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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-03-30

A CASE a CHILD STEALING.

At the Liverpool assiz Sarah Anne Poulton,
twentysi.`ce years of age, described as a hawker, bas
been indicted for Laving, at Liverpool, on the 11th of
September, 1069, feloniously, by force and fraud, led
and taken adoity a child funr years of age, named
Helena Council, with intent thereby to deprive Mary
Ann Council, the mother of the child, of its possession.
It seemed that on the lith of September, about three
o'clock in the of ternoon, Mrs. Council, the widow of a
druggist, left her Louse for the purpose of making
some parckasek Her youngeat child, Helena Council,
who wee then tour y,.uoot :toe, was playing about the
doorstep.. On he; return, in about three-quarters of an
hour, the child was gone. Mrs. I 'ouncil searched all parts
of the town for the missios child, bat as she iiid not
find her she sold off all she possessed, and travelled all
over England to End the lost little one, but without
eureess. Subeerkneutiy she returned to Lie, rpool, en-
feebled in health and reduced in circomstaoces, and
nothing was heard of lair child notil alsoit two mouths
ago, when the prisoner arid another 1•0171.111 were taken
Into eneto.ly at .Kenilworth, Warw ickshide, on a cbarga
of being drunk and riotous'. Tian woolen had each a
child, and from stdtementa made by the little ones,
Mr. J. If Aywo.cl Jarvis. deputy chief constable of
Warericksh ire, communicated with the police through•
out the country. Information was sent to Ali s. Council,
who went to Kenilworth. and identified one of the
children as her daughter Helena. The prisoner made a
eaten:Lent that the child was her own, but no proof
was given by her of the truth of that assertion.

Mrs. Council now identified the child as her daughter,
awl pointed out certain marks upon the child
in corroboration of this. The child, an intelligent
little girl, was placed (ut the solicitors' table, opposite
Mrs. Council, and said that that lady was her mamma.
Tho learned judge questioned her as to her recolleotion
of home, and the child saki that she remembered
"playing with three white doggies," and there was a
piano in her mamma's house. She did not know the
prisoner before she took her away, and said that she
went about begging with her. Several witnesses were
called who spoke to the child being Mrs. Council's
daughter.

The prisoner, in defence, said that the child waa her
own, and was born at Ipswich. The prisoner was
found guilty. His lordship bald that he would not
sentence the pri,oner at that time; he must consider
what would be a proper punishment for co serious and
cruel a crime as that of which the prisoner had been
convicted.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-03-30

THE LYE.

FATAL ACCIDTNT.-011 Saturday night kit a MD
named Thomas Perks, aged 72, was going in the shop of
a person named Lavender, when from some cause or
other his foot slipped and threw Min down, his head
coming into contact with the kerbwtone. The man was
at once picked up and conveyed home, and WIN attended
by Mr. Hodgson, surgeon. Perks never rallied, and was
insensible learn the time of the accident until he died on
Tuesday evening.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-03-30

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-03-30

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-03-30

AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY.

A despatch from Albany to tbe New York Times of
March 13, says :—A terrible tragedy occurred at the
village of Greenbush, opposite this city this afternoon,
near High Bridge, Aldrum's Crossing. On Second-
avenue, Greenbush, there lived in a small frame-
dwelling a man named Samuel Fargue, with his
family, consisting of wife and daughter, the latter
being about eighteen years old. About two o'clock
this afternoon two shots were heard in rapid succession,
and shortly after, Faroe was seen to pass into a wood-
shed, back from the house, and the daughter came
screaming out of the front door. By this time
several of the neighbours were attracted to the
spot. On entering, Mrs. Fargue was found lying
on the front room floor 'dead, having been ahot
through the head. Struggles were heard in the
shed, which Fargue was seen to enter, and on proceed-
ing thither, a most horrible spectacle was witnessed.
Fargue was found writhing about on the floor, with one
hand clasping a jagged rusty old jackknife, while from
a wide gash in his throat the blood was spurting as from
a fountain. Blood was spattexed over the sides and
floor of the shed, and was running in a little stream
out in the yard. Soon after being discovered his
struggles cea.sed, and he was dead. Fargue was a
shiftless character. He had been out of work for
some days past, and after an altercation with his wife
se;zed a revolver lying near and shot her. He fired at
Lis daughter but missed her, and then proceeding to
the shed he ended his own life as al a:ve stated.

SPUTTEDINGS FROM "JUDY'S" PEN.

THE Difforence Iwien Eagl and's Pt And Present Irish
Policy—The put was to colonize it, the presewt Is to
Cullemize it.

AFTER all, If "Thomas Castro " does not turn out to be
the man he eitys he in. he evidently moat have been" rocked
In the cradle of the deep.'
A UPEreL 111102 in the Long Run—Breath.
NOTICE of Motion—A railway whistle.
A LOOP Line—Calcraft's.
A CANNIBAL Sentiment—ll foe manger.
RATHER Contradictory—Gays grave.
DYING Game—A hare in extremis.
A Weveu you may call it—A pocket time-piece.
EYLA RIGHT ?—Yea; but I have t wear gleams.

E t E Art—Wiuking.
THE best len f..Y a Poet —lnspiretion,
IT is a cvi lons bet that, though En;4Hlii luta priduced
a number at poets, Irelsod has produced More.
WHEN a 3-oung lady read Judy s question Lot week, of
si.rther hal), on l‘ei err see.i a magic-lanteia slide, eta
said she bad men—A-bun-dance.
riOnNING Ca.l—Tho aweep at Ilve
TEE time-honour,d pre,tice cd a young lady winning a
pair of gloves by kissing a somnolent old gentleman, may be
described on his part as kid-nipping, and on hers as kid-
nabbing. —Judy.

The following verdict wzvi given in writing by the
foreman of a Connecticut jury—" We are of A Pinion that
the Deceit met with hit death from Violant Intimation
the Arm prdust from sum Naomi Cauca,"
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-03-30

CRADLEY.

MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY. At the weekly
meeting on Saturday two essays were read by Messrs. .1.
Plant and J. Foxell. The former gentleman dilated upon
the subject of " Punctuality," which he treated very
cleverly and N cry creditably. Mr. Foxall chose for his
subject " gratitude," and his marked originality was
abundantly dibplayed in the essay he read, which was
written admirably. Both papers provoked lively discus-
sion, and the meeting was exceedingly profitable and
interesting.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-03-30

OLD HILL.

ASSAULT CASE.—At the Police Court, on Wednesday,
before Messrs. Y. W. G. Barre and N. Ringley, Job
Taylor was charged with assaulting Joseph Cole. on the
13th inst. Mr. Addison defended. Complainant said he
was a nailmaker at Rowley. On the above date he was
at a public-house at Rowley, and defendant was there.
Witness went out, and defendant set about him, knocked
him down, kicked him, and blackened his eye. Defend-
ant also struck witness's wife. Several witnesses were
called on both sides, and after hearing the evidence the
defendant was fined 2s 6d and costa.
COAL STEALIT4O.—Mary Ann Smith, Blackwagen•street,
I was fined 2s Gd for stealing coal from Rose's Colliery,
Garratte Lane, on the 26th inst.
013sTRUcTINO TUE POLICIL—SamneI Witham, dial
Lawyer," was charged with obstructing Poliee-constable
Griffin in the execution of his duty, on the 26th instant.
Defendant was lined le and costs, or 14 days.
ASsAULTS.—MUteI Round was dismissed for assaulting
Joseph Weaver, on the 19th Mat, at Cradley Heath.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-03-30

"THE RIGHT OF FREE SPEECH!"

An open-air meeting was held in London on Tuesday
night in frorit of the East India Dock gates, to
" uphold the right of free speech," and to denounce the
conduct of Mr. Ayrton with respect to the Parks
Regulation Bill. Mr. Odger was the principal speaker,
and addressed the crowd from a waggon, in which was
a baud, who, as the wP.kgon drew up to the place of
meeting, played the " Marseillaise" with great vigour.
Mr. Odger .4aid that fifteen years ago Mr. Ayrton had
condemned the keeping up of unused palaces, and yet,
now he was the First Commissioner of Works, he asked
Parli..ment for money to repair those very palaces.
Now he was trying to take away the parks from the
people, and that without asking his constituents their
opinion on the subject. Instead of consulting them Mr.
Ayrton framed a bill with all the bombastic assurance, ,
dogmatic insolence, and off ensi v e arrogance of a dictator.
Mr. Henley, a Conservative, had stigmatized the bill as a
piece of Algerian legislation. That meant that the mea-
sure was a piratical one, taking from the people their
rights and privileges. Mr. Odgerwertt on to speak of the
Peelle in the House last Tuesday, and concluded by
remarking that the members of the House of Comrnons
cared for nothing but their own estates, their position,
and their families. Resolutions were adopted declaring
that the Parks Regulations Bill was au eLcroachment
on the rights of the people, that Mr. Ayrton had for-
feited the confidence of his constituents by promoting
such an obnoxious measure, and that the meeting
pledged itself to maintain the right of meeting in the
parks, and to do its best to defeat Mr. Ayrton at the
next election.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-03-30

A RUSSIAN GRAND DUKE IN CUBA

A correspondent of the New ToTqc Times succeeded in in-
terviewing the Grand Duke Alexis in Cuba. The folio% ing
conversation took place :

Correspondent': Your Highness must be tired after
driving about several hours, and then sitting at table
several more. . .

......
Alexis (laughing): I urn used to that, and have a
strong constitution. If I hail not had one my so-
journ in the United States would have qualified me
fully for all such work. This balmy air alone is
sufficient to make any man feel contented, and I wish I
could take apiece of CubJ, and its air to St. Petersburg,
although the countries are very much alike in some
respects, mosquitoes abounding in both places.
Correspondent: You don't like mosquitoes, then?
Alexis: No, not a bit ; and I don't know of a more
dangerous animal. What building is that down there?
Con espoudent : That is the Taxon Theatre, and the
large building you saw on entering the port is the gaol
and penitentiary.
Alexis: I thought it was the palace, but ought to
have known better, as rogues generally live in the

largest houses.
Correspondent: Have you fine gaols in Russia?
Alexis (laughing): That's the first time I've been
asked that question since I left home. People asked
about everything relating to my country, my family,
and myself, but they Lever sail gaol or misery once.
Correspondent: 'Perhaps they took it for granted
that you must have rogues and gaolg. All the houses
here must look like gaols to you with their iron rail-
ing&
Alexis: They do not, because I have been in Spain
and seen similar houses. How delicious the air is I If
I had a hammock I would like to sleep here.
Correspondent: The air in New York would not
make you feel coat this season of the year. Would you
object to telling mehow you liked your trip and sojourn
in the United States?

Alexis: If I had anything unpleasant to say, I
should remain silent, and not answer your question;

but my stay was so Pleasant, and the lieopl: were SO
kind, that I can only regret that I could not remain
longer, and if I did not have my path in life laid out
for me, I should like to live in America altogether,
dividing my time from May to January between New
York and the prairies, and spending the remainder in
New Orleans. I may go back there if I can.
Correspondent: Did you lead the reports published
about your father having ordered you to return home
during the affair of your late Minister?
Alexis: Let us drop that: the story is too ridiculous
for any sensible person to believe or to speak about,
and' think fight another cigar and see what my
young friends over there are laughing about.
On walking over, the joke was discovered to consist
in a young Cuban, an aide of Valmaseda, trying to
pronounce some Russian words and finding them some-
what difficult.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-03-30

Turn of Life and Dropsical Swellinys.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-03-30

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-03-30

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-03-30

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-03-30

CHARGE OF PUBLISHING A LIBEL.

At the Greenwich Police.conrt, Mrs. Emily Shakspear, of
Harrow-on-the-11W, Middlesex, appeared in answer to her
bail, charged with having, on the 10th of October last, mad
cion•ly puolished a false and defamatory libel concerning.
Lydia Cronehman.
The case has been several times before the Court,
having been ail journed from time to time in order that
the husband of the defendant, who is an officer in
command of his regiment at Madras, might be com-
municated with, the object being to remove the prose-
cution from a criminal to a civil court. This object had,
however, not been attained, and the case was accord-
ingly proceeded with. The facts,. VA stated in a
lengthened examination, were very simple.
'rite complainant, at the time of the alleged libel,
had left the service of the defendant, as housemaid,
three days previously, receiving a character from the
defendant (who then resided at Abberville-house,
Blackheath park), which obtained for her an engage-
ment at under kitchen maid in the "Bath Hotel,"
Bournimouth. The day before the complainant
entered upon this situation the defendant called
, upon her and accused her of baring stolen a
note. It had been taken, she said, from several
other notes in a purse which had been left in the
pocket of a dress carried by the proaecutrix from the
bed-room of a young lady then in the house as a visitor,
but formerly engaged as a governess in the family. The
charge was denied, and on the next day, on proceeding
to Bournemouth, complainant had produced to her, by
Mr. Briant, of the Bath Hotel, a telegram, received
from the defendant, accusing her of having committed
tht theft stated, and adding that she was under police
surveillance. In consequence of this the complainant
had been out of a situation.

The original telegram was produced by the Post-
office authorities, and it was now proved by George
Shalcspear, a son of defendant, who had been sum-
moned as a witness, that on the day in question he
received it from the defendant with the money and
instructions to take it to the Blackheath Post-office,
and that it was in his sister's handwriting.
The Magistrate said he had no alternative but to
send the case to the sessions, and bail in the sum of
till was then taken for the defendant to appear and
answer the charge at the next sessions of the Central
Criminal Court.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-03-30

BOARD OF GUARDIANS.

The weekly meeting of this Board was held
yesterday; Mr. Brooks in the chair. There
were also present:—Messrs. Guest, Fiddian,
Griffin, Paskiu, Rhodes, Homer, Fereday,
Darby. Plant, and Baker. The minutes of the
last meeting were read and confirmed. Ad-
mitted into the house during the week 12;
discharged, 14; dead, 1; remaining, 383.
Corresponding week last year, 445. Out-door
relief Kingswinford district, £3O Os Sd ; Stour-
bridge district, £22 12s 4d; Halesowen dis-
trict, £24 16s 10d ; total, £77 18s 81, against
£9B 19s 6d last year.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-03-30

AN EXAMPLE TO REPINERS.

The death of a deeply afflicted yet withal a success.
ful man in recorded in the American papers. William
11. Hawthorne, Esq., died at his residence in Millsboro,
Washington county, Penneylvamia, on the 18th ult.,
and his life is, or ought to be, a lesson to all who are
apt to feel discouraged under difficulties and give way
to despair. The Brownsville Clipper gives an interest-
ing memoir of the deceased gentleman, from which it
appears that at the age ot thirteen he was SO afflicted
with rheumatism that he lost the use of lsith
legs and also of his right arm. His feet were
drawn up against the thighs and his right arm and
hand horribly contorted. The fle,h on these limbs
gradually withered away, his head and body alone
continuing to grow. For the purposes of locomotion
he was placed in a box, in which he passed his life,
constantly lying on his back, and attending to all kinds
of business for the last sixty years. lie acquired a
good English education and taught a school for a num-
ber of years, and at the time of his death was serviii -
his seventh term as justice of the peace, having acted
in that capacity for nearly thirty-five years. lie used
the pen with his left hand, and wrote a very accurate
and legible hand. In 1853 he was awarded a
contract for carrying the United States mail
on the route between Pittsburg and Waynesburg, and
at the expiration of the first term he was allowed to
renew the contract. lie kept a number of horses and
employifs, but he superintended the whole business
himself. At the age of twenty-three he eloped in his
box with a Miss Wilson, and was married to her with-
out the consent of her friends. The marriage turned
out happily, and was blessed with thirteen children.
He is described as a man of iron will and almost iron
constitution. Compelled as he was to remain through
life in a recumbent position, he wrote with the paper
on a small board before him, and from constantly
keeping his head raised upward and forward the
mussles of his neck became so preternaturally strong
that he could hold his heal in that situation for hours
without fatigue.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-03-30

THE INTERNATIONAL IN IRELAND.

A meeting was held at Cork on Sunday, convened by
the working men, to denounce the International. The
place of meeting, the Athenamm, was crowded to ex-
cess. Among those on the platform was a Mr. De
Morgan, a reputed local secretary of the International.
A mechanic named Murphy presided, and opened
the proceedings. He quoted pamphlets to show the
connection between the Irish International and the
Paris Commune, De Morgan and some of his sup-
porters interrupted him, and after a tight lie Morgan
was elected as the chainrian, and continued to speak
in the same strain. The luteruationalists renewed
their interruptions, and a second th.clje ensued. ihe
platform was invaded from the body of the hall, chairs
aid tables were broken, and the pleixs were mica as
weapons. Paatial order having been restored, a c sper
named Cronin proposed resolutions denouncing the
International. and declaring it the instigators of the
atrocities committed in Paris. This causea a renewal
of the tumult, and the legs of chairs and tables were
freely used as weapons, both patties being apparently
equally successful. A man named Irearthy succeeder,
notwithstanding, in making a brief speech recommend-
ing the acceptance or rejection of the International on
conditions. The uproar became so great, however,
that the chairman had to declare the meeting dissolved.
The International party then sought to continue the
meeting on their *own account, aud the disorder was
renewed, and when the excitement was at its height,
some of the International party seized a red tablecloth
and hoisted it amid triumphant shouts from their own
adherents and hisses from the other side. A struggle
ensued, iu which the obnoxious flag was tern down.
he meeting was a scene of disorder during the
whole time it lasted--an hour and a half. One Inter-
nationalist is said to have produced& revolver.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-03-30

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the Care of all Debilitating Diseases, will, for the
benefit of Country Patients who cannot consult hint per-
sanely, on receiviog descriptions of their case, send his
opinion, s.th advice a., aireetion, for the most success-
ful restoration to health and vigour.
Address, Dr. 11. SMITH, 8, Burton•cresceut, London,
W.C.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-03-30

SUNDAY LABOUR IN SWITZERLAND.

The SaisJ Tines says :—ln the year 1870 ten
sentences in all were prmiminced by the poluemourts
of Bale against imoviduais who had nude their
ouvriers work nu the Sunday ; ono case was pituished
by a line of 30f., four by a Imo of 50f., three ly ime of
POOL, one by 2501., and, tit ally, another by 300 f.
Public opir.lon at ti e :rune time came it all of the
police convictMvs, and held in check many small em-
ployers of labour, who often compelled those umler
them to work on the Sunday. We see in this,"
*Ade the Bita Public, "a veritable progress." This
"proem',' notwithetanding, lectur( a on "Pro-
grew,' ay, and the "Bible" too, has not yet ex-
tended to Geneva. The "great activity" in build-
ing, to which the Journal de Geneve directed
attention in its impression of 'Wednesday, ii visible,
alas, on the seventh day as well as on all the other six,
specially in the district behind the Poste and towards
the Plainpalais. Here we have beheld such a scene of
gra ode attiviti on the Sunday, as reminded us of
Virgil 's eloquent description of the budding of Caith-
age ; hut then, what of tit., poor excavators, and
barrow-men, and carters, and the like! Now we our.
selves are no Sabbatarians, but we would fain see the
Dominical Law of the State enforced, which secures,
or should secure, the seventh-day rest to all such
bondaged song of toil, at least. Shall Protestant
Switzerland yield to Roman Cutliolie Austria. in this
respect? Following the example of the Gazette de
Vienne, the joumals of the Austrifm Capital have
unanimously decided vo ttbolisl,iir4 Sunday work in
their printing olico.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-03-30

Gentlemen attended at their Residences.

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By HENRY SMITH, M.D., of the Univerity of
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This Pamphlet is a Special Medical Work on the NEW
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-03-30

PIICENIX FIRE OFFICE.

MR. GEORGE PERRY, SOLICITOR.
Agent for Stourbridge, begs to remind the Pub-
lic that the PH(ENIX was for many years the only Firs
Office that kept a FIRE ENGINE in the town, and to
inform them that it still keeps one there.
For the keys of the Engine House, apply at the Talbot
Hotel, or to Win. Jones, Blacksmith, Enville•street, the
engineer; and for Terms of Insurance, apply to tie
Agent.

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\V FIELD, Bandmaster, respectfully
returns thanks to the Nobility, Gentry, sad
Committees generally, in the Midland Counties, for their
liberal patronage, especially duriug the past MAWS,
which has been a most iuceeesful one, including, among
other engagements, Promenade Concerts before their
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Lord and Lady Lyttelton, end Lord and Lady Northwick,
eliciting marked encomiums; Musical and Floral Fetes,
Bazaars, /Ice., &c.
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A:, SINGULAR DEFENCE.

At the Liverpool Auizes, Colin Mackay, a Liverpool iron
merchant, pleaded guilty an a charge of having at Liverpool,
in November last, forged and uttered a bill of exahano for
£ll7 3s. lid., a ill intent to defraud
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It was urged for the defence that during his previous
career he had berne a most excellent character, and
moved in a very respectable position. In 1869 he was un-
fortunate enough to meet with a serious accident whilst
travelling on the London and North Western Railway,
which causedsuch serious injuries to his general system,
that after some time it was found necessary to place
him in a lunatic asylum. After remaining there for
some time he recovered from the effects of the accident,
hut in 1871, whilst travelling on the same railway, he
sustained another accident, which renewed some of the
worst symptoms el his former injuries. Through these
misfortunes he was for a time inoapable of winducting
his business, and his mind had never regained its
former strength and clearness, and he was still subject
to tits of aberration.

Medical evidence was called to prove the state of
the prisoner's mind when the forgery was committed,
but Mr. Justice Mellor in passing sentence, said he
could not entertain the suggestion that the forgery
was the result of aberration of intellect consequent upon
the railway accidents, nor could he allow that consi-
deration to intervene in passing sentence, for if the
punishment he should inflict should prove prejudicial
to the prisoner's health, the prison authorities would
mitigate it. Making all allowances he must pass a
sentence which would prevent people supposing that
an offence of this kiwi could he passed over. The
prisoner was then sentenced to fifteen months' im-
prisonment, with hard labour.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-03-30

The Kidneys—Their Derangement and Cure.

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and the Ointment rubbed over the region of the kidneys
for at leaet half an hour at bed time, as salt is forced into
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is particularly recommended that the Ointment, in such
cases, be used night and morning, as by its judicious up-
pita ation the most astounding cures may be performed.
The Pills and Ointment are sold at Profess9r nom.°
way's Esteblisbment, 553, Oxford-et. London; also by
nearly every respectable Vendor of Medicine throughout
the Civilised World, in Boxes and Pots, at Is lid, 2s 9d,
45 6d, its, 211, and 33s each. The Is 94 size contains
three, the 4s 64 size six, the lls size sixteen, the 221
size thirty-three, and the 33s size flfty-two times the
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Pills contains four dozen; and the smallest Pot of Oint-
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Fall printed directions are affixed to each Box and Pot,
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A STATE ASYLUM FOR INEBRIATES.

The report of the State Asylum for Inebriates, at
liingliampton, New York, for the year 1871, has beea
lately issued. It gives a favourable account of the
working of the institution during last year. When
Dr. Dodge, the present superintendent and physician,
took charge of the asylum eighteen months ago, he
found that it had but fifty-four patients, and that its
expenditure was largely in excess of its income. Dur-
ing the past year he effected a reduction in the current
expenses to the extent of 33 per cent., and at the end,
instead of a deficit, be was able to show a surplus of
more than two thousand dollars. This economy of
management was aceomplished, too, while the number
of patients in the asylum rapidly increased. During
the year 244 patients were admitted, 231 were dis-
charged, and when the report was made un there were
still eighty-eight in the asylum, or thirty-four more
than when Dr. Dodge undertook its managemetst. Of
the 231 patients discharged, we are told that 184 "were
discharged with great hopes of a permanent reforma-
tion," and 4i; "were discharged unimproved." This is
claimed as a great success; but before a fair opinion
can be given as to this great success, it is evidently
necessary to understand the grounds on which the
"great hopes of permanent reformation" are founded.
When there is a real desire to reform, it is manifestly
evident that medical advice, a judicious regimen, cud
a temporary retirement from the world during which
I moderation is imposed. may be of great benefit. But
when such desire does not exist, the figures quoted do
not tend to remove the doubts generally felt as to the
utility of such institutions.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-03-30

TELEGRAPHIC REPuRTING.

A novel and successful experiment in telegraph ic re
porting was made in connection with the Oxford and
Cambridge Boat Race on Saturday, which has proved
to be one of the most intertsting cirmaurtancus of the
occasion. _

In order to transmit a description of the rage as it
was rowed, arrangements were made by the proprietors
of the "Central News" in London to pie out a
cable from one of the steamers which tollow the
racing boats. Permission to place this cable and
pay it out from the Cambridge steam-boat was
readily accorded by Mr. Goldie. There is no novelty
in telegraphing through cables as they are being
paid out, but there is no precedent for performing such
a work at the pace of the racing boats. Mtreover,
whatever happened to the cable, a stoppage of the
boat during the ram was impossible, and therefore the
most perfect arrangements were necessary to obtain
success. These arrangements, as far as the cable
was concerned, were carried out by the Tele-
graph Construction and Maintenance Company,
and the officer of the postal telegraphs gave every
assistance in the use of land wires and the dis-
tribution of the intelligence. The difficulties of the
work were much increased by the fact that the whole of
the final arrangements and reporting had to be done
in the midst of an unusually severe allow storm, but in
spite of all this, the leading facts connected with the
race including the varying positions of the crews, and
the times at which they reached well-known points,
were telegraphed before the race was concluded. By
this means the "Central News" was enabled to
transmit throughout the kingdom, and to place before
readers hundreds of miles distant,, more information
respecting the race than was known to the spectators
on the banks of the Thames.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-03-30

INCREASE OF HEART-DISEASE.

The tendency of modern investigation into the in-
fluence of civilisation on longevity seems to show a
twofold series of agencies at work (says the British
Medical Journal). On the one hand, sanitary im-
provements and the lessened mortality from epidemics
undoubtedly tend to diminish the average death-
rates; but, eon the other hand, there is practically
much less improvement in total death-rates than might
be expected if these ameliorating causes were not
counterbalanced by the increasing fatality of other
classes of disease, such as diseases of the brain and heart.
It is important to reognise the precise facts. The
excess may, probably, to some extent, he regarded as an
unavoidable result of the great mental strain and
hurried excitement of throe times, in which steam and
electricity mark time for us, in an overcrowded com-
munity, where competition is carried to the highest
point, and where the struggle for existence, not to say
for intellectual and other distinction, is carried on
with sleepless and exhausting energy. But an evil re-
cognised is sometimes half cured; and the intellectual
classes, looking at figures such as those Dr. Quain
has displayed at his interesting Lumleian Lectures
at the College of Physicians on Diseases of the Walls
of the Heart, may well consider the propriety of
attending to the hygiene of their lives, as well as of
their houses; and to remember that, to enjoy and
benefit by even pure air, soil, and water, they must
avoid disabling heart and brain by the incessant labours
which too often make useful lives joyless, and embitter
the harvesting of the crop which has been too diligently
sown. These warning figures tell that, during the
last twenty years, the total of deaths of males at all
ages from heart-disi ase has increased in number from
5,746 in 1851 to 1'2,4'2S in 1870. The percentage of
deaths from heart-disease for 1,000 of population living
was '755 between the years 1851 and 1855; it has risen
to 11185 from 1866 to 1870. This increase, it must be
observed too, has taken place wholly in connection
with the working years of active social life. There is
no change in the percentage of deaths from this cause
in males under 25 years of age. Between 20 and 45
years of age it has risen from -553 to '709, and that al-
most exclusively in males, for there is almost no in-
crease in the percentage of females dying from heart-
disease during the 25 rears of life from 21 to 45.
These figures convey their own lesson, and warn us to
take a little more care not to kill ourselves for the sake
of living.