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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-02

STOPPING A WEDDING

At Sheffield parish church on Monday morning, an
intended marriage was stopped through the inter-
ference of the would-be bridegroom's lawful wife,
from whom he has been separated 17 years. The
man, whose name is Charles Richmond, is in the
employ of a house decorator. His wife has been
living in the town since their separation, and has
brought up a son and two daughters. Having heard
that the banns were published between her husband
and another woman, a widow named Windle, she
communicated with the parochial clergy, and on the
wedding party presenting themselves at church on
Monday, they were informed that the wedding could
not proceed. Richmond left the church alone, and
was followed down the High-street by an excited
crowd, from whom he escaped through a public-house.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-02

ART AND THE AGE.

That the condition of modern life is unfavourable
to a healthy or high development of art" was pro-
posed the other night to a select London audience, in
the University Hall, Gordon-square, by Mr. Walter
Crane, who explained his reasons for this opinion.
The Rev. Stopford Brooke was the chairman.

Mr. Wake; Crane is a gentleman of slight build.
He has a small head, gracefully posed upon rather a
long neck; his nose is slightly hooked, and he wears
beard and moustache after the manner of King
Charles I. Mr. Crane said that Bond-street was now
putting forth its catalogue leaves, and Regent-street
blossomed with the pictures of the year; and therefore
it might seem ungracious and ungrateful in him to
maintain his proposition. However, his remarks had
no personal intention, nor would they reflect upon the
capacity of his artistic brethren. Art was always the
mirror of its age, the recorder of its intimate life and
its passing fashion, of its inspiration, and religious,
poetic, and philosophic sentiment. We may see the
pride and power of the ancient Asiatic despotisms re-
flected in the sculpture of Nineveh and Persepolis, or
dominated by the symbolic ritual of ancient Egypt
before letters had separated themselves from pictures.
Mr. Crane then in eloquent terms traced the passage
of art through the Grecian, Roman, and Western
civilisations. Our century had seen
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-02

METROPOLITAN CATTLE.

The cattle trade has been firmer, with a better
inquiry. Moderate supplies have been available.
Beasts have come forward in fair numbers from our
own grazing districts, the quality and condition being
in the main satisfactory. There was a steady inquiry,
and rather better prices were paid than were quoted
last-week, the best Scots and crosses selling at 48 8d
to 4s 10d per 81b. Foreign beasts in short supply and
moderate request, at about late currencies. There was
a fair supply of sheep and lambs in the pens. A healthy
inquiry was experienced for sheep at an advance of 2d
per 81b., the best Downs and half-breds realising 5s 10d
to 6s per 81b. Lambs were steady, at 6s to 7s 4d
per 81b. Calves and pigs were quiet, on former
terms. The following are the quotations: Coarse
and inferior beasts, 2s 4€l to 3s ; second quality
ditto, 3s to 4s prime large oxen, 4s 4d to 4s 8d; ditto
Scots, &c., 4s Bcl to 4s 101; coarse andi inferior sheep.
3s 2d to 4s; second quality ditto, 4s to ss; prime
coarse woolled ditto, 5s 6d to 5s 8d; prime Southdown
ditto, 5s 10d to 6s Od ; lambs, 6s to 7s 4d; large coarse
calves, 3s to 4s 4d; prime small ditto, 4s 6d to 5s 6d ;
large hogs, 2s 4d to 3s; neat small porkers, 3s to 4s
per 81b. to sink the offal.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-02

CURE OF DEAFNESS.

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NOISES IN THE EARS.
KIN. E. J SILVERTON invites sufferers to send for his
book showing the disease and the means of cure. Pot
tree 6(1 ,wit letter of advice if case can be state I.
Imperial Buildings, Ludgate Circul, London. Free
consultstions daily.

ONE FOX CLAPKE'S 841 PILLS 'warranted to cure
discharges from the Urinary Organs, in either Ko:
required or constitutional Gravel and Pains in tho back
Bold in boxes, 4s ed each, by all Chemists and Potent
medicine Vendors ; or sent to an address for 80.Stninps hy
makers THE LINCOLN it MIDLA.ND CoCNTI Es' i int G
Com-Wri, Lincoln, _Wholesale Agents l'AucLav
and all the wholesale houses.
ADVICE To MOTHERS —Are) you broken in your Fest
by a sick child suffering with the pain of cutting teeth
Go at once to a chemist and get a bottle of Mrs. Win -
slow's Soothing Syrup. It will relieve the poor
sufferer immediately. It is perfectly harmless and
pleasant to taste. it produces natural, quiet sleep by
relieving the child from pain, and the little co crab
awakes ''as bright as a button:,
the child
it softens the gums, allays all pain, reli-ives wind
Itsoath,‘s
, regulates the bowels, and is the best know remedy fir
dysen,ery and diarrhasa, whether arising from te,sth-
mg or other causes. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup .
is sold by Medicine dealers everywhere at Is lid per
bottle.
TOWLE'S PENNYROYAL AND STEEL I'ILLS
FOR FEMALES quickly correct all irregularities and
relieve the distressing symptoms 8 prevalent with the
Bones is. id. and 2s 9d., of all Chemists. Sent
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and. Midland Counties Drug Co.. —hjeWA" OF
raurArioNs.
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Quick, sa,fe, and leaves no smell.
HCDSONS EN:ra,tcr OF SOAP is free from anything of an
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Insist upon HUDSON'S EXTRACT OF SOAP, ghich his be-
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If you have not tried a Penny Packet—do so, and you
will be amazed at the large amount of thorough House
Clearaug it will perform.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-02

POTATO.

There was a good supply of potatoes on sale.
The trade was dull for old sorts, but steady for new :
Old magnum bonums, 50s to 70s: regents, 50s to 80s;
and championE, 40s to 60s per ton; new Lisbon round,
Ps to lOs ; and Malta round, lOs to us per cwt.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-02

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-02

THE CHANNEL TUNNEL.

Sir Edwin Watkin and the directors of the South-
Eastern Company invited a limited number of mem-
bers of the South Bermondsey Club and Institute to
visit the works at Dover connected with the Channel
Tunnel on Saturday. In addition to these, repre-
sentatives of the Ratepayers' Association and the local
vestry were present, upwards of 40 persons corn-
pristng the party, and they were received at Dover by
Mr. Myles Fenton, general manager of the South-
Easttfrn Railway Company. They were conducted
thropgh the mile and a quarter of tunnel which has
been constructed, and were informed as to the
metliods of boring, and other particulars relating to
the work. At a luncheon subsequently served in a
marquee, Mr. Myles Fenton welcomed the working
men in the name of Sir Edward Watkin and
the directors. He said they must recognise the com-
mercial importance of the project, and should dis-
believe the military scare about it. What could they
think if all the Queen's army and all the Queen's
men could not protect that little hole from which
they had just emerged? England beasted
that she had conquered a large portion of
the globe, and surely her forces could pro-
tect them at Dover. If this matter were
left to the working classes all the objections to the
Channel Tunnel would soon vanish, and the great
commercial enterprise would be pushed on at once.
He hoped they would go away impressed with what
they had seen, and become, as it were, preachers for
the Channel Tunnel. Mr. Howe (president of the
Bermondsey Club) subsequently took the chair. Mr.
J. T. Dunlop, in moving a vote of thanks to Sir
Edward Watkin and the directors of the company for
their invitation to Dover, spoke of the advantage it
would be for this country to be placed in direct
rails-ay communication with the Continent by means
of the tunnel. He believed the day for a policy of
isolton for England had gone by. Last year the
commerce of Liverpool had increased 20 per cent.,
while that of Antwerp had increased 40 per cent.
Why? Because the latter was in railway touch with
the Continental cities. Mr. R. Fairbairn, in seconding
the Motion, said the idea that the small hole into
whieh they had just descended and from which they
had emerged could not be controlled by the British
army was, to say the least, not complimentary to the
army, or to its Generals. The bad blood of centuries
had passed away, and they in England wished to
shake hands with their French brothers. The party
subSequently returned to London.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-02

PUBLIC NOTICES

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WITHOUT PAIN.

I .APPERSON

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-02

PITCAIRN ISLANDERS.

Captain John Lewthwaite, of Maryport, has just
returned to England, bringing with him a present for
the Queen from the inhabitants of Pitcairn Island.
Captain Lewthwaite is master of the Cairmont, of
Glasgow, and on his homeward voyage from Van-
couver Island he called at Pitcairn. He found that
the descendants of the mutineers of the Bounty had
received papers containing particulars of the Queen's
Jubilee. They said they were anxious to make her
Majesty a Jubilee present, and, in the absence of
anything more valuable, they decided to send some
straw hats of their manufacture. They also sent
other goods made of straw, which material they
manipulate with a great deal of skill. The presents
were handed to Captain Lewthwaite by Mr. M'Avoy,
the Governor of the island, and grandson of one of
the mutineers of the Bounty. The box, containing
the presents, has been lodged with a South London
vicar, who acts as agent for the islanders. There
are now 112 persons on the island, two-thirds being
women. They still dispense with strong drink, tobacco,
and coinage, SOMG tiuo ago a harmonium was taken
out to them, and Captain Lewthwaite says one woman
plays it remarkably well.

A HOST in himself—The landlord.
HAPPY THOUGHT.—Robinson, who is rather miserly,
was recovering from a long illness. "How was it,
doctor," he asked one day, "that I was able to live so
many weeks without eating ? " "Why, you were fed
by the fever." "Are you sure 2" Then, after a
moment's reflection, "I wish I could give it to my
servants."

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-02

./IRICKET AT LORD'S.
HEAVY SCORING.

The match between the Australian Cricketers and
the Gentlemen of England, which commenced on
Lord's Ground on Monday and finished on Tuesday
evening, was remarkable in many ways, not the least
from the fact that although it was the only one of
the great matches that was restricted to two days, it
was the first in the tour for which a third day's play
was needed. There were no fewer than 882 runs made
in the match, an average of 42 runs per wicket, while
the rate of scoring all through was over 70 per hour,
Mr. W. G. Grace scoring one fifty during his splendid
innings of 165 in half an hour. The Australians
were all out in their first innings for 179; and the
Gentlemen of England having made 411 for four
wickets, hit out at everything in the hope of making
a win before time was called, their last wicket being
down in consequence for 490. Mr. Walter Read
scored his hundred (making 109), as well as the Aus-
tralian giant Bonner, who reached a total of 119 in
the second innings of the Australians, which was left
incomplete when stumps were pulled up, only one
wicket having fallen for 213 runs, but the play of
neither of them approached in excellence that of Mr.
Grace on Monday afternoon. A curious testimony to
the weakness of the Australian change bowlers is
found in the fact that, severely as they were hit,
Turner and Ferris took all the ten English wickets.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-02

THE EMPEROR FREDERICK.

The Emperor had a very good day on Tuesday. All
the morning he drove in the park, and about eleven
attendeem military spectacle of a peculiar kind. His
son the Crown Prince has just finished the manceuvres
of his brigade, which lasted several days, and on
Tuesday he surprised his father by holding a review
in the park itself. The scene was most picturesque
and touching. On the terrace of the park the Emperor
sat in his bath chair, with his helmet on his head. Close
to him were the Empress, the Crown Princess, the
Princesses, and Sir Morell Mackenzie. In a semi-
circle round them, all the generals and staff officers
had taken their position. With many of them
the Emperor shook hands. All at once the troops
appeared, headed by their commander, the Crown
Prince. The soldiers were delighted to see the
Emperor. His Majesty seemed equally pleased.
His face beamed with gratification. The Crown
Prince when he passed saluted his father with his
sword, and then rode up to him, bent over him, and
kissed his hand. It was a most impressive scene.
The Emperor, who rose when the troops approached,
saluted them incessantly, and then he wrote
on a slip of paper to tell the Crown
Prince how delighted he was with the ap-
pearance of the men. In the afternoon he
felt rather tired, but he again drove in the
neighbourhood of Charlottenburg. On Monday he
received Professor Virchow, who brought some pho-
tographs which he himself took during his recent
journey in Egypt. The Emperor recognised many
places which he had visited at the opening of the
Suez Canal. Profesior Virebow examined the
Emperor's throat, and found his Majesty better than
he expected. He also observed with satisfaction
that there were no glandular swellings existing.
Afterwards the professor held half-an-hour's con-
versation with the Empress. On Tuesday afternoon
Prince Bismarck had a conference of about an hour
with the Emperor.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-02

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WILLIAMS & FARR.'S remarkable selec-
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-02

THE PERFORMING MONKEY.

Pietro Sestill, an Italian accordion player, is the
possessor of a monkey which is particularly fond
of children. He was charged at the Coventry Police.
court the other day with assaulting a girl at Bed-
worth by throwing this monkey in _ her face. Pietro,

who appeared in the dock with the monkey in his
arms, denied the allegation, and in broken English
told the Bench that the monkey was fond of children,
and would creep into their arms and stroke their
faces. He danced about the dock and gave the
Bench an exhibition of his performance and of his
monkey's gentleness, and after the magistrates'
clerk had stated that a doctor who had attended the
child for a scratch on the forehead gave the monkey
a good character, Pietro was discharged, and told
that he must not allow the monkey to become too
demonstrative in future.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-02

BRIERLEY HILL.

ALLEGED ROBBERY BY A BOATMAN. On Moo-
day, at the Police Cow t, before Mi. George Kale,
Harrison and Mr. Henry Ha 1. T' rug l'ettiter(2)),
boatm .n, was char,ea with steal:n4 a coat, blanket,
an I bed via e property of Thomas Kent, an
°tiler bo itwon, of R. ck's Hill. In the previous
in t . t i,roserutor eriga ed the ,iefencb.nt as an
a istant boatman, and a few days afterwards
missed tne from-tne cahiu of the boat and
th,f p isoner was nowhere to be found until the 20th
is mouth He o‘.ght to Iviv.3 born on the bt at all
Li.. , two. In cros, exaniinittion, l'etlifer sought to
n Loin to prosecutor that no agreement as to
wa 4i,s ha., been come to because thee. gag. merit was
oc F Jay, and it would have be u bit luck to do
so- A. w.tneas "as allied, and swore that the defend-
au. owns to Messrs. Wilkinson's works Rbuut the
tiro,: of the robbery wearing a coat similar to the
one 100 by the prosecutor.—rettifer was ultimately

apprehended by the Liverpool police.—The defend-
ant cross-examined to show that he was at work on
an inlependent jiib on the evening Vie clothes were
mi-sed, and that the boat was so clos&y moored to
th towing-path that anyone_ could have stepped

into the eitb-in and taken-the eloqies. —The casae
dinnissed.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-02

STATE OF RUSSIA;

Famine (says a correspondent) is steadily doing its
gruesome work in Russia just now. The peasants are
suffering unheard-of misery, which the Government
seems far more concerned to hide than to relieve.
Hundreds—aye, thousands—have died of hunger
during the past six weeks and large numbers are
being carried off every day. Though the Russian
peasantry are in the main characterised by a degree
of resignation and self-abnegation bordering on
heroism or madness, exceptions are not wanting to
prove the rule, and in several places the population
are showing unmistakable signs of a determination tc
fall back on the law of nature, according to Hobbes,
and struggle for their existence, in the literal sense of
the expression. Thus frequent explosions of popular
indignation, which during the past few weeks have
been constantly disturbing the peace in the South
leave no doubt in the minds of the authorities that
Oriental fatalism is fast losing its hold on the Little
Russians. Of course, these risings are finally, thougt
never very speedily stamped out, and the last state
of tLte unfortunate peasants is infinitely worse than
the first; but, on the other hand, their example is con-
tagious, and the authorities are growing alarmed.
Thus in the District of Zvenigorodka (Government of
Kieff) the peasants of Iskrina took forcible possession
of the cattle of certain rich landowners, set fire to
their corn, and in other ways did them enormous
damage. The local authorities were sent for, and
appeared on the scene with all the paraphernalia of
office, but after a bloody skirmish were driven back
by the peasants. A detachment of troops was sent
for, but the number available was probably insuffi-
cient, for they took two days to pacify the district.
In the village of Olkhovtsa a much more serious
rising took place, for the peasants were all armed
with scythes, hatchets, &c., and the representatives
of law and order suffered considerably at their hands.
Several persons are severely wounded, among others
the local chiefs of the police.
Foreign Jews are having a hard time of it in
Russia, especially in Odessa, where large numbers of
them have hitherto resided, some of them having
spent twenty years and more in banks and counting-
houses in the city, and enjoyed the confidence and
respect of their fellow-citizens; but no entreaties on
their part, or on the part of their employers, have the
slightest effect on the authorities. Two foreign con-
suls here, however, have forwarded protests to the
Governor-General von •Roop, one of them couched in
very energetic language, to which the Governor has
taken exception. But the protest seems to have pro-
duced an effect all the same, for the foreign Jew on
whose behalf it was made has been allowed to remain
here.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-02

STOURBRIDGE.

Sim., c Bill, b Smith 3
Quarry, c Bill, b Mansell
H. flingley, b Freeman
Wood, o Peart, b Freeman 4
Dakin, at Crichton, b Freeman 2
W. Mobbi•rley, c Hughes. b Peart 6
J. Higley. not out 92
H. illohberley, run out
‘Vooldiidge, not out
Mountoford }To bat
Dr. Daly
Extra 1

EPPo's COCOA.—GRATRFUL AND COMFORTING —"By
• borough knowledge of the natural laws which govern
rite operations of digestion and nutrition, end by care
ful application of the tine properties of welbselecte
Cocoa Mr. Epps has nrovided our breakfast tables wi h
a deicately flavoured beverage which may save 11,.
many heavy doctors' bills. It is by the judicious use of
such articles of diet that a constitution us ny be gradu-
ally built up until strong enough to resist every tend
ency to disease Hundreds of subtle maladies are
floating around us ready to attack where vet there is
weak point . kVe may escape many a fit,,, shift by
.coping ourselves well fortified with pure blood and
noperly nourished frame." Civil Service (.1,-,:ette.
ride simply with boiling wate or milk. Sold only in
i.:wkets by Grocers, labelled EPP.4 ez CO.
bnieueopsth:c (lien:lists, Lon Ion," - Anso makers of
pcs's Aiteraoon Chocclate

Fool) ADULTKRATION.— Mr. CaSSall, leCtUri:tqat
Ow Health Exhibition, said : Howceopa-hic Cocoas
are well named, as they contain the smalles quantity
of Cocoa." CADBURY'S Cocoe is guaranteed pure.
and we recommend the public to buy no o. her.
Always drink CADBURY'S COCOA, it is pure, whole-
&me, sustaining, nutritious, and agreeable, and is
anivers dfavourite from the Cottage to the Palace
"No BREAKFAST, NO MAN," is an old saying, hut
hose who canuot make a hearty morning meal, will'
find Cadbury's Cocfui, a pure refined beven &
corn ortinu, exhilarating. and sustgining
In htalth and sicaleas Horniman's Pure Tea is
always preferred because it is what it profes,es,,
very strong, rich, delicious and absolutely genuine
article; suppiied at London filed prices by Agents
who are constantly receiving fresh: supplies from
London, (sold only ia Packets.)
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-02

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-02

THE LICENSING CLAUSES.
STATEMENT BY MR. CHAMBERLAIN.

A deputation representing the brewers and
publicans of Birminghan and district waited. upon Mr.
Chamberlain at the Council House, Birmingham, on
Tuesday to elicit his views upon the licensing clauses
of the Local Government Bill. The proceedings were
private, and Mr. Chamberlain expresseda strong wish
i
that nothing should be published. It s understood,
however, that the deputation announced their willing-
ness to concede the right of local option, and to leave
the question of Sunday closing in the hands of the re-
presentatives of the people, but in return compensation
should be allowed. It was pointed out that the fund
from which the compensation would come would really
be paid by license holders themselves in the extra 20 per
cent. which it was proposed should be put on the license
duty. Mr. Chamberlain's speech was mainly Confined
to the compensation clause, as to which he said he
should stand, if he stood alone, by the principle that
he had always advocated, and that was for compen-
sation for the disturbance of any legitimate interest
which had been brought into existence by the Legisla-
ture. He was very much astonished on reading Mr.
Gladstone's remarks the other day on the licensing
clauses. He (Mr. Chamberlain) always believed that
he was firm on this point, but he feared Mr. Glad-
stone's firmness had gone, and that he was past pray-
ing for. No judicial decision would alter his views
as to compensation. It was a matter of equity, and
he did not care about the legal aspect.

" LIZZIE, did the doctor propose to you to-day?"
"No, mamma; he only asked if you would live with
me after I got married."

_
To prevent domestics breaking anything, keep a cat
in the house, and you will never hear of anything
being broken by the servants.
WHEN a fop was trying to become the lion of a
fashionable party, a wit remarked that he could never
be anything but a dandy-lion.
FIGURES never lie, but under skilful manipulation
they may be induced to prevaricaN to an extent that
answers the purpose.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-02

CRICKET.

HI, NDS WORTH WOOD V. STOU it BRIDGE.
Played on Saturday last at Stourbrid.:e, and
re illted in a victory for the Wood. S,,p)re :
LHANDSWORTII Wool).
F. Bill, b Hingley .. 3
Mansell, b Mountford 2l
Hughes, B. Hingley 1
Pearl-, c Sims, b M ountford • 4
Cright,n, b Wooldridge
IL Bill, b Mountford
Freeman, c and b Hingley... .........
Keates, b Elingley
Smith, not nu*
Laresdale, b Hingley 0
Allday, b Hingley
Extrds 9
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-02

4otal attO strt4etut4.

COMMISSIONERS' MEETING.

7he monthly meeting of the Commissioners was
'held o Monday; Mr. Platt preliding. The Clerk
tar ted that the deputation appointed for the pur.
poi w !t d Upon Mr. Id unbar, g-n,ral manager of
tte G ea W tern R dlitav Comptny, with regard
t the proposal pr v siot of 4, its train fr iw S our.
b dge to Birtnin ;ha n via Ora ley Th• 3 cl-p.sta ion
w a avo tr bt r !ceived, and it wa.i promised that
c ireful c t•laideration should 'ae ~;iven to chi repre-
t•i-vations mt e A•nong o.h matt•ora brought
Ire Mr,. Limb rt was the des ab ity of makin-',
, cc f tow trains as", Smarbridge Jonction
S tion.
e srs. Nash, Blunsom, Gillam, ['askew, James.
Walt r Jonev, Newnam Stringer, and Woo;. ,
w • e appointed a cormnittee to consider and re,,ort
is o he furniture, fixinres, &e, to be provided for
th new Board R ,ow, offices, Scc, and toe allotting
he several chambers in the n •w oares to the
, v rat offic rs of the Board.
Mr, fi,rbert Collis drew attention tot ae with -
d wal of .£350. from the sinking fund for the pur.
, se f a steam roller some ye,•rs ago. and to the
f that it u,id never been refunded They had
reeved ,bout £5OO. in round numn3r4 rorn lettind
ttir..sttm-rolier un bile, and they ought, to have
p ot back that 811131 to the sinking fund, and been
•orming, a fund to purchase auo her steam. r• her
whcn requirt-d. Mr. Collis movel a repolu ion to
open a new account, to be called the St3am Roller
Ac .ount, and that any balance of receipts over ex
pereiiture b paid to the Improvement Sinking Fad.
The rer dution was seconded b., Mr.,Newn.tin, but,
aft •t a iscu,sion, was lost.
The Finance Committee reported thlt they ha,i
•nstructiol th• Cl • rk to give thy, e months' notice ot
h • int it of the Commissiconers to pay off such
of the ho::dholtiPris of the olct debt o £1t,070. wh
had refusea to accept interest on the r b. n is a' the
rate 0: 3, invteati of 4 percent., as no paid th
It •-tts atso reco•• !nrntled that the • mu tte,
endo •ed with Hnary powers to I:in . all h
arrangerne ts a ey might think to Fes Ty wit
re..p tto the In of £2,000 an rAI 500., so tnat
tli• int rest on in might also be reduced t/ 3i
cent. Mr. Woolley asked if it were true th.,
great- r number of the present bondholders had
abz.eti to autekt ker LLauthan 5
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-02

PASSPORTS TO GERMANY.

The new regulation obliging travelleis from France
to Germany to provide themselves with passports
does not, of course, meet with much favour in Paris.
On the contrary, the correspondent of a contemporary
states that it has "excited unmitigated disgust" in the
French capital. Some writers define it as monstrous,
but all preach calmness in the face of what they
describe as a fresh provocation. A German journal
recommends persons proceeding from France to the
Fatherland to travel vici Basle or through Luxem-
bourg. Hitherto, although the regulations respecting
Frenchmen visiting Alsace have been strict, they have
often been more honoured in the breach than in the
observance, especially when the Breis-Director has
been good natured. A Strasburg correspondent
relates how a police official told a French artist, after
he had been spending four days in that town, that he
really must wind up his affairs, and take his depar-
ture as soon as he could. The Frenchman offered to
bet 100 marks that he would be out of Strasburg in
less than a fortnight, and the official accepted the
wager. On the morning of the 15th day when the
German called, the Frenchman remarked that he had
lost his bet, paid the money down, and left by the
next train; but he had had his money's worth.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-02

GOLD IN WALES.

Colonel Ruck, Chief-constable of Carnarvonshire,
has issued a circular to his men requesting them to
acquaint him at once with reports of the discovery of
gold in their several districts. It is understood that
Colonel Ruck is acting in the interests of the Govern-
ment. Several valuable finds of gold have already
been made in Carnarvonshire and Merionetshire, in
addition to Mr. Pritchard Morgan's discoveries. The
Holyhead Local Board have resolved to request the
Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, the Mersey Docks
and Harbour Board, the London and North-Western
Railway Company, and other influential bodies to
form a deputation to wait on the Government with a
view to inducing it to undertake the removal of the
dangerous Platters Rocks at the mouth of Holyhead
Harbour. Mr. F. M. Cotton, C.E., in
.the employ of
the Board of Trade, is preparing a model of the rocks,
which are 16 acres in extent, and it is estimated that
the cost of removing them will be about £250,000. A
report was current a short time ago that gold had
been found in the Platters Rocks. This has since been
confirmed, and the fact that distinct gold-hearing
veins are to be found in the rocks may assist the
Government in coming to a conclusion. If the
Platters Rocks could be removed Holyhead Harbour
would be rendered one of the most accessible and pro-
tected in the country.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-02

THE CAMBERWELL TRAGEDY.

At the Lambeth Police-court, on Monday, W. A.
Pierpoint, 31, hammerman, living in Neate-street,
Camberwell, was charged before Mr. Biron, Q.C., with
the wilful murder of his son, Sidney Gilbert John
Pierpoint, aged one year and ten months, on Saturday
night. Mr. H. T. Sydney defended. Police-constable
598 P stated that, from what he was told, he went
with a Mrs. Howells to the Little Wonder beer-house,
Neate-street, Camberwell, at half-past ten o'clock on
Saturday night. She pointed out the prisoner, who
was with some 30 other men, and said, "I think
that's the man." The prisoner left the beerhouse,
and witness heard that he had escaped over a
wall. He went into Albany-road, and then saw the
prisoner running. The prisoner was stopped, and the
witness said, "I shall take you into custody for
assaulting your child." He replied, "All right." On
the way to the station the prisoner sal, "We had
notice on Tuesday to leave, and I have been out of
work, and had a lot of trouble. Our bed has been
stopped by the landlord. I had no intention of doing
such a thing." He went quietly to the station. He
had been drinking, but knew well what he was
about. Inspector Webb said that at about eleven
o'clock on Saturday night the prisoner was brought
to the station. He said, "No one saw me
do it. The child fell off my arm." The prisoner
was the worse for drink. Eliza Stoor, living in
Neate-street, Camberwell, said on Saturday night,
about half-past ten o'clock, she was standing at her
door when she saw the prisoner a few doors off with
the child in his arms. As he passed she said," What's
the matter up there ?" and the prisoner made some
remark about his furniture. He seemed in great
trouble and cried. The witness urged him to let his
wife go back and fetch the bed. The prisoner's wife,
who came up then, went for the bed. The prisoner
lifted the child up, and, taking hold of its legs, said,
"You shall be the victim," and then dashed it down
on the ground. Cross-examined: The street at
the time was clear. The witness had only
known the prisoner by sight. She knew
him to be very kind to children. Eliza Howell,
living in Neate-street, corroborated the evidence of the
last witness, and added that the child's head struck
the kerb. Cross-examined: At the station she heard
the prisoner say, "I let the child fall." By Mr. Biron :
He did not let it fall, but dashed it to the ground.
Other evidence was given with a view of showing
that the prisoner was greatly upset through having
been turned out of his lodging for owing rent. Police-
constable 350 P said by dtrection of Dr. Partridge he
took the child to Guy's Hospital, where it died in a
short time. Mr. Biron ordered a remand for the pro-
duction of the medical evidence.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-02

A DECADE OF DRUNKENNESS.

Elizabeth Finney, 72 years of age, was found dead
in the passage of her house at Newcastle the other
morning. The husband of the deceased said that for
the last 10 years his wife had been drinking heavily,
in fact scarcely a day passed but she was the worse
for drink. He returned home about half-past ten on
Wednesday night, and the deceased opened the door
for him. She was drunk, and could not speak to him.
He went upstairs to bed, but his, wife decided to re-
main downstairs. Early next morning he got up, and
on going downstairs saw his wife lying at the end of
the passage on some dirty bedclothes, which were
ready for washing. He thought she was asleep, went
into the house and made her some tea, and returning;
found her to be dead. He ran for a doctor, who pro-
nounced life to be extinct. The deceased was found
lying with her face downwards on the clothes. She
had been vomiting, and her nose and mouth were
entirely stuffed up by the discharge. A jury found
that the cause of death was excessive drinking.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-02

TEM STOITRBRIDGE OBSERVER.

he could not give Pxact information, but more of the
old bondholders had accep,ed 31 per cent. than he
aoticipated. As to the remaining sum, the whole
of it was rea ly to be supplied from oth'r Boum,. s
Tne successive reductions of interest which had b-el,
made since the interest was 5 per cent. was eval
10 saving of 21,1. per pound in the rates.
The dtath-rate for the past month was reported
it 13.4. and the Lirth-rate 24.8. Dr. Eag,ar, meth
cal officer, and Mr. 'Williams, sanitary inspector,
r their offices pro forma, and they w.rt
r,app ,inted un ler the regulations of the Local Gov
rs went Board, with a view to obtaining half theil
,
' ga.arles from the Parliamentary grant.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-02

VEGETARIANISM.

Mr. T. B. Brett, of the St. Leonards and Hastings
Gazette, with reference to a short article under this
head which last week appeared in several newspapers,
writes that he thinks the remarks made on the Vege-
tarian Society's recent anniversary in London were
scarcely fair. "I have been," says Mr. Brett, "almost
a vegetarian for many years, and at 72 years of age
still labour (mentally and corporeally) 17 hours a
day; do not sleep after 3.30 a.m., and quite recently
walked 12 miles in 2 hours 5 minutes. The only
'medicine' I take is lemon juice. My wife—eight
years my junior—is a great meat eater, and is unable
to walk two or three miles without fatigue. Thes6
facts may be worth consideration."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-02

TWO TRAGEDIES.

On Sunday night a terrible tragedy was discovered
four days after the occurrence in Bristol, a man named
Henry Clements, an Army Reserve man, having
almost killed his wife with a hatchet and then put an
end to his own life. The couple had been married
only recently. On Whit Monday they hired a bed-
room at 6, Church-street, Temple, the tenant of the
house being a man named Charles Cole. Clements,
who was a labourer, was at work on the Tuesday and
Wednesday, but failed to make his appearance on
Thursday. Subsequently it was discovered that he
had inflicted terrible hatchet wounds on his wife, and
had killed himself. The woman was removed to the
General Hospital, where she remains in a dangerous
condition. Crime is so rare in the rural
districts of Wales that an extraordinary sensation has
been caused by a tragedy which took place on Satur-
day morning at the village of Llanrwchllyn, situated
at the northern end of Bala Lake. A young man
named William Davies, who has for some time past
shown symptoms of insanity, took a double-barrelled
gun and went out, as he stated, to shoot laige rats,
which he said swarmed about the place. He went,
however, towards the village smithy, knelt down, and
took deliberate aim at the blacksmith. Evan Jones,
a young fellow working in the shop, rushed between
Davies and his master, and received the full charge
from one of the barrels of the gun right in his face
and the upper part of the body. The blacksmith
seized the would-be murderer, and in the struggle
which ensued the remaining barrel burst and Davies's
hand was severely injured. Constable Jones was sum-
moned by wire from Bala and took Davies into custody.
Evan Jones's condition is critical.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-02

THE PEOPLE'S PALACE.

The success of the People's Palace in East London
fully realizes the promoters' expectations, and the
Workmeles Industrial Exhibition just opened is one of
its most attractive features. This gathering of some
400 exhibits represents the industries of 70 trades,
divided into 24 classes, and including printing,
decorative art, scientific instruments, watchmaking,
furniture, cutlery, clothing, china, jewellery and metal
work, musical instruments, and so forth. Most of
these objects have been made after working hours,
and are most carefully executed. There are numerous
curiosities, such as walking sticks made from news-
papers and letters, so as to show alternate circles of
,dark and light material, a tiny model
of a grand piano which turns into a workbox, pic-
tures composed of coal, a boat which can be converted
into a tricycle, ST.c. Two exhibits show especial in-
ventive and artistic genius—an orrery marking the
motions of the planets round the sun, and the plaster
cast of a reredos on the subject of the Passion. The
I next addition to the Palace will be the library, which
will be opened on June 16th by the Duchess of Albany,
and will provide room for 250,000 volumes. It is a
line octagonal hall, ornamented by busts of the chief
lights of English literature. Over 4000 young people
between the ages of 14 and 25 have joined the Palace
Institute, while 200 day and 4000 night students have
attended the various classes.

CARRYING MATTERS TO AN EXTREME.—" Modest ?"
exclaimed a sarcastic old bachelor. "Yes, the girls
are so modest now-a-days that they take great pains
nobody shall find it out."
A RICH but ignorant lady, who was rather ambi-
tious in her conversational style, in speaking of a
friend said, "He is a paragram of politeness."
"Excuse me," said a wag sitting next her, "but do
you not mean a parallelogram 2" Of course I do,"
immediately replied the lady. "How could I have
made such a mistake ?".
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-02

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ADULTERATORS PUNISHED.

A telegram from Moscow states that the trial of
several of the wealthiest merchants of that city for
adulterating tea with shrubs and sand has caused
great excitement there. One of the principal mer-
chants of the place, and a man of great wealth and
influence, has been convicted of this practice and sen-
tenced to the loss of his civil rights, and to banish.
ment to Siberia for life. A lesser offender has been
fined and sentenced to two months' imprisonment. A
large quantity of the tea sold by these two dealers
was, says the St. Petersburg correspondent of the
Daily Chronicle, found to be adulterated with about
50 per cent. of kaporkee, a kind of shrub, which
medical testimony declares to be very injurious to
health.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-02

A USELESS PRESENT.

The King of the Belgians recently sent to the Sultan
of Morocco a present of a locomotive and a Pullman
car. The difficulty is that there is no railway in
Morocco on which the car can be used. It has been
suggested that probably the contractor who got there
might have the.privileg,e of making a small line, but
there are obstacles in the way. The Secretary of the
Moorish Treasury never pa 3 s except/when he has
'money in hand, and as a rule he never has any. More-
over, when he is impecunious he has the bastinado aid
the bowstring quite handy for the contractors, so that
it is not expected that many railways will be made in
Morocco just yet awhile.

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MILITIA MUSTERS.

On Monday, according to arrangements made by
the War Office, 20 regiments of Militia were assembled
at their respective headquarters to commence the
regular yearly course of training. The Buckingham-
3hire and Oxfordshire Regiments were at once trans-
ferred to Aldershot, where they are to be trained with
the Regular troops. The Queen's Royal Tower
Hamlets were sent to Woolwich, and the Leicester-
shire Regiment to the newly-organised Regular camp
at Strensall. The cther corps mustered on Monday
were the Monmouth Engineers at Monmouth, the
Hertfordshire for Colchester Camp, ithe Ist Devon
for Wonford Camp, the South and North Gloucester
at Bristol and Cirencester, the Aberdeenshire at
Aberdeen, the 4th Lancashire for Altcar Camp, the
Northampton at Northampton, the South Middlesex at
Hounslow Camp, the Hereford at Wareham, the West
Suffolk at Colchester Camp, the 6th West York at
Halifax, the Antrim Artillery at Carrickfergus, the
Royal Dublin City at the Curragb, the Armagh in
camp at Holyhead, and the Cavan and Monaghan
Battalions at their county towns. <

A CONJUGAL HlNT.—Wife (who occasionally attempts
"a bit from Wagner"): "Mr. Hehnpekhed dead )
Isn't this very sudden P" Husband (with meaning) :
"No; he lingered much longer than I expected. His
wife nil& him take her to hear 'Siegfried' three
times last winter, and he's never been the same man
since, poor fellow ! "
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-02

A VENTURESOME VOYAGE.

A little craft has just taken her departure from
Liverpool on a voyage to Benguella, in South-West
Africa. The vessel in question is the steam lighter
Louise, 55 feet long. She is undecked and her
engines and boilers are therefore quite exposed. She
left the Coburg Dock, Liverpool, a week ago, but
come to an anchor off Egremont. This was owing to
a stiff wind which was then blowing. While off
Egremont the peculiar construction of the Louise
caused her to be an object of much interest. Her
side proper is only about a foot above the water, and
above this some thin iron railings were placed. But
few people understood that the craft in question was
about to take a voyage of nearly 5000 miles. She
was manned by five Portuguese sailors, but her
master is an Englishman. The greatest danger will
be between Liverpool and Madeira, but the captain
expressed his intention to go through the Menai-straits,
and then make for the Spanish and Portuguese coasts.
He thought be would be able to perform the voyage
in about 60 days. Her steaming power is four
knots, and she only draws three feet of water.
COAL FOR 3000 YEARS.

;ast coal basins, says the British consul at Chicago,
exist in Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, Dakota, and
Illinois, the:fields of the last-named State extending over
36,000 square miles, and a low estimate places the
amount of commercial coal at 30,000 million tons, a
supply which at the present rate of production would
last for 3000 years. In Montana more capital has been
invested in gold and silver mines during the past
twelve months than in any year in the history of the
territory, an official statement placing the value of
the gold, silver, copper, and lead produced in 1887 at
not less than £5,100,000. Tin has also been found
in a district called the Black Stiles, an isolated group
of mountains lying principally in Dakota, and partly
in Wyoming, and this discovery is regarded as of the
highest importance, as Chicago and the other great
cities of the West are large consumers of tin, which
has hitherto been wholly imported.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-02

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