The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-05-01 00:00:00

MAKING THEM PAY UP.

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A short time ago the taxgathereis of Vadulestikn%,
commune Ofjtoumania, finding all oiclitiary efforts to •
make the taxpayers, or 'rather tax-owers, of the dis.
trict pay their contributions to the national expenses,
went in despair to the mayor of the place for instruc-
tions how to act. This functionary, who was a man
of originality and resOarceTat-onee hit'upon an expe-
dient for bringing the refractory householders to their
senses. Ile waited until all the male population were
out at work in the fields, emir then marched out at
'the head of twenty offigis atm:remade a raid upon
their homes, seizing not the household goods of the
defaulters, but their faithful spouses. On returning
home the husbands, greatly to their credit, were
plunged into,prpfennctgrief for their loss, and lost nat.'
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time in paying:their taxes„ and so ransoiraing tfieii
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The COunt de lledein, a Russian gentleman' from
Riga,-deserve9 plqce among the noted..eccen.trics of .
the day. Ho is travelling through Europe with a
band of 15 male Tziganes to sing and play to him at
his meals: This orchestra costs him 500 fr. a dry', lie
las just arrived in Paris, at the Grand Hotel

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11.0 TEM N.E.I VAR-Y" EMIGRATION TO QUEENSLAND ' tlitallM ? What a popnlsr and magnificent
means it would be of making the Colonies Nocal anb istrict gvms. Aram-
-Hen,
--... fully." understanded "of the people. The on lie,
. FEMALE DOMESTIC SERVANTS are in pea' Colonial Office is equal to the task of taking ComuresioNEns MBETTNO..--eThe monthly nio-ti.ig 19th
_ - -_.:,.--f-----= .:7- -.:=- --7. -.._.•_,'7:-.:._ .7-,..-. demand, and receive wages Taxying from £2O to .i. 50
charge of the exhibits and keeping them in of the Improvemeit Commissioners was I.eld oi, the
per annum with board and lodging Applicants must
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_:„..,..r......i......i..._ ::•,.:* be between li end 35 years cf age, and of good order, and the State would not grudge the Monday afternoon; Mr. W. Platt presidin;?,.-1t -.vas be
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reported that the total length of internal di tin 4;1 t'F. __,_
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*-,,--- hunter cost of the outlay necessary for acquisition
---,1/A now completed was about 82 miles. Mr. Ge . coin- .
Free passages are gra,ted by steamers from 1-tinc.l:-
and maintenance. Then the promised Gov- plained of the streets being left uneven after being
Wail,
London, every fortnight on paymeut of Li for ~hip
opened by the gas company. Mr. Ha-kew s•Li.i the
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aCt Le .. I, , -... v," kit ernment Emigration Bureau would have a
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For forms of application apply to home indeed. company was bound to make the streets in ro goo
THE ACIENT-ItitNERAL FOR QUEENiLAND a condition as before opening them. Mr. Gear
1, Westminster Chambers, .eureeressuisessurs said they made them good in a sense, but :!ot
bdore. The Surveyor (Mr Perry) s I,'
• , . • Victoria Street, London, W.
COMMENTS ON CURRENT TOPICS good as
- ---- 1 , . ~,,as company had been overhauling the mains'
TRUTH 1 VIOLIN- (Ifignifi;ient So:o),.latellel 'Sta ln t;:n3 . THE Savings Bank suspension at caruiff the roads were put in order, to prevent subs
1 Rir, H Do Bead. tiii .r.
Cremona 1721. 4.ntique ookin; c,ipy from I r is another of those occurrences which shake (its' urbsnce of the surface when the roads r
~ right p?eu,nt I y. —The Medical Officer's repo-
. Beunetei collection. Very trey fisg-ring. the confidence of the people in private
. professional Splendid Bow. Case, only 25i. SmPtlel44l4: that the' birth. rate was 43 7 per 1,000 i•
, write and have it OD trial bef,re sending money. Mrs. financial concerns, and make small investors
mon,lCtina the death-rate 17.1—Son,
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• E, Bamsbury House, St. Albans. more and more inclined to take the security arose as to the connection of some hor
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and lesser ratio of profit which Government Coventry Street with the new sewer. °
person sad despair of a speedy restoration to
health and strength if he or she will carifull, FURNISII ON NORMAN & STACEY'S FUR?, o ffers for their money. How many savings recommendation by the Improvern,
was* thefollewing, and learn that the great - --' . PURCULSE SYSTEdi. DEnotiiT not nary. banks of a kindred character to that at that the clerk give statutory notice
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Economical and strictly private, without the o..jecti ni-
. ; or occupiers of the property refers
&Me formalities of dealers end others. I, 2, or 5 years Cardiff have brought ruin to those interested with the new sewer. Mr. limiter
. - . Sixty genuine wholesale reenufacturing firms to select Why should there not be a systematic inspec-
.there had been connections with
_ iscrtoiccuuintarrys. OClEuedsazia. U,44l,l:nedn Governmentin the main
folk,clearlyreoon.
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London,
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decided that the Board shoul?
- . I in questions.—Mr. Gee mile/
. pass-book. They know nothing of account of paving in Worcester Z.=
• Ete ,StourbrOge Obett er. keeping, and suspect no wrong on the part and he ment'oned that aal
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ON ---of the officials of the bank. Hence fraud by In Sheffield at 8d per sr
SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1886. a practical, cunning cashier or manager may said he hoped the Boar?
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reaches sneh dimensions as to undermine the was completed.—The
THE INDIAN AND COLONIAL bank. When the crash comes, the criminal by the Board :—lmp
rate, 8d ; district r
EXHIBITION ' receives a sentence, and the depositors are rates are for the
PATENT VOLTAIC BELT . left often enough penniless and in deep die- Attention was r
- tress. Compulsory auditing of all savings County Cwourt, p
GREATER BRITAIN is exemplified as it never banks by an official accountant would pre- and Mr. alke
_ works of MSS'
has been in the old country in the Exhibition vent robbery and mismanagement, and save
* the safest. crudest. sad most urteia discovery ever .
to be opened on Tuesday with high and fit- in the rate.'
!mews fir te• ewe et all bodily ailments sri.ing ft in
the confiding public the loss of any provision Mr. Wooll(
4nimas:o4es and ether *asses Ti those Orbited with ting State ceremonial by her Majesty. they may have made against old ageOr other afterward.
Netvoneaese, Nimes Dakility. Les* of Physical Pewee. Visits to its numerous courts, crowded with time of necessity. Of course this woul d it. Mr
Ireekai.as of Body aud Mind, be., this inventiAs pre-
-14044S pf care f 'Wailing a character that ere portions virtually be asking Government to take an the products of the widely-sundered ti ehairma.
vesite • so t-ElAtat.T
lb • ru.ak.ss anfferer, trent arty of tt,e above distressing of the vast Empire on which the sun never important part in the management of private ing Cc
e-f.-... 0-.;•., may, with ektS.les es, rely op.* beinti quickly sets,
will be a liberal education. Sir Philip savings banks. As such Government should they
-- • r.i,:iy AA ::, 9 sanll-1 AA!s et his th evd etrei.gits lt., fact, ,-.,,.
' ' 11 u Sates performed by the "se'f•Re- k.)
ea: WWI) 111*TVI. . 1 until° Owen; the active actin manager of
ghave the official's expenses returned to them A
' Pt- is,- i,•,•OBLY Pl4OO/ .7 WiliCH 6AN BS DIVZN) at the last and greatest of the South Kensisg- by commission money or otherwise, paid, in ' 1:111.i.
‘,,,..- ~.,,•....,-._:. ,x:fs-adit,are lestiu• 'tit.. tte beyond
n s
~ tohows, said the other day, in his entliu- - ~v 1
, seytet.iss ot toe lied hitherto offered to Ste pub!ic. 1.11 proportionate amount, by every inspected c
`*•,..ler 1.; orwee ....et thesehem!' are aêt they c sire to be, siasm, that the Indian and Colonial Exhibi- bank. The depositors would not object to
is weeict be es well te atenti T. the I,liewli•g circus- tion was "a thing to see an then die." pay for proper security ; but such security
steam :
.. • . • The rather, we would say, it is a thing to see should certainly be provided for.
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and live—live on in the pleasurable posses- * * *
lii- the High Curt ef Justise (Queen's Bench Division of a larger knowledge of our magnificent IF every concern which seeks to tr 2
e;01:: en isjv.uettrn was greaten- on Jirtuary 24th. :884, lEmpire than we had ever hoped to have, with public money, either as a bank or r
stet:sic.e, tain ui.principled persona f ~Iti i-fling any it is a gigantic Kindergarten school, in merchandising affair or company, w ero
n,,:enr.ible imitations if the ••h4f-R.-storer" Reit, the
Jury evils., the propriet• r a verdict with costs andwhich t teach thepeople 0 of the land all •
' lected to overhauling by Governme
Sentare le: sash infringement." The But was use I about the beauty, the vastness, and the re- ports, and suppressed if the appea'
erriiisesi, and its blectrical pow-rs 1 :Iv tested in openl sources of India and the Colonies. The people for funds and investments we
Court, bath haters Yr. Justice Hawkins and the J urn
, upon the same occasion. Fisheries Exhibition had its uses, and its financially bad, there would soon
. attractions; the Health Exhibition followed stability in monetary matters. r
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and left us more careful concerning things have a right to look to Governr
Caw Insy other ma ufacturer of Elootrie Rflis produce sanitary; then came the Inventions, which protection of their pockets again
eeidasee ef SO PIIMUtZ A TIM ? Surely, after such pool d with samples of every conceivable d •
amaze us wi sa
-- - as this; the meet sesytieal will halter* that it really ations of dishonest bank officir
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. posasesits the great reiterative powers ascribe to it. sort of man's skill. But what was the field floaters. An authorative ,
• • open to any of those as compared with the every concern which deals w
• limitless ;that which the Queen
• ~,, ess scope o ments, whether it be a sa
r:asr
nay bees well to naation that.. lIIOtiOD 01 the (hoaxes open on Tuesday. The fisherman provident, building, or '
. ..seit-itesteree" is gentle, but exceedingly effective. The .
... . toild4 but beneficial, servant generated by its nee, braces his nets in man waters the
might cast y , would be a boon. Becar
. sh.e system, and-by its benign influence gradually builds means and appliances for promoting health of this South Welsh bar
up 'he frame until the wind begins to get brighter, the vary instructively in different parts of the sponsible to no compet
sand Mistimes beams' streager, the elastie spirits
el youth ease mere apparent, and so the pritress to• world. Invention is cosmopolitan , indeed •
could not control, mo
- wsrds recovery steadily gees 011 until the patient is once but India and the Colonies suggest them- ate depositors at Car
wore your* In emus of weakness. &tieing fruit any of • selv6 to tas themes he British mind th for
"'• the loterennestione& sasses, then Belts aro at once the which, to some of f'
mast eorkin innedy ewer invented or diseevered. They illustration by exhibition of the products of one indeed. No 1
et. 4. entinit alf-setiag, and we *CIDs being required, can n, character far more interesting than all, seem to have in'
et. wont at. say time without any wetting process or in- One might read with attention a work on an
b. bank, 1
or:vectieses to the patina, the salt contained is thebigger w
it isetble perspiretien being snidest to keep it in ac- important national industry, or seriously 1
all(- besides these 1'
soberly study a treatise on health.; one might,. societies have
again, endeavour to solve some of the puzzles cations fall f
which a writer on the multitudinous marvels classes. T'
' Vb castes petionael areinet of a lionise character, , .
• . list pireseenenS,pr=l:l the inetzsettoss sent with each I fore us • but an o invention would place be , , deficit is r
ABOtA7IIIOIIOII, Ilf4 y adhered to. It speedily z...,- incomparably more attractive task would be societies
isceres that west Wearable feeling "lowness of spirits," to turn through the pictured pages of some irrecove
co ellen esperieseed; tad after 'being wore a short time.
enables • was to look at the future In a mere hopeful comprehensive book of travel in far-away
We se %twinning el. rapid sure relict, the mind and wonderful lands, inhabited on the 111 tin GR'
et e rest birds's. by people speaking our own tongue, and al- wayF
together by fellow-subjects of Queen Victoria. but
Sow awayipereon wise, by living toe' generously,
At South Kensington we have now that Er
- have become prensatuely old, and consequently have pictured work. It is in many volumes. s,
thews wreteited istabtd failing.? They have an idea India has several all to
as itself. Every colons-,
that tut e is decaying, and the pleasures of life have , I
departed. In nine ease oat of ten this is far trora be- I 11 Antipodes to
from the Cyprus, has its am-he
*pike fast. Nature has sot deceyed ;it is simply lying representation. The work has been got ur
de-mast, end seeds but a little assistance to once more regardless of expense, and is indeed luxii '
seen t Its meow,. "The ekeaking gate requires oil,
et it will continue to creak." Se it is with the human one in its presentation. The author is t'
beim - iteMst ti where weak, put it in a position to re- Prince of Wales. He has been assisted P
sewn emelt, gni you will and that after all life has its by Sir Philip Owen and a host of c
pleentes,and 111111 the Teetered isalinstion te partake ef
hem. Royal Commissioners, who all seem tr
. - done their best to make the Exhibit'
presentative and worthy of the Erni):
me tweneffetal antes of thiseStraly life-giving Belts Indian Government has co-operaf
'gee he human frame has bees prsved so conclusively,
. by thestobis of vissellinted teitinienials, that no shadow somely, and the various Colonial
of doubt ronains se to their extraordinary efficacy. They merits vie with each other in frier
fisr. be worn by either sex with the greatest ease and in
visi placing what they have to she
erwifort. without fear et discovery, and by a delicate ar- • •
to
taagement osn be adjusted to act directly upon the- r in the most costly
windrowed parts, pa that immediately epos contact with manner. Not only does each C
tfee-bedy. as electric currant is. at,onee produced, of a its ablest naturalists and re
mild, bet withal of so siescious a character, that an sl-
ated- instantaneous improvement becomes noticeable. direct d an dispose
the exhi'
The heavy hanging feeling wears of, the eye becomes may bring hOttle to 118 W'
krifiktee, di° brats clear", until at last the patient feels tinguishing traits of the c
hatinown wad that he is once mere in the possesiion -
eif Ike greatest blessings 11p4111 earth, Viz, ;HZALTE, is the enthusiasm displa
$11121141M2 1611126 T, and MADLY V 1410514 of one Colony actually
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/ of affairs of state that
London the recone rc
S toniatilost, ithesmalism, Paralysis, ko., there is Canada alone at .r f•
se eare is the world to be compared to these Belts.
Nature regatta assistance ia all these complaints, and responding to the i
that seetstasee, to be thoroughly effective, mast be eh- Wales to take her
Weed tress Malan heralf—thas, by milling into our- but a• Charles
Otos Eiestriaity, a astural . ally, songeniat to all e is. Sir
ettn4ess, is obtained, and the result is in almost every Canadian High
en* permanent curse are affected. Again, in cases of cause with ohs
Co•Lvinaptlen these Eel* bus bees the sent PiIIANII of .
res,•-ring thattands of both sexes to a healthy and yip the Colony vr
i er3tresistestilk wham that fell • disease "Consumption" little late, 0
i bad, is tie *igen of many eminent medical men, inundatid '
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tanked thin es its vintage. Theee are fats which can
be newid te lse Onkel* Ira..
. , it is that '
to be, Iv
There c
Ti poooosaCiaakens of farther isformatioo. ieettee, all its
%ion Will be skew away. is ISO pp. pamphlet, showing in I 4.1,,
eafferns how they may be fedora' I. Health. Strength, T
sad Manly Viper, -without the Lief of Medieoild, or will yarc
be met, pat free, together with al particulars as to ma
reeks* diet, &o. Addreas—W. WRIGHT, Esq.. 0,,
acoatary, Volta lama, 12i, Wardesr•street, (tend- b.
neat, Lemke, W 4 t
TROUSANDS 01 TAISTIMONIALIIMIAYI2BY
SHIM AT TB/ lurks LIMILLANT.
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1112 2... . £3 35., &
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Acoerdine to power. The lestruw
pert of sa., iclowu world, throv
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bii ti !dr W. Wright, at t'
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ALLEGED DRUNKENNE3S ON LICENSED PREH•sEs
—Henry Littlewood was charged with being drut,k
on licensed premises, the Crown Inn, Lye, on the
19th ult. Mr. Hinds defended. P.S. Copa saw
the defendant sitting with a pint cup which wsi.
before him on a table. Philip Round, landlord of
the Crown Inn, was charged with selling intoxicat-
ing liquor to a drunken person on the 19th ult.
P,S. Cope said 119 asked d fendant how he accoun
ted for having a drunken man in his house and he
made no reply. The landlady said he had only had
two pints. Cross-examined: He coul.i II t say
the cup Litelewood drank out of was his. P.C.
I Newman gave corroborative evidence. Philip
Round said defendant had had only two pints of
ale and was sober. The ale which was drunk by
Littlewood in the presence of the officers was not
his. Henry Littlewood said he had only two pints
and a drink out of Samuel Little's cup. John
Thomas Knowles, Sohn Neal. and Eli Wakeman
gave evidence as to Littlewood's sobriety. About
thirty previous convictions were proved agains:
Littlewood. The Bench said they did not feel cer-
tain of Littlewood's drunkenness and the limos
were dismissed.
ASSAULTING THE Potics.—Robert Lew's Jones
was charged with being drank on the 24th
ult, in Mill Street, and he was further charged
with assaulting P.C. Farley whilst in the exe3u-
tion of his duty. P.C. Farley said defendant was
drunk and causing a disturbance. On going to him
and asking him for his name, defendant struck him
on the mouth, and said that that was his name.
Defendant also struck him and kicked him on the
ribs. The matter of drunkenness was withdrawn,
and in the case of assaulting the police he was sen-
tenced to prison for one month's hard labour.—
Yoseph Webb was charged with assaulting P.C.
Farley on the 24th ult, in Mill Street, whilst in the
execution of his duty. Ater hearing the evidence,
the prisoner, who bears a very bad character, was
santeneed to two months' hard labour,

TREFr.—Alice Robins was charged with stealing
a vest value 2s. the property of Philip Robins, on
the 29th ult at the Lye. P.C. Stoue said when he
,pprehended prisoner she said she took it for want.
Tarney asked the mother if she had tried to
et wo-k for the girl. The mother said she had
but she could not, get any. Mr. Turney told the
mother to send her child to the leather works. The
Bench discharged the girl,

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person need despair of a sreedy restoratian to
IN health . and girength if he or she will earifell)
peziase the-fodewing, and lame that the great