The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-01-17 00:00:00

ROWLEY REGIS.

TilF, CHAIM' -.N or THE I 0C.A.1. BOARD SEN-
c-RAI.G:3, —At the ex.amination of t4e Locl.t -139a6
accou ts by the Gover merit auditor, recently held
a'. the Board 0111 the Chairman ot the Board (Mr.
W. Basstrio) was, a the insiatiou of Mr, Samuel
Cave, a ratep.iyer, surcharged with several large
sums of money. Mr. Cave obi .cied to the Board
paying £lO2 to the Cradley Gas Company, on the
r. tui,l that t-c B ard c,,uld not enta into a con-
tc,w for a sum above ...tlO-wbhdut ten days' notice

I,as isig been previously given, and as this regulation
had not been observed the ratepayers could not be
exp cted to pay the amount. The Au6i!-.or disal-
ox:d this sum an.l surcharged- this sum, and sur-
charged Mr. Bassano with the annunt, Mr. Bs-
sine w„s also surcharged with three other sums,
aiwai .tmg to about lAA which were expenses iv.
curr,rd dar ig tht.l small-pox , pidemic at Tividale
last yea-. Mr. U e's conduct is con• Ade el to be
very v, N:1110114, as tne adion taken by the Sauit try
Au hold y 'luring the epidemic was the means of
stamping he disease out of the district, and tuey
were a so comtnenled by the Local Government
802. rd I,r what they had done in the pubiic interest.

OLD lIIL.L.

m
ing of the members and friends of the Old Ilil
13. ND or HOPE CELEDIATioN.—A crowded eet-
-1 Liherty-loving America has long formed a place
Band of Hope Union was hell on Moaday uieht in of refuge for these lawless Irishmem. Now that
the Trinity Hall, Old Hill, Mr. Bassano presided, she hes two who know so much in safe keeping—
and in the course of his remarks congratulated one hors de combat and the other in prison the
those present on the great success the society had great Republic of the New World would do well to
achieved; since its commencement five years ago I elp. Eng and to utilise them as means to the end
the membei ship had inerea-ed froin 80 to 59e, mend of ridding the human race of euch a terrible scourge
as the atrecious assassins from the Sisterlsle have
this was mainly duo to the unwearied exertioes of
Mr. Bloomer, the 'Pipe; intendeut, A concert was become. The assailant of Phelan lias placed him-
afterwards given by the members of the Band of self within the pale of the American law. The
police should therefore know his address lifor a long
Hope, assisted by several senior friends, the pert
songs and choruses by the eh time hence. Surely this Irish dynonite-murder
giving evidence of
business has assumed sufficient dimensions for Eng -
careful training, and the recitations and dialogues
by the young toles being received with much ap-
land
.to ask for, ztad America to hand over, two sucn
unmistakeable partakers in and tools of the con-
plause.
Disrnict Raliks.—At the Police Court on Wed-
spiraey as are Short and Phelan, so that justice he e
nesclay, before Meses. W &tisane, H. H
n
nay deal justly with them, and, if possiele, ke
:. oe ard,
threuga them at others eif,ose guilt is still greater,
and C. Holeroft, about twenty p‘ rsons were sum -
won .d by Mr. Whitworte for neglecting to pay
their district rates, anei the magistrates entered
each of the defaulters to pay the amounts claimed
within fourteen days. -
DRUNKENNESS. William Bailey, labourer, was
fined 10s, including costs, for having beea drunk on
the licensed premises of Mary Harris, the Bridge
Inn, Reddall Hill, on the 7th inst.
GAMBLING.—James and Samuel Stevens, chain-
makers; and John Stringer, miner; all residing at
Cradley Heath, were each fined Is and costs for
gambling in Church Street, on the 27th ult.
SINGULAR PRACTICAL JoKING. Harry Gill and
Oliver Shaw, ch iitinakers, were summoned for be-
ing drunk on the licensed premises of Seehit Cart-
wright, the Railway Hotel.—Sereeant White stated
that on Saturday night, the 10th inst, he
visited the Railway Hotel, and found the two de-
fendants drunk in one of the rooms. Some nerson
had hindcuffed Gill whilst:he was in an intoxicated
sate.—Gill stated that he vi-ited the hotel on the
night in question fo: the purpose of payi his club
subscription. When leaving the room a man un-
known it, him took hold of him and handcuffed his
i.keo2. Ite: was afterwitds lra,ged downstairs and
subjected to a variety of pi aetical jokes. lie could
no . remove the handcuff:, en I went to bed with
the a on - (laughter). On the following day Le went
to the Ccadley Heath Police. Station, and one of the
olli ers unlock, d the.m, and they were removed.
Under 'he present circumstances, he thought the
police i
'veto severe n summoning hit.—The Bench
erdere eech of the defendants to pay lOs each, in.
• luding cests.
SAD DRO WS I, G Accent:Yr. --- A boy named
Cooper, residing with his paiieni.s in Watertell
Lane. Old Hill, met with his death on Wednesday
mornieg by falling into a tub containing water.
The the fellow had been playing with a ball, and
when attempting to reach it out of the tub of water
he overbalanced himself and fell into it and was
drowned. Pour months age abr Atter of the de-
ceased was drowned. -

There is a private in a Care Infantry iteg:ment:
now stati •nvil at Kirg xVilliam's Town, who has
faith in the fatherly feelings of the guardians of the
Kingston Union Workhouse. It seems the fair sex
are son what scarce in South A:rica, so he writes
h toe to the board who govern the poor ia his native
t,)wii, and makes an unconditional prop,),•al of wed-
lock to nay daughter of the workliou-e of marriage-
able age, offering to pay her passage out.. Failing
an eigible dam•el being domiciled in the parisii
poor-house, this distinctly " mury'ng " man desires
v:e overseers to advertise his wants and wi,lies in
the local newspapers. As the wifeless soldier is as
steady and dutiful as he seems simple-minded, it is
to be hoped that the Kingston Workhouse autheri
ties will be able to bestow on him the hand of some
worthy and willing young woman at pri sent under
their guardian care.

OUR vegetarian friends have just had their
anmial iniings, and have confronted us with the
usual phalanx of scientific testimony to the advan-
tages of living on leaves and fruits, and seeds and
roots. They have once again ptoved to their own
ea. isf Le tion that man was not int nded by Nature
to eat flesh, and that all the ills humanity has ac-
quir,.,d and transmits
.to its unfortunate heirs are
clearly traceable to our erratic semi-carnivorous
dietary. This year we had the added wei4ht of in-
teresting personal experience, with the usual recital
of statistics, in the attractive form of a lady-
doctu'r's sell-told story of how vegetarianism had
brought her back from. the brink of a consumptive's
grave to sound its praises on tnejool rtform plat-
form. Since, too, a -eCamb idge Honours Man."
who claims more distinction for athl tic skill than
scholarly attainments, has written to the papers
avowing that whok-meal brad and fruit, sub-
sisted on for over a year, have enabled him to
build up a ''physical hot sl-like strength," and im-
prove his bicycle riding powers eighty miles a day.
Stran,,4e assertions tin se for beef-loting John Bull
to ponder on. If we heed the Vegetarian Society
we shill shortly have to sing, "0 ! the Boiled Ric..!
of Young England," and lament tie ignorance
which led us to believe that sustenance and
strength might be extracted from the honoured sir-
loin.

lIAL E.:O WEN.

ALLEGED ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.— At a Special
Petiy S3ssion, held on TaFsday, at the Police Sta-
tion, Jatie Basterfield, wire of Henry Basterfield,
heerhouse-keeper, liales?:!en, was charged with at-
tempting to commit suicide by cutting her arm
wi Ii a raz ron the 20th ult. She was remanded
Thursday wh,n he was again brought up.
A witness named John Jones stated that he was in
the Red Lion inn, on the night of the 20,h ul.imo,
when prisoner came in and deliberately cut her left
h .nd with a razor.—Mr. Thomas B. Young, surg on,
slued that he was called to see the prisoner on the
day in question, and found her in a state a- col-
lapse through lobs of blood, He found four incised
wcuuds on the back of the left arm. Without im-
mediate attention they would have been dangerous.
Prisoner informed witness that she had attempted
seif-destruction through having been at variance
with her hu,band. Mr. Homer said the prisoner
was sorry for what she had done, The Batch
so verely reprim Inded th.,3 prisoner for her con—
duct, and discharged her.

A London baker, whose business mlthoi hal
prominence at the Worship-street Court the other
day, may ip,s-ibly be of the vegetarian persuasion.
Filled with an overpowering conviLtion of the hurt—
ful effect of flesh meats, he may have to feel justi--
fled in reducing the extent of the cause of awn un-
told evil to his customers as much as po4sible. Such
a proem of reasoning might account for the fact
that what went into his oven as the four-pound
weight joint of beef which was to serve as Sunday
dinner to a workman's family, emerged from his
establishment just half as heavy. As the beef was
not fat, the missing two pounds could not well have
dwindled away in cooking. Perhaps the baker had
beef for his dinner, without having outraged his
econernical convictions in the needless expenditure
of money on flesh food.

The Lord Mayor of London having ref usei to
lend the Guildhall for Mr. Henry George to preach
the gospel of land nationalisation in, under the pre-
text of discussing industrial depres,iou and its
causes, the unquiet propagatorpf the equal rights
in the soil doctrine announces his intention of ad-
dressing a mass meeting of metropolitan unem-
p'oyed in the open space in front of the Royal Ex-
change. It remains to be seen whPther the civic
authorities will regard Mr. George as an obstruction-
ist, and order him to "move on." Gatherings
pound public speakers there in the centre of Lon-
don's heart are becoming much too frequent for
public convenience. There is generally some fana-
tic of the Fruend typo announcing the "doom of
London" to a little crowd of curious passers-by
hereabout now. This sort of thing is rightly dis-
couraged by those who have to pass this busy
point on business, and surely when a subway
to relieve the traffic has been considered necessary,
it is for the police to prevent the gathering together
there of idle crowds.