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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-05-10

CORPS OF VOLUNTEER TELEGRAPH
CLERKS FOR ARMY SERVICE.

Colonel du Plat Taylor having now obtained tho
sanction of the Secretary of State for War and Post-
master-General for the formation from the members
of the Post Office Volunteers of a corps of fifty tele-
graph clerks for service with the army, has received
applications from more than double that number of,
volunteers, and steps will at once be taken for organis-
ing this corps. These men will enlist for six years and
be placed in the first-class Army Reserve, available for
service in the field with the army when required.
This organisation cannot fail tobe of advantage, as the
efficiency of the men in their special work will be
maintained by their daily employment in the Post
Office, where they will have opportunities of becoming;
acquainted with the latest developments of the tele-
graph system. As members of the Post Office
Volunteers, the men will obtain sufficient military
training and knowledge of duties in camp to make
, them ready at once to fall into their position in the
army. The Post Office Volunteers have now 100 men
of the Army Post Office and 50 of the Army Tele-
graph Office attached, and we hope this is the first
step in utilising volunteers for any special duties of
this nature.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-05-10

DETERMINED SUICIDE AT
KIDDERMINSTER.

A determined case of suicide occurred early on
Tuesday morning, at Kidderminster. Mr. William
Snell, sadler, of Coventry street, destroyed himself
by a dose of laudanum. Mr. Snell had made a
previous attempt on his life some months ago, and
only on Friday last he was brought before mag-
istrates for thr, atening his wife, with woom he had
not lived on terms of freindslup for some time.
About three o'clock, as Police-constables Harman
and C.trnpbell were passing a hay-loft on Comber-
ton-hill they heard someone moaning, and on going
into tia building found Snell in a dying condition.
He was removed to the police station and the police
surgeon called in, who applied the stomachpump
and emetics, but was unable to bring up the poison,
and he died about seven o'clock. In his coat
pocket was found a letter addressed and stamped to
his wife, and written on one of his business memor-
andum forms. He wrote :—"Dear Ma,—You will
' never see me again alive. You will find me at the
back of Mrs. King's in the closet. I give all there
is to you and my two boys. Let J. Chappell, of
St ourbridge, act for you. I forgive you all, as I ex-
pect to be forgiven. Let Mr, Icke, of Stourbridge.
and Mr. Hughes act for you and the boys. Let
four of the fire-brigade carry me; no mourning, nor
hat-bands. May you be happy and forget me, is
my earnest wish, and may God bless you. From
your broken and downcast husband, William Snell."
—The event created great excitement in the
borough.
An inquest was held on the body, on Thursday
afternoon before Mr. M. Corbett, deputy coroner.
Harriet Snell, wlfe of the deceased, said he was
forty-four years of ago. She last saw him alive
about eight o'clock on Monday morning. He
parted with her affectionately, and she thought
he would return home to dinner. She. never saw
him again alive. Deceased's conduct had been
so strange during the past few months that she
contemplated having a medical man to enquire
into the state of his mind.
In answer to a juryman, witness said she did not
have any words with him on Friday.
The juryman remarked that he was with the
deceased on Friday, and the latter told him he
could get no peace at home.
The Coroner: Drunken men generally say that,
Witness admitted striking the deceased with a
poker last Monday week in self—defence. She had
been married to him for six years.
Other evidence was given as to the finding of
the deceased in a hay loft, and a letter which we
publish was read.
The jury returned a verdict to the effect that
teceased committed suicide whilst suffering from
temporary insanity.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-05-10

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HORSE AND CATTLE SHOW IN ROME

In Rome, on Sunday, the King of Italy, inaugurated
the show, held in the Vita Borghese, of horses and
sheep bred in the province of Rome. The Hippo-
drome called the Piazza di Scena, laid out a couple
of hundred years ago for pageants, and where the
tournament on the occasion of the wedding festivities
of the Puke apd pugliess of Genoa was held this time
last ye.r,As filled aloi4 the centre with a double row
of large railed enclosures containing, some the horses,
others the mares, with their foals od fillies, beronk-
ing to the different breeders and exhibitors. Along the
sides were rows of network folds filled with sheep,
while around the semicircular ends was a range of 24
loose boxes for thoroughbreds. The show includes no
fewer than 200 country-bred horses and 700 sheep.
A very marked and satisfactory improvement was
evident in the breeding of both classes of animals,
especially the sheep. The thoroughbreds, nearly all of
direct English descent, made a very creditable show,
many of them being mares with their foals and fillies
inscribed for the Italian Derby of 1887. Captain
Fagg's Egeria, born in the Villa Borghese, and Mr.
Charles Plowden's mare Como, with her foal, were
particularly admired. King Humbert, attended by
his aides-de-camp, arrived on the ground at half-past
three, and was received by the Ministers of War, of
Agriculture, and of Commerce (under whose initiative
the show is being held), by the Syndic and Prefect of
Rome, and by a number of members of the Roman
nobility. His Majesty spent two hours examining the
animals with marked attention and interest. Prizes
were given of from 10001. downwards for horses, and
200 f. downwards for sheep, with gold and silver
medals for both classes of animals.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-05-10

CHILDREN S TEETH REGULATED

Mr. PHILLIPS uses all the
most approved Modern Ap-
pliances of Dental Surgery
for Stopping, Scaling, Ex-
tracting, &c., and trusts that
the well-known Excellence of
his Artificial Teeth, Combin-
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of Appearance, with Ease and
Freedom in Speech and Mae-
tication, will ensure the sup-
port of the General Public,
and a continuance of the
favours of his numerous
patients,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-05-10

THE MANUFACTuRE OF LEAD
PENCILS.

With the improved machinery now used ten hands
will make about four thousand lead pencils of the
cheaper grade a day. The cedar comes chiefly from
Florida, and it is received in slabs of pencil length,
one for the lead to go in and the other to cover it, as
may be seen by examining the end of any lead pencil.
Four little grooves are sawed in the thicker slabs, for
the leads, which are kept in hot glue and taken one
by one and inserted in the grooves. Then the thin
slab is glued to the leaded slab, and, thus united.,
they are run through a moulding machine, four
pencils coming from each slab. After the ends are
rasped they are run between grooved wheels at
considerable pressure for the only finish they get. i
This burnishes them, and they are tied n dozens
and boxed for sale, mostly in plain wood, and of three
degrees of hardness. The graphite used comes in a
fine black powder, and is mixed with Germun white
clay, about half and half, and then ground with
moisture, forming a paste. This is pressed in dies
into lengths of four leads, which are cut and then
baked at a very high temperature. These sell at
85 cents, 1 dol. 50 cents, and 2 dole, a gross, and are
very good articles, writing smoothly and evenly. The
manufacturer makes, about 100 per cent., selling the
pencils at 8a cents a gross, and the retailer makes a
good thing selling them at a cent a piece. The graphite
costs about 25 cents a pound, and the cla7 little more
than the freignt. The more clay is u, .! the 1-‘ di
the harder they will be. The cedar ;ciMr) ill,
from fallen trees in Florida swamps.— r' •
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-05-10

'FOR ASTHMA, HAY FEVER, AND CATARRH.—Hig
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tion in the case of the late Earl Beaconsfield. The medicine
from which his lordship found most comfort and relief was
Himrod's Powder. The fumes are inhaled by the patien
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-05-10

BROOKING NEGLECT OF CHILDREN.

In London on Monday Dr. Danford Thomas,
coroner for Central Middlesex, held an inquest at the
Hampstead Workhouse Infirmary on the body of
Jane Shepherd, aged nine months, a twin child
whose parents reside at Kilburn. It appeared that
the father is a bricklayer, in constant work, and that
there were now four children living, the eldest a boy
aged eight years. The mother was in the habit of
giving way to drinking bouts, lasting for four or five
days at a time, and during those periods the children
were very much neglected, though the father did
what he could in the way of providing food for them,
and kept the eldest one at -home to look after the
other. On Friday week the deceased was taken ill
with bronchitis. Her mother applied a poultice and
took the child to a dispensary. On Monday she con-
sulted a doctor, who gave her some medicine for the
child, who appeared to be suffering from exhaustion
and weakness. The mother stayed out for two or
three nights, leaving the child at home with the
others. The father give the infant the medicine.
The attention of a district visitor was called to
the children, and Dr. Hill called at the house on
Thursday, but the little girl had died that morn-
ing. The post-mortem examination showed that the
child was in a very neglected and wasted condi-
tion, but did not prove that its death was caused by
neglect. The body weighed 71b 60z., a trifle over
the weight of a newly-born infant. The brain was
healthy, the heart was entirely denuded of fat and
very flabby, and the stomach and intestines were
empty. The mother said she had stayed out at night
because she had lost her purse, and was afraid of her
husband. The other children had, by the
husband's desire, been admitted into the workhouse.
The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the child
had died from exhaustion and wasting following con-
gestion of the lungs, and that death was accelerated
by the neglect of the mother, for which she was
answerable. The coroner told her that she had had
a narrow escape from being committed for trial
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-05-10

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.

On Monday afternoon a thunderstorm of unusual
severity and duration broke over the metropolis. The
early part of the day was bright, warm, and summer-
like, but shortly after 1 in the afternoon the sky
became much overcast. A few minutes before 2
o'clock there was a tremendous clap of thunder, evi-
deßtly in the west, and for fully an hour there was a
succession of exceedingly vivid flashes of lightning.
The rain, meanwhile, came down in torrents, so heavy,
indeed, that it ran down the channels outside the
kerbstones in Ludgate-hill with great force, while in
Fleet-street, the Strand, and other great thorough-
fares sheets of water lay temporarily outside the foot-
ways. The thunderstorm was followed by bright
sunshine, which lasted up to half-past 4 o'clock, but
thereafter, during the evening, the sky was again
overcast and the weather looked threatening.
In the neighbourhoods of Camberwell and Brixton
the greatest alarm was caused to the inhabitants by
the constant flashes of forked lightning; and the
alarm was intensified among those who in the streets
or roadways witnessed the electric fluid playing about
the telegraph wires which runs overhead along the
railway line. In several instances horses harnessed to
cabs, omnibuses, trams, and other vehicles stopped
suddenly on the roads in South London as if blinded
by the flashes of lightning and unable to see their way
to get along. In the City proper, crowded as it always
is at the hour when the first great peal of thunder was
heard, there was a great deal of alarm, and men left
their offices and came out into the streets in the down-
pour of rain to see whether any buildings in their
immediate neighbourhood had been destroyed, so close
at hand did the terrible crash appear.
In Blackfriars-road the electric fluid struck the
telegraph wires and tore them asunder. At the time
of the discharge 4.p passengers on one of the London
Tramway cars oMrved a hall of fire strike the stones
in the roadway opposite Peabody-buildings. As the
ball struck the earth the fire appeared to expand and
then suddenly disappear. A number of persons who
witnessed the phenomenon ran to the spot, but there
was no sign of any disturbance of the roadway. The
telegraph wires were curled up on each side of the
roadway, and five wires of the overhead lines were
thrown across Blackfriars-road. Three persons were
knocked down, but not seriously injured.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-05-10

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

In the HorraYi OF LORDS, May 5, Lord Granville,
replying to a 'question from Lord Salisbury, said that
no intelligence as to General Gordon had reached the
Government within the previous few hours.
van LUNACY LANCS.
Lord Milltown, having called attention to thserva-
lions of Mr. Baron iluddleston in the case of 44Weldon
v. Winslow,' pointed out various defects in the Lunacy
Laws. He moved that in the opinion of tEie House
the state of those laws was eminently unsatisfactory,
said constituted a serious danger to the liharty of the
vsubject.
Lord Shaftesbury, who is chairman of the Lunacy
Commission, explained that there were precautions re-
quired unaer the Lunacy Acts which affirded to persons
against wlaom lunacy was alleged far greater protection
than the words used by Mr. Baron if-addleston would
seem to imply. He did not allege that there were no
abuses, but he said that there was mach exaggeration in
this matter.
Lord Coleridge, while bearing testimony to the great
improvement that had been effected by the Lunacy
At of 1855, for Which the country was indebted to
Lord Shaftesbury, said his experience as a judge had
shown him that our system of dealing with allegations
ef lunacy, though perfect on paper, broke down in
'practice. Where lunacy was clear it worked well, and
where lunacy vim not clear it worked well; but where
the question was as to whether there was such an
unsoundness of intellect as made it necessary that a
person should be deprived of his liberty the system
broke down.
The 'Lord Chancellor by no means contended that
there were not points in which the existing Lunacy
Laws required amendment; but he could not accept
the motion, because he regarded its terms as extrava-
gant. The assertion that the state of these laws con-
stituted a serious danger to the liberty of the subject
was one not borne out by any evidence that had ever
been adduced on the subject. He promised that if the
present Government remained in office till next session
they would then introduce a bill for the consolidation
and amendment of the Lunacy Laws.
Lord Salisbury thought that the debate had been a
useful one, and that aft, - the statement made by the
Lord Chancellor he recommended Lori Milltown not to
press his motion. He himself was of opinion that the
present state •of the Lunacy Laws was very unsatis-
factory.
The motion was withdrawn.
Lord Morley, in answer to Lord Enfield, stated that
after a full consideration of the matter and a reference
to precedents, her Majesty's Government did not intend
to move a formal vote of thanks to the forces engaged
in the operations near Souakim.
Several bills having been advanced a stage, their lord-
ships rose at twenty-five minutes to eight o'clock.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-05-10

HIGH CLASS WORK.

MODERATE CHARGES.
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-05-10

FOREST FIRES IN AMERICA.

A telegram dated Philadelphia, May 4, says:
The protracted drought has caused serious forest
fires along the Allegheny Mountains in New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Westerly
winds last night filled Philadelphia, New York, and
other seaboard cities with smoke. Many villages and
timber camps have been destroyed. Brisben, Pennsyl-
vania, has been burnt, 250 houses being destroyed.
The damage amounts to 200,000 dols. Two persons
were burnt to death. Great distress prevails. Cali-
fornia, Houtzdale, Whitehaven, Beauplain, Swiss-
mont, Sterling Run, Arnot, Ashland, Minehill, Gap,
and other villages have been injured. The Catskill
Mountains, New York, with the highlands on the
Hudson River, have had extensive forest fires; also
the Blue Mountains, New Jersey. Heavy losses are
reported.
A. later telegram says: Additional reports come of
devastation by forest fires. Fifty square miles of
forest have been swept away near Ashland, Pennsyl-
vania. Four lives were lost, and damage done to the
amount of 112,000 dols. Gilman Station, New York,
has been destroyed. The loss is estimated at 150,000
dols. Gainsville, Florida, is partly destroyed, the
loss amounts to 140,000 dols. Rains are extinguish-
ing the fires.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-05-10

ZEATING'S COXTGEL LOZENGES
c(dnvenient to keep handy in the pocket.

lEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES
Are universally recommended by the Faculty.
[(Testimonial Original may be seer .)
Dubai SIR.—Having tiled your Cough Lozenges in
India, I have mueh pleasure in testifying to their
bsneficial effects, in Cases of Incipient Consumption,
Asthma, and Bronchical affections. So good a medicine
ought to be known to be appreciated. I have prescribed
It largely with the best results.
W. E.G.
Apothecary, 11. M. Indian Medical Service.
Bold in Tins, is. lad, and 2s 9d. each, by all Druggists
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-05-10

IN MB MIDLAND COUNTINS

GEORGE MORRIS, PROPRIETOR,

NAG'S HEAD INN,

KING STREET (Late of Stone Street), AND,;BAIT AND LIVERY BTABLZS, DIIDLIII AMC

DUDLEY.

(DkNICEI. St. Thomaa-atreet ,Netherten.
GOULD, Undertaker, Cradley Heath.
MOORE and FERRER, Undettakers,Hingswinford
ACIINTII:-.... G. WOODA.LL. Market-street, ?, do.
WHITFIELD, do. Brierley Hil
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A Large and Well-selected Stock ot
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-05-10

ABOUT SOME CURIOUS LOCKS AND
KEYS.

In the middle ages locks for church and cathedral
doors were often rare specimens of art metal work.
Elaborate scrolls, the images of saints, and other
ambitious efforts of the true artisan of those days,
entered into the design of locks, which were really an
ornament to the magnificent doors and cabinets of
those times. A design for the escutcheon surrounding
the keyhole frequently had the figures of two guardian
angels with, outspread wings. Locks of very curious
construction, known as "Apostle locks," were also
common in medixval times. These locks had on the
front the figure of one of the Apostles, and on touch-
ing to hand of the figure tlie bolts flew back. In the
reign of Queen Elizabeth one Mark Scalist, a smith,
constructed a lock consisting of eleven pieces of iron,
steel, and brass, all of which, with a pipe key, weighed
only two grains of gold. That great inventor, the
Marquis of Worcester, who flourished in the reign of
Bing Charles 1., devised a lock containing a steel barb
which was perfectly harmless so long as the right key
was used, but if a wrong key were inserted the barb
sprang through the keyhole and "caught the hand of
the intruder as a trap catches a fox," It is said that
while the inventor was experinienting with this curious
lock he was scarcely nimble enough in removing his
hand, and was caught in his own trap. At Willen-
hall, in Staffordshire, which is a great seat of the lock
trade, silver padlocks, the sides of which are much
smaller than a threepenny-piece, are still made, and
are quite perfect their mechanism. Locks contain-
ing single bells, and even chimes which sound an
alarm when tampered with by a false key, are among
the modern curiosities of the trade. Common pad-
locks are largely made for the natives of India and
Africa at Walsall. A lock and key complete are sold
by the maker for a half-penny, and merchants abroad
state that many of the natives string these locks to-
gether so as to form necklets, and wear them as
"charms."—Little Folks.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-05-10

SUSPENSION OF A LONDON BANK.

The Oriental Bank Corporation, the suspension of
which wie announced on Saturday, was established by
royal charter in 1851, by which the Oriental Bank
and the Bank of Ceylon were amalgamated, the
capital being fixed at £1,500,000, in fully paid-up
shares of £25 each, with a liability to the extent of a
further .E 25 per share to holders of shares for six
months after disposing of the same.' The unfavour-
able character of the eastern trade of late years and
ene decline in the value of silver have been the chief
causes of the bank's misfortunes, and the losses have
been augmented by business of a rather speculative
character undertaken by the bank to retrieve
losses, including the bringing out of the last Chilian
loan, too much of the stock of which the corpora-
tion at one time held, and excited considerable com-
ment and uneasiness. The chief lock up of capital
has, however, been in estates in Ceylon and Mau-
ritius, where the loges hate been very heavy. As
late as 1877 the bank had a reserve of half a
million, which has all gone in the endeavour to reduce
liabilities and losses, it standing at the date of the
last balance-sheet, the close of 1883, at less than
£14,000. For mazi3, years the dividend paid was 12
per cent. per annum. In 1875 it fell to 11 per cent.,
for 1876 and 1877 it inks 10 per cent., 1878 5 per cent.,
and for the following fotir yehrs 4per cent. per annum,
whilst for last year there was no dividend. At the
last meeting a bill in Parliament promoted by the di-
rectors was approved by the shareholders for placing the
company under the Limited Liability Act and writing
off £750,000 of the paid-up capital, making it
£750,000, in shares of £l2 10s. each. The £750,000
written off would, it was supposed, cover losses not yet
ascertained, and provide for the depreciation in the
stock of silver held in the East; but the publicity
given by the meeting to the prospectus of the directors
had such an effect on the business and the value of the
shares as to lead to the result already announced—
the closing of the bank's doors. On Saturday Mr.
Justice Chitty appointed Mr. Thomas Abercrombie
Welton, a member of the firm of Quilter, Ball, and
Co., as provisional liquidator, subject to the usual
security being given. It is understood that a large
portion of the capital is held In Scotland, and the
management was largely imbued with the Scotch
element,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-05-10

TIIE STOURBRIDGE OBSERVER.

Round atk brands. Sheets were in slow request
at 117 and £7 2s 6d for singles at works, £7 15s for
doub:e3, and ,28 103 for battens. There was a bf,V(T
inquiry for hoops on shippin4 account and nail 3 ols
for home comumi Von. The sales o!:- pig boo were
limited, and buy( rs would only yiel I the minimum
(juotai ions. One or two offers were made by con-
sumers to take 2,000 tons of Derbyshire mine pig at
-12 s 6d a ton, but they were not . accepted on the
srist, tlin;,gh LegotiatieLs were not nis)lutely
t oft. Nortl ampten pig was offered by makers
at 4ls 6d a ton.

sid,nt pa.upErs £l. 12.2 d, total £lOl Oa 61, against
£96 65 1-id.
REPonm or Tins DAY'S SEED ManKET.—Messrs.
W. H. &H. Le May, seed factors, CS, Borough
High Sr t, London, report: The season for
clover atni grass seeds may now he considered ovf.r,
although a few orders come to hand. Stocks on
hand are by no means exhausted, :'rtnd considerable
quantities must be held over for another year,
especiaily trefoil. Prices all round must be quoted
particularly so for whit e clover, which is from
as to 101 lower; alsyke, from 3s to 48 lowet ; and
rd clover, 3s to 4s lower on the week. Trefoil is
held in large quantities and is quite nnsaleable.
Foreign Italian remains firm, and perennial rye
grasses arc without alteratiou.—May 7th, 1384,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-05-10

STAFFORD SHIRE ASSIZES.

BEFORE MR. JUSTICE LopEs.—Thursday,
THE CHARGE OF SHOOTING AT BRIERLEY HILL.—
Thomas Price, on bail, solicitor's clerk at Brierley
Hill, was charged with attempting to shoot James
Cox, on the 26th April. Mr. Underhill, Q C., with
Mr. Kettle presecuted ; and Mr. Young defended
the accused. Mr. Underhill, in opening the case,
said that the prosecutor was a chartermaster and
publican at Brierley Hill, and the prisoner was a
solicitor's clerk, in a respectable position in the
same place. They were both married men, living
not many hundred yards from each other, on terms
of the preatest intimacy. Among the chi!dren of
the prosecutor was a girl named Matilda' whom
prisoner first seduced, and then eloped with on the
16th February. Prisoner was not heard of until the
16th April, when returned alone, having left the
unhappy girl. Prosecutor never saw the prisoner
until the 26th April, when the incident which
formed the substance of the charge took place.
Whether the prisoner had heard any of the rumours
which floated about the town that prosecutor would
take summary vengance on prisoner the first time
he met him had reached the prisoner, and he de-
termined, therefore, to arm himself with a pistol,
the learned cLunsel could not say. On the night of
the 26th April prosecutor was in High Street,
Bt ierley Hill, near his own house, talking to a man
named Fletcher, and wsis just leaving him, when he
saw prisoner a few feet off. As prisoner advanced
he drew a pistol from his pocket and presented it at
prosecutor's breast, saying "Now what is it: I'll
blow your brains out." Prosecutor struck out, and
knocked prisoner down. Fletcher came up, and
wrenched the pistol out of his hand while prose-
cutor held him. It turned out afterwards that the
weapon was a six-chambered revolver, five of the 1
chambers being loaded, and in the sixth the ramrod I
had been placed. The effect of this would be that
the weapon could not be discharged, and the ques-
tion which arose would be whether a man could be
guilty of attempting to shoot when the weapon was
in such a condition that it could not be discharged.
He (the learned counsel) should submit that such a
condition of things was accidental, and that, there-
fore, prisoner was as guilty as though the weapon
could have' been discharged. Prosecutor having
given evidence in support of this statement, Mary
Ann Wylde was called. She stated that she was
passing at the time, and saw all that occurred.
Prisoner never drew the relvover out of his pocktt
until he was en the ground. Mr. Young then sub
mitted that there was no evidence of pulling the
trigger, which the statute required to support a
charge of this kind. His Lordship concurred in
this view, and, by his direction the prisoner was A
acquited by the jury. A
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-05-10

THE IRON TR 0:;4E.
Wolverlamptoa Wednesday,

The market this afternoon sliowed conlinned
dulness, and orders were difficuL to obtain, al-
though in some instances merchants were offering
heavier specifications in consequence of the prospect
of lower wages prevailing at the end of next w eek
in accordance the award just, iisued by Mr. Avery.
Most of the manufacturers assert that they would
rather not have had so small a concession, as they
believe that it will not have any influence in the
issuing of an increased number of orders, w;ii!e on
the other hand it will induce merchants and other
buyers to depress values, which axe already too un-
profitable to warrant any further reduction in
quotations. The bar and sheet manufacturer's are
among these who are the best employed, and
&specially is this the case with tl:e producers of
commoner qualities. The plate makers have very
little to do, and their mills are not running more
than half time. Best t,lieet,s are in limited rc Tr at
this week, although considerable orders are in
course of execution '1 he tip iron and strip makers
are reported t have rec,ived a lar4e increase of
(rdt-rs. but prices remain exceedingly weak. S-llers
of pi; iron are doing very little business, and rages
continue to fall for the commaur
Numerous con!racts are hung given out, both for
puddling material and manufacturing fuel.

BIrMENGII.II,I Thursday.

The tone of the market. this afternoon was a
little more at:imated, cmscquent on the settlement
sz) the wages question, though transactions were
rest: leted to current wants. There was a large
number of inquiries both for crude and finished
iron, but merchants entleavcured to exact the lowest
possible terms, and for this reason held back their
orders, fhen,,.:h it is probable many of them will 1-.,0
placed in tle course of the week: In view of the
ccm none:r eat ot the shipping season, when a large
• ~eis'on of eiders w,ually takes place, and t; e
volue ot ion is enhanced, consamers are trying to
secure thenselves by long forwaz (1 contrneta at the
Pres nt low rates. A little speculative
therefore, lihely in the course of the next f ;•.- weeks.
Merchants sought to obtain an cquivalen: for the
redaction of 2,, per cent in paddlers' waze#, but it
wos p: inted out th.:t inasemeh ni the %ale° f
finis cd inn ha 1 fallen fully 55 a ton since Christ-
mas the reduction in wages bed been di-counted
five '1 a over. Prices were very depreseed this
afternoon, the underselling having xtended to
Borne of the best firing, who ar. unab'e to sustain
prices when. their neitAbonre. are giviug way.
Common bars were quoted a£6 and 2,6 d, but
the hulk of the sales wmre at about lidf-a-crown
be.ow those figures, and small lots were disposed
of at 15s. and even .t 5 12s. 6d. There was no
change in the quotations for marked bars, which
reuiaiu at £7 108., with taae usual 124 6d, extra for
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-05-10

OWEN, AND DISTRICT CHRONICLE.

SATURDAY, MAY 10,1_884.

TRADESMENS' ADDRESSES.

TRADESMEN'S ADDRESSES

T H E 3 ESSENT!ALS
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-05-10

hands of members in good standing. Got from 1879
to 1881: Rifles, 844;2 revolvers, 702; guns, IGSG-,
revolvers, 1898; total, old, 4748; new, 3546; making
a total of 8294." Witness also found in the same
pocket pieces of paper on which were the names and
addresses of four persons in America. When Egan
was arrested, witness said, "Mr. Egan, do you
know your lodger whom you call Denman by any
other name ? " He said, "I do not." Witness then
asked him if he knew him by the name of Daley, to
which he replied he didnot. Witness then inquired
whether he knew any of Daley's friends or rela-
tions, to which he also gave a negative reply. On
April 15 a tin canister was discovered in the garden
adjoining Egan's house, and which on being opened
was found to contain a printed paper headed," Con-
stitution of the Irish Republic :" another paper con-
taining the address of the S.C. (Supreme Council) to
the Brothers; three copies of the laws, rules and
regulations of the government of the Irish Republican
Brotherhood in the South of England division, printed
at the Dub/in R. 1.8. office; nine sample cartridges
(produced) seven being for rifles and two for revolvers.
On one of them ".Snider Algeria" was in pencil in
parentheses; on another "British Martini-Henry ;"
and third "Peabody, three miles," on another
"Egyptian Remington." The others were not
marked. There were also found in the canister
' letters addressed by varioui persons to Egan referring
to small goods (revolvers) and long clothes (rifles).
Police-constable Thornton, on being called, des-
cribed the finding of the canister, which, he said, was
buried some eighteen or twenty inches deep, and was
tightly fastened up.
Police-constable Stevenson, of Birmingham, said he
, had watched Daley at Liverpool and Birkenhead, and
assisted at his arrest. Both bombs and infernal machines
were found upon him, together with a ticket from
Birkenhead to Wolverhampton.
Denis William Donovan said: I am a surgeon in
the Royal Navy, and was formerly resident surgeon
at St. George's Retreat, Burgess-hill, Sussex. It was
a Private lunatic asylum. Prisoner Daley was head
attendant when I went there, and remained till June,
1882. To the best of my belief the letters produced,
together with the list of arms, are in Daley's hand-
writing.
The prisoners were then remanded for a week,
when evidence of the Irish police will be taken, and
important disclosures are anticipated. Prisoners were
removed to the borough gaol under an escort of police
armed with loaded revolvers.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-05-10

BRIERLEY HILL.

AESAULT.-At the Police Court, on Thurslay, 1.
before W. F. F. Boughey, Esq , Stipendiary Magis-
trate, Charles Cooper (20), Dudley Street, Brierley
Hill, was charged with assaulting Martha Round,
of the same place, on the 30th ult.—The complain-
ant's witnEss stated that complainant and defend-
ant's mother were fighting, and the defendant, who
came to assist his mother, struck the complainant.
—Defendant denied the offence.—The Stipendiarf
ordt red the defendant to pay costs.—The defend-
ant said he would pay the ccsts in prison.—Tbe
Stipendiary said the defendant had been convicted
of a rape on his sister, and this would be remern-
bered against him at the gaol.
IMPUDENT THEFT.-Arthur Mills (21), Angel
-
street, Stourbridge, was charged with stealing
wooden pipe and an ounce of tobacco, the propertY
of John Green, miner,Quarry Bank, on the 6th Wit,
While the complainant was in the Market-place Of!
Tuesday morning, the prisoner stole the pipe and
tobacco out of his pocket.—The prisoner pleaded
that he picked up the pipe and tobacco in the
Market-plaee.—The Stipendiary sent prisoner to
gaol for three weeks' with hard labour.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-05-10

COALBOURNBROOK.

_
FOUND DROWNED.—An inquest vras held at the
Fish Inn, Coalbournbrook, before Mr. E. B.
Thorneycroft, deputy coroner, on the body of Mary
Ann Skelding ;30), single woman, lately residing,
with her step-mother, Jemima Gilbert, at Copen-
, agen Row, Church Street, Stourbridge. Deceased,
who was of weak intellect, left her home between 9
and 10 o'clock on the 30th ult. Sh. 3 was seen about
' the loca.ity during the whole of the day till aboat 8
o'clock at night. She was found dead in the canal
near Wollaston Bridge, Coalbournbrook, by a boat-
man named Westwood. The jury returned a ver-
dict of "Found drownel."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-05-10

lIAG LEY.

STOCK SAL.-At this sale on Monday las
Messrs. Oates, Perrens, and Wooldlilgo again had
a very largo supply of all classes of stock. The sale.
comprised 72 head of cattle, 477 sheep and lambs,
6 calves, and 91 pigs. With a full company of
buyers trade was brisk, and prices were firm for fat
stock. There was a large supply of ewes and
lambs and stun, cattle which met with a good de-
mand. Fat bullocks made as high as £26 10s, cuws
£25 2s (Id, sheep 81s, lambs 51s, ewes tlnd lambs
124 s per cauple, barren cows ,klB 10s, store pigs
from 18a to 345,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-05-10

KEARNEY.

The Times of Monday published the following
letter:
Sir,—Will you be kind enough to announce to the
working women of England—those of them who are
willing and not afraid of work—that there is a
splendid opening for them in this State (California).
Here they can obtain situations as house servants at
wages ranging from £2 10s. to £7 per month, accord-
ing to competency. There are some 8000 male
Chinese slaves reluctantly employed by families here,
as cooks, waiters, laundresses, chamber-maids, and
nurses. These families would be only too glad to hire
girls in their stead if there were any to be had. The
Chinese " chamber-maids " will have to be sup-
planted, now that their coming to this country
has been prohibited. We want girls to take their
places. English, Irish, Welsh, and Scotch
girls can get splendid situations here at good
wages. Of course, we want girls that are not afraid
of work. Gold is not to be picked up in the streets
here. Pecple are expected to and must work if they
want any of it. Our State, which is an empire in
itself, is entering upon a degree of prosperity never
before known in its history. There are prospects for
an immense crop of cereals this year, and the demand
for labour to harvest it will be so great, together with
the captivating inducements offered, that the Chinese,
instead of making beds, cooking, and waiting at table,
will take to the fields to pick strawberries, grapes,
peaches, and do all other kinds of farm work. This
will leave the families now employing them to struggle
as best they can.
Mr. Editor, you will remember the undersigned as
the " leader " of the agitation that brought about the
enactment prohibiting any more Chinese from coming
to this country. I have now opened and am conduct-
ing an intelligence office to get girls that will take the
place of the Chinese.
Trusting you will type this brief communication so
as to enlighten and may be gladden the. hearts of a
large number of your female readers who aspire to
benefit their condition.—Salutation.—DENlS KEARNEY.
San Francisco, April 7.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-05-10

MARRIED.

WALKER WELCH. - On the 29th :ult., at st.
Thomas's Church, Birmingham, Frederic Walker
to Agnes Mary Aston Welch.

A recent writer in our local papers has wisell
observed that "one of the follies of the age is to but
dear Wines and Spirits." Another folly is to
suppose that buying from those who make the
argest return of duty is buying, them in the
cheapest market. The Merchant who pays dal
upon thousands of gallons pays in exact proportioo
to the retailer clearing a single cask, A. great profit
must be gained to cover enormous expenses of large
business premises, cost of advertising, and an
allowance of profit to the Agent, greater hi
many instances than taken by them in the respect-
able Merchant. To buy cheap is to buy where but
one profit is made, and we cannot better illustrate
our argument than by pointing out the way in
hich our townsmen, Messrs. J. Rutland and Son, of
63, High-st, have opened up the trade. We have
no hesitation in saying that 25 per cent. is novf
paved by their bringing the producer and the con-
sumer together, over the prices paid a few yearts
ago, and a trial will fully bear out our assertions
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-05-10

THE FRANCHISE BILL.

In the HOUSE OF COMMONS, the morning sitting was
devoted to the consideration of the Representation of
the People Bill. The House having gone into Com-
mittee on the bill, clause 1 was agreed to without
amendment. On clause 2, which establishes a uniform
household and lodger franchise, Sir It. Cross proposed
to insert at the commencement the words "subject to
the provisions of this Act as hereinafter contained,"
with the view of obviating the objection which might
be taken hereafter to any amendment that it was incon-
sistent with the clause.
Mr. Gladstone explained that the Government in-
tended to adhere to the principle of an uniform house-
hold franchise for counties and boroughs, and therefore
opposed the amendment, lest they should be supposed
to derogate from that principle. With regard to redis-
tribution, it was their intention to do their utmost to
pass a Redistribution Bill before the dissolution of the
present Parliament took place in the natural course;
but in the event of their bein ,nable to do so they
were unwilling that the labour expended upon the
present bill should be sacrificed.
A long discussion followed, in the course of which
Sir H. Wolff took the opportunity of proclaiming his
entire confidence in the new class of voters, but sup-
ported the amendment, with the intention of keeping
a door open to prevent the Government dissolving Par-
liament on the state of things which would be esta-
blished by the bill. He pressed the Government to
give some assurance that this would not be done, but
Mr. Gladstone, while thinking it unreasonable to ask
for such a pledge, repeated that the Government desired
and intended that a Redistribution Bill should be passed
before the .dissalution-
Mr. Labcachere announced that he intended to vote
against every single amendment from whichever side it
came and would place himself entirely in the hands of
the Prime Minister if he would engage not to yield one
iota of the bill.
Hr. Sclater-Booth, Lord G. Hamilton, Mr. Warton,
Mr. J. Lowther, Lord J. Manners, and Sir H. Giffard
supported the amendment, urging tha'c without it
other amendments 'might be ruled out as inconsistent
with the principle of uniformity; while the Attorney-
General, who was confirmed by Mr. Serjeant Simon and
Mr. Gorst, maintained that the words were quite un-
necessary.
On a division this amendment was negatived by 263
to 149.
Some time was occupied after this by an amendment
wenttoom iattthleenwgotrdh ';nutnoiftohrem ciimstonvryed
obi Mther. Cuennbnittty, waihido
borOugh franchises, and dwelt on the impossibility of
making the household and lodger franchise uniform
throughout the three kingdoms.
Mr. Gladstone opposed the amendment as destructive
of the main principles of the bill, but pointed out that
in some respects, especially in the county franchise, it
did not enforce rigid uniformity.
In the end the amendment "%vas withdrltwn, and Mr.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-05-10

SIIPPI,T.

The House then went into Committee of Supply, and
was engaged to a late hour on the Army Estimates.
On the vote for medical services, Mr. Dawnay criti-
cired severely the medical arrangements for the
Egyptian campaign; Dr. Farquharson vindicated the
efficiency of the medical service; and Lord Hartington,
discussing the vote generally, said he could hold out no
hopes of a modified return to the regimental system.
The Yeomanry vote was the object of a lively attack
from Mr. Labouchere, who took a division against it,
but it was carried by 103 to 25; and on the Volunteer
vote a strong appeal was made to the Secretary for
War by the Volunteer officers to enlarge the allowance
for camping out.
Some other business was dispose of, and the House
, was counted out at five minutes to two o'clock.

In the HOUSE OF LORDS, May 6, Earl Granville, in
reply to a question by the Earl of Carnarvon, declined
to enter into explanations of the negotiations now in
progress with regard to the proposed Conference on the
financial affairs of Egypt. He also deprecated the
action of the Opposition in raising such questions at in-
opportune moments.
The Marquis of Salisbury suggested that the reti-
cence of Ministers might imply something more vital to
the interests of this country than were questions of
Egyptian revenue and expenditure, and he warned the
Government against allowing the Conference to assume
a scope that would restrict our own freedom of action,
and convert what was formerly a dual control into a
multiple control, the effect of which would be disastrous
to our interests.
Lord Kimberley observed that it was easy for the
Opposition to ask a question, and when they were told
that in the public interest an answer could not be given
to it, to then say that was what they had expected;
but he asked whether such a course was calculated to
advance the business of the country.
Several bills having been advanced a stage, their
lordships rose at twenty-five minutes to six o'clock.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-05-10

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-05-10

IDEAS OF LOCALITY.

An Ohio correspondent suggests that there is some
relation between lost people describing a circle in
their wanderings, from one limb being longer than
another, and what is ordinarily spoken of as getting
"turned around," when people travelling are confused
as to the points of the compass, and attributes both
phenomena to some peculiarity of the brain. Neither
is owing to any "peculiarity" of the brain, but both
are rather the necessary results of the normal opera-
tion of a sound mind. On the prairie as on the
ocean, in the dark, or in strange places anywhere,
one depends upon definite known bearings forfixing the
points of the compass. When these pass out of sight on
land it is generally by successive steps through sur-
roundings less and less accurately observed, so that,
particularly in journeying through the night, or for a
period when the shifting of position as to external
objects cannot be noted, the memory bears a constant
impress of the direction last observed, and seeks to fit
new surroundings thereto. The compass, or the sun
and the stars, are the usual means for correcting the
wrong impressions; but it is only by a subsequent
mental process, which with intermittent attention, is
often a good deal protracted, that we are able, in
some cases, to obtain correct ideas of locations into
which we have been but newly introduced.—Scientific
American.