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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

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NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.
&II communications moot be authenticated by the Nome
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ration, but as a guarantee tot good 1 aith. Those who
do not wish their names to be published should, in
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Communication. or Advertisements writing on one
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the week as possible.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

TICKET-OF-LEAVE WOMEN.

The f.dlom-ing extracts, descriptive of one phase
criminal life, are from a most interesting article in the
Daily Niles, of Tuesday :
- -

•
Nearly 4,000 female criminals are at large with tickets-of -
leave. The majority live in London. A very large prop,-
thin comists of hardened offenders. More than one is a tulle-
deress. Women who have been sentenced to death for mur-
der, and whose sentence is afterwanls commuted into penal
servitude for life, are not, as Is commonly supposed, removed
for ever from the scene cd their criminal exploits. After
having served a term of twelve years, and conducted herself
turtle satisfaction of the ptison authorities, the convicted
murderess easily obtains her ticket-of-leave, and becomes a
free woman again. In one of the western and most fashion-
able districts of London many hundrels of domestic servants
are ticket-of-leave women. Several of them have run thnmgh
the entire scale of estate, from petty larceny up to burglary
and murder. Their employers engage them with a fall know-
ledge of their antecedents. Strange to say, the worst cri-
minals are not unfreouently transformed into extremely good
domestic servants.
During the past five years some benevolent ladies have
voluntarily devoted themselves to care for and, if possible,
to reclaim the lowest and moat degraded class of female con-
rtets. For this purpose they resolved to fonts a society called
the •• Discharged Female Prisoners' Aid." The object of this
Society is to supply a Home to released convicts, to aissist
those to earn an honest livelihood who have given proofs of
amendment, and to furnish employment to all the released
female prisoners who will comply with very easy conditions,
and who will work for their maintenance. Several of these
establishments have been founded in various districts of
, London. The parent establishment best merits description.
I The writer then describes one of the establishments
I which is near to the Nine Elms Station, lie pro
oeeds :
Here instructions, chiefly of an elementary-religious kind,
, is imparted to adult women, by ladies who eschew preaching
or lecturing, and confine themselves to imparting religious
truths to those of their sex who are not only degraded in
, character and appearance, but are morally no better than
heathens. On the right is the office. This is the apartment
of Miss Lloyd, the zealous and indefatigable Lady Superin-
tendent. It contains two small writing tables, slew wooden
chairs, and cupboards filled with printed forms, tracts,
tfekets-of-leave, and prison photographs of Female con -
1 Acts. these Photogralms being attixe,l to documents like
passports, and containing particulars of the names, ages
personal traite of the lacesrepresented onthemargins. APPro.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

PUBLIC NOTICE. -

rp HOMER, News Agent, Cradley Heath,
1. • begs to inform the Public that he is able
to SUPPLY them with theLONDON DAILY NEWS
PAPERS.

Cr ORDER AT ONCE.

READ THE WARNING VOICE.
10,000

COPIES of which are printed for free
Circulation. By HENRY SMITH, M.D. of the
Itaal University of Jena.

THE WARNING VOICE TO YOMNO MEN (160
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gives PRESCRIPTIONS and INSTRUCTIONS by
which many Thousands have been restored to health and
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

STORM WARNINGS.

A SLICE OF LUCK FOR GERMANY!

By the reaCe of Frankfort, says the German C,,rre-
spowicot, the important iron and mil mines of Lor
raine have passed into the hands of Germany. For
many years the French, who were anxious to possess
coal mines of their own, have been endeavouring
to open up the fields of the Moselle, and the works have
now progressed far enough to
_considerable hopes
of profit. But for Germany, 'WI already possesses
extensive coal fields, the iron mines are even more im-
portant. The metallic zone, which has always had
a great industiial value for France, lies on the Moselle
and the Meurthe, below the great eastern table
land of the latter department, and extends from
Pont St. Vincent on the south to Longwy on the
north. By for the most valuable part of this dis-
trict has now become German. The ore is found
sometimes in a single vein, sometimes in ramifications,
with a depth of from two to thirty-five metres. The
ore is almost inexhaustible, is stated to be very easily
1 melted, and yields on an average 33 per cent. iron. Of
, the twenty-three mines at present worked thirteen have
now become German, and they are far more important
than the ten which France has retained ; for, while the
'latter include a district of 2,308 hectares and five of
them yielded in 1807 140,281 tons, the thirteen which
Germany has obtained have an extent of 9,0.31 hectares,
and five of them produced in the same year 000,040
tons. The yield ,d the remaining mines has not been
officially published. The iron contains a slight admix-
ture of phosphorus, but in every other respect it is of
the finest quality.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

A NICE QUESTION TO DECIDE.

The cause of " Huelin r. Wilson" has been heard
before Vice-Chancellor, Sir R. Matins, and was a suit
to administer the estate of the late Rev. Elias Rodin.
who, it will be remembered, was, together with his
housekeeper, Ann Boss, murdered at Brompton in
May, WO, by one Walter Miller. Miller was tried
for the murder of Ann Boss before the Lord Chief
Justice of England, found guilty, and executed. As
Mr. Huelin had by his will made a bequest in favour of
Ann Boss, it became necessary to ascertain which was
the survivor. This question was referred to the Vice-
Chancellor in Chambers, and the result was a certificate
that Ann Boss was the survivor, mid the cause now
came on for further consideration. .

The Vice-Chancellor, in making an order in accord-
ance with the certificate, said that he hml applies! to
Lord Chief Justice Cockburn for the notes taken on
the trial by his Lordship, and that his Lordship had
been good enough not only to furnish him with those
notes but also with valuable observations forming a
complete analysis of the evidence at the trial, which
Isis Lordship had taken the trouble to draw up for the
purposes of this snit, and which had been of the greatest
ssistance to him.

PROBATUNI EST.
One loss has a companion always. Scraper,
When people lose their train, they low their temper—moot.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

WORDSLEY.

CHANGE Rthorso.—On Thursday night last, there was
rung at Wordsley Parish Church a omitted peal of plan
bon, containing 720 changes, as a token of respect to the
lute Mr. U. Davis. The baud was as follows : Treble, E.
U. W. Husecibee ; 2nd, T. Jordon; 3rd, J. Guest; 401,
U. E. Jones; "ith, W. Lawrence; tenor, W. Pugh.—
Conducted, by W. Pugh.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

A GREAT MAN GONE!

THE RITUALIST PARSONS' PETITION.

YOllr petithmers humbly solicit the pity
Which the candid and just for their like ever feel ;
0 deliver us from the Judicial Oaninittee,
And permit us to have our own Court of Appeal.
We require not a Court to determine expressions
By the terms of an Article, tacos, or Act.
But we want a Trillllllal, is Irving transgressions,
To make law for the 11011 re whilst it judges the fact.
To Is, brief, we demand a Tribunal elastic.
Which shall deal, by an aleudute unwritten rule,
With offenders in all eases ecclesiastic,
As a pedagogue governs the boys of a school.
-- ark
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

A CONVICTION FOR MURDER.

A man named Collins has been tried at the asdzes
held at Clonmel, for a murder which was perpetrated
at ( ihissdnun, on the 31st of March Last, under the
following circumstances
The victim was a man named Ryan, and the crime was
conunitted almost close to the door, mot within view of the
house in which were Ryan's wife and mother-in-law. along
with Hayes. the miller, and two or three other persons, but
though the wounded man cried out for help no one went to
rescue hint. Haves hail been himself attacked by other
parties, mot his wife would not let him open Om Mor lest the
cry should have been made to decoy hint out in ocher that
he might be murdered. The deed had not been completed
when Hayes's wife and Ryan's mother-in-low saw collins,
the prisoner, standing over the prosti ate form of Ryan,
and Junking " offers" or ruts at his throat with a
knife. Jule if the women seized his ann, but he disen-
gaged himself and made a thrust at her, which kept her tilt
until lie escaped over a ditch, leaving his cap in the toad.
She recognised him distinctly. Poor Ryan was found lying
with his head Minted severed from his body. Search was
afterwards made by the pollee, slot a pair of boots and, other
articles of dress belonging to Collins, which had blood.status
on them, were found. lie denied the ownership of them,
lad they were proved to have been his. When taken into
' custody it was observed that there was a wound oat the
thumb, which it was conjectured by the police inspector had
been bitten in the death struggle, and to test the cometness
of the surmise the county and sub-inspectors examined the
mouth of the murdered man—a horrid task, which made
them faint—and between the teeth they found a piece of
skin, which, on examination by doctors, fitted the wound
on Collins's thumb.

At the trial which has just taken place, witnesses
were examined to prove that the prisoner had con-
ceived a deadly enmity towards the deceased on ac-
count 4if some dispute which occurred in December
last, that he vowed to have revenge, and carried about
with him a tremendous blackthorn stick, a terrible
weapon, which some of them tistk repeatedly trom him
lest h? should do mischief. He had been seen loiter-
ing about the mut near Ryan's house, and hail even
entered Ryan's house to have satisfaction. On the
night of the murder Ryan {Vela out to bring 114 411Ie
kid of turf. and Collins took the oNsittunity to
guitify his duslictive intssio in, lie' struck the deceased
with the stick on the head and finished his bloody work
with a knife, which hail been seen shall sming. His
fell o ow-labourers in the employment of Colonel Lure-
fity were examined on the trial for the Crown, and his
own sister was also produced and gave Millie corro-
Isaiah, evidence. 'the set he hurling tin' giving of her
CV WO in-.- was very painful. The k.ass for the prosecu-
thin W 41,44 41141t1,t4411 the Attorney-I leneral. Pariin
I 1511-5 sentenced the prisoner to be hanged on the
rth of August.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.

Let no one longer be oppressed with the notion that
his malady is incurable tn these Parifying Pills have had
a fair trial. A few doses wm remove the more urgent
symptoms, and thereafter completely control en disor-
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ted ktdneya, cleanse hope-e blood, and confer on every
friction liee'thfol vigour.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

INFRINGING THE RULES OF THE
PENTONVILLE PRISON.

At the Clerkenwell Police-court, in !And., George Ilayes
Newbury, a warder at itle PttitOnline Priori, was Charged On
a warrant, with unlawfully bringing in and carrying out for
a convict confined in the above prison the sum of .glO.
Captain LeWirt. Govenior of the reutonville rrison, conducted
the prosecution.

William Mathis, the gate porter, stated that on the
previous Friday morning he received a letter from the
postman addressed to the defendant, and from instruc-
tions he had received he handed it to an officer of the
Prison to give to the Governor. James Payne deli:e.t.a
that he gave the Governor the letter. It was then
handed Co the defendant, and the Governor told him
to read it. This he at first refused to do, but in
being pressed he opened the letter and appeared
to read it. Witness was standing by the side of
the defendant, awl saw that the letter contained a
1:10-note. After the defendant had seen the letter
the Governor asked for it, but the defendant replied
that it was for him, and he did not see why he should
give it up. He, however, afterwanls threw it on the
table, when it was found that the letter, although ad-
dressed to the defendant, was intended for a convict
named Johfi liege. The defendant was then asked for
an ex planation, and he replied that he had corresponded
with the friends of theconvict with the latter's authority.
This statement was corroborated by another officer of
the primn. In answer to the charge the defendant said
that he had not time to read the letter, because the
officer snatched it out of his hand directly he opened
it.

The Magistrate said there r nil be no doubt that the
defendant had infringed the rules of the prison, and
rendered himself liable to very heavy penalties ; bid
as in all probability he would lose his situation he
should not pass upon him the full sentence. The de-
fendant was then orderedt pay a penalty of .£lO, or,
in default, t, undergo three months' imprisonment.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

WOLLASTON.

ATTXYPTED SUICIDE.—On Tuesday evening a young
woman named Lucy Perry, daughter of Samuel Ferry,
Ridge Top, Wollastod, attempted to commit suicide by
drowning herself in the canal at Boll's Mill, near Stour-
bridge. It appears she was out at Wollaston Wake on
Monday night, and, having had some wolds with het
father, she left the house with the intention of commit,
ting self-destruction. A youth named Short, son of Mr.
Job Short, cf Wollaston, and William Perry, .on of Mr.
Perry, of the Old Bank, Stourbridge, were fishing near
the spot, and in company with a man ran to the girl's
assistance. The man held out Short's fishing rod, which
the girl broke ; but she was ultimately got out by thorn
as the fish-hook stuck in her leg.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

LATEST NEWS.

PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.

(REUTERS TELEGRAMS.)

FOREIGN NEWS.

FRANCE.

ALLEGED WANTON DESTRUCTION OF
PROPERTY BY THE PRUSSIANS.
PARIS, Friday.
The Paris Journal says Jules Favre is no
longer Foreign Minister. M. Goulard is perform.
log his duties.
The inhabitants of St. Cloud accuse the Prus-
sians of destroying 600 houses after the anus.
tie': was concluded.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

Obtained the only Prise Medal* for Purity
and Errelb nee of Quality.
LONDON, 1862. DUBLIN, 1865.
THE ONLY SILVER MEDAL-THE HIGHEST AWARD,
PARIS, 1867.

Their Genuine and Double Superfine are the qualities
particularly recommended for Family use.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

Impurities if the Blood.

These wondmiul I.". are valued at the humblest
hearths as we" us in tLe houses of corotot rod wealth.
They work a thorough purification throughout the whole
syatew, without disordeiMg the nature' action 4,1 any
organ, and eradicate those germs of compleinti which
consigu tens of thousands to an early grave.

hi hgeiiioii, Bilioux Complaints, and Sick
liemhiche.

No organ in the human body is so liable to disorder
as the liver, vied none is more apt, when neglected, to
become seriously diseased. Remember when nausea,
flatulency, or acidity on the stomach warns us that digese
tion is not proceeding properly, that LHoPoway's Pills
regolate evely function, give strength to every organ,
speedily remove all causes of indigestion, bile, and sick
headache, and effect a permanent cure.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

CHARGE OF OBTAINING GOODS UNDER
FALSE PRETENCES.

At the Maryletione Police-court, in I..itelon, Mn. Mary
Jane Riehardson, 47, was brou,ilit up en rutuami charged
with Obtaining gOods from several ti.ite-111011 MOO Wes
pretences. NiegiirP. Dod and bolig,tall.•, ...lieitlll.3 to the
Trade Protect' Soeiety, conducted the pr. i,ccution ; a clerk
Iran throttle of Mr. R. Haynes defended.

MA* Lena Frith said she was employed by Mr.
Chest& Foulcham, artificial florist, trading under the
name of Michell and Co.: 13 and 14, Osforl-street.
On the sth of June the prisoner came to the shop anti
selected a bonnet worth 255. She said she would take
it with her aml leave her old one to be " dime up,"
promising to pay when it wan delivered at Mr. Richard-
situ's, 13, Fall-mall. A few minutes after leaving the
shop she returned, and, stating that a clergyman's
widow whom she had just met had advised her to have
a better bonnet, she chose one worth L'2 15s. Witness
went to the address given by the prisoner, who had
stated that she was Mrs. Richardson, and found that
she did uM live there. _ _ _

Mr. larlanl said he was clerk to his uncle, Mr.
Guildford Richardson, banker and army agent, at 13,
Para-trial The prisoner was the widow of Mr.
Richardson's cousin, who WAS an architect. The pri-
soner was not staying at the Incise when the last witness
brought the old bonnet, nor had she any authority to
order gassts to be delivers-al there. Many things hail
been sent then- for her which had not lw-en paid for,
awl these articles hail always been sent back to the
tradesmen from whom they hail IK-en ordered. His
uncle was executor in conjunction with Mr. 11. Cox,
the army agent at ('hating-cross, for the prisoner's
deceased huslaand. They were not her bankers.
W. M'Math, detective officer, took the prisoner into
custody on another charge. She said, " What would
you do if you had been in such good circumstances as I
have been anal had fallen so low as I have fallen r She
added that whenever she got out of prison she would
alas so again. The public, she continued, would be
compelled to support her in or out of prison, for she
should prefer a prison to a workhouse. She evidently
had been drinking when she said this.
Several other charges were inquired into, but dis-
missed. The prisoner said she had told the first witness
when she purchased the bonnet that Mr. G. Richard-
son WM her husband's executor. Her husband, she
said, died worth 1110,000, and left Mr. Richardson anal
Mr. Cox executors of his will, leaving everything in
trust to them. She sent a note to Mr. Cox some months
since requesting him to pay any little debt she might
have contracted out of her lmsband's estate. She had
sent a similar note to Mr. Richardson. This month the
property was to be sold, and I:2,000 was to be given to
each of th ase entitled under the will. The magistrate
committed the prisoner for trial.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

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Turn if Lift and Dropsical Swellings.

The tura of life is the most distressing period in wo-
man's existence; it destroys thousands. The whole of
the gross humours collect together, and tier a tide sweep
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health is considerably deranged and knows not the cause
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The Kidneys—Their Derangement and Cure.
If these Pills be used according to the printed directions,
and the Ointment rubbed over the region of the kidneys
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

OLD HILL.

ASSAULT CAS.—At the Police Chart, on Wednesday,
before Messrs. F. W. G. Barre and N. Hingley, ROS81:1-.4
Williams was charged with assaulting Elizabeth Bushell,
on the 22nd instant. at Crariley Heath. Mr. W. Hayes
appeared for complainant. Complainant said she was
wife of Fornuel Bushell, engineer, Five Ways, Cradley
heath. Defendant owed her 12s, and on the above date
vile asked her for it. and she said alto would not give it
her until she put her in the court for it. Defend-
ant then rustled at her, caught her round the neck, gave
her two black eyes, bit her on the shoulder, and pulled a
gaantity of hair out of her head. The treatment she
receited caused her to have two fits afterwards. The
,i,•fendetilt pleaded guilty, but said complainant struck her
first. Mr. Hayes called Sarah Brooks (11), who said she
S.IVI defendant catch hold of complainant's bead, and
pull tier down, and she thou struck her. Complainant
did not strike defendant back again. Mr. Hingley said
defendant was a savage brute, and she might have killed
complainant. Defendant was fined 5s and costs; in de-
fault 21 days.

AssAULT.—Wiliiant Denton Was ehargi,d
by Sarah Ann Edwards with assaulting her on the 22nd
instant, at Blackheath. Complainant said on the above
date defendant ass beating his father, and kicking him.
She asked him if he was not ashamed of himself, and
he struck her several times on the head and neck. Ann
Con corroborated complainant. Defendant was fined 2s
61 and coats, or seven days.
A CAUTION.— Samuel Clutter and James Grove Were
charged by the Inland Revenne with keeping dogs with-
out hiving licenses, on the 3rd of June. Defendants
pleaded railt, nod were fined 25s each, with a recom-
mendation to the Commissioners for it to be reduced.

ASSAULTING A 'Von CC—George Edwards was charged
w.th assaulting Sarah White, on the 22nd inst, at Black-
heath. After hearing the evidence, the Bench dismissed
the ease.

WILVVL DAWAGV..— Henry Mason, Joseph Walters.
and Thome: tirainger, were charged with, wilfully dam-
aging a quantity of wheat, the property of Joseph Morris,
at Blackheath. Police-constable Jackson said on the
16th loot he saw defendants bathing in a pool at the bot-
t on of complainant's field at half-past eleven am. They
undressed themselves in the wheat field. When they
saw him they ran away and left their boots. He caught
tiranger, and lie gave the name of Thomas Higgs. They
had to go through the wheat to get to the pool. Mr.
Morrie said the damage dyne ann..unted to is 61. Sarah
P. ice was called on behalf of lirainger, and said he MIA
n,t out of the house on Sunday the 16th, until after din-
ner time. Mason and Walters were fined lid and costa,
or 11 days; and Grainger was dismissed.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

TWO HUNDRED PEOPLE SWALLOWED
UP bY AN EARTHQUAKE!

The f, Mowing is an extract f a private letter fmm
dated May 23:—
We have fearful news from Camiguin, a small island
near to Misamis, five or six miles only from that coast,
and south of Cebu. For some months they have ex.
perk.need a ,aiccession of mast violent earthquakes,
especially in March last, causing crevices that a horse
refused to pass to open in the high roads; but on the
Ist of this month, on a level plain, a large subsidence
occurred. Attest the subsidence was gradual, so that
the houses declined to is level with the surrounding
plain ; then the fall was considerably accelerated,
and all fell rapidly into the incipient volcano
which has now taken the place where were smil-
ing homes. About 150 persons were engulfed. The
eruption of the new volcano has since been so tre-
mendous that the inhabitants have run away, chiefly,
of course, to the neighbouring coast of Mindanao.
The inhabitants of the island previously were reckoned
at 2t,000; now some 250 only remain guarding the
property of the three foreign houses having esta-
blishments there. Camiii,min is only about 36 miles
in circumference, and was very productive in
abaca (the Manilla hemp), yielding annually from
30,000 to 40,000 picals, or more than a tenth of
the produce of the world. For this reason it may
tend to influence the price, as it is very improbable
that the island will be occupied again in our time.

--
Gustave Wallis. in the Ha(Mate Zettetng, under date of
Manilla, the Nth of May, says
"On the Ist of May, about five o'cluck in the even-
ing, &rumbling like thunder was heard from a mountain
near the village of Catarmin, interrupted by a few
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.

PRICE ONE PENNY.

GRAND FETE AND DEMONSTRATION

OF THE SEASON.

11HE ANCIENT ORDER OF THE
_1 FORESTERS and SHEPHERDS of the CHAD.
LEY HEATH DIVISION intend hiding the above by
the kind permission of R. Gibbons, Esq., in the ',Ens.
°WES, HALF:BOWEN, on MoNDAY, AttIUST 14th, 1871.

1..

WORCESTERSHIRE MILITARY BAND.

'%Y FIELD, Bandmaster, respectfully
V • returhs thanks to the Nobility, Gentry, and
Committees generally, in the Midland Counties, for their
liberal patronage, especially daring the past season,
which has been a most successful one, including, among
other engagements, Promenade Concerts before their
ROYAL HIGHNESSES THE PRINCE
AND PRINCESS CHRISTIAN,

The Marquis aud Marehiouess of tfueensbury, the Right
Ron. the Earl of Doilley, the Lady Ward, Sir Edmund
and Lady Lechruere, Sir Thomas and Lady Winnington,
Lord and Lady Lytleiton, end Lord and Lady Northwick,
eliciting marked encomiums ; Musical and Floral Fetes,
Bazaara, 6.7 c.
_

The bo Bui is compoaed of Reed and limbs in-
struments' from first.class Manufacturers; Plofeasional
Sololbte ; Uniforms, Scarlet and Gold.

_
Future favours will be much esteemed. Isms rea•
sonable.

Programmes forwarded for rablication, consisting of
the choicest nod classical Music.

Vicar•dreet, Dudley.

R. JAMES BOSTON HEYS, Professor
1.11. of Music, Higlostreet, Cradley Heath.
NB.—All kinds of Musical Instruments toast'
repaired.
New Music at Half•price.
PIANOFORTES FOR SATE OR HIRE

NOTICE.

INNKEEPERS', GROCERS', AND OTHER -

nusiNEssrs,

nE SPEEDILY & TEANSFERIIED

BY S. 1N 17 12 1.,

CTIONE 11
1114:11-til

i'ALCER,

bLIMILEY BILL

No Charge made unless a Sale is effected.

HAIR BRUSHING BY MACHINERY,

AWEINS'S BAIR-DRESSING AND
IAL 811,13,11'001M1 ROOMS,
120, HIGH-STREET, STOURBRIDGE
(01VoSIVE COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS).

A CHOICE ASSORTMENT OF BRUSHES,

COMBS, PERFUMERY, &c.

SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES ATTENDED.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

li

OVERWORK.

At a time when the rich and well-to-do are
Planning their holidays, when the hard-working
professional men are scheming to obtain a little
relaxation without injuring their position, and
when harder-working people in the lower ranks
are having snatches of holiday, it may be well
to take note of the opinions of two members of
Parliament who are directing their efforts to-
wards the lessening of the hours of lainntr in
shops and on railways. Mr. C. Reed proposes
an amendment on the Factories and Workshops
Acts Amendment Bill, which would have the
effect of placing women and girls employed in
shops in the same category as to hours of em-
ployment, as factory children ; that is to say
that all would be equally regulated by law. And
really we do not see why they should not be.
The hours during which women and girls are
employed in retail :shops result in slavery with-
out the name. Numerous exceptions of course
exist, but over-work is by far too common, and
it is perfectly unnecessary. A diminution in
the hours of labour, if equably effected by law,
would be a great boon to the employed, would
do no injury to the employers, and would inflict
no hardship on the public. As to the hours of
employment on railways they are in many cases
positively disgraceful.
Mr. Bass, M.P., in introducing a lecturer on
over-worked railway servants " the other even
jog, gave several instances of engine-drivers,
guards, and peintsmen who had been on duty
for upwards of 20 hours at a time, which he re-
marked was more than double the average
length of a mauls daily work, and one instance
he referred to specially was where an engine-
driver had been kept on his engine for upwards
of 29 hours. The hon. gentleman, however,
was enabled to make a gratifying announcement
that in some :,.istances, in connection with the
!Midland Railway, men who had had to work for
12 hours a day, would shortly have to work only
eight hours. Some people may be inclined to
think that this reduction is too great, but at all
events the cases to which he previously referred
must be admitted to be cases of cruel hardship.
Railway employee, considering the arduous and
responsible character of their work, are kept at
it too long, and it has been proved that sonic
serious accidents have arisen from this cause.
in this department of labour, as well as others,
the employed are often over.worked, which is
one cause of so many others being totally unem-
ployed. In this hard-working country of ours
we want a more equable division of labour.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

CRADLEY HEATH, HALESOWEN & DISTRICT (_..IITONICLE.

SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1871.

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if),-qed &ores at -(lo'swinford,

ti tlieir Custritri is at Stitabri(ire stud orriorrdit gIC sirs, vilit it their

MILD STPONG-_AI\TD
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.11 the same Ten, c• • at he Pre siery, Irene

JOSIf1"1-1
SI•LE AGENT FOR THE DISTRICT.

v . 4. R.

STOURBRIDGE SCHOOL OF ART.

llrt:wery,

THE SCHOOL will RE-OPEN after the
Midmmana,r 'S tflti'it 111 MeaDAY, ACou,T 7th.
Art I”struction igiv n useful to the Atli?. LI all
Decorative Artist
The General Classes meut on Monday, Wed
Friday Heeelng,, from Seven to 11-dr-p t,,t Nt
Fee: (tsp. q,arter.
The cid ,resia on Tuesday aid l'hur,4.t) Morn•
ins, flom len to Twelve o'clock. Fee: 63 per
Quarter.

iy und

WILLIAM P. BOWEN.
Head Master.

July 27th, 1871,

ANNIVERSARY

WESLEYAN CHAP

STOI-1;1:1,11,G1..

I\N SUNDAY, JULY MO, 1871, TWO
SEHNIONS will be PREACIi!iD in the above
Place of Womhip. by the Rev. JOHN RATTENBURY.
Service to commence in the Morning et Milt-past Ten,
undit. the Evening at Six o'clock.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

THE LYE.

NARROW ESCAPE.—James Hill,• IRRII belonging to the
Lye Waste, had a very narrow escape from drowning in
a pool at Huncote, near Kidderminater, on Friday, the
ast lust. Police-constable Hayes heard cries, and on
going in the direction found Hill in tne water. He wita
immediately got out and taken to the Park Gate Inn,
where he soon recovered.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

A FINE STATE OF THINGS!

At the Marlborough-street Police court, in -bunion,
iodolard, acting butler and footman to lairs,
lienriette Daviolson, a widow lady, resioling at 3,
Berkeley-street, has liven charged with stealing a Iluan-
tity of silver plate, value £4OO, the property if his
mistress. The I orisoner WAN also charged with forging his
mistress's name ti several checks, and also the names of
tradesmen too several bills. The prisoner was further
charged with stealing LSOO intrusted to into for the
purpose oof paying traole,una's bilk The table oof the
court was cos ered with plato• of different kinds.
Mr. Lewis, appeared for the prosecution, Ott I tatoel
that the prisoner haol been Mrs. I /aviolson's servant for
five year.-, that he was intru-ted with money to lay the
bills, and that great confidence was placed in him. It
having come to Mrs. Davidson's knots-ledge that her
tradesmen had not been plot, and that the prisoner hail
stolen about OK that writs had been sent to her house
from tradesmen, which writs had been kept loy the
prisoner, and that even an execution had been put in
and paid out by the prisoner- - all this doting her illness
--• steps were immediately taken against the prisoner.
On further inquiry it was discovered that he had forged
Mrs. Davidson's name to smite checks, and also the
names of several tradesmen to their bills, and, further,
that the misoner had pledged plate of the value of
ECM. Ile was obligoi PI remark that he felt in orritieol
that such a mass of plate should have been taken in low
a pawnbroker on the mere statement 14 the primm:r
that he had authority to ',ledge it.
After the evidence lif the managers of two pawn-
linker load been taken, as also Mita Davidson, the
magistrate remanded the prisoner, and directed the
police to retain the plate, observing that it was a tine
state of things in this country for a person to have a
writ served at his house without knowing anything
about it, and too have an execution put in and paid
out without the least knowledge of the circumstance.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

FISH.

- ---
Mackerel. 2s. 6d. toga. 6d. per dozen smoked haddocks.
Va. to 340. : herrings, pickled, 3'20. to 325.: red, 120. to 225.
per barrel bloaters, 35. to 40 4d. : kippers, 40. to 55. 6(1. Per
box : soles, 15. to 30. per pair cod, ss. to be. turbots, 105.
to 120. each; whiting, 12$. to las. ; plaice, 104. to 16$. Per
basket : eels, Is. to Is. 2d per lb. : lobsters Os. to 175. (id.
crabs. 75. to 140. per demo ; oysters, mitive, £lO Is. per
bushel]
HOPS.

Only a limited amount of business has been transacted
during the past neck; nevertheless prices have shown con-
siderable firmness, the prospects of a good crop being un-
satisfactory. Mid and East Keats, £3 Os. to £7 7s. ; Weald
of IS cuts, Nto LS Os. ; Muses. a Os. to .t 4 105. : ram-
ham sod county, at Os. to £6 0. and olds Ll to 411 N. per
cwt.

POTATOES.

31 °aerate supplies of potatoes have been on see. The
trade has been quiet at our quotations. Shags, 40s. to 500
Regents, 60s. to 805.; kidneys, Ws. to 110 s. ; Jerseys, Ws. P
110 a per tong
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

FRUITS.

MRLONS (single specimons).-14 prize, Mr. William
Jackson; 2nd, Mr. T. Lea, M.P.

, .
lIRAPES ibl.ek, two bunches).—let prize, Mr. T. H.
Prrgeter ; znd, Mr. T. Lea. Ditto (white, two bunches) :
Ist prize, Mr. A. Pryce ; 3rd, Mr. T. H. Pargeter.
PEACHES (in dishes of siz).—lst prize, Mr. A. Pryce ;
dad, Mr. T. H. Pargeter.
NECTARINES OR dishes of sis).—let prize, Mr. A.
Pryce ; second. Mr. W. Shaw.

Purais dishes of twelvol.—lat prize, Mr. William
Shaw.

- •
STRAWBEERG:S disheeo.—lst prize, Mr. G. Smith;
2nd, Mr. P. B. Granger.
GOOSEBERRIES (by weight, heaviest six red) : let prize,
Mr. Geo. Addis ; 2nd, Mr. Geo. Smith. Ditto (yellow) :
tat prize, Mr. Geo. Addis; 2nd, dlr. Geo. Smith. :Ditto
(ditto, green): let prize, Mr. George Smith; 2nd, Mr.
George Addis. Ditto (ditto, white) let prize, Mr.
George Smith 2nd, Mr. George Addis. Ditto (best dish
for flavour) : let prize. Mr. T. H. Pargeter ; 2nd, Mr. H.
Lowe. . . .

COLLECTION OF FRUIT.-Eight dishes (pines excluded:
Lit prize, Mr, H. Lowe; 2nd, Mr. T. Lea : 3rd, Mr. Wm.
Jackson.
WAX OR PAPER FLOWERS —Exhibited by ladies: Ist
prize, Mrs. Hargrave ; 2nd, Mies Waring,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

LOOKING AFTER THE CRIMINALS.

In his charge to the grand jury at the Exeter assizes
on Monday, Mr. Justies„Erett said most of them had,
no doubt, seen within thilast fewdays a very iniportant
report drawn up by Colonel Henderson, the head
officer 14 police in L. talon. Colonel Henderson hail re, !
markeilupon theadvantages of two enactments- one of ,
which provided that where persn ins were convicted after
a previous offence, they should be placed under the
superintendence of the police for seven years, unless
otherwise ordered by the court ; while the other pro.
riled that a register of all the criminals tried in
England should be kept in London by the head of the
police there, and that means of identification should
be sent from the comities to. him. He (the learned
judge) could hot help saying that at first the enact-
ment placing bulls under police supervision fir
Seven years struck him as being 3 very severe ; but
lie held it to be quite contrary to Ids duty or that of
any magistrate to refrain from subjecting a prim 'ucr to
that supervision if he thought the Legislature intended
it. From the terms of the Act, be did not apprehend
that it was intended that this ;Naha. superintendence
for seven year. I-lead-I be imposed in all cases, but
only where offences were committed by persons who
came within the description of habitual criminals.
Cast, might be so different. They might have an
habitual offender, or they might have the case of a
person who was convicted once when a boy and
a second time when a man of forty-five or fifty,
and yet might have been living a decent and re-
spectable life in the meantime. Surely it was never
intended that such a person as he had just described
slitiuld be left under the supervision of the police fir
svven years, just as if he hail been onivicted many
times within a comparatively short period. It there-
fere WM if the utmost importance that a judge or
magistrate who had to sentence a prisoner should care-
fully inquire as to what hail been his recent or con-
tinued life, so that he might know what sort of a per-
son he hail to deal with before submitting him ti this
somewhat severe punishment. With regard to the
! other matter if the register kept in London, Inc thought
every county should render all the assistanee it could in
order tin carry out the views of the Le.jslature.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

HASBURY.

UNITED CAMP NI EETING.---On Sunday last the Primi-
tive Methodists of Hasbury and Halesoweu, held the
first of a series of Camp Meeting Services. According
to arrangement, there was to have been a procession and
open air services; but the weather being unpropitious,
these were dispensed with, and the sarviees were held in
Hasbury Chapel. The attendanc± at each service was
very good, and the addresses by the Nev. J. J. Parker
(Circuit Minister No. 2), and Messrs. J. Hulstun, W.
Price, J. Patrick, T. Palmer, and J. Dingley, were im-
pressive and eloquent, awl were listened to with marked
attention. A public Love Feast in the evening brought
the services of the day to a close.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

ARMY RE•ORGANISATION.

VERSAILLES, Friday.

The Committee on Army Reorganization have
almost unanimously voted in favour of the bill
declaring service in the army compulsory on all
Frenchmen between 2i) and 40.

A denial is given to the assertion of some
Paris papers that Prince Hismark had promised
the evacuation of the environs of Paris, by the
81st of Augmt next.

AMERICA.

NEw YORK, Thursday.

Judge Blatchford has decided that Messrs.
Jay and Gould must within 60 days restore fur
registration, the 80,000 Erie shares belonging
to English shareholders, but refuses to grant an
injunction to restrain the company from issuing
and registering new shares for that purpose.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

HAS GREAT PLIA-117112 IN PUBLIEBING THB FOLLOWING

-fiTSTIMONILLB,

From Mr. C. Potter, Professor of Music, from the
Institution for the Blind, St. John's Wood, London :
•• I can confidently recommend Mr. Green as a Piano-
forte Tuner. He tones by equal temperament, and ob-
tains an exact scale. Signed) C. POTTER."
_ _ _ _ _ .

From Hr. J. F. Patterson, Organist, St. Patrick's
Church, Huddersfield I have much pleasure in too
tifying to the abilities of Mr. Green as a Pianoforte
Tuner. He lays the bearings with exactness and perfec•
lion. (Signed) Etsimi F. PATTERSON."
From Mrs. Sanderson, Solo Pianiste, of the London
and Liverpool Concerts:—" Mr. Green is one of the few
who can Tune my Piano to the nicety I require previous
to giving my Public Recitals. (Signed) E. K. SANDER.

From Mr. Butterworth, Organist, Dobcross, near
Manchester Mr. Green's equal Asa Pianoforte Tuner
can rarely be met with. (Signed) Devi', BUTTERWORTH."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

Agent for the OBSERVER.

ESTABLISIEZD 1881

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CRIERS, Bill Posters, Messengers, and
Auctioneers Porters, Booksellers, &c.,
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Haiesowea and dietrict. Ness and Advertisements
received.

Valentines and Valentine 130, lie in greatvariety.
Salt's Lectures and P., ci.• on canon, sublccte, aneroid
by the Author. Price from Id. to 6d ea Book.
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SALT AND bon's.

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r liteen years, wishes to appoint • few respectable
Agents. Good Commission. Apply by letter arldre,sed
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lii -.r ii I , 4 ti,•40.1 0441
in 'riial oh el',. Speaking roughly, it may M
said that the expenses are but half the ineoine.
But this fact becomes of more importance and
significance when we are told that "as the ser-
vice becomes more efficient the amount of busi•
ness is rapidly increased. For inStance, the mo-
ment the comumuication between London and
Dundee was made direct the traffic inure than
doubled.- The moral of this is obvious. Tele-
grams ought to be cheaper. When the Govern-
ment undertook the telegraphic service they
promised us telegrams of 20 words at the uni-
form charge of sixpence—but they did not say
when. They told us that they would not at
once undertake so cheap a rate, because the
sudden influx of business at that rate would be
mole than the department could compete with.
! Everybody acknowledged the justice of this at
the time, but the question now arises whether
we have not waited bug enough for the pro-
mised reduction of price. Postal and tele-
graphic conmannieation are both increasing, and
may he regarded as amalgamated services.. We
have long enjoyed the luxury of a cheap post,
and are shortly to have further reforms in the
postal department. We cannot see any reason
why the telegraphic service should not also be
popularised and developed.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-29

THE FAMINE IN PERSIA.

The Indian pipers continue to publish reports of the
severity with which famine is pressing upou the mass of the
population in Persia. The Times of India says:

"The crops having failed in the province of Phars,
the most fertile of all the provinces an Persia, the dies
treated inhabitants, unable to maintain themselves even
by selling their own children, left their homes and fled
to distant cities. Thus, the I fovernment being deprived
of the usual levy of five lees of rupees from the city,
the governor, Ashadola, agreed with the
_people to
receive the money by long instalmn ets ; the King, how-
ever, ilia not approve of tire arrangement, mai in the
meantime a certain noble having offered I six huts
for the province, the King granted him the governor-
ship. It may well be conceived that the new governor
will try hi; utteost to cover the latter amount—to be
paid iv hint to the King besides resifrtingto any means
to raise a, much else as Inc can for his own purls roes.
In Koman, wheat was usually sold at about two
aortas per manful, but people from different parts
having fled, through famine aml oppression, into the
city, and the crops turning out very poor, prices have
increased ninefold. The clamour of the famishing
populace has obliged the authorities to search for com
in all the houses and cellars, and to confiscate all
found in them for the purpose of selling it to the poor
in the bazaars. The mortality in Kerman, arising
from this state of things, is described as fearful. The
soil of Yezd being well-suited to the growth of cotton
and opium, was never turned to the purposes of grow-
ing corn ; the quantity needed for consumption was
therefore hnported front Sheraz, Kerman, and
Ispahan ; but these latter cities having stopped their
supplies slime last year, the terrible misery in Yezil
may be imagined. Although about 20,001) or 30,000
of the inhabitants have evacuated the city, the people
remaining part with their children for trifling sums.
At the first stage of extreme hunger people took to
devouring camels,' asses,' and horses' flesh, and eats
also; but there being no more animals in the city,
many of the lower classes kidnap children and devour
them ! It is said that even dead bodies are eaten by
the hungerniaddened populace."
Relief measures are being organized in India, and
about 1:4,000 has been already subscribed by the
Parsees for their of-religionists in Persia.