The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-11-23 00:00:00

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

An Education Bill has been read a second time by
the Parliament of Victoria.
M. A. Aloysio, a Venetian, has invented a new
species of violin, to which he has given the name "
irtlalli-
cords.'
Mr. Edwin Cadman, of Sheffield, at one time clad
mant to the earldom and estates of Newburgh, died on Sa-
turday, aged 64.
Part of the flooting of the entrance to the Odd-
fellows Concert-room, Halifax, gave way on Saturday night,
under a sudden rush. About one honlred lads were pre-
cipitated into vault below. Eleven were injured
It is reported from Australia that the working of
Tasmanian ores is attracting the attention of Melbourne
Capitalists. A very 'erre deposit of brown Irematite ore has
been discovered near Launceaton. The ore is said to contain
75 per cent, of iron.

Mow greatly municipal elections have r,ae......__ ii.r.y rt„ —, age.—__...--
In coat under the ballot has been illustrated at Coventry, popular hymn, "Oh, that will he joyful." The parallel ii --- ---- -
wl ere the whole expense to the Corporation of the contests found in Mr. Bilby6i lifeatory and that of the old Scottish has • good speculation as weU ea consumption inquiry
on the lit of November. in a town of re 011 inhabitants, was schoolmaster, Mr. Andrew Young formerly English muter nal prevailed, at extreme quotations. On the Continent so
under £192, inclusive of some charges of a permanent eharae- in the Madras College, Bt. Andrew's. who wrote the hymn, animated business has been transacted, and prices have con-
tinned in an upward direction 6—Mid and East Kent, ES 16a.
ter. - 'there i• • "MT land," which 1°•• enjoyed a measure el
to £7_
..10s. • Weald of Kent, £.B IL to a ; MILLI. £3 hi. to
By the casting vote of the Mayor, the Birmingham popularity spoon only to that won by Mr. Bilby's verses. £4; Farnham and country, £4 4s. to id.
Town Council have decided to decline the offer of the Local Both of these hymn writers were school-mister.
Government Board to pay one half of the salary of the mall- During the week ending Saturday lad 5,193 births
cal officer of health and inspectors of nuisances, on condition and 8,083 deaths weee registered in London and twenty other Pickled —P. ...". "' ••—• "
that such officers were appointed under the 10th section of large cities and towns of the United Kingdom, nu) mor• reused ditto, 12s. to 275. ; fresh ditto, 1.85. 6d. to 26e. 64. per
the Public Health Act. The Council preferred their power laity from all muses in these towns was at the tate of it barrel: kipper ditto 24 .to 45 9d.; bloaters, le. Pd. to 46.6 d.
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over the appointment of the salaries and duties of their own deothi.ooony to „,to,, Lwow.. estimated to be liTing per box; smoked haddock s, 2„, to su. poi, barrel; growl
Officers, Independently of the department. In the metropolis, 2,218 births and 1,188 deaths were re-.
; dorey, Os ed. to is. 6d. each; nati 6dditto. 161. to 19 ed.' ditto phase, 151. to 19s. 6d. ; ditto
.ve oysters, 210 s. ;
On Monday evening some thieves, using a ladder whiting, 19a to 22a. per basket. turbot, 7a. 6d. to 184. ad. :
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gistered, the former having been 67, and the latter MO, cod, ~. to ,o. ~j. . live cod, tot, to yys, ' • hvin, ya, gu, to
which was standhig a hay.rick, entered the drawing. below the average. 'Dirk= persons died from small-poz,
room of the Lady =tress, at the residence of the Lord 7 from measles, 14 from scarlet fever, 6 from diphtheria, 31.
ditto, 63a ; and common ditto, 13s. to 105. per tousheL
Mayor of London, Fairaest House, Melva% and stole a 82 from whooping.coryth, 22 front different forms of fever,
quantity of mourning jewellery belonging -to her ladyship, and 1$ from diarrhoea. In the aggregate, the deaths from POTATOES.
of the vales of about £3OO. They also took the Insignia a the seven diseases WON no less than 210 below the corrected Puglia potatoes are firm, with • Wear demand, at the
the Order of the Medjidie conferred by the Sultan on the average number in the oarrespondhsg week of the last ten annexed quotations. The arrivals of foreign were large, and
Lord Mayor, and some articles highly prised by the fanny. years. London, therefore, continues to be remarkably free in excess of requirements, at prices ranging
:ITo m 7 to She.
The Lord Mayor and his famUy were dining at the time, and from the prevalenee of symetic disease. Diseases of the re. per ton. Best Kent regents, 180 s, to 1900., secondary and
She thieves managed to wove, spintory organs and pM,Msis tamed 865 deaths. inferior ditto, 1204. to His. rocks, 120 e. 50 1105

elections have been reduced

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Now Ready, Part let, (post free), One Shilling,

THE RIFLEMAN'S COMPANION.
A NEW WORK BY FRANCIS JOHN LOCK,
OF LONDON AND READING

All Volunteers' necessaries supplied by the Editor.

MISS YATES'
.FANCY REPOSITORY, 8, HIGH-STREET.

11, BENNETTS HILL, 11
(Next to the Bank of Eneand)

(Author of " TI. Volunteer's Friend," 14th Thousand,
sod Sneeiii C,r,put,,ltllt for the Daily News).

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Amongst the subjects (clatisifietl and indexed) treated
upon are : Lucky Shooting—Traintug—How to Select a
Rdle—Nstural Deviation—Home Practice—Range Prac-
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Weatber—Uunecessary Haste—Slghts—Sighting—Sj c
tools—Blur—Tt-mperament—Dress— Stimulunts—'
—Positions of the Swiss, Belgian, French, Scutch, A de-
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we—Lneid Explanation of Use of Screw Sight Elect*.
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Vatied Elevations—Ammunition—How it is tested by
Crack Shots—Defective Sighting—The only way to get
Consecutive }eyes—Confidence—The Balance—The Grip
Militnry Breechloaders—Martini —Rapid Firing
Lying Position. Numerous Target Outlines Ruled
ditto, Intersecting Lines—St—l Barrels. How to fit them
and where to obtain them for 19. 6,l—Sore Shoulders—
How the " Cracks " master the Wind—Warning to Com-
petitors at All.comers' Matches—Cooking the Scores—
Corps. County Feca—Phyffical and Moral Effects 4 Vol-
unteering—Father and Son as Private Practice (with
Separate Index)—Canting the Rifie—Practices of Messrs.
Baker, Burt. Cortes, Humphry. Cameron, &c.—How to
detect Short Cartridges—Bad Bullets—New Barrels—
Peculiarities of different Range.—Cause of Ricochets—
Change of Wind—Density of Atmosphere—Tire Uses of
the Barometer, Hygrometer, and the Anemometer hilly
• explained—Shooting from 600 to 800 Yards—Qualifica-
tions for a Really Good Shot, &c , &c.
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pages, crown See) remaining. these can be sent to young
shots at wholesale—price-14 stamp post free, or six
• copies for 6a.
Officers desirous of advancing the shooting powers of
their companies, and of emulating the example of others
by presenting copies of "The Volunteer's Friend" to
their men, ear have 23 cloth copies for 20s ; 00 for Ns
fid. Sixpenny Edition, 360 per hundred.
The Metal Screw Sight Elevator, with 'fabalated Scale
(range practice obviated), 7s tid ; postage. 2,1.
A best Steel Barrel Snider, ehequered stack, us allowed
at Wimbladon, sighted correctly upon a range similar in
every respect to Wimbledon, ,ccuracy guaranteed, price
£6 15a.

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other), lid per bottle. post free.
A box containing one dozen Is bottles of Gidsld's Fluid,
or chemically refined oil, sent to any address on receipt
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" Lock's Treatise on Pitman's Shorthand," 6 stamps
post free. (No Teacher required).
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send Post-office Order, payable to Francis John Lock at
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Painless Dentistry and Artificial Teeth, at striotil
ni:)ilerate charges.

A singe Tooth to a comp!.•te set supplied—warranted
for mastication 'aid sr:l,llam.t.
Regular attendance at KIDDERMINSTER. Next
visit, Nov, 26tk, at

E. GABRIEL, the Old Established
LONDON DENTIST,
Bega to intimate that at the urgent request of numerous
iulmoitants, patients, and friends, he has been induced
to v,it Kidderminster everl ALTERNATE TUESDAY,
and may be consulted personally (free of charge) upon
hi, recent improvements in the construction of Artificial
teeth and fiums, whereby the weight, bulk, sod cost of
the ease or frame, has been much reduced, to toe great
convenience and advantage of the wearer. Teeth are by
this new method exquisitely fitted, without extracting
stumps, Or any painful opera:ion.
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M. .OAl3lilkL'S pi%ctice (one of the oldest in
England) was established in 181.

Particularly notice,
NEXT VISIT TO KIDDERMINSTER,
Noe. Dith, at Miss Yates Fancy Repository, S,
lE9h-street.

Constant and pernonal attendance dnily from nine ti
six at