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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-08-23

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PRICE ONE PENNY.

TRADESMEN'S ADDRESSES.

The Rev. John Sheward, of Milton, Kent, writes
October 29th, MIS :—"My nerves were so skattered that
I dreaded the simplest duties, and lost all energy and
pleasure in the performance of them. The despondency
I endured became almost unbearable. Sine, taking
COBDEN'S PILLS the change in my health for the
better is very marked. I have lost that horrible depres-
sion, my nerves are much stronger, and ay general
health very greatly improved. I cannot express bow
truly thankful I feel for the remarkable and pleasing
change. COBDEN'S QUININE AND PHOSPH 0-
.rtOUS PILLS give strength, energy, and vigorous
vitality to constitutions in any way enfeebled. Infallible
in Neuralgia.—Ask foi "Connares Pr.m.s," and have no
others, 2s. 9d. and 4s. Gd. Any Chemist will get tkele
if they are not in stock, or they will be sent Post Free
on receipt of 33 or 54 stamps (great saving), by Ike
Sussex Drug Co., 135, Queen's Road, Brighton, Agent
At Stourbridge, Mr. Burgess, Ckensiet, Market Street.

.

PUBLIC NOTICES.

STOURBRIDG IMPROVEMENT ACT
18C6,

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-08-23

THE NEW ACT ON " PUBLIC
PROSECUTIONS."

The Act passed in the recent session providing for
the prodecution of offences in England, to which the
Queen alluded in the Royal Speech, has been printed,
sad will come into operation on the Ist of January
next. The Secretary of State is empowered to appoint
an officer, to be called the "Director of Public Pro-
secutions," with a salary not exceeding £2,000 a year,
whose duty it will be, under the superintendence of the
Attorney General, to institute and carry on criminal
proceedings, and to give advice and assistance to offi-
cers and other persons respecting the conduct of the
same under regulations to be made.
There is to be an office established as "director,"
and other officers may be appointed; a barrister or
solicitor may be appointed. In the event of the
director abandoning a prosecution, the aggrieved party
may proceed.
The Attorney General may, with the approval of
the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State, make
"regulations" to
iiamcarryenottl. t the Act, and they are to
b
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-08-23

A VICTIM TO CHOLERA.

The Times' Obituary of Tuesday says :—" Among
the many officers who have fallen victims to cholera
in the ranks of the Afghanistan Expeditionary
Columns none will be more missed than Lieutenaat-
Colonel G. Nicholetts, Commandant of the 2nd
Beloochees. Entering the service in 1848, he was
attached to the Ist Bombay Fusiliers, now the
103 cl Regiment, and joined the Staff Corps on
its formation in February, 1861. Colonel Nicholetts
served with the Ist Scinde Horse in the Persian
War of 1857, receiving the medal and clasp, and was
present with the Punjab Moveable Column at the
action with the mutineers at Gungeeree on the 14th
December, 1857. He was at several minor affairs in
Rohilkund and on the banks of the Ganges in the
spring of the following year; at the attack of Ram-
pore Kussia, and throughout the operations which
led to the expulsion of the mutineers from 'Dade,
culminating in the battle of the Raptee on the 3 lst of
December, 1858. Colonel Nicholetts recently Corn-
mandel his regiment, the 2nd Beloachees, in the Afghan
War. The scourge of cholera, which has swept up our
three lines of advance, attacking troops as violently
when on their homeward march as when encamped in
the unhealthy Khyber Pass ~r Candahar Plain, had, at
the departure of the last mail from India, carried off
no fewer than 374 British officers and soldiers, the
mortality among the native troops being much heavier.
It has been most malignant in the ranks of the trans
port corps and regimental followers, our commissariat
train in the Candahar Colamn having lost over 200
men out of a strength of 400."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-08-23

LYE.

INQt7EST.—An. inquest on the body of the woman
Penn, who leaped down a water pit at Bott-lane, on
the 14th, inst., was held on Saturday last by Mr. M.
Corbet, and resulted in a verdict that the suicide was
committed whilst deceased was temporarily insane.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-08-23

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THE MARKETS.

MARK-L ANZ.-MOWDAY.
At Mark-lane to-day, the grain trade has ruled quiet. There
was a thin attendance, and the demand lacked activity. Eng-
lish wheat was scarce, and sold slowly, at about late rates. Of
foreign wheat there was an abundance. The inquiry was on
a limited scale, and the quotations realised were rather
lower than on Monday last. The supply of barley was
moderate. The trade was quiet, but steady„at previous
prices. Malt was disposed of on former terms. For oats
the trade was hardly so steady as on Friday, and business
was quiet. Maize changed hands quietly at about the late ad-
vance. Beans and peas with a moderate business were
steady in value. Flour was quiet on former terms.
METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.-MONDAY.
The cattle trade was in a state of inactivity.* Supplies
were not large, but were quite sufficient for the demand.
From our own grazing districts the receipts of beasts were
moderate, but there was again a scarcity of choice stork.
Business throughout progressed slowly. Prices were about
the same, but the tone was weak. The best Scots and
crosses found buyers at ss. 4d. to 53. 6d., but many good
animals-were disposed of at ss. per 81b. From the midland
and home counties we received about 1,650, from other parts
of England about 350, from Scotland 34, and from Ireland 2Cii)
bead. On the foreign side of the market there was a moderate
supply of beasts. About 60 American cattle were on offer, be-
sides some Danish and Swedish. The demand was inactive, on
former terms. In the sheep pens a fair supply of stock was on
offer. The trade was dull, and prices declined 2d. per 81b.
Lambs were quiet, at is. to 73. Bd. per 81b. Calves and pigs
changed hands on former terms. At Deptford were about
4,000 beasts and 6,000 sheep and lambs. Inferior beasts, 4s.
to 48. 6d.; second quality, 48. 6d. to Si. ; prime large oxen,
Os. 2d. to 5s 4d. ; prime Scots, ss. 4d. to 51. 6d.; inferior
sheep, is. to ss. 6d.; second quality, 51. 6d. to 6e.; prime
coarse woolled, 6s. 4d. to 6s. 6d. ; prime Southdowns, 6s. Bd.
to 6s. 10d. ; large coarse calves, ss. to ss. 4c1.; prime small
ditto, ss. 6d. to ss. 10d.; large bogs, 3s. Bd. to 45.; small
porters, 4s. to 48. ; lambs, 78. to 7s. Ed. per 810., sinking
the offal.

- METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET.—MONDAY.
Trade was dull this morning, and prices continued in
buyers' favour. The supply was moderate. Inferior beef,
is. Bd. to 3s. Bd. ; middling ditto, 4s. to 41 4d. ; prime large
dicto, 4s. 6d. to 54. ; prime small ditto, Sc. to ss. 4d. ; veal,
is. to is. 4d.: inferior mutton, Sc. to 45, ; middling ditto,
4s. to Si.; prime ditto, 63 4d. to 6s. ; large pork, Sc. 4d. to
3a 10d. ; small ditto, 4s. to 4s. 6d.; and lamb, 61. to 6s. Bd.
per Sib. by the carcass.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-08-23

THE BLIND.

A Congress, having for its object the improvement of
the condition of the blind, commenced its sittings in
Berlin on July 28, and continued for three days. These
periodical congresses were commenced in Germany at
thetime of the International Exhibition in Vienna. The
second was held two years ago at Dresden, and was
almost confined to representatives from Germany, Den-
mark, Belgiam, and Holland. The third, which has just
finished its sittings, was similarly attended. Germany
has for some years been awakening to the necessity
of discarding the old methods of education of the
blind and replacing them by the best yet discovered.
Foremost among the questions was that of the
printed or written character to be used by the blind,
and the congress which has just concluded its labours
in Berlin has decided that the system of writing and
printing by combination of raised points, first intro-
duced by Louis Braille in 1834, should be adopted in
Germany without modification. Another important
decision was that the practice of uniting the blind
and th deaf in the same institution was highly
objectionable. The Congress also recorded the
fact that in the experience of German institu-
tions ropemaking is one of the best trades there
practised by the blind. This brief abstract of the pro-
ceedings is translated from an account of the Congress
written by one of the blind members in Braille
characters in German and sent by him to Dr. Armitage
in London. It is a good instance of the advantage of
a universal written system.

THE BAROMETER OF NATIONAL
PROSPERITY.
The depression in the marriage-rate, that unerring
test of the material condition and prospects of the
people, was still more strongly marked during the first
quarter of this year than it had been in any ot the four
quarters of 1878. The annual marriage•rate in the
three months ending March last, did not exceed 116
per 1,000, and was 21 below the average rate in the
corr :,.sponding period of the 40 years-1838-77. So low
a marriage•rate has not prevailed in the first quarter
of any year since 1837, when the Act for civil registra-
tion of marriages, births, and deaths firAt rendered
these statistics possible. The nearest approach to so
low a marriage-rate in the first quarter of the year
was 125 in the first three months of 1841. As a
natural result the birth-rate in England and Wales
has fallen below the average. In the three months
ending June last the annual rate was equal to only
352, against 37'4, 365, and 369 in the corresponding
plriode of 1876, 1877, 1878; it was lower than in any
June quarter since 1869, and was 10 below the
average rate in the second quarter of the ten years
1869.78.—The Sanitary Record.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-08-23

DESTRUCTION OF A TOWN BY FIRE.

American advices to the sth inst. state that the
little Virginian town of Volcano was almost destroyed
by fira on the 4th inst. and its 2,000 inhabitants were
forced to seek shelter in the neighbouring mountains.
The town was situated in a valley between two lofty
hills and was without appliances to extinguish or
check a fire. The oil trade was the chief staple of the
place, and every thing was saturated with the most in-
flammable material. The flames broke out about
four in the morning, and spread with great
rapidity. They reached a number of tanks con-
taining large quantities of oil, which exploded
with a terrific noise and were thrown hundred of feet
feet in all directions. The oil ran through the streets
in blazing torrents, setting fire to everything in their
progress. As all the buildings were wood, they be-
came an easy prey to the fire, The roar of the con-
flagration is described as resembling that of the ocean
in a storm. Homes were deserted, and men, women,
and children rushed to a place of safety. The hotel,
several churches, the post and telegraph offices, and a
newspaper office were among the buildings destroyed.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-01

A. CLARK, 143, HIGH STREET, STOURBRIDGE,

Holloway's Ointment and Pins.—Autumn is prover
biallv the season of sickness: then the blood requires
purification, the digestion demands thorough and at-
tentive regulation, and all the secretions call for correc-
tion. Holloway's remedies supply all the necessaries for
—.suer
securing health ; the one overcomes cutaneous diseases.
—.lcle at a;1
sores, ulcerations, abscesses, carbuncles, and all visible
—.animates Standard
mperfectiona ; the other acts most potently in cleansing
...is good alike." List of
tbe circulation, strengthening the stomach, governing
....67 supplying Hornimans Tea.
the liver, regulating the bowels, and reducing the entire t:st.; Baker, 124, High-at.; Hewitt,
system to order. Thus these twin medicaments !untie,
Hill—
the most efficient medicine chest available for fair.'
—..y nee. Fislesowen, Adam, chemist; Lye, Jones, chemist;
~ 6o point out W . place; .orris, 186. High - st. Brierley Hill—
ordsley. Wheweil. chemist; Kiegswinford, P
lings, chemist ; Kidderminster, Hewitt, Bull Bing
It is easier, through Holloway s discovery '
the ren.edy than to describe the di..
no fallacy can intrude: into '' ...sae : into the former irire- verdozi
ttell Lane. Collins chemist; Birmingham, Banks,
invlassit Km. _xi thq ISO? prejudice may Bull Wag ; querrf BlLki Watts, abongst. .

HonmitAN's Tu.—This eelebrat3d Tea is to be
Ibtained in packets only, bearing the Importer's
iignature, tft the price printed on each; the cow.
-
can thus depend upon having the alma sb."
ileasons of the year, as Messrs. Fr-
'quality of excellence is "alw--
agents in this lace"
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-01

HOW FISH ARE BRED IN CHINA.

Mr. Frank Buckland, writing in Land and Water, says he
has discovered the following interesting note :

"The province of Siang-si possesses another trade,
less important and valuable doubtless than the china
manufactory, but worthy of remark on account of its
peculiarity, and the profits of which are not to be
despised. This province is very marshy, and abounds
in ponds; there is scarcely a cottager who cannot
boast of at least one close to his house, and these are
turned to account for the rearing of fish, which yield
annually a considerable revenue to their cultivators.
"During the last few years much attention has been
turned in France to the art of pisciculture, as it has
been called, and pains have been bestowed on the arti-
ficial production and rearing of fish. But, however
new to Europeans, this art, is very well known in
China. In Kiang-si it is practised after the following
fashion. In spring a number of men go round the
provinces selling spawn; their establishment consists
of a wheelbarrow loaded with barrels containing a
thick liquid, more like mud than anything else. It is
impossible to distinguish the smallest animalcula in it
with the naked eye. For a few sapecks you may buy
a bowlful of this mud, enough to sow a large pond.
It is merely thrown into the water, and in a few days
the young come forth. When they have attained
some size they are fed with tender vegetables,
chopped up and thrown into the water; the quantity
being augmented as they increase in size. The growth
of these fish is incredibly rapid; in a month at most
they are strong and active, and require abundant
nourishment. Morning and evening the proprietors
of the fish ponds ransack the fields for suitable plants,
which they carry home in enormous quantities. The
fish rise to the sarface, and throw themselves eagerly
on their food, which they devour speedily, keeping up
all the time a kind of murmuring noise like a number
of rabbits; their verocity can only be compared to
that of silkworms just before spinning their eocoon.
After being fed thus for about a fortnight they gene.
rally attain a weight of two or three pounds, after
which they grow no more; they are then taken out
and sold alive in the towns. The fish ponds of Kiang-si
contain only this one kind of fish, which is of
exquisite flavour. If there are any other sort at least
we never saw them, and we are also unaware whether
the spawn undergoes any preparation before it is
sold."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-01

SALES BY AUCTION

HAGLEY STOCK SALE
NEXT BALE MONDAY, NOVEMBER
At whish will be Sold a Superior BAY MARE, 15.3,
stx years old. An active COB MARE, 13.3. seven
years old, and a Well-bailt BROUGHAM HORSE, 16
hands, seven years old, the property, respectively, of
Lor Lyttclton, the Hon. end Revd. W. H. Lyttelton,
and Wan. Roburts, Esquire.

PERRENS, aLd WOOLDRIDGE.

HOLY CROSS. CLENT.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-01

MESSRS.
OATES, PERRENS, &WOOLDRIDGrE
have received instructious.from Mr. G. Ellia,..to

6;LL by Aucriox. on MOSDAY, NOVII:MBSR 3rd, 1 879,
at HoLY Cnoss, aforesaid, a quantity of HOUSEHOLD
IIJNITUJE, Butcher's Tools, Gears, Narrow-wheel
Cart, Spring Cart, Rick of flay, 20 Store Pigs, 2 Sows.
3 Draught Horses, Pony, Poultry, &a., &c.
Sale to commence at eleven o'clock.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-01

ZULU CURIOSITIES AND ARMS.

The Times of Monday says —"A small but interest-
ing specimens of Zulu and South African workman-
ship may now be seen at Messrs. Rowland Ward
and Co.'s, No. 166, Piccadilly, London. The first
thing to attract the attention of the visitor will pro-
bably be the armoury of weapons, including throwing,
stabbing, and skinning assegais brought from the
battle-fields of Ulundi and Ginghilova, a musket, and
a rifle recovered from the Inyazane River; but the
articles in domestic use among the Zulus will be found
not less interesting. The beadwork, the carved spoons,
the bowl simply but tastefully ornamented with
charred decorations, the double pipes, the snuff-boxes
made from the little nest of the trap door spider, the
bangles and bracelets curiously wrought out of odd
materials, the gourds containing the buck's marrow (an
invaluable salve for wouuds in the estimation of the
Zulus), the small carved headrests which serve for
pillows, and many things either ornamental or useful
produced by native ingenuity from castaway European
materials, all show a higher feeling for form and finish,
and even for colour, than could be expected from so
rude a people. There are besides many beautiful
trophies of the chase—horns pf the hartebeest, buffalo,
waterbock, steenbock, bontebock, springbock, &a.,
and some lion skins. In the collection are curiosities
brought home by Mr. R. D. Thornburgh Cropper, extra
aide-de-camp to General Sir Evelyn Wood; by
Viscount Down° ; and by Mr. N. Newnharn Davis, of
the Buffs."

The Memphis Board of Health deciarFa that,
frosty weather having now eet In, the yellow feverbeptdenat
is ended. Quarantine is therefore raised, and the refugees
are permitted to return. Few eases now are reported.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-01

A STRANGE DEATH.

MOW

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l''hedgeberries

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The death is announced at Heidelberg of Dr. Adolf
Sander, who wae formerly in large practico as a
physician in Elberfeld and its neighbourhood. One
morning in 1874, while dreading, he contrived in some
way to get a shirt button between his teeth. Uncon-
sciously, while laughing, the button slipped into the
back of his mouth, and thence into the larynx. All
the exertions of his surgical friends to remove it were
vain. It was ascertained that it sank into the right
lung, which soon became irritated. Spitting of blood
ensued, and he was himself looking forward to his
death as not very remote. Ile nremoved to a villa he
had near Ii rankfort-on.the.Main to peeks his last days
in quiet. Here he was surprised by a violent fit of
coughing, accompanied by spitting of blood, in a
paroxysm of which the button was ejected. His
health rapidly improved, and in a couple of months,
regarding himself as quite cured, he resumed his pro.
fessional work, and endeavoured to gather up the
threads of his former practice. But last year unmis.
talreab!e symptoms manifeattd themselves that the
lung had not fully recovered from the presence in its
substance of a foreign body for several months. He
spent the winter in the south of Europe, but returned
almost worse than he went. Ho gradually wasted
away, and sank a few days ago.

A boy, aged 13, residing with bli parents in
Arbroath, bat; died from eatiog a large quantity of unripe
puts. He was only a few hours
A sewing class nag lren established at Glossop for
the relief of the unemployed operatives there. Nearly £l,OOO
has been subscribed for relief purposes.

On Monday a boy, aged seven years, son of a col-
lier, residing pear Barnsley, died from eating a qiiantity of
.hedgeberries on ,Sattirday lest, -after great suffering. The
deceascd became 11l on Sunday, when a doctor attended
him, and attbougti every attention WU paid, and deceased
vomitted, death ensued.

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THE 'GROWTH OF ARMAMENTS IN

EUROPE.
At the meeting of the Liverpool and North Wales 013.
trict meeting of the "United Methodist Free Churches held
at Crewe, the following resolution was unanimously
passed :
" That the recent declaration of the Eight Hon. the
Marquis cf Salisbury, KG., attributing some of the
evils under which the country ha 3 been suffering to
the growth of armaments and the increasing burdens
their maintenance has entailed upon the peoples of
cEurope, is, in me opinion of this meeting, an urgent
call tor negotiations for a mutual diminution of their
; armaments by 'the jZorooean Powers. That this
• LE.Wiug 431,Wther...ct opiafon that attahmegotiationg
• Sh4oldt.,),*, frnt.flate -tiy,phq Alit,4l4,gloyprament, and
'copy. ,of.:this4.l4isloliftroid ' 191 . sent to ..Mr.
:Remy. Ricnard,! M.P., in the hope that he will carry
out his publicly expressed intention to introduce into
the Home of Commons next -,session, a resolution
bearing upon the subject."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-01

A ROYAL CONSERVATORY.

Probably the largest prh ate conservatory in the
world is that just completed for the King of Holland
In the Schloss-Park. adjoining his favourite country
residence (says the Daily Telegraph.) Its dimensions
are, indeed, enormous, for it contains above forty-six
thousand cubic yards of space, while its glass dome is
ninety feet in height and one hundred and eighty in
diameter. This imposing cupola is flanked by two lofty
towers, resembling Turkish minarets in shaps, which
give an Oriental character to the whole structure. The
hot-water pipes laid down for the heating of the
gigantic greenhouse are no lees than fifteen thousand
feet long. Among the tropical plants which
have been purchased by his Majesty for the adorn-
ment of his new conservatory are two huge palm-
trees,.which arrived at the Schloss in the early part of
last week from the Royal forcing-houses at Enghein.
Twenty-one horses were harnessed to the platform on
wheels whereon reposed the smaller of these magnifi-
cent trees, the trunk of which measures forty feet in
length, and its crown of fronds twenty-four feet in
diameter. Tlittetree weighs two tons and a half, while
its companion, a much larger specimen of the date
palm, sixty feet in height, weighs nearly a ton more.
They have been planted under the very centre of the
great dome, where there is plenty of room for them to
grew as fast as they please for the next half-century.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-01

HOP.

The hop market is quiet andrashteosw hatreesom effect ew
of
hatwtant-
seittvlebde• dlieusguißrltd a
ebs lss u v
baegipouieDrg to
-inflated condition of affairs,
alne-d though no very great fall can be expected, the sale for
all but the very finest grades must appreciably fall off.
Foreign markets remain tirm for the better class of hops.
T are the quotations :—East Kent, choice, £l4
to £l6 los.; Mid Kent, choice, £l2 10s. to £l6 16s. • ditto,
second w o
qualities, £8 to £10; Weald of Kent, £9 9s. to £l4;
Sussex, £9 53. to £l2; ditto inferior and diseased, £3 5.. to
£7 75.; Bavarian. £9 10a. to £l2' Poperinge, £5 10s to £6 65.;
Alost, £5 Os. to £5 155.; A.merican, £ll to £l3.

top ; German r.edi and. Belgian lidneY°* 611' tr° per bag.
" POTATO.
With vole auppliee of foreign potatoes, trade continues
sies.dy,-at prevlou* rates :—Scotch regents. 130 s. to 1505,;
ditto champtoiat, 1395. to 1501. ; Victortas, 120 s. to Ms. per
• .
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-01

WILLIAM GREEN,

54, HIGH STREET,
STOURBRIDGE.

DEALER IN PAPER HANGINGS,

EXPERIENCED PAPER-HANGERS EMPLOYED.

PAINTS CAREFULLY MIXED FOR USE.

VARNISHES FOR ALL PURPOSES.

WHITING, SIZE, AND DRY COLOURS.

OILS, TURPENTINE, AND

TEREBINE.

WRITE LEAD, and DRYERS.
SIIEET LEAD, BRASS TAPS 4, PIPES.

Pumps, CLOSETS, BASINS,

AND TRAPS.

SHEET GLASS, GAS MOONS, AND
SHADES.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-01

WIIIiIIM GfigNit

54, HIGH STREET,
STOURBRIDGE.

TAPE WORMS and STOMACH WORMS—
WATSON'S Warranted Specific has effected
uundreas of permament cures of these distressing dis-
orders, where every other remedy has failed. It does
not require continuing; a single bottle being sufficient
to cure. Its action is mid, but thorough, and the most
delieate need not fear taking it. Price 2e. 9d. or sate by
poet for 26 stamps. Watson's Specific Powders for
THRRADWORMS are an effectual remedy for the
tormentors. No. 1. (Adults). No 2. (Children's) Price
ls. lid. or by post for 15 stamps. Circulars post free.
Address :—Watson A.P.S., Shipley, Yorke, or =V
Cherailt will get it for you. •

i REGISTERED FOR 1
i TRANSMISSION ABROAD. )

PAGE WOODCOCK'S WIND PILLS have fo
tweety-Ave years held the Ant place in the world as Cu
*tutui antidote to Iniigeston. Wind on the fitcumeeh,
Biliousness, and all complaints arising from a disordered
state of the Stereaeh, Bowels, or Liver. Tonic, invigor
ating and parifying they tong the best remedy extant
Of all Chemists, is lid and 2s 9d per box.,or it PAGE
D. WOODCOCK, CalTert 4000i,Norwioloor Amp,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-01

PREJUDICES OF THE KITCHEN.

The Observer remarks Nowhere is there greater
ignorance, obstinacy, and prejudice than in the
kitchen. Nowhere do people make such slight pro-
gress, or derive so little profit from experience. The
knowledge of the parlour regarding culinary matters
is not much greater than that of the kitchen, yet
economy, health, and pleasure alike depend on some
idea of what to eat, drink, and avoid, and how food
should be prepared. Some very interesting and valu-
able information is being afforded by Mr. Ernest Hart
in a series of articles being published in the British
Medical Journal. This week this philosopher of the
kitchen discourses on soups, hominy porridges, the
economy of fuel, butter and mint sauces, river fish, cold
sauces, and ni6nus in general. Soup, as a commence-
ment of dinner, is often spoken of as being unwhole-
some, in that it injures the digestion and overloads
the stomach. This, it appears, is an error. In order
that the stomach, exhausted by previous digestion,
should recover the power of furnishing a complete
gastric juice capable of transforming albuminoids, it
is necessary that it should first absorb certain aliments
which are changed into pepsine in the peptic glands.
Now the substance which contains the greatest pepto-
genic power is clear soup. Mr. Hart condemns in the
strongest terms the sauce which is served up under the
name of melted butter,' which is a compound of flour
and water, with a little butter or milk added to it.
He says melted butter should consist of simply butter
melted, with a little salt added to it. Mr. Hart
discourses with equal force, clearness, and wisdom on
the other subjects above mentioned by us;_ but our
readers had better study the topic at first hand."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-01

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TRADESIEN'S ADDRESS.

BILIOUS and Liver Complaints, indigestion
Headache. Lose of Appetite, Drowsiness, Gid-
ess, Spasms, and all Disorders of the Stomach and
-I)wels are quickly removed by that well-known remedy
Olt kAIPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH. They nhite the
ree':•=2.lnaution mill operation with the myLt snc•
cesa!ul effeot ; anti wiacre au apeziont ia required nothing
can be better.
Bold by allghosiott, at Ai. ed.iper bo
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-01

CR ‘DLEY HEATH

OPENING Or TILE INSTITUTE.-011 Monday even-
ing lest. the opening of the Cradley Heath Instituto
was Inaugurated in the presence of a large number of
persons by J. P Hunt, Esq. There was a very good
atten,hince of the 4.lergy and influential gentlemen
of the.,tis7riet. Tle institute, which is situated in
Grainger's La le, 'Mar.'', consists of reading
ro,voJibrary, and meeting room, with additional
ace .turnodaeen for science classes. Provision has
been wade for the delivery of a course of lectures,
one of the c: let objects of the institute being the
diffusion of knowledge in scientific subjec's. Mr.
W. P. Straws .n i appointed president. Alter it
had been dee'a, e open a meeting was held in the
Grainger's La..e 6altool Ro m. The chair was
taken at 7.3 P. by I. P. Hunt, Esq. The speakers,
who were Mr. Harrison, Dr. Wins, pirmingham)
D.. Bet and th. R-v. G. J. Taylor of Cra,dley Heath,
said that the Institute was greatly needed in Crwiley
'Path and they hoped it would be highly appreci.
al by :ill ..13.. s 100 n .t. 14 0• pre:,s.• taupe that
'afore long they t•horali hav a proper bui ding for
that purple ereetvd on the five Way'.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-01

!ANE BOX of CLARKE'S B 41 Bill i 8
warrranted to cure alldircharges from the Urinary
Organs, in either s, x, acquired or constitutional, Gravel
and Pains in the Bsck.—iold in boxes, 4s sa each, by
all Chemists sod Po!out Medicine Vendors ; or Bert to
any address for 60 Stamps by ttt.3 Makci, J.
Consulting Chetni.t, Apothecaries' Hall, Lincoln.—
Wholesale Agents, BARCLAY & SoF, London, and all the
VOWS
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-01

A LAND OF PROMISE.

The following account of North-West American
whestraising power, as given by the Chicago Tribune,
will convey some adequate idea of the extent, even
after deducting a fair amount for patriotic exaggera-
tion. The observations are confined to one farm—an
immense one certainly—upon the Northern Pacific
Railway, extending over twenty square miles, only
bounded by the horizon. Over the whole expanse 115
self-binding reaping machines are at work, each sup-
plying the place of six men, and superintended by the
mounted officers of this strange army of industry.
This year the wheat crop of Oregon is estimated at
ten millions of bushels, and that State and its neigh-
bour, Washington Territory, have an area of
106,000,000 acres, much of it prairie land, with yards
deep of rich virgin mould. The western portion of the
great Republic is as rich below as on the surface. Its
stones are iron, and you may dig copper, if not brass,
out of its hills. The brass is, perhaps, to be
sought elsewhere. The attractions of gold mining, too,
are likely to draw emigrants for some years to come,
but latterly silver has apparently been in greater
request. Many possessors of small holdings have been
made rich by the unexpected discovery of petroleum
springs, and not very long ago a productive silver lode
was opene I at the very threshold of a farmer, who is
now working more contentedly under than he hereto-
fore did above ground. A noticeable feature in Amer-
ican agriculture is the all but universal use of reapers
and other labour-saving implements. While the
former cut down, the portable steam machinery
threshes and cleans the grain. It is then taken to the
place of export by rail, or in barges towed by steam-
tugs, and transferred from them to the granaries or
ocean ships by means of elevators, at the rate of two
or three thousand bushels an hour, being weighed in
the process automatically by Fairbank's standard
scales. By means of these elevators up wards of two-
and-a•half million bushels have been shipped in one
week from New York. —Land and Water.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-01

TRADESMENS ADDRESSESI

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BUILDERS, PAINTERS, AND PAPER.

HANGERS.

Dealers in Drain Pipes, Chimney Pots, Cements

Plaster o Peels, Cow Hair. &e.

ALL KINDS OF JOBBING WORK ATTENDED TO.

Address:-
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-01

AGRICULTURAL DEPRESSION.

The Earl of Stradbroke, Writing to Mr. it. L. Everett, the
hon. secretary of the East Suffolk Chrfniber of Agriculture,
says
"The real grievance is this—the landed intend is
subject to the everincreasing amount of foreign corn
and cattle fntroduced duty free, to the detriment of
landowners and their ttnants, and as the majority of
people in England are adveNe to any protective duty
one relief only remains—viz., that ths- land should be
taxed exactly in the same proportion as all ether de-
scription of properties. Heavy taxation on land rrlie
just when landowners enjoyed reasonable protection,
but if free imports are to be permanent, then equal
taxation becomes imperative." Following up this tone
of atgument the Earl asks five questions—viz, 1. Why
are poor-rates letried cnly
,en the owners and cyienpiers
of land and houses? 2. 'Why Is the Church of England
supported only by the land? 3. Vary im the great cost
of education borne more by the land than by ether
property? 4. Why are church rates, highway rates,
and many other taxes thrown on the land? 5. Why
is the land made to bear a heavy land-tax?
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-01

HEROISM AT ISANDULA.

The Natal" Witness has been informed on trust-
worthy authority 'that an induna who was present at
the slaughter at Imandula has given a minute de-
scription of the deaths of two officers, believed to be
the late Lieutenants Pope and Austin, of the 24th.
The Zulu says that when surrounding the 24th at the
neck at Isandula two officers with pieces of glass
in their eye came forward, shooting at him with
their revolvers. One fell dead from a gunshot, and
the other kept firing his revolver at the induna, a
bullet grazing the right side of his neck, another
grazing the left !Ado, and another entering
his leg. The indnna then flung an assegai,
which entered the officer's breast. The officer, with a
supreme effort, almost succeeded in pulling out the
weapon (here the Zulu writhed his body in pantomime
of the movements of the officer), but the indnna fell on
him and instantaneously finished his dreadful work
with another assegai. As, on looking through the list
of officers killed, we find that none constantly and con.
spicuonsly wore eyeglasses but Lieutenants Pope and
Austin, we most probably have here some clue to the
death of two of the gallant fellows who so nobly laid
down their lives "for Queen and country " on the 22nd
of January last.—Globe.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-01

A FATAL FIRE. .

The Geneva Correspondent of The Times writes,
under date October 25 :—" The Patriote, a paper pub-
lished in Neuchatel, describes a terrible scene that oc-
curred at a fire in Coffrane on Thursday morning last,
when the Hotel de la Couronne was burnt to the
ground. The hotel was connected with some farm
buildings, in which a large quantity of bay and straw
was stored. Here the fire seems to have commenced,
for at one a.m., only an hour after the closing of the
house, and before the inmates had the slightest sus-
picion of the danger with which they were threatened,
the entire block of buildings was in a blaze. All ordi-
nary means of exit were cut off, and visitors and ser-
vants appeared at the windows imploring the people
who surrounded the house to save them. There
was, fortunately, a large garden at the back,
the soil was soft, and many jumped into it
from the second and third stories. A woman,
in an advanced state of pregnancy, threw three
of her children into the garden and then,
taking the youngest in her arms, leaped after them.
None of the children were hurt and the mother re-
ceived only a trifling injury. Two men jumped at the
same time from the same window; one fell on the
other, and the undermost sustained a compound frac-
ture of the leg. A few minute, afterwards a youth of
seventeen, whose parents lived at Neuchatel, appeared
at another window of the same story—the third—and
prayed gitifully for help, but the flames were bursting
with such violence from the lower windows that
ladders were useless, and in obedience to the behests of
the spectators he disposed himself to jump. Just
then a tongue of fire struck him full in the face, and
be fell back in the room and perished. A little boy of
eight years was also burnt to death.
In little more than an hour from the outbreak of the
fire, the HOtel de la Couronne was utterly consumed,
and it required the utmost efforts of the firemen to
save the adjacent buildings from destruction."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-01

THE LARGEST OAK IN BRITAIN.

7'he Times of Wednesday published the following
letter :
- - --

_
Sir,—ln answer to the inquiry which you kindly
allowed me to make upon this subject I have re-
ceived notices and descriptions of several very fine
oaks.
Of these, the Cowthorpe oak, Yorkshire, seems to
be regarded by many of my correspondents as the
largest oak in Britain. Its measurements, as furnished
to me by the Rector of Cowthorpe, are—at the ground,
55ft. Gin.; 51t. above the ground, 33ft, 4iin. Those
of the Newland oak are—at the ground, 46tt., and sft,
from the ground its girth is 47ft. 61n.
Opinions may differ as to which of these fine trees is
the larget, but I submit that a tree which measures
47ft. 61n. at a height of slt, from the ground is a
larger tree than one which measures even 561 t. close
to the ground, where it is unavoidable to take the roots
or some part of them into the measurement.
It may interest your readers to know that the New-
land oak, which from the above measurement seems to
be the largest in the country, is mentioned in Domes-
day Book as a large tree in the new lands at that
time cleared. This, allowing, for the slow growth of
oaks, will give it an age probably not inferior to its
Yorkshire or any other competitor.—l am, yours
obediently, BASIL EDWARDS.
Blaisdon Rectory, Glocester, Oct. 27.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-01

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

A gentleman writing from Terse says :—" It in
singular that lawyers in this State do not attempt to bully
witnesses as they do in other localities. I'm told that lin)
reason of it is that a Texan witness would just as soon
shooting from a witness-box as anywhere else."

Joah BiHinge ha a communicated the following rum
paragraphs to the Chicago News :—Lightning is erratic. It
killed thirteen sheep grouped round a barn in Ohio, ar.d
never thought of mtddilug with two tramps who wen Inside
on the hay.

A lady in Indianapolis, if v.o may trust the Hcrald
of that city, keeps her portrait up with the times by sending
is every Fall and Sprinz to the artist who painted it for
repairs in the drapery. Vila,n she gets a new dress that she
approves of, the same class Is put on the portrait. A new
necklace and earrings receive the same distinction. By this
means the portrait Is always in the top of the style.

It was in a Now York theatre, the opera waa Faust,
and as—and his adored gazed upon the apotheosis, ai the.
-angels carry Marguerite into Heaven, he murinured,
" Beautiful I beautiful here the soul clothed in all
purity is wafted to eternity to sweet strains of angelic
music." "Yea, Gus," she replied, dreamily •, "but I rather
think if that grappling was to give way and dump her on the.
stage, it would kind of churn her up some." • '
The San Francisco Chronicle saps :---" A custom's
°Hiner engaged in diLcharging the City of Tokio rejoices in
the acquisition of Grant's autograph on a wine card presented
,to him by oue of the officers of the. steamer. . This ,pard..tee
Proposes ttitireasnre up and hand down as a liskrlbOth to
posterity.. It reads as follows; and definitelT iektleal.the'„
question What kind of 'wine General .Grant drinks :=—*
Steamship City of Tokio-wine -card. Parson—Grant..at
_rooni—Ono. Kind or wire— COogress wistett'"-
Among the items ol Danish progr• es!i one of the
most remarkable is the rapid Increase ot tier slipping, and
ParlicararlY In the building ot steamers. '

1 toott
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-01

AN INTERESTING PHENOMENON.

The Vienna Correspondent of The Times says :—" A
short time ago, it may be remembered, the country of
the Lower Danube, from Belgrade to Drenkova, was
visited by an earthquake. The two short shocks then
felt passed away without inflicting much damage.
Now, however, information reaches us of an interest-
ing phenomenon to which the earthquake has given
rise. Just above the entrance to the mountain defile,
extending down to Orsova, is the large island of
Moldova. The earthquake had torn up the soil on one
spot on this island, and out of the rent thus created a
high and powerful column of water was ejected, partly
inundating the island and raising apprehensions of a
total inundation of that fertile and well-cultivated
piece of land. On Saturday, the 18th inst., however,
suddenly, the gigantic fountain ceased throwing up
water, leaving to view a number of crater-like depres-
sions vomitting up sand and earth. All over the is-
land, too, a constant movement is felt. A commission
accompanied by engineers has inspected the spot, but,
as yet, only conjectures can be formed as to the ulti-
mate result, Some see a volcano in course of forma-
tion ; others anticipate a total submersion of the island.
The late earthquake has destroyed the ruins of the
old castle of Colubay (Doves' Nests, perched on a high
solitary sock on the Servian side close to the entrance
of the Danube defile, thus effacing a most picturesque
object in the scenery, with all the copious legendary
lore attached to the place."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-11-01

A NEW VIEW OF CREMATION.

A. lecture with this title was recently given in
London by Mr. Armytage Baker. The lecturer
(whose address was the third of a series of lectures
and entertainments) observed that he had to ask
their attention not to the birth but to the sepulture of
man. It had been said that the whole world was
covered with memorials of the dead. The earliest re.
mains told of burial and not of cremation. In the
earliest days of Europe burial was unknown, and fire
was known also. When they entered the age of bronze
fire was used to fuse the metals for the use of man. He
was willing to take cremation from the bronze age, but
when was that? Was it not beyond the age of history and
tradition? Then they came to the iron are, with
which might be associated the name of Nineveh,
though he might say, by way of parenthesis, that he
could not but think that this was the real iron age.
What was the origin of cremation? He held that it
arose from the highest religious reverence, and gave a
culminating expression to a living faith. Neither sun
worship nor star worship came to be thought sufficient.
Sir Henry Lvard thought that the Persians owed
their idea of fire worship to the Assyrians. It might
be said that cremation sprang out of fire worship,
though fire wordhip did not always carry with it ere.
mation. In Persia they neither burned nor buried
their dead, but they placed them in high places where
they were exposed to the ravages of birds of prey.
The oldest religions showed the highest reverence for
the dead. He would connect cremation not only with
reverence but with religion ; showing marvellous
übiquity, the religion which found its visible
expression in fire. Cremation was at one time
thought the highest honour to the dead. Why
was cremation net practised by Christians? Simy
because it was a Pagan practice. The cemetWes
which had been extra. mural were now becoming i Ara-
mural. Every one of them was a centre of disease,
nd might prepare the ground for epidemic. At
least, let a commission be issued. People were apt to
think that this was a new question. Sir Henry
Thompson had raised the question a few years ago,
but it had been raised long before by Sir Thomas
Browne. He believed this was a pressing quzation,
affecting the health of every one. He did not regard
this as an economic question, but the process was not
expensive. There was no prohibition in Scripture
against cremation. If it were said that cremation was
contrary to the idea of the Resurrection, he would say
that burial did not preserve the human form, and he
thought the objection was utterly worthless. The
ashes of the dead might be again gathered into the
churches. In some European countries the process of
cremation was going on. What was the differenco be-
tween burial and cremation.? The one was long and
dangerous, while the other was quick and safe.
A vote of thank, was passed to the lecturer by ac-
clamation, and it was briefly acknowledged by him.