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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-02

AN INDIANA MYSTERY.

Referring to this extraordinary aff air.the Pall Mall Gazette
remarks:—
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The heirs of two brothers, named Jacques and
Francois Lefevre, have, according to the Indianapolis
Sentinel, just presented a memorial to the Indiana
Senate, which "reads like a tragic romance."
Jacques Lefevre came to Indiana about the year
1830, and settled in Lawrence County, near St. Fran-
cisville on the banks of the Wabash.. For 15 years he
toiled industriously on his farm, chopping wood and
selling it for fuel to passing steamboats. In 1845 he
was murdered--shot while standing near his wood-pile
waiting for an approaching steamer. An inquest was
held, but the mystery of the assassination was not
solved, and the incident gradually dropped out of the
recollection of the people in the neighbourhood. Eight
years later Francois Lefevre came over from France to
collect what might be due to the estate of his brother
and to live on his farm, but a few months after
his arrival he, too, was shot on precisely the
same spot where his brother fell, and his murderer
WRS never apprehended nor any clue obtained to
his identity. The Lefevre estate consisted 0'
73 acres, and since Jacques was shot, although
the farm has produced nothing, the taxes have
been regularly paid by the heirs. They have re-
peatedlv endeavoured to sell the estate since the mur-
der of Francois, but notwithstanding the fact that it
was offered as low as 2 dole. 50c. an acre, nobody could
be found willing to risk his life by taking up his abode
on the ill-omened place. For this reason the heirs
petition the Legislature to accept the Lefevre eAfates

on behalf of the oommonwealth, to be devotee' to any
Public use for the uainty of Lawrence on the condition
that the same shall be known as "The Bloody Field,"
or by any other denomination reminding the actual
generation of the impunity with which this double
murder wee committed. They also ask that the sum
of the taxes paid on the estate from 1846 to the present
time may be reimbursed to them, and a Bill drawn in
the interest of the petitioners is now before the Indiana
Senate.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-02

"NO PROGRESS."

The trade of Lyons doe*, not appear to be in a very
flourishing condition. Consul Marks, in his commer-
cial report on Marseilles lately printed, says that it is
doubtful if Lyons is holding its own against the active
and intelligsgat competition of Switzerland and Rhenish
Prussia. TN rise in wages, the constantly increasing
fastidiousness of the weavers as to the nature of the
work he will undertake, and the hard and fast line of
tariff applied to labour, are all so many elements in
favour of the foreigner, and stumbling-blocks to the
Lyonese. No doubt so large and educated an industry
cannot fall in a day, but certainly it is more or less under-
mined, and the result is "no prugress " (says the Pall
'Mall Gazette). Another feature in the trade is the transfer
of the looms from the towns to the country villages ad-
jacent, where living costs less, and where the weaver van
combine field with loom work, and so be content with
less wages than in towns. In this way sonic 10,000
looms have within the last few years left Lyons, and
with them have gone the majority of the journeymen,
who formerly were so numerous and so compact a body
among the weavers. Workshops formerly of eight or
twelve looms now scarcely exceed four, and these are
worked by the master himself and his immediate rela-
tions to the exclusion of the journeymen. The country
looms also introduce female labour into the silk manu-
facture, and in this respect are followed by the power.
looms, which are springing up „wherever water-power
is to be met with in some outlying spots in the neigh-
bouring departments. The power-looms are now very
numerous, and they are principally worked by women
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-02

THE IRISH CHURCH.

In the liotSIL OF CoMMONs, Mr. Disraeli, in answering a
question, stated that there is no unappropriated balance pro-
ceeding from the disesLiblishment of the Irish Church. On
the contrary, there is a debt amounting to £970,000. of
which .£8,40°,000 is due to the Commissioners for the Reduc-
tion of the National Debt. and £1,300,000 to the Representa-
tive Body of the Irish Church. This will be paid off in 17
years, and there will then remain Terminable Annuities of
the capital value of .0,000,000, which will constitute the
divisible surplus.
...—.—...

THE NATIONAL DEBT.

In answer to Mr. Cubitt, the Chancellor of the Exchequer
stated the total amount of the National Debt at x.770.294,ut5),
of which £723,M4,000 is funded, £4,479,000 unfunded, and
Li 2,000,000 is in the form of Terminable Annuities.

THE SUEZ CANAL.
In reply to Sir G. Jenkinsou, Mr. Bourke said lie was happy
to state that the closing of the Suez Canal had been averted
by the good sense of M. Lessees, who hail submitted to the
Porte. There was no reason, therefore, to suppose the canal
wonlil be stopped.
THZ LICILYSING BILL.
In committee of the whole House, Mr. Cross moved for
leave to bring in a bill to amend the laws relating to the sale
of Intoxicating Liquors. Ile commenced by laying before the
Committe a variety of statistics illustrating the increase in
the consumption of intoxicating liquors. Slat the improvement
in the character of public-houses and twerhouses, which
had been simultaneous. as shown by the: falling off in
the convictions and forfeitures of licences. The general
conclusion be drew was that the increased drinking
was not exclusively produced by an increase in the number
of publichouscs. Ile rather attributed it to the great and
sudden rise in wages and to the larger amount of leisure at
the command of the working classes, and he anticipated I
the most efficacious check on the drinking habits ,
of the people from the spread of education, which
would teach them more harmless and useful employ-
ments for their leisure hours, and from the improvement of
their dwelling. Mr. Cross discussed next the various
remedies suggested by different schools, such as the pro-
moters of the Permissive Bill and the advocates of unre-
stricted freedom—concluding that the wisest plan is to treat
the Trade as a regulated Monopoly. This led him to
consider whether there were defects in the Act of 197'2
with the operation of which any portion of the public
might reasonably be dissatisfied. First he touched
on the hours of closing, and, showing what varied
and inconsistent views have been taken by the Licensiog
Authorities on this point, he drew the inference that
Parliament ought to take upon itself the responsibility of
fixing uniform hours of closing. The Bill, therefore, abolishes
all exemptions, and fixes certain hours of closing—viz.. 123)
a.m. for the Metropolis, 11 30 pin, for towns of
over 10,000 inhabitants, and 11 pin, for the rest of
the country. The refreshment houses known as Night
vill ' "-- lie,'
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-02

A BLACK PARLIAMENT.

Some interestinj Infermation respecting the Bleck
Parliament of South Carolina given by Mr. Pike, who
lately travelled Stough the State, appears in the 11"atunr.
In the ouse 4,f Representatives sit 124 inerebers. Of
these thirty are pore white men, and the remainder
black' but as eQV 1.1 out of the thirty white men vote
with the black, the real strength of ti.e opposition is
only twenty-three. l'he Spersir is black, the clerk is
the doorkeepers are black, the pages are thick,
1131 d the chaplain is black. "At some of the desks
sit coloured mon whose types it would be hard to lind
outside of Congo; whose costume, visages, ant.
tude, and expressions only befit the forecastle
of a buccaneer. '"the Lieutenant-Governor, the
President of the Senate, the Speaker of the
House, the Treasurer, are all blacks. The Governor
alone is a white, elected by black votes. The manner
in which business is conducted in thiloblack parliament
is thus described by Mr. Pike. "They are quick as
lightning at detecting points ef order, and they cer-
tainly make incessant and extraordinary use of their
knowledge. No one is allowed to talk five minutes,
without interruption, and one interruption is the signal
for another and another, until the original speaker is
smothered under an avalanche of them. Forty questions
of privilege will be raised in a day. At time* nothing
goes but alternating questions of order and
pnvilegiF.‘ The inefficient coloured friend who sits
in the Speaker's chair cannot suppress this extra-
ordinary element of the debate. Some of the blackest
members exhibit a pertinacity of intrusion in raising
these points of order and questions of privilege that
few white men can equal. Their struggles to get the
floor, their bellow Inge and physical contortions baffle
description. The Speaker's hammer plays a perpetual
tattoo all to no purpose. The talking and the inter-
ruptions from all quarters go on v. ith the utmost
licence. Every one esteems himself as good as hie
neighbour, and puts in his oar apparently as often for
love of riot and confusion as for anything else. It is
easy to imagine what are his ideas of propriety and
dignity among a crowd of his own colour, and these
are illustrated without reserve. The Speaker orders
a member whom he has discovered to be particularly
unruly to take his seat. The member obeys, and with
the same motion that he sits down throws his feet
on to his desk, hiding himself from the Speaker by the
sobs; of his boots. In an instant he appears again on
the floor. After a few experiences of this eon, the
Speaker threatens, in a laugh, to call 'the gemman
to order. This is considered a capital joke, and a
guffaw follows. The laugh goes round, and then the
peanuts are cracked and munched faster than ever;
one hand being employed in fortifying the inner man
with this nutnment of universal use, while the other
enforces the views of the orator."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-02

RECEPTION OF A POSTULANT.

An imposing ceremony took place in London, on
Sunday, at the convent of Poor Clares, Bayswater, oa
the c,eeash ti of receiving a postulant. The office com-
menced at half-past nine with mass. The postulant
entered dressed as a bride, preceded by her six brides-
maids, and accompanied by the Countess of Kennare,
who acted as godmother, and who knelt next her before
the altar. Immediately on the conclusion of mass, the
candidate for the religious habit was conducted by
her g. slinother to the altar step, where, kneelim; at the
feet of the officiating priest, she answered the questions
put to her. She then entered on a year's probation,
and she is to be henceforth called " Sister Margaret
May, of the Sacred Heart." At a later part of the
service a sister, who had that day fulfilled her noviciate,
made her profession. The officiating priest .held out
to her in one hand a crown of thorns and in the other
a crown of flowers, and inquired which she would
choree. She replied that, in this world, she would choose
a crown of thorns, thatiin the world to come she might
have a Crown of Life. The priest then gave her his
blessing, awl the grille of the convent was closed.
There was then. a short address, and the service con-
cluded with the "Te Deum" and Benediction.

Already one side of a street in Glasvw has been
christened 'coon-lassie-place."
The great bicycle race at Sheffield. on Saturday
was run in the presence of a large number of spectators, and
resulted in favour of Cooper. of Sheffield, the present cham-
pion bierlist, who beat .1 (item of London, after a splendid
ewe, by two yards only.
In an amount of that land of wonder of modern
days. Yarkund, it is said that the good people there suffer,
strangely enough," from dyspepsia. They ate, we are
further Informed. addicted to the habit of " eating stniff
madutpuneent by the admixture of cruklai.Mo." frk
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-02

AUSTRALIAN MEAT.

In London, on Monday, a small company of gentle
men, with the Hon. Wentworth Fitzwilliam, M.P.,
in the chair, met on the invitation of Messrs. John
IWCall and Co., at the "London Tavern," to lunch off
various meats and soups from the meat-preserving
works of Australia and South America for which the
Messrs. M'Call are the London agents. The following
is the bill of fare provided for the occasion, which, it
must be confessed, was large and varied enough to en-
able every one present to fulfil the not irksome condi-
tions of their invitation (says The nun's, from whom
we are quoting). Of soups there were brown rabbit,
n,ulligatawny, and kangaroo tail from the Western
Meat Preserving Company, mock turtle, lamb's tail,
awl haricot from the Melbourne Company. Then
followed stewed ox-tails and ox-tongues from Pay-
sander, corned beef from Roman Uruguay, and ns-
soles, corned beef, and boiled mutton again from the
Melbourne Company. There were carrots and green
peas of English growth. It would be but idle to say
that these meats and soups were in all respects as
good as fresh meats and soups made from fresh meat.
They are not, and cannot be, and we may be sure
that the importers and agents themselves recognise
that fact. But what they can do is to supply with
sound, wholesome, and nutritious meat families whose
means while the present prices still hold good might
otherwise debar them altogether from the taste of
animal food. It is shown in a small pamphlet pre-
pared by the agents that a leg of mutton, costing at
the butchers' lld, per lb. will, when cooked, cost the
consumer even inure than Is. Ukl. per lb. But
a tin of boiled mutton from the works of the
Melbourne Meat Preserving Company can be bought
at the rate of lid, per lb. ; corned beef, from
7d. to Bd. per lb.; and ox-tongues trom Paysan-
der, on the Uruguay—which, it may be men-
tioned in passing, met with universal approval at
Monday's lunch—in 4 lb. tins, from Is. to Gs., being
about half the price of the same weight of English
tongues. In this pamphlet, too, there is • long list of
recommendations and of names who have tried and ap-
proved these meats. Among them appears a letter
from his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, who
writes from 'Tasmania, where he was with his ship, the
Galatea, to say that, " always remembering that pre-
served meat can never be equal to fresh, he is certain
that many who cannot afford to pay the present very
high prices in England would gladly avail themselves
of such good food." This is precisely the state of the
case, and we can assure those, and there are, we regret
to say, many, who are wont to turn up their noses at
Australian meats that the Messrs. ML all can provide
them with some that merit far more than the common
meed of praise too often bestowed on such prepara-
tions, that any meat is, at all events, better than none.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-02

ASHANTEE GLOVER.

The thanks of one House, and much praise front the other,
Is this the reward that we give our brave (Mover?
Promotion and Honours are scattered about.
But the hero of heroes is strangely left out.
His share is the many tine things that were said-
-Pis excellent butter, but where is the bread ?-I.l4nch.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-02

110 PS.

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The market may be considered firm, but there in still a
want of animation in the demand for all classes of hops,
and the enlifumed lutes mked are not willingly submitted to
by consumer. On the continent Imainesa is almost at a
standstill, but the (imitations are reported to have assumed
more strength Last Kent geldings, KA to £655 : Mid Kent.
£4 ; Weald of Kent, £.3 Pla to £6 be ; Sussex. ES los.
to Za ss : Worcester, .a 4 los. to £6 55.; Farnhams, xa to
£6 ; country, Et 10. to £5 10a. ; yearlings, a 15s. to £4 10s.
flea Bavarians, £4 10a. to ; Belgians, 124. to £3 5.
Alsace, £4 10s. to .tr, 12s. ; French, to £5 and American
1670, £1 10a. to £2715,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-02

FISH.

Pickled herrings, 285. to36s; red ditto, 125. to 221
roused ditto, lbs. to 255. ; fresh ditto, Ins to Vs. per barrel ;
kipper ditto, 2s. 641 to to bloater ditto, 25. 9.1 to 45 10,1.
per basket , smoked haddocks, 225. t. 30s, per barrel ; tnw
ditto, Its tkl. to 15. ; whiting, Its. to 17s. ; plaice, 185. to
22s per basket ; soles, Is. Qt. to to. per pair ; turbot, 8. to
13s. ;brill, Os. to 3s. fbi; lobsters, Is. to 35. each ; native
oysters, a:10 10. ; common ditto, 13s. per bushel.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-02

BAGLEY.

STOCK Sata.—At this sale, on Monday, there wsa a
much larger collection of stuck than the previous week,
and paices rather b'etter. There was a very good atteryl•
mice. Beef realised .91 per lb., and mutton out of th •
wool, 81. Other stock was fairly sold. The sale re.
Cissil Y 3,000.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-02

VIIICES.

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Butter, per cwt. & a. Cheese, per cwt: & &
Dorset 154 to 158 Cheshire BO to 84
Friealand......., 132 136 Dble. Glouc., new 140 84
Jersey . . 620 140 Cheddar
Eng. Fresh, per doe 12 16 American
Bacon, per ewt : , Barns, York
Wiltshire, green 80 86 I Cumberland
Irish, green, Lob. 04 91 I Irish
TALLOW.
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LONUON, Monday, Aprll-47.--P.Y•.C. Is rather limner at 381.
per cwt. on the spot. Town Tallow MY 64. net cash-
Rough Fat is. 9d. per Saba
5. d. a. d.
Town Tallow, per cwt. 39 0 Rough Stuff, per cut, 14 o
Rough Fat, per ell.. 1 9 Graves 15
Melted Stuff, per cwt. 27 6 Good Dregs ~
Yellow Russian, new .... 375. 9d, per cwt.
Ditto Ditto old .... 005.'0d. „
Australian Niutton Tallow ::75. 3d. „
Ditto Beet Ditto. 355. 3d,„
RAY.
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HITECHAPEL, Saturday, April 25 —,slth a large auCy UI
straw
hay and on sale, trade at this market has }wen all at
late rates. Prime clover, 90. to 102 i Bd. ; interior, aft 7rs.
Prime meadow hay, 75a. to 94. ; inferior, 50s to 70a and
4itraw. 30a to 40a, per load

SEEDS.
LoNDON, Monday, April 27.—The season being im odvsrl
sales of Cloverseed were less numerous, and although stocks
are low, prices are moderate, with few country buyers for
any description. Nothing passing in Trefoil to ,Iter the value
Of this article ; some quantity is likely to be left over, for
Which low prices are ekneered. A few par AS of %MU!
Mustaidseed were odd at about the rates of last week, but
nothing in brown passing for want of supply. Foreign
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DEATH OF THE' REV: H. IYOO- DOATE.

It is our melancholy duty to announce the demise of
the Rev. Henry Arthur Woodgate, B. D.. Rector of Bel
broughton•with•Fairfield, Worcestershire, and Honorary
Canon of Worcester. Mr. Woodman) graduated at
St. John's College. Oxford, in 1421. taking • first-alms
in Literie Huwanioribus, and subsequently becoming
fellow and tutor of his College. lie MN ordained in 1821
and in 1437 he was appointed to the College living of
Belbroughton, which is worth el 250, with lodise and 31
acres of glebe. From 1836 to 1834, and again in 1463
and 1366, Mr. Woodgate was Select Preacher to the
University, where also tie was Public Examiner in 1827
and 1423, and Hampton Lecturer in 1836. He was also
Proctor in Convocation for the clergy of Worcester
diocese, having represented them in that body for up.
WMI6 of thirty years. Mr. Woodgate, who died ou
Friday nt his rectory house, would, if he had lived a day
longer, have reached his sevei.ty•third birthday, and he
had loon fifty years in orders. In addition ti his
wedeln ical distinction, belwasiwell known by his contribu-
tions to theological literature. At the time of the lunch-
delnited appointment of Mr. Hampden (afterward.
Bishop of Hereford) to the Begins Professorship of
Divinity at Oxford, in 1436, Mr. Woodgate addressed •
letter on the subject to Lord Alelboarne, which passed
through two editions. His lisinpton Lectures of 1838
were also published : their subject was t• The A utho•
ritatite Teaching of the Church shown to be in eon.
fortuity with Scripture, Analogy, and the Moral
Constitution of Man." On the canon questions of
University goverment and schemes of ret.rm he published
numerous paniphlets, and in 1461 he Waned his " !Brick -
tures .in Mill's •IV. way on Liberty,' and his other works.'
He if no wrote several pamiableta on the Essays and.
Reviews.”
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-02

THE PRINCE OF WALES ON MUSIC.

The Prince of Wales presided on Monday evening
at the annual festival of the Royal Society of
His Royal Highness was accompanied by
the Duke of Edinburgh. The Prince of Wales, in
responding to the toast of the Royal family, which
was proposed by Lord Dartmouth, said that all the
members of his family had, for some time past been
devoted to music, and he himself, though without that
proficiency in the art whieh his brother had, was
always a lover and supporter of music.
The Duke of Edinburgh, in responding for "the
navy," said that the navy had passed the tiery ordeal
of the Gold Coast equally with the army. Each ser-
vice nobly did its best, each was obedient to the orders
of its superior officer, and each service nobly earned
the laurels which it had won.
The Prince of Wales, in proposing the toast of the
evenin„.,, said it was very often thought by the outer
world that musicians ought to be very rich people,
but it was an undoubted fact that those members of
the musical profession who had acquired the greatest
fortunes had been vocalists. Nobody eould say that
in England we were not fond of music. It had, how-
ever, been said that on the Continent people were
, fonder of music than they were here; but he denied
that statement. Every year, he felt sure, the love of
music became greater, and more means were granted
to support it. .

TlM.subscriptions announced amounted to £l,OOO.
The Prince of Wales gave 100 guineas, and the Duke
of Edinburgh, an his second di nation, £25.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-02

A TORNADO IN AMERICA.

An account of a tornado which passed over the City of
Nashville, on the morning of the 15th inst., is given In the
New York Herald:—

It struck the city at the Fair Grounds, passing
diagonally through the city and out by the I. niversity
and Mouut Oliver Cemetery. Its width seems ti
have been about a quarter of a mile. After paSflillg
the Fair Grounds it struck the Exposition building
and the Maxwell House, seriously damaging the
former. The front of the Academy of Music, J. H.
Frith's grocery store, Sarney's wholesale liquor
establishment, and several other buildings, near the
corner of Broad and Cherry-streets were crushed. The
front windows on Hurley Brothers and Hansen and
Company's four-story buildings, near the same locality,
were crushed in. Beadle's livery stable, containing an
immense amount of feed, waggons, horses, and cotton,
was blown off its foundation into the back water,
Several horses, and it is thought one man, were
drowned. Parish's livery stable, in College-street, in
the rear of Beadle's, was seriously damaged, besides
' several feed stores and small negro dwellings. It
passed from there, crushing in the front of a coloured
Methodist church, next the Medical College, taking
off a portion of its roof; from there to the magnificent
residence of Jeff. Parersh, moving the whole of the
roof out of place. The loss will exceed 100,000 dole.
Many poor faipilies are rendered homeless. It is
feared there has been serious damage to property and
loss of life along its track. The telegraph lines are
prostrated all along its course from Union City to
Nashville.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-02

THE WOMEN'S TEMPERANCE
CRUSADE. •

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The Times Philadelphia Carrespoudent wlitna, under date
April 10 :
" The Temperance movement is maldng little head-
way in any part of the country. There are large meet.
ings, but the crusading business seems to be almost
entirely abandoned. At Mount Vernon, Ohio, excite-
ment has been caused by the enforcement of a prods;
mation against side-wall prayer meetings, issued by
the Mayor. The women had a sentry box which they
established in front of a saloon. The police attempted
to remove it, but a crowd of men and women inter-
ferred and prevented this, after which ther*ere
an-eats of the chief exhorters, who were held ail,
and are now enacting the roleof martyrs. At W' ams-
.port, Pennsylvania, where there has heretofore been
crusade, it has resulted in the largest meeting being
held in the town that ever assembled there, at which
resolutions were passed opposing the crusade, and de-
manding the repeal of the Pennsylvania Local Option
Law, which was denounced as a failure. This law
gives the people permission, at stated intervals, to
vote whether saloons shall be licensed. In Philadelphia
the Germans have held a meeting to protest agamst
the crusade, and the spasmodic attempt made here
to close the saloons on Sunday is almost a corn-
failure, 'Front doors' are closed, but
' side doors' are open, from which the latch string
hangs out.' The Temperance crusade and the financial
crisis together seem to have made an impression on the
liquor traffic in Philadelphia. Last year 4,716 licences
for liquor saloons were granted by the city authorities
but this year only 3,511 applications for licences have
been made, the period in which they are received having
expired yesterday. This is a falling off of one-fourth,
and certainly indicates, from one cause or another; a
decreased consumption of liquors in thid city. In
Ohio, on the 9th inst., there were various town elections
into which the liquor question entered, and in probably
,the larger number of towns the pro-liquor side of the
'question carried the day. This was the case at Cin-
cinnati, Daton, Piqua, Waynesville, Pomeroy,
Franklin, Batavia, Washington (where the female =-
muting system began), and some other places. The
Crusaders carried the election at New Lexington,
Morrow, and a dozen other small towns. In Mississippi
the Legislature has been touzhed by the female anti-
liquor crusade, and has passed a stnngent licence law,
requiring all saloon licences to be first recommended
by a majority vote of the district in which they are
located. In this vote women over 18 years of age are
to have the right of suffrage."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-02

MEAT AND GAME DRESSED AND GARNISHED

CELEBRATED YORKSHIRE OAHE. AND OTHER PIES

T LICENSED VICTUALLERS AND THE pUBLIC

UENERALLY.

4ir GOODS LENT ON HIRE.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-02

EXTRAORDINARY TELEGRAPHIC FEAT.

The following tale is from the Whitihnit Times. White.
ball is o town in Washington county, State of New York : -

"Our readers will remember, when General Kilpat-
rick returned from Chili three years since, his having
a remarkable operation perfoi med upon him by a
physician in New York, who removed a flesny
formation from the Generars neck by filling it full
of needles and then attaching a galvanic battery
to it. Ten iniputes after the current of electricity
I was let on, the bunch had entirely disappeared. A
remarkable operation was performed by a Whitehall
physician a few days ago. A gentleman who had been
suffering from a superabundance of adipose tissue con-
sulted the physician, asking for relief from its burden.
The doctor told him he could relieve him if he would
consent to a painful operation. The gentleman con-
sented, and with the medical practitioner entered the
telegraph office at this place. The fat man was re-
quested to remove his coat and vest, after which
the physician surrounded him with wires, attach-
ing the ends to a powerful battery. At a signal
from the doctor, Manager Eddy let on the current.
The patient writhed and twisted when he felt
the current passing around him ; still, he stood like
a martyr.. Presently he began to shrink; he grew
smaller and smaller ; his clothing hung in hags
about his fast diminishing form ; the doctor felt
much pleased at the result of his experiment, while
the former* fat man's joy was very great, although
he seemed to be suffering acute pain. All of a eudden
! there was heard a beat clicktng at the instrument, as
if Pandemonium's great hall had been let loose. The
operator sprang quickly to answer the call. He ascer-
tained it was from the New York office. He quickly
asked What's up?' An answer came back as if some
infuriated demon was at the other end of the wire,
• What in thunder are von about? Cut off your wires
quick --you are tilling the New York office with soap
grease.' '
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-02

'AR E S

WORLD FAMED

rBI OOD M XTPRE.

LADIES anA CHILDRESS' UNDERLINES Trade Illaill,—" Blood liiiture."
Trimmed and Plain. hi CHEAT 81.000 PURIFIER a RESTORE.
Madeira and Swim Edges and luserlionv; also Q 1,1 "DISEASEB, Eruptions, illolehre,
FRENCH and SCOTCH CAMBRIC J.I NAN Li) llearattd Here Legs, 01.1 Sote-,, tikudow
LIANDSIEUCHIEFd. Swellirge, Cancerous Ulcers. %pot:, Pimples.
Nettles, Oils Carbuncles, Ringworm*, Staid
A Superior Stock of MEAL LACK in HONITON, Heads, nom Eyes, ICr3sipeles, Itoh, S•oofv,
'
Baussims, VALENCIENNES, MALTESE, Discoloration* of the Skim, Humours and
Diseaaes of the Skirl of whatever name or
sad FRENCH, in Stook and White; nature, are literally serried out of the a) stem
Also,. iti ti 1,. short ne lip the ate of this werld4atued
COLLARS and SLEEVES, HANDKERCHIEFS, Medicine.
Head-dresses, Flounces, Mantles, and Shawls. THOUSANDS OF TESTIMONIALS FIHNI ALL PASTS.
ILK SCARFS. AND TIES.
IMPORTANT ADVICE TO ALL.—Cleanse
S the vlliated blood whenever you End Re tut.
Infante' Clothing, Cloake,..flats, Hoods and Bonnets. pc till, s bursting through the akin is piniplee,
eruption., or Nor. ; Clulllllll. it •hen pm And
FROCKS AND PELISSES. it obstructed and sluegish In Om else; cleanse
it when It Is foal, and your feelings .111 tell
DIAPER, HOLLAND ds DRESS PINAFORES, you when. Keep the blood pure, and the
GARDEN HATS. health of the system will follow.
As this mixture is pleasant to Wm taste, and
DENT'S sad FRENCH LID GLOVES. warranted free front anything injerious to the
most delicate constitattot of either sea, the
Balbriggan, Bilk, Lisle end ether Hosiery, for Ladies Proprietors solicits *offerers to lIITO it a trial
and Children. td test its vale..
Thompson's and lianas Corsets, Jnpons and Dress CILARKES WORLD.FAMED BLOOD
Improvers. 9,„_, MIXTURE Is Sold in Mottles le MI web, and In
Cease, containing six times the guautity, its each--
Horelair Skirt.. Ka, to, mulloient to steel a permanent (Aire in Wm great
majority of longstanding . ,by all Chemist. anti
Patent Medicine Vendors tbrvaghout the United King-
dom and the world, or sent to any addreas on receipt
of 27 or 189 stamps, by the Proprietor,
F. J. CLARKS,Cnnartre, Apotheeeriee Hali,Llueolo.
Wholesale: All Petevat Medicine Houma.
LONDON DEPOT : 154) OXFORD STREET

Englieh sad Foreign Lace Cleaned, Trandnrred, and
Altered.

Wetkbray Yeits mad. to order, for Aids fun,. y Litoo
may is sod through th 4 Pott.

IMITATION LACS AND MADI-111. LAOS GOODS.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-02

AN IRISH SCHOOL OF COOKERY.

The Tiinte on We(lneeday, published the following
letter—

Sir,—We have heard a good deal lately of Mr. Duck-
master's lectures on cooking at South Kensington. Most in-
teresting as they are, people ask what has been done to
advance education according to the principles there incul-
cated, and whit chance there is of inducing the lower
classes to benetit by that Instruction? I have tried to solve
this problem by establishing a school of cookery on my
estate in Ir6land, having first obtained the sanction of the
Commissioners of Education, who say " they will watch the
experiment with interest. considering the art of cooking
an important branch of education that they would wish to
intrmluce into all sehoola under the Board."
Accordingly, I opened a school of cookery in December
last, having three or four girls by turn in the kitchen from
the National School, to learn firs': scrupulous attention to
cleanliness, afterwards the preparation of such simple dishes
only as might be adapted to their own homes. At a future
time I hope to carry the instruction further. My wishes
have been ably seconded by the schoolmaster and his wife,
who have given great and anxious attention in enforcing the
rules laid down. The experiment has been perfectly success-
ful. I am now building a model kitchen, so as to extend the
, working of it more fully. At first the provisions cooked were
, given away eitherin the school or among poor neighbours. lab
terly workmen employed on some buildings near have found it
convenient to take all their meals at the kitchen, and so a
considerable return has been made lam confident that the
same simple plan could be carried out in all schools hi towns
or villages having a population around, who would 30011 find
it advantageous to purchase good and wholesome meals at
the kitchen. Satisfied of this, lam about to open another
kitchen at a large school on lily Lancashire4state. I have
no doubt after is little time of its being self-suKporting— I
alll, yours obediently,
Athenieum Club, April 26.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-02

BRIERLEY HILL.

A PCBLICAN FIST £s.—On Thiorday, at the Police
Court, before Mr. Isaac Spooner (Stipeo lisiy), Richard
Coley, landlord of the Britannia Inn, Round Oak, was
charged with keeping his bonne open during illegal hourn
ou the 20th April. —Policrepergeant Walter. stated that
on the night in question, abut unit-past eleven, he
called at defendant's hone, and in one of the side room.
h,, fuuui 15 men belonging to a travelling circum and hi.
wan U 11.1.0 the impression that he had • perfect right to
supply (hens wi•h drink—The Stipendiary defendant
II met the law at defiance, fur he mast have know he
was doing wrong. He would be fined £.l and coats, and
the license would be endorsed.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-02

PROVISIONS.

---
LONDON, Monday, April 27.—The arrivals last week from
Ireland were 45 firkins butter, and 3,388 bales bacon, and
from foreign ports 35,972 packages butter, 2,414 bales and
921 boxes bacon. The supplies of foreiim butter increasing,
and the weather so favourable for vegetation, prices h lye
rapidly declined 45. to Ss. per cwt during the week, cat
Dutch 1303. to 134 s ; the prices in the Cork market °pews!
moderate, but having since advanced there is 110 Inquiry for
Cork butters in this market. The bacon market has ruled
nrm, but prices of best Waterford having been advanced 4s.
on Friday last checked the demand.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-02

ROMSLEY.

STOCK SALll.—The second animal male was held on
Tuesday, at Romeloy. Alveley, near Bridgenorth, on the
premises of Mr. Stephen Creswell, at which there was a
good attendance, and a fair collection of eMcb coutri-
buted by Mr. Creswell and his neighbour.. The entries
in:sheep were confined to ewes and lambs and store Legs.
which met a very fair sale. There were over 40 bead id
of cattle iii.posed of, at prices varying in proportion to
their quality. A choice three year•old roan heifer with
calf, belonging to Mr. Creswell, realised the handsome
figure of £29 15. 01. There were a tow horses offered,
but the trade in this department was by no means active.
It is hoped that this mile will increase in proportion
from year to year. The situation is central, and a large
queatity of stack is pro.luced tu the neiglibuurboOd.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-02

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

Counting the hairs on a buffalo robe is what a Ger-
man professor is doing.
A morning paper speaks of "thieving in the out
skirts," which may be interpreted, " pieldng ladies
pockets."
An enthusiastic Yale student gazed long ann
earnestly through a telescope at the movements of
Saturn, and afterwards discovered that he bad been
watching the receding head-light of the New York
steamboat.
In the very latest Chicago elopement the persecuted
but devoted lover snatched his bride from the enraged
parent in the fourteenth story of a fashionable hotel,
and made good their escape by wildly tossing her pal-
pitating form into the descending elevator just as the
old man reached, too late, the empty landing.
A case of spontaneous combustion occurred recently,
'The parties were at once married, and found out after-
wards that both their names were Smith.
The woman's temperance crusade is called a
" femaelstrow "out west.

That's the sort of umbrella that people appro-
priate," said a gentleman to a companion one morn;
in, showing a very handsome silk parachute. "Yes,
rewined his companion quietly, "I thought so when I
saw you holding it."
The following is the last obituary :

" Here lies Interred Priscilla Bird,
Who sang on earth till sixty-two,
Now up on high above the sky,
No doubt she sings like sixty, too."

The arnountof liabilities in bankruptcies, liquidations
by arrangement and composition with creditors last year was
£19,184,812, and the assets estimated £5,938,117.

. • .
From the at to the 2.5 th instant the Exchequer re-
ceipts amounted to rather over %e millions sterling, while
the
e"lll%ll%ellieferede ollnagantrwteasir
'an ."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-02

INTERVIEWED BY A REPORTER.

The hero of the hour in the United States appears
to be Sir Lainbton Lorraine, the late commander of
her Majesty's ship Niobe. whose exertions on behalf
of the Virginius prisoners at Santiago de Cuba secured
him a warm welcome when he arrived at New York
on the 13th inst, by the English mail steamer Catlin&
from Bermuda. Before the vessel had same to anchor
she was boarded by a New York Herald reporter, who
found Sir Lambton Lorraine looking over the gangway,
when the following interesting conversation took place
between the two :- -Reporter : "You are a welcome
visitor to the United States, Sir Lambton." Sir
Lambton: "I am pleased to hear it." Reporter:
"You, of course, know the reason. That your con-
duct while on board the Niobe at Santiago de Cuba,
in so manfully defending the lives of the American
and other subjects on board the Virginius against
Burriel the Butcher—who, it is thought in the ,
United States, would have been massacred by the
authorities, as were the gallant Captain Fry, his crew,
and the leading men of the expediton—gained you
great admiration in this country." Sir Lambton; "I
simply did what I thought to be my duty, and am
prowl if any efforts of mine have tended to save the
lives of American citizens. Blood, you know, is thicker
than water, for the people of England have a strong
affection for their American cousins." Reporter:
"Are you going to make an extended sojourn in New
York ? " Sir Lambton u "Not so long as I should
wish. I cannot definitely fix the time at the present
moment." Reporter: "May I ask, have you received
a silver brick from the citizens in Virginia City bearing
the trite inscription, 'This is a brick and so are you?"
Sir Lambton : No, I have not, but it would give me
great pleasure to receive it as a token of American
friendship." At this moment some ladies wished to
speak with Sir Lambton Lorraine, so the reporter bid
him "good day," and the interview came to an end.—
Pall Mall Gazette.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-02

PRISON LABOUR.

A deputation of rnatmakers waited upon the Home
Secretary, on Friday in last week, to complain of
the undue concettration of , prison labour on their
trade... _
. . .

Colonel Beresford, M.P., who introduced the depu-
tation said they complained that prison labour should
be confined to their peticular trade. The result was
that those who were engaged in it were unable to
obtain a fair remuneration for their labour, and that
the trade generally WAR in a most depressed condition.
The condition of the trade not only affected those em-
ployed in it, but prisoners who had learned it while
undergoing their sentences found themselve. unable to
r obtain a livelihood at it whgn they were discharged.
The hon. and gallant gentlemen referred to the state
of the American boot trade, which had been injured in
the same way.
Mr. Cross suggested that if they went from mat-
making to bootmakbig in England, probably there
would be a deputation upon the subject next year.
Colonel Beresford said he considered there should be a
fair division of prison labour amongst all trades, in.
stead of confining it to one, and selling the products
of those confined below the market price.
Mr. Tallack, secretary of the Howard Association,
iroted some statistics showing the extent to which
t re was interfered with by prison labour. One
prison alone made £B,OOO worth of mats in a year. He
referred to the fact that most of the prisoners em
ployed in matmaking were committed for short
periods during which it would be difficult to teach
them any other trade. He considered there should
be more cumulation on sentences for petty offences,
, and in that case there would be more time to teach
them other tradeoo. _

Air. Jenkins, NP., said prisoners could not find
employment when they came out of gaol, and there-
fore at once lapsed into crime.
Mr. Locke, M.P., Mr. Green, and other gentlemen
having expressed their views,
Mr. Cross said —I an glad to hear that this deputa.
tion does not propose that prison labour should be un-
remunerative, for no proposition of that kind could be
for a moment entertained. I quite agree with the
deputation that prisoners ought to be taught a trade
by which thexcan get an honest living when they leave
gaol; but, as'vegards the cumulative penalty, that is a
matter that Must stand on its own merits. The only
crumb of comfort that I can at present offer you is that
the whole question of prison labour is now under my
consideration, and this matter will form a part of the
subject to which I shall give my moat earnest *nen
tion.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-02

A WEDDING UNDER ROMANTIC
CIRCUMSTANCES.

A wedding took place on the 25th of March in
Syracuse, California, under unusually interesting and
romantic circumstances, which are related in the
Syracuse Courier. In Adams street, in that town, lived
a young lady as attractive as any damsel of Syracuse.
She was accomplished, well educated, refined, and
came from a respectable family. She was not, how-
ever, rich in this world's wealth, nor sufficiently well
born to satisfy the relations of a young bank cashier
who had been for some time engaged to her. The mar-
riage of the young couple was to have taken place on
the 25th ult., but when the guests were all assembled
and the minister waiting, the bridegroom was only con-
spicuous by his absence. The bride alone showed no
signs of discomposure—nor, indeed, had she any cause
for anxiety, for after a brief intervid a young gentle-
man hurried into the church, took the place of the
absent bridegroom, and was duly married to the fair
bride, who at the conclusion of the ceremony with
much emotion explained the mystery to those present.
It seems that she had long mistrusted the sincerity of
the bank cashier's affection, and her suspicions
weft strengthened by an intimation she received
from him a few days before the wedding that he
was compelled to proceed to Pennsylvania on busi-
ness. Determining not to be wade a fool of on
the occasion of her wedding, she telegraphed to
another admirer who lived at Hamilton, trn; him to
be in readiness on the morning of the 25th, as his ser-
vices might be required as bridegroom in the event of
the bank cashier not making his appearance. A tele-
gram received from the bank cashier suggesting a post-
ponement of the wedding was treated with the scorn
iggsffeserved ; the lover from Hamilton proved ready at
a moment's notice to take his place, and thus occurred
the change of bridegrooms at the last minute. The
happy couple were warmly c.ongratulated on this pleas-
ing termination of the affair, and departed on their
wedding tour amid a shower of old shoes and blessings.
—Pall Mali Gazette.

A SECRET OF THE SEA.—The Portsmouth
(New Hampshire) Chronicle states that on the sth of
April one A the navy-yard watchmen found en the
beach of an island in that harbour a tightly-oorked
bottle, completely overgrown with barnacles and sea-
weed. When broken it was found to contain • slip et
paper, apparently taken from a ship's logbook, Au
the writing uprn it that could be made out wapa,
lOWB : " December 14, 1861. —Ship Jane, Arctic
Ocean.—l write this knowing that I shell never see
land again, hoping that hOrse one will pick it up.
Yesterday the baptain died, which . . . I would write
more it I could, but I am starving to death." The ink
is vary pale, and the ggper soinewbgt discoloured. The
wzittng, though hmlieffnet, was eibtlly read by the ald
of a magnifying glfrifF,