The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-06-17 00:00:00

COUNTY COURT.

Clulee v. Hughes.—At the County Court, on
Thureday, before R. Kettle, Esq., Judge. This
was an action brought by William Clulee, coal
merchant, against John Hughes, for £8 12s 10d,
money lent and goods sold. Mr. Higgs appeared
forplaintiff, who proved that he lent the defendant
..t3 on the 27th March, and plaintiff's son proved
that coal amounting to £.5 12s 10d was sold to the
defendant.—His;Honour gave an immediate order
for payment of the full amount.

ACCIDENT.—A serious accident occured to Mrs.
Attwood, of the Lye, on Thursday. It appears
that Mrs. Attwood had been to Miss Mothering-
ham's shop, and when in the act of getting in the
carriage when a waggon was passing at the time,
and the driver smacked the whip. The horse
started off, throwing Mrs. Attwood on the pavement
and her head was so injured that she was picked up
insensible, and taken into the house of Miss Meth er-
ingham, and a:medical gentleman was soon in at-
teedance.
QUEENSLAND EMIGRATION.— The well-known
Aberdeen built ship "Queen of Nations," enabarked
the following emigrants for Brisbane, Queensland,
at the South West India Docks, on Wednesday
last, and took her departure from Gravesend, on
Friday, viz :-117 single men, 73 single women,
48 married couples, 50 children between the ages
of 12 and 1, and 10 infants, making a total of 298
souls, equal to 263 adults. Dr. Rendle, late of
the Brompton Hospital, officiates as Surgeon-Super-
intendent, and the single girls are in, charge of
Mrs. Wadley, an experienced Matron.
A FUNERAL AT kIUDDERMFIELD.—A funeral took
place recently in the cemetery at Huddersfield,
the circumstances of which, as recorded in the
Huddersfield Examiner, are worthy of note asshow-
ing in what manner our churchyards may be
desecrated if Ma. Osborne Morgan's bill should
ever become law. Mr. Armitage, a highly-esteemed
Secularist, died lately at Huddersfield. At the
funeral, which was largely attended, a Unitarian
miaster (Mr. J. Themes) performed the service. As
the friends of the deceased were many of them
not "of those who profess and call themselves
Christians," he divided the service into two parts.
For " the Chrietian friend." he road "part of the
usual Burial Service taken from St. Paul's Epistle
to the Corinthians. For the other mourners Mr.
Thomas read an extract from Mr. G. J. Holyoake's
"Trial of Theism." We will not stain our
columns by reproducing it here. One sentence
will sufficiently indicate its character. We are
assured "It is only the slave soul which cherishes
a tyrant God." And such a advice as that would
satisfy all the requirements of Lord Granville's
recent resolution. It would come, we suppose,
under the)legal definition of" Christian and or-
derly religious observances," and yet it might be a
grevious insult to the Christian feelings of every
inhabitant of the parish, and lay a heavy burden
upon the consciences of the parochial clergy. This,
be it observed, is no imaginary case. It has oc-
curred in a cemetery. Why should it not occur
again and again in our churchyards, if open to
such services, especially when the Secularists .1-
ready tell us they mean to take theutmost dvan.
tage of any alteration of the law in their favour?
' —Nationa/ Church.
STOOK SALE.-7Mr. H. King's usual sale took
place on Tuesday last, which comprised 40 head
of cattle including some magnificent bullocks of
Messrs. Bowen and P. Bierman, and about 660
' shop awl limbo. Tim highoot Iran roilisoci