The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-02-27 00:00:00

BALES BY AUCTION.
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WORCERTERSHIRX.
FREEHOLD BUILDING LAND
At VIE REATH, STOURBRIDGE,
AND
pytEKJIOLD MESSUAGES & BUILDING LAND,
At KING-STREET, WOLLASTON, and
CECIL-STREET, STOURBRIDGE.
TOMS KING have received instructions
j to OFFER for SALE by AUCTION, on MONDAY.
the Sib day of Mears, 1869. at the Ron Ltow law. Ni-v.
WM% SIOUIVRII,E. at Six o'clock in the Evening,
sal•ject to conditions then in he produced, the under-
mentioned valuable PROPERTIES, in the following
Lots, viz. :
Lot eq. yds.
vet-, eligible Plot of FREF.TIOLD
BUILDING LAND. having • frontace of
IS yards and 1 foot to Heath-street, Stour-
bridge, and containing
I.—Another ditto ditto ditto 597
3.—Another ditto ditto ditto 590
4.—An eligible Corner Lot of FREEHOLD
BUILDING LAND, having a valuahle
frontage of 11 yards to that part of the
turnpike road known as Worcester-street,
leading from Kidderminster to Stourbridge,
and containing 554
s.—Auother Lot of BUILDING LAND,
fronting 10 yards to the said turnpike road,
and sustaining 501
s.—Anether ditto ditto ditto 493
T.—Another ditto, fronting 11 yards to ditto.. 606
The above Lola are mod advantageously situated, and
nee snitable for the erection of Houses ranging froin £2O
- •- rental.
LOt S.—Two PREEHOL. MFgSVAGES, with Gar-
den, Pump of Water, and Oatbuildings thereto belong-
ing. saline in King-street, Withy Bank, Wollaston, now
Ii the octepation of Mrs. Gittins, and one void, and
producing the low annual rental of ft&
Tbs site of this Lot contains 250 square yards.
Let lt.=-)1 ',linable Plot of FREEHOLD BUILDING
LAND &divining the last desctibad Lot, and containing
150 square yards, or thereabout..
Lot 10.— A very eligible Plot of FREEHOLD
BUILDING LAND, situate in Cecil-street, Beauty
Bask, and having • frontage of 14 lards to the said
street, sail containing in the whole lAA square yards or
thereabout..
rue further Partienlare sza Plan, apply to Messrs.
Rogers and Jordan, Solicitor", StoUtbridge and liinver ;
or the Auctioneers, Stourbridge.
/11— HREE HOUSES for SALE by PRIVATE
I. CONTRACT, situate near Wollaston Church,
6ton-bridge, belonging to Mrs. Rea.—Apply to Mr.
Enoch Darla who will attend at the Cottage Spring,
opposite Wollaston Church, on Tuesdays, Wednesdayc
and Tharadaya, for three successive weeks, commencing
February 13.

TRADESMEN'S ADDRESSES.
PUBLIC NOTICE.
B. RAy-
BouLD
rtEcis to announce to the Inhabitants of
Stourbridge and surrounding Neighbourhood,
that he has taken to the
VAUXHALL INN, FOSTER-STREET,
lately necnoie4 by Mr. John Martin; and frosts. by
keepina Artieleg of the very best quality, to merit a share
of public support.
N.B.—WELL-AIR-
ED BEDS.
FORESTETS' AR" INN
AND
EATING HOUSE,
47, COUNTRI•STI:FET, STO(TIHHI)(7F.
ALES, PORTER, BITTF H ALES, Ac.,
Of the Finest Quality.
GENUINE CIGARS AND TOBACCO.
DINING AND REFRESHMENT ROOMS,
REPLETE WITS EVERY COMPORT.
AN ORDINARY ON FRIDAYS, AT ONE O'CLOCK*
Hot Joints, ,re • fiery day at One. owf from TuNIEC
o'clock on County Court Days.
CHOPS. STEAKS, &C., &C., ON THE SHORTEST
NOTICE.
TRIP! AND COW HERM ON 'mom AND SATURDAYS IT 7 P.M.
JOHN LAWLEY, Proprietor.

HALLOA!
RAVE YOU HEARD THE LATEST? !
NO.
Why FOX WRIGHT has taken to the
CASTLE AND FALCON INN,
11.olrea,thiplon-st reet, lid le y,
And RE-OPENED it under the name of
FOX WRIGHT'S HOTEL.
' Drop In and see him, and you will Bad every comfort
you desire.

STEAM ENOINEFI, 1
.. WITS! Vf RTICAL
f ' BOILERS,
Aire '
• i ?,' FriemmlAtworJ:2ic-ffhpo: vil:Filloirrel
a: :
H. a
p
DUDLEY. ,
~.. _ .4, _.• - - - IMPROVED HORIZONTAL
Ili,c'. ,
,* ' i,l;,i- ' ••:.."1 ENGINES,
.
- Up to 60-hone Power.
[A CARD.]
GEORGE WILLIAM PREECE,
LATH MANUFACTURER,
NELSON YARD, SOUTHGATE-STREET,
OLOUCESTEU.
--
Agent for the Stourbridge District,
J. W. IFE,
Beauty Bank, Stourbridge.
Where all orders will be punctually attended to
[A CARD.]
TAMES TURTON GREEN,
rLATK AI:RADAD OREVN,I
PLUMBER, HOUSE DECORATOR,
AND
HORTICULTURAL BUILDER,
r,4, Thyli.street, Stourbriilye.
GENERAL GROCERY AND PROVISION
WAREHOUSE,
No. I, COVENTRY•STREET. STOURERIDOE.
To THE INHABITANTS of STOURBRIDGE
AND ITS VICINITY.
----
T HILL begs to announce that he has taken
ey . to the above premises, and Dusts that with strict
assiduity to business, together with first-class articles at
• small remunerstive per fit, to share a good portion of
public patronage and support.
PAINLESS DENTISTRY AND ARTIFICIAL TEETH.
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NOTICE.—STOURBRIDGE.
mlit. PARKER (Licentiate of Dentistry),
SURGEON DENTIST, from Birmingham, at.
tends at Stourbridge, every FRIDAY, at Leeds House, 158,
High-street.
l IThe experience of • Practice of nearly thirty years,
extending over the greater partof the Kingdom. enables
the Messrs. Parker to offers complete system of Painless
Dentistry, at • cost within the reach of all.
NEW I NVENTION.—LETTERA PATRNY.—ArtifteialTeeth
to last a lifetime, are fixed firmly in the mouth without
springs or wires, or causilig the slightest pain. They
adhere en securely, that the full powers of mastication
and articulation are completely re.establiihrd. These
Teeth never discolour, cannot possibly be distinguished
from nature, and are of the very best quality. A Tooth
from ss, a Net from £5. Every operation in Dental
Surgery.
—_—
MR ST PARKER
Attends daily at
17.— BENNETT'S HILL-17
BIRMINGHAM.
- Notice - Name and Addrese.

BELBROUGFITON.
--
T 0 be LET, with Immediate Possession, a
DETACHED corrAA3E. most pleasantly situated,
within an essy walk of Cleat Hills, containing Parlour,
Bitting Room, Book Kitchen, and three Bed Booms.—
Apply to Mrs. Standen, Belbroughton, near Stourbridge.
_
rpo be LET, a comfortable DWELLING-
HOUSE, with Stable and with or without an
Orchard, pleasantly situate in the village of Belbrough-
ton.--Apply to Mr. H. Hill, Butcher, Oleswinford,
Stourbridge.

MO LET, and may he entered upon Immedi-
X at.ty, a Good 1101:SE and SHOP, with every
eonvention,e, situate in the beat part of Higla•strect.
Stourbridge.—For further particulars, apply at the
o',gerrer Office, 92, Iligh-btreet, Stourbridge.

HALESOWEN.
TO be LET, from Lady-day next, a HOUSE
A. and PREMISES, now. and has been for many
years in the occupation of Mr. John (Daze, Boot and
Shoe Manufacturer. The Premises contain good Front
Shop, Sitting Room, Kitchen. Brewhouse, Collaring,
good supply of Water, and suitable Bed Room.; Cutting
Shop, Workmen's Workshop. Stable, Piggeries, and all
other necessary Outbuildings ; very large and entire
Yard, enclosed by large Doors. The above Premises will
be found the biuit in the town for the same or any other
Business which ri quires a large and Entire Premises.—
For further particulars, apply to Mr. Thomas 'White,
Orange Farm, Lutlay, near Halesowen.

rro LET, a convenient FAMILY RESI-
1. PENCE in the best part of Stourbridge, and cos-
prising, nine Rooms, with two Dressing Rooma and At-
no. Good Garden, Stable, and Coaell•houie. Peat
100.—Apply tosilessrs. Oates, Perrens, and Wool.
dridge, Stourbridge.

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC LT
LARGE.
Jest Publinked,
TR. S. SALT'S Astounding, Clever, Eve-
-1./.1. opening, Monster LECTURE on the History "and
Formation of Cent, Cleat Hills, and Clentine Rambles ;
also giving an account of Balaam and his Ass, and the
Amass that were brought on Clent Hills: the Evils of
letemperance Unmasked, and the Lecturer's Degreda-
Von of a Drunkard; also on the Evils of Women
Preschieg, unmaeked in particular, illustrated by the
Feats which God empowered Strung Sampson to do ; and
other Things in Genvral, too numerous to be specified in
this advertisement.
Price Sixpence. Sold by S. Salt, Bagley-street, Hales.
Owen ; and all respectable Newsagents.
MONEY.—Any SUM from £5O to £5OOO,
ready to be advanced upon approved FREE-
HOLD SECURITY.—AppIy to Mr. W. C. Maltby, Soli.
alter, 99, High-street, Stourbridge.
ATONEY to LEND on Real Security and on
-1- Personal Security with Life Insurance; and
other Sums of MONEY WANTED. Apply to Mr.
Beckford, Solicitor, Vicar-street, Kidderminster.

GENUINE CIGARS at
T. HOMER'S,
FIVE WAYS, CRADLEY HEATH.

IV/TH. JAMES BOSTON HEYS,
VA. of Music, Fligh.street, Cradley Reath.
kinds of Mmical Instrument& tuned and
repaired.
New Music at Valf.price.
PIANOFORTES YOE SALE OR HMV
PUBLIC NOTICE.
rp HOMER, News Agent, Cradley Heath,
J. . begs to inform the Public that he is able
to SUPPLY them with the LONDON DAILY NEWS-
PAPERS.
if:r ORDER AT ONCE.

CAB, CAB, AND POSTING ESTABLISHMENT.
IVERS. A. BROWN, in returning thanks to
the Public for the support she has received in
the above Business, bees to announce that she has trans-
ferred the Business to her son Thomas Brown, on whose
behalf she would solicit a contionance of past favours.
THOMAS BROWN,
In succeeding to the above Business, begs to inform
the Gentry and Public generally, that he can supply them
with
WEDDING CARS, WAISONETTES, CABS, CARS,
PIDETONS, GIGS, AND OTHER VEHICLES,
For Business or Pleasure Patties, on the Shortest
Notice.
POSTING ESTABLISHMENT,
COVENTRT-STREET, STOURBRIDGE.

MR. JOHN STOKES,
AUCTIONEER AND APPRAISER,
HOUSE AND LAND AGENT,
OFFICES,—UNION-STREET, DUDLEY.
e.g' to inform the inhabitants of Dudley and surround-
ing nelahhourhood that he is prepared to advance Money
upon Household Furniture or Stock of any description
for sale, at the shorted notice, and the charges reason-
able,
TO FARMERS, arc.
BROAD and AGRICULTURAL SALT, at
Manufacturers Prices, by rail or canal, to any
pKrt —Apply, G. J. Eveson, Railwa Coal Wharf, Stour.

TOR Cheap PRINTING, BOOKBINDING
12 and PICTURE FRAMING, go to
T. HOMER,
FIVE WAYS, CRAIOLEY HEATH.

FRENCH DYEING AND CLEANING ESTABLISHMENT,
70 , 111011 STREET, STOURBRIDOE.
AV • SANDLAND,
[FROM LONDON]
BEGS mut respectfully to nequaint the Ladies of Stourbridge and Neighbourhood, that he
has OPENED the above ESTABLItiIINIENT, for
DYEING- AND CI_,=_A_INTING,
And can assure all who um", honour him with their Nit 1,11111,V, that all Orders shall have his immediate !ittelithao.
coupled with the latest inventious and iuiprovaineuts in the trade.
GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHES RENOVATED
BY THE
NEW STEAM pu oCESS.
70, HIGH-STRUT, STOMUIRIDGI.

LONDON HOLYSE, MOW STREET, lIALESOWEN:
onrning anti funeral Mart ou se.
J. 11. TRENCTIARD,
IS now SHOWING the Largest and Best Stock of MOURNING GOODS in the
district.
Colmrgs and Alpacas, from 0,-d. per yard.
French Twill, Baratheas, Balmoral Crapes, and Princettas, from is. per yard.
Silk in every make, from Is. Od. per vnrd. Crepe f•Pom Is. 4d. per yard; and all other
Articles requisite for Family Mourning.
N.B.—PALL, CLOAKS, AND HATBANDS.
HEARSE & MOURNING COACHES on HIRE, ON THIS SHORTEST NOTICE,

FUNERAL CARRIAGE ESTABLISHMENT,
STONE STREET, DUDLEY.
GEORGE MORRIS,
MOST respectfully returns thanks to the Public eenerally for the very kind snpport
received in the FUNERAL DEPARTMENT ofhts Business. and bees to assure them that it
will always be his study to merit a ecntinnance of that support by IERnoWAL attention, anti the eonduet-
ine of FrNERALq in the most solemn manner, awl upon the most rearionable terms. Cabs, Cars, and
Gigs on hire on the Shortest Notice.

G. MORRIS HAS ALSO ADDED TO HIS ESTABLISHMENT,
A pATENT COMPOSITE ITEARSE
Which is • decided improvement 'mon the TTCRTSPP we have been ncenatorned to see. Its appearance is
elegant, and with a pair of first-class black horses, would do no discredit to the funeral rites of the upper
classes.
fly this arrangement tire very unseemly practice of placing the coffin either beneath the mourners or
underneath the banatnercloth of the coachman, is entirely dispensed with.
As this improved Bea becomes more xtensively known, it nod fail to be widely approved and
adopted.
••• OBBERN Tow kDDRESS-•••
G. MORRIS, STONE STREET, DUDLEY.

STOU RBRIDG E CARRIAGE MANUFACTORY,
18, BAGLEY-ROAD, STOURBRIDOE.
MR. EDWARD CUND
JNtalcing to the above Ohl•established Trade, solicits the continuation and extension of the
Patronage hitherto afforded, and, by his personal superintendence, and with his experience in every depart-
ment of
C A_RdIIZIA.C+M
Trusts to merit their Favours.
E. C. begs respectfully to inform the Nobility, Gentry, and Inhabitants generally of Stourbridge and
US vicinity, that he has now in Stuck a variety of
NEW AND SECOND-HAND CARRIAGES,
Made of the Best Materials and Workmanship.',
A WARRANTY GIVEN WITH EVERY /sII,AV CARRIAGE FROM THIS ESTABLISHMENI`i
CARRIAGES LENT WHILST REPAIRS ARE BEING DONE.

CHOICE TOII.A.CCOS.
COPE'S CELEBRATED MIXTURE.
COPE'S HONEY DEW.
COPE'S RIFLE CAKE.
COPE'S BIRD'S-EYE.
WILL'S BIRD'S-EYE.
pURNELL'S BRIGHT SHAG.
BRISTOL BLACK AND RETURNS.
SOLD BY
S. I M
92, HIGH STREET, STOURBRIDGE.

!nuLLOWAY:S' 'OINTMENT\
This wonderful Ointment acts like magic in the cure of old wounds, sores, and
ulcers, however inveterate. It's effect is marvellous in eases of r. ralysis, contracted
or stiff j oints, and in stoppage of the water or disord of the kiiiu,:j-s it is ari:ritialled
.A2TD BRONCHITIS.
This class of cases, including sore throats, bad coughs, and colds, may be infalli-
bly cured by well rubbing this remedy twice a day on the breast, throat, and chest.
.A.= IGS, BAD REASTS, ETC.
In many hospitals in Eurape this celebrated remedy is now in general use.
In Spain, Portugal, and in Italy, the Physicians regularly prescribe its use for
sores and ulcers. Sailors, soldiers, emigrants, and miners find it most invaluable.
IILEPP.T.TDMI\TCMS OF "YOUTH.
ertain old sores and swellings can be effectually cured by the joint agency
of Holloway's Ointment and Pills, if used acccording to the printed directions.
The Ointment and Pills should be used conjointly in most of the following cases:
Asthma Eruptions Piles Sore Heads
Bad Legs Glauds, Enlargement of Rl,,,umatism Tic Doloureux
Bed Breasts Gout Scrofula Wheezing, with difficulty of
Bronchitis Lumbago Sore Throats Breathing
CAUTION:—None are genuine unless the words a llollotvety, London," are
discernible as a Water-mark in every leaf of the book eC diramion wluo may
be plainly seen by hotdiag dto the light.-11.* Sold at the manufactory of Profes-
sor HOLLOWAY, 244, Strand, London, and by all Dealers in Medicine, in pots at
is. lid., 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., lie., 2:!5,. and 335.--There is a considerable saving by
taking the larger sizes.—Very copious directions for use are affixed to each pot.

_
TM'. CHEAPEST HOUSE IN THE MIDLAND
COUNTIES FOR
STATIONERY OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.
" WILEN FOUND MAKE A NOTE 01.."—CartaiN Clatk.
--
WILLIAM WILLEY,
wnousitE }LAIN AND FANCY STATIONED,
I'AVON P 9 SWAGE, (Paill.str(et End),
BIRMINGHAM.
Leigere, from Is to 100 s, always in Stock.
Shopkeepers supplied on mach terms that must command
a continuance of their favours.

TRADESMEN'S ADDRESSES.
AV. B. MOOR E
COA_OI-IBUIIDE R,
Near Ike Crab Mal Inn,
OLDSWINFORD, STOURBRIDGE.
All Orders entrusted to his care promptly executed.
REPAIRS AND PAINTING ON MODERATE TEEMS.
CariA,,es Let. while Repairs are bong done.

NOTICE.
TO LANDLORDS AND OTHERS.
T A. STOKES, Auctioneer and Appraiser,
. begs to announce to the Inhabitants Of Dudley and
the surrounding neighbourhood. that be is prepared to
Levy Distraints for Rent, Executions. Bills of Sale, and
all kinds of Processes at Law, and parties favouring bins
with such business a, guaranteed against all Actions and
Suits at Law, At Moderate Charges.
IF you want a delicious Relish. try Loverock's
celebrated EVERY MAN'S SAUCE. or Currie
Relish for the million For roaet or cold Meat. Monica,
Steaks, Stews, Cutlets, Fish, Chops, Curries. Game,
Poultry, Soup, Salad, Cheese, Seasoning, and all made.
'fishes. This Sauce is universally esteemed for its pecu-
' liar delicious rich flavour, and is reliAiiiig in tin. highest
degree, with every kind of dish. Manufactured only by
Henry Loverock,-Chemist, Coventry-street. Stourbridge,
and sold Wholesale and Retail, in bottles, 6d, Is, and Is
each.—Agents wanted.
Now Ready, Crown Bvo.,Price is, by Post 13 Starnis.
THE HORSEKEEPER'S RECEIPT BOOK,
(By a Practieal,Chemist).
CONT AINING more than One Hundred Rare
and Choice Recipes, indispensable to all who own
or b ave the care of that noble animal. the Horse.—Ad-
dress, W. 1. Ravin, publisher, Dunmow, Essex.

C. L. LEMAIRE,
PRACTICAL UPHOLSTERER,
49, RAGLEY-ROAD, STOURBEIDOE
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LADIES' NEEDLEWORK TASTEFULLY MOUNTED.
WINDOW DRAPERIES, CURTAINS, AND ALL
KINDS OF BLINDS,
Made and Fixed on the Shortest Notice.
N.B.—WORK DONE Fon TIIE TRADE.
Agent for the Albert Life Assurance Company, 7,
Waterloo Place, l's!! 3111111. LI:HAUB.
46, COVENTRY STREET,
STOURBRIDGE.
":‘I[ESSRS. BOSWORTH & CHASSER
Beg to inform the Public that they
HAVE OPENED THE ABOVE StIOP,
With a welbseleeted Stock of
FISHFRUIT, & VEGETABLES,
,
And they hope to receive a fair share of the Public
patronage.
ALL ORDERS PUNCTUALLY ATTENDED TO.
REMEMBER THE ADDRESS :-
46
COVENTRY STREET,
STOURBRIDGE.

To BE GIVEN AWAY ! ! !
knew Medical Work on Marriage, the cause and cure of
premature decline in man, Nervous Debility, Impo-
tency, dtc., with Rules for removing certain disqualifi-
cations that destroy the happiness of wedded life, or
EVERY MAN HIS OWN DOCTOR.
For two stamps sufferers may avoid the numerous im-
postors who send their books for nothing, publish testi-
monials which they write themselves, fictitious reviews
from imaginary Journals, profess to care diseases with
instruments instead of medicines, and other absurdities
as cruel as they are deceptive.
ft physician. 25 years extensively engaged in the treat-
ment of debility, and the various mental and nervous
affections resulting therefrom, will send free on receipt of
two penny stamps to prepay postage, a pamphlet contain-
ing his highly successful and only safe treatment, with
all the necessary prescriptions and directions by which
sufferers may cure themselves at trifling cost. Address
Mr. Lawes, Medical Publisher, 11, Hand Court, Holborn,
London.

NOTICE.
--
DANIEL BIRD,
BASKET MAKER,
183, HIGH-STREET, STOURBRIDGE,
TTAVING heard that a Person is in the habit
x. of going round Whittington. Kinver, and the
district, HAWKING BASKETS in his moue, begs to
Inform the Public that be neither Hawks himself, nor
does he employ any Person to do no ; and would take
this opportunity of thanking those Ladies and Gentle-
men who have so long supported him,
183, HIGH-STREET, STOURBRIDOE.
—EPPS'S COCOA.—
GRATEFUL AND COMFORTING.
Only in it'., lb., 11b. Packets—tin-lined and labelled.
SOLD BY THE TRADE IN .ILL PARTA.
Prepared by Jas. Elva & Co., Homeopathic Chemists,
London.

COUPELLE'S HAIR-RESTOR-
IND FLUID.
Under Enanent Medical Patronage.
This wondrously efficacious and truly marvellous Prepara-
tion, having been for a long time employed in private, is
now brought before the public, and is 'offered with the
greatest confidence as the only true Hair-restorer. It
removes dandriff, and prevents the hair from falling off,
giving it the lustre and strength of youth. It has been
tried in numerous cases of supposed hopeless baldness,
and success has invariably attended its employment.
From its own intrinsic merits alone, it is rapidly supersed•
Mg everything else of the kind. Those who have tried all
the advertised remedies without effect, are especially in-
vited to make trial of this efficient and never-failing
remedy. Try it once, and you will never use anything
else. Price 4s 6,1 per bottle, of Woods. Chemist, 27,
High-street, Worcester; Wyleys and Brown, Worcester;
Whitwell, Chemist, Stourbridge ; and through all Chem-
ists and Perfumers, or direct from Iddme. Coupelle,
Bedford House, Russell-square, W C.
NlT.—This is not a Dye, but under its tonic action
grey hair is speedily restored to its original colour.
THE GREAT REMEDY FOR NERVOUSNESS,
DEBILITY, EPILEPSY, AND ALL THOSE SELF..
ACQUIRED AILMENTS THAT EMBITTER AND SHOUTER
LIFE.
Protected by Royal Letters Patent of England, and
Sanctioned by all the Continental Colleges.
IT RE IN FOUR WEFRS.—Dr. DE' ROOS'
OUTT/E VITA:, or VEGETABLE LIFE DROPS,
have in numberless instances proved their superiority
every other advertised remedy for languor, depres-
sion of spirits, indigestion, pains and p tlpitation in the
side, giddiness, noise in the head. Ice., which if neglected
..ften result in consumptiominsanity, and untimely death.
This medicine strengthens the vitality of the whole
system, gives energy to the muscles, speedily removes
nervousness, renovates the impaired powers of life, and
invigorates the most shattered constitution. For skin
eruptions, pimples, blotches, freckles anti other unsightly
ligellSOlS where mercury. Barsopardla. Arc., are too often
employed to the ruin of health. its surprising efficacy has
"say to be tested. Price 4s 6,1, Ile. or four times the
latter at 83,, per bottle, of Woods, Chemist, 27, High-
street, Worcester; Wyley and Brown, Worcester ; Whit-
well, Chemist, Stourbridge ; end through all chemists in
the world, or direct from 25. Bedford Piece. Russell'
square, London, W.C. near the British Museum, where
thousands of testimonials may be seen.

PIANOFORTES.
PIANOFORTES, HARMONIUMS. 810.,
for Sale or Hire, new and second-hand. A Liberal
discount for Cash; or may be had on the THREE YEARS'
PRINCIPLE, from
SIMMS,
100, HIGH-STREET, STOURBRIDGE.
Old Pianos taken in exchange.
AGENT FOR DAWES'S PATENT
MELODY HARMONIUMS.
WHOLESALE & RETAIL TOBACCO
WAREHOUSE,
FIVE WAYS, CIi..II,LEY HEATH.
T. HOMER, PROPRIATOR.
SAMUEL SALT & SON.
HAGLEY-STREET, HALESOWEN,
AGENTS FOR THE "OBSERVER "
Messrs. Salt and Son deliver the fAserrer, to the tel
lowing Townships :—Halesowen. BriLrley•ltill, Quarry
Bank, Cradley Heath, Cradley, Old Hill, lilsekheath,
Gorsty Hill. ('oily Gate, Rattly Green, Quinton, Hun-
nington, Hasbury, Oldbury, Careless Green. The Lye,
Clet.t. Itelbroughton, Fairfield, The Lickey, Bronlegrove,
Itedditeb, and the i.urrouuding Iligtriet.
ESTABLISHED 1709.
DERROWS' WORCESTER JOURNAL is
II the Largest, Cheat eat, and Best Family Paper in
he County.
Sold by
S . FIELD,
NEWS AGENT, STOURBRIDGE.
SAMUEL INSULL,
AUCTIONEER, APPRAISER, AND GENERAL
AGENT
HIG 11-STREET, BRIERLEY RILL.
All Business ptnctually attended to. Charges strictly
moderate. Money advanc, d upon every description of
Household Furniture, Stock, ate., for absolute sale.

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A BRANCH
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iitt
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enr iclano v:rsteh i r;
- years.
Vit is pleasant to
„.,- all eases; it soothes
''''," the child and gives ,
.. it rest, softens the
gums, and will allay all pain or spasmodic action, and is
SURE TO REGULATE THE BOWELS.
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A fashion, which at one time obtained in Lo—t—kdon,
has bees revived in Paris. The journal lieditiell Poris gave
a concert on the 171 h of this month to all Its sulacriben.
A new nunnery is in course of erection hear Use
Kennington Cemetery, at Barnwell, and will shortly he ready
for consecration and occupation The whole of the co t.
estimated to exceed .e 2,000 has beee prontis. d to be defrayed
by an opulent lady belonging to the il,ruish thulium:loa
A working man, in applying for a summons for an
assault at the Wandswmih l'olice-thert, Meld/Melly men-
tioned that he had been called an old seas. The magistrate
remarked that the applicant bore his age very well tildes, lie
dyed, on which the omit admitted that he did dye his hair
mei whiskers because, he said, the younger he looked the
better chance he had of getting work.
Among the deacons ordained by the Bishopof Oxford
on Sunday was Shapurji Edulji—a Parsee, it may he pre•
sumed. In India there are a good ninny native &multi!,
but Mt. Edulji has not been set apart for the evangelhation
, of his fellow-countrymen Ile takes his place among the
, clergy of England, and is at this moment curate of butt, d
and Fulbrook, not many miles from Oxford itself.
An Engl oh jockey named Crampton was picked up
Is the Champ Elyeees, in Paris, the other night, with a
dagger through his chest, lie was taken to the hospit
anti, though badly wounded, is expected to recover. Ili;
mosey was untouched, and so the French papers are
romancing about a "Turf re, age.'
"E. G. G. (en famille), Tite Jew is 141.011 g, t 1,..
Greek is stronger, the Gipsy is still stroncer, iet tle
Counterfeit is the strongest of all, having beaten the Gip,.
florsemonger-lane,lS4s .—E. XX ."---“I I this should merttl,
f• 3 e of G. A. It , who left the nets:Mont hotel of Westbetie, . I
terrace the 11th Feb, he Is earnestly requested to cote-
municate with his father and mother,"L-Advertiiientehts in
The Times.
"The Lord Chief Justice is likely to have a cheer-
ful time of it, it the example set in the case of Saurin r.
Starr is followed by many people. We may expect to
Mrs. Fitztuattrice Jones briogiug an action against I,.iy
Adele Flash fir excluding her from the celebrated flier's
evenings in Percival-square. Or, what is more of a Parallti
In the athect of the case, Mr. Bill Lockft will bring an
action against her Majesty's Goviwurneut fair relmieg to
acconnuodate Mr. Lockit am+ more in Millbauk."—Tthat-
/mice.
M. ilouglet (a scientific Frenchman) asserta that he
can so cleanse printed paper as to make it suitable for le-
eching a fresh impression. lie states that by immersing the
printed sheet in a slight alkaline solution the ink disappears,
and leaves the sheet of a pure spotless white.
The Indi'pendance Retire points out that the mani-
festo recently issued by Queen Isabella of Spain aloes nit
appear to have had quite the effect in that couetry- which
her Majesty probably expected. A paper named the
Estandarte, which had bees the champion of her interests,
has now ceased to appear, on the ground tlmt it in impos-
sible to defend a cause supported by such doctrines as those
put forth in the Royal proclamation.
A curious contribution to the literature of the Irish
Church question has just appeared in the shape of a
pamphlet by the Bishop of Argyle and the leles. It go, is
for universal disestablishieent and diseu.lownimit, and tins
relegation of the clergy to the apostolic occupations of
ea ,thing nets and breaking stones.
The Rev. Newman Hall told the following story
in the course of a lecture in sheffield on liis recent visit b
America. An illiterate siegro preacher eaki to Ids congrega-
tion :—" My bred.' when de fast man Adam was wade, he
was made of wet clay, and set up agin de palings to dry.'
"Do you say," said one of the congregation, " dat Adana was
made oli wet clay, and set Op agin de palings to dry?
"Yes, sac, I do." " Who made de palings l' "Sit dory°,
Bar," said the preacher sternly, "Such questions as dat woad
upset any system of theology."
A boy accidentally hung himself at Birmingham last
week as he was performing gynniasties.
Frazer's Magazine for March will contain a paper on
pauperism by Florence Nightingale.
The trial of the great nun cue has cost about f'2so
a day.
A Western editor declines an invitation to pay a
visit to a small-pox hospital.
At W hitsuntide, at Bradford, a monument of the
late Mr. Richard Oastler, (the "Factory Ring ") the successft I
advocate of the "Ton Hours Bill, " is to be uncovered by Om
Earl of Shaftesbury.
The Cologne theatrehas been burnt to the ground.
The man in charge of the bulldiug, mith his wife and five
children, perished in the dallies.
A movement is on foot in Leeds with a view to the
establishment of a board of conciliation in that town, In
the settlement of trade disputes. Some conferences hOVI
been held on the subject, but no plan of operationa has yet
been adopted.
The Prince Imperial of France is a great amateur of
velocipedes. Ile publicly gained a race the other day in the
Tuileries gardens against his comrade, Dr. Conneatis son,
and it is said that he has ordered a dozen velocipedes to
make pi esents alto various young friends.
The Cape papers state that protests against the con-
secretion of Mr. Alacrorie as bishop of Natal are belie;
sigued by large nutnbers of thelaity in South Africa. At the
departure of the mail, on the 20th ult., Mr. Macrurie had not
reached the colony.
"It is generally believed in well-informed circles that
the saving which Mr. Childers will propose to effect durh,g
1 the financial year of 1661070 will be from £OO,OOO to a
million sterling. It is expected that the saving in the Army
Estimates, which are now nearly completed, will be
something over one million sterling—Army and Nary
(Muth.
On Friday, no a youth named Griffithe Was engaged
hooking together two waggonts on the train% ay on the Lace'
too Dock quay, Birkenhead, an engine came up and dine
the waggons violently together and crushed the toy
between the buffers of the waggons killing him almost in-
stantaneously.
Mr. Pratt, the senator from Indiana, is a remark-
able man. According to items in our American contem-
poraries, Ile weighs all the way from 273 to 346 podiels.
Burn's only surviving son is now living in Chelten-
ham, and has reached the advanced age of seveitty-seven
On Saturday night an atrocious niurier Wan t., let-
mitted at Sunderland. About ten o'clock a girl of the class
mimed "unfortunate" was found lying dead ins a poet of
blood under her bed. She had been repeat, dly stabled in
the lireied and back, 111111 the keife dbl. dagger haul penetrated
te the Inc art. When last men alive elle aas in the compatiy
of a sailor, who is supposed to he a Vankee Irishman. Ile
euctemmuied her home, and it is suppesed murdered ha.
It is thought that he left Sunderland for London In • crew
collier.
Several persons were seriously injured on the Sal
instant by the falling of the roof of St. Patrick's Bell,
Montreal, Canada. A concert and ball were in progress at
the time, and about 4,000 people were present. Some one is ho
saw the danger raised the alarm, and the crowd rushed for
the door, but some were unable to escape Lefore the roof
came crashing down upon them. It is thought no one was
killed.
The posterity of Louis XIV, is as numerous as
unfortimate. It is stated that there are in Paris at host
thirty-two Princes and Princewes of the 11011%e of 'hurls.nn.
This is probably not an incorrect statement: for there is ra.er
in Paris queen Isabella, her husliand, their five or six
k children, the Conitq d'Aquila and his family, the Duke of
Seville, the Duke and Duchess .i.if Madrid, the old Duke of
Parma, the Comte de Girgenti, and others too numeruus to
mention.
On the coming of age of the Marquis of Bute a large
number of portraits of his lordship were sold to the tenently.
When, however, the news of hie peryersi, di reached 1011
island, many of the portraits were taken from their (mats,
and others were hung upside down. Eut to one doughty
deacendant of a Covenanting home neither prnerraditg
Berme I to show a sufficient detestation of the step taken IN
Lord Bute. That tenant removed the portrait (non/ the w,.11
on which it had been hung, and placed it On a tree in his
farmyard. Ile then loaded a fowling-pieea, and iiri, •,
shivered the unfortunate representation of his lordship hits
innumerable fragments.
Although the trial of the Norwich petition laettd
only four days the costs exceed £5,000.
It is asserted that the Duke of Cambridge and Mr.
Cardwell desire to abolish the razor from the soldier'. kit.
The First Lord of the Admitalty has iseued a
minute ordering that all officers shall be found punctually at
their pints at 10 am.
A Belgian paper nay's :—"The cattle disease has
again broken tut in Germany. On receiving this intelligence
the Dutch government immediately &spa, ched to Zevenaar
a staff of officials to exercise an active supervision over the
German frontier."
There is a cotton will at Macon, Georgia, which
cost 100,000 dole, and which paid last year le per cent iii
dividends. It gives employ ruent to 125 hands, whose wiv'es
m vary from 15 dole. to 35 d o uls. per week, consumes 2,0001 k of
cotton, and turns out 5,000 yaeds of cotton per day.
The duty on probate on the will of the late Sir
Benjamin Lee Guinness, which was paid in Dublin last
Friday, amounted to the large sum of £10,500 for stamp
duty alone.
The death is announced of Mr. Charles Baldwin,
one of the founders of the London Standard newspaper.
Mr. Baldwin had attained the advanced age of ninety-five
years.
Mr. Bright has written a letter to a gentleman at
Chicago 011 death punishment, which is printed in the New
York papers received by the last mail. Alter stating the
usual arguments against capital punishment, Mr bright
says : ' If the United States could get rid of the gallows, it
would not stand long here. lime by one we ' Americanise'
our institutions ; and 1 hope, in all that is good, we may not
be unwilling to follow you."
M. Gay announces that by manuring a field With
the numld resulting from the putrefaction of lox leaves. ho
has succeeded in ridding the ground of the so-called white
worm, the larva of the cockchafer.
The sum already raised in Sheffield for a testimonial
to Mr. Roebuck has reached £3,000
The chief of the New Orleans police acted as referee
in a recent prize light.
There were 155,101 paupers in the metropolis in thc.
first week of the present month.
lkl. Francis Dreyse, son of the inventor of the needly
gun, has taken out a patent, valid iii Prussia for five years,
tons new arm called the repeating rifle.
The Dublin Irishman refers to the approach of St.
Patrick's Day, anti asks how should it becelelirated. "Last
year we Mourned ; this year why should we rejoice? Nothing
is changed with us, except that some others of our impri-
soned brethren have been carried frem the dungeon to the
%wave." The crape and the shamrock, it adds. must still
intermingle. "Their union is not ea soon to be sundered!'
During the twelve months of last year there were
115,744 births in laintion, and 74,gue deaths, sad the rate oi
mortality per 1,000 was 2300.
In Brigham Young's dominion murderers are sen-
tenced to be shot, the Sheriff doing the shooting.
The following are the terms of Mr. Gladstone'
motion on the Irish Church, to be introduced on Mop, .„
the Ist of Mauch : " That the Acts relating to the -,,at.w.
linhed Church, Ireland, the Acts relating to Mayeec, d
the first resolution of the House of Coalitional in ' —' „i'
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of lists. relating to the Eatablished Church,.
that this !louse will immediately resolve is and be re'a '
self
mittee to consider the said acta and refalic into a com-
"., -
ion."
At Monday's sitting of the tip, nibb Cortes, General
Prim declared that the late dyilise -
yod
the throne of Slmin, lie said he' .h., the seSsodm
to overthrow that dynasty, ay
on not shallM never reascen
him in the Work of reenns joined Slim ohs Smi errht
..t.itWoUld Mlle!' Witted wit
ie
yof ndon Tx
On Monday, for
it Lo ,tb'e sixth time, Baron Rothschild
7 - mturned Parttat'sment as one of the menders
for th•
the Baron's eleothd, c0,,,,,,.,,,th.n, CA offered no opposition to
'I. polic.l. of Berlin have made known the following
ext aortfleary occurrence. 4\ little girl nine P.."' '''''' bMng c,l/nducted along the xtreet by her governess, en her
way to school, when she was swim:illy snatched up by a
nell-dreased man, and thrust into a carriage in which a
veiled female was seated. The man immediately of rang
upon the box, arid before the governess, ill her estonishnient.
Could cry eut for assistance, the carriage had disallPeerr,L
This abduction took place In the very centre of the capital.
For some time past a young British nobleman, who
appears to have made Paris his home, or who at least passes
most of his time here, has got himself touch talked of on
account of his gay doings and his eccentricities. Poring the
past week, for example, it is recorded that he het .c 4,00 ill
gambling at one sitting, to a female; that lie hired the
whole of a theatre for himself and a party of friends, and
would allow- no one else to attend the performance ; that he
: has taken to driving fear donkeys in his carriage.
On the 'notion, at Lord Ffrench's instance, to n,ake
the Bon. Miss larench, a minor. a ward of the C. of
Chancery, coming before the Lord Chaneellor of Ireland oil
Saturday, counsel for Lady Meech applied for a pompom-
mut, in order to afford time to answer affid,vits that had
been filed. On the other side, this course would orny be
agreed to on condition of an engagement hot to remove the
young lady front the Loretto Convent at Rathfamhant under
the writ of habeas corpus. A conflict of the Courts .
Chancery and Queen's Bench being possible in the case, the
, Lord Chancellor strongly urged a private settlement.

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