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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-02-28

ROYAL VISIT TO IRELAND:

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of
Wales will go to Ireland early in April and will visit
several parts of the country. At the request of his
Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant, the Queen has been
graciously pleased to sanction the holding of a levee
by the Prince of Wales, and a drawing room by the
Princess of Wales, on her Majesty's behalf, in Dublin
Castle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-02-28

IN THE MIDLAND COUNTIES

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GOULD, Undertaker, Cradley Heath.
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-02-28

THE HISTORY OF EVERTON TOFFEE.

A ease of probably more than local interest came
before the Chancery Division of the High Court of
Justice last week. It was the action of Bannister v.
Woodward, and was interesting as penetrating the
genesis and history of Everton toffee. The plaintiff
stated that she was the representative of the original
inventor, being the granddaughter of Margaret
Cooper, who lived at Everton, near Liverpool, and
first made and sold the sweetmeat in the original
toffee shop there in 1774. This lady by her will left
the goodwill of the business to go to plaintiff's aunt,
Mary Cooper, on condition that she should bring up
the plaintiff and her sisters to the business. On the
death of Mary Cooper she left them the business, and
it was carried on in the old house until 1884, when
the house was demolished and rebuilt. A new label
was thereupon used, and consisted of a picture of
the old house, and this was registered as a trade-
mark, and the plaintiff, who had purchased her
sisters' interests, complained that the defendants,
who were' confectioners in Liverpool, had sold
Everton toffee with labels resembling those used by
the plaintiff, and applied for an injunction. Mr.
Justice Chitty said the case was a clear and obvious
one for granting an injunction. The defendants
would be restrained from using the label containing
the picture of the old Everton Coffee-shop.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-02-28

MARRIAGES BETWEEN ENGLISH
AND FRENCH SUBJECTS.

.A. great many painful scandals ought to be avoided
by the concession which the French Government has
just made with respect to mixed marriages of its own
and English subjects solemnised in this country. A
form of certificate is to be provided, declaring that all
requirements of the French law have been complied
with. This form will in future be supplied to French
consular agents throughout England, to English
registrars of marriage, and to all ecclesiastical regis-
trars at present empowered to issue marriage licenses,
and is to be filled up by the person celebrating the
marriage, whether priest or registrar. It will thusbe
in the power of any English subject to conclude a
marriage with a French subject, the validity of which
will be incontestable, and it is to be hoped that the
clergy and registrars throughout the country will do
their best in.all cases of mixed marriages to see that
the English subject secures the protection thus
divided. Possibly a day will yet come when French
law will relax its present uncompromising attitude
toward mixed marriages of its own subjects; but,
failing this, the French Government deserves thates
for having done its best to enable English subjects to
comply with the law as it stands.—Law Times.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-02-28

FAIR WHITE HANDS.:

BRIGHT CLEAR COMMEXION

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PEARS' SOAP, for Toilet Lit` d Nursery, specially prepared
for the delicate sk.n of ladies and children and others
sensitive to the weatuer, winter or summer. Prevents
reftness, roughness, and chapping. Sold everywhere, in
Tablets, Is each. Larger sizes, ls 6d and 2s 6d.
The medical profession are now ordering CLDBUILVIS
Coca& ESSENCE in thousands of cases, because it contains
more nutritious and thesh-forming elements than any other
beverage, and it is preferable to the thick starchy •Cocoa
ordinarily sold. When you ask for Cadbury's Cocoa
Essence be sure that you get it, as shopkeepers often push
imitations for the sake of extra profits. Makers to the
Queen. Paris Depot, 90, Fauborough St. Honore.

KEEP YOUR TEETH I Better pay half-a-crown to a
Druggist for a bottle of TIBHEEL and keep your teeth than
halt-a-crown to a dentist and lose them. Tikheel cares the
Tic, Faceache, Neuralgia and nearly every case of Tooth
ache, safely and speedily. Relief is tonna in
fifteen minutes. Sold by all Chemists and Patent Medicine
Vendors at 2s tid. Parcels Post, free 2s 9d, in stamps or
P,0.0., from the Manufacturers, Clarke,Bleasdale, Bell and
Co, York.

For a sustaining. comforting, and nourishing beverage
drink Cadbury's Pure Cocoa, and do not be persuaded
to accept a substitute.

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long intervals between meals—nothing will be found so
exhilarating, comforting, and capable of sustaining ex-
hausted nature, as Cadoury's Cocoa, guaranteed abso-
lutely pure.

ADVICE TO MOTHERS I—Ara you broken in your rest
by a sick child suffering with the pain of cutting teeth
Go at once to a chemist and get a bottle of Mrs. Win-
slow's Soothing Syrup. It will relieve the poor
sufferer immediately. It is perfectly harmless and
pleasant to taste, it produces natural, quiet sleep by
relieving the child from pain, and the little cherub
awakes as bright as a button." It soothes the child,
it sottens the gums, allays all pain, relieves wind
regulates the bowels, and is the best know remedy for
dysentery and diarrhcea, whether arising from teeth-
ing or other caufi.es. Mrs. Winslovee Soothing Syrup
is so.d by Medicine dealers everywhere at is lid pe r
bottle.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-02-28

THE NAVY ESTIMATES;

A Parliamentary Paper was issued on Tuesday
containing the Navy Estimates for the year 1885-6.
The estimates for 1883-4 were £10,899,500; for
1884-5, £11,185,770; and for 1885-6 they are
£12,396,500. Amongst the items of increase are the
following: Wages, £17,650; victuals and clothing,
£58,450; dockyards at home and abroad, £61,700;
naval stores, £167,500; machinery and ships built
by contract, £876,600; new works, £173,200.
The total increase for the effective service
is £1,368,070, beyond which there is an increase
of £15,600 in military pensions, and £l9OO in civil
pensions. There are to be 16,166 tons of ship-
ping built in the dockyards, and the number of
men employed will be 8404, whose wages are esti-
mated at £605,331. In private shipyards there are
to be constructed by March, 1886, 9488 tons of
armoured or unarmoured shipping. There will also
be constructed by private contract vessels (not yet
ordered) to the extent of 7588 tons. These will
include ironclads, belted cruisers, new Scouts, and
torpedo boats. Of the ships in her Majesty's
Dockyards there will be completed during the
year the Warspite, an armour-plated cruiser of
7300 tons; the Mersey, a protected ship of 3550
tons; and the Arethusa, a second-class steam
cruiser of 3750 tons. At Sheerness the Swallow,
a composite gun vessel of 1040 tons, will be com-
pleted. At Portsmouth there will, it is expected,
be completed the Edinburgh, an armour-plated turret
ship of 9150 tons; the Imperieuse, an armoured
cruiser of 7390 tons; the Collingwood, an armour-
plated barbette ship of 9150 tens; the Calliope, a
steel and iron corvette of 2770 tons; the Scout, a steel
torpedo cruiser of 1430 tons; and the Surprise, a
steel despatch vessel of 1400 tons. At the Devonport
Yard, the Amphion, a second-class steam cruiser, of
3750 tons, and the Curlew, a ste4 gun and torpedo
vessel, of 785 tons, will be completed. With regard
to the orders to be executed by contract, they are dis-
tributed as follow :—One armoured ship in the
Thames, two despatch vessels at Jarrow-on-Tyne,
a steel torpedo cruiser on the Clyde, and one at
Barrow-in-Furness, a composite gun vessel at Milford
Haven, a steam tank at Cork, and four torpedo boats
on the Thames.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-02-28

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-02-28

OUR WARRIORS' WIVES.

Some indignation was caused after the departure of
the 3rd Battalion of Grenadier Guards last week at
the fact that, according to an Army Regulation, the
wives and children of the soldiers "ordered to the
front" had to clear out of the barracks, and with a
Government allowance of Bd. a day for wives and 2d.
each per day for children, find shelter and livelihood
as best they could. The Army Regulation here acted
upon requires that the wives of soldiers who have
left particular ba!racks shall forthwith clear out
in order to make room for the incoming regi-
ment. This is a rule obviously necessary in the case
of interchange of residence by regiments, but in the
present instance the Queen, through General Sir if. F.
Ponsonby, made inquiry into the matter. Field-
Marshal the Duke of Cambridge, Commanding-in-
Chief, also issued instructions to the officers in com-
mand of the soldiers who have relieved those ordered
to the seat of war that in the event of there being any
married quarters available in London or Windsor
after the requirements of the relieving battalions
have been met, those families of the battalions of
Foot Guards proceeding on active service who are
unable to obtain homes may be permitted to occupy
them. Unfortunately this well intentioned order
came too late so far as the 3rd Battalion
Grenadier Guards were concerned, their
families, with the exception of about two,
having already 'left the barracks for the homes
of friends or elsewhere, their railway fares having
been defrayed by the military authorities. The
arrangements, too, scarcely modified the position of
our soldiers' wives, as the event of vacant quarters
being available they will then only receive half the
regulation allowance, i.e., 4d. a day. It will probably
be urged that the War Office can only abide by the
regulations, which allow Bd. a day to the wives and
2d. a day to children under 14, of soldiers proceeding
on foreign service. It remains to be seen whether
the nation will come to the rescue of these poor
women by insisting that some more liberal provision
shall be made in time of war for the families of
soldiers sent abroad in the service of their country.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-02-28

EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY OF
GOVERNMENT DESPATCHES,

A mysterious robbery is reported to have been com-
mitted on board the Celtic. About three days after
she left New York it was found that one of the
closets connected with the saloon was not in work-
ing order, and the carpenter was deputed to remeoy
the defect. On the man examining the place, he dis-
covered a mail-bag, which had been concealed. It
had been cut open, and was found to contain des-
patches from the English Consul at New York to her
Majesty's Government. The despatches bad evidently
been opened and read, as they were torn and crumpled.
Another specially sealed bag was discovered inside
the first one. The seal was broken, and the letters
and other things had been disturbed; but whether
anything had been abstracted is at present unknown.
The discovery gave rise to great excitement among
the officials, and all sorts of surmises are made as to
the reason for the robbery. It is thought highly
probable that this is a Fenian endeavour to discover
what was passing between the consul at New York and
the Government, and the most rigid inquiries have
been instituted. Another theory is that some clever
thief gOt hold of the bags, believing them to contain
registeied letters enclosing money and jewellery. The
robberimust have been effected before the Celtic left
New York, as it would have been impossible to get at
the mails after the Celtic left the dock. The Celtic,
had, besides the mails, which were landed at Queens-
town, specie to the amount of 238,900 dols.

A father complained bitterly of the way his children
destroyed their °lathing. He said: " When I was a
boy I only had one suit of clothes, and I had to take
care of it. I was only allowed one pair of shoes a
year idlthose days." There was a 'pate, and then
the oldeg boy spoke up and said: "I say, father, you
have a Much easier time of it now you are living with
us."
Quills are the pinions of one goose, and are some-
times used to spread the o-pinions of another.,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-02-28

COUNTY COURT.

TILE VALUE OF THE CALEDONIAN CORK'S REGALIA.
—At the County Court, on Wednesday, before Mr.
J. Anvillett, deputy judge. Thomas Tansey, land-
lord of the Lion Inn, Brierley Hill, sought to recover
the sum of ..t4 lOs from John Taylor, landlord of the
Three &rovns Inn, hay Green, in respect to a set
of rrgalia for a Caledonian Cork I odge, purchased
as was alleged on account of defendant, and 15s the
expenses of going to Birmingham to make the
purchase. Mr. Clulow appeared for the plaintiff,
and Mr. Collis f. r the defendant—Defendant, who
was having a lodge cf Caledoniaa Corks opened at
his house, got, through the interposition of a friend,
the plaintiff, to purchase a set of ‘‘Cork" regalia in
Birmingham. Defendant paid plaintiff £1 on ac-
count of the purchase, but after wards declined to
complete the bargain, because, as he alleged, the re-
galia was not such as he expected it to be. The
cost of the regalia was set down at £4 10s, and
plaintiff also charged 15s expenses for going to Bir-
uingham to negotiate the purchase. Plaintiff ad-
mitted that a policeman's tunic and chain, which
usually forms a portion of such regalias,fwere absent,
but it was urged that a lodge could be carried on
without them.—For the defence John Taylor said
he t-aw 13arker on the 17th December, and he asked
him how he was going on with the new lodge.
Barker asked him if he had any regalia, and witness
said "No, I am on the look out for some." Barker
said, "I know where there there is some which will
suit your lodge very well.":.`:" Barker came down to
his house on., the 19th:December with a man and

said, "This is the man who has the regalia," He
was assured the regalia •tv as complete and in
get) I order. He saw the regalia and said it would
nr.t do, because they were dirty and incomplete
Cross-examined: He never told Tansey he should
ecnie and feteh the regalia. He gave 5s forth
set they had got. The members left it in his hands
to get the reg dia.—George Taylor said he was at
home on the 19th December and he saw plantiff
and Barker there. He heard Tansey say, "Taylor,
ir you don't want the regalia, I have another cus-
tomer for it. and you can have your sovereign
back" His fathcr said "All right, Tansey."—George
Hill said he hear Taney say they had a good set
f regalia which would suit them very well; it was
just the thing they wanted, and if they did not
have it there was another lodge about to opened at
Bretll Lie who would have it. He ha:[ seen the
regalia. Cross examined He could not say it was
a good set, it was dirty.—His Honour gave a ver-
dict for plantiff, £3 lOs and costs.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-02-28


IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

VOTE OF CENSURE.

In the Holm OF LORDS, on Monday, Lord Salisbury
gave notice that on Thursday he would move a resolu-
tion to he effect that the House, having taken into
consideration the statements made on behalf of the
Government, was of opinion that the deplorable failure
of the Soudan Expedition to attain its object had been
due to the undecided councilg of the Government and
to the culpable delay attending the commencement of
operations; and, secondly, that the policy of abandon-
ing the whole of the Soudan after the conclusion of
the military operations would be dangerous to Egypt
and inconsistent with the interests of the Empire.
Notice was thereupon given bs Lord Wentworth
that he should move by way of amendment, that an
address be presented to her Majesty, setting forth that
the course pursued by the Government, in respect to
Egypt and the Soudan, had involved a great sacrifice of
valuable lives and a heavy expenditure, without any
beneficial result, and that it was imperatively necessary,
in the interest of the British Empire and of the
Egyptian people, that the Government should not
employ British forces to occupy the Soudan, or prevent
the exercise by the Egyptian people of their right to
sleet their own Government.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-02-28

Consumers of Tea do well to exercise judgment, by
selecting those descriptim:is of Lea, that have been care-
fully plucked in the early Spring , when the leaf is small
and imbued wile the richness of the shrub juices. For
50 years Horniman's Tea has been preferred, because it
is the strongest, cheapest, and best :—Sold in Packets.
List of Agents in this locality:—Stourbridge, Clarke,
Chemist. High Street ; Baker, Chemist. High, Street ;
Moir s, 136, High Street.—Brierley Hill, Rawlings,
chemist—liidderminster, Hewitt, Bull Ring.—Hales°weir, Adams, chemist. —Lye, Greenwood, chemist.—
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-02-28

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-02-28

NOVEL REVENGE OF A FENIAN,

A man named Multon was" brought before a Paris
magistrate last week for picking pockets. He was '
in search of prey among the crowd collected to see
the Anarchist demonstration, and began to feel the '
pockets of Mr. Hawkins, an Englishman. A French
artisan observed him and called a policeman's atten-
tion to the act. Before the policeman came up Mr.
Hawkins felt a hand in his pocket, turned quickly
round, and with a vigorous blow knocked the man
down. His arrest was therefore easy. Multon,
through the interpreter, expressed anxiety that the
Court should know he was Irish, not English. The
magistrate asked- what difference this codld make.
The Prisoner: "I was not acting as a pickpocket, but
!i_e a Fenian. The English are the enemy of the
Irish, and seeing one near me I wanted to recover
from him a little of ate money taken by the English
from my countrymen." 'Ho was sent to prison for
three months.