The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-06-06 00:00:00

ROBERTS v. EGERTON."

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The cause of " Robertson it Egerton " has been before the
Court of Queen's Bench, and want case winch raised an lin-
portant queiition on the Adulteration Act - wether tim 88.18
fay edict., as tea, which Is adulter h
ated 1,111 be eXcliStill OS The newest evening dresses for ladies in Boston have
the gromni that It is known to be so iii "kite tnole "—The shirt fronts.
Tints s thus reports the ease .-- The Grand Duke Vladimir left Schwerin on Saturday
The Act says, " that every lemon who shall sell any for St. Petersburg.
article sif food or drink with which to his knowledge "Boiled Eggs" is the name adopted by a cricket
any ingredient injurious to health has been mixed, (did% to signify how impossible it is to beat them.
and esery person who shall sell as unadulterated The pianoforte-tax ham been again rejected in
any article of food or drink which is adulterated. Rai,
shall for such offence be convicted." The Appel- By a return issued on Saturday it is shown Unit the
lank keeps a shop at Birkenhead for the sale of
, grant of 41 per head for each pauper lunatic in counties,
tea, coffee, &c., and a person went to hia shop aria boroughs, .tr., will amount in the United Kingdom to
asked for " some green tea," which wassierved to bitu by A 451.017.
a sliofsman, and he bought 2oz. of it, for viffikh he was The' American iii 'nut recently arrived in Paris
eliarged !alai. The purchaser then informed him h, th•it from t Visited siates attended several masses last Saterday
I e bouodit for the 1 •oris.se ::,f .inalt,i,, and the shop- liliirilill..; ill lilt. Chinch of Notre Dame. des yiettes. ,
earlitle
malt tl,d him that he was at ithtsriza:..l hy kis eimploynr Brlforj"to')J4rtti•°!, ti!'"' Tl!'':)","t'e'te:latca.l ,Alo'kemof the
to guarantee all their green tca of the value of 30. per lb. !..
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and ninvards as genuine green tea. The tea was after-
wards analysed by a public analyst, who stated that it . `latlied3Y
nited States, it being " Deemation Day." when the friends
m-an adulterated by a thick lacing of mineral matter was kejit as oughout a holiday thr tbe
Of the soldiers who fell in the uisil war visit their graves
anti Prussian blue—that is, it was painted or "faced " and decorate them with flowers.
with gypsum or Prussian blue for the purpose of The rumour that a German Prince was about to be-
colouring it, and this Wan the :adulteration charged. come a candidate for the throne of Spam has, it is said, ex-
ile tea was sold in the Sallie state in which it came cited great displeasure " among the officers and nien sif the
fin abroad, anti the Saler did lliit in any way cause Rs-publican Army."
the tea to be "painted" or "faced" in this country.
A sample of tea was producci by the public of Russia
Personal support. is being aceorded by the Emperor
to the cmseress which is to lici hem in Brussels on
analyst, before the magistrates, which resembled the subject of the treatment ,if prisoners of war and wounded
in e dour and appearance what is popularly 'Oldie..
" • Governor id Madrid mares them that he will not vends
known as green tea, anti it was moved tithe neither By a circular lo the Spanish newspapers, the Civil
painted Iliir "fareil." He also prove( l that lie hna
further attacks against the financial s :hones attributed to
analyzed other samples of teas resemi ding in colour and
SeflOr elinlaCllo, and threatens rigorous measures 111 case of
appearance green tea, and that they contained 110 this order being ilisregai it
colourii.•;; matter. It was al-at pros ed that tea which
is imported fi•oni China as green tea :mil geni•i ally A bawl of thieves has just been diseovered at Paris,
who acre distinguishable by their wearing green coloured
known as such in the tea trade is painted and faced cravats (cravat. verts), and who have committed enormous
in the manner and forthe purposes stated, and that the depredations The band had depots at Brussels and in
sample proved not to be painted or faced NiiB.B imported London.
from Japan, and led known generally in the trade as The women's temperance crusade is in a moribund
green tea. It was contended inn the part of the trades- condition The results and the bands are growing less and
man that the inerehantable article imported into this less. line dower charity, however, is a woulan's movesnzu.ti
country wn , kno by the name id green tea in tII
the tea ! !
I:ttri ((little' iirteco evelrhylfoslll ai't 1 dtc'd megtiaehle
trade, is a painted or faced tea, and that it is not a and ti the sick annum the destitute and degraded in all the
natural simple production of nature, and that there- by-ways and homeless homes, wherever found.
fore a vendor of green tea cannot be taken to re-
present that be sells only th An amusing printer's blunder appeared in The Times
e leaves sif the tea plant Ins7fution,
some dins ago. In its account of the Parliamentary proceed-
unaffected by any process; that green tea was iugs it stated that "the C'hairman was inhered to ' repeat
sold in the state in whieh it was imported from (hina, prayers.'" c) Read-- Report progress "
and that the painting or facing was thine there,
It may not be g,enerally known that an ordinary
and not in this country ; and that painting or
reecn his -dent of neMilit .1n eirs Mar box of block
faring tea for the purpose of eolouring it is not an R,::rwhile...rem,..P. fßoyaln handedtl • ' members o the Family are 101151118
adulteration within the meaning of the Act. But silver Ims. That of the sew Duke is richly embossed, and
the magistrates were of an opinion that as the practice has appended to it a pair of silver tassels as fine as silk. It
of painting and facing tea :Ad as green tea (though will be filled with green sealing-wan, with which, by the int-
end to this tihe parchment containing the Prinee'S titles will
kncicri be those enaged in the tea trade) is not known Pri•ssion of the Great Seal, the ribbon will he iacorporated,
to the ',Wilk.. The sale of this tea to a purchaser Wile
asked for green tea was a sale fits adulterated article as 3e ePPe"de`
unadulterated, and tbey accordingly convicted the n Monday Mr. Macdonald, M.P., addressed a
t g t Fife and Clackinatioan miners who are on
tradesman, following, the decision (if thins Cu is ort in a slide. O
iTinl:i!.ille!'itifviscil the men not to is isle funds on a strike
case of sale of bad leitter. 'lle ipli,tiiin was whether at present, lmt to turn their atts ntion to ce-operative
the tradesman was properly eino.ieted. mining. The men resolved to ask the masters to is ithilraw
Mr. C. Russell, Q.C., and Mr. Segar were for the the last reduction.
tradesman who appealed; and Mn, Poland appeared A number (if operative house joiners have struck at
in support of the conviction. Shields loran advance in wages of Id. per hour.
tel the ease being opened, the Lord Chief Justice observed From an official document it appears that in a till-
that the question Seethed to be whether an article could be tion to A:11,305 Os. Sd. received at the London Police Courts
adulterated with impunity, if the adulteration was notorious in the year ended the list March last. 03.13 es 4d was paid
in the trade. ins 1111 es 011 itrUnkell persons and for assaults 011 pollee-
Mr. Justice Blackburn observed that it appeared the constables,
adulteration of tea was not BO known to the public. It was Another revolution is reported from Paraguay.
ilot suggested that every one knows the tea they buy is According to the advires Is...eight by the Isluzil and River
adult:Tided . Plate mail yellow fever causes a daily average of sine deaths
Mr. Russell said he denied that this Wawa' " adulterated," at Rio Janeiro.
because it was not found to he injurious to health, and the A live porpoise, captured ins Rye Bay, has been sue-
article was merely altered in
Qu appearance.
food r drink or
cessf ally transferted to tank No. ail in the Brighton Mimi-
• Mr. Justice ain asked :Is tea "" o " ," it
"drug?" rium, where he may Ile noW seen disporting himself hill
Viirinir and rseti City
Alr. Justice Mac
allklin/1n : is all these- it i " food,'
" drink," and "drug It
s evoits, it is clearly one or the The Agricultural Children'ts Bill was the subject
other, and so within the Act. proposed for discussion by the Bishop of this-heater at a
The faint thief Justice : The question seems to be riferencei lathe
Telergy and liiiity of the rural deanery of
in it is adulterated if mixed with gypsum and Prussian i orp'ill7iiYin n'-as recatorflewdestlM n'ilie ss 3' sate 1 n Aso fgl lent 44 timee " sru7-11' al
blue.
' that winch prevails hi the manufacturing districts could he
Mr. Justice Blackburn : It being clear that it is sold as ted in tho couLt„.
genuine, and that the public have no general knowledge that , -
it is not 80. The stonemasons of Cambridge came out on strike
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The Lord Chief Justice It was sold as genuine, was it
not? Does not genuine green tea mean tea as grown and
ihied in the ordinary course of things?
Mr. itsosoll: This was sold 'in the ordinary course of
tlnugs:" it was not adulterated by the tradesman ; it was
the article usually known and sold in tlu, trade us meta
tea. _ _ _

on Monday morning. They demand an extra halfpenny
i per hour, and that no worked stone be brought into Cam-
bridge.
Advices front For (Morocco) state that about 1,200
of the inhabitants had risen against the imposition of the
gate tax. Same of the ringleaders were arrested, last no
actual lighting had taken place, and it was hoped that the

--Mr. Justice Qeain : Yon say it is the artiele known and sultan would accede to the wishes of the people:
sold in the tradg as " green tee?" " The new style id headdress for ladies resembles
Mr. Russell : Just as sherry is sold, though few of us slightly a pigtail. It is an Irish innovation. All the hair is
pro I-ably ever drank a glass of genuine sherry. tied at the top of the hi ad, and then it is either turned
Mr Justice (plain : 1 beliei, it is usually dressed null loosely liack ...it is plaited , but in either case it falls on if,
gypsum. neck, arid the ends :ire tied together with a coloured ribbon."
Mr. Justice Blackburn : However, let ifs take one thing I --Court Jeeraut
at a time. This is tea Is not gypsmit or Prussian Min, an The 11th idf June is fixed as Hospital Sunday in
adulteration of it? Alum is an adulteration of bread. If a London this year.
wine nterchant sold fine sherry mixed with gypsum I would 'l'
here here were twenty-nine competitors for the shoot 4 not. if I knew it, employ him again.
for the Derby Handicap, at Hurling.ham, on Saturday, an
Mr. Justice Quain referred to the case of batten the first prize, a breech-loader alai gba, was won by Mr. T.
Mr. Justice Blackburn observed that the public at large W. Lane, who killed all Ws seven lords in splendid style. In
do not know the green tea is thus adulterated, although it shooting off ties, Lied suffield became the winner of the
is known in the trade. second prize of £4O ; and Mr. John Thy tine of the thfrd prize
Mr Russell cited Johnson's definition of " adulteration " of £2O.
—"an admixture of some foreign matter which corrupts. In the year 1873 the sale of salmon at Billingsgate
Mr Justice Blackburn : Well, are not gypsum and comprised 30,181 boxes of Scotch, 8,995 of Irish, 1,105 Dutch,
Prussian blue " foreign matters," and do they not corrupt 811 from Sweden and :Convey, and 1,471 boxes of English
the tea? and Welsh salmon, making a total of 42,623 boxes. The
The Lord Chief Justice : I should not like to drink tea boxes average 1121 b. in weight, so that the total may be put
no corrupted. Is it excused because it is a practice in the at 2,131 tons, showing an increase of nearly 50 per cent. over
trade? the quantity sold at Billingsgate ri;At years previously.
Mr. Justice Archibald : The public don't suppose they are The Princess Massimo has presented to the Pope a
buying tea mixed with gypsum and Prussian blue. um of lo,ooofr. on the part of the Contesse de Chambord.
Mr. Justice Blackburn : The public think they are huyin Orders have been given by the Russian Government
men tea. The learned in the Dude know better. But it i to found a Russian colony on the Chinese frontier, south of
; SemipaLatinsk, in the course of this summer, by assigning
le'at mi":xoe"dnwtiotltilgy.ele,'s'iltnTa":;l' nriCesslliaaulLeY,":eldiretl'tadtiiitT le'la'll . that place Os a habitation to 70 Cossack families. If p•.ssible
buy it if he likes ; hut 300 don't tell it to him and sell it to the new colony is to be peopled with volunteer settlers.
him as green tea. Ilow is that excused because it is " con.-
niercial "green tea? Why might there not be a "commercial" General Schenck, the Anterican Minister, was
butter if there may be a " commercial" tea ? When a man annum the passengers who arrived in Liverpool on Sunday
buys claret, does he suppose he is buying sloc-juice? I should from America.
be sorry to hold that a-as not an adulteration. On Monday the Midland Railway Company corn-
Sir. Russell urged the mixture of wine with alcohol was, teemed running a train of the American Pullman drawing-
The Lord Chief Justice pointed out that wine could not be room and sleeping cars between St retrares station and
kept without ah•oleil mot that alcohol was very different from Bilulford, stopping at the following stations : Kentish Town,
mum. Luton, Bedford, Leicester, Trent, Derby, Chesterfield, Nor-
Mr. Russell still urged that there was no adulteration, and matiton, Leeds, and Bnielford.
that it ivas the comniercial article known in the trade as Mr. Arch presided at the meeting of the executive
"green tea " It was thus coloured when first known and conimittee of the National Agricultural Labourers' Union on
dealt with and imported as green tea. I Monday, and amoogst the members .if the consultative roar.
Mr. Polami, in sepport of the conviction, argued that it I inittee present were Mr. Samuel Morley and Mr. George
appeared that genuine green tea was known in the trade, and Dixon. They expressed regret that the efforts they had made
that this tea was sold as genuine, but was not so, as it was to effect an amicable settlement of the existing differences
mixed with noSions mineral substances. That heirg no, it in the eastern counties and Lincolnshire had not been at-
mighTto lie declared to be so to the customer, tended with the desired result. The delegates from the
Nfr. Justice Blackburn : The effect of that would lie that strike districts reported that any prospect of an asmingement
it would check the importation of Chinese tea unless they appeareiltobeasremoteasever. Thecommitteesenteda reso-
ceesed to eolmir their teas. But! don't know if that would lution reiteratiug their willingness to elides/tont Pi settle
lie in result to be regretted, existfug differences by arbitration.
Mr. Poland urged that it was the very result aimed at by A New York telegram states that a bill for facilita.
the Act -(hue suppression of the traffic in mlulterated articles. tin'' the dissolution of polygamous marriages ill Utah Itas
The public bought tea, not tea and paint. It was distinctly passed the Douse of Representativeu.
stated that the public did not know it.
On Tuesday evening two el hr n wer e playing ‘ML
Tile herd Chief Justice observed that it must be taken that the river steps at Thames Side. Windsor, when they both fell the tradesmen
lo,v nof the adulteration, font appeared that into the water tine was rescued 'tine other, a boy of four,
it was known in the trade.
son if a colour-sergeant in the Coldstream Guards, was
Mr. Justice Blackburn: In this instance as the purchase drowned. The body was recovered after a couple of hours,
was made for analysis probably the purchaser did not expect
It to he genuine. An inquest was held on Tuesday afternoon at Bir-
mingham on the body of a girl fifteen years of age. named
Mr. Pdand urged that it was stated that the public did Sarah Otitis. From evidence given it appea2 ed that the
not know of the adulteration, whereas th girl hailbeen entrusted with some Money by her father. When of it.
The Lord Chief Justice pointed out that knowledge of the he askedh heNotr for it on Sunday evening she pretended to go
fetc it. retilriling, Searell was made for her. and adulteration was not essential to the Mimeo if the article next morning her dead lmdy was found in the canal. It
was supposed that she flail misappropriated the money, and.
was sold as genuine when it/Was, in fact. adulterated It is
the day of those who sell articles as adulterated to find eut , fe„.ing detection, had destroyed herself. A verdict of
whether they are so or not.
.• Suicide while in a state of insanity " was returned.
Mr. Poland urged that the tradesman was bound to --'
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On Monday morning the I)ronfiell coalowners re-
duced the price of hard coke rs. est per bst
The French papers announce that a 0-eat chess
combat is to take place between the celebrated in nch and
English players by telegraph, for a price ,cf 4.4,000
The number of wrecks reimrted during the past
week in 22, making for the present year sail.

It is announced from Berlin that the meeting of the
three-Emperors of Germany, Austria, anti ItussiA will take
place at Ems between the 14th and the lath inst.
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A murderer, on being sentenced to he hanged in
Terre Haute, Indiana, tint not catch the date, am! inquired,
'Wiles did you say. your honour, that the occurrence is to
take place.' . . . .

From April Ist to the MI tilt., the total receipts
into the Exchequer were C 11,166,305. a slight increase over
the amount in the corresponding period of last year. The
expenditure has lagai £12.C33,626. on Saturday last'llic
I.Aance in the hank of England ex, ceded four milhou, 111,1
3 1111:tritr

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'1 he List new thm . g linendrapers' shops in Paris is
a billiard-room for husbands and brothers to beguile the time
Otre their fair companions are making their purchases. A
good lunch and glass of wine are also provided gratis.
At Tuesday's meeting of the Court of Common
Council letters were read from Baron Brunnow, the Russian
Ambassador. and from the Martinis of Hertford, Lord chain.
berlain. expressing the sense of appreciation felt by Inc
Emperor ot Russia and by her Majesty the Queen at it,
splendid reception accorded to the former in the titj t
London on the 10th ult.

The I li,.an Conference at Peterborough was
openedsssday. 111 Is address, the Bishop tbt the
to the Public Worship Regulation Bill, and
url I ,eeessity f seine amendment of the law- relating
t. : Dielpline.

Not a had joke is attributed to one of the unite of
the Enssinn Emperor. The talk of bis English entertainer
fell, of course, iu the rather worn-out mid farcical!
of invading London, a hen the gentleman alluded to saw tin
merits of the sindect, Rod remarked. •. London is so immense
that I believe ally small invadmg army landing at the East.
end of 3 our capital would lose ha a ay, and at the close of a
week or ten days the soldiers would betaken up by the police
at the West-end for begging."

Chrysanthemum Catananche a plant brought, it i
said, from Morocco, has lately been in Hower in a frame at
Kew. Its foliage somewhat resembles that of some dwarf
Artemisia, and the flowers are about the size of those of
eatananche cierulea, but of a white or sulphur colour, with
a dark ring outside the disk.

The New York papers publish long extracts from
the report of Colonel A. B. Steinberger, sent as a "special
sgvnt the United States Government to investigate the
condition of the Samoa or Navigator's Islands. The expe-
dition has secured a living dodo, and a specimen is on its
way to this country.

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The Leeds School Board now employs 401 teachers
and pupil teachers, has a roll of 43,100 youngsters xm its
elementary list, and keeps no fewer than 11 detectives, or
"school attendance officers," to look up youngsters a ho are
not sent to school.

General Tripier has prepared a rival scheme for the
improvement of the Channel communication. Like the
scheme devised jointly by the engineers of the South-Eastern
Railway and French Government engineer resident at
Boulogne, it is intended to provide a deep sea harbour near
the present port of Boulogne, affording accommodation to the
largest steamers and accessible at all hours.

The Legislature of Massachusetts has lately passed
a law fixing a pound and a half as a minimum weight of a
dozen eggs. Al. egx from a well-fed fowl is heavier and
richer than au egg from a common fowl that is only half fed;
and it is time this old style of buying and selling eggs by
number instead of weight should be discontinued.

A curious law point has arisen in New York. A
man, his wife and dauAter all perished in a tire recently,
and now, before the propeity of the deceased can he divided
according to the law of entail, it is necessary to decide
whether the wife or daughter died nrst.

A telegram has been received from Melbourne am
'looming the reek of the ship British Admra I on King's
Island, less Strait. She left Liverpiml on the 28rd February
last bound for Melbourne. Iler crew and passengers num-
bered 87 persons. All were lost with the exception of five of
the crew slid four of the passengers.

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The weekly telegram from the Viceroy of India re-
specting the famine, states that there has been a good
general rainfall north of the Ganges, aml a partial one south
of the Ganges. The estimated consumption of Government
grain to the middle of May was about 50,000 tons. The sale
of Covennuent grain amounts to between 1,200 and 1,500
tons daily. Near Julpigoree there was a grain riot on the
21st Slay, the soldiers were called out, and two of the rioters
were killed. /Co fresh eases of death from starvation have
been reported, and four previously reported were not pro-
perly famine deaths. The total number of persons who
have died of starvation is thus reduced to twenty-two.

A little boy, named Clavpole, woo killed on Satur-
day afternoon, on the Great Western Railway, beta den New
Passage and Bristol. The door, against which he it esteeming,
flew open and he fell out on the line. The nurse, who had
charge of him, leaped Inim the caniage in spite of the
efforts of the passengers to prevent her, and sustained serious
injuries.

"Au eminent English authoress was leaving an
afternoon concert in London, when two old ladies from the
country, finding that she was the writer of hooks that had
delighted them, rushed up to her and begged permission to
kiss her hand. The authoress blushed deeply and began
tugging at her tight-Wing glove. The glove was only with-
drawn after is minute or two of effort, causing much embar•
rilitithellt to the modest authoress. A French gentleman
who witnessed the proceeding, remarked that if had heel,
George Sand she would Instantly have thrown her arms
around the old women and kissed each on both cheeks
The lady is perhaps best defended by the query, Why didn'
be do it himself 3 • —Court Journal.

During the week ending last Saturday 5,116 births
and 3,547 deaths were registered in London and twenty other
large cities and towns of the United Kingdom. The natural
increase of population was 1,L69. The mortality from all
causes in these towns was at the rate of 24 deaths annually
to every 1,000 persona living. In the metropolis '4,068 births
and 1,385 deaths were registered, both having been below
the average numbers. The 1,385 deaths included 37 from
measles, 26 from scarlet fever, 3 from diptheria, 41 from
whooping-rough, 30 from different forms of fever, 21 from
diarrlara, and not one from small-pox ; thus to the seem
principal diseases of the symotie class 158 deaths were re-
'erred, against 153 and 130 lathe two preceding weeks.