The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-06-17 00:00:00

SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1876,

A.A.ged
A SETTLER. " altdreSSET: "Air's rather
thin on the top, Sir. We efid 'iehly rec—"—Cos-
tomer (gaily). "Yes. Can you recommend any stuff
which will—ah—remove the emaindar !! ?" [Operator
tacet.—Punch.
THE CHANNEL .TUNNEL. the House of
Commons, on Monday evening, Mr. Bourke, in answer
to Mr. Davenport, said—l am happy to inform the hon.
gentleman that in the event of the scheme known as
"the Channel Tunnel scheme" being attempted to be
carried into effect, the Government have already pro-
vided for authority to conclude a treaty—and a treaty
will be necessary—and that treaty must receive the
sanction of Parliament before being carried into effect.
LATEST IfROAL CONSTANTINOPLE. --.lt Is an.
net-Inca that one of the first acts of the new Sultan of
Turkey was to come nut with a new Hatt. What a
civilised person His Majesty must be ! Any other
:k woeld have worn a turban as a matter of course.
ee Western nations ought to feel complemented.
Judy.
NEW ACT ON POISONING ANIMALS.—By an Act
just printed (39 Viet., c. 13) to prevent the administra-
tion of poisoneu; drugs to horses and other animals, it
is provided that if any person wilfully and unlawfully
administers to or causes to be administered to or taken
by any horse, cattle, or domestic animal, any poisonous
or injurious drug or substance, he shall be liable (milt ss
some reasonable cause or excuse be shown on his behalf)
on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding £5,
or at the discretion of the Court to imprisomnent with
or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding one
month in the ca,e of a first offence or three months in
the case of a second or subsequent offence. The pro-
vision is not to apply to the owner or person acting by
his authority, and nothing in the new law is to exempt
a person from other punishment, provided he is not
punished twice for the same offence. The statute is to
be cited as the "Drugging of Animals Act, 1876."

BEST LIFTS FOR 110SPITALS.—Hospital Satur.
day and Hospital Sunday.—Punch.

THRIFT AMONG THE WORKING CLASSES.—The
Earl of Shaftesbury, in sneaking at the annual dinuer
of the S. Giles's Friendly S)ciety, observed he was
anxious to see thrift and economy instituted among
the working people. Nothing was more beneficial.
The nation on the other side of the water had set Us a
wonderful example. The French peasantry had lower
wages than the English, and yet they saved so largely
that only a short time ago, when it was necessary to
raise a loan of nearly 200 millions sterling t ) pay he
indemnity to the German Empire, a large portion was
raised from among the peasantry. They were wonder-
ftVly economical, especially in the matter of food, and
otit of 6f. per week as wages they even saved some-
thing. The noble earl reminded the working classes
that they were the architects of their own fortunes,
and said their richer neighbours could not lift them
out of the mire—they could simply render them
assistmoce.
WHY 18 THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE LIKE THE
CHINK OF GOLD ?—Because it's the ring of Sovereigns.
Fun..

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SAYING A GOOD WORD FOR lIORSEFLESH.
In a curious article in the Abeille Medicate, M. M.
Decroix, Chief of the Veterinary service to the army
of Lyons, says that horseflesh is more healthy and
more nourishing than that of oxen, sheep, or pigs. It
is easier of digestion than that of any other animal
killed by the butcher, after having been enormously
and prematurely fattened, and is more particularly
suited to weak persons, and to workmen who make
grea muscular efforts.
CoNsumrrioN or SPIRITS.—In the first quarter
of the year 1876, duty was paid on 4,241,770 gallons of
home-made spirits for consumption as beverage in Eng-
land, on 1,504,449 gallons for consumption in Scotland,
and on 1,675,115 gallons in Ireland; making a tot al
of 7,421,334 gallons, or 197,061 gallons more than in
the corresponding quarter of last yean. The increase
in England was only 6,411 gallons, but in Ireland it
was no I,,ss than 2C6,586 ga!lons ; there was a decrease
of 15 926 gallons in Scotland. The quantity of foreign
spirits imported into the 'United Kingdom in the first
quarter of 1876, and entered for consumption here, was
3,008,783 proof gallons, or 66,808, gallons more than in
the same quarler of last year.
TREASURE TROVE.—The Scotsman, says :
"Daring the pabt week a large-sized horn has been
found on the shore of Broad Bay, in Lewis. The horn
was quite full of silver coins, most of them of the reign
of James VI. of Scotland, but some bearing an older
date. Broad Bay is within three or four miles of
Stornoway, and has always been a great resort for
windbound vessels. It is conjectured that this horn .
may have been stolen from B-00:10 ship, and deposited
in the spot where it was found, with the future inten-
tion of returning for it when search in the district had
been given up, and that the intention of the depositor
must in some way have been frustrated. The coins
have been taken possession of by Mr. C. G. Spittal,
Sheriff of Stornoway, on behalf of her Majesty."

MARITIME RIGRTS—OF WOMEN. —The Right
of Britannia to rule the waves, and have a Manof-war
called "she."—Punch.
BYGONE TIMES !—lt seems strange enough to
read now that little more than fifty years ago a Sove-
reign of England should have taken direct part in an
election. Yet this was the case at Windsor, when
George 111. canvassed the town in person against
Admiral Keppel, and entering a rich mercer's shop,
muttered in his hurried way, "The Queen wants a
gown—wants a gown. No Keppel—no KeppeL".
AN UNDISPUTED OPINION.—BiII Sykes (read-
ing his paper, log.). What! Increase the taxes for
the Prisons? Well, now, that's what I calls Liar and
reasonable !—Punch

A CIIRIOU3 DISEASE.—The papers received by
the Overland Mail report that a disease, call-cl the
new disease, lately manifested itself in the Madras
Presidency. The symptoms are a tingling sensation
in the toes and soles of the feet which rapidly extends
upwards, producing fatal results in a very short time
unless measures be 'taken at once. The natives adopt
as a remedy a mixture which is very characteristic;
they administer the undigested and unassimilated food
contents of a goat's stomach, which is reputed to be a
sovereign cure. Two cases, one of a woman and the
other a man, came recently under the treatment of a
medical man in Madras, who applied his own remedies
with complete success. His report to the Madras Mag
on these two cases concludes as follows :—From thee°
two cases I think this disorder to be a form of the
dengue, in which the spinal comm is the first to suffer
as in meningitis. Whatever it may be I am not pre-
pared to affirm, but with regard to the mode of treat-
ment there can be, I opine, little dispute. A combina-
tion of quinine and pros 3ic acid, or opium and chloro-
form, premised by a sharp emetic according to existing
indicatlons, seems to be the most proper course to
pursue. It is said that the sequla. of
.this disorder is
lockjaw.

Th. Qizeen and Princen Beatrice went to the parish
church of Critthie on Sunday. The Rev. Dr. Donald Macleod
officlated, and dined with the Queen in the evening.

Mr. Jefferson DaNis, c.ccompanied by hi I wife and
faumy. arrived at Livbrpool on Monday, in tho Memphis,
from New Orleanr.
The county of Devon is now absolutely free from
foot and-mouth disease.
The clergy of nearly 800 churches and chapels in the
metropolis have intimated their intention to preach sermons
and make collections in aid of tfie Hospital Sunday Fund on
Sunday, the 18th

Mr. Henry Kingsley at the beginning of his illness
had just completed a book for children, entitled "Folio and
Duodecimo
A gentleman, dining with a friend, was asked what
part of the fowl he preferred. " 04, only a bone." This re-
quest was literally taken, and a bone, well scraped, was sent
to him. " Ralf of that, if you please," said he, sending hack
his plate.
As the Rev. G. H. Davies, rector of Campton, near
Guildford, was pronouncing the benediction al the evening
service on Sunday night, he suddenly fell back ill the pulpit
and expired within a few minutes. The deceased was forty
years of age. Tie was only presented to the living in Dacember
act.
The North-west African Expedition, the objects of
which are to determine the feasibility of flooding a prtion
of the desert of Shan, by admitting to it the waters of the
Atlantic, and to examine the coast for the purpose of die'
covering a good harbour, started on Saturday.
The revisers of the authorised version of the New
Testament met on Tuesday at the Jerusalem Chamber for
their sixty-first session Fifteen members were present, the
Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol Wing in the chair. The
Company carried on their revision to the end of the Epistle
to the Philipplana.

Several China papers state that there is a movement
being made to introduce a mint at Peking. Should this step
be adopted it Would greatly facilitate the settlement of mone-
tary transactions, as the Chinese have no fractional currency
except inferior copper cash, which is very cumbersome and
unhandy.
Mr. Meldon, M.P., presided over a meeting of the
National Teachers in Dublin on Saturday. A resolution was
adopted condemning the conciliatory principle of the Act of
1875, asking a maximum of £2, and a minimum of £l, at class
salary, and offering a deduction from salaries of supplemental
funds towards State pensions.
Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by Princess
Beatrice, and attended by Lieutenant-General Sir T. M.
lliddulph, the Dowager Marchioness of Ely, and Colonel
Maude, will, according to present arrangements, return
from Scotian-a. to Windsor on Thursday week, the 22nd inst.
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A Board of Trade return shows that during the
months of January, February, and March, 315 persons were
killed and 1,68 a injured by railway accidents. Of the number
killed 30 were passengers and 185 servants, while of the in-
Pored 383 were psssengers 1,152 servants of the companies.
Sixty-t,wo trespassers (including suicides) were killed, and 27
Injured.
An alteration made in the Customs and Inland
Revenue has been published as to licenses to retail wine for
consumption on the premises, under the 14th Geo. IV., &c.
The allowance is now to be an abatement of 7s. 4d. where the
premises in England and Ireland are under the rent or value
of £2O a year, and 17e. 10d. where the rent or value is £3O
and upwards.
A Times' telegram from Calcutta says that news has
been received from the Persian Golf of the increasng virul-
ence of the Plague.—The /ndian Medical Gazette says the
climate, soil, a.nclveople of Bengal are adapted for an exten-
sion of the Plague, and urges extensive sanitary reforms in the
native part of Calcutta. It describes the state of some
quarters as positively loathsome.
Three boys, cousins, named Manson, have met with
a fearful death us ar John o' Groats They had been climbing
a precipice called St. John's Head in search of seabirds'
eggs, when they lost their footing through a piece of rock
givnig way, and fell on to the beach below, a distanoe of 110
feet The bodies were dreadfully disfigured. The little
fellows were each aged nine years.
At a large and important meeting 0 coalmasters of
South-west Lancashire, held in Liver,— ii on r,onday, the

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,ollowing resolution was passed :—" That in consequence of
the great reduction in the price of coal and the very depressed
state of the market, all wages of the colliers in the South-
west Lancashire districts be reduced 15 per cent."
In consequence of the refusal of the Durham miners
to submit to a reduction of 15 per cent, on above ground
work, and 10 per cent on underground labour, the employers
held a meeting in Newcastle on Tuesday, when a resolution
was adopted offering to refer the question to arbitration.
Should this proposition be rejected, notices Will probably be
Issued which would result in the throwing out of employ-
ment of some fifty thousand miners.
The Coventry Herald says :—A tradesman in that
city has handed us a letter which he has received from a
working man, who, with his wife and family, emigrated from
this neighbourhood to the United States about eight years ,
ago. The letter enclosed a cheque for £6, being the amount
of a debt incurred by the writer fir goods supplied previous
to his departure. No previous communication had passed
between the parties, and the receipt at the remittance was
entirely unexpected.
The Manchester Guardian sass the English iron
trade is threatened with exclusion Vora Russian markets,
rireicieußussianGovernment vme rannmjanct t huraevrisn Find determined ionuendt
country,
accedeaiidot
place
ltare
such impositions upon the importation of rails as will render
It imposiible for English makers to enter into competition
with the Russian rail makers.
For the purpose of considering the Government
Education Bill introduced by Lord Sandon an important
meeting of Nonconformists IN as held in London on Monday
at the Westminster Palace Hotel, Alderman M'Arthur, M.P.,
in the chair. Objection was taken to the measure on various
grounds, but more particularly on that of its not grappling
with the question of compulsory education, and because the
tendency of the proposals was to consign the education of
the people of England into clerical and priestly hands.
A well-informed correspondent with Majpr Sande-
man's Mission, says the Times of India, writes to the Lahore
paper :—" The assumption of the title of Empress of India by
her Majesty has given the Belooch chieftains the greatest
satisfaction. We gather that their views on this point
coincide with those of other native potentates. There ran
be no doubt that her Majesty's advisers have acted wisely in
recommending her to take this step."
The Municipal Council of St. Petersburg, which is
said to be much in want of money, has elaborated a project
for tsxing all revenues derived from labour. The taxpayers
are divided into seven classes, of which the first has to pay
1 per cent, on its revenue ; the second, 20 roubles; the third,
10 ; the fourth, 5; the fifth, 3; the sixth, 1; and the seventh,
half a rouble a year. This project has naturally enough
created much discontent among the working classes at St.
Petersburg.

Lynch law seems to have become very popular in
America. A telegram dated from Fort Worth, Nees, on the
22ed ult., says that nine men were hanged by a mob for
horse-stealing in Jack County last week, and six in Erath.
Two of those hanged in Jack county are said to have been
innocent. Another telegram from Elgin says that two un-
known men were found hanging several miles out on the
pralrie.l
The weekly return of metropolitan pauperism shows
that the total number of paupers last week (the first week of
June) was 79,193, of whom 34,079 were in workhouses and
45,114 received outdoor relief. Cempared with the corre-
sponding weeks in the years, 1875, 1874, and 1873, these
figures showed a decrease of 6,555, 16,325, and 23,518 respec-
tively. The number of vagrants relieved was 576, of whom .
378 were. men, 162 women, and 33 children under sixteen.
The Ara Wales Chronicle reca-ds the extinction by
the death of the Rev. Robert Myddelten of one ef the oldest
families in North Wales. The deceased gentleman was the
dercendant qj ancestors who traced their pedigree to the
time of the Conqueror. Several of them were governors of
Denbigh Castle, and holders of the Galleuyncg estates for
=tildes. One is noted as the enterprising man who brought
the New River as a water supply to London.
On Saturday last the remains of Mr. Nathan David
Garrick, great great-nephew of Davld Garrick, were interred ,
in the cemetery at Kenai-green. The deceased gentleman
was 67 years of age at the time of his death, and had not
followed any profession, but lived quietly on his private
means, and was held iu very high esteem by his circle of
friends. He was possessed of several relics of the great
actor which will, no doubt, find their way into appreciative
hands. By the will of the deceased, the famous Z)ffiCny
portrait will be pre,aented to the National Gallery.
The Archdeacon of Leicester, in holding his annual
visitation, referred to the Burials Bill, and observed that the
settlement of 'the question was desirable, in order to do away
with religious aninsosity. Ile did not like it to be imputed
to the clergy that they were an obstructive body, resisting all
reforms. One could not read the speeches made in the Houses
of Parliament without a conviction that something must be
done in reference to the burials question. lie Winked, how-
ever, the Legislature would attempt nothing wields would
deprive the clergy of absolube protectorship over the sacred
precincts of their church,
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An iuques! was held on 'Monday on the body of Mr.
H. G. Trimnell, who died from the effect of injuries received
at the recent fire in the Clock Tower of Canterbury Cathe- - A
dral. Mr Trlmnell was employed by the Dean and Chapter fr,d
to chsan and repair the cathedral clock, and it appeared from
the evidence that the accident was caused by the vapour ,
thrown eff by some beuzoline which was being used for '_;f,
cleaning the clock entering a closed colza.oillamp which had
b‘e.n lighted only a few minutes previously. An explosion :44
took place, which set fire to the clock tower, and Mr. Trim-
nell and a labourer named Armen were both much burned.
A verdict of " se?cidental death" was returned.

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An official communication from the War Office notis •
fles that Field Marshal his Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales, will review the Volunteer Force belonging to London ,
and the vicioity, in Hyde Park, on Setut•day the Ist of July.
Should any Volunteer corps within an easy distance of Lon-
don wish to attend. the review at their own expense, their . .
appiications will be taken into cousideration,with a view to
heir adroission'so far as space and numbers will allow, pro-
vided that such apeecetions be received at the War Office on
or before Monday, the 19th instant. Instructions will be
Issued as te the place and times at which the several brigades
will be formed. The review is to be at five o'clock. •
Dr. liardwicke has held an" inquest at Haver-
stock-'ill respecting the death of ear. Adrian Byron
Ashford, agsd forty-live, of 111, Qeeen's-cresmnt. The cvl- • '
deuce showed that the deceased had suffered from liver
complaint for some years, and had been in the habit of taking
a night-draught in oraer to pro nue sleep. He took an over• .
do,e on Thursday night in last week, and did Mon after ,
three o'clock the next morning. The medical evideece was .
to the tff ct that the cause of death was syncepe, or failure
of the heert's action, while under the influerc s of an over-
dose of chloral, and the jury retun ed a verdict of death ,
from misadventure.
Oa Tuesday morning a choral festival tel parish
' choirs from all parts of the diocese of Ely, containing a thou-
sand voices, was besun in the cathedral. After service, a
handsome silver salieer; together with a ellen rgitt ivory
baton, and a purse of be guineas, was presented at the palace
to Wm. Tenbroeck Crete, of Kneesworth, "in reeognitton csi .
the great assistance he has rendered for many years to the
improvement and progress of church Music in the diocese .
An • inquest has been held at Appleton 'Biome,
Cheshire, en the body of a blacksmith named Kermode, who
was struck dead with lightning while at his work. About
twenty minutes to two on Friday afsernoon a violent thun.
derstorin brole over the district, aed the electric field struck
the roof of the smithy where the unfortunate man was at
work While close to his anvil the lightning descended
through the top with a terrible crash, and strnck him on the
right side of his head, running down his side, and killing
him instantly. A young man who was near him at the time
was al:o injured on the leg, and was for a time paralysed.
Tvehroen7ji
etTrnyut,erseltanied a verdict of died by the visitation of
God. .
Very destructive floods have oCcnrred in Stserland
through recent rainfalls and the melting of the snow. Great
damage has been caused to the railways in the eastern per-
tions of the country, and the whole canton of ThurgaU
is under ssister: The railway treas is interrupted in several ,
plsess, and many bridges and houses are destroyed. At .
Trauenfleld a bridge bas been carried away, and a dwelling- :
home fell in, killing four perseus. The Feeeral Council has
delsgsted a member to proceed to the inundated di,trlcts,
with instructions to offer assistance on the p irt of the
and to express sympathy with the sufferers.
eve,ning Lieutenant Cameron, C.Ti„ de. '
livered an address on the Colonisation of Centri,l 4frica, at a
meeting of Om Royal Colonial institute, lie spoke of the
Interior of the African Continent milking marvellously rich
and fertile, aid said what was wanted was a strong and de.
terminA Government or a great company like the old Elst
India Company with large powers to open up commerce over
the country. He was sure Central Africa might be colonised .
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by setting up stations here lied there, by putting steamers 011
the rivers and making tramways where there were no rivers,
and by Oise means forming a means of conimuulcation with
various parts of the country. ,
According :to the return of the 11,giatrar-qeneral
there were 2,272 births and I,2Se deaths registered In London , •Is
last week the former being e 9 abeve, and the latter 76 -' -
below, tto average numbers. Two rersons died from small-
pox, Se from measles, 33 from scarlet fever. 8 from diph-
theria, CO from whooping-cough, 22 from different forms of
fever, and 14 from otarr/ co i ; thus to the seven principal
disease of the zymottc clips 177 deaths were referred, against .
187 and 197 in the twa preceding weeks. These 177 deaths
were 73 b:low the corrected average number from the same
diseases in the corresponding 'week of the last ten years, and
were equal to an anuual rate of 2-6 per 1,000. •