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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-01-16

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HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.

COLD AND MORTALITY.—The medical officer
of Dundee gives the following startling figures for
December :-423 deaths occurred in Dundee, against
365 for the previous month, and 264 for December,
1873, with a population now estimated at 131,870 ;
this shows a death rate the highest throughout the
year, of 37.71 per 1,000 per annum, or 1 in every 318
individuals. This high mortality is easily accounted
for by the eAreme and continued cold which Has pre-
vailed during the month—a condition which at once
seriously affects the extremes of ages as well as those
suffering from pulmonary complaints or diseases of a
chronic nature.
A CITY PAV,ED WITH SILVER AND GOLD.
Oar principal streets, says the Virginia City Enterprise,
being macadamised with refuse ore taken from the
mines in early days, and being coated with the rich
ore that has been year after year sifted down upon
them from the ore waggons, are now everywhere more
or less argentiferous. Indeed, there is not the slightest
stretch of imagination in saying that we never take a
step in town but we are walking on silver.
While speaking of this fact a day or two since, a
young man bet his friend the price of the assaying and
the cigars" that he would take a lump of mud off
the wheel of a 'bus then standing before them,
and would get out of it precious metals to the value of
$5 per ton. An ounce or two of the mud was taken
from the vehicle and placed in the hands of an assayer,
who was not told where the sample was obtained, and
who, no doubt, supposed that he was dealing with de-
composed-ore or vein matter from one of our mines.
The assay was made, and the assayer's certificate
slagwed that the sample contained—silver, $7 54c.;
gold, $2 32c.; total, $9 86c. After this we may put
on airs, even though our streets are villanously muddy
occasionally, for the very mud on our boots contains
both silver and gold,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-01-16

NEW WORK BY DR. smirrn.

Now Reedy, 96 pages, Free by Post for Two Stamps,
UIDE TO CURE OF DEBILITY; OR
kJ Health Lost BA Regained. By HENRY SMITH.
/%1. D., of the Royal Univesity of Jena, Author of " The
Wsrning Voice," &e. "GUIDE TO CURE OF DE-
/ALF] X" gives Rules for the Cure of NetvGus Exhaus-
tion, Indigestion, Rheumatism, Dirruini ss of Sight,
Weakness. Low Spirits, Nervous Debility, Paulin;
Dreams Mental and Physical Derression, Indecision,
impaired Memory, Loss of Energy, Pains in the Rick,
Tirnmicity, Dizziness, Love of Solitude, Groundless
Fears, eicc. Addressed to Sufferers from Debility, and
other Diseases resulting from Exhaustion of Nerve.
power, the effect of Indiscretion. Gives PRESCRIP-
TIONS and INSTRUCTIONS by which Thousands
have been restored to health and vigour. Illustrate,l
with Testimonials from grateful patients who have been
cured by Dr. Smith after all other means bad failed.
" Dr. Smith has published some excellent advice and
instruction for the Cure of Nervous Debility."—"Naval
and Military Gazette," April 6, 1873.
NOTICE.—A copy of "GUIDE!' 0 CURE OF DT:-
BILL:11Y" Will be sent post free to any address, Frau;
OF' CtiaaaE, on receipt of stamped directed envelope.
Dr. 11. SMITH, 8, Barton Crescent, London, W.. 0
IMPORTANT TO COUNTRY PATIENTS.

CONSULTATION BY LETTER WITHOUT FEE
DR. H. SMITE', the Eminent Specialist for
the Cure of alrDebilitating Diseases, will,for the
benefit of Country Patients who cannot consult him per
sonally, on receiving descriptions of their case, send his
3 pinion, with advice and directions for the most success-
ful restoration to health and vigour.
IMPORTANT.—A form of correspondence containing
questions. &e., to assist the Patient in Describing his
ease, will be sent post-free on receiving a directed
envelope.
Address, Dr. H. SMITH, 5, Biutou-creacent,London
WC.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-01-16

ONE Box of CLARKE'S B 41 Pills is
warranted to cure all discharges from the Urinary
Organs, in either sex, acquired or constitutional, Gravel
and Pains in the Back.—Sold in boxes, 4s 6d each, by
all Chemists and Patent Medicine Vendors ; or sent to
any address for 60 Stamps by the Maker, F. J. CLARKE,
Consulting Chemist, High-streetLiueoln.—Wholesale
Agents, imaitsiklosis, Loadon,and *lithe Wholesale
Houses.
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Sold by A. PlAtorria, Chemist, Stourbridife.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-01-16

ROWLEY REGIS SCHOOL BOARD.

An ordinary monthly meeting of this Board was held
on Monday afternoon, in the Board Room, Mr. W. Bas-
sano presiding. There were also present Messrs. Hadley
Lewis, Whitley, Hodgetts, and Hingley.
The Board proceeded to select plans for the erection
of schools at Old Hill, Cradley Heath, and Knowle, and
to take such further action as might be deemed neces-
sray with respect to the sites. Several plans were put in
by Mr. Holmes, of Birmingham, and Mr. Meredith, of
Kiddermiuster, and the estimated cost of building the
schools was as follows :—Holmes Cradley Heath,
£3, 826; Old Hill, £3,818; Knowle, £2,601. Meredah :
Cradley Heath, £3,245; Old Hill, £3,245; Knowle,
£2 242.

Mr. Lewis moved that the Board accept the plans of
Ur. Meredith for Cradley Heath and Knowle, and thal
Old Hill be given to Mr. Holmes.
Mr. Hodgetti seconded the motion.
Carried.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-10-30

THE BURIAL BOARD.

A Meeting of the members of this Board was
held on Thursday morning last. There were pre-
sent Messrs. Shepherd (chairman), Stringer, Has-
kew, Platt, Perkin, King, Evers, and Billingham.
The Clerk read the minutes of the last meeting
which were signed and confirmed.
The Clerk stated that the agreement with Mr.
Parkes had been completed. •
The Chairman read an estimate of the
amount of money that would be r equired for the
current expenses of the Board up to March next.
The chairman said the next point would be to
consider the application to the Loan Commis-
sioners for the loan for laying out the cemetery,
purchasing it, etc.
The Clerk said he had received communication
from the secretary of the Treasury and the Public
Works Loan Commissioners. The fornier of these
stated that in reference to the application of the
Clerk to the Upper Swinford and Stourbridge
Burial Board for a sum of money for laying out
and purchasing the site for a cemetery, it would
be necessary that the sanction of the vestry should
be obtained by resolution. (The Clerk remarked
that this had been done and he had told them so.)
It also specified that if the money was borrowed
from the Public Works Loan Commissioners it
would have to be paid back in 30 years.
Mr. Evers pointed out thatthe letter stated that
the loan should not extend over more than 30
years.
The chairman said that was new to him. He
had understood that it would last 60 years. He
also said that they had had the sanction of the
vestry for borrowing any money that was required
but their sanction did not extend to charging fu-
ture poor rates with the payment of the money.
The Board might however borrow the money from
other sources, but if they did so they would have
to pay more for it. There were at present two
difficulties before them. The vestry not having
been informed that the cost would conic on future
poor rates. The other was that they refused to
lend the money for a longer term then 30 years.
He was also afraid they should have to wait
longer for the money than they had contemplated.
, Under these circumstances he was of Opinion that
application should be made as soon as possible.
of course, they did not know until they made ap-
plication for the money that they would not lend
it for a longer term than 30 years.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-10-30

again next spring, to wish success to the brave fellows
in the Alert and the Discove.ry, who, while we are
_Ming that we seldom see the sun, are now locked
in the nine months' night of the northern winter, and
would be grateful for even a smaller modicum of day-
light than we have been getting in this dul: and rainy
seASOD.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-10-30

WELSH LOYALTY.

At a meeting of Welsh residents in London, held in
the Welsh Church, Southwark Bridge.road, on the
11th inst., the Rev. Dr. Thomas Rees, of Swansea, in
the chair, the following resolution, moved by the Rev.
Samuel Reberts, of Conway, and seconded by the
Rev. R. L. Thoma., of the Borough, was unanimously
passed with a warmth of feeling characteristic of the
patriotism and loyalty of the Welsh nation :

"That,. as his Royal _Highness the Prince of Wales is at
this very hour commencing his important journey to India,
this meeting desires to express its warm attachment and
aithful devotedness to the Throne, and its ardent wishes
that the illustrious heir of the British Crown may enjoy the
protection and favour of Providence throughout all his
journeyings on sea and land; and its ardent prayers that
his visit to India may deepen and ettend the sanctifying
and peaceful influences of the truths and ordinances of
Christianity throughout the wide and rich and populous
provinces of the vast Eastern portion of the British Empire.
and the meeting also desires to record its strong confidence
that the Welcome home' of his Royal Highness may he
characterised by a joyful loyalty worthy of the occasion;
and that the recollections and records of his journey may
prove of lacing j y and cheer to his Royal Highness, and to
her Gracious Majesty his mother, and to his dear children
and their affectionate mother, and every member of the
Royal family; and that they may also prove of help and
strength to all the missionary anti philanthropic institutions
of our country, so as to promote thereby the growing pros-
perity of the kingdom of the Prince of Peace,"
The following gracious reply was received from the
private secretary of her Royal Highness the Princess
of Wales :

"Sandringham, King's Lynn, Oct. 15, 1875.
"Sir,—l beg to acknowledge the receipt of the resolution
adopted at a meeting of Welsh residents in London, assembled
at the Welsh Congregational Church in Southwark Bridge-
road, on Monday the 11th instant, and to inform you that I
have laid it before her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales.
In reply, her Royal Highness has directed one to request you
to convey to those present at the meeting her thanks for the
good wishes expressed for the Prince of Wales on the ocoa-
sion of his Royal Highness's departure for India, and for the
assurances of attachment to all the Royal Family.—l am,
Sir, your obedient servant,
" M. HoLZMANN, Private Secretary.
"To the Rev. Samuel Roberts, 1L A."

Street pianos and organs are to be prohibited in the
town of Lille on and after the let of November next, as being
Inimical to the maintenance of public order and morality.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-10-30

Piles, Fistulas aad Internal Intflantmations.

Pesons afflicted with these distressing complaints wil
find in this wonderful Ointment instant means of relief
and all can effect their own cure without explaining their
nfirmity to anyone. Holloway's Pills, if taken in small
doses, greatly assist the Ointment, as they purify the
blood and regulate the stomach in an extraordinaty
manner.

The Ointment and Pills are sold„at Professor Hoixo-
WAY'S Establishment, 533, Oxford-street, London; ale.)
by nearly every respectable Vendor of Medicine through.
out the Civilised World, in Pots and Boxes, at is lid,
2s 9d, 4s 6d,ills, 225, and 33s each. The smallest Pot cf
Ointment contains one ounce; and the smallest Pox
of Pills four dozen.

Full printed directions are affixed to each Pot and Box,
and can be had in any language, even in Turkish, Arabic,
A.mrenian, Persian, or Chinese. ..

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-10-30

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ALL ORDERS EXECUTED WITH PROMPTNESS AND DISPATCH, ON

REASONABLE T 2 RMS.

CI F. begs to thank his kind supporters for the liberal patronage he has received since his
0 . commencement in the above Business, and trusts, by strict personal attention, to merit a. continuance of
their support.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-10-30

TALLOW.

LONDON, Monday, Oct. 25.—The market is quieter and less
firm for Y. C., old selling 50& to 50a. 6d., and new at 61s. 6d.
per cwt. on the spot. Town Tallow remains at Ns. per cwt.
net cash. Rough fat Os. Sd pcfBlbs.

Town Tallow, per cwt 52 6 I Rough Stuff, per cwt. .. 18 6
Rough Fat, per Blbs.. . 2 5 1 Greaves
/I 18 0
Melted Stuff, per cwt. 36 6 I Good Dregs 11 6 0
Yellow Russian, new s2s. Od. per cwt.
Ditto Ditto old
If
Australian Mutton Tallow 495. Od. „
Ditto Beef Ditto 48s. 6d. „
IIA.Y.

WHITECHIPEL, Saturday, Oct. 23.—Supply moderate
trade stagnant: prices nominaL Clover 100 s. to 1455 ; in-
ferior, 85s. to 953. Prime meadow hay, 90s. to 132 A. ; inferior
555. to 755.; and Straw, SU. to 50s per load.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-10-30

COURSING AT KINVER HILL FARM.

In response to a 'number of invitations sent out by th.l
well known firm Messrs. Edward Webb and Sons, of
Ivy Mills Wordsley, over 200 gentlemen assembled at th,•
Kinvec 11111 Farm on Wednesday, fur the purpose of
enjoying some capital coursing,,, and they were not de
cerved, for although it was a very uncomfortable day.
thy Irttl some first class sport. flares were plentiful
and strong, the Kihv, r.liares being proverbial for their
strong running. A ,splended lunchen was provided for
those present, under the supertendence of Mr. J. Bridges,
of the Mitre Hotel, Stourbridge.
THE KINVER EDGE STARES Y.R 8 GREYHOUNDS or V.I.

.soEs.
Mr. Kendrick's Nancy, heat Mr. Robert's Ben.
Mr. Jones's Bnfiery heat Mr. Plant's Maggie May.
Mr. Amos's Lord heat Mr. Grimor's Sam.
Mr. Woodfield's Liquor up beat Mr. Beckley's,
BYPPia•

Batery beat Nancy.
Lord beat Liquor•np
Lord beat Bnffery and won the Stakes.
Tim 'mummy PLATE 701 8 GRILTROUEDI OE ALL
£Oll.
Mr. Talbott's Kin) beat Mr. Robett's Gipsey.
Mr. Grant's Smoker beat Mr. Jones's Jarnette (2).
Mr. Batford'g MoM.thom beat Mr. Kendrick's Ticket.
Mr. Chesney's Warwick beat Mr. Lister's Peter.

King beat Smoker, McMahon beat Warwick.
Mr.Mahon beat King and won.

Tnr. KINVER HILL ST 1.K1;18 FOR it GREVIIOUNDS OF
ALL AGES.
Mr. Buckley'nUhian beat Mr. Saunders Lady.
Mr. Sbelly',, Peter bent Mr. Aston's Alice Hawe'iorn.
Mr. Putt's Scamp beat Mr. Marckusicks
Mr. Tompson's Blue Bell b,:at Mr Grime's Sam.
Mr. \Verdes Holy Orders bent Mr. Linters Brierley
Mr. Langley'a Black-one beat Mr. Wingfield's Bon-
bon.

flir—.-Pctt's -Ben McCrea beat Mr. Leonard Challenge.
Peter beat Milan, Scamp beat Blue Bell.
Black VII beat Holy Orden; Ben McCrea ran a bye.
Peter beat Scamp.
IT.
Ben McCrea and Black one ran an undecided and Ben
;Crea, Black one and Peter divided.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-10-30

PHOTOGRAIIIIC FRAME

MADE IN .
OAK WALNUT, OR MAHOGANY

On the printises.
ANY DESIGN CUT To ORLI R.

SWISS CALVED OODS
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A large assoitment just errive4, ur,mually cheap.
Calved Carte Frames, 6d. ; "itt°' to "Id two. Is.
each ; latge Brackets, ls. ; Cuter Brea, ts, h. 3d.;
Match Boxes, 6d.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-10-30

DISASTROUS FLOODS IN INDIA,

The Bombay Gazette of the 4th inst. states that
the city and district of Ahmedabad have been the
scene of the most disastrous inundation on record in
that part of India. The railway and government
bridges and between 3,000 and 4,000 houses in the city
have been swept away, and some 20,000 people are
homeless. Much destruction must have occurred in
the districts through which the river Saburmuttee river
runs. Several villages are known to have been washed
away, and many lives have been lost. Amongst
these are a Parsee youth and his sister, who belonged
to the family of Lalcaca. They were the children
of Mr. Jamsetjee Dorabjee Laicaca, aged 17 and 27
respectively. They were buried under the house in
which they were living, and which gave way under the
inflnence of the current of the flood. The boy was to
appear in the next matriculation examination, and his
sister was about to leave for Bombay to meet her hus-
band who is about to return from Calcutta. Subscrip-
tion lists have been started in Bombay, Poona,
Ahmedabad, Rajkote, and other places for the relief
of the sufferers. Food and clothing have been sent up
from Bombay. The amount subscribed here is over
30,000 rupees, and it appears there is a balance of half
a lakh of rupees from the old inundation fund.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-10-30

POWELL'S BALSAM

ANISEED
I For Asthma
I For Influenza, &a.

For Coughs
For Bronchitis

THIS OLD ESTABLISHED INVALUABLE MEDICINE
has the extraordinary property of immediately relieving
Coughs, Colds, Hoarsonesm, Difficulty of Breathing, Huski-
ness in the Throat. It operates by dissolving the congealed
Phlegm, and thereby causing a free expectoration.

IMPORTANT TESTIMONIAL.
Dear Sir,—l may tell you that I have used your Balsam
for a very long time (both for myself and my family),
I think it an invaluable medicine for members of my pro-
fusion, and have always strongly recommended it to my
brother and sister artists. If yon think a testimonial
from me would be of any service, you are very welcome to
make uss of this.

lam, dear Sir, Yours truly,
LIONEL BROUGH,
Globe Theatre.

POWELL'S BiriAWIROF ANISEED.

Bold by all chemists and medicine vendors throughout
the world at Is lid; 2s 3d; and family sizo lls per bot,tle.--.
Proprietor, TROILAS POWELL, Blackfriare Road, London•

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-10-30

TREES IN TOWNS.

Mr. Griffiths, the medical officer of health for Sheffield, in
kis report upon the sanitary condition of that town during
HU, makes the following remarks in reference to street
trees
"In the the formation of new streets, and on the eve of
the contemplated widening and alteration of old ones,
it is to be hoped that an effort may be made to provide
for the planting and establishment of trees wherever
practicable. The pleasing appearance of verdure in
summer, and the agreeableness of the shade afforded
by the foliage to pedestrians, are benefits to the in-
habitants well worth the effort and the cost. Who-
ever has visited the boulevards of Continental towns,
or even the t•quares of Loudon, can testify to the ad-
vantages of verdure as offering pleasure to the eye and
gratification to the mind. Moreover, from a sanitary point
of view, the benefits are of incalculable value. It has
been asserted that the aggregate surfaces of the leaves
of well•grown elm, lime, and sycamore trees, with
their six to seven million leaves, equal about 200,000
square feet, or about five acres; and these are almost
constantly absorbing and digesting the carbonic acid
and various exhalations given off by the putrefaction
of animal and vegetable matter, and, as if grateful for
such support, return into the air pure oxygen, which
re invigorates and renews animal life. Trees thus
remove poison from our midst, and to be without
them is an oversight. Trees can he had which will
exist, with suitable attention, in any part ef the city."
—Land and Water.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-10-30

-MY CIGARETTE.
(From Judy.)

Some say that Life's true Elixir
In the wine-cup only lies )1,1,10 rir I
And when Liber fires the fanek,

Human nature grief defies.
Perhaps they're right—perhaps wrong,—but yet
Give to me my cigarette.
Laughing Lesbia swears she loves me,
Pour ?nes beaux yeux the world would brave;
Well! there comes a richer rival—
Wealth prospective digs love's grave.
Perhaps she's right—perhaps wrong,—but yet
Still I'll smoke my cigarette.
Business troubles come upon us—

Losses, gains, in stocks and shares;
Faithless, friends, and foes by hundreds—
All life's various ills and cares.
Perhaps I'm right—perhaps wrong,—but yet
Let me have a cigarette.

Life's all smoke—at first a flicker,
Then we burn our little day, :
Some burn slowly, others quicker, .
Death comes, and we're thrown away.
Perhaps I'm right—perhaps wrong,—but yet
What's life but a cigarette?
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-10-30

Lick j a cii: geffrigit

This Brand i old ev,ry where, in Ounce Packet 3,1 each
To avoid frathlulent imitations, see that each packet bears
our name and trade mark (a star).
V6ILLI3 St SONS, Bristol and London,

A BALD BEAD may not inaptly be compared to a bollae
without a thatching. It is exposed to the cold, and is alto-
gethar unsightly in aspect. Resort may be hill to a wig,
a "scalp. or an a•semblage of foreign hairs intermingled
with the scanty matelrial of original erorth still vouch.
safed to the bare carat; or but the effect is poor and the
disguise too apparent. Let those whose mirror assures
tUeDI of the approach of baldnes. or the stealthy march
of grey hairs aesail the enemy in time. Let them
employ the infallible restorative known es Mrs. S. A.
ALLZN'S WORIV, HAIR RESTORMS, and laugh to scorn
the impotency of years acid their site's*: to rob and
distleure humanity. To he obtained of all Cit n iota and
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THAT CoMPLXXImi has elways been held to be the mos
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or in. which their beauty is blended. Great sacrifices are
made to prodnee an appearance corresponding with Oa
combinetion, but they never succeed. Art cannot appro-
ach Nature 'I he only arrangement that can be made to
re, der men worusu uniependent of all expedients is to
freely use LIAGAN's MAONoL/A BALM. It preserves the
skin from premature wrinkles and furrows—renders it
smooth and supple, and restores the hue which may have
faded through illness, exposure to a noxious atmosphere
tue heat of hummer or the frosts of winter. To be ob-
tained of all Chemists and Perfumers throughout the
world. Price 3s. 6d. European Depot: 114. and 116,
Sonthampton-row,, London.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-10-30

TBE STOIOMBRIDGE OI3SFEVEII.

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FR[GUTFTL BOILER EXPLOSION AT

WOLLASTON.
TWO PERSONS KILLED; EIGHT SEVERELY
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-10-30

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a SPAN-ROOF GREEN.
10 feet by 12, with exits lights rowal
•,,ow, built by Clark of t. Laoglands.
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but the maxi failed to fetch it.—
ldawinford Carriage Works, Stour-

ONEY.

-ENTLEMAN with sui_This
'us of making immediate ADVA.N-
nufacturers, farmers, tradesmen,
nale. rtquiring the same, in town
m LlO to £5OO on note of hand.
!rum £5 per cent., extending from
,ears. Mortgages negotiated at
no object, as persons can repay
By applyiug personally from 10
.q) .uclosing a stamped directed enve-
'et4l, .roa4 °tint required to Mr. A. BRADBURY,
, (.4 , Louden, s. , particulars will be
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''ver „i"511 with loan offices. Itesidiog in the
Secrecy with despatch.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-10-30

SEED.

LoiiDoN, Monday, Oct. 2-5-,—A few samples of new English
Cloverseed were shown, but no prices fixed, being held too
high for the general buyers. The best samples of red French
were more saleable at somewhat higher values. All line
white samples were quite as dear. Fine Trefoil was in fair
request at rather more money. Canaryseed is still held at
extravegant prices, buyers only taking small quantities for
immediate use. Winter Tares were fully as dear, with a
steady sale ; foreign qualities for spring sowing were qffered
at very moderate rates, cost, freight, and insurance. 'White
Mustartheed was purchased in smelt loth on former terms;
very
hbiraoh7w h a
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offers
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\F ViinsebeEancghlus!Dnh Saturday were
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scarce and very dear. Dutch flempseed brought more
money, with a steady sale.

PROVISION.
LONDON, .ifonday, Oct. 26.—The arrivals last week from
flrroelmaufdorweeigrne 2p,losl7tsfir2k6lnsssl,3otter, and 3,772 bales Bacon, and
packages Better, and 3,209 bales
Bacon. The foreign Butter nag, ket rutted slow last week, sod
prices declined about 2s. to 48. per cwt. ; best Dutch, 1465.
Irish Butter was firm ; second and third Corks brought rather
higher rates. The Bacon market was al,o Iriuh without
change in value, but Ilamburg declined about 2s. per cwt.
Butter, per cwt. : & a Cheese, per cwt. s.
Dorset l6O to 164 Cheshire........ 64 to 78
Friesland
Jer5ey........ 101 124 Cheddar 74 86
Eng Fresb,per doz. 18 American new .. 60 62
Bacon, per cwt. Dams: York... 112
Wiltshire, green 78 al I Cumberland 112
irish,grcen,f.o. b. 76 80 I Irish ...... 102 112
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-10-30

THE WHITECHAPEL-ROAD MYSTERY.

At the Central Criminal Court on Wednesday, before
Mr. Justice Grove, Henry Wainwright and Thomas
Wainwright were placed at the bar and called upon to
plead to an indictment and also to the coroner's inquisi-
tion which charged the former with the wilful murder of
Harriet Louisa Lane on the 11th of September, 1874,
and the latter with being an accessory after the fact to
the commission of the murder by harbouring, aiding,
assisting, and comforting the first mentioned prisoner.
They were also charged upon other counts with the
wilful murder of a woman whose name was unknown.

Both pri,-oners pleaded not guilty in a firm, clear voice.
Mr. Besley addressed the court and said that on be-
half of Henry Wainwright he had to ask that the trial
should be postponed to the November session. The
ground upon which he asked for the postponement was
that the prisoner was only committed vezy recently,
and there were thirty-eight witnesses for the prose ra-
tion, and the copies of the depositions taken before
the magistrates had only come into the hands of the
solicitor for the defence last week, and tho-e taken by
the coroner bad not 3et come to hand. He was also
informed that fresh witnesses were to be examined,
and additional evidence brought forward by the Crown.
He therefore asked that the trial should stand over to
the November session.

Mr. Moody said he concurred in the application on
behalf of the prisoner Thomas Wainwright.
Mr. Poland, for the prosecution. said that his learned
leader, the Solicitor-General, had been made acquainted
with the fact that this application was intended to be
made, and he was of opinion that it was one that ought
not to be resisted on behalf of the Crown. He should
therefore not offer any opposition to the application
for a postponement of the trial.
Mr. Justice Grove said that in an ordinary case the
grounds that had been stated would be considered quite
sufficient to justify the postponement of the trial, but
in a case like this, where there were such a number of
witnesses and the circumstances evidently required a
great deal of consideration he thought the application
was a perfectly reasonable one and ought to be
granted, He added that his learned brother, Mr.
Justice Quain, concurred with him in this view of the
matter, and he should therefore order the trial to
stand postponed.
The case was accordingly formally adjourned to the
November session, and the prisoners were then re-
moved from the bar.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-10-30

HOLLO WAYS OINTMENT

ironehitis, biphtheria, Cough; .4, C. Id.s, cad all
Derangements gf the Throat and Chest.

In any of the above qiseasea, imrcediate Ed perman, L
relief is obtained by effectually nabing this aetergeb
Ointment twice a day upon the neck, chest, and back, and
bEek, and in all stages of influenza, settled coughs, and
wheezing at the chest, the same treatment may be fol-
leweel with efficiency and safety.

Bad '?..egs, Bad Breasts, Old ..•,ores, If ov7.d.s,

Ulcers.
•
By rubbing this Ointment perseveringly upon and
'around the affected parts twice a day, it will penetrate to
the tissues beneath, and exert the most beneficial influ-
ence; the inflammation soon diminishes the pain
becomes less intolerable, the matter thickens, and a
cure is soon effected. In all long standing eases Hollo-
way's Pills should also be taken, be the' greatly assist in
expelling all depraved humours from the body.
Skin Diseases of all kinds.

In this class of complaints, no matter the age, the sex
the place, or under what name the disease may be classi-
fied, immediate ease, and ultimate cure, may with cer-
tainty be procured, if this Ointment be plentifully
rubbed upon the part affected, while Holloway's Pills
are taken in appropriate doses night and morning, to
purify the blood.
Gout, Rheumatism,. and Glandular Swellings.

Every one suffering from these excruciating complaints
honld have recourse to these purifying remedies, as they
have rescued thousands from a life of torture, after all
other means had failed to give them relief. The Oint-
nig,nt and Pills used conjointly will act so searchingly
and certainly, as to effect cures in the most hopeless
cases.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-10-30

AMERICAN HUMOUR. *-!

The last new word utstinEed into the world by some
Trarwailantie letiaograprier is "puptuated " for "married."
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-
"WM her death -quite sudden ?" said a condolin
friend to a bereaved widower. "Well, ye,, rather, for her'?
As the ladiei walked on the beach with their long
hair down because otherwise "it takes so long to dry," it
was the enfant terrible who said triumphantly, "Mamma
leaves all hers at the hotel."
A lively girl had a bashful lover whose name was
Locke. She got out of patience with him at last, and in her
anger declared that Shagspeare had not said half as many
things as he ought to about Shy Lock.
An old woman in Bridgeport, who has pasted nearly
5,000 medical recipes in a book during the past forty years,
has never been sick a day in her life, and she is growing dis-
couraged. Some people are born to ill-luck, she says.
An American paper says :"The Sandwich Islanders
believe that Beelzebub walks the earth in the form of a
woman." And now and then you will find a man in this
country who believes so too, and that he has married the
woman.
A New Orleans paper thus discourses :—" If men
are the salt of the earth, women are the sugar. Salt is a
necessity, sugar is a luxury. Vicious men are the saltpetre;
hard, stern men the rock salt ; nice family men the table salt.
Old maids are the brown sugar; good-natured matrons the
loaf-sugar; pretty girls the fine pulverised white sugar."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-10-30

A WONDERFUL ESCAPE OF AN
, ARTIST'S MODEL.

M. d'Orcet gives some curious and heretofore un-
known details respecting a famous model who posed
for the Atalanta of Pradier and the young girl in
G4rome's "Cock-Fight," now in the gallery of
Luxembourg. She was also the personage from whom
Henri Murger drew his Musette. She was a thorough
original, and thlugh she arrived in Paris a young and
illiterate peasant, she managed to educate herself,
even going so far as to study Latin. White posing
for the Atalanta, she ceased one day to come at
the accustomed hour, so Pradier went in search for
her, and found her, as he thought, lying dead.
An attack of brain fever had struck her down, and
in a few days all was over to all appearance. Bat
this seeming death was only the rigidity of an intense
attack of catalepsy, and poor Musette knew all that
was passing around her. After the first shock was
over, Pradier concluded that he would take a east from
the corpse. The modelling of the hands and feet gave
the poor patient no uneasiness, but it was far otherwise
when it was a question of taking a cast from the head
and chest. Even if care had been taken to keep the
mouth and nostrils free, which in the case of an artist
modelling a corpse was extremely improb,ble, the
weight of the plaster on her chest would infallibly
suffocate her. So great was poor Musette's fright
that the very excess of her terror triumphed over
the lethargy, and enabled her to break its fetters.
To the amazement of the artist, the supposed corpse
bounTied from the bed, and seizing a mass of the half-
liquid plaster, she dashed it full in Pradier's face. The
violent exertion did her good. A profuse perspiration
ensued, and Musette was saved. But the sculptor
vainly tried to win her favour again. She never for-
gave him for being the innocent cause of her death by
suffocation, even though he did actually save her life.
zihe refused ever to set for in his studio again, and
Pradier was forced to engage another model to com-
plete his .Atalanta.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-10-30

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-10-30

THE GIRLS OF AUSTRALIA.

The Australian Correspondent of the Globe, writing from
Melbourne, remarks:—

The Times, in a leading article published upon life
in Victoria, makes some curious statements, and de-
picts a state of society as existing in this country
which would be charming indeed if it were true.
Plenty and comfort would appear to he the rule here;
but, in addition to this, the writer in The Times appears
to think that an idyllic refinement extends even to the
humblest cottages in this community. Especially do
the Australian girls seem to have won his admiration.
It seems that servants here are not to be met with,
but that matters little, because they are not wanted,
since the daughters of the house are ready and able
to perform all the most menial duties without feel-
ing them such. Unfortunately, there is perhaps no
country in the world where the girls as a rule know
less of .household work than in Australia. It is a
lamenta,ble fact that in a country where labour brings
no sense of degradation or shame, the girls are a great
deal too prone to yield to the seductive influences of
the climate and pass their time either in lounging
about Collins-street or in display of dress. These are
dreadful truths, I know; but I do not think that the
town girls of Victoria have half the life or energy
of character of the girls at home. Fortunately,
strenuous efforts are being made to counteract this
want of education in the ladies. The splendid ladies'
college opened in the beginning of this year has been
a great and unexpected success, and now a school of
cookery has opened for the use of ladies. The some-
what puerile if innocent amusement of "spelling-
bees," an American institution, is in vogue here, and
will, I presume, soon have passed away. Every one
you meet has some hard word to propound to you to test
your capacity for orthography. A good story is told
apropos of this mania. A lady hearing a noise in the
night, was convinced with feminine instinct that bur-
glars were in the house, and consequently shouted to
her sleeping lord, "Burglars, burglars 1" He turned
round and spelt b-u-r-g-1-a-r-s.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-10-30

"UP IN A BALLOON."

A poetic journalist was recently up in a balloon,
and thus came mit with language appropriate to the.
situation :—" Higher and still higher. Above inb the
clouds seemed part of the arch of heaveri, and I 'could
not reach them: Already the gas of the balloon had I
expanded, until it was pouring out at the bottom like
very thin smoke, and it did not smell good. In fact
it had the most abominable smell I ever experiencad.
If I could not reach the clouda abot,a long banks of
them lay on the hills to the right and left far below
me, with their white bellies turned up like fish. They
looked soft and tempting as feather beds, but as they
were five or six miles either way distant,. it
seemed safer not to jump into them. Dead silence
next, except the occasional soft whistle of a locomo-
tive. Houses only dots of grey roof, and people in-
visible. It does a man good to stand by himself at
times, and in the face of something which he believes
is danger. It strips the moss frog:L.-him. —Between
Win:And:o.6 worlcl,wa,s over a mil A _of ,abolute, un-
broken space. Between him and eternity only the
thickness of varnished canvas. I was a planet; sub-
ject, of course, to the attractions and laws which
go vern planets, but having attractions also of my own,
and a power proportionate to my size, on the entire
universe. I felt the more pride in this because on
earth there seems to be no attraction about me,
except for tract distributors and flies At length
it seems an age, but I had been but eighteen
minutes since I started. I could hear voices again. I
had been singing, 'Where, oh, where has my little
dog gone?' and I kept it ap. I had the advantage of
those people below. When I am on earth people run
away mostly when I sing, or else they throw things at
me, but here I could sing my soul out. I alighted, and
astonished every one by my newly-found celestial ways.
I kissed all the girls especially, but by mistake saluted
a strong old woman, and she held me fast till they
tied me up and put me to bed, as they said I had had
too much air and it had made me light-headed." I
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-10-30

resent.

THE THROAT AND WINDPIPE are Wipe-
inflammation, causing soreness and dryso'st
and irritation, inducing cough and afectisli „f
For these symptoms use glycerine in the fors,
Glycerine in these agreeable confections, bt
mity to the glands at the moment they sr•
the act of sucking, becomes actiyely healisi•
boxes (by post Bor 15 stamps), in tins,
JAMES EPPs & Co., Homccopathic
Threadneedle St. and 170, Piccadilly, Lond°,,f2.ll,
Stourbridge by A. P. Morris, Chemist, awl 11;
Chemist.
Holloway's Ointment and P
raigia —lt is sometimes difficult to daterra,°o7o
these diseases is afflicting the sufferer, but
taiuty will be immateral if Holloway's rein'
They alleviate and cure all muscular and ne,„.o
In hereditary rheumatism, after battling
part with warm salt water, Holloways
Oifl
e well rubbed upon the spot that it maY Pe'
exert its soothing and regulating properties
er vessels and nerves which being undUIY nt
eoth pain and swelling. Holloway's treatrotespoi
bit of removint; the diseme without dobtUf
rtstitntion which was the inevitable result 0 1,
en mercury, anti colchicum practice foraOr

nthese con-iplaints

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FIELD, at bib onees, 92, lligh-street,
he County os Worcester : to which Pla,°l
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Saturday, October 30,.1875,-
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-10-30

KENSINGTON COOKERY.

The National Training School for Cookery at Ken-
sington has becn very successful; but it is likely to be
of still greater service by the training of teachers. For
this the school is admirably adapted. It is prepared
to take in every fortnight the candidates for diplomas,
which are of three classes, depending upon the skill
and aptitude displayed after a course of twelve weeks'
training in cookery and practice in teaching, one half
the time being devoted to learning bow to cook and the
other how to teach. The fee is ten guim as, and the
course of instruction comprises every department of
i
artisan and middle-class cookery, a 9 well as guidance n
matters preliminary to conking, such as the best way
of lighting and managing a fire, the management i'f close
and open ranges, and the regulation of flues. Of course,
it is not every person capable of making a good cook
who is equally capable of becoming a gcsel teacher, but
how admirably the tv;ro functions may be combined
even in those who apparently are about on a level
with the average cook is shown in rather a remarkable
manner by more than one of the teachers regularly en-
gaged at South Kensington. "Principle dishes"—
especially illustrative of culinary principles —are deftly
prepared, questions are answered and reasons given
with the ease and readiness of a trained scientific
lecturer. There is, indeed, something odd in the
spectacle of perhaps a score of ladies gravely seated
before a person who might be cook to any
one of them, watching every movement meekly,
putting questions and carefully inscribing the
answers in their note-books. A great public boon
would be secured if a large number of the "unem-
ployed governess" class could be induced to engage
in
the work these teachers are so cleverly illustrating at
South Kensington. But though the desirability of each-
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-10-30

JOHN MIDDLETON,

1-101 ZS ste.,
IESP.EGTFULLY informs the Gentry and
Inhabitants of Stourbridge, that he has made ar-
ra', gern "ts with Mr. T. PENNEY, to CLIP and SINGE
HORSES at his Veterinary Forge, Market-street, Stour-
bria ge.
J. M. returns sincere thanks to his patrons for put
favours, and trusts by assiduity and attention to business
to merit a continur..nce of the same.
Any application made at Mr. T. Penney a, will meet
with prompt attention.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-10-30

FOREIGN HOTELS.

Perhaps the once popular theory of the cheapness of
foreign hotels has by this been dissipated (remarks the
Globe). They are neither so very cheap, nor so very
good as it is the fashion to represent. Five francs
for your bed-room, a franc for lights, another for ser-
vice, and five for your dinner, is not so very cheap in a
place where ground rents are not high and taxation is
moderate. You will read -in your bill that this ser-
vice does not include either the boots or the porter. It
would then be interesting to know to what it entitles
you, as theirs are the only real services which you
receive. It is to be presumed that if you pay for
your dinner you are entitled to have it brought to
you, that if you pay for your bed you should ob-
tain it in a condition fit for sleeping; and what
other services are rendered? The head waiters at
many of the Paris hotels, it is said, not only are
not paid by the proprietors, but actually pay for
the right of holding their posts. In one respect, cer-
tainly, foreign hotels are much in advance of our own,
and that is in a certain cosmopolitan quality which you
find in them. They endeavour to adopt themselves to
the tastes of travellers and strangers as well as to those
of a native population. The English will find English
beer and English newspapers; the Bavarians their
own Zeitung and their national beverage; the French
(only that there are no French now in Germany), the
Ftgaro and light wines. In truth, we are rather
peremptory in our home regulations. We have a kind
of traditional contempt for foreign ways and customs.
It may be allowable that we should hesitate to adopt
them, but at least we might permit our visitors the
benefit of a choice.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-10-30

ADMIRAL FARRAGUD ON IRONCLADS.

Dr. Joseph P. Thompson writes to The Times, under date
Berlin, Oct. 23 :

"Though I am an American, I have an honest pride
in England's holding her own against the military
Powers of the Continent; and though I am an advo-
cate of arbitration and disarmament, yet, in the pre-
sent state of things I believe in making the prepara-
tions for war as efficient as possible. The loss of the
Vanguard is a calamity not to England alone, but to
all maritime nations alike, since it shakes our confidence
in ironclads as a means of defiance and of defence. These
ships have not yet been tested in a great naval battle
with ships of like size and construction; but who can
doubt that he enemy would risk a ram, and its crew
for the sake of sinking an ironclad by driving against
her at full head of steam? Is it wise to discard alto-
gether the wooden ship, with its greater facility of
movement and its elastic;ty of resistance to shocks
from without? But I write this note simply to give
•ouahe opinion of the late Admiral Farragut, of the
United States' Navy, teuzhing, the relative value of
iren and wooden ships in an engagement. He once
said to me "I would never go into battle in an
ironclad. I could not handle my men nor inspirit
them. If a ball strikes a wooden ship it sends a
few splinters around, two or three poor fellows
are killed' or wounded, but the hole is soon stopped,
the deck cleared, and the fight goes on. But in
an ironclad the men feel from the first that they are
in their coffin, for they know that if a hole is knocked
in her side she must sink, and it is much harder to get
up their spirit for the fight. Give me a good shißsof
oak, and put the iron into the men.' This is worth
regarding from the Admiral who always put himself
at the post of danger, and who at the capture of
Mobile stood in the fore while he directed his fleet be-
tween the fire of forts and over chains and torpedoes.
—A personal habit of Admiral Farragut may also be
worth mentioning. At a public dinner I was seated
at his side, and observed that he scarcely tasted wine.
He remarked incidentally, 'I take a little wine at my
dinner and social festivities, but when I am going into
action, or attempting any grave enterprise. I never
allow myself to take a drop of spirit of any kind.
Feeling that my country has committed to me a high
re4nonsibility, it anything should go amiss I would not
have it suspected that I was not perfectly master of
myself.' "