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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-21

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BOARD OF GUAR.DIANS.-1h 1/12.11 wea•ly thk*li•
iag-of this board Vrit3 held yesterday, Mr. Billing-
Sam • (chairman), Caere were :.leu present Messrs.
ilaskow, Pargeter, Rolert4on, ilingley, Si vi ter, Burr,
William% Griffiths, Rollinson, Wood, Raybouid, J.
Billing;iam, Wright, Fiddian, Lavender, Kelly,
Evev)u, Guest, Brooks, and E. Phillips, ex officio.
Admitted into the house 11; born 1; dead 0; dis-
eliarged 10; remainihg in the hous.,, 396; corres-
ponding week last year 384. Out-door relief,
Kingswinford district .£26 170 Gd ; Steurbridge
district .£l7 16s H; Halesowen district £l5 12s Gd ;
non-resident 9s 44; total .£66 16s 5,1; against £54
18s 7d last year.—The Medical Officers aud Sanitary
Officers were all re-elected.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-21

OUR INDIAN EMPIRE.

General M. McMurdo in a letter to The Times, re-
marks that in India 240 millions of people are now
approaching with tremendous strides that tree of
knowledge, which, for them, may.produce evil as well
as good fruit; for from it may be learnt the power of
combination. This, to his mind, is a real danger to
our power in India; looming only in the distanee, no
doubt, but imminent as to the necessity for the adop-
tion of some compensating measure, that, while ac-
companying and even helping the development of
civilisation, shall control its crude results. Without
doubt such a measure will be found in a general and
well-organised system of European settlement, on the
most advantageous conditions possible, both as to
tenure and salubrity of location ; and as an essential
part of this organisation General McMurdo holds that
every settler should belong to the Militia of his
district.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-21

A RAILWAY UP MOUNT VESUVIUS.

At last there is a prospect of the railway up Mount
Vesuvius becoming a reality within a not very remote
future. The plans submitted by the banker, M.
Oblieght, have been approved by the Department of
Public Works, and the necessary " concession " has
been made by the Prefecture of Naples. The carriages
on this railway will be drawn, not by a locomotive
engine, but by a wire rope. The line will be double.
The rails will be laid on an iron framework
supported by pillars, also of iron. The pillars will
be six metres (a little over si yards) apart. Accord-
ing to the report upon the plans, it appears that the
length of the railway up the mountain will be 840 metres
(almost 919 yards). The station near the summit will
be 420 metres (nearly 460 yards) higher than that at
the foot of the mountain, which gives the very steep
gradients of lin 2. The traffic will be carried on by
eight carriages, each having room for four persons;
these will be so distributed that while four are engaged
in making the ascent the remaining four will be des-
cending the mountain. The carriages will be kept
210 metres (nearly 230 yards) apart from one another.
To guard against accidents, each carriage will be fitted
with two newly-patented automatic brakes, which,
should the rope happen to break, will instantly stop
the carriage. The wire rope will be previously tested
by a strain equal to 64 times the weight of the car-
riages; and the whole machinery will be set in motion
by two steam-engines of 12-hor-e power each. There
appears to be little doubt that in a few months, the
whole undertaking will he completed ; and future
visitors to Naples will be able to climb Vesuvius in a
less fatiguing manner than is at present necessary.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-21

HARVINGT ON.

Szock SALE.-51r. Joscelyne held a sale at the Dog
fun on Tuesday last, which were well supplied with all
kinds of stock, viz. : 230 sheep, 43 head of cattle (pr n-
cipally fat), several fat calves, and a large quantity of
pigs. Ewes made 72s p. r head, wethers 623 64, fat
1.1-ifers from £lB to £2l, cows and calves £2l 17s 6d,
sows and pigs £9, and store pigs from 15s to 353 per
head. There was a larrge attendance of buyers, and the
whole of the stock was disposed of at fair market
prices.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-21

A STRANGE SECT.

The Dunkers in Berks, Cumberland, Lebanon,
Northumberland, and adjacent counties of Pennsyl-
vania, are queer people, says the New York Times,
having as little in common with the American charac-
ter as with the Ashaditees. They are extremely in-
dustrious and extremely pioue, as they understand
piety; but they have little more idea of or indication
to progress than the mummies in the catacombs of
Egypt. The Bible is their chief book, and they
seldom read any other. They observe the
original Sabbath, not the Christian one. They
partake of the Lord's Supper at night, and wash
one another's feat as part of the ceremonies—an
evidence of humility enjoined, they think, by the
Scriptures. Favouring celibacy, they do not enforce
it, knowing that on marriage depends the perpetua-
tion of society, and only on this ground do they
sanction it. Formerly, they held all property in com-
mon, but they divide it at present after the manner of
the wend. They have been in Pennsylvania 170 years
nearly, and they still Ppeak a language that cannot be
understood except by themselves. Originally it
was Dutch and German, but now it is so
strange a mixture of the two as not to be in-
telligible to Dutch, Germans, English, or Americans.
They work from 3 oVock a.m. to 8 p.m. at this season,
all the women and children taking part in the labours
of the field. They are by no means ascetic, for they
take five meals a day, and very substantial ones dur-
ing harvest, and allow nothing to interfere with their
regular work and accumulation. They keep a sharp
lock out, in a word, for both worlds.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-21

Correspondence.

To the Editor of the Stourbridge Observer.

Sir,—.l observe that Mr. John Taylor, clerk to the
Commissioners of this town has given notices, the
Highway and General District Rates, will be made on
the 30th inst. I hope the Ratepayers will refuse and
resist :Payment of either. The Commissioners have
submitted a case to counsel at the Ratepayers' ezpense,
and now they dare not produce or publish the same.
I am Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
G. W. PRESCOTT.
Stourbridge, September 20th.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-21

LIVE STOCK AND FRESH MEAT FROM

AMERICA.

The number of live cattle brought to Liverpool last
week from America was considerably less than during
any week for several months past, but the number of
sheep was greater than in any former period, fully
compensating for the deficiency in the cattle supply.
The arrivals of hogs were also large, but the quantity
of beef was about 1,000 quarters Mow the previous
week. Five steamers came to hand with 8.42 head of
oxen, 3,2 G sheep, and 859 pigs, of which the Ontario
brought 165 cattle and the unusual number of 1,684
sheep, and the Istrian 289 cattle, 553 sheep, and 775
pigs. The hot weather, which greatly interferes with
the transit of fresh meat, is now passing away, and
preparations are being made to largely develop the
trade in this description of food. We may therefore
expect shortly to see the weekly arrivals consist of
1,000 or 10,000 quarters of beef with a corresponding
increase in the quantity of mutton. The totals of fresh
meat for last week were 2,472 qrs. of beef and 120 car
cases of mutton. There were also 1,000 tubs of fresh
butter landed.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-21

A PARSON IN VACATION.

The Rev. S. J. Niccolls, pastor of a Presbyterian church in
St. Louis, has been spending his holiday at a hunting and
fishing camp near Booneville, in New York State. Writing
on the 14th of August to a friend, who has sent the letter to
a newspaper, the rev, gentleman says

"We are here quite alone—my family and two
guides constituting our company. There are a number
of camps from three to four miles off, so that we see
some strangers. On Sabbath we have services, with
an attendance of thirty or forty persons. Very
precious services these are, and no temple was
ever grander. We have had a great deal of
rain, but it has not interfered with our hunting and
fishing. Mrs. Niccolls is the 'captain' in fishing,
as she has caught more and larger salmon than any
one in our party. On Wednesday last I had quite an
adventure. While Mrs. Niccolls, May, and I were on
a little island in the lake watching for deer, I saw four
bears swimming towards us. The island was only 801 t.
long and about 50f t. wide, so we were likely to have
close work. I had a shot-gun and six cartridges for
the battle. As the bears rose to come ashore I fired at
the largest one and wounded it. With the second shot
I killed one of them. The third shot hit the big one
again, and it rose on its hind legs for fight. I gave it a
fourth and fifth shot, and then with the sixth killed the
other two. It was all over in about four minutes, but
It was exciting while it lasted. May and Mrs. Ni,cols
were a good deal stirred up, but behaved bravely
and did not scream or cry. When our guide came with
his boat we had four bears for him. I shall have one
of the smaller ones 'set up,' so you can see him in St.
Louis. The largest one weighed 2501 b. On the even-
ing of the same day May shot a deer. This may look
like bragging, but it is only the plain unvarnished
truth. We are in good health—rough, hardy, and
sunburnt. We have had very little warm weather;
the thermometer in the morning is from 54 deg. to 60
deg. lam now thinking of my return, and will be
glad to be back at work."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-21

EDUCATION IN RUSSIA.

Some interesting statistics relative to public educa-
tion in Russia are published by the Gobs. It says
that up to the year 1865 Russia possessed 8,000 ele-
mentary public schools, with 280,000 pupils. That
number has now increased to 24,000 (inclusive of the
municipal schools), with nearly 1,000,600 pupils; but
this is still far from sufficient for the educational re-
quirements of the people, as the number of children
between the ages of seven and thirteen is about
12,000,000, so that upwards of 90 per cent of
Russian children remain uneducated. Tile amount
expended in elementary education in Russia is
about 6,000,000 roubles, or 6 9 kopeks per head
of the population; while Italy pays twice as
much, Spain and Greece 3'6 times, Denmark 19 times,
and some of the States of North America more than
50 times as much for this object. Of the above sum of
6,000,009 one-half is paid out of local taxes. In order
to obtain one school for every thousand inhabitant*,
77,000 schools would be required • but, looking to the
fact that the population is scattered over vast spikes
of territory, it is found thst, in order to enable all
children to attend school, one school would be neces-
sary for every 250 of the inhabitants, making 300,000
schools In all. Judging by the present rate of progress,
however, it would take 230 years and 105,000,000
roubles to establish this number of schools in the
onapire.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-21

DUDLEY AND WALSALL.

PIANOFORTES and HARMONIUMS may
be had on the NEW SYSTEM of HIRING, for Two or
Three Years; after which, and without any further pay.
ment, to become the property of the hirer. All Instill-
meats had on this system, or otherwise, will Le
Exehanged any time witntn six months for an:, other, if
no tappreved of, and returned carriage free. And fur.
her, aftea a trial of three years, any Pianoforte or Hat-
meni.na would be taken back, at its original cost, en 1
th emoney returned, 61,.ducting the usual chlrge for
hj re; thus offering greater advantaßes tk an the London
o rßinuinghsm Houses.—AppiN ici;DmkticK GREEN
W asic Wareht;use. ,
Duclk, ere? 67,
Lark-street. Wals.'all _ _ .

ONEY 3eut Eumy Torr. 6 by applying •
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-21

A THRILLING STORY!

There were four of us in one of the cars on the
Lyon's railroad. Four smokers—a fact which had
naturally a tendency to bring us into sympathetic re-
lations. I forget exactly how we fell into conversa-
tion ; but, at any rate, by the time we had got to Ville-
neuve the conversation was general on the subject of
railroad accidents. We had all told stories of more or
less interest, garnished with the greatest amount of
danger possible, when the only one among us who had ,
not yet furnished a budget of adventure said :—" All
that, gentlemen, is undoubtedly extremely interesting,
but will you allow me to say that the whole of the
singular accidents of which you have spoken are as
nothing compared with a railroad catastrophe which
happened some years ago in England, and at which I
was unwillingly present." Very naturally, this begin-
ning awakened our interest, and we entreated him to
go on. "Willingly, gentlemen," said our travelling
companion. "As I said before, it was in England,
about five years ago. I had taken the Bristol train
at six o'clock in the morning—a morning that I shall
never forget—for a little village some twenty miles
off. We had been going along very smoothly, when,
from the railroad carriage in which I was placed—
the first on the train—the noise of a violent quarrel
reached me. I looked out of the window. The
noise came from the locomotive, where a fight
had begun between the engineer and the fireman. I
learned later the cause of the dispute, which, I might
well say now, arose from jealousy of some woman. It
had long burned in their hearts, and now that the explo-
sion had come it was violent. "I was, as I said, gentle-
men, at the window looking out, when the noise re-
doubled. The struggle Was becoming furious. The two
men were fighting like wild beasts. You shudder, gentle-
men. Ah ! I shudder still when I saw—what I shall never
cease to see. The two men writhed out of the engine in
their agony and rolled off. The train wee going at the
rate of twenty miles an hour. Left to itself, the
engine went faster and faster. The fields, the trees,
the houses disappeared in a way that made my bead
swim. We passed a station. We scarcely had time
to see it. Another one was passed, a third, a fourth.
Cries of horror were heard from the different coaches.
We felt that we were lost! Already I could see the
little depot at the end of the route ; nothing could
save us from being dashed to pieces. I resigned my-
self to fate and shut my eyes."—" Fontainbleau!
Fontainbleau !" broke in the voice of the conductor,
interrupting the story of our companion. "Sorry,
gentlemen, but I get out here," and bowing politely
he disappeared. None of us have ever heard the end
of that story.—Court Journal.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-21

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-21

GLENFIELD
STARCH.
Has for many Years been Exclusively
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" Th. iest Starch / }The Queen's Laundress.
ever used." "
" Advvittediad far and}
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-21

FIARE EDITION.
‘:T MENCAL WORKS.
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wasty-tirst Thensasd. By Peat, one stamp (to pre-pa)
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HEALTH LOST AND REGAINED; or
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AND CUICE.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-21

No 733

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in the Head, Side, Back, Joints, and Limbs
/tired by DAY'S RHEUMATIC PILLS. Price is. lid.
Per box. Sold by Mr. Pugh, Patent Medicine Vendor,
LI, Coventry Street, Stourbridge ; and all Chemists
Wholesale by all the London Houses.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-21

HANBURY HILL CHAPEL.

To the Editor of the Stourbridge Observer.
Dear Sir,—A correspondent with no very great powers
for letter writinl lass communicated some meagre intelli•
gence to your paper of last week concern* the Han.
bury Hill Ch,p.,l and one of its bible classes.
May I ask X Y. Z. what the outside public has to do
with church business and bible classes ? Every inde-
pendent church can manage its own affairs or it ceases
to be independent. No doubt lin this case the church at
Hanbury Hill has arrived at its conclusion by the usual
majority vote, and if so what has been done has been
done with a view to strengthen the cause and remove
abuses.

May I ask who is responsible for the breaking up of this
class ? If it be of the importanoe some few think why
not continue its meetings if not at Hanbury Hill at some
other place ? I am led to belipve, from what I have
gathered, thlt your correspondent is quite right when
he says " the tible class has been little appreciated by
the church " why is this ? I think the following will
suffice as an an,wer to the question :
1. The class prides itself on its being.decidedly wide-
nominational, and so far as I am able to learn this prin-
ciple carrie3 out in the non-attendance cf a large
majority of its members at any plac& of worship.
2. The pastor and officials of the church are ignored
and with the exception of the president, the other leaders
are never seen at Hanbury Hill services.
3. This bible class has been carried on for twelve
-years. I should I,ltl to know how many from this
numerous class of 40 or 50 young men had joined the
church daring the last five years? A class, especially a
bible class, should be a source of strength to the church
of God I If not this, the less said about it the
better.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-21

THE SJOURBRIDGE OBSERVER,

HARDSHIPS OF A WHALING CREW.

Particulars have just come to hand of the loss of the
whaling schoontr Helen F., of New London, which
was wrecked in the Arctic Sea so far back as October,
1876. The master, Captain Roach, reports that the
Helen F. was in winter quarters at Cumberland Inlet
when beset by the storm in which she was lost. A
heavy gale sprang up, and the ice in great masses
crowding the vessel drove her out ti sea. Efforts ma-le
to bring her back failed, and after two days of toil an
effort was made to reach either Hannibal Harbour or
Brown's Harbour. These efforts also failed, and the
vessel was as a last resource beached on a small
island. No lives were lost in the perilous opera-
tion, and the vessel was stripped and the provisions
landed. This latter task was but just accom-
plished when the south-west wind started the ice in
blocks in a bay near the island, and they came on in
great resistless heaps, and crowding and pushing up
and over the schooner's sides buried her from sight,
and left only her masthead visible. For 40 feet above
her decks and on all sides of her it lay in shining,
transparent piles, imprisoning her completely. It was
not until December 6th that her officers and crew could
make their way to the station in Penne's Harbour,
where better shelter and provisions were found, and on
that day they left the schooner. When spring came
she sank in three fathoms of water, close by the land.
From the station at Penne's Harbour the crew of the
Helen F. fished with fair success until the 10th July,
when the Scotch brig Perseverance hove in sight, and
took them off, and they were subsequently landed at
Peterhead, from which place the captain and first mate
went via Liverpool to New York.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-21

BRIERLEY HILL.

CITAIIGE AGAINST A BuTcEtEtt.—At the P ilice Court
oa Mommy, before Nlessr. L. Freer and G. K. Harrison
kwagistrates), a butcher named Coley Aston, of Wol-
laston, was charged with selling diseased meat.—Mr.
Thorne (Wolverhampton) prosecuted, and Mr, Stokes
defended.—Mr. Laurie, Inspector of Nuisances for
toe Seiston Union, seized portions of a beast which
the defendant had taken to Mr. Brettell, of Kinver.—
Dr. Freer, magistrate, condemned the meat, and Dr.
Love, Officer of Health, Wolverhampton, and Mr. Hi:l,
veterinary surgeon, pronounced it unfit for human
food.—For the defence, Mr. Stokes called several
butchers, who stated that the meat was perfectly
,ound and healthy except small parts, which were
bruised; and their testimony was supported by Dr.
Eagar, officer of Health, SEourbridge.—The Bench dis-
missed the case.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ENQUIRY.—OR Thursday morn-
ing, Lieutenant 1.,08 atteLded at the Town Hall, to
auquire into a proposal of the LocAl Board of Health
to borrow £.4,000 for works in sewage disposal, There
were present at the meeting the chairman of the Board,
Mr. Isaiah Rollinson, Mr. Holbei ton (the clerk), Mr.
Beckley (surveyor), and several members of the Board.
—After hearing the remarks of the Clerk as to the ne-
ce,s ty of the works, and the evidence of the surveyor as
to the outfal , the Inspector expressed a desire to see
thi site Of the eutfalt. and an adjournment was then
oa,de in order that this might take place.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-21

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ral colour of grey, wkite, and fa Jed Hair. It will
strengthen and invigorate the Hair, top its falling, gni
induce a healthy and luxuriant growtb. No other pre-
paration can produce the sam.e benefi c' al result. Bold by
11 Cliemiata and Perfumers, in large b es. Depot,
14 & 110, Southampton Bow, Loadoo.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-21

BIRMINGHAM ONION FAIR.

EXCURSION TRAINS will run to BIRM-
INGHAM, as under returning same day.
THURSDAY, September 26th. From WORCESTRR
(Shrub Hill) at 10 25 a.m ; Droitwich 10.85; Hartlebury
10.45; Kidderminster 10.55; and Stourbridge 11.15 a.m.
SATURDAY, September 28th, from Gres. Malvern at
12 16; Malvern Link 12 20; Worcester (Foregate Street)
12.40, (Shrub Hill) 1.45 ; Fearnal Heath 1.52 ; Droitwich
2.0; Kidderminster 1.20 and 2 25; and Stonrbridge 1.40
and 2.40 p.m.
See special bills. •
J. GRIBBSON, General Manager.
Paddington Terminus.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-21

OUR SURPLUS POPULATION.

The Daily Telegraph of Tuesday says :—" That
mat problem—what should be done with our sprnlus
population—receives adaitional force from a circular
which has just been issued by one of the suburban
gas companies of London. A collector, whose business
it would be to go from house to house with a book and
a pen, receive payments and give receipts, was adver-
tised for very lately in these columns. To the notice
over eighteen hundred answers, we are told, were
sent, the great majority of the writers being fairly
well-fitted for the post. This was not a huge
ambition, for their only desire was to collect tolls at
a very moderate stipend, and yet nearly two thousand
persons offered their services. The fact shows
a lamentable state of things, and recalls to
mind the agitation which has lately taken place
amongst City clerks for an in:Tease of salary. There
can be no doubt that a vast number of people are
thrown upon the world devoid of any special know-
lodge by which they may procure their bread. Their
friends thought that, were they only taught to read,
write and cypher, they might, by some means or other,
contrive to struggle through the period of their
existence without being a direct burden to others, and
they' were made clerks, accountants, and shopmen. A.
time of business inactivity throws them out of employ-
ment; they cannot dig, to beg they are ashamed, and
they are at their wits' end for the means of livelihood.
At even the place of collector of gas accounts they snap
with. avidity ;• it is not a kind of labour which
brings any cotsiderable accretion of distinction, but
it will provide bread. And they .. pete with
each other accordingly in attenipti to obtain'
a place upon which, were they a e to plane
wood, out slates; or trim iron, they would look
with contempt. The question arises, How is it they
do not emigrate? But even to this a sufficient answer
is returned in the fact that they have not the money
with which to cross the seas. The wide-spreading
plains of Canada, Australia, and Africa all call for
men whose labour is needed, but distance and the coat
of travelling are at present insuperable obstacles. The
day may come when Government aid will be extended
to such impecunious unfortunates, and will convey
them to places where, in the words of the popular
song, there is "fair elbow room for men to thrive in ;"
but until such is the case they must be content to re-
main here and starve, while one in eighteen hundred
obtains the employment of a collector of payments for
gas.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-21

AN INTERESTING MEMORIAL.

On a stone, placed at the eastern wall of Bromley Church,
is the following insoription, which, independently of its being
written by so excellent a man as Dr. Elawkesworth, merits
much attention in respect of the useful instruction it was no
doubt intended to hold forth
"Near this place lies the body of Elizabeth Monk,
who departed this life on the 27th day of August, 1733,
aged 101. She was the widow of John Monk, late of
this parish, blacksmith, her second husband, to whom
she had been a wife near fifty yearn, by whom she had
no children, and of the issue of the first marriage
none lived to the second. But virtue would not
suffer her to be childless; an infant to whom
and to whose father and mother she had been nurse
(such is the uncertainty of temporal prosperity)
became dependent upon strangers for the neces-
saries of life; to him she afforded the protection
of a mother. This parental charity was returned with
filial affection; and she was supported, in the feeble-
ness of age, by him who she had cherished in the help-
lessness of infancy. Let it be remembered that there
is no station in which industry will not obtain power
to be liberal, nor any character on which liberality
will not confer honour. She had been long prepared
by a simple and unaffected piety for that awful mo-
ment, which, however delayed, is universally sure.
How few are allowed an equal time of probation?
How many by their lives appear to presume upon
more? To preserve the memory of this person, and
yet more to perpetuate the lesson of her life, this
stone was erected by voluntary contributions."—The
Rock.

, ,•,„
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-21

THE SULTAN AND THE CZAR.

ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. M.

The Offictiql Messenger to-day publishes the text of
the reply of the Emperor of Russia, dated 30th
August, to the telegram of the Sultan of the previous
day complaining ot the atrocities committed by Bul-
garians on the Mussulman inhabitants, and requesting
the Czar to take efficient steps for the protoction of
the life, honour, and property of the Mussulmans.
The substance of both documents has already been
telegraphed from Constantinople. In the text now
published by the official organ the Emperor says :

"Your Majesty's telegram has made a painful im-
pression upon me, and I trust that the reports made to
your Majesty respecting,the sufferings of the Mussul-
man population of Bulgaria and Eastern Roumelia
have been exaggerated. Your Majesty is right in ex-
pressing the hope that I shall not tolerate such a state
o faffairs. lam assured that the Commander in Chief
of my army, as well as the Russian Commissioner in
Bulgaria, will severely punish any act of injustice that
may be committed against the inhabitants whom they
have been charged to protect."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-21

A THIRTY MILES BICYCLE RACE.

On Saturday last, at the Alexandra Palace, J.
Keen, the champion, rode a thirty miles race against
three opponents, each of whom was allowed to go ten
miles and then stop, while he had to go the entire
distance. Patrick, of Wolverhampton, was the first
to run with Keen, but the latter finished the ten miles
in lmin. 17sec, quicker time than his rival. Phillips,
also of Wolverhampton, came next on the list, and
made a very determined race of it, as he was only
three-quarters of a yard behind Keen when twenty
miles had been gone. J. Stanton, who came third,
lost a little at the start, but succeeded in heading
Keen and kept in front for the great part of the way.
About 200 yards from home, however, Keen showed to
the fore, and after a good race won by two yards and
a-half. The entire distance, which was found to
measure only about 29,1 miles, was covered in lh.
44min. 4QBecs.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-21

THE STOMIBRIDGE OBSERVER

be one of the best meets in the Midlands. He
had been an old athletic and was of opiaion that
it was very healthy exercise. He had never found
any ill effects from running or training.
The " Flealths of Mosrs. Edwards and Keel-
ing," " The Chairman, ""The The Vice-Chairman,"
"Stewards, Scc. " were also proposed and acknow-

lodged.
Some excellent songs were well rendered at
intervals and a very ' pleasant evening was
spent.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-21

&210 Will be takcn iiir Two well belt
Briek erd eelfared corrAGF.s, wth
vecessary Outhouses, Pigityes, and Garden:- T,ry
pleasantly situate et top of Castle Street, Kir.ivf 1, and
let at the low rental of £ll3 per annum —Apply Mr.
Rickard, 5, Church Street, Harpurhq, nauchester.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-21

. and costiilng 77a-
,Ar, Au exc.3.l-41
lfarrning IMPLE- Itl;Eitate 1;^-

I REGISTERED FOR
TRANSMISSION ABROAD.

SALES BY AUCTION.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-21

BALLOON OBSERVATIONS.

Mr. Henry Coxwell, Tottenham, writes bo the papers:—

To inflate a balloon on the southern slope of the
Alexandra Palace on Saturday last was a task which
appeared no doubt to the assembled spectators a light
and pleasurable one—so it was; but if the more
weather-wise of the visitors scanned the horizon like a
nautical or aeronautical observer, they must have
noticed unmistakable indications of a coming storm.
The lower atmosphere was peaceful, but across the
blue sky certain ominous streamers were spread out
in fantastic forms; a falling barometer, combined
with forecasts from America. warned us of im-
pending cyclonic gales. My ascent, therefore,
although tranquil in the extreme, was made
through a murky and gathering atmosphere, which
required watching. The wind was west, and bore the
balloon nearly perpendicularly over nay residence at
Tottenham. I had with me Mr. William Collier, of
Jesus College, Cambridge. We agreed to keep low,
as the weather was threatening, and shortly after
starting, At 5.37, a mist rose which circumscribed the
view. We were 1,200 feet high at 5.45, when we
passed over my cheering neighbours. The thermo-
meter, however, even at this height was reduced 9 deg
of Fahrenheit, and I discharged ballast to attain a
somewhat higher elevation. Immediately beneath
us was an interesting scene, viz., volunteer practice
at the Tottenham butts, which for range and safe
firing are second to none in England. To us the
marshes which border the River Lea looked like
choice pieces of green carpeting, whereon several
clusters of flies had settled for some special object.
Small white puffs of vapour darted before them, and
about fifteen seconds afterwards the sharp, reso-
nant cracks of the Hornsey riflemen told us that the
diminutive creatures on the green sward were a sprinkle
of the British Reserve force engaged in volley firing
and peppering the targets to become accomplished
marksmen. On passing to leward the acoustic pro-
perties of Ale air were remarkably changed—fully
thrice as strong was the sonorous rattle which in its
wave sound vibrated on the balloon. But we were
moving at the rate of 14 miles an hour, which is slow
travelling for a balloon, and the long line of Epping
Forest was in advance. The setting sun was obscured,
nevertheless we desired A peep at the great orb before
descending- Accordingly we mounted to 2,600 feet
elevation. Here the temperature was 58 degrees,
and the sun shone out beneath a stratus cloud with
resplendent golden lays, while the hazy atmosphere
hid the woodlands. This was charming to my com-
panion; but darkness was setting in, so that at 6.25
we settled in a meadow at Loughton, in Essex, and
the gale which came on later caused as to feel satisfied
that we had just fortunately passeorthrough the calm
which preceded the Sunday storm.—l remain,
obediently yours, HENRY COXWELL.—Tottenham,
Sept. 16.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-21

STOURBRIDGE IMPROVEMENT ACT

1866.

NOTICE OF INTENDED HIGHWAY RATE.

„INOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, Ili
pursuance of the provisions in this behalf
oe ti.o St-nrbridge Improvement Act, 1866. the
Stourbridge improvement Commissioners intend. on
Monday, the SOth day of September instant, at Three
o'clock in the Afternoon, to make a-HIGHWAY BATE
for the Township of Stourbridge, in the County of Wor-
cester; and Lat a Statement of thoproposed Rate is
deposited at my Office, 56 High Street, Stourbridge,
where the same may be inspected between the hours of
Ten a.m. and Four p.m:, by all persons interested
therein.
Dated this 16th day of September, 1578.

O. TAYLOR,
Clerk to the above-named Commieeionere,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-21

Your truly.
OBSERVER.

DIED.

HOLCROPT.—On the 15th inst., aged 27 years, Charles
second son of Williau3 Holcroft, of Norton, Stourbridge

VALUI3LE DIsCoVERY FOR TELE your hai
is turning ray or white, or
.falling off, use "Th
i
Mexican Hair Renewer,"
.for t will pos.itively restore in
every case Grey or White Hair to its original colour,
without leaving the disagreeable a mell of most
" Restorers." It makes the hair cbasrningly beautiful,
as well as promoting the growth of the hair on bald
spots, where the glands are not decayed. Ask your
Chemist for "THE MEXICAN HAIR RENEWER," prepared
by HENRY C. GALLUP, 493, Oxford Street, London, and
sold by Chemists aud Perfumers everywhere at 3a 6d
per Bottlo.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-21

THE LAST GRAND CRICKET MATCH

OF THE SEASON
Will take place on the

WOLLASTON CRICKET -FIELD, TO-DAY

(SATURDAY) Detecen
WOLLASTON AND KIDDERMINSTER,

For the BENEFIT of W. and J. BOWEN.

The STOURBRIDGIC BRASS BAND will be in
attendance and will play selections during each interval.

Admission 6d.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-21

AIRS. HUNSTON,

(LASILEY AHD HUNSTON.)

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THE ABDOMINAL CORSET.,

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INFANTS' AND CHILDRENS' STAY BANDS
EMERDOWN CORSETS.

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(MIT PLZAIIIIIN IN PIIILISIIINO Tin POLLOWINO
TESTIMONIALS,
iron Mr. C. Potter, Professor of Music, front the
nstitntion for the Blind, St. John's Wood, London:—
I ean confidently reeommead Mr. Green as a Piano,
erte Taler. Re taxes by equal temperament, ani ch-
ains an exact scale. (Signed) C. POTT2I."
From Mr. J. F. Patterson, Organist, St. Patrick's
Church, Huddersfield :—" I have much pleasure ia tee-
tifying to the abilities or Mr. Green as a Pianoforte
Tuner. He lays the bearings with exactness and perfec-
tion. (Signed) Jeans F. PATTIULSON."
From Mrs. Sanderson, Solo Pianiste, of the London
and Liverpool Concerts:—" Mr.. Green is one of the few
who can Tune my Piano to the nicety I require previous
to giving my Public Recitals. (Signed) E. K. SANDI/I-
lex.

Frosu Mr. Butterworth, Organist, Dobeross' ne
Manchester :—" Mr. Green's equal as a Pianoforte Tun
can rarely be met with. (Signed) DAVID BIITTNIWORTE

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Terms for Yearly Tuning, iaeludiag 'abler ..,g a.
2. d

pairs—
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Semi-Grands 5 oas 6 0 Concert Iron
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-21

vepity' Lung

Arrengesnenta baring been laud° for a series of Enter-
tainments during the Season it is found impossible to
continue the issue of Season Tickets but BOOKS d
TICKETS will be substituted at the following low rate.

Books containing 26 Admission Tickets, Tan Shil
Ditto ditto 25 Skits
Chilam ender 7welas Half-prim
H. J. HAINGE,

Proprietor.

BTOURBRIDGE

IMPROVEMENT COMMISSIONEILS
AS THE URBAN SkNITARY AUTHORITY,

For the District of Stourbridge.

NOTICE OF
INTENDED GENERAL DISTRICT RATE.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, in
pursuance of the provisions in this behalf of the
Stourbridge Improvement Act 1866 and of the Public
Health Act 1875, the Stourbridge Improvement Com-
missioners, as the Urban Sanitary Authority for the
Township of Stourbridge, in the County of Worcester,
being an Urban SAnitary District which, Min
the said Acts is ant ject to the jurisdiction of the eaid
Commissioners as such Urban Sanitary Authority intend
on Monday, the 30th day of Septembie instant, at Three
o'clock in the Afternoon, to make a GENERAL DIS-
TRICT RATE for the above-named District; and that
a Statement of the proposed Rate is deposited at my
Office, 56, High Street, Stourbridge, where the same
may be inspected between the hours of Ten a.m. and
Four p.m., by all persons interested therein,
Dated this 16th day of September, 1878.
JNO. TAYLOR,
Clerk to the above-named Commissioners.

in tbe new and Elegantly-I:Mal
Orchestra.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-21

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

One million additional tickets for the Paris Exhibi-
tion lottery have been Issued.
The last match of the Australian cricketers in Eng-
land was brought to a close at Sunderland on Tuesday, when
their match with an Eighteen of Sunderland and the district
terminated in their defeat by 71 runs.
A new word for holiday makers, " excurting," has
been coined by American lovers of brevity.
In the year ended the 31st March last the produc-
tiw labour of convicts in prison in England amounted to
£10,573 9s. lid , of which £2,190 12s. 10d. was profit on farms
and £8,382 17s. id. on manufacturing departments.
The judicial fees of the Houee of Lords in the year
ended the 31st of March were £.1,758 Bs. 6(1 ; bill fees,
£32,468 18s. id.; and fees on the "introduction of Peers,"
418 2s.
On Tuesday afternoon Lady Wrottesley opened the
Staffordshire County Refuge for discharged female prisoners.
The building has been erected at Stafford at a considerable
cost, the moLey having been obtained by subscriptions
through the efforts of the Earl of Lichfield and other noble-
men. Amongst those who assisted at the opening were Lord
Wrottesley, Lord Lieutenant of the county, the Earl of
Liarrowby, and the Earl of Lichfield.
The meclanics employed at the Seaham, Murton,
and South lietton colleries have agreed to the masters'
terms—that is to say, to work ten hours, instead of nine
hours per day, at the same rate of wages. All the other
colliery owners in North Durham will this week request
their men to accede to the same terms. The mechanics
and others employed at the principal engineering works in
' diabriab will native like notinve within e fable%
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-21

HARDSHIPS OF EXECUTORS.

The weekly paragraph headed "Wills and Bequests"
is doubtless read by a large number of persons with
considerable interest (remarks the Evening Standard).
A striking feature in it is the record of what cannot be
called other than the inconsiderateness with which
testators almost invariably treat those whom they
appoint as executors. Executors are generally per-
sonal friends, and testators naturally look to such as
most likely to use their best endeavours to carry out
the provisions of a will conscientiously, and regardless
of the trouble involved. A more unpleasant and
troublesome office than that generally speaking of
an executor can hardly be conceived, and it fre-
quently entails considerable expense and expendi-
ture of time for years. And yet, as a rule, testators
fail t,) deal liberally with their executors; in-
deed, it may be said that, as a rule, they deal most
shabbily with them. Property is often left to the
amount of hutdreds of thousands of pounds, to say
nothing of lauded estates, innumerable legacia are to
be distributed, and intricate business arrangements
carried out, all of which will frequently range over
many yea-s; and yet for this the executor only gets a
paltry hundred or two left him, whereas, in justice, it
ought to be thousands, It is really most Inconsiderate,
to say the least of it, of testators to inflict an fin-
mensity of unpleasant woik on friends without
adequately remunerating them for it, at all events
in cases where they must know that such remuneration
would be acceptable. Of course in the case of small
properties executors would not look for remuneration,
but in distributing large ones they should be more
fairly treated. The only wonder is that more executors
do not decline to act than is the case,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-21

UNIVERSITY DEGREES FOR WOMEN.

A new supplemental charter having been granted to
the University of London a few months since, on the
joint application of the Senate and of Convocation,
empowering the Senate to admit women to graduate
in its several faculties (arts, science, law, medicine, and
nms:c,) on such conditions as the Senate, with the con-
currence of the home Secretary, should deem expedient,
the Senate lost no time in passing a resolution which
made all the existing resolutions, relating not only to
graduation, but also to the various honours and re-
wards granted at the several examinations, open to
female as well as to male candidates. This resolution
having Nen now approved by the Home Secretary,
female candidates will be admitted forthwith to the
matriculation examination; and all such as have already
passed the general examination for women will be con-
sidered as having matriculated, and will be admissible
(after the required interval) to the first degree exami-
nation in either of the faculties. Further, with a view
to the special encouragement of female candidates
desiring to go through a regular academical course, the
trustees of the Gilchrist Educational Trust have insti-
tuted two exhibitions, one of £3O, the Other of £2O per
annum, tenable for two years, to the female candidates
who pass highest in the honours division at the matri-
culation examination; and two exhibitions, one of £4O,
the other of £3O per annum, tenable for two years, to
the female candidates who pass highest at the first
B.A. examination, to assist them in pursuing their
studies at some collegiate institution approved by the
trustees; with the further reward of a gold medal or
book prize of the value of £2O to the female candi-
date who passes highest at the second B.A. exami-
nation. These rewards are quite independent of those
granted by the university, and may be held in con-
junction with them.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-09-21

PRICE ONE PENNY.

PUBLIC NOTICES.

STOURBMGE.

VICTORIA HALL AND T)
fl;

THE RINK IS NOW OPEN DAILY.

MORNING EXERC/SE 11 to 1.
AFTERNOON -, 2.30 „ 5.
EVENING 7 ~ 9 30.
MONDAY AND SATURDAY EVENINGS 10. P.M.

MR, S. PEARSON has been engaged az Instructor,
and will be in attendance to assist learners.