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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-05-30

QUARRY BANK.

CHARGE OF HOUSEBREARIVG.—At the Petty Sessions,
on Thursday last, at Brierlcy Hill, before Mr. Spooner
(Stipendiary), floury Cartwriteht, ahoy, was charged with
breaking into the house of Eii Skehling. on Monday last,
and stealing therefrom seine trs a I. and other things.
Prosecutor said he lived at (Marry Bank, lie locked uo
his house at five o'clock, and on returning lie found tl.at
it had been entered, sad a quantity of bread, in, at,
sweetmeat,, and other things were missed. The learned
Stineudialy said he should charqe him with stealing.
Police•constable Hammond pr.vetl that lie saw the prisos
nor, and charged him with stealing three loaves of bred
and some sweetmeats. Prisoner showed him where he
Ito) hid the bread. The learned Stipendiary said ho
would give the prisoner another trial, and impose a lei'.
eat sentence; indite could not pass over it, and seattdc,d
Idin to one month's hard labour.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-05-30

NAT ‘NTED. a HOUSE, within Ten Minutes'
V wak a the Stourbridge Rail's, Station.
Rent &boat £2O per annum.—Apply by letter, P.S.,
Crailloy llvth, Post OiBCC.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-05-30

The EFFECTS of FELON LITERATURE.

Two boys were tried, on "Nbinday, at the -Middlesex
Sessions for burglary. They had broken into the office
of a tradesman, who employed one of them, and stolen
a few pounds, which they spent in a trip to the play
and other amusements. Their Father said they leel
011 CO been good hove; but of late their minds bad been
poisoned by the zeading of infamous publications,
such as the "Juvenile Highwayinan," and other
things of that stamp ; and, as if to confirm his state-
ment, it transpired that the officers who apprehended
the lads found in their possession a collection of what
may be called robber properties, such as a dark
lantern, a loaded pistol, percussion-caps, and several
implements of housebreaking—just the tools, in fact,
with which the heroes lif the boy stories perform their
wonderful exploits. Call nothing lie oboe?
The Father of the prisoners, said in about a month's
time he was going to America, and hoped that the
Judge would pass a light sentence upon Ids sons, to
enable him to take them with him.
The Assistant-Judge said if the father at the next
sessions satisfied him that he Wa/4 going to America, he
would then see what could be done. At present he
abed,' defer passing sentence upon the prisoners until
the next sessions.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-09-05

AGONISING SCENE AT A FIRE.

MAN'S ANTIQUITY IN AMERICA.

sit the meeting of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, recently held in the city of
Chicago, many of the papers indicated considerable
activity in the researches into the antiquity and
character of the early races of turn who inhabited
America, and some of the investigators are already in-
clined to claim that the 80 called " New" is really the
"Old" World.
Colonel Charles Whittlesey, in a paper on the
"Geological Evidences of Man's Antiquity in the
United States," maintained that four Amencan races
preceded the red man: first, the mound-builders ;
second, a race in the territory now called Wisconsin ;
third, a warlike racii in the region south of lakes
Ontario and Erie: and, foortn, a religious people in
Mexico. Pottery, arrow-heads, &c., have been found
in conjunction with and beneath the mastodon and
megatherimit A jaw and tooth were pronounced by
Agassiz 10,000 years old.
Mr. Foster, In a paper on the same subject, gave an
amount ,S a discovery in a I leep gold drift of California
of a skeleion covered by five deposits of lava. He ex-
hibited an arrow.head found in the valley of San
Joaquil., 30ft. below the surface. The island of Petite
Anse is a so'id mass of salt, at the mouth of the
Islississipi, covered with 14ft. of earth; embedded in
the salt has been found a piece of petrified matting by
i the side of a fossil elephant. Human remains have
I also been found during excavations at New Orleans at
. a depth of 16 feet,
Mr. Foster also exhibited a copper knife found in
New Orleans, which he believed was a relic of the
mound-builders. A water-jug surmounted by a human
head and a statuette ii a captive with his hands bound
behind him, both from Peru, and evidently of extreme
antiquity, attracted much attention.
It may also be mentioned that the recent explora-
tions of Mr. Spiels, in Peru, and the curious photo-
graphs of ancient temples, dolmens, &c., which he
has brought Inck, have renewed 80111 c old theories as
, to a connection in origin between the earliest in-
habitants of America and those of the Oriental
I
, countries. ...—..
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-09-05

evitably occasion. The impression upon the nervous
centres thus produced would be a powerful agent in
rapidly extinguishing vitality. And there is nothing
inconsistent with recorded experience in this view. In
our journal of the 17th of January, 1863, Dr. Buzzard
descrited minutely the appearances presented by six
children who had been taken out dead from the top
room of a house which had been burnt down. They
had all been found lying in bed in a posture of repose,
except one, who wee on the floor. The condition of
the bodies showed unmistakably that the extensive
burns upon them had been inflicted during life, and
signs of suffocation were absent. Yet they had made,
with one doubtful exception, no effort to escape, and
their countenances bore no sign of a struggle for exist-
ence. On such a point as the degree of consciousness
' which would exist under the circumstances of violent
death of this description it is impossible to speak with
absolute confidence, but on the whole we believe that
a human body suddenly wrapped in flames under the
conditions obtained at Abergele would have its
vitality extinguished with extreme rapidity. And this
, small amount of comfort is all that we can extract
, from an event which in sickening to dwell upon.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-09-05

SERMON ON THE GREAT RAILWAY
ACCIDENT AT ABERGELE...

On Sunday an unusually large congregation at- .
tended at St. Stephen's Church, Walbrook, London,
to hear a sermon preached by the Rev. Wm. Windle
upon the subject of the " awful railway disaster" at
Abergele. The printed placards announcing the
sermon were headed with "/a the midst of ti,re we are
in death," and a quotat on from the newspapers, which
said "it is rumour...l that the Rev. Mr. Windle, of
London, and Mrs. Windle, were in the train, and they
have not since been heard of." The rev, gentleman
took for his text the 10th verse of the 14th chapter of
Job, "But man dieth and wasted& away; yea, man
gireth up the ghost and where is her Ile said that
large numbers of persons had thought that he was the
Rev. Mr. Wmdle that had been rumoured to have lost
his life during the great railway accident. The facts
were that the Rev. Allen Windle, of Kingstown, was
expecting his relatives, the A ylmers, of \Veinier Castle,
I )nrham, by the ill-fated Irish mail train. Hearing of
the accident, that gentleman proceeded next morning
to Abergele, where he saw the calcined remains of his
relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Aylmer, Mr. Ai imer, junior,
snil a niece. He mild not identify their bodies. The icy,
gentleman believed that every one ought to lie prepared
to meet sudden death. The father of Alexander the
Great kept an attendant whose duty it was to say to
him every day, "Thou art mortal." Men were liable
to meet death in various ways . by the upsetting of
boats, by the sinking of ships ; and in Lundon alone
300 liven were lost by street accidents. He believed
that Lord Farnham was a good and pious man, and to
the good sodden death was sudden glory. All should
be prepared to die. It was only that week that a
Sunday-school tea' her fell dead at a door-step in the
. street, anti his corpse was van ied into the pitch of that
church. As the cougregation were leaving the oran
; played the 'Dead March in Saul."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-09-05

AN AMERICAN UNIVERSITY.

The University in which Mr. Goldwin Smith has
accepted a professorship seems to have little in
common with that in which the profesor lately filled
the Chair of History, or indeed, with any other in
this part of the world (says the Pall Mall Gazette.)
Its reiginator and Principal (we suppose he must be
called), Mrs Ezra Cornell, gives in the New York
papers is full account of what the new institution ia
designed to be and do. In the first place, he says, the
trustees aimed to arrange a system of manual labour
which, while it would be compulsory upon none,
would furnish all the students of the university with
the opportunity to develop their physical strength and
vigour by labour, the fair compensation for whichwould
pay the expenses of their education. Students will
he employed in cultivating and raising, on a farm of
tt,(S) acres, the variou.s productions be,t suited to furnish
the college tables. These will include live ...Lock for
producing tea, butter, and cheese, arid to be killed
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-09-05

COMMISSIONERS' mrs.TING.

The monthly meeting of this bray wet held on Wed.
ne 'day last ; Mr. J. Allsop in the ehair. There were
also present Messrs. Walker, Packwood. Newnam, Collis,
Wel,b, T. R. Richards, Levi, Billingham.
The Clerk reed the minutes of the last meeting, which
woe confirmed.
Mr. Whittaker attended the Board in answer to a letter
received from the clerk in reference to the cleansing of
the street.
The Chairman said that several complaints had been
male to the Board in reference to the deeming and
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-09-05

SATeRDAY, SEDTEMPIT 5, 18611.

Cateli.ET.

PARK LINE VICTORIA Prsasorr Vicroart ?hie
match MAR played et Penseett last Monday. end after a
friendly game ended iu favour of Park Lane by 20 runs
to spare. The bowline of Oliver nod Con, and Baker and
Yates for their rerpective sides Was very good ; also the
Belding of the Park Lane Club was much admired.
Subjoined is the full score:—
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PM:. Lin VICTOIIII.
Ist Innings. dud Innings.
C. Harris, b *Yates 8 b Baker
J. Cornet, c Norwood. b
Willioms
T. Clifton, band c Yates lO b Yates 2
F. Oliver, run out 0 not out
T. Hadley, run out
' J. Dawe, run out
' 0. Fellows, b Yates 2 b Baker
T. Con, run out 7 b Baker
Y. Wall, b Yates
.1. Payne, b nude Yates .... 2 b Yates 0
C. Mawm, not out 0 1 Yates 2
Byes
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-09-05

GENUINN

T. HOME".
SITE WAYS, ,&DLILY 'MATO

MR. JOHN STOKES,

AUCTIONEER AND APPRAISER,
HOUSE AND LAND AGENT,
OFFICES,-UNION-STREET, DUDLEY.

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Big to inform the inhabitants of Dudley and surround-
ing neighbourhood that he is pn pared to Wrap( MOTIOy
upon liouseholA Furniture Cr Stock of any description
for eel, at the shortest notice, mad the cbergt e reason-
ehle.

W. FORREST,
BooKsELLNR. STAT IONER ,
111011-STI: E 7,
CRADLEY 11 I: ATI!.

Piloting mud T.• • i CAI)ly esecuted. Picture
e,, , • • •
Denier in II , .11, : C.

7. A CAID.]

MISSES M. AND E. FOWLER,

DRESS & MANTLE MAKERS,

92, H1.9•.:1 ',ET, STOURBRIDGE.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-09-05

TO BOOT AND SHOE DEALERS, FAMILIES,

AND OTHERS.

IMPORTANT AND UNRESERVED SALE OP
BOOTS AND SHOES,
At 11,• HORSE BHOE INE, MARKET-PLACE,
BRIERLEY HILL.

INSUI,L will SELL by AUCTION, on
S • MONDAY NeXT. SEPTIMDKR 7th, 186 S, about 500
Pair. Men's, Boys', Women's, and tlirls' BOOTS and
SHOES, quantity of NAILS, ELASTIC, Men's and
Women's LASTS. and other useful Effects, belonging to
a person giving up the trade.
Sale to commence at Two o'clock in the Afternoon, ml
continue until the whole is disposed of.

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rpo BE SOLD.—A BAROAIN.—A First-
A_ dom. BOMBARDONE, Four Valves, £3 10a.
Also. • Fine-toned DOUBLE BASS, £4 I.—Apply to
S. Glover, Cecil-street ;or at the (j*server Otlice, 92,
)iigh-street, Stourbridae.
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TO be LET, a large MALTHOUSE, suitable
for the above, or a Warehouse, situated at Lower
Swinford, within Five If Unites' Walk of the Railway
Ststion.—Apply to Mr. IT. Aaron, Oldswinford, near
Stourbridge.

TO be LET, and may be entered upon %me-
diatele, a capital CONFECTIONERY and SUGAR
BoILING BUSINESS, situate in the best part of
Dudley, and now lining a very good trade. Fixtures to
be taken to. Rent low. Satisfactory reasona for the
prevent proprietor leaving.—For partieulars. and to treat,
apple to Mr. John Stokes, Auctioneer, I, Union-street,
Dudley.
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-09-05

NOT DONE WITH YET!

The little cloud, "no bigger than a man's hand,"
which rose a few weeks ago has not yet alto,ether
vanished from the politicalhorizon (remarks The Times).
The Belgians cannot be fully reassmed as to some de-
signs of the French Government on their commercial
and military independence. Ni age, they consider,
has been distinguished by more flagrant ill-faith than (
the present. The bare mention of a contemplated ces-
sion of Savoy to France was scooted both at Paris and
Turin up to the very eve of that tl .gitious fransas;thm.
The sale of Luxembourg by Ililaid to France was
treated as an idle and slanderous rumour up to the
moment when the exchange of official notes had carried
the subject to the very verge of war. The open
menaces of certain potentates are now-a-days held
hardly so dangerous as their propensity to "protest
too much." A declaration if" pacific intentions" has
almost come to be intepretril as a declaration to go to
war. Nothing but a strenuous exertion of public
opinion can restore confidence. The outcry abont
Luxembourg was loud enough to make the negotiators
desist from tle ir disgraceful bargain. The same r. St.
less plotters most be aware that in these days of pro-
found peace Belgium could not be disposed of without
a far more violent and more effectual uproar. It little
matters what sellers and purchasers may wish or may
hope ; they will not bring their schemes to maturity,
simply because they dare not.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-09-05

The CONDITION of the AGRICULTURAL

LABOURER.

The Spectator declares that the day labourer is educated
enough to know his way to the districts where wages are high
the misery of special localities will end, and the Yorkshire
rate—ls 3. a week—will be the minimum rate for all England.
The day he is educated enough to know that the Government
of Washington will give him fifty acres of land for nothing,
and to organise family emigration as the Irish do, the English
rate clii old, and be supplanted by an international average,
which will, at all events, secure substantial comfort. The
way to throw down the barriers, is, first of all to spread edu-
cation through the counties, by making instrielion the con-
liana of Wages ; secondly, to abolish the limits of unions, so
that a man by wandering northward may not lose his " settle-
ment "—a provision which now ties him to the suit; and thirdly,
to teach the villagers the great lesson tan. Ginneatone
is teaching them, that the village is not the world, that
for certain shillings and after certain exertion they Can reach
places where the labour they have to sell is more in demand
It is in pt reading, writing, and arithMetic only which will
make the English labourer an enterprising and independent
being, but specific instrnetiou such as Ms employer has
when he sends his son to India critic Colonies. The sons of
educated men do not sit down and whine about wages, but
go where they can get them. The only hope for the labourer
is the education which will make him a free man, everything
else is either a palliative or a degradation; a palliative if it
takes the form of an allotment of land, al degradation if it
takes that of "liberal' alms, wrung from ratepayers but
one degree less in want of aid.

The Tablet thinks religious influences would effect the
emanoipation of the agricultural labourer. It asserts that
in England the worst feature of his lot is neither his food,
nor his clothes, nor his lodging, nor his pay, Ind his want of
moral and intellectual culture. If religious influences
could be brought to bear upon him to Inunanige loin, and
to raise him above his merely animal existence, his condition
would be sufficiently tolerable.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-09-05

PUBLIC NOTICE.

HOMER, News Agent, Crudley Heath,
T. bees to inform the Public that be is able
to SUPPLY them with the LONDON DAILY NEWS-
PAPERS.

Gr ORDER AT ONCE

MR. JAMES BOSTON HEYS, Professor
of Music, flih.treet, Cradley Heath.
N.B.—All kinds of Musical instruments tuned and
repaired.
New Music at Halt-price.
EIANOMuRTES FOR BALE OR HIRE'

TO FARMERS. A:e.
BROAD and AGRICULTURAL SALT, at
Manufacturers Prices,liir rail or canal, to any
p at.—Ap ply ,tiJ. Meson, Railaa Coal What!, Stun'-
bilge

[A CARD.

Ai R .
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-09-05

EDWARD SMITH

(bee of Oh/sm.-Word),
ARCHITECT, SURVEYOR, AND ESTATE
BUILDING AGENT,

No. 45, BAGLEY. ZZZZZ T, STOURBEIDGE.
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-09-05

ABSINTHE SUISSE.

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We (Laurel) have analysed a sample of what we ,
believe to have been the veritable Absinthe Suisse, i
in order to determine whether the analysis would j
throw any light upon the extruirdinary effects pro- ,
duced by this compound on the human frame. These ;
effects, as is well known, are high and even delicious ,
excitements fdllowed by proportionate subsequent tie- .
pression, with, ultimately, early decaden,e of the I
nervous and vital powers. The results of the analysis :
! were as follows :-.Specific gravity. 890.2. Alcohol,
absolute, 65.528 per cent., 655.28 per 1,000; green
s-ssentialoil, .202 per cent., 2.02 per 1,000; sugar, gum,
&c., .354 per cent., 3.54 per 1,000; mineral matter,
.056 per cent., .56 per 1,000. Two particulars of the
I analysis especially challenge observation and remark,
palai dinwteh ebehliigehyleytihnajtUritoat.nant:iigeevtehne,rieltehteeyriogloisfacarttioone,x,f-
absinthe upon the system. First, we observe that alcohol
is present in very large amount— as large, in fact, as in the
very. strongest brandy. Se. ind, we notice that it contains
no less thsn 2 per 1,1:00 grains of essential oil. Now, a
great variety of essential oils exert the most marked
effects on the system—take, for example, those of tea
and coffee ; and amongst those which exercise these
effects, we must certainly include the oil of absinthe.
Now either the alcoliel or the essential oil alone is
capable of affecting powerfully the human organism,
but when they are consumed together the body in sub-
jected to the double power of two most potent agents,
acting mainly on the nervous system. It is there-
fore far from surprising that it should give way under
repeated doses of this but too seductive beverage. Of
the injurious operation of an essential oil on the
' economy we have another example in oil of grain, or
. fusel oiL The absinthe was specially tested for
, metals, such as copper and iron, as, had they been
, present in considerable amount they also, lit cono.hi-
. nation with essential oil and I lsohol, wolffd have ex-
' plained in some degree the deteter.nAs properties of
. rxtrait d absinthe; traces of iron only, however, were
; to be found.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-09-05

WHAT IS PETROLEUM?

Professor Hitchcock, of New York, states that
petroleum is unquestionably of organic origin. In his
(minion the greet mass of it lnis been det ived from
plants; it has been thought by some to be derived
from the animal kingdom, being either a fish oil or a
substance related to ailipocere. It does not appear to
be the result of a natural distillation of coal, since its
chi mical composition is different from the oil manu-
factured from the cancels, containing neither aniline
nor nitrobenzole. Moreover, petroleum occupied
fissures in the Silurian and Devonian strata of
America long before the trees of the coal period were
growing in their native forests. Brine is generally
associated with petroleum, and the fact of the slight
solubility of hydrocarbon in fresh water, but insolu-
bility in salt water, excites the inquiry whether stilt
water of printieval lagoons may not have prevented the
escape of the vegetable gases beneath and condensed
them into liquid. The immense territory in North
America, several hundred square miles in extent,
underlaid by certain geological formations in an
unaltered state, implies that the petroleum of the
New World, like its coal, is probably inexhaustible.
In a paper by Professor Hitchcock, read before the
Bt itish Association in 1866, he states that in five years
the United States of America produced more than
300,000,000 gallons of petroleum. The average daily
yield in the year 1866 was at least 12,000 barrels. The
business of collecting, transporting, and refining it
tmployed as many hands as either the coal or iron
trade.
'rhe most prolific of all the petroleum regions is
Western Pennsylvania. The oil is found beneath each
of three sandstones, or sets of impervious strata.
Petroleum may occur in cavities and fissures in the
strata. The exist .nce of A cavity is inferred froin the
prodigi tus amonn ; of fluid spouting out of the ground
at the Gr tnt well at Pitt Hole the produce was at the
rate of 1,800 barrels of petroleum per day. There are
no les, than fourteen different formations in North
America from which petroleum has been obtained.
The quantity of petroleum in gallons, exclusive of
mial oil, exported from the United States in each of
the four months, February to March of the present
year, was as fo lows :—February. 561,086 crude anti
4.4:14,393 refined ; March, 567,163 crude and :1,624,974
refined ; April, 824.453 crude and 5,113.739 refined;
May, 1,812,285 etude and 6,669,752 refined.
Petroleum ex ii tees look for regions where the strata
have hem much folded aml broken, promising that the
dislocations may produce cavities in which the fluid will
accumulate. The best surface indication generally
guide to shallow wells.
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-09-05

WORDSLEY.

ABSACLI CASES.—At the Petty gewgaw, on Monday I
hat, before Henry Hall, S. Fereday. and T. Y. Lee,
F.wirs., Thomas Ball was charged with assimlting Thomas
Bryan, at Amblecote, on the 24th of Angust. Corns
pliinant said that the defendant struck him in the fat,
with his Mind. I .s.re in a7,co isaac at the time
of the assault. The witnesses for the prosecution not
sppeiniug, the Bench adjourned the case for seven days.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-09-05

CRADLEY.

CEIARIDE OF STEALING A GIG WHIP.—Lt the Petty
Sessions held yesterday, at Stourbridge, before Major
Fletcher and the Ilon. C. G. Lyttelton, William Forrest
PAS charged with stealing a gig whip on the 31st of July
last, the property of George Marsden. Alfred Beecham,
who was in the employ of prosecutor, proved that the
whip belonged to his master. In answer to to the charge,
defendant said that he found the whip in the road. Ile '
made every enquiry he could, and gave directions that if
any person came for it it was to be given up. The Bench
said the whip ought to have been taken to the Police
Station, and diimissed the case.
CHARGE OF STEALING POTATOES. Elijah Cox was
charged with Waling a onaintity of potatoes on the 28th ,
ult, the property of Alfred Wooldridge, butcher. Police-
constable Dowdeswell proved that he saw the prisoner in
company with another nine in the prosectitor'a field.
Both of them had both potatoes. Prisoner ran away,
and witness was unable to catch him. The other
I ner bad been sentenced to 14 days imprisonment for the
offence. Could not say they were potatoes. but they were
I In a bag, and looked like potatoes. Prisoner waa dia.
charged.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-09-05

fi r meat ; grain for bread, and vegetables and fruit of
all kinds suited to climate and soil.
Mechanical employment will be given to all in:the
machine shop in the. university. This will be equipped
with an engine of twenty-five horse power, lathes,
planing-machines for iron and wood, and all the most
improved implements and tools for working in iron
and wood. Here Mr. Cornell's undergraduates are to
manufacture tools, machinery, models, patterns, &c.
The erection of the additional buildings required for
the university will furnish employment, he says, for
years to students in need of it.
There will also be employment in laying out, im-
pr,ving and beautifying the farrn and grounds of
the university, in road making and similar occupa-
tions.
The work done by students will he paid for at the
current rates paid elsewhere for like services. The
work is to be done under the supervision of the profes-
sors and competent superintendents and foremen. It
will be the constant aim (the students are promised)
I of the trustees and faculty of the university to render
it as attractive and instructive as possible, and espe-
cially to make it conducive to the health, growth, and
physical vigour of the students, besides affording them :
the means of self-support and independence, while re-
ceiving all the advantages of the university. With
such combined facilities for instruction anti mainten-
ance, all the expensEs of a first-class faculty and of
tuition being paid by the endowment, Mr. Cornell
trusts that no person who earnestly des res to be
thoroughly educated will find difficulty in becoming so
by his own exertions at the Cornell University. In
conclusion, Mr. Cornell assures the " boys " that if
they will perform one-fourth as much labour as he did
at their ages, or as he does now at sixty years of age,
they will find no difficulty in paying their expenses
while prosecuting their studies.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-09-05

SAMUEL LOVER AND HIS " RORY

O'MORE."

We .-xtraet the f.,ilowing, by Dr. Mackenzie, from
the Nit° York Round Title.—
Lover told sic another anecdote, which Is not only curious
Lilt true. "In Dublin," he said, " some years before, I had
written the song 11 • Rosy 011ore,' out was unable to sell it
to any music publisher there. Madame Vestris visited
Dublin on a etarring expedition, and wished for a new bong
to intrmluce into one of her old characters. Sonic One
mentioned gory O'alore,' whioh 1 had often swig in
private, and she sent for me. was charmed with the song, ,
and determined to sing it on the stage. I gave my free
permission. She sang it, made a hit with it, end hart to
repeat it three times a night while she played hi Dul din. She I
introduced it on the stage in London, where it took the ,
public ear at once. I disposed of my copywriglit at a Mend
price, and the sale was very ureat One night after I had
been settled—oh, what a settlement '—in London, my 'pints
and funds were very low ; I went I,llt ti take a walk, and at
the corner of the street found a ballad-singer rattling away
with • Rory O'More,' and picking up the coppers as he went
along. Five minutes after that I heard 'Rory O'More '
ground upon a hand organ to a large crowd. Tin oor three
times more that night I heard the song played or sung, and
when I returned to my lodgings there Wtss another singer,
is ith a crowd round hire and my younuest daughter, leaning
half way out of the window calling out, 'That's my papa's.'
I got hope that night of making money by my pen ittel piano.
and at breakfast next morning had a note (tom DutY and
II ral.,son, begging me to call on them with any soup 1 might
wish to sell them."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-09-05

HINTS TO TRAVELLERS.
(From Punch.)

. .
1. Always make up your mind where you are going before
hiring your cal,. This saves much after confusion.
2. Be prepared with a little money in jour pocket. You
will find it wield.
3. Tune as little luggage as possible. A toothbrush and a
pair of straps are amply sufficient for a short tom.
4. If you have a name you are proud of. have it legibly
written on a label and conspicuously placed upon your
luggage. If you are desirous to avoid recognition, it is not
a lint plan to have no label at all. Ir. all cases of not
sticking a label to your luggage, stick to it yourself.
5. Invariably travel third-class. You will find It come
cheapest in the end.
6 When the trots moves it is always judicious to observe
smilingly, Note we're off !" This simple phrase frequently
leads to pleasant conversation awl acquaintanceship. Good
matches indeed have sprung from the well-timed utterance
of this mild hut apposite remark. A pleasant little joke
about "riding with one's back to the horses" lias been very
effective in its time. Though now, perhaps, a trifle obsolete,
still it is worth trying, and, if received in the elicit in which
it is offered, should be followed up with caution, and who
knows what may come of it A slight knowledge of the
principal seats the traveller passes, is of incalculable value;
and observations upon the crops will be generally found
acceptable. Never allude to railway accidents, or blow
your nose violently in tunnels.
7. Loudly expressed contempt for the writer of the "City
Article" in a leading newspaper, will always carry with it
the greatest weight. If you are acquainted—however
distantly—with any member of the Peerage, do not conceal
the fact. Such a course savours of meanness, and is pecu-
liarly distasteful to the British nature
8. Insist upon smoking whenever and wherever you
choose. This is a land of freedom, where every tian may
annoy his neighbour hi an independent manner. Old
prejudices ate dying 'wt.
9. If you are seated near a deaf person, insist upon carry-
ing on a conversation with him. By no doing you will
not only entertain him but also the rest of your fellow-
travellers.
10. If you have a friend with you, read him out long ex
tracts from the newspaper. The result will pre bably he,
that after the next station you will have the can loge to your-
selves. Whistling, if pertinaciously persisted in, has been
known to produce the same effect.
11. Never give up your seat to a lady, or change sides on
ally account. The *stem is a bad one. Setyour face against
babiea, bat do not kiss them.
12. Chaff the porters at the small stations. It cheers their
, dull lives, poor fellows, and they will bless you.
l [ The above dozen rules will be found. if carefully
acted upon, to conduce marvellously to the comfort of
the holiday-seeker, but there is another golden rule
which should be invariably obeyed. It is as follows ;
. Most important rule of all—Never go anywhere without
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May be continued. W e shall ere )
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-09-05

rising front its ashes in England, why should not the Church
of St. Thomas rise from its ruins in Rome England was
the first country that ever elected a nation it Church in
jil..aoe, and he besought those who listemal to him to reAore
what had been for 1,001 years the memonal to It. Thomas.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-09-05

•
THE STOE BRIDGE OBSERVER
CRADLEY HEATH, HALESOWEN & DISTRICT CHRONICLE.
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OZNTIAMEN,-
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-09-05

THE IRON TIIADE,

Thtre was no doubt ever atocng the least still.
pine on 'Change at Wolverhampton, on Wed-
asday as to the improved tone of the iron
trade. Increased activity is manifesting itself
on all hands. Several furnaces long Cut have
been blown in, and ethers are being prepared
for employment. But makers are tolerably well
off for orders in the smaller sorts of finished
i iron ; and orders for the heavier kinds ore tlnd-
, ing their way into the markets. Pig-iron is im-
proving in demand, and is firmer in price.
Chains, cables, anchors, &c., are in good demand.
I Tile coal trade, both for household and manu-
All commimications most be authentieated by the Name factoring purposes, is becoming active.
awl Address ‘4 the writer. not nee...wily for pabli•
eition but as a waarantee for goal fittli. Those who
do not wish their mimes to be pab:islied shod& in 1 The reports as to the state of the Iron Trade
addition. adopt S w,nt de pill ode. of this district continue to be of a satisfactory
Commnnientions for the Editor may he addressca toll% character. At the Exchange, on Thursday,
Hiou srLEnr, roc monnoc. or to th B e ranch °Mee, there wos a fair attendance, and the tone was of
T. lots I Le, CIIu,LEY a character to indicate that the increased ani-
rfe shall feel ohliged by All those who favour as with ! motion lately reported is maintained. At
all
Comainairations or Adrertisement,, writing ", 05
,1' the principal works they have an increasing de-
iletif the paper tedy, und seielinp them to 0101)
iii , mend for most descriptions of manufacturered
the week as possible. . Into, but until the railway companies again come
into the market the trade will not attain any de-
gree of buoyancy.
The demand for pig-iron is rather better.
Two of the candidates for Parliamentary
hot-mitre in the district attended tint Exchange
MI Thursday—Mr. itrogden, the Liberal candi-
date for Wednesbury, and Mr. Amphlett, the
Conservative candidate for East Worcester-
shire. Mr. Foley has not'yet returned from the
Continent, but the addresses of himself and
Mr. Foster for W,A Staffordshire mill be issued
almost immediately.

PHOTOURAP,IIC AL-131:11; FP.OM ed. EANt.
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NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-09-05

THE LYE.

DEATH In A RAILWAY CAURIAGE. On Wednesday
last, an awful instince of the uncertainty of human life
occurred at the itemiley Station. A few days previous
John Wood and his wife, Elicabeth Wood, aged 77,
naikm, Lye, passed through Bewdley in perfect health,
on their way to Notts, Castle Collington, near Brom-
yard, on a hop-picking excursion. While there Mrs.
Wood was taken ill, and Mr. Nutt conveyed them to the
Teubury Station, with a woman to assist the husband in
case she became worse during the journey. On arriving
at the Bowdley Station by the Id 40 train, Mr. Appalton,
the station-master, observing one of the passengei a very
ill, stepped into his house for some brandy. On 'Morn-
ing with it the woman was dead. Mr. hiabb, surveil,
was sent for, and pronounced that death had taken place •
from naturat causes, and the body wae removed to Mr.
Lane's, Lion Inn, Wribbenhall, where her children. who
had been written to by Mr. Nott, respecting her illness,
shortly afterwards arrived by a trap, thinking to convey
a living wittier home. By the pennission of Mr. Slade
Baker, one of the county magistrates, they were allowed
to move the body, as Mr. Oalib's cirtiliette obviated the
necessity of an inquest.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-09-05

A CONVICT'S CONFESSION.

At the last Gloucestershire assizes two men were sen-
tenced to fifteen years' penal servitude each for a
daring burglary. Numerous burglaries had been com-
mitted in the county, end the depredators managed to •
get clear aif with thdr booty; and the two men,
Wilson and Geary, who were convicted and sentenced
as above, have confessed that they were implicated in
burglaries not only in Gloucestershhe' but in Worces-
tershire, 'Monmouthshire, Kent, and other counties.
The confession was made to the deputy chief constable
of Gloucester (Mr. Griffin). Wilson narrates circum-
stantially the particulars of several burglaries, the
blows he gave to policemen with a life•preserver, his
intention to shoot anyone who interfered with him,
and the manner in which the proceeds of the burglaries
were taken to London. The following is the account
of 1.115 of the burglaries in which Wilson was im-

plicated
lisr Monday night. November 5, 151St,anl a friend not
Geary went to a jeweller's shop in the Fostgate-street,
Gloucester . Sir Nein iger'a We got overt,' oor three high
walls at the back and ti led to break into the house, but were
disturbed. A policeman had found us, and he lollowed us
down a lane into the market. We turned to our left, and
he nal up to us, and tried to stop us I heard afters arts
that the policeman's mune was Tuck. We both had our
life-preserver's in our minds, awl both struck at him at the
Clinic time. Sly friend struck liim, and knocked him silly ;
but I missed him. We thee turned, and made back for the I
railway station. Be ore we got there, we heard a horse
coming very fast. I took out cry pistol, and intended to
; shoot the horse, but we had just time to jonip over a spiked I
gate before you Mr. Griffin rode up. had you been sooner,
and au tempted to take es, I should have shot son. We ran
across the line, gin • over into some th its, remained quiet fir
some time, and then made oil for Ledbury. We rubbed a
jeweller's shop there the same week, and then left the neigh-
bourhood. Geary was at this time doing penal servitude. ,
Geary confirmed the confession, and added, "I sup* I
pose the gentry are frightened, and will sell their silver
and buy electro-plate ; we should not have a chance
af getting much more. I shall say np more, for if it '
was known to the six or seven hundred c,invicts whom
I shall be sent with that I, a professi.mal thief,
directly after being convicted, commenced to squeak,
and tell all I know about other robberies we have
committed, I shall have no peace. I know we shall
have to do twelve years before we can get a ticket-of-
leave. I'd as soon have had it for twenty years or for
life, for then we could have obtained a ticket-of-leave
after serving twelve years. I hope we shall be sent out
to One of tile colonies, and then we shall be able to get
a ticket-of-leave sooner."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-09-05

STOURI3IIIDGE OBSERVEIt.

lished, in the Revue Modern', the first part of his
prison recollections, some of which are certainly
curious :—" I was told," he remarks, "that on two
or three Occasions an electric battery had been made use
of by the Russian police to loosen the tonsues of the
prisoners who refused to answer the questions put
to them, which shows that the Russian Government
is one of progress, and knows how to turn the dis-
coyelies of science to account. After all, this was
not more cruel than the torture of the herring. I
knew several who underwent the latter, and they
told me that nothing could compare with the suf-
ferings which they endured. They were confined in
a well-warmed apartment, salted herrings with
bread and water for the first few days being their
only food. If they refused to answer the questions
of the examining commissioners the bread was first
d all withdrawn, and th- n the water, whereupon
the torture of intense thirst commenced, depriving
the sufferer of all moral strength, and even making
him abandon the resolution widch he had formed
to die. Very rarely did any one remain mute when
brought lixfoie the commissioners a second time.
The sittings were usually at night, in a splendidly-
lighted apartment, with refreshments of all kinds
temptingly displayed on the side tables. The pl-e-
-ndent would usually be most gracious. " By-and-
by," he would pay, "we will, if you like, ask you

, FEARFUL CRIME Ti, uoUGH AVARICE.--The
1 keeper of a small inn in the outskirts of Buxerones,
near Poitiers, named Gas. and his wife, have just been
murdered by a man with whom they were on tennis of
intimacy, and who had dined with them on the day of
the crime. lie returned to the house late in the evening,
when the couple were alone, and taking advantage of
a moment whon the woman had gone to the cellar to
fetch something which he had ordered, shot the
husband in the head with a revolver, and then stabbed
him several times in the back. Thinking Gas was dead,
the murderer, whose name was &shin, went to the
cellar, and after b 1 eakinc the woman's a. in with a pistol
shot, and inflicting other w.oinda. he threw her down a
well ninety feet deep. The husleold before he expired
was just able to give an alarm to some neighbours, and
to describe the nature of the attack. The motive of the
crone had been to obtain possession of a sum of fhooof.
which Oar had in the house, but which Babin was not
able to find, as it was afterwards discovered concealed
in a b.]. The murderer was arrested the Battle
evening.
SHORT WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.—At the
Surrey Special Sessions, held last week, fifty trades-
people were convicted for illegally possessing false
scales and deficient weights and measures. One cheese-
monger, who had been fined £5 snd £2 respectively on
occa-sions, was once more mode to pay, the
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-09-05

CRADLEY HEATH.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—A fatal accident ticcurred to a man
named Butler, aged 40, under the following circumstan-
ces. It appetrq that the deceased waa at work at No.
23 pit, Salt Wells Colliery on the 2Sth ult, when a small
piece of coal fell down the pit, hitting him on the side
of the head. He was at once got "lit of the pit and went
and had a glass of brandy, and did:not appear much in-
jured. He afterwards walked home, but died the same
night. Ati inquest.was opened on Tuesday last before It.
Docker, lisq , Cornier, and was adjourned until the 15th
mat, tot the attendance of the Inspector.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-09-05

BELBROUGHTON.

NATIONAL SCHOOL SERMONS.—On Sunday last two
sermons were preached in the Parish Church on behalf
of the National Schools: that in the morning by the
Lord Bishop of the diocese, and that in the evening by
the Rey. H. A. Woodgate, BA , rector. Iu the morning
his Lordship preached a most interesting and appropriate
sermon from the 15th ch. St. Matthew, 11th v., •• Even
so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven
that one of Olean little ones should perish." In the
evening the rector preached from the General Epistle of
Jude, 3rd verse, Beloved, when I gave all diligence to
write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful
for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should
earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered
unto the saints... Both sermons were listened to with
great attention. There lam large congregation at each
service. We were in hopes that the new schools so long
in contemplation were by this time commenced, an we
understand that the land has already been given. Surely
in this wealthy p vrish the principal inhabitants will bestir
themselves, and appoint a committee to raise the neer,
vary funds, as a good-sized school room maybe made
available for inanv useful purposes whereby instruction
and profit may be 'derived, especially by the rising gene-
ration.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-12-12

THE ST

Att.'s) o'clock the Yeoman Usher of the Black
Rod appeared at the Bar, and summoned the
members to the House of Lords, for the pur-
pose of hearing the Royal Commission, sum-
moning the attendance of Parliament, read. A
large number of members accompanied the
Black Rod to the Upper House; and on their
return. Sir 0. Grey, addressing Sir Denis le
Marehant, proposed that the Right Hon. J.
Evelyn Denison, member for North Nottingham-
shire, the late Speaker, should take the chair.
He highly eulogised the services as Speaker
which had been rendered by the right hon. gen-
tleman during the last twelve years, and stated
that he had every reson to believe that the pro-
posal he now made would meet with the unani-
mous approval of the House.
Mr. Walpole, who spoke from the third bench
on the Opposition side of the House, seconded
the proposition.
The motion was agreed to unanimously.
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Mr. Denison briefly acknowledged the- corn
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-12-12

THE MARKETS.

KARR-LA NE.--I.loNba
There was only a short supply of English wheat an sale
here to-day, but the quality of the produce wax good. Fur
all kinds the demand ruled inactive, but the few sales that
took place were conelueed on fully fanner terms. Foreign
wheat, of which the show was moderately extensive, met •
retail inquiry at late rates Baxley was a slow sale at last
week's currency for both grinding and malting qualities.
The malt trade was dull at drooping quotations.
There was a good show of samples on the stands.
There was a fair average supply of oats on offer, which
changed hands to a moderate extent, at a decline of is. per
qr. since Monday last. Beans met a dull Inquiry, and prices
were barely supported. Egyptian were lower to sell. Peas
Were inactive, but without quotable change. Cloversecat
:aid tares were held for full terms, but the English seed
market generally was inactive. Rape and linseed were un-
I altered in value The fiourtmde was quiet, but both foreign
and country marks sold slowly, at late rates.
METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKEY—MONDAY.
There were moderate supplies of foreign beasts on sale here
to-day, in fair condition; and the demand, on the whole, was
steady, at last week's prices. The show of English beasts was
short, butthe general quality of the stock wasexcellent. Never-
theless the trade was far from active, and no imp ovement can
be reported in prices. The extreme price realised was 55. Gd.
per elb., which must be regarded as quite an exceptional figure.
From Lincolnshire. Leicestershire, and Northamptonshire
we received about 1,520 shorthome, tke. ; about 350 of various
breeds from other parts of England; 330 fine Scots and
trusses from ru,tlavid ; and shout 320 oxen from Ireland.
The number of sheep on sale was larger than on Monday last,
and somewhat in excess of the demand. Prices, consequently,
had a drooping tendency, although in the majority of cases
former terms were realised. Lest downs and half breds
changed hands at ss. tots. 21 per alb. Prime small calves were
scarce, and ci.minanded more inoney. Pigs met a moderate
inquiry, at late rates.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-12-12

THE NOBLE SPOILERS OF TRU IRISH CHURCH.

To the Editor of the " Observer."

Saw—Among the ruling families of England few have
been more enriched by church spoils than the noble
houses of Russell and Cavendish. The destruction and ,
spoliation of church property in the reign of Henry the
Eighth brought to the founders of these great families
wealth when they were comparatively per, and, in time,
rank and dignity when they were comparatively unknown.
True to their hereditary instincta and traditions, the
Russells and the Cavendishes of to-day make use of that
wealth and that rank, which they owe mainly to church
plunder, for the purpose of destroying an in integral part
of that national church, which, in the filthy hands of
one of the foulest despots that ever breathed, has made
them what they are. Lord Harlington, the son of the
Duke of Devonshire, and Lord Ainberley. the son of
, Earl Russell, lately paraded their views before electors,
and pledged themselves to an adhesion to Mr. Glad-
I stone's Irish Church policy. But what has been the
I answer of the electors?