The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-12-20 00:00:00

BROMSGROVE.

BOARD OF GUARDIANS—At the meeting of this
Board, on Wednesday (Mr. Rufson in the chair),
the Clerk read a letter from the Local Government
Board, with copy of a report by Mr. Longe, their
inspector, on the overcrowded state of the in-
firmary and other parts of the Bromsgrove work-
house, and requesting the Guardians to give im-
mediate attention to the same. Some surprise was
expressed that a building erected from plans ap-
proved by the Local Government Board to accom-
modate 320 persons should be overcrowded with
220 inmates; but it was decided to use the chapel
for the present as an infirmary, services meanwhile
to be conducted in the dining hall, and to take other
steps to relieve the pressure, which it was hoped
was only temporary. Mr. Rooker, a Redditch
guardian, brought a complaint against Mr. Bladon,
the relieving officer, for refusing to give a medicai
note to a poor woman, named Washbrook. who,
with her three children, was deserted by her has-
band. The woman was confined, and it was only
after several applications, and an appeal from him
(Mr. Rooker) that Mr. Bladon gave a note for the
docter. Mr Bladon thought it was not an urgent
case, and teat the woman was not deserted. Her
husband lived at Alcester, and she had left him to
live with another man. The report of Dr. Smith,
the medical officer, in his book, in reference to the
case, had the entry only—" Ill, has a cough ;" and
after considerable discussion, it was decided that
the clerk should write to Mr. Smith for further in-
formation as to the case.—Tenders were accepted
as follows :—Ale 10d. per gallon, Mr. G. Bate, Bel-
broughton ; flour, Bs. 6d. per Bushel, Mr. S. Gibbs,
Stoke Prior; beef, 7d., mutton Bid., suet 6d. per
lb., Mr. T. P. Hobbins, Bromsgrove.—Miss Julia
Goodyear, Stokes Prior, was appointed matron's
assistant at £l5 a year.
A DETERMINED ASSAULT.—At the Petty Sessions
on Wednesday, before Messrs. R. Smallwood and
H. H. Milward, William Duffill, nailer, was charged
with assaulting Mary, the wife of Joseph Eades,
nailer, with a criminal intent, and also with asseult-
ing and wounding with a glass bottle Joseph
Eades, the husband. Eades lives at Red Cross, and
on Tuesday night, the 9th instant, the wife came
to Bromsgrove to find her husband, and, after
drinking in several public-houses, she went to the
Shoulder of Mutton with prisoner, a stranger to
her. They left at closing time, and on the road
prisoner attempted to take liberties with the
woman, who resisted bun, and he knocked her
down into a ditch, pulled a great portion of her
clothes off her. and made the attempt with which
he was charged. Eades, who was on the raad,
heard his wife's cries, and went and pulled Duffill
from her. and Duffill knocked him down, and re-
sumed his attack on the woman. Eades got up
and rushed again at Duffill, who struck him on the
head with a glass ginger beer bottle, fractruing his
skull and iaflicting some severe wounds. He then
ran away, but was shortly after apprehended.
Eades had since been an inmate of the Cottage
Hospital.—Duffill. who was defended by Mr. Holy-
oake, was committed for trial on both charges at
Worcester Sessions, an applicadon to take bail
being refused.
Scitoot, OF ART,—The annual meeting of the sub-
scribers and Mewls was held in the school room
on' Wednesday night. Mr. B. H. Sanders was
I voted to the chair.—A. letter was read from Mr.
Elijah Walton,
.the President, announcing that in
cause inence of id-health and a probability that he
should shortly leave the neighbourhood he must
resign the office of president. Much regret was ex-
pressed at this announcement, as Mr. Walton had
always been a warm friend of' the school. It was
decided to ask Lord Windsor to accept the office.—
Mr G. W. Gibson (hon. sec.), who was really the
founder of the school, and has been connected with
it for a pried of 21 years, read the report, which
showed that 81 students attended the school during
the past year, being 2 leis than in the previous year.
10 attended the day classes, and 41 the evening
classes. The fees received amounted to £57 12s, sd.
being a decrease of £2 Is. 11d, as compared with
the previous year. The Government grant
amounted to £55 9s. Gd., and the annual subscrip-
tions to £22 Bs. (id., making a total of £135 9s. 11(1.
At the commencement of tee year there was a bal-
enee due to the Ireasurer of £29 145., and Cds had
increased at the end of the year to £43 17s. Cd.,
together with a furthur liability of £3l 2s. 586
works were sent to the examiners at South Ken-
sington from 39 students, and 12 received certificates
as having done a satisfactory year's work, naniely
—The Misses M. E. Willcox, A. M. Willcox,
Harriet R. Emery, Edith Hargraves, and Elizabeth
Kilsall; Osbert Giles, Frederick T. Hull, Thomas
King, P. H. Levens, William Long, Charles Reed,
and Ito,rers Pounce. 29 students attended the local
e tamination, and the following were successful: Miss
q. A. Brooks, freehand; Miss A. M. Willcox, model;
Miss M, C, Willcox, model; and freehand; Miss A.
Housman, model; Miss C. Housman, geometry
(p issed excellent) ; Robert Best, perspective (excel-
lent) ; H. Haines, freehand ; F. T. W. Hill, model.
Mist C. Housman and It. Best were awarde 1 prizes
by the Department at South Ken,ington. Robert
Best took the second-grade prize for passing excel-
lent in perspective. W. A. Coates and Benson took ,
the pupil teachers' third-grade prizes.—AVes of
thanks were passed ts the hon. see (Mr. Gibson), Mr.
Dickioson (the master), and to the Chairman.

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