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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-08-04

IRISH EMIGRATION.

In the Muss oF LORDS, July 31, in reply to Lord Emly
the Earl of Derby stated that a proposal for an advance by the
British Government of £1,000,000 for 10 years without inte-
rest for the purpose of promoting the emigration from Ireland
of 10,000 families, each of which would be settled in Canada
on 160 acres of land, and provided with a house and other
necessaries, had been assented tomn principle by her tiajesty's
Government, but they required that the money should be
advanced to the Canadian Government, which should hold
itself responsible for the repayment, and not to the various
companies which would undertake to carry out the scheme.
Up to the present time, however, the Canadian Government
had refused to incur any responsibility, but the negotiations
were by no means at an end, and the hope of arriving at a
successful result had not been abandoned.
Some Bills having been advanced a stage, their lordships
adjourned at five minutes past five o'clock.

In the Houma OF COMMONS, replying to Sir M. Lopes, Mr.
Gladstone intimated that the Government intended to take
the sense of the House upon the National Debt Bill, the
second reading of which would probably be taken on Tues-
day next.
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The Marquis of Hartington stated, in answer to Lord E.
Cecil, that a telegram from the General commanding the
British troops in Egypt reported that the general health of
the troops was very good, that the type of cholera was loss
virulent, and that the cases under treatment at Cairo were
more hopeful.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-08-04

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-08-04

A TREATISE ON NERVOUS DEBILIT

THIS little work is a valuable Medical Friend
It gives a graphic description of the Cause and
Cure ot NERVOUS DE.BILITY, Indigestion, Palpita-
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-08-04

THE CIVIL LIST PENSIONS.

The following 11E4.4 all pensions granted during the
year ended June 20, 1883, and chargEd upon the
Civil List, has just been issued. The total of the
grants is ~200, composed as follows :

Mr. Samuel Rawsiin Gardiner, a pension of £l5O, in
rec-gnition of his valuable contributions to the history
of Enarid ; Mrs. Emma Robinson, £BO, in recogni-
tion ot the services of her husband, the late Canon
Robinson, in the cause of public education; Mr. John
}Judah, £l5O, in recognition of his great services in
the advancement of musical education in this country;
Mr. David Wingate, £5O, in consideration of his me i it
as a poet, and of his narrow means of subsistence ; Mrs.
Alma Haas, £BO, in recognition of the position of her
late husband, Dr. Haas, as an Oriental scholar, and of
his important services in the British Museum ; Mrs.
Auguste Marghereta Elizabeth Palmer, £2OO, in
recognition of the services of her late husband,
Professor Palmer, and in view of all the circumstances
of the case; Prince Lucien Louis Bonaparte, £250, in
consideration of his services t.) literature and learning;
Anna Maria Lady Palliser, £l5O, in recognition of the
valuable services of her late husband, Sir William Pal.
liner, in the improvement of the manufacture of pro-
jectiles and rifled ordnance ; Mrs. Hariiette Scott
Russell, £9O, in consideration of the high position held
by her husband as a naval architect.

A NEW PRACTICE. —lst Medical Practitioner.—
And how are you Retting on here? 2nd do.—First
class. Advice gratis, and medicine cost price. Ist do.
—By Jove, that can't pay you. 2nd do.—lt does,
though. Borrow a hint from the publicans, you know,
and charge twopence /or the bottles.—Funny Folks.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-08-04

DREADFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN
AMERICA.

Writing on Sunday night the New York Correspon.
dent of the Standard says :

A ssrious acci lent occurred last evening on the
Rome, Watfeown, and Ogdensburg Railway. The
steamboat express train was wrecked near Carlyon.
It consisted of two engines and twelve carriages, con-
veying two hundred and eighty passengers, mostly
tourists on their way from Niagara to the Thousand
Isles, on the St. Lawrence. In a high gale, with
torrents of rain, the drivers got up an unusual speed
because the train was behind time. The wind had
blown a freight car from a siding half across the main
track, and the train ran with great force into this ob-
struction. The crash was heard three icdl6o off. The
number of dead is twenty-two, and fifty persons are
injured, some of them fatally.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-08-04

FALL OF A TRAIN INTO A RIVER,
The New York correspondent of the Standard tele.

graphs :

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A despatch from Chicago reports a serious railway
accident. A train fell from a trestle bridge crossing
the lofty palisades of the Black CsAon into the Gun-
nison River, east of the Wahsatch Mountain*, on the
Denver and Rio Grande Rail.vay. Out of one hun-
dred and seventy excursionists one hundred and forty
are said to have beep killed.

Why are sowers like mediators 7—Beeause they into-
se cl.—Judv.

It is stated that machine-guns on the Nordenfeldt
pattern -are-about to be intradueell in the Mouton..
grin army.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-08-04

CROSSING THE CHANNEL ON A
TRICYCLE.

A singular voyage across the English Channel has
just been made. It appears that Mr. Terry, who is said
to have been a coxswain in the navy, conceived the
idea of travelling from London to Paris on a tricycle.
He left London on Wednesday in last week, and arrived
at Dover on the following day, on a tricycle which is an
invention of his own, and which is so constructed as to
be capable of forming the framework of a boat. The
boat is 12 feet long, about 3 feet 9 inches wide, and 2 feet
deep, and is formed of a simple covering of tarpaulin.
The owner is furnished with a pair of sculls, all of
which gear he carries by road. There being a slight
north-easterly wind on Saturday morning, Mr. Terry
prepared his boat and left the harbour at nine o'clock
for Calais, taking a course direct for that place. A
large number of people assembled to see the start, and
as the frail craft put out to sea there was a general
expression of opinion that the occupant was exposing
himself to great to risk on his somewhat adventurous
undertaking. Mr. Terry was alone, had no other
means of propelling himself than his sculls, and was
said to be quite quite unprovided against a prolonged
voyage. On reaching Calais it was his intention to
re-form his tricycle, and proceed to Paris. After pas-
sing the Admiralty Pier he drifted to the westward,
and was reported by the mid-day Calais boat to be
about mid• Channel, where there was a heavy swell.

A Renter's telegram says that he arrived safely at
Calais at five o'clock on Saturday afternoon.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-08-04

THE PRINTERS' EXHIBITION.

In London, on Monday, the third exhibition and
market of the Printing, Paper.making, and Stationery
Trades was opened at the Agricultural Hall. There
is a fairly representative display of the mechanical
appliances, raw materials, and manufactured goods
used by the trades, while a large portion of the hall is
devoted to a fine art section, in which are displayed
oil paintings, water-colour drawings, etchings, designs
for Christmas cards, and original paintings and draw.
logs of every description suited for reproduction by
stationers and fine art publishers. Altogether about
350 exhibitors have entered in the seviral departments,
and prizes amounting to £350 have been offered for
competitions in fine art and letter-press printing, type-
setting, bookbinding, and machinery.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-08-04

THE CASE OF MISS BOOTH.

A Renter's telegram from Berne says that the
judgment of the Federal Council, dismissing the
appeal of Miss Booth against the decree of the Can-
tmal Government of Geneva, expelling her from the
canton, has been published. It points out that the
Treaty of 1855 with England, relating to the
settling of foreigners In Switzerland; prescribes
that the subjects of the two nations shall conform
to the laws of the country in which they are
living, and may be expelled by a police order legally
sanctioned and executed. Miss Booth, the docu-
ment goes on to say, is mistaken in supposing that the
Federal Government is ahne competent to expel
foreigners. The sovereign right of the cantons to adopt
this measure is a principle of public law, and is par-
ticularly applicable in cases where public order has
been disturbed. The Federal Council therefore is of
opinion that the canton of Geneva acted within its
right in enforcing its police law regarding foraigners of
1844 in the case of Miss Booth, and that the Geneva
authorities carried out the law in accordance with legal
forms and guarrantees,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-08-04

THE MARKETS,

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARICET.—MON°I.
„ reo
The cattle trade shows no special feature. SupP.lo/0
short, but the demand laeks animation. EnOish beasts,oo,
come sparingly to hand, but have been in good cold 1;00
A slow, dear trade has prevailed, and prices DO
ruled much about the sam as last week, she ,rOl
Scots and crosses making es 2d to es 4cl per 81h. fIy:AA
supply of foreign b,a,ts was less than usual. 'dolt
250 Danish were offered, besides some Swltt,re4'
With a quiet demand, quotations were
There was a rather larzer show of sheep in the 'psi',
The market was dull, and prices were net._ 10a
maintained The best Downs and half-breds sold at v" sitt
to 7a per 81b. Lambs were quiet, at Ts to 89 Pe! 011
Calves and pigs sold at late rates. At Deptford ther°
411013 q,OOO beasts and 9.009 sheep and lambs. 60er5:0d;
Interior beasts, 41 44 to es ; second quality ditto, Is t° 2,1
prime large oxen, 58 84 to Gs ; ditto Scots, &c.,
es 44; coarse and inferior sheep, is 4d to 65 ito g`e:
quality ditto, es to Gs 6d ; prime coarse woolled di- '
os
to es Brl ; prime Southdown aitto, Gs 104 to 74 0,„to,
83 ; large oomree calves. Se 3 Os; prime small r
Cc ed ; large hogs, 4,4 d to 45 8d; neat small porkerb
to es per elb. kibliitig the offal.
01.
METROPOLITAN lITAT MARKET.—xfo1— jot
Moderate supply on sale, and slow trade prevailed.._lneff
beef, 3s ed to 4s; middling ditto, 45 4d to 5s Od ; veso.,
uitto, Is 44 to Ea 64 ; prime mall ditto, 5s °:,,i'd,JOS:
Is Bil to es Od ; inferior mutton. 4s 0,.1 to 49 8d 14.
ditto, 5s 0,1 to Is 31 ; prime ditto, Is 8d to es 2,`;'.'hy,
pork. 36 84 to 4a Od ; amall ditto, 4s 44 to 4.11 gd per 0""
CATOILIO,
POTATO.
a irsg 64
There was a large supply on offsr. The • &MAP • it.
as follows :—Kent regents, es to es ed ; ditto kidlle..4/ •
to 7s ; Essex regents, 55 ed to 65 ; ditto kidneys. " '—
roses, 75 to 75 801 per cwt
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-11-10

A TERRIBLE RIDE.

The Cincinnati Weekly Times says :—While John
Bley and James Maloney, two switchmen, were repair-
ing the damage to a freight car attached to a train
standing at Derry Station, on the Pennsylvania Rail-
road the engineer started the train, not being aware of
their presence under the car.
Bley was crushed and mangled beyond recognition,
and died instantly. Moloney was cruehed against the
tender of the engine, the scalp almost torn from his
head, and one arm and leg broken.

The train was quickly ',topped and Maloney carried
to the engine and laid upon the floor. The trainmen
then started f.r Bley's remains, and were carrying
them towards the engine when they were horror
stricken to see Maloney, crazed with pain, suddenly
jumped up and threw the throttle-valve wide open
and the engine started with fearful rapidity down the
grade, and when Latrobe was reached, six miles from
the scene of the accident, Maloney closed the valve
and fell unconscious to the floor of the cab. He was
picked up and taken to the hospital where he is at
present with very slight hopes of recovery.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-11-10

THE LATE REV. MERTON SMITH.

In the Probate Division of th, High Court of Justice
on Tuesday, Mr. Bay ford moved that letters of ad-
ministration, with the will annexed, might issue to
Jason Smith and Oswald Smith, brothers of the Rev.
Merton Smith, on presumption of the death of the
reverend gentleman. Mr. Merton Smith was vicar of
Plympton St. Mary, and in August last he and his
brother.in-law were travelling in the Pyrenees. On the
Bth of August they were at Eanx Bonnes, Basses-
Pyr6n6es, and after breakfast Mr. Smith left the hotel
at which they were staying for the purpose of climbing
the mountains. From that time he had not been
seen by his relatives and friends, though every search
had been made for him, and the occurrenee bad been
reported in all the newspapers of Europe. Two per-
sons stated that they saw him on the mountains the
same day as that of his leaving the hotel, but from
their description it seemed doubtful whether he was
the gentleman they really had seen. There were
affidavits stating that on the mountains there were
precipices covered with growing wood, through which
he might have fallen and disappeared All efforts to
discover his body had failed. He was a man in no
trouble of mind at the date when he left the hotel.
His circumstances were comfortable, be being possessed
of freehold estate and of £6,000 in American bonds.
In these circumstances his family believed that he was
dead, and his two brothers, to whom he had willed his
property, applied for administration of his will. His
living had been sequestered.

The President inquired whether his living had been
absolutely disposed of by another appointment.
Mr. Bayford believed not; but he did not know
In whose hands the appointment lay, or whether there
might not be some delay neces,ary in respect of an
appointment.

The President did not think that a sufficient period
had elapsed since Mr. Smith's disappearance to justify
the Court in presuming death. The matter must stand
over, and the application be made again after lapse of
further time.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-11-10

FIFTEEN YEARS' PENAL SERVITUDE.

At the Manchester Assizes, on Tuesday, William
Haslam was charged with having on the 15th of
October last wounded his wife with intent to murder
ber.—Mr. Yerburgh prosecuted; the prisoner was
undefended.
The prisoner and his wife had been married upwards
of 23 years, but on the 6th of September they were
living apart under a separation order, granted in
consequence of the prisoner having kicked his wife
and turned her out of doors with a child 12 months
old in her arms. Early on the morning of the 15th of
October the prisoner entered the house in which she
was living, and, having ascended the stairs noise-
lessly, went to his wife, who was in bed, and drew
a razor across her throat. She put up her hand and
seized the razor. The prisoner struggled, and drew
the razor through her fingers, cutting them severely.
The wife called her second son to her assistance, and,
struggling with the prisoner for the razor, the handle
dropped off and fall to the floor. The wound was
stitched up, but the woman remained in consider
able danger for some time. The jury found the pri
soner Guilty.
His Lordship, in passing a sentence of 15 years'
penal servitude, said that the record against the pd.
Boner showed that on four occasions he had been before
che magistrates for assaulting his wife, and that in his
opinion the prisoner had formed a deliberate intention
of murdering her.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-11-10

THE ATTACK ON MR. OSCAR DICKSON.

The Tisza says :—We recently announced in our
telegraphic intelligence that a determined attack had
been made on Mr. Oscar Dickson, of Gothenburg, well
known in zonnezion with Baron Nordenskjold. From
further details we learn that a man, an artillery ser-
geant of about 23 years of age, who had been dis-
missed, but with whom Ur. Dickson had had no
previous connexion, made his way into the private
office of the latter and presented a letter. Mr.
Dickson, who is used to such applications, asked
the man if it was money he wante<l, and he at
once said "Yes," and when Mr. Dickson asked
who recommi nded him—"No one," the man replied,
and told Mr. Dickson to read the letter and it
it would tell him all about it. "No," Mr. Dickson
replied "leave the letter and I'll read it and send you
a reply." But that would not satisfy the man, who
insisted that the letter should be read at once. On
Mr. Dickson requesting the man to go away quietly,
the latter drew a double-barrelled pistol and presented
it at the head of Mr. Dicks,n, who, with great cool-
ness, after eyeing the man for a minute. told him to
stop that foolery and leave the room. This took the
man off his guard, and Mr. Dickson at once seized the
pistol, and collared the man, when &desperate struggle
ensued, in which Mr. Dickson succeeded in wrenching
the pistol from the man, and laying the latter
flat on the floor. Shouting for his clerks he asked
them to get the police, went out and locked the
door. When a policeman came Mr. Dickson cautiously
opened the door, when to his amazement he saw a pile
of dynamite cartridges on his desk, and a heap of
gunpowder, with the man standing holding over it a
lighted match, and threatening to blow up everything
and everybody unless Mr. Dickson would give him
the 50,000 crowns he wanted. Pacifying the man he
again went out, got more policemen, fixed a water
hose and nozzle to the main water-pipe, and suddenly
opening the door, had a fireman ready to deluge the
dynamite sad knock down the man, who was at once
secured. At his examination he boldly stated that
his only object was money, as he objected longer to
work for other people.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-11-10

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Nervous Debility, Lost Manhood, etc , having tried it.
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Address J. H. BEEVES, ESQ., 43 Chatham tit., Nevi
York City, U. 6, A.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-11-10

WORTH A GUINEA A BOX.

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a few doses of them carry off all gross humours, open
all obstructions, and bring al,out all that is zwiuired.
No female should be without them. There is no remedy
to be fiund te equal BEECHAM'S PILLS for removing
any obstruction or irregularity ( f the sybtetn. If taken
according to the directions given with each box, th y
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orders of the liver, they act like s•Maoro," and a few
doses witl be found ta work wonder-3 upon the mo,t
important organs in the human machine. They
strengthen the whole muscular system, restore the
long-lost comp'exion, bring back the keen edge of
appetite, and aroose into action, with the ROSEBUD of
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orld.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-11-10

AGRICULTURAL DEPRESSION.

The Standard remarks that agriculture and stock-
breeding have greatly declined in Great Britain and
Ireland during the last quarter of a century. The fall
in the value of land is notorious; no less than from
thirty to fifty per cent. Proprietors, in many plases,
can neither sell their farms nor let them. Tenant.
farmers are beginning to disappear, and land is going
out of cultivation. This gloomy picture, though
perhaps in some respects overcharged, is, on the whole,
we fear, but too true. And what relief can be
expected from such a measure as the Agricultural
Holdings Act? Where are the farmers with capital BO
ready to fling their gold into the soil, provided only
they are secure from being robbed of it? If farming
no longer pays, men certainly will not spend their
money on it, whether they have much or little. And
as for the much-talked of security, has it ever
really been wanting—wanting, we mean, so gene-
rally as to deter capital from the soil? The warmest
advocates of tenant-right hardly go so far as this.
If we consult practical men who kave been engaged
in valuations all their lives, what is their report?
How many out-going tenants have they ever seen
defrauded of their sue? How many times have
they seen them paid a great deal more? No; it was
not want of security that created agricultural dis-
tress, and it is not any new form of security that will
remove it. Immunity from disease, diminution of
local burdens, reduction of freightage—these and
other proposed remedies may do much. Indeed, it is
only in measures of this kind that relief is now to be
found. But they cannot, as it seems to no, go to the
root of the matter, or alter those natural conditions of
the soil and climate which regulate the productive
powers of all countries alike. Free competition, bene-
ficial as it has unquestionably been to the consumer,
hai not hitherto been an unmixed blessing to the
English farmer.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-11-10

KILLED BY A FALL.

In London, on Tuesday, Mr. W. Carter held an in-
quest upon the body of Maud Node', a child, age four
and a hAlf years. The deceased lived with her parents
at the Palatinate Model Dwellings, Pollock-road, New
Kent-road, and was killed on Friday afternoon in last
week wheu she fell frnm the top of the building to the
stone basement, down the well of the staircase—a dis.
tance of upwards of 601 t. It appeared from the evidence
that the child fell either over or through the bannisters,
the rails of which were fsr apart, Atter hearing th 3 evi•
deuce, the Coroher said it was tithe' sothething as
done to prevent these terrible occurrences. There had,
unfortunately, been similar cases in other blocks of
buildings. Children would clamber and elide on the
bannisters of stairs, He suggested that iron knobs
should be placed at short distances along Le top of the
bannisters. Several jurymen, after viewing the scene
of the occurrence, said that the railings on the stairs

were too /ow, and that the uprights were dangerously
wide apart. The provision of wire•guards wog; the
well at each landing was recommended. A venlict of
" Accidental death" was returned; and a gentleman
who was in attendance on behalf of the proprietors of
the Palatinate Dwellings, promised to atter,d to the
suggestions of the jury.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-11-10

BRIERLEY HILL.

AN INCORILIGIBLE -It the Police Colt! t Oil
Thursday, before W F. F. Boughey, Fsq., Charles
Burns, labourer, Wo i 81.:), was umnioned for not

sending his step son, Henry Walter Hnsselbee, agea
13 to school.—Defendant stated that he could not
do:anything with the boy. He had taken Lim to
school himself and had had a policeman to take him
to school The boy also used to stop out all night.
A character of the boy was sent by the school-
ms.er and was as follows :.—Brettell Lane School,
Stourbrid4e, October 24th, 1883; To W. F.
F.
Boughpy, E qr., Stipendiary 3.lagistrate, Sir, I send
Yon t.ltr! ro'in Via 4 p 1-,iculars concerning the boy
; I w'to-e ,•:es. wilt come under your notice
nt l'hu• H I: altogether an incorrigible boY•
l Passed standar
Ile .s no mother, and only a step father. He i
TIOW 13 years of age and has only lt s
one. He was admitted to the above school twelve
months ago, and has made a little over one-third
of Vie attendances in that time. Every month or
two he breaks out and is beyond all control. Four
or five times he has done so, and he his stayed out
too, for several nights jaltogether. About four
d
months ago he played truant for nine weeks, then,
being brought back by a policeman, came for about
five weeks He has now been absent four weeks
and no signs of his returning. The influence of bi-°
example cannot but have a demoralizing effect upon
other lads, and it would be a great boon to the boY
himself, his guardians, and to other children about
him, if he could be sent to an industrial school for
a few years, when he could have more constant
supervision than he can possibly get in our school;
Sir, your obedient servant, B. F. Mason, master.'
The boy was sent to an industrial school until ho
is
sixteen years of age.
GAMBLING.—George Allen and Joseph Williams
were charged with gambling on the 21st ult., at
Brierley Hill. Sergeant Salt proved the case Baia
he found t:e defendants and several otheis on a
idece of waste ground near the Saltwells. Ifs
picked up 4d in coppers and a pack of cards. De'
feniants, who gave the officer false names, were
fined lOs and costs each.
NEGLECTING TO SUPPORT A FAMILY. Thora-0.1
Clasper was summoned for neglecting to support his
wife and three children whereby they had become
chargeable to the Stourbridge Union. Mr. V4ll
appeared to prosecute and said defendant had 0/14
the Guardians a great deal of trouble, and he 10",1
to be fetched front Gateshead, about 102 miles'
Joseph Finney, relieving officer, said that the,
woman and children had cost the Union about 30.
They had been in the Union about forty 'Keel's'
Defendant was a retort builder and could eau-
about £7 per week. Mr. Boughey said the defend-
ant was a disgraceful vagabond, and remanded the
case until Monday.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-11-10

CRADLEY HEATH, HALESOWEN, AND DISTRICT CHRONICLE.

S TURDAY, NOVEMBER 10,1883.

DEAFNESS, NOISES /N THE EARS, Sze. DELLAIIS
ESSENCE FOR DEAFNESS should always be tried, as in
numbers of cases, sei wingly incurable, it has done
wonders. Slight Deafness, Obstructions in the Ears,
and the incessant humming sounds so frequent with
affected hearing, are removed after two or three nights'
applications. Dellar's Essence can be spoken of as sure
to give some relief in any case of Deafness without
causing the slightest injury to the delicate organisms of
the ear ; and, however surprising, persons for years
Deaf have heard sounds after a fair trial of Dellars
Essence. Bottles, is. lid. and 2s. 9d. Sold by all
Chemists. Post frce for 18 Stamps sent to Bedford
Laboratory Bayley Street, London, W,C.

ADVICE TO MOTEMIS!—Are you broken in your
rest by a sick child etiiieriug with the pain of cuttipg
teeth? Go at ()lice to a ehe:eist get a bottle of
Mits. TS Ixsr,ow's E7OOTUING It will rclier:
the poor sufferer immediately. it is perfectly
less and pleasant to taste, it produces natural,
quiet sleep, by relieving the child from pain, and the
tittle cherub arakes "as bright as a button." It
soothes the child, it softens the gums, allays all
pain, relieves Trine, regulates the bowels, and is the
kt hnow's • remzty for dysentery and diarilcza,
whether arising from teething or other causes. Mrs.
Waslew's Soothing_ Syrup is sold by Medicine deals=
1111111104110 .6 leA. PSI WOW
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-11-10

POLICEMEN CHARGED WITH MAN-
SLAUGHTER.

At Manchester on Saturday, before Mr. Justice
Hawkins, Joseph Warton and Cornelius Farrell were
indicted for the manslaughter of Edward Parkinson,
at Manchester, on the 16th of September last.—Mr.
Hopwood, QC,, and the Hon. A. D. Elliot appeared
for the prosecution; Mr. Addison, Q.C., defended
the prisoner Warton ; and Mr. Nash the prisoner
Farrell.

-Both the prisoners are constables in the Manchester
police force, and on the night of the 15th of Sep-
tember last were on duty in Ashton New-road.
Shortly after eleven o'clock on that night they saw
two men named Finnegan and Reynolds outside the
"Bull's Head" Inn, and as they believed a disturb-
ance was about to commence they arrested these two
men. Finnegan, who was :eery drunk, became most
violent, and in straggling with the prisoners fell down.
The prisoners dragged him for some distance, and
found it necessary to draw their staves and strike
Finnegan in order to prevent him from kicking
them. A crowd collected and protested against the
way in which the prisoners were treating Finnegan.
The deceased man Parkiason, who was in the crowd,
called out to the prisoners not to injure Finnegan.
Oee of the prisoners then struck Parkinson on the
head with his staff, knockirg him down insensible.
The deceased man was carried home, and in the mean-
time the prisoners, with the assistance of some other
constables, took Finnegan to the police station.
The deceased man was put to Led, and a surgeon
Whi called in that night, but after lingering a
short time Parkinson died. According to the evi-
dence of the surgeon Parkinson's skull was abnor-
mally thin at the point where the fracture com-
menced, and he said that the blow which inflicted
the injury might have been a moderate one. There
was a conflict of evidence as to which of the prisoners
struck the di ceased man. When before the Coroner,
Warton said that the crowd pelted him with bricks
and stones, and that he had to use his staff to keep the
crowd back. Farrell said that the crowd numbered
200 or 300 people, and that after Finnegan struck him
he drew his staff and struck Finnegan, but that he
did not strike any one else. For the defence, two
constables, who came to the aseistance of the prisoners
when they were struggling with Finnegan, were
called, and said they did not sea either of the prisoners
strike the deceased. Other witnesses proved that the
constables were nearly -overpowered by the crowd, and
described in various ways what they saw of the die-
turbance.—Eventually the jury found Farrell Not
Guilty and Warton Guilty. Sentence on the latter
was postponed.

okt.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-11-10

PROGRESS OF THE PANAMA CANAL

According to a despatch from Panama, dated
October 26, good progress is being made with the
work on the Panama Canal. The total length of the
canal will be 74 kilometres from the Atlantic to its
mouth in the Pacific. It is divided into 12 section.,
In which are employed daily 30 steam excavators, 40
locomotives, and 800 tip waggons. There are
91 000,000 cubic feet to be excavated. The grand cut-
ting, about two.thirds of which has already been ex-
cavated, is that between Obispo and Paraiso. The
number of men employed upon the work exceeds
10,000. and tbe excavations up to the 15th of October
amounted to more than 2,500,000 cubic mbtres. The
working fore will soon be augmented, and will form
a total of 15,00 men.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-11-10

THE IRON TRADE.

WOLVERHAMPTON. Wed' o iday.

The iron market this afternoon was ratber quiet,
only small quantities of orders being given out to
the finished ironinakers. There were, however,
some very good inquiries for the cummoner de-
scripti Ais of bars alai sheets. Bast iron is only
wanted just now by the export merchants, as home
consumers are reported to be pretty wcll supplied
for tne current demand by their customers. Gal-
vaniser's sheets were inquired for by several of the
larae consumers, and offers to buy at the rates pre-
vailing &bre the last quarter—day were malt in
some instances. Seeing, however, that prices are
rather higher, the manufacturers refused to close
the bargains. In workingup sheets trade is very
restricted, sales being of a hand-to-mouth charac-
ter. In best sheets a steariy business was recorded,
as also with r. gard to tinplates for shipment.
Strips an I ho.-,ps were in rather more demand, and
there are bri4ker inquirits for seciimal iron. Prices
genrally are steady at the £7 10s minimum for
branded bars, while unmarked iron averages about
.£6 103, an I sheets rule at £8 for single. The sales
of pi4s this afternoon were comparatively small,
though some moderato coatracts have been received
at the works since the last market day, and makers'
prices have become someshat stiffer. All—mine
still rules at £3 53, an.! medium finalities fetch
from £2 7s 6d to .62 lss, while a great& il of co
mon cinder histo be delivered at .£2 103 to 123
Cd. Among the firms who are well supplied are
Mr. A. Hickman. Spring Vale, The Williegsworth
Company, Messrs. Th )inas Brothers, Walsall, and
makers in the Tip•on DistriA. Foreign sells very
althongn brokers It Lye a large number ot
contracts unesecntel. In inim-r ds train is to:er-
ably goo". Colli ry owaers arc e.iieflv occupied in
raising fuel for domes ic consumption, but titer.,
does not appear much prosect of their gettin..;
better p Les.

ItiummaliAni, T. ursd ..y.

Business in the iron trade is still hampered 133, 'the
unsettled condition of the coal trade and the a; p:e-
hensions of a s•rike. Mr. 11,Ce Carscr has very
properly declined to adjudicate as to till ft ther
wages basis in the, co I trade wen his it mils ft a-3
fettered by cola iout itnpos:d hy t e nen regi.r l-
ing minitnuin itu,l the wit,. Lot aver iges are tobe
arrived at. '['tie nen .ipp.t it to be afraid to t:u3t
arbi ration in prieti,te, ; tou:411 they alc.,pt it in
theory. It is looveve,;• to to hopol th:r. they will
not be led awAy by he nostrunis of th, A Inchester
Conferencrt ry insisting upon an advan of wages
andpt ices in the present uns.ttisfactory state of trade
They shoul i remember that a full wees.'s work at
3d. or 4d. a day less is preferable to half a w ek's
employment at the ativance, which would check
businlss in every branch of industry. They might
rest iissured that if the employers could see thliir
way to advance fuel they would gladly and readily
do so, and it must not be supposed that the coal
manors We trying to keep prices low becauee wan'
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-11-10

THE LABOUR MARKET.

The labour market still continues unsettled, and in
colliery districts there are a series of disputes, the
men wanting an increase in wages, which the masters
allege they cannot grant, owing to the continued low
price of iron and coal and the increasing foreign com-
petition. The men are strengthening their position
by increasing the number and radius of their unions,
and it is feared that shortly there will be a big strike
In the northern coalfields. The ironstone miners are
generally fairly employed, but their demand for in-
creased wages meets with general refusal. Ship-
builders and marine engineers are in most places full
of work. The Sunderland engineers continue on
strike, and the attempted settlement of the strike has
not yet been successful, the employers having de-
clined to grant the concessions asked for, and
express their determination not to agree to any
hard and fast limitation as to the number of appren-
tices, and not to acknowledge any special regulations
which are not general throughout the country, The
building trade continues very brisk, and plenty of
workpeople are wanted on the numerous railway and
tramway contracts now being executed in various parts
of the kingdom. In the manufactured iron and steel
trades, work is fairly plentiful, and some special de-
partments are very busy. The textile trades show no
particular change. Heavy goods for winter require-
ments are finding increased work, but all fancy articles
are not producing much labour. The carpet manufa?-
turers are not very busy. The boot and shoe trade is
very quiet. Tailors, both in London and the provinces,
are sought after. In the minor industries, work is up
to the average. Of dockyard labour the supply is far
in exr...ess of the demand. The various centres of cull
gration continue well supplied, but not up to the con•
tinual demand. —Labour News.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-11-10

THE MARKETS,

METROPOLITAN CATTLE M-ARKET.—MONDAY.
0 006
In the cattle trade there was no :particular feature.
to the colder weather a rathe'r 'firmer tone has prec''''46
Supplies of English beasts wets about the average, and ...
wa., a good show from iraxr.d. Without being active lel.
demand was stead
Tll
y, 5.74 tine breeds commanded full '
The he Scots and xones sold at 53 10d to 6s per 810.
show of foreign stoo,,k was less than usual, and with a
demand pr'ves rnled firm. As regards sheep a fair suPPlY:aj.
offered. The mark et was firm, and prices were well maialat
The hest Dawn and half-hreds sold at 7s 2d to 7s 6d Per rig
Calves and pies sold at about late rates. Coarse and iefe_ime,
beasts 48 to cla 61; second quality ditta, 4.* 6d to 65
large oxen, fa 6.1 to 55 8d: ditto Scots, ezc.. 55 lad no,
coarae and inferior sheep, 5s 6d to 6s; second qualitY dio;
Cs to 61 8d ; prime coarse-woolled ditto, Os 10d to 71veg,,
prime Southdown ditto, 75 2d to 7s 4d ; large coarse es
6s 10d to Os 2d; prime small ditto, 6s 4d to 63 8d; large h°ll,i3
81bt
44 2d to 4s 61; neat small porkers, 45 fld t 3 4s 10d per
sink the offal.

MEIROPOLITAN IiE,TMARKEL-1101041'
There was a moderate supply on sale. The trade 111'12,
better, at the following quotations :—lnferior beef, 3s 6d6d
48 ; middling ditto, 43 to 4s 44; prime large ditto, ejlet
be; prime small dit,o, be 4 : veal, ea to 6s 4d.
mutton, 4s to 4s 8d; middling ditto, 43 8d to 61 4d;
ditto, be 4d to 6s 64 ; large pork, 3s 6d to 4s; Ana '—
ditto, 4s 8d to be per 81b. by the carcase.

POTATO. jot 0
A fah supply of potatoes on offer. The trads wIS qt•,, go
follows :—ltegents, 80s to 100*; magnum bou=s,
100*; olis=1;4041, 60s to 80*; roses, 60s to 70s Pa On'

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-11-10

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

A Kansas town has legislated against the goat as a
" ruthless destroyer," a "terror," and a "curse."

We read in an exchange of a young lady having
been made crazy by a sudden kiss. This should teach
young ladies to be constantly expecting something of
that kind, and to be prepared for it when it comes.

When a married couple at Island Pond, Vt., who
had fought like cats and dogs for years, were at last
divorced, they left the court room together, had their
pictures taken and then separated.
Little Freddie (late to breakfast): " Papa, what is
the difference between me and those baked potatoes?"
"Give it up, Freddie." "Why, the potatoen Early
Rose, and I didn't."

"Is that gentleman a friend of yours?" asked a
newly-introduced lady of another at a reception.
"Oh, no; he's my husband," was the innocent reply.
What is the difference between a muscular tramp
and a newly•cleaned lamp?—Only this, one is a well-
limbed tramp and the other is a well•trimmed lamp.
"This is Horrible," was the headline a Cleveland
editor wrote to go over an account of the defeat of the
local base ball club. But the straw•headea printer
got things mixed and put that headline over a poem
by a prominent poet, and the poet wouldn't believe
that it was the printer's fault, and somebody is going
to get hurt.

The Duke of Edinburgh is having constructed, at
Eastwell, a large dairy, to be built of wood from the
Prince of Wales's estate at Sandringham.
A despatch from Springfield, Missouri, announces
that a tornado has occurred there, by which five
persons were killed and thirty injured. One hundred
houses were destroyed.

The German manufacturers and the Society for the
Protection of Chemical Industry are agitating for a
law by which employes may be punished for in any
way publishing or betraying the manufacturing secrets
of the works they are employed in.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-11-10

TERRIBLE DISASTER AT ROUBAIX

A fire broke out on Monday night at a spinning
factory at Roubaix. It was occasioned by a boy
throwing a lighted match upon a quantity of benzine.
Very little property was destroyed, but the loss of
life in relation to the comparatively trifling nature
of the fire is appalling. Thirty girls were at
work at the time in a shop on the second floor.
Finding no egress biz of them jumped through the
trap-door into the room below, and met a terrible fate.
They fell into a blazing furnace, and were burnt
literally to cinders. Several firemen, gendarmes, and
policemen have suffered serious injuries, and it is
believed that other workpeople have been burned.
4
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-11-10

BUILDING SOCIETIES.

A return relating to building societies in England
was issued on Wednesday, which shows that there are
1,687 societies in existence, with a membership of
493,271; the total receipts during the last financial
year amounted to £20,919,473. There were 1,528
societies making a return of liabilities, which were, to
the holders of shares £29,351,611, and to depositors
£l6 351,611. There was a balance of unappropriated
profit to the extent of 131,567,942. The assets came to
£44,587,718,
In Scotland there were 5,386 members of building
societies. The receipts were £413.609 ; the liabilities
to holders of shares amounted to g 674 990; to deposi-
tors and other creditors, £268,511. The assets con-
sisted of balance due on mortgage securities £987,987;
and amount invested in other securities and cash,
267,618.
In Ireland there were 9,714 members of building
societies. The receipts were £778,889; liabilities to the
holders of shares, £684,396; to depositors and others,
£432,056. The assets included balance due on mort-
gage securities, £1,051,423; and amount invested in
other securities, £79,802.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-11-10

THE REVOLUTION IN HAITI.

Further particulars have been received of the re-
volution at Port-au-Prince on the 22nd Sept. The
city itself was in ashes. Fortunately for foreigners,
the English, French, and Spanish war vessels were in
port. A force was landed from these vessels, and to
some extent restored order, The cry of " Revolu-
tion " was echoed along the streets, followed in-
stantly by wholesale acts of incendiarism. Where
the buildings defied the efforts of the rebels
the latter took out the windows or doors
and then set them on fire. All the consulates and
many private houses hoisted all kinds of flags, but with
little effect. The Secretary of the United States Lege.
tion, who had left his house to procure a flag, was fired
on by some thirty men when he was returning with the
flag wrapped round him. The conflagration lasted
from the Ssturday until the Monday. Just before the
cry of " Revolution " rang out General Penor was shot.
The city was given up entirely to pillage. The resi-
dence of the Secretary to the United States Legation
was destroyed, and as he himself was performing an
act of charity he was charged by a mob with
bayonets and cutlasses. A report from Havana
says five British war vessels passed St. Thomas
going in the direction of Hayti. They were from
Barbadoes, and were, it was thought, going to in.
vestigate the matter of the firing on the steamer Alps.
The damage to property at Port.au•Prince was said to
be at least a million sterling. On Sept. 24 the Govern.
ment troops attacked Miragoane, but were soon re-
pulsed, Generalissimo Pigrant being mortally wounded.
The loss of life at Port-au-Prince was believed to be
1,5110. The commercial part of the town seemed to be
most s3ught after by the incendiaries, and the loss
there is consequently great.