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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-21

EDUCATING HORSES.

Horses can be educated ta the extant of their
undentandirig, as well as children, and can be
emily damaged or ruined by hal management.
We believe that the great difference found in
ac to vieiona habits or reliAbility come.
more fromthe different maltakenaent of 111f3n than from
variance of natural tiipositioc in the animals. Horses
with bLh metal 2,0 more easily educated than those of
:ez.3 or dull EpLitl, and are more suscsiatible to
iii training, and consequently may be good or bad
a ccrding to the education they receive. Horses
with dull spirits are not by any means proof
against bad management, for in ttem May often
be found the Most provoking ob.stinacy or vicious
habits of different characters that renders them almost
eritirely worthless, Could the coming generation of
horses in this country be kept from-their days of volf-1'
hood to ,the age of five years in the hands of gool,
careful managers, there would be seen a vast difference.in the general characters of the noble animals. If
a colt is *never allowed to get *in advantage, it will
ziever know that it pagieiles a power that msn cannot
control; and if made familiar with strange objects, it
will not be skittish and nervous. If a horse is made
accustomed from his early days to have objects hit him
on the heels, back, and hips, he. willpay no attention teo
the giving out of a harness or 6! a Waggon running
against-him at an unsuspectedmornent. We once saw an
aged lady drive a high-spirited horse, attached to an
carriage, down a steep hill, with no hold-back straps
upon her harness, and she assured us that there was no
:danger, for her son accustomed his horse to all kinds
of usages and sights that commonly drive the animals
Into a frenzy of fear and excitement. A gun cm be
fired from the back of a horse, an umbrella held over
• his head a buffalo robe thrown over his neck, a railway
;engine pass close by, his heels bumped with sticks, and
; the animal take it all.a natural condition of things, if
only taught by careful management that he will not be
injured thereby. There- is grat need of improvement
in the Management of this noble animal; less beating
wanted, add more education. —Veterinarian.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-21

"ENGLAND AND OGNSTANTINOPLE.
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General Tchernaieff's organ, the Asaski Mir, pub-
lishes an article entitled " England and ConAanti-
nople." "The English press'"- says the writer, "is
now discussing the fate of Constantinople with the
same noisy irritability with which it lately discussed
the ' Bulgarian atrocities.' Itl is 4:lifficult to toughie
anytWimanesfe rckl d. foslish,than the clapps
of England to the ancient clapltal 'of the 13itizi-
tine Empire.' These preoccupations of the Bog-
lieb in regard to a foreign harbour situated at the
other end of Europe, and connected by indissolub!e
bends with the history of the nations of the Grecc-
Slavonic race, is one of the most unceremonious mani-
festations of the cold British idea of exclusive doiainion"
over the seas. Such, however, is the forcs of habit
that the piratical designs of the English are regarded
In the European pre si as quite natural, while similar
designs on the part of another State would provoke
gcneral indignation and unanimous resistance. . . .
'Etc, Eradish have nothing to do widi the entrance to the
Black Sea. The appearance there, in the vicinity of
the channel which they themselves describe as the key
of Russia, would be equivalent to the appearance
the European fleets in the Britida Chahnel,fer the puri
pose of restraining English ambition. .1/4We do not
want Constantinople; all we want is Aliptalie Bog-,
phorus and this Dardanelles should be ultosndiblonall3k
free and open to us, and not in hostile hands. The
slightest attempt on the part of England to oc-...tt)piffls.
channel would inevitably provoke a war with Awls,"
—Fall Mall Gazette,

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-21

CRADLEY.

BURLEY v. BELLAMY.—At the County Court, at
Stourbridge, on Thursday, before R. Kettle, Esq.,
judge. This was an action brought by Thomas Burley,
coachbuilder, of Cradley Heath, against Thomas
Bellamy, of the Lye, to recove the sum of £7 ss, for
damage done to a trap.—Mr. Homer appeared for the
plaintiff, and Mr. Perry defended.—Plaintiff was a coach.
builder and lent a trap out on hire on the 2711
September. The trap was brought back to him smashed.
He had it repaired and the amount it cost was £7 ss.
Defendant had offered him £5 but he refused it.—
Samuel Jones said he hired a trap from the plaintiff and
went for arid, round Stewkeney. On returning when near
Cradley defendant's trap ran into the trap he was in and
damaged it.—John Weston said he was in the trap with
the last witness when near Harper and Moore a works,
and defendant's trap was comingqn the opposite direction.
He shouted to him for being on his wrong side and he
ran into the trap and knocked them out and the trap was
broken. He was going at the rate of five or six miles
an. hour.—nark Attwood and Alfred Burley also gave
corroborative evidenze and said that the defendant had
offered £5 in settlement —Mr. Perry addressed his
Honour for the defendant, and said his client was labour-
ing under a disadvantage. The carter who was driving
the trap was &ad. He should deny that defendant ever
offered £5 to settle the case. He called several wit-
nesses I) prove that the person in charge of plaintiff's
trap. It was golog at the rate of ten miles an hour:
The carter driving tue defendant's trap was going at the
rate of two miles an hour, add that some of the party
in plaintiff's trap were drill:AL—Verdict for plaintiff for
fall amount and costs,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-21

THE HELL GATE EXPLOSION.

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4rhe American Correspondent of The Times says -
"The examinations made at Hell Gate, New York,
during the past few days demonstrate the complete
success of the greet explosion in breaking up the Hal-
lett's Point Reef. There is from 18ft. to 201 t. depth
of water now in the channel which has been staked
out, and opefations will soon begin at pulling out the
fragments of rock, so as to deepen the channel to 26ft.,
and make it uniformly .of that depth clear up to the
perpendicular bank of rock at Hallett's Point. The
process of removing Flood Rock, a reef of seven acres
in extent in the midst of the strait, and of deepening
the water on Diamond Reef, further down East River,
to 24f1. will Moo soon begin.
"The Hell Gate operations have caused quite a dis-
cussion in New York as to their probable effect upon
the route to and from the ocean. Land speoulators in
upper New York and around the newly-opened strait
have advanced their prices, and are diligently pro-
pounding the theory that the route for large vessels
eeill be changed from Sandy Hook to the Sound..
This, however, is not generally believed by
practical men. Their view is that the most
that will be accomplished by the Hell Gate open-
ing when completed—for the work is not more than
one-third done—will be to present the choice of
two routes to the ocean. Although the route
by the sound is 12 miles shorter, yet it abounds in
shoals and fogs, and the East River is tortuous and
,filled with small craft, so th It large steamers and sail-
ing vessels Willscarcely prefer it to the old way. All
the trade arrangements of New York, too, Erre_ made
for the Stindfilook ro—aii-,--itii.rfreee cannot be easily
interfered with. The', Nab: YOTZ Journia otAnnzaerce.
thinks there will be 'a large increase in the number of
vessels availing themselves of. the Sound route,' but
does- not believe that 'the ocean steamship companies
will be impelled to adopt it, .or that_the commerce of •
the city is to be revolutionized, by it.'" 4 A , •
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-21

A BEV/ DISTILLERY.

Some time ego we mentioned the curious invention
of M. Mouchot, a professor of Tours, by which the
sun is made to do duty as a species of kitchen fire (says
the Globe). The apparatus, which ha 3 been actually
used 4ith some success, consists of a large lens
arranged to catch the solar rays and condense them
u?on a, small vessel containing the food to be cooked.
The invention is sufficiently ingenious to amuse a
savant, but hardly likely, to prove of much general
practical use. The coos who depended upon an
unclouded e'sy to enable him to send no his dishes,
would in .Europe at least be likely occasionally to
disappoint the intending diners. But M. Moucbot
has... devised of late a different, and, perhaps,
more valuable means of utilising his friend
the sun; and the new device was explained
at the last sitting of the Academy of Science.
The machine used is again a large lens about 17
kushes in diameter, but the rays caught in it are
oirected, not upon a gridiron or saucepan, but upon a
small Loller containing a quart of wine. In half an
hour the liquid boils, and gives off a vapour which
rLes through a small tube, pmses thence into the
serpentine coil with which alembics are often fitted
And finally confienees in the form of eau de vie. The
liqueur thus produced is reported as having a deli-
owns flavour resembling the best kirsch warser, and if
there is any truth in the statement it is to be hoped
that the new process may be extensively adopted to
the exclusion of those others now in vogue. It would
be a ,new eensation in drinking kirsth no longer to
dread beinglialf poisoned by that unsavoury and now
only to,' infamous extract called laurel-water. •

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-21

Out of some THOUSANDS the following are selected.

Gilson, Homan and Co., Bradford. Selves v.—Begs to
acknowledge receipt of cheque £390 16s id.
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Priestman and Sons, South Benwell, near Newcastle-
on-Tyne. Selves, v.—Beg to acknowledge receipt of
cheque, £35 7s 6d.
Fowls, James. Western and Co., Belvedere Wharf,
Lambeth. Selves v.—Beg to acknowledge receipt of
cheque, £llB 50 5d
Stenhouse M. and Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne, Selves, v.
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-21

TOTATOES.

Thale was corsidtrable blight in seine of the samples on
(Ito Vas morning, and trade was slow in consequence. Tbe
following reduced prices prevailed :—Sent regents, 601 t 3
abs :Eacex ditto, 50s to 80s ; rooks, 604. to 755 itakeP, 50E.
1102. ; and Victorian, tO4. to llot, per Lou.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-21

W 01.4 VERLEY.

ABANDONING A CHILD AT WOLVERLE2.-At the Wor-
cestershire Quarter Sessions, on Tuesday, before Mr. G.
W. Hastings, Ann Fury, (22) a gipsy girl, was charged
with unlawfully abandoning her child, on the 10th
August, at the parish of Waiverley, whereby the life of
the child was endangered. Mr. Godson and Mr. Kenyon
prosecuted, and Mr. Streeten defended. The prisoner
had the child in her arms in the doek.—The facts of this
have recently appeared. It will be remembered that a
man named John Maybury, forgeman, was going to work
between five and six o'clock in the morning, when he
heard a cry, and on looking about he found a newlyborn
male infantin a hedge, ins state of nudity. He wrapped
it in his vest and neck cloth, and took it to the house of
Police-constable Dunn, end called in a midwife, who
found it almost expiring, but by the use of warm water
she brough.t it round. Where the child was found was at
a place called Coruscle, near to a gipsy encampment, in
which the prisoner had been with her parents and re.
latives. Police-constable Dunn went in search of some-
one, and at Kinver, about a mile away, he met the
prisoner returning to the camp. From the appeannce
of her dress he charged her with concealing the birth of
her child, she said that she was suddenly taken ill early
in the morning, and:she went a few yards from the camp,
where she was confined, and being afraid of her parents
knowing it she placed the child in the hedge, intending
in a few hours to fetch it. After she was confined her
father asked her to go to Kinver to fetch some bacon, he
not knowing what had taken place. She went, and on
coming back she was met by a Police-constable Dunn.—
Mr. Streeten made a powerful appeal in her behalf, and
the jury acqnited her.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-21

*ocal ,ntbsPiistrict

BUJ.iAL BOARD.

A rneetinr of this Board was held on Satur-
day, 4
Mr. J. B. Shepherd in the chair.
The Clerk read the minutes of the last meeting,
which were confirmed.
The business before tile Board was the con-
sideration of tenders for the erection of chapels
and lodge from the plans of the late Mr. Thomas
Smith. The tenders were so much above the
figure Mr. Smith estimated that the Board was
not disposed to accept even the lowest of them.
Mr. Turney expressed his surprise that no local
builders had t_ndercd, and said the Board could,
n,) doubt, get the work done cheaper by them than
by others.

-The Chairman said even assuming the t:nd(,rs
were reduced 25 per cent., they would still exceed
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-21

KIDDERMINSTER.

ATTEMPTING TO UPSET A TRAIN.-At the Guildhall,
on; Monday, before Messrs. T. Banks and W. Green,
Joseph Nixon (7), Alfred Burgess (6), William Skerry
(6), and Walter Jenns (7), were charged with attempting
to upset a train on the Great Westeia Railway. The
1 40 p.m. down passenger train from Kidderminster was
on its way towards Churchill, on Saturday, when the
driver saw a block of wood and some stones on the
metals. He pulled up as soon as possible, and ran to
remove the obstruction. The guard also left the train,
and seeing the boys above named followed them, and
they were taken to Kidderminster. One of them stated
that they placed the wood on the line to upset a train,
and thought it would be fun to see a lot of people
killed. The children being of such tender age, the
police delivered them up to their parents, on the under-
standing they were produced on Monday in court. John
Roberts, the gu trd of the train, was placed iri the witness
box, but was not examined.—lnspector Wyatt, on the
part of the company, said, in view of the tender age of
the boys. he left the case in the hands of the Bench.—
Mr. Banks told the boys, who were crying, they might
have caused the death of a great many persons. They
were so young that they did not realise all the conse-
quences of such an act as they had committed. They
would be remanded for a few hours. The boys were
then removed to the cells, it being understood they
would be released after a few hours' detention.'
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-21

Bell Brothers, Ironmasters, Middlesboro'. " Very
satisfactory—have availed ourselves for 10 years or more."
John Snowden, Paint Manufacturer and Oil Merchant,
South Shields. Your Telegram received, and very
much obliged to you for your prompt reply—They won't
got an ounce of stuff from me., Yours Scc.
Swann, J. E. and Brothers, Ironmasters, Middlesboro'
and Glasgow, "Satisfactory."
Bissell, James, and Son, Birchill Iran Works, Walsall.
" Great Value."

Darlington Forge Company. "Prompt replies—ap-
prove of the Confirmatory style adopted."
Lackenby Iron Company, Middlesboro'
" Conscientiously recommended. Members 8 years."
Darlington Waggon Company, Darlington.
" Prompt—reliable information—various sources."
Stanbridge, Sydney, Esq., Maltster, Camberwell,
London, S.E. " Chartos are higher than any other
office, but the results justify the additional outlay."
Oldroyd and Sons (Limited),Dewsbury. "Reliable."
Hudson, Sykes and Bousfield, Leeds, •• Satisfied with
the thoroughness of the manner you answer Continental
inquiries."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-21

SATURDAY, OCE 21,

876

DISTRESSING SUICIDE OF A
UNIVERSITY STUDENT.

In London, on Monday, Dr. Thomas' deputy-
coroner fur Central Middlesex, he'd an ioquiry at
University Hospital into the circumstances connected
with the death d Rattangi Vasatigi Desai, aged 21,
a student in the Arts and Saienca Department of
University College, Gower-street, who shot himself in
the month on Tuesday morning last, in his bedroom at
3, Chalcot-creseent, Prinarose.hill, and died in the
'hospital on Thursday evening from the injuries.
.Deceased and a Etindqo friend, named Dolati,
came to England from Bombay about twelve
months ago, for the purpose of studying at
University College, and the .friends resided together
at Caalcot-crescent, occupying eeparate bedrooms,
' Mr. Frederick Fincharo, the lanciLird, said elf ceasel
came into tea at five on Monday evening the 9;h inst ,
after .which ho went to the Holborn Skating Rink.
He came home at one o'clock in the morning, and atter
apologising to the landlady for being so late, at once re-
retired to his bedroom. bolting and locking the
door after him; as was his rule. About half an
hour afterwards Mr. Dolati aroused them, and
appealed for help, sa ing he had twice -heard
the report of firearms, Mr. Fincham went and
thbeeyd, guoutde in r
assisted to break open deceased's bedroom by
knocking out a
ilai'el' and when
in n
tuheeaythfaousuhdeedt,°wehazicehd hT litifi thrown over his head. He
was in a state of great prespiration. A small pistol,
Which appeared to be new, and which was naarlied
NWatoon and Son, 313, High Holborn," was leing on his
chest, Demaad Wag unconzeicua end cnldiaut speak,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-21

COUNTY COURT.

McGregor v. Beckley.—JUßY CASE.-At the
County Court, on Thursday, before Mr. R. Kettle,
judge. This was an action brought by Mary Ann
McGiegor against Felix Beckley, fruiterer, of
Brierley Hill, for 'l5O, for damage done to a
carriage, and killing a horse.—Mr. Homfray ap-
peared for plantiff. and Mr. Homer for the defend-
ant. In opening the case, Mr. Homfray said thai
on the 15th June, 1876, the plaintiff was driving
down in her carriage with a young lady, when
near Barnett Lane, which is between the the Cat
, publickhouse and Col. Fletcher's, defendants trap
was coming at a furious rate, and in trying to cut
up Cot Lane, defendant's shaft entered the side
of plaintiff horse, killed it, and the carriage was
injured, in fact the damage done amounted to
more than a hundred pounds. The horse costXBo.
and more than ..£2O. damages was done to the
carriage. They might have taken the case to the
Assizes which was more expensive, and claimed
the whole damage done, but they preferred to
bring it to a local court,:and the jury must know they
could only sue for £5O. and if he proved his case,
he should ask them to give a verdict for the full
amount claimed. After hearinc, the evidence of
a number of witnesses on both' sides, the judge
summed up, and the jury returned a verdict for
defendant.
THE LITE MINING CASE.-At the County Court,
application was made by Mr. Walker, on behalf of
the defendants, for a new trial in the case of
Priest v. Harris and Pearson. His Honour said
he did not see there was anything in the affidavits
to justify him in granting a new trial, and he re-
fused the application.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-21

OIL-SPRING. ENTERPRISE.

. The Pennsylvania Transportation Company hasbeen
formed for the purpose of conveying oil from the neigh-
bourhood of the wells to the seaboard cities of the At.
'antic, and-the works they propose to set up are on a
scale of .mignitude corresronding with many other
features of this laed of" big things." It is intended
to lay a four-inch pipe over the eatire distance
between the wells and the Atlantic, a stretch of
some 300 miles. The Pennsylvanian springs are
said to be yielding a steady flow of 30,000 barrels a
day, and the railway compatiies appear to have bsen
rather extensively participating in the great pros•
perity of the region by exacting exorbitant, charges
for carriage. They have rather overshot their mark
apparently, and have called forth a scheme which
promises to sispersede them. The practicability
of the plan is said to Le established by
the success of the works now in actual operation
at the wells, where an ag4regate of 253 miles of
piping has for a long time been in use. An aggre-
gate of 250 miles of piping in short lengths couldl
perhaps, scarcely he held to .prove the feasibility of
employing one pipe 300 yards long, but the scheme
seems to have been carefully matured, and the chief
of the Bureau of Military Railroads during the war,
after due consideration of the project, has undertaken
the responsibility of engineer in-chief. Baltimore is
the first city with which this novel communication is
to be opened up. The oil is to be carried through the
channel under a pressure of 9001bs. to the square inch,
and every lamiles a pumping-station is to be put up, with
an engine of a 100 horse power to carry on the stream
from point to point. On its arrival at Baltimore the
fluid will be received into, enormous reservoirs, in con-
nection with refinery establishments. It is calculated
that the entire channel and its appurtenances will cost
a million and a quarter of dollars, and should it prove
as satisfactory In all respects as it is confidently ex-
pected to be, similar lines will imbs..quently be estab.
lished connecting the oil wells with Pnilsdelphia, New
York, and other places.—Globc.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-21

BRI I ISH SHIPPING.

The RegTstrar-General of Shipping end Seamen
reports that Vie 20,191 registered sailing and steam
vessels of the United Kingdom, exclusive of river
steamers) aatually employed in our home and foreign
trade in 1875 were, in the aggregate, of 5,691,692 tons,
which is 258,131 taus more than the 'tit-mai-4e of the
22 207 vessels actually employ el in the trade of 1871
The increase in the five years was in e,sel3 employed
in oar forPign trade, which in 1875 were of 4,593,360
tons, or 376,876 tons snore than in 1871. Toe in-
crease was also entirely in the larger ships employed..
The total towage of all the vessels uuder 6eo tons'
employed in '1875, whether in the home or foreign
trade, shows a decrease of 337,012 tons, as coin.
pared with 1871; the tonnage of vessels of 600 to
1,200 tons, an increase of 76,900 tons ; the ton-
nage of vessels of 1,200 tens and upwards, an increase
of 518.273 tons. The number of men and boys em-
ployed W 38199,667 in 1875, or 71 fewer than in 1871.
The increased employment of large vessels is strikingly
Shown in the following figures relating entirely to our
trade with foreign parts. In that trade our ships of
1,200 and under 1.500 tons employed in 1871 were 511
of (in the whole) 673,084 tons, and in 1875 there were
630 of 836,551 tons ; of ships of 1,500 and under 2,000
tons there were 164 of 276,874 tons in 1871, and 308
of 522,574 tons in 1875; of ships of 2,000 and under
2,503 tons, 45 of 100,399 tons in 1871, and 70 of 155,061
tons in 1875; of 2,500 and under 3,000 tons, 7 of 19,634
tons in 1871, and 27 of 73,637 tons in 1875; of 3,000
tons and above, 4 of 13,628 tons in 1871, and 8 of 25,818
tons in 1875. Of this last class it is noteworthy that
the 4 ships in 1871 employed only 318 men and bays,
hut the 8 in 1875 eniploy ed 930 web and boys.

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One of the Paris Ocorfes pPonAditenitSs•Poi::74h?Ditryi:News
wf Les :—" I Lave just paid a'visit to an old budding,
halt in ru;its, which mu,t have attracted the notice of
many tourists en their wily from the centfal Part of
Paris to the terminus of the Orleans Hue. Thia build.
ing, almost oppo.iite to the Arsenal, stands • at the
crazier of the Quit de Ctestins and the Rue Petit-
Musc, and is a fragment of the ancient HOtel St. Paul,"
a R.,yal palace in which one King of France (Oharles
V.) was burnt to death during a noaelreci halt. The
pn..l ice, with its magnificent r, ardens, its vineyaris, and
its menagerie (there exist now two streets, the Rue du
Beau-Treillis and the Rue de la Menagerie, which
reMnd cub of where the t7ci latter stood), extended
) fidatht*hat °lefty/ the FaulOourg Bt. AntOiner to the
seine, and coTered an immense anew) of ground.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-21

DUDLEY SCHOOL BOARD.

On Monday evening the foi.‘nightly meeting was held,
Mr. George Thompsen presiding.
Referring to the resignation of Mr. Perry, Dr. Cosens
said it appeared to hi-n that some steps shou'd be taken
with respect to the position of School Borrd officers iu
that town. It was all vety we'l for them to say they
woutd support their officers, but he shor'd like to know
whether it would not be possible for tne officers to be
sworn in as specie' constables, because if that were
done it would become an act of felony for any person to
assar,t them. It would, at e." events, give the officers
more free Jaen and protection. He was quite shocked
to hear Parry's statements as to the opposition he met
wit ; but if sworn in as specirl constables, woed not
the officers be under the protectioa of the Crown ?
The Clerk : Only in the discharge of their duties as
epecial constables.
Mr. Danks suggested that the officers should 1)e
&lowed to bring a case before the Board when they were
insulted or assaulted again.
Mr. Terry approved of the suggestion, and Mr. Napier
inquired if the Board had not the power to summon any
inni%:dual who intafered with an officer in the discharge
of his duty?

Mr. Pairy said he had spoken to Mr. Barrdale (magis-
trates' clerk), rid he thought a clause should be inser led
in the bye-laws for the protection of the officers.
Mr. Reynolds said they could summon offenders under
the Police Clauses Act for using obscence language and
for assarlt.

The Chairman suggested that handbills should be pub-
lished informing the people of the duties of the officers,
and stating that in cases where they are interfered with
proceedings would be taken.
It was decided, after fur Pier discussion, that the Clerk
qionld draw up a handbill, to be submitted to the next
.acet'ag.
Mr. Warmington (solicitor) attended the Board, and
stated that the deed respeatine, the Lancasterian Slhools
had been signed by five out of the eight trustees. If the
Board would sign he would get the others to do so on
their return home.

The seal of the Board was attached, and, on the
motion of Mr. Teriy, seconded by Mr. Russell, a
cheque for £4OO was drawn, and ordered to remain
in the hands of the Clerk until the convejance was
completed.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-21

BELBROUGHTON.

THE LATE CHARGE OF HORER-STEALING.—AA the Wor-
cestershire Sessions, on Wednesday, before Mr. B.
Harrington, John Thompson (66)14r0n-fitter, was charged
with stealing a horse, on the 17th of September, the
property of John Griffiths,. Mr. Evans appeared for the
prosecution; prisoner was undefended. Proseautor is a
farmer, and saw prisoner on his premises on the day in
question, and ordered him away. The same night the
horse was turned into a field, but next morning it was
gone, and the fence was broken down. The horse was
found the same day in a stable at Stourbridge,
and the prisoner acknowledged taking it there, but said
he had been entrusted rith the animal by a young
gentleman. He was found guiity, ar.d was sentenced to
nine months month's hard labour.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-21

THE TRANSFUStON OF i3'LOOD.

The Paris Correspondent of the Standard writes
"The rare operation of transfusion of blood has been
performed at the Hospital Bosnian. The operator,
Dr. Terroir, hopes by its means to save the life of a
female patient in a state of utter exhaustion from
aLcoaaia and leukhcemia, and the result is so far favour-
able. The first attempts at transfusion of blood, made
in the 17th century, failed in consequence of the blood
of animals being employed, further experiments having
proved that human blood only can be succeselfully used.
. Experiments made by Dr. B4ir, at Paris, and by
Rausselju Russia, haver.proYcd, that the operation
inafbe peifoimed with a fair chEtnceof tifedistg a'eure.
The-operation consists in taking from a healthy man
who ,will volunteer for the
_puryose 500 grammes of
blacittmllich is.corkvOad b fltneel into a graduated
syringe and mainbimedby mekfis- of -warm water at a
:temperature of _ 811 deg. ce*igrade, ,or blopd heat.
With tlie greatest prebafititms‘-egainsit therildnaission
of air, the blood is then slowly and carefully injected
into. an ,openieg in a vein of the patient's arm. M.
Martial' Morifiset, an indoor student of the hospital,
bitkiely otfered--to give his blood, which was imme-
diately introduted into the veins of the patient by an
apparattni 'eSjaeoiallSt preparedifor ,ttie purpose. Since
his generous sacrifice M. Morisset has been forced to
;keep his bed, •akdme kin:try-musk elapse-re he can
recover his strsid
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-21

THE AUSTRALIAN DEURT.

It was stated recently that the Agent-General for SJuth
Australia had receivod a telegram announcing the safe
arrival in that colony in August of Mr. Giles, the explorer,
who had travelled thither from the Murchison River, in
Western Australia. The Australian mail-has brought some
it'ccpunt of the j )urney. Mr. Gdes, who stare on the 10th
of April from a spot 27 7 South latitude and 116 45 longitude,
says
I made a generally north east by east course by
way of Mount Goutl, in latitude 2646, till the 24:h
parallel was reached. I traced the Ashburton to its
sources, and determined the whole watershed by the
western rivers, which is simply a mass of rangy
eountry abutting upon the desert in longitude 123 20.
From the delot on the Ashburton I went up to the
23rd parallel. No watercourses flowed eestward.
From the end of the watershed in that longitude,
the latitude being near the 241 ps,rall,tl, to the
Rawlinson Range of my last horse expedition, in longi-
tude 127 deg.. the curntry was all open spinifere sand.
hill desert. I sank a well ten feet deep, and-obtained
water near the edge of the desert. At starting into
the desert most of the camels were continually
poisoned, the plant which poisoned them not being
allied in any way to the poison plants of the settled
districts of Western Australia. I now know it well,
and have brought specimens. The longest stretch
without water was a ten days' march. One old
cow camel died after reaching the water. We had
some rain on the Bth of May before reaching the Ash-
burton, and some of it must have extended into the
desert. It was the only chance water we obtained. We
had some more rain north of the• Alfred and Mary
ranges. Our latitude having been between the 24th
and 25th pa;.allels, I made another effort to discever
some remains of my former lost man, Gibson, but
failed, too long a time having elapsed. Portions of the
Rawlinson and Peternaan ranges. had been visited by
rains, but the further we went eastward the more
desolated with drought the country' became. We
struck the Westland telegraph line at the angle poles
close ts Mount Hatloran, on the Nsed's River, 60 miles
kern the Peke, and travelled thence down the line
to the station. We were all attacked with opthalmia
'before the rains fell in May. I recovered an alditional
attack afterwards. The winter was excessively cold,
the thermometer in the morning for weeks being down
to 18 deg. No natives were met with from Menet
0-Juld to he Petercon Ranges, at which last-named
place they were frieudle. In Mergroye Range they
stole a few things, but I was absent at the time. The
camels have travelled splendidly."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-21

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ALVELEY.

STOOK SALE.—Mr. Z. Cresswell, held his third peri-
odical_sale, on Monday which included upwards of 300
sheep and lambs, 50 head of cattle, and a large quantity
of pigs.. Thetis was a large attendance of buyers from
the surrounding districts, Stonrbridge, Dudley, Wolver-
hampton, Brierley Hill, Kidderminster, and Bridgnorth,
and competion very brisk. Fat sheep male as high as
70s per head, ram lambs belonging to Mr. J. Harding,
Greenhouse, realized as high as £4 6s; fat cows, £23
17s 61 ; cows and calves, £2l 15s Od ; barren cows,
£l5 3s 6d; fat calves from £3 15s Od to £9; sows and
pigs £l3 2s 6d.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-21

THE IRON INDUSTRY.'

There has been some rumours lately to the effect that
the iron industry is beginning to show signs of recovery.
We gieatly question whether this sanguine vinv of
affairs is supported by facts. .It is true that in some
places workmen are beginning to clamour for higher
wages, on the plea that capital is making an undue
share of profit. It remains to be proved, however,
whether this is really the case. At a recent meeting
of South Staffordshire and East Worcestershire iron-
masters, in the Birmingham Exchange, there were
not wanting indications to prove the trade as stag-
nant as ever. Scarcely any business was done
for export, and although the home demand
seemed a trifle more lively, it is to the foreign
consumer we must look for anything like a
real recovery. •As a rule, prices maintained their pre-
vious level, the tendency being, if anything, towards a
reduction. With the these facts in view, it would be
more judicious for the workpeople to remain content
with their present pay until their industry shows some-
tnings more like real buoyancy. The recent demand
for pig iron, upon which they chiefly base their claim
to a readjustment of wages, appears to have been
almost entirely speculative in its nature. This parting:,
lar market is almost as easily affected by rumour as
that for foreign securities, and it was, therefore, easy
enough to contrive "a warm corner" in pig iron.
Should the demstd for increased remuneration be per-
sisted in, it may possibly have the effect of retarding
that reeovery in prices which is so anxiously looked
for in the Midlands. Contractors dare not enter into
extensive engagements with the probability of having
to pay enhanced rates starinz them in the face. It
shouid be remerribi,red that England no longer pos-
sesses a monopoly in manufactured iron Other nations
are very nearly our equals in that line of business, and
our control over the foreign market depends entirely
upon our being able to sell an equal class of goods at a
lower price, This consideration governs the whole
situation, and it would be well, therefore, for those
concerned in the production of manufactured iron to
iive it due weight.—Olobe.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-21

SHOCKING ACCIDENJI AT CRADLEY.

On Tuesday moraing a dreadful accident occurred to a
girl, named Lucy Pearson, sixteen years of age, whose
parents reside at Stamber Mill, near Stourbridge. It
appears that the unfortunate girl had been to fetch a
load of nail-iron with a horse and trap, and from some
cause or other the animal took fright and bolted. When
near the May Pole Inn, Cradley, one of the bundles of
iron was jerked out, and got fixed between the spokes of
the cart wheel. This caused the cart to stoplso suddenly
that the poor girl was Urown to the ground with such
force that her chest was knocked completely in, and
death was instantaneous. The body was removed to the
Wagon and Horses, Cradley Forge.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-21

NOXIOUS VAPOURS. •

At the Social Science Congress neld•at Liverpool, Dr. Angus
nith read a paper on the special question relative to
noxious vapours. He said :

"The. progress of ehylnical manufactures and the
alkali manufacture was intimately connected with the
progress of the country. It was enough to say that
soap, glass, clean white linen and cotton, and writing
paper demanded the existence of these works. But it
was said that they destroyed crops, trees, 'and vegeta-
tion, and this charge was not without foundation.
Trees had been destroyed to a pitiable extent In -many
places,And he decay wan always going on. In 1863,
in a statement given, to the Royal Commission, it was
shown that the capital invested in the alkali trade
was eqeaf.to abent,lo millions sterling; 254,000 tone
of salt were
.then used annually, but now nearly
that amount was used in Widnes alone, and that
was only S 9 pernent of the whole trade. Neer inven-
tions were required for condensation and inereaeed
pressure... One hundred millions of tons of coal *ere
annually consumed, and if they contained 1 per dent.
of volatilized vulphur we had three million tone of the -
strongest vitriol poured into the air and on'laucl. Near.
great centres of coal-burning, vegetables must suffer
until the time came when even coal emoke %mild be
washed. Sewer gases were known to be hurtful, bat
people, did not avoid them because they did not affect
the senses so readily. It was" better 'to prevent the
formation of sewer gases in the sewers than attempt
to remove them when termed, as prevention was better
than cure. No further, time should be lost in making
legislatives changes in relation to chymical works.
Works giving off c &wive gases ought to be put under
inspection, for a time at least, and when complained
of; and those giving out mineral acids should be placed
under constant inspection. Of course, certified manure
works, copper works, bone works, and arsenic works
Would be included.

Dr. Andrews, President of the Briti3h Association,
said that the presence of the foreign bodies in the
atmosphere, to which Dr. Smith referred, was, sm.
dOubtedly, injurious to the public health, and that the
prevalence of smoke in the air of large towns was
especially hurtful from intercepting the solar rays and
thus preventing their vivifying infl mace upon the
human frame, as might be seen from the pallor of the
h 4bitualdenisens of our great ceutrel. of population.
As an exatuple of the 'influence of hurtful emanations,
he refer,ted,to the effects of mercurial vapours at the
mines orladia, where the young workmen died pram a-
ture!y, and those who survived were affected with
mercurial palsy. ,
A discussion ensued, in which Drs. Macadam Fa
Ferguq, Colonel Jones, Mr. Spence, Mr. Latham, and
Mr. 0011i1.13 took part.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-21

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-21

POPULARITY OF THE PHILADELPHIA

EXHIBITION.

The American Correspondent of the TiM°l writes from
Philadelphia, under date Sept. 29 :
The excitement in this part of the United States
about the Centennial Exhibition dwarfs everything
else. The people are now coming to it, with a rnhb,
and in such numbers that it is evident that the total
paying visitors, if nothing untoward hipprins, may
exceed those of eny previous internatidnal ex-
hibition. Daring last week there were 545,018
paying visitors; and the total of this week will ex.
coed that number, there -having el eady been on
the first four daps 512,15?, paying visitor., with a
become,
inlnitsfanclta,gntihtendreu,shontloy tahe
'prospect of least 150,000 more to•clay' and to-
clEu emsTibo ni oonf ht
the
means of transport. Not more than one.f.urth of
the usual daily attendance Is of Philadelphians. They
havEi long A2O Satiated curiosity, and they are now
g vie g place to strangers, with whom the city is
tilied to overflowing, and who come in daily by tens of
thousands by every possible means of conveyance. All
the railways leading to the city are taxed to their
utmost capacity; the cars a varming with people
inside, outside, arid oft platforms, and wherever a pas-
senger can cling with any reasonable chance of se,fety.
Oar railway etations look like town meetings from the
swarming crowds, our chief streets are uncomfortably
, filled, our hotels crammed, our dwellings all impromptu
lodging houses; and in fact, this city, New York,
Baltimore, snd alnadst every town and villege within a
circuit of a hundred miles around us, is full, of people
bound to or from the Exhibition, or who spend the day
there and go scores of miles home at night
Since the opening of September the fashion has come
in vogue of making special day a for special classes of
visitors to Cie Exhibition. These have beea marked
I y some spf cial, but plain, ceremonial, such as a recere
tion or an address, and Sometimes thera has been a pro.
B) that we have had "New Jersey day," "Massa.
cession. These days are generally devoted to States,
'chusetts day,"." New .stork day, " &c. Yesterday 'wee
" Penuralvaria day," being the centenary of the esta-
blishment of the State Government of Pennsylvania
under a President and Council, September. 28, 1776.
There has alto been "Odd Fellows day," witn some
othrs. This system. has not only swollen the
numbar of visitors, but it has also produced a spirit
e
of friendly rivalry to show which " day " should
have the most admissions, each, as it accuse, being
got up, if possible to exceed its predeceseor. The first
great day was "New JefEey day," when abent 80,000
viortoFp.si.ttlnded. Tfien_rcame the "Odd Fe11974' "
with nearlY 100,000; "eta tb:eii""NewYcik-daiflth4
about 117,000. Now, it would never do for Penn.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-21

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