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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

THE COTPAGERS PRIZES.

The judged for the cottagers were the Rec. R. P. Tor
ner, Churchill ; Mr. Thomas Amphlett, dent; and Mr.
E. Moore, J.P • Haleaowen. The following ia a copy of
the prize list :
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

FATAL CARELESSNESS.

On Saturday evening a shocking accident with a
revolver happened at Acton by which a young man 14
years of age, named (larks Reynolds, lost his life.
The accident happened at a pawnbroker's shop, kept
by Mr. Thomas 'Young. The deceased is an intimate
friend of Mr. James Young, jun., and was in the shop
assisting him em Saturday night. While thus engaged
a carpenter entered to redeem a ride he had pledged a
few days previously. This rule was kept in one of the
drawers in the counter, and when bought out
the ticket was missing from it. In order to find
the ticket the drawer was taken out and carried
into another room to be turned out. Among other
things there were in the drawer two six-chamber
revolvers and a quantity of string, and it is supposed
that in moving the, revolvers one .4 them became en-
tangled in the string, for immediately an explosion
occurred, and a ball was lodged in the atslomen of the
young man Reynolds, wile, called out that he was shot.
It appears that a few weeks previously these revolvers
were taken in pledge, as well as a number Id breeth-
hcading cartridges, and that the cartridges were tried in
the chamlsers of the revolvers, and found to be of the
wrong size. It is smepo,ed that by an oversight one was
left in the chamber, and hence the accident. As soon as it
was found that the young man was injured, although
he was quite sensible and able to walk from the back
resan to the shop, a medical man was sent for, who at
once ordered his removal to St. Mary's Hospital, Pad-
dington, whither he was conveyed at a late how on
Saturday night. The unfortunate youth gradually
sank, and died at one o'clock on Monday morning. His
depeAtion was taken at eight o'clock on Sunday even-
ing by the jcolice magistrate for the Hammersmith divi-
sion, in which he declared it to be purely an accident.
On an examination of the revolver after the areid.ut
it was found that the bullet did not pass .tlerecult rho
barrel, but was enAodell in the chamber, it was seep.
posed from the pin of the central tire coercing in Oa,
tact with mane hard substance while being moved in the
drawer. This supposition is strengthened by the fact
that the report was not louder than the striking of an
ordMary Ineifer, and was not heard in the shop adjoin-
ing.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

THE SUPPOSED CURE FOR CANCER.

Reference has been made t. the condurango plant of
Eenwh.r, an alleged remedy for cancer, to which the at-
tention of the 110tr,l States Covernment was called in
an official communication from the American Minister
in that country. The samples of the plant sent there
were distributisl by the State Department as an efficient
remedy, and a physician was quoted as having ex peri-
mente.el with it and vouched for its healing powers. But
it appears that a board of physicians have been conduct-
ing experiments in Washington at the hospitals, and al-
though they have made no final report, yet their judg-
ment, so far as the experiments have gone, is against the
plant, which is said to be entirely inefficacious. A decoc-
tion of the wood of the condurang is used, but careful
analysis fails to show that it has any unusual properties.
The bark contains an insoluble gum, but no recognized
medicinal principle. Both the wood and the bark have
been subjected to minute examination, and are pro-
nounced worthless. The patients afflicted with cancer
who have been placed under treatment with condur-
ango are said to fail to show any improvement in con-
dition. There are hints that the stir which hwi been
created about this alter.' remedy was a part .4 a well-
laid plan to get extensive advertising for a new quack
medicine. for which a patent has already beenobtained,
and of which conchtiango is an ingredient.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

PRESENTS FOR BOYS AND OIRLs.

AN IMMENSE VARIETY AT

S FIELD'S

" OBSERVER " OFFICE.

1110 II STREET STOURBRIDGE

Or IMPORTANT NOTICE
TO CAPITALISTS, SYSTEMATIC INVESTORS,

AND OTHERS.

A SAFE, PROGRESSIVE, and CERTAIN SYSTEM

OF OBTAIN IN Or A
COMPETENCY BY TURF SPECULATION.
PROSPECTUS, lucidly explaining the same,
sent free on receipt of addr,ss, or on personal

appliestiou to
W. H. WALTEL, Raveuscuurt Park, Hammersmith,

London, W.

HOMEOPATHIC
MEDICINES AND HANDBOOK.
300 payes, bound, Is., or by post for 14 stomps

/1111 E HOMEOPATHIC FAMILY
1 INSTRUCTOR (an Epitome of.) By RICFIARD
Eves, Slember of the Royal College of Surgeons of
England. Upwards of a hundred diseases are fully des-
oohed and prescribed for.
London : Published by James Epps and Co., Hommo-
pathm Chemist. (the first established in England), 112,
tireat Ituesell.street ; 170, Piccadilly; sad 46, Thread.
needle•atreet._..

CACTION.-1 Le medicines supplied by agents are
secured b) a band over the cork, ci u clack band bears
the signature, James Epps am. Co.. Homoeopathic
Cliennsm, London," mai, ut abuts bone art genuine.
Agents in Stourbridge : J. H. ILand, A.l'. Morris. and
8. Hughes. Worceater T. Vtithentigton. liewdley :
Newnam.

REFRESHMENT AND EATING
HOUSE,

TOP OF KILDERMINSTER•STREET,

Si OURBRIDGE.

12,_

1:2,033-Y-

EEGS to damn his Friends .it the Public, that he has
OPENED THE ABOVE HOUSE FOR
REFRESHMENTS.

TRIPE AND COW HEELS

READY EVERY
THURSDAY, FRIDAY, AND 84T1'111)41

NIGHT, AT SIX O'CLOCK.

OHS
CLMiKE,

BOOKSELLER AND NEWSAGENT,

HIGH.STREET, KIN VER.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

TRADESMEN'S ADDRESSES.

CAR, CAB dc POSTING ESTABLISHMENT

THE CROSS INN, OLD HILL.

J. E. WI-lITMORE
Sega to inform the Public that he can supply
CARRIAGES WITH GREY HORSES FOR
WEDDING PARTIES.
PAIR AND FOUR-HORSE BREAKS,
For Picnic and Pleasure Parties,
ON THE SHORTEST NOTICE.

Aldo,
CARS, CABS, WAGONETTES, BROUGHAMS,

VEHICLES, &C.

N.B.—Horses to Let on!iire by the Day. Week,

or Month.

Orders per Post will receive prompt attention.

0. F. GREEN,

pIANOFORTE TUNER,
260, Castle-street, badley,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

GENERAL NEWS.

Press Association Telegrams'.
FRIDAY.

The Queen held a Privy Council at Osborne
to-day, and afterwards knighttal Mr. Smith,
Curator of the South Kensington Museum, aiei
Mr. Chalk, secretary of the Ecclesiastical Coin-

It is reported that the Empress wrote from
Hastings to the Czar praying him to contimic
Lis friendship and sympathy for France.

LONDON CORN MARKET (CLOSE).
FRIDAY.

Market very firm. Wheat: English realised
full prices ; foreign Is dearer on Russian and
American, owing to higher prices abroad. To II
flour unaltered ; country and American mails
in better demand. Barley steady. (Ws firmer
than at opening. Maize, beans, and pus firm.

SHIPPING NEWS.

NEW YORK, Thursday.

The Cunard steamer Cuba, arrived out at six
yeAerdny afternoon, and the North German
Lloyd's steamer Bremen, at two this afternoon.
The Anchor Caledonia arrived out.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

COLLEY GATE.

SCHOOL TREAT.—On Monday the children attending
the New Connexion Sunday School, held their treat.
After parading the neighbourhood they were supplied
with cake and tea, and after supplying the wants of na-
tate they engaged in various games and sports in a field
kindly lent by Mr. Lester. In the evening they retired
to their homes tired, but pleased with their day's enjoy-
ment.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

A FATAL ACCIDENT.

An inquest was held on Monday at Lytham on the
body of James Munn, the son•ot Lieutenant-Colonel
Munn, of the Rossendale Volunteers who was drowned
on Saturday last through the foundering of a fishing
smack at the anmial regatta. The deceased accom-
panied the crew of the smack Einar, in a contest for tin
prize of a fishing smack. John Rowley, one of the
crew, stated that the accident was caused by a gnst of
wind and a heavy sea, which threw the bafiast if
iron and stones to leeward ; that the boat lurched mid
filled and went di iwit instantly. The witness and .1 Ito
Tipping swain till they were picked up by a boat. The
deceased and Mr. Denim:lit, the owner of the smack,
and Frank Richardson, another of the crew were
drowned. The body of the IlltiCa.ell was found on
Sunday morning. The jury returned a verdict Of "A e-
eid,ntally Drowned." The boilies of Richardson and
Dewhurst were not found at the time the inquest was
held.

itlr. :Munn, the deceased, was managing partner for
the firm if Robert Munn and Sons, cotton spinners and
manufacturers, who own five mills in Missend:de. Ile
has left a wife and live children, and was thirty-four
years of age.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

A DISPUTED LIABILITY.

At the ,stattord AMiZeg. till. cause " Langan r. the Great
Western Railway Company" has been heard, and was an
action brought to recover money payable for board and
lodging provided at the request of the Great Western Rail-
way Company.
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The plaintiff is the landlady of an inn near the
Great Bridge railway station. On the 27th of Decem-
ber last a collision occurred upon the London and
North-Western line at Tipton between a Midland
train and a train f the Great Western Railway Corn-
pa'ny. Two passengers who were injured were taken
to the inn by the stationmaster, and were maintained
and cared fi,r the plaintiff during a periml of about
five weeks. While there a subinspector in the employ-
ment of the defendants called at the inn, and said to
Mr. Morris, one of the sufferers, who enquired how
the people of the inn were to be paid, that he was
not to trouble himself about it--" NVe shall see these
all right."
The defence was that no order for the entertainment
of the injured persons had been given by any official
having the authority of the defendants to do so. It
appeared that Mr. Morris had sued the Great Western
Railway Company, and hail received £1,50t1 cum.
pensation for his injuries.
At the close of the plaintiff's case, the learned Judge,
being of opinion that there was no evidence that the
sub-inspector had authority to bind the company,
nonsuited the plaintiff, but gave leave to move to
enter a verdict for CIO, a sum agreed on by the parties,
if the Court should think there was evidence to go to
the jury.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

CLENT.

CHARGE OF HTTERNIPTED RAPE —At the Police Court,
at Stourbridge, on Saturday, before Major Fletcher and
0. L. Freer, Esq., Thome. Phillips, a young man, wan
brought up on a warrant charged with ravishing and
carnally knowing Matilda Bunn, on the 10th instant.—
Mr. Perry appeared to prosecute, and Mr. Iturbury de-
fended prisoner.—From the evidence adduced, it appears
that complainant is a servant girl in the employ of
Mathew Hughes, of Cleut. On the above date a Mrs.
Pitt asked complainant to go to the Fountain public-
house to fetch liar husband, who wag there. On return-
ing home prisoner was going to the Hagley Station, and
asked thou to ride. After some denim, they both got
into the trap. When near Mrs. Pitt's house she got out,
leaving the complainant still in the trap, and she went
to the station with Phillips. On arriving there, prisoner
was some time in the station, complainant still remain-
ing in the trap. On returning home, prisoner began to
take liberties with her in the trap, and accomplished his
purpose; camplainaut stating that she screamed, but
that persons 00 (Jr 30 yards off could not hear her, and
that she went to Mrs. Pitta house and did not complain
of prisoner's conduct until four o'clock in the morning.
The reason that she alleged was that she was ill and had
fits. On cross-examination, complainant admitted that
she took out a summons against Phillips for the offence,
and that he afterwards offered to make it up, complain-
ant asking £5. Prisoner said he could not pay that am-
ount, but if she would say nothing about it be would give
her £3, and pay any expenses that may afterwards occur,
and she ultimately agreed to accept .f 1 108 in settlement.
She also acknowledged that she had one child living,—
Eliza l'itt was called, and said that the complainant first
asked Phillips for a ride in the trap.—Alfred Hughes
and Martha Hughes were also examined, and after hear-
ing the evidence the Bench were of opinion that the
evidence given did not justify them in sending the case
to a jury, and dischalged the prisoner.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

THE DRINK AGAIN!

At the laneaster Assi,,, Robert Hodgson, aged 41. has
been indicted for the wilful murder of Jane Gardner, at
Hambleton, on the 30th May last.

The prisoner, it appeared, was a labourer, and lived
at Ilanablam, and was an illegitimate son of Jane
Gardner before her marriage. It appeared that an
uncle of the prisoner, who (lied on the 14th of February
last, had left a small property to his mother imdead
of to him, as he had expected, and this had rankled in
his mind son off, nee committed against him by his
mother, and from that period be lnid degenerated into
habits of iiktomperanot until he had become subject to
attacks offriefirtoni tremens. On the night of the 29th of

May the prisoner was exhibiting symptoms of an ap-
proaching attack of his disorder, awl he had been seen
by members of his family to pass from his mother's
bedroom, where his mother, a woman of 65 years
of age, was then lying apparently dying from debility,
into a pantry, from which he fetched a large axe. Ile
then proceeded again to his mother's bedroom, and
with this weapon dashed her brains out as she lay with
her head on the pillow. The only question raised in
the case for the prisoner's defence was as to his respon-
sibility at the time of the commission of the act. The evi-
dence;howed that shortly before, and within three hours
after the crime, the prisoner, though evidently suffer-
ing from some of the symptoms of Miriam tremens,
was not so unconscious as to be unable to distinguish
between right and wrong. But it was contended
for the defence that the probabilities were that
a paroxysm so strong had occurred as to deprive him
of consciousness, and that during its continuance the
fatal act had been ersumitte.l.
The learned Judge directed the jury that as the
us is f pi,ving this defenee lay upon the prisoner,
they 1111 Int be clearly and completely satisfied in the
affirmative before they could acquit him on the ground
alleged.
After considerable ileliberation the jury found the
prisoner Guilty, with a strong recommendation to
mercy.
His Lordship then passed upon him the sentence of
death, with the usual formalities, and stated that he
would forward the-recommendation of the jury to the
.proper authorities.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

CRADLEY HEATH.

LAUGHABLE BCCIDENI.—.OII Saturday morning an ac•
cident of a somewhat extraordinary but laughable cha-
racter, occurred to a young woman aged about IS year,
who was having some fun in company with a female
companion, in a yard, at High-street. In the midst of
the game she jumped upon the top of • cesspool, which
was some feet deep. Unfortunately the boards fell in
and she was precipitated into the liquid. Her companion
and a neighbouring woman ran to her assistance, and
they succeeded in lolling her partly out, when by 60111 e
means or other they let go their hold and she slipped
backwards into the hole again. She was ultimately lifted
up. and placed on hrra firma; but her appearance was
extremely ludicrous, and the odour which greeted the
olfactory nerves of those near was anything but plea.
rant.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

NEWTON v. WARHURST AND
ANOTHER.

The shove cause has heen tried at Nottingham, and was
an artist of a curious character. The declaration s, as for
limach of warranty ii. selling rice meal as pure rice meal.
The plaintiff is Mr. John Newton, of Colston
Bassett, and the defendants are John and Henry
Warhurst, of Queen's-road-briflge, Nottingham, who
among other things deal in rice meal for cattle.
According to the plaintiff's case the defendants war-
ranted their meal to be pure rice meal, and tit for
the plaintiff's horses. TI re of the plaintiffs horses
died after being fed with the meal, and other horses
were made ill. The horses were examined. From
the stomach of one 511,. of stuff was extracted, from
another 9111,., and from the third lUD,. Of this stuff
about 95 per cent. was sand. The meal was then
tested, and it was discovered that 5 per cent. was
sand. This meal was collected from the bottoms of
sacks from which the horses had Is-en fed. When the
plalutiff complain.' to the defendant he AVM told that
the horses must hart-got the sand in grazing, and that
the meal was quite pure.
The defendants' case was that they never warrant.'
the meal as pure rice meal, and that it was the usual
sort of article sohl for the purpose, and quite good food
for cattle. They had sold quantities of it, and did not
hear any complaints until these horses died, since which
time they had haft plenty of complaints. They do not
manufacture •,r grind the meal themselves, but pur-
chase it from Me,se, Irving, Son, and Jones, of Liver-
pool, and of the North Shore I 'ompanY.
Mr. Irving was called, and described the process used
at their mills. The stone which grinds the meal works
in a tine wire socket, anti it would be impossible for the
great part of the sand found in the horses to have
passed through the wire. Mr. Irving stated that he
fed his own horses on the meal, but he first scalded it
and then gave it them to drink, not in the form of meal,
as it appeared the farmers generally do. Some sand.
would get into the meal from the grindstone, and there
would also be dust in the bags. This would account
for about half per cent, of sand, but certainly not for
five per cent. Similiar evidence was given by the
North Shore Company. The sand found in the horses
WAS not the sand from the grindstone, but of a different
character. . .

---- -
It WaS not contended on the part of the plaintiff that
the defendants knew of the sand being in the nwal.

The jury, after remaining in deliberation upwards of
an hour, intimated that there was no likelihood of
their agreeing, and were discharged without giving a
verdict.