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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-26

MANUFACTURE OF HORSE SHOES.

A large gathering of visitors took place on Monday
at North Greenwich, on the occasion of the opening of
the works of the Horse-shoe Manufacturing Company,
erected for carrying on the manufacture of horse-shoes
upon the processes of Mr. Perkins, of the Rhodes
Island Works in America. The mode of making is
simple, ingenious, and excellent. The iron is rolled
from scrap. In its final passage through the rolling
mill it comes out a grooved bar, suitable, when cut
into lengths, for making BO many pairs of shoes. In a
series of machines it is quickly divided into the
necessary lengths, the holes are punched for the
nails in each length, and the ends are trimmed.
When the time has come for fashioning the pair of
shoes the length is split longitudinally and the
separate pieces sent again to be heated. On emerging
from the furnace they are placed on a machine, which,
by the simplest possible action of a steel tongue-like
projection, bends the hot plate between two upright
rollers into a perfect horse-shoe shape. The shoe is
then subjected to such hammering or bevelling pro-
cesses as its ultimate destination may demand. Cold
shoeing seems now to have many advocates, and it is
claimed for these machine-made shoes that they can
be bent cold to fit the horse's foot, can be made .of any
form or pattern for hot or cold fixing, and can of
necessity be produ3ed in great quantities at a cost
which will greatly reduce the expense of shoeing.
There are, it is calculated, more than thirty million
horses in Europe, requiring a million and a half tons
of shoes annually, and there are nearly three million
horses in the United Kingdom. It was mentioned
that the new shoe, which has hitherto borne the name
of Seeley, formerly the representative of the American
patentee, and now the manager of the English com-
pany, is used by several tramway companies and
has been also patronised by the War Department.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-26

POST-OFFICE SAVINGS BANK.

A return has just been published, arranged accord-
ing to counties, showing the number of accounts of
depositors in Post•office savings banks remaining open
on the 31st day of December, 1880, with the amount,
inclusive of interest, standing to the credit of these
accounts. From this it appears that the total number
of accounts open at the date mentioned in the United
Kingdom was 2.18072, and the total amount de-
posited £33,744,637 Os. sd.
In England there were 1,963,604 arcounts, with a
total deposit of £30,546,306 18s. 7d. ; in Wales, 65,833
accounts, with £941,523 3s. Bd. total deposit.
In Scotland the accounts numbered 68,400, with a
total amount deposited of £619,973 2s. 3d. ; while in
Ireland there were 82,121 accounts, and the sum ot
£1,555,894 4s. 6d. deposited.

Monday (214), being the forty-first anniverslry of
the birth of the Crown Princess of Germany, the occasion
was celebrated at Windsor with the usual honours. The
bells of the various churches in the town were rung, and
cannons were fired in the Long Walk, facing the Castle.

THE TRIAL OF GUITEAU.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-26

THE ELECTRICAL EXHIBITION IN
PARIS.

The Paris Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, in writing
on Monday, says :
The Electrical Exhibition, which finally closed its
doors last night, is estimated to have produced a net
profit of £16,000; and Messrs, Siemens' tramway,
running from the building to the Place de in Con-
corde, has conveyed no fewer than 84,000 pas-
sengers during the three months it has been running.
An immense crowd besieged the Palais de l'lndustrie
yesterday, admission being free. In the evening,
when the exhibition was illuminated for the last time,
there was scarcely standing room either in the main
hall or the galleries, most of the visitors being of the
artisan class out for their weekly holiday.

The usual custom of closing exhibitions by a general
letting loose of all the noisy elements contained in the
show was observed on this occasion with an almost
deafening effect. Shortly before • eleven the whistles
of all the steam-engines and every electric-bell in the
building were set going, making such an unharrnonious
din as was certainly never heard before. Fortunately
for the hearing powers of the audience, it only lasted
a few minutes, and had the desired effect of clearing
the palace of its thousands of visitors.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-26

PRINTING 1 PRINTING I I PRINTING ! 1

S. FIELD.
GRNER AL PRINTER,

92, HIGH•STREE

STOU.27B.RIDGE

PRINTING DEPARTMENT.

STATIONERY.

Auctioneers' Catalognes,Sermons,Concert, and
other Posters.
Handbills, Circulars, Cards, Programmes, Bill
Head,'
Club Articles, Address Cards, Post Cards,
And ALL KINDS of PRINTING, in Black or
Coloured Inks

Envelopes,Note Paper, and ALL KINDS of.
PLAIN and FANCY STATIONERY.

Large Stock of PLAYING CARDS, New
Designs and Patterns.
BILL PAPER, PENS, INK, &e.
POCKET 1360K5, CHILDREN'S BOORS
Toy Books, Spelling and Reading Books,

GENERAL ADVERTISING 3 3 ,ST T
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-26

THE DUKE OF MANCHESTER ON
AUSTRALIA.

Mr. R. G. Webster read a paper on "England's
Colonial Granaries" at the meeting of the Colonial
Institute on Tuesday evening. The Duke of Man-
cheep; who presided, referred to his recent visit to the
Australian Colonies, and spoke of the immense re-
sources of those countries in minerals, and the products
of wool and wine. He did not think that Australia
would become a large wheat producing country,
on account of the dryness of the soil; but it might be
improved by irrigation. It could produce wine in
abundance, but he doubted whether the quality would
be of the most delicate, owing to the flat alluvial soil,
good wine requiring strong ground, as on the Rhine.
His Grace expressed his gratitude at the hospitable
manner in which he was received by the Colonists.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-26

AUSEFUL PONY, TRAP, and HAR-
NESS, to be disposal J. The pony is 12 hands
high ; very last ; quiet to ride or drive ; eslour, iron
grey Cost £3l, will take 20 guineas. Apply-
-44, lildrket tret, Stourbridge4

OSTasmall FAWN-COLOURED
A LOLLEY BITCH, Apply—Observer Office.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-26

AGRICULTURE IN MANITOBA.

Mr.. Joseph Price, Hamilton-house, Upper Tooting, writes

to The Tim-es :
" I enclose an extract from a letter, just received,
in reference to the new Canadian wheat-growing
territory of Manitoba. The writer has had great ex-
perience in agriculture in the best farming country on
the line of the Great Western Railway of Canada; he
is therefore capable of giving a valuable opinion on
the subject. Hearing that he had been looking at the
Hudson Bay Company's lands, I wrote to inquire the
result, and his reply is so practical that you may con-
sider it worth insertion in The Times, as it is a matter
to which public attention is very much atttacted just
at present."
"The following is the extract enclosed :--` I have
seen a great part of the province of Manitoba, also a
part of the North-West Territory, and I believe it will
be the greatest grain-growing country in the world.
I have seen two crops harvested, which were fully
equal to the best I have ever seen in Ontario,
and the sample and quality of the wheat excellent.
The returns gathered from the different rail-
way agents and postmasters show the yield to average
26 bushels to the acre; oats, 55 to 60; barley, 35 to
40. In some of the settlements wheat is said to
average 35 bushels; oats, 75 to 80. The quantity
of land fit for cultivation is almost unlimited, and
veyy easy to cultivate. I have seen very good crops
of wheat on land that was broken up in the fall and
dragged in the spring, which was all the tilling it got;
but the usual way is to plough in the spring about two
inches deep, and turn back two inches deeper in the
fall, and then sow next spring. In this way 35 to 45
bushels per acre is often grown. The country is
settling very fast. The Canada Pacific Railway is
running for about 180 miles west of Winnipeg, arid
there are two branches under construction. Manitoba
and the British North-West differ very much from
Minnesota and some of the North-Western States, as
the land is more rolling, and has more groves of timber;
it lies lower, and is less liable to storms; but the winters
are very cold. Those who have wintered there
say the weather is much pleasanter than in Ontario,
although colder. I am satisfied there is no better field
for the British agriculturist than Manitoba. If one-
half of the land was under cultivation, it would supply
more wheat than would be required in all Great
Britain. It is also a splendid grazing country—having
plenty of grass and hay for any quantity of cattle.
Winnipeg is growing very fast; there are over 1,000
buildings being erected this summer, and building lots
are advancing in price very rapidly. Some people
think it will be as large as Toronto within ten or
fifteen years."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-26

monsters, which, when moving silently and remorse-
lessly through the sea, chill both air and water for
miles and miles around, have been for the time effec-
tually chained up in their own gloomy and sterile
regions, powerless for the devastation with which the
names of these colossal mountains of crystal is asso-
ciated.

The Geographical Society are about to take the
initiative in bringing the subject of Arctic exploration
before the attention of the Government. An inter-
national search is to be made next summer for the
missing American ship Jeannette, and the Society is of
opinion that it would be only courteous in England to
offer the United States her assistance. But behind
this suggestion is one for a regularly-organized Arctic
expedition such as for three centuries has from time to
time been sent out to make the best of its way through
those frightful latitudes in the far north, the history of
which is synonymous with a long-drawn out record
of desolation and of death. To penetrate into these
frightful solitudes and unknown areas has for ages been
an ambition not only of the Anglo-Saxon race, but of
the scientific men of all civilized lands, and we may
rely upon it that man will never rest until he has
unravelled the great secret which has so long been
locked up in the bosom of the Polar Seas.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-26

EXECUTION AT DERBY.

Alfred Gough waS executed at Derby on Monday
morning for the murder of a little girl, named Eleanor
Wind le, at Brimington, near Chesterfield. Since his
condemnation Gough has been penitent, and on Sunday
night he made a full confession of his guilt, and
formally expressed his contrition in writing in the
following terms
"Prison, Derby, Nov. 21.—T0 the Minister,—Sir, I now
take my pen in hand to write a few lines to you to thank you
for being so good and kind to me—a poor, unfortunate pri-
soner, who has committed such a fearful, wicked crime. I
hope the Lord will forgive me for it. lam very sorry for it.
If I had a hundred lives, I would give them to call that
sweet, innocent little girl back to life; but it cannot
be. But the Lord has taken her soul to heaven,
to be with the angels of glory in that bright and
happy land above, where there is no sotrow, but all is
bliss and happiness, to which I hope my Lord and Saviour
will lift me up, and wash all my wicked sins away, and
make me as white as snow, and to sing the praise of Jesus
Christ our Lord and Saviour for ever and ever. Amen.
Good-bye. God-bless you, sir, for being so kind to me. I
shall soon be cold and in the dust, and hope to be forgiven
and rise in glory at the last day. May God bless you and the
eoctor and governor for their kindness.—Yours truly,
ALFRED GOUGH."

The prisoner bore tha operation of pinioning with
out flinching. During the process he swallowed the
contents of a small phial (presumably brandy), and
then the march to the scaffold commenced.

The chaplain read portions of the introductory sen-
tences to the Burial Service as the procession wended •
its way to the drop. To ascend the scaffold it was
necessary to go up six steps. These were surmounted
by the prisoner without faltering, and he maintained
his calm demeanour to the last. The length of the
drop was about eight feet, and as the weight of the
prisoner was list. 91b., it may readily he supposed that
deAth was instantaneous. Marwood was the execu-
tioner.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-26

i 'IAN-VASS-FRS for Advertisements and Sub-
ser4ti, ns required, on commission, in every
town of th, Uniti Kingdom, when £2 per week can be
easiiy earl ea.—Address, T. Cr. Dixon, Newldnd, Hull.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-26

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1881.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-26

LABOUR AND WAGES IN MANITOBA.

The following is an extract from a letter recently received
from a correspondent in Winnipeg (says the Morning
Post):—
"Every day in the papers, and at the employment
agencies, and in the shop windows, advertisements
ask for carpenters, painters, masons, labourers, &c.,
and they cannot be had. Only the other day a gentle-
man said he had paid a man 2 dols. 50c. (10s. 5d.) per
cord for sawing and splitting wood, and then could only
keep him half a day, or a day at most. I have not the
slightest doubt that if 2,000 or 3,000 labourers were to
arrive here tomorrow they could all find employment
inside of twenty-four hours on the various railways, on
farms, and on the city works, and at wages of 2 dole.
50c. per day. . . . For lack of carpenters and masons
buildings that should have been done long ago are still
unfinished, and in some cases men are now working
night and day at them, in order to get them done as
soon as possible. . . . Carpenters get 2 dole. to 3 dols.
50e. (12s. 6d. to 14s. 7d.) per day; bricklayers, 5 dols.
to 7 dols. (20s. 10d. to 295. 2d.) per day; and their
attendants, 2 dole. 50c. (10s. 5d.). Farm hands get
from 25 dols. to 30 dols. (£5 4s. 2d.) per month and
board. Servant girls get from 12 dole. to 25 dole.
(£2 10s. to £5) per month and board, aid cooks from
50 dols. to 75 dole. (£lO to £l5) per month and board.
The only classes it would be advisable to come
out this fall are good general servants. Girls, and any
amount of them almost, can get good situations any
time A few cooks could also get situations
now. But in the spring, sa as to reach here any time
in the latter part of April and after, all through the
season, you can send along as many labourers, farm
hands, and men to take up farms as you please, with
the full a,surance that they need not be idle five
minutes after getting here, unless of their own accord.
A fairly liberal sprinkling of mechanics will be wanted;
and just to give you an idea of the demand for girls,
I may say that one of our city papers estimated that
if 1.000 were to come here they could all be provided
with situations.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-26

THE QUEEN'S RETURN TO WINDSOR.

The Queen and Princess Beatrice left Balmoral on
Tuesday, after a stay of nearly three months, fur
Windsor. The Queen drove to the station in a close
carriage drawn by two horses. The wind was strong,
and occasionally the rain was very heavy. At the
station a detachment of the 42nd Highlanders was
present as a guard of honour. Notwithstanding the
boisterous weather, there was a crowd at the station,
and as the train moved away loud cheers were raised.
At 6.12 the train arrived at Perth, where there was a
considerable assemblage to see the Queen, who dined
at the station rooms. The train left Perth for the
south at ten minutes past seven. During the journey
a terrible storm raged.
The trip from the north was accomplished with the
greatest punctuality, and her Majesty arrived at
Windsor at nine o'clock on Wednesday morning.
The Queen and Princess looked remarkably well, not-
withstanding the fatigues of the long journey of
nineteen hours. Although the customary privacy was
observed, a number of the residents assembled to see
the Queen and Princess drive from the station to the
Palace.

" Early rising is supposed to te a virtue at any time;
but it is not a virtue easy to be practised in the latter half
of November. it will be rewarded, however, just now, an
astronomer tells us, if the morning be clear, by the splendid
view of the stars and planets to be obtained at five o'clock.
Of our own litt4e system, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, and Venus
are to be seen with the naked eye, and Mercury and LTranus
with a telescope. Lots of constellations are visible at the
same time., —Globe.
John Tobin, who was remanded last week on the
charge of having illegal possession of deadly weapons and
ammunition at Manningharr, was again brought before the
Bradford magistrhtes on Tuesday. The Town Clerk (NIL W.
T. M'Gowen) again appeared for the prosecution, and, stating
the police had not had time to complete their investiga-
tions, applied, in the interests of the public, that the
prisoner might be remanded for another week. Mr. Wilson
appeared for the prisoner, and said he did not object to
the application, but he asked for an assurance that the
further remand might not extend beyond a week. The
Town Clerk assured the Court there would be no unneces-
sary delay in the matter, and the Bench expressed their
belief that such would be the case. The prisoner was then
remanded for another week.

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RECEPTION OF TEE SAILOR PRINCES

IN FIJI.

Letters from Levuka, Fiji Islands, dated Sept. 7,
state that the squadron reached there on Sept. 3. Its
arrival had been expected for days, and the harhour
and town were fairly decorated, bunting being flown
wherever possible. Hundreds of pleasure craft and
native canoes went out to Meet the vessels, and after
the squadron had anchored the craft formed in line
and passed the men-of-war in parade order.
In the course of the afternoon the Governor visited
the flagship and was saluted with seventeen guns.
Liberty was afterwards granted to portions of the
crews, and the officers and men on landing found
themselves in the centre of admiring throngs.
On Sunday, the 4th, the princes landed, and the
reception accorded them was most loyal and enthusi-
astic. In the afternoon their Royal Highnesses at-
tended a native service, at Nasova. On Monday,
the sth, there was a meeting of natives at Nasova,
and the headchiefs were formally presented to their
Royal Highness, to whom they proferred many costly
presents. Hundreds of natives were present in all sorts
of holiday attire, together with numbers of Europeans,
including the Governor, Admiral the Earl of Clan-
william, commanding the squadron, and the officers
of the fleet. The head chief, in the names of the
assembled chiefs and people, heartily welcomed the
Princes to Fiji, and presented a magnificent tabua,
which was received and acknowledged by Prince
Edward. Native dances were afterwards indulged in.
In the evening the Princes dined at Government
House with a distinguished party, and a display of
the electric light from the flag-ship gratified and
astonished Europeans and natives alike. The squadron
was to stop a week at Levuka, and was under orders
to leave for Japan on Sept. 10.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-26

SUCCESSFUL MOVING OF A LARGE
HOTEL.

A large hotel in Boston, the Pelham' on Tremont
and Boylstqp streets, was lately moved adistance of 13
feet 10 inches, with a view to widening Tremont-
street. The building is of freestone and brick, with
frontages of 96 and 69 feet, a basement and seven
storey, the total height above the tramways used
being 96 feet. The weight was 5,000 tons. The
furniture was not disturbed during removal, nor
were the occupants of the stores of the first floor
and in some of the rooms' the various pipe connexions
being kept up with flexible tubes. Substantial
stone and brick foundations were made for iron
rails and rollers, and the building was forced to its
new position by mean.s of 56 screws operated by hand
against timbers arranged to uniformly distribute the
pressure against the building (which was firmly braced
in the lower part). Two months and 20 days were
occupied in preparation. The moving itself Was
begun on August 21, and finished on August 25, but
the actual time of moving was only 13 hours and 40
minutes. The greatest speed was two inches in four
minutes. The hotel moved about one-eighth of an
inch at each quarter turn of the screws. The whole
cost was about 30,000 dols. This is said to be the
largest building that has ever been moved, though
larger have been raised (which is a much simpler and
less risky operation). The complete success of the
work appears from the fact that previous cracks in
the building were not changed, pieces of paper that
had been pasted over these not being affected.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-26

THE SHOCKING FATALITY AT BRIERLEY

after being duly cautioned by the coroner, at first
sc,erned inclined to make a statement, but aft m.vr ards
decided not to do so.
Tbo Coroner having summed up, the Jury, after
some deliberation, returned a verdict of "Lucid ntal
death".
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-26

A Certain Cure for Nervons and Debilitated.

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also chapters on Happy Marriages; When and Whom to
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How Wasted and How Preserved ; Galvanic Appliances
and the Wonders of the Misroscope in Detecting Various
Complaints. Post free for Two Stamps.

Addreas, Secretary of Anatomy, Birmgham.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-26

in that style he was conveyed to London, where he
died on the 6th of December, 1879. This was his
usual way of travelling, and the porters at Welbeck
Station who assisted in putting his carriage in order
always received a gratuity of a sovereign each.

" All the stories which have been told of the late
Duke having physical reasons for secluding himself
and receiving no company at his princely home are
purely imaginary. He is represented by those who
had constantly to do with him as being a remarkably
fine man, with a singularly clear complexion. He
walked erect as a soldier, with a swinging stride,
and was in every way a noble specimen of his
order. Of his kindness to all around him there
are many interesting instances. Deserving domestics
when they were ill were the object of his special
solicitude. Frequently they were sent to Matlock,
Buxton, or the Isle of Man, and kept there for pro-
longed periods at his expense. His unusual manner
of life was solely caused by an overmastering desire to
carry into practical effect his great constructive skill.
In this he may have been eccentric,' but it was
eccentricity of an order which proved the possession
of a mind of singular power, great self-denial, and the
concentration cf his energies on one object, to the ex-
clusion of all the temptations peculiar to his rank and
riches. At the same time his undertakings were the
source of blessings for miles around. He found em-
ployment for thousands of hands, and the works at
Welbeck remain a great monument to his memory.

"The present Duke of Portland," the Sheffield
Telegraph concludes, "has expended a large amount
of money in completing the works at the Abbey and
making alterations which have greatly improved the
approaches and surroundings. In the interior of the
Abbey very extensive works have just been com-
pleted. They were commenced prior to any idea
being entertained of the Royal visit, through their
completion now is singularly appropriate. At Wel.
beck the Prince of Wales will find a. mansion unique
even among the stately homes of England.'"

The Prince of Wales had his first day's sport in the
preserves at Welbeck on Tuesday. There were several
guns—viz., the Prince, the Duke of Portland, the
Marquis of Hartington, Lord Castlereagh, Major
Brabazon, Colonel Ellis Lord Rosslyn, Lord Galway,
and the Duke of Manchester. The covers shot over
were Gleadethorpe, between Cuckney and Buelby, and
a heavy bag was made.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-19

HORSE EXPORTING IN 1881,

" Practice " writing to the Standard on the above subject

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their agricultural career should certainly go in for
pedigree stock. There is money to be made by stud
farming.

PROBABLE RESULT OF "THE CURATE'S ALLIANcE."
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-19

OLD HILL.

OBSCENE LANGUAOL—At the Police Court, on
Wednesday, before Messrs. B. Hingley and H.
Walker. William Gould, bricklafer, and James Cox,
both of Maltmill Lane, were summoned for using
ob ,cene language on the 12th inst. Police-con-
stable Frost stated that the defendants committed
the offence complained of in Halesowen Street,
Blackheath. Gould was fined 28 and costs, but the
summons against Cox was dismissed.
NEGLECT OE WORK. William Maris, chain-
maker, Cradley.
.Heath, was summoned by John
Tromans, chain manufacturer, Cradley Heath, to
pay 6s for damage sustained by his neglect of work.
It was proved that the (lei e-,dant left his emp' y•
mat without giving nAL, e, coui,rary to an agi

ment signed by him. Defendant was ordered to
pay the amount claimed and costs.

- RECEIVING COAL. - Sarah Harris (38), of the
Cockshutts, Blackheath, was charged with receiving
a quantity of coal well knowing it to have been
stolen. Police-constable Styles stated that about
5 p.m. on the 15th inst. he was in company with
Police-constable Frott, and saw about a duzen
people picking coal at M. Llewllyn's mound. The
prisoner was in a field close by, apparently watching.
After watching her about ten minutes they saw the
prisoner's son bring a bag containing coal, which
was valued at 3d, off the mound to the prisoner, and
she received it from him. Prisoner was sentenced
to two mouths' hard labour.

DRUNIKENNESS.—The following persons were sum-
moned and fined for being drunk :—Elias Bloomer,
of Cradley Heath, 2s 6d and costs; William Wood-
ward, chainmaker, 2s 6d and costs.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-19

THE TRIAL OF GUITEAU.

A Reuters telegram from Washington says that the
trial of Guiteau for the assassination of President
Garfield, commenced on Monday before Judge Cox.
The court room was crowded. The prisoner's sister
and brother were present.

As soon as the Court was opened, the prisoner
attempted to produce and read a speech, but was
dissuaded from doing so by Mr, Scoville, his counsel.
The District Attorney, Mr. Corkhill, assisted by
two special counsel, announced that the prosecu-
tion were ready. Assistant-counsel Robinson, for
the defence asked for a further postponement,
owing to the want of preparation and legal assistance.
Guiteau, in the meantime, audibly remonstrated with
Mr. Scoville, and then addressed the Court asking to
be heard. He declared that so far as he was con-
cerned he wanted no more time, and was ready to pro-
ceed with the trial. Mr. Scoville also declared his
readiness to go on, thereby betraying a difference of
opinion with Mr. Robinson. The Judge decided to
procure a jury first, and to consider the question of
postponement afterwards. Five jurors were sworn,
and when the panel was exhausted, the Court
ordered a list of 75 more names to be drawn up.
Guiteau then rose and informed the Court that he
desired to make a speech next day. He was
ordered to resume his seat, when he passed a manu-
script speech to a newspaper reporter. Mr. Scoville
compelled the correspondent to return it. The pri-
soner angrily declareni that he was not under the
control of counsel. He was himself a lawyer, and
when he wanted help he would ask for it. He desired
that his speech should be published, in order to
influence public opinion. The prisoner was again
silenced by the Court, which adjourned until
Tuesday.
Some of the papers publish Guiteau's speech. It is
rambling and full of wild claims. With regard to the
assassination, Guiteau says General Garfield was a
good man, but a weak politician, who was at the time
of his death doing vast harm to the Republic as
President by his unwise use of patronage. Therefore,
the Lord and himself took the responsibility of re-
moving him. The Deity ordered him to fire. After
referring to his past life and pointing to traits of in-
sanity in his family, he concludes with an appeal to
the public for money to provide for his deftnce.

The trial of Guiteau was proceeded with on Tuesday.
During the sitting of the Court the prisoner was less
nervous and excitable than on the previous day. The
Court granted Mr. Scoville's request for an order for
additional witnesses to be summoned in the prisoner's
defence.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-19

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-19

THE IRON TRADE.

WOLVERITAM PTON, Wednesday.

There was a fair attendance at the market to-
day, but little business was transacted. The
finished iron makers continue very busy, and
prices remain firm on the marked bar basis of
£7 10s. Several small lots of unmarked iron
changed hatds this afternoon at .R 6 10s, after
merchants had pressed sellers to take. £6 53.
The galvanised sheet ivakers are actively em-
ployed, and are booked up for several mouths
ahead; in fact, it is difficult to parch As e any of
this class of iron in large quantities, though the
galvanisers themselves have some extensive ex-
port orders for execution. Black sheets in this
department were quoted from £8 to £8 ss, while
nail sheets could be bought for £7 to £7 ss.
Hoops are in: good demand for shipment to
America, and some of the tin-plate makers re-
port an augmented demand for the Australian
and Indian markets. Prices, -however, do not
improve. Tank and girder plates are in very
good inquiry for local consumption; but boiler
plates for the Lancashire district go off but
slowly just now at about XS 10s. Tip iron and
nail rods remain in good request, while sellers of
puddled bars are unable to keep up with the
requirements of their customers. In the pig
trade very little purchasing is being done.
Nunierous forgeowners are well supplied with
work, while the smelters have contracts on hand
which will take several months to execute.
Under these circumstances where they do quote
the last contract prices are strictly adhered to.
£8 5s is the lowest that will be taken for hot-
air best metal and £4 5s for cold-blast. Medina)
iron was sold to-day at £2 15s, and a few parcels
of cinder pigs changed hands at £2 Ss. .Elernri-
tii.;s and Northampton metals were quotably
utronger. Ironstone and coal producers are
obtaining the advanced rates, and most of tile
latter arc briskly employed in the execution of
orders taken early in the quarter.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-19

BIRTH.

JAMESON. - On the 2nd November, at Churchil
Curt, Worce3tershire, the wife of Captain
Eustace Jameson, of a son.

MARRIED.
LEWIS—BowEN.--On the 10th inst, at St. A.ndrews
Church, Worcester, by license, John E. Lewis
of Montague Square London, to Josephiue, young-
est daughter of W. ,P. Bowen, master of tile
School of Art, Stourbridge.

DIED,
MILLICHIP.—On the 11th inst, at Hag.ley, aged 79 '
years, Elizabeth, relict of the late Richard
DUDLEY.—On the 16th September last, at Kaiapoi,
New Zealand, Charles Dudley, Esq., 31. D., for-
merly of Stourbridge, aged 71 years.
SwANN.—At the High House, Stourbridge, the
residence of her brother-in-law, Eliza Mary,
eldest daughter of the late Christopher Swann,
Esq., of Nottingham.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-19

THE PORTER RHODES DIAMOND.

On Saturday night one of the great diamonds of
the v. orld, the largest, according to Mr. Edwin
Streeter, which has been foetid this century, was
exhibited at 18, New Bond-street, London. It was
discovered in the claim of Mr. Porter Rhodes in the
Kitnberley Mine, South Africa, and by its remark-
able whiteness con pletely disposes of the charge
against Africa of being the nurse of tawny diamonds.
The surface diamonds had, indeed, a yellow hue, but
now that the miners have gone below the trap, they
find in Jagersfontein and other famous rezions of
the Griqua diamond-fields the clearest blue-white
-stones.
The Porter Rhodes diamond was brought to light
on February 12, 1880; and before it left the diamond
fields £5OO (which was placed to the credit of the
local hospital) had been paid by spectators admitted
to see it, and £OO,OOO had been offered for it in vain
by a syndicate of Lomlon jewellers. It weighs 150
carats, is still uncut, but is so cloven that the " table "
and one of the " steps " are already formed, and it
will lose less than most diainonds in the cutting, being
expected to produce a net weight of about 100 carats,
when it assumes the form of a brilliant. Its great
purity of colour and compactness of shape make it a
beautiful oqicgt, en, ito presentiough state.
1' "Mr.' Streeter shows near it Models of other famous
diamonds, the Koh-i-Noor (106 1-16 carats) with which
Mr. Rhodes has been enabled, by the Queen's per-
mission, to compare it at Windsor, the Star of the
South (the great Brazilian stone), the Dresden Drop,
&c., together with the unique jewel, the Mackel
diamond, in which a smaller stone has been embedded

by some freak of nature. Here also is the red dia-
mond, like the ruby, but shooting back the rays of the
electric light with a directness characteristic of the
diamond ; the green diamond, with the stone of Ceylon,
smaller stones carried for years in a pith-box behind a
nearo's ear, great milk-white pearls, and the lustrous
shells from which they have been taken, pink pearls, and
the topazes which display a luminous star blazing in dif-
ferent quarters of their convex hemisphere as the lights
fall on them differently.
It was interesting to compare with these gems the
more valuable jewel from South Africa, and the com-
parison was enjoyed on Saturday by a numerous com-
pany, among whom were many members of the Corps
Diploniatique, Mr. Childers, Lord E. Churchill, and
others.
The diamond was shown to the Queen and to
Princess Beatrice and the Duke of Albany at Osborne
in January of this year, and Her Majesty presented
Mr. Ehodes on that occasion with a watch which he
showed on Saturday with as much pride as his big
diamond.—Tuesday's Times.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-19

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET-MONDAY.

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The cattle trade has shown more firmness, owing to the
cooler weather and the steadiness of the dead meat market.
Supplies were only moderate. The receipts of beasts
from our own grazing districts were less than usual,
brveatills M made
prices and those from ecotland and Ireland were only
moderate. There was a better inquiry, and the best
breeds made rather more money. The choicest Scots
and crosses realised 5s Bd, to be 104 per Sib. From
the midland and home counties we received about
foreign side of the market supplies were short. There were
1,700, from Scotland 70, and from Ireland 500 head On
about 100 American besides some Danish. The trade was firm,
and prices were well maintained. In the sheep trade there
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6s 84 to Gs 104 per Sib. Calves and pigs sold at full prices.
there were about 4,000 beasts and 4,000
elect& Quotations :—Coarse and inferior beasts, 4s to 4s 6d ;
toTnhoetibcees.t ADofwah fair s ianhqduirhyalpfm. prevailed,
second quality, 4s 64 to 53; prißie large oxen, 58 4d tO
53 6d ; prime Scots, 5s Gd to be Sd; coarse and inferior
sheep, 4s Sd to 55 44 ; secohd quality, 6s 6d to 63 . prim
8d t()
53 fid 'to 5s 104 ; large hogs, 4s 4d to 4s gd ; neat Sinai!
or kers, 4s Sd to 5s per 81b, to sink the offal,
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METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET.—MONDAY.
The snpply was large, but the trade better, as follows
Inferior beef, Is to Is Sd; middling ditto, Sc Sd to .4s : prime
large ditto, 4s tid to 4s 10d; prime small ditto, 4s 8d to 5
veal, is to 5s 6d ; inferior mutton, 3s 6d to 4s; middling e;
ditto, 45 44. to 43 84; prime ditto, 5s to 6s ; large
pork
4s 6d ; small ditto, 4s 8d to 5s per Slb, by the care, 4s to

GAME AND POULTRY.
Grouse, 2s to 2s 3(1; pheasants, is Qa to Si: partridges,
is 6d to 2s 2d ; capercailzie, 2s 104 to 48. 7d ; black cock, 2s
to 2g 6d; woodcock, 3s to Ss 3d ; hares, 2s 9d to 3s (3d; white
ditto, is 6(1 to 2s 2d; turkeys, 5s td to us ; geese, ts to
8s 3d ; ducks, is 9d to Es ; chickens, is ed to Es ed each.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-19

EMIGRATION FROM LIVERPOOL.

As was expected, there was a perceptible falling off
in the emigration from the port of Liverpool during
last month, when compared with the previous month,
though there was a marked increase when contrasted
with the figures for October, 1880. The approach of
the winter months has always a decreasing influence
on emigration.
The returns for October have just been issued
by the official at Liverpool, from which it ap-
pears that 85 vessels took their departure for
the following places, viz. :-41 for the United
States, with 17,131 emigrants, of whom 8,939
were English, 259 Scotch, 1,335 Irish, 6,010
foreigners, and 588 not distinguished ; 13 vessels to
Canada, with 2,807 emigrants, 1,688 being English,
12 Scotch, and 607 foreigners; one to New Zealand,
with one emigrant, two. to Australia, with 27 emi-
grants; 26 English, and one Scotch; seven to South
America with 238, of whom 90 were English, 19
Scotch, 18 Irish, one foreign, and 110 not given. East
Indies, 11 vessels with 339 passengers; West Indies,
three vessels with 26 passengers; China, two vessels,
with four passengers; and the West Coast of Africa,
five vessels, with 82 passengers.
The total number of the emigrants was 20,155, of
whom 10,743 were English, 291 Scotch, 1,353 Irish,
6,618 foreigners, and 1,150 whose nationalities were
not known.
It will seem from these figures that the English
emigrants formed more than half of the actual total.
In the 1,150 not distinguished, more of them will be
English also.
The figures for September this year were 24,268,
which are 4,113 above the month just closed. During
October, 1880, the number of emigrants was 14,695,
which is 5,460 less than October this year.

English wheat sales since harvest have been on a
very fair scale, and during October were equal to a full half
of the total requirements. Prices range from 455. to 655. ac-
cording to quality, but there is a satisfactorily large propor-
tion ofheasy samples in fair condition, for which -over,6os.
is without difficulty obtainable.
Autumn leaves are now adopted as emblems by
Italian ladies, who wear their favourite leaf either in the
bonnet or on their mantles. Those inclined to literary pur-
suits choose the laurel, melancholy beings prefer the willow,
while the lady aristocrats signify by the oak the social gulf
between themselves and the bourgeoises wearing the humble
lime-leaf.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-19

FISH.

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Fresh herrings, 15s to 23z; roused ditto, 16s to 19s ed ;
pickled ditto, 33s to 37s Gd ; red ditto, 12s to lels 6d ; smoked
haddock, 22s to 40s; crabs, 188 to 218 per barrel; mackerel
2s to 2s ; mullet, 2s 9d to 4s; lobsters, 103 to 308
whiting, is to 2s 6d per dozen.

POTATO.

---- --
There was a fair supply. Trade good :—Kent regents, 5s
to 5s 6d; ditto Victories, 5s ed ; ditto champions, 3s 6d to
4s: Essex ditto, 3s 6d; ditto regents, 4s 6d ; German blues,
41 to 4s 6d per bag.
HOP.

The hop market continues firm. A fair business is doing
and all choice samples of English and foreign growth are
well held. Prices :—East Kent goldings, £7 7s to £9 9s ;
Mid Kent ditto, £6 6s to £8 8s; Weald of Kent, £4 15s to £7
7s ; Sussex £4 4s to £6 15s : Farnhams, £6 15s to £8 16,
country ditto. £6 105 to £8 58; Bavarians, £7 to £3 Ms
Alsace, £7 7e to £8 ; yearling, £.3 10a to XI 72 per cwt.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-19

POWELL'S BALSAM OF ANISEED,

Sold by all -Cliemists & liodloino Vendors through& tho !fork et 1/11- & }/1,

DUDLEY ARMS HOTEL, DUDX.EY.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-19

M. GAMBETTA'S MINISTRY.

_The Times, in a leader, says :—" The formation of a
aliniatry by M. Gambetta marks a crisis in the history
of Republican France, and perhaps an epoch in Euro-
pean affairs. Its composition is somewhat of a sur-
Prise and perhaps a little of a disappointment. The
new Ministry, it may almost be said, is not so mucfi a
Ministry of M. Gambetta as it is M. Gambetta him-
self. The appointment of M. Allain-Targ6 indicates,
_llO doubt, a policy in one direction, that of M. Paul
Bert in another, and both are to a great extent policies
5 combat and controversy, fraught with momentous
Issues and beset with grave practical difficulties. Above
all, Gambetta is himself Minister of Foreign
Affairs. It is impossible not to see in this ascendency
of M. Gambetta a certain revival of personal govern-
reent and a possible menace to the spirit of Repub-
lican institutions. That M. Gambetta's accession to
o,ffice is a turning point in the affairs of France possi-
n!Y even in those of Europe, cannot be doubted: But
lile whole history and the best traditions of his career
are the strongest security that we can have tha,t he
Will be proof against the selfish ambitions which have
80 often been fatal to France."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-19

CHURCH ATTENDANCE in LIVERPOOL.

The Lirerpool Daily Post, which recently took a
census of the morning attendance at all churches and
chapels within the city—over 200 in number—has
now, in response to a very widely expressed wish, pub-
lished a census of the evening attendance. The result
shows a very large increase in all the denominations,
except the Roman Catholics.
The attendance at the churches of England, 73 in
number, was in the morning 23,193; in the evening it
was 31,163.
The attendance of Wesleyan Metho lists and other
sects of Methodists was 7,985 in the morning, and in
the evening 13,207.
The Rowan Catholicß, on the other hand, the even-
ing service not being an obligatory one, showed a fall-
ing off, the morning attendance being 14,483; the
evening attendance, 9,442.
The Baptists and Congregationalists showed a con-
siderable increase of attendance at evening service,
the numbers being—Baptists, 4,096 in the morning,
and 6,463 in . the evening ; and Congregationalists,
2;562 in the morning, and 3,476 in the evening:
The total attendance at evening service was 20,177,
aacgtaatithnhoselticm6ss,oa srnrBe4ineagxtcslmuerdoveridnc,ein,tghaenseanruviroc,eb7,e3rossr,astitfanttdhheeateßvsosnana7ng6
service, or an increase at the evening service of over
40 per cent.

niisaitamous LlTtelfigenct.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-19

HALE BOWEN.

DBUNIC AND DIf3ORDIBLY.—At the Police Court
on Tuesday, before Messrs. E. Gem and E. B.
Phillips, James Smith and James Jones were sum-
moned for being drunk :And disorderly on the 31st
ult. Police-constable Taylor said both the defend-
ants were drunk. One was riding on horseback and
the other on a mule. They tried to drive the mule
into a public-house and threatened witness. De
fendants pleaded guilty and were fined 2s 6d and
costs each; in default 14 days.—Benjamin Brettle,
striker, was charged with being drunk and dis-
orderly on the sth inst. Sergeant Raybould proved
the case. Pleaded guilty. Fined 5s and costs.
Fuatous DRIVING. - George Nightingale, cab
driver, was charged with furious driving on the 18th
ult. Mr. Wright appeared to prosecute and Mr.
Harti.l defended. Thomas B.reh said he saw the
defendant driving a cab down the Holly Bush Hill
at the rate of twelve or thirteen milts an hour.
The cab went over a dog, which was injura#l. Two
young men were in the cab. He followed the cab
and got the name of defendant, Cross-examined:
I am a gentleman—(laughter). I drive a dog cart
and know the rate horses go. Th 9 dog was in-
jured. Ann James said the horse was going very
fast and if there had been any children in the road
they could not have got away. Mr. James Cooper
had great difficulty in getting out of the road.
11 nry James corroborated. The defence was that
the horse aas not driven at a furiou4 rate. Robert
Tildosley said he engaged the cab to serve notices
on poor rate overseers. The horse did not go more
than eight miles an hour. Henry Wright gove cor-
roborative evidence. The Bench were of opinion
that the horse was being driven too fast down a hill
and fined defendant 2s 6d and costs.

TRESPASS.—James Pearman, James Cooper, seu.,
James Cooper, jun., and Henry Cooper were charged
with trespassing on land in the occupation of Mrs.
Bromley, in search of game. The keeper on being
called said he was instructed by Mr. Redman to
press the case. After hearing the evidence the
Bench fined defendants is each and COMB.
ASSAULT CASE.—John Hadley was charged with
assaulting Maria Swain on the 7th inst. The as-
sault complained of was that defendant threw some
soil over her and struck her several times on the
face.—George Parkes was also charged with as.
saulting Maria Swain on the same date. Complain-
ant said defendant threw a quantity of water over
her. Fined 6d each and costs; in default seven
days.