The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-10-13 00:00:00

la published at the pcpular price of one penny.

Last week's receipts of cotton at all United States
ports were 164,000 bales ; since Ist September,
482,000 bales, Week's exports to Great Britain,
20,000 bales; week's exports to the Continent, 47,000
bales. Total since let September, 111,000 bales.
Stock at all ports, 408,000 bales.
A New York telegram rays that the visible supply
of wheat on Oct. 5 was 27,000,000 bushels, as against
24,20,000 bushels the previous week. Visible supply
of Indian corn 14,100,000 bushel?, as against 15,700,000
bushels the previous week. The export clearances of
wheat for Europe during last week amounted to
860,000 bushe!s. The export clearances of Indian
corn for Europe during last week amounted to 1,470,000
bushels.

Mr. Bright has written a letter on the Marriage
Laws, in which he say_s :—" Convocation only talks,
and cannot act. The Bishops can advise the clergy,
but BiBhop3 and clergy cannot roll bark the tide of
opinion on the question now under discussion, and
we mnst wait a little longer and the matter will be
settled."

The other day a train on the Reading railrJad, in
the northern suburbi of Philadelphia at a grade
crossing, ran into a street tramcar filled with people.
The car was wrecked, and thirteen perscns were in-
jured, three afterwards dying.
On Saturday morning a very courageous act was
performed at Dover by a seaman named Wittle, en-
gaged on a collier lying in the }'arbour. Hearing the
my of a boy who had fallen inta the dock, he at once
sprang nff the quay after the boy had sunk, elived
under him, and supported him to the surface, where he
kept him afloat until assistance arrived. Wittle was
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applauded by the byetandere for hie bravery.

From a return just issued it appears that the number
of outrages committed in Ireland during the month of
September was 79. The total is made up as follows:
Firing into dwellings. 5; incendiary fires, 19; maim-
ing cattle, 5; assaulting bailiffs, administering unlaw-
ful oaths ; malicious injury to property, 17; intimi-
dating, 5; threatening letters, 26.

Advioes received from Yokohama, dated Anna 28,
announce that a ore, resulting in appalling loss of
life, occurred in a theatre at Ba.tamotomura liamada
Govi Sanalti. The building being of highly inflammable
materials, the flames spread with awful rapidity, and
in a few minutes enveloped Use theatre. In the re-
sult, 15 adults and CO children were found to have
been killed, and over 100 persons were seriously in.
juiced.

A Berlin telegram says that a Russian schoolmistress
and eight young ladies, her pupils, all inmates of the
Marie Institute, at Warsaw, of which the Czar is
patron, have just been arrested by the police of that
city. On &search being made of the premises', a largo
number of Nihilist pamphlets were discovered.
The Post Office at New York has made an eaten-
sive seizure of property passing tbrough it. A parcel
of diamonds, valued at 13,000 dolts., coming from Paris
en route to Philadelphia, has been seized. Some valu-
able paintings on ivory, transmitted through the Post
Offios, has alto been detained.
An accident happened on Monday night at the Dean
Lane Colliery, Bristol, A large number of workmen
went down on the night shift, %hen an explosion
occurred. Two men were seriously injured, and were
taken to the General Hospital. Many others wbe
were not so badly turned were conveyed to their own
residences.

The number of beasts entered for consumption
at the Metropolitan Cattle Market for the week
ending Saturday last was 8,300; in the correspond-
ing week of 1882, 3,540; 1881, 3,990; 1880, 4,160;
1879, 4,590; 1878, 5,100; 1877, 3,950; 1876, 7,470;
1875, 7,890; and 1874, 6,320.

On Mondays young man named Thomas Green was
committed for trial by the Birkenhead stipendiary on
a charge of stabbing two young women during a Salva-
tion Army procession through the town on the pre-
vious Thursday night.—Three young men, arrested on
Sunday for stoning the army, were remanded at the
same court.

The receipts on account of Revenue from the Ist of
April, 1883, when there was a balance of £6,972,730,
to Oct. 6, 1883, were £0,152,479, against £39,457,122
in the corresponding period of the preceding financial
year, which began with a balance of £5,976,585. The
net expenditure was £45,546,745, againht £0,703,097
to the same date in the irevious year. The Treasury
balances on Oct. 6 amounted to £1,764,515, and at the
same date in 1882 to £1,486,277.

Speaking at a Conservative gatheang at Forres on
Tuesday, the Right Hon. E. Gibson, M.P., urged on
his friends the necessity of courage and persistent
effort, with which they must achieve success, and
maintained that if they regarded carefully the lifo and
actions of the late Lord Beaconsfield they would see
that the Tory party worked for the people, and by the
people—meaning thereby the whole nation, all its
c asses and all its conditions.

The traffic receipts of railways in the United
Kingdom for the week ending September 29 (the latest
published) amounted on 17,1911 miles to £1,380 525,
and for the corresponding week in 1882 en 16,971
miles to £1,408,468, showing an increase of 214-i
and a decrease of £22,493. The receipts averaged
2,6 6s. per mile, against £B2 134 4il. in the corre-
sponding week last year.
His Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief has
approved of the distribution of a number of medals for
long servioe and good conduct to the men of the various
branches of the army. The name of the recipient will
be engraved on the edge of the decoration, and the
distribution will shortly take place at the various
military centres.
The steamship Linares, Captain Potts, of Newcastle,
has arrived in the Tyne, and reports having rescued
the crew of the American schooner a w. Lewis, of
Thomaston, which vessel was discovered totally die.
masted, and in an entirely helpless condition, with
neither food nor fuel on board. The crew, who had
been at the pumps for six days, were completely ex-
hausted. They were larded at Cape Breton, and
placed in charge of the American Con,ul,
On Saturday evening the Birmingham Trades'
Council, representing 20,000 men, passed a resolution
Injavour of evening meetings of town c itincils with a
view to an extended labour representati,n. A pio-
posal to form a fund for the payment of -paid repre-
sentatives on town councils and of the election eit-
perms was received with enthusiasm, and the scheme
will be put into effect in view of next year's elections.
Large quantities of frozen mutton, f rota New Zea-
land, amounting altogether to over three thousand
carcases, were on Saturday destroyed by order of the
London Port sanitary authorities. The meat was
putrid, ovrinv, it is said, to failure of the action of
the refrigerators. The total loss amounts to several
thousand pounds.
The large ship Nuncio, bouni for Nova Scotia with
salt was being towed out from Liverpoplon Saturdai
morning during a gale, when the haweer parted and
the ship went ashore on Burbo The creme wio
the pilot and the captain's wife, 'took to the rigging,
weence they were rescued with treat dffficulty by the
lifeboat. They had been in the rigging fpr four hours,
with the sea breaking continually over them. Owing
tothe- heavy sea and the darkness& the respue was very
difficult. ,
,
ttakert Ferrier, one of the most daring fieheruaen.
the east coast of Seotland, has met with a sad death..
Oe Friday night in last week he was out fishing with
hie two sons near the Bell Rock, when be was .etrock
by the tiller, knocked overboard and deowneff. Ferrier
blidvitis stated, during his lifetime saved many people
filre: drowning, and had• at imminent peril reettned
several shipwrecked crews at the mouth of the Tay
witeri tiro-lifeboat has been unable to reach vented&
Barurday was observed as a general holiday in
G4o,egow, the occasion being the laying of the founds.-
thin 'stone of the new Municipal Buildings by Lord
Provost Me. The site cost £172.000, while the build-
ings which are in the Italian Renaissance style of
architecture, will cost £250,000. The city was-"pro-
fusely decorated with flags, banners, and triumphal
irChes, and a long procession paraded the streets. In
George-square, where the ceremony took place, an im-
mense platform was erected in the form of an arena,
covering 120,000 square feet, for the accommodation
of the procession. Numerous other private stands
were constructed, so as to seat 10,000 persons, to the
east of the square

Cotton to the value of 500,000 dole, is reported to
have been destroyed by a fire which has occurred it
Dallas, in Texas.
The first fall of snow at St. Petersburg occurred on
Saturday night. The temptraturs on Sunday was 24
degrees (R6aursur) below freezing point.
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Mr. M. Toomey, of London, was on Monday pre-
sented by the Mayor of Hastings with a bronze medal
of the Royal Humane Society, for saving the life of a
child seven years old, who fell into the sea off the life-
boat house in that town recently.

Capital punishment is to be t's-balished in Finland.
Dr. T. Evans, who was Mayor of Cardiff in 186 S,
and an alderman of the borough for many years, died
suddenly on Monday while making a professional
visit to a patient. The deceased was 69 years of age.
On Tuesday five thousand miners came out on strike
in the Hamilton and Larkhall districts of Lanarkshire.
They demand an advance of Cd. per day, and threaten
to remain out till they get it.
Russian papers state that in the provinces during
the winter of 182 the following perished ot disease,
oold, and snow-storms :-5,550 camels, 32,000 horses,
14,000 cattle, 130,000 sheep. Besides this 70,000 cattle
were killed by wolves.
Intelligence from the Congo reports that the French
have taken po.sesaion of El Obey Point, where they
are establishing factories and distributing flags among
the natives. The situation is re;arded as very'un-
satisfactory by the resident traders, who fear that
they will be driven away.

The Emperor of Austria and a party of guests have
been enjoying successful sport in Styria. In three
days N chamois and 79 stags and deer fell to 19 single.
barrelled rifles, the Emperor allowing no Other on
these occasions.

A Berlin telegram says that the Nihilists have just
publ;bhsd a new proclamation in which they decree
the death of the Czar.
The number of visitors to the Fisheries Exhibition
last Saturday was 33,781, making a total for last week
of 94,664; the total number from the opening of the
Exhibition has been 2,079,714,

John Ferguson, a porter, committed suicide at
Glasgow on Saturday night, by hanging himself to a
bedpost in his home, George street. On Sunday Mary
M'lntyre committed suicide in a similar manner in
Campbelbstreet.
It is stated that the new Queen of Madagascar,
imitating the Queen's example, has invited the chiefs
of the whole island to the capital Antananarivo, to
decide whether it is expedient or not to come to an
understanding with the French.
The Prince de Joinville met with rather a serious
accident at Chantilly a few days ago. He was play.
kg with some of the dogs, when one, a very big one,
sprang at him and bit him in the f.ce. The injury
was promptly attended to and the Prinse has since
been able to ttikas part in a boar hunt.
A distressing gun accident has happenei at Dttn•
rossness, Shetland. James Robertson, aged 17, was
out shooting rabbits, and for the purpose of conceal.
ment was carrying his gun with the barrel under his
coat. The muzzle was just below his jaw, and as he
walked his leg touching the trigger, causing the weapon
to go off. The contents blew his head almost entirely
away.

Sir Saul Samuel, K.C.M.G., Agent• General for
New South Wales, has been informed by telegram of
the arrival in Sydney of the ship Gladstone, which
sailed from Plymouth with emigrants in July last.
Information has reached Portsmouth of an attack
by natives on a boat's crew of Her Majesty's ship Dart,
which is on surveying duty among the islands on the
Australian coast.

On Tuesday 'morning there was a smart shock of
earthquak) at Philippeville in Algeria, the oscillation
being from north to south. The whole population,
panic struck, rushed into the streets. At Jemmapes
the church and gendarmerie barracks have fissures in
the walls, and at Stora a house has been damaged.
During last week 36 actual shipwrecks were reported
against 30 at this time last year, making a total of
1,448 for the present year to date, the increase on last
year being 389, Nineteen British-owned vessels were
wreaked during the week, of which three were steamers
lwith an aggregate tonnage of 11,006 tons. Lives los
numbered 21.
The German inhabitants in various America towns,
especially in Philadelphia, have commenced the fes•
tivities in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the
ending of the first Germans in America.
The Prince of. Wales is about to try tbe acclimatisa-
tion of the Norwegian ptarmigan at Abergeldie. Of
sixty birds taken at Langoen, in Nordland, twenty-
two, Nature says, have just arrived at Bergen, the
rest having died on the way.
All the hands—men, women, and boys—employed
In the State tobacco manufactory of the Gros °anion
in Paris have, according to the Libtrte, been invited to
prove that they are French citizens. Those who fail
to do so are to be dismissed, of whatever nationality
they may be. The quality of French citizen is to be
for the future required of all those who work in State
manufactories.

A scheme for the foundation of an Observatory on
the British coast for the study of marine animals and
plants in relation to fish and fisheries has been pre-
pared, and it is proposed that a deputation shall wait
upon the Committee of the Fisheries Exhibition with
a view to obtain twenty thousand pounds out of the
surplus funds of the Exhibition to establish and
endow such an institution.
French "sportsman." must be a numerous class, to
judge from the returns of the sale of shooting licences.
This year 372,825 of these have been issued, and have
produced altogether 10,439,100 francs at 28 francs each.
For each licence 18 francs go to the Central Govern-
ment and ten franca to the local authorities.
Sir Richard Temple, addressing the Huddersfield
volunteers at their prize distribution on Saturday even-
ing, said that if our volunteer defences were to be
efficient they must aim at good shooting, and not only
good average shooting in first and second classes, but
also in that third clams which repzesented skilled mark-
menship. It was the skill of the Boers in shooting at
long ranges that gave them such an advantage over the
British troops. - - - -

The Italian Ministry of Marine have given orders
for 18 sea•going torpedo boats of more than double the
draught of those of the first ease Italy already pos-
sesses. They are to have a speed qf 21 knots, and be
able to follow the squadron in all weathers, and to
carry sufficient coal to make three runs along the
western coast of Italy without requiring a fresh
supply.
The arrivale of live stock and fresh meat at Liver.

pool during the week ending October 6 from the
United States and Canada amounted to 2,280 cattle,
3,157 sheep, 9,231 quarters of beef, and 1,626 carcases
of mutton, and in comparison with the totals of the
preceding week show a decrease in live stock; but an
increase in fresh meat. The conveying steamers were

ten in number.
James M'Cullagb, arrested on Sunday on a obarge
of being concerned ia the destruction of the Tradeston
gasometer and other outrages, was brought up on
Monday morning at the Glasgow Central Police-court
and remitted to the sheriff. The police attach much
importance to the arrest of M'Callagh, who was
formerly employed at the Glasgow Townhead Chemical
Works.

A violent explosion took place on Sunday night in
the main hall of the Maine of Ls Croix Rouses, at
Lyons. The gas was put out and a wall damaE,ed,
but no one was hurt. Fragments of an infernal
machine were discovered, which appears to have con-
sisted of a large cylindrical cartridge, kept together
by wire, and loaded with bullets and broken iron.
The bodies of two young women who were drowned
on Sunday week in the Wicittadder were recovered on
Saturday, clasped together, in Hell's Cradle, the
dcepeet pool in the river, about four miles from the
spot where the girls fell in.
A shocking discovery has been made in Sheffield.
On Sunday morning in a house in a squalid court off
Boden-lane one of the lowest parts of the town, a
neighbour found William Ratc.liff, fortune teller and
herb dealer, lying unconscious with two stabs in the
temples. Medical aid was obtained, but the man died
the following morning, and it is supposed he is the
victim of foul play.
On Monday an alarming accident occurred at the
Toledo Works, belonging to Messrs. Manico and Co.,
table cutlers' manufacturers, Sheffield, through the
breaking of a large grindstone weighing 7cwt. or
&wt. The stone had been running ten minutes, and
had attained its full velocity when it broke up, one
large piece smashing the horsing, another splinter
passed overhead and jell in the yard, while the third
and largest piece rose through the rcof and fell with
terrific force into the firing hole, snapping a steel
fender against which it struck. The stone fell upon
the foot of the engine tenter, Albert Bell, fracturing
it. The stone had been in use some time and was con-
sidered perfectly sound. • >
• THE MARKETS.

METROPOLITAN ,CATTLE MARKET.—MoNDAT.
The cattle trade 15 in a dull state, without any fresh fea-
ture. Supplies are somewhat more liberal than usual, and
as the demand lacks activity, the tone is rather weak. The
receipts of beasts from the Midland and home counties
are rather large, and there Is an inctreased suteply from
Ireiand. A dull market has Prevailed,and the tendency has
been in favour of buyers. The best Scots and crosses soldit
is 10d to fis per 81b. There was a moderate show of foreign
beasts, 150 being Canadian, and there were besides some
Danish and Swedish, which sold slowly at previous rates.
The isheepkens were fairly well supplied. Business west n-
actite, hod a weakness was noticed in prices. The beat
.:Downs'and'half-breds sold at 7s to 75 2d per 81b. Calves and
...pigs•were quiet. There were about 2,700 'beasts at Deptford.
about 400 being American, and 2,000 Tonning, and about
8,000 sheep. Coarse and inferior beasts, 4s to 45 ed ; second
quality ditto, 45 6d to is; prime large oxen, is 6d to is led:
ditto Soots, cte , is 101 to es ; coarse and inferior sheep,
is 6d th 65; second quality ditto, 6s to es 6d; prime coarse-
woolled ditto, es 84 to 7s; Prime Southdown ditto,7 s to
73 21: large coarse calves, is 10d to es ed ; prime small
ditto, 6s ed to es 8d; large hogs, 45 61 to 45 10d; neat small
porkers, 45 10d to is per 81b. to sink the offal. .

, METROPOLITAN MEAT MARICET.—MONDAY.
A largei supply of meat was on offer. The trade was slow
at the annexed rates :—lnferior beet, Ss Id to 4a: middling
ditto, 4s to 4s 4d; prime large ditto, 4A ed to 5;; prime small
ditto, 5s 4d to 5s 6d ; veal, 51 8d to 68; inferior mutton, Ss 8d
to 4s 4(1; middling ditto, 4s 8d to Sc 4d ;prime ditto, Sc 4dl o
Cs 4d ; large pOrk, 38 4d to Sc 8d; and small ditto, 45 to 4s 4d
per 81b, to sink the offal.
POTATO. .

There was a moderate ,how of potatoes on sale. The
.demand was limited, as follows :-11:agnurn benonle, 70s to
805; Lent regents, 00s to SOs ; champions, 55s to 65a; kidneys,
703 to Ss per ton.

GAME AND POULTRY.
Roe deer, 15s to 20s; hares, 33 6A to Is 6d t; Vrkit4 ditto
23 to Ss ; rabbits, 15 to 2-s ; pheasaLts, 33 to sd; par-
tridges, is 9d to 3s • grouse, 3s to 4s (Id: plovers, Sd to is
fowls, 2s to 4.; chickens, Is 6d to ; geese, tht '6d to 836 d
each.