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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-28

CROWN LANDS.

The annual report of the Commissioners in charge
of the hereditary possessions of the Crown shows that
In the financial year 1875-76 the rfceipts in respect of
land revenue amounted to £437,854, and the expendi-
ture was £35,144 : the receipts irom Windsor parks and
woods were £6,129, and the expenditure was £21,643;
and the receipts from the Royal forests and woodlands
were £35,692, and the expenditure was £19,071, making
a total of £479,675 receipts and £75,858 expenditure.
This allowed an increase of the payment into the Ex-
chequer to 2395,000. But these figures do not include
the expense of the Commissioners' establishments in
London and Dublin, for which Parliament votes
more than £20,000 a year. It is the practice of the
department to sell detached and out-lying properties
and estates which are likely to realize accommoda-
tion prices, investing the proceeds in the purchase
of estates that are convenient for management or of
freehold ground-rents. In accordance with this
practice, the Commissioners sold in the past year Deep-
ing manor and estate, Lincolnshire, consisting of
scattered parcels of . land, for sums amounting to
£56,238 ; East Dereham manor and estate, Norfolk, for
sums amounting to £40,556 ; and Holy Island manor
and estate, Northumberland, for £7,500, but in this
last instance coal and metallic minerals lying more
than ,100 ft. below the surface of the land are excepted
from the conveyance. The island contains the ruins of
Lindisfarne Abbey, which are the property of the
Crown, and these ruins are also excepted from the con-
veyance, and have been placed in charge of a care-
taker.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-28

A HINT TO CIDER-MAKERS,

Our cider-making counties would do well to take
note of a letter addressed by Mr. G. Desvaux-Savouce
to the editor to the Journal d'Agriculture Fratique,
suggesting two modes of wilieing a substance often
thrown away as useless. The matter in question is the
refuse pulp of apples and pears, large quantities of which
are left on hand after the pressiog stage is completed in
the manufacture of cider or perry. M. Desvaux-
Savoure employs this both as manure and as food for
cattle. In the former case he finds that the best plan
is to spread the material in the sheep-folds, when it not
only decomposes more rapidly than under ordinary
circumstances, but also assists in fixing the ammonia
which is set free in such places, and in preventing the
litter from turning mouldy. When used as food it is
mixed with fine chopped straw and pressed in a cask.
Alcoholic fermentation takes place in a few days, and
cows eat the mixture with relish and without any
detrimental effects. We agree with the Farmer. In
times when fodder is scarce this sort of food is not to
be despised. M. Desvaux-Savoure says that he and
many of his friends have tried both plans for
several years, with complete satisfactory results.
While giving them every credit for economy and
ingenuity, we cannot help fancying that the use
of refuse apple pulp for feeding cows is not
alfogether a novelty either in England or America,
though the food may not have been prepared in the
same way. In America indeed there is a growing
Opinion that apples are the best things in the world
for cattle. But the "alcoholic fermentation " suggests
a caution for Sir W. Lawson and his friends. What
if we should come to drink and to give our babies
milk supplied from alcoholic kine and reeking of that
pestilential alcohol which they so much dread. " Kon•
miss" was bad enough, but fancy aleohelic milk l—
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-28

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-28

POTATOES.

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Bound potatoes were taken off freely, but for inferior and
diseased of which the supply principally consisted, the trade
continued very unsettled. The following were the quota-
tions :—lllent Regents, 40s. to 120 s. ; Essex ditto, Sos. to
1201. ; rocks, 80s. to 1265. ; flukes, 40s. to 80s. per ton.

LONDON, PROVISION.
VISION.
Oct. 23.—The arriv last week from
Ireland were 300 firkins, Butter and 339 bates Bacon, and
als
from foreign ports 23,656 packagts Butter and 2,253 bales
Bacon. The foreign Butter market is very firm for the finest
qualities, and prices advanced 4s. per cwt—say finest Nor.
windy' and Dutch 160 s. In Irish but little business was
transacted. The Bacon market ruled slow early iu the week'
and at the close prices were reduced 2s. to 3s. Per cwt.,
which caused a better sale, and the market clssed steady at
the decline. HON.

A moderate amount of business is passing in hops, and
rather a considerable quantity of the cbeaper sorts have
lately changed hands. For good and flue hops the trade
continued to present a firm appearance :—Kent, 1878, £6 to
£l2; Sussex £6 to £8; Farnhams, £8 to £ll ; ditto country,
a to £ll ; Worcester, ato 411 lit. ; Belgian, £6 6s. to £7 ;
English, 1875, a to £8; foreign, £3 Via to a ; old hops, all
kindx, 181. to £3 lns.
GAME AND POULTRY.

Turkeys, 58. to 9t 6d. ; hen ditto, 3s. 9d. to 78. 61. ; geese,
41. to 83 ; ducks, Is 3d. to 3!. ; large fowls, 2s. ed. to ba.;
small ditto, 10.1. to is. 91. ; chickens, Is. 61. to 2s. ;
pheasants, 21. 91. to 41. 4d. ; caperoailzte, 3.. 3d. to ss. 6d. ;
partridge, is. to 28 3d. ; woodcocks, 3s. to 3s, ed. ; widgeons,
Is. ell to is. 10d. ; tat buoks, 90s. to 100 s. ; haunches ditto,
303. to 40.1. each.

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Fresh Lerrings, 175. to 23:. ; red ditto, 105. to 203. roused
ditto, 17s. 61. to 265. ; pickled ditto, 255. 641. to 82s per
barrel ; kipper ditto, 45. to 48. 91. ; bloater ditto, 3s. 91 to
45. 61 per box; smoked haddock 205. t 403. per barrel;
trawl ditto, 16s. to 18s 61. ; ditto plaice, 18s. to 20s. ; ditto
whiting, 10s. to 15$ per lcsaket ; soles, is. 6.1. to 4s. per pair;
mackerel, 2s. to 3s. ; mullet, 41. 61. to Cs.; lobsters, 16s. to
375.; crabs, 10s. 6d. to 305. per dozen; native oysters, £l2 to
£1.3: and common ditto, £1 to £2 per bushel.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-28

WAR RUMOURS.
(From Punch.)

The Prime Minister Is in hourly communication with all
the Cabinets of Europe. He'has had speaking•tuoes put up
between his official residence and the country-seats of all his
colleagues. He never biceps and devotes his few moments of
leisure to a hasty perusal of Sir Garnet Wolseley's Soldier's
Pocket Book. His Private Siperetary is going through a course
of instruction at Woolwich and Aldershott simultaneously, so
that be way be prepared for the worst.
The directors of the Penny Steamboat Companies have
been requested to immediately forward to the War Office a
list of their vessels with a view to the transport of twenty-
two cavalry regiments from Colchester to Egypt,
The Duke of Cambridge has caused a special captive balloon
to be kept suspended over the War Office night and day. so
that His Royal Highness may have the means within reach of
proceeding at once to Gibraltar.
The bathing machines at Herne Bay have received a fresh
coat of paint, and are now on their war footing.
18,000 London cab horses have been purchased by the
Government for immediate service In the Ist and 2nd Life
Guards.

Sub-Lieutenant Jones, of the Royal West Somersei.ahlre
Militia, Las been made a Lieutenant, and Wlli sc)011 leave
England for Ireland.

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Treasury, submitted to the Acimiralty, and consigned to the
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model room of the War Office, where it will remain until
required on active service.
Llats of the strength of our fleets, armies, new military and
naval inventions, torpedoes, &o , &c , with explanatory des-
criptions and diagrams, have been furnished by the War
Office and Admiralty to the Eiitora of all the British, Colonial
and Continental newspapers,
The Directors of the Metropolitan District Railway have
been warned that their line may be required by the Govern-
ment for the next two months for the transport of troops
between Sloane Square and the Temple.
The Westminster Aquarium, Alexandra Palace, and
Madame Tassaud's, in certain emergencies, are likely to be
converted into hospitals.
The Beefeaters are to be Immediately armed with Ogling
guns.
All the broken windows in the Tower of London are to be
monde&
doubled until farther notice.
The sentries at tile doors of Draw Lane Theatre are to be
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-28

THE BISHOPRIC OF ST. ALBANS.
The following correspondence between the Bishop of
Winchester and the Secretary of State for the Home
Department, has been sent to the papers for publica-
tion :

London, Oct. 5, 1876.
My Dear Mr. Cross,—l write this on behalf of the Bishoß
of Rochester and myself. Now that Winchester House has
been sold for a less sum than we all hoped it might have
brought, it is necessary to consider what can be done to
complete the endowment of a bishopric for St. Albans. You
will perhaps remember that my first proposal to the
Government was that I should give up Whachester
House and also give £.500 a year towards endow-
ing a • See for South London. I then estimated
Winchester House at /.60,000 at least. I proposed that the
-See of Winchester should still have a house of small value in
London, say £lO,OOO, and I reckoned that the balance from
the sale of the house In St James's-square would still pro-
duce £2,000 a year. The Government desired me to withdraw
that proposal, not to ask for a smaller house for the see, but
Instead thereof to retain the £.500 a year which I had offered,
by which I might provide a London house for my own life-
time. This I did, but very unwillingly.
My calculations have been disappointed. The sale of
Winchester House will not produce more than £1,600 a year
at 4 per cent. At present there is nothing more forthcom-
ing. The Bishop of It )chester, therefore, and myself desire
to offer £5OO a year e:.ch, as soon as the See is constituted, on
condition the.. the £1,600 a year to be obtained from the sale
of the house be raised to £2,000 from privateer other 'purees,
as a permanent endowment. If you approve of this proposal,
perhaps you will allow it to be made public, as It appears to
us that there are others, besides the Bishops, who may be
willing to contribute something towards so good a work as
the feundation of what is really a bishopric for South Loudon,
probably the most spiritually destitute portion of Great
Britain.

I beg to remain, my dear Mr Cross. with the warmest
thanks for your kindness in the whole affair, ever yours very
sincerely, (Signed) G H. WINTON.
The Right Honourable R. Assheton Cross, M.P.

Whitehall, 16th October, 1876.
My dear Lord Bishop,—l have to thank the Bishop of
Rochester and yourself for the generous cffer contained in
your letter of the sth inst. which I have already privately
acknowledged. I feel quite sure that an offer so generous
will be at once met by gifts from other sources and that the
early foundation of the See will be your beat and most
wished-for reward.—l have, ezu., "
(Signed) RIO. ASSIIETON CROSS.
The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Winchester.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-28

A MODEL MAIDEN.
(From Punch.)

'Ds not alone that she is fair,
And hath sPwealth of golden hair ;
'Tis not that she can play and sing,
To charm a Critic or a King;
'Tis not that she is gentle, kind,
And wears no chignon huge behind,
Nor high-heeled boot nor corset laced
To mho/ her slenderness of waist;
'Ds not that she can talk with ease
Oa well-nigh any theme you please;
'Tie not that she can row, and ride,
And do a dozen things beside :
The reasons why I love MISS BROWN
Are that she never wears a frown,
Ne'er sulks, or pouts, or mopes, or frets,
Or fusses about " styles" or 'sets
N e'er nurses lapdogs by the fire,
Nor bids her friends their charms admire;
Ne'sir bets upon the Derby Day,
And when she's lost omits to pay;
By bonnets does not bound her talk,
And is not indisposed to walk:
Ns'cr bullies-her small brothers, nor
Esteems their childish games a bare:
With pigments no'er her cheek defiles,
Nor practises coquettish wiles:
Needs not a maid to pack her things
Nor plagues papa for diamond rings:
Oa biscuits is content to lunch;
Loves SHAKESPEARE, MILTON, POPE, and Punch:
Never descends to vulgar slang,
And ne'er was known the door to bang
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-28

THE STOURBRIDGE OBSERVER,.

the following day. The jury returned a verdict in ac-
cordance with the doctor's testimony.-At 13yworth,
near Horsham, Charles Stees, aged four and a half
years, has died from hydrophobia. On the 21st of
August the deceased was playing in the street, when a
mad dog flew at him and bit him severely in several
places, and afterwards attacked some sheep which
have since died. The deceased was attended by Dr.
Hope, who dressed the wounds, which healed in a few
days. On Saturday he became very ill and would not
touch food, and gradually sank and died It seems
that the same day the dog made its way to Wisborough-
green, where it attacked a little boy five years of age.
In this case the child was bitten severely in the face,
and had also since died.

by an almost superstitious fear of ruin. Thus, economy
on the one hand, and hard work on the other, may enable
a people to recover with marvellous rapidity even from
so tremendous a blow as that which struck France in
1870. To Germany, on the other hand, the gains of
the war acted as incentives to extravagance. As the
country seemed to be flooded with money, thousands
of families flung aside their old frugality to run
a race of luxury. Berlin became not unlike
what Paris had been. Trade was artificially stimu-
lated, but the commercial classes fancied that the
prosperity was natural, and they spent in proportion
to their expectations. Thus was spread something
like an English scale of living. The price of provisions
went up as quickly as the apparent increase of wealth,
and the working people soon felt the pinch of distress.
Germany would regain her old prosperity more quickly
If her military system, which seems the cheapest,
were not in reality the dearest in the world. She
forms a magnificent fighting machine out of the beat
part of her young manhood, but she pays for it by
artificially lessening her production. No doubt France
does precisely the same thing in a somewhat less degree,
and we do not say that either country can change
its course in the present troubled state of Europe;
but France is better able than Germany to bear a
heavy blood-tax. Nature has given her marvellous
riches of soil, and the frugality of her people is scarcely
less important. Germany does not start with the same
mass of capital, nor has she the same power of making
good her losses. On the other hand, France would
commit an immense mistake if she were to assume that
she could bear the burden of another great war. Slit
has yet to see whether she can even continue to pay,
without serious distress, the enormous taxes which are
the legacy of military vanity.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-28

VIPERS' BITES.

The Academy of Sciences at its last meeting in Paris
listened with admirable gravity to a crie,sert.tion on the
bte of vipers and the best means of counteracting its
effects. The learned profeaor who introduced the
subject hes, it seems, spent twenty years of diligent
observation in disc..overing that the.) wounds iu question
are more dangerous than they are usually supposed to
be. His sole remedy, however appears to consist in
sucking the tart bitten, a process the simplicity of
which would certainly recommend it if, as the professor
says, it is always effectual when taken in time. It is
not of course the only known remedy, and at the
recent congress at Clermont a rather large number of
specifics were mentioned and commended. The most
agreeable of them all was that proposed by M. Fradet,
who also considers a viper quite competent to dispose
of an average man or beast. He recommends ligature
of the hand or member bitten, cauterisation, and,
finally, the administration of hot and spiced alcoholic
drinks, this remedy to be continued even to the point
when intoxication in the patient ensues. Besides the
chance thus given of recovery, there is in the method
suggested the obvious advantage that it helps the
sufferer in any case to forget his pain for the time
being. But the system has also its dangers. A viper
will, perhaps, henceforth become rather a favourite
among a certain class of the inhabitants. It may not
perhaps be likely that any rustic would voluntarily
expose himself to the reptile's attack for the sake of
the drink to be thus secured. But it might be possible
with a little cunning to get the antidote without the
bane. Following the example of Falstaff on a humble
scale, a man might easily make a small puncture in his
finger, sufficiently resembling a snake bite, and then,
by running to the parish priest or squire, stand no bad
chance of getting, on the spur of the moment, an ample
allowance of good stiff grog.—Globe.