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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-14

G. F. GREEN,

TUNER.
260, Castle-street, Dudley,
HAI IaBSAT PLE•SOHE IN PUBLISHING TIM FOLLOTINO

pIANOFORTE
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-14

THE IRONWORKERS' CONFERENCE.

The Ironworkers' Conference at Birmingham con- •
chided its sitting on Saturday. The questions dealt •
with were mostly of an internal character, but the fol-
lowing points are of general interest.
On the questions how far strikes against managers
are justifiable, it was decided, after a lengthened de-
bate, that they ought not to be countenanced by the
Association. In the case of men locked out without
notice, as at Wigan, it was resolved that the Council
should have power to investigate, and, if it appeared
right, midst such cases until the trade had time to
pronounce upon them. On the other hand, in the
event of men stopping work without notice, it was
decided that the Association would not defend them.
With reference to the dispute in South Wales, the
Conference considered that unjust pressure had been
brought to bear on the ironworkers in South Wales by
• their employers withholding part of the advance due
to them, only giving as much as amounts to 20 per
cent, in the other iron manufacturing districts, and
that not before September, three months after the
workmen in other districts received the advance ; but,
owing to the disorganised state of the ironworkers,
the Conference was unable to sasist them. It recom-
mended union among the workmen and arbitration as
a means of avoiding a lockout and strike. This con-
cluded the business.
Mr.Cremer, of the London Workmen's Peace Associ-
ation, afterwards addressed the delegates on inter-
national arbitratiou, which he desired to disconnect
from party politics. There was a necessity, he argued, ,
for a code of international laws, which in the
future would have the effect of ending many
disputes between nations, and when those laws
were framed an international tribunal would be-
come necessary. Next Session Mr. Richard would urge
the Government to take the initiative in promoting
such a means of settling international disputes, and the
motion was likely to receive support from the Ministry.
He asked the delegates to give Mr. Richard their sup-
port; a petition from their body would have great
weight, and if any incentive were needed to induce
them to sign it, they might find it in the fact that
every working man and woman in the kingdom toiled
half an hour a day to pay the taxation caused by wars
which arbitration might have averted.
The d legates passed a resolution in the sense sug-
gested.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-14

"BR.

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Pickled herring., Its, to 335. ; red ditto, 10s. to 205. : reeled
ditto, 16s. to 2135. per barrel bloaters, 'ls to 30. 104. ;
kippers, Is. to 4s, per box : smoked haddock, 20a to 30s. Pee
barrel ; twit ditto, 111, to 145. ; ditto pl toO. Ils 00 165.
ditto whiting, lbs. to 185. per basket tarb ,1 Cl. ed to lii.;
brill, 2s. to 3a : dose), 3s fid to 41. Id. cod, 25, 64 to Os. ed.
each ; mackerel, 21. 64. to 3s. 44. ; lobsters, 135- to Mt Par
dozen; native oysters, £lO 161.; and common ditto Us. to
Ll let per bushel.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-14

DINNER TO MR. STANLEY IN NEW

YORK.

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The New York Herald Club gave a dinner at Del.
monico's on the 25th ult., in honour of Mr. Henry M..
Stanley. Among the guests were Mr. John Living-
stone, the brother of Dr. Livingstone, and the Earl of
Caithness.
In returning thanks for the toast of h's health, Mr.
Stanley referred to the mistrust which had been
exhibited towards him by some of the English
papers, and to the abuse bestowed upon him
even in America. "But," he added, " what-
ever may be said, you will never be able to
disguise the fact that a Herald correspondent
discovered Dr. Livingstone. (Great applause.) I may
be called a for7,er, but I would like to know if I could
forge Dr. Livingstone's cap ; "and here Mr. Stanley
suddenly drew from his pocket a dark blue military
cap, with • large gold band around it, raised on • still
larger band of red velvet. The action was received
with loud criee of enthusiasm, and the cap was passed
around the circle and tried upon each head in the cond.
patty. "That," said Mr. Stanley, is the veritable cap
which Dr. Livingstone took off at Lpp when the New
York Herald reporter said to him, with • bow, 'Dr.
Livingstone, I presume ?' " (Tremendous applause.)
The Herald of the 25th thus' refers to Mr. John
Livingstone, who was present at the dinner :—" Mr.
John Livingstone, brother of Dr. David Livingstone,
arrived in this city at four o'clock yesterday afternoon
by the New York Central Railroad, his object being
to find Stanley, the man who had discovered his
brother, the long-lost African explorer. Mr. Living-
stone is, as many people are already aware, a resident
of Listowell, a town of nearly 2,000 inhabitants,
situated about 90 miles north of Hamilton, in the New
Dominion, and has, in fact, earned by many years of
residence the right to be called a Canadian pioneer
settler.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-14

THOMAS ',BROWN,

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In succeeding to the above Business, begs to inform
the tieutry Imo Publi, giuoaily,thstbe mut supply them
with
WEDDLRO CARS, WAGONETTES, CABS, CARS
PHALTONS, GIGS, AND OTHER VEHICLES.
For Business or Pleatillie Parties, on the Shortest
Notice. _

POSTING E STABLISHNIENT,

_
COVENRY-STREST, STOURBIUDGE.

111 R. JAMBS BOSTON HEYS, Professor
.1..r1 of Haste, High-street, Cradley Heath.
N.B.—All/nude of Musical lastramentatuaei
repatred.
New Music at Half-price.
YIANOI,4II,E Eh FON SATE OR FUTHI
• ar-71the BLOOD is the LIFE.°
Nee Deaterouomy, chap. in., vane 23.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-14

The proceedinp cloied with a vote of thanks to the
chairman, who had, it was stated, placed his name en
the list of eubecriptione for £5OO.

The Times has the following leader On the meet-
ing --
The meeting at Exeter-bill for the promotion of the move-
ment to improve the position of the Agricultural Labourer
cannot be described as an unqualified success. The weather
was. indeed, as unfavourable as can well be imagined, and
this may be accepted so sufficient explanation of the fact that
the body of the Ball was not much more than two-thirds full,
whilethe gallery wan entirely empty. Something may, perhaps,
beano said of thegeneral apathy of Londoners—traditionally
Ignorant of agricultural life, and accustomed to respect those
who help themselves—on the complaint. of rural labourers.
Whatever the reason or reasons, the attendance was not
ntidectory to the promoters of the meeting. The Lord
Mayor, also, who was to have dignified the chair with
his presence, was absent, foreseeing, possibly, the difff
cultles that would attend the position : and Mr. Samuel
Morley was called upon at short notice to take his place.
All these disappointments might, however, have been got
over it those who did attend bad remained in harmony with
each other from the beginning to the end of the proceedings.
Unfortunately, this proved to be Impossible. The meeting
began well. Mr. Arch was received with euthushom. Arch-
bishop Manning was lomat/ cheered, until, In an unlucky
moment, he chose to refer to the efforts of the late Prince
Consort to Improve the position of the English labourer,
when it appeared that there was a large section of the
audience to whom the virtues of a Royal personage are
especially odious. But it was after the Arehbishop had sat
down that the smouldering animosities of the different parts
of the meeting bunt forth. The Archbishop's Resolution
having been seconded, Mr. Bradlaugh attempted to move
*rider in addition to It. Then it was that the gathering
become uproarious. The friends and enemies of the
orator, his injudicious friends being; perhaps, the noisier
of the two, vied with one another in keeping up • tumult,
and the scene that ensued would net have discredited the
Assembly at Versailles. Mr. Morley became a little be-
wildered, but at last he managed to rule that Sir Charles
Trevelyan had the first claim to be heard. SW Charles
did edit:five to be heard for a few momenta, until
It was discovered that he was wandering into common
sense, when • rough kind of down was exercised, which
cut short his further progrese, sod the struggle over Mr.
Bradiangh recommenced with more violence than ever. lei
vain he tried to spook the divisions of the meeting were
too stoles* and, slier reining his proposed addition to
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-14

MONEY.

APRIVATE GENTLEMAN, with surplus
capital, is desiroas of making immediate advances
to persons requiring the same, in Town or Country, in
sums from £lO to £5OO, on note of hand. No law costa.
Terms from 5 per cent., extending frim three months to
five years. Mortgages negoeiated at less interest. Diw
fancy no object, as persons can repay by P. 0. 0. or
cheque. By applying personally, from 10 till 4, or if by
letter, enclosing a stamped directed envelope. stating
amount required. to Mr. A. Bradbury, 101, Walwortli
Bond, London, particulars will be sent by return of pod.
N.B.—No connection with Loan Ottices. Secrecy witk
dispatch.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-14

MURDER AND SUICIDE AT NAPLES.

A Neapolitan correspondent, writing to the Pall Mall
Gazette on the 3rd inst., says :-
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"Yesterday, at about eleven a.m., the whole quarter
of the Riviera di Chiaja was thrown into violent corn.
motion, owing to • tragical affair which occurred in
the Villa Nazionale, reeulting in the death of Miss
Ada Schimmel and of Mr. J. H. Gordon. Mr. J. H.
Gordon, formerly of the British Indian Civil Service,
had been for some mouths living at the Pension
Anglaise, 114, Riviera di Chisja, kept by Madame
Schiasai. Among the four daughters of Madame
Schiassi were Ada and Louisa (twins). Some time ago
Mr. Gordon became attached to Ada, and proposed to
marry her, but the offer was refused by the mother, as
the young lady was already engaged to a naval officer.
Since then Mr. Gordon (who was about 50 years of
age, and a widower) thought fit to annoy Mbla Schiand
with his attentions to such an extent that the mother
was obliged to request him to change his quarters as
anon as possible. This seems to have grieved Mr. Gor-
don very much, and to have caused him to commit the
crime of which you have heard. Yesterday morning,
about 1045. the twins, Louisa and Ada Schiassi, went
to the gardens of the Villa Nazionale for their usual
morning walk, when they were met by Mr. Gordon,
who accosted Louisa and asked her why they wished
to get rid of him, and also the reason why her sister
Ada refused to entertain his suit. On her refusing to
listen to him he left her, and, approaching Ada, com-
menced upbraiding her, and finished by commanding
her to follow him, which she naturally refused to do ;
upon which he, stepping back a couple of pact*, pulled
a revolver from his pocket, and firing two shots at
‘vhich entered her back, turned the revolver upon
'red two other shuts, and fell down a corpse.
To authorities and a great crowd were Mi.
mediate*, on the spot, but all efforts were useless,
as both the assessing and his victim were dead.
At the inquest this morning Ada was found to
have been shot through the heart. In Gordon's
case death was caused by one of the shots having
completely severed the aorta. On Gordon were found
• gold watch, an Albert chain, with a email gold
whistle, and a locket containing a portrait, supposed to
be that of his late wife; on the little finger of his right
hand, an onyx signet ring, with his initials, J. H. G.,
and inside the p-ild of the ring were the words 'Sophie,
Oct. 1866;' a puma containing 375 f. in aper, three
sous in bronze, and one silver sixpence. Gordon had
taken the irecantion to destroy all the papers which
might lead to his identification, and it was only through
his bankers that the authorities have been able to tind
out anything about him."

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-14

THE "NEW TEMPERANCE LAW OF

_
ILLINOIS."
The followirds Is an official copy of what is called " The
New Temperance Law of Illinois,' and as it bears upon a
question of universal interest It may not be uninteresting to
give It:—
It prohibits any person from selling intoxicating
liquors without first having obtained a licence to keep
a grocery. No person shall be granteda licence to sell
or give away intoxicating liquors without gioing a bond
to the municipality in the sum of 3,000 dols., with at
least two good and sufficient securities, who shall pay
all damages which may be inflicted upon persons or
property by the person licensed, and such bond may
be recovered by a suit at law by the person injured.
No intoxicating liquors shall be sold to minors, unless
upon the written order of their parents or guardians ;
or to intoxicated persons, or to habitual drunkards.
All places where liquor is sold in violation of this
Act shall be shut up as public nuisances.
Every person who shall, by the sole of intoxicating
liquor, cause the intoxication of any other person,
shall be liable for the damage to person or property
done by that person, shall pay a reasonable compen-
sation to the person who is obliged to take charge of
the intoxicated person, and two (Ids, a day in addition
for every day the intoxicated person is confined.
Every husband, wife, child, parent, guardian, em-
ployer, or other person injured by the intoxicated
person shall have right of action for damages against
the person who caused the intoxication. 'I he owner of
the property where the intoxication was caused shall
be liable jointly with the ocher for damages. The un
lawful sale shall work a forfeiture of all rights of the
eseee or tenant.

It 13 Stated by telegraph that buffaloes are so thick
along the railroads In Western Kansas as to seriously inter-
fere with the running of trains. Bold riders and valiant
hostas, common, to the front

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-14

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-14

TO MY TAILOR, IMPORTUNATE FOR

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PAYMENT.
All I do, my honest SNIP, I pray,
Observe this law benign,
Your own debts be content to pay.
And meddle not with mine !—Judy.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-14

BOARD OF GUARDIANS.

The weekly meeting of this Board was held
yesterday ; Mr. Granger in the chair. There
were also present:—Messrs. Brooks, RoHinson,
Rhodes, B. Homer, Paskin, T. H. I'argeter,
Dr. Walker, Baker, Guest, Griffin, Haskew, P.
Pargeter, Fereday, Raybould, Burr. Darby, and
Homes. The minutes of the last meeting were
read and confirmed. Admitted into the house
during the week, 20; discharged, 11; dead, 1 ;
remaining, 404. Corresponding week last year,
423. Out-door relief Kingswinford district,
.225 2s lid; Stonrbridge district, Titi Os hi;
Halesoweu district, £2l Os 21; relief of non-
resident paupers, 7s 61 ; total, £64 108 fid,
against 70 12s Old last year.
The Clerk read an application from the poor-
rate collectors, asking for an increase of salary.
After some considerable discussion on the sub-
ject, an increase of £lO per year, to each collector
was granted, by 14 votes to 4.
On the motion of Mr. Rollinson, 2nd by Mr.
Darby, the report of the committee appointed to
divide the Kingswinford Medical No. 2 district,
was adopted.
The consideration of the Public Health Act,
was deferred until after the meetings of the several
Urban Boards.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-14

THE LATE SIR DONALD M`LEOD.

A crowded congregation assembled on Sunday morn-
ing in the Baptist Chapel, Allen-street, Kensington,
London, the chapel in which the late Sir Donald Friel
M Teo.] was accustomed to worship, an announcement
having been made that the Rev. Dr. Stoughton would
preach a funeral sermon. Most of the persons present
were in mourning.
Dr. Stoughton selected for his text the 314 Psalm,
verse 6-- " Jobo thy hands I commend my spirit, for
Thou last redeemed me.. 0, Lord Thou God of truth."
Having referred to the melancholy occurrence which
would be the subject of their thoughts, the preacher
gave a brief sketch of Sir Donald MlLeod's life and
labours He said in India Sir Donald was con-
solation:3ly successful in establishing friendly rela-
tions with the natives, and of interpreting their feel-
ings and engaging their attention, lie conse-
quently acquired a wonderful influence over them,
and all who knew him soon came to love him as
a father and friend. Indeed it had been said
by one who knew the people well that lithe natives had
been called npon to elect a prince it would have been
Donald M'Leoel. Mr. Leopold had said that if all
rulers had been like him therewonld be neither Hindoo
DM Mahommedan in Julia, a mask that had bees

fully endorsed by one of our leading newspapers. He
wee not sent out as a missionary to teach Christianity,
hut the embodiment of Christianity in his life was a
gospel in itself. Dr. Stoughton spoke of Sir Donald's
great exertions during the outburete of cholera in India,
of his zeal in the cause of the Christian Vernacular
Society, to a meeting of which, to take the chair, he
was proceeding when he met with his fatal accident,
and of the terrible loss he experienced in 1855 by
the death of his wife. He was a:customed to visit
her grave every year, although he frequently had to
travel immense distances in order to accomplish
his ol ject. He had pronounced opinions on theo-
logical awl ecclesiastical subjects, but he sunk
them all when any practical work was to be done,
and this eminent Oriental scholar and statesman
might often be seen addressing meetings of young
women and like assemblies in the darkest parts of the
East of Landon. He never strove to accumulate
wealth, and died, as the world would say, poor. His
zeal for religion was great, and there was one of
royal and princely rank whom he converted who is
now working with !mentos in the missim field in
India. His sufferings in the hospital were not, as
some had eupp teed, agonizing. ro a friend who
saw him there he said there was something
the math r with his limbs, but he did not exactly know
what it was. He prayed earnestly, and his last words
were, "Praised be His holy name for ever and ever."
After this he gradually sank, and then he simply ceased
to breathe. . . . . .

The sermon was listened to with marked attention
by the vast congregation, with a great many of whom
the late Sir Donald M'Leod was on familiar terms.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-14

DORSET LANDLORDS and LABOURERS.

Four of the Christmas shows of stock in Dorset were
held last week, the last at Shorborne on Thursday, and
at the dinner table the agricultural labour question
was the stapte subje.t of discussion.
Lord Richard Grosvenor, speaking at Stalhridze,
observed that the topic was forced upon them
In a sudden and uncalltel for manner. He did
not believe the labouring class had been so much
ill-treated as those who now came forward as their
profeseed Mends would have them believe. But
there was no denying this fact, that the labourers
had as much tight as the farmers to combine. It
was of no use begging the question. His advice
was that the farmers should meet their labourers
and come to a satisfactory arrangement before the latter I
joined the Union. The price of everything, with the
exception of clothing, had risen. and the same amount
of food could not now be purchased for 10s. or £1 as
formerly. At the same time, he believed the labourers,
through the kindness of which, in many instanoes,
they hadbeenrocipiente, with their cottage allotments,
and other perquisites, had been better off than those
1 in the north England with higher wages. If a man in
the north received 41. or 6d. per hour, all the time he
could not work was deducted; therefore, the man at
the lower rate, who was paid whether he could work
or not, was better off. He condemned the over-
preservation of game, especially of rabbits, which he
classeslin the same category as rats.

The Hon. NV. H. B. Portman, speaking at Stur-
minster, on Wednesday, dwelt on the prevalence of
strikes. He said the labourer, although he had a
perfect right to join Unions, would, if he were well
advised, see that his employer was his best friend,
and not those agitators who came into • district, with-
out any knowledge of the relative position of the em-
ployer and the labourer did not know whether or nut
the master was kind to his men, but indiscriminatefy
condemned all alike, and sowed the seeds of dissension
and ill-feeling where formerly the parties had gone on
together happily and comfortably. These men, some
of whom never did • day's work as agricultural
labourers in their lives, had come among them and
dictated what wages they ought to receive, and thus
had been the cause of dying • good deal of harm.

At Sherbome, on Thursday, Sir Richard Glyn spoke
in a similar strain, and strongly recommemled the system
of piece-work which had been partially introduced into
the county,

Following in the wake of Dorset, the agricultural
labourers of Somerset held a meeting on Friday evening
at the Corn Exchange, Yeovil. Mr. George Potter,
of London. presided ; Mr. Arch, preiident of the
National Agricultural Labourers' Union; Mr. J.
Mitchell, of Lyme Regis; and Mr. Allington, of
Warwick, being also present. The chairman dwelt
on the inadequacy of labourers' wages and the bad
condition of their dwellings, and strongly recom-
mended the labourers to join the Union as a means of
remedying their evils.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-14

Rlisttilantous nttiligentt,

HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL.

" HEAVY WET.".
Punch.

'—The Present Season.—

INTMLNATIONAL EXHIBMON, 1873.—The nom•
mittee for cooking and its science held it. second
meeting in London, on Saturday, and examined a pre-
liminary list of cooking processes suggested for exhi•
hibition. It was resolved to print and circulate the
list to each member, in order to obtain suggestions,
and for the purpose of preparing a detailed list of
dishes of which it was desirable to show the prepara-
tion during the Exhibition.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-14

A COCKNEY RHINOCEROS.

Mr. Frank Backland has sent the following corn.
ninnication to rhe Times
Not long ago it was my privilege to announce the birth of
• baby hippopotamus &Mho Zoological Gardena "it never
rains but it pours ;" and It is therefore with great pleasure
I beg to inform the phbllc through your columns that •
young rhinoceros (R. Sumatremi..) has been born at the
Victoria Dick. The steamship Orchis, 7$ days from Singa-
pore, arrived in the docks with one rhinocero• Two of
these animal. had been placed OD board, they were male and
I female but the frightful waves smashed the cage of the
male, and he died on the voyage.
This pair of rhinoceroses had been captured by the natives
of Malacca in a pitfall. Out of six or seven rhinoceroses so
caught, the average Is enly one uninjured and lit to send
to Europe. The female atone arrived stein London, and on
Friday evening last this rhinoceros gave birth to a young
one. My friend, Mr. Sartlett, of the Zoological Gardena,
kindly informed me of the fact, and I at once went
to inspect it. The little beast, with Ms mother, la now
at No. 1, King s.place, Commercial.ro•d, and is the property
of Messrs. C. W. Rice, A. It. Jsmrach, jun., and C.
liagenbeck. It is Mogul three feet long and two feet high.
It bas • ridiculous-looking lntocent, hairless face, not
unlike that of a newly-born mouse ; it curies Es
ears folded backwards like a hare, and its body is covered
with black hair; while it has a little horn as big as • shilling
suits nose. It had • narrow squeak for Its life. It escaped
from the cage soon albeit wes born, and wandered about the
ship's deck, getting quite wet and cold. It wee, however,
rescued, and Mr. Isfutlett called into consultation. By
his advice it was carefully wrapped up in blankets and
moved to Mu Rice's tense. Or arrival, Mrs. Rips nursed
It before • warm flre till its mother arrived to her
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-14

And anather's the gaalamp that illumes dwelling and shop
and street.

We can't have the springs of order and light, of a sudden, the

_
levers made -
Wherewith to screw up wages, or adjust troubles of trade.
And any Union that tries this on llieunion will bring about
Betwixt the public that suffers, and the workmen that turn
out.

Toe Stokers on strike the Marseelleice may sing in Trafalgar-
s inure,
But till they make a better case for their sudden and strange
oat. dare,
They .11 tied hats disposed to treat their tall talk as gas of
very bad quality,
And to retort on their prayer for support with coldahoul-
deeed inhospitality.
if there 's tyranny in masters, there's tyranny in men;
We 'ye learnt the heron before, and now seem like to learn
it again;
But ot all the strikes, ill-stricken, that ever Punch did see,
This strike of the Stokers seems the worst, on all accounts,
to be '
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-14

LYE WASTE.

rrwith
o be LET, in a Central Position, wi
Immediate P01134118i01), a HOUSE enitaole for •
Broker's Businees.—Apply, Mr, T. Clarke, 1, Charlotte-
street.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-14

moo. Mr. Bartlei{ advised that no cow's milk should be
given. After • time, when the mother strived in • van,
the wee milked Ithe a cow and the milk given to the youna
one, and the little wretch got so lively that Mrs. Rice could
not hold him ; so they put him with his mother at once, and
the Weever since have beta doing famous!, in a dare, warm
corner at Mr. Rice's establishment The little our has •
box to himself and a feather bed to sleep on. 'Jack."
Mr. Rice's bead keeper, sleeps in the box with the
young rhinoceros, and takes care that It is warm and
comfortable. The mother—fl great beast about 10ft, long
and about Vt. Sin, high—hen been hitherto very quiet,
but now the is getting • little savage, even though
she has • nice warm horse rug tied over her, and has the
best of food. The little animal seems quits strong and
active, and walks about by himself, going into his boo or
lying down by his mother when he has had his dinner I
have tasted the milk of the rhinoceros It is excellent. I
'apnoea I am about the only man who has tasted rhinoceros
milk and eaten a steak of young hippopotamus in London.
We must look out for new articles of diet in theee hard
times.
I should be very sorry if this young rhinoceros and its
mother were allowed to cross the Atlantic, and I trust sin-
cerely that the Council of the Zoological Society will see St
to purchase these two interesting and valuable animals
Very greet credit must be given to Sir. Engelcke, who has
been la times to India to bring back firing animals, and to Mr.
Rice and Mr. Jamrsch for the capital WM bars embarked
and the courage they have shown in the capture and 'hip-
ment of "wild beasts" for the instruction and amusement
of the public At the next meeting of the Zoological So
clay, December 17, at Hanover square. Mr. Bartlett will
give further particulars of this young rhinoceros the first,
and I believe the only one, ever born in Kngland.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-14

The PURCHASE of the RAILWAYS by the

STATE.

The Times, in drawing attention to the number of
new railway bids of which notice has been given for
next session, remarks that competition is the irregular
and scarcely legitimate, and which the public are
compelled to invoke in default of irregular and
legitimate control by the State. There ought not
to be the slightest vestige of road monopoly in
the country. The trains, their number, their speed,
the other arrangements, including the charges, ought to
be, first, in the inter. et of the public ; ireconitly
for the proper remuneration of railway shareholders,
managers and servants. This is so plain that we must
come to it eventu...llv, in one way or another. But
here is the great question before us, and one that seems
to call for even bolder legislation than the present
raceof statesmen, not wanting in courage, are prepared
for. At this moment the sum necessary to purchase
all the railways in these isles would not be far short of
the National Debt. We need scarcely say (The Times
achh.) that it could be done, and probably would, with-
out the imposition of a single fresh tax, by the simple
substitution of public stock for railway paper. But to
think of the comparative cheapness with which the_pur-
chase could have been made only ten years ago! That
opportunity is gone by, and some will think the present
increast d value of all the railways a manifest jr of that
it has been better for the companies awl for the
public to leave them alone. The State may have lost
the opportunity of a good bargain, but the nation may
have gained. There are, however, not a few rocks
ahead, which may yet leave it questionable whether
it may not be better, even for the shareholders, to be
relieved of an investment which must always have an
ambiguous and therefore uncertain character. The in-
fluence of the public increases rather than diminishes,
and threatens to become very imperative in all mat;.era
of railway management.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-14

ASTOUNDING MESMERIC POWER.

TM Ilontevard Mail tells the tollowleg remarkable

story :
A curious case of mesmerism is recorded by the civil
surgeon of Hoehungabs.d. A young woman named
Nunnee, aged 24, was married some twelve years ago;
she, however, did not go to her husband's house for
two years afterwards. After staying with him for
eight days she suddenly became insensible, and re
maiued so for two or three days. She was taken back
to her mother, and soon got well. Then follows
a very remarkable history. During the next tour
or five years she never entered her husband's
house without falling insensible and remaining go.
He was very kind and attentive to her; she liked
him, but whenever he came into her presence she at
once sank into this state. This went on till she be-
came emaciated and exhausted, and at last her
parents applied to the court for a separate maintenance
for her. While she was in court the husband entered,
and she instantly became insensible, and was carried
to the hospital, where the case was carefully attended
to by Dr. Cullen, in March, this year. While in this
state her pulse was even, breathing soft, her body
pliant, 'out she could eat nothing. Experiments were
carefully made to see if there was no trick shout
it. While she was in bed, her husband was muffled
up, and made to walk through the ward. She
said she felt that he was near her, and she was by no
means well, but had not seen him anywhere about.
Next day this experiment was repeated, and she
actually became insensible as before. When the
husband left the place she recovered. The experi-
ment as to the influence of the husband's presence
wee tried in all Bents of ways. He was made to
pass behind her, and to be near her in a sw.arate
ward, but this had no effect, but whenever he was
brought to look on her face, though muffled up,
or disguised as a policeman, as a selry, and so
forth, 9110 was at once influenced. The experi-
ments continued for about a month, and the conclusion
was that the husband unconsciously mesmerised her.
The Court came to the conclusion that it was impos-
sible she could live with him, and a separate allowance
was ordered. The husband was asked to try if he could
not remove the effect, seeing that he had the power
to cause it, but he was quite frightened at the idea of
having the power, and could not control it in any way.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-14

A STROKE AT A STRIKE.
(From Punch.)

THERE are some things Alen may strike at, and some things

that they mayul.
At the risk of stiiimg all question, if they are in the right or

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PRINCE NAPOLEON AND HIS
EXPULSION.

Prince Napoleon has written a letter from Prangins,
addressed to the Procureur-Gkeral, in which he de-
mands legal redress against the Minister of the
Interior, the Prefect of Police, the Director of the
Cabinet of the Prefect of the Police, and M. Clkaent,
Police Commissary, whom he declares to be guilty of
violating his personal liberty, an offence punishable by
Article 114 of the Penal Code. The Prince points to
his character as a French citizen, and shows that he is
not under the ban of any law of exile, that he is in
full enjoyment of his civil and political rights, and is a
member of the Council General of Corsica. He came
to France to arrange for the education of his sons, and
was provided with a regular passport. The Prince
adds that he vainly demanded from those who arrested
him the production of their warrants or any statement
of the crime or offence wherewith he was charged.
Vainly also did he request ti be taken before a civil or
military Judge. If the present step has no result,
the Prince declares that he will Beek for redress before
the proper tribunals.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-10-26

WORKING MEN and the BALLOT ACT.

At the meeting of the Labour Representation League
held in London, on Friday evening, at Cockspur-street,
Charing-cross, Mr. R. M. Latham, the president, in
the chair, the following memorial to Mr. Forster,
M.P., in favour of an amendment of the Ballot Act,
with the view of pre venting the recurrence of the
"Preston card trick," and other improper practices at
elections, was unanimously agreed to :
" That your memorialists view with profound dissatisfac-
tion and regret the failure of the Ballot Act in ifs present ,
form to secure to electors the independent and untram-
melled exercise of their franchise by secret voting, as was
proved at the recent elections (one Parliamentary and the
other municipal) at Preston and Wakefield, when persons
acting on behalf of the so-called "Constitutional party
surrounded the polling-booths, soliciting and obtaining
Information as to bow the votes had been given, thus
effecting by systematised effort a subversion of the law
by its evasion. Your memorialists, frankly accepting the
Ballot Act of last session, not an a nullity or sham, but as a
measure of enlightened statesmanship really intended to
secure freedom of election by secresy of voting, and to pre-
, vent unscrnpulous persons from exercising coercive power
over the action of poor and dependent men, pray you to use
your infinen-e with your colleagaes in the Cabinet to
authorise your introduction in the next session of
Parliament a bill declaratory of the Legislature's in-
tention in passing the Ballot Act. For preventing tie
aforesaid and other improper and diehonourably prac-
tices at future elections, your memorialists humbly sug-
gest that such hill shall provide :--.1. That any violation
or evasion of the secreey of voting, or the intention of the
Act, either by the collection of cards after polling, prying
Into tile balloting chamber, or otherwise, shall be punish-
able as a misdemeanour. 2. That any interference with,
or molestation of an elector by a canvasser or other
person within a prescribed distance from the pulling.
booth during the hours of polling, shall also be punish-
able as a misdemeanour. 3. That if Parliament deems
It impracticable to abolish paid agents altogether, it
should nevertheless restrict as much A 3 possible the
action of such persons at elections. 4 The prohibition
of the employment of paid canvassers, and also of all house-
to-helms canvassing : as the inordinate power these afford to
candidates for ascertaining and consequently interfering
with the opinions of electors is destructive to freedom of
choice. Fveryone who is worthy to ponies the franchise
ought surely to bp left free to make up his own mind, and
exercise an unbiassed choke as to the claims of rival candi-
dates. Your memorialists earnestly, hope, therefore, that
Iyou will tee fit to give practical effect to the foregoing sug-
gestions, and as in duty bound, dtc."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-10-26

COUNTY COURT.

HATTON AND WIFE v. THE GREAT
WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.
This was an action brought by the plaintiffs
for the onto of „e5O for injuries received by Ma-
tilda Hatton. through the alleged negligence of
defendants corvettes, at Hagley station, on the
20th January lad. Mr. Perry appeared for the
plaintiff, and Mr. Young (of the Oxford Circuit)
for the Company.
Matilda Hatton, of Belbroughten, deposed:
On the 20th January, at a quarter to nine o'clock
at night, I arrived by a train et Hagley, front
Dudley. no deo,. was 0m•:0,,i '„y a into in the
same compartment. 'lhe train had stopped, and
I I began to get out. While I was getting out the
triiin was shunted back, which threw ins down
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-10-26

THE HIGH PRICE OF PROVISIONS.

A public meeting was held on Monday evening in
the Howe Congregational Church, Blue Anchor-lane,
Bermondsey, London, to take into consideration the
above question, chiefly as affected by the Game Laws.

Mr. W. E. Fielding occupied the chair. and in open-
ing the meeting said that no more important question
could occupy the public mind. He hoped that in dis-
cussing it they would not be led away by opposition to
any particular class, and he WM happy to see that
there was among the working classes a desire to inves-
tigate the matter in a calm and temperate manner.
. ‘. . • ..

9The first resolution was moved by the Rev. J. Sin.
clair, and seconded by Mr. J. Babbs. It ran as
follows : -
That this meeting records its conviction that the first
duty of the Government is to discover and remove all
customs and laws which tither directly or Indirectly inter-
fere with the food supply, the industry, and the general
well-being of the people."
Mr. Sinclair adduced some facts relative to landed
ownera having ejected farmers from their holdings,
and turned the property into waste land for the pur-
pose of converting it into deer forests ; and Mr. Babbs
particularised an instance—that of the Earl of lireadal-
bane —who, he said, could take home and ride within
a radius of one hundred miles from his house, over
which tract all the farms bad been swept away, and
the land converted into hunting-grounds.
Mr. George Geiger, who with Mr. Weston consti-
tuted a deputation from the Anti-Game Law League,
moved the second resolution
this meeting affirms that the Game Laws diminish
the area of cultivated land, and the capital and labour em-
ployed upon it ; that they check the production of food, anl
increase its coat ; that they prevent the occupation of land
in small holdinrs ; that they tend to brutalise the community,
and largely swell the criminal classes ; that they are glaring
instances of class legislation, and that they ought to be
abolished."

He referred to thefact that the Game Laws diminished
the area of cultivated land, and sail that the laws were
the work of the aristocracy. They might say that the
lower classes did not understand the question, and
wished to destroy the vested interests of ' the land-
owners, but that was the doctrine they had preached
for a long time back. After remarking upon
the damage done to farmers' crops by bares
and rabbits and other " vermin," briefly advert-
ing to Mr. John Bright's attempt in past years
to do away with these obnoxious laws, he urged
the meeting to use its endeavours to rid the statute
book of provisions which were productive of degrada-
tion, brutality, crime, and misery, and concluded with
an effective quotation of a poem by the Rev. Charles
Kingsley.
A final resolution, to the effect that a deputation
should wait upon the Government to present the reso-
lution that had been passed, was then carried, and the
meeting separated.
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KIN VIII.

THANKSGIVING SERVICES.—On Sunday last the har-
vest thanksgiving services were preached in the parish
church, in the morning by the Rev. H. Sherrard, vicar
of St. Thomas's, Stourbridge, and in the evening by the
vicar of }Culver, the Rev. J. Hodgson. The church was
tastefully decorated with flowers, evergreens, &c. Great
praise is duo to Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. Hodgson, and other
ladies, for the elegant manner in which the church was
decorated. Collections were made at the close of each
service, and over £27 realised.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-10-26

THE GAROTTEWS GLEE.
(From Punch.)

BLOW, Warder, blow from soundest arm,
And thy Sineteils waved on high !
For the rascals have wrought with the violeist hand,
And have done a robbery.

The Laah a cruel caitiff's meed
Ought evermore to be ;
And his bide should be wrung and his shoulders should
be stung.
And the brute whipped handsomely.
The Warder looked with a glowering eye,
Each craven rogue to see,
I bear a strong arm, and, by my good troth,
They shall feel it—or else, blow me !
Sterner the Warder bared his arm,
And his Ninetsils waved an high:
And their hides they were wrung and their shoulders
they were stung,
And the brutes whipped handsomely.