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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-11-27

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1875.
GREAT BRITAIN AND HER NAVY.

VARIOUS incidents have of late called public at-
tention to the condition and administration of
the Navy. The sinking of the" Vanguard" in
our own waters by a sister ship, and more re-
cently the narrow escape from foundering of the
"Iron Duke" herself, have caused many to
doubt whether the management of our ships of
war is as perfect as it was in the days when the
sees were cleared of our enemies by Nelson and
Collingvfood, when naval discipline was at its
highest point, and there was no complaint of a
want of resource in times of difficulty and dan-
ger. Yet it would be a hardship, if not an in-
justice to the naval service to declare that in the
face of all the progress which has been made in
other directions since the beginning of the cen-
tury. We ought to have a much better fleet
now than we had when we fought tho battle of
Taafalgar, instead of, as entice often declare, a
worse one. It must at the same time be re-
membered that accidents happened even in the
good old Um. sto which we are so
.frequentty
bidden to look back. One ironclad has lately
been rammed to death by another, it is true;
and five years ago occurred the melancholy loss
of the" Captain ;" but the foundering of the
"Royal George " in Portsmouth Harbour,
though it happened well nigh a century ago,
cannot have been forgotten, the loss of life on
that mournful occasion having been about twice
as great as when Captain Cowper Cole's turret
ship sank in twelve hundred feet of water in the
Bay of Bicay.
This condition of the navy question is, how-
ever, one of serious import to us just now in the
face of the warlike probabilities which loom up
from Eastern Europe. Every day makes it
more evident that Turkey is dying by inches as
a European power, and that it cannot restore
i•eace to the disturbed districts of the Empire.
Therefore it is that we hear statements to the
effect that Austria and Russia arc preparing to
occupy with their own troops the provinces
ravagt d by the insurrectionary bands, so as to
prevent the disturbance from further spreading.
The question is whether the Turk will submit to
this without a stritggle. That the Porte 'has
before submitted to similar occupations of her
territory is a fact which scarcely bears upon t'm
present crisis. Former surrenders wee go-
verned by a desire to retain that which was yet
bit; Wit ber rulers and that ono coucoolnon
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-11-27

RAILWAY No. 4.

A Railway (hereinafter referred to as Railway
No. 4), commencing in,the Township of Wollaston,
in the Parish of Oldswinford, in the County •of
Worcester, by a Junction with the intended Rail-
way No, 1, on the north side of the Turnpike Road
leading from the High Street, Stourbridge, to
Enville, and at, or near, a point in such Turnpike
Road, 14 chains or thereabouts measured in a
north-westerly direction from the north-vest
corner of the Golden Lion Inn, and terminating in
the Township of Stourbridge, and the Hamlet of
Aniblecote, in the Parish of Oldewinford, in the
Counties of Worcester and Stafford, or one of
them, by a Junction with the existing line of Rail-
way belonging to the Great Western Railway
Company, and William Orme Foster, or one of
them, on the bridge which carries that Railway
over the River Stour, and which bridge is situate
on the western side id the High Street, at Stour-
btidge, and is the nearest Railway bridge to that
street, on the western side thereof, and which said
intended Railway No. 4, will be made, or pass
from, in, through, or into the several parishes,
townships, and extra parochial, and other places,
following, or some of them (that is to say), Wol-
laston, Stourbridge, and Oldswinford, in the County
of Worcester, and Amblecote, and Oldswinford,
in the County of Stafford.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-11-27

CRADLEY HEATH, HALESOWEN, AND DISTRICT CH Pomo-ry.

TRADESMEN'S ADDRESOES.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1875.

PIaCIA,I ONE PENNY.

PUBLIC NOTICES.

SEVERAL Two and Four•wheeledk- DOG
CARTS, New and Second-hand, for Sajt.
Moore's, Oldswinford Carriage Worj, Sto,pc,krictige.

QABINET MAKERS.
WAN rED, GOOD WORKMEN; Wug
365, Fifty-four hours. Travelling.exp :use. 4t
—Apply, David Waddington, R. Flygrind Son, .1
Morris, Parkicsm and Woolstenholine, E. D 0.% ning. or
John Morley, Cabinet Makers, Bolton. • '

TO MECHANICS AND OTHERS.—Wanted
trustworthy and respectable men, to act as Collec-
tors for a well-kuown hout•e in London ; will not interfere
in any way with the duties in which they may be en-
gaged.—Apply, in the first place by letter only to Mr.
Mills, 4 and 5, Horse-shoe Court, London.

WANTED, a Respectable YOUNG LADY,
BAIMAID.—AppIy, Obserrn• Office, Stour
bridge.

WANTED, a Steady GIRL, about 17, as
GENERAL SERVANT.—AppIy, Idabey,
Quarry Bank, Brierley Hill.

GREAT WE STERN RA ILWAY.

BIRMINGHAM CATTLE, POULTRY, DOG, AND

CAT SHOW.

ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2nd, an EXCUR-
SION TRAIN will run to BIRMINGHAM, leav-
ing Worcester (Shrub Hill) at 10.5, Droitwich 10.17.
Hartlebury 10.30, Kidderminster 10.45, and Stourbridge
11.5 a.m. ; and returning from Snow Hill Station at 8.26
p.m. the same day.
For Fares and full particulars see Special Bills.
j.GRIERSON, General Manager.

Paddington Terminus.

STOURBRIDGE GAS COMPANY.

OTIOE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that an
N EXTRAORDINARY MEETING of the SURE-
HOLDER: of this Company will be held at the Corn -
pany's Office at the Gas Works, AMBLEcoTE, STotrit-
BRIDGE, on TuEsDAY, the 7th day of DECEMBER, 1875,
at 11.0 a.m., to receive a Report from the Directors as to
a Contract entered into by the Company with Messrs.
Westwood and Wrights for the Erection of a new Gas
Holder, and to confer on the Directors a Special Autho-
rity in relation thereto.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-11-27

STOURBRIDGE.

SAMUEL COX,

56. HAGLEY ROAD,
StrOUICBI:IDGE.

SEEDSMAN, FLORIST, & LANDSCAPE

GARDENER.

ESTIMATES FOR LAYING OUT GARDENS,
PLANTATIONS, &c.,

OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS.

A Fine Selection of
ROSES, Ff.UIT TREES, FLOWERING PLANTS,

TREES AND SHRUBS.

CURE FOR ALL.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-11-27

AMATEUR

VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL.

THE COMMITTEE formed for the purpose
of endeavouring to promote the establishment of
a COTTAGE HOSPITAL, for Stourbridge, have much
Pleasure in announcing that they have arranged for a
VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT,
To be given in the
CORN EXCHANGE, STOURBRIDGE,
On MONDAY, NOTE3IBEI: 29115, 1875,
Under the following distinguished patronage.
H. Allsop, Esq., Hindlip H. 0. Firmstone, Esq.,
Hall, M.P. Wollaston lall,
T. E. Walker, Esq., Studley 11. T. Hickman, Esq.,
Castle, M.P. • Hagley,
James Foster, Esq„ Stour- E. W. Bernard, Esq.,
ton Court, Stourbridge,
Col. Barrows, The Birches, Major Walker, Catherwell
Capt. Grosvenor, Clent, House,

The following Ladies and Gentlemcn have ladly given
their services .

Bins. FENNELL. Bins. WRIGHT, Miss JAMES=
Miss HARMS, Miss MILLWARD,

MR. H. KING,
W. J. TURNEY, Mn. SWAN,

MR. MUSTOIsT, MR. MACMILLAN,
MR. PARSONS, MR. W. PEEKS,
BIRP, AND Mn. WALL.

MR. FFRENCH DSVIS, Harpist.
Mn, GRIFFIN, Violinist.
Mn. J. RANDLE Organist:of.St. Thomas's Church,
Accompany Let.

Doors open at 7.30 to coninunce at 8. Tickets to be
had, red places secured, at Mr. Broomball's.
Reserved Scats, as ; Second Seats, 28; Back, Is.

NGLISH FRET CARVING.

BiiACKETS, BOOKRESTS,

READING EASELS, ELONNER STANDS
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-11-27

I MR. FORSTER AT BRADFORD.

Mr. W. E. Forster delivered his annual address to
his constituents at Bradford on Monday night. The
right hon. gentleman bore testimony to the ability,
courage, and conscientious industry with which Lord
Hartington had fulfilled the duties of his position as
Liberal Leader in the House of Commons. Referring
to foreign affairs, he said that the Liberals were pre-
pared to support the Government irrespective of party
differences ; but the Government should behave to-
wards the nation with perfect frankness. The country
was determined not to be dragged into needless or
meddlesome wars. Mr. Forster taunted Lord
Derby with having withdrawn the slave cir-
cular, although it had been issued on the assurances
of the " highest legal authorities," and remarked
that if he had been Foreign Secretary, and had
thought that the circular embodied the definitions of
the highest authorities, it would have required a good
many public meetings to make him withdraw it. He
'thanked Lord Carnarvon "from the bottom of his
heart" for his colonial policy; and, advertingto home
affairs, he commented upon the " critical " position of
the education question. He hoped to see a bill for
compulsory. attendance introduced next session; but
he also hoped that if the Government did try to amend
the Education Acts "they would neither give in-
creased grants to voluntary or denominational schools
nor encourage dogmatic or controversial teaching in
board schools." On general politics, Mr. Forster ad-
vocated household suffrage in the counties and a redis-
tribution of seats. He did not desire to see the Liberals
return to power until they had a majority in each of
the three kingdoms.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-11-27

jnipsoofteool,:::
iant said ~defuldso& tbre*Tbe
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ASSAULT AT KINVER. William JOB!
with assaulting Enoch Woof, on the 13th
Complainant said he had been drinking
on the 13th inst, at the &yen Stars publ
had some words together when defendanl
made his ear bleed. He went outside
again struck him. A witness corroborati
Defendant said they had a fair fight.
costs; in default 7 days.
ROBBERY BY A BOY.—A. lad named Frau
Birmingham, was charged with stealing 110r—tiepin
the property of Esther Parrish, on the 161 k
Prosecutrix said she resided at New Se" bellA
Wordsley. On the 16th September sbe
flannels, one white skirt, and one pocket /0:10
on a line to dry. She missed them the fallow' ;
ing. Mr. William Crump, pawnbroker, Or.getioa
said the prisoner pledged the articles in
shop on the 17th September. :He advance° '7/0d
He afterwards handed them to Filice-constabls „ft
Police-constable Freeman proved :apprehending:Jo
and charging him with the offence when he ft
taking the articles and pawning them for ls• biro
was sentenced to receive 12 strokes with the
and to be detained 6 hours.
WO'
STEALING 11 ATRlL—Matilda Knight was 0 "at
ist,.sling a quantity of water belonging to
fordshire Water Works Company, on the
Brierley Hill. :Mr. Holberton appeared 10 5,4
Alfred Brand, turnoock, proved the ease, and
was fined 18 and costs.
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WITHICY—On the 19th inst, after a short
Walker Withey, of Market-stret, in this
years; mach respected.
BARLow.—On the 20th mat, Moses Barlow,
Market-street, in this town.

Good valusfor money is desired by all, o:fid „r
that cannot be judged of by appearance, eviit
°havers rely n the high standing of those 10 Tetti
they deal. For 30 years, Horuimsn's Puld,
packets have given general satisfaction, being ellr
strong, of uniform good quality, and truly clvati
Stourbridge—Clarke, 161, High•street ; Baker, 'll
street; H-wit. Market Place; Morris, 136, 111
Brierley liill—Rawlings chemist ; Kidderints..,
king; Halesowen, Adam, chemist; Lye, Joao'
Wordsley, Turner, chemist; Kingswinford..,
Brettel Lane, Collings, eheivist ; Birtniug"
THROAT TRIIITATIOF —The throat and 11:141
eqp.,;cially liable to inflammation eausing
4ryne,s, tickling and irrit3tion, inducing coil
frcting the voice. For these sympt los oil.
the form of jujubes. Cilycetinein these agros
fectigne, being in pr aimity to the glands at ilia
they are excited by the act of sucking besu--130
healing, 61. and is packets (by post 8 or 15
labelled " Janes Epps Co , Homceopathic
Treadneedle Stre et, and 170, Piccadilly, - a

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-11-27

I REGISTERED FOR 1
i TRANSMISSION ABROAD.)

T. j. HICKS,

BUILDER AND COFFIN MAKER,
PARK STREET,

STOURBRIDGK.

All kinds of Jobbing Work punctually attended to.

HENRY LAKER,
AUCTIONEER AND VALUER,

HAIM-STREET, KINVER.•

Stooks and Furniture of every descriptions bought, aid
Cash advanced upon all goods sent for absolute sale.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-11-27

GOSTLING'S PIG PWODEBS.

Useful in almost every ailment of SOWS and PIGS of all ages. They act as a preventive of Milk Fever
Glarget, promote the health and well doing of growing Pigs, greatly h.-cantata the fattening of Pigs, and are.
most efficacious in Foot and Mouth Disease, &c., &c. Sold in Packets of 5 for is, oc 16 for 21. 6d, of all
DRIIIIIIft

Messrs. Burgess & Turner, Elastic Web Manufacturers,
Birstall Street Works, Leicester.—" We beg leave to
compliment you on the manner in which you reply to
our inquiries, they being so prompt and reliable. We
believe if business men were to act a little more on your
advice and replies, the commercial atmosphere would be
very much cleared of that amount of insolvency it at
present retains. We are pleased with the system 34,u
adopt of sending a number of inquiries obtained from
different sources, and when we find them agree with our
private ones, it gives us great confidence in, and satisfac-
tion with your plan."
Messrs. Tomlinson & Buck, Carlisle, and at Manches-
ter, Bradford, and Loudon.—" The only time we made
a bad debt (since we were members of Jour offices) was
when we did not act upon your caution."—Members seven
years.
Messrs. Croskill & Sous, Agricultural Implement
Manufacturers, Beverley,—" Minute and valuable par-
ticulars given promptly—special I ;recommended this
feature most valuable Accounts promptly recovered.
Cheques handed us at once."—Members six years.
Messrs. George Murray & Co., Engineers and Iron.
founders, Newcastle-on-Tyne.—" Prompt, efficient, • re-
liable—Never been misled."
Messrs. Huntley & Palruers Biscuit Factory, Reading.
—" Recommended."—Members seven years.
Messrs. Wm. Seelless & Co., Sewing Machine Mann-
actnrers, Airdale Works, Keighlv,—" No bad debts
where we have followed out your instructions during the
ast four years."

G_ L ENFIELD. GLENFIELD
The
Queen's
Luundrc is
Says this Starch
Is the hest
She ever
Used.

G LENF IE LD. OLLIsi FIE LD

TRADE MARK REGISTRA4ION.—FIint & Co., 56, Cheap.
side, London.—Every Trade Mark must be Registered
anew under the recent Act. Fo existing Registrations at
Stationers' Hall, or elsewhere, of any avail. Apply at
once to Flint and Co. Trade Marks registered in
'America, Germany, France, and all Continental Coun.
trues. No Charge for translations into any Foreign
language.

AATHY ARE THE YOUNG NERVOUS
AND THE MIDDLE-AGED DEBILITATED ?
—This i 3 now explained in a Medical Work, and a safe
mode of treatment for the restoration of health and
vigour fully stated Avoid Galvanic appliances and
Quackery. A single copy post free on receipt of stamped
snvelone Address---" St cretury, Instittre of Anatolia} .
Birmingham." The Author, A. M. BurroN, M.R C.S.,
, will send advice, free of charge, to all applicants
who send details of their cases, and may he consulted
daily at 44, Great Charles-street, Birmingham.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-11-27

Nir. U. JONES.
Secretary.

Stourbridge, November 20th, 1875.

STOURRRIDGE AMATEUR HARMONIC

ASSOCIATION.

PRESIDE N T :-

THE RIGHT FION. LORD LYTTELTON.
THIS CLASS MEETS for PRACTISE
1- every MONDAY EVENING, at the UNION HALL, at
7 30.

Works at present rehearsed .
JUDAS MACCABEUS and TWO PART SONGS.

Annual Subscription :

Gentlemen, V. 1s ; Ladies, 151.

Music provided.

CoNnucron - - - - Mr. J. A. SUTTON.

Intending Subscribers will please to obtain their
Tickets at en early date from Mr. Broomball's.
WILLIAM J. TURNEY,
Hon. Sec.

CORN EXCHANGE, STOURBRIDGE.

CONCERT
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-11-27

'6",ocal aub gidrict galas.

BOARD OF GUARDIANS.

The usual meeting of this Board was held in
the Board Room, yesterday, Mr. Granger iu
the chair. There were also present :—Messrs.
Guest, H. Billingham, Fozrest. Rhodes, Haskew,
J. Billingham, Fiddian, Brooks, Higgs, Wood,
and Plant. Admitted into the house 8 ; dis-
charged, 2 ; dead 2 ; born -3 ; remaining
294 ; against 318; last year. Out-door relief,
Kingswinford district £22 us 7d ; Stourbridge
district £l6 2s 9d ; Halesowen district, £l4 17s.
6d ; non-resident, paupers, 11s. 8d; total £54
3s 6d; against £5B 3s. 6d. last year.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-11-27

RAILWAY No. 2.

• A Railway (hereinafter referred to as Railway
No. 2), commencing in the Township or
Wollaston, in the Parish of Oldswinforcl,
in the County of Worcester, by a Junction with
the intended Railway No. 1, at, or near a point
thereon, 1 chains or thereabouts measured in a
westerly direction from the north-west corner of
the house called or known as "Washing Pool
Cottage," in Bowlipg Green Lane, in the occupation
of Mr. James Page, and terminating in the Parish
of Wolverley, in the same county, in a field
on the north side of the Cookley Iron Works
and called or known as "Pool Meadow," which
said intended Railway No. 2, will be made, or pass
from, in, through, or into, the several parishes,
townships, and extra parochial, :and other places,
following, or some of them (that is to say), Wol-
laston, Stourbridge, Oldswinford, Cornsall, and
Wolverley ; all in the County of Worcester, and
Kinver, otherwise Kinfare, and Whittington, in
the County of Stafford.

RAILWAY No. 3.

A Railway (hereinafter referred to as Railway
No. 3), to be wholly situate in the Parish of
Kinver, otherwise Kinfare, in the County of Staf-
ford, commencing by a Junction with the intended
Railway No. 2, on the south side of the bridle road
leading from the Town of Kinver, otherwise
Kinfare, to the high road (which bridle road is
on the north side of the Whittington Iron
Works and joins the said high road near
the Whittington Inn), at a point 6i chains
or thereabouts measured in a westerly
direction from the bridge which carries such bridle
road over the Staffordshire and Worcestershire
Canal, and terminating in a field, situate imme-
,diately to the southward of the Hyde Iron Works,
and adjoining, and on the west side of the said
Canal.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-11-27

AMERICAN HUMOUR.

An Omaha paper advises the people "not to snake
such a fuss about the shooting of one constable, as there are
over forty candidates for the office."
An Indiana editor makes the following announce-
ment :—" We positively decline to publish any anonyfrbous
communication in the future, unless it is accompanied with
the name of the writer."
"Two intimate friends in this city," says a Balti-
more paper, "had an animated dialogue with red-hot pokers,
and one of them has since had only one eye on things in
general."
A hatter in Washington has invented a hat that can-
not be blown off by a gale. The editor of one of the papers
of that city says, "If this hat were not wind-proof we would
give its puff."

A New York paper says :—" A horse ran away
yesterday, and a doctor ran, and a coroner ran, and a le-
porter ran also. The horse fell, the rider was unhurt, the
doctor had no case, the coroner no fee, the reporter had this
paragraph, and that was all that came of the runaways"
A Philadelphia reporter, in describing the turningof
a dog out of court by the order of the bench, says, "The
ejected canine, as he was ignominiously dragged from the
room, cast a glance at the judge for the purpose of being able
to identify him at some future time."
A New Orleans paper congratulates the people of
that city on the abolition of the detective force. "Now," it
says, "burglar! are captured within a few hours after the
offence transpires."
"What object do you now see?" asked, the
spiritualist. The young lady quite a novise, it will be seen,
blushed, and hesitated for a few moments, and then replied,
"It appears like a donkey, sir; is it your shadow?"
In Kentucky recently a coloured child swallowed a
lot of percussion caps, and its anxious mother's only con-
solation is that since the abolition of slavery it cannot be
brought under the hammer.
A boarding-house at Katonah advertises to furnish
"for live dollars a week, romantic scenery, nutting, fishing,
croquet, papers at eght a.m., and autumn leaves." These
are all either useful or beautiful in their way, but not a
word about board is said. ,s rule
Cincinnati reporters always carry a carpenter r stay
and get things down line. One of them found the othe eta),
that a suiciding butcher blew the top of his head ex
fifteen feet and four and a half inches. •
A Jamesville newspaper (American) contains an
announcement to this effect:—" Wanted, at this office, a
bull-dog of good size, sound teeth, and ferocious disposition,
that will attend to his business, and take his pound of flesh
from the man who soils our floor with tdbacco juice, and
steals our newspapers."
Some people are too trusting for this world. At a
recent trial out west the prisoner entered a plea of "not
guilty," when one of the jurymen put on his hat and started
fur the door. The judge called him back, and informed him
that he could not leave until the case was tried. "Tried,
yer honour?" said the juror; "why he acknowledges that
he is not guilty."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-11-27

N PARLIAMENT.-SESSION 1876.

STOURBRIDGE WESTERN RAILWAY. I,
(Incorporation of Company: Construction of Railways
from Stourbridge to Kingswinford, Coakley, und
K:avcr, with Branches; Working Arrangenicnts
with, and powers qi. sirbyeril.tirn g awn tee,and 1-ais-
i•ny O'ild application of Funds to, and compuisory
tire affrcting Greet Tf-, .'fn "n Lon.don and, . -
North, 11. Laiitcay ; Kunuing
Powers and facilities over portion of Railways of 1
- Great Western Railway Company, at Stourbridge ;
Confirmation of Agreements; Amendment or repeal
of Acts, and other Powers.)
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that application
is intended to be made to Parliament in the
ensuing, Session for leave to brill.- in a Bill for the
purposes following, or some of them (that is to
say)—

Ti. To incorporate a Comp say (hereinafter
referred to as "the Company "), DEE d to authorise
tho Company to make and maintain the Railways
hereinafter described, or some or one of them, or
sonic part or parts thereof respectively, together
with all proper and convenient stations, sidings,
buildings, approaches, and other works, and con-
veniences connected therewith rQspectively, or
incidental thereto, (namely)—

RAILWAY- 'No. 1.

A Railway (hereinafter referred to as Railway
No. 1), commencing in the Township of Upper
Swinford, in the Parish of Oldswinford, in the
County of Worcester, by a junction with the Rail-
way of the Great Western Railway Company,
authorised by the Great Western Railway Act,
1874, at a point thereon, 10 chains or
thereabouts measured in a south-westerly direc-
tion from the south-west corner of the Booking
Office at the Stourbridg,e Passenger Station, and
terminating in the parish of Kingswinford, in the
County of Stafford, at a point 130 yards or there-
abouts, measured in a north-easterly direction from
the north-east corner of the Clock Tower of St.
Mary's Church, at Eingswinford, which said
intended Railway, No. 1, will be made or pass
from, in, through, or into the several Parishes
Townships, and extra parochial, and other places,
following, or some of them, that is to say, Old-
swinford, Upper Swinford, Stourbridge, St. John
the Evangelist, Saint Thomas, and Wollaston all
in the County of Worcester; and Oldswinford,
Arnblocote, Kingswinford, and Wordealey; all in
the County of Stafford.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-11-27


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Iressed to Mrs.
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September,
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-11-27

AN ILLUSION OF THE RINK.

Along the Rink careering fast,
How women hoax their lords and masters:
SMITH thought an angel glided past, -
And it was Mrs. SMITH on castors !—Punch.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-11-20

BEG TO ANNOUNCE THAT THEIR

CHIEF WINTER SHOW

"NeyENEBER Fs
•r:"..slueN,Q
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IS NOW SPECIALLY ARRANGED FOR INSPROTIO::;%
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-11-20

THE PRINCES OF INDIA.

People in England have a sort of musty belief that
the native princes and chiefs of modern India can
trace back their lineage, if not their thrones, to a time
when our Teuton forefathers were still roaming, as un-
tutored savages, in their native woods. And yet, in
the splendid array of rajahs and Nawabs whom the
coming of the Prince of Wales brought to Bombay,
there was hardly one who could boast of so high and
ancient a descent as the Prince himself. With the ex-
ception, indeed, of Udaipur and a few other Rajput
chiefs, we question if there was one whose princely
rank dates further back than the first quarter of the
18th century. Most of them, at any rate, are sprung
from men who carved out kingdoms, large or small,
for themselves from the wrecks of the empire which
Bihar founded, and which began to break up even in
the days of Aurangzib. Most of them, in short, re-
present dynasties at least as modern as the East India
Company. The Nizam himself, had he appeared at
Bombay, would have been a mere upstart beside the
Prince of Wales, whose descent from our English
Alfred places him almost on a level with the oldest
Princes of Rfijoutana. I.lis ancestor, Chin Kilich Khdn,
the original Nizam-ul-Mulk, was the son of an officer
in Aurangzib's service. The Rajah of KolApur dates
back to Sivaji, the founder of the Maratha power in
the middle of the 17th century. The first Gaikwar of
Baroda was a lieutenant of the MarAtha Peshwa
in the 18th century. All MurAd, the Amir of
Khairpur in Sind, is a prince of a still younger line.
The Nawab of Junagarh, in Katiawar, represents a
dynasty founded by a soldier of fortune in 1735. The
Jam of Nawanagar comes of an old Rajput stock, but
his sovereignty goes no further back than the time of
Henry VIII. The Rajput Thakur of Bhaunagar is
younger in rank by two centuries. Nearly as modern
is the Sidi Nawab of Jinjira, a descendant of the
Abyssinian chiefs who served so faithfully the last Ma-
hommedan Kings of Bijapur. The Rajah of Idar in Gu-
jaret claims near kinship with Jodhpur, but dates
politically from about 1724, when two younger sons of
the Marwar Prince took possession of the realm assigned
them by their elder brother, then Viceroy of Gujaret.
It was only in the 16th century that the first Rao of
Cutch gained his footing in that province. Pahlanpur
was founded by an Afghan in the time ,of Akhar.
ThuNawab of Radhanpur dates from the 17th cen•
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-11-20

STOURBRIDGE GAS COMPANY.

yOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that an
N EXTRAORDINARY MEETING of the SHARE-
HOLDERS of this Comoanv will be held at the Com-
patty's Office at the Gas Works, AMBLECOTE, STOUR-
BRIDGE, OR TUESDAY, the 7th day Of DECEMBER, 1875,
at 11.0 a.m., to receive a Report from the Directors as to
a Contract entered into by the Company with Messrs.
Westwood and Wrights for the Erection of a new Gas
Holder, and to confer on the Directors a Special Autho-
rity in relation thereto.

W. H. JONES.
Secretary.

Stourbridge, November 20th, 1875.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-11-20

Lgotat aub istrict getus.

THE SCHOOL BOARD.

The ordinary monthly meeting of this Board
was held on Monday last, in the Commissioners'
Room, at the Corn Exchange. Present: Major
Walker (in the chair), Messrs. Stringer, and Bil-
ling,rham.
The Clerk read the minutes or the last meeting,
which were then confirmed.
The Clerk announced that he had written to the
Public Works Loan Commissioners, asking upon
what terms they would lend the Board the amount
which the Department had sanctioned. In reply,
he had received printed forms containing several
formal questions, to which replies would have to
be given. It was also necessary that the contract
with the architect should be sent in for inspection,
and it was determined to adjourn the meeting BO
as to have the seal of the Board affixed, to it.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-11-20

" TELL MAMMA WE ARE. HAPPY."

(From Punch.)
The Prince is out among the Orient race,
Who must, some day,—
Remote, Punch hopes—be subjects of his away;
Be gazes on the grey East's changeless face
In far Bombay,
And he will be, in days of undreamt wonder,
Chequered, mayhap, with War's irrational thunder,
In that far Orient's earth's foremost man—

Emperor of Hindostan I

Why, what was PRESTER Joint, a traveller's whim,

_ .
Or the Great Mogul,
To him who, from this island masterful
Goes forth to regions vague and strange and dim,

Fresh flowers to cull?
New-cenaused myriads humbly bow before him—
A mighty Empire, eager to adore him,
Gladly his actions and his face will scan

Who must rule Hindostan.

Simple Bombay brightly illuminates

With "2 ell Mamma
That we are happy" 'neath her sceptre fair,
Whose power is felt through all the Eastern States.
The pariah
Feels beneath English rule an equal calm
With son of MAHOMET and breed of BRAHM,
And thinks of when VICTORIA'S rule began—

Empress of Hindoostan.
And Hindostan is happy. Punch says "YES."
Why should it not,
So long as England's rule is strong and wise,
Have a fair share of human happiness

Beneath the skies ?
And when the Prince returns from hunts and durbars,
May he have pacified all weak disturbers,
And learnt, as such a Prince on Progress can,
The worth of Hindostan.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-11-20

AN AIR SHIP.

The New York Herald says Professor Schroeder, in
his steerable air ship, proposes to visit different por-
tions of the United States and the Old World. His
air ship was on exhibition this week in Baltimore. A.
number of application have been received to take pas-
sage, and among them the application of Professor
Wise, the aeronaut, who, with Professor Schroeder, is
sanguine of a safe voyage across the Atlantic.
Scheoeder says that he has expended years of study
and large sums of money upon the invention. In
1872 Schroeder states he made an ascension with a
smaller machine, similarly constructed, from Brazil.
The ship portion of the balloon, the propeller, &c.,
is sft. in length, 9ft. high, and Bft. wide. Its lifting
capacity will be for 10 tons. The balloon portion,
which has not yet been adjusted, will be 651 t. high,
85ft. in circumference, and 65ft. in diameter. The
pushing and pulling propellers to be attached to the
bow and stern of the ship are loft, long and 3ilt. in
height. These propellers will be covered with canvas,
as also the sides and top of the ship. The ship was to
be completed about the Ist inst., when Professor
Schroeder would undertake daily ascensions. The ship
is to be worked by a crew of eight men, and Schroeder
says he can readily steer it through the changing cur-
rents of the air as well as a mariner does his vessel
upon the coast. On the Bth inst. he expected to start
upon his first trip, from Baltimore to New York, 200
miles, which he thinks he would make in three hours.
He has, he says, made seventy-four miles an hour in a
balloon. The air-ship will be exhibited in New York,
and the venture across the Atlantic will not he until
the spring of next year.

The lung disease among cattle has broken out rather
seriously in Cambridgeshire. The veterinary surgeons have
a large number of cases under treatment.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-11-20

THE PARIS PIGEON POST.

During the siege of Paris, in the war of 1870-71, on
the 25th September, at eleven a.m., a balloon left the
city with three pigeons, which returned at five p.m.
with a despatch. On the 29th September two balloons
with three birds started, and one of them announced
a safe landing at Nantes the same day. On the
30th M. Tissandier went out with thirty sacks of
letters and dispatches, and at midday posted 30,000
letters at the Dreux office for the persons to whom
they were addressed; he then liberated two pigeons,
which both alighted at first, but eventually
went off and arrived in Paris at 5 p.m. ; a third pigeon
liberated at Tours also safely arrived in the besieged
city with a dispatch. Another balloon left Paris on
the 6th October; a bird announced its descent the next
day at Montdidier, two other returned without their
dispatches, a fourth returned a day later from Tours.
Of the 363 birds placed at the disposal of the govern-
ment, only 73 returned with dispatches, viz., 9 in
September, 21. in October, 24 in November, 13 in
December, 3in January, and 3in February. Many
birds returned to Paris three, four, and even five times;
one, on its return to the city from its fourth journey,
was found very much marked with blood from a gun-
shot wound, it recovered, however, and performed a
fifth journey. Of the balloons sent out from Paris,
sixty-four in number, all but the first carried pigeons,
two of them were lost at sea, five were captured by the
Prussians (three in France, one in Bavaria, and one in
Germany), six were driven out of their course to Bel-
gium, five to Holland, and one to Sweden.—F,orn, the
"Live Stock Journal and Fancier's Gazette."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-11-20

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-11-20

A VALUABLE STRING OF BEADS.

A very curious circumstance recently occurred in
Paris relative to a necklace, or rather a string of beads.
One of the vacant shops on the Rue de Riveli was
occupied temporarily by an Arab vendor of pipes, per-
fumes, imitation jewellery, shawls, &c. A gentleman
residing in the upper part of the city stopped at his
imitation
pearls, one day and purchased a string of
pearls, for which he paid. This necklace he gave to
his daughter for one of her dolls. A celebrated jeweller
happened to call one evening while the child was en-
gaged in amusing herself with her new toy. "How
foolish you are to let a child have so valuable
an object to play with," remarked the jewel-
ler to the father. " Valuable " responded the
latter." "I gave four francs and a half for
it the other day." The jewell.r took the necklace
from the little girl, and examined it long and minutely.
"I do not care what you paid for it," he said at
length, "but this much I do know, the pearls are real,
and the necklace is worth 10,000 francs at the very
lowest computation. If you doubt my sincerity I will
prove it by giving you 8,000 francs for it on the spot."
The next morning the gentleman hastened with the
necklace to the place where he had purchased it,
but the shop had in the meantime been rented, and
the Arab had disappeared. How a string of real
pearls had got mixed up with his beads of wax and
glass must, therefore, of course, remain a mystery.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-11-20

CABINET MAKERS.

WAN FED, GOOD WORKMEN; Wages
365. Fifty-four hours. I rsvelling expenses pa,d
—Apply, David Waddington, R. Fryer and Son, J ernes
Morris, Parkins,m and Woolstenhohne, E. Downing, or
John Morley, Cabinet Makers, Bolton.

TO MECHANICS AND OTHERS.—Wanted
trustworthy and respectable men, to act as Collec-
tors for a well-known home in London; will not interfere
in any way with the duties in which they may be en-
gaged.—Apply, in the first place by letter only to Mr.
Miils, 4 and 5, Horse-shoe Court, London.

STOURBRIDGE LICENSED VICTUALLERS'
PROTECTION & BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.

11HE ANNIVERSARY DINNER of the above
SOCIETY, till take place in the CORN EXCHANGE,
STOURBRIDGE, On TUESDAY, the 23rd day Of NOVEMBER,
1875.
President A. STAVELEY HILL, Esq„ Q.C., M.P.
Vice-President: C. W. COLLIS, Esq.
F. MONCKTON Esq., M.P„ ands several other Gen-
tlemen of influential position have also intimated their
intention to be present.
Dinner on the Table at Half-past Four.
Tickets, 5s each, which may be obtained of any Mem-
ber of the Committee, or from
G. H. BOWKETT,
Secretary.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-11-20

THE BURIAL QUESTION.

A memorial has been presented to the Prime
Minister. It has received about 800 signatures. The
promoters hoped to have presented it before Mr.
Disraeli left Hughenden for London, but he left earlier
than they expected, and it was then too late to extend
the time for procuring signatures. His permission has
been obtained for the publication of his secretary's
letter—remarks The Times, from whom we are quoting.
The memorial expresses the disappointment of the
memorialists at the rejection of Mr. Osborne Morgan's
Burials Bill by so small a majority as 14, and their
fear that it may be successful next Session. They,
therefore, " e-aggest (in accordance with the resolution
adopted by the Oxford Diocesan Conference at its late
meeting) that as all Englishmen have rights of
burial within reasonable distance of the place
of death, without being subjected to any violation
of the rights of conscience, facilities should be
given to local authorities, under the authority of the
Local Government Board, to provide cemeteries,
where necessary, in which interments may take place
with such accompanying religious services as the
friends of the deceased may appoint. In most towns
cemeteries have been formed in which (very properly)
ground has been set apart for those who do not wish
their friends to be buried with the rites of the Church
lof England, and in many country places burial-
grounds exist which are not connected with the Church.
Your memorialists are unable to see that any case has
been made out for such violent interference with the
rights of the Church and clergy as this Bill proposes.
They are quite willing to concede burial in the church-
yard without the service of the Church of England being
used in cases in which the friends of the deceased object
to such service, but still desire his remains should be
laid by his kindred and friends in the parish church-
yard, but they strongly protest against 'any person
or persons' being allowed to say what they please in
the graveyards of the Church. In the last place, your
memorialists would respectfully refer you to your own
speech delivered in Parliament, March, 26, 1873, when
as Leader of the Opposition, you moved the rejection
of a similar Bill ; and they submit that no reasons have
occurred since that time to justify this aggression on
the rights of the Church. She merely asks to be
allowed to retain her own, while the rights of Noncon-
formists are fully provided for. None of the grievances
which weigh upon some of the clergy, in connexion
with the use of the Burial Service are redressed by this
Bill, and your memorialists therefore confidently ex-
press their hope that as Head of Her Majesty's
Government, you will exert your influence to procure
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-11-20

RAINFALLS AND FLOODS.

The Times has published the following letter, which will
doubtless be read with great interest :

Sir,—The year fast passing away will be long remem-
bered as a season of heavy rainfall and destructive
floods. India, Africa, America, Europe, and Austra-
lia, each and all have suffered so that persons untio-
quainted with the laws of meteorology conclude that
there has been over the face of the globe an exception-
ally wet year. The truth, however, is not that there
has been one universal season exceptionally wet, but
that the fall of rain has been concentrated on com-
paratively small areas, leaving vastly larger areas to
suffer from an exceptional drought. We hear of the
floodings, because man suffers through their violence;
but we do not hear to the same extent of the drought.
We have rain-gauges in the inhabited parts of the
earth where civilisation exists; but this is only
a small fraction of the earth's surface, so that
of by far the largest area we are in profound ignorance.
We have no record, and our means of information are
s circumscribed that we have no basis upon which to
found a theory other than one of pure speculation.
As weather depends upon the heat from the sun,
evaporation from the ocean, and the motion of the
atmosphere, the prime elements in testing variations
of seasons would be a correct knowledge of the heat of
the sun's rays and the amount of evaporation, as these
must govern the volume of rain which will fall. Evapo-
ration is universal and unceasing—that is, over the en-
tire surface of our globe, from the Equator to the Poles.
Glaciers and icebergs unceasingly evaporate; conden-
sation and precipitation are as unceasing in dew, rain,
snow, or hail, but precipitation differs from evapora-
tion in this—the attnosphere holds evaporated water
in a transparent state as a sponge holds water in a
fluid state; and as a sponge may be charged with
water and may be carried with it to a distance to be
discharged by squeezing, so the atmosphere is charged
with invisible vapour, which is water in this form, and
this vapour is can ied from the ocean over the land,
where, by contact with mountain ranges, the atmo-
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-11-20

THE MYSTERIOUS HANDWRITING ON THE

WALL.

Subject of Sermon on SUNOAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 21st,
at 6.30, in St. Peter's Catholic Apostolic Church, Duke-
street, by an Evangelist serving under the Lord's
Restored Apostles. Seats Free.

STOURRRIDGE AMATEUR HARMONIC
ASSOCIATION.

PRESIDENT:—
THE RIGHT HON. LORD LYTTELTON.
THIS CLASS MEETS for PRACTISE
every,MoNDAy EvENniG, at the UNION HALL, at
7.30.

Works at present rehearsed :

JUDAS MACCABEUS and TWO PART SONGS.

Annual Subscription:
Gentlemen, V. is; Ladies, Its.
Music provided.

CONDUCTOR - - - - Mr. J. A. SUTTON.

Intending Subscribers will please t) obtain their
Tickets at an early date from Mr. Broomhall'a.
WILLIAM J. lURNEY,
-Hon. Sec.

CORN EXCHANGE, STOURBRIDGE.

CONCERT
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-11-20

DR. CUMMING AND THE ROYAL VISIT

TO INDIA.

The Rev. Dr. Cumming alluded on Sunday morning
to the arrival of the Prince of Wales in India, and
said the fact was an evidence of the fulfilment of
prophecy. There could be but little doubt that the
visit of the Prince would tend, indirectly at least, to
the spread of Christianity throughout the Indian
empire; for, visiting and worshipping in the Christian
places of worship there, he would exhibit to the natives
the estimate in which the Christian religion was held
in Great Britain, and would induce them thereby not
only to hold that religion in much higher esteem than
heretofore, but would also create a spirit of inquiry
concerning the truth.
In the evening, alluding to the prophecies of Daniel,
Dr. Cumming said, in the present year 1875, the world
was upon the eve of a catastrophe such has it had
never beheld. Two events were certain to occur
before the end, namely, the destruction of the
Turkish power and of the Papacy, and events proved
that these were all but accomplished. Those who had
scoffed at his warnings of the decadence of Turkey
must have been sadly undeceived when they learned
the other day that, by the commercial failure of that
nation, they were no longer rich men.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-11-20

THE SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE
SHOW.

With the sanction of her Majesty's Privy Counei
the Smithfield Club will commence their annual cattle
show at the Agricultural-hall, Islington, on Monday,
the 6th prox., and continue it for the four following
days.
The fact of the Prince of Wales being this year's
President has given an amount of prestige to the Club
that has enabled the council to largely extend the
prize list and introduce various improvements, and
measures to prevent the possibility of contagion, both
with regard to transit an 47,, after admission, will be
enforced. With this object special regulations have
been adopted. No animals (cattle, sheep, or pigs) ex-
hibited in any other show within one month previous
to the 3rd of December, 1875, shall be allowed to be
exhibited at the Smithfield Club's Show this year, and
each exhibitor is required to deposit, not only a certifi-
cate to that effect, but also one with each animal that
it has not been for fourteen days previous to its leaving
home for the Smithfield Club's Show in contact with
any animal suffering from contagious or infectious
disease, and further, all animals shall undergo a
veterninary examination previous to entering the doors
of the Agricultural Hall, and suitable covering is to be
constructed over the outer yard to enable this to be
properly carried out.
The show will this year be divided into 47 classes ex-
elusive of the extra stock, viz.-30 classes for cattle,
14 classes for sheep, and three for pigs. The money
prizes alone reach to over £2,ooo—viz., for cattle,
£1,275; sheep, £690; and pigs, £l4O. In addition to
these there is the champion plate of the value of £lOO
to the exhibitor of the best beast, and the £5O cham-
pion plate for the best pen of sheep, with the cup of
50 each for the best steer or ox and best heifer or cow
in the classes with six £4O silver cups for the best
specimen in the Devon, Hereford, Shorthorn, Sussex,
Scotch, and cross-bred classes, and ten £2O silver cups
for the sheep and three £2O cups for the pig classes.
These' exclusively of the medals, will bring the agre-
gate value of the prizes to be awarded at the ensuing
show to considerably over £3,000.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-11-20

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