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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-19

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-19

THE SERVO-BULGARIAN QUESTION.

A special correspondent at Sofia telegraphed on
Sunday that it seems to be generally agreed that there
will be no more fighting,;tb.e chief question of interest
now being the completion of arrangements for
a definite armistice. A Vienna psper publishes an
account of a severe engagement near Izvor, in which the
Bulgarians are said to have been defeated. The troops
at Pirot are suffering from dysentery and typhoid.
The Servians continue to make preparations for a
winter campaign. Disquieting rumours were current
in Constantinople of impending difficulty with Greece.
The same correspondent, telegraphing on Monday,
said that the representatives of the Powers waited
upon the Bulgarian Foreign Minister yesterday and
urged the acceptance by Bulgaria of the military com-
mission which proceeds to the seat of war to-day to
fix the neutral zone. Prince Alexander, who is at
Pirot, was communicated with, and stated, in reply,
that the Servians must first leave the Widdin district.
So long, however, as they remain on Bulgarian soil,
the Prince will refuse to negotiate, but as soon as
they retire within their frontiers he agrees to nego-
tiate with the commission on any reasonable basis,
and to demobilise his forces if the Powers will
guarantee peace, and Servia agrees to pay a sufficient
indemnity to cover the war expenses. Madjid Pa.ha
left Constantinople yesterday for Sofia. From Bel-
grade it is announced that General Horvatovich has
had great difficulty in pr, venting a resumption of
hostilities. The Servian Ministry is expected to
resign.

A Belgrade t6l.%grain dated Tuesday contains men-
tion of a. number'Sf movements of troops for the pur-
pose, as is said, of carrying out a new plan of opera-
tions. Troops continue to be sent forward to the
front, and large quantities of ammunition and stores
are being purchassed and paid for in ready money by
the Servian Government. It is reported that hostilitie
have been resumed, and that fighting has been going
on since the evening of Monday. The weather con-
tinues very cold, and a severe winter is anticipated.

Et. PASTEUR'S HYDROPHOBIA
P A 'HMV TO.

M. Pasteur will receive for treatment any one who
has been bitten by a mad dog, and is in danger of
being seized by hydrophobia. The British Medical
Journal has been authorised to make this announce-
ment. On Sunday, November 29, a mad dog ran
about the streets of a French village, and bit six
people, including a police-sergeant. The preliminary
precautions were taken, and the six patients were
conveyed to M. Pasteur's laboratory. There are
sixty-two people now under M. Pasteur's treatment;
they have travelled from all parts of the world after
reading his communication to the Academic des
Sciences.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-19

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-19

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-19

SHOCKING LIFT ACCIDENT IN
BIRMINGHAM,

Shortly after ten o'clock on Friday night a serious
accident occurred at Messrs. Lewis's new establish-
ment in Corporation-street, Birmingham, from the
fall of a hydraulic lift, resulting in eleven persons
being injured and taken to the hospital. The assist-
ants of the firm employed in the grocery department
at the top of the building had been working overtime
in preparation for Christmas, and, being in a hurry
to descend, eleven of them crowded upon the lift.
which is raised and lowered by a wire rope passing
over a pulley at the top, and worked by hydraulic
pressure. Either owing to the exceptional excessive
weight, or to some defect in the apparatus, the wire
rope snapped, and the lift and its occupants fell from
the third storey, at least forty feet in height. The
shock was terrific, and the whole of the assistants
were more or less injured and disabled. They were
removed as quickly as possible to the General Hos-
pital, where, in addition to the shock, most of them
had sustained fractured limbs or sprains, but only two
were detained.

"Do you know old Wiggins, of our town? That's
he sitting across the aisle there." "Very stingy, isn't
he?" "Stingy is no name for it. He keeps a coffin
with a false bottom, and whenever he buries a wife,
the coffin is pulled out and saved for the next one. In
that way be has made one coffin do for four wives,
and it is a good coffin yet."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-19

DEATHS FROM "ELECTION FEVER."'

The Lancet, in an article on this subject, says:
"The record of deaths resulting more or less directly
from the feverish excitement caused by the general
election now in progress is being filled up, and the
number of cases of illness traceable to this source of
disturbance will be large. It is strange to note the
extent to which minds of even small calibre are stirred
by politics. No very high order of intellect seems to
be requisite for the formation of an" opinion" as to
the way in which public affairs ought to be managed,
and the opinion formed is apt to be strong in propor-
tion to the feebleness of the mind that shaped it. . . .
The casualties which occur do not, as a rule, befal the
weaker, but rather the more excitable or the least
generally healthy, organisms. There are two classes
of cases. Those in which the perturbed die suddenly
are, as a rule, cases of heart or vessel or coarse brain
disease. The larger class has yet to be declared in
the more or less slow wrecking and drifting of weakly
overstrained intellects. Already the mentally
maimed are beginning to find their way into hospital
out-patient rooms and consulting rooms. The mind
and brain mortality of the election of 1885 threatens
to be a heavy one.'

Louis XII. said that he had rather see his courtiers
iaugh at his avarice than his people weep athis ex-
travagance; so a wise housekeeper will be willing that
his friends shall respect his prudence rather than
smile covertly at his ostentation.
Tun WISDOM OF Josn BILLINGS.—To learn yure
offspring to steal, make them beg hard for all that
you give them. Tew remove grease from a man's
karakter let him strike some sudden lie. Angels
handle the dice when doublets are thrown in the
cradle. Flattery is like Colon° water, tew be smelt
ov, not swallered. if a man lint got a well-balanced
head I like tew see him part his hair in the middle.
There is only one good!substitute for the endearments
ov a sister and that iz the endearments ov sum other
phellow's sister. Piety iz like beans, it seems to do
the best on poor sue. Going to law iz like skinning a
new milk cow for her hide and giving the beef tew
the lawyers. About the hardest thing a phellow kan
do is tew spark tew girls at once and preserve a good
average. I had rather undertaik tow be two good
doves than one decent serpent. A good wife is a
sweet smile from heaven. A lie iz like a kat—il
nevrAr plimq few yew in a straieht line.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-19

TRE COST OF THE METROPOLITAN

FIRE BRIGADE.

The Parliamentary Committee .of the Metropolitan
Board of Works recommended to the Board on Satur-
day morning that they should empower the committee
to take all necessary measures for promoting the
passage through both Houses of Parliament of a bill
to empower the Board to raise for Fire Brigade pur-
poses, as part of the Metropolitan Consolidated rate,
a sum equal to what would be produced by the rate
of one penny in the pound on the ratable annual value
of property in the Metropolis, and to increase the
contributions of the Fire Insurance Companies from
£35 to £4O per million on the gross amount insured
by them in the Metropolis. Mr. Solway, as chairman
elf the Parliamentary Committee, moved the adoption
of the committee's recommendation. He pointed out
that the raising of the rate would give an increase '
from £72,000 to X 120,500 ; an d the contributions from
the insurance companies would be raised from
£25,377 to £29,002. If this bill became law, there-
fore, they should receive practimlly an addition of
about £3700. This was a comparatively small sum,
and it was fair and proper that the companies should
contribute something in addition if the Board was
called upon to pay a very much larger expense. This
had appeared to the committee the simplest mode of
effecting the desired object, and he, therefore, moved
the confirmation of the recommendation. A discus-
sion ensued, in the course of which Mr. Runtz
opposed the motion, and Mr. Jones objected to his
doing so without explaining his connection with in-
surance companies. An amendment was moved by
Mr. Shepherd that the insurance companies' contri-
butions should be increased to £5O per million; but
this received no support, and v as withdrawn, and the
, oriyinal motion Wtl3 eventually carried.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-19

SATURDAY, DEC. 19, 1885.

MR, G. A, SALA ON LABOUR IN

AUS TR ALIA:

Mr. G-. A. Ma, recently addressing the representstive of an .4.V.ralian journal, said: "I recognise that
labour is needed everywhere in Australia—more
working mint,- moretomestic servants, more young
men, more. intelligent men, more Scotsmen—as many
more as ever you like. I think I have also been able
to discern the people who are not required here.
These are the black sheep of good families, loafers,
idlers, yoting nien who come out and spend their
money, drift into dissolute habits, net remittances to
take them home again, where they do nothing but
abuse the colonies, of which they know nothing, and
in which their presence was likely to do more harm
than good. I have been preaching lay sermons
for a good many years; and were I not too old
and too wicked I would get into some pulpit at home
and preach as a minister, for certainly ministers
have more influence over their congregations
than lecturers have over audiences. I would
say to my hearers : My capable, hard-
working, shrewd, intelligent brethren, go out to
Australia. You and your wives and your children,
go out, work hard, and be assured that, with or with-
out capital, you will by hard working, frugality, and
sobriety, greatly better your condition. Not only that,
but you will also better those whom you leave behind.
You will give more and more backbone, more and
more muscle, more and more red blood to the body
politic of Australia.' But I would also add' My
idle brethren, my stupid brethren, my wicked, needy
brethren, my vicious brethren, my drunken brethren,
stop at home and gravitate to your natural refuge, the
poorhouse. Do not go to Australia to become a
nuisance and a pest there.' Then, in more forbearing
language, I would amicably advise young men in
England of mere clerical attainments, who can at best
only hope to be bookkeepers or shop assistants, to
think twice, nay, thrice, before they travel 13,000
miles to find a country where the native youths equal,
if they do not excel, them in the ability demanded by
the Lrequirements of the counting-house and shop
count er."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-19

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-19

KIDDERMINSTER.

A NEW TJsz port THE TELEPHONE —At the Police
Coutt, on Monday, William Henry Wilson and
.f.ones Wood were charged with begging on Sun-
day night.— Mr. J. L. Stletton said he was walking
along Callow's Lane on Sunday night, when the
defendant Wood came up to him, and said he was
a comb maker from Sheffield. and was out of work,
and asked for assistance. Witness declined to help
him, and three or four others, who were evidently
companions of Wood, jeered him, Wilson and
Wood followed him to his house and acted in a very
impertinent manner. Mr, Stretton went into his
house and telephoned to the Police Station, with
the result than an officer came up in a minute or
two and arrested the defendants.—Other evidence
was given showing that the defendants had been
very impertinent to other people.—When Wilson
was searched he had 3s 3d upon him, and Wood
had 50 —Defendants, who denied the charge,
were committed for one month's bard labour.
AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH.-4 inquest was held
in the Town Hall, on Wednesday night, as to the
death of Esther Jones, a married woman, aged 23
y ears. Deceased, wh ) was some time ago deserted
by her husband, has been lodging at a house in a
court in Mill Street, along with a Mrs. Farley. On
Monday morning she complained of headache, and
did not get UP to go to her work as usual, Witness
gave her a little brandy and water, and she said she
felt better. She talked and laughed as usual, and
at two o'clock told Mrs. Farley to get her dinner,
Mrs. Farley went downstairs and returned in a
quarter of an hour to find deceased a corpse. She
sent for a doctor, and Mr. Macqueen arrived about
three o'clock, and said he believed deceased bad
been dead an hour. He thought it probable that
death arose from heart disease as well as disease of
the liver. A. verdict to the effect that demigod
diad from "Natural mass" was returned.,

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-19

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SATURDAY DEORMBER 19, 1885.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-19

LORD CHARLES BERESFORD ON THE

VOLUNTEERS.

Lord Charles Beresford, M.P., presented the prizes
of the West Middlesex Rifles at St. John's-wood,
London, on Friday evening, and said that every
officer and man in the army and navy took great
interest in the volunteer force, the grandest army of
citizen soldiers the world had ever seen, and composed
of men who had come forward voluntarily to perform
the duties of soldiers. In this there was not only the
utility such men would be in time of war, but there
was the utility of discipline in time of peace—the
discipline which must be the source of so much con-
tentment, so much self-command, and command of
tempr,r. It was to be hoped the day was not far dis-
tant when there would be a volunteer navy of sailors,
as there was a volunteer army of soldiers. He was
sure that whenever the proposals might be fairly
brought forward, the citizen sailors would be forth-
coming in large numbers. His lordship dwelt em-
phatically upon the necessity of constant target prac-
tice. There was a great number of good shots
amongst the volunteers, and his experience had taught
him that twenty five good shots were more than
equal to three hundred bad ones when attacking an
enemy. For these reasons volunteers were to be com-
mended for the efforts they made to perfect their
shooting under difficulties.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-19

BULGARIANS IN A STRANGE LAND

Considerable commotion was caused in the streets
of Colchester on Saturday by the appearance of four
men and a woman attired in the national costume of
the inhabitants of the Balkan Peninsula, and sup-
posed to be Bulgarians. They had tickets from the
Continent to London, and arriving at Harwich by the
Continental boat, hard been placed in the train. On
arriving at Manningtree, where they had to change
carriages, they refused to enter the main line train,
having been much upsft by the speed and motion of
They then started with the intention of
tramping to London on foot, and arrived at Colchester
in the afternoon. The police authorities found them-
selves unable to communicate with them, so secured
the services of a local professor of languages, who
spoke to the wanderers in French, German, and
Russian, but was unable to make himself understood.
After some delay the police, by gestures, managed to
get them to the railway station, and saw them safely
into a third-class compartment. The Bulgarian
Consul in London was telekraphed to, requesting him
to have an interpreter waiting for the travellers at
Liverpool-street.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-19

BRIERLEY HILL.

ALLEGED ETTENSITE BURGLARIES —At the Police
Court on Moaday, before F. Evers and H. Hall,
Esqrs., Join i (36), Hart's-hill, Brierley Hill,
was charged on remand with burglariously enter-
ing the houzes of Maria Hingley, Level-street,
Brierley Hid ; Jhi Baines, Worcisley ; and
Th(nnas Pinson, o!: the Swan lon, Kingswinford
and at aling from etch of them various articlis of
:d and clotling, amount'ng in the aggregate to
the value of about £7.—Mr. Waldron prozecuted,
and the pea mer was committ d to the next Staf-
fordshire Assizes on each of the charges
CHARGA OF FALSE PRETENCE-I.—WIN= Brooks,
pike helve maker, Redditch, was committed to btaf-
ford Sessions on a charge of obtaining by false pre-
teices, with intent to defrauding. .£1 from Sarah
Cnastin, Mill-street, Brierley llill.—Prisoner ob-
tsined the money from the prosecutrix under the
pretence tat he had purchased some timber at a
neighbouring timber-yard and that he not the
mcia3y to pay for it.
FOWL STEALERS CAUGHT. William Chambers
and Joseph Blackshaw, young men, of Wordsley,
were charged with stealing two fowls. value 4s, be-
longing to Joseph Whitehouse, farmer, Wordsley.—
P.O Johnson saw the defendants go to the farm and
bring one of the fowls away. On seeing him they
ran away. The other fowl was found dead where
the man had been.—Defendants were each sentenced
to_oue month's hard labour.

SE RIO US CHARGE AGAINST A FA RM SR.—JOS eph
Whitehouse, farmer, Wordsley, was charged with
having cruelly ill-treated, illused, and tortured a
qt ntity of sheep by neglecting to provide proper
and sufficient food.—Stephen Mutlow, an officer in
the employ of the Stourbridge Association for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, deposed to seeing
a flock of about 180 sheep in defendant's fields on
the Bth December. The fields were perfectly bare
of pasture, and the sheep were devouring what little
could be found on the surrounding banks. Many
of the sheen were in a very emaciated condition and
one had fallen into a ditch apparently from weak-
ness. The assistance of a veterinary surgeon was
obtained and the particular sheep mentioned was
ordered to be killel. The whole of the blood
coming from it could be held in the middle of the
' hand, its backbone felt like a saw, and the leg was
nothing but bone and sinew. There was no appear-
ance of disease.—Defendant was fined .25 and
costs and the veterinary eargeon's fee, in all £7 is
6d..
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-19

DOG LAW.

That sagacious animal the London dog has pro-
bably been standing in a critical attitude before the
notices which Sir Edmund Henderson has set up in
regard to unled and unmuzzled members of his
species. Dogs not so accommodated are forbidden
in the streets on pain of seizure and possible sale Qr
death. But what are the "streets ? " In the Act of
Parliament (30 and 31 Vict., c. 134) the word is to
include the Royal parks. Sir Edmund Henderson
may therefore apply his regulation to the parks; but
he may equally limit it to any part of the local area
over which he is given control. Must he not, in his
order, be taken to have used the word in its popular
sense, so that the released and happy dog may frisk
unmolested in the Queen's park. We think he must;
and, further, in prescribing his own form of muzzle
he comes perilously near exceeding his powers.
"Leather muzzles," says the edict, "will not be
deemed a compliance with the order," but the Act
only allows the Commissioner to require the dog to
be muzzled "in such a manner as will admit of the
animal breathing and drinking without obstruction.'
Unless,itherefore, this is impossible of leather muzzles
the notice is ultra vires. Owners of dogs will, not-
withstanding, do well to take the Commissioner's
hint in favour of wire muzzles, and legal critics of the
order will remember that an able lawyer is at hand at
Scotland-yard.—Law Journal.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-19

IRI*EL ABDUeilOri CASE.

A curious prosecution under the Criminal Law
Amendment Act was brought before Mr. Justice
O'Brien at the Assizes at Cork on Saturday. A man
named James Hodnett was charged with the abduc-
tion of a respectable little girl named Elizabeth Long,
15 years of age. The curious aspect of the case was
that the prisoner had always endeavoured to prevent
the little girl following him, but that she insisted
on accompanying him. She gave - her evidence in
court in a very jaunty manner, and admitted, in
reply to the prisoner, that he told her to go home
about half a dozen times whenever she went to his
house. She also admitted that she told liodnett she
had obtained her mother's consent to visit him. Mr.
Justice O'Brien, in charging the jury, said that
Hodnett was still responsible in the eye of the law for
abducting the girl, notwithstandinding the fact that
he attempted to prevent her following him. The
prisoner was found- guilty, and was sentenced to six
months' imprisonment with hard labour.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-19

TO THE IVEARY

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-19

THE STOURBRII)GE OBSERVER.

AFFAIRS IN THE SOUDAN,

The following telegrams from the General Officer
Commandingin Egypt were received at the War Office
on Saturday:—
"Cairo, Dec. 11, 7.35 p.m.
"Desultory rifle fire upon Kosheh this morning.
Casualties: Wounded slightly: Captain Racket
Thompson. Canteron Highlanders. Wounded dan-
gerously: 212 Private F. Farington, Cameron High-
landers. Wountled sezerely : 1194 Private J. House,
Cameron Highlanders."
"Cairo Dec 12 9.35 a m

"Further casualties at Kosheh yesterday afternoon.
Wounded slightly: 1071 Private Hugh Mackintosh
and 798 Private David Ramsay, Cameron High-
landers."

(Renter's Telegram.)
CAmo, Dec. 12.
Three thousand rebels to-day attacked Mograkeh,
a place two miles north of Koshay, garrisoned by 200
Egyptian troops under the command of Captain
Besant. After several hours' fighting the enemy were
driven off. Four Egyptian soldiers were wounded
during the engagement. The enemy's loss is un-
known. The rebels retired southward. General Sir
F. Stephenson and staff have gone up the Nile to-
night.
CAmo, Dec. 13.
News from the front reports that the rebels lost
heavily in their attack on Mograkeh yesterday. The
Khedive has sent a telegram to the Egyptian troops
congratulating them on the gallant manner in which
they had repulsed the enemy.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-19

KILLED

Dr. Danford Thomas, coroner for Central Middle-
sex, held an inquest on Friday evening, at the Hol-
born Town Hall, on the body of Daniel Desbois, aged
76, a watchmaker and jeweller, of 79, High Holborn.
John Kennish, 450, of the City police, stated that as
he was going across Blackfriars-bridge, at ten minutes
past twelve on the 4th inst., he heard a shout, and
saw a gentleman lying in the road about 10ft. from
the kerb, bleeding from a wound in his forehead.
Witness hailed a cab and took the deceased to the
hospital. On the road the decased told him that he
was lame in one leg from the gout; and that a sudden
gust of wind had blown him into the road. Dr.
Robinson, 5, Woburn-square, stated that he attended
deceased on Saturday, and he seemed seriously
injured. He got very excited through his delight
at having returned home, but became delirious, and
died from shock and exhaustion following his in-
juries. The jury returned the verdict that deceased
died from shock following injuries caused by losing
his balance through a gust oi wind, and from acci-
dental causes.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-19

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-19

THE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS ACT.

Georgina Rogers, aged 11, Agnes, aged 10 (her
sister), and Henry, eight years of ego (her brother),
were brought before Mr. Partridge, at the West-
minster Police-coutt, •London, on Saturday, nuclei.
the Industrial Schools Act, charged with living in a
house of ill-fame kept by their mother in Cumberland-
street, Pimlico. William Girling, one of the officers
of the Reformation and Rescue Society at Charing-
cross, said that from information that he had received
he watched the house in question, and had kept
observation upon it since October last. He then
detailed the number of immoral characters whom he
had seen enter and leave the house. That morning
ia company with Police-constable Langstaffe, B,
Division, vittiess went to the house, and in the
kitchen he found the three prisoners and two otEer
younger children. They were in the custody of a
servant. Witness asked where their mother was,
and with that she then came down stairs. Upon
telling her who was, and the nature of the charge,
the mother, Jane Rogers, said, "Don't take my
children away from me, other people are doing much
worse." Witness then searched the house, and found
two well-known disorderly women in it. He then
brought the children to the station. Police-constable
Langstaff°, B Division, corroborated, and spoke also
to the disorderly manner in which the house was
conducted. Mrs. Rogers, who was in court, and fre-
quently interrupted the proceedings by contradicting
the constable's evidence in a loud manner, said there
was only one disorderly woman in the house at the
present time, and she had only been there a month.
Hr. Partridge ordered the removal of the children to
the workhouse for a week. Mrs. Rogers (in an im-
ploring tone) : If you will let me have my children,
sir. I will go right away. Oh! don't take them away.
Mr. Partridge, declining to alter his decision, the
1 children were taken to the workhouse.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-19

A CITY CLERK'S DIVORCE SUIT.

In the Probate and Divorce Division on Saturday,
before the Right Hon. the President, the case of
Beddoe v. Beddoe and Wood was heard. Mr. Searle,
who appeared for the petitioner, Mr. Walter Beidoe,
a City clerk, said that his client married the re-
spendent on the 10th of June, 1884, at the Registry
Office, Bartholomew-close. They lived first of all at
chambers in the Temple, and afterwards in Albany.
street, Regent's-park. There were no children of
the marriage. Some short time after the marriage his
wife complained that her husband, whose income was
£2OO a year, was not in as good a position as
she expected, and threatened to leave him and go
away with a gentleman she knew before marriage.
He told her that if she took this step he would not
receive her back again. Eventually she left, and
upon inquiry being made she was found to be living
with the co-respondent at an hotel in the Eustou-
road, she passing by his name, Mrs, Charles Wood.
There the petitioner saw her, and accused her of
being unfaithful, which she admitted. There was no
defence, and, the case being established, the learned
judge granted a decree nisi. There was no order as
to costs, evidence not being forthcoming that the co-
respondent knew the respondent to be a married
woman.

There's a farmer boy in Midlothian who has the
making of a "funny man" in him. He recently
wrote an ode to the dead mother of his pet lamb and
called it an " Ewe-logy."
"Do you know old Wiggins, of our town? That's
he sitting across the aisle there." "Very stingy, isn't
he?" "Stingy is no name for it. He keeps a coffin
with a false bottom, and whenever he buries a wife,
the coffin is pulled out and saved for the next one. In
that way he has made one coffin do for four wives,
and It is a good coffin yet."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-19

THE CATTLE SHOW'

The Islington Cattle Show closed on Friday, and
conziderable surprise was manifested by the Smith-
field Club and Agricultural Hall Directorate that,
notwithstanding the fineness of the weather, there
had been so great a falling off in the number of
visitors as compared with preceding shows. The show
was this year not only the largest ever held under
the auspices of the Smithfield Club, but one of the
very best in regard to the general excellence of the
stock. The sales of the live stock have been far
beyond the usual average, but many of the prize
animals, and some of them of the inferior class,
although marked for sale, remained on the hands of
the exhibitors. During Friday morning the visitors
were very sparse, but as the day advanced they
flocked to the building in goodly numbers. The total
number of visitors to the show during the week was
20,000 less than last year.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-19

BROMLEY.

DRhari OF MR. JOHN RAYBOULD.—On Saturday
morning, after a brief but severe attack of bron
chills. Mr. John Raybould, proprietor of the
Town Mills, died at his residence, near Kingswin—
ford. He was in his 79th year. Mr. Raybould was
at one time chairman of the Stourbridge Board f
Guardians; and he di l other public work as a
leading supporter of the temperance cause in this
district. His principal service to the neighbour-
hood, however, was performed in his capacity of
coalmaster._ On his own responsibility, and at a
cost of over £20,000 he erected a splendid and
powerful plant for the drainage of the Bromley
Pound of Water. By this means coal of immense
value will be ultimately brought into the market
which otherwise would not have been recoverable.

Tit RIAIIOIt WHY the trade of Horniman k Ce., is so
increasing is, because the pubic know that for 50
years they have denounced the practice of ',facing"
tea with mineral powders. Horningan's tea is strong,
has a tich delicious flavour, and gees farther than the
ordinary tea. Sold in packets by Agents.

FURNISH ON NORMAN de STACEY'S HIRE
PURCHASE SYSTEM. DSPOSIT not necessary
Economical and strictly private, without the objectior
%tie formalities of dealers and others 1. 2, Or 3 years.
Sixty genuine wholesale manufacturing firms to select
gods from. Write'for particulars. Carriage paid and
special arrangements for country. Offices, 79, Queett
Victoria Street, London, B.C.

atoomoo,ooo 12 TRII COtritT 011 CHANCIET !
Cox &Qs., 41, Bouthampton Buildings, Holborn, Lon-
de., WA., have just published a list of the heirs to
this wealth. Bader, send e postal order for 10.0 d; and
they wil. fonrard yina this voluble list, and if you find
by
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-19

ALLEGED ROBBERY OF .C3OOO BY
RELATIVES.

A singular charge of robbery was on Fridoy in-
vestigated by the Nan twich magistrates, a fellmonger,
named Bind, charging his wife, her two brothers,
Robert and Charles Bithell, and Lydia Bithe;l, the
wife of the latter, with stealing about £3OOO. Mrs.
Blud, who had been in custody since Tuesday, was
discharged, Mr. Brooke, prosecuting solicitor,
announcing that there was no evidence whatever
against her. The prosecutor said the prisoners, as
relatives by marriage, were in the habit of visiting
him. Tie had over £3OOO, which he kept in two
drawers at the bottom of a box in the front bedroom,
On Tuesday, Dec. 1, the box was safely locked,
and to the best of his knowledge the cash was
safe. He was away at Nantwich during the day,
and returned shortly before midnight. He did
not then notice the box. On getting up the next
mourning he discovered that the house had been broken
into. An examination of the box revealed that the
lock was intact, but the false bottom had been broken,
and the money was gone. Mrs. Fanny Rush, mil-
liner, Nantwich, deposed that on Wednesday, Dec. 2,
Mrs. Bithell came in and left a parcel in her charge,
asking her to take care of it, and on Dec. 4 Mrs.
Bithell's daughter brought another parcel. Ser-
geant Pennington called afterwards, and the parcel
, was opened and found to contain silver coins.
Mrs. Blud was then called, and stated that on
the morning of the Ist she had occasion to go to
the pillow-slip for some money, and it was then
quite safe. Her brother Robert was then in the
house. The same night she went to look for
her Inn,hind, but failing to find him, fell asleep on
the sofa, where she remained all night. In the morn-
ing she found that the robbery had taken place. In
crosi-examiaation, she admitted that when appre-
hended she had 1:180 in her possession, which she
uas chlrged with stealing. She took the money out
of the drawers: She had not told the Bithells where
the money was kept. Sergeant Pennington appre-
hended Mrs. Bithell, and afterwards the male pri-
soners, who said they knew nothing about the
I robbery. The magistrate expressed the opinion that
there was.no evidence against the male prisoners to
justify a committal. Mrs. Bithell, however, would
be committed to tate her trial.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-19

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-19

Visalh-tura:us N'o:ilicgate,
RAE, EOREIGN, AND COLON.

4-47. 1

001)11 AVERAGES.—The following are the average
prices of Eritith corn for last week, as received from
the infractors and officers of Excise: Wheat. 30s. 5d.;
barley, 298. Bd.; oats, 18s. 51. per imperial qr.
Corresponding week last year: Wheat, 308.10 d.; barley,
318. Od.; oats, 198. sd.
THE ZOOLOGML SOCIRTY.—The additions to the

Zoological Society's Gardens during the past week in-
clude a sly silurus, European, a thunder-fish, a ground
leach from Danzig, a barbel, a river bull-head from
British fresh waters, presented by Mr. Alban Doran,
F.R.C.S •, 100 golden carp from Spain, presented by
Messrs. Paul and Co.; a black-shouldered kite Iron
Africa, received in exchange.
LAST WEER'S IV BECKS. —Forty-seven shipwrecks wer 3
reported during the past week, 20 being British-owned,
ruakincr a total of 1203 for the present year, against
1509 for corresponding period of last year, when the
number for the week was 29. Twelve were lost off the
'British coasts, five abandoned at sea, nine sank by
collision, and three foundered. Several vessels were
lost at Colon during the gale, and one British ship cap-
EiZed , with all hands, at Domes-Nass.

ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY, GARDENS, REGENT'S PARE.
—At a meeting of this society, held on Saturday, Mr.
J. P. Gassiot, vice-president, in the chair, the followirg
candidates were elected into the society and the names
of several others read for ballot at the next meeting:
Mr. W. Plomer Young and Mr. W. Whiteley. Among
the donations received since last meeting was a hand-
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-26

NEMORY473IICCESS

WHAT contributes greatly to success? 0
A good memory.
WHAT ewer; sgassil tailors in life?
A bad memory.
'WHAT is ballapable to every Lady and Gentleman,
Stud's*, Chassisk Physician, Merchant, Lawyer,
Manufactures'. Possner. imo A good memory.
NVIIAT sin wog sae obtain from Puoyasson
'Amur/vs: A good memory —the Physiological
Art of never forgettlag—wholly unlike Mnemonics. An,
book wkalevirr mastered ic one reculino.
• LOOT MEMORIES RESTORED.
Prospectuses vs! free, giving opinions of Mr. RICHARD
A. PROCTOR, Da. ANDREW WILSON, Clergymen and
others who bats Awned the system.
Great inducements Is oorrespondence Classes in " Never-
f orgetting" and for Ours of " Mind-Wandering " in all parts
of the world.—Prfests liaisons—Day and Evening CI MAC 3-*
Lectures in II ~..Agint., ... tom Nobility and Gentry. to
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SATURDAY DECEMBER 26, 1885.

TO THE WEARY-

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N 0 person need despair of a speedy restoraticn
health and Etrength if he or she will carefully
peruse the following, and learn that the great
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-26

KING FERDINAN-D'S.. WIDOW:

The widow of the late King Ferdinand of Portugal
(the father of the reigning King) is an American-
lady. She was a Miss Elise Hensler, and was one of
the first of the American prime donne. . Her •denit,
was made in New York a good many years ago in the'
role of Elvira in "Don Giovanni." She was a hand-`
some girl, of German extraction, ani possessed a fine
soprano voice. Later in her career she was engaged-
as prima donna at the Opera House of Lisbon, and ia:
that capacity she won the affections of the ex-Kirtige
who made her his morganatic wife, and bestovi
upon her the title of Countess d'Edla. She vrao
always treated at Court with all the -deference due t°.
her Royal alliance. Her full-length- portrait, vvith •
that of her husband, was exhibited at PariA at the:
Salon held during the continuance of the
national Exhibition of 1878.

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SHALL we PRUNE ROOT or BRANCH?

Which of the two of these operations should be re-
sorted to for that purpose the condition of the growth
of the branches in previous years should alone decide.
In every case it is a wise policy to adopt root pruning
first, to see what effect it will have on the growth.
If, at the end of the next growing season, any tree
so dealt with has made more growth than appears de-
sirable, bodily lifting it must be resorted to. This
will has e the desired effect of checking the growth,
' but in the case of large trees the operator must be
prepared to see the tree receive a greater check from
lifting than it would have had if only a few of the
• largest roots had been severed. It may be that the
crop of fruit for the first year will have been sacri-
ficed altogether, but that will only occur in the easi)
of large trees not previously dealt with in the same
way. All trees that have been lifted should have a
layer of manure laid on the surface, immediately
over the roots, for the purpose of enriching the
soil, to enable the roots to make up for what they
have lost in the operation. Large trees lifted and
judiciously root pruned afterwards will be able to go
on for several years before the growth of the branches
again obtains ascendancy over the roots sufficiently to
necessitate the lifting process being repeated. Young
trees are naturally more vigorous and bear lifting
more frequently than old ones. I advocate the liftim:
of young trees the third year after planting, in pre-
ference to root pruning, as they are then in a bettc-:
condition to bear it than at any other stage. Besides
that, it will be the means of arresting undue vigour
either of the roots or the branches at a time when the
cultivater is looking for fruit. It will so prepare the
tree at the proper age as to render less necessary such
severe measures at subsequent periods.--.T. C. Clarke
in the Gardeners' Magazine.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-26

MR. H. B. SHERIDAN, M.P. AT
BRIERLEY HILL.

On Monday night &dinner was given to Mr. H. B.
Sheridan, M.P., and Mr. King Harrison at the
Alma lon, Brierley Hill. Mr. Benjamin Eingley
presided, and the vice-chair was occupied by
.Jr. John Addison. Among those present were
31r. Sheridan, M.P., Mr. King Harrison, Mr. Geo.
Gleen,, Mr. Clulow, Mr. John Jordan, Mr. H
Spencer, Mr. Ford, Mr. H. Harrison. Mr. J. Bolton,
9en., Mr. J. Bolton, jun., and Dr. Turner, After
the loyal toats, the chairman proposed "The.
Borough Member and the Liberal Candidate for
Kingswinford." Mr, Sheridan, in his reply, said
the result of the elections was that the Liberals had
a majority of 84. They were equal to the com-
bined forces of the Tories and the Parnellites. To
whom did the Tory party look for support 1 Why,
to the Irish party, whom they had always described
as rebels. What a humiliation for the Tories ?
They mist either do the bidding of the Irish party
or of their Liberal opponents. If he had been a
member of the Conservative Government he would
have said by all means let us resign, let us leave to
the Liberals the difficult task of settling the Irish
question, and let us not further humiliate our-
selves by remaining in office with both the parties
confronting us—the hated rebels and the equally
>mted Liberals. They had, however, determined to
meet Parliament. What was to happen? When
Parliament met there would be an insufficient
statement with reference to Ireland
land, and upon the Address to the Crown in
reply to the Queen's Speech there will be a discus-
sion of two or three weeks He did not think the
Conservatives could hold their own for a month—
(Hpplause). Other toasts followed.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-26

THE STOUNBRIDGE OBSERVER

MUSD Or OTIARMAITPI.—Mr. IT. Bil!iugham pre-
at the weukty meAting of this Board, hell on
IffedneOday. There wet* also pre=ent MessrFi
Liaskew, tirove. Parkes, T'armipson, Guest.
goa, Dawes, Bryce, Gil ,s, Pearson, J. Brooks,
Stringer, Yar.iley, gni iii —The out-,300r raef
as fonows :—Kngswinford. £53 133 8d ;
itourhridge, £32 us 91; Ha.,e3owen, ..e25 IBs 2d;
non-resident poor, £2 Is 2d; total, £114.13s 9d;
against 100 8s 41 in corresponding week of last
y ar.—lt was decided, on the motion of Mr. Guest,
o order 200 tons of old sleepers and bridge wood
for firewood purposes from the Great Western
Railway Company.—The Master reported that he
had received a basket of toys, oranges. apples, ezc
for the inmates from the Independent Order of
God Ternplars, Brierley Hill, and the clerk was
instructed to thank the donors on behalf of the
Board.—The Master intimated that he should be
;lad to receive gifts for the children's Christmas
tree any time before New Year's Day.

ALLEGED PRIZE FIGHTING AT ENVILLE.

At Brierley Hill Police Court on Monday, before
G. K. Harrison :arid W. G. Webb, Esqs., James
..larvey, Kidderminster, and John Jordan, Stamber
Stourbridge, were charged with being con—
cerned in a prize fight which took place at High-
gate Common, Enville. On the 16th November
he prisoners were seen by several witnesses to
fiAht for some fifteen minutes in a ring formed by
1. crowd of people. Some of the bystanders gave
them sidnething to drink, and others wiped them
with sponges and clothe. Some twenty rounds
were fought, and both men were knocked about.
aarvey especially. On the police arriving the men
nude off in vehicles. Both prisoners pleaded not
4uilty of prize fighting, and were committed to the
next sossions for trial, bail in £4O ecich being
illowed.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-26

D It. SCOTT'S BILIOUS aLd LIVER PILLS
aro wrapped in a square green package.
Prepared only by W. LAMBERT,I7B. Beymour-pla.ca
London. W., in bones 0 lid and Its Od and sold si b
Chetah* I
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-26

THE BRITISH IN BURMAII.

The India Office has received the following
gram from the Viceroy, dated Sunday:
"At the outbreak of hostilities there were sixteen,
Europeans in Western Burmese forests. • Of -these •
Antrum and G. Calogreedy reached Mandalay. in.?afety'
shortly after the surrender of the town. Concerning
the others, the only trustworthy information is the -
following telegram just received from Rangoon :
Begnis-Ross, in a letter addressed to. Prendergast, -
dated Minzin, 7th December, states that he,. Roberts,
Allen, Bates, Hill, 0. Ruckstuhl, Moncure-, and
Gois surrendered to Mandalay official, Than--
pawzin, 21st ult. He, Bates, Hill, and Ruck-
stuld were placed in gaol at Minzin, -but released and
v.e!i-traated by the Woon on mews arriving of the
capture of Mandalay. Roberts, Allen, add Moncare,.
who remained in launch, are said to have been mur-
dered. Messenger who brought Ross's letter states.
that he saw them cut down. Gois was taken up
country by Thandawzin to work the launch at Kindat.•
Morgan, J. Ruekstuhl, and 13retto were placed in
gaol. British Expedition left Mandalay for Chind—
win 13th December in Tigris.' Our political agent at
Manipur is likewise endeavouring to render assist-'
anc.2,. The only Europeans of whom no intelligence'
ha a yet been received are S. Calogreedv, Gray, ancl•
Minus."

.
The following telegram has been received at the
India Office:

"From Viceroy, Dec. 21.
"Political Agent, Manipur, has received a letter
from Morgan, stating that himself, Brett°, two-
Ruehstahla, fill, Ross, and Baker are well and safe,
but that Allen, Moneure, and Roberts had been
--
murdered."