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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-05

PB.ESIDENT GARFIELD'S FAVOURITE POEM.

President Garfield's favourite poet was Tennyson
and the poem he loved best was "In Memoriam.'
The following familiar stanzas from this poem, which
he quoted in an address on the death of Lincoln, and
which were more than once applied to himself after
his accession to the Presidency, have a new and
melancholy interest and significance now. He was
indeed—
As some divinely gifted man,
Whose life in low estate began,
And on a simple village green;
Who breaks his birth's invidious bar,
And grasps the skirts of happy chance.
And breasts the blows of circumstance,
And grapples with his evil star;
Who makes by force his merit known,
And lives to clutch the golden keys.
To mould a mighty State's decrees
And shape the whisper of the throne.
And, moving up from high to higher,
Becomes on fortune's crowning slope
The pillar of a people's hope
The centre of a world's desire.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-05

THE COST OF THE COLONIES.

A Parliamentary return has been recently issued
of the cost of the several colonies of the Empire to the
British Exchequer between 1869-70 and 1879-80. The
net expenditure during that period for civil and other
services was £2,285.310; and for military services,
£26,406,189, In 1879-80 the net total for army pur-
poses was £6,413,248, exclusive of £30,646, the
amount by which the receipts from Ceylon exceeded
the expenditure.
The sums allowed for military services during the
year mentioned were :—Gibraltar, £387,196; Malta,
£391,666; Cyprus, £74,020; Mauritius, £17,001 ; Ber-
muda, £182,327; St. Helena, £23,501; Hong Kong,
£80,856; South Africa, £4,842,291 ; Jamaica, £72,760;
Bahamas, £7,624; Honduras, £10,312; West Indies,
£104,622; Nova Scotia, £147,492 ; West Coast of
Africa, £42,546; Straits Settlements, £18,506; and
Western Australia, 11,174.

On Tuesday night Mr. Ashton Dilke, M.P., de-
livered a lecture at Chelsea on the new next Reform Bill. He
looked upon it as practically settled that the Reform Bill
would provide for the equalisation of the borough and county
franchise and for a redistribution of seats. He considered
the prospects of such a measure were more fixed than they
had been, and that the present Parliament would not be dia.
tolYed without the passing of a Reform Bill,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-05

I STpU33RIDf.I

STATIONE?ff.
Envelopes. Note Paper, &la ALL KINDS et*

GENERAL ADVERTISING t i 1 .!

PLAIN and FANCY STATIOWNRY.
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Designs snd Patterns.
BILL PAPER, PENS, MK, (te.
POCKET DOORS, CHILDREN'S LOOkIS
Toy Books, Spelling sad Reading Books.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-05

ROWLEY.

Prr ACCIDENT.—On Monday an accident oc-
curred at the Tump Colliery, Blackheath, belonging
to Mr. Llewellyn, resulting in serious injury to a
miner named Jas. Cox (48), residing in Oldbury
Road, Blackheath. It appears Cox was engaged
in the workings, when a large quantity of coal fell,
completely burying him. When taken out he was
found to be very badly crushed. He was conveyed
to his home, where be lies in a precarious condition.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-05

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-05

THE FRENCH TREATY.

The Pari correspondent of the Manchester Guardian
telegraphed on Tuesday night: " Doubt is no longer
possible. Our Commissioners will return on Saturday,
and there will be no treaty. The French offers do not
even amount to the status qua, and our Commissioners
were on leaving England firmly determined not to
accept anything less than an improvement on the 1860
terms. The French have certainly made a slight
approach towards our requirements, but so very faintly
that their propositions, although officially noted, are
very far indeed even from reaching the paint at which
a compromise might be entertained. As before, the
cotton section is the rock on which the negotiations
have been wrecked although minor points, such as
mineral oils, felt hats, and leather, still remain in an
unsatisfactory condition."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-05

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-11-05

BRIERLEY HILL.

Aw ADIOURNRD FRIENDLY SOCIETY'S CASE.-..At
the Police Court on Thursday, before W. F. F.
lioughey, Esq., Stipendiary Magistrate. A. case of
some importance to friendly societies, and which
had been partly heard a fortnight ago, was now
resumed.—Benjamin Evans, Hill-street, lirierley
Hill, sued Thomas Kneale, the secretary of the
Prince of Wales Lodge (Audnam Bank), of the
Wolverhampton Loyal Order of Oddfellows, to re-
cover four weeks sick pay. The question at issue
was whether the plaintiff was able or not so follow
his employment as a glassblower. He had been on
the society's funds for over four years, and the
society cont.nded, in accordance with their rules,
that he was now able to follow some light employe
ment. They called Mr Turner, the club surgeon,
and Mr. Ellis, an independent surgeon, both of
whom supported them in their contention, and said
that plaintiff was not, as he alleged, suffering from
an internal tumour. To rebut this Mr. Matthew S.
Allen, surgeon, Dudley, and one of the hon
surgeons to the Dudley Dispensary, was now c°ll2
and stated that on the 16th September, when the
copplainant was a patient of the institution named,
witness examined him and found sufficient dullness
about the abdomen to warrant him in \giving the
certifica:e produced. He found some °fusion,
caused, doubtless, by a tumour. Plaintiff was then
unable to work. Witness also examined the man
that morning. There was an improvement in his
condition, but he was still unable to work as a
labouring man generally.—Mr. George Ashmead
(Walker and Ashmead), Brierley Hill, said he had
examined the plaintiff in the presence of Dr. Walker
and found him suffering from a weak heart. This
witness also spoke to the dullness about the abdomen
and other symptoms mentioned by the previous
witness, and said he believed the plaintiff was not
able to work as an ordinary labouring man.—Cross-
examined : Witness believed plaintiff suffered from
low vital power, and that he would never recover.—
Dr. Walker also said that in his opinion the plain-
tiff was unable to work. Witness entirely agreed
with his partner's (Dr. As!amead) evidence.—The
Stipendiary gave a verdict in favour of the plaintiff
and intimated that the parties could, if they chose,
take the case to a higher Court.—Mr. Waldron ap.
peared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Stokes (Stokes and
Hooper) for the society.