The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-06-25 00:00:00

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• '!•1711I) a. JUNE 25. 1870.

RAILWAY DISASTERS.

Among the amity kinds sf elisions pi ~pir in
the world, there is a class who are 1. tel ef hor-
rors ; wit- I ,ok over their thereon: Fever with
Vie !recite .if eyes for ts .1. seription of a cat-
ii... to e hole a :wird& ris teats er for
intense litter. t, and p•eas.int speculation. The
details of 4-, :site! eccurrences Cali scarcely
e ton nit it. for th-:r taste, and however much
the rends 0 INi sickdit and disgust the mak,-
rit.: of r •lea, tiny ari. stud ed ant glosted
()el r b • tin, e..ss with evid, nt enjoyment, and
no litt rature, be it ever so excellent, is to them
so inlerestieg as the reports of catastrophes,
which bring sorrow to their fellow human
being,.
FT these horror-lovers no season could be
more prolific in providing food for the gratifica-
tion of their morbid literary tastes, than the
present. "on horror's head horrors accumu-
late," sad each day seems to vie with the one
before in its contributions of terrible events,
while the newspapers are filled with statistical
reports of killed and wounded. There is a the-
i•,-y that murders net or in cycles; be that as it
a. 87, it is certain that railway accidents have
their season of prevalence, for it is a notorious
fact that, every sueceding excursion brings its
wretched quota of wholesale slaughters of hu-
man heiegs.
It may be urged that the greater Amount of
traffic in this season of pleasure will ex-use
greater manlier of accidents ; but this pea, to
our mind, has not the slightest shadow of cern
sietsitcy, until if it Were possible to invent any-
thi ig tike a legitimate excuse for events that
are, iii nine CaR,F4 out of ten, the results of al-
most insane carelessness and negligence. 111
the inciesse of traffic there would seem to be
plain .% indicated the .iha, lute necessity and ill,-
i, ii tiS, il for a proportionate increase in
IL, no adopted for ensuring safety in the
iiitoc•oin aril carrying out of plans with the os-
tensible purpose of providing extensive ficilitie,
in proem-mg enjoyment; but the -sets chew the,
nut% ithstandiug the plentiful warnings of pas
yons, condi ssness aid culpable negligence, in-
st.,. of d. et easing seem to lie most alerntingl
on the it crease ; and the legislature coutiuues
stiil us it, luke-warm policy of non-interference,
while companies pay enormous damages
after day, wb.li an equanimity which would b,
intensely sut•prising if it did not show, only too
well, the little effect pecuniary payment for loss
of health has either on their elastic dividends,
or their still more elastic consciences. The
constant !Teem-nee of these accidents does not
in the sins'', • t degree aj.naini.h the 'lumber of
pleasure-seeking rxenrsinnists, said there ari
always to be feund hundreds who are reedy to
embrace the opportmeity of almost suffocating
themselves in a fr.ghtftnly het railway carriage
in the pursuit of pleasure. Thoy leave how.
with the fixed intention of enjoying themselves
thoreuguly, and they meet with —in too man,
eases—either death or injury which lusts, per-
haps, a lifetime.
'[hen, when :he dreadful tuischief is done, the
public is regaled with all the niinutile, generall
in the most light and airy style ; how the traio
"ran into a gooos.wagon,- how "every carriagt
was smashed " or" enaved as if by machinery,"
and so on, to the sickening account of a father
a)ing in his eon's arms, or "a baby six months
01.1 wlth its aria torn limb from limb,- while the
motets. "ties apparently dead by its side ;" and
iii,6:.ia OlZAtlao Some away error occurs in
Lie teem g ot arrival or departure, or some neg-
ligent poiutsulan fails in his appointed duty. o
say that it is a disgrace, and in the last degret
scuudalons that such human sacrifices to th.
mere want of common precaution should occur,
is to say nothing, To ask wildly or plaiutivel:
why. it, the face of such Leprovemeets as ar,
boasted ot iu almost e very deperoseut of reilwa;
management, ee cannot rid eursetves of tees.
f I tlhani cal unities, as to iaddress our inquiry
the wino which uuawecel not.
Woala hot by any Ilinanb din ire to lay these
chargee at the door of auyparticulur companies;
it a, k stem no impaire. isicitiier do se Wiel
to aac ;,,ta idea that to. liutOrtintate CALath
With tiara ,Ontlftn.l dui ibg the past week use
to 0. ',In.:XL:a of any especial recatessiiess,
•• boat strut:tit); that aciive
sore, iv no at mice taken; that intkif,
a„.i., l• kilsietive or ourerwise, is stesitittei:,
rteded ii Lilttri-vention of such necurrenc,o.
4..1 to luau some lithe regsrd for tawsan hi.
inn, the heads of companies in their analogs.
went of situreione, so that ire email no near.
have to ricurit alien wretched Ltenta,or to chimp
public Wales rtitli shut is little better than
nunticide.

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JUNE 21.

WAti FIbLD CORN MARKET.

JUKE 23.
Gold closed, 1117,-. Highest quotation, 112*;
Lowest,

Tuere ia • rumour current that the difficul-
ties between the DA/mu and Portuguese (lover!,
mutts will short.y be arranged.
It is expected that the son of the Khedive
will visit Victor Emmanuel after leaviug Pale.

Tillett issued au address at Nurwieh
invituig any u,her Latent!
-OirkflotS o.euhteb,-
lug the r..eat to suinuit the .itt,btiuh to the VIA
heliut.

---Ca-(=hrsne's victory at the Isle of W,ght, au;
celebrated by a diuour olBtit tun itych
Co!hie:Vat/I.e Cullithitt.u,.

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the Bristol uoinihatiou to-day Vie proceed
Id inmates. flare and Hodgoi
wen. pr toe snow of hauda favour,d
'aas
13.0,c,0u Ilirvey was thrown ft, n,

11 all'i 6eriously
A ,acc twit LIK minufaotoryt Notting ,
was burio_ti dowu to the grutuAt this toorniug.

31urkei dull, with a ilownw.ird truditsicy
mud in -.owe CM,.
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, •4 1. Co111:111 dour *lgo 1
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JUNE 24.

buri.iks of wheat. Fresh qualities sie
:e, 'S. but millers will out purchase
and there is scarcely any
Barley, oats, and beaus fully
much ruin today.

DR. .AVA+T COCOA. LIMTNtrt. AND CON-
.A —in very evil& citereetrr of till. preparn
..ort het td it a gee..... favourite. The Or/
..scre:ce Go, ft, rein aka: —•• a th ,rough konwieda.
Of the rata .) which ;•.veru Dv, oyerattosi of tu-
res :as sad eat .•,. • :
1.::c rue 1,, op. rties „? di, le. •.1 cot Mr. Es 41 •
pe vided Lr.r nreakfa.. tables vh a Li racatrly fiar,Lh.•
beverrge which way save ill many rode) doctors'
Mode 'amply wiLit hoiliel water or whit. Sold uuly
tio•iirt, packets, laoc.led—Jtuas . dr Co ,1-1,1:11(ej
pathio .....on. .r. I: A: C 0.., other beeparl
tiara are sold in Stuerbridgu by J. Biaeti and A. Morrie
See that each bottle I. secured by a baud over the cork.
bertriwr the mg!teture—James Epps end Co., withow
ici twee ore o.ortine.

dr..itoa. of having tlieir Linens
. , i•lnn` . th •ir I.tuti.ire-ole", with ti,

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gra4.ivat.g &tie to toe souses of saisSt sad
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