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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-08

DISASTER AT SEA.

The details of the loss of the Spanish steamer, with
forty lives, have been received by the last American
mail, Captain Voss, of the English steamer Louise
H., which arrived in New Orleans on the 23rd of
October for Algiers, reported that on the evening of
the 18th, while passing through Bahama Channel, he
heard a hail coming up apparently from the sea. He
stopped the engines, lowered a boat, and picked up
five men clinging to a frail raft, survivors of the crew
and passengers of the Spanish steamer Pajara del
Ocean°, which had been burnt at sea. The Louise
H. cruised in the vicinity until far in the forenoon
of the 19th, and succeeded in picking up in all 17
men.

It seems the Pajaro del Ocean() left Havannah on
October 16 for Nuevitas with a general cargo, including
provisions and ammunition for the Spanish army. On
Saturday morning, October 18, when the vessel was in
Bahama Straits, between Paredon and Lodas lights,
an alarm of fire was sounded. The captain, passengers,
and crew rushed from their beds to find that the vessel
had taken fire amidships and was then in a sheet of
flames. General confusion ensued, some of the pas-
sengers and crew running aft and jomping overboard
in their night clothes with whatever small objects they
could lay their hands on to serve as lifebuois,
while others tried to lower boats. The vessel burned
to the water's edge, and sunk in less than four hours.
There were 42 men in the crew and some 17
or 20 passengers, including about six officers and
soldiers ef the Spanish army. The captain, two mates.
and one soldier were among those picked up by the
Louise H. The captain and five or six of the crew
were badly burned and otherwise injured. When
picked up they had been floating for eighteen hours on
pieces of plank. Five of the crew took to a small boat,
and are supposed to have been picked up. One boat
was lowered, and some twenty persons, passengers and
crew, took to it, but are supposed to have been lost.
The Pajaro del Oceano was owned by R. Herrera,
of Havannah. She was formerly an American vessel,
known as the Niagara, and ran between New York
and Havannah.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-08

LECTURE ON THE ZULU WAR.

A lecture was delivered at Woolwich last Saturday
by Dr. R. W. Jolly, surgeon attached to the flying
column under Sir Evelyn Wood. Dr. Jolly illustrated
his lecture with drawings, maps, Sec. He stated that
Zululand possessed a delightful climate with a clear
atmosphere. The Zulu men averaged sft. 101 n. in
height, and often travelled on foot fifty miles in a
biugle night. 'rue Zulu women he described as
being nearly as cool and brave as the men. When
the flying column was near Ulundi they captured a
number of Zulu damsels. One of their finest officers,
addressing the prettiest amongst the girls, offered her
(jocularly) marriage; but the Zulu maid declined the
honour, saying that he was not good-looking enough.
The Zulu girls being asked what they thought ef the
English, they replied that the white men were better
armed, but that the Zulu men were better soldiers.
They had a long palaver with their interesting pri-
souers—who behaved with the greatest coolness
and self-possession and then let them go back
to their own people to relate their adven-
ture with the English. The Zulu marriage customs
were peculiar. When a young Zulu wanted a wife he
saved up a few oxen, and, choosing a maiden, he went
to the father saying. "You have got a handsome
girl; how much do you want for her?" The price
wes gem rally eight oxer, and the suitor carried her off
without any preliminary eourtelld. The girls were
ttaded away the eame as oxeu. The more oxen a
Zulu possessed the more wives he could purchase.
Dr. Jolly described the intense feeling of genuine
grit f throughout the column when they lost the Prince
Imperial, who had endeared himself to the British
troops as a brave and faithful comrade. At the com-
mencement of the war Cetywayo had 50,000 fighting
men, 10,000 of whom were armed with muzzle-loading
rifles. The latter were augmented by the English
losing at Isa,ndula 1,500 Martinis with requisite amain-
nition. The Zulus turned the latter to account by
using them with disastrous effect against the Britieh.
The Zulu shields were large enough to cover a man
from head to foot, and it was amusing to see them hold
their shields in front of them to ward off the deadly
fire of the Gatling guns.
A vote of thanks was passed to the leeturer.

PARTING. —The laws of fastihm are as inexorable
as they are changeable. Ever since the shoot
ing season began it has been the correct thing to
carve according to a special etiquette, which demands
that every carver should part his hare in the middle.—
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-08

THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT AT
OXFORD;

A conference of the Oxford diocesan branch of the
Church of England Temperance Society was held in
the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, on Monday after-
noon, when there was a large attendance, chiefly
ladies, Dr. Acland presided, and was supported by
Lord Cottesloe, Mr. E. W. Harcourt, MX., Mr.
J. C. Clark, M.P., Mr. A. Balfour, Canon Farrar, the
President of Trinity, &c. The subject was " Intem-
perance : its legislative remedies," with special refer-
ence to the recommendations contained in the report
of the committee of the House of Lords.

Canon Farrar, who was most warmly received, main-
tained that there was a necessity for legislative inter-
ference with the drink traffic. Though it h A been said
that they could not make men sober by Ac-, of Parlia-
ment, yet fact proved that they could, as the 25,000 and
more confined in our prisons were compulsory total ab-
stainers, and statistics proved that the death-rate was
lower with them than in any other profession, while in
the profession of publicans it was the highest. No ame-
lioration of the evil would take place until the Legisla-
ture interfered, and they would not interfere until they
were compelled to do so by the constituencies. There
were now five million total abstainers, and when they
had ten millions, and, perhaps, not till then, theyl
might hope to attain their end, For himself he did
not believe that any earnest work in the cause could
be done except by those who were either pledged
or unpledged total abstainers, and although an ,old
witticism said that temperance men were most in-
temperate in their language, he considered that taunt
as of little value and the fault a very light one,
as it proved the passionate abhorrence they had of the
sin that would inevitably, if not controlled, diminish
the glory of England. The President of Trinity
College argued in favour of the granting or withhold-
ing of licences being intruated to a body directly re-
sponsible to the ratepayers, as by that means there
would be a greatly increased probability of reduciog
the number of these plague-spots in our towns and
villages—the public houses.
A very crowded meeting was held in the evening in
the Corn Exchange. The Bishop of the diocese pre-
sided, and addresses were delivered by his Lordship,
Dr. Carpenter, president of the British Medical Asso-
ciation, and other supporters of the society.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-08

FOOTBALL.

STOURBRIDGM V. WOLVERHA.MPTON.—Thia 'natal
was played at Wolverhampton, on Saturday lair,
and proved an easy victory for the Stourbridge team
who obtained five goals, three tries, and three touch.-
dowes to nil. A grand mateth will be played this
day (Saturday), on the Stourbridge ground, Nvitil
the Worcester Wanderers.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-08

TRANSMISSIBILITY OF HYDROPHOBIA.

It has been an obscure point hitherto whether
human rabies is transmissible by inoculation to
lower animals and to men, With much contradic-
tion, there has been little scientific ob.,ervation of
fact'. We lately recorded M. Galtier's interebting
observations on transmission of rabies front the dig
to the rabbit, and the shortness of the period of
incubation in the rabbit (rendering it a useful
re-agent) was remarked on. M. Raynaud has recently
taken an opportunity of ascertaining the effects of
inoculation of the rabbit from man in the hydrophobic
state. A man in that state was brought to the Lari-
boisiere Hospital, having been bitten in the upper
lip by a dog forty days previously. He had had the
wound cauterized two hours after the accident, and
had thought himself quite safe till some of the usual
hydrophobic symptoms appeared. The day before his
death, in a quiet interval, he yielded himself, with the
best grace, to the experiments in inoculation which
were made with his blood and his saliva. The result
of inoculating th 3 rabbit with the blood was negative
(Is in the great majority of previous cases of inocula-
tion with blood of animals under rabies). But with
the saliva it was otherwise. A rabbit inoculated in
the ear and abdomen on the 11th of October began to
show symptoms of rabies on the 15th, being iinucy
excited and damaging the walls of its cage, while it
uttered loud cries and slavered at the mouth. Then
it fell into collapse and died the following night. The
rabbit's body (it so happened) was not dissected
till 36 hours after death, and further experiment
was made by taking fragments of the right and left
submaxillary glands and introducing them under the
skin of two other rabbits respectively. These two
rapidly succumbed, one on the fifth, the other on the
f• ix th day (becoming visibly 111 on the third) ; neither
passed through a furious stage, however, and the pre.
dominant feature was paraplegia (a form of paralysis).
The important practical result is that human saliva,
sucb as cauhed rabies in the rabbit, is necessarily viru-
lent, and would probably have corresponding effects

.uobao:L ,wo.s-switqamskateea

on man; so that it should be dealt with cautiotuily, and
that not only during the life of the person furnishing
It, but in post,m9rtem examination.—The Times.

SATURDAY, NOV. 9, 1879.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-08

THE STOURBRIDGE OBSERVER

A "WELCOME HOME" TO CAPTAIN
BRADSHAW, RN.

On Saturday Captain Bradshaw, R.N., of her
Majesty's ship Shah, arrived at Abingdon, Ports-
mouth, and was accorded an enthusiastic public wel-
come in recognition of his recent services in South
Africa, The streets of the town were profusely
decorated with flags and festioned with bunting and
evergreens, and a triumphal arch, bearing the incrip-
tion, "Welcome Home to Captain Bradshaw,"spanned
the entrance to the railway station. Captain Bradshaw,
who was accompanied by Mrs. Bradshaw, arrived by
train at three o'clock, and was received by a deputation
from the Corporation. Crowds of persons thronged
the approaches to the station. Captain Bradahaw,
who was loudly cheered, drove to the market-place,
where a disc had been erected. Here, in the presence
of between four or five thousand spectators, the Town
Clerk (Ur. B. Challenor, jun.) read an address of con-
gratulation, an illuminated copy of which was pre-
sented to Captain Bradahaw•by the Deputy Mayor,
the Mayor being unavoidably absent.
Captain Bradshaw, in acknowledging the compli-
ment, assured his audience that it was with great
pride he had read, before his return home, of the ap-
proval of the act he performed in carrying his ishio's
company and all the other available troops from St.
Helena to Natal. He purchased coal at a very high
rate, and, thanks to his Excellency the Governor and
to Colonel Phillips, who sent him a requisition to take
on board all the available men on the island, he started
three days afterwards with a company of the 88th
and a battery of artillery, the only troops on the island,
and his own brigade, which he organised on board
the Shah, on his way to the Cape. They were a fine,
gallant, hardy, well-seasoned, and well-drilled force,
and he was proud to place them at the service of
Lord Chelmsford. They arrived at Natal on the 6th
of March, landed on the 7th, commenced their march
on the Bth, and although the blue jacket was not sup-
posed to be as good as the soldier in marches, yet on
the second day they covered 35 miles without one man
falling out. He quite believed that the arrival of that
reinforcement saved the colony at that time.
Having expressed his regret that he was unable to
go right up to the front, Captain Bradshaw paid a high
tribute of praise to the marines for their conduct while on
shore, stating that after five long months of exhausting
work in an unhealthy climate, exposed to cold and
rains at night, and to the inn by day, they returned to
their ship without having had a sinfle defaulter. His
reception that day had filled him with pride, because,
although he was getting an old man and his career in
Her Majesty's service was almost run, still, after
having served for 38 years, he assured them that if he
could live his life over again he would join that grand
service to which he had the honour to belong,
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Captain and Mrs. Bradshaw then drove to their
residence at Tubnephouse.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-08

MARRIAGE.

WATKINS—SCOLTOCK.—On the 2nd instant, at
Brierley Hill Wesleyan Ohapcl, by the Rtw. A. G.
Ward, Alfre3, youngest son of Henry Watkins,
StoutpJrt, to Sarah, youngest daughter of Wiliam
Scoltoek, Round Oak.

DIED.

PARGETER.—On the 31st ult., at Cheltenlimu.
Maria Anne, the wife of Thdraas Henry Pargeter
Norton House, Stourbridge.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-08

ECCLESIASTICAL BENEFICES.

There has been issued the report of the Royal Corn
missioners appointed "to inquire into the law and
existing practice as to the sale, exchange, and Asigna-
tion of ecclesiastical benefices, and to zecommend re-
medies for abuses, if any are found to exist."
The Commissioners do not recommend alkrations
of the present law which would strike at the reot of
private patronage, such, for instance, as the prohibi-
tion of the sale of an advowson or perpetual right of
presentation. They are of opinion that adequate
remedies may be found for existing abuses without so
wide a departure from the established practice of this
country. The Commissioners are, however, of opinion
that the sale of advowsons by auction tends to public
scandal, and ought therefore to be forbidden.
The Commissioners recommend the prohibition of
sales of next presentations, and that, in order to make
this prohibition effectual, provision should be made
to prevent any evasion by any purchase of the advow-
son pur autre vie, or for other limited estate, or by
other conveyancing device.
Several Commissioners dissent from parts of the
Report. Appended to the report is a statement, pre-
pared by Mr. Jenne, explaining the existing law re-
lating to simony, exchanges, resignation, and other
subjects connected with Church patronage.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-08

THE FLOODS IN SPAIN.

The following extract from a private letter dated Agullas,
Spain, Oat. 20, has been sent to us (says T 11,4; Times) for pub-
lication :

"You will have seen in the newspapars accounts of
the awful storm that has visited us. Whole farms
have been swept away, not only the houses and stacks,
but the trees, erops, and even the earth down to the
bare rocks underneath. About 20,000 fig-trees alone
in this district have been uprooted and carried away,
and the crops in the lowlands covered over with, in some
cases, 31t. of stones, brought down by the swollen
streams. At the farm of a friend of mine there is
literally nothing left—vines, almonds, fig and pine
trees, water-tanks, and garden, which had taken 20
years to get into order and perfection, all gone, and
eves the ground is all washed away. The news from
Mercia and Lorca is fearful. This plain of the former,
which was full of gardens of orange and lemon trees,
groves of olive, with other fruit-trees of every descrip-
tion, is under water for a distance of 20 miles, and
when this subsides the mud and debris will cover
everything, and all the garden crops be spoilt. About
1,000 houses round Marcia alone are calculated
to have been either knocked down or carried clean
away. Over 200 dead bodies have been found already,
and the work is only just commenced. In Lorca 32,
Sierra Almsgrera 30, Puerto Lumbreras 10, Alcan.
tarilla 8 have been found, but the number of missing
is something beyond belief. At Lorca the water came
down the river like a wall. The suburbs are more
than half gone, and what was a few days ago a series
of well cultivated farms and market gardens, with
pretty country houses and flower gardens, is now an
immense mud plain—there is no other word for it.
One little baby came floating down in the middle of
the stream, safely borne along in its oradle. the poor
little thing quietly playing with its toes. With great
care and caution, a rope was thrown over it and it
was safely brought to the side, and the babe was
saved. No pareats have been found to own it.
Should none be found to claim it, a nobleman has
expressed his desire to adopt it. At Murcia a man
was brought out through the roof of his house; he had
been three hours with the water up to his chin, holding
aloft his two children, one in each hand. His wife had
been swept away before his eyes, with no chance of
saving her. But reports of individual cases would fill
a volume."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-08

SUNDAY OPENING OF PICTURE
GALLERIES.

At the opening on Sunday, in Loudon, of an exhibition of
pictures lent to the committee of the Sunday Society, Sir
Arthur Hobhouse presided, and an address was delivered by
the Rev. William Rogers, rector of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate.
It was intended to show by the attendance whether it is
probable or not that a suftlaient number of persons would
use the Guildhall Library on Sunday to warrant the employ-
ment of attendants. By half-past three it was estimated that
between 6)0 and 700 persons had entered the exhibition.
Sir Arthur Hobhonse, In introducing the Rev. W. Rogers,
reminded those present that the members of the Sunday
Society were endeavouriag to procure a great number of
interesting occupations for their countrymen on a Sunday.
The richer classes had in their own houses and in their own
libraries many resources, and were surrounded with pictures
and other pleasant objects to look at; but there were many
who hadnot such ornamental homes, and it was for these
that the society wished public fine art galleries and museums
to be opened.

The Rev. William Rogers, after some preliminary
remarks, said had been asked to deliver an
address, and as an address was something like a ser-
mon, and sermons were in his line, he should preach
one and he would take three texts. He could not
take throe better ones than the three printed on the
first page of the catalogue, The first was from Dean
Stanley
"The observance of Sunday, more than any other isingle
religious question, touches the heart and conscience of the
whole community. The object of the Sunday Society is on
the one hand, to maintain the value and importanle of 'the
English Sunday, and on the other hand, to do the best they
can to improve it."
All there, Mr. Rogers said he felt sure, would en-
dorse that opinion. They all held the Sunday to be
the great heritage of the Englishman, and none present
wished to do away with it; but the obeervance of the
Sunday as it was at present observed was no longer
thinga ditdy
adapted dt oa
altered within the last 50 years. Half a can. the times. It was forgotten that every.
gwwerheicvherwyads nliwaiebnuint
gthtehyemhawdaswakednencaed.
buturYpo,Dir agThdooenpinge thieopulenen
CO on the life Of the people were greatly
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-08

A BALLOON ACCIDENT.

The San Francisco Alta gives an account of the
death on the sth October of Charles H. Williams,
director of amusements at Woodward's-gardens, anti
Professor S. W. Colgrove, aeronaut. They went up
in a balloon when a brisk gale was blowing, and the
half-inch ropes extending from the "hoop" to the
basket (of which there were eight) came in oontact
with a telegraph wire, sawing five or six of them in two
quite near the basket. As the balloon kept on it seemed
to those who saw it that the basket hung from the bal-
loon for a few seconds by a single rope, and as it did so,
just over Folsom•street, Williams fell to the ground,
a distance of perhaps 50ft , striking on his face on the
curbstone, and killing him almost instantly. The
balloon, lightened, shot upward a few feet, when the
remaining rope or ropes which held the basket started,
and it dropped to the ground with the Professor in it,
the concussion throwing him into the Street in a dying
condition.

The balloon was known as the "General Grant,"
wieh a capacity of 50,000 cubic feet, and was fully
Inflated.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-08

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-08

A RAILWAY UP VESUVIUS.

This railway, the last new project in mountain.
climbing, is now finished. It is 900 mettbs in length,
and will enable tourists to ascend by it to the very edge of
the crater. The line has been constructed with great
care upon a solid pavement, and it is believed to be
perfectly secure from all incursions of lava. The mode
of traction is by two steel ropes put in movement by
a steam engine at the foot of the cone. The wheels of
the carriages are so made as to be free from any danger
of leaving the rails, besides which each carriage is fur-
nished with an exceedingly powerful automatic brake,
which, should the rope by any chance break, will stop
the train almost instantaneously. One of the chief
difficulties of the undertaking was the water supply,
but that has been obviated by the formation of two
very large reservoirs, one at the station, the other near
the observatory.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-08

THE RIVET TRADE.

The risot makcN on striae iuto Blacidleath and
Rowloy dAricts held a mass ine:ting, at Blackheath
on_Thuviday, _ _ _

i‘tr. John Bennett. who prosided,said he thought
the dispute should be settled in a conciliatory
manner. He referred to The action ta,n by the
0:...-:ratirci in other trades for advanced wages, In d
said-rivet makers weue ja',-tided in the who% they
were tAing. I:),l(•gat..•s had been to certain of the
(operatives who were at work, and found that t; e
men were justified in working, inasmuch NR they
were pail at the rate demanded. It was of some
importance to th,. operatives that the masters of
o,d Hill a,ld the, out:y.ng distrie's were charging
3d. per cwt. for carriag... Blackileath masters said
that ought not to be—(:tr. hear)—and that they
ou;rht to pay us much as oter mastors; yet the
Blackheath masters charged is p;:r cwt. carriage
fol what they hail from Halesowen.
It having been mentioned that SOM.3 men at
Halesowen were at work, the Chairman said there
was nothing to fear from this fact, since they were
only a few " weak-mblded individuals" who went
into the trade when th.: regular men were on strike.
He thought the strike was near the end, and that
it would he a question of victory or defeat with the
men during the present week, and he urged the
men t.) wait a day or two,
Mr. Cashmore said their demand was reasonable.
'1 hey had waited for a revival in trade, which had
now appeared, and they thought they were justified
in asking for the same nye of wages as was paid
in IS7O. He could not understand what the macters
theatv to do (A Voice: They mean to starve I )
Tht.y egre,-,1 that the wages were low; hut. woul
not advane.; the wagez. The ma.steis were certaiely
responsible for the present strike, because every
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-08

Elle htuarttribie o.6.sqtrer.

sATuRDAT, N')VESIBER Stb. 1879.

REPIZESE.TTA.TIVE G3VERNIIE- NT.

Tto gradnal expiration of the time for
w7ilch rine presnt Parliament -was elected,
the triencoal coathis :or the
.-ats on the
LoLdon School Board, which are to take
ou the 27th instant, and the municipal
eleotions in the corporate boroughs of En,.
land and Wales last Saturday, combine 70
'give invoilauce to a subject which will yet,
onpy mu,.12 attedtion on the part of our
public men. Not that it has failed to corn.
mind notice in the past ; but the weight
attaching to it will certainly increase rather
than diminish. That question is—How to
Secure the representation of the people in
the best possible way? Shall it be doue in
the manner prescribed by the Municipal
Corporations' Reform Act of 1835, by the
Ed ucation Act of 1870, or by the Septennial
Act of 1715? Shall the people AVONTES
select one I
third of their representatives once every Novuo
~nthis event las: :oar, he should again be danger-
with Lueetta as his nearest attendant.
year, as after the rule applied to the Town Title Shrewsbury Cup—distince Two-miles is run
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MARTIN LUTHER'S WILL.

2'7s Tint*: says :—" Some time ago the Evangelical
Ohurch in Hungary believed itself in possession of the
original last will and testament of the great Protestant
reformer, Martin Lather. The genuineness of the
document was, in fact, attested as undoubted by a
special commission appointed to determine that ques-
tion. The members of this body, however, did not
consist of historical scholars, but chiefly of noted mem-
bers of Parliament. Accordingly, before long it was
shown, upon the evidence of Professor Ranke's re-
searches, that the only real testament of Luther—that
which he had written with his own hand—is, as a
matter of fact, in the Heidelberg Library, and is there
kept in a glass case for the inspection of visitors. It
has also been satisfactorily proved that the will in the
possession of the Hungarian Evangelicals, though
written in a hand exactly like Luther's, is not his, but
is the will of one of his disciples, Honterns, who in-
troduced the Reformation into Transylvania, and who
made a true copy, even to the very characters, of the
last will and testament of his master."