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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-07-13

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Special Treatment adopted and used
144, with snob great success by Dr. Hunter for the
Chl,,t,hirty years, can only be obtained at 44. Great
tlr4" Street, Birmingham. Book of Testimonials,
arbc,dviou how to regain Health and Manly Vigour,
"lreetions for Self Treatment, free to any address

I,44l4kuccay>. riaB.—lndigestion.—How much thought
Le,„"ecti bestowed, and what ponderous volumes have
-;;;,,irritten upon this plague of every household, which
certainty and safety dispelled without fear of
by a course of this purifying, soothing and tonic
c06w.,71141e . It acts directly on the stomach, liver, and
the —ks—lnore indirectly, though not less effectively on
tOeCrain, nerves, vessels, and glands, and commands
Order throughout the entire system that harmony
te between each organ and its functions. lly6pepsia
Nunti.° ,lcriger be the bugbear of the public. since
eilre,747 e Pills are fully competent to subdue the most
to t,„-123 arid distressing cases of impaired digestion, and
40 is:,_44ore the miserable sufferer to health, strength, and
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-07-13

• THE STOURBRIDGE OBSERVER.

E'aid. he missed the jacket on the evening of the
and next saw the jacket at Rider's pawn-
broker. shop. Defendant was hisbrother. Elizebeth
Male said she went on an errand, and when she
returned found he coat rnis ing. Left the prisoner
in the house when she went out, and on returning
found he had gone. Gertrude Rider, daughter of
a pawnbroker, said she advanced is upon the
jacket produced. Police-constable Smith proved
appreUending prisoner. Pleaded guilty. Sen-
tenced to one month's imprisonment.
WORCESTERSHIRE UNION OF WORKMEN'S CLUBS
AND INSTITUTES.—We understand that it is pro-
posed to arrange an excursion of the members of
the Clubs and Institutes in union, to Oxford on
Saturday, July 27th, if a sufficient number of
members and friends can be secured. The Great
Western Railway Company has offered very
reasonable terms for the double journey, and the
fares will be equalized over the whole distance.
The train will kNit' Du hey about 7 a.m., and
will call at Steurblidge, Kidderminster, Hartle-
bury, Droitwich, Worcester, Pershore, Fladbury,
and Eve,ham. On arriving at Oxford, the party
will be conducted through the Colleges, picture
galleries, libraries, and grounds, and will
asst mble at one o'clock to dine together. After
dinner the visits to places of interest will be re-
sumed, and tea will be provided for the whole
party previous t,) their return for an evening train.
The price for the tickets for the excursion,
including dinner and tea, will be Os 6d each.
Applications for tickets must be made to Mr.
Herbert New of Eveoham at once. Unless
SOO tickets are taken, the project must be given
up.

-Mr. J. M. Woodwi.rd, who served his articles
with Messrs. Rogers and Jorlon, Solicitors, of this
town, has successfully passed the final examina-
tion of the Incorporated Law Society, held on the
18th and 19th ulto, qualifying him to be admitted
SolLitor of Supreme Court of Julicature.

to the jury both on the counts under the Debtors
Act and also for false pretences.
For the defence, Mr. Jelf contended that how-
ever foolish prisoner had been in not telling the
truth, he had not brought himself within the
criminal law.

His Lordship carefully summed up, but the only
question put to the jury was, whether prisoner
had committed an offence under the Bankruptcy
Act, the judge deciding to withdraw the counts
under the statutory offence of obtaining money by
false pretences.
The jury, after some consideration, found the
prisoner guilty, with a recommendation to mercy,
and was sentenced to six months' imprison-
ment without hard labour.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-07-13

FRIEND OF ALL!
HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.

World Known—World Tried ! !

For streagtheaing a debilitated coastitanion, these Pills
are more effiescious thaa aay other medicine. Persons of
a nervous habit of body, and all who are suffering from
weak digestive organs, or whose health luta become
deranged from wheeever manse, should lose ao time ía
giviag tame Pills a fair trial; their Mem is immediate,
heaedeial, and imatag, rectories: order, health, and vigor
a aviary case.
For Disorders of the Liver, Stomach,

Kidneys, and Bowel-s.
These Purifying Pills are Confideatly recommeadod RS th•
most siraple and eartain remedy for Indigestion, Flatulaney,
Acidity, Constipation, and ell Disorders resulting from
4 it' ordered stomach or Bowels. They act as purifiers,
ratives, and strengtheners of the stomach. Though
erfully tonic and eatisfaetorily aparient, they are mild
a their operation and beneesal to the whoi• system.

Weakness and Debility—Nervous Irrita-
bility and Lew Spirits.
Pk* wholesome greet exercised by these admirable Pills
over the Blood and Fluids generally, is like a charm in
dispelling low spirits and restoring cheerfubwas. Their
general aperient qualities well It then for a donasstlie
medicine, partioularly for females of all ages and periods of
life. They quickly ejeet all impurities front the syetem,
wad regulate every function of the. body, giving wonderful
tens and energy to weak and debilitated eonstitutions.

Old Coughs, Colds and Asthmatic
Affections.

These pills, twisted ix their lotion by rubbing Holloway's
Ointemat very adoctraally twice • dog ea law Throaesdid
Cleat, and keeping those parte covered with the
preparation, will b• found the most effeetive remedy for
Amiss,. Coughs, Cottle, Brormhilts, sad Influence. Tney
lwanquilliso the hurried breathing, soothe the irritated
airetubes, and assisted in dislodging the phlegm which
'tort up the air passages. This treatment has proved won-
awfully efficient, in not only curing old settle. soughs and
evlde, but even within of many years standing.
Complaints of Women and Children
Any mother, nurse, Sr young person guided by the dine
lions which accompany each box of Holloway's Pills, has
at on available DIM US for Checking disease. purifying the
blood, and expelling from the system all gross humours

Thela aid Ointment ars sold at Professor HOLLOWLY'S
Esbabtienresitt, e, Oxford Street, London; also by nearly
every reassemble Vendor of Medicine throughout the
Civilized World, ix Boxes and Pots, et Is. ltd., es. N.,
4m. ed., iii., Was. tad elte. each.
Full printed direetioss are affixed to **eh Box and Pot,
and can be had in any laltgaage.

N.B.—Advice on be obtained, free of charge
ley applying at the above address, daily, between
the hours of 11 and 4, or by letter
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-07-13

ElitE 014 lUti.

R. GEORGE PERRY, Solicitor, Agent
LV for Stoorbridge, begs to remind the ptblie that
ti PriCE:siX we. /or man years the onl lir ()flea
that kept a lIRE ENGINh in the town, and to inform
them that it still keeps one there.
For the keys of the Engine house, apply at the Talbot
Hotel; or to Thos. Robinson, Latter Clatter,
nille-
streetS the engineer; and for Terms of Insuranse, apply
o tne Agent.

TRADEBMENS ADDRESSES.

HICKS,
4 4-1 •

BUILDER, CARPENTER AND COFFIN
MAKER,

DEALER IN CEMENTS, PLASTER. COW•HLIE,

LATHS, NAILS, AND ALL KINDS OF

BUILDING ILATEBIALB.

PAINTING, PAPER HANGING, WHiTEWASHINEI,
COLOURING, AND GLAZING DONE ON
THE BHORTEST NOTICE.

ADDRESS-
PARK STREET, STOURBRIDGE.

JOBli pARKER,

lIILL STREET, 8r017103.141)011.

PAIN £M FAPJ aANGE Oh TEA

TRADE.

N.B.—Parties finiling their own paper ean have them

hang at trade pries.

MRS.

HU,N6 TON,

(LASIBY lAN) IluncanN),
MONITON POINT LA.CX IisIZUFACTUE.ZII,
122, 11IGH-ST., 82'0U iiRAIDCIE.

LADIES AM) ClilLDlttli'S UNIJILUCLOTFIINO

AND
BABY LINEN WA VXI3OIi4E.

MFEINO ANDLFKL:
LLtNb
lols,iiczoit,iy:
ALA.& AND 1.% .
lUthAN

A Gs. I
PULLAR AND SONS:

IIYbAtS TO TELE QUIF.:EN.
P E I?, T II

TA.—Chi.- e,f, a', very reason:Lb,
prices are always to be ilu f ,forniman's Agt,Lts,
chemist iu every lowa, Belpg itiect ItuporterA, Moors.
Horuiroan gaarsutet; the: eat,' \ • ."'"! fl"," ' r
all their teas. 'there
fresh supplies from the Whole...Le occurs.,
toll packets, whtreby the deltcste ilav,:ur and vro?, is
preserved. Agents; Stourtiriugc,—(_lm.l:-. 151,
Baker, 124, Bigh-st.; Hewic, NArt oc,
High-st., Brierley Hill—ltsa,u,s,eJi.
, &ter, Hewitt, Bull Ring ;

Lye, OlieSi clieunst, ‘l. o-tUeley. She it
swinford, Pearson, firettelnane, iwche.valt4.-
mingbam, Banks, Bull Ling

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TIMOILT ArIrECTIONS AND HOATSZENEBIL --AU is
tering from irritation cf. tho ttr zid tit:tree:lora
will be agreeably surprised at tho aUtort
relief aforded by the use of " Brown's
Troches." These famous " lozenges" sre now sold
by most respectable chemists in this lostlitry at
is ltd per bor... People troublerl with a
cough," a "slight cold," or bronchial affections, can-
not try them too soon, as airr.ilar trot,. tf allowed to
progress, resr,!t ED ou-- • 4t.11 met-,
a:!tons. ! •O I-
Truche:i " -• .• e.rt,tri•
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-07-13

COUNTY COURTS.

On Saturday, a Bill was printt d, introduced by Mr. Watkin
s, for extending the jurisdiction of the County
Courts. the broad practical effect of the Bill is to make the
loony Court an inferior branch of the Supreme Court of
Judicature, by conferring concurrent juriedlction upon the
County Court and the High Court of Justice with a simple
and ready mode of transfer in fit cases from the one to the
other, and also providing.a simple and effective appeal from
the inferior to -the superior Court. This is carried out as
follows :

No alteration is made in the practice or procedure
of the County Court, but in all actions cognizable in
that Court, the jurisdiction is extended without limit
as to amount or value, and the High Court of Justice
and the County Court are to have concurrent jurisdic-
tion, all enactments securing exclusive jurisdiction to
the later being repealed.
Any action may for good and sufficient cause, as
defined, be transferred at any time in a summary way
from either Court to the other, and when so trans-
ferred there are to be no formal pleadings unless
ordered, and any party colourably mis-stating his
claim to avoid a transfer may be deprived of costs.
An appeal is to lie as of right from the County
Court where the matter in dispute exceeds £lO in
value, and a further appeal where the matter exceeds
£5O in value, and an appeal in all cases by leave of
the Court appealed from or the Appellate Court. The
appeal is to be by motion in a summary way, and by
way of re-hearing, and upon the best materials that
the appellant can bring before the Court; but
no appeal is to be a stay of execution unless
ordered.

In all appeals it is to be the duty of the Judge to
furnish a report of the trial, and of his reasons for his
decision: but the parties may, under special circum-
stances, rely upon other materials by leave of the
Court of Appeal.
Ordi-rs and rules of Court are to be framed, but in
the meantime rules contained in the schedule are to
apply. By them it is provided that if an action is
brought in the County Court to recover more than
£5O, that is prim 4 facie a "rood and stifficient cause,"
until the contrary is shown, for its transfer to the
High Court, and conversely if the amount is under
£5O.

In actions under the Equity and Admiralty juris-
diction the value of the subject-matter is taken at
£5OO. If novel and important questions of law arise,
or if principles of general application are involved, or
if it is convenient to send the action for trial at the
Assizes, or if the case is proper to be tried by a special
jury, of if special circumstances exist, there is a "good
and sufficient cause" for transfer to the Hight Court,
and conversely to the County Court. ,

The Globe says that the County Courts Committee
of the House of Commons have concluded their in-
quiry, and recommended that the jurisdiction of these
courts should be extended to claims of £lOO, that the
judges should have their salary raised by £5OO, and
that they should be eligible for seats in the High
Court of Justice.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-07-13

The CONTAGIOUS DISEASES (ANIMALS)
BILL.

A crowded meeting of &legates from a number of
working men's clubs, treie and other organizations.
was held in London on Monday evening at the rooms
of Ow Hackney Working Men's Club, for the purpose
of c .nsidering what the general effect of the con-
tagious Diseases (Animals) Bill would be upon the
working clair-es if passed into law.
Mr. Lowe took the chair, and said there could be no
doubt that the proposal for the compulsory slaughter
of foreign cattle, RR proposed by the Bill, at the tort
of debarkation must raise the price of meat—already
high enough—to such a figure as would place it
outside of the reach of the working man and his
family. It was not just that this infliction should
be placed upon the working classes, especially
when the very first authorities upon these
matters declared that the mere stoppage of the
foreign importation of fat cattle would not prevent
continual outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease. He
hoped that before the mischief certain to result from
the Government measure was accomplished some mode
of making concessions in the direction of Mr. Ferstees
resolution would be arrived at, so that what might be
called a "meat famine," certainly so far as the work-
ing classes were concerned, might be avoided.
Mr. Wilkins proposed, "That we, the delegates
from working men's clubs, trades and other organiza-
tons, express a hope that the House of Commons wiil
so amend the 23rd clause of the Contagious Diseases
(Animals) Bill DOW before Parliament, as to prevent
the indiscriminate slaughter of foreign cattle at the
port of debarkation • and further, we are of opinion
that this proposal for the indiscriminate slaughter
of foreign cattle is substantially a return to Protec-
tion." _ _ _

_
Mr. Giles seconded the resolution, and ddrelt upon
the amount of popular suffering and privation which
the ill considered proposals of the Government would
involve, and that 110011 the mere assumption that the
Bill would effectually stamp out the disease.
Other speakers sup?orted the resolution, which was
unanimously carried.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-07-13

[From Punch.]
A CASE FOR THE WATER-CURE.

I am a 'Abitual Drunkard,
And 'ave bin, many a day,
own with shame and sorrow;
Witch don't my looks betray?
I am a drunken character,
The fact I won't conceal;
Likewise a Tipsymaniac,
Which the word is more genteel;
My own affairs unfit to mind,
And dangerous also to my kind.
There's talk about Asylums,
Retreats for sitch as me,
Twelve months kep' in confinement
By his own consent to be;
For intoxicatin' beveridges
His cravin' to subdoo,
Anal turn his mind to Temperance ways,
Witch it ain't my nater to:
To try and wean 'ii, in a year,
From hardent sperrits, ale, and beer.
An excellent Institooskun
For the drunken Workin' Max,
Istablished on a liberal scale
For to 'ouse a hartisaU ;
Respectable board and lodgin',
Good nreaktast, dinner, and tea;
Not like the gaol and the workus
Molass-n and skiliigolee.
If that's their sort, and I was sure,
I'd try that 'ere Retirement Cure.
But 'ow about the ixpenses
Fit places to perwide ?
'Ow is the necessary funds
A goin' to be supplied?
A burden witch the ratepayers
Would praps refuse to stand,
And the 'elpin"and of Charity
The means will then demand.
I 'ope all them with 'arts to feel
Will then respond to my appeal.
Kind Christian friends, before you
I appear in the state you see;
A regular orful example
Through drink you be-old in me.
From public-'ouse to publ:c-'ouse
No longer I wouldn't roam,
Could I find, for an harbour of refuge,
The Albitual Drunkard's 'Owe.
Bestow you, bounty for the same,
This poor Inebriate to reclaim.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-07-13

ACTS OF GALLANTRY.

At the half-yearly meeting of the Royal Humane
Society, held in London on Tuesday, it was unani-
mously resolved to award the silver medallion of the
society to Navigating Sub-Lieutenant A. E. Saul
and H. Eade, ordinary seaman, of Her Majesty's ship
Vestal, for the following act of gallantry :
- -

On the 3rd of February last the pinnace of the
Vestal, in charge of Mr. Saul, and with a crew of 13
all told, foundered off Cape Tanyon, on the north-west
coast of Madagascar, and sank suddenly in deep water.
A heavy sea was running and the ebb-tide setting off
shore, the nearest point to which was about four
miles off. Most of the boat's gear, masts, &c.,
sank with her, but a few small spars and empty
barricoes floated. Mr. Saul at first supported him-
self on one of these, but hearing cries and
observing a man named Suter in a distressed con-
dition, gave up his barricoe and swam for the shore
without any support. Henry Eade was supporting
himself on the sun awning, but, observing a man
named Richard Rowsell was sinking, gave it up to
him, and he also struck out for the shore. Suter and
Rowsell were, unfortunately, among those who were
lost, but this does act detract from the gallant and
self-sacrificing acts of Mr. Saul and Eade, as at that
time there seemed little hope of reaching the shore at
all. Owing to the direction of the sea, they could not
make for the nearest point of land, and eventually
reached a point from six to seven miles from the scene
of the disaster, after being in the water for seven
hours. Of the crew of 13, eight only reached the
shore.,
The silver medallion was also awarded to George R.
White for trying to save his brother, Harry C. White,
who was capsized from a canoe in the Mississippi;
and also to Sub-Lieutenant F. H. Boyer, of Her Ma-
jesty's ship Modeste, for trying to save W. C. Gibson,
who was washed overboard in Hirne Sina Roads, Japan,
on a dark and tempestuous night last winter.
The silver clasp was awarded to Lieutenant Lewis
E. Wintz (the recipient having in 1867 received the
Silver medal) for jumping overboard to the rescue of
John J. Maker, who fell from aloft off Tenedos on the
19th of December last.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-07-13

,400go•*

A evict; To MuTisane I—Are you broken iii your rest
by a sick child suffering with the pain of editing teeth ?
02 at once to a chemist and get n bottle of Has
;ii,oTuiNo SvituP. It will relieve the poor
sufferer immediately. It is perfectly harmless and
pleasant to taste, it produces natural, quiet sleep, by
relieving the child from pain, an.l the little cherub
awakes "as brlght as a button." It sooti“, tho child
it softens the gums, allays all pain, rfliovei wind,
regulates the bowels, and is the best known remedy for
dysentery and diarrlicea, whether arising from teething
or other CallSiql. Mrs Winslow's ;Soothing Syrup is
sold by Medicine dealers everywhere at Is lid per
battle. Manufactured in New York, and at 403, Oxford
Strcf,,, London.
THE RAUL—For 40 years Mrs. S. A. ALLEN'S
VforiLD's Hem hi 3 received the commendation
aad favour of tile pubic. It hills acquired the highest
place that can be obtained for any moderate enterprise,
andcoutributed to the adornment of tens of thousands of
parsons, who have the proof of its s.,rvicable character.
It will potitively renew and restore tike original and na
ml colour of gre,y, white, mid fa id Hair. It will
strengthen and invigorate the Hair, top its faliing. sit s
intince a Itisalthy ....ndl,lYuriant growth. No other pr,
paratiou can produce tue same Lenefiel ci r,sult. Sold b!,
all Chemists and Perfumers, in large b Ades, 6e. Dept,
81116, Nowthaaptcsa Puw, Loasloa.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-07-13

THE ASSOCIATIONS OF WIMBLEDON.

The annual Schutzenfest of our citizen soldiery—
more serious and important than any that Switzerland
or Germany can boast—began on Monday morning
under auspices the most promising. Never have more
tents dotted the foray common, where the ping of the
rifle-shot makes music the whole day long, and
never in greater numbers have prizes been
offered, or have candidates anxious to carry them
away offered th.mselves. It may not be generally
known —to borrow the hackneyed phrase that
Wimbledon has associations of long standing with
wailer() and shooting. On the south-west side of the
rough spread of turf may still be identified the trace of
a circular entrenchment enclosing about seven acres,
and defended by a foam from eight to fifteen feet in
depth. Early authorities name it Bensbury, and
pretend to recognise it'fis the site of a great battle .in
the sixth century between the forces of Ceattlin of
Wessex and Ethelbert of Kent. The partizans of
the White Horse who muster in front of the
targets will be sorry to hear that Ethelbert
lost the day, both his generals, gentlemen rejoicing
in the names of Cuebbs. and Orlac, having been slain.
So much for Wimbledon and warfare. The &monis
tion of the Common with shooting, previous to the
volunteer movement, has more to do with hair-triggers
than Brown Bess or the Minie. Here it was that the
Duke of York and Lieutenant Colonel Lenox, Sir
Francis Burdett and Mr. John Paull, the Marquis of
Londonderry and "ever-glorious Grattan, the best of the
good," and the Earl of Cardigan—he of the Light Bri-
gade—and Captain Harvey Tuckett toed the creases
on the sod and tried conclusions with each other at the
regulation fifteen paces. Brave men as they undoubt-
edly were, they would have rather shrunk from
facing the least skilful of the Queen's Sixty at
such a point-blank distance. But as the Latin
line has it—" Times have changed, and we with
them." When we fall out with a friend after
dinner now we do not invite him to pistols for two
and coffee for one in the grey dawn—we do not shoot
him dead, hut "cut him dead," or sue him for defama-
tion of character or provoking us to Gommit a breach
of the peace. It is more profitable to practiHEi with
the Martini-Henry and win the badge of a marksman,
than to practise with the "barkers" and win the
equivocal reputation of the duellist. Besides, the
duellist who proved himself a good marksman might
have to answer to a capital indictment.—.Eroening
Standard.