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

THE GREAT DOMESTIC SERVICE
QUESTION.

A lady correspondent of the New York Nation,
answering the question, "Why will not a better class
of young women accept domestic service ?" by pointing
out the hardship and unfairness of the conditions to
which they are subjected, suggests the following as
rules to be agreed upon between mistress and maid to
render domestic service attractive and satisfactory to
both parties: 1. The heaviest work, as washing,
carrying coal, scrubbing pavements, and the like, to
be provided for if this be asked, with consequent de-
duction in wages. 2. In families where practi-
cable, certain hours of absolute freedom while in
the house; especially with the child's nurse. 3. Such
a way of speaking, both to and of your house help, as
testifies to the world that youreally do consider house
work as respectable as other occupations. 4. A well.
warmed, well-furnished room, with separate beds when
desired ; and the use of a decent place and appoint-
ments at meals. 5. The privilege of seeing friends,
whether male or female; of a better part of the house
than the kitchen in which to receive them ; and
security from espionage during their visits—this
accompanied by proper restrictions as to evening
hours, and under the condition that the work is not
neglected. 6. No livery, if objected to.

Mr. Goschen has finally decided to become a candi-
date for the vacancy in the Exchange Division of
Liverpool, he having received three separate invita-
tions to stand for the division. The executive of tho
Liberal Unionist Association passed a resolution in BRITISH AND FOREIGN.
favour of his candidalure, which was confirmed by the --
unanimous vote of the association, and on Saturday a
numerously and influentially signed requisition of the
Liberal Unionists reached Mr. Goschen's London re-
sidence. The Conservative Divisional Council also
unanimously invited Mr. Goschen to stand, a request
which was further enforced by a deputation of Con-
servatives who waited on Mr. Goschen. In the mean-
time Mr. Gotchen had also received an independent
requisition from large numbers of merchants, ship-
owners, bankers, and brokers of both political parties.
Mr. Goschen, it was understood, was somewhat reluc-
tant to enter upon a contested election at this mo-
ment, but his hesitation was to a great extent removed
by the assurance that a prolonged personal canvass
will not be expected of him. Under these circum-
stances, and in view of the urgent invitations of
Unionists of both political parties, Mr. Goschen finally
decided to allow himself to be nominated.

Five years' penal servitude was awarded at Birming.
ham on Saturday to George Buller and J C. HoMoron,
for cases of "long firm" swindling in Cardiff, BristO
and elsewhere. The police stated that there were 150
additional complaints, and that there were officers
waiting to arre.t them for forgery at Cardiff. Both
prisoners pleaded "Guilty " to several indictments.
A distressing case of suicide is reported from
Batycliffe, a village near Ulverstone. A man had been
out of work since Whitsuntide, and all his efforts to
obtaiz . employment proving of no avail, he hanged him.
self.

Some roofing covering a path leading to Shrewsbury
Stition suddenly collapsed, killing Mr. William Heath;
1. a coal merchant, of Shrewsbury, and injuring a boy.
The accident is attributed to the weight of the snow on
the roof.

On Saturday night a fire occurred in St. Vincent.
street Unitarian Church, Glasgow. It originated in
the heating apparatus. The damage is estimated at
£3OO.

On Saturday night a gentleman, whole supposed to
have belorged to Linlitbgowshire, entered a cab in
Rerfield-street, Glasgow, with a woman, and drove to
?glary hill, three miles distant. On the cabman stopping
there to get his fare the gentleman was found to be
dead.

The screw stealler Violet, of and from London, has
arrived at Shields, having on board Captain Rackham
and four of the crew of the fishing smack Rippling
Wave, of Lowestoft, sunk in collision. The smack was
returning from the fishing ground when the Violet
came into collision with her and sunk her. The crew
took to their boat, and were rescued by the steamer
and landed at Shields.
Sir Edward Clarke M.P., speaking on Saturday at
the annual dinner held at Plymouth in connection
with the West of England Press Fund, said the law of
libel was 'being notoriously traded upon, and recent
decisions put newspapers in very difficult circum.
stances. He hoped that when Parliament had time
for practical, as apart from purely party matters, to
play his part in assisting to improve and codify the
law in this connection.
An interesting ceremony was performed at St.
Lawrence Church, Reading, on Sunday morning. The
Corporation attended in state, and the Rev. J. M.
Guilding, the vicar, unveiled a stained glass memorial
window to the late Dr. Wells, who filled the position of
churchwarden for many years. He also took a promi-
nent part in promoting the welfare of the town and
in the establishment of science and art schools, and
was instrumental in restoring St. Lawrence Church.
in tne Queen'b Bench Division on Tuesday the Royal
Fire and Life Insurance Company sued the Westrain.
ster Fire-office for £ll3 claimed as the share due of
the latter or £125 paid to Messrs Hurter, of the Tivoli
Restaurant, for damage done by fire to the stained
glass roof in that building insured under a special
policy with the plaintiff company. The jury were dig-
charged, as the points involved were of law, and Baron
Pollock decided that the ornamental roof not being a
necessary part of the" building," the defendants, who
had paid £440 for the damage to the building, were
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not bound to share n the insurance of the ornamental
roof. He therefore gave judgment for defendants.
At the Central Criminal Court on Tuesday John
Garrard pleaded guilty to having, while in the service
of the Post-office, committed forgery and falsified the
account of the office in which he was employed. He
, position bad be promoted to the of clerk at the
Post
11„-o ce Savings Bank in Queen Victoria-street and
had falsified the ledger so as to draw out money for
his own! account. He was sentenced li:i seven years'
penal se:rvitude.
The revenue received from April 1 to the Bth inst.
amounts to £62,367,098, or £1,438,259 more than the
£60f8,839 received in the corresponding period end-
ing- nuary 9, 1886. The expenditure up to the Bth
inst. was £7O 688,632, being £1,560,546 less than the
expenditure for the similar period of 1885-6. The
balances on the Bth inst. amounted to £1,784,428, and
on January 9, 1886. to £1,515,102.

SATURDAY, JAN. 15, 1887.

The fishing-boat Koh-i-noor was during the storm
on Tuesday driven against the back of Lybster Pier,
Caithness. and three of the orew—Roderick Forbes,
Alexander Sutherland, and Benjamin Sutherland—were
drowned. Seven crews were taken off by the Wick
Lifeboat from the fishing-boats Which ran for shelter to
Ackergill Bay.

A heavy gale prevailed off the Mersey on Tuesday,
causing great inconvenience to the inooming and out-
going vessels. The Waterford steamer while entering
the river, passed the smack Star of Oarnarvon in die.
tress, she having sprung a leak. The steamer's lifeboat
was at once manned by the mate and four of the crew,
and succeeded in rescuing the smack's crew, who were
afterwards landed at Liverpool. Several minor casualties
are reported.

At Birkenhead Quarter Sessions on Tuesday, John
Pierce an ei tensive builder and contractor, was in.
dictedfor uttering a number of bills of exchange bear-
ing the forged endorsement of his brother-in-law, John
Owen, grocer, Dwyren, Anglesey, by which he obtained
credit for building materials. It seems that the prisoner
sent the bills to his sister, Mrs. Owen, who got her son,
aged 13, to endorse them in the name of his father, who
was ignorant of the proceedings. Prisoner was found
guilty, but sentence was deferred pending an appeal on
a legal point.
Dr. Commins, speaking at the annual meeting
of the Financial Reform Association in Liverpool on
Tuesday supported a proposal that there should be a
finance committee of the House of Commons, and said
that the superannuated system of the public depart.
'rents was a great curse of the nation. He thought
this ccuntry was playing the game of brag with its
feet. There was not sufficient audit of the spending
departments of the country, and he believed a finance
committee would act as a check on public eap-nditure.
He deprecated a system of local government with
one-third of the members nominated by the Govern-
ment or sitting ex-officio.

A Unionist.' demonstration was presided over in
Edinburgh on Tuesday evening by the Earl of Hope•
toun, who said that in the new leader of the House of
Commons they would have a stable man. Lord
Brabourne said that Lord Randolph Churchill, whether
mistaken or not, had acted from the highest and most
conscientious motives. He expressed great regret at
the resignation cf Lord Iddesleigh. Resolutions
pledging the meeting to efforts to maintain the unity i
of the Empire, and expressing confidence n the Govern-
ment were adopted.
Tho Duke of Abercorn presided on Tuesday at the
annual meeting of the Irish Loyal and Patriotic Union,
held in the Leinster Hall, Dublin. He stated that
11,000,000 leaflets, 500,000 pamphlets, and more than
20,000 posters and maps had been circulated, and 300
meetings had been held. Colonel Saunderson, M.P.,
in seconding the adoption of the report, said they had
oNly to keep the question fresh before the people of
Great Britain, and at the next ele3tion they would
have a more unanimous verdict than they had obtained
at the last election.

In till Chancery Division on Tues.lay, Ur. Justice
North, on the application of the debenture holders,
appointed Major Dickson, chairman of the Crystal
Palace Company, receiver of the property of the com-
pany: Mr. Justice Chitty appointed Mr. Edward Hart,
accountant, receiver of the property of the Monarch
Line of Atlantic steamers.

In the Queen's Bench Division on Tuesday the Duke
of Devonshire obtained a judgment from Mr. Jnstice
A. L. Smith that the duke was entitled to a tk rveral
fishery in the river Eden, and that the Corporation of
Carlisle, who had acquired land on the bank, had no
right to fish in the river

The Bulgarian delegates have been received by el.
Goblet in his private capacity.
Dr. Junker, who is now at Suez, favours the middle
route from the coast to Usuknma for the relief of Emin
Bey. _

train Bey, in letters received from him in July.
calculated that his ammunition would fail in December
last, and that he could hold out for half a year more if
not attacked by wild tribes.
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A Ministerial crisis in Canada is reported, and an
immediate dissolution of Parliament is expected, tho
elections to take place next month.
It is stated that several Turkish gunboats have been
despatched to watch the Candi= coast. A rising is
expected.

The " Diritto " hatia telegram from Bfassowah stating
that Ras Aloula has died in consequence of the wounds
received at the assault of Kassala.

The laying of the rails connecting the Eastern and
European railway systems has now been completed.
The Hon. Evelyn Ashley maintains that the best of
the Irish people are not in favour of H me Rule.
Fifteen hundred men came out on strike on Monday
at Lord Londonderry's Seaham colliery.
A young man in a boot factory at Leicester, suffer-
ing from toothache, took oxalic acid in mistake for
salts, and died in a very short time.
The loss of 10 lives at the. Houghton Main Colliery
on the 30th December last was, in the opinion of the
jury, caused by the cage in which they were drawn
up being inadvertently overwound.
A young woman named Wakeman, of Chiselhurst,
while playing with her brother and sister, threw a
poker at the boy. It struck her little sister on the
head and killed her. The young woman was arrested
and discharged.
Nearly one hundred people who partook of peace.
pudding at a dinner near Carlisle have suffered from
food-poisoning, washing-soda having been used to
soften the peas. Four are still very ill.
The Archbishop of 'Armagh invites the members of
the Church of Ireland to join in an aggregate movement
for the commemoration of the Queen's Jubilee in • such
a manner as may suitably mark their devotion to the
Sovereign.
Another suicide is reported on the Chatham and
Dover line at Rochester. A tradesman named Strood
threw himself in front of the Dover express and wa3
decapitated.
Last year in Vienna 358 persons, 280 men and 78
women, committed suicide. The oldest suicide was
83 scars of age, and the youngest 11.
The superior court of Bruges holds that the grapnel,
known to English fishermen as the "Belgian devil,"
is an instrument necessary to fishing, and that the
police have no right to seize such useful implements.
The Austrian Governmen: have pnrchaseir an estate
at Mitrovicz, in Croatia, for the establishment of a
penal colony. A prison is to be built, and the prisoners
will be employed entirely in agricultural pursuits.
A:lotber new shell, called the Ptlitrailleuse, is re.
ported to have been invented in France by a mechanical
engineer named Thimon. It shatters the object at
which it is aimed, and, continuing its course, sends 12
bullets forward and the same number backwards, finally
exploding and discharging 144 bullets.
Father M'Glynn, who was summoned to Rome to
explain his advocacy of Mr. Henry George's land
theories, has declined to comply with the request of the
Pope.

Viscount Cross was preseni at Ashton • under .
Lyne on Monday night, when an inauguration
of a habitation of the Primrose League took place.
His lordship said no explanation of the resigna-
tion of Lord H. Churchill from the Government
could be given by any of his colleagues until
the meeting of Parliament, but that resignatios
had led to a renewed expression by the people of the
determination that there should be no disintegration
of the Empire. He urged the importance of England
having an effective navy, which, he said, was impossible
unless coaling sta ions were provided and protecttd
throughout the world.

At -Cambridge University on Monday Dr. Swainson,
master of Christ's College, formally resigned the post
of Vice-Chancellor, and Dr. Taylor, Master of St.
John's, was inducted into the offi e.
The Non. and Rev. Canon Leigh, speaking on Mon-
day night at a temperance demonstration in 13t.
Pancras, referred to the Jubilee year, and said that if
the Queen from her throne would announce that it was
her wish that henceforth the revenue should not be
built up on the ruin and degradation of her people the
memorial raised would be more exalted than the
highest tower, more extended in its operation than any
Imperial institute, and would strengthen the Church
of England more than any Church House.
In responding to the toast of "The Universities,"
proposed at the annual dinner of King's College School
Old Boys on Monday eveniog, Sir John Lubbock said
they had heard a great deal about the establishment
of a Teaching University for London; but it was not
generally known that there were at least 150 colleges
and institutions already in existence in connection
with the University of London, and it would be most
unjust, tie thought, to do anything which would in any
way affect the interests or 'lmpair the utility of these
institutions.