The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
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TEE OLD TESTAMENT REVISION.--The AttleDOMM
states that the Old Testament Company of Revisers
has finished its labours. The preface has been finally
revised and approved. As the work has to be submitted
to Convocation before its issue to the public, it is not
very likely to be published before next Easter. A
dinner was given on Wednesday in last week by Dr.
Ginsburg to celebrate the conclusion of the re fision.
There were present the Bishop of Winchester, the
Bishop of Bath and Wells, the Dean of Peterboroug-I,
Mr. Bensley, Dr. Chance, Mr. Cheque, Princip 1
Douglas, Professor Driver' Professor Stanley Leathe.,
Professor Lumby, and Mr. Aldis Wright, Lord Shaftes-
bury, and Lord Aberdeen were also present. - During the
course of the revision two have resigned and ten have
died out of 27 members of the Old Testament Company
originally appointed by Convocation.

TtEMPTED =•MIIRDEA WI) SUICIDE.—A grocer's
assistant named Schmidt, living at 38, Quai National s,t
Puteatur, near Paris, whilst in a state of delirium on
Saturday suddenly seized his wife by the hair, and
drawing a revolver from under his pillow, fired at her.
The shot missed, and she rushed from the room scream-
ing and made her way down stairs. She had scarcely
reached the yard of the house when her husband threw
himself out of the window and fell at her feet,
fracturing his skull. Death was instantaneous, and
when raised from the ground the revolver, which was
found to be still loaded in, -four chambers, remained
clutched in his grasp.
ACCIDENTALLY SHOT.—On Tuesday, Mr. Carttar,
West Kent Coroner, held an inquest at No. 54, Syden-
ham-park, Sydenham, the residence of Mr. Carl Hoff-
mann, shipbroker, on the body of Fritz Paul Hoffmann,
aged 11, who on Saturday last was accidentally shot by
a school-fellow named Leonard Straker, aged 13, of
Hornby-lodge, Stanstead-road, Forest-hill. The boys
were playing with an old rusty double-barrelled gun,
when the dece,ased,who had no idea the gun was loaded,
told Straker to fire, and also told him that he was afraid
of it. Straker then pulled the trigger, the gun went
off, and the charge entered the deceased's stomach. The
recoil of the gun knocked Straker backwards. Before
his death, whict tbok place on Monday, Hoffmann said
that Straker was not to blame in the matter. The jury
returned a verdict of" Death from misadventure."

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—Between eight and nine
on Sunday morning, as two brothers, Joseph and
William Robinson, of No. 9, Park-road, Hither-green,
Lewisham, were crossing the South-Eastern line, taking
a short cut to Messrs. Mallard's Nursery for the pur-
pose of feeding the horses it is conjectured that one
brother became bewildered by a passing train, and the
other, on seeing the danger went to his assistance. One
was cut to pieces and killed on the spot; the other was
found in a dying condition. On the train arriving at
Burnt Ash Station, a telegram was despatched for an
engine and carriage, and the survivor was taken to
Guy's Hospital, where he died in great agony about
four o'clock in the afternoon.
A PrrnonnTar SHIP ON Frn.E.—On Monday morning,
at Fiume, the German steamer Octavia, which was
loading benzine in the petroleum harbour, caught fire.
The danger was obvious, as ships freighted with pe-
troleum were lying in her immediate vicinity. With
the help of the men from the fleet, the burning vessel
was quickly removed into the open sea. Happily no
lives were lost, the crew being in the docks at the
time the fire broke out. Two sailors, however, were
injured.
COST OF A BLOW.—A.t the Limerick Assizes on Mon-
day a curious action was heard before Mr. Justice
'O'Brien. The plaintiff was Edward F. Hickson, district
inspector Royal Irish Constabulary, Limerick, and the
defendant Captain Theobald a retired army
officer. The action was brought O'Brien,to recover £5OO
damages for an assaidt committed by defendant upon.
plaintiff in the Co, Limerick Club on May. 23 last.. De-
fendant lodged £i ii satisfAction of the. clahn.
• Defendant, it appeared, struck plaintiff a blow in the
eye, and the jury awarded £25 damages in addition to
the RA

AGRICULTURAL SCIENCR.—Last autumn 12 classes
were started at Forfarshire for teaching the scientific
principles of agriculture. These classes were attended
y about 180 pupils, of whom 120 went forward to the
examination on the Science and Art Department, and
the results are considered most encouraging. The
pupils whose ages varied from 12 to 40, were greatly
stimulated by the Dalhousie Bursaries of £5, which
under certain conditions are increased to £lO by the
Science and Art Department. The idea of these elases
originated with Lord Dalhousie, who obtained from the
Science and Art Department the services of Mr. Buck-
master, who lectured or held meetings in most of the
parishes in Forfarshire, and now that the practicability
of the scheme ha-i.; been demonstrated there is a very
generally expressed desire to increase the number of
classes. In connexion with a few of the classes a plot
of land has been secured for the purpose of experi-
ment. Sir John Ogilvy has placed two or three acres
on the Baldovan estate at the disposal of the class and
the pupils and others take great interest in what is
going on. It is perhaps early to speak of the result of
thisinstruction, but some are of opinion that these
classes have already begun to tell on the agriculture of
the district.

DREADFUL MURDERS IN IRELAND.—Particulars have
reached Dublin of the murder of two persons by an old
man named Meehan, near Monaghan, on Sunday night.
The murderer, who is close on 80 years of age, had, with
his wife, gone to live with a woman and her son named
Neal. A quarrel arose owing to the Neals refusing to
give up a bank-book which the old man had given them,
and when the son was out he attacked the mother with
a hatchet. tie had just killed her when the son came
in. Meehan at once dealt him a terrible blow which,
killed him on the spot. The murderer then sat down
near the bodies, and was discovered by his wife, who
gave an alarm. The old man was at once arrested.
TUB MEAT AND POULTRY SUPPLY OF LONDON.—The-
" City Press" states that during the first six months-.
after the opening of the market the total weight of
meat and poultry brought into the Crmtral Meat and
Poultry Market was 51,733 tons. That rose in 1882 to
109,000, in 1883 to 113,000, and in 1884 to 110,000. In..
the last three years the weight of American-killed
meat had risen from.lo,ooo to 14,000 tons, and the
weight of Australian and New Zealand meat from 822-
to 5228 tons _

Ts R tIONOTTYS OF BIRMINGHAM. -- Birmingham by
the new Order in Council has not only become an
-
assize town, but an assize town with double honours
(says the "Law Journal "). According to the state-
ment made by the Attorney-General in the House of
Commons last week, it will n.ot ,only be visited by two ,-
Judges of Assize, but the assizes will be attended by .
both the Oxford Circuit and Midland Circuit Bars; and '
1
as it is the last town en both of those circuits, it is
likely to attract to it the bulk of the civil business from
, Warwickshire, Worresterthire. and Staffordshire. Bir-
mingham, in fact, becomes practically a county of a
town, like the more ancient towns of Hull, Nottingham,
Poole, and Southampton, except that it has no sheriff.
For the present the Warwickshire sheriff will make his
appearance at Birmingham to receive Baron Huddle-
sten and Mr. Justice Lopes. Possibly that sheriff
might in the future be willing to transfer the duty of
receiving the judges to a municipal sheriff for Birming-
ham, who would probably not be loth to undertake it.
Birmingham has only to obtain a sheriff and a bishop,
when it will be at the topmost pinnacle of cities.
A bunnerars RAILWAY.—The highest railway in the .;,..,
world is now being constructed on Pike's Peak, Colo- 1
rado, U.S. The line will run to an altitude of 14,220 1
feet above the sea-level, and will be a marvellous feat
of engineering skill, the thirty miles of road being a.
succession of complicated curves, with no straight track 1
longer than 300 feet. The maximum gradient will be. -
310 feet in the mile, and the average about 270 feet. It -
is hoped that eight miles of the line will be opened this
month, and the remainder finished in a year. The cost.
is estimated at from £2500 to £3OOO per mile, and the.
speed is to be 15 miles an hour.
NITRIC ACID.—On Saturday forenoon a lorry belong—
ing to Messrs. Muspratt. laden with 20 or 30 carboys of
nitric acid, was proceeding along Dale-street, one of the
principal thoroughfares of Liverpool, when one of the :
carboys was shaken off the cart and burst. The fumes
from the acid were potent and noxious, and they con-
tinued to annoy the public until the Corporation hoset
vas applied and the liquid washed into the sewers. A
similar accident, arising from the same cause, happened
in Dale-street in the previous week, and a boy who was
burnt by the acid on that occasion is still under medical.
, treatment.

THE TINPLATE TRADE.—The quarterly meeting of
the Tinplate Makers' Association was held at Birming-
ham last week, Mr. Philip W. Flower, of Neath, in the
chair. It was decided to maintain present prices. It
was repotted that the Liverpool stocks, which stood at
311,000 boxes on the Ist of July, 1883, had been re—
duced to 97,000 boxes on the Ist of July, 1884, and it
was shown by the Board of Trade returns that the- 7
exports for the six months ending on the 30th of June
had expanded 275,000 boxes, as compared with 1883,,
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proving an increased consumption at the rate of 550,0004 ,
boxes yearly.
UsEs or RosEe.—Among the Greeks,' the Romans,.
and the Gauls, parsley, ivy, myrtle, and roses were-
looked upon as valuable remedies for people who had ,
drunk more wine than was good for them. In Capua
roses were employed by the local medical men aslonics - •
good for stomachs fatigued by over-eating. A decoo-
tion of roses was supposed to have excellent astringent
properties. Hoffman recommends it in pleurisy. Para-
eelsus thinks that, when mixed with honey, it will
lengthen life. A long list of authorities may be pro- -
duced to show that rose leaves discreetly used are a
perfect cure for hydrophobia. A spirit .made or'
flavoured with roses was the favourite cordial of Philip •
the Handsome, and was considered by Charlemagne as
a specific against fainting from loss of blood in battle.
A poultice of roses was long employed for flesh wounds,.
and roses preserved are still believed in many places to
cure consumption and all diseases of the throat and'.
lungs.
RAILWAY FATALITY.—On Saturday afternoon, while a
number of persons were awaiting the arrival of a train .
at the Queen's-road Station, on the London and South-'
Western Railway, Mr. Dyer, aged 45, one of the officials,,
attempted to cross the line. He was struck by an ap-
proaching train and hurled some distance along the •
metals, when the wheels of the Woking up train passed
over him. He was fearfully mutilated. The injured
man was placed on an ambulance, and removed to •
Waterloo Junction and subsequently to St. Thomas's
Hospital, and died shortly after his admission.
TEMPORARY INalwrry.—On Saturday an inquest was-
held at Charimeeross Hospital on the body of Mr. John
Cowman, aged 49, who had committed suicide in a bed
room at the Oharing-cross Hotel by cutting his throat
and stabbing himself with a penknife. He had been,
much annoyed by his room being entered and his pro-
perty searched by the police on account of the alarm as
to dynamite; but nothing was found to justify any
suspicion of him. He was interested in a machine for
making cigarettes. He had been the worse for liquor,
and there had been some disturbances in the street
through women following him. A witness who claimed
to be his wife said she had been married to him in a •
private room in a house at Brighton. A verdict' of'
14 Temporary insanity" was returned.
DEATH Or Two FAMOUS MEN.—German science,
and especially Berlin University, has again suffered two
severe losses. The celebrated Egyptologist, Lepsius
born 23rd December, 1810, died on the 11th inst. The
Berlin National Gallery has just ordered a picture of ' -
the deceased in order to commemorate his services to 7,
science as shown in his work on the monuments of ,
Egypt and Ethiopia. The second loss is that of the
renowned Protestant theologian, ProfeeserDorner, who -
was born in 1809, and died on the 9th inst. of apoplexy
while on his way home from a visit to the monument '
on the Niederwald, near Riidesheim.
THla CENTRAL MEAT AND POULTRY MARICE'TS.—III
reporting on the supply of meat and poultry in the
metropolitan markets for the first half di the present
year, the chairman observes that during the first six
months following on the opening of the markets in 1869
the total weight introduced was 58,000 tons. This rose '
in 1882 to 109 tons; in 1883 to 113,000; and in 1884 to 2,
116,000 durinrr the first six months. In the last three • 2
years, according to Mr. Alliston, American dfiad meat
had risen from 10,000 tons to 14,000, and Australian
and New Zealand meat from 800 in 1882-and 8200 in
1884.
PRECAUT/ONS AGAINST CHOLEEA.—Admiralty instruc-
tions have been issued to all dockyards describing the •
precautions to be taken in the event of an outbreak of
cholera oocurring in this country. Care is-to be taken
that drinking pater does not become contaminated,
vrator-tap conununications must be examined, the
latrines flushed and deodorised daily, and the dustbins
regularly emptied. Refuse heaps must all be removed,
and chloride of lime and disinfectants frequently used.
Roads must be swept and watered daily. Trustworthy-
officials are to be appointed to see, that these. precau- •
tions are enforced.

TRH NEWLIBUi Elam. OF THE TOWEL—The Right Hon.
Frederic Augustus Thesiger, Lord Chelmsford, G.C.8., .
who has been appointed to succeed General Maitland as-
Lieutenant of the Tower of London, is thee eldest son
of Frederick, first Lord Chelmsford, some time Lord
Chancellor in the Conservative Ministry of Lord Derby,
by marriage with Anna Maria, youngest daughter of
Mr. William Tinling, and was born in 1827. His lord-
ship entered the Riflo Brigade in 1844, and was trans- -
ferred to the Grenadier Guards in the following year. •
He served in the Crimea, and in India during the .
mutiny campaign • was adjutant-General of the Bengal
Army from 1869 till 1874, and in the commaird of the
forces during the Claffre war, 1878, and in the Zulu war
in 1879. He was also Aide-de-Camp to her Majesty
from 1868 to 1877. His lordship became lieutenant- -
general in 1882, and was appointed Colonel of the 95th
Foot in 1858. He married, in 1867, Adria Fanny, eldest,
daughter of the late Major-General Heath.

TEE MARKETS. .
MARK-LANE.
At Mark-lane on Monday the tone was not quite PO, :
depressed for either wheat or flour, and some wheats that
have been rather pressing recently, including Australian,
were steadier, but .the demand was quieter. Cargoes off
coast have been selling more readily since Friday, prices
showing a slight recovery. Australian sold at 38s 9d. The
quantity of wheat and flour on passage was last week
reduced 208,5.".0 qrs. The import into London were large.
Flour is still very dull of sale. Maize on the spot rather: •,f-'
more firmly held, but without much business-,--25S1noted
for American mixed, ex steamer. Floating Danubian,
prompt shipment, sold at 255. Beans and peas firm, with a
tendency against buyers Arrivals of oats continue heavy, ,
but from the depression of last week common qualities o
Russiau have raeove-ed 3d por qv, 38Th Rusiian quoted 17s
to IBs ; 401 b, 19s to 225. Swedish 4-lb range up to 23s ed..
Barley on the spot is quiet; grinding sorts barely steady,
Floating Azolf has sold at 21s 3d.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.
The beast supplies were liolat, and .the prime qualities
ruled decidedly dem or, the smaller descrio.t ions selieg pretty'
readily. Heavy cattle sold slowly, bat aso at rather better
prices. The assortment comprised 10 :icotch, 300 Norfolk,
1170 miclland and home counties, 431 foreign. The supply
of sheep met rather a brisk sac at fully 2d per 81b advance,
and lambs fully maintained list Thursday's improvement.
The calf trade remains dull. best Herefords, runts,
&c., Es Ed to 5s 10d ; best shorthorns, 5s 6d to 5s 8d ; •
second quality beasts, 5s to 53 4cl; inferior, 4s to 4s 8d;.
best Downs and half•breds, 5s 10d to 63 2,c1; best long
wools, 5s 6d to 5s led ; second qualities and, ewes, 4s 10d
to 55 4d; lambs, 6s Bci to 75 6d; calves, 4s 8d to 5s 8d per
81b., &inking the offal. Total supplies—beasts, 1480; sheep,
and lambs, 61)90; calves, 70.

METROPOLITA.N HEAT MARKET.
The beef trade was hardly as god as on Saturday, but:
mutton sold fully as well as on that day. Beef. prime,
48 61 to 5s Od ; mddling, 4s Od to 4s 4d; inferior, 3s 4d to,
33 Bd. Mutton, prim-, 58 8d to 6s 4d; middling, 4s 8d to'
68 2d; inferior, 3s 0d to 4s 4d. Lamb, 60 041 to es Bdt.
foreign, 58 8d to 6s 2d. Veal, prime, 58 4d to 5s 6<l;
dling, 48 4d to 48 8d ; inferior, 3s 8d to 4.3 Od. Pork, prime,
,
48 4d to 4s 8d; middling, 4a Od to 4a 2d; inferior, 3s Oot
to 38 B<l per 81b.
FISH.
lifO 5s r supplies
cod, 2 sns to 3 ncistefts; d y trade. Turbot, 4s to"; brill
2s red mullet, 1s 6d each; salmon,
Scotch and Irish, ls id; grilse, lOid ; trout, is 2<l; sturgeon,
6<l; soles, is 31 per lb ; eels, 13s per draft' mackerel, Sc to-
gs per three score; dory, ; haddocks, 8s; Whi.ting,
10a 6d ; plaice, 2.5 s per box; lobs ers, Is 6d to 38; crabs, Is
to 2s 6d each.

GAME AND POULTRY.
Haunches of venison, 50s to 603 each; foreqtmrters of
ditto, 8d to 93/4d per lb ; leverets Is to 5s - rah)) ts, 6d to
2s; conies, 8d to ls ; quails, 16d to Is ; pigeons, Bcl to
10d ; Bordeaux ditto, Is 2d to 2s 6d ; chickens, 12 6d to
23 3d ; ducks, 2s to Is; goslings, 68 to 7s; andierkey
poults, 4s to is 64 each.