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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-21

PARISH OF OLDSWINFORD.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a
CHURCH KATE has beep called in the above
Parish for the purpose of enlarging the present Church
Yard wherein to bury the dead, and that a Collector w,ll
shortly call upon the Hat, payers of the Townships of
Stourbrihge, Upper bwinford, Lye, Wollaston, Wolin-
cote, and Amblecote. for their respective amounts.
As the xnurchwardens are anxious to couiplet• the
above wolk, and the Rate is only 3,1 in the pound, it is
earnestly Loped that the public wid co-operate with so
desirable an ohject.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-21

PUBLIC NOTICES.

To the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of King-
swinford, and the Superint, ndent of Police of the
Division of Kingswinford and Wordsley, in the County
of Stafford, and to all whom it may concern.

T THOMAS MOUNTFORD, now residing
at Commonside, in the Parish of Kingswinford,
lathe County of Stafford, Beerhouse.keeper. do hereby
Give Notice that it is my intention t APPLY at the
Adjourned General Annual Licensing Meeting to be
holden at the Public Office, Brierley Hill, in the said
Division of Kingswinford and Wordsley in the said
County, on the thirtieth day of September next ensuing,
for an ORDER sanctioning the Removal of the Licence
of the Red Cow Inn, Church Lane, Brierley Hill, held
by John Mountford, to the Albion Beerhouse, at Com-
monside aforesaid, the Certificate in respect of which is
held by me, both which Inn and Beerhonse are in the
. Parish of Kingswinford, in the County of Stafford, and
within the said Division.
Given under my hand, this list day of Anima, 1872.
THOMAS MOUNTFORD.
Witness.—

•
J. L. HOLBERTON,
Solicitor,
Brierley Hill.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-21

CRICKET.

STOURRIUDGE r. BROMsORovE GRAMMAR ScHOOl..—A
match was played on Wednesday on the ground at Brows •
grove. Stourbridge won the toss, and sant in Messrs.
Hodgkiss and Parkes, to the bowling of Massiughard and
the Rev. Bloore, which was remarkably good, sad runs
were made slowly, when Parkes was bowled for and
and Hodgkisa for 14. J. Edge made a good stand, sad
scored 26 not out). H. Davis made 10 in five hits, two
each hit, by some hard hitting, sad wu finely caught by
Williams. The whole were oat for 80 ruus. The brow.
grove team were soon at the wickets, and shortly after
3 wickets were down for 10 runs, which looked healthy for
Sa.urbridge ; but Massingham proved a "sticker," scor.
ins 41 runs before be was caught by Cranmer. The
whole were disposed of for 88 ruus. The Stourbridge
then went in esain to bat, and tatter some eleelleat play
scored 90, Cranwer wilkLug, 32; .I',irkes, 13; Edge, Ft;
and (trees, 10. The foilowiag is the score
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-21

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raitting a rape upon Sarah .Aau Adaws, ou thy
16th inst.

Mr. Young (instructed by Mr. C. W. Collis;
appeared for the prisoners.
Prosecutrix deposed : I am a married woman
and wife of Henry Arms, and reside at Stem-
her Mid. On the 10th September I took my
busbaud'a din e r to Mr. Attwood'a works. It
was about a quarter past one o'clock. My hus-
band was not at the works, and I asked where
the painter was. They said he was at the Pear
Tree lon. I found my husband there, and
Pearson. I remained there from a quo' ter past
one till near mix o'clock. Saw both prisoners
there and other customers. About six o'clock
nv liatioand told me to go to the engine-house
and fetch his hat and coat. When I bad got the
coat and hat in my hand, I met Pearson half
yay In the engine-house. He shut the door, and
eauetit hold of me by the neck, and pushed me
against tale wall. I had a hit of it struggle with
and told him to keep his hands off me. At
that my husband rushed into the engine-house,
and said to him, "What are you doiog at my
wife 2" Pearson said, " Nottoucr, Derry." My
husband struck at me and Pearson. I said to
~,y hubbana, " Don't strike him ; he has not
done any harm." Pearson Ilnd my husband had
a struggle and fell down together. A person
named Robins took it up, and challenged my
husband out to fight. My husband refused to
light. Robins said he was a parish-constable,
and struck my husband in the mouth. My hus-
band did not strike again. At this time I stood
: just inside the engine-house door, as it rained a i
little. My husband picked up his coat and hat
and went out of the factory. Pearson was inside
the engine-house, and Smith stood on the step
outside. I said, " I must go " Pearson said, ,
" Don't go yet, be will hit you." 1 said, " No,
he will not." Pearson then caught hold of me
and dragged me to the other end of the engine.
house, and Smith was fastening the door at the
time. Pearson got me down on the floor, and
Smith held me down by the left leg while Pear-
son criminally assaulted me. I was struggling
and screaming at the time to get away. Smith
, then committed the SittllC IlSgitllit upon me.
Pearson held toe theen by the neck at the time,
and scratched my neck. At the time South
was committing the assault the door WM pushed
open by two or three wen. I could swear to
me as Robins. I appealed to them for assist-
ance. They did not assist me, and I went into
hysterics. When I came to myself Smith had
hold of me by the neck. He said, "Don't make
that noise; we shall all have the sack." They
.11 then went nut of the engine-lionse, and I fol.
1/wed th, m. I said to Robins. "You are one of
tt em, l-id I will make you sutra. t' ,e same as the
rest," Robias If you say that I will
poneh yonr load." P..srson then went
to tile Pear tr., ,111.1 , 5,, the door
dant. "Woat have you been doing to that wo-
sitar Faison =bank murk. I .14
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-21

THE GENEVA AWARD AND THE
SURPLUS.

The Econconi4 considers the Award as bearing on the
Chancellor of the Exchequer's next Budget
"We do not yet know the exact amount of the
Geneva award, hut according to the best accounts it
will be somewhere about £3,000,000. It is so far a
cause of satisfaction that this award is made at a time
when it will, to all appearance, be convenient
for us to pay the money without any dieurbance
of our financial arrangements. Had it occurred
in a bad year, and a new tax, or an additional
penny or tao on the income • tax, been necessary
to pay the sum awarded, the position of the Chan.
cellor of the Exchequer in proposing the neces-
sary Notes would have been any thing but pleasant.
But, as we showed a fortnight since, the revenue, ex-
clusive of income tax, is augmenting at the rate of
I:3 500,000 a Jear, and allowing for a corresponding
addition to the income-tax yield, Mr. Low is likely
enough next spring to show a surplus upon the account
of the current year of £1.000,000 or more. It is too
soon to forecast the result with any certainty no
closely as this, but it can only he some strange
and terrilde accident that would now prevent us
having a surplus of very considerable amount. Should
the payment be arranged to fall upon the current year,
as we should hope will be done, although we have
12 months after the award to make it, the only effect
apparently will be that the purchases for the sinking
fund will be reduced. We shall proceed, to a certain
extent, more slowly with the repayment of our debt.
In this shape we snail feel substantially the result of
being cast in damanes ; but the popular impression will
be less acute than it would otherwise be, if there is no
conspicuous disturbance of our financial arrangements
to mark the payment."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-21

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

It is satisfactory to learn at last smallpox has dis-
appeared as an epidemic in Loudon.
. Here is a " iersonal " advertisement in a French
newspaper —" Eliza, you can return to the house, the boil on
my nose is gone."
A French paper says lithe supremacy of England"
Is seriously engendered by the "potato famine," and that
England is going to contract &loan to import" praties"
Irons France.
To make a celebrated sauce the French cooks cut up
live lobsters The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
animals lins petitioned the Minister of Jintice to interfere.
[Oysters next l]
Karl Marx, in a letter to the Cores ire, denying some
statements of a French reporter, informs "his Mewls hint
enemies" that he never had ally idea of leaving the Inter.
nationsl Association, and th.d. the transfer of the General
Council from London to New York WAS proposed by himself.
An extraordinary fatal circumstance haa occurred at
Barnstaple. Mrs. Hayman, cite if an innkeeper of that
town, ass opening some tresh.gathered hedge nuts, and as
she split one shell apt ce flew into her eye. ('oubhus weie
applied, but inflammation set in. Delirium ensued, then
death, although everything was done by medical 'lda to ex.
tract the shell.
In relation to Prince Arthur's visit to Birmingham
the Republican Club of that town have passed a unanimous
resolution protesting against public rates being expended
"in gas burning and other antiquated to Imes, under pre-
tence of doing honour to Royal or other personages, believ-
ing such tampering with public money to be illegal and not
provided for by any Act of Parliament.'
Several journals having publiehed a paragraph pur-
porting to give an account of Mr. Stanley's introduction to
the daughter of Dr. Livingstone at Aberdeen station, Miss
Livingstone sends the following to the Glaygolc Herald •
"As I have not been at Durris for some time, it would be
rather difficult for me to receive Mr. Stanley as described. I
have not yet had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Stanley, but
hope to do so in November, when be comes to Glasgow.
remain, An, AGNES LIVINGSTONE."
It now appears that in the first financial half of 1372
the direct taxes in France produced Y 2,00 ),000 franca more
than was estimated ; while, oaths other hand, the revenne
from indirect taxes amounted to 80,000.000 leas than MlO
expected. A note is appended to the official statement ex•
, plainlng that the falling off was foreseen, and was caused by
the laying in of large stocks in anticipation of the new tariff,
and by smuggling It being added, that the stocks having
now been consumed the revenue Is rapidly haw rasing, and
that there is reason to hope that • naffinclal balance ell be
, practically obbdued neat year.

444 w .1116 14,) *AO-
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-21

THE NEXT STRIKE!

A Lamplighters' Strike is the next social evept in
prospect for the Londoners. One-half the world does
not know how the other half lives ; and it may surprise
a good many people to be told that the real pariah of
modern civilisation is not the bricklayer, nor the coal-
miner, nor the policeman, nor even the baker, but the
man who cleans and light our lamps. A gathering
of this aggrieved clam was held in Hyde Park im-
mediately after the bakers' demonstration, and some
very strong language was used. The principal speaker
retically described his fellow suffer( rs as " the slaves
of night and of day," adding that "the bakers
were badly enough off as to heavy work, and
so were the police, but they might bless their lucky stars
that neither had lamplighters' duty or wages." In
winter, he said, the work bt gan ab-ut half-past six in
the morning, when two to three hours were taken up
with extiuguishint; the lamps; then several hours
during the day were devoted to cleaning them; and at
four o'clock in the afternoon commenced the lighting,
which "generally ended," according to the speaker,
about nine o'clock. In summer the men were not much
bettgr off, for they worked harder in the day to clean
the ramps —a statement which, looking to the difference
in the nature of the seasons, is not quite intelligible. Lon-
don fog is, however, manifestly the lamplighters' great
enemy ; "in fogs they were at it night and day."

poelicay:
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-21

CRADLEY HEATH, HALESOWEN, & DISTRICT CHRONICLE.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-21

HAS GREA I PLEADURH, IN
...PUBLISHING THE FOLLOWING

TESTIMONIALS.

From Mr. C. Potter, Professor of Music, from the
Institution for the Blind, St. John's Wood, Loudon:—
" I can confidently recommend Mr. Green es a Piano-
forte Tuner. He tunes by equal temperament, and ob-
tains an exact scale. (Signed) C. Porten."
Front Mr. J. F. Patterson, Organist, Bt. Patrick's
Church, Huddersfield :—"1 have much pleasure in tes-
tifying to the abilities of Mr. Green as • Pianoforte
Tuner. He lays the bearings with exectuess and perfec-
tion. (Signed) Jones F. EiTTElison."
From Hts. Sanderson, Solo Pianiste, of the London
and Liverpool Concerts:—' Mr. Green is One of the few
who can Tune my Piano to the nicety I require previous
to giving my Public Recitals. (Signed) E. K. SANDER.
SON."

From Mr. Butterworth, Organist, Dobcross, near
Manchester :—" Mr. Green's equal ale Piauoforte Tuner
can rarely be met with. (Signed) DAVID BVITEILWOIVIII."

TERMS ACCORDING TO DISTANCE.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-21

times of peat national mimes, Is taken Into ;X-cowiti
Ask, for example, the returns of the waste of human Sfo,
of the sacrifices of money which we owe to the dee station of
vier- though these sacrifices are not .A 11.4 to statistical
tables, hut ratoPy Into nil the researches of human suffering
—awl it is hoptd that the startling teas in figures which
have bew yubloslied counectai with interactions/ hoati ities
ru9, not be deerue.i Inappropriate, aa they cortabrly cannot
fail to be instructive."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-21

With our kinmen to war had we gone,

On Arneriew's far away Blare,
Year by year would most likely roll on,
And our loss come to very much more.
Only think whet a terrible deal
Our French neighbours to forfeit have had.
0, how happy we all ought to feel
That our punishment isn't so bad !
We behold anew era begun
For the welfare of all humankind;
Rope Is beaming as bright as the Sim
That pops out a dark cloud from behind,
And the blackness dispels from the blue.
Men no longer teeir fellows shall kill.
Ls, Geneva sniffs out Waterloo;
Bey for emicord, and peace, and good-will
For the two branches chief of the race,
Anglo Saxon, what glory and gain
Both the former and latter the case,
Very mostly, with me of the twain.
When ses we paid th,m their moniy, 0 then
Let no trust, with a firm faith in Man,
That they won't pick a quarrel again,
To be settled again by that plan !

Now, then, let ua unite, all, as Brothers.
Of those millions the burden to bear,
Let the Working- Men, just as all othera,
Have the pleasure of paying their share.
Yes, with plc .1111 re and pride in each station.
Everyone will help pay what all owe;
But Impose no more partial tenth-n:
The foul income-tax raise not, 13.6 LOWE.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-21

THE ATHANASIAN CREED.

Lori Redesdale has sent the following letter to The
Times for public ,tion :-
1 ant sure that I expre s what almost all sincere Churchmen
feel in hoping that these learned and pious men who have
declared that they moat secede from the Chutes in the
event of the use of the Athanasian Creed being declared
optional, wilt reconsider and it ithdraw that determination.
If the doctrine of the trinity could be supposed to
be thereby ITS any way tiven up in our Church
service, they would be instilled in taking that course, but so
long as the first four sentences of the Litany are used, as at
present, in every Church on every Sunday, in which the
Three Persons are first prayed to severally, each as God, and
then collectively as one God—the Trinity in Unity—it is ab-
surd to Coll6httr that doctrine would be abandoned by such
permission, and wrong to act In a manner which may induce
others to believe that it would be.
At the same time. I think the proposed change most ob-
jectionable, and 1, putout; to the peace of the Church, as
certain to lead to diisension In many parishes, lie so truly
an enemy who creates a new subject to contend about.
Moreover, it appears to me to be imnecessary, inasmuch
as the use of the daninatory clauses (which are the
chief matter conp'ained of) is optional at present. In
the many letters puollAhed on the subject I have
never seen it noticed that all these clauses are in the m-
om. see The clergyman, therefore, who dislikes them has
not to declare them to his congregation, and those members
of the latter who object to them may refrain from uttering
them. Why should n t all such persons be content with
this quiet option?
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-21

oal anb ititgetvs.

THE LATE CHARGE OF RAPE AT THE
LYE.

At the Petty Sessions held on Tuesday last,
before Colonel Barrows and Mr. W. C. Firni•
stone, tieorge Pearson and 1 Innuas kleur
Smith surrendered on bail, charged with cotn-
. . .
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-21

STOORBRIDOE.

First Innings. &col:id junings.
S. Hodgkies, b Massingham 14 b Francis
J. W. Parkes, b Massingbam 5 b Massingbam l9
A. H. Bowen, b hlassingliam 0 b Rev. /Moore 0
A. R. Millward, b Rev. Moore 4 b Rev. Bloore
W. Cramer, e Strawbridge,
b Maiwingham
C. Leeson, 6 Massingbam .. 6 6 Buckle
J. Edge, not out
W, Crump, b Massingham
W. Green, 6 Istbury
H. Davis, c Williams, b c Massingham, b
Francis
G. H. Field, c and b Massing- .
ham 0 ran out
Extras... ......... .. 3 Extras

.0

BROMaGRoVE.

W. A. Strawbridge, Ibw, b Bowen 2
W. G. Buckle, run out

A. M. Massumham, c Cramer, b
Hodgkiss
R. T. Atthall, b Edge 4
Rev. G. J. Moore, b Edge
G. C. Francis, b Bowen
W. A. Astbury, b Green
H. T. Williams. b Bowen
E. Allen, 1 b w, b Bowen
S. Poison, run out
W. H. Smith, not out
Extras

STOMUIRIDGE r". LYE.—Tbis, the return match, was
played on the ground at Aroblecote, and was won by the
Stourbridge, as will be seen by the score below. Mr. F.
Swindell made a good innings of 23 (not oat), Mr. J. W.
Parkes 18, and Mr. A. E.Millward 17; total, ht. On the
side of the Lye Mr. W. Green scored SI (not out), and
Mr. G. Sewell 19. The following is the score :

STOCRBRIDGE.

J. W Parkes, b Yates .. 18
T. Penns, b Pe 4
Perry. . • ..
A. E. Millward, b Derricott .. 17
C. Oates, c Tates, b Perry 0
F. Swindell, not out.. 93
C. Leeson, run out . 6
W. Richardson, e Green, b Woodall 3
W. Stevens, e Cnnmer, b Derricott 2
H. Davis. e Woudall, b Derricott.. 0
J. J. King, b Parker .. 1
N. Moore, c Brooks, b berricolts.. 2

Tine LYE.

W. Parker, c Parkes, b Stevens .. 1
.1. Edge. b Oates 0
8. Derrieott, b Stevens .. 0
W. Green, run out 81
W. Cranmer, b Oates .. .. 4

_
G. Sewell, b Richardson.. .. 19
W. Perry, b King 3
W. Yates, I b w, b King 0
J. Woodhall, b King .. 4
E. Brooks, b King 0
S. Cox, b King.. .. 0
Extras .. • • .. .. 10

A SINCERE VOICE OF WARNING against Quacks, or an
unerring Guide to the Nervous and Debilitated, by .J. L.
Palvermacher. An infallible means of detecting the
Quack Doctor, and thus preventing the above class of
patients from falling into his clutches, a danger into
which they are likely to be entrapped through his spe-
cious and enticing forms of advertisements and Treatises.
The well known name and position of the author is a
sufficient guarantee of sincerity. To be had through any
bookseller, or direct of J. L. Palvermacher, Galvanic
Establisluant, 114, Regent-street, W., London.j...

1,2/, 1672.

EMILIA C. BIRMINGHAM PICKWICK. -- A match was
played between the above clubs on the ground at Knville;
on Monday last, and was won by the Pickwick Club. The
following is the score:—

ENVILLIi.

B. William', c Kimberley, b Prestos 4
P. Holyoske, c Preston, b Tallboy. 0
.7. E. Rlgood, hit wkt, b Tallboys ..
A. Hayes, c Sharp, b Tallboys .. 12
Rev. A. Payne, b Tallboys .. 0
T. Blunt. b Preston .. • • .. 0
W. Boucher, b Preston .. • . 0
H. A. Moore, b Preston •
n.
J. W. Parkes, b Preston .. . 6
Hiniley, b Preston .. 3
Rll;,F..R.Hiciamandw.ra,,,bPrest" :• ,
ot out
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-21

SATURDAY,

SEYI

Per gallon.
NICHOLSON'S LONDON (*IN lOsbd 12s Be6d
FINEST JAMAILA ELM ltis lbs
CULOMAL BHANLY ltis
jrj.tlUJhCUNbithtto.. or t les 20s
HENNESSY'S kIIEN CH do Brown ) 24s 26s 2.
Ditto, very Uld bOs 32s
SI SLUILH WHISKY ltis les 20s
HUSH ditto lie les 204
HENNESSY'S CASE BRANDY.

S. PIIMI-1)
HAS JUST RECEIVED A LARGE CONSIGNMENT OF

FOREIGN CIGARS,
INCLUDING THE BEST BRANDS,
NE PLUS ULTRAS, INCOGNITAS, INFANTAS MORALES,
HENRY CLAY'S, &C.

JUST ARRIVED, DIRECT FROM VIENNA AND HAMBURG,
A large quantity of
CIGAR HOLDERS
AND

PIPMS.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-21

tit Stouriribp (Nader.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1872.

TR2 GRNWirA AWARD.

The Geneva Arbitrators have arrived at a de- ,
oision and award. The award is not lineal. I
mously arrived at, but it is binding. They bud
that find Britain is liable for the acts ruinwil.-
ted by the Florio'. and for the acts committed
by Me Shenandoah after leaving Merbouree ; end
these decisions are agreed upon by a majority ut
the Arbitrators; but as regards tam Aiauawa the
Arbitrators unanimously hod Great Britain liable
for the sets committed by her; and Moreover
they decide that we are not liable for the acts of
to. Georgia or any other Confederate crumera
except the three lasku.d. Thu elaiul et n.
United States UoVerailieut for expend..ure to.
curved in pursuit and capture or the cruwers i.
(Wallowed ; eli,, chulu ith• earest is adulated ;
furl the tutal ewer,* la
or about Atg,f2,2v,ln6 /..i.tu•U comment-
ing on the mweent, el t • eeerJ, we way refer
to what the Au.ctii.C:lli4llOCl—a very touch
less amount than eX4,;erStel statements cur-
t.: ot in Englaed nail iid most people to believe.
I.e„tts4, the claims preferred last April be.
Lure the kr,hunal amounted to 43,500,000 dollars
is gold, or about £9,479.166 sterling, this am-
oant iemluding actual losses as well as expenses
lammed in pursuit and capture, together with
interest at? per coot. iorisbout ten years. The
extravagant statements made with regard to the
alleged amount of the indirect claims served to
see•to • good deal of ill-feeling in our own coun-
try towards emeriti', and must lend to increase
diaaatisfactiou with the award where it, exists
Ilerwee the Atlantic; ,but the principie of the
award is in no way affected by the amount of the
insitreet chnu.s, which are thus altogether ig-
nored. If. however, we compare the claim wade
by America, as above stated, with the amount of
the award now made, there seems all the greater
1011,011 for bedevil:lg in the justice of the latter.
In any case the closing of tire tribunal and the
declaration of the verdict and damages ought to
be regarded as waiter for congratulation on both
sides of the Atlantic. Auierica does not get as
mach as she claimed, but she obtains what mu-
partial arbitrators took ...fie ought to have, and
she ought to rest content. England is cast in
damages greater than what Englishmen gener-
ally perhaps think she ought to pay, but she, too,
must recognise the justice and impartiality of
the arbitrators, and ought to subwit readily to
Ole award, if she cannot wholly rejoice at it.
And really submission is apparently the common
feeling, not altogether unmingled with rejoicing.
The 0 Arbitrator, commanded the es-
teem of the Old and New Worlds. They were
men whose emitted official positions awl privaie
Characters w:re a guareiftee for their hon,uraM,
dealing, while they were ehoaed also for theft
command of the orimipi,a .it in, ern ai ii ml law.
Throughout .I.pear tl.l
boo sow WWI Mout minima aim ..1*614.4) to
aped Midi ai assories. is
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-21

THE PRESTON ELECTION.

'A Residing Officer" writes to The Times—
Many of the advocates of the Ballot were influenced
nudely by the hope that at least it would prove a quiet
and orderly mode of tailing the poll. It was contldintly
expecte i Viet, at the number of votes given for each candi-
date would now be unknown mail the oboe of the poll,
the chief cause of the exciterneut of the polling day,
namely—the hourly publishing of returos--wenid be en-
tirely removed. The experience afforded by the recent
election at Preston shows that, however beneficial the
Ballot may Ito in other respects, it fails completely us this.
As a mere e 3 stem of taking votes it works successfully
enough. I acted as presiding officer in one of the poorest
wards in the t•iwn, and have .iterelly nothing to repert, ex-
cept that the electors reeeivril their pares, marked them,
ad ilepoaited them in the helloidnix with nevaryint re,ll.
larity and secrecy. I subsequently assisted in counting the
votes—an operation which was expected to occni y twelve
hours ; it was conutleted in a xactly three hours front the
opening of the first box, and there ivaa not the elghtest dif-
ference of opinion between the Mayor and the agents of the
candidates as to the mode of counting or the papers to be
rejected.
So for. nothing coedit he more satisfactory t but the dis-
appoint irg fact remitios that an hourly state of the poll wag
publ6heil. and that the energy of c.vassers in persuading
an-I bringing up in cabs reluctant voters who ha i held hoer
until three o'clock was as successfully applied as under the
old system.
The mode in which the numbers were ascertained was
described in The Tin., of the 10th Inst. A Conservative
agent was stationed at each polling-to.th, and the voter,
on cmiiing out, was asked for his voting curd, upon whit
was his register number, and for whom he had polled. Ihe
, plan was so successfiti that the figures leaned during the day
i Were MS nearly correct as they would have been in the days
, of open voting.
Teens can be little doubt that on future occasions this
plan will he invariably employe 1, sad will he further deve-
loped. The Ballot will at iectir, t, us the quiet p 0 lace
day we hail hoped tor--the hum ly progress of the v. ti nig will
he eatched as eagerly server, and the temptation to bribery
and personation offer., when the ewes see seen to be nearly
equal will be just as irreaistliile, while an illiterate voter who
thole that, notatittistandlig the Ballot, it is known that he
has not yet voted, and that the state •if the pill is also
1 laicism, *ill scarcely be convinced that there is any secret
voting at aIL
By the 4th eection of the Ballot Act it Is rendered illegal
to attempt to ootain "it, the polling station- information as
to the candidate for whom a voter has polled, hut there Is
nothing to prevent such information being solicited Or given
outside the polling station.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-21

BENEVOLEN T FORETHOUGHT.

WlNTsit's daily drawing nearer ;
Buy your coals, while yet you may.
Qu'ek, before they get still dearer
Than the price which you now pay !
Likewise, each beloved hearer,
In your stock of blankets lay :

Coals, not all to roast your mutton
Costly, and more costly beef;
kleot that makes the richest glutton
Pay his butcher's hill with grief ;
Blankets, mostly beds to put on
Of the poor, who 11 need relltf.
Pity, by antttipation.
With prophetic power of thought,
Those, for you in your own station,
Who have famine prices srought
By their strikes throui h out the cation ;
On themselves will want have brought.
—Punch.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-21

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I. Wordsley. The Roes* contains Front Sitting
Room, • large Kitehen, Scullery, Pantry, acc., with three
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Kigit•street, Wortsley.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-21

THE "MAID OF ATHENS."

The following appearedln The Tintes of Wednee-

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daY :
Will you permit me, through your columns, to represent to
the public the extreme want of Mrs 'fhele.e Blick, Byron's
Maid of Atheus," who is upwards of levelly stolid delicate
alth. There are many who would gladly assist her but do
Dot know any ad • pee to which to remit sums of money,
small though they may be, yet of great service to the once
beautiful clot courted "Maid of Athens."
Mrs. Black has, besides, an additional claim upon this
country, elog the widow of the late English Vice-Consul at
Mnsolunght I add an extract from a letter from her to TlDY-
self, whiela will no doubt prove of more weight thau anything
I can say
Ma fllle Ctolt bleu ins'ade. et moi feb,is Inquii.le et bien
tette, car je mat que cette Bile unique qua forme ma con-
solation. Insole trots glare ins lURni mast la ITIMIVAiIIe fortune
me lee a fait portico molt a ravi mes flux clue f ,rinoient
mes &Bees a to hear de leur age dernierement j'ai eu le
malheur de perdre aussi aloft boa marl, qui ttoit to soutinot
de ma lostion. Sill9i taut tuoi et ma Bile uous commei restix
sans aucun appui." . . .
I shad In, happy to receive any contlibutions I. r Mrs.
Thereto Black's assistance, which may be forwarded tinny
ad Cr, a.. II S. survms-Yono.
11-,vey Tracey, South Dorms.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-21

ARCHBISHOP MANNING ON EDUCA-

TION.

Archbishop Manning preached on Sunday at St.
Chada Cathedral, Birmingham, in aiii of the Catholic
school. of the parish. The large building was crowded.
The rev. dockor, in the course of an eloquent sermon,
alluded to the recent congress of the International - a
society "which had devastated a mighbourink capital."
One of the articles of that society was, he said, that chil-
dren did not belong to their fathers and mothers; that
they belongid to the State—thatthey were, in fact, chattelaof the State. His hi mos as Englishmen ant Irish-
men, had al ways pitied the work nouse boy. Might i ;rod
have m rey upon the ciiildren of the Commune. That
revolution hail already devastated some countries,
and it was filtering ita venom in other lands, whereas
yet it had not attained an asiendancy. It was
gradually sapping and undermining the Chriitian
instincts of the people and was seeking to claim
that civil power might take the control of the
education of children. lie would make a frank ad-
mission ; if a father or mother neglected to educate
their child, and suffered it to become a thief, or a
prostitute, then he admitted, yea affirmed, that the
civil power had a right to interfere to protect so-
ciety as it would against a pestilence. so also against an
ignorant and immoral population. I tompulsot y educa-
tion, like a quarantine law, or like the provision
against dang liouii weapons being permitted to ma-
licious persons' fulfilled the first law of society, " self-
protection ; " hut outdde of that the education of
Christian children was committed by God to the au-
thority of their fathers and mothers, and to the supreme
direction of his Illinrch. The right rev, preacher alluded
to the National Edmation Lea :tie as a body of uptight
and honourable men, s ho, shocked by the sight of
manses of children growing up in ignorance, sought
to provide a kind of education which would offend the
religious opinions of nobody, and at the same time
secure the instruction of the children. He regarded
the attempt as impracticable, and the half hour's
religious teach:ng betore the school work, and the half-
hour after, which it was proposed to give under such a
system, as utterly failing in any sense to supply what
was the great necessity. Er. Manning also preached
in the evening to &large congregation.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-21

HOW THE AMERICAN NOBILITY OF

THE TURF TRAVEL.

A new palace car has been constructed for the trans-
portation of thu fc,mous trotters, " tioldsusith Maid "
and "Lucy." In outside appearance the car is not
unlike an ordinary passenger car, with the exception of
the number of windows, of which these are six on
either side, each with a wire screen open the inside.
Upon entering the car you step into a small outer
apartment, in which is a luxurious lounge and other
articles of furniture. Opening a door upon one
side, you enter the main portion of the car, de-
voted to the horse and ordinary track appurtenances.
Here are four stalls—two at either end—and running
lengthwise of the car. The sides of each of these stalls
are thickly padded with hair, covered with entambled
cleth. The stall partitions are moveable, and can be
taken out and placed across the rear end of the
stall, thus forming, when deaired, a roomy box stall.
Overhead are strapped, in separate pieces, the
sulkies, all carefully guarded from being scratched
or marred in tratosimrtion. The centre of the car is
devoted to trunks, chests, hay. &c. At either end
of the car, on the roof, is a tank, each capaqe
of holding eighty g dlons of water. Underneath the
centre of the car is a capacious box wills doors,
in which is carried the platform upon which the mares
pass in and out of the car. The car is furnished with
the most improved passenger car trucks as adepted by
the Pennsylvania Railroad, also with the Westing-
hause air brake. The ear is also provided with marble
wash bowls, closets, aud in fact everything necessary
for the queens of the turf and their attendants. The
entire length of the car is fifty feet, and of the usual
width of passenger cars. This car takes the mares to
California.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-21

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-21

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ter 'hosting disease. purifying the blood, and expelling
bee she room all growl k amours.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-21

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-21

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-21

FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE.

Mr. J. Willard, of The Farm, Holly-lodge, High-
gate, writes to The Times :
. _ .

Observing from the report. hi Ihe Times the alarm-
ing progress of the foot and month disease, and that little
has yet been said about curative treatment, will you allow
me to state I have found that proper treatment and at.
teution prevents much suffering and the loss of many lives
Although not extensively fatal, the disease rendrrs a large
percentage of horned cattle useless. particularly milah
cows and those in full profit. During Inun the disease broke
out here on the 9th of August, and by the 30th of the mule
mouth out of above a dozen cows all were convalescent.
This favourable result was due to Mr. Priestrnan, the
veterinary surgeon in charge of Baroness Burdett Coutts's
rd here, whose treatment should I think be widely
known. This is his receipt. As soon as the disease
makes its appearance administer to the entire herd
one drachm of carbolic acid night and morning for
four days, being careful not to use the IMMO dr, aching
horn or bottie for the healthy as for the afflicted, the .11-
log animals ere to be fed upon cold wet bran and pulped
wurzel or grass only (according to the season) immediately
the shitence of the diinase is noticed; then, it necessary, a
little kbrifuge medicine may be administered. As carbolic
mild will not mix with water only, it must be prepared by a
qualified person.
Mr Priestman informs me that the result of this treatment
Is as folio s --About onwthird of the animals do not show
any symptoms of the disease, another third take it ins mild
form, and the remainder in the ordinary way, but soon re-
cover.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-21

DUDLEY.

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. Early on Wednesday
morning a shocking fatality took place on the Great
Western Railway, near Dudley. A" brakesman," named
Edwin Garbett, of Wolverhampton, was assisting to shunt
a goods train at Netherton, to enable a pasatuge train to
continue its journey. He bad " coupled " two wagons,
and was stepping out from between them when the engine
was set in motion, and he was knocked down. He fell
across the rail, and the wheels of the train passed over
his head and body. Death was, of course, instantaneous.
The uuforttudate man leaves a wife and family,

Moan CVIIIIS OP ASTHMA AND COBOHB BY De. LOCOCICA
PULDONIC W ABBRS.—From Mr. C. Collins, Chemist,
Brettell Lane, Stourbridge : " Several have taken them
I .r asthma, coughs, .kc , and in evry cage they have had
tic desired effect. In my opinian, they surpass anything
at has been offered to the public. In Asthma, Con-
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.ad all Hysterical and nervous pains instant relief is
given by Da. LOCOCH'S WaFERS, which taste plea-
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-21

SPUTTERINGS FROM " JUDY'S" PEN.

STARTLING FACT —Every man who commits suicide with
pistol mast discharge his own dest 0 nubby. (detonator)
CAN the New Licensing Act be said to supply the her of
drunkarda

tioT Filling at the Price—The Roll of Fame.
CAPILLARY. -Young men have a back-parting, old one. •
do-parting, in theft hair.
THE present price of fuel In such, that foci] be able to pay
it. Reny, we fear, will come to • full stop, since they cabuut
put any more col-on. _

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THE BaKer's Satike—A strike of flour.
N,TWITHSTANDING the rood harvest, farmers are saying
that the present is a shocking time for them.
LoNG ODDS TAKEN —Four-feet-eleven and-a-quarter in her
lie•ots accepting ail-tett-two in his stockings.
}WOMEN SOLVED FOC THE BENEFIT OF COLLIERS.—Where
do ail cue niggers go?—To work, 61 course.

WHY is am AD that can't mow as good as dead I—Because
belt no mower.—(Got along with 'nu !--Ju DY.) .

Who first encioi. 'wed itirT ST-ANLLT in bi seAreli In
LIVINGS rom:?-5i! W ALTER @CT= he said, 'O., STANLEY,
on !"hhd STANLEY went on.

Tiig feWlvitiet at Berlin, con•eguent upon the meeting of
the throe Emperors, have caused that capital to bv more on
the Spree than eva.
Morro roll 111 E ACTT:MN Nl,l7,EtVuln...—" Who shall
decide the cause when umpires disagree ? "
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QUARRELS ME sovereigns ought to settle their differences
at King's Cross washerwomen at Charing Cross.

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Wll tiN the enterprising butcher's assistant " set up on his
own hook," did he bud a comfortable soot I
Nitre talk about the Idle wind • but the wind is always
busy, and, like a cheer! at farmer, Whistles &tits work.
—Judy.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-21

CAUTION.

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nyatcst eejolglnu Doctors ttnitating his discoveries and
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-21

BOARD OF GUARDIANS.

The weekly meeting of this Board was held
yesterday; Mr. Granger in the chair. There
were also present:—Messrs. Rollinson, Baker,
Wood, B. Homer, Paskins, Fereday, Fiddian,
Rhodes, Billingham, and Guest. The minutes
of the last meeting were read and confirmed.
Admitted into the house during the week, 8;
discharged, 15; remaining, 339. Corresponding
week last year, 893. Out-doorrelief Kingswin-
ford district, £25 is 3d; Stourbridge district,
£lB us 7d; Halesowen district, £2l 12s 6+d;
total, £65 9s 100, against £76 5s 3-ld last
year.

A letter was read from the Local Government
Board sanctioning the increase of wages to Isaac
Perry.

POLICE INSPECTIoN.—COIOLIeI COMIC inspec-
ted the police officers of the Stourbridge and
H.desowen divisions, and the Kidderminster
sub-division, on Wednesday. There were one
superintendent (Mr. Freeman), four sergeants,
and twenty-eight constables present. A portion
of the men were absent in charge of stations
and special duty. Cohmel Carmichael, the
Chief Con-table of Wore, ater,hire. was present
at the inspection. The on were pot through a
short drill, with which C ,lonel C.o,be apneared
to be (pile sei,tied, and he af•erwards i-xaniined
, the cells, the superintendent's boults, and the
books of Oho ms o who led al bee proTieti*
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-21

THE FARMERS AND THE LABOURERS.

The Warwickshire Agrieultural Society's show and
dinner took place on Tuesday, at Warwick ; the latter
under the presidency of Lieutenant• Colonel King, of
Chart-hunt. . . .

....
The agricultural labourers, their agitation, and union,
whieh originated at Willediourne, nine miles from
Watwiek, formed the prominent topie of the speeches
at the dinner,

The vliairmsn admitted that labourers bad a right
to share in the general ppisperity of the country, and
were jU tined in formiog unions. aud resorting to et try
legitimate means of increasing their wages; but he
counselled labourers rather to trust to friendly con.
fermiers with them, than to the guidance of profes-
sional BRit.totd. He urged the (amulet to pay their
labourers better wages. and to grant them every reason-
able and practieable demand.
Mr. Newdegare, responding as senior county mem-
ber, admitted that the high price of provisions, owing
to the three years of thought, and the high price of
coal, warranted the agricultural labourers in demand-
ing an inctease of wages ; and he titanic:. the farmers
for n. t having foreseen and anticipated the movement.
There was in every agitation some sound foundation.
There had been threatened retaliation on the labourers
during the ensuing winter for demanding salditional and
unreasonable wages. Retaliation was only justifiable in
self-defence, and with a view to the mutual prosperity of
all concerned ; but it was an evil in itself, and no urged
the farmers to think well before they resorted to it.
Let them speak to and take counsel with their men,
and speak to them frankly, in the spirit of Englishmen
and men of common sense. Ile then spoke approvingly
of the suggestion made by the Speaker of the House of
Commons to his labourers, which he considered right
in its object and true in principle.
Mr. Bromley Davent ort, M.P., held that the land-
lord =, tenants, and farmers, might safely be left to
settle their own affairs, without the interference of out-
siders. He disapprio e.I of the suggestion in the speech
of the Speaker of the Commons. and thought he might
have been ranch better employed than in delivering it,
A g od deal was said alisert profit, but they must look
at both sides in d-aling with the question.
Mr. Arthur Wellesley Peel, nP. for Warwick,
also spoke on the subject. He commended the senti-
ments expleettil at that meeting, and said the only
thing wanted to settle the question WAR a fi ieudly and
. kindly feelieg. He Ohl not approve of the Speaker's
suggestion, because he did not see how la'iourers could
save funds to invest, and the scheme did not embrace
any control over the management of the farms, and
preferred the proposal of Sir Baldwin Leighton, of
giving the labourers a direct and personal benefit in
, their work.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-28

NERVOUSNESS NO FANCY. Thousands
of poor sufferers can truly testify that nervous-
ness is indeed no fancy, but a terrible reality that has
baffled the skill of the wisest of our Physicians to cure.
Nervous invalids suffering from low spirits and debility,
noises in the head, melancholy, fear, blushing, dislike to
society, sleeplessness, headache, indigestion, dimness of
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stamps, by Dr. THOMSON, 55 Bartholomew•road, Ken
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cured it, and the palpitation of the heart which often din.
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