The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-02-21 00:00:00

THE STOURBRIDGE OBSERVER.

ing erogramme was gone through in a wry Hinds appeared on behalf of the Waterworks Corn -
creditable manner: —Pianoforte solo, Mr. S Simms, pany. Mr. Holloway proved that she owed the
jun. ; song, 'The little hero," Mr. H. Bird ; song, money. An order was made for payment.— ,
"Killarney," Miss Maud Pearse ; recitation, Stisannah Pardee was summoned for 13s Gcl on
"Engene:Aratn," Mr. Sylsester humourous song, no o int of a water rate. An order was made for
"The happy bachelor," Mr. Andrews ; flute solo, , oeyinente—Simeon Wooldridge was summoned for
"There is nae luck," Mr. J. M tthewe ; song, Li 15s 9d, on account of a water rate. which in-
" Voices of woods," Miss Melvina Field ; song,"The eludes ach tree for a tap. Defendant admitted
vagabond." Mr. J, Gudgeon ; cornet solo, Mr. ILI 5s but not the 5s 91 which was cOarged for a
Perry; glee, "The tor song," Oldswinford glee . tap An order was made for payment.
sinvers ; flute solo, "Auld Robin," Mr. J.Matthews; Daresils,—Richard Jones was charge] with being
song, "Within a mile of Edinboro town, ' Miss drunk on the 14th inst. at Cnolley. P.C. Gwill itn
Maud Pearse ; song, "I am waiting," Mr. J. peo7ed the case and defendant was fined 53 and
Gudgeon ; recitation, "A few lines not in print." costs.
Mr. Sylvester, song, "The children's home," Mrs p FURIOUS DRIVING. Benjernia Homer was
Addenbrook ; song, "The chestnut tree," Mr. charged with driving his hor•e, furious), on the! 3th
Andrews ; pianoforte duet, Messrs. S. Simms and A inst. A witness was called who said th derentiant
Simms ; sone, "yes, if you like," Miss Nlelvina was driving fast, and knocked a barrow over she
Field; violin solo "Concerto, No 1, in D," Miss was wheeling and also knocked her over.— Joseph
Maud Pearse ; duet, "Money matters " Mrs. Guest. said he was stood by Nielells zrel Perks's
Addenbrooke and Mr. H. Bird; glee, "Sleep while entry and he saw the defendant knock the last
the soft evening breeze is blowing," Oldswinford witne4s down. He drove off and did not stop to
glee singers.—Mr. S. Simms played his solo in see whathe had done. Defendant was fi,n-ti 104.
capital style, and the duet was also well rendered. and costs; or 14 days ; they also allowed the co es
Mr. H Bird was in good voice and gave a very of the two witnesses.
good rendering of his song. Miss Pearse was also CAUTION.—Henry Horton was charged tint he
well appreciated for her songs. which she sang very beimr the driver of a hose was in such a positioe
nicely. She also played her violin solo in a credit- as not to h ,ve control over it. P.S. Oakey -aid ee
able mariner Mr. S)lvLster gave his recitations saw the horse by the Railway Coffee Tavern, lie
in a style that showed he had taken a lot of trouble saw it start offend turn up the entry by the site of
to get them off so nicely. Mr. Andrews wes again , the coffee house. If it had not been for a stone
the favourite of the evening. He was loudly encored under the window it won] I hay breken it. Supe--
for both his sonss, to which he responded. Mr. intendendent Wheeler did not wish to press the
Mathews t till retained his good form, and ehowed case, and defendant was fined 6s 6d including costs.
by the way he played his solos that he was yet a
flautist of the highest rank. He was lously ap-
p.auded for the splendid manner in which he exe-
cuted the solo "Auld Robin" Miss Melvina Field
is now so well known that it is needless to say more
than that she was in her usual good voice, and dis-
posed of her songs with much delicacy of taste and
feeling. Mr. Gudgeon sang the songs allotted to
him in a very efficient manner, but he shone forth
particularly in his last song "I am waiting," for
which he was loudly applauded. Mrs. Aldenbro' k
sang her song very nicely, and was warmly ap.
preciated. The cornet SAO by Mr. Perry was
given in a grand manner and showed that be was a
complete master of that instrument. His powers
of atticulatic.n and double lipping are great, and
were quite a treat to all present. The glees were
sung very well and showed careful practice. The
duet by Mrs. Addenbrook and Mr. Bird caused
much amusement and was nicely performed. They
sere loudly recalled, but they did not respond.
A. vote of thanks to the ladies and gentlemen who
had taken part, brought the proceedings to a close.
Mr. S. Simms officiated as accompanist,
FIRE BRIGADE —We are please I to say that the
handsome sum of <£6o 2s 6d has beau handed over
to the funds of the brigade as the reiult of the
recent performances given in the Corn Exchange,
Messrs. W U. &H. Lo May, seed factors, 68,
Borough High Street, L report :—There
is again an increased enquiry for all descriptions of
clover seeds, and many parcels of English red clover
have been sold Out jog the last week, the exceed-
ingly low prices now ruling inducing many mer-
chants to commence buyieg. Eng;is r red clover
slid offer- plen fuily, but prices must he quoted
firm. Foreign net clovers are quite neglected.
White cloves and alsike are in better demand ;
prices without alteration. Trefoil.—Prices still re
main very low but :he demand lately has been
considerable, and prices have an upward tendency.
Foreign Italian rye _sass is very firma. More money
is asked on the other side, but price,' here are with-
out alteration. Perennial rye grasses are without
change. We strongly advise those who have not
bought, to take advantage of the present unusually
low prices. The season is now close at hand. and,
with the usual increased demasd, prices of most
seeds are sure to advance.
STOCK Sans. The fortnightly stock sale W 5
held on Tuesday last. Sthck came fr)ely to tie
market and the sale comprised 65 head of cattle,
350 sheep, and 100 pigs. There was a good attend-
ance of buyers from ii-minehanr, Kidderminster,
ant the Black Co .rary. Highest figure. realized
were fit heifers' £27 17s Gd, bullocks -£22, bulls £2B
58, cows and elves £l7, fat calves ZS 10. fat piss
£6 13s, sheep, we hers 655, tegs. 565. Satisfactory
, prices were realised throughout. Mr. 11. Kins, was
I auctioneer.

KIDDERNIINSTER TOWN COUNCIL.

The Mayor (Alderman W. Green) presided at the
monthly meeting of the Town Cauncil on Wedaes-
day.
Mr. Grosvenor called attention to the expendi-
ture of £24 123 41 on the Infectious Holoital for
, the past month, and asked if the Sanitary C on-
mittee were satisfied with it,
Mr. James (Chairinan of the Sanitary Committee)
stid they were not satisfied with it. They did n.t
think proper economy was being exercise I. Tia
meant to enquire into it.
Alderman Tovey asked how they were goiu; t )
deal with de deficiency of upwards of £l4, left ui--
paid by Wekt, the absc nding Sanitary Inspector.
Mr. Jam( s replied tkat they were leaving it in
abeyance at present, trusting that West or his
friends woull rcake it good.
Mr. D. Corbet (the Medical Officer of Health pre-
sented his monthly report, from which it appeared
that there had been 55 births during the month, as
against 80 tor the same month last year. The
deaths had been 55, or 28.039, as a.minst 42, or
21.!393 per 1 000. Thad been eight deaths in the
workhouse, and one in the infirmary.. The ages at
which thirteen died amounted to 1,034 years, or as
nea 17 as possib'.e an av,e: igo of 80 years. Five
peat hs fiom s.earlet fevet• had o.2,,zurred during the
month, all in Wool Street. A present the disease
teas chiefly ie St. John's parish ; but it was extend-
iiig There had been one death from enteric fever
during the month, but that was a case a-tacked
some four months ago. There were still four cases
of fever in the Infectious Hospital, all doing well.
Alderman Howe Green asked whether the com-
mittee had taken It tion in reference to preve ding
hut liquid dye from running into the sewers. That
created most of the worst smells about the town
He was very pleased to see that the Medical Officer
of Healih had taken the same View of the matt lr as
Dr. Pats us did.
M.. Bythoway asked if they would compel the
manafacturers to prevent that,
Mr. W. C. Green said the dye might be het, b
no had smell arose from it.
The Mayor said they would be turning the trade
out of Kidderinin,ter if they did not mind.
Mr. D. W. Goodwin said he did not believe so
much harm oceurred from that as some people
imaghiel. There might be a little nuisance, but
the Corporation compelled the manufacturers to
drain their dye vats into the sewers, and it would
not be right to put them to further expense to pre-
vent the dye from running in now.
I Alderman Tovey said there was no doubt the dye
running into the swats caused a great nois taco to
he town; but as they had already male the manu-
facturers incur the expense connected with causing
the dye to run into the sewers in the first instano.,
he thought the Sanitary Committee should take in-
to con,ideration the adivisability of putting a separ-
ate pipe to receive the dye at the time that the new
sewerage works would be carried out.
Mr. Grosvenor said that was a matter which he
hoped the Sanitary Committee would tike into
grave consid-ration. The manufacturers had already
been put to con-iderable expense in making the dye
run into the revvers, and if they had to erect huge
tanks into which the dye would have to be run, so
that it might cool before it went into the sewers, it
would e itail enormous cost, and the question was
whether the evil was of such a nature as to require
so large an outlay.
Mr. Tomkinson said the Kidderminster manu-
facturers were already over handicapped by the
heavy charges imposed upon them by the railway
companies, and the present proposed heavy outlay of
the Corporation would also be very burdensome,
and if they were to be put to extra expenses of this
longer,citehpAal
,aoirtirratt.crtGo,ea,
sfnr,
on.
lotmdtshoLvereteetyfxDni
further
s(ithat:oihan6iued,sailreg(4mdl
edoinosfoo:t,
jtuihin
ilsbesei
to,law aisletnh
etwomo carryuatlatebr
do
lin.oo
smpt
p.uoclh.
gornhi
twttheeae adoptioncpapaid
ilde
d
attention o
slack.
atchke.
By his instructions the Borough Surveyor ordered
it. Taey got that down in consequence of some hi-
'formation that Mr. Tomkinson, one of the members
of the c m nittee, had given them. They found
that by having the slack direct from the collieries
they should be effecting a considerable saving in
the cost of slack. He moved the adoption of the
report.
Alder nan Howe Green seconded the motion, In
doing so he referred to the question of allowing hot
dye to run into the sewerg. There had been a great
deal said about imanufacturers having been com-
pelled t) run their dye into the sewer 3, and of the
hardship th it woald be inflicted if they were made
to have tanks erected fur the cooling of the dye
Bat s-nall prop_Tty owners were to be compelled to
pull down middens and erect water-closets at a cast
of from £lO to £2O, and that was a gr:aterharlship
to them than would be inflicted upon manufac-
turers.

BOAND OF GUARDIANS —The usual weekly meet-
ing of this Board was neld yestPr lay, Mr. Ra.yboull
presiding. Admitted 12 discharged 8, &al 4, bra
1, remaining 573, Hgainst 558 last year. Out-dour
rt lief, Kingswinford 1.45 4i 6d, Stourbridge £3l 5s
I a. Flalemowen £26 7s id, non-resident prtupers
£1 19s 81, total £lOl 16s 40, against £9B us 741
last year. The notice of the motion for the division
of the relieving parish of Cradley from Halesowen
was deferred pending the decision of the L ical
government Board on the matter, and the"c erk
was directed to ask for the decision to be communi-
cate].

DRUNKENNESS-At the Police Court, yestord iy,
before Colt.nel Fletcher, Maj tr Cochrane, and Cap-
tain Noel, George Kirkland was charged with being
drunk on the 18th inst, at Cradley. P.C. Gwillam
proved the case. Fined 2s 6 1 iat.l. c sts.—Josi
Westwood was charged with being drunk on the
14th inst, at the Lye. P.C. Pow,ll proved the
case. Fined 2s Gland costs.—Leonard Stni.h was
charged with being drunk and incapable on the 15th
inst, at Williston. Fined 28 6d and costs. He was
(other in conjunction with Joseph Weaver, James
Ilingley, Henry Bate, and Thomas Atkins, charged
wit obtaining ale from William Tomlinson during
pro`iibited hours, by falsely representing themselves
as travellers. They were each flied 5s and CO3:8. -
Th nnas Luck was charged with being drunk and
incapable on the 15th inst. P.C. Davis proved the
case. Fined 5s and costs.—La,ban Freeman w.ts
c',arge.l with being drunk on the 12th just P.
Wrig !t provt d the ease. Defendant was find 53
ani —Wi ham Dewier was charod with being
drunk and disord-rly on tie 14 h inst. P.C. Heath
proved the cas and defendant was fined 10s and
cos' S.

CONTRIVENINO THE MINES REciuta&TioNs.—James
P...araon; collier, C,adley Park, was charged that he
being enployed in a certain coal mine on the 14 h
January, did unlawfully contravene one of the
spciil rules duly established, for and then in force
in the said mine, to wit, by then and their neglect-
ing to report at the colliery office an arvidc:it
through a fall of coal at J. King and Cos. Colliery.
—From the evidence of George Percival it was
shwa that it was the duty of the defendant to re-
port any all of coal. Oa the 14th January a f .11
of e a, which injure .I a man, took plac 1/..;lnd-
is..t's duty was to report this, bat did not do 0. and
these proceedings w.re taken. Thy ii not wish
to press thq ca-c, they only wis'ied to prevent a re-
curreoce of the off-nee. Colewil Fetch-T sid i
was a serious matter. as the man ini;ht have been
killei As the case was not presned against him
they should only inflict a fine of 403 and costs; in
de•aalt a distress.

Mr. Tomkinson : I b g to rise to a point of order.
Allermau Ilo•rl! Gr.:on in order ?

The Mayor said he thouet not. It was hardly
fair to reintrodu3,, th,) diseus3ion of a subja t tha
had a.lre uiy been dealt with. It was wrong— n-
tir(lf wrong.
Mr. Grosvenor : Nothing in thlt report allwle I
it

ATTMIPTED SUICIDE —Willian Ayres, 35, parch-
ment maker, Angel St 'eet, was charged that h)cid
unlawfully take a quantity of a certain p 'is mfl, called
sulphate of zina, with intent thsrebv to feloaiously
and wilfully, and of malc3 aforethouzlit, to kilt
aa I murdar Peat., parchment
in ikr,,vorking at Messrs. Turn .Ts, wad a Nvirktnate
, time p isoncr's s Lil canr) he it the shop on Man-
lay last, anl he saw hi n swallow something—he
could not say wheth,-r it WAS a !!quid or a powder.
Abaut 10 minutes after ha took something frornhim
in a paper (produced ) Jr. was labeled "poison,"
and was handed to Dr. E Lgar in his presence. lie
11 -Ard prisoner say, "It will sa,n be all over."
Alt,art _iustin, another workmate, said he saw the
prisoner take a parcel out of his pocket. He saw
hi 0 pat the parcel in his left.. h ind, and with the
fiag..a. and thumb of his right hind ha put so no of
th. • p avder ia his mouth. He bear I prison 'r say,
It wll soot be over, lit we taken poisau.'• He
saw tha plalret, which was laballei "poi :on."—D:
Eagar sa.LL was call dto Me.s rs. Turneys works,
where lie saw tme prisonar. tle or Prr.l(l 1•1 0 0 tic.
lie saw the prisoner about 5 hours and asked Ytn
why he had taken the poison. Prisoner r !plied
that it was to make him sleep. He said he hal not
slept for several days, When he saw the pri.-_oaer
on the first occasion someone handed him a packet,
which contained sulphate of zinc. He could tell
by the tasaa, and he had also compared it with soma
more, It was a poisonous subtance if tak in in
suilicion'; qua.nti!ies. The quantity a matt coal 1
t Lk) out with hi., thumb and finger would not cause
a fatal result, and it was never u9ed to cause sleep.
—Coloael Pletcher sai iit was a fue'lsh thing to
take poison, awl asked him if he had any friends
who lilooLl rake care of 'Lim. A friend of the pri.
soner's who was in Court said he weLs willinz to taka
care of hun.—Prisoner said there had been a lot of
trouble in his home which had weighel on his
mind, and the consequence was he could get no
sleep. A friend had told him that sulpi.a.e of zinc
was a good thing to cause sleep, and that was what
he took it for, and not for the purpose of kil,ing
himself. Toe case was a ljaurnel, and prisons'
was bound over in his own recognisAuces of £2l t)
appear when called upon.
„AO rING As A. PEDlAR.—llindereaalSmith, a gipsy,
was charged with aet:ng as a ped:ar on the 12 .h
inst at the Lye, without haviug a certificate. l'.o
Brazener proved the case. The case was adjourn rd
for 7 days, ia the meanwhile deLalant was to take
out a license.

The Mayor: I thought so.
A,dermau Howe Green : One moment, Mr.
r.
The Mayor: I sey you are out of order, and I
can't haat you.
Aldermen Howe Green : I centend I have a right
to speak about this hot dye going into the sewers,
whilst we are discussing the report of the Drainage
and Waterworks Comeettee.
Mr. Goo iwin said Alderman Howe Green mus-
confine himself to the matters dealt with in the
report.
Alderman Howe Green: Mr. Go elwin is out of
order himself. He has spoken two or three titn is.
The Aleyor ; Tne Coeneil heve decided you can-
not discuss the subject.
Alderman Green : I protest against this question
being "burked." I say it i.s unfair when the in-
terests of the people are at st tke to saut ue a dis-
cussion in this way.
Aldermen Tovey remarkel that Alderman Howe
Ur.r.en !right pet himself in order by askin4 a ques-
tion about aa item for cemoat. If that was used for
the sewers, then he would h tve an opportunity for
see?altine.'of the other matters—(lauehter).
The subject then dropped:
Mr. D Coraet also read his annual report Le! Vie
past year Tots stated th et Be number of births
in that period w is 791. or 31 137 in the thousanl,
against 850 births, or 3;3 591 in the thousand, for
the preceding year. Lucre had beea 501 deaths,
or 19.761 in the thousand, egainst 466. or 16 159,
for 1883. The increased death-rate was en irely
dueto the epidemic. There held been 83 cases o
smalltpox, with eight deaths fro a it, in the pest
year. ,The majority of cases :were of a mouthed
form. Vaccination had been closely looked up.
There had been three deaths from scarlet fever
during the year, but the disease was now showing
signs of becoming epilemic in St. Johns par.s
['here had been no deaths from whoopingecoug •.
Four deaths arose from diptheria. F:fty-seven
deaths arose from diarrhea), chiedy during the
months of July, August and September. Only eve
of taose who had died were over five years: of age.
Summer diarrrhcea was very trouhl -se no, ana i
the past year had been worse that useal. On
August 29th, 1881, he realised the fat thae the'
had an epidemic of typhoid to deal with. He had
not heard a whip r from any scu,..ce, ev,n of e
suspicion of such a diseaee being in tee towa H
immediately saw the Town Cletk, an I arranc 01 f
a special meeting of the sanitary Committee to b
called on the following morning. He attend d, and
laid the facts before them as fir as he knew, believ-
ing that there were then 80 or 100 cases. It
was decided disinfectants should be distrieutei!, a.ed
that the sewers should be freely flushed an:
thoroughly disinfected. He had often express el
his opiulan that the epidemic resulted from sewer
gas arising from want of preper vetailaliou of te
,sewers. The committee declined for the firste o ith
Lc) admit any case into the infectious hospit ii, ii--
hough he explained to them them thit, ever e lee
i would become a centre of infeetione The first Le. es
' that came under his notice were in be hisher par,a

FACTORY AC': PROSECUCION. John Taylor was
charged with employing his son without obtaininc,
a c,rtific4t.3 from the school regarding his attend.
ance. Mr. Platt said he visited the defendant's
shop on the 24th January last. He made inquiries
reipecting his school certifiate and they had not
got it. He folud that the hay's atteidanc3 at
school was very iir gular. lie had ptevrntsly cau-
tio ied tile ,nt. Fin d 10-% includiu4 costs.
NON t'AVAIENT OF NVAFE:: L-txuE.. a all raylor
was summoned 10 siAw _caw° why p tw 13 I 'aid not
pay 15s 6d the amount duo for a wat.r rats. Mr,

of the town, in the newer a,ndbetter alas of houses.
ThPre had been 1,000 cases of the disease, and 108
teats from it, an tat least 1,000 other persons
had been effected more or less frcen th same cause,
Ninety-nine of 1h) deaths wt.re of persons over five
years of age. The slan2hter-house.s were clean, but
900 d many of them were unfit for Ithe purpose.
The lodging honsus were wholly unfit for the pur