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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-22

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NOTICE.

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The Allotment of Shares of the First Issue (carrying
Bonus Cout.ons, life Tickets. eze.) is now taking plafe.
Early application should therefore be made, as tip,
Shares may be allotted in the order that they are sub-
scribed for. Forme of Application for Shares may "be
obtained by applying to the Secretary, at the Temporary
°faces of the Company, 2, Walbrook, London, E.C.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-22

THE WATERSPOUT NEAR BATH.

The following further particulars are reported of the
bursting of a waterspout near Bath, which was re-
ported last week. The column burst on Lansdown,
passing from one end of the village to the other. It
appears from the statement of some mowers who were
engaged just under Kelston Wood that about half-
past four o'clock in the afternoon a drenching shower
came on, there being also, about five o'clock, a
single terrific peal of thunder. A shower of hail,
the stenes of which were of more than ordinary size,
accompanied the other phenomena. At this time the
waterspout appears to have burst, volumes of water
were observed descending the hillside, and for the
time the two hill roads leading respectively to Lans-
down and Kelson became channels for bodies of water,
some three or four feet in depth. At the angle formed
by Mr. Clement Bush's garden wall the two bodies
of water effected a juncture, and ran into the stream
which runs parallel with the high road through the
village. The water swept down the village street
like an immense wave. The wife of one of the mowers
before mentioned, named Mortimer, was in the street
with her little girl. The sudden rush of water
almost carried the poor woman away, and she received
a shock, together with some severe lacerated and in-
cised wounds. She wag, however, rescued from the
water by the Rev. E. Wilkins, who jumped from a
wall on which he had taken refuge from the flood.
The child was washed away by the water, but was
rescued at considerable risk by a labourer. The woman
lies in a serious condition. For nearly half an hour
the torrent continued to flow through the village, in-
undating houses, and causing great destruction to
gardens, walls, roads, and pathways. Numbers of
gardens have been completely wrecked, and in one
market garden the growing crops, together with tons
of earth, have been washed away, leaving nothing but
the clay subsoil. The flooding of many of the resi-
dences, houses, shops, and cottages in the village has
been of a very serious character. Great damage to
stock•in-trade was done, and furniture, pigs, &c.,
were washed away. Numbers of cottages are in a de-
plorable state.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-22

THE DURATION OF PARLIAMENTS,

It is worthy of note, at a moment when rumours of
a dissolution of Parliament are-rife, that the average
duration of the ten Parliaments which have been
assembled and dissolved since th e passing of the Reform
Act was only about three years and ten months. The
longest Parliament was that which assembled in
November, 1859, with Lord Palmerston as Premier,
and which was dissolved after an existence of six years
one month and six days in July, 1865, immediately
upon the rdsignation of the Lord Chancellor
(Lord Westbury), in consequence of the vote of cen-
sure passed upon him by the House of Commons.
The next longe4 Parliament assembled in 1841, and
was dissolved in July, 1847, having lasted 5 years 11
months 4 days. The Parliament during which Mr.
Gladstone was Premier assembled on the 10th
January, IS6B, and was dissolved suddenly on the
26th January, 1874. The shortest of the ten Parlia-
ments assembled on the 29th January, 1833, and was
dissolved on December 30, 1834. The present Par-
liament met for the first time on the sth March,
1874, and has therefore been in existence 4 years and
a little over 3 months, or 5 months longer than the
average of its ten predecessors.—Globe.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-22

DUDLEY.

THE RECENT CASE OF ATTEMPTED SIIICIDE.—At the
Po:ice Court, on Monday, before Messrs. James Fisher
and John Bateman, five women, named Honor Hee I,
Ann Darby, Esther Goodwin, Sarah Goodwin, aii
Elizabeth Lester were charged with assaulting Harriett
Edge (15).—Mr. Chief Superintendent Burton said to
prosecution was directed by the Magistrates. The girl
was a poor unfortunate creature, who, being driven
from home, was in the habit of sleeping out. She had
behaved immorally, and the women having a hatred of
her pursued and beat her until she was glad to jump
into the canal to avoid them —Witnesses were called who
bore out the statement of the Chief Superintendent
exc:qa with respect to Lester, who was proved to have
been f..:ty yards away when the ether women were beat-
ing tlt, girl.—The Bench discharged Lester, and fined
etien uf ttie other defendants 2s 6,! and costs.

SPORTINCir IN 0 IES.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-22

THE PARIS EXHIBITION.

The movement set on foot by his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales for sending artisan reporters to the
Paris Exhibition, is attracting considerable attention
in the various manufacturing districts of the kingdom.
Birmingham, Bristol, and Edinburgh have already
reported to the committee sitting at the Society of
Arts that active steps are being taken to promote this
important work, and subscriptionlists have been opened
for aiding to defray the expense of sending over skilled
workmen in various trades. Already many of the London
City Companies have promised subscriptions. The Cloth-
workers give £100; the Drapers, 50 guineas ; the Fish-
mongers, 25 guineas; the Carpenters, 10 gnindas ;
the Salters. 10 guineas. The Prince of Wales sub-
scribes Lot); the Royal Commissioners, 100 guineas;
and the Society of Arts, 100 guineas. It is under-
stood that arrangements have already been made, by
which the artisans sent over will have secured to them
both lodging and board on reasonable terms, and,
besides, will have facilities given them for visiting
industrial establishments in Paris. In return, it is
made a condition that each artisan thus assisted must
present a written report on his own special industry.
These will be collected and printed for publication at
a cheap rate.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-22

THE KAFFIR WAR.

Tuesday night's London Gazette contains a despatch, dated
May 15, from Lieutenant-General Thesiger, respecting the
military operations at the Cape. He says :
"The prboners taken speak of the rebels being
greatly disheartened and straitened for food. I myself
cannot but feel that the severe losses they have suffered
during the past three weeks must have a great effect
in shortening the present war; and I was not surprised
at hearing from Mr. Brownlee to-day that, Sandilli had
sent in to ask what terms would be offered him. The
instructions given to the forces under my command are
not to cease harassing them day or night, and the
officers in command are not likely to lose sight of these
orders."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-22

and when the winter and the summer came in their
proper turns. That can scarcely be said to be the case
now. For many years past our winters seem to have
become milder, and our summers colder than they were
in the times of our forefathers. We know nothing now
of such severe frosts as that of 1814, which bound up
the Thames for fourteen weeks like a solid sheet of iron,
and those who had occasion to cross the river had no
necesrity to use the bridges. The ice was as firm
as a roadway, and in the printsellers' windows is some-
times to be seen an etching of the ice fair which was
then held upon the frozen surface of the broad metro-
politan stream. Even up to a quarter of a century
ago the seasons appeared to come in their proper
order. Many of us can remember the splendid summer
oi 1854, when long weeks of uninterrupted sunshine
and unclouded skies filled the granaries of England.
Then a few months afterwards came a winter of
exceptional severity; there was a hard frost which
lasted for weeks, and, however this may have been felt
in this country, its hardships were experienced tenfold
in the bleak plains round about the beleaguered for-
tress of Sebastopol, where the bitter weather claimed
more lives than the Russian batteries. We get
nothing like such winters now. Last year, for
, instance, so far as London was concerned, there
was little, if any, snow; and yet we have just
been reading of snow-storms in Scotland in the
middle of June, and oc. the prevalence of north-
easter a fierceenough to merit the encomiums of Canon
Kingsley. In town vast banks of drifting cloud and
heavy rains have spoiled many an out-door fete, and
in the country have retarded the progress of the cereal
crops upon which the agriculturist has bestowed so
much time, care, and attention.
The loss of the Vanguard in the Irish Channel on
the Ist of September, 1875, the foundering of the
Eurydice off the isle of Wight three mouths ago, and
the more recent running down of the Great Elector
in the English Channel, and the fact of all three
lying just where they went down, tells only too
plainly that we have been so busy in inventing
means for sinking ships, that after doing our
utmost to Paise one, the task is found impossible.
Here then is a new field for the exercise of mechanical
skill. The intellect of man has pierced the lofty hills
for the passage of the locomotive, and has laid the
electric cable along the valleys of the ocean, connect-
ing continent with continent, and joining the old world
hand in hand with the new, but what the sea engulphs
into its remorseless depths that it seems to retain.
The song to which the wild waves give utterance,
whether they bask in the beams of the burning sun at
noon, or lash themselves into surf upon the solemn
rocks at eventide, is ever one of boundless might and
of resistless power, which has so far successfully defied
the exertions of man to invade the sanctity of its
domain.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-22

THE DEATH OF MR. OGLE.

A Parliamentary paper of sixty-two pars has been issued
containing a number of documents relating to the death of
Mr. Ogle, the Times Correspondent at Volo, on March 29.
11r. Consul-General Fawcett, in a despatch to Sir All. Layard.
on May 8, stating the result of the investigation made on the
subjec'c, says :
While it is much to be deplored that this young
Englishman lost his life in the way he did, it must be
confessed that he was most imprudent and self-willed.
He did not come here properly furnished with a per-
mission from the Ottoman authorities; he came over
the frontier with the insurgents ; he was known to be
in constant communication with them and with the
Greek committees at Athens; he left the insurgent
camp and came to Volo, and was in the habit of
going back and forward between the two. In
any other country he would have been treated
as a spy, arrested, and possibly shot. Not
content with this, he seems to have set the au-
thorities at defiance and insulted them. Not long
before his death he got into some brawl with some
soldiers' was arrested, and brought to the konak, and
liberated with a caution to be more prudent. All his
friends here warned him that he would lose his life if
he continued the course he was taking. There was no
necessity for him to gp on the mountain the day of
the battle. There were two other correspondents
of journals here ; neither of them left Volo.
With a good glass the movements of the two
armies could be as well watched, or better' than by
a person in the midst of the fight; and these two
gentlemen contented themselves with such observation.
The opinion prey alent at Volo that Mr. Ogle was assas-
sinated in cold blood on Friday, the 29th, and carried up
that remarkably steep ravine and placed where he was
found, seems to me improbable and unsupported by
any evidence which has been adduced. If he had been
so assassinated an easier method could have been hit
upon for concealing the body, and had he been brought
there dead the large pool of blood would not have been
found there. In conclusion, lam of opinion :-
1. That Charles Ogle met his death by a gun-shot or
bayonet Wound, on Friday afternoon, the 29th of
March, while retreating with the insurgents, after the
second battle of Makrinitza.
2. That he was afterwards mutilated, his head being
cut off by Turkish soldiers.
3. That his great imprudence made it extremely
probable that some such casualty would happen to
him.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-22

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-22

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