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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-03-28

OBJECTING TO VACCINATION.

In London, at the Marylebone police-court, Mr.
Charles John Brooks, living at 18, Abbey gardens, St.
John's-wood, and Mr. John Hardy, of 61, Se. John's-
wood-terrace, were summoned for neglecting to have
their children vaccinated. Mr. Brooks said that he was
opposed to vaccination, as he believed that it propagated
disease. The magistrale said that in confoquence of
vaccination small-pox had almost died out. Tne popu-
lation of the country was increasing enormously, and
if vaccination propagated diaeaae thin could not be the
case. Would the defendant ra, her have his children
die of smallpox than have them vaccinated? The
defendant said that he would rather have them die of
that disease than submit to vaccination, the magi&
trots said that after that admission he would not argue
the matter further. The defendant would have to have
his child vaccinated within 14 days, and to pay
the cost of the summons. Mr. Hardy said that he also
objected to vaccination, believing that it was a very bad
thing. He had seen so many cases where deem,e had
leen propagated by it. If he were paid £lOO, he would
not submit to vaccination. The magistrate made
an order for the child to be vaccinated within 14 days,
the defendant to pay costs. The defendant remarked
that he belonged to a society to get rid of thin
"abominable invention," which society paid the fine.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-03-28

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^FOR THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE."—
,co I),lteron,Any, clip. 3.1 ,i ore 23.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-03-28

AN AUSTRALIAN MILLIONAIRE.

The Melbourne A Tits records the following :

"Mr. William John Turner Clarke, whose name has
been almost a household word with the Victorian
colonies for many years past as the richest Mali in
Australia, died at his residence, Roseate:Mb, }send,
ru January 13, in the 73id year of his age. Mr.
Clarke was hornet Bridgewater, in Somereetothire, Enz.
land. and at the age of 29 emigrated to TIMILIILIA,
where he anis ri about the year 1830. He went out to
that colony with the intention of following farming
pursuits, laud took with him, amongst other property,
some valuable live stock, including moral well bred
cattle and horses. Att..- some snore or lees prosperons
years S.. Tasmania, Mr. Clarke made his first venture
in Victoria, and about 34 years ago he took up the
Station Peak run, in the Werribee district, in pat to
heirship with the late Mr. IV. H. Pettett and •
Mr. Francis, who was shortly afterwards kitfid
by an insane shepherd. Not finding sufEitient scope
for his operations there, he purchased the Wood.
lands Station, in the Winatnera district, now the
property of Wilson Brothers. Subsequently to his
putohate of the Woodlands Ststion, be obtained tinder
a special survey some 30,000 acre, of land at Bulla
: Bulls, near Snobory. Most of Mr. Clarke's Victorian
: ventures prospered, and gradually he grew to be a
; very wealthy man. Several of the best business
; stands In Melboutne belonged to him, and be owned
property in every oirection. Ile held land in almost
every oar of the Australian adonis.. lie bought the
Property of the Messrs. Fisher, at Mount Schanck, in
the Mount Gauthier district, South Australia, wbore
I he carried on, fine grazing business, and he was also
the possessor of the Chalmers' Moa Flat Sta'ion and
other propertiee in New Zsalaud. lie continued all
through to hi id considerable property in
and hail a permanent retablisloment about four miles
from Hobart.town. His freehold property in Victoria
alone, in addition to that obtained under the special
survey, amount.-'1 to over 100,000 acres, which be had
purctiss-ri from time to time. His pooperty, landed
and personal, was estimated at his death to be worth
from £2,000,000 to £3 000,000. Mr. Clarke was for a
nr.mber td years a member of the Victorian Legis-
lature."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-03-28

HALESOWEN.

CONVERSAZIONE.—On Monday evening an entertain-
ment was given in the school-room of the Independent
Chapel, Ilidesowen, consisting of readings, interspersed
with music and recitations. The programme was as fol-
lows . Glee, " Over the Ice by Moonlight Sheen
reading, Mr. W. Williams, "Clover bobs ;" song, Miss
Robinson, "The Vacant Chair duet, Mi., Bautto and
Mr. J. Adams, jun.," A.B.C. ;” recitation, Mr. Saunders,
'The Light on the /Hind ;" glee," The Fox and Grapes
reading, Mr. Tommings, " Our Hobbies ;" song. Mr. J.
Cock Bear Bear it like • man ;" recitation. Mr. T. Moore,
"112iThild's Prayer ;" song, Mr. J. Adams, jun., "Kin
me Mother, ere I die ;" reading, Mr. Turner; Love in
a Balloon ;" glee," Oh, the Sparta of Childhood ;" read-
ing, Mr. Lewis, " Irish Blunders ;" song, Miss Jones,
" Rock me to Sleep ;" finale, the National Anthem.—Mr.
E. Hodgkins presided at the hartuonium, and the Rev.
M. G. Astbury occupied the chair. The proceeds were
towards defraying the expense incurred, by putting down
a warming apparatus for the use ef the chapel and
schools.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-03-28

CRIME IN AMERICA.

the Philadelphia Ledger of the 9th indult contains the
following :
David C. Stiles and Edward Yorke, prominent
nit zens of Rahway, New Jersey, quarrelled about
drinks on Satualay evening, and Stiles was fatally ;
stabbed by Yorke.—Thomas Lowndes, a blacksmith, I
of Brooklyn, stabbed his wife to death yesterday while
drunk. He then sent his two boys for more whisky,
drank it, and went out. Returning in the evening,
app.;rently obiivious of the crime, be was arrested. ;
His wife was ale° of intemperate halite. - Sore
time since, W. T. Underwood, of Cleveland, who
had been divorced from his wife, fell in lore
with Miss Anne Pridgeon, of Detroit, and offered
her marriage, hat was rejected. On Friday
evening, he took Miss Pridgeon out for a walk, sad
renewed the offer. She again refused, and he stabbed
her to the heart, killing her on the spot. He then
went to a police station and gave himself up.—At
Wallingford, Conn., on Saturday, John Andersen, a
Swede, entered a wheel factory, where he had been em-
ployed, and shot two men,fataily wounding cue of them,
named Horatio Hall. He then shot himself, and cut
his own throit, inflicting fatal injuries. —Ribert
Miann.ng, convicted of the murder of a Chinaman in
San Francisco, haa been sentenced to imprisonment for ,
life.— An attempt WM made to rob the National Bank I
of Potteitown on Friday evening. While the watch-
man war going through the cellar, at eight o'clock, he
was seized and tied by three maelred men. One of the
robbers then went outside to keep watch, and the other
two rind to open the safe. Willie they were at work
the watchman succeeded in partly loosening gib midst
and the burglars discovering this, retired and gagged
him, put a rope round his neck and fastened it to the
door of the safe, arranging the knot so that any move•
merit would result in strangulation. The burglars
worked until four o'clock in the morning, but could not
open the sale, the inside of the door being lined with
chilled iron, which resisted the points of their drills.
At four they left the cellar by the way they had en-
tered—a rear window. The watchman was found in
the morning, bound as described, with a thick black
cap over his head and face, and almost unconscious.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-03-28

SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO LORD
ROSSMORE.

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This gentleman, who, while riding Harlequin in the
race for the First LI fe Guards' Challenge Cup, at Wind-
sor, upon Friday afternoon, was seriously injured by his
horse falling and rolling ever him, now lies in a most
precarious condition, at the officers' quarters of the 2nd
Life Guards, in the Spital Cavalry Barracks a short
distance from the steeplechase course, Hi: lordship is
dreadfully hurt, the principal Injury b,lag to the
bladder; but tint cats is receiving the beat medical
skill son attention. It appears that, while in the act
of taking the fence at Bone-lane, hie horse put his foot
in a bole covered by some turf, and stumbled. Her
Majesty the Queen on Saturday afternoon Ilene down
from the Castles request that the Military Steeple.
chasing might be dlacentinued ter the day out of con-
sideration to the condition of Lord Roesmore,
sad accident has excited the greatest sympathy in thq
garrison. Her Majesty basfmieeiiisae te time mace the
cclirreoce sent 'pedal messages from the Cestle to So
Spital Barracks, to ascertain II there was any improve-
ment lathe slate of the sufferer, and the inquiries from
Ni. Meade of his lordship are encomia&
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-03-28

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AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS AND
FEMALE DOMESTIC SERV ANTS.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-03-28

"THE BLACK WATCH."

The Black Watch will go night and day.
The Black Watch can be deptncied upon in any climate.
The Black Watch always keeps time.
The Block Watch is neyer out of gear.
The Black Watch wants no wlndteg up."
Tho 11l .ck %%itch can be warranted for any psrlod.
—Punch.
DR. HAYMAN'S CASE.

Vice-Chancellor Mainoe delivered judgment on Satur-
day upon the demurrer set up by the Governing Body
of Rugby Schad to the equity suit which had been
brought against them by the Rev. Dr. Hayman. Ou a
review of the whole case, his Honour was sorry to have
to come to the contusion that there was no reason
for the interference of the Court. The demurrer must,
therefore, be allowed, but not with Cottle. He es-
trunely regretted the grevioui hardship of Dr. Hay.
man's case ; but he wa, satisfied that a prolongation of
the painful disputes, which would be the result of over.
ruling the demurrer, would be of no benefit to him,
inasmuch as events had made the retention of his office
impossible.

The Ti intB (In a leader) says that It Is not quite obvious
what Dr. iiayaran and hie advisers can have proposed to
gain by the Inie-vention of the Court of Chancery. If
Judgment had been given In Dr. Hayman's favour, aud the
decision of the Goveintng Body ot Rugby had been pro.
ntuaced Invalid, Ile could scarcely. even no, have ventured
to resume le place We are driven to suppose that the
object sought was not really to reinstate Dr Hayman as
head-master of Rugby, but simply —as was, lodeed,
Ingenuously admitted Icy his c mnsel—to discuss, fully
and publicly the circumstances under which he bad
been elsmihmed. Bus, lire Times says the ease, as
It has lately appeared before the public has been
simply a one-sided statement, We are very tar from
prepared to Justify the conduct of Dr. Hayman'n chief
opponent, but neither are we prepared to &name that the
atatemeuts of Dr. lisvman'e frienns are a complete exposi-
tion of the case. Whatever mey have been Dr Hayman's
faults and shortcnrulngs, we have always asserted that he
never Lad a chance given him to shhw what he could do.
His fatal mistake was that lie attempted to do what Was Im-
possible.

The Dray News contends that to admit the power of the
court to review the discretion of the G,verning B aly wn.ld
have been a precedent of most mischwvou, example,
which would Indeed have gone far toward. making the pro-
oh the Public Sehlols Act nugatory, and toe mato-
ellea constituted by It powerlett.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-03-28

THE MARKETS.

MARK-LANL—Mon
Owing to the favourable weather, the satisfactory advice,
to band respecting the crop., and the receipt of fan cut
plies of produce, she grain trade at Mark lane to-. 1,4 has
been extremely quiet, and price, have given way. A no,-
dente supply of Peelleb wheat has been on offer. Scarcely
any business has been concluded, and prime have given
way it to U. per quarter. l'oreign wheat, of which a tee
supply has been on the stands, has been dealt In slowly
at Is. to is. per quarter leu money. The supply of barley
has been moderate. Malting produce has been in less ta-
quest on former terms. Grinding parcels hardly im firm.
Malt has nod at late rate.. ru oat trade has been dull.
Flue aorta hue been tolerably steady, belt inferior have
fallen ed. per qr. The upylits have been moderate Mains
Inactive, and prices have ruledin favour of purchasers. In
beans transactions have been on a limited scale iii.. per qr.
decline. Peas have been quiet and without alteration. In.
fl.mr very little has been doing, and country and foreign
parcels have been the turn ruler.

MARK-LANK-WETNESDAT.

At Mark-lane to- lay there h. been much quietus. In the
grain trade. The supply of English wheat, although chars,
has been sufficient for requtrements, sales progreseingslowly,
at about filundey'm decline. For foreign wheat there has
been but little inquiry, at late currenc... A moderate stit -
ply of barley bes beore on the stands. Although quiet, the
trade hag been tire, on forcrer tem.. Malt bas sold at pre-
vious price. In oats the transactions have been on a limited
scale, at drooping prices. Malt has been dell, end barely so
firm.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-03-28

MO be SOLD, • Good PATENT MANGLE.
A- --Apply 47, Church-street, Stourbridge.

IiOUSE to LET,with Immediate Possession
13, Eiddiminster-street, Stourbridge, containin
Sin Rooms aid Cavan. Real, £l2.—Apply 00thil
Pssodssa. •
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-03-28

THE ENYILLE STEEPLE CHASE.

Of Soya. each, 2 Soya, to the Fund. with 50 Sore.
added by the Earl of Stamford, for 4ona fide Hunters
that h Lye never been liable to Race Horse duty, and
that h ive been regularly and fairly hunted by their
Owners with the Albrighton. Worcestershire, Lord
Coventr%'s Wheatland. Sir %V. W. Wynn's, Shrewabury,
Shrophli ire, North and South Stalfordsnire, North War.
wickshiri, the Menyell, Athersmne, and Lud.ow Hounds.
12st. each. About 31 miles. Winners once, 71b.; twice.
14th. itentlenvm riders as crialitled under Rule 82.
Any rider over 30 years of age allowed 71b.

IHE PEDSIORE STEEPLE CHASE
Of 2 SO,. each, 1 Soy. to the Fund, sith 15 Soy, added,
for ifoi,ea under 15 hands, four to start or no race.
Weight list, each. Winners once, 7th ; twice, 11 b.;
three tiles, Slib extra. About 3 miles. No restriction
IN to reb to.

THE TALLY-HO STEEPLE CHASE
Of 19 Guineas. for Horses that have not Won at this
Meeting. sad Horses regularly Hunted with the Albrigh•
ton and Wheetlend Hounds, same Weights and Conditions
as the Lieuo Steeple Chase, after which the Entries for
this to b• made About 3 miles Entranee 1 one. to
the Fund. Beaten Horses at this Me, tog allowed 711)
Chmtlemen riders
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-03-28

NO PILLS REQUIRED

CAT ll} ItY'S IIJE APERIENT
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Costiveness, riont, Loss of Appetite,
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THE following morning, after free indul-
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AS ll' a

ASITOUGIa TO RE
In THE TIMES' of Jan. 7th, 'At the Docks, st here
Dr. llAssm.t. writes:— !lured:lran's 7'e* are in
iI took samples from
ljhric7,,';,::fb',3:sda,r,"“t;TP.,',4:trllortg"tal chests, w inch I
ed. They were all :irtificially analysed & found perfectly
coloured with Putsti'th hitt'', PURE, and fat from the
ttttt ucrft a mineral powder..
lLt
claw s'c'rsh'. ot n i
irrp"oi,ncg, the usual
rivaal irt hiring I;erhitilanli;
but render practicable other satisbictory. Feb. .9. tßic
A. If 11.-issALL,
more serious adulterations."
1'548 AGENTS—Chemists, Confectioners,
every town sell HORNEtteiNS PACKET TEA.

LOANS AND MORTGAGES.—Money to
lend in sums of A.lO and upwards ea personal
security, at A 5 per cent. inteaest. Term from one to 7
yearn Ala 0, r,rul same upon Mortgage of Freeholds
or 1. sseholds from 3¢ per cent. Term. 10 to 21 yeses.
No COMIIII.IOII eharged.—Apply, personally (preferred)
or by letter, to Messrs. Bevan, No. 10, Lincoln's Inn
Yields, London, W.C.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-03-28

THE KIDDERMINSTER STEEPLE CHASE

Of 5 Som. each, 2 Soya, to the Fund, with .£4O added,
(£lO by A. Grant, Esq., M. P..) for bone iidc Hunters
that have not won a Steeple Chine of £5O, or been liable
to Race Horse duty since January lat., 1873, and that
have been regularly bunted by Owners miring the asia-
sons of 1873 and 1874 with the Albrighton, Worcester-
shire, Wheatland, Ludlow, Sir W. W. ‘Vynn's, Shrews-
bury, Shropahrre, North anti South Staffordshire,
Atliersfone, the Meynell, fiord Coventry's and North
Warwickshire Hounds. 4 years old, list. ; 5 years old,
12st.; b years and aged, 12-it. 71b. Maidens on the flat,
hurdles, or country, at time of starting allowed 71b.;
Winners once, 71b ; twice. ltlb. ; three time.. 211 b. extra.
Second Horse to wive his stake. About 3 miles. Gentle-
men riders as qualified by Rule SO. Any rider over 50
years of age allowed 7lb.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-03-28

(From Punch j
ENGLAND'S WELCOME TO HER
WARRIORS.
(Portsmouth, March 200, 1874)

FMK!, Portamoidb, ding your bunting wide, irom window
yard, and mut !
Cher fralAng snip and Flag-ihtp, as the homeward-bound

steam past !
From St. Vincont, sod from Victory, and Wedington come

.... . a
ell
nose e...eere that of wain welcome home from hard-fought
battles t At

What If It be but four months since we cheered you out of
port?
What II you 're but a handful. though all of the light wri?
What if your toes were nigatme, your campaign a. short as
IMarp
What If rineide chaff KISS COFFEE, and at A mosful carp?

We htva leen In that small compete of time, awl tight and

As good w,,rk dwla as nor was done, or will be done agaln:
Al much bead and been to leadtrs, pluck and Orb ill raus

and Ale, _
A. ever woo renown for deeds of grandnr cede and It) I %

You hsd to face worse foemen than Aehantee's huge stray,
Wilco., slugs rained on you from the bush thrJugh which you

1, ogitt your way 7
You bad mightier kings to conquer, stronger cities to burn

. -
d ma,
Than Coffee, throned he blood anl geld, and 1 out Coomarle
t....W11

Y. 311 Illatt.to face the PeetHence that lurks In brake and

busb,
Ath,varL SlAborlu's .wamp-teuood force your recounalasance

Kt n: lewier and Ktug Dysentery and King Death, their Liege

WitOsc.od you on your landing, and followed you aboard.

'Twee Attio's clime you had to quell, and tame her soil of
death.
Sttoapholtia of e vamp to conquer where 'tie poison in draw
brra'h,
k' es, thnau, that ask more pluck to face than armies black
or white.
Victorics, these, which bring not the Gazette to crown the
fight.

'Twas ascii'''ne as well as dash that carried you along,
A glut I,atolful, white to blear, tens to ten thousands
strong ,
Thanks t aged head over you, and good hearts under him,
Ti,, say of Enslaud's hyno. In your guard not once Whlull
clot '

Withj y, we bid those home agsdn we Relayed to tend sway
AIL E, eiend swells the welcAne which Portsmouth speaks to-

—..--
day;
God butte you, gallant rad.3oata, ad blne•jackets, one and

Still ready to go anywhere, do aught, at Daty's call '
Old England's splrlt le not dead. it la not Ilk. to Me
Willie over yon bronzed facts the old lint daunts the sky ;
Ant 'tis Oki Englauo's blood that speaks In warmth of heart

and hand.
To welcome hack her war-worn sous, once more, to England's
strand
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-03-28

A CORSICAN FEUD.

The Tempt publlrhen • letter frcm Beetle, dated March
18, In nnlca kt Is Mated :

"Yesterday the office of the local magiatrate was
the ecene of a fearful struggle. Two brothers Corti
had 1111111 M, ned one Franc is Campona. on accannt of
an alleged trooper., and the cave was duly heard.
When the magistrate had retired, an angry altercation
scone between the parties. Jean Antoine Corti drew a
dagger, and stabbed Fear wris Caroinona, while the other
Corti fired a revolver at Camixwia s brother, who was
wounded in the chest. A. relation of the Camponae,
wbo interfered, was statbsd, and a bystander was
wounded by a ball from Cortrs revolver. The
two Curti s were allowed to retire without any at.
temp: being made to de.ain them, rhe fend
between the parties is believed to have arisen out
of eventswhich occurred many menthe ago. In Augu-t,
1872, a bailiff named Moutecelli was found murdered
no the high road, and public rumour accused the
Cortis of having hired the aesassin. Corti the father
died while the investigation was proceeding, but his
son, Jean Antoine, and his daughter were tried for
being acceesory to the crime, but were acquitted. Two
other men were convicted of having been concerned in
the murder, and were senteaced to twenty rare im•
prisonment. This judgment was annulled, and they
were tried a second time, but both were again con-
demned to the same penalty. Among the witnesses
against them were Francidis Campona and a relative,
who thus, it is believed, attracted the animosity of the
Corti family."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-03-28

KILLED ON A LEVEL CROSSING,

An In on ett has been cold at the " Victoria '' Hotel. liawich,
the body cf Mra iltnnah aged 34 year', reeding at
Upper Doverconrt, woo had been anocked corn while pan-
lee over a level orbiting op the (Meat Kaatorn Railway.
John Dennis, an engine (Liver in the employ, said
that on Thneeday he had charge at the 12.10 p.m,
train irom klannintree to Harwich. When he wee
mar toe 1) ,vercourt level crossing he saw the deceased
'"..1 an umbrella over her head atteruptirg to cro s
tie liii, he looked round, and then walked
llnto the eis foot way of the line. Toe witneee,
seeing ate wan in d suunded the whiele of
the engine and reversed the steam. 2ho stopped
In the six-foot line, still keeping the nnibrell, (war her
heed, and when the train waa a few feet from her, ph,,
move i from where she had been standing, and it
ten',. ti to pais over to raili whi h the train was
running, wheu the engine 'truck bee and threw uer
Immo 'award." in 4.lvauce of the train, which peered
over Mr. In snorer to a ;owe the witness stated
that when he &At caught eight of the decemed, he Wfme
twenty yards from her. He did not then attempt to
• stop the engino, became Ihe deceased wee in the safe
part of the rails ; but no doubt, udstaking the clang...-
one for the safe place, she stepped between the rails on
which the train was running just an the Qugine was op
to her.
Dr. Samnel Evany physician. of Harwich, vald lhot
on the day to queettan hu was called to seethe deceased.
and found her a'. tho si le of the line dying. She had
receiv.d tearful injuries. The right leg Wal at itt.ce
amputated, but she gradually sank, and expired shout
bolt-past seven Oolock, the came night. Dbilth VIA*
due to the injuries received.
The my, haviac proceeded to vior the ,pt where
the accidiut Laptoen.d, returned a verdict—' That the
deceased was accidebtally killed IT a train at a level
Croetint4 on the Great Eastern Hallway." They added
the following rider:—" We are of opinion that the
Great Ewtern Company ehould be respectfully re-
, quested ta adopt suitable preoautions for the protec
Con of the public at the Dovercourt and other level
awnings over the line in the neighbourhood."

--lIIIIik
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-03-28

A SAD CASE.

At the Mansion-honse, in London, Eliza Ann
Fenavick, barely 16, wita cherged before the L. rd
Mayor and Mr. A'dcrcuan Cart-r, sitting in petty see-
pious, with eteeling nine gold iings and six gold crosses,
value about £7O, belonginz to Mr. Walter Prideaux,
clerk to the Goldemithe' Company.
The evidence showed that the prisoner was in the
service of Mr. Pri leaux at Goldsmith's-bad, up to
S today week, when she suddenly left. A diamond
soot ruhy ring, a large diam did ring set in pearls, a
gold filigree nog with four etones (lapin lazuli), opal
and emerald, • small turquoise and gold cross, a gold
ring get with turquoise and pearls, a gold ring, hair
ring, an Indian hlagree gold ring with trarrinoiee and
pearls a gold ring set with various atones, a silver
necklace with dove and henrt, a net of red bead °me-
mento, comb, earrings and brooch, a gold crone chased,
on velvet studded with military stars, a gold chain with
locket containing a portrait, and two half-sovereigns
were then mimed. Some of the jewelry belonged to
Mrs. and Miss Prideaux, and was now identified.
William Gibbs, an induector of police, deposed that
on Saturday evening he apprehended the prisoner at
house in Queen's road, Brighton, wheee she was lodg-
ing. He told her she had sold some jewelry in the town
that day, and would perhaps say wh«re she got it,
She replied that a gentleman had given it to her in
London. but she did not know his name nor where he
lived. Witneee pointed to some rings on her fingers,
and ailed her if he had given her thorn also. She re-
plied he bad. Witnees told her he phould charge her
on suspicion with stealing the jewelry. In a hag pro-
duced he found all the miming articles, except two
rings and a pair of earrings, which were in pawn. She
said she might as wed tell him the truth; she had been
living at Gloldemithre-hall, and had st den those things
from her master. Witness had recovered other articles
of the stolen jewelry from pawnbrokers.
Mies Ada Prideaux deposed that noe cull identify
the wlvle of the jewelry. It belonged to her mother
and sister, and was worth about £lOO. It was ad mete
in her fadier's louse on Saturday week, the day before
the prisoner left. Mrs. Prideaux took the prisoner
from a refnee as an act of eterity, and had an ex-
cellent character with her. The ; risoner had stolen
two sovereigns from her mother and had .run away.
She now pleaded Guilty, and the Lord Mayor, com-
menting on the disgrace she had brought on herself and
the injury her uououct was likely to do refugee and
poor girls confined in them, sentenced the prisoner to
four months' imprisonment.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-03-28

rHE LABOURBRS UNION.

The Executive Committee met on Monday sit
Leamington. The President, Mr. Arch, took the
chair, and severed members of the Comm'Wive Com-
mittee attended. The Secretary eubmitted • return of
the men locked out in Hampshire, ENBUI., Suffolk,
Norfolk, Cambridgeehire, Lincolniehire, Bedfordehire,
Warwickshire, and Gloceeter. It was stated there
were npivarde of 2,000 men upon the Union f tied% and
it was feared the number would be greatly increased.
14 was decided to afford amiatance term the Union
funds to the, men locked out, and permission was
granted to one or two additional districts in Came
bridgeehire to demand increased wages.—A COMMUDi-
C9tioll 11111 s received from the Ely Farmers Amocietion,
which embraces 16 parishes, stating' that the members
tel resolved, in the event of the lab iurerti striking on
any of their farina, to di-charge every Union labourer
in their employ.—Sir Thomism Biddulpu has incurred
the displeasure of the Union for having disregarded Its
last communication, in answer to his reply to a former
letter respecting the alleged discharge of labourer. on
the (bborne estates, for merely having applied for an
it:creme of wage.. Sir Thorne.' Biddulph Astrid that
if the Osborne labourers hod any grievance they
could represent it to him peniunaliy-, and he de-
clined to admit the right of the Union to interfere
between empioyers and employed. The Executive
Committee adopted a resolution, regretting that Sir
Thomas Biddulph had n it replied to their second letter,
and expreating a belief that his conduct towards Her
Maj sty's labourers had had a prejudicial influence on
employers of labour in the rural oistricte.—The Com-
mittee adopted a resolution strongly approvirg the
"sAllotment Extension Bill," to be introduced into
Parliament by Meters. Jenkineon and Burt, for
facilitating I. Wog charity lands to labourers. The
Executive, as representing 100.000 labourere, endorsed
the condemnation of the Trades Council in London
of the Royal Labour Commission, which they re-
garded as an unworthy subterfuge to delay necemsary
action. They refused to give evidence before snob a
Commission, end though abstaining from condemning
Metiers. Hughes; and Macdonald appealed to them to
decline to act on the Commission.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-03-28

431.
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SAVAGES AND SOLDIERS.

ASHANTI troops Were 110 men foes
For ',length warriors to oppose.
It seems they stoutly held their own
With smooth-bore guns, and slogs of stone,
What, it their weapons h.ni, Instead,
been brEech-charged rifles, cartridge fel
An i what if Silence tield these arms,
Hereafter, to barbaric Mart]. ?
This mote to ttouble the mind's eye
May prove a big fact 1,3 -sod-by
Which to prevent we means must plan.
Or have to meet as best we cam—Punch.