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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-16

ROYAL VISIT TO ASCOT ABANDONED.

The very grave news received by the Prince and
Princess of Wales with reference to the critical con-
dition of the Emperor of Germany prevented their
Royal Highnesses, who were staying at Sunningdale
Park, from visiting Ascot races on Tuesday after-
noon, as originally intended. The information for-
warded to the Prince on the previous night appears
to have been of an extremely gloomy character, and,
after awaiting with the greatest anxiety further in-
telligence as to the state of the illustrious patient, his
Royal Highness, it is said, telegraphed to Berlin.
The answer, which was to the effect that the Emperor
was sinking very fast, was received about one o'clock
on Today afternoon, just as the preparations for
the Royal visit to the Heath had been completed.
Prince and Princess Christian and their guests had
driven from Cumberland Lodge to Sunningdale
in order to join the Prince of Wales's cortege, the
horses and carriages for which had already arrived
from Windsor Castle. The Prince and Princess of
Wales and the other members of the Royal family at
once abandoned their intention, and a message ex-
plaining this was, it is understood, forwarded without
delay to the Earl of Coventry, the master of her
Majesty's buckhounds, who was to have preceded the
Royal procession up the course to the Queen's stand.
Prince and Princess Christian and their company re-
mained to luncheon with the Prince and Princess of
Wales, and subsequently drove back to their resi-
dence in Windsor Great-park. The horses and car-
riages which were to have conveyed the Royal party
to Ascot returned in the course of the afternoon to
Windsor Castle, their unusually early arrival from
Ascot excit,ng much speculation, and giving rise to
the most melancholy reports.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-16

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-16

liitUALU KU%

BOARD OF GUARDIANS. - The members of this
Board met at the Workhouse n Tuesday, Mr. J.
Wright presiding. Mr. Parry called attention to
the fact that the amount allowed in outdoor relief
in the Belbroughton district had risen from an
Average of about .£4O for the fortnight, to £53 In
tt,e oth. r districts the amounts were decreasing as
summer came on. Mr. R. E. Putter (relieving
,fficer) explained that there had recently been it
large increase in the number of case of sickness in
his district, and he had been put to extra expense
in other matters. Mr. Lewis pointed out that in
he Brotnsgrove district the average amount allnwed
ii outdo I. relief was is. 10d., while in the Bel-
nrouchton d strict it 'as only Is. 6d. Mr. Parry
velars' ked they were not grumbling at the way the
rAief was adminlstered. They only desired to
know the re4son of the increase. The resolution
eixing the remuneration of the nurse at 2,20 per
tritarn was reseinded, and the salary was fixed at
225.

CRUELTY TO A licatsu.— at the Petty Sessions 0,
rue.day, before Mr. R. Smallwood, the Rev. E. H
dynors, and Mr. J. White, William Ward, jun.
of Sidemoor, was ch IrgA with illtreating a hors,
Oy working it while in an unfit stAte on the 70-'
inst.: and Wiliam Ward, sea., his f ,th-r, was
-harged with allowing the horse to be illtreated by
Yllbtl•iqPitfcmleatnfaCiVl7,ll
83. 6.1. aud l3s. costs; in default, seven and twenty-
one days' hard lab nir respeaively.
Cauour AFTER *CwO YEARS. —At the same Court
ind was c- ' harred with stealing various
articles of wearing apparel, value £3 12. 61., and
255. in maney, the peoperty of Charles- Wattoo, an.l
a.lso a pair of bo its, the property of Fed riei.
Watton, on Febuary 4, 1886. P.i.oner absconded
at the time, awl was arrested at Stone (Staffar 1-
saire) last week. He plea ied net guilty, and wee
committed for trial at tha next Quarter Sessions.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-16

AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS IN

INDIA.

THE return of agricultural implements
and machines which have been tried in India
during the year 1886--87, and have been
efficient and useful, shows that most of the
ploughs which proved successful were made
in India. Of chaff cutters, those supplied
by Messrs. Richmond & Chandler were not
a"tdr6l., ci9t -----s TT-
rom a econd
return, containing a list of agricultural
implements which have met with marked
success in India during 1882-3 to 1886-87,
it appears that Howard's No. S. B. patent
plough works most efficiently. The Director
of the Department of Land Records and
Agriculture, Bombay, says of this plough:—
"It has been worked on the Hyderabad
farm more or less every season for the last
sixteen years, and the work done is found to
be most satisfactory. Native cultivato,s
appreciate its work, but, considering it too
heavy and expensive, have not yet used it on
their own land." Of Ransome's winnower,
the same official says: "In Hyderabad,
according to the superintendent of the
farm, the natives greatly approve of its
work, and readily take it on hire, but con-
sider its price prohibitive." Messrs. Hunt
& Co.'s chaff cutter, which has been suc-
cessful in all districts in the North Western
Provinces and Oudh, is stated to be getting
very popular. The same makers' grain
Tribblincr rin;ll.
been highly reported on. Their sale is increas-
ing.—lron
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-16

IN COMMITTEE.

The House on going into Committee on the Local
Government Bill resumed consideration of Clause 11.,
which prescribed the composition and election of the
Comity Council. The clause provided that the elected
portion of the Council shall be elected for a term of
three years, at the end of which the whole Council
shall retire. Mr. Shaw-Lefevre moved an amendment
providing that one-third of the Councillors should
retire annually. A discussion followed, towards the
:lose of which Mr. W. H. Smith suggested that if the
amendment was withdrawn the Government would
mnsider whether it would not be possible to adopt, in
some degree at least, the proposal contemplated by
the mover of the amendment. The amendment was
withdrawn.

Sir J. Lubbock moved an amendment with a view of
introducing the system of proportional representation.
The amendment was opposed by Sir W. Harcourt and
Mr. Ritchie, and was negatived on a division by 372
to 94.

The clause also provided that casual vacancies among
the elected Councillors shall be filled by the Council.
Mr. Channing moved that such vacancies be filled by
the electors. Mr. Ritchie accepted the amendment,
out suggested that, to avoid bye-elections on the eve of
the general election of the Council, the Council should
oe empowered to fill vacancies occurring within six
months of the expiration of the period for which the
Councillors were elected. The amendment thus modi-
fied was agreed to.
Mr. A. Acland moved the insertion of a provision for
the payment to members of their travelling expenses to
sod from the place of meeting. Mr. Smith remarked
that the amendment was too important to be discussed
just before the sitting had to be suspended, and pro-
gress was accordingly reported.
PUBLIC OFFICERS.-A GOVERNMENT DEFEAT.
At the Evening Sitting a discussion arose on a
motion by Mr. Jennings that the reorganisations in
certain public offices had been injurious to the public
interests by resulting in increased charges. The motion
was opposed by Mr. Childers and Lord G. Hamilton,
the latter of whom moved an amendment that when re-
organisations became necessary full inquiries should be
mrule into the wants of the Departments, with a view
to giving employment to redundant officers. He hoped
Mr. Jennings would withdraw his motion in favour of
his amendment. Mr. Jennings, however, declined to
do so, and after some further discussion, during which
Mr. W. H. Smith assured the House that the Govern-
ment were prepared to appoint redundant officers to
any employment for which they were fit, the amend-
ment was negatived by 113 to 94. Mr. Jennings
motion was then agreed to.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-16

A JOURNALIST'S SUICIDE.

On the arrival of the fifteen minutes past five train
from King's-cross a.. Peterborough on Saturday morn-
ing, the body of a gentleman, about 40 years of age,
was found in a firstclass carriage, shot through the
heart, with a revolterlying by his side. On him was
found two cards vith the names "Robert M. K.
Tickell, Dublin Eming Mail." At the back of one
was written, "Wire George Tickell, Evening Mail,
Dublin, 'Your son shot himself while travelling from
London towards Peterborough this morning. He is
dead." And at the back of the other, "On the road
from London to Peterborough an ill-spent life is Ati p
terminated by a enwardly act.—Robert Tickell, June
9, 1888."

A Dublin correspondent telegraphs: The sad death
of Mr. Robert Tickell had elicited general sympathy
for his family. Mr. Tickell has been for several
months a sufferer from some disease in the throat,
which deprived him of his voice. He went to London
only a fortnight ago, accompanied by a younger
brother, to consult Dr. Lennox Brown, the eminent
specialist on throat diseases. Dr. Brown found
that there was a dangerous growth and that an
immediate operation was imperative. This announce-
ment was unexpected and must have had a
depressing effect upon Mr. Tickell. Anxious, how-
ever, not to neglect medical advice, he submitted to
operations on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Tuesday last,
and considerable portions of a large growth were
extracted and pronounced to be malignant. Never-
theless the telegrams and letters received each day
from the unfortunate gentleman were reassuring, and
no immediate anxiety was entertained, although Mrs.
G. Tickell, his mother, and a medical relative of the
family started for London on Saturday morning. Mr.
Tickell's relations with his family were one of the
happiest and most affectionate character. His father,
Mr. George Tickell, J.P., and the deceased gentle-
man's young wife, who is only now recovering from
a lengthened indisposition, had been engaged during
the week in making every arrangement for his com-
fort and care during the critical period which all re-
cognised was at hand. In Mr. Robert Tickell Irish
journalists have lost a colleague who had in every
way endeared himself to all. Bright, genial, witty,
and endowed with an unusual share of talent, he
seemed destined to achieve distinction in any walk
of life.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-16

NATIONAL DEFENCES.

It is intimated that the Government may consent
to widen the scope of the inquiry of the National De-
fences Commission, so as to obtain from that body an
expression of opinion as to the necessary standard for
the armament nf the enuntry The Reeprit Int-. 1
Stephen, stated that it would be advisable for some
general standards to be laid down as to the number
of men, ships, and guns the country ought to possese
to enable the departments to work up to that point.
Among the military members on both sides of the
House of Commons there is a good deal of dissatisfac-
tion expressed about the composition of the Commis.
sion. It is asserted that the official element is far toc
strongly represented on the Commission, there being
no fewer than three ex-Secretaries of State for War,
who cannot be expected to condemn the past conduct
of the War Office, and another offici2l, Lieutenant-
General Brackenbury, who has long held an official
post in that department. Several Conservative mem-
bers state their intention from time to time to put
questions to the Government in reference to the work
of the Commission, which, it is hoped, will not unduly
protract the inquiry or postpone report on the subject
of the national defences.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-16

JOYNT'S DIVORCE BILL.

In the House of Lords an Tuesday the bill to dis-
solve the marriage of Mr. Richard Watson Joynt, of
Ballina, in the county of Mayo, Ireland, newspaper
proprietor, with Charlotte Barker Joynt, his wife,
came up for second reading. The peers preSent were
the Lord Chancellor, Lord Watson, Lord Fitzgerald,
and Lord Macnaghten.
Mr. Lewis Coward appeared for the promoter. The
roopondeut, was not represented.

The learned counsel, in opening the case, said that
the promoter, Mr. Joynt, married his wife at Kul-
rush, Clare, in 1867. The parties lived to-
gether very happily until the end of 1879, there
being nine children of the marriage. At the
beginning of 1880 it came to Mr. Joynt's know-
ledge that his wife had been unfaithful with Mr.
James Jackson, the local manager of the Bank of
Ireland at Ballina. He immediately separated from
his wife, and brought an action for crim. con., in
which he received a verdict against Mr. Jackson for
£lOOO. He had been, however, unable to obtain
damages or costs, but he obtained a decree of
divorce a mensa et toro. Mrs. Joynt was now living
in New York, and substituted service of the proceed-
ings had been made upon her. The necessary evi-
dence having been given to entitle the petitioner to a
divorce, a letter from Mrs. Joynt to her husband was
put in confessing her guilt, stating the circumstances
under which Mr. Jackson succeeded in wronging her,
and giving details as to their intimacy. In the course
of this letter she says:
"God only knows what I have gone through for
Mr. Jackson, and although he commenced my ruin I
upbraid him not. He always gave me money when
I went from home, and after or before I was sick.
He gave me money in Dublin. I could have run
away long ago only for my children, I was so fond of
them. I have told you no falsehoods, and Mr.
Jackson will injure and not help himself by denying
facts, for proofs strong as Holy Writ can in a very
short time be found. He, and he only, lured me
from my husband and implanted in my mind my first
sinful thought concerning the other sex. He coaxed
me and sent me into a delirium. I was by him as
the mesmerised, and even now, in my downfall and
dejection, I would, if r could, say something to
lighten his sorrow and trouble.—LOTTlE JOYNT."
At the conclusion of the ovidence,

The Lord Chattellor said the story was a very
melancholy one, and that the petitioner had clearly
established his right to a divorce. He, therefore,
moved that their lordships read the bill a second
time.

Acr;ordingly the bill was read a second time.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-16

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-16

METROPOLITAN CATTLE.

In the cattle trade nothing of interest has transpired.
A very quiet business has been passing, thefine weather
tending against values. The fresh arrivals of beasts
from our own grazing districts were about the average.
Buyers were not at all eager to operate, and the market
in consequence was entirely devoid of animation, but
fine breeds were tolerably firm in value. The best Scots
and crosses were disposed of at 4s 8d to 4s 10d per 81b.
Foreign beasts were in moderate supply. There
was a quiet business doing, and prices were
about the same. There was a good supply
of sheep in the pens. Business was slow
throughout, and, the tendency of prices was rather
against the seller. The best Downs and half-breds
made 5s 6d and 58 8d per 81b. Lambs were quiet at
6s to 6s 10d per 81b. Calves and pigs were quiet at
• about late rates. Quotations: Coarse and inferior
beasts, 2s 44 to 3s; second quality ditto, 3s to
4s ; prime large oxen, 4s 4d to 4s 6d; ditto
Scots, &c., 4s 8d to 4s 10d; coarse and inferior sheep,
3s 2,1 to 4s; second quality ditto, 4s to ss; prime
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ditto, 5s 6d to 5s 8d ; lambs, 6s to 6s 10d; large coarse
calves, 3s to 4s Od ; prime small ditto, 48 4d to 5s 4d;
large hogs, 2s 4d to 3s; neat small porkers, 3s to 4s
per 81b. to sink the offal.
METROPOLITAN MEAT.

A moderate supply was on offer. The trade was
slow, but prices were fairly firm for top quality. Scotch
beef exceptionally realised 4s 4d. Prices: Inferior
beef, 2s 4d to 3s Od; middling ditto, 3s Od to 3s 6d ;
prime ditto, 3s 10d to 4s 2d; Scotch ditto, 4s Od to
4s 21; American, Liverpool killed, 4s Od to 4s id;
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5s 0,1 to 5s 4d; Scotch ditto, 5s Od to 5s ed ; New Zealand
ditto. 2s 10d to 3s ; lamb, 5s 8d to 6s 4d; large ,ork,
NBdto 3s Od; small ditto, 3s 6d to-3s 10d per 81b. by
the carcase.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-16

ITCHING PILEB-SYMPrOM9 AND CURE

The symptoms are moisture, like perspiration, intense
itching, increased by scratching ; very distresin,:,
paiticularly at night ; seems as if pin.worma seer.
crawling in and abont the rectum ; the p ivate parts ar4
sometimes affected, If allowed to continue very ser,ou
results may follow. "IS WAYNE'S OIN ;, Ni" is
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-16

STARTLING THE NATIVES.

The extraordinary sensation caused among the
native Persians by the construction of a railroad
between the postal stations of Mahmondabad, on the
Caspian coast, and Amol, about 25 miles in the in-
terior, is &scribed by a correspondent. He says that
the engines are objects of increasing wonder, and of
absorbing interest to the natives. Scarcely the
slightest conception of the power of the hissing
monster, even after a month's observation, appears
as yet to have dawned upon the crude intelligence of
the inhabitants. As the locomotive approaches, the
crowd of astonished natives retire for safety to a dis-
tance, and then follows a screaming chorus of ex-
clamations. There are upwards of 2000 men en.
gaged in the construction of this pioneer Persian
railway. The majority of them are Italians, the re-
mainder consisting of nomads and nondescripts, who
were previously engaged on the Baku section of the
Transcaspian line.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-16

FLOWER RAIDING.

A clever hand at working up slum pathos might
make an effective passage out of the defence set ug
at a Lancashire police-court the other day for "a
respectably dressed boy" who had damaged a haw-
thorn tree in a gentleman's garden. The delinquent's
mother pleaded that "he had never been in the
country before, and did not know he was doing any
harm." Poor benighted child! Shut up all his life
within urban limits, he regarded the outside world as
a delightful A Lsatia where every human being could
do as he pleased. The country had, in fact, the same
character to his mind that Central Africa or Central
Asia wears for the traveller—a region of universal
freedom and thrilling adventure. And so when he
saw the hawthorn blossoms, he tore down a branch
as a specimen for his botanical collection at home.
Such is the picture of that boy which the fictionist
of the slums would be likely to produce. We
could limn a companion sketch which, while far
inferior as a work of art, might have the merit of
being more true to nature. Our boy would be shown
as 105 itually appropriating lilac, laburnum, and other
flowers from suburban gardens. We should represent
that society, after some feeble efforts to resist Ulf se
depredations, had at last "caved in," and that the
offence has thus come to be recognised both by its
perpetrators and the police as too trivial to deserve
notice. Our boy being thus educated to hold the
rights of property in slight esteem, we should launch
him into the country with every assurance that he
would turn his learning to profitable account. But
what about the plea "he had never been in the
country before ? " Well, that would only mean that,
owing to his long urban training in privileged larceny,
it needed a rural trip to convince him that such
offences, being contrary to the law, are still punish-
able.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-16

VITRIOL THROWING.

John Mills, who is known to the police under two
aliases, was charged before the Manchester sti-
pendiary, on Saturday, with inflicting bodily harm
upon a woman named Alice Mills, with whom be had
gone through the ceremony of marriage, his wife
being then alive. Police-sergeant Grubbe said he ap-
prehended the prisoner on the above-named charge
on Saturday morning. In March last he and the
woman were lodging at a house in Paradise-court,
and in consequence of some disagreement
between them prisoner took up a vessel
containing vitriol and threw the contents into the
woman's face. As a result the left side of her
face was terribly disfigured, and the sight of her left
eye entirely destroyed. Prisoner only came out of
gaol on January 14 last, after serving a term of 10
years' penal servitude for throwing vitriol over his
first wife, the right side of whose face was disfigured
and the sight of her right eye completely destroyed.
In answer to the charge on Saturday prisoner said,
Is that all you have against me ? " Since being
apprehended he had threatened to commit suicide,
and precautions had to be taken to prevent him doing
so. The. Bench granted a remand until Tuesday.
The injured woman is at present an inmate of the
Cheadle Convalescent Home, where she was received
from the Royal Infirmary'
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-16

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tter plainly, we received a short time
since a sample of block or what is generally
known as patent fuel, with a request that we
would test it and publish our opinion of it.
The season of fires having—happily for us,
but not for the inventor of this fuel—for the
present become a thing of the past, we are
unable to comply with his request. This,
however, does not prevent us giving par-
ticulars of the invant. on, and we promise
him that next autumn prov.ded the
samples do not get misappropriated in the
meantime—we will give this fuel a trial.
The inventor, who is Mr. J. T. Jackson, of
84. Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, sends us the
following as the specification :—Add to 1 ton
s smudge 51b of flout% slb of resin, llb salt,
of sodium, 51b of sugar, and from 2 to 3
per cent of pitch. This, says Mr. Jackson,
makes up into 21 cwt. of patent blo3ks, and
the cost of the whole of the ingredients
bought wholesale is about ls. id. We do
not quite see how 83 lb —allowing the full 3
per cent of pitch—added to one ton of
smudge will make 21 cwt., but it is perhans
near enough, being only 29 lb.out. But
what we do not at all sea is the force of
literally "feeding the flames" on those
commodities which so many thousands have
such a straggle to obtain for feeding them •
selves and their children. It may be that
this point can be satisfactorily settled by
Mr. Jackson, and therefore—to use another
old expression—we pause for a reply. This
is certainly "feeding the flames " with a
vengeance!
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-16

RO WLE Y REGIS.

ROBBING & TRADESMAN. —At the Police Court on
Wednesday, beltre Messrs. W. Bassano, J B
itnith, and W. W. Wiggin (ruagistr4tes), William
Leyehon (25), marine store dealer, Halesowen. was
...tharged wi:h stealiog a quantity of Pcrap-iron, the
property of John \Williams, rump Farm, Black
heath. Fined 20s. and costs, or in def :nit one
ruct,ith's impisonment.
AN UNDESIRABLE "SON," Nathan Price (37),
stocktaker Horsley Heath. Tipton, was charged
with attempting to obtain 30s. by means of false
pretences. Inspector Walters, in applying for a
remand for a week, which was grantet, stated that
eight or tea days ago Mr. John Orrick, a tradesm.tn
residing at Glasgow, inserted an advertisement in a
newspaper :especting two sons who had been miss-
ing silica March, 1884. F oth the Boat Inn, Tivi-
lale, prisoner wrote a letter to Mr. Orrick stating
that he was his son John, and would come home .f
tie woull send bin 30s. to the Boat Inn, Tividalit.
.llr 0 ick suspected the letter was fom a t impo,•
tor; be communica:ed with the Glasgow police, and
the prisoner was arrested.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-16

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-16

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

PEXRS AND ELECTIONS.

In the Horn OF LORDS on June 11th, the Earl of
Milltown moved for a Select Committee to consider the
Report of the Select Committee of the House of Corn.
mons in reference to the Sessional Order as to the in.
tervention of peers and prelates in Parliamentary elm
Hons. Lords Salisbury said as the resolution of the
Commons had been communicated to their lordships
they could not pass over it. The Sessional Order of
the House of Commons had existed for a great many
years without having exerted any perceptible influence
on their proceedings. It was an interesting piece
of archmology, and was addressed against abuses which
were now prevented by the police. The proceedings of
both Houses were full of these strange antiquar.an
relics, which were interesting and not noxious. But it
would be inconsistent with their practice and with their
respect for the other House to pass over in silence the
report they had received from it. Therefore, without
expressing any opinion on the contentious matter, he
would recommend the appointment of a committee to
consider the report of the Commons. The motion was
agreed to.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-16

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INSANITY IN THE FAMILY.

A Bradford correspondent states: "Jackson has
been in a despondent state since his capture, and
while in Bradford cell was attended by the police-
surgeon, who administered stimulants and medicine.
He made statements concerning the existence of in-
sanity in his family, and expressed a fear that he
should go out of his mind before the trial came on.
He also referred to his wasted life, and lamented the
lations. 'lk-otters inrhcaPf—gnon his r.
him on Tuesday morning. He was once more photo-
graph 3d, and, before his departure for Manchester, he
thanked the Bradford officers for the kind manner in
which they had treated him."

REMOVAL TO MANCHESTER.
Telegraphing on Tuesday evening, a Manchester
correspondent says: "The train in which Jackson
was brought to Manchester reached Victoria Station
at 2.35 p.m. A very large crowd was in waiting to
witness the arrival, but order was well kept by a
compact body of constables under the charge of the
chief constable, Mr. Wood. Under the escort of the
police Jackson was conducted from the saloon car-
riage to the police-van in waiting, and driven at once
to the County Police-court adjoining the goal. There
seemed a frantic desire to see the prisoner. Inside
the station the roof of the train was boarded,
and outside the police found it no easy matter
to force a way to the van. A police officer had
charge of the reins, and on both sides of him as well
as on the rear steps of the van there were officers
both in and out of uniform. The driver sent off the
powerful pair of horses at a smart pace, and accom-
panied by the running crowd, which was every minute
recruited, the short distance was quickly accom-
plished. Outside the police-court the city police
handed the prisoner into the custody of the county
police, who at once took him indoors. Mr. Leresche,
seats on the bench a few minutes before three. Nearly
all outsiders were excluded from the court. The
prisoner was placed in the dock and was surrounded
by a number of constables. Jackson betrayed a,
good deal of nervousness, and, after a momen-
tary glance round the court, bowed his head
in his hands which rested on a ledge in
front of him. A solicitor named Southam under-
took to look after the case for the prisoner, and
Superintendent Hicks, chief of the Manchester Detec-
tive Department, stated that the prisoner had that
morning been handed into his custody by the Bradford
police on the charge of murdering the warder Webb.
Major Preston, the Governor of Strangeways Gaol,
said he had had Jackson in custody on a warrant.
There was no doubt of his being the same person.
He was allowed while in the gaol to go on with some
work under the control of a warder, named Webb, for
the purpose of doing some repairs to the matron's
house. He escaped on May 22. The body of the
warder was found in the matron's room about four
o'clock, and the man was dead at 6.15. Mr. Leresche
remanded the prisoner. The prisoner was lodged
again in the prison from which he made his escape.",
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-16

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Is INVASION POSSIBLE?

In the Houma OF ConroNs, io7dG. Hamilton, in
reply to Sir R. Temple, made a long statement in re-
ference to his recent estimate that it would require
480,000 tons of shipping to convey 100,000 men from
France to England in the event of an invasion of this
country. He said that that calculation proceeded on
the only considerations under which such a feat could
come within the reach of possibility—first, the simul-
taneous disembarkation of the enemy fro, lie ships;
and, secondly, that the .... , so cusembatked
was capatle of rapid movement. The esti-
-7..te was based on the assumption that the
forces would be equivalent to three. 4-my Corps,
with Cavalry and Artillery, if we were aisembarking
such a force on the shores of a friendl7 country across
the Channel, it would have to be dist ited amongst
ports hundreds of miles apart, and the operation could
not be effected in less than six hours; and judging
from our experience, it was not likely that the disem-
barkation of 100,000 men could be effected in a day.
He, therefore, considered as much more likely the
estimates for the voyage of a week rather than of two
hours. The noble lord undertook to lay a detailed
paper on the subject upon the table.
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ALARMING CONDITION.

The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Kew, writing
on Tuesday night, said: The Emperor's condition has
taken a serious change for the worse. It is worse
than the official bulletin represents, which tries to
make things appear better than they rally
are. The difficulty of swallowing has increased, and
the efforts of the physicians have been unab:e to
overcome that difficulty. When a slight improve-
ment in this respect set in the Emperor had such a
distaste for food that he refused to take nourishment.
His strength decreased in consequence considerably.
In the afternoon Sir Morell Mackenzie resolved to feed
the Emperor with a tube, which was introduced into
the trachea. In this way his Majesty was able to take
some food, aad he recovered a little. For the time he
felt indeed so well that he wished to go out for a drive,
but Sir Morel' Mackenzie dissuaded him.

I am sorry to say that we have not to do with a
temporary change for the worse. The hope expressed
that the change might be caused by paralysis of the
epiglottis has proved fallacious. It seems that the
local disease has reached the mouth of the gullet, and
that the wall and cartilages between the latter and
the windpipe are partly destroyed, or at least affected.
In spite of his extreme weakness, the Emperor
worked, but as high fever set in in the afternoon and
evening he went early to bed.
_ . _

In the evening tlie doctors again held a consulta-
tion, at which the general condition, especially the
Emperor's strength, was found to be slightly improved.
On the other hand the fever was increasing. At
Sir Morrell Mackenzie's request Professor Bardeleben
was telegraphed for to stay in the Castle of Fried-
richskron all night, in case he might be wantecl, to
assist in performing an operation.
The Emperor's patience is admirable. Happily, he
does not know his danger and feels no pain. This, at
least, is a consoling thought. We must, however, be
prepared for the worst, as the doctors have now given
up all hope. The long-feared sorrowful event is nearer,
indeed, than was expected some days ago.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-16

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OCCASIONAL NOTES.

MF.II'ARY BALLOONING.

SOW': impor•ant experiments have re-
ntly in Lde at Purstenwalde, near
rl iii, wii h ;in apparatus for filling balloons
-nvented by Ilerreu Majert and Richter.
Vhe nt7f meth ,id is chiefly intented for mil-
aey I,alleoaing. in which it marks great
:irogress. Orifinary coal gas can scarcely be
ased in the fielti because it requires balloons
too large for servict there, and hydrogen
has taken its place. Hydrogen has hitherto
;teen produced either by conducting steam
over red-hot iron filings or by decomposing
dile-it-8J sulphuric acid with zinc or iron.
The first process requires a well trained body
of men, and as the iron filings can only be
partially utilised, a large quantity of ma-
terial must be carried about. The apparatus,
also, is so large that it can scarcely be used
in the field. The second instance, likewise,
has its drawbacks. To fill a balloon 500
metres in capacity, it is necessary to carry
2,00 U kilo2;rammes of zinc, 4,500 kilogram-
mes of sulphur, and 39,000 litres of water
(partly for use in diluting the sulphuric acid,
and partly for cooling purposes). It is, of
course, extremely inconvenient and danger-
ous to carry about such a large quantity of
sulphuric acid; the water required can only
be furnished in exceptional cases, and the
gas produced contains —sulphuric acid being
so arsenical—so mach arsenetted hydrogen
that it is poisonous. By the Majert and
ia said to b-
hcating a mixture of slaked lime and zinc
powder, which is carried easily in the field in
tinplate cartridges.. When the mixture is
heated, the water- contained in the lime
escapes, and is decomposed by the zinc, Sr
that pure hydrogen is the result, which is
free from poison and acid, and is not in-
jurious either to the balloon or to the men
serving the balloon The furnace used for
developing the gas may be heated by the.
fuel. It has the form of a small locomotive.
and may be easily drawn by four horses. It
front is a seat for two men. When the
turnace is required, this seat is taken off.
and the chimneys are erected, which opera-
tion takes a minute The fire is lighted,
eind in six minutes the tubes which receive
the cartridges are red-hot. As soon as this
condition is reached, the cartridges are in-
serted, and five minutes later the develop-
ment of hydrogen is in full progress. The
apparatus supplies with 120 cartridges about
120. cubic metres of gas per hour, and a
military balloon of ordinary dimensions may
he tilled in about three hours. The experi-
ments at Furstenwalde are reported to have
been completely successful.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-16

POTATO.

There was a moderate supply of potatoes on sale.
Ihe trade was steady for new sorts, but old were
neglet:ed : Old magnum bonuras, 40s to 80s;
regents, 40s to 80s and champions, 30s to 80s per .
tin; new Jersey kidneys, 21s to 238; Malta ditt.O. 178
to 19s; ditto round, 128 to 13s; and Lisbon ditto'
12s to 13s per cwt.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-16

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TURNING THE TABLES.

STRANGE things occasionally happen at
scientific demonstrations, and make good
the axiom that the unforeseen usually occurs;
but it is not often that we witness, as we
dii larely, a result diametrically the reverse
of wh.tt was anticipated. This,. however,
was the case of a recent demonstration of a
new fire-extinguishing appliance, when, in-
stead of the appliance extinguishing the
tire, the fire extinguished the appliance.. The
usual wooden honse had been erected, the
11$11111collecticus of highly' inffaramoble
substances had been laid on. inside, and the
usual collection of spectators had congregated
outsider. The fire was lighted,. and the frames
soon began to lick the wood waifs of the•
lint, but the soda water bottle ought to ha.lre
licked the flames, but it did not. By the
irony of fate, or, 1110111 e probably, by the
male mstruetion of the building, the attempts
of tiny .purter to subdue the flames were
ahorvi. e, until at length the flanges, lashed
into ftiry at thennpineness of the extinguish- '
r. °logo,' fiercely arfanvi it, and hugged it
until it burst with a big ham,. Some diht
vet 4e was done by the flamea to surrounding
property, of which due note was taken by
the police. Not the least funny part of the
story is that the representatives of an op.
positi,)n shop were on the ground, and, after
the conflagration and barst-up ware
engaged in iu distributing their tracts, and
in endeavouring to impress everybody sith
the assumed fact that the apparatus tried

was an infringement of their patent. We
should have thought that at this juncture
they would rather have felt like disowning
the perverse but illfated cuss.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-06-16

ORA.DLEY HEATH

YOUNG THIEVE 9. —At the Old Hill Police Cour
,n W dfiesday, before Mesta. W. Basseuo, \V. W.
Wiggin. and J. H. Smith (magistrates), two bo3e
' lamed James Hinton, Price Street, and Charles
Tames Davis, Spinner's End, were charged with
,)(elking into the Meredith Skeet Board Schools,
ind stealing two boxes of pen, pe Os, and a
.noiber of other a.rticles, the property of tt
:towley School Board. sir. Ba- sail° said he thought
1 good thrashing would be the best punishment
:he mawiatrates could order, aal directed cash of
the offenders to receive twelve s'rokes with a biril
rod.—Alfred Shaw (12), Qu‘rry Bank, was ord,ted
to rece ye twelve strokes with. a birch rod Ina
itealing L. fr ra a till at the Corngreavee
belonging to Ur,. Joseph Coif,.
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