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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-10-30

AN ANTIQUATED CORRESPONDENT.

Despite the innovating achievements of railways,
telegraphs, international postal systems, cheap news-
papers, and other modern means of disseminating in-
formation to all parts of the earth, there are still odd
nooks and corners, even in Europe, to which the in-
telligence of many important events that were the
news of the day a century ago has not yet found its
way (says the Daily "Telegraph). Historical informa-
tion takes an uncommonly long time to reach such
places, and does not invariably become deeply rooted
in the memories of their inhabitants, even when it
concerns personages of the highest rank. At least, so
we should infer from the fact that the chief post
office in the Austris.n
bearing the postmark of
a, small town on the Adriatic coast, and ad-
dressed as follows : "To Her Imperial and
Royal Majesty Maria Theresa, in Vienna."
This communication having been duly opened in
order that its writer's communication,
might be ascertained,
was forthwith returned to him, bearing the laconic
endorsement "She is dead." It might have been
imagined that this fact was as patent to every in-
habitant of the Dual Realm as is the lamented decease
of Good Queen Anne to the majority of Englishmen
at the present day. But it would seem that amongst
the outlying subjects of Francis Joseph 1., the fourth
Emperor who has resigned over Austria-Hungary
since Maria Theresa died, and who himself has
occupied the throne for two-and-thirty years, there are
still some steady-going, old-fashioned human fossils
who entertain the settled conviction that the wise and
valiant Empress-Queen contemporary of Frederic the
Great, Louis Quinze and our own Second George, is
alive and hearty in die year of Grace 1880.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-10-30

MR. DODSON, M.P., ON IRELAND AND

THE EAST.

Mr. J. G. Dodson, M.P., and Mr. W. S. Cane,
M.P., addressed their constituents in the Old Town
Hall, Scarborough, on Monday evening.

_
Mr. Dodson, who was enthusiastically received, said
that if any persons had come to that meeting expect-
inc, to hear him attack or disparage the Government
they would be much disappointed. But neither was
he going to praise the Government. Referring to Ire-
land, Mr. Dodson said that if the Government were
satisfied that the ordinary law was not sufficient to
maintain order in Ireland, they would not shrink from
asking Parliament for extraordinary legislation, on
account of any threats which might be used. The re-
jection of the Irish Compensation for Disturbance
Bill by the House of Lords had had the effect of
increasing the difficulty of the position of the Govern-
ment in regard to Ireland.
Mr. Dodson having next spoken of Mr. Gladstone's
financial arrangements, the Employers' Liability Bill,
and-the abolition of the malt tax, went on to speak of
foreign affiairs. Referrinf, to the efforts of the Govern-
ment to secure the fulfilment of the stipulations of
the Treaty of Berlin, Mr. Dodson said that Turkey
had rromised to fulfil the promises she had made with
regard to Montenegro absolutely and unconditionally,
and if she failed to keep her promise she would have
to be classed among those barbarous Powers, and
would have to be dealt with on the same terms as
those who did not recognize the obligations of truth,
morality, and honour.
A resolution thanking the members for their ser-
vices, and expressing full confidence in them, was
passed with acclamation.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-10-30

SATURDAY, OCTOBFR 20, 1880

KIN VER.

PROPERTY SALE. —At the White Hart - Inn, on
Monday evening last, Mr. no. Taylor offered for
sale two lots of property, situate in Enville Road,
Kinver, Lot 1, consisting of three dwelling houses,
a piece of building land reached £205. It was with-
drawn but was afterwards sold by private contract
for £240 to Mr. Daniel Vale, of Kinver. Lot 2,
consisting of two dwelling houses was knovked
down to Mr. Edwin Russell maltster, for £135.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-10-30

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MEDICAL CAUTION.

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—BENBATIO,4, FAINTS —A certain method
of cure has been discr.vered for this distressing complaint
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-10-30

THE IMPORTATION OF POTATOES.

The Times has published the following letter :
Sir,—Perhaps the most remarkable contrast between
the present season and that of last year, so far as
regards imports iJ concerned, is to be found in the
fact that whereas between September Ist and October
21st, 1879, there came to London alone from the Con-
tinent 817,422 bags of potatoes; this year in the same
period we have only imported 157,525 bags, or less
than one-fifth of the former quantity.—Your obedient
servant, F. BAXTER.
South-Eastern Wharf, Southwark, S.E., Oct. 25.

COUNT VON MOLTKE'S BIRTHDAY'.
Field-Marshal Count Moltke attained the ripe age of eighty
on Tuesday.—The Correspondent of The Times, in noticing
this event, says
"Field-Marshal Count von Moltke entered to-day
upon his 81st year, and though, perhaps, not quite
so fresh-looking and well-preserved by comparison
as the Emperor, who is two or three years older,
the great strategist is still marvellously active and
unimpaired by his advanced age. Birthdays are
great domestic festivals in the humblest German
families, and in the case of illustrious persons they
take the form of a regular ovation. On the person,
therefore, of a max so deeply worshipped by his
countrymen as Count Von Moltke it may readily be
imagined what honours and attentions were heaped
to-day. Among the earliest of his congratulators were
the Imperial Family, the King of Bavaria, and other
German Sovereigns, with the various military attachds
of the foreign Embassies here. An excursion to
Potsdam and Magdeburg saved the Marshal from the
overpowering attentions of us friends and admirers
here."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-10-30

TRAGEDY IN FINSBURY PARK.

On Friday in last week, shortly after noon, in Fins-
bury-park, London, a man shot a woman and at-
tempted to commit suicide. It appears that at the
time mentioned a very respectably dressed man in
company with a woman entered the Finsbury-park
and took the path which runs near the Great Northern
Railway. Before they had gone many yards they
were heard to have high words, and directly after-
wards the man was seen to take from his coat pocket
a six-chambered revolver, point it at his companion
and fire it three times. The woman fell to the ground,
after which he fired the weapon at himself, falling
down upon the grass. Several persons at once rushed
up to the woman, and found that she was bleeding
from a wound in thebreast. Mr. Cochrane, the super-
intendent of the park, at once fetched a doctor and a
police-constable, and the formei ordered the woman
to be removed to the Great Northern Hospital.
There, on being examined by Dr. W. H. Barry, she
was found to be dead, and a further examination
showed that one of the three shots had penetrated
the heart. Another shot had been prevented from
entering the body by the stays the deceased wore.
The man was next removed. He was able to walk
to the nearest cab stand, where a conveyance being
procured, he was taken lo the Holloway Police-
station. There he was examined by Dr. Barry, who,
finding that a bullet had entered his chest, and that
he was bleeding internally, advised his removal to the
Royal Free Hospital, Gray's Inn-road. The surgeon
whilst examining him, remarked that the bullet was
deep in the wound. The man exclaimed, "What a
pity it is I did not put two bullets instead of one
into myself, or that this one did not g•-) to the heart.
You don't know my troubles." He was then taken to
the Royal Free Hospital, and on his arrival there he
was seen by the resident medical officer, Dr. Corden,
who thought the bullet had entered the left lung.
The man complained of being in great pain, but con-
tinued to be conscious. In reply to questions, he said
his name was William Herbert, that he had no home
in England, and that he was an iadependent gentle-
man. Whilst Dr. Corden was dressing his wound
Herbert said, "I have killed the best friend I had in
the world, and I am sorry I have not killed myself;
but if I had been allowed another minute I should
have been able to have done so." He further stated
that he had been in England for about eight months,
having come from Ballarat, in Australia, where he had
left his wife and family, and that the deceased woman
was his sister-in-law. He also muttered sonaething
about knowing that he would have to "swing for it "
if he lived.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-10-30

FISHERMEN IN THE NORTH SEA.

According to the Cologne Gazette, an agreement has
just been concluded between England and Germany
having for its primary object the prevention of those
acts of violence on the part of British fishermen which
the boatmen of the North Sea not infrequently, it
is said, have to complain of. For this purpose it is
agreed that only fishermen of German nationality shall
have the right of fishing wLthin certain specified limits
and distances from the North Sea coast, as also inthose
bays and inlets thereof having a minimum breadth of
ten sea miles or less. English fishermen may only
cross these boundaries when compelled thereto by
perilous stress of weather, or when making directly
for some port or harbcur with intent to sell their
freights, while crews ofrillijonn-Giermann theirationa etslintywhino
persist, in spite of we g, h casting
the forbidden waters mentioned, may be laid lipid of
and taken before the nearest authorities.
In the event of British fishermen, during their
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destroying
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German Government will. be loyally assisted by that
of England in bringing the offenders to justice.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-10-30

THE WRECK REGISTER.

The Wreck Register for 1878-79, published by the
Board of Trade, shows that last year 3,002 wrecks
occurred on our coasts and that 490 lives were lost.
Of the total number 797 were serious casualties and
1,808 minor disasters. During the past 25 years there
had been 49,322 wrecks, resulting in the loss of 18,319
lives. By means of the lifeboats of the National Life-
boat Institution, the rocket apparatus of the Board of
Trade, and other agencies, as many as 3,202 lives were
saved from the various wreaks on our coasts last
year.

SURVIVAL OF AN ANCIENT CUSTOM.

There is a curious survival (a correspondent of the
toms in the -Capital of he kfiegXL-the licilf7gritivticch
takes place in the month of October preserving many
of the feateres which characterised it during the
Middle Ages. The whole of the town takes part in
it, and dancing in the open air begins at one in the
afternoon, and, with an interval of a couple of hours
for dinner, lasts till daybreak the next !morning. The
spacious promenade of the town, at the foot of the ruins
of the chAteau of Gaston Phcebus, is transformed into a
ball-room and magnificently illuminated, and upon the
eminence above it is a military band generally brought
from Toulouse. The dancers are divided into three
separate groups; to the right the grisett,es, in the centre
the peasants, and to the left the ladies; the character-
istic part of the file being that all classes of the com-
munity are expected to take part in it, and that the
wife or daughter of the prefect would incur much
unpopularity if they declined to dance. These fetes
are never disturbed by any disorderly conduct, and
not in the memory of the traditional "oldest inha-
bitant" has any misunderstanding been known to
arise. Every now and then a thunderstorm bursts
over the town; but unless the rain is very heavy the
dancing is not interrupted, and it is amusing to see a
quadrille or a waltz being gone through under the pro-
tection of a forest of umbrellas. The fete lasts over
two Sundays, and attracts crowds of people from the
mountainous districts of Ariege and from the con-
tiguous Val d'Andorre.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-10-30

THE AMERICAN SHIPPING TRADE.

The American shipping trade is dead, owing.to high
wages, protective tariffs, and, it is suggested, to a
growing dislike among the pecple for disagreeable
modes of life, a dislike so great that born Americans
scarcely ever become miners. Ships cannot be built
in the United States cheaply enough to compete
with British ships. The natural remedies are, of
course, to abolish all duties on materials and
all navigation laws, and either build cheap ships
or buy them of British builders. The Americans,
however, instead of that, have called a shipping
convention, which recommends that pilotage dues
should be abolished and restrictions on shipping sea-
men; that the laws of sulmeasurement should be
modified, so as to measure cargo space ; and that Con-
gress should commence a ••systerr. of !bounties, to be
paid out of custom-house dues and a tonnage tax. In
other words, they recommended that the American
shipping trade should be carried on at a loss, and that
the people of the Union should be taxed to pay for it.
If the people of the Union approve there is no objec-
tion; but it is a costly and cumbrous way of training
American sailors—the only advantage the nation can
ever obtain from bounties. The same bounty would
keep up an effective fleet or entire schools of sailor
lads.—New York Journal.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-10-30

HURRICANE IN THE WEST INDIES.

Information has been received from Bermuda of a
great hurricane which swept over the West Indies and
the Atlantic about the 2nd inst., and which it is
feared has caused the loss of several vessels.

Amongst others sufferers by the storm was the
Amelican ship Jennie A. Shepard, which, when in lat.
29•30, long. 63.30, was thrown on her beam ends by
the sudden shifting of the wind from S.E. to N.E.
She remained in this condition, with the water wash-
ing right up to her combings, for an hour, and was
only righted by the cutting away of her main and
mizen masts, the falling of which carried away her
foretopma,st and jibboom. The mizzenmast in its
descent knocked a large hole in the deck, through
which great volumes of water were admitted, damag-
ing the cargo of flour, bran &c. The boats were washed
away, and two mules, which were fastened on deck,
were killed. The Jennie A. Shepard remained in this
helpless condition until the 4th inst., when she was
fallen in with by the steamer Tycho Brake, belonging
to Messrs. Lamport and Holt, of Liverpool, which
took her in tow and brought her safely into Bermuda
the next day.
The Jennie A. Shepard was on a voyage from
Baltimore to Demerara when struck by the storm.
About the time of falling in with the vessel above
named, the captain of the Tycho Brake also sighted
another vessei which he thought was in company with
her, but this vessel suddenly disappeared, and
although a goodout was kept she was not afterwards
seen, and it was supposed she must have foundered.
The assistance rendered to the American vessel by
the Tycho Brake was most timely, as she was drifting
about in a helpless manner, and would probably have
foundered had she encountered another hard gale.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-10-30

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

"Fellow citizens " cried a stump orator; "fellow
citizens I I solemnly warn you that our country is rapidly
drifting into arnica!" Perhaps he meant anarchy.

"Never marry for wealth," says an American
authority on life, d6c., "but remember that it is just as easy
to love a girl who has a brick house with a Mansard roof and
a silver-plated door-bell as one who has not anything but an
auburn head and an amiable disposition."

One of the old blue laws of Connecticut said, "No
one should run on the sabbath day, except reverently."
Imagine a man just out of church pursuing a flying hat
reverently before a high wind and in the presence af an in-
terested congregation.

This is given as the first honeymoon discußsion
between an American lawyer and a New York belle. "No,
Amy, you're quite wrong. I never was refused in all my life."
"Oh Tom, how can you say so? Why, there was Louie
Simpson." "I tell you again, you're wrong, completely
wrong. It's true I was 'declined with thanks' once, but I
never was refused,"

The Oil City Derrick says that many a young girl's
life has been wrecked on the waves of her handkerchief.
In New York, a short time ago, a Western editor
was met by a friend, who, taking him affectionately by the
hand, exclaimed, "I am delighted to see you; how long are*
you going to stag? "Why, I think," said the editor, "I
shall stay as long as my money lasts." "How disappointed
I am," said his friend; I hoped you were going to stay a
day or two.':

An American paper quotes a couplet by Benjamin
Franklin, as illustrating the advances made of late years in
the art of "getting on." Franklin wrote- -"He that by the
plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive."
The Yankee version, adopted to the times, is—" He that by
his trade would rise Must either bust or advertise."

The grim old baron lay on his death-bed. His
weeping daughter was kissing her lover in the shadow. His
soon-to-be orphaned offspring were playing a solemn game of
dcarte wider the bed. Suddenly the voice of tke dying
warrior broke the oppressive silence. "What, ho! without
there "he cried. " Admit the ancient sage who this morn-
ing staked his head he could cure this dreadful attack of
consumption !" The sage entered, drew forth a bottle, put
it to the lips of the sufferer, and—lo! the knight arose,
donned his armour, drew his sword, killed the priest to try
his muscle, kissed his wife, spanked the childlen, and was
himself again. The magic bottle was labelled : " Rock and
Rye," from F. and Y. J. Cassin, con California and Drumm-
stxeets
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-10-30

" MANDER'S PATENT."

Sizes: 7in., Bin., 91n., 10in., llin., 121 n.
10 INCH is., 11 INCH is 2D.

_w•.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-10-30

THE VOLUNTEERS.

From the Ist of November next a volunteer, in
order to obtain a certificate of efficiency, must fulfil
the conditions prescribed in her Majesty's Order in
Council dated the 31st of July, 1880, which has can-
celled the previous order, dated the 7th of July, 1874.
In accordance with the powers granted to him, the
Secretary of State has to some extent altered the
wording of the certificates of efficiency so as to define
more clearly in certain points the intention of the
order. No volunteer is under this order allowed the
privilege of a reduction of the number of drills re-
quired for efficiency after four years' service as an
efficient, unless he has performed during the first two
years of his service the increased number of drills
directed by this order.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-10-30

ACCIDENTAL DEATH BY DROWNING.

Mr. J. Pinniger, one of the Berkshire coroners, held
an inquiry at the Railway Hotel, Kintbury, near
Hungerford, on Monday afternoon, into the circum-
stances attending the death of Mr. F. Owen, a sur-
geon, whose body was discoirered in the Kennett and
Avon Canal, between Hungerford and Kintbury, on
Saturday.
A gang of men were at work with a barge, dredging
the canal, when they saw the body of a man lying in
the bed of the stream, and a police officer having
been sent for, the body was recovered, and taken to
Kintbury. Deceased was found lying with his face
downwards and with his hat, top coat, and gloves on.
In his pocket were a silver watch and chain, a purse
containing some cash, a late edition of the Globe, a
copy of Fun, some private paper, and the halves of
two return tickets, issued on Thursday, one to return
from Waterloo to Leatherhead, where the deceased
had been in practise for many years, and the other
from Kintbury to Paddington.

Evidence was adduced showing that on Thursday
in last week, the deceased was in his usual health and
spirits, and he called his coachman's attention to a
balloon from the Crystal Palace passing over Lea-
therhead. He told the coachman he should go to
town, and at about four o'clock left his residence
for the station. He reached Hungerford station by
the last train on Thursday night and told the
porter who took his ticket that he was asleep
when the train came past Kintbury. He inquired
how he could get back to Kintbury, and the porter
told him he must hire a vehicle Gr walk, but there
were no vehicles at the station, and deceased left
the platform. Deceased was a native of Kint-
bury, where his relatives still reside, and had been
acting as co-executor with Mr. Thorman, shipping
agent, for the estate of his father, a well-known
Berkshire agriculturist, who died from injuries
he received in driving from Epsom to Leather.
head, while visiting his son, the present deceased.
had been arranged that one or the other of
them should run down to Kintbury. It was wet
and dark when deceased reached Hungerford, and it
is believed that in walking along the canal bank,
which was slippery, particularly where the dredging
had been going on, he must have missed his footing
and fallen head foremost into the water and become
fixed in the mud.

The jury, of whom the vicar of Kintbury was fore-
man, returned a verdict of "Accidental Death by
Drowning."
The deceased, who was nearly 50 yearw of age,
leaves a widow and a numerous family.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-10-30

THE GROUND GAME ACT.

The Earl of Kintore has issued the following circular to
his tenantry :

"Dear Sir,—As I desire that all my tenants shall
have the same protection of their crops from damage
by ground game, I have resolved that those whose
leases were current at the commencement of the
recent Ground Game Act shall be entitled to partici-
pate in the benefit of that Act equally with those
whose leases were subsequently granted. In snaking
this concession, I do so with confidence that my
tenants do not desire to deprive their landlord and his
friends of one of the pleasures derived from a country
life among them, but that, on the contrary, the winged
game will be in every way protected, and that un-
authorised persons will be prevented from destroying
game on their farms. I grant this privilege the more
readily as I feel assured that none of my tenants will
give me cause to withdraw the same."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-10-30

THE INQUEST.

Dr. Diplock, the coroner for West Middlesex, held
an inquest on Monday morning, at the Station Hotel,
Acton; on the body of Ada Shepherd, the murdered
child. Mr. John Shepherd, the child's father, was
examined, and stated the circumstances under which
he left and found his daughter, and, in addition to the
evidence he gave at the Hammersmith Police Court,
he said that he did not know anything of the ante-
cedents of Pavey before he engaged him.
Mr. Murrell, the surgeon, gave evidence, and said
that death must have been instantaneous. The cause
of death was from the throat being cut. The girl was
also stabbed, but that, he thought, was afterwards.
(To the jury:) I think she must have been rendered
insensible by the outrage and then stabbed.
Police-constable George Miller said that he went to
the house of Mr. Shepherd because he heard some one
who passed him say, "All Mr. Shepherd's children
have been murdered." Inspector Jesse Smith and
other witnesses having been examined,
The Coroner then summed up, and the Jury,- after
a brief deliberation, returned a verdict of Wilful
murder against George Pavey.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-10-30

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THE "GRANT PARADE" IN NEW
YORK.

The Republican " parade " at New York on the 11th inst.
in honour of General Grant is described by the newspapers
of that party as" the most remarkable display ever seen in
the city." The New York Times says :

With over 60,000 men in line, parading before more
than 300,000 spectators, and with a display of enthu-
siasm that seemed almost immeasurable, the demon-
stration of last night was on all- sides conceded to be
not only a great success, but the most remarkable and
noteworthy of its kind which the city ever witnessed.
There were over seven miles of a shifting panorama
that presented large patches of flame and colour, so
well disposed and harmonized that the whole effect
was at once pleasing and magnificent. Among the men
who took part in the procession, and who honoured
themselves no less than the cause they espoused by their
presence, were members of very many of the foremost
firms of bankers, brokers' produce merchants, dry
goods and carpet merchants, and others whose names
are among the best known in various commercial call-
ings. The procession itself was full of interesting
features. The marching was very much better than is
usual in the turn-outs of civilians; the uniforms of
the men were tasteful and sufficiently varied to avoid
the reproach of sameness which is so often cast on
demonstrations of the kind; the music was excep-
tionally good, every first-class band in this city and
neighbourhood appearing in the line ; there were a suffi-
cient number of very brigHt calcium lights in the pro-
cession to furnish the glare which is regarded as in-
separable from affairs of the kind ' • frequent discharges
of fireworks also assisted in making the scenes more
pleasant and varied to the eye, and the hearty cheer-
ing of the paraders was something worth listening to.
The crowds of spectators were enormous. Madison
and Union squares were for hours filled with a sea of
human forms which overflowed the bounds of the open
spaes aid kept surging through the thoroughfares
which connect the two breathing spots." From all
parts of the City—east, west,• north, and south—came
added throngs all night, filling the avenues and streets
through which the paraders passed, and encroaching
upon the space reserved for those in line. The steps
and balconies along the route were crammed with
persons, among whom were very many elegantly
dressed ladies and gentlemen. House-tops and other
elevated points were eagerly sought, from which to
view the parade, and windows, not only in hotels and
apartment-houses, but in the best of residences, were
full of faces gazing with pleasure at the unwonted dis-
play. For hours the grand spectacle shifting and
variegated, was unfolded to the view Of the crowds,
and for hours did more than a quarter of a million of
people remain in the streets to enjoy the sight. It
lacked very little of daybreak when the last of the line
passed the reviewing stand, and even then the crowds
were something remarkable.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-10-30

A ROMANTIC SUICIDE.

A St. Petersburg paper narrates a touching story of
an occurrence a few days ago in one of the principal
hotels of that city. A young gentleman from Moscow,
who had been staying for a few days by himself in the
hotel, ordered dinner one day to be served for two.
He then went to the railway station, evidently to meet
his expected friend. He, however, returned to the
hotel alone at dinner time. As his door was fastened
and no reply could be got from within, the police
were sent for to break open the door. The young
gentleman was found stretched across the table shot
through the heart. On the table also lay the photo-
graph of a young lady, and the fragments of a letter
were found scattered about the floor. Another letter
was found addressed to the proprietor of the hotel,
saying that the writer had shot himself in despair
because the young lady whom he had been expecting had
not kept her promise. Half an hour afterwards came
the postman, bringing a letter from the young lady
herself, saying that she had missed the train and
would be unable to come until the next day. The
scene when the unfortunate lady arrived and was in-
formed of the tragedy that had taken place can be
better imagined than described.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-10-30

THE BALAKLAVA COMMEMORATION.

The twenty-sixth anniversary of the Battle of
Balaklava, with which the "Charge of the Light
Brigade" will for all time be associated, was cele-
brated on Monday evening, the 25th, at the
Alexandra Palace, when about sixty survivors of
that famous action were present. Of these twenty-
six had been wounded, thirty-three had had horses
killed under them, and five had been prisoners of
war. The number of medals displayed for service in
the Crimean War, including those granted by the
Sultan of Turkey, was 143. About four o'clock the
company assembled in a room where a. banquet had
been provided. The chair was taken by Major J. Lay
Smith of the 11th Hussars, and the vice-chair was
taken by Mr. W. Bird, of the Bth Hussars. The usual
loyal toasts having been proposed and honoured, the
toast to the memory of those who fell in the battle
was drunk in silence. "Absent comrades "and other
toasts followed, the proceedings being brought to a
close by the recitation of Tennyson's Charge of the
Light Brigade."
At Willis's Rooms the following gentlemen, who
participated in the engagement, dined together:
General Sir Edward Cooper Hodge, K.C.B. (in the
chair), General Clarke, C.B. General Sir Thomas
M'Mahon, Bart., General C. 8.,
C. 8., Lieut.-
General Forrest, C.B. Lieut.-General Shute, C. 8.,
Lieut.-General Beauchamp Walker, C. 8., Major-
General *Sir Roger Palmer, Bart., Major-General
Seeger, C. 8., Sir William Gordon, Bart., Colonel
Trevelyan, Colonel Lisingfeld, Colonel Portal, Colonel
E. D. Hunt, Colonel Mussenden, Colonel Prender-
gast, Lieut.-Colonel Fergusson' Major Duberly, Major
Wilkins' Major M'Crea.gh, Major Coney, Major
Clowes, Captain Goad, Captain Lee, Captain Scott,
Captain G. W. Hunt, and Surgeon-General J. Mount,
C. 8., V.C.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-10-30

MR. OSBORNE MORGAN ON THE
BURIAL ACT.

A deputation from one of the County Associations
of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist body having
waited upon Mr. Osborne Morgan, M.P., thanking
him for his exertioas in connection with the Burials
Act, the right hon. gentleman has replied stating that,
although the measure 'just passed is not so compre-
hensive as the one which he broached, still it is as
good as could be expected under the circumstances.
The extensions which he made were obligatory
as a matter of duty. Three questions appended were
put by the deputation to Mr. Morgan, so as to
make the provision of the Act more explicit.
First. Have the clergy a right to demand
payment instead of the offerings (where offerings
were customary at the time when the present
Act came into force) when the burial service
is being carried on under the new law?
Secondly. Have the clergy a right to refuse to bury
in their respective churchyards persons who have
resided in other parishes? Thirdly. Are the twenty-
four hours of Sunday to be rec.ognised as forming part
of the twenty-four hours' notice demanded by the
Act? (A case was here mentioned where the clergy-
man held the contrary.) To the two former questions
Mr. Morgan returns a negative answer; to the last an
affirmative answer. Touching query No. 2, he added:
"The clergy has no right at all, individually, under
any circumstances, to decline burying a non-parishioner.
That which grows in the churchyard belongs to the
clergyman for the benefit of the church. The burial-
ground is the property of the parishioners, and the
clergyman's relationship to it is only that of a
trustee."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-10-30

OLD HILL.

NEW MAGIETEATES.—Mr. H. A. Wiggin and Dr.
Walker, both of whom qualified as magistrates for
the county of S.afford at the last Quarter Sessions'
sac for the first. time on Wednesday, since being
appointed.
6TEALING IRON.—Before W. Bassano H. Wiggin
M. P., and H. A. Wiggin, Esqs., and Dr. Walker.
I).niel Price, Thomas Gill, and Benjamin Marsh,
three youths of Old Hill, were charged with stealing
a quantity of iron, of the value of 3d, the property
of Joseph Wright, innkeeper and cdliery pro
prietor, old llill.—The theft was committed on the
1511 met, when defendants, it was proved, took the
iron Iron a disused colliery belonging to the
prosecutor and sold it to a woman named Painter
lid and some sweets.—Price and Marsh were
each tined 10s., or in default seven days' imprison-
ment ; and Gill, the youngest of the three, was
ordered to find a surety in £lO for his future good
behavio4

7.3 KIDDERMINSTER.
STEALING FROM AN EMPLOYER.—At the Police
Court on Wednesday, Jane Thomas was charged
with stealing, and Ann Reece with receiving, four
sheets, two blankets, and one counterpane, the pro-
perty of William Parker, lodging-house keeper, of
the Horsefair, Kidderminster. The prisoner Thomas
has been in the employ of the prosecutor as a do-
mestic servant, and stole the articles mentioned and
them handed to Reece, who afterwards pawned
them. Both prisoners pleaded guilty, and were
committed for one month's imprisonment each.
COUNTY COURT.—At the County Court on Wed-
nesday, before Sir Rupert Kettle (Judge), Thomas
Guest, cabdriver, summonea John Wei b, publican,
for .21 10s, for taking him and others to Bridgnorth.
It appears that a contingent of Liberals went
over to Bridgnorth to assist in the election, and some
of them were driven there by plaintiff. Defendant
hired plaintiff, and now refused to pay him, alleg-
ing that he had already received £3 for his day's
work from another person. His Honour gave a
verdict for plaintiff for .21 J. Eveson, coal
and lime dealer, of Stourbridge, susd Messrs. Hoda-

kiSs and Millward, for 12s 4d., the valu it a
truck load of lime sold and delivered to them. Mr
E. F. Lowe, of Birmingham, was for the plaintiff.
and Mr. Thursfield and Mr. Corbett for the def
id-
&fltB. The delivery vas proved End hi,
gave a verdict for the plaint!ff.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-10-30

AN ECCENTRIC TESTATOR.

Some few weeks ago a well-to-do burgess of Vienna
died, leaving the whole of his property away from his
natural heirs and to the son of a retired Austrian.
General with whom he had been personally unac-
quainted during his life, upon the sole ground, duly
set forth in his will, that the Christian name of the
young gentleman in question was identical with his
awn. When the legatee, after proving the will,
visited the testator's dwelling, accompanied by a legal
official, in order to take possession of the property
bequeathed to him, his attention was first directed to
a fire-proof safe, as a likely repository of securities.
Upon opening the safe, however, it was found to
contain nothing but scraps of paper, cut up very
small with scissors, and consisting chiefly of old
envelopes. A further search through the rooms,
however, was rewarded by the discovery of
bank-notes to the amount of forty thousand
florins, crumpled up into a ball and hidden in
a corner behind a curtain. Other twenty thou-
sand florins were presently found in a photographic
album, containing some two score portraits of pretty
women in fancy costumes. Behind each one of these
photographs were concealed bank-notes corresponding
in value to the deceased gentleman's appreciation of
the ladies' respective charms, a fair beauty's attractive
merits being appraised at two thousand florins, whilst
those of a handsome brunette were rated at three
thousand. The notion of looking behind these portraits
was suggested
by marginali not i
es, appended to eaoh on
the pages of the album n which they were nserted.

These memoranda indicated the intention of the
deceased to make his testamentary dispositions in such
sort that each several charmer should inherit the sum
hidden away behind her counterfeit presentment.
Fortunately for his heir, this eccentric project had
never been advanced beyond its valuation stage; and
thus the prizes originally intended to be awarded to
beauty ultimately fell into the hands of an infantry
lieutenant.—Dailv Telegraph.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-10-30

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ENGAGEMENT AT PATKAO SHANA.

The London Gazette of the 22nd contains a General
Order, dated Simla, August 27, by the Governor-
General in Council, directing the publication, for
general information, of correspondence and despatches
relating to the defeat of a body of Zermuttita at Patkao
Shana, on July 1, by the cavalry brigade of the 3rd
Division Northern Afghanistan field force, under the
immediate command of Brigadier-General C. H.
Palliser, C.B.
The Governor-General in Council announces thaehe
"has perused with much satisfaction the correspond-
ence regarding these operations, and entirely concurs
with the Commander-in-chief in considering that great
cfedit is due to the Cavalry Brigade of Major-General
Hills's Division, under the immediate command of
Brigadier-General Palliser, C. 8., and to the officers
and men whose services have been so prominently
brought to notice in this despatch."
The force under General Palliser consisted of 577
sabres of the Ist and 2nd Punjab Cavalry and 19th
Bengal Lancers, with 13 British officers. The
enemy's force of 1,500 footmen were expecting rein-
forcements under Mahomed Jan. This force was
overtaken and utterly routed, over 200 being killed
and wounded in the attack and pursuit over very
rough and difficult ground—such ground, in fact, that,
as General Palliser says in his rep?rt, "On it no
cavalry could have touched well-disciplined infantry."
The retreating enemy took some advantage of the
broken ground, and generally fought desperately
when brought to bay.

The following incident is mentioned by General
Palliser :—" Among the first of the enemy overtaken
was a stalwart, well-(fressed and well-equipped Afghan,
evidently a man of some note' armed with rifle, shield,
sword, and knife, to encounter whom rode out Captain
Seymour D. Barrow, Aide-de-Camp to the Major-
General, whose services had been placed at my dis-
posal as a galloper. In the fight between them, I
regret to say, Captain Barrow received two severe
sword cuts, first on his bridle hand, rendering it use-
less, and another on his right fore-arm, his charger
being also wounded in the neck. The Afghan, already
badly wounded by Captain Barrow, was finally de-
spatched by Sowar Gulam Khan, Ist Punjab Cavalry,
and a sowar, Jewand Sing, of the 19th Bengal Lancers
(the latter Colonel Yorke's orderly, afterwards
killed)." This Afghan is -believed to have been the
nephew of Sultan Mahomed. The British loss was
three killed and twenty-eight wounded.
Among the numerous officers Lieutenant S. D.
Gordon, the officiating adjutant, is mentioned "as
particularly forward in the pursuit, killing several
men with his own sword."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-10-30

THE RECENT RAILWAY ACCIDENT
IN AMERICA.

Particulars have been received of the railway acci-
dent•which occurred at Pittsburg on the 10th inst. It
appears that there had been a fete in the city on the
9th, and large numbers of spectators came in from the
surrounding country to witness it. About midnight
a return train crowded with passengers left the
station. It was in two sections, and the cars were so
full that the people had to stand up in the aisles. The
first section of the train, carrying from five hundred
to seven hundred passengers, got away all right,
and it was followed about two minutes afterwards
by the second part. On the first train reaching
Twenty-eighth-street the line was found to be blocked,
and it came to a standstill, and directly afterwards the
second train came up at a high speed, and run into it
with a fearful crash. Both engines, and several of the
carriages were wrecked, and the rear carriage of the
standing train was " telescoped " into the next. To
add to the horror of the scene, the boiler valve of the
second engine was broken by the shock, and the steam
rushed out among the helpless passengers, many of
whom were scalded to death. Assistance was promptly
rendere,d, and the injured removed to the hospitals.
It wasvfound that nine persons had been killed on the
spot, and many more died afterwards, the total number
of deaths on the following day being 24, while others
were in a hopeless condition.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-10-30

THE MARKETS.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.—MosnAT.

In the cattle/trade there was no fresh feature. Fair sup-
plies of stock were offering, and business generally was
good. A full average supply of English beasts was on sale,
and there was a liberal show from Ireland, but very few
from Scotland. The demand was not active, an prices
remained about the same. The best Soots and crosses
sold at ss. ad. to ss. Ed. per alb. From the Mid-
land and Home counties we received about 2,200.
from Scotland 25, and from Ireland about 1,000 head.
On the foreign side of the market was a very poor
show, a few American with some Danish and Spanish being
offered. The demand was limited, at previous prioes. The
sheep pens were only moderately well supplied. There was
a quiet trade, at the rates previously current. The best
Downs and half-breds changed hands at Os. 104. to 7s. Od.
per Sib. Calves and pigs were inactlve and without ehange.
At Deptford there were about 1,500 beasts and 7,000 sheep,.
Inferior beasts, 4s. Gd. to 55.; second quality, ss. to Be. 4d. ;
prime large oxen, ss. 4d. to 68. 6d. ; prime Scots, is. 64, ta
ss. ; inferior sheep, ss. to ss. 6d. •' second quality, be. 64,
to (is. ; prime coarse woolled, ss. 6d. to 6s. 84.; prime South-
downs, 6s. 10d. to 7s. • large coarse calves, 58, to ss. ed.;
prime small ditto, is. €;tl. to 6s. Od. ; large hogs, 40. 6d to 55.;
small porkers, bs. to be. 6d. per Sib. sinking the offal.

, METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET.-MoNDAY.
With a full supply and a quiet sale prices showed very
little change. The tone was rattier heavy, notwithstanding the
cold, dry weather. Quotations :-Inferior beef, 3s. to 4s. 4d, ;
middling ditto, 4s. 6d. to 4s. 10d. ; prime large ditto, 4a. 104.
to ss. 2d.; prime Scotch ditto, ss. to ss. 4d.; veal, 6a. to
ss. 4d.; inferior mutton, as. 4d. to 4s. ; midcliing ditto,
4s. 4d. to ss. ; prime ditto, 58. 4d. to ss. 841. ; large pork,
4s. 4d. to 4s. hid.; small pork, ss. to 6s. 6d. per 81b. by the
carcase.