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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-08-14

p.,rt. Thou all plunged in the water together and
had any amount of fun. The water of the river
wJs cool, the trees cast a grateful shadows soft breezes
played among the leaves, and the wildness of the
scene made it, all the more admirable. The bathers
voted the placid Quinebaug better than the seaside for
them, and finally, tired of the sport, concluded to
return to civilisation. One of the gentlemen went to
get the clothes from the carriage, and returned with a
face blank and troubled. The horse and carriage were
gone. The other gentleman joined in tho search, but
fruitlessly; no sign or trace of the conveyance could
be found anywhere. There was but one alternative
for the party in the premises. They must return to
town in the abbreviated and unconventional costume
of the bath! It was bitter, but it was unavoidable,
and the journey began at once. It was one con-
tinued ovation, so to speak. Not accustomed to
ladies and gentlemen clad in too scAnt garments
of peculiar cut are the sturdy husbandmen of the
Quinehaug region, and they turned out to see the
pedestrians as they would to see the biggest circus ever
travelling. The ladies never had their dress attract
such attention before, and still they were unhappy.
The gentlemen could not, by any degree of profanity,
do justice to the occasion. The walk had an end
finally, as all things must; the shame-faced quartet
came out garbed as other people, and then a thorough
search for the missing horse and buggy was organised.
The turnout was found at last in the river, the horse
drowned. It was merely such an accident as might
have been expected by careless people; but it has
runined the reputation of the Quinebaug as a watering
place. The memory of a day when they walked almost
without adornment is too bitter with the bathers to
permit of any praise from them.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-08-14

LORDS' AMENDMENTS.

The Lords' amendments to the Public Works Loans Bill,
the National School Teachers (Ireland) Bill, the Unseaworthy
Ships Bill, and the Registration of Trade Marks Bill were
considered and agreed to without discussion,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-08-14

SEA-BATHING.

The Sanitary Record writes :—" As to the hour of
sea-bathing some make it a point only to bathe when
the tide is coming in; if so, they must change their
hour constantly. But, for the great majority of people
bathing before breakfast is most convenient. The
strong do not require to take anything before bathing,
but weak and nervous people may be allowed a light
breakfast first, or a cup of tea or coffee will do no one
any harm. In the case of some delicate people, or of
those who have an inveterate prejudice against early
rising, it may be better to bathe in the forenoon, when
the air is warmer, and the difference of temperature
between the air and the water is leis. When we
talk of sea-bathing, we are thinking of its more purely
curative action, and do not allude now to the general
hygienic action of bathing and swimming combined,
when the exercise of swimming keeps up the heat of
the system, and makes it safe to prolong a bath.
Those who are going to bathe should warm themselves
a short walk, and should never enter the sea feeling
cOh.i. Patients should commence bathing, if possible,
on a fine day. As a rule, baths should be made as
short as possible. Patients, if they like bathing, are
almost sure to err on the side of staying in too long.
The first effect of a cold bath is to repel the blood
from the skin, and to produce congestion of the in-
ternal organs. When the bath is over, the blood re-
turns to the surface, and this is what is called reaction.
The more prolonged the bath is, the longer will reac-
tion be deferred, and nothing can be more disagreeable
than the shivering feeling, when reaction is slow and
imperfect. If you are to be very prudent, you should,
on the first day, quit the sea after a single dip, gra-
dually increasing the duration of the bath each day by
a few seconds, till it lasts three to five minutes. The
duration of the bath should be proportioned to the
particular ease and to the state of the weather. If the
sea is rough, and there is much wind, the bath should
be curtailed, you should speedily regain your bathing-
machine, and should be well rubbed. It is not un-
usual, especially with the French, to take some
slight stimulant on returning from the sea, or to bathe
the feet in hot water; neither practice is necessary or
desirable in ordinary eases.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-08-14

BEAUTY ADORNED.

The Paris correspondent of the Warehousemen and
Drapers' Journal remarks :—People cry out that the
toilettes of to-day are " " ridiculous ;" that
"women are going mad," Stc. • but there is one fact
we are all obliged to acknowledge—viz, that they are
all more or less good-looking. The pretty woman
has now that inestimable superiority over the plain
one which she used to have; few persons are so plain
as to have no redeeming points ' • and these, with the
help of good dressing, may all be brought into relief
as to outbalance the faults. Beauty unadorned
must be beautiful indeed to create a sensation, and
faulty features may be easily made to pass muster
when the head is dressed to perfection and the body
clothed with all the art a Parisian dressmaker is
capable of. When it is possible to glean such advan-
tages as these from costume, as it is now understood,
it is vexatious to find the existing state of fashion
brought into disrepute by extravagance that must
needs have the effect of creating a counter revolution,
and may bring us back to the narrow trammels of the
mode once more. Why should women be so prone to
rim everything to extremes ; and if they wear a cuirasse
why borrow also the military airs of a dragoon? If
fashion decrees outside pockets, straightway every
article of clothing is loaded with them. Loose
jackets are copied from those of a jockey on
the racecourse, or from the groom in his morn-
ing stable deshabille—both most decidedly un-
feminine garments. The apron, too, apes a hundred
shapes—one more curious than another; the tablier
soubrette, the tablier Louis XV., the "flower-girl
apron," and the French and Swiss aprons, the tablier
k in Toinon, and the tablier Trianon are all legitimate
enou'igo but the "apron pinafore" and the "fish-
wife's apron" are somewhat far-fetched, while the
tablier sapeur-pompier (firemen), the "knight of the
round table apron," and the "stone-breaker's apron,"
are decidedly beyond the pale of common sense, par-
ticularly in name.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-08-14

Diseases peculiar to Women.

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Weakness, Languor, and Debility. -
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Biliousness, Loss of Appetite, unit Lowness of
. _ . _

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Full printed directions are affixed to each Box and Pot
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-08-14

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SATURDAY, AUOUST 14, 1875.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-08-14

A PROHIBITED MARRIAGE.

There is a law in Indiana prohibiting the inter
marriage of white and coloured persons, under penalty
of imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for not less
than one year nor more than ten years, and a fine of not
less than 1,000 dols. nor more than 5,000 dols. Another
section of the penal code makes it the same crime with
the same punishment, for any person to aid or abet in
the commission of the act. Some weeks since a
German named John Angell Miller, residing in Moores-
ville, Floyd county, Indiana, was married to a negro
woman named Mary Sims. The ceremony was performed
by the Rev. Jesse Bass, pastor of the Bethel Baptist
Church, the leading coloured church of New Albany.
The grand jury of Floyd county have since found a true
bill for the crime named against Millar and Bass. The
Sheriff and Chief of Police went,out to Mooresville and
found Miller at his home, in company with his negro
wife, and placed him under arrest. The woman was
much alarmed, and begged the officer not to take the
husband away from her. Miller wai then taken to
New Albany and placed in the county jail. After-
wards the Rev. Mr. Bass was arrested, and also taken
to jail. The case is an unusual one, probably the first
of the kind which has occurred in Southern Indiana
for a long time. Miller is a gardener, and is repre-
sented as quite a good looking man, although pre-
sumably very ignorant. The woman he married is
said to be as black as the ace of spades, and of any-
thing but prepossessing appearance. The Rev. Mr.
Bass is the most prominent coloured minister in New
Albany,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-08-14

THE DISPUTE IN THE KIDDERMINSTER

CARPET TRADE.
THE ARBITRATOR'S AWARD.

On7Monday evening a large meeting of weavers
was held in the Theatre Royil, Kidderminster, for
the purpose of receivink- the award made by the
arbitator, Mr. Thomas Hughes, Q.C., who recently
held a court at the Music Hall, Kidderminster,
when he was met by five members of the Manufac-
turers' Association, and a similar number of re-
presentatives of the Weavers' Society. The two
subjects submitted to, Mr. Hughes, upon which
he was called upon to determine, were should wea-
vers be paid when working without creel-boys, i.e.,
lads to look after the back of the loom), and if so
upon what principle, and to consider a fair and
reasonable scheme for retaining and encouraging
the youths in the sheds. Mr. Christopher North,
president of the Weavers' Association, occupied
the chair on Monday evening, and after the dele-
gates who appeared before Mr. Hughes had given
a viva voce report of what took place at the Court
of Arbitration, Mr. Thomas Sweetman, secretary,
read the award of Mr. Hughes, which was to the
following effect:.-.-I determine and, award that
workmen ought to be remunerated while working
without a creel boy, upon theprinciple that in the
absence of special agreement all persons ought to
be paid for work done by them; and with respect
to the other matters so as aforesaid refered to my
arbitration, I determine and award:
I.—That after the expiration of one month from
the date of this my award, every manufacturer
and firm belonging to the said Association of Carpet
Manufacturers in Kidderminster aud Stourport
shall provide a creeler for every two looms run-
ning in their respective mills or factories, and that
no creeler shall have charge of more than two
looms.

2.—That from the date aforesaid no weaver shall
be required to work by or for any manufacturer or
firm belonging to the said Association of Manu-
facturers unless a creeler shall be found for the
loom at which such weaver shall be employed.
3.-..--That if any such manufacturer or firm shall
require a weAver to work without a creeler, he or
they shall pay to such weaver the sum of eight-
pence for every day during which he shall be re-
quired to work without a creeler.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-08-14

A NEW DRESS SUIT.

At a ball (says the Daily News) a gentleman arrayed
in the most irreproachable evening costume sometimes
runs the risk of being mistaken for a waiter; and it
now appears that at morning entertainments it is dif-
ficult to appear correctly dressed without looking more
or less like a policeman. Tho proper thing to wear on
those occasions is blue flannel, so at least we are in-
formed by an American journalist, who speaks on this
subject in a tone of authority. 'At country fetes,"
he says, "the Prince of Wales wears a blue flannel
suit," though many dislike this attire "on account of
its resemblance to the uniforms of policemen." If
however, the man of fashion does not mind this he
is advised to have his blue flannel coat double-braasted,
which will enable him to "leave off his waistcoat with-
out appearln4 to have done so." If he can
make up his mind to practice this species of deception,
he is further enjoined to have his double-breasted coat
of blue flannel adorned with a double row of four or
five buttons of white onyx, with a bar of black or lapis
blue through the centre. In any case, whether the
prescribed blue flannel with onyx buttons be accepted
or not, it must be remembered that "the conventional
full dress suit is not often worn at summer receptions."
Perhaps, in spite of the critic's hint, black will still be
put on. In that case the wearer must be particular
about his socks. "Black silk socks are especially
recommended for full dress; they are embroidered
with rosebuds and cost seven dollars a pair." It
might be an error in fashionable taste to wear these
beautiful and expensive socks with a suit of blue
flannel; but there would be no chance of a man in blue
flannel being mistaken for a policeman if he could
somehow contrive to show that he was wearing "black
silk socks embroidered with rosebuds," and he might
possibly pass for the Prince of Wales.

A singular fish disease has appeared in Bengal—
namely, small-pox The epidemic is most prevalent in
liackergunge, a rice producing district of th. province. In
Calcutta there is a regular panic, as a large fish trade is
carried on there with Eastern Bengal, and many natives
have given up eating fish in consequence. According to the
report of the health officer, however, there is no need for

alarm.
Numerous experiments have been conducted in
India for the purpose of discovering a trustworthy care for
the bite of the cobra. According to the Times of India a
remedy has at last been found, Dr. Shortt, of Madras, hav-
ing recently successfully treated two cases with liquor po-
tease and brandy.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-08-14

RAILWAY TRAVELLING.

Mr. 11. B. Sheridan gave notice that he would on Friday
ask the Attorney-General whether, as to certain trains, there
was not a penalty incurred by railway companies for every
compartment of every carriage where there was no com-
munication between the passengers and guard, or where such
communication was inefficient.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-08-14

A BATHING INCIDENT.

A rather amusing incident, says the New York
Herald, and one decidedly embarrassing to four
people, occurred the °thee day at Wauregan, Conn.
Two gentlemen and their wives, pleasure-seekers, con-
cluded it would be a nice thing to bathe in the pure
waters of the Quinebaug River, and so all four drove
out together to the banks of the stream in a retired
nook in the Forest. The ladies retired to some
natural dressing-room in the shade, and the gentlemen
to another, all .inerging presently clad in bathing
suits as gaudy as those of Long Branch or New-
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-08-14

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.

HORSE SHOW AT BIRMINGHAM.
ON THURSDAY AUGUST 19th, an EXCUR-
SION TRAIN for BIRMINL*HAM, will le.ve
Worcester (Shrub Hill) at 845 a.m., Droitwich 8 55,
Hartlebury 9.8, Kidderminster 9.20, and Sturbridge
9.40 a m. ; returning the same day.
For further particulars ace Handbills.

ON SATURDAY, AUGUST 21st, an EXCUR-
SION TRAIN will leave Wolverhampton (Low
Level) at 11.55 am., Bilston 12.0, Dudley 11.5, Kidder-
minster 10 28., Stourbridge 10.48, -Wednesbury 12.10;
West Bromwich 12 20, 114ick1ey 4 25, and Birmingham
(Snow Hill)' 12.40 p.m., for SPUTHAMPION and
PORTSMOUTH (for the Isle cf Wight). Passengers
return on August 28th (or at higher farts) on August 80th,
at September 4th. .
Passengers will also be booked by this Train, with .cer-
tain exceptions, at Excursion Fares to WEYMOUTH
and GUERNSEY and JERSEY, from. the Stall
maned ; to return within seyentetn days.
• For furthcr phrticulars see l•Tecial Bills.

J. GRIERSON. General Manbger.
Paddington Terminus.

LOWER GIZO LIN DS, ASTON PAU
.TIIEE BEAUTIII3I, ()ROUNDS ormi DAILY.

GRAND DIFPLAY of SFIill'G FLOWERS. -
I:GATING on the lake.
SYNYI.R end GILMER'S Splendid BAND every
MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, 'and SATURDAY.
• The NEW SKAIIN 0 RINK, Open Daily, for Three
Exercises—viz., 11 till 1; 230 till-5 ;.7 till 9 30.
POUNTNEY'S 'BAN'D will Play on the Rink cu
TUESDAY, THURSDAY, and FRIDAY (Afternoorrana
Evening Exercises).
Admission to lak, Gd ; hire of Skates, N.
Admission to grounds, 8d each.
H. G. QUIETER; Proprietor.

FRIEND OF ALL.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-08-14

THE NEW COUNTY COURTS ACT.

The statute to amend the Acts relating to the County
Courts, which received the Royal consent on the 2nd
inst., was issued on Monday. It contains 14 sections
and two schedules, effecting some important alterations.
In any action in a County Court the plaintiff may at
his option cause to be issued a summons, or, on filing
an affidavit in the form given, a summons to be per-
sonally served, and if the defendant does not appear
within-16 days after notice and give notice in writing of
his intention to defend, the plaintiff may, after 16 days
and within two months of the service, have judgment
entered up for the amount of his claim and costs.
Either of the parties to an action or any other pro-
ceeding may obtain of the Registrar of the Court sum-
monses to witnesses, and there are provisions as to sum-
monses, and the Judge may do certain things within or
without his circuit. Under this Act "assessors "may be
appointed on the application of either party. An appeal
may be made within eight days, Without stating a
special case. The Treasury may direct the remunera-
tion to be given to officers under the Act. The Judges
are to form new rules, to be submitted to the Lord
Chancellor. The appointment of a high bailiff of a
County Court as Registrar of a County Court shall
vacate the office of high bailiff held by such appointee.
No appealfrom a decree of the High Court of Admiralty
to be made on appeal from the County Court where
such appeal affirms the judgment of the County Court,
except by express permission of the Court of Admiralty.
Whtre an Admiralty cause has been heard in the
County Court with the assistance of nautical assessors,
the Elder Brethren to be summoned in the hearing of
the appeal. There are plain directions on the demands
to be made, with instructions as to the way in which
the parties are to proceed. The Act will come into
operation on the 2nd of November next.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-08-14

A REMARKABLE PROPOSAL.

The commercial world has been thrown into a slight
flutter of excitement by what would seem to be the
premature publication of a report to the Lords of the
Treasury, recommending an increase in the rates charged
for inland telegraphing (says the Graphic). Alarmed at
the state of the finances of the Postal Telegraph De-
partment, their lordships appointed a committee of
three persons, one of whom was formerly secretary
to one cf the old companies, to inquire into
the matter and report. This committee found, it
would seem, what everybody but themselves would
have expected, and that was that the govern-
ment system was far more expensive than that
which preceded it. They thereupon grew fright-
ened, and without waiting to investigate the matter
thoroughly, ran away to the Treasury to propose an in-
crease of rates. They seem to have forgotten that the
old companies were abolished because of their ineffi-
ciency, and that their work was transferred to the
government on the distinct understanding that that
work was to be extended and improved indefinitely.
They ignored the fact that enormous extensions and
developments like those which have taken place under
the present regime of necessity involved a very large
outlay to begin with, and that the department must
patiently await the results of this outlay in the increas-
ing business of the future. They forgot also that which
is still more hnportant,namely, that increased rates mean
a falling off of business, and a.eurtailment of facilities,
which, while on the one hand involving a larger propor-
tion of expense to the amount of revenue earned, will,
on the other, raise such a storm of public irritation as
will effectually crush any notion of increased rates in the
bud. Having ourselves examined the accounts upon
which this wonderful report is based we cannot help
thinking that a more deliberate and careful investiga-
tidn would have convinced even the alarmist committee
who drew it up that an adjustment of the finances of
the department, and a reasonable curtailment of cer-
tain items of expenditure already destined by the de-
partment to that kind of treatment, together with a
little time for recovery from the effects of a heavy first
outlay, will be quite sufficient not only to make ends
meet, but to show a handsome surplus into the bargain
without resort to any impossible plan of increasing
the tariff charges.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-08-14

CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

It is now assured that dead grasshoppers are worth
fifty dollars a ton as fertiliser&
-

loencer county, Ind., has a coloured man, aged one
hundred and four, whom she proposes to send to the Centen-
nial.

Turkish tailors are never reproached for misfits.
They have only to cut two bags, hitch them together, and
the customer has a flrst•rate pair of pants.

A Vir. inia paper describes a fence down there which
Is made or such crooked rails that every time a pig crawls
through he comes out on the same side.
The American Rochefoucauld says that a little toad
will break up a croquet party quicker than the darkest
thunder cloud that ever gathered.
- - - - -

They have a new ;vay of hatching chickens in the
West, by which a single maternal fowl is made to do the duty
of a hundred. They fill a barrel with eggs and place a hen
on the bung-hole. _ _

reviewer defines a real poet as" a singer whose
verses haunt your twilights " This definition is undeniably
a good one, and, if accepted, at once places the mosquito in
the front rank.

The Chicago Times reports the first lady lawyer ad
mitted to the bar in'Ohio has just got her first client. The
client is very youthful, and is the legitimate result of suc-
ce,sful courting. The doctor says she is doing as well as
could be expected; but what does he know about law?

A New -York magazine of fashion says :--" There's
something very pretty in ladies' gloves this season." There
always is something very pretty in ladies/ gloves when they
are worn.
The animalculm in Baltimore's drinking water are so
large as to be visible to the naked eye. A: fastidious citizen
counted fifteen skipping about in a tumbler. - -

An Indian and ; White man were passing along a
street in an American city, when the former espied a window
full of wigs; poiuting to the owner, who was standing in the
doorway, he said, "Ugh I Him great man—big brave—take
heap scalps 1" - -

- -
Nevada papers say that propositions of marriage out
there are written on postal cards, and the answer comes by
return mail—" Come on with your preacher!"

The Boston ladies of Swampscott have peculiar
ideas of surf bathing They put on the most elaborate
bathing costumes, and then run down to the breakers in
high glee. A. little foam is allowed to wet their feet, where-
upon they all scream, and run back to the bathing-houses
and put their hotel finery on again. Then when they come
ofit they say the bathing was perfectly splendid.

The American Rochefoucanld says—" I have dis-
covered that at Spitzbergen the longest day lasts three
months and a half." Just fancy a day's courting at Spitz-
bergen. Three month's steady courting—looking fondly
into each other's eyes, talking about the state of the weather,
the crops, &c., but if two young lovers get married on the
beginning of that day they would have long indeed to wait
for their honeymoon.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-08-14

HOLLOWAYS PILLS

For all Diseases affecting the Stomach, Li ter
Kidneys, and Bowels.

These Pills can be confidently recommended as the
most simple and certain remedy for all diseases affecting
the stomach, liver, and bowels. They do not distress
the system, or weaken the frame, but thoroughly invigo-
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liver, stimulate:the kidneys to perform their functions
efficiently, and act upon the bowels without .',griping or
any other annoyance.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-08-14

THE AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS BILL.

On the order for considering the Lords' amendments to the
Commons' amendments on this Bill,

Mr. Newdegate offered a brief criticism upon the measure,
and pointed out that, though the Bill was of a permissive
character, it dontained valuable provisions for both land-
lord and tenant. At the same time there were several
serious omissions in the Bill; and it would be necessary for
the parties interested to consider the matter very carefully
before they placed themselves under its provisions.
The amendments were then agreed to.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-08-14

KING EDWARD'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL,

STOURBRID GE.

RESULTS OF SCIENCE EXAMINATIONS HELD IN

MAY, 1875.

Magnetism and Electricity.—Advanced Grade—
Second class, Coldieott, Chettoe, Mainwaring.
Elementary Grade—First class, Evers, E. F. Otter,
Stsuuell. Failures, 0.

Geology.—Elementary Grade—First Class, Evers.
Second Class—A. W. Scott, Goddard, Coldicott, E.
F. Otter, J. H. Penn, Mainwaring, Chettoe. Fail-
ures, 0.

Physical Geography.—Elementary Grade—First
Class, Terry. Second Class, Evers, Goddard, Col-
dicott, Chettoe, J. H. Penn, Mainwaring A. W.
4
Scott, E. F. Otter. Failures, 0.
Inorganic Chemistry.—Advanced Grade—Second
Class, Terry. Elementary Grade—First Class,
Chettoe, Coldicott, Mainwaring. Second Class,
Every', E. F. Otter. Failures, a
Mathematics. Second Stage, Second Class,
Terry. First Stage, First Class, Chettoe. Second
Class, Evers, Mainwaring. Failures, 1.
Total, 34 papers. Failures, 1. Percentage of
success, 97.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-08-14

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Lords' amendments to the Commons' amendments on
the Copyright of Designs Bills were considered and agreed
to,
The report of the resolution on the Indian Budget was
agreed to, after some observations from Mr. Fawcett, who
gave notice that he would next year move a resolution de-
clarmg that, considering the importance of Parliament de-
voting an adequate amount of attention to Indian affairs, it
was desirable that public business should be so arranged
that it would nit be necessary to postpone the Indian
Budget until almost the close of the session. Sir G Bowyer
Sir G. Balfour, and Lord George Hamilton also briefly ad-
dressed the House on the resolution.

The Lords' amendments to the Offences Against the
Person Bill were considered and agreed to, exce pt one,
which was disagreed with.
After some other business had been disposed of, the House
adjourned until Friday.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-08-14

THE LATE FORESTERS' HIGH COURT
MEETING.

The members of the above order in this dishict
will be glad to learn that the delegate sent to the
High Court, by Court Foley, has been successful in
caizying his point as to the alteration of Law 77,
this being the special business for which he was sent
to the High Court Meeting. He succeeded in doing
this by a majority of 180. We copy the following
from the Hampshire Independant, of Saturday last :
" From Court 2.108, Stourbridge, that after the
word "embezzlement" in the 3rd line of Law 77, be
inserted the following words, "and such conviction
be endorsed by the committee of his own Court,"
moved by Br. Perkin (Stourbridge), who pointed out
that the present law pressed very hard in certain in-
dividual cases.—Dar jell (Plymouth) seconded.—
Catried by 191 to 11."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-08-14

OUR FOOD SUPPLY.

It is a somewhat anomalous fact that while English
enterprise is using every effort to develop extraneous
sources of food supply, many of our natural resources
remain comparatively neglected (remarks the Globe).
Australia supplies us with large quantities of tinned
meats every year, and South America is followingsuit.
From the Continent come herds of live cattle, and an
attempt has been made to carry on the same trade with
Texas. Even in the importation of such perishable
food as fruit, great progress has been effected during
recent years, by substituting steamers for sailing ships
for its conveyance. But although pine-apples, orange.,
and peaches are sold in our streets very cheaply, fish
steadily rites in price year after year, in the capital
of a country whose littoral waters abound with this
form of food, and whose streams require only proper
cultivation to produce an enormous quantity. At the
very moment when we are informed by the Garden
"the culture of oranges is increasing so rapidly that
we shall doubtless soon have an abundant supply all
the year round," news from the north states fine her-
rings are being sold in the streets of Wick at three
and four a penny, owing to the excess of supply over
demand. During last week, 35,000 crane—about
30,000,000 of these fish—were landed at that port
alone, a quantity so vast as to greatly surpass all local
requirements. Yet, so far as we are aware, London has
not participated in the slightest degree in this good
fortune, owing to the difficulty and expense of bring-
ing the fish to the metropolitan market in wholesome
condition. Up to the present time the price of her-
rings at Billingsgate varies little from what it has
been at the same season in previous years, although
the catch on the north•eastern coast of Scotland is re-
presented as being 70,000 crane, or 60,000,000 of fish, in
excess of last year's take, and double the average of
the four previous seasons. With this enormous natural
increase in our natioaal food supply, it is somewhat
depressing to think that a large portion will be used
to fertilise local fields instead of filling hungry mouths
in the metropolis.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-08-14

RAILWAY IMPROVEMENTS.

On Saturday morning some novel experiments were
tried on the works of the Metropolitan District Rail-
way, situated at West Brompton, for the purpose of
ascertaining the applicability of a patent, brought out
by Mr. PeHat, for the purpose of securing the doors of
the carriages by the motion of the train, to the railway
system of Great Britain. A number of gentlemen
interested in railways attended, and the Royal Com-
missioners on Railway Accidents were represented by
the Earl of Aberdeen, Mr. Galt, and Mr. Muspratt.
The apparatus consists of two arms securely bolted
on at right angles to the axle of the carriage, upon
which two balls run freely, being provided with small

friction rollers for that purpose. A sliding collar is
connected with the balls by means of two links. It will
be ften that upon the carriage moving and causing the
arms to revolve with the axle, the bails by centrifugal
force would run out upon the arms, and so draw the
collar along the axle, which, acting upon a forked
lever connected with rocking shafts, would shoot bolts
situated under the carriage into the doors of the car-
riages, thus securing them until the train stopped,
when the balls would be drawn back by spiral springs,
and the bolts assume again their original position.
Should the doors be left open after the starting of
train they might be closed in the ordinary way,
the bolts being sloped off on the top edge, and con-
nected with the shafts by means of flat steel arms
which allow the bolts to be depressed sufficiently for
the doors to pass over, and then spring back to their
position. Considering that of all the casualties to
which railway passengers are subject there are none so
imminent and fruitful to accident to life and limb as
the practice of alighting from or attempting to enter
the carriages whilst in motion, the experiments were
particularly interesting and valuable, especially on such
lines as the Metropolitan and the Metropolitan Dis-
trict Railways, which are daily thronged with thou-
sands of people, whose time is precious, and who often-
times in consequence may be seen to alight from the
carriages long before the train has stopped. The trials
which took place on Saturday were most successful,
not a single hitch occurring, and the Commissioners
appeared to be pleased with the invention.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-08-14

Birmingham, Thursday

There wae a fair attendance of the represen-
tativos of the iron trade at the Exchange this
afternoan, but comparatively little business was
transacted. The trade is said to be in a depres-
sed condition, and there is no immediate likeli-
hood of any change for the better- Short time
is being made at most af the ironworks. During
the weik two furnaces have been blown out, and
another is client to be damped down. The ma-
jority of makers show an unmistakeable dispo-
sition to book orders at lower rates, although the
leading firms still adhere pretty firmly to last
week's quotations. The demand at present is
principally for sheets and hoops. Pig iron of
the commoner qualitio is quoted at £2 15s. and
£3 per ton. Bars of the better descriptions were
quoted at £lO 10s., and £11; whilst second-class
make can be obtained at the low figure of I'S
Boiler plates were quoted at £l3; hoops, 1:11;
and sheets at £ll, £ll 10s., and £l2. The coal
trade is in fairly buoyant condition. No altera-
tion has taken place in prices since last week.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-08-14

THE LYE.

DRUNK AND DISORDERLY —At the Petty Sessions held
yesterday, before Colonel Fletcher alai 'Colonel Batrows,
Henry Dunn and John Hart were charged with being
drunk and disorderly, at the Lye, on the 9th instant.
Pelice-constables Moyland and Paynton proved the case,
and said the defendants were fighting. Fined 2s &l each
and costs ; in default seven days.
DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. - Margaret Lycett was
charged with being drunk and disorderly, on the sth
inst. The case was proved, and defendant fined 2s 6LI
and costs; in default seven days.
DRUNK AND REFUSING TO Quer.—Eli Hart was charged
with being drunk and refusing to quit the Cock inn,
when requested. There was a further charge against
him of breaking a pane of glass. The case was proved,
and it was shown that there had been two previous con-
victions against defendant. Fined lOs and costs in the
first case, and Is and 103 damage, and costs, for breaking
the window.—John Hai t was charged with being drunk,
and was fined 2s Gd and costs.

THREATENING.—Sarah Taylor was chargcd with using
threats to Sarah Attwood, on the 4th inst. The threat
complained of was that she would have her heart out.
Defendant was bound over to .keep the peace, complain-
ant agreeing to pay the casts.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-08-14

THE IRON TRADE.

WOLVERHAMPTON, Wednesday.

complaints were general on 'Change this.
afternoon of the severity of the competition -x-
-perienced by the ironmasters of this distriej..,
the part of producers in the north country and
other districts. This is especial!), noticeai)le in
the pig-iron tra,lr. V-ry a r.:.; tl'lantitie3 of
pig.; act hulling their way
common and me.fittli:
into this district at prices which local producers
are quite unable to touch if they are to escape
loss. Common cinder pig of local make has
declined 2s. 6d., to .Z 2 15s. per ton, and mixed
cinder and mine is £3 10s. to £3 155., but there
is ho change in the better qualities, best native
all-mine being firm at £4 ss. and £4lss. for hot
air, and £6 for cold-air make. The demand for
foundry pigs continues much better than that
for forge qualities. The total number of fur-
naces blowing remains at 76, but it is rumoured
that several of them which are devoted to the
production of a common class of iron, will
shortly be put out of blast unless meanwhile the
trade should undergo a sudden and unlooked
for improvement. The finished iron trade con-
tinues flat, except in the sheet department, and
prices of the commmoner qualities have been
again easier this week, bars having changed
hands at a trifle under £8 per ton, at which low
rate they are being undersold in various markets
by Cleveland bars of corresponding quality.
Sheets (ordinary singles) are quoted £ll to £l2
per ton. As a rule, the mills and forges through-
out the district are not in operation more than
about half-time. There is a better demand this
week for coal of good quality both for manufac-
turing and household purposes. Best thiok coal
on the Dudley side of the district is firm at 16s.
per ton, and in the Cannock Chase district list
rates are being very fairly supported. Common
coal on the Wolverhampton side of the district
is only in quiet demand, and selling prices con-
tinue to show a good deal of irregularity. Un-
der the Court of which Mr. Kettle is president,
'however, and which has been called into exist-
ence to investigate complaints on this subject,
no doubt matters will be arranged to the satis-
faction of all parties. The drainage scheme ‘vill
prove a costly enterprise, but no one can doubt
its vast utility and importance to the coalfields.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-08-14

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-08-14

THE COSTUME OF MAYORS:

The costume 'of the mayors at the International
Banquet of chief magistrates was curious (says the
Court Journal). There were mayors in black and
mayors
.in crimson, mayors in blue and mayors in
scarlet; there were Scottish provosts in robes of purple
velvet trimmed with ermine, who might have passed—
but that their "silver skins" were not "laced with
their golden blood "—for the late Duncan, King of
Scotland, whom the Thane of Cawdor used so un-
kindly. As for the amount of bullion worn round the
necks of these municipal magnates, as for the pon-
derous chains of 18 or 20 carat gold, and as for the
shining badges pendant therefrom these orna-
ments were so numerous, and evidently so
abounding in intrinsic value, that to behold them
might have brought tears to the eyes of a Blucher,
and made a Suwarrow sigh. Perhaps however,
among the glittering throng of English, Scotch, and
Irish municipal grandees the foreign guests shone with
the modestest light. The Marquis d'Harcourt was in
diplomatic uniform; M. Duval had donned his official
uniform of dark blue and silver and the broad ribbon
of the Legion of Honour; the Burgomaster of Amster-
dam wore a good many medals; and the Mayors of
Lisbon and Oporto, "twin cherries on one stalk,"
looked placid and yet slightly mysterious in certain
• vestments apparently composed of white satin,
inlayer, white sarcenet, ribbons and Brussel's lace.
Portugal is a country about which people who are not
in the wine trade know little; and the gentlemen from
the Tagus were inspected with intense but deferential
curiosity.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-08-14

A SWARM OF LOCUSTS.

"J. B." sends to The Times the following account he ha
received under date August 1, from Galatz, Roumania, of a
swarm of locusts :

"We have had rather more respectable weather
lately, and have been able to sleep properly, since it
has not been so hot. Ido not know whether you read
in the paper I sent you last week a short notice of the
locusts which have been doing so much damage here.
Well, we have had them lately, and now I am going
to tell you something which you will think awfully
exaggerated, and which, indeed, must be seen to be
believed. A few days back they passed over Galatz
and settled on the Turkish side of the river. Looking
at them from beneath as they passed over the town,
was like looking up during a heavy snowstorm, the
air was so thick; the cloud extended the whole width
of the town, say three to four miles, and was about
five hours in passing across say 15 miles long, and who
knows how thick. Yesterday they shifted their posi-
tion on the Turkish side, and seen from the gunboat
where I was, the cloud of locusts had the appearance
of the thick black smoke from a steamer, a long black
streak, which extended up and down stream as far`as
could be seen with a powerful telescope, or at least 20
miles in length. The vertical thickness of the flight
as far as we could judge, must have been at least 100
feet; the width we could not see, but it would pro-
bably be two or three miles. Reckon how many millions
it would take to make sinh a cloud, when each indi-
vidual locust is flying at a distance of not more than
three or four inches from its neighbour. No wonder
they devour whole districts of corn, &P. All over
this part of the country lately all the horses in the
village have been kept saddled, and the instant the
locusts are reported in the neighbourhood, all the
people turn out and gallop after them, and raise an
awful din with pots and pans, and so on to prevent
them from alighting. If once the flock alight it is
all up • but by this means they manage to frighten
them from alighting and cause them to move on else.
where. Lots of them fell in the town, they are just
like big brown grasshoppers from 2i to 3 inches long."