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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-01-19

TEE MURDERS OF SERVANT GILLS
IN AUSTRIA.

Writing on Sunday night the Vienna Correspondent
of the Daily News as :

Every day reveals additional crimes alleged to have
been coultnitted by S.thenk and his accomplices. Five
murdered girls are confessed to, and three others will
probably be brought home to the bancl. The entire
savings of the victims did not exceed 6,010 formes,
• but Sobenk's expense-s NV3I3 so large that he must,
it is supposed, have obtained money by other
means, or committed ctimes to which no clue
has been found. One girl whom he spared, Emily
Hoe,lbsmach, will be the chief witous a.,7ainst him.
The last murder, that of Rosa .Ferencz at Presburg,
was committed at the end of December. Another
girl, who had eacri6ced all her money t ) him, pro.
mised t r meet him at some remote place in the middle
of January. The infatuation of all the victims is
inexplicable, although Sol-v.-rill is described as hand-
• some and gentlemanly. Telegrams from Pesth state
that several girls have been abducted in a similar
t manner from tha% ety,

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.
A Philadelphia sc7entific journal says that "a psy-
s-hic man does not receive what is pneumatic or
el 'Atha]." A " payschic " man doesn't have much
appetite to receive any kind of food—pneumatic or
spiritual—but when he recovers he should shoot the
man who spells sick, " payschic." It is the worst
otthographical outrage we ever saw.
A New York letter speaks of "a man who lost
60,000 dollars a minute." Candidly, if we were to lose
60,000 dollars a minute our fortune would be completely
exhausted in less than half a day. Much less.
"Please, give a poor blind man a nickel?" said a
tramping beggar to a gentleman. "Bet you are not
blind," remarked the gentleman. "No; but my
partner is. He is standing down there on the corner
to see if the policemen are coming."
A young man in Kansas wanted to teach school,
but couldn't tell horizontal from perpendicular, and
when asked what " circular " was, said it was a fur.
lined cloak. _ _

A Michigan girl told her young man that she would
never marry him until he was worth 10,000 dollars. So
he started out with a brave heart to make it. "How
are you getting on, George ?" she poked at the expira-
tion of a couple of months. "Well," George said,
hopefully, "I have saved 22 dollars." The girl
dropped her eye-lashes, and Ilashingly remarked, "I
reckon that's near enough, George."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-01-19

A NEW OCEAN STEAMER.'

The New Zealand Shipping Company's new steamer
Ruapehu left Plymouth on Saturday for Auckland,
vid the Cape. The .Ritapchu is a very fine vessel of
4,170 tons register and 4,ooo.horae power, built entirely
of steel by Messrs. John Elder and Co., of Govan,
Glasgow, She is barque.rigged, having yards and
masts of steel, with a large spread of canvas, which
should prove of great service in the trade winds. It
Is calculated that with her powerful engines he will
make an average speed of over 300 miles per day.
The vessel is divided into eight watertight comport.
ments, five divisions are carried up between the main
and upper decks, and are fitted with watertight and
fire.proof doors, giving easy access from one part of
the ship to another. The principal dimensions of the
vessel, which is built under special survey with a view
to the requirements of Lloyd's highest class,
for hull and machinery are as follows; length
between perpendiculars 3801 t., len.gth all over
410 ft., breadth 461 t., depth 331 t. 41n. The engines are
compound surface condensing and have two inverted
cylinders, one high pressure, 46in. in diameter, and
one low pressure, 881 n. in diameter, each adapted for
a stroke of Vt. 9in., the steam is supplied to the en•
glues by three cylindrical double.ended multitubular
boilers, having in all 18 of Foxe's patent corrugated
furnaces. The boilers are constructed entirely of
steel and made for a working pressure of 1101 b, per
square inch. The Ruapehu, with her sister vessels,
has been entered on the Admiralty lists as a transport
of the highest class. Accommodation is provided or
the main deck for 80 first, 80 second, and 250 third
class passengers. The vessel is fitted throughout with
the electric light. Refrigerating chambers with two
refrigerating engines of the most improved type are
fitted in the forehold for the carrying of about 1,200
tons of frozen meat for the English market. These
chambers are also utilised for the carrying of an ample
stock of fresh provisions for the use of the passengers
on the voyage out, such as frozen tins of milk, car-
cases of mutton, bullocks, pigs, fowls, and fish.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-01-19

BRYANT .&
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Holloway's Ointment and Pill; —Dangerous Chest
Complaints.—The enumeration of these diseases is,
scarcely necessary, as, unfortunately, the inhabitants or
these islands know them to their cot. Couliiis, colds.
influenza, bromihitis. asthma, pleurisy, inflammation of
the lungs, and even conrumption in its early stages, Cr.
best treatel by rubbing Holloway's Ointment upon the
chest and between the shoulders. It penetrates iirer.
nally, checks the cold shivering, .relieves the over
gorged lungs gradually renor-ves the opprossion from tht •
chest, and restores the elistruci.ed reahirsti,,n, hither;
treating this class of I:Ilse:19es, Holloway's Pills shoild
so fearfully distressing and so highly dangerous. ii
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tan proved of the highest value as a foci! in coki-
ption and all wasting diseases, invariaLly pro.
r..l3cir.g increase in fioch and weight. This preparation
A ffydrated Cod Liver Oil is tonic, dic..:,Live, ane.
ticeze wore nourishing, as Well ad far tuoa
1.;1c-Asant to taste than plain cod liver oil. Hydrolcin4
aril nourish and produce increase of weight in thcee
vases where oils or fat, not so treated, are difficult 01
-rovaible to digest. All tency te emaciation a:id
of weight ia arrested by the urisaf Hydroleinii.
chemists, U. 6d. New depot, 0, FarrindiNt
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-01-19

WHAT SYDNEY IS LIKE.

There is very little that is new or striking in the
appearance of Sydney to a visitor from the United
Kingdom. There is nothing of that strangeness which
makes the British tourist in France or Germany
speedily realise the fact that he is in a new country.
Everything is so homelike that the moment the visitor
finds himself in the heart of the city he can scarcely
believe thst 16,000 miles of ocean separates the
shores of New South Wales from those of Britain.
Everything is English. There are spacious ware-
houses rivalling in extent and architectural taste the
mercantile edificse in London, Manchester. or Glaegow.
Omnibuses and cabs are continually hurrying in all
directions, while access to the suburbs, which remind
the Londoner of the choicest portions of the Thames
Valley in one direction and of the most beautiful parts
of Kent and Surrey in -mother, is rendered cheap and
easy by means of the various steam tramways con-
eructed by the Government. The streets are paved
as in England, while many of the shops are as 'are
and handsome as the best in any English city.
The really noteworthy feature of the teens is the
absence of the squalid poverty which makes itself so
painfully and oonspicuously felt in the large centres
of British population, There is poverty, it is true,
but it is self-created, beirg the result of vice or in-
dolence, for in New Suth %Vales no mNn who is
willi-g to work need be without a few shillings in his
pocket.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-01-19

MONTHLY, 6(1.

Little Folks Magazine.
For all GIRLS and BOYS.
July Part commenca a NEW VOLUME, and
contains a charntin.; COLOURED PICTURE,
"An Inquisitive Visitor."
• IS ;MN fuher of a family knows how to spend sixpence a
..trt:oure to better purpose than in the purchase of
' I't)l,l,S, we should be glad if he would enlighten
:,leraPy 11-crld.

Printed and Published by the sole Proprietor, Kft,
SIMEON FIELD, at his Office, 92, High-street, Stour-
bridge in the county of Worcester, and to which pleas
all leteers and other norainunicationcinuet be addressed,
Saturday, January leth, 1884.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-01-19

IMPORTANT TO FOX-HUNTERS.

I A. case of considerable imporcance was beard at
I the Redditch Petty Sessions on Wednesday, before
Messrs. R. S. Bartleet, E W, Heywood, E. Holy-
oa.ke, J. Smith, V. Milward, and W. H. Sneyd-
Kynnersley (umoistrate,). Mr. George Townsend,
needle manufacturer. Hunt End, was charged by
Messrs. S and W. Welch, needie manufacturers
,ind farmers, with having' on the 4AI inst., damaged
a f ace in a field at Hunt End, e4,l.ed Eight Acres
Field," and doing damage to the amount of 2s; at
the same time damaging the permanent pasture et
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-01-19

T H EII'fXESSENTIALS

LETTS'S DIARIES.
Endle. Varietie3. Price. 6d. to 140.

LETTS'S HOUSEHOLD MAGAZINE.
Amusing, Instructive, Useful, and Artistic. For Young and Oki.
Maio or Female, Week-day or Sunda, The Best Magazine
for the Faintly. Monthly, 7d.

LETTS'S COMPLETE POPULAR ATLAS.
Absolutely Unr lay II sla• entire Press. Prise& Irwin ,e 2
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-01-19

DUDLEY COLUMBARIAN AND CAGE BIRD
SOCIETY.

The third annual exhibition of poultry, pigeons,
canaries, British and foreign birds, and stuffed
specimens in connection with the above society
opened on Tuesday morning, in the Public Hall of
the Mechanics' Institute, Dudley. The various
classes are all well repielented. There are 221
entries of poultry, 350 of pigeon; and 217 of
canaries, British and foreign birds, and dulled
specimens. The space available in the hall has
been utilised to the best advantage, and the Com-
mittee of Management are to h. 3 congratulated on
the result of their efforts to make the show a
eucces. Although in the early part of the day the
visitors were not numerous, their number increased
in the course of the afternoon. The judges were,
of poultry, Mr. J. Martin, of Claines, 'Worcester;
of pigeons, Mr. J. W. Ludlow, Birmingham; and
of cage birds, &c., Mr. J. Bemrose, Derby. In the
classes for game birds the entries were all of good
quality. There were 17 pens of black and red cocks,
Mr. J. Skarratt, of Worcester, securing first prize
with a vet y neat bird. In the same class a number
of birds were passed by the judge in couscquence
of their bAng overtrimmed. Another B.ust prize,
for a back and led hen, was won by the same com-
petitor with a vc.ry fine racy-looking pullet. The
accord and third birds were also good spechnons of
their cks4. There were only eight entries of brown-
red cocks, and the first prize was awarded to a bird
vcry lie!' it, colour, and with a good eye and grandly.
marked head and breast, belo;lging to Mr. B. \V
Warner, of Whistone Pri.,ry, Shrewsbury ; and the
cup, of the value of ..t2 2s, for the best game cock
in the show was also aw.,rded to the sam.) bird.
the broWli-rA hens mustered ten entrie., among
which were some very Lice rich-coloured specitre is.
There wit., a good represent, lion of Brahmas, but
many of the cocks had gone rather yellow in colour,
and thereby spliled their chances. Among the hens
the first pr z w.is attached to a pen containing a
beautifully marked specimen. The other cusses
were good. and time show of pigeons and cage birds
capital. Mr. G. G. Russell, of Brierley Hill, was a
I,ige priz...-taker with canariis.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-01-19

BRIERLEY HILL.

POLICE Couri.T.—At this Court on Thursday
before Mr. Boughey (Stipendiary), Thomas Wright
and Alice Wright, man and wife, of Bradford, were
charged with stealing 10 walking sticks from the
shop of Henry Harris, hairdresser, High Street.
On the 9th just, the male prisoner stole the sticks
from inside prosecutor's shopdoor, and afterwards
he and his wife offered and disposed of several of them
at different public-houses. The male prisoner was
sentenced to one month's hard labour, and the
female discharged.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-01-19

KIDDERMINSTER.

TILE PObITION OF DEBTOE3UNDEI3 THE NEWBANIC-
RIIPTCY ACT.—In the course of the County Court
business, yesterday, Sir Rupert Reale pointed out
that the new Bankruptcy Act gave him power to
determine whether a debtor should pay his debts in
full, or to any less extent, and he had to take into
consideration the circumstances under which the
debt was incurred, whether the same or any part
thereof was incurred by means of fraud, and whether
the debtor had beeu guilty of idleness, improvidence,
gambling, or intemperance. He was careful not
to make any remalks on the Act. All he desired
was that the profession and the public should
know what the Act was. 11e saw so many descrip-
tions of it that they were bewildering, and he
preferred not to make any commeats but to admin-
ister the Act as he found it.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-01-19

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BRIERLEY HILL.

CONCERT.—Oa Monday nig%t, Mr. J. Simpson,
assisted b.;• his .1-nat..ur string band, the members
of Sr. James s Church Choir, DuAi,y, and other
ftiends, gave -‘a concert in the Congresationd
Sehoolrooio, Mr. J. Hips prsiding. There wAs a
crowde I audiene , many being unable to gain ad-
matt Lace. Thu principal vocalisis were the Misses
Wo, ton, Meest?, an I 'ard, and Messrs. Sutton,
Boduison, and Galiintore. Mr. Simpson's haul,
which consisted of 16 porfortnets, with Mr. W. 11.
quire as 1,-,,,1ia,! violinist, played remarkably well
onsi Irving thit this was their first appearance in
public. '1 he sing a.d chorus, " Mulligan Gulrds,"
6/vcn in clittra,ter by Eix i,f Mr. Simpson's pupls,
ts loudly tip landed At the close ot the concert
Mr. J. Carpmaii's Shakespean class gave a humorous
dr:intatie ei telt en itled " Shavinz Done Here."
The chatacters were well taken by Messrs. J.
shlial, T. Williwns, E. Bird, and W. H. °Aden.
The concert was a great success, and a good balance
will be h aided over to the committee of the new
Conregational_ Church.

lirtU.'ZlE. AND DISOBDEDLY.—St the Police Court
on Monday, belore Dr. Walker, H. Hall and H. 0,
toirnist, me, Esqs., William I In!croft was charged with
being (hunk and disorderly in the public highway
at Atublceote on the lith inst. P.C. Johnson proved
the case and stw the defendant lying in the horse
road, and a horse and cart was passing at the time
and he was in danger of being run over. Fincd
23 61 anu costs; (Jr in default 7 days.—Thomas
Smith was charged with being drunk at Ambleeote
and using bad language. Previous convictions
wer.: proved agaias:. ta:.! delenJaut. Fare( 5s and
,041.8 ' ' or in defauit 7 days.— rhomas Rhodes was
Gbarged with being drunk at Wallheath On the Oth
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-01-19

KIDDERMINSTER.

AN UNFOUNDED CHARGE.-At the Police Court,
David Evans, manager at Messrs. Hughes and Son's
carget works, was charged with committing a rape
upon a girl aged between 15 and 16 years, named
Eliza Beach. Mr. J. J. Corbet prosecuted and Mr.
W. A. Crowther was for the defence. The evidence
of the proseeutrix was contradicted by one of her
own witnesses, and the charge was dismissed.
THE CHORAL SOCIETY'S CONCERT.—A concert has
been given by the members of the Kidderminster
Choral Society in the Town Hall. The principal
vocalists were Miss E. Parry and Mr. Charles
Blaghoro. Solos upon the violin were given by
Mies Maud Pearse.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-01-19

FIRE AT DUDLEY.

About three o'clock on Tuesdsy morning, Police-
constable Bibby, whilst on duty in Hall-street,
Dudley, noticed a light on the premises of Messrs,
Jobson Brothers, engineers, Porter's-field. The
officer at firs thought the light was reflected from
the cupola, but a little later, seeing that it grew
more brilliant, he scaled the wall which bounds the
works, ar,d then discovered that a fire had broken
out among a number of boxes containing tele-
graphic insulators. He gave an alarm, and sent to
the police station to warn the brigade, which
directly turned out with their engine. The boxes
were stored in the yard, and a considerable number
of them were destroyed and the contents damaged,
but the brigade managed to prevent the fire spread-
ing to other boxes or to any portion of the build-
ing. The damage done is estimated at about
£3OO.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-01-19

THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A
WIFE ON VAUXHALL BRIDGE.

In London, on Satnrcloy, at the Westminster Police.
court, Mr. D'Eynconrt had again before him Charles
Brise, 50, a shoemaker, of Pulford-street,
who stands committed to take his trial for folonimn.ly
shooting at his wife, Elizabeth, on the night of the
20th ult. He bad been formally remanded for evidence
as to the purchase of the revolver, and evidence as to
its deadly use, range, tee. The latter fact was proved
by Inspector Jelfcoate, who had charge of the ease, end
who fired several rounds at a half-inch deal board at six
feet distance, nearly piercing it. Beyond this there
was the evidence of Mr. Macintosh from the firm of
Gaff and Co., who proved that the revolver in question
bad been sold on the 20th, with 50 pin-fire cartridges,
to a man, but he could not recognise the prisoner.
The cost of the whole was 7e. 9d.
Th, evidence, of great length, was then read over,
and the prisoner committed to take his trial. He said
he was suffering much from the head, and did not
know what he was about since his wife had imprisoned
him a few months since. When at Clerkenwell Prison,
in the shoemakers' shop, he was about to cut his
throat, but the master shoemaker prevented him.
After be came home, being bailed out, he went to St.
Thomas's Hospital, and complained of his head to one
of the doctors. He had two bottles of medioine,
quinine and cod liver oil. He was pronounced low
and weak, and advised to live as well as he possibly
contd. After that he went to Westminster Hospital
and other medical establishments, but nothing seemed
to do him any good, and he became deranged and
could not account for his actions. At Clerkenwsll he
had now medicive two or three times a day from ths
doctor. At daytime be felt right, but when he went
to bed this feeling came over him, and he did not have
six hours sleep in a whole week. He had no wit.
:lessee present, although several had promised to come
Prisoner was then removed.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-01-19

Till /011111IeN IZON TRADII.

There is nn material alteration in any of the iron
uterh-tis of the Continent. In Belgium it is ex-
tremely difScu:t to effect sales, even at the ruling
depreciated rates, which are now almost as low as
they were fire or six years ago. It is only the com-
paratively high raltv of coal and coke which pre-
vents them from receding now. There has been no
change in the tone of the French iron market, but
its tendency nppe:irs tn be somewhat better. The
at.tisties p4hlietimi ny the Comite des Forge. de
France show the Freneh imports of iron and stt el
rtnriag the first nine months of 1883 to have been
313,901 tons, against. 30) 776 tons in 1832, which
is an increase for uine months of 25,125 tons, or 8
eeut. Tim.. figur,s given f tho exports (61,304
an4l 80 367 tons for the correaoonling nine
rasaths of 1883 and 1882, indicated that. inAignii-
es.it as they are, they are will dwintling down.
Tbv, imports of iron ore f out all &air ,es were
1,231,242 Los for the same peril in 1883, against
1.042,141 to-a :n 1882. .),Itttere are beginning to
i"etter mu the (Jo win iron market.
Ti-re is a (sir am ell& of pig-ir,n being sold in
Neetpha n, aild prices of G•Tman pit are pretty
• ; but ho h Luxetablrg pig and English
. ry end Ressemer iron have still further receded
the former to 36 =irks, English foundry pig No. 3
to 35-36 marks, Bessemer pig to 46 marks, owing
to the w.-. 4 state of the English mtrket. In
Ivnerican Bcitycn pig-iron is dull, but American
pig h•ot som..what improve!. The steel rail mills
et tn• Metes are now all runninz again, and soul.'
of then have seenrei orders for trom fire to s •rtn
smiths: at the nominal price of 35 dole.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-01-19

A GORILLA AT SEA;

Mr. Walker purchased from a native a fine healthy
male gorilla, apparently about two years of age, and
shipped it for England. Being under the impression
that he had taken too much care of all the other living
ones which he had obtained at different times, he
determined to let the new acquisition have its own
way, and only take care that it did no mischief.
When purchased the animal was by no means strange
or spiteful, but rather what may be termed shy, and
suspicious of stranger'. At the expiration of about
a week, however, it became sufficiently tame and
confiding to admit of its being allowed to run
about loose, and to do as it liked. At the
same time, its food, instead of being confined
to the fruits on which it is supposed to feed
In its wild state, consisted in general of frag-
ments from the table, and besides these it had any-
thing edible it could lay its hands on, and occasionally
a basin of condensed milk and a raw egg beaten up in
it was given. It liked SMOMUM fruit, but this pro-
duced diarrhce3, which had to be treated with chloro.
dyne and raw egg. Finding that the animal became
restive, it was left entirely to its own devices, and
especially as everyone in the ship was at the s .me
time so very busy as not to be able to pay much atten-
tion to it. It soon became quite at home, alternately
eating, sleeping, and playing with a large bull.
terrier (of by no means the most amiable dispo-
sition), which had a most decided dislike to
negroes, but nevertheless took very kindly to
the gorilla, so that the two animals became
constant playfellows. By allowing the gorilla
to rough it, instead of watching it, and anpoint-
ing someone to take care of it, in which case
these animals become so much attached to their keeper
or attendant that a separation from him almost in-
variably causes these affectionate apes to plae away
and die, and by habituating it to such food as is gener-
ally to be toned on shipboard, it was hoped that it
might be brought to England. But accicente will
happen, even to gorillas. It came down to dinner one
day, and ate scraps with the dog, and went to sleep.
When looked for, some hours afterwards, it was miss.
ing, and must have fallen off the taffrall into the sea.
Cassell's Illustrated Natural History,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-01-19

STAMBE tt MILL.

The annual tea meet.ng of the Sunday Ear'y
Morning UhS3 in cinnection with St. Mark s
Church took place on Monday eveniag last. There
was a very gool attendance, and all seemed to enjoy
the excellent tea proidet. After the te.a was over
the It v. A. Wright had provided a good and varied
programme for the evening's entertainment, The
itev. L. B. Penley gave a very interesting reading.
Mr. P. Matthews, Mies Harris.in, Freer, and
friends (IA their best to make the evening a most
enjoyable on :, Mr, Bloomer gave short address
urgi ig the importance of such a movement as tend-
ing to elevate the minds of the illiterate. Mr.
Wright ral a letter flout the Rev. W. It. We!ch
the la:e cora , regretting his absence. Air, Bury's
new year's gins for g0.,.1 boys cau3ed roars of
laughter and ten led grza:ly to Lie eveaiiig's aniu4o-
- Toe iiiear spoke in int.st encouraging terins
of the progri S 3 of the class. It had maintaini'd
its ifficioucy since he had lost the valuible ussist-
of Mr. Welch This he said was due to the assiduity
of the teachers who had been regular in their at-
tendance since he had been left to hhuself.
who have taken advantage of the clas4 and who were
unable to make a struig stroke can now write a
fairly good small hit, I. Thes, w irns may tall
under the eyes of Stain ,er Mill mei, and IA them
gr.isp the opportunity held oat. Thu invi:ation is
()den to members of denominations, and all are
made welcome.

PROPOSED PUBLIC HALL FOR,
BROIISGROVE.
A. prtliida:try mceia, callel by Mr. W. S.
iiatteu %vita held & Wm gentleman's houso on Tues.
dig "for the purpose a forming a company to
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-01-19

EINGSWINFORD.

tCiDE OF A PAUPER AT KINGSWINVOIM,---All
/I (pet wt.s held at tie Kingswinfo; d %Vol ee,
en tStut day, on the body ot John Smitht man, a
late mate. Deceased left the house on the after-
noon of the 3rd inst. and was found dead at the
gates tbenext morning, with a knife in his band
lie kad been an inmate cf the WorlibouFe for ten
ycrrs A Nerdict 01 ‘.Temperary itmatit)" Wl
jiturned,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-01-19

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-01-19

FARMING PROSPECTS.

On the above subject Land and Water remarks :
We know now pretty well the result of profits or
!ones from both arable and pasture land for the year
1883, and the facts stand something like as follows :
Wheat crops, owing to a bad seeding time, were badly
planted, and a wet winter caused considerable breadths
to perish that might have under more favourable cit.,
eurieetances given a fall return. Much land that should
have been planted in the autumn was driven off until
spring time, and opportunity not then showing it was
thrown by for other crops. The summer proved cold and
humid, eminently suited to promote the growth of
weeds, mildew, and some of the other fungi which are
enemies to the wheat crop, but by no means suited to
produce a good yield of this grain. Consequently, the
harvest was late, and the yield beneath the average
from sto 10 per oent. Other crops were more abun-
dant, but the miserable price that all grain is now
making cannot give a profit from the grain alone.
The queetion of the straw we will consider anon. The
graziereseason has not finished up well for those who
make beef fattening their whole employment. They
bays, as a rule, to buy in their beasts at an exceedingly
high rate just as the pastures exhibit their first verdant
coat in the spring, and to sell out again as soon as the
grass is gone, which means between Michaelmas and
Martinmas, when trade is usually by far the dullest
for beef of any time of the year. From this cause
the profit the past season has been very lean, and
hardly sufficient to pay rent and taxes. But where
pestilential diseases have not prevailed the sheep flock
have paid well, and assisted the tenant. There is
another occupant of the land who has also fared well
the last season—viz., the breeder and rearer of cattle,
The exceedingly high rate at which stores are selling
makes this the most remunerative branch of the
farmer's occupation; and thus it is, while those who
have the most capital at stake—the occupants of the
higb-priced, rich grazing lands—cannot possibly make
both ends meet, if stock is bought in as dear next
spring; while the rearsr and grower of well•bred young
cattle can disnose of his animals at a more profitable
rate than has been the case hitherto. The laud, too,
that is required for the last method of farming and
grazing needs not to be of an expensive character; but
asn2all portion. roar a third or fourth. should be arable.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-01-19

FRUIT AND DAIRY FARMING.

In an article on "The Agricultural Outlook," the
Daily Teleoraph says :—lt must be admitted by every
one that there is abundant room for our national
husbandry to be extended in each of the several
directions recently mentioned by Mr. Gladstone. As
to fruit-farming, it should be remembered, however,
that farmers cannot be expected of themselves to enter
on the planting of orchards and grounds, for the first
costs would amount to considerable sums, and every
young tree planted would be the property of the
landlord. If owners of farms would take the
initiative, and, after laying out fruit farms, charge
their tenants a fair interest in the outlay as an
velditional rent, they would not lack tenants for
such new orchards and gardens. Consequently it is
the landlord, and not the farming class, that require
lecturing on the topic for the extension of this branch
of our home agriculture. Both fruit and poultry
farming are best adapted for small farmers, but dairy
farming is the one thing which might profitably be
extended to very great limits indeed on almost all
kinds of farms. Those distant from towns or rail-
way stations are cut off from having to do with a
direct milk supply, but their owners could at
least undertake buttersmaking. Up to about
five or six years since this industry was very
much declining throughout the country, owing
to the scarcity of dairymaids and household servants.
Even in the Vale of Aylesbury, farmers abandoned
dairying and a3optel grazing because of the labour
difficulty, which circumstance threw the butter supply
trade very much in the hands of Continental &niers.
But, owing to recent mechanical inventions, the butter
producer has been made thoroughly independent
of female labour. If a farmer owns a hundred milch
cows their milk need of necessity be no care on the
domestics of the farmhouse whatever. After being
drawn from the cow it is run over refrigerators to
abstract the animal heat, and at once placed
in the mechanical separator, which speedily effects
the required division of cream and skim milk.
The former can then just as quickly be placed
into a large barrel churn for the further change into
butter, and as both churn and separator may be power.
driven as well as the butter-maker employed in
.the
subsequent process there need be only slight requize-
ment cf manual labour of any kind. Such butter
would command the highest rates in the market, the
chief condition of ensuring quality being making from
sweet cream. Small farmers might be unable to
resort to this system, but if refrigerators are used and
care taken to make from sweet cream, their wives and
daughters could make good butter by the old milk.
setting process.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-01-19

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FIGHTING IN TONQUIN,

A Iteuter's telegram dated Hong-Kong, Oart.
says
:
Intelligence received here from Hanoi to the 6th
Inst. announces that the town of Nam Dinh was
attacked on all sides by pirates on the nights of Jan,
lit and 2nd.
Many of the inhabitants were killed ard wound-v 5
and several houses were burnt.

On the 4th inst., an attack was made on the post of
Batang, near Hanoi, but the enemy were compelled
to retire in disorder, carrying with them many killed
and wounded.

Du Doc is reorganising the insurgent bands.
Intelligence from Sontay states that nearly all the
fugitives from that place are returning supplied with
arms.

It is reported here that a Chinese army is descend-
ing from the province of Quang Si, in order to occupy
Bac•Ninh.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-01-19

THE EVACUATION OF THE SOUDAN.

Writing on Sunday night, the Cairo Correspondent
of the Standard says:—

Although preparation re going on actively for the
abandonment of the Soudan the difficulties in the
way of the evacuation of Khartoum are growing daily
more evident.

Apart from the immense mass of stores which must
be left, there ate about a thousand families of pro-
tected subjects and Egyptian officials who must quit
the town.

At least six thousand camels would be needed for
their transport from Berber to Assonan. The steamers
which might carry them as far as Barber would also
have to be abandoned there,

The season coming on is extremely unfavourable for
desert marching, owing to the prevalence of simoom
winds, and it is scarcely probable that the refugees
would be unmolested by the enemy.

A repetition of the scenes of the retreat from Phi.
lippopolis during the Turco-Rnssian war is by no
means impossihle. The condition of Upper Egypt is
far from satisfactory, and there have lately been
several disturbances in Fayoum and the neighbour-
hood of Beni Suet.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-01-19

AN AUDACIOUS BURGLAR.

In London, on Sunday night, a daring burglary was
committed at a house in Lorrimore-road, Kennington-
park. A maiden lady, named Davis, has for over 20
years resided at 150, Lorrimore.road, and it was re-
ported in the neighbourhood that she kept in the plscs
a large quantity of valuable property. Miss
Davin went to church as usual on Sunday
night, and returned home about half.past
eight o'clock. She opened the front door with
the latchkey, and was startled to see standing in
the pusage a tall man with a knife in his hand. The
terrified lady at once rushed late the street crying at
the top of her voice, " Murder I Murder 1" The
neighbours quickly flocked to the place, aud Mr.
Salmon, furniture dealer, of Lorrimore-road, with his
brother, entered the house. They found the rooms
in a state of confusion, a large quantity of pro.
perty being ready for removal, but the burglar was
nowhere to be seen. A dose examination of the
premises showed that the burglar had climbed over the
wall of the next garden, which abuts on to a side street,
and effected an entrance through the book kitchen
window. A valuable clock was found on the garden
wall, but upon Miss Davis going over the things left
in the house, she stated that only about half a dozen
silver spoons, and a few other articles ef ads were
missing.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-01-19

THE IRON TRADE.

WOLVIIIIMAXPTON, Wednesday.
The business on Change this afternoon was slow,
and the orders coming in are chiefly for limited
parcels since the quarterly meetings, and current
inqurtes indicate that a great deal of iron is wanted
to several departments. The mills and forges are
vizir r eadily, and Ca,l continue so for a m nth or
more, though specifleatkins for bars and hoops are
reosived at a rate far from aa:isfactiry. The sheet
manufactures. have plenty of work in hand, and
regular time is being made in the mills. Heavy
plates of spoeial descriptions comm ind fair notice,
at maker's terms. Rods, tin-plates, and tube strip
are in fair inquiry. Prices on the whole rule with
regularity at the minimum of £7 10s for marked
bars. Pig-iron is dull of sale, and quotations are
ratner weak, but in view of a reduc:ion in the
Cleveland make sellers look forward to prices be—
ee"nia:: stiffir. Minerals and house coal are in
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-01-19

SMELT-FISHING IN MAINE.

Smelt-fiehing during the winter months in the State
ef Maine seems to be a novel and exciting sport (says
the Evening Standard). It has the great advantage
that there is plenty to catch. The fish are taken
through holes cut in the lee; they bite greedily
through holes in the ice, and a good haul may be anti-
cipated with much confidence. The disadvantage of
the sport is the cruel coldness of the weather. Gales
and storms are frequent and severe; the fisherman has
—or at any rate had a short time since—no pro.
tection against the wind and rain. It was possible
to pile up walls of ice and thatch them with pine
boughs, but the constant changes of place are a necee-
sity of smelt fishing. All of a sudden, where fish
have been biting uninterruptedly, they move off,
and the fishermen must move off after them. An in-
genions man, however, one day came from Boston;
he caught many fish through the ice, but froze one
foot and both ears in the operation. Then he went
away. He did not go home, only to the nearest town,
where he had a heavy wooden frame, ten feet square,
made by a carpenter. He covered the frame with
canvas, leaving an opening for a door. When the
" house " was finished, he had it drawn upon the
Ice and placed over the holes he intended to fish
through. Then it occurred to him that he might add
still further to his comfort, and he bought a small
box atove, ran apipe from out of one side of the house,
started a roaring pinewood fire in it, and, seated on a
bench) fished as comfortably as if he were in his room
at the hotel watching a stove-pipe hole in the floor.
This ' honee-boat " moved about on runners. Ot
cours .others were mane in imitation, and now a
regular little colony site by its own &asides and
fishes fog smelt through holes in the toe.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-01-19

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THE STOURBRIDGE OBSERVER.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRES IN LONDON.

Two destructive fires broke out in the western die-
tricts of London early on Sunday morning, within a
few hours of each other. The first and more exten-
sive outbreak originated from an unknown cause,
shortly before two o'clock at the Cleveland Works,
situated in Cleveland-street Fitzroy-square, and owned
and occupied lcy Messrs. Howard and Sons, cabinet
makers. The fire was discovered in a building of four
floors, 45ft. by 401 t. in dimensions. On the roof of the
building, which had first became ignited, was a stack
of timber, and almost before the first engines arrived,
this had become ignited, The task, before the brigade
was no slight one. The premises of Messrs. Howard
consisted cf four buildings, all of them large in
dimensions and of several floors, and in these
was carried on the businesses of saw mills and
cabinet manufacturing on a very large scale. The
buildings were all filled with inflammable materials,
and were surrounded by several stacks of tim-
ber used in the business. For three hours the
fire burnt 'With great fury, and the official report
of the fire, submitted to Captain Shaw, C. 8., shows
the extensive damage caused by the outbreak. This
report is as follows: "Called, at 1.57 a.m. (Sunday),
to Cleveland Works, 35, 36, and 37, Cleveland-street,—
Fitzroy-square, to the premises owned and occupied by
Messrs. Howard and Sons, cabinet-makers; cause of
fire unknown; insurance—contents and building
insured in thi North-British and Mercantile Office ;
damage—a building of four floors, about 45ft. by 40f C.
(used as workshops), and the contents burnt out, and
a stack of timber on the roof nearly destroyed; a
building of three floors (used as drying-rooms) and the
contents burnt out, and roof destroyed; a building of
four floors, 70ft. by 40ft., roof of covered yard, and
stacks of timber, all seriously damaged by fire; a
building of four floors, about 45ft. by 40ft., and
the contents, damaged by smoke (all adjoining and
communicating."
Four hours later, a fire broke out on premises sit-
uated on the Eastern•wharf, Adelphi, in a building of
two floors, about 75ft. by 401 t. in dimensions, used the
upper floor as stores and the lower floor as a stable. In
this case, also, the place had become thoroughly
Involved when the firemen arrived in response to the
"call," and three horses which were in the place could
not be rescued, and were brunt to death. The river
float Ajnx was ordered from her moorings to the spot,
and the hose was drawn from her across the Embank-
ment to the fire. The powerful deliveries, which were
brought to bear upon the flames were not, however,
successful in stopping their spread, and eventually the
place was entirely destroyed.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-03-22

ZOBEHR ON THE SOUDAN.

The Cairo correspondent of the Daily News
writes :

Zobehr Pasha says that he is willing to succeed
General Gordon in the Soudan. His ideas are that
the country cannot be subdued by arms, but by pacific
means alone. He believes that the tribes are willing to
lend a hand to civilization if the benefits are properly
explained to them; but a sick man must be visited
before he is cured. Zobehr says he cannot express
an opinion as to the 31a,hdi until he (Zobehr) has
communicated with him, but he doubts the
Mandi being considered a prophet in the Soudan.
Zobehr considers England to be the greatest Power
in the world, owing to her love of justice. He says
he believes slavery can be got r;d of gradually when
the Soudanese begin to appreciate civilization. He
denies the statement which has been made in some
papers as to the existence of a blood-feud between
him and Gordon. Zobehr says G.wdon is his brother,
who has caused the Egyptian Government to refund
£5OOO out of £30,000 plundered from him.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-03-22

'6ATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1884
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A CRIME IN AN OMNIBUS.

A STORY OF PARISIAN LIFE.

BY FORTUNE DU BOISGOBEY

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-03-22

DRAWING-ROOM AT BUCKINGHAM
PALACE.

By command of the Queen, a Drawing-room was
held on Friday afternoon in last week, at Buckingham
Palace by her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales
on behalf of her Majesty.
Presentations to her Royal Highness at this Court
are, by the Queen's pleasure, considered as equivalent
eta representations to her Majesty.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of
Wales, attended by their Ladies and Gentlemen in
waiting, and escorted by a detachment of Royal
Horse Guards, arrived at the Garden entrance of the
Palace from Marlborough House about three o'clock,
and were received by the Great Officers of State and
the Royal Household.
Her Royal Highness, the Princess of Wales, ac-
companied by the Prince of Wales, Princess Beatrice,
and the Duke of Cambridge, took her station in
front of the Throne shortly after three o'clock.
Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales wore a
dress of richest Indian gold embroidery over a jupe of
brown marabout, and draperies of Vandyke brown
velvet, corsage of velvet with Indian embroidery and
sleeves of marabout, train of same costly Indian
fabric, lined in gold satin, with dress border of
marabout. Headdress—a tiara of diamonds, feathers,
and veil. Indian ornaments of pearls, emeralds, and
diamonds. Orders—Victoria and Albert, the Crown
of India, St. Catherine of Russia, St. John of
Jerusalem, the Royal Red Cross, and the Danish
Family Order.
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice wore a train
and bodice of peach-coloured broche satin, lined with
satin duchesse and bordered with Valenciennes lace,
and a skirt of poult de soie and satin duchesse,
trimmed with violets c,f the same shade. Headdress
—feathers, veil, and diamond bees. Ornaments—
pearls. Orders—Riband and Star of St. Catherine of
Russia, the Orders of Victoria and Albert and the
Crown of India, and the Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Family Order.
The diplomatic and general circles were numerously
attended.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-03-22

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

THE TRANSVAAL CONVENTION.

In the HOUSE or Loans, March 17, Lord Cadogan
called attention to the fact that Article 20 of the Con-
vention between the Queen and the South African
Republic, signed on the 27th of February last, provided
that the Convention was to be ratified by the Volksraad
of that Republie. He inquired why a similar provision
had not been inserted in respect of ratification by the
Imperial Parliament. He also asked what would happen
if the Boers did not ratify the Convention, as in that
case we should be left with the Convention of 1881
which had proved to be a dead letter, and the greater
part of which had been abandoned by the Secretary for
the Colonies in the course of the negotiations for the
new Convention.

Lord Derby explained that it never had been our
constitutional practice to require Parliamentary
ratification to treaties. The Sovereign power of
the South African Republic being the Volksraad,
the ratification of the latter was necessary. If
the new Convention were not ratified we should
be just where we were before it was negotiated;
but inasmuch as it had been obtained at the
earnest desire of the Transvaal Government he thought
the apprehension of Lord Caclogan on that head was an
extraordinary one.
The Marquis of Salisbury condemned the Convention
as retrogressive, and after a few words from the Earl of
Kimberley the subject dropped.
Their lordships rose at twenty-five minutes past five
o'clock.