The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-07-23 00:00:00

AN INDIGNANT MAGISTRATE.

Daniel Smith, aged 34, was on Saturday charged
at Bow-street by John Miles, an officer of the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, with work-
ing a pony in an unfit state. The defendant is a
cripple, he having been unable to walk or use his legs
since his birth. Miles, the prosecutor, stated that he
saw the defendant in Southampton-street, in charge
of a bay pony attached to a van on the previous after-
noon. The animal was shivering, and on examina-
tion it was found that he had two sores under the
pad. Defendant was taken to the police-station.
Mr. Bridge: Why didn't you take his name and ad-
dress? Witness made no reply. Mr. Bridge: Has
that man been locked up all night? Witness: Yes.
Mr. Bridge: Have you never heard anything of
cruelty to humanity? It is perfectly shocking to think
that a man in his condition should have been locked up
all night on a charge like this. You ought to have taken
his address. Mr. Bridge asked the defendant if he
wished to say anything? He replied that he had a
man and a boy with him, and he thought it very bard
that the boy was not allowed to take tho pony home.
Mr. Bridge asked if this statement was correct. Miles
said it was. Mr. Bridge: Then you should have sum-
moned him. Look at the man! I wonder the inspec-
tor detained him an hour at the station. Why didn't
you let the pony go home. It is perfectly shocking
to see a man in the defendant's condition and to know
that he has been locked up all night. I shall dis-
charge him. Witness explained that he thought the
pony was unfit to be sent home, but a constable
stated that it had been reported that the animal
would be qui e well in a couple of days. Mr. Bridge
discharged the defendant, and directed Inspector Lee
to send him to his mother's home in a cab, and pay
the fare. The decision was received with great ap-
plause in Court.

AN ITAI lAN LITERARY COLLEGE.—Pope Leo
is about to found an international college for literature,
in which the Italian poets and authors will be studied
in an especial manner. His Holiness announced this
in an audience granted to the students of the Leonine
Institute, in huuur of their recitations of extracts from
Greek and Latin poets, and from Dante.
ACROSS THE ATLANTIC IN 4 BALLOON.--The Paris
" Figaro " announces that a Oiptain Jovis has decided
upon attempting to cross the Atlantic in a balloon,
which he is about to have constructed, with a gas
cipacity of 8000 cubic metres. He intends to start
from St. Nazaire, in the Loire-Inferieure, with the in.
tention of proceeding in his balloon to New York. The
experiment will be made in October next.
TESTING ME FLOVE.—Adulteration of flour by
means of the flour of inferior grains may bs ascertained
by pouring upon a spoonful of flour a little pure
ammonia. If the flour be wholly of wheat, the ammonia
will render it of a yellow colour, but if adulterated
with maize, the ammonia will turn it to a pale brown,
and if it be adulterated with pease or bean flour, it will
become a darker brown.

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE: \,.

BRIXTON.—On Tuesday night, after the, contest
consequent, in this Division of Lambeth, upon Mr. E.
Baggaley's appointment to a metropolitan magistracy.
Mr. Ablot, the returning officer, declared the result
;0 be as follows :
Lord Carmarthen (C) ... 3307
Mr. James Hill (L) ... 2569

Majority for Lord Carmarthen 738
The declaration of the numbers was greeted with
loud cheers by the crowd outside, which numbered
several thousand persons. The total poll at the
election in 1885 was 6189, which gave the Tory 3427
votes and Liberal 2762—Tory majority 665. In
1886 the total poll was 5186, which gave the Tory
3300 votes and the Liberal 1886—Tory majority
1414. At the present election the total poll was
5935. The number voting for the Tory was seven
more, and the number voting for the Liberal 683
more than in 1886, and the Tory majority in 1886 is
reduced from 1414 to 783. The Marquis of Car-
marthen, the successful candidate, is the eldest sur-
viving son of the ninth Duke of Leeds by the Hon.
Geor.liana Pitt, daughter of the fourth Baron
Rivers, and was born in 1862. He was educated
at Eton, is a magistrate for the North Riding of
Yorkshire, and a lieutenant in the Yorkshire-Hussars.

HollNsEY.—The polling in the Hornsey Division of
Middlesex, to fill the vacancy caused by the elevation
of Sir James M'Ciarel-Hogg to the peerage, passed off
on Tuesday without any incidents of an unusual
character. Owing to the extensive area covered by
the division, the counting did not commence until
half-past nine at night, when the work was carried
out under the superintendence of Mr. H. Crick, the
deputy returning officer. The result was declared as
follows at 20 minutes past 12:
Mr. H. C. Stephens (0) 4476
Mr. Horatio Bottomley (L) 2488

Majority ... ...

... 1988

In 1886 the Liberals did not contest the seat. In
1885 the result was: Sir J. MGarel-Hogg (0), 4619;
Lord Kensington (L), 3299; Conservative majority,
1320.

Mr. H. C. Stephens, who will now for the first time
sit in Parliament, carries on the business of an ink
manufacturer. Residing in Finchley, he possesses
considerable local influence, and was once a promi-
r.ent member of the Local Board for tke district.
When the first School Board was elected for Finchley
,in 1881 he was returned at the hcad of the poll. He
was chosen chairman, and ;has held the position ever
I since.

BASINGSTORE.—On Tuesday the result of the
polling at Basingstoke for the seat vacant by the
elevation of Mr. Sclater-Booth to the peerage was
decls-ed as follows:
Mr. A, Jeffreys (01 ... 3158
Mr. Richard Eve (L) ... 2426
732

Majority ...

Last year Mr. Sclater-Booth was returned unop-
posed. At the election in 1885 the figures were:
Mr. Sclater-Booth (C), 3892; Mr. R. Eve (L), 2313.
The Conservative majority of 1579 has therefore been
reduced by 847. While the Conservative votes de-
creased by 734, as compared with 1885, the Liberal
candidate increased his poll by 113,