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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-18

THE STOURBRIDGE_OBSERVER:

he iiiss. Mr. T. Johnson presided, and the
attendance Was larea.
It Was prorr,2c3 Mr. Joseph Pk and Mr. T.
Homer wait u..-- Mr. Lewis, i.fore any other
business Was (fan? into. This Was accordingly
carried out. The denntation was very courte•
misty received by Mr. S. Lewis, jun., in the ab-
sence of his father.
1 After a dellheration of ahont an hour, daring
which several technical points in the trade were
gone into, Mr. Lewis, inn., said he was willing ,
to give the advance; and the reason the firm
had held out so long was in consequence of a
shortnesa of orders, combined with the unnrin•
cipleil conduct of several petty masters. Mr.
i Lewis further said that he would give out iron
I on Wednesday, though his warehouse Was fully
! stocked with every description of nails.
1 The deputation then returned to the Rose and
Crown, and on Mr. Lewis's dentition being made
' known to the meeting, round upon round of vo•
j ciferons cheering were given. This dispute,
, which has extended over several weeks is, there.
I fore, now brought to a conclusion.

ooldridge said he Was a land agent and valaer.
Had inspected Mr. Turney's premises. and they
may be
.let horn year tn year. t £460. The
qtoorhritce stile. with the ma-hlYery wenbl, if
Alybied..!.noun, to Ambleem..-
side £170; making .£4OO. Mr. Pitman's mitehb
nery is removed.—Mr. Oates corroborated Mr
Wooldridge.—Mr. Holloway said he should show
that Mr. Torney's works were worth £6OO rent
per year—nso on the Stourbridge side, and
2250 on the Amblecote side, and called Mr. H.
King, land agent, who said he had inspected the
premises belonging to Mr. Tueney, end valued
them at .£600—.£310 on the Stourbridge side,
—The Bench made the assessment at £290.
STEALING A STUFF DRESS. —Mary Nash was
charged with stealing a stuff dress from the
shop of William Pearson, pawnbroker, of New •
street, on the 11th inst. Elizabeth Arnold said
she was an assistant to prosecutor. On the above
date had the dress produced hanging in the
shop. It was safe at about four o'clock, and
missed it at about seven in the evening. Can
identify tile dress from its general appearance.
The value of the dress is 4s. John Edward
Wraight said he was assitant to Mr. Stringer,
pawnbroker. On the 11th inst prisoner came to
the shop, and brought the dress produced. Act-
ing.serqeant Jones Raid from information he re-
ceived he apprehended the prisoner on the 16th
lust, at Wollaston, and charged her with stealing
a dress from Mr. W. Pearson, on Saturday last,
and pledging the same at Mr. Stringer's. She
said I did not steal it; I picked it up at the
door." Prisoner pleaded guilty. Philip Adams
said he had known prisoner all her life, and had
never known her to be bronghtbsfore the Magis.
tratea before. Committed for 21 days,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-18

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THE St OU, G E '.
OBSERVER

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NY.

PUBLIC NOTICBS.

CRICKET.

STOURBRIDGE v. BRONSGROVE SCHOOL.

A MATCH will he PLAYED on the STOMIs
..71_ BRIDGE GROUND, at AMbI.M.VIS, This Day (RAT.
URDAY). the 18th Inner.
Wickets pitthed at F.leven n'elock.
Admission Hd eseh (if( mbers excepted).
Refreshments will be provided on the Ground.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-18

THE FOREIGN WHEAT AND
FLOUR TRADES.

- - - -
The St. Paul Press says that Mt Posey, the State
statillician, having made an extensite tour of observa-
tion tluoughout Minnesota, estlinat's the average yield
of the present wheat crop in that Sate at 18A bush.l,
per acre, which will yield a produc; of over 25
bu-bele, or nearly 50 mullets to evely inhabi, ant, leav-
ing a surplus of over l cillion buarls for export from
a State which eleven yeas ago imp.rted its flour and
t.iire. On the other hand, the NorjJk Journal says of
Virginia :
, The drought In the inferior of this State has been exces-
sive. In the great rich rellm, watered •iy the ban the corn
en the lowlands will probibly yield hali a crop, hut on the
hills It fa almost destro)et. The same moon reaches in of
the tobecia, crop, which Ms been i.urrit up to such an extent
that the Roanoke Valley, rublished at Carksvllle, says ti at
nit one of a crop wil be made in the counties of SI eck-
enliiirg, Halifax, Charlotts lammiliurg, and Prince Edward'
The papers of the Valley ilso gives a very gloomy account of
the corn crop in that realm. They say that in Augusta the
yield will not tre be)ond a hied of a crop. and that in Shen-
andoah it will not ouch a :all."

The downward mowment which had appeared In
the wheat trade it Frame bas ceased, end pries have
fliown somewhat mon fillllllll+9. The attitude of the
d. partmental novirels has been one of increased
atraditiess. Suppler tare been somewhat reduced by
the fact that cultimtirs are a good deal engaged in
field work, and tat the process of thrashing out
wheat has been winevhat interrupted in consequence.
The average prier o wheat is officially returned in
France at 261. 40. per qointal. A report from the
Manche states dot on thrashing out their wheat the
farmers of that deMot have come to the conclusion
that the yield will ,e slow thatof an ordinary average
year. On the ohm band, a report from the depart.
Dent of the Indy states that thrashing out there has
slown that the yild in pretty good, while the quality
of the wheat is Tonounced excellent. The German
and Belgian whea row kets have shown some firmness
of late. The quutity of floor exported from France
to the United lingdom in the first seven months of
this year was 828)50 cwt., as compared with 244,706
cwt. ill the es-responding period of 1860. and
1,013,526 cwt. in be cwrtkponcling period of 1867.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-18

PRINCE AR'RIIR'S VISIT TO PRINCE
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EIVIARD'S ISLAND.
A. despatch fun Charlottetown, Prince Edward's
Inland, Oared Anust 3(1, taylt —" 'the war vesiiel Dart,
with Ertine Ar.nr on board, arrived here at e,gbt
o'clock on Satulay night. the Prince was teceived
rod encorted tee Government House by Sir Robert
Hodgson. Admistrator of the Government, the pro-
minent officialnwnd an immense oincourne if pnotile.
The streets wei decorated and illuminated, and the
utmost entbuskin manifested. The following address
from the Cit• Council was presented to his Royal
Highness
'tiny it It plessourßoysl ighnesv,—lt ismiththe highest
sati.faction thole, or and common Council of Charlotte-
town hail yourarrivel in the capital of Prince Edward's
island. We red.) in thi4 opportunity of testifying to the
an of one Q-no the sentiments of devotion and loyalty to
her Slaj—ty s erson, and the regard and esteem for her
august fam pwldch pervades the hearts of her subjects In
the city oftisriuttutown. it is our happiness aid pride
that we livainder the sway of a monarch whose eminent
virtues chaired in the discharge of her duties as Queen,
Wile, aid mother, have Juicily trodeared her to her
losing si faithful kubjects in every quarter of the glohe
mad pitii Lug tor the *Wu, eAmiltaiiva, LA teapot uL
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-18

DEATH OF LADY PALMERSTON.

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Lady Palmerston died on Saturday morning, the 11th
inst., at half-past seven o'clock. Although in the 83rd
year of her age, the death of her lady,Mp was unex.
pected. Up to a fortnight ago, her ladyship appeared
to be as well and as strong as she has ever been since
the death of Lord Palmerston, close upon four year
, since. Early in thetveek before Lady Palmerston left
her town residence in Park-lane for Brocket Hall, Hat-
field, Herta, where it may be remembered Lord
Pahnerston died in October, 180, and where also her
ladyship expired. Soon after Lady Palmerston
had taken up her residence at Brocket Hall, Dr.
Protheroe Smith, who attended Lord Palmerston
during his last illness, was sent for. Although nothing
serious was at first anticpated, Dr. Smith remained
an and ad at Bracket Hall WI her ladyekap's deatli.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-18

CIIADDESLEY COUBBTT.

Accinga.T.--Mr. TlnClilee, Inn., of Itrudford, etas
thrown from his hors. on Sunday evening, wlisii riding
hotneward. is su.taiued wets ihjuriss, ltaviug
culler borne fractured.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-18


example, that he should be sentenced to solitary con-
finement in a little cell for file?
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In spite of ridicule and professional opposition, the
Female Medical Society makes ea'isfactory progress.
It commences its sixth annual session next month, and
it is stated that about 80 ladies have entered as
students at the society's college, many of these being
now settled in practice as lady midwives, and succeed-
ing admirably. Here is another proof that if a woman
" will, she will you may depend (aft," and success
thus gained is an earnest of further triumph. It is
evident that slowly, but surely, women are invading
the domain of medicine and surgery, and if previous
education and training be guaranteed there will be, on
the whole, nothing to regret in this. Apropos of train-
ing, the new St. Thomas's Hospital, which will be
incomparably the finest hospital in England, if not in
the world, will afford ample facilities and arrange.
ments for the training of nurses, a department of
hospital management which has hitherto been strangely
neglected. There will also be ample accommodation
for those who seek admission to the hospital, who
come for medicine, or to pay visits to sick inmates.
Here, too, there has hitherto been strange neglect or
unavoidable want of accommodation; as any one who
has seen the crowd, for example, waiting about the
steps of fit. Bartholomew's hospital will readily
admit.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-18

A FEW WORDS TO FARMERS.

Mr. C. S. Read, M.P., the farmers' member, spoke '
at an agricultural meeting the other evening at Attie-
borough. Mr. Read said the farmers had an excellent
and abundant crop of hay, they had plenty of food
upon their new layers, and with the glorious rains
winch had lately fallen they might look forward to a
heavy and good root crop. The wheat crop, if not
abundant, had been secured in the primest condition.
There was, however, an outbreak of a disease which
threatened to make both beef and mutton as dear as
; ever. This disease might, he believed, have been pre-
vented. It was most unfair for those members who
represented the great manufacturing and consuming
population to tax farmers with wishing to revive
protection, when they simply wished to protect
themselves against foreign diseases. They were
told by the best veterinary authorities in the
days of the cattle plague that if they took reason-
able precautions to extirpate that disease, they
would at the same time get rid of the foot and mouth
disease. They did so, and Professor Gamgee said at
the time, "You will never have the disease again un-
less you have importations of it from abroad." It
might be said "Prove this." Well, farmers could not
prove it, but they had reasonable suspicions, inasmuch
as the disease broke out exactly in those neigbourhoods
were foreign sheep and cattle were located. He hoped
and trusted, however, that farmers would take every
possible precaution to get rid of the disease. The Con-
tagious Disease (Animals) Act could not be put into
full force until the October sessions, but there was
plenty of power in the hands of individuals to prevent
any infringement of the Act, and he trusted that the
agricultural community would take precious good care
that there should be no violation of its clauses, and that
diseased cattle should not be exposed in markets or
driven along the roads.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-18

FOR AND AGAINST VACCINATION.

Attention has of late been prominently drawn to the
trausmision of disease through vaccination with im-
pure lymph. A terrible instance came under the
notice of the presiding magistrate at Bow-street police
court, in London, on Friday. A poor woman who
applied for advice stated that, under threat of a public
prosecution, the took her child, at that time a healthy
infant, to the surgery of • public vaccinator in the
district where she lived. Some fearful disease must
have been communicated, for since the operation
WAS performed the child has been covered from head
to foot with sores, and report states that when pro-
duced in court the poor little creature "presented
a frightful aspect." A medical witness stated that
the child bad been poisoned by the vaccine mat-
ter. The magistrate directed the vaccinator to
attend before him, and ordered a strict inquiry
to be inscituted as to the actual cause of the sad con-
dition of the child.—The Daily Telegraph publishes a
letter from Dr. Blanc on " heilthy vat einatian." Dr.
Blanc is a strong advocate for vaccination lie admits
that humanised lymph is degenerated, has lost much of
its antivaritilic power, and that diseases have been
transmittal by vaccination; but with all these faults
he prefers the present unsatisfactory conditim of vac-
cine lymph to leaving ourselves expo esd to the ravagts
of small-ox. In proof of the protective influence nf
heifer's lymph, Dr. Blanc says that several children
wit have been vaccinated with heifer lymph have in
his presence been inoculated with the most virulent
small-pox virus, and not one had afterwards exhibited
the slightest symptom of this dreadful diaeaae.

HIRFD BRAVO9.—The Cheers of the Cloeque.
—l'l7:rem.

Tun LAST Or Tux MAISFIXICES.— The last of
the Mamelukes, Sidi Exdouck by nirDP, has just ex•
pired at Balana, a small village on the Mediterranean
c rset. The defunct Sidi was a friend of the Emperor
Napoleon's celebrated Ronstan, and served in the Con.
solar Guards, his turbaned squadron creating no small
effect in the Carrousel. Sidi fought in Italy, Germany,
Spain, and Russia, and altogether must have had a
hard time of it in his youth.