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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-05-17

THE LATE MR. JOHN STUART MILL.
Dr. Gurney, of Nice, has sent the following despatch from
Avignon, to the Daily Nelttl:—

"NICE, Sunday Morning.
"Mr. John Stuart Mill wag in fair health and good
spirits up to toe time of WS attack of erysipelas, which
rapidly ran ita fatal course in the short space of
four days.

"This disease is endemic in the lowlying Clay,
ground about Avignon. He knew the situation was
not healthy, but purchased the house and grounds only
becanae they were close to the cemetery where his wife
was buried fifteen years ago, and in order that he might
spend AS much of his time se possible near her tomb.
The house, moreover, WAR densely surrounded by trees,
which he would not allow to be touched, lest the
nightingales abounding in that neighbourhood should
quit the spot. The avenue under the shade of which
he composed and htudied was filled with these birds,
and so tame were they, that when I paced up and down
between my visits to his bedside, they followed me
from tree to tree.

"Mr. Mill suffered but little, except in swallowing
and from the heat and weight of the enormous swelling
which by the time I arrived from Nice had already
spread over his face and neck ; and yet he learnt from
me on my arrival the fatal nature of the attack with
calmness and resignation. His expressed desire that
he might not outlive his mental faculties, or suffer
fr,m long, wasting disease, was gratified, for his great
intellect remained clear to the last moment. His wish
that his funeral might be quite quiet and simple, as
indeed, his every wish, was attended to by his loving
step-daughter with devoted solicitude.

"The funeral took place in the simplest fashion.
The French doctor, the Protestant pastor, and myself,
alone being present, with the family. Prayer was
offered up at the grave, and a mo t touching address
was given by the pastor. Then the beautiful tomb of
his wife wan opened, and he wag placed by the side of
her he loved en .
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-05-17

SKIRTS IN THE STREET.
(From Punch.)

A concession, which the organ of millinery appears
to consider great, has been made by Fashion to
Common Sense and Cleanliness. According to Le
Po(let "the out-dor morning dresses" for May "are
made just to touch, or even to clear the ground." How
ultra-reasonable and how exceedingly pure mnst be the
skirts of the latter description, those which are so
moderately long that they do not eo much as quite
touch the groom!, but even a -tually clear it ! Of some
of these morning dresses the length has been retrenched
to the immaculate extremity of clearing the ground to
the extent of almost an inch ! For, as to one of
them :

It was of dust-eoloored Poll de clil`rre with narrow hair-
stripes of • darivr shale. The skirt IV AS about an inch from
the ground, awl had five crouway flounces bound with green
at tne lower edge, and occupying about half the chief; at
the top of these there was a green ruche an loch awl • half
wide."

For crossway flounces, especially, those flounces are
of course the beet adapted of which the lowermost
one does not sweep the crowing. In that case the
" dust-coloured poil de chevre " flounce admits of
relief in being " bound with green at the lower edge."
But otherwise it would very soon get the gayer tint
obscured end assimilated to its own, whilat it acted as
besom.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-05-17

FOR PICTURE FRAMES,

GO to the Practical Maker, where every .des.
emptier' of PICTDRE FRAMES. WINDOW
CORNICES, ke., bre isanufutered a the Premises,
.lesale and Retail. by
D. LAMBERT,

Hotme Decora.tor,
Glider and
Ptetare Frame. I
Maimlecturer.
OLDSWINFORD, Near STUCL:LRIDGE.

OLD PICTURE FRAMES, CORNICES,
AND MOULDINGS,
Of every description,
CLEANED, REPAIRED, or RE-GILT.
OLD PICTURES, Carefully Cleaned, Lined. and
Restored.

D
L. having had W year practical
• experience In all the above different Branches,
beds to inform the idolatry end Public generaliy that Mc
has now every facility for ezeenting any -rder that may
be entraeted to his care, which will meet with hi perso-
nal arid procupt attention.
.)rder, by Letter //di meet with striet attentiun.
g.ren and Men f eaeli Branch net to say
part of the country-
GantMom may kayo *six Aden Irmo' re-gilt es
their lows Praiires, if assired.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-05-17

BOARD OF GUARDIANS.

The weekly meeting of this Board was heli
yesterday ; Mr. Granger in the chair. There wee,
a 1,411 present Messrs. Brooks, Roilinsou.
Wood, Guest, Bilduginch, Fiddian, Gritlin,
Rhudes,Baker, Pateahall, Haskew,Hower, tides,
and Fereday. The Inmates of the last meeting
were read aud CuL.troil. Adinitted jut,
the house uuring the wr 10; discharged, 5 ,
born 0 ; Used, 8, remaining, Mil. Correspondn.i.
week last year, 879. Gai-clour relief
ford distr.et, AZB lie 91; Stourbridge distrie
£l9 5s 41; lialesowen district, £2O 16s 81;
relief of uou-resideut paupers, 7s 61; tots..
Xtiti is 101, against £7l Be 41 last year.
A letter was read from MlbS Bye asking i.
there were soy children ready to go to Canada.
The Clerk was ordered to reply stating thee.
was not.

HAGLIT STOCK SALl.—There was a good supply
of sheep, lambs, and store cattle at this sale cu
Monday. Fat to:asts were a short supply, but in.
chided some grand bullocks from Mr. Parry, ot
Chaddesley Corbett, and Mrs. hill of Oldington.
There was a large attendance of wieners sea
dealers, and full prices were realised.
STOORBRIDGE STOCK Sals.—This sale was helo
on Tuesday by Mr. H. King. Th.re were near.
400 sheep and lambs, 30 head of cattle and th,
usual quantity of pigs. The highest pricer
realized were as follows viz for shorn sheep
748131 per head; ewes and lambs 102 s per couple;
fat lambs 44s 6d; fat cows £29 10e; cows anu
calves £6. The attendance of buyers was large,
and good market prices were obtained in all cases;
beef ruled very high.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-05-17

A TIMELY WARNING!

The thieves, burglars, and rowdies of New York
are excessively annoyed with Recorder Hackett, of
that city (remarks the Pall Mall (Jazette), on account
of two or three severe sentences he has lately passed
on some of their friends, and have addressed to him
the following kindly remonstrance :

Mr. Hacketk—Str,—This Is to notify you that If you give
Mu more of your cruel long sentence, to prisoners, such as
twenty rein or Strom. years for very trivial offences, or for
Ordinary offence of burglary, ,td, your career will be cut
Short in a manner you lecut expect. The slung shot, the
knife, or poison will be brought uffo requisition aro rid the
world of a monster of cruelty like you, who ha• unjustly
sentenced many • better man than yourself to gloomey
dungeons for excessive periods more than their crime
deserted, just to satisfy the puelic and gain a repu-
tation for yourself for fancy meteor*. There hal been
Welt • party of us organised who are sworn under
toiomu oaths to take you. Hie (or It at of some member of
your family, If we C4llool get at yod easily), any more
sentences ii Given by you that me 005sii1,,r unjus or ex-
coulee. You live leo • tine house, you enj”y yourself weil,
and little dream whet t Talents you condemn Yoe, fellow-man
Id, many of them h.ing driven into crime by sheer poverty
and hunger This wit be aveng,l no to ware If you do not
msderate yourself. You base oamnable ,sanefnrcrwfty ;
you are an agsrit of tyranny, so beware. Si"d MTV?
tyror nua" We have 'our house watched, and when you leao
expect the av,tumre "they will Save you where they war
you, either you or some member of put tomb, So help us
God.—Crackemen.

This pleasant warning Wll9 received by the Recorder by
pot on the 22nd ult., but does not seem to have dis-
turbed his equanimity much—although It is stated

imit
that it has made his Wife—rather anxious.
observed, two days later, to a reporter of the we
York Heraki whodntervie wed him, "one of the nal
men you ever met, and I do what I say I will do
always." The Recorder then drew from his pocketiby
an almost imperceptible motion of his arm " a very
ornate goldmounted revolver," which he informed the
reporter he always carried with him, adding that he
had handled firearms from his boyhood, and he doubted
whether any man living could "draw" faster or fire
more unerringly than himself. He had frequently,
he said, "shot a three-cent piece off the bead of a dis-
tinguished journalist" in his (the journalist's) own
parlour, and could shoot a pin from a man's fingers at
any time with a revolver. Altogether, he seems to be
admirably fitted for the position be at present holds as
a judge in New York.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-05-17

CONGRUOUS COUPLES.

IF there'll a walla:latched pair In married he
It is • Horsey Men and Nagging Wile.—Punch.

POOR LIVINGS IN THE CHURCH OF
ENGLAND.

The following

has been published :

_ _
1, Grosvenor-crescent, May T.
My Lord Archbishop--I understand that a vast
number of livings of the English Church do not exceed
in value £l5O per annum, and many do not exceed 1;100.
Although provincial movements have done something
to alleviate the very great distress arising from such
poverty, no central fund that might insure a perma-
nent augmentation of the livings of the poorest clergy
has ever been raised. It would, surely not be difficult,
were the necessity of the case brought prominently
before the laity of the Church, to raise a central fund large
enough to make it certain that no incumbent of any
living belonging to the Church of England should have
less than at least £2OO a year. Should your Grace
approve of the establishment of ouch a fund, the Prin-
cess and I would be anxious to assist in raising a sub.
scrlption.—l remain your obedient servant,
LORNE.
Lambeth Palace, May 7.
My dear Lorsl,—l have laid before the Bishop.,
whom I had an opportunity of meeting at the session
of Convocation, your proposal respecting a fund for the
augumentation of email livings. My brethren feel
with myself that such an effort as you propose on the
part of the laity would not only be likely to remedy
many existing cases of hardship, but might confer great
benefite on the community in all future time. I shall
be very ready to co-operate with your lordship in any
way in my power in this matter, and I am sure I may
promise he same for ray brethren on the episcopal
bench. You are aware that any benefactions which
were thus raised by private efforts would in all pro-
bability be largely sided by grants to meet benefacs
tissue voted from the common fund of the Ecclesiastical
Commission ; so that, great as the work is you propose
to undertake by private charity, you would not be
without the assistance of public funds in your endea-
vours. I feel sure that the bishops in the several dio-
ceses would be ready to afford every assistance in their
power to any central committee which may be ap-
pointed.—Believe me to be, my dear lord, yours sin-
cerely, A. C. CANTERBURY.
The Marquis of Lorne, arc.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-05-17

CRADLEY HEATH, HALESOWEN, & DISTRICT CHRONICLE

)FOE •
L110•D.

SATURDAY, MAY 17, it 73.

PRICE ONE PENNY.

PUBLIC NOTICIML
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-05-17

BIRTH.
MALPAII9.—On the 10th inst. M Withy Bank, Wollaston,
the wife of Mr. Charles %Own. of a son.

MORE CORES OF ASTHMA AND COUGHS ST Dn. 1.0
COCK'S POLNONIC —From Mr. C. Collins,
Chemist, lirettell-lane, Stonrbridge Several have
taken them for asthma, coughs, the., and in every me
they have had the desired effect. In toy opinion, *IT
surpass anything that has been offered to the public.
Dr. Locock's WaferA give instant relief to Asthma, Con-
sumption, Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, and all disordeee
of the throat, breath, and longs. In Hysterical, Nervosa,
and lii-art complaints, and in Rheumatic and Nervous
pains. they act like a charm. Nothing else gives sock •
sound and reftshing night's rest. They taste pleseactly.
Sold by all druggists. Is led and 2s 9d per box.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-05-17

PENSNETT.

APPOINTMENT OP SUEVEYOR.-011 the 25th id March
last a roads' surveyor for the Bromley district WE/ in-
formally appointed. On Monday, at the Brierley Hill
Police Court, Mr. Holberton nowineted tdr. D Paraons
for the office, and remarked that the same gentleman
was prop ised at tile vesti y meeting en the 25th of March,
and also at a recent meeting. Mr. Parsons, lie added,
commanded the respect and confidence of the whole
parish, and hie appointment would give general Biala
-
faction Mr. Homer, who represented a largo number
of ratetaiyera, urged that a more acorpt,,ble appointment
would be that of Mr. Meredith, of Wislilienin, who had
been a surveyor all his life, was in every reapret well
qualified for the office, and would, if elected, prove a
most efficient public servant. Mr. Persons, on the eon.
teary, had never been • surveyor, but was a licensed vic-
Tne Bauch appointed Mr Meredith at it salary
of £5O • year.
V.:air KY Al ENTINO.—d largely attended meeting of the
inliabitaats was held on "Wednesday evening, at the
Methodist New Connexion Chapel, ' to take into cons
sideration the recent appointment of the mag.strates of
• surveyor for the Brouiley diatrict " Mr. Cornelius
Chambers occupied the chair. Mr. John Baybould, in
the couree of a long speech, complained that the depots.
Con appoiuted by the ratepayers ti, wait upon the magis-
trates, was not properly treated on Monday last. He
had. he said. Wavily, been under the impression that the
voice of the majority was entitled to a fair considers.
Mon ; but It appeare I that a small majority had full
sway in the pariah. With reference to the appointment
of Mr. William Meredith, as road serve, o r for the
district of Bromley, in opposita in to Mr b. Parsons,
who was nominated by the perish, be (Mr. Ita3boald)
expressed lii. =edition not to pay any rates coll.•cted by
Mr. Meredith until the bailiff'o were put in his bowie.
A lengthened discussiou took pace, and the Chairman
read au extract from a law book, which showed that no
magistrate could take pectin euythiag in which be was
interested. As was well known, the two magistrates
who sat on the Bench on Monday when the appoint-
ment wa made were magistrates.—Mr. B. Wood offered
t pay a third of the expense to obtain counsel's opinion
as to whether toe appointment was a legal one, and
Messrs. litaybould and Sheen consented to bear • similar
share of the cost. This was assented di ley the meet-
iug. It was also resolved by the meeting that the
depoOtion was unfairly treated by the magistrates, and
that the ratepayers should not pay say rates levied by
Mr. Meredith. A vote or thanka to the chairman closed
the meeting.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-05-17

OLD HILL.

TrtaitaTILNINO.—AL the Police Court, on Wednesday.
b. Toe Messrs. F. W. O. Barra aud N. Hisgiey,
,uthall we. miarged with threatening Anorevr Miller,
of ntoorbralge, on the lirtb not. Mr. Prescott appeared
for complainant. Complainant said he was principal
witue•• against defendant in • ease of felony last wick.
The charge was withdrawn again,t her. By the order or
ha employer, Mr. Thompson. of Stourbrirge, he bad to
call on her for an account of 10s. On the above date,
about 11 o'clock in the morning, he went into the house
and all the doors were closed. Defendant came in
through the back door and tell lam to go out of her
house. He was afraid she would do him some bodily
harm. Defendant said ahe only ordered the complainant
out of the house. The Bench dismissed the ease.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-05-17

FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE IN
WORCESTERSHIRE.

It appear. from the returns received by the Chief
C mitten's of the county that tthere were, on the 10th
Met, 166 cattle in Wurccatershire affected with the foot.
and•in 'nth disease. The returns for the different petty
sessional d. one were as follows :—Woreester, 9;
Upton, 4 ; Persitore, 14; blockley, 5 ; Kidderminster,
79; De.,ilelefi 55. The returns allow, that there has
bees a decrease of 217 in the total 'limber of animals
affected, as compared with the previous week. There
ise Be eleven districts quite free from the contagion.
Thee are 145 sheep effected with scab.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-05-17

THE OLD CRISPIN INN

CHURCH-BTRIBT, ITOCREEID6I.

WILLIAM VALE begs to inform his friends
and the Pohl* that b. has taken to the above
well.kaonn lan.

An ORDINARY on COUNTY COURY. MARKET.
sad STOk:li SALE DAYS.
WILL-AIRED BEDS.
ALES, MINIS, tad CIOLIS et the keel Q•lllitf-
-111.1..-11144 S.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-05-17

PRIM&

Batter, per Cwt: I. I. Cheese. Dec cwt: I. a
Dorset l2O to 130 aseahla• ..... •• • 70 10 04
Friesland ..
Jersey.. 94 108 Cheddar
Sag. Funk, pr don 12 16 dmericae 6O 78
Balton, per cw t. : isms: York
Wiltshire, dried Cumberland...— 94 106
Irish poen, Lo.b .

H la

TALLOW.

I 6.161X1.6, Monday, Map-12 fallow trade to steady.
B. Y. C Is quoted at Oa, 64. for new. and Oa. for old oa the
spot. Rough tat has decUred to2s. per 111..
a. d. 11. 0.
Town Tarow. per cnct. 63 6 Rough Mutt Pee eert. 1,1 0
Rough rat, per Albs. .. 2 0 Graven
United Fift.ff, per cwt. 82 0 Good Dregs „ a
Yellow Russian, new.... 4.4. et pee owe.
Australian Mutton Tallow. lite Ot„
Ditto Beet Ditto. 41a. 61. „
U A Y.

ILgunN, Saturday, May 10 —With moderate amply of
bay and straw on sale, trace waa quiet at the following
rated : —Hay, Oa to 47r. 6d. Clover, 9opi to 106 Q; and
Straw, 14& to tea per load.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-05-17

THE EXODUS TO THFI STATES AND
CANADA.

The Pall Mall Gaut, e writes:—

It is extraordinary that the working classes do not
seem more inclined to [Aar at home and enjoy the
political privileges which they have of late gained, and
which they were suppoeed to prize so highly. They
appear to be leaving no in swarms. The exodus from
Liverpool to the United States and Canada this spring
promisee to be the largest on record. The number of
intending emigrants which daily reach Liverpool is so
great that the lodging-house keepers find it difficult to
accommodate them, and the conzequence is that large
numbers of the emigrants hove to be temporarily
lodged until tench times as vacancies occur in the cus-
tomary lodging house.. AN ehowing the extent of the
exodus, It is generally believed, soya the Manchester
Examiner, that upwards of 10,000 emigrant.
left Liverpool last week for the United States and
Canada. -Thiel number, of course, does not include
those who would embork on board the steamers calling
at Londonderrrand Quenstown. From the number
of emigrants at present in Liverpool and that are ex-
pected during the next few days, it is computed that
by Saturday from 14,000 to 16,000 people will have
sailed from the Mersey in thirteen steamers for the
United States and the Canadian ports. Many of them
no doubt are Germans, and some are from the Baltic
ports, but vast numbers are English and Inch, and why
they should leave us at this rate when we have so
large a eurphts in the Exchequer that we hardly know
what to do with it—when we are almost alarmed at
our own prosperity—when we have a more than
paternal Government, ever anxious to perform great
achievements and to give offence to nobody—is a
question which only political economists can answer.
The tide of emigration from Germany le almost equally
marvellous, for if there is a prosperous country in
Europe it is Germany beyond a doubt. It may be said
that the emigrants dislike the idea of military 'service,
but this would show a lamentable and indeed incredible
blindness to the glorioua proepects opened by arbi-
tration. Altogether this mania for fleeing from peaca
and prosperity is very singular.

The comrrittee of the London Central Amociation
of Master Builders have received memorials from men In
the various branches of the trade for an increase of id per
hour WI the protent rate of wave—viz., frog. 84.1. to 9d. per
hone. They have escrowed • willtognees. If the men re.
goiredmeore money. to elloie them to work longer hours In
tho summer .13014 To this the workmen's committee
anemered that toe, were anions for ehorter, rather than
longer, home of work, and again urged their request for no
Wye:woof wages.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-05-17

THE MARKETS-

MARK-LANR—KONDAY.
Although hominess hes been by no means brisk, there has
been an increase of firmness in the trade at Mark lane to.
day. The supply of English wheat has been only moderate, but
the quality he. been better. The demand has been very Arm,
owing to the purchase of • few parcels for Franoe, and prices
have risen la per qr. Foreign wheat has been in fair supply.
The trade has been firm, and Is. to 25. per'qr. more money has
been paid Barley, of w Mob • moderaterapply has been on offer,
has been in request, and hen been disposed of at higher prices
Malt has sold on former terms. The supply of oats haa been
moderate. Salm have progressed steadily, and an advance
of 64. to Is. per qr has been paid. Maine has been In re-
quest, and the turn dearer. beans have changed bends to a
fair extent, at improving prime. For pea' there has been.
moderate demand, at fully late rates. Flour has been firm,
and quite as dear.

ItAltK: LA n-WIDNESDIY.

Business!' at Mark-lane today has been by no means brisk,
nevertheless the tone of the market has been steady. English
wheat lus not been in large supply, but there be. been a fate
show of foreign. The attendance of miller. has not base
large, and operations have been by no means briak, never-
theless Monday's advance has been well supported. A mode-
rate supply of barley has been on oiler, the true ham been
firm, and mines have been well supported. Malt has changed
hands on former terms. Oats have commanded a moderate
amount of attention, and have been gutless dear.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-05-17

PROVERB AND PRESCRIPTION.

THAT " what 's enough for one 's enough for two,
The saying Is but In • measure true ;

That IS, a-physiologist might say,_

For each, of his or her three meals a dzy.—Punch.

THE REV. C. W. FURSE ON ' THE
ADORNMENTS OF LIFE."

Mr. Faroe, the Vicar of Staines, preached the fourth
of the sermons on "The World" on Sunday afternoon
at St. James's, Piccadilly, his subject being "The
Adornments of Life." The life of Christ was pointed
to by the preacher at the outset as a protest against the
enjoyment of the choicest of life's adornments, and
was described as being a sermon on abstinence just aa
St. John the Baptist's life was a sermon on repentance.
Mr. Puree then noticed the inferences which might be
drawn from Christ's example—that Christians must,
as He did, renounce all enjoyment.; or that, as
this course was simply • necessity of His office
as the Saviour, His example need not be copied
at all- or, thirdly, that as He has consecrated
these things, we may freely use them. All these
deductions were unsatisfactory; what we want is
real liberty, and complete unity of life, no thorough
breaks between what people oat' the secular and re-
ligious life, no jar in passing from the broad gauge
of home to the narrow gauge of the Church. In
proof of this view, the preacher showed how the re-
ligion of Christ is intended to be attractive, not di-
vorced from art, but, like the Bible itself, interwoven
with art and artistic appliances; in fact, we have
overwhelming evidence that the mind of God has not
disallowed the reverent use of the adornments of
nature and of art. After speaking of the various ex-
pedients adopted by men to satisfy their consciences
in regard to their use of the adornments of life,
some advocating what they called • "temperate
LIR. "—at the best an unsatisfactory term, as it means
different things to different men—others thinking
that artistic gifts to God compensated for a free use
of worldly. enjoyments, the preacher urged that no
principle is eatlefacto7 but that of complete liberty,
.0 that each individual in his use of art and of the
adornments of life should feel that he has power at
any moment to lay it down.

The preacher concluded by pointing out that the
adornmenta of a man's life ought in come intelligible
degree to express the character of Ma mind—his house
not simply speaking of mere vulgar wealth—and he
specially exhorted ladies to remember this in their
choice of dress, and to let it show the taste of one pure
in heart. Pointing to the Virgin Mary as their ex-
ample, he Deserted that there must be something very
wroug in s woman who is not like her, for although
since abe lived times have changed and fashions have
ciome and gone, the hearts of true men have not
changed, Christ's heart has not changed, and she still
is in God's sight blessed among women.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-05-17

• 2` r‘ . • Ir, a Ic.eri 'no
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, refcrence*, to Harris and Norton, Stourbridge.

FIR;;F-CLAY MOULDERS & DRESSERS
—YEN and WO Xt.:N.—Apply to
H RBIS AtrNTPEED&RSON, Stoarbridge.

GENTS wkNrED for an old-establishA
NT .rnl 'II 1114. i .n. —A.lclrees hy
!. !
W a Stati 'nem S Is li-ottani, &mug
L''n ton.

TO COOPERS.
WANTED. a WET WORKMAN. Non.,
but a Stem 'y Ilavt ueed nypay.—Adarees, lh,
B:ourbridge.

PARTMENTS TO LET, a SITTING
itiMt and itElt FIL)O4. In the Higley rout
o.',6elTer °Mt, Stoarbrelge.

WXN CED, P PECT USF.S
f.) di.4 to trbr 41.t0 terms ftt
.a.e I.n•sms in Euultsb mnit Music only. to thrre
g *die% f short tree (Wig —Address, Resident.
0150*, Atourbrolge.

Two SPADE and SHOVEL
El %tic ttt At*. atri.tty, and acciwtoturc
t Chork awl La t cattalo, A ork. Also. Thn,
A i 1S r.or rs. Constant rouployment to Stoat!, U c.
—Apply, Southaell sad Willcox. Armlet, 14,44 Work..
la, id.

WAN I'ED. a Gentleman of position in
Si-orhrid2e awl D,tr:ct. t solicit order•
the uobil.ty ant ga r for high-dn., %Vise.
sal Br.ndiri, mewl., me W,1:14.1 of the Jou! Eropero,
Itlipoleou ga;sry gl5O to £250 per enousti, to corn
nieuce olso a‘lberal conanissiou.--Apply witi, reference
sad testim..niels to A. Fieldiug. Denbign Hail. 0..
Jewry, London.

WICAN ED, a GRINDER, to Grind Anvil,
and Hautmerc—Apply to lhouots Attwood, tb

da;es Work..

WANTED, a MAN who thoroughly under.
stands Horses, ta look after 20 Horses. at
Colliery.—Apply to Thomas Attwood, the Hayes Work,.

PIIOIIIOC3-RA

SERGEANT HARRY STANLEY BIRL,
CONTINUES to take the beet PORTRAIT:-
iu the Than, at hn APO! LO STUDIO. No. I
TALBOT ' Orphan.. the Bra Hotel. Marken .tr. e! .
All Partit alio wish to have Si arkavg Lyre., hmtio.
ii eas, and Splendid Figures, should visit his Museum
Photography. Specimens are exhibited at Mr. Butler's.
Stationer. Itightstrect.
_ . .

Mrs. 11. Bud twho la a thorough artist) wid &Deur
upon Liv.iee if prefstred, athl all P•ai" can see Lt.'.
egatives before leaving; anf B. Bird guarantees goei
and perfvet Likent ese..
None bat first-rate Portraits sent out at 5s per Meer
Half a Dozen. 3s. Groups of Fri •vda, or avh-ols, take.
very reasonably, regardiesa of aiiiiibt rs. Siachieer
On Paintibga, F rgravingsi Animals, and I qui stria!
Figures Photographed at the Above letablislauent.

No. 1, TALBOT•STREET, STOUREBIDGE.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-05-17

TOO GOOD.

Abroad I take my devious way
When flowers their petals now unfold ;
With hyacinths and tulips gay
My neighbour's garden I behold.
Bad I the leisure and the means
(Perhaps ti, best that I have not),
id grow the like ; and I'd rear greens
And paraniu for my lowly pot.
Sweet blouoms ! I enjoy their sight
As much as e'er their owner can.
But is my pleasure wholly right?
Their owner IS another man.
Should not the pleasure they Impart,
Since they belong to him alone,
tell me, my misgiving heart'
Be none of nine, and all his own
Methinks that, u I paw along,
To look upon them I may dare,
And smell them too, and yet not wrong
My neighbour when hi. joy I share,
I relish oft a schoolmate's cake,
Saying within myself. "Bow nice "
I robbed hi,, not. I could partake
Bin happineu without a slice.
I loved , was not beloved again,
My love became another's bride.
But soothed was momentary pain
With balm which sympathy supplied.
In fancy I reversed the case ;
My rival I imagined me;
My own aelf put In that man's place—
And felt—and feel—more glad than lie.—Punc/t.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-05-17

DUDLEY.

TER QUESTION OF EXTENDING THE TOWN
On Tuesday. a meeting of the whole Council in arms
mittee wee held in the Chamber, the Mayor prmitlimg, to
hear the opinion of Mr. Longe, the Local Governs's**
Board'a Inspector, upon the proposed extension of the
town area Mr. Loney heard the whole of the moments
brought forward, and thee intimated that he should put
his opinion in writing. It is believed that, from the
manner in which he spoke, Mr. Longe will recommend
the making of a uniform rate throughout the bormsph.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-05-17

ALARMING ACCIDENT.

On Wednesday morning, a serious and alarming
accident occurred through a horse running away.
It appears that Mr. Win. Pearson, Jun., of the
Delpn, had been driven to Dudley by his servant-
mail Guise, and on retuming, called at Mr. Pear.
song pawnbroker, at Brierley Hill. While he WaS
in the shop, the horse started off, and on being
shouted to, galloped away at a rapid rate, and
continued his mad career until he arrived near
the Whimsey Inn, below the Church, where after
several narrow escapes, the animal ran against a
cart with such force, that the cart was overturned.
The violence of the collision broke the horse's
back, and a projecting portion of the cart pene-
trated his side, causing a frightful wound. The
trap the horse was harnessed to was also broken.
Mr. Blakeway, veterinary surgeon, was called in,
and the horse which was worth nearly £lOO., was
ordered to be shot.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-05-17

A LARGE QUANTITY Of PLATING CARDS IN

STOCK

GREAT VARIETY IN PATTERNS.

STATIONERY.

in kinds of

PLAIN& FANCY STATIONERY

IC•pt in STOCK.

S. FIELD,

GENERAL PRINTER,

N. HIGH STREET STOURBRIDGE