The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-12-04 00:00:00

rii E ST 0 U 11,B1IDGE OBSERVER.

ROYAL A CADEUY OF MUSIC. - The next local
examation in connectinn with the Royal Academy
f MtAic for the Worcester centre will be he'd early
ii the .pring of 1887. The syllabus and full par—
ticalar: may be obtained of Mr. W. C. Box, A.C.0.,
St. John's, Worce*ter, the local representative of
the -Academy, and the 'names of intending candi-
dates must be rec4ved by him on or before D3cem-

er 11th, 1886.
ALIT:3IIIRA TEIE‘A.TRE.—.IIr Frank William 4,
ro.ll by a capital all-round company, has twee
etvine the public a treat divine the week by he
represeetation of the qVirinning Cards," or •• Leve.
and Hate"; an r xceedizigly well written comedy
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drama by :Messrs. W.`l. Wild and Frank Williams,
and is sure to meet with success wherever 'resented
It is fall of Interrst and thrilling scenes, and the
-plet net b.ing intrieate is easily understood. .Tire
are some touch'n; scenes, and thes ) are inters pc:awl
with such comicelities-that it is impossible to ce 1-
tral the risible feeliegs Mr Frank Williams es
Fred Dawkins and Miss Blanche Walmsley as
Lettie Davies (their original parts,) are responsible
fot: this merriment, and so welt do they disposs Of
their characters that the pet socks who do not enjoy
themselvee must be of a sordid temper ;relent, The
remaining artists, Messrs. Dryden, Hardinge, All.
wood, Lindon, Hoffuaan,and Misses Osmond, Howes,
a ,c 1 Dawson give infiuite satisfaction by their re-
specire pourtraitures, which is amply testified by
the frequent outbursts of applause We hope to
see a crowded bongs to night (Saturday).
BEGGING Nuist•ie :s —At the Public Office, on
Thursday morni, g, before R. L. Freer, Esq., Jane
Morgas, ne fix ;c1 abode, was charged with begging
on the let iwt Mr. John Blekeway, veterieary
surgeon; sad the defendant came into the yard
beg,gi g. He told her he had nothing to give her,
and she then bec me di-orderly, She appeared to
be drunk Mr. Frepr said begging had become a
great nuis ince everywhere. He could net overlook
,it, aid sent her to prism for 10 days
A CLERGYMAm EsiPaSED treear.-kexandrine Alice
Moore. married, and is said to be conversant with 6
or 7 iangusges, was charged with obtaining .13 103
by falsepretences, from the Rev. Robert Lawson,..
vicar ot (lent, it appears that she went to the
above gentleman's house and pleaded to be in great
poverty. She did not actually ask for any money,
but represented that she was destitute, and had no
no, arts t k get back to Kidderminster. On this he
gore her the money, but slid he should make in-
quiries i to her statement. The rev. gentlemen did
make inquiries an i foundwhat she had said to be
untrue, and he then communio Awl with the police,
'lt was tiaought desirable to further inquire i to
the en miter, and defendant, who appealed to be very
was remanded till Friday next.
SENT TO GAOL—Sarah Psgett, prostitute, Kid.
derminster,.was charged with soliciting prostitution
.on the 27th ult. P.C. nipple proved the case, and
she was sent to gaol for 7 days.
STEILLING JACKETS.—At the Police - Court, yes-
terday, before Messrs. T. 1.). Thomas and W. J.
Turney, Henry Bloomer (45), tramp, was charged
with slealin,e two jackets, on the let inst , the pro-
perty of Alfred White ant'. John Gadd, at Pedmore
Schools. The childree placed their clothes in the
lubtly in the morning, and shortly afterwards the
schoolmaster received informw ion of the robbery
and caught the plisoner, who dropped the things
When caught —Prisoner,, who pleaded that he was
drunk at the time, was sentenced to, one moate'e
htrd labour,
CRUELTY. Taylor (17), in the employ
of Johc Brunton, ho se slaughterer, Dudley, was
chareed with'eruelty to a horse by striking it with
poleaxe and leading it along the road afterwards.
P,rry aepeared to, prosecute —P.S Oakey
said the horse had three weunds on the forehead,
and blood ts as running down its fa, e and droeped
on the fleor.—Mr, John Blakeway pro.e)d ih the
horsz was not fit to be led along the road after re.
ceivin the wolinds.--Defendatit was fined 60e in'
eluding cO,tE.
ALLEGED lIISIFf —The case ageiust Janie) Barris,
ehaietriAker, Lye, for stealing a pair of boots belong-
ing to. George Ni.weem, Harsand Hounds, Careless
Greer., was again adjourned for a, week for the pro-
duction of witnesses.
BOARD OF GITAUDIANS.—The osnal weekly meet-
ing of this Board was held yestaday. Mr. Haskew
itithe chair; there were
_also present Mes.rs. Rol-
linsen, Pargeter, Hingley. Grit6e, ailaway Parkes,
Thompson. ,MeNlillan, Dawes, Bryce, Chambers,
Webb, Guy, Crump, Pearson, White, Brooks, W.
Green, Rhodes, H. Billiagham' Strinpr, Worthing.
- ton, Yardley and Hill. The Master f the House
reported as follows :—Aclmittel 31, discharged n,
dead 1 remaining its the House 552, corresponding
week last year 582. The following is the outdoor
relief :—Kingswinford £46 9s 4d, Stourbridge £33
2s 7d. littlest:aver] X 29 155 70, non resident .21 19s
sd, total £lll 6s llid, corresponding week last
• year £lOl 19s 41.—Mr. Billineham asked if the
Board would give him permission to give the
Children a -tea and entertainment•on the 14th inst.
He sheull be very happy to entertain tike children
and remarked. t at it would commem rate the 50
yeas eels* ence or the Guardians un ler the new
Po r Laws, and also the Queen's Jubilee. The
permission .vas granted unanimously —The Clerk
read a cosmunication from the Guardians of the
Preecott Union (Lauoashire) relative to the British
Hall marking of foreign made watch cases and
wa'oh ;moven), nts, and asking tl.eir co-operation
in a memorial t) the Presi&nt of the Board of
Trade, to stop 'such proceedings.—Mr. Rollinson
moved that the caairman sign the memorial.—Mr.
B ooks seconded, and said he knew of an, ils being
made in Belgium and then scot over here and re-
ceiving the English mark. That Was' something
like stamen- the watches 7—Mr. Chambers naored
an amendment that the clairlialt do not sign it.—
:Mr. MeMilla begged to second the !amendment as
116 thought it had a political ring in it.—Mr.Parge •
tkr sad he certainly thought it had a political ring
in it, and politics ou4lit not to be in.rodueed on the
Board.—Ultimately the :matter fell through, ns it
was thought it was a matter for Chamb es of C
meree.—The report of the Finance Commiqee was
read and received. It rec mon:tended the recayment
of .211 16s 61 to Mrs Jones, of Pensraqt. ' It ap
pars ttett her h .s'land; who was in a lunatic
_asylum, eJed in 1883, and she continued to pay the
maintenance money .till 1885.—The report of the
Building Committee caused a lengthy discussieu
to take place as to whether they shou d buy 8311113
temporary buildings, or erect a wooden structure to
accomodate 100 beds at a coat of about £180; or
whether. the Clet k should write to Leemington,
where, it was slated, they could accomodate some
mutes at 5s a head per week.—lt was decided
,hat the Clerk write to time Leamingn n Guardians.

ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER AT STOUR-

side of the brim, ard reachi ig from tho forehead
to nearly the back of the head. The blow on the
head might have been the cause of death. He at-
tributed the death of &ceased to the injuries. By
Mr. Collis If deceased had a tumble against a brick
wall or anything hard, it might account tor the
wound.
Edward Blew, greengrocer, Hagley Street, de-
posed to lx•imr in the Horse and Groom whm Bar-
ratt was struck. Dec 'asA referred to something
which had beet done ia the Cilegnera mu by a
companion of limper, and said it, shall I nit have
been dore in-his presence if be hci been twenty
years younger. Prisoner jumped up ,nd stuck
Barrett and knock° I him across the _place. o.her
evidence followed and the Coroner summed up.
The jury consulted in private some titne, and
rs-
turned as their verdict that deceased died from in
juries from a blow or blows to his head struck by
Rolmit Harper, 0,1 November 11. rho Coroner
sail that amounted to a verdiA of manslaughter
again: t Harper.
Prisoner was brought up at the Police Court yes-
terday, and was committed to the Assizes on the
charge of manslaughter, bail being aceeptrd.

PitOPOSED FEDERA.TION OF TRADES.

LEITER FROM MR. B. HINGLEY, M.P.
A crowded meeting of the operative chainseakers,
miners, ironworkers, and others, of Brierley Hill
and district, for the purpose of forming a branch
of the Midland Counties Tautes Federation was
hell on Mondsy night in the Drill Hall, Bri-rley
Hill, PHA): to the meeting a proees-ion of opera-
tives, largely composed of small chainmakers who
ate on strike, paraded the outlying streets of the
tow 1, to the music of a brass band. Altogether
the prosession consisted of about 4,000 men women
and children. At Bevel] o'otock they assembled la
the Drill Hall, nearly 2,000 in number, the spacious
hall being thronged. In the absence of Mr. B.
Hingley, M.P., who had been announced to take
the chair, Mr. li. Juggius, General Secretary of the
National Association of Nut and Bolt Workers—
one of the principal promotere. of the proposed
Federation—presided, and wa,s suppotted on the
platform by Messrs. T. Homer, J. Smith, H. South-
all, and B. Winwo el (miners' agents), J. Hykin,
(bit forgers and filers), J. Parson, J. Edmonds,
&c.
A letter was read from Mr B. Hingley, M.P.,
statiag that he could not possibly attend the meet-
ing, an I adding, "I ara quite in sympathy with the
object of the meeting, and feel especially interested
in the cause of the small chaininakers. They have
shown admirable patience and deserve to succeed in
their struggle They also deserve assistance, and
you may tell Mr. 'l', Homer that I will send a
further subscription of £5." The letter was re-
ceived with vehement cheering.
Mr. P. Stanaope, M.P., wrote expressing sym-
pathy with the m vemeut, and Loping that the pro-
proposel federation was on the high road to suc-
cess.
Toe Chairman explained Oat the meeting was
not a chainmakers' meeting, as had been a Ned.
I; had been asserted that the chainmakers were
sse;ns to settle their disputes that night. He wished
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that consummation was to take. place—(applause).
Unforemately, howeve there was no probability
of that deplorable strike being brought to a speedy
termination—(hear, hear). They were not met to
discuss the msrits or demerits of the chainmakers'
question, but a print:Ude which involved the inter_
ests of every trade and of all the industrial classes
in the country.. That principle was .the establ;sh-
'ment of a federation af trades—(applause). Lopal
trades. organisation had been carried on for many
years with a fair amount of success, but it had
failed to accompish the main object which they had
in view—to resist the encroachments of employers
whm they wre uniast—(applause). They eon-
tended that it was advisable r nec -ssaty to fight
the capitalists single handed, but by cornbinine to-
getter they could render ail to the operatiVis in
any trade whieli was at: acked—(hear, hear). All
tiad s were depende t upin each other, and they
would gain mutual strei gth by co•operaeiou—(ap-
planes). They were now s eking to organise to-
gether on the same principle as the Knights of
Labour in America, one of the most powerful organ-
isations in that country. They were desirous
of copying the example of the working men in the
United ..etates, ard to include within their ranks ta's
unskilled labour, as well as mechanics and skilled
artisans of every description—(applause) It was
iery easy for weges to fat', as was the case with
chaininakeis, but difficult to restore them again, end
there wer tens of thousands of starving poor in the
country not knowing where to get a weal from—
(bear, hear)
Mr. Parsons attributed the unhealthy state of trade
at the present time to overproduction, and the
remedy, he maintained, was by restoicting the out-
put. If they produced too much by eight hours a
day labour they should reduce the working hours
still farther— (hear, hsar).
Mr B. Wiowood also addressed the meeting, and
concluded by Baying they Lad either tti die of star-
vation under the heel of the oppressor or te3esate
together and &Atha a remenable livslihuod
(app:ause).
The Chairman refeired t Mr. Broadhurst's Bill
introduced three years ago for restricting female lab.
or in the chain, rivet, and other trades in that dis-
trict, and said that though the bill was lost the
Parliamentary Committee of the Tra !es Udion Con-
gress had taken the question up, and it was hoped
that before long the bill would be introduced. It
would ba a great benefit, not only to the t 'male
community in the district, but to the male , opu-
lation also—(hear, hear). Instead of two working
men repressntatives when the bill was brought in
they now bad r leven working-men representatives in
the House of Commons—(applause).
eir. J. Ilykin moved, " That this meeting of
working men, sfter,heariog the principles and objects
of the Midland Trades Federation explained, is of
opinion that the only way by which the intensts of
all classes of labour can be protected is by a feder-
ation of all trades and pledges i'self to join the
federation without delay,"
Mr. Homer seconded the resolution, and pointed
out that they d:d not wish to fight the master, but
to work amicably with them. If they were true to
themselves there were no masters who coal with-
stand them—(applause) The misery, poverty, and
wretchedness which so many of them wets suffer-
ing was due to their own want of unity, and the
remedy was in their own haed..—(applause).
The resolution wss carried unanimously.
Oa the motion of Mr. H. Sostliall, seconded by
Mr. Sidawriy, it wss resolved, "That in the opinion
of this meeting some means should be adopted by
the Government to alleviate the present distress that
exists among the working classes thtough want of
employ ment."—lt was also decided to forward
copy of the resolution to Marquess of Salisbury.
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