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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-19

ROWLEY.

SCHOOL BOARD.—Mr. Bassano presided at the monthly
meeting held on Monday.—The Clerk mentioned that
an arrangement bad been come to with the Whitehall
Colliery Company by which the proceedings against
them to recover damages for injuryto the Cradley
Heath Board Schools were to be abandoned, and a deed
of crompromise had been entered into.—Mr. Hadley
brought forward a motion that the Board consider the
deficiency in schJol accommodation at Rowley, and
said he should move at the next meeting that a school
be built.—Mr. Hunt reminded the Board of a pro-
posal he had made that a free school should be built
somewhere in the centre of the district, and he recom-
mended the Board to think over the two suggestions in
conjunction.—The Chairman thought it necessary that
before the site of a school was discussed the Board
should have some statistics furnished by their officer as
to the state of the school accommonation of the district.
—Mr. Hadley eventually deferred his motion for two
months.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-19

SALES BY AUCTION.

1 -ew ILINz
I THE TErni AHD BRE/TH.-2i
' *eetilif°P3 of the liquid "Floriline " sprinkled on a
1-11°1.01Zilliberui all Produces a pleasant lather, which
. Auipurit. eanses the teeth from all parasites or
' metio, les, hardens the gums, prevents tartar, stops
1414 Vfives to the teeth a peculiar pearly-whiteness,
. kti ~.'leliglltful fr -ico to the brc:ttli. It removes
: toba,,-11131easant od:uTialrisin , fiom. Lleci.y ed teeth er
' toria—net,° Brnol.e. "The Irraggrant Floriline," being
it,Cl°lfilt,B°,l ill Part of Honey and sweet herbs, is deli:
tast_ ,e and the. greatest toilet discovery of
' l't4h4-ge. Price Vai tid f all Chemists and Perfumer&
444(414 bl Rear; Cl. GALLUr. 498 Ozford-streeis
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-19

BAD TIMES IN MECKLENBURG.

A correspondent of a Berlin paper, writing from
Mecklenburg, gives a gloomy description of the state
of affairs in that province. On every side, he says,
nothing but complaints are heard. The cost of pro-
duction has increased so steadily year by year that
there is at the present time but little profit to be
derived from agriculture. The shipping trade, which
formerly contributed materially to the prosperity of
the country, suffers from the general stagnation of
commerce and industry and from the compttition of
foreigners. But what weighs most heavily upon the
population of Mecklenburg is the ever-growing de-
creage in the exportation of corn to England,
which is now supplied with grain from Russia and
from North and South America ; while Russia also
sends considerable quantities to the Rhine and
to central and southern Germany—districts which
formerly imported largely horn Mecklenburg. In
Mecklenburg, however, agriculture forms so pro-
minent an occupation that when the farmer' makes no
money all the trade of the country suffers. Of late
years, the corre:Toudent adds, the harvests in America
have been so plentiful that that country has been able
to completely command the English corn market;
while the increased export of grain from Russia into
southern Germany is, it is stated, in a great degree the
result of the present war, which has prevented the
former country from sending as much corn as usual to
England, and has consequently driven her to look for
markets for her surplus produce elsewhere and nearer
home.—Pall Mall Gazette.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-19

THE INDIAN FAMINE.

On Saturday, the Lord Mayor of London received
from the Mayor of Sydney a further sum of £2,000,
being a third contribution from New South Wales
towards the Indian Famine Fund. This makes
£10,500 from that source. A second contribution of
£3OO from Invercargill, New Zefland, was also re-
ceived, and a balance of £3OO from Pietermaritzburg
and the up-country districts of the Colony of Natal
The latter remittance is said to be in a very great
measure due to the generosity of the Dutch and Ger-
man residents in the colony. A sum of £37 ss. 11d.
was likewise paid in as the result of an offertory at
St. John's Church, Freemantle, West Australia, and
the subscription of various members of the parish.
These donations increase the Mansion-house Fund to
about £503,000. Of this £475,000 has already been
sent to India; and a further sum will be forwarded
after the next meeting of the Committee. The Mayor
of Melbourne informs the Lord Mayor, in a letter,
dated November 29, that down to that day £24,000
had been sent to Madras from that city. Further
remittances from Sydney, Invercargill, and else-
where are promised, eo that it will be hardly possible
definitely to close the Fund for some time yet.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-19

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I REGISTERED FOR 1
I TRANSMISSION ABROAD. f

MAKER,

ADDRESS-
PARK STREET, STOURBRIDGE.

T. J. HICKS,
BUILDER, CARPENTER, AND COFFIN

DEALER IN CEMENTS, PLASTER. COW-HAIR
LATHS, NAILS, AND ALL KINDS OF
BUILDING MATERIALS.

PAINTING, PAPER HANGING, WHITEWASHING,
COLOURING, AND GLAZING DONE ON
THE SHORTEST NOTICE.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-19

HAGLE Y.

Mr. Holyfield, late coachman at the Field; House,
Clent, now ostler at the Lyttelton Arms, Hagley, met
with e very:severe accident while driving a football party
from Belbroughton to Hagley Station on the 6th jest,
The horbe took fright and set kicking, turning the
vehicle over the driver being under it. lie had three
of bis ribs broken, and was badly shaken, and still re-
mains in a very critical state.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-19

CRADLEY HEATH, HALESOWEN, AND DISTRICT CHRONICLE.

JOHN pARKER,

HILL STREET, STOURBI?IDGE.

THBOAT APPICTIONS AND HOAISENZEL-All rat.
tering from irritation of the throat and hoarseness
will be agreeably surprised at the almost immediate
relief afforded by the use of "Brown's Bronchial
Troches." These famous " lozenges " are now sold
by most respectable chemists in this sountry at
is lid per box. People troubled with a "backing
cough," a "slight cold," or bronchial affections, can-
not try them too soon, as similar troubles, if allowed to
progress, result in serious Pulmonary and Asthmatic
affections. See that the words "Brown's Bronchial
Troches" are on the Government Stamp around
each box.—Manufactured by JOHN I. BROWN IS: SONS,
Boston, United %Me, DePgt, 3 44f9A4litrintv
Gond=

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-19

THE HOPES OF PEACE.

Events in' the history of rations move in
these days with marvellous rapidity. They
seem to take their inspiration from the material
improvements which have marked the progress
of man, such as the application of steam and
electricity to the ordinary work of life. How
strangely now sound some of the chronicle of
the past, when we are told of wars which
lasted thirty years. We can scarcelj imagine
what kind of wars these could have been ;
indeed, the mighty revolution which has been
wrought cannot be better illustrated than by
pointing to the case of France. From 1792 to
1815, three-and-twenty years, France was at
war with the coalesced Powers of Europe.
Great Britain, Russia, Prnssia, and Austria,
were banded against her. Yet France was
enabled to keep her enemies at bay for nearly
a quarter of a century. For years and years
she suceessfully contended with four great
Powers. Contrast this experience with that of
1870, when France wrestled not with four
Powers for twenty-three years, but with one
Power only, and was utterly beaten down and
crushed in six months. She was so totally
exhausted that she had to submit not only" to
the payment of a vast war indemnity, but to
the annexation of two of her fairest provinces
to the territories of her hereditary foe. Be-
tween Waterloo and Sedan the art of war had
made enormous strides; and the events of that
last half year of 1870, so swiftly did they move
must ever appear to the patriotic Frenchman
more like the visions of a disordered imagina-
tion, or like the ill-boded phantoms of the
night.
The pace at which modern history is made
has received a remarkable illustration during
the past twelve months. It was on the 20th
of January, 1877, that the final sitting of the
Conference took place at Constantinople. It
had assembled because the promises made by
Turkey in 1850 had not been kept. The
misgovernment of her Christian forces was so
notorious that all the great Powers of Europe
sent special ambassadors to the Turkish
capital, and in council assemhled they de-
manded that the Porte should fulfil its Treaty
engagements The Porte called into existence
a Constitution, and summoned a Parliament
pledging itself that the required internal
reforms should be placed before the Legisla-
ture for consideration. This, however, did not
meet the views of the
,plenipotentiaries, who
demanded something more substantial than
Ottoman pledges had proved themselves to be.
Oa Veis poiat, however, tho Tarka ref abed all
ouceasions, aud 0n the 20th Jauuary lad the
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-19

pROFESSOR DIXON,

Ina Champion Skater of the Midlands, and
MR. HOWARD VAUGH TON,

(Winner of the First Prize Medal, at the late Bingley
LI: 11 Rink Comper'tion, open to all England), will also
appear in their Celebrated FANCY SKATING EN lEll-
TAINH.NT, introducing the Swell and the Girl of the .•'—'"'";V".".
Period.
PROGRXMME, COMMENING AT 8 P.M.
I.—Professor Dii-on rnd Mr. Howard Vaughton.
2 —Heathen Ch tee, on iteers.
3.-I)emon and Gor•'la.
4.—Clown, Pantaloon, and Nigger Performance, includ-
ing a Donkey Race.
s.—Russia
,end Turkey, "The Fight for the Standard."
Appropriate Musical Selections rilll be performed by
THE STOURBRIDGE BRASS BAND
Admission One .31 ,g, Skates, Sixpence,

N.B. Subscribers Ticks (wbieh lut Ile shown at
the door) will be available, but, Pot Coupon
Book Tickets.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-19

HAY.

WIIITECHAPEL, Saturday, January 12 —A largr supply of
Hay and Straw was on sale to-day. There was a very dull
trade, and prices remained unaltered for the b st descrlP-
tions. Prime Clover, 100 s. to lns., inferior, 85s. to Ms.,
prime Meadow Hay 00s. to 102 s. (Id , Inferioi 70s, to.,
and Straw 44.5, to 655. per load,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-19

THE DISTRESS IN SHEFFIELD.

The gentlemen who have been carrying out a ten-
tative arrangement for the relief of sufferers by the dis-
tress in Sheffield met the Mayor, Alderman Mappin,
on Tuesday morning, to report the result of their
labours. They stated that the distress was much
deeper and more widely spread than was generally
supposed, and that to properly grapple with it some-
thing more extensive than private enterprise was
needed. It was decided to form a committee in each
parish, with the vicars as chairmen, assisted by the
ministers of the various denominations, and all descry-
ing cases are to be relieved. Among families tickets
for groceries and meat will be distributed, and an
arrangement is being made by which dinners will be
given three days a week in halls in central places to
poor children. The Mayor has issued an appeal to
the public for contributions, and
parts
aanodf on h
eStaotwurnday realizedtwo
The Mayor's fund in addition has
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7 0 .

On Tuesday morning the. steamer Anglia left
Ferrol with Cleopatag Xoecile pi tow.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-01-19

GAME AND POULTRY.

Wild ducks 28. to 2s. 3d. ; wild geese, 4s. to is. 6d.'
widgeon, is. 9d. to 2s. ; woodcocks, is. 3d. to 4s. Gd.; black.
cock, is. 6d. to 45.; guin( a fowls, 2s. to is. ; pigeons, is. to
is, 3d. ; wood ditto, Ed. to lid.; plovers, ed. to 10d. ; golden
ditto, is. to is. 3d. ; snipes, ls. 3d. to is. ed. ; ducklings, es.
to 48 Gd. ; ducks, 2s. to is. ; geese, is. Cd. to Es. 9d.
goslings, Gs. to 10s. each. _

FISH.
Soles, is. 10d. to ss. per pair; IFs. to 225. per -
basket; lobsters, 15s. to4ss. per dozen; crabs, 60s. to 70s. per
kit; cod, .£5 17s. M. to 1:10 per score; crimped ditto, 123.6 d.
to 223 6d. each; bloaters, 9s. 9,1. to 6s. per pad; kippers, 3s.
to Is. 6,1 per box; mackerel, 2s. 6d. to Is. 3d. per dozen;
mullet, 15s. to 23s per score; eels, 9&d. to Hid.; salmon,
is. 6d. to is. 10d. per lb ; turbot, 10s. Oa. to 21s. each; com-
mon oysters, ss. to Ss. (id. per hundred.

SEED.
LONDON, Monday, January 14.—Little English Cloverseed
yet comes forward, and prices are udt yet fixed. French
qualities were held for more money but not many Was
effected. As yet not inueli is passing in American seed, the
shipments being very limited from the U. S. Trefoil met a
slow sale without any alteration in the Naluo of fine qualities.
Canaryseed was in limited request at no variation in the
prices of English. llempseed was fully as dear, with a
moderate sale. English Rapeseed was scarce, and good
black samples quite as dear White and brown Mustard.
seeds were in short supply and not much passing in either
sort. Foreign Tares were in moderate request at previoUa
values.
TALLOW.
s. d. 6. d.
Town 'Tallow, per cwt. 9 9 Rough Stuff, per cwt. 14 9
Rough Fat, per Sibs— 1 S Greases 12
IP
,Melted Stuff, per cwt. 29 0 Good Dregs ~ 0
• • Yellow Rmsian, new SW. ed. per cwt.
Australian 11 uttou 1 allow 40s. 6,1, .
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