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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-22

AGENI

HIGH-STREET, BRIALLEY BILL.

All Busine,s ptuctitally of fended to. Cheren•=. .trie,
moderate. Monty whom: .1 up n vely iescription
Iton.wholit For,.itore. S k. s:c.. for absolute sale.

..I It JAMES BOSTON HEYS, Profetwor
of Music, Hihetreet. Cradley Heath.
kinds of Dlasieul instruments toned and
repaired.
New Music at Half•prire.

PIANOFORTES FOR SALE OR IIIRE•

TO FA WI VltS.__,te,

BROAD aniAthilaffidiAL SALT, at
111,1auhmtarrne Prices, by rail or mod, to u•y
part.—Apply, G. J. Eveson, Lally. a Coal 11 knit, Stour-
bridge

DESTINY AND NATIVITY.

IF you feel a desire to consult a learned
Astrologer, send a stamped directed envelope to
"014 Mo:.re.'"rnoims Moose, E.n.. 26, lieorge-street.
nithwark.BriLigc-road. London, 6•E•
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-22

10,000 Tickets at is. each.

First horse
Second horse
Third horse.
l'ourth horse
Starters, .4:5 each (about)
Atuonget non-starters (at least 5s each) Surplus
Making a total of 211 prizes.
6,000 Tickets at 2s. 6d. each.
1150

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Second horse lOO
Third horse. 75
Fourth horse
Stirters. £7 10, each .... (:41,n0t)
Arnong4 non-starters fat 'east 10s each) Surplus
Making a total of 241 Prizes.
2,500 Tickets at 10s. each.
First iinr=e

Serond horse

Third horse
Fourth tore
Start, rs. tlO each (shoat) 2OO
Alaougst row sta. ter, (at • a,.1 £1 each) Surplus
liaklue totd t,f 241 Pr)zes.

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ducted in a fair and honourable niatirer. Shin buy
peraork who may di :or a hors- oh N ! "spies" bume
to " hi dgri" before the day of race, I shot! 13, moot happy
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-22

SCENE IN A POLICE COURT.

A most extraordinary scene was enacted in the
Wolverhampton Police Court, on Monday. An lrish -
woman, named Ellen Wilding, was charged win
assaulting Sophia Morris, who, during a quarrel be-
tween them, excited her jealousy by saying that her
(defendant's) husband had contributed to the burial of
her (complainant's) illegitimate child. After the
complainant had given her evidence, the defendant
burst into a fit of rage, beat the air above her head
with her fists, and was making a rush towards the
complainant, when the efforts of three policemen and
her friends were hardly sufficient to restrain her. She
threatened again and again to take the life of the com-
plainant. The court was in a state of great exciie-
, ment. The bench gave the woman the benefit of tie
doubt, and dismissed the summons against her. S i•
was in no way apj.ased by the result, for, reheat-'
from the dock, she shrieked out, "As soon as ever I
go home I'll hang for her; I'll have her life ; it's no
use anybody stopping me, I'll have her life." 'Die
chief-constable now interposed, and, addressing Vie
bench, said : " There will be murder before night it
she is not restrained."fheir worships, upon the oath
of the cmnplainant that she went in fear of her life
by reason (if the defendant's threats, issued a war-
rant, and Wilding wa., brought back to the dock, still
screaming out her threats. The bench ordered her to
find bail (that of her husband), and she was taken ti)
the cells, shouting, as she was remotest, "By --,
kill her! revenge it out of her!"
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-22

LIABILITIES OF RAILWAY COMPANIES.

At the Neu ton MontgomeryshlrC County Court, a case • 4
"O'Oradyr the Cambrian Railway Company," was heard. It
was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover £1 r,s. from
defendants, for non-fulfilment of a contract.
It appeared from the evidence that plaintiff's wif
left Newtown on the 6th May, for Manchester, by the
six a.m. train, and when she arrived at Oswestry,
where she had to change carriages, she found that the
Manchester train was Katie, and was informed that she
could go on by the nine o'clock train, but that it would
not arrive in Manchester till three o'clock in the after-
noon. She subsequently saw the traffic manager, who I
told her to go on by the nine o'clock train, which
would,reach Manchester at 1C45; but she seems to
have had no faith in the statement, and returned home.
For the defence, it was stated that the train by which
Mrs. O'Grady travelled was a mixed goods and
passenger train, and owing to its being overloaded it
missed the Manchester train ; but that, all things con.
sidered, it arrived at Oswestry within a reasonable
time, and that defendants did the best they could by
offering. to send Mrs. O'Grady on by the nine o'clock
(special) train.
His Honour said if it had occurred at the end of the
Cambrian system, he thought the defence would have
been a good one; but if the Cambrian Company ran
trains so heavy that they could not keep time, then
they should not issue tickets such as that Mrs. O'Grady
got. Judgment for plaintiff, with costs.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-22

THE IRON TRADE.

The holidays for the year being now at an
end, and the weather favourable for iron making,
most of the ironworks in South Staffordshire
are now much more busily employed than they
have been for a long time, and unemployed
labour is everywhere getting to work. Here and
there there is even a want of good puddlers,
some hiving gone northward, and some having
left the trade determined to do anything rather
than continue puddling. The improved home
demand is kept up, and that for export is im-
proving. The improvement is chiefly in the
specialities of the South Staffordshire trade;
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-22

CRICKET.

CcEirr r lIALESAW llN.—Thig match was played on
Thursday, Augnst 2.oth. en the ground of the latter. and,
owing to time not allowing the foil game to be played
out, was declared in favour of the it alesnwen on the
first innings. It most be mentioned that the Halesniven
were so timorous of being beaten that they positively
refused, when on the ground, to play the match unleas
(contrary to all roles of cricket) the Clent allowed their
professional (.1. Emery) to bowl aol bat for the flales-
owen. and it win owing to the bowling and batting of the
latter that the Cleat were defeated. Subjoined n the
SCONI
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-22

THE" COUNTESS OF KENT" AT
LUCERNE. •

The Paris corresrandent of the Post publishes a letter
from a friend at Lucerne, dated Saturday last. The writer

says:—
Lord Stanley is at the Schweitzer Hof, and we have
here a number of our own country people and Ameri-
cans, who may be very "distinguish'," but do not
look so. The Wallace Villa, the Royal residence, is
delightfully situated, high up. The house is commo-
dious, the dining-room a magnificent salon, with such
a view from the windows ! 'the "Countess of Kent"
transacts business early in the morning with Lord
Stanley when necessary. The Royal dinner hour is
two o'clock, when all the Royal Family assemble.
There is dinner again, or supper, at ball-pant eight,
which is living according to the German cyst m of
feeding. The Countess of Kent and suite are accommo-
dated with horses and carriages of the place, but there
are some pony cattle which look to me importations
from England. The Countess drives out daily in a
four-horse carriage. It is a good drag up the hill to
the villa. There is little or rather no State etiquette
observed; the servants are dressed in black, with the
exception of one who is in Highland costume. I have
once seen the Countess of Kent, looking very well, 1
thought, in a simple dark dress and a broad black
straw hat. lam told the Countess is is, pleased with
Lucerne that she will remain longer than was pro-
posed. There is a steamer on the laic• at the disposal
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-22

THE EXETER POISONING CASE.

The Exeter magistrates had before them on Saturday
on remand William John Hoare, charged with attempt-
ing to poison the family of Mr. Gilbert, homoacpathic
chemist, Queen-street
The case was remarkable as showing the danger of
all wing inexperienced persons and children to play
1, /,,,iaons. On Tuesday morning last week, on
tng breakfast, the family of Mr. Gilbert discovered
the tea to be nauseous, and an examination proved that
it contained oxalic acid sufficient to cause death. This
rob.on, it was contended, had been put into the tea-
lettle by the prisoner, who was an errand lad in Mr.
(111' ert's employ. It was alleged that the lad, being
under notice to leave Mr. Gilbert's service, had corn-
t, .1 the act from a feeling of revenge.
Evidence was called to show that he had access to
the kettle immediately before the noxious tea was
likade by Mrs. Gilbert. The evidence on this point,
le .wever, failed to satisfy the bench, who dismissed
11, ra,e, remarking that it was one of grave suspicion.
'1 h.-y censured Mr. Gilbert for allowing a lad of the
da awes tender age--eleven years—to have control
r mineral poisons.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-22

ACTION BY A BANKRUPT'S ASSIGNEES.

At tiverpool, the cause of "Sharma and others As-
is(
; • ~ r. rapayanni," has been tried.
1 plaintiffs were the assignees of one Minos
(s -las, who had become a bankrupt in June' and
action Was brought against the defendant to re-
, , r 21,000, which it was said had been paid to him
lay as a fraudulent preference over the other
tors. It Was said for the plaintiffs that the bank-
s 1 t's affairs got into a hopeless condition as far back
: the panic of 1566, at which time he made a settle-
; •t• •f all his hoesehold property on his wife, and had
recovered since; and a number of instances were
• ted in May last, besides that on which this action
founded, with a view to showing that he was
1 • ••lessly insolvent at that time (the debts of the
1 .1, kruptcy in June being £60.1.100, as against £25.030
and that this payment, which was to his brother-
in-law and against an accommodation acceptance
which did not become due till June, was a fraudulent
preference. The bankrupt was, however, called, and
Flitted that, although he suffered exceedingly in the
)•indc, yet his debts of that time have been entirely
papl since, and, indeed, others contracted and paid
1.7 veral times over in the interval), and also that his
balance was on the right side in that year. The intro-
duction of these matters, however, was stigmatised as
teera j•rejuilice, and the actual defence to this particular
don was that this was not a voluntary payment, so as to
1 a capable of being interpreted into a fraudulent pre-
ference, but was made under pressure, the pressure I
l•-ing that of a solemn promise, which the defendant I
(whether he was the bankrupt's brother-in-law or not)
tail insisted mionhaving from him before he puthisname
to the bill, that he would refund him the money within
Is very short time, and put him in a position to meet
tli e acceptance—a promise, moreover, which the de-
fendant was in a position to press upon him, and did
press upon him, because he could stop the money out
of advances he was making against goods to the
bankrupt.
His Lordship, after laying down the law—that, if
tie debtor pays a creditor by reason of a previous
j•pqnise made by him, or of an application made by the
creditor, operating on his mind, the payment would not
I e a voluntary one, and that, sinless the jury should be
r tisfiesl that the debtor had the intention of prevent-
-1•1..., the disc distribution of his property and defeating
111 C law, the payment should stand good— went through
the facts of the came, saying that it would be hard to
take the condition of his affairs in 18t)6 into serious
comideration against him now.
The jury almost immediately found a verdict for the
plaintiffs, his Lordship staying execution for the de-
fendant to move.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-22

tie words "pro rata," which occur in the last
pnrogratili of it.
The following resolutions were also passed :
—" That a dividend of lffit per shore, and is
bonus of fts Oil per shore, for the half-year end.
ing June 80th, being after the rate of 121 per
cent, per nnnutn, free of income-tax, he de
dared. payable on and after the 24th inst.; and
that the sum of £9,000 be carried to the reserve
fund, raising that fund to £2.3.192 8s J. and
that the balanee of £2,504 us lnd be carried to
the profit end loss new account." " That the
thanks of the shareholders be given to the air-
- esters for their attention to the interests of the
The improvement in the Iron Trade of this honk during the past year ; that the thanks of
district, to which allusion was made last week, the proprietors be given to Mr. T. D. Thomas,
is reported to have become more decided; such the general manager, and to the sub-manager%
was the tenonr of the reports at the weekly meet- for the care and ability with which they have
log on Thursday. The attendance was toler- conducted the business of the company."
ably good, and decidedly more business was On the report of the scrutineers, Mr. Joseph
done. We hear also of an increased disposition Pitmen and Mr. John Branston Freer were ae-
on the part of home consumers to enter into en- (dared to have been duly elected to the office of
gagements on a more extensive scale than they directors of the company.
have done for some time past; we do not angel- A resolution was also proposed and adopted
pats anything like buoyancy at present, but by which it was determined that those shares
a measure of increased activity is highly pro- standing in the name of the bank trustees
bably, should he distri! uted among the shareholders
The demand for pig-iron, all mine, the make according to a scheme which was laid before the
of the district, is better. meeting.
It is sonic indication of more life in the trade A vote of thanks to the chairman brought the
that at one or two works which have been proceedings to a close.
standing for several months, operations are
about to be resumed. eeeeeeamara.aaee.eeeaeaa.aeomaae=..eseas.esaismooe,

but there is also a demand for plate springing
up. The demand of from is. 61. to tis. 6d. per
ton rise on best native pig iron grows stronrter,
and it is said in some cases to be acceded to.
still the large importation of "pigs" into the
district will prevent any great increase in the
present mobs. A large quantity of ironstone is
also being imported, keeping down prices of that
of this district. Among the works recommenc-
ing are the Rrickhills Rolling Mills and Forges,
which are being put in operation by a Joint-
Stock Company, composed chiefly of working
; men.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-22

%low

the charges. And would the good Archbishop'Leighton
have said, as he often did, that if he were to choose a
place to die in, it should be an inn, if an inn was then
what it is now? We cannot imagine a prelate of oil
own time expressing so strange a predilection; while
the thought would now be forced upon us—if they
charge you so much for living at an hotel, how much
would they charge you for dying there?
It is doubtful whether many people have seen a
little announcement, to the effect that M. de Bonnaire,
a trapezist, has been killed by a fall in the theatre at
Madrid. He was only twenty-eight, and may, there-
fore, be said to have committed suicide at an unusually
early age. There must be one class of persons who
will have read, or will yet read, this fact with deep
interest—that reckless class of persons who engage
in the same hazardous performance. The trapeze
appears now to have become an established institution.
No London music-hall appears to be complete without
some man or woman performing on the trapeze,
nightly risking life and limb for the amusement of a
galling crowd. It may be a question whether Paths,.
ment has a right to step in and prohibit such death-
dealing amusements. Perhaps not, for a man who is
of age, and of presumably sound mind, may be sup-
posed to have the legal right to risk his life, but
whether he has the moral right to risk it in this way is
another question.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-22

DOMESTIC SERVANTS IN AMERICi

(From the New York Tribune.)
Miss Maria S. Rye recently brought out frmn
Liverpool to Montreal and Quebec a cargo of one
hundred house-servants, for whom she easily finite'
situations at five dols. and six dols, per month (in golf
Pleased with her success, she announces it in a lett,
to the London Times, which predicts an increased on ; -
gration of English servant girls. We see no reaso,
why a few hundred thousand more should not emu. .
We are paying in New York from ten dols. to thirteen
dolA, per month for ordinary house-servants, and
somewhat higher for good or firm-class cooks. The
abolition of slavery, which its opponents ',redid,
would flood the North with cheap labour, has rain- l
the price of all labour, and especially of that id lotus-
hold servants, by enabling a race of people who befon•
worked without pay to demand wages. Many
thousands of coloured servants have returned from V.•
North to the South since the close of the war, ate'
from one end of the North to the other domestic lodp
was never in so great demand nor so well paid. T
deficienoy of both male and female help among ll,'
farmers ~f the \Veit is a serious embarrassment, and
whoever will import from a quarter to half a milli,.
ordinarily intelligent men and women from Wester,.
Europe to the United States will find no serbms dii-
eulty in placing them where they can earn a thin
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-22

THE NEW AMERICAN MINISTER.

The Hon. Reverdy Johnson' the newly.accre.lit,l
Minister to England from the United States, with his
wile and family, arrived at Southampton on Saturday
morning in the North German Lloyd steamship
Baltimore, Capt. W. Voeckler, which vessel left Balti-
more on the afternoon of the Ist inst. The hon.
gentleman, on leaving Baltimore, was escorted down
the river by a large number of personal friends on the
steamer Chesapeake, and about a dozen steamers and
tugboats crowded with passengers. The Baltimore
was decorated from deck to topgallantmast with flags
and signals, and her railings, fore and aft with ever-
greens, and the entrance to the ship from the gangway
was arched with flowers and evergreens. On passing
Fort Milt:ray a salute of thirteen guns was fired, and
flags were dipped on board ship. Mayor Bank, of
Baltimore, toasted Mr. Johnson in behalf of the people
tl the city whom he claimed to represent, and wished
him a pleasant voyage. Mr. Johnson responded, and
in the course of his remarks said : .

---
I go to England as a minister of peace : my instructions
look to peace, and if I am able to carry them out in the
spit it its which they are given to me peace will be the result
obviously is this the interest of the two nations that the
good men of both will strive to make more firm and enduring i
than ever the peace now existing. We are the same people,
descended from the sense stock; and no matter how ninth
we may have differed in the past and have met on sea or
land, we are now satisfied that it does not pay us to be at
moony. We ought to stand together and maintain the
principles of political liberty. Therein another Government
which has stood by us lathe past, anti whose interests and
ours are the some, and I ask you to join me in a toast to the
King of Prussia and the able representative of that monarch,
lOW is always a consistent friend of the United States, and
endeared to us all who have known him during the many
3'1,111"3 he has represented his Government in this country.
Baron von Geroh expressed gratitude for the kind
recognition by Mr. Johnson, and reiterated a firm and
devoted friendship to the Government and people of
America on behalf of himself and his Government. In
response to a toast to the State of Maryland and
Ler Minister to England, ex-Governor Bradford re-
sponded hi eloquent and appropriate language.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-22

BELBROUGHTON.

DEATU OP THE " OLDEBT INFIAMTANT."—III our otiit•
nary of this day we announce the death of Mrs. Eliza.
beth Crane, widow, considered the oldest inhabitant of
this parish. Mrs. Crane enjoyed uninterrupted good
health up to the time of her decease, which event hap-
pened on Monday morning last, she having attained to
the great age of 97 years.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-22

MEREDITH T. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY
COMPANY.

This was another railway compensation cue, the sods
dent happening in the same neighbonrhood as in the
above case. Mr. J. 0 Grriffits and Mr. 'Young conducted
the plaintiff's Ca.', and Mr. Hudd Q.C., and Mr.
11. James the defendant's.

The plaintiff lived at Pandy. is. Monmontbsbira, and
wris travelling by the Great Western line to Dudley.
when, between Kidderminster and Stourbridge. a train
in advance ran back against the train in which the plain-
tiff and others of his fellow-travellera were mrich in.
jnr,d. He was at the Infirmary for a considerable time,
i was discharged as Wearable. He applied to Mr.
NValker, solicitor, Wolverhampton, who wrote to the
company, and they sent down a medical man to see him.

He bail reeeirod Li from the company, bst wits unable ts
work, and now sought warped, compensation. The case
was part beard an Friday and on Saturday, and it was
announced that the action Lai been settled between the
oarties. defendants agreeing to give the pinintiffo £lOO
sad costs, and medical attendance for two years.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-22

ACTION FOR LIBEL AND SLANDER.

At the Leeds assizes, the cause of "Nelson r. Mutter has
been tried; and was an action for Ebel and slander.
- -

The plaintiff was a shoemaker, carrying on business
in the village of Glasborough ; the defendant was a
manufacturer, owning two mills, and the plaintiff made
boots for the defendant and his family. On the 20th
of July, Plai, the defendant went to the plaintiff's
house and found his own son sitting there in a chair.
He asked his son if he was coming away, and his on
replied he would go soon. The defendant replied he
would make him come at once, and thereupon turned
him out of his chair. The defendant became very
much excited, and called the plaintiff's wife and niece
bad names' and accused them of keeping a house of
ill-fame. The plaintiff's wife thereupon turned the
defendant out of doors, and he went up and down the
street repeating the accusation in a loud tone, lie
afterwards went to the customers of the plaintiff and
endeavoured to buy up the plaintiff's debts, saying
that the plaintiff was a rogue and a scamp, and that he
was going to law with him, and they would never get
their debts paid. The defendant has also written a
letteu to his brother, saying : " Persons dealing
railway shares will not be likely to do any good unless
they keep better company than that of the hairy
cobbler and his wife, and I advise you utterly to cut
their company."
It appeared that early in 18016 two nieces of the
plaintiff had worked at one of the defendant's mills.
and with one of these nieces the defendant had taken
some liberties, Ile used to ask her to meet Min in Lis
counting-house, and invited her to go to Leeds
him, and said that if she wanted anything money was
of no objs et. She had always declined these invitations.
On one occasion he had suddenly extinguished a candl.•
and put his arm round her waist, but she had got away.
She told her aunt of what had happened, and her aucl.
hail comlulaintsl to the defendant of his conduct, and
told him he could not come to the holiSe again. Thi,
was before the language complained of had been used.
He afterwards said he would banish them all from the
villias,se, and buy up all the cottages, so that they e. 011141
not live there. There wag no apology, and no evidence
was offered on the part of the defendant. The plaintitr
was obliged to leave the village in consequence of tie-
annoyance,eaused by the conduct of the defendant.
His lordship having summoned up, the jury retired.
and after a short absence returned and found a verdie.
for the plaintiff- --Damages, EPA
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-22

HEMET AND HEALTH ro YOUR INFANTS.

It will almost usfAntly relieve tirileng im the Bowels
and Wind Colic, and we believ• it the limt and surest re-
medy in the world in all eaNes of Dysentery and Diarr-
-1.• in Children, whether arising from teething or other
. We have handreels of testimonials from America
and England. B. sure and ask fir" Ms. flissloc's
2.etAiny Syrup." Price Is Ijd per bottle—lt is sold by
ill reedisime deniers, with full direetions:—Ask youc
alienist for one of" Mrs. Winsiow's Family Alinauacks."
Principal Oee. 20L, High Holborn, London.

CUR -Y-0 IT IR,S
cipare,.y, Safely, and Efiertual y ofDureases. and Infi.
n, ties resulting from rbe Imprudence and loides of

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• -1111.9 igiconreniente or kbairanec from biesi,,e..
n0t4,1 in a week; Chronic one* from 3w
weeks.

Phosphorus is the Art;ve Element if Life,
i..leetrteity it Life,

The Blood is the Life thereof.

U. HAMMOND, F.A.S., F.S.A., F.R.A.S.
(Er. (josernor Loch floupiour),
Is reluctantly vompeded to announce publicly (through
Seuit:uue In se being introduced) that he is the
Sole leventor asS Patentee of that &Mutiny Invention
rrIE ELECTRIC, CURATIVE, AND
PHOSPHORIC VITALIZER,
Whidi Cuans Nervous and Muscular Debility, Seminal
Weakness, Funetional Derangements, and other ailments
arising from whatever cause,
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(Little; a raceeiva prompt attention)
Coiy, ,Yhtl.
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AMannftetaror of a MANURE, established
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of the Court Last night we had fireworks:nada
on the waters opposite the Schweitzer Hof ; that is all
I have remarked in the way of rejoicings. The great
people are not mobbed or annoyed in any way. LODI
Stanley is up in the mountains to-day.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-22

IMPROVEMENT RATE.

IVOTICE IS REI2I:BY GIVEN, that at the
next Monthly Alerting of the Stourbridg,e Im-
provement Commissioners to he holden at the Connie-
stomata' Room, CORN EN ell ANGE, STOV RERIDC It, on
WEDNESDAY, the 9.nd day of September next, at Three
o'clock in the Afternoon, it is intended to make an
IMPUOVEMENT RATE of NINEPENCE in the
i•OIlND, pursuant to the 7PI. section of the " Stour-
bridge Improvement Act, 1r66." .

And Not,ce in Hereby further Given, that &Statement
of such proposed Ride is di posited for inspection by the
Ratepayers at the Office ef the Cletk to the said Coim
missiouers, No. If, High-street, Stourbridge.
Dated this 21st day of August, 1666.
(Signed)
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-22

°Socal anb• pidrict

PF.DEETRIANIENI —At the Lea Brook Grounds, Wednes-
bnry, on Monday last, a match took place between
Young Onions, of Wollaston, and Beesley. of Conlboarn-
brook. 400 yards for £5 a side. The match attracted
canaiberable interest. and Beesley wan the favourite at 2
to I. On the signal bring given. Beesley got the beat of
the start, and bonndeil away at a smart rale ; hut Onions
nothing daunted kept close to him, and eventually won
by five yards. A gond deal of money changed bands.
BOARD OF GEARDIANE.—The weekly meeting of this
Board was held yesterday, Mr. Grainger in the chair.
There were also present :—Meaara. Brookes. Bird.
Bennett. Cartwright. Powell. Rhode?, and Raybould.
Admitted into the house during the week, 48; born, I ;
dead, 1 ; discharged. 74 ; remaining. 419. Correspond-
ing week last year. 782. Outdoor relief, Kingswinford
district, /44 is Ottl Stnurliridge din/net. /27 Si 9a:
lialettowen district, /21 13s 21d; total, /93 9a Od, against
/70 Is Old laat year.
STEALING POTET Ir.R.—At the Petty Seasions, held on
Wednesday, before IL L. Freer. Fay., two boys. named
William Barnsley 1151. and Benjitnin Tromans (16), of
Cradley. was charged with feloniously stealing a quantity
of potatetea, the pronerty of Noah Morrell. The ease
was proved, and defendants sentenced to seven days' im-
prisonment.
SI:RNIGNS.—On Sunday lest two sermons were preach. d
in the Wesleyan Chapel. by the Rev. John Itattenbury.
of Leeds, in aid of the Trnst Fond. At the close of
each (401111011, collections were made amounting to £25.
Mai: tvrit RUT.. —At the Petty Sesaions, yesterday. there
were three Tstagiatrates present—the Bon. C. (i. Lattel-
ton. end 11, 0, Firmstone and W. C. Firmatonc, Fairs.
There Rai but one charge of assault. As the defendant
j did not annear. a warrant was issued. There was no
1 other ease for hearing.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-22

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It is pronounced by the Press (and all saientifie men
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It has twenty times the power of the Coddington Sr
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prize medals), as nifty be inferred from the following
letter received from Mr. Rae himself.

CIkLISLI, December 12.tb, 1367.
To Mr. McCullocb, Philosophical Instrument Maker.
Sir,—Having sees some et you:Diamond Plate Lenses
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-22

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-22

POTATOES.

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These markets have been hea. fly supplied with potatoes
There bas been a moderate demand for most kinds r.t our
quotations. The imports into lominn last week ronsis tee of
4,923 Packs, 9 baskets from lnuikirk, 40 tons, a 2.1 imas
Havre, 2n tons, 154) has from Hartteur, 46 tona On
Lithe, 90 t,cta from Fort Table, 48 cases, 114 ca 5,
Roulog.ne, 661 bags from Antwerp, and 150 bags from i.
English Maws, es. to 75.. Regent Sr. to 12s. ; Jersey
, 45 tots.; French, 40. to ss.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-22

A BRIGAND CHIEF IN HUNGARY.

Brigandage seems to be now becoming almost as
formidable in Hungary as in Southern Italy. The
Hungarian papers give alarming accounts of the
depredations of banditti in various parts of the country,
and especially of the feats of a brigand chief named
Youhash, who is the terror of the district of Samog-, vi.
Wonderful stories are related of this chief's reckless
courage. Once he kept a patrol of soldiers at bay for
more than an hour by shooting at them from the win-
dow of a country inn, where he had taken refuge every
now and then throwing them a bottle of wine "to keep
up their spirits." At last the soldiers threatened to
set fire to the building, upon which he said he would
come out. He kept his word, but rushed at them so
suddenly that before they could seize him he escaped
into an adjoining wood. Shortly after a Jew came to
the patrol complaining that Youhash had just robbed
him. The soldiers hastened to the apt, but as they
were passing through the wood they were shot down
one by one by Youhash. who was lying there in ambush,
and only one or two of them escaped. On another or.
es,ion he attacked a gamekeeper, and robbed him of
his gun, but returned it a few days after with a letter,
in which he said he had since provided himself with
plenty of arms, and he feared the gamekeeper might
be mourning the loss of his favourite weapon.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-22

DEATH OF THE DEAN OF RIPON.

The Very Rev. Dr. Goode, Dean of Ripon, was
found dead in bed at the Deanery on Thursday morn-
ing, in last week. No signs of illnesshad prevbuslybeen
shown, the Dean having attended a meeting of the
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel on Monday,
a meeting of the Ripen Cathedral Restoration Com-
mittee on Tuesday, and Divine service in the cathedral
on Wednesday morning. Mrs. Goode on Thursday
morning, left him in bed, as she thought, sleeping; an
hour and a half after she had got up, a servant went
into his bedroom and found that he was (lead in bed.
The deceased was appointed Dean of Ripon in 1860, at
which time he was rector of St. ?Margaret's, Lothbury,
L.,ndon. He succeeded the Very Rev. Dr. Gamier at
Ripon on that rev, gentleman being appointed to the
deanery of Lincoln. The deceased was sixty-eight
years old. The cause of the death of the deceased is
believed to be disease of the heart.

Referring to the sudden demise of this popular
prelate, the Record observes :
Thus suddenly has terminated the worldly career of one of
the most learned and deeply-read divines of the English
church. A list of his published works occupies more than
two columns of " Crockford's Clerical Directory," and within
the last forty years he has taken a prominent and most efli-
eient ,part in almost every rionsigerable controversy which
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-22

TRIALS OF A CLERGYMAN IN NEW
SOUTH WALES.

A correspondent of the Timea, subscribing himself
" A Colonial Chaplain," in a lettor on the ivorkiiv: of
the voluntary system in the colonies, thus sketches the
position of a member of his own class in New South
Wales :

1 knew a clergyman who possessed the main qualiticati
of the sacred office, but was placed in this unfortn,,ze
situation. Ile had to minister two small townships that
were separated by a river. Several persons on each side of
this stream refused to support him because he would not
give them the bulk of his attention. But part of his charge
was another village about tell miles off, and a still shire i
portant part was a small town thirty miles in another
direction while he was also expected, when he could find
time, to visit the sheep stations down the river for fifty,
sixty, or seventy miles. Between the contending claims of
these various places his salary fell off and dwindled down to
.me-half, if not one-third, of what was considered the
minimum support. When 1 was sent to the place, in hopesof
bringing matters to abetter condition, the poorman was living
in a slab cottage with rough bark roof, and in some parts no
floor, a sickly wife and several young children depending
um in him. A bill of £2O or £3O, if not more, was due at the
neighbouring store for common necessaries ; whde the little
farmers, carpenters, gold-diggers, Ac., around were living In
abundance. No wilder that his constitution, which was
not the strongest, but yet sufficient for fair work with fair
maintenance, succumbed at last to the pressure of various
trials, till a widow and children were left to the charity of
others. I believe that many such eases might be found upon
inquiry, not indeed ending in death, but struggling with
real hardship for want of deserved pay.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-22

OLD HILL.

CHARGE or WOI”.:DING.—At the Petty Sessions, on
Wednesday last, before F. Barre, John Southall
was charnel wilh wilfully and nialieiously wounding
William Southall on the Ilth April last. The ease was
adjourned for the attendance of a surgeon, prisoner
being bound over in fin to apnear next Wednesday.

a
BREACH OF THE PE teE.—William 3 mos was brought
up ou a warrant, chlrg.,l with conra:itting a breach of
the pea... by lighting, on the :;1:4 ult. There being ouhr
ooe Magistrate present, the ease wad adjouraad for a
week.

_
I r.sT.—Ati inquest was hold on Monday last at the
house of JaLee Truman., Gorsty Lane. before Mr. M.
Hooper, touching the death of William Mose t 9,. Front
the evidence adduced it appears that the deceased went
I, fetch some water from the canal about mid-day on
Saturday last. Ile had loam missed about half an boor.
Search was made for him. and lie was found in the cane',
and whon tahen out was dead. The jury returned a vet-
diet of " Found drowned."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-22

MEMOIRS OF ADA MENKEN.

The London correspondent of the Liverpool Journal
as follows respecting the late Miss Menken
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She had laid herself out from early life to be a
female fascinator, a rac which there is great tempta-
tion in America for a woman to adopt; and it is quite
certain that, though those who did not meet her, and
some who did, laughed at her fascinations, many suc-
cumbed to them. There is no fiction in the accounts
of her continual grand receptions at Paris; and, though
her peculiar public appearances might, no doubt, ac-
count for the private crowds, I don't think she could
have maintained it in Paris without some conversa-
tional powers. I also know her to have been a viva-
cious and regular letter-writer. One of her Platonic
adorers—there were such—took me aside at one of
Mellon's concerts, and gave me an hour's recital t
her epistolatory achievements. Her acquaintances in
England ranged over many grades of society. Men-
ketis verse is said to have been very rhapsodical,
and some of it sensuous, to say the least. An AMC-
rican judge told me "it was a good way up and
difficult to reach." And this Yankeeism reminds me
of another, which I hope I may tell without offence, of
an American once well-known in Liverpool, and every-
where respected. He was agent to Miss Menken, and
sitting onenight in the "Neptune," in Clayton Square,
he assisted at a discussion on the private characters of
distinguished theatricals. This was a point on which
he was very definite in his persuasions. He listened in
silence a good while, and then thus characteristically
broke out. Striking the table emphatically, but with-
out violence, he said, "Well, my star's moral; and if
anyone says my star—meaning Ilenken —.isn't moral,
I'm on for a big tight." Who says the age of chivalry
is past' No one took up the enthusiastic agent's chal-
lenge. So Menken's morality must be allowed to have
stood the ordeal by battle. Her most inconvenient, if
not her worst fault, was a habit of wild expense. She
would buy carriages and diamonds at moments when
she was actually in want of five pounds, and expect
her poor man of business to find the money for them.
A few weeks ago, when she was (playing her last en-
gagement (at Sadler's Wells), she came to the theatre
arrested with the sheriff's officer in her carriage, and
an hour and a half passed with a crowd surrounding
before an arrangement could be matte enabling her to
play. Poor woman, she W 3,4 101011 to play her last hour
on this scene; and in her death, with her epitaph in
mind, her Spire seems to take other than the garish
vulgar hues in which we has e all been accustomed to
,gar(l her.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-22

REBELLIOUS NOTEPAPER.

'miry thii beading, the Dublin Freeman gives plaro

to the following lettZ4.

Ola,gow, April 13.
Sir,—We have hist had advice from a naistonier of .ou es in
Cork that the head constable there has taken fr.on his Or,.
the " Irish Patriotic Nod...paper," published try us, a 1,
specimen sheets of which wi trill yell, the nilierrwla. nei• .•
the seizure upon a magistrate's warrant, uttering steer
threats oof the consequences if any more :if the paper we: ••
offered for sale. Even were it in accordance with the spit
of Inatkli policy to supprcis poetry, w Mel, it Ia 11,,t, 1..
government would do teed to restrain the injuditio:
'of certain Dish magistrates when displayed in sin.
pressing " 3loore's Melodies" and " Davis's Poems," win, 'I
are not merely Irish poetry, but English literary gems of ,•
first sparkle, though, most probably, the snpient
in opieetion are not aware of the fact. All flue verses lin•
age, popularity, and national spirit to sanction therm; a,.
as they have never been interfered with even by Irish Gov. I
mounts, we have no idea of aiiosvi ig our property to be •
rnopriated in the illegal manner described, if we ran lri
Were Parliament sitting, we would move to have the inii•-
tion gone into, but, that eoarSe failing us, may we ask y.,,
opinion of its merits as that of a leading PalranliSt.-5
are, sir, your most obedient servants, I A MEUA ,0 0'
FEUGUSSOII.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-22

JOAN TAYLOR, Clerk.

STOURERIDOE IMPROVEMENT ACT,

AND THE ACTS INCORPOESTED TEILLEWITII.

ELECTION OF COMMISSIONERS
In the place Of tbo4e
.wko go out by Rotation.

the undersigned, JOHN TAYLOR, of 34,
-a- Holey-street, in the Township of Stourbridge,
in the County of Worcester. Clerk to the Stourbridge
Improvement Commissioners incorporated under the
Stoall,rAt, Improvement Act, 156(4, DU Iik.ItEBY
CUTE PUBLIC NOTICE, as foTows

That for the I urpo,e (4 Electing Commissioners for
the Three Wards into which the said township of Stror-
bridge is by the said Act divih 1, in the ',live of tin no
who go out by rot,,t ion AIiETINOS of the PERSOI•S
ENTITLED to VU Eel such Eh ction, will b., bele o
Titursnstr, thd third ,11,3, of SF:PM:MUM 1868, at tl.a
Plact:s fulloui g, that is to soy:—

A Mertina of the per.ro entiOerl to vote in the Et
Want of tho town.:Lin, will be hid at Snint John's
Infant Sehrwl-rn,n, Foster.stre,t, in the pticl township.

A Meeting of the persrms entitled to vote in the West
Ward of the sai3 township, will ho held at the Primitive
Methodist School-room, Beauty Bank, in the said town.
ship.

A Meeting of the persons entitled to onto in the Booth
Ward of the said township, will be bell in the corn
Exchange, in Alarket.street, in the maid township.
Such respective places harina linen dilly appointed for
the said respective purposes by the COGlllll6lllollollluf the
seta township.
That at the maid Eleetion three Commissioners are to
be Elected in each of the said Ward.. and the Commis.
shim re oho go out by rotation may be re-elected.

That at the sail Election. the Voting will commence
at Nine of the clock in the Forenoon of the said dAr of
Election, and will Ii tally close at Four of the clock in
the Afternoon of the came dsv (nnleas in case of riot or
olistruetionl and will he conducted in the manner pre-
acribcd by the said Act.

That the Pregiling Officer at any place of Voting may
Cle, the Voting or Poll at any hoar befoce Four of the
/lock, if one bar ,hall dense daring which no Voting
Papers shall be tenanred at such Place of Voting.
Dated this 21st day of August, 1864.
JOHN TAYLOR,
Clerk to the said Commissioners.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-22

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