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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-10-18

ABUMaC&N LABOUR AND muxEs.

The labour market in the United States has been
subject to a great many interruptions of late from
industrial disputes, some of which have obtained con-
siderable dimensions. The rate of wages, too, are
undergoing a general diminution, while several manu-
facturing establishments have given notice of short
time, or even a total suspension of operations. In
New York State there have recently been, or still
are, strikes among the bricklayers and stonecutters
in the city of New York, which have caused
stoppage in several large building works; also among
the builders' operatives in Buffalo, and the cigar
makers of Binghampton. In Massachusetts there has
only been one strike lately among the stitchers
in a Lynn shoe factory, but business is very dull,
and many of the millowners are beginning to talk
about a reduction. In Philadelphia a strike is still
in progress among the Brussels carpet weavers, but
the labour department in which most trouble exists
is that of the coal and iron trades. A reduction of
from 10 to 20 per cent. has been declared at the
Cambria Iron and Steel Works at Johnstone, where
5000 hands are employed, and a strike has been
in progress for a considerable time among the Pitts-
burgh coal miners, who demand 3ic. per bushel
for mining, while the owners will only consent to 21c.
There has also been a strike at Hartman's Steel
Works at Beaver Falls. The glass works at
Pittsburgh have been short of orders on account
of the various strikes in the building trades, but a
more hopeful feeling prevails as to the future.
At present there are fifty-four glass factories in the
city, with an annual estimate product of 6,000,000
dols. Some Pittsburgh foundries, which had been
shut down from strikes, are now running full-handed
with non-union men. The Columbus coal miners in
Ohio are still very unsettled, the groat strike which
commenced last June not being yet settled. The
cause of the quarrel, which involves 3000 miners, was
the change of wages from 75 cents per ton in summer
and 80 'cents in winter to a contract rate all the year
roundof 50 cents,the owners declaring that they cannot
compete at the present rate with the Pennysylvania
mines, where machines are used. In West Virginia
troubles have occurred at the Wheeling Greek Coal
Works, and also among the steel nail-cutters.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-10-18

KIDDERMINSTER.

Tip. LATE DR. RODEN. - The funeral of Dr.
Roden took place on Thursday, at noon, at St.
Mary's Church. The Mayor and members of the
Cceporation and magistracy and of the Masonic
body joined the fimeral procession after it left the
deceased's residence, and the private carriages of the
Mayor, the borough member, the Deputy-mayor,
and other gentlemen followed. The coffin, a plain
oak one, was taken to ;,the church on one of the
patent biers in use in the town, and a number of
'beau iful floral wresths were placed upon it. The
Rev. T. L. Claughton conducted the service, the
Rev. S. B. Bathe assisting. The remains of de-
eettEed were laid to rest in a brick vault in the
churchyard.
GAME CASE. - At the County Police Court, on
Thursday, before Major Hancox and Diessrs. E. J.
Morton and J. Giles, four persons were charged
with an offence under the Night Poaching Preven-
tion Act, but the case against two of them ended in
dismissal. The °tiler defendants, Charles Wall
Bennett and James Bowdler, were convicted, the
former being fined £5 and costs, or two months,
and the latter £2 and costs, or a month in default.
Mr. J. J. Corbet defended. The defendants were
intercepted by the police and had in their possession
twenty-nine rabbits and seven hares.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-10-18

OLD lIILL.

GAMBLING.--.lt the Police Court on Wednesday'
be!'ore Messrs. W. Bassano, F. D. L. Smith, and C.
aolcroft, William, Lees, Thomas Eady, Robert
Hitchin, Henry Warner, Thomas Bucknall, Harry
Jeavons, Joseph Read, Samuel Priest, Peter Rhodes,
George Dudley, John Dudley, John Clayton, and
Isaac Fisher were charged with playing at cards, on
the sth inst, at Tividale.—P.C. Mountney proved
the case.—Priest, Fisher, and Eady were fined lOs
and costs, and the others 2s 6d and costs each.—
James Edwards (15), Henry Evans (18), Arthur
Pratt (17), Joseph Gould (18), John Siviter (17),
and James Mucklow (18), were charged with
gambling, and were each fined 1s and costs. P.C.
Whiston proved the eases.
RATE DEFAULTERS.—A number of persons were
summoned by the Rowley Regis Local Board for
non-payment of a special improvement rate. Orders
for payment were made.—A number of persons
were also summoned for not paying the poor rates.
Orders for payment were made.
DRUNKENNESS.—Hetiry Watkins was charged
with being drunk and disorderly on the 29th ult.—
P.C, Styles proved the ease. Fined 5s including
costs.—Rueb,n Southall was charged with being
drunk and di orderly, on ae 29th ult. PC.
Tytherleigh proved the case. Fined 28 6d and
costs—Joseph Brown was charged with being
drunk and disorderly, on the 21st August. Fined
2s 6(1 and Costs.
OBSCENE LANGUAGE. James Blakeway was
charged with using obscene language, on the 4th
inst. P.C. Styles proved the case. Fined 5s and
costs.

COAL STEALING. Mary Worthington was
charged with stealing a quantity of coal, the pro-
perty of the Earl of Dudley, on the 9th inst.—
Additional-constable Taylor said that he was at
Warretl'eilull Oulliery int the above date and saw
the defendant taking about 401bs of coal away.
Fined 20s and costs; iu default 14 days.
THEFT.—Elizabeth Hale wvs charged with steal-
ing a pair of boots, the property of William Raity,
boot and shoemaker, Cradley Heath, on the 9th
inst.—Alice Edmunds said that on the Bth inst she
put a pair of shoes on the counter and on the next
day she missed them. The boots produced were the
same and were worth 5s 3d.—P.C. Keegan said
that on the 9th inst from information received he
appiehencled prisoaer whilA in the act of pledging
the boots at Cradley. He charged her with stealing
the boots and she said "Those bo, ts I bought at
Mr. Mences, Dudl( y."—Sentenced to 1 month's hard
labour.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-10-18

TIIE DUDLEY CONSERVATIVE

CANDIDATE.

In maving a vote of confidence in the Conserva-
tive leaders of both Houses of Parliament, at the
inaugural ceremony of the :Dudley Conservative
Club, on Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Brooke-Robinson
(car clidste for the borough) alluded to the fact
that Sir Stafford Northcote had at one time repre-
sented Dudley in Parliament, and added that no
member had obtained to such a great extent the
regard and confidence of every person in the
borough—(applause). Nor had that by any means
been confined to Dudley for Sir Stafford Northcote
enjoyed the esteem of men of all political feelings
—with the exception of the gang of ruffanly fol.
loweres of Schanadhorst and Nuttall which had
appeared in Birmingham the previous evening—
(applause). At no time bad the leaders of a party
deserved better of their followers than Lord Salis-
bury and Sir Stafford Northcote did at the present
time—(applause)—when they were exercising them-
selves to promote the principals of the cause they
upheld. Sir Stafford .Northcote would probably
have been pr.: sent that day, but that not content
ith speaking at Birmingham on Monday and o:at
day (Tuesday) he intended to speak at Manchester
on Wednesday and Liverpool on Friday—(applause)
His recent speeches in Scotland would be handed
down to posterity among the greatest speeches of
this generation. They were speeches which greatly
differed from those of Mr. Oladstone four years
ago, inasmuch as they were without any trumpery
jealousy of a political opponent anl had no ambi-
tion to serve save the one object of the honour and
welfare of the country—(oud applause). Those
speeches were unanswered and unanswerable. Lord
Salisbury and Sir Stafford Northrote had spoken,
Lord Hartington, Mr. Forster, 11lr. Chamberlain—
(hisses)—and that rising \ oung gentleman t he
the pride of his father; la cause the pride of
nobody else (laughter) Mr Herbert
Herbert Gladstone had also spoken, and not one of
these had refuted Sir Stafford's auguments r chal-
lenged his conclusions—(loud applause). Ths dub
they were opening would not be nsel, ss if it redresed
the blunder of the last election in the division of
the caunty and he had no ft ar but what this u ould
be done—(applause). However great the tiers o•
the Consemative leaders they would be futile unless
they received the support of the rank and tile of
the party in the country, and it WaS to form a nucleus
of such support that institu-ions like that wa ra
formcd—(applause). If its members were earnest
and perservering a change wculd shortly be seen
in the representation of that great district. This
i
might not be to-day, nor to-morrow ; but t would
come as assuredly as in the end truth would p:evail
—(applause).
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-10-18

BRIERLEY HILL.

AN UNLUCKY WOODEN LEG. - At the Police
Court, on Thursday, before Mr. 11. Smith, William
Davies (38), labourer, 12, Tuck Street, Brierley
Hill, was charged with breaking into the brewbouse
of Police-constable llonine., Hill Street. and steal-
ing therefrom nine bantam fowls and other articles.
Mr. Waldron prosecuted. From the evidence of
P.C. Hollins it appeared that on the 13th instant he
securely fastened up his brewhouse before going to
bed. Next morning he found the window broken,
the things in the room disturbed, a number of plates
and nine bantam fowls missing. He found four of
the fowls outside the brewhoupe with their necks
wrung Prisoner, who has a wooden leg, was traced
from the impression that article left in the ground
from the browhouse to his lodgings. On the ap-
plication of Mr. Waldron prisoner was remanded
till Monday.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-10-18

ACTION TO RECOVER MINE CALLS.

In London, on Monday, in the Lord Mayor's Court,
before the Recorder and a jury, an action of Parry V.
Colmer was tried. Tbe action was brought to recover
the sum of .£23 12s. 9d. in respect of certain calls of
Is. 6d. per share in the West Crebor Mine, in Wales.
The plaintiff was the secretary of that company, and
in that capacity brought the action in the interest of
the shareholders. Mr. Wedderburn, for the defen-
dant, said he had a preliminary objection to take to
the action. The company was incorporated under
the Stannaries Act, 1869, and the 13th section of that
Act provided that such a debt could only be sued for
by the purser of the mine. Counsel therefore sub-
mitted that as secretary merely the plaintiff had no
right to sue, and that the action had been wrongly
brought, inasmuch as by the process of the Court
no such particulars were required as were directed by
the Act. His lordship, however, declined to stop the
case, and the plaintiff was called. He stated that,
although a gentleman named Horsfell appeared on
the books as the appointed purser, he simply acted as
local purser, paying the labourers, and that the
whole of the monetary transactions of the company,
as far as receiving and paying out were concerned,
passed through his (witness's) hands. Mr. Wedder-
burn persisted in his objection, contending that the
evidence of the books of the company showed that
Mr. Horsfell was the purser and the plaintiff the
secretary, and the action having been brought by
him, there was nothing to prevent Mr. Horsfell
bringing a subsequent claim. His lordship left it to
the jury to say whether the plaintiff was de facto the
purser. They found in the affirmative, and a verdict
was thereupon entered for the plaintiff for the
amount claimed, leave be.ing given to move on the
point of law raised.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-10-18

NERVOUS DEB LITY
AFNES S,
NOISES IN THE EARS, AFFECTIONS OF
TflE EYES, End other bodily ailments. Sufferers
should send for Rcv. E. J. SILVERTON'S WORK on
these complaints (275th Thousand), containing valu-
able information. Pott free Six Penny Stamps. None
should despair. Note the address, Rev. E. J. SILVER-
TON, 16 to 19, IDIPERIAL.BIJILDINOS, LVDCIATU CIECIJI,
LUDO/ g.Q.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-10-18

KING'S COLLEGE CLASSES I'oll.
LADIES.

The inaugural address of the session 1884-5 in con-
nexion with the King's College lectures and classes
for ladies, has been given in London by the Bishop of
Lichfield before a large gathering of the members
and their friends at the Kensington Town-hall. The
Rev. Henry 'Waco, D.D., Principal of King's College,
presided. The classes were instituted about six years
ago, but their work has been much retarded owing to
the want of accommodation at their house, 5,
Observatory-avenue. The council of King's College
have, however, purchased a site on Kensington-grove
estate, upon which new buildings will shortly be
erected. The bishop, in the course of his address,
referred to his own efforts in the earliest phases of
this movement, when he was vicar of Kensington,
and said that although it might be supposed that it
would be more fitting that this inaugural address
should be delivered by one well known in the scientific
or literary world rather than by a minister of the
Gospel, yet it must be remembered that the higher
education of women was distinctly a product of Chris-
tianity, and that it was the religion of Jesus Christ
that had raised woman to her rightful position in the
human family. Among the rights of woman there
was none that ought to be recognised so ungrudgingly as
her right to all the advantages of the highest educa-
tion. There was a difference to be observed, however,
between men and women even in this matter, not as
to the extent of the education, but as to the circum-
stances in which it was imparted. Alike for the wel-
fare and the happiness of society, it was of the utmost
bmportance to preserve the characteristic distinction
of women, and to remember that itwas in the home life
rather than on the public platform that woman found
her truest sphere of action and her highest opportuni-
ties for good. In the scheme of higher education fol-
lowed out in these classes it seemed to him that these
best and most healthy conditions attained that fulfil-
ment. A vote of thanks was passed to the bishop for
his address, and the meeting terminated.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-10-18

SATLIRDIY, OCT. 18, 1881

THE FOREIGN CORN TRADE.

In the United States values for breadstuffs have
further declined during the week. At New York, on
Saturday, quotations were as follows: Spring wheat,
285.; red winter, on spot, 295. Id.; October, nominal;
November, 295. 2d.; December, 295. ; extra
State flour, 13s. I,ld. to 13s. 110. ; maize, 20s. 10d.
per 4801 b. f.o.b. As compared with the rates current
on the corresponding day in the previous week, these
quotations show a decline of 4d. on spring wheat, 7d.
on spot winter, 63d. on November, and 7d. on
December: sd. decline on flour, and 2d. decline on
maize. The Department of Agriculture reports that
the October returns for maize average higher for con-
dition than for the past five years. The general
average is 93, indicating about 26 bushels per acre
on an extent of land of about 70,000,000 acres. The
wheat crop will exceed that of last year by about
100,000,000 bushels. The thrashing is slow and
late, with results hitherto confirming the indication
of former reports,. the yield per acre Will average
about 13 1-3 bushels. The quality of the crop is
generally very good, and the average for the entire extent
of land is 96. The visible supply on Friday stood at
26,300,000 bushels, showing an increase of 2,100,000
bushels on the week; that of maize stood at 7,300,000
bushels, showing an increase of 500,000 bushels on
the week. The export clearances for Europe have
been 126,250 qrs. of wheat and 21,250 qrs. of maize.
Prices for red clovers range from 4d. to 43d. per lb.
for choice samples, with no appreciable export demand
at present. A telegram from Calcutta, dated Friday,
is to the effect that the official report on the condi-
tion of the crops and the weather states that a con-
siderable improvement had taken place throughout
the country, and prospects are good, except in Bellary
and parts of Mysore and Deccan, where the deficiency
is serious. Preparations for the winter crops are well
forward. The rainfall since the bwinning of the
season has been 82in. at Bombay and 61in. at Cal-
cutta. A telegram on Saturday states that agricul-
tural prospects are improving in Madras, but that
rain is wanted in portions of the Deccan and the
South Mahratta country. Continental markets show
no appreciable change. The rains have been favour-
atilt fnr successful wheat sowine.--=Mark-lase Express,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-10-18

A Worn, To WIVES—The pleasure of partaking of tea'
free from adulteration, fazing powder, or foreign ad-
mixture, is realized Ly many thousands of tea drinkers
who annually consume many millions of packets ,f
Horniman's Pure TOC—P,ewlre of Spurious Imitations.—
List of Agtnts iu this locality, zitourbridget—Clarke
Chemist, high Srtet ; Bakr, Chemist, High Street ;
Moira, 1141, high btreet.—Erlerlcy Hill, llawliLgs,
ehemist.—hiddermiuster, Hewitt, Bull Mug —Hules-
owen, Adams ehtinist.—Lye, Greenwood chemist.—
Wordsley, White chemist.—Kingswinford, l'earhch.—
Brettle Lane, Co lies, chemibt.—birinixigharu , Bunts
Co. Bu ll,Lbiz.—Quarry Bank, 'll'atts, Chen ist.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-10-18

LONDON HOSPITAL SUNDAY FUND.

At a meeting of the council of the Metropolitan
Hospital Sunday Fund, held at the Mansion House for
the purpose of distributing among the various hospitals
and dispensaries the sum of £4500, which had been
remitted to the Lord 11.1ayor by the Prince of Wales
as the result of the recent luspital fete held at the
International Health Exhibition. Sir Sydney Water-
low, M.P., who presided in the Lord Mayor's absence,
said the distribution committee recommended that the
sum in question, with £713 which had been paid into
the fund since the last meeting of the council, making
£5213 in all, should be distributed pro :rad among
the various hospitals and dispensaries which had
recently received the bulk of the fund. The grant
would be equal to about one-sixth of what they had
received already this year. This was agreed to. Dr.
Glover moved that it be an instruction to the general
purposes committee and the distribution committee to
consider and report to the council whether any and
what means could be recommended for adoption
by the council for increasing the power of the
Hospital Sunday Fund in its efforts to develop and
extend the public support of the medical charities
of the metropolis. The motion gave rise to a short
discussion, in the course of which Sir S. Waterlow
pointed out that owing to the agricultural and the
general depression even several of the Royal hi.s-
pitals had been obliged to curtail their expa eture,
and he controverted the statement made in recent
correspondence to the effect that the Hospital Sunday
movement was losing its popularity, this year's fund
being the largest ever collected. Writers in the Press
had been advocating that the collections on Hospital
Sunday should be divided into districts for the sake
of the institutions in those particular localities, but
that suggestion if adopted would kill the movement,
for its object was to collect in rich districts as well as
in poor funds for the relief of the sick and suffering
throughout the whole metropolis. Re thought the
managers of the hospitals had fallen into the mis-
take of relying too much upon the results of Hospital
Sunday and of relaxing their exertions for their
respective institutions in the rest of the year. In the
end Dr. Glover's motion was carried, and the meeting
separated.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-10-18

THE HONE SECRETARY AT DERBY.

In the Derby Drill Hall on Tuesday evening Sir
William Harcourt distributed the prizes to the suc-
cessful students at the Derby School of Science. Ere
said though he could not boast of being the rose, he
had lived near it and known its perfume. It was his
good fortune to be brought up in a home of science
and of scientific men, and every one who had had that
advantage must know that of all the interests of life
there was none greater than to learn of those great
discoveries which seem to open new worlds of which
they were before unconscious. England had been
the cradle of most of the great scientific dis-
coveries which had materially assisted to build up our
great and glorious Empire, of which we were all so
proud. We had had men like Henry Cavendish,
and Watts, and Davy, and Faraday, and in
our own day such great men as Tyndall aml Huxley,
and surely we ought to be a nation which would make
use of these advantages, though he should be sorry
to recommend the study of science entirely from a
utilitarian's point of view; yet bow little could
we conjecture what a single discovery could do
in its ultimate effect. These were not days when
we could afford to be idle or ignorant. There
was immense competition going on in the
world in all departments of life and trade. We had
to compete with countries where education of this
kind was of the most complete character—far more
complete than anything we had in this country; and
we could no longer afford to go on the old happy-go-
lucky manner. Training of the severest description
was necessary if we were to hold our own. -
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-10-18

BAD FOOD AND ITS DETECTION.

On Tuesday afternoon a lecture on "Bad Food"
was delivered before a large audience at the Technical
Guilds Institute, South Kensington, London, by Mr.
C. E. Cassal. The lecture, which was accompanied
by numerous demonstrations and experiments, dealt
with the detection of deleterious elements in food
and comprised a number of easy and safe methods
which might be applied in every-day use. The
importance of the subject having been pointed out,
the lecturer defined the difference between adulteration
and impurity. Adulteration, however undesirable it
might be, did not necessarily imply injury to health.
By badness of food such injury was necessarily
entailed. In meat the principal characteristics of
badness were a wet or sodden appearance, a flabby
or jelly-like consistency, blood spots in the grain,
or a sickly odour. The appearance of moisture
after standing awhile also implied staleness.
The simplest test, which in advanced cases was
fairly trustworthy, was to run the blade of a knife
into suspected meat. If putrefaction had set in the
resistance to the steel would be uneven, and the blade
would have a bad smell when withdrawn. The hot
water and reaction tests were also exhibited, as were
microscopic examples of meat in various states. The
question of bad meat in sausages and other preserved
forms was also referred to. From experiments, it
would seem that "almost anything was good enough
for :sausage-makers," who generally obtained safety
from detection by treating while cooking. On the
subject of milk, Mr. Cassal made some novel observa-
tions of considerable interest. As a matter of fact, it
appeared that the lactometer is useless, and plays into
the hands rather of the fraudulent dairymen than of
the consumer. Fat being lighter than water, a rich
milk might appear watered by this test, and tricks of
the milk trade might thus be fostered by its use. The
importance of purity in milk could not, he said, be
over-estimated, but the only method known by which
it could be satisfactorily tested was complete analysis.
The testing of butter was also something complicated.
An experiment for detecting foreign matter in butter
by testing for the fat curds, &c., at different tempe-
ratures was here made. A simple yet infallible test
for alum in flour was likewise shown. On a portion
of adulterated flour being placed in a small quantity
of chloroform the flour floats, while the alum or other
mineral matter sinks to the bottom. In a similar
way alum in bread may be instantly detected by
placing a small piece of the suspected loaf in a solu-
tion of logwood and carbonate of ammonia; if alum
be present the bread will turn blue. A number of
other tests were made, the lecture throughout being
well received.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-10-18

SUICIDE of a COUNTY COURT OFFICIAL.

On Monday afternoon an inquiry was held at St.
George's Hospital, London, respecting the death of
Dennis Farrow, 67, chief usher of the Westminster
County Court, who was found drowned in the Thames
on the'previons Thursday.
Robert Brackenbury, a painter, living at 7, Moreton-
street, identified the body as that of his father-in-law.
lie had for the past week or two been drinking
heavily. A letter, dated the 7th inst., was found
underneath his pillow in the bedroom by his wife, in
which he expressed his intention to drown himself,
and which showed that he was in a condition of great
mental excitement.

Mr. Herbert Cuff, deputy-registrar at Westminster
County-court, stated that Farrow had for many years
been a faithful servant, but seven years ago he gave
way to drink, and got into trouble through borrowing
money from money-lenders and backing bills for other
people. In consequence a number of judgment
summonses were Issued against him, and the money
given to him by the judge to meet the claim he
foolishly spent in drink instead of satisfying his
creditors. Both the witr ess and his brother,witb the
judge, had helped him on different occasions.
Inspector Hodgson deposed to finding the body on.
Thursday morning near Chelsea-bridge, and the
jury returned a verdict of "Suicide while in a state of
teMporary
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-10-18

A CHINESE RAILWAY.

Herr Kiepert gives the following particulars, in the
Geographical Review, published at Brunswick, of a
short line of railway in China, which did not share
the fate of the line between Shanghai and Woosung.
He says that the line in question, which is only seven
and a half miles long and which was constructed
almost by stealth, is in the province of Tcheli, and is
used for conveying the coal from the mines of
Kaiping, situated about 70 miles to the north-east of
Tientsin and 105 miles to the east of Pekin. The
Viceroy Li Hung Chang was anxious that this
coal should be used for the Imperial navy,
for the arsenals in the province of Tcheli, and for
the vessels of the Chinese Merchant Steam Navigation
Company, instead of the Japan coal. The simplest plan
would, of course, have been to connect Tientsin and
Kaiping by means of a railway, but the Chinese
would not allow the English engineers who had been
called to do this, and insisted upon a canal being cut.
This canal, which has indirectly been of some service,
as it has had the effect of draining the very marshy
district through liich it is ,•ut, could not be brought
right up to the mouth of t!.O mine, so the English
engineers were allowed to inalo3 a railway over the
last few miles. But when the line was made the
authorities insisted upon the trucks being dravni by
mules, for they would not hear of a locomotive which
the engineers ofithe line had procured being employed.
This went on for some time, but they have now given
way, and two or three fresh eugines have been
brought over from England. The Kaiping mine
is worked upon very scientific principles, being
provided with all the most approved safeguards.
The galleries are 20 miles in length, and there are
seven miles of tramway. The supply of coal is prac-
tically inexhaustible, but the quality of it varies very
much, and the Tientsin steamers have to get theirs
from Japan. The mine from which they might have
got the coal they wanted is only safe with patent
lamps, and as the Chinese will always break the glass
in order to light their pipes, the workings have been
abandoned. The coot of the coal at the pit'e mouth
is only 9s. a ton, so that several manufactories have
been established in the neighbourhood. The mine
gives employment to 1000 men, nine-tenths of whom
work underground, and, though not yet a success
financially, it seems likely to be very beneficial to the
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-10-18

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AMERICAN AGRICULTURE AND ITS
DISTRIBUTION.

Mr. J. R. Dodge, statistician of the United States
Department of Agriculture, has just published in New
York a work entitled "Farm and Factory; Aids to
Agriculture from other Industries." The author's
aim is to show that diversification of industry is
necessary to the prosperity of agriculture, and
he presents interesting statistics on this subject,
bearing not only upon the United States, but also upon
European countries. Discussing the harmony of in-
dustries, and also the different distribution of labour
in different countries, Mr. Dodge shows that in Great
Britain 57 per cent. of the workers are in the in-
dustries classed as manufactures, while in the United
States the proportion is only 22 per cent. On the
other hand, in Great Britain only 12 per cent, of the
workers are in agriculture, while in tt. e United States
the proportion is 44 per cent. In regard to France,
Denmark, Austria, Russia, Switzerland, and Spain, it
is shown generally that the progress and prosperity
of each country depends in great measure upon
the balance between the different industries.
The author exposes the error that the
prosperity of agriculture is promoted by a
mere increase of population. He divides the States
into four classes—those having less than 30 per cent.
engaged in agriculture, those having 30 and less than
50 per cent.; those having 50 and less than 70 per
cent., and those having 70 per cent. and upwards.
The comparison between these class6s of States is
carried into details, the proportion of agricultural
labour to all labour in each State being minutely
given. In the first class the value of farm land per
acre is found to be 38.65 dols., in the second 30.55
dole., in the third 13.53 dole., and in the fourth 5.18
dols. The examination proves that the prosperity of
the farming interest depends upon the proportion of
other labour to the proportion of
i farming labour.
The prices for farm products realisedn different
classes of States and in each State are also shown. In
the first class the average is 457 dole. for each worker
New York yielding 472 dole., New Jersey 501 dols.,
and Pennsylvania 431 dols. In the second class the
average is 394 dole., but Illinois ranks higher with
467 dols., and Ohio has just the average yield. In
the third class the average yield to each worker on
farms is only 261 dols., though it rises in Minnesota
to 376 dols., in lowa to 448 dols., in Indiana to 346
dols., and in Nebraska to 350 dols. But in regard to
these figures the influence of the ratio of miles of
railroad operating to farm land under cultivation
must be borne in mind.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-10-18

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-10-18

THE POLITICAL TRIAL IN RUSSIA.

A telegram from St. Petersburg, dated Monday,
states:

The great political trial has just terminated. All
the officers were sentenced to death. Six of the
other accused are banished to Siberia. Among the
condemned is one woman, the well-known Vera
Filippowa, one of the most active of the revolutionary
leaders. The President of the court-martial was
Lieutenant - General Tsimiroff and his assistant
Colonel Alexandroff. The assessors were ten
colonels of the Imperial Guard. The Minister of
War and the Minister of the Navy were alone
admitted to the trial with the exception of Prince
Tzingiskan, who was specially appointed to draw up
a report to the Emperor.

The French Chambers reassembled on Tuesday after
the summer recess. Vice-Admiral Peyron, Minister of
Marine, brought in a bill authorising a credit of
10,800,900 fr„ on account of the French operations in
TDnquin, and the proposal was referred to a special
committee for consideration. The Minister of War
brought in a bill for the organisation of a colonial army.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-10-18

VERDICT OF WILFUL MURDER.

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Ou Monday Mr. George Collier, deputy-coroner
for East Middlesex, held a lengthy inquiry at the
Fairleigh Hotel, Stoke Newington, London, on the
body of Miss Matilda Wood, aged 30, who died under
mysterious circumstances. Mr. Montagu Williams
appeared for the friends. of Miss Wood ; qncl Chief
Superintendent Green and other offlC-e-is Watched the
case on behalf of the Criminal Investigation Depart-
ment. Mary Elizabeth Allen, wife of a greengrocer,
stated that the deceased was her only sister, and was
a single woman. She was at her house about three
weeks since, when she appeared to be in her usual
health, but she 'complained of pains in her chest, but
witness had no reason to suspect she was pregnant.
Alice Jolliffe, servant to Miss Wood, said that her
mistress had always enjoyed good health until
within the last six weeks, when she complained
of sickness and giddiness. On Tuesday morning
she complained of severe pains, and called in
Dr. Bossy, who attended her up to the time of her
death. Mr. Alfred Frederick Bossy, surgeon, said
that Miss Wood told him she had taken cold whilst
heated, and he attended her up to her death. He
thought there was something peculiar in her case
which ho could not understand, as the inflammation
and pain continued up to the time of death. She
became delirious before death; and, as he was un-
able to account for the cause of death, he had made
a post-mortem examination in oonjunction with Dr.
Moxon, of Guy's Hospital, from which it appeared
that deceased was enciente, and that abortion had
been procured by the use of an instrument. Alice
Jolliffe, recalled, said she did not recollect any
strangers calling at the house. The coroner, in sum-
ming up, observed that there was no doubt someone
had been guilty of wilful murder, and it was to be
hoped the police would be able to bring the guilty
party to justice. The jury then, after a short delibera-
tion, returned a verdict of "Wilful murder" against
some person or persons unknown.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-10-18

IMPORTANT REGISTRATION
DECISION.

An important point has been raised at the West
Norfolk Revision Court at Swaffham. The Con-
servative agent disputed the Nalidity of the whole of
the notices issued by the Liberals, on the ground
that they were insufficiently stamped. The Act of
Parliament required that they should be sent prepaid,
with a registration fee of such an amount, not exceed-
ing 2d., as the Postmaster-General might direct.
The Postmaster-General had ordered that notices of
objection should be sent at prepaid letter rates, and
the agent contended that the objections were not sent
at letter rates; that they were not letters and did
not come within the category of the book-
post, because they were not identical in terms.
The Postmaster-General also ordered that the
registration fee should be 2d., so that each notice
of objection would be liable to id. for pre-payment of
the letter and 2d. for registration. The Liberals had
only affixed to their notices of objections adhesive
stamps to the amount of 2,id. The Liberal objections
affected more than 100 Conservative claims, and the
barrister, Mr. C. E. Malden, had reserved his decision
at previous courts on the matter. Ire now decided
that the Liberal objections could not be maintained
on account of the Act of Parliament not having been
complied with, and the whole of the claims were
allowed. The Liberal agent gave notice of appeal,
and the barrister granted a case for the superior
court, remarking that he was pleased to do so. as the
matter would then be further argued.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-10-18

GREAT FIRE IN BERLIN.

•
Schtineberg, a populous suburb of Berlin, was greatly
alarmed shortly after eight o'clock on Tuesday night
by an outbreak of fire in the large depot of the Berlin
Tramway Company, containing no less than three
hundred and sixty horses. All the available fire-engines
were speedily on the spot, and great crowds of people
assembled, several soldiers assisting in keeping order.
The fire was got under soon after eleven o'clock.
Happily no lives were lost, and all the horses wore
saved, but the building, with stores of hay, &c., was
entirely destroyed. The damages are considerable.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-10-18

DAMAGES FOR A DOG BITE.

At the Southwark County Court, London, an action
has been tried in which Mr. Thos. Bates, a jeweller, of
Albion-street, Rotherhithe, sought, on behalf of his
daughter Elizabeth, aged 13 years, to recover £5O
damages for injuries resulting from the bite of a dog
belonging to Mr. William Miller, proprietor of the
Duke of Edinburgh publichousei Forsyth-street,
Rotherhithe. It appeared from the evidence giten
on the part of the plaintiff that early on the morning
of the 6th of May last the daughters of the plaintiff
and of the defendant went into Southwark-park to-
gether to play, and that later on a son of the defen-
dant came to them, leading by a string.a large New-
foundland dog. The boy let go his bold of the
dos, and he had no sooner done so than the
animal flew savagely at the plaintiff's daughter,
knocking her down, and growling in her face.
She put up her arm to protect herself, and was
severely bitten on the forearm before defendant's son,
by the aid of a whip, got the dog away. The conse-
quences of the bite have proved most serious, as, not-
withstanding the fact that the wound was immediately
cauterised, the girl became very ill, and was now an
out-patient of Guy's Hospital. The •lefendant did
not deny that the girl had been bitten, and stated
that he had offered to pay the plaintiff any money be
*as out of pocket. He had, he stated, two dogs, one
that was dangerous and another which had previously
shown no signs of a vicious temperament. It was
contended that this Was the animal which caused
the injuries. After a long trial, the jury gaYe a
verdict in favour of tha plaintiff for £52 14e., blit as
£5O only was claimed, judgment for the latter
amount, with costel wad entered 11 t 43 judON

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-10-18

THE ALLEGED STARVATION OF A

WIFE AT GRIMSBY.

The prisoners, Charles Frederick Joseph Beaumont
Briggs 40, and his mother, Elizabeth Briggs, 68, who
are charged with the wilful murder of Theresa
Briggs, wife of the first-named prisoner, were brought
up on remand before the Grimsby county magistrates
on Tuesday. Mr. Tweed, of Lincoln, instructed by
the Treasury prosecuted, and Mr. Mason, of
Grimsby, defended. Mr. Tweed in his opening state-
ment said that up to the Saturday preceding her
death, Mrs. Briggs went about in her usual way, and
there was nothing but her emaciated appearance
noticeable. On that day, September 27, she had a
slight fit of paralysis, succeeded next day by another
fit, which took away the use of the left side, and this
paralysis, he should be able to prove conclusively, was
induced by a general state of starvation. Annie Balder-
stone, who was engaged to nurse deceased, on Oct. 2, the
day before she died, deposed to finding her uncon-
scious, and her surroundings dirty. Mrs. Kitching,
Nelson-street, said the deceased had visited frequently
at her house. In consequence of her complaints
about not getting enough to eat at home, witness had
given her food, which at first she ate ordinarily, but
of late ravenously. On Sept. 29, she found Mrs.
Briggs in bed, almost unconscious, and suggested to
the husband the summoning of a doctor. He refused,
saying he knew what she required. Early on October
3 Mrs. Briggs died. She was a timid, inoffensive
woman, and very temperate. The mother-in-law was
of drunken habits. Mrs. Barcombe, a neighbour,
gave evidence of frequent complaints of Mrs. Briggs
of want of food.—The court afterwards adjourned.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-10-18

A CURIOUS TRIBE.

The Anthropological Society of Washington gives
some curious particulars, in a recent report, about a
tribe called " Innvits," who dwell in numbers on the
coast of Alaska. These people, who are of an amphi-
bious nature, present, it is narrated, some striking
features in their economy, which would seem to be in
direct contradiction with all recognised sanitary laws.
They live in houses built so near the sea that high
tides or storms flood them, and the inhabitants, for
weeks at a time, seek refuge on the roof. The home
they prefer, however, is their skin boat, which the
youngest children are taught to manage, and do
manage with remarkable proficiency. If overtaken by
a storm, the boat is easily run ashore and turned
over on its side, so that the whole family can sleep
beneath it. That is to say, they shelter their heads
and shoulders under it, for it is one of the pecu-
liarities of the tribe to leave the body protruding,
naked, from beneath the skin boat; and a singular
spectacle, it is remarked, is presented on a sea beach
where four or five hundred families are seen, their
limbs all radiating from the boats, and their heads in-
visible. They never wash themselves, but jump about
until in a profuse perspiration, then rub their bodies
with oil, as a cleansing process. They eat their food
uncooked, and in the way of drink take by preference
stagnant filthy water, or will for a long period drink
nothing but sea water, which they prefer to fresh
water. Savage races are used to hardship and dirt.
It is, however, the fact of drinking systematically salt
water without bad results that upsets received &mi-
ta f authorities.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-10-18

HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.

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Weakness and Debility—Nervous IrrltP
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BRITISH INTERVENTION IN
SOUTH AFRICA.

MORE "BLOODGUILTINESS."

The Daily News learns that instructions
have been sent to Sir Hercules Robinson to
take such steps as he may consider necessary
to establish British authority in Montsioa's
country. It is believed that Sir H. Robin-
son will employ a local force.