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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-29

S. FIELD,

1,92, HIGH 'STREET,

STOUBBRIDGE.

DUDLEY AND WALSALL.
f3IANOFORTES and LIA.KMONIUMS may
be had on the NEW SYSTEM of HIRING, for Two or
three Years; after which, and without any further pay.
ment, to become the property of the hirer. All Instru-
m,nts had on this system, or otherwise, will be
exchanged any time within six months for any other, if
no tapproved of, and returned carriage free. And fur.
ntr, aftki a trial of three years. any Pianoforte or flaT-
aionx...ai would be taken back, sit its original cost, ani!
,he ;Loney returned, deducting the usual clietge for
sire; thus offering greater aUvantages than the London
or 13 miugh am Id oust s.—Appiy ItEDI.LtICK ki RE EN
Altaic Warehouse, 260, Castle•atreet, Dudley, and 01,
Park-street, Walsall.'

FITii.—EPILRPTIC FITS OR FALLING BICIERRII.—A
certain methoq of cure his been discovered fur this
d,stressing complaint by a physician, who is desirous
that all sufferers may benefit fr,m this providential di.,
covery ; it is never known to fail, and will cure the mosi
hopeiesr case after all other means have been tried,
Full particulars will be sent by post to any person free of
charge.—Address:—.W. VOLLIAItIe 10, Oxford Terrae••
Lemke.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-29

A SHOCKING DEATH.

The Paris Correspondent of the Daily News writes :

"A frightful death, attributed, and prima facie
rightly, to hydrophobia, has befallen a young, amiable,
and accomplished gentleman, who seemed entering on
life with the world at his feet. M. Cheri Montigny,
son of M. Montigny, manager of the Gymuase
Theatre, and the incomparable actress, Rose Cheri,
who, twenty-one years ago, sacrificed her own
life and saved that of her infant by sucking
his neck when he was attacked with croup, int 4
died in terrible agony after the bite of a dog. He
lived with his father in a handsome villa with a
large garden, at 75, Rue de la Pompe Passy. A
play of his "Une Innocente," was in the bills for per-
formance this week. M. Montigny, seventy years old,
was about to make over the theatre to him. A fortnight
ago, M. Cheri Montigny, coming home late, re
ceived as usual a deep-mouthed welcome from two
pet dogs in the courtyard, one a Danish coach.
dog, the other a large terrier. He was wont to
encourage them to bark and jump upon him.
On this occasion the terrier, pushing his caresses
only a little further than usual, slightly bit his nose.
He perceived a little blood, and on going to bed wiped
his face, and thought no more of it. Next morning
it was ascertained that the dog had bitten several
other dogs, and he was taken to a veterinary sur-
geon, who 'did not suspect hydrophobia, but re-
ported his death, which took place in three days,
from internal inflammation. M. Cheri Montigny be-
came uneasy. He concealed the matter from his father,
but bought several medical books, and awaited
with anxiety the fifteenth day, when he read
that hydrophobia would declare itself. Last Wednes.
day he dined with Madame Judic, looked well and
gay, spoke of the dog biting hi,n, but showed no
uneasiness. On Thursday he went to the review, and
returned with headache and fever. Next day he was
treated for sunstroke, but on Saturday he said he
knew he was going mad, asked an old servant to kiss
him for the last time, begged to have a straight waist-
coat put on, that he might harm no one, and died
soon after in horrible contortions. It is very
remarkable that he had no symptom of
illness before the review, and the question arises
whether his imagination, acting on a brain d'sordered
by sunstroke, did not make him fancy he had hydro-
phobia. There is no report of mad dogs at Passy, and
nothing is said about the Danish companion of the
terrier. The France indeed reports that a groom, who
was also bitten, is at death's door; but this is not con-
firmed by the latest papers."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-29

NOTICE TO COUNTRY INVALIDS.
Consultation by Letter without Fee.

DR. HENRY SMITH, (By Diploma of the
Royal University of Jena) who has devoted
THIRTY YEARS to the Special Treatment of Diseases
11th. Nervous Systeui, resulting from Exhaustion of
Nerve Power, Local Woakness, Sic., will for the benefit
of Country Invalids, on receiving a statement of case,
send his opinion, with Advice and Instructions, which,
If followed, insure a Cure; a Personal Interview and
sipensive Consultation-fees are thus avoided.
A " Confidential " form of Correspondence to assist
the Invalids in describing their case sent Post Free.
DR. HENRY SMITH, 8, BURTON CRESCENT
LONDON, W.C.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-29

HARVINGTON.

fiTt.,CK SALE.—Mr Joscelyne held a sale at the '‘D.,g
Inn," on 'I uesday iat, whien wag well supplied with
stock, the whole being disposed of at fair market rates
The sheep unflawed upwords of 450. cattlo 45, severe
fai calves and a cpaotity of pies. there was a large at-
tendance of ba)ers from the surrounding districts.
Brierley Hill, h.ituurbridge, and
all parts of the black (.;outitry.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-29

THE ILLNESS OF THE QUEEN OF
SPAIN.
M ADRID, Monday night.

The Queen (who has been suffering from an attack of
gastric fever) passed the evening of Sunday quietly,
but after two in the morning became rapidly worse
(says a telegram to the Daily News). The President
of the Council and the Ministers were sent for and
went to the palace, where the principal authorities of
Madrid were also assembled. Before four in the morn-
ing Cardinals Moreno and Benavides were called,
and they gave the Queen extreme unction. The
Nuncio came later, and presented the Papal bene-
diction to her Majesty, in presence of the King, the
Duke and Duchess of Montpensier, and the Infantas,
The medical men declared in an official bulletin that
the Queen was in danger. About five she became
more tranquil, and has remained so all day, with in-
creasing weakness. She is conscious, and speaks to
the King and to the Duchess. To-day she completes
her 18th year. Foreign Governments have telegraphed
to the King. The bulletins are read here with much
sympathy.

Another telegram says :—" Great grief prevailed in
the galleries of the Palace. The King, the Duke and
Duchess of Montpensier, and the Princess of the
Asturias were in constant attendance. When she be-
came conscions the Queen addressed her mother, and
after day break rallied a little, though her weakness
developed rapidly. As the intelligence spread this
morning persons of all ranks flocked to the Palace.
Masses are said every hour in the churches of the
capital, and bulletins are published every three hours.
The King has not left the sick chamber since Satur-
day, and is much affected. The press of every shade
of opinion express their deep sympathies for the
Queen."

A telegram from Madrid on Tuesday, says :—" The
four best ph)siciaus in Madrid think the Queen may
recover. She is now going through a crisis. There is
no fresh hemorrhage. She slept a few hours last
night. She is still very weak, but there are hopes of
saving her. Public prayers have been offered up in
the churches, and yesterday 11,000 cards and tele-
grams, some from abroad, asked for tidings of the
Queen's condition."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-29

WEEKLY REVIEW OF THE CORN
TRADE.

Bell's Weekly Messenger says :—" At the commence-
ment of the week the trade for wheat, owing to the
unsettled state of the weather, presented a steady ap-
pearance, but there was no activity, the large arrival ;
of foreign produce inducing millers to operate with ex-
treme caution. The continuance of heavy rains, how-
ever, made holders more reluctant sellers, but they
were unable to establish any advance in prices. On the
contrary, so restricted was the demand that in some
though chiefly at the outports, difficulty was
experienced in obtaining former rates. The arrivals
of ho=e-grown wheat have been upon a limited
scale, but the supplies of foreign produce on offer have
been very lateral, and there are still large quantities
of produce afloat. The trade has also derived some
support from purchases off the coast on Continental,
chiefly French account; but, as the weather during
the ciosing days of the week has been brilliant, and
seems to have become settled, a depressed feeling has
recently been apparent, and the tendency of prices
has been in favour of buyers. As, however, we are
now approaching the close of the season, this
country, as well as France, will require large foreign
supplies until the new crops are gathered in."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-29

RATHER DISSATISFIED.

The restaurateurs, limmadiers, and other industrials,
who ply their callings in the Champ de Mars, are
grievously discontented. This is the burden of their
lamentations. When the Exhibition Commission let
them the ground occupied by their refreshment-houses,
it was agreed that the price paid for the privilege
should be based upon the number of entrances,
so that if the Exhibition was a great success,
the café and restaurant keepers would reap
a rich harvest, whilst, if a failure, their glean-
ings would be less abundant. This was an ex-
cellent and fair arrangement, which was heartily an-
ceiled to, it being decided that the refreshment
establishments should pay six francs per thousand
head, or about half a centime per visitor. The pro-
prietors of these establishments were eochanted at
this equitable manner of settling the matter, reckon-
ing, not unreasonably, that if only one individual
in a thousand should slake his thirst or appease
his hunger at their tables they would find their six
francs reimbursed. On week days, it appears, they
have no cause to complain, their receipts exceed-
ing their anticipations, but on Sundays it is quite
another affair. On that day there ase on an
average from one hundred and fifty to two hundred
thousand visitors to the Champ de Mars, which
raises the daily rent the refreshment-house keeper
pays to nine or twelve hundred francs. But, whether
it is that the Sunday public are less rich, less liberal
with their money, or more indifferent to the seductions
offered by the restaurateur, these latter complain that
their tables are more deserted on the Sunday, with its
affluence of visitors, than on a week day, when the
number is not half so great. Perhaps, if the com-
plainants were to lower the prices of their wares on
the day of rest so as to bring them within reach of the
humbler classes who profit by the Sunday to visit the
Exhibition, a larger proportion of the 200,000 might
stop to refresh themselves at their establishments.
Evening Standard.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-29

T. J. Hi'.

BUILDER, CARPENTER AND COFFIN
MAKER,

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-29

RELICS OF FRANKLIN.

The schooner Eothen sailed from New York
on the 19th inst. on her Arctic trip in search
of the relics of the Franklin Expedition. The
vessel has been equipped for a thirty months'
voyage, and is under the command of Captain
Thomas F. Barry whose discovery of the spoons bear-
ing Sir John Franklin's crest and initials has led to
the present expedition. The crew consists of twenty-
five men. Joseph Eberbing, or "Esquimau' Joe,"
goes as trapper, hunter, and guide. The Eothen will
first touch at Whale Point, Fluchion's Bay, to take on
a number of Esquimau', and thence proceed to Beach
Point, Repulse Bay, 140 miles north. At Whale
Point Captain Barry first met the natives from whom
he bought thespoons. The Esquimau' stated that the
vessel from which they got the spoons wa,i CI ushed by
the ice at an island near Cape Hallowell. and be-
came a total wreck. The crew, among whom was Sir
John Franklin, whom they iecognised as." Hilata," or
leader, were taken by the natives to a point near Cape
Englefield, 640 miles from Whale Point, where one by
one they perisned of cold, hunger, and sickness, and
were buried. An important fact communicated by the
Natchdles was that the white men left a number of
books, with writing in them, which were also buried at
Unfilelield, which is abuut Vtlo miles inlaid, and hob

never yet been reached by an exploring party.
Leaving Repulse Bay, the searching party, according
to Captain Barry's plan, would take sledges and go
across the country to Englefield. The journey will
occupy four or five weeks. The expedition will cost
about £25,000. It expects to be gone no less than two
years and a half. Stores for 18 months have been
taken on the Eothen, and more will be sent next
spring by the whaling brig Henry Trowbridge. The
party is well armed and carries ammunition for the en-
tire 30 months.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-29

FOR SALE.

TO LET.

DYERS,
pi/LLARs. BY2, 0
~H APPOINTMENTQuE IT
- •
BYE WORKS,
CATALOGUES For
FREE ON .
APPLICATION. ni.

SOLE AGENT FOR STOURBRIDGE,
MRS. E. H. HUNSTON, 1227 HIGH ST.

FIEERSCHATJ3I PIPES,

CIGAR

HOLDERS,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-29

THE • WRECK OF THE GROSSER
KURFURST.

Up to Saturday last thirty-one bodies in all have
now been recovered from this wreck. The last six
brought ashore were honoured with a military funeral
on Saturday. An order has been issued that in future
all bodies recovered are to be privately buried, but a
firing party will be allowed at the grave. At the
funeral on Saturday afternoon, Captain Lindequest,
of the steam corvette Loreley, now lying at Folke-
stone, and Lieut Hermann, of the same vessel, at-
tended, and the bring party was formed by the crew.
The brass band and drum and fife band of the 45th
Regiment headed the procession. The coffins, on
which wreaths of 11,wees were placed by Lady
Elizabeth Bryan and Lady Gordon Lennox, were
borne to the cemetery on gun carriages, drawn by
horses belonging to the Royal Artillery. Colonel
Cameron, the commandant of Shorncliffe Camp, was
also present, and detachments of the 20th Hussars, the
Scots Fusilier Guards, the 45th Regiment, and the
76th Regiment brought up the rear.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-29

A SURPRISE IN STORE!

The following is an extract from the letter of the Paris
Corresponlent of the Pall Nall Gosette, whose letter bears
the beading of "Lord Beaconstield, Fiench Painted :"
The fierce attacks made upon Lord Bi aoonsfield by
a noisy section of British politicians have brohght him
very prominently before the Continental public; and
it may be said that his lordship is largely indebted to
his assailants for having become the central figure at
the Congress and an extremely popular personage in
the eyes of foreigners. Lord Braconsfield's personal
gifts, his wit, his patience under difficulties, hisim-
perturbable good humour, and his thorough patriotism,
are as much talked of in the political circles of Paris
and Berlin as in L..ndon. while the warmest admira-
tion is expressed for the skill with which he has sur-
mounted the factious opposition thrown in the way of
his p, Bey by British philo-Russians Foreign
statesmen are speculating curiously .whether Lord
Beacontied will be content to let the Congress cl use with
out achieving at last some apparent compensation for
England. A rumour has got afloat that his 10r,1,1,ip
will not return empty-handed, and that he is pre-
paring for his countrymen a seosAtional rse—no
less a thin ig, n fact, than a British protectorate over
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-29

KINVER.

SUDDEN DRAT/I.—An inquest was held before Mr. W,
H 4 Phillips, coronet, at the Cross Inn, OD Monday morn•
ing last on the hody of Alizaheth Houghton. 56, wife of
Thomas Houghton, boatman, who died suddenly on
Friday, the 21st inst.—After hearing the evidi ace ths
jury returned a v,rdict of " Died from Natural 0019,08."
1:11E LATE FATAL COMENT AT COOKLEY InoNWOaKi.
—A. subscription his len made among the brother
worknien of William hut, t, who was killed 9„1, the above
works, and it has reached the sum of £l6, which will be
given as occasion may rtquire to the widow and children
of Blunt. This is the more gratifying because Blunt
had worked only shoot four months at Coakley.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-29

WIND Many a Horse's WIND
Gos.r has been saved by the timely use
Six
ball LING'S COUGH BALLS (or Powders).
Six Powders, le. 9d.
I,‘
k 'OSTLINq'S CONDITION BALLS (or
Powders). Six Bails, 2, 6(1. Six Powders 2s,
p 4 Post b're Te sti onials from celebrated Trainers,
ll'oerk„ '
Q°STLING and SON, Dios, Norfolk, ad all
IlDruggiste.i
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-29

THE STORM ON SUNDAY.

A severe thunderstorm broke over London on Sun-
day afternoon, and raged for about three hours.
Several houses were struck by lightning, roads in
various parts of the metropolis were submerged, and
by the bursting of a sewer at King's-cross, the Metro-
politan Railway between that station and Farringdon-
street was so seriously flooded that all traffic was
ternporar ly stopped. At Croydon the storm was
very severe, and much damage was done. A house
near the West Craydou Railway Station was struck
by the lightning and considerably damaged, and it
is stated that a thunderbolt fell in the grounds of the
Croydon General Hospital: A tree near the Hare and
Hounds at Waddon was split down the centre. Another
tree was struck in North Park, and a third in Morland
Park. Various houses have been more or less injured in
Croydon and its outskirts. A little girl in the Wellesley.
road was struck and rendered blind in one eye. Two
railway porters at Norwood Junction were also struck
and slightly injured. A 'number of chickens under a
tree, belonging to a dairyman, were all killed. In the
corn fields, between Croydon and Sanderstead, the
wheat has been beaten to the ground, and garden
crops have everywhere similarly suffered. The East
Croydon Railway Station was invaded by the water
while the storm was at its height, and great difficulty
was experienced in issuing tickets.
A correspondent, writing on the storm, says that he
has travelled over a good portion of South Central
America, the West Indies, North America, the
Mediterranean, and the coasts of Africa, but only on
two occasions has he witnessed a more severe storm
than the one that visited Kentish-town on Sunday.
One of the severe storms was near Algiers, and the
other in the Allegheny Mountains, which washedaway
a bridge and killed seventeen persons.
A correspondent writes saying that at Ealing, only
eleven miles from London, there was no storm on
Sunday. There was a slight shower at about half-past
six. Thunder was heard in the distance nearly all
day, but it was otherwise fine.—Another correspondent
writes from the district of Colney Hatch, saying that
only a few drops of rain fell there during the storm
on Sunday, while at Wood Green, a mile distant, the
rainfall was very heavy.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-29

GREAT BRITAIN'S MARITIME POWER.

The prize given annually by the Royal United Service In-
stitution for the best essay on a naval or military subject
was won for the current year by Captain Philip H. Colomb,
RN., .the subject being "Great Britain's Maritime Power:
How Best Developed." The gallant officer produced a mas•
terly essay, which was discussed on Friday a a considerable
gathering of the members of the institution under the pre-
sidency of Lord Hampton.

The functions of the British navy the essayist holds
to be, first, keeping the enemy to his own ports and
stopping bis supplies there; and secondly, keeping
open the gieat sea routes to and from the heart of the
Empire, namely, the islands of Great Britain. In war we
must command the Suez Canal; a close alliance, there
fore, with Egypt was one of the first and earliest methods
of protecting our commerce. Regarding Madeira, the
Azores, and Cape de Verdes as always open to us, there
was no spot much more than 600 miles from a base, so
that ships capable of steaming 3,e- 00 miles need rarely
be in alarm on the subject of coal supply. Deprived
of the alliance of Portugal, the distance from a base
might be increased to 1,600 miles, but even then we
should be no worse off than on the Eastern route. For
our protection in the Pacific alliance with the States
of South America south of Mexico was necessary, and
a naval force to support them plus swift steaming
"counter Alabamas." Under the contingency of hos-
tility on the part of the United States and Mexico, it
might be necessary to acquire the Sandwich Islands
and the island of Guadaloupe, lying between Panama
and Vancouver. Everywhere along our trade routes
were small States capable of alliances with us,
or desolate spots which might be turned into
coaling stations. The great conclusion he drew
was that our naval Empire depended upon coal
supply; that capacity for coal stowage is the first re
quirement of a British man-of-war, wind being only an
auxiliary. Captain Colomb next considered the
classes of vessels required, and suggested first, " fleet "
ships, broadside ironclads of moderate dimensions,
gunpower, and armour, from 8,000 to 6,000 tons dis-
placement, mounting 25-ton and 18-ton guns; secondly
frigates of 4,000 tons displacement, corvettes of 2,000
tons, and sloops of 600 to 1,000 tons displacement. All
these vessels would carry only auxiliary canvas, " leg-
of-mutton " sails set on booms. Our coal stores, he
held, should be protected from shell-fire on the sea
side, and have a garrison of sufficient strength to meet
landing parties from one or two frigates, with cover,
stationary and locomotive torpedoes.
The discussion on this and the two papers next in
merit to Captain Colomb's, was adjourned.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-29

STOURBRIDGE SKATING RINK.

TH RINK will be closed for ills SlMilner
E Season on Satarday. nth June. nail Airtime
Rotice.

_
Daring the recess, extensive alteratioas and leepreve-
relent will be made.
Season lickets now Tanning will be renewed, ea ap.
plicatioo, for a period corre.pending to that Mobil,
which the Rink remains closed.

PROPOSED TESTIMONIAL

GEORGE GRANGER Esc,
GEORGE GRANGER Esq., ksving stow
ceased to represent the parish of Lialesowel, as
a Guardian, in the btoarbridge Union, after BS sue..sive years, it Litt been deemed by his friends a mailable
opportunity for presenting him with a Testimonial re-
cognising not only his long and valaable servises as •
uardianlfor such lengthened period and se chairman
of the Board of Guardians of suck Union for the last
14 years, but also as a memorial of the esteem and re-
spect entertained for him is the relation of private lit*.
• Committee has been formed for the paipoes et
obtaining subscriptions, and it is proposed that she testi-
naoniai will take the form of a portrait of Mr. Greater te
be piaoed in lee Board Room of the Union where is will
suitably commemorate his bag and feiitlifai public)
services.
aubscriptions will be received by Messrs. H. EH-
lioghoos, kiod Hill, Stettrbridge ; I. 'Collates*, Mign.og„,
Brierley Hill; F. J. Haskew, High Street, atoarkridge
(members oi the Committee) lb. Stoarbribge and
Kidderminster bank; The Birmingham sad Midland
timik ; ad Mr. Geo. Holloway, clerk te the finardiene.

ASTON LOWER GROUNDS.
GRAND DISPLAY OF FLOWERS.
The GROUNDS have been entirely re•arranged, the
Flower Beds newly designed, and filled witii Tarp as
specimens is foil Bloom.
BOATING ON THE IMPROVED AND EXTENDED
;LAKE.
The BEATING RINI. will he open for Three:Estreicts
Every Day. POUrittley'S Band LTery facttlag. *pupa
and Gilmer'. Band will Play from 5 p.. 501 p.m. in
the Grenade on Saturday afternoon, and from 7 till 9 in
the Rink.
The CONSILAT/TORY is repleis- with a elude* Cal.
leetion et Flowering and Exotic Plant..
The new Erections of AQUARIUM sad ASSEMELT
ROOMS are rapidly progressing.
Admission to Grounds Si. mil.
Admission to Risk lid mak
Use of Skates .. id.
Rink Tickets taken at the varioss *streams admit
into the Grounds free.
Season Tiekets can he obtained at the Ofeees of GNP
Company, Holt* Hotel, Aston, where any
.otkor infer.
nation required will be furnished.
Trains run to Witton Station. London and North-
Western Railway, adjoining the Grounds; and Omai
buses run constantly. •
*. QUILTRR, Managing Dirosler.
TRADESMENS ADDRESSES.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-29

TERRIBLE SUFFERINGS OF TURKISH
WOMEN LND CHILDREN.
The Sheffield Telegrap publishes a letter from Lady
Strangford dated Scutari, Constantinople, 4th inst., describ-
ing her work among the sufferers by the war in Turkey.
Her ladyship writes :

"We have such a very, very nice hospital here of
106 beds, always full, of course, for the wounded sol-
diers. You will have heard of our grand hospital at
Sofia of 165 beds, and how we had the happiness of
saving Col. Charles Baker's life ; but since then I got his
liberation to my great delight. I wish you could see
my work here. Besides the wounded men, I employ
in attending them and working for them about 20 men
and between 20 to 30 women every day. These are all
Moslem fugitives, who now earn decent wages and get
fed and clothed. They were all nearly naked when I
came, and so thin and weak. You should see them
now after six weeks' kind treatment and good food?
The way the little children of these fugitives died was
more than I copld bear, so we took a beautiful,
healthy, airy house on the shore of the sea, and have
opened it as a Children's Home and Hospital. I wish
some of the English could see it, filled as it is with
rows oi neat little cots, with clean fresh sheets and
blankets, prettily placed, and in each cot a gaunt little
skeleton— a hag of bones, wan, worn, and spiritless.
They come to Us in a troop at first, vermin-eaten,
filthy, and every child covered with sores. They
have had all the long journey from their homes,
and have since lain on the hill-side, anyhow, any-
where. Already, after a fortnight, many of them
are quite altered; very ugly still, but happy and
merry, revelling in cleanliness and clothes. We shall
not be able to keep open our hospitals beyond the
middle of July unless the public will send me a little
more money. I hope they will; we want to keep open
till August Ist. Our two houses and all cost £350 or
L'36o a month ; £5(,0 would set me up, and its not
much to ask for. Ido want to raise up and save the
lives of a few score more of the poor little children.
Nearly all are waifs and strays, whose mothers died on
the road-side and their fathers in the battle or the
hospital, and I shall want a little money on breaking
up to send them back to their villages or to dispose of
them in families somehow. My three hospitals—the
little one at Adrianople of 65 beds for three months,
that of Sofia of 165 beds for the same, and now this
one here and the children's hospital as well, besides all
our journeys, the long journey round forced upon me
by the Russians, who took my whole stock of linen,
medicine, and everything at Sofia, coming round by
Vienna, costing me £lBo—all this I have done upon
22,500."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-29

THE FRUITS OF DIPLOMAQY.

"Her Imperial Highness the Crown Princess has conferred
a mark of distinction upon Lord Beaconsfield, by a present
of flowers and strawberries from the new Palace Nurseries a
Potsdam."—Times.

Lucky Lord Beaconsfield ! Her Majesty's eldest
daughter gives him strawberries. Of course this is
supposed to portend that Her Majesty will add the
leaves.— Punch.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-29

DEATH OF A GALLANT OFFICER.

Major-General William M'Bean, a distinguished
officer, who had risen from a drummer-boy to the
counnand of the 93r1 Highlanders died last Saturday
at the Herbert Hospital, Woolwich, where he had
been removed from London for the dake of chance.
The deceased officer served in the Crimea, and in 1854
received the commission of ensign, from Which rank
he ruse to that of lieutenant-colonel in 1873. .He also
served through the Indian mutiny, when he received
for his gallantry the Victoria Cross, togetherwitb a
medal and promotion to brevet-major.

•
With full military honours and in the presence of a
vast assemblage of people, the remains of the late Major-
Gen. Win. M'Bean, V. 0., were on Tuesday afternoon
conveyed from the Herbert Hospital, Shooter's-hill,
Woolwwich, to the Royal Arsenal Railway Station, en
route to Scotland for interment. Among the personal
friends who followed as chief mourners were Lieut.-Gen.
Sir Charles L. D'Aguilar, K.C.8., commandant of
the garrison and district, and other distinguished
officers, besides some of the .93rd Highlanders, and
some veterans in plain clothes, many of whom had
r aVelled some considerable distance to be present.
A strong detachment of the Royal Horse Artil-
lery led the solemn cavalcade from the Herbert
Hospital, followed by open lines of horse soldiers to
form a road, the crowd being very great, and then
came a strong firing party, and the full bands of the
Royal Artillery and the Rifle Brigade. Then came
the . gun-carriage bearieg the body of the gallant
soldier, covered with the Union Jack, with the
cocked hat, sword, and other trappings of the deceased,
and drawn by six black horses belonging to the Royal
Horse Artillery, the pall-bearers being all officers
of rank and distinction in the service. The troops
which followed in the usual inverse order of rank
included two battalions of the Rifle Brigade under
the command of Lord Clinton, several batteries of
Royal Field Artillery dismounted, commanded by
don el E. A Willisms. C. 8., the Riding Establish-
ment, under Major E. J. Ward-Ashton, and all who
could be spared from other duties, the proces,ion being
altogether (pier half a mile in length. On reaching the
railway station the coffin was carried by non-commis-
sioned officers to an enclosed railway waggon, the
bands playing the "Dead Mardi," and the carriage
was attached to a train which would pass it through
London to the North.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-29

the carcaße.

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Br3ra,l6:6atell:,blaaaillesdts Es,lecnt_fprzfilinesi!
Bacon. The foreign Butter market was slow deringbest
past week, the weather being very hot, and at the close
,„ at
Dutch declined to 98s. to 102 s. The Bacon was flrill, anuner
the close of the week Waterford "good" advanced 39.4310
cwt., but no charge in other sorts' Hamburg lean Biz,elats.
and six sides advanced 25., but no change in stout we'g ...
The market closed firm for all descriptions. „ S.
Butter, per cwt. : s. s. Cheese, per cwt. :
56 f4)70
Dorset
8940 19000
Cheddar.. Dbl.
Friesland
Jersey4o
Fresh, per doz. 14 16 American ......
Bacon, per cwt. : Hams : York •• • • IT 7ii
Wiltshire ••• 76 78 Cumerland •• • •
Irisli, green, f.o.b. 74 80 1ri5h......... 84
SEED.
LONDON, Monday, June 24.—There was a veil' ti of
quantity of all descriptions of Cloverseed ; good qnsli
neee..„
American would command good prices, but few ship:. 22`,
are being made to this country. While hilistardsee 1,7,12
enquired after for planting, and good prices would
for line fine qualities which are scarce' brown not
al°uc.e.s.te..r. 66
(10
4-1
foil is enquired for and good qualities would
prices. Foreign Foreign tares sold slowly on former terins.
seed an Canaryseed were both dull and difficult of disP
HAY. ~., w 0 on
WHITECHAPEL, Saturday, June 22.—A fair suPPi7 twee
offer. Trade was dull except for best Hay which c 0,.,,,,. to
very scat ce. Prices were unaltered. Prime Clover,to'7o. ;
1355., Inferior, 85s. to 955. Prime Meadow Ha ltd.
interior, 70e. to 80L, and 'btraw, 494. Ks 521. IPA *--
•
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-29

A BULGARIAN MEDAL.

A medal to commemorate the emancipation of the
Bulgarians has just been struck at Moscow. On one
side is a profile of the Emperor, crowned with laurels,
and baying the inscription "Alexander 11., by the
grace of God, Emperor and Autocrat of all the Rus-
sians." On the reverse is represented a Greek cross,
surmounted by an aureole, and surrounded by the in.
scription, "They that sow in tears shall reap in joy"
(Psalm 126, v. s)—the device of the Bulgarians
during their first attempt to free themselves from the
Turks. At the bottom of the cross is engraved in
minute characters, "lii memory of the liberation of
our brother Bulgarians, 1878." The medal is the
design of Herr Besemarn, of the Academy of Arts at
St. Petersburg.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-29

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-29

THE THRIFT OF CONSTANT LABOUR.

Professor Whitney, in a paper lately published in
America, gives a bird's-eye view of the celebrated
`• prtite culture of France, as seen from the window
of a railway carriage. The line is bordered on each
side with an unbroken line of hedges neatly trimmed,
but there are no fences dividing the fields. Dwellings
are scattered here and there, :rad small villages are
frequent, in which the people seem to cluster as bees
in a hive. The land is planted in strips of from
fifteen to thirty feet wide, with wheat on one, oats on
another, and the various crops alternating, so that
there may be several distinct patches of the same
cereal. This is in obedience to some system of
rotation, each plot being naanured by itself, with
manure put on just after harvest, and ploughed
in with shallow furrows. The garden cultivation
applied to field crops Prnfessor Whitney characterizes
as "marvellous." He has seen the grain on Western
prairies and in great fields of California, but "never
such wealth of sheaves on so little ground." "It is,"
he adds, "the thrift of constant labour; and stash
tillage can only exist among a people patient, frugal,
and industrious." Yet there is no scientific farming
to produce these results, such as is to be seen in Eng
land on a large scale. Ancient customs of husbandry
prevail to a great extent—the reaping is largely, if not
wholly, done with the sickle; women work regularly
in the fields, and gleaners follow, as in the days of
old; the grain is stacked instead of housed in barns,
and, finally, ground by windmills. —Pall Mall Gazette
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-29

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-29

THE BISHOP OF ELY ON THE CHURCH
ESTABLISHMEN T.

The Bishop of Ely presided at the annual Diocesan
Conference of clergy and laity at Ely on Tuesday. In
his opening address he remarked that owing to the
national mind having been occupied with affairs on the
Continent there had been a temporary lull in the con-
test about establishment and disestablishrnent, secu-
lar and religious education, and the preservation
an surrender of churchyards. With regard to
Church defence and the attacks made by the Libera-
tion Society, what the Church should do in this matter
would vary much in different localities. In some
country parishes it might be unadvisable to stir up the
question at all, but in town parishes, and wherever the
Liberation Society lecturer had delivered his assault,
it seemed very important that he should be followed by
some attempt in the way of counter lectures and
tracts to conect the misstatements which may have
been made as to the extant and origin, for example, of
Church property, and to inform the people rightly
upon the whole subject of the Ditablished Church. He
did not know any better mode of action in the cause of
Church defence than by hearty co-operation with the
Church Defence Association. They must not shut
their ears to the voices that were in the air, or refuse
to ricognise as fact that they were face to face with a
confederacy supplied witb a large income and an able
staff of lecturers, whose deliberate and c..nifcientions
purpose was to overthrow, not the Church, but the
establishment of the Church, to appropciate its pro-
perty, and to put up to sale. the very fabrics which
Churchmen had built or rebuilt. It seemed probable
that the war would open by an attack on the Scottish
establishment. In this advance they were bound to
recognise the footfall of the power which conteniplated
the overthrow of the English Church and to address
themselves hotlines to the work of defence, for which
there was ample encouragement,

=MU
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-29

THE FAMINE IN CHINA.

The Dean of Westminster, in preaching on Sunday morn-
ing at St. John's Church, Westminster, on behalf of the
Bishop of London's Fund, alluded in the course of his sermon
to the sufferings ef the poor at the present time in the
famine-stricken provinces of China, and spoke of the duty of
sending such assistance to them as lay in our power. His
text was taken from the parable of the rich man and Lazarus,
which formed the gospel for the day.
• - - - -

After speaking of the general value of teaching by
parables, the Dean said that the story of the rich man
and Lazarus was specially calculated to impress upon
all who listened to it the duties of the rich towards the
poor. There was, he said, an Oriental colouring
about the story which made it appeal with more
than ordinary vividness to all who were familiar
with Eastern habits of life, but the main teach-
ing of the parable was independent of its outer
dress. It described the life of many a rich man
in London as truly as it described the life of
the rich man in Jerusalem. Aimlessness of life and
a selfi-h disregard of the wants of the poor by whom
he was surrounded—these, and not gross Bins of
immorality, were the faults charged upon Dives. In
this parable our Lord sought to show that it h not
enough for us to do no harm to our fellow men—there
is something wrong in not doing good. It was the
glory of one of the saints of a bygone age that she was
called "the advocate of the absent," and there is a
peculiar honour attaching to the work of finding out
suffering and ignorance that are hidden from general
observation and ministering to them. After dwelling
upon the duties of the rich and prosperous towards
the poor in their own neighbourhood, the Dean said,
"There are sufferings which are so remote from us
that it requires an almost superhuman effort in order
to imagine them. The Chinese who are perishing by
hundreds at the far off outer door of European civiliza-
tion cry out in this famine to us. and we feel it only
half possible to believe what is said of their destitution
and their misery; yet, even in their case, something is
due from us to them, where, although it is but little
that any one can contribute, so very little goes so far
and does so much"
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-29

NEW METHOD OF Fon HATCHING.

The new method of fish hatching devised chiefly by
Mr. Ferguson, the Fish Commissioner of Maryland in
the United States, and put in practice for the first
time this year under the auspices of Professor Baird,
of the Smithsonian Institute, has, it is stated, proved
highly successful. Professor Baird believes it can be
used to hatch the spawn of cod-fish, mackerel, and
other sea fishes, and thus to rapidly increase their num-
bers and establish them at points near the coast where
they are now not to be found. Mr. Ferguson's method
requires 110 running water. The hatching is done in
scows and by the help of a steam-engine, which is used
to agitate the water in the vessels which contain the
eggs. This gentle but constant agitation is found to
answer precisely as well as the snore elaborate ap-
paratus hitherto used. Professor Baird says he
has had sufficient experience of this new
method to warrant the belief that with a steamer
of moderate size to replace the scows, which
are not seaworthy, he could hatch out with cer-
tainty an almost unlimited number of cod, mackerel,
and sea herring—fish which spawn at certain sea-
sons in the open sea near the coast, and which, when
caught in the spawning season, would yield for such
purposes so great a quantity of eggs, from but few in-
dividual fish, that their number could with ease be
prodigiously increased. The young fish could be
dropped by millions at convenient points near the
coasts, and thus at but a trifling expense it becom.ss
possible to create artificially new cod banks at points
far more accessible to American fishermen than the
Newfoundland banks. This new method of fish hatch-
ing has been brought into operation on tide water in
Chesapeake Bay, anti on the waters of Albemarle
sound. Over `z5,000,000 of shad have been artifically
hatched this year and distributed all over the country
to stock streams.—Fall Mall Gazette.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-29

PUBLIC FEELING IN RUSSIA.

The Eastern Budget's correspondent at St. Petersburg
writing on the leth inst., says )•—•

"Since the openinz of the Congress the tendency
among the Russian public to take extreme views of
the situation has become even more marked than
before. Those who only yesterday passionately in-
veighed against Europe are now ready to give up
everything for the sake of peace. This is partly
caused by the uncertainty which is felt as to the
position of Russia in the Congress. The unofficial
papers, it is true, give abundant details as to the
proceedings of the plenipotentiaries at Berlin, but
the organ of the Foreign Office declares all
these reports to be undeserving of credit, and only
adds that the cause of the Congresii has rather gained
than lost.' This oracular statement has only increased
the anxiety and irritation of the public, which is
already provoked beyond measure by the news of the
Anghi-Russian Agreement. It is stated in regard to
this document tbat Rus-iia has sacrificed her wealth
and her beat soldiers in order to strengthen England's
influence in the E,irt, while for herself she gains
nothing; and already the public irritation has found
ent in a serious street nt, occasioned by a quarrel
with Mahomedau Tartars,
_which resulted in the
death of four persona."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-29

AMERICAN HUMOUR.

It was the proprietor of an American lunch counter
who said, "I care not who makes the laws of the country,
liE make its sandwiches." And he finished the manufacture
of one, and then filled out a blank burial permit.

The Sheriff in St. Louis, America, is a humorous
party. One of the papers attacked him for the poor quality
of the jurors he selects, and he immediately summoned the
editors of the paper to serve as jurors.

An American, writing from London. says, "The
man who would here attempt to get into a cab or out of one,
or eat dinner or drink ale, or make a speech, or shovel coal
without first adjusting his eye-glass, would be looked upon
as eccentric."

A "Society for the Snubbing of Married Men who
attend Dancing Parties and leave their Wives at Home," is
the latest notion among the young ladies of Boston. Hun-
dreds are joining It!

Barnum's portrait is painted on a part of his cages.
When his show was in Hartford the other day, an honest
minded chap was looking about the camp as the workmen
were packing up. Beeing Barnum's full face on the side of
the cage of the stuffed hippopotamus, be asked the man in
charge if Barnum was in there. "Yes," was the reply, and
the door was partly opened. The stranger peeped in, and
exclaimed, "Oh I la! Is that him! He is fatter than I
supposed, and is of darker colour." The door was shut
suddenly."—llartford Times.

The ariA,,cratio people on the Northern Railroad of
New Jersey are nothing if not adverbially adverbial. This is
the style of conversation ;—" Colonel, how are you 2" "0,
nicely.' "How is your watch?" "0, lastly." "How was
your breakfast ? " "0, fishly." "What kin?" "0,
clamly ? "Ah I " "Yes, ahly," Then they all, with their
ponderous watch chainaly, walk up Chambersly-streetly.

A Nebraska saloon-keeper became so affected by
the temperance agitation, that he promised to reform; E 0
he put out a sign "Owing to the cauAe of reform all fifteen
cent. drinks will hereafter be sold forTbn cents."

"I want, and will have a wife without a failing,"
was the remark of a young man who had had three seasons
experience of life, ills sister, with only a country girl's
philosophy remarked, "Then you'll never marry, because,
should you find such a woman, she'll be sure to want a hus-
band of the same character."

An undomesticated editor of an American paper,
having had a little matrimonial experience, now commences
an essay on woman thus :—"A woman will take a great
Interest in you; she'll tell you all about yourself, and more,
too. She will tell you where you've been, and what kept
you out so late, and then will ask you where you have been,
and what kept you out so late. Alter you tell her where
you have been, and what kept you out so late, she won't
believe you, but will tell you of somewhere else where you
have been, and something else that kept you out so late at
night." The remainder of his essay is in this line of thought