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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-14

KAI GaILLT PLIAGURE IN FIBLISIING TIE FOLLOWING

TESTIMONIALS,
Irrona Mr. C. Potter, Professor of Music, from the
nstitution for the Blind, St. John's Wood, London :
I can confidently recommend Mr. Green as a Piano.
orte Tuner. He tunes by equal temperament, and °b-
sins an exact scale. (Signed) C. POTTEE."
From Mr. J. F. Patterson, Organist, St. Patrick's
Chureh, Huddersfield —"I: have much pleasure in tes-
tifying to the abilities of Mr. Green as a Pianoforte
Tuner. He lays the bearings with exactness and perfec-
tion. (Signed) Jemis 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
te giYing my Public Recitals . (Signed) E. K. SANDER-
SON.

Fromilt e s
eMr.r_" u
mt t
ro .
r Green'sw ert h i &mist, Doberoes, ne
m &
equal as a Pianoforte Tun
aB
ean rarely be root with. (Sigaed) DAVID BUTTERWORTH

s. d
Terms for Yearly Tuning, including miner re.
p
Cottages, per annum"... ........ ....... 1 1 6
Grands de . .
Single Tunings (in Town).
s. d. I. d. • a s.
Cottages.... 8 6& 6 0 Pull Grande 6 6 .1: 7
Semi-Grands 5 0& 6 0 Concert Iron
Trisherd. - - Grands.. 7 6

(513-liiu—e-. ~. 4 6& 5 6
Pianofertes Tuned o the Prole/3 Piteh (now univer
sally adopted throughout England,i t required.
**. A large stook of Classical and Modern Music, a.
Half-price.
and 67, Park Street, Waleall,
,Castle Street Dudley
Please observe the Address-260
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-14

KIDDERMINSTER.

STREET:BEAWLING.—At the Borough Police Court,
on Monday, Harriet Phillips was fined 40s and costs,
with the alternative of one mouth for brawling in Mill
Street, on Sunday evening last.—William Jael9on
was tine::: lOs and costs, or fourteen days, for a similar
offence, couiroitted in High Street on Saturday evening
last.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-14

At QUARRY BA

TO be SOLD
1. S. LEONA.E.D,

Ou MONDAY, the 7th
for Seven oicioek in
tichie

LOT I.—All that vel

HOLE) ‘Itb..BID.bNCE
junction of New Stree
aforesaid, containing .1
Bei Rooms, Brewhouse,
tenances.
The Premises are lt
Keen and Green, have
, Lane and 37 feet to Nel
Water, and the Gard
' Trees.
F LOT 2.—A1l that exce
f HOLD BUILDING 1
1 yards to New Street, C
Property of the Albion
yards or thereabouts.

LOT 3.—A similar Pi

and to Property of 51
frontage of 11 yards t
taming 550 square yard:

LOT 4.—A1l that v,
FREEHOLD BIJILDII
Lane, Lye, adjoining ,
Powell, having a frontal
aforesaid Lane, and cc
thereabouts.

For further .particala
Messrs. W. and A. G. H
to Lots 2 and 3, to

,
Brierley Hill and Colic
the Lots, to the Auction

PARISHES OF I
CH4DDEE
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-14

THE V
S

The number
phis yesterda3
there were 37 I
is increasing ir
where the love
place being no
flight of the in
The violence
The Governm
deaths in New
outbreak to r
States troops
been withdrav

There were
from yellow fe
there were 122
there is lucre
becoming desp
bably be form
compel the pe
place for th(
yesterday the
Munificent
distress cause(
throughout th
also aiding to
thousand negt
Orleans on fr

Two liundr(
fever and 81
At Memphis t
of sick in tha
3,000. Four
eight physicie
and the situs
beyond descr
been formed
yet been at,
has appeared
abatement ill
able at Hick.
and steambol
afflicted distr
Ninety thou
ment and it
that 1,000,00
their subsist(
An appeal he
dep6ts of pi
oupplies migl

The sitnat
hourly. The
Increasing.

The Porte
intelligence 1
gather with
Jakovo by ti
he refused to
for opposing

On the sul
Times writes

"Yesterday
had been offet
ordinary Corn)
that on his a
was surround
and it was
succeeded in
the spot Wi
In front of
their guns. I
excitement is
Prisrend and
this state of t
successful int
comes in that

I have just]
ing to official
Pasha has bi
with 20 acidic
which he was
same time ti
with 10 sup
massacred.
In Albania
anarchy, whi(

The Paris
thought by u
not due to A
excited may 1
of a strange li
the Berlin CI
his striking
of European
• and fatalism
from a Hu
of the Edict
many. Ref
escaped at
enterer.the
his intern gen
enter the ar
position he b
naeon.V_Ple
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-14

FUNERALS IN LONDON.

The Datly News of Wednesday says :—" Yesterday the
undertakers were busy in most parts of the metropolis, but
chiefly in South London, consigning to the grave the reraaiDs
of people lost in the Princess Alice which had been brought
by friends from Woolwich for private interment in the
respective districts in which the deceased persons had lived.
In some cases special services were held in the churches or
chapels they had been in the habit of attending; and pro-
bably the most impressive and certainly not least affecting
service was that performed at the early hour of seven a.m.
at St. Paul's Church, Lorriniore-square, Walworth, previous
to the interment of Mr. W. Lambert, long attached to the
church as a chorister, Mrs. Lambert, his wife, and Kate,
his only child of eight years. The Lambert family were
so well known to tne congregation and in the neighbour-
hood of Kennington-park where they lived, that even at the
early lic,ur indicated the church was filled to inconvenience.
The Rev. Mr. Powell chanted the Burial Service of the
Church of England, and then the Communion Service
was celebrated by the vicar, the Rev. W. P. Cay Adams.
The cofflus were incensed during the service. At ten
o'clock the three coffins were placed side by side in an
open funeral car, and conveyed to Nunhead Cemetery for
burial. Several mourning coaches containing the rela-
tives and friends of the deceased followed. An immense
concourse of people lined the way from the
church gate along Lorrimovesquare, and evinced profaned
sympathy for the bereaved members of the family. Within
a circuit of a quarter of a mile at every house the window
blinds were drawn. From East-street, Walworth, William
Slescomb and his wife, who had resided for years at No. 216,
were buried. Slescomb was 74 years of age, and had been
for 20 years in the same employ as a Jobber upon houses, and
had brought up a family of ten sons and daughters, and was
much respected by his neighbour; as was testified
by the presence of so enormous a crowd. There
was also some excitement in the Waterloo-road in the
afternoon, as the funeral of Mr. and Mrs. Anckorn was
announced to leave the premises which had belonged te
the deceased at half-past one. The funeral was fol-
lowed by many hundreds of persons, a large proportion
of whom went the whole way to the cemetery, where, with a
solemn and impressive service, the remains rescued from the
river were consigned to earth. Mr. Anekoru, who has been
for some years engaged in the Waterloo-road in the tinplate
working businese, in which be employed several hands, was
much respected in the neighbourhood, as was to some extent
evidenced by the feeling displayed at his obsequies.—At
Kentish-town great sympathy was felt for the family of Mr.
Ward, of 48, Grafton-street, whose sister, Miss Louise Sophia
Ward, and daughter, Miss Louisa Ward, were lost in the
collision. The former, who (Ira business for several years
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-14

OLD HILL.

LICENSING DAY.-At the Police court, on Wednesday'
befire Messrs. M, Smith, H. Ho.vard, \V. Bassan°, and
B. Hingley. The old licenses were renewed.
IR.iNbFERS.—the following transfers took place :
The Swan inn from Thomas Pratt to George William
Darby ; the Bull's Head Inn, Rowley, from James
Lovett to Daisey Lovett; the o.d Lion Inn, Gorsty
Ilia, from John Wright to William Priest; the New
leo, Old Hill, from Thomas Gould to Thomas Burgess;
the Neptune Inn, Old" Hill, from Ann Eliza Hadley to
Haden Hadley; the Bower Inn from John Mathews to
John Iron:tans. . . .

ASSAULT OAsE.—Francis Norton was charged with
assaulting Samuel Dauks, on the 3rd inst.—Mr. W. S.
Hayes defended —Complainant said as he was going
home on the night in question he was goiog up the rail-
way of the British Iron Company when defendant's dog
flew at him sod tore his trousers. He cams at him
again and witness struck him with a stick he had in his
hand. Defendant then came up to him and asked him
why he had kicked his dog. He told him e bad not
kicked it, but struck him with a stick he had in his
hand. Defendant then struck him a blow on the eye.—
The defence was that complainant struck the dog a
violent blow and knocked it insensible and the two men
then had a.tussle.—Defendant was fined 18 and costs.

\\TOMEI& UARIZELS.—EIiza Law and la-r;sl..:a-vi;v"ere
charged with assaulting Mary Robinson, nn the 18th alt.
—Mr, Hayes Appeared for complainant, and Mr Addison
defended.—Prow the evidence of complainant it appears
they are neighbours. Some dispute arose over a brew.
house when defendant struck her and hit her in the
mouth, knocked one of her teeth out and loosened two
others, and cut her lip, but she did not strike again.—
Mary Perkins gave corroborative evidence and Mary
Jones.—Mr. Addison, for the defence, said complainant
was the aggressor by striking Eliza Law first with a fire
siiovel.—Mary Robinson and David Robinson were then
charged with assaulting Eliza Law, on the same date.—
Complainant said the defendant first struck her on the
baud with a Are ahovel and wide it bleed, and they then
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-14


• AL, COKE, AND BRICK MERCHANT,
lEGS to return his sincere thanks to the
r inhabitants ef Cradley for their kind support, and
form them and the inhabitants of Stourbridge that
is REMOVED to ALMA VILLA, KIDDERMIN-
R STREET, STOURBRIDGE, where he hopes to
Amsted with a share of their patronage and sup-
, , which he trusts he will gain by strict personal
Lion and punctuality to business.

STOTE ORNAMENTS.
MOTHY doNiEs & Go.
• OLESALE AND MANUFACTURING PLAIN
D FANCY S'IATIONFES, BOOKSELLERS, tk
Largest and best Assortment of STOVE ORNA-
NTS, CUT TISSUES, AND GOLD LEAVES,
in the Midland Counties.
NIMMO'S REWARD BOOKS.
TRADE MOST LIBERALLY DEALT WITH.
UNION pASSAGE
(Bull Street End), and

SWAN pASSAGE
_ _.

(High Street End),

BIRMINGHAM.

T D j DYERS,
ÜBlinn ETT'OATPHPEOIQI;TMEENNT
BingwoßKs,
TALO GUE S FERr
FREE ON
n,
LE AGENT FOR STOURBRIDGE,
1;Y;. E. H. HUNSTON, 122, HIGH ST.

BENSON'S PAMPHLETS on TURRET
CLOCKS, Waigh,3s, Clocks, Plate, and Jewellery,
Illustrated, sent post free each for two stamps. Watches
sent safe by post. Benson's new work, "Time and Time
Tellers," 2s. 6d,

-.40r
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-14

AM.BLECO'2E.

iABIBLEcaTz NATIONAL ScltooLs ANNuas TBEAT.—
On Tuesday last the children attending the above
schools net their treat provided as usual by kind friends
Ut tile neielibourhood. The Head Master, Mr. C. C.
had the wuole arrangement. The day Was beau-
tifully lbw and at two o'clock the children aud friends
preo,•erted to tire cricket ground (kindly lent for tile
,ccaa;)u by the cricket committee) where a very enjoy-
able afternoon was spent try all. At five o'clock a move
was made for the school and in a very short time 550
aliiiaroi were partaking of the good things prov.ded for
..necu there Af.er tea the cinkrea gave some capital
recitations anti songs which appeared to be thorodgui)
:Tprceiated by the many pari.nts who attended. The
Vicar, the Rev. J. S. kloiaero (who presided) read the
quvernment and Diocesan Inspectors' reports and said
said the schools were among the best in the aistriet.
is gave the parents some excellent advice with respect,
regularity and cleanliness, which if taken and act.
p.o will prove of some beuetit to the elzw.iren
senools. 1-1“ that distributed valuable books as prizes
I. the foilow:uA buys dr,‘l girls tail, Watt.
iiiiam Dukes, Juno Cashmore, iuJwt
iiny, Albert Wassell, Frederick Skidiuore,
Frost, Harry Edwards, John Clu,se, Joseph lionefts, and
Frank Mavet:ck- Girls: Alice Niciilin, Kate Robeita,
nary J, Wood, Neilie Beynolds, Annie Cook, :thee
Nash (a), Alice Nash (b), Lucy Harp, Annie liattou,
-analla Sims, Harriet Smith, aud Sarah Payton. Alter
giving hearty cheers for the donors of the treat, the
Vicar, the Masters, and the Mistresses, Miss Birch and
Alas Stringer, the piety was drawn L.) a close by the
',aging of the Nawcns. A.O
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-14

CLOTRIN*.

20 yards Mole Skin at per yard
• •
100 yards Strong Grey Calle° .. ditto
100 yards 1 inn Grey Cane° •• ditto
100 yarns Thin White Calieo.. .. ditto
100 yards Dowias Cloth, .. ditto
200 yards Welsh Flanail, • •
100 yards Pinafore Hurdea, ;Sin we.:‘, ditto
100 yards Single Bed Ticking, 36in Wide, &Ito
100 yards Double Bed Tiekkriff. dile*
100 yards Chintz, (for Wingiow Blinds) date
3 dozen Boys' Corduroy Baits, at per Snit
3 „ Men's •I
!,
6 ~ Men's Grey Salta. to
BHORB.
2 dozen Pairs Wollloll's Shoes, at per pair.
3 dollen Pain a Girls' Shoes, at per pair.
2 dolma Pairs Wooleses Slippers, at per pair.

No Tender or sample, will be reoeirett at OA
nth day of September instant.
Satupies of the various .irtieleii ;Or be
sent.

Forms of tender. with soniitioas of sostract, whisk
Slone will bu r.-ecved, Gan be obtairisi OA applisotiss at
my Office et Eit,ourlaidge, or of th aster of the Work-
hotss zit iiiugswkutord.

is about the eonsumption that may or maylittls
The estimated quantity of the seversd artielso &b."
stated,
required, but the Guardians do not bind *omitivai
receive those or any other given quantities.
All the Articles to be delivered, free of eirbale, at
such times and in such quaatitiee as the Guardians mil
direct, at toe Union Workhumie, Kingswintoid.
The Bread to be delivered-baked- notices than 24 hours
;ilia each 25 LOILTIN to weigh 1001bs.
Each Contractor will he zeirniroi to took, into a you
traet, with one or more sureties, se eke liarsitiaue may
direct.
Payments for Coals will be made monthly, if preforrei
subject to the areal discount.
The Guardians reserve to tueaieelveg _ ;or
jesting the loweet or soy other Tender.
By order oi uie Board,
rowet
GEO. HOLLOWAY, Cloak.
lb Iti7t3.
4

~•.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-14

IVA).

)(ow Ready, the TEIRTIETZ TIOUBAND, Price One
Shilling. Free by post, 12 stamps, in envelope.
wOMAN : AS A MAIDEN, WIFE, AND
MOTHKR. Illustrated with ENGRATIN6II ON
()on, Cloth gilt. Tnis is a Book of great importance
Woman.
DR. HENRY SMI, S BURTON CRESONNT, LONDON,
W C.

NOTICE TO COUNTRY INVALIDS.
naultation by Letter without Fee.
." IR. HENRY SMITH, (By Diploma of the
IJ Royal Univ,r+ity f Jena) who ha* devoted
•-,,:ftfY Y.i;A.R.i vi the :?rmeial Treatment of Diseases
Nervous .57.,t0.m. ,su Ling from Exhaustion of
-;•.• P wer, LOCe dt,., will for the beneit
• • .•,ntry Invalid, on receivaig a statement of case,
.„, ~•12 A fcce and Instructions, which,
• ; a Per.ockal lotprviw aud
• • ,)
./••em q.; nv,..tdcd.
• . ••
•4.• . •-f CorrspoudeaCS t.b assist
• sent Post Free.
8, StlJP.'l- CIIKSCEN
• LON,

4,

:vi

• L

R (-1 ROUNDS.
1.3

uF FLOWER:4.

•
\-r) • 2 b ontir,ly re-Arranged, the
•::3:76. and filsod with various

C.IPROVZD AND JUTE DED
LAKE.

The !IKAT;Sti•Tj K. will be open for Three Exercises
Is:very 49,:c. Pourn..,”%i Band Every Evening Hynyer
and Giimer's Bead wY MKT front 8 p.m. ro 6p in jr
the Grounds on iitktarda 4Leino,;a, and from 7 LIS 9in
the Rink

The CO7.ISERViTORY ig replete with a choice Col-
oi riowering and fx ,t-e Plants.
The new Erections of AQUA.RIUM and ASSIIMBLY
ROOMS are rapidly prngregsing.

itT.inn _
t-) Grounds. ..... U. each.
Admission V. Rink ..... U. each
Use of -;kates..
P.;nk tsk..n It hs various entranees admit
iato tba Gronpds Irec

Sean riskets can be obtAi‘,4,l 'it the 02ler, of tit.
3ornpany, Holte Hotel, katoo, where any other infor-
mation required will be furnished.
Trains inn to Witton Statioo, London and North
Western Railway, aajoining the Grounds ; and Ontni
buses run constautiy.
H. G QUILTER, Managing Director.

WANTED.—Fir a donee near Stonrbridge,
ILAN aud ••VIFA, Man as Gardener, and 'to
atteutt to Pony Wile as an experienced Cook, •nithont
encamberanea, :d *Prod 40.—Apply by letter,
Viliefranc4o, Lord'o Wald iad, Harbourne.

•
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-14

THE FEARFUL COLLISION ON

THE THAMES.

From several sources we give the following particular s
of the appalling accident which occurred on the even-
ing of Tuesday, September 3rd, to the Princess Alice,
and which has proved to be one of the most fear-
ful disasters of modern times,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-14

OPERATIONS AT THE WREON.

With the exception of the nearer approach of the wreck to
the bank, nothing of a very marked or affirmative character
occurred on Monday in connection with what is left of the
Prinoess Alice. On the contrary the chief discovery of the
day was happily of a negative kind, the only thins, in fact,
of any bnyortance which was ascertained being that the prog.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-14

A SCENE IN KENSAL-GREEN CEMETERY.

The London correspondent of the Liverpool Post writes :
Happening to be at Kensal-green cemetery on Tuesday, I
saw the funeral of woe of the persons lost in the Princess
Alice, and I could not help being struck with the strange
excitement it produced. The deceased was the daughter of
a newspaper proprietor in the West of London, and really it
seemed as though a large section of the population of Ken-
sington and Netting-hill must have attended. The chapel was
quite full, and the doors could not be closed, as people were
standing in the entrance and outside on the steps. A dense
crowd surrounded the grave, and the coffin was thickli
covered with wreaths and flowers, many little children
struggling through the mass of people to throw in a floral
offerng to the poor girl's grave. I noticed, too, what I have
seldom observed in England before, that nearly every man
the streets removed his hat and stood bare-headed while tha
funeral proeession passed by.

Between 6 a.m. on Monday, and 6 a.m. on Tuesdah
37 bodies were landed at Woolwich Dockyard, makiill
with those already reported 512. There were remove
for interment 74 unidentified, and 94 identified, which
bring the number of interments to S9O. One of the
unidentified was afterwards recognized. The number
remaining was 152, of which 46 were unidentified'
In the morning nine were brought in from the
wreck and the river. The heat had made them rise to
the surface, and Superintendent Alstin, of the Thames
Police, brought up at 5.10 p.m. the bodies of a man,
a child, and an infant, picked up by him on his wsl
from Erith. These are but gleanings, the harvest Woe,
reaped on Saturday and Sunday. Up to six o'cloo
the total number recovered was 554. Up to the Bailie
hour there had been 50 private funerals.

The official wreck inquiry, under the provisions gi
the Merchant Shipping Acts, in the case of the coati;
sion between the Princess Alice and the Byviel;.
Castle will be held at the Board of Trade Court s'
Poplar, before Mr. Balguy, the stipendiary magistra?,
and two nautical assessors, on Tuesday, the 24th I!:
stant, at 12 o'clock. It has been impossible to fix
earlier date for the inquiry, owing to the mass of evil
deuce to be collected in order to secure a thorough siv
complete investigation.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-14

TERRIBLE

Pottsville,
scene of a terni
factory of Thor
of gunpowder
ning. The wh
which ensued, ,
only was the
stone and iron
trigs within a ra
with the grou
like matches, a
jected in all d
balls. Person E
from the factor
of their carriag
teen miles off,
of earthquake
The number ol
known that sei
Mrs. Stalke, ti
were sitting
occurred and 13
Stalke was kill
severely injure
destroyed, and
have been k,
about half
explosion, and
picnic, was df
of stone and
fragments of
leg. Another
drawing a car
who were for
great number
killed and the
fall mainly on
utterly ruined
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-14

BELIIROUG

OATES, PERI
Are favoured
lirown Esq., to 8:
SEPTESIBER 25th, 11
01 GROWING POT,
At Brookfield, 1i Air

On Upper House Fai
On the Villa Farm, 5:
The Potatoes prou

divided into convitnie:
Sale to commence
Afternoon.
Mr. Brown, Draytcc
shewn. .

TWO ACI
AT 1101

TO be SOLD
OATES, PE
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEM
afternoon, in suitable
Mr. C. Cox will sb,

STOI
HOUSEHOLD FUR:

To be Sold
OATES, PERR
(Under a deed
Creditors), on Tunßsi
the kiOUSEHOLD Fl
Mr. Jas. Watkins, Cab
Stourbridge. The Ho
toned Pianoforte, in w
ease, Drawing Room
best make, Chimrey C
Engravings, Books, an,
Cabinet Maker's BTOt
Logs, and Boards of
Walnut, Rosewood, Ye
some of which have bee
includes a capital Vis-
and numerous valuable
The Sale to common
Catalogues may be
Street, Stourbridge.

AUCTIO/
104, HIGH A 52

OATES, PERR.
have the pleasui
Sales periodically at th
.of Estates, Houses, E
Works of Art, ctc., (Itc
charges, to be had oi

FREEHOLD PRO
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-14

CRICIiET.

URBRIDGE V. SMETHWICK. —The return in itch b•
teen tue above clubs was played at Smethwick Oa
Saturday last, and was won by Smethwick. The follow-
ing is the score :—Stourbridge: G. P. Minett, b Smith,
1; D. Docker, run out, 2; C. E. Davenport, run out, 4 ;
G. F. Simms, c Smith, b Shaw, 1; C. Ford, c Cox, b
Smith, 16; J. W. Parkes, c Shaw, bF. T. Cox, 11; C.
Rogers, not out, 7; W. J. Ingold, b Cox, 3; A. Plant, at
Cox, 0; T, Brown, cJ. Sawyer, b Cox, 1; •'. Grear, c
Smith, b Cox, 4; total, 50.—Smethloick: it. L. James,
b Parkes, 35 ; It. Docker, c Ford, b Ingold, 11; W. M.
Vaughan, at Brown, b Ingold, 2; L. Docker, 1 b w, b
lugold, 8; F. T. Cox, Ibw, b Ford, 20; W. Barden„
b w, b Parkes, 6; J. W. Sawyer, not out, 14; J. El
Deeley, b Ford, 0; W. Shaw, not out, 0; J. T. Smith.
and C. R. Sawyer, to bat; extras, 9; total, 105.
STOURBRIDGE V. BRUNSWICK (Br RMINGHAIYI).—This
return match was played at Stourbridge on Saturday
last, and was drawn in favour of the home team. The
Brunswick men did not arrive on the ground until late.
The home team lost the toss and they were put in to
bat by their opponents and they had a good afternoon's
leather hunting. Tilt, home team put on the telegraph
133 runs. Edge made the top score, 56, in excellent
form. Mr. Penn played a very careful innings and added
17 to the score, C. C. Hicks 11, and 0. Cooper 10.
There was only ten minutes time to bat for Brunswick,
but the bowling of Webb and Edge was so good that
the former bowled three wickets and the latter one
during the ten minutes, four wickets were down for nine
runs. Time was called and the match was drawn in
favour of the home team. The following is the score :
Stourbridge; F. Webb, b Whitworth, 7 ; 3, Edge,
h w, b Beresford, 56 ; J. Penn, c A. Jones, b Bereaford,
17; T. Lowe, c Gibbons, b Hall, 11; C. Cooper, b
10; C. C. Hicks, b Hall, 0; A. E, Millward, b Hall, 0 ;
W. Perry, run out, 1; W. Minett, run out, 1; C. W.
Oates, 4; F. G. Pearson, not out, 8 ; extras, 7; total,
133.—Brunsuick: Swingh, b Webb, 0 ; Burford, b Webb,
2; Jones, b Edge, 0; Hall, not out, 2; Summers, b
5 ; Coss, not out, 0; total, 7.
ST. LEGIIII.—First Jannette, second Childeric, third
Master Kildare. Time by Benson's chronograph, 2
minutes, 20 seconds. Time last year, 3 minutes, 27
seconds.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-14

TRAGIC AFFAIR IN GLASGOW.

A most tragic occurrence happened in the East-end
of Glasgow on Saturday night, which resulted in a
young woman being shot. A carpet weaver named
James Martin returned home the worse for liquor, and
quarrelled with his wife, He resented her efforts to
get him to bed, and, seizing her, almost choked her.
He then barricaded the door, and the woman, fearing
she was to be again attacked, tried to jump out of the
window, which was only a few feet from the ground.
Her husband dragged her back, and then she seized
her youug child and with the assistance of some persons
outside she escaped. Martin ten became furious and
threatened to shoot some one. He is a sergeant in a
volunteer regiment, and, loading his rifle, he
deliberately fired among the crowd. The ball took
effect on a young woman, Catherine Durnan, 17 years
of age, and she died instantly. Martin fired a second
shot, but fortunately no one was struck. A rush was
then made to the house, and Martin, after some resis-
tance, was apprehended and safely lodged in prison.
On searching the house 24 ronnds of ball cartridge
were found.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-14

MR. GLADSTONE and MR. MUNDELLA.

The Sheffield Independent publishes the following letter
from Mr. Samuel Watkinson, of Buckley, Cheshire
"As Mrs. Ames, of Old Hall-road, Attercliffe, is
staying with us a few days, I took her to see the park
and castle at Hawarden. As we were walking down
the drive from Penymynydd we heard the sound of a
wood-cutter, and unexpectedly, to our glad surprise,
we came face to face with the Right Hon. W. E.
Gladstone, with hat, coat, and vest off, and with his
shirt-sleeves rolled up and his braces down, felling a
fir tree. He had just begun, and bid us welcome.
He asked us where we had come from, and when we
told him Sheffield, he at once wanted to know all about
the meeting in the Square, and if it was true there was
a great noise. and if the show of hands was in favour
of Mr. Mundella. My sister Ames told him it was,
and he said, 'Mr. Mundella is a good member, and
bheffield ought to stick to him.' He went to work at
the tree, and in half-an-hour it came down with a
crash. He showed us the axe, and said it was the
American style; the shaft was made oi hickory wood,
and was very thin, but very tough. He works harder
than I should like, but he said it did him good. I was
pleased at the sight, and shall send you one of his
chips which was cut to-day at four o'clock."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-14

scene which carries his imagination back long years
in the history of his native land. He has read of
them, but lad no more idea of their reality than of
the substantial nature of the stories in the Arabian
Nights. The people assembled in the moonlight,
the weird-like and fantastic mode of rejoicing under
the oold and ghostly rays, the heartiness withal which
is thrown into the proceedings, and the quiet sur-
roundings of the singular spectacle, are so unlike the
busy existence amid which his life is spent, that he
can scarcely bring himself to believe himself in the
same world. In every county, and well-nigh in every
district, the harvest-tide commemorations vary in
character and in degree; but they are invariably
genuine, and never fail to impress the stranger with
the sterling energy prevalent amid the incidents of
rural life.

It is not generally known, in discussing the position
and prospects of our Indian empire, how much the
British Government has done to conciliate Shere Ali,
the ruler of Afghanistan, whose public conduct has
lately given the authorities at Calcutta cause for much
uneasinev. We have for years showered gold into his
lap. Before 1869 he received £120,000 from the
Indian Government, to say nothing of 10,600 stand of
arms and costly4preients, in order that he might be
mada our bondsman'and the determined foe of Russian
influence: /*et all the subsidies he has received have
not induced him to receive an English Resident, nor
prevented him from accepting one from Russia. We
have sent a Resident and a guard to Khelate, greatly
to the annoyance of the Ameer of that territory,
and if the Belochees should lay violent hands upon
our representative, we might be lan2ed in enterprises
the result of which none can foresee. In case the
Resident either at Khelat or at Cabal should be
killed, all India would cry aloud for a more vigorous
dealing with the Afghans, and we should in a week or
two be in for a war of conquest and prestige beyond
the Himalayas in regions which have no frontiers but
Persia and the Russian Empire. High Indian
authorities have declared that the true bulwarks of
that land are to be found within her own limits, and
that her triple line of ramparts are her frontier rail-
ways, popular content, and improvement of border
organization. If the Hindoos should beclme dis-
affected it would be dangerous to send an army out of
India; and if they remain loyal we have the very
best security for holding the country against possible
aggression.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-14

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TERRIBLE GUNPOWDER EXPLOSION.

Pottsville, in the State of Pennsylvania, was the
scene of a terrible accident some days ago, the powder
factory of Thomas Weldy and Co., containing 30,0001 b.
of gunpowder and dynamite, being struck by light
fling. The whole town was shaken by the explosion
which ensued, as if an earthquake had occurred. Not
only was the manufactory—a very solid building of
stone and iron—swept clean away, but all the build-
ings within a radius of a quarter of a mile were levelled
with the ground. The largest trees were broken up
like matches, and stones of enormous weight were pro-
jected in all directions with the velocity of cannon-
balls. Persons who were at a distance of half a mile
from the factory were thrown off their horses and out
of their carriages; while at Tamaqua, which is seven-
teen miles off, the ground vibrated as during a shock
of earthquake, and several houses were damaged.
The number of victims is not yet ascertained, but it is
known that several people have been killed. Mr. and
Mrs. Stalks, the manager of the factory and his wife,
were sitting down to dinner when the explosion
occurred and brought the house about their ears. Mrs.
Stalk° was killed on the spot, and her husband is very
severely injured. About a hundred houses have been
destroyed, and in each of them one or more persons
have been killed or injured. A wood which is
about half a mile from the scene of the
explosion, and in which several people had met for a
picnic, was devastated by a regular shower of pieces
of stone and wood. Two boys were decapitated by
fragments of stone, and two other persons each lost a
leg. Another piece of stone killed a horse which was
drawing a carriage in which were seated two ladies,
who were fortunate enough to escape unhurt. A
great number of horses and other stock have been
killed and the loss to property, which is immense, will
fall mainly on very poor people. Several families are
utterly ruined by the destruction of their houses.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-14

fought. David Robinson pulled a quantity of hair out of
her head and jumped ou her head while down —Kliza
Law was fined lOs and costs for assaulting Mary Robin-
son; in default one month —The cross-summons against
Robinson was dismissed.

NAILERS' RELIEF CONCERTS.-Mr. Walter Bassano,
J.P., presided at the first of a series of concerts given
in the Reddal Hill Schools to augment a relief fund for
the millers of the district who are on strike. 'The per-
formers were lady and gentlemen amateurs of the neigh-
bourhood. In some remarks at the commencement of
the proceedings the Chairman expressed his sympathy
with the nailers so far as their suffering was concerned,
and denied that the help that these concerts were to
afford was intended to encourage them to continue the
strike. It was help just in the sense that one would
thrt w a rope to a drowning man who had attempted to
commit suicide. He considered the struggle a helpless
one, for the nailers were not fighting against a combina-
tion of masters, but bad trade. He would not say a
word as to the justice of the nailers dam nd, lut he
thought they made a mistake in preferring it just now,
and believed they had ascribed things to the masters
which were unfounded. He was a coalmaster himself,
and knew that it would be just as reaonable for the
colliers to strike now as for the nailers, but he also
. knew the masters could give them no more money. He
could answer for himself that he never lost so much
money in his life as he had during the last two years,
and he could not afford to lose much more. His own
feeling was that the strike was a grand mistake, and
that the nailera had far better take " half a loaf than no
bread." In further remarks Mr. Bassano disclaimed
any wish to make political capital out of the relief
movement, and alsc said he did not believe the masters
would grant an increase if the strike continued from now
till Christmas.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-14

ROWLEY.

SCHOOL BOARD.—THE NAILENS' STRUM AND THE R.
MISSION OF FEES.—The monthly meeting of the above
Board was held on Monday, under the presidency of
Mr. W. Bassano.—The School Officer reported that the
average school attendance was very low, owing to the
great amount of sickness prevailing in the district.
Several of the parents had taken advantage of this to
keep their children away from school and to find them
employment at home. As a caution to others it was
decided to issue summonses in four of the worst cases.
About thirty persons applied to the Board for the re-
mission of the school fees of their children. The
Chairman mentioned that the majority of the applicants
were nailers on sttike,—A question arose RE to whether
it was competent for the Board to remit the fees under
the circumstances,—The Chairman was of opinion that
they could not legally relieve them. They were without
employment, and in consequence unable to pay the fees,
not because there was no work to be obtained, bat be-
cause they had voluntarily abstained from work,—Mr.
Hingley thought they were entitled to relief although
they were out on strike.—Mr. Green was not opposed to
grating the remission of the fees to these poor people if
they could do so, but he considered there never was a
more ridiculous strike than the one existing at the pre-
sent time.—The Chairman pointed out that in the case
of Boards of Guardians when a man could have work
and did not choose to do it, the Guardians did not con-
sitl, r them,elves bound to relieve him, There was also
another difficulty. If they granted the applications the
remission would be for a month and the strike might
terminate shortly and thus they should be granting
relief where it was not needed,—Mr. Green : They are
already going in around Old Hill; but if they wait until
they got what they ask, they will not go in this year,
nor next. That's a settled fact.—Mr, Hingley thought
the best plan to adopt would be to let those who could
not afford to pay their fees at present, in consequence
of the strike, run in arrears' which could be paid up
afterwards. After further discussion the subject
dropped, and most of the applications for remission
were granted,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-14

SECTARIAN -PREJUDICE.

The division of maukiud into nations, sects
and tribes has exlstld f .ti the.earlies ages i-
the world down to the present ti tie. We
might almost. take our wArtieg point fro.o
Adam, for as soon as human knowledge began
to increas, diversity of opinion increased like-
wise, and of course this div2rsity nranrally
proved to be a disintegrating principle among
the descendants of our first aneestor, who, with
his fair consort bad previously moved the first
step towards enquiry and had shown his great
curiosity for thirst and inform..tion by trying a
rather dangerous experiment upon a forbidden
tree. In later years men were not slow to im-
prove upon the example sat before them, and
the different opinions which have been formed
upon all knowledge acquired by or revealed to
the world have thus given rise to many sects or
parties representing vations shades of thought.
Among the Jews for instance were the Pharisees
Essence, Sadducees, and Herodians. Among the
Grecians, the Academics, Stoics, Cyrenaics,
and Sceptics. In fact there has scarcely been
one single nation possessing intellectual free-
dom which has not had its sectarian diffor,nces.
As the great world of thought lies open before
us and as we survey its mighty hemispheres
reaching from epoch to epoch and from country
to country we are struck by,the marvellous
disagreement of human opinion, and the multi-
tude of divisions which it causes in the ranks
of society. It would be a difficult task to ex-
amine the prejudices of every single nation and
we must therefore confine our attention to
English society alone, which is considered the
, most

England more than any other nation ia Cele-
brated for its sectarian differences. And 80
so Lunch is this the case that few men can corn-
wand public respect without they belong to
sorae particular clique or pin their faith to
s%oe fashionable dogma. Great Britain is the
prinepi arena of all religious and political con-
troversy. Papacy and Protestantism are here
I trgely represented amongst the literary gladi-
ators, and the pride of the Churchman and the
jealousy of the. Dissenter are likewise fully
vreciated.
%Vbile outside this ring of Biblical warriors
throng of politicians
sli1;%; albl e s!hoclePniirr-,?-:°tylie:-..vs to each other con-
-riling the sz,,— ei)nt i! • inno ,71-!n ;;re.
no raga ora Wog
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-14

FEARFUL SUFFERINGS AT SEA.;

the
A sad story of suffering and privation is told 1410
survivors of the crew of the Cardiff barque Lady P
Bruce, which sailed for Table Bay with a cargo o.f
on the 30th April. After encountering a successtodsO
gales the vessel sprank a leak, and the water gairlefpie
considerably that the vessel had to be abandoned. ,
crew took to their boats on the 9th July, and weri of
the ocean seven days, during which time their stoebot
water ran short. They suffered terribly from thoo,
and the effects of the salt water which drenched tP:or '
but at last they made the Island of Santa
Here, though they found some water, their provo
became almost exhausted. They, however, fell io
some friendly natives, who ministered to their wille
and piloted them to Maranham, where two of os
crew died, and one was left by the survivors, Whi);,, A
forwarded to this port by the steamer Braganza "-
hopeless condition.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-14

A WEATHER PREDICTION.

The following cable message has been received at
the London office of the New York Herald from New
York :—Cyclonic storm crossing south of 40; will
probably reach Spanish, affecting French coasts about
11th. Stormy in Bay of Biscay."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-14

REWARD OF VALOUR.

An interesting scene occurred the other day on
board the Marine Society's training ship Warspite, at
Woolwich. The officers and boys having been
mustered in the schoolroom, Mr. George Ward on
behalf of the committee, presented the Royal Humane
Society's testimonial on vellum to a boy named
Thomas Baker, aged 14, who plunged into the water
from one of the Warspite's boats in June last and with
great difficulty succeeded in rescuing a drowning
child named Alfred Taylor. At the conclusion of the
ceremony the boys greeted their shipmate, who had
received so distinguished an honour, with three ringing
cheers.

So saccessfully has swimming—that important
branch of a sailor's training—been taught on board
the Warspite, that Captain Gillett, R.N., the super-
intendent, reports that no less than 129 boys havelearnt
to swim this season, a report which possesses double
value in these times of terrible disaster by drowning.

JOCULAR CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN
PAPERS.

The Western wits now call bigamy Utahlizing the
female sex.

President Ef%yes has scandalized fashionable Wash-
ington by going to church in an alpaca coat, though the
public must admit that he was thus enabled to think
more of the Lord and lees of the thermometer.—American
Paper.

Josh Billings suggests that many a young poet
might be able to collect his scattered thoughts if he would
look in an editor's waste basket early in the morning.

-- -
A Hindostanee work on music says that "music is
the painfully acquired art cf speaking very loud in a shrill
voice."

" Hurry up with that refreshment," said a customer
to a barkeeper at Roanoke, Indiana, and the barkeeper shot
him through the head. ibis teaches us the value ot polite.
fleas.

What the world seem to be weeping for now iz more
fast king shunakers and lees seekond rate proffe!sors.

In lowa there is a woman so fat that whenever one
of the neighbours finishes a new house they invite her to
come and spend a week. It helps to settle the foundations.
A man died of some simple disease in Colorado last
month, there being no doctor within fifty miles. They must
have fetched him, however, wherever he was,

The national debt was said to be a national blessing;
but it has been reserved for a Massachusetts pastor to explain
how the debt on his clairch is a blessing—not in disguise,
either. He says: "We have a debt on our church. It has
been there for a long time. It will doubtless be there for a
long time to come. When we are asked to contribute to any
object, we refer to the debt. It has thus saved us a great
deal of money—more than the debt itself many times over.'
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-14

THE QUEEN'S SYMPATHY.

The following gracious message from the Queen was
on Friday addressed through the Board of Trade to
Earl Sydney, Lord Lieutenant of the county of Kent,
and also to the Lord Mayor, on behalf of whom
Alderman Sir Benjamin Phillips, sitting in the
Justice-room of the Mansion-house, read it pnblicly
from the Bench :
"Board of Trade, S.W., September 6, 1878.

" My.Lord,--I am directed by the President of the Board
of Trade to inform your Lordship that the Queen, who has
repeatedly telegraphed to him for particulars relative to
the recent terrible collision between the Princess Alice?
and the Bywell Castle, has now commanded him to ex-
press Her Majesty's sincere condolence with the relatives
of those who have lost their lives in, and Her Majesty's
sympathy with the survivors from, that fearful catastrophe.
As Lord Sandon is unable to obtain the names and addresses,
and is therefore precluded from communicating personally
with all the sufferers from that awful calamity, he trusts
that your Lordship will assist him in making known Her
Majesty's gracious message of sympathy,-1 have the honour
to be, my Lord, your Lordship's most obedient servant,
"HENRY G. CALCRAFT."

Mr. Carttar, at the opening of the adjourned inquest
on Monday morning, read the following letter from
Lord Sydney :

"Frognall, Foots Cray, Kent, Sept. 7.

_
" Sir,—The President of the Board of Trade having com-
municated to me the Queen's gracious message of symnati?3,
with the survivors of the recent melancholy catastrophe in
the collision between the Princess Alice and By well Castle
off Woolwich, with view of its being made known to them,
I believe the best means of giving effect to her Majesty's
commands and expression of sincere condolence with the
relations of those who have lost their lives in this fearful
catastrophe is by requesting you to make public, at the
next meeting of the inquest, the above gracious com-
munication —I have the honour to remain, Sir, your most
obedient servant, SYDNEY, Lord-Lieutenant of the County
of Kent. C. J. Carttar, Esq., Coroner for Kent, Greenwich,
Kent."

The Coroner observed that this was only another proof
among many that the sorrows and distresses of the relatives
of the deceased are mourned over by Her Most Gracious
Majesty, and shows how affectionately Her Majesty seeks to
share, to solace, and to alleviate the grief of her people.
The task of identifying the bodies was then proceeded with,
a great number being identified.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-14

rail clove to where the struggle took place.—Dr. Ash.
mead, practising at Brierley Hill, said he saw the prose-
cutrix on Friday the 6th of September. Witness found
a wound commencing on the right side of the neck and
extending about five inches across the cheek. It was
not a deep wound. The injury was such as would be
caused by a knife not very sharp. Witness found a
wound at the base of the thumb of the right hand.
Such as would be caused by her grasping the knife.
The wound on the neck was so slight as not to be
dangerous but if the knife had gone a little deeper it
would have been very dangerous. Slight wound on the
left finger.—Prisoner said "My wife has been off with
other men during the last six months. I did not wish
to hurt her. Coming home through Dudley Price had
his arm round her waist, he put his right baud up her
clothes. I have been earning three or four pounds a week
and have turned it alt up to her." Prisoner was committed
to take his trial at the next Staffordshire Quarter
Sessions.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-14

DUDLEY AND WALBALLI

V:!ANOFORTES and HARMONIUMS may
' be had on the NEW SYSTEM of HIRING, for Two or
•Years ; after which, and without any further pay.
,to become the property of the hirer. All Instru-
- •.i had on this system, or otherwise, will be
.tinged any time within six months for any other,if
~)preved of, and returned carriage free. And fur-
.- :cites a trial of three years, any Pianoforte or liar-
would be taken back, at its original cost, ansl
oncy returned, deducting the usual charge for
thus offering greater advantages than the London
mingham Houses.—Apply FREDE.HICK GREEN
Warehouse, 260, Castle-street, Dudley, and 673
Area, Walsall.'

G. F. GREEN,
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And 67, Park Street, Walsall.

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ADTION TO MOTIEBRI I—Are you broken in your net
by a sick child sufferisg with the pain of cutting teeth ?
Go at once to a chemist and get a bottle of as.
WixeLow's 800vniivo Sump. It will relieve the pose
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 bntton." It soothes the child,
it softens the gums, allays all pain, relieves wind,
regulates the bowels, and is the beet known remedy far
dysentery and diarrhea, whether arising from teething
or alter causes. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup is
sold by Medicine dealers everywhere at is lid per
bottle. Manufactured in New York, and at 498, Oxf9rd
Street, London.

TEE HAUL—For 40 years Itdrs. 8. A. ALLEv's
WORLDIB Ham ItaIiTORBE has received the eommendation
and favour of the public. It LAM acquired the highest
place that can be obtained for any moderate enterpriel,.
aadoontribated to the adornment of tens of thousands of
pease's, who have the proof of its servicable character.
It will positively renew and reetore 114 original a" "at!u'
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strengthen and invigorate the Hair, top its falling, ens
induce a healthy and luxuriant growtb. No other pre-
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