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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-12-03

A GALLANT OFFICER.

By the London Gazette of Friday .(25th) Captain
Robert Knapp Barrow is announced as having been
appointed to the enviable distinction of a Companion-
ship of St. Michael and St. George.
This gallant and accomplished officer has much dis
tinguished himself on the West Coast of Africa. By
the late Adjutant-General, Sir James Yorke Scarlett,
he was selected to raise a force of 800 men from the
Houssa, tribes in and about Lagos for the purpose of
establishing a sth West India Regiment. With a de-
tachment of these Houssas he took an active part in
the battle of Ikoradu, when the Egba army of 12,000
men was driven, with heavy loss, out of its entrench-
ments and routed. Jr the despatch to the Horse
Guards Captain Barrow was prominently mentioned
"for having led the storming party in thp most gallant
manner." For his bravery and "efficient service" he
got his company without purchase.
He was also present at the bombardment and destruc-
tion of the lower and inner towns of Onitscha, 180
miles up the Niger. Again he was thanked by the
naval officer in command, and alluded to in despatches
to the Admiralty for "bringing the expedition to a
successful issue by his military advice, and skill."
In 1879, as Special Commissioner, he took the
Queen's presents to the Emir of Nupe, and obtained
from his Highness certain concessions required by the
Government of the Gold Coast. For his aptitude on
this occasion he received the thanks of the Marquis of
Salisbury, then Foreign Secrerary, and of Sir M.
Hicks-Beach, then Colonial Secretary.
The latest official work of importance done by
Captain Barrow was to negotiate a treaty of peace
with the King of Ashantee, and to avert the storm
which, only the other day, was hanging so threaten-
ingly over the Gold Coast. By his tact and firmness
he taught the King to see the folly of contending
with England, and ° it may be recollected how the
"Golden Axe" was tendered to him for a gift to the
Queen, and for a symbol of lasting amity between the
subjects of her Majesty and the Ashantees. Her
Majesty was graciously pleased to receive the axe
from Captain Barrow in person, and to learn from his
lips the nature of the covenant into which the King
had entered to live in future amicably with the
English.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-12-03

ROWLEY SCHOOL BOARD.

The usual monthly meeting of this body was held
in the Board Room, Old Hill, on Monday last, Mr.
W. Bassano presiding. The other members present
were Messrs Green, Edwards, Ker, Whitley, and
Hadley.
The clerk lead the minutes of the last meeting
and they were confirmed.
The report of the Finance Committee showed that
the total receipts during the month amounted to
£127 us 10d, and the total expenditure amounted
to £1,613 13s 9d. including £1,277 17s 10d paid to
the PubEo Loan Commissioners.

The School Attendance Officer (llr. Hodgetts)
reported that there were still more than 300 children
not attending school, owing to the prevalence of
fevery and that between 30 and 40 cases of "scald
head" had been reported during the month. Not-
withstanding that drawback the books showed an
incrse of 7'16 in average attendance,: as compared
with last year. Cases of parents interfering with
teachers when in the execution of their duty had
become so frequent that he wished to draw the
attention of the Board to the matter. Last week
a person named Yarn Id walked into t'!o CrAley
Heath Girls' Schools, without permission, and
made use of most filthy and obscene language, and
shook his fist i the head mistress's face, because
his daughter had been punished for disobedience.
He wls informed that this was the third time the
same person had been guilsy of such conduct.
The Chairman remdrked that it was a very im-
portant matter about parents interfering acrd threat
ening teachers, and it was quite time sornehing
was done to put a stop to it. The man ought to be
summoned for using threatening language.

Mr Ker. . We have had several- cases of that
kind at Cradley Heath.
On the suggestion of the Chairman, it was re-
solved that notices should be sent round to the
different schools, to the effect that in the next cases
reported the Board would take out summonses
against the persons thus offending.
There was no other business of public import-
ance.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-12-03

THE DIAMOND ROBBERY.

The fallowing is stated to be the official list of the
values placed upon the articles in the thirty-five regis-
tered letters stolen from the Hatton-garden Branch
Post Office :—There were eleven packets of cut and
uncut diamonds, insured respectively for £4OO, £24,
£5,000, £2,500, £275, £lOO, £5OO, £4,000, £2OO,
£503, £4SC, and two packets of sapphires, for £BOO.
There were also 21 other packets in the bag, valued
respectively at £5O 10s., £27 108., £lO, £ll, £lO, £l5O,
£2 55., £1 45., 12s. 6d., £4O, £6, £l5, £l5O, £2, £l2s.,
£3, £2 10s., £l. 195., £lO 17s. 6c1., £2 Os. 10d. The
total value is £14,821 78. 2d.

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In this list some title deeds are valued at £l5O.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-12-03

PRINCE LEOPOLD'S MARRIAGE.

A supplement to the London Gazette of Tuesday contains
the following announcement
At the Court at Windsor, the 29th day of Novem-
ber, 1881. Present, the Queen's Most Excellent
Majesty in Council. Her Majesty in Council was this
day pleased to declare her consent to a contract of
matrimony between his Royal Highness Prince Leopold
George Duncan Albert, Duke of Albany, Earl of
Clarence, Baron Arklow, Duke of Saxony and Prince
of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, K.G., G.C.5.1.,
U. C. M. Cr., and her Serene Highness the Princess 1161ne
Frederica Augusta, the daughter of his Serene High-
ness the reigning Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont,
which consent her Majesty has also caused to be signi-
fied under the Great Seal.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-12-03

PROPOSED CHANGES IN THE
TELEGRAPH SYSTEM.

The London correspondent of the Manchester Guar-
dian says :—The attention of the Postmaster-General
is now bging directed with a view to action as well as
to legislatiqn next year not only to the question of a
parcel post but also to the cheapening of telegrams and
the rendering of life insurance at district post-offices a
success, and not, as now, a total failure. Mr. Fawcett
is believed to be in favour of the adoption at once of
the French telegraph charges, of a halfpenny a word,
a sixpenny minimum, and the payment for the names
of both the senders and the recipients of messages,
and of the pneumatic system, or "blow-post," on an
extended scale. Mr. Fawcett has been much im-
pressed with the accounts which he has received of the
success of this system on the Continent, particularly
in Paris. One great advantage of the pneumatic
E•ystem is the secrecy of it; the senders of messages
not only writing them out, but folding, addressing,
and stamping them, the operator's work being confined
to puffing them to their destination.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-12-03

MR. O'DONOVAN'S JOURNEY FROM
MERV.

' The Daily News Correspondent at Constantinople tele-
graphs that Mr. O'Donovan, the special correspondent of
that journal in Central Asia, is in riting an account of his
journey from Merv. The telegram says
"Perhaps the most remarkable feature in connec-
tion with his residence there was the amount of
influence he succeeded in obtaining over the in-
habitants. After he was released he addressed
the council of chiefs for two hours, was elected a
chief, and finally one of the Triumvirate which
governs Mery—Mery being not a city, but a
collection of about half a million of inhabitants
occupying an oasis in the South Central Asiatic plain.
As Triumvir, the special fortified residence was con-
structed for him within a wall seventy yards square.
Into this residence he was solemnly inducted, amid
a salute of twenty-one guns. The crimson silk flag
was then hoisted, and power of life and death was
granted to him. When he left it was with an escort
of fifty Turcomans, commanded by two Khans.
They passed bf way of the Chacha and Tandara
mountains, a route never traversed before by any
European. They met en route fifteen Cossacks
and fifteen Persians engaged in surveying the
proposed Russo-Persian frontier. Mr. O'Donovan
had shortly before encountered Ayoub Khan's
brother, who was marching to join Ayoub, and
who spoke bitterly against the English Govern-
ment for taking Abdul Rahman's side instead of
his brother's. The Turcoman escort left Mr. Donovan
at Meshed. There he had a long interview with
Hussein Khan, ex-Premier of Persia, who presented
him with the Order of Honour. Before reaching
Teheran he was delayed by a severe fever brought on
by a poisonous insect. From Teheran he returned
vid Reshdt and Astrakan to Constantinople. On
Thursday next he promises to give an account of his
journey at the British Institution here. Lord Dufferin
will preside."

Among the presents at a recent wedding was a
superb side-saddle, elegantly embroidered and mounted.
This was a pleasing variety to the usual line of gifts.
Court Journal.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-12-03

This was the second or third case under the Act.

The Globe says that an estate in the Highlands,
which was bought in 1875 for £23,500, was sold in Edinburgh
last week for £17,500, being £2,000 above the " upset " price.
Mr. Hugh Mason, M. P., in addressing a largely-
attended meeting of the Liberals at Ashton-under-Lyne,
and in the course of a lengthy speech referred to the past
services of Mr. Bright, and said that some people imagined
that the policy of the free trade party had been a great blunder.
and that as a consequence the trade of the country was
actually going to the dogs. This class of people did net look
at the income of the great railway companies, which show
an enormous increase upon the corresponding half-year of
1880.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-12-03

AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE.

The Paris Correspondent of the Standard writes :

An extraordinary—indeed, probably, an absolutely.
unique—case is about to be heard before the First
Chamber of the Civil Tribunal of Marseilles. The
question is to decide, in view of the following circum-
stances, who me the rightful .claimants to a fortune of
one million nine hundred thousand francs. On the
12th of June last a certain M. and Madame
Rivoire, living at Marseilles, were rowing outside
the harbour when a large steamer came up,
causing their boat to be capsized. Both husband
and wife were drowned, but the body of the latter
only was recovered. Madame Rivoire had left a will
snaking her husband sole legatee of the fortune
named, to the exclusion of her own family. The
knotty point to settle is which of the two was
the survivor. If the husband lived longer than his
wife he became the possessor of her property, and
the French law would now assign it to his heirs
—namely, his father, mother, and brother. If, on
the other hand, the husband was first drowned,
his representatives have no claim, and the one
million nine hundred thousand francs belong to the
wife's family. The doctors disagree, as usual. One
maintains that the husband would struggle in the
water, and therefore be drowned first, while the wife
would faint, and, sinking inert, be able to resist the
longer; the other is of the contrary opinion. It is
evident therefore, that a decision of the case will have
to be made upon other than medical grounds.

At a special meeting of the Aberdeen Liberal Assn
,-
elation, resolutions have been passed that in any amend-
ment of the Scotch laud laws the condition of the agricul-
tural labourer be considered, that the laws of primogeniture
and of entail be abolished, that freedom of cropping be
granted to tenants, and compensation be ensured for all
improvements, including houses for the labourers.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-12-03

FIELD.

GENER AL

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-12-03

CETEWAYO'S VISIT TO ENGLAND.

The Cape Town correspondent of the Standard says :
"It is now definitely understood that. Cetewayo
will visit England in the spring. He will be accom-
panied by Mr. Henriquez Shepstone, who was to have
been a passenger by the mail steamer now leaving, but
who remains here, at the request of the Governor, for
the purpose above mentioned."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-12-03

EXECUTION AT MANCHESTER.

The sentence of death passed by Mr. Justice Kay
upon John Aspinall Simpson, who was convicted of
the murder of his sweetheart, Annie Radcliffe, at
Preston, at the recent Assizes, was earned out on
Monday morning.
The culprit, who was resigned to his fate, passed a
restless night, and at about six o'clock in the
morning he was visited by the chaplain, the
Rev. 0. Draper, and together they engaged in
devotional exercises. He then partook of a light
breakfast, and was visited by the executioner,
Marwood, and pinioned, after which he walked firmly
to the scaffold. The black flag was hoisted at five
minutes past eight.
'he execution was witnessed only by the Under
Sheriff and prison officials, reporters being excluded.
Death WaS instantaneous.

An inquest was held later in the day in the gaol on
the body of Simpson. The jury returned a verdict in
accordance with the medical evidence,- and recom-
mended that on the occasion of further executions re-
porters should be allowed to be present.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-12-03

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-12-03

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-12-03

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THE STOURBRIDGE OBSERVER.

proved that defendant was drunk at the White
Horse Inn, Cradley. Fined 5s and costs.--J,hn.
Baker was charged with being drung in the publ;c
street on the 22nd ult. Police-constable Webb
proved finding defendant drunk and asleep in the
public street. Five previous convictions were pro-
ved against defendant. Fined 5s and c
Michael McLean was charged with being drunk at
Blakedown, on the 26th ult. Police-constable
Smith proved the case and said defendant was very
drunk and was in charge of a horse and cart. He
had to take defendant home to Kidderminster.
Fined 2s 6d and costs.—John Dalloway was charged
with being drunk at Hagley, on the Ist inst. P.C.
Wallace said d fendant was drunk and fell down
three times. Defendant was in charge of a horse
and cart. Sergeant Herman said that when the
defendant was brought to the station he was quite
drunk. He made a great noise in the cell and they
had to take his boots off. Fined 2s 6 and costs.
WILFUL DAMAGE.—Sainuel Robins was fined
2s 6d including costs for damaging a fence, on the
26th ult, the property of James Ilingley, of
Cradley. Police-constable Clarke proved the ease.
OBSTRUCTION.—WiIIiam Stone was summoned
for causing an obstruction at Chant, on the 24th
ult. The case was withdrawn on payment of 7s 6d
costs.—Reuben Stevens was also ordered to pay a
similar amountrfor causing an obstruction.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-12-03

TEA AND PUBLIC MEETING .AT TRINITY

HALL, OL ' lIILL.

On Monday evening last, a tea and public meet-
ing was held in the Trinity Hall, Old Hill, tLe
profits of which were to go towards paying off the
debt which was on the Wesleyan Chapel, Old Hill,
which was stated to be £5O. There was a large
attendance and the chapel is now free from debt.
The Rev. W. H. Atkinson (Vicar of Old Hill)
presided at the nublio meetin4, and was supported
by tile Rev. G. 11. Howson (Ctudley), Mr. S. Ed-
wards (Old Bill), Rev. W. D. Bainbridge (Nether-
ton), Rev. J. Burrows (Netherton), Mr. Howard
Higgins (Tipton), and Mr. P. Northall (Netherton).
The Chairman, on rising, said: My dear friends,
you must allow me first of all to express my great
pleasure and gratification at being able to preside
over this most successful meeting of yours. I feel
extremely gratified that you kindly thought of me
as one to be a fitting chairman for you on this
( ccasion, and I should like very heartily to recipro-
cate those sentiments which have just been uttered
by Mr. Burrows, lam a plain mln, and I should
like to speak very plainly. lam not here to-night
at all to apolewse for my churehminship—you do
not want me to, lam quite sure—(hear, hear). Of
course I believe it to be a very excellent way; but
over all that, there is a bond of union between all
christian people that is far deeper, stronger, and
closer than anything that is conveyed to us by a
mere outward name, and I thiuk that occasio.ns of
this kind are most useful in showing to the world
that the Lord's people bear in mind the words of
the Master, "By this shall all men know that ye
are my disciples if ye have love one towards an-
other"—(hear, hear). These, it appears to me. are
not days in which the different sections of the
Lord's church are to fall to quarrelling over mere
outward distinctions. We have a common enemy
to fight; we have a common master to serve, and
so I think that it is a matter of great tha.nkfulaess
that the Lord Jesus Christ:--the bead of the church
—gives us such a opportunity of being outward and
visible witnesses in the bond of union that is be-
tween us. So lam here to express my deep sym-
pathy and interest in the cause represented by my ,
friends. I all here :as your friend and n&ghbour,
to rejoice with you in what I quite believe the
entire success
.of this gathering. These arc days
in which the Lord has put upon His people plenty
of real caring work for them to do. Let us look
abroad and let as think of the infidelity that there
is amongst the masses of people. Then think of
the drunken Less and other forms of wickedness with
which we are surrJunded. Then we remember that
the Lord is giving us all the same weapons to fight
with the weapons of our warfare are not carnal.
The Lord has given us His word. He has committed
unto us His gospel the gospel of His Chri- t, the
gospel that tells of His purr ose of lovo towar !his
poor lost people as mAthiest !:I in the Lo • :
Christ, He has given us the ever-s.' ..„ ice
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-12-03

THE DUTIES OF A PARISH CLERK.

A novel application was made to Bishop Claughton
by a City rector, the Rev. J. L. Fish, St. Maragaret
Patter's, Rood-lane, London, to admonish his parish
c:erk for non-attendance at the early celebration of
the /Lily Communion on Sundays and at the weekday
servicci, and for persistently taking his place in the
choir.

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The Right Rev the Archdeacon of Middlesex heard
tile case in the Chapter-house, St. Paul's-churchyard,
on Monday at 11 a.m. He was attended by his chap-
lain, the Rev. C. L. Gibbs, and his registrar, Mr.
C urrey.
The Rev. J. L. 'Fish conducted his own case, and
the parish clerk, Mr. Frost, was represented by Mr,
H. C. Richards, barrister.
The Archdeacon laid down that a parish clerk was
not obliged to attend weekday Services nor choir prae.
tices, and the charge was therefore, narrowed to two
points—non-attendance al the early celebrations and
sending a deputy without the rector's consent.
The counsel for the defendant contended that a
parish clerk was only obliged to attend the two full
services on Sunday, and that the clerks' desk having
been removed (without a faculty) he was entitled to a
seat adjoining that of the officiating clergyman in the
choir stalls. f. _ _

The Archdeacon dismissed the case, as he con-
sidered nothing had been proved to affect the clerk's
position or to justify him in serving the clerk with ai
monition. He expressed his opinion that the words
of the Act 7 and 8 Vic., cap. 59, sec. 5, "a sufficient
deputy" meant one approved by the rector, and that
it was the clerk's duty to attend at all celebrations
of the Holy Communion on Sunday, whether early
or after morning service. The question of costs wa-e
reserved.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-12-03

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-12-03

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-12-03

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-12-03

THE NEW BELL FOR ST. PAUL'S
CATHEDRAL.

The casting of the gigantic new bell for St. Paul's
Cathedral has just been completed at the Works of
Messrs. J. M. Taylor and Sons, of Loughborough.
Some 21 tens of metal was prepared. All being in
readiness, three furnaces were opened, and liquid
streams poured forth for four minutes and three-
quarters before the huge casting was filled. The pro-
cess being one of great delicacy and difficulty, the
operation was kept strictly private. On Saturday even-
ing the casting was steadily cooling down. It wilt weigh
no less than -17- tons. It will be the largest bell in the
kingdom, if not in Europe. Some idea of its size may
be obtained from the fact that the first Big Ben at
Westminster weighed but 15 tons 8 cwt., and the
second was two tons lighter; while Great Peter at
York Minster is but : Great Tom cf Lincoln, 5i ;
the previous big bell of St. Paul's, 5 1-10; that at
Almutz 17 tons 18 cwt. ; Vienna, 17 tons 14 cwt. ;
Erfurt, 13 tons 15 cwt. ; Sens, 13 ; Paris, 12.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-12-03

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CRADLEY HEATH, HALESON 'EN, AND DISTRICT CHRONICLE.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1881.

WINES.
Per Dozen.
Sherry lss. 188. 21s. 245. 30s.
Superior di' to
Tarragona Port, l3s. 15s. 18s.
Port (Oporto)
Ditto (old, in bottle) 425. to 725.
Champagne „ „„., 275. to .745.
Ditto(half-bottles) 15s. to 395.
Claret
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-12-03

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-12-03

THE IRON TRADE.
WOLVERIIA3IPTON, Wednesday.

There was a fair attendance on 'Change this
afternoon, and business was steady. Slaw good
inquiries were made for bars and sheets, while
tin plates and Loops were in better demand.
P;lces ruled firm at 17 103 for marked bars, and
several satisfactory bargains took place in un-
marked bars in figures ranging from /6 5s to 17.
Local buyers of this class of iron are more nu-
merous, and a quicker trade is recorded in girder
and tank plates, the former being quoted /8 10s,
and the latter /8. Sales of common galvanising
sheets were made at /8 5s for singles, offers of
/8 by buyers being refused. Hoops fetched
Nailrods were quoted at /6 lOs to 17. Tin-plates
sustained the auvancod rates. Stamping shee'.B
are in good inquiry, at /12 for singleg. The pig
makers are doing a slow trade, but as they have
plenty 0 eentriets en their books they are net
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-12-03

MR. SAMUEL MORLEY ON HIS
AMERICAN TOUR.

Mr. Samuel Morley, in giving to his constituents at
Bristol on Tuesday night the results of his observa-
tions during his recent tour in the United States,
said he could bear testimony to the hearty feeling
which pervaded the States towards England. His
hearers wonld have been gratified to hear as he did in
fifty quarters—indeed, wherever he found himself
with an intelligent American—that the letters and
messages received from the Queen of England went
straight to the heart of the American people. The
Western States, Mr. Morley said, offered attractions
for certain classes of our surplus population. But
care should be taken as to the classes who emigrated.
Clerks and warehousemen were not wanted there.
What was needed there was farmers who might be
anxious to change and might have a little capital
left. They would be certain to succeed by having
proper introductions and going to the Western States.
The land was fertile to an immense degree, and there
was a great depth of soil. Mr. Morley added that he
was mush struck with the energy of the people in
whatever they undertook. He was present at an
interesting discussion between some few Englishmen
and Americans as to which nation was beat entitled
to the honour or dishonour of being worshippers of the
"almighty dollar." The discussion, he thought, went
in favour of America, but he fancied that we were
both tarred with the same brush. He was surprised at
the very large proportion of the wealthiest men in
the States who had become wealthy by speculation,
very few were wealthy as the result of a long and
close application to business. There were prominent
members of the mercantile classes who were getting
enormously rich by the action of protective tariffs;
but the greatest number of the rich men had become
wealthy chiefly by speculations in railways and in
land. Mr. Morley said he was glad to find that there
was a growing demand for a reduced tariff. There
was a very strong party in New York in favour of
free trade, and the question was creating a very strong
feeling on this ground, that at least three-fourths, or
perhaps seven-eights, of the people were interested in
agriculture, and the interests of those who were gain-
ing by the tariff were so infinitesimal in comparison
with the larger number who were made to pay high
duties on the importation of foreign goods, that the
time he believed was not far distant when there
would be a very large reduction and he hoped a final
removal of this impediment to the true growth of the
States.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-12-03

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