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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-11-24

GREAT HIPPODROME AND RUSSIAN

CIRCUS,

With the greatest e—oncentration of Equestrian re,oureea
ever presented to the Public, will Visit
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ONE DAY ONLY.

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COSSACK HORSEMEN,
hipanese Contortionists and Athletes, RUMII&D, Uri; irh,
and French flare-back Riders,
Fascinating Troupe of
LADY EQUESTRIANS, GLADIATORS, ARAM
VAULTERS,
And a Magnificent Stud of highly traiwo
RUSSIAN. 110 Et Sr:S.
Moles, Ponies, Zebras, Trained Monkeys, kr. ,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-11-24

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SATURDAY, NOVEMSFIR 24, 1860.

THE MINISTRY AND REFORM.

Town after town in the United Kingdom has
earnestly raised its voice in favour of Reform.
Immense meetings have been congregated in
scores of places, and their meaning and purpose
have been unmistakeable. The working men
throughout the country have met to demand a
measure of Parliamentary Reform ; they insist
on having a share in making those laws which
they are called on to obey; they demand that
the upper and the middle classes shall no longer
be over-represented and the working classes
under-represented. Edinburgh has now cast in
its lot with the Reformers, and its voice is clear
and unmistakeable as that of any town which
has exhibited its mass meeting in favour of the
one great object on which it may now be said the
peopla have set their hearts.
Can it be that the present ministry will shut
its eyes and ears to these gatherings? We P‘ink
nothing is more unlikely. The Conservatives
taken office at a tronblous period, and their
course will under any cireunistmeca be a most
difficult one. Left to themselves, and allowed
to do or not to do, to originate or to oppose, as
they may think fit, they certainly would never
introduce a Reform Bill, But they arc not left
to themselves. They aro a ministry in a mino-
rity, and they not only have 11.11 eager and a
powerful opposition to contend against, but they
have a most powerful and formidable organisa-
tion in favour of Reform, in the country at large,
which it would be folly to ignore, and %Odell it
will be madness to slight or wilfully to oppose.
Whatever may be the silence of Ministers we
may reasonably suppose that they have decided
on bringing in a Reform measure ; indeed it has
been stated that the bill has actually been de-
cided on, and that it is now in the lawyers' hands.
" What sort of a bill will it be ? " is the question
everywhere asked. Instead of " Will the Con-
servath es bring in a Reform Bill?' which till
recently was the query proposed. In endeavour-
ing to reply to the demand that the people have
made the Conservatives will have to reconcile
their principles and their antecedents on the
one band with the demands of the Opposition
and the country on the other, and the effort to
do this will perhaps be as curious a passage in
our political history as the world has ever seem
But it must be done. The Liberals merely ac-
cepted the last Reform Bill as a compromise,
but their demands are now greatcrond it re-
mains to be seen whether the Derby-Disraeli
ministry will strive to keep office by introducing
such is bill as the Liberals must in all conscience
accept, or whether they mill risk the failure of
their pmition by proposing 111CASIlte as
• will be in accordance with Conservative notions
generally, but which will must probably be igno-
miniously rejected.
•
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-11-24

THE FLOODS IN THE NORTH.

The Dada Telegraph has an lutereslt, g leaier on the re-
cent ll.Jods la Win nurlh, from watch we make the following
extracts:—

Catastrophes of nature would appear inconceivable
in a district like that of the busy manufacturing towns
of Lancashire and Yorkshire, if unfortunately, they
did not now and again occur. That which was but a
drizzling nuisance in Loudon—what Mr. Tennyson calls
"the useful triable if the rain'—appears to have de-
scended among the Yorkshire and Lancashire wolds
and bills like a tropical downfall. From Tuesday to
Thursday night in last week there seems to have been
a more or less constant rain throughout the entire
North«rn watershed, the consequence of which was
that by Friday the Ribble, Irwell, Medlock, Roach,
Brun, Calder, in a word al the hundred streams of
the cotton and coal country, were choked with water,
which they disgorged over the face of the country.
Such a calamity would have caused littie surprise had
it happened in villages of the Rhone or the Vistula,
, but to read the accounts which come to us from the
smoky vales of Lancashire and Yorkshire is strange
indeed. It is difficult to believe without an effort that
Manchester itself has been flooded in its lower quarters
by an insignificant ditch like the Irwell ; or that Old-
ham, Preston, Bury, Burnley, Rochdale, Wigan,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-11-24

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FASHIONABLE CLOTHING

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A welliworted aad Fashiouable Stook of Goods always
in band.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-11-24

A ROMANCE OF THE ARIAOCRACY.

The following. romance of the aristocracy appears

in one of lll;Dublin papere

One of those cases which have afforded Sir Bernard
Burke material for some of hls deeply Interesting works, in
which the vicissitudes of noble houses are set forth, has re-
cently been brought to light by certain proceedings In
Capel.atreet police-office. Olt the 111th of October a young
lad aged about 16, was brought up before Mr. J C. O'Oonel,
charged with having stolen from Mr. Alfred NeWm,
photographer, a mahogany glass case, containing a number
of photographs. The prisoner who gave his name ss
Emanuel Moore, had been employed by Mr. Nelson as porter,
and while in hls employment had taken away the articles
and sold them. So far mere is nothing more in the case
than what occurs in the daily record of crime in all our
police-offices; but subsequent inquiries led to a revelation
at 'dice strange and painful, If young Moore's statements be
true As an explanation of his committing the ntfence, he
ata•ed that his father, who is an Irish baronet of one of the
oldest creations, had been reduced to a condition of such
abject poverty as to be now under the necessity of telling
matches in the streets of Dublin to obtain a wretched sub-
sistence, and that he had sold the articles which he had
stolen to furnish him with some of the ordinary necessaries
of life The criminal—if such he can be called—was, in
accot'ance with the law which he had cloister!, not the less
that the doing so was an not of of final fluty, sentenced to
two months' imprisonment, which he is now undergoing.
The mother of the unfortunate lad wu sister to an Irishman
who for many years eat in Parliament foe an English seat,
seat, and who at one time wits • great popular leader of the
English working classes We understand that an effort is
toeing made to ootain a commute, ion of young Moore's re,
tence, and to provide for his fa, her and himself some employ-
ment which will release them from actual pauperism.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-11-24

THE FLOODS IN THE NORTH.

In another portion of our journal we record
the terrible disaster which has overtaken some
of the busiest portions of our industrioas eosin-
try. Lancashire anti Yorkshire arc noted for
their numerous streams, and it is paytly owing to
this fact that the:a: counties are so much °Cell-
pied with Mau:Arial pursuits for which water i., a
necessity. Water, like fire, is a gold servant,
but a bad master, its utility when num has the
miutery of it being proved by the every-day
history of these manufacturing districts, and its
terrible power when it obtains the mastery hav-
ing now been most painfully exemplitiei. For
two or three days last week there was almost a
continuous downpour of rain, and the result was
that streams and rivulets were swollen into rivers
which burst their bounds and carried death and
destruction before them. The calamity which
now weighs upon so many manufacturing towns
and villages is all the more disastrous because it
comes at a time when the indastrious population
of these districts were but just recovering from
the terrible visitation of the cotton amine. Our
readers will peruse with interest the ree•rd we
give of this new disaster, but no account can
fully describe either the calamity itself or the
effects it has produced and will yet produce.
The sad accident at the bridge in Leeds is a
stirring episode in the lamentable narrative; but
over a nide-spread district the devastating
floods have left destruction and misery in their
path. The raging and uncontrollable water has
laid waste fair fields and happy homesteads; it
has carried away property and destroyed life;
'it has not only rendered homes desalate for the
time, but it has for the time irreparably injured
the mills and factories, the machinery and the
tools which represent the means of livelihood
for thousands.

It may be that this disaster may have its good
effect in inducing WMO combined effort, after the
manner of the Dutch with their dykes and Nii-
hau kments, to render such another disaster less
serious. if not impossible ; but, meanwhile, every
effort must be made to relieve the distress which
now exists. The thousands of industrious fami-
lies, who !treat one fell swoop, reduced to poverty
must be helped by the rich. Our countrymen
are never backward when an appeal is made to
them to relieve distress. The country acted
nobly during the cotton famine; they will, we
no sure, act as generously during the present
crisis.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-11-24

AN INTERVIEW_ WITH THE QUEEN
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OF SPAIN.

I The Madrid correepondent of the I nclepewelanee
Beige, writing on the 13th, says that the Duchess de
Montpensier has just had an interview with the Queen
, of Spain, for the purpose of warning her of the dangers
I to the dynasty which must result from the present
I system of government. "Her royal highness," con-
tinues the correspondent, "urged her Majesty, with
' much earnestness, to make concessions and rally round
her the liberal element, adding that if she did not do
so, the day of the catastrophe would not be far distant,
and that it would drag everything down with it; the
person of the Queen, her dynassy, and all the royal
family. By making concessions in time calculated to
lead to sincere reconciliation with the liberal party,
her enemies would become less numerous, and if
some few took up a threatening attitude, she would
see devoted defenders range themselves around her;
the Infanta added that her husband, the Duke de
Montpensier, would be the first to mount his horse
to defend the constitutional throne of the Queen.
Her Majesty replied to the duchess that her royal
highness could not possibly have a correct idea of the
state of Spain; that she had adopted a policy which ,
gave excellent reeults ; that that policy was the only I
one that would save her crown, her dynasty, and the I
interest and sights of all her fsmily ; that she was re•
solved on no we munt to modify in any way that policy. I
The Queen added;—

The revolution has declared war against me to the death.
Well, 1, on my side, declare war against the revolution; we
shall net which or the two will conquer. To abandon at the
m.unent of the struggle the p,ilicy of retistance upon whiCh
I hunt entered, and make concession., would be toy ruin,
and I have before my cleft the example of my cousin, the
Ling of Naples who, slier having glean way t. the rev-an-
ti 41 end granted all the concentions asked of him, was
nevertheless cJmnelle I to dent nd from his throne and go
Into exile f *III th +roughly determined ii 4 to follow hie
example; I will resist therefore, and I am firmly resolved
to vanquish or to die
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-11-24

YOURSELF! WHAT YOU ARE! AND
WHAT FIT FOR.

Ai's. th
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nmir Gra
ruljf°;
delineations of the mental and moral character and capalsi-
titles of individuals, f an examination of the hand writing.
Persons desirous of knowing their own peculiarities, or those
of any friend, must send • epecinien of the writing, stating
mx sod age, with 14 penny nations. to 3.11,iS B,iLFOtTit,
Hawley Crescent, If ampotead Bowl, London, and they will
receive • minute detail of the gifts, iltdoeta, trlehts, tastes,
affections, de., of the writer, with advice m dirlicultier and
on future prospects, To prevent mistakes, nephew:fa are
reenested to enclose an Envelope directed to themeelvoe
The many thouaands who have thankfully acknowleftee
the value of advice given, and the accuracy of Min W
sketches of character, eetablitth the truth and importance of
the science beyond a doubt. I fuer kin enaracter Mtn., truly
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FIELD, at his °Meow, 2. High-street, Stourbrolae,
the County of Worcester to which place ail letters and
other communications must be addressed.
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-11-24

"HEARING SOMETHING TO HIS
ADVANTAGE!"

The following romantic story is taken from a New York
paper

_ _
A somewhat remarkable change of fortune has oc-
curred to a young man known by the name of George
Olson, and occupying the humble position of a lamp
trimmer Raul ".Jack of the Duct" on board the
L'nited Stares steamship Madawaska. now in this
port, by which he has suddenly come into assession
of 300,000 dole, in gold, together with the Hungarian
title of Edward Louis, Count Batthyanyi, and the
extensive estates attached thereto. It appears that
Olson, or the C• unt, left his country in 1848, when
very young, after his father had been executed for
being concerned in the rebellion under Kossuth (to
whom he is nearly related.) and has since been in the
United States. He knew very little of his family or
their real petition, and supposed that in consequence
of his father's disloyalty, all their possessions had
been confiscated. Fihiling it difficult to gain a liveli-
hood, ha. joined the United States navy and was
drafred on board the United States steamer Mada-
waska as a landsman, was employed as lamp
trimmer and assistant to the captain of the hold.
He never hinted to his messmates that he was of
noble birth, or had ever held a higher position
than the one he occupied. In fact, it does not
appear that his countship had any very clear notions
himself on the matter. Believing his father to be
a disgraced man, he troubled his head little about
family matters and betook himself with great industry
to the care of his lamps and all his other duties on
board. Happening to get hold of a newspaper a short
time since he discovered an advertisement requesting
Edward Louis Batthyanyi to communicate with certain
parties and he would "hear of something to his ad.
vantage." Our young blueblooded Hungarian lamp
trimmer lost no time in complying, and, having proved
his identity, received an instalment of 300,000 dole.
Instead of informing his commanding officer of this
strange vicissitude of fortune, which had metamor-
phosed a United States naval lamp trimmer and ".Jack
of the Duct" into a Hungarian nobleman, with a
revenue of upwards of 50,000 dots, a year, Batthyanyi,
or Olson, deserted from the Madawaska. He is now
in Washington, under the patronage of the Austrian
ambassador, endeavouring to procure a formal discharge
from the service. That he will succeed we have not
the slightest doubt, and it is to be hoped that thin
midden elevation to rank and fortune will have the
effect of making him reap the advantage of the trying
experience be has had of the roughest side of life.
While on board the Madawaska he was remarkable
for his good behaviour and the regular discharge of
his laborious duties ; and now when exalted to the rank
of a Hungarian-grandee, we expect he will become,
as he always promised, a respectable and worthy
member of society.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-11-24

HOPS.

Fine hops are now becoming scarce, and are readily dis-
posed of at extreme quotations. In mid thing and int,rior
qr cities a mo.lerate business has been transacted at late
rs,, I. On the Coixtbient the trade for all qcalities rules firm,
but the transactions have been chiefly of a retail character.
The imports last week were large, comprising 191 bale. from
Calais, 36 from Dankirk, 258 from Antwerp, 173 from Ham-
burgh, 68 from Offend, 12 from Rotterdam, 666 from New
York, 84 teem BMW., and 54 bale. from Boulogne. Mid
and gaat dents, 160. to 2205; Weald of Kent" 140 s to
1750 Sussex, 14.00 to 168., and Yearlings, ftOs to 140 e per
OWL
WOOL.

The public Woo of colonial wool, which were commenced
on Thursday last, are progressing steadily. There Is a good
attencance of bu 3 era, both home and foreign, and the prices
realise I are about equal to those quoted at the opening sale.
Cope wools have declined from id. to lid. per 10., but fine
Australian qualities command id. per lb. more money. The
quautities to be brought forward are as under :-43.355 balsa
frhm the Cape of Good Hope 6929 bales from Sydney and
Queensland 4,772 bales from Port Philip; 4,007 bales from
New ealand ; 2.454 bale, trom Adelaide; and 975 from Van
Dismon's Land—making a total of 02,604 bales. In English
wool, nest 0 nothing is doing, at about Use Wen
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-11-24

MILLINERY AND DRESSMA. KIN°

In all its Brauchus.

DRAPERY, HOSIERY, AND FAMILY HOURNIN.4.

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the valne f 75 sri.

For pain nisi ft eminin at the al.eve address.
New CA 1112‘ ET FICI 1.1.8, CAM ES de VIhr11:,
and all other styles of Lit. in—ses tat. u in any on other
from Ten in the morning till Four in the evening.

ASTROLOGY 1 ASTROLOGY.

180,0e0 sou) IN ONP WE} X.

A sTRoLoGy, just published Bd.; Post
nee, 4d.

" DOCTRINE OF NATIVITIES,"
By which vtry ete [nay calculate their num NATIVIIT.
'tad learn their ouu VEAL ( HAVACIER.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-11-24

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PRESBYTERIAN CONONROITIIBT—TiIB Wolla,too.road
nlale and female Day and Sunday S.:lmola are supported
by the congregation. These Sanday schools are the
oltlest in this town, having been establithed in 1785.
The present school buildings were commenced in 1010,
just 50 years ago; and the Occasion was celebrated by a
social meeting, in Monday evening last. Though the
attendance (about 150) was not an numerous as at the
usual Congregational soirees, the congregation was well
represented. After tea, W. A kroyd, Esq., was called to
the chair, and in introducing the proceedings of the even-
ing ilelivered an appropriate speech. The Rev. 1). Ma.
ginnis followed with an account of the history of the
schools. The Revs. Charles Clarke and If. E. Dowson,
of Birmingham, the secretaries of the Midland Christian
Union. in able and eloquent speeches explained tho ob-
jects of the Union, and urged its claims to a general and
liberal support. After the speeches the meeting became
less formal, and members of the Chapel Choir and other
friends contributed largely to the pleasures of the even-
ing by their musical serviced. It was half-past eleven
o'clock before the meeting broke up.
At the Micbselmad term esamination of articled clerks,
held at the hall of the Incorporated Law Society, London,
on the 13th and 14th jest, Mr. Joseph Jordan, of Moor-
ton (who served his articles in the cace of Mr. Henry
Roger., solicitor, of this town), successfully passed hit
examination, and obtained • certifieste qualifying him to
be admitted an attorney of her Illepoity's Court* of
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-11-24

FARLANDS HOUSE, OLDSWINFOHD, STOUR-

B RID ii N.

TO BE LET, and entered upon at Lady-day
next, the above OEM LEMAN'S RESIDENCE,
with Cottage. Garden, and two Fields of old tort land,
contsiting 4a. 2r. 2Rp., or ti,, ri about. now and for the
last three )(an to the occul, tion of George Taylor,
q., ard for many years pi., et us in the occupation of
Henry Comer, E.g. To view and to treat, application to
be made on the premises, or to Oates, Periess, and Wool-
dridge, Land Agents, Stourbridge.

r 0 BE LET, with Immediate Possession, s
J. HOUSE. iiituate in Kulderminater.btrett, rontain-
kg i l'arlour, Sitting.rooin, and Four 81-roidna ; and
the unial apporteminees.—Falurther panculaxs ripply
at I. Eitourbridge,

rilo BE LET, and may be entered upon
Immediately, that capital VILLA ItESIDUNCR
at LW Hill. near Hie litourlaidge Hallway Station, lately
itectipied ay Mr. Harem Sent £44 per 1111111U1111.

IMPORTANT NOTICE.

A BONA-FIDE MONEY SPECULATION
•.f 2,000.000 stealing Guaranteed by Govern-
, • ,a to be allotted h various owns upward. to
A4t/,000. Any one by inve.tivg £l, may aware MAO
stealing. For Proapaelms (which will be a/aigrette), I
apply by letter. stlektoned Mr. d. A. Black, 14, Dalai,
Monet, Adelpld, Lop*" W.C.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-11-24

boating
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TH,t: PROSECUTION OF MR. EY RR. —The Lon-
don Standard says that there doeit.not appear to be
the alightest fountlationior the report that was civil'.
hard last week that it was inlainded fp prefer a bill ot
indictmetit 4.0 v eiPCrjkiinaj caprkat thicpre.
eent eension against Mi. Eyre, the late Governor of
Jamaica, for the murder of Mr. Gordon. The authori-
,ties of the court have not received any intimation of
such intention on the part of any person, and it appears
to be more than doubtful whether inch a course could
taken._ .

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-11-24

W-

CURES MADE EASY BY
HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT.

RAD LEGS, ULCEROUS SORES, BAD BREASTS,
AND OLD WOUNDS.
No description of wound. sore. or nicer can resist the lira
Inn propertlex of this excellent Ointment. The worm cases
reship assume a healthy appeanome whenever this nindierei
Went is applied; sound flesh springs up from the bottom of
the wound. i uflani motion of the surrounding skin 14 arrested
and a complete and permanent cure quickly follows the use
of the Ointment.

PILE 8, FISTULAS, AND INTERNAT. MEL &UM-vetoer
These distressing and weakening diseases may with rev
talnty be cored by the sufferers themselves, if they will u.
Holloway'. Ointment and closely attend to the printed in
'troche.. It should he well rubbed upon the neighleiffring
part- when all obnoxious matter will be removed. A poetise
of bread and water inay sometimes I.c applied at led time
with advantage; toe most serupolons unit be
observed. If thme who read this parimraph will brine it
under the notice Wench of their acquaintalicen whom it may
concern, they will cinder a service that wiil never Ito forgot-
ten, as attire that is certain.
RHEUMATISM. GOUT, AND NEURALGI
Nothing has the power of redneing infls.,i aVi-111 and sub
cluing pa:n in these complaints in the 164.1.1 degree as II•illo
way s cooling thutmert and Purify-Dm :Pills. When soot
simultaneously they drive all inflammation and d Tr:tellies
from the spitein, aubilue and remove all enlargement of
the joints, and leave the idnews awl 111111141. lan and tin.
contracted. A care may always be effected. even under
Ills wont circumstances, if the use ef these ioedjcjj,ej be
perieVtreol in.
SURF. THROATS, DIPTHERIA, QUINSEY, HUMPS, AND
OTtlElt DERANGEMENTS Ob"ritE Tuno.vr.
1)11 the appi mance of say if thee maladies Lie I nutlet:tit
should hecit II .16.1 at he tot three times a day, momi the
Web and upper part of the chest, moss to pen, irate to the
me sett is flwated into meat; this emu's it will at one
tr 1111.1,13 inflammation and ulceration. worst cases will
yield to Uns treatment hip following the printed directions.

Balk tlie Ointment and Pills eltnulti be used in the follow
ing rage 8.
Bad Leas. , Cancers.
Bad Breasts. I c0m1....1ed and
!. BUR Joints.
Eloplitint asis.
Bite of %teachable* Fistula..
and Saird-dies. iieut.
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Chindo-toot. logs.
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Rheumatism.
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Sore Nipples.
Sore Throaty.
Skin Diseases.
scurvy.
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Tumours.
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-11-24

CRADLEY HEATH.

Of late, some evil.disposed persons have sought to ob-
tain an entrance into the premises of a well-to.do and
respectable tradesman of this town. To prevent theta
patting their intentions into practice and to keep them
outside, the outer door had an additional leek and bolt
pat spots it. Bat at night in addition to the couple of
locks and couple of bolts. s tes.tray was placed behind it
to give notice by its fall of their entrance, if they should
be lucky enongh to open the door. Bat this ass ant
thought sufkieut, and whet' the Wasted' totired the stair

dour vats allot and a fire-shovel propped behind, whose
duty it was to stand guile still while the door remained
unmolested, hut as soon as the door happened to he
opened it had to fall and make as much noise as possible.
One would have thought these precautions sufficient; but
not so. The tradesman and his wife land each aln 11 by
their side, to awsk n the neighbours in the ease of an
attach of burgh:o. Their chamber door had glass pones
instead of panels in the upper part, so that they could see
out on the landing at the top of the stairs. Well, the
other evening lie was almost frightened out of his wits.
rtappening to awake somewhere neer midnight he was
startled by hearings noise in the kitchen. Immediately
awaking his better half be communicated his fears unto
her and they both eagerly listened, their heorte mean-
while boating like the wind against a barn door. It was
too true; they could distinctly hear the noise. Without
waiting to hear the fire-shovel give notimi, the wife seined
her hell and rang furiously ; and lie jumped out of bed
and opened the window and shouted, "Murder t mar.
der!" as loud as he could. Contrary to hie expectations
tne intruders downstairs did not beat • hasty retreat, as
he thought they would. He watched, but without avail.
Happening to turn round, to his horror he BIM a light
coming upstairs, and whilst the bull was clanging still
more furiously, he summoned up courage to peep and see
what wall coming, when 10, and behold ! it was only the
servant. who it appears being almost crazy with the tooth-
ache had been downstairs to get something to cone the
pain, and thus Mot been the innocent cause of all her
umates's and mistress's fear and trembling.
ear We beg to intimate to our numerous friends and
readers in Cradley Heath, that the branch office for the
I Obso rect. for that district, is at Mr. T. Homer's, Printer
I and Stationer, Five Ways, Cradley Heath, where adver-
tisements will be received up to seven o'clock on Friday
evening.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-11-24

Oh have von heard the gloriona newa
Of OAKF:S'S famoum Roots and Shove?
Which are all over the country used,
So fidned are the Boots of Oakes'a.

Short Boots, 7s &I.
They're good and cheap and very strong,
And suitable for old and young ;
Besides they'll last near take as long,
Will the Boots that're bought at Oakes's.
Lace-ups, 7. ed.
They are the best that TAU can buy,
They cannot rip. and I'll tell you way—
They are screwed together. no you may rely
On the rivetted Boots of Oakes's.

Elaatica, 7. ca.
They have r.ne fault, and that ix One.
Bat that'. 'gain,i bin. toid ilot 'pima you;
l'hry hod too twig, hod, rd 11.. y do,
Do these hallow, 801411 01 Oadcox',..

Bluchers, 4a.

One thonsard'a worth he has in hand
To meet the very great demand ;
Fur the very heat Boots in the land

Ladies' and (fenttonnes Boots Made la (h tier.

REMEMBER-W. OAKES,
61, HIGH-STREET, STOURBRIDGE,

Are thoso that come from Oakes's.

Women's, 2s hid.
miromer stock's bin usual make,
They will not sole from upper brenit!
Such }ulna at home his men they take
To preserve the good name of Oakes's.
Women's, S. 6d.
The workman, too, in limes pinin,
On the tongue of each Bm.t marks his name,
Thet the faulty mmi niay hear the blame,
And no longer work for Oakes's

Women's, 4.. 6d.
Lint thia RAn. in tenth and pride,
lout oil su well tried.
I. a 0,4 .41. I:I t ail b. n.iied,
(tr they'd hut be euiploved It) llsakedy.
Wittutn'a Vel" beet, It, Si
With such itilvi...ts.re ....ne ran deny
Thal e ~,,, tttt we eon defy
S. prmy !loots and Sitt,4 come buy
At the Ch. nuest shoe !dart, (lakes's.
Children's, 611 d.

Perrin n, ally executed ii ate akortest natio.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-11-24

FI;;;;I:17;ands.
Conn (Soft).

-
Sold at the Establishment of PROIKIIBOII HOLLOWAT
IC Strand, (near Temple Bar,) London ; also by all res
peetable Diuggi its and Dealers in Ifedieines throughoe
eivilizect w-14, at the following prices :-Is. Ild.
211. id, 45 lid., or 24,, and 335., each pot.
edrThere is Icoosiderble saving by taking the larger

N.B.—Direetinse ter the guidance ot pstiente in ever,
sett, are edited to ear&

T lIE BLUE PIG INN,
FOIL ACCOMMODATION.

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.

DR. KIRK

ITAVING returned from the University of
U lasuow Hospital and Dispensary, begs to inform
1.1. old Yinients, SIM the Public mu goneral, that be is
fully qualified by law to Pruelice also to visit hi.
Patients, and that be slay be CONSULTED on all
Disease' daily st his residence,

HIGH-STREET, THE LYE.

ADVICE FREE.

PUBLIC NOTICE.

HAMAY-STREET, HALESOWEN, WI

ANIUEL SALT and SONS, the duly ap-
-1,) pointed Town and Country CRIERS, BILL.
POSTERS, AUCTIONEERS, PORTERS, &c,
_

All crying and itial.Poatio,o„ or any other basilicas
done, either by the Pi. c, by the Day. or by the Week,
ant alsolone on the roost reasonable terms.

SALT and SONS will go anywhere they ere
required to go. either in Town or Country.

SPLENDI I) ROOMS, aud SUPERIOR
RE Fitlisll m ENis, 4 11,,, BLUE PIO INN,
STUN E-STILEET, DUDLEY.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-11-24

BELBROITGHTON.

ATTEMPTED Strewn—On Friday, the 1611, inat, the
inhabitants of this quiet village were thrown into • stale
of great excitement, in eonsequence of a young kraals
having plunged into the Forge Pool, belonging to Meek
Waldron's scythe worka. On an alarm being given, a
young man, named Oeorge Manton, jumped into the
water and, being an expert swimmer, auceeded with the
usslstanco of an elder brother, in saving her hie. It
appeal-a she was living no a domestic servant with Mr.
Thomas Smith, farinn.r, of Oldmill, in the parith of Cleab
fler parents, alio bear the character of bt inig boniest rad
industrious people, named Rutter, and who reside at Catas
hill, near Bromagrove. After the girl, who %MN lunches.
'unlisted. had recovered a little. she was conveyed to the
house of Mrs. Mary Parrish, the Old liar. Shoe
where by the di,ction of Mr. Raymond, aurgeon, of this
plseo, attention wan paid to her, and restoratives Ones,
nail in the course of the 113111 e evening sine was takes
home to her parent, at Catabill. There is en doubt bet
that the poor girl rev soft-rine from incipient insanity,
as she has subsequently stateit that she had in ide. Whe
got into the water until she felt the cold. Sine was thee
conathnus of her awful position:, and when being takes
unit ..f the water her screams were heard throughout the
whole village. We hope George Martiin, who succeeded
inn saving the poor girl's life, will be remembered inseam
way by the Ilumane Society.

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