The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-11-29 00:00:00

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and it was witnemed by Thomas Farrell and Jamrn
iteighroll, who was then, as Maher mays, on the
wrow sue cf sixty. Both witamsee are now dead,
but a man Lamed John Nicholls who was present at
the making of the mill, imairives. 'Maher kept the will
! with his ppm natal 1144 when, se he was about to
' go to Beath Auatratikbe left them with his broth's'.
ic-laW.. Jobs lif'Gniff . He.
ups Pet got them back from
him in#B64, an left eztaitherCorleY, who
lived Atltfolengelo., . a inabir, 1872. Cirley. *ho
was ai the Lachht mit e "mare X.) Mr. High
Agnaw, formally post-ranter t !tamers/11a, asking Sim
7 its. tirforward them to r. rock's), ,iif4i la the early
part of 1872, awl, so was then kumen, inteetate,
and adsuinietratiou is estate wail granted to two
creditors. „Immediately aftet Agnew /strived Um
: letter from curley, MAher ,wae advertised for in the
Mcineroe Mercury, The mitertidernent was seen by Mr.
John Berry, a landowner, n friend of Maher, who for- !
warded it to him, he being then in the Waggn Hospital.
The case has been partially heard, and adjourned. ,
THE FUTURE CONITITION OF THE
LABOUR MARKET.
(From Monday's Tinvs—Money Article )
in view of the coutinthd saw:tains of Miners' Cut cm and
kindr,d orgenisstious oa this sided as American merchant
writes:—
"Would it not be wise and tweinl to read to them •
lesson from the American crisis.? One et the Main
caloes of the tribniatiose in America consisted hi the
extortionate demands of the labouring clase.s—higher
wages, eight hours • day, & •, and now these classes
have humbly to supplicate for work at any price to
keep from starvation."

Dotty BuNati*

On the same mulled, the *eta York
writes:—
"The exactions of the Trades' Unions have been
pudied to a point wholly inconeistent with the pros-
perity of our industries, bat they have been onabled to
enforce their terms because one particular branch of
enterprise has made entirely abnormal demauds upon
the labour market. The excessive building of railroads
for the lard five years has abmorbed in the coustrucetioin
of line, the manufacture of rails, engines, cars, &c.,
tens of thousands of men who otherwise would have
heen competh g for employment in other departeirenbt
of labour, With the effect of ibounteracting the efforts
of the unions to obt‘in higher and yet higher wages;
and this fact will go far towards explaining the
facility with which the employed have, during late
years, controlled the employers. Now, however,
that the artidcial stimulus eppplierl by the rail'
reads is withdrawn, the whole fabled Minket
and a new condition of things must result. The rapi-
dity with which these c insequences have been developed
is a striking evidence of the certainty with which the
natural laws that control society assert th eir supremacy.
l'he adjustment of the future condition of the labour
market will be, to • large extent, controlled by the
reaction in the railroad Wert. The general nab
of wages has been high, mainly because so much
muscle and brain has been unduly diverted to that
interest. In considering how much labour has been
employed through extravagant railroad building, we
have to note, not only the vast number of hands ern-
ploy ed in grading, laying track, buddii g bridges, making
rails and ties, constructing stations, engines, and cars, but
also the number who have indirectly found employment
from the extravagant expenditinve of those who have
made imaginary fortunes in this clam of speculation,
and from the encoursgement to city embeilishmente,
park budding, suburban real estate speculations, costly
yachting recreations, and a thousand other expansions
f expenditure to which these things have indirectly
contributed. The railroad mania is the final form of
speculation and ' ' extravagance entailed by
war finance; and that being explodol, weixo,y look for
• condition of affairs approximating the social mode-
, ration and the business conservatism which prevailed
before our great struggle. It is to such a state of
things that tlic wages of the future must conform."
THE TIDES UTILISED.
The Globestui• published the toiletries letter :

Your corresi.ondent " Senex " certainly posseases
the original ilea of many years' standing—sin, the
unuthised action of the tides so a motive power for
machinery; but he woo not aware of the mechanical
difficulties to be surmounted before such force could be
made available aa a valuable and efficient motive
tallier. "Sean" may be pleased to hear that a plan
ia .but being submitted to the Government which
illustratee the availability of water as a inotbe power
for all atanding mactinery, whether for dockyardo,
animals, rivers, in act, wherever water is within
reach.
It is calcniate4 that this invention will save the
(Livernment £200,1-00 in fuel akin., and throw into
the market for domestic UPO Wei in ouch quantity as to
reduce the price of this cwtly luxury to one-balf to
present fivure, and cheapen considerably most articles
of manufacture.

The advartage thie invention will prove to our In-
dian poi,eaniuhe and colonial rivers is incalculable. The
fact of mechanical motion being produced by the
natural action of water, and this self-Acting, with
Ability to add an extra 50 boree.power when required
by einnply mucliiii; a lever, will give rove idea of the
grad daalderatum About being Anconalad-int-J.—Your
obedient servant, C. R. lii NI.EI.
14, st reirevt Win Aimesin-pirt gar d is W.
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ABD•EL-KADIR.
(From itch )
Sq, the old h r, peace uhy expires,
M. coal toutzsim els Upon hi. eat",
He'd heard ot lost Se 'Co, Pt Commune fl,es,
Pit be tecal French revtge In Algiers t
If so, 'l'e's eve it td smiles, thou •h somewhat grim,
Fot SIDI EL•flebil OCLED MAHIDelat.