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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-03-25

PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY,

CHIEF OFFICES: 62, LUDGATE HILL, LONDON.
SUMMARY OF THE
Twenty-Seventh Annual Report,

, For the Year ending 31st December, 1875.
ORDINARY BRANCH.

Duritig the year the Directors have received 3,429
Proposals for the slim of £451,235. Of these 2,675 have
been accepted and completed, assuring the sum of
x2lQ,2e-i. .'nd Droducirca Nnw Annn.l
come of £11,5b7 11s id; 754 Proposals for Assurances of
£102,871, have either been declined or not completed.
'1 he sum of £1,•288 lss 8d has been received for New
Annuities granted.
The Claims amount to £49,501 15s 4d, under 337
Policies ; £977 16 of this amount was for claims on En-
dowments matured. :the number of deaths was 305.

Twelve Annuitants have died during the year.
The Annual Premium Income at the end of the year
is £76,355 7s Bd' in respect of 15,889 Policies, assuring
the sum,of £2,360,180, showing an increase Jf £4,508
2s 81 per annum over the year 1874.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-03-25

WORK IN THE ,DOCKYARDS.

The programme of the Government of works to be
done in her Majesey's dockyards during the ensuing
year, as proyided for in the Navy Estimates, has been
issued. From this it appears that the work to be done
in dockyards on eight ironclads is 8 037 tons; on eight
corvettes, 2,555 tons; on 10 sloops, 1,375 tons; on two
despatch vessels, 1,290 tons; and six gunboats 240
tons ; total on 34 vessels, 13,497 tons, to be built during
1876-77, in dockyards. The work to be done by con-
tract on ironclads, is 3,356 tons; and on 41 unarmed
vessels, it is 6,909 tons, total, 10,265 tons, to be built
during. the year; making a grand total of 23,762 tons.
The numbers of men to be employed on ships building,
and for completing new ships afloat for sea service,
will be 5,691, as against 5,194 last year; and upon re-
pairs and refits (including new boilers) of ships for re-
liefs and for first reserve; on casual repairs and main-
tenance of ships in commission, gunnery, and training
ships, tugs, yard craft, hulks, and ioutingencies, and
on yard manufactures and on yard and harbour ser-
vices 10,309, as compared with 10,09 in the expiring
fitranci-A year. The tonnage given in this programme)
is the weight of hull complete. A ship's state of ad-
vancement in huil,iing is measured in the following
manner :—Each man is assumed to add to the ship,
for every day's work, an equal amount of tonnage,
whether at the commencement or the completion ; in
other words, for every pound spent in labour there will
be a certain fraction of tonnage added to the ship.
This friction is arrived at by dividing the weight of
hull in tons by the total cost of hull in pounds. The
tonnage corresponding to the expenditure of a certain
sum of money for labour will not necessarily have any
reference to the s% eight of materials worked into the
hull when that sum is expended.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-03-25

GOSTLING'S PIG POWDERS.

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doing of
growing of all ages. They act as a preventive of Milk Fever
Pigs, greatly facilitate the fattening of Pigs. and are
moat efficacious in Foot and Mouth Disease, kc., &c. Sold in Packets of 5 for is, oc 15 for 2a. 6d, of all
Uosierfagelt, in
pral oingaoostei every ryhe aisaluitheltdowf
Druggists.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-03-25

' CLARKE'S I

WORLD FAMED ,
[BLOOD MIXTURE.

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Pustules, 'Boils. Carbuncles, Ringworms. Sca:d
Heads, sore Eyes. Erysipelas, Itch. Semis,
Disc,,lorations of the Skin, Humours and
Diseases of the Skin of whatever name or
nature, are literally carried out of the system
in a short time by the use of this world-iamed
Medicine.
TROUSANDS OF TESTIMONIALS FROM ALL PARTS.
IMPORTANT ADVICE TO ALL.—Cleanse
the vitiated blood whenever you find its im-
purities bursting through the akin in pimples,
ruptions, or sores ; cleanse it when you find
it obstructed and sluggish in the veins ; cleanse
it when it is foul, and your feelings will tell
You when. Keep the blood pure, and the
health of the system will follow.
As this mixture is pleasant to the taste, and
warranted free from anything injurious to the
most delicate constitution of either sex, the
Proprietors solicits sutlorers to give it a trial
to test its value
CLARKE'S WORLD -FAMED, BLOOD
MIXTURE is Sold in Bottles 2s 6d each, and in
"411. containing six times the quantity, lls each—
malleient to effect a permanent cure in the great
bilk‘jority of long-standieg eases, by all Chemists and
/*tent Medicine Vendors thryughout the United King-
and the world, or sent to any address on receipt
Of 80 or 132 stamps, by the Proprictor,
F. J. CLARK E,CREMIST, Apothecaries' Hall,Lincoln.
'Agent for Stourbridge : Mr. J. H. Bland, High-street.
Wholesale: All Patent Medicine Houses.
LONDON DEPOT: 150 OXFORD STREET
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-03-25

HOMEWARD BOUND. ,

• The Field remarks—" Perhaps to the Prince of
Wales hioiself the plea:antest part of his trip to India
an.e at its close, when, freed from the state and cere-
mony which were unavoidable elsewhere, no was ena-
bled to gratify his sporting tastes to his heart's content
in the ev.endid hunting grounds of the Terai. Some
sell.intentioned but not very wise people will, we dare
say cry out alatinst proceedings chiefly notable for the
aumbers of wild animals bagged by the Prince and his
•3ompanions ; but we do not think their feelings will
w shared by the mass of their countrymen. - The de.
,tructiou of human life by wild animals in India is
shown by statistics to be very great, and it is a matter
•)f necessity, wholly apart from the question of sport,
to keep such creatures from multiplying. Under such
circumstances, to condemn tiger hunting, for instance,
a gratuitous folly. We do not hesitate to say that a
very general sense of disappointment would have been
evinced in this country if the Prince had not had an
opportunity of distinguishing himself in a sport which
is not wanting in utility, is by no means free from
danger, and which requires in him who follows it
qualities on which all Knglfshmen pride themselves—
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-03-25

AMERICAN HUMOUR.

Josh Billings says, " Tew enjoy a good reputashun,
giv publicly and steal privately."
A down-east Yankee has invented a machine for
grating people's feelings.
New York ladies are now wearing belts with steel
points projecting at intervals so as to prevent an3body
stealing their arms around the waist.

-
A kind-hearted gentleman in Milwaukee recently
gave an indigent family three dollars,-and the same evening
he met them all returning from a circus on exhibition in the
town, when the head of the family had the impudence to ask
him for money to buy something for breakmat.

A Weetern stump-orator, in the course of one of his
speeches, remarked, "Gentleman, if the Parsyfic Ocean wor
an inkstand, and the hull clouded canopy of heaven and the
level ground of our yearth wor a sheet of paper, I couldn't
begin to write my love of
_country on to it."

"It seems to me I have seen your physiognomy
somewhere before," said a New York swell to a stranger
whom he met the other day; " but I cannot imagine where."
—" Very likely," replied the other; "I have been the keeper
of a prison for the last twenty years."
" Yas.e, stranger," said a Missouri steam-boat
captain, "George Wasaingtan was pnrty great an' high, an'
the father uv his country, an' fast in peace an war an' other
things ; but he'd been nowhar in racin' any boat he ever
owned with this Yere scudder, the River Queen, on whose
quiverin' deck you now stand."

A Danbury man has succeeded after months of
thorough study and patient experimenting, in perfecting a
machine for coonting the number of eggs a hen lays. This
contrivance is fastened to the hen, and when she lass an egg
it strikes a figure on a slip of paper. The instrument oosts
about 1,700 dollars for each hen.

A young lady asks: "Is it proper for a gentleman
to put his arm around a young lady's waist when taking her
out for a ride, they not being engaged ? " That depends
altogether on the kind of horse he is driving. If it be hard
on tt., e bit he had better hold the reins with both hands. A.
gentle horse is always the best for a drive with s. lady, how-
ever.

The bridesmaids at a recent wedding in Georgia are
thus described by a local paper :—" It is no idle compliment to
say that they are like three Graces, their faces mirroring back
the purity and softness of the skies, their eyes floating in a
light of dewy tenderness, or throwing radiant flashes from
the inner shrines of thought, like jewel-tinted sparkles caught
from broken rainbows."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-03-25

TO THE NERNTUS AND DEBILITATED
Read the New Work entitled

HOW TO ENSURE HEALTH

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ir Dn. BAIINEr. .vi . I) , (U.S.)
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in the Back and Limbs, Timidity, Self-Distrust, Dizzi-
ness, Love of Solitude, Liroundless Fears, and many
other ailments, which, if neglected, bring the sufferers
to an early Death; together with Hints on Chroni
Rheumatism, Gout, Neuralgia, Epilepsy, Hysteria, an
all diseases of the Nervous and alimentary system.
The Appendix to this valuable work contains many
useful PRESCRIPTIONS for the alleviation of suffering
and the cure of minor disorders, with full instructions
for their preparation and use.
Contains also some friendly advice on Hygiene, or th
WAY TO PRESERVE HEALTH.
Illustrated by numerous testimonials from grateful
patients who have been restored to heath through the
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Seat post free for 2 stamps; or by letter post, three
stamps.
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opinion upon the nature of.t'ue case, and the principles
of treatment necessary to effect a permanent cure.
Address, Dr. BARNES IS, Lonsdale Square, Barns-
bury, London, N.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-03-25

A FANCY BALL IN CANADA.

His Excellency the Earl of Dufferin on the 24th rilt
gave in the Government House, Ottawa, a grand fancy
ball, which had for weeks previously been looked for-
ward ta it might be said by the whole Dominion of
Canada. The Governor-General was in the costume of
James V. of Scotland, the hero of Scott's "Lady of the
Lake,"and the staff and household presented the officers
and Court of this "Commons' King, King James."
His Excellency wore a doublet, trunk hose, and short
cloak of black velvet, trimmed with gold thread,
and base de chose of pearl grey; in his black velvet
cap was a vihite featner, which was fastened with a
diamond aigrette. Her Excellency the Countess of
Dufferin'wore a petticoat of crimson satin; a white
satin train, with two rows of gold embroidery; high
waist and closed sleeves of white satin, puffed with
drimson ; crimson velvet robe, lined with white satin,
bordered with ermine; crimson velvet hat with white
feather, banded with a riviere and shamrocks in dia-
*muds ; girdle of jewels; necklace of diamond stars,
*ith pendant of jewels, and a ruff edged with gold.
The guests began to errive as early as seven p.m., and in
a comparatively brief period Rideau Hall was thronged
by a numerous and brilliant assemblage in a bewilder-
ing variety of costumes, exhibiting all the colours of the
rainbow, and representing pretty well all the characters
known in history and mythology. A novel feature was
introduced in the form of the "Quadrille Chant" and
"Waltz Chant." The first of these VIM the
"Nursery Rhymes Quadrille," in which a series of
nursery rhymes, "Jack and Gill," " Baa baa Black
Sheep," (tc., were sung by the dancers. This, as well as
the other singing dances, went off admirably. Supper
was served at one a.m., and dancing was afterwards
resumed and continued till about five o'clock. The
ball was a most brilliant success, and calculated yet
further to enhance the well-earned popularity in the
Dominion of the Earl and Countess of Dufferin.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-03-25

"LINKS WITH THE PAST."

"Auditor Tautum" writes to The Times :

"I can supply another link with the past in my own
family. Though lam not much past the period, in
the Roman sense, of juvenis, my grandmother was
living in the reign of George IL, having been born in
April, 1760, and my great grandfather in the reign of
William 111., if not of William and Mary. Being a west
country man, he probably saw nothing more of the '45
Rebellion than the march to FL chley, but he was
plaintiff in a Chancery suit in 1729, a borough M. P.
in two Parliaments of George It., and, as I have heard
when a child from my grandmother, was robbed by a
highwayman on Salisbury Plain, in riding from Somer-
setshire to London, of a valuable gold watch, which he
afterwards recovered by depositing a sum of money at
a place named by the highwayman, possibly Dick
Turpin."
The Times also publishes the following :

Sir,—l can as well as "Auditor Tantum," although
only thirty years old, supply some links with the past.
For instance, an aunt of mine, who only died half.a-
dozen years ago, remembered when a child in Paris in
1792 seeing a great crowd surroundinz &large carriage,
the occupantsof which she remembered perfectly well.
These were the Royal Family of France on their return
from Varennes.
My father, too, remembered the Court of Louis
XVI. • he was of the same age as the unfortunate
Dauphin (Louis XVII.), and was the playmate of that
Prince when the latter was obliged to change the
gardens of Versailles for those of the Tuileries.
To go back yet another generation,—my grand-
mother was taught to dance by a Frenchman who had
performed in one of those gorgeous ballets the "Grand
Alonarque" so much delighted in, and he remembered
His Most Christian Majesty, who died in 1715.
And for myself I remember when at Eton, on the
eve of going to a child's hall at Frogmore, then belong-
ing to the Duchess of Kent, being put in mind of my
"entrechats" and "cavalier seul" by a French pro-
fessor of the art who remembered having seen Marie
Antoinette dragged to death.—Your obedient servant,
RONAD GOWER.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-03-25

FOR HORSES

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I have need your Cough and Condition Balls rather extensively the last year, and have been perfectly
satisfied with the remelts."
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and highly approve of them, and consider them as good or superior to any I have hitherto used."
Testimonials have also been ree. ived from the following Irainers :—Mr. Thomas Stevens, Mr. Samuel Rogers,
Kr. W. Abdale, Mr. P. Price, Mr. W. Goodwin, Mr. Thunas mrown, jun., and Mr. W. Reeve.
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-03-25

PUBLIC NOTICES.

STOURBRID(E IMPROVEMENT ACT,
1 B .6 6 t
ANI) THE ACTS INCORPORATED THEREWITH.
IMPROVEMENT RATE. HIGHWAY RA.TE.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that at the
next Monthly MEETING of the St onbridge
Improvement Comm:ssioner,-,, to he holden at the Corn-
rai-sioner's Room, Corn Exchaoge, Ston,bridg on Mon-
day :the ,;ay of M,tch i:i4at.t, at lhrte o'clrck in the
A ILernoon :--It is thtended to make an Improvement
Rate of Ninepence in he round, pun-neat to Lilo 'iath
Section of the Stonibrilelnitroven.nt Act, IBC6.
Also a If thaay Rate of figliip-nce in ihe
purso9nt to the 72nd Section of the 59id Act.

And Notice is licreby furthr given, that Stateraenti
of such !imposed Rates are deptn.ite,i 1. r inspection by
the Hate-p PT's; it the Office of the Ch-ri; to the said •
Comion,sionerl, No, 86, High Street. et, utbridu-.

I)Ated thisl7.th da.rof Maid), 1876.

t'robti Ta)lor.
Clerk. •

STOLTRBRIDGE UNION.

•
.
WANTI:M, .AN„ Ac.;T.IV4
_PERSON ,JUI
COcK aud to ass.i,t4),to
,MITRON. at the
UN-to* WouNtiorsE, ICtNa4ltruv7ouD.

Salary £l5 per arinarn, with ratiOnP loclg-ng, and
washing.

. Candidates are requested.to send Testimonials as to
character, eSze ,to me, on or beftere.the 6th April next,
and attena,"at their own expense, at the Workhouse, at
KirgS%vinford, on Vrolay, tile; 7th Aiil oixt, he the
Election will take place.
By order,
• GEO. HOLLOWAY,
Clerk.

Workhouse, Kingswinford,
17th March, 1876.

'• STOURBRIDOE UNION.

WANTED, an ACTIVE MAN and his
WIFE (without encumberanee preferred), as
AmsTER 'and • MATRON for tl.c above UNION, who
must be fully bompetent to keep tLe prescribed ae.counts
and to perform such duties as the Local Government
Board and Guardians shall fram time to time order and
direct.

The Salary will be .£lOO per annum, with Rations,
Washing and Furnished Apartments, viz. :—.E75 for the
Master and 1:25 for the Matron.
Security to the amount of I:200 will be required.
Applications in the Candidates own handwriting,
Slating age, former and present occupation, with Testi.
ruonials as to character and ability, rhust be sent to me,
O n or before 6th APRIL NEXT, and Persons applying for
the above situations must attend at their own expense
p,rsonally at the BOARD Ronal, at the \\Tensaw:lee, at
KItOzWINFORD, On FRIDAY, the 7th APRIL NEXT, at
Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon, when and where the
Election jwill take place... -
The Persons elected will be required to enter at once
upon their duties.

, Canvassing the Gusrdians objected to,
By order,
GEO. HOLLOWAY,
Clerk.

Board Room, Workhouse, Kingswinford,
17th March, 1876.

PHCENIX FIRE OFFICE.

'\L It. GEORGE PERRY, Solicitor, Agent
I.lliL for Stourbridge, -begs to remind the public that
the PHCENIX was for many years the only Fire Office
that kept a FIRE- ENGINE in the town, and to inform
them that it still keeps one there.
For the keys of the Engine House, apply at the Talbot
Hotel; or to Thos. Robinson, Letter Cutter, Enville-
street, the engineer; and for Terms of Insurance, apply
to the Agent.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-03-25

°E
Iv GNe H
t mt
eo. bealremnetniinlTraTzr Country,
others, ;
r otmo
Fifty Pounds and upwards, upon personal sect rity. In,
:crest five per cent. per annum, from one to si veil years.
No comninsion or charges made. Also awns from One
'thousand Ponnds on Mortgage, at three and a half per
cent ,on freehold or lea,eliold property, fir ii term not
epret dig twenty-one years —Apply to bin
tlowAtto, Civil Engin. er and Survev,o, late tisrdkatone.
I Its relay, 11 Engl. on- Loti..ou.

NO FEES CILN,ILGED UNLESS CASE' IS

ADVANCED.

. . .
EOPkGE PAYNE, Al•coulitalit, nr.gotdl::.
3. PIUVATE ADVANC': S 1:90-i
4 ousrlichi Furrittire, Fur to :;t4 ; w that
•tquoval; 10 suretie::,-equirea.
47, ANN-STREET. 1:11:1111NallA3T.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-03-25

THE RULE OF THE ROAD AT SEA:

The Committee appointed by the Admiralty, the
Board of Trade, and the Trinity House to consider the
regulations for preventing collisions at sea, have
unanimously agreed to recommend certain amended
draft regulations, which they have reported, in lieu of
those now in force. The consent of other nations will
of course be necessary. These amendments do not in-
volve any serious or fundamental alteration of the
existing rules. The committee consider it of great
importance that theAe rules which are now well under-
stood should continue unaltered in substance; but
there are some points in which they require elucidation,
and there are other points on which their experience
and the suggestions referred to them have shown
that additions are necessary, and it is for these that
they have endeavoured to provide. The priricipal
amendments are the following ;—A.rt, 3, par. (a)
provision is made f3r placing the white light of
steamers not only at the mast head but at any proper
i
pl e before the mast. This is rendered necessary by
ols.
sr
leg. 1 opinions as to the meaning of the present regula-
tia
apAhrctabsle cables locthh otherwise nots
provides signals
under command.ffor ships
l a Ying
teArt.
9, .hich removes a doubt as to the lights to be
arried
bylpilpt vessels. Art. 10, which provides signal lights
for: drift net fishers and trawlers, end puts an end to
thq,conflict between the existing regulations and those
aniexed to the Sea Fisheries Act, 1868. Art. 11, which
makes it clearly lawful for overtaken vemsels to how , a
light astern. This article is suggested in consequence
of doubts as to the legality of so doing having been
expressed in cases recently heard by the High Court
,i Admiralty and the Court of Appeal. art. 12, which,
besides defining sound signal!' more distinctly, and
shortening the intervals at which they are to be made,
requires a sailing ship in fog to denote her tack by her
fog-horn. Art. 14, which is rewritten so as to make the
meaning more distinct. Art. 15, in which, in order to
meet the practice of other nations, words are added to
make it clear that the English term "port helm" is
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-03-25

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-03-25

SLEEP AND DREAMING/'

The first of two lectures on this subject was given on Mon-
dt.y evening by Professor D. Ferrier, M.D., at the London
Institution :

The lecturer commenced by stating the principle that
no living thing was capable of continuous or uninter-
mittent activity, it being an inflexible law of nature
that a period of work must be succeeded by a quiescent
state, during which the organism might repair the loss
entailed in its tissues by previous exertion. A muscle
was capable of a certain amount of activity, but its
energy, after a little while, became exhausted, and the
muscle itself powerless and flaccid. That which was
true of ore muscle was true of the whole body and
of its individual organs. Even the heart, tLe action
of which appeared to be in.cessant,. oonforme,l to
this universal- rule, though its motious were not
intermittent but rhythmical. In fact, there was a
distinct period of rest between each pulsation. It
wag, however, in the case of the brain more than hid
that of any other organ that we had thiz principle
forced upon our notice. Every act of thought or
volition entailed a certain loss or consumption of
brain-sub,.tance, and the period during which the brain
rested for the repair of this loss formed the period
of our existence which we termed 1-I,ep. Sleep
was, however, something more than a time of rest
t
for. the brain, as it was the time during
general sketch of
h
which the whole body recouped itself for such waste
as had
not
been made
titri
grive d
pdrulgs in thtehedahyu.manA
body was here appropriately introduced, after which the
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-03-25

. ,
SALMON AND SEA TROUT AT THE
ANTIPODES.

A. few weeks ago we alluded to the fact that a
fresh consignment of salmon eggs for New Zealand
and Australia had taken place under the superinten-
dence of Mr. Frank Buckland and Mr. J. A. Youl,
and also announced the safe arrival in New Zealand of
salmon
,eggs from America, and their subsequent
hatching out. Further news from Otago, gives cir-
cumstantial accounts Of the capture of full-grown
salmon and sea trout on the coat of that province;
the salmon is described as being 401 b. in weight, and
was identified and eaten by an old Scotch woman,
who had , intimate acquaintance with the king
of fish on Deeside, in the "old country." The
Bea trout—there were several of them—were cap- •
tured by fishermen netting for other fish, and ranged
from 211,..t0 51b. each. The salmon came by its death
a', curkus manner, having been attacked and
severely wounded by gulls, both its eyes being picked
out and other serious injwies -inflicted, SO that it
would have died a lingering death had it not fallen
ad easy prey Va therquick hand of. its utimatel, captor.
It ie vity,thhtt the, Mah :was not submitted to
' examination by a scientific authority, for although
the opinion of the actual witnesses may be accurate,
the question is of such importance that it ought to
be definitively settled beyond the reach of doubt.
This, however, is not a solitary instance of the cap-
ture of an alleged salmon in New Zealand, and it
may be fairly assumed that these tieh -have-been
established to pcertain extept n colonial waters. The
prospect, thereifore, is 'opened up of a vast industry in
the not very far distant future, which will bid fair to
-rival in importance the sheep.farming enterprises of
the antipodes. American "tinned" salmon have found
their way into the haunts of the aboriginal New
Zealander, much to his satisfaction; and we may, b -
fore long, find Maoris and settlers competing with each
other in the exportation of tinned salmon from New
Zealand to the original home of the fish.—Globe.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-03-25

GREAT FIRE IN CHARLESTON.

The Times of Tuesday published the following telegram
from their Correspondent at Philadelphia, under date March
20:—

At three o'clock this morning a fire broke out in
Charleston. South Carolina, at the oorner of King-
street and Rogers-alley. The wind was from the south-
east. There was no water available, and the fire spread
northward along both sides of King-street, extending
east to the South Carolina Railway and west to St.
Philip-street. It made a path about 200 yards wide,
gradually extending northward until the rural district
was reached at the Washington racecourse, more than
half a mile from the starting point. The wind carried the
cinders at ong distance northward along the King-street
road, burning fences and farm buildings. Heart-
rending scenes are reported. A band of negro robbers
were, it is reported, sacking every house to which
admittance could be gained. The Mayor, Mr. Cun-
ningham, succeeded after daylight in restoring some
order. By eleven o'clock the fire had burnt itself out.
The boundaries of the burnt district were :—On the
south, Columbus-street and Roger's-alley, on the
north, the Washington racecourse; on the east, South
Carolina Railroad, and on the west St. Philip and
Percy-street. The estimated loss is 500,000 dols. There
was little insurance. Hundreds of persons are home-
less.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-03-25

BOARD OF GUARDIANS.

The usual meeting of this Board was held in
the Board Room, yesterday. Mr. G. Granger in
the chair. There were also present :—Messrs.
Rollinson, H. Billinghm, Rhodes, Guest, Hall,
Haskew, Thompson, Forrest, Fiddian. Brooks,
Homer, Wood, Pearsall, Wright, Raybould, and
J. Billingham. Admitted into the house 8;
discharged 16; born 2; dead 2; remaining
315 ; corresponding week last year 311. Out-
door relief, Kingswinford district £23 lOs Od ;
Stourbridge district £l6 16s 5d ; Halesowen
district, £l6 13s Od ; non-resident paupers,
£1 Os 2d; total £59 9s 3d; against £59 9s 3-i-d
ltst year.
The usual quarterly contracts were entered
into.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-03-25

HENRY BAlzz':R,

AUCTIONEER AND VALUER,

HIGH-STREET, KINVER.

Stocks and Furniture of every descriptions bougb."nd
Cash advanced upon all goods sent for absolute sale.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-03-25

THE COLONIES AND THE ROYAL
TITLE.

A parliamentary return obtained by Mr. Kinnaird
contains a memorial addressed to the Queen by the
President, Vice-President, and Council of the Royal
Colonial Institute, praying her Majesty to assume such
additional style and title as shall distinctly indicate
her Majesty's sovereignty over the whole of the colonial
dominions. The memorial says :
" Your petitioners are led to think that their memorial
will receive your Majesty's gracious consideration, from the
fact that in the proclamation issued in 1868, notifying your
Majesty's assumption of the Government of India, your Ma-
jesty was designated as Queen of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland and of the Colonies and Depen-
dencies thereof in Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and Aus-
tralasia."

Mr. R. H. Meade, writing from the Colonial Office
on the 7th of March, says that he Is directed by
Lord Camarvon to acknowledge the receipt of the
memorial, and to state that his lordship had laid it
before her Majesty.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-03-25

INDUSTRIAL BRANCH.

During the year 1,167,292 New Pol.cies were issued
representing a New Annual Premium Income of £441,222
12s.

The Claims amount to £217,415 189 3d

The Annual Premium Income at the close of the year
is £784 052 15s 81, showing an increase of £178,411 11.
4d over the Income of the'previous year.

GENIf.RIL- RESULTS.

The total'Preniium Income iS ±87t),4 .S 3s 4d, being
an increase of £182;919 144'orer the past
The Claims arnouut to £266,917. 13s 74, raising the
total sum to £1,597,213 l2s. .

The Assurance Inuit is £702,184 133 61, .showing an
increase of £128,660 10s 7.1 for the year.
The ritaffAl tlae Office has thready bteu engaged for
many months in preparing for the Quinquenulailu-
ation, which is to take piece at the enu of 1876, and
which, from the nature and extent of toe business tran-
sacted by the Compauy, will involve a number of com-
putations nuparalicied in the history of Life Assuraixe.

The Direc;ors regret to. announce that tiaottom
CLAI.K, one of thc.Anditors, who Lad been connected
with the Company from a very early period a its ex-
istence, died suou after' the last Annum Meeting Under
the powers vested in them, the Directors have appointed
one of-the oldest shareholders, Da. IioBEF.T BARNES,
who, with MR. AntasoN, has audited the acconuts for the
year.

•
BALANCE SHEET OF THE ;131,TJDENTIAL
ASSURANCE COMPANY;an the 31st December, 1875

LIABILITIES.

t 8. d.
• . 10,052 u 0
.. 702,184 13 6
817 7 4

Sbareholders' Capital.. ..
Life Assurance Fund ..
Sickness and Assurance Fund
Contingency Fund;created at Annual
Meeting, April, 1872
Guarantee Fund
LeaFehold Redemption Fund

16,096 0 0
15,000 0 0
1,500 0 0

£745,650 0 10

Claims under Life Policies admitted
but not yet paid .. .. ..

7,802 18 4

'£753,4,2 19 2

ASSETS.

.e s. d.

Mortgage 3 on Property within tie
United Kingdoin

77 151 2 4
17,024 13 11

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joaliI88B:or shit :°:vme"orio'a.ru:n3
ie4: st, IS) id; : g
ian nd
Di t
ti
(o) i I. •
1756, f,i5256587
11. :
3 3
For: ign -
Railway and'other Debentures
' and Debenture Stock
Ditto Shares (Preference atiti
Ordirsry) .? 6,750 0 0
Trust Funds Certificates .• • 30,013 10 0
Freehold Ground Rents .. 57.284 0 4
flon" I)'''PertY • • • • • • . 53,3 18 3
I.if,l`,.tothf.rl•,terets
•-"7 (*) 5
Furratture ad Fittirki (Read and
Rrancb Offices) .. ..; 10,870 410
Loaa upon Personal Security .. 29,726 18 7
how, oil Hot ou;11 hate.; 6.82,3 0 0
lior gage of R. v,r-: 6,175 2 3
-

48,539 10 0

SlOllB

of Freel.old

orig:11;f:
Property:— .. 8,000 0 0
ge
,k_)ui irniuws 4-61;623E15') 1:12 43
4.46 k 17 1
Ditto --
•-• •• 613 8 9
.km:m4,t tine fr..nn Or.H:O riTA•ll!cr
lutwn>ktional !1.759 is 9
Delmai•s 11)r..eMn c (v.,) 0 0
cash—on j) psit £31,000 0 0
ack,liut 37,9:: 4 4

- 48,918 4 4

19 2

J. GT ; .T, , C:;
PI1)( iicHtN • -
.it T. IT Fr IrcoiB.
We Lave uxarninei the foregoing i.ccolnfs, I find them
corrtc-, an,i-Ire.-eby:torairni rho :4WD NO have
41") s''" ab 4 (x4roi,led tho vAria.us cecurijee.
NT ALLAN-SON,
.". 13.11:NES,
t...sept -Director.
,L LANOAgrg.I:, S',..crerary.
Vali February, 1876.
. „
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-03-25

iet-tifE STO

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43 41

over

-0 remainder 01 iy,
Asextrepaities wXieh aceonm,
tike,colcOrtinethis state_
o_ayjnit7 beneath_the essfive_a_the
was very apt lose a certain portion of its heat by
radiation into a cold atmosphere. Any cause tending
to promote circulation in the brain, such as worry
or anxiety, tended to prevent sleep; and, in-
versely, any cause tending to diminish the cir-
culation in the brain induced sleep; too sud-
den a diminution, or entire cessation, producing
syncope or de3th. Warentli of atniosphere, darkness,
and monotony of sound were all influences inducing
sleep by absence of excitation to the brain. The dura-
tion of sleep required by nature varied in different
individuals, depending inversely upon the rapidity with
which the repair of wasted tissue went on in differently
constituted organisms. The daily or nightly sleep
required by the human subject was probably about
eighb-hOirs in the case of the average adult.i Ydung
children, whose tissues were in a state of rapid growth,
slept during the greater part of the twenty-four hours,
while old people on the other hand, whose tissueswere
in a state of gradual decay, required very little sleep
Indeed.
After some Passing observations on the nature and
physiological action of narcotics, Dr. Ferrier concluded,
r-serving the eubjeet of "Dreaming" for his lecture
next Moaday.

• '
OBSERVE,
• •
•_
equivalent to altering the course of the ship to otar- 1- a, er enlarged on the *ell-known physiological fact
board, and vice versa. Art. 19, by which, following a th: t a local increase of activity in the system is
practice successfully adopted in the United States, always accompanied by a corresponding local in-
steamers are enabled to indicate to an approaching crea,e in the circulation. A large proportion—about
ship the direction they are about to take. Art. 21, one-fifth—of the whole of the blood leaving the heart
which adopts the general statutory rule that existed normally flowed directly to the brain. An increabe of
before 1862 for steam ships navigating narrow chan- activity in this or_gan—as deep thought—increased this
nels, viz., that each ship shalt keep to the starboard': fI'OW.E"-a ?fact proved by direat observation. Now, the
side of the mid channel. Art. 25, which reserves • approach of sleep was ahcompanied by a gradual dimi-
special and local rules lawfully made by harbour nution of brain.circulatiok anti alao by a sensible col.
authorities. The remainder of the alterations are lapse in the substance of the brain. Consequently
verbal merely.
uderotthebody, no tat lv
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-03-25

ROWLEY.

THE LATE CH 1:G E OF RaPx.—At the Staffordshi-e
Lent As-iz-s, on Satur,lay, before Mr. Justice F.eld,
Everton (on b i:1), was arr.vgued f feloniously
.issAultin; and abu iu li-ni y Reece, a child uu,ler the
'age of ten years, at Row.ey Regis, on the 30th May
act Mr. Rose was for the pro.seemion, cud Mr. Darling
f, 4. the clef nc,.—Before the ease for the prosecution had
clos-d his di he did not tiliak it would be
fair I t convict the prisoner upon such testimony as that
which had I.),en adduce l.— the jury were dlr. .ed to
tind the prisoner not guilty, and he was acquit:ed.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-03-25

CUPID ON ICE.
(From Fun.)

I SKATED last week at the Rink with a skater,
We " three'd "and we " eighted," meandered and slid;
Soon lost in the crowd from the eye of my Mater,
lie skated his way to my heart, as we gild I
Loose and wild on the air all my rinklets free floated,
We roll'd the "Dutch roll" o'er the asphalted floor;
I thrilled with the pace, for I felt he was smoted,

That a score I had made in his manly heart's core!
He sighed as we skat, and my rink gloves were squozeu,
As his skate neatly twisted, he called me his Kate!
Ah, never on ice artificially frozen
Was known a more tender and sweet tete a We 1
On his lips„, the dear whispers the love links were forming
With sighs, sizing larger—oh, then had he spoke!
Spread-eagling he fell! oh, how chilled was his warming,—
Alas I not his heart, but his ankle, was broke!
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-03-25

A NEW FIRE EXTINGUISHER.

New and important experiments have been made n
New York in extinguishing fires by a new process. The
New York Herald of March 1 reports that in the pre-
sence of General Shaler, members of the Fire Depart-
ment, and gentlemen connected with the Board of
Underwriters, the Chamber of Commerce and insurance
companies generally, the Connelly fire extinguisher
was exhibited in an open lot at the corner of Fifty-
ninth-street and Eleventh-avenue. A large frame
building had been erected, in which were placed three
cylindrical reservoirs filled with carbonic acid gas, and
adjacent were eight other cylinders used as receivers,
from which the gas escaped into the house. An im-
mense pile of barrels—two barrels deep and about five
barrels high—the pile containing altogether 130 barrels
of refuse resin, both ends of the barrels being open,
stood at the east end of the lot. A smaller pile of
boards, with two barrels of reined oil on the top like
the funeral pyre of Brutus stood a little east of the
resin, and to the westward was a tank four feet deep,
built of brick and cemented, and having a surface area
of 600 square feet, containing 375 gallons of crude
petroleum, and into which sluice pipes emptied water.
The tank full of oil and water was fired first,
and a tremendous mass of flame and smoke arose,
driving the crows right and left by the intense heat.
In lees than five seconds this great mass of flame,
as thick as four or five ordinary brick
houses and three times as high was extinguished
by the stream of water expelled from the hose by the
force of carbonic acid gas. The noise made was like
that caused by a thunderstorm rushing through a
mountain pass. Next the 130 barrels of resin were fired
and were extinguished in less than six minutes, by a rapid
stream ten times stronger than that which could be
expelled by a steam engine from a a nozzle of the
same diameter; and, lastly, the funeral pyre was
lighted, and, blazing as it did with great intensity, was
extin4uished in a few minutes. The experiments were
in every way successful, and introduced a new agent
of the most powerful kind for the saving of property.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-03-25

A NEW BEE.

The Globe remarks :—" A.mongst the many bees
which have settled in this country there is one variety
not yet domesticated amongst us. It is needless to say
that it, too, is of American origin, so we may expect to
meet it in the metropolis in due time. It is oiled the
"Surprise Bee," and perhaps a description of the inci-
dents attending it will show the nomenclatrFe not to
be incorrect. It is interesting also as giving one
the primary idea of the American Bee, A number of
friends arrange together that it would be very desirable
to have an entertainment of some kind—say a dance.
The thing is talked over, all the intended guests con-
sulted, and a day and hour are arranged. The house
where the party is to be given is also fixed upon; but
as to this part of the entertainment the managers reckon
without their host—or rather without their hostess.
She is Lot told of their engagements, but they know hers,
and select an evening when she will be at home. Pre-
cisely at the hour fixed upon—for want of punctuality
would lead to considerable embarrassment amongst the
first arrivals—the guests troop in, and each brings a
little parcel. The parcel is given to the servant, and
the ladies and gentlemen proceed upstairs to pay their
respects to the lady of the house. As a rule, she
knows of the intended surprise—it is difficult to
keep such matters dark—and is prepared for her
visitors. But, in reality, very little preparation is
needed. The guests coin() to amuse themPelve, and
bring the means of amusement with them. Her trouble
is very light, and her expense scarcely anything.
The piano strikes up and there is a dance. There are
several dances. It may be there is a little music as
well. The hostess has no concern, for all these particu-
lars have been arranged beforehand. Then the dancing
begins again, and at last supper time has arrived.
Even that anxious period brings with it no fore-
bodings. At a Suprise Bee the guests bring their own
suppers, and this meal is, in fact, provided out of
those parcels which were handed in at the door as the
visitors arrived. Supper ended—which is generally
very plentiful in point of materials, though the
appointments may be less elegant—the guests dis-
perse, and the Surprise Bee is over. Even despite
"the murmur of innumerable bees," the Englishman's
hou,e has hitherto remained his castle, and he may
not like to find it stormed by the latest American
novelty.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-03-25

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-03-25

A DREADFUL SHIPWRECK.

Details of the shipwreck of the Frederick have come
from France. The vessel struck the rocks of Cran
Ponlet at eleven p.m., and, although she was near the
shore, the Light was so dark and the waves so high that
nothing was seen or heard of the tragical circum-
stances. All those on board took refuge on the masts
which were the only places out of the reach of the
violence of the sea. Amongst them were the
captain and his wife, a young woman of only twenty-
one years of age, whose infant was to frionn her
arms by one of the waves that invaded the cabin.
these unfortunate people clung to the rigging for
s-veral hours, until it began to give way, and
then each began to think of saving his own life by
a desperate plunge in the sea and an effort to gain the
beach. The captain, a young and vigorous man of the
same age as his wife, could probably have succeeded in
this better than any of his seamen, but he refused to do
so in the presence of his ill-fated companion, already
half-dead from cold and fatigue; and when, a short time
after the first indications of giving way, the mainmast
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-03-25

Wars of the Rona, and the struggle between Parlia-
ment and King in the reign of Charles 1., he is in-
clined to be grateful to the liberality of the owners of
manuscripts who, have not been grudging of a wealth
of knowledge which adds so much to the picture we
can make of the old national life of our country.
The time has almost arrived for sending in works for
exhibition to the Royal Academy on the part of those
who are not Academicians. This body numbers forty
gtntlemen, comprising the most eminent painters and
sculptors of the day. There is another body not BO telect,
but still with the coveted distinction of A.R. A., which
in its full designation reads Associate of the Royal
Academy. As a rub o the Academicians are chosen from
the Associates, and they have the right of sending in as
wany pictures for exhibition as they please. With
those artiAs who bave not the honour of writing R A.
after their names, the disappointment of having their
works rejected by the Hanging Committee is often a
hitter one. The labour of months—perhaps of a year
or more—finds its result in the lumber room, and as
toe Lumber of rejected works is generally three times
in excess of those which are accepted, the proportion
of sore hearts and withered hopes is annually a large
one. When the Academy, containing as it does the
choicest productions of our modern artists, is thrown
open to the public the first week in May, it is one of
the best shilling's-worths in London.