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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-07-25

THE MUNSTER BANK.

Mr. Shaw, M.P., has proposed a scheme
for re-organising the Munster Bank, which
was to be considered at the meeting last
night.

GREAT FIRE AT ST. PETERSBURG

ST. PETERSBURG, July 23rd.—An exten-
sive carriage works at Riga has been de-
stroyed by fire. The damages are enormous

RUSSIA AND ZULFIKAR.

ST. PETERSBURG, Friday.—The Svet yester-
day %unounces that it has authority for
stating that Russia will not renounce her
claims upon the Zulfikar Pass. The same
journal states that a firm of Texas cattle
breeders has offered the services of one
hundred cowboys in the event of war.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-07-25

C ORRESPONDENCE

To the Editor of rhe Stourbridge Observer.

SIB,

As a resident in Stourbridge I feel it my
duty as a christian to attend a place of worship ou
Sunday. I accordingly went to what is termed the
Scotch Prasbytorian Chu-ch,which is nearly opposite
the General Post Office, but to my great astonish-
ment, otsrving the meagre at'endance of the con-
gregation and listening to the drowsy twaddle of
Unitarianisu , I soon found out that I had been in j.
info i med. In expianation, Presbyte!ianistn is en-
tirely at variance with Unit.rianism just as much as
Unitarianism is inconsistent with the teachings of
Holy Scripture. I submit thee remarks, Mr. Edi: or,
in order to counteract the prevailing erroneous im-
preesion held by many in StourbiLige of the above.
named sects.

Yours,)
SCOTCH :PRESBYTERIAN.

COMMENTS ON CURRENT THINGS

IN place of the immensely successful Interna-
tional Inventions Exhibition which this year oc-
cupies the Horticultural Gardens at South Kensing-
tm, we shall next stunmer have an extensive
Colonial Exhibition. Preprations are already in
full swing. One projected novel attraction will
doubtless prove popular. The native plants, fruits.
and flowers of each colony are as fully as possible
to be represented "all a blowin' and a growin'," as
the London plant ..hawkers used to cry. Some sort
of suitable annexe will be found in connection with
the court set apart for every Colony, in which its
horticulture will be displayed. Such a show of
Colonial flora will be most ,interesting and highly
instructive, and it was a happy idea on the part of
the Royal Horticultural Society, which will do its
best to make the plant culture and preservation a
SUCQOSS, to suggest the pleasing additions. 3 There
will be London fogs and murky skies to contend
against when engineering has given to every plant-
house its proper temperam-nt, yet persistence and
enterprise can bring about very satisfactory results,
we doubt not, Why did not some lover of moving
life suggest further that the fauna as well as the
flora of each Colony should be represented. The
South Kensington Exhibition management, being a
Royal Commission, have rescources sufficient to
secure a thoroughly representative show of all the
principal natural products—animal, vegetable, and
mineral—of every Colony. as well as specimens of
each branch of its manufacturing industry. As these
exhibitions exis, not for incmcy-na +king, bit as a
means of enlarBin4 the knowledge of the pevie, I
they vhould be reniered as complete as possible.
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-07-25

THE MUNSTER BANK FAILURE.

On Saturday a meeting of shareholders summmed
by the directors to consider the affairs of the Munster
Bank was held in the Antient Concert Rooms, Dublin.
There was a very large attendance of shareholders
from all parts of the country. Mr. Fitzgibbon read
the following statement of accounts upon made up to
30th of Juno: Liabilities to the bank—paid-up capital,
£425,000; amounts due on deposits and current
accounts, £2,704.296 ; amounts due .on seven day bills,
£14,675; reserve fund, £200,000. On the other hand,
under assets, they had by cash in hand and at bankers
£175,000; by advances on Government and various
convertible securities £570,221; by bills discounted
and due on current accounts and other advances
£2,576,062; by the value cf bank premises and furni-
ture £lOO,OOO. The total liabilities were £3,452,033,
and the total assets are £3,423,693. Sir George
Penrose proposed "That a committee cf shareholders
be now formed to ascertain the- actual financial state
of the bank and the best means of establishing it on
its old footing, and, in the alternative, for the recon-
struction of the bank on some solid foundation—
(hear, hear)—and that the committee so formed do
report their recomendations to. an adjourned meeting
on Monday next, the 20th inst.' Alderman Tarpey
seconded the resolution. After some discussion the
motion was agreed to. It was also resolved: "That
the marked thanks of the shareholders are hereby
tendered to his Excellency the Earl of Carnarvon for
his prompt, energetic, and most sympathetic conduct
in relation to the bank in its present position."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-07-25

THE CHOLERA EPIDEMIC IN SPAIN.

There has again been an increase in the cholera
mortality in Spain, as shown by the returns for
Friday and Saturday. On the former day the deaths
amounted to 684, and the cases to 1565, these figures
not comprising tho returns from Jaen. Saturday's
returns show 1886 cases and 718 deaths, while even
this increase in the mortality does not apparently
include all the deaths that took place during the
time specified. Although the epidemic has fallen off
in some of the towns and provinces, it has, so far,
disappeared from none in which it has obtained a
hold, while the last two days' returns issued show
that it has extended to several fresh places, and
increased in others. In Saragossa and Tarragona
the increase has been very marked.

(From the Standard Correspondent.)
MADRID, Monday Night.
During the past 24 hours in 306 places, scattered
over 13 provinces, there has been 2399 cases of
cholera and 938 deaths. The number in Madrid was
12 cases and 7 deaths.

The cholera is travelling northward from its first
hotbeds on the banks of the rivers aucar and Segura,
in the provinces of Valencia, Murcia, and Alicante.
It has invaded thq smile class of hot, low, marshy,
alluvial soils in the provinces of Jaen, Albacete, and
Castellon, and on the banks of the river Tagus, from
Aranjuez to Toledo, and has spread for some miles
down the same stream. The epidemic is also now
spreading fast in the provinces of Cuenca,
Teruel, Saragossa, and Tarragona. There also
its track is along the best watered valleys and
the best irrigated country, such as the Ebro
valley blow Saragossa, and eastwards to Tor-
tosa. The cholera in the rest of Spain only
appears in places where fugitives have taken it,
and then only a few isolated cases are recorded, ex-
cept when the fugitives take disease to the marshy
hot regions in the provinces of Salamanca and
Segovia, where the conditions of the soil and climate
are similar to those at the seats of the first outbreaks.
Local isolated hotbeds of cholera are thus created,
and the disease dies out after raging severely for a
while. Thousands of fugitives of all classes, on the
contrary, have passed through other provinces and
towns, or have settled in them, and no outbreak has
been reported beyond a few cases or deaths among
the families who evidently bad arrived with the
disease contracted before their flight. Examples of
this are seen at Avila, Etirgos, and Ciudad Real,
chiefly on high tablelands which have suffered little
from the cholera when former epidemics have de-
vastated other parts of the country.

(Reuter's Telegrams.)
Memin, ) July 20.

The official cholera bulletin issued this morning
shows that 1850 cases and 761 deaths occurred in
Spain yesterday. Some cases are reported from the
provinces of ,Granada and Palencia.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-07-25

FINES AND COSTS.

A remarkable political case occupied the attention
of the Salisbury county magistrates on Tuesday for
five hours. It was a charge against a farmer named
'Martin, over 70 years old, and two labourers of assault-
ing a man named Batt. The alleged assault took
place at Martin, a Wiltshire village, while Mr. Joseph
Arch was addressing the villagers. For the prosecu-
tion it was asserted that, while Mr. Arch was inveigh-
ing against the Russian war, Batt exclaimed, "Who
was in power? At once Mr. Martin raised a cry,
"There's Tories here; have them up." The crowd
then rushed upon the man, and Martin, seizing him
by the collar, pulled him to the platform. When
there he several times endeavoured to get down, but
was prevented. At last, when he was let go, there
was a significant cry raised, "Don't hurt him," and he
was assailed with various kinds of missiles. The
defence was a denial of the assault. It was asserted
that this man' by his violent conduct and interrup-
tions, raised the animosity of the crowd. To protect
him the old man Martin went down, and, putting his 1
hand on him, advised him to go on to the platform.:
He went willingly enough, but after being there
short time, he persisted, deslite all persuasions, in,
getting down. lie even threatened to use a stick it:
he were not allowed to go. It was then that the mobi
followed him. This was deposed to by a Congregae"
tional minister, a newspaper proprietor, the. secretary
of the Wilton Liberal Association, and five or six
others. The Bench, however, while dismissing the
case against the labourers fines the old man is., and
£3 4s. 6d, costs.
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The returns of the cholera during the last 'twelve
hours are as follows: Valencia (. 1)ita1), 29 cases,
8 deaths; Cadiz (province), 2 cases t death; Madrid
(capital), 10 cases, 7 deaths; Ma id (province), 9
cases, 4 deaths Several cases a,3 also reported
from the provinces of Segovia, Paleucia,ani Caceres,

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WIFE MURDER AT FULHAM.

Dr. Diplock held an inquiry at the Salisbury Hotel,
Fulham, on Saturday, respecting the death of Ellen,
Norman, aged 38 years. Charlotte Townsend, a
married woman, said that on Wednesday she was at
work for a relative of Norman's when Henry Norman
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came n and spoke of his wife's conduct, saying to a
Mrs. Luck, "What am I to do ? " Mrs. Luck
answered, "Forgive her." Norman then said, "One,
two, three! How many times." Mrs. Luck "tried
to smile," and replied, "Seven times." Norman
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pulled off his bat, threw t up, and exclaimed, "No, I
can't. I love my wife, but she has been unfaithful to
me, and I can't rest.
.You will never see me any
more, mother, after to-night. I mean to kill that man
before I sleep," referring to a man who knew the de-
ceased. John Patten stated that he kept a shop at
Rylston-terrace, where the deceased and her husband
lodged. On Friday morning witness heard Norman
run out of the house. Norman's little boy then
screamed and said, "Mr. Batten, father has stabbed
my mother; come and see.' Witness went and found
Mrs. Norman dying or dead, and he then went for the
Pollee. In answer to a juryman, the witness em-
Phatically denied that he had been on familiar terms
with the deceased. Inspector Rawlings stated that
Henry Norman gave himself up, stating, "I have
killed my vriAe:”
The jury returned a verdict at
"Wilful murder " against Henry Norman.

" A man in Ohio borrowed a gun, saying he wanted
to shoot birds. lle went Into the woods, put the
muzzle of the gun to his head and blew out his
brains." He didn't tell a falsehood. Ho shot a
goose.
A chapter of calamities is reported to have happened
to a coloured man in Abbeville county, S.C., one day
last week, and the local paper states them in the fol-
lowing order: "Two of his dogs, his wife, and his
horse all fell dead."

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wines have become warmly appreciated in the Prohibi-
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for the bill, having informed himself- more fully as to
the wonting of this disqualification.
Mr. Collins spoke at length in favour of the bill, as
did Mr. Labouchere, who indulged in some strictures
on the pliability of Conservative Governments in a
minority, upon which
The Chancellor of the Exchequer remarked that if
these two gentlemen were in favour of the bill, as they
professed to be, they ought to be glad to assist in pass-
ing it instead of trying to talk it out. At this period
of the session, if the bill was to become law, the House
ought to go into Committee at once.
After this Mr. Courtney's amendment was negatived
by 226 to 22.
The House then went into Committee, and subse-
riently adjourned.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-07-25

GENERAL NEWS.

(By Telegraph and Special Despatch.)

ELEOTION NEWS.

Mr. William Blunt, the friend ot Arabi
Pacha, has been elected as the Conservative
candidate for North Camberwell.

FALL OF A GRAND STAND AT
PENRITH.

During a friendly societies' fete yesterday
at Penrith, a grand-stand on which were
many hundred speetatdrs suddenly collapsed
Several persons were injured, one of whom
died yesterday. The strength of the struc
ture was guaranteed by the contractors.

THE CA.STLETOWNROCHE MURDER
REVOLTING CONFESSION.

A man named Duane, who was originally
arrested for the Castletownroehe tripple
murder., has confessed to having been an un.
willing witness of the crime, which was
committed with a cooper's adze. Duane as-
sisted in throwing the bodies into a well
and the prisoners Sheehan and Browne
after washing the blood from their persons
spent the evening in singing and dancing
The trial has been fixed for Monday.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-07-25

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE.

On Tuesday, a person, described as a Roman
Catholic priest, was brought up on a warrant before
the Mayor, at Winchester, charged with violently
assaulting Mrs. A. C. Dennis, the wife of a draper,
carrying on business at Winchester and Cowes. Only
sufficient evidence was taken to justify a remand,
Mrs. Dennis being unable to attend inconsequence of
the injuries she had received. Mr. Godwin, who
appeared for the prosecution, said that the prisoner
bad for a short time been undertaking temporary
duty at Winchester. Mr. and Mrs. Dennis were
members of his congregation, but were very little
known to him. On Thursday evening Mrs. Dennis
was entertaining some relatives, her husband being at
Cowes, when at half-past nine the defendant was
observed to pass and re-pass the house several times.
Eventually he knocked. Mrs. Dennis opened the
door, and he entered uninvited. He was then asked
upstairs. At 10 o'clock Mrs. Dennis's guests
rose to leave, and the prisoner said he would light
them downstairs. At the front door he ex-
claimed that he had forgotten his hat, and, closing
the door after the departing visitors, went upstairs,
accompanied by Mrs. Dennis. Having secured his
hat, still holding the candlestick in his hand, he pre-
pared to descend, requesting Mrs. Dennis to proceed
first. This she did, but had scarcely commenced her
descent when the defendant struck her a violent blow
on the back of the head, cutting it open. Mrs. Dennis
screamed, and turning round received a second blow
on the forehead, inflicting a wound two inches in
length. She rushed wildly to the door, which, at that
instant, was opened by one of her husband's shop
assistants returning home. The prisoner, who seemed
bereft of his senses, said, in reply to the assistant, "I
made a great mistake. lam very sorry I did it. I
did not intend to do it? He followed the injured
woman into the kitchen, and again expressed his
sorrow for what he had done. The following day he
left the town, but a warrant being issued for his
arrest, he surrendered at Scotland-yard on Thursday.
The motive that actuated the defendant was not dis-
closed. The prisoner was remanded, bail being re-
fused.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-07-25

LINES ON THE FORESEERS PlO-NW.

Indulgent muse, with zeal inspire,
And aid the bard with modest lyre
The day to celebrate ;
When tune with its resistless wings,
Big with events shall with it bring
The Foresters' Annual Fete.
And p'casure's beck its votaries call,
Where Wychbury's Hill sh ides Pedmore's Hall,
With nature's scenery grand
That diversifies the boundless maze,
Ravish the sense and delight the rze,
As prospects fair expands.
There Roberts of the master mind,
With willing federals has designed
A varied programme fair;
And in their efforts nobly vie
Each mind or sense to gratify,
And equal pleasurs share.
Etngergiug from its fountain source,
The trial processioa starts is course
Radioat with splendid vest;
That erst adorn'd bold Robin Hood,
And inerrie men of old Sherwood
By fondest fingers drest,
Bark ! to that musical refrain.
Now sweetly soft, now a nobler strain
Invade the welkin's void ;
And pale-faced envy tries in vain
To suppress the joy it would restrain,
The glee it fain would hide.
How may the graphic pen describe!
When Roberts with his sable tribe
Ascends the rostrum high ;
When j Arial wit blythe humoar guides,
And laughter holds its merry sides,
At nigger song, or pathetic sigh,
That prelude to a merrier strain,
Summons youth into the swa:ded
And maidens coy advance;
Each moving mass, above, below,
Trip on the light fantastic toe,
Through mazes of the dance.
And Barton, Milo, Verio, Hill,
Their Yankee, Dutch engagements fill,
And kill despair outright;
Nor pen may paint each lively scene
The f ate and songs that intervene,
By artistes black and white.
And COCHRA.NE for thy good intent,
Thy rich domains in kindness lent,
Shoulds't thou long for joys unheard;
Maret though in their poss s ion find
The health of body, peace of mind,
With pleasure thou nast hdre conferred.
Ye patrons of our generous aim,
Who have responded to cur claim,
With presence and with means;
Long may you live its fruits to see,
From adverse fates misfortune free ,
In grateful minds esteem.
And may Forestery for ever thrive,
And may its scions ever strive

As stoCks mature before;
To augment the growth of the noble tree,
%Vim minds as noble, generous, free,
As Forestry of yore.
W. S.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-07-25

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY.

Mr. Plunket stated, in reply to Mr. Coope, that he
had come to the conclusion that the position of the in-
valuable pictures in the National Portrait Gallery was
unsatisfactory, and that the collection ought to be re•
moved at once to a place of greater safety. It bad,
therefore, been decided by the Trustees of the Gallery
to ask the Science and Art Department to rcceive the
pictures as a loan, and exhibit them at the Bethnal.
green Museum until suitable provision was made for
thcir reception.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-07-25

CHILD LABOUR IN FACTORIES:

According to the last report of the New Jersey In-
spector of Factories and Workshops, there were last
year 15,000 youths and children at work in 5000
factories in that State. The average age at which
they went to work was nine years. All of them had
been accustomed to work 10 hours a day, and many
of them even 14 hours. Those who had entered the
shops the earliest in life were the puniest and most
ignorant The weekly wages of the children did not
average 2 dole. The inspector remedied many of the
grievances, and sent a considerable number of the
children to day and night schools. -Upon investiga-
tion, the New York Bureau of Labour Statistics also
found a bad state of infant labour. In some mills
little children were kept at work under their drivers
11 hours per day all the year round; subterfuges were
adopted for employing very young children, and over-
seers were permitted to beat them with straps. Fathers
have been turned out of the mills because children
and women can be got to work more cheaply. The
superintendent of one factory said: "Families come
here from Ireland, and the girls are as healthy and
rosy-checked as you would ever see, and yet in two
years the girls would be in consumption, and half the
family would be gone in seven years. The Commis-
sioner reports that families cannot be supported
without the wages of the children, and that, even
thus aided, "a majority of families barely manage to
make both ends meet at the close of the year, while a
considerable number actually find themselves in debt."
The question of child labour and of pauper labour in
the United States a very pressing one, and is begin*
fling to secure serious attention.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-07-25

COMPRESSED AIR LOCUMOTION.

A meetini, of tramway directors aud engineers and
Municipal officials interested in street passenger traffic
took place on Sattr-day at the Inventions Exhibition,
to see the practical working there of one of the latest
examples of the road-cars of the- British Mokarski
Improved Air-Engine Company. . This car is one of
the attraltions of the South Yard of the Exhibition,
and regularly runs every few minutes with, full
freights, being charged at a local pumping station by
the side of the line. Some year or more ago a success-
ful run of the first car of this system was made on the
Caledcnian-road, between Holloway and King's-cross,
over a total length of two miles. The tramway at the
Exhibition it, of course, very much short of this, but
the exhibit there has the great advantage of allowing
the quiet and facile action of the air-engine to be well
observed, and nowhere could the new car be showy off
to more advantage. The air is compressed in six
cylinders, which are placed parallel with each other
under the car, and are sufficiently out of sight, at the
same time they form a protection against any one
falling under the vehicle. The new cat; in many
other ways is of superior design to its predecessors.
It has working apparatus at both ends, so that
no turn table is required, the driver and con-
ductor changing places at ends cf journeys as on
the ordinary horsed cars. The chief feature of dis-
tinctive novelty in the system is that the compressed
air, in passing from the cylinders which store it, goes
through a hot pot of nearly boiling water, which
means has the advantage of permitting the air to
take up heat, and not only causes it to expand and do
more work, but also prevents the formation of snow
in the cylinders and at the exhaust, whi:h is the case
when compressed air is used direct without warming.
The pressure in the air cylinders is 1201 b. at starting,
running down to 501 b. before recharging. The issue
of the air at a uniform working pressure is regulated
by a reducing valve on the air pipe. The car is con-
structed to carry 38 passengers, weighs about 61- tons
unloaded, and under favourable conditions, can accom-
plish a ten or twelve miles journey. Further cars for
the Holloway line are in courso of construction, and
some of these, it is expected, will be delivered and el
work within the next few weeks.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-07-25

ANOTHER VICTIM TO MOUNTAIN
CLIMBING.

Another fatal Alpine accident has just come to
light, the victim being Herr Richard Bomberger, the
young son of the well-known Vienna professor. Herr
Bamberger has been missing since last July, although
it was only on Saturday that his skeleton was found
in the ravine known as the Frauenbachgraben at the
foot of the Schneeberg, in the Styrian Alps, which,
with the Raxalp that faces it, is a favourite summer
resort of the Viennese. When young Bamberger
left home on July 13 of last year, it was
with the announced intention of ascending
the Raxalp, and when his absence had begun
to create alarm, that mountain was carefully
searched in the expectation of finding his body.
This proving fruitless, all sorts of idle surmises were
made as to what had become of him, until gradually
the matter faded from public memory. Two weeks
ago, however, it was revived by a skull and a few
other human bones being found in the ravine above
mentioned. These were at first thought to be the
remains of a Vienna manufacturer named Steinhauser,
who disappeared some ten years since, and has not
since been heard of. As the result of the discovery
in the Fraueubachgraben, a further search was made,
and this led to a number of other osseous remains
being picked up in other places, the skeleton having,
it is assumed, been broken up by the storms so
frequent in the district for many months of the year,
and scattered in all directions. In addition to the
bones, the searchers found the remains of a pair of
trousers, a pair of shoes, a ticket of member-
ship to a gymnastic society, some visiting cards, and
a few leaves from a notebook, all of which had be-
longed to Richard Bamberger. The notebook leaves
also explain how his body came to be discovered at the
foot of the Schneeberg. In a few jottings he states
his intention of ascending the Schneeberg, taking the
most dangerous route, instead of the Raxalp,and of
accomplishing the feat without the assistance of a
guide. How near he came to its accomplishment
there is nothing to indicate, but it is supposed, from
the circumstances in which tho remains were dis-
covered, that he must have lost his footing when at a
great height. This sad discovery, combined with the
exceptional number of other Alpine accidents that
have been recorded of late, may be expected to con-
siderably lessen the taste that has recently deve?.oped
among the Viennese for dangerous Alpine ascents.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-07-25

THE SEPJEAST AT AIMS.

'The Speaker having read a letter from Mr. Gossett
announcing his intention to resign the office of Ser-
jeant at Arms at the close of the present Session, on
the motion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer the
letter was ordered to be taken into consideration on
Thursday next, when tho right hon. gentleman will
propose a resolution on the subject.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-07-25

HALESOWEN.

BRUTAL ATTACK ON A POLICEMAN At the
Public Office on Tuesday, before Messrs. H. T.
Hickman and Job Garratt (magistrates), James
Groves, William Wilding, Henry Davis, Henry
Jones, and Joseph Jones, ironworkers, Old Hill,
e ere charged with violently assaulting Police-eon-
stable Barley. Mr. Shakespeare defended.—On
II day night, the sth inst, the defendants were
found at Hunnington creating a disturbance and
insulting several femares, and upon the officer
ordering them home they knocked him down and
kicked him, causing him to sustain some very bad
I injuries Upon Mr Green, a farmer, coming to the
officer's assi.!ance, the defendants ran away.—Mr.
Shak eneare submitted that the defendants were
n tt/11 1y of the ass ult.—The Bench considered it
a bad case, ant fined each if the defendants £3 6s,
or in default six wesks' imprnonment,—The fines
costs amounted at )zether tl £l6 10s.
CHARGE AGAIN T A PUBLICAN AND HIS WIFE.
A- the same Con t Samuel Albe-t Phillips, land—
lord of the Ne'son Inn, Haley Road, and his wife
a, aline Phi 1 ps, w 3 • summoned for being drunk
upon their own licsnsed premises —Police-sergeant
Rayboul I sated that on the 16th inst he went into
the Nelson Inn, and found both defendants drunk.
The furniture wa; disp:aced ard on the flo.)r were
broksn glases and crocks.—Mr Shakespeare, who
deee ided, deni,d that the defendants were drunk,
but st t3d that t ley were boih in a bad temper at
the time of the officer's --Mr. Hickman said
tha police had done their duty in bringing the case
before the Court. The ev.den, e was, however,
very conflicting, and the case would be dismissed.
—Mr. Shake peare said t at 111 . P. Mips had de-
terminel that his wife shuli live in a private
house.
CHARGE AGAINST A F J Langford,
farmer, was fin. d 103 an ; costs or fu i usly driving
a it( ye at Mu k!,,w H 11, and iil,o 2s 6i and costs
for eing drunk vr il tin charge of a h
CHARGE OF ASSAULT AGAINST A Pci C @MAN. --
Dennis Williams, a poli!e officer, eati n d at the
Quinton. was summoned for assaultinz John Wood,
gardener.—As a charge was to be preferred agains
Wood by the police, the case was adjourned for a
fortnight
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-07-25

SATURDAY, JULY 25, lBB5

ROWLEY REGIS.

Local. BOAItD - Mr, W. Bassano nresid-d. on
Monday night at the monthly meeting f this Board.
—Tao Finance Committee reported that the sur-
veyor's expenditure for the past month amounted
to .2177, and recommended that a cheque for £l5O
be granted to mect current expenditure. Mr.
Beaseley (the medical officer for No. 1 District) re—
ported that during the past month there had been
45 deaths, the death rate being 161 per thousand.
The deaths from zymotic diseases. were: Whooping
cough 2, diarrhoea 1, measles 1, and t)phoid fever 1.
All necessary steps had been taken to prevent the
further spread of infectious diseases.—Mr. Dedenne
reported that in No. 2 District there had been 27
deaths, the death-rate being 23.4 per thousand.—
The Inspector of Nuisances reported that 472 ash-
pits had been cleansed at a cost of £BO, or an a% er-
age cost of 38 4-id per ashpit over the whole area.—
On the motion of the Chairman, the report was
adopted.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-07-25

FATAL COLLISION WITH A TORPEDO
SHIP.

A collision attended with the loss of 13 lives oc-
curred about four a.m. on Tuesday morning off the
coast of Cornwall, between her Majesty's ship Hecla
and the Cheerful, with passengers and crew number-
ing about 50, owned by Messrs. Powell and Co.,
Liverpool. The sea was comparatively calm, with a
ground-swell, but there was a thick haze. According
to the statement of the officers of the Hecla, their
vessel was going half-speed and the Cheerful at full
speed, while those on board the Cheerful give "Pan
exactly opposite statement. The vessels were about
25 miles north-west of the Longships, and the Hecla
look-out observed the Cheerful about three minutes
before the collision. The vessels should have ported
their helms, but according to the Hecla the Cheerful
put her helm hard-a-starboard. The result was that
the Hecht ran into the Cheerful abreast the
funnel on the port side. The latter in-
stantly commenced to settle down, and in ,
four minutes disappeared, bow foremost. The
Hecla'a boats were immediately lowered, and
succeeded in rescuing the bulk of the Cheerful's
human freight, who were in the water. Mrs. Minnie
Holbrooke, wife of a medical man of London, died of
fright on board the Erecla, but her husband and son '
recovered. David Johns, aged 50, second mate, also
died on board, having been very much injured by
jumping on the wreckage in the water from the deck
with a life-buoy, and having been almost drowned.
Mrs. Conolly, the stewardess, went down with the
Cheerful, and among the lost were Daniel A. Harri-
son, jun., whose father was saved; the cook's mate,
Walter Long; Mr. Neil, passenger; Philip Bernard,
bank clerk, Liverpool; another bank clerk of Liver-
pool, Mr. Hartless ; a man and his wife, from Man-
chester; an old pensioner, of Falmouth; and Mr.
Stevens. The Hecla remained on the spot for two
hours, meanwhile stopping a rent in her port-bow
10ft. long, above and below the water-line. The
vessel then bore up for Plymouth, and landed the
passengers, the survivors of the crew remaining on
the Hecla. There was next to nothing saved from ,
the Cheerful, which lies in about 50 fathoms of
water.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-07-25

THE LARGEST

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LN THE MIDLAND COUNTIES;

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t ade lay with the wholesale and export), in addition
to which he is now prepared to meet the retail with
such a Stock that for quantity, q4ality, variety, style,
and extremely moderate prices, no other maker can
touch or even approach, there never being leas than
three to four thcusand to select from AT HIS
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-07-25

SUPPOSED SUICIDE OF A BOY,

A lad. named William James, fifteen years
of age, was found hanging by the neck,
quite dead, at a place called Hook-a-gate
Shrewsbury, yesterday morning. The lad
was found by his employer, Mr. Bromley
who at once cut him down, but life was ex-
tinct. It is feared he had committed suicide

ALLEGED RAILWAY ROBBERIES

AT SHREWSBURY.

At Shrewsbury Police Court yesterday,
Joseph Cotton, a clerk in the employ of the
London and North Western Railway Corn
pany, was charged with stealing some silver
watches, and also with being concerned with
Thomas Wood, porter, in stealing a number
of hats and watches. Ihe goods were
checked from Shrewsbury to Birmingham
on the 20th of June, and were afterwards
missed. On searching the residence of the
prisoners a number of the hats were dis
covered. The prisoners were remanded.

THE ROYAL WEDDING.
EBY TELEGR IPLI.j

A si ecial co respondent telegspl,ing f orn Os
borne this morning (Friday) says that the fettiNitiJ
in:connection with the Royal wedding were kept upt
until an early hour. The yatchs in the harbour
were illuminated on Thorsday night. Lord Salis-
bury left for London yesterday morning, travelling
by special steamer to Portsmouth, and other guest
will leave later in the day, the various Royal per-
sonages dispersing in various directions. The
royal carriage ani horses were returned to London
yesterday.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-07-25

NARROW ESCAPE FROM A
CARRIAGE ACCIDENT.

The Ewa Association Shanklit corresponden
telegraphs :—While on th, ir way on Thursday
afttrnoon from Osborne House to Qutirr Abbey
where they are to spend their honeymoon, the
Prince and Princess Henry of Bittenberg ha d
narrow escape of being seriously injured. art-]
pears that one of the leading horses of the!'
carriage fell and cut hi i kaees. The shock to ih
occupants of the vehicle was sevete, and the tw
leading horses had to be removeri from the carriage

THREATENING THE PRINCESS BEATRICE

Thcipolice have vrrested a man in Lcn-on en
charge of threat<ning the P.lnler Lem ice. Th
prisoner, who bet Aeen ski and CO yk as of age,
has been medical y examieed, but the doc or 3 have
not yet pr onouneed an opinion as to his b &Sit

MR. G. K. HARRISON AT BLACKHEATH.
On Tuesday night Mr. George King-Harrison, the
candidate in the Liberal interest for the Kingswin-
ford division of the county of Stafford, addressed a
Liberal ra 'E ting at Blackhealh, Rowley Regis.
Mr. B. Ilingley occupied the chair, and he was
supported by Messrs. J. shepherd. S Cave, B. Win-
wooi, G. Green, J. Green, J. Addison, E. Loge, and
%Valetta.
The Chairman said some months ago it was de-
cided to take steps to alter the representation of
that important division by displacing Mr. Staveley
Bill, and a short time ago it was decided to adopt
Mr. G. Ki g-Harrison as the Liberal candidate.
Mr. U. King-Harrison said he was a Liberal from
principle. and he had never seen any reason to
become a Conservative. He proceeded to state
that all reforms had been brought about by the
Liberals, :and contended that the Conservatives
only supported the extension of the franchise when
they were forced to do so by public opinion. In
dealing with the question of bad trade the candi—
date stated he was of opinion that the Royal Com-
missions suggested by the Conservatives would do
as much good as the making of a railway to the
moon. What he thought would improve trade was
the passing of an Act of Parliament which would be
the means of having Free Trade in the buying and
selling of land--(appause)—and in the event of his
being rAurned to Parliament he would support a
bill in favour of Free Trade in the buying and sell—
lag of land. He said he was in favour of an Afar-
, illation Bill, and in the event of his being returned
, to Parliament he would support all ineasures
which would be for the benefit of his constituents.
A resolution pledging the meeting to support the
candidature of Mr. U. King-Harrison was carried.
A resolutien expressing unabated confidence in
Mr. Gladstone and his late colleagues was carried.