The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-05-22 00:00:00

DUDLEY.

A SERIOUS STABBING CASE,—At the Police Court
on Monday before Mr. W. E. Walker (Mayor) and
Mr. Russell, Enoch Hadley (13), Hall Street, was
charge l with unlawfully wounding John Wood
house. The youths quarrelled, and Hadley struck
Woodhouse on the leg with a knife. The injured
lad was unable to appear. Prisoner was again re-
manded for a week, on bail.
KEEPING A DOG WITHOUT A LICENSE.—WiIIiam
Ward, butcher, Wolverhampton Street, was fined
lOs at the same Court for keeping a dog without a
license. Mr. Garland prosecuted on behalf of the
Ex3ise.
GAME TRESPASS.—CharIes Harrold was charged
with night-poaching on land belonging to Mrs.
E:izabeth Wise, Shrubland Hall, on the 9th inst.
P.C. Williams said be was on duty at Shrubland
Hall about two a.m., on the 9th inst, when he saw
prisoner on the land. When he saw witness he ran
away. Witness followed prisoner, who dropped a
bag containing two nets and a live rabbit, De-
fendant stated that he was at home at the time he
was alleged to have been on the land. Several cases
of poaching wele recorded against defendant. The
Bench fined defendant ..t2 2s. including costs, or one
month's hard labour.

ALLEGED THEFT.— Ellen Dodd (23), domestic
servant, was charged with stealing a quantity of
linen, the property of Mrs. E. Hunt, landlady of
the Red House Inn, in Bradford Road. Mr.
C:owther Davies defendel. The prosecutrix state
that the accused had been in her employ until a few
days ago. In consequence of finding a collar (pro-
dnQe.t) on prisoner's dress, witness sent for the
police and searched hvr box on Plitirsday night,
wnbn the other articles were found. Prisoner had
been in witness's service for four months. In cross•
examination, pi osecutrix said a letter was put in
from a former employer stating that prisoner was a
very honest girl. P.C. J.Hopkins proved searching
the box in the presence of prisoner, who made no
objection, and said, "I will look through W.;
myself, and you can see what ic in it '1 ..ere is
nothing in it but what belongs to me.- The collar
produced was pinned on
'to her cotton dress lying on
the bed. Prisoner, in witness's presence, told Mrs. from all pain and hearty and hale,
Hunt that she gave her the collar, and that the ) laTeg free
to tell you a capital tale,
eg
St. Jacobs Oil use, it never will fail.
other articles had got into her box unknown to her.
St.. Jacobs
post 2s.
. d Oil
Mr. Davies commented strone,ly on the fact that or by p the
Chemistschare s aAt 2s.
v 06gdel a bottle
or
coul.
prisoner left the house on Tuesday. and went back 9d., from y
party, solo Proprietors, 45, Farringdon Road, London.=

:KENIPTON JUNIORS.
J. Addison, b Jones
W. Thompson, do.
It. Park-es, do.
It, flo4etts, do. .. 0
W. JiAtnes, run out
p,on, b Anson
..
IL 1:1,!_, b Anson -

Drinkwater, c Harrison
b Jones
C. Lovatt, b Anson .. 0
H. Pearson, run out
J. Warr, not out

Total

COMMENTS ON CURRENT TOPICS.
A QUNSTION was asked in the Commons
the other day—apropos of the Irish political
problem—as to how many "sons of the soil"
there are in the British Army. Last year's
returns give us a total of over 31,000, or
SC Ale 17 orl3 per cent. of the total number
in the rank. Irishmen are pointing to this
as a proof of their fitness for autonomy.
They can produce good fighting men, they
hold; and good men in all walks of life. So,
say they, why should we not be allowed to
take charge of our own affairs? As far as
fighting goes, if that be any criterion of
statesmanship, Ireland certainly stands well.
The most popular man in the British army
is Lord Wolseley, who comes of an ancient
Irish stock; the fighting sailor, prominent
above all others in the public eye, is Lord
Charles Beresford, the Marquis of Water-
ford's son.

SPORTING NOTES.
(By our Sporting Correspondent.)
EPSOM DERBY AND THE OAKS.

What may well be termed a "one horse race,"
suppose all keeps well with the 2,000 guineas Win,'
•ner—Ormonde—is likely to be the result of OA*
year's Epsom Derby ; although we have seen "rata
a slip Itwixt cup and lip" in connection with thl
event when looking as great a certainty. We We
remember what great pots the Marqu,s and Buct'
stone were for this race, when Mr. Snewingl
Caractacus, who started at 100 to 1 droppei doe,
upon them. The Doncaster, who could only ge'
third in the Guineas, won the Derby with th,
of 40 to 1 laid against him at the start; 110 tb*,:
should any centre- tenip arise.'itt tne mew or
thing go amiss with the favour:4ton the day, 04
it would ba judicious to haih' your Troxellid
Correspondent's final wires from the scene of Oce
lion, which only costs 18 stamps, by sending saD.
to him, care of Tissue Office, Hall. Ilov,•ever, ee
long as the Duke of Westminster'a

ORMONDE
keeps well the Derby of 1886 is all over, shoutig
included. With regard to the Epsom Oaks it
near thing in the. quotations between Miss Junlilt;
and Plulosephy for the favouritism, whist Br 9"
Lass is creeping up in the quotations, and tl..ei
distance is expected to suit Argo Navis. Mod WC
finds occasional support, and if she could be g
back to her two-year old form, would be bad it
beat. However, as fillies are such kettle g 004410
this time of the year, it is advisable to have wo
latest from the course on the day of race, 9415,
man can say what 24 hours maybring in the elioPi
of disasters. Still, with a clean bill of bealtlis
am quite prepared to see a good race take vlatx
between

COMMERCIAL depression has left its low-
water mark even upon the sport of the usu-
ally well-to-do. The rentals of Scotch
shootings, because of the lessening demand,
have dropped appreciably. There are four
million pounds worth of Caledonian heather
and forest land at this moment in the mar-
ket, and bidders are shy and scarce. Nearly
half the sporting grounds of Argyleshire are
unlet, while many acres stretch tenantless in
other famous game counties; and though the
market is falling, moorland landlords are
anxious to sell Those who derive their in-
come from shooting rentals are naturally
alarmed at the prospect, If these things con-
tinue, the grouse will have such a happy re-
spite from showers of leaden hail as they
and their ancestry have not enjoyed for
many a season past.

LEICESTER has of late, to those non-resi-
dent within the borough, been chiefly note-
worthy for the stand it seems to be taking
in stubborn opposition to the teaching of
medical science as to the prevention of a
virulent zymotic disease. Summonses for
non-compliance with vaccination orders
have been sent out by the hundred at once,
and the penalties imposed at court have only
been recovered in many cases by dint of
distress sales, a most objectionable method
of collecting amounts due. Anti-vaccination
councillors, guardians, and officials of every
sort have been elected, and so extensive has
become the pathological heresy of the stock-
ing town that no one would be surprised to
find some morning a big heading in the
newspapers announcing the outbreak in
Leicester of a terrible smallpox epidemic,
which would straightway be regarded as a
judgment upon the people. This week,
however, Leicester has furnished an item of
sensational news which will serve to vary
its supply of never-ceasing paragraphs con-
cerning the doings of unbelievers in the
teachings of Jenner. A pauper died in the
local union-house. Without unnecessary
' delay a grave was dug and a coffin supplied
for the corpse's enshrinement. The work-
house undertaker's men attended in due
course, and carried the casket to the place
of sepulture, where the burial service was
drily read. The whole affair seemed then
closed in the humdrum fashion of a patper
funeral. Four days afterwards, however,
the body of the departed was discovered in
the deadhouse ; and forthwith the poor
pauper was the occasion of a noise in the
world. It was roundly asserted by some
that the body had been interred alive, and
that the unfortunate victim, rousing, had
fought his way to the surface again, and
crept back unseen to the workhouse, and
died of exhaustion. Others said that the
corpse had been kept for dissection design-
edly, and that the semblance of a funeral
had been carried out to avert suspicion. Al-
together great excitement arose over the
event. Ultimately the Homo Secretary was
communicated with, and he directed the ex-
humation of the coffin, when it was found
empty. It is now clear that the funeral ar-
rangements must have been left to some
0
drunken undertaker's men, who were too
confused to notice that the coffin was empty
when they screwed it down and removed it
to the cemetery. Had they not been egregi-
ously !ntoxicated the lightness of the flimsy
casket must have presented itself to their
dull apprehension. The whole affair is a
Idisgrace to the responsible parties, and calls
for strict investigation.
• • * •

THE presence of the native band of the Ist
West India Regiment at the Indian and
Colonial Exhibition at Kensington is at
once an added attraction of the great dis-
play and a graceful recognition of a branch
of the Queen's service which has done
honourable fighting in time past, when tne
,West Indian troops had a greater proportion
to the full strength of the national army
than they now have. The battered '
drum of the band of the gallant blacks
bears the word "Ashanti," as well as the
legends. "Dominica, Martinique, and Guada-
loupe," and bravely the men of the Ist West
Indian Regiment bore themselves at Elmina
and elsewhere before a single white soldier
set foot in Ashanti. The picturesque attire
of the bandsmen and their interesting faces
will be admired by many thousands during
this summer.

MISS YUMMY AND PHILOSOPHY.

Pooa Sir Erskine Map—by which name
Lord Farnborough will always be best re-
membered—did not live long in retirement.
Ere he had been gazetted a week to the
peerage Death summoned him hence. He
has gone in the fulness of days, his life's
work done; but with him has passed away
a whole library of rare knowledge of parlia-
meatary procedure. His popular writings
on themes in which he was facile princeps
will keep his memory green for many a year,
though ; bat his well-known form—the per-
sonification of dignity, will be as much
missed from the Commons, where Sir Ers-
kine was looked up to by every M.P. with
high esteem, as is that of poor Captain Gos-
sett, who has not long preceded his old as-
sociate into the hereafter, and who, also,
was regarded as quite as much an institu-
tion of St. Stephen's as is the mace or the
Speaker's chair.

A NEW King of Spain—entirely new in
one sense of the word—is the latest addition
to the number of European monarchs. .It
is given to few mortals in an era to be born
to kingship, and such a circumstance can
only occur under peculiar and painful cir-
cumstances; so that, if spared to man's
estate, Ferdinand Alphonso af Spain, the
Pope's godson that is to be, will be a most
remarkable person. The Royalists of the
sunny land are jubilant because a king has
been born to them. Great is their satis-
faction at the matinuance of the male line
of the regal house. The little stranger was,
immediately after his advent on earth, pre-
sented with much pomp to the ministers of
state, and salvoes of artillery announced the
people's acknowledgment of the rights of
their ruler of the time to come. Sixteen
years of minority lie before him ere the
Queen Regent can give to her husband's
posthumous son the Crown which was
snatched away by Death in young manhood
from the brow of Alphonso, and many things
may happen ere then.

The medical profession are now ordering Cimmay's
COCOA. Essamcs in thousands of cases, because it contains
moi e nutritious and flesh-forming elements than any other
beverage, and it is preferable to the thick starchy Cocoa
ordinarily sold. When you ask for Cadbury's Cocoa
Essence be sure that you get it, as shopkeepers often push
imitations for the sake of extra pront. Linkers to tke
Queen. Paris Depot, 90, Fauborough St. Honors.