The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-14 00:00:00

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THE AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS' AGITATION.
—The National Agricultural Labourers' Union is
beginning to initiste measures for the systematic
emigration of the surplus agricultural population of
the country. This important question was specially
coosibered at the meeting of the Executive Com-
mittee at Leamington. The desirableness of emi,ra-
tiop being judiciously cirried out was heartily and
unanimously [Mime.] by the eommittee as a moans of
perm .neatly foul effectually improving the ceurlition of
the labouring aliases; and the secretary was directed to
asaertain the conditions on which the various colonial
Governments will araist the agricultural emigrants, 60
as to give labourers detrirens of emigrating the wiriest
possible choiae. It was announced that the agent of
the Queensland Government had hsel an interview
with the secretary on the subject, and had consented to
waive certain conditions Co that additional advantages
would be enjoyed by emigrants connected with the
Union. It is also expected ti at special facilities will
be offered in other quarters. The Union hitspriiv aunty
assisted emigrants; but this is the first time it Iras
taken the initiatory. It was stated that funds will be
forthcoming to provide numbers of labourers with her
passages.
VISkT OF TUE JAPANESE EMBASSY TO WIND-
SOR CASTLE.—On Saturday the Japanese Ambassador,
with his four associates arid suite, attended by Sir
Harry Parkes, Minioter Plenipotentiary to Japan;
General Alexander, R M.A. ; and Mr. Aston, of the
British Legation at Japan, arrived at Windsor by
Great Western train at 11.15 am., for the purpose of
visiting the Castle and Royal demesne. His Excel-
lency and party were reaelved by Mr. tieahrook,
inspector of palaces, and one of her Majesty's carriares,
a waggonnetto drawn by a couple of horses, being
placed at their dispolval, the illustrious visitors
to the Castle, where they were shown toe private -
State apartments, and the other principal objects of in-
terest about the palace. Afterwards the Embassy was
driven to the Royal dairy, the aviary, Fregmore, and
thence through the Great Park to Virginia Water.
His Excellency and suite expressed themselves much
pleased with their vadt,

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A SUGGESTIVE Sot ED.—Small Boy (at f:lkc .
with pop-gunk) stni;tice Elderts Gentleman).
thin noise annoy you, Uncle ?—Elderly Gentleman. go,
my boy. It sounds like the polled a cork.—Pench.
I LAKE ONTARIO.—An ex.t.rnerlinary rise and
fall of the water in take Ontario WEIS oboes-yea for
se store' bents recently. The ebb and flow (teetered
every tweety minute that is, for t.n wientes the
water would gradually nettle, then commence rising,
and continue to rise fhlr about ten minute&
water rose two feet and three or four inches above the
ordinary level, then receded about the same dietance
below the win' level, making a variation in the height
of the water of utterly or quite four feet turd a half
every tweedy midatae. The water riewed.stie the beach
teem live leis Iwo* the plecectouchtdereetillerveter,
and it fl wed lodic tem rods beyeedithe dedinel we ter
serge; thus the Id ecrl floe Cfel*Orillid et e
iretth for litre r e . It id t to leurthat previn
ti tlw ri re a white quall on t la e gathers d into a
high water-spent, whisth swept ro tidl to the east. A
rumbling sound wee beard c ' the watee.
Fish came to the eurface of the lake its teat numbers.
and !rehears of gas roe, rapidly au I exeloded. It is
supposed there might be a submarine earthquake.
MURDER or A NS IXE AND IcnEn-Eg L
or .
—The Court of Aseizee of the Hdrault, France, has
just tried a man named Chanvet, for the murder of his
wife and mother-in-law. The redeemer had been mar-
ried to a young woman named Juge, of respectable
family, but twenty day g .after the teem:awry the wife
found herself obliged, la coutterprencie of his brutal
treattuent, to take refuge with her father and
mother. On Sunday, June ill, Chauvet followed
her to chutch and endeavoured, although ineffec-
tually, to perenale her to return to him. The
next day he renewed hie 'instances but with no better
suceess. Finally, en the 10th, he went at Coven in
the morning to the herse of the Jugee, and found Iris
wife and mother in-law atone. Pretending that he
Come to fetCh away some things belonging to him, he
drew out a knife and stabbed them both repeatedly
with extreme vielence. An alarm was given, and on
the arrival of the neighbours he was disarmed and
made prisoner. The mother-in-law survived but a few
mements ; the wife had rectived live wounds in the
heal and one on the shoulder, but her cese was not
cashiered as desperate. The prioner attempted to
excuse himself by averring that Mdme. Jnge had been
the frequeet cause of qn asrele in his houses. The jury
returned a verdict of guilty with extenuating eh cam.
stances, and the court c rudeneted the accused to 20
years' hard labour.

• AUTUN VAL Qom riox.—Wben does a Green.
grocer Anil., at a tire age? —Punch.

THE LoNDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAII
lERIS —The clerks engaged in the goods depaet'.
meat at Nine Elms recently prestnted to the directors
a memorial, embracing as signatories the entire etatf,
prayiug for an increase in salary, to meet the enhanced
cost of living consequent upon the advanced Price of
all necewary household courinoditiee. And as the
company, conjointly with other leading lines, have
lately raised their goods tariff, it was confidently hoped
the b ,on craved would be acceded to, more especially
that ita motive principle was similar with that whi Is
Induce i the company to advance their rates, viz., the
necessity to meet an extra expenditure, the me-
morialists being in addition a class of seen never
at any time over-paid. The answer received was,
however, universally c-insidered unsatisfactory, ilia:i-
lia:A that only 30 out of the 140 odd signatories parti-
cipated in the advance male. The selrctions were
al-ar deemed illogical and invidious, so that during the
, past week indignation meetings have been called to
, consider what steps should be taken to obtain more
general recognitions, at which it was decided a com-
mittee representing one clerk from each department
should wait upon the goods manager, Mr. J. S. Had-
low, and call his attention to the pervading disaffec-
tion, and the causes giving rise to it. The deputation
was most courteously received, and a promise given
that a revised list shall be framed for submission to the
general manager, and through him to the directorate,
with a view of dealing more impartially with the main
body of the clerks.

Rorstat'a LAZINESS !—ln a recent biography
of lioaftini the following anecdote, apropos of L. re
-
'armed laziness, appears

Reosslni was busy writing one morning in bed, when the
duet on which he was engaged fell from hishands. 'Nothing
easier, an ordinary composer would perhaps soy, 'than to
pick it up again." Nothing easier.' said P.A.Mita, 'than to
write anew one in its place.' Roasini would not get out of
bed for a mere duet. lie list to work and composed another,
which did not resemble the original oee in the least. A friend
'1 have pat dropped a duet,' sail Rn ani ; I with
pit would get it for roe. T. at will fled it aomewh,re under
the bed.' The friend felt f.r the Piet with his cry, Relied it
out, and handed it to the composer. :N0.., Wok do you
. . . . _

a.ke.l It )ssint ; • I ciave written Ciro.' Ile s-sna
the :dr of them bo,h. The Meal thought the character of
tee tlr.t was most in keeping with the dramatic situatidu
It thed.l was of the earns tpiuion, and decided to turn the
-ec...1 4:1,111,10 a trio. Ile flid-hed bfs trin. got up, I irehned,
a tit the ton, pieces to the theatrital cep,,is., and went out
to breakfast."

MIEFUL TO BUILDERS. —A discovery has e-
,entiv been made in Manes, bigbly iuterestiog for
iron-builders, ant relative to the eme.rvotioa of the
iron beams met in hydraulic works. It consists in the
app'icatien of a chemical process, operated at once,
without any particular tool., and at trifling calst
Supposing two besms have to be joined to ether, hole,:
have to be bored and next fi :led with some
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mixed with any fatty material, then the peg or screw
is introduced. in the ordinary way. A galvanisation is
thus slowly produced, almoluti ly the same as when
iron is dipped into molten zirc. This process can even
be applied to timber. Experiments have been made,
and declared perfectly conclusive. In the Spanish
colonies, they use, inatraisel of dsadraulic cement, the
ordinary bricks baked to a high temperature, and
ground to a eerie of fine dusk They are mixed with
.orlinary lime and sand. This article i 3 sold per
bmrel, at tire same price es **nut. The proportieris
griterAlly employed are ore part of brick dust, ewe of
lime, two of sand, mixed dry and moistened afterwards
with water.
DULtIOAD STONE-CLTTINGMACHINES.—The in-
vention of Messrs. It and J. L. Young, of Stamford,
Conn., U S., relatcs to that class of state-cutting
machines in which reeiprocatieg blades Armed o ith or
prot clodby, diamond,, are trent for cubing or dividing
stones into slabs, and which are known as diamond-
gang-saws. And the said improvements consist, first,
in operating the said reciprocating blade in relation to
the stone to be cut thereby, in such a manner that the
diamonds ale kept in contact with the part of the stone
to be cut only when the blades carrying the said
diamonds are moving in one direction, whilst when the
said blades are moving in the opposite el reetion the
diamonds ate kept away from the part of the stone to
he cut, either by the blade or blades carrying them
having been broujit away from the Rime, or the
stone itself having been withdrawn from the blade or
blades.

WOMAN'S OWN WORK.— N strong-minded lady
has written an article in which she niaiutains that
needlework is an occupation below the dignity of
woman. What she thinks of needlework ehe would
probably have thought of spinning in the old days
when they that span were living Jennies. She would
have turned up her nose, of course, at a distaff and
spindle. It is too probable, however' at least for men
who might be blest if they chose, thai the ladies who
would scorn to do the work of looms will for the most
part themselves remain spinsters all their lives.—
Punch,
To WED OR NOT TO WED.—Pere Hyacinths,
before writing his letter to the Temps announcing hie
intended marriage, had evidently studied the following
observations of Jeremy Taylor on the subject of matri-
mony (remarks the Pall Mail (Jazelte):—"Marriage
has in it less of beauty, but more of safety, than the
single life ; it has not more ease, but less danger ; it
is more merry and more sad; it is fuller of sorrows and
ful.er of joys ; it lies under more burdens, but is sup-
ported by all the strengths of love and charity—
and those burdens are delightful. Marriage is the
'mother of the world, and preserves kingdoms and fills
cities and chinches, and heaven itself. Celibacy, like
the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in perpetual
sweetness, but sits alone, and is 'confined and dies in
singularity • but macriage, like the useful bee, builds
a house and gathers sweetness from every flower, and
labours and unites into societies arid republics,
and rends out colonies and feeds the world with
delicacies, and obeyirtheir king and; keeps ;order,
and exer, ices many virtues, and promotes the interest
of mankind, and is that state of good to which
; God hath designed the present constitution of the
! world." It must not, however, be supposed that, al-
though Fibre Hyaeinthe advocates marriage for priests,
Ire would dieucoie4 tVoset 4o are not wields to take a
similar step without the utmost deliberation. Marriage
is, as he truly remarks, "a terrible solemnity." The
trorrstreau, the wedding breakfast, the throwing of ol 1
shoes after the couple—these and diuntless atlyeAttle
; matters stamp metniage as no trilling affeir, l'and it
must also be borne ii. mind that, in these lave, when
' mut is Is. is pound and coals 34e. a ton, it is not
everybody who ean afford the luxury.
STRANGE Ats TAOON ISIS. —ri he Newspapers
shonlii be earefnl what they publish about the Autumn'
Mac oeuvres. The country people seem wellsti-posed
to our troops, but, they will soon begin to dread their
presence. V theynre often Mid/that f' a skein ii enemy
ha, just Wien rent out" An encounter wi&ta, foe of
this description on a lonely Wiltshire plain, or secluileci
Dorsetahire heath, would scare even the most Loyal'
and patrioffh out of tbeir wits; and if it IS in diej:Snsa-
ble that subh ii fence should be dispatched, it erionld be
well to observe the greatest secrecy as to its move-
ments.—Punch.
111.Aoszau. is CAPTIVITY. A mpngat the
latest additions to the Ihighton Aquarium is a family of
eight Young mackerel. This beautiful fish has hitherto
rarely or never been seen in captivity. The little straiej
gels, though put into a tank with other fish, do not mix
with them, but at present keep to themselves. They
diot about in ali directions, Sometimes they are chased
by other species, and get partly dispersed, but they
Rom fel* each othex and resume their compact Urn.
They are perpetually. in' inetion, so that, although the
tank where they are is a large one, they are never out
of sight for more than a few seconds at a time. The
difficulty of keeping the mackerel alive is great. As
soul as they tinii themselves in captivity they become,
as it were, froth; and the rapidity of their move-
ments in the comparatively small vessel used for
their transport de•troys them, by bringingtheut . in
contact with the ends or sides.
Das esirt CPah.-+A terrevemient writes :
" Loring for goal has heed commenced on the Danish
aide of the Sound. As yet, nothing certain can he said
of the resit; but the trial promises fairiyt ,At the
same time, atiention has been drawn to the coal 'mines
discovered seeentury and a half ago at the Suderti, one
of the Faro but as yet worked only for 1rc3.1
urie The coal is said babe of good quality, three tons
of the Fatii road equalling in burning value two tons of
English coal ; and the working is easy, the layers being
almost Uwe& with the ground. M. Johnstrup, the
Professor Df Mineralogy at the Copenhagen University,
has left with a yol lug assistant to examine the mineral
on the place, rand to erenpnr• it with the coals found in
Simla. The United Danish Steamehip Comnany send
out the expedition, in the hope of getting imitable coal ;
at a more reasonable price than that irately de.nanded
in England. From Skone the rep rt is that the
borings are still carried on with good results, and that
the coal already affords, mixed with charcoal, a most
convenient fuel for locomotives."

'SPUTTERINGS FROM ."JUDY'S" PEN.
MATUI3I,4NISL.—A laay informs Judv that she 11,dirlore
/11fIlettlty m lluabandlecz I.er elm .lauzht,re Um ta. does in
lerdaioling !me reeoure,r.
(feller —lf all extreme.. are bal, la it lolarlous to be ex-
tremely hemat or extremely good?

IMNOET nNT ANNOUNCEMENT —JII,I y N now baying coal by
end pattiug it oh the the cith the sugat-tougs.
VAUD INTELES:i —honey In the width:oat-pock-A.

Wino axe the most exactim: a all landlordsl—Why .
children ; hermits*, they never tail to make their own fathers
and mother, pa-rents.
WHY Is the boi.e of lie arm called the funny-bone ?
Because it Is the humerus ten.e.

—VglitY lathe wrist enter the billandary of the arm t—Becauide
ttisbySlthorolUs.
JUDY be, friend who is eo feeling, that he cannot bear to
,buryds ew:l
A aelearisX writes td say, that be Ahearn invests his
mont in t la: on rather than by sea, for he has
hoard that land isfirma.
Two men, who hart !list got tbreigh a bard examination,
were e‘erheard taling the on e^ ~ay, in One of the dead
lanoisges. Their ucc.mt reminded the hearer of the yokes
ot the peat.
Mica bare been a good many manilas, of late. 'I his
will perhaps account. for the fAct [hal nottlin; how-a-days is
singular.
COW) AGAIN--A tee! oteller can never prove a filird at
because he has a horror of a "Lip."
THE private who, in the late review, was struck by a
thoU,ItE, lilhi the bystander who sat down on the spur of the
moment, are hoth reported to be slowly recovering.
A LEGAL CONVIITANCgi"—The police van. —Judy.