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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-05-06


EXECUTION AT NORWICH.

On Monday morning, at eight o'clock, Henry
Webster, 61, labourer, was executed within the pre-
cincts of Norwich Castle for the murder of his wife, at
Crauworth, on the 17th September. Webster had a
quarrel with his wife about her going out nursing, to
which he objected, and as she persisted in going he
stabbed her twice in the throat, in the presence of his
granddaughter, in spite of the wife's and child's szipli-
cations, and then went and confessed to a constable
what he had done. Since his condemnation he has
made no profession of penitence, and paid no parti-
cular attention to the ministrations of the chaplain,
being apparently indifferent to his fate. On
Sunday night he was restless, and never spoke to the
warder in charge. When being led to be pinioned,
he touched his hat and bowed to one or two turnkeys as
be passed. The procession, consisting of the chaplain
reading the burial service, the culprit with Marwood,
the executioner, the governor (Mr. Walker), Mr.
Under-Sheriff Hamond, and Mr. Robinson, surgeon,
walked into a yard behind the castle keep, where the
scaffold was erected. The convict walked firmly to
the scaffold and simply nodded to a few spectators.
The rope was adjusted, and he disappeared from view,
a warder and surgeon stating that he died without a
struggle.
There had been no execution at Norwich Castle
since August, 1867, and the execution of Monday
was accordingly the first which has taken place under
the new Act.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-05-06

OFFICIAL COMMUNIcATION.
(Prom Punch.)

MY DEAR Mn. 1"IINCII.—For some centuries, or at
all events for a great number of years, I have been en-
gaged with my respected opponent the Unicorn in
fighting for the Crown. If the Bengal tiger is to have
a share in the contest I shall decline to continue it. In
the first place, two to one is not fair play, and in the
next place if the Tiger and myself got joint possession
of the Crown, we should very likely begin fighting for
it between ourselves, and so thinks Mr. Lowe.—Yours
as ever, LEO BRITANNICUS.
The Queen's Arms.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-05-06

THE COAL AND IRON TRADES.

tuday,
upon

Chamberlain, Mayor L.
between the ironmasters oX
men. His decision was that'
Uor 71

iron.

Timas writes :—"Mr.
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'act, he says :
'Now, as to the iron trade. Ido not think it is at
all certain that there will be no reduction in iron, for
even if the price of marked bars is kept up, the
competition will induce under-selling by many of the
makers, who will not be able to keep the difference
in the wages in their own pockets. But in any case
the award is honourably binding on the men, as it
was not conditional on any alteration in the price of
iron. If they have any doubts on the subject 1 can't
help thinking that these would be removed by con-
sidering what would have happened if there had been
no Board of Arbitration. In this ca.e the ironmasters
would have given notice of a reduction of 12i per cent.,
and the men would probably have struck against it.
In the present state of trade—with many concerns
actually losing money largely— with the demand not
more than equal to half the total production, and
with an increasing foreign competition—there could
be only one termination to such a strike; and after
some weeks, or, it may be, months, of miserable
struggle against want and hunger, the men would have
been beaten. Surely it is wise to make the best of
existing circumstances, to take what work is to be
had even at the lowest wages, and to wait till a
better time comes, when a revival of trade will enable
the employers to give proper remuneration to their
workmen.

Birmingham, recently gave an toy
.ipou me of South Staffordshire and tl
.hem- _ .._ that the men should work at a re(
,of per cent. With this decision many of ;them
~.hlu.ch dissatisfied, because the ironmasters have not re,'
utkiit... the price of -, In replyi to a letter sent him on
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-05-06

THE LYE BURIAL BOARD.
S fORMY MEETING.

A inceting Wraoi 114 d at the Temperance Hall, Lye, on
Thursday night f: r the p.irpose of appointing a numb r
of gentlemen t c nstitute the Board. There was a'
large atteLd ince and the noise was so great at times that
the Chairman could not po3sibly make himself heard
a..d considerable c•mfusion ensued, several persons being
on their legs at one tune and each striving to out-shout
Vie wher. The chair was taken by the Rev. B. Fletcher,
Vie vicar of the Lye. who commenced business by read-
iog the notice calling the meeting. He said they were
met together that night to appoint gentlemen to consti-
tute the Burial Bard for the Lye and Wollescote and
t iey could not appoint more than 9or less than 3. He
t 'ought they should api obit gentlemen who took an
iuterest iu tl e welfare of the place and the names of 9
gentlemen who were fixed on at a meeting held on Tues-
day night would be read over to them, but sides that
meeting it had bees found desirous to have Weillemete
represented ea the Board and a gentleman from
place bad been substituted for one other who was mimed
on Tuesday night. He trusted that those who had to
speak would be gives a patient hearing and that
would bey, the good sense of not going to a poll _
putting the parish to a lot of additional expensea.-•‘,4lr.
Bernard baying explained the duties devolving upon
Burial Boards, said he hoped there would be no dissa is-
faction or illfeeling in the mstt,r and that they would
appoh Was gentlemen whose names they would hear
read over and so save the parish a lot of expense.—The
Rev. T. Parker, congregati.mal rainistel• at the Lye, pro.
posed that the members of the Burial Board for the Lye
and Wollescote shall he 9 in number and skill consist of
t e following persons :—Messrs. Steven A. Brooks,
hlisha Brooks, William Perry, George Newnan, Thomas
blobberley, Samuel ktobberley, Isaiah Eveson, George

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-05-06

; Sugar 31.

Apply pennnally or by latcr to Aget,t-Getlcral for
Queensland, 32, Charitig Cross, London. S.W.; or to

A. W. BEALE, Commercial S,le floon3s,.
Kidderminster.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-05-06

6,1 vi 1
THE 'OYSTER FISHERIES I

The select oommittee appointed to consider the causes of
the scarcity of oysters sat again on Monday at the House of
Commons, Sir C. Legard in the chair.
Mr. Wiseman, of Faversham, stated that he had
been connected with the oyster trade for many years,
and his family had been interested in the trade for
centuries. His fisheries were in the river Roche
(Essex). He considered that the present scarcity
was owing to the want of spat during the last
seven or eight years, this having been caused
by the low temperature of the water and strong
winds which had prevailed during the spatting sea-
sons of June, July, and August. He was convinced
that the seasons bad altered to a very great extent
since the year 1859, and that the tempttrature of
the water during the spatting seasons had been much
lower in the seasons since that time. He pointed out
that a farmer could protect his lambs and sheep against
cold, but that similar protection could not be given to
the spat. Dredging had not caused the scarcity. He
impressed the committee with the necessity of separat-
ing the "bundles" of young oysters, in order that they
may have room to grow, and produced specimens of such
bundles which had lain for several years without
alteration in size. It was very evident that oysters
would not have become scarcer if they had continued
to spat as they had before the year 1859; the demand
had nothing whatever to do with it.
The inquiry was again adjourned.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-05-06

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

A scheme is on foot in Paris for celebrating the cen-
tenary of Voltaire the year after next.

Intelligence has reached New York from Antioch,
California, of the citizens of that place having expelled the
Chinese inhabitants and burned the quarter where they
lived.
Her Majesty the Queen will hold a Drawing Room
at Buckingham Palace, on Wednesday, May 10, at three
o'clock ; and another Drawing Room, also at Buckingham
Palace, at three o'clock on Friday, May 12.

The Colonial mail steamship Wa2mer Castle has
brought intelligence of the total wreck of the Union Steam-
ship Company's steamer Namaqua, 200 miles to the north-
ward of Cape Town. All the lives were saved.

A layman has offered 25,000 to the Additional Home
Bishoprias Endowment Fund, on condition that no fewer
than nineteen others give each a similar or a larger sum.
The donor reserves to himself the power to name the bishopric
or bishoprics he may wish his contribution applied to. This
offer is to hold good until the end of June.
At a meeting of the Council of the Central and
Associated Chambers of Agricultural (held in London on
Tuesday), a resolution was adopted, declaring that proper
quarantine grounds should be provided by ..Government for
foreign store stock arrivipg from "unscheduled" countries,
which stock should not be removed therefrom until seven
clear days had elapsed—A resolution was also passed ex-
pressing the opinion' of the Council that any parish where a
School Board does not exist should be empowered in vestry
assembled to levy a rate on the basis of the sanitary rates for
the support of public elementary schools.
According to the quarterly return of the Registrar.
General, in the United Kingdom the births of 300,050 chil-
dren, and the deaths of 191,550 persons of both sexes, were
registered in the three months ending 31st March last. The
recorded natural increase of pvulation was thus 108,200.
The registered number of persons married in the quarter
ending 31st DeMllber was 146,380. Although the noarriages
exceeded the average, the rate in the purely agricultnral
counties continued low. Upon the other hand, marrittzes •
increaeed in several of the manufacturing districts to *hien
the migrating population resorts. In the first three moistly' ,
of the year the births registered wete more plentiful by thou-
sands than thy have hitherto been. The mortality of the
winter was under the average of the season The prices of
wheat and coals were comparatively low; of potatoes high.
Meat too was dear. Pauperism has been diminishing

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-05-06

HAGLEY.

IiAGLEY STuCK SALE AND SIIOW OF TEGB.—At this
sale on Aloud.iy, there was a good supply of stock , a good
attendance, and brisk cotupetition. Ihe show of txg,
vie of a high character, as the rates realized show. '1 ne
judges were Messrs. Frank Blakeway, Henry How, an,.
John Gosling. 'rho first prizr.., £3, was give,' to H and
N. Swab, the best pen making 97s 61 a bead ; the secou.
orze, £.*2 was g..ven tor, Thurst, n, the btst p ii tiwking
691 61 ; the third prize, £l, was given ti Miulieebt. toe
best pun making 66, 01 a head. lurcha r.pr z,s were
ewarerd
.to Me-ssrs. Gosling, t4methwick;
.gliain; and Eley, Dudley. The mutton aa I lici
shun), and real:Zect 9d to 101 per lb. Be, / a, wvil ~„.„
nice heifers making fully 91 per lb. Pig, ana
wade very high rates.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-05-06

PRISON LABOUR.

On several occasions we have animadverted upon the
hardships to which mat-makers are exposed by prison
competition. These unfortunate people have now
issued a pamphlet addressed to the Home Secretary,
in which their case is stated with studious modera-
tion. They readily own that the State has every
right to render convict labour as nearly self-support-
ing as possible. The interests both of society at
large and of the prisoners themselves are- imme-
diately concerned in this good work. Sir Walter
Crafton once laid it down as an axiom of prison life
that "if you can by your training make the idler in-
duy3trious, you have gone very far towards securing
his reformation." It is, therefore, of the first im-
portance that every convict should labour at some
productive form of toil during his stay in gaol, even
if his so doing interferes with the outside labour
market. So much the mat-makers readily grant.
Their complaint is—and it seems justly founded—
that their trade has been specially singled out for
_prison competition, although many others might be
taught with equal ease to prisoners. A few instances
taken from the gaol statistics for 1875 prove
the truth of this complaint. . Out of a daily average
of 293 male prisoners in Lancashire County
Prison, 123 were employed upon mat-making. At ,
Liverpool Borough Prison' the number was 87 out of
26; at Manchester City Prison, 119 out of 400; at
Northampton County Prison, 41 out of 71; in
Warwick County Prison, 66 out of 158; and in the
West Riding Prison, 641 out of 930 males, besides 66
females were exclusively employed upon mat and mat-
ting making. The evil resulting from this concentra-
tion of gaol labour upon a single industry develops a
twofold character. In the first place it operates most
unfairly to the trade by flooding the markets with
goods sold in many cases for the bare cost of the
raw material. It is on record that outside manu-
facturers have before now discharged their hands
because they found more profit in buying
directly from the prisons and retailing to the public.
This, then, is one fault in the present system. An
even worse may be found in the consideration that it is
a mere mockery to teach convicts a trade upon which i
they cannot possibly exist when their term of mprison-
ment expires. A prison ought to be a reformatory as
well as a place of punishment. What chance of the
former so long as its inmates are either set to labour
at unproductive toil, such as the crank or treadmill,
or are employed en mane at a single industry, the
market for the products of which is already greatly
overstocked ?—Globe.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-05-06

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICID

E.

For about eighteen months or two years past Joseph
Niblett, 23, a clerk, having apartments at Ivy Cottage,
Acton-lane, Gunnersbury, had been paying his ad-
dresses to Agnes Burle, 20, who lived at home with
her parents at Harptree Cottage, Brentford-road, Gun-
nersbury, about half a mile off. They had had a
quarrel, and the young lady, it is said, refused to see
him. However, on Saturday morning Niblett kept
his bed, and got his landlady to address a letter to Miss
Burle, stating that he was very ill and also im-
ploring her to come and see him once more. The
young lady on receiving the communication at
once proceeded to Ivy Cottage, and was shown into
Niblett's room. In the course of the conversation
which followed, the young lady told him that she
must decline to walk with him any more. Suddenly Nib-
lett took a five-chambered Colt's revolver from under
the bed clothes and fired at her head. The ball hit her
forehead, but the wound was not mortal. He then
fired at himself, the ball lodging in his skull. The
landlady hearing the report of firearms immediately
ran upstairs; surgeons were fetched, and the bullets
were succesfully extracted. Niblett is not expected
to live, and Miss Burle is in a very precarious state.
On Sunday and Monday crowds of persons surrounded
the house where the occurrence took place.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-05-06

PHYSICAL AND MORAL EVIL

In London, on Sunday afternoon, at St. James's
Church, Piccadilly, the Rev. F. J. Jayne, M.A., tutor
of Keble College, Oxford, delivered the second of a new
course of sermons to be preached at St. James's, at the
request of the Christian Evidence Society. He selected
for his text 2 Cor. v. 7, "We walk by faith and not by
sight." We were invited, the preacher said, to confront
the darkest and most overwhelming of all mysteries—
the existence of physicial and, still more, or moral evilin
a world made by an all-good and almighty Creator. It
might be asserted with some confidence that Christian-
ity working upon the heart, and science upon the head
would, together, render each successive generation
more keenly alive to, and more perplexed about, the
presence of the terrible power of evil which had
so long worked havoc in God's glorious creation.
When we remembered what we were, and what the
universe was, it became easier to believe that we could
not know the whole on this side of the grave than it
would be to accept any hypothesis which would claim
to solve the mystery. Harsh as the paradox might
seem, we believed some dogmas because they were
irrational, and though that fact set the teeth
of fanaticism on edge it had a fascination for
us. So far as we understood it, evil was self-
destructive; and the advances of science, far
from suggesting the impotence, tended rather to
demonstrate the omnipotence of the Creator. Con-
science forbad us to call evil good, and still iln9re
vehemently did she protest against the supposition
that the Creator was a being of a mixed or doubtful
character. We must return to the old grandly illogical
position that though evil was above, beneath, around,
within us, yet God wail at once all good and almighty.
We could not solve the mystery of the origin and
the continuance of evil, but we might solve or re-
move the religious difficulty which that mystery
was so apt to occasion. No one had discovered
peace by discussing the problem of evil, but tens of
thousands had found blessing in contending against
evil. Was it not true that happiness was more nearly
within the reach of every man than was sometimes
supposed? if one only wished to be happy that could
be easily accomplished, but we wished to be happier
than other people because we believed them to be
happier than they were. Death could,not be got rid
of, but other evils might be mitigated or removed, and
In spite of sin, disease, and death, it was a happy world
after all. We could not know the whole, but our
fundamental maxim must be that "We walk by faith
and not by sight."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-05-06

THE ECLIPSE

SAUCE.
IT ECLIPSES ALL THE CHEAP SAUCES.
TRY IT.
In bottles at 6,1., Is. and 2s. each.

MANUFACTURED BY
CHARLES MORRIS, READING,
and sold retail by all Groe,rs and 01:in..n.

GouT AND REIEUMATISM.—The ex.
,pseasotaocik. •
crtviating inCn of Gdut or, Ithenuaatiam kly
removed and cured iu a few days by that celebraLed
Medicine, B F.'S GOU r and K U ATIc NI, LS.
'1 hey require no rtraint c.,; ni 111 cnit during
their use, and are ccrtain Lo prevnt Cad d,,t :t
Dg;onlyviy al "lpart.
i d bChemists at is. lid, aml 2. 9d.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-05-06

CRADLEY HEATH, HALESOWEN, AND DISTRICT CHRONTOLE.

iiitlCE OAE

PUBLIC NOTICE:,.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.

CHESTER RACES (CUP DAY).

For farther particulars see Special Bills.
J. GRIERON, General Manager.
Paddington Terminus,

THE UNION ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE ACTS.

STOURBRIDGE UNION.

STOURBRIDGE AND UPPER SWINFORD
BURIAL BOARD.

REQUIRED 500 dowr,
(tti 000 '
the remainder ky iLtalutents
£1,500 each to be advatced within a period not Pateee
2 years. The whole to be secured upon the Pour Rites
of the Townships of Stourbridge and Upp
in the County of Worcester, and the amount t.
by way of annuity extending over a periol of 40 or 50
years. Application, with terms of loan, to be sent in to
the Clerk of the Board, E. W. Bernard, Esq , before
May 13th, 1876. _ _

,
The Voard do not pleige themselves ta accept the
lowest or any Tender, or to accept or raise the whole of
the last instalment if not required.

ON WEDNESDAY, May lOtk, Excursion
Trains will run to CHESTER as follows and re-
turn same evening.
Leave Stourbri'ge at 7 0, Brettell Lane, 7.5. Brierley
Bill 79, Round Oak 7.13, Netherton 7.18, Dudley 7.25,
Tipton 7.30, Princes End 7 33, Daisey Bank 7 35, and
Bilston 7.40 a m.
Leave 11,0:sit4r (Shrub Hill) at 8.15, Dmitwirli 8_25,
Hartleintry 8-TOTSiourport 6.50, BewcOey 9.0, Bridgnortfl
9.30,, Coalport 9.45,-Ironbridge 9 50, and Buildwas 9.5.
a.m.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the
Assessment Committee a the Stourbridge Union
will hold a Meeting, for hearing Objections to the
VALUATION LISTS of the several Parishes in the
said Union, at the Workhouse, at Kingswinford. on
Frilay, the 2nd day of June, 1876, at Half-past Eleven
o'clock in the Forenoon, and henceforth on the first
Friday in every month, at the same place and hour
during the remainder of the current year, ending March,
1877.

Any person who shall have reason to think himself
aggrieved by the said Lists, on the ground of inequality,
unfairness, or incorrectness in the valuation of any
hereditaments included therein, or on the grounds of
the omission of any rateable hereditaments from such
Lists, must, seven days at least before the day appointed
for such meeting, give to the Committee and to the
Overseers notice in writing of his objection thereto, and
the particular causes and grounds thereof must also be
stated and specified in such notice of appeal.
Dated this 28th day of April, 1876.
GEO, HOLLOWAY,
Clerk to the said Assessment Committee,
No. 1, Church Street, Stourbridge.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-05-06

BRIERLEY BILL.

DRUNK AND DISORDIRLY.-At the Polite Court, oa
Monday, before Messrs. H. Smith and F. Evers, Edmund
Calder was charged with being drunk and disorierly on
the 23rd ult. Police-constable Giles proved the case
and defendant was fined 5s and costa.
There were several other cases heard but withdrawn
on pa)ment of costs.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-05-06

A NEW INVENTION:

The Americans have discovered a new use for sr.
It is one which certainly would not suggest it at
first sight. They employ it as a substitute for wood.
Paper has for years done duty as linen, but perhaps
except when employed by bookbinders we should not
expect to find it taking the place of "boards." Ameri-
can growers had found that wine long stored in the
wood suffered from the contact. It was certainly a
bold idea to abolish wooden casks and wrap wine in
paper. But it is announced to have been done. And
the new fabric is said to have proved so successful that
it is to be applied to general purposes of storage. It is
made by some peculiar process, the principal material
'employed being rye or barley straw. Of course it is
waterproof, so that no portion of the wine is absorbed,
nor can such a cask become charged with the gases
which are set at liberty in course of fermentation. It
was a doubtful point whether it could resist the force
to which it would be subjected during fermentation,
but as one sample was proved to have withstood a
strain of 4,000 lbs., that question may be treated as set-
tled. It is no small part of the advantage of the new
casks that they can be packed so as to occupy much
less space. They are made in a cylindrical form, and
it is calculated that this gives an advantage in stowage
amounting to 15 per cent.— The Globe.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-05-06

APPOINTMENT OF SCHOOLMASTER AND

SCHOOLMISTRESS.

WANTED, a SCHOOLMASTER and
SCHOOLMISTRESS for the above Union,
who will be required to instruct the children in reading,
writing, and arithmetic, and the principles of Christian
Religion ; also superintending their industrial training,
and to assist the Master and Matron of the Workhouse,
subject to the direction uf the Guardians, and in accord-
ance with the orders of the Poor Law Commissioners.
The Salary of the Schoolmaster is .£35, and the
Schoolmistress £2O per annum, with snch further sum
as the Local Government Board may award in their
certificate, together with Board, Washing, and Furnished
Apartments.
Candidates are requested to send applications in their
own handwriting, stating age, residence, past and pre-
sent occupations, with testimonials of character, temper,
and competency, to me, at the Workhouse, at Kingswin-
ford, on or before Thursday, the 18th mat; and
attend at the same place, at their own expense, on
Friday, the 19th inst,:at Eleven o'clock a.m., when the
election will take place.
The persons elected will be required to enter upon
their duties forthwith, and be prepared to undergo the
ordinary examination of her Majesty's Inspector of
Schools.

The Guardians will not object to a Man and his Wife,
without encumbrance.

By order,
GEO. HOLLOWAY,

Workhouse, Kingswinford,
sth May, 1876.

LOWER GROUNDS, ASTON pARK.

THESE BEAUTIFUL GROUNDS OPEN DAILY.

GRAND DISPLAY of SPRING FLOWERS.

BOATING on the Lake, which has been very much
enlarged and filled with spring water fit for Bathing as
well as Boating. '
SYNYER and GILMER'S splendid BAND every
MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, and SATURDAY, from 3
till S.

The NEW SKATING RINK Open Daily, for Three
Exercises—viz., 11 till 1; 2.30 till 5; 7 till 9 30.
POUNTNEY'S BAND will Play on the Rink EVERY
EVENING and on FRIDAY AFTERNOONS.
Admission to Rink, 6d. ; hire of Skates, 6d.
Admission to Grounds, 3d. each.
H. G. QUILTER, PROPRIEIOII.

FREE EMIGRATION TO QUEENSLAND.

Free Passages are granted by the Government of
Queensland as under—
To General Servants, Cooks, Roust:maids, Nurses, Dairy
Maids, &c.
Wages £25 to £5O a-year all found.
To Married and Single Farm Labourers.
Wages £3O to 0 a-year with board and lodging.
Asszsted Passages onl ;a:imeLt of
..t:4 to
*.
Artisans (allkinds)
Blacksmiths
Carp,nters and Joiner.
Butchers
Bookbinders
Bakers
Bricklayers
Cabinet Makers
Gardners
Grooms

-Saddlers
Piasterers
Plumbers and Painters
Qaarrytheu
Rope Makers
Shoemakers •
Shipwrights
Shc•plierds
Tailors aud others!

Each SLip carries an eiperienced 9urgeon 8: Matron.
F!onilies have separate sleeping e, nipartment.
ilotk.can be carried on in the openair all tr:e yoar round
Beef and Mutton 3d a-lb.; Tea 2s tid a-11. ;-_,Fiour 156
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-05-06

TO THOSE LEARNING TO RINK.

Rinking is certainly a very delightful exercise to
those who are proficient, but sorrow generally attends
the student In the earlier stages of instruction 'says
the Standard). To slide about clumsily without any
power over his limbs and to be a laughing•stock to his
friends is bad enough, and this is by no means the
worst of it. A couple of those astonishingly sudden
falls, which make the head rebound from the cruel
asphalte and the teeth go half through the tongue, are
very apt to take much of the enthusiasm out of a
beginner. Even when getting along tolerably well the
unaccustomed rinker sometimes finds that one of his legs
shoots off at a tangent, and before he has time to think
he is down again with a bleeding at the nose and a
bitter hatred against Mr. Plimpton in his heart. Besides
casual hurts it is well (known that serious injuries are
often sustained on the rinks, and to be able to learn to
skate without falling down and wounding himself is a
very agreeable prospect to the timid amateur. From
the Field we learn that an apparatus to bring about
this desirable end has been constructed. The contri-
vance is exceedingly simple. "From the roof depends
all round the room a rigid fiat iron rail, on which a
roller revolves. To this roller is attached a swingle
bar, and from each end of the swingle bar hangs a
rope. A cunningly devised jacket, made of leather and
flax, so constructed as to come up under the armpits,
and at the same time under each forearm, which must
be bent, is now buckled on to the beginner. When
this is accomplished the cords that hang from the
swingle bar are attached to the jacket at the
shoulders." Thus it is impossible to fall, whatever
attempts the beginner may make, and however eccen-
tric may be the evolutions of his legs.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-05-06

EXTRAORDINARY AVALANCHE.

ktl-ti"`'"'Ater'

At the foot of Sugar Loaf Mountain, on the emit side 1
of the Hudson, is the handsome summer residence of
Mrs. Wade. The ground on which the mansion Stands'
is 800 or 1;000 feet above the level of the river, the
background being' Sugar Loaf, 1,000 feet high., A
strange occurrence has taken place within a thonsand
feet of the house. James •M'Manue is the railroad
fi3gman near the spot. He was in the rock cut'north
at three eclock in the afternoon mentioned, wh n he ,
heard a singular noise—a sort of rattling or crac
In a minute after there was another rtunblin and
rattling louder than the first, and almost Immediately '
after a-third report.- •He an south to ascertain.the'
:Cause, and found, the railroad track for 590 'feet '
' cOVered I. With -;stc;ne's . and botilderl4; 'and 'inin,-Sh '
and perch. 'He looked up the hill and Ban',
a. chasm 300., Teel- in width and 50 feet in.
-depth, and from it ',fully 50,000 tons of dirt
.and sand, had to all appearances, been 'lifted uti and
khurledinto and across the cove below, Thsjcpy4 is
i5OO feet.in width, and the avalanche !wept thrpugh it
and over it to the Hudson River Railroad track, tearing
Itiocbn fences and covering the track, six itiehes deep _
with stones, out, and fish. Huge trees were hurled ip
every direction, and the water the entire length of the'
cove was disturbed. Several others reports followed,
'and more dirt was displaced,Nyi
~
kat s stranger
.iitill,
almost immediately after the ..,)413t;0P0F44, et; torrent,,
f `lwg,ter. ~biirlit: 1 from..the ,hotto44:o!utiAPAYlßn, prom '
where the earth had been hurled, and plunged down
the side of the hill, cutting a ravine five feet deep
in a brief space of time, and the volume of water is
Increasing hourly. When the fact is stated that
there is no pond or stream near the spot except one
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-05-06

SALE OF FAT AND STORE STOCK.

--
MR. T. F. NOCK will SELL by AUCTION,
at the HEULEY, Aims, LUMLEY, on TUESDAY, the
9th day of MAY, 1876.
30 FAT CATTLE.
150 FAT SHEEP.
FAT LAMBS.
BACON and PORKET PIGS.
Further entries solicited.
Sale at 12 prompt.

SIR JAMES SIMPSON'S SANITARIAN
RESTORATIVE is a soverign remedy in all case,
of BLOOD POISONING and the numerous Diseases
arising from a vitiated state of the circulation, as
Rheumatism, Glandular Swellings, Eruptions and Skin
Diseases, Ulcerations of the Throat, Mouth, kc., &O.
Being alterative, tonic, and restorative, it will rapidly
act as a corrective, and without the use of any other
medicine, restore the patient to the perfection of bodly
bealth.—Sold in bottles 2s. 9d. each, by Mr. Whitwell,
Market Hall House, Stourbridge, Mr. Hewitt, Medical
Ball Kidderminster, and all Patent Medicine Vendors

MONEY ready for immediate investment in large or
small sums not under £5O, on any description of
teal or personal security no less than one year, at a low
rate, viz., 4 per cent, on personal, and 3 per cent on free-
hold or leasehold security. Interest in all cases payable
half-yearly, and not in advance. Distance no object.
All applications will be treated with strictest secrecy and
despatch. Money obtainable on the shortest notice. No
ccuimission.—Apply with full particulars as to nature o
security, amount required, and for what period, to Wino
LIAM bEYMoEII, Esq., Financier, 9, Great Russell-street
London, W.C.

REGISTERED FOR t
1 TRANSMISSION ABROAD.)

SALES BY AUCTION.

1F THERE AR. ANT LADINS who have net yet used the
GuotefELD STARCH, they are respectfully solicited to
give it a Wall and carefully follow out the directions
printed every package, and if this ib dune, they will
say, like the Queen's Laundrette, it is the finest March
they ever used. When you ask for GLUNFIRLD &untie,
Bee that you get it, as inferior kinds are often substituted
or the sake of extra protit. Beware therefore of spur-
one imitations.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-05-06

PRFOliie7

PTCTURES FRAMED
slid rest Mouldings.

A NEW SELECTION Wl' PATTERNS,
Best Euglish (iOll Work.
OXFO 1? I) F A E , IN OAK,

St .itit heti, tout 4 encli.
OLLUU.LAI'LL, CHEOMOS,

Colored aid Plain Pietrues.
SCRIPS , AND CUT-OUT RELIEFS.

z:.ARC HER C LARKE,

THE OXFORD FRAMING DhPOT,

71, HIGH SMELT, STOW:BRIDGE.

MILLINERY, HOSIERY, DR,APERY
AND

HABERDASHERY ESTABLISHMENT,

126, HIGH-STREET, STOURBRIDGE.

MRS. W . CLIFF

Zags to inform the Ladies of Stonrbridge and Distriet
that she has taken to the above premises, and has
wormed them after extensive alterations, with a Choice
Stock of

LACE, RIBBONS, VELVETS, FEATHERS,
FLOWERS, BONNET SHAPES, &c., &c.

Yrs. W. C. hopes by strict personal attention to
legume to men i a share of public patronage.

STRAW BONNETS CLEANED, DYED. AND
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-05-06

A SCHOOL FOR TRUANTS.

A committee of the School Board for London have
decided in favour of the establishment of a special
school for truants, with the consent of the Education
Department, in tesnas of the Industrial Schools Act,
1866. It is proposed to make application to the
authosities at the Home Office for an extension to the
metropolis of a concession which has already been
made, under that Act, to Liverpool, to the effect that,
whereas each child will have to be committed by
the magistrate's order for a nominal period of two
years at the least, discharges should be granted by the
Secretary of State, so as to limit the actual time
of detention to one or two months. With regard
to "parents who sincerely desire to obey the law, but
who through feeble health, widowhood, or absence
at work cannot prevent the wilful and reverse truancy
of their children," it is hoped that the opening
of a school on these conditions would obviate the
manifest injustice of the byelaws in such cases, as
,well as the evil and costly consequences attend-
ant upon prolonged detention in an industrial
school. The committee point out that voluntary bene-
volence alone could supply the necessary funds where-
with to establish a special school to which parents who
plead incapability of control, and give evidence to
prove it, could send their children as boarders, con-
tributing a fair portion of the cost. Could this be
done offenders would be convinced, without the much.
dreaded familiarization of their minds with our police-
courts, that, however they may defy home discipline,
they cannot successfully withstand the law. But, in
default of the fulfilment of this scheme, it is considered
that the alternative arrived at will prove a valuable
experiment, combining economy with efficacy. The
Committee further propose to confine the suggested
school to boys, and to send no child to it except by the
express desire of its parents and on their joint applica-
tion with the Board. f
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-05-06

4.4

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SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1876.

PEOPLE'S FREE EDITION.
IMPORTANT MEDICAL WORKS.
BY DR. 112,NRY SMITH.

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HEALTH LOST AND REGAINED; or,
DEBILITATING DISEASES, THEIR CAUSE
AND CURE.
By HENRY SMITH, M.D., of the Royal University of
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-05-06

SALES BY AUCTION.

HAGLEY WEEKLY STOCK SALE
MONDAY NAXT, MAY Bth, at Eleven.
600 SHELP, including a quantity of Fat:LAIIBB and
some Ewes and Lambs.
55 Head of CATTLE.
The usual entry of CALVES and PIGS.
OATES. PERRENS & WOOLDRIDGE.

HIMLEY ARMS, HIMLEY.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-05-06

A SHOCKING OUTRAGE IN LONDON.

About nine o'clock on Thursday morning, in last
wt,ek, one of the vans of the Parcels Delivery Com-
pany was taken to the door of Mr. William Larkin, of
6, Northampton-square, Clerkenwell, a chronometer
maker and watch dial engraver. A box addressed to
him was delivered to the servant. The latter, having
given a receipt, handed it to Miss Larkin, who shook
it in order to ascertain what it contained. Hearing
nothing rattle, she conveyed i 4 into the workshop,
and handed it to her father. Mr. Larkin is In the
habit of receiving boxes containing dials for engrav-
ing, and at once proceeded to open the box by prizing
up the lid with a chisel. A slight click inside was
followed by a terrific explosion, blowing out the win-
dows, wrecking the shop and its contents, and hurling
Mr. Larkin against the wall. The box was blown into
atoms, small pieces only of the wood and the infernal
mechanism being found, The volume of flame which
accompanied the explosion Bet fire to the clothing of
Mr. Larkin, who was fearfully burnt over the arms,
hands, and face. The flames having been extinguished
he was put to bed and placed under the care of a
doctor. The servant who took in the box, gave it as
her opinion that it was about eight inches long by five
broad, something like an ordinary cigar box.
Inspector Freestone and Sergeant Wade went in,
and made a minute examination of the premises. The
box was found to have been of deal, with an inner lining
of tin, portions of which were found all over the room.
Some of the pie;es of tin had been driven into the
walls. The smell of the various pieces of wood led to
the belief that the agent employed was gunpowder.
The police also picked up pieces of spiral springs and
nipples indicating that there had been an arrangement
by which the mere opening of the box should cause an
explosion. The police believe that the affair was the
work of more than one individual, and that the man
who took the box to the delivery office was not the
person who was the promoter of it. There is also some
doubt as to whether the box was meant for the father
lor the son, a hosier. Mr. Larkin, junior, has an idea
that it was meant for him. The progress of the
sufferer is satisfactory.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-05-06

GETTING ON SLOWLY.

An Oceasional Paris Correspondent of the Globe writes
Englishmen who come over to Paris must be asto-
nished at the slowness with which the rebuilding of the
palaces and hcuses burnt by the Commune is pro-
ceedea with. The Ministry of Finance has abandoned
its former site and removed to the Louvre, but the
ground it formerly occupied still awaits a purchaser,
and, with the exception of the corner of the Rue de
Rivoli and of the Rue Castiglione, offers the
singular spectacle of waste land in the busiest
quarter of the town. The Tuileries are in the state
everybody knows; they are being rebuilt so slowly
that no perceptible change has as yet taken place in
the dreary ruins which face the gardens. Private
houses in the Rue de Lille are being gradually finished,
at least outwardly, to the delight of the neighbour.
hood, who will at last be relieved from the unsightly
scaffoldings which took up the greater part of the nar-
row pavements, and from which showers of plaster
were oontinually descending upon the backs of passers-
by. But the Hotel de Ville offers the most lamentable
spectacle. Three years ago the ruins had been sur-
rounded by gigantic hoarding, which was supposed to
hide effectually the work of the masons from the gaze
of the vulgar. In these three years it was thought, how-
ever, that some portion of the building would at last
rise above the surrounding planks, but this hope has
been disappointed, and we have at last an explana-
tion of this unheard of dilatoriness, to the like of
which Baron Hausman had net accustomed the
Parisians. It was intended at first to build
the new edifice upon the old foundations, which, how-
ever, were not found strong enough to bear even a
moderate weight. Wall after wall, erected in the
course of these three years, have therefore been gra-
dually pulled down again, until everything belonging
to the old Hotel de Ville, even the Salle Saint-Jean,
which has been respected by the fire, and the founda-
tions have been entirely removed. Let us hope that
the unsightly boards and the btill uglier scaffolding will
soon disappear.now that the work has been taken pp
in earnest, and that there is no further danger of
having to pull down ever and anon what had been
finished the day before.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-05-06

ST 0 U,RBRIDGE UNION.

WA NTED, a WIDOW or SINGLE
WOMAN, without encumbrance, between the
ages of 30 and 40 years, as Nurse to the above Union,
who will be required to perform such duties as the Local
Government Board and Guardians shall from time to
time order, and generally to assist the Matron. A
knowledge of Midwifery necessary.
The Salary is £l5 per annum, with Board, Washing,
and Lodging.
Testimonials as to character, temper, and capability,
must be sent to the Cierk of tbeUnion, on or before
THURSDAY, the 18th May, and no person need apply who
cannot read and write.

Persons applying for the situation must attend per-
sonally at the Board Room, at the Workhouse, King-
swinford, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon. on Friday.
the 19th inst, when the election will take place.
The person elected will be requested to enter upon
the duties immediately.

By order,
GEO. HOLLOWAY,

Workhouse, Kingswinford,
sth May, 1876.

STOURBRIDGE UNION
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-05-06

CLI
PECIALLY MADE
FOR THE PRESENT SEASON

IS REMARKABLE FOR ITS

DR MADE TO ORDER

PULVERMACHER'S PATENTi
GALVANIC CHAIN-BANDS, BELTS, BATTERIES,
RECENTLY IMPROVED.
Approved by the Academy of Medicine of Paris
cud ether Medical Authorities in England and abroad.
Electricity, the prime actor in the process of life,
pervades all living organism, and its identity with
nerve force is no. conjuncture, but a positive scion
-
title fact, known to all versed in the teachings o
Electro-phyisology.
Consequently in nervous exhaustion, local debility
and various functional disorders it is Natare's solo
and most congenit 1 remedy. The self-application of
this wonderful physical agent has become easy and
recent
iabLeptroovtheme
epnattise.nt, and accessible to all by the
In contradistinction to those unprincipled adver-
tisers who publish statements solely on their own
authority, ME. PULVERMACHER refrains from putting
forward svohuhnr
soeflfhteis
I%,ledio.claan y
lvasntaicteAmpepnlitsanocfehsi,sbouwt ncoinntinfea
and scientific authorities, including SIE C. Locoot,
quotations from the opinions of competent medical
Bart M.D., v.It.C.S. ; SIR HENRY HOLL.LND, Bart.,
M.D., F.R.C.S., and F.R.S.; Sir J. R. MLIITIN, Bart.,
C.B. F.R.C.S., F.S.A., and F.R.S. ; Sir W. FERGUS-
sox:Bart., M.D.,F.R.5., F.R.C.s., &c.
THE BONA-FIDE EVIDENCE of the efficacy of these
appliances is supplemented by the following para-
graph recently found in the standard work (p. 76,
1867) of Jorm KING, M.D., Clinical Professor of Ob-
stetrics at Cincinnati :
electrodes,maild without
"In those cases where it is desirable to produce
teinnttitoousocfucrronendut
conductors
graslvaonr is ththouertethies
Ia n
n tcaon• n
no instrument superior to Pulvermacher's Im d
prove
Galvanic Chains. . . These chains are very use-
ful in many nervous disorders,
Muscular Debility Aphonia Rheumatism
Heniiplegia Elipepsy Dyspepsia
Paralysis Torpid Fever Paralysis, Bladder
Central Paralysis Asthma Chorea
Spinal Paralysis Amenorrhoea
Neuralgia Impotency
ysraenorrnoea Writers Cramp
Sciatica Spinal Irralition Hysterical Cramps
Stiff Joints Nervous Debility and Contractions
Hysteria Constipation Loss of Smell
Hysteric Paralysis Deafness Nervous Loss of Taste, &c
R
M. -UEVE P RMA.CHER
challenges the strictest in-
vestigation of the numerous documents and test--
menials, medical and private, which are published
in his Pamphlet,
'GiLYiNISM, ICA-TURE'S CHIRP
RESTORER OF IMPAIRED VITLI. ENERGY." sent post
free for 3 stamps, by applying to J. H. PULVER-
MAULER'S GALVANIC ESTABLISHMENT,
184, REGENT STREET, LONDON, W.