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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-09-04

A TRAIN MOWN DOWN AN
EMBANKMENT.

The New Yor.lc Times contains details pf a railway
disaster on the 12th inst. which was briefly reported
by telegram, By the breaking of one of the axles of.
a tender, a train of two cars on the New York and
New Jersey Railroad was thrown down an embank-
ment thirty feet in height, near Spring Valley, Rocl..
land County, carrying about fifty passengers. Mira-
culous as it may appear, not one person was killed,
but 17 were severely injured, and scarce one escaped
entirely unhurt.
The train to which this accident occurred left Stony
Poi& at 7.20 a.m., and consisted of the engine, a coach,
and a smoking and baggage car combined. The train
arrived at Spring Valley at 7.48. There were then
in the smoking car about 15 or 20 passengers, and in
the rear coach about 25 passengers, many of whom were
women. After leaving Spring Valley the train ran at
the rate of 20 miles an hour around a sharp curve, and
had just shot out upon an embankment, three-quarters
of a mile from the station, which carries the track from
30 to 50 Teet above a pretty valley, when the forward
axle of the forward truck of the tender broke. The
engineer sounded the signals to apply brakes, and
at the same moment there was a shock, the rear of the
tender was thrown under the platform of the smoking
car, and then the engine became detached from the cArs
and ran ahead. The smoking car had been lifted from
the track by the concussion, and went bounding gong
over the ties for about 1110 feet. Then it swerved
and shot down the embankment, tearing the earth
uP in its tr..7.plF, and lodged partly against a stone
wall and partlY agi,..ina a sturdy old apple-tree that
bent under the shock. 'The re 4 coach became
coupled from the smoker, and, plunging along in its
track, passed it, shot aft;ll length ahead and ten feat
lower (161171-1 the bank, turning over as it fell,' and
' lodging partly on otu,e side of the stone wall, and partly
on the other: The trucks of 1.-;o0 cars were wrenched
off, their platforms Were ,crushed to splinters at the
corners, and the interior of both presented fearful
sgenes,of ,confusion and danger. Although badly shaken,
the passwers iOe smoker were not so severelY hurt
as those in the TRAr ,ctr, hey soon scrambled out,
caring little for their rink's,' ii.o,clr. Cut for their less
fortunate neighbours. In the ladies' COLac4; w4kh had
been turned over, most of the passengers had been ea-
ting on the left side of the car to avoid the sun. They
wide a, thrown over to the opposite side against the
windows and whilst a shower of cushions and
other loose artiCles dOpd 3,pon them as they lay
doubled up in the wreck. Th'ere'Was litt;e noise from
I;h,e passengers, and in spite Of the terrible plunge
the ear ;;4(3 taken it was discoVered that 'Ono were
dead. '
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-09-04

. .
PUTTER FROM lENMA

_
Farmers who are towifQrting themselves by the re-
flection that they need not fear G;;;‘, serious competi-
tion in supplying the home market with daizy pro-
duce v./ill be E oinewhat disconCerted by the apparition
on English ra,ilways of a red and white butter truck
which has just been started Rn the North Eastern
line for the purpose of Supplying the but.ter dealers of
I\larichester with the produ-ce of the dairies of Den,
mark. This West addition to the rolling Stock of our
railways was built by the North Eastern to the orde'r
and from the designs of the United Steam Shipping
Company of Copenhagen, and it plies between
Newcastle AO Manchester. The butter truck is
constructed with a double casing, the interme-
diate pacts "f which are filled With sawdust, and the
interior, which is air-tight, is fitted at each end with
largo ice-ohests, which reduce the teropOrAture of
butter from4e• at Newcastle to 53 deg. on arrival
g
a Manchester. .0y this arrangement the butter
stiffens in transit, and can be deliv,ered in the hottest
weather at inland marks POP ppition. The
first consignment delivered by the utter truck
reached Man Chester on Tuesday morning, and the
consignees report that the butter was certainly
many shillings per cent. better than some of the
butter received by the same train in the ordinary
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-09-04

4AAVEsT.

The Mark-One Express of Monday night says that
three consecutive weeks of altogether favourable
weather have afforded farmers every facility fq.
reap-
ing and securing the cereal pro,dlice of the cotnatry,
40 in 12, few early distriefs of tngland the harvest
has been brought to a Successul termination. 'Great
progress has been Made also in Scotland' and Ireland,
some quantity of new English Wheat baying already
been marketed 11th in Lc k 400,11 014 the country, and
to judge trim the samples 'shown, the grain is of good
quality, and 'lima better than last Season's produce in
point of natural weight.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-09-04


THE PROPOSED NAVATiDGL
STRATTON,

The Daily Telegraph, of Tuesday remarked: "Lord
Granville made a statement in the LTpper House oii
Monday evening upon the subject of the' Naval
Demonstration' and the Concert of Europe' which
leaves matters very much where they stood before the
Minioterial announcement. He told the Peers—what
they had read beforshand in our daily telegrams from
Berlin, Vienna, and Constantinople—how therpTO
has replied in two despatches about the Duldigno
session; how negotiations are proceeding upon the
det&ils pf the surrender ; and how that, if there
should be a diploiriatjc fail*, and if all
the 'Powers finally agreed to demenatrate, the qhipF)
which form the naval Orchestra in the EnrePean
concert are to rendezvous at Ragusa. Ali to the Greek
frontier question, Lord Granville stated that the
Powers bad -ab'.reed upon a replication to the Porte's
reply, and had pi:ssented it jointly, to the effect
that the Berlin decision could net be im-eperted, but
that the Powers were ready to discuss with the Sultan's
Government any means of facilitating the transfer.
Such is the sum of Alontlay night's official declaration
ais we have observed does not pi beyond the
P üblic information already 9pnveyel in these columns.
What would have been newer as wSll,ls iroore desira,ble
to learn was whether Lord' Granviire really empects
that the Armada of CoerCion will ever do more than
anchor at Ragusa ; whether either France; in her
present mood, and Austria, with her pressing anxieties,
proposes to extend the demonstration to the Greek
matter,. and; most of all, *hat is the signilcand,9 of
thcs;-; thirty thousand armed Men sent by Russia into
Bulgaria, wtio appear at a time so convenient for a
gweral conflagration. The ivluscovite 'Hamlet' is
left out in Lord Granville's Prince of Denmark.'
His political explanation needs exPll4ing."
The crops of Ivheat and barley are line ix; 131110;ia„
and the maize crop promises an
111.1nense ield. The same
remarks hold good for Roumania.
y
In London, on Sunday, a great open-air demon-
stration of the Catholic Total Abstinence "League of the
Cross" was lield on Tower-hill, Cardinal Manning presiding.
There wius an unusually large attendance of the Catholic
element, exclusive of those who have joined the Temper-
ance League. Addresses on behalf of ' the 'cause Of
total
abstinence were delivered by the Very Rev. Dr. Kirner, the
Rev. Father W, hitinee, and the Rev. Father Monk, from
Montreal. The Cardinal ' League's Guards from several
branches were also in attendance linflPr She coramang of
Major Pearce t Preserve order and cvrlf 04 all neeqsary
arrangements. On'Xonday' the League held AO annual pele•
bratiqn at the Crystal Palace. Cardinal Manning, the presi-
dent of the League,•and between 0,000 atid 10,000 persons
were present. The entertainments provided included a
concert, games, a balloon ascent, ctc., &c.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-09-04

the massive proportions of the edifice will be fully
revealed to view. The west frontage extending some
400 feet in the direction of Carey-street, is likewise
nearly completed ; and the central tower, when out
of the hands of the contractor, will form a conspicuous
object from the Thames Embankment and from the
river itself.
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A satisfactory indication of returning prosperity is
found in the fact that the companies owning the great
lines of ocean steamships plying between Great
Britain and the United States have lately been com-
pelled to put on additional vessels in order to meet
the demands of the traffic. There is no doubt that
this autumn a considerable number of politicians from
this side of the Atlantic will cross the ocean for the
purpose of witnessing the incidents of the Presidential
election. Having fought their own battles in these
islands in the spring, they are curious to see how our
cousins conduct their campaign in the fall. The
Presidential contest in 1876 was a very close one, so
far as the votes of the States were concerned, 185
being for the Republican candidate, Mr. Hayes,
and 184 for his Democratic opponent, Mr.
Tilden. It could not be much nearer than
this, and every effort will now be made by the
Democrats to secure that which the Republican party
has so long held—the occupancy of the White House
at Washington. Party names in the United States
do not, however, convey the same meaning that they
do in this country: to us there TVOuid pot appear to
be much difference between a Republican and A Demo-
crat. while there the distinction is as wide as any that
can possibly be conceived. Hence the desire of many
of our own politicians to study for themselves the
various shades of public life as they are presented in
that colossal continent which is 60 proud to be called
the Great Republic of the West.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-09-04

PUBLIC NOTICES

PUBLIC NOTICES.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.

FOURTEEN HOURS AT PORTSMOI
AND SOUTHAMPTON.

ON SUNDAY NIGHT, SEPTEMBER
6th, a Fast Excursion for SOUTHAMPTONiud
PORTSMOUTH will leave Tipton at 11 15 p •L'adi..y.
11.20; Round Oak, 11.30; t.'touttridge Jonctioo. 11 45;
Cradles, 11.52 ; Old Hill, 11.59; Rowley, 12.5 ; 01,1bu:•y,
12.10; and Smethwick Junction, 12.15 a.m. to return co
Monday evening, September 6th, from Portsmouth ut
7.25, and Southampton at 7.45, p.m.
For fares itc., see special bills. a

ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 110,
the LAST EXCURSION of the SEASU:\ to
NNINCHESTER, GOSPORT. PORTSMOUTII, and
SOUTHAMPTON for 8, 10, 15, or 17 days, and for
WEYMOUTH, and the CHANNEL ISLANDS far 17
days, will leave Dailey at 11.0, a.m., Stourbri4e
Junction, 10.52 a.m., and Birmingham (Snow Hill),
12-40 p.m.
For fares see special bills.

J. Griern, G::uerA Maulvr.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-09-04

SkLES BY AUCTION

MONEY LENT FROM £lO to £l,OOO,
(IN easy Terms and without Sureties to re-
spectable Householders, :Farmers, Cabo wners,
;„.'"flu'epers, Pro,tersional Gentlemen, Lodginghouse
-ckeePer and Others,
APPLY TO

MR. T. BANNIN GTon,
Pint Floor, 48, Union Passage, Birmingham.

Distance no object.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-09-04

p.-4,81 pArisLATIoN,

( dipplwiies. 4.4 f, Sitacie of Wand.)
Our Sseasick Poet—
" Take, oh Steward, thrice thy fee ;
, I've been as ill as any Three ! "—Punch.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-09-04

BROMSGROVE.

LOCAL BOARD.—A meeting of this Board was
held at the Town Hall on Wednesday evening.
Present Mr. E. Suilth in the chair.; Messres. Batten
Bennett, Billingliam, Corbett, Cordell, •Humphreys,
Lamb and Saywell. The financial statement showed
the total balance due to treasurer on Local Board
account' to bo £477 6s. Bd.; and 'the Commissioners
account £2l 11:11(1.—The report of Mr. Carey (the
media 1 officer) stated that 10 deaths and 16 births
were regi6terea last month, against 10 deaths and
23 births in August, '1879, ,the 'death rate being
17.2 and tne birthrate 27.5 per 1,000. ' There., had
been 3 deaths from diarrlicsa ; with that exception
the district had been .very. healthy.—Mr. w.
Jefteries, the Chairman of the Board, was unani-
mously re-appointed for another year. Messrs.
Batten, Billingham, Brooke, Cordell, and Lamb
were appointed as the Highways, Committee ;
Messrs Batten, Bennett, Humphreys, Lamb, and
Smith, the Markets and Weighing•machine
Committee ; Messrs. Batten, Brooke, Corbett,
Green, Lamb, Rhoades, and Saywell, the Sanitary
Committee Messrs. Batten, Billingham, Brooke,
Burrows, Humphreys, and Smith, the Lighting
and Fire Engines Committee ; and Messrs.
Billingham, Cordell, Lamb, Rhoades, Say e'en, and
Smith, the Finanze Committee.—A lighting rate of
10d, in the pound was signed and made, completed
the business.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-09-04

A BAZAAR

WILL BE HELD IN THE

MEADOW ADJOINING ST. ZENELNI'S

REC LORY, ROMSLEY,

ON TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER

7th and Btb,

OPEN AT 11 B.M. FIRS I: DAY SIXPENCE.

Proceeds in aid of New Reading Room. Refreshments.

To the Overseers of the Townshipof Stourbeidge,jls t&e
Parish oj Uldswiuford, and to Vie Superiatendent
Police for the Division of Stourhridge, in the Couaty
of Worcester.
± FRANK EVERILL, of the City of
,Wor-
cester, Secretary to the County and city of
Worcester Coffee Tavern Company, Limited, do itet,by
Give Notice that it is my intention to apply s the
Adjournment of the General Annual Licensing cant;
to be holden at Stourbridge, on toe 241.4 day of S, pt,w-
t,er next, for a License of Justices to keep 1u c
Billiard Tables or Bag ,ttelle Boards or Instiuniectzt
usid in a game of the like kind, at a house siitnizea ia
High Street, Stourbridge, and in the oecapaitun (.4 the
said Cat€l Tlvern Company, Limited, ati,t usi bi
them as a Coffee Tavern.

Given under my hold this SOth clay of A.uplst, 1&.6
FRANK E

STOURBRIDGE UNION.

THE GUARDIANS of the STOURBRIDGE
UNION 111.1.1LEBY cetirENOflCi,Wet at tae
Meeting of the Board to be held on the 24th SEPIEII/1.11
INAT., they will receive
TENDERS
Zr

__om persons willing to supply the undermentionad
articles for three months, viz :
Bread (411) loaves)
Flour (best seconds)
Beef, autton, Suet
Ale (XX)
Bacou, (best South Staffordshire cut, American dry, an..l
.11nglish in sides, complete with the hams), itc.,
kc., ke.

Also Tenders lor the Supply J f

CLOTHING.

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Further particulars, with printed forms of Tender
may be ban ou applicattou at my °dice, 17,5, Lb Street,
ttourbridge, or of tilt: iklastvr t the Vir orli,oure, a,t Kong-
swinford. • -

'renders must be made on the pruted forms, wch
alone will be received EA.( scut +vim eampits ol art..lcs
tendered for to the Woraoodz..c.addrt4a.....l
ti
the iard o: Guatdiaa ott ou or
before the 23rd day of Sep,,inuet inst.
The Guardians do uot uie tueuiaelves to aucisi.t tdo
lowest or any other tender.

By order,

THOMAS WALL.
Clerk.

Workhouse, Kingswinford.
3rd September, 1880.

TRADESMEN'S ADDRESES.

J• E coRN-FoRD,.:,

(Late R. 2'HOMSO.N)
LINEN .A.ND WOOLLEN DltA.Plau

GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHING

Made to Order, on the Shurtest Notice,

STYLE AND FIT GUARANTEED.

LADLES' JACKETS, SEIA.WLS, DEESSEP, de.

14. and 16, BAGLEY STEEET, STOITELLII
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-09-04

THE TAN FEM.

The Mark Lane Express published Of YerY vatu44lo ,
ve
report from Mr. Fleming, army inspecting terinary
surgeon, of the United States, on the subject a Texan
fever. This report more than bears out all that 111 r.
Mundella said in the House as to the infectious
nature of this malady, which, indeed, appears fully to
rival the rinderpest in the wide-spread destruction which
it carries among the herds affected by it. As in the case
of the rinderpest, the Texan fever is not a disease
which inflicts a great mortality among the cattle,
which are, so to say, acclimatised to it. Neither in
Russia nor in Texas is the mortality among the cattle
very great. It is only when an infected animal
arrives in a country new to the disease that the Texan
fever appears in its most terrible and destructive form.
The mere passage of Texan cattle along a roa4 is
known to have communicated the disease to herds
which used the road forty-eight hours later, and fre-
quently the herds of a whole district have been carried
off by ppe of these outbreaks. In 1868 the destruction
caused by the fever brought by the Southern cattle
among the Western herds was so serious that quite
a panic ensued, and for a time the traffic in cattle
between the States on the Gulf of Mexico and the
north was wholly suppressed. The report gives full
details of the symptoms and progress of this terrible
disease, and it is clear that Government are using a
wise discretion in maintaining an embargo against the
entrance of cattle from the United States so long as
the sanitary condition of the herds of that country is
in its_present state. The introduction of Texan fever
into England would be the last straw that would
break the farmer's back. American grain has nearly
crushed him, but American fever would complete his
min.—Evening Standard.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-09-04

THE RUSSIAN ARMY.

An officer of French -cavalry, Captain Weill, has
just written an interesting work upon the Russian
army, the two volumes coutaining a mass of informa-
tima as to the mode of organization, the equipment of
the troops, the system of promotion and retirement,
and many other topics of equal importance. Appended
to the second volume are several well-arranged tables
of statistics which add considerably to the value of
the work, one of these showing that the effective
of the Russian army upon a peace footing is
989,000 including the non-combatants, with 1,646
guns, 13,000 train wagons, and so on, and 172,000
horses. Upon a war footing this effective amounts to
2,500,000 men, 3,986 guns, 45,000 train-wagons, and
465,000 horses. Captain Weill estimates the ordinary
expenditure for military purposes at 181,566,088
roubles, exclusive o 115,M0,000 roubles annually spent
upon breeding horses for the army, The total popula-
tion of the Empire he sets down at 87,850,000, of
whom 72,000,000 belong to Russia in Eurgpe and
Poland, 1,940,000 to the Grand Duchy of Finland,
5,970,000 to the Caueasus 3,440,000 to Siberia, and
and 4,500,000 to Central Ahia,---St. Jarla? Ga4ette,

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-09-04

A NEVADA TOWN NEARLY DESTROYED

BY FIRE.

Details have arrived from San Francisco of the
great fire at Eureka, Nevada. About ten o'clock on
the morning of the 17th inst. an alarm of fire was
sounded, and a dense quantity of smoke was seen to
issue from the rear of Mrs. Poplin's fruit and vege-
table store, in Maine-street, just south of Oddfellows'
Hall. In two minutes several wooden buildings in
the immediate vicinity were enveloped in flames.
The fire seemed to make unprecedented headway from
the start. The wind was blowing a gale from the
southward, until the flames had run their course.
The fire backed up against the wind, on the
southward to Gold-street, crossing Buel, and in
turn reaching to Spring and Paul streets, its course
and scope being almost identical with the great
conflagration of April, 1879. It went a little further
south and stopped a little short of the old mark on
the north. Possibly 300 houses, many of them busi-
ness establishments, were destroyed, also some of the
finest private residences in town. A space eqiial to
50 acres, in the heart of the town, was swept away.
In this area only a half-dozen buildings remain. The
Leader offices Oddfellows' hall, theatre, International
Hotel, A. M. Hillhouse's elegant residence, and the
Methodist Church were among the buildings
destroyed. The Jackson Hotel was gutted, though
still standing, and the International is melted
almost level with the ground. The entire line of
buildings on the west side of Maine-street is
charred, and many of theni badly damaged. The
exact origin of the fire is not known. When the
fire had got beyond control, a scene ensued which
beggars all attempts at description. Hundreds of
men, women and children were fleeing in all direc-
tions for safety, some bearing with them articles of
ersonal or household goods. Those on the lines of
bpring and Paul streets scaled the mountain to the
eastward, while persons further down the flat sought
refuge in the direction of Mob Hill. In the mean-
time drays and waggons were dashing around in the
utmost confusion to bear property from the doomed
distplet. Finally the sun went down on the stricken
and exhausted people. The Sentinel roughly esti-
mates the losses at 750,000 dols., covered by about
150,000 dols. insurance,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-09-04

DEATH FROM THE STING OF A
WASP.

Amongst the smaller miseries of summer, even in
our temperate latitudes, are the formidable aspect
and offensive demeanour of certain insects, provided
by nature with threatening voices and venomous
weapons, which put in an appearance as soon as the hot
weather begins, chilling the boldest heart with panic,
and carrying with them discomfiture to mankind
whithersoever they fly. Not the least aggressive of
these winged warriors is the wasp, whose poisonous
sting inflicts injuries that, under exceptional circum-
stances, have been known to prove fatal to human
life. A distressing case of this kind occurred last
week at Goldberg, upon the estate of a wealthy
German landowner, one of whose farm servants,
whilst harvesting in the fields, sate down to eat
his midday meal, consisting of bread, cheese. and
milk, which had been sent out to him from his
master's kitchen. With his first sup of milk, he took
a wasp into his mouth; and, although he promptly
spat it out, the angry creature found time to plant
its sting in the back of his throat before he could get
rid of it. The interior of the unfortunate man's
larynx swelled so rapidly that, ten minutes later, he
died of suffocation, after enduring terrible agonies in
the vain endeavour to breathe and to force open the
air passages of his throat. A surgeon, who had been
sent for without loss-of time, arrived within a quarter
of an hour from the time at which the sting had been
inflioted, only to find a corpse, surrounded by
horror-stricken peasants. The deceased, an old soldier
attached to the reserve of the King's Grenadier
Regiment, leaves a wife and family to lament
.his
tragical and untimely encl. He had braved with im-
punity the thousand perils of battle in two campaigns
to perish miserable at last by the sting of a wasp.—
Daily Telegraph.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-09-04

REPORT OF THE IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE.

WALL NEAR CLIPF.—An estimate wivi I.lid hcfore
your cofuraitteo for bitildi:;g a wall ne,r Gikt's Hill
aaiitthe river Stour, mounting to £24 J 6. Od.,
which wa; accepted.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-09-04

C LARKE'

SUFFERERS from any disease shonld make
.haste and
take SELNDEETIeS l'iLLs, They do good invariably
relieve and oft..m cure at once. lt 18 now con( ecita
Ali nualeal men that BHANunwries Pit.L.s are 11., I,‘
cleansing medicine, taking hold of what is need d
removed from the bowels and blood when we are tick
And such safe removal usually cures. Sold b y all
Chemists. Bea "B, BaArDWITU" OU damp.

The most remarkable results ever effected by a Heal
jug Remedy are produced by Powina.'s Exasoc.moN
H.R.H. the Duke D'Aureale, the Right Hon. the late
Earl of Clarendon, K G., the Right Hon. Frances
Countess Waldegrave, the Right Hon. the Countess of
Rudnor, and many other eminent persona have given
testimonials as to the extraordinary efficacy of POWELL'S
RHEUMATIC EMBROCATION. The relief which it affords,
the cure which it effects in all cases of rheumatic and
neuralgic pains, gout, lumbago, and all sudden and
painful attacks, aches, pains, and weaknesses in any part
of the body calling for an external application, are at
once t.peedv and permanent. It is sold by all chemists
bottles at Is. lid.and 2s. 9d. Mr. S. Hughes ia our
agent at Stourbridge.

TRY TOUR WZIGHT I—,llydroleins (Hydrated 011)
has proved of the highest value as a food int- eon-
sumptio? .and all wasting diseases, invariably pro-
ducing increase in flesh and weight. This preparation
of Hydrated Cod Liver Oil is tonic, digestive, and
ten times more nourishing, as well as far more
pleasant to taste than plain cod liver oil. Hydroleine
will nourish and produce increase of weight in those
cases where oils or fat, not so treated, are ditflcult
ruisible to digest. All tendency to emaciation and
:weight is arrested by the use of Hydroleme.
chemists, 48. 6d.—Address, 'liydrOlsUiS Com-
**, *ol'4
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-09-04

PRINTING PRINTING ! I PRINTING ! I

•s.. FIELD,
GENERAL PRINTER,

' 92, HIGH-STREET, STOURBRIDGE.

PRINTING DEPARTMENT.

•STATIONERY.

Auctioneers' Catalogues, Sermons, Concert, and
other Posters.
Handbills, Circulars, Cards, Programmes, Bill
Heads.
Club Articles, Address Cards, Post Cards,
And ALL HINDS of PRINTING, in Black or
Coloured Inks.

GENERAL ADVERTISING AGENT.

Envelopes, Note Paper, and ALL KINDS of
PLAIN and FANCY STATIONERY.
Large Stock of PLAYING CARDS, New
Designs and Patterns.
BILL PAPER, PENS, INK, &c.
POCEET BOOKS, CHILDREN'S BOORS
Toy Books, Spelling and Reading Books,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-09-04

THE MARKETS.

MARK-LANE.—MONDAY
At Mark-lane to-d9,y business was very quiet. Through-
out there was an indisposition to operate. New English
wheat was more plentiful, and some goad samples were
offered. Of foreign wheat and oats supplies were large In
English wheat scarcely anything was done, and prices are
nominally the same as on Friday, the tendency being in
buyers' favour. For foreign wheat the trade was inactive at
about late rates. In barley nothing of importance was done,
the demand being very quiet. Malt realised former rates.
Not much doing in the oat trade. Prices were rather easier
on the week. For maize the inquiry was limited, at previous
prices. Beans and peas were quiet, and without change.
The flour market was dull on former terms.
METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.—MoNnev.

A dull tone was the characteristic of the cattle trade.
Fair, but not large, supplies were offered, and they proved
ample for requirements. A full average number of beasts were
received from the Midland and Home counties, but not many
arrived from ether quarters. The condition was tolerably
good. Transactions wee on a restricted scale, and only
the best breeds maintained full prices. The choicest Scots
aud crosses realised ss. 8(1. to 55. 10d. per Sibs
From the midland and home counties have been received
about 200 O; and from Ireland about 100 head. On the
foreign side of the market there were about 500 Canadian,
some 200 Danish, and a few Spanish. The inquiry was
inactive at about laterates. In the sheep pens there was
a fair supply. Business progressed sluggishly and quota-
tions favoured purchasers. The best Downs and half-breds
made Gs. Bd. to Gs. 10d. per Sib. Lambs sold at 6s. 8(1.
to Ss. per 81b. Calves and pigs were quiet and without
movement. At Deptford there were about 300 beasts and
9,000 sheep and lambs. Infericir beasts, 4s. 2d. to 4s. 100.
second quality, ss. to ss. 4(1. ; prime large oxen, Os. 4d. to
Os. 6d. : prime Scots, Os. Bd. to Os. 10(1. ; inferior sheep, ss.
to ss. Od. ; second quality, ss. 6d, to Cs.; prime coarse
woolled, 6s. 6d. to 6s. Bd. ; prime Southdowns, 6s. Bd. to
6s. 10s. ; large calves, ss. to ss. (id. ; prime small ditto, 55. 6(1.
to 58. 10d. ; large hogs, 45. to 4s. 6d. ; small porkers, 4s. 6(1.
to 4s. 10d. ; lambs, 6s. Bd. to Cs. per Sibs., sinking the offal.
METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET.-Mosnar,,

The supplies of meat on sale are moderate, and the
weather being warm the trade is slow, at the foil owing
prices ;—lnferior beef, 2s. Sd. to Sc. 4d. ' • middling ditto,
3s. Bd. to 4s. 6d.; prime large ditto, 4s. Sd. to sa. ; prime
small ditto, ss. to ss. 2d. ; veal, Is. to Is 4d.. • inferior
mutton, 3s. to 45.; • middling ditto, 4s. 4d. to Is. ; prime
ditto, Is. 2d. to Is. 6d.; large pork, Ss. Bd. to 4s. 2d.; small
pork, 4s. 6d. to Is. ; lamb, Is. 4d. to 6s. per Sib, by the car-
case.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-09-04

THE TERRIBLE HURRICANES IN

_
AMERICA.
The American mail, which arrived at Liverpool on
Monday, brought partial intelligence of the tre-
mendous hurricane which swept over the American
continent on the 12th of August.
The storm was felt with the utmost severity in
Teas, where the town of Brownsville was almost
entirely wrecked, and many lives were lost. The town
is situated near the mouth of the Rio Grande, and the
damage was caused by heavy floods, as well as wind.
The eegraPh wires have been carried away by the
ti
storm, and no communication can be had with the
stricken city.
At Castroville, Texas, the Hando mills were washed
away by a freshet in the Medina River, another mill
was threatened with destruction, the water being up
to the second story. At Maianola the water in the
gulf rose to the depth of 3ft. throughout the town.
The track of the Morgan Railroad was carried away a
distance of half a mile. The hurricane was felt at sea
about the same date. Amongst the casualties reported
is the foundering of the Spanish barquentine achi,
bound from Havannah to Gibraltar. The crew were
saved by a passing vessel and landed at New York.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-09-04

THE WO! PONE BY THE HOUSE OF

coumoNs.

In a leader commenting upon the vork done by the House
of Conamonz, The Times remarks :

We are now close upon the end of this broken and
protracted session. Its results are still uncertain.
'They must depend very rotten upon the temper which ,
the Lords may display in the course of the present
week. Of the three principal measures of the session,
not one has yet been passed. They are all open for
discussion, and if not for rejection, at least for an
amount of amendment which might be no leas cer-
tainly fatal to them. -But if wee.,annot yet
say what has been done, we can say .hat has
been attempted. We have had a grst sam_ple
.c 4 the proceedings of the new Parliament, The ,
untrieil power has been at work for some ;
months, and we have seen what it has perfprmed,, or
has endeavoured Ito T,)erform. The terror with winch
its first appearance 'was ettended has scarcely been
justified by the event.' lii the F;.c
of a g d many
worthy pthople the late elections Were c;.;',,n
.the
oo
beginning of tixs ppd. The countrY was to b,(41,41'
from its moo.ringi. gyistitutional principles
,were to r
be upset. We were ente,r i:.pson a new course alto- !
gether. Extaame Couniels Were o nrevail. In
the whole coining chaes. the onO.
ertain
was that the more 'rewol,uticnarY the 'clesigh
bkter would be its chanei "pf finding favour.
;
ij
We cs.o. now judge the reason athi the justice of
these fearfyl ,7,pprehensions. We know the
w orst
.of
what the new Pr)iament and the new Ministx
have been striving
,fot, and it is not very alarmin '
-
The session has brought more proof of fhe strengt
and vigor of the opposition to chal;ge than it has
brought of anything else. The moment the 11.iriistry
went one ,hair's brezdth out a Straight course
their majority fell ,Off 41 ;lumbers. The meastitres
for whfoll they hav,e obts.ned agenuine and un-
doubted suPort in, the Lower I:louse 'are scarcely
such as t justify gie fears which were .coin Mon
enough a few months ago. The Erarpy,ers' Lia-
bility ifl has been the most keenly debated of
all. Its principle may be sound,
,Lut its details
have given rise to almost infinite discussion. What-
ever objections may be inade tO Own, revolutionary
.s
they certainly are not. The law pi France l 'even
more favourable to the workman than the amended
law of England will be, in whatever shape it may
survive its passage through the .I..)pper. Jloue. A.s for
the Ground Game Jill, our wonder is that so Much
.indignation has been expended on so harmless a
neasure. It shows, at least, the zeal with
which the outposts are guarded. Before .the
country gentlemen are even threatened in their
sporping rights, they are up in arms to defeat
a Bill which may be the precursor of something
worse, but which gives them little to complain of
on its own account. The Burials question has been
,dealt with after the same fashion, The Bill was a

.4 DI
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-09-04

POTATO.

GAME AND POtTLTRY.

-:'•- , • •*. • .

Fair supplies of potatoes are ou sale, but a large propor-
tion comes in a blighted coudition. The demand is very
limited, at the following prices :—llegents, 41. to bs.
kidneys, 6s. ; ditto Jerseys, 6s. to is. per cwt.

Snipe, is. tos. Cd.; golden plover, is. 9d. to 2s. 3d.
ptarmigan, is. 6d. to 25.; grouse, 2s. to 4s. 3d.; black game,
2s. ed. to 3s. 9d.; live quails. Cd. to 30d. ; wood pigeons, 4d.
to 9d. ; Bordeaux ditto„ is. Cd. to is. Sd. ; leverets. 3s. to 4s. ;
white hares, 2s. to 3s. 3d,; conies, 10d. to is. 2d. ; tame
rabbits, Is. 9d. to Sc. ; chickens, is. 6d. to 2s. 6d. ; large
fowls, Sc. to is. ; ducks, is. 6d. to 4s. 4s. ; goslings, Sc. to 7s.
6d, each
FISH.

Fresh herrings, 255. to 265. 6d. ; roused ditto, 225. to 80s.
red ditto, 10s. 6d. to 215. ; pickle ditto, 30s. to 365. ; smoked
haddock, 20s. to 38s. 6d. per barrel; salmon and grilse, is.
3d. to is. 63.. per lb. ; black soles, is. 6d. to is. 3d. per pair
lobsters, Bs.. 9(1. to 30s. ; crabs, Cs. to 255. Gd. ; mackerel, la
6d, to 2s. 63.. ; mullet, 2s. 3d. to 4s; whiting is. 6d. to 3r.s.
native oysters, 3s. 03. to 4s. ; common ditto, 10d. to Is. 6d, per
dozen,

HOP.
The accounts from the plantations regardin74 the hop
crops vary considerably. Picking is now makug fair pro-
gress, and in some localities there is a gooe. yield ; while
from other districts there are complaints tir-.4 the crop is de-
ficient. Where the ground has been.tdested with mould
the crop will be a light one. There very little doing hi
the market at present.

%-cot
•
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-09-04

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-09-04

CRICKET.

OLD HILL TRINITY v. SCRATCH ELEVBN.—This
match wa played on the ground of the former, on
Saturday last, and resulted in an easy victory for
the home team, by an innings and 14 runs. The
bowling of Hackett for the Scratch and of Wardle
and S. .L Mason for the Old Hill Trinity, was very
praiseworthy. The following are the scores :
Old Hill Trinity H. Wardle, b Hackett, 16; A.
Barr sley. b Hackett, 0 ; A. Masou, 6 Hackett. 0 ;
W. Parsons, b Hackett, 2; T. H. Parsons, b
Hackett, 5 ; J. 11, Parsons, c Cockin, b Bennet, 4;
H. Mason, b Hackett, 1, S. J. Mason, c Bennett,
b Hackett, 2; F. Cook, b Hackett, 0; A. Perry, b
Hackett, 0; D. Wright, not out, 2; extras, 7 ;
totol 39. .scratch Lleven, Ist innings, 4. Hackett,
b Wardle, 3; Boswell, b Wardle, 1 ; T. Laister, rub
out, 5; W. Granger, thrown out Barnsley", 4; G. A.
Weston, b S. 3 Mason, 0; C. Cockin, b Wardle, 0;
J. Bennett, c T. H. Parsons, b Wardle, 0; J.
b Wardle, 0; E.-Mantle c J. H. Parsons.
b Wardle, 0; C. Jones, C S. J. Mason, b Wardle,
1 ; J. Laister, not out, 0; extras 7; second innings,
J. Hackett, c Parsons, b Wardle, 0 ; Boswell, c
Parsons, b Wardle, 0; T. Laister, c A. Mason, b S.
J. Mason, 1; W. Granger. h S. J. Mason. 0; West"
Ii Wardle, 0; C. Coekin, c Wright, bS. J. Mason,
; J. Bennett, b Wardle, 0 • J. Laister, not out,
0; Mantle, c }anon, b Vfirdle, 0; Jones, b
Wardle, 0 ; J. Laister, b Mason, 0; extras 3 ; totals
21-4.

by 31 runs.
Trehseulftoeldloiwninagn
iesa
b P. Chance ...... 3
ST. JOHN'S V. WRITE STAn.--This match was
played at the Racecourse, on Saturday last, and
tsyhvAviiieno;lT.feo; St. John's
: STAR.
iG
Knowles b Wall ,
Jester, b Wall 2
j. Jefferies, c Taylor b Wall 3
Self, run out
C. Bidmead, b Wall 2
charlwood, c Green b Chance 1
Jones, c Porter b Wall
W. Tomlins, b Chance
Wilson, run out
Bidmead, not out 2
Extras l7

Total

Sr. JOHN'S.
W Wall, c Wilson b Knowles ...... 11
P. Chance, st. Jeffries b Parsons... 9
R. Squires, b Bidmead
A. E. Staples, c and b Parsons 7
T. Walton, b Bidmead . .............. 3
T. Hinton, e Jester b Bidmead...
.. 0
N. Porter, ruu out ................... 1
J. Cri.eea, not out 9
W. 'Taylor, run out
b Bidmead
J. Homer, not out
Extras

TOtal ...milimmost.“
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-09-04

COUNTY COURT.

IiuNNING DOWN CASE.—MALKINs V. BATE.—
At the CAtuty Court, on Tuesdqy, before R. Kettle,
(Judge) ad a Jury. This as an action
iry Malhin. iron-plate ~,orker, re-
s'ilirt; at the Lye, against William Bat', publican
;g de.Ale,. of Ur- Delph. tu r-cover the StCU of
,r injuries received hp the defendant running
ei e r tn with a trap. Mr. Waldron aprarcd for
e ..,:tintiff, and Mr. Hornfray for the defe2,dant.
T e ;
.)eing put in the witness box, 'Aid
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-09-04

GENT'S BOOTS,

Soled and Heeled, with or without Blackey's eek-
brated Boot Proteetcrs, 2s 6d; LADIb;S, Is 6d.

ORDERED WORK OF EVERY rEs..cmmes
MADE jtli "I lIE PREMISEZ,
At Exceptional Luw l'rices.

Boots Repaired while customers
wait at

O'DOWD ez Co's.,

91, HIGH STREET,
STOURBRRIDGE,
Next door to the Observer Office.

MONEY 1 MONEY MONEY Hl
CASH ADVANCED £lO to £5OO ON EASY TERMS.
TO Respectable Householders, Fanners, Cos r a
Tradesmen, and others, Without Sureties. cr
delays. Apply personally or by letter, to B. cico.;mar,
80, Princess Road, Birmingham, (Private Resol ice,
Union Loan Office, 19, Stone Street, (late 3. Pii,sr:
Street,) Dudley, and 6, Enville Street,Stourbridge.

BLAIR'S GOUT PILLS.
THE GREAT ENGLISH .REIIEDY
FOR GOUT AND ELISUNIATISM.
rp.s, excruciating pain is quickly relitve,i sr,d cured
in a feN days uy this celebrated Nledi,:ine.
i hese Pills require no resttaint of diet during tboir
use, and are certain to prevent the disease titts.cking any
vital part.—rVid by all Chemists, at is. lid. and 2s.
3.
per box

ONE BOX of CLARKE'S B 41 Bill is
v.v.., ranted to cure all discharges from the 'Urinary
ergans, in (diner stx, acquired or coustitationui, Grsvel
cnti Pairs in the 136c1i.--Selil in boxes, 4s
.6il each, by
ali Chcmists avid Patent Medicine Vendors ; or sent to
4a+tiees :or tA.) Slsitnp. by th*t
t,
Wholesale Agents, BAUCLAY & Sox, London, and all ho
Wholesale tiousesi
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-09-04

FINANCE COMMITTEE.

This commit.ee reported that the treasurer's
balances on the several accounts at this date to Le
as Ie lows :—Highway acc.-.,uut, duo to Treasurer
.'720 21. 3d; linpr(wernent Account, due from
Tre.:surer, .C2C6 23 H ; Urtaii Sanitary Account,
due froth Treasuter, 18s 10d. The committee,
er,rnin,,d the seveiat accounts and finding
tliern e ,rrect rec,ianmend that they be paid, viz :
Ou the Highway Account £B2 18s 6d ; Improve-
in nt Account CO3 17s 7d ; Interest ...4.couut, £3
ei 01; Urban Sanit,:ry Authority £69 13.3 Sti.
I tt a ar, odoied Ly Mr. Turney and seconded by
Mr. Hu .h that, be paid to the the brigade at
this 1:-.to.

REPORT OF THE GENERAL PURPOSES Com:mu E
MEDICAL OFFICER'S OF EIEALTd IZEFORT.

Number of J.,a,s rc,gi,tered Item July 19th to
Itow.r;., 9:31.1, 1880. 10 viz - 7 males :.nd 3 females
D 01 I.irt,s regiscred in
ti asve-naniA pciiod 29, viz :---21 males, and 8
Birth-ta e 37-1. For the past t,%0 years
the dyath rte has only twice been lower thin it has
during, the past month; which fact is explained by
the abence of any zymotic disease and the healthy
went, er. Official visits bad been made to premises
Li Worceiter Street, and Duke Street. I found
that on account of the ash-pits and privies not
beimc properly ventilated there were very bad-
smells at the back of the houvs in Wor,ester
Street, in the occupation of Messrs. Penn, Perks,
Cooper, and Dallow. I ordered the iiispcct-A to
serve rotiees to I.ave the. pla, e•eprope:l7 v,,ntilated ;
also folnd the hooses lit Duke Street in the occu-
pation of Me. srs. Williams .And Thomas, diry and
onwholes,-lne, also the draias privy laid wah:h-use
(IP.piJated. I orcered te horts and outbuildings
to beduo aast.ed and -.he p. ivy, and uah
ti ire to be repaii-cd.
Tow:: OFFlcat's REren.r.—.Nuisane,s remainin,g
from last month 18, reported duirg the mouth 35
total 53. Removed old 15, new 29-44, remaining 9:
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-09-04

Natalaix gistrict 4jeirrs.

COMMISSIONERS' MEETING.

Tht usu..] monthly 'meting of this Board s
hat cyt Moheay ml, Mr. IN. J. Ttii.ney p..csidi V.
The.e ere al,o pr -Hut Messrs. Ilugh.s, Biliir,g-
t.atu, div-rds, tircen, Woolley, ttriugcr, aml
ot era.

The Clerk read the minutes of the ]at meeting
ord t! ey were confirmed.
Tile liitiirman caid th3,t at the previews meet:n.4
tt.e irea'ion of putting a foot-',riclge over the road
it..ar 6 . Johu's Churl+ Alm ;:et recti the I utp..0v...-
Onounittc.T. Urfortunitely qv! CILEk d,tl not
t itt his tninu -a ti. wc.;ek ego, eon-
is not on tho ?gen:kr ,-f ay committee
mPett.:g. Had it. btmn LW the agend,r th,y should
o hiiv3 tad Vine to have tl:Alt svi.th it and he
rllought under the circumst•meeg ttA3y had better
.-cpert progress en the ques..ton referred to the
ft,,,Tovement Committee. He thought th,.;3r shoulo
hay,: to mz,le some arrangement for devidi,c, , the
work of those committees in future. 1)r. H. F.
Parsons report sa to the Sanitary condition of the
Stourbridge Regulation District had been received.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-09-04

O'DOWD & Co.,

THE NOTED

Boot Repairing Company,

MEND OPLINING
SIT_CDP

ON UONDAY, JULY 26th,
When they trust to meet with the support which
their
LOW PRICES, GOOD WORKMANSHIP,
and Prompt Attention have secured for them in
other towns.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-05-08

THE NEW MINISTRY.

(From Monday's Times.)

First Lord of the Treasury and Chan-I Right Hon. W. E.
cellor of the Exchequer .. .. .. 1 GLADSTONE.
Lord Chancellor .. .. .. .. Lord SELBORNE.

Lord President of the Qouncil .. .. Earl SPENCER.

Lord Privy Seal

.. Duke of AROYLL.

Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs . • Earl GRANvILLH.
Secretary of State for India 5 Marqhis of HART
t INGTON.
Secretary of State for the Home Depart- {Sir w. HARCOLTRT.
ment
Earl of lUMBER-
Secretary of State for the Colonies ..
LEY.

aiLHDEuRusH.
ecretau of State for War.. H
• • • goolf.
Right Hon
First Lord of the 'Admiralty Ea NORTH-
Chief Secretary for Ireland .. FORSTER.. W. E.
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster .• I Right Hon. JOIDI
t BRIGHT.
President of the Local Government Board Mr. DODSON.

President of of the Board of Trade..

(The above form the Cabinet.)

Lord Chamberlain

Lord High Steward .. .. ..
Master of the Horse.. .. ..

.. Earl of KENMARE.
.. Earl SYDNEY.
(The Duke of WEST-
" i MINSTER.
.. Earl of CORK.
f Right Hon. W. P.
•• I ADAM.
.. Mr. FAWCETT.
.. Mr. MUNDELLA.

Master of the Buckhounds

First Commissioner of Works • •

Postmaster-General .. .. • •
Vice-President of the Council ..
Secretary to the Admiralty ..

(Mr. G. SHAW-
" t LEFEVRE.
The Marquis of
t LANSDOWNE.
Under-Secretary for War ..
.. Earl of MORLEY.
Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs .. Sir I:ILHKAREL. Es
Under Secretary, Home Department .. Mr. ARTHUR PEEL.
Under-Secretary for the Colonies .. Mr. GRANT DUFF.
Civil Lord of the Admiralty Mr. T. BRASSEY.
Financial Secretary to the War Office .. MIiANNEBCAmMAPNBELL
Lord F. CAVEN-
•• I DISH.
Lord R. GROS-
Patronage secretary to the Treasury ..
VENOR.

Under Secretary for India..

Financial Secretary to the Treasury

Sir A. D. HATTER.
Mr. JoHN Hums.
Mr. C. C. Conn.
Secretary to the Local Government Board Mr. HIBBERT.
comptroller of the Household .. Lord KENSINGTON.
Attorney-General .. ~ Sir HENRY JAMES.
Solicitor-General .. Mr. HERSCHELL.
Paymaster-General • , . Lord WoLVEHToN.
Judge-Advocate-General Mr. OsBoRNE
MORGAN.
Lord CHARLES
• BRUCE.

Lords of the Treasury .. ..

Vice-Chamberlain .. .. ..

Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland .. .. Earl COWPER, K. G.
Lord Chancellor .. .. .. .. Lord 011AGAN.

(Eight Hon. HUGH
Attorney-General LAW.

Lord Advocate for Scotland .. Mr. J. M'LAnEN.
Solicitor-General for Scotland .. .. Mr. BALFOun.

Governor-General of India .. .. Marquis of RIPON
(MrChairman of Ways and Means .. LFr°N FLAY-
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-05-08

THE TERRIBLE TORNADO IN
AMERICA.

The American papers to hand give full particulars
of the terrible tornado which raged in South Western
Missouri on the 19th April and which caused such
tremendous destruction to property, with an immense
loss of life. The tornado was first experienced about
six o'clock in the evening some six miles from Spring-
field, Mo., and after leaving the valley of the River
James, passed through several districts to Marshfield,
where the havoc was terrible. The noise of the storm,
the crash of falling houses, with the screams of the
wounded and terrified people, are described as appal-
ling. A town of 800 inhabitants and some 200 houses
was in a few hours a waste of desolution. Only about
14 houses remained standing, whilst none escaped
injury.

Two special trains from Springfield and Lebanon
brought a numbor of doctors and nurses, with 'provi-
sions and medicines for the wounded. As fast as the
bodies could be extricated from the ruins they were
prepared for interment, and the wounded were con-
veyed to the National School, which was the only
available building standing. There was a considerable
number of coloured persons amongst the dead and
wounded. In the names of the dead published it is
seen that several members of the same family have
succtimbed. Several families have been deprived of
both father and mother by the disaster. Up to
seven o'clock in the evening there was a death
list of seventy-eight, and many of the wounded
were expected to die before the morning. The vio-
lence of the storm may be gathered from the fact
that trees were lifted entirely out of the ground,
whirled in the air, and their boughs twisted into all
shapes. The bark of the trees was also peeled off,
and telegraph wires were twisted round the poles as if
they were made of cotton yarn. To add to the con-
fusion and danger of the moment, the western part
of Mansfield took fire and raged furiously. The court
house was burned and fell in. The flames were de-
scribed as leaping before the gale.
At Conway, Kansas City, and other places, there
was terrible damage. At Gray's Creek' seven houses
were blown to the ground. Some of the debris was
thrown across the railway line. A train coming up
dashed into it and was much damaged. The driver
and fireman escaped with little injury. The tornado
also visited lowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, &c., causing
much damage.