The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-09-05 00:00:00

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, A GOOD Melbotrrn6 Oorres•
pondent of Tke Times salt
A good example has been yet to the rich among us, who
show little hteldnation to fodow in the footsteps of Mr
Peabody, but may be moved by a humbler instance of liber-
ality nearer home, with malls most slender compared with
thAlt•own. Lady hi Cullo4 Alia turned a pleasant country
house at Caulfield, near btelbourne, into a Hospital for
Convalescents, providing everything which can minister to
the comfort of its ten inmates, and all the expense of
estahlishruent and maintenance are borne be herself. This
is dtst charitabletiniitution in Victoria Mt:tided and
sup4irtifil by one periteln,”
AN OLD SONG FOR NEW SAVANTS.—"O'dear
What Can this ' Matter' Be "—Pitnth. •
RE DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS. —The
considerable gains obtained by the Democratic party
at the recent elections in the Southern States of
America have alarmed the Republicans (says the Pall
Mail Ga:stte). In North Carolina the former pa ty
have won a complete mastery In the Legislature, and
will send to the Congress. at Washington seven out of
the eight representatives of the State. Ther have
also secured the control of Tennessee and Kentucky.
The reason is that no white man in the South feels
that his life and property are safe under the negro
domination, which the Republican party at Wa.shing
ton are endeavourinFto extend and perpetuate by the
"Civil Rights Bill.' The neg.roes, on the other hand,
are now stanch party men, and vote the Republican
ticket with the steady zeal of well disciplined poli-
ticians. But in the present state of feeling through-
out the whole South, where a war of meen seems to be
inevitable, the negro alliance will do no service in the
North to the Republicans. The riots at Austin and
Trenton have exasperated every section of American
society except a few out-of-date Abolitionists, and
there is little tolerance anywhere for a policy which
would hand over the Southern whites, rebels though
they have been, to the brutal violence of their former
slaves.

GAININ4.: A Loss.—An American paper states
that a wager was offered recently by one of the work-
men in a steam planing mill in Westchester, Pennsyl-
vania, that none of their number could remain in the
drying-room of their mill, which has a constant tem-
perature of about 140 deg., for the period of one hour.
One of the men accepted the bet; the "stakes,"
which were only 1 dollar a side, were placed lathe hands
of a shopmate, the heated apartment under the mill was
entered, and the test of endurance began. The fellow
won his dollar, remaining for the stipulated time; but
the lean, gaunt, emaciated figure that came from out
of the furnace, required more than a dollar's worth of
provender to supply his loss of flesh.
" BUS-MEASURE."—Bits-Driver : "Never see
the Comet?! Why, wherever could you 'te— "( No-
tices Shortness of "Gelleman's" hair, etc., and hesi-
tates.) "Ilowsomever—"—Passenger (relieving his
embarrassment): "Whereabouts was it ?"—Driver :
" Well, tell yer. It was about the Length of
this yere Bus from the forrardest Leader in the Great
Bear! "—Punch.

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A NEGRO WAR IN SOUTH CAROLINA. —George-
town County, South Carolina (says a despatch dated
August 16), is the scene of a dangerous contest be-
tween negro factions, led by Howley and Jones, negro
members of the legislature, each of whom seeks to
control the county, in which the negroes have a large
majority. A Rowley meeting on Wednesday was
broken up by the Jones faction, and one coloured by-
stander was dangerously wounded. Runners were sent
out, and armed. Jones's negroes poured into the town
during the night. Some of them next morning at-
tempted to kill Howley, and at midnight on Thursday
there was heavy firing, which was found to be an at-
tack on the house of Jones, who was slightly wounded.
Some other slight casualties occurred. On Friday
Bowley's house was attacked, and Howley, to save his
life, surrendered to the sheriff, and is in gaol. On
Saturday, at noon, the excitement was still intense,
and the town was filled with armed negroes. None but
Radicals are in the riot. The white citizens are
alarmed lest some careless word or act should cause an
attack on them, which they have no means of meeting.
TB z Sunoof. OF COOKERY. —Mr. Buckmaater
delivered on Saturday his concluding lecture at South
Kensington. Ile enforced the claims of the National
Training School for Cookery to a place among the per-
manent educational institutions of the country. He
looked to sensible, thoughtful women, whose position
in society entitled them to consideration and respect,
to stamp the efforts of the school with their approval.
He urged them to take a personal interest in the prac-
tical work of the school by sending their daughters
and servants for instruction. An ordinary dinner, he
said, did not require a professional cook; it was when
good cooking was united with cheerfulness that people
knew how to dine and enjoy as they ought the food
which God has provideik Poverty was no excuse for
the want of skill. Poor and simple as the dish is, it
should be served with its own proper flavour, its own
distinctive character. Intelligence would often do
more in the kitchen than money, and he wanted coolie
to be better educated. The cooking consisted of a
crecy soup and omelette south.
A urrLE MISTAKE !—A French " sportsman"
set out recently, first promising his wife that he would
bring her that very evening a brace of partridges at the
very least. Punctually at ten o'clock the same night
he returned home, greatly fatigued, and covered with
dust to the ears. His game-bag, however, appeared
to be very full; and Madame X. at once concluded
that her husband had had good sport. 'How many,
have you, my dear?" she asked, taking up the game.
bag. " Two, as I promised," nonchantly replied M. X.,
throwing himself into a chair; "I had no sooner
reached my destination than--bang, fire ! I had
killed the brace." Reddening with pride, Madame X.
opened the game-bag ; but-0 horror !- in place of the
partridges, she drew from it a superb lobster rolled up
in paper. Tableau! It was all the fault of the fish-
monger. When applied to by the stammering sports-
man for a brace of partridges, the tradesman mistook
him, and gave him instead a "cardinal oil& sea."
MOTTO OF THE ENGLISH DELEGATE TO THE
BRUSSELs CONFERENCE.—" Silence does not give con-
sent."—Panch.
THE POPULATION OF FRANCE. —According to
an official return just published, France contained in
1872, 35,362,253 citizens Ind 740,668 foreigners. The
former consisted of 30,676,943 natives of the depart-
ments in which they resided, 4,543,764 persons who
had removed from one department to another, 126,243
Alsatians and Lorrainers who had elected to continue
French subjects, and 15,303 naturalised foreigners.
The foreigners comprised 347,558 Belgians, 112,579
Italians, 64,808 Alsatians and Lorrainers who had ac-
cepted German nationality, 52,951 Spainards, 52,950
Russians, 42,834 Poles, 42,830 Swiss, 39,361 Germans,
26,003 English, 17,077 Dutch, 7,328 Scandinavians,
6,859 Americans, 5,116 Austrians and Hungarians,
3,843 Asiatics, 1,173 Turks, Greeks, &c., and 9,826
persons from other countries.