The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-01-22 00:00:00

SAT EMMY, JASJARY 22, 1887.

COMNIENTS ON CURRENT NEWS.

Mn. GOSCHEN'S election utterance at
Liverpool respecting Bulgaria had the true
English ring about it, and if the Cabinet act
up to the sentiment expressed, there is little
doubt that the support of the country will
be with them. Britain ought not for one
moment to dream of risking the European
peace for the sake of a pet dynasty, and the
only safe stand to take with regard to the
Eastern affairs is to stipulate that the Berlin
Treaty be adhered to in its integrity. All
the Great Powers must hold each other to
their international engagements, and then
the claims of rival candidates to the vacant
throne of Bulgaria may be calmly discussed
in council. Meantime the deputies of the
Regency have got to Rome, and received a
semi-othcial welcome. They are seemingly
deferring much to Russia, and altogether
the Balkan business has now the aspect of a
probable pacific settlement. Not imptobably,
however, the Regents will have to go before
long, and give place to a provisional govern-
ment appointed by the Powers, who will in
tarn be succeeded by the Prince whom
united Europe eventually will select

LORD IDDELLEIGH'S obsequies at Upton
Pyne were of almost Arcadian simplicity;
but the statesman who now sleeps beneath- a
plainly-appointed vault in the sequestered
Devonshire churchyard has a higher place
than if he"had been laid proudly with the
most illustrious of his countrymen in the
Abbey of Westminster. He, to recall a
chaste latter-day melody, has been "buried
deep in old England's heart"; and no
grander life could be lived than one which
leaves a nation in mourning for a man who
has served her without fear and without re-
proach, and that in the heated atmosphere
of perpetual personal striving which hangs
heavily over the political arena of to-day.

SIR WILLIAM HART -DYKE, and not Sir
John Gorst. as had been reported, has got
the Education Minstry after all. The ex-
'legal member of the Fourth Party remains
at the post to which he was at first ap-
pointed after the last political eruption, and
the Ministry is accordingly once again com-
plete. Sir William Hart-Dyke, though a
highly estimable Kentish landlord, and not
at all an ineffective sp3aker, is first and fore-
most a party man. He has shown himself
in time past a capable administrator and a
.naster of tact, especially as a bolder of the
Conservative Whip, and he went to Ireland
at a hazardous time as Chief Secretary when
his chief called him. As Vice-President of
the Council he will have a much more thank-
ful post, but he will find it not all ease
having to follow such a polished cosmopoli-
tan as Sir Henry Holland, and so cultured a
savant as Sir Lyon Playfair. Sir William
is not a man to be daunted, however, and
" Solid Kent" as the hop-county has
since her return of an unbroken support to
Lord Salisbury been pleased to style herself
—is delighted with the appointment.

over deep water, which those who were in
•Luthority declared unsafe. Yet such was
he case with a gathering of Londoners in
lyde Park the othe.. day. Th, keeper
Trove the adventurous crowd off the danger-
,usly thin frost coating of the Serpentine,
but a regular riot ensued. If the whole of
these foolish folk could have had an uncom-
fortable cold bath without further hurt, it
might have hada salutary effect upon them.
A calamity was narrowly eseaped.

Tuosx so-called Socialists who are vindi-
cating the belief or the unbelief that is in
them, by hissing at the mention of Royal
names in the service of the church into
which they obtruded their presence, are
clearly out of place. Their audible expres-
sions of dissent would be more seemly if
vented in a pot-house " free and easy,"
where the display of approval or objection is
not, we are told, regarded as at all disorderly.
If people do not agree with the sentiment of
a prayer which, it is well known to them,
will be offered, and cannot control the
"unruly member," they have no right to
take a seat in the sacred building. The dis-
turbance of worship is intended, doubtless,
. to draw notice down upon some who would
otherwise pass unseen with the gutter
crowd. ; but the law ought not to permit
such indecent interruptions of a ceremonial
revered by the majority, but should make
the small-minded church brawlers smart
severely for their most reprehensible be-
haviour.

THE Mobb's romance, as a stary of Lon-
don life, is certainly a noteworthy one.
Though the criminal prosecution in connec-
tion with a Roston property now worth
several millions sterling has collapsed at the
Old Bailey, we are not likely to have heard
the end of the matter. The Recorder of
London, when he dismissed the case, said
there was no doubt that some years before
the nineteenth century commenced one
Mobbs died, being entitled to the very valu-
able aggregate holding already alluded to.
Joshua Mobbs was cruelly kept out of the
money, added the Recorder, and as it has
not yet found a rightful owner, or at any
rate one who can allow a clear title, there
will be work in years to come in connection
with 3.-loxton for the legal mind, and pay, in
consequence, for the capacious legal pocket.
The Mobbs, ease, indeed, is not unlikely,
years hence, to come to a trial which will
eclipse the Tichbonrne claim in interest.
Meantime the people who are in possession
of " Mobb's bonds," a document which a
certain class of London money manipulators
have floated-freely in the under currents of
the credit-market, had better, perhaps, not
ass ,ss their scrip too highly, and disappoint-
ment may possibly be prevented.

IT is tather a curious circumstance in
connection with the workhouse drink bill
for the whole nation, just issued, that the
return shows that paupers in England and
Wales consume annually an average of five
shillino•s' worth each of intoxicants, while
the luckless Soot housed by his parish has
only allowed him a yearly mean avregate
of one-and-eightpeoce value. In almost
every case, of course, the stimulant is medi-
cinally employed ; hence the assumption is
that your canny ScitzThmlu whose habitat is
t c orb o is more, able in the. holy than
II A)bLlLl col/y(34% i;i that you get
in f numey " ayoat the T,,vced" than on
the sulaier side (it! B3rwiek bounds Any-
how, S ill) onl:y costs a third as ina',;it to
stimulate him as Taffy or John Bull It
us hope that the difference is made up
othe:Nvtse to the ratepayers. The rough
oatan!a; waich largely goes to make up tll.l
dietary 4) Knne Scotch workhouses has
sometainz, doubtless, to do with the absen-
of ne.;essity for comparatively large quanti-
a3s of heat-giving

very bad case. They were not satisfied that they
could grant a sepiration, as the case did not meet
the reAuirem nts f the Act of Parliament. Defend-
at wullbe sent to prison for seven d,kys without

tie option of a fine.
ILLEJAL RENIO VISO. Plitcharl, Brook
treet, Lye, was charged with illegal y remor.ing
his ,rouds f out a house, to prevent the landlord,
0 b .dLah Pa,r.loe, taking a eistraint. Mr. A. J
tto,.kell appeared for complainant, and Mr. Jame.
flinds defeuded,—Complaina,nt said he put a baiiiff
defendant's house and about Li was raised,
which was handed to complainant. He, however,
was not swisfied with this amount, and ordered
anoteer distraint, but before this could be put into
execution the goods were all removed. The defend-
ant owed £ll 15s for rent at that time and had not
paid any towards that amount. In answer to the
Bench complainant said he saw the goods go and !
knew where they went t).—Mr. Godson said t,ere
was nothing to prevent him from distraining on the
goods now.—Mr. Roskell said be would consent for
the case to be withdraw', and advised complainant
to follow the goods —The case was then distniased.
HEAVY FINE ON A BAKER. - Henry Thomas
Yarnell, baker, Five Ways, Cradley Heath, was
charged with se:ling bread without without weigh-
irig it, on the 13th Inst. PC. Davies saw a lad
delivering bread and asked him if he would weigh
the bread if a purchaser wished it, and he said"no."
He had scales with him. The officer said when he
served the summons on defendant he said he should
not appear for thirty summonses.—The lad Walker
ap. eared, and said he had forgotten to take the
scales that morning. In answer to Mr Godson,
the lad admitted that his master had told him to
say that he had forgotten the scales that morning
—fee officer brought the scales into Court, and the
lad was asked how he could count the ounces.
The boy could not tel:, and said all the loaves he
weighed were exactly weight. Mr. Uodson said
the defendant had very :judiciously kept away, and
the witness was not so careful in telling the truth
as he ought to be. The Court could well con-
jecture why the defendant had kept away and as
he had thus thought fit to stay away they should
fiae him £.5 and costs, £5 9s.
BOARD OP GUARDIANS.MY. F. S. Haskew pre-
sided at the usual weekly meeting of this Board
yesterday. The Master's report was as follows :
Admitted 10. discharged 12, dead 2, remaining in
tee Rouse 4558, against 578 the corresponding
period list year. The out door relief was: King-
swinford £47 18s 103, Stourbridge £36 4s 11d,
Halesowen £29 15s 71-d. Non-resident £2 is sd,
tofal £ll6 Os 94d, came week last year £lO7 lie
TOld. Mr. Pargeter gave notice of moving a motion
next week to the effect that the School Fees Be
mittance Committee and the School Fees Inquiries
Officers are not to remit fees of children attending
Board Schools, it being the opinion of the Board
that the School Boards should take the entire
control and responsibility of remitting the fees of
all child,en attending Board Schools. Mr.
Pargeter's motion of the Board alopting the Board-
ing Out System Outside Union Orders (1870), was
adapted unanimously. Mr. Bishop's application
tor an increase of salary was deferred tor a week.

and that, prisoner refused to pay the arrears which
wcre due up to the child's jeath.—Prisoner said he
refused to pay because an unjust order was made
upon him.—Mr, Holcroft : D you r fuse to pay
now? Pr so,ier: Ldi Inspector Walters : his
b o:h-lr offered t ) pay for him yesterday, ad he
r fus-d to let hilt-L-13: i,zoner : 1 will suffer before
I will pay —Mr, Icroft : You are a foolish man.
You will ba sentenced to three mooth's imprison-
meat in def.Ault (if payina the amount claimed,

WORCESTER ASSIZES.

THE frost visitation has had its accom-
pa aitunnt Of a-cideic; to Bk.l.,T4'aS wll as to
the who 1 ye COIIaL,LI tiomelvos t )
ordinary methods of ro S )mo
were due to unavoidable misilap and s )InO
culpable carelessness. No more rnail-brain4l
thing could be conceived than that two
thousand people should go rushing on to ioe

At the Worcester Assizes. on Tuesday, before Mr.
Justice Ma;nsty, thP sfoll ming cases were heard.
WCUNJING AT STouRBRIDGE.—ThomasDs (40),
shleinakor, was charg-d with wounding Henry
Mills, on D .!cember 28 last, at Stourbridge. Mr. J
Amp'-tlett pros, cuted —Prisoner and pr.secutor are
brothers. On the ni4ht of December 28 prison-r
call,d at his brother's house, and being in drink and
quarelsome he was iurned out by th. 3 prosecutor.
The was a struggle, and prosecutor received a wound
in the abdomen.—Dr. Smith stated that the wound
might have produced peritonitis.—Prosec ator asked
that the prisoner migat be dealt leniently with
He was sentenced to three month's hard labour.
MANSLAUGUTER AT STOIJEBRIDGE.—Robert Harper
(on bail) was indicted for the manslaughter of
Charles 13arratt, on November 11 last, Mr. Cran-
stoun prosecuted. and Mr. Kettle defended —The
deceased, who was 65 year of age, was a tailor,
and the prisoner was a glass blower. On the date
named they, in company with two or three others,
went to the Horse and Groom Inn. They were
under the influence of drink at the time, and a dis-
pute arose in the inn. Deceased and the prisoner
quarrelled, and the prisoner struck the old man on
the mouth, knocking out some of his teeth, and
subsequently inflicted two wounds en the side of
the head Death resulted from a wound on the
right temple After he was struck he fell off a
bench on which he was siting. - Dr. Daly stated, in
criss-examination, that a fall against the bench or
upon the floor might have caused the bruise and
compression of tl_e braia.—For the defence Mr.
Kettle submitted that it was likely death was caused
by the fall.—The jury found the pri,oner guilty,
and recommended him to mercy. He was:sentenced

to three months' hard labour.
BILLS IGNORED.—Ttie Grand Jury. threw out the
bills against Joseph Greaves and John Hadley,
both on bail, who were charged, with five others,
with outraging a girl at lialesowen.

THE STOUR BRIDGE OBSERVER. nn 000!
SATURDAY JANUARY , _moo
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