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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-26

STOURBRIDGE

CHORAL SOCIETY.

PREbIDENT, - J. J. KING, ‘4.

COitN EXC-HANGE,

MONDAY, JANUARY 28th, 1878.

COSTA'S
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-26

ANOTHER USE FOR PAPIER MACRE.

It is curious to observe the constant succession of
inventions in which paper is the material dealt with.
We have at different times lately mentioned several
applications of this material, some of them seemingly
as incompatible with its nature in the form in which
we are most familiar with it as could very well be
conceived. The,wails of houses, for instance, chimney
pots, and railway carriage wheels are among the uses to
which modern ingenuity has applied this apparently
most unsuitable material. The list of novelties is, how-
ever, by no means closed, and almost every week
adds to the uses of paper. It seems probable that
before very long the heart of oak, which has hitherto
been par excellence the material for the construction of
beer barrels, will be superseded by the material which
has already been put to so many uses, from the print-
ing of bank notes, to the manufacture of shirt collars.
Flour barrels are, we understand, already manu-
factured from paper pulp, after a manner some-
what similar to that in which light boxes of various
descriptions have lately been turned out in great
quantities. Straw paper is the material; and this
under great hydraulic pressure, is found to be
capable of forming barrels of almost any rtquired
strength, and at a cost of scarcely more than one-
third of the ordinary wooden receptacles. They are
made entirely by machinery, are very durable and
light, and, what constitutes them a great improvement
on the barrels they are intended to supersede, they
are, so to speak, perfectly flour-tight, and thus the
great waste from " sifting " is avoided. A firm in
Syracuse, New York, are the patentees, and the new
casks are said to be entering into general use on the
other side the Atlantic.- —Globe.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-26

RHEUMATISM.

PI/HEUIVIATISM, Gut, Lnmbago, Pains
ki in the Hea.i. Sue. Bscir, joints, and Limbs
cured by DAY'' REIEuNIAnt.; PILLS. Price is lid,
pr box. Sold by Mr Pugh. Patent Medicine Vendor.
51, rove.ntry Street. Stonrbriii-te ; and all Chemists
Wholesale by all the London Houses.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-26

NAA VI A N.

PRINCIPAL VOCALISTS—
MDLE. JOSE SHERRINGTON,
Soprano (Of London Con(erts.)
MADAME POOLE.
Contralto. (Of Crystal Palace Concerts).
MR. HARPER KEARTON,
Tenor, (Of Westminster Abbe'.).
UR. F
Baas. (Of st. Jau.i,..'s Haft (oncert...).

BAND AND C liCritti S,

UPWARDS OF 100 PERFORMERS.

CONDUCTOR,

MR. S. SIMMS.

Doors open at 7 pan. To Ccran2ence at 7-30.
Reserved Seats, 45., each ; Secund eats , 2e. ;

Back Seats, la.

The Plan of the Room may be seen at Lir. Broomhall's,
and Seat. secured. Tickets may be obtained of the
Secretaiy, or any Member of L,e Committee. Carriages
ordered for 10-15.

SKATING RINK,

STOURBRIDGE

OPEN DAILY.

MORNING: 11 a.m., till 1 p.m.
AFTERNOWs.I : 2-30, p.m., till 5 p.m.
EVENING : 7 „ 1U „

Will be in attendance Every Evening, and on

Saturday itte-rnouna.

ADMISSION, SIXPENCE.
PLIMPTON'S SKATES, SIXPENCE.

Select day, Wednesday, when the charge for
Admission is One Shilling.

SEASON TICKETS, admitting at all times, when
the Rink is open for skating, are now ready, and
may be had on application at the
.Newspaper Offices,
of Mr. Broonfhall, Stationer, High Street; or of
the Manager, at the Rink.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-26

The Bill introduced by Mr. Macdonald to render
employers liable for injuries stands for second reading on
the 10th of April.

Small-pox is again making rapid progress in London.
The deaths from this disease, which had been 26 and 35 in
the two preceding weeks, further rose to 51 last week, a
higher number than in any week since the middle of Jute
last ; 30 occurred in the Metropolitan Asylum Hospitals,
and 21 in private dwelling-houses. Of the 61 fatal cases 25
were certified as unvaccinated, and 14 as vaccinated, while
In the remaining 12 cases the medical certificates gave no
nformation.
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-26

A HUNGARIAN JOURNALIST.

The Austrian Buchdriicker Zeitung, which is an
organ of the printing trade, contains some agree-
able reminiscences of the late popular Hungarian
journalist and humourist, Moritz Gotheb Saphir.
He was a Jew by birth, and was intended by his
parents to become a merchant, but being himself
violently averse to business, they sent him to the
great Jewish college at Prague, in order to study
the Talmud. Here modern German literature exer-
cised a more fascinating influence upon him than the
ancient Hebre Ar, and he not only began to write
poems and criticisms in the theatrical journals, but
passed over to the Christian faith. After his expul-
sion from Vienna he W9S in demand in the German
capital as a writer for serials of the Punch
character, and he successively edited four or five such
journals in Berlin and Munich. It was his great
boast that he was the very worst caligrapher in the
civilised world. His biographer prints an amusing
letter from Saphir to a lady, which begins as follows:
—" If you find that you are not able to read this
letter, kindly keep it until I come, and I will bring my
coropositor, J. Postolka, from Grund's printing-office,
with me. He is the only man on earth who can read my
writing. I cannot read it myself. Saphir used to say that
he and Postolka were born for one another; and that
in the course of years they had so grown together, not
out of elective affinities, but out of sheer necessity,
that if eitherof them died the other must starve. Where-
ever he settled he persuaded Postolka to follow him.
" He and I," he used to say, 'travel four footed, like
Katzenberger's hare. I cannot live without him, for
no one else can read my manuscript, and the good man
cannot live without me, for his apprehension of words
and letters have grown so twisted by confining himself
to my writings that he cannot 'set up' any other."
The aged compositor has, however, outlived his friend
and employer, and is at the present moment acting as
the director of a Vienna printing office.—Globe.

From April Ist to the 19th instant • the Exchequer
receipts amounted to £58,374,588, as compared with
£58,468,669 in the corresponding period of the previous
twelve months. The expenditure has been £64,367,975.
A clock, modelled on the famous timepiece in
Strassburg Cathedral, is now being exhibited in Washington.
The maker, when an apprentice at Btrassburg, in 1847,
secretly copied the cathedral clock, and set it up in a de-
serted house. A malicious rival discovered his secret, and
the apprentice was banished from the country, but he re-
turned in disguise and carried off his treasure to London.
He did not, however, dare to exhibit the clock, and even-
tually died mad, his wife and son subsequently selling the
clock to its present owner.—Oraphic.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-26

THE TELEPHONE AT THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The Daily News of Wednesday gives the following :
Last evening communication was established between
the House of Commons and the office of the Daily
News in Bouverie-street by means of the telephone,
which is specially attached to the ordinary telegraphic
wires running between the Houses of Parliament and
the Daily News office. Conversation was distinctly
audible despite the noise from the other wires, and
part of the Parliamentary debate and summary in
this morning's paper was received by this novel and
interesting agency.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-26

THE INDIAN FAMINE.

On Monday the Lord Mayor of London received a
draught for £l,OOO from the Mayor of Hobart Town,
being the second contribution from that city in aid of
the Indian Famine Fund. A communication was
also received from the Mayor of Brisbane, stating
that £1,500 had been collected there and sent to
Madras, and adding that the long drought under which
a large portion of the colony had been suffering had
greatly militated against the success of the appeal. A
letter giving particulars of the collection of £4,000
at Dunedin likewise came, as well as a despatch from
the Mayor of Christchurch, New Zealand, stating that
£5.000 had been collected there among a population
of 72,000, and remitted to India. On Saturday Lord
Derby forwarded to the Lord Mayor a draught for
38 9s. 6d.' collected among British subjects in the
province of Coquimbo, and a sum of £l5 16s. 2d., the
balance of Masonic contributions at Hongkong has
also been received. The fund now amounts to
2501,000.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-26

CLENT.

Mr. J. S. Gibbons's harriers met by invitation of Mr.
R ,berts, at the Field House. Clent, on Wednesday
morning last. The dogs were in splendid condition and
hares being plentiful a very good day's sport resultel
Mr. Roberts, with his usual iiberality provided a
sumptuous luncheon to which ample justice was done by
those present.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-26

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pOSTING ESTABLISHMENT,
MITRE HOTEL, HIGH STREET

sroURBRIDGE.

ARTHUR T. BROOKS,

(Son of the lute Mr. B. Brooks, of the Talbot Hotel),

Begs respectfully to inform the Nobility, Gentry, and
Inhabitants of 6tuurbridge and Neighbourhood, that he

h a;taken the

YARD AND STABLES AT THE ABOVE HOTEL;

And hopes, that by strict attention to all Orders that
he may be favoured with, to receive a fair share of
public patronage.

N.B.—Orders may be left at the Cab Office, in the
Yard; Or at the Bar of the Hotel.

MRS.

ITUNSTON,

(LASKEY AND HIINSTON.)
HONITON POINT LACE MANUFACTURER,
122, EIGH-ST., STOURBILIDGE.

FRENCH WOVE CORSETS,
White and Scarlet

THE ABDOMINAL CORSET.

RIDING AND NURSING CORSETS.

IgFA.NTS' AND CHILDRENS' STAY BANDS

EIDERDOWN CORSETS.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-26

'WOE THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE."--
.1; lee Deuteronomy, chap.ju., verse 23.
•
CLARKE'S I

WORLD FAMED

BLOOD MIXTURE

Trade Mark,—" Blood Mixture."
THE CREAT BLOOD PURIFIER & RESTORER

sKIN DISEASES, Eruptions, Blotches,
Ulcerated Sore Legs, Old Sores, Glandular
Swellings, Cancerous Ulcers, Spots, Pimples,
Pustules, Boils, Carbuncles, Ringworms, Scald
Heads, Sore Eyes, Erysipelas, Itch, Scarfs,
Discolorations of the Skin, Humours and
Diseases of the Skin of whatever name or
nature, are literally carried out of the system
in a abort time by the use of this world-famed
Medicine.
THOUSANDS OF TESTIMONIALS FROM ALL PARTS.
. IMPORTANT ADVICE TO ALL.—Cleanse
the vitiated blood whenever you find its im-
purities bursting through the skin in pimples,
eruptions, or sores ; cleanse it when you find
it obstructed and sluggish in the veins ; cleanse
t when it is foul, and your feelings will tell
you when. Keep the blood pure, and the
health of the system will follow.
As this mixture is pleasant to the taste, and
warranted free from anything injurious to the
most delicate constitution of either sex, the
Proprietors solicits sufferers to give it a trial
to test its value.
CLARKE'S WORLD-FAMED BLOOD
MIXTURE is Sold in Bottles 25 6d each, and in
Cases, containing six times the quantity, lie each—
sufficient to effect a permanent cure in the great
majority of long-standing cases, by all Chemists and
Patent Medicine Vendors thrvughout the United King.
dm and the world, or sent to any address on receipt
of 30 or 132 stamps, by the Proprietor,
F. J. CLARKE,CHExasT, Apothecaries' Hali,Lincoln.
Agent for Stonrbridge : Mr. J. H. Bland, High-street.
Wholesale: All Patent Medicine Houses.
LONDON DFPOT : 350 OXFORD STREET

CURE FOR ALL!
HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT.

The Universal Remedy for Bad Legs
Bad Breasts, Old Wounds, and
Ulcerations of all kinds.

There is no Medicinal preparation which may be so
thoroughly relied upon in the treatment of the above ail-
ments as Holloway's Ointment. Rubbed upon the surface
of the body. over, or near the ;, ifected parts, it disappears
under the friction of the hand, penetrating at once to the
source of the evil, and thus performs its healing errand,
rapidly, safely. and without pain. In all long staxtding
cases, Holloway's Piils should also be taken as they purify
the Blood and expel all dei,raved humours from the sys.em.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-26

CRADLEY HEATH,

ri OSTLING'S CONDITION BALLS (or
T Powders). Six alls, 2s. 6d. Six Powders 2i.
91. Post Free. Testimonials from celebrated Trainers,
Farmers, Sze.
GOSTLING and SON, Dias, Norfolk, and all
Druggists.

T. J. fiicKs,

BUILDER, CARPENTER AND COFFIN

MAKER,
DEALER IN CEMENTS, PLASTER. COW-11AIR,

LATHS, NAILS, AND ALL KINDS OF

BUILDING MATERIALS.

PAINTING, PAPER EIANGING, WHITEWASHING,
COLOURING, AND GLAZING DONE ON
THE SHORTEST NOTICE.

ADDRESS-
PARK STREET, STOURBRIDGE.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-26

POTATOES.

The supplies were generally rather short, and with swill
steady trade. Prices were fairly well supported
regents, 180 s. to 200 s ; Essex ditto, 140 s. to 180 s. ; rocks,
lOos. to 1355. ; champions, 130 s. to 1455.; flukes, 180 s. to 2105.;
Victerias, 150 s. to 190 s. per ton.

GAME AND POULTRY.
Ducks, 2s. 3d. to 4s. ; • ducklings, 3s. Bd. to Gs.; geese,
ss. Gd. to Ss. 9d. ; goslings, 55. to Os. ; tame rabbits,
is. Pd. to 35.; wild ditto, 10d. to is. 3d.; pigeons,
is. 3d. to Is. 9d. ; wood ditto, is. to is. 3d. ; prairie
grouse, Is. Gd. to is. 10d. ; ptarmigan, Is. 3d. to
is. 9d. ; capercailzie, 58. to 75.; pheasants, 4s. to 58. 3d.;
hares, 48. 60. to Cs ; white ditto, 2s. 3d. to 38. each; hen
eggs, 12s. Od. to 14s. Gd. and 20s. per 120; venison, Gd. to la.
per lb. ; larks, is. Gd. to 2s. per dozen.
FISH.
Native oysters, Its. to 218.; Dutch ditto, 128. to 13s. 6d. ;
American ditto, es. to 10s. ; Ostend ditto, lls. to 12s. 6d.;
Spanish ditto, 48. to 4s. Gd. pearl ditto, 12s, 6d. to 14s: ;
ditto•
common ditto, ss. to 10s. ; fresh herrings, is. Gd. to 4s. 6d. •
red ditto, 3s. to 4s. ; roused ditto, 4s. to Gs. ; kipper ditto,
10s. to 12s. ; bloater ditto, Is. to us. 6d. per hundred; trawl
haddoek, 12s. Cd. to 205.; ditto plaice, 15s. to 20s.
whiting, 18s. ,6d. to 225. ; smoked haddock, 12s. to 235.;
roused ditto, 20s. to 28s. per basket.
SEED.
Nionday. .T,..'.

LoNDoN, Monday, January 21.—There was a very limited
quantity of English Cloverseed offering, and the quality not
fine enough to bring forward buyers, so that prices cannot
yet be fixed. The best French was held for more money, and
sales effected of the finest in higher rates. Not much pass-
ing in American for want of supply. Trefoil met a slow
sale, but hue qualities were not offered lower. Canaryseed
sold rather more freely at the full prices of last week.
ilempseed was steady in value and demand. White and
brown Mustardseeds were in short supply, and without any
change in the value of either sort. Foreign Tares were in
good request at rather more money.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-26

KIDDERMINSTER

VACANCIES FOR BOARDERS.

Terms Moderate.—Apply W. MATTHEWS, trincipal
Late Head Master of tudley Grammar School. &c.,
&e.

Papils admitted at any time.

SALE OF SWISS WOOD GOODS AT
ARCHER CLABEL'S, SlolilibhlDGE

BA.RNBY and Co, 5, Arcade, Birmingham, notify that
their Goods wil I be on Sale, at their Agent's, Mr.
Aicher Clarke, 71, High Street, Stourbridge,
Barbby and Co. especially call attention that the
prices charged will be the same as at Birmingham.

Archer Clarke respectfully calla the atlention of the
public that on all his Goods in the shops couriderable
reduction is made for cash,

Framing °ram, quickly caveuted on Pictures,
Oleogrepl,s, Chrome, 6cr.p and Cut out. Lelia:a. 2u
in the is allowed off for casb.
CARTES-DE-VISITE TAKEN DAILY from 9
o'clock. 54. and is. ed. per dozen. Fifteen copies being
given to the dozen for cash.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-26

THE VICTORIA CROSS.
(From the London Gazette.)

The Queen has been graciously pleased to signify her
intention to confer the decoration of the Victoria Cross
on the undermentioned officer, whose claim to the same
has been submitted*for Her Majesty's aproval, for his
gellant conduct at Quetta, in the East Indies, as re-
corded against his name' viz. :—Captain Andrew
Scott, Bengal Staff Corps for his gallant conduct at
Quetta, on the 26th of July, 1877, while serving in the
4th Sikh infantry on the occasion of an attack by some
Pathan coolies on Lieutenants Hewson and Kunhardt,
of the Royal Engineers. On the evening of that day,
Captain Scott, while on duty at the regimental parade
ground of the 4th Sikh infantry at Quetta, hearing an
alarm that British officers were being killed, spontane-
ously rushed to the rescue, and, finding Lieut. Hewson
cut down, and Lieut. Kunhardt retiring, hard pressed
and wounded, and only protected by Sepoy Ruchpal
Singh, of the above neenttoned regiment, fell on the
assailants, and with his own hand bayoneted two men,
and closed with a third, who tell with him to the
ground, and was killed by Sepoys of the regiment.
This act of courage and devotion saved the life of
Lieutenant Kunhardt.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-26

ENVILLE.

The Albrightou Hounds met by invitation of Lord
Stamford on Monday lust. The first fox was found on
the Racecourse and after a good run he was unfor•
tunately " chopped " in Mr. D.,nald Cochrane' s garden
at Stourton. A. second fox was foudd at Coughton, anl
after a capital run was killed.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-26

THE VANITY OF DIPLOMATIC
WISHES.

The following is an extract from a leader in The Times of
Wednesday, on the marriage of the King of Spain with his
cousin, the Princess Mercedes, the daughter of the Duke de
Montpensier
. . " The event of to-day is interesting to the rest
of Europe for the very reason that it has so little poli-
tical importance outside the Peninsula. "Spanish
marriages" were once the occasions of diplomatic
battles which scandalized the Continent. It is
little more than thirty years since the Govern-
ments of England and France thought it a matter
of the highest political importance to secure
suitable husbands for the mothers of the young
King and the young Princess who are to be united
to-day. The policy of Spain, it was believed,
would depend upon the lineage of the Princes
who should marry Queen Isabella and her sister.
Orleanists and Coburgs, Neapolitan and Spanish
Bourbons, were all in the field. Louis Philippe put
forth amazing ingenuity to secure the Queen's hand
for one of his sons; and for the same end M. Guizot
wrote piles of despatches and conducted some far from
creditable intrigues. The French Embassy at Madrid
was the centre of a matrimonial conspiracy. The
Queen-Mother, the Ministers, the Deputies, and the
society of Madrid were divided into factitins by the all-
absorbing question of the day. The excitement could
scarcely have been greater, indeed, if the nation
had been on the brink of some great war. But
the most notable fact in the sad controversy
was that nobody seemed to think it necessary to ask
whom the young Queen herself would like to choose.
Such an inquiry never ruffled the highly religious
susceptibilities of M. Guizot. At last he gained his
melancholy triumph, and his public exultations over the
defeat of England were as loud as if France had won
some great battle. He seemed to think that his matri-
monial Waterloo would perpetuate the influence of
France over the Peninsula. But a few months
later his own King was an exile and he him-
self began a life-long banishment from power. Year
by year the history of the Spanish Court was the
bitterest of satires on his calculations, and now the
marriage of King Alfonso might afford a text for a ser-
mon on the vanity of diplomatic wishes. Although
the son of the ex-Queen is to be united to the grand-
daughter of Louis Phillipe, and although the inten-
tions of the French Court might thus seem to be
fulfilled, neither France nor England takes the
slightest political interest in the match, for the simple
reason that it is of no political importance beyond the
Peninsula itself," . . .
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-26

THE TELEPHONE.

At a meeting of the Physical Society on Saturday
Mr. W. H. Preece, of the Po3tal Telegraph Depart-
ment, read a paper on " Some Physical Points con-
nected with the Telephone." The invention is not
only of value as a new means of oral communication,
hut it gives us a new instrument of research of extreme
delicacy. For the examination of certain kinds of
electricity, it is the most sensitive yet invented, and
it has rendered evident currents which, though
suspected, have hitherto eluded the grasp of the
electrician. It is, indeed, the extreme delicacy which
originates the difficulties thatlie in the way of its practi-
cal application for communication. As a generator of a
species of current hitherto unknown, it is, too, a source
of electricity novel and unique. Mr. Preece gave an
explanation of the production of the currents, showing
it is strictly in accordance with phenomena studied
by Faraday, but without diagrams the explanation
would be lengthy. For several months the applica-
tion of the telephone to telegraphy has been studied
by the Post Office staff, but all attempts to increase its
power have hitherto failed. It is known that a horse-
shoe shaped magnet is the best; but all changes in
either this or a bar magnet, as to size or strength, have
no apparent effect on the speaking power. It has been
found there is a remarkable difference in the power
of different voices. Shouting is no use; a clear intona-
tion and distinct articulation are the qualities required.

Voices need to be trained for speaking through great
length of wire; and Mr. Preece mentioned that there is
one voice in the Post Office staff which he has heard
clearly when others have been quits inaudible. Con-
siderable attention his been given to methods for
overcoming the effects of induction currents, which
have been so often alluded to as interfering with the
trustworthy use of the telephone. Mr. Edison, in
America, has directed his attention to increasing the
intensity of the transmitted current, and Mr. Preece
has studied principally the theoretical considerations
which should guide the screening of a wire from in-
duced currents. For some time an insulated land
" cable " has been in progress under his direction
and he hopes soon to test its efficacy. A return
wire has also been found to neutralize the effect
of induction. Amoug the other troubles elec-
tricians have to contend with are " leakage "
arising from the difficulties of obtaining perfect insu-
lation, and "bad earths," or the imperfect connexions
for the currents which have to go to earth. So deli-
cate is the instrument, that a flash of lightning in the
neighbourhood of one end causes electri;al disturbances
which produce sound at the other end. So minute are
the amplitudes of the vibrations of the disc that all
attempts at measurement have so far failed. Mr.
Preece takes a hopeful view of the possibility of bring-
ing the telephone into general use.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-26

MR. ARCHIBALD FORBES AT
BRIGHTON.

A large audience assembled in the Dome of the Royal
Pavilion at Brighton on Saturday afternoon to hear a lecture
by Mr. Archibald Forbes on his experiences as War Corres-
pondent to the Daily News during the present conflict in
Eastern Europe.

Mr. Forbes, who wore a number of decorations be-
stowed on him, was introduced by Major-General
Shute, C. 8., M.P., who alluded to him as the best of
our war correspondents and the pratical historian of
three of the greatest wars of recent years. His service
in the army had doubtless been of much advan-
tage, but his extraordinary endurance, his untiring
energy, his great pluck, his vivid descriptive powers,
and his high literary attainments, had chiefly enabled
him to gain the high distinctions he now enjoyed.
Mr. Forbes, who was received with warm applause,
then proceeded to describe his personal experiences
from the period at which he proceeded to the scene
of the canipaign to the hour, when struck down by fever,
he dictated the finish of a telegram to the Daily News,
and then was forced to abandon his arduous labours.
In this comprehensive resume Mr. Forbes described in
a style which greatly amused the audience his prepara-
tions for the campaign, his servants, and the hetero-
geneous assemblage of articles stored in his baggage
waggon, his humorous allusion to the minutim of a war
correspondent's personal arrangements serving as an
effective contrast to his graphic and mpres.eive de-
scription of the stern horrors of " glorious war " attend-
ing the crossing of the Danube and the battles of
Plevna. His sympathetic reference to the privations
of the fugitive populations which he had witnessed
evoked warm applause, more particularly one passage,
in which, alluding to the sufferings of some women
and children of the better class, he observed that in
war men took their chance, and, if they fell, they fell,
so to speak, in the way of business, but the blow
sickened one when it involved women and children as
well.

The lecturer was listened to with marked attention
for upwards of an hour and a half, and on concluding
was accorded a hearty vote of thanks.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-26

QUEENSLAND EMIGRATION.

SAILING 6 EROM UREAT BRITAIN.
The next Ship "The Ironsides," for Brisbane, sails
from London en January 3ht.
Female Domestic Servants and Farm Labourers free
Apply to the .uocal Agent:
F. CLARKE, 23, Euvilie Street, StuurbriUge;
Or to the rtgent-tienerat for Qucenrland,32, L.,
Cross, London, S.W.

NOTICt OF REIMOVAL.
THE

LIVERPOOL & LONDON & GLOBE
INSURANCE COMPANY
II
AS REMOVED from the Premises in
Unity Buildings, Temple Street, TO
No. 40, Waterloo Street Birmingham

NI here the Business will be conducted in future.

Mr. CHARLES BATTEN is in temporary charge, and
will give prompt Etat:noon to all ord,rs and enquiries.
The Compauy is prepared to accept Fire and Lift
Insurances, and Proposals for Annuities and Endow
ments, on the most favourable terms to the Proposers.
Annual Income, 1876 . .Z 1,475,858
Fire. Reserve....
Invested Funds .... £5,494,034
J. M. DOVE,
Secretary to the Company:

Liverpool, July, 1877.
Agents for Stourbridge
MR. T. R. SOUTHALL, Old Bank,:Stourbridge
MR. J. HAMMOND, Wollaston Terrace.

TOWNSHEND HOUSE SCHOOL,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-26

PROVISION.

LONDON, Monday, January 21.—The arrivals last week
from Ireland were 46 firkins butter, and 3,630 bales bacon, and
from foreign ports 24,244 packages bdtter, and 946 bales
bacon. In the Butter Market there was little or no change
to notice during the past week— the sale continued very
slow. In the Bacon market there was a good business tran-
sacted, prices generally were unchanged, and the market
closed firm. Irish from about 618. to 718., and Hamburg
625. to 675. per cwt., according to quality, weights, Are.
Butter, per cwt. : s. s. Cheese, per cwt. : s. s.
Dorset
Friesland • 124 134 I Double Gloucester 56 70
Jersey
Fresh, per doz. .. 13 20 American
Bacon, per cwt : Hams: York 94 Ma
Wiltshire
Irish, green, f.o.b. 64 72 Irish , BO 104
TALLOW.
' s. d. I .
Des 12
Dregs
~s• d.
Town Tallow, per cwt. 40 6 I Rough Stuff, per cwt. 14 9
0
Fat, per epreBribcsw.t...29l
08i I
GiGoreoadv
6 0
,
Yellow Russian, new .... 395. 3d. per cwt.
Australian Mutton Tallow. 40s. 6d.
Meltedßough Fet tu
Ditto Beef Ditto. 395. Od, ~
HAY.
WHITECHAPEL, Saturday, January 19.—There was a large
supply of Hay and Straw on sale to-day. The trade was
very dull, and prices were unchanged as follows :- -Prime •
Clov_er 100 s. to /355. 'lnferior Sso. to 955. Prime Meadow
Hay 90s. to Ms., Inferior 708. to 85s , and'Straw 445, to 565.
per load.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-26

HALESONVEN, AND DISTRICT CHRONICLE.

THROAT APIPECTIONI AND HOARSZNIZEB.—AII oni•
tering from irritation of the throat and hoarseness
will be agreeably surprised at the almost immediate
relief afforded by the use of "Brown's Bronchial
Troches." These famous "lozenges" arc now sold
by most respectable chemists in this country at
Is lid per box. People troubled with a "backing
cough," a "slight cold," or bronchial affections, can.
not try them too soon, as similar troubles, if allowed to
progress, result in serious Pulmonary and Asthmatic
affections. See that the words "Brown's Bronchial
Troches" are on the Government Stamp around
each box.—Manufactured by JOIIN I. BROWN & Soria,
Boston, United MAUL DORA 4Qzfol-atrook
London,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-26

'TO HE NERVOUS AND DEBILITATED

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HOW TO ENSURE HEALTH.

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TREATMENT of all diseases depending on Exhaustion
I Nervous Vitality, such as Nervous Debility, Mental
and Physical Depression, Palpitation of the Heart,
Noises in the Head and Ears, Indecision, Impaired Sight
and 'ilemory, Indigestion' Prostration, Lassitude, De-
pression of Spirits, Loss of Energy and Appetite, Pain.
in the Back and Limbs, Timidity, Self-Distrust, Dizzi-
ness, Love of Solitude, Groundless Fears, and many
other ailments, which, if neglected ,bring the sufferers
to an early Death ' • together with Hints on Chroni
Rheumatism, Gout, Neuralgia, Epilepsy, Hysteria, and
all diseases of the Nervous and alimentary system.

The Appendix to this valuable work contains many
useful PRESCRIPTIONS for the alleviation of suffering
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Contains also some friendly advice on Hygiene, or th
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or by letter in all private and confidential cases
and for the benefit of Nervous Sufferers who cannot visit
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-26

HAGLE Y.

STOCK SALE.—This sale On the two first Mondays of
the year was vi-ity
.well suppli-A s Jill cattle of excieut
quality which realized fir rates. The supply of sh.-ep
hough choice in quality 'Nag not so full, arid high prices
were made. On Monday last, the uely of sh,:ep as:
but tho supply of beef more limited. boiti.werc of
qullity not to be surp issed, :and extierne'rates v. ere
,ealized, It is worthy of note that some wethers of Mr.
Pagett a 11. made 78/6 a bead. some Legs of 11r. I,a,e
Nash's mate over 60/• a head, and that a suckii.ie mei 10
months old, belonging to Mr. Swindell, of the Quirry,
made £23.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-26

THE COSSACK AND CIRCASSIAN
CHARACTER.

One of the literary contributors to the St. Petersburg
Gazette who has travelled in the Caucasus contrasts
the charaeter of the Cossack with that of the Cir-
cassian. Cossack and Circassian have some points in
common. Thus, each is passionately attached to his
place of birth. The Cossack, starting on an expedi-
tion, will frequently carry with him, in a little bag
which hehangs round his neck, some of his native earth,
and on returning home he will kiss the ground with
ardour. The Circassian is so much attached to his
birthplace that, after being exiled from the village, he
has been known to return at night, under very dangerous
circumstances, to have one more look at it. The
Circassian, unlike the Cossack, fights for glory rather
than for plunder. He has a certain taste for gold and
silver; but after a time he gets tired of it and hands
it over to his wife. His chief object in going to war is
personal distinction. He loves poetry almost as much
as fighting; and in former days warriors and bards
ranked together and fought together also. Thus the
bards frequently appeared in the front of the battle
when they recited their war-songs before attacking
the enemy. When the bard failed to he inspired or,
for no matter what reason, did not sing, it was
curtomary to conduct him to a wood and force him to
remain there until the spirit of song came to his aid.
The author of a really fine poem was ennobled and called
"Prince." The Circassians of the olden times respec-
ted their wives, and, though they were allowed
by law to beat them, were obliged to do so in mode-
ration, for if they broke the akin the wife had a right
to turn round and flog her husband. It is said that
the Circassian ladies seldom availed themselves of
this privilege, and that occasions but rarely occurred
on which it could have been claimed. The wife in
those days adorned herself sumptuously, while the
husband was content to wear mean apparel. Poly-
gamy was, of course, permitted among the (Areas-
sians ; but as each of several wives expected a sepa-
rate establishment, monogamy, for economical
reasons, was the rule.—Pall Mall Gazette.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-26

THE VOLUNTEERS IN THE EVENT
OF WAR.

If unhappily it should become needful to draw the
sword, the Volunteer Force will day by day increase
in numbers, and for the time all the smaller diffi-
culties which now sometimes embarrass commmanding
officers will cease to exist. We have not been engaged
in a continental war since the present volunteer orga-
nisation came into being. If it should happen that
once more these islands are denuded of regular troops,
and that the militia are embodied and serving, as they
probably would have onee more to serve, as nurseries
of recruits for the battalions on foreign service, the
country would, as we have before pointed out, have a
reserve which it had not in the Crimean War. Not
only could it count upon the volunteers, working so
hard at their drill, as to be fit in the estimation of the
severest martinet to serve in the field in case of actual
invasion; but it is quite certain that in such conjunc-
ture they would be willing, ready, and competent to do
probably by those detachment which were so absurdly
arranged in contemplation of the actual day of inva-
sion by the mobilization scheme, that which would
be eminently practical when men were wanted for
routine duties, in default of regular or militia troops.
The "middle classes" would once more join our
ranks, and the employers of labour would once
more look upon us with favour, and shower gifts
more or less appropriate upon the rehabilitated
but whilom despised volunteers. If on the other
hand, it should be found that Russia is not so self-
seeking as she is reputed to be, and that terms of
peace between her and Turkey are agreed upon which
do not affect our interests, then the volunteers will go
on as they have gone on for the last 18 years, keeping
up such an amount of efficiency as may make them
ready to be of service in such an emergency as the pre-
sent, but subordinating their military to their civil
duties, and being content, we suppose, to be looked
upon by the bulk of their fellow countrymen with
that indifference to which they have been so long ac-
customed.—Volunteer Service Gazette.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-26

[SELLING abF.

ONE Box of CLARKE'S B 41 Pills in
warranted to cure all discharges from the Urines
lrgaus, in either sex, acquired or constitutional, Grave
An d Pains in the Back.—Sold in boxes, 4s 6d each, by
all Chemists and Patent Medicine Vendors; or sent to
any address tor 60 Stamps by the Maker, F. J. CLARK'S
Consulting CheaAst, High-street, Lincoln.— LoJtsal
Agents, BARCL.t.'i& SoNs, Loudon, and all the nolesal
Houses.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-26

SUCCESSFUL PRISON LABOUR.

The problem of remunerative prison labour appears
to have been successfully solved at the Nassau
Prison, Bahamas, where the prisoners have lately
been employed in " grinding " sugar canes instead of
devoting their energies to grinding the air, as in
most of our own prisons, or in ginning cotton instead of
picking oakum. When Mr. Pope Hennessy was
Governor of the Bahamas, he instituted certain re-
forms in the management of the prison, which
were attended with very good results. He abolished
flogging, and also dispensed with the curious custom
of shaving the heads of the female prisoners, which
had been retained as a punishment for prison
offences, finding that these measures served rather
to harden than to reform the prisoners. The island
altogether contains a population of about 40,000
and the daily average number of convicti in the
prison is 70, for the cost of whose maintenance,
which amounts to a total of £2,000 a year, the new
system of profitable labour now partly provides. The
hardest work—that of grinding the sugar canes in
order to extract the juice is not continually or
universally enforced, and a total of about 120 tons
of cane only have been operated upon during the
past season beyond those supplied from that Govern-
ment grounds cultivated by the Agricultural Board.
A ton is the largest quantity crushed in a day, and
this will yield about 150 gallons of juice, from which
from 80 to 901bs. of sugar, and five gallons of molasses
are obtained. In the case of the Government-grown
canes this produce is clear profit. The prison authori-
ties also purchase sugar canes for their own use, and
crush canes for the public at a small charge. Cotton
ginning is performed at a charge of three-eighths of a
penny per lb. The latest reports state that the experi-
ment promises to be very satisfactory. There is, so far
at least, none of the outcry among the inhabitants
which has prevailed in this country against State com-
petition with free labour.—Globe.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-26

A FORGOTTEN HERO.

The Times of Wednesdaypublished the following :
Sir,—l trust that, even amid the pressure of im-
portant Parliamentary Debates and the crash of an
Empire, you will find space to insert these few lines
to thememory of a hero in the true sense of the term.
On the 7th of January there passed away in his
91st year Captain Charles Boyce of the Indian
Navy, who so long ago as the year 1815 performed
a deed of unsurpassed valour in upholding the
honour of his country's flag. On the 30th of June
in that year Lieutenant Boyce, then in command
of the Hon. Company's brig Nautilus, of 14 guns was
cruising in the Straits of Sunda, when the United
States corvette, Peacock, 22 guns, Captain Warrington
hove in sight. As Lieutenant Boyce had received
notice of Mr. Madison's proclamation of peace with
England, he made no attempt to shun his adversary,
laut sent a boat to inform Captain Warrington of the
conclusion of peace. That officer, however, replied by
hailing Lieutenant Boyce to haul his flag down as a
token of submission, or stand the alternative of being
sunk. But the gallant Boyce held the honour of his
country superior to any other consideration, and
although he knew that certain destruction awaited
him in a conflict with an enemy of such overwhelming
force, he deliberately preferred defeat to dishonour,
and the reply that came over the water was a
peremptory refusal. An action ensued and soma the
gallant young Captain of the Nautilus lay prostrate on
the deck with a grape shot measuring 2iin. in his hip,
and his right knee and thigh bone shattered by a 32.
pounder shot, while his First Lieutenant, Mr.
Mayston, lay by his side mortally wounded. Feeling
that his country's honour—dearer to Mtn than limbs
or life—was satisfied, and in order to save the
useless slaughter of his brave seamen, he gave the
order to the boatswain, the officer now in charge, to
strike his flag. It should be borne in mind that when
Lieutenant Boyce answered the insolent demand of the
United States' Commander by an equally haughty
refusal, his crew, owing to the loss on active service,
had been reduced to 40 officers and men, and of these
two officers and a boat's crew had been detained by
Captain Warrington, so that lie was pitting his hand-
ful of men against a crew of 220 seamen flushed with
their recent victory over Her Majesty's ship Epervier,
of 18 guns. The United States Government rec.)g-
nized the illegality of the act of the Com-
mander of the Peacock by conferring a pension on
Lieutenant Boyce, and it was only a few days ago that
the shattered frame of this brave seapaan was carried
to its last resting place at St. Calais, Sarthe, in France.
—Yours faithfully, C. R. Low, Lieut. I.N.
Chelsea, Jaw 21.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-26

MR. SPURGEON AND HIS CONGRE-
GATION.

The Rev. Mr, Spurgeon, whose health has been
very delicate for some time past, left in the course of
last week for France, where he intends to remain for
a few weeks in the hope of recruiting his health. At
the Metropolitan Tabernacle on Sunday morning the
services were conducted by the Rev. J. P. Chown, of
Bloomsbury. Special prayers were offered up by the
congregation for the speedy restoration to health of
their esteemed pastor, Mr. Spurgeon, and for the safe
return to them. Subsequently the Rev Mr. Chown
read the following letter addressed by the Rev. Mr.
Spurgeon to the members of his flock. The letter was
dated Paris, Friday :

"My beloved Friends,—As I have before told you, I
have suffered greatly frem weariness of the brain,
and this has caused me the loss of sleep, and brought
on my lameness. My memory seemed to fail me, and
my spirits sank. It was imperative on me to throw
up all and get away. I have done so, and already I
feel a mental improvement, and sleep has come back
to me, for which lam very grateful. I hope and trust
that in answer to your prayers I shall be recovered by
means of such a period of rest as I have usually taken.
I am very anxious that no Tabernacle work should
flag through my absence. I was sorry to hear that
the association meetings were FO thin. I pray you do
not let anything else suffer. Especially let our usual
services be well sustained, and the prayer meetings.
You hare never failed me in this matter, and I entreat
you do not go back from former attainments. I re-
member returning and finding 140 to receive into the
church, as the result of the labours of beloved
friends in my absence. Shall I see the like again? I
pray that I may. Rally round the deacons and
elders. I cannot too highly recommend them to you.
Seldom has a church had such a band of officers.
When my brother and Messrs. Clarke and Smith call
you to united action, do not, for our Lord's sake,
falter or fall back. I long to see a great revival again
in your midst while lam away. I feel that lam less
and less able to be to you what I have been, but Jesus
is the same, and His grace is still almighty. We shall
see greater things yet if we pray, labour and believe.
It were better for me to die than to live and see my
building fall to pieces because I did not personall
stand by; but the Lord will not suffer it to be so-
up then, and see to it each one, that nothing de--
clines in any way. My love in Jesus Christ, as
ever, with each one of you.—Your anxious pastor, C.
H. SPURGEON."

Ihe reading of the letter created a visibly sympa-
thetic feeling amongst the congregation for their
pastor. The morning's services concluded with an
appropriate sermon by the Rev. Mr. Chown from the
Epistle to the Romans, 6th chapter and 11th verse.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-26

OLD HILL.

COAL STsALcNG —M the Police Coart, On Wednesday,
before Messrs. F. D. L. 'Smith and W. Bassano, two
. iris named Priscilla Watkins and Sarsh .inn Moulton
were charged with stealing a quantity of coal, the pro-
perty of the Oalchain Colliery Company, on the 22nd
inst.—Police-constable Given said at 11 30 a.m. on the
22nd met, he was at the Oakham Colliery. He saw the
two def,ndants with a number of women on the bank
Defendants took a qaantity of coal from the top to the
bottom of the bank and as they were gring away he
went and met them. They had about a half cwt. each.
—Acting-eonstable Swift said there had been a great
quantity of coal from the Oakham Colliery and the pre-
sent proceedings were instituted in order to prevent
fur.her deliminents.—Defendauts pleaded guilty and as
they had been locked up since half-past eleven the pre-
ceding day they were fined Is; in default 12 hours' im-
prisorrnent.
STEALING A FOWL. —A miner named Thomas Malpass
was charged with stealing a live tame fowl, on the 18th
just, the property of William Darby, at Cox's Lane,
Old Hill.—Mr. W. Hayes, jun , defended.—Prosecutor
said he resided at Cox's Lane, Old Hill, and was a
farmer. On the 18qi inst, he missed one of his fowls
which he valued at 2s 61. The fowls were on a heap
'close to his house.—Johu Larlihall, miner, said he w4s
' on the pit bank near prosecutor's house on the day in
question when he saw defendant shoot at one of prosecn-
tor's fowls with a catapult and he knocked the bird over,
Witness then saw him go towards the fowl, pick it up,
place it in his bosom, and walk away.—Mr. Hayes said
prisoner had hitherto borne an irreproachable character
and if he was convicted on this charge it would blight his
prospects hereafter.—The Bench considered the case
fully proved and committed prisoner for 21 days with
hard labour.
STEALiNG'IRON.—A lad named William Edwards aged
15, was charged with stealing a piece of iron, valued 31.
the property of Messrs. N. Hingley and SOll9, at the Old
Hill Furnaces, on the 14th inst.—Mr. Charles Henry
Oakes, manager at the Furnaces, said prisoner worked
for the firm and on the above date he saw prisoner pick
up the piece of iron produced from near the blacksmiths'
shop. When witness accusod prisoner of stealing the
iron he denied it and dropp,Kl it at his feet.—Prisoner
was tined lOs ; in default 14 days.
A PALTRY Airiata.—Mathew Bowers, landlord of the
Royal Oak, Lomey Town, Cradley Heath, was charged
with assaulting Ellen Field, on the 15th inst.—Mr.
Addisou appeared tor oomplainaut, aad r. W, Hayes ,