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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-25

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Biliousness, Loss of Appetite, and Lowness of
Spirits.
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The Kidneys—Their Derangement and Cure.
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-25

HALESOWEN.

HIABURY BUILDING 80C/NTY. The twenty-fourth
annual meeting of the members of this soeiety was held
at the National School Room, on Monday even ,g last,
under the presidency of Mr. Felix Smith. The Chair-
man convatulated the members upon the very gratifying
balance-sheet and annual report, which was read by the
secretary. The cash account showed the total receipts
for the past year to be £4,470 9s 104.. which, with the
balance in hand last year of £248 148 ld., made up mum
of £4,719 Bi 11d., and this was applied as follows :—Ad-
vanced upon mortgage, £2,270; withdrawn by members
whose shares were completed, £2,836 12s 44; expenses
of management/O4 19s 6d., and insurvice £26 6s lid;
leav!rig a balance at the bankers of £951 5s 24. The
profit account was composed of the following items:—
Interest from purchasing members, £BB9 Ts 4d; pre-
miums on shares sold, £454 Be 4d; entrance fees, IT 38
104 ; fines, £ll 12s 84; charges on withdrawals, £24
17s 64; transfer fees, £1 3.; making up a total of
£1,388 lie Bd, which, after payment of the expenses of
management, £lO4 19s 64, enabled the society to pay a
dividend to all members who were clear upon the books
of is 3d in the pound, which amounted to £1,266 3s 94,
and left a balance to be carried forward of £l7 8s 54.
The capital acnount showed the total liabilities to in.
vesting members to be £12.884 88 2d; whilst the assets
comprised—cash outstonding upon mortgage security,
£11,913 18s 6d; pass-books on hand: 210 ; iron safe, £8
les 6d; balance at the bankers, £951 as 24. The society
waa established in the year 1851, and now numbers up
wards of 500, and includes persons from Stourbridge
Dudley, Brierley Hill, and the surrounding districts.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-25

OLD HILL.

CoNYIRRNOE or Mmes.—A conference of miners was
held on Monday last at the Duke W-liani Inn, Garratt's
Lane. A number of delegates were present, represent-
ing lodges in the district. A lengthy discussion took
place with regard to the sliding scale now in operation,
and the fire-coal and wages question. The conference
passed a resolution recommending that the men in this
district agitate for an increase of wages.
THE WIFE OR THE Doo.—At the Police Court, on
Wednesday, before Messrs. L. Freer and N. Hingley,
William Cave was charged with assaulting his wife, on
the 18th inst. Compla;nant, whose face was shockingly
disfigured. said she did not wish to press the case. The
Bench informed her that she would have to go on with
li. She then stated that on Saturday night, about nine
o'clock, she was sitting before the fire with her baby
when the defendant came in and went up stairs to bed,
followed by a bull.-dog. She went up stairs and found
the dog in bed, and as defendant refused to turn it out
she struck Sib slams! with a poker. Defendr-it then
struck her twice on the face. Defendant pleaded guilty.
Six previous convictions:having been proved ag&isi him,
defendant was sentenced to four months hard labour.

ASSAULT CASS. Thomas Whettalt was charged
assaulting his sister, Emma iJarvis, on the 15th instant.
Complainant said defendant began of her and struck her
on the face. Fined 10s and coats; in default 21 days.
ALLEORD INDkCENT ASSAULT.—George Green, carrier,
was charged with indecently assaulting Elizabeth May-
field, 13, on the 9th inst. From the evidence given by
complakant it appears that defendant asked her to ride
in his wagon, and while coming down Powke Lane. he
committed the offence charged with. She admitted that
there were two:other men in the wagon but she did not
scream or complain to them. The Bench dismissed the
case without calling upon Mr. Stokes for his defence.
DRUNKENNE2B.—WiIIiam Hodgetts and Michael Basta-
pull were charged with being drunk and refining to (pit
the Handel Hotel, Blackheath, on the 31st August.
Sarah Taylor proved the case, and defendants, who have
been previously corrvieted, were tined 40s and costs.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-25

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-25

MR. MARTEN, M.P., ON ELEMENTARY

EDUCATION.
Mr. Alfred Marten, YLP., invited the teachers of
the elementary schools in the borough of Cambridge to
a conference on Saturday to discuss the probable effect
of the new code of the Committee of Council on
Education and matters connected with the practical
working of the schools. The hon. gentleman warmly
advocated an extension of oral examination, especially
in standards two, three, and four. It had been
pointed out to him that in the transition from the
late to the new code there would be a considerable
period of hardships and difficulties, and that the limita-
tions in the matter of pupil teachers to keep the
register were too stringent. As to compulsory attend-
ance, the question had arisen whether it would be desir-
able to vest in the municipal and other local authori-
ties powers to compel children to attend in places
where School Boards did not exist. Statistics showed
that any such measures would have a Very large bear-
ing, because there was a very great excess of elementary
schools, not Board schools, over Board schools. Of
course, compulsory powers were open to abuse, and
there had been instances where more zeal than discre-
tion had been shown. If, therefore, any such powers
were conferred, means must be taken to prevent abuse,
otherwise the local population would not support the
measure. At the close of Mr. Marten's speech a dis-
cussion ensued, and the following resolutions were
adopted :-1. That the qualifying number of attend-
ances to make a child eligible for examination be
two hundred. 2. That the examination in extra
subjects imposed by the new code in the first exami-
nations be lenient, as many children in their earlier
education have not received instruction therein. 3.
That the attendances of a scholar made at school
from which he removes be allowed to be reckoned with
the attendances at the school to which he proceeds.
4. That it is desirable that parliamentary power
should be vested in the municipal or other local autho-
rities where no School Board exists' to compel attend-
ance of children at school. Mr. Marten was cordially
thanked for bringing about the conference. The Rev.
Dr. Ca-npion, Felbw and Tutor of Queen's College,
presided.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-25

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THREE SISTERS SHOT BY A BROTHEL

One of the saddest events which have ever occurred
rin Boston, United States, happened on Hayden
Rowe-street. Mrs. Ryan, a widow lady, whose hus-
band died during the war, has six children, one of
them, a boy named Morris, being 16 years old. The
other day he caught a cat, which he was going to
shoot, and taking the cat on one arm and a loaded
gun in the other hand he started to go down
the stairs to shoot it. Just as he began des-
cending the stairs a sister, named Mary, fifteen
years old, who did not want him to kill
the cat, caught him by the shoulder and pulled
him back. The gun dropped from his hand,
falling on the stairs and sliding down them. On the
third step the hammer caught and snapped on the
cap, exploding the gun. The muzzle was pointing up
the stairs, where the boy and his sister were standing
with two other sisters, and the charge, which was of
large shot, took deadly effect among them. The eldest
sister was struck in the face and instantly killed, her
features being fearfully mangled. A younger sister
was struck in the temple and also killed, while other
shots took effect in the leg of the boy Morris
and the arm of a third sister. Morris was ter-
ribly frightened, and, wounded as he was, rushed
into the street, crying, "I have killed my
sister 1" His cries attracted public attention to
the spot, and surgical aid was at once summoned, but
the two girls who had been struck in the head were far
beyond the reach of kelp. The wounds of the other
two were attended to, and they are doing well. The
affair made a great sensation, but it was plainly acci-
dental, and the remorse and sorrow of the boy, him-
self badly wounded, are keener than the feelings of
any one else. It is said that the fatal day was the
first Sunday for many years on which the girl Mary
had remained at home from church.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-25

MR. MOODY IN AMERICA.

Mr. Moody, the evangelist, who, in company with
his friend, Mr. Sankey, stirred up snch a religious
commotion in England, has commenced the wo? k of
evangelizing the American people (remarks the Globe).
The initiatory effort was made in his native town of
Northfield, and it is described as eminently successful.
The idea of a public reception to Mr. Moody by his
fellow-townsmen having been abandoned, the celebrated
revivalist consented to commence his missionary efforts
among those who were anxious to hear him. The
orthoaox church of the village, a modest little structure
in its way, was selected for the purpose, and the interior
was elaborately decorated with floral tributes by the
ladies of the town. Nearly the whole community
turned out, and many came from long distances in
carriages and business vehicles to participate in the
services. The crowd was so large, in fact, that it
was necessary to abandon the church. and Mr. Moody
was obliged to preach in the open air. The prelimi-
nary exercises consisted of the singing by the assem-
bled multitude of a series of devotional hymns; Mr.
Moody, however, refrained from joining in this por-

eon of the service. Subsequently a fervent prayer
was offered by the Rev. Mr. ;Stevens, of Bernardston,
and then, after more singing, the great evangelist
commenced his address. He wore a stylish straw hat
during the greater part of his exhortations, and his
striking general world-life appearance, says a New
York paper, was not such as to indicate him to
be the great champion of religion that he is. His
hearers were involuntarily charmed and interested
from the beginning, and on several occasions there
were exclamations which indicated that his words
were proving effectual. His anecdotes and illustra-
tions were very pointed and at times amusing, and he
all the time kept the idea prominent that he was talk-
ing to people who needed enlightening on the object of
salvation. Mr. Moody scarcely regards this event as
anything more than a preliminary service, but the
work of evangelizing is to be at once commenced in
thorough earnest, and it is predicted on all hands that
there will ensue one of the most prominent revivals
witnessed for many years.

Messrs. Moody and Sankey have begun a revival
movement in Massachusetts. The New York Herald
of the 11th devotes three-and-a-half columns to record-
ing the previous day's proceedings, printing not only
Mr. Moody's addresses but his prayers in full. In
a leading article the Herald expresses the opinion that
"Christians of all denominations" will wish success to
the movement.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-25

THE MEMBERS FOR CHESHIRE.

Colonel Leigh, M.P., speaking at the dinner ot the
Eist Cheshire Agricultural Society on Tuesday, said
the money spent on the army, navy, and volunteers was
looked over in the most careful possible way by Parlia-
ment, and he did not think they would look upon the
expenditure as being wasted. Of course they could not
help occasional mishaps like the sinking of the Van-
guard, but that event only showed the enormous power
we had attained in naval matters. With regard to the
Merchant Shipping Bill, he thought it was very
much to the advantage of this country that an experi-
mental Act was passed. They must remember that
England was the greatest carrying power in the
world, and it would not do for them upon fanciful
notions to adopt one plan and no other, because if that
were done it would be found that merchant vessels
would adopt foreign names, and carry foreign colours.
He was convinced that the soundest possible legisla-
tion had been adopted, and said that next session
Parliament would be able to pass a measure which
would be a great improvement upon that introduced
by the Government.
Mr. W. J. Legh, M.P., replying for the Houses of
Parliament, said he believed that the Agricultural
Holdings Act was fair and moderate, and it would
give satisfaction to those landlords who behaved fairly
to their tenants ' • and he hoped that it would do good
to those who did not behave fairly to their tenants.
He did not think the Act would have any effect, be-
cause, as a rule, the tenants who had money and
were inclined to lay it out on their farms, could do so
with great confidence without the protection which the
Act give them.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-25

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-25

AMERICAN FACETI/E,

In Virginia old maids are politely called "belated
isters."

Mr. Taylor, of Lafayette, thought he would shear
his mule's tail. The surgeon is assiduous in his attentions.
A man in Colerado picked up a curious piece of
stone some time ago, which on scientific examination is pro•
flounced to be a petrified plug of tobacco

Michigan girls are none of your sentimental kind,
that go around with croquet and the like. They pitch
horseshoes and practice high kicking at the clothes-line.

A young lady being asked by a gentleman for her
photograph, replied that she never gave herself away. He
went off at that hint.

"A brute of a husband" says that every woman is
in the wrong until she cries—and then she is in the right
immediately.

An Arkansai traveller says that he knew a young
fellow down South who was so fond of a young woman that
he rubbed off his nese kissing her shadow on the wall.

There are giantesses in Minnesota, it seems. A
country paper there, in describing the burning of a dwelling,
mentions the rescue, by way of a window, of the servant
girl, fifteen feet in height."

Before she suiciaed, Miss Mary Robinson of
Galveston, Texas, said to a young lady friend, "Please get
my brother to make a fence round my grave, and get your
brother to plant me a sign with poetry on it."

The friends of Vassar College say that fewer of their
pupils die, and the friends of Elmira College say that more
of their pupils get married; and now all the girls want to
change from Vassar to Elmira.

If there is any better advertisement extant than this,
In the Cairo Gazette, let us hear of it :—" LORST !—A smart
slurt purp, about the size and age of a young dorg, of black
and tan compleckshun, and antirat proclivities. Had on
when she left a pair of sassy bobbed ears, a long tail, and a
lame streak on the off fore leg. Five dollars reward will be
paid for the recovery of this interesting animile, by JOE
ABELL"

A Louisa county man tamed a prairie dog that
somebody sent him until the docile little creature would eat
off his hand. At least it eat off about three quarters off his
thumb yesterday, but died of concussion of the brain before
lb could finish the hand.

"American women," wisely remarks the Cincinnat
Gazette, "are entitled to their clothes." We haven't a doubt
of it; but it must be insisted that when they usurp ours they
are going altogether too far, and that's the chief affliction at
present.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-25

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THE MIDLAND BANKING C(LIPANY
(Limited) in anticipation of RE %I OVI 4G to otbe -
Premises, are open to receive OFFERS for their U N I X-
PIRED LEASE of 5! years of their present Premo.t,
at 155, High-street, Stourbridge —A?plications up o 29th
mat, may be addressed to John Barr. Esq , the Man.,gar
of the Branch.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-25

HOW TO MAKE GOOD COFFEE,

In France the common theory is that to make good
coffee it is necessary to have a mixture of three kinds--
from Mocha, from Bourbob, and from Martinique.
But, as the Mocha coffee is not to be had in France
any more than with us, there is really a mixture only
of two kinds—the Bourbon and the Martinique. We
have to put up with what we can get, and then comes
the question as to the best mode of preparing it.
First of all it has to be roasted. The coffee contains
a resin or gum, an oil, a fixed salt, and a volatile salt.
The roaating creates the saline properties which are so
refreshing, and it is a great point to drink the coaee
as soon as possible after roAsting, so that the delicate
aroma may not escape. Then there is anotherroues-
tion—shall it be roasted in an open vessel or a 'closed
one? -In Europe we seem to prefer a closed cylinder:
but the Arab uses •an open ladle. There is a thi.
question as to the amount of roasting. If the
are underdone they want life; the salts are _
developed. If they are overdone, they have a bitter
taste. We roast it somewhat less than in Paris.
There it is reckoned that 141 b. of coffee should weigh
10-Vb. after being roasted; here the same quantity is
expected to weigh 111 b.
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-25

BRIERLEY RILL.

DRONICENNE2B.—At the Police Court, .on Monday, be-
fore Mr. L. Freer, Solomon Wild and Samuel Gibson,
the latter a deaf and dumb man, were charged with be-
ing drunk, at Kingswinford, on the 14th inst. The de-
fendants pleaded guilty and were fined s and costs each,
13. 6d.
W/LFOL DAMAOI.—John Bent and Job Nicklin were
okarged with willuly damaging a quick fence on the 27th
Lilt, the property of Mr. H. W. Foley. The defendants
pleaded guilty, and the damage done at 6d. Defendants
were irdered to pay the damage and costs.
CHARGE OF TIRZATENING.—EIizabeth MAUD Was
charged with using threatening language to Matilda
Round, on the Mill Inst. Mr. Waldron defended. The
complainant said that defendant threatened to cat her
head open. This was corroborated by a witness. Mr
Waldron for the defence, denied that any threats were
used, and called a boy named James Guest, who
said that the gefendant did not threaten complainant,
but that complainant used bad language. Defendant
was bound over to keep the peace for six months, in one
surety of £5; complainant to pay costs.
CHARGE OF ILLEGALLY FlBElNG.—thortAis Brown was
charged With 'illegally fishing in the canal at Wittington
on the 13th inst. Mr. Addison appeared for complainant
an 1 Mr. aldron defended. Charles Gamble, keeper
to the Karl of Stamford, said that he saw the defendant
fishing in the canal between Wittington and Cornsill
Bridge, on the above date. Saw the lines in the canal.
Did not see the defendant take say fish. The fishery
belonged to the V.arl of Stamford, Thomas Iddwards,
keeper, gave corroborative evidence. Mr. Waldron ad-
dressed the Bench for the defence, and said that the
fishing line was taken away by the complainant and
this was an end to the case, and the Bench dismissed the
case.

CIIAROS Or CRUILTY TO • HORSE.—WiIIiaM Yates was
charged with cruel), illtreating a horse on the 15th lost,
by working it while in an unfit state, and Thomas
Hodgetts was charged with &lowing it to be worked by
the owner. Police-constable White said that on the
above date he saw Yates in charge of the horse. There
was • large raw wound on the hip of the horse which dis-
charged a good deal. Defendant said the horse was in a
fit state, and Mr. Freer went to look:at the horse. On re-
turning said that he should dismiss the ease, as he did
not think the horse was injured by the tackle on the
back.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-25

TOBACCO.

This Brand is sold everywhere. in Ounce Paokete Bd each
To avoid fraudulent imitations, see that sat* packet beers
our name and trade mark (a star).
WILLI lb 110140, Bristoland Louisa.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-25

A FEMALE COMPETITOR AT A
• PLOUGHING MATCH.
The Quimper agricultural competition took place in the
commune of Beuzee-Cony, canton of Coticarneau. -The at-
tendance of farmers and spectators was very large. The
Finistere relates the following iocident

"A young girl Of the Commune of Laurie; Mille.
Fournier, accompanied by a younger sister of fourteen,
presented herself with her implements to contest the
prize for ploughing. A similar case never having oc-
curred, the judges were at first somewhat embarrassed,
but as nothing in the programme prohibited such a
competitor, she was, to her great satisfaction, ad-
mitted. She then, without hesitation as without os-
tentation, disdaining the laughter and jeers of her
opponents, took great pains to 'see that her plough
was in perfect order, and, the signal being given, she
executed her task with so much ease and address that
she did not appear fo experience any fatigue. By the
unanimous opinion of the committee she was con-
sidered to have gained the first prize, not only becausi
her work was superior, but further' because she took
fourteen minutes less in doing it than any of the others.
That decision was so much the more gratifying to all
present, as the fact became known her mother is a
widow; she, being the eldest of four girls, manages by
their assistance to do all the work of a farm.'? .

was
ly because
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-25

THE RETURN OF SIR MOSES
MONTEFIORE.

In London, on Saturday afternoon last, a special
thanksgiving service was held at the Great Synagogue,
Duke's-place, Aldgate, in order to offer prayer for the
safe return to England of Sir Moses Montefiore. As
is tolerably well known, about three- months ago Sir
Moses Montefiore, who will attain his 91st year on
the 24th of next month, departed from London for
Jerusalem, in order to make a thorough investigation
of the condition of the Jews of Jerusalem, and to
vindicate them from the charge of laziness and incapa-
city for work which had been brought against them.
The greatest interest was, of course, felt in the coming of
Sir Moses Montefiore by the Jews of London, who, on his
safe arrival, collected in the Great Synagogue in large
numbers on Saturday afternoon. This handsome and
spacious house of worship was densely crowded, and
many hundreds of persons were unable to obtain ad-
mission. Sir Moses Montefiore, on being called to the
"Reading of the Law," presented several large sums
of money to the synagogue. During the service a
prayer was recited in Hebrew by the Rev. the Chief
Rabbi, Dr. Adler. After the prayer had been recited
the choristers of the Synagogue sang some hymns, in
which the congregation joined. It was with the
greatest difficulty that the venerable gentlemen was
enabled to make his way out of the Synagogue,
hundreds of the congregation pressing forward, wish-
ing to shake hands with him—a wish with which
Sir Moses heartily complied. In Duke-street the scene
was even more enthusiastic. Sir Moses Montefiore was
received by a dense crowd with tremendous cheers,
and it required great exertion to reach the house in
Bevis Marks at which he was staying. Here he was
compelled to address the crowd from the window. Sir
Moses Montefiore, despite his great age, appeared
healthy and vigorous, and possesses all his faculties.
He walked through the Synagogue without support,
and read his prayers from the prayer-book without
using any spectacles. He attended a similar ceremony
in the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, Bevis
Marks, on Saturday morning.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-25

A ROMAN CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL.

On Sunday afternoon Cardinal Manning presided
over a great demonstration of the League of the Cross
and other Roman Catholic temperance organizAtions,
held on the site of what is intended to be the new
Cathedral for the Roman Catholic Archbishopric of
Westminster. The site is at the top of Victoria.
street, near the junction with the Vauxhall-bridge-
road. A large number of persons came to join in
processions headed by bands and banners from all
parts of London and the suburbs. Cardinal Manning,
who was received with cheers, in addressing the meet-
ing, said some of them as they went away might
ask if their parish churches were not enough for
them. Well, he was the parish priest of all London,
and had no parish church. He was like an admiral
who had a fleet, good boats, good captains, a large
crew of good men, and was yet without an admiral's
ship. Every parish needed its parish church, and
every diocese needed its cathedral. They were bound
to build this catheiral. It might not be finished for
100 years—it might be that there would be many
Archbishops of Westminster buried before it was
reared; but it would never be finished if it was not
berm?, and those who came after would be nearer the
completion for what was done that day. Some
wise men might take them. to task for commencing
a cathedral which might take 100 years to build,
but some Catholics would be there to see its com-
pletion, the children and children's children of those
around would see it, and thank their fathers for what
Viey had done. He reminded them that the Catholics
had built a cathedral in Sydney, and when it was
burnt down rebuilt it. What, he said, they had done
twice, surely the Catholics of England could do once.
This could be done by a little self-denial. Some
might ask why hardworking men should be urged to
make this self-sacrifice. He could tell them that he
asked the total abstainers because now that they were
total abstainers that they could do it and not feel it.
There was a time when they had no money in their
pockets, their wives had no clothes, their children no
shoes, and little food at meal times. But all this was

changed by their practice of total abstinence, and
some of the money they had thus saved should go to
the glory of God, and thus be an example for others
to follow them in the good work. His Eminence pro-
ceeded to say that if they worked in this cause he would
ask for the special benediction of His Holiness upon
the work, and concluded by giving his benediction to
the assemblage, which then dispersed.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-25

S. Cartwright, bW. Miles . •
W. Sheward, not out

.. 10
• 55

Ogle, c Green, b Williams.. .. 6
F. Hill, cA. Miles, b Green .. • . .. 2
M. Hedges, run out .. .. • • .. 0
F. G. Hedges, not out .. • • • • • • 7
D. Skidmore —
Woolridge I did not bat.
Extras .. 12

STOURBRIDOE v. CRADLEY HEATH match between
the above-named clubs was played on the ground of the
former, at Amblecote, on Monday lasi, and as sv:" be seen
from the score, resulted in a victory for the Cradley
Heath team :
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-25

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WOLLASTON v. ENNILLE.—Th'S match was played on
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pleasant game ended in favour of the visitors. Score :

ENVILLE.

W. H. Yardley, b Davis .. .• • • .. 0
J. Green, c Skidmore, b Sheward.. •• 11
B. Williams, cM. Hedges, b Sheward.. 8
A. Miles, b Davis .. .• • • • • 3
W. Miles, b Davis .. 14
H. Frost, c Cartwright, b Sheward .. 0
R. Roby, c Sheward, b Davis .. .. 5
J. Kemp, c Sheward, b Davis, .. 0
P. Holyoake, c Skidmore, b Sheward .. 2
H. Bennett, not out .. 8
E. Bennett, Ibw, b Davis .. .. 4
Extras .. 4

WOLLASTON.

W. Davis, bW. Miles .. . • .. .. 9
G. F. Rossiter, Ibw, b W. Miles .. .. 0
G. Sewell, thrown out A. Miles .. ..
.0
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-09-25

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Wages £25 to iiO a-year all found.
Free Passages given to Agricultural Labourers whether
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Wages £3O to £5O a-year with board and lodging.
Assisted Passages to Mechanics on payment of £4.
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-
NOVEL ACTION FOR DAMAGES.

We referredfsome time since to a legal decision by
which an American Railroad Company was cast in
damages for one of its employes kissing a lady pas-
senger (gays the Railway Hews). The plaintiff took
passage on a train on the Chicago and North Western
Railroad, and the conductor of the train, while on the
journey, forcibly kissed her. She brought suit against
. the company in the Circuit Court and got a verdict for
1,000 dols. damages. The case was appealed, and now
the Supreme Court upholds the verdict on the follow-
! ng grounds, which are worth attention :-
1. A master is liable for a wrong done by his servant,
whether through the negligence or the malice of the
latter, in the course of an employment in wbih the
servant is enipagyad to perfor duty whit,h the master
owes to the person injur,d.
2. It seems that the master should he lia.hle in all
I cases for the servant's wrongful act done in the course
of his employment, whether through negligence or
malice.

3. A railroad company is bound to protect female
passengers on its trains from all indecent approach or
assault; and where a conductor on a company's train
makes such an assault on a female passenger the com-
pany is liable for compensatory damages.
4. Exemplary damages cannot be recovered against
the princio d for a wrongful and malicious act of the
agent seitier -authorised nor ratified by the prin-
cipal.

5. In actions for personal torts, the compensatory
damages which may be recovered of the principal for
the agent's act include not merely the plaintiff's
pecuniary loss, but also compensation for mental
suffering.
6. In awarding compensatory damages in such cases
no distinction is to b-e made between other forms of
mental suffering and that which consists in a sense of
wrong or insult arising from an act really. or appa-
rently dictated by a spirit of wilful injustice or by a
deliberate intention to vex, degrade, or insult.
7. A verdict of 1,000 dole. damages for the insult
offered by defendants' conductor to the plaintiff in
this case held not so excessive as to authorise the court
to set it aside.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-12-04

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-12-04

RAILWAY TICKETS.

As we have recently been referring to the subject of
railway tickets, it may be worth while to ,call atten-
tion to a restrict7on, the inconvenience of which there
are probably few: railway travellers who have not
experienced (remarks the Globe). We refer to the
rule which, so far as we are aware, prevails on
all our lines, forbidding a paEsenger to break the
journey for which he has taken his ticket. A pas-
sel:vier who books through to Dover, for instance,
and in the course of his journey down discover 4
a reason for staying an hour or two at Chatham,
cannot do so without forfeiting his ticket and paying
twice over for the latter part of his journey. The
obvious objection to his doing so, arcri4-..thl, one
• which no doubt has given rise to the rule:ls' that'the
ticket might be passed back to Lodnon, and used again
the same day to Convey another passenger. There are,
we should imqgine, two or three ways in w,ich this
difficulty might be overcome if the officials thought it
worth while to give it any attention. It might he
sufficient, before allowing a ticket to be taken frop
the platform, to stamp it with the name of the Station.
• That surely would effectually frustrate any attempt to
make a second use of it. But even if there were insu-
perable objections to allowing the.ticket to be taken from
the premises, there surely canbe no good reason why the
owner of it should not be allowed to go without a serious
forfeiture. He aright leave his ticket behind him just
as he may do his overcoat or portmanteau, paying a
penny or twopence for a receipt, the prodtiction of
which should entitle him to the return of it when
"ready to resume his journey. This would often be a
great convenience and in the long run, like most other
concessions to public accommodation on the part of
railways, would no doubt prove rather beneficial to.
them than otherwise.
A SNAK E -EAIING SNAKE. —DiffiCUlties have
arisen in feeding the large Indian Hamadryad (Glohib-1
phagus daps) in the Zoological Society' si' Garden in
consequence of his refusal bf all other food except '
living snakes, which in the winter time is' not easy to
procure in this country. A supply, hoNirever, has been
received from the Continent, and the Ophioplict:9l,4 On
Tuesday made a fresh meal, The thonster is now
engaged in digesting the 62nd of his "weaker lffethien"
that he has devoured since his arrival in thht ilohntrir
in March last,. , 4,4 Jl3

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-12-04

DEATH OF M. SCHNEIDER.

On Saturday died Eugene Schneider, ex-President
of the Corps L6gislatif, and founder of the largest in-
dustrial enterprise in France (remarks the Correspond-
ent of the Daily Telegraph, in recording the notice of
his death). He was born at Nancy in 1805, and
nothing in the circumstances of his family suggested
the direction his life was destined to follow. M.
Schneider began life as a clerk to a banker, but he
early showed an inclination for mechanics. After
managing a foundry at Bszeilles, he joined his
brother Adolphe in the purchase of Le Creuzot,
an abandoned establishment of like nature. This
was in 1837. Adolphe Schneider had been educated
as a mechanical engineer, and the- brothers' talents
worked admirably together. Creuzot, in their
hands, swelled and grew like a fury work. At
present there are said to be 12,000 hands em-
ployed in the coal mines, the foundries, and the innu-
merable:enterprises which M. Schneider has established.
His idea was to make life cheap for the workman,
and he succeeded. From birth to death the adminia-
tration propped the workman, guided and encouraged
him to virtue. Everything in Le Creuzot outside the
works is done upon co-operative principles, excepting
that large part which is sheer charity. The admistra-
tion bakes the bread for thousands of families, kills the
meat, sells the clothing, nurses the children gratis,
looks after them in creches, schools them, doctors them,
and succours the orphans. Twelve professors teach in
halls provided for that purpose. Three doctors
and a surgeon are paid for attending the sick.
Even the dead are buried without cost, and
a gravestone is raised over them. That the
workmen who enjoy such advantages should strike is
a melancholy proof of their very human nature. M.
Schneider was a Bonapartist from the beginning.
Politicians will remember the President of the Corps
Lasgislatif, as business men will remember the great
manufacturer. Before Linong this post he was Minister
of Commerce and Agriculture, and M. Buffet suc-
ceeded him on Ids withdrawal. When M. de Morny's
death left the Presidency vacant, it fell to M. Schneider
by right. .He is said to have need the great in-
fluence he possessed in urging the Emperor towards
freedom. Badly did Paris requite him upon bepter-
ber 4th when a band of fanatic Republicans put his
life in danger. The cause of M. Sebueider's death was
congestion of the brain. He has had four attacks in
the last two years. No religious cer.emony.will be held
in Paris. All Greusot is in mourning. The Einpre,s
sent a telegram of affectionate inquiry under the title
of Comtesse de Pierrefonds, but it reached Madame
Schneider too late.
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