The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-11-23 00:00:00

THE -_,STOURBRIDGE OBSERVER,

which you belong, and I have great pleasure In ordering you
a reward of £2i for your gallant condicct.
The prosecutor thanked his lordship, and the proceedings
then terminated.

PRESIDENT HAYES'S THANKSGIVING
DAY PROCLAMATION.
President Hayes has issued the following proclamation,
setting apart Thursday, the 2Sth of November, as a da,y of
thanksgiving
The recurrence of that season at which it is the
habit of our peopin to make devout and public con-
fession of their constant depsndenee upon the Divine
favcur for all the good gifts of life and happiness, and
of public peace and prosperity, exhibits, in the record
of the year, abundant reasons for our gratitude
and thanksgiving. Exuberant harvests, productive
mines, ample crops of staples of trade and manu-
factures, have enriched the country. The resources
thus furnished to our reviving industry and expanding
commerce are hastening the day when discord and
distresses, through the length and breadth of the
land, will, under the continued favour of Provi-
dence, have given way to conEdence and energy
and assured prosperity. Peace with all nations
has remained unbroken, domestic tranquility has pre-
vailed, and the institutions of liberty and justice,
which the wisdom and virtue of our fathers established,
remained the glory and defence of their children. The
general prevalence of the blessings .)f health through
our wide land has made more conspicuous the sufferings
and sorrows which the dark shadow of pestilence has
cast upon a portion of our people. This heavy afflic-
tion even, the Divine Ruler has tempered to the
suffering communities in the universal sympathy
and succour which have flowed to their relief,
and the whole nation may rejoice in the unity of
spirit in our people by which they cheerfully
hear one another 's burden. Now, therefore, I
Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States,
do appoint Thursday, the 28th day of November
next, as a day of national thanksgiving and prayer;
and I earnestly recommend that, withdrawing them-
selves from secular cares and labours, the people of
the United States do meet together on that day in
their respective places of worship, there to give thanks
and praise to Almighty God for His mercies, and to
devoutly beseech their continuance. Ix witness
whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the
seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the
City of Washington, this 30th day of October, in'the
year of our Lord, 1878, and of the Independence of the
United States the one hundred and third.—R. B.
HAYES.

Mr. Sawyer being interviewed by a New York
reporter on the subject of his lamp said he did not
claim the incandescence of carbon in a sealed receiver
as an idea of his ocvn, but had utilized in it the de-
velopment of other Pleas. He claimed a form of con-
ductor which would radiate the heat produced by the
incandescence in such a way that the globe would be
heated only at the point where the light was. He had
also patented a process for charging the receiver with
pure nitrogen gas and entirely displacing the atmo-
spheric air. He had patented a means of so closing
tha receiver that no atmospheric air could find its
way into the interior. The nitrogen, he claimed,
would last for ever. Besides, there was a sub-
stance in the bag at the bottom of the lamp which
would absorb oxygen and carbonic acid gas. These,
he said, were his improvements. One lamp had been
in me two or three hours daily for three months until
a sudden jarring of a door broke it. There had rover
been any flaking or change in the carbons used. The
only change the carbon underwent was its purification.
Before being lit it was a dead black; after being in.
candescent for a time it took on the silver gray colour
characteristic of pure carbon. The subdivision of the
light, as p -educed by Mr. Sawyer's system. consists of
branch wires leading from the two main wires of the
engine. Each of these branches is calculated to supply
a number of lamps. The extension of the main wires
necessitates an increased heaviness of the wire for
each mile. In lighting New York a radius of only
half a mile from each supply station will be actually
necesary."

is almost always the result of a lowering of the
physical status, by the introduction either of sew-
age gas or infected water, to a point when the subject
becomes liable to the attacks of diphtheria or of typhoid
fever, which may indeed be considered as various
forms of the same disease. When one member of a
family is attacked it frequently happens that the
disease spreads through the household, and it was for
along time censidered that diphtheria was a conta-
gious disease. As it appears, however, to spread only
among those who have been exposed to similar in-
sanitary influences to those which have affected the
patient, it is probable that this view of the illness is an
erroneous one; but, contagious or otherwise, diphtheria
is unquestionably one of the most intractable maladies
with which the physicians of the present day have
to struggle. Even when the first stage, the stoppage
of the throat by the formation of what may be called
a fungoid growth, does not carry off the patient by
suffocation, he frequently falls a victim to the subse-
quent exhaustion of the system. This malady would
seem to be comparatively more deadly when it appears
in the families ot the upper and midale classes than it
is when it attacks the poor. The latter are accus-
tomed to live under insanitary conditions; the
former exist generally in a healthy atmosphere,
and thus suffer more severely when, owing to a de-
rargement of the drains or other cauEes, the condi-
tion becomes unfavourable to health, it is satisfac-
tory to learn that the greater portion of the Princess
Alice's family are now considered to be out of danger,
and it is to be hoped that the news will continue
favourable, and that the little Princess Mary will be
the only victim to the malady."