The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-11-27 00:00:00

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HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.

GETTING ON.—" Mr. Gladstone's popularity"? ex-
tends even to the wild creatures of the field and forest.
Not content with being the " People's William," he
has now became the ,Hares and Rabbits "Bill."
Judi.
WOMIMEN AND INSURANCE.—The ironworkers of
the Walsall district have been advised by Mr. Capper,
their secretary, to try to secure the establishment of a
system of insurance which shall obviate resort to liti-
gation under the Employers' Liability Act. Mr.
Capper disclaimed any desire to allow masters to con-
tract themselves out of the Act, but he pointed out
"the glorious uncertainty of the law." He admitted
that whatever might be gained by the workmen from
a system of insurance would be due to the passing of
the new Act.

"NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN."—The "Fifteen
Puzzle," which has perplexed so many British brains
since its importation across the Atlantic, is declared
by the New York Hour to be only the revival of a
game popular centuries ago. In one of Albert Diirer's
engravings, known as " Melancholia," there is a
window containing fifteen panes, on which are
engraved the figures of the puzzle, and by this window
sits a maiden with as dismal an expression of
countenance as that worn by many unsuccessful
solvers.

TELEGRAMS. Lord Mayor to Sultan: Where's
Dulcigno ?—Sultan to Lord Mayor: Good conundrum,
but won't give it up.—Punch.
"JESUITS IN ENGLAND.”—The Law Journal re
marks :—" Mr. Gladstone being recently asked his
opinion of the legality of Jesuits in England, under
the statute of 1829, has duly referred his correspondent
to the Act of Parliament. The 10 Geo. IV., c. 7,
commonly known as the Catholic Emancipation Act,
weile carrying out the well-known reform commemo-
rated by its name, imposes restrictions on Jesuits
and members of other religious orders, communities,
or societies of the Church of Rome, bound by mon-
astic or religious vows,' of whom, it recites. 'it is ex-
pedient to provide for the gradual suppression and
final prohibition.' Any of these persons, not
including nuns, coming into the realm with-
out a licence, which can last only six months,
are, by section 29, declared guilty of a mis-
demeanour, and may be sentenced to be
banished for life. Similarly, any persons admitted
within the kingdom to membership in any of the
Orders in question may, by section 34, be sentenced to
banishment for life. If, although banished, they do
not go out of the country, the Sovereign in Council
may have them conveyed to some place abroad. More-
over, if they are found in the country at the end of
three months they may be convicted again and trans-
ported. Penal servitude is now substituted for trans-
portation- but the process of conviction twice over
Jf e any coercive measure can be taken is so clumsy,,,
and the severity of penal servitude for life.so far over-
leaps the object, that Jesuits and members of other
Orders in England have reason to consider themselves
tolerably safe."
THE ST. ALBAN'S MURDER.—The execution of
Thomas Wheeler, for the murder of Mr. Edward
Ainstee at Marshall's Wick Farm, in August last,
and which is fixed for Monday the 29th, will take
place at St. Alban's, where the county gaol now is,
and not at Hertford.
A TRAGEDY IN Two ACTS.—First Act : Boy, Gun;
Joy, Fun. Second Act: Gun, Bust; Boy, Dust.
A FIREMAN'S FUNERAL.—At Highgate Cemetery,
on Monday, Thomas Kennett, engineer, at the head
of the fire station in the Highgate-road, was buried in
the presence of Captain Shaw and several other
officers of the fire brigade. The deceased had been for
seventeen years a member of the brigade. At about
twenty minutes past two the procession was formed
in front of the station to which the deceased was
attached, the coffin being placed on an engine,
whereon were the Union Jack, the deceased's
helmet, belt, &c. The chief of the brigade, together
with the four superintendents belonging to the four
districts, was foremost in the cortege, and in addition
to the presence of a manual from headquarters four
others—one from each district—attended, and one
hundred and twenty firemen followed. The children
(it is only three months since the wife of the deceased
died) and relations of Kennett occupied two mourning
coaches, and the band attached to the S Division of
police followed, playing the Dead March in Saul. At
the cemetery many spectators had assembled to pay
reverence to one who was much respected.

THE SAVINGS BANKS.—The interest now payable to
depositors by trustees of savings-banks will be £2
13s. 4d. per oent. per annum, instead of £2 18s. 4d.
hitherto paid. The recent Act (43 and 44 Viet.,
chap. 36) provides that the interest should not exceed
to depositors £2 15s. On Monday the new regula-
lations as to investments in stocks of £lO and upwards
took effect. The amount of stock credited to any
one account is not to exceed £lOO stock in the year,
and the whole amount credited to any one account is
not to exceed £3OO.
A NOVEL WATCH-POCKET !—One of the most illus-
trious of our livim; judges (says a contemporary) was
travelling once with a friend through the south of
France, and so into Italy. He was at the time of his
journey the possessor of a brand new and very splendid
chronometer, of which he was very proud. A con-
stant source of complaint on the journey was that no
watch-pockets were affixed to foreign beds, and that
the chronometer, placed under the pillow at night,
slipped, after the custom of chronometers, from that
position, and in so doing, incurred a risk of breakage.
At length, at a small hotel near Lugano, at which a
night's rest was to be taken, the baron found, to his
delight, the pocket the absence of which had marred
the pleasure of his journey. So overjoyed was he that
tliere was some talk of arranging the next day's
journey with a view to returning to sleep once more
at an inn so far in advance of its rivals in its attention
to the comfort of guests. In the morning, however,
the baron came down with a rueful visage and showed
the chronometer, now silent and ruined. What had
been taken for a watch-pocket at the head of the bed
was a small vessel full of holy water, in which the
watch had remained all night!
CIVILIZATION.—Lady Visitor :—" Ma gone out to
work, Fanny?" Fanny :—" No, mum; she's gone to
look you up, mum. She said as how's ye'd called 'ere
so often, it 'ud only be civil to call back on you."—
Fun.

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MORE TRUISMS TRIFLINGLY TREATED.-.--By Our Own
Trifler.—That a cat may look at a king is quite a true
truism, but is it not equally veracious veracity that
that king may gaze upon that cat ?—The quarrels of
lovers are the renewal of love.. True, most true!
Sometimes, too, is it the beginning of a black.eye. Is
this a black idea? Perhaps.—One man may take a
teetotaler to a coffee palace, but three may not make
him drunk therein.—The domestic bee we like because
it giveth us sweet honey ; but the wasp is not bee-loved
because, when we can, we give it whacks (wax).—" A
man can die but once." Is this really a veracious
truism? Most hairdressers, and many young ladies,
• would answer in the negative.—That there is corn in
Egypt is a fact which nobody can deny ; but 'tis
equally a fact that there is corn in England.—
"A good wife is a crown unto her husband." -Quite
so; nevertheless, is she soir.etimes anything but "
little change "to that ma-IL—The sweetest of sweet
cakes is sometimes tipsy:" Yea, ve4137 ; why, even
a glass of wine is frequently drunk.—" Charity begins
at home." True, most truly true. And to be generous
you need not give alone—you may lend a loan, if you
like.—Judil.

CURIOUS GOLF INCIDENT.—WhiIe a "four-some "was
being played at St. Andrews the other day an incident
occurred which, though perhaps not unprecedented,. is
rather unusual. At the last hole out " a good drive
was made from the tee, and just as the ball stopped
rolling, a common crow (rook) lighted beside it, looked
at it for a moment, and then, seizing the ball in his
bill, flew off with it towards the bents. The shouts
and laughter of the astonished &Hers scared the thief,
for after flying 150 yards or so he dropped his prize.
wo or three other crows then lighted beside the ball
with the apparent • intention of carrying it off, but a
rush made by oxie or two of the party frightened them
off.
A FIGURATIVE DictiECT. —That in which a clock
tells the hours.—Fun.
THE BISHOP OF CHICHESTER AND THE BURIALS
ACT. —The Bishop of Chichester, in consecrating a
new parish cemetery at Horsham, preached from the
text, "And devout men carried Stephen to his burial,"
in the Bth chapter of Acts. Speaking of the various
forms of burial' his lordship condemned cremation in
strong terms. He said it was most abhorrent to both
ancient and modern religious sentiment, even though
the system was revived somewhat during the age of
learning. Embalming the dead, according to the
Eastern custom, showed great reverence for the
departed. The English custom was strictly Scriptural,
and for that reason it was customary to consecrate the
ground set apart for the interment of the Christian
dead. If it was right to consecrate churches' why, he
asked, was it not equally proper to consecrate grave-
yards ? It was merely the setting apart of land by
prayer, and a dedication of it that henceforth it should
not be used for secular purposes. Surely Dissenters,
as a religious people, could not object to such a conse-
cration by the sacredness of reverence and prayer.
Referring to the Burials Act, his lordship said he
spoke respectfully when he said it was legislation for
the prejudices of Dissenters, and Parliament legislated
in ignorance of the true feelings of Churchmen on the
subject. However, following the example of his
predecessors, he should continue to consecrate grave-
yards, and he could but regret that any. religious
persons could object to be buried therein, as the
blessed dead buried therein made the ground sacred
for tiM9l •

A LOCUST EATER.—A natural enemy to that de-
structive insect the locust is reported to have been
discovered almost simultaneously in America and
in Asia Minor, both of which countries are fre-
quently devastated by plagues of locusts sweeping
over the crops and utterly destroying all trace of
vegetation (says Colonies and India). The larve or
grubs of a species of coleopterous insect have been
observed in the United States by Mr. Riley, and in
the Troad by Mr. Calvert, to feed on the egg cases
or " pods " of the locust, on which they thrive and
rapidly grow fat; and Mr. Calvert reports large num-
bers of locusts' eggs to have been destroyed in this
way during the present year. The difficulty of eradi-
cating locusts, whether in the egg, the larval, or the
adult stage, is well known, and the assistance of the
locust-eater will be welcomed by the population of
those countries which are visited by these pests. If
what we are told of this new agriculturist's ally by
Sir John Lubbock, who has brought it before the
notice of the Linnmn Society, is true, its reproduction
should be encouraged by all possible means, and its
introduction into those countries where it does not yet
exist effected as speedily as possible.
THE BATTLE OF MAIWAND.—Friday night's London
Gazette (Nov. 19), contains variou !despatches which
have already been published respecting the action at
Maiwand on the 27th July. Accompanying the des-
patches are full lists of the killed, wounded, and mis-
sing. The numbers are :—Europeans killed: Officers,
20; non-commissioned officers and men, 290—total.
310. Europeans wounded: Officers, 8 ; non-commis-
sioned officers and men, 42—total 50. Europeans mis-
sing: Officer, 1; non-commissioned officers and men,
6—total 7. Natives killed : Officers, 11; non-com-
missioned officers and men, 643—total, 654. Natives
wounded: Officers, 9; non-commissioned officers and
men, 109—total, 118. Followers : Killed, 331 ;
wounded, 7. Horses: Killed, 201; wounded, 68.
THE HEATHEN CHINEE UNDER TREATMENT.—Very
little appears to be known in this country respecting
actual domestic doings of the Chinese. In a recent
letter to the Lancet Mr. Anderson, L.R.C.P., sta-
tioned in Formosa as agent of the English Presby-
terian Church in connection with the Edinburgh
Medical Missionary Society, writes: "The Chinese
make, on the whole, very good patients. Occasionally
some of them try our patience not a little. One gets
a fur days' supply of medicine away with him, the
recipe bearing on it, a spoonful three times daily
after each meal.' He comes back next morning for
more, thinking to flatter you by stating that he drank
the former quantity at one dose! Another has his
arm carefully put up in splints, and on his next visit
he brings his dressings in a separate parcel. They are
great believers in internal administration, and
although he have only a cut finger, it is difficult for
a Chinaman to see why he should not (Yet some medi-
cine to 'eat.' They have peculiar palates, many of
them, .and can *drink castor oil ad nauseam—a stage
which is not so easily reached in their case as it is in
ours. Here' as elsewhere, the medical has all along
been found to be a valuable auxiliary to the general
mission work."

A Pole-t? y SHOW.—The relics of the Franklin
Arctic Expedition.—Funny Folks.

PRIZE ESSAYS.—The title of the essay to which the
"Howard Medal " of the Statistical Society will be
awarded in November, 1881, is "On the Jail Fever,
from the earliest Black Assize to the last recorded
outbreak in recent times." The essays should be
sent on or before June 30, 1881. —The National
Thrift Building Society also have offered prizes of
£2O, £lO, and £5, for the three best essays on
"National Thrift," by young persons under twenty
years of age. The papers must be sent in by February
13, 1881.

INCREASE OF HORSEFLESH IN FRANcE.—Hippophagy
in France is steadily increasing both in the capital and i
in the provinces. Horseflesh now varies n price
from 2id. to 3d. per pound, and each horse furnishes
about 4 cwt. of meat. When the Society for Pro-
moting the Consumption of Horse, Mule, and Ass's
Flesh was formed in 1866, Paris only consumed
171,3001b5., whereas last year the quantity sold
amounted to 1,982,6201b5. Marseilles also ate 1,513
horses in 1878, against 599 in 1879, and Nancy in the
same year consumed 705. Considerable opposition,
however, is shown by the Municipal authorities in
some towns, such as Lyons and Rheims' while at
Chalons-sur-Marne the Mayor recently fixed the
price of horseflesh higher than that of beef.

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A WHALE STRANDED.—On Saturday the carcase of
a whale was cast ashore on the north coast of Scotland.
It measured 80ft. in length.
A CAUTION TO BICYCLE RIDERS. —At Hammer-
smith, George White, a lad, appeared before Mr.
Paget, thd sitting magistrate, to answer a summons
taken out by the police for unlawfully driving a
bicycle on the footway in Coverdale-road, Shepherd's-
bush. Police-constable, 551, said on the 12th inst. a
lady complained of a lad riding a bicycle on the foot-
way. He went to eoverdale-road, where he saw the
defendant, and took his name and address. The de-
fendant said the road was dirty. Mr. Paget asked
him whether he did not know it was a great annoy-
ance to persons walking along the foothpath ? The
defendant replied that no one was walking there at
the time. Mr. Paget: Do you suppose a person has
a right to ride a horse or drive a carriage on the foot-
path because no one is there? A complaint was
made to the constable by a lady who had been
annoyed by the bicycle. Mr. White, a builder, the
father of the defendant, said his son had not been out
more than two minutes. He admitted it was a
nuisance. Mr. Paget said he was quite sure that the
father's experience of bicycles was that it was very
dangerous to ride on tile footway. He would just
explain a case which came before him while he was
sitting at Wandsworth Court In that case a poor
woman, while crossing the road, was knocked down
by a bicycle and had her arm .broken. Mr. White
thought bicycles were dangerous things, and said he
objected to them. Mr. Paget said the otner day he
had a case in which a man was riding a bicycle in the
dark without a light. It was very dangerous, particu-
larly to horses. He was glad the father had taken his
view of the case, and he regretted being obliged to fine
his son, but it was his duty to do so, as a warning to
other persons. The defendant was then fined 10s.,
with 2s. costs, which his father paid.
How CARELESS !—First Old Celt (to second ditto,
who has just been narrating the death of a friend) :
Has he left onything muckle o' the warld (world)
ahint him ?—Second ditto ditto: 00, he's left it a'
ahint him.—Tudy.
A NEW COVERING FOR PATHS AND ROADS.—NO
one will be prepared to state that we have attained
perfection in this matter (says the Gardener's
Chronicle). The common gravel is the covering
generally used, and were gravel cannot be obtained,
asphatte has to be employed, while for general paving
purposes many subjects are called into requisition.
, The new material is porphyritic " gravel. It is not
new in regard to recent employment, but in relation
to being only partially known. It consists of small
fragments of the rock obtained from Jersey, where, of
course, it is extensively used on the footways. It is
of various tints, from bright red to faint pink, but the
most attractive is the yellow. The fragments
have irregular angular fractures, and when spread on
the ground and rolled, bind together in a
most compact manner, a feature which ordinary
gravel does not possess. The finer pulverised particles
which fill up the instertices cannot get washed out, as
the moment they are wetted they form a natural
cement, which renders the footway hard and durable.
Its durability is one of the most remarkable features
when used as footways, as "it does not require re-
newing once in a quarter of a century, and does not
lose the bright colour it presents when first laid down."
It is sufficiently porous to allow rain to drain away,
and the surface when once rolled is equal in smooth-
ness to asphalte. In the London district this new
gravel is but little known, though several private per-
sons have used it at Highgate, to the extent of several
hundred tons. The Corporation of Liverpool have
used it for the past ten years; it is said the annual
quantity used in that city is over 1,500 tons. In Wey-
mouth, the corporation have laid some 900 tons this
year.
JUST SO.—There are many, very many people about
who do things seemingly the most preposterous with-
out either rhyme or reason, but Jones, who gave up
his tea and took to coffee-drinking the other day, says
he has sufficient grounds for doing so.—Judy.
CAPITAL SPORT.—Sir Charles Mordaunt, Bart, gives
an account of his sport at Glenfeshie during the past
season. Sir Charles, in twenty-seven days' stalking,
killed 67 stags to his own rifle, 57 of which averaged
15 stone in weight. Five were royals, and one had
13 points • the largest stag weighed 19 stone, having
a very fine head, of great thickness in the beam,
measuring in width 37 in., by 32 in. in length of
horns. On September 20 Lord Brooke arid Sir
Charles killed 9 stags, averaging 16st. 21b. in weight,
and on two remaining days of the same week Sir
Charles killed 10 stags, also averaging 16st. 21b. in
weight, 6 stags being killed on one day. Stags,
104 ; roe deer, 20; grouse, 3,000- black-game, 57 ;
partridges, 8 ; hares, 283; rabbits, 266 ' • golden plover,
; snipes, 3; wild ducks, 5; hinds, 4; salmon, 5;
various, ; ptarmigans, 67. The game killed since
the previous account was made up is as follows :—Roe
deer, 15 ; black-game, 21 ; partridges, 2 ; hares, 30;
, rabbits, 72.

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A PENNY READlNG.—"Forsitan hcee ohm meininisse
juvabit" i.e., "This Post-Office Savings Bank plan
will be a pleasant reminiscence orFawcett."—Punch.
GERMAN SALT..—The latest issue of the Statistical
Reports which are published monthly by the German
Imperial Statistical Department gives elaborate in-
formation concerning the production of salt in Ger-
many, its use, value, revenue, &c. Salt is obtained
in Germany from mines and from great satiate, and
both sources are partly owned by private persons, and
partly by the State. The total production during the
year ending June, 1880, shows a considerable increase.
About 1,600,000 double-centners were exported, while
only 38'7,788 were imported from abroad. The
customs duty levied on foreign imported salt and the
excise on home salt amounted together to over 40
millions of marks (22,000,000). Salt used for agri-
cultural and technical purposes is not taxed. The
salt used in humaa food during the year amounted to
an average of 76 kilogrammes a head of the total popu-
lation.
A MYSTERIOUS DEATH.—In London, on Tuesday
morning, about seven o'clock, the officials at Sloane.
square Station were informed by a, platelayer that
the body of a woman lay in the " permanent way "
at the entrance of the tunnel towards South Kensing-
ton. A train had just pulsed, and medical aid was
immediately. obtained; but the woman was dead and
rigid and a great gash over the right eye, penetrating
,
to the base of the brain, showed that she had met
with an instantaneous death. The body was removed
to the mortuarY, and on being examined by Inspectors
Chisholm and White, was found to have evidently
been jammed into the position in which it was
found, the face being towards the platform and the
body on the right side. It would seem to be that of
a woman between fifty and sixty years of age, and
only is. 6d. was found on the body, but near it wa:s
a railway ticket from Victoria to Ludgate-hill, on the
Chatham and Dover line, so that how the woman
could have got to Sloane-square Station with that
ticket seems very peculiar. The body was dressed in
black clothes, but there was nothing from which any
description of the identity of the deceased could be
obtained. The police are prosecuting inquiries, but it
is thought that the woman, having got on the wrong
platform, fell accidentally on the metals, became in-
sensible, and was crushed by the wheels of a passing
pgine into tn 9 pOiltioll ihc wp44 fauld,
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PurFETum., CHANGES.—Seeing how ruler after ruler
is dethroned and got rid of at Cabul, it would be follY
to call it a dynastic monarchy; it is " Ameer” pIIPP4
show.—Fun.
A PARADISE OF RHUBARB.—M. Prjevalsky, the
Russian explorer, in a recent letter giving an account
of his movements on the Chinese frontier, in Eastern
Turkestan, describes a veritable paradise of rhubaii).
There he chanced upon a locality were it was found in
prodigious quantity, and in the older plants with roots
of colossal proportions. Taking at hazard one of these
roots, he found that it measured sixteen inches in -;
length, twelve inches in breadth, seven inches in thick-
ness, and weighed twenty-six pounds. The children
of the locality had the free run.
A MEXICAN POMPEIL—A Mexican Pompeii has
been unearthed by M. Charnay, who is exploring
Mexico and Central America. Close to the present
town of Tulla, which occupies the site of the, former
capital of the Toltec Empire, Tollan, he has found the
ruins of a large palace, and has besides completely
excavated a villa containing twenty-five rooms, fifteen
staircases, and twelve corridors. Remains of porcelatif
coarse clay vessels, and glass were buried in the ruins,
which are most distinctly Asiatic in style than any
Toltec remains yet known. Bones of some huge rumi-
nating animals have also come to light, of which the
tibia is nearly fourteen inches long and four inches
thick.
"ADS. AND ENDS."—A Clipping Correspondent
from New York sends us this :—" Waiter.—By a
highly respectable, genteel coloured youth, in a family
of refinement and wealth; is a waiter by birth and
education; understands making salads; age 21; has
not yet approached the altar of Hymen; heart and
hands are still unfettered; only parties of the highest
social standing telegraph or address."—" Waiter by
birth" is good. He oughtn't to be kept waiting lovg•
—Punch.

AMERICAN WHEAT SUPPLY.—According to the par-
ticulars of grain shipments from America to Europe
for the past week, as telegraphed, the export and
visible supply of wheat have considerably expanded.
The total of wheat forwarded amounts to 403,000
quarters, of which 343,000 quarters were intended for
the United Kingdom and 60,000 for the Continent.
Of 177,000 quarters maizie sent, 127,000 quarters were
for this country, and 50,000 for other parts of Europe.
The exports include 135,000 sacks of flour. The
visible supply of wheat has risen to 23,200,000
bushels, the amount of maize in sight being 16,400,000
bushels.
KILLED ON THE RAILWAY. —On Monday an acci-
dent occurred on the Great Northern Railway at
Little Chester, near Derby, by which a young man
named Joseph Saunders met with his death. The
deceased was in the employ of Mr. Shaw, cattle
dealer, who keeps his cattle in a field near the Great
Northern Railway, and on Monday morning, it would
appear, Mr. Shaw instructed the deceased to proceed
to the field and fetch away one of his horses. There
are two ways to the field, one across the line of the
Great Northern Railway, and the deceased went that
way. Three young women employed at Darley Mills
were passing at the time of the accident, and they saw
hat the deceased was standing astride the metals with
his back towards an approaching train, when the
locomotive came upon him and cut him down. The
deceased was dragged some distance along the line by
the engine and then thrown off. He fell with his head
across the metals, and the engine, passing over, decapi-
tated him in a most shocking manner. The deceased
was very deaf, and it is thought that he was unsus-
picious of the close proximity of the train.
AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISIL CORN.—The follow-
ing are the average prices of British corn for the week
ending Nov. 20, as received from the inspectors and
• officers of Excise :—Wheat, 445. ld. ' • barley, 335.
9d. ; oats, 20s. 4d. per imperial qr. Corresponding
week last year :—Wheat, 475. 10d. ; barley, 395. Bd.;
oats, 21s. 6d. _ _

FATAL ICE ACCIDENT.-At Lower Stonden, Beds.,
on Monday afternoon, three little girls, aged re-
spectively nine, ten, and twelve years, two sisters
named Shaw, and one named Taylor, having passed a
successful examination before the Government in-
spector, were dismissed from school before the other
scholars, and ran out to play. Attracted, it is sup-
posed by the ice on a clay pit, they ventured on, and
were drowned by the breaking of the ice. The chil-
dren were missed, and search was made for the bodies,
and attention being attracted after some long time to
a bonnet on the bank of the pit, the bodies were
found at the bottom of the water.
DEATH 017 A WELL-KNOWN SCOTTISH ANGLER.--
Thomas Todd Stoddart, of Kelso, died there on Mon-
day morning after a long illness. He was, perhapst
one of the best known anglers in Scotland, and
author of a volume on that subject. In earlier
days he was an associate of Professor Wilson
(Christopher North of 'Blackwood's Magazine), Hogg
(Ettrick Shepherd), and Sir Walter Scott.

GRAIN GAMBLlNG.—According to the Pacific .Ritral
Press (San Francisco), there is now in progress among
the millers of the Eastern States a vig,,rous move-
ment to break up the modern style of grain gambling,
which has reached such immense proportions during
the last few years, and which has had such injurious •
effects on legitimate trade. This grain gambling has
been carried to the extent of millions sterling,
without one single kernel of grain being actually
transferred. Millers must be legitimate dealers;
they cannot make flour out of paper, said to
represent wheat, but they must have the wheat
itself. A movement has been set on foot and 4,000
millers have petitioned Congress to put a stop to the
evil. They say :—" We are in favour of enacting
laws by Congress, and in all the States making it a
penal offence, punishable by fine and imprisonment,
for any person to sell that which they do not possess,
or to purchase merchandise which they do not expect
to receive and pay for. All contracts which are to be
settled by the one paying and the other receiving the
difference between the contract price and the value
of the article at some future day, and all species of
luck or chance trade dealing or gambling, of whatever
description, should be declared illegitimate, and
punishable under the law."
0 FISH-us.---Visitor at the Laird's :—" So you've
been poaching, my man! I shall tell the Laird about'
you.' Boy :—"Na., na, sir. Say naething aboot it,
and a'll gie ye the fish tae yersel.' —Fan.
MUNIFICENT BEQUESTS.—Mr. I Wilson, a wealthy'.
Sheffield gentleman, who died a few days ago, has
left his moiety of the advowson of the Sheffield parish
church to Simeon's Trustees. The presentations to St.
Stephen's and St. Bartholomew's churches, Sheffield,
he leaves to the present Bishop of Sodor and Man,
and at his death the living will go to the Church
Patronage Society. The living of St. Matthias's
Church, Sheffield, is left to the same society. Ms.
Wilson has also left £l,OOO to the Church Pastoral
Aid society, and £5OO each to the Church Missionary
Society, the Bible Society, and the Scripture Readers
Society.

THREE JOLLY AGNOSTICS.—" And my wife, she
says, 'A man ought to have some religion,' says she.
(Hie.) Religion,' says I. 'I ain't got 'ny, an' I don'
want 'fly! All my religion,' says I, ish comprished
in the shimple word duty ! ! An'sh 'long'sh I shtick
to that I'm all ri" !"—" 'Ear! 'ear ! "—Punch.

A WONDERFUL CLOCK.—Mr. Darius L. Goff. of
Providence, U.S.A., is the possessor of a clock of
singularly varied capacities. It is situated in the hall
of Mr Goff's residence, in near proximity to the front
door, which as it is opened and shut winds it up. In
return for this service the clock turns on the gas in the
hall as soon as darkness comes on, and lowers it to a,
bead light at a particular hour fixed upon as bedtime.
At dawn, or at such hour as it is time for the servants
to be up, the clock rings a bell in the back hall with
persistence that precludes possibility of excuse on the
ground that the signal was not heard. An hour later .
it rings a bell in another part of the house, warning
the family that it is time to rise. Half-an-hour after.*
wards a third peal of the bell announces breakfast.
It is said that the clock is two hundred years old.

THE INDUSTRIAL CONDITION OF THE UNITED STATES.
—ln its "City Notes" the Pall Mall Gazette says :
" Some light is thrown upon the industrial condition
of the United States by a report which Secretary
Evarts has drawn up on the rates of wages through' - -
out the country. Stated broadly, the result of his
investigations is that while wages are now on an
average fully 7 per cent. higher than in 1879, the cost
of living has only very slightly increased. And while
1
in the advance in the rates of pay we have evidence of • ;
increased and sustained activity of business, the sta.- ,r)
tionariness in the cost of subsistence, by increasing the
margin of free income, points to a great increase in tbe.
purchasing power of the nation which we may reason- lip
ably expect to manifest itself in an increased demand '
for our products."
A SINGULAR LANDSLIP NEAR SHEFFIELD.—A hula-,
slip of an extraordinary char,acter has occurred at
Whamcliffe Side, newt. Outibridge, Sheffield. TheA
entire side of a hill has slipped down about three feet
towards the river, carrying five houses along with it.
Three of the houses are unfinished, but the occupants
of the other two have experieneed no inconvenience
from their removal. The highway has also been
shifted, and has been slightly bent out of its proper
direction. It is stated that some quarrymen in the
course of their work " tapped " several prings and it -
is thought the water, percolating between the rock
and the shale, has occasioned the landslip, which has
occurred very gradually. The hill is now thought
to have come to a standstill, without any damag°
whatever having been done.
HAD HIM THERE !—Young Charlie. I say, NellYl
if the early bird catches the worm, what does the late
bird catch? Young Nelly. Why, the glowworm ef
course.—Judu.

THE AMERICAN AND CANADIAN FOOD SUPPLY.
--
The arrivals at Liverpool of live stock and fresh meat
from the United States and Canada were, of live cattle
an increase, of pheep a large decrease, and as regards
fresh meat there was a copsiderable increase on thos°
of the preceding week. The steamers which conveYed
live cattle were as follows :—The Brazilian, with 648
cattle and 365 pigs; the Ontario, with 307 cattle; the
Lake Champlain, with 230 cattle and 470 sheep; the
St. Albans, with 186 cattle; the Palestine, with 17,2
cattle; the Illyrian, with 77 cattle; the Helvetia, wit'
54 cattle; and the Bohemian, with 28 cattle.
steamers which brought Ire ah meat were as follows
The Illyrian, with 1,800 quarters of beef, 61 camas°
of mutton; the Bohemian, with 1,723 quarters of beef
and 176 carcases of mutton ; the Minnesota, with 1,167,
quarters of beef and 61 carcases of mutton; the City of,
Montreal, with 780 quarters of beef, 150 carc,ases,,e,,;
mutton, and 230 dead pigs; the Germanic, with
quarters of beef and 255 carcases of mutton; the Tri4;
consin, with 660 quarters of beef and 200 carcases °'
mutton; and the Helvetia, with 591 quarters of beef'
making a total of 1,702 cattle, 470 sheep, 592 pig°,
12,361 quarters of beef, and 903 carcases of mutton
THE EARTH AS AN ELECTRIC CONDUCTOR.-1
John Trowbridge, of Harvard University, Cambridge,
Mass. has published some very interesting result:
respecting the behaviour of the earth's surface a°
conductor of electricity, and its capacity kr traus'
mitting electric signals without the aid of a et:inducting
wire. The experiments were made between Bost
and Cambridge. It is stated that, on completing
circuit through a telophone and the ground, the exts'',7
ence of an electric current was plainly apparent fro?
the ticking which the making and breaking of ph°
circuit produced in the telephone, and that ale too:,
signals of the observatory clock were distinctly hear",
Mr. Trowbridge concludes that theoretically it is Pq,
Bible without a cable to telegraph across the Atlantly
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o TWO CLERGYMEN.
BatardaY, Lord Penzance, In his capacity as
bie,kl of the Arches Court of the Province of Canter-
), rY, held a public sitting of the House of Lords, to
;4ear
ir ther points of evidence in the cases of
de
Periti
as v• Enraght" and "Dean v. Green,', and to
r an application in both cases by the pro-
cii''_'ere of the suits. By the courtesy of the Lord Great
,-,,,tsberlain, the spacious room of the Chairman of
ii7,l3faittees (Lord Redesdale) was used for the hear-
tirest tile causes. The proceedings excited much in-
the „.:,and the Court was crowded during the whole of
ea4e4''''ng.—We take the following report of the two
e from The Times :-
11.11RICINS AND OTHERS V. ENRAGHT (CLERK).
vition's was a proceeding instituted under the pro-
f', of the Public Worship Regulation Act, against
jelltabr„v. Richard William Enraght, M.A., in-
htrct of Holy Trinity, Bordesley, near Birming-
OlZgl-11 the diocese of Worcester, for divers offences,
ords ritual., against the laws and canons of the
and. The offences proved against him
‘he 0,;.747 utia, the use of lighted candles on or near
.4Prounion table when not wanted for the pur-
-544' giving light; the wearing of an alb and
le ; the ceremonial mixing of water with the wine
th'e'ag the administr n atio of the Holy Communion;
tioarja.4l;ing the sign of the cross towards the cOngrega-
to th'i, the use of wafer bread; standing with his back
ecligregation while consecrating the elements;
tioa :lag during portions of the prayer of conseFra.-
hag
of elevating
the cup and paten; causing the sing-
ZttseertaliteinAng.flus -Da: immediately after the prayer of
standing while saying the confession,
Thees4l, spf kneeling; and kissing the service-book.
Leoarges being substantiated and the defendant
'kuel;Pearing to answer them, the Dean of Arches
el% t °lithe 30th of August, 1879, a monition against
rsolliti.° abstain from these illegal practices. That
the defTl.lras entirely disregarded, and in March last
-letrit was inhibited and suspended from the
,tsek'nance of his duties as a priest of the Church of
gfor the space of six months. Notwithstand-
bilsaekt, the defendant had continued to celebrate
service in his church, and had maintained the
Co.ll.4°bservances which had been condemned by the
~.tski Lin these circumstances an application was
"ersiDet_the promtiers three weeks ago that his con-
ben signified to the Court of Chancery
sLrell however,
to his imprisonment. The Dean
b see
-nvever, postponed judgment, in order
ntepilti;,t course taken in Mr. Pelham Dale's case,
in his committal to prison, would have any
-,4,-Pon the defendant and other clergymen simi-
rc,nnistanced. As will be seen, the time
oY the adjournment did not •produce any
it.'e In the state of affairs.
tia,"s defendant was called thrice within and without
ilett,,rt, but did not appear, and he was not repre-
-Ist b/ either counsel or proctor.
tlhitt. 'reline, who appeared for the promoters, said
. eirell°ll the last occasion evidence was given as to a the ltances upon which the application was made.
1441 n•ow only to give formal proof of the services
e otices in the case.
1,14.41Pr01e and Mr. Kingston were then called, and
qth 0,3', Proved the service of the inhibition on the
arch, 1880, and of the various notices of
lII,' and adjournment upon the defendant.
klc being the case on the part of the promoters,
~e,pea,, of Arches proceeded to deliver judgment.
Enraght has been proved to have
conducted the services of his church in a.
took'lr at variance with the Rubrics of the Prayer-
,_!ierz:Ll a° less than fifteen different particulars. A
Ni;:ran, like all others of Her Majesty's subjects,
ttit ea; r Practise what forms of worship he pleases,
4ag
blisas he retains a place in the ministry of the
,ticiahed Church he is bound to conform to its laws
tlr.(liaances. He has, -therefore, been admonished
N., 'Li', Court to desist from his illegal practices,
ige hZthe failed to pay obedience to this monition,
'sr 'Jeer' suspended from all exercise of his office
ti lindted period. Ile took no heed of this order
elttii:Pension lv
, and the promoters of the suit no
tteeisotile right to have it enforced. Ai the ease's
ave -37 Biriallar to that of Mr. Dale, it can necessarily
lioN,„110 other result. I postponed its consideration,
bett-e-vrer, for a period of three weeks in the hope that
traealat• and more temperate counsels might in the
ueea Pie Prevail. I regret that this horse has nt
ulfilled ; but se it is. Mr. Enraght .appa-
ltre determined to defy the law, and the promoters
t aullY deternained to enforce it. The Court, as
he 1,71 d out in Mr. Dale's case, has no discretion in
tat4a‘ter• I must, therefore, pronounce Mr. En-
"lSr• contumacious and in contempt in this—that,
clia,lag been suspended from his office, he has wholly
ilgarded that i suspension and continued to officiate
kgt, 18 church, and I Must direct this matter to be
hiB I.& to Her Majesty in Chancery. He can regain
ithat-bertY when he is prepared to assure the Court
re"," will obey the order of suspension, and he can
rebilel'?red to his ministrations when he consents t.:3
se services of his church according to law.
'sB'
Pay the costs of this application.
510
re Lord Penzance, as Metal Pljncipal of the
chancery Court of York.)
; 13RAN AND OTHERS V. GREEN (CLERK).
Llillclehe's was an exactly similar proceeding, instituted
t
*he pt the public Worship Regulation Act, against
Cs':l-ev• -Sidney Faithorne Green, 8.A., incumbent
l'oee:,hn the Divine, Miles Platting, in the city and
uef,l of Manchester and province of York. The
'Lant had, like Mr. Dale and Mr. Enraght, been
kee°ll,iehed to abstain from the same illegal observ-
Lika: In respect to excess of ritual; but having totally
aibitegrled that monition, he was suspended and in-
Nest- tar BiX months from his ministrations as a
of the Church f England. No notice, how-
iia;peohad been taken by him of the inhibition, and he
how sonutPinlintlicitotoCveciate
to gh' as usual, and the prompters
his contumacy signified with a
ec b en.nunittal to prison. The defendant was
seated. IL,
rmdld not answer, and he was not repre-
41)sene -141 e cue was accordingly heard in his
f.,kr
h-e '
une who appeared for the promoters, said
Ft4ra,alet.ear,sellad not advanced as far as that of Mr.
zi-e had further evidence to call to complete
ioMapleson proved that he served the in-
of . Green on the 24th of August, 1879,
root; "g a copy with him. He also served a notice
aren on the defendant on the 9th of August last,
~serv,,,dso two affidavits leaving Mr. Green a copy. He
'tete-4 a further notice of that day's hearing on the
adant ot, the 11th inst.
t* George MacDonnagh, late of Conyhuret-road,
r, deposed that be had made an affidavit in
`l4se• It was true in every particular.
Tenzance (to Mr. Jenne): Will you read it?
" "line commenced reading the affidavit, which
t4th that on Sunday, the 20th of June last, the
8,8 attended morning service at the Church of
'Qua's, Miles Platting. The Holy Communion
ce.lebrated at 7.30 o'clock in the morning, and the
thnilt. officiated, being assisted by his curates.
-0113-na was light and there was no occasion for
Canfles
• Penzance. You need not read the rest. That
:4efendant officiated is quite sufficient.
t' William MacDonnagh deposed that he also had
an affidavit, the contents of which were true
-I.olsorated the last witness.
• Penzance observed that Mr. Jeune had raised
t'i.'3f technical difficulty upon the former occasion.
r
'gat difficulty, he asked, still exist?
• Jenne replied that upon considering the whole
el' he proposed to ask his lordship for the sen-
cated. There might be a question as to the
of the statute. If there was such a difficulty
not be removed, and, upon the whole, he
it right ask the Court to pass sentence. It
e-,Portant to remove the doubts which, perhaps,
upon the statute, but he had come to the
to ask for an order that the defendant's
jar of the monition and inhibition which had
Cued against him by the Court should be duly
ed.to the High Court of Chancery.
4,4.Penzance then gave judgment, saying: So far
eaisicl,dgment goes there really is no difficulty in
Oti- , And this case being precisely similar to
.w.,-nich has just occupied the attention of tt
o e
4141 oPon which it has passed sentence, it w
flirter Ina to give any further reason make
4445. on re,ls43lier observati with regard to the conduct of
°
th- dent. I make the same order ii this
mustiscase
Gase of Mr. Enraght, and Mr. Green
A:nig tie°,,inc.ed contumacious and in contempt for
el "t.ted ed to officiate after he has been ens-
be4edtc'
, his office, and the matter must be
eoatl ro
ene,r Majesty in Chancery. He must pa
°' tne application.

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ti4r.,,ealec Itev• Richard William Enraght, of 1"i 71
4tt contempt of the monitions and Inhibitions 141%00, °t Arches mached the parish early on Saturday
Tlt„Testi,,'„and caused much excitement and sores little
,Ennong Mi. Enraght's imnsedl ?'ate unnrter,.
111Z'oed-ella gentleman himself appeared to be in no way
k
te,h seit eel the prospect of imprisonment, but expressed
of
re ed
alietieltlelie:rrnhied to continue in his course, regardless cort-a..' Re was prepared for imprisonment, if that
but lie declined to submit to what he re-
44tilopseto,,,a!, law, but as unconstitutional tyranny. Be
continued Ms ministrations in the same
(,) as befor
'ilklcla e'
V
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to out _ Y morning service was performed in the church tloY deviation from the practices which have given
Je,''he s i
. ce recent proceedings. Mr. Enraght f
took no part
ettill. 411';,.,', hut preached the sermon, which was from
Ile pointed out that
,eht 'lludiTlto sth and 6th verses. Would be Advent Sunday. and that during Ad-
t'vegi't of `-‘,lllll'eli of Christ looked forward to the second
hiol" tile,'" Son of Man who would dispense justice be-
e4,,DAliell4t. iiitgebtlert ant • XlI. Enraght Rm'enetoaritetoosr peculiar
ilaier
a'V'e'ettitkliceet', Of the etex snake
o a kt their
e any immediate
eir own particular cir-
%tlio' ,Wh„ at thE present time. One clergyman, how-
tTeviloieel he Was bound greatly to respect, and
'llin °na ,18°Lne h miles from Burslem, told him on the
thip te
8',15: that it was his duty to say. something
keh i,sthere i,„,'",Ject• Re believed he was correct in saying
hundreds and thousands of English Church-
of
l„,"oSt -,4,11r 1;"1111—in fact wherever the great and agnifi-
pli,„ 'neye",„. England m
was found—who were determined
Oie,," htfa "'Mild not bear certain things 'any longer.
k . lima that determination been arrived at ? First,
I.lqtrith_.that the Judicial Committee had no riighA
ever . ill s'a4t Matters to reign over them. If theyheiaw.
ttletult3orahilY4.-allaPe or form to administer justice,
the matters ecclesiastical brought before
sui,ltiet,"`teat of the Judges who had .et on ecclesiastical.o.
ktliplisterg? co.urt clearly had been; if they triedhad to_
voueacl, b lotiltice, not merely in the name of the Crown_moot
ltho,sti 11,1,14 in some sense in the name of God, Churchmen
lotlhehtuete B,llhtnitted. But it had not been so, and
m'ltie- conaellad arrived at the conclusion that they could
llniaw, they le.nce bear it any longer—that whatever might
ettater he is"'d not mean to bear it. That was the first
int-nlnee, ~."Lta,d, to make to the question why. there
men;NV
'M..: e014.8.'4C11 must be most painful to all Christiannthe; e they could not expect anything else, I
theebDtacTjer °f the priestsoof the Church of England who
issenters, Nonconfor.mists,. and members of
he "411401 rf,y, and had puritanical bishops dispensing
1110 aid . !. natead of catholicity, in the name of the Church.
40:11''':telee:1:41Ilitioearseisttoy hear the tyranny of this Judic.ial_Caornn..-
's Privy Council in ecclesiastical d
4tt ielportyetilotnger.in matters of doctrine, ritual, or. religious
What had this Court done inGcee_rtaanind
°Dell ettlai Dt a ? It had disparaged the vow of d bton-goestf,, niahtnent in the true and orthodox sense an
t-11. After some further bservations, Mr. Enraght
tgi„..''nitteeT ecnntuent on the manner eer in which the Judicial
itZla:af tilt etti tithe Rubric upon which hinigtheW.F-
-045 04 tircli„ot En4iland., and Ile contended that the
§ %/unroll an.thorizecl by Act of Parliament in

the second year of Edward VI. should be retained. In con-
clusion, Mr, Enraght urged his parishioners not to be dis-
tressed.

MR. GREEN.

Large congregations attended St. John's Church, Miles
Platting, on Sunday evening, but no reference whatever
was made to the proceedings against the vicar, the Rev. S.
F. Green. In the morning the curate conducted the ser-
vices, and in the evening, when the building was crowded,
Mr. Green himself preached. No alteration whatever was
made in the service. Mr. Green, it is said, has fully made
up his mind to go to prison. Ile will await arrest at home,
attending to his ordinary engagements. Mr. Green has his
congregation entirely with him in his conduct of the services,
and the patron of the living also is a Ritualist.

The Bishop of Manchester referred to the prosecutions
on Sunday morning in his sermon at St. Martin's
Church, Manchester. Two other clergymen besides Mr.
Dale, one of them, he regretted to say, in his diocease, were
threatened with imprisonment for acts which they con-
sidered to be essential. He did not take the view that Mr.
Dale had been sent to prison because he did certain things
which his conscience bade him do, but because he was
technically in contempt of court. His prison doors would
fly open to-morrow if he would only submit to what had
been proclaimed to be the law of the land. It would be
simple anarchy, and society would be dissolved into its ele-
ments if every man were to do just whac he pleased, recog-
nizing nothing by which to direct his conduct except his
own sweet will. The national conscience was shocked by
the sight of clergymen who might be acting earnestly in
this matter being sent to prison. He would not say one
word against the earnestness of their neighbour Mr. Green,
but Mr. Gneen had a mistaken sense of his duty, and was
behaving foolishly 'and unwisely, and not in the interest of
the Church or religion. The law, however, must be obeyed,
and every parishioner when he entered the church had a
right to find the services conducted within the limits of the
law, and he had a right to complain in the interests of the
Church itself, of religion and charity, when men contuma-
ciously and deliberately went on doing what they had been
distinctly told they had no right to do. The matters in dis-
pute were not of the essence of Christianity, and it might
become necessary to get rid of the ornaments rubrics; and
why should not the Church reform itself again if neces-
sary? He wished those who could not minister faith-
fully and loyally in the Church would see whether they
could find some other place which would be more congenial
to them.

At the opening of a new church at Barngreen, near Ports-
mouth, the Bishop of Winchester said that, unhappily, a
certain number of the clergy took strong views, and they
were unfortunately incarcerated for their opinions and their
habits, which he regretted. Although he did not agree with
their practices he regretted that clergymen should have
been brought into that position. But, undoubtedly, if some
persons had very strong opinions, he was very well satisfied
that the majority of the clergy throughout the country
were much more intent upon saving souls than upon
small differences of opinion upon theological subjects,
and he could not help thinking that some of the extreme
proceedings of which they had read so much lately would
have died away if they had been let alone; or, at any rate,
treated a little more quietly. Although he did not think it
right that people should break the law of the Church as
laid down by authority, because they thought that law was
with them, and not with others, yet nothing was really
gained by what looked like persecution. For that reason
he regretted what had been going on lately, and he was
afraid it was more likely to give an impetus to discord,
differences of opinion, and extreme practices than anything
else.

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