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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-08-27

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BENSON'S new PAMPHLET of TURRET CLOCKS, illustrated.
Watches sent Free and Safe by Post.
Watches, Clocks, Jewellery and Plate Repaired by Skilled Workmen
PLATE, JEWELLERY, AND WATCHES EXCHANGED.
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-08-27

POOR RATES AND PAUPERISM.

A Parliamentary return has just been published
containing particulars as to the in-maintenance and
out-door relief for the half-year ended Lady
Day, 1881. The unions, which number 647, have
together expended £946,599 upon in-maintenance,
and £1,307,958 on out-door relief ; in all,
£2,254,557, as against £2,294,203 during the cor-
responding period of last year, and £2,207,134 in
the half-year ended Lady Day, 1879. The metro-
polis expended £391,384, as against £376,096 for the
same period last year, being an increase of 41 per
cent. The return also gives particulars respecting the
sums disbursed by the guardians as "further relief in
shape of .school fees,' for the education of the out-door
pauper children in public elementary schools as well
as the amount expended for "relief in kind" to out-
door paupers. It appears that of the 647 unions of
England 152 during the past year administered all
their relief to out-door paupers in money. The
metropolis expended £98,318 in out-door relief, of
which £76,374 was in money, £21,053 in kind, and
£921 in the shape of school fees.

PRACTICAL AGRICULTURE.—Teacher.—" What is
the use of the pruning-hook? Pupil.—" To hook
prunes with ! "—Funny Folks.
CURIOUSN PuNarrAno ERRORS.—She had sweet
eyes of a lovely brown her teeth, like rows of pearls
her hair, hanging in golden ringlets her forehead,
broad and intellectual nose, slightly retrousse waist,
taper altogether, a beautiful girl.

ANOTHER SMALL BOAT FROM A3IERICA.—A Fal-
mouth pilot vessel which passed the Lizard on Tues-
day night reports that in the morning she spoke the
small boat Bath City, which left Bath, 'U.S., a short
time back on a voyage across the Atlantic to Eng-
land all on board were well,

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PRINTING! PRINTING!! PRINTING 1

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GF,NER AL PR INTER,

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PRINTING DEPARTMENT.

STATIONERY.

Auctioneers' Catalogues,Sermonß,Concert, and
other Posters.
Handbills, Circulars, Cards, Programweiz,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 CARD, New

Designs and Patterns.
BILL PAPER, PENS, INK, &a.
POCKET BOOKS, CHILDREN'S BOORS
Toy Books, Spelling and Reading Books,

GENERAL ADVERTISING AGENT.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-08-27

AN EXTRAORDINARY STORM.

The German war steamer Nautilus, from Tahiti,
reports having experienced a tempestuous voyage.
During the passage the vessel fell in with an extra-
ordinary atmospheric disturbance. On May 11 the
whole heavens, in the afternoon of that day, appeared
enveloped in black, inky clouds, making it so dark that
the crew could scarcely see the length of the ship. The
thunder became almost deafening, and the lightning
nearly blinding. Those on board expected to be struck
each moment with a bolt, as the lightning was
striking the water all round the vessel, which made a
grand and most singular sight. The continuous
streaks of fork lightning gave the vessel the appear-
ance of being in flames in a dozen different places at
once. In several instances bolts struck the water
within a radius of 20 to 40 yards of the vessel. During
the storm very little rain fell, and the sea was almost
calm.—Sydney Morning Herald.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-08-27

PRAYER FOR THE HARVEST.

The following letter has been addressed by the Archbishop
of Canterbury to the Bishop of London, as Dean of the
Province of Canterbury :

"My dear Lord,—Although the prospects of
agriculture are, I hope, improved since last year,
there is, in many parts of the country, reason for
much anxiety as to the present harvest, and I think
it right to express to the Clergy and laity through
ou as Dean of the Province of Canterbury, my
reeling that we ought, all of us, to offer up supplica-
tions, both publicly and privately, to Almighty God
that it may please Him to give and preserve to our
use the kindly fruits of the earth, so as in due time
we may enjoy them.
"Recent legislation has provided that in each
Diocese prayers selected from Holy Scripture and
the Book of Common Prayer may at times be intro-
duced into our public service, with the sanction of the
Bishop of the Diocese, and I would, for this special
occasion, commend the subjoined form to the Clergy
of my own diocese, and to any others who may be
disposed to adopt it, with the sanction of their
Diocesan.—l remain, my dear Lord, yours faithfully,
(Signed) "A. C. CANTUAR.
"Addington Park, Croydon, August 23."
PRAYER.

"0 God, Heavenly Father, who by Thy Son, Jesus
Christ has promised to all them that seek Thy Kingdom
and the righteousness thereof all things necessary to
their bodily sustenance, send us, we beseech Thee, such
seasonable weather that we may receive the fruits of
the earth, to our comfort and to Thy honour, through
Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen."

The RELIGIOUS ORDERS in FRANCE.

The St. James's Gazette says :—The religious Orders
in France mnst make up their minds to part with
most of their wealth, or much of it, before long. In
M. Gambetta s address at the Elysee Menilmontant
on the 12th inst., one of his principal proposals was a
law "to resume, suppress, and abolish "all mortmain
properties. He has since distributed a specially prepared
man of France, showing the Church lands that now come
under the State imposts. This map exhibits, by means of
red and blue squares, the real property of all convents
and monastries in each department and its estimated
selling value. The amount is considerable; and it is
carefully pointed out that only the known properties
can be shown, others being held in the names of
secret trustees or "complaisant friends." In the
department of the Seine these ecclesiastical
properties are valued at 5-i millions sterling ' • and
no one who has cbserved the vast extent of such
educational convents as "Lee Oiseaux," the Sacrd
Cceur, or L'Assomption, can wonder at the figures.
In the department of the Nord the amount is nearly as
great; and for the whole of France it reaches 28.4 mil-
lions sterling—a large bait to hold out to the Reds.
The annual tax paid to the State for all this wealth
is only £6,300, or less than nine shilings for each £lOO
of annual value, calculated at twenty years' pur-
chase.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-08-27

HAUL t.Y.

I:IAGLEv STOCK S&LE.—At this sale on Monday
last, there was a moderate supply of sheep and
lambs, bat a very large one of beef. Trade was
very brisk throughout the sale, competition for
beef and mutton being very keen.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-08-27

A COMMENDABLE MOVEMENT.

Ramsgate is taking the lead in a movement which
commends itself plainly to the common sense of the
public (says the Daily Telegraph). A deputation from
that place waited on Saturday upon Sir Thomas
Brassey at the Admiralty, presenting a petition bear-
ing ten thousand signatures in favour of the establish-
ment of telegraphic communication between light-
houees and the shore. There is no need to urge how
important it is that so reasonable a request should at
once receive careful attention. It will of course be
an expensive, and possibly in some cases a difficult,
task to carry out; but there can be no kind of doubt
that, with electricity at our command, constant
communication between the brave people who
live on the rocks and those who stay com-
fortably ashore should be maintained. Instances of
privation suffered, of deaths unreported for days, of
all kinds of troubles, in fact, endured, simply
because it is impossible for the lighthouse con-
ductors to send a message ashore, will occur to
everyone who calls to mini the occurrences of
the past few years. Whenever any ftesh case
of great hardship is mentioned, there is a lament
that something has not been done, and then the
matter is allowed to fade away from the public mind,
until another disaster or trouble occurs. The adoption
of the proposition made by the people of Ramsgate
would obviate all chance of such a result in the future.
It is, therefore, sincerely to be hoped that Sir Thomas
Brassey will hope no time in urging this view upon the
attention of his colleagues at Whitehall.

THE PEERS ON THE LAND Bu.L.—English Noble
Lord.—Think it's all right? Irish Noble Lord.—Not
all right, but a good deal better than if it had been any
worse !—Punch. .

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MILITARY FORCES ABROAD.--A return just issued
shows that on the Ist of January last, of 94,071
soldiers on foreign service, 61,550 were English, 7,704
Scotch, and 20,041 Irish. The others, numbering
between four and five thousand, were either born in
the colonies, were foreigners, or their nationality was
not known,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-08-27

A DELIGHTFUL FLAVOUR. CRACROFT'S ARECA-NUT
roozu PASTE.—By using this delicious Aromatic Denti-
fri.!e, the enamel of the teeth becomes white, sound, and
„olished like ivory. It is exceedingly fragrant, and
specially useful for removing incrustations of tartar ou
neglected teeth. Sold by all
Chemists. Pots, is and
2e 6d each. (Get Cracroft's.)
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-08-27

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bould, Homer, J. Billingham, Mills, Crump,
Lavender, Rhodes, Haskew, Stringer, Forrest and
Brooks. Admitted into the house 13; discharged
19 ; born 1 ; dead 1; remaining in the house 523,
corresponding week last year, 504. Out-door r:dief,
Kingswinford district, £39 • 13s Sd ; Stourbridge
district, £33 Os. 3d; Halesowen district, £l9 us
sd; non-resident 6s td; total £92 us Bd, against
£7B 2s 9d. last year.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-08-27

INEXPENsTVE HAIR RESTORER. LoCKYER's SULPHUR
HAIR REsToRER will darken gr..), hair, ill a few days
bringing back the colour. The effect is superior to
that produced by a direct dye, and does not injure the
skin. Lockyer's is equal to the most expensive. Pis
the best for restoring grey hair to its former colour.
Produces a perfectly natural shade. Valuable for des-
troying scourf and encouraging growth of new hair.
Sulphur being highly prized for its stimulant, cleansing
healthful action on the hair glands, Lockyer's Restorer
is Arongly .ecommended. It is most agreeable in use,
and never fails in its action. No other hair dressing is
requisite. Large Bottles, is 6d. Sold by Chemists
Hairdressers, and Perfumer everywhere.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-08-27

VEER SCJaAUM

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-08-27

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

An lowa cow succeeded recently in killin an ele-
phant, a lion and a camel. Brave cow! She did it by get-
ting under the train bearing these creatures, and ditching it.
—Boston Post.

Get thee to the sea-side.--Brooklin Union-Argus.
We got, and the mosquitoes made us get. We may get
again when have got a fresh place ready for thorn to bite on.
—.New York Commercial Advertiser.

John B. Gough admits that if one of his suspender
buttons had given way during his first public lecture his ora-
tory would never have been heard of again. The world may
therefore be said to rest on pins and needles.

A magazine article asks: "Have women intuitions?"
The Norristown Herald says: "That depends. If intuitions
are fashionable this year, and cost from ten to fifty dollars,
it is safe to wager that a great many women have them.''

A doctor in New York recently gave the following
prescription for a sick lady :—" A new bonnet, a cashmere
shawl, and a pair of gaiter boots." The lady, it is needless
to say, has entirely recovered !

Four different fathers wept over and claimed the
body of a boy drowned at Baltimore, and yet some people
claim that parental affection is a thing of the past.

A Grand Juror in America, having applied to the
Judge to be excused from serving, on account of deafness,
the judge said, "Could you not hear my charge to the jury,
sir ?"—" Yes; I heard your honour's charge," said the juror,
"but I couldn't make any sense of it." lie was "excused

A "notice to vacate" in Arkansas need not be
served by an officer of the law. The muzzle of a shot-gun
sticking through a front window is invariably taken as due
and sufficient notification.

"I stand," said a stump orator, "on the broad
platform of the principles of '9B, and palsied be my arm if I
desert 'em." You stand on nothing of the kind," interrupted
a little shoemaker in the crowd; you stand in my boots,
that you never paid me for, and I want the money.'

There have been various definitions of a" gentle-
man," but the prettiest and most poetic is that given
reccntly by a fair American. "A gentleman," says she, "is
a human being, combining a woman's tenderness with a
man's courage." This remark has drawn the collars of every
American up an inch above his ears.

A sarcastic Georgia editor, in noticing a fair which
recently came off in Macon, says, "One of our contem-
poraries took a very valuable premium, but a meddlesome
and firm policeman made him put it right back where he
took it from.

"What would our wives say if they knew where we
were ?" said the captain of a Lake Erie schooner, when
they were beating about in a thick fog, fearful of going on
shore.—" Elumph ! I should not mind that," replied the
mate, "If we only knew where we were ourselves.'

A spiteful editor out West gives the following
advice to wives :—" Should you find it necessary, as you
undoubtedly will, many of you, to chastise your husbands,
you should perform this affectionate duty with the soft
end of the . room, not with the handle."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-08-27

A SWISS VILLAGE nearly DESTROYED

BY FIRE.
A Correspondent writing to the Standard from Wasen,
Canton Uri, on Aug. 21st, says :

"The hamlet of Wattingen has this morning been
half destroyed by a tire, which began at three a.m. in
the shop of a baker. A fresh breeze blew down the
St. Gotthard Pass and carried the flames from house to
house till they were arrested by a brook. Even then
a house on the opposite side of the brook had to be
nulled down. As I write, the engine from NVasen
is playing on the ruins, and families are crouching
among the remnants of their furniture slow,b the
road. Most of the houses are insured, as usual here,
and some of tile furniture. Perhaps the severest
sufferers are the shopkeepers and the Tyrolese and
Italian navvies engaged on the St. Gotthard line, who
filled the tenements as lodgers. Wattingen is about
two miles from the north end of the great tunnel. No
lives have been lost."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-08-27

THE OCCUPATION OF THESSALY.

The Greek army, numbering, 30,000 men, entered
Thessaly on Saturday. The troops advanced by four
different routes and occupied the district of Domoko.
They were met by an immense concourse of
the native population, who received them with
enthusiastic acclamations. The crowds were
headed by the clergy and principal inhabitants,
who joined with much feeling in the popular
welcome. Many of the natives were moved to tears,
and kissed the Hellenic flag as the emblem of liberty
restored after four centuries of Ottoman dominion.
From the Thessalion bishops and heads of various
localities despatches are constantly arriving at Athens
expressing to the King and Government the joy,
gratitude, and happiness of the senders at their re-
storation to freedom. The occupation of the remain-
ing districts will now proceed in regular order. In the
courseof six days the principal centres of the second
section of the ceded territory will be given up, in-
cluding Karditza, Phersala, and Fanari.

CURIOUS OLD CON.—Supposing the wife of your
bosom were to be suddenly taken ill and faint right
away, why would she then he like a ship with a man
overboard ?—Why, because, you see, she ought to be
brought to.—Tuolu.
THE ELECTIONS IN niaNcE.—The French elections
took place on Sunday. The Correspondent of the
Dar: y News, describing the Paris elections, says
The ballot-boxes were opened this morning at eight
o'clock. The greatest voting-place in each arron•
disspnent was at the Mayoralty. There were also many
sectional bureaux which in the working men's quarters
were most crowded in the early forenoon and late
in the afternoon. Great care was taken that spurious
electors should not vote. The verification of electors'
cards was very minute and careful. The voters at La
Chapelle, Montmartre, and other populous quarters
had the appearance when there were inquiries for
their cards to be verified of a crowd which the news of
some accident had brought together. There were
very decent-looking men who ran in without hat or
cup, or in their workin hats or caps and in working
slop suits. One would have said that they had stolen
a gum ter of an hour from a pressing daily task. Some
of therib came in leading little children in Sunday
dress by the hands. When the fathers proceeded to
vote the bairns were left in a corridor. They did not
seem in the least to understand the act of national
sovereignty which was being accomplished.

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CRICKET-

KIDDERMINSTER V. STOURBRIDGE. - Played at
Kidderminster on Saturday. The ground was in
fine condition, and the wickets played splendidly,
but Stourbridge made the mistake of putting the
home team in first, and good as Ford's and Liand-
ley's bowling was it was collared. Uufertunately
the latter had to leave early and did not bat. Two
of the did not turn up, but the others made
131. Ford's analysis ::,hows eight runs per wicket,
Hind's three, Mil!ward's eight, while Greenwoou,
who relieved the latter, got two for four runs in
twelve balls. score :

KIDDERMINSTER.
Butcher, 43 Handley, b Ford .19
Green wood, c Leeson, b Ford 0
Millward,b Ford 3
Shillitoe, o Leeson, b Ford 46
Darkes, c Leeson, b Stratford 20
Hind. c Timmis, b Jones, .lB
b Ford 13
Blunt, b Ford 1
McLean, not out 0
Coates and Hughes absent
Extras 7
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-08-27

DEATH FROM HYDROPHOBIA.

We regret to announce the death of Mr. Eugene
Comerford Clarkson, Q.C., which took place at
East-end-lodge, Pinner, on the 19th inst., from
hydrophobia. It appeared that in May last Mr.
Clarkson was bitten on the cheek by a favourite
dog of his Own, but no ill effects, it is said,
were apparent until Monday last, when the unfortu-
nate gentleman was seized with violent pains in the
head. Mr. Clarkson was called to the Bar at Lincoln's-
inn in 1854, and was a member of the Northern Cir-
cuit. Of late years he had almost exclusively con-
fined his practice to the Admiralty Court, in which he
enjoyed an extensive and lucrative business. The
learned gentleman had only recently obtained the
honour of a silk gown, having been one of the Queen's
Counsel appointed by the Lord Chancellor in March
last.—Obituary of The Times, Aug. 22.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-08-27

A BALLOON IN A STORM.

The Vienna correspondent of the Standard says
that an exciting balloon adventure took place in the
suburbs of Vienna on Sunday evening. M. Godard,
who has made upwards of two thousand ascents,
went up, accompanied by three journalists, in his
great balloon. The voyage, according to the
aeronaut himself, was the shorted and most
perilous he had ever made.. After ascending to a
height of three thousand eight hundred feet, M.
Godard found that the balloon was driving along
between two tremendous thunderstorms which
were raging on either side. In order to avoid
imminent danger from the lightning he resolved
at once to descend. The balloon came down with
great rapidity, but it had no sooner escaped the
electric fluid than it was threatened with -another
danger not less great. It seemed that nothing could
save it from falling into the mid-stream of the broad
Danube. By dint of great exertion and helped by his
long experience, however, the aeronaut succeeded in
bringing the balloon to the ground in a wood a few
feet from the bank of the river, and landing his com-
panions and himself in safety.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-08-27

GREAT FIRE NEAR PARIS.

An alarmir g fire broke out on Tuesday morning in
a petroleum storehouse at Aubervilliers, just outside
Paris. It began in a shed where six reservoirs, con-
taining three hundred and fifty thousand quarts of the
essence, were placed. The workmen were engaged in
filling empty casks, when suddenly an explosion was
heard, and the flames burst forth from the shed. All
the engines from Paris and the neighbouring districts
were soon on the spot, and the military were turned
out, but the conflagration had to burn itself out. At
one moment it was feared the flames would spread to
the other sheds, but the firemen prevented this by
digging a gutter thrcugh which the lighted petroleum
ran into the drain. The damage is estimated at twenty
thousand pounds sterling.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-08-27

A WET HARVEST.

In an article under the above heading, the Standard
remarks :

At this holiday season of the year people look upon
rain, day after day, as a grievance, and pity them-
selves for their bad luck in having to remain indoors
at the servide or in the country; but only the farmer,
or one who has been a farmer, knows the bitterness
of a wet harvest. The chief results of a whole year's
care, labour, and expenditure are out in the pitiless
rain, and the farmer is utterly helpless to save
them. He has nothing to du but gaze drearily at
the crops which every hour's wet weather renders of
less value, consulting the barometer twenty times
a day, and walking out twice as often to see
how the sky looks to windward. Should the down-
fall cease even for a little while he is off to
find hands to set up the sheaves knocked down by the
rain or the wind. If a whole dry day comes, he is all
anxiety to get his barley turned before it is utterly-
spoiled, or to top up a stack that has been left un-
finished and covered with straw or a cloth. It is an
anxious time even then; but when anything can be
done there is relief in doing it. 'The "agony point '
is only reached when, morning after morning, the
farmer wakes to see the rain falling, and to feel that
he can do no harvesting that day.
A wet harvest was, however, always a calamity for
this country, and it is now most of all a calamity to
the farmer. It really does seem as if the long lane of
depression down which the unfortunate agriculturist
has so long been travelling, has no turning. Most
people hoped there would be at least the beginning of
a turning this season; but now there is scarcely a
chance of this, and in another year, to hundreds of
farmers, a turning will come, if it does come, too late.
They will be out of the lane—in the ditch; or, more
happily for them if not for us, in a country over the
sea, where harvests are always fine.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-08-27

THE LLRGEbT

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-08-27

THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION.

THE events which happened at the close of
the session directed more than ordinary
attention to the working of the British Con-
stitution, and in this sense no harm was
done. Many a youth grows up to man's
estate, arid even passes into middle life
the nature and with.
out fully comprehending
history of Gove:-1.:...: nc. under -which he is
privileged to live. He may be taught at
school how many archons there were in
Athens, but he is in all probability unable to
say how many members the British House
of Commons comprises. Of course the
average schoolboy is more or less familiar
with the int resting and romantic period of
history antecedent to the Norman Conquest.
The Druids, with their mystic rites; the
Romans, with their camps roads, and relics;
the statutes of Alfred, and the doings of the
Saxon Witanagemote—all these are embodied
in the books devoted to the advancement of
luformation ti the juveniles. Then came
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-08-27

MR. SPURGEON ON HUMILITY.

On Sunday night, at the Metropolitan Tabernacle,
Newington-butts, Mr. Spurgeon, speaking on the sub-
ject of humility, observed that genuine humility
considered it a great honour to hold the very humblest
position in the church—to be even a teacher of little
children, to wash the saints' feet. It was part of
the qualification of greatness that it accounted it a
great honour to do even the least thing that apper-
tained to God. Some people were not satisfied un-
less every good act they did were known. He had
known a Sunday school teacher who complained
that he had been ignored, though he had been twenty
years a teacher. It seemed to him (Mr. Spurgeon) to
be a blessed thing to be ignored—the very happiest
thing in life—and he earnestly wished that, even for
one week, people would ignore him—let him alone, and
not come to see him. Were they to write him a letter
he would be satisfied, but were they to ignore him alto-
gether during next week he would feel as happy as the
birds of the air. True humility served God without a
sounding of trumpets; it acted in darkness and
obscurity, and unknown. This true humility was wanted
in their church life—in never being rough, hard, or
domineering. They should think so much of those
who where poor as not to hurt their feelings; of the
obscure as not to despise them. A man might be an
elder, a deacon, or a minister in the church; but
whatever his position, he should be ever ready to hum-
ble himself, and to avoid giving offence, as well as be
ever prepared to assist a weaker brother. The lower
the truly humble man stooped, the higher would be
his honour. The way to get to the top of the ladder
was to begin at the bottom; and he who, after all,
got up in the church was he who was most ready to go
down—the really humble man.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-08-27

THE LABOUR MARKET.

The cotton industry continues busy, the exporta-
tion of piece goods being on the increase.—Business
in the iron and steel trades shows a marked im-
provement of trade in these industries over the
last few years.—The carpenters and joiners of New-
castle and Gateshead are demanding an advance of
wages, so as to make a uniform rate of 7:1-d. per
hour, to commence on Monday next.—The railway
servants are memorialising the directors of all the
railway companies for the adoption of nine hours
as a day's work.—The unsettled weather has greatly
impeded harvest operations, causing the labourers
much loss of time, and has forced up the price of corn.
In Mid-Gloucestershire the corn looks remarkably
fine, and the roots generally are excellent.—One sign
of the recovery of confidence in the agricultural dis-
tricts is the improved demand upon the harness manu-
facturers, who are now busy with country orders.
The clothing factories are so pressed with orders, both
for the home trade and foreign export, that hundreds
of additional hands are wanted, and the activity of
the boot and shoe trade not only continues, but manu-
facturers are advertising for further supplies of good
workmen, the demand, especially from Ireland and
South Wales, running almost entirely upon the cheap-
est class of goods, for the supply of which there is now
the keenest competition. In South Wales the im-
provement is very slow.—ln the Leeds district the
machine, tool, and engine trades keep active, and the
chemical works are very busy. Riveters and finishers
in boot and shoe branches are fairly employed, some
firms being very busy. The same remark s,pplies to
rough cutters in leather trade, several firms working
overtime.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE.—
About noon on Tuesday, just after the performance on
the great organ at the Foresters' Fête at the Crystal
Palace, Mr. George Ogburn, of Joy-cottage, Bromley,
near Guildford, who had been sitting on the orchestra,
was making his way down to the central transept along
the side of the gallery, when he mistook the canvas
over a large refreshment stall for flooring, and leaped
over the railings to get upon it. The canvas at once
-gave way, and Dlr. Ogburn fell through upon one of
the large coffee urns with such force as to 'break his
back. He was at once removed to Guy's Hospital,
where he died next morning.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-08-27

THE STOURBRIDGE OBSERVER.

A PLEA FOR A CORN LAW.

In the House of Commons, on Tuesday night, Mr. J.
Howard asked the First Lord of the Treasury whether, con-
sidering the prolonged depression and gloomy prospects of
the farming interest in England and Scotland, it was • the
intention of the Government to introduce remedial measures
early next session, or whether the consideration of such
measures was to be postponed until the Royal Commission
should have made its reports. In noticing Mr. Howard's
question, the Morning Post says :

"In the present state of the agricultural interest in
England it is difficult to see by what change in the
land laws it can be restored:to the state of compara-
tive prosperity which it held some years ago. The
competition with which the farmer has had to contend
has overwhelmed him. It is impossible that this state
of things can be allowed much longer to continue. The
whole question of protection and free trade has come
once more under the test of ,:ritical review. It stands
to common-sense that we are playing a losing game.
We are giving much and receiving nothing in
return. We open our ports to other countries,
while they close theirs against us. By that process
we certainly obtain their products free of
duty. We buy cheap ; but we cannot perpetually
stand in the position of buyers. In order to be able
to buy we must be able to sell. It is seen in the decay
of our manufactures, in the immense excess of our im-
ports over our exports, and in the prostration of our
agricultural interests. Any reform of the land laws
will be useless if the cultivation of land is to remain
in the abject state to which it has been reduced. For
many years free trade gave an impetus to our manu-
factures, and did not disturb our agricultural interests.
But many things have occurred since the introduction
of free trade. Agricultural interests must be pro-
tected by some more suitable means than a mere re-
form of the transfer of land or an extension of the
law which gives tenant farmers a right to compensa-
tion for their improvements."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-08-27

A SURGICAL ENGINE.

To our American friends belongs the credit of
having superseded manual labour by mechanical
agency in many special directions, and we are con-
stantly receiving from them some new labour-saving
appliance or other. The latest, and perhaps the most
startling, application of mechanical principles which
has come under our notice is that which has been made
by Dr. W. G. A. Bonwill, of Philadelphia, in the de-
partment of surgery. It is startling because the ampu
tation of a limb may now be effected by the aid of
machinery, the machine being a surgical engine, in-
vented by Dr. Bonwill, and recently presented by that
gentleman to St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
The engine consists of an iron standard carrying an
arrangement of multiplying wheel gear, which by
means of an endless cord passing over pullies trans-
mits rapid rotary motion to either small drills or very
fine circular saws, as the case may be. These instru-
ments are attached to the end of a series of rods con-
nected by universal joints forming elbows, which
permit the operator to move the cutting instrument
in any direction he pleases while it is revolving at
an incredible high speed. It will, of. course, be
understood that these instruments are intended to
dealconr t
eoonulsyl y wi t h bone,
demonstrated
to
uiy
oapplicationw e assur-
geons ,of the hospital upon the occasion of our visit.
Thus with the drill it was shown that in cases where
it is desired to hold the parts of a fractured bone
rigidly together in a certain position, holes can be
drilled and pins inserted which, being held in a steel
frame, keep the parts exactly in position. With the
circular saw it was demonstrated that pieces of any
required shape can easily be cut out of and removed
from a bone, or a bone can be cut through in a few
seconds. For amputations a small straight saw can be
used; it is simply fitted into the holder, and as it is at-
tached to a small eccentric worked from the main gear-
ing it has a very rapid
.reciprocating action imparted
to it when the gearing is put in motion, which is done
by means of a small hand wheel. The comparatively
slow movement 9f the kand of the operator is here re-
placed by the inconceivably rapid motion of the
mechanical saw. By this means not only is the time
occupied in the operation greatly shortened, but the
operation itself is much more neatly performed owing
to the smallness if the cutting instrument and the
high speed at which it is moved.
This apparatus, which wa.s brought under notice at
the late Medical Congress, is stated to be in use in the
United States with highly satisfactory results. It
has not yet been tried in practice in this country, but it
is the opinion of thop who are best qualified to judge
of its merits that it is destined to render great aid in
certain departments of surgery. Dr. Bonwell is cer-
tainly entitled to the thanks of the medical profession,
and no less those of the suffering public, for having
dedicated his invention to their free service.—Tues-
day's Times.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-08-27

THE HARVEST IN ENGLAND.

Statistics have been prepared as to the harvest of
the year in the United Kingdom based partly on
personal observation in most of the counties in Mid,
East, and South England and in Lincolnshire and
Yorkshire, but chiefly on the reports of 205 corre-
spondents in various parts of the country, each of
whom has especially reported on the crops in his own
neighbourhood. Each of these correspondents was
asked to describe the state of the crops by figures,
taking 100 as representing an avetage crop:
In this way the state of the wheat crop is described
by 90, showing it to be 10 per cent. under the aver-
age, while complaints as to short straw are very
general.
Barley is declared on all hands to be the crop of the
year, its condition being represented by 110, the
majority of the correspondents adding a note on its
good quality and colours.
Oats prove to be the worst cereal crop of the year,
its condition being represented by 80, or 20 per cent.
under an average.
Only two correspondents speak of this as an average
crop, while several put it down as low as 50, or only
half a crop.
Returning to the wheat crop, the opinion is expressed
that if we have favourable weather till the conclusion
of the harvest in the North, the figures 90 will rather
under than over estimate the yield.
As a rule, the worst crops are reported from dis-
tricts in which wheat is not largely grown, while the
best reports are from the larger wheat districts of
Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. It is believed, therefore,
that we may fairly expect a yield of about ten and
a-half million quarters, or nearly a million quarters
more than last year from our own fields, and that we
shall therefore have to depend on foreign sources for
about 13,000,000 quarters.
On the other crops of the year the reports show that
potatoes will be an average, though complaints of
small tubers are numerous.

The hay crop is represented by 65, showing it to be
35 per cent. below the average, but generally well
saved.

Roots are very variable, mangolds being generally
good, and turnips and swedes bad.—Land and Water.

Mr. Laing, M.P. for Orkney and Shetland, addressed
his constituents at Lerwick on Tuesday. He said at the time
of the general election the aim of the Liberal party was to
change the system of Imperial policy which had been in-
augurated by Lord Beaconsfield, and they could now say with
confidence that they had fulfilled all their promises, and ex-
tricated the country from the various messes in which it had
been involved by their predecessors. The passing of the
Land Bill had been a most critical point in the history of
Ireland—he might say of the British Empire. Lord Salisbury
eballenged agouflict which could only have ended In the
defeat of the House of Lords, for the Government were
determined to go the length even to the stopping of supplies
If the bill was not passed in its entirety. Happily wiser
counsels prevailed, and the bill was approved.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-08-27

lIALESOWEN.

ANNUAL LICENSING S.ESSION. The annual
Licensing Session for the pollee; divislin of Baks-
t) wen, was held on Tuesday, at the Police Court,
Halesowen, the justices present being E. Gem and
B. Pl,illip., Esqs.—Superintendent Hardman
repotted that there were within the division 53
licensed. victuallers, 20 beerhouse korypers, 15 per-
sons licensed to sell beer to be consumed oil the
premises, and 2 licenses for the kaio of wines.
Since the last licensing meeting on the 24th of
August, 1880, four licensed victuallers had been
summoned for offences against their licenses. These
were :—John Williams, permiting gaming, fined
408. and costs; William Grove, and George Pearsall,
prohibited hours, each fined ss. and costs; and
Joseph Cattle, also suunnoneci for prohibited hours,
had the case against him dismissed. During the
year 42 males and two females had been charged
with drunkenness. 40 males were flood and
two dismissed, and one female was fined and
one dismissed; the numbers being a reduction of.
16 as compared with 1880. There was one
application for a new license, made by Edwin
l'iobe!s, spade and shovel maker, Bell Vale,
liasbury, for an out-door retail beer license.—Mr.
Stokes opposed. Mr. Smart proved the annual
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-08-27


EXECUTION AT MAIDSTONE.

George Durling, aged 36, was executed on Tuesday
morning at eight o'clock, within the prison at Maid-
stone, for the wilful murder of a woman named Fanny
Musson, with whom he cohabited at Woolwich.
The prisoner was tried at the last sessions of the
Central Criminal Court, and the circumstances con-
nected with the crime were of a very shocking cha-
racter. The deceased woman and the prisoner cohabited
together. They were constantly drunk, and on the day
the murder was committed neither of them was sober,
a quarrel was the natural result, and violent language
was made use of by both of them. The prisoner, who
was in a state of violent excitement, suddenly snatched
up an iron bar, pointed at one end, and thrust it into
the head of the wretched woman. Death, of course,
ensued almost immediately. After the commission of
the act the prisoner appeared to have felt remorse at
what he had done, for he went up to the deceased
and kissed her, expressing deep sorrow for his
desperate act.
Ever since his conviction Durling appears to have
declared that he had no intention to kill the deceased,
and that if he had not been drunk he should
not have thought of commiting such an act towards
her. He has been visited by several of his rela-
tions since he has been in the gaol at Maidstone,
and he has taken every opportunity of expressing
his sorrow, and asserting that he loved the de-
ceased too well to think of hurting her. No effort,
it appears, was made to obtain a commutation of the
capital sentence and the wretched man would not
have been provided with the assistance of a counsel at
his trial, owing to his want of means, if the sheriff
for the county of Kent had not interfered, and through
his instrumentality Mr. Gill was retained to defend
him. _

Mr. F. Scudamore, the acting under sheriff of Kent,
went to the prisoner a few minutes before eight o'clock.
and the prisoner, who had slept soundly for several
hours during the night, was shortly afterwards
pinioned by Marwood, the executioner. He faltered
somewhat during the pinioning process, but walked
firmly to the scaffold, and had a drop of about six
feet, death appearing to be almost instantaneous.
Very few persons were outside the gaol when the
execution took place.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-08-27

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-08-27

A GERMAN VIEW OF FREE TRADE.

The Norddeutsche Zeitung sounds a lowan of triumph over
what it calls the demise of free trade involved in Sir Charles
Dilke's statement that the negotiations for the renewal of
the commercial treaty between England and France are
definitely broken off.

Accurately speaking, however, free trade has (it
says) never existed anywhere in the world, except
among the South Sea Islanders and other wild tribes.
The commercial treaties of the last twenty years
have been merely attempt) to pave the way for
a future adoption of free trade, the hope of
anti-protectionists believing that nations would
soon become convinced of the blessings resulting from
reduced Customs, and so be deluded into abolishing
them altogether. The attempt, however, failed at the
outset. Continental nations soon perceived that the
promised golden era did not dawn, but that the reduc-
tion of Customs merely inaugurated the ruin of their
own industries, and provided a market for English
manufactures. The journal claims for Prince Bismarck
the glory of having once more restored the right in-
stinct to commercial policy, and upset the self-seeking
theories of English traders.