The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-01-21 00:00:00

pcat anti ~.!Ottict StOls.

N_AINKRII tiTt :T PROCT‘RDINGV.

/edbisvy, bstilder.Olstswinford, came up
for :‘ • - oi j,iurned exaoetnati.n. on Tuesday, at the
Sii I.c Court House, before Mr. Regietrar
C.:tli:: --in reply to Mr. Jobson (the Oficial
R o :y, 1), the dettt•.• said that the irnrimo tgery he
had wet used on hiil various c. Directs, except any
go )Ji on he remises wben he tilled his pc- idol
The lead ordered in the period bete c the feilu e
W.l.3.use.i on conizaeta he named, and also the &ay.
.. A.,-tail if he had ever tad t, make bargains with the
.rchitects employing him as to paying them com-
inasion, he sal ihe bad not tie had in rue me
: o pay li per sent. tu an architeet ter taking the
quantities out- He put, in, ney on the contract ro
a 4110 I+ p r cent. Tis,r employer would see it as
he looked t'l ough h bill of quantities. He ,ad
tie. any in any ca.e pail an architect a sun of
money for the purpode of get, lag is. contract He
had n v r allowe an architect a sum of money for
the prrpi se of getting a contract. He had never
ak of an architect commis ilt except for taking
out 44awit1e5. With regard to a payment of
-clnDqu s into the bank a day. r two before filing hie
iv:talon; the risana.ter, Mr. Perry, ha I been writing
hint, to pay tile overdrnft at once, and he retina:l
that he wild ii fast as I,e could. Ho handed two
cheques for LlO5 .o .one of the bank clerks it.
agle Street. on November 23, to tak4 down to
t 1 e bank. He had no reason for doing that except
Vlet h.. saw the clerk an-I asked linn to take tne
chequit down for Ii a. H $
_mother, who gave
a gu.rantee at the bane fo him, did no, kn w tie
was iuvolyen 88 be was. He Aid not tell nor of ht,-
in,ersittw with tile solicitor. Hitt mother disirained
. n hint for r...nt. lie did not reeo.l.et th,it it wail
af er bauk hours ha-gave the bank eerk the wleques
in tt,e street. The clerk di : not sok him for the
ehequra; be iirtked• the clerk to take than to the
I?auk for him to s tee Mins If the trouble of goin.,
1 Debtor was questiAned ars to excreta inns on his
' prembris at Okla xiiit,r,l, and Et titi thl tot(tav -uiotts
Iwere f r the purpo-e of getting out sand, and.
were filed with r .thbisb,,. afterwards. Th.
Oil:leis! Reeive. ask,-d if attire was riot
übbisir in the holes that Li. creditor's
w Jai lle, an' debt rr sail there was nothing .:1.1
ru.niso. de ha . ,I. rer buried a single thin.:, o
atb,..d or aare ! agyth rig of the kind to be (low
by ~th re The send 'ails got nut simply fo
~uildi g purposes, and anyone that liked awl;
bring ru )bisu to fill no the holes. After
lebtor hot be, a qti stoned on other points, the
•aanitu‘tio3 wII further abjournel mid titti.
F.tbruaiy, and debtor was directed to file a oast.
ire .tunt for Vie six months prior to the date of time

AN KIE- CONSUL'S STORY.
Prom" The Nrealaps Eyre."

A lad Unitei SAttle Consul at one of th 4

Englist, os)rts, who i now a private resi :ent of
New York, relce3- the following intorestin
G tory:—
"On ray last v.•yago homa from Enzlan Bona,
th:ee years ago, in one of the Cucard
noticed one morning, after a few da- s out of port.
a young man hobbling about on the upp deck.
supported by crutches and seeming to ttiora wit
oxtrana difficulty and o little p dn. lie was wel
drf:seed 4,4 of emcee:tingly benisons° countenaut!e-
hut hip, limbs wer onnewbat emiciated and hie Inc
7..ry sall-w 310 bor. the tretea of long joifferiuz.
As he seemed to have no attendant or companion,
he it once at-racted my sympathies; and 1 went up
tn him as be leaned against the taffrail lo. Lin 111
r. thc to track which the steamer was making
• E ism° me, my young friend,' I esid, tonchin,r him
mt iy on the shlulder, you appear to be an invalic
• ;lardly able or along enough to trust yours,-1
• -ttended nn an ocean voyage; but if you requir
a y a,sistance 1 am a robamt and healthy man and
so.. 11 be glad to beip you." You are very kini;
rIC r,phed, in a weak but I req:lire no
dr.-sent aid beyond my orwenes, which enable me
to pass from my stateloorn no litre to get the
b,n, fit of the satiehin3 and the sea breeze' You
have been a gre t uff-rer, ni douty: I said, ' and
judzi, 11,4 you have been afflicted .vith tbat
troablesonie ohs est—thou Lustier:a, whose prevalence
an i intensl. y Bem to be on an alarming increase
bita in Eugalnd and America." You are right,'
he an:iv/arid ; '1 nave been it,: vtotiu for In )ra

ban a year, and after failing to find relief from
neikal iII. have lately tried the springs of
;arlsbad and Vichy: but they hive done me no
and I am now on my return horn to Miss mr.
C) (lc, I supp fse I shali be content if life is sp tred
no to reach my mother's prolPfice. She is a widow
tod I. itcr ou y chill.' There wail a pathos i.
his tfpeech whtelt alfecte.l tn 2 profoundly, and
,tvaf.eu,t in ine a deep, r sympathy than I hao
felt botore. I ha t no words to answer him, and
it oat ly hest ie him watehin4 tie snowc wake
of the snip. Whil.i chits standing, aty thought
re vvrted to a olitid-4 ten-year old by —Ol a
tet.tillt mt. of wind, rrsi jl4 near my coneflistf
re,ai io.fce. who hal n en ourel of a stubb trn case.
o• rh uftiAtism by the use. of St. Jacobs Oil, and I
r-litieuth rot that the steward of the ship had told
no tho day he,ore that he had cured hitn4elf of .

yen. w3ver" attack o the gout, in New York, ins
ioyage, by the uie of the dauai

r.rn,4.-Iy, lat nc; left my young fliand and wen
n low to tin,l ToL stew4rl. I not only found_hiin

off duty, but discovered that ho had a boitle of th
ilk iu hia 'Gast% Will he awl cArrie.l aerosi tho