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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-01-13

WOMANHOOD SUFFRAGE.

At a meeting of the Victoria Discussion Society,
held at the Cavendish Rooms, London, on Monday
evening, Dr. Brewer, M.P. in the chair, Mr. James
T. ,Hoskins gave an address to a large and interested
audience on thmuestion of Female Suffrage.
The speaker, after pointing out the inseparable
connection between political power and the redress of
social grievances, declared that the exclusion of Avoni.n
from the advantages of endowments. University de-
grees and fellowships, and any of the learned pro-
fessions, especially medicine, was opposed alike to the
eternall,,w a of political economy, Christian morality,
and common sense. Ile contended that courts of justice
should have some discretionary power relative to the dis-
puted custody of children; that in return for domestic ser-
vices rendered by the wife to the husband, the latter
should be ccmpelled to provide for her maintenance in
cases where the wife had no adequate fortune of her
own; that there should be a thorough reform of the
bastardy laws; that, partly with the view of pre-
venting the terrible waste of infant life, the half-time
system should be applied to all married women work-
ing in factories, or engaged in agricultural labour.
He then gave several reasons, social, moral, legal, and
religious, for an alteration of the terms of the marriage
contract, by the substitution of the word " assist "
for the word "obey," at the same time avowing
that he personally preferred a religious ceremony
to a civil contract, and that he was decidedly
opposed to any relaxation of the divorce law, lie
contended that these changes would be approved by St.
Paul, had he lived in the latter part of the 19th century,
for that God's government of the world was that
of a steady, gradual, progressive revelation, and
the Apostles were too wise and statesmanlike to
advocate changes before the time was ripe. Ile then
criticised Mr. Jacob Bright'a Bill, urging that, though
it would be a great step in advance, yet, inasmuch as
hardly any intelligent married woman would be
enfranchised under its operation, it tended rather to
create invidious distinctions between those who
had husbands, and those who had not. He would
have preferred to conf or political trusts upon all
women of the upper and middle ranks only. How-
ever, if public opinion could not (a thing not by any
means unlikely) be diverted into this current of
thought, he was in favour of a compromise. As had
been suggested by many eminent people, let the vote
emanate from the home, in accordance with the prin.
ciples of household suffrage, husband or wife voting,
the latter only in the absence of, or with the written
permission of her husband, who would thus be, for
political purposes, a sort of senior partner in the
matrimonial firm.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-01-13

D _A:ST ID SKI DIZEOI2,IOI

BOOKSELLER AND STATIONER.
S. begs respectfully to inform the
Inhabitants of the Town and its visinity, that
he has taken to the Business conducted for the last eleven
years by Mr. JOHN DUNN, at the above address. and in
succeeding to it, he begs to solicit a continuance of the
patronage which has been Co liberally bestowed on his
predecessor. _

'1 he alterations to the Premises being now complete,
D. S. is offering • choice assortment of New Books,
Ntrtionery, and a General Stock of Fancy Goods, Toys,
kc.

New Works Magazines, and Periodicals procured from
Loudon weekiy.
"

I'6 Lti r”.ktincling on tbeehorteet notice

A't6.l
R.

;FIELD'S
WORCESTERSHIRE MILITARY BAND.

NVFIELD, Bandmaster, respectfully
• returns thanks to the Nobility, Gentry, and
Committees generally, in the Midland Counties, for their
liberal patronage, especially daring the put season,
%filch has Leen a most successful one, including, among
other engagements, Promenade Concerts before their
ROYAL HIGHNESSES THE PRINCE
AND PRINCESS CHRISTIAN,

•,
The Margnie and Marebioness of Queenehury, the Right
Hon. the Esrl of Mutiny, the Lady Ward, BM Edmund
end Lady Lechmere, Sir Thom.. and Lady Winnington,
Lord and Lady Lytlelton, end Lord and Lady Northwick,
Selling marked encomiums; Munical and Floral Fetes,
Bazaars, dm., dec.

The above Band is composed of Reed and Brass In-
struments, from first-class Manufacturer.; Professional
Soloists ; Uniforms, Scarlet and Gold.
Future favours will be mach eateemed. Terms Tea-
sociable.

Programmes forwarded for publication, consisting ef
the choicest and classical Musts.
Vicar-Aleut, budtey.

GLENFIELD
STARCH is the only kind used in
1 Her Majesty's Laundry.

THERR ARE ANT LADIES who hero sot yet mid tha
°LICHFIELD STARCH, they are rsepeetfully solisited
to Rive its trial, and carefully follow eat the giro:time
printed on every package, end if this is done, that will
uy,'like the Queen'. Laundress, it is the Sneed STARCH
they ever used. When you ask for °LICHFIELD
STARCH, see that you net it, as memos KIRDI Jaz
OFTEN PrOgITTETED FOR TRY SARR OF RITZA moan.
REIV•RE THRRIFORR OF lIPERIOSPS INITATIOIIII.

CHEAPEST PASSAGE TO
- V.. ALL THE COLONIES.

NEW ZEALAND, AUSTRALIA, THE
DIAMOND FIELDS, AMERICA, CANADA,
CHINA. JAPAN, &c., &e.,
.by Royal Mail end 'mbar
Steamers end Sailing Fatima, regularly despellshathai
all Seaports in Englaad. Books, Kw, mid /kb* di
Embarkation, obtained M Edward Ilkat,
°Sees, Bent-elreet, &Way Hill.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-01-13

FEMALE MEDICAL STUDENTS.

On Monday, the University Court of Edinburgh
considered the proposals M reference to the Medical
Education of Women, which have been brought ls2fot e
it by Miss Jex Blake and Miss Louisa Stevenson. The
Court rejected the proposals, on the ground that two
of them involved action beyond the authority of the
Court, and that the third involved the question of
graduation, which the Court did not feel competent to
decide. The resolution of the Court continues :

"Though the Court are unable to comply with any of the
specific requests referred to, they are at the same time
desirous to remove, so far as possible, any present obstacle
in the way of a complete medical education being given to
women, provided always that medical instruction to women
be imparted to strictly separate classes. The Court are of
opinion that the question under reference has been compli-
cated by the introduction of the subject of graduation,
which is not essential to the completion of a medical or
other education. The University of Loudon, which has
a special charter for the examination of women, does
not confer degrees upon women, but only grants
them • certificates of proficiency.' If the applicants in the
present case would be content to seek the examina-
tion of women by the University for certificates of pro-
ficiency in medicine instead of for University degrees, the
C mrt believe that arrangements for accomplishing this
object would fall within the scope of the powers given to
them by Section 15 of the Universities (Scotland) Act. The
Court would be willing to consider any arrangement which
might be submitted to them."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-01-13

DEATH OF SIR FRANCIS CROSSLEY,

M. P.

Death has just carried off Sir Francis Crossley, one
of the representatives for the Northern Division of the
West Riding of Yorkshire. He died on Friday morning,
at his residence, Belle Vue, Halifax, at the age of
The youngest sou of the late Mr. John Crossley, who
more than half a century since was the founder of the
great carpet manufactory at Halifax, which now gives
employment to upwards of 3,000 hands, if not more,
Sir Francis was born in the year 1817. He had
sat in Parliament without intemiption for just
twenty years, having been first returned for Hali-
fax in 1852. That constituency he continued to
represent down to 1859, when be was returned for the
West Riding, for the North-west Riding in 1865, and.
lastly, at the last general electh n,•on the subdivison of
that Riding, he was chosen by the Northern Divison.
It is almost needle., to add that, true to his Noncon-
formist principles, he has always been in Parliament a
strong opponent of the principle of religions endow-
ments, and a firm advocate of the Ballot. His name,
too, is well known in Yorkshire and elsewhere as the
munificent co-founder, with his brothers, of an or-
phanage at Halifax, which beam the family name, and
a, having been hunself the donor to his native borough
of a public park, which was laid out by Sir Joseph
Paxton with walks, fountains, and marble statuary, at
a cost which sounds almost fAulous. He was a magis-
trate and deputy-lieutenant for the West Riding of
Yorkshire, and also is magistrate for Suffolk, in which
county he purchased the magnificent residential estate
of Sir Samuel Mratou Veto at Somerleyton, near
Lowestoft. Sir Francis, who, it will be remembered,
acted as one of the Commissioners for fixing and
arranging the boundaries of the new constituencies
under the last Reform Act, was raised to the Baronet-
age in 1863. He married, in 1845, Martha Eliza,
daughter of Mr. Homy Minton. of Kidderminster, by
whom he has left issue a son, Mr. Saville Brinton
Crossley, born in 1857, who now succeeds to the title as
second baronet,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-01-13

MARRIED.

PABORTER—PARGETER.-011 the 10th instant, at fit.
George's Church, Hanover Square, London (by the
Revd. Henry Howarth, &D.), John William Pargeter,
of Iverley, Staffordshire, to Caroline Elizabeth, eldest
daughter of Thomas Henry Pargeter, of Wolleseote
loose, Stonrbridge, Worcesterahire.

ME& WINSLOW@ SOOTHINt. SYRUP FOR CHILDREN!
Should always be used when Children are cutting teeth.
it relieves the little sufferers at once, it produces natural
quiet sleep by relieving the child from pain, and the little
cherub awakes 'as bright as a button." It is perfectly
barmless, and very pleasant to taste. It soothes the
child, it softens the gums, allays all pain, relieves wind,
regulates the bowels, and is the best known remedy for
dysentery and diarrinea, whether arising from teething
or other causes. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup is sold
by thousands of Medicine Dealers in all parts of the
world at Is lid per bottle, and Millions of Mothers can
testify to its virtue.—Manufactory, 493, Oxford.street,
lomdon.

FLORILINE! For the TEETH and BREATH. A few
drops of the Fragrant Floriiine on a wet tooth brush pro.
ducee a delightful foam, which cleanses the Teeth from
all impurities, strengthens and hardens the gums, pre.
vents tartar, and arresti the progress of decay. It gives
to the Teeth a peculiar and beautiful whiteness, and im-
p irts a delightful fragance to the breath. It removes all
unpleasant odour arising from decayed Teeth, a disor-
dered stomach, or tobacco smoke. The Fragrant
,Vortline is purely vegetable, and equally adapted to old
and young. It is the greatest Toilet discovery of the age.
Sold at 2s6d by all Chemists and Perfumers. Prepared
only by H. C. GALLUP, 493, Oxford-street, London. The
word " Floriline " is a " Trade Mark.''

TLIERE ARE ANY LADIES who have not yet used the
STARCII, they are respectfully solicited to
give it a tali& and carefully follow out the directions
printed on every package, and if this is done, they will
say, like the Queen's Laundress, it is the finest Starch
they ever used. When you ask for GLENFIELD STARAR
see that you get it, as inferior kinds are often substituted
for the sake of extra profit. Beware therefore of spur-
ious imitations.

?tinted au& Publiahecl by the Sole Proprietor. SUMAS
YIELD. at his °Mesa. 2 High•strese. Stherhutddi. Ia
he Getuaty of Worcester: to whlsh *boa all laitaav old
atter cosoconicagons rano be addrioseL
Saturday, January 13, Ertl
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-01-13

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SINGULAR DEATH BY FIRE.

In London, last Saturday, an inquest was held at
Kentish-town. on the body of Aithur Archibald
Ifouman, aged three months, infant son of a gentleman
residing at 38, CavernLamroad, who died from the
effects of bums receired•by the bed being set on fire.
Ellen Dalts a, a little girl, thirteen years of age,
nurse at 38, Caversharnamul, stated that on the even-
ing in question she went upstairs with the accuFed,
Alice Cannon, awl saw the baby all right in bed.
There was a small fire in the grate. In two or three
minutes Alice, who had a candle in her hand, came
downstairs and said to witness, " Don't say I did it !"
Soon afterwards Miss Ifouman came down, and told
Alice to put on her things and go home. Alice replied,
'Why should I ifn r MissHomnan made no reply.
Alice at first said she (lid not set the bed on fire, but
afterwards acknowledged that she did, but whether it
was purposely or not witness could not say.
Mrs. Adlington said she was a visitor at 38, ('aver-
sham-road, on the evening m question. At ten she
heard a cry of "Fire !" and upon running upstairs
found the first-floor bedroom in Hamm. Mr. Holman
and his son were in the room, and Mr. If ouman, who
was suffering from bronchitis, was almost (suffocated.
She did not think that accused, who was her servant,
and a very dull girl, had wilfully done it; but upon
witness asking her to tell the truth, she replied " I
sent the other servant away and then set fire to the
corner of the sheet. I did it accidentally, but was so
frightened that I did not know what I was about."
Witness went on to say that the accused was an orphan,
and was brought up in a.workhouse.
_ _

Inspector Gilby stated that the morning after the
death the accused confessed before two witnesses that
she had set the bed in Names. Mr. Slyman,
said he was called to deceased on New Year's Day, and
found him suffering from severe burns over the face,
arms, and body, from the effects of which he expired
the following any.

_
After further evidence, the jury returned the follow-
ing verdict:—

" rhat deceased expired from the effects of extensive burns
on the surface of the body, produced by the bed clothes
being set on tire by Alice Cannon, by accidental causes."

The coroner here informed the jury that Mr.
Houman had been singularly unfortunate with his
family, this being the fourth inquest, two sons having
been drowned at Oxford, another run over in the
streets, and now this one was burnt to death.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-01-13

OBADLEY FORGE.

RODOIRT 1110111 • TILL.—On Saturday evening the
shop of Mr. Henry Homer. greengrocer, was entered
whilst the family were at supper, and the contents of the
nil sbstracted. It seems that no one was left to mind
the shop, and the rogue must hare been on the watch,
for no noise was heard either of the entry into the chop,
or of the abstraction of the money. The fact was, how.
ever, soon manifest that between sin and seven pounds
had been taken, and though an outcry was raised, the
011.4 was not to be found.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-07

ONE SHILLING PER SHARE.

2,025,237 Ticketa hava been sold in the Twenty.fire
previous drawings, and 26,852 Prizes distributed. toclud•
ing 5,346 Paintings, in amounts varying frau 200 tininess
downwards.

The OILAAN ISO for PRIZES will take plate
ON SATURDAY, DEC. 28TH, 1871.
Ana will consist of
ONE THOUSAND PRIZES.

The First Glimpse of the Sea (lit Prise) J. A. Vinter £l5O
Autumn Evening in Borrowdale (2nd Prize) is.Pettitt £lOO
- • -

And others, see detailed List of irises.

Tickets, ONE SUILLING each, may be had from or
will be forwarded by the undermentioned agents ow re-
ceipt of envelope (stamped and directed), together with
postage stamps or post-office order for the number if
Tickets required; or by the undersigned,
JAMES O. LAW, Secretary,
89 Oxford-street, llsasiester.

LOCAL AGENTS:
R. BRoomnsm., Bookseller, 148, High-it., I.tembriaga
EDWARD Levi, Bookseller, 1815 b-street, J"
E. Ho-came% Bookseller, 70, High-street, I Daley.
J. W. Wusiss, Perfumer, 100, High•street,

00() PIANOFOR'rES kIARMONI.
3 t 9 Uldh have been TUNED by 6.1. GREEN
Profeeeional Tuner, 260, CAIITLI-ITRiZT, DIIDUIT
Pianofortes Re-ailked, Bare/rung. the HiLIMA* B• 4101.
ered with Patent Felt, u used by the road odassaillair
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-07

THE MARKETS.

MARK-LANK—MONDAY.
At Mark lane to-day business has not been extensive, but
the tone has been steady. English wheat has not been
freely offered, and the quality has been indifferent. Fine
samples have commanded full prices, with • fair demand
otherwise the market hu been quiet. A fair show of foreign
wheat has been on offer. Transactions have been on
• moderate scale in good sorts, but other qualities have
been -dull. Fine malting barley has been in re-
quest at full price. Other sorts have sold slowly.
Malt has been disposed of on former terms. There has
been a fair show oi oats on offer. The demand has been to
• moderate extent, at about late rates Maize hies found
buyers, at late rates. For beans there has not been much
Inquiry, at previous currencies. Peas have sold, at previous
quotations. Flout has been quiet, but firm.

MARK-LANK— WEIMSDAT.
The grain trade at Mark-lane to-day, although quiet, hi,
been firm English wheat has been sparingly offered, bat the
show of foreign has been good. Floe samples have been In
request, and have realised full prices Inferior sorts have
been dull. flu re hail been a moderate supply of barley. The
trade has been hrm, particularly for malting produce. Prices
are unchanged. Malt has sold at late rates Oats have bee;.
dealt in to a fair extent. For melee the market haa been quiet,
but firm. Brans and Peas have sold on former terms.
METROPOLITAN CATTLE MAREET.—Mounay.

•
With limited supplies at Deptford, and only moderate re.
celpts to hand here, the cattle trade has been decidedly firmer.
Very few foreign beasts, and they were of secondary quality,
From our own grazing districta the arrivals have been
on a moderate scale. There hal been a steady demand,
and prices have advanced 24. per bib. For the best Scott
and crosses Si. 104. to es. per 8115. Ins been paid. Froze
Leicestershire we received about 1,300, from Lincolnshire
40, from Herefordshire 3,0, from other parts of England be,
and from Dublin 200 beasts and about 5.,0 cows. Tim mew,
of sheep has been unusually short. For all qualities there
has been a steady inquiry, and price. have ruled 2d, per 81b.
higher. The best Downs and half breds have made 84. Bd.
to es. 104., and OCCAMOOSIIY 7a. per 81b. Calves have been
disposed of at about late rates. Figs have sold on former
terms.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-07

RECRUITS' PRIZES.

Ist prize, John Oittings, Ensign Williams's
Cup and 20e; 2nd, H. Hill, 20s; 3rd, T. Brown,
15s ; 4th, ii. Fiddiau, shaving tackle, presented
by Mr. Coombes ; sth, H. Scott, picture frame,
presented by Mr. A. Clarke; 6th, G. F. Rossi-
ter, shaving tackle and gloves, presented by
Mrs. Hawkins and Mr. Cooper; 7th, W. Lloyd,
boots, presented by Mrs. Stringer; Bth, H.
Heaton, stockings and wrapper, presented by
Mr. liendry, and two boxes of paper collars,
presented by Miss Hartley.

NUN-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS' PRiZES.

lat prize, Sergeant Round, 30s; 2nd, Corporal
Harper, 20s.

Whilst distributing the prizes, Captain Walker
frequently gave words of praise and encourage-
meut to the various recipients; and at the con-
clusion he said that although their respected
drill-sergeant was not allowed to compete for any
prize, he felt that they would all feel like him-
self, disappointed, if be were not allowed to
share in the good things provided that evening.
Knowing this, he had put by for him—what he
knew would he thankfully accepted—a goose pre-
sented by Mrs. Joscelyne, and a loaf to eat with
it —(applause):
. . .

Sergeant Walker having returnei thanks,
Captain Walker said there was another mem-
ber of the corps who, although he won nothing
in the competition, he felt bound to put some.
thing by for, and that was Private B. Raybould.
He had lost time—which to hint was money—in
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-07

GLE.NymLD

•
STARCH, the only kind need r
Hoy Majesty's Laandr;.

Lv THERA ARC ANT LADIES who have not yet wed the
GLENFIRLD STARCH, they are respecthilly solicited
to give its trial, and carefully follow out the directions
printed on every package, and if this is dons, they will
say, lake the Queen's Laundress, it lithe finest STARCH
OAT ever used. When you sak for GLILNYIELD
STARCH, see that you get it, As anima lUNDS Ali
°STAN SUBSTITCTILD FOS TEI SAZZ Or 11Th A PNO/IT.
. AMARA T RRRRR ORA 01 INDIUMS IDITATIONS.

J REGISTERED FOR 1
1 TRANSMISSION ABROAD. I
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-07

POTATOES

English potatoes are moderately active, and firm hi value ;
but foreign of all descriptions remain slow of sale, at about
previous eurrenelea. Kent regents, 160 a. to 210 e. ; Essex and
other regents, 140 s. to 170 s. ; rocks, 1260. to 140 e.
FISIL

An average supply at market Demand moderate it
the followtog prices Pickled herrlues, 27.. lid. to MA 64.
per barrel; roused ditto. 3.. 64. to 4s. 64. ; fresh ditto,
3s. to 61. per hundred; red dit.d. 14s M. to Ma per
hatrel ; kipper ditto, 25. 3d. to 4s. ; bloaters. 2. to lit 104.
per boo; smoked haddock. SW to 21s per barrel ; trawl
dttto, ;9z. to 1b..; plaiCe. 12. to 113 a. 64 ; whiting, lee. to
17% per `minket ; turbot, Os. 64. to lls 151; 61. to
3, 101. each; soles, Is. 802. 64. per pale; roaskerel, 2s. ed.
to Ss. 6d per does.; cod, £6 to £9 per score lobster% 16..
to 405. per dose.; nativLoiliseters, 412 Sod. end 0661mOts
ditto. 13e. so Ll les. per
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-07

A TERRIBLE CALAMITY!

So numerous are the claims for help addressed o the
English people that great caution is needed before a
strong plea can be advanced for any; but the most
pressing among all the great eases of want is un-
doubtedly that of the Italian peasants who have been
made houseless and homeless by the terrible inunda-
tions (remarks the Daily Telegraph). A bare recital of
the facts which form the skeleton of the calamity is more
eloquent than any rhetoric. Four hundred square
miles of fertile country have beet laid under water,
and 80,000 people rendered homeless. We shall
have some slight idea of what in meant by Ruch a fact
if we suppose the whole country from London to ,
Epsom, and ten miles on each side of the line between 1
the two places, submerged as completely ea if the waves
of the sea had flowed over the fields. We must add
the sudden and utter destitution of every person in a
town as large as Newcastle or Sheffield. And even
such appalling strokes of woe do not complete the
picture, since the land will be unfit foe tillage
when the water shall be drained off into the
river-bed. The torrent which has overwhelmed houses
and covered fields hal brought down myriads of
, stones and an immense quantity of sand, so that the
ground which in summer was waving with the fertility
I and beauty of cornfield and vineyarl is now a desert.
I No plough could pierce through the layer of stones
and boulders, nor could any corn or vine sprout through
the sand covered Roil. All hope of getting any harvest
I is gone, and a great expanse of country is now a very
Valley of Desolation, saddened by the spectacle of ail
I many ruined people. Much, no doubt, will be done
to help the poor peasants by Italy herself; but her
means are small compared with those of England, and
, we are sure that the appeal for aid which she now
mutely makes will not remain unanswered.

On Tuesday, the Mansion House Committee for
raising subscriptions towards the relief of the sufferers
through the ft sole in Italy, resolved to issue circulars
giving details the fearful misery wrought by the in-
mei:dims, and to send these to all parts of tne
kingdom, with a view of securing the assistance of the
benevolent.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-07

DUBLIN STOUT.
£.. a.

DOUBLE EXTRA 1 1-0 -0
1
Per Ralf barrel, lam 2s.
STOUT
PORTER 1 4 Loos 6 per cent. for Cub.
Ditto 1 1 0

DEVONSHIRE CIDER AND PERRY,
In quantities to suit Families.

Horniman's Pure Tea
is the Best & Cheapest.

lnable

properties

exist

The valt. only
in the young leaves. HORNIKAN'S TEA,
selected from the choke spring gathering,
without the usual mineral powder on the
leaf,—is very strong and delicious in flavour;
bcin7 vnirl onb# in PACKETS, unsforns
polity and real cheapness i 6 guaranteed.
LOCAL AGENTS
Stourbridge, Clarke, High-street.
Hewitt, Market-street.
Morris, High-street.
Baker, High-street.
Halesowen, Adams, Chemist.
Brierley Hill, Geary, Chemist.
Pensnett, W. Bache, Chemist.
Blackheath, Barlow, Chemist.
Lye, Jones, Chemist.
Wordsky, Turner, Chemist,
, Kidderminster, Howitt, Chemist.
Dudley, Bagott, Chemist.
Birmingham, Banks Bull-,t.
Netherton, Fullylove, Cbemiet.
Brettell Lane, Collis, Chemist.
Kingtosinford, Rolliason, Chemist

P. A. 331-1001EP.,
pRACTICAL TAILOR

JUSTICE HOUSE,
57 , HOLLOWAY HEAD,
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-07

STOURBRIDGE

TRADESMEN'S ADDRESSES.

NOTICE OF REMOVAL.

MR. J. HILLMAN begs to inform his
Friends and the Public Cud the Badness previ-
ously carried on in Newidreet, oppoeite Cumin-sired.
now Removed to his well•linown listablielonsat.

THE STORES,

at the TOP of NEW-STREET, where ovary soisfort wil
be found by those patrouisiag him.
J. H. as. supply WINES sad SPIRITS, BURTON
mad other ALES, sad STOUT of the vary lust guilty.
THE STORES

(OPPONTN THA TOWN MALI.).
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-07

STREET RAILWAY IN NEW YORK.

Gilbert's elevated railway is to be a belt road running
along the east and west sides of. the city, and com-
pletely round it. The tracks are to rest on iron arches,
tastefully ornamented, and will be elevated 24ft.
above the centre of the street. The sides of each
track are to be inclosed in a trough, or half-section of
a tube, which will obstruct the view of the engine
and cars from horses in the street. Between the
two tracks, in the triangular space formed by
the junction of the semi circular tioughs, is ti be
a pneumatic tube for the transmission of packages,
newspapers, and mails. The projs otors of this
scheme assure the public that within tive weeks
from the time the Commissioners make their report
fixiiig the line of the road, they will commence work,
and that from that time forward they will construct
at least one mile per month until the whole is com-
pleted. They say they shall find no difficulty in rais-
ing all the capital they need for the enterprise, without
going out of New York city and Westchester county.
The estimated cost of the work is 700,000 dols, per
mile, and when completed in the manner proposed, it
is claimed that the difficult and long-delayed problem
of quick transit in New York will be solved to the
satisfaction and delight of the public; that the struc-
ture will not only afford a comfortable, safe, and
speedy transit from one end of the city to the other,
but that it will be an ornament to the streets thionagh
which it passes, and will be the pride and boast of the
people living along its line.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-07

SPUTTERINGS FROM "JUDY'S" PEN.

STRANGER than " Borrowed Days."—Lent Terms.

IHE ecuree of the Nile was discovered I,ng ago by the
Romans They maintained that "Es Nihilo, nthil nwfotur:
ecee nihil, i.e., " fhe Nile rises from the Nile: that's its
-

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TwV. Web price of" Best Wallsend " can hardly be a matter
of much importance to lawyers; they have long been accus-
tomed to lie " Coke."

"You ere the acme of perfection," no the felling tree said
to the woodman. _ . . .

CAN a thing a hich decreaser be said to grow? Certainly :
else ahy the time-honoured sentiment, 'May your shadow
never grow less I"
QUERY FOR MR. BRUCE.—A hill correspondent, recently
married, writes as that he his "half sees over. JUDY will
be glad to know if this case comes within the scope of the
Licensing Act. If so "bong man, beware !"
Wily is a man who starts a new thing like a teetotaler 1-
13Pcsum he is an 'orriel•gin-hater.
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A FACT—People who suffer from toothache often pass a
night of mourning.
" What MU you take me for, cabby?' asked fat Mrs
Brown "For a regular twelve-stunner, ma'am," said the
cabman, politely.
HEMS, Mien !—The argument In favour of the new
Licensing Act must be very deep, for nobody yet can see the
ground for it,
IMPROVING THE OCCASION.—" Never put off till tomorrow
what )ou can do to-day, dear Tommy," said mamma. "Then
let's finish up the plum- pudding to-night," said the sweet
child.
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IS it not the moon which shines by borrowed light?----
Hence the derivation of the word " lunar-tick." This is
another from another lunatic at Colney Hatch.
WrisS is the difference between Mr. GtensTONE and
4ITRGEON, when he ts driving in a cab down Fleet street ?
One is a Cabinet Minister, the other is a minister csbhin'-it.
—Judy.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-07

ANOTHER MEETING IN HYDE-PARK.

Notwithstanding the inclement state of the weather
on Sunday afternoon, between 4,000 and 5,000 persons
responded to an invitation publicly issued by Mr.
Bradlaugh to meet him in Hyde- park at three o'clock
to pi otest against the regulati ens issued by Mr. Ay non
respecting puttlic meetings in the park, and to adopt a
petition to Parliament praying thct they may be re-
jected on being brought before the House. The meet-
ing was much more orderly and respectable than
those usually held in that localety, and the great
majoeity of those assembled were evidently spa-
pathisers with its object. The absence of the
rough clement was specially remarkable, and al-
though the mock Litany men an usual put in an
appearance, they attracted but few persons aroused
them, and did but a sorry trade. Precisely at three
o'clock Mr. Braillaugh arrived in tbe park, escorted by ,
a large body of his friends and followers who are in the '
habit of attending his lectures at the Hall of Science,
and at once proceeded to take up his positi en on the
iron ring fence torming the enclosure around a belt of
trees shoot 200 yards distant from the now lemons
" notice board" erected by order of Mr. Ayrton. In a
few minutes he was followed by Mr. fidget, who was
ercorted by a large body of his friends, who took up a
istsition by his side. Both Mr. Bradlaugh and Mr.
Odger were loudly cheered by the great body of the
persons present, who at once formed themselves into a
compact and dense circle round the extemporised plat-
form. At the conclusion of Mr. Bradlaugh's speech
there were loud cries for "Odger !" but the former said
it had been agreed noon between himself and Mr.
Odger that he should be the only speaker on this
occasion. This arrangement was at once acquiesced in
by the meeting. Mr. Bradlaugh then declared the
meeting at an reel, and both himself and Mr. Odger
were escorted out of the park by a large crowd, and
having entered a cab in waiting at the Marble Arch,
drove off amidst loud and general cheering.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-07

HOPS.

A considerable amount of firmnes• null exist., and, al-
though rather less disposition to operate fa evident in con-
sequence of higher rates demanded, a good business la
dome for the time of sear, at improving prices. Large
parcels have been sold f ,r ahipmprit to America, and there
is a probability of additional quantities being forwarded
thither. Continental market. continue exce.dingly strong.
Mid and East Kent, 805 to 1405.; Weald of Kent, aBs. to
110 t ; tassel, 705. tO 95a ; Farnham aid CJuntry, Sta. to
1205. _
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-07

CRADLEY.

13.itz AT rws MAY POLE Iww.—k sale was held at
the May Pole Inn, Crsdley, on ruesday last, of the
coschbuilding establishment, three dwelling.houses, and
building land, by order of the trustees of the late Mr.
Edward Mills, situate at Colley Gate, Crsdley, when up.
wards of 200 people attended the sale. Mr. Hawkins,
auctioneer, of Brierley Hill, made a most telling speech
in representing the property, and after a spirited corn.
petition it was sold to the Cradle', Colliery Company for
the sum of £BOO. Mr. Homer was the solicitor to the
trustees.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-07

OLD HILL.

Etr/su AtositarrioN.—At the the Petty Sessions held
on Wednesday, before Mews. E. Morro, F. W. G. Barre,
and N. Hingley, Elias Powell was brought up from Staf-
ford, on • Habeas Corpus, charged by William Edward
Cheese, Inland Officer of Revenue. Dudley, with carrying
• gun on the 19th, without a license. Police-constable
Cooper said that he was on duty in Pear Tree Lane, on
the above date, about four o'clock, he saw the defendant
with gen in his bead. Be saw him ehooe M some
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-07

A WILL CASE.

in the Vice-Chancellors' Court, before Vice-Chancellor Sir
J. Bacon, the cauee of "Yates r. University College, London,"
has heets heard.
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Mr. James Yates, late of Lauderdalehouse, High-
gate bequeathed a sum of £3,980 London and North-
Western Railway at As, subject to the payment of
£25 a year to Mr. John Morris, Profes:or of Miner-
alogy and Geology at Univereity College, London, to
his wife for life, and after her death upon trust, to pay
the income to the Professor of Mineralogy and Geology
at University College, Laudon, for the time being, as
an endowment for the Professorship. The testator be-
queathed a sum of 0,500 North London Railway stock
to Ina wife for life, and after her death upon trust to
pay the income to University College, Landon, to
found a Professorship of Archicology, for the regula-
' don of which his will stated that he purposed pre-
paring a code of riles and regulations, and he added a
condition that if University College should not accept
the rules within twelve calendar months every legacy
to them should he null and void. The testator also
gave certain books to the College, but he did not make
any rules for the regulation of the proposed Professor-
ship. The suit was instituted by the testator's widow,
the raiduaty legatee, to obtain a declaration that the
gifts for the benefit of the College failed.
Mr. Hallett (Mr. Kay. Q C., with him) appeared
for the plaintiff; Mr. Wilde Palmer, QC., for the
trustee of the will; and Mr. Amphlett, and Mr.
Cozens-Hardy for the College.
The Vice-Chae cellar said that the real question in
the case was upon the construction of the moaning of
the with The testator had imposed two conditions
upon the gifts to the College ; one that he should
make regulations, the other that sue ) regulations
should be accepted. Neither had been fulfilled. The
object of the testator in making the gists was that rules
to be made by himself should ba applied to a new
Professorship. The will had been made many yoars
before the testator's death, and he had never done that
on the doing of which he had made the gifts dependent.
They therefore failed. He made a declaration as
Prayed.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-07

HALESOWEN.

&MALMO GEESE.— John Colman was charged with
stealing two geese, on the 30th ultimo, the property of
Maria Peace, of Beech Lane. William Peace proved the
case, and prisoner wee committed to take his trial at the
next Worcester Assizes.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-07

IMPORTANT TO LICENSED VICTUAL.
LERS AND BEER RETAILERS.

Through the courtesy of Mr. J. Hughes, of
the Star Inn, High-street, we have been favored
with the following letters, which we publish for
the benefit of our readers :
The Star Inn, Stourbridge,
" 7th Nov 1872.
_ .

" Sir,—With reference to section 8 of the New Licen-
sing Act, I beg respectfully, as Chairman of the Stour-
bri4,6 Liceneed View&hers' Association, to enquire
whether that section will be complied with if, on a pint
of ale being ordered by a customer, it be measured into ,
a pewter lbeasure marked according to the imperial
standards, and then put into a crockery ware jug Lot BO
marked, and in such jug handed to the customer for con-
sumption. I should explain that the question is one of
great practical importance to licensed victuallers desirous
, of complying with the Act, as it has been usual in this
and other neighbouring districts, for customers to have
the ale handed to them in crockery ware jugs which they
keep by them till the ale is consumed : the manufactu-
sere say that it is almost impossible for crockery ware
vessels to be made to a nicety of an exact size, and to
keep pewter vessels in sufficient numbers to substitute
them for the jugs hitherto used by ihe customers would
involve the licensed victuallers ill a greet and constant
expense.
"I have the honour, Sir to remain.
"Your most obedient Servant,
(Signed) "JOHN HUGHES.
" To the Right Honble.,
"The Secy. of State for the Home Department,
"Whitehall, London, S.W."

'Whitehall, 9 Nov., 1872.
" Sir,—l am directed by Mr. Secretary Bruce to ack-
nowledge the receipt of your letter of the 7th Met, and
to inform you, in reply to your inquiry, that all inapt be
cold in measures marked according to the Imperial Stan-
dard, it may then be drank or carried away in any kind
of vessel.
"I sin, Sir, . . -

"limit obedient Senrant,
" HIMILY WINTERBOTRAY.

"Mr. J. Hughes,
"Sec. to the Stourbridge Licensed Victuallers'
Association,
"The Star Inn, Stoorbridge."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-07

PUBLIC NOTIONS.

CORN EXCHANGE, STOURBRIDOS.

HANDEL'S GRAND ORATORIO,
11 E MESSIAH."
Will be performed with Orchestral Leempialissets, Ia
the Above Room,
UN MONDAY, DECAMBRII SOth, 1871.
CONDUCTOM Ma. 8. 8111118.

Reserved Seats, 2. 64; Second, ls 64; Beek. Ow
Shilling.
Plan of the Reserved Seats may be seen and Meads
obtained, at R. Broomhall.s.
Doors open at Seven. To commence at 7.60, and eon-
elude at 10 30 o'clock.
A Cloak Room will be provided.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-07

Per 81. b. to !ili!lt the opal.

4 S.d. 6.d s. d.
Command int.bosete S 8 4 Prime Boutbdowns 6 7 0
Second quality ditto 42 4 Large coareecaltee 6 6 6
Prime large oxen .. 50 6 Prime anal ditto 6 6 0
Prime Scot., dc.... 510 6 Luse bop 8 4 6
Coarseand ml. sheep 4 2 4 Small porken 4 6 0
Second quality ditto 410 5 Lunba
Pr. coarse woolied.. 6 26

METROPOLITAN MEAT MARXIST.-MONDAY.

The market to-day was fairly supplied with meat of all
qualities. Trade was by no means active, although • better
Incrtlry prevailed, at somewhat improved quotations.
Per 81b by the carcase.
d. d. d. •d.
Inferior beef ...... 3 0 4 0 Inferior mutton 3 4 4 0
Middling ditto .. 4 0 4 4 Middling ditto 4 8 6 0
Prime large ditto 4 6 410 Prime ditto 0 2 6 8
Prime small ditto 4 10 6 2 Large pork 3 8 4 0
Veal . 4 6 0 Small pork
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-07

THE RIGHT NAME FOR HIM.

HAIL, BESSEMYR, whose water-level true,
In Sc' ria hf Neptune's biludisturbing state,
More than BeITANNIA's sell aspires to do,
Nor only rule the waves, but rule them straight—
Their prayer mint be who the veed Channel cross,
That in thy match tgabtst Neldune thou m lYst tinr.Ve
Ili it a simple game of pitch anti toss,
Or one more complicate, of motions five.
The Greeks read fates in names : the way rye found
On thee a name appropriate to bestow,
With a slight change t f letters, not of sound,
Christ'ning thee " Baisbez wer !" or "Sea lie low I"
—Punch
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-07

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

VEGETABLE philosophy:-Sao
.advice:

WOOL-GATHERINGS-Fights -between negroes.

Fehretinobronchm. tis is One of the names given by the
New Vol k paters to the horse disease.
• • • ••

Sewing machines are run by water power in Cali-
fornia.
Clinton, Is., has " ghoat parties." Thirty or forty
couples go out visiting at night, enveloped in sheets.
Old Equestrian: "Well, but you're not the boy I
left soy horse with I" Boy "No. sir: I just spekilated, and
bought 'm of Vother boy for six cents I*
A reporter who attended a banquet concludes his
description with a candid statement that " It is not distinctly
remembered by anybody present who it was made the last
speech."
Some farmers down east are feeding their cows on
sour apples it is stated that they (she c 'we) furnish ex-
cellent cidt r instead of milk It is now proposed to feed
them on hops, in order to ascertain what sort of beer they
stiil )ielil.
A member a the New Yak " Lazy (lab" lots jost
been expelled for going at a faster gait 'than a walk The
recusant offered, In mitigation of the Renton n, the fact that
the sheriff was after him, hut the society was inexorable.
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Here in an American epitaph :—" Here lies Jane
Smith, wife of Thomas Smith, marli:e cutter This mono-
mei t was erected by her husband as a tribute to her memory
and a specimen ot his work. Monuments of the seine style,
250 dollars."
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An openinr, for Nantucket's "anxious and aimless."
Is furnished m this epiAle, which the postmast, r there has
Just received P. Si. Nantucket. —Dear sir. I read an ad-
vertisement in an exchange not long since stating that in
your city there was one thousand (1,e(10 young Ladies and only
One Hundred gentlemen we are lacking about that quantity.
Please send as many as you can spare by Et to Saline Co
Kansas Bavaria Sta & oblige Yours truly Betty Bachelors."

A young couple were sitting together in a romantic
spot, with birds and flowers about them, when the following
dialoeue ensued—" My dear, If the sacrifice of my life
would please thee, most &oily would I lay it at thy feet
"Oh, sir, y. are too kind ! But It lust reminds roe that I
wish you'd leave off using tobacco." "Can't thing of it
It's a habit to which lam wedded." "Very well, sir since
this is the way you lay your life down for me, and as you are
alre.oly wedded to tobacco, I'll t are good care you are never
wedded tome. salt would he bigamy.'
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-07

A CURIOUS ATMOSPHERIC
PHENOMENON.

Mr. T. L M. Cartwright writes to The Tinteß, from
Banbury, under date Saturday :
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"May I ask you to ineert the following account of a
curious atmospheric vhenoinen.n which occurred here
to day? About 12 o'clock we had a heavy etorm of
rain and hail, in the middle of which there was a very
vivid flash of lightning, with almost instantaneous
thunder of a very peculiar rattling sound. About five
minutes afterwards, as I was leaving the house,
toy gardener called me to come luukly and see
the ball of fire. I was unfortunately half a minute
too late, but I have seen four persons who saw it from
different points, and who all agree they heard &whizzing,
roaring sound like a passing train, which attracted their
attention, and then saw a huge revolving ball of fire
travelling from six to ten feet off the ground. The
smoke wan whizzing round and rising high into the
air, and a blast of wind acccompanied it, carrying a
cloud of branches along and destroying everything in
its way. The havoc done is very considerable—large
trees bodily uprooted, ether, broken off about ten feet
from the ground, others have all their branches
snapped ,ff ; in one place about 100 yards of a wall
laid flat and the remainder thrown over at intervals, as
if the ball had rebounded, and some of the stones
carried ten yards off. I rode this afternoon along the
whole line of its journey, about two miles in length;
the direction was first from S.W. to N.E., and near
the end it turned N.W. Where it first began the

breadth of ground travelled over was very narrow,
but increased as it proceeded, till in the last field the
debris covered a space quite 150 yards wile, and here
it seems to have exhausted itself, as all the witnesses
agree that the ball of tire seemed to vanish at this spot
witaout any explosion. Here the ground had been
cut in places as if by a cannon ball, but I could find
no cause for this, and I aiw no signs of fire on its route.
One man, however, says there was a strong sulphurous
smell after it had passed. Abut the time 05 this
occurrence, my farm men at work about a mile in
quite another direction saw the water of a pond carried
up into the air by whirlwind.

"THE RAIN Ii RAINETH."
Pray Ileaveg some liner weather soon may send,
Yet still well pray this Reign may never end !—Judy.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-07

THE TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS.

A will case of curious interest has just been decided
in the Sun, gete's.Court of New York city. About two
years ago there died in a narrow, dirty street, near the
Hudson River, a Frenchman, named Louis Boner,
leaving property to the amount of one hundred thousand
dollais, and a will under the terms of which the bulk
of it was devised to the American Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals. The natural heirs of
Boner in France endeavoured to net aside the will,
on the ground that the testator was a person of
unsound mind, and to establish this they intro-
duced evidence of his belief in the old doctrine of
the metempeychos,s of souls, and sought to show
that his interest in the Society for the Pres cation
of Cruelty to Animals had its origin in a fearful fore-
boding that the soul of Louis Bonae would pa-s after
death into a New York street railway horse. But the
Surrogate held that faith in transmigration did not
show such a dusordered intellect as to disqualify a man
from bequeathing his property as it pleased him, and
that in the case of the lamented Louis his aptness in
applying that other and more practical Pythagorean
din overy of the multiplication table proved him to
have been of uncommon clearness of mind. The will
. was therefore maintained, and the society intends to
employ the bequest in building a house for itself.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-07

"THE DRINK !"

John Brown has been tried at the Assizes, held at Leeds,
noon the charge of shooting at and wounding Charlotte
Br no, his wife, with intent to murder her or to do her
grievous bodily harm.
The prisoner and hie wife had been married nine or
ten months, and had lived together happily except
when the husband was in drink, on which woad kis
he was so aiolent as more than once to drive his
wife n sit of the house. On the 28th of August
the wife returned home after one of these
absences, and was kindly enough received by her hus-
band, but the day after the prisoner again took to
drinking, and there was a gnarl el between him and
his wife. Some hot words passed, and then the wife
threw a cup of tea at her husband, which no doubt
added to his excitement, as it was stated that he posed
most of the night going from one bedroom to another
, threatening his wife, and that in the coarse of the night
he drank a quart of gin. Next morning he was in the
same state of drink, and after telling his wife that if she
did not come downstairs he would shoot her through
the ceiling of the kitchen, he put her out of the
house. She was going in the direction of a neighbour's
house, when she heard a shot fired behind her, and felt
one or two shot corns hit her on the head. Another
barrel was afterwards discharged, and several shots
were. lodged in is wall near which the wife had been

standing:
For the defence it was elicited that the prisoner had
always been a kind and indulgent husband; and the
wife stated, in answer to questions put M cross-
examination, that she was sure her husband did not
know what he was doing or he would not have tired
the gun.
His Lordship summed up with great care, referring
to a late case la which it was held that a person firing
off a gun in the immediate neighbourhood of another
so as to he likely to wound him may be found guilty
of unlawf wounding, although there WU no actual
intention to wound.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty r f unlawfully
wounding, and he was sentenced to six months im-
prisonment, with bard labour.