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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-15

ELEPHANTS IN BATTLE.

"Delta " has sent the following to the Daily News:—
Sir,—ln the Daily News of 6th August I perceive
an article commenting on the proposal of M. Gaidoz
to make elephants serviceable in warfare. You are
quite correct in your remark that it has been found by
experience in India that the elephant will not stand
the fire of battle, though perfectly indifferent to
the blaze and noise of blank cartridges. At • the
battle of Sobraon some elephants ran away with
limbers of a 12-pounder battery ; and at an
affair of outposts which occurred a short time
before that action an elephant nearly upset a 24-
pounder by shying round, alarmed by a round
shot. But it is not only that the animal becomes
frightened in battle, which renders it unadvisable to
take it under fire. Its great size renders it a capital
mark for an enemy, and a gun-elephant in the shafts
if struck by a round shot would render the piece use-
less. The shafts would be smashed by the fall of the
animal, and it would be difficult to extricate the dead
beast and to harness another to the carriage in its room.
The death of the elephant would take away half the
motive-power of the gun. On the other hand, the fall
of a bullock, or of a pair, in the long teams neces-
sary for 18 and 24-pounders is very immaterial.
The dead animals are unhooked at once, and if there
are no spare cattle at hand, the loss will not be much
felt. At the battle of Goojerat, during the advance of
one of our heavy batteries, a round shot killed a pair
of bullocks and the driver, but it caused scarce any per-
ceptible check to the forward movement of the gun.
Moreover, a pair of runaway elephants with a gun in
limber at their heels would be more alarming to friend
than foe. Did not Pyrrhus find his elephants more
dangerous to his own hosts than to the troops of
Alexander?
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-15

A BOY MURDERER.

A Roston (T.Thited States) boy, named Pomeroy, who
bad been sent to the State Reform School for maiming
six or seven boys at different times, was pardoned out,
and now confesses that he has been guilty of two
murders since his release. He says On the 18th of
March, Curran, a girl of ten years old, came to my
mother's store for papers. I told her to come down stairs,
and followed her, put my left arm round her neck and my
hand over her mouth, and with my knife in my right
hand cut her throat. I hid the body in a cellar, and
washed my hands and knife at the water pipe." The
girl's mangled remains were recently found in the
cellar, and the discovery led to the boy's arrest. The
other murder was committed on the 22nd of April,
and the victim was a little boy named Millen.
Pomeroy confesses this murder also. He says that
when he met the little boy he determined to torture
him, if not kill him. He asked the boy if he would
like to see the steamer, and the boy said he would, and
both started off in the direction of the marshes. When
they arrived at the spot where the body was found, he
told Millen to lie down, and the little fellow, not dream-
ing of his danger, did so. The young fiend then imme-
.liately sprang upon hint, clapped his left hand over the

little innocent's mouth to stop his cries, and then, with
the same jack-knife that had but a month before been
used to murder the unfortunate Katie Curran, deliber-
. . . . . . .

ately cut the throat of the boy. The boy straggled fear-
fully, and the murderer, desperate at his failure in not
at the first blow killing his victim, stabbed him re-
peatedly in the bowels and chest. He mutilated the
body in a frightful manner, but does not know, as he
says, to what extent, and finally left his victim in a
dying condition. He cleaned his knife and person as
well as he could. He gives the same reason for com-
mitting this deed as he slid for killing Katie Curran—
"that he could not help it." Pomeroy is now 14 years
Ist
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-15

AN AMERICAN CENTENARIAN.

A Virginia paper asserts that Mrs. Katie Shepp
living in the Massanutten Mountain, near Keezeltown,
five miles east of Harrisonburg, in that State, has
reached her 120th birthday. Mrs. Shepp was marriedk
in the year 1774, at the age of 20. The paper says :--I'
"The old lady's mind is perfectly clear, and she does
the work of the family she lives with, as well as her
own sewing, and has never used spectacles. We think
she would be a decided feature at the coming Centennial
Exhibition at Philadelphia, and her age can be verified
by documentary and living proof beyond a doubt."
But no particulars of the " proof " are given.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-15

THE PONTIGNY PILGRIMAGE.

The precise objects of the pilgrimage to the
shrine of St. Edmund's of Canterbury, not having been
published, may be thus summarised (says the
Standard). To ask the intercession of St. Edmund
for the speedy release of the Holy Father from his
present suffering,'; for the cessation of the present
pagan prosecution of the Church in Germany, Brazil,
and other countries; and for the triumph of the
Church throughout the world in its present conflict
with the principle of Ciesarism. From most of the
Roman Catholic churches in the metropolis, as well as
from many in the provinces, representatives of the
congregations will be sent, as in the case of the Paray-
le•Monial pilgrimage last year, to Pontigny, to pray
fo^ tne triumph and well-being of the Catholic
Church at the shrine of him who is styled the last
canonised Archbishop of Canterbury. On Sunday,
Monsignor Patterson, president cf St. Edmund's
College, Ware (formerly a clergyman of the Church
of England), preached at the Pro-Cathedral, New-
land-terrace, Kensington, rfi the subject of "The
Pilgrimage to the Shrine of St Edmund of Canter-
bury, at Pontigny." H-, urged on various grounds
th-, principle of pilgrimages in general, a, the
result of a natu al instinct, and enforced the
duty of taking part in that si hich was to come, first
as a testimony of thankfulness as being themselves
free from that exile, and still more severe penalties,
which St. Edmund of Canterbury paid in his day on
account of his fidelity to God's Church, and for which
other prelates ;were now suffering the like punishment
in Germany and Switzerland, in Brazil and other
parts. To this he added another motive, that of
prayer for the realisation of the unity of Christendom,
and for the health and preservation of Pope Pius IX.,
that marvellous old man who had never bowed the
knee to wickedness, nor owned the right of violence
and force.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-15

A GRAND

HORTICULTURAL SHOW

Wiji Le Le Id at the same time and I. e.
Z JU M 1.1 Pit IZIC S FOR fiIiNTER3
W ill Le competed fur on WEUNDSDAY

the 26th awl 27th of Ituguat.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-15

HOPS.

The market is firm, and prices are again better for most
classes of hops, but business is rather quiet. A slight im-
provement iii the bine is reported in some places, but the
injury it has sustained is very considerable, and only a small
crop may be expected. Advices from the continent are less
favourable, the prevalent cold weather having acted preju-
dicially. The import of foreign hops into London last week
consisted of 208 bales from Antwerp, 40 Calais, 127 Hamburg,
and 31 Havre.
SEED.

LONUON, Monday, August 10.—No English Clover-seeds
offering, and prices nominally the same as last week Foreign
qualities, both red and white, met rather more inquiry, RA
prices of fine qualities were slightly higher. New Trifohum
has met a good dernand, and more money has again been
paid. New Trefoil was held higher, but buyers are not dis-
posed to give any advance for even the best qualities.
Canaryseed was dearer and in good demand. Germain
11 empseed realised last week's prices, with a steady sale.
White Mustardseed was taken off rather more freely, at a
trifling advance in price. Fine brown samples are inquired
for, but none are offering. Winter Tares: New samples
were again dearer, and the best yearlings were slightly
higher in price.
PROVISION.

Lonnon, Monday, Aug. 10.—The arrivals last week from
Ireland were 1,379 firkins Butter and 2,497 hales Bacon, and
from foreign ports 25,538 packages Butter and 3,087 hale.
Bacon. Foreign Butter Is again 2s. to 4s dearer, with a good
demand ; not much doing in Irish, the rates required by
shippers being conisidered too high compared with foreign.
The sale for Bacon continues very good. lo Irish no change
to notice in prices, but Hamburg and American singed sides
have advanced Is. per cwt. Lard has said freely, at au
advance of 3s. to 40. per cwt.._

PRICES.
Butter, per cwt. : S. S. 1 Cheese, per est. : a s.
Dorset ..........154 to 154 Cheshire OO to 88
Friesland... ..... 146 148 Dble. 6 lone., new 82 54
Jersey . 116 130 Cheddar 64 98
Eng., French, per dor. 18s. American ..
Bacon, per cwt. •. Barns: York
Wiltshire, dried.. 92 96 Cumberland
Irish, green, to. b. 90 94 Irish
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-15

COOL SUMMER VISITORS.

In a letter from St. John's, Newfoundland, to the Montreal
Gazette, a correspondent says : _ .

•
"Two icebergs stood in shore this summer, and took
up a position close to the Narrows, at the entrance of
our harbour. One was magnificent, wearing a castel-
lated front more than 100 feet in height above the
water, crowned with turrets and spires of the most
fantastic form. It was about three times the size
of Westminster Abbey. The other was oblong, with
a bold high front, from which there was a gradual
slope to the surface of the sea. These icebergs I
are the produce of the Greenland glaciers, which l
are ceaselessly forcing their icy fronts further and
further into the ocean, until, as they advance
into deep water, fragments are broken off and
floated away as icebergs on the bosom of the Arctic
current. 1 hey have probably been formed centuries
ago, hundreds of miles from the coast, away in the
grim solitudes of the mountain gorges of Greenland,
from the closely-packed snow which is first partially
dissolved and then frozen under pressure into masses
which in the shape of ice rivers, descend from the
summits to the coast, and there shed off the icebergs.
The two bergs at the mouth of our harbour had
evidently got aground, and they retained their position
more than a fortnight. The loftier one began at length
to show the effects of the warmer atmosphere in which
it now stood. Streams were seen trickling down its
soles; a crystal lake formed on its broad summit ; several
of the lofty turrets fell with a sudden plunge into the
ocean, fissures were discernible along its surface, and
at length, with a noise like thunder, it burst into ten
thousand fragments, strewing the ocean far and wide
with the wreck. Its comrade, being of stouter and
broader build, stood the heat better; but soon after
the dissolution of its bigger brother, as if unable to
endure the solitude, it took advantage of a high tide
and off shore wind and once more sailed away over the
great deep, to wander further and meet its doom in the
dissolving breath of the Gulf Stream. It is not an
uncommon thing to see fragments of rock imbedded in

the icebergs which hare been torn from the sides of
Arctic mountains, and being deposited at the bottom
of the sea near the Banks, these will help to build up
the great submarine continent which is there slowly
rising to the surface.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-15

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARK ET.—MosPAT.

The cattle trade has been quiet to tone, but notwithstand-
ing the rather large supplies offering, prices have been bteady
on the whole. As regards beasts, the receipts have been
rather more liberal, but a great proportion of the supply has
been comprised of inferior breeds. Sales have progressed
slowly at about late rates. The best Scots and crosses have
sold at 68. to 6s. 2d. per Sibs, From Lincolnshire, Leicester-
shire, and Northamptonshire we have received about 2,400,
from Norfolk, 40, from other parts of England about 200,
from Scotland 32, and from Ireland 49 head. (Sr the foreign
side of the market an increased supply of beasts has been
on offer, for which the demand has been quiet There
have been about 1,600 from Tonning, 250 Spanish, 90 Gothen.
burgs, and 660 Dutch. With reference to sheep the show has
been good as regards number. With a quiet trade prices
have ruled about the same as on Monday last, the beat
Downs and half-breds realising be 4d. to Is. Gd. per bibs.
Lambs have sold steady at be 64. to Is. Bd. per Sib. Calves
have been in moderate supply and slow request on former
terms. Pigs have been dull. Coarse and inferior beasts, 4s.
to 45. 84. ; second quality ditto, is. bd. to Is. 4d.: prime
large oxen, Is, 6d., to Gs. ; prime Scots, Ac, Gs. to 6s. 24. ;
coarse and inferior sheep, 48. 104. to Is. ; second quality
ditto, Is. to Is. 2d. ; prime coarse woolled, Is. 24. to In. ed. ;
prime Southdowns Is. 4d. to Is. Gd. ; large coarse calves,
48. 24. to 45. Bd. ; prime small ditto, Is. 21. to Is. 61. large
hogs, 3. Bd. to 4s. ; small porkers, 41. 41 to 45. 81 ; lambs,
Is. 64. to 65. Bd. per 81b.
METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET.-MONDAY.
A moderate supply of meat was on sale here to-day, and
trade was very slow, at the following quotations :-Inferior
beef, Is. 4d. to 45. ; middling ditto, 48. 24. to 4s. 64. ; prime
large ditto, 45.84. to ss. 2d. ; prime small ditto, In, bole. 41.
veal, 4s. to Is. ; inferior mutton, 3s. 44. to 4s. ; middling'
ditto, 45. 4d to 4s. ; prime ditto, 4s. ad. to 5. 3d.: large •
pork, Is. Bd. to 40. ; small pork, 4s. 84. to Is. 4d. ; and lamb,
is. Bd. to Is. 41 per 81b, by the carcase.

POTATOES.
A moderate supply of home-grown potatoes was on sal
here to-day, but the arrivals of foreign produce were unim
portant, only 1,750 packages having been imported into
London during the week. The trade was steady, at the sub-
joined currency i—Regents, 1005. to 1305. ; slums, 80s. to
100 s. ; kidneys, 1105. to 1405.. per ton.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-15

ORDER I ORDER

HOUSE of Commons! House of Lords !
When a Member used those words
In the good old days gone by,
"Order !" was at once the cry.
This or that was called, In case
It were named, " another place."
What next? !By and by, irate
And excited in debate,
Members will, as they
Of each other speak fly name!
Then what mortal can foresee
What the consequence will he?
I may Order's late transgression
Not occur again next Session !--Peach.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-15

:GIRAFFES AT THE ZOOLOGICAL
GARDENS.

re Tlassjllliefatigable -Mr. B tt has succeeded in
adding'!" the gardens of the oological Society in the
Regent's Park three young mires, two females and
a male, purchased of Herr C. agenbeck, of Hamburg,
arid captured in tpperN übia (says the Dads Telcgro pl.).
They hove not at preeent reached their full growth,
the tallest of the three being, only sonic ten feet in
height; but they are In perfect health and condition, and
are already reconciled to the pew abode to which they
were led from Wapping in the dead of the night along
the London streets. Under the able charge of Mr.
Andrew Thomson and the elder Misslebrook, they
are looking as well as can be expected after their
long voyage ; and it is to be hoped that for some time
to come they will attract a more than usual crowd of
visitors. 'lire company have now had twenty-nine
Firaties in all, of whom seventeen hawe been born
in the gardens, while twelve have been im-
ported. As a rule they have all fared well, and
lived to a good old age, and there can be no doubt
that with only a little ordinary care and attention
the "cameleopard," as it used to be called, would soon
adapt itself to our English climate. A more beau-
tiful inhabitant of our ornamental parks could
hardly be wished for, and it is to be hoped that
Herr Hagenbeck, who is always receiving fresh con-
voys from Nubia and the upper cataracts, may soon
establish a clientele in England. The giraffe is not
good "venison" it is true. The neck and legs are the
only edible parts, and even these are often apt to
prove a little tough. Neither does he yield good
sport, except in his native country, where the hunts-
man rides him down, and brings him to earth by a
bullet just below the shoulder blade. But the
grace and elegance of the animal are so remark-
able—it is so docile and gentle that Nature herself
seems to mark it, like the black swan and the
fallow deer, as an objet de luxe for our large open
spaces. The fallow deer itself is a close relation
of the Indian spotted axis, and was ori;inaLly im-
ported from Nepaul. It is now as able to bear the
vicissitudes of our climate as the indigenous red deer
itself; and there is no reason whatever in the nature
of things why what has been done with the fallow deer
should not be done with the giraffe. The best test of
the capability of an animal for acclimatisation is the
facility with which it will breed in a strange climate ;
and—from this point of view there is every reason to
believe that any attempt to acclimatise the giraffe
would prove itself an immediate success.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-15

lIALEBOWEN.

A JUVS;NILE IioICsEMIKAKKR.—On 7th inSt, at a speeial
Sessions before Hr. Edward Gem, George Faulkner ,lsn,
was charged with breaking into the dwelling-house of
Timothy Dearer, st Worley IVigorn. on the dth inst. The
prosecutor stated that he left the doors and windows of
his house securely fastened at Sa, in, on the -lth inst.,
and when be returned at twelve o'clock he found that the
window bad been taken out and a small timepiece stolen.
George Robinson, a butcher, deposed that (Lc same day
the prisoner offered him a timepiece for sale, but as he
suspceted that the prisoner obtained it dishonestly, he
detained the timepiece, and gave information to Police.
constable Simpson, who shortie afterwards arrested the
prisoner.—The prisoner admitted his guilt, and, ache had
been previously convicted for felony, he was committed
to the Sessions for trial. . . . .

....
IHE CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY.—This society has issued
its nineteenth quarterly report and balance sheets, from
which it is to be seen that the society is making steady
progress. The amount of cash received during the guar.
ter for goods sold was £1,343 Ba. id. being an increase
of £lOl upon the receipts of last quarter. The cash in-
vented amounted to £9l 2s. 10d., and the entrance fees
were 12.. The trod, account chow. a net gam of .4:108
is. 6d., which, with the balance from last quarter. £.3 is.
id., entrance fees 124., and titles and:forfeitures 14s. lid.,
made up a total for division of £ll2 19s. lid This sum
was applied as follows :—lnterest on 1,002 paid-up chares,
at 5 per cent. per annum, .£l2 10a. ; dividend on mem-
bers purchases, £1.359, at la. ad. in the pound, £44 18s.
lid.; addition to reserve fund, £6 10 depreciation of
tined stork and property aceouut, Us. ; having • balance
to be carried forward of ,E 4 Ils.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-15

DUDLEY.

Pitoszccrtoz CODER THE WOEKSHOPE ACT.—Elijah Guest
signalman, in the employ of the Earl of Dudley, appeared
before the magistrates at the Police Court. on Monday,
and was charged that he, " being the father of chili
employed ins workshop, did neglect to send the said
child to school." Mr. Brewer, aub.inspector. *dated that
since he had been in the diatriet the boy had been at work
in different workshops. For six weeks he bad not made
his full ten hours at scLool, and he had not received any
certificate.:so that the persons employing him were liable
Miss Cash, schooltListress, proved that the boy had not
properly attended school. Defendant was then charged
with neglecting to send another son to school, and in
giving evidence Mr. Brewer said he had ascertained that
the boys were sent to school in the early part of the week,
but kept bard and continuously at work at the close.—
The Bench imposed a fine of 10a. and coats in each case,
with the alternative of fourteen days' imprisonment.
rCOMMITEAL OF ANOTHER EIOTEIL—ThOMBE Rollason
(26), sulker, of Badger's Square, and Enoch Itollason
th, horse-nail maker' of Tipton, were charged at the
Pollee Court on Wednesday, with riotously and tumults.
nasty assembling and doing wilful damage to the house
of Mrs. Caswell during the election riots in February last.
Mr. Stokes appeared for defence.—Chief superintendent
Burton gave evidence as to the nature of the rioting.—
Plias. Ehza Ann Butler stated that she was at the Sir
Robert Peel Inn on the day of election, and she saw
Thomas Rollason throw a stone throngh the window.
It struck her in the ear, and broke a clock upon the man.
tlepiece.—Other evidence waa adduced, but there was
nothing to show that Enoch Rollasou took an aoive part
in the rioting, and he was discharged. Thomas Rollaeon
was committed for trial.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-15

THE FARM LABOURERS' LOCK-OUT.

On Saturday afternoon there was a great demonstra •
tion in Halifax in aid of the locked-out agricultural
labourers. A procession, in which about 20 trade and
friendly societies and nine brass bands took part, was
formed in the market-hall and passed through the
principal streets of the town, in presence of thousands
of spectators, to Shitiden-hall-park, which had been
placed at their disposal by Mr. John Lister. A meet-
ing was held here over which Mr. Alderman Hutch-
inson, ex-Mayor, presided. On the motion of Mr. J.
Pollard, seconded by Mr. J. Cunningham, it was
unanimously resolved "That this meeting deprecates
the conduct of the farmers in locking out their
labourers as unjust and tyrannical, and expresses
its sympathy with the men in their present
struggle. Mr. H. Taylor, secretary to the
Labourers' Union, ?said he recognised no defeat.
Although their funds were exhausted the seeds of com-
bination had been sown and the time was not far dis-
tant when the labourers would be a mighty and intelli-
gent power in the State. This was the last place the
company of labourers would visit on their pilgrimage,
and they had cleared about V(g) by their efforts. Mr.
Arch, who was loudly cheered, said in the course of his
speech that there was no such thing as a surplus of
labour on the land, and that the land would bring double
the produce into the market if more labour was em-
ployed upon it. While ten million acres were lying
uncultivated for the sport of a few, he could not be-
lieve there was a surplus of labour in the country. The
root of the evil lay in the monopoly of the land, and
that monopoly must be removed. It was high time the
working men rose en :muse and demanded a Comniis-
sion for the inspection of the land, and where it was
found uncultivated, let the State give the owner
proper value for it, take it out of his hands, and cul-
tivate it for the people. They would call the landlords
of England to the bar of public opinion, and if they
did not do their duty by the land they held, they must
have a Parliament which would make them. When
the men in the agricultural districts had got their
political rights, then they would talk about the
Labour Laws, and if a Labour Commission was dila-
tory or sluggish, they would let them know " what
o'clock" it was at the next election. A large money-
box was carried in the procession, and a goodly sum
was collected for the labourers. After the speeches a
gala was held.

A troop of twenty-one agricultural labourers, of
whom only ten were members of the imposing band of
nearly a hundred who left their homes in the Eastern
Counties six weeks ago, broke up on Monday morning
at Halifax. Five of the men remained in Halifax,
with good prospect of regular employmept. The six-
teen others, eight of whom are single men, returned
home by rail. 'The horse and van in which money was
collected throughout the march were also despatched
home to Nevnuarket by rail.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-15

AUSTRALIAN WRECKS.

The Melbourne Argus Bays "The wreck of I
the British Admiral has been one of the worst I
that has happeind on our coast since the loss
of the steamer Adniella. King's Island, and espe-
cially the western coast, has had an unenviable
notoriety in the way of wrecks, but fortunately the
majority of them have been unattended with loss of
life. Since the year 1830 there have only been two
wrecks on the western coast where the loss of life has
exceeded that of the British Admiral. In 1830 the Neva
was wrecked on the western part of the Island, and
300 lives were sacrificed, and in 1843 the Cataragui
was wrecked some ten miles below where the British
Admiral was lost, and 414 human beings then met with
a watery grave. Since that time five vessels (exclusive ,
of the British Admiral) have come to grief on the
western side of the island, and all within a length of
six miles. These have been—the Brahmin in 1854,
when seven lives were lost; the Maypole, in 1855, when
three lives were lost; the Aurora in 1865, when one
life was lost ; the Watemciteh in 1866, and the Netherby
in the sense year. In the two latter cases no lives were
lost. To this long list of disasters the British
Admiral has to be added, with the loss of 79
lives. This should be sufficient to show the Govern-
ments of Victoria and Tasmania that the present light
at Cape Wickham, on the northern point of the
island, is quite insufficient as a guide to masters of
ships bound for Melbourne or through Bass's Straits,
especially if their chronometers are in any way defec-
tive, as was the case with the British Admiral. A
powerful light is urgently needed on some portion of
the western coast. This has long been urged by sea-
faring men, and it is to be hoped that the subject
will at once be taken into consideration. There are
three points on the coast that would be suitable
for flue erection of the light,—viz., the Waterwitch
point, Point Netherby, or the outlying point of
Fitzruaurice Bay. King's Island is about 45 miles
long by 15 noises in breadth, and is in most parts
-nvered with a dense scrub, with occasional patches of
open country. It abounds with kangaroo and wallaby,
the hunting of which for the sake of the skins consti-
tutes the support of about ten men. Among the rocks
lining the west coast are to be foul:a plenty of fish, and
a few small craft occasionally run across fp wi Melbourne
to secure a cargo. Crayfish are abundant. At the
Cape Wickham lighthouse there are stationed the
families of the lighthouse-keeper and his assistants, and
these constitute tne whole population of the island."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-15

MORE EFFECTS OF THE HIGH
TEMPERATURE.
(From Punch.)

Mr. Kerr Mudgeon, having quarrelled with his
wife, whom he expects to join next week at the sea-
side, is delighted with the thought that he will have a
cool reception.
Lord Foppington has been seen walking out without
his gloves, and with rather a limp shirt collar.
- - - • •

,
Captain Cookard has astonished his young friend,
Ensign Gooeesteppe, by winning a cool hundred of
him, in spite of the high temperature.
Mr. Beeswing has been dining lately in his wine-
cellar, as he fears that his old port may be mulled in
this hot weather by being taken up-stairs.
It is whispered at the mess-table that gallant Major
Firebrace would have proposed last week, but the
charming widow vowed she really couldn't stand
the warmth of his preliminary expressions.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-15

COUNTY COURT.

hang v. Andreas and Wife.—At the County
Court held on Thursday, before R. Kettle, Esq.,
Judge, this was an action brought by plaintiff
against the defendant for £3 3s, the value of a
chair sold to a Mr. Hill. Mr. Wall said that
Hill was dead, and the defendant had possession
of Hill's furniture, and the claim was £3 3s, for
an invalid's chair. Defendant admitted that he
had Hills goods, and that they were given to his
wife for monies owing to her; and he did not
consider he owed the money. lie had advertised
the chair, and sold it for 265, which he was
hng to pay. After some discussion, plaintiff
agreed to accept the 26s offered, and costs.
Paye v. I roOd.—SINGULAR ACTIOS. —This was
an action brought by plaintiff against the defend-
ant, who lived at Brockosoor, to recover 20s.
From the evidence adduced, it appeared that
' plaintiff was in the habit of going to the de-
fendant's shop with shyer in exchange for gold.
In July last, plaintiff sent her servant girl at
! night, with three pounds in silver for three sove-
! reigns, and the girl brought back two sovereigns
I and a new halfpenny for the silver, instead of
three sovereigns. The defence was that plain-
tiff often sent to his shop for change, and on
the night in question three sovereigns were paid
to the plaintiff's servant.—His Honour believed
the evidence of plaintiff's witness, and gave an
order for the full arnouot claimed.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-15

THE GAG BEARING-REIN.

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The following c,,mments in the Daily New,, on this pre
-
veiling, but foolish and cruel habit, will, it is to be hoped,
be productive of good :

In our impression on Monday a Correspondent
made an appeal to the owners or hirers of carriage
horses to abandon the use of the gag bearing-rein,
which inflicts a very considerable amount of pain
and discomfort on those much-enduring animals.
We fancy that the ladies and gentlemen in ques-
tion have no idea whatsoever of the torture which
is thus inflicted on horses, or they would imme-
diate*, order their grooms to go back to the old
bearing-rein, or abandon both altogether. The
old one was bad enough, to be gore. Its only
object was to keep the head of the horse high in
the air, and to make it paw and rear at starting,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-15

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

When a Chicago woman feels particularly spiteful
towards mankind, she sleeps with her feet out of the window,
so as to prevent people seeing the comet.
. _

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A Milwaukee woman trades her son for a dog,
and, although it is a poor dog, it is thought she made a good
bargain.

An Englishman told Josh Billings, not knowing his
acquaintance, quite a new thing, namely, that he belonged
to a country upon which the sun never seta. "And I," said
Billings, "belong to a country of which there can be no cor-
rect map. It grows so fast that the surveyors can't keep up
with it."

A bachelor being asked why he didn't marry,
answered, "That women were claiming the right to go to
the poll, and they would soon claim the right to go court-
ing, and that he was only waiting for a good offer."
The custom of sending to friends cards announcing
births in a family is increasing in New York, says a content-
porary. Deduction—an increase of population.
Josh Billings says —"No: man or real genius has
ever been able to escape notiss, but the world has allowed
thousands of them to starve to death."
A saloon keeper in Union county, Indiana, keeps a
Raw in Ms bar-room, which he amuses himself in Ming when
the ladies call to pray with him.

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The prize-taking young lady of this year of a St.
Louis seminary is described by the reporter as
A perfect woman nobly planned,
To warn, to comfort, and command.

_
A rival paper criticises the second word of the second line
and says that it Is not complimentary if not a printer's error
for warm.

A Yankee barrister has recently got up a remedy
for hard times. It consists of ten hours' labour, well worked
In.
Some have faces that have a story to tell How
different are faces in this particular ' Some of them speak
not : they are books in which not a line is written, save
perhaps a date. Others are great family Bibles, with all the
Old and New Testament written in them. Others are
Mother Goose And nursery tales : others bad tragedies, or
pickm.herring faces, and others sweet love anthologies, and
songs of the affections.

Goma UPON Tim.--,Sheridan sometimes got the
worst of the war of wits. He having boasted that in
his establishment everything went on "like clock-
work," a friend smartly observed, "Ay, ay, the whole
goes on tick, I suppose."
•repartee which was too
true to be pleasant to the improvident wit.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-15

ESCAPE OF MARSHAL BAZAINE.

The Correspondent of the Daily News sent the following
telegrams to that journal:—
. .

PARIS, Tuesday night.
The news of ex-Marshal Bazaine's escape reached
Marshal blacMahon yesterday at half-past two
o'clock, when he was at the Fine Arts Exhibition.
Means which were thought effectual were resorted to
to keep the matter a secret until the official journals
should announce simultaneously that severe measures
had been taken against aecomplices Nevertheless Le
Figure gave the main fact this morning.
Although Bazaine often received visitors, only his
wife and his faithful aide-de-camp, Colonel Villette,
were allowed to reside with him, and that on condition
of their both submitting themselves to prison sur-
veillance.

•
On Sunday night Madame Bazaine, with her cousin,
M. Ronne, went in a boat to the Isle de Ste. Mar-
guerite. After dinner, Bazaine, accompanied by
Colonel Vilette and the Governor of the prison, walked
up and down the terrace, where alone he was allowed
to take exercise, till ten o'clock, when he said he was
going to bed.
It is supposed that he escaped before daybreak, and
before the relief of the guard at five o'clock in the
morning. It is believed that he let himself down from
the top of the rock by a thick knotted rope.
The boatmen habitually employed by Madame
Bazaine were waiting below, at great risk of the boat
beingtroken to pieces on the rocks. Madame Bazaine
and Roulls were in the boat. The wind was blowing
hard, and there was a tremendous sea on. It is sup-
posed that a steamer from Nice, of either the Valery
or Freycinet Company, had gone out of its course to
receive the fugitive, and that he has landed in Italy
somewhere between Vintemille and Genoa.
When the steed was stolen immense commotion was
raised about the stable-door. The orison was speedily
full of gendarmes, and instruction judges from Grasse,
Aix, and Marseilles flocked up to the empty gaol to
open a most searching inquiry. Everybody in the
island, civil or military, who is more or less suspected
of having favoured the escape, is closely watched, and
will not be allowed to run away.
. .

The Sow says that in consequence of the parole
Bazaine had given not to escape, surveillance was
lately relaxed. The knotted rope with which he let
himself down from the rock was found in the water,
and was in many places blood-stained. The Gazette de
France, as yet unconfirmed, says he landed at San
Remo, and went by Turin and Bale to Brussels, where
he arrived at seven o'clock this morning,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-15

MARSHAL BAZAINE'S PRISON.

The sentence of death passed by the Court-martial
at Versailles upon the unfortunate commander of
Napoleon's 111. 's Army at Metz was commuted to
that of imprisonment for life in the Isle of Ste. Mar-
guerite. near Cannes, on the Mediterranean coast
of France. The island is described as two miles long,
by half a mile broad, and distant only three-quarters
of a mile from the Croisette Point at Cannes, which
looks toward the fort. This building has accommo-
dation for about 1,000 men. It was erected in 1827,
and is celebrated as the place of confinement for
many years of the " Man with the Iron Mask." His
cell is the great attraction for the visitors who come to
the island from Cannes during the winter season. It
is a miserable, cellar-like place, vaulted like a case-
mate. Its whitewashed walls are covered with thou-
sands of English and American autographs, There
is a single window, with a triple row of
iron grates, a couple of feet apart. The cell is 21ft.
by 18ft There are several other similar chambers
in the same corridor. Adjoining it is a building of
three floors, with strongly iron-barred windows, in
which the insurgent Arabs from Algiers were con-
fined within 18 months past. A certain number of
them are allowed to come over to Cannes daily
for marketing, and wandered dolefully about
the streets. The Paris correspondents discussing
Marshal Bazaine's case have spoken of his enjoying a
villa and garden on the Isle of St. Marguerite ; but
there is very little of that in the place. A high blank
wall stands immediately in front of the house, at about
80 feet distance. No windows face the mainland.
Some of the houses at Cannes may be seen over the low
parapet wall which crowns the summit of the precipice
on which the f.o-t stands. The garrison laundry occu-
pies the ground in rear of the house. The only in-
habitants of the island except the garrison of the fort
are a few woodmen. —illustrated London Nem

The Delp Telegraph. in a leader, commenting upon the
escape of Marshal Basaine, makes the following remarlu
upon Ile Sainte Marguerite .-
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The escape of Marshal Bazaine will confer hence-
. forth an additional interest on one of the most romantic
spots in Europe. The Ile Sainte Marguerite is familar
by name to all who have puzzled their heads over the
strange story of the Man with the Iron Mask.
Among the secrets of history, there is none which
has possessed a stronger attraction for speculative
minds than the unsolved and, we suspect, in-
soluble problem relating to the captive of the
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-15

THE IRON TRADE.

WOLVERHAMPTON, Wednesday.

There was an average attendance of merchants
and ironmasters on 'Change to-day, and a fair
amount of business was transacted. The recent
reduction of .£1 per ton on the best makes of iron
has had a most hensfieisl effect upon the market
by causing contracts to be given out which for
some time past have been held back. Owing to
the races this week operations in the district are
entirely suspended, but to Saturday last most of
Cis uiil ind forges have been run nildr. full time.
The reauction made in the quotations for the
best class of Suesia aas not had fitls marked etiset
upon the medium and common qualities, but
ul.,ua rsductiou is made in the price of fnel, as
is expes‘sd wil, shorty take place, quotations
for sheets and other descriptions of finished iron
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-15

THE STEAMSHIP "CITY OF BOSTON."

The following communication has been sent to The
Times

Sir,—Mr. G. W. Davis, of New River, East Florida,
a gentleman whose statement may be received with
the greatest reliance, transmits to the kcal paper
here the following copy of some writing found in a
bottle on the sea-shore nearhis home some time in June
last:—

"I, a passenger on board the steamship City of Boyton,
make the following statement, that on Sunday night we had
a severe storm at twelve o'clock all hope given up; 120
am, ship going down.

"JOHN HASWELL, London, Enema
..(Without date.) "

Mr. Davis further states that on the same day a board
was found with writing, nearly obliterated, as fol-
lows:
"We are now taking to out boats as a last resort. Steam-
ship City of Boston. "e. SMITH

It may be a strange coincidence that the board and
bottle should have been found on the same day, but
that they should be found on the east coast of the
peninsula of Florida could be accounted for in this
way :—The City of Boaton last touched at Halifax,
H.S., and then sailed for LiverpooL Most probably
she would make for the Gulf Stream, and if the acci-
dent happened while she was in that current the bottle
might follow its well-known track across the Atlantic,
and thence southward to the Coast of Guinea, where,
meeting with the equatorial current, it might have re-
crossed the ocean, skirted the northern shores of South
America, and thence by way of the Carribean Sea
entered the Gulf of Mexico.

This explanation seems quite feasible from the fact that
a bottle which had been thrown overboard from a Ger-
man man-of-war at the Canary Islands, containing a
printed request that the finder would forwarded it to
the Naval authorities at Berlin, together with the
time and place of finding, was picked up at Cape
Florida scarcely a month ago, and brought to me to be
forwarded. I am, Sir, your obedient servant.
It. COBDEN Cox, Vice-Consul.
British Vice-Consulate, Key West, United States,
July 20th
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-15

THE DROWNING OF AN EDITOR.

Full details have been received of the sad accident
which occasioned the death of one of the ablest and
most influential cf Swedish journalists. Mr. Augustus
Sohlman, the chief editor of the Af Nithladet, the lead-
ing Swedish newspaper, was sailing in a small boat
with two of his sons on the Baggersfjarden, one of the
numerous waters surrounding Stockholm, when a sud-
den squall, reaching almost the force of a hurricane,
upset the craft, which sank on the spot, leaving the
three inmates to swim for their lives. Sohlman, who
was an experienced sailor and a first-rate swimmer,
took the youngest son, a boy of ten years, in his arm, ,
and cried to the eldest, a lad of eighteen, to keep near '
him, but after some minutes of anxious struggle against
the furious waves he was either choked by the frantic
embrace of the frightened boy or seized by cramp.
lie sank with his burden to rise no more, and the poor
elder lad had to swim on alone to take to his mother
the sad tiding,e. The boy was found sonic hours later,
the corpse of the father only the next day. Mr.
xiohlman, who in 1848 entered the Danish Army
during the Schleswig-Holstein war as a volunteer, and
who had, in 1864, strongly recommended the active
intervention of Sweden and Norway in Denmark's war
with Germany, was captain in a regiment if rifle
volunteers, and he was borne to the grave by his com-
rades, followed by all the literary and politi al nota-
bilities of the capital, King Oscar a himself being
represented on the occasion.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-15

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-08-15

THE MARKETS.

MARK-LANE.- MONDAY.

At Mark-lane to-day the market was quiet, and the value
of wheat, both English and foreign, remained without im-
proving, in spite of the less settled weather. The show of
new wheat was fair, but its quality and weight were variable,
and the highest price asked did not exceed 60s. per quarter.
Barley was steady, though very sparingly and slowly dealt
in. Malt was difficult to move, and about the genie in price.
Oats were in moderate doomed, sad the better descriptions
realised very full quotations. Maize was dull, and inclined
to give way in price. Beans and peas supported quietly the
rates of Friday last. The flour trade was inactive, and the
price of town made was reduced is. per sack, or to frOs.

MARK-LANE. -WEDNESDAY.

At Mark-lane to-day there has been no feature of import-
ance. The attendance has been thin, and business, in conse-
quence, restricted. A fair supply of new wheat has been on
offer, and has sold steadily at Monday's prices. Old samples
have been unaltered. Foreign wheat has been in fair supply
and slow request, at late rates. Only a moderate supply of
barley has been on offer. The demand has been quiet, but
prices have ruled firm. Malt has changed hands at previous
currencies.