The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-01-03 00:00:00

elt c%toarbrOge Obserber.

COMMISSIONER'S MEETING'
The monthly meeting of the Cw-rmissioners was
h It on Mon,' ay,M r. W.J. Turney in the chair. After
tlio reading of the minutes, Mr. H. Terney sta'Fd
. that the result:o the voting on the Post Office site
T qt.: !..,_,Tnrnonest fipirative representations 0 i
at the last meting was commun'cated to Mr. God-
tlr.! Olite year and the New are those of li lath(dDistriet
December
,3. or to the Post Office), and on the
grcy-haired pilgrim, moving off the stage 'of
(Godl.ey met him (the speaker).
time, with a burden on lars back, and of a 41,1 haedeaemconevrerlSSit'i in wi, h him on the subject. He
cradled child making an effort to extend its seemed very anxious indeed to convey the real
little limbs and open wide the lids of its in- f,eling of the town to the Departnent. The Post
dOeffieiceeioaoutohfotrhiteieswere not bound to act on the
Commissioners,
Godley ol.
nocent eyes. It is true that the genealogi-said,
fbeany other
cal relationship of descent subsists between body; but from what Mr.
nwast osfre sure
the thousands of years that form the cycles thiv when the Department put a p ermane
of successive centuries, but the distinction, in the town, they would like t.i my- one that wovic
bmee., with the approval of the majority of the in.
as revards the latest out-goer and in-corner, ebeexfitilaoinnehdtto Mr. Godley as well as
is tbo strongly marked by using the emblems hebeiotnanidt..
whatli ttra t feelingfir
,chne
was
new hoary age and tender childhood. The matter, ant Mr. Godley sta%t•aesd
new corner, being the "heir of all the ages," concerned the matter would pass out of. haiss hat.cias
does not pass throrgh any probationary when his report went in to the Postmaster- ';ereral..
As soon as s'irnethinq,- of a decisive character was
period of infancy, but enters at once upon heardMr Strinfromoesaid the
sldepitai,•Nt.nalenttit
.pwould be inide known
the vast procession, and begins at the same
robaabsklein thhatimthte
moment to make encroachments on the ohairmaniwoulcl have a reqouislimtio n
vaster future. The unbroken continuity of call a public meeting on the subject of gthe poset
office.—Mr. C. H. Collis gave notice that ha would
time—pausing not for an instant when the
n2letvheAthe rescinding of a resolution pass'ed on the
earth completes each diurnal motion, or
each annual circuit of the sun—finds are .Mr. Ilasu kuesw' relative(c 11. :iitn aton and
each
iinn
ce Foseter B.trßet,
etinmi",e?l
flectiOn in the stolid unconcern and appa-ent remarked t, at the half-yearly dividends he
been in the habit of payin: were now somewhat
lad
unchaigeableness of the material universe,
less than before the readjustment of the rates ot
Though morning and evening, light and
ionfttelrieesbt.ondl'isirw. N. Jones siid he thought the whole
darkness serve to mark the steps of our o e subject to the reduced
planets' daily rotation, and the seasons i -
ndi- ! rate of inteegter W.
t b
4 per cent, but he saw a sum of
cute the pro- i stages she has reached in her sS7- 1' - "
k a, and two smaller sums still stood at 41 per
Mr. Haskew said that happened to be money
gress round the centre of the solar system, ""
borrowed for abshort period. The Chairman said
yet !.s.oward nature makes no sign when efntoi difference between the rates of
one year ends and another begins, merely intereestutor any of the money. He should sugge:t
continuing to snow or blow as the case may ''
y that the attention of the Finance Committee be
be, and leaving it to 1 '
man himself to rine- called to the matter.—The Finance Committee re.
n that application be made to the Public
out the old and ring in the new. A similar Works Loan Commissioners for a loan not exceed-
continuity, marked by indifference to thedrainage of the town.
change from one year to another, character- iff e 48061.0 C Otioo,nfo:atshpeaseed internalv i
ff
sc tc too
ithmiist
treeoc o m -
ises the coarse of public events, and the in_ mendation.—The General Pnurgpeoscei
uences that are at work moulding the des-
ported that there had b en 32 births and 21 deathsfl
in the past month. The death-rate was 25.8,
tinies of nations. There is a dead past and angeanind,‘etd 2ttelßloaasrtd
tyear—The committee recorn-
a living past. and it is only what emanates 1
inannitrathteeoufsles of the Corn
from the latter that acts upon the present Exchane at the mineimg per night
tow to
and helps to shape the future. The dead all public institutions connected CA)
and that it be left to the General Purposes Corn.
past is made up of extinct religious beliefs,
inittee to decide each case on its own merits.—The
obsolete laws and institutions and pseudo
caosnitomtihtteeerehpaadiris necessary
the surveyor to report
science and false philosophy, discredited
arr
w to
ae adopted. b done
mto the
customs and observances, and the social cor- Market Place. The report
ruptions which brought about the downfall Williams, sanitary inspector, presented his twelfr.
th
annual report. which showed that the number of
of great empires. From the dead past no annual
and entered in the books during
more than from a dead root, can fructifying
during
had atclh e beenye
a6r. 75, and e there
number ha d been 640 removed
influences be looked for, but the historicl,lBs. There
houses and
records and relics of it that remain have buildings inspected had been 1
434 written notices served during the year
warning for statesmen and rulers who inor- been
and 241 verbal notices given. There had been to
dinately love power for its own sake, and -
infectious
inspected and fumigated on account of
who do not make it their chief endeavoursisielaasdesb;,
en 1 reconstructed or
houses and
to promote everything that is right and o u bai in g hat beet
just.) The living past is all of it that lives '
271 unsanitary houses and outbuildingsor
oidered to be lirrewashed and clea:ed, and at 8i
in the present, operating beneficially for the
hou.es the wells had been closed and wh-les inie
public weal through the medium of wise
idnlisukeicnt;dwianterie•ssueppltioed. The number of houses
laws wisely administered ;. established insti-
din°.
bap, respect to oftvbeirtcrdowdingl.Band_iin which
tntions, religions, political, and educational : eveprzrow total
number of loads of night-soil revinisoved. had bee
the works of eminent men in every depart.-
2,'216. Other statistics were g;ven in the r(( porbtee"
of literature, philosophy, science, and art ; .
,1.1 _ The Improvement Committee recommended that
- Messrs.
_Taylr and Fiddian on th.
_ . .o
.. _

and the manufacturing industries an com-
mercial enterprise, which are the growth of
centuries. ; The bell-toned lyric, inspired by
the pealing sound of the midnight -chimes,
in which Tennyson has specified some of the
old things that require to be rung out. and
-acme of tie new things that require to be
rang in,:impressively indicates the possibili-
ties of improvement and advancement,
diminished misery and increased happiness,
that are opened up at the beginning of each
new year. These possibilities have a hope-
fulness about them which irradiates the
future, since their realisation is rendered
more likely by the spread of education, and
the consequent better development of the
intellectual faculties and the refinement of
the moral sense that may be expected to
ensue. In his lyric the Laureate has thus
sung—
"Rirg out false pride in plaea and blood, -
The civic sander at the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good
Ringont old sh,p,s yX foul disease,
Ring out the rarrowitg lust of go'd ;
Ring out tip. thousand WATS of old.
It hg in the thousand years of peace."
The poet would hardly have ventured to pen
the above lines unless he had taken a hope-
ful view of human progress, and of the
capabililty of nations being raised to higher
levels in the future than they have yet at-
tained in the past. The saying that "his-
tory repeats itself" would make a dreary
enough outlook if it were susceptible of an.;,--
thing more than a restricted application.
Like causes produce like effects in every age,,
and all over the world. Unjust legislation,
engenders seditious disloyalty in Monarchi, s
and dangerous discontent in Republics.
Wrongful policies,entered upon and per-
sisted in by Governments in a perverse spirit
have the inevitable -effect of bringing about
there downfall sooner or latter, and better
soon than late. But the recurrence of such
things is not absolutely unavoidable, and
the enlightened wisdom of statesmen, who
take the lead in Public affairs, may be (x-
-pected to keep pace in its higher sphere,
with the increase of intelligence, stimulat )d
and fostered by the wider diffusion of the
. blessings of education. At the stage whieh
our country has reached, when political
changes, revolutionexy in their magnitude
can be carried out without violence and blood
shed, the outlook is cheering and. hopeful
and. gives encouragement to cherish the idea
that the paxes of history, at least as regards
the nations which are in the vanguard of
civilisation, may continne to brighten as the
world grows older year by year.

the repOrt of _est_
internal drainage of Stourbridge be adopted, and
that Messrs. Ferry and Fiddian be instructed to
prepare the necessary plans and specifications to
submit to the Local Government Board. Plans of
the proposed West Stourbridge Railway and of the
proposed tramway through Stourbridge had bee
laid before the committee. They recommended the
Board to postpone action as to the railway scheme
for a month, and they advised the Board to oppo:-.0
the tramway through the High Street in its preset, t
form. Mr. H. Turney remarked that although the
Commissioners were first to start the main draieage
works, they were the last to take up the questio.l
of the internal draiwsge. The main drainage
works were now nearly complete, but so far as they
were concerned as an urban body, the main st wers
would be no use to them for twelve months. They
might to have taken up the matter of the bran h
draicot at such a time that they would have b •i-n
completed simultaneously with the main drainage
works. Tne report was adopted.—There was 3
long discussion on the tramway question, en iing
ii
a resolution being pased to oppose the tram', ays
provisional order. Aithclugh t, e meeting thou.j.t
it necessary to take powers to oppose the tramway,
several members of the Board expressed themselve-s
as favourable to the tramway if the plans were
modified.

OPENING OF THE TELEPHONE TO BRIGHTON.—
Telephonic communication with Brighton wes
rorrectly established on Saturday last by -t:e
iited Telephone Company. Tae first meesa4e,
cent through, 1-nd which will probably bet:wile
t i3torical, was "May she Telephone become es
universal as Pears' Soap." This was as dist:ee ly
heard as it would have been across a dinner
Messrs. \V. H. & H. Le May, Seed Factors, GS,
&rough High Street, London, recoft :—'l here is
no change in the pesition of the seed trade. Values
f,.r clover seed tends downwards, exceptt for t!ee
finest quality. There is very little I:e.sinete patting
in any articlee—D. camber 31st, 1884 e
IST VOLUNTEER BATTATLIoN S.)UTII STAFFOrtD-
t HIRE RbIGIMENT, D COMPANY, Major
ewiehatn having resigne,d his commission, ewt.
to his increased. Parliamentary duivs, has b. t n
suceeeded by Captain Webb, who formelly
over the command of the company to Captain Celli,
from this date.
tsesau OF GUARDIANS.—Mr. 11. Billingham pi e.
sieed at th meetine ef this Board yes,erday.—.l. !-
witted 15, diecharged 9, dead 3, rernainieg sst.
against Kingswinford £l2 IS., 6d,
Stourbridge ISe 91, Halesoe'ea £2l 15, 6!,
Non.iesidents El 19s 8(1, total £95 12s 5.1 aga
ia
£9B is 11d.—The Clerk reported the receipt of a.
circular letter from the Gaarantee Society stating
that in accord nice with the agreement they weirsd
be prepared to pay the amount of claim £474 Us 3.1
on receipt of Mr. Gittings defalcations, err Tiei-s.
day, the Bth inet. on presentation of the agreement
to Mr. E. T. Whitehouse, the society's agent, Dud.
ley. Two other letters have been receieed asklug
the mount to be reduced.
DRUNKENNEt the Police Court yesterday,
before Col. Fletcher, and Messrs. T. D. Thomas and
Is, 0, Firmstone, Sylvanus Billingham was charged
with being drunk on the z9th ult. P.C. Pitt pioved
the case. Fined 2s 6d and ( °eta—Joseph Parkes
wag cearged with being drunk at the Lye on the
27th ult.—P.C, Brazener proved the caee and de-
fendant was fined 2s 63 and costs.—Henry Walt,rs
was charged with being drunk on the 21st ult, at
Pedmore. P.C. Croucher said defendant was drunk
and lying in a ditch. Fined 5s and costs.—Edward
Allen was charged with being drunk on the 21st
ult, at the Lye. P.C. Jones proved the case an
defendant was fined 2s 6d and costa—George
Morris was fined 2s 6d and costs for being drunk
on the 20'h ult. P.C. Cartwright proved the case.
—Edward Staples was fined 2s 6d and costs for
being drunk and incapable on the 26th ult. P.S.
Chare found defendant helpless drunk and he had
to get some men to help to take him home.—John
Mills was charged with being druua on the 26th
ult. P.C. Webb proved the ease. Defendant was
further charged veith being drunk on the 27th ult.
P.O Powell proved the case. For the first offence
defendant was fined 5s and costs, and for the second
2s 6d and eosts.—John Marsou was charged with
being drank at Blakedown on the 26th ult. P,C.
Holloway proyed the case. and defendant was fined
28 6d and costa—Thomas Brazier was charged with
being drunk and disorderly on the 2511 ult. P.S.
Chare proved the case. Fined 9s including costs.
—Thomas Taylor was charged with being drunk
on the 23rd ult. P.C. Davis proved the case, and
defendant was fined 2s Gd and costs.—Williara Rai-
ford was charged with being drunk and disorderly
on the 21st ult, at Upperswinford. Fined 5s and
costs —Jacob Hill was charged with being drunk
whilst in charge of a horse end cart, on the 29th
nit.P.C. IPitt proved the case, and defendant,
who has been previously convicted, was fined 5s
and costs.
OBSCENE LANGUAGE. Bridget Loffns was
charged with using obscene language on the 2nd
December, 1883. P.C. Day proved the case. There
was a further charge for being drunk on the 27th
ult. P.C. Webb proved the case. Elght. previous
convictions were proved against th'Er elefeuj
Fined 108 and costs,
OPEN DURING PROHIBITED Homes. Thomas
Homer was charged with having his house open
during prohibited hours, on the 21st ult.—Sergeant
Cope said he wag watching defendant's house at 25
minutes past eleven. He saw a woman go into the
house and saw her come out. lie stopped her and
found a tin can containing about a pint of ale under
her shawl. The ale appeared to be fresh drawn.
He took her into the house and saw the landlady,
who said the woman paid for it the night before
but did not come to fetch it.—Defendant said he was
not at home when the affair boccurred.—Dotead:nt,
who has been previously !convicted for a similar
offence, was tined 203 and costs, and hts licen•e Ives
endorsed.
CAUTION Matilda Perry was fined 2s 6d and
sow fa Wog co limers. premise. duzipg

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