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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-01-18

HALEHOWEN:

Tan • DISTRESS,—A committee, headed by the
Ven. Archdeacon Hone and other gentlemen, has
been formed to dispense relief to the necessitous in
the town, and a soup-kitchen has been or is about
. to be opened.
ALLEGED Fown STEALINO.—On Tuesday, at the
Petty Sessions, held before Messrs. F. D. Lea
Smith, J. S. Gibbons, E. Gem, and E. B. Phillips
(magistrates), James Barry, a navvy, of Martley,
Worcestershire, was charged on remand with
stealing four fowls from an outhouse belonging to
James Follows, Romsley MR.—Police-constable
Bull was near prosecutor's house at 10 15 on the
; night of the 23rd. ult, and met three men, one of
i whom was the prison, coming from the direction
of that place, Two had bulky pockets, and after a
struggle with one of them he found his pockets
contained the warm body of a fowl. The man
got off as well as his companions. The officer
identified the last two as the prisoner, and a man
named Smith, who lodged with him, and saw them
go towards their lodgings, where he arrested both
on the same night. They- were to ken before a
magistrate, but the nature of the charge not being
exactly ascertained, and the prosecutor not putting
in an appearance, they were discharged. Prisoner
was subsequently arrestq,d. again on a warrant, but
Smith decamped.—Mr. Flayes, who appeared for
prisoner, denied his connection with the robbery.
The magistrates decided to commit him for trial a
the Assizes, allowing bail.
A MiscurEVOUS CARTER.—Roberb Watkins,
labourer, Frankley, was charged with riding in a
wagon without reins.—On the Ist inst. Mr. Gaunt,
surgeon, was at Frankley with his wife, Whom he
left in a dog-cart whilst visiting a patient, De-
fendant passed in his wagon, and (although asked
not to do so) cracked his whip three times, frighten-
ing the horse, and causing it to run away. The
result was that Mrs. Gaunt Was thrown out and
the dog cart overturned.--Fined 10s. and costs.
CHURCH Or ENGLAND TEMPERANCE SOCIETY,
Under the auspices of this association, an entertain-
ment was given in the Infant School-room
.on
Monday night. The programme consisted of
vocal and instrumental music with readings, con-
cluding with the trial scene from the "Pickwick
Papers," The Rev. IL HARDY presided.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-01-18

TO THE NERVOUS AND DEBILITATED
• Read the New Work entitled
HOW TO ENSURE HEALTH.
Just published for two_staraps.!
BY DR. BARNES, M.D., (U.S.)
A TREATISE on the LAWS GOVERNING
LIFE, and the CAUSES, SYMPTOMS, and
TREATMENT of all diseases depending on Exhaustion
of Nervous Vitality, such as Nervous Debility, Mental
and Physical Depression, Palpitation of the Heart,
Noises in the Head and Ears, Indecision, Impaired bight
and Memory, 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 &xis' Death • together with Hints on Chroni
Rheumadsm, Gout, 'Neuralgia, Epilepsy, Hysteria, and
all disea•us of the Nervous and alimentary system.
The Appendix to this valuable work contains many
useful PUESCRIPTIONS for the alleviation of suffering
and the cure of minor disorders, with full instructions
for their preparation and use.
Contains also some friendly advice on Hygiene, or th
WAY TO PRESERVE HEALTH.
Illustrated by numerous testimonials from grateful
patients who have been restored to health through he
author's instrumentality. •
Sent post free for 2 stamps; or by.letter post, three
Etanips.
eq37 Address. Dr. BARNES, 48, Lonsdale Square
Barnsbnry, London, N. .
IMPORTANT TO COUNTRY PATIENTS.
DR. BARNES may be consulted personally,
or by latter in all private and confidential cases
and for tbe benefit of Nervous Sufferers who eannotvisit
him, he will, on receiving a description of their case, en-
closing a stamped envelope for reply, be ready to give his
opinion upon the nature of the case, and the principles
of treatment necessary to effect a permanent cure.
Address, Dr. BARNES, AS,.Lonsdale Square, Barns
bury, Loudon, N. .

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-01-18

THF NEW ASSIZE SYSTEM.

At the Hampshire Assizes, on Thursday,
Mr. Justice Denman remarked on the absence
of many Grand Jurymen from illness, and
said it was another proof of the inconveni-
ence of existing arrangements. Apart from
the local inconvenience, there was a great
block in the London Courts through the
judges having to be so often on circuit. He
thought, instead of four Assizes a year,. it
would be better to hold three at equi-dipitant
periods for both civil and criminal business.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-01-18

MEDICAL CAUTION. ow okis
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last thirty years, can only be obtained at 44, Great
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-01-18

THE EXPENDITURE IN PARIS
HOSPITALS.

It appears from some comparative statistics of the
annual expenditure in the hospitals and almshouses of
Paris that the department of the Seine possesses
twenty-seven hospitals and almshouses, containing
altogether 18.001 beds, the mean average cost of which
is 877 f. 14c. (£35 is. Sd.) per bed. In the HOtel-Dieu,
where there are 514 beds, the annual cost is at the rate
of £47 152. 10d. per bed, and in the HOpital de is
Charit6, where there are 472 beds, at the rate of £43
17s. Bd. The hospital in which the expenditure per
bed is heaviest is the Clinique, where seventy-four
beds average £73 18s. 6d.; and the one in which the
lowest average was obtained was the HOpital des
Ménages where the expenditure upon 1,387 was only
£l5 19a. ,6d. each. These figures relate only to the
cost of maintenance, and do not include the interest
upon the money whioh the city of Paris has spent
upon the constructions of these hospitals agcl alms.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-01-18

THE AMERICAN AND CANADIAN
FOOD SUPPLY.

Last week the quantity of fresh meat landed at
Liverpool was by far the largest this season, and in-
cluded an unusual number of dead pigs. Week by
week this last description of goods has been gradually
increasing, and now forms an important item in the
fresh meat importation from the United States and
Canada. The arrivals of live stock during the week
was also in excess of recent weeks, particularly in the
case of sheep, one steamer alone bringing 2,214
bead. The steamers with fresh meat were—
the Wisconsin, having on board, 2,200 quarters of
beef, 500 carcases of mutton, and 200 dead pigs; the
Britannic, 1,500 carcases of mutton, 400 sheep, and
250 pigs; the Ohio, 1,162 quarters of beef, 301
carcases of mutton, and 206 pigs; the City of
Montreal, 646 quarters of beef, 100 sheep, and 325
pigs' the Antonio, 966 quarters of beef and 314 pigs;
the Peruvian, 383 quarters of beef, 125 carcases of
mutton, and 116. pigs; and the Bohemian, with 25
pigs—making the total 6,i64 quarters of beef, 1,426
carcases of mutton, and 1,436 pigs. Four steamers
arrived with live stock, bringing 814 head of cattle and
2,573 sheep.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-01-18

THE POLITICAL 'SON OF TOIL."

The following is from Phillips Thompson's lectures in New I
York on "Random shots at Flying Follies"
"Fellow citizens," sail he, "I'm a hard-fisted son
of toil. I'm a bricklayer by trade, and not a bit
ashamed of it. No, sir; I wasn't born with a silver
spoon into my mouth, or cradled in the tap of luxury.
I'm a self made man, gentlemen." "You'd have
better let out the job," remarked a voice in the rear
of the hall. He scorned to notice the interrup-
tion, and proceeded, "Yes fellow citizens, I'm
proud of having risen by honest industry, proud of
appearing to solicit your suffrage as a true representa-
tive of labour; as one who has contributed to build up
this community by the sweat of his brow and the toil
of his hands. (Applause.) As I was saying, I'm a
bricklayer by trade, I've worked to raise more than
half the palatial mansions, magnificent structures,
and heaven-pointing spires which beautify and
adorn our town. (Great enthusiasm.) And here,
right here, gentlemen, are the identical tools with
which I have carved out my way to prosperity.
(Here the orator exhibited a trowel and hammer
amid deafening plaudits). "Pass 'em this way,"
said an excited listener, evidently belonging to the
working-class ; "let me gaze on to them relics." The
tools were handed to him, and he scrutinised them
with deep interest. "You say you worked a- a brick-
layer " said be, turning sharp to the orator. "Yes."
, •
I And with them tools ?" "Yes, sir; those are the
vety touls I bought when I made my first start as a
I journeyman. To them I owe all my prosperity."
" 'Weil, then, I must say, you deserve greac credit. So
does any man who can lay bricks with such weapons.
Gentlemen," turning to the audience, "just look at
'on. It's A gardener's trowel and a carpenter's
hammer (Uproar.) The meeting dissolves.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-01-18

THE LATE SNOWSTORM.

Snow still lies to the depth of over two
feet in the Deeside district, and stock suffers
severely. It is estimated by the Scotsman
that £lOO,OOO, will not cover the loss sus-
tained by sheep farmers during the storm.
The frost was keen on Thursday and the sea
high along the coast. • Four fishermen were
drowned on Thursday by the capsizing of
their boat in a squall off Absircleen. Eight
miles of the Caithness Railway remains
blocked.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-01-18

• EPPS'S COCOA.—GRATEFUL AND COMFORTING.—"BY a
thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern
the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by care-
ful application of the fine properties of well-selected
cocoa. Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with
a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many
heavy doctors' bills. It is by the judicious use of such
articles of diet that a constitution may be gradually built
up until strong enough to resist every tendency to disease.
Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating around us
ready to attack wherever there is a weak point. We may
escape many a fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well for-
tified with pure blood and a properly nourished frame
Civil &r vice Gazette.—Sold only in Packets labelled
—"JAMES EN'S & CO., Homceonathic Chemists, London
THE NEWYEAR.-1879.-1 neat and effective Almanack
has been published by Messrs. Horniman, Tea Importers
London ; and as it is given away by 4,000 Chemists, &C.
Agents for Horniman's Tea, the total circulation is im-
mence. All persons are invited to send a stamped
addressed envelope to persons,
Horniman, London, when
the Almanac will be forwarded gratis, or if can be had
by applying at any of their Agen,ts.—Horniman's Agcnts ;
Stourbridge—Clarke, 151, High-st ; Baker, 124, High.
at.; Hewit, Market Place; Morris, 136, High-st. ,
Brierley Hill—Rawlings chemist ; Kiddernak ste r-
Hewitt, Bull Ring ; Halesowen, Adam, chemist ; L 57,4.
Jones, chemist; Wordsley. Whewell, chemist; King
swinford ; Pearson, Bretterl Lane ; Collins, chemist
Birmingham, Banks, Bull Ling ; Quarry Bank, Watts
chemist.

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ADVICE TO Monurtsl—Are .you broken in your rest
by a sick child suffering with the pain of crating teeth ?
Go at once to a chemist and get a bottle of Mils.
WiNsr.ow's SOOTHING SYRUP. 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, and the little cherub
awakes "as bright as a button." It soothes the child,
it softens the gums, allays all pain, relieves wiuti,
regulates the bowels, and is the best known remedy for
dysentery and diarrhoea, whether arising from teething
or other causes. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup is
sold by Medicine dealers everywhere at is lid per
bottle. Manufactured in New York, and at 493, Oxford
Street, Londou,

_ L.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-01-18

ROWLEY REGIS SCHOOL BOARD.

Mr. W. Bassano presided on Monday afternoon
at the monthly meeting held in the new Board
Room, at Old Hill.
Messrs. Parker and Green, members of the
Rowley Regis Local Board, appeared as a deputa-
tion to apply to the School Board for the use of the
new Board Room and an office or offices for the
purposes of the Local Board.
Mr. Hunt remarked that it would be of course
cheaper to the parish if one place could serve for
the two bodies, the clerk (Mr. Wright) being the
same for both.
There was a little further conversation, and the
chairman then told the deputation that the Board
would consider their application and communicate
with the Local Board by their next meeting.
Mr. Samuel Cave, a ratepayer of Cradley Heath,
waited on the Board for the purpose, he said, of
complaining of the accommodation which had
been provided for the public in the new Board
room. The place—a sort of recess railed off from
the Board room—was never intended for the use it
was applied to, and he contended that it was calcu-
lated to lower those -who sat in it in the estimation
of their fellow ratepayers. - Besides, it might be
dangerous to health. The ratepayers had fi right
to be present, and to be under the same roof as the
Board.
After Mr. Cave had finished a member asked if
his complaint was going to be dealt with.
The Chairman did not think there was anything
to be dealt with.
Mr. Hingley asked if the rail was in the. archi-
tect's plan, and the Chairman replied that it
was.
Mr. Hingley thought if must have -escaped at,

t ention.
The Chairman considered the rail absolutely
necessary. He did not think it would be removed.
Mr. Green said he did not notice the rail in the
plan; and did not like it.
The Chairman remarked that the public attended
because the Board allowed them to do so, and a
place had been provided for them.
Mr. Cave begged to differ; the pablie had a
right to attend, and the Board had admitted it by
making the provision.
The subject dropped after some further dicussion
it being understoodlthat the Board might consider
it at another time.
It was decided to issue a precept on the Over-
seers for £650.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-01-18

WORKING MEN IN PARLIAMENT.

A Radical Association has been formed in Chelsea
for the purpose of promoting the candidacy of a work-
ing man at the next election, and on Saturday after-
noon the first meeting of the members was held to
consider the best means of achieving the object of the
association. Mr. R. Lennard presided, and there
was a good attendance, including deputations from the
Radical Clubs of Clerkenwell and Southwark. After
some formal business, Mr. George Shipton submitted
a resolution which he said was necessary in order to
define the exact position which the new association
would occupy. It was as follows :
"That this association, being combined in the cause of
labour candidacy throughout the metropolis, agrees to the
principle that separate organizations should be formed in
each borough to promote the return of working men to
Parliament, such organizations to have power to elect mem-
bers to serve on a general council for promoting the objects
of the association in every constituency in London." _ _

Mr. George Potter, in supporting the resolution,
said he highly approved of the objects of the associa-
tion. Unless the working classes put their shoulder
to the wheel themselves they could never hope to
obtain a fair share of representation in the House of
Commons. It was quite clear that the middle and
upper classes did not want to let the representation
out of their own hands. In every other country which
had representative assemblies—in Germany, in France,
and in the United States—the working classes had
their own representatives, and why should England be
the only country in which they were denied the oppor-
tunity of taking part in the councils of the nation?
The motion was carried.
Mr. Phillips, of the Southwark Radical Club, ex-
pressed his sympathy with the objects of the associa-
tion, and mentioned that the labour party in his
borough would have a candidate of their own at the
next election.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-01-18

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

A Cincinnati man is resisting a contract with an
insurance agent on the ground that t gave it to get rid of
A young lady has written a bock called My Lovers.
It begins, Of course, at Chap. I.
A sportsman in Richmond, Virginia, recently mis-
took the red turban of a coloured lady, which he saw moving
about through the branches, for a large robin, and lodged a
charge of *hot in it. The supposed robin promptly retaliated
with a brick.

A Wheeling inventor is getting up a new patent
chair for dentists. A concealed spring in it runs a tack up
through the seat, and while the patient is bowline, and his
attention is diverted by the attack below, the tooth is yanked
out.
A cat in Chicago has achieved a kitten with five
heads, and we can imagine how sweet it will be when that
cat attains its majority, to have it sit on the back wall and
commune with itself. _ _

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FINE MANNERS IN BOSTON.—" Are you the sale?.
woman of whom I bought this handkerchief yesterday?"
asked a purchaser at one of our dry goods stores. "I am the
saleslady who served you, madam," responded the reduced
empress in banged hair, long watch chain, and ribbed fingers,
who presided at the counter. "Well." said the customer,
"I will take a dozen more, and I want to take them to my
washerlady at once. I will get you to send them to my car-
riage around the corner. My coach gentleman cannot get to
the door just now for the cart of the ash gentleman.—Bostcrn
Bulletin. "
"FINISHING " A 6TOltY.—ks. country paper did net
half finish a story about trout in a gentleman's trout-pond
saving the life of a little girl who was accustomed to feed
them, and who accidentally fell into the pond, by forming
themselves into a solid body and supporting her in thb water.
It appears there are later advices about it. The trout not
only raised her to the surface, but they floated her ashore
and took her home. The father of the little girl Came to the
door in answer to the bell (rung by one of the trout), and
vouches for the fact, though be Is a man who is himself not
generally vouched for.—American Paper.
PRISTEIts ERRORS.—The editor of a country paper
wrote one evening :—"To.day is the anniversary of the
death of Louis Philippe." When the printer's proof came
up, the name read "Sam Philips." The editor wrote on the
margin, "Who the deuce is Sam Phillips?" Nest morning
the article read :—" To-day is the anniversary of the death
of Sam Phillips. Who the deuce is Sam Phillips?"
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-01-18

THE STOURBEIDGE *.OBSERVER

sketch, containing two bottles of ink, a bottle of black-
ing, two packs of cards, a penholder, a pair of stays, a
pair of braces and a fan. Amongst the other prizes-are
various white elephants, or what in all probability will
prove so to their winners, such as a locomotive, a pair
of iron gates, a lamp-post, a fire-engine, twelve dozen
false noses, a million pins, and tickets for lessons in
fencing and swimming, for dinners at Bichard's, or
evenings at Mabille. However, on the other hand,
there are plenty of useful prizes—sets of drawing-
room furniture, 245 pictures, and 200 statues of high
value, Sevres vases, the carved Chinese bedstead which
was exhibited in the Exhibition, telescopes, clocks
and watches by the hundred, magnificent carpets,
splendid silks and stuffs, boxes of preserves, cases of
biscuits, barrels of wine, 200,000 wax candles. firkins
of butter, musical instruments without number, and
an immense mass of other articles far too numerous to
mention, but which are now being exhibited at the
Trocad4ro Palace. The drawing is announced for
either the 15th or the 19th inst., and will last a fort-
night or eighteen days, the prizes numbering
very nearly 75,000. Of these there are 1,577
pros lots or grand prizes, which will be drawn
separately, the first number drawn indicating
the series, and the second, which is formed by twelve
figures drawn from a dozen wheels, the specific cipher
of that series. The minor prizes, however, will be dis-
posed of in a much more expeditious way, one number
drawn serving for the whole of the twelve series into
which the smaller prizes, as well as the tickets, are
divided. The lots will be delivered to the fortunate
winners ten days after they have been drawn, and it
may be useful to some of our readers to know that the
grand prizes will be repurchased by the original owners
at three per cent. reduction. The minor prizes, how-
ever, have little chance of being redeemed.—Graphic.

Writing on Tuesday, the Paris Correspondent of
The Times says :—" The commencement of the lottery
drawing is definitively fixed for the 26th inst., and
from to-morrow the prizes are on view at the Palais
de rlndustrie. The price of the tickets had, owing to
a rumour that their sale outside the Bourse would be
prohibited, dropped a few days ago to par, and even
to 85c. in the case of large quantities being bought,
but they have now rallied to If. 25c."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-01-18

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I.VIVE MEN DROWNED. -
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A sad accident occurred on TlPursday afternoon' in
last week in Bayble Bay, nine miles from Stornoway,
by which five Elhermen were drowned. It appears that
early in the morning five fishermen named Angus Mac-
Iver (Angus's son), aged 50 years, and married ; John
Maolver, son of the preceding, and aged 1.5 ; Donald
Stewart (John's son), aged 20' William MacLeod
(Donald's son), aged 24, and unmarried; and Murdo
Matheson (John's son), aged 24, and unmarried, left
Bayble in a small boat called the Curlew for the
prosecution of the lobster fishing and remained at
the most of the day. In the afternoon the
__..ther became very stormy, and the wind increased
to a gale from the south-east, with &heavy sea on, and
about three o'clock the Curlew was seen from Bayble
undor sail making for the shore, notwithstanding that
there was a heavy surf. When nearing the surf the
sails of the boat were taken down and the oars put
out, but she was seen almost immediately to capsize
and the five occupants were precipitated into the sea.
Four of the crew succeeded in getting upon the boat's
bottom, and there retained their hold for some time.
The boat, however, having suddenly righted, they
were thrown off, and immediately disappeared in the
surf. The whole craw were drowned a few yards from
the beach, in presence of a large number of fishermen.
They launched a boat to rescue the drowning crew,
but the boat was filled by the surf.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-01-18

BRIERLEY HILL.

A Boy KILLED BY THE FALL OF A HOUSE.—An
old house collapsed in Sun Street, Brockmoor, on
Tuesday night, killing instantaneously a boy named
Cooper, aged U years, and injuring a young woman
Cooper's father also had a very narrow oseitpe. The
building had become dilapidated from mining
operations, and for some time a prop had been
necessary to keep it standing. It was only used as
a coal-house. Many houses in the neighbourhood
are in almost as bad a condition in consequence of
undermining, and no surprise is felt at the accident.
LOCAL FAILUE,E.—A petition for liquidation by
' arrangement has been filed in the Stourbridge
County Court by Thomas Elwell, pawnbroker.
High Street,. Kingswinford. The liabilities are
estimated at £3oo.—Mr. J. Walter Clulow is the
solicitor to the debtor.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-01-18

hOuses.

In response to an application by the Committee of
Management of the Queen's Hospital at Birraintheaq.r.a, the
chairman, Mr. Hopkins, on Saturflay reoeivgcl c Its for
100 glopeas from the Quo% to be oplied tewardi liquids"
**tho debt of the Inatittition.