The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1868-05-16 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

UNGRATEFUL RUFFIAN. The following , accept the assurance of Mr. Mitchell as entirely satieattempt to murder two persons, followed by a sup. 1 factory in a matter wherein his judgment may be led posed suicide, has just taken place in Paris : ; astray by "a blind impulse of sunburstery." ; A tanner named Taboureau had just left an hospital, and, 1 .... _ being w ithout resources, appealed for relief to an acquaint- i ance named Siegfried, a dealer in building materials, near i the Pont I. nuts Philippe. The latter gave him a dinner, and ' allowed him to sleep in a garret; but the other, knowing I The case of Bryant r. Foot, which has been pending that Siegfried had a rather large sum of money in a leathern i hg-it, which, as is done by many workmen, he carried at night : n the courts for about five years, and which involves instrument r ~,,, unl him, got up in the night with the intention the right of the clergy to manage fees, was decided in of cutting the tlinmt of his host and wife for the purpose of the Exchequer Chamber on Saturday. The defendant rolibing Inn. Ile had already made a gash in the neck of was the rector of Horton, in Buckinghamshire, and he Siegfried, w ben the latter awoke, and his groans aroused Ins claimed a fee of 10s. for the rector, and 3s. for the wife, who defenilml her husband firmly against the assailant. . - clerk of the parish, upon any marriage solemnised in This latter then struck the woman twice with the razor, inflicting deep wounds in her face and on her hand, and then the church. The plaintiff claimed a return of the hurried out •4 the house, and, jumping into the river from fees he had paid. The case was argued some time the bridge, disappeared beneath the water As, however, he since in the Court of Queen's Bench, when the majority of that court (Me Justice Blackleirn dissentis known to be a goml swimmer, a search 15 being made for . him hi case lie shoidd have escaped by diving. At idl eventa in m) have • in favour of the plaintiff. TM (held, body has Mit been found. The husband and wife hniVO 6 Ifa, judgment , fent nt appealed against that judgment, anti the been removed to the hospital ; the former is ill a dangerous state. A. female child of the Siegfrieds, agent three years, matter Wta argued some time since in this court, when was sleeping in the same room, and was found still . time was taken for consideration. The Chief Baron soundly steeping lq the persons who went to the assist...o : now delivered the judgtnent of the majority of the of the parents. ; engirt. It appeared, he said, that from 1804 to ARRIVAL GI A LARGE ELEPHANT Mr. Teget- 1854 these fees had been paid, and the question meier, writing to the l'ield, gives an areount of a WDA whether the court should hold that the gigantic elephant in the possession of Mr. Rice, of claim by prescription could be sustained ; the St. George-street, liateliff, London. This animal is majmity of the Court of Queen's Bench had deternow twenty-eight years old, mud was presented in 1849 mined that it could not, and the majority of this court by the Shah of Persia to the Enquemr Nicholas of was if opinion that the judgment of that court should Russia, being then nine years of age. She remained in be affirmed. In order to show that a claim to such a St. Petemburgh for ten years, when she was presented fee was legal, it must be shown to have existed from to Herr Gottlieb Kreutsberg, the proprietor of the the time of legal memory (Richard I.) The payment largest travelling menagerie of the Continent, in whose must have been made from time immemorial, and it possession she remained for eight years. and was sold must have been the same fee in amount It was by him to Mr. Rice. The animal is described by Herr imposs:Jle to suppose that such a fee as 13s. contd have Kreutsberg as very good tempered, and as being the been paid upon a marriage in a small parish in the largest and finest elephant existing in csunfinement, time of Richard I. It was proof to rebut the conduDuring the peried ef her capth ity she has shed the sion that the payment had been made from time remains of two inelars, which have been pushed out by immemorial. The judgment of the Queen's Bench Ike growth of those designed to sucmed them. would, therefore, be affirmed. Mr. Justice Keating diesented. and read a very long judgment explaining TAKING IT loft GRA•Te:D ! --That people are hi. often induced to sign petitions tin ParlMnient without knowing their object is sufficiently notorious (says the , Pall Mail Oazrtte); but it is net often that such a glaring instance is disclosed 0, the f, di.ming, which is a literal- copy of a petition presented by Mr. Hardeastle, and read by the clerk at the table of the Weise Id Commons :- " The humble petition of the undersigned persons assembling for worship at the Primitive Methodist Chapel at Westhall, in the county of Suffolk. That on time 29th of March last is form of petition was sent by time hands of a inessunger, who brought with it a message from the Rey. Henry Albert Goodwin, the vicar of Westhall, to Mr. Robert Meadows, one of our number, that much petition was against Pepery, but without stating that it Was against thin disendowment of the Irish Church. That such petition was signed by your petitioners and others entirely under the impression that it was intended to prevent the spread of Popery, and after having been so signed, Was returned to the said Rev. H. A. Iloodwin ; bit that, far from wishing to assist in keeping, up so foul an establishment as the Irish Church, your petitioners earnestly pray your honourable House to at once pass an Act fur its entire disestablishment."  SHIRT MAlN.—Upward s of 50,000 shirts have been made by the wives and widows of men belonging to the army and militia stall at Winchester during the last ten years, for which the sum of £2,000 has been paid them by the Soldiers' Wives Employment Society.