The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-03-15 00:00:00

THE STOURTIRIDGE OBSERVER.

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Sr. JOHN'S SCHooLs.—Tho college certificate
list which has just been published by the Educa-
tion Department, contains the n on,:s of two forme:
pupil teachers in these schools: Mr. A. Burns,
and Miss M. R. Cartwright. The former has ob-
tained a Ist. class certificate at Saltley College and
the latter los gained a first class at Oxford her
name being first on the college list.
GOVER \TILENT INQUIRY AS To BURIA.LS AT OLD.
swrtcrono. Dr. Hofftnae, Lisp :ctor under the
Buda's Act, attenled at the Vestry at Oldswinford,
on Thu. sclay, in referenc to the proposed amended
order in Council as to interments in Oldswinford
Churchyard. The Ree.or (the It:?r. C. S. Words-
notth) was present, as was also Mr. J. B. Shepherd
(Chairman of the Burial Board), and other gentle-
men. Dr. lloirman had been in correspondence
with the Rector and the Burial Beard with reg,trd
to the new order. The Burial Board on one occasion
wrote to Dr. Hoffman expressing the feeling that,
for the sake of decency and the public health, the
burials in the older pars of the chut chyard should
cerl,e, except in vaults and bricked graves, and then
that it should be definitely expressed what relatives
should be aliowed to be buried in existing graves.
Dr. Hoffman said if it was a wet soil he should not
entertain the question of allowing fu!ther inter-
ments in the older parts of the churchyard, but it
was a very good sot. thought it would he
better tnat it should be defined that widows and
widowers end unmarried children should be al owed
to be buried there.—ln reply to some remarks fro n
gentlemen present, the Inspector said he had been
under difficulties at to the right of persons to be in-
terred in certain graves He thought the wor 1
"relations" might be used in the order instea I of
definite statemeats ',f relationship. At the In-
spector's suggestion it was agreed that the rows of
graves should b.lsufficiently marked for any of them
to be identitied.—lt was thought that he should, in-
stead of trying to put the order in formal shape
there, send it down for he Church authorities and
the Burial Board to offer any observations they
might choose to make upon it.
The third annual Building Trades and General
Manufactures Exhibition will be held in Bingley
Hall, Birmingham, from April 28th to May 17th,
and in conjunction therewith the Gas Committee of
the Borough have arranged to hold an exhibition of
al the modern appliances used in heating and light-
ing with gas. The combined exhibitions promise to
be of a brilliant character, and Will be opened by
the Mayor. Full particulars can be obtained from
the Secretary, Bingley Hall.
REPORT OF THIS DAY'S SEED MARKET.- Messrs.
W. H. & H. Lea May, Seed Factors, 68, Borough
High Street, London, Report :—Tgere is now a good
consump.ive demand for all descriptions of clovers
and grass seeds. Medium and low English red
clover is very plentiful, and sells slowly at droop-
ing prices; fine is scarce. There is no alteration in
French or American to note. White clover is in
good demand, and prices a shade dearer. Alsyke is
ea-y, and the same may be said of Italian rye grass
and perennials.—March 12, 1884,
A recent writer in ow local papers has wis
observed that "one of the follies of the 'age is to buy
dear Wines and Spirits." Another folly is to
suppose that buying from those who make the
argest return of duty is buying them in the
cheapest market. The Merchant who p tys duty
upon thousands of gallons pays in exact proportion
to the retailer clearing a single cask, A great profit
must be gained to cover enormous expenses of large
business premises, cost of advertising, and an
allowance of profit to the Agent, greater in
many instances than taken by them in the respect-
ab'e Merchant. To buy cheap is to buy where but
one profit is made, and we cannot better illustrate
our argument than by pointing out the way in
hich our townsmen, Messrs J. Rutland and Son, o
63, High-st, have opened up the trade. We have
no hesitation in saying that 25 per cent. is now
paved by their bringing the producer and the con-
sumer together, over the prices pail a few years
ago, and a trial will fully bear out our assertions
Du,dley Herald. December 24th, 1881.
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is the most effective invent'on for the treatment of
Hernia. The use of a steel spring, so hurtful in
its effects, is avoided, a soft bandage being worn
round the body, while the requisite resisting power
is supplied by the Moe-Main Fad and Patent Lever,
fitting with so much ease and closene s that it can-
ner, be detected. Send for descriptive circular, with
testimonials and prices, to J. White and Co.
(Limited) 228, Piccadilly, London. Do not buy of
Chemists, who often sell an IMITATION of Moe-
Main, J. White and Co. have not any Agents.
".KOUGH ON RATS."—The Thing desired found at
get, Ask ehemlsts, grocers or oilmen, for Rough
on Rats. It clears out rats, mice, beetles, roaches
-flies, bedbugs, insects, ground moles, Sce. 7id. and
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SAI UHLAY, MARCH 15. h, 1884.

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THE PROGRESS OF L
Week by week the session is gliding past and
but little impression is made upon the mass of
legislation, before the British Parliament, both
present and prospective. Several of the measures
promised in the Queen's Speech, notab:y that
for the reform of the local government of Lon-
don, have not yet been introduced, on the prin-
ciple once enunciated by Mr. Bright, that it is
impossible to drive half-a-dozen omnibuses
abreast through Temple Bar. That was in the
days when Sir Christopher Wren's obstruction
to the traffic between the Cities of London and
Westminister occupies the seat where the Griffin
now stands immediately opposite the Royal
Courts of Justice ; but the argument is as good
now as it was then. The obvious reply is, of
course, that although half a dozen vehicles C:111 -
not be driven abiesast through a narrow way, it
is only to place them one after the other, they
ran along easy enough. This, however does not
apply to the measures before the House of Com-
mons. Tithe Bills move at all, it is by an im-
perceptible progress and if those which are in
Lent make no proeress whatever those behind
are bound to remain stationary.
Parliament has been sitting more than five
weeks and as we approach the Easter Recese,
when our legislators will have a fortnight's holi-
day it is natural to cast a retrospective glance
over the results which have been accomPlished.
The Lords have met only to adjourn. Few if
sny bills have come up to them from the Com-
mons, and their Lordships have been compelled
to find recreation in discussing the state of our
foreign relations. British policy in Egypt is for
the time of absording interest, and the peers,
with no bids before them, have started little de-
bates about the military operations in the Sou-
dan, which helped to pass away the time before
dinner. The deadlock of business in the Corn•
mons is easily explained. If British troops are
fighting with a vast hord of savages thousands
ot miles away such an incident must of necessity
occupy the attention of the Parliament of the
United Kingdom and this certainly has occupied
it. Some one has wittily observed that the ten
Egyptian plagues have rolled into one and
that one is concentrated upon the floor of the
House of Commons. No doubt the future of the
fellaheen has attracted considerable notice, and
the interest of the Legis!ature has for the time
been transferred from the hanks of the Thames
to those of the Niee. The representation of the
people, the amendment of the law relating to
merchant shipping, the perpetuation of the bal-
!ot, the prevention of floods, the giving to Lon-
don a scheme of municipal government such as
that possessed by piovincial corporate towns and
ell the other measures promoted by the Govern•
went as well as by private members, including
hat very impartant one fur dealing with the
loot, endenouth disease, have al bad to wait
while the House of Commons has debated week
afier c's;.,eek the affsire of Vgvpt.
\Vivh the constituenc, s have mourned over
the increase of talk in the House of Commons
and the decrease of work, it has occured t 0 !hose
with long tuemoriee to ask whether it can 1)3 i:O3-
I-Sii)!C that the calibre of 'ht illustrious assembly
is deterioraeing in an hitelleetual degree? Uerry
jig their minds back only live and-twenty yell's,
they cm recall the presence of Lord Palrnersten
Lord John Russell, Mr. Sidney Herbert, Sir J.
Graham, .`",ir George Cornwall Lewis, Sir Geo.
Grey, Sir Charles Wood, Ur. Cobden, Ms. M.
Gibson, and Sir B. Ceth,ll, all at one time epee
the Liheral benches. On the first bench oecn-
pied by the (J,•llgerva,4 p tr:y were Nlr. Disraeli
i.ord Stanley (now Lord Derby), Lent Crane-
bourne know Lord Salisbury), Sir Hugh Cairns
(now Earl Cairns), Sir Edward 13ulwer Lytton
(afterwards Lord Lytton), and Mr. Cathorne
Hardy (now Viscount Cranbrook.) Most of
these great men on both tides of politics have
passed away and there is not ono in the pr,sent
House of Commons. It includes in my distin-
enished men i ut no one would claim for it a list
either way at all approaching its eminence the
names :Move quoted. At that thee a parlia•
mentary debate wets a contest of had!, ctual
gladiators ; there was nothing known then of
talking merely to waste time. It would be idle
to deny that the augmenting impotence of Par-
liament to grapple with the serious business be-
fore it begins to give tie to considerable un-
CPSiIIeSS in the conntry, and to diminish the in-
terest ehieh the people ought to take in the er,rn
position of a body with such hietorieal associa-
tions as those which surround the records of the
British Parliament.

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or all urinary affections, (smarting, frequent ditn-
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gency, No 1, King Edward Street
DEIINHENNEBB.—At the Police Court, yesterday
before Colonel Fletcher, T. D. Thomas, and Alfred
Freer, Esqs., Edwin Bellamy was charged with
being drunk whilst in charge of a horse and carr,
on the 6th inst. P.S. Cape proved the case, and
defendant was fined 7s 6d and costs; in default 7
days —Samuel Cartwright was charged with being
drunk and incapable on the Bth inst, at Cradley.
The case was proved and defendant was final 5s
and costs; in default 7 days.—William Hillman
and Richard Adams were charged with being drunk
on the 9th inst. Fined 2e 6d and costs.—Henry
William Jones was charged with being drunk on
the 6th inst, and was fined 5s and cost.—Frank
Lek was fined 5s and costs for being drunk on the
7th inst, at Bellbroughton.—George Perkins was
charged with being drunk and disorderly on the 9th
inst. After hearing witnesses on both sides, the
defendant was discharsed.—Georga Walker was
fined 2s 6d and costs for being drunk,--Samuel
Southall and Joseph Southall were charged with
being drunk and disorderly on the 10th inst. A
large number of previous convictions were proved
against them, and they were fined 108 and costs.—
Samuel Brooks and Bridget Welch were each fined,
5s and costs, for being drunk.
SCHOOL BOARD CASES.—Riohari Morgan Morris
Alfred Parker, Thomas Nash and Allan Day were
summoned by Mr. Baker, School Board Officer, for
not sending their children tc school regu:arly.
Morris's case was adjourned for a week; Parker
and Nash were fined ss; Day was fined is.
CAUTION.—CoIey Aston was charged wi•li al-
lowing his horse to stray on the 12th inst. Ordered
to pay the costs.

STEALING WIRE LATTICING.—WiIIiam Brooks was
charged with stealing 6ft of galvanised latti:Ang,
the property of Thoarts Webster, Lye, on the Bth
inst. Mr. Homer defended.—lt appears that ae-
fondant went to prosecutor's for some latticing.
He was told to go into a yard where he cauld se-
lect a piece. A piece was selected and after de-
fendant had gone prosecutor counted the bundle and
found a piece was misin;. P.C. Brazener said he
saw the defenlant with two pieces of latticin.r.
P.S. Cope said he took Books into custody aid
charged him with stealingithe latticing .1 He replied
"I dent know how that can be, unless the two
were stuck together. The Bench retired to con-
sider their verdict and on returning dismissed
the case on payment of costs, 19s.
FFLoxy—Harriet Fisher (44), Emma Southall

(13), and Clara PO A4Oll (12), —were charged with
stealing frow thrt d welling-house of Wal!er Hodgkiss
fC, on the Bth inst.—
Lye, varit,us articles of clothin

It appears that about two mouths ago Mrs. Ilodg.
kiss lo A the key cf the back door and whist she was

out,on the (ley in qu .stion, the door whi-h sho h id
locked with another key, was opened end the
articles taken out of a chest of drawers.--Ka e
Parker said the things produced were pledged with
her. Col,incl Fletcher said it a case of heartless
robbtry and defendants were each fined 103 6,1 ; in
default 14 days. It might have terminated in a very
diff,raut way and if they were brought up agAn
they would have to deal differently with them.
C'Aunom.—James Cotterill was charged with
shooting pebbles with a catapult, in Clifton Street,
cn :he Bth inst. P.C. Eyles proved the case. Pined
Os end costs ; in def mit 14 days.

BOARD OF GUARDIANS—Mr. Raybould presided
nt the usual mePtia; of this Board yester hiy.—
Adrnitt- d, 9; born, 1 ; discharged, 14 ; dead, 2 ;
total 551 against 653 for the corresponding walk
Ist year. Relief:—Kingswinforti, £4.0 153 ; Stour.
bridge, £3O 16s. ; Halesowen, 25 7s. 21.; Non -
resident, £1 6s. 2L ; Total £93 83. lid., aga'nst
£93 7s. 7d. List year,

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