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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-12-30

A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

ENGLISH SYMPATHY WITH CHICAGO.

From the Ch keg, Triomne of December 3.)

In no part of the world has therebeen more active or
a more liberal exhibition of interest in Chicago and her
people than among the people of England. We doubt
whether any portion of the United States has shown
a deeperor truer sympathy for us than the British Isles.
Nearly everybody there had heard of Chicago. Thehum-
blest and the richest had been made acquainted, in some
sort, with the city on the prairies, which had grown so
wonderfully, and was the marvel of the age. To a
large portion of the English people Chicago was a
kiml of promised land, in whi h they might hope to
join friends and kindred who had gone before them.
Chicago was known to them aa the granary of America
the great depot from which Amerieans distributed
food to all countries. Though the m: st of them had
no very clear idea of the geography of Chicago, they
knew it was a city of many wonderful things, a
city to which many of their comiteymen had gone,
and where many of them hat become rich. All over
Europe, in every village and hamlet where there were
people who expected to leave some time for America,
the name of Chicago was familiar. It is not cur
prising, therefore, that w hen the news was received
that Chicago was in ashes and her people houseless
and suffeting, the mournful fact attracted universal
attention and elicited universal sympathy. In Eng-
land, however, the action taken to afford relief
has been peculiarly hnpressive. Money, clothing,
blankets, and tools have been contributed and
forwarded with remarkable liberality. But the
generous hearts have recognised in the destruction of
this city something more than an occasion to feed the
hungry, clothe the naked, and shelter the homeless.
They know that there have been other losses than
the destruction of buildings, .4 warehouses, and of
goods. The intellectual classes of England readily
understood that a great city like this had other
losses than of grain elevators and dwelling-
houses. They knew that the libraries of the
city those formations of slow growth, those ac-
cumulations of successive lifetimes— were not PO
easily restored, yet of incalculable 10., to an
intelligent aml thoughtful people. The same hands
that sent us money to buy food and clothing
contributed to replace, in the form of a public library,
the irreparable loss of our many costly collections of
books. The value of such a gift can hardly be estimated.
It is another chapter in evidence of the existence of an
universal brotherhood. It is a graceful token of the
tie that binds the English-speaking nations in literary
labours. This last gift will live for ever in the history
of the rebuilt city. This mntribution of books settles
the question of a free public library. in Chicago, and
during all time, when that public library shall be dis-
pensing its benefits to the people of this city, it will
never be forgotten tlfat its foundation was laid in the
generous Ileeds of the authors and publishers of Great
Britain.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-12-30

THE PUBLIC ARE CAUTIONED AGAINST

DANGEROUS IMITATIONS

()NE. Bo: of CLARKE'S B 41 Pills is
warranted to cure all dibcharges from the Urinary
Organs, in either sex, acquired or constitutional, Gravel
and Pains in the Back.—Sold in boxes, 4 Gd exch. by
all Chemists and Patent Medicine Vendors; or sent to
any address for 60 Stamps by the Mskt-r, hr. J CLARKE,
Consulting Chemist, High-street, Lincolm—Wholtmale
Agents, BARCLAY & Sows, London,and all the Wholesale
Houses.
Sold by A. P. Morris. Chemist, Stourbridge.

XrERVOCS DEBILITY.—Gratis a Medical
111 WORK, showing sufferer, how they may be cured
without the mid of quacks. Free on receipt of pomtmge
stazup.—Address, Secretary, Institute of Anatomy, Bir-
mingham

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NOTICE.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-12-30

CRADLEY HEATS.

MR. Hales Cc/NCI:RT.—Mt pupils of the above well.
known Professor of Music gave their Kighth Annual
Concert in the Corngreaves School, which was kindly
lent for the occasion by J. I'. Hunt, &111. There was a
lirge and fashionable audience. The programme, which
was exceedingly diversified, consisted of choruses, qu sr.
bites, duets, and solos. Two of the choruses, "Come
again, Christmas," and " Household Flowers," composed
respectively by Mr. C. H. &math and Mr. J. B. Heys,
deserve especial mention, both on account of the quality
of their composition, and the style with which the per-
formers rendered them. Both the vocal and instrumen-
tal parts of the entertainment were a decided success,
and the performance of his pupils reflected the highest
eredit upon Mr. Hey's ability as a teacher.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-12-30

GREAT LANDSLIP IN CHESHIRE.

For several years the stories of landslips in the salt
district of Cheshire have reached the public about
Christmaa time, and it is a singular fact that we have
to bring the same thing again before our readers this
Christmaa. It seems that the hobgoblins in the lower
world are always busy about the same period in that
peculiar locality, rich in historical traditions of Roman,
Briton, monk, and cavalier. The locality of the pre-
sent slip is precisdy the same spot where similar oc-
currences happened 12 months, two, and four years ago
ilia field attached to Marton-hall, at present afarrnhouse
belonging to the Vale Royal Estate of Lord Delamere,
and in the immediate vicinity of the ancient battle-
field of Eddisbury, close to the spot where Nixon, the
Cheshire prophet, Was born, who, by-the-bye, pro-
phesied that the old salt town of Northwich would
, meet the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah. The present
slip occurred on Saturday morning last, and presents
an awful spectacle of a pit some 300 yards in circum-
ference and about 100 feet deep, the sides as yet almost
I perpendicular, although in course of time they are

sure to assume the natural slope of the loose sandy
stratum which composes the formation in the locality.
The singular circumstance attached to this slip is
the fast that no mining excavation has ever been
made there, nor is it possible that, even in remote
times, a mine can have existed under this enormous
thick bed of sand; hence a subterranean cavity must
have been washed in the salt roek at a depth of at least
2001 t. below the surface ; and every Christmas that
subterranean master of the ceremonies seems to have
appointed of late that the people on the surface shall be
made at, tualuted with the circuthatance that, if they
will rub his dominions by pumping the brine for
the manufaCture of salt, and give it away to
all the world for such a miserable price as 4d. a
cwt., they shall at no remote time be in want
of terra .tirata altogether. The consumption of salt
has lately, for the domestic chymical manufacture, and
for export to India and our colonies, as,umed dimen-
sions which make it a matter of first consequence to
our commerce. and Government should look to these
ominous signs of nature. The local authorities of the
district are reported to have drawn the attention of
Government to the terrible waste committed by im-
provident mining and manufacturing operations, but
no action seems to have been taken beyond a reference
to Is mining inspector, whose reports seem not even to
have been sent to the local authorities.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-12-30

=
REWARDS FOR SAVING LIFE.

At a meeting of the Royal Humane ~,ociety, held In Lou-
don last wtek, Nit% 80t..d in the chair, several eases of
saving life from drownina Were brought, under the notice of
the committee and rewarded.

The bronze medallion was awarded t 'David Farson,
William Mee, and Charles O'Brien, and a testimonial
inscribed on vellum to Henry MOran, all of them
sulocon,tables in the Irish C.onstabulary, for saving
Frion, Hollywood, who was in danger of drowning at
Bellied Lough, Ireland. On the evening of the day
in que,tion the constables were bathing at the Thomp-
son's Bank portion of Belfast L ugh. A stsing cur-
rent was running at the time, as the tide was ebbing ;
the water Was about 12 feet deep. Mr. Hollywood
was also bathing there, and while learning to swim
was carried away by the receding tide, and bad sunk
several times, when Sub-Constable O'Brien, whose
attenthm was first attracted by his struggles, went to
his assistance. The drowning man franticallyodutched
O'Brien, and they both sank and were nearly lost,
when Sub-Constables Mee and Faction hastened to
their aid. Hollywood then let go his hold of O'Brien
and seized Mee, whom he carried twice under water.
Faison and O'Brien made strenuous endeavours to
rescue Hollywood and Mee, both of win un must have
been drowned but for their exertions. They were also
on the point of failing and would have lieen obliged
to abandon liollyw,ssf soil Mee to their fate or perish
with them had not Sub-Constable 11111 ran who had
remained ,41 dose to shore as to have his fooling, made
an effort, grasping the nearest as they were struggling
in each other's arms, and shouted to them all to lii
on to each other. He then succeeded in dragging them
ashore. Mr. Hollywoisl was quite insensible, haying
sunk no 10-is than five times. Snb-Constable Mee had
sunk twice. MA: ran was awarded a silver medal in
July of last year for paving life. . .

The bronze medallionr was also awarded to Charles
Smith, a pointstuan on the Great Eastern Railway,
for saving a boy named Janice Love, who sank while
bathing at a place called the Clay Pitts, King's Lynn,
where the water is in some places from K. to 18 feet in
depth. rpon Smith's arrival at the spot in question
the boy had already sunk several times, and in making
his first dive Smith was unable to the' him. I Siring,
however, a second time he succeeded in reaching the
lad, bis sight him to the surfaux, and swam to the bank
with him, only just in time, as the boy was perfectly
unconscious. This is the sixth life Smith has been in-
stnunental in saving.
Valuable testimi mials were also given to Talbot
Reid for saving a youth named Rains, who sank while
bathing at Castlerock, LondontleiTy ; and to (*harks
Purser fir saving Is.s.se Sherwood, who fell into the
water at Atheratone, Warwickshire.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-12-30

A FRENCH OPINION OF ENGLISH
CHRISTMAS.

The London correspondent of the Temps, after de-
criLing the preparations for Christmas exhibited in the
Shops, the announcements of special amusements, and
railway arrangements, remarks
"flutist add that England does not forget its poor at this
time of universal enjoyment. The newspapers are full ut
letters acknowle hang subscriptions made or requesting
others to provide the refuges the poor, and the
ragged selsools with a substantial English Christmas
dinner. England desires to be happy on that dsy, sod
it wishes that all should lie happy, from the street
Arab to the dainty youth who some day will succeed to his
fathers plave in the House of Lords. England is the country
of traditions. 10 the very midst of the movement whioli is
urging it, perhaps more rapidly than any other country,
toss ants tat nuknown future anti new pmspeets, it never
breaks entirely with the past. It religiously preserves
recollections, forms, and, tJ some eStent, Miaow& It
is a tradition that Englishmen should be merry tm
Christmas-day, and, thornton' as lung as Englishmen
exist they will be merry on that day : this annual tuer-
riment has become Ingrained in them. The nation is being
transformed, and it will be further transformed, but it will
rentals faithful no Christmas and to many other traditions.
It is in this way that the English people attains a snore com-
plete life than any other station ; It lives at once in the
past by recollections and traditional practices, in the pre-
sent by its enormons energy, and in the future by its faculty
of eontimini ehange, without destroying its character. It
remains young because It trail shales itself, and by remain-
ing young it insures its future."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-12-30

DILLS AND BOXES.

Now is the sr,. in for Christmas " Appeals."
For clothing :01.1 coilS, 1.1 for blaukets anil meals.
How happy, to ca,li thi•in ell, he that is able,
Mort over can p.iyiv, ry 1i114.1i We table
thing gm!, what a luxury, what a pure pleasure
It were, if It cost its of comfort no measure
Don't you wish you hail meate, to spate! more than you

- . - - •
niust,
And afford b. be VenCrolli, first having been just ?
Would yen h:el. W..u1.1 you neer might find Mrbituuss too

dray.
ThAVA implit,l tl,tt I wi,ll you a Happy New Year.
—Pooch.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-12-30

Koorfreewrre
TO_THE QUEEN.

OMairtal dr only Prim Mask for Ptirity
sad Zugllrroos of Quill*
LONDON, 1862. DUBLIN, 1865.
THE ONLY SILVER MEDAL—THE HIGHEST AWARD,
PARIS, 1867.

TruWMuk.llQ4HreL
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-12-30

KINVER.

RUROLARV.—At the Brierley Hill Police Court. on
Tuesday, before Mr. H. Hall, Jsmes Clarke and George
Clarke, two youths, were charged with breaking into the
dwelling-house of John Orford, at Iverley, on Friday
lust, and stealing therefrom Ils od in cash. and 21bs of
cheese. After hearing sufficient evidence, prisoners were
remanded to Stourbridge, where they were brought up
yesterday, before Major Fletcher and J. A. Scott, Esq.
Putsecutor said that ho resided at I verley. On the 22t.d
instant lie left home, having first Veked the door. He
left lls Oil in the house, some cheese, and some sager.
The money was on the window-sill. On hie returning
home lie noticed • large stone by the window. On get-
ting up next morning he went for some cheese, and found
it was gone. He also missed two pounds of sugar. and
the money. The window was broken by the bolt. Eliza-
beth Hall said she resided at I smere. On the above date
she saw the two prisoners pass her house between nine
and ten o'clock, They had a trail with them, and went
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-12-30

I am, yours faithfully,
HENRY E. TAYLOR.

THE CASTLE DYKE,S IRON COMPANY,

(LIMITED).
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the
Lin of APPLICATIONS for SHARES in thin
Company will CLOSE on Mummy, January Mb, 1572.
By Order.
N. M. BYERS, Secretary (pro tern).

WANTED Immediately, an Experienced
for Young Children, Church of Epg.
land. Good Needlerroman. Age about 25.—Addresa,
stating particulars, " H ," 10, Pakenham-road, Edgbas-
ton , Birmingham.

WAN [ED, a Steady, Active MAN, as
CARTER. No Smoker or Druukard need apply.
—J. Meson. Lye.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-12-30

HALESOWEN.

SEASONABLE BISNEVOLENOE.—On Saturday last, a most
interesiing proceeding took place in the National School
Mom in this town. Nearly £3O had been collected by
some resident ladies, for the purpose of giving a Christ-
mas treat to the poor people who were in receipt of par-
ochial relief, and other objects of charity, numbering
nearly 200 householders, some of them with large fami-
lies. Money, bread, tea, sugar, and tickets for meat were
distributed by the Mimes Hayes, Trewolla. and L. Moore,
who had collected the money, assisted by the Mimes
Hine, Gem. Ringley, and others. A considerable num-
ber of the subscribers were present to witness the pro-
ceedings, including the Venerable Archdeacon Hone, Lev.
W. Lewis, and Messrs. Granger. Trewolla, Moore, Chap.
man, &c. The Venerable Archdeacon Hone, the respec-
ted rector, made some appropriate remarks to the recipi-
ents, and observed how grateful they ought to feel, not
only to the ladies who had collected, but likewise to the
subscribers, to whose benevolence they were indebted fur
this substantial increase to their domestic comforts at
this festive Selool2. The thanks bestowed upon the
donors by tha recipients showed how fully they appreci-
ated the efforts made on their behalf, and must have been
a sufficient reward to those who had voluntarily under.
token to assist.

PREO,NTATIWC—On Thursday, Mr. Hughes, second
master of the National Schools, was presented by Mr.
lox, on behalf of the pupils, with a handsome writing
•iesk and • gold pencil-case. The gift MU acknowledgsd
in a suitable speech by Mr. Hughes, who afterwards re.
ceived a valuable book from the Venerable Archdeacon
Hone. _ _

SHOCKING DEATH..--012 Wednesdry
,night, as George
Pearce (16), of this town, was carrying • lighted candle
along the helper Colliery,Withyrooor, h.s fell down •
pit shaft, and was killed.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-12-30

V. R.

:FIELD'S
WORCESTERSHIRE MILITARY BAND.

FIELD, Bandmaster, respectfully
. returns thanks to the Nobility, Gentry, and
Committee+ generally, in the Midland Counties, for their
liberal patronage, especially during the past season,
which lias been a most successful one, including, among
other engagements, Promenade Concerts before their
ROYAL HIGHNESSES THE PRINCE
AND PRINCESS CHRISTIAN,

The Marquia and Marchioness of Queensbury, the Right
Hon. the Earl of Dudley, the Lady Ward, Sir Edmund
and Lady Lechmere, Sir Thomas and Lady Winnington,
Lord and Lady Lyttelton, end Lord and Lady Northwick,
eliciting marked encomium.; Musical and Floral Fetes,
Bazaars, &c., dec.

The above Band is composed of Reed and Brass In-
straments, from first-class bfanufactorers; Professional
Soloists; Uniforms, Scarlet and Gold.

Future favours sill be much esteemed. Terms res.
sonable.

Programmes forwarded for publication, consisting of
the choicest and classical Music.

Vicar-street, hudley.

Just Published, 116 p.p., demy 6r0., Poet Free,
ANew Illustrated SELFESTIMATING
CATALOGUE for HOUSE FURNISHING,
nab full description and prices of the Articles, profusely
Illustrated. and general suggestions. By ELWIN
STRINGER, Cabinet Manufacturer and complete
House Fornisber, Commercial Buildings, Stourbridge,
and 19. 20, and 21, Mill—dreet, Kidderminster.

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