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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-10-02

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-18

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Till Steam arose, and we had need..
To reconstruct the Navy. „ ,
Still men-of-war were heart of oak; • • • !Lula 0
By foreigners unmated, .••••) ba.
Till we to the discovery woke •". "I°Ll bib iv "
They must be iron-plated.
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Our ships to JONES, called DAVY, .
Our millions we'd again to spend,
To reconstruct the Navy.
' So, fast enough, we built a fleet
Of Warriors, iron-sided; . .
Which not a foe could dare to meet,
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As fondly we confided.
Still "Rule Britannia" was our song,'
No Briton be a slavey I
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To reconstruct the Navy.
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Torpedoes, to our grief we found,
Could penetrate at bottom.
And now that to our cost we know
A Ram their sides can stave, we
With sorrow once again must go -
To reconstruct our Navy.

O task recurring without end,
Each time with more expenses!
Bub untold millions better spend,
Than trust.to,vain defences. f 1
Out then, Jon g Bum, your money pour,
As beef that yields much gravy;
And brave that everlasting bore—
To reconstruct the Navy I
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-18

AMERICAN STEEL GOODS IN
ENGLAND.

The Times Wolverhampton Correspondent writes :

"English edge-tool makers are fully aware of the
success with which certain. Of their business rivals in
America have supplanted .thern in Wally of our home
and forbignmarkets. Marge, hOwelhir, is the demand
at present for good edge-tools of almost every descrip-
tion, that there are few edge-tool firms in the United
Kingdom who have not plenty of orders upon their
books. The English article is not, therefoie, out of
use, but there is a perceptible increase in the faiour
in which handy and thoroughly excellent tools are
held, both at home and abroad; and this is being
encouraged by the growing facilities for manipulating
steel, both shear and cast. Sensible of this, certain
American firms are pushing their opportunity, and
American forks, shovels and axes are to be had where.
ever edge-tools are offered in this country. It would
seem that the Americans believe they can compete with
us much more successfully by having branch establish-
ments to manufacture their specialities in this country
than ,by shipping, their produce from the other
A firm- of —alit steel shovel makers at Pitts-
burgh (Messrs. Hussey, Binns, and Co.) who have
recently brought out a shovel in which the straps,
though of iron, are compacted with the steel during
the process of casting, and who are making, at a very
low figure, and with very little manual labour, shovels
that are getting very rapidly into use throughoutothe
States, are now, through a representative who. has
recently- tome over • Pltti3bargh to England,
making inquiries which will regulate their action and
determine them whether they will themselves begin to
make in this country, or whether they will offer their
process to English firms or to an English company.
If American edge. tool makers slictild begin to woduce
here gads thht are already running English makes
hard, then it is to be inferred that their example will
be followed by other Tranultlantic hardware manu-
facturers. Whether in such an event the English
firms w teinafiti.sicsvell ehibloired Ike tfiithiow are
remains to be seen."

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-18

THE GATHERING AND STORING OF

FRUIT.
tind,er the head of "Farm and Garden," the Pictorial World
has the following useful observations on this subject :

The gathering and storing of fruit will now engage
the attention of farmers and gardeners everywhere.
Happily, there will be plenty of occupation for ladders,
baskets, sheds, and cellars, for this is a great fruit year,
and thus far,, though the markets have been glutted,
prices have been pretty well sustained. It is a suitable
time for a few words on the gathering and storing of
fruit, and the lessons of the, season may perhaps be
profitably rehearsed.
Anyone can tell when a iilum is ripe, but not everyone
can tell when to gather apples 'and pears. The prodigal
way in which in some gardens they fall from the trees
causes many to gather the crop too soon, and the con-
sequence is shrivelling and rotting in the store, instead
of slow ripening and long keeping. Every fruit has
its Beason, which must be taken into account in dis-
posing of the crop, but a few general principles may
be kept in mind to advantage. When a fruit, be it
apple, pear, quince, or what not, parts from the parent
bough by a slight touch, it is surely ripe enough, and
should not be left on the tree a single hour longer than
can be helped. But the test of the hand is not all-suffi-
cient, for it is sometinaea desirable to .gather apples
and pears before they part readily. Another test
is to cut open a fruit and observe the colour of the
, pips. So long as they are white or green, the fruit is
immature, and should not be gathered* unlesit *anted
for immediate* use The pips sheaild be ' aark;
whether brown or black does not matter; but
if dark in some degree the fruit is mature, and if
not quite ripe will ripen perfectly if properly stored.
Of course a sound fruit must be selected for determining
the state of the crop, for every fruit that is pierced by
an insect ripens before its time—that is, if it ripens at
all—and is proportionately inferior to such as have not
been molested, and have had their full season on the
the tree% The rattling down of injured fruits °Mimes
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-18

TRADESMEN'S ADDRESSES.

[E STABLISHED 1864.]

MESDAMES LASKEY dg HUNSTON

(From Devonshire),
H ONITON POINT‘ LACE
MANUFACTURERS,

122, HIGH-STRENT,
STOURBRIDGE.

English and Foreign Lace Transferred, Cleaned, and
Alaered. .

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ENGLISH & FOREIGN LACE CLEANED,

TRANSFERRED, AND ALTERkD.

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Wedding Veils; Flounces, Mantles, and Handiserchiefe
made specially to order. Patterns will be sent by
Post, on application. .
A superior Stock Of Honlton, Brussels, Valenciennes
Maltese, Yak and French Lace, in BLACK and WiIITN
and hieDx-vp Lace Good..

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-18

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BIRDS AND MEN:

The following communication has been sent to The
Times :
Sir,—We occasionally have that most beautiful bird
the kingfisher glancing, glittering, and gleaming up
the little brook that rill:01)y thegarden of this rectory,
hut always, as I have invariably seen them before,
flying very low, and almost always following the course
of the stream; only. once I saw one perched over a
small pond in a retired field far from any other water.
But this nibining, as one of my daughters was
sitting, before breakfast, close to an open window in a
study upstairs, one of these birds, in very fine plumage,
ae and settled on the sill of the window, close to
Aer, and kept turning its head aside and looking at
her, without seeming the least alarmed, for about a ,
Miliut,, When it flew across the lawn into a thorn tree,-
in whicla she thought it alighted. This, • however, I'
can scarcely Wilk it did; for I' ha've never 'seen one
perched but close above water, and thus one has been
known to alight on the fishing rod of one of its brethren
of the angle, as another did, with a minnow in its bill,
on that of the son of the Rev. Robert Blackburn,
Rector of Selham, a Scholar of Balliol, an old friend
of mine at Oxford, who informed me of the fact.
Yesterday morning, while we were at breakfast, a
young golden-crested wren flew into the dining room,
and made itself quite at home, running about the
cornice, and picking up Any unconsiclored trifles it

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-18

sAvnids INVESTED IN IRELAND.

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Dr. 11. aticOccers'anlinal iepor on the Savings invested
in Ireland on the 30th of June, 1875, has been pre-
sented to the Lord Lieutenant. The report shows
that the amount of invested savings continues steadily
to increase. The aggregate amount investedin Govern-
'ment and India stock, in deposit and cash balances in
Irish Joint Stock Banks, and in trustee and Post-
office Savings Banks on the 30th of June, WM
8,306,000. . This was £944,000 in elceis 'of the
gregate amount in 1874, and £2,374,000 in excess of
;
, he • average `for'the preceding five years. In 1865 the
amount was £58,113,000. In 1840 it was £39,515,000.
• This great increase in 35 years has chiefly been in
bank deposits and cash balances, which, in ,1840
amounted to £6,125,000, and in 1875 to £31,815,000.
Tb,e.deposits and cash balances in June, 1874, amounted
to g 29,859,900. 1i3.1865-,the amount was £18,619,( 00.
The investments ,ii Goyernment funds iand India
stock, L)whith_ in a 1840 i amounted': to 1231,237,000,
amounted in 1875 to £33,640,000. In 1874 the amount
was. £34739,000.- In fact the amount invested in this
class of securities has been steadily decreasing since
1865, when it was £37,450,000. Dr. Hancock is of
&noir
etiiii:totT,:itt
joofinaseta,l
it,r4olol:etthsalrbeekeB3,
Lbalances—the interest on these being lower—but a
railway debentures, and American and other foreign
bonds, of which, however, no stkitistics are available.
The deposits in post-office - sayings banks in Jurte,
1875, amounted to £845,000, agaibst 2788,000 in 1874.
There has been an uninterrupted increase in this class
of investment since 1865, when the amouLt was only
£207,000. "The progress thus show shown," says the
• Dr. Hancock, "indicates great colnkdence in qovorDC
matt Madag,eiLent And seuriff."l ThbrY has-1366n ft
1 tendency latterly to a diminution of the amount
itivested in trustee savings banks, much of the money
formerly so invested having been transferred to the
post-office banks, but this year there is an increase of
£29,000. The aggregate deposits in all classes of
savings banks amounted to £87,000 more than in 1874,
raising the aggregate savings (of this class) to a higher
figure than in any years except 1867. 1872, and 1873.
The highest amount (g 2,977,000 was_roached in 1872.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-18

AtfiAl

uur CA..—Joseph Bywater was charged with as.

...ag Simon Pearce, -on the 3rd inst. Fr-om the evi-
dent* of complainant, it appeared that both parties
worked for Messrs. Westwood and Moore, bottle manu-
facturers. On the above date defendant struck him seve-
ral tunes, and gave him a black eve. Defendant admit-
ted striking the cernplainant, and said he did so because
he did his work badly, and when he told him about it he
began to laugh and he (defendant) struck him. Fined is
sod costs.
Alissimmo A Boir.—Thomaa Carroll was charged with
assaulting a boy named Albert Williams, on the 4th inst.
The ease was proved, and defendant lined is and costs.

RAILWAY PROSECIITION.—James C. Ord, curate of
Wardsley, was summoned by Inspector John Lock, for
getting into a railway carriage, at Brettell Lane Station,
on the Ist, whilst in motion. There was a second charge
against the defendant for riding without first obtaining
a ticket. Mr. Shepherd appeared for defendant. Richard 1
Penson. station-master, proved that the defendant got
into the carriage at Bretton Lane, whilst in motion. The
train was going fast at the time. The defendant had no
ticket. Isaac Roberts guard, gave corroborative evi-
dence. Mr. Leadbrooke said he wished to withdraw the
second case, as Le did not think the rev. gentleman had
any intention to defraud the company. Air.. Shepherd
addressed the Benet in mitigation of the penalty. His
cheat had committed the offence he was charged with,.
and he was very sorry it had occurred, and he desired to I
express his regret for doing what he had done. He had '
no intention to defraud the company. Mr. Firmstone
' said the case had been proved, and it was a very serious '
and grave offer.ce. The Bench considered the railway
authorities had acted vey properly in bringing the case.,
before them. It was not long since that a gentleman
lost his life by getting out of the train, whilst in motion.
No doukt .it was a thoughtless act, end it was apiece of
good torttule that he got safe into the carriage. How-
ever, thdy must mark their sense of such conduct, and
fined defendant lOs and costs.
CWARGE Or STEALING APPLEIL—John Lavender w,
with steeling, on the sth in, a quantity of apples, the
property of Edward Hill. Mr. Waldron appeared to pro-
secute, Prosecutor said that about six o'clock at night
he saft the defendant knocking the apples off the trees,
pick-tbem up. and put them into his pockets. Defendant
had iiii several other occasions stolen apples, and he had
cautioned him. Fined 108 and costs; in default 14 days'
hard labour.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-18

PEOPLE'S FREE EDITION.
IMPORTANT MEDICAL WORKS.
BY DR. HLeNRY SMITH.
Twenty-first Thousand. By Post, one stamp (to pre-pay
postage) in envelope.

HEALTH LOST AND REGAINED; or,
DEBILITATING DISEASES, THEIR CAUSE
AND CURE.
By HENRY SMITH, M.D., of the Royal University of
Jena, Author of" The Volunteer's Manual," The Warning
Voice," &c.
This work gives Dr. Smith's Treatment (the result of
Twenty-Six years special practice) for the Cure of all
Diseases of the Nervous System, Nervous Debility, Mental
awl Physical Depression, Palpitation of the Heart, Noises
In the Head and 1. ars, Indecision, Impaired Sight and
Memory, Indigestion, Loss of Energy, Pains in the Back,
Constipation, Blushing, Hysteria, Timidity, self-distrust,
Dizziness, Love of Solitude, Groundless Fears, Muscular
Relaxation. &c., resulting from Exhaustion of Nerve Power,
the effect of Overtaxed Energies, Enervating Habits and
other abuses of the system whica, if neglected, end in prelim-
ure decline and death.
t.GIVES INSTRUCTIONS AND PRESCRIPTIONS. Ill-
ustrated with Testimonials from grateful patients; with
means of Cure used in each case.
THIS Boox is SENT FREE TO ALL PARTS OF TUB WORLD*

Third Thousands. By post, seven in envelope
WOMAN. Subjects treated; Girlhood,
Maidenhood Courtship, Marriage, Motherhood,
Female Education Female Health, Female Hygiene,
Domestic Medicine, &c.. doe. It is a treatise on subjects of
vital importance to woman
N.B.—A Special Edition, BEAUTIFULLY ILLIISTELTDE WITH
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Norms, the above medical works will be sent direct from
the Author, in an Envelope on the receipt of the amount in
stamps.

Address, Du. HENRY SMITH', 8, Burton Crescent, London,
W.C.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-18

CONSULT A LONDON PHYSICIAN BY LETTER

WITHOUT FEE.
DR. H. SMITH, the Eminent Specialist fo
the curo of all debilitating and contagious diseases
will for the benefit of country patients who cannot consult
him personally, on receiving description of there case, send
his opinion, with advice and directions for the most success
ful restoration to health and vigour.

AddroPB, Pr, 11, 13MITII, 8, Burton croscent, Lamm, WIC,

ONE Box of CLARKE'S B 41 Pills in
warranted to cure all discharges from the Urinar
Orgsvis, in either SeX, acquired or constitutional, Grave
and Pains in the Baek.—Sold in boxes, 4m Gd each, by
all Ciwinists and Patent Medicine Vendors; or sent to
any ad.lress for 6'o S'trups by the Msker, F. J. CLARK'S
Consulting Chemist, High-street, Lincoln.—Wholesale
Agents, BARCLAY & Sorts, London,and all the Wholesale
douses.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-18

STORY OF A STANDARD.

The Invalide Busse publishes the following interesting
story :
"During the war between Russia and Turkey in
18_21 Lieutenant Nicholas Alexeievitch Sabanine was
adjutant of the Chasseurs of the Guard, and on the
10th of September in that year was wounded and made
prisoner by the Turks. He was sent to the Island of
Chalcis with the ensign and other officers of the same
regiment. On the-conclusion of the war he returned
to his regiment, and in 1837 retired from the service
with the rank of colonel. He died during the past
winter, leaving a widow and children. Immediately
after his decease it began to be reported that he had
had in his possession the flag of the 2nd Battalion of
the Chasseurs of the Guard, which had disappeared
during the battle of the 10th September, 1828.
Lieutenant-General Stepanov, a former comrade of the
deceased, wrote to Madame Sabanine for an explana-
tion, and the widow replied that her husband
had preserved the remains of the flag with religious
care. It appears from her account that, when the
regiment of Chasseurs of the Guard, during the
Battle of Varna, on the 10th September, 1828, were
retreating from the village of Hodje Hassan Lara they
found themselves suddenly in the presence of a large
Turkish force near, the village of Mamisotliar, and when
they perceived that they were thus surrounded a few
officers resolved to preserve the standard. Captain
Kromine, Lieutenant Sabanine, and Sub-Lieutenant
Skwanine tore the flag from the lance, divided it into
three strips, and concealed these strips under their
garments; the pole was broken and buried, the two
other officers were killed, and Lieutenant Sabanine
carried the strip of the flag about with him while in
captivity. His widow states that he often kissed this
relic, and on his deathbed he enjoined her to have it
conveyed to the Emperor, to whom Lieutenant-General
Stepanov had the honour of presenting it on the 17th
ult. at Tsarskoe Selo. This discovery refutes the idea
which had obtained that the Turks had captured this
flag, although no trace of it has been discovered among
the Turkish trophies of the war of 1828. The frag-
ment is the upper strip of the flag, and is stained with
blood. A small portion of the inscription and the
upper part of the Imperial crown may be seen on it."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-18

Natal an ifsitict

BOARD OF GUARDIANS.

The usual meeting of thig Board was held in
the Board Room, yesterday, Arr. Granger in
the chair. There were also piesent :—Messrs.
11. Billingham, Guest, Hallt Forrest, Rhodes,
Higgs . J. Billingliam J. Brooks, Fiddian, Thom-
s4.ll and Hingly. Admitted into the house 6 ;
discharged 6; dead Q ; born 1; remaining 28U ;
against 581 last year. Out-door relief, King-
swinford district, £2l 4s 61d ' • Stourbridge dis-
trict .kl 4 15s lid ; Halesoweu district, £l5 13s.
6d, non-resident paupers, us. 8d ; total £52 is
71S; against £56 6s. 51d.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-18

-w€l= The

CRADLEY.

A. WIFE BEATztt.—At the Stourbridge Police
Court, yesterday, William Whton was charged
with beating his wif,n the .113th hut:— Com-
plainant was very reluctant to give evidence
against him, but 'it catne'oirt that defendant had
threatenqd to shoot his, wife.'. On the above date
the defendant struck her a violent blow on the
head: Defendant was bound over to keep the
peace for 12 months, in hie toirn.recognisanee, and
pa costs.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-18

A SCENE DEFYING DESCRIPTION!

ow, • . • .;:vt.t. • ' • ,
A San Francisco correspondent gives a lively dek
cription of the "grand huhbub " that is daily wit- a
!leased'at 'the Mining Stock Exchange in that city
during the busy season. Facing the great entrance
door, on a raised dais, stand the caller and his secretary.
Ranged to the right and left are rows of chairs occupied
by the members of the board—seats worth 25,000 or
30,000 dollars, in gold apiece. Ab the call of a given
stock, these eighty men—the number
frantically to the space frontinfr, the caller's desk.
Then the scene defies description. It is Bedlam let
loose. Yelling, shouting, wildly gesticulating on all
sides, to the uninitiated a free fight seems more than
imminent. Finally, out of the Babel confusion of
voices the caller brings forth order, and pro-
ceeds to ann, unce the various sales effected with-
in these brief moments of confusion. This
form concluded, another mining stock is called, and
the wild scene begins anew, and so on for two mortal
hours, morning and evening. The business is a pros-
perous one, but men not unfrequently therein barter
their health and reason for gold. Speculating in
mining stooks is a temptation few can resist. Mil-
lionaires and servant girls, women and children,
-eachersand sportsmen, all join in this legitimate
;amble. 'Palatial mansions are upspringing, 'as by
magic, throughout the city, "made in stocks." Men
I and women fire almost daily shipped to the madhouse
' —sent there' by "stocks."" Any child in the street
can give you 4 lucid definition of the mystic words,
margin, points, assessments, &c. The (elsewhere)
comfortable fortane of 100,000 dole. or 200,000 dole.
is_ at_San Francisco only a moderate competency.—
Pall Mall Gazette.

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:first Innings: -
G. Dstis, C J. Otter, b .W.
Davis 0
R. Miles, bA. Otter .. 4 not out ..
E. Brooks, e Waldron, b W.
Davis b W. Davis
J. Cooper, bA. Otter .. 5
A. Jackson, o. J..Weldron, b
W. 8. Davis •• .. 14
G. Hingley, 1 b wvb A.. Otter 2 ' •
A. plant, ran oat' • '6' b W. Detis b
H. Clulee, o Joon, bcW. S. • •••
Davie • - 0- . • ' •
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J. Parkes, not out .4.1 J..... II a Blikevey, b
Otter .. 91

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W. &Davis. at Jackson, b Perk.... 19
J. F.,Otter..b Jackson ... •.. 1
J. Waldron, b Jackson 0
- A. J. Otter, b Jackson
-J. Doughty, o Brookes, b Parkas .. 1
C. Davis, b Jackson..
, • C. A. Ison,l Jackson .. 1
B. F. Otter, b Jackson .. 5
J. Plant, run out • 0
J. Blakeway, b Jackson
B. R. Deeley; at Jackson, b Parkes 9
H. Cohlicott, b Parkes _ .. 9
G. L. Simms, not out .. I
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Goal value for money is desired by all, with articles
that sennot be judged of by appearance, oarstul pur-
chasers rely on the high standing of theme with whom
they deal. For $O years, Horniman's Pure Teas in
packets have given general satisfaction, being sreeedingy
strong, of toufores pod quality, und truly atop. Agent.:
Stoarbridge—Crarke,lll, High-street; Baker, 124, High
treet; Howit. Market Piece; Morris, 136, High-street
'Brierliy Hill—Rawlings chemist; Kidderminster, Bul
Bing ;Haliseowen, Adam, chemist; Lye, Jones, chemist
Wordsley, Turner, Chemist; . Kingswinford, .Pearson
liristtsl Lane, Colliage, Hirrainshans, Asaks
twos.
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-18

- SATURDAY, SEPT. 18, 1875.

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them is, that I believe there are fewer of those men in Eng-
land than there were 10 or 15 years ago. But the fact is,
there ought to be none especially there ought to be none in,
our districts. lam uot speaking now of some of the agricul-
tural districts, where, however, I believe things are changing
for the better, and changing quickly, but I am speaking of
our own district. Ido not for a moment say wages are as
high as they ought to'be. They ate not as high as I hope to
tee them before I die. ("Rear, hear," and loud cheat ) -Oh
yes, you may think it rather strange for a wage-payer to ea),
that, bat I have thought, on looking through my annual
stocktakings, which I examine carefully, though Lam up in
' London—that the years in which we pay the highest wages
are the years in which we have got the 'largest profits.
(Cheers.) What I say is this—that wages are higher than they
were, and what is much more important, they are more con-
stabt, more regular than they were. I have observed rather
• a remarkable fact. When I first- became a man of business
in Yorkshire I can well recollect that when there was a
depression of trade the workmen suffered the most. . . .
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-18

TOBACCO.

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This Brand iv sold everywhere, in Ounce Packets 3d each
To avoid fraudulent imitations, see that each packet bears
our name and trade mark (a star).
Vi/111.8 BONO, Bristol and Loucks.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-18

OATMEAL, AND HOW TO COOK IT.

The following communication has been sent to the
Standard, for publication:—
- -

_
Sir,—My short essay on "Animal Food and Oat-
meal," published in the Standard of the 2nd inst., has
induced a great many persons to ask questions which
I shall now be happy to answer in your columns. Re-
ferring to the modes in which oatmeal is used in Scot-
land, I would observe that for brose it should be round
and rough, for porridge somewhat finer, and for cakes
still finer, but not so coarse and "husky," nor so fine
and sifted, as the majority of English mealchandlers
retail it. It is rarely indeed that the right article can
be procured in London. I get the oatmeal I use
direct from Scotland from Mr. James Yule, Mary-
borough, Rosshire, who has supplied me and a few
personal friends here for many years. The price just
now is 245. per boll of 1401 b., exclusive of carriage.
Mr. Yule's meal is not only properly manufactured,
but it is of good, sound, excellent quality. It must
not be inferred, however, that this gentleman is the
only person who sells the right thing, since he is but
one of hundreds of others who do so.

When oatmeal is used too fine we separate what
nature has beneficially combined, and do away with
much of the proportion essential to nutrition and a
healthy digestion. On the other hand, when it is used
too coarse and insufficiently sifted it produces acidity
and discomfort in the stomach, which seriously de-
tracts from its nourishing and other beneficial pro-
perties. Hence the great importance of using the
meal only when properly manufactured and when of
sound quality. Porridge is very easily made, simply
by putting the oatmeal into boiling water by degrees,
as it were strained through the fingers, stirring at all
the while with a wooden " spurtle," or spoon,to prevent
" knots " and "singing," until the mixture becomes a
homogeneous mass and the proper thickness is acquired—
say about the consistency of stiff custard. It should in
every case be thoroughly boiled, and a sufficient
quantity of salt put into the water to suit the eater's
taste. Whilst imperfectly boiled porridge and care-
lessly made by throwing the meal into the pot or
saucepan in handfuls is an unsuitable article of food,
producing painful distention of the stomach, indiges-
tion, and nausea, it is, when well made, unrivalled for
its nutritious qualities for the adult or for the young
folk in the nursery. Oatmeal porridge is, lam happy
to say, getting into great favour, not only with the
nobility and gentry of England, but at the Royal
table, and I verily believe that it will soon be elevated
to the highest position in the list of edibles in all parts
of Britain, and that the -"thistle" is joined to the
"rose" and " shamrock."—l am yours.faithfully.
D. G. F. PACDONALD, L.L.D.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-18

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THE WRECK OF THE "VANGUARD."

•
DUBLIN, Sunday, &50 p.m.
Considerable progress was made yesterday and to-day by
the divers employed at the wreck of the Vanguard (says the
Correspondent of 2'he Times). The weather has been re-
markably fine for the last three days, and the sea is " as
smooth as glass." The gunboat Amelia last night brought into
Kingstown Harbour a quantity of ropes, canvas, spars, and
other gear, and this represented much greater progress than
was apparent on the surface. The divers had succeeded in
clearing away what was an impediment to much more im-
portant work. The Amelia went out again this morning, and
returned in the afternoon. She reported that the divers had
been making good use of their time, and that tbe steam
tug Carron, which was coming to Kingstown to take in coals,
would probably arrive during the night or early in the
morning with the mainyard. As it turned out, the
Carrots arrived about two hours aft.r the Amelia—
namely, about half-past six o'clock—having in tow the main-
yard of the Vanguard. This huge piece of timber will
be lifted out of the water early to-morrow and placed
alongside the smaller one, brought up a few days ago, and
which is an object of great curiosity to visitors. The
spars, canvas, ropes, &c., which have been brought up
from time to time have been placed in the depot
for Government stores at Kingstown. Much interest is
felt in the attempt which has been successfully made to
give the divers a brilliant and permanent light under water
by means of Messrs. Denarouze and Co.'s submarine lamp,
which has been experimented with in presence of Staff Cap-
tain Batt. The lamp will come into practical use at a later
stage of the operations, when the interior of the vessel comes
to be examined and its contents as far as possible taken up.
It is hoped that the huge iron masts may either be lifted out
of the vessel by being attached at low water to powerful
lighters, or by being broken off by the powerful and sudden
jerk which might be given by a steam-tug at full speed. The
conviction begins to be entertained on all hands, however,
that any attempt to raise the hull would be futile.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-18

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-18

HALES OWEN.

STIRLING FRITIT.-it the Police Court, on Tuesday,
before Messrs. F. D. L. Batith,...E. Gera, J. Watson go
H. Howard, James Copson was 'charged with stealing a
quantity of pears, the. property of Ur. S. T. Weston,
at Halesowen, on the 111th init. Mr. S. T. Weston, jun.,
proved the case, and defendant was fined 2s 6d, ld
age, and costs; in. default 14 days.
A Cstrrum—Frederick Dalton was charged by John
Scott, an old man,;witli.demanding-tnoney from him with
Intent to steal the same, on the 24th of July Prosecn
tor.said he was coming down Worley Hall bane. on the
above date with his donkey and cart, when he met the
prisoner and auother man. Prisoner put tip. his. hand to
stop witness, and said " If you don't give me the price of
half-a-gallon of drink, I'll knock your old grey head off."
Prisoner turned tho donkey and cart across the road, and
threw the vegetabes into the road. He also tried to up-
set the donkey and cart into a ditch. Charles Ash cor-
roborated prosecutor. Prisoner said prosecutor was
treating the donkey, and he remonstrated with him for
doing so, when prosecutor ran after.him with thelseat of
the cart. He denied "asking prosecutor for money.
Joseph Fox gave evidence for prisoner, and the Bench
informed him that they did not believe one word he had
said, and he ought to be indicted for perjury. The esie
wairaltered to a charge of assault, and prisoner was fined
.£3 and costs; in default'one tuenth's imprisonment. '
ASSAULT Aszs:—Thotuas Morton was charged with
assaulting Thomas Hughes, on the 25th ultimo, Charles
White said he saw complainant on a pony opposite the
Lyttelton Arms Inn, Halesowen, Defendant frightened
the pony, which threw complainant. Hifi head was cut.
Defendant was tined 2s 6d and costs; in default 14 days.
—Joseph Parsons was charged with assaulting Thomas
Bimmonds, on the 6th instant. Complainant said on the
above date he called defendant a " soft b—," and defend-
ant then struck him'. The ease was dismissed..
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-18

THE MICHAEL-ANGELO CENTENARY,

The Michael-Angelo fourth centenary was inau-
gurated at Florence on Sunday by a procession, with
flags of guilds, trade unions, deputations of all Italian
academies and municipalities. A vast m altitude of
people assembled, and the animation of the city was
very great, notwithstanding the excessive heat ana
consequent absence in the country of many citizens.
and strangers. The inauguration in Piazzale Michael-
Angelo, Viale Dei Colli, San Miniato, was very lively-
and picturesque. The weather was splendid.," The
grand concert in the Sails Cinquecento, of Michael
Angelo's madrigals, set to music by contemporaries,
was much applauded. The Prefect's entertainment
was given in the evening. A procession composed of
thousands of persons, with 160 banners and several
bands, halted at Casa Buonarotti. The bust was un-
covered at Santa Croce. The homage at the tomb
occupied three hours. All the authorities, representa-
tives of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies, some,
diplomatists, and a great number of distinguished
personages, took part in a procession to the edifices
containing Michael Angelo's works.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-18

9p SERVE

OLDSWINFOnD Rosman. The need of a
sanatorium for this school was strongly evidenced
a short time ago, when, owing to the outbreak of
fever among the boys, the school had to be alto-
gether closed. The subject had been under the
consideration of the Governors previously, but the
downfall of the Endowed Schools Commission sus-
pended its execution. Recently, the plans for a
sanatorium previously prepared have been sub-
mitted to the Charity Commissioners, who have
authorised the work to be carried out, at an ex-
pense not exceeding .t 2,300. The new building,
which will harmonise in style with the hospital
itself, will front towards Heath Lane, and accom-
modation will be provided for twelve beds. As
regards position, the site is an admirable one, and
the arrangements of the sanatorium are of the
most approved character. Mr. Sruallman Smith
is the architect, and the builders are Messrs.
Binnian and Son, Kidderminster.
THE ACCIDENT TO MR. TROW.—We understand
that Mr. Trow, Ismere, who met with a severe
injury by a fall from his csaTia.se the week befp,re
npw consideied out, of intinediate daffier's'.
'le base of his skull Was fractured by the fall, and'
Mr. Trow has been lying in a very critical state.
AOCIDENTS.—A boy named Timmins met with
a serious accident on Tuesday, by a fall from a
wall in Birmingham-street. He came down head
foremost, and his, scalp was torn and severely in-
jured.—A young man named Pearson was badly
hurt on Sunday, at the Lye, by the discharge of
a gun, with which he is said to have been shoot-
ing at pigeons. By some means or other it went
off while the muzzle was towards his shoulder, and
the charge rent the flesh in a shocking manner.
The sufferer has been removed to the Guest Hos-
pital, at Dudley
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-18

AMERICAN HUMOUR.,

A young lady of Minnesota boasts of having ten
grown-up brothers to watch over her, and she says more
men raise their hats to her than to any other ten girls in the
city.
For sport, says a Yankee paper to Texas. They
I have panthers thirteen feet long, at d ex :eedingly vigorous,
I and if you have no sport the pantheill oer;alnlY will. •
When a Missouri man walked seventeen miles to see
man hung, and the prisoner was respited, the disgusted
veller sat down in a fence corner and hoarsely inquired if
ithis country was drifting backto barbarism.
In An intoxicated man lately drove a horse and
4faggon, at eleven o'clock of the recent evening, on the
Boston and Albany Railroad trank, from Sponcer to Enat
4/Brookfield, a distance of three miles, without receiving any
Injury. He crossed numerous cattle guards, and finally
ran his waggon down a bknk. He kept out of the way of
• the night freight and passenger trains, and says that one of
them "turned out for him."
!A.Cape May (America) belle says the baths there
Atte as ‘" exhilarating as the clasp of a lover." She has tried
!both.
A husband in Lafayette, Ind., was so grieved at the
,-colour of his wife's hair changing after the first montli of
marriage from a jet black to a carrot red, that he refused all
,'consolation, and retired to the solitude of his chamber. He
~was there found dead the next morning, the victim of grief
and red hair.
A tailor of a melancholic temperament was observed
recently sitting cross-legged on the Canada shore, gazing in-
tently at the Horse Shoe Fall with its thick cloud of spray.
A reporter stole up unobserved and heard him mutter—,
"What a place to sponge a coat !"
They say of the grasshoppers in Kansas that at
Topeka they "ate peaches from the trees, and then threw
the stones at the people as they passed." In Wisconsin they
say " they 'stopped a train one morning, seized the daily
papers' and, there learning that a certain district had been
missed by them, turned back and finished the job."
This is the way an Eastern paper looks at it :—They
are getting tighter every day. Not that they are not pretty;
not at all that, you know. But, really, in about two weeks,
at this rate, they will have to get one skirt made for each—
each—well, each limb, if they want to walk at aIL And—ha!
'who knows but that is the way they propose to attain panta-
loons? Is there any strategy here?

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-18

No, 560

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.... SALES BY _ AUCTION.
' 4AOI-4Ei STOCK SALE..
C.l' SALE, MONDAY SEPTEUDES 27th.

1876, at whicj will be offered 8 8HROP131111;13
both the Ebner Hill Flock.
9Ar.Es, PRBRNB & WOOLDRLDGB.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-18

SAGACITY OF CATS.

Everybody knows that cats can open doors if left
off the latch, and also that they soon get up to the
mechanism of the old-fashioned hand-and-thumb latch;
they open this by springing up, and holding on bo the
hand portion with one arm, while they press down the
thumb portion with the other foot.
A lady friend of mine has a large tabby Tom who
can open a room door by standing on his hind legs and
turning the knob with his teeth. This is clever, but
cats even know how to fasten doors, at least some do;
and this same lady was once in a cupboard, when one
of her pussies came and turned on the button latch of
the door, and made her a prisoner for some consider-
able time.

In a small village which I know there is an old
woman who lives by keeping lodgers of the more hum-
ble description. As these have often to get up and be
off early in the morning, the woman always gives
them strict injunctions to shut the door when they gp
out, for fear of thieves. One morning a lodger had
forgotten to obey his landlady's instructions. Pussy,
however, had witnessed the infraction of the rule, and
walked dire2tly to her mistress's bedside, and began to
mew most plaintively. Nor would she be content till
the woman got up, when the cat led her directly to
the door. Pussy wouldn't go out, but so soon as the
door was shut, led the way again back to bed, singing.
Old women's cats are nearly always wiser then others—
they getmore care taken with their training, and more
comfort and love. They know all the ways, likes and
dislikes, of a beloved mistress, and study them just as
they do their own. Indeed, some of the things I have
known old women's cats do are unaccountable in any
other way but the belief that they are possessed of a
very high amount of intelligence and reasoning power.
No wonder our ignorant ancestors believed them pos-
sessed of devils.—Front the "Live Stock Journal and
Fancier's Gazette."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-18

GLENiFIEL D. GLENFIELD
The
Queen's
Laundress
Says this Starch
Is the best
Sho ever
Used.

G LENF IE LD. GLENFIELD
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-18

LLIMEiii AND CHILDREN'S UNDERCLOTHING

Infants' Cloaks, Hoods, Hats, and Pelisson.

MADURA, SWINI AND 0171PDR1 WORN.

SILK SCARFS AND TIES.

Balbriggan, Bilk, Lisle, and other Hosiesy.
FREI= At Bcozcit CAMBRIC LINIIN BANDICERCIII/IPS.

ThIOMPSON'S t FRENCH CORSETS, JUPONS,
AND GLOVES.

WEITZ and COLORKD 'UNDERSKIRTS.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-18

MR. H. CROMPTON ON THE LABOUR

LAWS.

In an article on the Government Labour Laws, in
the Fortnightly Review, Mr. Henry Crompton says
"We are not disposed to criticise too closely the
details of the measures. We hope that they will be
interpreted in the same liberal and generous spirit that
marked their introduction. We believe that Mr.
Cross may himself by future legislation, and even by
his official direction, contribute largely to this result.
The Trades Union Congress which meets in October
may congratulate itself upon the great and decisive
victory that has been won. When the year began, the
prospect was dark and gloomy. Defeat seemed immi-
nent, and that a disastrous and crushing defeat,
against which it would have been difficult to contend.
When least expected, we find that the Conservative
Government have thoroughly mastered the subject,
have admitted the injustice complained of upon every
point, have accepted the principles we fought for, and,
let the defects be what they may, have carried those
principles into substantially just laws. In every
clause that may be considered as still too vague, the
option of trial by jury has been conceded to the
accused. It is not true that Mr. Cross has been forced
to legislate. He might have easily shelved the matter
for a time, or at all events might have ridden off upon
the report of the Royal Commission. Mr. Disraeli's
words at the Mansion-house, that for the first time
in the history of this country, the employer and em-
ployed sit under equal laws,' were not an exaggeration.
He might have added that in several particulars, more
had been conceded by the Government than had been
asked for by the workmen."