, by Dr. Doran.  SUICIDE THROUGH A DISAREOINTFD WHIM At Wellsville, Ohio, lived Andrew Bunting and wife. On the 30th silt. the wife pressed the husband to buy more furniture for the house, which was declined. At breakfast she repeated her request. and the huaband again declined, whereupon she arose from the table in a passion. proceeded to a sideboarsl picked up a cup Of arsenic previously prepared, and threatened to take it if the husband did not conic to terms. Her children cried, her husband sprang from his seat to prevent the woman from carrying out her wicked design—too late to save her. In spite of his efforts, she managed to gurgle down a sufficient quantity to produce death; which, however, did not take place until between eight and nine o'clock in the evening, twelve hours after the poison had been taken. WomEN's BIGHTS W TT! A VENGE 'INCE !—A Bill laid before Parliament liv a mintier of gentlemen, including Mr. Mill the Philosopher, for legalising female rights, provides, amongst other thino, that wives shall be capable " of contrasting. suing, and being sued, as if they were unmarried women." Suing and being sues) ! Wives to have suitors as though they is-em spinsters still? Oh, Mr. Mill !—PiiIICA.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1868-09-05 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

ERRI BLE THAOEDY. —A double murder and ' • • projects about two inches on each side beyond the - 0 :Y -I' ' ' I 'i ' the train ben further alarmed b the r eantities of suiCide took dace at..int Denis a few ni dits back what miles of foot-digging clay a eportrman will tld it. The cO.I chman tried to hold the hone back by h • cheerhilly carry hie fowling Dean on which it is laid. To the locomotive there ere gravel and stones cast up against the windows of the I M. Girard, ageil sixty-twm a tended proprietor, living -pMcg over for the chance I the mane, but war thrown violently against the kerin of a shot at a oartridge. can we ffinibt that the artistM ' idiom. 'the carriage, a few minutes later, was dashed attached one steam break atul one hand break, either carriages by the wheels ploughing their way through in the Rue des Ursulines, had in his service avs man pedestrian will in future provide himself with his ICu pieces, and H. de Montalembert pitched aaiiust a of which can stop the train in a moment, and, in thrum:dr the ballast of the line. Just at the spot where of fifty. The nephew of the latter, named Grab, o n , cainera. with whitim in a day's walk, he may fill his , hear id stones, where he was found senseless. The asceniling, a Ntrong, wrought•ieon dog works into the the breakdown oectirreil the line runs twn the top of a the night of the s:rinaegainerl arlmiseion surreptitiously I . frrlio with recollections whieh will give him pleasure I coachman died in less than twenty minutes fecal concogs of the driving wheel, to prevent " beck slidn•• ~ steep embankment, and the danger of the train going into the house and hid himself in a garret, It SO ham i tor a lifetime I—Once a Week. ' tusions in the heal. Seeeral ehildreu who were playIn descending, the steam is shut oft, and the entgine—is bodily over Was apparent to all. Numbers of the pas- pened that the owner went ep there and discovered , , ing in the road when the horse ran away narrowly eased down by using tsar:pressed air. An experimental A.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1868-10-10 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

TEE PRICE OF AN M.P.  -- -- It is calculated that the expense of the next General I Electdm will fall very little short of Thr.,e Illillions of ' Pounds sterling. So the privilege of adding M.P. to 1 their names all gist Memb,rs on all average Four 1 Thousand Pounds apiece Really, people ought to ! bear in mind Ws fact when they are trying to wade through a tedious debate. Englishmen are ever prone bi test the value of a thing IT a lir no monetary standard, and orators who pay four thousand pounds to obtain the right of speakihg, must surely think it worth their oldie to do their very utmost to nay something at the money. By the bye, four thousand pounds is what they pay upon the average, and, mar,moth as many of them pay a great deal more, we think their words Hinson have the weight of the heavy price at which the power of utterance is purchased. We would mgcest that or friendDod, in his c'rect list of the Commons should specify each Member's weight —in the gold his seat has cost him, as well an making mention of his pedigree, his names, his age, and his political colours. The public thus might learn to read ! with proper reverence the speeches of an orator whom, intrinsically viewed, they might regard as a mat bore, but in a money point might class among the mat guns i of the liouse, if his election costs had ranked him an a , seven thousand pounder.—Punch.  A woman, named Elizabeth Donkin, seventy-five years of age, committed suicide at Drittielil ou 'Thursday, while suffering from a neuralgia attack, which caused her great torture. During the paroxysms of pain she went into a garret and hung herself. The Christian Knowledge Society on Tuesday had a iliscitssion, and passed a resolution having indirect relation to the unfortunate state of affairs in the diocese of Natal. A ' motion was carded by a majority of 140 to 04 authorising a grant of £2,000 to the church in that diocese " independent of the bishop." Two amendments were proposed, one with a view of preventing the society from taking part in the eclesiastical squabbles of the diocese, and the other recommending what is described as a .. modified " course, but both amendente were negatived. An appeal to the Court of Chancery was threatened by one of the speakers.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1868-10-10 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

ESCAPE FROM THE MORGUE.  La Morgue is the most popular lion of the city. The sad refuge receives on an average one pensionnaire daily. Of 365 admitted during a year about 240 are men, 50 women, and 75 infants from one day to ten sears old. suicide brings some 170, and accidents S2O bodies. During the last sixty years only twounexpected resurrections have occurred. One of the survivors is cow in his ssventieth year, and thins relates his simple nad tvrriLle story. At the age of twenty he was 4L filleted with a nervous disease, resulting often in syncope. One day he wont to the Champ-de-Mars to witness the celebration of some fete, and overcome by the heat, the excitement of the fireworks, &c., he fainted. Transported to a neighbouring apothecary's shop, a passing physician felt his pulse, applied the ear to his chest, shook his head, pronounced the opinion " lie is dead," and signing the certificate to this effect, directed the body to be conducted to the Movie. All this the patient heard. He remembered nothing more at the time, and sense returning, he opened his eyes, and found the place where he was as dark as Erebus. :ioon he felt the icy coldness of the " situatioc," and with cause, for he wasextended naked on a sloping marble slab, with a current of water trickling over it. Ile put ' out his hand; hisneighb.sir wasa corpse, the companion on his other side was, as Mr. Mantalini would say, "a dem'd moist unpleasant body." At once he recollected the doctor's directions—he was aware he was in the Morgue. Ile screamed; but echo was the only answer. After a while a policeman was attracted to the spot, and threw the light of his lantern through the grating. For a month subsequently this " casual" was laid up with brain fever, hanging between life and death, hut on recovery found that his nervousness had been carried off by the fever.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1867-05-18 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

COOL HUSBAND.  In Charles City, Charles Caunty, Vit„ on the lath April, Mrs. Haynes committed suicide by shooting herself with her husband's pistol. On the morning in lineation she asked him where his pistol was On being informed that it was in a drawer, she took It out and asked her husband to load it for her. Ile declined, anal inquired whet she wanted It loaded for. fter reply was that she intended killing herself, and if he wouldn't load the pistol for her she would do it herself. Mr. Haynes paid no attention to this remark, and continued making out acco tttt ts till he was internipted by his wife the second time, who asked him to tell her why the hall wouldn't go down the barrel of the weapon. Ile took it from her, anal Muting that the bullet was too large, trimmed it off as that it would it, and then handed it back to Ids wife. Subsequently, upon her reiterating the threat to kill herself, Mr. Haynes asked her to give him the pistol, hut she refused to do no, and It was only after n :Area° that Ile again secured It. This time Mr. Haynes went to the porch, Bred elf the weapon. and returned It to the drawer where he had been in the habit of keeping it. Soon after his wife again got the pistol anal sat down by hint to load it, after accomplishing which she handed It to her husband and asked him to eap it. Knowing that she had frequently indulged in pistol shooting, he thought nothing of her sa)iug she intended to CoMPlii suicide, and accordingly put the cap on the weapon and handed it back to her. alm. Haynes then left the hotter. Shortly afterwards he heard the report of the pistol, and immediately ran to the door to see what had happened, it hen the first sight which caught his eye Wll.B Mrs. Haynes, with uplifted arms, running towards hint anal crying "Save nie lie bore her into the house, where she lingered only about fifteen minutes before she died. Upon esiunination it was aiscertained that the fatal missile had entered the right lung and passed obliquely down towards the spine. She assigned no reactant for the strange net, and her last words to her husband were those of endearment anal importunities for him to save her.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1867-10-12 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

THE CONDEMNED CONVICTS IN LONDON.  The high sheriff of the county • if Surrey!, Mr. Moly. neux, hila appointed Tueed ty, the 15th f• v the execution ot the Frenclunau, Louis li, rilier, for the murder of Mary Ante Snow, in the Old Keat-road, London. The usual hour would be nine ticloc',-, but in conseqpience of tie same dav being named for the execution of John Wit:gins, at New.c,fa e. the time ha.s' been changed tfti ton 0:clock. Bordier exhibits • good` deal of firmners,stioni seems resigned to his tate: !Mere does not appear the IMO for supposing that his mind is affect, il. lie profeeses the Roman Catholic faith, ant although he attends regularly atthe services in the prison chapel, he is visited almost dady by the Rev. Mr. Faure, attached to the Roman Catliplii4.Cll nrch in Leicester-square. The only per on wllO 1111.1 been to see him since his conviction is a Fi ench fellow-worknian named Pastel. The culprit has not, alluded to his crime since his conviction. The Society for the Abolition of Capital Punishment has takes up the case of the prisoner, and has memoriatised the Home Secretary, urging that there is sufficient ground for not carrying out the sentence. . . . . .  John Wiggins, who was convicted of murdering Agnestlakes, a young woman with whom he cohabited at Limehouse; continues to declare that he is innocent of the crime; and that the defence he made from the very first, that the deceased committed suicide after having attempted to kill him by cutting his throat, was the truth. Upon every occasion that presents itself, he appear., ready to give all LIM, details HS to the manner in which the affrCr took place. Since his conviction be hat bet ii visited by his father and mother, both of whom are very aged people. The culprit attends the chapel service rqularly, and pays earnest attention to exhortations of the chaplain of the prison.. In this case also the society mentioned above are exerting themselves to procure a remission of the sentence.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1867-10-12 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

SUICIDE OF A GIRL THROUGH DISAPPOINTED LOVE.  An inquest was held at Birmingham on Saturday, at which a rather singular story was told. The deceased was a girl named Ann Maria Payne, who had only lust entered upon her teens. She wan employed as general servant by a brassiformiler, who resided in Eilglitiston. She became acquainted with a hutch< r's hoy named John Welch, who was fifteen )tars old Voting as she was she fell desperately in love with the lad, and, much to his amioy*awe, followed hint aloud. lie did everything to drive her away (rim hint. On Tuesday night, last week, hewn in the Beldstriiiroad, when the girl jidneil hire. lie told her not to follow him, but she began to Cry, awl still attended lrcnr as he wept the road A last, as "g.siit wide" not send lietyway, lie @wove :teller, and threatened to "give hare artrrmc till the. niiiielh" it eha..cputieuel tq go ,after him " tharesity." There willstatiothergrl About whiten the butcher's dhify •dhl carcosallii),,the dEbeasetrivas nett made happiter .Ihdate night hy selintg them Walking shiiig the roan totAtlies, An amit-or the deceased said that her mother WOlll4 idllher if she Wahl continue/a follow the lad nitwit. The girl's only answer was, that sheslld not care. On Wednesday evehing the mistress of decessioll wee alarmed 1 by a scream which evidently proceeded from the {dollen. She west there and found the Oil greatly excited. She had taken Poise because she had been threatened for going after the butcher's lely. A doctor was sort for, end 011 Ilia arrival Ire found Vie girl in strong ti tunic convulsions. NotwithMenthes his prompt use of the stomach pump and an emetic the spasms increased She died in anont ten minutes. Only a minute or two-before her death she turned to the doctor and L get well/ Oh. I wish I hail not taken it.' Ott the table in her bedroom an unopened packet of Vermin Killer" was found. Before the doctor reached the house deceased told her mistress that she had swallowed three lacketa of the " Killer."  The -juiy. found that she had committed suicide whilst in a state of insanity.
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1867-09-28 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

EXTRAORDINARY INQUIRY AT TOTTENHAM.  An inquiry into the death of an itifant at Tottenham Iran disclosed arose singular facts. the chill was iliegitimate, and hail bi-en placed by its mother in the care of a Coiuiahi named Jagger, who was in the habit if taking ca eif cliildren. Tire medical man uho examined the deceaped said that the tasty was in ansi-st emaciated urnirt s. Mia. Jagger, it appears, advettises for children, and she admitted that during the last three years she might have hail as many as forty in her can. The coroner, it ssill he seen by the evidence, stated that he had already held two quests in connection 'th gtestis tura hail taken place ni her house. The mother if the dreeagra wars raid to be a highly respectable and wealthy young lady, who threatened to commit suicide if her n me were divulged. She had, however, only been to see her child twice ilnring the sixteen montlia it hail hetn under Mrs. Jogger's roof. The following is the evidence a.s taken before the coroner :  Mrs. Jagger, Tottenham, said, that she was a married woman. 'the deceased was brought to her by a Mrs. Stevens. She was 'toying then With Mr. Raines, a solicitor. [Mr. Raines, it is midenttood, is the solicitor to iho cuing lad)'s family.] Witnras was to receive Os. per week. The child had b. en with witness about one year and four months The mother has been to see the child twit* The list time she saw it was shoot low months *to Witness received the money in postage games front Liverpool. She sent ber receipt to Mr. Raines. The register" of o eceased an, given to ‘elzirers, her ionic was Mary Stevens. registered at Liverpool one year and tight months ago. Witness did not know what her (other Mal mother were. She fed the deceased on bread, milk, raw eggs, slot port wine. She ate ravenously, and vomited a good deaL She had had no
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1867-11-02 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

BELIKVE IT.—The Duke of Edinburgh, while at the Cape, shot an elephant. Turning to his attendants. he said, " Let nobody call me the Dukc of To-le.any" --thus potting at once monster and mot.  A DREAM STOIC v!---A remarkable story of a dream comes from Sutton-imAshfield. A young mall, named Stringfellow, mestcrionsly disappeare4 from his home there a few days ago. and night or two afterwards, a companion, named Burton, dreamt that Stringfellow had drowned himself at 14 certain spot in the river Canldwell, and that he, Burton assisted in getting him out with a drag which hooked him by the back part of the trousers and stocking of the left leg. On the following morning Burton told his dream, and with several companions went to the spot indicated. The drags were thrown in twice by other persons without any result. Then finestn himself took them in hand._ and at the first throw fished up the dead body of Stringfellow in precisely the fashicn indicated in the dream! In the pocket of the young man was found a letter stating that he had committed suicide through disappoiintod love. "We tell the story as told tO US —by the Sheffield Independent.  THIEF ROB THIEF :—Everybody remembers the trial of skill between the two robbers - how the one ondertook to steal the eggs from a rook's nest, while the old bird waii sitting, and how the other actually did steal the first one's breeches from his legs while he was engaged in the operation. Well, a somewhat similar case is reported from Barnsley. A young thief left his bundle in charge of an old thief, while he went to steal a pair of breeches. When he came back with the breecheii the old thief was gone, bundle and all. But in the night time, when the young thief was asleep, he returned, and added the breeches to his plunder. In the meantime the police had been put on the track of the young thief, and soon after he lost his bundle and his breeches they took him into custody. To complete the joke, the young thief has been committed for a month, and the old thief has escaped with the booty. AN
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1867-04-27 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

STRANGE MC RDF.II.—A strange murder has jm.t been committed at Pussy, France, a farmer, named Emard, 34 years of age, having without any reason whatever, killed his wife, n woman of 30. He has confessed the crime and furnished the details. He states that 41y lived un good tenns, but that three mornings back, when be awoke, the idea oecurred to him to destroy her while she slept. He accordingly seized her by the neck, and in spite of her struggles strangled her. He afterwards went to an outhouse, intending to commit suicide, but his courage failed him. In the evening his brother-in-law called and inquired after his sister, and the husband said she was gone on a visit to her aunt, but something in his manner excited the suspicion f the other, who signified his determination to await her return. When ten o'clock arrived lie demanded some explanation from Emard, who at last made a full avowal, and showed him the dead body. The criminal was arrested the same night, without any resistance or attempt at flight.  BRIGHAM YOUNG'S t'4IVOGLDLY WiSDOM."— Those who suppose that Brigham Young maintains his power over the Mormons only through the influence of religions fanaticism mistake his own character and that of his system. The latest mail from Utah brought Us a sermon which he delivered in the Temple to the saints which is one of the shrewdest specimens of "worldly wisdor- " we have met with. He gives the saints the results of his own efforts at money-making during the last quarter of a century, and points them to the "four or five grist-mills, besides saw-mills and farms," which he owns. lie Mows hew he labours for the enrichment of his followers as well as himself, and reveals how, in a hard season, he concocted a plan by which the saints were able to get a high price for their corn from the surrounding Gentiles. He exhorts the producers and merchants not to be seduced into selling their goods too cheap, and tells a terrible tale of a certain " sister " why weal meluil iv put with a " hunikvd pywwil it