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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-01-30

TWO MEN SUFFOCATED IN A PIT AT

NETHEREND.

On Thursday night about a quarter past
eleven o'clock, two men named Thomas Hope 45
general manager, and John Troupe„'43, under-
groun.l manager were found dead in a pit belong-
ing to M-ssrs. Kin,z 11.. others, at Netherend. It
appears that a number of men were engaged in
puttint.; ‘.datos-in the pit to prevent " fire stink,"
when William Fletcher and Charles Hickman
found both of deceased bodies in the gateway
apparently suffocated. They were at once take
into the air, but life was extinct. The bodies
were got up the pit and taken to their homes,
there to await the a coroner's inquest. Hope
leaves a wife and five children and Troupe a
wife and six children to mourn their loss. The
affair an cast a gloom over the district.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-01-30

NEW YORK FORTUNES.

Mr. Edward Atkinson, in a late number of the
Atlantic Monthly, had a paper on "The Righteousness
of Money-making." One is not in much danger of
martyrdom for proving to people that it is right to
make money. What they care for to know, however,
is how to make it. The great fortunes in New York,
as in every civilised country, are in real estate. The
accumulation has been, in one sense, accidental, for it
has been the result of the growth in population. Bat
it is also due to a wise forethought and a prudent
reserve against the temporary excitements of specula-
tlon, which have wrought havoc with the accumula-
tions of less careful men. Every conveyancer accus-
tomed to search the records of the Registrar's office is
familiar with the metes and bounds of the old Dutch
farms into which the upper part of this island—from
Tenth-street upward—was divided, and, tracing their
rapidly-increasing values through different and com-
paratively brief periods, he can easily find the clue to
the growth of some of the greatest estates on the
island of New York. The wealth of Astor, the Goe-
lets, the Rhinelanders, the Stuyvesants, Lenox, the
Morrises, the Carmaus, and many others familar to all
New Yorkers, is in real property chiefly, and it has
been accumulated as the result of the rise in value of
landed property in New York. Most of these
men have for many years rigidly adhered to the
rule to part with none of their real estate. None
of them have ever engaged in hazardous stock
or business speculations, and some have endured,
if not privation, at least serious inconvenience,
and combated strong temptation of immediate
ease, to hold intact, or in large part, their broad acres.
Every one familiar with the history of real estate
affairs in New York knows the difficulties that beset
the Carmans, for insta,nc., when the city assessments
began to press heavily upon them, and how profitable
to them was their effort to meet their engagements
and yet save the bulk of their land when the temporary
stringency passed. When Mr. Eno built the Fifth
Avenue Hotel on the site of the eld Hippodrome,
astonishing New Yorkers by his audacity in
venturing so great a building so far up town, he
was, for a time, in the most serious difficulties,
and threatened with irrecoverable disaster; but he
persevered, and the rental of that single piece
of property now gives him the income of a prince.
The history of New York real estate is illustrated by
many examples of this kind. The man who should
honestly and exactly describe the processes by which
the really sound fortunes of this city were made and
kept would detail a 4tory of thrift and prudence,
good judgment and wise reserve, which young men
in business could read witli profit to themselves and
the community. It would be discovered that the
fortunes that have lasted have been made in orderly
business and by cautious investment, not by hazardous
speculations or sharp practice bordering on actual
dishonesty. —New York Times.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-01-30

THE LYE.

CHARGE AGAINST A PUBLICAN.:— WilliWM. 3 Henry
Jones, landlord of the Star Inn, Lye, was charged uith
selling beer on the highway, not being authorised to do
so. Defendant was further charged with keeging his
house open during prohibited hours on the 12th inst.
Mr. Collis defended. Police-constable Harrison, said
that on Sunday last he saw the defendant with a large
can of ale go into a cottage. Five men were in the cot
tags. There were about three quarts of ale in the can.
Poured some into a glass and tasted it, it wss ala. One
of the men asked him not to say anything abbut it. The
deferce was that a man came from Kiddermineter to see
the defendant, and as it was shutting up time defendant
refused to let him have any ale, and told him if he would
go to Henry Gauden, lie would bring him same, and did
take some ale This was corroborated by a witness
Fined 2s 6d and costs, on tho two. summonses.

NEGLECT or WORK:—Henry Pagett was charged with
neglecting the work of William Wood, on the 18th inst.
Mr. Prescott defended. Defendant agrecd to work the
lost time, 14 days and pay costs.—Joseph Smith was
charged with a similar offence on the 25t1i inst. Agreed
to go to work and pay costs
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-07-03

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-07-03

COMMISSIONERS' MEETING.

The monthly meeting of this„body was held on
Monday last, Mr. Hughes in the , chair. There
were also present Messrs. Kelly, Perkin, IYlills,
Penney,Edwards, Stringer, and Griffin.
The minutes of the last meeting were read and
confirmed.
FINANCE COMMITTEE REPORT.

The Treasurer's balances were as follow :_-In
prove -
ment Account—Balance due from treasurer
to May 26th, £378 5s 4d; cheques ordered to May
31st, £276 6s 8d ; paid to treasurer, £7O 14 7d;
balance duo from treasurer to this date, £172 13s
3d.—Highway Account—Balance due to treasurer
to May 26th, £26 7s 10d'; cheques ordered, £5l 2s
9d; rates paid to treasurer to this date, £55 Os
11d; balance due to treasurer, £22 95 Bd.—Urban
Sanitary Account Balance due to treasurer,
£152 17s 3d; cheques ordered, £33 Os Od ; total,
£lB5 17s 3d; balance due to treasurer to this date,
£l7B 6s 3d.—A:number of Accounts were examined
and ordered to be paid, on the Highway Account,
£43 17s 6d; on the Improvement Account, £430
9s Od ; on the Urban Sanitary Account, £36 us 3d.
On the motion of Mr. Kelly, seconded by Mr.
Edwards, the accounts were ordered to be paid.
Some discussion ensued respecting Mr. Horse-
ly's account, the Finance Committee refusing to
pay it.
The Town Officer stated that the work had not
been properly done.
After some further discussion, on the motion of
Mr. Kelly, seconded by Mr. Mills, the account
was ordered to be paid, and the clerk was directed
to call the attention of Mr. Horsely to ths work
being done properly.

REPORT OF THE GENERAL PURPOSES COMMITTER.
Market Hall Alterations.—Your committee re-
port they have considered the following plans for
carrying out certain alterations to the Market
Hall:—lst, for converting the butchers shambles
into cattle pens; 2nd, for building two shops,
fronting Market-street, three warehouses fronting
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-07-03

HALESOWEN. „

CIIARGE OF STEALING PIGEONS AT HALE SOW 21.—
At the Worcestershire Midsummer Quarter Sessions, on
'Tuesday. before Mr. it. Hariugton, Henry Siviter (25),
collier, was indicted for breaking open a pigeon cote and
stealing deveu tame pigeons, the property of Benjan Li
Porker, farmer. Mr. Godson prosecuted • Mr. Solte
defended.—The pigeons were found st ;he house of
pris.mer, who called evilenc4 to prove Vial he purchased
them from same men who were unknown to hitu.—The
jury acquitted him.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-07-03

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Painless Dentistry and Artificial Teeth, at strictly
moderate charges,
A Biagio Tooth to a complete set supplied—warranted
for mastication and articulation.
Regular attendance at STOURBRIDGE every
FRIDAY, at
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-07-03

MR. RICHARD LAN SMERE,

ORGANIST AND CHOIRMASTER OF ST.
JOHN'S CHURCH, DUDLEY,
Late of the Exeter, St, James_, and St. George's Hal
Concerts, London, &c., &c., and
Late Organist at Rochester Cathedral; also
PRINCIPAL BARITONE OF THE ENGLISH
LONDON OPERA COMPANY.
I.IAB the honour to announce to the Nobility,
Clergy, and Gentry of Dudley and its Vicinity
that he is open to receive PUPILS for
SINGING,
_PIANOFORTE, ORGAN, HARMONIUM
HARMONY, THOROUGH BASS. dtc., &c.

Mr. Lansmere iB also open to. receive engagements fax
Concerts, Oratorios, &c., &c.
Mr. La,nstuere has had the high honour of appearing
at Concerts in conjunction with Mr. Sims Reeves, Mr.
Santley. Meseiames Sherrington and Sainton-Dolby, Miss
has everywhere rectived most
Edith Wynne, &c., end
flattering encomiums from the Press and the Public.
TOURS on application.
Addnana,—
; 139, UPPER HIGH-STREET,
1.1 DUDLEY.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-07-03

SALE OF MR. GLADSTONE'S PICTURES.

In London, on Saturday, the sale of Mr. Gladstone's
fine art collection (which commenced on the previous
Wednesday) by Messrs. Christie, Manson, and Wood,
was brought to a conclusion. On the first three days
of the sale the pottery and porcelain occupied atten-
tion, and the water-colour drawings and pictures were
disposed of on Saturday. The collection comprised
one hundred specimens of the Italian, Spanish, Dutch,
and English schools, but none of the pictures pos-
sessed any merits of a distinctive character.
Nevertheless the sale was well attended, but
the bidding was by no means brisk, and
the result of the day's sale fell short of the general
expectation. A water-colour drawing, "By the Sad
Sea Waves," by Leach, fetched 40 guineas. Of other
pictures Sir R. Wallace bought Schondorff's "Con-
noisseur" for 30 guineas. "A Girl at a Spring," by
P. F. Poole, realised 40 guineas; "On the Medway,"
by C. Stanfield, 36 guineas; "A Woody River
Scene," by J. Crome, 46 guineas; "A Forest
Scene," by Old Crome, 32 guineas; "The Fruit
Girl," by Rev. W. Peters, 31 guineas; "Head
of a Young Girl," by W. Etty, R.A., fetched
46 guineas; and "The marriage of Cupid and
Psyche," from the collection of the Rev. Isaac
Spencer, by the same artist, 48 guineas; " Mer-
cury and Argus," by J. Linnell, Fen., 30 guineas;
" A Welsh Churchyard," by B. W. Leader, 170 guineas;
"The Campagna of Rome," by J. Severn, 96 guineas;
"The Vision of St. John at Patmos," 30 guineas ;
"A Lady with a Coronet of Jasmine," by W.
Dyce, R.A., 400 guineas; a portrait of Lord Lynd
hurst, by Count D'Orsay, engraved and superin-
tended b Sir Edwin Landseer, 13 guineas; " The
Cartoon," by Gaupy, exhibited at Dublin and the
International Exhibition, 1871, 67 guineas; "A Land-
scape, with Three Boys Blowing Bubbles" and "Two
Girls with a Goat Carriage," 58 guineas; "A
Triptych with the Adoration of the Magi and Saints
on the Wings" (early German), 26 guineas; "The
Death of a Saint" and "A Miracle," by Murillo,
fetched only £5 13s. ; "San Francesco de Paolo,"
a large picture from the collection of King
Louis Philippe, by the same artist, 100 guineas;
"The Capital of Rome," by B. Canaletti, 51 guineas;
" Predella with Christ and the Apostles," 90
guineas ; "The Virgin and the Child, attended
by St. Catherine and St. Margaret," by J. Pate-
nier, 85 guineas; the "Madonna and Child, " by
Cordelli Agi, 52 guineas; "Archimedes," in a
black dress, by Il Spagnoletto, 85 guineas; two
pictures by Grosgione, Noah and his Sons," and
Noah's Sacrifice,' 81 guineas; the "Madonna with
Infant Child," by Vivarini, 60 guineas; and the
"Virgin in a crimson dress, with infant in her arms,
extending his hand to St. John the Baptist with
Magdalen reading behind, and St. Jerome and St.
Catherine in back ground," a fine picture by Boni-
facio, originally, purchased by Mr. Beckford at Venice,
460 guineas. The total proceeds of Saturday's sale
was £3,481, and the grand total realised for the pottery
and pictures amounts to £9,329 19s. 6d.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-07-03

The AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS BILL

The Saturday Review says that the debate on the
Agricultural Holdings Bill will have allayed the
apprehension which was at one time entertained of a
formidable agitation. The differences of opinion which
were expressed bore no relation to party divisions.
The Government is well advised in altering the standard
of compensation which was adopted by the House of
Lords. It would be both difficult and invidious to
determine the proportion of an increased rental which
might be due to the expenditure of the outgoing
tenant. As long as land continues to increase in
value, rents will generally be raised after a pro-
longed occupation, and the new bargain will depend
on more permanent considerations than the value of
the manure or artificial food which may have been
used on the farm within two or three years. With or
without alterations, it had become necessary to pro-
ceed with the bill. Proposals of compulsory legisla-
tion might have become more formidable if the Go-
vernment had withdrawn its own modest proposal.
The loss or postponement of the measure would in
itself matter little; but it is undesirable that a griev-
ance once admitted to exist should remain tuiredressed
as a pretext for agitation.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-07-03

DIPSOMANIACS!

B,eferring to this prevailing species of insanity, and the
advisability of adopting some means to check it, the Globe
writes
. . On all hands it has been allowed that dipso-
maniacs are entitled to the same protection from them-
selves that is afforded by the law to other classes of
lunatics. 13ut when it comes to deciding what form
this protection should take, opinions differ. Some
believe it would be best to confine these unfortunates
lir asylums, either private or public, according to their
incomes, under such restrictions as are already pro,
vided in the case of ordinary lunatics. Others main--
tain . . that a system of strict supervision woulel
be sufficient in most cases without incarceration.
A third party maintain that the disease should be
nipped in the bud by placing those who have not gone
beyond habitual bard drinking under certain restric-
tions. No doubt a good deal may be urged on behalf of
each of these and other theories, but the difficulty is to
reduce them to practice. To treat the dipsomaniac as
ppia ordinary lunatic seems at first sight harsh and 1111.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-07-03

HAY-FEVER..

Hay-fever, if not a malady of the most serious
character, is nevertheless an exceedingly troublesome
and unpleasant one; and in the interest of those who
are liable to it—and they are very numerous—a dis-
covery which two Continental professors appear to
have made between them cannot be too generally
known. The victims of this curious epidemic can
never venture into the sunshine or get heated by exer-
cise between about the middle of May and the end
of June without an attack of violent sneezing, inflam-
mation of the nose, severe head-ache, and general
depression—in short, all the symptoms of a most dis-
tressing cold. Professor Helenholtz observed that the
malady was invariably characterized by the presence
of very minute infusoria, not unlike the queer little
creatures that we sometimes see in rain-water butts,
only very much smaller. These he found sticking
most tenaciously in the lower cavities and recesses of
the nose, and he noticed that at low temperatures they
were very sluggish and inactive, but woke up, as it
were, when they were warmed. Here, then, was the
secret of the disease; but it was Professor Binz whose
investigations suggested the remedy. He found that
irifusoria might be poisioned by quinine, and of this fact
Helenholtz availed himself in his treatment of hay-fever,
from which he himself had been a sufferer in the early
summer for twenty years. The learned Professor
made a very weak solution of sulphate of quinine, and
lying flat on his back with his head down, he poured a
little of it into each nostril, and found instant relief.
By oocasionally repeating the operation he completely
routed the enemy, who, in spite of all his efforts to pre-
vent them; had for so many years thus audaciously
taken up their summer quarters not merely Under his
very nose, but in it. By this means he could, he found,
enjoy entire immunity even in the hottest weather and
during the greatest bodily exertion. The remedy is a
cheap and simple one, and ought to prove very valuable
to those whom this queer affection deprives of half the
pleasure they find in a country walk at this delightful
season of the year.—Pictorial World.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-07-03

PUBLIC EXPENDITURE.

It is satisfactory to find from a recently-issued
Treasury return that, although the national expendi-
ture shows a tendency to increase year after year, yet
this increment is nearly counterbalanced by develop-
ment in branches of revenue not included under the
head of taxes (remarks the Globe). In 1857-58 (the date
to which the return goes back) the total charge for
army, navy, and civil expenditure, excluding some
special votes, amounteato £36,886,000, while in 1874-75
it reached £46,530,000. But while in the former year
revenue payments other than taxes, but including
stamps in lieu of fees, only amounted to £4,863,000,
they reached £11,071,000 last year. From this it
follows that the net charge on taxes for the army,
navy, and civil services was £32,023,000 in 1857-58,
against £35,459,000 in 1874-75, .showing an in-
crease of £3,436,000 in seventeen years. On the
other hand, charges on account of national debt have
fallen from £21,557,000 to £26,470,000 during the
same period, being a decrease of £2,080,000. This
being deducted from the above-mentioned increase,

gives. £1,356,000 as the total increase of charges on
taxes during the last 17 years. If, however, votes of
credit are included, this
i disparity disappears, the
total charge then being R 63,195,000 n 1857-58 azainst
£62,633,000 in 1874-75, being a gain of £562,000 in
favour of the latter year. Under the head of taxes
actually received, less stamps in lieu of fees, the first-
named year figures with £62,948,000 against 263,227,000
in the latter, being an increase of £279,000. From this it
would appear that the main source of increment to our
national income is derived from revenue other than
taxes; also that while expenditure for military, naval,
and civil purposes shows steady growth, this has been
so far met by increment of revenue other than taxes,
coupled with diminished charges for the purposes of
the National Debt. When Sir Stafford Northcote's
Sinking Fund Bill comes into operation, no further
aid can be expected from this source. But even then
there will be some consolation in knowing that we do
not pay so much on that account as was formerly the
case, since while the Chancellor of the Exchequer does
not propose to take more than £28,000,000 for
National Debt purposes, £28,557,000 was required
only seventeen years ago.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-01-16

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MURDER AT SEA.
Thb Indian papers state that four of the crew
Nat moo, who mutinied and murdered their chief 0:
in September last, have been convicted. Two have ...
sentenced to be hanged and two to transportation for
life. Captain 111`..D4mott, was master of the ,stiip Nat-
moo, and lie was also sole awner, having Vet%ht her
with the hard won earnings of many years. Last
September, while the ship was on her way from 11101
mein to Mauritius, four Malabahees: of the 'ship
crew set on him while he was asleep and 'stunue
him with a fearful blow on the head, which left bin
bleeding and senseless. The four men then rushed on
deck, and giving chase to the mate, one Battley
knocked him on the head with a belaying pin, and
then hove him overboard. By one of those strame
transitions from bloody and murderous violence to a
strange and fatal irresolution and apathy, these men
did nothing further, did not murder the captain out-
right, and laid no band on his courageous wife, whose
, feelings, as she was alone below with her husband,
dying for all she knew, must have been of the most
agonised nature, and they suffered the ship's course to
be shaped for Ceylon. But the unfortunate captain's
cup was not yet full. His broken bead was a small ,
matter to what was to follow. On her way to Ceylon
the doomed Natinoo came into collision with another
vessel and went to the bottom, carrying all Captain -1
McDermott's worldly wealth with her. The case is
altogether a remarkable one, as there was absolutely
no motive adduced for the savage crime, and there was
no hint or suspicion of cruelty or bad usage on thepart
of the captain or mate towards the crew.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-01-16

The Board decided to advertise for an aszistant mu-
ter for Granger's Lane School, at a salary of £BO a year.

BRIERLEY HILL.

CHARGE OF DRUNKENNEB9.--At the Police Court, on
Monday, before Messrs. B. St. John Matthews and L.
Freer, Benjamin Skidmore, appeared on remand,
was charged with being drunk an 1 disorderly. This case
was adjourned from the previoni Nl.)n lay. in consequence
of a charge made by the clef, !Haut against Police-con-
stabl es Godly and Giles. Defendant called a witness, and
after he had given his evidence, the Bench said they did
not believe him, but considered he had committed per-
jury; and fined defendant 208 and costs.
DAMAGING A FENCIi.--• Eli and Jane Reece were
charged with wilfully -damaging a pit fence, the property
of William Walker, of Brierley Hill. Evidence was given
to prove the case, and Eli was tined 10s, and ordered to
pay coats, and damage, and Jane 5a and coats, aud dam-
age; in default 14 days.—Thomas Silcock was also
chargcd with breaking a window, the property of William
Walker, Tite ease was proved, and defendant ordered to
ey 44 diuuage, and Aim% Da ad coati; iz 4etaalt
• :Ara -.a i)s.t wr.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-01-16

SLAVERY IN MADAGASCAR.

The Leeds Mercury prints, from information on which it
can place full reliance, a recent proclamation issued by the
Queen of Madagascar, ordering the liberation of all slaves
imported into her kingdom since the date of the treaty of
3805, entered into with Great Britain for the suppression of
that traffic. The follou lug is a translation of this docu-
ment:

I, Ranovalomanjaka, by the grace of God and the
will of the people, Queen of Madagascar and defender
of the laws of my country, have made an agreement
with my relations across the seas that there shall not
be allowed to be brought into my country people from
across the seas to be made slaves. And on account of
this, I command that if there are any Mozambiques
lately come into my country since the 7th of June,
1865, which was the year of the completion of the
agreement with my relations across the seas, then
they are to become "isail fly ambaniandro " (a phrase
applied to the free inhabitants of Madagascar) ; and
if they wish to dwell in this land, they then may do
so, and be of the number of free people; and if they
wish to return across the sea from whence they came,
then they are at liberty to go. And if there are any who
conceal Mozambiques lately come to be slaves, and do
not set them at 'liberty to become " isan ny
ambaniandro," according to my command, they shall
be put in chains for ten years.
Says, RANOVALOMANJAK 6,, Queen of Mada,
gascar, &c., &c.,
This is the word of Ranovalomanjaka,, Queen of
Madagascar.

Says, RAINILAIARIVONY, Prime Minister and
Commander-inehief in Ma,dagascar.
Antananarivo, 2nd October, 1874. = taW
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-01-16

CRADLEY.

. STEALING CABBAGE PLANTS.—Xt the Police Court, at
Stourbridge yesterday, Henry Harris Wa4 charged with
stealing 35 cabbage plants on the night of the 14th ult.
the property of William Jones. Police-constable Heath
proved,that he saw the prisoner take the plants out of
garden. Prosecutor proved the plants were worth 4d,
but he did not wish to press the case, ai prisoner had
hitherto borne a good charactix. Ordered to pay costs,
58 61.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-01-16

lIAGLEY.

STOCK SALM.—The first sale of the new year was held
on Monday last. It comprised 150 pigs, 7 calves. 400
sheep, and 70 head of cattle, and ani,Jueted in the whole
to nearly 2,500. The attendanze was very good, and
these was a marked improvement in the trade upon that
of the old year. First-class mutton, of which there was
a good supply, made fully 10e1 per pound. Ewe mutton,
8d to Bjd ; best beef, 91 to 91d.

Good valuefor money is desired, by all, with articles
that c,innot bo judged of by appearance, careful pur-
chasers rely on the high standing of those with whom
they deal. For 30 years, Horaiman's Pure Teas in
packets have given geners4satisfaction, being exceedingly
strong, of uniform good quality, and truly cheap. Agents:
Stourbridge—Clarke, 151, High-street; Baker, 124, High.
street ; Hewit, Market Place; Morris, 136, High-street.
Brierley Hill—Rawlings chemist ; Kidderminster, Bull
Ring; Halesowen, Adam, chemist; Lye, Jones, chemist;
Wurdsley, Turner, chemist; Kingswinford, Pearson,
Brettel Lane, Collings, ebutuist; Birmingham, Banks,
Ball 4ling.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-01-16

SOME CURIOUS WILLS- 11n

aces

The "Wills and Bequests "of remarkable persons
recently deceased were published one hundred years
ago very much as they are now. Onelof the most pro-
minent of those whose wills were proved in 1773 was
the " great " Lord Chesterfield, the arbiter on all
matters of politeness, whose famous "Advice to his
Son" was so summarily criticised by Dr. Johnson.
This first gentleman in Europe of his day left the
bulk of his property to his godson, Philip Stanhope,
with a very unfashionable and unpalatable restric-
tion :—" The several devises and bequests herein be-
fore and herein after given by me to and in favour of
my said godson Philip Stanhope, shall be subject to the
condition and restriction herein aftermentioned ' • that is
to say, that, in came my said godson Philip Stanhope
shall at any time hereafter keep, or be concerned in the
keeping of any race-horse or race-horses, or pack or
packs of hounds, or reside one night•at Newmarket,
that infamous seminary of iniquity and ill-manners,
during the course of the races there, or shall resort
to the said races, or shall lose in any one day 4 any
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-01-16

THE STATE OF THE ROADS.

We have received numerous complaints of the
state of the roads in this town for the last few
weeks past; and we publish the following letter
which embodies most of them
To the Editor of the " Observer."

Stn,—Allow me to call your attention to the
abominable condition in which the streets of this
town have been for the past few weeks. Ever
since the thaw, there has not been any real at-
tempts to clear away the accumulated snow and
mud, so that the roads of the town have come to
resemble a quagmire. It seems tome disgraceful
that in a town like this, when we have a Board of
Commissioners, a Nuisance Inspestor, and an Offi-
cer of Health, and where Improve.mtnt, Highway,
and other rates have to be paid, that such a state of
things should be allowed to exist. Who is to
blame, Mr. Editor? I am told that the Highway
Trustees are the responsible parties. If so, can-
not our Commissioners bring some pressure to bear
upon them, to compel them to remedy this state
of things. It is quite time that something was
done in the matter. I certainly do not see why
we should pay rates for cleansing the streets, if
they are to remain in their present condition.

Your;, &c.,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-01-16

UREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.

PANTOMIMES AT BIRMINGHAM.
ON MONDAY, JANUARY 18th, a CHEAP
EXCURSION TRAIN for BIRMINGHAM will
leave Worcester (Shrub Hill) at 1.55, Droitwich 2.7,
Kidderminster 2.27, and Stourbridge 2.50 p.m.; and
return from Snow Hill Station at 11.20 p.m., the same
day.
For Fares and Full Particulars see Handbills.
J. GRIERSON, General Manager.
Paddington Terminus.

MR. RICHARD LAN SMERE,

ORGANIST AND C.FIOIRMASTER OF ST-
JOHN'S CHURCH, DUDLEY,

Late of the Exeter, St, James, and St. George's Hal
Concerts, London, &c., &c., and
Late Organist at Rochester Cathedral ; also
PRINCIPAL BARITONE OF THE ENGLISH
LONDON OPERA COMPANY.
HAS the honour to announce to the Nobility,
Clergy, and Gentry of Dudley ard its Vicinity
that he is open to receive PUPILS for

SINGING, PIANOFORTE, ORGAN, HARMONIUM
HARMONY, THOROUGH BASS. &c., &c,

Mr. Lansmere is also open to receive engagements foz
Concerts, Oratorios, tire., &c.
Mr. Lansmere has had the high honour of appearing
at Concerts in coyjnnetion with Mr. Sims Beeves, Mr.
Santlev, Mesdames Sherrington and Sainton-Dolby, Miss
Edith Wynne, &c-, and has everpshere received ?twit
flattering encomiums from the Press and the Public.
Terms on application.
Address,-
139, UPPER HIGH-STREET,
DUDLEY.

THE OLD HARE AND HOUNDS,

HASBURY.

VISITORS from Birmingham or Harborne,
en mute through Halesowen, to Bagley, Cient
Hills, or Kidderminster, will find this Ancient Old House
"THE HARE AND HOUNDS," at HASBURY,

OPE NE,,130 AGAIN.
Visitors will find every sccommodation.
Spirits, Ales, Bitter Beer, &c., of the best Quality.
JOSEPH NEWEY,

Proprietor.
N.B.—The Old House is known as the resting place in
the Fox Hunting Season, for Refreshments, &c.

FOR PICTURE FRAMES,

GO to the Practical Maker, where every des-
cription Of PICTURE FRAMES, WINDOW
CORNICES, d:c., are manufactured ou the Premises,
Wholesale and Retail, by
D. LAMBERT,
House Decorator,
Gilder and
Picture Frame,
Manufacturer,
OLDSTVINFORD, Near STOURBRIDGA.

OLD PICTURE FRAMES, CORNICES,
AND MOULDINGS,
Of every description,
CLEANED, REPAIRED, or RE-GILT.
OLD PICTURES, Carefully Cleaned, Lined, and
Restored.

L. having had 20 years' practical
• experience in all the above different Branches,
begs to inform the Gentry and Public generally that he
has now every facility for executing any order that may
be entrusted to his care, which will meet with his perso-
nal and prompt attention.
Orders by Letter will meet with strict attention.'
Estimates given and Men of each Branch sent to any
part of the country.
Gentlemen may have their Picture Frames re-gilt on
their own Premises, if desired.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-01-16

SATURDAY; JAN. 16, 1875;

TRANSFERS.—The following transfers took place:—
The Black Horse. Wordsley,.froM William Henry Hughes
to John Cook ; the Try•lt Ci..ait,, twin Edward Moody to
Benjamin Minett ; !li 1)1 B ~t, Wordsl.ey, from Cathe-
rine C•)llitis to .ioh! Vr mee,, ; the Commercial Inn 1
Brochnoot., from ra,el4, ci!ttiv.s to Jose ih Shiner ;
the Sampson and 1,1,0 Peirmett, inlet Gkir e GrOwcutt ' 1
to Sophia Steele ; tlit Sta,nford Arms Ho el, Enville,
from Joshua Bridges to John M Crolv ; the Crown Inn,
Brierley Hill, from David-Fuj ;rd to David Hughes; the
Spotted Cow, Brit:rley Hill, irom Charles Bath= to
Georgi Newton.
INDECENT ASSATILTS.—At the Police Court, on Thurs-
day, before Mr. I. Spooner, Stipendiary, Thomas Davies
(25), collier was charged, on remand, with assaulting
Caroline New, a girl employed in a brickyard. During
Use examination of the girl Last week, she rather
reluctantly stated that the defendant htd indecently as-
saulted her, and Mr. Spooner adjourned the case for a
week, in order to make-enquiries as to defendant's ante-
cedents. Addressing him on Thursday, the Stipendiary
said these w'ere not so bad as he had expected, other-
wise he would be sent to gaol for six weeks. The pri-
soner began to cry. The next case was one in which
George Bate, aged 17, a collier, was charged with an
indecent assault on Sarah Ann Hodgetts, a brickyard
girl. l'he complainant stated the facts, and the boy
admitted them. Mr. Spooner said indecent assaults
made many women bad, and he would punish severely.
The prisoner was then sentenced to three weeks impri-
sonment.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-01-16

SCCJIIGE ON D •
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ttoh S
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pan. 7,152 Consulted every FRIDAY, fro!n 10
H-STREE.
to tile,,!4r. PAGETT'S, 138. HIG
beutis,r4arbot Hotel), linen all points appertaining 'l:.(Netsot
in the Surgical and Mechanical Depart.
kINIANand
aft trusts that by atrict adherence to Moderate
ami titlanV the employraent of best Materials and
`ll4.ortlP to ineril a share of their kind patronage
8C4141 OP CHARGES.
Stopping ,‘4141.6 Teeth, 5/.. Sets, £2 10s.,
et Children's I,ttu.K, and Extracting, and the regulating
N.B.—Patienta`4,,....at Moderate Charges.
'Made at the Above 4.7 be waited upon by Appointment
17, B p Jty 1, s•teva,:er by Letter, to--
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Free.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-01-16

THE LYE.

ASSAULT.—At the Police Court, at Stourbridg., before
Colonel Fletcher and B. Littlewood, Esq. Richard Lycett
was charged with asFaniting Ann Tether, on the 9th
Mr. Perry appeared for complainant, and Mr. Collis, for
defendant. From the eviveuce of complainant it appears
they lived near to each other, and on the day in question
she went and asked the defendant what he had been say-
ing about her and a man named Brace, when the de-
fendant struck her several times on the face and body
For the defence, it was contended that the complainant
went to make some charge against the defendant, and
caught bold of him by the, hair of the head. The Bench
considered an assault had been committed and titled de-
fendant 2i Gd and costs.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-01-16

THE PRINTER'S PROGRESS.:

:

The Registrar of the Privy Council, Mr. Reeve,
Aen examined recently before the Royal Commission
on the administrative departments of the Courts of
Justice, explained the practice which obtains in his
office of printing matter that would otherwise be writ-
ten. He said :—" I have a strong opinion that there
ought to be no manual copying in offices. I have no
writing clerks; I have nothing written beyond a very
short letter. The moment even a letter is at all long
I have it.printed. lam convinced that, on account of
convenience, despatch, economy, and every other
motive all public business ought to be done by the
printing office. I think it is a barbarous piece of
antiquity to have any public documents written, with
the exception of such as are very short and inconsider-
able. I think there ought to be several copies of them;
and printing is the most economical way of
multiplying the copies. You send a quantity of matter
in a very rough form to the printer, and he produces
it in a legible shape; it is paid for, and there is no
more expense. But if you have clerks to do the work
they are not constantly employed, there are periods
when there is a great deal to do, and periods when
there is nothing to do, and there are vacations, but the
clerks must be paid all thb year round." Mr. Reeve
says it would require several writing clerks to do
copying in his department. But the Stationery-Office
accounts show that the cost of printing executed for
his office (the Judicial Committee) was only just over
£lOO last year, including the cost of paper used. The
Commissioners agree in the main with Mr. Reeve's
reasons, and think it likely that in the departments of
State generally the adoption of a system of printing
documents or letters where more than six copies are
required might be attended with economy, as well as
advantage in respect of speedy execution and accuracy.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-01-16

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPER

A New York critic, speaking of a new singer, says
he reminded the critic of a donkey, because he had a splendid
ear, but a very poor voice.
The Arkansas negro formula of divorce is brief and
to the point. The coloured justice applied to remarks,
"As I jined you, so I bust you 'sunder. So go, you niggers.
You go ! " This at once clips the knot there's no untying.
"I am busy ploughing, and cannot entertain com-
pany," was the szbstance of a note sent by an Illinois belle
in reply to an intimation that a gentleman desired to visit
her.
Said the plaintiff in a divorce case at Augusta to
Chief-Justice Appleton: "I don't want to say anything agin
the woman, judge, but I wish you could live with her a little
while; you'd think I had told the truth." The judge was
willing to take his word for it.

An American coroner, rather renowned for his
business smartness, seized an Egyptian mummy that was
brought into the town, summoned a jury, held an inquest
on the mummy, brought in a verdict of "Death from causes
unknown," and charged the county with the usual fee,
with compound interest from the time of Moses.
An Illinois court has rendexed a curious decision.
A boot dealer in Plano sold a man a pair of boots, both lefts.
The purchaser clamoured for his rights, but the court
decided that a pair of boots was a pair of boots, and if a man
had to wear thin both on one foot, it was a case that the
law of Illinois could not reach.

Nineteen years ago a Tennessee father refused to let
his young daughter go to a candy-pull, and she disappeared.
The other day she returned, lifted eleven children out of the
waggon, and entered the house and took off her things as
coolly as if she had not been gone over a day.
A Milwaukee man is bent on going to sea. He has
been reading the Enoch Arden class of stories till his soul is
fired with an ambition to be wrecked and come home and
find his' wife married to some other fellow.
A plain•spoken preacher delivered the following
from his desk:—" I would announce to the congregation that,
probably by mistake, there was left at the meeting house
this morning a small cotton umbrella, much damaged by
time and wear, and of an exceeding pale blue colour, in place
whereof was taken a very large black silk umbrella of great
beauty. Blunders of this sort, myibrethren, are getting a
little too common.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-01-16

QUARTERLY MEETING OF IRON.
MASTERS.

WOLVERHAMPTON, Wednesday.
The of the current series of quarterly
meetings connected with the iron trade of South
Staffordshire and East-W*o4444re WAS held

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this afternoon, in the Exchange. Buyers of
iron were present from most parts of the king-
dom, and the vendors of all classes of commodities
usually offered were well represented. The pig
firms at a distance were there,. ready to bring
down their quotatim if the local producers,
should have declareWlfiy change. Leading
local producers, alike of pigs and finished iron,
however, met during the early part of the after-
noon, and resolved to make no alteration in the
prices at which they have been selling through-
out the past quarter; for best coal could be got
no cheaper, and to reduce prices was, therefore
declared to be impracticable. The market could
F.eareely believe that this was really the delibe-
rate resolve of the leaders of the industries men-
tioned ; but attempts to negotiate soon proved
that the resolve had not only been made, but
was being acted upon. Parkfield pigs, which
were £3. 55.; but beyond that, hardly anything
was to be got for less money than had to be paid
last week. Mr. E. Horton was firm in requir-
ing £6. 10s. for the cold. and £5. ss. for the hot
blast pig-iron of the Lilleshall Company, Shrop-
shire. These were the prices fixed at the last
quarterly meeting in Birmingham, when the
leading bar firms brought down their quotations
£l. per ton. South Staffordshire all-mine iron
remains at from £5. to .R 5. ss. long weight.
Wigan forge is £3. 12s. 6d., and hematite £4. 12s.
6d., whilst the Bessemer iron of the Earl of
Lonsdale is £5. 10s., all short weight delivered.
Messrs. Barrows demanded £ll. a ton for their
bars, and this was the quotation of the British
Iron Company, and others; £ll. 12s. 6d. re-
inaing as the price of Round Oak bars. The
best sheet firms reported a very excellent de-
mand, with orders in their tin-plate mills enough
to keep them employed, some of them up to May.
The Hope Company refused £l9. for their tre-
ble best, demanding £20., and they required
£l6. for their anchor streets. The Cookley
Company and Messrs. E. P. Baldwin and Co.
were equally firm. Ordinary singles for home
use were quoted £l3. Owing to the firmness
of the quotations only little business was done.
The onlvAxhibit was a stall of splendid ma-
chine-madY iron washers, shown by Mr. G.
Price, of the Cleveland Works, Wolverhampton.
No Change having been made in furnace coal
or in pig-iron no reduction, it was understood,
will, for the present, be attempted in the wages
of the colliers or the blast-furnace men.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-01-16

The TUNNEL UNDER the CHANNEL.

The Journal Opiel gives the following details of the pre-
sent situation of the project for a submarine tunnel between
France and England :

- The proposed direction of the tunnel is from St.
Margaret's Bay, to the east df Dover, to Sangatte,
to the east of Calais. A first company has been founded
with a capital of two millions of francs to sink two
vertical shafts on the French side. If the results give
a favourable idea of the nature of the soil, a second
association, with a capital of four millions, will next be
formed to cut two horizontal galleries a few hundred
metres long under the sea; and if that second under-
taking proves successful a company to complete the
submarine tunnel will be definitely created. An
Anglo French committee has been organised for some
months past, and is supported by two English railway
companies whose lines runs to the straits of Dover,
and by the French Northern Company. It is now
very actively engaged with the realisation of the
scheme. The English group is presided over by Lord
Richard Grosvenor, and the French by NI. Mickel
Chevalier. That international committee had applied
to the French Government for a concession ; the de-
mand having been submitted to a local committee of
inquiry in the Pasde-Calais, the commission there has
declared in favour of the colossal undertaking. The
machinery for the boring has already been tried with
perfect success.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-01-16

REDUCTION OF WAGES IN THE IRON

TRADE.

Ou Tuesday, afternoon a meeting of the.
Cleveland Ironmasters' Association was held,
when it was determined to give notice that, after
a fortnight from Satureay next, the wages of
blast furnacemen and other workmen engaged
about the works, should be reduced ten per cent.
The Cleveland miners received notice of a con-
terhplated redaction, which, it is believed, will
be 13i per cent. The roineowners meet next
Tuesday, to finally settle the question.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-01-16

THE AMERI4it 'REVIVALISTS,
UAL .

The services held by Messrs. Moody and S.
Silo !field on Sunday were more , largely attended 6i
on any previous day. Albert-hall was crOwded in the
morning long before the commencement of the service,
and hundreds were turned away from the doors. It
had been arranged to hold in the afternoon a special
service for women, and the multitude assembled was
greater than in the morning. Every- available space in
the saloon, the orchestra, and the galleries was occu-
pied. There was an immense crotrd of women outside,
who despaired of ever being able to hear the men
whose reputation had probably 'drawn hundreds of
them to the doors day after dak. •The disappointment
was, however, reserved for those who succeeded in
gaining admittance, for when Messrs. Moody and
Sankey ascended the platform, the former announced
that he purposed holding a meeting in the parish
churchyard, considering that so many found it impos-
sible to find places in the hall: Mr. Moody proceeded
to the churchyard, where he and the vicar held an
open-air service. Albert-hall was crowded at the
evening special service.
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-01-16

OLD HILL.

• ALLOWING A FEOCIOUs DOG TO BE AT LARGE —At the
Public Office, on Wednesday, before Mr N. Ilingley,
John Hackett was charged with allowing a ferocious ch•g
to be at larqe. Mr. Homer defended. Police-constable
Kettle provld that he was on duty on the night of the
4th, when the defendant's dog ran at him and caught
him by the coat, end tore it. This was corroboraced by
Police-constable Stile. Mr. Homer, for the defence,
contended that it had not been proved that the dog was
a ferocious animal- Defendant said he lived at the back
of the Cross Inn, and the yard was an enclosed one. On
the night in question he had occasion to go out, and the
dog followed him out. A stone was thrown at him, and
on going to a e who threw it, found the two policemen.
who asked him if he had got a license. Ile told them
he had, but refused to produce it at that time in the
morning, it being thou one o'clock. Ile took the number
of the policeman. At that time his brother came out of
the house, and had a knife in his Land. lhe "young "
policeman told him if he did not put the knife down he
would strike him ; and swore. Witness produced the
license, and said it was not a dog that bit the officer's
coat, and the case was adjourned for a week for the
attendance of further evidence.
DRUNRENNE3S--Henry Dav:es was charged with being
drunk on the 12th. Defendant pleaded guilty, and this
being his first offence, he was discharged on payment of
costs.—Noah Allport was charged with being drunk on
the 9th inst. Defendant pleaded guilty, and, in answer
to the Bench, said be had been before the Court many
times. Fourteen previous convictions were proved. De-
fendant said If they would give hiin another chance he
would not get drunk again. Ordered to pay coats.
DRUNK AND BEFINING TO QUlT.—Joseph Worrell and
Elijah Brooks were charged with being drunk and refus-
ing to quit the house of Joseph Whitmore, of the Five
Ways Inn, :7,radley Heatb. The case was not pressed,
and defendant was discharged on payment of costs.
CHARGE OF THREATENING. John Richards Was
brought up on a warrant, charged with assaulting and
threatening Melia Freer. The case was withdr mu on
defendant promising not to offend again, and pay costs.
There were a number of other cases set down for hear-
ing, but as there was only one magistrate they ware ad:
journed for a week.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-01-16

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-01-16

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