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

A SHORT LIFE.

The odon Journal thus describes the " vicissitudes" of
an American city : - . .

Within one Month from the completion of the first
house in Pithole city, Pennsylvania, that city had a
telegraph office and hotel, costing the owners 10,000
dols. In one month more there was a daily paper
established, and in the next a theatre; in another
month another theatre, and then an academy of music.
In six months there were 74 hotels and boarding-houses;
in the seventh month the city had reached its highest
prosperity. It then had about 15,000 people, elaborate
water-works, a city hall, and an expensive city govern-
ment. Then occurred the completion of labour saving
enterprise—the so-called Miller Farm Pipe line—by
which the petroleum was sent off independent
of the labouring population. At once 4,000 persons
were ihrovna out of employment, while 2,000 houses
became useless. This was the death-blow to Pithole.
At once the hotels, the theatres, and the telegraph
offices were closed, and the daily paper gave up its
ghost, while almost every one packed up his trunk and
moved out. Only nine families remained out of a popu-
lation of 15,000 souls, while the railroad from Pithole
and Oleopolis runs only one train a day, consisting of
a locomotive and a single car, which is usually empty;
but the company is obliged to keep running, otherwise
the charter for the road would be lost. They still hope
against hope for better times for that unfortunate city
which in only seven months was born, full-grown, got
sick, and died. Undoubtedly this is a case unparalleled
in history, modern or ancient. Neither Egypt nor
Greece can give examples of such rapid changes.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-09-05

pHOTOGRAPHY.

A RCHER CLARKE,

STOURBRIDGE.

Fire Shillings pct. dtizi Cartes de Visite, two posi
thin,

The Portrait and Printing Rooms have been altered
and impr.NA luring the Winter, mud PORTRAITS can
tie Finished and sent home (free of coot) much quicker
than previously.
THE NEW REMBRANDT PICTURE.
THE NEW CAMEO VIGNETTE.

THE NEW ENAMELED PORTRAIT
RAISED IN RELIEF.

These various styles, which are quite new, are now
takeu, cud Specireens Cilll be seen at
ARCHER CLARKE'S,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-09-05

THE "CONFERENCE " AT COOMASSIE.

Referring to Captain Lees reception at Coo:nassie, sent
there to hold a 'Conference" at the request of King Koffee,
the Daily Telegraph remarks :--
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A ccording to the late accounts from Cape Coast
Castle, all chance of a rupture with the Ashantee
ruler was at an end. Captain Lees —who, it may be
remembered, was sent off to Coomassie as soon as the
arrival of the envoys from King Koffee at the coast
had made known the existence of internal troubles—
has been received at the capital with every demon-
stration of respect and good feeling, the King and the
Queen Mother going out to meet him. Dancing, it is
added, and great rejoicings followed. Nor does it seem
that the threatened complications which made King
Koffee so nervous will end in much, as Captain Lees
would probably go to Djuabin, and convince the
local potentate there that he had better remain at peace
with the allies of England. As for the discontent
reported from the inland villages, it can hardly amount
to much. The people are not politicians ; they wit
not take a sentimental view of the change of rulers,
and if their material comforts are not greatly interfered
with, will probably settle down to a quiet, con-
tented life, like the easy-going creatures they are.
Their best chance of improvement will really
come from the extension of trade ; and hence
the intelligence in the despatch from Cape
Coast Castle that trade throughout the Protec-
torate is good and imprc sing is very satisfactory.
If by judicious advice to the native potentates,
! whom a wholesome experience of the terror of our
' arms has already predisposed in our favour, we can
induce them to keep the peace for a short time, and
allow the pursuits of thriving industry fairly to take
root, we shall soon abolish war by eradicating the in-
clination to try a recourse to such means of obtaining
supremacy, and establish a rivalry of another kind.
On the whole, without counting too much on the im-
mediate conversion to better views of so fickle a race as
the Blacks, we may fairly hope that the first step to-
wards opening up that particular region of Western
Africa has already succeeded. From a defiant, vain,
mid bitter enemy, King Kotfee has been transformed
into a suppliant who is glad to seek our friendly me-
diation. All the " tight " seems to have been taken
out of him; and since there never was much " fight "
in any of his savage neighbours, there can be little
difficulty in keeping them all quiet, and so using them
as agents to open up the still aark interior of the Con-
tinent.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-09-05

HORRIBLE ACT OF REVENGE BY
INDIANS.

correspondent of the Sew York World relates the

following incident

The natural instincts of the red man, even when
comparatively civilised, were proven in this State the
other day. A. party of Pawnees, as great beggars as
the Roman lazzaroni, called at the house of a farmer,
a poor Bohemian, and asked for food. This was given
to them; but the squaws, desiring to provide for
another occasion, began to capture everything edible
in the hut as soon as they learned that the husband
was absent. The spirited wife, however, objected
to the wholesale robbery, and attempted to
prevent the forest maidens from taking aIL This was
deemed such a piece of downright impudence that
these romantic creatures turned upon their benefactress
and beat her most unmercifully. Her cries brought
the husband, and he immediately shot one of the
squaws. For this offence the poor fellow met a
terrible retribution, for the males, hearing of his
offence, hastened back and tortured him in every way
that their fiendish minds could devise, and finally
skinned him alive. They left his wife nearly dead
with fear lying in the house, and quietly wended their
way to the agency.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-09-05

HOPS.

--
From some localities the accounts regarding the growing
crop of hops are more encouraging, the plant, where clean,
having made satisfactory progress during the week. The
blighted grounds promise however, a small yield In very
early districts picking has already commenced. The market
for hops remains firm in tone, and full prices are obtained
Last week's imports consisted of 6 bales from 1 erneuzen, 334
from Hamburgh, 26'2 from Antwerp. '25 from Rotterdam, `..!
from Bremen, and 11 from Ostend.
Haft

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boles, Is. 94. to 46. per pair ; turbot, be Oct to 13s. each
eels, Is. to Is. Id. per lb. ; bloaters, 2s. to 3s. 3cl per box ;
whiting, Bs. 13d. to 10s. per basket lobsters. 131. to 201. per
dozen ; brill, is. 3d. to 3s each ; kippers, 2s. to 3. 9d. per
boo : trout, Is. to 15. 44. per lb. ; native oysters, £lO ; pearl
ditto, ; common ditto, 13s. to 300. per bushel.

SEED.
LoRPON, Monday, August ST—There were no samples of
new English Cloverseed offering. Foreign qualities were
held for more money generally, particularly for fine descrip-
tions of both white and red. New Trifolium was fully as
dear, with a steady wile. Best qualities of Trefoil were held
with more firmness, hut not many sales effected. Fine did
white klustardseed sold rather more freely at very full prizes.
Samples of new offering. Black English Rapeseed was sale-
able on about former terms, but red parcels were dull, awl
rather cheaper. New winter Tares were plentiful, MO
slightly lower ; but there was a good sale for the fine&
qualities, owing to the rains of Saturday. New English
Canaryseed was offered on lower terms, and purchased
slowly. Virass seeds sold steadily at quite as much money.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-09-05

THE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER ON
MONEY MAKING.

On Sunday afternoon the Bishop of Manchester
preached at Higher Walton, near Preston, choosing his
text from the 12th chapter of the Ist Epistle of Paul to
the Corinthians. In the course of his sermon the
Bishop said that in his diocese there were many
parishes in which rich men and large landed pro-
prietors had felt it to be their duty to erect
churches, parsonages, and the like for the people.
Of course it was a very right and proper employ-
ment of money, which was given to them for a
higher and nobler purpose than that it should be
said in the newspapers when they died that Mr. So-
anclso's personalty was sworn under say r.. 500,000.
A man whom God had given the power of getting rich
should have a warm and sympathising heart and a
large and liberal hand; he should not be uncharitable
or illiberal, but should give his contribution with
pleasure. There was a great pleasure in giving if
one could be satisfied that the money one bestowed
was not intercepted before reaching its destina-
tion. There was a great deal in the right use of
money, and a man who made money should also
possess the power of usefulness. God did not mean
money as a self-propagating, self-generating power,
but He meant that when a man had money he should
make a good use of it. The greatest of all pleasures.
"the luxury of doinF good," was what our Lord meant
when He said, "Ic, bins that bath shall more be
given." From him who had not—the miserable nig-
gard, the miser, the mammon worshipper—he who
made no use rd that which he had, should be taken
away that which he seemed to have. Such a man did
not command happiness or the respect of the people.
Some there were who built churches, schools, alms-
houses, and hospitals from pride, from vain glory, just
as there were in our Lord's days men who when they
gave alms liked to have a trumpet blown before them
in the streets in order that the world might knew what
they were about.

The Secretary of the United States TreaaUry
aaiA.wledges the ript of a jetter aigoed " A Priest,
incloaing a 100 dot note, and stating that the moiay was
reosivedby him at the confeedonal an conscience mon -1 due
to the rotted ntstea
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-09-05

PROVISION.

Monday, Aug. 31.- --The arrivals last week fr.un
Ireland were 347 firkins flutter and 2,343 bales Bacon, and
from foreign ports 29,949 packages Butter, and 3,274 bales
Bacon. 'there was little alteration to notice in the value of
foreign Butter during the past week. Buyera purchase
sparingly at the high rates. Middling and inferior descrip-
tions could be purchased on easier terms. For Irish scarcely
any inquiry The Bacon market nOrth dull, and at the close
of the week Waterford declined 3s , and Hamburg 41, per
cwt. American singed sides also 2s. tot, lower. Lard and
Banis remain steady.
FRICE=,

LONDON, Monday, Aug. .8:1-.—American three • Demand
brisk, arrivals large. knolish Cheese . Demand moderate
high prices against large transactions
Butter, per cwt. : li. I. Cheese, per Cirt. : t a.
Dorset . 140 to— Cheshire 72 to SO
Friesland .......... 134 1/91e. WOUC., new6B 78
Jersey .... .. .. . ..... 96 116 Cheddar 74 b 4
Eng. Fresh, per don.. 16 18 American 6B 66
Baron, per cart: Hams : York.... —llB 120
Wiltshire, dried.... 80 i •umberland .. —llB 120
Irish, green, fob... 82 -- Irish . 104 100
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-09-05

SCALE OF CUAICOES.

tide.reeth, Sete 108.,
Stopping, Scaling, and batraming. and the regulating
of children's l'eetu, at Moderate Charges.
N.L.—Patteuts can be walled updu by Appointment
made at the Above Addrcas,:or by Letter.to—

17, 1311:NNETT'S 11ILL, 17
,Firet door from New.etreet, and oppooite the Theatre

Royid.]
Consuhat tons Free.

ADVICE TO MOTHERS I—Are you brokeu in your me
by a sick child suffering with the pant of cLitting eth
Go at once to • chemist and get • bottle of Ans. Wifss•
Low's SOOTHING SYRUP. It will relieve the poor stiffen's
iiumedistely. It IS perfectly harmless and pleassut to
taste, it produces natural, quiet sleep, by suieving the
child from pain, and the little cherub awek,oi " as bright
ass button." It soothes the child, it sof,ens the gums.
alloy, all pain, relieves sind, regmates the bowels, suit is
the best .uuwn retowly for dyseLtery
whether arising from teething or oilier causes. Mrs.
Z0.,11.iu5 syrup is sOI4 by :ue...lethe
,scipvLere at la lid per bottle.—Nlnuutn Ne•
York. rum at 493 Oxford-btiest, Lou,
1111‘0AT A FFNCTIoNb 0,0 H OAKS., ,23•. AG .11 rt -ring
from irrit.tiou of tht it re.

..urpr died at th, 5. 5 I. .;•••
Dy the use of "Brown's fliourniai Tr.. tica "
[anions " :nal:Luta " are b) •..
eat miStsin tnts country, at la keopie
troubled wit:, • hacking cough," a blig:lL cold," roe
bronchial affections cannot try tern to, soon, as similar
troubles. If allowed to progress, esuit in . • ammo
nary and Asthmatic AfeeLioia. Bee that the %%was
'• Brown's 13“.nchia T.ochas " arc of, ~;" a ',-
Stamp around tiara hos.-- Ali tAisiC %Are.
& dont, Boston, Utlit.i ,use,
Oxford.street, London.
FLOEILINE I For the Meru and BKAA'i a. -- A 1.5
drops of the noriline " sprinkled 4: a a Wel
brush produces a pleasant lathes, tve,ca
cleanse, tine le, tin from all parosltes ol °JAI ilupttritte..
h ud.o. the gurus prevehts tartar, stops gr.,e
t ce'h a peculiar pearly shit, ness, ands up"
fragramnet lathe breath. lt remove. all odssaw
-Jed teeth or toeoc, or. s- •
k'ragraut Fioritiue " being ek.,114,,,,,,k ut cc
and awe.tt herbs, it Kouretiutes turns cloudy .•ii 5. la • -
licions to the taste, and the git.ate toilet discovery Si
the age. l'rice 2 6.1 I • • . • jar for the
e "Powder," •.
by her.rt c. is-,, .• • ' • •
Lesion.
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ft ifetrat- and
, !• 1.1 r tic 64.1 thU deep•
r a• • r tVeS 01.., 4. I I.llg necu.y exited, daUll•
both pain and genital. H ,wu. tICUALMAIL has Übe
14.-1 ki z.l...•Viti4 tile ul,t.e SithOUt
debilitatlilg U..
constitution which was the inevitable result of the bleed-
inw mercury, and colchicum practice formerly adopted
111 these complainte.
Bryant and Hey hen to direct weld attention to their
New Oval Pocket Veeta lieffes, with Patent Spring Cu?.
tfl•, N lilt 11 lee eutarl fice ipint ..dg slid
0,,„, ~ „ : •1. 1.. *NCI: 41. I là. tOt Bel•lo
ch,pe.t poekef Box ever prod. Id Retailed every-
where at one Penny. Paten:tee atm IfYle wauutoctararaa
Bryant and May, London. E.

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{.l . 1.11 11 t.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-09-05

IRISH STATE PRISONS.

The 52nd report of the Inspectors-General of Prison
in Ireland has recently been issued. It shows a large
increase in the number of prisoners committed during
184'3 as compared with the previous year. The total
commitments, including male and female offenders,
amount to 33,894 for 1873, against 30,222 for 1872.
Of these 28,221 were Roman Catholics, the remainder
consisting chiefly of Protestants, Episcopalians, and I
Presbyterians. More than 42 per cent. of the persons
committed had each more than one commitment re-
corded against him or her, many of whom (the report
states) look upon the gaol as an aslyum or hospital,
often preferring it to the workhouse; 860 were habitual i
offenders, and had been convicted 21 times and up-
wards; against five of them over 200 convictions were i
recorded, the highest number being 325. Of juvenile
offenders (under 16 years of age), numbering 1,376, I
433 were wholly illiterate, and 527 were able to read
and write, the remainder reading or writing imper-
fectly. The Inspectors express a decided opinion
that secular as well as religious instruction should be
imparted to all classes of prisoners capable of receiving
it, and that the schools should be carefully supervised
, by the chaplins. Special attention is drawn to the
large increase in the number of commitments for
drunkenness, which have risen from 6,645 in 1867 to
11,073 in 1873. Inspectors consider that drunkenness
I is a main source and cause of crime in Ireland. Four
sentences of death and five of penal servitude for life
were passed on prisoners in 1873. Only one escape
was effected. The average cost of ordinary diet per
I head was £7 2s. 10d., and the health of the prisoners is
stated to have been generally satisfactory. The total
cost of maintenance was £95,945 lb. Btl., lagsinst
I:88,070 124 3d. in the previous year.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-09-05

WHERE WE BUY AND WHERE
WE SELL.

The 7'iows gives the following statistit.A.

-• • •
There are 11 countries which stand at the head of !
the list of our commercial connexions. First come the ,
United States. Thence in 1373 we imported mer-
chandise of the value of £71,471,493, and thither we
exported British and Irish produce and manufactures
of the value of £33,174,664, making a total of
£105,046,157, or one-sixth of our import and exp rt
trade with the world. France is second ; our imports
thence in 1873 being of the value of £43,339,234, and
our exports of our products thither £17,291,973, making
a total of £60,631,207. Next stands British India,
our own possession, but as an independent country
commercially; our imports thence amounting to
£29,890,802, and our own exports thither to
£21,354,205, the total is £51,215,007. Then from Ger-
many our imports axe £19,926,451, and our exports
thither £27,270,342—t0ta1, £47,196,793. From Aus-
tralia our imports are £17,262,706; our exportethither
being of nearly ths same value—viz., £17.610,152, the
total is £34,872,855. Our imports from RllllBia reach
£21,189,331, our exports thither only £8,997,721—t0ta1,
£30,187,052. From Holland our imports are
£13,272,444; our exports thither £16,745,650—t0ta1,
£30,018,294 Our imposts from China, including
Hotivkong, are £13.303.917; our exports thither
£8,243-I,6o—total, £31,598,586. Our imports from
Egypt, £14,155,913; exports thither, £6,222,013—
total, £20,377,926. Imports from British North
America, £11,727,831; exports thither, £8,6L9,703....
total, R 20,347,556. Imports frombelgium, £13,078,160;
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-09-05

STRANGE FUNERAL CEREMONIES.

The following account of the funeral ceremonies of the late
dater of the Rajah of Sikkim will be found interesting
•

A lay-figure of the nun, dressed in her own clothes,
and "wearing a gilt mitre and a long white veil, was
placed on a kind of throne to the right of the great altar
in the principal chapel. Before the figure was a table
on which were different kinds of food ; on another table
at the side were various things which had belonged to
the woman when alive ; while on a third, 108 little brass
lamps were arranged in rows. Long lines of monks, in
dark red robes, and with very tall caps of bright crimson
on their heads, sat on carpets placed in the middle of
tbe chapel, and chanted litanies throughout each day
of my stay at Toomloong." After this figure was taken
to the monastery at Pemionchi, where the monks again
"chanted the litanies for the departure of the soul of
the dead nun which had accompanied her clothes
from Chumbi. On the third day the relations, friends,
and dependents of the deceased brought or sent gifts
of food, clothing, or money, which were all laid before
the figure. . . . Towards evening the tea-cup of the
nun was freshly filled with tea, and her murwa jug
with murwa, and all the monks solemnly drank tea
with her." Then her friends took a last farewell,
kissing the hem of her robe. "At about nine o'clock
the chanting ceased, and the Lama, again standing
in front of his chair, make a long speech to the
soul of the nun, in which he told her that all that
could be done to make her journey to another
world easy had been done, and that now she would
have to go forth alone and unassisted to appear
before the King and Judge of the dead. 'you will
have to leave \ our robes, your mitre, and your veil,'
; said he, 'and you will be shown in the mirror of the
just King clad in the black garment of your sins or in
the shining garment of your good deeds. Your gold
and silver, your ranks, your dependents, your good
name in this world, will not help you now, when your
good will be weighed in the scale of the King against
your evil deeds.' .. . When the Lama had finished
his address some of the monks took down the lay- figure
and undressed it; while others formed a procession,
and conducted the soul of the nun into the darkness
outside the monastery, with a discordant noise of
conch.shells, thigh-bone trumpets, Thibetan flutes,
gongs, cymbals, tambourines, drum, and other most
disagreeable but nameless implements.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-09-05

POTATOES.

The supplies of homegrown potatoes are somewhat less
extensive, while the arrivals from abroad continue small
The trade is consequently firmer, at a slight improvement
In the quotations. Last week's imports were only 332 bags
from Antwerp, 52 barrels from Boulogne, 105 sacks from St.
Nagaire, 282 bags from Ghent, five bags from Rotterdam.
and 431 bags from Dunkirk. Regents, 80a. to 1005. Shaw..
700. to tGs. kidneys, 110 s. to 1408. and rocks, 705. per
ton.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-09-05

A HINT TO THE GIRLS.

The Pali Man Gazette remarks

Woman is too much engaged at the present moment
In studying political economy to give much time or
attention to domestic economy, otherwise she might
take an interest in some remarks on the latter subject
made by Mr. Sewell, the Inspector of Schools, in
his general report for last year lately issued.
" Guiding the house," says Mr. Sewell, which is
one half of woman's natural occupation, cannot be
learned to any very useful extent, any more than shoe-
making, from precept only. But where this subject
ranks with the other subjects of instruction in a school,
it presses on a girl's attention the most useful and hon-
ourable occupation of her sex. Girls yield much
sooner than boys to the refining influences of educa-
tion; but this refinement has a tendency to develop
their softer rather than their more useful qualities. 'I o
dress with taste, to read novels and poetry, to be a
milliner's apprentice till she marries and mismanages
her house; this is the life story of many a well-edu-
cated girl in our primary schools. If domestic service i
cannot be escaped, it s undertaken WS a sad necessity,
and its duties discharged with wearisome careless-
ness and inefficiency. Marriage puts these girls
very early in life in possession of homes of their
own. Thrift, laborious thrift, industry, intelligence,
and thoroughness in house affairs, are no mean
qualities in any woman; they are indispensable in the
wives of working men, if they are to have well ordered
homes. The lessons in domestic economy may, in Mr.
Sewell's opinion, correct the tendency to laziness and
fineladyism which appears to accompany the earlier
stages of refinement ; at least they serve to bring the
child of working parents face to face with the realities
of her station in life, and accustom her to the idea of
honestly working for her living.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-09-05

STRANGE PHENOMENA.

Residents in the vicinity of Goodrich Hollow,
Columbia county, have (says an American paper)
been recently startled by a quaking of the earth at
Intervals. The water in a brook near by has doubled
its flow, and the temperature has been increased to
118 degrees A man living on the east end of the
hollow says that he has discovered the same sudden
rise in the stream as it rushed down the side of the
mountain, and had also observed that "it was smok-
ing hot." This stream is the outlet of a natural lake
of about 25 acres in extent, situated on the very top
of the hollow. The lake is in the town of Hancock,
Berkshire county, Maas., and is about three miles
distant from Lebanon Springs, and has always been con-
sidered a natural curiosity by visitors. It is nearly
circular and very deep. Many persons have taken lines
there and made attempts to reach the bottom, but
without success. Being upon the highest point of the
mountain, without any visible brook or stream to feed
it, the wonder has been from what source the supply of
water has been constantly furnished to keep this lake
always overflowing without a visible inlet. A gentle-
man who visited this locality some years ago, and had
been a great traveller in foreign lands, gave it as his
opinion that the lake was now occupying the crater of
an extinct volcano. A party of ten, on arriving at
the lake, found the surroundings almost concealed by
a thick mist arising from the surface of the water, and
on approaching the shore were wrapped in steam.
which on first entering was oppressively hot ; but
they in a short time accustomed themselves to its
surroundings. Mr. Ostrander ventured down the bank
to the surface of the lake, and for a moment placed his
hand into the water, but finding it almost in a boiling
condition he quickly withdrew it. Theexplorers there-
fore retired a short distance and seated themselves, with
a determinatisn to see if some change would follow.
They had remained about an hour here, when it was
discovered that the body of water flowing from ttie
outlet of the lake was evidently diminishing, and
shortly afterwards the water and mist disappeared,
leaving where was a short time before the surface of
the lake nothing but all immense cavern of unfathoin
able depth. In the space of fifteen minutes after the
party felt a shock beneath them, and all were startled
by a trembling of the earth beneath their feet. The
shock was followed by a dense column of steam, and
directly afterwards the rushing in and filling of the
chasm with boiling water. The party remained upon
the mountain some hours, and saw several ebbs and
flows of this remarkable lake, and then returned to the
valley below. All the fish in the lake have been killed,
and the timber in the vicinity injured.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-09-05

GRATIFY HEATH, 'HALESOWEN, & DISTRICT CRPONTCTY,

f REGISTERED FOR I
1 TRANSMISSION ABROAD.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1874.

NEW WORK BY DR._ SMITH.

PRICE ONE PENNY.

PUBLIC NOTICES.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.

GLOUCESTER MUSICAL FESTIVAL
SEPT. 81h to nth.

ORDINARY RETURN Tik.:l;.l..TS 10
GLOUCESTER istued on MONDAY. SECT. 7th,
and Fo Days will bo aveilab!e for return up to
SATCHDAY, inclusive

Flits I and SECOND CLASS 111.:1111N TICRISTi
mailable {Or one day only, wilt be issued to Gloucester,
by certain Treine. at sb ut ingle Fares for the Daub!.
J, nosey, fr 'ln all stations between Waverharcvton and
Kuiri,rurisater inolnslve (except Neth•-r.on, Roaria Oak,
Haley. and Church 11).
For fortis r particulars net special hair; bills
J. 0RIM:1140N, General Manager.
Paddington Terminus.

FRIENDLY SOCIETIES' HOSPITAL AND

DISPENSARY SUNDAY.

riIHE ANNUAL SERVICES in Aid of the
GUEST HOSPITAL and DUOLEY OMEN-
SALT, will (by the kind permission of the Bight Hon.
the Earl of Hadley) take place in the DUDLEY CAAILS
COUET, OD SUNDAY. SEPT. 13th, 1571, at Three o'clock.
The Procession, with Bands, will form in Upper Highs
street and Queen Crone, at 2.15.
. _ .

All Friendly Societies are hereby invited to co.operate
in this matter, with a view to insure perfect success.
Communications to he addressed to the H
Seereter:, Mr. W. Field, the Lion Inn, Upper rHt3
Street, Dudley.
Donations way be sent to S. Edge, Keg., JP.. Hoe.
Tee Isom.

910 the Overseers of the Poor, and the Super.
intendent of Police of the Perish of Rowley Regis.
In the County of Stafford, aud to all whom it may cons
cern.

I, MARK DUNN, Horsensil.maker, now residing at
Springfield, in the Parish of Rowley Regis. in the County
of Stafford, do Hereby Give Notice that it i ruy inten-
tion to apply, at the Adjourned lieneral Annual Laminas
Meeting, for the Division of Rowley Regie, to be holgilia
at Cooksey's Hotel, at Old Hill. in the said County. as
tie 30. h day of erpti nib r nex• ensuinz, o,.ur 01
Eleven o'cl elc i, ti.e f 01,0. 11 of city, for •
sIX 1,..11%, 11, IN:- • • ,•.• lc-we i•
,1 HF. Lii sue I oak anii
urn.La to

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alt.t.• at ..1.1.1.01..L., La. ... • Ai tri U.,trati
114 is aformind, in pur.umce of ti. . 'George IV"
and I. %Vto IV., cop. GI, ant Add amending the wort
and which said promises are duly rated for the rend d
the poor, as by low is required, of which house mad paw
mme, I am the owner, and the mune are now in my
own occupation.
Uiven ui.dcr my hand this lot day of September, 1874.
lIIAI, DUNN.

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BY the kind permission of the Right lion.
the Earl of Stsint rd and Uarrington, these
besuliful GABDIQCS and titlOUlsdis aid
tipEN to the 11.71iLIC every 11.1reDAT aim I•WAT
throughout the season.
Admission Free (by Ticket only),to be obtained st the
Stamford Arms Hotel, Y.nville.
conveyances of all description to be had at the Talbot
Hotel, Stoureridge, on most reasonable terms, on appli-
cation to the Manager, Mr. J. Bridges.
Dinner Parties contracted for.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-09-05

THE PILGRIMAGE TO PONTIGNY.

On Sunday evening Monsignor Patterson preached
his fourth and concluding sermon on Pilgrimages in
general, and the present one in particular, at the Pro.
Cathedral at Kensington, taking his text from the
words of St. Paul, Romans x., 10,—" With the heart
man belieres unto justice, but with the mouth confession
is made unto salvation." Urging as a plain fact the
operation of the law in human nature, which makes
men express outwardly by word and deed whatever
they feel deeply within, he asked the world to say
why, when every political, moral, and social move-
ment found its outward expression. Catholics alone
should be forbidden to manifest their belief in the I
eyes of man; and lie concluded by declaring the chief
end and object of the approaching pilgrimage was to
show to the world that Roman Catholics believe in a
personal living God, and in the saints living and
reigning with him, and also to offer their prayers for
England, and for the Church, and for its Head. By
way of preparing the " faithful " to take part in the
pilgrimage to their better spiritual edification, there
has been kept during the past three days in most of
the Roman Catholic churches and chapels in London,
and probably in the provinces also, a " Triduum," or
three days' devotion, consisting of intercessory prayers
for the Pope, for the !atholic Church, and for the in-
tending pilgrims, and embracing a variety of hymns,
versicles, and responses appropriate to the subject,
each portion ending as follows —" St. Thomas, of
Canterbury, pray for us; St. Edmund, of Canterbury,
pray for us; all ye martyrs and confessors of England
pray for us."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-09-05

THE LANGUAGE OF FISHES.

Ike New York Times publishes a communication in which
the writer says :
" Strange sounds are often heard rising from the
waters of our coasts that would be apt to astonish the
superstitious listener if he were not acquainted with
the unoff ending cause of all the disurbance. Sometimes
it rises in the air like the bang of a huge drum, and
again seems to steal over the waves with a low, mur-
muring wail ; and if you were to place ycur ear close
to the surface, the strange sounds would appear to
conic from five or six different places. Seamen are
often startled by the 'boom, boom' that seems to steal
over the vessel, seeming to their ears more like the
drum of some long-lost crew than the voice of an in-
hearit member of the f aniily of fishes. For sneh it is,
and wellknown SS the bearded drum-fish. But how it
produces the queer musical notes is a something that it
woul the well for our 'Fish Commission' toiliscxiver this
saintlier on the sound. Another faithful satellite of
' Euterpe Le found in the noiey maigre. It makes a
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-09-05

iTEsrI.IOtkLS,

_
From Mr. C. Potter, Professor of Music, from the
Institution for the Blind, St. John's Wood, Londor.:—
" I can confidently recommend Mr. Creen ab a Plane. '
forte Tuner. He tunes by equal temperament, and ol .
talus 2tn exact Seale. 46i! :•• d t'. PtaiElt."
From Mr. J. F. PAIA,ItiOIi. Cliganial, St. Patrick's
Church, Huddersfield :—•• I have n.neb pleabure in tots
tifying to the abilities of Mr. Green as • Pianoforte
Tuner. He lays the bearings with exactness and perfec.
Mon. (Sint-d) JAMES 1' PATIFESON."
From Mrs. Sanderson. Solo l'ioniate, of the I.oe.'on
and Liverpool Concerts:—'• Mr. tireen is one of the few
who can Tune my Piss, to the rjeely I require prcsions
to giving nly Publie lettOl Slgueri) E. K. SANI:EE.

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From Mr. Botterworth , Organist, Dots:rose, near
Kaughester :—•• Mr. Green's ...gust sea Pianoforte Tuner
ceu rArely be rc Ct with. (Signed; Davlußtmunwouln:f

chug wiitor re•
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-09-05

THE DEFICIENT HAY CROP IN
FRANCE.

Referring to the deficient hay crop in France the
Economist( Francais says that the price of cattle in the
market of La Villette fell about 40 per cent. between
April and July. Since July the pnce has again risen,
but not nearly to the level of the month of April. At
the same time, and as the cause of this extraordinary fall,
the numberof cattle brought to market has been increas-
ing week after week. On April 1 the number of beasts
was 16,609, on July 9 this number htul increased to
21,566—an increase of one-third in under two months.
On August 6 the number had risen to 23,967—an in-
crease in another month of 2,401, and an increase
tor the four months of nearly one half. Lastly,
the cattle are brought to market in very decidedly
worse condition than in April and previously. As
pointed out by the Ecenomi.,t, the cause is the extraor-
dinary drought of April, May, and June, which
parched up the grass, reducing the hay crop, as we have
said, to less than half the average yield, and at the
same time very seriously injuring the root crops. It
seems that the French farmers supplement pasturage
by artificial foods to only a very slight extent, and
even the present crisis has not induced them to depart
from their customary system. They have not had re-
course, or only to a very slight extent, to buck-wheat,
maize, or oil cake. But as soon as the usual food ,
began to run short, they sold off their cattle, at the I
great loss we have mentioned. The circumstance will I
go far to neutralize the benefit to the agricultural class
of the abundant wheat harvest, especially as the stock
of cattle in the country was already very deficient. It
Was ne of the injurious results of the war that partly
by the requisitions and their consequences, and partly
by the cattle plague introduced by the herds imported
to provision the German army, the stock of cattle in
France was very seriously diminished. Since the return
of rats, great efforts had been made to repair the loss,
an it was hoped that two or three favourable years
more would have raised the number of beasts to that
which existed before the war. The drought of the
present summer, as we have just seen, has disappointed
the hope. Bearing in mind the great fall which has
taken place in the priee of cattle in the Paris market,
It would base been reasonable to expect that there
would have followed a corresponding fall in the price
of meat. Nothing of the kind has, however, occurred.
The butchers have been able to retain to themselves
the whole hone of the fall. —Pall Mall Ga:ate.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-09-05

DOMESTIC CARELESSNESS.

It i-. not City people alone who need to be reminded
of the duty of doing all they can to protect their
property from thieves, instead of trusting to the police
to supervLe their arrangement of locks,bolts, and bars.
The ordinary fastenings of the windows of dwelling-
homes are scarcely any r ecurity at all, for the springs
may be pushed back from the outside withthe greatest
ease with a knife or other flat instrument; while
in a large number of cases the fastenings of both
windows and doors are left wholly unattended to
by occupiers of houses, as is shown by the recently.
issued report of the Commissioner of Metropolitan
Police. Says Colonel Henderson, "Once in the house,
although a simple inner bolt would confine the burglar
to one room, I I..Ve scarcely known an instance in
which ho has not been ahle to wander all over the
house." In the St. James' division doting last year,
they were nearly instances in which doors, win-
dows, or area gratings were left, in such a way Si to
almost invite burglars. In 72 cases the keys were
at...nail,' left in the &ors, ;aid in 739 instanera do, krb
or windows were left open, IU btepney, so tzustful
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-09-05

AS IT OrGHT TO BE.

"1 A i.ite:l7. t-v;if; Dr. HASOALL, "Messrs.
Forniman's Warehouse, and took sample, of Tea
reao.) for consignment to their AGENTSA on analysis
I found them PURE. & of svperior quality."
"At the Docks, I took samples of Borniman's
Teas, *Mat I analyzed, & found PURE; the quality
being equally satisfactory."
"1 purchased Packets from 'Agents for
Borniman's Tea,' the contents I find correspond in
PURITY and excellence of qualify, with the tea I
obtained from their stock at the Docks."
8,248 Aaaaea—Cheatiata, Cottfeetioners, 40.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-09-05

THE MARKETS.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET, —MONDAY.
The total imports of foreign stock into London last week
consisted of 17,629 head. In the corresponding week last
ylBe7an in
or w7795r1eeeainvdedin171,862496,;14iw0312.872,T1he1e,200.41ien
tirsa7,llB, 11.7,7:19bee;
moderately active. The eupplin have been good, but the
condition has been rather various. As regards beasts, the
arrivals from our own grazing districts have been liberal ,
foreign breeds have, however, been scarce. With a moderate
demand prices have been steady. The best Scots and crones
have realised oid. to 61-d. per 81b. From Lincolnshire,
Leicestershire, and Northamptonshire we received about
2,000, from Norfolk 17, and other parts of England about 400,
from Scotland 59, and from Ireland 200 head. There has again
been a good show of foreign stock, consisting of 2,218
Tossing, 613 Dutch, and 34 Gothenburg. Transactions have
been on a moderate scale, at late currencies. Full average
supplies of sheep have been on offer. An active demand has
prevailed, and prices have been well supported. The best
Downs and half -bride have made ss. 44. to 55 Oct. per bib.
Calves have been in short supply, and slow request on
former terms. Pigs have been quiet. At Deptford there
have been 250 beasts. Coarse and inferior beasts, 4e. to
4s. Sil. ; second quality ditto, 4s. Pat to ss. 6d. : prime
large oxen, Is. ad. to fie. ; prime Scots, d'c., 65. 10 65. 44. ;
coarse and inferior sheep, 4s. 104. to 6s 7 second quality
ditto, ss. to Is, 2d ; prime roam a trolled, be. 24.
to 5e 44. ; prime Southdowne, 6e. 44. to se. 6d. ; large coarse
calves, 45. 21. to in 84.; prime small ditto, Is Id. to se. 6d
large hop, Is. 84. to 4s. ; small porkers, 4s. 64. to 45. 84L

MARK-LANE. —WablzEs be V.
The grain trade at Mark-lane has remained very quiet
English wheat has been only in moderate supply, but there
has been a fair show of foreign. The demand has been in-
active, at late rates. Barley, of Which a moderate supply
has been on offer, has been in quiet request at previous cur-
rencies. Malt has been dull, at late price. As regards
oats, English have been in short supply, but foreign have
been plentiful With a quiet trade, prices have ruled
about the same as on Monday. Maize has been inactive,
on former terms. Beans and peas have been quiet.

METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET. —sl6:iner.
A moderate supply of meat was on sale here to-day ; the
demand was somewhat active at the following currency :
Inferior beef, Na. 64. to 35. 104. ; middling ditto, 41. to
45 44. ; prime large ditto, 48. 10d. to ss. 44.; prime small
ditto, &s. to 55. 6d. ; veal, 45. Gd. to 5s 2d. ; inferior mutton,
3s. 44. to 45. 24. ; middling ditto, 4a, Gd. to Na. ; prime
ditto, ss. to 55. 4d. ; large pork, 4s. to 45 44. ; small
pork, 3.. to ss. 84. ; and lamb, Na. to ss. 44. per 81b. by the
carcase.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-09-05

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SAVINGS BANKS IN CALIFORNIA.

A satisfactory proof of the steady material progress
of the people of California is, Sar a correspondent,
afforded by a report recently published of the affairs
of the Ravings banks of the State. Returns from 21
savings banks in the State show that the deposits
amount to 62,500,000 dole. (412,500,000). The number
of depositors is 77,500—about one-ninth of the popu-
lation of the State. T 1 is gives an average of 806 dole.,
or about 4:160, for each depositor, or one person out of
every nine in the State. Seven years ago there were
only five savings banks in the State, and these were
all in San Francisco. The deposits then amounted
to rather less than 11,000,000 dols. (t 2,800,000 Now
in this city alone there are eleven savings banks, with
55.711 depositors, andthe deposits amount to 50,800,262
dole. (10,172,000). The depositors form about one-third
of the population of the city, so that one person in
three has on an average 913 dole. (1180) deposited in a
savings bank. These institutions have paid interest
during the past six months at rates varying from per
cent, per annum for deposits at call to 10 per cent, on
term deposits. In 1873 the prevailing rate was 8 per
cent, for the first class of deposits, and 98 or 10 per
cent, for the latter, but during the last six months the
rates have been per cent. lower.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-09-05

MURDER IN FRANCE.

The Foret de Boulogne, an extensive wood near
Boulogne-Sur-Mer, has lately been the scene of a double
crime, the author of which, as yet, is undiscovered. The
victim, a woman 50 years of age, was a native of the
little hamlet of Maquinghen, situated on the west border
of the forest, who, on Saturday, the 22nd of August,
went to Cremareet, a village a mile east of the wood, in
search of a situation, which apparently she had such
strong hopes of obtaining as to take her things with her.
Disappointed in obtaining the place she started on her
return home, taking the road between the two villages
running through the densest part of the forest, in a north-
westerly direction to the large village of La Capelle,
where there was a Duras& last Sunday. From La
Capella the road to Maquinghen runs in a southerly
direction on the west border of the forest, which is
some six miles from north to south, and three
miles wide. From the time of the woman leaving
Cremarest nothing has been ascertained as to her
movements. On Tuesday her body WWI discovered
in a copse of trees at a short distance from the road
lying on its face, as if the woman had fallen in a tit.
The Mayor of La Capelle, in whose commune the
crime has been committed, at once informed the Pro-
cureur, de la Republique at Boulogne, who, with
the Gendarmerie, carefully examined the locality.
and a post-nun-Pin examination of the body showed
that she had been outraged and then murdered,
there being several boluses on her arms and body. The
face was also much disfigured, the immediate cause of
death being a thrust with a pointed stick through the
left eye which penetrated the brain. Having killed
his victim the murderer carried the body some distance,
and carefully laid it on its face, with an enipty bottle,
which had contained spirits, by its side. This latter
circumstance induces those conducting the inquiries to
think the murderer was previously acquainted with his
victim, as she was known to be a person of intemperate
habits, but the podt mortent showed the stomach to be
free from spirits.