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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-09-20

ocaL in gistria Pivs.

HOARD OF GUARDIANS.

The weekly meeting of this Board was held
yesterday; Mr. Granger in the chair. There
were also present :—Messrs. Billingharn, Brooks,
Baker, Wright, Wood, Hill, Giles, Rhodes,
Fiddiau, Guest, and Fereday. The minutes
of the last meeting were read and confirmed.
Admitted into the house during the week, 4;
discharged, 7; born 1; dead,o , rem ainingA22 ;
Corresponding week last year, U 39. Out-door
relief Kingswinford district, £25 12s 4d ;
Stourbridge district, £l6 7s dd ; Halesowen
district, £l7 lOs 6d ; relief of non-resident
7s 63 ; total £69 .18s ; against £65 9s HP d lost
year.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-09-20

KL. V.

MGM' POACHINC.—At the Petty Sessions, held at
Brierley Hill, on Mondsy last, before Messrs. H. 0.
Firmstone and L. Freer, John Newton, James Smith,
and William Moreton, were charged with eight poaching
on laud at Kinver, belonging to Earl Stamford, on the
night of the Oth. The case was clearly proved, and each
of the defendants were committed for 7 days' ; it the
expiration to find bal.! for 12 months, for their futr^e
behaviour.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-09-20

THE REV. J. E. KEMP ON THE
PILORIMAGE.

At St. James's Piccadilly, in London, on Sunday
morning, the rector, the Rev. J. E. Kempe, preached
on the subject of the Paray.le-bionial pilgrimage.
He said that much mischief had been done in our
differences with Rome by the udarepresentations and
exaggerations of Protestant champions. Fair and
candid minds were revolted by them and driven further
towards sympathy with the cause Ito unjustly assailed.
Of this nature had been the statements respecting Mary
Margaret Alsooque's vision of the Sacred Heart. It
had been spoken of as an alleged miracle, and one of
a gross physical kind. So perhaps it had been regarded
by ignorant Romanist' themeless, and the priesthood
may not have been sufficiently careful to (sweet the
error; but it was unjust to consider the Church of
Rome committed to it. It was not • miracle, bat •
vision or visions, which were no miracles. that formed
the foundation of the worship of the Sacred Heart.
Visions, in fact, were simply waking dreams, and their
illusive power was due to the impression they made
not being corrected by the knowledge that they had
oemirred during sleep. Granting, then, all that the
Church of Rome could justly be held to claim for the
nun of Paray.le-Monial, was it • sufficient foundation
for such a devotion as that of the Sacred Heart?
Try it by,the test of Holy Scripture. The Sacred
Heart was regarded as the organ and symbol of
Christ's love; as the seat of his sympathy, tender-
ness, emotions, Ste. Did Christ Himself ever so speak
of it? He mentioned His heart only once, and then
it WWI mimply aus Liao atruale. not ,fliisfeelingsbutof
His self-estimate as Man : "lam meek and lowly in
heart." When He referred to His emotions He Con-
nected them, not with Ilia heart, but with His soul
or His spirit. Seeing that the language of the Old
Testament set an example of looking upon the heart
as the organ of feeling, and that Christ Himself fre-
quently so spoke of it in reference to others, it was re.
markable that He should thus carefully have abstained
from speaking of it in reference to Himself, if He
bad purposed introducing eto His Church ouch s
worship as that of Paray.le-Monbil. The writings of
the Apostles, too, including even the Apocalypse,
would be searched in vain for any trace or hint of the
harmony of such • worship with the mind of Christ.
Unscriptund, however, as the devotion was, and the
pilgrimage little lees than absurd, we might be led by
throne to examine ourselves as to that which the de-
votion recognized—only in azi exaggerated or erroneous
form—viz., the necessity to salvation of the love, the
fervent love, of Christ. And if the pilgrimage was not
true even to the early Roman ideal of pilgrimages, this
might lead us to ask whether our own life upon earth
was true to the Divine ideal of what it ought to be :
did we as strangers and pilgrims abstain from fleshly
lusts ; and considering that we had no continuing city,
seek the city which is to come?
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-09-20

ROWLEY REGIS.

WAKE AND RACES —The annual wake and races took
place on Monday and Tuesday. On Monday, notwith-
standing the inclement state of the weather. thousands
visited the race ground to witness the so called races,
which took place whilst the rain was pouring down in
torrents. The ground was in a very bad condition owing
to the heavy showers. Tin re were a number of shooting
galleries, swing boats, merry-go-rounds, itc., whirls
afforded a source of amusement to many who were pre-
sent. On Tuesday, the weather was somewhat finer, but
owing to the unfavourable state of the ground, not so
many attended. The annual wake was also held in the
field adjoining Mrs. Cooksey's Hotel. at Old Hill. Had
the weather bees fine no doubt it would have been a
great success.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-09-20

in the Tomultip J HASBURY.

Lot 15.—A Piwie of excellent MEADOW LAND,
called "Bundle Hill Close," in the occupation of the
Amigneee of Henry Hollis., doe* to the town of Hideo-
owen, bounded by Lands belonging to Thomas Hodgette
and other.; containing 2a. Or. sp.
Lot 16.—A Pieee of PASTURE LAND, in the occu-
pation of George baton, bounded by Land of A. H.
Beni, Esq., Thomas Bissell, Esq., end other.; contain-
ing 25 Perches.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-09-20

Lot 12.—A Plot of excellent GARDEN GROUND, at
Romsley Hill, in the occupation of John Haden, with •
long frontage to the turnpike road from Halesowen to
Bromsgrove, bounded by Land belonging to the Hun-
nington Free School; containing One Rood.
Lot 13.—A Piece of PASTURE LAND, part of a
Field called " Horse Close," in the occupation of John
Haden, with frontages to two public highways, bounded
by Lands belonging to F. W. Cr. Barn, Esq., and James
Westwood; containing la. 2r. 15p.
Lot 14.—Two Closes of ARABLE LAND, called
" Upper and Lower Nurphy," in the occupation of John
Haden, bounded by Lands belonging to Lord Lyttelton,
A. H. Barre, Esq., Mrs. Barker, and the Misses Durant;
containing 3m. gr. 33p.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-09-20

TRADESMEN'S ADDRESSES.

NOTICE OF ItEhtOVAI..

Mk J. F. ArpERs)N,

sURON:ON DENTIST,

Hs% removed from Mr. Douglas's, to

Mg, HA WKINS'A MILLINERY ESTABLISHMENT

,Iti H4TREET. STOURBRIDGE.

t*utihnv, Er,'" Friday from 10 in 4 o'clock.

pRATT'S

CHI% ,P TIATING HOUS

AND
R EFRESHMENT MOUS,

No. 11, Lownr MOH STREE7' ST4,11;BBIDOI

TRIP' AND COW HEELS, EVERY THURSDAY,
FRIDAY, AND SATURDAY EVENING.

DON'T FORGET TRE ADDRESS.

TEE 358. 1:4 IAMILY PORTRAIT

IS TAKEN DAILY AT
J. SUNDERLAND'S STUDIOS,
67, BULL-STREKT, BIRMINGHAM.

CARTES DE ISITE 58. PEE DOZ

THE OLD KING'S HEAD INN.

HIGH-STREET. STOURBJUDGE.

TORN SKELDING begs to inform the
pabhc generally that be has taken to the ab ,ve
wellsknown Inn, and hopes by strict attention to merit a
share of support.

ALBS, WINES, SPIRITS, AND CIGARS, OF THE
BEST QUALITY.

WILL-AIRED BEDS.

AN OOPINART ON MAREKT AND COUNTY COVIT DATII.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-09-20

THE PRICE OF PEACE.

We 'ye paid the Alabama Claim,
Much o'er three millions sterling tined,
By ex post facto law . the same
Our Yankee friends how like to bind !
When we change cases by-and-by,
Will arbitration suit their plan?
Or will they due redresn deny,
And bid no take it if we can?
Oar money we have bid farewell,
gone across the Atlantic main;
And we shall find we're had to shell
All that, most likely, out in vain—Punch.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-09-20

WHAT WE PAY FOR WAR.

(Communicated by the Peace Society).
Twenty years before the Crimean war the military
and navel expenditure of the country was ten mations.
In 1854, the year before that war, it had risen to 16
millions. Mime the termination of that war it has
avenged more than 26 millions per annum. Thus we
have had a permanent Menem of ten millions per
annum (not including the interest of debts) ever since
the Crimean war. These sums are so enormous that
they cannot even be imagined, except by some process
of comparison. To aid this comparison, let us
mark the following facts : —According to the officially.
published annual statistics, the total amount of coal
produced in the United Kingdom has averaged, for
the past seven years an annual value of 28 minion
pounds sterling, or 4 millions law than the average cost of
the army and navy. Hence all our coal mines united
will not suffice to maintain our army and navy. And all
the coal, iron, copper, lead, tin, zinc silver and other
metals produced to the United Kingdom have averaged
In value (tor seven years past) 37 million pounds per
annum, or about 18 millions less than the year's expen-
diture for past and present wan. The total capital
accumulated in the Post-office Savings Bank was, in
1867, £9,749.929. The total capital in other savings
banks in the kingdom in 1867, £36,476,408. Total,
£46,226,337. Hence the annual war expenditure
for present and past operations far exceeds the
total deposits of the industrial and economic
classes invested in all the savings banks. The
total annual receipts of all the railways in
the United Kingdom for passengers and goods
are about 38 million pounds, or 17 millions less than
the money demanded on account of war. fhe average
value of all the wheat, barley, oats, maize and flour in:-
pone 1 into the United Kingdom for seven years prat
is 30 million pounds per annum, or only four million.
more than the annual expenditure for army and navy
alone (irrespective of national debtl. No wonder that
many are almost starved I The average value of the
cotton imported into the United Kingdom for seven
years past is 29 millions pounds, exactly the cost of
army and navy alone in 1868. No wonder the menu.
lecturing population have to work hard to get a liven.
hood I All the pauper. in the United Kingdom cost
In the year 1870-71 £9,590,787, or about one-third of
the expense of the army and navy.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-09-20

VOA SALE, about 20 Tons of SOOT.—
_l2 Apply to Harris and Pearson, Stourbridge.

VOR SALE.—FOWLER'S MAP and Refe-
ree. of the Parish of Hinspierinford,—For
ciders, apply at the Qbirrver 0111 es, Stourbridge.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-09-20

In the Borough of HALBSOWEN.

Lot 17.—A Piece of MEADOW LAND, near to High.
field, being part of the Field called Home Meadow,"
in the occupation of George Liston, bounded by Lands
of Robert Smart and other.; containing 2a. 3r. 13p.
Lot 18.—A Pieee of MEADOW LAND, being part
of the Field, called •• Home Meadow," with excellent
frontages to two public highways, in the occupation of
George luston, containing in. 3r. 37p.
Plans and particulars may be obtained from the Mid.
laud Collates' herald Oftee, Dnion.atreet ; Mears.
Whateley, Milwarti, Blvden and Lee, Solicitors,Waterloo-
street ; W. S Alleu, Emq., Solicitor, Waterloo-street;
Messrs. J. Mathews and Sons, Surveyors, Waterloo.
street; the Auctioneers, Ncwwtreet, all of Birmingham;
and at the place of male.

pp. 130 cloth, Is; post fres for 13 Stamps.
DOG DISEASES TREATED BY HOMCE-
OPATRY. —By JAmss Koons, 11.R.C.V.0.
Loadon : James lipps & Co., Hommopathie Chemists,
43 Threadnasdle-street; 170 Piccadilly; and 119 Great
Rassell-strset. Stoorbridge: J. H. Bland and A. P.
Morris. Rowdley: R. Newman. Worcester: T. With.
erington.
HONCLOPATHIC llEDlClNlM—C'aution.—Each bottle or

tube of ;;;cured by a—b-and over the cork bear-
ing the signature, "James Epps & Co., II oruceopatble
Chemists, Lcmdon," without which in no ease can it be

DYER'S WORKMEN'S WATCH cLußs,
Kr. GEORGE DYER, the Eminent Watchmaker,
SO, Regent-street, London, has organised • system of
Workmen's Welch Clubs, which enables members to
obtain at WHOLESALE LIST PRICES, his celebrated
Silver Watches by the payment of is low a sum as le
weekly, the advantage to working men and others of
obtaining good watches on such easy terms is fully re-
eognised by the numerous Clubs, which are and have
been established in all branches of Trade, and in Her
Majesty's service, at home and abroad. Secretaries are
required at all places to establish and conduct them, and
say party wishing to obtain the management of a Club,
can obtain particulars by post, or otherwise, on applica-
tion as above. The system ham proved • real boon to
thousands of the members as tending to encourage pro.
vident habits and enabling them to obtain valuable
etches without trouble or inconvenience to them-
sly...
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-09-20

BROMS GROVE.

BOARD OF titIARDIANS.—At the usual fortnightly meet-
ing of this Board, held at the Board Room on Wed-
nesday, there were present—Mr. RUINCO, chairman ;
and Messrs. Partridge, Willett, J. Nev. Coley, Huhand,
Brettel, Amphlett, Packwood, Willis, H. Weaver, Mogg,
Bonitos, Fetherstone, Whitekair, and Edwards.—The
Clerk certified that Mr. J. Nevill was duly elected
guardian for Alvechurcb, in the place of Mr. B,
Wheeldon, deceased. Mr. Dunn was re-elected medical
officer for Romeley for the ensuing year. The follow.
ing contracts were entered into :—For thirteen week—
Bread Bromgrove end Itedditcb districts, 7d per Pb
loaf, and Belbroughton district, Ted per 41b loaf. Mr.
B. Brown. Barcott beef and mutton, 7ld per lb. ;
suet, 6d per lb. ; Mr. T. Hobbies, Bromegrove. Fcr
26 weeks—new milk. is 2d per gallon, and skim 61 per
gallon ;W. Lamb, Bromsgrobe. Ale: lid per gallon;
W. Bolding, Shaving and hair-cutting; T. Laugher, Is
per week. Coffins Redditch district : large, 94 6d ;
small, 6. 6d ;J. Clarke, Bedditch. Bromaarove
trict : large, es 9d ; small, as 9d ; Aniers, Bromsgrove.
Groceries : W. Jefferies. Drapery : Messrs. Cordell and
Sons, A. Bennett, and T. Grove. Bak4ng-4d per
bushel: A. Albut. Bhoes . mons', 74 ad ; women's!suol
boys, 511; girls, 4s: S. Barked. Brandy, las per gallon;
Port wine, lls • gin, 10. 3d; Messrs. Wilson and Co.,
Woodbridge, Sidra,. There was no tender for flour,
and only one for coals and printing and stationer:, and
it was ordered that advertisements should be issued for
*der, for supplying these. The relief returns showed;
indoor poor, 120; corresponding week last year, 101;
out-door poor, 755 ; relieved at a cost of £59 9s lld ;
corresponding week last year, 755 ; at a cost of £62 6.
Oed.

Simurwo Uniinowesoins Fisiv—At the Public Office,
on Wednesday, before Captain Bourne and Mr. lt Small-
wood, Anibrose Spooner, of Worcester•street, was sum•
moned by John Bevan, the Imipector of Nuisances for
the Bromsgrove Local Board, for having in his shop and
praniiies on tbe dad September 300 herrings intended
for the food of man, the same being then unfit for the
food of man —Mr. Bevan stated that he visited defen-
dant's pr inii-es on the morning of the '2nd September
and found a large quantity of fresh herrings in the shop
and the honor, and nome in the bark yard. They had
been oil waaheil and salted. They were putrid. and the
stench from them was sickening.— Dr. llaveuport,
medical officer of health, said he saw the herrings, which
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-09-20

EIALESOWEN.

ASSAULT Casg.—At the Police Court, on Tuesday
before Messrs. F. W. G. Barre and E. Gem, Ann Hackett'
and Richard Neil, were charged with assaulting John
Hackett, on the 11th haat, at Coombs Gate. Complain.
ant said 'be female defendant was his wife. On the
Por some time hack the Wesleyan body in this above date he was going to Blackheath Station, when he
went into Neil's shop for • light. Both defendants were place have felt their operations to her seriously
cramped by reason of the want of sufficient fACCOM- there and they set about Lim. Neil struck him with a
modation in the chapel. The building was erected
tete of hot iron. His wife struck him with a hammer.
in 1828, had become too small for the number efendants pleaded guilty, and were fined 5s and costa;
in default 21 days'.
attending, and was moreover becoming
seriously A 0
u et Wire AoMATlM—Joseph Goode was chargedlwith
dilapidated. Under these circumstances a corn- assaulting Myra Goode his wife, on the 22nd tilt, at
mittee was formed about two years ago, and steps Beech Lanes, Halesowen. Complainant said she wished
taken to obtain subscriptions. The committee to press the caseif defendant did not promise to work
were liberally met bythe Wesleyanbody generally for her and her children, and not assault her again. On
in the neighbourhood, as well as by the members the above date defendant was drinking and she stayed
of the congregation. By mideummer of this year, in the street until eve o'clock in the morning, because
something like £7OO had been subscribed, and tfreonnelattte had threatened oßeitench:rd. Huerneadltezards struck
what with a beaus held in July, and the sale of month to see if defendant behaved better. I7vseeinotrera.
,
the old chapel, the treasurer was soon in the fered with her during that time they should send him to
ession of .21,100. Inatrsctiotts were given to 1 prison for six months. He was ordered to pay the costs.
Mr Edward Pincher, of West Bromwich, to pre' DUUNKISSAKSO.—Jobn net on was charged with being
. pan', plans, and this having been done, the contract drunk and riotous on the Mb jest, at Romsley. Police-
!
for the work was let for £2,460. There are, how- onatable Knowles proved the case, and defendant
pleaded guilty.
with being
24 5,1 and costa—Henry Knight
ever, other expenses that will bring this up to 1
;e2,600, and a debt of £2OO on the old chapel will romlayrgeodn wtitt,,, b9e;iin. gi „,. drunk n l Pollee-constablensdrelnKi.:°:w' least
alto have to be paid, making a total of £2,800 to said he found the defendant in the Fighting Cock Inn,
be provided for. 'The ceremonial stones for the kept by Hannah Smith. Defendant was asleep. -Witnes
building were laid on Monday afternoon. The • woke him up and found he was very drunk. Defendant
weather was moet nfavourable, heavy show era was fined Is and coata.—Hannah Smith, the landlady of
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-09-20

LAYING TWO MEMORIAL STONES AT

CRADLEY.

OLD HILL.

ALRICANDRA New RECREATION GROUNDS, ROOD END.
—A 200 yards dog race was decided here on Monday, in
the presence of rather a good muster, the competitor.
being Sevitor'. bitch Quick, of Netherton, and baker's
bitch Topsy, of Old Hill, whc were down to contend
the above distance for flO a side. Topsy, who was in
receipt of threeoluarters of a yard start,was Lever headed,
and won easily, lauding the odds of 2 to 1.-11 r. Trip,
of Netherton, referee aud stakeholder.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-09-20

SPUTTERINGS FROM "JUDY'S" PEN

EXTRACT of meat—Boner, of course !
THE name of the shoemaker Is wanted who bald all the
barefooted Arahs Of London ought to be learAered. (N
Would tne above ever see the last of 'em
Evioama ON TEM DEATII OF AN UNDERTAKER.—ne WOO..
business It was to Measure other people'. lengttuf has now
measured his own.
STOMP Orations=Denttste puffs.
WHICH Is the valOst bird, the peacock or the weather
cock?
A RaMotit that .ffeckly Spreads—a peacock's tall.
COVERINGS for Bald Heads— llalf-crownA
APROPOS DE BoTrne.—The reason why Bonaparte lost the
Battle of Waterloo: bc,une ha had to contend against odds
—a Blucher and a Wellington !
Inc Latest Kind of Verdict—" Decidedly guilty, though
with WM, little doubt as to w nether he ts really the right
man." They hanged him anyhow.
LOTS of farmers smoke their ham. Meerschaums are too
much, though, for • good many Cockneys.
A FRIEND OF Julio proposes a pleasure trip to•Cadll.. Not
for Judy. How can It be pleasure Palen It Is (N)palo t
—Judy.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-09-20

HON.

The unsettled weather of late hie checked to a cOnslie6.
able extent the work of picking, and the (sunlit,
secured scarcely Justifies previous expectations. Moatal
rust having increased in many places are naturally creating
apprehension. The market is arm, and particularly be kg
the better descriptions of the new growth, but the amount of
business in progress is still Very Mall. The Imperil of
foreign hope into London Met week consisted of 106 bales
from Hamburg, 25 from Cala* 63 from Ostend, S from
Antwerp, and lb from Rotterdam :—East Kent goldhip,
; Mid Kent, Et 12.. to £9 , Weald of Kent, ES to £7
Pusses, ES to £6 10I.; Worcester, El to £7 7a; Farnham led
Country, £6 to £88.; and Yearlings, 1872, ft to

PROVISION.
LONDON. Monday, Sept. 16.—ms arrivals hut week frest
Ireland were 9.568 firkins butter and 2,858 balm bacon, sad
from foreign ports 28,200 packages butter and 2.10, base
bacon. In Irish butter there was • moderate smotet
business transacted; prices generally advanced about la pi*
cwt. The supplies of foreign were barely equal to the is
mood; Normandy and Jereepbrought 91 to 10. mon mossy:
Dutch, 1805. to 1820. In bacon no change In value of beet
Waterford, but other descriptions lots at irregulm Plea
aceording to quality, weights, Le.

PESCI&
Butter, per cwt. I. I. Cheers per cwt. c I.
Donet l4O to 144 Chooftire
Friesland ......180 140 Dble. (Stoma, how 72U
Jersey . . . .106 120 Cheddar 74 SI
Frig. Fresh, per doe 15 18 —.trims
Bacon, per cwt York..
Wiltshire, dried 82 86 Cholearlaad . 100
Irish, green, 86 88 Irish 9B 101

Hams

v---
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-09-20

DtrDLEY.

POLICE InTsttioesce.—On Monday, at the Borough
Police Cnort, before Messrs. Charges Cochrane, Win.
Wilkinson, and John Aston, Theresa Powell, Stafford.
street, was charged with aamulting Job Jonis. Defer,
daut is the wife of a marine store dealer, ati,l a few days
back complainant went to the sterns and bargained for
some old iron. A disputa arose about the payment, and
the defendant " pummelled" her customer. In reply to
the Bench, defendant, who is en old offender, said she
was guilty of the charge, and should repeat the assault
if complinurut came to her place and misbehaved him-
self Fined Itts and costa.—James tiusat, Bumble Hole,
furnaceman (who did not appear), war sentenced to two
months' imprisonment, with hard labour, without the
option of a line, for violently assau'ting his w''e, Jrue
°neat.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-09-20

HIGH WAGES AND DRINK.

Mr. George Potter lute NIA the following legiar to The
Times for publication:—

On the 9th instant a paragraph appeared in The
' Times, headed "High Wages'' which gave the quan-
tity cf homemade spirits paying excise consumed in
the United Kingdom for the first balf-year of 1873, and
compared it with the corresponding half-year of 1872.
The increase is 912,806 gallons for the former over the
latter. From your own articles and from letters which
have appeared in The Times it is assumed that this In-
creased consumption is due to the working claims
having obtained higher wages, all of which has been
spent la drink.
It is a new puzzle to settle with some degree of
accuracy who drinks the beer and spirits consumed in
this country, and which class of society is responsible
for the great increase mentioned above. I aelmow-
ledge as frankly as the accusers of working men, and
lament es earnestly as yourself, that far too much of
what is earned by labour is spent upon drink. But
this does not apply to the whole body of the working
classes. It is untrue in proportion as the artisans rise in
special skill and in general intelligence, and only parti-
ally true of those whom education ie lowest and their
labour without art.

That the working classes alone are sot responsible
for the increase in the consumption of beer and opirits,
I may point to the spread among them of temperance
principles, in the old form of "Total Abstinence
Societies," and the new shape of 'Good Templars'
Associations." Notice should also be taken of the
large sums of money invested by working men in co-
operative enterprise and saving-banks, in building,
life, and friendly societies, and in trades' unions and
other associations.

Would it not be better to look at all these facts and
then state the case fairly? If working men do wrong
they ought to be reproved, but what good can come of
needlessly blaming them? The nation is not exalted
or in any way made better by misrepresenting that
claw who in all ages past have formed, and in all ages
to come must form, the great balk of human society.
- -

I el incerely hope that the reflections of the Press
generally will set working men to dispr ye what Is un-
true in its ceneures upon them by manifest improve.
meet; and that the admonitions of your own power-
ful journal will be aseepted by them as • warning to
keep themselves right in all their aotions on the onward
march to progrese.—l am, acc.,
GEORGE POITEE.
10, Bolt-cout & C., Sept. 15.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-09-20

STRIKES THAT PAY.

The following extract from a contemporary, taken
alone, would seem to indicate that, as to dearth of
fuel and illuminating material. we have companions
In distress

" The 011 Strikes —A Correspondent, writing to a Boston
paper from Petroleum County, Pennsylvania, rays that the
recent great strikes in the oil regions bare caused intense ex-
citement."

The idea thew suggested of an analogy between
petroleum-diggings and coal mines is not at once dissi-
pated by what follows :

"At the on towns of Pleasantville. Old City, Reno, Frank-
lin, Pith°le, and elsewhere, new wella are being started daily
which produce largely, and the oil is of excellent quality.
Not only have these Important strikes created consternation,
but the ' flowing ' of the ' dry holes ' made by dim/tuned pro-
prietors In the days of the great oil fever of 1864 and 1865!.
• nine days wonder."

What. are those "Important strikes" which have
"created consteniation " ? If not strikes of petroleum
diggers why consternation ? From the remainder,
however, In our Bolton oontempoary's statement, it
appears that " consternation " Is, U not • clerical or
a typographical error, a Malapropriety ; And the strikes
which have created the feeling of joyous excitement
for which it stand. are strikes of oil, with which wealth.
bringing fluid the oil towns of Pleasantville are flowing.
not, indeed, exactly aa with milk find honey, but rather
like the celebrated river of Lydia, with gold.—Punch.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-09-20

THE MARKETS,

MALICLANS.—MONDAY.
The grain trade, although quieter, was again Sum A
moderate supply of English wheat was on Obi MOW%
but the condition was hardly so good. Fat fine samplhe
demand was firm at full pricts ; otherwise the sant
was quiet. Foreign wheat •se In falr supply. The WWI
was rather slow, bet for choice sample. extreme rates was
paid. The barley trade was very firm, and malting produce
wee the turn dearer. The supply was moderate Mali,.
In request, at fully lade rates. in oats • full average traa
peering, itntitsound corn was occasionally 64. per ;MIN
dearer than last week. Matte was firm in value and
beans changed hands to • moderate extant, and pries WM
firm. Peu were steady In value, with • moderate
The flour market wee firm, and the late imp.
maiutained.

MARK-LANE.—WIibaIiSIMY.
Burliness at Mark-lane to-day has only bac modmala
English wheat of which a limited aupp/y hal Mai oft oft,
has chang«ii hands quietly at about late rates
wheat has been In fair supply. The demand has b.
on former terms. Fine mating barley has been la
value, .4 Ith a moderate demand ; other qualities ham mo.
ported late rates. Malt haa been very arm. The mead
has been fairly supplled with oats. With a mode..
quiry, Mondaya advance has been maintained.

tiIithOPOLITAI: tiTTLE MARKET —l/02612.
The cattle trade to' day has been quieter, owing to She lb
creased supplies. The supply of beasts was
above the average. Prime English breads ham b:sireA
steady In value, but infector have been 24. per 81b lows,
Prime breech have changed bands at 84. 24. to es CI,
and occasionally 6s. 6d. per Sib. From Lincolnshire at
have received about 160: from Leicestershire sad Na,.
amptonshire about 1,800, from Norfolk, 40 ; frem
Hereford, WO: from other parts of England abed N6l
and from Ireland about 40 head. The supply if forsaM
beasts has been good, and included about 1,880 Tomb&
about 400 Dutch, and about 210 Spanish. The trade has tem
quiet, and prices have had • drooping tendency. MOM
sheep have been In short supply. Nevertheless, the demise
has been Inactive and prices have given way 24. per 8111., MS
best Domes and half-breds making 60. 61. to Bd. per at
Foreign breeds have been in slow request, on former MM.
The calf trade haa been quiet, at about late rano Pio
have sold at previous currencies.
Per 81b. tosink the offal.
a. d. a. d.
Coarse tint Warta 4 8b Pr. 08111141 woolled 6 06 4
Second quality do. IS t 6 Prime Boutbdowns 6 6 6 II
Prime large oxen.. 5 10 6 Large coarse calve* 4 Ii
Prime Scots, (tr.,. 6 4 6 Prime small ditto 6 8 6 5
Coarse 4: inf. sheep 4 8 5 fArge hogs 4 ii
Second quality do. 6 26 1 Small porkers

ETROPOLITetic MEAT
The supplies of meat offering, though only moderato, win
much In mess of reguiresamtas, sod prices, In mot MOM
favoured purohaiien.

Per 81b by the carom
d. s. d. e. e. 6.
Inferior beet........ 3 0 3 6 Interior mutton 3 4 4
Middling ditto... ... 3 84 4 Middling ditto 4 48 4
Prime large ditto .. 5 0 6 4 Male ditto 6 4 5 I
Prime mall Mite .. 6 4510 large pork 4 84
Teal
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-09-20

FAT hides from Birmingham, One-and-a-half from
lialesowen, and One Mile from Quinton.
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rllO be SOLD by AUCTION, by Mr. WM.
1 COTTON, OD MONDAY, Sarmatian. 22nd, 1873,
the property of Mr. Win. Merrie, Corn Factor,
Harborne (who is giving up the Farm), the whole of the
very valuable Live and Dead FARM STOCK, comprising
11 Head of young Horned Stock, including prime Fat
Bull. 2 Fat Cows, 3 Cows with Calves, 6 In-calf Cows and
2 Barren Heifers; 34 capital Fat and Store Lamb*,
Team of 6 valuable Wagon Horses, 3 first-claas Cobs,
two-year-old and yearling Colts, 23 Porket and Store Pigs,
26 Couples of Fowls, Ducks and Geese, suite of Long
andler's Gear., Rzc. ; a general assortment of
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, consisting of well
built 6-in. and 41-in. wheeled Wagona, four 6-in., 41-in.,
mail Narrow-wheeled Carts; Iron and Wood Ploughs,
1, 3. and 4-horse Harrow.; 4 elcellent Chaff Engine•
(for horse or hand power), Root helper, Swede Roll, Rick
Sheet and Poles, 3 Patent Rick !Meddles, minor Farming
Tools, Ladders, Bury of Manure, to go off, Skeleton
Gig, Casks, and numerous other Effects.
Sale to commence at Eleven o'clock.

Catalogues may be had at the principal lone through-
out the neighbourhood; Shenstone Hotel, Halseowen
Place of Sale, or, Poet Free from the Auctioneer, High.
street, Bromsgrove, and 15, Temple Row, Birmingham ;
or Hop Pole Lou, Pershere-strect, Birmingham, on
Thursdays.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-09-20

NO PILLS REQUIRED.

CATIIIRY'S SELZINE APERIENT
A NEW, pleaeant, refreshing, and safe
medic Me for Billions Affection ,Indigestion,
Heart Burn, Acidity of the Stomach,
Costiveness, Gout, Lou of Appetite,
Affections of the Liver, &c.
DECIDEDLY the most agreeable and one
of the most useful medicines over offered
to the public, and pursuing the Medical
Properties so beneficial in all the above
eomplaints. It immediately relieves the
distressing pains of Nervous Head ache.
For Blotches or Eruptions of the Skin it
is • Delightful Cooling Summer Medicine
PICK-ILE-UP, OR REFRESHER.
THE following morning, after free indnl-
ram at the table, or the extra glees, •
Morning Draught of this valuable medicine ,
ita affects are truly marvellous. In large
bottles, 2s euli. Of all Chemists, or seat
to any address OD receipt of stamps, by
C. CATHERY,

12 DALSION RISE, HACKNEY, LONDON,
Wholesale of all Patent Medicine Monica.
Sold by all ChewiNts.
STOURBRIDOR :—A. P. MORRIS.

11 R. JAMES BOSTON HEYS, Professor
ILL of Music, High-street, Cradley Heath.
N.B.—All kinds of Musical lestrucceuts t2nik and
repaired. •
New Music at Half-price.
PIANOFORTES FOR SALE OR HIRE.

without undertaking to repay the cost of platil4e and
ASC ISTigll PASSAGES
to Mechanics and other eligible persons, at I.,ss, r tateft
than the cost of Manages to Canada or the Unitto
State..
£2O Land Order Warrants, per Adult, issucil to Per.
sone paying their own full pasaage to the Odony.
Further information on application
APPOINTID keIINT won BantaLry HILL:—
MR. RDWARD BRNT,
BIiNT.ST 12 PET.

702 KIDDIMILNITNE--
11R. W. IC. HASI'LL,
2/LVIR STREET.

CHECKERS INN,
17PPAR Mali S7R.ICE7', STOIJALLUDGE.

HENRY ROWCLII. FE, PROPRIETOR.

Ales WINES sad SPIRITS of the finest quality.

\IR.
WHIT FLE,

AUCTIONEER AND PCBLIC-HOOSE

APPRAISER,
Having had to REMOVE fro late offices at Bir-
mingham, respi.ctfoli) 11111.1111CCI, that he has arranged to
carry on his Profession at his Itesiulenee, Holy Cross,
Clout, Stourbrihge, where he sesp-etfal,y wheats sm.
port from Publicans .d Where, either wanting to buy
or sell a Pubue-hunse, or any uthir kind of Property.
Late of Old-street, Lonuen.
Cash advanced on Property intended for Sale

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-09-20

CONSTITUTIONAL SOVEREIGNS.
At the Canterbury meeting of the East Kent Natural His-
tory Society, on the 3rd of September, 31.j0r Moon, having
brought no less than 24 live yenng of that Important insect
the honey-bee, pre practical demonstrations of the following
fact

Major Mann proceeded at once to give very strong
evidenoe in favour of the fact that the queen bee does
not and cannot sting. The most conclusive evidence
In favour of this fact was afforded by the handling of
the queens both by the Major himself and by other
members of the Socioty ; for in no case did these in-
sects sting; not from a want of will to do so, however,
since they were seen to put out their stings and attempt
to inject their poison into the hand which held them in
captivity. But in no case were they able to penetrate
with the sting the skin of the human body. Major
Munn then referred to the comparative structure of
the sting in the queen and worker bees, held as
affording an explanation of the inability of the queen
to sting. As shown by Mr. George Gulliver, jun., the
sting of the worker is very sharp, straight, and pro-
vided with from eight to ten barbs, while the sting of
the queen is curved, much blunter, and provided with
but few barbs. It having been stated that the queen
bee is unable to sting, the question naturally arises,
'But how does she kill her rival, since it is a
well-known fact that two queens will fight like
game cocks?" This question the Major proceeded
to set at met practically by putting two queens to-
gether in a glass bottle, in order that their fighting
might be witnessed by the Society. During the fight,
which was watched with the mast intense interest,

each queen wan men to attempt to disable her rival as
much as poesitde, by mean' of her powerful mindibies,
an amount of the Armature el whieh has hoes given by
Major Munn. At the same time she feels about with
her sting, which Is totally unable to penetrate the In-
tegument of her rival, till she finds one of her spiracles,
—that ia, one of the respiratory apertures of her rival,
—through which she injects her poison, with a rapidly
fatal effect, into the respiratory system. During the
progress of the fight, which occupied some time, Major
Munn gave a most amusing account of the tricks of
TiloollB Wildman, who flourished towards the latter
part of the last century, and had at that tans the
reputation of having the most surprising command
over bees, tie was accustomed to exhibit himself,
surrounded with his bees, before the King and divers of
the nobility.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-09-20

DEMONSTRATION AT THE GRAVE OF

WOOLFE TONE.

On Sunday a most remarkable Nationalist demon-
stration took place at the grave of Woolfe Tone, in
Bodenstown Churchyard, some 20 miles from Dublin.
Woolf e Tone was onerof the most famous leaders of the
Rebellion of '9B, having organised the celebrated French
expedition to Bantry Bay. Re was taken at sea, tried
in Dublin, sentenced to death, and committed suicide
In prison on the very morning fixed for his execution.
Be was buried at Bodenetown a village in Kildare, and
his tondb has been • favourite theme for national poets,
and a shrine for national pilgrims. Owing to the great
number of the latter, who carried away • portion of the
tombstone as • relic, it became shattered and disfigured,
and the ostensible object of Sunday was to erect a
new tombstone in its stead. This was • very hand-
some marble slab which had been purchased by the
Woolfe Lone band, a society of Dublin artisans. On
Sunday morning a vast number oil persons from the
city of Dublin and the Various localities in the counties
of Dublin and Kildare proceeded to Bodenstown
and assembled in the churchyard. All wore green ties
and a single green laurel leaf in their hats. About
5,000 persons were present in the churchyard when the
ceremony of replacing the slab commenced. The Nam,
Saltine, and Woolfe Tone Lands played • solemn dirge
as the old tombstone was removed, and the new one
adjusted in Its place by a hundred willing hands.

The moment the new dens was fixed In itepolition the
bands broke Into the nationalist march, "O'Donnell
Aboo," acd the old slab WAG shattemd into a thousand
fragmeate, which were distributed as relics among the
crowd. One of the organisers of the demonstration
then addreastd the people, declaring that the stone
they had that day raised would in course of time
moulder and decay. The name of Woolfe Tose would
never perish or be forgotten the principles for which
that glorious hero and martyr lived and died would
never perish out of the Irish mind. After this eulogy
the great crowd quietly dirpersed.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-09-20

PLAYING WITH NIAGARA.

Signor Henry Balleni, an Italian, asbnished the
visitors at Niagara Falls, on the 251h.tdt, by crooning
the chasm on a tight rope, as Blondin did years ago,
and subsequently diving from the middle of the rope
into the river below—a feat which his predecessor did
not attempt. "The rope, 1,500 feet in length (says an
American paper) was stretched from Prospect Park, on
the American aide, to near the Clifton House, on the
other. About four o'clock Balleni appeared on the
Canadian side and began to walk out, but after a few
steps returned and ordered the cable to be tightened.
When this was done, at 4.45 o'clock the start was made.
At 4 51 o'clock Balleni reached the middle of the rope,
where he halted to return his salutation to the tre-
mendone applause which greeted his exploit After rent-
ing himself for • brief period the signor again started on
his tramp. This was the only stop made, and at
5.10 o'clock the perambulist, looking as pale as death,
had reached the American end of his rope, he having
mode the trip in 25 minutes. After another rest of 13
minntes, Signor Balleni again took his pole in band
and was off to the middle of the rope to make the great
leap. It took him just six minutes to arrive at the
centre of the rope, and when there he at once began
making preparations to jump. While thus engaged he loet
his balancing pole, which fell into the water and sank.
A cord six feet long, made of rubber bands, was
attached to the rope, at a point just 115 feet above the
surface of the water. Balleni caught hold of one end
of the elastic cord before the spectators thought he was
ready to go. He descended like as arrow, and the
recovering snap of the rubber was almost simultaneous
with the loud /plash of his fall in the water. No
sooner was the splash heard than the head of the
signor came peeping out of the water, and he struck
out vigorously and heartily towards the boat which
was there to pick him up. He was quickly hauled
into the little craft, carefully wrapped up with heavy
blankets, and rowed to shore."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-09-20

A GREAT LANDSLIP AND FLOOD.

Lima had been in danger of a serious inundation. At
• town called Maisucams, 72 miles away on the Oroya
Railway, • terrible land elide took place, an immense
mountain leaving Its base with • fearful noise, paseing
across the narrow valley and oraahing against the op-
posite side, forming • wall of earth, rocks, and &brie
in the bed of the river 108 feet high. This obstruction
was being gradually undermined by the accumulating
waters, and it was thought by the engineers in charge of
that section of the worka of the railway that the torrent
would have reached • greater height than the improvised
barrier, and would break through, carrying all before
It, and rushing down the fall of • mile and a-half to LiMA,
would completely cover the lower portion of the city
after having inflicted incalculable damage on the estates
bordering the course of the river. Active steeps were
being taken by the authorities of that city to protect
the threatened district, the river walls being
strengthened; and the people, fully aware of their
peril, were busily engaged in moving their valualeles to
the upper stories of their dwellings. Ten million cubic
yards of earth were displaced by the slide, and the
cause is attributed to the gradual loosening of the
foundation of the hill by the filtration of the mountain
streams coursing down its sides. Three lives were lost
during the movement. The watchman of the railway
died at his poet, and two unkaown persons who were
passing at the time were buried beneath the enormous
mass. The accident occurred on July 31.
Another account says that a rumbling sound was
heard in Matucama, and a slight vibration of the
ground, by the inhabitants. This was 'unposed to be
a slight earthquake, and many attributed the cats.-
etrophe itaelf to one. '1 he site viewed from the opposite
side of the valley most have been one of awful grandeur,
but unfortunately none who saw it lived to tell the tale.
A avalanche of mud, earth, and stones poured through
the narrow months of,, the Gorge, dashed through
the river bed more than a thousand feet across
the valley, and • hundred million tons of material
up the opposite side of the earth, the wave
reaching 300 feet above the river bed, and then sub-
siding, forming • solid dam across the valley appa-
rently 1,500 feet long and as many in width, obliterated
the mole road on the right bank, overwhelming six
men, • woman, and a child, with the animals they
rode. According to the latent news from Matacina,
the waters of the Rimac were flowing over the top of
the dam, and also leaking from underneath. The ex-
citement in Lima had abated, and it was supposed
that the waters would gradually subside, and flow in
their former channel after the lam of a short time, as
the river had opened itself a channel having • fall of
one in eight.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-09-20

EXCITING SCENE IN A MENAGERIE.

A terrible scene took place in Menders's Menagerie,
at Whitby, on Saturday night. There were several
hundred people in the show when hestrending cries as
from one in mortal agony went through the air. A
Panic ensued. The people, terribly excited, ran en
'name to the narrow outlet, and endeavoured to escape
by other 11361U15. A cry was raised outside that one of
the besets had burst through the bars of its cage, and
the excitement among the crowd without was scarcely
less intense than that within. In the rush to
the door many people, particularly the weaker sex,
were injured, and the confusion was increased from
the circumstance of a couple of camels blocking up the
doorway. Meanwhile the cries oontinued, and it was
discovered that a poor boy named Langley was the
ictim of the vicicueneas of a big tiger, placed along-
side another next to the cage containing the lion that
worried to death poor Mr. M'Oarthy, the lion tamer,
at Bolton last year. The tiger was infuriated, and
was making etrenuous efforts to draw the lad through
the bare of the cage. The beast growled frightfully,
and what with the pitiful cries of the boy, the shouts of
the men, and the screams of half-feinting women, the
scene was one of the most terrible description. Some
men ran for hot irons, while others beat the beast
with their sticks and umbrellas, and did all they
could to draw the brute from its helpless victim. Ulti-
mately, after a severe mauling, the animal relinquished
its prey, and the boy, helpless and faint through the
loss of blood through the injuries he had received, was
borne away tErough the crowd. His wounds upon
being droned appeared to be of a serious nature, though
they are not likely to prove fatal. The brute MIMS to
have caught its victim just below the elbow and tore a
deep lump ef flesh right down the forearm to the wrist.
There was also a deep gash in the palmsof the left hand,
from which the hemorrhage was great.
One of the keepers has also been severely injured.
He was struck by one of the elephants, and his ribs
were smashed in.