biglam/hmd_newspapers huggingface dataset:
The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-10-22

RIOTS IN DUBLIN.

There was renewed rioting in Dublin on Monday
night. A large mob armed with stones paraded some
of the principal streets, and drove several small
parties of police before them, stoning them as they
fled. They then attacked the frith, Times office,
breaking several windows, and proceeded along the
Southern Quays to Parlia,ment-street, smashing on
the way every window that had a light in it. The
windows of thejOub/in Mail office were then broken,
when a party of five policemen appeared and kept the
crowd at bay. They then returned to Sackville-
street, where they were charged and dispersed by a
strong body of police, and by midnight all was quiet.
Superintendent Ward was badly cut on the head with
a stone.

Notwithstanding a notice to the citizens of Dublin
to remain at home after nightfall, on Tuesday night
Sackville-street and the adjacent thoroughfares were
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-10-22

THE DUKE OF WESTMINSTER ON
TEMPERANCE.

The Duke of Westminster, speaking at the annual
meeting of the Church of England Temperance
Society, at Chester, on Tuesday evening, congratu-
lated the meeting on the fact that, while the trade of
the country was reviving, there seemed also to be a
lull in crime and drunkenness. Temperance societies
were doing a good work, if only because they helped to
create and maintain a healthy public opinion on this
question. One of the most valuable results of their
efforts had been the establishment of a cocoa-house,
and he hoped to see the day when they would become
so prosperous as to be able to afford the employ-
ment of duplicate managers, in order that, whether
the public-houses were closed or open on Sundays the
public might have the benefit of these excellent institu-
tions, the cocoa-houses, on that day. The public
opinion created by temperance societies hsd done a good
work in the closing of public-houses in Ireland and
Wales on the Lord's Day; and from his experience in
connexion with the committee of the House of Lords on
Sunday Closing for England, he believed that public
opinion was rapidly coming round to a similar view with
respect to England. He would not discuss the question
as to houses remaining open an hour during the middle
of the day, but he felt certain that the whole sub-
ject must come prominently forward next Session.
The great evil appeared rather to be the Saturday
night drinking. lUndoubtedly restrictive legislation
had done good; and he believed a policy of restriction
would be the policy of the future. They had now a
House of Commons favourable to the discussion of
this question and also a favourable Government. At
the same time regard must be had to the natural re-
quirements of the public; and, while opposed to
drinking of spirits, he considered that beer taken in
moderation was not an unwholesome drink.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-10-22

INCREASE OF UNIVERSITY
EDUCATION.

The University of Cambridge continues to grow
apace (remarks the Pall Mall Gazette). The returns
of the number of freshmen at the different colleges
have been published, and assuming that the unattached
students, whose returns ate not complete, have not
fallen off, the result is the largest matriculation ever
known, estimated at 835 students. A like increase may
be expected at Oxford, which is subject to pretty much
the same influences as Cambridge. In both universities
a comparison 'of the numbers with those of 1871 or any
earlier date will show an amazing increase. The most
remarkable thing about this popularization of the
universities is that it is coincident with a vast multi-
plication of other academical bodies. The last decade
has witnessed the creation and development of half a
dozen flourishing colleges in different parts of the
country, but their success is fir from having been
prejudicial to the older institutions. In many cases,
indeed, the new universities have acted as feeders of
the old. So far as mere numbers go, the higher educa-
tion has never known a period so prosperous as the
present.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-10-22

ROWLEY.

A WARNING TO JURYMEN-.At an inquest held on
Wednesday evening by Mr. Edwer Hooper at
Springfield, Police-constable Frost stated that
Cornelius Peacock, who had been summoned to
serve on the jury, had informed him that he could
not a‘tend.—A.inan named Danks who was present
sctid he had been requested by Peacock to serve in
his stead.—The Coroner: How is it that Peacock is
not here?—Danks: Ms employer would not let him
come.-1 he Coroner: Then his employer will have
liAve to pay 40s —lu reply to another question,
Danko said Peacock's employer was Mr. William
bevies, of the Blue Bell Uolliery, Old Hill,—The
Coroner said it was highly important that when
people wc-re summoned to attend an inquest they
should obey the summon'. He should order Pea-
cock to a 40,., and he should write to Mr. Davies
in reference to the matter.—lf he recieved a satis-
factory explanation he should remit the fine.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-10-22

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

A Texas paper says that a society has been esta-
blished in that town "for the prevention of cruelty to
animals with upwards of 100 dols. in the bank." If animals
with bank accounts only are to be benefited the society can
afford no relief to newspaper men.

Lives of Mormons oft remind us that by following
their creeds we may die and leave behind us sombre clouds
of widows' weeds.

"Who ever saw a farmer," asks a Philadelphia
paper, in deep conviction, "stopping Vie plough to ask
himself it life were worth the living?" But did the Phila-
delphia paper ever see a farmer, whin the plough had
stopped him and he lay doubled over between the handles?
Instead of saving space and composition by simply
saying a man died, a Boston paper said: "He passed the
boundary which limits our knowledge of the duration of
individual consciousness." • Cpming during such excessively
hot weather, this is rather rough on the average reader, but
as it was given birth to in cultured Boston it must pass. It
is hoped, however, that the writer's attack is only temporary.
"Brilliant and impulsive people," said a lecturer on
physiognomy, when addressing an Alaska audience, "have
black eyes, or if they don't have 'em they're apt to get 'em if
they're too impulsive."
Anong Island Dutchman, in reading an account of
a meeting in New York city, came to the words, "The meet-
ing then dissolved." He could not define the meaning of
the last, so he referred to his dictionary, and felt satisfied.
In a few minutes a friend came in, when the Dutchman said,
" Dey must have very hot wedder in New York. I ret an
agount of a meeting vere all de peoples had melted away:'
"For twenty long years," says a New York paper,
"The wolf stood at this poor widow's door." To keep a
wolf standing that long is nothing less than cruelty to
animals, and the attention of the Society is called to the cir-
cumstances,
A couple of Kansas small boys thought it would
be rare sport to saturate the hair of their sleeping mother
with coal oil and apply a match to it, but after the experi-
ment and after a woodshed interview with an electric-eyed,
bald-headed woman they sat down sideways on the step and
thought and thought and thought and thought and thought,
and to save their lives they couldn't see anything funny
about the affair.--Detroit Pree Press.

Thrilling incident: Adolphus' courage was up.
Falling on his knees he cried; "Angelina, dearest, make me
the happiest of men by accepting my heart and hand."
Casting one look at the great paw Angelina thrilled in every
fibre as she replied sweetly, "0, Adolphus, this is more
than I expected."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-10-22

LAST RESTING-PLACES OF AMERICAN
PRESIDENTS.

A proposal has been made in America to rear a
national mausoleum to serve as the last resting-place
of the Presidents of the Republic (says the Pall
Mall Gazet(e). Hitherto they have usually been
buried in the States in which they lived. Washing-
ton's tomb is in the vault at Mount Vernon, in Vir-
ginia. The Adamses, father and son, rest in the
Unitarian Church of Quincy, Massachusetts; Jeffer-
son, Madison, and Monroe are buried in Virginia;
Jackson was buried in his garden at Nashville, in Ten-
nessee; Van Buren lies at Kinderhook, in New York ;
Harrison lies in an unmarked grave near Cincinnati.
Tyler's tomb, in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, is
also without a monument. Polk was buried in his
garden in Nashville; Taylor lies at Frankfort, in
Kentucky- Fillmore at Buffalo, New York, and
Pierce at Concord, in New Hampshire. Buchanan's
grave is in Pennsylvania, Lincoln's in Illinois, and
Johnson's in Tennessee President Garfield was
buried at Cleveland, in Ohio. No President has been
buried west of the Mississippi or south of Tennes-
see.