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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-10-24

PRCENIX FIRE OFFICE.

H. GEORGE PERRY, Solicitor, Agent
for Stourbridge, begs to remind the Public that
the PH(I-.NI X was for many years the only Fire Office
th kept a FIRE I:NOIRE in the town, and to inform
thenithat it still keeps one there.

Vo; the keys of the' Engine House, apply at the Talbot
Hotel ; or to W. Jones, Blacken:lab, Entille•streat, the
engineer ; and for Terms of Insurance, apply to the
Agent.

MARY C. GRIFFIN,

IN returuing thanks to the Public generally of
Stourliridge and Neighbourhood for past favours
shown to her late Uncle, Mr. JOHN GRIFFIN, and
since his death, to Herself, begs to announce that the
Business will for the future be carried oa by Mr. JAMES
THOMAS HORSLEY.

la taking to the above Business, J. T. HORSLEY
hopes by strict attention and punctuality, to merit a
continuance of the patronage awarded to his predeaes•

Motored stOtellosor Nell, Is4ll—Pr4ee le., or enclosed
poet paid from the author for 1./ stamps.
MANHOOD. A MEDICAL ESSAY on the
functions and disorders of th• reproductive organs
Is youth manhood. and aid age, with observations on the
giaelm•at .1141 cure rot NI11•01.4 EIZACITION. PIITSIt'AL
D 1111.11,, Lowers. or SPIRIT., de., being the result of la
years' succe.sful practice. By J. L.Craris, bi.Dl lb. Atli,
austa•stsawr. I'vc•DlLLy, LONDON. W.

•
RBVIIIWII Ow till Pau.
'There fin, ruember of Society by wheat thle kook will
Wei be found useful—whether such person bold the relation
et Perrot, Preceptor. or Clergyrean."—lse, evening paper.
CLAMS or NI isrmoon.-7Trz Trocsern—Ably written aid
plainly describe, the source of those diseases tvlairoh produce
decline irs youth. and more frequently premature old age.—
Daily re I,grajA, 27tb March. MK
CL sr is ow St•onoon shonld he in the hands of youth and
•I 4 ag.. It is a medical pablieetion, deseloping the Meat.
mitt • ! a class of painful melodies, which have leo lonteheen
to. prey of the illiterate and deslgning.—United .S,ruiro
Ousel tr. .

_
Tido work, haard upon the re•ult of 30 years' oneeessful
practice in the treatment of a painful and dietressing clef§
of Illoost4a, will be found to contain plain directioulfor the
ears of nasty diseoges hitherto aboadened as hopeletts.--.
Tr....'Xrtrl March, !Md.
• rendoa—fold also by )topj, Nootooller, 30,

SEWING MACHINES! SEWING MACHINES I
SEWING MACHINES! SEWING MACHINES l

GEORGIC THOMASON,

15, DULL RING, KIDDERMINSTIIR,
BEGS to inform the Inhabitants of Stour-
bridge and the surrounding district that he intends
visiting the above district y Wednesday, and will
supply those who may favour him with Orders with lint
Claes MACHINA& The Howe, Wheeler aud Wiles.,
I.ttieen, Singer, Grover and Baker, and •Il the leading
makcs. HAND MACHINES of every make.
LESSONS git en FREE to all Purchasers, and every
Machine warranted, or etehanged if not approved of.
Terms : fl down, and 12s per month. rive per cent.
off CI prompt Cu&
All kinds of Machines Cleaned and Repaired. Old
Machines taken in Irchange.
All letters or post cards sent to the sbon dare% will
reoeire prompt attention.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-10-24

TI!TQUERIDGE ORSFRVER
_
such wickedness as that. Fortunately the French Statirenghi, at Stourbridge, on July S&L—Mr. Clive '
Foreign Minister, the Duke Decazes, is a prosecuted • Mr. Godson defended.—Prosecutor's
courteous as well ti an able man, and while house was left in charge of a man named Wainwright
,s
pointing out the groundlessness of the charges who was sitting In an upstairs room, when prisoner
of conceding the demands which Spain made
n:r
(who suddenly
made against France, he shows the impossibility
in
appeared, but on seeing Wainwright made his escape.
—Dui defence was that it was a case of mistaken
so unaccustomed a manner. Let us hope that identity ; but the jury found prisoner guilty, and he
even Bismarck is not sit black as he has been was sentenced to a mouth's hard labour and five
painted, and that he was not the moving agent in years' confinement in a reformatory.
a waiter which has excited no little bitterness in STEALING DUCKS—At the Worcestershire Mic-
France, where the Spanish note is regarded as beelines Sessionslbefore Mr. li. W. Hastings
an init as ill-timed as it was unmerited. Edwin Stanley was indicted for 6traling three ducks,
the pnyertylof Mark Barker, at Warley Wigorm—
Mr. tiodson; prosecuted; Mr. Jelf defended. Wit-
nesses were culled to prove an el ibi—The jury fonnd
prisoner not guilty.
DRUNK AND DISORDERLY.—At the Police Court.
on Tuetisay, before Mr. R. L. Freer, Selina Lees
was charged with being drunk and disorderly in
High-street, on Monday night last. Fined Is and
costs. Police-constable Philpota proved the case.

RECTORSHIP OF EDINBURGH.

The Lancot states that the Duke of Edinburgh
and Dr. Lyon Playfair are spoken of as successors
to Sir W. Stirling Maxwell in the Lord Rector.
ship of Edinburgh University.

THE REGENT'S PARK EXPLOSION.
The owners of property destroyed by the late
Regent's Park explosion met on Thursday. and
decided to take proceedings against the Grand
Junction Canal Comprny for oompelisation.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-10-24

SCALE OF CHARGES.

Single Teeth, Sets, £2 10s.,

Stopping, &Zing, and Extracting, and the regulating
of Children's Teeth, at Moderate Charge,.
N.B.—Patients can be waited upon by Appointment
made at the Above Address,:or by Letter. to—

17, BENNETT'S HILL, 17
[First door from New-street, and opposite ths Inmates
Royal.;
Consultations Free.

NOTICE.

THE MIDLAND BANKING COMPANY
(LIMITED)

HAVE OPPNED
A BRANCH AT STOURBRIDGE
ON TIiIIRSDAY, the 10t4 SEPTEMBER,

165, HIGH STREET,
CHARLES KNOCKER,
General Manager

Loudon; 31st Angust;lB74

FRIEND (1!
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-10-24

THE PLAGUE OF GRASSHOPPERS.

A calamity which has befallen Colorado, in the
shape of a plague of grasshoppers, incidentally affords
some interesting information touching the habits of the
insect (remarks the Daily News). It seems that next
to onions the crop which the grasshopper takes to most
cordially is oats. But it must not be understood from
this circumstance that the grasshopper is at all hard to
please in the matter of food. In the absence .f onions it
will, as we have hinted, cheerfully eat oats, and if oats .
are not grown in the locality which it happens to be
visiting it will devour anything that is about, from a
cabbage to a verbena. Another peculiarity is the sudden
manner in which the grasshopper comes and the un-
accountable manner in which it departs. The visitation
which has just 'cleared out Colorado" was preceded
by two briefer ones, disastrous enough in their results,
but still insignificant as compared withthe final assault.
Ten days had elapsed after the second departure of the
grasshoppers, when, at noon on the eleventh day, the
light suddenly began to fade, and, looking up, the
people saw the grasshoppers moving like a cloud,
some 500 feet high, and passing slowly in a south-
easterly direction. Presently they began to de-
scend, and the fields were covered with them. It
was a Saturday afternoon when they came down,
and they appeared to have devoted the evening
hours to rest. But the next morning they commenced
operations, and do not lie under any reproach of waste
of time. "They worked expeditiously all through the
valley," says a New York paper, "and those who had
cabbage patches of a few hundred head at breakfast,
had none when the bell rang for church; celery dia-
-1 appeared, and the currant and gooseberry bushes
, looked as though there had been a heavy frost. Before ,
night much of the sweet corn was gone, and the whole
stock of the women's flowers, verbenas, gladiolas,
pinks, and the like, were wiped away." There being
abundance in Colorado, the grasshoppers were able
to humour their preferences, and whilst ravaging
a garden avoided the roses and the phlox. The
foliage of apple and pear trees utterly dieop•
peared, but cherries, plums, and peaches were
left untouched, and whilst making desolate the rasp-
berry bushes, they spared the strawberries and the
blackberries. For lace curtains they displayed a sin-
gular fancy, and if a parlour window was left open
thousands fluttered about the curtains ins state of noisy
admiration. At night they roosted among the trees,
and on this head the correspondent of the journal
already quoted makes a statement which we prefer to
give in his own words I have cotton woods, ash,
maple, and other trees, from ten to twenty feet high,
with limbs from an inch to two inches in diameter, in
all over 100, around the house, and so many grass-
hoppers were on these trees that the branches bent
down from ten to fifteen inches."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-10-24

FALL OF A STACK. MIRACULOUS ESCAPE

OF WORKMEN.

On:Wednesday morning last, at Dudley, a very tall
stack connected with Mr. R. J. Cooper's brewery, in
Hull Street, was partially blown down by the violence
of tin wind, which raged for several hours. At the
time of the disaster the whole of the workmen were
engagra in the different departments, and it seems
they were not unprepared for what took place. Seve-
ral of the 101,11 noticed that:the;stack •• rocked when
they arrived at the brewery, and an opinion was ex-
pressed that the stack, or it least a part of it, would
come down" if the high wind continued. At half-
past seven o'clock, OHM one half of the stack fell
with a terrific crash down on to II building in the rear
id the premises, which was used for the purpose of
washing beer tubs. The building was completely
smashed, aud the debeis strewn all over the large
yard. Several men had a very narrow escape, and
We are pleased to state no one was it,jureul, Had the
stack fallen ill an opisisite ilirection the damage to
property and life must have been extensive. The
damage done is estimated at about .t2OO. A little
lower down the atreet • rather remarkable ,Teehoew
of the fury of the wiud was giveu. A solid square
yard of plate glass, X inch thick, was cleanly blown
out of the framework into • bed room. In the Market
Hike°, the old sign of the Seven Stars was wrested
(ruin its fastenings, and it fell on the footpath. A
girl was passing at the time, but she fortunately, es-
caped without a scratch. Considerable datnne was
done to the roofs of houses at Shavers End, and
broken chimney pots mid. elates were strewn about
in all directions.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-10-24

A POST OFFICE PROBLEM.

By the last mail from India a curious letter arrived
at the General Post Office. It was not stamped, the
paper of which the envelope wasicomposed was peculiar,
and the address was for the time being utterly unin-
telligible. Anyhow, the letter had been sent to London.
The General Post Office authorities at once despatched
a trustworthy messenger to the meet erudite scholars in
this city to ask them to decipher the strange, blotted,
crooked, and indistinct handwriting on the envelope.
An eminent linguist of the British Museum was applied
to. He could not interpret the address, but pronounced
the characters forming it not to be arrow-headed ones,
nor resembling the letters composing the ancient
Assyrian inscriptions with which he had hitherto met.
Another well-known authority of the British Museum
was consulted, but he could not see in the writing
on the envelope any resemblance to Chinese. The
authorities at the India Office were next asked foe
their opinion. The omniscient librarian was unfor-
tunately absent just at the time when the postal mee-
anger called, but a Kamer, hie able ulna tan t, pro.

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nounced it not to be Malagasy or even Pali The letter
next went to Richmond, where a well-known C'anarese
scholar pronounced the address not to be Canarese.
So the letter passed from pundit to pundit without in-
terpretation. At length it happened that a learned
gentleman of the India Office recommended the bearer
of the mysterious communication to take it to two
other learned gentleman residing in Bayswater. These
laid their heads together, and discovered that the inscrip-
tion on the envelope of the reiloubtable letter was
in the Telugu character. It was written very badly,
however, and when translated read as follows :
" Nottu peydu. Jaroor ! I pray poet-office writer
in London to take this letter and give it into the
hand of the Ranee." Nottu peydu " means " not
paid." There was no stamp on the letter, so per-
haps the Telugu person who sent it considered this
communication to "the Ranee," ass ha styles Her Majesty
the Queen, sufficiently important in itself to pass free to
the ban& of the "Empress of India." "Jaroor !" is the
Hindustani equivalent for " post haste." The 'writer"
of the London Post Office, of course, means, in com-
mon Indian parlance, the "clerk." The author of the
letter evidently supposed that we in London possess
only one post office and only one clerk to that office.
Of course, the contents of the letter are not known to
us. Probably some petty lawsuit has gone wrong with
the sender, and her Majesty the Queen is informed
that the local magistrate took bribes.—Pall Mall
Gazette.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-10-24

NOTICE.

ALL PERSONS having CLAIMS on the late
SAMUEL STRATFURD, Fruiterer, of OltrwiE-
ford, are requested to make the semi, on or to fora the
7th day of November, and all hi' 9011 lad bteil to tie
said Samuel Stratford urn rtine.trki to pay, on Of bt.' fOn
the above date.

THE OLD HARE AND HOUNDS,

HASBURI

VISITORS from Birmingham nr Harbotna.
cn rou,o through Haleaowen, to /lagley, Cleat
Hills, or Kidderminster, will find this Ancient Old House
"THE HAHN AND HOUNDS," et HAS/DAY,
OPENED AGAIN.'
Visitors will find every accommodation.
Spirits, Ales, Sitter Beer, A:e., of the best Quality.
JOSEPH NEIVEY,

Proprietor.

N.R.—The Old House is known as she
the Fus Hunting Season, for Hefreshinents, &c.

SURGEON DENTIS r.

MR. A. H. BROADHURST:,
BEGS respectfully to announce to the
Inhabitants of Stourbridge and tie vicinity, that
he may be Consulted every FRIDAY, from hi cm, to
p.m., at Mr. PADETT.S, 13s, lIIDELSTNEET (Next
to the Talbot Hotel), upon all points appertaining to
Dentistry, both in the Surgical and Mechanical Depart-
ments, and trusts that by strict adherence to Moderate
Charges and the employment of Lest Materials and
Workmanship to merit a share of their Lind katronage
and aupport.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-10-24

CARRIAGE OF GUNPOWDER.

At blow Street, on Thursday, Mr. Bosco',
partner in a firm at Paddington, Wag charged, at
the instance of Major Maguire, with conveying a
large quantity of gunpowder, about three tons,
contrary to the Act regulating the carriage of
explosives. The case woo adjourned until
Friday.

A BARRISTER CONVICTED OF FRAUD.

At the Reeding Quarter Sessions on Thursday.
Mr. John R. Mitton, a barrister, stated to be
highly connected, WAY sentenced to nine months'
hard labour fur obtaining, by means of a post.
dated cheque. the sum of .C 2,0 from Messrs.
Stephens, Bloody, and Co., bankers. The pri-
soner, at the time of the offence, was staying at
the Great Western Hotel, Reading.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-10-24

A PROGRESSIVE COUNTRY.

Property has risen somewhat in value in the United
States since 14325, when the whole city and county of
New York was, according to the New York Herald,
purchased for 24 dollars. From that time the develop-
ment of the city seems to have progressed slowly but
surely. In 1638 tobacco was produced to a considerable
extent on New York Island. In 1652 the first public
school was established; the streets were first paved in
1676. In 1667 there were twelve streets and 384
houses. In 1711 a slave market was established
in Wall-street. In 1729 threepence a foot was
given for land on the west side of Broadway,
near the Battery. The first stage route between
New York and Boston was established in 1732,
the time taken in performing the journey being
fourteen days from city to city. In 1733 a law was
passed to preserve the fish in the Freshwater Pond
(the Kolek), now Centre-street, and its neighbourhood.
In 1737 a inarket-house was built in Broadway, the
city at that time containing 1,416 houses. In 1745 the
first coach was driven in New York. When the British
evacuated the city on November 25, 1783, the buildings
did not extend beyond Murray-street. In 1501 Broad-
way was ordered to be continued to meet the Bowery,
and the hills levelled and carted into Freshwater Pond,
which was then the northern limits of Broadway, and
much beyond the settled limits of the city. Previous
to this extension of Broadway the Bowery was the
only entrance to the city, through groves of cedars to
the "Bars Head," now the Bowery Theatre.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-10-24

MR. G. STORER, M.P., ON FUTURE
LEGISLATION.

Speaking at the annual dinner of the Epperstone
(Nottinghamshire) Agricultural Society, on Tuesday,
Mr. (f. Storer, M.P., said the Conservative govern-
ment were pledged to several things, and no doubt
there were eeveral measures which they would take up
next session. Referring to the question of local taxa-
tion, he was of opinion that it was an Imperial ques-
tion, and the aged and infirm poor ought to be sup-
ported out of property of every description, and
not merely by owners and occupiers of land and
houses. He condemned the malt tax as a great
burden and injustice to owners • and occupiers of
land ; it was an especial burden upon the culti-
vators of land, because they could not do with-
out beer, and it bore more heavily upon
the fanner because he found that in other countries
which he had to compete with there was no malt tax
worth speaking of, and farmers could use their own
produce for their own consumption untaxed. The
education tax was another burden on the landed in-
tereat. Until lately: education was fairly and suffi-
ciently provided for in most country districts; most
labourers and the middle class educated their own
children, and they probably got as much education as
would serve for them, and would be sufficient for their
condition of life. But it was a crotchet of the Liberal
government that a higher education Was required,
and every one, even the Children of paupers, were
to be educated. A great deal of time during last
session had been occupied in discussing the different
standards of education, and as to what pitch of per-
fection children were to be educated at the expense
of the public. Well, he thought a great deal of
that was very unnecessary if it gave too high an educa-
tion*o people of the lower rank, whoswere dependent
upon the public to pay for it. It would not do them
a great deal of good but aometimes a deal of harm, by
placing them in a position. beyond tilt:4 rank in life,
and incapacitating them for thoomamoupatieris which
they would otheewiao daufsno.- .Brequently Children
who received lige . higher educatioa were fait content
to. remain. 'amongst them,. hut& taiutatad tu ether
conetriesj wheriktheY eAtew begat siwasseetve&
If We esuseatinn were locution*, sholidoc Axfolfaeaa
a bwslass to lias !Entswayew .alonei .11wwisi some degree'
out of aurnational dere,. L.! h.. • . • -
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-10-24

PR ISECUTION FOR IMITATING TRADE

MARKS.

George Herbert Clarke, a chemist, of Shoreditch,
was indicted nutter the statute of the 25th mid 2tith
Victoria, for that he did alter • trade mark—to wit,
one ,if Clarke's World. Famed Blood Mixture ;"
second count charged him with causing such alteration
1,, be made ; a thirst coma charged .him with forging
suet: trade mark ; a fourth count charged him with
applying such forged trade mark ; and a fifth count
charged him with applying a eounterfeit trade mark.
There were other counts still further varying the
offences. The case was heard before Mr. Serie:int
Cox. at the Middlesex &miens. It appeared from
the evidence, that the defendant was selling what
he milled "Clarke's Blood Renovator," a mixture
of his own, instead of .Clarke's Blood Mixture,"
done up in similar bottles and with labels, and cal-
culated to deceive, by substituting our for the
other. Defendant made a public apology and paid
the costs of the prosecution. These terms being
accepted by prosecutor, the ease was withdrawn.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-10-24

EXERCISE FOR CHILDREN.

Slow walking is of but little use to any one as a
sanitary measure; it should be quick and brisk.
Such large numbers of the children of our towns
appear to be almost shut up to walking as the only I
out-of-door exercise that they can take, that it is one I
by no means to be despised, but rather to be made the I
most of and where, as in the country, a walk can be '
made to include all sorts of games—leaping, running,
climbing, and so forth—nothing could be better. But
still, for a large majority of English boys and girls, the
usual tame " constitutional" is not enough. It does
not afford a sufficiently wide outlet for the boiling
over of their fun and vitality ; neither does it equably
exercise and develop all the muscles of their frame,
those of the arms, back, chest and abdomen being left
almost inactive. To ensure these two essentials we
roust give them games and sport, out of which,, if
rightly directed, double the enjoyment and double the
bard work is to be got. Even the boisterous merri-
ment and noise of these pursuits is good for them
physically. How the chest is expanded, and the
lungs exercised and strengthened, by the shouting and
free and loud use of the voice that always is heard
throughout the games of childhood and youth ! By
their very noisiness they arc unawares making use of
a very important means of health.—ThelManagment
of Infancy and Childhood in Health and Duo ase.

The proprietors of the Journal Amused, Paris, have
struck upon the idea of utilising their illustrations, and are
manufacturing paper-hangings enriched with the various
engravings that have from time to time appeared in that
paper. •
Interesting accounta have been reeeivea of the tour
which the Bishop of Lichfield is making M Canada. On his
reaching Plontreal he was introduced to the members of the
Provincial Si nod, to whom he read an address from the
English Church The right my, prelate subsequently spose
at a missionary meeting, and dwelt on the duty of building
up Its own church, and being no lonior depoudent for aid
on the mother ClairreM
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-10-24

NOTICE OF REMOVAL.
JOHN SKELDINO,
(Late of the Old ling's Head),

111AKES the present opportunity of thanking
hie friends fo: their past support, and respeetfully
solicits a continuance of the lame, now that he has Ulm
to that well.known " hostelriu,"
THE COACH AND HORSES INN,
11/011•STRXE7', S'TOURBRILGE,

Aad to assure thorn that he is 'dusted by the
huiher to cater to their satisfution, the Premises
bolas superior in every respest to his former Residense.
As ORDINARY every Friday at One &sleek, en the
irraingham prineiple.
PORKION WINES and SPIRITS.
tiood Stabling, Look Cowls-house and Yard.
Oar Note the Removal.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-10-24

SPECIAL ATTENTION.

Is given to Copying atul linlerging (even to Life Size
any Portrait, cud finivhing the smile either in Oil and
Watercolour, or plain hlick.snd•white.
OIL PaINTINO. Slinistures, Cartes de Visite. OMss
and other Pictures of sell or deceased friends, Copied for
the Album.
Cartes de Visite from 5s per dozen, taken daily.

ARCHER CLARKE,

71, !Miff STREET, S 1 OURBRIDOE.

APPRENTICE-0U r-DOOR.
WANTED, Respectable YOUTH, to Learn
Clla and Watch and Jewellery Heiatinng.
Apply. 112, High-street, Ittourbridge.

WANTED, i PRACTICAL MANAGER for
a FISK BRICK and TILE MANUFECIUM,
ING COMPANY. State Age and Salary required.—
pplications, with Testimonials, to be sent in to the
Secretary 04 the Ridge Hid Coal, Fire Brick, and
Manufacturing Company (Limited), Stalybridge, on or
before Wednesday, the Hdi of November.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-10-24

A SINGULAR AFFAIR.

In London, on Tuesday, Mr. Carter, the Coroner
for East Surrey, held an inquest upon the body of Mr.
Charles Netter, aged 17, a native of Paris, at the
"Prince of Brunswick " Tavern, Brunswick-street,
Stamford-street. The case appeared to excite con-
siderable interest, the deceased being the same person
who last week complained to the authorities of the
South-Eastern Railway of having been assaulted and
robbed in one of the company's carriages while travel.
lin* between Charing-cross and Waterloo stations, and
a circumstantial account of which alipeared in several
of the daily papers, but for which there now appears
to have been no foundation.
William Jones, a waterside labourer, said that on
Thursday morning in last week, about seven o'clock,
he found the body of the deceased lying in the mud of
the River Thames. off Sexton's Wharf. There were
no marks of violence on the body, and the clothes
of the deceased were undisturbed. He called the
police, and the body was removed to the dead house.
Thomas Boucher, beadle, said he received the body
of the deceased at the mortuary. He searched the
clothes, and found three sovereigns in the pockets
with some loose silver, and also a pocket-book with
several letters referring to the alleged outrage on the
railway.
Mr. Faulkner said he was manager to Charles
Nether and Co., merchants, of Bush-lane, City.
He had known the deceased about three months. The
deceased was 17 years of age, and the son of Mr.
Nether, a physician at l'aris. Ile identified the hand-
writing in the letters found upon him as that of the
deceased. He believed the deceased was not in his
right mind from what had occurred within the last few
days, and he had do doubt he had thrown himself into
the water. The deceased had informed him that he
I had been the victim of an outrage in a railway carriage;
I but from all these circumstances he doubted whether
such an outrage had occurred. He believed it to be a
delusion on the part of the deceased. The watch and
several other articles of which the deceased said he had
been robbed in the railway carriage were afterwards
found in his room. The deceased lived with witness,
and he left home at 7.30. on Wednesday evening in last
week, saying he had an appointment with a sergeant
of police in reference to the outrage in the railway
carriage. He had not since seen the deceased alive.
He felt sure his mind was affected.
Mr. John Hutchings said he was a friend of the
deJeased. Subsequently to the alleged outrage he was
continually reading the paragraphs and letters which
had appeared in the papers respecting it, and took a
childish delight in reading them. He had no doubt
he had become of unsound mind and had destroyed his
, own life.
, Some other evidence to the above effect was given.
I The coroner's officer said he had carefully examined
' the body, and there were no marks of violence
upon it.
The jury found that the deceased had committed
suicide while of unsound mind.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-10-24

asked him whose it was. Prisoner said it was his
own. Th 3 iron was then placed in the scales, and
it weighed 8-tlbs. Ha told the prisoner the bag was
211,5, and paid him 38 61 for 841bs, which was a
good price. Faun Wigan, domestic servant to
the last witness. said that the prisoner brought the
iron, and it weighed 8411,8. Po-lice-constable Dunn
proved apprehending prisoner, who said that he did
not steal the iron, but found it. Prisoner said that
he forma the iron in two quantities, under some
cinders, and, having been ill for some days. he
took the iron to Richard Shaw, anal sold it. Pri.
goner was sentenced to six weeks' hard labour'—
Prisoner left the dock declaring that he was inno-
cent.

ASSAULT CANZ.—Bridget Welch, Was charged
by Mary Davies with assaulting her on the 19t11
inst. Complainant who had a pair of black eyes
said that she went into the Swan Inn, Oldswinford,
to have a half pint of ale, when the defendant and
two others came in. Defendant was taking Lb-
erties with married men. She remonstrated with
her and on going home, and when near the Blue
School, defendant set about her, knocked her down
and kicked her until she became insensible. Mary
O'Donald, gave corroborative evidence. Defend-
ant denied the charge, and said that complainant
first struck her with a stick, several times, when
she struck her again, and they fought. Ellen
Stevens gave corroborative evidence. The Bench
considered they were both to blame, and ordered
them pay the costs between them.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-10-24

The Times also publishes the following letter
.. . •

Sir,—We have lately heard how gunpowder is transported
daily through the streets of London, and how four or live
Magmata of the explosive sometimes follow one another
through the crowded thoroughfares. It is quite impossible
to any what would be the result to life and property on the
acsidental ignition of one of those ominous caravans in our
midst, but some idea may be gathmed from an event which
happened many years ago, and of which I learnt something
in a vacation ramble through Germany this summer. On
the tat of September last I was staying in the quaint little
town of Eisenach, hidden away in the Thuringian forest,
When towards evening I noticed a procession of choristers
slowly parading the streets, chanting hymns and prayers,
while the bells of the churches were set ringing. The de-
monstration was a thanksgiving for preserving the town
from another such catastrophe as that which occurred in
1,10. during the French war. On the evening of the
lot of septemli, in that year three powder-waggons
belonging to the retreating French p.whed through
the town, and one of the hones' shoes, striking lire on
the stones in the road, ignited a train of powder
which had been spilt from a loose package in the first
waggon, and with a mighty thunder-clap the three vehicles
were blown into the air. One side of the street was levelled
to the ground, and in a few minutes half the little town
was 111 Hann's. The whole of the escort, together with 54
of el, inhabitants. were killed on the spot, while the
wounded and hurt were to be counted by hundreds Twenty.
lx uses were destroyed by the explosion, while many
ii hers were burnt to the ground. Flames were to be seen in
every quarter of the town, and the wretched inhabitants
torte mu lerrorstrieken and helpless under the awful catrut-
trophe that many lied without attempting to rgner assist-
all, to their more unfortunate brethren.

Eisenn•li MIA never forgotten the horrors of that terrible
night, aud although upwards of half a century has elapsed
since the occurrence, the townspeople still continue rever-
ently to observe the anniversary of the sad event —1 ani,
Sir, your obedient servant, IL HADEN PRITCHARD.
Savage Club, Covent-garden, W.C.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-10-24

31.0c;t( stab istrict getris.

DISGRACEFUL SCENE IN OLDSWIN.

FORD CHURCHYA RD.

emisilerable excitement has been manifested
in Lie IM ighbourhood during the week in const‘z
vence of a disgraceful ieelle which was enacted
in Oidawiuford Churchyard, ou Tuesday of ter-
-110011. It appears that three interments had
heen arranged fir, and one of the funeral parties,
that of Mr. Jeremiah Hill, lave of the Hayes, be-
ing behind time, the curse. the Rev. O. Atlley,
proc.n led with the other two fimerals. After
Liiia‘ellrlCC had been read in the church, the
mourners went to the eliurehyard, where Mr.
A:lley went on with the service. 'Dime ore such
condieting statements male that we can only
give the Pallowing ac.mant of what took place.
'The party from the Hayes, not finding the *Min-
ister in the church, aeot a auesenger to the.
churchyard for him, and he at tirst declined to
go bark, hut subsequently said he w u Id. Mean•
time, however, the hz%irers understanding he
would net return to the eliurch carried the body
to the side of the grave, and then there was a
question as to whether there should not be a
return to the church. Mr. Adley proceeded to
road the funeral service amidst a great display
of feeling. A number of people had been drawn
together by the funerals, and, taking offence at
Mr. Adley's conduct, they mocked him as he
read the service, and expressions were used
which would neither be decorous at a funeral or
on any other occasion. Mr. Adley went on with
the service, taking no outward notice of these
manifestations. which it appears were not con-
fined to words, s Ind, dirt, and tufts of grass be.
in. thrown at him. Mr. Adley was followed and
h muted as he left the churchyard, auil the whole
sink was of a most unpredeceuted kind.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-10-24

THE IRON TRADE.

WouElein Nivros, Wednesday.

The demand for most Glasses of finished iron
fairly maintains the improvement recently re-
ported, and prices show continued firmness. The
impending close of the shipping season causes
pressure to be urged for the completion of out-
standing orders on foreign account, and at the
sheet mills especially there is very considerable
activity. Messra.Barrows and other leading
firms continue to realise full list rates, on the
basis of 11l for marked bars, but marked bars
of fair quality are obtainable at 1:10 10s. per ton.
The Darlaston Steel and Iron Company Limited,
intimate by circular that their prices for cash
and sectional iron will be strictly maintained on
the standard of _Ell for bars. For "Champion"
quality iron their prices are :—Bars, .PlO los. ;
hoops, £l.l ; sheets, £l3;. and strip, £lO per ton.
Com strip is in improved demand, and some very
fair orders for rods changed hands this afternoon.
Wire rods of Shropshire make showed limuess
in price, and makers do not hold eel the premise
of au early reduction. Messrs. Richard Morris
and Abraham Beunett have retired from the firm
of tieorge Adams and Co., Mars Ironworks. Wol-
verhampton, and the establishment will now be
carried on by Mr. George Adams alone. The
market for pig iron is this week without special
feature. Cinder pig is steady at £3 3s. to £3 7s.
61.; and good brands of allinine range from £5
t 3 .£5 10s. per ton, according to make. Several
additional furnaces in various parts of the dis.
triet will shortly be in operation. The coal trade
improves steadily, though sonic what slowly, and
it will be some time, at the present rate of pro-
gress, before the demand is equal to the available
output. An important area of thick coal at West
Bromwich, the workings of which had been
water logged fur 40 years, has been opened out
by successful drainage on the part of a single
enterprising firm. Ironstouvs are steady, at 20s.
to 21a. for native white and gobbin ol good sane.
ple.
Chilled rolls and other mill castings were to-
day declared down 20s. per ton on the July list.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-10-24

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-10-24

WAGES IN AUSTRALIA.

One of the main inducements to emigration from
England being the assertion that labour in better paid
abroad, the wage rate now existing in our colonies
becomes of considerable importance to intending
emigrants (remarks the Globe). According to the
latest advices from Australia that country would
certainly appear an exception to this theoretical
rule of high prices for physical toil. In the
Ballarat district miners receive £2 ss. per week,
working eight hours a day, and brakesmen rather
more. At Bendigo, quartz millers employed in
deep sinking get £2 10s., but the pay of ordinary
miners is the same as at Ballarat, or about Is. 9d. per
day. Somewhere about the same rate prevails at
Alexandra, Maryborough, and Daylesford, but in
Gipps's Land, where labour is scarce, miners get froro
£2 10s. to I'3 per week. Navvies employed on the
Government works receive 9d, per hour, while the
pay of ordinary able-bodied labourers averages about
6s. a day of twelve hours. Except in this last
instance, the wage rate is not much higher
than in England, while the cost of many ne-
cessaries, such as clothing, shoes, stimulants,
and groceries, is much greater. Labourers would
certainly appear to be in demand, and perhaps
to this class emigration to Australia promises certain
pecuniary advantages. But, before deciding on this
step, it would be well to remember that the work re-
quired of a labourer in Australia is of an infinitely
more arduous sort than what satisfies an English
farmer. Nor must it be forgotten that while in Eng-
land farm hands enjoy many advantages, such as free
cottages, gratis garden plots, and extra payments during
harvest time, they must not expect anything but bare
money payment when seeking their fortunes at the
antipodes. Viewing the matter impartially, it may
be safely asserted that the wage rate now existing in
Australia presents no special attractions to English
labourers.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-10-24

FISH.

Pickled herrings, 265. to 38s. ; red ditto, 12s to 265 ,
roused ditto, 13s. 94. to 17. 65.1. ; fresh ditto, 164. to lira
per barrel ; kippers, 2s. to 31.; bloaters, 15. 04. to Is. 3d.
per box . smoked haddock, 205. to 30s. per barrel; trawl ditto,
155. to 185, ; ditto plaice, 19s. to 225. ditto whiting, 16s. to
195. per basket ; soles, Is. to 4s. periair , turbot, 6s. to 135 ,
brill, Is 9d. to 3s. each; eels, tel to Is. per lb. ; native
oysters, £10; pearl ditto, £3; common ditto, 13s. to. 30s. per
bushel.

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he market remains very quiet. There is no great dash,
on the part of holder to preu sales, and the value rff fine
hops is well supported, but offers of less money for Secondary
and inferior gradas are invariably taken. Trade on the
Continent is not active, though a little firmer than it was.
East Kent Goldlngs, 1874, £l3 13t to £l6 165. ° Mid-Kent,,
£ll 11s. to £.14 145. ; Weald of Kents, £7 7s. to £ll ; Sussex,
£OlO £lO 10s ; Worresters, £lO to £l4 ; Farnharns, £lO 10a
to £t7 135. ; Country, £lO to £l4 12s. and Yearlings, £7 to
£Oll,.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-10-24

BRIERLEY HILL.

LOC4I. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES •ND THE GEIST BOOPI.
(AL—The friendly societies of this town and district
I hell a deulonetration on Sunday in aid of the Guest Ros•
total. A procession well formed on Chapel Hill and
walkel, accompanied by three hands, to the large area in
front of the Round Oak offices, Mr. William Barlow
took the chair. After singing and praying, sermons were
delivered by the Rev. A. Hi!ditch. Collections were
afterwards made, and they =wanted to upwards of g
I DISORDERLY CONDUCT AT THE UNION.—At the
1, Police Court, on Monday, before Messrs. 11.0. Firm-
' stone and H. Smith, George Evans. an inmate of the
' Union, was charged with being disorderly at the
Vorkhouscandassaulting Elijah Brooks, on the 17th
inst. Brooks stated that defendant threw a stone at
hint and afterwards struck hint and blackened both
his oyes. A witness stained Higgs gave corrobora-
tive evidence. Defendant said Brooks commenced
the assault by striking him with a brick. Com-
mitted to Stafford for 21 days.
BREACH OF TEE BEAM-014E10E Hendrick and
Elijah Roby were charged with committing a breach
of the peace by fighting, on the 12th inst. Defend-
ants pleaded guilty and were ordered to find one
surety each, iu .g 5 to keep the peace for six months.
liars BoWeII.ERS ChAV,led With
being drunk, on the 11th inst. Policescoustable
Cotterill proved the male. Fined Is stud costs.—
Edward Edwanls was charged with being drunk and
disorderly, on the 10th iust, at Hingewinford. P.C.
White proved the case. Fined Is and rusts.

Excise Paosiscurlow.—John Aston was sum-
moned by Mr. Otter, Supervisor of Inland Revenne,
for carrying a gunoin the 14th of August last, he
not havingii license to do so. Thomas Clic!mirk,
excise officer, proved the offence. I)efendant said be
was under the impression that be could carry is gnu
to kill vermin round his own property, which wa.
is ithiu 34.)0 yards of his house. A witness was called
whose evidence went to show that the laud defend-
ant occupied was separated by it road. Mr. Otter
contended that defendant could not carry a gun with-
out a license, that he had no license on the day in
question, neither hail In, obtained one since. Ile
considered he had proved his case, and asked for a
conviction, After some consideration, the Bench
said they were of opinion the charge of carrying a
gnu was proved, and it was the duty of defendant to
prey* why ha was carrying a ann. Lt ire midyear*
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-10-24

RABIA FELINA.

Some days ago we had a notice (says an American
paper) of a California boy, who bitten by a wild cat, ex-
hibited an exceptional form of insanity. He was '
seized with an irresistible desire to murder grown people
and eat babies, but he was caught and put in .1 for
safety before he had an opportunity to kill any... y or
dine off the longed-for dish. The people called him
" the wild-cat boy," and the doctors said it was rabia
fslina. His death has not yet been reported.
Now there comes an account from Chicago of
the death of a boy, aged fourteen, who had
been bitten by a domestic cat. The cat belonged
to a neighbour, and had come into the house where'the
boy lived and killed a kitten. The boy, enraged at the
cat's act, caught it round the neck with his hands, and
was choking the animal when it turned and bit him
1 slightly on the hand. The wound soon healed, and
nothing more was thought of the matter either by the
boy or his family. A few days ago he was seized with
a soreness in the arm of the bitten hand, and a nervous
restlessness. He also had some fever, and his
throat became swollen and inflamed. A doctor
was called in, who thought he understood the
I symptoms. and administered medicine accordingly.
The patient became rapidly worse, and unable to
swallow water or anything else. Attempts to swallow
1 water to quench the burning thirst which he felt threw
him into violent spasms. He died without even think-
ing of the cat-bite as the cause of his illness. There
I was, therefore, no imagination about that, and a con-
sultation of physicians pronounced the disease hydro-
phobia. The cat is still running about in perfect
1 health, and if it so continues the incident will furnish
'
proof that hydrophobia may result from the bite of a
healthy animal without any aid whatever from the
human imagination.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-10-24

THE FIRST TRAIN TO JEYPORE.
(From Punch)

" The Maharajah of Jeypore, one of the most public-spirited
chiefs in India, on Monday last, drove the first railway
engine ever carried into his territory."—Tink,
JEYPoRE, in Rajpootana, splendid town
(Lying south-west of Delhi, city vast.
Whose wondrous ruins occupy a space
As wide as London) feels again the throb
Of life it knew when Learning reigned supreme
Under JET SINGII, four centuries ago,
And when an architect from Italy
Built Its great palace amid gardens fair,
I'alace itself a city.
Think, the scene
The thousands of dusk faces crowding forth
From long straight streets, where tranquil temples stand,
From busy market squares, to see their Rajah
Riding the steed of Steam, whose screaming neigh,
White breath, vast eye of lire, were never known
Before in that calm city. lle has dared
To vanquish ancient prejudice of Cute,
To drive an engine with his princely hands,
To take Brahm's bultby itsinveterate horns,
And bring all Europe tohis town by train.
Yes, in the wake of that one engine come
Science, and letters, and philosophy,
And ever-widening views of human work,
And all the arts of all the foremost race,
And Christian thought, if void of Christian form,
Justice and tilerance, humour and wit—
Till even Jeypore, discarding prejudice,
Shall learn new wisdom from the page of Punch.
The Rajah reads it very carefully.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-10-24

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-10-24

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-10-24

THE ALLEGED FRAUDS BY LADIES
AT WEYMOUTH.

At the Dorset Quarter Sessions, on Thursday,
Mrs. Macdermot and her four daughters were
charged with conspiracy to defraud Weymouth
tradesmen. Evidence was given similar to that
adduced before the Weymouth magistrates and
it was proved prisoners had an interest in an
Irish estate, from whish they derived about Xl5O
per annum. It was urged, for the defence, that
there was no conspiracy, that though they exag•
gerated their Irish property, and got into
debt, it was not by any false pretences, and that
the case was merely a matter of debt. The jury
took this view of the wattur, and returned a
verilictof " Notguilky." They were accordingly
acquitted.